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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-07
Danger Ahead-Unless

Each morning We lines of and
the the United States Employment Service
spectacle brings orcby attention the problem of
unemployment special the impending local
unemployment Negroes situation which the community
to the end of the
The entire problem of employment big
attempts plan solving evidently have defed the
minds the nation We have neither heard read Of practical
accepted program
munity subdivisions the Negro community and the
duas who make that community do certain things cushion
against the jobs OPEN period which will natural
y follow the wars end unless very steps are taken now to
prevent it.
That the Negro 80 per employee
thinking planning doing ought be obvious ALL
alone will be able his problem but he alone
initiate ameorate the conditions which will be peculiar
only to him.
The Negro admittedly marginal indication
effective
degree
this would be ordinary good
every Negro things during
manning period before the wars conclusion:
persons earning temporary wages ought
bonds possible for the
well for and protection In addition bond buying
should be made build savings reputable
banks building and loan associations.
All old bills should be paid good credit rating established
and maintained.
Foolish expenditures n frivolous gewgaws should be
should back and make sensible
necessary including insulation roofing
facilities The purchase of homes sellers market when
prices trading
shortage and color prejudice should be
prices greatly of their valuation being
asked for homes simply because is known be difficult
Negro homes
Farminded reliable authorities tell you to
until after the for the purchase home
unless buy fair price rather than at the excessive
figures being widely quoted.
hOpeessy that when your
will Immediately be threatened by nstament obligations
Insist that institutions such churches clubs and
lodges which property off mortgages and out of debt
possible Insist that the organizations which
clean and remodel their old property rather than invest
Spectators rundown property
Stop spending much for frivOliy According to United
States Department of Commerce estimate Negroes spent 294
millions dollars alcoholic eer wine liquor
1912 This amount too dsprOpOrOnate expenditure in
comparison the total annual earnings Negroes during the
period.
There other things which people, situated the Negro
stabilize the gains made during this lush period Ever
it too late for people to do of the things with
their incomes which would help to them protection during the
the huge industrial displacement which certain
While prejudice plays part the inequalities of Negro ot
opportunity there prejudice force against Negroes saving
money and using it wisely.
The Negro facing the postwar economic struggle will find les
difficult effectively fight the battle for full and equal industrial par
cpaon if he has bonds in the bank and good credit
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-07

II think it extremely significant
that the English are finding colored
Americans to have better manners
than white Americans George
S, Schuyler.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-07
Little Things

Three girls dancing on corner downtown,
One was fair and two were brown,
There's nothing quite so indiscreet,
AS clowning on public street.
Exuberance and nerve of youth
Are no excuse to act uncouth,
The characters of men of note
Are nodded long before they vote.
Two young men on trolley car,
Telling the world how smart they are,
Do they not know the truly wise
Never have to advertise.
Four abreast on a sidewalk,
Hogging all the road,
Puts on the back of liberty,
Far too heavy load,
The truest test of Freedom
Lies within the care
You show in seeing others
Get an equal share.
These may be little things perhaps,
But little things have changed world maps,
While nothing you may do or say
Can stop the universe,
Each word, each deed can count lot
Toward making our future worse.
james T. Logan.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-07

LIES CONE Back from the
II bloody battle of Tarawa.
He's faced death every moment
of the way. Will he say, give
done my part. I'm through?
Of course not! For he IS an
American fighting man. He'll
go back again and again-En-
til THE job is finished.
Your job isn't finished yet,
either. Four times America has
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-07-07
.QUOTES-
OF THE WEEK

IL the colored man is SO 1ruS-
trated that he offends and even
embarrasses his fellow country
men, this his state of mind must
be treated. Jos. D. Bib.
eff the South were not too blind
to see it's own best interest, it
would be strong for FEPC, for with
it's large population of Negro labor
ers, the better wages which fair
ness in employment would accom-
plish, would raise the general level
of prosperity to the advantage of
all, and particularly the white mer-
chant class" IN. S. Stuart.
Nearly every family now has
greater income than ever before.
People can fritter away this money
on price-infated goods now; or
they can increase their individual
purchasing power by laying some
of it aside for the future. Thrifty
people are investing every surplus
dollar in war bonds.-James P.
O'Donnell.
So while many o. P. A. directives
have been ill-advised, while some
o. P. A. officials have been ILL
chosen, by and large the o. P. A.
has been and still is absolutely
necessary for retarding initiation in
a war economy. - Congressman
Richard Gale.
Youth day will be under the di-
rection of Miss Arlene Allison
by Mrs. Daisy McAdams.
"The press will become free when
its owners permit it to become
free. Robert Lasch.
So far as the low cultural level
of Negroes is caused, increased and
prolonged by their white fellow
citizens, there must be organiza-
L1OIlS dIlO 1uONCL1CuL0 w SOuI1LS1 dSL
this, for it is culturally dangerous
and officially indefensible.-W. E.
B. Dubois.
The racial attitude of the military
is a curious anachronism. Despite
the gains made on the civilian front
in race relations during the last
two decades, actual conditions in
our camps, most of which are I'M
fortunately in the South, show a
reversion to dark and ignorant
prejudice.-Lucille D. Miner in the
New Republic.
II think it extremely significant
that the English are finding colored
Americans to have better manners
than white Americans" George
s. SCHUYLER.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

school and go to work themselves. They can't
quit until they are sixteen or have finished
the sixth grade but it's task to keep them
Interested"
At another school, one of the special SUBJ
stitutes told me: When came here. l as
signed some simple second grade subtraction
problems, only to find that nineteen of my
thirty-seven pupils had never gone beyond
elementary addition" She sighed. Il haven't
had much training. but l knew enough to
teach those kids subtraction - fastr'
asked little tow headed boy in her class
why he was drawing soldiers in his notebook
instead of copying sentences from the black
board. He said. "Aw. I've done 'em million
tines He was typical of the brighter chill
dren who could and should be forging ahead
but are being held back to the level of slower
children. Even top p-notch teachers in large
classes haven't time to give such children
special work; second and third-rate
Money Tal]<s
I'VE HAVE to take second-rate people" the
principal of this school said sadly. 1--WE can't
compete financially for frst-rate ones. had
a Wellesley graduate few months ago. She
was good teacher but she stayed just one
week. When she left, she said, The boys in
my room are insolent, and don't have to
take it. l can make more money with less
grief in an airplane factory" The principal
shook her head 1--WE pay big money to build
airplanes, and we pay starvation wages to
those who are building future citizens"
Evening star., 1944-08-06

Key City's high schools are better off than
its elementary schools, partly because they
have fewer Students They have lost about
1000 each semester for the past two years, to
vocational schools factory Jobs and the armed
forces. High school teachers get better pay,
too; Key City's scale, including $40 month
ost-of-living bonus, is $22l month for high
school, $3.50 for junior high, Sl55 for elemen-
tary grades. These rates are we'll above the
national average.
But at one of Key City's high schools l
found that there wasn't physical training,
mathematics or science teacher on the rolls.
Two boys who had just graduated and were
awaiting their draft call were acting as gym
teachers. A history teacher and language
teacher were in charge of mathematics and
science classes trying valantly to keep one
step ahead of their students.
Toget another side of the picture talked
with the children themselves. One boy of II,
Serious dark-haired boy. said I'm staying
because want to go to college. some day."
But big, carefree youngster about the same
age said, Il haven't learned a thing all year.
Why should l stick around here when can
make ffty-fve dollars week out at the air
plane factory?"
Iaskcd some eeighth-gradersi if they were
working outside of school. About third of
them were - one girl in nursery school, one
in department store one doing housework;
four boys with paper routes, one working in
newsstand, one in grocery, one earning $36
a week on night shift at shipyard. Why
did they work? Il want money to 60 to the
Evening star., 1944-08-06

movies" 1T helps kill time" MY folks
both work, and there's never anybody at
home" It's more fun than going to school,"
Is Key Citys problem unusual? Il think
not" said the School Superintendent. Its
less critical here than in many other places
We haven't had to close any of our schools
We did put some frst-graders into part time
sessions last year, and we may have to do the
same thing with some upper grades next
fall. 1t puts the boys and girls on the street,
and with many parents working, the chill
dren have no home supervision. But what
can we do?
No Jobs Wanted
WE USED to have hundreds of applicants
for teachers positions Now we have almost
no qualified applicants. We've trimmed the
curriculum to the minimum, cut out such
things as social studies because nobody is
qualified to teach them and still we are losing
ground The prospect is frightening
Truancy increased 10 per cent during the
year. uvenile-delinquency rates are rising.
Educators partly blame neglectful parents but
admit that properly stated schools could
help. All down the line, the educators are wor-
ried about the immediate future; many of
them talk in dark terms of what will happen
to an inadequately schooled generation five or
10 years hence.
Key City is not an isolated phenomenon.
Thousands of communities have been even
harder hit. Mothers preachers, even under
communities have not felt the pinch, and in
Evening star., 1944-08-06

others dwindling population has cut the need.
But Key City is still better -than-average
example in the national picture.
Where are the teachers? WE'LL their ranks
were thinning out even before the war The
National Education Association reports that
enrolment in teachers training schools has
decreased go per cent since 1899. Who wanted
to spend four college years preparing for a
teaching job that paid only $1,000 year
when the same amount of preparation for in
dustry would lead to twice that salary2 Some
thing is wrong when 16-year-old boy can
60 directly from high school into factory
and make more money than his well-trained
teacher gets.
We are reaping the product of years
of neglect, penny y-pinching and short
sightedness, and our children are the
victims. We have pegged school salaries at
low level, and when competition grows keen
we get just what we are paying for - if we
can get anybody.
To remedy the situation in time - which is
to say this year or next - we shall have to
pay for qualified teachers, compete with in
dustry if necessary. One thing about really
capable teachers - they enjoy teaching, be-
lieve that they are doing something worth
while, would remain in their jobs or return to
them if they only had living wage. Those
who are still in the schools are there because
they know that their job is important to the
future of the nation. It's up to parents to see
that qualified teachers are brought back and
kept there to carry us over this crisis and to
avert future ones The End
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Beau Need Not Shine
When Ring Reign Ends
BY the Associated Press.
NU7yrT x/NnD A.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 28.-With Beau
Jack, New York's ex-king of the
|lightweights and Georgia's ex-boot-
black, it isn't case of reign or
shine.
He has held the fistic title twice
and has lost it twice, but he's def
nitely in the dough and need never
whistle those shoeshine boy blues
again.
Friday night Beau battles Juan
zurita, Mexican-born MIA light
weight ruler, in a Madison Square
Garden 10-round non-title scrap.
1t marks the first time that a fighter
ever has appeared in three main
events in the Garden in a single
month.
On March Beau lost his New
York version of the lightweight
laurels to Bob Montgomery, before
crowd of 1906 which paid SILL
954. Two weeks later he gave We'll
terweight AL Dummy Davis of
Brooklyn a bad beating before a
1892 1923 crowd of 1868.
Fridays affair is expected to at
tract gate of between s75 900 and
500 900, boosting the Beau for over
the quarter-million mark as a March
money magnet.
Jack is s'irht choice over Zu-
rita
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Loioie Sees War Running Budding Major Aces

There's a boy who was just
getting smart when he was called
up" said Lajoie as he uncon-
sciously rubbed a left hand that
still twinges from an injury re-
ceived in a 1910 base path COLI
sion.
Bob came to the big leagues
pitching only with his arm.
When he left he had learned how
to pitch with his head as we'll.
Take three or four years out of
the prime of his life and let him
spend it in the nerve-tensing at
mosphere of war and there's a
difficult situation to meet when
he attempts to start back where
he left off,"
The giant former star, whose
career in the majors extended
from 1896 to 1916, picked Flash
Gordon of the New York Yankees
as the greatest Of the present
crop of stars and Bill Dickey Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
BY the Associated Press.


BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Mar. 3D.
The most unfamiliar note in base
ball this season is the blue one be-
ing sounded by Bill McKechnie,
manager of the Cincinnati Reds, as
he ponders what may happen to
his pitching staff.
Year in and year out the Reds
probably have the best balanced
mound corps in the National League,
so it's an unusual ring, indeed, when
the Deacon speaks with growing
concern about his throwers.
What started the crack in the
clubs pitching stronghold was the
departure of Johnny Van Der Nicer
of no-hit fame and Clyde Shoun,
who accounted for 20 wins between
them last year.
Veteran Staff Shattered.
Bucky Walters and Elmer Riddle,
the old standbys, won So more
games and still are around, but are
classified in LA. Riddle has not yet
arrived at spring training headquar-
tiers. He volunteered to take a
physical examination, which he
passed with ease. Now that he is
sure he is fit for service, he is ex-
|pected to report in camp any day
to stay until he is ordered to service.
The Van Der Meer-S houn- Wal
tiers combination represents a win
ming record Of IS games out of the
Reds total Of 81 victories last year
which enabled them to snare second
place in the National League pen
nant campaign.
The status of two other veterans
also is doubtful. Joe Beggs is
awaiting a Navy commission and
Ray Starr, who won II and lost 10,
has been reluctant to join the club.
He and McKechnine are scheduled
to talk things over in Vincennes,
Ind, some time this week.
This leaves the Reds with only
three certain mound prospects and
all are rockies. Arnold Carter, the
only left-handed thrower on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28

by the Associated PreSS.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Mar. 2a-Paced
by Ernestine Written who scored
10 points, Dallas, Tex, Hornets
engineered the first upset of the
18th annual women's national AAU
basket ball tournament last night
by defeating third-seeded Lenox,
Iowa, 1928.
All other favorites survived, but
the No. / seeded combination, the
Des Moines A. I. B., was sidelined
until tomorrow.
The Abs were scheduled to play
the Pittsburgh Independents but
the Pennsylvanians dropped out
after three of their players were de-
clared ineligible.
The Pepsi-Colas, also of Des
MONIES and runnersup in 1913, made
the most impressive showing of the
first round in eliminating the
Kansas City Getaways, 1919. Mary
Link accounted for % of the
Iowans' points.
Willie Wilson of the Cincinnati
Gruens topped that individual
mark, however, by counting 80
points to lead her club to a $685.
victory over the Omulgee, Okla,
Twin Hills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
barons Gain Ice Final
# They Win Tonight

BY the Associated Press.
Cleveland can reach the finals of
the American Hockey League play
offs by again beating the Hershey
Bears tonight on the Cleveland ice.
The BaronS, champions of the
Western division, boast a 3-to-1
edge over the Eastern loop titlehold-
ers. A victory for the Barons will
finish the best four of seven series
In the first game, at Cleveland
a week ago, Cleveland shut out the
Bears, 2 to 0. The Bears won the
next game, to /, but lost twice over
the week end by 4-3 and 80 scores
Hershey thus Is faced with the ne
cessity of winning three in row tc
qualify for the final against the win
ner of the Buffalo-Indianapol
semifnal series.
Buffalo holds 81 edge in this
latter series, with the fifth and
perhaps last game scheduled tomor-
row night at Buffalo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
BY the Associated Press.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Mar.
28.-Napoleon (Nap) Lajoie of
baseball's hall of fame believes
that few major league players
now in the armed services will
regain their old form after the
war.
"It isn't a nice thing to think"
said the 6S-year-old former Sec
ond baseman who stayed in the
major leagues 81 years, but lot
of baseball talent is going to be
war casualty and it just can't be
helped. We are now engaged in
a job much bigger than baseball
"a job that has to be done and
done WELL"
Lajoie, who achieved his great
est fame during his Is years with
the Cleveland Indians and three
times led the American League in
batting, chose Pitcher Bob Feller
to illustrate his point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Dallas Busketers Score Lone
Upset in Women's Tourney

Other games produced closer con-
tests, with the Okmulgee, Okla,
Cardinals rallying to down the
Wichita, Kans., Beechcrafts, 27-16;
Westinghouse of Pittsburgh elimi-
mating the st. Joseph Coca -Colas,
47-12; Wichita Boeings dropping
the Kansas City Pratt & Witneys,
25-13; the Elkin, N. c., Chatham
Blanketeers, seeded No. 4, sidelining
the Kansas City North American
Bombers, 49-13, and the Little Rock,
Ark, Motor Coaches, seeded No. 2,
defeating the Kansas City st.
James, 1915.
In a second round tilt the Nash
vile Vulters defeated Atlanta Sports
Arena, 34-16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
|Linkswomen 10 Open
h-1ourney Season
Here April

Twelve tournaments for women
golfers here are scheduled during
the summer, according to the sched-
Julie drawn up at yesterdays meet
ing OF the Women's District Golf
Associations Executive Committee
at the Broadmoor Hotel.
The program opens late next
month with the Keefer Cup COM
petition at Kenwood ON April Is
and 20 and closes with the Presi-
dents Plate tourney at Indian
Spring on October IT.
Another feature of the summer
competitive schedule will be the an
nual Star Cup tournaments in May.
Class B players will compete on
May Is and class A players IN May
%, both at Kenwood. These will be
18-hole medal play events.
The program drawn up for this
season is about the same as last
years, with the same number of
events listed. Mrs. Frank Mirth,
new president of the association,
predicts more competition, how
ever, as golfers hereabout now
know just what can and what can
not be done and more women have
indicated they plan to play.
Principal event for the high
handicap players is the buffers
tourney scheduled for July 7 at
Washington. The schedule:
April 25, 26-Keefer Cup (Class AZ. at
Columbia
May 1e-star Cup tclass b. at Ken
wood.
wood.
June 9-Times-Herald Cup tclass b.
june 20--Times-Herald Cup tclass AZ.
July 7wDufiers' Tournament tclass b.
July 25-Post Cup (class AZ. at Army
and Navy.
August s-Post Cup (class b. at In
August 2s-NBc Cup tclass AZ, at
Washington.
September 12--corby Cup tclass Al.
September 19-cBs Cup (class b, at
Army and Navy.
October 17-President's Plate (for ON
GERS of the association, at Indian Spring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Dartmouth Is Hopeful
Fourth Try Will Get
NCAA Court Grown
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Mar. 28.-Having
failed in the last three years, Dart
mouths basket ball team hopes to
finally win the NCAA championship
tonight by beating Utah at Madi-
son Square Garden.
Boosting II straight victories and
a clean slate against college COM
petition in winning 20 of 81 starts,
the Indians are favored to turn
back the one-handed shooting Utes
who captured the Western NCAA
crown at Kansas City Saturday
night while Dartmouth beat Ohio
State in New York for the Eastern
blue ribbon.
Champions of the Eastern Inter-
collegiate League for seven consec-
utlve years Dartmouth first entered
the NCAA tourney in 1941. It lost
in the first round to Wisconsin,
51-50
In 1912 the Indians beat Penn
State, 44-39, but lost in the final
to Stanford, 1898. Last year they
lost in the first round to Depaul,
1875.
Even though they win it will be
the last game of the season for the
Big Green. 1t was announced yes
terday that win or lose against
Dartmouth tonight, Utah's all
civilian team will play st. Johns
in a Red Cross benefit game at
the Garden Thursday night. Navy
regulations prevented Dartmouth
from staying over. st. Johns won
the national invitation tourney title
by upsetting Depaul Sunday night.
In the first game tonight, sched-
uled to start at 8:15 o'clock, two
standout service quintets, Mitchell
Field and the New York district
Coast Guard, clash. Mitchell Field
is the only team to beat Dartmouth
this wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
As E yeing Flag, Adopt Drastic
raining Code; Cubs, Reds Tilt

So did Outfielder Tuck Stainback
with tapped left ankle and Catcher
Bob Collins with a lame knee.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Cleveland S
''big five" pitching staff will include
Al Smith, Mel Harder, Vernon Ken
lnedy, Allie Reynolds and Ed Klie-
man, asserted Manager Lou Bou-
dreau.
WILMINGTON, Del. - Shortstop
Huck Geary, obtained from Pirates
during winter, still unreported at
Phillies' camp.
WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Three
of Braves pitchers, AL Javery, Ben
Cardoni and Hal Schacher. will cut
loose with curves today in effort to
learn if rockies really can hit.
BALTIMORE.-P Joe Bow
man, who used to be with Giants
Phils and Pirates, reported to Red
Sox. He played with Louisville last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Reds Once Fine Pitching Gone,
Mckechnie Starts MOANING
Star Staff Photo.

entire squad, and Bob Ferguson are
AIS and Tomas de Ia Cruz is a
Havana, Cuba, citizen.
Catching Corps Is AT.
De la Cruz and Carter won 81
and IA games. respectively, for the
Syracuse Chiefs of the Interna-
tional League last year and Fergu-
son had comparatively poor Ga
record with Birmingham of the
Southern Association.
The Reds catching chores are
nailed down by pair of 4-Fs-vet-
eran Ray Mueller, who backstopped
141 games for Cincinnati last year
and batted $50, and rookie Len
Rice Of Syracuse.
Rice. hard-working 175-pound.
er, played for San Francisco Calf
Junior College and broke into pre-
ball with the Ogden Utah) Reds in
1899. He attracted attention the
following year at Tucson, Ariz., by
catching all but one of the 124
games the Cowboys played and hit
ting 1854.