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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15

And nobody knows today when the
farmer will be told he can have no
new farm machinery when what he
has wears out.
So the question naturally comes
up, will the horse come back?
In the city he just can't. Some
cities won't allow horse-drawn vehi-
cles on certain streets. Washington
is one of them and not long ago a
man drove an old-fashioned carriage
with a team of mules down Sixteenth
street just to see if he could get
away with it. He did-because
after all, even a cop knows mule
isn't a horse.
But the city man, even if he learns
which end of the horse to put the
crouper on, wouldn't have any place
to park the animai-he couldn't leave
it out beside the curb all night the
way many do their cars.
On the farm the horse may be-
come a necessity. But his return
will not be achieved overnight. In
the first place every year with the
increased mechanization of the
farm, the supply of horsefesh has
been dwindling. The situation isn't
as bad as it was some years ago be-
fore vaccination scotched the sleep
ing sickness that threatened to re-
duce the equine population still fur
Their. But considering that it takes
nearly four years after breeding be-
fore you get a horse in shape for
regular heavy work, market
couldn't be built up to supply any
increased demand for some time.
It is true that in 1882 and 1888
when money was scarce and feed
was cheap a lot Of farmers used
horses instead of trucks. But the
American is mechanical minded
man and unless he just naturally
takes to animals he would a lot
rather drive motor. AS one horse
expert said to me:
whats more a lot of folks are
afraid of horses. Many men who
will drive farm truck SO miles an
hour nowadays would think he had
a runaway on his hands if team
he was driving broke into trot.'
On the more serious side of the
question however, is the possible
longtime demand of the army for
essential materials that go into
trucks and tractors and which may
cut down perceptibly the machines
that run farms today. A lot of farm
ers, like lot of city people, really
can't afford to own the machinery
they have. It makes work easier. A
horse is more trouble than ma
chine. But a machine is not always
necessary to do farm work any
more than car is necessary to the
city dWeller to do the work his own
father made a shank's mare do.
Also, a horse can eat lot of nom
salable roughage, which food is
much cheaper than gasoline is going
to be while we need it for tanks and
airplanes and army jeeps.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15
1O,OOO-Mile Waves

Several South American earth
quakes have created ocean waves
SO huge and powerful that they
Travelled 10000 miles across the
Pacific ocean and were recorded
in Japan.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15
Car, Get Repairs

The farmer can also get the parts
he needs to repair his farm machin-
cry.
He will get some new machinery,
enough to get by with.
He may have to skimp little on
the nitrates and the phosphates al
though at present there are reserve
supplies.
But the big problem is to provide
the professor with the essentials he
needs to prepare the food and to
wrap it up in packages for the con-
sumers. Take for instance milk:
some "a new evaporating plants will
have to be built, some $50 cheese
factories will have to be put up.
And PIGS! This year was rec
ord crop. Next year will be bigger.
Will the packers be able to take
care of the porkers which may be
waddling up at the rate of possible
thousand a day to squeal their last
squeals for freedom? That is one
thing which the secretary of agri-
culture is battling over now. It takes
tin and stainless steel and lot of
other things which the army wants
before you can change pig into a
portable meal. And the army is
tighter than a Sunday shoe when it
comes to yielding up any of those
essential metals. 1t is interested
chiefly in destroying, not preserving.
Food Goals Raised
The department of agriculture has
raised the food goals-already it has
called for a Is per cent boost in
the tomatoes wanted; 80 per cent in
snap-beans, corn and peas for can
ming. Russia is very likely going to
ask for food that we had not figured
on supplying, China may need more.
And then, who knows there may be
an American Expeditionary Force,
probably will be before we are
through, which will have to be fed
Modern armies still move on their
stomachs, but even in that position
they cannot eat off the land as they
used to.
These extra, added demands were
not in the cards when the original
food for freedom" goals were set
up. But they will have to be taken
care of. Americas good earth can
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15
AZ VIII Be Record Year
For American Farm Crops
Food Goals Are Raised to Boost Production
AS AgrcuIture's Part in Winning
The War for u. S. and Allies.
BY BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator

produce them, the farmers can and
will raise them. The next thing is
to wangle the means of putting them
into the packages that will take
them where they are going. It's a
big job-one of those which when
done, will win the war.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15
WNU Service, 1343 III Street, NV,
Washington, d. G.

The farmer came across.
He produced more the past year
than any year in history. Never has
America blossomed and borne fruit
as she did. Next year the produc-
ton will be even higher for the de-
partment of agriculture found that
the farmer was willing to meet the
goals set up last August, and even
to exceed them.
But that doesn't mean that the
food-for-victory problem has been
settled. Now the department of
agriculture finds part of the prob
lem back in its own lap, for we are
in the war ourselves and our allies
depend on us for supplies. The farm
er must be assured labor, supplies
and machinery to carry out his part
of the job. And the professor must
have the equipment to take care of
perishable products when the farm
er lays them down at the door.
Experts here tell me that the
farn-labor problem is not unsolv-
able. The combined demands of war
and industry mean that the farmer
will have to put up with older hands,
with less skilled farm hands. It
means that schools will have to be
dismissed at harvest time and when
harvest time and cultivation time
come together. It may mean land
army of women. But the farmer will
get the help he needs, even if it isn't
exactly the kind of help he would
prefer.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-15

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10

WASHINGTON (ANP)-Secre-
tary of War Stimson, Judge Will
liam HASTE, Surgeon Gen. James
C. Magee and Col. Julia Flikke,
superintendent of the army nurse
corps, have all received letters from
the National Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses protesting the
treatment accorded Second Lieuten-
ant Norma Greene, a Negro nurse
serving in the U. S. army and sta
toned at Tuskegee airfield.
In protesting this affair. Mrs.
MahIe K. Staupers, executive secre-
tary of the association, urged the
secretary of war to use his power
to guarantee protection to Negro
nurses who are forced to serve in
segregated units in those sections
of the country where Negroes are
given justice before the law.
"It becomes increasing diff
cult" said Mrs. Staupers, for the
association to urge young women
to enroll in the army nurse corps
unless guarantees are assured"
! The association for q long time
has been urging the surgeon gen.
erals office to remove discrinina-
tory barriers from Negro nurses and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Sign1as Cancel
Natl Conclaue
ATLANTA. Ga-(SNS) /.

L
According to an announcement
released from the office of Rich
ard A. Billings, M. D., national
president of Phi Beta Sigma Fra
ternity, the 2Sth annual Conclave,
which was to be held in Richmond,
Virginia, December 27-30, will be
cancelled.
In view of the fact that Iota
Sigma Chapter, headed by c. l..
Townes, was making elaborate
plans to entertain the "Men of
Sigma" the decision of the Gen
eral Board to cancel the meeting
was reached only after careful
deliberation.
The action of the board was
deemed expedient because of the
present war emergency.
The Board voted to extend ac-
tive memberships to Sigma men
new in the armed forces of the
United States, without further
payment of dues for the duration.
Slgmas now in military service
will receive all of the official pub
locations of the fraternity.
The most urgent business of the
conclave will be transacted by the
members of the General Board at
a special meeting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Rule Army Nurses
Can Get Husbands

WASHINGTON, D. Ca N p
The announcement by the war
department. last week that members
Of the army nurses corps may mar
~ without losing their positions, IS
expected to be hailed with delight
by the Negro nurses of the coun-
try. In the past whenever an army
nurse married she was forced to
resigned from the service.
Miss Mary Board, chief of the
American Red cross nursing service,
which has charge of recruiting
nurses for the army remarked
at gathering of colored leaders
and Red Gross officials in Washing
ton recently that some difficulty
had been experienced in securing
enough colored nurses.
Mrs. Ruth Roberts, past chair
man Of the advisory committee of
the National Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses, and Mrs. Estelle
Riddle, past president of the same
organization, expressed the idea
that economic circumstances caus-
ed earlier marriage and made mar
riage more OF a certainty on the
part OF the colored nurse than on
that Of the white With the ban
lifted SO that aftex< October ! any
nurse in the service who marries
may retain her rank, q leap in en-
listments by colored nurses Is ex.-
,ected to follow
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
The Globe Trotter
Jim Grow Flies Abroad

short-lived. Less than "a hours
had passed from the time Negro
hearts were keyed up by the Book
er T. Washington launching, when
other news seeping through tight
ly censored British sources reveal
ed that the old American buzzard,
Jim Crow had flown across to
plague the lives Of the thousands
of black boys, now a part OF the
American Expeditionary Force.
PROVES TROUBLESOME
That this American pastime of
racial discrimination has sudden
| ly become widespread In England
and consequently troublesome Is
shown in the attention it received
before the House of Commons and
| in the news that Brigadier General
B. o. Davis has been dispatched to
this theatre of operations.
The saddest angle to this dis
heartening news is that all in
dicatiOns point to the fact that
these determinations, strange to
the people of Britain are prac-
ticed at the suggestion and con-
nivance of American army Off
GERS.
Thomas Driberg, newly elected
Independent of the House of Com
mons tossed aside the hush-hush
that has been placed on this prob
lem when he asked Prime Minis
ter Churchill to make friendly
representation to American mill
tary authorities, requesting them to
instruct their men the color bar Is
not a custom in Britain
CHURCHILL EVASIVE
Churchill's quoted reply indicates
that the British government viii
not take steps to ease the prob
lem. A master of evasive rhetoric,
the prime minister asserted: The
question is certainly unfortunate,
and am hopeful that without any
action on my part the points Of
view of all concerned will be mu-
tually understood and respected"
In other words, Britons are
warned that they must say or
do nothing that will disturb
the "status quo" Of Jim Grow.
Meanwhile black Americans
shipped abroad to defend the
nrfI1cipIes OF democracy and
the Four Freedoms irritatcdly
watch British tavern owners
nail up white only" signs and
are suddenly brought face TO-
face with the color bar they
thought they had left behind
in America.
Here is Just one more example
how this buzzard, Jim Crow. IS
working overtime to aid the Axis.
Just why some Americans fail to
see this 4 ulle of the most ptIzslil1g
ard Aitot1dc things OF this war u
liberation.
British soldiers. it Is revealed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
$4,000 Diamond
Brooch Returned
To Owner In Fla.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla
(ANP)-After being sold twice for
rs cents and once for a dollar,
$4,000 diamond brooch was back
in the hands of its wealthy white
owner this week. The valuable
brooch was lost week ago at this
fashionable seaside resort.
Miss Lily May Williams, entered
the picture when she purchased
the diamond piece for rs cents from
an unidentified person who had
previously found it. Later it was
bought ION approval" from her by
root doctor, DR.. RADIO, for the
sum of 81.
Miss Williams read description
of the lost brooch in a lost and
found column and sought its return
from DR.. RADIO. but was told the
pin had been stolen from him. Po-
lice authorities were informed and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10

black people in America.
And the naming of Captain Hugh
Mulzac of Brooklyn, only Negro
holding a masters license, as the
ships commander, caused fading
hopes in many black Americans
breast to soar thrillingly upward
1t was a step that shouted to the
rooftops that in America q mans
color should not be a barrier to OPP
portunity.
AMERICA ONLY HOPE
After hearing the Blue Network
half hour broadcast of the launch
ing ceremony, no Negro could en-
terrain the least doubt that Ameri-
ca offers the worlds only hope for
his race to ever get the equal jus
tice and personal freedom for
which we are fighting.
1t was a grand gesture. 1t was
democracy at its highest level,
at its very best. 1t gave renew
ed hope, kindled greater de-
termination in the hearts of
black men, who everywhere
have u1ihesitatfngIy rallied to
the side Of right, to the sup
port of the United Nations.
But this buoyar1cy Of spirit was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10

that the company has moved SO
slowly in acting on complaints
filed that it amounts to virtual
disregard.
Judge William HASTE was dis
patched here from Washington by
the war department and is credit
ed with ending the strike along
with the Washington and Cleve-
land Urban leagues which also
helped.
The workers also voiced dissatis-
faction with leadership in their
union. The national president Of
the Miners and Shelters union
(CIO) Robinson Reid flew out
and aided. The labor trouble with
John L. Lewis also contributed to
the unrest. All grievances and COM
plants are to be adjudicated.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Attempt To Lay
Arson Charge0n
Negro IsFIop
State Guardsman
Who Made Effort
Lands In Jail

LOS ANGELES lamp The
cInle-Worn subterfuge of II saw a
n. r do it" failed to prevent the
arrest of the real perpetrator Wed
nesday when John A. Harper, 20,
white state guard5rnan, was booked
in Central Jail on two charges of
attempted arson.
Harper was arrested while on
sentry duty in Griffith park where
part of the state guard is located
on general defense, after Capt. C.
H. Halper of. the police arson de-
tail had made an investigation of
the burning of two state guard
tents in use in Griffith park. In
close succession two fire alarms
necessitated a long run to fight
the blaze and save adjoining prop
erty.
Suspicion pointed &c Harper
when, in answer to routine ques-
tioning by Detective Ii. w L
Weisinger, he declared. 81 saw
n....r set EN- afire" Later under
croSs-questioning he admitted his
guilt Harper was taken first to the
psychopathic ward at General hos
pital for examination before being
booked but repeatedly nothing
mentally wrong was found to
justify his escaping punishment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Disclose Many
Navy Recruits
Made Messrnerl
Officers Persist
In Shunting Boys
To Kitchen Duty

RALEIGH, N. G. - CAMP
There were 36 boys from Raleigh
and. vicinity who enlisted in the
navy last week. Two of these boys
were NEGROES, Ernest S. Walker,
Jr., of Winston Salem and Eddie
Harris of Rockingham. N. c. Walk
er is 81, Harris II, and both were
sent to Norfolk for training as
mess attendants. The white boys
went in either as apprentice sea-
men. specialists or petty officers,
there being IA of the latter.
One of the difficulties which the
navy recruiting is that officers in
charge persist for the most part,
it is said, in shunting the colored
boys off into the mess attendant
branches, instead Of sending them
to Great Lakes where they might
have an opportunity to enter COM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
By cliff Maekay

willingly accept black American
troops as comrades in arms. This IS
in sharp contrast with the attitude
of some of the white American SOL
diers, who are SO blinded by Unborn
prejudices that they forget that
these black men are abroad risking
their lives for the same noble prin-
cipies as are other warriors of the
United Nations.
This migration Of old Jim
Grow with the American forces
is concrete proof that history
does repeat itself. The same
complaint was made in France
in the last war when American
staff officers then insisted that
the French people discriminate
against black members of the
AEF, who had come over to
help protect them.
The passing of a quarter of a
century and emergence of a new
generation has done virtually moth
ing to bring satisfactory solution
to this plaguing American racial
conflict. Tragic is the fact that in
the face of everything we are
fighting for, if anything, this prob
lem has in some instances been
aggravated.
HAVE EVADED ISSUE
Both American and Great Britain
have too long evaded this issue.
The policy has been simply /, ig-
more 1t, to fool ores self into the
false belief that it does not exist.
This evasive policy now must be
Immediately abandoned for a more
realistic one.
There can be no neutral
ground in this global struggle.
Democracy is something which
affords no middle stand. You
are either for it or you are
against it. If you are for it, you
know that the old buzzard, Jim
Crow is out of place on our +
side Of this fight. If you are for
it, you know too, that the col
or of a mans skin is no deer
minant as to his inherent worth
or; to his place in the social
order. The bogus master race
theory belongs to the enemy.
To give in to Jim Grow now, is
an theological victory for the Axis
before the Second Front is even
opened. For there can be no unity
of action and purpose when there
is racial division. Hitler knows this,
and certainly our side should
realize it by now And it will only
be through complete unity Of action
and purpose that total victory will
ever be ours. 81
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Race Group Is
% Per Cent OF
WPA Employees
Indicates
Big Rise
Since 1885

WESHING7 ON-(A II P)-Fig-
res on the yvPA as of the present
'ate indicate that 90 per cent of
he depression, around 1885, when
here were 100000 people on the
WPA, only about II per cent were
Negroes.
As emf ,loyment increases and
workers are taken from the WPA
rolls, the percentage of Negroes,
crows lal ger, while the actual
number employed drops.
The number is lessened because
the Negroes are dropped from the
rolls and not absorbed by the pri-
vate indl istry as is the case OF
the whites.
The failure to use Negro labor
IS not confined to any one division
If the country but prevails through
he entire industrial section.
SEEM ON UPGRADE
SAS O1iAo SCAAC1 Oh VI
he Negro labor supply makes the
'igures on the Negro seem on the
Upgrade, while there are actually
FEVER Negroes on the WPA now
han ever before.
Employers refuse to hire Negroes
despite governmental edicts even
IN federal SetlIOS whore ,,oivorco
training is supposed to be given.
Certain high ranking government
officials have been said favorine
not tr aiming Negro workers and
many times this accusation has been
hurled at them. They remain in
he governmental employ however,
while the Negroes whose training
they blocked say certain persons
who are in the position of know
ing, remain on the relief rolls while
they should be gainfully EMPLOYED
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
FREEDMAN'S FOR ARMY?

WASHINGTON-CA N P)-War
department officialsl expressed sur
prise over the statements which
were gaining cre6ence in certain
circles that FTeedmen's hospital
was to be taken over for military
purposes. Questioned on such a
possibility, which grew out of rum
ors originating in the hospital, the
medical procurement division of
the surgeon generals office said
nothing of that kind was con-
templated as far as it knew.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10

The strike was caused by a num-
Der Of complaints arising chiefly
out of the alleged discriminatory
practices at Alcoa which has one Of
the worst labor records in the ma
ton.
The company has refused to hire
Negro women, failed to upgrade
Negro employees, relegated colored
workers to the hottest and dirtiest
work in the plant, and has refused
to negotiate a satisfactory wage
agreement, say employees, who add
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Protest To Army /
On Nurse Beating

to assign them to service in all
sections of the country.
Protests have also been sent by
Mrs. Ruth Logan Roberts, chair
man of the associations advisory
council, the letters going to
Senators Lister Hill and John
Bankhead of Alabama; M. M. Neeley.
and Harley M Kilgore of West
Virginia, and Mrs. Frances Payne
Bolton of Ohio, a member of the
advisory council.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
nit THAT RHEUMATIC PAIN
RIGHT WHERE It HURTS

And look at the Siluer Lining
in those Clouds Of Pain
The big idea is that you want to fee
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ance. So use something that gets at the
pain. C-zsz3 brings you pain-relievinp
help. Now You will feel as good as
others who enjoyed its help. Don't put
it off. Get C-22z3 now. Goo, ST every
where. Use only as directed Purchase
price refunded # You are not satisfied.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10
Railroad Guard
Falls Asleep,
Killed By Train

GREENvILLE, N. CAMP
Levi May a resident of Farm
vile near here, was killed in
stantly Saturday night after
he fell asleep on the Norfolk
Southern Railroad track at
the bridge over Contentnea
creek. May and a number of
other men were stationed near
trestles and bridges along the
railroad to guard against sabo-
tage.
May had placed his cap on
the end of cross-tie appar-
emily for head rest, and
sound Of the approaching train
did not awaken him. A Sec
ton foreman who found his
body the next morning said his.
head was nearly decapitated
and his cap still on the cross
tie.
rat services. The boy who gets in
% the mess attendant ranks car
advance to steward but under tn,
'igid navy program has no othel
,utlet nor any further opportunity
for advancement.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-10-10

NC QUESTION ABOUT it, that
was a fine piece of morale build
ing last week when the California
Shipbuilding Corporation launched
the 10,500-ton ship, named after
Tuskegee's illllstrious founder,
Booker t. Washington.
The selection Of Marian Ander-