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Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
RUTH TAYLOR Says......

make you stop and think what you
really mean by the American way
of life. Here is what found |
meant by the phrase,
The American way of life is the
way of opportunity for all, 1t
does not mean an equal distrthu-
ton of all good things, but an
equal chance to work for a living
at a fair wage. 1t means free
enterprise-free to develop, but
not unbridled license to exploit
either man or natural resources,
1t means an equal opportunity to
learn, not an equal ability to get
ahead without work. Y
The American way of life is
the way of self-restrained free
dom, Under it We may freely
exprtss our own opinion-but we
abide by the decision of the ma
iority. The American way of life
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
PLAIN TALK
lnd M
by DAN GARDNER

of losing every social advantage
he has won or been granted unless
he pulls himself together right
away and gets rid of his own
burden. That burden is, lack of
mass discipline, lack of respect
for the rights of others, and true
pride in honest race achievement.
The war is going to end some
day and when it does, many of
the temporary advantages we
have won in the midst of a ma
tional hysteria are going to be
taken from us by the white man
flushed with victory and with en-
HANGED pride in the abilities of
the NordiC to rule the world, in
Guiding its darker peoples.
DARK FUTURE LOOMS
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
Care Of The State Press,

G. Nj am a married man and
going with a soldiers wife. |
wish that you would advise me
what | should do. My wife and |
can't seem to get along anymore.
Does this woma love me or is
she just fooling around with me-
| think she loves me sometimes
and sometimes | don't. Her hus-
band is getting ready to be ship
ped overseas. Please advice me
just what to do.
Ans: Besides betraying your
wife, you are b%etraying a man who
voluntarily Is going to fight to
preserve your freedom. Put the
soldiers wife out Of your life en-
tirely. even though the tempta-
ton be great, be strong enough
to resist it. By doing so you will
remove causes for friction In your
own home. You know that you
have wronged your wife by going
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

The prejudices which we fight
at home so yaliantly I going to
be more vicious, and necessary to
the white man as he settles down
to reconstruction of his domestic
social order. First and foremost
among the reasons that will be
put forward why the Negro must
be kept in the status of a second
rate citizen or inferior being is
that he cannot control his own
people. 1t will be claimed that he
must constantly be supervised by
whites whether by policemen,
lynching mobs, or Jim Crow rules
and regulations) to avoid serious
consequences to the overall pat
tern of American domestic social
and economic values.
The white man is going to point
to all the outward manifestations
of our lack of control as a basis
for his superior attitude; he is
going to illustrate his case with
the increasing incidents of our
juvenile delinquency, pointing
out cases which he will contend
stress characteristic racial tend
encies. He is going to show that
Negro children, masses of them
are almost completely ignorant
of the disciplinary controls hat
go with American family life and
run wild through a thousand
streets of as many American cities
until they either settle down of
their own accord or are disciplin-
ed by the prison cell, gallows or
electric chair. He is going to
point out, in his argument for his
reason for putting increased pres
sure on the Negro, that the Neg
70 leadership is demanding and
getting more economic and social
advantages than the Negro public
il ready to receive, that the Neg
70 of earlier generations (rear-
ed in the fear of the white man,
taught by example to accept the
inferior status in which he was
placed is typical of the kind of
Negro to be desired to live in the
midst Of the new white" ciyili-
cation the white man intends to
build in this country after the
war.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

M. n. CT need information
on my case. | am supposed to
marry a young lady soon but | do
not want to be a down fall to her.
She is a teacher, | an a welder.
She finished college, | only finish
ed high school. Both our lives
are based on the same things so
far as we know. Advise me what
to do.
Ans; You two are congenial
-congeniality is one of the basic
factors that go to make up a
happy marriage. The few years
difference in your training should
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
COLOR BAND HOLDS
ALL OF US

However, we are bound togeth-
or by the one link we cannot
change-color. The Jew can join
the Baptist church, change his
name from Finkelstein to Jones,
eat pork and be as white and in
distinguishable In the white world
as the German who renounces his
fondness for sauerkraut, hogshead
and beer. In such a metamorph-
osis the Negro hasn't a chance,
He can get a degree from oxford
but he will still be a Negro. He
can invent the perpetual motion
machine, run the 100 yard dash
in 0 seconds flat, the mile in 4
minutes, build a rocket and ride
to the moo and back, but he will
still be a Negro.
AS such, It would seem that he
would recognize hhis prediCament
or status and seek to improve
every phase of It until II meets
and beats down all competition.
We have the individual abilities.
We have the intellect, the indiyid
Jul strength Of character, the
numbers with which to work, yet
we are seemingly as far from that
goal as when the first boatload of
us was dropped at jamestown in
1919.
The Jews have mass discipline,
an iron-clad system Of family life
and parental control and an IN
tense sense of racial loyalty to-
ward one another They are one
Of Americas smallest |miuoriljes,
but also one Of It's most potent.
We have no mass discipline, our
system of family life hasn't been
uurtured and brought TO full
bloom. Racial loyalty among us
is distorted, We are Americas
biggest minority, but its weakest.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
JOHN n CLAYBORN
BY S. L. Tuggle

History was made at the Philadelphia General Confer
ence of the African Methodist Episcopal Church last week,
when John Henry Clayborn leaped to the Bishopric seat.
Another star in Arkansas crown
Yester-year pals of John were particularly interest
ed and gathered in barber shops, drug stores and other
meeting places to exchange views Of John seated in the
Sacred chair. They were all happy he made it!
1t was no easy task, for many n strong man has
weakened under the constant trudge uphill but not
John Henry Cloyborni 1t was a long fight with u short
handed stick, but Clayborn had the quits to carry on in
spite Q fthe many reyerses that came his way. lie laughed
with those whose tongues dashed him, he helped those who
iliru nm most, he prayed for those who abused him and
"""sv went on. He set a pattern Of living for any man
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
WHITE MEN TO TAKE AWAY
WARTIME ADVANTAGES WON
BY NEGROES UNLESS LEAD
ERSHIP CAN CONTROL
MASSES

Probably our greatest need to-
day Is someone to give the race
a lasting lesson in the funda-
mental values of life beyond the
mere routine of getting the job
to buy food, pay the rent and pur-
chase clothes.
Without going into the long
argumentative passage Of pro-
found sociological whhyfores and
wherefores Of the race problem,
it can be safely said that the
American Negro stands in danger
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
by Ruth Taylor

What is the American way of
life?
We have used the phrase so
frequently that sometimes 1t
seems a trifle threadbare at the
corners. its lustre dulled by famil-
iarity. Our public speakers
particularly at campaign time
act as though it We're an 'abra-
cadabra' or magic word that could
unlock hidden troyes Of treasure.
OF course YOU know the full
meaning of the phrase but have
you ever tried to explain the
American way of life to someone
who did not know America, who
was not stepped in the traditions
of democracy?
| haye-and let me assure you
it is no easy task. But it does
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

M. M. Ell received my very
good advice from you and it
gave me a lot of encouragement
and | feel so much betterr. II
seems as if | am living a differ
ent life altogether. Thanks and
thanks a lot. | hope you don't
mind my asking a question to be
put in the free column. | wish to
know would it be wise for me to
quit my job and visit my father
as I promised him? In mis- last
letter he asked me to come there
and get a job so that | could live
with him. | would like to visit
the place but l am not sure that
| would like to live there.
Ans: Hold to your job until
you have made definite plans
with your father. You have fail
ed to communicate with him for
some time and you have no assur-
ance that he Is still located at the
same place. II and when he does
write you and he still wants you
to visit with him, arrange to go
during your summer vacation. A
visit will make 1t possible for
you to decide whether or not you
like the location we'll enough to
remain there and find work.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19
"HHEYNED TINT DEMOCR4CYMGT 1--WE"

who seeks worldly gains. A friend to the lowly man, a COM
panion to a fallen brother, a refuge for the distressed.
There is no failure for the man who realizes his pow
er, who never knows when he is beaten, there is no fail
ue for t Undetermined endeavor, the unconquerable will.
Bishop Clayborn, your ultimate goal has been reached!
Even knots are polished when a stick goes through
the mill. 1t hurts when your rough edges meet the steel
revolving fast, but you'll be perfect timber when you're
through the mill at last!
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

r. Ell am interested in a
minister that belongs to the same
church that | do and he has ask
ed me to give up my job and take
more interest in my church work.
Is it best for me to give him up
or my work?
Ans: You are dependent up
on your earnings for your liyeli-
hood. Thus, it would be foolish
to give up a job that makes you
Independent. Everyone should
devote some time to religion and
civic duties but naturally you
must consider where your bread
and butter are coming from. You
should not let any personal feel
ing that you may have for this
minister interfere with your pres
ent job.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

A. H.-My husband and | went
out three weeks ago and | got
drunk. Did he go away with this
woman who was with us? Let me
know quick.
Ans; Let that be a lesson to
you. stay sober and you will
know what's going on around you.
If he had let his liquor lead him
astray you would have heard the
gossip long before now. Many
repetitions of this act might dis
gust your husband.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

have no bearing on your case.
Honest and sinctre love makes up
for any shortcomings. You are
very wise to take every factor
into consideration, but if this is
your only obstacle, it can be very
easily overcome.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

The efforts of Frederick Doug
lass, w. f.. b. Dubois, James Vel
don Johnson, Walter White and
others along this line would not
have been put forth needlessly.
Arkansas State press., 1944-05-19

with another girl and now 1t Is
your place to make amends.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
Leaders Survey
Bond Drive laq

Imperial county is tagging in
The Fourth War Bond drive"
So leaders of the drive summed
up the situation Wednesday as
they surveyed returns for the first
week.
I'VE are szc9. .000 behind schedule
in e. Centro and $4,000 in Braw-
ley" declared Herb FaWcett coun-
ty drive chairman.
To offset the lag, however, lead
ers pointed TO special programs
being arranged at Holtyille and El
Centre. And, they further point
cut. Holtville is "on the job despite
the setback the town suffered in
all activity due TO the disastrous
fire o. Monday.
Frc-id.1g arrangements can be
made to provide meals for its
members. the 60-piece band from
Camp Laguna will give concert in
the FL Centro stadium Sunday
afternoon as the initial special
bond booster.
Further commenting on the
status of the drive, Chairman
Fawcett said:
Most communities are eager to
co some thing about it and are
planning special events along with
Holtville and Fl Centro."
At Holtville chairman F. Roy
Thompson through cooperation
with the high school plans its first
event Friday. A special bond
parade will be held in the after
noon at 300 p. m. AT 800 p. m. in
the school auditorium a bond rally
will be held. The program has
been arranged by Miss Charlotte
Brejcha, music instructor. Original
songs and dances will be featured
as well as speciality acts and similar
caper5 including an auction.
Petty Officer George Hughes of
the Naval Air Station. who was
pianist with the Clyde Mccoy dance
band several years, will perform.
The school already has sold be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000 in war
bonds and stamps, it is reported
The programs being arranged in
all communities are aimed to stimu-
late small bond purchasers of the
popular Peoples Bond" series E,
Mr.. Fawcett said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
Municipal Political Pot Fails to Get Up Steam in Valley Areas

cilmen Charles Bratton, and Wesley
He'll will expire rs will those of
CITY Clerk Neal Gavin and City
Treasurer A. H. Keller
Brawley also will elect three
councilmen. a clerk, and a treasurer.
Terms of Mayor Elmer Sears,
Councilmen S. d. Carey, and w. I.
Hoopes. and City Clerk Charles C.
Casey and City Treasurer Harry A.
Staub will expire.
Terms of Mayor T. E. Bartholo-
NEW. Fern Young. and Fred Pro-
cSal of CaleXico will expire. Present
terms of City CielK Richard Emer-
son and Treasurer P. p. Anderson
will expire also
Things are different in Cali
patria. Only two places on the
council will be vacant Terms of
william Corn and Clyde F. Powell
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26

Scarcely a ripple disturbed the
surface of the municipal political
sea in Imperial county Wednesday
although first date for filing cam
didateS nomination petitions is
less than a month away.
Every city in the county will elect
city councilmen and all but one of
the seven will elect city clerk and
treasurer.
The annual city elections will be
held April II. The first date for
circulating ana filing nomination
petitions for candidates will be
February IL and the last day
March IL. The last day icr voters
to register for the city elections is
March ,.
In El Centre three city council
men are to be elected. The terms
of Mayor Robert w Hatton, Coun-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26

will expire. Terms of the city clerk
and treasurer do not expire this
year.
In Westmorland terms of City
Couneilmen Byron Walker, r. S.
Reese. and E. H. Huling will expire
as will the terms of City Clerk
Elizabeth Cummings and Treasurer
Aubrey Lee.
Three positions will be vacant on
the Holtville city council. Terms
of Mayor F.. Roy Thompson and
Councilmen Curtis R. King, and
John Kavanaugh, City Clerk Ella
NJ. Carpenter and Treasurer Lena
I. BIiaenstine all wi. expire this
year.
Only two places will be vacant
on the Imperial city council. Terms
of Mayor Willard L. Townsend and
Clayton Rogers will expire. Offices
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
Raid Tip-off
Wasn't Hot

CHICAGO, Jan. IS (UP)-Po-
lice captain Robert yelling and
several detectives followed a tip
to a gambling establishment. but
found the door locked. One went
to a telephone. yelling and his
squad are on the way TO raid your
place. You'd better scram,' he
told the person VINO answered the
phone at the suspected place.
Three men dashed out, into the
detectives waiting arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26

First of all take advantage of
this real bargain when you invest
1875 and get back 25.00-and at
the same time give our boys the
weapons they must have.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26

These very popular printed jerseys
in a special selected group from our
stocks offered now at 1.79 a yard
large florals in coIorful styles for
the dresses you've planned - save
now.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
Allies ImperiI
100000 Nazis
lContinued IRON page 7

Continued from page 1
climaxed by a rupture of relations.
For the first time since the Red
army recaptured SmolenSk last
Sept. %, foreign correspondents
we're brought here aboard a special
train.
The atrocity commission in the
last six days has eXhumed about
700 bodies from the mass graves.
The correspondents were taken
slightly less than 10 miles ives.
of Smolensk to the Katyn Hills
rolling slopes above the Dlieper
The region is known locally as
Goats Hill because goats grazed
there in peace time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
NO HOUSEWORK FOR WIFE

COLUMBIA. Mo, Jan. 26. up
Cpl. Wayne H. Elliot won't need a
wife to do housework after the war,
he informed his parents here re-
Gently. Il have been leading a do
mestic life" he said in letter
from overseas, explaining that he
had been doing his own laundry.
I'm convinced that III make
better wife than husband"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
POPS A 2-IN-ONE-EGG

WICHITA. Kan, Jan. 26. CUP)-
Mrs. Roy Swanson CT Wichita knew
it took a lot Of eggs to bake an
angel fcor cake, but she didn't
think her recipe called for any
two-in-one variety When the cook
started breaking eggs recently, she
found a hardshelled egg about the
size Of a robins inside a regulation
egg.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
Showdown Near
In Rome Battle

Continued from page i
threatened with the possibility of
a. British Eighth army drive up
the Adriatic coast or through the
mountains against or behind Rome.
The German high command prob
ably does not want to commit mora
divisions to the defense of italy.
observers believed.
Military quarters thought the de-
cisive battle might be fought on
the old Fifth army front. rather
than on the perimeter of the Allied
beachhead.
UNDER PRESSURE
ii the Nazis try TO pull out, they
certainly will be under constant
pressure. Even if they can keep
gap between them and the allies,
they will have to answer to the
Allied planes. for which a retrea.
over the Italian terrain would be
made to order
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
gers, Jan. 26 German re-
sistance stiffened around the grow
ing Allied bridgehead below Rome
Wednesday as the enemy reported
~ abandoned Casino, anchor bas-
ton on their southern front, to
meet the new threat to the north.
tAmerican correspondents with the
Invasion forces, in dispatches dated
yesterday, said American tanks AMI
infantry were driving north from
the MuSsolini Canal. presumably
toward the Appian way. German
machine gunners were said to have
converted every farmhouse in the
path of advance into a fortress.
One dispatch said the Germans
were reinforcing their lines with
troops dropped by parachute)
BERLIN ADMITS GAIN
"a German broadcast recorded
by the London Daily Telegraph
limited that the allies had reached
the Appian Way town of Velletri, 10
miles southeast of Rome The agen-
cy quoted the broadcast as saying
that American troops were finding
debris and ashes" in Velletri)
Qtalian frontier reports reach
ing Bern said Italian patriots had
begun a reign of terror against the
Germans in Rome as the allies ap.
preached. The Nazi command was
said to have placed Rome under
state of siege and ordered a 5 pm
curfew.)
The Nazi evacuation Of Casino
20 miles southeast of Rome and
keystone of the Germans vaunted
Gustav line on the southern front.
was discovered yesterday by an
American patrol that thrust into
the outskirts after forcing the Rapi-
do north of the city, James E. Rop-
er, United Press war correspondent,
reported from the front
There still was no official infor-
nation that the Americans had
crossed the Rapido in force ans
captured Casino, however, and
Roper reported that the Germans
still held strong positions on the
surrounding high ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted in
Imperial county superior court
Tuesday to Ruth Inez MusgraYe
from Oscar MusgraYe.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-26

of Grace E. Gray, city clerk. and
Treasurer Leila Foster also will be
vacant.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-07-31

Il should be clear 10 Adolf Hitler by
now that in Germany it's easier for
house painter to become dictator than
for a corporal to become a general. Ger
tainly It has been clear for long time
to the top officers around him. At first
they tried to put the idea across by polite
objections to his intuitive strategy
Finally they reSorted to the broader hints
of bomb-planting and open rebellion.
Hitler seems to have put down the
rebellion, but there is no immediate evil
dence that he has learned the lesson be-
hind it. If he has not, then the German
army is in for more intuition" more
hopeless last-ditch defenses, more ana
more slaughter.
1t was Hitler's greed and short-sighted-
ness that led him to sprawl his armies all
over Europe against the advice OF his
STAFF, and which brought him to his Get
tysburg at Stalingrad. Since the tide
turned there he has continued to order
too few troops to hold too much ground
ito the last man" - and for reasons OF
politics and prestige rather than sound
military science.
The reaction of German officers to
these suicidal orders has been apparent
for some time. Many of them baked, OF
course, and were either retired" for rea-
sons of health or "killed In action.
Others have stuck 1t out, TO face death or
encirclement. German generals recently
captured by the Russians have not hesi-
tated to blurt out their disguised
opinions.
II Hitler wants to eat crow, give up
Understanding. and entrust the retreat
TO such able generals as remain at ms
disposal, he might postpone disaster. he
could pull in his horns all over Europe,
shorten his supply lines and establish
shorter, more easily defended fronts-in
France, Italy, the Balkans, Norway, and
behind the Vistula in the east.
But that won't solve the problems OF
Hitler, his army, and his country. For
shortening lines means abandoning val
liable raw materials and industrial areas
to the Allies, and exposing his own 70
fercer shuttle bOmbings from three d.
rections. No. there isn't any solution 10
Hltlers problems, only a postponemen.
of settlement. For whether 1t is reached
late or soon, Germany and the world can
see the end Of the bloody path along
which they have been led by the house
painter who became dictator, the little
Austrian corporal who tried TO DC .
general.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-07-31

Government and the Services. This pro-
duct development Is essential so That
more and better things can be made for
more people, and Il Is necessary part
Of and must be reasonably appraised be-
fore additional expansion Of the indus
trial and manufacturing prewar facilities
can be made"
The problem Of manpower remains q
puzzle. The Truman Committee and the
Nelson Board are studying conditions
with a view to keep employment in as
even balance as possible. So far as the
big industries Of the country are involved
they are obeying orders, and cooperating
with the Federal Government In every
particular. They viii keep full steam up
for war production until the government
tells them when and how they can re-
sumo civilian production.