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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-17
Scott at Investigation
Reports

NSPOAtS
10-BoSton speakers and au-
dience alike revealed great dis
satisfaction over the alleged
Investigations" made, and
those being made, into the cur
rent wave of racial disturb
anceS. Cited were the results in
Detroit alone where 1400 riot
rs arrested 1900 were Colored
people, chiefly concerned in de-
Tending their own homes and
property from whites. OF 81
persons killed, "a were Colored
persons shot mostly by police.
"This comparison" said Mr..
Frankensteen last Sunday, lis
odious." 1t is a record of which
every decent American should
be ashamed. Soothing at legal
authorities who claim they
could find "no evidence" in the
Detroit riots, Mr.. Frankensteen
pointed out numerous news
photographs revealing fascists
sympathizers running wild beat
ing up colored people while the
police stood by and did nothing
to stop the assaults.
Solid Progress Made
Even granting that Boston is
in no immediate danger of rae
ial wars the saying still goes
that a stitch in time saves nine.
The Boston Victory Rally last
Sunday presented certain solid
resolutions that you may read
elsewhere in the Guardian.
These resolutions concern not
only Boston but the entire ma
ton. If these resolutions are
acted upon by the proper auth
critics, speakers declared that
racial friction and race riots
can be avoided, and if the needs
of the colored minority are ig-
nored, anything may happen.
Rev A v Bliss, copreSiding Of
ficer at the Rally, said as he be-
gan to introduce the speakers:
I'VE are here to show the
world where Boston stands and
where Boston has stood since
the days of William Lloyd Gar
riSon, CriSpus AttuckS and Rob-
ert Gould Shaw. wish that
this meeting could be broadcast
to Berlin. 1 wish it could be
heard in Detroit"
BY the volume of thunderous
applause from the audience it
was clear that his declaration
reflected the sentiments of all
those present.
The invocation was pro-
nounced by Dr.. Frederick May
Eliot, President of the Ameri-
can Unitarian Association. The
message from Governor Sal
j., .tonstau was read by Ray w
Guild, former Boston President
of the NAACP. The collection
appeal was made by Rev. Ken
meth de P. Hughes, pastor Of
st. Bartholomew's Episcopal
church. The Resolutions Com
mittee was chairmained by DR.
Henry A. Hill, Director of At
lantic Research Associates. Rev
Richard M. Owens, Of the In
terdenominational Ministerial
Alliance pronounced the bene-
diction.
Music was provided by The
Massachusetts, State Guaro
Band and by the Greater Bos-
ton Guild of Organists and Di-
rectors.
AHnMHA nmM
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-17

Miss Georgia Mason, talented
Iowa designer, is teaching Rec
reatiOnal Craft at Lincoln Uni
versity, Missouri Miss Mason
has received widespread recog-
milton for her highly original
work in water color, textiles,
metals, wood, leather and pot
terry. A water color by Miss Ma
son was one of 60 selected by
the Index American Design and
exhibited at the opening Of
President Roosevelt's Hyde Park
library in 1941.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-17
LODGING FOR
SERVICE MEN

The Robert Gould shaw
House has opened a space IN
their Center for service men
wishing lodging over the week
end. Contact Mr.. Lawson at tns
Ruggles st. USO Service Cerlter
or Call the Robert Gould shaw
House, II windsor ST., Roxour"
Mass.
All citizens having roonV
that could be rented to serves
men and their wives, kindly can
the Center Gar. $3.50 and leaVs
name and address with Ml'
Lawson, Supervisor of Lodgings
HAZEL E. McCREE,
Publicity Agent
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-17

sCeQQlCK.
Miss Olivia Banks, Miss RoS-
alec Banks danced a TAP
Number. Miss Rosalee Banks
rendered a speciality number
acrobatic in nature.
CHARM CLINIC
HOLDS GRADUATION
Seventy-five Hostesses were
presented with diplomas on
Tuesday evening, June 29, at
the completion of their six
weeks course held at the Cen
ter. Each hostess was required
to attend the lecture given every
Tuesday evening by men and
women representing heads Of
Departments of Hospitals, Beau
ty Culturists and Social Agen-
cies, and note books containing
items of interest obtained from
the lectures were the require
ments to obtain the diploma
Miss Sara Conyers, Supervisor
of the HoStesses and Charm
Clinic presented the diplomas
assisted by Miss Dorothy Nit
chell and Mr.. Arthur Williams,
Director of the Center. Remarks
were made by Mr.. Williams and
Mrs. Hazel E. McCree, who has
had the Supervision of the Hos
tesSes from the organizing Oh
the Hostess Club. The recipients
of the diplomas received great
applause and were very happy
to be the first group of ladies 10
graduate from the Charm Chm
ic, and are well equipped to car
ry on at the Center.
HOSTESSES PICNIC
HELD AT REVERE BEACH
July 4th-An all day picnic IN
the great outdoors was held az
Revere Beach. Each Hostess IN
vited a service man and pre-
80
pared luncheon for her guest
Notice this column for otIlei
picnics.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-17
Hits Cracker Congress

9-The present southern DOM
mated Congress was bitterly as
sailed for its opposition to the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-05

MAZE every drop of DUNK count Send it i" cheerful,
4'A friendly words strengthen the heart and will of
men who have grim tasks to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
GIorifying
Yourself
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

Next time you come home from
q weekend at the beach and have
to wait day or two for an ap-
pointment at the beauty shop be-
fore you can have the salt water
washed out of your hair, try this
trick of radios "Mr. District At
torney" star, Vicki VIOLA.
use hair tonic to tone up your
scalp and take the droopiness out
of your hair" Vicki says. Il find
it especially effective during hot
weather when my head perspires
more than usual, and my hair
needs toning up between weekly
shampoos.
Here's how it's done:
Part your hair in several sec
tions and 60 over your scalp and
down the length of the strands
with cotton saturated with hair
tonic and a few drops of cologne.
Use several fresh daubs of cotton,
so that they will absorb the maxi
mum of sickness and dust.
Follow this with vigorous
brushing, then push the waves
tonic won't harm them bit-back
in place with comb. And, presto,
your hair will be sweet-scented and
lustrous looking.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

There is a new dangerous age
for men. It's the age where man
Is too old for the draft and yet too
young not to resent being civilian.
John Jones is typical.
He is successful businessman
and life was going along fine for
him-until the war broke out.
It is still fine, judged by some
standards. Business Is better than
usual. In fact, you would say John
Jones and his wife are people who
hardly know there is war, so
little has it touched their llveS-in
ways that show.
They haven't been separated.
They live in the same house,
have the same friends, go the
same places, eat almost as we'll as
they ever did.
But while it is still the same for
Mrs. Jones and the children, Papa
is restless.
He feels shut out of things.
Not being in uniform, he can't
help but see that the men in
service are the men VINO are most
highly respected today. He even
suspects at times that they are
having a much better time than
he is.
He is uncomfortable when he is
around them-and yet they are all
over the place.
He is pretty unhappy fellow,
you'll discover. if you study him
closely
MRS. JONES CAN SAVE
THE DAY
If you are Mrs. Jones-you had
better get busy and help him find
himself. Help him find a place in
the war effort that he knows is inn
portant. Help him put his restless
desire to be in the fight at work
right here at home.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
NO SECOND FRONT.
COMPLAIN THE REDS

The Russian newspaper Pravda, of
ficia organ of the communist party and
thus the mouthpiece of the entire gov
ernment of the Soviet Union. has COM
planned that no second front has been
opened by Great Britain and the United
States.
1t seems that some people are never
satisfied
What do they call the operations in
Africa and Sicily, which have netted
almost half a million German and Ital-
ian prisoners, untold thousands killed
and resulted in the abdieation of Benito
Mussolini.
The article which undoubtedly bears
the endorsement of Josef Stain, says that
President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill have not
kept their promise made to Soviet Foreign
Minister V. NJ. Molotov in 1912.
mo attempt was made in the article
to disguise Soviet disappointment and
irritation" the press story of the Russ
ian position declared,
Perhaps we in the United States should
be little "irritated" about the continu-
Gus reluctance of the Russians to take
an active part in the Far Eastern War
against the japanese, or even OF the re
tuSal by the Russians to grant Siberian
bases from which our planes could CT
crate against the Japs.
Perhaps we should feel little "irrltat-
ed'' concerning the Soviet position re-
garding lend-lease material which has
been flowing to Russian since early in the
war and which was responsible, to large
degree, for the successes of the Red army
in the winter campaign of 1942-43 and of
the fast-mounting offensive now in pro-
gress. Until Admiral Standley got up on
his hind legs and classified the Reds
verbally, they did not even inform their
people that single gun had been shipped
to them from the United States. In Rus
sia all newspapers are controlled by the
government and thus officials are able
to feed" to the people anything they
desire
Perhaps we should be a little upset
about the granting by the Reds of fishing
privileges to the Japs, foe of their allies
Certainly the Russians have done
grand job this far in the war in keeping
Hitler's troops out of their capital.
But they should never fear that our
leaders will break solemn pledge and
if an invasion of Europe proper was
promised it shall come about.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
Capitol ToIk
--by-----
Peter Edison

times or more, the costs of opera
ton come down amazingly, and
there is where the excess profits lie.
The manufacturer of a device
used in training aircraft person.
mel came up with the argument
that since the war demands had
resulted in the production of all
these devices that would be
needed for the next 20 years,
the government should allow
profits that would guarantee the
company's dividend rate for the
next 20 years.
Some machine toolmakers have a
similar argument, which runs that
since the war demands have caused
the manufacture of machine tools
up to the saturation point. there
will be little postwar demand and,
as matter of fact, production for
the next year will be cut back, be-
ginning in october. Therefore, it
is reasoned that machine tool
makers should have profits as
sllring maintenance of dividend
rate till there is new demand.
There is on record, however, one
machine toolmaker which had net
worth of S. million in 1888 and
which. in the four years since
then. has not only paid out IS mil
lion in dividends-100 per cent
dividends, or IS per cent per year
but has increased its net worth
three times to boot.
That's why there Is this thing
called renegotiation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
DRAFT CONFUSION

The policy of selective service officials
in not making complete announcement
when disclosing plans for draft of pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers is apparently done
with some hidden motive.
First the nation was informed that
those fathers will be liable for induction
after October l. Now it has been an
nounced that a pool of all other avail
able men classified for military service"
will be made and used up before the faith
ers are called.
The officials in charge also disclosed
that plans for the formation and use of
such pool are already being carried
out. Why wasn't this disclosed when the
initial announcement was made?
The second announcement is also am
biguous The phrase classified for mill
tary service is not clear. Does that mean
that men deferred because they are keep
ing the war machine operating are now
to be called up?
We confess that we don't know why
such important news is handed us in
little pieces. But we do strongly sus-
pect that there is definite reason be-
hind it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
SOME SUGAR FACTS
Santa Monica Outlook

The news that the beet sugar crop in
the United States will be the smallest
in 40 years is hardly "a misfortune. al
though the beet sugar mills have reason
to so regard it. With the submarine
menace under control. America is as
sured of all the cane sugar her people
will need for the next year. In the light
of that fact. it is fortunate that many
acres of land which have been devoted
to sugar beet growing, are now producing
other crops of more immediate import
ance in the food supply.
It is instructive to note. however, that
the shortage in sugar beets is ascrlbed
directly to the government red tape and
the hesitancy and indecislon OF govern
ment bureaus. Manager j. +. Rooney
of the American Crystal Sugar company
at Oxnard makes this charge without
reserve and he is in position to know the
facts.
In this case bureaucratic bungling has
had no unfortunate result for the public.
but if the submarine had not been con-
trolled it doubtless would h ave h d.
When the bureaucrats were hesltatlng
and procrastinating there was no as
surance that the Caribbean would be
freed from the submarine and that Cuba's
sugar would flow freely into the United
states. As it is, the sugar supply is am
pie. for which the Navy is to be thanked,
and not the crop bureaucrats in Wash
ington.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge OF cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authorita-
tive answers below:
|. Should you ever ask friend
TO take you any place in his car so
that you will not have to spend cab
fare?
2. Should you argue with person
in whose car you are riding II he
insists on taking you all the way
home when you know it is out of his
way?
3. If someone offers to give you a
ride should you feel free to ask
someone else to go along?
4. If you ride often in another
persons car should you make an
effort to pay for gasoline occa-
sionally?
S. If three women take taxi
together should they sit in the cab
at the end of their ride until they
divide up the fare among them?
What would you do if
A favor you have agreed to do Tor
friend turns out to be inconven-
lent to YOU
(a) Let him know that 1t is in
Convenientp
(b) Don't let him know he Is in
conveniencing you?
Answers
l. No.
2. No Accept favors sraciously.
3. No.
4. Yes.
S. No. One can pay the fare and
If they wish the others can pay her
their share attcrward.
Better What Would You Do
oolution-(b).
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
Sailors May Work
On Farms if Wish

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 (UP)-
Sailors today were authorized to
volunteer for farm and cannery
work during liberty hours by Vice
Admiral John w. Greenslade, COM
mandant Of the 18th naval district.
In an order issued yesterday,
Greenslade said employment of
sailors would be permitted where 1t
will not interfere with the Gus
tomary or regular engagement of
local civilians in farm and food
processing work"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
s. Burton Heath
Writes:

away unquietly very soon after
President Roosevelt learned bout
the "moronic little king" broad
cast and his ostensible part in it..
But Herrick still lives on.
We shall not miss John Durfee.
We shouldn't miss Walter Herrick.
We feel safe from an indictment
for Suborning homicide when we
Suggest that somebody stick blue
pencil or pair of scissors through
Walter Herrick, for the good of our
foreign broadCastS.
The ways of propaganda are
strange and wonderful, but we are
very certain that there is no legi-
innate viewpoint which the owl,
with soupcon of diligence, could
not quote from legitimate. bona
fide, flesh and blood commentators
,putput.
:, SO goodby, John. and not au
revoir, we hope. Here's your hat,
Walter. Don't miss your bus. We
won't be seeing you again soon. Or
shall we?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
FUTURE OF EUROPE
San RernurdinO Sun

Our soldiers are finding in Sicily q.
war-weary people. They are tired, even
dirty, and they do not seem to care what
goes on.
The same thing will be found in Italy,
then in Greece, all through the Balkans,
in France. Norway and finally even in
Germany itself
There are 350,000,0O0 people in Europe
"a small, over-crowded section of the
earth that has seen too much of misery
and is doomed to see even more before
the war ends.
And when the war ends, will that be
the end of misery? Those who are get
ting glimpse of Europe at war are be-
ginning to wonder about the future.
Will little food bring new mental at
titude, or has the horror and misery of
the past three or four years completely
sapped the energy and will of these mil
lions?
The people Of Britain and the United
States and perhaps Russia expect the
people of Europe, once they are liberated
to. take charge of their own affairs, re-
organize their own governments and start
life anew.
But can the people of changed Eu-
rope go back to the old way Of life? Are
the emotions so shattered that they will
not see and think clearly when they once
more have the opportunity?
The postwar job in Europe may be as
big as that of winning the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
laps Capture U.S.
Officer in Islands
BY UNITED PRESS

An American lieutenant colonel
named Hugh Strong has been cap
tured on Luzon island in the
Philippines in the Laguna province
vicinity about 100 miles north of
Manila Bay, Tokyo radio said Fri
dag night.
The broadcast which was rec
orded by the United Press in San
Francisco, said Strong was ring
leader of the enemy guerilla corps
III the southern sector of Luzon."
Tokyo has admitted from time
to time that guerrilla fighters are
stu holding out in the Philippines.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08

Not every war contractor fights
government renegotiation of his
war contract, TO determine how his
costs can be reduced, his excess
profits cut down.
Some of them beat the govern
ment to the punch and adopt a
policy of turning back excess
profits voluntarily. General Motors
did that in March of 1912 when its
directors decided to limit profit be-
fore taxes to half of what the
company mad made on civilian
business before the war. And, as
war Department experience has
shown, at least 81 per cent of the
contracts investigated thus far
have shown that there were not
excessive profits.
Opposition TO the renegotiation
act of April es, 1912, in the cam
paigns of publicity that have
been conducted in an effort to
have the law modified or re-
peaIed have shown wide variety
of arguments. some of which
border on the naive. At the out
set. in considering renegotiation
and contract price adjustments,
officers of the government pro-
curement agencies have adopted
the attitude that it is the right
and duty of every corporation
executive to ret as good a deal
Still, there's war on and the
taxpayers have some right in this
business too.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
Would King Cole Be Merry
With Stomach Acid Pajns2

The legendary Old King Cole might not
have been merry old soul II he had
stomach acid pains Sufferers who have
10 pay the penalty of stomach acid pains,
Indigestion, gas pains, heartburn. burning
sensation. bIoat and other conditions
caused by excess acid, should try Udga
and they, too may be merry Get 25c
box of Udga Tablets from your druggist.
First dose must convince or return box
to us and get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY
BACK, At Clements Drug Store,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08

This global war is now primarily
test of the brain power of the belligerents.
The controlling factor in victory will
be the superior direction of force, the
superior intelligence of individual fight
ers and the superior aertness of civilians.
Dean Carl w Alderman of Columbia
University. -ssA &
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
CONTRACTORS GET
EVEN BREAK

If anything, the government re-
negotiators have probably leaned a
good bit toward the side of the
contractors, who are told to put in
every cost that seems reasonable,
even though it may not be allowed.
Privately, the government renego-
tiators, who were mostly business
men themselves in private life, joke
to each other about when they 60
to Atlanta. after the war" They
don't know what hey're going for,
specifically, but they feel they're
on their way.
Still-Some of the war contrac-
tors leading the parade against re-
negotiation try to make cases for
themselves which Army and Navy
men. recognizing the sacrifice which
the soldiers or sailors makes with
his life, find hard to accept as a
sacrifice or risk.
Building contractors have come
up with an argument running
something like this: Yes, they
admit. some profits on some
building contracts have been high.
But disregard those. Average out
all the profits Of all the con-
tractors and you will see that
there has been no excessive
prOfiteering.
The argument of textile mill
executives ran about as follows
Cotton mills should be exempt
from renegotiation of contracts be-
cause they are an old-tjme in
dustry, using old-time machines.
Their costs were known. If the
men who made the government
contracts had been any good, it
would have been impossible for the
industry to get a contract that
would allow excess profits.
WHERE EXCESS PROFITS LIE
What they would have the gov
ernment overlook in this case is the
fact that when volume of produc-
ton is increased from two to five
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08

(Piease read TeamSters' Union Sec
retarg Ed AchStetter's comment on
Rep. John Phillips writing which tce
used in our editerioi columns yeSter-
day II may be found in the adUertis-
ing space on the back page of this
iSSue.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloming edit
oriuis are presented as interesting Opin-
ions uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08

Our share must not be a nominal share
based on biased generalities and phrases,
but it must be based on sacrifices in the
maintenance of peace by force.-Under-
secretary of State Sumner Welles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08

It is with complete absence OF
regret that we learn OF the timely
death of John Durfee, the Owls
conception of the little man who
never was there. MIR. Durfee was
not the political commentator who
said that the war will go on even
though the King of Italy should
'usurp power"
In fact, SO far sS we can de-
termine John Durfee never said
anything, because there wasn't any
John Durfee any more than there
is any d. C.. Speaker or any expert
on military affairs named Walter
Herrick. In a land of 1873 100000
persons, mostly vocal and all pos
sessed of belligerent opinions on
every subject, John Durfee and d.
G. Speaker and Walter HerriCk are
Pigments of the imagination.
For D. C. Speaker there is an ex1.
cuse. Highly placed and very au-
thoritative federal officials fire.
quently tell newSpapermen facts for
publication which, for reasons good
or bad, must not be attributed to
their source. So D. c. Speaker
was coined as a generic name for
this type of informant There was
no secret about him-no pretense
that he lived and breathed and
dreamed and thought as a mortal.
His evanescence was a matter of
record from the beginning.
But those guys Durfee and Her
rick were ghosts of different
chemistry. They were used only in
foreign broadcaStS by the Owl.
the pretense was made that they
actually existed: and the idea
seemed to be to trick our foreign
listeners into believing that here in
the United States were recognized
commentators of standing and
repute-Durfee on politics and Her
rick on military matters-Who had
expressed opinions which were
being quoted.
Well, Durfee is dead. He passed
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-08
WHERE EXCESS PROFITS LIE

What they would have the gov
ernment overlook in this case is the
fact that when volume of produc-
ton Is increased from two to five