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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28

well known Bay State champion
OF the COP. And both men
have Waged a vigorous campaign
by press, rostrum and radio with
all the features and flouriShes
of veteran white political chiefs.
Both have been able supporters.
DR.. Taylor has a "Sepia Clare
Luce Booth in attractive
Thomasina Johnson, energetic
AKA lobbyist, as we'll as many
other women Democrat club
leaders and prominent party
men, both in and outside the
state. Attorney Dorch boasts of
such legal minds Matthew W.
Bullock, William H. Lewis, Jr.,
Attorney John w. Schenck and
Julian D. Rainey, all former
ranking state and federal Off
Gals. Regardless as to how you
plan to vote, it is clear that
beth parties have established an
elaborate Set-up this year long
to be remembered.
MAY LOSE ALL
In viewing the present politi-
cal Set-up in Boston this is the
time for a cool, calm appraisal
of the facts. Our local colored
leaders who have suddenly been
projected into such important
positions during this campaign
should be retained in some cap
acity by their affiliated major
parties regardless as to the out
come of the elections next
month. We may say what we
will but we must take cogniz-
ance Of the fact that Boston
colored leadership at this time
is the most highly organized in
the memory of many political
observers. We can, in the long
view, almost ignore the party"
lines. All party leaders at some
time compromise and cooperate.
The potent possibilities of our
present Sepia political powers
here in the Bay State if coord-
mated and directed toward our
common detectives could very
possibly sponsor a Massachu-
sets colored candidates in 1913
for the U. S. Congress. But that
will take planning and fore
sight. Unless we do employ fore-
sight, we shall lose our local
political bloc" powers after
Nov. 7.
~ OHOODE MEN
The other day some colored
Republicans told me they wished
they lived in New, York SO that
they could vote for Clayton
Powell who is a Democrat. All
throughout this campaign, the
colored vote is going to be cast
for men and measures and not
for any one party. Even the
most ardent colored Democrats
of any intelligence would not
vote for Bilbo. There are good
and bad in both parties and the
American voters are going to
sensibly cast their ballots with
that fact in mind. For any COL
ored voter to place party above
his proven friends would be ig-
norance at its worst.
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selling and bread lines and
urged a forward march with
Roosevelt to new gains and
greater democracy in America.
Mrs Mary Mcleod Bethune
delivered a rousing speech in
which she lauded Mrs. RooSe-
welt as a foremost liberal and
asserted: IF we can do moth
ing more than keep her in the
White House for another four
years we ought to vote for the
reelection of Franklin D.
Roosevelt"
Arranger of the meeting,
Julian D Steele, chairman Of
Mass. Independent Vo t e r S
Committee, who presided, said;
"The reelection of Roosevelt
will guarantee the continual
ton of the social gains made
during the past twelve years,
and insure that the people all
over the world who are looking
to America for moral leader
ship will not be let down"
Hon John w Mccormack,
House majority leader spoke
briefly. Mrs Ruth Ellison was
pleasing soloist accompanied
by Mrs Gladys Perdue.
The crowds inside the build
ing and hundreds turned away
were estimated at 5000.
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achusetts had brought new
thousands into the Dewey
Bricker camp.
$50 great was this movement, ="
Dorch reported, that in Boston
alone T had to supervise the open
ing of three new headquarters
Setups within one week. A SINH
lar situation is true of SPRING
field and other cities"
Even more important than
the tremendous increase in
numerical Republican support" =,
said Dorch, sis the fact that the
Republican Party among colored
citizens today has virtual mon
opoly on the races top leader
ship. Look at the list of minis
tiers, lawyers, professional men
and women, editors and others
who have eagerly joined our
ranks in the past few months"
Dorch had the highest praise
for these newcomers to the COP
ranks. "They are bringing with
them prestige and willingness,
and there are many older heads
in the Party who will be happy
to give them the benefit of their
long experiences. With such a
combination, it is natural to eX-
pect that the colored electorate
is now being divorced, finally
and completely, from its old mis-
tresS of unkept promises, vision
airy experiments and second
class citizenship and is ready to
take to its bosom the liberal,
honest, sane, impartial admins
tration of proper governmental
procedure. Rating especial
praise in his statement were
Julian D. Rainey, former Demo-
cratic chieftain and now holder
of an important post in the
COP set up, and William Lewis,
Jro youthful firebrand of the
Massachusetts, forces. Both
have remarkable promise, he
said.
Asked specifically for his rea-
sons for the radical swing which
he said puts the Massachusetts,
colored majority vote into the
COP column for the first time
in nearly two decades, Dorch
said that "the people are much
more astute than the average
old-line politician gives them
credit for. Under recent ad-
miniStrationS they have had the
dole, work relief in its many
demoralizing aspects, segrega-
ton in Army, Navy and all the
other agencies entrusted with
carrying Democracy to the world
while denying it to a large sec
ton of the people at home, and
the elevation of a handful of
small-calibered individuals to
high places in black cabinets
or kitchen congresses while the
great masses of the people have
remained in miSmanaged poverty
and neglect. They realize, at
great discomfort to their erst-
while-and often sincere-Iead-
erS' that the one true course to
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28
CHURCH SERVICES IN BOSTON
THE REFUGE CHURCH OF
CHRIST OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH
697A Shawmut Ave, at
Sterling st.

Sterling st.
Elder Irving w. Bell, Minister
Carl HI. Nickerson, Asst
Sunday, II a m, Devotional
and preaching. At b m Sun
day School. At 8 p m Testi-
monial Meeting, sermon. At
$3.50. p m, every 4th Sunday,
Missionary meeting. Mrs. Mary
Lee Bell, the pastors wife is
president of the Missionary
Board.
Tuesday night, Bible Glass
$3.50 p m.
Wednesday night, Missionary
meeting at 8 p m.
Friday night, Praise service
and preaching at 8 D m.
All are cordially invited TO
the services.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28
ST. PAUL A.M.E. CHURCH
ReU. Rentbert Stokes

DR. Charles H Wesley, presi-
dent of Wherefore University
and distinguished orator and
historian, will speak at the
Dedication Service of st. Paul
AME church, corner Of Colum-
bia and Austin SITS, Cambridge,
on Sunday, Oct 90 at 7:30 D m.
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TWO CONGRESSMEN
To begin with, and for the first
time since the rosy Reconstruc-
ton era, this nation stands a
long belated chance of placing
more than che colored citizen in
the Congress Of the United
States. With Hon. William L.
Dawson already established as a
representative of the midwest
state Of Illinois, the nation will
watch the brilliant bid of the
East to elect New York's first
race representative, Congress-
man-elect Adam Clayton Pow
ell. And in the south a colored
man from North Carolina will
make historic bid for the U. S.
Senate. Moreover, the local pic
ture blooms bright with the en-
beavers of COP. favorite, Lar
ry" Banks, a qualified colored
candidate for the House of Rep
resentativeS from Ward Nine. 1t
doesn't appear to matter much
who represents what party in
these contests either. The calm
indications point to "split" bal
lots and some candidates have
the pledged strong support of
voters representing all factions,
STATE OFFICE
While Illinois and New York
may gain the distinction of hav-
ing representatives in Congress
this year Massachusetts, colored
voters will still be striving to
vote a race man into the state
legislature and it will be to ut
ter shame if we fail. This objeC-
tive is as much the business OF
white voters as colored, just as
race votes will certainly favor
the candidacy of many white
men. Whether Boston is as lib
eraI as we sometimes claim will
largely be determined by the re-
ciprccal exchange of loyalty to
colored candidates by white vot-
ers in this campaign and the
fact should be widely stressed
at this time. Banks is a quail
fled American, a world war vet
eran, Communicated of the
William E. Carter Post No. Is,
American Legion, possesses an
able legal mind and is very we'll
acquainted with local and nat
ional affairs. A candidate who
waged a hard consistent cam
paign and who has steadily re-
fused to quit, Banks has a rec
ord that has won popular favor
and should result in his cleo
ton. And he will have support
of a non-partisan group and vo-
tiers from both parties. 1t is too
early yet to predict the out
come; it is strictly up to Boston
town.
Boston is enjoying its great
est sepia political battle in a
good many years and the result
indicates an active awakening
of colored voters in this state.
The high moguls of the 1914 pol
itical prize fight are DR.. Silas
"Shag" Taylor, for years a pop
ular Democratic leader in the
Hub, and Attorney Irwin T.
Dorch, former NAACP prexy and
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matching hat and carried a
bouquet of pink roses. The
bridesmaids wore gowns of
rainbow colors with matching
coronets; Miss Harriott Holmes
in aqua taffeta and Miss Ce-
city Williams in blue taffeta,
each carrying bouquets of red
roses; Mrs lola Harrison IN
gold taffeta and Mrs Leslie
Hubbard in rose colored taf-
feta, carrying bouquets of tall
iSnan roses. Little Alberta
Jackson, was a dainty flower
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28
POWELL, BANKS VOTE RESULT
GAINS INTEREST IN The EAST
BOSTON RACE LEADERS
HEAD POTENT POL" SET.UP
By THE ROVER

Whatever the results of the coming November 7th
Elections coored polls and voers-of both major parties
Will have experienced political prestige and nvgoratng
Importance seldom before equaled in the annus of
American history
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Philadelphia Lawyer IAN Autobiography
By George Wharton Pepper. Lippincott. s3.75J
Reviewed by J. A. FOX.

~ George wharton Pepper. fL7pplncOH. $500
Reviewed by j. A. FOX.
Renowned in the American a the
United States Senate Pennsylvania
chonicng in brisk the the
known.
artist writer whimshe made the his great There
advocate he has found plenty of thrills and satisfaction
along with retrospect happest those spent
teaching fellow in the University of Pennsylvania Law School,
after graduation.
the Deal all it's high the list
the narraors dislkesto midand the high good
characteristic
when happenings of the last decade down.
President Rooevelts plan pack the Supreme Court"
drafted with cunning
reckless disregard of consequences"
Federal
indeed by able honest
seamroe rolling
O the consequent discomfort suffering public.
postponed for generation the hope of
industrial peace"
foundation
time and money spent to the contrary.
Republican, Mr. Pepper was in the Senate from January 1922
created by the death of
old foe by the March 1927 He defeated
the celebrated cornered primary with William Ware
Pncho in which much spent that Mr.
subsequently elected denied his
by the Senate.
his political nepitude Mr.
voting record that if
Evening star., 1944-12-17

that of an Unsuitable mind develop
ing toward a balanced maturity in
a wild environment The fact that
Abraham Lincoln was one of his
Learners" is only an incident in
his career He lived to be sc and
his terms as a teacher total so
years. His instinct was for human
dignity and he found its expression
in fighting the besetting evils of the
pioneer societies in which he lived
To escape slavery he went as a
young man to Illinois, where he
settled in New Salem. But, though
slavery was absent from the North
ern State, the other pioneer evils
were present-a vindictive. hell-fire
religion, ignorant superStitions, hard
drinking, personal slovenliness, row.
dyism and bad grammar Mentor
Graham set himself to fight all
these. Elegant in dress, correct in
speech, tolerant, temperate and
filled with zeal for enlightenment
he strove to set the example against
the deficiencies of his time.
The period of his tutelage of Lin
coin was when the future President
was keeping store in New Salem
He lived some time at Graham S
house and studied grammar, public
speaking, mathematics and survey
ing under his host. That the teach
er-pupil relationship ripened into
friendship is attested by the fact
that Graham named his youngest
son for Lincoln, though at the time
Lincoln had achieved no possible
reputation.
The book is peculiarly close pic
ture of pioneer culture. Gathered,
as its material has been, by word
of-mouth personal stories, it has
a realism quite different from the
realism of pioneer literature. There
you have the seamy side and the
smooth side, nicely differentiated
In this biography you get no more
differentiation than you get in life.
The picture is there in lifelike con-
glomeration. For this, even more
than for the story of the solitary
educator the work is to be valued.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
The First Round
BIZ Joseph Gaer. (DueH, Sloan & Pedrce. S2.50)
Reviewed by ROBERT j. WATT.

ROBERT j. WATT.
Federation
While the Round disappointment
objective analysis of the CIOPotical Action
Committee excellent of PAC campaign material
enthusiasm with which
infused the PAC pamphlets the book dull 1t zeal
contributes little original writing in this
critic studies
which loosely knit the book together.
that the liberal"
present adequate
Union Democratic Action illuminating
this subject than this book.
To Mr. Gaer, PAC is the David who slew the Goliath
The emphasis the work of PAC undoubtedly
contrctive
He also emphasizes the fact that
which provided the new of PAC admits that labor
ucipated previously politics without fanfare.
weakness that possibility
reactlonay thrive
themselves politics through
ment Even Hitler claimed defending
reaction.
liberal does seek
even if, for the time being his friends in office
Those who The
book too nearly radio view of what going
practice.
The broadly
brushes OIL the question how PAC leaders
should originate the national
ment the controls would better
small top leadership which appointed itself to
The author does not explain why
records the while
records supported.
One of the most interesting passages
reference abors Nonpartan
fact that too exclusively product hohose
He confident that the PAC will
fined to hothouse
The observer will that PAC will
TO mold them together But maybe that is the
the reader must wait with interest.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

exercise judicial judgment Wnen
you are leading the legislative life,
you are pretty certain to lose, out
in the next election"
AS a private citizen, Mr.. Pepper
campaigned against the League OF
Nations because of his conviction
that world peace cannot be main
tanned by force. AS a Senator, he
sponsored legislation to bring this
country into the "so-called World
Court" with reservations.
The autobiography was COM
pleted before the Dumbartion
Oaks security plan was premul-.
gated. but looking forward to the
day when the peace will be dis
cussed, Mr.. Pepper comments
wrylv that ION the basis of our
past experience, Will Rogers, 1 be-
lieve, was right when he said the
United States had never lost
war or won conference"
A devout member of the EpiSco-
pal faith, Mr.. Pepper has taken an
active interest in the building OF
Washington Cathedral and he re-
calls also that as chairman of the
Senate Library Committee, he was
instrumental in getting legislation
for the development OF the Ma
tional Arboretum here.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Artist in Iowa, A Life of
lGront Wood
By Darrell Gar1oood. Nv. w
Norton & Co., Inc. $780,
REVIEWED Dy
FLORENCE s. BERGMAN.

Norton G. Co., Inc. $780,
Reviewed by
FLORENCE s. BERGMAN.
Grant Wood was an artist of ma
tional importance from about 1880
to his premature death in February,
1912. He was pioneer In regional
ism. painting Iowa. the world" he
knew best. His name was gen.
orally associated with those of John
Steuart Curry of Kansas and
Thomas Benton of Missouri, and
the three painters were often re-
ferred to as "the American scene
trinity"
Consequently, it is disappointing
that this first biography of Grant
Wood falls so far short Of the image
many of us have of the artist, de-
rived from his solid achievement In
American painting. The volume is
a loosely knit fabric of anecdotes,
written an an informal narrative.
1t has the effect of being prelim-
mary draught, preceding a really
penetrating study OF the character
behind the incidents, and the pol
ishing of the authors style.
Judging from his foreword, Mr.
Garwood admired Grant Wood. But
had he set out deliberately to de
bunk" the Iowa painter, he could
scarcely have built up more self
centered, dull, Intellectual hero"
who leaned complacently on his
friends in his earlier days, and con-
tinued to depend upon them to some
extent, to the end of his life.
The reviewer does not suggest that
any biography should be doctored to
make the subject bigger and more
charming than he really was But
one expects that an author will
analyze and interpret the miscel-
laneous facts of his subjects life in
such way that the reader will be
reasonably satisfied with their con-
sistency. Grant Wood must have
had some engaging quality of per-
sonality to account for the persistent
devotion and material protectiveness
of his many friends. Mr. Garwood
gives no hint, other than their early
recognition of his talent. But that
is not sufficient; artists of far
greater gifts than Wood have died
in obcurity and poverty.
Hence, despite the very human
interest of the biography, it re-
mains two -dimensional; the defini-
tive life of Wood is yet to be written.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
By Norman Kahl

Jesse Stuart, who wrote Taps for
Private Tussie," looks essentially like
the farmer that he is, and naval
uniform can't change that.
He has the solid, ruddy glow Of
health that comes from the soil. He
is also poet, and an author of sue
cessful fiction and school super
intendent. But still, he looks like
a farmer.
Mr.. Stuart left his 600-acre farm
near Riverton, KY, and the old
smokehouse" where he writes his
books when he was drafted last
March and sent to boot" camp at
the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station. Before that, he'd tried to
enlist, and he couldn't pass the
physical tests. But he was good
enough for the Navy when the Draft
Board tapped him on the shoulder.
He managed to get rating as a
seaman second class. when the Navy
decided it could put his talents to
better use. So he became a lieu
tenant in the Training Literature
Section of the Bureau of Aero
nautics and came to Washington to
live with his wife and their 2la year
old daughter.
1t. Stuart pretty we'll bears out
the antiquated advice to aspiring
authors that if you want to write,
you can write anywhere, anytime
When he's on his farm, he has no
schedule.
He works in a sort of monastic
seclusion. He has an old smoke
house on the place, and when he
feels creative, he locks himself up
there and digs in. The only furnish
ings are an old kitchen table and a
chair.
He's allergic to heat. His smoke
house is unheated and on the coolest
winter days he shivers happily over
his manuscripts. He finished Taps
for Private Tussie" when he was
serving as superintendent of schools
in Riverton and he had to shut off
the radiators and open the windows
in his office before he felt cozy.
His last book, and he thinks his
best, is Album of Destiny" a COL
lection of verse on which he worked
for II years. just before that he
wrote "Mongrel Mettle," a story
about his three dogs. That took him
six days.
"All tried to do was write SIM
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Jesse Stuart, Farner-Autb0r,
Writes Books IN d Smokeb0use

pie story for juveniles. he said
And you know what the critics said
about ito They called it one of the
most , pieces Of irony ever
writer
His I 1ok was THE Man With
the Bul. lgue Plow" 1t got him
a Guggenheim Fellowship and sent
him to Europe and was recently in
cluded among the 100 best books of
the past 20 years selected by the
Saturday Review of Literature. An
other one of his books, all of which
are about the people in his own sec
ton, is Trees of Heaven" bit
|of poetic prose effectively done in
the present tense.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

spite his expert
ences one finds
no trace of ram
cor. Individual
j a ps are not
monsters drawn
to a pa t t e r n.
They are pic
tured as what
they a r EN- e n
and women with
the individual
weaknesses OF
h u m a n beings,
but all caught in
a vicious system.
Japanese psy-
Evening star., 1944-12-17
WoIkin' Preacher
OF the Ozorks
By Guy Ho1Oard. (
50 50

By Guy Ho10ard. (Harper's.
$780,
Harold Bell Wright and his Ozark
hill billies have become something
of joke to literary Americans, the
modern Interpretation being that
such people are conventional fig
ments in the class with Farmer Corn
tossel or, at most, quaint subjects for
researchers in folklore, sociologists
and similar dispiriting species. But
it appears that Mr.. Wright was a
realist after all, He wrote bad fic-
ton, but bad fiction is not neces-
sarlly untruthful fiction. 1t can be
just bad writing. Now we have a.
book about the Ozark country which
Is not fiction and not bad writing
either, and it confirms about every
thing that Mr.. Wright used to say
OF his mountain people. To read it
Is simply astonishing.
Guy Howard is an Iowa man who.
on finishing high school, got a
teachers certificate and started
teaching. Presently he added
preaching to his accomplishments
and eventually he went into the
Ozarks-into the very country about
which Mr.. Wright wrote his most
intense novels-and there started
out to combine his two professions.
But he had walked right into feud
(this in quite recent years, remem-
ber) and was made the innocent VIC
tim of both parties. They burned
his school house, tried to do him out
of his contract and otherwise at
tempted to run him out of the coun-
try-each side trying to make the
other responsible. A general i'm
preston prevailed also that he
might be a "revenooer," which did
not add to his popularity. All in all,
he might have been hero of one of
the Wright novels for the kind of
experience he underwent. And, like
hero, he persevered and ended up
with fourishing school, a union
church and general respect and af-
fection.
You would not believe it if it were
not vouched for, and no novelist in
this hard-boiled day would dare to
write 1t. But there it is. You take
your sophistication very hard indeed
II you do not react to it with wonder
and considerable admiration.