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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
CHILDREN, AGED
TO GET MORE AID

RALEIGH. Aug. 1o-R- The
state board Of charities and public
welfare today voted to increase its
financial aid to dependent children
and to the aged, and to establish
with approval Of the General AS.
sembly" state budget to help
provide payments for general re-
lief now paid entirely by counties.
In other cash payments to the
needy, both the state and federal
governments participate with coun-
ty units, with the national treasury
footing half the bill.
Figures on the proposed in.
creases and the amount to be pro-
vided for general relief were not
released by the board pending
further study Of the items involved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11

living expenses and bought the
same incidentals Joe gets free.
OF course no one, least of all
the Army, claims Joe isn't max
ing sacrifice risking his life and
limb, being away from his family
and friends, and leaving his school
ing or business. But dollar for dol
lar he's ahead Of his civilian broth
er, the Army says.
For a married man, the income
comparison is not so favorable,
but his pay and his allotment, &C.
cording to the army calculations,
will provide a standard of living
equal to that of the home front
family which makes between 81, 900
to So, 400 per year.
So buck up. buck privates,
you're in the chips.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
Army Says CT JoeDraws
More Pay Than Civilians

OMAHA. Neb., aug. 10-(RHGI
1a, routing Germans in Europe
w. wv japanese in the Pacific, are
a all right on the financial
..onf too, says the Army-if he's
unmarried -, -.
.orker in the same category, Joe
y sV making n more net earned income
s,. the single man back home
v ,Is9 gets salary of $500 year,
'.cording to figures released to-
day by hsadqua ats Of the Seventh
u The lowly private gets but $500
wear but he has 1920 left after
Sc essential expenses are paid.
mats ~, more, army authorities
contend, than the bachelor back
s s has after he has paid taxes,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11

DR.. Ellen Winston, commissioner
of welfare, said.
Increased appropriations were
recommended for county welfare
administrations; to assist in carry.
ing out statutory responsibilities Of
cooperating with other state pro-
grams such as paroles and child
labor. 1-o
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
NAVY MAN RESCUED
FROM GUAM ISLAND
Continued From Page one)

Continued From Page One)
the Americans. The, offered
a reward for my capture.
Several times they learned
where was hiding but each
time I managed to escape,
one by less than a minute.
Finally the Japanese Of
ficially pronounced me dead in
April, 1914. There had been
only, navy men on Guam until
March, then army men came.
The navy was afraid the army
might find me, so officially
pronounced me dead to save
face"
Tweed said he viewed vir-
tually every American aerial
and surface attack on Guam
from his hideout. He figured
the Americans must be land
ing on Saipan, 125 miles to the
north, when the direction from
which the American bombers
came changed from the south
east to the north.
Returning to his rescue,
Tweed said:
"On July 10 (ten days before
the American invasion) l eff
fected my escape to a United
States combatant ship off the
coast"
With that brief sentence he
dismissed his escape.
Tweed told how he believed
he made contact with an
American fighter pilot prior
to his escape. The pilot swept
low to the ground and Tweed
frantically, jubilantly and
hopefully elasped his hands
and shook them in the fight
er's gesture.
II am certain he recogniz-
ed me as an American"
Tweed said, because 1 was
stripped to the waist" he
dived lower and blinked in
recognition.
Some days later. Tweed was
rescued.
Tweed's wife, Mary Francis,
and their sons Ronald Eugene
and Robert Edward, are liv-
ing in Santa Raula, Calf,
probably with his mother-in-
law, Mrs. W. H. Sudderth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
Mickey And Donald
To Entertain Ndzis?

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. -lREThe
Walt Disney studio soon will be-
gin making a sound track in the
German language for its cartoon
film "Saludos Amigos"
This probably will be the first
entertainment film in German
made in this country since the war
started. Ddsney's announcement
said merely that the studio is pre-
pairing for the reopening Of the
European market.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
Hazi General Given
Citation By General

LONDON, Aug. 10 Up Adolf
Hitler has awarded Gen. sepp
'1oseph) Dietrich, commander of
an IS tank corps, the oak leaves
with swords and diamonds to the
mlgnts cross Of the iron cross, the
nignest award Of the order, for
repeatedly frustrating British
Canadian breakthrough ATTEMPTS in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11

the Caen sector" DNB announced
from Berlin today.
Dietrich, former commander in
chief Of Hitler's bodyguard, has
been named by the Russians as 4
war criminal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11

New goggles, equipped with
elght-inch plastic lenses, have
been developed which protct tn
eyes, cheeks and forhad Of
Army pilots from frostbite and
burns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11

Edenton, N. c., dropped their
depth charges close by. The bow
was blown off. The vessel rolled
over on its side and began sinking
before destroyers arrived to finish
the job.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-11
POLES PARDONED

LONDON, Aug. 10 R The
Russians have granted amnesty to
all Polish citizens sentenced tor
crimes committed within the So
WET, the Moscow radio announced
toriaht
Evening star., 1944-09-24
DNnkHMrr

PLEASE! From Stars and Stripes" comes
a story of a second lieutenant working
as trial judge advocate in North Ireland.
He tackled this message on his door: Court
martial docket completely jammed. Any
soldier desirous of committing violation
of the Articles OF War will please postpone
said intention for at least ten days"
TRAP. We get report on an Army officer,
yearning for combat, stuck away in Wash
ington's Pentagon Building. Sadly. he
wrote: That's life in the Army. Here to-
day and here tomorrow.
GENEROUS. Admiral Halsey tells about
getting to football! game late, stepping on
Evening star., 1944-09-24

took a whole semester off to sell books
from door to door in Michigan; and l
graduated when was thirty years old:
and I've never been 50 glad of having done
any one thing in my whole life"
That argument used to clinch things
with lot of the boys especially those
who didn't really need the money they
were making. They'd show up at school
and in a little while they'd be playing
football and groaning over the ldylls OF
the King. But the Superintendent wasn't
through with the fellows who were filling
the pick-bags on the tall ladders When
they rode astride the barrels into town
on Saturday afternoons, he'd be down.
town to see them and say. ''We'n be
hooking for you as soon as the pick
inx's over. I'll tell your teachers to
help you 50 you can catch up.
If they still didn't come back to school
he'd go to see their parents The whole
democratic scheme of this country rests
on education" he'd say. What's the use
of having freedom of speech if you've
nothing worthwhile to say? What's the
use of having freedom of worship If you
can't understand religious teaching? Don't
YOU want your boy to be good citizen:'
WISH knew the sum total of the results
of the Superintendent campaigns. 1t Is
impossible for me even to make faH
guess on the number of boys Ike persuaded
to finish high school," That of course
was his big contribution to the life of the
town. Today there are hundreds of his
former students who remember him with
affection and gratitude. But his influence
did not end with high school commence
ment exercises. In quarter century OF
serving that little town he persuaded more
than thirty boys to 60 off to college.
He died few years ago - at eighty
three - and at his funeral old friends and
men l did not know came up to me and
said, why. he was second father to
me- If it hadn't been for him I'd never
have found out what living was all about"
So when hear the talk about the boys
and girls not going back to school these
days because they're getting good wages,
think how he would have welcomed the
chance, just as l hope other school
superintendents and teachers and parents
are welcoming it - to prove that money
won't buy happy living. And think can
hear him saying mo matter how much a
fighting nation needs men it cannot afford
to use its boys in war jobs when they
should be learning to live. If it does, we
lose the very thing we are fighting for"
Evening star., 1944-09-24

work. He would ask the applicant what
kind of man he wanted to be when he
grew up. Encouraged by his real fnendli-
ness, the boy would tell what his ambi-
tons were and then my father would set
about showing him how impossible 1t
would be to achieve them without more
schooling. He would point out how much
better job the boy could get in his chosen
field and how much more useful citizen
he could be with more training.
HE WOULD speak in an admiring way OF
the self-made and uneducated men Of the
community. but somehow his samples
were fellows who had been soured by their
concentration on making money, cIotchety
men whom boys didn't like. Then he
would say: There's lot of money in this
country - but if you had it all you
couldn't buy with it right now the ability
to enjoy life. You have to build that up
for yourself"
But, mister" the boy would say,
"vou're school superintendent. OF course
you feel the way you do. It's your JOB.
As for being able to have good time,
III stack myself up against the next fel-
low"
Then the superintendent brown
ewes would take on . warm bright
sparkle and he'd really get down to
business.
Il tried it your way first" he'd say.
When l was your age it was the custom
over in Tompkins County, where l came
from, for a man to rent out his sons as
field hands for what he could get for EN-.
was 50 strong and such good worker
that my father used to get twice as much
for me as other boys fathers got for their
sons. When came of age and the wages
were paid to me instead. felt rich. had
enough cash in my pants pockets to take
girl to cotillion at the Dryden Springs
Hotel, or to drive into Ithaca for big
Saturday night.
''BUT l was unhappy. There was a
teacher at the Dryden High School who
had sort of opened door and let me see
that if l went on with my schooling the
dav would come when wouldn't have to
depend on fiddles and liquor and horses,
or even girls, for my good time. There'd
be something inside me that would give
me better time than all the things out
side me could give So when was twenty
six years old l took what savings had.
borrowed some more money from the town
banker - and went off to Hamilton COL
lege. worked summer vacations, and |
CORPORATION
Evening star., 1944-09-24
War-plant pay instead
of school? Listen, you
youngsters - to this
former canal-tOwn boy

uHEARD while ago that lots of boys and
girls working at high-paying war jobs
are planning not to go back to school
this fall = and l was worried. l remem-
bered my own boyhood in canal town
in upstate New York.
The temptation was not provided by
factories in those days With us it was
apples. Just as the blowing seas of green
leaves beside blue Lake Ontario began to
dapple with CLEANS of red, school would
ouen. Farmers would be desperate then.
for no matter how many pickers had been
following the harvest north, there were
never enough of these wanderers to get
the whole harvest into barrels. So wages
would shoot upward and a boy. even II
he wasn't quite sixteen, could make
mans pay and spend it like man taking
his girl to the dances at Troutbmg and
stopping of at the Candy Kitchen on the
way back for a banana split or two.
SuaooL seemed mighty silly. Why at this
rate a fellow could save money enough
IN a few years to buy cute little house
and yet married and all that, and save HIM
self all the trouble of figuring out what
scandals Cicero had laid bare in the Sen
ate. All you had to do was to get your
parents to sign an Application saying they
wanted YOU to work, and the School
Supzintendent would have to give you
a work certificate - and you were all set.
But getting by the School Superintend-
ent of Albion, New York, was always a
lot harder than expected. l know this
because, being his son, l overheard
many Of his talks with boys who
wanted certificates.
The Superintendent believed in educa-
ton. He was neither bad nor remark
ably outstanding executive, but he had
passionate conviction that no one could
live a full and happy life without prepar-
ing to live it
When a boy came to see hun about get
ting work certificate he was genuinely
piad to see him, because he really liked
people. Every new personality was JOY
full experience to him. Moved by the
warmth of his welcome the young man
would tell what he wanted and why he
wanted it.
Then the Superintendent would go to
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Evening star., 1944-09-24

a sailors foot while scramblinE to his seat.
The sailor, not hooking up. yelled. Get of
my foot. you big lug" Then he recognized
the Admiral blurted: oh, my goodness,
beg pardon, sir. Here's my other foot -
go ahead - step on it.
SATISFIED. We know a man in Atlanta
who took four friends to visit a farm he
owned The visitors entered the tenant
farmers house. were a little embarrassed
when they discovered he had only two
chairs They stood around awkwardly. and
finally the owner said: II don't belkve you
have enough chairs here"
The old farmer took a dip of snuff, NUT
tered: Il got plenty of chairs - just too
durn much company
Evening star., 1944-09-24

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-15
PLAYING WITH FIRE

/: great deal of the literature and the speeches
that have come out of the South in these years
reflect common point of view which we believe is
dangerous to our democracy and, in the long run,
may preciptate another Civil War; This point of
view is essentially defeatist and it forecasts doom.
"A typical article appears in the current issue of the
Atlantic Monthly, written by David L. Cohn of
New Orleans and entitled "How The South Feels"
Obviously sincere Mr.. Cohn builds his story
around three acknowledgements W h C h Americans
must accept if they would understand the Southern
mind and improve race relations. Mr.. Cohn writes:
81 submit that our understanding depends upon three
candid Acknowledgements. The first is that the Negro
question is insolube, as are all complex social
problems.
Secondly, we must acknowledge that the ques-
ton is insoluble because in the conscious uncon
scous minds of whites it is at bottom a blood or
sexual question -.
II come now to the third acknowledgment con-
corning the Negro question. If it is nsouble in the
done to the relations of the races when leaders Of
both Sides out of sentimentaty or refusal to face
the fact, pretend that somehow it is capable of
solution.
mo notable improvement of race relations can
be achieved, in my opinion, unless the ground is
cleared by recognition on the part of both whites
and Negroes that (a) the problem is incapable of
solution, and (b) the issues of segregation must not
be called into question"
AS Mr.. Cohn develops his arguments it is clear
that he would have Americans believe that, while
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-15
Public Health Notes
Bv CLEMENT SCOTT, Md, D.P.H.

ice. Raw" water, or the untreated
water at the source OF intake at
the river, is examined. Tap water
is analysed at different parts Of
the city. The latter plan is of spe-
cisl value because no matter how
good the water may be at the outlet
OF the treating plant there are many
possible means Of contamination
before it reaches the small cot
tages in the suburbs. The water
supply is also checked for private
water systems. such as sterilizing
units in hospitals. Private indus
trial water supplies are checked.
particularly those which have dual
water systems. that is. city water
for drinking purposes and untreat-
ed water from the river for GER
tain purposes in manufacturing
where clean water is not neces-
Sary Samples OF. water at beaches
in swimming pools are analysed TO
prevent the possibility OF spread
Of diseases from these sources.
Inspections of buildings in regard
to sanitation is done and recon-
mendationS made. II necessary.
corrections are demanded by court
order and even condemnation pro-
ceedings instituted.
A special service OF the Sanitary
Division is regular inspection OF
all Bedding and Mattress factories
in the city.
The suppression Of such nuisances
as odors is service Of the Bureau.
An effort Is made to control rats.
mosquitoes and such obnoxious end
disease carrying vermin. This is
largely an educational work, for
the public must assume this largest
part Of the responsibility In pre-
venting their existence. CONNER
cial funigations are supervised by
special inspectors to see that the
proper precautions for safety are
carried out.
The technical workers OF the Bu-
reau are for the most part sanitary
engineers. There are specially
trained investigators and OF course
clerical staff.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-15

TO be sent to the health department
than complaints OF the presence OF
diseases or the traffic Of poor food
products.
Since the function OF Bureau
OF Sanitation includes investiga-
tons OF all matters which relate
10 the hygiene OF environment, con-
sequently the amount of work that
is done by the division depends
upon the type OF community in
which il operates. The limited
finances Of small towns end rural
areas prevent the community own
ership of public works facilities
such as water and sewage disposal
and therefore these areas have to
depend almost entirely upon the
local sanitarian to keep such Ia
cilities in a condition which is con-
ducive to community health. Their
activity and authority in such places
have wide range. However in
densely populated communities the
responsibility is too great for any
one division to take and we find
many such fscilities must be OPP
Grated and controlled by special
commissions. For example, the
large city has a specific board 10
handle the problem OF water supply
another commission controls hous-
ing problems and still another has
charge OF garbage and refuse COL
lection and disposal. etc. In such
cases as these the Sanitary Divi-
sion acts in a cooperative capacity.
One OF the most important serv-
ices OF the Bureau OF Sanitation
is their inspection and investiga-
ton. Complaints may come from
personal sources or they may come
from courts. The Bureau serves
orders for corrections to be made
and re-investigates 10 see that the
corrections are made. Inspection
is made OF establishments for the
purpose OF authorizing the issuance
Of licenses. Summonses are served.
General inspections are made wher-
ever and whenever the Bureau
thinks advisable. Materials are
gathered by investigators for analy-
sis. Throughout all the work eff
forts at public health education re-
garding sanitation are exerted.
Although the Detroit Water board
is directly and solely responsible
for supplying good water 10 the
city. the Sanitary Bureau OF the
Health Department cooperates in
checking the efficiency OF the serv-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-15
The Facts n Our News

given way to discrimination, racial
myths, and just pure ignorance In
the matter Of taking blood from
Negro blood donors. These boys,
with their parents. knew that Me-
groes had been refused the oppor-
tunity to give blood They knew
that after much fighting, blood of
Negroes was accepted in . most
disgraceful manner, but finally &C
cepted. These women did not ex-
pect . statement that would come
from two Negro boys in . segre-
gated army, to the effect that they
still have faith in America and
Its democratic processes - even
though At times Il Is hard to believe
In democracy because Of the actions
Of certain individuals and groups
toward Negroes as we all fight to
keep our country free.
There has been much said about
the contributions Negroes are max
ing to our present war effort. All
that has been said has been good,
but has not been said with equality
and justice to the greatness OF the
American people. In our newsreels,
where Negro soldiers have acted
heroically and with the true
American spirit Of do or die. when
these newsreels reach the American
screens, prejudiced and narrow
minds have clipped out the part
that would depict the Negro soldier
acting nobly in line with the
noblest American tradition to fight
for country and home shoulder to
shoulder with ones countrymen.
News releases have been greatly
unfair to Americas black soldiers.
Black soldiers have broken IN
German gun nests in the face OF
tremendous odds and great danger.
Ihey have swept on TO capture
japanese strongholds In malaria
infested jungles. but the daily
newspapers many times do not even
refer to such heroism. Such actions
on the part Of daily newspapers Is
q sin against democracy, and GER
tainly a sin against their own rirht
to publish all Of the news, no mat
ter TO whom Ii gives credit and
no matter to whom Il may give
condemnation. These dailies who
yell about the freedom OF the press
ought to be sure that they them
selves are free from bigotry and
narrow-mindedness in reporting
the news.
The American people are great.
They are SO great that they really
repudiate any effort 10 keep from
them the acts Of their sons as their
sons fight for democracy, no mat
ter what the color Of the sons mig hi
be. American Negroes sometimes.
] think, are greater than the gen.
eral American population In this
crisis. Negroes are being buffeted
about, Disseminated against, mis-
represented, and most Of the time
not even represented where repre-
sentation Is certainly due. In the
face Of all this. and all Of this Il
CALLING. Negroes have kept the faith
In American institutions . !, In the
process Of democracy ~ so yield
itself 10 the warnings of all lis
peoples that they may have free
dom, happiness and justice before
the courtA
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-15
Insurance Companies
Cited AS Race Aids

DURHAM. ~ C.-(ANP)-Trac-
ing the history OF Negro insurance,
A. T, Spaulding. actuary and assist
ant secretary OF the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance company
calls it 1.-The Negroes greatest
achievement" as he revealed that
ending December 81. 1912. 80 OF AZ
companies had $474,226,628 of in
surance in force. $22.57l ,08S7l in
premium income and total income
Of $24. 532. 56064. Policyholders re-
ceived $6,l6l,2l382 in payments, he
said.
Next TO his faith in God, the
Negroes faith in his own life insur-
ance companies has been one OF the
greatest contributing factors toward
his own progress" declared Spauld-
ing in recent article on Negro in