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Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
The Plight
Worker
Continued from page one

Oar attack on organized Labor
is not intended to discredit any
organization, il its principles art
effected to the extent that it will
in return eurtail eur welfare as
our friend advise, they are no,
worth daana..!!
We are going to advise our peo-
ple on matters we deem right Git
may go unheeded) until we arc
convinced, through our own pre-
monition, that We are wrong. We
are with organized labor when it
is right and we are against il
when we feel it is wrong.
We have in our city common
laborers drawing wages from 500
to $50 per week, Why not let
them continue? That's a damn
sight more than you can give
them. eve said GIVE them not
OFFER them...
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16

lack of brillianee or unblemished
crystal elearness. Their great in
dustrial value lies in their hard
ness, which makes it possible to
cut and pierce the most stubborn
substances. -, .
There are two leading kinds of
industrial diamonds, bort and car
honado. The first, which is the
most used in this country's indus
tries, comes from South African
fields under British control and
consist of small and irregular
stones or fragments that are oft
eplor for jewelry purposes. Tho
carbonate, lacking in cleavage or
splitting properties, is not crystal
lized and is dark or brownish
purple and popularity called the
black diamond 1t usually has Il
greater toughness than the gen,
diamond.
The diamond die Is flattish
stone varying from half a carat
to ten carats in weight through
the dead center of which has
been bored a pore-ike hole hy
means of q diamond-nibbcd tool.
The metal is forced through
the tiny aperture in flux-like
state and energies like the strands
of the spiders web, Even slend
erer threads than 0.0003 of an
inch have been obtained.
According to DR.. +, d. Lucas,
Jr, writing in recent number of
the trade magazine metals and
Alloys, a rod tungsten three in
ches long and three eighths of an
inch in diameter becomes a fila
ment weight miles long when
sent through a diamond die.
Diamond tipped tools figuring
in roaming and puncturing opera
tons are known to have bored
hundreds of thousands of holes
before they became worn down.
After they have become well worn
down they are powdered into
grinding dust.
The diamond pointed reamer i
used where the factor of accu.
racy is one 1,000th of an inch or
less.
In normal times the most pie
turesque use of the rough dia-
monds is in taking samples of
rocks and ores for prospectors
and for engineering surveys, This
is done by means of a hollow tube
or drill, the end of which has
crown of diamonds, usually car
which grind through the
rock and cut out smooth core,
which is hoisted to the surface
for assay and analysis.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
Service Employees Internationa
(AF'L).

Service Employees International
(AFL).
To measure the Importance of
the Foundation and the wonder
hl work it has accomplished we
have only to view the past and
present beneficiaries o f then
awards. However, in doing So
we cannot safely discredit the
varied fields in which the recipi-
ents labor.
For the cause Of journalism to
be widely considered in the setup
ihcrc arises the gratifying thought
that the people respect the free
dem of the press in line with Ar
tiele /, which represents an amend
ment to our Constitution. The
section states
congress shall make no law
respecting an establ stment Of re-
lig.ou, or prohibiting the free ey-
cycise thereof; or abridging tho
freedom Of speech or of The
Press"
I'm recent months considerable
discussion has hen directed to
the question OF maintaining the
freedom of the press. As the war
in Europe becomes more tense,
some have felt tie need of setting
Up censorship with respect to the
press. However, should such a
move h. made, it will mean a de-
finite storpage Of such valuable
articles as those written by Mr..
Pcgler. America needs the news
papers and the newspapers need
America!
Amid oil of dubious opinions
about a free press, we gain last q.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16

living, For that We are grateful.
Our attack is on the vinciples
of exploitation Of the pour Negro
worker. We are esgnizant, and We
think our friend eateftains the
same thoughts, that organized Ia
Dor under the white mans con-
troll has never considered the Ne
gro on any side that's beneficial,
We do not hold a monopoly on
right, since right Is a matter Of
opiRon--we are exercising ours,
Organized labor not only exploit
the Negro common laborer but
has practically closed the doors
Of all openings to the Negro in
skilled work and RELOCATED him
to the most drudgery work. The
National Defense Program is sulf-
ering a shortage OF labor today
because organization refuses to
rcAgnize the Negro in trades.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
News For Youth
By Mrs. Iaulyne Sims i.uryeAf
BRITISH 70 SEND VITAL
DIAMONDS FOR DEFENSE
INDUSTRIES OF l.. 8,

The war and the defense pro-
gram have highlighted in recent
weeks the great value placed or
diamonds for industrial purposes
as we'll as for mere adornment.
Because defense requirements
call for at least 5000 more dia-
mond dies, which are indispens-
able in drawing wire to a slender
ness impossible to obtain by other
means on a large commercial scale
f. r. Stettinius, Jr., Director Of
Priorities for the Office of Pro-
duction Management, has arrang
ed to OBTAIN the necessary stones
through the British Purchasing
Commission. They will be i'm
ported from South Africa and
made available to def,nse indus
tries through the Federal Defense
Supplies Corporation.
1t is estimated that one-fifth
Of all the industrial diamonds i'm
PORTED BY the country are used
Tor drawing fine wires of copper,
steel, tungsten, osmium and tan
talum. Such wires, usually about
00003 of an inch in diameter,
which look thinner than human
hair, are u,ed for filaments AMI
delicate electrical instruments.
They also must be drawn to pre-
risely uniform size to assure ac-
curacy in such instruments.
The United States Bureau of
Customs Statistics reports that de
Tense needs have increased the
normal rate of industrial diamond
inlportations by $50 per cent, and
prices have risen from Is to so
per cent during the last year.
Since the German conquest of the
Netherlands and Belgium, New
York has become the largest dia-
mond cutting center in the world.
and recently the Diamond Work.
eis' Protective Union and the
thirty diamond cutting companies
here announced a new contract
under which these speciality work
ers will receive minimum wages
Of from 1920 to $195 for a thirty
five hour week.
Factory School Opened
Only 5 per cent of the 10000
cutters in the Low Countries were
able to escape from the Nazi-
dominated lands, and because of
the shortage of cutters in Ameri-
ca a factory-school is to open
here to train apprentice cutters.
The industrial diamond figures
in many Of the processes for Gre
ating artillery, firearms, bomb
sights, airplane engines, range
finders, automobiles and other de-
Tense and day machine pro.
ducts.
The working-world diamonds
usually come from the same beds
hs the ornamental diamonds and
differ from the latter only in their
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16

hearts of His servants, and His servants they who
maintain their loyalty by their efforts to eonsmmae the
good life among men.
things OF God and against the things which harm people
The Church is steny opposed to teray and crime and
vice and poverty and squaor and Sums and unemployment
and prevcntabe disease The Church opposed to racial
prejudice and economic exploitation and unequal law
foreement The Church opposed to political hypocrisy
ard social cynicism and religious chicaney.
The Church determined that the Gospel of the Lord
shall acuae the lives of Christians and that faith shall
be mtany effective IN personal lives and therefore
IN relations with all persons and peoples The Church
dnapds the unqualified practice of the brotherhood of
mankind under the wisdom and power of the Faherhood
If Cod
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16

won her battle for alimony, get
ting lump sum of $31 900 and a
guarantee of $500 weekly for life.
With Kip and his dad dead, Alice
coming out of an II year seclusion
S suing the estate for the guaran-
tee, charging failure to pay her
since March 1, 1910. At the time
of his secret marriage to Alice
Jones, Kip was heir to a reputcd
family fortune of $4,000. 900.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16

ing courage from the speech made
by Jesse II. Jones, Secretary of
Commerce, before the Annual
Meeting of the Associated Press.
April 81. We quote a section of
his address
ut is through the Press the
pailics, the Weeklies, and the
Magazines, that America speaks.
Freedom Of the Press is a part Of
The heritage of every freedom
In Of this democracy......"
Several weeks ago Mrs. Elean-
Or Roosevelt in her column, "My
P"y," pointed to the fearless ar
jcles which Mr.. Peglcr wrote.
airs. Roosevelt left no doubt in
he minds of the readers that our
nation should appreciate good
unalism.
Ii has been said of Mr.. Peglcr
tlat none Of his articles were writ
ten until he had obtained facts to
support the points he brought for
Continued on Back Page)
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
NOTICE

I The suggestions for the en-
tertainment of the Connection.
F.. al Quadrennial Woman's Home
I and Foreign Missionary Con-
+, vention at Little Rock, Ark,
! 1913, as presented by the Sup
I ervisor Mrs. N, B. Gipson and
I Mrs. C. V. Stinson, State Presi
I dent of the w. II. and F. M.
! Society have my endorsement.
! 1t is my desire that all con-
I cerned will strive to make of
I this a great event in the his
I tory of the 18th Episcopal Dis
! trict.
! f. J. HOWARD,
I Presiding Bishop
I Villa Booker, Niece and
! Priv. Sec'y.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
THE DAY WE HOPE FOR

When live peace and harmony wit! anotheir
erita post
ton life tolerance but spirit ef Good WIZ
assured in the conviction judgment that will remit
indomiabe rights the admonIon of his
eneavor he for his
ligous or material When that day arrives will b"
cntente THEN we all can CIVILIZATIONS And not
until then---E C.
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
SOMETHING
TO
THINK ABOUT

Note (This column does not nee
ally represent the Editorial
opinion of the Press, but the
opinion of its author. Editor
Arkansas State press., 1941-05-16
tGIVE II AS
| GET 1T

have ever felt more like writing
about myself than now. In few
llays | am to embark on some
thing new...something | hope will
be thrilling, satisfying and re-
wardlng. That's why my feeling
is up.
Writers can't always pour
themselves into ink because the
Wisdom of the craft is against
such. And too this column strives
to present the digested or cream
ed-off writings of others, thing
new in newspaper writings, so for
as know, Just the same | wish
to get over something without
writing it. Who would swap the
ink front for the chalk-front?
~ *t+* 40
Once this column wrote that
those who are fighting for the
ballot, for equalization of the
salaries of Negro teachers to
those Of the whites, for opportuni-
ties in all phases of American ac-
tivity should keep Iii mind that
money plus mouth is necessary.
Raymond Clapper, writing about
the American cause in Mexico, re-
Gently penned this monumental
sentence; The cause is thriced arm
ed which is not only right but
which has some money behind it.
~ $3.50 ~
In commenting on a new law
made by New Jersey to keep COM
munists off the ballot, the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Advertiser referred
to it as "vote-appeal gesture of
the hero-politican type What
about the acts of Thomas S. Law
son, Alabama attorney general in
arouslng nine other Southern
states to intervene in the Nit.
chel railroad discrimination case?
Mr. Knight has indicated he is 90.
ing to run for lieutenant COVER
nor.
~. r~** ~
The price of race prejudice
The papers New York Daily Mir
ror) carried the story about Kip |
and Alice Rhinelander's 1925 wed |
ding that bumped around in the |
divorce courts for four years. |
making sensational newspaper
reading Alice, part Negro, tone
drop of Negro blood is stronger
than a million drops of white blood |
Her father was black, her mother |
white, Kip knowing the facts,
Alice lawyer argued before the |
courts,) panied the wealthy and |
ue-blooded Rhinelander family |
marrying their son. Quickly, legal |
actions were started to free Kir |
Of her by having the matrimonial |
sealing steamed loose. Alice, con-
,senting to annuling the marriage, |
have done, for "Jim" would have |
told US his father was patient.
"Jim' no doubt is beyond redemp-
ton, but there are thousands of
other "Jims' that we would like
to impart this advice--"to hold
out little longer, we agree
America hasn't been as loyal TO
you as you have been to her, but
who knows, truth may still get a
hearing and if it does you may be
rewarded yet for your loyalty"
Note--We say you may be-
there's a difference between may
and will.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90
y mn -
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Bond Averages
Hr tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20-Some bet
ter class industrial bonds added to
values today but the ma ior part OF
the list was irregular, many of the
speculative rails declining in quiet
trade
Buvine interest was we'll scattered
although the second-grade railroad
issues accounted for the larger blocks
sold Aside from few changes Of
around a point. attributed to tech
nical factors, price changes held to
minor fractions.
United States Governments, after
easing lower in morning over-the-
counter trade. moved up on in
creased demand to gains of as much
as Is of a point over yesterdays
close.
The foreign list was dull, hand
full of South American dollar loans
gaining fractions.
Among domestic issues which sold
higher were Frisco 4l2s of '78, Balti-
more & Ohio stamped convertibleS,
Delaware e. Hudson refunding As,
St. Paul SIS, Armour Delaware) As
and Pacific Gas 384s.
Those which lost ground included
illinois Central 474S, Walworth As,
Nickel Plate AIS. Northern Pacific
Is and Santa Fe As of 95.
priced rails f1rmed consid-
erablv in the final hour. Three
issues of Pittsburgh 81 West Virginia
bonds closed up more than points
and New Haven as added / at 27ls
Wabash first IS improved 15s at
6S3s.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Most Virginia Crops
Decline During Week

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 20-Vir-
ginia crops generally declined dur
ing the week ended August Is, the
Department of Agriculture reported
today, although cotton and fruits
appeared to be slightly better than
a week ago and early corn was
still in excellent condition.
The soil was reported to be too
dry to get much benefit from the
scant rainfall. and only a few north
ern and southern counties received
sufficient moisture for crops to make
satisfactory progress.
The report said the crops showing
the greatest decline were corn, to-
bacco, late potatoes, sweet potatoes
canning tomatoes, lespedeza and
pasture.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

BY tire Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20-Cotton fu-
lures gained more than 50 a bale
today on covering operations and a
rush of buying orders.
Demand was inspired by renewed
talk that the President may approve
the cotton freezing bill, coupled with
opposition by farm leaders to setting
of ceiling prices on agricultural COM
m0dities.
Further unwanted rain in the
eastern half of the cotton belt and
recent reports of insect damage
counteracted more favorable
weekly weather report. Offerings of
contracts were none too plentiful
and consisted mainly of scale up
hedging and realizing.
BY late afternoon values were up
80 to Al points. October, 1851;
March. 1881, and July. 1892.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Boost in Rates
Between Hawaii,
u. S. Delayed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated FresS.
Leon Henderson, price adminis-
traitor. announced today that the
Matson Navigation Co. and the
Isthmian Steamship Co. have post
poned for 80 days the effective dates
of proposed increases in freight
rates between Continental United
States and Hawaii.
The increases originally were
scheduled TO become effective Sep
tember /. The postponement, Hen
derson said. will afford opportunity
for the consideration of the pro-
posed rates and their effects on
transportation of goods for national
defense and civilian supply in the
light of present emergency condi-
tions."
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

by IEP hSkOCleten Ftest.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Wheat prices
pushed upward almost cents
bushel today to within less than a
cent of the four-year peaks estab-
hshed earlier in the month.
Limited offerings except at higher
prices, covering of previous short
sales and some buying credited to
mills, with -four business reported
active despite recent heavy sales,
accounted for much of the markets
strength. Traders said the rise in
grains was partly sympathetic with
strength OF soybeans, lard, cotton
and some other commodities. They
also expressed belief that the Presi-
dents comments about the war sit
uation had stimulated some market
activity
Wheat closed lis-1ss higher than
yesterday. September, s113A Is;
December. sl16ss-s4; corn lz-7s up,
September, 775s: December, 81 as-14;
oats ILL., higher.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
86,4l6 Freight Cars
On Order for Carriers

By the Associated Press.
Class l railroads had 56,416 new
freight cars on order on August l
compared with 1875 cars a year
earlier, the Association of American
Railroads reported yesterday.
The carriers also had SOB new To-
comotives on order, compared with
163 on August l, 1910.
In the first seven months of this
year the railroads put in service
43-243 new freight cars compared
with 40.4l6 in the same period last
year, and 323 locomotives, COM
pared with 20I,
Evening star., 1941-08-20
U. s. 10 Lend $4,000, 900
To Uruguay for Arms
By the Associated Press.

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 20.-The
government yesterday accepted an
offer of the Import Export Bank of
Washington to grant Uruguay
$4,000, 900 credit for the purchase of
military. naval and air equipment in
the United States
The cabinet, meeting with Presi-
dent Alfredo Baldomir, ratified the
loan documents which we're signed
by the Uruguayan Ambassador to
Washington.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Priority Announced
For Cotton Linters
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
E. r. Stettinius. jr., defense
priorities director. issued an order
today designed to give preference to
the chemical industry and other de-
fense needs in the processing and
distribution of cotton linters.
Cotton linters are the fibers ad-
herring to the cottonseed hull after
cotton has passed through gin and
they are essential to the manu-
facture of smokeless powder, plastics
and acetate rayons.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Dividend Is Ordered
By Keystone Steel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
PEORIA, Ill, Aug. 20-Directors
of Keystone Steel & Wire Co. to-
day announced the declaration of a
dividend of 25 cents share on the
capital stock. payable September
Is TO stockholders Of record Au-
gust 30.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Bank Official Dies

NEW YORK. Aug. 20 LP)-Ber-
nard w. Scharff. 81, director and
a vice president of the Wall Street
banking firm of E. H. Rollins e.
Sons, died yesterday. A native of
Natchez, Miss, he joined the Roll
Inns Co. at its Boston Office shortly
after his graduation from Yale in
1911 and came to New York in 1880.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Federal Farm Mortxax,.
Home Owners Loan.
Chicogo Produce

CHICAGO Aug. 20 0P,.-Poultry. live
46 trucks: steady to ,strons: hens, 5
pounds and down, Plymouth Rock 30;
White Rock 1ah; springs pounds and
up, colored. 11i7: Plymouth Rock, 20;
White Rock. 1917; under 4 pounds, COL
ored. In; Plymouth Rock. 20:. White
Rock. 1911; other prices unchanged.
Butter. receipts. l,03I. $50; nrm;
creamery, s3 score 35a; 90, 35; 81;
centralized carlots, 34A Eegs. receipts.
a.525; ffrmi checks, 241a; other prices
unchanged.
Potatoes-Arrivals. So; on track, 2os:
total U. S. shipments. 301; demand moder-
ate supplies moderate; for best quality
for Idaho Russet market barely steady,
other varieties all sections market steady;
Oregon Bliss Triumphs- U, s, No; I. l,70;
set Burbanks, U. s. No /, 2I0-25: Ne
braska Bliss, Triumphs, Y. s. No. /. 40;
and North Dakota Bliss Triumpfs, q. s.
No. /, 1.00-35; cobblers, U. 8. No. /, lilo.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Sugar Deliveries Drop

The Agriculture Department yes
terday announced July sugar de-
liveries as 734,704 tons as compared
with 751,l28 tons in July, 1910.
January to July deliveries from
all sources totaled 4,698,175 tons as
compared with 3,779Ol8 tons in the
same period of last year.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
A. T. & 7. Orders
| S2.25 Dividend
On Common

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-Directors
of American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. today declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of S225 a
share on the capital stock, payable
October Is to stock of record Sep
tember Is.
The dividend involves the distri-
button to around 631 900 stockholders
total of more than s42 900 900.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
President Enlorees
Export Control List
pxsbe Av-oriotadp prpsx

BY the ASsOtlAted PfFAS.
President Roosevelt, by proclama-
ton, added SIX articles and ma
terials to the export-control list
yesterday, with the restrictions to
be effective September TO-
The commodities affected are
furs, synthetic flbers, wood, nat
ural asphalt or bitumen, non-fer-
rous metals and precious metals.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Civilian Steel Users
Worried by Effect
OF Priority Order
Mills Hope Government
Will Allow Them
Some Discretion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-The magas
zine Iron Age predicted today that
most non-defense orders for steel
would not be filled in the near fu-
ture because OF the Government
steel priority order.
The mills said the magazine,
"are awaiting official word that they
can use their own experience and
discretion where necessary in deter
mining the proper sequence of steel
orders so that rolling mill schedules
will not be upset and production
actually lost.
steel mills which roll on certain
sizes and types Of steel for long
periods before switching to another
size or type are concerned with the
likelihood of increasing costs as well
as slower production. Large con-.
sumner industry groups, such as can
ners. railroads, the oil industry and
jobbers are growing still more ap-
prehensive over their ability to OBJ
tain the necessary steel. Re-
lief may not come until next year"
Plants Shut Down. !;
Pointing up the effects of metal
and other shortages are reports like :
one from Youngstown. Ohio, that
from 200 10 $50 plants in that State
have already had to shut down or
sharply curtail operations because
of lack of materials. --.
Unless the railroads obtain a
preferential rating for railroad ma
terial, including rails and track
accessories. they are expected to
face serious situation after Sep.
tember l, when full effects of
mandatory steel priorities will be
felt. Steel companies have q man..
date from the o. P. NJ. to complete
defense orders ahead OF non-de-
fenSe orders.
But thousands Of tons of rails
now on steel company order books
and urgently needed by the rail-
roads have no priority rating. Com
pleting this picture are estimates
Of 1912 rail requirements running
as high as ! 500. 900 tons. On Sep
tember /, date likely to be long
remembered, large consumers of
I pig iron with non-defense orders
/ face the likelihood of being cut off
/ from supplies.
| New Mills Planned.
The o. p. M. II is understood.
is studying proposal to build a,
complete steel plant at Hammond.
Ind. on land owned by Jones d.
Laughlin Steel Corp. the plant TO
include two or three blast furnaces,
bessemer conyerters and facilities
for making shells and other products
at a cost exceeding s125 100000. ,
For another week steel bookings
have exceeded the industrys ca
pacity to produce with greatest
! pressure being, in this order. on
1 % Semi-finished steel, ~ bar mill
products and 81 plates. Soon to
be handled are British requirements
for another million tons of shell
steel for delivery by early next
/ spring"