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The Phoenix index., 1941-07-19

ton, the achievements of Hamp-
ton graduates and the vital part
the school is playing in today's
defense crisis.
Copies of the film may be OBJ
tanned for private showing by
writing the Harmon Foundation
140 Nassau Street, New York City
or Hampton Institute, Hampton
Virginia.
The Phoenix index., 1941-07-19
HEAT THESE HOT DAYS

Temperature of 80 in the shade
make no difference to jazzicians.
They are as likely to burn up the
wax now as when there's a bliz-
zard raging. If you doubt it, con-
slider some of the weeks offerings.
Among them is BLACKOUT by
Erskine Hawkins, starring Avery
Parrish at the piano in a sequel to
after Hours" It's in the same
low down, smoky style with a mess
of dirty SO york, but 1T doesn Z
come up to after Hours" Follow
ups seldom do. Coupled is WHO'S
BEATIN' MY TIME WITH YOU,
slow and torchy with some fine reed
work and a soft, civilized trumpet
hit. Ida James handles the vocal,
and her sweet, babish voice scores
heavily. Miss James is also heard on
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE IN
LOVE WITH ME, by Earl Hines
old band on Okeh. She's impressive
on this. also Hines coupling is an
original. RHYTHM SUNDAE, which
sells itself purely on the Fathas ex-
citing stomp box chorus at the
start. The whole band swings
strongly here.
For the first time in too many
months, Eddie South on Columbia
shows how to play hot fiddle,
out STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY
and OH LADY BE GOOD with a
small but accomplished band. Stan
Fajcey's piano and a good guitar
add to the platter Charlie Bar
net starts off PONCE DE LEON
in a Lunceford groove on Bluebird.
The band kicks meanly on this
stomp. Coupled is LITTLE DIP, a
fast killer. The entire band cuts
loose on both sides Johnny Long
again makes a good showing on
Decca with BLUE KIES in which
the glee club dishes the hot jive.
The sax choir turns in a good job.
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Mr.: Canada Lee,
An Acting Man
By PETER DANA

NEW YORK-The stature of Mr. Canada Lee as an
actor Isl creation of pressagenry, frequent
ly the with Hoywoods darlngs Canada Lee gained
his stature in the theatre by quality character of per-
formance in the recently closed Native Son. which not
only passed the test of the severest critical analysis
evoked the enthusiastic acclaim of fellow actors and critics
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Negro spiritual. 1t is as if some
thing of the primitive poetic genius
Of the Negro-lost essentially all
these years to the white-minded
latterday Negro-had been recov-
cred, almost unconsciously, and
fused into a style Of theatre Ger
tainly those who saw Miss Wat
ers' Hagar and MI. Lees Bigger
Will recall a quality in both which
quite transcends analysis in terms
cf mere professional theatre craft,
suggesting a bestoWal on their
part which while intensively per-
sonal is yet as big as forgotten,
or latent, if you like, folk spirit.
This is by no means to say, as
some do, that Negroes have a nat
ural sense for dramatic perform
ance. Such a view is as absurd as
the one which. in some quarters
assumes that oil Negroes can just
naturally sing, and sing we'll
Good Negro singers are perhaps
almost as rare as good Negro &C.
tors: and it's the sheerest nonsense
w saw that either the singers o1
'ho actors art is the Negro's by
1-i,,+I
What !, rndouhtedlv tr''e is tha
Nro~~ooe h"ve. +O beoir With. a sort
of fo'1c eri~it and in1aoinative dis
position which lends itself readily
in manv instances at any rate t
the artistic. the poetic. the dra
matic. But for every Canada Le'
or Ethel Waters, one could name
hundred hams mugging Upon thu
stages of the nation.
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tender age of Is has game that
look like Betty CRADLES, and broth
er . that Betty girl has game,
that-am" .. BLANCHE DUNN, OF
Cafe Society has been half way
around the world, been admired by
the noblemen of this earth (of all
colorS and races, and has had her
share (more in fact) of this worlds
goods; still 3. The handsome
Blanchette thinks Harlems brown
heartbeats the cream of the crop,
and who should know better than
this glamorous globetrotter? ? ?
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soon to open as rural movie colony.
-. .Bennie Lawrence, painter and
plasterer, former movie player,
second to sign up. The Ol
Kolyum extends welcome to the
nurses here next month in national
confab. May escort few around
CT,
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FDR To Preuie1U
Hampton s Film

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.-(SNS)-The premiere
showing of unue educational picture in color entitled
Hampton nsttute-ts Program of Education for Life
scheduled shown in the home of President and
Mrs Roosevelt at Hyde Thursday July II.
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Musicians Can Build Up Or
Harm Race Asserts Siss|e
Blamed In Loss
Of White Jobs
By NELL DODSON

NEW K-(ANP)-Noble Sisse made the statement
year ago that coored musicians and performers can
be greatly influential in setting behavior examples that Will
either benefit or hinder the progress of the who'll
The Phoenix index., 1941-07-19

HOLLYWOOD-(ANP)-"Jum Jump
for joy Duke Ellinaton's first
coast sepla revue, opened to ca
pacity crowd at Mayan last week.
Hollywood Bowl season opened
with Madam Butterfly last Tues
day night. Raymond Turner,
silent screen vet, of Keystone
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
LEGISLATIVE
SYMPATHY
By SAM sPIEGEL

| During the present session of the
Legislature there were heard many
expressions of sympathy from those
lreactionaries who had consistently
voted against every measure which
would have made conditions easier
for those who were dependent upOn
the various relief agencies Their ex-
pressions of sympathy bordered close
ly on hypocracy, and prompted me
to ask the pertinent question: rs
sympathy something which can be
placed upon the human body to keep
out the cold? Is it something which
can be placed within the human stom-
ach to iron out the wrinkles?" No
one cared to answer this question but
they went along nevertheless and con-
tinued to kill the meritorious relief
measures and hurriedly pass make
shift bills in their place.
One of these, Substitute House Bill
No. 337 was supposed to enable the
various political subdivisions to take
the means of establishing emergency
WPA projects. This measure hit far
short of the mark which the original
bill, Substitute H. B. SO had hoped
to attain. Much has been written
about how that bill was killed and
who was responsible for its death.
The killing of that bill practically
sounded the death knell of the sewing
room projects in Montana. 1t is sad
to relate that members of the Silver
Bow delegation were responsible for
this debacle which contributed to
throwing approximately 500 women of
the sewing project, directly on relief.
We were assured that the introduction
of Sub. H. B. 337 would right the
wrong which had been done. Its in
PRODUCTION was greeted with wild ac-
claim by the renegades who had vio-
lated their trust. They seized upon
it as means of re-establishing them
selves. -
This makeshift measure went into
the Senate which Immediately started
its regular tactics of amending SO as
to make it practically null and void.
They shortened the period of one year
to 10 months and then placed another
amendment into the bill which would
have allowed the various political sub
divisions to Operate" as well as to
construct these projects The amend
ed bill then had to be returned to the
House for concurrence in Senate
The House refused
such concurrence and placed it In the
hands of joint conference commit
zee to iron out the differences. The
conference brought in report which
.ook out the Senate amendments and
eft the bill in doubtful status. The
members of the House
we're of the opinion that the word
operate" should have been left in the
bill. Legal opinion was sought, In
Continued on Page Thres)
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Federal CREDIT
UNIONS SHOW
GREAT GROWTH

Federal credit unions loaned more
than s100,000,000 to their members
during 1910, according to the year-end
report of G. r. Orchard. director of
the credit union section of the Farm
Credit Administration. The average
loan was about $40.
An average of $50 persons joined
federal credit unions every day of
1910, Mr.. Orchard pointed out. Mem
bership grew by approximately 275, 900.
This, together with a similar increase
in the number of members belonging
to state chartered credit unions
brought the total credit union growth
for the year to $4,000 members.
Since the first federal credit unions
began operating in October 1884 mem
bers of these cooperative thrift and
credit associations have obtained g.
100000 loans amounting to nearly
1884, 900, Mr. Orchard said. Losses
have been held to very small per-
centage of the amount loaned-about
n-hundredths of 1 percent.
4hoio ludll lslGOyuUU persons were
members of the 1882, federal credit
unions in operation at the close of
1910, the report shows They owned
s66,000,000 In shares of their associa-
tons and the credit unions had assets
Of more than $71,000,000.
The governor of the Farm Credit
Administration issued charters for 666
new federal credit unions during 1910
with 529 in 1889. New York
ed all states in number chartered in |
1910 with 131. Pennsylvania added |
Is, Texas 55, Ohio As, California Al,
Connecticut SO, and Indiana and New
Jersey &c each.
Mr.. Orchard pointed out that before
! charter is issued a thorough in
is made to determine the
economic need for the credit union
nd the ability of the group applying
or the charter to operate the cooper
tive successfully.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
Britons SILVER AS
Coal Stands On
Railroad Sidings
BY SCOTT NEARING

War, blockade and food rationing
have had their effects upon all of the
European belligerents. How much
effect? Censorship plus a lack of
|real information makes 1t difficult to
give a satisfactory answer, but the
latest issue of Labour Research gives
some relevent facts from Great Bri-
tain.
The British, like most other Euro
pean peoples, have suffered fuel
shortage during the present winter
Coal dealers, in some cases only a
few miles from coal mines, have been
unable to supply their customers be-
cause Of the failure of railroads to
deliver coal.
In late December and early January
there were 5000 loaded coal cars on
railroad sidings In South Wales alone
In other mining centers hundreds of
thousands of tons Of coal stood on sid
ings for weeks at time While
Britons shivered in the bitter weather,
10000 coal miners were officially re-
ported as unemployed and mining OPP
erations were slowed up for lack of
railway cars.
The severe coal shortage in British
homes this winter is evidently due to
the failure of transport. How far
nazi bombings Of rail centers has Grip
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
Miami Boom Helps
Everyone But the
Working People
BY JAMES PECK

| MIAMI. - OPP - This has been 8
boom season for Miami, but labor con
ditions in the city's only industry
the tourist trade-are as bad as ever
Winter vacationers, who pay from
IS to $500 daily for room at dozens
Of Miamfs streamlined hotels, are
served by employees paid less than
$40 for up to 80 hours work. Board
is not included and most of them have
to pay for laundering their uniforms.
Only by tips, which fluctuate greatly,
can they keep alive.
Maids, mattresses and clerks in
Miami hotels get less pay and work
longer hours than in any large city
in the country" said Pres. Albert Ber-
lin Of Local 1873, Hotel & Restaurant
Employees Intl Alliance (AFL).
This local includes only walters and
bartenders. Plans for organizing the
other hotel workers have not mate
rallied
Asserting that the walters and bar
tenders were more than 90% organ
lied, Berlin said This is a miracle
in a city where the police and the
are 200@e against organ
lied labor" The local has reduced
the workweek to a maximum of 81
hours and has established a minimum
weekly scale Of SO with much higher
ninimums in large establishments.
The musicians, building trades
and BARRIERS are also well
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
AGRICULTURE
THREATENED BY
WAR, Is WARNING

DES MONIES, Ia.--FP)-Dominat
ing every session of the Natl Farm
Institute, which held its fifth annua
2-day meeting here February 21-22
was the war situation and its effect
on the farmer.
Each speaker stressed the possibil-
| ity that agriculture would suffer
greater losses than industry and la
| Dor unless But no answer for
the unless" could be found.
Vice Pres. Henry A. Wallace, a
hometown boy, made an appeal for
midwest support of the administra-
TONS drive for the triumph of de-
mocracy over nazism
Those who believe the u s. can
live peacefully and we'll in a world
of triumphant nazism simply do not
know what they are talking about"
he declared.
"The only hope of keeping even a
part of our pre-war markets for
wheat, cotton, tobacco, pork products
and other agricultural commodities, is
Hitler's defeat Several million peo-
pie are supported by our foreign
trade; that fact makes isolation I'M
thinkable."
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard indicated that agriculture is
due for more stringent control meas
ures than any heretofore attempted
Midwest farmers, he minated, would
probably have to relinquish some
prerogatives so that the less
fortunate, like the cotton growers,
might benefit.
G. Y. Ferguson, Winnipeg, Canada,
editor told the institute that Cana
dams think U. S. war preparations
will imperil the farm program.
AS we watch your great defense
program take shape, we wonder, up
north of the line, how long you can
continue to maintain your farm pro-
gram" said Ferguson.
ANY program that depends upon
national grants is bound to be in peril
once national needs that are more
urgent become apparent. You are
trying to prepare for total defense
without damage to your normal way |
Of life. 1t is as sure as sunset that
his is impossible. Something will |
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PRESIDENT HITS
SCARE STORIES
ON STRIKES

| WASHINGTON-(FP)-S Scare sto
ries about the number of strikes ii
defense industries were debated by
President Roosevelt here at a press
conference March 4, the eighth ami
versary of his inauguration
| The President pointed out that
strikes have at no time affected more
than one-fourth of one percent of de-
Tense production and that is some
thing to think about.
The question was raised when the
President was asked whether he saw
any cause for concern in the number
Of strikes in defense industries
Mr.. Roosevelt said that the question
was one which would take about half
an hour to answer and that it was
somewhat like the question about
whether he had stopped beating his
wife.
Recently, he went on, he got let
ter from a very worthy person in
Florida who said he was Mortified by
the complete breakdown in defense
production because of strikes.
This man was frightened because of
he had read someplace, the
President noted, and he got this err
roneous impression because someone
somewhere had written something.
That, he added, was great pity.
He then made his observation about
the small number of strikes and
pointed out that one-fourth of one per-
cent amounted to four one-hundredths
which is pretty small amount looked
at from any direction.
Asked whether he favored a "cool-
ing off, period as recommended by
OPM Director General William S.
Knudsen, the President said that that
was just part of the whole study now
being made and he wouldn't want to
comment on parts.
The question as to fees charged |
workers on the defense
program was raised and the President |
'eplied that he couldn't talk about |
differing generalities.
He had heard of one or two cases
n which initiation fees were exorbi-
ant he said, and those cases had
,een taken up with the American
federation of Labor.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
OTOOLE SAYS:

| What became of the forty $40
dollar month old age pension? What
became of the Republican platform?
What became of the Democratic plat
form? Whittier all Of the campaign
promises? What became of all those
T. loyal and true friends of the old folks :?
These are questions that some one
Montana these questions are more i'm
portant than questions of war, more
important than buncombe about a bal
anced budget. To the aged these are
questions of life and death With
forty dollars a month an old person
can survive; with eight, ten or twelve
dollars less, they go through a proc
ess of slow starvation. The old folk,
O'TOOLE believes, were caught in
squeezekrieg. They were caught be-
tween the forces Of legalizing vice on
one side, and the forces of economy
on the other.
We have no new taxes. The coal
strip bill was killed. So were many
other good measures to provide light
mate revenue. Montana still sends
more than thirty-six million dollars
year to Wall Street-mostly tax free.
We ought to be in good standing back
there after this past session of our
legislature. Montana is the treasure
state; treasure for all but the natives.
The thing / am driving at is that
good chunk of the treasure, in legal
tender, handed each month to the
aged of Montana is necessary. New
taxes that would leave one months
loot here in Montana, would have
done the job. Plenty would have still
gone east to maintain our good name
on Wall Street. The squeezekrieg
was vicious, cruel and inhuman Were
Dante alive today he would reserve
a special alcove in hell for all that
took part in it. AS 1t is, all of the
aged are doing SO mentally.
Thought of the Week:
If all the political platforms made |
in the last ten years, were faithfully |
kept-the angels would move down.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

Sub. H. B. 216-Providing tax levy
for maintenance of state fire mar
shaPs department.
H. B. 176-Relating to fees charged
! by county clerks.
| H. B. 210-Repealing certain acts
relating to rural school districts
H. B. 249-Requiring financial re-
sponsibility for automobile drivers.
H. B. 330-Amending the weed con-
troll act.
H. B. 287-Amending statutes gov
erning inspection of livestock in intra-
county shipment.
H. B. officiating to a pledgee's
sale of securities.
H. B. 156-Providing for recipro-
cal licensing system for professional
guides.
H. B. Deficiency appropriation
of $208.54 for expenses of the presi-
Dental electors.
H. B. 379-Deficienc appropriation
of $23881 for transportation of pris-
oners.
H. B. 381-Deficiency appropriation
Of $1,49520 for the Attorney generals
office.
H. B. 383-Deficiency appropriation
of $22573 for the School Of Mines.
H. B. 385-Deficiency appropriation
of s1S2.61 for the textbook commits
sion.
H. B. 387-Deficiency appropriation
of S213.78 for the state treasurer.
H. ]. NJ 12-Asking congress to re-
imburse counties for tax revenues lost
through use of lands by the United
States government.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. 1. HARRIS

the private printer who got the job,
or one of the unsuccessful bidders
gave it to local reporter as
SCOOP" is not known The reporter,
of course, will not divulge the source
of his information.
The casket story seems to have an
even less basis of fact. 1t appears
that when the disqualification tag
story got out, somebody asked some
body in the War Department wheth-
er they were not also asking for bids
on caskets-a sort of fishing ques-
tion-and that somebody" probably
facetiously, replied, yes, for 100000
caskets." An expeditionary force
does not take along caskets.
According to the Memorial division
of the Quartermaster Generals Of
flee the Army purchases yearly about
70 caskets for men who die in the
overseas service. No increase in this
number has been requested. But
Senator Wheeler still sees something
sinister about the whole thing.
See New Deal Revolution Plot"
If you are good salesman and
know your customers you can sell
almost any kind of fake product
and in these days of filters you can
pass off the most fantastic pipe dream
to the scared industrialists; the big
ger they are the harder they fall for
it.
Here's one that is being peddled
to the inner circle of the Nat1onai
Association of Manufacturers by one
of the paid peddlers" who is watch
ing out for them in Washington:
The real purpose of the 1ease-lend'
bill isn't to aid Britain, to keep us
out of war, to get us into war, or any
thing of the kind. It's to bring about
a New Deal world revolution. This
is to be done through the power that
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Bills Introduced
In the Senate
PASSED BY SENATE

Fl. B. $40 - Appropriating $4,000
for repairs of buildings at state Gus.
todial institutions. AZ to 0.
H. B. 369-Setting up a Montana
preparedness and advisory commits
sion. 40 to l.
H. B. 390-An act allowing the state
to become indebted in the amount of
$690,O00 for new buildings at the state
college at Bozeman. SO to 3.
Fl. B. 368-Appropriating $14,979.45
in deficiency for maintenance Of GER
tain stae departments, boards and
commissions 45 to 2.
H. B. ia Appropriating $685.
$40 for operation of the Greater Uni
versity of Montana. As to 0.
H. B. 3SS-Appropriating 100000
interim funds for state departments.
AZ to 0.
H. B. 1893 - Appropriating $4,000
for repair and remodeling at the
northern Montana college at Havre.
46 to 0.
Fl. B. 394-Appropriating $4,000 for
state insurance premiums. 40 to 5.
H. B. $50 - Appropriating $2,718,-
3S0.52 for state boards, departments
and offices. 46 to 0.
II. B. 354-Appropriating $4,000 for
silicosis sufferers. AZ to 0.
S. H. b. 46-Appropriating 100000
for the state teachers retirement sys-
tenn AZ to 2.
II. B. 399 Appropriating 100000
for the state water conservation
board so to 0.
H. b. 366-Appropriating s2,206,50O
for the state welfare department. $40.
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>DaSlS on the cancellation of the
reinsurance carried by the
agency on the coverage of
state property under the State
Insurance Fund law, when that
law was repealed by the legis-
lature in 1887. 1t appears
from the investigation by COM
petent insurance men that the
cancellation should have been
on the pro-rata basis.
In an excerpt of letter which the
report states was written to Stewart
B. Hops an official of the Pearl by
another, named A. l.. Merritt, the fol-
lowing statement, which Is self ex-
planatory and also highly illuminat-
ing, is made: IF any one wishes to
know how and why we have been able
to persuade the state of Montana to
allow us to retain s40,00000 to be de-
voted to Strengthening out their own
political turmoil, could not tell them
in detail, the answer would have to
be in general, the one word-"politics
and Montana politics in particular"
Higher Rate
The report also states as the find
ings of the investigation body that
new policies were written by the
Miller Insurance Agency for the Pearl
Assurance, Ltd on the cream OF the
state property, which had been COW
cred by the state insurance fund and
on reinsurance by the Pearl after the
repeal of the State Insurance Fund
law. The report states that the state
purchased policies from the Pearl at a
rate of rs cents per hundred dollars
Of insurance while other reputable in
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