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Cottage prayer meeting was held
with Mrs. L. M. Milton, Wednes-
day, December 10.
Addie Armstrong, Norma Baker,
Eula Mae Camp and Lauretta
Wade make up the cast of the play
let "More Important Than Christ
mas Shopping" to be presented for
the mothers on December % at
800 p. m. Included on this pro-
gram will be recitations and Christ
mas Carols, piano students of
Mrs. Mary Short.
Women of the Home Makers
Group planned a complete three
meal menu for each day Of the
week at their last meeting after
making a study Of the vitamin
value of foods. This week, Mrs.
Thurston will supervise the cook
ing of a complete meal which will
be eaten after the meeting. The
summer cooking class will be
hostess, with Mrs. Lydia Brown in
charge. December II, Miss Phelps,
of the University, will speak on
"Clothing the Family" The Sew
ing Class will be hostesses with
Alice Manning in charge. Classes
are open to everyone. Annabelle
Rideaux instructs the sewing class.
RED CAPS ELECT OFFICERS
Local 1905 of the United Trans
port Service Employees of Amer
lea held its annual meeting at the
Dining Car Walters Headquarters
on Tuesday, December 2. Officers
were elected for the fiscal year
1941-42. The following men were
elected: Ira M. Dorsey, president;
William A. Young, vice president;
Bertram Shannon, recording secre-
tary; Lee A. Gwynne, assistant Sec
rotary; John R. Lawrence, treas
urer; M. D. Carter and Jack Mills,
financial secretaries; Bishop Neal,
sergeant-at-arms; Bertram Shan
non, publicity director; Nicholas N.
Smith, trustee, elected for a three
year term. The other incumbent
trustees are William Bowen and
Lucian Willis.
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free. Everyone is urged to come
out and root for the boys Of st.
Leonard's Church.
CAMPHOR MEMORIAL METHO-
DIST CHURCH NOTES

Pastor Clarence T. r. Nelson dis
carded the notes prepared for a
sermon on the subject can Utter
Impossibility" last Sunday morn
ing and delivered a communion
sermon on the subject "God's
Mercy Seat" inspired by the sing
ing Of one of the great hymns in
the Methodist Hymnal, just before
the sermon.
Circle Number Four Of the
Woman's Society Of Christian
Service Of which Mrs. Villa Mae
Peoples is the leader, made the
best financial report of any circle
for the month of November.
The joint memorial service Of the
Elks of the Twin Cities will be held
at 7:45 p. m. Sunday. Pastor Mel
son will deliver the sermon and
the senior choir, directed by Mr..
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WELCOME HALL NOTES

In a wholesome competitive man
ner for the highest attendance rec
ord, the Junior Church was tied
this week with the Piano Group
and the Scribble Class-though the
Scribblers boast the largest offer
ing and Rev. Victor Holly and Rev.
G. T. R. Nelson in the audience.
The Chorus group are expecting a
record attendance at their meet
ing on Saturday, December 10.
The Parent Workers Study Group
sponsored by the Mckinley P. T.
A., will have as their discussion
topic "Children's Toys" Miss Edith
Mae Allen will speak. On Decem-
Der 10, Miss Marie Canaan, assist
ant state supervisor Of the w.
P. A. nurseries, will be the speaker.
Some Of the work of the Scribble
Club is included as part of the
Christmas decorations in the Play
Center. Honorable mention for
outstanding work goes to Lois
Milsap and Janet Armstrong.
The Stewardship Group enter
tanned as their guests at their
meeting on December 4, at Ober
Boys Club, ladies from Randolph
Heights Presbyterian Church. Mrs.
A. J. Boman led devotions. Mrs.
J. q. Meyer, who led the group,
introduced the speaker, Mrs. A.
Nichols, a missionary from Africa,
who spoke on the great prophecies
of the Bible and the present war.
Refreshments were served.
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Everybody knows where Nazism
stands and what to expect of it.
Cruel as it is, and dangerous as
it is to civilization, it is less cruel,
and it may be even less dangerous
in the end, than the sort of
democracy which is not real
enough or strong enough to prac-
tice what it breaches. To destroy
hope utterly is kinder than to al
low it without intending to let it
be fulfilled.
Patience Waning
The Importance of facing the
situation between white and col
lored people in our own country is
twofold-it is upon this rock that
our own ship of democracy may
go down first, and upon this rock,
too, that all peoples may divide in
to the ultimate enmity.
Everywhere in the world the col
ored peoples are asking each other
if they must forever endure the
arrogant ruling white race. They
feel they have been very long pa
tient, but they cannot be patient
forever and they will not.
In India such men as Nehru,
now again in Jail at the hands of
white men fighting for democracy
in Europe; in our own country, col
ored Americans, as intelligent and
well educated as Nehru, barred by
their color alone from an equal
chance with white Americans to
earn their living or to defend
democracy-there is a deep, subtle,
dangerous relationship betwe e n
them. We are foolish if we do not
realize it.
For in many educated colored
Americans, hopelessness results not
in simple crime but in a rejection
of patriotism. There are those, and
some of them leaders, who favor
Japan in the present crisis,
seeing in Japan the future leader
Of all cOlOred peoples in the world.
There are those who prefer Hit
Ter to British Imperialism, feeling
that If English rule over cOlored
races can be destroyed, then Hitler
can be dealt with afterward as the
less established evil.
At home and abroad the white
race has the choice to make
whether it will follow the totali-
tartan principle Of ruler and sub
ject races, even to the inevitable
end of rebellion and the worst Of
wars, or whether peoples Of all col.
ors will decide to work out ways
of living in mutual harmony and
freedom.
Crisis Near at Hand
Such is the situation between col
ored and white peoples at this mo-
ment. It is idle to say that tn
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the Gloria Del Lutheran Church
Sunday, December IA, is Com
munion Sunday, and the pastor has
chosen for the subject of his SER
mon, Goods Mercies. 20. C. Hall,
Jr., reporter.
The Pilgrim Baptist Churc h
News: The Sacramento Service
was held at II o'clock last Sunday
morning with Rev. S. E. Ware
preaching a very soothing sermon,
"The Unfailing Christ" AS this
was the first Sunday of the month,
all the choirs of Pilgrim partici-
pated in the service.
Mrs. Joe johnson, Shreveport
La; Mrs. Mildred Scott, Jamaica
Long Island, N. Y; Phillip Porter
Mr.. David Harper, and Anne Harp
er were among the many visitors
in attendance at our morning serv'
ice. =
Last Monday evening the Gospe
Chorus represented important
scenes from the pageant ''The Story
of a Church" The pageant, which
was given November IA, was 8
great success.
Attention: The Pastors Aid So
ciety is presenting a very unique
pageant "The Tree Of Life" Sun
day, December IA, at a p. m. Come
out and see this great presentation
DIR. w. D. Brown, recently elected
Mayor Of Bonneville, will be thu
guest speaker.-Maureen Coleman
Reporter.
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With the Churches

st. Marks A. M. e. Church
Notes: Duluth: Rev. E. A. London,
pastor, preached his eleven o'clock
sermon to a very much improved
attendance, and the newly-organ-
lied choir offered the music. Mrs.
Caroline McNeal of Lake Charles,
La, Mrs. Violet Saunders of St.
Paul, Mimi, have added their men,
bership to our church and have ac-
cepted active parts. Visitors at the
Sunday service were Mrs. Betty
Wilson and Miss G. Green of Des
Moines, Iowa.
At the election of officers for the
Sunday School the following were
elected to serve: Meek Starry, Jr.,
superintendent; Mr.. F. Bell, assist
ant; Eugene Watts, secretary;
Hannah Black, treasurer; Teach
ers: George Adams, Mickey Beas-
ly and Frenchie Bell; Assistant
teachers: Miss Connie Adams, Mrs.
Minnie Adams and Emma Watts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Merry, en-
route to California, are visiting a
few days in Winslow, Ariz. Mrs,
Violet Saunders is quite ill.-Rev.
E. A. London.
st. James A. M. e. Church: The
congregation filled the church Sun
day morning for the eleven o'clock
service with the senior choir un-
der the direction Of Mrs. Cora
Moore. The Queen rally ended Sun
day night very successfully with
Mrs. Lucille Williams sponsored by
the Anderson Circle being crowned
Queen Of st. James. Mrs. Cora
Grissom is president. The Kings
Daughters were second with May
me Chandler, president, and Mrs
Aloma Skinner. named Queen. All
nine clubs made good reports.
The broadcast scheduled for Sun
day at 6 p. m. by the Senior Choir
was cancelled because of the out
break of the war. The choir sang
and made recordings, however, at
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Buy Defense Bonds
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Continued From Last Week)
Hypocrisy Seen
I am, I think, realistic and OBJ
iective on this matter Of race, hav-
ing lived most of my life among
colored peoples. My own ancestry
is entirely Southern, and I am very
familiar with the problems of white
and colored in the South.
I do not, however, believe their
solution is to be found in what the
average white Southerner says, in
the familiar patter, that the col
ored man is a childish creature, de-
lightful enough in his place, who
only wants to be taken care Of and
fed and sheltered and treated kind
ly. That the cOlored person in the
South often glibly falls in with
such assertions means nothing.
The colOred person is afraid of
his white master and says what the
white man wants him to say. The
same colOred man quickly expresses
himself in totally different terms
as soon as he changes his locale
and is relieved of his fear.
But be that as it may, the real
point is that our democracy does
not allow for the present division
between a white ruler race and a
subject colored race, and we ought
to make up our minds as to, what
we want and then move to ac-
complish it.
{ IF the United States is to include
subject and ruler peoples, then let
Eus be honest about it and change
the Constitution and make it plain
that colored cannot share the priv
ileges of the white people. True,
we would then be totalitarian rather
than democratic; but If that is
what we want, let US say 80 and
let US tell the colored people so.
Then the white Americans will be
relieved of the necessity Of hypoc-
risy and the cOlOred people will
know where they are. They may
even settle down into q dOcile sub.
ject race, so long as we are able
to keep the weapons Of rebellion
from them-and these include edu-
cation.
AS an American, should deplOre
any such thing, and yet the world
needs this sort of Qualification.
Democracy now suffers from vague.
ness because of the lack of relation
between principle and action. With
all the evils that Hitlerism has, al
least il has one virtue, that II
makes no pretense Of loving its fel.
bowman and of wanting all people
to be free and equal.
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Two Good Men

City branches Of the National Association FOR the Ad-
Core People to be congratulated their
election of leaders for the ensuing
elected the fne outstanding minister
Benjamin Moore its president His election presages nne
things for the historic branch Of the Sanity City,
Minneapolis active member, R. Augustine Skinner,
president The dgnife foceful and
faithful make excellent leader for the Mill City
branch -
their immediate official family Will be
able organizations to the
tive the interest Of the individual
members.
It not enough members should their annual
membership then et George do it, Each member should
meetings and help put the assoaons very
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FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

Dear Editor: Faith is supreme
so let us have faith in our govern
ment. Don't let our government
down. Defense is of paramount i'm
portance. We may or may not
agree with it on every issue but
let us keep pace with the majority
and fight fire with fire. There are
some things that must be done as
a state of war exists.
Respectfully yours,
w. w. Miller.
Minneapolis.
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crisis is two steps off and let US
attend first to defense and the pres
ent war. Crisis between white and
colored is not two steps oft is
close, inextricably mingled with
this war, because the war against
Nazism carries race equality or in
equality as one of its main issues.
It does no good that we ourselves
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keep the issue hushed and hidden
and apart from the thinking Of the
mass of white people. The crisis
approaches, whether white people
are willing to know it or not. It
approaches in the world, and with
that memorable march our own
people are keeping step.
Continued Next Week.
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John Hickman, win sing.

John Hickman, win sing.
The annual bazaar Of the Build
ers' Club will be held in the Guild
Hall Saturday, December Is.
Pastor Nelson is preparing a
sermon on the question "What At
titude Should the Negro Assume
in the Present War?" to be deliv-
cred Sunday, December 81, at IL
a. m.
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BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYS
SUNDAY

The st. Leonard's Church boys
basketball team, under the man
agement of Gerald Bailey, ST., will
meet the boys Of Nazareth Hall at
Lake Johanna, st. Paul, on Sun
day, December ii. The game
starts at 1 p. m. Admission is
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PREJUDICE CHIEF CAUSE
OF CRIME AMONG NEGROES
PEARL BUCK, AUTHOR, SAYS

LETTER BY PEARL S. BUCK
To the Editor of the New York
Times:
Continued From Last Week)
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Japan's Defeat Important Common Cause

Japan has attacked country The die is cast Now is
the time when all Americans must rally to the defense OF
our country. ~
Negro Americans will be second to none in doing their
patriotic duty joining up in all efforts to defeat Japan or
ny nation which threatens the security of this nation
All other matters and ills from which the Negro has
and is even now suffering under Americas inconsistent
application of democracy must be subodnated for the
amportant common cause-defeat of Japan and all other
aggressors. o..
did not point out that we must have unity This unity will
come much more readily when every loyal woman and
child is given equal opportunity to share in the great task
ahead of us. $500 ~
Negro America ready for the long, bitter battle ahead
for she believes as Stephen Decatur Our country in its
intercourse with foreign nations she always be in the
right; but right or wrong my country"
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FIND OUT.
BY Ruth Taylor

AS celebrate the four hundred and fifty ninth
OF Columbus epoch making voyage the Americas,
needs must stop and consider What First, of
marks the beginning. of the country dear
But it is not that which significance Nearly five
hundred before Columbus the Norsemen here
and other explorers would have taking
East and forced courses new ways
of thought.
The of Columbus teaches of applied
curiosity Along the WharfS of Genoa among the black
ed Columbus had
You'd the seof ships that blown courses had sight
ed great and vcant islands, whisper
ed theory that the earth not flat the scholars their
sheltered lives had decrerd that round
and Whispers he evolved his idea-hat
really the Indies. And he had to find out
The path long and hard-and seemingly hopeless all
the way from the nconspicuous life of traders
to the post of Lord Admiral Spain eered at mocked
and scorned Every path that he followed a stone
wall of failurebu each e he started again
mined to find out. AT last the way opened And when
1t was he ready for his mentally
carry through.
That is the lesson in Columbus voyage The power to find
secret of success The advantage that
There not be continents o discover but there
ar opportunities equally great before those
minds There heights to which h an ideal
may not clmbno of ignorance he cross
md the unknown treasure he seeks Each man potential
Coumbls-and whether he into unknown depends
upon how great is his determination to find out.
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blgotry, the enlightened con-
science of the nation was apathe
tlc-apparantly dead.
Under the stimulus of pleas
for national unity to deal with
the present emergency and to
preserve our national safety, it
is earnestly hoped, during these
desperately critical days, that
leaders of public opinion in A
merica will align themselves
with every movement designed
to reaffirm faith in American
ideals, and rekindle hope in the
heart of the humblest citizen
that he, too, is entitled to share
in all the blessings and privileg-
es of a free America.
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Mrs, Johnson Leads Discussion
AT MaSoLit Club Meeting

Mrs. r P. Johnson. gave an in
teresting discussion on Negro
Authors" at a meeti of the Ma
SoLit club held at the home Of
Miss Frances l.. Francis, Ebert.
Saturday, September 81. Mrs.
Johnson's discussion was com
prehensive, including the lives
and works of writer's Of poetry,
fiction, history, and philosophy
Preceding the discussion Mrs.
Sarah H. Page, also of Kimbali,
conducted an inspirational de-
votional period. which was fol-
lowed by a business session. and
an orientation on The Home
and National Defense. by Mrs.
j. B. Carroll of Excelsior.
Material for this discussion was
furnished by the Office of Price
Administration and Civilian Sup
ly at Washington
Miss Francis, assisted by Mrs.
j. E. Hight of Gary. served a
delectable dinner to the follow
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The Impossible Exists

There indeed things yond the ability of man TO
accomplish for the mind manhas set limits beyond which,
it Nevertheless there things that cannot BRING
to reality Several today pondered ON and hard and
saw to bring to their ion wealth and poycr-nd ot
the top of the glittering dream they saw themselves
And result for fourteen solid the rivers of Rus
have red with the blood of hundreds thousands Of t
flower of German nanhoodpycn * ,yo rr
this the two great armies ending blasting away a
each other with unrvaed erocy For what hey ghng
Two ideologes which clash may not exist side m
SIDE peacefully For any onemorta man to rule the whole
the earth IS impoSsibe-ony God the devil hope t do
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Stawart christian, Dan Atkins
and the obliging youthful r. A.
Suit, is still climbing to higher
heights.
Since June 80, a little less than
three months the banks resour-
ces have increased a hundred
thousand dollars. the last re-
port resources were ninteen
hundred thousand dollars, to
date it is over 21 hundred
thousand.
One reason why this bank is
successful is these men have
applied business habit to their
daily life and it has become Il
part of them. They possess re-
sourcefulness adaptability, per-
sonality and character. How
could any movement not be a 90
with persons who have ability
to get along with people, who
can lead peope and who exchange
ideas to help each other to b.
true to the highest ideals of
business.
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KEYSTONE'S BANK GROW
ING BY LEAPS AND
BOUNDS IN RESOURCES

THAT Time Tried and Panic
Tested" strong Bank of Key
stone, with the able, trustworthy
V. A. Christie, cashier; the
wisdom of the honorable and
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Flathcad lake, Montana, oe-
;cribed as 1.-THE largest body Of fresh
.sa.ec west Of the Great Lakes nils
4, houcv- thirty-fve miles long aad
eighteen miles wide between two
ranges of the Rocky mountains, exc
ccpt where the $500 acre Wildnorse
island humps its hills out OF the
N4tcr near the west shore.
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On Not RenOuncin Any
OF the Privileges of American
Citizenship

For Freedom" committee.
Only a short while ago, on
the floor of the United States
Senate. Senator Pepper declar-
ed Whatever may be written
into the Constitution, whatever
may be placed upon the statute
books of this nation, however
many soldiers may be stationed
about the ballot boxes of the
Southland, the colored race will
not Vote......
Such remarks affront Con-
Stitutional mandates. They stir
up racial hatreds and set groups
against groups. They do not
promote good Amercanism.
Gentlemen of Stripe
Senator Peppers views are
shared by Senator Connally of
Texas, former Senator James
+. Byrnes of South Carolina,
rccent!y elevated to the bench of
the United States Supreme
Court; Congressman Carl j. Vim
son of Georgia. Congressman
Ramspeck of Georgia, Senators
Allen j. Ellander and John II.
Overton of Louisiana, Congress
man John f.. Rankin Of Miss,
and others of that ilk.
The Denials They Favor
All of these gentlemen favor
the Four Freedoms for the rest
of the world. but not for the
lcight million colored people Of
, the southern section of our
country where the Democratic
;. machines control.
They favor denial of the fran
o chise to colored citizens. They
separations and segregations in
u Government service. They are
, opposed to national unity if it
involves extending a Square
= Deal to Negroes. They have, CO.
operated in preventing a vote on
- The Anti-Lynching Bill.
II They have studiedly defended
the practices which prevented
i Negroes from sharing in the
i opportunities provided by the
;, defense industry. They have not
not spoke out against the NAL
treatment meted out to Negro
. Selectees in southern camps.
i, They have Severally and collec-
- tlvly supported by their Demo
,, cratic political machines operat-
ing III opposing every interest
II the Negro people which tends
to realize the enjoyment of the
privileges of the very Consti-
tuition they have sworn to up.
. hold and defend
h Weakening National Unity
& They have helped to weaken
Il national unity by their practic-
It eS and preachments. They are
brazcnly proud of their records
Il IN denying the fundamentals Of
@ the -Four Freedoms to men and
@ women who, under the Constitu-
ton, are as truly citizens of the
? nation as they are.
This mass hypocrisy and
+ sham are a blot on our civiliza-
ton.
or one thing however. they
may be sure. Negroes. too. arc
follr-Square for the defense Of
the American way of life. and
they, too, cannot be bribed or
blackmaiIedi into rpnouncing
their Just and equal status as
citizens of these United States
They Will ever so contend
AS long as Ngroes alone were
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ing members Mesdames Johnson,
Page. Carroll. Hight. Byers,
Shelton, Jones, Punty, Whitti-
co, Garrison, Cooper, Wright,
and Wiley
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CHARTER No. 1O369 RESERVE n1sTp,,r M :
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF -,
The First National Bank of
Keystone

In the State of West Virginia, close of business on
September "a, 194l
Published in to call made by Comptroller of be
Currency, under Section 5211 U. Revised Statutes
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Sizn of Flcthead Lake

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Marx O slObOdn0j trgO-

(Nastavak sa 3. strane.)
Sc zemljoposednici, da Sc osvete
fabrikantima, udruzili sa radnici-
ma radi sprovodjenja zakona o de-
setocasovnom radnom danu, koji
81 radnici, vec trideset gadina u
zaludno trazili i koji je sproveden
neposredno liza ukidanja zakona o
Hvozu zita.
Ako je, ma kongresu ekonomis-
ia, dr.. Bowling izvukao IL svog
dxepa jednu dugacku listu, da po-
kaxe koliko je komada govedjine
5unke, slanine, kokosi j t. d., nve-
zeno u Englesku da, kako on kaze,
bude potroseno Cd radnika, naza-
lost, on je zaboravio da vam ka-
BE, da je isto vreme radnike IL
Manchestera IL drugih manufak-
turnih gradova, bacila ma ulicu
kriza koja je pocinjala.