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nobleman fleeing from the rout at Hast
ings, which was fought not many miles
away. may even have been last
stand on the down itself.
Long before the Saxons the land had
Celtic history. Some of the finest neo-
lithic implements yet found in Great
Britain have been turned up by plow-
men in Washington fields. The devils
fondness for the place is believed to be
due to these Celtic and Druidical asso-
Citations.
He is credited, by the way, with one
more misplay a few miles away from
Washington. Angered by the prosperity
of farmers on the weald he set out to
dig a dyke-a dyke here is a ditch
through the hills to flood the plain The
Lord agreed to let him but postulated
that the job must be completed between
sunset and cockcrow.
One night Beelzebub. digging furiously
nearly succeeded. But it so happened
that the worthy ST. Cuthman got up
that morning long before daylight to
pray. A chanticleer saw the light of a
candle in the holy mans window, mis-
took it for sunrise, and started to crow.
After such a setback the devil gave it
up as bad job.
He now appears to have deserted us
and taken up his permanent abode in
Germany" commented Mr.. Gotcher.
Although apparently not directly asso-
ciated with Washington, D. c., the Sus-
sex village is quite closely connected
with American history One of its 18th
century bellies became the wife of John
Harvard. Another married William
Penn. The founder Of Pennsylvania
lived for some years on his wifes prop
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British Chaplain Is Host to Tars Here
BY Louise Engle.

If British seamen return one day to
their homes, smuggling under their blue
jackets extra cargoes Of strong affection
for things, places and folks American,
you can credit no small share of their
good will to the Rev. w. Launcelot
Fleming, chaplain since soon after
Dunkirk to large, though undisclosed,
compliments OF His Majesty's Royal
Navy.
Padre" Fleming, his men call him,
but without his inverted collar this
youngish bachelor might easily pass for
a student at Trinity Hall in Cambridge,
where three years ago he was serving as
dean. Nor does his conversation lean
to matters generally associated with
the cloth" Brotherly love, yes, and
sisterly love, but the brothers and Sis
ters are us folks, us plain Americans.
In 1929, arriving her for two-year
commonwealth scholarship in geology
at Yale University, Mr.. Fleming fell in
love with America. Returning to his
home he forthwith set out, but without
too great success, to convince his coun-
trvmen that We were like We are, only
slightly resembling our Piccadilly stage
Caricatures. A three-year interlude on
a British Antarctic expedition, similar
to Admiral Byrd's, failed to cool his
ardor for his Yankee cousins. But it
seems to have taken a total war to set
his ambition on workable basis.
His Goodwill Mission
In cooperation with USO and other
local committees, he has for some weeks
been carrying on, in addition to his
clerical duties, sort of non commercial
goodwill tour agency, booking hundreds
Of British tars, from nearby ports, for
seven-day visits into scores of homes
in Virginia North Carolina, Maryland
and the District of Columbia. Most of
these men land here from long eVentful
sea details and are homesick for Eng
land, which they have not seen for
months or years, AS important to Chap
lain Fleming as major sea victory is
the conversion wrought on these stout
British hearts by this one generous in
doctrination of American hospitality.
Invariably they return to the ship
changed men," he related to USO hosts
during a recent tour with q men to
Washington The only failure among
them all was one lad who never found
his way TO the address I gave him. What
has meant more than anything else is
simply the way you Americans have
accepted our men as one of the fam
lily There is nothing that makes
visit more worth while, you know, than
the feeling that you belong
British Embassy Entertainments
When his parties come to Washington,
Lord and Lady Halifax often entertain
them at the British Embassy Recently
they invited also an equal number OF
American seaman. and 1t was sight for
sore eyes to watch the melting OF that
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A few years ago local rustic found
at the foot Of the hill cache of 5000
silver pennies of Edward the Confessor
and King Harold. Without the slightest
idea of their value he took them to town
and spent them in one night setting up
drinks for all his cronies Now they are
prize pieces in coin collections all over
the earth.
There is a lot of speculation as to how
they got there. A favorite explanation
is that they were buried by some Saxon
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ing to the town, is the 800-foot high
Chanctonbury down-a down in this part
Of England is a hill-with its ring of
5000 beach trees surrounding a bushy
copse. 1t is a landmark for sailors.
Historically it is known that the trees
were planted by local 18th century
gentleman named Charles Goring, pro-
prietor of Winston Manor, the largest
landed estate in the neighborhood. Mr..
Goring planted every tree with his own
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fighting as loyal battle as is being
fought anywhere on earth. And they
were a little abashed at having any
connection forged between their clusters
of brick cottages and the Washington of
the District of Columbia
First, word about this rather isolated
hamlet in a country of rolling hills.
It is spring winter in Washington.
The hedge-rows are family fragrant of
honey from the yellow gorse blossoms.
when gorse is in bloom goes a. Sussex
saying, "it is kissing time"-and there
are gorse flowers every month of the
year.
In sheltered spots in Miss Barlow
Webb's garden pink hepaticas, golden
aconite, mauve-and-go polyanthas, and
white allison are breaking into bloom.
Over the low box hedge peep the coral
cups of Christmas roses. Dried white
honesty blooms flutter in the wind.
Over the door climbs yellow jasmine
vine. leafless but covered with golden
flowers 1t intertwines with a pyracan-
tha vine covered with red berries like
the mountain ash of Virginia hillsides.
There are yellow primroses in warm
hollows of the weald where the sheep
focks Craze. On Miss Webbs table was
a bouquet of Siberian iris, picked out of
doors.
There is a choris of birds in the gar
dens of winter mornings-blue-t tits,
thrushes, blackbirds and magpies.
Purple starllngs feed on the pyracantha
berries.
Rich in Historic Lore
Very old and mossy with history and
legend is Washington. Its recorded his
tory starts with a curious entry in
William the Conquerors Domesday Book,
which was displayed in the village hall.
It was part Of the estate granted to
william DE- Braiose one Of the knights
who followed the Conqueror from Nor
mandie anG took part in the battle of
Hastings.
william himself holds Washingtune, -
reads the entry. Earl Guard held 1t IN
the time of King Edward, II then
vouched for 50 hides. Now it does not
give geld In one of these hides is situ-
ated the castle Of Brembre. There is
land for 81 ploughs. In demeSne are
five plouGhs and l20 villeins and Is
bordars With "a ploughS. There are five
salterns OF 10 ANDRES Of salt, or nine
shillings and two pence, and four acres
OF meadow Pannage of a wood for 60
hogs. There are six serfs on this land
Gilbert holds half hide, Ralph one hide,
William three rods; Levin. who could
ALLEVIATE himself with his land and who
gave geld TO his lord, half hide. These
have -four villeins and two bordars with
two ploughs and seven acres Of meadows
and a wood for 10 hogs
The whole manor in the time Of King
Edward was worth so pounds. Now
Williams den1esne. so pounds shillings:
his knights so shillings and u pence
Yet this manor was at farm for 100
pounds
A real estate lawyer may figure out
what this all means. A hide" by the
way. was as much land as a single
plowman could attend to IN year and
geld" means nothing" The sum Of it
seems to be that the ConQucror's asses
sorS thought that William dc Braiose
was somewhat Of a tax dodger
To the Early Saxons
But the legend OF Washington goes
back much further. The Saxon name
was "Wasa -inga- tlln," which means, say
local sntiquaries, town of the sons of
Wssa." Wasa sllegedly was a Saxon
noble Of the court OF Edward the Con-
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fessor. His sons we're massacred at
Hastings.
Redoent of history is ancient ST.
Mary's Church, the tower of which was
built in the time of Henry the Third.
There are stones still in the walls which
are believed to have been part of Saxon
church on the same site After the
reign of King Stephen the church was
occupied and largely rebuilt by the
Knights Templars. After checkered
history the titheS finally went to Mag
delene College at Oxford.
Mrs. Houseman. wife of the former
rector, led a reverent pilgrimage through
the old churchyard, in the center of
which is very ancient yeW whose nearly
supine double trunk shades graves TO the
cast and to the west. An lex tree. a
holly tres and hawthorne with red
berries grow out Of thousand-year-o
graves.
The church is rooted with heavy Sussex
tile covered with moss Once the walls
we're blanketed with ivy, but now only
dead fragments remain. Her husband
CuJ IL away, SAYS MIS. HOuSeIndn, 10
reveal the beauty of the stonework
underneath. The present rector. the
Rev. J. S. D. Hughes. makes local
history hobby and he says he has tried
hard. with no success. to find some asso-
citation between the Sussex Washington
and Washington. D. c.
A Haunted Village
WASHINGTON is a haunted VILLAGE SIM
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A Haunted Village

Washington is haunted village, sup
posedly quite favored by the Devil in his
wanderings up and down on the earth
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To the Early Saxons

But the legend Of Washington goes
back much further. The Saxon name
Was "Wasa -inga- -tIn," which means, say
local sntiquaries, town Of the sons of
Wssa." WaSa allegedly was a Saxon
noble Of the court OF Edward the Con-
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British Embassy Entertainments

When his parties come to Washington,
Lord and Lady Halifax often entertain
them at the British Embassy Recently
they invited also an equal number OF
American seaman, and 1t was a sight for
sore eyes to watch the melting OF that
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" THIS THE PEOPLES plAzfo.u !,

w.ng." n"or,y v,, should offer ,o. -. x.pys- ,s~t
tor. ss" ;. n.,. M,1,ki. nan'e. these - -. 80,
A.. ,h.:. II. vi.~. t's' "s'' ~ -. :. Included
''op'' Of An'erieo7 '"e Common
fresdo~ f., %'%os1Is !. I'VE must never tor.. :,
tect IS the Protection of that the essence f
purposes ents itfuly inconsistent we must pro-
as has the present adma;atrv and with political
spend aatte'.mr for snn ADMINISTRATION. "rh.
and H.. eovernmen, the less we ne more money We
tive branch Of tb. new opportunities Tbs enterprises
substantial e government in nv on;.;a entire
better revision to that i 'n.on needs very
government for their tax may give the people
of ofenerDr." Of OPPORTUNITY I'VE nu..
invention ENTERPRISE We mn.. qsl have rebirth
factred expansion, lower rates nave competition,
ties sooos Only thus can we o" prices for manu-.
maintn "e standard of living and more opportun
ance, ;rMlNr ;no1"a;u INSURANCE "Au foru
taken ot ~ protection against u, OF social insur.
misery ~ I ol politics. The exploitat;o be
'''u'al ends is shocking erme human fear and
the 4, ,e'st 1oR.eH RELATIONS. "1be Reo,h,
we other naon. foreign poev must take
mote our can assure future oy which
policy to interest The Adminstratoa and pro-
expedency" Is all too clearly .ct;ns =" 40 such
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Are his views the views that shape the kind post
war world the American people want?
saAA
Read the October 5th issue of LOOK and decide for
yourself.
Read not alone to learn about Wendell Willke but for
clear plain statement of the important issues to be
determined in the next Presidential campaign
Read to see avhy the forthcoming conventions of the
major political parties ,vM be the most ;nborant CON-
vemtioms the country has ,vtessed in many many years.
It's on the newsstands September 2lst Get your copv
early.
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form, stated his belief as to what is the
most important matter before the
American public today.
All that is included in the October 5th
issue of LOOK.
With it are frank estimates of Willkie bv
shrewd newspaper correspondents of
leadingrank. There is full picture bioe.
raphy covering Wilkes boyhood, his
Army service, the campaign in which he
was elected "President of 45% of the
people, and his world.girdling travels
since. 4
Does all this mark Wendell Willkie as a
second Lincoln" capable of leading us
through the critical postwar period?
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
Visitors To
Office.

Visitors to the Minneapolis Office
of the Minneapolis Spokesman and
st. Paul Recorder Newspaper office
were Pvt. Miles Cannon, Jr., West
Virginia and Los Angeles, Calf,
Messrs. Raymond W. Cannon,
Claude o. Bierman, William Vivian,
William L. Turner, Frank D.
Mitchell, Augustus Owens, Martin
Brown, W. G. Renfro, Robert VIM.
Kelly, Fred Edwards, D. ]. Wade,
Joseph Young, Andrew Breedlove,
M. E. Bell, Robert Bannarn, Charles
v. Wagner, Minneapolis; W. D.
Smith, st. Paul; S/Sgt. Henry Ban
narn, Charleston, S. c.; Eugene
McMoore, Minneapolis; Mines. q.
T. Russell, JoElla Calhoun, Eliza
beth Rogers, Edna NJ. Edwards,
Lucille NJ. Ellie, Anna Mae Ban
narn, Rose TillotsOn, Minneapolis;
Mrs. Georgia McRutledge, Knoll
wood, Hopkins, MINI; Gertrude
Boldly, Naomi Thomas, Della Hol-
sombeck, Mary S. Combs, Junauld
Brown, st. Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
BADINAGE

love to barter words, give and take jest,
But I can't enjoy comedy in which it's manifest
The true intents not humor or subtle badnage
For, there's joke in insults wrapped in camouhage
appreciate no anecdote despite all eloquence,
That makes direct assault upon my small intelligence
The spinner Of yarn is seldom circumspect,
Who cannot bring his point to view nept dialect
In telling tales like to deal my cards above the table,
For folks all much alike why ethnc label;
The thing that puts racial joke badly out of joint
Morons all start laughing before you reach the point
Let me sound a warning, our humor is a brand
That sounds quite genuine when it's secondhand
You've got to feel the laughter in every cell and nerve
Once you miss the feeling, You get the verve
Don't think my skin is thin because dare imply
Your well of old stock ests of me long ago ran dry;
But I'd like to stay the that laughters child
Because when should storm weep very often smile
you can leave out ridicule and tell clever Joke
That does not cloud the minds of all too literal folk
you can speak Of me, emitting asinne hodge-podge
I'll gladly barter words with YOU swap some badinage
James T. Logan.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
In MenOriam

In fond memory Of our beloved
grandmother, Elizabeth Pogue, who
passed away Nov. IL, 1912.
Rest on dear grandmother, thy
labor DER;
Thy willing hands viii toll no
more.
A faithful grandmother both true
and kind,
A truer grandmother you could
never find.
For all Of US she did her best.
God grant her eternal rest.
Lovingly, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Pogue, Topeka, Kans.; Mrs. L. E.
Lacy, Dallas, Texas; A. P. Houston
and ]. D. Houston, Paris, Texas; all
grandchildren.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
Praises Henry
Bar1narn's Work

Editor: CHANGING by the Harriet
Hanley gallery at 1913 Nicollet
Ave-, a most unusual work done in
water color and chalk, displayed in
the window, arrested my attention.
Its fortnight sincerity and freedom
of style, compelled me to enter and
inquire of artist.
Miss Hanley, the proprietor,
eagerly informed me the artist was
Mr.. Henry Bannarn, a Negro resi-
dent Of Minneapolis, now a private
in Co. B, 261st Q. M. B. Bn.,
Charleston, s. C.
Noting my enthusiasm, sh e
showed me various other pieces,
adding three had been submitted
to the Minneapolis Institute Of Arts
to be judged for the local artists
exhibit starting Nov. 8 and ending
Nov. 80.
She also confided it was due to
the interest Of MIR. Russell Plimp-
ton, director of the Institute, that
grace was allowed and Pvt. Ban
narn's work was speeded there by
taxi-as time had reached its dead
line.
I hope this means an omen of
good luck for Mr.. Bannarn. His
little masterpiece is a three story
wooded frame house in a squalid
section of Charleston. Outside two
young Negro girls, each balancing
a basket Of laundry on their heads,
walk drearily along, broken in spirit
midst a demoralizing atmosphere.
Lovers of unadulterated realism
should view his works, clear mani
festations of the desperate needs
for social readjustments in justice
of 100000 Negroes Of America.
The encouragement for a young
artist lies not merely in the view
ing, but the purchasing of his
works. By so doing the fame of
ambition is kept alive and its Sc
curity cements the foundation for
the development of genius of its
fullest.
understand Life Magazine rep
resentatives have taken photo
graphs of some Of his water color
subjects which are to be seen in one
of their current issues.
Ninfa Bruna Bottalis,
Minneapolis.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
Somewhere Overseas.

SVAAAC"AC4O OVC4oCA0
Nov. 2, 1913
Dear Editor:
am writing you to request that
you mail me the Minneapolis
Spokesman each week. ! have re-
ceived a letter from a friend and
she stated that she had mailed you
a money-order for the subscription
but that ! should make the request
also. Being one Of the old home
town boys and a long way from
home, I enjoy reading the paper
and learning just what the people
of Minneapolis are doing. I es-
pecially enjoy SAILS column.
Sometimes I get a chance to read
Sgt. Kenny's paper. He is from
St. Paul and the only Twin City
man I have run into yet. I see
where you have moved to larger
quarters. Thinking, way over here,
and remembering few years back
when you first started out it seems
you have come a long way. One
thing, it is really appreciated by
US over here.
I have been over here about nine
months and although things are
pretty rugged and there are lots of
inconvenience we were not used to,
until now, the boys are all full OF
spirit and their morale is high. We
all look forward to the day the
mess is over and we can return to
the home town. So I am hoping
you continue to carry on with the
good work at home, Pm sure we
can take care of this end of it. Lots
Of success in your new office and
regards to all. I hope to receive
the paper as soon as possible. re-
main, sincerely yours.
Cpl. William I. Posten.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
In MemOriam

In loving memory Of our dear
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Honey
Pogue, who passed away one year
ago Nov. IA, 1912.
There are children who miss you,
mother, sadly,
Who find the time long since you
went;
And we think Of you, mother,
daily and hourly,
But try to be brave and content.
But tears that we shed in silence,
And we breathe a sigh of regret,
For you were ours, and we re-
member,
Though all the world forgets.
Sadly missed by your children,
]. A. Lane, St. Paul, Mimi; C. l..
Lane, SOper, Okla; Catherine Hous-
ton, Paris, Texas; Delbert Pogue,
Pittsburgh, Pa; Bertha v. Pogue
and Lucille NJ. Ellie, Minneapolis,
MINI.
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Card of Thanks

We thank our kind friends and
neighbors for their acts Of love and
sympathy during the recent loss Of
our father, Henry ]. Lawrence, and
also extend grateful thanks for the
beautiful floral tributes and for the
use of the many cars.
We particularly extend apprecia-
ton to Geo. W. Brooks, Jr., for his
very courteous and efficient service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jose b. Sherwood.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-11-12
J. W. Baldwin
on Tour Thru
South States

J. W. Baldwin, 612 9Th Ave. &c.,
we'll known citizen of Minneapolis,
left for his usual tour of the South
Monday, Nov. 8. He will visit Kan
sas City, Mo-, Memphis, Tenn,
Montgomery and Marina, Ala.
Mr.. Baldwin is one of the oldest
employees of the sleeping and din
ing car service of the 500 Line and
is a supporter of civic organize
tons in the Twin Cities. He is q
property owner in the city and
owns farms in North Dakota and
Canada.
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Duck Fond of Lake, but
Owners Car Appeals. Too

PUEBLO, CoLO.-A fuIl-grown
mallard duck, Alex, was raised BY
Winifred Wood.
With the advent Of spring Miss
Wood decided to release Alex in
Pueblo's city park where numerous
wild mallards frolic.
Alex took to the lake, but as Miss
Wood entered her parked car she
heard a noise. It was Alex, racing
toward the car. She opened the door
and Alex jumped In.
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it is evident that there is a total
lack of consistency between
NAACP policy and practice.
It has been largely through the
influence Of the NAACP that spe-
cific appointments of consultants on
Negro affairs have been made in
various government departments.
William HASTE himself was their
man, both as a federal Judge in the
Virgin Islands "a clear case of spe-
cial treatment) and as special as
sistant to Secretary Of War Slim
son. It was one of the NAACP's
best known men who insisted that
the national Office of USO employ a
Negro consultant on Negro affairs.
After taking such specific meas
ures in these matters, it is hard to
understand the NAACP's attitude
on the McWilliams' proposal. There
seems little harm in openly sane
tioning what it has secretly abetted.
Must Be Set Up for Special
Treatment
And the Negro must be set up
for special treatment, for in a very
real sense it is special treatment he
wants. He is a source of sickness
in sick body polite. He is like
the lung in a tuberculosis body,
though, also like the lung, his af-
Fiction is not of his own making.
(The point that his affliction is not
of his own making should be en-
phasized.)
But just as the physician, while
treating the whole body gives spe-
cial attention to the lung, so he who
would cure our sick democracy must
give special attention to the Ne
gro. This is what England must
do for India in order to cure the
vast sickness in the British Com
monwealth of Nations. It is what
the Allies are doing in regards to
Italy. It is what must be done for
Germany to wipe out the recurrent
plague of Europe.
The argument, also advanced by
the NAACP, that the setting up
of a government office to deal with
Negro affairs would make Negroes
the mere wards of the government
seems to beg the question. It as
sumes that the sick member of the
body polite will never get well.
Or perhaps a definition of terms is
needed. In the strictest sense, any
people is the ward of its govern
ment. Wars have been fought be-
cause of the governments obliga-
ton to protect its nationals.
Sense of Obligation
And what the Negro wants ex-
actly is that the government recog-
nize a sense of obligation to him
and to extend its wardship to him
on terms of equality with all other
people. The Negro has been trying
in haphazard ways to get this ex-
tension Of wardship. Now the pro-
posal is to channelize these hap
hazard activities and energies; and
the proposal seems good.
AS Carey McWilliams has
pointed out, the setting up of q
racial minority for special treat.
ment is no new thing in this coun.
try. Two precedents have been es,
tablished. One of them, Recon
struction, failed dismally, but the
failure was in men and methoC
rather than idea. The second prece
dent, and the one upon which Nc
Williams dwells, was and is an i'm,
portant success for the idea, il
spite of sometimes sorry men anC
deplorable methods.
There are pages Of its history
full of chicanery and blood, but the
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The finest CHRISTMAS pres
emit you can give Il one Of
Uncle Sans WAR BONDS.
Keep ON BACKING THE
ATTACK.