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claim of secrecy that the campaign a.
gainst China is in furtherance of their
plan. Public opinion was unanimous
on this issue.
Such plan, of course, means the
end Of British rule in Oriental count
ries, where the white population is less
than one half Of one percent. In many
Of the countries in the Orient, white
residents are negligible. The ones
who live there represent capital which
is used to exploit native labor" for the
creation of wealth for investors in the
Occident.
Logically, this will lead to sim
liar situation in Africa, where some
day black leader will assert hat
Africa must be reclaimed for the Afri-
cans; that there in the Land of the
Blacks, black men must be the rulers
and the black workers who produce
the wealth must share in it and must
have extended to them the blessings Of
modern life.
Japan in asserting her right to
be the leader in the Orient is on reas-
enable ground Her alliance with Ger
many under Hitler, we regard as inim-
ical to American interests and human
freedom.
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A THOUGHT AND A WISH

81 can assure you out of my own full
life,
That all Of life is good,
That friends are travelling toward us,
even as we toward them.
That Deprivation and withheld desires
All Serve Their Purpose,
Leaving one Who is not Weak, but
Resolute
To Fight, Stronger For the Fray.
That. though our human hearts, aye,
and bodies, too,
May Err, may stumble, even fall,
Forgiveness May be Ours.
And we go on, Wearing the scars,
be sure,
Rut Climbing Higher than we other
wise had DONE"
Contributed.
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THE HERMAN LEWIS CASE

Last week, Herman A. Lewis, the
discharged" City fireman, filed his
petition in the District Court of Doug
las County, appealing from the action
of the Omaha City Council The peti-
ton gives more than twenty reasons
why the District court should reverse
the action Of the City Council The
case should be tried month hence in
the District Court. And in view of the
fact that the question of Civil Liberty
has been raised under the United Stat
es Constitution, great care should be
taken to see that the dccused has fair
and impartial trial No one who heard
the trial before the City Council is
rash enough to claim that Herman
Lewis had fair trial. 1t was every
thing Dut that
We hope that the court of equity,
in addition to examining the record of
the evidence will call witnesses and as
certain the truth, which by reason of
bias and prejudice, could not be pres
ented in the hearing before the City
Council.
The case must be fought to fin
ish, in the courts now and later in an
other court in which City Commission
ers must present and defend the rec
ords they have made.
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THE BOY SCOUTS GO TO CAMP

Sunday morning about forty Boy
Scouts left for their annual outing
near Fremont, Nebraska, under the di-
rection of the veteran scout leader,
Thomas P. Mahammit. He has been
going to camp with the boy scouts for
nearly a quarter century. Each year
when the time comes for camp, he is
as eager as the boys to go. And this is
good thing for him; still better
thing for the boys.
Mr.. Mahammitt has been succ-
essful business man for many years
and has acquired competency and in
his afternoon of life, he devotes his
leisure time to the service of the boys
Of the community.
What fine thing to do as one
looks toward the setting sun.
Congratulations to both leader
and boys.
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CLOWNS


The Editor of the Pittsburgh
Courier, writing in his paper a fort
night ago discussed Negro Clowns and
suggested the race might we'll spare
many of them.
We have often been perplexed a.
bout Negro humor in the face of stark
tragedy which the race faces every day
Of it's life.
What is funny about the life of
the Negro? From the cradle to the
grave he is prescribed; doors of oppor-
tunity are shut in his face; he suffers
from "slave psychology which is ex-
plotted to the nth degree by the whit
es. And those among this race who
would rise find all too often ignorant
and prejudiced white men barring the
pathway upward, while Negroes, de-
based and degraded by white men,
join the enemies of their children and
their children's children in thWarting
the rise Of members of their own race
whose talents and abilities entitle them
to place and power.
In the face Of all this we have Ne
gro clowns; in every walk Of life.
Editor Prattis is right, we should
forthwith debunk the Negro clown.
By all means debunk him in the learn
ed professions first and elsewhere af-
terward. We are dealing with a trag-
edy, not comedy.
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WHEN DOES DEMOCRACY START

Courageous and determined have
been the efforts of those fighting the
bitter battle to wipe out discriminate
ion against Negroes in the United
States armed forces and defense in
dustries. Since the first Of the year,
the Negro News Syndicate has camp
aligned for Washington to act to bring
bias and prejudice-ridden industries
notorious for their attitude of discrim-
ination against Negroes into line.
Now bill is UP before the House Ju-
dietary Committee to prohibit "dis-
elimination on a basis of race, creed
or color by firms holding defense con-
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Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, August g. 1e41

He'll with Democracy! To He'll with
Equal Rights To He'll with Free
domw
What is Washington -OFF'1C-
IAL WASHINGTON going to do a.
bout it? Is Georgia still under the
jurisdiction of the Federal Govern
ment? Or has it gone back to the days
Of the Civil war?
A Federal drive is on against Com
munists, Bundists, Fifth Columnists,
and whoever else seeks to overthrown
our government. Then what about
+ Governor Talmadge, openingly seek
ing to undermine Civil Liberties, Civil
Rights and The American Way of
Life?
To President Roosevelt we say:
What of this man leader of his state
who out Hitlers Hitler in his racial
bigotry and fanaticism? What Of this
man invested with the power Of office
who publicly sneers at and belittles
Is million American Negroes one ten
tn Of the popuation of these United
States?
The Negro citizens Of Georgia
DESERVE protection from such a
man. The Negro citizens of the Uni
ted States DEMAND Federal action a.
gainst such man continuing in the
highest office Of his state
If this War for Democracy is on
the level, then FIRST wipe out the
little Hitlers of America who fight a.
gainst REAL freedom and equality.
WHEN DOES DEMOCRACY
START?
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CALVIN'S DIGEST
by L. Baynard Whitney
.JOy Through Misery

Seven men and a prayer met in
Cradle of Love on bleak wintry night
forty years ago in Florida and gave
birth to an ambitious plan for racial
self-help that has grown from twen
ty two hundred dollar benefit assoc
iation to the million dollar, self char
tered Afro-American Life Insurance
Company Of Jacksonville, which gives
employment to more than one thous
and Negroes throughout the State.
The company's recent celebration
of it's fortieth anniversary was not a
lone tribute to seven Negro pioneers,
"men of sturdy, rustic character, rae
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THE TAX PAYER

Everybody is a tax payer. Tax
payers Associations try to tell us 9TH
erwise, and for quite sometime they
have been getting away with it. It is
true that the persons who own prop
erty which may be subject to direct
levy also pay the invisible taxes borne
by others who do not possess taxable
property. But all of you pay taxes,
make no mistake about it.
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COMMENTS
Page5

ial pride, hopeful vision and indomit-
able will" (five of whom are now de-
ceased), but symbol and verification
of the strength of racial unity and CO.
operation. 1t is worthy example a
mong scores Of wealthy, race serving
enterprises which came up the hard
way
Dr. Abraham Lincoln Lewis,
chairman Of the Board of Directors,
who is the only original founder still
active, has been the dynamic moving
spirit of the enterprise since it was
first Graded in, the prayer room of
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church,
under very distressing conditions.
Love Against Poverty and
Prejudice
Like Moses who heard the cry Of
his people in bondage, that night in
January 1901 seven lonely men who
loved their people discussed prayerful
ly among themselves, ways and means
of alleviating the suffering, giving
care and treatment to the sick and pro-
viding for the respectable burial Of the
dead" in hateful land of racial pre-
judice and oppression.
The only answer than, as now,
was "reief through cooperation"
which throughout four decades has
paid out over four million dollars to
the sick and death claims close to three
million dollars. The company now has
twenty-four million dollars of business
in force nearly two hundred thousand
policy holders. Mortgage loans have
exceeded $15O,OOO and stock holders
have received dividends of over $780,
900.
Employee service records run
from 10 to 35 years, and all of them get
free insurance The company boasts
of having never missed nor delayed a
payday; the payroll is a half million
dollars. There is also pension for EN-
ployees whom sickness or age disables
Such are the joyful things born Of
misery. The next move on the racial
program is organization and unity of
all major Negro enterprises in order to
obtain for the Negro masses in Amer
lea, relief through cooperation
Foot troubles will cease when poor
humans pay less attention to number
and more attention to fit. :?
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JAPAN AND THE ORIENT

Several years ago DR.. W. E. B,
Dubois visited the Orient, and spent
much time in China and Japan Upon
his return to the United States, on
numerous occasions, he insisted that
Japan is determined to drive the white
race out of the Orient They made no
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tracts or by government agencies.

This is a step in the right direc-
tion, but it is NOT enough. That
there are powerful groups working a.
gainst Negro rights and Negro free
dom is too W ell known to need repeat
ing here. But there is another. less
open enemy that we must guard a.
gainst. That is the danger that hav-
ing won one round in our battle for
REAL democracy, we sit back and take
it easy, thinking the WHOLE fight
has been won.
Big business the defense indus
tries in particularly, may be forced by
official Washington to give us our
quota of jobs. In so doing, however,
they will be sacrificing nothing. It is
an established fact, that given the op-
portunity, the Negro mechanic Or train
ed worker ranks as high as any cor
responding white worker. In some
instance, in fact, the Negro is SUPER
IOR- particularly in highly geared
plants where a sense of. timing and
rhythm is needed to keep an assembly
line moving smoothly and efficiently
The United States Army is al
ready making some concessions to
Negroes may make more. A gesture
has been made toward forming "Ne-
gro" air squadron Discrimination
even in Death! And who knows, be-
fore long even the United States Navy
may discover that the Civil war was
finished, in theory, over three quarters
of a century ago, and legal slavery
then abolished. That, really, is too
much to hope for, but it may happen.
So, in time, we may be given the
right to die in uniform and the
right to work in defense industries
which our hidden taxes the taxes Of
Is million Negro citizens, helps to
support.
But what of the right to LIVE?
The very day that in Washing
ton arguments were being heard in
support of the bill to prohibit racial
discrimination. THIS is what was
happening in Georgia:
The State Board Of Regents, dom
mated and controlled by Georgia's
suspender swapping Governor Eugene
Talmadge, ousted DR.. Walter Cooking,
dean of the College Of Education at the
University of Georgia, and Dr. Marvin
S. Pittman, president of the State
Teachers College. And of what he
inous crime was Dr. Cooking accused?
Rape? Larceny? Murder? No-this
was the charge, as publicly stated. He
chad been interested in the operations
Of the Rosenwald Foundation, which
has evidently influenced him to seek
to have whites and Negroes admitted
on the same campus within the uni
versity system Of Georgia"
And what of DR.. Pittman? He
was denounced for allowing Negro
students from Tuskegee to eat sand
wiches on the campus Of the State
Teachers College with students and
faculty members of the white school"
These Grimes were too much for
Georgia's fanatically prejudiced Gov
ernor In his own paper, The States
man, he wrote:
Il hope the children Of the future
will be able to attend the Georgia
schools and be able to sit down without
finding niger beside them
And at the trial Of Dean Cooking
before the Board of Regents, one of
the regents, Superior Court Judge Ben
Jackson, blurted out:
"Any unintelligent white man, if
he is white, is better than the best edu-
Gated niger on earth"
These are not two private indiv-
iduals, mind you!
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'That settles it, I'm gonna let y'all stay
dumb. l amt gonna bring up no
more war discussions. I'm gonna keep
all that inside stuff to myself"
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Foot troubles will cease when poor
humans pay less attention to number
and more attention to fit. +?
Milford chronicle., 1941-10-10
oVERBROOK

Manford Rust of Georgetown,
and Camp Lee, Va, and friend,
Miss Virginia Anderson, a teacher
in Laurel school, spent an evening
recently with the formers aunt,
Mrs. Arthur Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hitch and
daughter, Mrs. Elsie Golden, of
Harbeson, spent Saturday in Will
mington.
Arthur Hill, of Philadelphia, was
a supper guest of his mother, Mrs.
Matilda Hill, Tuesday.
Mrs. Clara Sharpe and Mrs. Geo.
Chappell spent Friday with Mrs.
Edward Pettyjohn of RehOboth.
Oyster season opened at the oys-
ter rocks on Wednesday. They re-
port oysters are much better this
year than they have been for sew
eral seasons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Plummer of
Milton called on Mrs. Plummer's
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy King, Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Marguerite White substi-
tuted teaching in the Milton pub
lie school for the past two weeks.
Mrs. Stella Johnson and Mrs.
Minnie Davidson called on Mrs.
Fisher, on Lewes Beach, Saturday
afternoon.
Sunday School next Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock. followed by
preaching at eleven by the pastor,
the Rev. John H. Whedbee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold German and
Mrs. Arthur Campbell spent Satur-
day afternoon in Milford.
Mrs. Effie Parsons spent the
week end with her son, Douglass,
at her home here.
Milford chronicle., 1941-10-10

vice. A program including every
department of the primary and the
adult Sunday school was rendered.
There were twenty-nine to gradu-
ate and all wore white caps and
gowns. Those to receive diplomas
from the junior department to the
intermediate department were:
Charlotte Webb, Bernice Abbott,
Doris Short, Ruth Jones, Roland
Beebe, Raymond Spicer and Robert
Neibert. Those from the primary
department to the junior depart
ment were: Shirley Lea Filings
worth, Donald Ellingsworth, Phyl-
lis Dickerson, George Manlove, Jr.,
Marietta Morgan, Lewis West, Bet
ty Carey, Rose Marie Williams,
Pearl Jones, Ralph Tucker and
Mary Ann Isaacs.
Those to receive diplomas from
the beginners department to the
primary department were: Doris
lsaacs, Wilson Jones, John Green,
Curtis w. Ennis, Jr., Jeanette
Webb, Margie Clark, Eta Paynter.
Patricia Rust, Lee Wayne Moore,
Alvin Neibert and Doris Jones.
There are two primary departments
and those being promoted from the
first department to the second
were: Tommy Shockley, Norman
Beebe, Jesse Webb, Gwendolyn
Lynch, Earl Powers, Robert Short,
Shirley Carey, June Reed, Roselle
Morgan, Fredetta ireland, Wyonna
Beebe, Norman Prettyman and
Carlton Workman.
To all those who helped make
the Rally Day and Promotion"
service a success or helped deco
rate the church, prepare the caps
and gowns, give readings, help
with music, etc, the superintend-
ent desires to thank them.
Meeting
The Ellendale Red Cross mem
bers are requested to be present
at the Glendale school auditorium
on Wednesday evening, October Is,
instead Of October 13 for special
meeting. Everyone invited to at
tend with those who already be-
long to the Red Cross.
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TRINITY

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Fisher OF
Virginia Beach, Va. were overnight
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. White
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Wrotten of
Hickman spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Martin.
Mrs. Mary Moritz and sons, Neal
and Donald, of Baltimore, spent
the week end with their aunt and
uncle, Mr., and Mrs. Robert Hast
ings. Other guests at dinner on
Sunday were, Mr., and Mrs. Frank
Wheatley and children, Ruth, Dom
aid and Jimmy, OF Middletown,
William Hastings of Wilmington,
Mrs. Lille Layton of Bridgeyille,
and Mr., and Mrs. Earl White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Franz, Jr.,
and son Elmer of williamsburg,
Md, spent Sunday with the family
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Warrington
at dinner on Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Workman of
Laurel and Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Seeley of Woodenhawk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl White had as
callers on Sunday morning, Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Fisher of Vir-
ginia Beach, Va; Mrs. Mary Nor
itz and sons, Donald and Neal, of
Baltimore, and Mrs. Lille Layton of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Warrington
friends from Whining
ton on Sunday.
Mrs. Earl White and Miss Grace
Hastings attended the art meeting
at Dover high school on. Thursday
evening.
Billy Wheatley spent the week
end with his grandparents at Fed
Mrs. Luther Rust and children,
Carlton and Irene visited friends
1t Greenwood on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George West of
Cannon, spent Monday with Mr..
md Mrs. Rust.
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lHOLLYVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. Carter MARKHAM
and Mrs. Amanda Stevenson were
Sunday guests OF Mrs. Harley God
frey, of near Lewes.
David Reynolds, of Fort Sauls'
bury, spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Prettyman.
Miss Ann Burton, of Wilmington
was the guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William d. Burton, on
Saturday and Sunday of last week
Carlton Joseph of this place, who
was required by his draft number
to report at Trenton, N. j., on
Friday of last week, for examina-
tion and ETC., passed. all tests and
was given twenty days under the
new selective act ruling to put his
AFFAIRS in shape before his induc-
ton in the U, S. Army.
Owing to the extremely dry wea-
ther prevalent along the Easterh
Seaboard, for the past six weeks,
farmers are complaining of prac-
tically the loss of the entire scarlet
clover seeding. Only in a few
cases was the seeding anything
like normal.
Not only small seed is seriously
damaged, but late potatoes are said
to be cut one-half of normal. Soy
beans escaped with only a twenty
five per cent reduction or possibly
less.
One of the largest laying houses
constructed so far in Delaware for
New Hampshire Red hens and Ply
mouth Rock cockerels for the Hall
Cross strain is being constructed
by former-U. S. Senator John G.
Townsend on his farm near here,
known as the William Coard Bur
ton farm. When completed it will
have a capacity of fifty thousand
laying hens and cockerels and
probably more.
Several thousand layers are al
ready housed and hard at work
The buildings are modern in every
respect, including running water,
galvanized nests, and proper sani-
tation.
Dogs or foxes have destroyed rs
large turkeys owned by Mrs. Eliza
McIlvaine. during the past six
weeks.
Howard Clifton of near here, has
purchased the Raymond Wilson
farm, near Coolspring, and will
move upon it at the beginning of
the year.
Mrs. Alfred Parker of George
town, called upon friends and rela-
tives in this community on Mon
day.
Several of the residents of this
community attended the home
coming services held at Providence
Methodist Church, near Stockley,
on Sunday last.
Ex-senator Harry ]. Anderson
will shortly begin the erection of
large broiler chicken house on one
of his farms that is occupied by
William Miller.
The next Unity Methodist Aid
Society meeting will be on Satur-
day evening, Oct. IS, at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Pretty
man.
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spent Sunday with his brother, Rev.
and Mrs E. L. Bennett. W 81
Miss Alberta Long spent a few
days at Wilmington the past week
We are sorry to hear of Miss Vir-
ginia Birmingham, formerly of
here, now in training at the Mo-
handon Hospital, Philadelphia, un-
dergoing an operation for appendi-
citis, Saturday morning, October f.
We hope for speedy recovery so
as to resume her work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Campbell,
Jr., and Mrs. Francis Gum, 3rd,
spent the weekend in Philadel-
phia,
IS A Bible course will be held at the
Methodist Church at Georgetown
on October 13. Attendance from this
church win be appreciated. The
fee is $1.OO. s
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Littleton are
occupying the home vacated, by Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Parson. They are
occupying the property of Mrs, Lee
liza Daisey, near the corn mill
y Mrs. Helen Tail has accepted a
position in the cafeteria at the ].
M Clayton School.
The beautiful basket of flowers
placed on the chancel rail at the
Methodist Church last Sunday was
In memory of Mrs. JAMIE Jarmon,
who passed away FIVE years ago on
that date.
Woodrow Mitchell. who is EN-
ployed in Philadelphia. spent the
weekend with. his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Mitchell. ,-.-
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis John Tim
mons gave their youngest son Louis
Alvin, his first birthday party last
Sunday. Those present were Mrs.
Harvey Tingle and son Richard,
Mrs. Billy Chandler. Miss Elsie
Littleton, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerald Tim
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DAGSBORO


Mrs. Brown, who has been 'spen.
ding the summer with her sister
Mrs. Nora Townsend, has gone tc
spend some time with another sis
ter, Mrs. Noble, at Vienna, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stally, manual
training teacher at the John M
Clayton School and Major C. A.
Short attended a football game in
Philadelphia last Saturday.
Major Clarence A. Short was ap-
pointed Grand Master of the Ma
sonic Lodge of the State of Della
ware at meeting last Thursday in
Wilmington. ...,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Layton spent
Sunday with their parents at Har-
rington. s,
Mrs. Nora Townsend is spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs.
Leland Burton at Lewes, who is iii
at this writing.
Miss Alberta Long spent Satur-
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Zeno p. Long, near RoXana.h ~
Mrs, W. v. Steen, Jr., and her
new baby daughter arrived home
Wednesday of last week, .s
J. B. Chandler, who has been i'll
for some time is not so we'll at this
writing.
Miss Henrietta Vickers who un-
derwent an operation at the Pen
insula Hospital arrived home Sat
urday. She is improving. nicely
The Sunday school Glass in the
Corner" met at the home Of Mrs.
VIM B. Chandler, Jr., on Monday
evening. After the routine business
and social hour, refreshments were
served by the hostess. A pleasant
evening was reported by ALL
Major C. A. Short attended Ma
sonic meeting at Dover on Tues
day night.
Mrs. r. D. Lingo was an over
night guest of her daughter, Mrs.
]. C. Hazard at Wilmington, the
past week .
Stewart Bennett of Mardella
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mons. Mrs. "A. ]. Timmons. Jerald
Timmons took a movie picture Of
Louis Alvin and his cousin, Rich
ard, cutting, and eating the cake
after the party. Mrs. Timmons SER
we'd ice cream and cake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Long of
Philadelphia spent Saturday and
Sunday with the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kitchens.
Work on the new business places
of William P. Parkhurst and Harry
Figgs is rapidly progressing.
Pitney Lee, an employee at the
Purina Mills at Wilmington, and
friend, Miss Madeline Pearson,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Vangie Lynch, after attending Sum
day. school at Dover.
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REPORT OF CONDITION OF
BALTIMORE TRUST COMPANY

OF SELBYYILLE BRIDGEVILLE AND CAMDEN STATE OF
DELAWARE AT THE CLOSE BUSINESS SEPTEMBER
ASSETS