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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
cops FIGHT
CHANGING OF
CONSTITUTION

House Joint Resolution "A"
the state constitution TO
districts such as Detroit
where members are elected at
large, was laid on the table last
week. the N.A.A.C.P learned, be-
cause Republicans have changed
their minds about the measure.
Originally. the measure was spon-
sored by Rep. Eaton OF Plymouth
(R) and was allegedly aimed at
splitting the Detroit Democratic
strength by apportioning the dis
trict.
Under the new proposal, there
is a possibility that Negro voters
could elect two or three members
of the lower house in Lansing.
DETROIT DEMOCRATS In
formed DR. James J. McClendon,
president NAAC.P. last week OF
their opposition TO the measure on
the grounds that ii only applied
TO Detroit and was designed to
weaken their position. The asso-
edition is supporting the amend
ment.
According 10 Tracy Doll, state
representative from Detroit. when
the measure was voted out Of
committee amended 10 include all
districts having legislators elected
at large. III was promptly tabled
by the Republicans :"
Since that time. we OF the
Democratic minority have twice
attempted TO take the resolution
over the table, but have each time
been defeated by the Republicans.
II looks very much like the resp
luton will die on the table"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03

Declaring the late DR. George
W. Carver was an Occidental with
an Oriental mind. Austin Curtis,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
Charges Couple
Took Her 5000

Miss Helen Thomas. "a, 1852
Leach road, Ferndale. told police
that she lost 5000 as she left the
Red Arrow tavern, 705 East Forest
avenue, owned by her father.
She said that a couple in the
tavern saw her hide the money on
her person. Police later arrested
Miss Virginia Smell, %, 1860 Gar
field, whom they held for investi-
CATION OF robbery. not armed.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
Carver Praised By
Former Star Pupil

enable students who have begun
work at the college TO continue.
James HarkleSs rendered two vo-
cal solos which we're well received,
and Gloster Current introduced the
speaker.
Prather J HauSer, executive sec
rotary Of the ST. Antoine branch,
announced that Edgar Guest, poet
Of the Detroit Free Press. would
be guest speaker at the YMCA
forum this week.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
SAVES FUEL

WASHINGTON Edward Falck,
director OF the War Production
Board Office OF War Utilities. is
sued a reminder last week that the
Governments brownout program
to turn out UNNECESSARY lighting
TO save coal and other-Searce fuels
IS voluntary conservation cam
paign as well as a mandatory one
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
WARNS DEALERS

Shoe dealers who buy or sell
"odd lot" shoes ration-free during
the temporary ration holiday are
to keep special records of these
transactions, the Office of Price
Administration reminded the shoe
trade this week.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03

former a $ = o.
cate OF d r.
& arV er and
now a resident
Of Detroit, re-
viewed HE life
81 h g great
scientist at the
81. A n o n e
Y VI CA. ! as I
week
Speaking as a
guest Of { h G
West Virginia
Collcgiates. the
young scientist
described I h g
life OF service
.hai DIR Carver
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03

MRS. DUDLEY Is the danghter
81 Rev. and Mrs Leslie 7 Scott,
who formerly lived in Detroit
when he was pastor al Ebenezcr
AVE. church. She Is graduate
o. Howard university and attend
ed I.oyola and George Williams
universities in Chicago, III. She
graduated from Northeastern high
gChool.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-03-03
Colored Troops Warmly Received By English People
DEAN HARVEY SPEAKS

sc o T l. A N ID WILLIE, La. -
(SUNS) - Martin L. Harvey.
Southern University dean of men,
spoke to Louisiana State univer-
sity students last Sunday at vesper
services in the Methodist Student
Center.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Tax Revision - But How

John w. Bricker campaigned the coun- try for Vice President in the last election and he made such favorable impression that we are likely to hear about him again in the next national Republican conven- tion. He made state ment few days ago that is significant, because it is true. It was to the effect that reviSions in the American system of taxation that elim- mate clements which stifle individual ini- tiative and impose overlapping of tax powers between Federal and State Gov ernment are absolutely imperative. Gov ernor Bricker stated something that we all know when he said that the national debt accumulated as result of prewar spending will be "serious burden and drag upon our prosperity"
 He believes that taxes come from pro- duction, and he says that if we have the intelligence to put first things first, we will devise system of taxation that will encourage production. This writer has found it necessary to go away from home to learn the news, and couple of us have put this item together in a Washington newspaper office as part of our con fusion concerning "Tax Revision - But HOW?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
The Black Market

The United States Senate seems to be getting nowhere fast in it's investigation of the Nations black market in meat, and how prices can be adjusted to fit with production.
 The politicians and newspapers have suspended the old habit of giving packers the devil The OPA officials have been facing the music" and Senator Wheeler, who always talks the straight Montana language, says that OPA is asleep at the switch, and that while it's amateurs" work on enforcement problems the black markets are pulled off right under their noses" Senator Wherry of Nebraska de- clares the black market is so prevalent in Washington that anybody who wants to pay 75 cents pound for chicken can get it." Those are opinions of two of the highest men in the Legislative Branch of Government. The OPA and its head men tell an entirely different story.
 The discussion isn't much different from that going on at meat and grocery counters in thousands of stores in thou sands of towns and cities of the United States, where most people are patient and patriotic, hoping day after day that the Federal management of food problems in Washington will get things strengthened out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
No More Parties?

Passage by the House in Hartford this week of the bill eliminating the party lever on voting machines was a partial victory for those who don't like our pres ent form of party government, although most of the people who have supported this legislation were elected themselves in this fashion. However, the House vote does not insure passage of the bill by the Senate. It faces quick death there and this session of the Legislature, thus will not be credited with bringing about a radical reform in our methods of elect ing men and women to public office.
 The Hartford Courant rather throws 1t in the face of Democrats of Connecti- cut to get this measure approved. In a recent editorial the Courant said this in connection with the pending Senate action: The Senate, which prates about its 'progressiveness' and liberalism under it's Democratic auspices, certainly ought to show as much intelligence in this matter as the lower branch has shown. There is a suspicion in Dem- ocratic ranks that the House wouldn't have voted as overwhelmingly for the proposal, if it didn't think that the Sen ate would overthrow the bill And the House is under Republican auspices.
 The mere fact that in New York state they have done away with the party lever on voting machines isn't proof positive that we want to do the same here in Con- necticut In New York City, too, they have P. R. or proportionate representa- ticn, which is supposed to be modern method of securing election of men and women on their merits and not because they're members of certain political party. There is considerable doubt, both expressed and silent as to the advant- ages of this system over the former. And the1e are those ofus in Connecticut still far from convinced that elimination of party levers is as good as it is claimed to bA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

sion plan shouldn't he given equal stand ing in fact as well as in theory. Or, should we assume now that we must ex- pect Co pay (by way of taxes) for more efficient and benign government of the future?
 The subject, as stated, is one of numer- ouS ramificationS. It could be discourSed on for long time. We feel, however, that the conduct of all present proponents and opponents alike at Thursdays hearing was so exemplary that the city will not find itself Saddled by incompetent and excessively burdenSome legislation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

rels and chewed greedily on raw flour. Others rushed about picking small pieces of food refuse of the floors and wolfing them hungrily
 It is true that the Germans have never professed to look on Russians with as much respect as British or American prisoners. But conditions in camps holding American prison- CTS were almost equally bad. The Geneva prisoner -of-war convention, signed in 1929, explicitly provides that the food ration of prisoners of war shall be equal in quantity and quality to that of Ca signatory nations own) troops at base camps" But the Germans treated this solemn undertaking with as much contempt as any other scrap of paper"
 Yet few would have expected much else from Hitler,S Reich, 30 that this development is not sur- prising. What the incident does show with new emphasis is that a considerable food supply will have to be granted by the Allies to lib- erated peoples until these peoples get on their feet again. This period of extreme need will not extend much beyond the time when coun- tries like Russia can make the first of their own postliberation crops. But until that time we will be deal- ing not with food shortages among Allied peoples, not with food priva. tion. We will be dealing with starv. ation. Who among us will be So cal. lous as to protest the modest reduce tions in our own food supply need ed to meet such suffering?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Views Of The Press
GLORY IN A SMALL PACKAGE
(New York Herald Tribune)

Military history proves again and again that victory can come in small packages and that prowess in the field is not to be reckoned by yard stick. Napoleon, Nelson, Grant, Give, Lord Roberts - whether in command or fighting in the line, such list can be longer than the human inches that are never the measure of mans will to fight or his skill in combat. Only 5 feet 5 inches of smiling cockiness and pol ished shooting irons, only 127 pounds in weight, even with all his artillery aboard, Major James V. Johnston, of Portland, Ore, had seemed indestructible to the. 84th Infantry Division. The number of Germans he had accounted for in his colorful "three-gun" career be- came legendary record. In one at- tack he was credited with twenty killed and eighty-eight captured. Wherever there was shooting the twenty -eight-year-old major was in range of the bullets.
 Major Johnston is dead - but 1t took direct hit from an 88 to kill him. It happened in the last battle before the 84th Division reached the Rhine His battalion, to a man believes thatt here are many more Germanes alive today because Ma jor Johnston lost out in a duel with an 08 Some one will inherit the submachine gun and the sawed-off shortgun he kept in his jeep. NO one can inherit his more than S feet 5 inches of fighting glory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
City Pensions

The public hearing of Thursday on the three proposed pension bills for the city has revealed the problem of arriving at an equitable pension plan for Water bury as complex and diverse one. By an equitable solution we refer to one favorable to the rights of employees and the rights of the citys taxpayers. It is to the credit of all proponents of the three bills heard Thursday that their common purpose was one of fair adjustment even though different courses were chosen in by each to attain that goal.
 The merits of any one of the three particular bills as dominant over the other two is subject we cannot touch editorially because of the lack of space. The problem is the attainment of plan suitable to the majority. This was rec Ognized in all bills as presented at the Hartford hearings. Just what that plan should be we don't know.
 The plan set forth by the Commission approaches the problem as one which cannot be avoided or minimized. It sets forth the cost to the employees and the city'S taxpayers in dollars and cents as to what the city'S moral and material pension obligations must cost. It offers no alternative because the facts up- turned in it's investigations close the door to alternatives.
 The bills proposed by the firemen and policemen, jointly, and that set forth by a group of general employees approaches the problem of the employe rather than that of the latter plus the taxpayer. While the taxpayers problem is taken into con- Sideration within the framework of these two bills the support of the bills is pre- dicated upon the needs and rights of the employees. This is perfectly fair inaSmuch as such a plan affects the employees SO accurately.
 The city administrations stand whereby it favors the Commissions plan in prin- ciple but considers its proposed annual appropriations as excessive at this time is a juStifiable stand insofar as consider ations of the taxpayer and budgetary balance is concerned. As pointed out by the Mayor such factor as tax rate in- crease brought on by adjustment to the terms of the plan might disrupt entirely the city's postwar plans. While the more immediately necessary phases of such a plan would be accomplished despite the extra load, the general postwar program already reported on in this paper as a meritoriouS plan would lose it's factual essence and become more or less of hit or miss proposition. Of course in reply 6 such an altruistic consideration there must be given consideration then to the W1oblsm of whether or not . proper pen
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

Schumann, shook his head and de- clared that the composition was al- most totally lacking in value.
 Today we hear it played mad our hearts fairly stand still with rapture. It seems to have everything that one can desire in good music. The judg- ment of that day, given by people who knew what they were talking about, was a few generations later, almost unanimously reversed. This makes us wonder if today we are not blind to certain beauty, tolerant of certain devastating evil" which will cause future generations to look back upon us and our judgments with amazement.
 What will people say . hundred years from now of a generation that went through two world wars with In few years of each other? What i'll they say of many of our social
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

Revenue Office up from last on the efficiency list to near the first.
 When word of his appoint
 ment leaked out, there was a sour political reaction. RooSe-
 welt was accused of putting a ward -heeler in as tax cOmmis- siOner. However. Henry Mor- genthau, though extremely sem Sitive about criticism, stood by
 him like a rock. MOrgenthau
 had had his Treasury sleuths investigating Hannegan from top to bottom, couldn't find a thing wrong.
 Hannegan battled through his confirmation fight in the Sen- ate, but after he won, he want ed to quit He told Senator Truman that he had been vindi- cated and that he didn't want the job anyway. In the end, he agreed to stay on a year.
 Meanwhile, Democratic leaders, night course on tax law, worked night and day, and spent his weekends inspecting branch of- fees. According to Morgenthau, who is tough tax man himself. Hannegan was the toughest Re- venue Commissioner ever to serve in the Treasury Department ROOSEVELTS TAX TROUBLES
 One day while at the White House, Roosevelt tossed him tax return and asked him to make out his income tax. He said the President of the United Stat es couldn't afford to make mis- take on taxes and he. needed good man to make it out for him. Hannegan returned few days later with tax expert, but was told Roosevelt wanted to see him alone.
 So Hannegan sat down with the President and they made
 out his tax return together.
 Meanwhile, Democratic ledaers, fishing around for a new Chair man of the National Committee, and receiving 8 turndown from Judge Sherman Minton, turned to Hannegan. Calling him over to the White House, Jimmie Byrnes said: Frank Walker wants you to be Chairman
 By that time, 1t dawned on Hannegan that the tax meetings with FDR had been for the pur- pose of sizing him up. That night he and Mrs. Hannegan worked out little speech he would give the President declining the job. And on the way to the White House day or two later he re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

Pari-mutuel betting on horse races is about to move northward in New Eng land Maine is about to take the fatal plunge and accept this means of increas- ing state revenues. It's strictly this, according to the Maine solons who may be bit disturbed that this step of theirs may find the racing elements proclaim ing that as Maine does on pari-mutuelS the nation likewise is bound to do. Maine officials claim that if they don't create new form of revenue there will be half a million deficit in the state budget. And the anticipated revenues from race-tracks and legalized betting would plug this hole very nicely. So it looks as if Maine New Hampshire, and Massachusetts may be the northern paradise for the horses and their followers in the days to come, when racing is again not under the ban.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

State Tax Com. Walter Walsh was giv- ing report on various forms of Connec- ticut revenue before legislative com- mittee this week and the interesting fact was dropped that only one form of in- come showed an increase during March unincorporated business taxes. Every thing else dropped - liquor, cigaret, bus, amusements taxes, etc. That's not too surprising in these days. The one form of local taxation that holds up is the property tax, for which enviable records of collection are being shown by cities and towns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

hearsed the speech carefully.
 When he walked into the exc cutive office, however, FDR said:
 Come over here, MT. Chair man, I want to be the first to shake your hand. am sure you are going to do bang-up job as head of the National Committee"
 Hannegan started to humble his little speech. but the Presi- dent wouldn't even listen. After he left the White House, however, H Hann egan literally bombarded Roosevelt with letters telling him what a poor Chairman he would be. how good he was as Internal Revenue Commissioner, and how he owed it to the country to re- main where he was.
 The letters gave Roosevelt big laugh, and he sucked Hannegan in a little deeper by giving him the first tip that he would run for 4th term.
 MISSOURI WATCHDOG
 The rest of the story of Bob Hannegan, how he helped sel: Roosevelt on Truman, how he put Truman across at Chicago, is too fresh to need retelling here Sinc6 elections, Hannegan has put across one thing which not even Jim Farley ever did successtully-he badgered Roosevelt into announc- ing before a full Cabinet meet ing that future political appoint mentS must clear with Hanne- gan. Even lifelong Republican Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, smiled and promised to comply.
 Hannegan's chief fault from a national viewpoint is that he believes no Republican can serve as efficiently in office as Democrat - though he will con- cede that a Republican who voted for Roosevelt is not so bad. His virtues are that he
 is scrupulOusly honest, loyal, frank, indefatigable in whatever he sets out to do, calls a spade a spade, and has that Jim Far ley quality of sticking to his word.
 In addition-and this is all- mportant-Hannegan is so wor- ried that the man he helped make President may stub his toe, that he, Hannegan, has already become the No. 1 watchdog against the Missouri gang or any others bent on plunder.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Cerebral Hemorrhage

From 8 study of forty patients with essential Apprehension (very high blood pressure in persons who, so far as standard tests or exam nations show, have no other path ological sign) Drs. R. D. Taylor and Irvine H. Page, Indianapolis, inferred that the following five signs and symptoms consistently occur when cerebral hemorrhage Ca stroke of paralysis) impends:
 l. Severe occipital or nuchal (nape of neck) headaches.
 2. Vertigo Sensation of things whirling around) or syncope daint- ing).
 3. Motor or sensory disturbances.
 4. Nosebleeds.
 5. Retinal hemorrhages (1ninute ex- travaSations of blood in the back of the eye, which may be seen only with the retinoscope).
 hope that citing these facts here will do more good, in the way of prevention, than harm by giving anxiety or alarm to any one who should not be alarmed for his or her own sake.
 Any one who is or thinks he is subject to very high blood pressure (160 or over) owes it to himself or herself to have physician examine the retina at 1esat once 8 year for signs of minute hemorrhages from the arterioles which are visible through the retinoscope. Even if there is no sign of such retinal temorrhages, the visibility of the arterioles enables the physician to judge to what degree the patients arteries have become sclerotic or harneded the changes in the arter- ies are visible there long before hardening of the arteries becomes evident to outward appearances or to general examination.
 The average age of the 19 pa- tientS who died of cerebral hem orrhage was 46.8 years. As already mentioned, all of these had most of the five signs or symptoms men, toned, and as nearly as could be determined the total duration of the Apprehension had averaged 9 years, varying from 4 years in one case to 19 years in another.
 Of the forty patients with essen- tial hypertension, twenty were men, twenty women. Of the nineteen pa tients who succumbed to stroke, were women, twelve men. There may be such thing as es-' sential Apprehension or very high blood pressure existing for many years without the development of any other pathological sign or symptom. But If you ask me, say persistent or constant high blood pressure is pathological whether you call 1t essential or not, and am trying to tell you in these talks what there is to do about it.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

States Is appear ing in the forth c o m ing April i s s u e of t h e George Washing ton Univ e ersity Law Review. Pulp lication of this opinion may have
 important b e ar- ing on s e n 8 t e Foreign Relations Committee on- sideration of the
 post war inter- national c i V i l aviation conven- ksA~. I.A- L
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21

practices? Will they laugh at our remedies and panaceas
 The only way we can be sure of escaping the condemnation of future generations is to build on certain principles which are right in every age.
 All Rights Ressrved-Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-21
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 344 Q. m. (war time)
 Sun rises SOS a. m; sets 7:37 p. m. (war time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- uteS after sunset. Nature has a way of compensation. Take this season, for example. There have been warm spells sufficient to advance vege- tation beyond normal growth. Now we are getting cold spells to rstard growth and restore normalcy.