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NS0AAe@AaaSA AACaAA = e~GC ~ as in war Gov. Dewey has clearly grasped this courageous concept of waging peace. I believe he will wage 1t unremittingly."
 Gahagan: we can only entrust the complexities of the future to a man of proven vision Frank lin Roosevelt.
 Luce: Luce spared, mentioning peace plans of Enrico Cruse, 1923; Hugo Grotius. 1925; William Penn, 1894: Abbot St. Pierre. 1731; Jeremy Bentham, I7S6 and Immanuel Kant, l705.
 Gahagan: "No man or woman alive sindispensible. but there is something that is indispensable, and that is a certain point of view ]. an indispensable philosophy 1. #. |. Franklin Roosevelt has long under sood that philosophy"
 Both contestants spoke on the theme of peace and who should handle it for the nation. but the lezue narrowed down 1o sne Iatl
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that Rep. Luce wanted Dewey to be elect president and Mrs. dAha. gan wanted President RooGevelt to Do reelected.
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(Continued from Page D ing from the Suwalki triangle which Hitler annexed to East Prussia in 1889.
 Reds Fall
 Evacuation of Eydtkuhnen was carried out in mobile warfare" the Nazi accounts said, claiming that the Russians had failed to open any holes in the German defensive front"
 Indicative of the scale of the of- fensive the Germans claimed that 257 Russian tanks had been des- troyed in three days fighting.
 A dispatch by M. s. Handler, Uni- ted Press staff correspondent at Moscow, said that there had been no announcement there regarding land operations in East Prussia.
 However, he reported that Him. mler's speech was taken in Moscow to indicate that the great battle for East Prussia would shortly be joined and that the Germans would stage a fight to the finish.
 Similar sentiment animated the Russians who regarded 1t as sym. bolic that the first German terri- tory they are invading is the birth place and stronghold of the historic German "Drang Noch Osten"-drive to the east.
 Determination
 determination of Prusslanlsm and destruction of the bunker Caste which had its origin in Prussia, Handler reported, appears to many Russians an indispensable task if a sound peace is to follow the war. 3rd fleet had destroyed or damaged seven ships and i9 planes in attacks in and around Luzon Tuesday then added:
 Action is continuing and fur ther details will be released as they become availablie."
 A German broadcast quoted Tokyo reports that 70 carrier-based planes appeared over Manila yesterday while 900 Allied bombers attacked Northern huzon iu Ave waves. Cebu also Nan said Co have been hit
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Owing eS,o08 for wife malntonance arrears. e husband offered ln Blngs ham, England. court 70 ray ef 2
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sUY WAR 1oNDs AND sIAlIRs
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Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
EDITORIALS ;.
VOTING I'm THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES

Tuesday, July 25th, thousands of Negro Democrats
will march the polls for the first time to cast their votes
1t is believed by that the Democratic State Commit
tee will use as subteruge section Cd and (e( Of rule
to defy the ruling Of the Highest Court in the land: has
within years, voted against Democratic nomlnee (e)
has, within two years wuy failed to support the regi-
lar Democratic nominees 2? However, such subteruges are
possible but cannot believe such tckery would be used
at time when the Democratic principle of the whole
coutry is at stake by the type of who control our
Democratic State Committee in Arkansas.
There are thousands of Negro Democrats since the
late wenes who have supported the Democratic nominees
as far as the Negroes permitted this state who have
tried year after year to cast their ballots only to be re-
fused at the polls patiently waiting until at such time
they would be permitted to exercise their Constitutional
rights Now the Highest Court in the land has given them
that right and do not believe that the officials now Will
deny them and bring the of the world down on Ark
ansas have Mississippi and Georgia any more than we
believe that the good people of Arkansas will send to the
United States Senate southeastern Arkansas batter
to represent them.
The Negroes of Arkansas not determined to share
with the white his social status is not the desire
to be included all claiming is opportunity to be-
come first class citizens and exercise Constitutional
rights We want government of the people, by the peo-
pe for the people, when that is realized will feel that
our efforts in this global struggle will not be in vain
July 25th, we going to the polls with one consola
ton that when the day is over boost the morale
of Arkansas boys by letting them know that
America is mending her ways
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
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with another girl at the time we
married. l insisted on waiting un
til he was through with her before
marrying. He said he loved me
and that If he had loved this girl
he would have married. her. We
are separated now because of her
He wants me to give him another
chance. | still love him, should
I divorce him?
Ans: Give him another chance
When you do, put him on his
honor to be true to his marriage
vows. The one subject that
should never be referred to in
your home is 'the other woman.
Constant reminders of her might
perhaps make him feel that he
does still care. You two are sc
devoted to each other-why lei
the past interfere with your hap
piness.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14


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VIEWS

about one hundred years to show
them we are as good as they but
they can't see ii. They still slap
our women and kick our men, but
when our boys come home they
are not going to be treated as
World War / soldiers were.
Our bows are not going to work
for csc an hour while the white
man gets Use. Our girls are not
going to work In a white woman s
kitchen for three or four dollars
a week.
II 1t Is radical to want economic
and social freedom, then all Me-
groes should be radical. By So
cial freedom / do not mean the
right to marry a white man or
woman but the right to eat where
you wish, not go to the back, sit
where you wish on a bus and be
respected, not treated as you
were no more than a dog.
Surely the North can help us, If
we can fight to help China. Isn't
Arkansas much closer to New
York than the United States is to
China.
Negroes do own businesses and
property in the North. I can say
this because | lived In Pennsyl-
vania for three years. l know
that Negroes are far more pros
porous and we'll off in the North
than they are in the South.
l can say these things because
they are the views of others who
asked me to write this letter as
we'll as myself.
Yours truly,
(Miss) Eddie Lee Jackson
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

not be denied the privilege. This
is all we have asked, and Is all
we now ask.
At a time when there was doubt
in our minds that we had the
right under the law, we bowed to
your rules and stayed away from
the polls. Now that the law has
been clarified and distinctly out
lined by the Supreme Court of the
United States, we feel you will be
equally subservient to the law as
we were, and seek no circum-
vention. We have been Demo-
Gratis, true and tried, since 1928,
at which time an emergency
arose, a religious bigotry compli-
cation. which threatened the state
of Arkansas to be lost to the DEM
ocratic column and was about to
| cause embarrassment to the illus
/ trious Senator Robinson. We step
ped into the gap. at the invitation
of Judge J. S. Utley, Hon. G. G,
Kavanaugh and others, and raj
lied our forces, several thousand
strong, for Governor Smith and
Senator Robinson and helped save
the state. Shall we now be tossed
about upon the treacherous shoals
Of racial intolerance? 1t is con-
trary to the time honored tradi-
ton Of the Southern white man
to allow any Negro to be more
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
:: Calvin?s Digest ::
BY Bornico Calvin
SAD NEWS

1t with mounful heart that note the overwhen-
ing demand for j. E. Rankin to repeat his stuying acts
in venerated Congress for another two yeyars More
shake heads sadly that Rankins pal and
duplicate Walter F. George has been persuaded to back
to the Senate Just how is possible that these two arch
hates of the continue to poute the nations high
est legislature body pulling Better write it down
enigma of democracy.
However, the Rankin reelection hurts the hardest.
Here is man whom his beloved Mssissppans have
called unfit to sit in Congress- this rabbe is pat
ted the shoulder and sent back for the twelfth time mind
you His voters just don't know any better No wonder he
stood pat against such issues the poll tax Giving other
people chance to express their opinion might have meant
the end of glorious for John whose chief bust
in the House to fbuster anything that smelt of
challenge to the white supremacy issue.
This sad news just at the time when liberals
the country have been rejoicing the Dies set
back and the return to the Senate of good souheers
Lister Hill and Claude Pepper In the Dies case progress
forces white and black such the CIO political action
committee stood firm until the Number / anti-American
backed down And this is the only way will be rid of the
Rankns and the Georges Liberal Mssssppans and Georg
ans must unite and air Congress of the Southern Bourbon
stink.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

thing. Look at our schools. Me-
groes pay taxes as we'll as whites
but look at our schools compared
with white schools.
Few white men will get Ne
groes out of trouble II they live
on their plantation or work on
their jobs. This only brings out
the old master-slave relation.
Why not give the Negro n fair
trial and let him get himself out
o trouble.
AS far as going back to Africa
they can no more send us back
to Africa than they can send the
white back to the home of their
foreparents. Simply because we
came here by force Is no reason
white people should remember a
lot OF those who first came here
were indentured servants. prison.
ers and outcasts OF society. This
is our America, too.
Our boys are losing their lives
every day for the right to fight
at home. They are going to fight
to vote. They are going to fight
for the -Four Freedoms"
What are we to compromise to
tho white man for. He only sees
his small idea OF white Suprem-
acy." We have been trying for
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
FLOR FREEDOM ON ALL FRONTSr,

chivalrous than he. We seek no
social equality. That Is a politi-
cal boogaboo, a phantom, irrele-
vent and contrary to the law OF
anture. We seek only the exer-
else of our franchise, guaranteed
to us under the Constitution OF
the United States, and the Bill or
Rights, and the Constitution Of
the State of Arkansas.
You have met here today for
the purpose Of outlining your
challenge to US. We dare not an
ticipate the wording of your chal-
lenge. We believe. however, it
will be operable, and we who have
been voting the Democratic tick
ct or we who hove been in
sympathy with the Democratic
party and the tenets thereof, to
such an extent that when we have
not voted was because of the fact
we didn't care to support the other
party inimical to our local inter-
ests. We will be able to meet
your challenge.
May the sunlight OF peace, hap
{
sense guide your elaboration.
am,
Yours,
]. M. Robinson, President,
Ark. Negro Democratic
Association.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

necessarily the editorial opinion of this paer-Ed)
Thomas E. Dewey Worried F. d. r.
In the nations capitol today all agreeing that Gov
ernorernor Thomas g. Dewey the q. u +. nominee Tor
President of the United States will be more than match
for the 9TH term schemers.
determinations fill the air as the few remaining Con-
gressona leaders make final preparations to attend the
Democratic National Convention.
1t appears the New Ceal Democrats and the south
who really control the House and Senate Chair
manshps of committees are about to end happy IL year
e hG0a e .f
brother below the MasonDxon line They apparently have
forgotten about the political fortunes of that man in
ends of the racial dema No escape possible in the
face of the new Dewey Republican strategy
On hand there demands from the southern
Democrats for strong white supremacy plank to be in
coporated in the party platform at the forth coming Demo
cratic National Convention which meets in Chicago, July
10TH 1914.
While the northern Democrats cry mournfully in the
plight they now find themselves with 100000 coored vot
ers Of the north to reckon with on election gay hey are
ed unanimously by the Republican National Convention on
June 2Sth, 1914.
DEMOCRATS WILL LOSE
The democrats ace further confronted by the c. 0. P.
al out platform pledge backed E> Governor Dewey
for legislation to make pemanen the Fair Employment
Practices Committee, (FEPC antpol tax anti-lynching
and andiscrmnaton planks The colored organizations
and leaders have been quick to demand the same immediate
and favorable action by the Democratic National Conven
ton in its platform and prompt consideration in Washing
ton where holds the rens of government and controls the
, majority in both branches of Congress.
declarations by the Democrats in Chicago must be made By
them this year they to lose the coored vote
the popuous and pivotal northern states in the coming cleo
ton.
1t looks like the end of Democratic rule and President
. Roosevets lth term abmitlons.
Some would say it is the hand of all wise Providence
necessary to the union and the freedom for which
100000 of the nations youth fight and die as when
Abraham Lincoln signed the immortal Emancipation Proc
lamation.
i UNITED RACE LEADERSHIP WINS
1t is important to record here agreement with
one of the widely read daily coumnss who credited this
powerful racial advantage recently gained in the nation
al picture to the wise stragey and mtancy of the United
leadership of the colored organizations
This unprecedented advance resulted from the formid
able appearance of forty thirty cooed representa-
tives before the resolutions committee all demanding alb
soute unequvoca of voice in their demands for I'M
equvoca and immediate justice and equal rights guar
anteed all Americans in the face of the present con-
dtons
The same direct appeal for democracy and freedom on
the home front now will be taken by the coored leader
ship before the resolutions committee of the Democratic
National Convention July 10Th in Chicago despite the Rus
sells, Blbos, Conalys and Rankins.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
your wish

II. H.--My problem Is. | met a
girl about a month ago and like
her very much. In fact, better
than any girl I've gone with. She
says she likes me okay. But,
she has a very peculiar way of
showing it, She has buddy Ga
girl friend) that Is with her prac-
tically all of the time and this
buddy is a complete stumbling
block for me. I've asked the
buddy to stay at home so that
this girl and | could have a little
privacy, and she was highly in
suited. They seem so devoted
Give me some definite informa-
ton and advice.
Ans; You're jumping out Of
the groove when you pick fuss
with the girl friends buddy. II
II wasn't for the buddy" you
wouldn't get a chance to be with
the girl friend. Make 1t point
to bring along an extra fellow
when you date your girl. A dou-
BILE date is what It is going to take
to break up the threesome.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

A. l.. il do all that | can to
make things pleasant for my C.
|. husband and his mother. We
have been together 20 years and
would like to get married. His
mother has nearly lost all of her
mind. / have to battle, dress,
feed and lift her. She is nearly
helpless. l don't mind waiting On
her at all. | want to help in any
way that can. If he won't
marry me, should l leave even
though | love him?
Ans. AT your age 1t would be
folly to even consider change.
The best years Of your life have
gone into making this compat-
ible union. You have sacrificed
youth, pleasures and friends for
the love Of the man you are with
and you would never be contented
to begin life again without him.
Too, you have accumulated val
liable assets for which you have a
rightful claim. The kindness and
care you have given his aged mo-
Their should obligate him to show
you the consideration of marriage
Impress upon your mate the long.
ing in your heart to be his Legal
wife. II he were to realize how
happy 1t would make you, loving
you az he does, he would grant
your wish.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
DIR. J. NJ. Robinson
Speaks Before
Ark. Demos

IAN address delivered be-
fore a special call meeting Of
the Arkansas Central Demo-
cratic Committee, Saturday,
July 3, at the MariOl Hotel.)
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HERE'S THE ANSWER
Continued From Page 81
(A) Marian Anderson Paul Robson and Dorothy
Maynor.
(A) Jay McCrae 81 year old Baltmorean.
(A) Adds Ababa
(A) Miller and Lyles and Sisse and Blake.
(A) 1912.
(A) Ira DeA. Reid
(A) Catherine Ferguson.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14


Mr.. Chairman, Members of the
State Democratic Central Com
mittee:--
First, we wish to thank you for
the opportunity to state our posi-
ton In what has developed into
n controversial issue. In 1910
We appeared before you with a
petition to permit qualified Negro
Democrats to vote In the pri-
maries under challenge.
We did not then, and we do not
now, seek n Wholesale exodus OF
Negroes from the Republican In
to the Democratic party. Negro
Democrats are we'll organized and
instructions have been sent out
directing our people not to at
tempt to crash the gates. only
those qualified should expect to
vote in the primaries.
Our petition In 1910, by being
referred to a subcommittee, was
pigeon holed, until the decision
by the United States Supreme
Court revived the issue. Quail
fled Negroes who wish to be af-
filiated and comply with the rules
of the Democratic party should
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
HERE'A A HOT ONE
TO HITLER
(By Andy Razaf for AMP

wish that | could make you black
Then place you in America,
To live your days upon the rack
Of color-prejudice and nate.
All, what sentence this would be,
Far worse than death or prison cell,
The irony of such fate
Would rival anything in He'll!
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
Editors
Mail....
A. M. and N. College
Pine Bluff. Ark,
July 10. 1914

Dear Editor:
Here is a copy OF letter have
written to President Floyd Brown
Of Fargo College regarding his
letter to you which was published
June goth;
President Brown.
read your article in the June
30th issue OF the State Press and
since my classmates and I do not
agree with you on some points,
we would like for you to know
how we, the future Negro men
and women, feel because we are
the leaders OF tomorrow.
We have nothing to look up to
white people for or to be grateful
for, They do not give us any
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

b. Eve have been married
10 months. My husband was
Evening star., 1944-09-20
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
PORTLAND, Orep, Sept. 20
FOLLOWING is the tert OF Coz.
Thomas E. DeWey's campaign
speech delipered last night in
Portldnd's Ice Coliseum:
Evening star., 1944-09-20
Ralph ". Clark Dies;
Worked al Soldiers Home

Ralph w. Clark, 78, a former SOL
dier and retired Soldiers Home en-
ploye, died yesterday at Soldiers
Home Hospital.
Mr.. Clark, who lived at 4503
Burlington road, Hyattsville, Md,
served in the Army for % years. At
the time of his retirement in 1912
he was first sergeant. On his re-
turn TO civilian life he was en-
ployed for Is years as pension
clerk at Soldiers Home He was
born in Garrettsville, Ohio.
A veteran of the Spanish Ameri-
can War, he belonged to the United
Spanish War Veterans, the Modern
Woodmen of America and the Ma
sons. He moved from the District
to Hyattsville about six years ago.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mabel K Clark; son, Andrew G.
Clark, Washington, and one sister,
Mrs. Flora Bancroft, Long View,
Wash
Funeral services will be held at
10:40 am. tomorrow at Stanley
Hall, Soldiers Home. Burial will
pe in Soldiers Home Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-09-20

he was. At to be President II that
responsibility should fall upon him."
What could be more sinister
than a President dependent for his
election upon such a man as Sidney
Hillman." Gov. Willis asked. Re
Gently Chairman Hannegan OF the
Democratic National Committee de-
MED that Mr.. Roosevelt told him to
clear everything with Sidney but
Mr. Hannegan has not denied, will
not deny and cannot deny, that he
did in fact clear everything with
Sidney before it was put through
the Democratic National Conven-
ton"
An honor guest with Gov. Willis
was Jouett Ross Todd, Republican
national committeeman for Ken
lucky and chairman of the Repub-
lican National Finance Committee.
Many Republican leaders of the city
attended the luncheon and were in
trOduced by Mr.. Colladay.
Evening star., 1944-09-20
Gov. Willis CHARGES
President Is Ruled
BY Boss Machines

Declaring that President Roose-
welt il. now surrounded by syco-
plants who seek his favor, and is
ruled by special interests such as
corrupt city bosses and the Political
Action Committee under the lead
ership of alias Sidney Hillman,"
Gov. Simeon S. Willis of Kentucky
yesterday predicted Republican
victory in November.
The Kentucky Governor, whose
own victory last year upset Demo-
cratic calculations, addressed a
gathering of nearly 400 at lunch
con given by the Finance Commit
tee of the Republican State Com
mittee of the District of Columbia
at the Mayflower Hotel. Edward F..
Colladay, Republican national COM
mitteeman, presided.
Gov. Willis said the hour of de-
clslon is now upon America"
He said President Roosevelt has
failed to solve a single problem
during IL years of administration
and that Senator Truman of Mis-
souri,, his running mate, lis the
product of the Pendergast machine
and no one has even suggested that
Evening star., 1944-09-20

Iof history are Uttered with treaties
proclaiming permanent peace made
privately by rulers of nations and
quickly and publicly broken. This
case Is too important to be trusted
to discredited methods or TO be
dependent upon the life span and
continued friendship Of two or three
individuals.
I want to see a peoples peace
come at the end of this war. I want
to see a peace which has been
worked out in the full light Of day
before all the world. We all want
to see a peace which has been
labored over by the trained experts
of all the nations who will pe in
volved in it.
We want, most of ala peace
which all the freedom loving peo-
pies Of the world have had a part
IN creating-a peace they have
labored for, and believe ina peace
they will be willing to sacrifice and
work for in all the years to come.