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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
S0APY BATH AIDS
GAS VICTIMS

BERKELEY, Cal, April (UP)-
DR.. Joel Hildebrand. head of the
kEF's Chemical Warfare Service in
World War l. said that the best
antidote for mustard gas is a bath
with plenty of soap. The gas he
said, is principally harmful where
it comes in contact with the skin,
and the important thing is to wash
it off
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
STARTED IN SERIAL

$50 out we came. III 1884. aGd POI
into a serial at Mascot called In
Old Santa Fe'. tKen Maynard was
the starr One picture was all Gene
wanted, too because now our truck
could read RADIO - STAGE -
RFCOPDINGS-SCREFN.' We lit
out right away, went to Louisville
But in four months we were calleC
back to HOLLYWOOD and got seven
year contracts
TODAY Autr" could add "RODFO'
to the list of his activities. In fact
hecould raint at all along the sides
he could paint at all along the sides
ed at Gene hntrY, Okla, for az
eastern tour. There are nearly 20G
pecple in his show COMPANY, not
counting the Independent contest
ants in the rodeo who work only
FOR prize money.
The outfit also carries about 30e
head of his own stock - buckinp
hoses steers, calves. wild Brahma
bulls. His famous trained horses
Champ and Champ, j., will travel
in far greater luIn'; then the boss
himself was enjoying seven years
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

mite a mine, Autry told me how q
farmer once discouraged Burnette
with a remark about his accordion
playing. Then the star went before
the camera, and Smiley told me
about Genes discontinue at the
hands Of traffic cop.
LOST THAT CNE
Next it was Autry's turn, and
he recalled the time Burnette lost
them an engagement in Canad9
during their early transforming
daTs When a customs officer asked
the value of their Is instruments.
Smiley immodeStly claimed that
the accordion was worth $1,000, the
violin $4,000, the guitar $500. and
SO on. The official added the figures
and then demanded a 40 per cent
cash deposit. Result was that the
entertainers were hustled back
across the border.
These "reminiscences went on un-
til Burnette finally was goaded in
to telling why Autry turned screen
actor. I'VE were travelling around tG
broadcasting stations, and playing
in theaters and doing personal ap-
pearances and selling song books IL
department stores" he said
And we were doing all right. tee.
Had good car-a sort of light
truck with paneled boo" There were
four panels on each side, and or
three of 'em Gene had PAINTED
RADIO, STAGE and RECORD
INGS'.
That left one of the panels blank
on each side. Gene would look at
that space and worry about it.
Once in a while he'd say. II sure
wish We could paint "SCRFFN' or
there; then we'd Fave everything.
well, we'd been in a sort CT adj
vertising short once. lust little
movie trailer, and Gene took tc
wondering whether that would be
enough SO we could claim to be il
pictures His conscience wouldn't
let him, though, and finallv be SAYS
Smiley. We go to 60 to Hollywood
Wen make lust one pi2ture-thats
al we need
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
The Bar Convention

THE National Bar association announced
IL last week that it has Cancelled its pro-
posed convention scheduled to be held al
Kansas City this month. The reason given
was the national emergency and the burden
that such convention would have upon the
transportation facilities and the wear and
tear on automobile tires.
The associations decision to cancel the
convention is consistent with the war effort
and is demonstrative of the fact that the col
ored people Of this nation are willing to make
whatever contributions or sacrifices neces-
sary to win the great fight in which this ma
ton is engaged.
With the cancellation Of the National Ban
association convention it is only reasonable
that many other conventions will be cancelled
this year including several sorority and fra
ternal conclaVeS.
Where such action will not greatly affect
an organization it is patriotic gesture tc
conform with the request of the national CO.
ordinator of transportation to postpone con-
ventions in the interest of the greatest 5000
for the greatest number.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02

states have no power. 1t is true that they die
what they did and said what they said be-
cause the nation, as such, has never attached
any Importance on the attitude that the South
has to Negroes even if that attitude is ex-
pressed in a way which becomes most trail
torous and disloyal. It is true that they did
what they did and said what they said be-
cause the nation has long forgotten the real
meaning Of living, efficient, and buoyant de-
mocracy which permits all citizens to eXer-
else their suffrage rights.
The two governors would just as soon have
their states to secede from the union, to have
the United States lose the war, to permit this
country to fly the flag Of dictatorship and
bury democracy and all that it stands Tor IN
the grave Of oblivion rather than to give to
Negroes those elemental rights which the
laws and the Constitution Of this nation say
are theirs
The case Of the two governors no longer
remains a local issue; it is national scandal
and demands immediate attention.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
1T WAS ALL RIGHT

Clerk: Yes, sir, I'm giving you the lowest
possible price on these goods. In fact they
are being sold at a specially cut rate due to
the fact that we want to close out our. entire
stock Of these merchandise
Customer: Well, I see. But evidently the
management isn't as DESTROYS Of closing out
this stock as you want me to believe them to
be-.
Clerk: What makes you say that?
Customer: Because if they really were de-
sirous of getting rid of this stock they might
take off quite bit more on the prices here
quoted.
Clerk: Oh, yes; that is true. But they are
not trying to stage penny -a-bag sale. You
see, it still costs them money to run the store.
Customer: Oh! Well in that case it is all
right, l suppose, to charge about twice as
much for the goods as it is actually worth.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02

Father Ito son just turned 81 years.: Now
my son, you are grown man and I eXpec
you to act as one should act. You are now
on your own and it is expected of you that
you will take your place along with other
young men who are trying to do things in
life.
The Young Man. Yes: Yes, father, ex-
pect to take my proper place, but hope you
will continue my weekly allowance for a
while longer, please. You know, I haven't
finished making payments on my last pur-
chase.
Father: And what have you purchased
son?
Young Man: Oh, just bought little ring
for Clarissa. She said all the other girls were
wearing rings, and she wanted one; so got
her one like she wanted.
Father: Son, you've already made the wrong
step just when you are upon the Threshold
of life. You should never have tied up with
a woman until you were much older.
Young Man: Oh father, I was just trying
to follow in your footsteps, and you said that
you were married when you were only nine
teen.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
LIES INTERPRETATIONS

Living is not limited to what we comprehend
IT'S not the tears, nor years, my friend;
Nor the little things we try to do,
1t means much more than who is who.
IT'S well to have serious mind,
To be sincere, cheerful, kind,
And try to learn what life inspires,
Beyond above earth-plane desires.
Life means that we must learn where Nature
dWells,
And every good of it foretells,
And helps tighten and clean the mind,
And keep our selfishness behind.
Mayhaps we think we know lot of things,
Perhaps we feel that our desires
Are chief key places, but lifted fires
Are kindled by the grace Of God
To light the path that Jesus trod.
DIR. M. A. Majors
Monrovia, Calf.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
South Side Justice

7 Asst week Municipal Court Judge Mi
L. chael Tremlzo, sitting in the Wabash Ave-
nue. branch, released an alleged purse snatch
er without even the ceremony Of trial on
the merits in one of the strangest cases that
has come to our attention
The man who was accused of the crime
was said to have followed woman down the
street at midnight, caught her around the
neck, dragged her into the alley and snatched
her purse when she proved too much of a
fighter for him to do anything more. Police
officers said they had been trying to catch
the man for more than two years but his ia
miliarity with the alleys made it impossible.
Judge Tremko gave him an alley concocted
from legal verbiage that permitted him to go
where he pleased without being even obliged
to report to the court on probation.
The judge was asked to nolle PROSE- the
case so that the state could prosecute it in
the Criminal court for a felony instead OF
the misdemeanor charge on which he was
booked by the Fifth district police. The
state asked the police officers standing be-
fore the court to arrest the man and the judge
told them they had no right to arrest him.
He granted the motion to nolle PROSE- the
case which meant that the particular charge
against the accused was abandoned and the
man walked out a free person obligated to
atone to no one save, perhaps, his lawyer.
If the judge knew that his act would re-
lease the man, and he certainly should have
criticism of such course of action is not only
necessary, but imperative. The women on
the South Side need all the protection of the
law that the courts and police can give them
| With many thousands of men going into the
armed forces women must necessarily walk
the streets alone at night 1t is asking little
Of the judiciary and Of the police to safeguard
these women by according to them that pro-
lection that the law allows. We ask nc
more; we will be satisfied with no less.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
BETWEEN THE LINES
BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
(FOr AMP

the Negroes loyalty is determinant Of this
sentiment.
Democracy has come upon "now-or-nev-
er" time and the current crisis calls for
''now- never" loyalty. The more loyal the
Negro is during the present crisis the great
er shame of the country that fails to reward
him for paying its price. If the Negro holds
back today it will be the Negroes shame; II
the country tomorrow denies him the rights
he pays for with sweat and tears and blood,
then it is the country's shame! Somehow or
other l cannot doubt my country. 1t has done
too much for Negroes for me to doubt that
it will do more. At the heart of this nation
is righteous urge that is the hope of the
Negroes and of mankind. Full cooperation
is the price Negroes must pay. AS long as
we have no Negro saboteurs and fifth col
umnists we can look the world in the face
without wincing. Whosoever therefore would
weaken the Negroes morale or his loyalty is
a traitor to the common cause.
A race that can outlive the establishments
which have veXed the Negroes mind these
three score years and rally himself against
the foes of his country is a great race. 1t is
only matter Of time before ALL the living
generations will bring him their need of glory
| Greatness cannot be denied and like truth
! crushed to earth, will rise again. The most
glorious role being played in the drama of this
devastating war is not being played by the
7, "Sons Of Dives" who have banqueted at the
table of plenty, but by the "Sons of Lazarus
who have eaten the crusts and the crumbs.
The Negroes fuller freedom is in the max
| ing and the public opinion upon which 1t must
be based is in the process of formation. The
ultimate limits Of Negro advance are set by
public opinion above all else. Laws, pres
sure, agitation and intra-racial self-help are
all limited by public opinion. Anything the
Negro does that moulds a more favorable
public opinion advances his cause; anything
he does to make unfavorable opinion is {
detriment to his cause. The Negroes super
loyalty is making a favorable opinion and as
| such is advancing our cause.
The "Sons Of Lazarus are called upon &c
pay the greater price of victory. That price
will rebound to their greater glory. That
greater glory will beget a more favorable
public opinion. That greater public opinion
will mean greater future! PAYING THE
PRICE.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02

TWO governors Of two states made two
IL statements last week. Each statement is
worthy Of mention.
One governor reigns over the state Of Ala
bama; the other the fuehrer Of Georgia. Both
states have long been noted for their intoler-
ance and their political henchmen who have
been. elected by handful Of people who pay
their annual poll taxes have campaigned in
variably on the platform Of "kick the Negro
around The one who can convince the vot-
ers that his program can effect more '1kicks
than the other candidates has better chance
Of winning.
Both of these governors are products Of such
a system. Both are the result Of pernicous
poll tax system that keeps all the Negroes and
poor whites from exercising their rights Of
suffrage at the polls.
The notorious governor Of the despicable
state of Georgia told the nation, and particu-
larly the colOred people Of his state, that the
white people would continue to treat Negroes
with dsrespect and if they did not like it they
could get out Of Georgia. The governor said
that discrimination against Negroes would
continue in the schools and everywhere else,
the national defense program notWithstand-
ing.
In the state Of Alabama the political rene
gade who heads that commonwealth refused
to accept a war contract for the state peni-
tertiary because it had clause in it that there
must be no discrimination on account Of race.
It's wonder he ever accepted the position
Of governor Of his state. We take it that his
state conforms to the routine ceremonies to
have its chief executive to swear to uphold
the Constitution of the United States. If So,
we wonder if he knew that there was Four
teenth amendment in that document which
made all Negroes born in this country citi-
zens and prevents the state of Alabama from
discriminating against them or depriving them
happiness without due process Of law. We
wonder if he agreed to uphold the Fifteenth
amendment of that great document which
prevents state from denying to a person
he take his oath Of office with certain reser-
vations? On the other hand, it is reasonable
to surnlise that the governor never seriously
thought that his state was part Of the Unit
ed States, therefore, that part of the other
which concerns itself with the United States
Constitution was so much sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
It is true that each of the two governors
did what they did and said what they said
last week because the colored citizens Of their
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
PAYING THE PRICE: NEGRO
MUST SHOW "NOW OR
NEVER" LOYALTY

World War II has definitely entered a
critical phase. The back of the United Ma
tons is against the wall The fortunes of the
future are hanging in the balances of crucial
circumstances. Brutality is being glorified
while righteousness is being crucifed HUI
man righteousness is at a premium in our
cursed world of today. Another dark
age is upon us and many Of us know it not
The back of democracy is against the wall
while bloodstaned fascism is crowding fierce
ly upon the forces of progress Nobody can
tell what day may bring forth and destruc-
ton is ever in the offing.
This is no time to bemoan the fate of our
wretched state Of unpreparedness. We must
grid ourselves for great sacrifice and suffer-
ing 1t is just as well for us to know that
"life as usual is, for the moment, thing
Of the past; henceforth we must take life as
we find it. The compulsion of a grave ne
cessity is upon us and how we acquit our
selves in these critical times is the measure
of our future.
Just as business as usual in these critical
times is the measure Of our future, is a me-
1dCe W our War S11OII, SO IS pT0JQQlc0 as
usual nimical to the supreme sacrifices we
are being called upon to make Prejudice
must be submerged if victory is to emerge
from this titantic conflict. Let the Negroes
look well to their great responsibility in this
national crisis One-tenth of this country's
population can be mighty factor in the ulti-
mate outcome of this war. Victory for the
allied cause is not a matter Of tenths, but of
thousandths, SO delicately poised are the bal
ances of war. Gradually this grim fact is
percolating through the thinking of this ma
ton; and gradually the color bans are being
lifted and the Negro given a more equitable
place in the scheme Of things.
On the assembly lines as on the battle lines
the Negro must acquit himself like the super
patriot the world knows him to be. No fault
can be found with the Negroes quarreling Sc
long as he stands up and fights. The world
knows what the Negro is quarreling about
and sympathizes with him in his righteous
contentious. 1t is just as well for the Negro
to know that the sentiment for the Negroes
larger liberation is now in the making and
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
America Focuses On Carver And Ford
BY LESTER E. BROWN

services rolling on rubber 1t VIII take vast
quantities of grains, plants, weeds, ct cetera,
to produce the vital butadiene, synthetic
rubber's principal ingredient.
But with the creative genius of Carver in
collaboration with the organizational and gro
duction genius of Ford, we have strong rea-
sons to believe that this team will give us
not only rubber but many other synthetic
products which will be needed to replace
those vital products we cannot get from those
countries now under the Axis yoke. We
would that this kind of teamwork would be-
come more Widespread in all levels Of our
national life. It is civilized pattern of So
cial conduct.
A survey sometime ago revealed that on
the southside of Chicago, among Negro stu
dents, some 25 were catalogued as having
genius level intellects. This survey, had it
been extensive, might have disclosed a great
er number What are we going to do with
this talent? Are we going to encourage
and make it fruitful or are we going to frus-
trate it because it's exterior is not pigmented
white? 1t will be to our everlasting shame
if we fail to spend more time with our hui
man reserves and resources. If we pro-
perly appraise, encourage and utilize our
human resources we have every reason to
believe that all other things will be added
unto us.
America while rejecting about Carver and
Ford ought resolve that this world is big
enough for us all, and further, by encour-
aging the Disadvantage, we can in a prac-
teal way make this world not only richer
in materials but in a social climate better
suited for human beings to dwell and pro-
gress.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
Peonage Fighters

THURGOOD Marshall, special counsel for
i the National Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, said the Department
Of Justice is very much concerned with the
eradication Of peonage in the South. He said
| that it had shown more interest in this evil
recently than in any other of the ills from
which the colored people of the South suffer.
We think it is commendable that the federal
government is interested in removing sys-
tenn which is somewhat worse than slavery.
1t is a system which compels thousands, and
perhaps millions, Of colored people to work
on farms without compensation. 1t is sys-
tenn which sabotages the Thirteenth amend
ment to the Constitution which said invol-
untary servitude except for the punishment
of crime is abolished. It is system which
punches holes in our democratic process and
makes null and void the all-men- are created
equal provision Of the Declaration Of indie
pendence.
One cannot think Of the great fight against
peonage without thinking about the one who
went out single-handed and revealed to the
world the cancerous evils of a system which
had been permitted to grow and tester since
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. He is
William Henry Huff who challenged the peon-
age system and all those who had grown fat
through it, He fought peonage when such
a campaign was neither profitable nor popu-
lar. He made the people Of Illinois conscious
of the evil when he had the peonage master
Of Georgia indicted by a Federal grand jury
sitting in Chicago. He made the people Of
the nation aware Of the danger of such
system by propagandizing the cause Of de-
mocracy and revealing the inimical evil that
attached in leech-like manner to suck the life
blood from the democratic process.
Thus, as the Department of Justice makes
its fight against peonage and all that it stands
for, we must remember the colored fighter
who is as closely identified with the fight as
is the Prince of Denmark to Shakespeare's-
mlet'-William Henry Huff
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02

1t is news of the first order when the dis
tinguished scientist, George Washington Car
yer, after 43 years, leaves his historic work.
shop at Tuskegee to assume fresh 1abors at
Ford's Ford has been close acquaintance
of DR.. Carver for a number of years and has
been trying for long time to induce the
venerable scientist to come to his laboratories
at Dearborn, Michigan.
Dr. Carver has been content to "drop his
bucket in the Tuskegee vicinity for the
past 43 years and as result, over 500 pro-
ducts have lowered from the virile genius
Of his applied science. We do not here wish
to labor again the accomplishments of DR..
Carver. They are the common knowledge of
men everywhere. We rather wish here to
make a plea for encouraging possibilities
among all people regardless of their color or
race for we feel this an important step along
the upward curve of civilization.
It does not take much imagination to
visualize the straits that large areas Of the
South would be in today had it been bereft
of the genius and treless 1abors of Dr. Car
yer and his cohorts. The soil was sterile in
many areas and he treated it and gave it fer
tility. The peanut was considered hazard
for its soil nutriment Over-consumption.
Carver found 800 uses for it and saved a
lettering southern economy.
Forty-three years ago, Dr. Carver pro-
duced rubber. We can synthesize it but not
yet in sufficient quantities. In a previous
article we treated Of the synthetic Butadiene
and Ameripol products
Ford remembers that Thomas Edison had
tried to produce synthetic rubber during the
expiring years Of his life after having been
given impetus in this enterprise by DR.. Car
yer. 1t is therefore the result Of persistent
effort that Ford has brought Carver to his
laboratories ito work as he wills"
On several occasions Carver has intimat-
ed that real rubber (not the synthetic) may
be obtained from many varieties of weed and
plants. Mr.. Ford who at his Willow Spring
plant employs upward of 100000 is turn
ing out thousands Of bombers. The ma
TONS rubber reserves are running low, and
since Ford, himself is an engineering and or
ganizational genius, he is not prone to be i'm
provident. He knows how to get things done;
when he cannot do them, he knows in ad-
vance where to turn. Mr.. Ford cannot make
rubber but he has turned to one of the
greatest applied agricultural chemical minds
in modern history-Dr. Carver.
Dr. Carver is exceedingly patriotic and is
to be commended for giving up his normal
routine at Tuskegee to assume this monu-
mental task in behalf of his country. This
is going to be an assignment that despite
the skepticism surrounding it, we feel that
DR.. Carver will fulfill astonishingly soon.
DR.. Carver WILL produce rubber from
plant and weeds He made samples 43 years
ago. His reflections have long been fertile
apropos this problem The great difficulty
will be to set in motion vast quantity pro-
duction, that is, quantities that will immedi-
ately serve to keep our civilian and military
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-08-02
DICKIE'S DICTIONARY

Middle Aged Man. One who thinks all full
dress suits and stiff collars should be rele-
gated to the scrap heap; one who feels the
same anticipatory thrills at the idea Of at
tending meeting of the lodge or church
board that he used to have when he had a
date with a popular chorus girl; one who
believes the chorus girl when she pats his
bald head and tells him he is handsome.