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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-11
Teen-Agers Dance Planned Tonight

A dance for teen-agers will be held tonight at the Washington Park Community House from 2 to 9:30. Music will be furnished by the Striteckis Trio. Plans for the Christ mas party to be held next week will be completed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-11

Driving for pleasure Is to be pro hibited in Norway for a while longer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-11

The other day, I wrote a para graph or two, expressing my amaze ment because the feminine ian atics seem to pay little or no at tention to male beauty in choosing their idols. have 8 response ln to-
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ployment of colored persons as
street car motormen and conduc-
tors and bus drivers.
His inability to get a confer
ence for the committee with Mr..
Truman is one of the reasons for
his loss of prestige among his
colleagues. Frequently he had
had a difficult time seeing SUBJ
ordinate executive officers, and
lately he has evidently resigned
himself to dealing with Presi-
Dental secretaries and advisers
and what may be called a second
string team.
Ross is confined to Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore. He went
there between the first and second
strikes of Capital Transit employ
ees. When the committee was be-
ing polled on the issuance of the
directive, which Mr.. Trum a n
blocked, Ross sent word from the
hospital that he was opposed and
insisted that the record show that
he was in the hospital and took no
part in the voting.
1t appears that he is incapable
of sharp, decisive action, if the &C
ton meets with much opposition
or resistance. He means well, but
he is weak.
AS an indication that he carries
little or no weight, he was not con-
suited on issues which were put on
the agenda of the labor-manage-
ment conference. Nor has he been
in on any of the conferences with
John W. Snyder, director of the
office of war mobilization and re-
conversion on the problems of re-
conversion to a peace economy. Yet
it was generally admitted that the
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Washington
Spotlight
By Louis Lautier

Malcolm Ross, chairman Of the
Fair Employment Practice Commit
tee, has lost his leadership and use
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given these days.


Let's take inventory, Joe. Ask
the chairman if his organization
can bat 1000 on the suggestions
we have just made. If his answer
is, mo-" tell him to get busy OF
adjourn his meeting on "What Can
We Do, etc."
If his organization is on the beam
and wants more suggestions on how
to help CT Joe, tell him we will
send fifty fiat suggestions to him if
he will drop US a line in care of
NNPA at 20O7 18th Street N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
This week, Joe, we make our
weekly award of ''Maggie's
Drawers" to the Veterans Ad-
ministratiOn because the states
of Georgia, Mississippi and Ken
lucky, which have a total of 231,-
534 Negro veterans but not a
single bed for any one of them to
lie in, in case of sickness. Every
veterans hospital in the three
states named above is ily-white.
1t amt right, Joe. The Vet
erans' Administration is way off
the target. In fact it is not even
firing on the range. Wave the
red flag, corporal.
Yours in the Service,
Jim.
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employment pattern followed in the
reconversion period would be vital
ly important to workers of minority
groups.
To sum up the situation, Ross is
by-passed on official action in which
large-scale planning is done.
Ross came into the FEPC chair
manship through the backdoor. He
had a mediocre job with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and
had no national reputation of any
kind. When Father Frances Haas
was appointed chairman of FEPC,
he took Ross with him with the
understanding that Ross would be
his successor after he became
widely known and he, Father Haas,
stepped out.
When he accepted a $4,000 cut
in salary, Ross prestige dropped
This reduction in pay put him on
a salary level with George M.
Johnson, who was then deputy
chairman of FEPC.
There is feeling among commit
tee members that Ross salary in
crease from $4,000 to $4,000 with
the resultant public acclaim was
more important to him than getting
a great deal accomplished. Mem
bers also feel that he needs the
job. They decided to issue the di-
rective to Capital Transit while he
was in the hospital so as not to
jeopardize the $8,OOO-a-year salary
he now receives.
M. w. TOzier, director of in
formation for the War RelOca-
ton Authority, wanted a Negro
speaker for a Nisei program at
Santa Anna, California on De-
cember 8. General Joseph (Vine-
gar joel Stillwell was to be there
and to present a Distinguished
Service medal to a Nisei girl.
He telephOned Leslie Perry,
administrative assistant at the
Washington Bureau of the
NAACP. Perry could not accept
and suggested Bill HASTE, chair
man of the national legal COM
mittee of the NAACP. Bill could
not go and suggested Charley
Houston, a member of the ma
tiOnal legal committee. Charley
could not go and suggested
Walter White, secretary of the
NAACP. Walter declined and
suggested Roy Wilkins, assistant
secretary of the NAACP. Roy
also declined.
The moral for public relations
officers is-start at the top
echelOn and work down.
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OUR READERS SPEAK .. ..
White Soldier Blasts
Cooronofad TTS0 TIuh

OCS1CSoGCu Wv OAuO
Editor:
I would like to agree completely
with the articles recently exposing
anti-Negro prejudice and discrimi-
nation prevalent in the States and
within the Army. This is not a
problem for the Negro people alone
to solve; we whites having an
equal, if not greater responsibility
to see that this blot on our demo-
cratic way of life is removed.
In this light, I was shocked to
find that the Manila USO main
tains a policy of segregation with
regard to its swimming pool. The
funds for the USO were contribut-
ed by people of every race, creed
and color and certainly were not
intended to foster such institutions
as "colored night"
This is obviously a local policy,
since the National USO has no
such rulings. Common decency re-
quires that the local group get in
step with America now, by freely
opening their pool to any GIL, any
time.
Pvt. Justin Vanderlaan,
War Crimes bet.
Editors Note: The policy of segrega-
| ton is one followed in USO set-ups in many
| sections of the States and overseas. It is
the rule rather than the exception.)
Reader Calls Attention
To Time Magazine Story
Editor: Beardsley Ruml, expert on
taxes, merchandising, and public
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Birthday greetings in st. Paul: Deem
Der 100. c. Hall, Jr., 727 st. Anthony
Avenue; Eulah ]. Clemens, 499 Rondo Ave
nue.. December 17-Earl A. Neil, 726 St.
Anthony Avenue: Pearlie Mae Williams,
597 Rondo Avenue. December 1S-Joseph
Harris, S7s Marion Street Enoch Marshall,
673 Carroll; Alfonzo Crews, 702 Carroll
Avenue; Margaret Davis, 666 Rondo Ave
nue.; Daniel B. Taylor, 462 Rondo Avenue.
December 19-Mrs. Arthur Hill, $50 lyle
hart Avenue. December 20-Mrs. ]. A.
johnson, 526 st. Anthony Avenue Joe Mon
roe, 622 Iglehart Avenue. December al
Sarah Sherwood, 3s4 Fuller Avenue o. w.
Lindsay, 276 W. Central Avenue. December
22-Carmelita Carter, 622 W. Central.
Out of town greetings to Noel Harris,
Los Angeles, California: December 16; Sgt.
Manley Rhodes, U. s. Army. December 10.
Birthday greetings in Minneapolis to:
December 16-Wendell c. Jones, 1921 Al
drich Ave. So. Mrs. Elaine Childress, 1881
Bryant Ave. No. December 17-Jalmer o.
johnson, l343 Queen Ave. No.. Augustus
Cotton, 410 E. gath st.; Noah Pateman,
514 Bryant Ave. No, and Nellie A. Stone,
3437 Smelling Ave. December 1S-Walter
J. Murphy, 1900 Stevens So. Ellen Powell.
400 Humboldt Ave. So; Mrs. GeorSine
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schoolmates.
A Negro girl who happened to be
visiting in the town stopped an at
tack on the little boy one day and
catching one of the six or seven
year old white boys she asked him
why he wanted to jump on the
Negro. Here is what the white child
said in reply:
'My mommy says he's a niger
an that niggers are dirty and should
not be allowed to be around nice
little white children. My mommy
says all niggers are stinky and
have bugs on them. He's niger,
isn't he?"
The girl who told me this said
she had all she could do to keep
from slapping the face of the little
white lad, but stopped and thought
that here was a possible answer
to why the race problem seems so
remote in solving.
White parents, despite all they
read and hear, persist in inculcat-
ing in their young the common de-
sire on the part of most whites to
despise and to disparage all unlike
them in color. They grow up with
these notions in their heads and
then after they are married and
have children, it goes on down the
line.
The Negro child probably was
told by his mother that white chill
dren are mean, evil and hateful
and that they are his mortal enc
mics. He grows up with this idea.
There's your problem. Find the
common denomination and you'll
have a solution the world has
sought since it was created.
Yet, in intervening in the Capital
Transit matter, the President has
condoned and given tacit approval
to one of the callous and fragrant
exhibitions of employment discrim-
nation in the country.
What is more important, and
dangerous, he has sect fit to re-
move the last trembling vestige Of
authority possessed by the Fai1
Employment Practices Committee
and has done so in a manner calcu-
lated to cast considerable doubt
upon the esteem in which he holds
his own Committee.
The resignation of Mr.. Charles
Houston from the Committee under
these conditions, therefore, becomes
not only justiiable but unavoid,
able. It also becomes impossible
to see how the other members Of
the Committee, serving in goot
faith, can continue as members Of
a Committee which has been de.
MED any semblance of authority tc
do the job for which it was created
1t becomes even more difficult
to see how Mr.. Truman and his
party will be able to explain theil
stand on FEPC to nearly 100000
900 Americans at the next cleo
acknowledgment Tribune.
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The OAR made largely of older people, and
older traditions they lived
but think perhaps ought have patience and hope that
eventually they will the ght"Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Prejudice Is Immoral
P Crep of Princeton University, writing Public Opinion
Quarterly asks Gunar Myrd author San American Demma The
Negro Problem
right when he said: The Negro problem
According to Cespi Myrdar sreng of morality puts the
emphasis the AS Cspi it, Myrda would
individual eliminate prejudice whereas society probably
the patient.
Cresps planning
would the gain from prejudice He the
saying that the American Negro Problem primarily
don't with Crpi all lot of white people
from under the stigma immortality that
them They would like feel that they nothing
they hate their coOed neighbour that society
they, themselves.
There difference between prejudice and Responsibility
improvement both individual
engineering merely designed
friends" free their consciences-AfroA American
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psychology, wrote an article in the
November 10 edition of Time maya
zine, part of which 1 am condensing
for reprint here. I believe this
article merits attention and deep
thought in our forthcoming deci-
sions about the United Nations Or
CARNATIONS. I quote as follows:
"This talk of a world state to
control the atomic bomb is a grave
mistake; the world won't be ready
for a world state for at least
twenty years.
"The minds and hearts of men
are not yet prepared for a world
of law, justice and mercy. Even,
we in the United States are not
prepared. Too many men despise
women. Too many women despise
their servants. Too many white
men despise black men. Too many
Christians desplse Jews.
eve need not be perfectionists,
but we must realize that there
must be a profound change in
human attitudes.
"Let the faulty world of 1916
concentrate on lessening immediate
tensions, building up the United
Nations Organizations as an in
term safeguard"
Leonard Carter
1852 Fifth Ave. S.
Minneapolis
ST. PAUL VISITORS
Visitors to the st. Paul office this week:
Robert Williams, 922 St. Anthony Avenue;
Mrs. Lena Brown, $40 N. Avon St.. Mrs.
M. B. Humphrey, 144 w. 45th st., Los
Angeles, California; Mrs. Marie A. Tetu,
$40 Laurel Avenue.
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bequeath to his young and they to
theirs, what the white man repre-
sents in interracial relationships.
Thus is brought about an impasse
between the races created by false
notions of racial supremacy on the
one hand and by hate and distrust
on the other.
In this situation then can be
found the root of all racial evils
and an indication of the magnitude
of the task faced by those who
would bring about an upheaval of
traditional bias and bitterness by
a new approach based on the demo-
cratic ideal of liberalism, and the
fundamental rights to all human
ity.
Not far out of New York City,
there is a small colony of Negroes
living in a rich Westchester Coun-
ty community peopled largely by
wealthy whites of aristocratic lean
ings in some instances and in the
we-just-got-rich class in most.
The Negroes, that is a sprinkling
of them, are of our middle class,
successful in business and with the
desire to establish comfortable
homes in safe, respectable commun-
tiles where they can live in peace
and contentment according to their
financial status and their cultural
background.
A story was related to me the
other day of a case where one Ne
gro family is made up of a very
dark skinned mother and a father
fair enough to pass for white. This
family has wealth earned legiti-
mately; the two elder boys and the
daughter are in college while the
six-year-old child, youngest in the
family, is in public school. The
home this family owns and lives in
is beautiful; in fact, it surpasses
in looks many of the homes of far
richer whites who are neighbors.
Autoists passing through the
town sometimes stop and inquire
if the place is for sale or lease and
usually ask the dark-brownskinned
woman who sits sometimes on the
front porch these questions. She
tells them it is not and when they
ask for the ''lady of the house,
she calmly and impassionately in
forms them that it is her home.
Sometimes they stop and ask
to see the landlord and she goes
inside for her husband. He places
an arm around her waist and proud.
ly tells them that he and his wife
whom he is holding have no in
tention of selling. Of course this
does the minds of the curious nc
good at all, especially those who
have preconceived notions about
race and the place of a Negro.
The six-year-old boy goes to 6
school where he is the only Negro
He is fair enough to pass but his
schoolmates know he is colored. HG
has a fight every day after school
He is chased and beaten as mat
ter Of policy by his little whit'
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Strange AputhY

apathy apparent population at
when single citizen concerned with the future should be
world imminent classes and leaders
only confused but apparently both compacnt and apathec
Of the United Nations only Russia know what wants
and about getting Our the supposed champion of the
worlds oppressed wobbed San Francisco and allowed Russia
chief worlds havenos oonas
Of exactly position San Francisco
lead the world toward full equality chiefly because do
problem We then and
still theoretically the leading democratic nation of the world
still chance that the United States will truck
with imperialism and decide become practical its democratic deal
such change from aroused The apathy
which mentioned in the first paragraph certainly will not
ourW
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Noisy Juke Boxes Part
Of Having Good Time

Editor: I have just finished read
ing a letter in the paper written
by a lady who complains of the
noisy jukeboxes in taverns. If this
lady wants peace and quiet she
should stay home and knit stock
ings. When people go out they like
to have their fun, and not act like
they are at a funeral. If noise
bothers her, she doesn't belong in
a tavern. Some people are never
satisfied with what they get. No
wonder the waitress didn't want to
turn the box down, because after
all why should a lot of people
have their fun spoiled for one joy
killer?
Jimmie A.,
st. Paul, MINI.
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The Power of Women

declaration CALIFORNIA; ongrswoman Helen Gahagan
Douglas that band together and force making
Conending that the sway hold intimate
a the Chronicle the idea that the nd that rocks the
cradle" also pacify world bent destruction.
While the
oppounis lady legislator the Chronicles
laughter seemed and and Mrs Douglas
have something there
Obviously Mrs Douglas has nothing silly her mind
mobng What good would there be initiating
peace particularly when
had nothing would be gained Nature having fixed
can't get along without the poor dears
Mrs. Douglas had mind educating and training the
of the from then we'll throw with
present day todders enlsng
the the animal with
he'll helpless poison reaches
aduhood.
Hardly Of the state of the nation world
That's why bitter, frustrated
hwh make and keep the home that and entire of ITSELF
dsapprobaton
providing
shelter of four walls and commenced making those four walls train
for the which order the
chaos around it.
world
relatively small bh made by individual nfd the widening and
rapidly engufng large
who suffer it. Does from his reside
highly Wanted another
"other"
Does soldier die the battlefield defense of democracy
other already besmrched ideoogy from the
who bore him and the who loves him.
Going coming, have power than
thing
y which keeps them from it. Let the Chronicle call init
farther than the cradle the breast
the bed brthed
poon Hitler and Hroo mention Bubeard Casanova and
What those brethren others like did
brought herself the all in her
another Helen Gahagan Douglas needs launch world wide
realize that In
could make impossible for Mars drum this
Los Angeles Tribune.
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4oAAASoSs AAAoSI oP-
parently is the
one decisive out
come so far of
the controversy
b e t W e e n Presi-
dent Truman and
tn e committee
over the issuance
of a directive to
the Capital Tran
sit Com pan y
ordering the en-
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Roots Are Deep
In Our Problem
By Dan Gardner

No story better known to the Negro than that of the
oppression, exploitation segregation and discrimination
shown him. the centuries, by the white AS the
white bequeahs to his following generations ideas of
white supremacy and the state of serude he
thinks all coored peoples should kept does the Negro
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Collins, 1851 Bryant Ave. No. December
19-Edward Hayes, 3747 Fourth Ave. So.
December 21-Edward Elliot, 1917 Fifth St.
So.
City, Mo-, December II; Reverend NJ. E.
Nelson, Columbus, Ohio. December 10.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-08-16
SLIPPER

Members of the Henderson Shrine
club will have a supper tonight at
the Masonic temple at sever o'clock,
il was announced today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-08-16
By HERIAN N. BuNDESEN. NJ. D.

AN EARACHE can be a very
painful condition and if neglected
1t may turn out to be quite serious.
When the middle part of the ear is
infected, the condition is known as
otitis media. In general, there are
two kinds of oJitis media. One Is
known as suppurative ard the
other as non-suppuIative. In the
suppurative type, there is a dis
charge from the ear. IN the non
~suppurative, no such dischar1-
occurs. The non-suppurative type,
as a rule, IS a shoTt-lived disorder,
but it does continue for q long
period of time in some cases.
The acute or short-lived c9ndi-
tiou is often called acute tuUal
catarrh. 1t IS caused by an infec-
ton in the nose or upper part Of
the throat which leads to infection
Of the eustachian tube which con-
meets the middle part CT the ear
and throat.
Blowing Nose
Blowing the nose improperly,
and swimming I sometimes re-
sponsible for transfer of infection
to the eustachian tube. This infec-
ton causes the lining membrane
Of the tube to swell and blocks the
passageway through it. Then the
air in the middle ear is absorbed,
leaving a vacuum. The ear drum
is then drawn in because Of the
vacuum and moderate pain may be
present. There is also a feeling Of
fullness in the ear and head noises
or ringing in the ears occurs. Dir
illness may be present in some in
stances.
The treatment consists, first of
all, in getting rid ot those condi-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-08-16
Macarthur Criticizes
Jap Delays
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expected to be dissolved IN the near
future, uEd be succeeded by some
other organization to be formed for
promotion OF postwar reconstruction.
Meanwhile, japanese home front
propaganda began an about face"
with the powerful Tokyo newspaper
iomiuri Hochi coming out fatty in
praise of the scientific genius which
created the atomic bomb for the Al
lies, and suggesting that it was time
for the JapaHese to face the facts.
Credit should be given the "scien-
tific superiority" behind the atomic
bomb. the paper suggested, and the
Japanese might better accuse our
selves Of being 50 incapable. We
failed to gauge Our limitations and
knew nothing of our adVersaries."
Earlier, Domei broadcast that the
Japanese people, although overcome
with sorrow at their defeat showed
no discomfort with Hirohito's re-
script of defeat yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-08-16
Certain q Disorders

fonamide drugs has been founu
helpful in many cases, but while
the sulfonamides have helped
some patients. others must be
treated in a different wav
Washing Bladder
The form of treatment sug-
gested in such instances Is con-
tinuous irrigation or washing of
the bladder. The treatment is con-
tinued for from three to ten days.
depending upon how rapidly the
symptoms clear up. The irrigation
is done only during the day. AL
though it may eliminate the con-
dition in most patients, in q few
there will be a recurrence. The
treatment when repeated agai.
usually clears up the condition.
The solution employed for wash
ing the bladder was made up OF
citric acid, magnesium oxide, So
dunn carbonate and water.
To bring more rapid relief o.
the symptoms, particularly burn
ing, it is suggested that the pa
tient be given by mouth such prep
arations as methylene blue or =
mixture of Hyoscyamus and po-
tassium citrate.
tuberculosis of the bladder is
also a cause for frequency of uri-
nation, and is more difficult to
treat than the infection produced
by other germs. Doctor Baurys
says that, in elderly women,
changes occurring in the lining
membrane of the bladder can
cause frequency although the
urine is normal. In treating these
patients he suggests the use of the
drug known a IS s~tllbestrol. OF
course. this preparation as well as
all medication, should be used only
under the directions of a phv-'-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-08-16
Jap Puppet For
China Dissolving
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cease their attacks on Manchuria.
However, the Chungking radio
said in a broadcast recorded by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, that the Japanese commander
in China, 1t. Gen. Okamura, has
stated that he was "aWaiting more
detailed Instructions in reply to
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek's or
der for surrender. The FEC reported
that the announcement of the
KWantung army's appeal for IN end
to M~anchurian hostilities was re-
corded in New Delhi.
a Domei dispatch datelined Nam
king, recorded by The Associated
Press, said the puppet regime wa
dissolVing 'becuusc their mission
was ended
Domei said a special committee
will carry on the administration in
the interim period to mainta. peace
and order Until the new government
takes oven administration.