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ness, we gambled stupidity and almost
fatally with our navy.
We quit building new ships.
We even destroyed existing ships.
FORTUNATELY in time to avoid
L national destruction in a new
war, but unhappily not in time to
PREVENT the present war, we re-
covered our good sense in part and
restored our vital navy in consider
able part.
Pearl Harbor was the PRICE of
that nearly fatal lapse.
Pearl Harbor was not the fault of
the navy.
Pearl Harbor was certainly not a
credit to the opportunistic and
treacherous japanese.
The American government which
crippled the navy in 1921 and in the
years thereafter, and the American
people who STOOD for the betrayal,
were responsible for Pearl Harbor
The navy merely PAID for it's
qualification at the hands of the gov
eminent and the people.
The ruthless and ambitious and
prepared japanese merely took AID.
VANTAGE of the situation.
But we had come awake in time
to avoid complete disaster at Pearl
Harbor.
And since then we have devel-
oped grand navy, magnifcently
grand in ships and weapons, super
latively grand in fighting men and
dauntless spirit.
Now the American people have
daily cause to lift their faces in
gratitude to the navy.
They have cause to lift their
voices in praise of the navy.
They have cause to bow their
heads in prayer for the navy.
They have special and compelling
cause for pride in the navy.
Let us observe this Navy Day of
1914 in that spirit, with acknowledge
ment of its incompatible service and
valor, and with the unbreakable re-
solve that the security and freedom
it is now buying at such a cost will
be the permanent possessions of all
Americans for all time.
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Our Glorious Navy
By HARRY n. SCHLACHT

TODAY is Navy Day.
l. We honor our naval heroes.
We hail their glorious record and
splendid achievements.
1t marks the seth birthday of the
late President Theodore Roose-
welt.
He is the father of the modern
American navy.
OUR navy has unhinchingly stood
watch and ward over our bless
ings in which our faith is
grounded, and in which repose
the safety and security of our
people;
Our navy, from whose every mast
proudly floats the STARS and
Stripes" has never meant ag-
gression.
1t has always been the mighty arm
Of our national defense.
TO-DAY, let us also salute our
i merchant marine, the life line to
our battle line, and the United
States Marine Corps, whose
famous march-step song tells
how they have fought From the
Halls of Montezuma to the
Shores of Tripoli."
OUR gallant seamen and women are
Owriting an eternal page in our history.
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In their veins flows the blood of our
nations heroes and patriots.
They are showing the world that they
are worthy beneficiares of their
heritage.
They are battling for mans freedom and
human dignity, for faith and fireside,
for honor and justice.
They are fighting and dying that cviliza-
ton may endure.
The epic of their deathless heroism
fulfilled our promise, sustained our
traditions and added to the majesty
of our nation.
WHAT American has not been thrilled
w by their deeds of valor at Bataan,
Corregidor, Midway, Wake Island,
Coral Seas and the Aleutians?
They have indeed maintained the tradi-
tions Of Barry, Jones, Decatur, Perry,
Farragut and the other great names
carved high on the scroll of naval fame.
They are facing the menace outfung from
foreign shores, meeting again the
challenge as met in the years before,
under the spangled folds they are
ready to give all that they have so
that our flag shall live.
THE Bible tells us that the stars in
l. their courses fought against Sisera;
and they always fight against those
who seek to ensave the free.
May God speed the day when our glorious
navy will say, to all the world, in the
words Of Commodore Perry:
I'VE have met the enemy and they are
ours"
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Navy Day

THIS is the day observed annually
i by the American people in honor
of the navy, sponsored by the Navy
League of the United States, and
concentrating the founding of. our
naval establishment in ITS by the
Continental Congress.
The year of the navy's founding
was year of many great events, but
none greater than the creation of the
fighting maritime force which is hon
ored today.
The battles of Concord and Lex
ington were fought on April 10.
On June II the name of Bunker
Hill was made immortal in American
history.
Paul Revere had made his famous
ride from Boston to Lexington.
All these were stirring and vital
events.
The American Navy came into be-
ing as one of these vital events.
Our nation achieved its independ-
ence with the indispensable aid of
the navy.
It has been maintained as a ma
ton with the unfailing support of
the navy.
TT AMERICA ever loses its indie
l. pendence or ever fails to sustain
itself as a nation, that dread event
will unquestionably and inexorably
be the consequence of our neglect of
the navy,
Significantly, we are now in the
midst of a great struggle in which
such a dread event might have &C.
Cured.
Today, the American Navy stands
formidably and invincibly at the
blazing Pacific crossroads from
which presently we will emerge with
victory.
We will be assured of peace by
that victory.
We will remain in possession Of
our security and happiness because
Of it.
But a few short years ago, after
emerging from another great war
with victory and peace and chance
for permanent security and happi-
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MANY labor leaders have for
IN years been discussing the pros
poets of establishing an American
Labor party similar in form and
character to the British Labor party.
Such an organization would, Of
necessity, be anti-communistic.
Efforts to establish it have failed
because of Communist interference
and connivance.
The Political Action Committee
has now doomed this proposal, for
the Political Action Committee is not
only a Communist tool but it has
established itself not to advocate
principles but to support one inevi-
table and indispensable man, Frank
D. Roosevelt.
THE Socialists and more conserva-
l. tive labor leaders and workers
fear the consequences of this move.
They recall how in the formative
days of the Russian revolution, the
Communists destroyed every demo-
cratic element in Russian life and
finally supported the dictatorship of
Stalin-a single individual of un-
limited powers.
They recall that even the old Boil
sheviks, the original leaders of the
Communist party, to say nothing of
other parties, have all disappeared so
that Stain today stands alone, die
tator over all the Russian people.
They recall how the Communists
sabotaged all democratic elements in
Germany prior to Hitler, actually by
their conduct paving the way for the
Nazi dictator.
And they also note that unbe-
lievably huge numbers Of Com
munists switched over to the Nazis,
leaving the Socialists and conserva-
tives to their fate.
They recall that Leon Blum's
government in France, which was
socialist and offered France new
DEAL" was fought by the Com
munists whose strikes and demon
strations weakened France until it
could not defend itself.
And they note the Communist
pressures upon De Gaulle at this
moment.
No group distrusts the Com
munists more than the anti-Com-
munist elements in labor and they
understand the problem better than
most of the American people because
they have a constant experience
with it.
Communism represents the dis
ruptiOn of organized labor, the sacri.
flee of the individual worker to the
program of political conspiracy.
A ND these same anti Communists
a fear the permanent effects of
the Political Action Committee as
united front movement behind one
mana movement which has enunci-
ated no principle, which stands for
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nothing positive, which devotes itself
to denunciation and belittlement of
the democratic institution, the Con-
gress of the United States-and
elevates in American life the sole
doctrine of the leadership Of one
man.
That doctrine is feared. The
principle of leadership has been Hit
ler's principle. It is the central
theory of fascism. It is not a Com
munist doctrine but it is practiced in
Soviet Russia. 1t may be defined as
follows:
That there is one man in the total
population of a nation who, by train
ing, experience, by natural gifts is
alone suited to rule the whole people.
Such a man is indispensable and
must be supported blindly.
No American has ever believed
that.
No American ever held that to be
true of George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson or
Abraham Lincoln while they still
lived.
In a true democracy, every Off
cial must be subject to public crit
cism while he still seeks Office.
It is an alien doctrine to defy a
living man.
1t is substitution of hero wOr.
ship for national patriotism.
1t is rejection of the American
principle of the sovereignty Of the
nation and the acceptance of the con-
tinental notion Of the supremacy of
one anointed, heavenly endowed in
dividual.
The Political Action Committee
advocates that idea in it's support of
Franklin D. Roosevelt for fourth
term.
EARL BROWDER and Sidney Hill
~ man have organized the Politi-
cal Action Committee with the threat
that if they fail, they will disrupt
America. Let me quote Browder's
Madison Square Garden speech in
NlllSl Hc Sdlu llldt IL DcWcy were
elected:
s.. 1t means the sharpest &C
centuatiOn of class struggles in
America ever seen in history"
The rejection of one-man leader
ship would lead to this "accentua-
ton of class struggle"
Certainly neither the Democrats
nor the Republicans would be guilty
of this.
The leadership of such move
ments in American life for a quarter
of a century HAS ARISEN FROM
THE COM MUNISTS WHOSE
HEAD is EARL BROWDER AND
w H OSE FRONT is SIDNEY
HILLMAN.
The Political Action Committee is
then THE FORERUNNER OF
REVOLUTION.
Americans will accept the chal-
lenge.
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Brain Game

sesrs 50 for each correct antusr through
question slH. 40 for earh % the remaining
tue soesticns. AHy score IS Or higher 10
saesnsnt.
Would you use a mOrdant IL
you were ta) Dyeing cloth:
(b) Mixing medicine. lcl
Sewing a Shroud?
2-True or false: ta) Ohio. Ken
lucky, Alabama. Mississippi
Louisiana. Indiana, Vermont
and Illinois all we're admitted
10 the Union before Maine2
3-Name the theater in which
Lincoln was shot7
4-When did the King James
version Of the Bible appear:
Sixtee h, seventeenth or
eighteenth century
5-Who wss Count Alfred Won
Schlieffen, who died in 1913?
SIS the border OF Norway or
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:: :: :: WHAT DO YOU" KNOW? :: :: ::

that Of Sweden nearer TO
Russia?
I'm the following list elimi-
nate the one name not prop
erly included: Balzac. Joseph
Conrad, Stephen A. Douglas,
Roark Bradford, Charles
Dickens.
S-The Hapsburgs and Bourbons
were the ruling houses Of two
Europeans countries. Name
them.
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
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Tbs monss rss Sp tie eIsek,
The clock struck 90
And dows bed race
He's f~dins wssfs PAPER
Most every tlsesi
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Knowledge Test
By DIR. sARINA CONNOLLY

BN DIX. SABINA CONNOLLY
- Score 1 fer each ~ the 6rst ave oue,-
lions and On the last question; 80 bril-.
liant re BRIGHT. a-s average OF. dull
l-Old King Cole had fa) three
iiddlcrS ib) four fiddlcs, CO..
five fiddlcrS2
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2-The main body of aircraft is
called (a) Fuselage; (b)
ceiling; tc) aileron?
3-1f you are called a Nimrod.
does il mean you are skilled
al: Cal Fishing; (b) hunting;
tc) archery?
4-Where was Little Boy Blue
when he fell fast asleep:
tal Up in the tree tops; (b)
safe in bed; (c) under the
hayStack?
5-AniSe is chiefly grown for
its: ta) Fruit; tb) seeds; tc)
root?
Snatch the columns correctly.
The towns Of Alaska with
their doScrintionS,
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The Political Action Committee

Following last Of series of articles Sidney Hdns Polite
BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
VOTERS URGED TO VOTE NEXT TUESDAY, JULY II
Press Fight On Race SANDER Book From Public Schools
Rev. Burton's Open Letter To Voters

LINE?
5. DO you want the voters of
Ward 9 to get the jobs in Ward
9, for which they are eligible,
and to which they are entitled?
6. Do you want to relieve
helpless mothers with MOTH
Frs AID? and save them from
toll and suffering?
Finally, I know that you, The
PEOPLE, want decent govern
ment, and would gladly vote for
a man that would not sell you
Continued on Page F0uF)
(poIificaI Adve isen1enf1
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
| BANKS PLEDGES
TO REPRESENT
ALL IN WARD

This year for the first time
in more than quarter of a CEN
fury, Boston'S colored popula-
ton has a reasonable chance of
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
Crisis" Not Banned

MEDFORD Ralph J
Banks, local Equal Rights lead
er, demanded the complete
banning of the controversial
Crisis" from the Medford
Schools here last week.
At the same time, Mabray
Kountze stepped up a cam
paign to appoint colored
school teachers in this city.
THE Crisis" is a 20 year old
treatment of the Civil War in
which author Winston Church
ill of Cornish, N H has cheap
ened the role and contribu-
tons of colored Americans.
Names applied to colored peo-
pie, especially colored women
have been regarded as an in
suit by colored students for
years until the recent protest.
Continued on Page Four
(PnIi+iraI AdvertisementN
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
Dear Sir-Madam:

Dear Sir-Madam:
Our HOUSING PROBLEM is
serious. Would you help to solve
it?
2. Will you support a CLEAN
UP" plan in WARD 9, in order
that it may be made a sanitary
locality in which to live?
3. Will you stand back of a
fellow that tries to protect your
young boys and girls from evil
influences?
4 Will you like to see our
OLD, and AGED, provided for,
and saved from the BREAD
political dvertisementO
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
TEIXEIRA RALLY
Pledges Ward ? Improve
ments viii Equal City's
Best.

With the hall at 800 fremont
st last Thursday night packed
to overlooking in spite of the
heat, the voters who were rail-
lying to the support of the
candidacy of Roy F. Teixeira
for Ward 9 representative,
heard the dynamic lawyer
make a most eloquent and
earnest speech in which he
pledged to do his utmost 70
Continued on Page Four
political Advertisement
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08

political ADVERTISEMENT
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08

having representation in the
General Court,
This was the opinion Of Lau-
renee Banks, we'll known COL
ored civic leader and candidate
for nomination for State Rep
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-07-08
political ADVERTISEMENT
WIN WITH TOBIN

He has been an outstand-
ing Mayor. He will make
on excellent Governor.
Maurice J. Tobin is rec
osnixed Gs one of the
Nations leodins odminis-
traitors.
His record as Mayor Of
Boston has eorned him the
support Of oil citizens. Both
labor and business have
approved his record.
A proven leader, he is the
hope of the Democratic
party for success in
November.
VOTE FOR
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by Z. G. Lo01bFFf, Lon
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HIS ssysSs t-Doc
9Ooi wooDwARD-TR. 2-s4bO
WlLLYs-i9ft 4-door, rive good
tires motor runs perfect; clean ~
side. paint is clean, priced 10 sell.
Han Dodds. 1850 Livernois. near
Grand River
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TRUNKS WANTED

Radios. clothing, typewriisrs, furs.
watches. Premium prices paid. Phone
us before you sell. CA BASS.
WE boy old fur coats. 32s Michigan
Theater Bldg
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

fftt5fttestt- PRICES, diamou1y, jew
elry. old gold ORTIZ Detr Gold Re-
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DIAMOND LOANS

LIBERAL LOANS Diamonds. Jew.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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opeaA sunday -
We Wilt purchase your used band
Instruments for cash We viii pay you
highest cash price for any OF the fol-
lowing Instruments: Trumpets, saSo-
phones. comets. trorooneE, tenor
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drums or sccQrtions. Can MI.
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE
TRANSFORMATIONS
L. DAVIS MOTORS

1900 LIvERNoIs AT ELMHURsT
sTuDEBAKER 1871 Champion club
coupe; also a beautiful 2-door. radio.
heater. cverdrive, etc tires Ike
and terms.
ITS A MITCHELL
a-4a AlnnHlI AlI.
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will understand why supe
stitious circus people begd
10 shudder for the futur|
FROM earliest times, in al
cient Greece and ROM
just as today. it has alwaJ
been considered by SCOTT
sayers and fortune tellet
10 bring on bad luck If I'D
harmed a cripple. Crippld
people. were protected u
the gods" To strike, or il
jure one. was supposed 1
bring on a series of misfo|
tunes, even if you did
inadvertently.
Sure enough, the ne]
tragedy for the great circq
was the inadvertent KILN
of a crippled boy.
The show, after leavir|
New York, was unloadir|
in the New York, New III
ven e. Hartford Railrod
yards in Boston.
On an embankment stod
a crippled youngster. eagd
eyed, seeking a glimpse \
the marvels which haJ
brought kids TO see the ci
Gus unload ever since IN
old days of KEROSENE \he|
In his eagerness, ~bd|
lost his footing, slippd
down a steep embankmen|
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Emmett Kelly, Clown
Star of the 1914
Circus.

bone in her lovely body.
She did not die. But
again as in the case of Lii
Ian LeitZel, the tragedy
had seemed to occur for no
apparent reason.
Again the belief revived
in the minds of many that
the circus must still be
under the cloud of the
Ubangi curse, CHI a n t G d
years before by the hide.
Gus Tipped women from
the Belgian Congo.
What had that old curse
meant, If anything?
Meanwhile jinx-believers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

nation was so radical applied to circus, that
the shock perhaps interfered with proper appre-
citation on the part of the public.
For while there was so much controversy on
this touchy subject in which newspapers, rival i'm
presarioS, audiences and performers joined. that
everybody more or less forgot about the supposed
jinX which superstitous souls believed had been
dogging 1.-THE greatest show earth for years.
The upshot Of this esthetic tempest, particularly
outside metropolitan areas, was that the dear pub
lie still wanted their sawduSt the color of sawduSt
their big tent the color tents had always been and
elephants which still elephants instead of pre-
tending to be tenton ballerinas.
DE gustibuS non est diSputandum," said Sam
GumpertZ. That's Latin, and ii means, among
other things, the public is always right Wen give
bigger and better circuSeS that they can recog-
niZe circuses, and everybody will be happy"
Then suddenly and terrible tragedy
CURED. This year in the midst of the shows tri.
umphant spring opening, in Madison Square Gar
den, Patricia Cartier, radiantly beautiful young
aerial star, of the English Cartier Sisters missed
her grip the flying tTapeZe, and crashed to the
tanbark many feet below, breaking almost every
Ia November II. 1871
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wondered where the hoodoo might hit next.
They hadn't long to wait. The next tragedy
was of such depressing, unusual nature that if
you have any belief that evil events make pat
term" sometimes guided by macvocnt spirits YOU
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

and crushed by one of the circus trucks
II was pitiful accident. II was an 'act of God
within the meaning of the legal phrase, an vi
aVoidabc tragedy which no human care or fort
sight could have avcrted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
BY WILLIAM SEABROOK
CHAPTER ~

Imagination running in the Ringing blood did
II utIUh" Mr.
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OhN WIN 4AA oOAAAA.
- In his last years, he
had introduced glamour in
TO the Big Top in the attrac-
tive form of beautiful girls
in place of hard-faced wo-
men with bullying muscles.
Now, the Ringing heirs
went a step further. They
called in the great, futuris-
tic stage designer, Norman
Bel Geddes, to transform
the circus again-this time
into a sophisticated, ultra
modern, surrealistic dream,
under bright blue tents.
This idea originated with
John Ringing North, Henry
North, Robert Ringing and
Sam GumpertZ. They gave
GeddeS carte blanche, and
he proceeded to concoct a
masterpiece.
Not only were the new
tents a vivid blue, but the
poles were all outside. The
ticket booths were curved.
The climax was the saw
dust dyed periodically red,
white and blue!
The printed programs,
too, were Super-Smart, illus
trated by Peter Arno. The
show itself, directed by
John Murray Anderson, in
Guided a ballet of elephants
staged by Balanchine and
led by Zorina.
AS a final touch of ultra,
super.duper refinement, the
big tent, once classicaliy re-
dolent with wild animal
odors and the smell of real
sawduSt, not to mention the
aroma of popcorn, peanuts
and pink lemonade-was
now air conditioned.
The result was extreme
ly beautiful by modernistic
standards, and was exactly
what the new RinglingS
wanted. But the transfer.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-11-11
Original Willing
Workers Resume
Club Activity

The Original Willing Workers
society Of Detroit after a year Of
inactvliy has resumed rs work in
tho community.
Mrs. Marine Thompson. Score
tary. announces that due 20 the
prosperity at present, the socirty
has deemed IL wise TO outline a now
program which Will include plan
ming for postwar relief, careful
study Of juvenile delinquency and
The formation % committees 70 add
IN Red Cra and caucer.relief
work.
The sccpiy frcenty pack cd
clothng articles for the Needle
Nomcns Guild bag for the iifty.
fourth year Articles Of clothing
valued AZ Sg56 were sent in hy the
society under the leadership Of
Mrs. Albert Greeulaw. the presi-
dent
The public IS invited "a contrib
ute generously when the Original
Wiling Workers society sotcitS
funds to help carry on It's HUMANE
tartan activities.