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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-10-17
On The Agricultural
Front

/. M. Campbell, Negro Extension
field agent, last month visited farm
ers and farm agents in seven Sou
them States in connection with his
work After seeing the farmers in
ms territory at close range, he ma
kes this interesting observation on
Negro farmers and the war effort.
I talked with many rural Negro
families whose sons have been cal
led to the colors and be il said to
their credit, while they may not be
waving flags and parading as much
as some groups, they are solidly be-
hind the boys with their food and fe-
ed, war savings and fat and scrap
collecting campaigns.
BY the way, Mr. Campbell has an
interesting article on sharecroppers
in September issue of OPPOR-
TUNITY.
Secretary Claud r. Wickard has
asked the hatchery operators and
farmers to raise at least 200 million
extra chickens during the fall and
winter to supplement our meat supp
lies He points out that our fight
ing men need plenty of red meat. So
the extra chicken meat for home
consumption will help make just that
much more red meat available for
our armed forces.
Of course, winter poultry produc-
ton will have its difficulties for far
mers who are not experienced in
year round flock raising, but the eff
ort can be successful for farmers
who manage their flocks carefully.
We suggest that inexperienced farm
ers call on their county agent, or
their vocational agriculture teacher
and get some pointers on winter poul-
try production
Now don't worry about market
for your chicken, if there should be
With heavy fall cabbage crop,
ready for market and no tin avail
able for sauerkraut, housewives in
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-10-17

difficulties in any area, the depart
ment will take steps to see that a
market is found.
% states in the North Central and
Eastern Seaboard areas will be help
ing in the war effort by including
cabbage, Victory Food Special in
their home menus during September
and October. You know cabbage pa
tches may have been one of the rea-
sons Hollanders were willing to pay
the high price of $24 for Manhattan
Island. The first cabbage seeds were
brought to our shores as early as
1860 by the French explorer, Cartier,
Continued on next Page)
1sssse a,
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Author

CAPTAIN MARY lays out prob
lem from the textbook she's writ
ten herself: Navigation Course
Prepared by Mary Parker Con-
verse, Master of Ocean Yachts"
Il sweat blood over those prob
lens" she says frankly.
Il think you got the picture
wrong in this one. Captain Mary"
remarks boy, referring to the
diagram in a problem.
"I'll bet you 4 nickel it's right"
she returns. A few minutes later.
after an argument. she gravely COL
lects the nickel.
Straining to keep ahead of her
boys - she studies all day to meet
them in the evening - she's been
working about IL hours a day.
And what about the future?
Well. when the Navy has no more
assignments for her, there'll be
advanced navigation and meteor
ology courses, but Captain Mary
rather suspects there will always
be boys to teach
We're going to need sailors
from now on" she says.
ROSCOE FLEMING
Evening star., 1942-06-14
captain MARY"
rMOS. J. BARDRE

private yacht - used for pleasure,
only, not business or war - shed
have the right to sail her.
BY the time she came back to
Denver. the world situation was
becoming stormier by the day. and
Captain Mary decided she would
help boys of the region become
sailors.
"And . great help she has
been," said Commander J. c.
Thorn, in charge of the Denver
recruiting area. Captain Mary
was offered . job a. instructor
in the vi courses At North
western University, but decid-
ed to stay in Denver.
Every Tuesday and Thursday
night. her big dining room is
cleared for action. There's no for
mality about either the room or its
owner. Captain Mary is a moth
erly-looking woman. whose big
blue eyes twinkle keenly and mer-
rily. She wears an officers blue
Jacket with a masters four gold
stripes, a stiff collar and shirt. and
a black tie.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Ticket
APrAIN MARY" Converse,
7O-year-old grandmother

SHE wanted bigger things so she
enrolled at the Washington Tech
nical Institute, passed the exami-
nation for her most priced posses
sion: the ticket" which qualified
her as master OF steam and motor
vessels of any gross tonnage on any
ocean yachts only" But, she
says, if the Queen Mary were a
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Licensed sea captain
and grandmother, she
trains Navy recruits
in ocean navigation

U~A APrAN MARY" Converse.
N-year- old grandmother
~ of Denver. Colo. is busy
these days adding skilled naviga-
tors to the US. Navy. Using the
dining room of her home as class
room. she has already taught about
SO inland boys the mysteries OF
ocean navigation. Her pupils,
most of whom have never seen
larger water than trout stream.
are all enrollees in the Nays
w officer training courses for COL
lege graduates. While the boys are
waiting for assignment to their
formal Navy training. Captain
Mary works with them. Employ
ing navigation instruments and
using her dining room and garden
as a ships bridge, they carry out
all the navigation tasks Of young
ensigns.
Her idea has been 80 success
full that not one Of her pupils has
failed his training course yet.
Captain Mary has been a sailor
all her life. Her late husband. Col.
Harry Converse. was a wealthy
yachtsman and she held a navi-
gators license for New England
waters. When the Colonel died.
Mrs. Converse settled in Denver.
But a busy social life wasn't enough
for her. Paying her own way -
but doing the navigating as fourth
mate - she sailed on a freighter
from New Orleans to Africa and
back. Later she held down a couple
of other jobs as navigator and won
a reputation both as a seaman and
as a poker player
Evening star., 1942-09-08
Navy TronspIonts Cemetery
That Stood in Path Of Airport
Methodist Burial Ground at Leonordtown
Moved s Miles With Core and Efficiency

The new Cedar Point has been
finished of with spic and span
exactness. Graves are In almost
the same alignment as they had
at their original location. All graves
have been numbered and bodies
identified as far as possible. Tomb
stones are erect and in perfect line.
The Navy did the job with Bene-
dict Robinson, local undertaken, as
civilian supervisor
With the aid of cemetery blue
prints. the bodies were exhumed and
placed In new caskets Handles and
name plates also went into these
larger -than-ordinary coflns.
A wedding ring found In one grave
was placed In the new comm OF its
owner.
The work was not done rapidly.
Eight or nine bodies were removed
each day and transported to the
new cemetery. Sailors worked nine
and 10-hour shifts daily.
Only one body did not 60 into the
new burial lot. At the request Of
relatives, this one was sent to Free
hold, N. j., for reinterment.
As q final touch faded American
flag and the remnants Of 4 fioral
wreath found on the grave OF an
unidentified soldier were taken to
the new cemetery and placed above
his tomb.
Evening star., 1942-09-08
er,cial pispatch to The star.

ertcial Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Sept. g.
When historic Cedar Point Metho-
dist Cemetery got in the way Of the
new naval airport near here, the
Navy just picked 1t up and trans
planted 1t miles away
Cedar Point, In its original loca-
ton, would have crossed one of the
runways of the new airport needed
for flight testing and aerial pro-
lection for the Washington area.
So with the traditional Navy ef-
flciency and the proper amount of
respect for the dead, sailor work
men went to the task and in three
weeks had the cemetery's 100 bodies
reposing in new graveyard on the
California-Great Mills road-land
contributed for this purpose by the
Ebenezer Methodist Church,
Eventually old Cedar Point
Church, one of the local landmarks.
will go, and in time st. Nicholas
Catholic Church and cemetery
where 1,5o0 bodies are buried, may
have to be- removed.
Reconstructed Cedar Point Gene
terry appears to be an improvement
over It's original self Some graves
had lacked care for years. Tomb
stones were askew. Many Of It's
dead had long been forgotten.
Evening star., 1942-09-08

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Evening star., 1942-09-08
My -MKTlH- SCRAMBLE yooe 84ck-7o-5cuoDL WARDROBE
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skirt the the off with
odoobe Dutch bonnet Yes they'll their
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Evening star., 1942-09-08
ROYS TREK BACK-TO-SCHOOL
IN STURDY sTWEEDUROYS''

"Tweeduroys" the oristocrot Of corduroys with an
exclusive tweed effect Real fovorites with boys and
youths oke fcouse they look smart and really "con
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and matched as they pleased In handsome shodes Of
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Evening star., 1942-09-08

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BENEFITS TO JOBLESS
SHOW BIG DECREASE

Washington, D. C.-Unemployment
insurance benefits dropped to the low
est level this year in August, with
payments totaling $26,900,0OO, it was
announced by Federal Security Agency
Administrators Paul " McNutt. This
was 18 per cent less than the amount
paid in July. Mr.. McNutt predicted
that benefits would decline still
further in the remaining months OF
1912 and that payments for the year
would not exceed 1915, 100000.
Unemployment insurance activities
Indicate, Mr.. McNutt said, that the
unemployed are being increasingly
absorbed into industry and that new
unemployment is declining rapidly.
The recent steady drop in benefit pay
ments coupled with the even sharper
reduction in claims for benefits bear
this out, he said New claims for ben
efits indicating newly unemployed
workers showed particularly marked
decline in August. They were 3S per
cent less than July.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

and warning for the Nazis. What
ever may be its local outcome and
consequences, the strike very likely
will be recorded in history as the first
signal of revolution in Europe under
the leadership of organized labor.
American shipyards are not only
turning out an increasing number of
Liberty ships each month but are
building them in a shorter time, the
Maritime Commission notes.
The records for each Liberty ship
yard reveal that in September the
shipyards, in setting new produc-
tion record, made substantial reduc-
tion in the time required from keel
laying to delivery. During the month,
which saw all ship construction rec
ords broken, 67 Liberty ships, new
monthly high for this type of vessel,
were delivered into service in an av-
erage time of 70.1 days from start to
finish. This is reduction of more
than 13 days over the previous month
when 81 Liberty ships were completed
in the average of 1873 days.
1t was estimated when original con-
tracts for these vessels were let that
los days would be required to con-
struct Liberty ship. Eight out of
10 yards now producing Liberty ships
are under that figure while the other
two are approaching it.
The national monthly average for
Liberty ship construction has been
consistently reduced each month since
January when the average time was
241.3 days, which speaks well for
American labor and management.
History records between seven and
eight thousand wars, and we haven't
learned our lesson yet.-Marion, Iowa,
Sentinel.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23

house.
Mr.. Lewis created new house.
Now he has left that one because he
couldn't live in it.
Mr.. Lewis finds it difficult to live
in any house where there are others
who possess a voice.
Mr.. Lewis now lives alone in the
house of the Miners.
If there were any other effective
voices in that house, Mr.. Lewis might
leave that one, too.
And wouldn't that be wonderful?
But meanwhile the United States
has a very hot potato on it's hands.
What comes next in this drama of
ambitions?
And what becomes of what is off
cially called "the public welfare?"
could suggest two or three persons
who might be asked about it. Couldn't
you? - C. M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1912.
SOAK-THE-POOR TAX BILL

Labor will hardly quarrel with the
National Lawyers Guild over its as
sertion that the Senate tax bill re-
fleets soak -the-poor" tax policy
and that it is the most regressive
and undemocratic piece of tax legis-
lation in American history"
The guilds attack on the Senate
bill is largely based on the provision
for Victory" 5 per cent gross in
come tax, which the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor executive council, in
its annual report, called crushing"
and said may lower earnings below
the point necessary to maintain health
and efficiency"
Certainly if the tax has the effect
feared by the council, it should not
be named Victory" tax. Instead of
making for victory, it would make
for defeat.
AS the lawyers guild said in its
summary of the bill, in asking the
House and Senate conferees on the
measure to eliminate the Victory"
impost:
''The Victory Tax will contribute
to victory for disease, undernourish-
ment, impaired morale and reduced
efficiency of our soldiers of produc-
ton. The action of the Senate in
reducing the corporate income tax
rate from As per cent, as adopted by
the House, to 40 per cent, at the same
time as it imposed unbearable bur-
dens on low income groups strikingly
reveals the Senate's tax policy 1t is
a soak -the-poor, spare the-rich policy.
1t is bill which leaves big loopholes
and escapes for the wealthy while it
oppresses the poor. The bill as passed
by the Senate leaves taxes nearly one
and one-quarter billion dollars short
of the Treasury's request for cor
porate levies."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23

optimism of proponents of repeal un-
aware of the bitter opposition of many
Senators, can play into the hands of
the poll takers.
Before taking rest from their ex-
ertions, poll-taxers would do well
to remember that the Gavagan anti
lynching bill was also passed by the
House once, with similar vote, and
was filibustered to death in the Senate
in 1910. A last ditch fight against
poll tax repeal is now under way in
the Senate, where Senator Joseph C.
O'Mahoney, chairman of the Judiciary
subcommittee which held hearings on
the Pepper bill, secured majority of
his subcommittee for a report declar-
ing the Pepper bill unconstitutional.
Organized labor-A. F. of L., CIO
and Railroad Brotherhoods ds-has
strongly supported the repeal move
ment. Continuation of the labor sup
port in even more vigorous form will
be big help in passing the bill in
the Senate Local unions can help
greatly by writing to both their Sen
ators and by asking each member to
send a letter or postcard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23

TIME course of events in the small
est of the European countries
overrun by the Nazis has up to re-
Gently attracted little notice. This in
difference is unjustified, for, small
though it is in area and population,
it is one of the ten biggest steel-pro-
ducing countries in the world.
AS in all other occupied territories,
the vast majority of the inhabitants
of Luxembourg offer resistance to the
Nazi domination. Instances of sabo-
tage and opposition are more and
more frequently reported. But the
output of the Luxembourg heavy in
dustries was so vital for the Nazis
that hitherto the garrison troops have
taken pains to avoid an open breach.
Below the surface, however, the
tension became more and more intol-
cradle and finally exploded at the end
of August, when the head of the civil
administration found himself obliged
to announce that strike had broken
out at Schifflingen. He said that the
agitation fomented by paid foreign
agents" had taken hold so strongly
that state of emergency and judg-
ment by court-martial had to be in
troduced in the Esch district. Death
sentences passed by these courts were
Immediately executed.
The Luxembourg workers reaction
to these proceedings was an extension
of the strike to other areas, culminat-
ing in a general strike. The move
ment has a recognizably political
character, being in fact the immedi-
ate reaction of the population to the
proclamation Incorporating Luxem
burg into the Reich.
This heroic rising, under conditions
of the worst terrorism of the workers
is a beacon for the subjected peoples
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
Women Urged To Register

Washington, D. Thousands of
women will be needed to replace men
being drawn into the armed forces,
government officials point out. The
u. S. Employment Service is asking
all women to register at once SO that
America may have a reservoir to
draw upon for training and for jobs
in the months ahead.
Vote for the tuberculosis Levy at
the election November 3rd.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
Name WLB General Counsel

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Lloyd
K. Garrison, dean of the University
of Wisconsin law school, has been
named general counsel of the War
Labor Board.
An associate public member of
WLB, Dean Garrison was chairman
of the first National Labor Relations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
POLL TAX REPEAL FACES
HARD FIGHT

Poll tax repeal, voted in the House
on October 13 by vote of 252 to "a,
faces hard fight in the Senate.
There is grave danger that this i'm
portant victory for democratic rights
achieved in the House may be de-
stroyed by Senate filibuster. Over
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
WHAT NEXT?

Development of a new domestic
linnoleum substitute, using cellulose
and fir resin oil, has been announced
by company in Sweden Large
scale production has been started
after experiments for the last 80
months.
Vote for the tuberculosis Levy at
the election November 3rd.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23

We need now more than ever to
place our faith in our trade union
organizations and to put our utmost
into keeping them up to the very
highest human ideals of service
William Green, in American Fedora
zionist.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-10-23
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchst we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes Hippantly. sone-
times recklessiy. -.

AN<<>N~~~>~><~A <~A>~~<~~<<<<<>N8
Two or three years ago / wrote a
book in which | discussed number
of personalities in the labor move
ment.
Someone once said that it is good
idea to let your enemies write the
books.
There could be something to that
advice. 1t is sure that if the book
were to be written now, with the do
ings of the intervening years in mind,
there would be quite some changes in
the text, here and there.
There would be some change about
John L. Lewis, for example
John L. Lewis has just taken "his"
United Mine Workers out of the CIO
and landed them high and dry on a
plateau of solitary existence.
He led them out, just as he led them
in-BY THE NOSE!
1t used to be thought that miners
were tough guys who did lot of
thinking, but little talking and that
they had mind of their own.
1t looks like they don't get much
chance to use that mind. In fact, it
looks as if, under John l.. Lewis, the
Miners have mind of HIS own
So, he led them in and he led them
out, just like that.
When it comes to constitutions, the
Miners have one, you bet. Under its
terms they can be assessed as often
as desirable, without having to bother
to say ''yes," or even "please don't"
But what happens when Mr.. Lewis
gets his Miners out? Why, he says
he isn't thinking of going back into
the A. F. of L. until it sanctions in
dustrial unionism.
You miss the fine humor of that
pronouncement until you remember
that the Miners were IN the A. F.
of L. and found their industrial union
ism supported at every turn by the
A. F. of L., without ever question.
Can it be that Lewis is kidding?
And if SO, whom?
As matter of fact, those who care
about winning the war must find the
whole spectacle highly disgusting
When are some of our leaders go
ing to take a tumble to themselves
and understand that American men
and women want selfishness put aside
while we win this war?
When?
Will someone kindly step up to the
nricrophone and answer that question?
I'll bet not!
At least not Mr.. John L. Lewis.
And not anyone of several others who
could be mentioned.
The A. F. of L. convention has lust
pinned rose on Mr. Jimmy Petrillo,
discussed here last week. Which
changes nothing about Mr.. Petrillo-
yet.
1t isn't likely that rose will be
pinned on Mr.. Lewis-yet.
Well, you can see how important
Mr.. Lewis is, if you consider the fuel
oil situation and the relation of coal
to that regrettable situation.
Mr.. Lewis went out of the A. F.
of L. because he couldn't live in that
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The Hagerstown globe., 1942-10-23

To blend cheese with sauces, cut
it first into small pieces. Cook
slowly and stir constantly until it
has blended. Or you can press the
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-10-23
HANGOVERS

CONTINUED from Page u
much time on candidate who
goes to any extreme to grab
votes, simply to become Con-
qressman. The voters are not
interested in any one mans per-
sonaI ambitions. They want
representation in Washington
and they want to send men
there who will exert all efforts
toward bringing this war to an
early and successful conclusion.
Brooke Lee has stated that he
wants to (D give all out sup
port to the winning of the war;
(2) fight for lasting peace and
(3) insist on a return to the
pre-Pearl Harbor American way
of life.
Which, after all, is what all Of
us are really interested in.
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-10-23

cheese through sieve with
spoon and then mix it into the
sauce.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-06-06
Harry Bennett
Snubs air
Practice Group

Members OF the local committee
on Fair Practice In Industry, who
visited the Ford plant at Dearborn
last Friday in interest OF hiring OF
Negro women at the Willow Run
Bomber plant, are reported to have
been disappointed In the results OF
the interview. Among the commit
tee were: DR.. Edward Mcfarland.
OF Wayne university. chairman: DR..
Hudnut, OF the Woodward Avenue
Presbyterian church: the Rev. r. l..
Brady, OF Second Baptist church /;
Rabbi Glazer. the Rev. W. II. Peck.
OF Bethel AME church; Mrs. Ernes-
tine Postles and Mrs. Woodford.
The committee, II Is reported,
waited more than an hour before
having opportunity 10 talk with
Harry Bennett, personnel director
Of the company, although previous
arrangements for the interview had
been made. Mr.. Bennett, Il IL stat
ed. gave the committee no encour-
agement concerning the employing
OF Negro women at the bombing
plant and showed marked GOODNESS.