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Threat to BIS
(Washineton Post)

Washington PosD
 With feeling of dsmay mingled with -incredulity. We read that Secretary of Labor Schweenbach has deporaby low opinion of the work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics According reports, he considers the work too academic" and is prepared to revamp or abolish the entire agency Reorganization of the bureau may be desirable in view of the administrative confusion created by the war. But whatever other changes are made trust the bureau will not be deprived of it's academic" character. To say that
 academic is only to say that it's findings are presented in objective fashion with view tc providing information that may serve guide to policy The bureau carefully avoids functioning propaganda agency employing statistics to push spec fife programs Therein lies it's value
 We had opportunity to discover the importance
 that leaders of organized labor attach to the findings of the BIS when the CIO challenged the validity of the BIS cost of living ndices than year ago. The bureau emerged from that conflict with its repu' tation for conscientousness and honesty enhanced. It's findings and it's methods were subjected to the scrutiny of of the Nations best known statis- tcians who concluded that it's index provides "an acceptable approximation of recent changes in living costs" That is high praise from statisticians
 Of course, the index could be greatly improved; it's imperfections candidly admitted Most of them are the result of limited funds and limited personnel It is interesting to note, showever that the rival CIO living cost computations did not fare as well as those of the BLS at the hands of critics who discovered many technical mperfections apart from the fact that the study suffered because of the bias shown by investigators bent proving the need for wage boosts.
 Contrary to the familiar saying that facts do not lie facts are often highly deceiving They can be employed to confound an opponent by adroit selection of particular items that support par ticuar thesis That is the almost inevitable result of putting statistical work under the direction of individuals whose minds are fixed on uterior ob-
 ectves rather than concentrated the task of doing first rate statistical job That is why approve the academic air that hangs about the Bureau Of Labor Statistics. It does not imply any lack of knowledge of working class problems on the part Of the bureaus experts but rather on ability to view those facts and interpret them with a necessary detachment.
 If this reporting service should ever fall into the hands of statiscians trained in the methods of the CIO and AFL it will surely forfeit its well-earned reputation as impartial source of information In so concluding do not mean to imply that the statistical work of labor organizations is inefficient unreliable for their own purposes. However, 1t IS the work Of individuals who statistics to further the interest of particular class Such activities are quite legitimate and they often serve useful purpose provided their limitations understood At the same time they not methods suited to the needs of governmental agency
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20 YEARS AGO {yGm fMr EMPIRE
AUGUST 3, 1925

AUGUST 3, 1925
 defeated or the City In inning loaded hit left field for bases and another three hits and poor should had Skagway bound had 112 tons of liquor interior.
 making the round stka aboard Admiral Rogers.
 Eighty Reedy. aboard the Admiral Watson. ...., MT of aboard the Clara J. to Island picnic.
 visiting in Juneau for several days his aboard the Admiral Rogers reached Yakutat reued and then left Seward
 the feature the Palace and Don't Call Love" the Coliseum.
 Weathe report: High, low, 49; cloudy.
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Burton had been adviser to the ce-prominent demagogue Father Charles Coughlin. Burton was also a legal adviser to a coalition of patriotic" societies which included the most dangerous of the various "nightshirt" groups in this country.
 Instead of rushing to the House floor with his findings, however, De Lacy went to ub-Committee Chairman Thomson, related that he had this information and asked whether he should submit it to Thomson in the form of a letter
 Are you sure of your facts, D Thomson asked De Lacy said he was.
 Well, I'm sure not going to put up my shoulder to protect anyone with Nazi connections" Thonason replied. If you've got your facts nailed down so you're sure of them, you go on the floor and make a speech about it. I want to hear it.
 That is exactly what De Lacy did But almost no one knew at the time that he was talking with approval of the Chairman of the subcommittee whose counsel he was attacking.
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ARMY COMMUNISTS?

The other day a subcommittee of the House Military Affairs Com mittee, with sensible Representative Ewing Thomson of Texas at it's head, released a report on the rec crds of 16 Army officers investi- gated as possible Communists. The report was the work of Attorney Ralph Burton, Counsel for the Military Affairs Committee and close adviser to Chairman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky.
 The Army and even Gen. William Donovan of the Office of Strategic Services immediately issued state ments lauding the military records of the 16 men involved.
 Representative Hugh Le Lacy, scrappy first-termer from Seattle, became interested in certain things he had heard about Counsel Burton, and did some researching He verified Burton's connection, as counsel, with Kurt Wilhelm Lu- Number Two American Nazi and founder of the American Ma tional Socialist Party more than 10 years ago. He found also that
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HOUSING PROSPECTS

Who is going to build the millions of new homes the country will need in the years immediately suc- ceeding the defeat of Japan? How this question is answered can affect materially the economic future of America for a long time to come
 The nub of the question is whether the gigantic rehousng task shall be, primarily, series after another of large-scale government projects made possible by priorites that will preclude private in- dustry from getting building materials promptly
 This dilemma the cloud over the recent con- ference of the Home Builders Council of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut The conference was particularly noteworthy for the compexy of interests represented by the 1000 who attended, including builders architects land developers realtors mortgage bankers and other leaders building property. They were all highly resolved that unless definite state were taken now against the impetus public housing projects already have gained which threatens greatly to increase federal government will virtually have preempted the building field.
 3 According to the advocates of statsm-and they are belgereny vocaprces of land, costs of financ- ing and high taxation will continue to make public housing necessary after the These building conferees took the opposite view They maintained that assured building materials, they could do the housing job at lower cost than the government
 Undoubtedly the building industry has profited
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HOROSCOPE E "The stdrs incline
 bat do not compel"
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1

Adverse aspects are active today which has a threatening sway over labor. Strikes arousing public re- sentiment again are presaged.
 HEART AND HOMF
 Women are under fortunate sway today. Girls may expect TO- nance but their judgment of men may be untrustworthy. Home in- terests will be most rewarding under this configuration. It is an auspic- ious date for informal entertaining
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS
 Secret commercial pacts will cause international difficulties. Again cartels will tempt Americans to seek great profits. Trade will present in- tricate problems and tariff issues will bring heated debates in Con- gress. The stars seem to encourage freer conditions beneficial to Eu- ropean countries.
 NATIONAL ISSUES
 Punishment of vanquished enem- ies will continue to be discussed. The seers remind that the new or der must be built on strong founda- tions-revenge cannot replace jus tice Germany must now pay for retraying the faith of all civilized nations.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
 In the Philippines rapid rehabili- tation is forecast under benefic in- fluences of Jupiter and Mars. There is a sign that indicates definite aid to the United Nations by Russia in the Japanese war.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of changes of environ ment and occupation in the coming year. General good fortune is fore cast.
 Children born on this day probably will be strong in body and brilliant in mind, Many will have extra ordinary intuition and personal mag netism.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

That story is shy" Say, hat S UNRELIABLE Cor QUESTTONABLE)!"
 OFTEN Masculine. Pronounce the as in he as n LINE
 NdISSPEILED: Program; preferred to PROGRAMME
 prevalent everyday common customary.
 three times and it is yours Let us IodayS LAMENT; softly Those only beautiful which planets anoent luminous but sparkling. g.'-Longfellow
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CAPITOL CHAFF

The man who most wants Sen- ator Burton of Ohio appointed to the Supreme Court is Ohios ex- Governor John Bricker As long as Burton remains in the Senate, Bricker is stymied AS three-term Governor of Ohio, he can't very well go back to that job again. He can't go backward, he must go forward, and Burton's present place in the Senate is the only out. Ohio politicos say Bricker could beat any interim Democrat Cover nor Lausche might appoint Some even say Lausche is so anxious to curry COP favor that he might appoint Bricker himself to Bur tons seat in the Senate Ad- miral King, Admiral Leahy, the heads of AFL and CIO have joined with the leaders of veterans or ganizationS and thousands of news papermen to set up. an Ernie Pyle AtiilOl ldl. It VIII Jc lOO-dCl t farm near Ernie's birthplace in h. diana to serve as his last resting place. Best tribute of the year to the U. s. A. came from this country's genuine good neighhor, Paulo Hasslocher, Brazilian Min
 ister to Panama Toasting the
 United States on July 4, he said Let me congratulate you OF the second greatest date in history
 U. s. officials immediately asked
 what the first great date in history
 was. Replied Hasslocher: "Decem-
 Der 25."
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The aShington Merry Go Round
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hundred or so old friends who had waited to see nm on the lawn of the Sermon home.
 He shook hands with everyone.
 Next morning, one of the local papers carried a story about the reception and told how in shaking hands with the seven-year-o old daughter of J. Marcus Kirtley, As- sistant Counselor for the Jackson County Court, the President had said:
 I'm particularly happy to meet you"
 Reading this quote in the paper next morning, Mrs. Truman went to the telephone and called up many of her friends who also had children. Knowing that they had probably read what her husband had said to the Kirtlev child, she told them:
 T just wanted you to know that the President was happy to meet your children too'
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

Every mothers son west of the Mississippi River--and some east are making moves to get the Cabinet job of the toughest, most fearless member of the FDR Cab inet-Harold Ickes. Jim Patton of Denver, head of the Farmers Union, is one of them. Another is genial Governor Bob Kerr of Okla homa, who led the switching of delegates to Truman during the Chicago Convention. However, Harold the Ick" may fool em.
 Over 2,000 Spanish Loyalist families are now stranded in France, unable to return to Franco's domain, their men killed in an anti-Fascist war where they never admitted defeat Governor Lehman's UNRRA finally has decided to help them, though it will be on a small scale.
 Generals of the Services of Sup ply were having special meeting at Camp Grant, Ill, special train ing center for the Medical Corps While Gen Virgil Peterson, former Inspector General, now Director of Personnel, was speaking, he sud- denly sank to his seat, victim of a stroke. Gen. Norman Kirk, Sur geon General of the Army, and his deputy, Gen. Raymond Bliss, were at hand and took care of him They summoned an amhnl3nce. But imagine their chagrin when the Army ambulance supplied by the Medical Corps at it's own chief training center nta inc d no stretcher .. The British Embassy staff in W sh inc gton is going through it's most drastic shakeup since l939 Jock Balfour. who served here IT years ago, has been transferred back to Washington from the British Embassy in Moscow Following him will prob ably come Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
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THE 5 O'CLOCK SHADOW

Oregon's hard-hitting, rapid fire talking Republican Senator Wayne Morse got the reputation of being the Senate's five o'clock shadow during the recent debate on the United Nations Charter.
 Every day, promptly at D. m regardless of what was happening Morse arose and delivered a fiery blast against the OPA, because of the meat situation and the prob- lens of the farmers in his native state
 Even a few minutes before the crucial vote was taken on the charter itself Morse arose and de- livered his daily assault. Every time he took the floor, observers noted the clock reached the stroke
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LOOK and LEARN sy ay. c. GORDON

bridge in the world? first gasoline? il something rotten Denmark the o s vobscum'?
 ANSWERS the River City, Colorado; 1,O52 feet above the river Oregon, in 1919 2. Hamlet 4. Napoleon I
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MODERN ETIQUETTE 'Y RoRERrA LEE

asked girl for permission to call and she has other timer
 entirely the in which she refused his judgment whether the girl realy extend the friendship
 Is children adults? excellent training Welbred parents should do opportunity.
 O. place butter knife the butter plate? q A. Dagonaly rim of the plate
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greatly from it's experience in dwelling construc- ton during the and has through wide employ ment of new materials and techniques overcome many of it's former handcaps The situation is not, there fore without indications that more better and cheaper homes may be built after the than before.
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BRITISH BLACK LIST

Attention Ernest Bevin, new British Minister of Foreign Affairs Take a good look at the British Black List and the way your pre- decessors in the Churchill Govern ment were trying to keep a di- rector of l. G. Farben off that list He is: Arpad Plesch, who not only was a director of Hitlers largest cartel, but attempted some inter- esting financial transactions in Switzerland. For some reason, the Churchill Government rem mov e Flesch's name from the Black List though the U. s. Treasury vigor- cusly opposed. It's worth looking into, MT. Bevin.
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of five. So they called Morse the Senate's five o'clock shadow"
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to replace Lord Halifax as Am bassador
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Adverse aspects are active today which has a threatening sway over labor. Strikes arousing public re- sentiment again are presaged.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-13
NEW Y. w. C.. A.
Director Feted

Miss Lille Belle Walker, newly
appointed Executive Director of the
Jackson YWCA Civic Tea at the
Summers Hotel last Sunday, Sep
TENDER 80, during which the register
recalled the largest attendance OF
any such event in the history OF the
city.
The featured speaker on the pro-
gram which lasted from 4 to p.
m. was Miss Walker, who saw the
possibility of great good in the work
Of the local YWCA group in the
development of the three point pro-
gram which included building and
educational program for the deve-
lopment and enrichment of the in
dividual: I'd Serving girl and wom-
EN- in various forms of individual
adjustment. CD Working as Social
factor or movement for better
society.
Other speakers on the program
were: Miss Jean McGillivray, execu-
tive director Jackson YWCA. S. w.
Miller, I. S. Sanders, Mrs. NJ. M.
Hurbert, chairman YMCA Board.
The musical program included
solos by Miss .Elna Slaughter, Mrs.
James Elkins, N N Woods, Oscar
Wolf and Mr. 2. A. Barron and an
instrumental number by Mrs. Au-
relia Young.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-13
By PERCY GREENE


PARISH STREE SATURDAY
NIGHT: On the way back from
up at Tougaloo College the other
day we go back into the city limits
on North State Street, just at the
time when the school, on what
they used to call the Asylum Hill
when I was a boy, was turning
out. 1t happened to be a white
school though it looked as it did
when I was boy that it would be
a Negro neighborhood to the end
of history
The charming lady whose COM
pany I was enjoying with a COM
panion remarked with what at
tention the Police officer there
guarded the school children as
they crossed the busy thorough
fare. And it's a sort of surprise
to me that the boys brought UP
such subject as we gathered
around our Fish and Beer Satur-
day Night.
As one of the fellow pointed
out Mill Street is a fast traffic
street out at the corner OF Ash
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-13
Moving Picture
Show At Central


On Saturday evening, october ID,
at 7:3O o. m. at Central Methodist
church, a movie entitled Youth for
the Kingdom" will be shown. This
movie was made especially for the
Lutheran Laymen's League and is
being shown at Central Church by
the Rev Wedig, pastor of Our Re-
deemer Lutheran Church.
The picture will be of especial in
terest and value to parents, teach
ers and others in the city interested
i'll the vital program of juvenile
protection.
1t deals with the problems Of
juvenile delinquency and suggests
worthwhile activities which might
help to cure these problems.
All churches and civic-minded
persons are urged to be present and
give their support to this program
There will be no admission charged
A silver offering will be taken for
the expense Of the film.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-13
CANTON NEWS

Mrs. Earnestine Brewer Stokes
left recently for Flint, Michigan,
where she and her husband will
make their new home. Mrs. Stokes
took along with her the lovely
twins, Carline ana Carl.
Pvt. Marian L. Nash and Miss
Genade Archie were the recent
dinner guests of Mrs Corinne N.
Blackman, mother of Pvt. Nash.
Pvt. Nash has Just returned from
overseas where he spent one year
Of combat service. He has spent
three years in the army.
Cpl. Robert Ackson has returned
home after spending 80 months
overseas. He is the husband OF
Mrs. Robert Lee Ackson of Can
ton, Miss.
Pvt. Reginald Divine spent the
weekend with his family and many
friends after enjoying a pleasant
week which his sister, Mrs. Vernell
Divine Moore spent with him at
New Orleans, La.
Hickory Street IS proud to have
back the smiling faces of both
Mrs. Hattie Mclaughlin and Mrs.
Flora D. Parrish, who have been
away on their vacations. Mrs. Nc
Laughlin was out in California,
while Mrs. Parrish was spending
some time with friends and her
family out in Portland, Oregon.
R. V. Prichard, reporter.
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Myles Promoted
I'm Manila

MANILA-Hugh Myles of l414
Everett Street, Jackson, Miss, was
recently promoted to the rank of
Technical Sergeant.
He attended LINER High School
in Jackson, Miss. His civilian trade
prior to entrance into the Armed
Forces was that of a butcher.
Overseas for the past ten months,
Sgt. Myles is entitled to wear the
Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with one
battle star for the Biak, Neither
lands East Indies campaign, Philip
pine Liberation Ribbon and Good
Conduct Ribbon.
Ee has served with his unit on
Biak, Mel and Manila, Philippine
Islands.
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Regiment, an all-colored outfit. At
ter three months at Fort Custer,
Mich, he was assigned to Camp
Butner, N. c. as first sergeant of
Headquarters Battery, 930th Field
Artillery Battalion, later redesig-
mated the 1699th Combat Engineers
with which he remained until as
signed to service company at
Charleston, S. c., in the spring of
1914, moving from there to Fort
Jackson, August 2, 1914.
Sgt. Bohannon left for Chicago
over the week end where he will
spend some time with his wife and
two sons who reside at 1547 Langley
Avenue. Later, he will move into
Detroit to conduct food serving
establishment, in which he has an
investment, residing at TIA Joseph
Campeau. photo by U. S. Army
Signal CORPSE
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WINDS UP IA YEARS IN THE
ARMY - Bearing letters of h G h
commentator from five amy Off
crs with whom he had served, LIST
Sgt. Murvin H. Bohannon, erst-
while topkick of Headquarters and
Headquarters Detachment Section
Two, Fort Jackson, S. G. received
his honorable discharge papers this
week, the Public Relations office
announced, ending II years of SER
vice as a first sergeant the last of
three of which have been on active
duty.
Sgt. Bohannon enlisted in the ILL
noiS National Guard at Chicago in
1922 and was member of the
Eighth Infantry CT the 33rd Divi-
sion until 1910. He was promoted
to first sergeant in 193-. In Novem-
Der of 1912 he entered active Ser
vice with the 184th Field Artillery
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UD And Down Parish Street

where the Lanier High School kids
get on and off the bus to and from
school. -. and out at Dalton and
Lynch and where the kids cross
going over to Jim Eill-Sally Rey-
nclds traffic is as fast and heavy
and the topography much worse,
to say nothing of Smith Robinson
school kids crossing Hamilton, and
those of Martin school crossing on
heavily travelled South Street .
but there're no traffic officers. -.
Why?. the fellows wouldn't Just
come out and say, that is from the
point of view of knowing but .
some of them were willing to
bet that the. Parent Teachers
Association. and the School SUI
pervisor. and principals have
never brought the danger to which
the kids are being put each school
day to the proper authorities 49,.
and ask for traffic officers. and
if they haven't. it's time they
ought as one fellow said it would
be awfully embarrassing if a school
kid get run down and killed on
one of the school corners.
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SINCLAIR TO BRING
100 ETHIOPIANS HERE

WASHINGTON - CAMP - Ac-
cording to some informed sources,
the Sinclair Oil company, which re-
Gently made a deal with Halle Sc
lassie, emperor of Ethiopia, for
valuable oil concessions in that
country, will import 100 Ethiopian
young men to this country to be
educated.
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Alex Shaw Dance promoter and
Booker, we'll known here and in
Hattiesburg has been in town for
the last few days just arrived
from Oakland, California, where
one of his dances drew crowd that
ran up to five figures he brings
greeting to friends everywhere from
DR.. Dewitt Buckingham, late of the
Army one time MERIDIAN prac-
tioneer, who is enjoying fine prac-
tice in the California city giving
vent to his spirits "Alex" enter
tanned gay party out at the Blue
Flame the other night -. in it was
James and Mrs. Oliver, Edna Comic
Marcellene Lindsay, Margaret Davis
and Mrs. Tom Wintz of Vicksburg.
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Cold Water News

Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Knight re-
Gently motored to Tennessee to visit
their aunt
Cpl. Harold Brownlee received his
honorable discharge last week. He
spent two years overseas.
Mrs. Jessie Mae Johnson is visit
ing relatives and friends in Ala
bama.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Excl motored
to Nashville, Tenn, last week.
The Crump Sisters were the week
end guests Of their mother and dad
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mormon.
Rev Fowler was the pulpit guest
of Rev Ct. A. Jones, Sunday night
He preached a wonderful sermon.