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Women's Arti6ciality Out
AS Natural Charm Enters

Do women dress to please men or
to please themselves? Whichever it
is. women are as dainty and attrac-
tive with their men off to fighting
fronts as they were in days Of peace.
Cleanliness, good grooming, and a
nice appearance are too much part
Of the modern woman's way Of life
to be put aside during the stress Of
war. Wartime, in fact, appears to
put emphasis on careful grooming.
Women seem to be preparing them.
selves for the day when artificial
glamour aids may be less avail
able. Makeup is toned down, nail
polish is less startling, and on the
whole beauty is leaning toward the
natural charms Of a good complex
ion, well-brushed hair. and well-kept
nails and hands.
Simplicity Of dress Is another
mark Of the war era. Probably the
freezing Of styles to conserve fabrics
has much to do with this, and also
the wearing Of uniforms by an in
creasing number Of women in war
Jobs.
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Suggests Bowlers Display
War Work Profession

Here, bowlers, is a pretty good
idea-one that will allow you to iden-
tify yourself with the work you're
doing to help Uncle Sam bowl those
strikes against the Axis.
Thousands Of you fellows-and
girls, too-in all parts of the coun-
try are engaged in vital war pro-
duction work. Many Of you would
like to join up and take q personal
crack at Hitler and his stooges, but
age, dependents and the Importance
Of your work in many cases makes
It imperative that you fight on the
home front.
So, why not get uniform-or bet
ter, some identifying emblem on
your bowling shirt or uniform that
will tell the world the specific kind
Of war production work you are en-
gagged in.
For example, suppose you work
for giant airplane producing plant.
Your insignia on your bowling shirt
or uniform would be pair Of wings.
II the various departments Of this
plane company have their own
leagues, you can identify the de-
partment you work in%whether you
build motors, wings, struts, fuse
lagos, etc.
II you are engaged in tank pro-
duction, your emblem is a tank. II
you make shells, that's your identi-
tying symbol, and so on for guns,
ships, jeeps, or whatever you he'7
produce to make the world safe for
the American way.
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Australian Corporal Didn't
Get Enough, Wants More

Having had so much unpleasant.
ness slung at him during his career
in the Middle East, a South Austria.
Ian Military Medalist has Joined the
Royal Australian Air force In the
hope that he will be able to do a bit
Of singing himself.
Lance-Corporal Forbes was with
the first batch Of troops to leave Aus
tralia and headed west with the rest
Of the bunch from Mersa Matruh.
He was with the first into Tobruk and
in the victorious march into Ben
gasi. Then he hurried off to Greece
and got his medal and wound for
crossing bare slope under hot Ger
man machine gun fire, carrying mes
sageS which saved his platoon from
humiliation.
At Larissa he tried to get into an
ambulance but it was full, so he rode
on the back step. A bomb fell
in front, killed the driver and the
men inside, blew him of his perch
and stunned him. He came to for
q minute when an Australian was
putting him into bomb crater, and
when he woke up again he found
that his rescuer had been killed by
another bomb.
So Forbes only desire now is to
get up alott with a load Of bombs and
give as good as he has taken. He
would prefer Germans to Japanese
but he is not fussy.
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President Has None to Blame But Self

Several ago emauated his Fair
Employment Committee and turned to politically
ambitious Paul McNutt, objected strenuously.
recognized President either asleep at the switch
or intended to alter his policy please
Democratic bloc support northern Negroes
good northern Congressional districts during the
" elections Negro went back to the Republicans
it in 1892
When President Roosevelt protests
Negroes the
by transferring Commission there
acceptance of his explanation among the cood people
today yeseryears, literally forced to think
The Negroes now as all Others
nomination 1914 They
matter pretty speeches he makes northern
going do anything that will anagonze the poll tax
politicians that the country which actually fighting
the war of 1860 and our present war;
McNut being given responsibility showed
summary canceng hearings scheduled for the
mtee and that Dr. Malcolm Mclean chairman
forced into untenabe position will have to resign.
McNutt action in line with the recently noted anNegro trend
had democrazed
had been extended
treatment The word has out within number of government
including understand the Manpower Commission and
Employment Service that "the for social
experiments What the quoted phrase that are in
for world freedom and need unity this no time extend equal
opportunities to Negroes.
theory
by President Roosevelt his administration that only by
the southern bloc Congress he hold his slim majority
the Negroes-who in spite of every
handicap and with less than other have been
loyal the rust keep the southern happy
al deeply disappointed in him.
The results of such policy will do the u S. harm at home
abroad takes than keep the people of the world
from knowing that American Negroes have been getting rotten deal
and that despite the they still getting rotten deal in
quarters
President Roosevelt remind the world that
alone made opportunities Negroes under F. D.
Proper credit has gone President his attitude The
paid deserving which
they formerly bound by sentimental ties with
Roosevelt his desire halt
discrimination industry and the trade yielding
native poax all of the leaders
done the people for full effort has been in vain
The E. the anticipated resignation of Judge William
silence the Negro Press bode good country and its people
should Immediately
his should leave his domestic coordnao
South Carolina should attend this
himself He should recognize F. E. p from
hunting McNu and all again F. doing
the beginning Negroes mind their families
their lives their damned they
satisfied with type received the
believes fair with
this philosophy.
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Rev. Nelson to
Preach on New
York Sunday

"The True Lights of New York
City" will be the subject of the
sermon at the II a. m. service, I'M
day, January "a, in the Camphor
Memorial Methodist Church, by the
pastor, Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson.
In this sermon, Rev. Nelson will
tell of some of his experiences and
observations while visiting seven
great churches in New York City
last Sunday. Among the churches
visited by the Camphor pastor were
the st. Marks Methodist Church,
a half million dollar building re-
ported to be the most expensive
church building built for Negroes
in the world; the Abyssinian Bap-
fist Church, reported to have the
largest membership of any Pro-
testant church in the world; the
Cathedral of St. Johns the Divine,
the worlds largest church building
of Gothic design; the Riverside
Church, the church to which the
Rockefellers belong.
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Phenothiazine Kills CockrOaches

Cockroaches can swallow pheno-
thiazine without harm, but il this
chemical touches the outside Of their
bodies it kills the pests. The pheno-
thiazine passes through the shells Of
the reaches, and is apparently con-
verted into another compound which
really does the killing. John W..
Zukel of Iowa State college, Ames,
says that the finer the particles Of
phenothiazine, the smaller the size
of the deadly dose needed. Chem
lists state that phenothiazine, while
under test as an insecticide for some
time, has found its most successful
use as a killer Of certain parasitic
worms Of livestock and Of cecal
worms in poultry. And, busted on
chickens, it has been found to give
almost complete control Of lice.
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Topkick,s Laundry Intriguing

A Medical Replacement Training
center, Camp Berkeley, Texas,
topkick is busy trying to learn the
whereabouts Of the young woman in
West Texas who received a perfect
~ good set of or underwear, sox,
and handkerchiefs, and other be-
longings Of soldier, from Dallas
laundry. When he finds her, the
sarge will return said young lady's
pale blue pajamas.
This particular first sergeant
Ross Jones, Co. B, seth Bn..
MRTC, is having difficulty maintain.
ing the demeanor Of his rank since
his laundry came back. Instead Of
his belongings he found an intriguing
set Of light blue pajamas, wisp-like
hankies, and other dainty articles
definitely not "GI." To date, there
aren't any WAACs at Camp Bark
eley, either.
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Tents Made Weather Resistant

Army tents, tarpaulins, and truck
covers now are made fire, weather,
and water resistant by the applica-
ton Of an improved protective film
based on resin plastics. The plastic
component is blended with the COM
pounds designed to guard against
weathering and storage deterioration
and the entire preservative surface
is laid on in one operation. The new
plastic element, composed Of ordi-
nary pine pitch and phenol formal
dehyde resins, is cheaper and more
effective than the chlorinated rubber
previously used for the same pur-
pose. It is estimated that approx
mately 10 million pounds will be used
on army tentage during 1913.
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Organized Labor Shows Ability

Shearing operations during the
current season in New South Wales,
Australia, have provided a magnit-
icent demonstration Of organized la
Dor established and improvised I'M
der war conditions. In this state
whose So million sheep comprise
half the sheep population Of the en-
tire Australian Commonwealth, 3d.
900 workers are employed. With the
peak Of the shearing season passed,
sheep ranchers have reported I'M
usually efficient operations. A big
factor in this success was the graz
ers' willingness to cooperate in al
tering normal shearing dates, and
the fine national spirit shown by en-
ployees belonging to the Australian
Workers union, one Of Australia's
biggest and most militant labor Or
CARNATIONS.
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for demanding just that thing. All
they needed (these so-called iber-
als) was some Negro into whose
mouth they could put these same
words and sentiments in a cam
paign, conscious or unconscious on
their part, to censor Negro news
papers.
Of course, enlightened self-inter-
est should show white people in this
country that the privileges and pre-
negatives Of living under a demo-
cratic form of government must be
given the Negro if America is to
win the war and certainly the peace
to follow (and I've said that so
many times before). People like
Pearl Buck, Edwin Embree and
others have pointed out the dan
gers which face America in the
coming world order if the problem
of race (they say color, the I'M
finished business of democracy is
not solved and solved soon.
Ignored Other Liberal Journals
This reactionary Negro advises
the Negro masses not to raise vital
questions involving their status
while courageous white persons of
influence and power are attempting
to awaken the social consciousness
of the majority Of white Ameri-
cans. Brown should have included
with the Negro papers Marshall
Fields PM, the Nation, the New
Republic, the Survey Graphic, and
the rest of the liberal enlightened
journals of public opinion pub
lished by white persons.
Yes, it's too bad that we don't
have some social mechanism, such
as these Chinese, for putting the
undesirable people out of the race
so that they could no longer pre-
tend to speak for US. When we do,
I have a little list and DR.. Brown
will surely not be missed.
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TRUE TO A FIGHTING TRADITION! Z"

st. James A. M. E. Church News:
Many of the faithful braved the
frigid temperature and attended
our 10:45 a. m. service, Sunday.
Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor, delivered
the sermon. Mrs. Frances Hughes
joined church. Messrs. Edward J,
Nichols and William Rodney Of
Duluth, MINI. were guests.
The pastor will be in the pulpit
Sunday morning, Jan. "a. At 8 p,
m. a community program is being
sponsored by the Anderson Circle.
Numbers by the senior choir and
the Barber sisters will be presented
DR.. ]. W. Crump will be the guest
speaker. DR.. Crump will cover the
physical and mental condition of
our race in this world conflict, the
necessity of the double victory of
democracy and show that a major
operation is necessary on that part
of this country predominating in
race hatred. Mrs. Cora Grissom
will preside. Mrs. Villa Barber is
president.
At the $50 meeting Of the Uni
versity of Life, last Sunday, Rev.
M. Boyd Patrick reviewed the popu-
lar novel and moving picture, "One
Foot in Heaven" Next Sunday the
subject will be care War Marriages
Practical" Mrs. Alverta Coram will
be the guest speaker. Young and
old are invited to attend these meet
ings,
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Exams for
Fire Dept.
February ~

There will be a Civil Service ex.
animation for Fire Fighters in St.
Paul on February 81. Men 21-35
years of age should apply for these
positions. The salary range is
from $16S.35 to $197.10 a month.
The St. Paul Urban League has
assisted candidates for this exami-
nation previously and has agreed
to conduct a training class fol-
those who file applications for the
examination.
The last day for fling is Feb
ruary goth. The date of the train
ing class will be announced later.
All men who are interested
should get in touch with the st.
Paul Urban League Office immedi-
ately. A special appeal is being
made to those who are now work
ing in defense industries to take
advantage of this opportunity. =
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treatment, it's efforts to use his
misfortune-not to get justice but
to arouse more violent racialism-
make the going more difficult for
that great majority of light and
black who are working for a more
even-handed treatment of the Ne
gro, not as a Negro but as an
American"
Now probably one shouldn't pay
a lot of attention to a man who
displays such abysmal ignorance
of race relations as is indicated in
his article, except that he is writing
in magazine that sells twenty
million copies month. The shoot
ing and killing of Negro soldiers
and the violence of mob action in
the South and the North is not re-
ported to the general white reading
public. Now comes DR.. Brown to
inform, not Negroes but twenty
million white readers, that even
the complaints of Negroes, as ar
ticulated in their press, are un-
patriotic, unnecessary and danger
Gus.
Press Attacked From Many
Quarters
This is not an isolated incident
which should be considered out of
context. It follows up the attacks
of Westbrook Pegler and the many
sly digs of other white writer's. For
example, my friend Stanley High,
who is on the staff of the Readers
Digest, wrote a pretty decent
article about Negroes some months
ago for that magazine, but slipped
in some few derogatory remarks
about the Negro press. Both Time
and Life magazines have bemoaned
the fact that the Negro does not
participate more fully in our de-
mocracy, but end up by taking
! backhand slaps at the Negro press
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POOR BUTTERFLY

A butterfy's gal with looks
Who always eats but never cooks,
A fragile creature, wings Of gold,
Whose luster fades as she grows old,
Though love can't be insurable,
IT is safer when the lady's durable.
A butterfy's gay narcissus,
Who aims to be an idle Missus,
She may be poor and have to stint,
But hopes to marry U. s. Mint,
And when she's wed to some poor sloth,
He finds his little myths moth.
A butterfy's maid who thinks
A coats the lifelong wish Of minl1s,
AS winter winds begin to chill her,
She yearns to dress like caterpillar,
And flies to Reno when friend hubby
Is minus means to buy the chubby.
butterfy's little queen,
A cover girl on magazine,
Of sweeter face than Mona Lisa,
Her company manners, Heavens visa,
But any softly in her grasp
Can testify the chicks wasp.
Cleo, lepidopteron, Al rating,
Delilah too was good at dating,
They, DuBarry, cards and spades
Couldn't win from modern maids,
Outdigging forty-niners-why
Do we still moan, "POor Butterfly"
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No Rails Northward

Lake Chad (Situated in north
central Africa about 700 air miles
from the west coast Gulf of Guinea
lies mostly within the Free French"
territory of French Equatorial Afri-
ca. 1t extends slightly over the
border at the point where that col
ony meets British Nigeria and
French West Africa, whose govern
ment has been loyal to Vichy.
The nearest railway station to the
lake is more than 200 miles away,
at Nigerian Nguru, whence rails
stretch southwestward to the Gulf
Of Guinea port of Lagos. There are
no railway lines from central Africa
northward.
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Musician Cuts Ont Scales

Scaling and other defects in the
finishing of ammunition shells have
been eliminated by an invention Of
Herbert James, former organist now
employed at the National Tube COM
pany, McKeesport, Pa. He rugged
up q multiple acetylene torch ar
rangement for brazing tool tips to
tool shanks which has replaced the
old hand torch method and greatly
increased the quality Of the product.
Mr.. James has been awarded a
Certificate Of Individual Production
Merit by War Production Drive
headquarters.
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Chopped HAY Saves snaca

Chopped hay requires only one.
third to one-haH as much storage
space as the same weight of long
hay. To keep well, chopped hay
should be cured until there is less
than 20 per cent moisture; other.
wise it will lose much of its green
color and will become a dusty. I'M
palatable feed. Chopping does not
make hay more digestible, but Il
hay is stemmy, cows will eat it more
readily If chopped.
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PASIS cOSLdI anu CSOuOIIllC 1SOldL1O1I
from his community, family and
friends-it is one way which these
Chinese employed to maintain
morale. Though not a sadist at
heart, I would like to recommend
this treatment for certain Negroes.
A Disgraceful "Sell-out"
The offender which I have in
mind is one Warren Brown, who
calls himself Director of Race Re-
lations for the Council of Democ-
racy. In the January issue of
Readers Digest, Brown gives the
most disgraceful performance of a
"sell-out" Negro that have ever
encountered. The story he wrote
was entitled "a NEGRO WARNS
THE NEGRO PRESS" and was
condensed from the Saturday Re-
view of Literature. In this piece
Brown states that he knows the
Negro Che alleges to be one) and
that he has information to the eff
feet that "sensation-mongering Ne
gro leaders" and especially the Ne
gro press have a "drive to embitter
him (the Negro) which began dur
ing the depression under Commu-
nistic auspices (and) has been ag-
gressively promoted in the Negro
press since America entered the
war;" Mr.. Brown Tor should I say
DR.. Brown as he affixes a Ph.D.
to his name) continues then to
castigate Negro papers for COM
planning about the lynching of Ne
gro soldiers, police brutality in
New York, and the activities of
Rev. A. Clayton Powell Jr. He
fAally ends up with this gem.
"But the kind of justice for which
the Negro strives is undoubtedly
delayed by the Negro press. Its in
fiammatory attempts to indicate
that the Negro never gets fair
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Says Paper Showed
Disrespect to Dead
By Use of Word
Minneapolis, MINI.
January 10 1919

Minneapolis, MINI.
January 10, 1913
Editor: In referring to the death
of Mr.. Joseph Young in your issue
of January 18th I for one thought
it unbecoming to you as an Editor
to refer to him as a character.
There are no more characters, they
went out with the last war.
Everyone was put in this world
to live his or her life as sees fit, and
who are we to Judge mans Life?
AS far as the public was con-
cerned, and what we are no one
cares in these days. We all try to
live so that our fellow man will
think well of US. And to speak de-
spairingly of the dead, when they
can't speak for themselves shows
lack of respect for the dead.
Mrs. E. M. Fassett,
5136 18th Ave. s.,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Editors Note: The New Century
Dictionary, page 23S, Vol. I, defines
the word character thusly: 60
distinguishing mark or feature;
characteristic; also the aggregate
of characteristics or Distinguishing
features of thing; peculiar quail
ity; also moral constitution, as of
a person or a people; often strong
ly developed moral quality, also
reputation; often good repute; also
an account of the peculiarities of a
person or thing; also status or ca
pacity; also person considered as
exhibiting certain qualities"
The suggestion that the use of
the words "well known character"
in the news story mentioned in Mrs.
E. M. Fasset's letter was intended
to cast reflections on the subject
story is far fetched and without
foundation. A moments check of
the dictionary as is shown above
will indicate how erroneous such
deductions are. A common news
paper term, the word character
may be used to describe a variety
of persons and the word alone
does carry an unfavorable como
tation.
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Churches Leading
the Way in This
City

Utilize the advertising columns
of the community paper to reach
the great mass Of church-goers and
the unchurched of the area. In
these modern days, modern Chris
tan institutions have found that no
matter how good anything is, it
must be advertised.
That's the reason why the lead
ing churches Of the Twin Cities al
lot a portion Of their budget to
propagating the benefits Of church
affiliation and the Christian way
of life through the columns Of the
newspaper.
Hundreds Of Twin Citians keep
track of what the churches are
doing through Irwin City Church
es" found in this paper each week.
Educator Claims Children
Not Dumb but Just Slow
Tommy Schoolboy may not be as
dumb as his report card indi-
Gates, because Tommy's dumb
ness" may be traced to either the
home or school, says DR.. Emmett
A. Bets, director Of the reading
clinic in the school Of education at
the Pennsylvania State college.
Parent-teacher diagnosis Of q
"slow child has revealed that the
pupil generally is a victim of In
sufficient guidance or parental de-
velopment, DR.. Belts said.
Heavy homework, irritated par
ents, and mistaken ideas Of how
child should be prepared for school
has built up many emotional
blocks" DR.. Belts warned. Home
work for some elementary school
pupils has made school life a living
hell"
The Penn State reading expert
pointed out that parents sometimes
contribute to the homework plague
by ''nagging," or educators force
children to adjust themselves to a
questionable school program. Shift
ing Of Institutional problems to the
homes makes out-of-school teachers
Of parents, he added.
Educational guidance is a pro-
fessional job" DR.. Belts said. 1T
is the duty Of educators to show
parents how to prepare the child
by developing his play ability, shar-
ing informal story hours, planning
trips with the children, developing
child personality, encouraging phys
ical fitness, and teaching self SUI
ficiency," he urged.
The home and school must work
together for education Of the child,
DR.. Belts said. He suggested home
visits by teachers, parent-teacher
discussion periods, and personal
conferences aided by a complete
study Of the child's background.
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OSTRACISM
We Need Some Social Mechanism to Ostrucize Our
"Undesirobles'
By HORACE r. CAYTON

knew of incident where Chinese boy put of
the Chinese race because his conduct in the opinion of the
Chinese community of that city, becong and dsgracefu This
fellow eked miserable existence in the twilight between the
Japanese Filipino and Chinese for before he died Al
though this probably the most cruel type Of