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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Wide Disparity

During the current debate on drafting ia.
Tiers Senator Barley, the democratic leader.
has given it as his opinion that not more
than l9'oo0 men could be indicted from fed
eral offices.
This is far from the total claimed by Sena-
tors Bailey and Clerk who had proposed that
federal payrolls be stripped of nonfathers
within the draft age limits-at 100000.
surely Senator Barley cannot mean that
all over the $4,000 he names are either phvsi.
cany unfit or actually indispensable.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Prizes Are Secondary

A dispatch announcing the opening of the
new scrap drive devotes its chief space to
prizes offered for counties, cities, schools and
organizations making the largest contributions,
and says practically nothing of the great need
for the materials to be gathered.
We cannot believe that prizes are the prin-
cipal objective in this campaign There is only
one prize worth winning-the grand prize of
victory, in which everybody would share in
future security. Rather, we are convinced
that the quantity of scrap that can be collected
is the real target, and that everybody has
duty to shoot at it with every bit of metal.
every ounce of fat they can lay their hands
on.
Fifteen million tons of scrap metal are an
immediate need. Steel mills are running
short. and if their supply runs out they cannot
make tanks and planes and trucks and tor
pedoes and bullets and shells and ships. The
war is not so far along that we dare reduce
production of any of these.
F,verv unit which has a place in this drive
ought to extend itself to the full height of
achievement. to see that production does not
have to be curtailed. If war bonds are to
he distributed for winners all we'll and good,
hut their winning should be OF secondary con-
sideration.
The first must be the collection of all metal
au fats. all materials not In actual use under
the war program. What good could prize
bonds be unless we win the war and can pay
off?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Queen Bess

Apparently England some day is to have
another Good Queen Bess King G orge.
though still relatively young man, is looking
ahead to the day when his throne must pass
on. So he has asked for a revision of the
law to permit Princess Elizabeth to be in
cluded among the councillors OF state when
she becomes 18.
Presumably the correspondent of the New
York Times was writing with slv h,,mor
when, after telling of the kings request he
added an apparently irrelevant paragraph:
1T was ascertained that the king does not
expect to leave England soon" No abdication?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Raymond Clapper Says:
America Must Emerge
From Political She'll

about time our politicians did the
same. Travelling abroad doesn't
make them sell out to foreigners.
That is an idea that occurs to
people who have never been
abroad. 1 don't know anybody who
goes abroad without returning to
appreciate America more than be-
fore. You cant know how good
place this is until you have seen
all of the other places.
These senators come back with
two immediate specific interests.
One is to urge that the burden of
supplying oil for the allied war,
which is heavily taxing American
supplies, be partly shifted now to
the middle east. Enormous Per-
sian gulf oil resources an be
reached now that the Mediterrane-
an is open, particularly they can
be drawn on as the war moves on
east across the Indian ocean.
That's one thing these globe-trot-
ting senators will urge.
Secondly, they have landed and
taken off of scores of American
built airfields all over the world.
Millions of dollars have been in
vested in those fields. Outside of
the Western Hemisphere bases, we
have no assurance of n n g
rights at any of them for more
than six months after the war.
That question should be dealt with
before the war ends and the SEN
ators are set to bring it up for
consideration.
And with it all, these senators
have discovered how tough war
this is. They come back with a
realistic view of what it takes to
fight a battle, of the green hell
of he Pacific jungle war, and of
the stamina that it will take to
win complete victory.
If we are going to- have to live
in the world after this war, and
we evidently are, then our law
makers ought to begin seeing what
it is like outside the three mile
limit.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
You're
Telling Me

Joe Gobbel5 is overlooking a
good aibi. He might tell the Ger
mans the Nazls are abandoning all
those Russian towns because it 5
too much trouble to try to pro-
nounce them.
Then there's the old maid who
thinks it will be a shame to waste
Leap 9ea- in 1914 with SO manv
eligible fellows gone overseas.
Photographs declares it takes
1000 bees to weigh a pound. Bet
they can lick their weight in wild
cats.
!
Now that wood can be utilized
t or 5000 different purposes.
Grandpappy jenkins says he feels
just like a saboteur whenever he
sits down to enjoy cozy log fire.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON. - Three of the
five senators who have just re-
turned from a tour around the
world visiting our global fronts held
mass press conference here to
tell what they had learned.
Although very little had been
heard about them during t h r
trip, many legends were left in
their trail, such as the one re-
ported from North Africa by John
Steinbeck about an unnamed SEN
ator posing for photographs IN
simulated prayer at an American
soldiers grave.
I stopped off in England COM
ing home just after the senators
had left there on their way to
Africa. Their visit put a strain
on the officers in the European
theater who did everything pos
sible to anticipate senatorial wish
es. Elaborate tours and entertain
ment were provided, not without
some nigh casualties of a minor
nature. A trail of headaches was
all that the committee had left
behind in England.
You wonder whether it is worth
it for senators to take such trips
and that is why l went to the
press conference held Jointly by
Senators Russell of Georgia, Mead
of New York, and Brewster of
Maine. The other two senators,
Chandler of Kentucky and Lodge
of Massachusetts were not ye
back in Washington. They talked
for an hour and half and at the
end l wished every senator and
representative could do what they
did.
The senatos did not tell as much
nor tell it as we'll as John Gunther
Gid in describing his trip to the
Mediterranean theater at the Over
seas Writers Club luncheon t h
day before. The senators do not
come back as experts. They had
encroached on the time of busy
men around the world, and no
doubt were in the way sometimes
as any civilian is bound to be in
a war zone.
Yet these senators return much
better informed and much broader
men for having made the trip.
No one can be exposed to what
they have seen and to the people
with whom they have talked and
not come back from it with a far
better understanding Of this war
and the problems it creates.
America must break out of its
shell politically. We have had to
do it in a military sense. But po-
litically, we are still an insular
people, Many senators and repre-
sentatives have not been abroad.
The late Senator Borah, who for
many years was chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, and who had deep influence
on American foreign policy for
generation, never went abroad. He
DOdSIeQ IIldl 1lG lldd IlOI DGGIl OUC-
side of the United States. He didn't
want to be contaminated by min
Cling with foreigners.
But our soldiers are mixing with
foreigners. American soldiers have
had to mix with foreigners twice
in generation. Today they are
mixing with foreigners all around
the world literally These five SEN
ators have talked with them-talk-
ed with them in Iceland, in Eng
land, in Africa. Sicily, Egypt,
around the burning rim of the Per-
sian Gulf, in Karachi and Cal
cutta, in Assam, in New Guinea
in the FIJI Islands. in Samoa on
Christmas Island-to hit the high
spol. That's how our soldiers are
having to tour the world. It is
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Fair Enough

Editors Note-The Star and the News accents no
responsibility the personal views OF Mr.. PeEler;
h. reader, His articles serve the good purpose OF
making people think
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02

The corporations which need to be watched
most closely are those which move in inter-
national trade and those which enter into
International cartels respecting markets.
pr1ces and the use of inventions. Vice Pres.
ident Henry A. Wallace.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Oh JOY!

With the pleasure driving ban lifted think
what the joy-riding holders of A gasoline ration
books can do now on that extra half-gallon
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02

An Ohio town has an ordinance
prohibiting singing in beer par
lors on Sunday, Nix on Sweet
Adeline" in 80 time.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu'
tion of the war to complete VIC
tory.
,HOUGHT FOR TODAY

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The shortest life is long enough II IL
leads TO better, and the longest lie IS lou
short if it does not
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
WON'T DIVERT US

The Japanese government is re
ported to be moving industrial
establishments from Tokyo. But
that report won't keep our air
men from bombing Tokyo again.
They'll take a chance that maybe
one or two plants were over
looked by the Japs in their haste.
Charleston IS. c. Evening
Post.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-02
Defense
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSES
Isaac Bear School Building
Room 203, at 8 p. M.
GENERAL COURSE
Monday, October II.
FIRE DEFENSE A
Tuesday, October II.
GAS DEFENSE B
Wednesday, October 10.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-05-29
TREASURE CHEST
WHO is YOUR FRIEND?
BY Ruth Taylor

Who is your friend? The who talks to you OF what
he is Ching to do for you day? Or is it the one who
shows tou how to get ahead on your own steam?
Hitler held out friendship to the youth of Germany,
promising them that they would not have to pay for the
mistakes of their fathers that he would bring them pros
perity and let them rule master others
wonder they gave thought to that in the springtime
mud of Russia the burning sands of North African
deserts.
Japan holds out the hand of friendship to the "oppres
sed peoples of the earth Ask the Koreans what kind of
friendship of Japan gives They have known the for
nearly century Ask the Chinese the coastal towns what
the pledge Ask those who still alive to speak
They have tasted that friendship.
The Axis followers claim that the Anglo Saxon nations
unfrendS of the darker Yet they overlook the
cry and to make slave trading criminal ofense Ask the
whose rule they would prefer live Ask Negro
received in England AS for United Staeswhere
uny for individual progress based their merits
but they be and being corrected under demo-
learn the facts
the one who acts with justice expecting you much
your responsibility he is Of his own.
A friend is who entertans respect for another,
who has strong regard for his weare-who expects you
sanctity and freedom of the individual Who YOUR friend
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-05-29
FIGHTING THE ENEMY WITHIN
By Victor w. Rotnem


Today, more than at any time in past, of the
United States resolved to live up the immortal desig
nation OF our country "a nation conceived liberty
dedcated to the proposition that all created equal
Seventy eight years ago. our Constitl-
any person be held in slavery of involuntary servitude
On foreign battefields soldiers now fighting
enemies who have reduced millions to savery-slavery
worse than any other known to modern times Those
mes are determined to force the people of America that
same level OF degradation To defeat them deliver
hnanty from their evil design shall stop sacrifice
But is not enough to fight the enemy outside To keep
our liberties alve must work and fight for them at
nome We must make of them living truth in the daily
life of the humbest citizen
1t is the duty of the Department of Justice to protect
the civil rights of people Since Pearl Harbor in the
performance OF this duty the Department Justice has con-
quoted relentless drive against any violation the civil
rights OF American citizens Our efforts have been directed
against all who have attempted to subject ANYBODY
TO involuntary servitude police brutality or in anv
way 70 deny equal protection under the law Two persons
recently convicted OF Subecng others slavery have been
sentenced to prison terms Four will soon be tried
Iweny-egh more of this type are now being inves
tigated. ~
sheriff. his deputy and city police officer have lust
been indicted for beating to death Negro in their CUSTODY
ana another case OF the kind soon to be presented
to grand jury. r
- When, to every person in country, are accorded
those rights which recognize the human dignity of free
Citizenship, at that time and until then Shall we have
fulfilled the destiny of nation conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
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We must deal with each case as it
arises, judging it on its individual
merits without regard to class, creed
or color. We must face each charge
as it is made and learn what are
the facts. This is the only way in
which we can quench fear-because
we will be discarding half lies in
favor of the truth.
We must guard our speech. Let
every thought of divisiveness end
with us. Let us nave no defeatism,
even in talk at hhome. We must
be our own "Rumor Clinic" search
ing out the why of every state
ment.
We as nation cannot govern our
selves by deceits and frauds-we
fust know the truth--and if we
know we are hearing the whole
truth we can take it--because we
can believe what we are told-not
fear something worse. Only the
truth can make men free from fear.
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dent of the National Convention of
Gospel Singers, Inc, and it is hop
ed that the Singers will unite and
make this anniversary what it
should be-
Singers will be contacted and Civ
en- the proper information. 1t is
planned to present the program here
the week of June 6, the exact date
to be be made known soon. A COM
munication from Prof. Dorsey to J.
L. Calhoun, veteran gospel soloist
and so far as is known, the only
member Of the National Conven-
ton of Gospel Singers, Inc, living
in the city, relative to the anniver-
sary was received recently.
1t has also been learned that
many gospel and spiritual song
writer's, gospel singers and thou
sands of music lovers will meet in
the auditorium of Du Sable High
school, 10th and State Street, June
End to pay tribute and give recog-
milton to the venerable Thomas Dor
sey.
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farmers lack adequate information
on the AAA program. Few of those
IN the areas studied were doing as
many units of soil conservation
work as their white neighbors.
Three factors are believed to have
contributed to this: Cd lack of in
formation, 90 fewer Negroes own
ed their farms, and CD Negro farm
ers generally lived farther from
good roads, thus heavy terracing
machinery could not get to many
OF their farms.
MIR. AmmonS, a graduate of AL
corn A. & M college, is said to be
well qualified by training and ex-
perlence to do an excellent job of
assisting Negro farmers in develop
ing and carrying out sound soil
conservation practices as well as in
helping them to participate more
fully IN all phases of the AAA pro-
gram. In order to reach the $4,000
Negro farmers in the state, he will
organize Institutional material on
the AAA program, and will also
develop wide contacts with Negro
county agents, vocational agricul-
ture teachers, ministers, and church
leaders.
Mummy Hand, a member of the
state AAA committee, terms the
appointment of Mr.. Ammons as a
step in the right direction. And says
MIR. Hand, "A sound international
program will help Negro farmers
make a better living and earn a
larger income, as well as advance
the interest of the entire state.
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"A STEP IN THE RIGHT @DIRECTloNMM

fairs. We therefore wish to express
cur deepest appreciation to you for
increasing our salaries so generous
ly for the session of 1894
Next session will find us not
seeking more remunerative jobs,
but rather a happier and more, de-
termined group of teachers than
ever to remain in the profession.
performing our several tasks with
that kind of faithfulness and earn
estness that become good workmen.
Again we wish to thank you most
heartily for your thoughtfulness of
our financial welfore.
Most respectfully yours,
Jackson Colored Teachers Assn.
(Mrs) M. L. Morrison, Pres.
Miss Birdie Graves, Sec.
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The Truth Sets
Free
BY RUTH TAYLOR

AS the fortunes of war wax and
wane all over the globe, there is
one battlefront that is under con-
slant fire. Our minds are always
in the front line of attack. The pai-
son gas of conflicting. disruptive
rumors are daily let loose over
our heads. Enemy sappers are con-
stantly attempting to tunnel thru
from all directions to undermine
our courage and staying power. Our
morale is under an enfilade from
all angles.
Of course when we stop to ana
lyze what we hear we can usually
recognize divisie propaganda. We
are mature, thinking people. We
know from whence stem the stor-
les that tend to make us distrust
cur leaders and criticize the policies
of our government. That tend to
make us look upon our fellow citi-
zens as greedy, avaricious men, in
tent only on their own profit-(be
they workers, farmers, or indus
trialisD. That tend to make us as
sumo our neighbors have alien SYM
pathies or Interior motives depend
ing upon how pronounced their par
ticipation in the war effort seems
to be.
We can recognize these things as
enemy propaganda when we stop
to think. Unfortunately there are
occasions (and they will be more
frequent as the war continues)
when we are SO tired and disturbed
by the press of things, that we won't
take time to analyze what we hear
when we will listen with our ears
and not with our minds, and when
the constant repetition of divisive
charges, of slurring remarks, of &C
cusations, of half-truths will find us
believing in spite of ourselves. If
that happens to enough of us at
the same time-it will mean a dam
gerous break in the line of public
morale.
There is one sure way in which
we can successfully fight this dam
ger-that is by administering the
truth consistently and constantly.
We must go directly to the point.
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jackson Colored
Teachers Express
Appreciation

Jackson, Mississippi,
May Is, 1913
Superintendent X. P. Walker
and
Board of Education
Jackson Public Schools,
Jackson, Mississippi
Dear Madam and Sirs:
From time to time through your
kindness and deep interest in our
welfare we have been granted in
creases in salary SO that we may
more nearly have the the means to
live up to the high standards set
for teachers of the Jackson Public
School System
For the past year or SO we have
not only found it practically i'm
possible to advance ourselves pro-
fessionally, but it has been extre-
mely difficult for us to make ends
meet in our purely domestic af-
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and Negro citizens to wake up il
they expect to make honorable citi-
zens out of Negro youth. 1t is bet
ter to pay a prepared group higher
salaries than to keep the other in
competent group who constantly
keeps the race from attaining its
highest success.
1t is unfair to criticize the Negro
aNbout not being able to think, to
measure up as good citizens. when
nothing is done to improve his
educational system. Too often we
find that the system is run by I'M
scruplous trustees who try to use
the teachers for Their own selfish
and immoral purposes and when the
teachers fail to dance by their music
they are dismissed. When these kind
Of things are wiped from the Negro
educational system, when prepared
teachers are hired, then will we see
our group going rapidly toward the
point of better citizens.
We, in the south, have golden
opportunities, both groups under
stand each other.
l am sure what I have said here
will meet the approval of every
decent white and negro citizen
throughout the south, for it will
take both races to defeat Hitler and
the things he stands for.
Let us defeat these evils in the
south by reconstructing our educa-
tional system and placing prepared
teachers in all the Negro schools
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Billiards have been played since
the time Of Homer in ancient
Greece.
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administrator His work will entail
assisting Negro farmers in using the
AAA program to improve their
farms, make better living. and
reach the war crop goals.
In discussing Mr.. Ammons' ap-
pointment, DR.. F. D. Patterson, and
Claude A. Barnett, special assistants
to the Secretary of Agriculture who
have been advising with State AAA
administrators as to the Importance
of having Negroes on their stats.
point out that it is a major step
toward helping Negro farmers of
Mississippi make their full contrib
ution to this years vital wartime
food production.
The need for Negro AAA person
mel on the state level was brought
out recently in study made by
Tuskegee which reveals that Negro
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South Should Reconstruct
Negro Educational System
BY A. w. HIGH

Today as never before we in the
South, white and colored must
come to the front and demand that
Negroes be given adequate train
ing. Competent instructors and bet
ter educational advantages, SO that
our group will know the value of
good Citizenship.
1t is impossible for the Negro to
merit his place in life as long as
unprepared instructors are permit
ted in the classrooms of Negro
schools throughout the south. It is
sad to say, but three-fourths of the
Negro schools in the South are in
charge of men and women who are
not prepared to do a good job. AS
for the good they are doing. our
young men and women of today, it
would be much better if their doors
were closed. 1t takes men and wo-
men who are prepared both moral
ly and educationally to be a good
citizen. We have teachers in our
group who are morally fit, but lack
the training, this particular group
of instructors are doing the race
more harm than good.
The average teacher in the South
has only high school training which
amounts to nothing when it comes
tc the elevation of youth. All this
group is interested in is the small
pay they get I want the good White
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las TO GRADUATE !.
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Willie R. Sims, Claudine Smith, Dot
tie M. Smith, Myrtis o. Stampley,
Jeff c. Stevens, George w. Swan,
Mary Tavern Taylor, Essie NJ. Ter
ry, Collie T. Thomas, Mable L.
Thomas, Herman L. Thompson,
Rutha B. Tillman, Ceasarine Tyler,
Margaret J. Tyler, Rosalie Valen-
tine, Edna Earl Walker, Mary L.
Walker, Thelma E. Warren, Iona R.
Washington, Julia NJ. Washington,
Esther NJ Wells, Amos L. Wheatley
Jr., Claude White, Louis C. Wilcher,
Jr., Emma NJ. Williams, Cardia M.
Winston, Catherine Alma Woods
jones Henry Young, Lee Ora
Young, Robert Young.