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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15
ESTABLISHING CONTOURS = MARCH

ing to try out strip cropping one
hundred percent and if it proves
to be a good conservation prac-
tice he plans to use this type of
farming altogether. We feel sure
that MIR. Vaught will be doing
strip farming from now on. In
due time we shall let you know
how MIR. Vaught's experiment
proves out.
MIR. Vaught is also trying six
acre field Of sericea. This field
is being seeded in strips. One
half to be seeded this spring and
one half to be seeded in the spring
of 1946. Mr.. Vaught says that a
good way to know what is the
best practice to follow on your
own farm is to try it out.
c. c. Laws, of the Baldwin
community, is well pleased with
the effectiveness of a contour
diversion ditch which he put in
last year. Mr.. Laws says, cts
hard to realize how much good
this diversion ditch did and was
worth last summer during rain
and hail storm"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15
Soil Erosion Is
Very Destructive
BY J. T. McLAUR1N

It makes no difference where
your land is located, whether it
is steep, rolling or flat, most of
it is subject to attack by erosion.
What is erosion? Erosion is
the gradual "gnawing away OF
soil by wind and water. This
gnawing is done in two ways. The
soil is removed in sheets" over
the entire surface of the land, or
In concentrated channels or gull
lies.
Sheet erosion is the more dan
gerous of the two. It creeps Sc
cretly over the sloping land,
stripping off the top soil, particle
by particle. Rain and wind steal
a thin film of soil over the entire
surface of the land, then another
thin film, and another and anoth-
er. The process may be compar-
ed to tearing sheets off tablet.
AS YOU remove one sheet at a
time you cannot notice that the
tablet has become any thinner.
It is only after many sheets have
been removed that the thinning is
noticed. Every time it rains you
see thick muddy water in your
bitches and creeks, that's your
soil going. Every time blasting
winds pull clouds of dust off your
fields, that's your soil going.
To look at the land, you'd think
nothing had happened. The
fields appear to be the same this
year Is they were last. Crops
still sprout and flourish and are
cut. But the Everlasting hills
are not everlasting.
Years pass. maybe 80, maybe
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15

4 3sKf Z Z OK
TO return to the book, Earth
and High Heaven" the setting is
in Canada where a fine Jewish
young man, studying law and a
modern girl from a so-called
aristocratic English family, fall
in love with each other. He is
not socially received by her fam
lily or friends and her father al
most drives his family insane by
his opposition to a marriage be-
tween them.
But the young man is consider
ed good enough to fight for his
country and finally after the girl
has decided to leave home forev-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15

|er and the Jew renders assistaneR
to her family, the father gives -
but the Jew is leaving for wsr
and may never return to tn
peace and does not want her only
as a living sacrifice"
1t must make Hitler as happy
to know of the growing antipathy
of Jews in America, as it does 20
hear of any rift in the Anglo
American relations between the
two and Russia. However, we
hear on the radio that Hitler has
had to send to a concentration
camp for a Jewish doctor To
treat him.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15

America we now behold the raw
ages of sheet and gully erosion.
Is this happening on your farm?
This isn't a highly complicated
problem to be handled only by
"soil scientists" It is a practical
down-to-earth problem to be
tackled and licked, by men. wom-
en- and children who live on, tend,
and love this American soil.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15
Jewish Problem
Shown In Book
BY Mrs. C.. ID. Neal

In reviewing a book that is
still making news, several months
after publication, it is brought
home to us how little most of us
miss of the dominate thought of
the book, the developing Jewish
problem. Our southland has new
er been intolerant of Jews. In
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-15
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c. T. Vaught says that he is 60
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Indiana Students
Strike to Force
JimcrO Demand

GARY, INDIANA-Several hun
bred striking white pupils from
Froebel high school here, voted
Monday to return to school, Tues
day, in order to qualify for attend
ance at a meeting with the school
board at which their demands for
segregation Of Negro students was
to be discussed.
Meanwhile, the Parents Teach
ers' Association issued a statement
condemning unknown organizers
of racial hatred in Gary" The
statement read in full:
1--WE abhor and condemn the
work of some unknown organizers
of racial hatred in Gary who have
inundated the little boys and
girls, both Negro and white, in
sitting fear of bodily harm to
keep them out of the classrooms
and spreading this fear among the
parents.
"Rumors to the contrary, we de-
clare that there is no evidence
whatsoever that any child has been
injured in any fighting between
races in or around Froebel School"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28

ance.
Claudia Cassidy of the Chicago
Daily Tribune, wrote: cts a sound
ly entertaining play with a punch,
sharply written, faulty directed
with plenty of elasticity at the
seams, and for the most part acted
so well don't quite see how John
Wildberg (the producer) placated
New York with substitutes when he
brought US all that remains-and
that is the solid core-of the cast
that scored such a Broadway sue
cess a full year was not enough
to satisfy the demand for tickets"
&c. AS Anna Lucasta,' Hilda
Simms gives a glowing perform
ance, racy, humorous, tender and
shining. A beautiful girl in the full
sense of the term, she has the easy
way of those born for the stage :"
Henry T. Murdoch in the Chicago
Sun wrote: Gamma Lucasta is as
warm as love, as cold as hate, as old
as sin, and as universal as rain.
1t shows the whiteness of courage,
the blackness of greed and the
tattletale grey of human nature in
between, and we think it adds up
to one of the most dynamic the
atrical attractions we have ever
seem"
g. Hilda Simms realizes
Anna in every respect-brilIiance
of personality and sharpness of
wit -"
Ashton Stevens in the Chicago
Herald-American: "Anna Lucas
ia" is unavoidable. You simply
can't miss it. The collective act
ing is an irresistible force, with
the stab of Hilda Simms' Anna,
and the sock of Frederick o.
Meals frank individuality some
thing to remember good theater
by"
Frances Kirk of Minneapolis re-
Gently signed a contract to take
over as Mrs. Simms' understudy in
the show.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Mrs. Nellie Mccullough
Dies In Seattle Hospital
After Brief Illness

Mrs. Nellie Mccullough, former
resident of Minneapolis, and prom
inent both locally and nationally in
Daughter Elk circles, passed away
early Wednesday morning at a
Seattle, Washington, hospital after
an illness of five days. Death was
caused by a gall bladder ailment.
Mrs. Mccullough, who for Is
years was Grand Recorder of the
Grand Temple of the Daughter
Elks, had just returned to her home
after attending the Grand Lodge
convention held recently in Phila-
delphia. She was the first secre-
tary of Minnehaha Temple of the
Minneapolis Daughter Elks, being
elected to office in 1920. At the
time of her death, she was a mem
Der Of the executive board of Grand
Temple.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs.
Mccullough had not been complet-
ed, Wednesday, but according to
close friends here, the services and
burial will be in Seattle. She is
survived by a husband, Clarence
Mccullough, and two sons, Phillip
and Curtis, all of whom were with
her when she passed away.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28

the armed forces extend over a
much longer period than that in
Dictated in the citation.
"In January of 1912 he volun-
tarily risked his heavyweight box
ing championship for the benefit
of the Navy Relief Fund, and three
months later he did the same for
the Army Relief Fund.
A Model Soldier
"Your service record, Sergeant,
states that you showed yourself to
be a model soldier in all respects
during your period of training, and
a great inspiration to other soldiers
everywhere during the exhibition
tour which followed.
"And since you have been as
signed to the New York Port of
Embarkation it is my firm opinion
that you have made one of the
greatest contributions of all in
helping to develop a reconditioning
program for veterans returning
from overseas.
"This Legion of Merit medal has
been well earned"
Sgt. Louis was indicted into
the Army as a volunteer on jan
uarY 10. 1912.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Sgt. Joe Louis Awarded
Army Legion of Merit
For His Contribution

FORT HAMILTON, N. Y.
(NNPA) - Staff Sgt. Joseph
Louis Barrow, known to fight fans
as Joe Louis, heavyweight cham
pion of the world, was presented
the Legion of Merit last Sunday
for Exceptionally meritorious con-
duct in the performance of out
standing services" in the Army
from August 80, 1913, to October
10, 1914.
The presentation was made by
Major General Clarence H. Kells,
commanding general of the New
York Port of Embarkation, during
the Army Hour, a War Department
radio broadcast over the NBC net
work.
The citation for the award, read
by Gen. Kells's aide, stated:
GAS member of Special Services
Division mission, which toured
through Army camps in the United
States, and the European, North
African, Mediterranean and Italian
theaters of operation, Staff Ser
geant Barrow has entertained two
million soldiers by frequent boxing
exhibitions, which entailed con-
siderable risk to his boxing future
as the champion heavyweight of
the world.
Willingly Volunteered
"But he willingly volunteered
such action, rather than disappoint
the soldiers who desired to see him
in the ring. Whenever possible he
visited the camp and theater hos
pitfalls, and his encouragement to
sick and injured soldiers had
definite recovery value and morale
lift. His services merited and re-
ceived acclaim from ranking COM
manders in the various theaters."
Prior to pinning the ribbon on
Louis's breast, Gen. Kells said:
Before I present this medal, I
should like to make mention that
Sergeant Barrow's contributions to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Minority Groups
Face Very Bleak
Job Outlook

New York (NNPA) - Represen-
tatives of eighty-three organize
tions conferred here all day last
Sunday on Federal Responsibility
for guaranteeing Fair Employment
Practice"
The conference, described as an
educational gathering, was under
scored by a warning from Malcolm
Ross, chairman of the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee, that
minority group workers faced a
bleak outlook in their search for
peacetime jobs.
All Phases Discussed
Four conference panels discussed
all phases of the problem of secur-
ing fair employment practices
legal, social and moral. The dis
cussions began in the morning at
the Hotel Commodore, went into a
luncheon session that lasted until
we'll into the afternoon, and were
continued at a three hour dinner
meeting.
The panel discussion dealt with
four subjects; the legal background
of a Federal fair employment pol
icy; the relation of full employment
and industrial stability to the fight
against discrimination; the infiu-
ence of fair employment on national
unity, and the role of church and
religion in the campaign to do away
with intolerance in industry.
Mr.. Ross spoke at the dinner ses-
sion. At the luncheon, the diff
culties of furthering fair employ
ment practices in the South were
related by Witherspoon Dodge,
FEPC regional director. Other
speakers at the luncheon were DR..
Claiming H. Tobias, Co-chairman
of the New York committee of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, which sponsored the con-
ference; Louis Hollander, head of
the New York State CLIO, and Mrs.
Mary Mcleod Bethune, who pre-
sided.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
HARLEM KID
GANGS NEED
HARD POLICE

Dan Gardner discusses the
grave kid-gangster menace in
New York's Harlem in this is
sue.
Juvenile conditions all over
the country are of great con-
Germ. Mr.. Gardeners word-pic-
ture of the Harlem situation is
interesting. Read Mr.. Gardner
this week.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
UncOvering
Washington
BY Hurry S. McAlpin

EDITORS NOTE; Harry MeAIpln,
head Of the Washington bureau Of the
National Negro Publishers Association,
who regularly writes this column, Is on
his way to the Pacific on an inspection
tour Of Naval bases, with Urban League
executive secretary, Lester Granger.
NNPA will provide guest eolumnist
familiar with the Washington scene in
following weeks. As substitute this
week. we present highlights Of Rsy. c. 7.
r. Nelson's trip to the Capitol City with
the state FEPC deleEatiOn.)
By Rev. Clarence T. r. Nelson
This is the second time this year
that 1 have had the privilege of
writing "the highlights" of a trip
to the nations capital as a member
of a Minnesota delegation working
for a permanent Fair Employment
Practices Committee. The first trip
was made in February with a dele
cation of sixteen persons. There
were eight of US from Minnesota
who attended the national confer
ence of local councils and cooperat-
ing organizations for a permanent
FEPC in Washington, D. G., Sept.
IL, 10.
A word or two about each of the
last group follows: George Phil
lips, who was my roommate at
Carver Hall, made a valuable con-
tribution as the representative of
the Central Labor Union of Min
neapolis. Albert Allen, Jr.,
modest and unassuming, the rep
resentative of the Minneapolis
Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement ot Colored
People, was surprisingly effective
in our conferences with the Repre-
sentatives we contacted. Miss
Elizabeth Moore, chairman of the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Chicago Critics Laud
Hilda Simms as Star
Of"Anna Lucasta''

Chicago.-"Anna Lucasta," the
story of the girl of the streets who
finds regeneration in the love of
a farm boy, was put on view for
Chicago audiences at the Civic the
ater, Monday evening, and critics
found it good play fare. Starring
Hilda Simms of Minneapolis as
Anna" the play got enthusiastic
notices from the press, with the
local girl receiving her share of the
honors for an excellent perform
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28

the deep South.
The Massachusetts court found
the book to be obscene, indecent,
and impure" A dissenting opinion
by Justice Henry T. Luminous as
serted that while the majority opin-
ion seemed to construe the statute
rightly, he did not believe the evil
dence warranted a finding of
guilty.
Six other justices upheld the
action of Judge Edward P. Hanify,
who found Abraham A. Eisenstadt
guilty of possessing an obscene
book with intent to sell and selling
an obscene book. He was fined
800 on each of the two counts
on December 4. His sale of the
book was made for a test case.
COngratulates Court
Congratulating the Massachu-
sets court, Bilbo referred to the
author, Miss Lillian Smith, as 'that
strange-minded lady of the deep
South" He said:
ut is regrettable that hun
dreds of thousands and per-
haps millions of the pure
minded white people of Amer
ica-men, women, boys and
girls-have already been pol
luted and corrupted by the
reading of this dirty and OBJ
scene book, which is an indict-
ment against the South,
gross Misrepresentation of
facts, and a puny attempt to
integrate the American Negro
into the social life of the white
people.
''The only other book which
is worse is Black Boy, by
Richard Wright, a Negro who
is living in New York with a
white wife.
"Of course, it is a we'll
known fact that Miss Lillian
Smith, the author of Strange
Fruit, is the idOl-the pin-up
girl-Of every Negro organ
izatiOn in the United States
that is seeking social equality
with the white race. With a
few exceptions the right-mind-
ed and decent minded white
people Of America who have
any regard for the integrity
of the blood of the white race
have absolute no respect for
her."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
For Your
Reudinq Pleasure

Each week this newspaper offers
the writing of some of the top
local and national writers.
Readable always are such writ
ers as Dan Gardner, Harry Nc
Alpin, Nell Dodson Russell, Villa
Booker, Emma Crews, Donald
Gates and Georgia Russell.
All for your reading pleasure
Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Cpl. Ralph Wilson
Gets Army Discharge

Cpl. Ralph H. Wilson, who has
been in the army since Sept. 9,
1943, is home with an honorable
discharge. He attended Tuskegee
Army Air Force Medical School
and graduated October, 1914. He
received his basic training at
Greensboro, N. c., and also attend
ed the Government Administration
School.
He and his wife, Allie, who re-
sides at S749 Fourth Ave. &c., left
Wednesday morning, September &c,
for three weeks vacation in Iowa
and Kansas City.
Cpl. Wilson plans on getting a
civil service job.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Fred Berry Convicted
On Morals Charges;
Faces Three Yaars

Fred D. Berry, 20, of 533 Du-
pont Ave. No, who was convicted
Wednesday Of accepting the earn
ings of prostitute, may spend the
next three years in prison because
he took SS5 from 2O-year-old girl
The maximum penalty under the
states new little Mann Act calls
for a three-year sentence.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
R. R. Mitchell
Elected to Mmshdll
Pnrant-Tancher Post

S4ASNAA SS@ASS 49,
R. R. Mitchell of 6S5 Carroll
Ave. st. Paul, has been elected LIST
vice-president of the John Marshall
High School Parent-Teachers' AS
ISOLATION.
The first meeting Of the year will
be held in the school auditorium
Tuesday, October 2, at 800 p. m,
and will be an open house affair,
Parents will have the opportunity
of visiting with the teachers in
their classrooms.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
F q s h!
MRS. EDITH
BELL DEAD

Mrs. Edith Bell, 2712 Clinton
Ave-, Minneapolis, who with her
husband, Clarence, were formerly
prOprietOrs Of Bells Cafe, died
Thursday morning at st. Barnabas
hospital Woodland Funeral Home
has charge of funeral arrange
ments.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Walter Smith in Hospital

Walter Smith, 5O41 Humboldt
Ave. No., was taken to Fairview
hospital ill, Monday, September "a.
His condition is reported as i'm
proved. He is the husband of Mrs.
Ann Smith, secretary of the Mime
apois Urban League.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28

Education Committee of the st.
Paul Branch NAACP, showed her
keen interest by taking time from
her vacation in Washington to at
tend the conference both days as
the representative of Eta Chapter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
. Special mention is also due
Miss I. Myrtle Garden, director of
the Halle @. Brown House, who
took two precious days out of her
vacation period and attended the
conference at her own expense. .
Mrs. Ruth Gage Colby, among 9TH
er things the st. Paul co-chairman
of the Minnesota Council for a
Permanent FEPC, served on the
important Strategy Committee,
and was invaluable and indefatiga-
BILE in all of the conferences with
our Congressman. S. Vincent
Owens, executive secretary of the
st. Paul Urban League, with his
expert knowledge of the problems
effecting the Negro and other
minority groups, made his pres
ence felt in conferences with our
Minnesota Representatives.
Jonas Schwartz DIETER known
as "the Colonel" to Mr.. Owens and
mel was the spark plug of the con-
ference Finance Committee of
which he was the able chairman.
In this passing review, the writer
might mention the fact that he was
called upon to open the first session
of the conference with prayer, al
though was "out of bounds" at the
time; I was also asked to write the
Wednesdays news release Of the
conference by Miss Ida Fox, pub
licity director of the National
Council.
At this point, / want to pay
tribute to the members of the
staff of the National Council
for a Permanent FEPC for the
truly great sacrifices they are
making for the cause. A good
illustration of the spirit Of the
women who compose this inter-
racial and inter-faith staff is
the following incident. The
day after the conference 1t
was disclosed by Miss Fox that
for the two days of the con-
ference she was suffering in
tense misery from an abcessed
tooth. Miss Fox neither took
the time to see a dentist, nor
would she tell Mrs. Hedgeman
about it. Il would not tell Ann
about it," Miss Fox said, be
cause she had enough to worry
about" That is the spirit Of
the members of the National
Council staff, all of whom could
be getting larger salaries in
secure positions. Indeed one
of the latest additions to the
staff (Mrs. Taylor) is a young
white woman who resigned a
position as a teacher in lead
ing university to work for
FEPC. Another newcomer to
the National staff is the sec
Rotary of the late Wendell
Willie. You simply can't beat
that kind of spirit!
Members of the National Coun-
Gil are still craving" about chat
Minnesota delegation Of last Feb
ruary." One Of the members of
the national staff said to me in
CONTINUED on Page %
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Strange Fruit Book Ban
Tickles BilbO Who Thinks
Author Is Strange" Too

WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)-Senator Theodore G.
he Mani Blbo, Democrat of Mississippi is pleased with
the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
unfolding the conviction of Cambridge assachusetts)
book store proprietor for selling Strange Fruit" the tragic
novel Of illicit love of white and Negro woman in
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
TOlliver In New Job

James Tolliver, an employee of
the Northwest Airlines midwest
Continental) was recently appointed
to the job of yellow cab starter.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
An Uncle Tom BY Any Other Nome:
Vet Administration Head
Says Some Negro Doctors
Urge Hospital JimcrO

WASHINGTON D. Give Recommendations for
overhaulng of the Veterans Administration sub
mted here last week to General Omar Bradley by NAACP
representatives Walter White executive secretary Jesse
Dedmon Veterans secretary, and Judge William NJ Hastie
chairman of the Associations legal committee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
Elsie Lewis Granted
Divorce From Husband

Elsie Lewis, 1017 Fifth Street
South, Minneapolis, was granted a
divorce this week from Leon Lewis.
She is the former Elsie Carey.