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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
 1. In the United States Army, what does A. w. O. L. mean?
 2. Which cabinet member strongly urged that we fuse our Navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace" one week before President Roosevelt ordered shipping lanes IT. the western half of the ocean cleared of German raiding craft?
 3. Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
 4. Madagascar is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, the Carribean Sea or the Indian Ocean?
 5. Name the capital of Tennessee.
 G.. The moon revoives around the earth; does it also rotate on its axis?
 2. What are Hertzian waves2
 8. Which British king was in love with a Mrs. Fitzherbert"?
 g. Is Wednesday the third or fourth day of the week in our caf- endar?
 10. Who was Sappho?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Selected Poem
THROUGH PASTURE BARS
(By Florence Ripley Mastin in
 The Nav York Timeal

4Ac 9NpW @oAA AAASO The old horse looks through pasture bars At evening when New England stars Begin to shine above the hill. He stands alone and very still ... The strange highway of sudden light Roars by with incandescent flight. The old horse looks beyond and sees A dirt road climbing through the trees 4 hooded bridge above . stream, An ancient barn where lanterns gleam. He feels hls leather harness strain. His masters voice as soft as rain n,.. The strange Highway of sudden A8ht Rsars " with ineAnofaeenl Niehk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

TODAY's COMMON ERROR The fault in the sentence 'T got a glimpse of him as he runs past the window; is in the mixed tenses. Got Is past tense, consequently the past tense ran must be used also.
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EDITOR NOTE-If you are de- sirous of securing this weeks poe puIar booklet 1.-THE HEALTH BOOK address F.. M. Kirby, D :pt. B-19O Waterbury Democrat Sery- ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St.. Washington, ID. C., with ten censt to cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
A Thought for Today

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled OK and hatred therewith-PrO- verbs 15:17.
 To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from lifc-John Oliver Hobbes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
2 EDISON IN %
 WASHIlN GTON
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 26-One of the more amazing and frightful aspects about the science" of modern war is the way it has of developing while in progress. And the l1ncens3red re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Questions
 andAnswers
YnITR oIIERTTnlla AllaWElgEll

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 The Waterbury Democret's Serz-, vice Bureau win answer for you free, any question of fact or Aas formation, not involving exteE- :. sive research. Write your quess tion clearly sign name and Ad-s dress, enclose three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advlCs Y cannot be given. Address Watek- bury Democrats Washington Ser vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, washington, Ds c, i.s,
 a. Have fatalities from fireworks increased or decreased since the be- ginning of the century,
 A. They have been greatly de-. creased. In 1903, 466 persons were killed by fireworks. A campaign was launched 6 reduce such fatalit ities,. and by 1909 the number had fallen to 215, although 5000 were injured in that year. In 1941 there were only two deaths from fireworks on July Fourth, as compared to eight in 194O.
 e. What is the official name of the Qualifications on the western border of Germany? What is the Siegfred Line?
 A. They are officially called the West wall. This line was formerly erroneously known as the Siegfried Line. Actually the latter was the name used by the Germans for the Qualifications known to the Allies during world War I as the linden burg Line.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL |. DOUGLASS. D.D.
KEEP THE FLAG FLYING

A courageous English admiral who lived some generations ago remarked on the dawn of an engagement, tI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Washington Merry-G -Go-Round ssss 'sAsiS

days the revealed that for tanks continent
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o. Did any President of the. United States kill man in duel?
 A. Before becoming President, Andrew Jackson fought several duels, in one of which he killed Charles Dickinson and was himself severely wounded. Dickinson, 1t was said, had insulted Mrs. Jackson. -
 O., Is the remarried widow of a Spanish American war veteran en- titled to government pensicn2 '
 A. Under the Act of May 1,Fl926. as reenacted by the Act of August 13, 1885, death pension may be pay able to a former widow of a Spanish American war veteran, provided her subsequent or successive marriage or marriages has or have been dissolved either by the death of the husband or husbands, or by divorce on any ground except adultery on. her part.
 @. What country was named for a circle around the earth?
 A. The Republic of Ecuador was named after the equator, because that country is crossed by the equa tor. Equator is spelled Ecuador n Spanish. Before it became an lrl- dependent nation in 1880 Ecuador was one of the three great depart ments of the Republic of Colombia.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
The Menace Of Self Pity
By RUTH TAYLOR

SELF PITY is FAR DEADLIER in it's effect than any
poison gas invented has destroyed whole nations
it grew and spread its devastating smoke screen.
Over ten years ago. the train from Bremen to Co
logne, German spoke to of this. We talked
mixture of German and English with the aid of pocket die
tonary all the way down the Rhineand past the smoke
filled industrial that have learned in the last months
the force of the R. A. F.
She said-"There is something wrong growing | feel
it. have two boys One of them when he misses with his
ball just laughs and tries again But the oherhe is my
trouble When he misses he always the in his
eyes or somebody pushed him. That is what happening
people, They will not laugh and try to throw the ball
right They keep thinking it is not their fault can stop
with my boy-but cannot stop with peopeand the
end will be bad"
What self pity can do to nation have seen in the
Hitler We face face today with the problem
keep from shores the forces he has uneashed
But we must also keep the from which his power
mushroomed.
There is no self pity here? But there is! The young
people say There nothing for US today-we can't live
normal lives the way generation could There is no
future for The adults complain of the taxes they have
payoverookng that these taxes small price to pay
for freedom howl goes up when the slightest restriction
placed on the people whole for the good of the peo
pie whole.
We do like to complain And freedom to do so is the
unwrtten codicil to the Bill of Rights But must take
not to- let natural grousng turn into sepy This IS
the stuff upon which the dctaors feeda fungus growth
that choke healthy nation sapping the unity Of
nose that is the of democratic of life
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
CONVERSATION PIECE By Marc Moreland

haven't risen up in arms on this
one point alone. Now, while there
are many Negroes in the prisons OF
this country, one wonders why the
movies are so generous in showing
these and so ungenerous in show
ing law-abiding, self-respecting
types.
Remember, if you can, ever having
seen in the movies a Negro police
officer portrayed in the movies. Are
there no Negro police officers in
this country? You'd never think SO
from the movies you see.
Remember, if you can, ever hav-
ing seen in the newSreelS Negro
soldiers or draftees participating in
the present national defense pro-
gram. Are there no Negro soldiers
or draftees in the United States?
You'd never think so
Remember, if you can, any num-
ber of areas of American life in
which you find Negroes in large
numbers behaving like men and
women, and see if you can recall
ever having seen them represented
in the movie. They just aren't there.
Why? Why? Why?
Are these not things to remem-
ber and act on?
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The Movies..

IN THIS department last week it
was noted that not sufficient at
tention is given by Negroes in gen.
eral and newspapermen in partic-
ular to the conception of the Ne
gro people peddled by the movie
makers of this country. 1t was OBJ
served too that the treatment OF
Negro characters almost never
veered from the conception of the
Negro as a clown, a lout, and over
solicitouS servant or a severely
frightened person not so much
scared out of his wits as hardly
having had any to begin with
Now it was submitted that this
state of affairs is not only a run
ming insult to the self-respect of
the Negro people, but one which
could be effectively dealt with by
newspapers and such organizations
and individuals that would so much
as lift the finger of boycott OF
raise a sustained condemnatory
outcry, since the movies are motor
iously sensitive at the box office.
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Re-rating Russia

THE WORLD HAS for the most
part been prejudiced against the
communist experiment in Russia.
Disparaging reports have emanat-
ed from varied sources and we
have been made to feel that COM
munism was a passing event in the
life of Russia. Not only is it not
a passing event but the develop
ments in international affairs OF
recent times convince observers that
Russia is a going concern and that
communism is about as robust in
Russia as democracy is in Britain
and America.
No public commentator has been
more disparaging than this writer
in matters pertaining to commun-
ism in Russia. The fact was 1 was
not so much interested in the COM
munism in Russia as that COM
munism striving for the mastery in
this nation. Communism may be a
fine thing for the Russians; but it
must not be concluded thereby that
it is fine thing for this country.
The background and ideologies of
Russia and America are different.
While the so-called democratic ma
tions we're playing the Pharisee to-
wards Russia, Lenin and Stain were
laying the foundation for one OF
the most verile movements of
modern times and it remains to
be seen whether Russia is less
stable than the rest of the nations
ALL HAD PURGES
Much had been made of the
bloody purges in Russia; but what
nation has not had its bloody
purge? Could the War of Secession
be called anything else by unpreju-
diced observers? What about Eng
lands purges in Ireland and India
through many years? AS appalling as
it is, RuSsia's bloody purge finds
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ried Line in Germany but the
Stain line which is proving to be
a sure enough line, was never
heard of until the Germans ram
into it much to their surprise and
subseqent discomfort-if not dis
tress. For six long weeks the might
lest the mighty German armies
could do, has not availed. Cities
which Germany claimed to capture
the first week of the war seen to be
the fighting sector after five more
weeks of fighting.
Hitler is whipped! When the hand
of bully is called he is from that
time henceforth whipped. Russia.
called the hand that seemed invin-
chile and so the sun of HitleriSm
oecllneS as a war-weary world
longs for rest. Russia the maligned,
Russia the diSparaged, Russia the
mlsrepresented, Russia the under
rated, Russia the bastard-so
treated-of the nations has risen
to such noble heights that naughty
England and proud and wealthy
America are proud to acclaim her
as friend and ally.
RUSSIA HAS WON
Russia has won a war already,
the war of respect of the nations
The stone which the builders have
rel jected these many
years is about to become the head of
the corner. Russia's theology has
ever been strong but when
strong theology is implemented by
strong army the world has some
thing on it's hands. We may as we'll
face the fact, that the pressing ques-
ton that has been foisted on the
world is what shall be done with
communism? Russia is winning
place in the hearts of nations.
Russia m u S t b re-rated.
Russia did not do as Negroes do
tell everything they know. Russia'S
strategy of preparation and si1encei
is suggestive.
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CHIVERS SAYS:

ly sought to discard their native
traditions and substitute northern
culture in total pattern.
What interests me is the effect
that this substitution had on Me-
groes who studied in the North
from then on. 1t was during and
after World War l that Negro youth
went in increasing numbers to
Northern Colleges, graduate and
professional schools.
1t has been noticeable to me for
some time how thoroughly the Ne
gro who only spent one year in a
Northern graduate school permits
himself to lose the sense of the
reality of the Southern way of
life" as it really pertains to Ne
groes. Probably it is natural that
he should become absorbed in a
way of life" that lets him feel
more nearly like man and extend
ed to him some measure of real free
dom.
FORGET MASSES
The unfortunate thing is that in
enjoying individual comfort these
privileged Negroes should permit
themselves to become so oblivious
to the conditions under which the
vast majority of Negroes live. They
must know that most of them any
way must live among these people
in the South and live by them.
I appreciate the opportunities
granted me by the philanthropic
foundations to study in the North
and am grateful for the opportuni-
ties these agencies have given other
Negroes. 1t was decided stroke OF
good fortune. Good fortune provid-
ed the Negro students remained
level-headed and sane enough to
keep a clear vision of the philos-
ophy of Southern race relations in
order that they might use their
superior training to manipulate the
disadvantages of the South to their
advantage.
These Negro students too soon and
too often become ashamed of the
techniqueS of survival used to
definite advantage by their ances-
tors. They refuse to analyze the
techniques of "Uncle Tom" to dis
cover what is there that they might
use advantageously. Uncle Tom"
is a phrase for cursing, undignified
jokes, and traitor branding. All
of this Notwithstanding there are
monuments to his success in a hostile
environment, lodge halls, private
property ownership, certain busi-
ness monopolies (barber shops,
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
Coleman Faces
Life Sentence
On Mayhem Bill
Charged With
Having Blinded
Night Watchman

Eugene Coleman, apprehended
recently in New York where he was
reported using an alias, Saturday
faced life Imprisonment as the re-
suit of an Indictment returned
against him Friday by the Fulton
grand jury
The Indictment charges that
Coleman beat a nightwatchman so
severely. the wounded man was
blinded in his only good eye. The
bill of Indictment alleges that Cole
man beat the night watchman
with his own blackjack and then
cut him with a knife.
According to testimony, the night
watChman, William c. Lyman, of
Capitol avenue. was attacked while
making an effort to arrest the col
ored man.
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chefs public AZ d private SCHOOLS
and colleges and political leader
ship. Uncle Tom" used his head
to compensate for his numerical,
political and econon ic weaknesses
by astutely playing both ends
against the middle.
HAVE LOST TOUCH
There is ample evidence through
out the south of the fact mat TOO
many educated and otherwi Sc ad-
vantaged Negroes are so engl ossed
in "wiShful thinking" about RIA
tions in the north and consequent
ly about how they would like to
have them in the south that they
have lost touch with the reality of
the southern philosophy of race
relations. There are, however, two
rather important groups of people
who never forget this traditional
southern philosophy and strive:
daily to keep it alive for self pres
ervation as they see self-preserva-
ton. The reference is to certain
'individualiStic, self -centered, self ap-
pointed Negro leaders and the rank.
and file of southern white people.
Personally / do not blame the
white people for it is natural for any
racial group to strive by means foul
or fair to preserve themselves. But
I both blame and censure edu-
Gated and otherwise advantaged Ne
groes for permitting themselves to
lose all sense of group self-preser-
vation and tolerating Negroes who
endanger racial preservation fE
their own selfish ends.
The fact is that these self-ap-
pointed Negro leaders have kept in
telligently alive to the southern way
of race relations and used it. The
educated Negroes have consciously
forgotten it. The unfortunate at
titude assumed by many educated
Negroes toward the south is "get
thee behind me Satan.
Another and more important
fact is that these self appointed
Negro leaders are neither friends
to southern white people, the
southern way of life or to Negroes. ,
They are opportunities constantly
playing both ends against the mid
Ole. For instance, the actions of
so-called Georgia Negro leader who
at one time was selling Negroes
short to the Board of Regents with
out effort and now he is blamine
the Board of Regents.
The educated Negro wants to-
play fair with the south because he.
has racial stake there but first he,
must know the real south.
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Emily Post

CONTINUED from Page, l Sec. ID
One very stringent don't" is
on this matter of reaching. One
never reaches across the front OF
the fellows on either side. He might
get a fork through his hand. II
something is wanted, the tongue
should be used.
please" is always said for any
thing. or it isn't received. On the
other hand, if a man says, Thanks
when the chow is received he may
be marked as a green recruit.
A soldier, it is said, is always Oh
the alert. The also applies to the
mess hall table. It's just too bad
if someone at the far end OF the
table quietly mentions that he
would like to please have the peas,
and he isn't heard by the man with
the peas practically under his nose
That's too bad, because someone
much closer will take the request
er's side of the affair, explode the
same demand in the nearest, ear
and then savagely snatch the peas,
whip them across and under the
surprise nose and send them on
their way.
One sure way to bring signs OF
horror to the faces of table walters
is to leave a dirty plate on the ta-
BILE when the meal is finished, light
a cigarette, get. up, puff and cloud
the smoke in the o. DIS dining
room orderly face, and amble out
The effect is much the same as
splitting down the back barrel OF
an exploding 155. howitzer.
Cigarettes are never lit in the
mess hall, and plates aer always
carried to the kitchen where they
are scarped and piled by the ca
ter.
On the matter of table talk, be-
sides discussing the levity Of the
problem of a soldiers day, there
are intermingled demands for food
Here enters a certain amount OF
picturesque slang which Emily Post
would love to know:
Butts" That's like buying the
next share.
"Side arms" Otherwise known as
sugar and cream.
Somebody get a broken arm?'
Why hasn't a "chinched" plate.
Greens" Vegetables of a leafy
nature.
"Slum." Soldiers version of En-
gliSh stew.
IS. o. s." Soldiers unprintable
name for beat on toast.
What are va waiting far?" The
floor Show?" The table walters
classic remark to those who tend
to linger after the others have fin
iShed and left.
When a late arrival sits at one
end of a table and discovers all
the food is at the other end, in
stead of calling for all the crow
by name, he simply sings out;
Turn the table around i"-and
down they ali come.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
National Spiritualists
To Hold nth Confdb

CHARLESTON, S. C.-(SNS-
The National Colored Spiritual
lists Association will hold its 18th
annual convention in Charleston
September 2-7 with representa-
tives from many sections of the
country scheduled to attend the
sessions which will be held at
the Veronica Spiritualist Church,
286 Ashley Avenue. 1t will mark
the first time the association has
met in the south and is being re-
garded as a novel experience among
members.
The organizations official pub
lication, The National SpirituallsJ
Reporter, in several articles, speaks
in glowing terms of Charleston'S
hospitality and the many things
to be enjoyed by members who at
tend. Mime. Rev. Veronica B. Will
liams. a national officer and pas
tor of the Veronica church, reports
that she expended much effort III
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
Says Negroes Hear As Well
As See Better Than Whites

MYRTLE BEACH, S. CLAMP
Negroes not only have better
eyesight at night than whites but
their hearing also is superior &C
cording to Lit. Col Riley E. Nc
Garraugh, commanding officer Of
the 77th coast artillery, comment
ing on the fine target records OF
Negro anti-aircraft regiments at
the Windy Hill range near here.
The anti aircraft target prac-
ored troops anywhere in the coun-
tice, held through Friday, was the
first shooting of this type by col.
try. he said.
The 10th and 77th regiments
commanded by wEite officers. were
organized a year ago as the frs,
anti-aircraft units in the nation.
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Our Combat Forces
BY MACK G. NANCE

The members of the army, navy
and air units, we're first civilian.
Thus, our combat forces reflect the
true status of the civilian popula-
ton. The uniform of our combat
forces will never change the dis
position or former habits of the
individual. For an instance the
German combat forces reflects a
strong, united and well diciplined
civilian population, while the COM
bat forces of the democracies seem
to reflect weak disunited and
poorly disciplined civilian popula-
ton. In this case, quality becomes
master of quantity. The combat
forces of a nation are stranger or
brilliant than its civilian popula-
ton.
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ship that the conflict has expos
ed. What are some of the factors
which have produced this sterile
leadership?
I shall open for discussion what
seems to me to be basic in produc-
ing the misleadership of which ]
now complain An excellent place
to start is with Americas entrance
into World War l. This crisis has
had profound effect upon the lives
of Negroes of all classes. The par
ticular emphasis here, however, is
upon educated Negroes because 1t
is generally expected that they
should furnish the sane, reflective
and calculating leadership for the
disadvantaged Negro masses.
MET FIRST TIME
AS a direct result of World War
l northern white people and
southern Negroes had mass contact
for the first time. They were
people of decidedly different cul-
lures and outlook upon life. How
ever, since Negroes had been con-
stantly preached to and taught that
the northern white man was their
sole friend and that his way of life
political, religious, economic-waS
the only one capable of leading
them into salvation, they natural.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
Education And
Race Relations

POLITICAL EVENTS in Georgia
for the past few weeks have kept
me in an analytical frame of
mind. My thinking has been con-
centrated upon problems incident
to racial relations. This particular
Georgia racial irritation is due, in
a large measure, to the rather sue
cessful efforts or some misguided
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23

racial patriots
in turning an
old time dema-
gogic political
battle into a
major race issue.
1 regret the fact
that this has
been done. Since,
however it is
the case, I have
been amazed at
the superficial
type of public
Negro leader
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having the convention depart
from its customary practice OF
meeting in northern cities and
come to Charleston, this year.
Unmarried Canadians earning
$1,000 annually pay flat rate of
7 percent on gross income, the De-
partment of Commerce says.
Weather forecasts decrease rapil
ly in accuracy after IL hours, &C
cording to the Department of Com
merce.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-23
Live a Healthier, Happier, Life

Thousands of men and women won
der why backache bothers them -
why they have to visit the bathroom
often at night - why flow is scanty
and sometimes smarts and burns.
Any one of these symptoms may
mean that your kidneys and bladder
need attention now before these minor
symptoms may develop into serious
trouble.
TO flush out excess waste poisons
and acid from kidneys, soothe your