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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28
HARLEM, HUB HAIL ROOSEVELT
MILLIONS GREET F.D.R. IN new YORK
HARLEM THRONES CHEER PRESIDENT

NEW YoRK-smiling through
a driving rain from his open ear
President Roosevelt rode in
triumph down Harlem's Seventh
Avenue last Saturday afternoon
as over 100000 colored citizens
who had stood for hours In q
doWnpour cheered the sight OF
the COMMUNICATIVE Chief. Ac-
companied by Mrs. Roosevelt ana
Mayor LaGuardia. the President
waved continuously to the cheer
ing throng and showed the home
town folks that he was stu the
Champ and in the best Of health.
He wore his gray campaign
Fedora and his blue naval cape.
Waving wet flags and yelling
want Roosevelt" colored folks
stood several lines deep all along
Seventh avenue from 155th st
to Central park. The largest
group had gathered at 125th -
near the Hotel Theresa where
Sgt. Joe Louis and visiting not
ables fro mall over the country
peered from vantage points in
the hotel. The trip through
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Boston ReaItOr Disagrees With
Director Taylor On Campaign Issues

Attorney had two men of our
race as assistant District Al
torneys. AS Governor of the
Great State of New York he
has two colored secretaries at
the Capital in Albany. I ask
brother Taylor, Has President
Roosevelt appointed any men,
berS of our race to a high po-
Sition?" I have no knowledge
OF any such appointment in
position and trust either be-
fore Pearl Harbor or after. All
that the Democratic Party has
given our race have been emp
ty promises. Under Democratic
leadership colored troops have
been segregated, voters in the
Southern States have been for
hidden to exercise their sacred
right to vote on the ground
that they have not complied
with the personal tax payment
requirement.
Brother Taylor laudS the
achievements of the Demo-
cratic Convention which he
CONTINUED on Page Four)
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OF Pittsburgh, Pa, and New
York, the former Ellen Kay
Craft, to whom was born a son
on Thursday, Oct. 26, in New
York. The newcomer weighed
eight pounds and mother and
son are doing nicely. Mrs. DAM
mond a 1888 graduate Of Bates
College with a brilliant record,
was married in 1899 to Donald
hammond of Pittsburgh and has
a little daughter, Margaret Trot-
ter hammond, born in Nov. 1912.
Mrs. Diamond is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry K. Craft
Of New York City and niece Of
William Monroe Trotter, late
founder and editor of The Guar
dian, and of Mrs. Maude Trotter
Steward, the present editor.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28

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

Victory Rally at Jordan Hall
next Tuesday night.
In addition to the Illinois Con-
gresham, William L. Dawson,
and Rev. Shepard Che is Re-
corder of Deeds in Washington
and other notables, there will
also be on he program some of
the biggest figures in state and
national affairs. Hon. Maurice j
Tobin, mayor of Boston and
candidate for governor, will head
an imposing array of speakers
which includes Hon. John Nc
Cormack, House Majority Lead
er, and Representative of the
South End in Congress, and Hon.
James Michael Curley, Boston's
Continued on Page Four
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28
EXPECT JORDAN HALL TANNED
TUESDAY FOR ROOSEVELT RALLY

CDR. SILAS F. TAYLOR, BOS-
TON: TELL BOSTON PEOPLE
THAT THE DEMOCRATIC Ma
TIONAL COMMITTEE PRO-
SINGLE NIGHTS PROGRAM
MISSES THEM THE BIGGEST
BOSTON HAS EVER HAD AT A
POLITICAL RALLY. HAZEL
SCOTT, MARSHALL SHEPARD
AND THE COUNTRY'S ONLY
COL ED CONGRESSMAN
POSITIVELY BOOKED FOR
YOUR TOWN. WE WILL CARRY
THE ROOSEVELT TRUMAN
DEMOCRATIC TICKET BY A
LANDSLIDE"
This was the wire received
from New York early this week
as new, intensified plans were
made for the huge Roosevelt
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NoTIcE

/ Simeon Roberts. have never
been associated with, nor have
I any interest with the Savoy
AmusementS, nor interest with
George MOuzOn in any way,
shape or form under any Of
these aliases: Walter NHcCIane Or
Julian Walker. Any debts In
CURED under these shove names
1 will not be responsible for.
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DORCH SEES COP VICTORY

after the smashing success
of the Republican Party this
year, the colored people of this
nation will never again be
found in numbers in theSDemo-
cratic ranks.
This was the statement issued
to the press this week by Irwin
T. Dorch, brilliant Boston law
yer and leader of New England
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Johnson, and wore a gown of
egg shell satin with sweetheart
neckline and train length veil
edged with orange blossoms
and lilies of the valley and
carried shower bouquet of
bridal roses. Miss Pearl Bovelle,
the maid of honor, was gown
ed in a pink taffeta with
Continued on Page a.
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The marriage of Miss Alice
Margauretta Ousley, daughter
of Mrs Marie Nelson Best, to
Francis Ford Hodge, USN, son
Of Mr. and Mrs Rufus Hodge of
Martinsville, Va, took place on
Sunday, Oct 8, 1914, Rev Oliver
w ChilderS, pastor of the First
AME Johnson, officiating.
The bride was given in mar
rage by her uncle, Mr. M J
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Republicans for the past two
election campaigns.
The prediction came as an af-
termath to an important inner
circle gathering of national
Party forces Saturday, in which
notes were compared and it was
found that the all-time record
registration of voters in Mass
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home in Roxbury, Mass. where
he hopes to finish his book,
Little Journeys from Boston. .
While waiting for their new
home to be vacated Mr., and Mrs.
Stevens will be domiciled at 1873
Highland ST., RoXpury, Mass.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-10-28

JULIAN d. STEELE
Pres. Boston Branch, NAACP
and Director Armstrong Hemen-
way Foundation, who arranged
and presided at the great RoOse-
welt Rally in Paul Revere Hall
Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

served have populations of less than 5000, and more than 2,600 of these communi- ties were without electric service of any kind until it was taken to them by this company, whose stockholders total nearly 100000 persons.
 Tn total disregard of the obvious ben- efits of utility holding companies, various agencies of government are proceeding with plans to destroy them wholly, or ar- bitrarily reorganize them in conformance with political theories rather than the needs of the country. Congress is at last taking notice of the danger in such moves. Representative Lyle H. Boren has intro duced a resolution asking that the "death sentence" clause of the Utility Holding Company Act be held in abeyance until one year after the termination of the war. Holding companies are product of the continuing effort of business enterprise to render maximum service to consumers. They are essential to the efficient oper- ation of the electric utility industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
From Tripoli to EnnunIiggelap

For vars the Marines have proudly sung of their far-flung and exotic fields of action-from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoh. But to the men of the 4th Marine Division now in the Pacific, those foreign fields celebrated in the Marine hymn must seem pretty close to home base.
 Today these Marines are fighting in and around Meek and Omeleck, Bigi and Boggerik, Ennugarret and Ennunmennet and Ennunliggelap, along with the Army and Navy They are fighting in what, to most of us, is an undreamed part of the world.
 They are engaged in an action which,. for all the unpronounceable aspects of the locale, may one day make the Mar shall Islands as important in our history as, say, Bunker Hill or New Orleans.
 The MarShallS consist of two groups of atolls, lined up much for scenery. Vegetation is sparse, and the maximum elevation is B feet. The few domestic animals that can exist there had to be imported. The last pre-war census gave the islands a population of 9868 natives, 433 Japanese and 10 foreigners.
 But these bleak and barren toeholds were the scene of the most powerful, con- centrated and co-ordinated attack by sea, land, and air forces yet seen. With the landing on Kwajalein atoll, the Amer jeans pulled themselves up over the equa- tor and into pre-War Japanese territory. They brought themselves up to the latl- tude of the great Jap base at Truk, and within striking distance of Wake Island.
 There will probably be long and bitter fighting in the Marshalls. But it is un- likely that the battle will be as long as the struggle for Guadalcanal, or as bitter as the costly assault on Tarawa And the prize is a base almost exactly halfway on the road from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo
 The strategy of iSland-hopping has been criticized bitterly, and with the landing in the Marshalls, it begins to make sense even for the layman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
UNHAPPY FINLAND
Christian Science Monitor)


 The inability of the Nazis to stem the advance of Russian armies leaves Finland in a desperate position. Fin land has chosen to stake its future on a German victory over the Rus sians. Now Finland is facing the consequences of German defeat. At the same time that Russian power looms over Finland, sec- tion of the German press finds fault with change in the Finnish government. This change has re- suited in new Premier whose pol icy as leader of Finnish opinion has been to urge wait-and-see att titude toward the prospect of Ger man victory. Whether the strange |displeasure in Berlin was an attempt to confuse international opinion on the nature of the change or was warning to the Films not to sub init to Russian pressures for 8 new Finnish Government is anyone's guess.
 In any event 1t does not make Finland's position any easier. Mean while it may be noted that Secre- tary Hull has repeatedly warned against the wait-and-see policy, pointing out that the United States could promise Finland little support in postwar settlements if its armies continued to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
VTTAdIN D FOR NIGHT
 RLINDNESS

Night blindness or poor vision in dim light or difficulty in distin- gushing objects after dark which are readily apparent to normal per sons or difficulty in driving against opposing headlights at night, is usually due to insufficient intake oi vitamin A.. Tn some cases, however, it is a symptom of 8 rare disease called retinitiS pigmentoSa; the night blindness Sometimes called nycalopia) in such cases does not respond to increased intake of vita min A, but may respond well to in- creased intake of vitamin D ano calcium. A middle-aged woman with advanced retinitis pigmentosa had not ventured forth alone after sundown for several yaerS, but after about seven weeks of increased cal- cium and vitamin D intake (say 8 50 1000 unit capsule of vitamin D daily and a high calcium diet or about fifteen grains of calcium in one form or another to supplement the ordinary diet) she could see her way about at night as well as any one.
 Reporting on improvement of night blindness with vitamin D (U. s. Naval Med. Bulletin, March, '32), Arthur A. Knapp Commander. Medical Corps, N. s. Naval Re- serve, states that in series of 93 patients with myopia (nearsighted- ness) GA complained of poor vision in reduced illumination. These GA, most of them having marked, pro- gresive myopia, were given sirni- lar treatment-large increase in daily vitamin D and calcium in take, and their vision was checked once month for from 6 to 27 months. In 20 cases there was an actual reduction of the myopia. Casts of the eyes were made before and after treatment, and these proved unquestionably that the eye- ball may shrink (become shorter from front to back) under Sucb tretment. Of the GA near-sighted patients who complained of night blindness or poor vision in reduced illumination, 48 noticed distinct im- provement in their ability to see in dim light, after weeks or months of the vitamn D and calcium treat ment.
 I don't know whether this proves anything, but bring it to the at- tention to readers who are near sighted or whose children are near sighted, and assure everybody that even if it does no good it can do no harm at all to give the vita min D and high calcium diet or cal- cium supplement @ try for 8 few months, it will do no harm.
 Incidentally, whether a child is mypoic (near -sighted) or not, it is safe bet that the child doesn't get enough vitamin D and doesn't get enough calcium from the aver age American diet. I have been shouting myself hoarse here for years trying to persuade more par ents to give more children more calcium and vitamin D. I'm getting tired-why, some days can hardly drag myself over to the bowling green.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Gift Department

From Washington come reports that wives of congressman are taking lessons in public speaking and general rostrum department, with view to making ln- formative speeches about Washington, and learning how to give and receive gifts.
 Having listened to some of t22e tax payers mutterings about their huSr --2dS, we are doubtful that the congressional ladies' informative speeches about Washington are going to be followed by much gift-giving It might be better II the ladies just forgot that part of the ln- struction, and took short, intensive course in road work and shadow boxing instead
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
A Fiscal Fable

A friend dropped in at the office the other day with a proposition that was an invitation to apoplexy. Glancing at a hen-tracked, eraser -smudged copy of Form 1O40 on the desk, he delivered him. self of this shocking pronouncement:
 "If had my way after the war, should institute system of tax payment that would make Form 1O4O look as simple as money order application. Under my plan, every hidden and property tax would be brought out into the open. There would be sales tax. The whole business of tax paying would be onerous and ever present It would be hideous. It would be Utopia Probably it can't be done, but it's worth dreaming about" After mo- ment he continued, and gradually his list eners' pulses slowed down and their faces resumed their normal pallor.
 ''It's all right in wartime to make tax paying as simple as possible And I'm in favor of keeping the war-bill part of it simple after the war But as for the taxes that pay for running government, federal, state and local, paying for them ought to be like reaching for money in pocketful If fish hooks.
 411dC 1S G4lC O11A way GA4c1G GA1C oAA4oAl oe'-> payer will learn to pay attention to the way his money is being spent. Too many people used to say I don't have to pay any taxes And they believed it. Well now, suppose a man today is paying a war frozen rent of $65 month on his house or apartment. After the war it's raised to $T5. Maybe he squawks and cusseS the landlord, and that's the end of it. But suppose his bill from the landlord today says Rent, $50-Real Estate Tax, $15,' and after the war the rents the same but the tax is $25. You know he'd alarmed well do something about it. "How would such a tax law be passed?" the friend went on "Well, that don't knoW-unlesS maybe a lame-duck administration could get it through, and then get out of office quick" It was agreed that, though the friends plan was slightly fantastic and unlikely of accomplishment, there was consider able sense to what he said.
 After all, if there is any silver lining to the present inclusive and necessary in- come tax, it is the fact that the voter is being made conscious of public spending. In 1913, only .37 per cent of our popula- tion filed income tax returns. This year an estimated 37 per cent-without the de- cimal point-will not only file returns, but pay a substantial tax. Logically, they are going to ask that it be prudently spent. And their inquiry may even extend into the realm of the hidden tax. We hesitate to say it, but maybe it's good thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
QUESTION and ANSWERS
 Cold

I am 72, feel fine, but am so cold all the time-when every one else is roasting am shivering.
 (MrS. H. w. H0. Answer = Perhaps yon need an iodine ration and a vitamin B-com- plex supplement for your diet. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress for Instructions for Taking an Iodin Ration" and B-complex supplement.
 Consult Physician
 Chiropodist has been treating our 2-year-old for several months, put ting on fresh adhesive tape to cor rect an inturned foot, kind of pigeon toe of one foot.
 Mrs. B. W. Answer-Better consult your fam- fly physician or perhaps the ortho- pedic surgeon he will recommend.
 Woolen Underwear
 Please give your opinion as to whether woolen underwear is healthy to wear. Moulders, foundry workers etc, claim they must wear woolen underwear, as it absorbs sweat and prevents chilling.
 co. O. Answer-1f you find it more com- fortable than other material it is oke. But don't wear it if it is not comfortable in the conditions sur- rounding you. Chilling is purely & matter of personal comfort. It has nothing to do with health or free dom from illness, in my ponion. Copyright 1944, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Save the Power Pools

Last summer the city of New York faced serious interruption of electric power and light service when two big generating turbines of the local power company broke down. But the danger was removed immediately as switches were thrown and surplus power from half a dozen states flowed into New York. By interconnection, a number of private power companies pooled" their general ing facilities and saved the day. A news reporter observed that mot one New Yorker in thousand" realized what had occurred.
 New York's experience is not unique. Similar forehanded preparation by cleo trio companies is credited with saving the production of 15000,000 pounds of high quality airplane aluminium which other wise would have been lost as a result ot an 84-hour breakdown in a government power line to government aluminium plant. Ten private electric companies picked up the load immediately. Today there are IS major power pools ln the United States with more than 85 per cent of the country'S total capacity in them. They virtually guarantee that no war plant or community will suffer from in- terrupted electric service.
 These power pools are a development that was conceived in 1905. A pioneer in the electric industry, s. z. Mitchell, more than a generation ago first tried inter- connecting string of electric companies with the idea of establishing more depend able electric service. The idea was good. Out of it grew holding companies" for pooling among large groups of people, the resources, risks and operating problems of the utility industry, with the objective of bringing electricity to every hamlet in the nation. One of the largest of these holding companies now has subsidiaries in nearly all parts of the United States. It has brought metropolitan" service to small communities on an extensive scale. Approximately 90 per cent of the towns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
LOOKS FORWARD TO
 WORK.
(New Haven Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 The world has long since be- come inured to the sight of poet sunk in poverty, and to this there would be no serious objection if only the right poets were poor. But the spectacle of 8 poet like Edgar Lee Masters sick and hungry is not an enthralling one, and the Authors League has properly underwritten his hospital expenses and later care.
 At 73, MT. Masters stills looks forward to publishing another book of poems. Few of his readers will expect any future work to measure up to Spoon River Anthology. Of all forms or creative expression that of poetry is most likely to come out of a mans early or middle years. After that, the spark goes out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
SUPREME COURT sQUABBLE
Boston Post)

The Supreme Court, highest tri- bunal in the land, is not enhancing it's reputation by the bickerings and feuds that appear to be shaking its sacred portals. This is one institu- ton where personalities should not be allowed to intervene in the even dispensation of justice, yet, two dis tinct cliques are fast emerging as g result of recent controversies, each showing Il-disguised contempt for the other. Undoubtedly these groups are sincere in their views but they seem to have lost sight of the fact that in rushing into print to criticise the actions of their adversaries, they are casting aspersions on themselves and the entire court as well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

ably also from France. It IS hoped that the group later will take in such countries as Denmark, Nor- way and Sweden.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 AMG (Allied Military Govern ment) is facin ga tough problem regarding 100000 tons of oranges and 300OOO tons of lemons wait- ing to be picked in Sicily and southern Iatly. The fruit is ripe, but men can't be spared from the front to pick it. Meanwhile, we are forced to ship a certain amount of dried citrus to Italy. After the announcement that each of sixteen Soviet republics would run its own foreign affairs Alexander Kirkland of the Phila- delphia Inquirer posted in the State Department pres sroom list of Secretary Hull's appoint ments for the day. Beginning with such names as Korokilov and Marshevsky, the Secretary of State was receiving Soviet ambas- sadors every quarter hour for four hours 'aThe Shortest Route to Japan" is the slogan of the Korean Affairs Institute, which has just opened offices in Washington. It is urging use of Korean bases only six hundred miles from Tokyo American Zionists point out tah tPalestine has contributed more to the war effort than any other coun- try in the Near East, including the manufacture of land mines.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Views Of The Press

believe" he concluded.
 In this connection we should like to comment that too much of the effort of civilized man is consumed in patching up his own failures. The winning of this war, important though that is, will not of itself produce world brotherhood. That goal, like so many others, will have to be worked toward with pre- ventive measures. In this program, certainly the Boy Scouts have a part, more important, we suspect, than many of the leagues and treaties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

white. Apparently, according to the petticoat school of the army, bravery around the tea table as well as bravery on the battlefield influences promotions.
 PACT BETWEEN LOW COUNTRIES
 One healthy sign for postwar cooperation is an agreement being negotiated backstage between the small countries of Western Eu- rope. It is customs union be- tween Holland, Belgium and Lux embourg, to become effective im- mediately after the war.
 Diplomats of these countries in London and Washington are working out a deal whereby these small neighbOring coun-
 tries would reduce all tariff
 walls. On the surface, this may seem just plain common sense,
 which it is, but in terms of pre-war European politics, it is sensational.
 Hitler forced Austria into an Anschluss with Germany before the war, and from purely econ- omic point of view, it worked. For years, the smaller countries of Europe faced hazardous economic and political problems as separage entities. If they were linked to- gether in a sort of United States of Europe. a lot of European bick- ering would be eliminated.
 The new Low Countries pact will be wholly friendly to both England and Russia, will get mili- tary support from them and prob
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Current Comment

We must assure to all countries (except the Axis) a free and fair stake in this new means of trans portation. It will be our aim to make civil aviation a guarantee of inter national solidarity. Lord Beaverbrook, in charge of
 Britain's postwar aviation pro-
 gram.