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TOWN AND FARM IN WAR TIME

new classification, HID, will con-
tain all men whose induction, in
the opinion of their local boards,
would create extreme hardship or
privation for dependent wife,
child, or parent.
War Costs Go Higher
a new high of more than seven
billion dollars was reached in war
expenditures during March, when
the average amount spent each
day was 1858, 100000. To meet
these mOuntin gcOsts Of war, Sec
retary of the Treasury MOrgenthal
recently disclosed that the thirteen
billion dollar Second War Loan is
part of 20 billion dollars that must
be raised during 1943. This is a
peoples war, so all the people
ought to have part in financing
it," said the Secretary as he warn
ed that ten per cent is not
enough"
Sales by Farmers to Retailers
A farmer who sells butter or
any other rationed food to a re-
taller must collect ration points
for the sale, just as he has done in
selling to consumers since March
20, according to OPA. All farm
sales must be made at current
, point values and stamps collected
must be turned in to local ration
boards with a report made on OPA
Form R-1609. This form will be
available to- all local boards during
the last fifteen days of May and
will cover sales made between
March 20 and the end of April.
Women's Land Army
Plans are forming for the re-
cruiting of a land army of abolt
$4,000 city and town women-a
part Of the U. S. Crop Corps-tc
help meet the farm labor short
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age Ten thousand of these are
expected to enroll for year-round
farm work and about $4,000 for
seasonal work for one month or
more. In addition, some three
hundred thousand women will be
placed by country agricultural
agents for shOrt-time emergency
jobs on farms -- women who can
spare Week-ends. a few days, or a
few weeks. Women who wish to
contribute their services should
wait the local call.
Sugar For Canning
Sugar for home canning of 1943
fruit crops will be available to
housewives on approximately the
same basis as last season. Details
of the program will be issued
within the next few days.
Safe Canning Methods
The steam pressure Gamer is
the only method recommended by
the y. S. Department OF Agrlcui-
ture for preserving certain types
of vegetables. Such vegetables as
beans, peas, corn, spinach and as
paragus as we'll as meats, should
be cooked in a steam pressure
Gamer to kill organisms which
cause food to spoil. Fruits and
tomatoes, rhubarb and picked
beets may be safely canned by the
boiling water-bath method To be
safe, these products should be
boiled for at least ten minutes be-
fore they are eaten or tasted, even
though there is no sign of spoilage
when the jar is opened.
Ceilings On Vegetables
Retail ceilings for cabbage, car
rots, lettuce, peas, snap beans
spinach and tomatoes will be estab
lished beginning April %, through
the use of uniform mark-ups over
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-04-23
BY DREW PEARSON

ment two additional projects, one
in Anne Arundel and one in
Charles, which have raised anew
the question Of how far Maryland
ers should go with new projects
which are loaded - and not figW
atively so - with dynamite.
SANDY POINT POSTPONED
One project which already has
been postponed for a number of
reasons is the sO-called Sandy
Point Naval Aviation Base. 1t was
to have cost $10,000,000 to serve
as an adjunct to the Naval Acad-
emy and would have gobbled up a
whole section Of Anne Arundel
County along Chesapeake Bay
After studying the site, the high
price of the property and the
amount of critical materials in
volved the Navy Department,
much to the relief of all concerned.
decided to call a halt, temporarily.
But the Navy has another pro-
iect in mind which has stirred the
entire countryside down Charles
County way and the undivided Op-
position Of both Senators and Con-
gresham Sasscer. There have
been quiet mass meetings in La
Plata and hearings in Washington
at which the Navy was represented
by Captain J. S. Byrnes, aide to
Rear Admiral w. Fl. P. Blandy Of
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the retailers net cost, according to
OPA. For each vegetable, except
cabbage, the retailer will deter
mine his ceilings by multiplying
his net cost by 1.39. On cabbage.
where spoilage is greater, the
mark-up is 165 for independent re-
tailers having an annual volume
of $250,000 or less, 154 for chain
retailers with an annual volume
under $250,000, and 1.50 for any
retailer with an annual volume
over S2500O0. Retailers will de-
termine their ceilings each Thurs
day by applying given mark-ups to
the net cost of the vegetable based
on the largest single purchase of
the preceding week.
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the Bureau Of Ordnance. Navy
proposed to acquire some 1000
acres adjoining Cobb Island for
the purpose Of dropping bombs
from planes based across the Po-
tomac at Dahlgren, Virginia.
While the actual bombing area
contains no substantial buildings
of any sort it fringes an area,
within a radius Of 2 miles. that
boasts $50 choice country homes.
The danger of both life and prop
erty so close to bomb proving
grounds was at once apparent and
the several owners of the property
who could have enriched them
selves by quick sale, refused to
sell until the surrounding area
was canvaSSed.
DUMPING GROUND FOR VA
Led by State Senator Joseph
Wilmer and Farmer Foster Reeder,
the uprising against further gov
ernment encroachment of southern
Maryland property was ON. Sasscer
a member of the House Naval AT
fairs Committee, called on Under
Secretary Of the Navy James For
restal and requested that nothing
be done to force sale of property
until it was fairly determined to
what extent life and property
would be jeOpardized.
Continued on page y
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LARGE CROWD ATTENDS
PANGBORN CEREMONIES

The awarding Of the Army-Navy
e to the Pangborn Corporation
was largely attended this week at
the ceremonies held in the park
adjacent to the plant. The award
was presented to Thomas w. Pang-
born, president, by Colonel Starry.
The rpincipal speaker was Cover
nor Herbert r. O'Conor, and the
master of ceremonies was Senator
Millard E. Tydings. The program
was broadcast by local Radio Sta
ton WEI
The Hagerstown globe., 1943-04-23
HANGOVERS
BY
LITTLE HEISKELL

Uncle Sans most recent or
der to keep workers on the job
for the duration really doesn't
mean much to employees here in
HaqerstoWn. Statistics aren't
available, but the game of DASH
ing from one job to another has
been slowly going out Of style
here for several months past.
The workers, it seems, had al
ready decided that to win this
war and give the boys at the
front the necessary materials to
knock off Hitler, Musso and Tojo,
sticking to their work benches
was the patriotic thing to do.
Of course, don't want you to
get the idea that it's 100 per
cent in this territory, but I'm tell
ing you the number changing
their jobs has been reduced con-
siderabIy.
This new Directive means that
many Of the workers will be
caught behind the eight ball, as
they haven't had raise in salary
since those slant eyed rats came
over Pearl Harbor But our ad-
vice to them is to keep their
shirts on; | understand Uncle is
working on this problem now.
The order is bad news for the
habituaI "traVeIers" those
men and women who are never
satisfied with either their job or
pay. From here on out releases
must be presented before one can
get new job, and without it,
they are simply out of luck. The
impression is abroad hereabouts
that if guy doesn't like his job
he can quit without a release,
loaf for thirty days and then au-
tomaticaIIy eligible for another
job. Well, that amt the way
heard it. If he doesn't have
that slip of paper he can go fish
ing for the duration of the war
because that is the length of
time he will be barred from a
war production job.
You might not believe it, but
conditions have changed in Ha-
gerstown in the last two months.
It's still no great shakes to grab
off a job, but today you can't
pick your spot. Reason is that
practically all the plants are at
capacity and the companies are,
to a great extent, making re-
placements only. And it's inter
esting to note that the guys who
amt in there pitching think
twice before taking time out be-
cause of headache. The job
might not be there for him when
ne shows up the next morning.
On the other hand the guys
and gals reporting for work re-
qardless of the weather deserve
lot of praise and without 'em
we couldn't possibly win the war.
And it sorta burns me up when
hear the wise ones slap down
these workers and tack pair
of wings on ALL management.
For example that silly or
der issued last week by a GER
tain railroad that no one over As
was to be employed by the COM
Continued on page p
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For example that silly or
der issued last week by GER
tain railroad that no one over As
was to be employed by the COM
Continued on page q
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On the other hand the guys
and gals reporting for work re-
qardiess of the weather deserve
a lot of praise and without 'em
we couldn't possibly win the war.
And it sorta burns me up when
| hear the wise ones slap down
these workers and tack a pair
of wings on ALL management.
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Of course, don't want you to
get the idea that it's 100 per
cent in this territory, but I'm tell
ing you the number changing
their jobs has been reduced con-
siderabIy.
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Urge United Nations To Get
Together On Racial POLICY
Point To Action
On Issue During
Sicily Invasion

NEW YORK CITY-(S N S.
Pointing out that New York Times
dispatch reports that the first
official act of the new military
governor to Sicily, General Alex
ander, was to annul all discrimi-
natory laws based on race, color
or creed, the workers Defense Lea
que Saturday called on the Presi-
dent to see to it that the United
Nations decide on a common race
policy. In a letter to President
Roosevelt by its national secretary
Morris Milgram, the League said:
Dear Mr.. President:
I know you are busy, and do
not want to waste your time, but
may l call your attention to the
New York Times report of July
18th which says
General Sir Harold R. l.. c.
Alexander, in his first proclamation
as military governor to Sicily and
adjoining islands today dissolved
the fascist party and annulled all
discriminatory laws based on race
color Or creed"
Were Congress in session I am
sure someone would point out that
race discrimination is part of the
law of the land, and part of the
integral law of various states, and
is part of the accepted procedures
of the y. S. Army, Navy and Air
Forces.
Persons of certain races can't
come to this country, can't become
citizens, and must be segregated
under white higher officers in the
armed forces. They must sit apart
from whites at public gatherings
in certain states. In the nation S
capital, save at few government
cafeterias and Union Stations, they
must not eat with whites.
And lately the United States
Supreme Court, apparently UNI
aware of General Alexander's plan
ned proclamation ending discrimi-
nation based on race, color or
creed, has upheld raciSm in its
decision unfolding the curfew rules
applied on the west coast against
American citizens solely because of
their racial origin.
Mr.. President, this is serious
matter! Don't you think the United
Nations had better get together
and decide pretty quickly, through
their highest legislative bodies,
whether they want racist world
like Hitler's, or one free of racism,
as envisioned in General Alexan-
der's proclamation?"
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Official announcement of the wa,
department will mark reversal OF
it's vacil1ating attitude toward the
welfare Of Negroes in the uniform,
of the United States and will
serve to lessen the glazing dis
crepancies in the treatment of one
segment of the population of q
ration pledged in war to extend
democracy to peoples every
where observers say.
Judge HASTE on leave as dean
IF the Howard university law
school, resigned few months ago
as civilian aide TO Henry l.. Slim
son, secretary Of war because
of the segregation of Negro sold
iers in the armed forces and vide.
spread discrimination practiced
against them
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

IaCoins, but those who believe that
there can be no compromise with
justice.
Declaring that Negroes should
apply the old precept, know thy-
self. DR.. Reid said:
THE problems of race and color
are not longer restricted bv geo
graphical boundaries. Our interest
now extends to the caste-bouno
peoples of India and to peasant
classes everywhere.
I'VE must. know these things and
re-evaluate some of the truths and
stereotypes which have grown UP
about the race problem
Citizens IN a democracy" he
continued, must always strive for
the maintenance of three types of
llbertieS-civil libertise, constitu-
tional liberties, and public liberties,
"Minorities themselves must pro-
mote racial welfare. We can't ex-
pect the majority group to provide
the tools.
Peace between the races won't
be made by the 'appeasers' or
comprisers, or by the passive re-
sisters and civil disobedient, or by
those who are willing to procrasti-
nate, while maintaining the status
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
Anti-PoII Takers
Mapping Fight

WASHINGTON, d. CAMP
The National Committee TO
Abolish the Poll Tax during the
next ten weeks will direct a
vigorous campaign to win pas
sage of HR-7, the house passed
the bill aimed at wiping out the
poll tax in eight southern states.
"Ten million American citizens,
workers and farmers, white and
black, fathers and mothers of
our heroic fighting men are lock-
ing to the senate to act swiftly
the committee says. "The fate
Of American democracy rests in
the hands of the senate as surely
as it does in the hands of our
troops"
HR z is now languishing in a
subcommittee of the senate ju-
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that the in AACKAY
cidents which touched off the
flames of hatred which swept De-
troit, Beaumont and Mobile were
later proved lies, is not important
in itself, except that it provided
proof of the deeply smou1dering re-
sentiment, bred of economic fear,
gripping American workers. both
black and white.
For the most part only slight at
tention has been paid this fear,
which is real in every sense of
the word. The job scarcity psychosis
created by those trying depression
years is too deeply ingrained to
be thrown off in the comparative
ly brief period since jobs became
abundant under the war economy.
FEAR NOT SECTIONAL
The fear of white workers that
they will no longer retain their
exclusive right to certain jobs after
victory is achieved is genuine. 1t
is not sectional, nor is it neces-
sarily promoted by workers from
any one section of the country.
Motivated by fear, these white
workers begin now their pogrom
against black workers, seeking to
deprive them Of their hard won
economic advances, to drive them
back into traditional meniaI oc-
equations.
You sse tbs results cs this
sear IN the recent Packard plant
strike In Detroit. Three thou-
sand white workers walked on
the job because three skilled
Negro workers were up-graded,
4 : Il. -
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
PrOvident Joins
Nurse Cadet Corps

CHICAGO-( A N P)-Provident
hospital here, one of the foremost
institutions of its kind, is one
of the first hospitals to make ap-
plication to join the United States
Cadet Nurse corps.
Miss Bolva Overton, superinten-
dent OF nurses at Provident. is
planning to greatly increase the
number of student nurses to be
enrolled next year, the government
aid which is being extended to
trainees making it possible for
many talented girls who desire
training as nurses to crafty that
ambition.
Under the Bolton bill, the govern
ment pays for tuition and uniforms
for the student nurses. In addi-
ton it pays for their maintenance,
board and room and allows the
student SIS q month for the first
nine months of study, $40 a month
for the next 81 months and $50
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

Mississippi, to Mobile. Alabama, Le-
Flore and Chrison were told bv the
Pullman porter that he'd been in
structed to sell space to Negroe.
only in enclosed areas and not In
the body cars. Mr.. LeFlore and Mr..
Crlshon were able to get breakfast
IN the diner only at a time when
no whites were present and could
not get dinner Or lunch, for when
ever they presented themselves,
the steward stated that he VISA
not permitted to seat colored peo-
pie while white people were in the
diner.
The NAACP has called upon the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
BETTER PROTECTION IS SEEN
FOR SOLDIERS ON HOME FRONT
War Dept Plans
To Take Action.

WASHINGTON d. c. -(ANP)-It intimated last
week by high confidential that the depart
ment is paning decisive action for the protection of Ne
gro soldiers from violence the home front
his information disclosed after series of re-
ports by Former Federal Judge William H. Hastie who as
vice president of the National Lawyers guild collected in
formation to show that in wholesale number of Instances
the death injury of Negro soldiers by civilians mill
tary authorities, on one had been punished.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

TUSKEGEE ARMY AIR FIELD,
AIa;-(SNS)- Experts from many
walks of life are taken into the
Army to assure the men and their
loved ones that they will be given
the best protection known to man
today. First Lieutenant AIoysius
B. Cuyjet, Dental Officer who was
promoted to the rank of captain
at the Tuskegee Army Air Field
recently graduated from Temple
University's Dental College III
1910, with a Doctor of Dental Ser
Vice degree, and was practiciug
his profession i'm Philadelphia.
when he received his commission
ON April 10. 1912.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
Filed
Against Railroad

MOBILE, Ala.-(SNS)- A com
plant charging that he had diff
Guilty in getting Pullman seat for
himself and Alfred S. Crishon on
June 10. until the general passenger
agent interviewed, has been filed
for j. l.. LeFlore, NAACP official
here by the national office of the
NAACP.
The complaint also points out
that the train conductor of the
Gulf. Mobile and Ohio Railroad
told the Negro steward never to
serve colored passengers in the
diner along with white people.
The complaint states that on
their return trip from Meridian.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

dietary committee.
The national committee is urg-
ing that senators now at home
be urged to pledge themselves
to vote both for cloture and for
passage of the bill when it ar
rives on the floor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

for the additional six months a
fully accredited school such as
Provldent requires. A high school
diploma from a grade A high
school and with certain science
requirements are among the quail
f1cations together with high charac-
ter recommendations.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
Job Fear: Ally Of Hate

MANY HAVE BEEN the reasons
given for the current wave of
racial hatred and tension sweeping
the nation. A few have been cited
here from time to time by this
writer Overcrowded Transports
ton systems, inadequate recreat-
lonal facilities and an extreme
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

o11Ol toSC u i
decent hous-
ing, all have
contributed to
severe cases of
t a u t nerves,
needing only
a n incident
as the spark
to set off dis
aStrouS racial
confagration.
The ia 6 t
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
Scorns Appeasers
OF Race Problem

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va
oSNS)-Dr. Ira De A. Reid, soci-
,ology professor of Atlanta Univer-
slty, told an audience at Hampton
institute last Thursday that mot
the appeasers nor the compromis-
ers, and not the passive resisters
nor the procrastinators will make
the peace in the field of race re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

race against the other, and thus
leaving the way open to exploit
both. That is why it is to their
advantage to foment 7acial cleav-
ages between workers. That is Why
the Klan, the National Workers
League and kindred organizations
work overtime to create divisions
where none existed before, to stir
up old fears, to play upon petty
prejudices.
These fears are the real.
deeply underlying causes of
racial strife and misunder-
standing in America today. 1t
is to their correction that a
fOrward-lOOking government
must give its attention, not
after the war, but now. And
they can be eliminated
Our progressive President In his
Wednesday night address indicated
that he is already thinking in
that direction in outlining his
broad program of extending social
security to millions not now over
ed, of granting economic safeguards
to the millions now in uniform.
who after the war will be thrown
onto a nation returning to a
peacetime economy.
WORKERS NEED ASSURANCE
If it is important to give assur-
ance of economic security to the
millions of Americans who have
donned uniforms to fight on the
worlds battlefronts it is equally
important to give this assurance to
the much larger number, who have
donned overalls in the nations bat
tie of production on the home front.
This assurance would do more
than anything else to ease the
racial tension, which is so firm
ly rooted in the uncertainty of all
workers about the future. Just
as the President says he can
not do it alone. He must have
the aid of Congress.
A Congress, which killed the
National Resources Planning Board,
the only federal agency attempting
to map broad program for the
future, is not likely of its own
volition to act favorably on the
torward-looking proposals that
agency recommended. But Congress
can be made to act It becomes In
creasingly clear that the peop.e
must bring pressure on their repre-
sentatives to get them in line with
the progressive thinking needed
now If we are to be saved from ut
ter chaos in the postwar period.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
UNEMPLOYMENT HAUNTING

Predictions of conservative bust
ness experts do little to alleviate
this fear. Several have already said
that II business is as good after
the war as it was in the war wear
OF 1910, there still will be between
eighteen and twenty million I'M
employed. The spectre of unem-
ployment haunts all workers, black
and white.
While the fear Of white work.
ers is based on the spectre of
Negro workers competing for
the higher-paid jobs, which in
the past had been the exclusive
property Of the whites. the fear
Of Negro workers is just the
reverse. They fear that after the
war, they will lose the job OPP
pOrtunities which had suddenly
opened to them, that they
will be relegated to the mop
and broom and to the back
breaking, low-paid dirty work.
This fear is real too. Many re-
member too well the hire last, fire
first formula reserved by so many
American industrialists for use
against Negro workers. They rem
ember too well what happened af-
ter the last war; Many Of them Just
within the past two months or so
we're able to get away from the
stigma Of relief. This fear drives
them to stubborn determination
that what happened before will
not happen again. So in common
all workers share this fear of Job
insecurity, Of unemployment, Of
uncertainty about the future.
EMPLOYERS HOLD FEAR
There Is another fear, too. That
is the fear Of employers that work
ers Of all races will some day wake
UP to their trick OF playing one
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
NOTHING CAN DO
MORE FOR YOU

in the entire field of aspirin than St. Joseph
Aspirin. None faster, none safer. The
worlds largest seller at 10c. Also sold
in economy sizes = 36 tablets, Zoe, 100
tablets, 35c. Demand st. Joseph Aspirin.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07

Interstate Commerce Commission
to investigate the case and to take
effective steps to compel the rail-
road to end instances of discrini-
notion in the future.