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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Mrs. Louise
Stephens Passes

Mrs. Louise Stephens, widow
of the late Lucius Stephens,
passed away Thursday, June IL,
at the Lillian Gideon private
hospital on Monroe St., Rox-
bury, where she had been under
treatment the month previous.
She was a long standing mem
Der of Charles st. A. M. E.
Church where services were
held Saturday, June IS. at 1870
PM. The pastor, Rev. Oliver
w. H. Childers, officiating. Fav-
orite Hymns of the deceased
were rendered by the choir in
which she had sung for many
years. Interment was in Mt.
Hope Cemetery. ]. B. Johnson
was the undertaken.
Mrs. Stevens had failed in
health since the death of her
husband, Lucius Stephens, who,
with his brothers, ]. Edward
and Reuben Stephens, both de-
ceased. maintained an I'D to
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
RESERVE sKILIs

Uncle Sam wants to know the occupational back
ground of non-mitary regisrans For that reason
cupaiona missionaries will be distributed to the
eral million regsrants in the nonmitary age group be-
tween 45 and SIS years of age within the next week
two.
While the men in the 45-65-year-old group are not
liable for military service under present laws they
theess required to complete their occupatona ques-
onnares and return them their local boards
possible, National Headquarters said.
document separate and distinct from the regular
Seectve Service QUESTIONABLE, the occupational ques
honnare is fourpage folder designed to obtain full in
formation for the Government on the vocational back
ground of regants seeking to locate persons with
tain professional and scientific qualifications persons
having sklTs in critical or essential occupations The
bureau of The Census also will use certain of the data
obtained from the occupational QUESTIONABLE.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Honor Graduates
(continued fron, page one

only colored student to finish
the Massachusetts, School of
Art for several years. His work
was included not only in al
Of the school student exhibi-
tionS, but also in several out.
side shows including SYM
pony Hall, Boston City Club,
The Ross Galleries. Extra cur
ricular activities included
playing clarinet in the school
orchestra, winning a scholar
ship, designing and writing for
M. S. A. ANIMALS, representing
his classes at the Art School
Associates, and being elected
Chairman of Finance of the
Student Association. Among
his press notices are the fol-
lowing remarks by Dorothy
Adlow, Art critic Of the Chris
tian Science Monitor; Calvin
Burnett's pictures combine the
art OF painting, drawing, illus
tration and satire. He is gift
ed young performer and his
Installation is both interest
ing and stirring. He has Wit
and self confidence. !"
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Merchandising

The part played by retail merchandising in nat
ional life has changed tremendously.
The merchants job used to be relatively simple. He
worked to reduce his overhead expense to lower his pr
to improve his service and to otherwise contribute to
steadily rising standard of living for all the people Mer
chsndising competitive enterprise and each store
whether chain independent, bid for business the
basis of merit.
Today merchandising still works to better service and
cut costs But top of that, grapple with long
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Hill
Church Services

REV. w. H. SKIPWoRTH m
veteran preacher, singer az ~
pastoral evangelist who oo. eng
to the new pleasant Hill R .v1sss
Church Sunday, and will r rss'
duct revivals during the s Tv1,
mer. sun.
Rev.W H. skipworth come,
Sunday, June 81, at ii i
the new church on Humboldt
ave preaching on God Be.
lieves in Man" At 8 p m special
service with the Rev. again
preaching; at 1880 p m sub.
iect, 1.-THE Man Who Couldn't
Take It," Music BY Gospel
choruses and choirs Of Great.
er Boston churches.
All the week attendauees
have been good. The visiting
clergy1nen made interesting
services; Rev. E. e. Thompson
opening on Monday night with
a wonderful sermon on 4Ye are
Sounding Forth the Gospel
Others on succeeding nights
were: Revs. Childers, LAWS.
count, Jordan and M. J. Riley
Jr.
On Sunday, June %, Rev.
Rabinowitz comes at 3 pmn
represent his church. Also will
come DR.. Higginbotham rep
reSenting the Mass. Baptist
Convention and in addition,
brother colored ministers with
their congregations will partic-
ipate. Prof. Ernest OBanyoun
will direct combined cholrs
and choruses. The editor Of
the GUARDIAN will bring
greetings from the paper, the
Equal Rights League and other
organizations. Service men and
visitors are especially invited.
OF special interest will be ths
visit Of "Uncle Elmer" at this
p m service.
All cordially welcome,
S. H. Bullock, pastor.
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Honor

:. CONTINUED from Page One
Wolff. The program opened
with a recitation by little Joan
Faucet, grand daughter Of the
G W c followed by a solo BY
Mrs. Ora Wake, accompanies
by Mrs. Cora B. Arnold.
Special guests weres Asst ?
S Atty Gen from Atty VOLT On.
Office. Mr.. Benny. Mrs. Ems
McKerrow, sister Of Atty Wus
Miss Marie Turner MI FAM
weather. -
Greetings frun the .
Gen were expressed ID . sSas'
gram. - ps.s
out of town guests vasa
Thos H Brown and G G 80
ris from Providencs.
o H. Fitzallen. Cana
mrs. Mary C, Hogan V
bridge, .,s.s.ss
After a delicious @
dinner was served BY The pro-
nrietress, Mrs. Jackson, TIE ~
lowing gave tributes; Attss :
S. Bourne and Thomas =
brown. AIRS. Sarah stratmon'
CIVIC Josephine Hayes, pow s
and Rev. A. A. Perry, assstsas
Attv Gen, Mr.. Galliger. lns
nrogram was concluded with
yery appropriate reading p
Mrs. freeman A. Perkins. Mls .
Maude Trotter Steward NJ y.
a special guest at ny
conclusion. Atty Wolff made :
grateful response ezpressl ,,s
appreciation to his MAN. re
friends. Geo W. williams, GO'
acted as POSTMASTER.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
ODELL WALLER
(continued from Roc onel

CONTINUED from Page one)
Collegiate w, Darden, Jr., of
that state requesting that
Walters life be saved.
The NAACP entered the case
in November, 1910, shortly be-
fore Waller was first sentenced
to die on the following Dec. II.
In cooperation with Workers
Defense League, the Associa-
ton sponsored mass meetings,
contributed money and fled
legal briefs in support of the
appeal for Walters life. APP
peals were based on the fact
that the jury which sentenced
the sharecropper was not COM
posed Of his peers. On it were
ten landlords, a carpenter and
a business man. Virginia IS q
poll tax state.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Dean Pickens

CONTINUED from Page One)
indefinite leave of absence for
reasons wholly uneonnectetP
with his work with the Treas
ury Department, and tnat
Dean Pickens' Status as drec-
tor of branches of the NAACP
is terminated as of June Is,
1912, the date Of the expiration
of his present. leave Of absence"
Mr.. PickenS was first grant
ed a years leave of absence in
May, 1s41, to work in the
Treasury Department on the
sale of war bonds and stamps.
His request for an indefinite
leave was considered at the
May and June meetings of the
board of directors this year.
Decision of the NAACP board
was largely based on Dean
Pickens' letter printed May II,
commencing the Richmond,
Va, TimeS-DiSpGtch editorial
of April IS, in which state
ments were made accusing the
NAACP, the Crisis, the Pitts
6argt Courier and the New
York Amsterdam Star-News of
stirring up trouble and Great
ing "interracial tension"
The Association offered the
Treasury Department cooper
alton in its war savings pro-
gram.
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date tonsorial parlor on Shaw
nut Ave, in the early part of
the century and later was en-
ployed in leading Boston hotels.
OF late years she was cared for
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Caution of "a Camden ST., next
door to the home she and Mr..
Stephens had bought many
years ago. Up to the time her
health gave out she was active,
regularly attending her church
to which she was devoted and of
which she was a deacon
ess, and singing in the
choir. She was an ardent
christian, observing the golden
rule in every small particular.
She was faithful and helpful to
her friends, and an enthusiastic
race woman. She was the first
patient CT the veteran Boston
dentist, DR.. Charles G. Steward
and sent him over a score Of
patients in the early years of
his practice. Surviving her is a
sister and brother and a niece
in Jacksonville, Florida; two
sisters-in-law, including Mrs.
Mrs. Ebba Stephens Perry of
Boston who was faithful
friend to her brothers wife;
and numerous nieces and
nephews-in-law, among them,
Mrs. Helen Branker, Mrs. Ruby
Dixon and Mrs. Louise Holeman
the latter having been partially
raised by her namesake aunt.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
Churches
GLOUCESTER
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1901 fremont st.


Children'S Day was observed
Sunday morning with a sermon
to parents on Their duties to
Children" text, Deuteronomy
$500. In the afternoon the
children we're presented in a
program by Mrs. Marie Skin
ner. Children were presented
with certificates and pins.
Pins were also given to the
teachers by the superintendent
of the school. At Up m Psalms
l49 and $50, a beautiful serv-
ice on the biography Of hymns.
Gloucester had a fine showing
in the Presbytery, June Is at
Sc Paul Presbyterian church,
Mattapan.-Boston Presbysery
has accepted its first invitation
to meet at Gloucester Presby-
terrain church the first We'd
nesday in October at 1890 a
m.-On this anniversary of
Fathers Day let US get better
acquainted by spending the
day with dad and a year hence
we will have delightful memor-
les Of the good dad he really
is.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
RALLY
Continued from, Page y

Continued from Page y
the Worlds Fair, Edison Com
pany and the New York Tel
ephone.
at was because we protested
we have a colored representa-
tive in the City Council. The
protests must be continued as
a vital part in winning the war.
If we had not protested we
would have no general in the
U S army, no colored in the
Sojourner Truth Houses and
no medal for Dorie Miller.
One of the highlights of
Powells speech was his an
nouncement that ne intends to
run for Congress. Enthusiastic
applause greeted his statement
that this is ''the peoples war. "
1--WE are here tonight to dis
prove that this is a white
mans war"
Neither" he continued, lis
it a black mans war. This is
a peoples war. And we are
here to make it a peoples war.
We want a free world not only
for black Americans, but for
yellow, brown and all other
peoples now oppressed by fas-
cism."
IF we lose the war to Hit
Ter, DR.. Charming Tobias said,
I'VE will lose the right to have
such free assemblage as We
have tonight.
I'VE are not here TO comfort
the enemy with our just grew
ances by manifesting diSunity
to the detriment of our war eff
fort. We are here to call a halt
on the traitorous elements that
think more of their preiudices
than they do Of an Allied vic
tory" he said amidst great ap
plause.
A. Phillip Randolph, di-
rector of t h e Mar h :
on Washington movemento.
introduced resolutions for the
defense Of OdelI Waller for a
mixed army division, and 9TH
er resolutions dealing with seq
regation and discrimination,
ITO make democracy a real
ity," said Randolph, is the
aim of the March-on-Wash-
ington movement and it al
ready has had some effect"
Other leading addresses were
by Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
and Father John LaFarge.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20
COMMENTS
ON
CURRENT TOPICS
by DIR. W. Alexander Cox

A hundred billion or so in
the red, means that we are
the richest nation in the world.
Our only problem just now is
winning the war. What the ns.-
ton needs to accomplish that,
is money and more money.
What you need is security for
the money you wish to lay
aside.
Congress has become the
greatest capitalistic corpora
ton in the world. Our Con-
gressmen are the greatest cap
italiSts of all times. Money in
vested in War Bonds is money
invested in this great corpora
ton. 1t pays the largest divi-
dends. There is no bankruptcy,
no legal investigation of the
business, and no Wall Street
bull and bear juggling. Con-
gresS is the law unto itself.
Help the Government win the
war. Help yourself to have
something after the war. Buy
War Bonds.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

air craft carrier Lexington. II
was built in Massachusetts, at
Fore River, Quincy, and named
for one of our Revolutionary
towns. 1t gave a good account
Of itself before sinking to its
watery grave.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Races Part

Continued from Page one)
armed services, civilian de-
tense, and employment and
training, will receive attention
from experts from all over the
country.
Delegates from about Is
states have already registered
for the conference. Among the
states represented by reserva-
tons are Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, New
York, Kentucky, MiSso ri,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Nevada, New Mexico, Califor-
mia, and Maryland.
Highlight of the war effort
discussion will be the consider
alton of colored men in the
Army, Navy and the Marines.
Judge William H. HASTE, civil
ian aide to the Secretary Of
War, will tell of the war treat
ment of colored men in the
service, as contrasted with the
policies year ago.
Discussion of war time en-
ployment will be led by Amos
T. Hall, president of the Tulsa,
Okla, NAACP, which has made
great record in opening up
training classes for colored
workers and in breaking down
color bar so that they are now
employed in plants in that
area.
The KaKnsas City delegates
will tell of the dramatic break
down Of job barriers there in
the case of the North Ameri-
can Aviation company which
now has a number of skilled
workers, with others in train
ing.
The Detroit delegation will
picture workers in that great
arsenal Of America, including
report on the sensational
and victorious fight for occu-
pancy of the Sojouner Truth
housing project.
One entire day devoted to
the topic Of protecting civil
liberties in war time will be
under the general direction Of
Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel of the NAACP.
The Los Angeles branch, an
der President Thomas L. Grif-
fifth, Jr., is host to the confer
ence, with headquarters in Sec
ond Baptist church. Gov. Gull
bert Olson of California will
extend greetings to the con-
ference. Other speakers will be
President Malcolm s. MacLean
Of Hampton Institute, chair
man Of the Presidents Com
mittee on Fair Employment
Practice, who will deal with
the work of his committee in
getting employment for colored
workers in war industries.
A feature of the night mass
meetings will be the presenta-
ton of the 9th Spingarn med
al on July II to A. Philip Ran
dolph, international president
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car PorterS.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Rev. Jeltz, the singing es a.,
gelist and pastor was IN ~ I,
York several days tins WEE ,,.
his church Bethel Bap'i !,
shawmut ave and CaInoeI , /.
t there will be a special ms, :,
sionary service at 3;SO ? Pr. :
Sunday, June 81 with the ls., i.
sionaries from Peoples Bag., s
church, Chelsea, IN
dance.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Mr.. Rankin of Mississippi is
ranting again on the race
question. He wants the blood
being preserved by the Red
Cross labelled. He seems to be
apprehenSive that the life of
some white soldier might be
saved by the pure blood of
some colored person. Then he
goes on to preach an interest
ing sermon for unity in the
war effort. That is the hypoc-
racy of the "Solid South" Mr..
Rankin should read his Bible.
Perhaps he might learn the Or
igin of royal and pure blood.
The "Solid South" is badly OF
for education on the question
Of races.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

sermon by the pastor m. ~
by Senior Choir. 1890 p N w =
church school. A. Maye[ Eth
charge. 6 p m MetnoalS' .torg,.
Council. H. Hall in ciig gs y
7:sO p m evening Vespefs' -
Riley preaching. .,,r o..
Prayer and class nleeui's
cry wednesday evening
The public is cordially NV n
ed to attend these services =
service men welcon1s' :
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

A Democrat aSpirant for
Governor of Massachusetts has
challenged Governor Salton-
stall for his stand ON the
Birth Control Referendum. "
Some candidates will seize on
anything as a political issue if
votes appear in the of1ng.
True, the referendum has be-
come a public matter: but it
is an issue to be decided be-
tween Religion and the Medi-
cal Science. 1t is time to let
scheming politicians know that
we are not dub-bell voters.
It must be admitted that
Governor Saltonstall has given
Massachusetts the best admin
istration In twenty years.
Business rather than political
expediency.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Company B OF the Cam
bridge Auxiliary Police were
applauded all along the march
in Sundays parade in Cam
bridge. They we're the only
company in uniform.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Although the JapS have
landed on the Aluetian Islands
they are stiIl $500 miles from
the mainland of Alaska. Since
their operations have been
badly damaged, it is not likely
that they viii get any nearer.
Uncle Sans Soldiers are treat
ing them rough.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

FOURTH METHODIST
Eco S. NJ Riley. IT.. Pastor
To-: so a m morning worship,
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

Life, issue of June is, has
eleven pages OF pictures and
descriptive reading matter de-
voted to colored people in the
war effort. This is our war, too.
What are the Boston people
waiting for?
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-20

If you would like to know the
type of the Congress dealing
with this present emergency
read Bill Cunningham in the
Boston Sunday Herald of June
Il. Do not miss it.
Evening star., 1942-03-22

Another Ponds Bsida-io-hs lovsiy
Murion lynn d clieoso. whose
erSsssu,aHt II Bsssrom Z Aenns.
II. u toufsvilis, y.. hos been
unnsunred NJ found pends 3 tssl
risht for ke1pins ny skir ssff ssd
srsooth, shs ssys.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04

eluCidation and persuasion. In
whose integrity and accuracy the
public has trust.
IT IS they who through the
L written and spoken word can
create the spirit and morale
which the government is looking
for create il because:
They know what they are talk
ing about and the public knows
they know.
They do not have 10 create an
audience. il exists already.
They do not have 10 find out
lets-they have them already
They do not have 10 be paid
they earn their livings by the
spoken and written word for
which the public is willing TO pay.
Now one would think that
government, anxious to mobilize
the people through the written
and spoken word, would call into
conference Immediately on mat
tiers OF policy, the leading edi-
torial writer's, magazine writer's,
lecturers and radio commenta-
tors Of this country-the people
who already. without the govern
ment are reaching millions daily,
weekly, monthly.
pUT not A single agency has
- ever dreamed of doing this.
As A matter Of fact, most
writer's in this country are long
ing 10 contribute more ConStruc-
lively TO the war effort. But
they cannot merely be given
handouts from the state, for in
the areas in which they are eX-
pert. their own knowledge and
power Of persuasion are often
superior 10 that Of the people
who would give them handouts.
IN A total war it is necessary
10 mobilize the totally Of
good will. and above all the to-
ldillN vi ldltil. ANU IllSitdu
good will and talent are actually
being demobilized they are less
effective than they were before
the war began.
For their posSeSSors are being
made into outsiders. The state
with all its agencies uSurpS the
center Of the war effort and
keeps outside and unused those
talents which do not need the
state for their own personal sur
viVal.
If / write about information.
il is only because this is an area
in which ] am personally at.
home. But il is not an isolated
example. l shall illustrate with
others.
tRslessed nv the Bel Syndicate, incD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
U. S. Asleep? Give People
Increased Share in War
By DOROTHY THOMPSON

IN WASHINGTON one hears
i complaints that the people are
not awake, that they don't fully
realize the war" In all humil-
ity, / would like to suggest to
Washington what the reasons for
this are.
Morale" is not created by
press agents. Nor is 1T created
by the action of an administra-
tration. II is self-created by
creative action OF the people
themselves. You cannot have
a peoples war unless the people
actively participate in it.
NOV the feeling of the people
~ is that there is really moth
ing creative they can do about
this war. unless they run to
Washington and get a job in an
agency. From moving about
this country and talking with
large numbers of groups, have
found one thing: Illustration.
Somehow they must fit them
selves as cogs into the state
mechanism or be useless. Since
il is impossible 10 organize over
100, 000,0 900 people like A ma
chine. and above all organize the
American people. who have an
entirely different tradition Of
organized action, we have the
state conducting A war with the
people as outsiders.
4 CTUALLY what we are do
"A ing in this war is supplant-
ing the nation by the state. But
the talent and vitality Of the
people is not in the state but in
the nation. The state is by its
nature a bureaucratic mechan-
ism.
In total war that mechanism
should he used 10 mobilize the
people, not to mobilize itself. The
larger and more cumbersome II
becomes, the greater are the
dangers of breakdown.
And the more perfect the ma
chine. the more is human inltia-
tive eliminated from il. In the
perfect administrative machine,
man plays the part of cog. and
any intervention Of real brains
and ideas breaks down the ma
chine.
This is the perennial trouble
with armies. They almost in
variably court-martial their Billy
Mltchells. their De GaullcS. For
creative intelligence disturbs the
smooth funCtioning tables OF
basic regulations.
DUT il is the perennial trouble
- with all hureauCraCies. Small
colonial wars can he won by
STATS OF civil servants. Appar-
emily the British in the Far East
thought that this was that kind
Of war.
But total wars involve the use
of all the forces existent.
Let us take an illustration Of
what | mean. The state has set
up numerous instruments for the
dissemination of information. the
purpose of which is to keep the
people as accurately informed as
is commensurate with military
safety and through the spoken
and written word TO build a
creative morale.
But the written and spoken
word is actually the function Of
certain institutions and persons
newspapers, magazines books
radio commentators. public lee.
turets teachers. There are IN
this country thousands Of per-
! sons Who possess the gift OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Neglect and Duty

Mo ONE wants blind the army, least Of all
the United States Government.
Yet Louis w Measel whose sight is so poor ne has
operated the news stand IN the Federal Building under
sponsorship Of the League Of the handicapped was
classified Ia in the draft subject 20 immediate call
Obviously, Meascls classification an error But
because he was given so-callcd medical examination
before being approved for service the incident bound
TO create dangerous public suspicion.
In TINS instance, the members Of Draft Board No.
or their medical examiners guilty Of gross neglect
The case indicates the draft board members should
be reminded that they given vital duties perform
and were not chosen merely to be honored by gov
eminent appointment.