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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
The Discovery Of Our ime

F." -. It is a safe conservative prediction that when the war is over, no
matter who is President, n matter what party is in office, the para
mount question will be how to achieve and maintain full employment
and a rising standard of life. No public man will deny this is the overall
aim of his policy; parties will stand or fall as they succeed in carrying
it out.
"This IS a new thing in our own domestic politics, and indeed it is
a new thing in the history of the world. Men have always, of course,
depIored unemployment and wanted good and profitable work, and
they have struggled and fought for it. But in this century, bloody and
violent though it has been, mankind has made an epoch-making dis.
covery I'll that involuntary mass unemployment in a modern industrial
nation is a n unnecessary and preventabe evil.
Economists, industrial leaders, public officials Ire by no means
entirely agreed which among the many measures m best, But never
again will they o r the mass of people accept the view which was the
common view thirty years ago, that public policy has nothing to do with
and can do nothing effective about the maintenance of reasonably full
employment. In the two great wars of our generation and in the de-
preston between the two wars it has been demonstrated, one may hope
even to the satisfaction of the most unreconstructed minds, that mass
unemployment is not inevitable and that it il, therefore intoIerable" -
Walter Lippmann, in bis syndicated column, Herald-Tribune.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16

Wallace was not a politician,
wanted to nominate a politician, it
would have to choose someone be-
sides Henry Wallace.
He's shy" said Pepper, and in
deed no one was reminded at this
point of Willkie.
But then he began to talk of
Wallace's travels, which have been
only less extensive than Wilkes,
and to say that he was known in
outer Mongolia as a friend of the
common man.
They Ought to Get Together
Dramatically, he asked whether
the convention was going to say
that Wallace was "too democratic
for the Democratic party"
Well, look what happened. Will
kie was too democratic for the
Republican party, and Wallace was
too Republican for the Democratic
party.
What will they do? No one knows,
but both of them suffered humili-
ating experiences in trying to take
their defeats gracefully.
AS a humane measure, the tele-
graph companies should in the fu-
ture waive their rule against con-
gratulatory messages in the case
of defeated candidates.
When Wallace tried to send a
telegram congratulating Truman
on his enlarged opportunity" the
message was refused by a Chicago
Western Union office.
The same thing happened tC
Wendell Willkie when he tried to
congratulate Dewey on his great
opportunity"
There ought to be some place
where they could bet together and
talk things over They might start
a ''Home for Orphaned Liberals
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
BANKS HIKE PROFITS
As PER CENT IN 1943

The nations banks are right up
front in the profit parade, it was
disclosed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
The 1924 institutions insured
by the corporation, it said, last
year increased their profits after
taxes by 1877 millions, or a gain
of As per cent over 1912. The net
return on capital and reserves was
8.6 per cent, a new high in the his
tory of the deposit insurance cor
poration.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

With a fine non-partisan spirit,
the United Republican Finance
Committee for Metropolitan New
York is soliciting funds from mem
bers of the American Labor Party.
Several members, who repeatedly
and in vain urged Governor De-
wey to approve the federal ballot
in order to facilitate voting by sol
diers from New York State, have
received a form letter asking their
support because we must Back
the Fight of the boys at the front
who may not be able to vote in
November
Apparently the fight is to spare
the boys the horrors of full en-
ployment when they come home.
James S. Kemper, chairman of the
National Republican Finance Com
miteee,. said this in a recent adj
dress: we cannot have both full
employment and freedom. The
only period in the history of our
country when full employment
was assured was during the time
of slavery"
Omen: The Labor Institute of
America has prepared a large
three-color chart showing how
members of Congress have voted
during the past two years on IS
sues vital to labor. AT So each, she
charts r selling like hotcakes.
Joe Louis has been measured
for a figure by Tussaud's Wax
Museum in London.
Now it must be told: That air
conditioned, noiseless, dustless,
two : way stretch, pre- : cooked,
house-broken, convertible, kol-
lapsible, kumfortized, slo-baked,
dubbl-sealed house of the future
turns out to be just an advertising
mans occupational disease. The
National Association of Home
Builders has employed Steve Han
nagan, one OF the best and highest
priced men in the publicity bust
ness, to un-sell the public on the
dream houses it has been reading
about in the slick-paper maya
zines. The reason for this move
was a survey by the Association,
which showed that the average
man expects to pay $50 a month
after the war to finance a six-room
house with two baths and all the
mechanical marvels he has been
reading about in the ads. Of the
people interviewed, 81 per cent
said they would not build or buy
a home at all unless they could get
air conditioning, and So per cent
said they must have electronic de-
vices to do the homework. Such
things, says Mr.. flanagan, are
only for "a minority of home buy
ers in the high income brackets"
Festung Europa: A three-year
old placard of the Nasjonal Sam
ling, Vidkum Quisling's party, has
suddenly begun to reappear all
over Oslo. 1t reads, Germany win
nirg on all fronts! Join Germany's
victorious forward march! Join the
MS Partyp' Quisling's police are
kept busy tearing them down
A Nazi paper in Prague complains
that there is no applause for
speakers at anti olshevist meet
insss."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
capitalism in each nation.

capitalism in each nation.
The essential uniting character
istic is the effort to prevent work
ers, peasants and socially minded
intellectuals from using what
democratic forms they have avail
able to meet their economic needs
and realize their cultural and spi-
ritual aspirations. - Harry F,
Ward, in the Christian Century.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16

in the national debt for this period
TO December 80, 1943, was $125.5
billion.
The increase in the national debt
for the four vars after 1899 was
nearly four-fifths--78 per cent
Of the total increases for the four
years in the national income above
the national income in 1899.
This way lies initiation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16

Eighteen million taxpayers will
receive $500, 600, 900 in refunds
from overpayments on 1943 per-
sonal income, it was estimated by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Payments are being made as soon
as returns are audited, it said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
PROFESSIONAL

Choirmaster-Now remember tha
altos and sopranos will sing alone
until we get to "the gates of HE'LL
Voice in Backs that where the
congregation comes in7
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16

This is a funny world,
Its wonders never cease;
All civilized people r at war,
all savages are at peace!
Orange County, Calf.
Farm Bureau News
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16

Cunning is the dwarf of Wisdom
w. r. Alger.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Researchers Come to the
Conclusion That Our Four Legged
Friends Domesficofed Our Primitive
Ancesfors-und Not Vice Verso

dogs for hunting and for transportation but made
no effort to subdue the musk OK or the caribou
Still IL was not the dog that completed the
domestication of man. 1t the ungulates, or
hoofed animals. Dogs could. and did. accompany
their owners anywhere, but when the nomadic
hunters of few thousand years ago began TO
acquire flocks and herds they were forced TO settle
down in areas where the pasturage was good.
Any number of theories have been advanced
10 explain how man first came into possession of
cattle. One is that they were lured into captivity
by food. Another which Is borne out by ancient
Egyptian drawings. Is that vast herds of animals
were forced TO take refuge In the Nile valley
because the Sahara plateau was becoming In
creasngly dry. Hunters would drive groups OF
these wild creatures into the deep crevices of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

found that bullock, dragging sharp STICK,
could turn up the ground for planting.
Cat lovers like 10 believe that the cat
was domestcatcd long before the dog. As
evidence, they point out that the dog has
retained its sense of smell, although that
is one of the first characteristics to weaken
in the change from wild to domestic life.
II is very unlikely, however, that cats
would have accompanied the early nomads.
Most experts agree that the cat Joined
the human family about the. time that
agriculture began. When rodents started
10 attack stores of grain, the value OF
cat would become increasingly apparent
By destroying these threats 10 the early
granaries, tabby probably contributed much
toward making man the domesticated ami
NAL he is. Some scholars believe the mar
ten was first tanned in Europe and Africa,
TO cope with the rodent problenf
Sheep and goats seem TO have appeared
on the scene about the same time as cattle
The sheep was originally a hairy animal
with an underfur of WOOL and undoubtedly
was first domesticated by people in cold
climates who needed the wool for warmth
Remains of a sheep or goatlike animal
have been found at the sites of the Swiss
lake dwellings of about 1900 b. c.
Goats are believed to have been used
as a source of milk much earlier than
cattle. They were also valuable for their
meat and skins and for draft power.
OF the two remaining familiar farm
animals - the horse and the pig 49, il is con-
sidered probable that the pig joined mans
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

the bipeds and the quadrupeds have been living
in close association man has succeeded In bring
ing under permanent control only those animals
which were gregarious by nature and which were
not only willing but anxious to have his protection.
They. in turn have changed him far more than
he changed them. They gave him responsibilities
which compelled him TO think ahead.. They forced
him 10 abandon his savage wanderingS and settle
less enlightened tribes and TO spread his newfound
civilization over the entire face of the globe.
In the 10000 years that animals have exerted
their demonstrating influence on the human race,
man has progressed infinitely further than he did
in the 100000 years during which he existed by
hunting wild game and gathering wild foods.
He was shrewd enough 10 learn the use Of
fire, to invent stone and bone tools and 10 draw
and paint remarkably fine pictures on the walls
of his caves, but he failed for long time 10 get
the idea of growing plants and tanning animals.
Many historians explain this failure by point.
ing out that some OF our most valuable animals
today comparatively useless 10 primitive
man Sheep produced no wool. Cows gave only
enough milk for their calves. Swine fattcned very
slowly The wild horse small beast incap-
able of carrying man for any distance. Hens
were scrawny and laid only few eggs year.
OF all the animals with which early man came
in contact, probably none filled so. many human
needs the dog. Starting as a scavenger. he
became pet, companion, herder and protector, an
ally in the chase, form of tractive power and
even source of food in times of famine.
Fossils Of dogs have been found in the refuse
heaps of the Neolithic people who lived on the
Danish and Scotch coasts about 10000 B. c.
The origin of the dog is still a mystery,
Though there seems TO be little doubt that some
comparatively pure strain OF the species existed
long before man began to develop the hundreds
Of breeds that now extant
Some peoples have never attempted to domes-
ticate any other animal than the dog. The Ameri
can Indians had horSes-after they were brought
10 this continent by the white man-but dogs were
their only other companions The Eskimos used
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

growing family the earlier. His ances-
tors, the boars and the wild pigs, were
roaming the forests for countless cen.
turtles. It is only within the last couple
of hundred years, however, that the
pig has come into the barnyard.
The horse Is one of the most recent
OF domesticated beasts, but his imme-
date ancestry and the date of his do
mestication are still matters of dispute.
Entirely contrary to his present reason
for existing, the horse originally was
a choice item Of food. At Solutre, in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

Nile cliffs and slaughter them Eventually it
seemed to have occurred TO these hunters 10 build
a stockade and thus keep live food supply
A BOUT this same period, which was probably
~ about 5000 b. c., agriculture had its crude be-
ginnings. For thousands of years women had gath
cred the seeds of wild grasses and ground them
for food Then someone discovered that the
grasses would produce more If planted and watered.
Cattle which had been used only food now
became useful as draft animals. One early farmer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

haunches 10 see what would happen. The animal
moved forward slowly, ready to flee at the first
sign of an unffiendly gesture.
When he was a few feet from the fire, he sank
Ito the ground and lay there, basking in the well
come heat. He and the caveman gaZed at each
other for a while and then each looked away.
NOBODY knows exactly how when prehistoric
~ man made his first friendly contact with the
animals that eventually were 10 change the whole
course of his history but anthropologists sure
the first domesticated animal the dog and
that the companionship started 10000 years ago.
Although II has been assumed for centuries
that man domesticated the animals, II would be
much nearer the truth to say that animals domes-
ticated man. In all the thousands of years that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

man grabbed his club and jumped to
his feet Several of these creatures had
been lurking around the refuse heap
lately, and the caveman trusted no anil
NAL. He trusted no other living being,
in fact, except his mate and his own
offspring, who at that time were safely
concealed inside the cave.
The beast stood there, neither re-
treating nor advancing, but staring
steadily into the mans eyes. 1t was
a look the man had never seen before.
He rather liked II and dropped TO his
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12
NOTICE

c. E. Ernie" Bryan will be at home to his friends at his homestead beyond Sprucehaven lake next Wednesday, Feb, fs, in the afternoon and evening.
 All friends are invited to this annual affair.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12
'eware Coughs
 from common colds
 That Hang On

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 To matter how many medicines
 have tried, tell your druggist to You 8 bottle of Creomulsion with Understanding you must like the
 it quickly allays the cough, per- E9ng rest and sleep, or you are to
 e your money back. (Adv)
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12

In command performance Frank he Vose Snatra QefD and Bing CThe GrOane Ggh met in what publicity hailed cusiv to men armed forces songse Dah Shore mistress of ceremonies
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12

Greta Christensen, young Chicago model, has begun a film career at RKO studio all because a studio executive was impressed by an artists sketch.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12

Chances are, you're already in the Pay roll Savings PIan-buying War Bonds doing your bit. But don't stop there. Raise your sights! Do your best!
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17

Watch for the extra, extra sur
prises at the Sunday morning ser
vices.-Church Reporter.
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
Plain Talk!
By Dan Gardner

Despite all the criticism it has
and is being subjected to, our ma
tiOnal war program is doing the
greatest job for the Negro since
Abe Lincoln set him free. It is
training a complete new crop of
competent, intelligent, courageous
leaders who'll take over on the
troubled domestic front as soon as
our armies march into Berlin and
Toxic. The Negro has Jagged be-
hind the rest of the minority groups
here in his native America in three
necessary phases of his mental
and physical makeup. He's lacked
mass education, mass discipline and
mass training in technical jobs.
The army is giving him superb
training in all three. The spectacle
of completely illiterate youth, say
from the backwoods of Alabama,
being taught to read, write and to
take complete charge of high cali
Der weapons such as trench NOR
tars, .55 millimeter cannon and other
instruments calling for high tech
nical skill has been demonstrated
countless times as army methods
are applied to the raw recruit. The
spectacle of thousands Of wild,
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
For the NEGRO COLLEGES

The United Negro Colleges Fund seeks to raise 100000 this
be used by wenyseven institutions of higher learning
nung and improving Negro education America The
small ask that benefits
to the Negro but to the nation WELL
Human nature painfully slow accepting creative changes and
where interests ie That tendency
uphill struggle for Negro education Not long wide parts
of this country educated Negro deemed the eab
hed order and unlawful for Negro teach his child
People had the TRUTH clear minds that
reressed the community drag all and
weak point in the structure of the welfare
No intelligent against Negro education today 1t has
its battle has produced scientists ncian poets physicians
preachers affairs without whose contributions the country would
measuaby poorer And influence good
The colleges
their thousands white students useful
thank Booker Washington part their
that who when traditional education denied those
whom he pleaded Hampton showed the kind of
ing fit the life He dssociated
and luxury and related the needs the individual black white
Best of ALL the Negro colleges have developed leaders who inspire
needy with their example and help create the under
standing between and that America must have order
be N.
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
Ten Railroads for Fdscism

Now know definitely that
by the Fair Employment Practices Committee for racial discrimination
have not the slightest intention of complying with mandatory
hire Negroes remen train
The attorney for the ten railroads. Sidney Alderman publicly
stated last week. and Frank Muhoan many oganz
tions of railroad workers, concurred.
WORSE these attorneys took threaten their
with predictions of strikes terrorism sabotage the railroads
compelled to comply with the FEPC mandate.
Since the FEPC has legal force these railroads
to introduce democratic methods employment promotion
whole matter would to there and the color
railroad industry will continue through cousn
labor
The industrial simply
the American people offering of thousands lives
ing hundreds of billions of dollars to destroy.
In view of the admitted and obvious shortage
world struggle for survival the attitude of the railroads
and the railroad unions nothing short of sabotage
for which hundreds people have been
for long terms since Pearl Harbor The however, scarcely
in this
AS have said times before FEPC helpless
out strong Federal law invoke
and unons and such bill has been Congress-
All of efforts should devoted dredging
of committee and forcing
Courier.
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17

harum-scarum Negro boys with the
loose living, loose ideals and don't
give-a-damn about nothing attitude
that comes from being reared un-
supervised on the sidewalks of
our great cities, being transformed
into gentlemen who go to bed and
rise at regular hours, is another
miracle that has remained hidden
under the barrage of unfavorable
publicity the army has received
all along.
In addition, the army is teaching
the Negro for the first time the
true meaning of the prOnOun, eve"
1t has been said the Negro, more
than any other minority group, is
highly individual in his thinking,
in his actions in his inclination,
thus making him the hardest to lead.
The prOnOun, "I," has been near
est his heart in expressing what he
wants to do, what he intends to do.
what he has done or is doing. The
army has taught him to say eve
are going to do this and that" not
that II am going to do SO and so. :"
When we get over a million Negroes
in the armed forces relying on each
other for mass action, mass think
ing, mass attitudes toward this or
that, then we can say we are really
on the road. Soldiers in letters
frequently talk about what 1--WE
are going to do" when I'VE get
home again." They're learning a
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
Editorial Notes

To too many people extension of Constitutional rights
to Negroes is unconstitutional!
A paid Negroes the their fellow white
Americans Immediately the Rooseve charged with coddng
Mrs Roosevelt says sums of the capital city, D. c.
should habans for the Washington Negroes
erected-she is accused of codding Negroes!
In other words you white person believe in treating
men fairly honesy"even they Negroesthen you are
a coddler.
chip shoulder Negro just advertisement
a in hand Negro.
Congress kid itself that all the brains in America
in the Senate the House
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
UN-covERINe WASHINGTON

CONTINUED from Page One)
pany of the United Nations, who
proudly number black and white
and brown and yellow and red men
among their armies, it must fight
in isolation. And to isolation its
House of Representatives would
consign it in the peace. For the
rest of the free world will not end
its struggle against Nazism until
it has established upon earth a
truth which the founders of South
Carolina held to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal"
Thank God the Negroes in Ken
lucky can vote and do vote. It
will be a new and happy day when
they obtain that right and privi-
lege in South Carolina. Then, per-
haps, Wen be able to get South
Carolina back into the United Ma
tions.
St. Paul recorder., 1944-03-17
Afro Editors Say
No to Red Crossl
By Carl Murphy, Editor Afro

By Carl Murphy, Editor Afro
American
The Red Cross has no great
need of money from colored peo-
pie or their blood. If it desires
our blood badly it would not in
suit US by jim-crowing our blood
plasma and marking it "colored."
If it wanted colOred cOntribu-
tiOns again, it would not seek to
humiliate US first, then ask us to
give.
In declining to give to the cur
rent Red Cross campaign, wrote
the chairman, Chief Judge Sam
uel Dennis, as follows:
"The American Medical Asso-
citation, in discussing how un-
scientific it is to segregate blood
according to race, points out that
in the making of some serums,
even urine and feces of animals
are used.
"The Red Cross would have us
believe then that the blood of
cOlOred people is below that of
the urine of animals.
"In Canada and Great Britain,
blood banks are not segregated.
With due respect to you
and a number of fine Americans
who are connected with the Red
Cross, I don't want anything to
do with it"
The current issue of The Crisis,
in discussing this question, ad-
vises cOlOred people to give to
the Red Cross but to accompany
their contributions with a note of
protest.
AS I see it, the best protest is
NOT to give.
Editors note: Mr.. Murphy is
editor of the Afro-American news
papers of Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia and Richmond which
have 100000 ABC paid circulation.