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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
PINE BLUFF NBL HOLDS MEETING
APPOINTS OPERATING COMMITTEES

Education Committee - John
c. Kahn, Chairman; c. w. Daw-
son, and Earl f. Evans.
Publicity Committee John
Howard, Chairman; Floyd L.
Turner, and w. T. Alexander.
Health & Hospitalization-Dr
c. A. Lawlah, Chairman; DR.. G
c. Taylor, DR.. c. A. Flowers, and
DR.. r. T. Johnson.
Agriculture-C. D. McKindra,
Chairman; c. c. McHenry, and
w. H. Lee.
Employment-E. D. PEBBLES,
Jr, Chairman; Robert Long,
Marion R. Perry, and Had
Chanay.
Business Planning - Theodore
x. Jones, Chairman; Wendell P.
Shelton, and ]. C. Pierre.
Convention Bureau Horace
G. Barnett, Chairman; Rev. j.
F. Clark, Fayette Roberts.
Vocational Training A. A.
Mazique, Chairman:T H. Hamil-
ton, Eddie Billiard. VIM. E Lee
and A. d. Bragg. 4,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Y
MEETS
Following the regular meet
ing, the executive committee
composed of the elected officers
and chairmen of the standins
committees met in plenary ses-
sion and voted to recommend the
payment of $4,000 per month as
salary to the executive secre-
tary, W. Harold Flowers.
Mr.. Flowers in explaining the
need for assistance urged the
adoption of the request on the
ground that it might enable him
to hire hard-to-get capable
secretary by supplementing the
salary voted by the league in
payment of her services.
The next regular meeting OF
the League will be held at the
Christian Community Club or
June IL, l945 at eight p. m.
The reports of the committees
will be acted upon, and a men,
bership drive will be planned.
PRESENT MEMBERSHIP
The following persons have be-
come members Of the League
E. M. Moore, DR.. c. A. Lawlah
DR.. r. +. Johnson, DIR. w. E
O'Bryant, David Davis, S. B
Adams, j, c. Kahn, H. c. Will
liams, c. w. Dawson, Harold
Flowers, H. G. Barnett, Rev, H
M. Greene, Ivey Anderson, Robert
Long, l.. A. Davis, B. r. Hender-
son, Troy c, Alley, John M
Howard, Ray F. Russell, Feltor
A. Gates, VIM. II. McNeel, Jr., r
x. Jones, Floyd L. Turner, L. c
Bergman, Willie Griffin, Jr.
Smith Johnson, Porter Taylor
H. w. Lewis, Alvin Quincy
Dupree McKindra, E. d. PEBBLES
Jr, 7. H. Hamilton, w. H. Lee
U. S. Brown, Robert J. Vale
j. c. Pierre, c. c. McHenry, Nal.
vim f. Moore, Earl Evans, w. T
Alexander, DR.. Cleon A. Flow
ers, llliad Chanay, Roosevelt
Barnes, T. G. Wimberly, Gentry
Thompson, ST., C. w. Mollette
Dan Holmes, Wendell Shelton
Eddie Billiard, Frank Wiley, j
II. Robinson, VIM. f. Lee, r. N
Chanay, A. A. Bragg, Dr. F. p
Lytes, DR.. j. W. Parker, Fayette
Roberts, S. W, Dawson, S, E
Franklin, Charlie Knott, D. j
Jones, r. L. Nelson, O. B. Elders,
A. A. Mazique, Roger c. Williams,
DR.. G.. c. Taylor, John II. Young,
Dan w. Young, Furman Nichols,
and Lawrence G. Hayes.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
Special Point System Asked To Ai(
els In Service Troops By MACE
PLIGHT OF NEGROES INDEFINITELY WITH
MOST G is IN SERVICE TROOPS

The setting up OF special point system governing the
aschage OF veterans in service troops urged by the
NAACP this week in letter to Secretary of War Stmson
The plight of the Negro soldier being held indefinitely in
the Army and the result the present 5pont
system for soldiers with combat records brought to the
attention of the War Department
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Students of Broudcustino
To Learn From Records

The National Academy of Broad
casting will Use records Of out
standing radio announcers' voices to
teach voice students this year, Miss
Alice Keith, director, said yester-
dav
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the Capitals public school system
simply didn't grow enough to rate a
superintendent until 1869. 1t was
outpaced by a colored school sys-
tenn, operated separately for many
years by the Interior Department,
which had high school long before
Supt. James Ormond Wilson warily
launched girls one-year secondary
school in 1876.
Set Pattern Of Daring.
1t was 1880 before the same Mr..
Wilson could say that education ou-
thorities need no longer hesitate to
use the words high school without
arousing antiextravagance moves by
Congress or the taxpayers. Probably
no poltroon, he set pattern for the
kind of daring the job still seems to
require.
Another need Mr.. Wilson estab-
lished was that of a sympathetic
District administrator. His best
backer was Mayor Wallach, who
obhgingly -cudgeled a $4,000 emer-
gency fund out of Congress and ODE.
diently threw nearly all of it into
the construction OF a single model
school. Wilson backed him up by
publicizing his single superschool-
the old Franklin-in international
expositions from Vienna and Paris
to New Orleans. II. brought rich div
idends in public support of later
projects, notably q normal school.
Similar feats were performed
through similar tactics by Supt
William B. Powell, who cozened
Commissioner after Commissioner
into supporting such innovations as
manual training schools and kin
dergartens.
The only alternative road to sue
cess-for superintendents lacking
the peculiar talents of Wilson and
Powell-appear to have been that OF
Alexander TAFT Stuart, the model OF
the diplomatic" superintendent. HI
| remained nine years, from 1900 tc
1906 and 1908 to 1911, using his per.
sonal charm and persuasive power tc
lure education minded Congress
men into Investigating" the District
school system whenever he wanted
something.
The present Board OF Education
has been promised the help of Supt
Haycock in locating q suitable sue.
cessor. A conscientious student of hi.
predecessors careers as we'll as .
graduate Of the system himself. Mr.
Haycock already is scanning tn.
H field
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Paul F. Douglass will get II build
ings and two dormitories back from
the WAVES and from the bomb
disposal school that has been in
stalled on its campus since 1912.
He wants to fill them with more
students than the university ever
nad-men and women-studying
the science that the war high
lighted, but also absorbing the cul-
tural heritage of English literature
and American philosophy and his
tory.
The Very Rev. Lawrence c. Cor
man of Georgetown University said
that Georgetown hopes to combine
the charm of its slower paced years
with the improved techniques sal
yaged from the wartime years.
The public school officials. who
have consistently resisted pressure
of wartime student employment and
accelerated scientific courses, face
reconversion with delight.
Reversion to Slower System.
Nov we can teach the children as
they used to be taught-slow and
easy" said a member of the Board
of Education. At the same time
the public schools plan to expand
vocational, mathematics and Ian
guage courses as they never had
been expanded before the war en-
phasized the need for specialized
skills.
All the local institutions-public
and private-have the problem OF
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Doyle
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a more complete ton
of educational opportunity and
training
Again education must recognize
that materialism has never an
swered mans needs and that the
forces which change material forms
are spiritual" he said.
Maryland University's reconver-
sion aim is to make its American
civilization studies the most out
standing in the country, President
H. c. Byrd declared. Studying
American civilization in the class
rooms and new farming techniques
in its laboratories, he said, the uni
versity hopes to enter on new era
of leadership among American col
leges.
American U. Halls Return.
American University is among
those hailing the return to peace
time leisure. This fall President
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District Faces Task Of Finding
New Superintendent of Schools
By JOHN Comfy,

An old-fashioned tizzy probably
will convulse Washington's educa-
tional leaders in February when
Robert L. Haycock retires as super
intendent of schools. They will be
faced-as their predecessors have
been faced recurrently since 1869
with the task of finding good man
to take the post, which was once
described frankly by the Cyclopedia
of Education as one of the most
difficult of its kind in the United
States.
Pilots of the Washington school
system always have had rugged
route to travel. Congressional Ap-
preparation Committees and Dis
trict administrators thunder omi-
nously overhead. Suspicious tax
payers objections rear menacingly
from below. Visibility hovers around
zero.
In the history of the superin-
tendency, one fledgling has crashed
disastrously under these handicaps.
Two have ruddered furiously and
headed back for safety. One of
these made safe emergency land
ing in Central High School teach
ing job. The other parachuted into
the placid presidency of the Ma
tional Education Association.
Staged Inquiry.
To find why these three came
to GRIFFIN 1907, 1869 and 1885, re-
spectively-and why others have es-
capped only narrowly, Presidential
Advisory Committee investigated
Washington education in 1898. Their
main conclusion-scarcely new one
was that the lack of representative
government in the District fur
nished the school superintendent
and the Board of Education respon-
sibility without power. Power they
defined as the right to appropriate
funds. Short of taking District
financing out of the hands OF Con-
gress, they could only suggest that
budgets recommended by board and
superintendent be saved from pre-
llmlnary pairing by the city govern
ment.
Not only the chief woes but the
belated beginning of the superin-
tendency appears from the city's
educational history to have sprung
from this trouble. Financed by tim
orous trustees from taxes on social
evils" like slaves, dogs and taverns
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getting their faculties back before
postwar plans can swing into full
effect. Most OF them do not expect
to see many of their best teachers
for another year.
Building plans are, rampant. All
the colleges, the public schools and
the private institutions have plans
for new dormitories, new class
rooms, new laboratories and voca-
tional shops
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Koenio
CONTINUED From Page B-12)

NCONunUeu FTOIn rage b-IIJ
professor Of geography. He will
teach two courses in economics and
political geography this semester.
DR.. Koenig, IS, is graduate Of
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. He
has master Of arts and doctor OF
philosophy degrees from the Uni
versity Of Iowa. He also has taken
graduate courses in administrative
education.
Dr.. Kosnig u q member Of the
Presbyterian Church and active in
the Masonic Order. He is married
and has twin daughters.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
| Hoyeock Praised
By School Board
| Head for Fine Work

School Supt. Haycock, retir-
ing next February, was paid
this tribute by Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the
Board of Education:
Fifty years from classroom
teacher to superintendent of
schools is the educational his
tory of Robert Lee Haycock.
I'm all these years he never
sought promotion. He always
was asked to serve.
Quiet, persuasive, thought
full of others, he gets things
done"
Evening star., 1945-12-25

lated to advance knowledge and
understanding in the world and be
OF marked value in promoting the
external relations of the United
States. In effect, it would transform
things like surplus tank or piece
of heavy artillery into scholarship
money designed to help Americans
and foreigners alike to improve their
minds and know each other better,
so that tanks and artillery and other
implements of war. may never again
be employed to settle disputes among
nations.
1t may be that the Fulbright
measure, on careful inspection, will
be found to have flaws, but to the
extent that it thus projects a pro-
gram meant to broaden the wisdom
of mankind and spread enlighten-
ment and mutual respect on an in
ternational scale, it obviously con-
tains promise as a peace-promoting
idea.
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was declared, on the same level as the
stockholders, depending upon the char
acter of work they were doing. The re-
suits were satisfactory and there was
long period of peace in that particular
industrial concern
~
Whether Congress will see eve to eve
with the President and will enact legis-
lation authorizing fact-finding boards to
investigate and report in cases of indus
trial disputes, with power to subpoena
the books. of companies or corporations
involved, is still to be determined The
purpose Of investigating the books of
these concerns would, in the light of the
Presidents announcement, be mainly to
determine whether basic wages are to
be increased. Wage scales for corpora
tlons or companies engaged in similar
and competitive production, under such
a plan, might fluctuate considerably
depending upon the earnings made by
individual companies or corporations.
The result might be very different from
what the proponents of such q plan ex-
pect and hope.
The proposed system, too, might cas-
lily result in loss of production and un-
employment. For example, If a fact
finding mediation board is set up to
look into a demand by the CIO for a
30 per cent increase in wages, and, on
the evidence 1t takes, should allow
IS per cent increase. this might be fol-
lowed by an increase in price of the
commodities The income of the pur-
chasing public might be unable to meet
these increased prices. The result would
be falling off in sales, followed by
falling off in production and decrease
in the number of employees.
The balancing of wages brought about
by free competition in industry. with
collective bargaining in full sway, may
be after all the best way of arriving at
fair wages and of obtaining maximum
employment The main difficulty today
lies in unbalanced labor laws-laws
which have in recent years been
weighted entirely in favor of organized
labor. Until these laws are amended
or repealed, there seems to be no hope
for any permanent solution of the in
dustrial wars that beset the country.
Congress may yet be forced to take
such steps
Evening star., 1945-12-25

the Secretaries OF State Of the United
States and Great Britain with the
Y. s. s. r., the regime of Marshal Tito
has been recognized. This deal sup
posedly was necessary in order to humor
our Soviet allies. But because of feel
ing of international decency, the State
Department, which is fairly well in
formed about the insufferable condi-
tions prevailing in that newly recog-
nized country, could not refrain from
attaching mild note of criticism of
the totalitarian Tito regime.
In Yugoslayia, even more than in
Poland, the oppression of all those who
do not Fundamentally support the
former Soviet agent who rules their
country is proceeding with mrelenting
harshness.
Even those who by their former pro-
fessions are politically neutral do not
escape the heavy hand of the new
order. When nothing specific can be
pinned on them, they are deprived of
their jobs and must make scanty
living as best they can. Thus, men,
Der of the Court of Appeals in Belgrade
today is earning enough to keep body
and soul together by doing an errand
boys job in bakers shop. A professor
OF photography at the University of
Belgrade earns a better living than his
former colleagues by being bootblack.
former high-ranking diplomat who
attempted to open railway dining
car" in one of the main thoroughfares
Of Belgrade was refused permission by
the government because he had not
been member of the restaurant own
ers' union before the war.
In Western Europe, where political
oppression has ceased after a number
of purges, the situation is only slightly
better. There is hunger and cold and
a general discomfort which makes the
existing governments shaky and un-
stable.
The spirit of Christianity is still
strong, however. In Japan the dowager
empress is reported to have become SO
imbued with the teachings of Our Lord
that she is spending long days reading
the New Testament Whether she al
ready has become convert has not
yet been disclosed.
But while the spirit inevitably will
march on through the ages, its teach
ings are not being applied by the rulers
OF the Christian states, who are per-
mitting secular problems to take pri-
ority over the more lasting moral
issues.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Electronic Forecuster

Static, long the bane of radio lis
teners, may yet become a boon to
mankind in new role as long-range
weather forecaster. In fact, static
was put to work as prognosticator
of storms during the latter stages of
World War II with such success that
a whole new field of meteorology,
called "spherics." has been opened
to weather scientists. Heretofore
shielded by security restrictions, the
wartime developments in "spherics"
which is contraction of atmos-
pherics-have been disclosed by the
Army Signal Corps. 1t is story of
how static was made to deliver storm
warnings to electronic stations as
much as 1000 miles away, coupled
with vital information as to direc-
tion and speed of the disturbance.
Taking advantage of the we'll
known radio-interfering habits of
static electricity generated by major
meteorological disturbances, physi-
cists of the University of Florida,
operating under secret Army con-
tract, perfected static direction
finder" capable of recording storms
over. great distance and locating
their direction. Three stations were
set up-one at Red Bank, N. j.; one
at the University of Florida and one
In Bermuda-so that 1t was possible
TO plot each storm by means Of tri-
Evening star., 1945-12-25

angulation. BY taking successive
fixes" it was possible to trace the
path of the disturbance and estimate
it's rate of travel. Thus. warships
and conveys in the Western Atlantic
could be kept advised of storm con-
ditions and could be routed so as to
avoid them. Air transport also bene-
fitted from the Spherics reports, es-
pecially in the hurricane season.
Since one of the handicaps with
which weather forecasters have had
to cope in the past has been the
scarcity of weather reports from
ocean areas, the electronic storm in
dicator should fill a big void on the
weather charts. On the basis of its
wartime service, the new device
should prove to be an invaluable aid
to the weatherman in his difficult
task of prophesying what the skies
hold forth for the morrow, or even
for the next week or two.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
An Idea for Peace

Although it may be open to queS-
ton in some details, the proposal
to convert part of our war stocks
abroad into a great international
scholarship fund-a proposal en-
bodied in bill sponsored by Senator
Fulbright-seems basically quite as
sound as it is interesting.
The Fulbright measure would put
the proposal into effect by giving the
State Department control over the
disposal of surplus property outside
the United States and by author
izing the Secretary of State to make
agreements with foreign countries
to use for educational purposes a
substantial percentage of the funds
or credits realized from the sale of
surpluses or from settlements OF
unconsumed lease-lend material.
As explained by its advocates, such
an arrangement-worked out with
countries like England, France, Italy,
China and Russia-would make pos
sible an international exchange of
students and educational ideas more
far-reaching than anything Of its
kind heretofore attempted. Under it
ample funds would be available to
finance the studies of foreigners
coming to the universities of this
country, and of Americans going to
universities abroad, in numbers
much greater than in the past.
Moreover, it would be broad enough
to support special projects in re-
search, instruction, library operation
and other cooperative educational
activities among the nations.
The proposed program has the
support of the new cultural division
of the State Department and the
American Council on Education for
the reason that 1t would be calcu-
Evening star., 1945-12-25
This Changing World
By Constantine Br0,pn

To millions throughout the world
Christmas Day this year is sadder than
1t was last year.
There was some real hope in the
minds and hearts of these millions in
1914, although huge armies were fight
ing each other and the casualties were
counted by the tens of thousands each
week. Nevertheless, the defeat of the
Axis appeared in sight. One more effort,
the desperate millions thought, and the
mighty German and Japanese war ma
chimes would collapse. Then a period
of peace, justice and kindness as the
Nazarene commanded 10 centuries ago
world and an era Of love thy neighbor
as thyself" would be re-established.
The bloodshed is over, but there is
no peace, in the meaning of the words
of Our Lord, in any part Of the world
And while diplomats continue to pour
out their professional optimism about
better and richer world, as many, if
not more, millions are suffering from
oppression, hunger and cold.
The defeat of the enemies who started
the war has brought no relief to the
suffering millions. The concentration
camps are as filled as they were in the
days of Nazi and Fascist oppression.
Reports from Europe, particularly in
the areas east of the Rhine, tell of in
diViduals being taken away from their
homes and either sent to some unknown
destination or placed in nearby concen-
tration camps merely because they OBJ
ject to the newly established totalitar-
ian regimes.
Blood-drenched Poland, a country
which its new masters have closed to
all outsiders, is suffering today as much
as it did under the Germans The only
real picture of what is going on in that
country comes from the same under
ground which fought the Nazis so
valiantly for five years.
And the same tale of woe of execu-
ton squads, of people torn from their
homes and families, Is being told to the
outside world. The difference is that
while these tales received wide publicity
until May because they uncovered the
brutality Of an enemy we were deter
mined to destroy, little is now known
by the public. 1t is not proper, accord
ing to the policy trainers of the Allied
countries, to tell disagreeable stories
about governments with which the rest
of the world is on friendly terms"
The same stories come from Yugo-
slavia As part of bargain between
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Government Puy Bill

One of the legislative tasks yet to
be completed by Congress is the
postwar adjustment of Federal pay.
Legislation sponsored by Senator
Downey, Democrat, of California
and backed by employe unions,
called for fiat increase of 20 per
cent for approximately 100000
persons paid under the Classification
Act. The measure finally approved
by the Senate sets up sliding scale
averaging II per cent. with lower
bracket workers getting more than
this figure and those in the higher
grades less.
This arrangement would result in
cumulative increase since July /,
last, of SO per cent for employees
whose base pay was around the
$1,000 level. For higher-paid groups,
the figure decreases until it reaches
minimum of about 16 per cent.
The bill still must go through the
House, however, and an entirely
different version may be produced.
An effort doubtless will be made
to adopt some program without too
much delay. and this is advisable.
At the same time, Congress might
give thought to overhauling the en-
tire Federal pay scale and estab-
fishing rates that would bear some
relationship to the Importance of
the work performed. That was the
intent of the Classification Act, but,
as has been pointed out frequently,
wages have been fixed on such a
hit-or-miss basis in the two decades
since the law was enacted that
widespread inequities have devel-
oped.
As the wartime Government ma
chine is dismantled and personnel is
reduced to near-normal proportions
the time will be opportune for the
shaping of policies tending to pro-
mote efficient and economic depart
mental administration and to en-
courage stabilized employment. In
brief, to foster career service in the
Government. That will call for a
re-examination of pay schedules.