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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
Truman Hearing Is But
Smoke Screen--NAACP
Negro Members On OPM Job
Jim Crow Body Urged
BY NAACP Texas Confab

Weakness in the President s
eXective order banning discrimi-
nation in defense industries were
objected to in resolutions pass
ed by delegates from SO states
at the closing meeting of the
32nd NAACP conference here
(Houston, Texas) on Saturday,
June %. Los Angeles, California,
was named as 1912 convention
city.
The resolution dealing with
the executive order stated that
the government has taken a
step in the right direction. 1t was
suggested that in order to pre-
vent certain states from avoid
ing obedience to the order, firm
federal rules should be adopted
to set qualifications for emplo.
ment.
1t was also pointed out that
there was nothing in the order
which would make it apply to
plants now operating under
government contracts. The third
and strongest objection was to
the complete failure of the de-
cree to touch the matter of dis
elimination in the armed forces.
The resolution recommended
that the committee of five to be
attached to the Office of Produc-
ton Management to hear and
act upon complaints of discri-
mination include Negro memb-
erS.
Other resolutions passed blast
ed Congress- failure to pass the
anti-lynch bill, condemned tn
murder of Bob White and call
ed upon the President and the
Department of Justice to bring
the murderer to justice, demand
ed action on the lynching of
Private Felix Hall at Fort Rem
ming Georgia, urged PASSAGE of
federal legislation outlawing the
poll tax and regulated primaries,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
Bank Call Maize

A call for report on condition
Of all National Banks as of June
Both was made early this week
by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency The Times, on another
page, this issue prints the re-
ports of both local banks.
Both institutions which serve
the immediate vicinity are
making healthy progress and
growth.
The First Clark National
bank at Northfork has the
highly capable banker, f. w.
Cook at its head, while The
First National Bank here in
the city has fair sailing under
the guidance of Mr.. V. A.
Christie, its young and efficient
cashier who took over the post
vacated by the elvation of its
Mr.. Vaughan to State Banking
Commissioner.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
I'VE ARE NOT FIGHTING
FOR ENOUGH"-WRItiHT

Richard Wright told the over
flow audience at the 32nd an
nual NAACP conference last
week that I'VE are not fighting
for enough in Il world torn bv
human strife"
TO merely ask for justice is
too late, the young novelist de
clarcd. Social bases have chang
ed. Life is now power politics,
and we must play the game.
The young author addressed
the conference on Thursday
night, June 26, when he was
presented with the Goth Spin.
garn Medal. Elmer A. Carter OF
New York City, member of tn,
New York State Appeals board
Of the Unemployment Compcnsa
ton Insurance Fund, made the
presentation.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
Freeman Theatre Offers
Latest Pictures for COlOred
Patrons; Lady Luck" July 10

The progressive and modern
Freeman theatre up at North
fork has always been noted for
good pictures all the time, and
this spring and summer has
brought here some of the best
of the newest features.
In line with its established
policy of bringing to the local
patrons the variety of pictures
they want to see on July 10Th
at another of the popular mid
night shows the Freeman will
put on Lady Luck" starring
MAINTAIN and Moreland, supported
by an all-colored cast.
The feature will furnish lots
of thrills and chills, and it is
chock full of ghosts, haunted
houses and comedy and band
of crooks-and a acore of most
beautiful night club girls!
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11

Founded IA Fourth Century
San Marine, situated in the Apen-
mines near Rinini, in the heart of
Italy, claims to have been founded
in the Fourth century.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
Negroes Urged
To Support Unions
By N A A c P

HOUSTON. TEN.-Ncgror,
should throw all their strength
behind the labor movement.
But should refuse To be hcrdcd
exclusively into either trade or
craft union Srt-upS. advised lior
ace X. Clayton Chicago labor rN-
pert at the discussion of the Ne
gro and labor unions at the 32nd
NAAtP conference which CLOSED
here last week.
The best interests of the Ne
gro worker can be served. said
Clayton. If he will study the pro
grams of organized labor in the
United States and decide for
himself which will suit him
best. The speaker points out
that the Congress of Industrial
Organization does not include
constitutional restrictions ON
race members as does the Afl.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
Ward Frazier

Miss Susie Mac Ward became
the bride Of Mr.. Frank &. Fra
zicr ON June q. Miss Ward at
tended Elkhorn high school and
is active i'm social and religious
affairs She is the daughter of
Mrs Mary Ward and the late
Mr. Charlie Ward and is a grand
daughter Of the late Mr. Robert
Wooding
Mr. Frazier is a former stu
don't of the Elkhorn school. lie
is enjoyed by the Grocer Coal
and Coke company.
The ceremonies were solemn
zod i'm Bristol. Tennessee.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
"Courier" Charges Bring
Strong Reply; Committee
Action Is A Trick

In reply to an editorial in the
Pittsburgh Courier attacking ii
for blocking the hearing before
the Truman committee in Wash
ington, the NAACP today issu-
ed statement declaring that
the Truman hearing represented
a "frenzied and hasty attempt "
to dodge a real investigation
into discrimination against the
Negro in national defense.
The Courier editorial charged
the NAACP with selfish leader
ship" and singled out Walter
White, NAACP secretary. for a
bitter personal, castigation.
The NAACP statement gave
the history of the attempts to
get the Senate to investigate dis
elimination beinning last Febru-
airy 13, and declared that the
only raeson the Truman commit
tee scheduled hearins for June
30 and July 1 was because it
hoped to head off the scheduled
march on Washington.
The NAACP statement also
declared that the plans for the
Truman hearing called for Ne
gro government employees land
a few outsiders as the only
material witnesses, whereas an
adequate investigation demand
ed the inclusion Of many other
witnesses. "B
1t was explained that Senate
Resolution IS, providing for the
appointment of a committee of
eight senator's to make a full
and complete investigation into
participation of Negroes in all
industrial and other phases of
the national defense program,
including educational courses
and apprentice training, was in
troduccd, into the Senate five
months ago.
The introduction of the re-
solution and favorable action on
it were bitterly opposed by
certain senators led by James
f. Byrnes Of South Carolina. In
spite of the opposition S. Il. Z
was favorably reported by the
Senate subcommittee on Apri
"a, which forced its enemies &c
devise some other means OF
Sidetracking the issue Of Negrs
discrimination They succeeded
in getting the Committee OF
Education and Labor to table S
R. Is in view Of having it com
bined with the Truman investi
eating committee The Truman
committee was authorized Il
investigate the ALLEGATION of con
tracts and subontracts in tn,
defense program. Senator Tru
man had told the NAACP tina
his committee was so swampe,
with work that it could no
possibly consider Discriminate
until midsummer or later an
that even then his committe
could hear only two or thre
| witnesses.
The statement continues, Il
Continued on Page 4
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11

of acceptance which it is using
in getting Evans placed in the
lob for which he was accepted.
There are three other coIorcd
youths digging bitches at Pat
tcrson field, According to Evans
heir cases parallel his.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11

fast growing to be greater than
all navies. @1El NEu
In the light of the above the
great gobs of silence emitting
from japan Of late make real
sense.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
world Affairs

At END OF last week the Ger
man invasion of Russia had
reached the Stain line and the
invaders were getting ready to
smash through it. The fight
ing is on a large scale and with
ferocity unimaginable by most
Americans. The navigable river
Denpr Is reported actually run
ming choked with the bodies of
German invaders and Russian
defenders which indicates that
hundreds of thousands of men
have died in that locality alone.
Both Russia and Germany
have claimed victories and that
each has destroyed more of the
others equipment and men, so
on. The truth seems to be that
losses of both side have been
enormous.
To date Hitler has made all
the gains. Nowhere has he been
halted. The Russians have fell
back-despite their claims
but while doing so have return
ed fire with everything they
had and the German march has
been straight into this fire with
no respite. The cost in men needs
must be high. The Germans
cannot long stand daily heavy
losses of trained men-Hitler
does not have a third of the men
Stain can throw away without
lmparing is superiority in sheer
numbers.
In addition Russia is a large
country and no man in his right
mind would choose to conquer all
of 1T. Yet if Hitler does not do
that endless trouble will pour on
his head from the unbeaten part
of Russia for the next lifetime.
The japanese tried the same
thing and got nowhere because
China is so big they ian chase
the Chinese for years but not
catch up with them long enough
to infiict a defeat.
One wonders if Hitler has not
really gone insane and is trying
to exterminate the German ma
tion.Not long ago he had Great
Britain in tough spot and in
stead of pressing his advantage
turned around and marched on
Russia with whom he had a
no-war treaty! 1t is well-known
only fool will turn his back on
an angry lion. Hitler has not only
done so but turned to pick a
fight with a huge polar bear!
The English have not been
idle the past few weeks and we
may well expect something to
happen ere long.
The English army is but of
police-force size but the number
colonials she can raise is quite
large. Her navy is master of all
sea lanes to Germany and it
may be Adolph the Dope ran out
of gas and grub and was forced
to turn to Russia to replenish
his gas tanks and food supply.
In this event Hitler is facing
almost certain defeat. Winter is
not far off and no white army
can fight in a Russian winter.
Thus with an impenetrable
naval blockade on one side and
Russia on the other Offering a
scorched earth policy and many
millions of conquered peoples to
police and feed Hitler may be
able to survive the winter.
With American factories at
service of the English they may
be expected to grow stronger
while Hitler necessarily grows
weaker, and in addition one on
to false steps will bring America
in the war against him. And tC
have the Americas at war is the
last thing he could want. The
L. S. has said it could not live
lo-..an4oI ~ T1foAoA
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-11
WaahIaKtan,a.RatAr Rnunlu

WashiPgtSn's. water SuVBly
Army engineers have supervised
Washington's water supply since
1858, when they recommended the
present source, Great Falls on the
Potomac river, l6 mileS from the
national capital.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
By the Freeman, D. d. ILL., D., D. c. l.,
Bishop OF Washington.

great peoples and states. We have wit
messed in our time sharp and violent
attack upon freedom of worship. We
have seen our own country growing in
conceit Of its powers and resources and
neglecting ways and practices that it
once respected and honored.
Life these later years has been secular
lied and religious practices giver scant
heed. Our whole educational program
has stressed mans self -sufIlciency and
until recently science has pursued its
ways without heed of mans religious
instincts and needs. Many of the great
est of modern scientists have at length
come to regard reverently the religious
impulse Apart from all these manifesto
tions and despite the encouragement Of
societies of the Goddess" multitudes of
men and women in private homes and at
church affairs have maintained unlet
and unhindered their devotional prac-
tices and they constitute a mighty force
in preserving to us the choicest things
of our life. The peoples of the world will
not be beholden to the state for what
tllCy lCSdlu dS LllCA SOFClClSll llSllI dlu
privilege. The greatest crises we as
people have experienced have been sur
vived, not because of our excelllng genius
in craftsmanship or in the arts and
crafts, but because there was a strong
and substantial religious and praying
minority that refused to reckon with
disaster or defeat. There is such
II mir I'M Ion nd
it has to be reckoned with.
At family altars (all too few today, at
bedsideS where lonely individuals kneel,
in great and humble churches scattered
over this broad land, thousands upon
thousands are offering their reverent
prayers that God may preserve and save
us a nation" Jew, Catholic and Protes-
tant find in prayer a binding tie that
unites them in a great fellowship. Yes,
we have and always will have, freedom
of worship. 1t Is a part of our heritage,
and presently the whole world will have
it, because it is the right of every man,
woman and child to enjoy and exercise
a God-given right, the right to worship
the Eternal according to the dictates
of conscience.
Let freedom of worship stir and stimu-
late us to recognize more fully what it
implies. Let it bring us back from ways
of careless, Goddess living and through
the reviving and renewing power Of
prayer and wholesome living make us
stronger to meet any privation or ad-
versity that may come to us.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Library Report

Another demonstration Of the
practical utility of a great cultural
institution in a national emergency
Is to be discovered in the annual re-
port of the trustees and the librarian
of the Washington Public Library,
submitted to the District Commits
sioners yesterday.
The number of borrowers, it is in
dicated, rose from 1891 to 61,972 in
the past fiscal year, a gain Of 1881;
but even those impressive figures
fail to show the full impact of the
issues Of the age upon the library's
facilities and personnel. Naturally,
'the trustees recognize the serious
and special obligations placed upon
the library to meet the requirements
of national defense. It Is at such
times Of national crisis that the IL
brary may render its most essential
service, diffusing necessary knowl-
edge, supplementing with printed
material the training of workers in
new types of work, assisting in the
maintenance Of morale. A special
opportunity - was afforded by the
arrival in Washington of thousands
of new Government employees, who
come to the library in ever-increas-
ing numbers for required information
and helpful reading"
Many of the recent arrivals OBJ
viously have resided in cities like
New York and Chicago, Philadelphia
and Boston, where library technique
has been developed to heights Of
efficiency unexcelled. Coming to the
Nations Capital, they expect, not
without reason, to find library con-
veniences of the variety to which
they have been accustomed. 1t Is
imperative that they should not be
disappointed. Similarly, 1t is neces-
sary that the local community may
not have cause to believe that it Is
disadvantaged arbitrarily by any low
ering of standards of photographic
service.
The pressing need of the Washing
ton Library is for the completion OF
the new central library building for
which the first contract was let on
July II. 1t is not for an architec-
tual monument merely that the
trustees are asking. Rather, 1t is
for suitable headquarters for
comprehensive working organization
requisite to the city's educational,
civic and social progress that they
urge consideration. The pressure Of
existing demand is very heavy. In
years to come 1t is certain to increase.
The prevailing emergency is part of
the problem, and the library must
be regarded as an asset we'll worth
Its cost in the crisis.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
A Little Towns Example

Few are LumbertOn'S claims to
fame. The current edition of Lip
pincott's Gazetteer reports that it Is
banking post-town, the capital Of
Robson County in south-central
North Carolina. 1t takes its name
from the Lumber River, a tributary
of the Pee Dee, flowing through sand
dunes and pine forests to Winyah
Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The
neighborhood is not much changed
since the century began. Something
of the atmosphere of its original set
tlement still clings to the houses and
the streets. The people predominantly
are Scots, descended from contem-
poraries of Flora Macdonald, the lass
who saved Bonnie Prince Charlie
after the battle of Culloden. Men,
bers of her clan persuaded her to
emigrate to America In 1774. She
lived at Fayetteville at the start Of
the Revolution; her husband was
taken prisoner in the uniform Of
British soldier and she returned to
Scotland alone to await his release
when the independence of the col
onies had been acknowledged.
A hundred and fifty years have
passed since Flora died at Milton in
the Hebrides, yet many lovely
Lumberton girl thinks of her as liv-
ing spirit in the place where. her
kinsmen dwelt. The Associated Press
on Wednesday last reported the re-
vival of custom which they brought
with them from the land of their
fathers. At Lumberton, the dispatch
said, "one minute of prayer will be
observed - at noon each day in
gratitude for peace and liberty" The
signal for silent worship is to be a
single stroke of the old town fire bell.
Perhaps the fashion of modern
times may be contradicted by such
acknowledgment Of thankfulness to
the Author of Freedom. If so, 1t Is
cause for rejoicing that even an OBJ
scure community, town Of only six
thousand plain and humble people,
care enough for Him to wish to pay
Him reverence in a season Of bitter
trouble. As their ancestors were not
ashamed Of their religious instinct,
neither are they timid about showing
it now that all the world may see
and providentially do likewise.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

Legal enactments, the imposition OF
repressive measures have failed signally
to ban or destroy the expression of re-
ligious feelings and emotions Darwin
found the religious instinct prevalent in
the lowest of savage peoples. Ruthless
tyrants and dictators have sought to
lay upon their subjects hard and disci-
plinary measures, but history discloses
the utter impotence of their harsh de-
mands. Men may be enslaved, their
ways of life made bitter and exacting but,
despite the most severe penalties i'm
posed, they have refused to abandon
their habits of worship or to cease to turn
with reverence to their God
An ancient monarch ruled that no one
in his kingdom should worship other
than himself. He alone would be deified
and honored, the penalty of death being
imposed for any violation of the royal
mandate. One of his subjects, man Of
valor and consequence in his kingdom,
answered the royal decree by offering his
devotions three times daily and that
openly. We read: The windows of his
chamber being opened. he prayed thrice
daily as was his won't" Favorite as he
was of the king he suffered the penalty
of his courageous course and was only
saved by a miraculous intervention.
Freedom of worship, whether wrought
into legal enactment or not does not and
cannot impair or restrict the religious
and devotional spirit. 1t lies too deep in
T1,n rot rNfO On,Iro IN
and State we of America believe to be
wise Their functions are distinct and
separate, but favored or unfavored, free
dom of worship will obtain under any
and all conditions. Life may become
secularized and education make no reck-
oning Of the essential place that religion
holds in the life of the individual or of
society, nevertheless though its practices
seem inconspicuous and inconseQuential,
the lamp of religion cannot be ex-
tinguished. Robert Burns in his Cot
ter's Saturday Night" describes in glow
ing verse the story of the humble peas
ant serving as the priest of his house.
hold and adds:
From scenes like these
Old Scotias glory springs,
That makes her loved at home,
Revered abroad"
Behind the spectacular glory and pride
of the state resided the strong, whole
some ways of humble and obscure peo-
pie Christ Himself spoke OF such as
the salt Of the earth,' the element that
preserves and saves from corruption
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Building Army Health

President Roosevelt, in approving
plans for rehabilitating 10000
youths rejected for military serv-
Ice because of physical defects,
has taken action which should in
crease our man power available for
defense and benefit those receiving
the remedial training. Under the
plans announced by Mr.. Roosevelt at
his press conference on Friday, local
physicians and dentists will give
treatment to men certified by draft
boards as qualified for general Army
service after the correction of COM
paratively minor physical defects.
The Federal Government will pay for
their rehabilitation as part Of the
cost of defense.
The experience of Great Britain
seems to indicate that the applica-
ton of corrective measures will in
crease substantially the number of
men able to meet successfully the
Arny's physical requirements. Be-
fore the war, the British government
Instituted a program of remedial
treatments for army recruits with
minor physical defects. Instead of
rejecting these men outright, the
British Army accepts applicants for
enlistment with DEFICIENCIES that can
be corrected, placing them in special
depots, where they receive remedial
training This program which con-
tinues in operation, has added many
thousand men to British combat
units.
The plan for rehabilitating 100000
men was adopted after a report to
the President from Brigadier General
Hershey, director of the selective
service system, which revealed that
nearly so per cent of the 100000
men examined for military service
were rejected for physical or other
reasons. Approximately 100000 OF
these were found to be mentally un-
equipped for Army service because
they lacked the equivalent of a
fourth grade education. OF the
100000 turned down for physical rea-
sons, 1t is estimated that 200, 900 can
be rehabilitated quickly and made
available for duty in the armed forces
through the elimination Of the