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Evening star., 1943-04-18
Chi|dren's S Hospital
Will Receive Lamp
From Legion Units
Nash and Kenno-Moin
Officers Are Arranging
For Presentation

Nash and Kenna- Main Units Of
the American Legion Auxiliary have
each raised the necessary funds to
purchase a germicidal lamp to be
presented to Children's Hospital, 1t
was announced last week by Mrs.
Helen McCabe, department chair
man Of child welfare.
Arrangements for the formal
presentation of the lamps are being
made by Miss Matte Gibson OF the
hospital staff.
The department is also providing
as part Of Its child welfare program
a number of terry cloth robes and
slippers for use Of the crippled chill
dren out patients who come to Gal
linger Hospital for treatment. Funds
for this project are coming in from
the various units and will soon be
available for the purchase of the
gift.
Mrs. Edith S. Sadler, department
president, and members of her staff
will pay their annual official visit
to Treasury Unit tomorrow at the
Legion CluDnOuSe.
Sergt. Jasper Unit will observe it's
18th anniversary with dinner
dance on May at the Legion club
house, 2437 Fifteenth street NV.
Dinner will be served at 7 pm.
Dancing from 10 to l am. The post
is cooperating on the dance. Mrs.
Emily Schuler is general chairman
Of arrangements.
A bingo party was held last
Friday night at Mount Alto Hos
pital, when members of the United
States Department of Agriculture
Unit joined those of Sergeant Jasper
and Government Printing Office in
furnishing refreshments and prizes.
Beverly Ruth Berney and Made
line Pagle were accepted as new
members at the last meeting
Department President Edith P. Sad
ler and members of her staff made
their official visitation. Mrs. Sadler
and Department Vice President
Pearl M. Heagerty were the recipi-
ents of gifts presented on behalf of
the unit by past president Alberta A.
Lacy.
President Lillian P. Sawyer an
nounced the next meeting of the
unit will be held at the Legion club
house on April q at o'clock.
A birthday party was given for
Mrs. Bertha Robinson. president of
the James E. Walker Unit, by Mrs
Carrie Cant, secretary of the unit,
at 1858 Columbia road NV.
Meetings this week are:
Monday-Treasury Unit, Legion
clubhouse.
Tuesday-Potomac Unit, Palisades
heldhouSe,
Evening star., 1943-04-18

and Past Patrons Association the
following were elected: President,
Mrs. Katherine F.. Johnson; vice
president, Walter H. Conway; Sec
retary, Mrs. Florence M. Parsley
and treasurer, G.. Gordon Bailey.
Harmony Chapter will meet April
% at 8 pm. The Home Board will
meet at the home of Mrs. Perl Gus
ter at 8 pm. on April 26.
Treaty Oak Chapters Home Board
meeting will be on Monday night at
the home of Ruth Perry.
Mizpah Chapter will meet Tues
day evening. Easter program.
Brightwood Chapter will have ini-
tiation on April %.
Bethlehem's Chapter Auxiliary
Home Board will meet Thursday for
luncheon at 1890 pm. at 4728 Four
teenth street NV. For reservations,
call Lena Stephenson.
Takoma Chapter will hold services
appropriate to the Easter season on
Good Friday night.
Trinity Chapter will have a joint
meeting of the home and temple
boards April % at the home of Mrs.
Kenneth Cuttings.
The General Auxiliary Temple
Board will meet at the Temple club
house Saturday at pm. Temple
board members of each chapter are
requested to be present.
The Matrons and Patrons Associa-
ton Of 1888 will have a banquet at
the Universalist National Memorial
Church on April 22 at 7:15 pm.
Reservations by calling Michigan
1850 or Franklin 6604.
Congress Lodge CHAPTER will meet
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Spanish War Veterans

Col. John Jacob Astor Camp will
hold muster day exercises in Stan
ley Hall at United States Soldiers
Home on Monday at 7:30 pm. De-
partment Comdr. Elvin M. Luskey
and staff will make their annual
visitation.
Gen. M. Emmet Urell Camp will
hold similar ceremonies at Pythian
Temple on Wednesday at 8 pm.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp will
observe muster day at Pythian
Temple on Friday.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Arrive in Arlington

1t. Charles S. Mangan, U. S. A.
A. F., and Mrs. Mangan and chill
dren Stephen and Sandra arrived
recently in Arlington from their
home in Miami and have taken a
house at 4501 South Ninth street
Mrs. Mangan, who was active in the
Miami Junior League, resigned from
the Red Cross Motor Corps when
her husband was transferred to
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

Monday. The chapter has selected
Miss Clara Dele Terry to enter the
contest for queen for Might of
Thrills" The officers will have a
dinner at the Fairfax Hotel, May 4.
Contact Miss Sally Fowler for de-
tails.
Good Will Chapter will observe
obligation night on April %.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Reserve Auxiliary.

Mrs. Elinor v. Cronan, president
of Unit No. 4, Ladies' Auxiliary Fleet
Reserve Association, announces ma
tional ofncers and past presidents
will be honored at the meeting at
8 pm. tomorrow at Knights of
Pythias Temple. Door prize and
refreshments.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

At small and informal tea to be given this afternoon
Mrs John Alan Maph of Bethesda Nd will
gagemen Of their daughter Miss Patricia Maphs to It. g. g.
Charles Becker Soue Only small group bdeelects
friends will be present.
1t. soule is the 1t R. soule r.,
Soue of Wmee Ill., who arrived Thursday be the weekend
guests of Mr. and Mrs Maphis and be party
Miss Maphis attended Stephens College Columbia
Chevy Chase Junior College, from which graduated
The prospective bridegroom
sy being graduated from the school architecture
present he duty in the southwest Pacific.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Regular Veterans
Association

Pearl Harbor Post will meet April
% at pm, at 808 I street NV, for
nomination of officers.
Comdr. Hubacher will make his
report on the Bylaws Committee. BY
error some notices went out giving
the date of this meeting as April 80.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Ben Hur News

DSH TUT NEWS
On Tuesday evening in Pythian
Temple special honors will be
bestowed upon Mckinley Court
members who have reached the age
of 70. Entertainment and refresh
ments. Representative Melvin D.
Newland and Richard A. Walker,
president of Maryland District of
Columbia Congress, are the principal
speakers.
Potomac Court will meet in
Pythian Temple on Monday and
Congressional Court on Wednesday
at the home of Elmer johnson.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul L. Conahey
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth
McConahey, to Mr.. Paul E.
Holmes.
The wedding will take place
June II.
Miss McConahey was graduated
from Eastern High School and
the Washington School for Sec
retaries. Mr.. Holmes Is a gradu-
ate Of Central High School and
the University of MARYLAND,
Evening star., 1943-04-18

Sixteen members of the guard of
honor paid tribute to William P.
Bolin, deceased, of the Fon Du Lac
Post, Wisconsin, last Monday eve
ming. The VF'W colors of Police
and Fire Post were displayed.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

The Firecracker Cootiette Club OBJ
ligated Irene Norton, Marie De
Pringre, Mabel Beal, Marion Wright,
Laura Atheson, Hersie Thompson,
Dorothy Lohman, Frances Ripple,
Frances Nebel and Julie Cruz.
Seam Squirrel Steve Nitcha of the
Coolies invited the members to at
tend the Cootie birthday party on
ADri1 20
Evening star., 1943-04-18

Meetings this week are:
Monday-Treasury Unit, Legion
clubhouse.
Tuesday-Potomac Unit, Palisades
fleldhouSe,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31

he has a reputation for being both fair
and factual. The best answer to Clap
per's article we have read is that of the
Pittsburgh Courier, editor, Percival L.
Prattis, which we reprint here:
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Mr.. ROOsevelt's Opportunity

Rooseve Employment Practices Com
mtee is his hands, The Committee recently deed by dis
eliminating Southern railroads and and presently target for
Congressional investigation will live die by fiat of the President
himself
the take the countrs
Monday night traffic in the railway
dispute placed position enforce order the FEPC
has issued directive ordering the railroads
agency would also long convince the
discriminatory practices the out during the war;
With the railroads openly violating the Presidential Order 936
religious Discrimination the Presidents course
should be clear to him and his advisors
the second to whether President
when Committee
orders carried out in such matters
the result of the emascuaon OF the original
the South Public opinion forced the
the Committee from the shelf and
izei substantially with a larger budget
Recently has effective and productive
expected criticism from the doers Its
angeed the reaconay Southern and they
" Roosevelt easily close the H. H.
FEPC uphoding decision his Committee and granting
to others opportunity for upgradg
forced much of industry to upgrade Negro
employees the effort morale inteaca
no better than which complying with Presiden
tial Order 9346
the domestic battle to give the people
which splitting blood the
definite setback Roosevelt will lose much
believe the rights of all citizens according
to professed American concept
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31
Editorial lettings

Strangely people demand that the with speed
rights
and come-if at all-slowy!
quick popularity with white audiences for the Negro
speaker the truth but what they like to hear
Fortunately the Negro platform speakers who bu
the white folks is diminishing However, will
and then pocket with the of gube whites but
progressive of white people who need to
truth about the Negono lot of soothing
mythical bunk and doubetak
However the business and professional changing
Labor spot phony mile The middle
class for Negro soohayers and
with Negro social agencies business men,
professionals newspapers reliable gmen before they shell out
build buy church somewhere It's better
all the way around The individual doesn't
being upon Nobody suffers but the with something
shady up sleeve Naturally he hollers like stuck pig!
The HAYES are always advising the
never many HAYES sharing what they have
Some newcomers to the pick million
wonder What was
wrong with the place they left?
From the tenor of the letters newspaper from and
Negro and Negro leader
shin to forward legitimate participation the industrial
political city, and nation From what they
say of those who fail them while they are
there in the mud and filth of the fox-holes
We see by the morning papers ye has appointed
a St. Paulm maj to industrial commission
We wonder why governors found expeden to
the Minnesota Negro Republican staWr by good
Raymond W. Cannon Minneapolis Hammond Turner of
St faithful adherens could
credit We don't honorary
members
paid a good salary.
That old excuse politicians about the size of the
Negro for why should Negro,
Italian American German American be
the state because of the number OF his
fellow citizens doesn't make Don't tell US that there are no
Negroes apponve offices in this state because
with the intelligence experience and training
believe it's not above
Maybe of the state administrations
politicians Minnesota too easily satisfied with
of the campaign funds and the pauds of the election period
crowds they don't get plum for themselves they ought to get
few jobs for their faithful followers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31
Negroes in the Army

The segregation armed forces producing
the mechanics of the draft The Navy Air
Corps variousy specialized branches of military
only limited number of Negroes That has the
slowing the rate at which the latter nducted
conversely acceerang the at which white seectees
being This is markedly evident in the South
day. Charles Mckenzie of Louisiana, spoke
anguish against this state of affairs The local boards he
pointed nothing about the situation Their hands tied
Washington which deliberately keeping Negroes out
while white prePar Harbor fathers mind
compelled co. Mr. Mckenzie asks ha the
the basis his being deferred he is
single dependents To buess his argument he quoted
editorial from The Mohoue Enterprise, Basrop
louisiana
would that the first batch of prePar Harbor fathers has
parsh that there PCT cood in la who
there has oored CALI just isn't
editorial to with charming righteousness:
"mpy the doesn't want Negroes the
discrimination and the colored
Parish feel that putting them in inferior
classification"
Mckenzie has yet perfected which
possible his constituents eat their cake and have
however, that uch discrimination detrimental to the
We not be talking about the thing
but you aren't kidding Mr. McKenze-New Republic
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31

pacity of the closet. Therell come
a time when dirty clothes will be
strewn all through the house. This
is the time which Mr.. Clapper and
others will not see. They do not
realize that this sin of racial preju-
dice weakens the character Of the
nation, that it is a problem which
concerns America, as a whole, more
than it does the minorities which
suffer from it. Any malady, so in
sidious, so deadly, must be worked
on, no matter how delicate the
operation. Mr.. Clapper is like the
man who would take a chance with
the ravages of a disease rather
than trust to an operation. Some
times, such persons are cowardly;
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31

sometimes, they are stupid. Mr..
Clapper is neither. He is mildly,
but dangerously, confused.
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Presidents committee because they
display more solicitude for existing
prejudices. He attributes to the
railroads the belief that at is ut
terly unrealistic to suppose that
problems of such delicacy (of pay
ing all Americans the same wage
for the same job and of giving all
Americans a chance to advance ac-
cording to merit) can be solved out
of hand by the fiat of the COM
mittee."
1 believe the committee is more
realistic than either Mr.. Clapper
or the railroads. Simply, racial
prejudice, either that shown by
Germany or that of the Anglo
Saxon nations, Great Britain and
the United States, is at the core
of this bloody, destructive global
struggle in which civilization is in
volved. Mr.. Clapper will not deny
this. He knows that to win the
war and the peace we have got to
convince the hundreds of millions
of colored people in Asia that our
future relations with them are not
to be characterized by the AFRO
gance and racial snobbery which
was true of the past. Most Ameri-
cans know this. Most Americans
are willing to try to prove this, to
make some concessions in respect
to those peoples far away. But
Americans, as whole, refuse to
see the relationship between their
racial attitudes at home and their
racial attitudes abroad. They fail
to understand that as long as their
prejudices run rampant at home,
they will continue to be suspect in
Asia, Africa and South America.
Billions of dollars in lend-lease can
not change this fact.
That is the realistic point of view
which Americans stubbornly refuse
to face.
Give Sons, Hold Bias
Americans don't want to give
up their prejudices. They would
rather give up their sons and
daughters than to give up their
prejudices. Just as Negroes fight
for an opportunity to work, they
also insist that they be given their
chance to die on the battlefront.
But racial prejudice, so far, for
bids. Negro fighters are kept off
the battleships. Negro soldiers are
held behind the lines to perform the
mental, drudge-like tasks of the
Army. Of course, a few Negroes
are killed and wounded. But young
white America, because of preju-
dice, is being forced to do dis
proportionate share of the dying
in this war. The next generation
of white Americans is being sac
rifced on the battlefield. The next
generation of black Americans is
not. This shows how stubborn race
prejudice is.
Dangerously Confused
I deplore the fact that Mr.. Clap
per should refer to the delicacy of
the problem. That has been the
attitude of Americans ever since
this country was born with the
stain of human slavery on its flag.
AS whole, this nation has never
had the moral courage to face the
issue of racial prejudice. This
issue is a closet of dirty clothes
in the house of democracy, the
door to which we try to keep
closed. There are limits to the ca
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New Years Best Wishes
A New Year of right triumphant
over might and liberty for ALL
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mccoy, 618
Rondo Ave.
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be mentally prepared to detect the
fact when his train of reasoning be-
gins to run off the track. Mr.. Clap
per is important to minorities, be-
cause, in a sense, he speaks the
mind of that considerable group of
white Americans who think that
they are thoroughly judicial, fair
and practical. He, like they, would
deny that he has any racial preju-
dice and he, like they, is against
racial discrimination-in principle.
Mr.. Clapper's observations on the
directive of the Presidents Com
mittee on Fair Employment Prac-
tees to the railroads, ordering
abolition of the practice of dis
elimination in employment, and on
the railroads reply to the commit
tee, are not only in error, but they
constitute a special problem in
themselves.
"Only mischief, disunity and fur
Their irritations of race relations
can come from the point being
pressed by the FEPC that the
railroads must open up more oper-
ating jobs to Negroes" writes Mr..
Clapper.
Obviously, Mr.. Clapper is think
ing in terms of existing racial
prejudice in this country and those
who harbor it. He is not one of
them. He essays the role of the
dispassionate, objective commenta-
tor. But he believes that fairer
employment practices on the rail-
roads will increase the rancor and
resentment among prejudiced
Americans and possibly add to their
numbers. He ignores the existence
of thirteen million American citi-
zens who are victims of this dis
elimination and the reaction among
them to this continued discrimina-
ton. In effect, he counsels that it
is better to ignore the feelings of
these thirteen millions, who simply
seek the opportunities due any and
all Americans, than to challenge
the attitude of color-prejudiced
Americans who have sought in ev-
cry way possible to prevent the
Negro from making his full con-
tribution to the war effort.
Mr.. Clapper continues: "Racial
discrimination should be discour-
aged wherever practical .
But such a doctrinaire and arbi-
trary insistence on racial equality
as this committee insists on, is
more likely to aggravate our prob
lem than to solve it."
One wonders if Mr.. Clapper has
no sense of shame to restrain him
from writing that "racial discrim-
ination should be discouraged
WHEREVER PRACTICAL" Isn't
that the same as saying that it
should ONLY be discouraged where
practical, that it should only be
discouraged where those who har-
Dor, racial prejudice agree that it
should be discouraged? Mr.. Clap
per is quite willing that we should
go the limit in combating Jap
anese domination in the Pacific and
German domination in Europe, but
he would restrict our fight against
domination Of some Americans to
the terms proposed by those who
dominate. That doesn't make sense
and Mr.. Clapper knows it.
He Is Unrealistic
Mr.. Clapper says that the rail-
roads are more realistic than the
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Wanted-A Brave New World

Time creeps across the furrowed brow of Earth,
And midnight falls as frost upon final rose,
The year born only yesterday in cinquant mirth,
Weary and tattered, seeks realms God only knows.
Young and eager New Year cannot bide the dawn,
But rushes through the night to greet the sun,
Past dark and sulen eyes that hold it pawn,
To lose its way and all the precious distance
o, gay young year, would not set you weeping,
But your nativity is war, perverted brotherhood,
Those youths you stumbled over were not sleeping,
The dampness was not dew you trod but blood
Come back young year, and start again in light,
For moonlight holds no keys to victory and peace,
Dreams for shadows, truths invisible at night,
You take sunlit road to Freedoms true release.
Wanted: Soon a brave world with loving heart,
Where men are not just black, white, big or small,
But where each human plays his whole-souled part,
With room, full hope, God-given rights for all!
james T. Logan.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31
Courier Writer Replies to
Raymond Clapper's Attack
On FEPC Railroad Case

Editors Note: The syndicated column
of Raymond Clapper is an editorial page
feature of one of the local daily news
papers. Clapper's recent attack on the
F. E. P. C. handling of the railroads and
railroad brotherhoods surprised many, for
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-31
BxP.L. Prattis in the PITTSBURGH Courier

1t is not too difficult to ignore the patiently cockeyed
sophsms of Westbook Pger because he aims not to please
but to dspease to ncte controversy But Raymond Capper
not Westbrook Pegler Many Americans influenced by
what they consider the balanced judgment of Mr. Capper
He right and impartial issues that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
.Capper Urges Action
To Permit Residents
OF District 10 Vote
High Time to Correct
This Situotion,' Konsun
Tells Senate

Senator Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas, long an advocate of ma
tional representation for Wash
ington, told the Senate today it
is high time Congress take &C
ton to correct this situation and
restore to citizens of the United
States living in the District
rights their fellow citizens have
in the States to elect President
and members of Congress"
The District of Columbia should
not be the voteIess ghetto of the
United States" Senator Capper
added.
He made this appeal after calling
the Senate's attention to an adj
dress delivered recently to natural
lzation class here by James r. Kirk
land of the District Bar Association.
The Senator quoted the following
excerpt from Mr.. Kirkland's speech
to the new citizens:
Those of you who remain in the
District of Columbia are aware that
there is still a limitation on your
rights as an American. While your
neighbor may cast his vote on cleo
ton day, you still are denied the
complete privilege Of citizen.
You are aware that the residents
Of the District of Columbia are dis
franchised and are not entitled to
be represented in the Congress nor
to have voice in the local gov
eminent. When you take your oath
today, it should act as an immediate
challenge to you to work for suf-
frage in the Nations Capital"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Wreckage Report False,
Navy Plane Hunt Pushed
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SANTA ROSA, Calf, Jan. rs
An energetic search was pressed
today for a huge Navy transport
plane, carrying 10 persons, which
may have crashed in the hilly,
wooded country north of here
On the ship were Rear Admiral
Richard H. English and other Navy
officers, en- route from Honolulu to
San Francisco. The plane has been
missing since Thursday.
There was one report that the
seaplane had been destroyed in a
crash at Blue Lake, about Is miles
north of Clear Lake, which could
be used as an emergency port for
such aircraft.
But the Navy in San Francisco
said this report was completely
unfounded." 1t said there was no
definite word as to the fate of the
huge plane.
From residents of the rugged
country there came stories which
might contain clues to the fate OF
the ship. They pointed to belief
that it may have crashed in the
mountains OF Northeastern Sonoms
County, between the Petrified For.
est and Clear Lake.