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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
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"That man is one of my friends,
remarked the novice in public life.
(Which kind?" responded Senator
Sorghum.
Friends, you know, are divided in
to two great classes those whom
you need and those who need yot
Canned Laughter) 2
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

%. Take my yoke upon you, and
earn of me; for l am meek and lowly
in heart: and We shall find rest unto
your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
HOLD THE LINE
BY Ruth Taylor

The other night l heard story
which impressed me so much should
like to share it with you. A teacher
friend of mine had asked the mem
bers of her class to give their indi-
vidual wishes for post war. One
Negro girl said; THAT my people may
hold and merit the gains they have
won
10 me that was one of the finest
and most expressive lines l have heard
ON this important subject for it went
straight to the heart of the problem
Not in any way does it minimize
the right to those gains and yet it
does emphasize the responsibility that
ONES with increased opportunity. The
Header is more to be censured than
the follower when he leads astray, the
cholar when he misuses knowledge.
is by the acceptance of responsible
ty that progress can be made.
Rousseau said: "Never exceed your
lights and they viii soon become I'M
limited" Or as Milton put it: "They
who seek nothing but their own just
liberty have always the right to win
it,"
Yes, this is precisely what the Neg
TO editors have been preaching. They
have done a splendid job in stressing
the fact that the way to hold your
gains is to prove yourself not only
capable in the positions you now hold
but ready for advancement. Gains
for either the individual or the group
call for greater vision and greater
bility, greater duties as well as great
en- opportunities.
The words for crisis and opportun-
ity are the same in Chinese. Let
every crisis be an opportunity to forge
ahead. Prove that you merit vour
gains and you will keep them. Make
virtue of necessity and use this
time to prove that Negroes can and
will make the most Of every oppor-
tunity given them, that as workers
they can not only do their Jobs. but
are cheerful, cooperative and pleasant
to work with In that way can new
gateways be opened and the old gains
made secure.
The tim e of reconversion will be
difficult for every one. Now is the
time to prepare ourselves - first, by
doing to the best of our ability the
jobs we now hold; second, by learning
all we possibly can to prepare US for
better job, and lastly, by cultivating
sense of responsibility tina will
make us dependable, wanted workers.
In this way, may the gains already
won be held and merited new ones
armed
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION no
THE ECHO

We are calling on our subscribers
whose subscriptions have expired to
reno" them. We are confident that
have enjoyed your paper from
= .ime
May we urge the presidents who
feel interested in your official paper
to bring us few subscriptions, new
Of renewals to the March board.
Not only does the Echo go in var
fous sections in the United States but
he goes across the seas to our girls
md boys in the armed forces They
rite MS encouraging letters and are
Had to read the Echo.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
ELDER w. J. JONES INVITES
YOUR PATRONAGE

Elder w. J. Jones, Proprietor of
the Jones Merchandise a ne Barber
Shop, whose shop is located in the H.
3. A. building, invites the general
public to stop in and see his line of
merchandise, as well as patronizing
his Barber Shop.
Elder Jones has a nice clean bus
ness for the public.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
Topic: Triumphant Service
Matthew 1911

{. And when he had called unto
h a mis- twelve disciples, he gave them
pc Rer against unclean spirits, to cast
them out, and to heal all manner Of
s. lkness and all manner of disease.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

We are confident that at least some
portions of this agenda need careful
consideration d enactment in our
next Convention for the protection Of
this Organization for which so many
of us have worked hard to establish.
Many Of us have been criticized be-
cause Of the long years of toll for the
.perpetuature of the H. B. A.
Study the agenda sent to you by
the SecretaEx 50 that you will be able
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

Did you attend church sunday? If
you cannot attend your own church,
please attend somebody else's church.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

MIDGET BIBLE-Smallest Bible In
the world. Contains 200 pages Of
New Testament. Brings good luck.
Soc each. 8 for $1.00. Tupler, 64l1
Hollywood, Hollywood, Calf.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

NGuHt DdSiSt leuuJ WILSON, Amy MIR wary LOU
Williams, Eddie Durham King kodak, Benny Carter
and many other celebrities first came into prominence.
At the Savoy Ballroom Harlem's zootsuiters the in
telligentzia and diversion seekers rub elbows club
with membership big almost as the American
Legion known "The 400 established here
and to them 60 the credit for creating every dance
eraze that the Hertuga end the 5o-oy socks kids
lay claim 70.
The Savoy Ballroom, popularity knowa as The
Track is Harlems claim TO fame Its success is due
y the generosity and genius OF a real gentleman.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09
tive BEEN'' AROUND
Nezg tfY0rks =.
By TED YATES

ID. IN
The Home Of SIapHappy Feet -~%sssss4 -
I've been this spotH
ITS natural would birdseye
reporter have burned thai
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09


house. What goes?
f"
Here at the Savoy Ballroom. Nobody, II
seems, pays any attention guy CARRIED In litter
bug outfit They must think I'm a Square" from
Delaware. But, I'm not going to let it get me down.
No stree!
+ + +
Moving about overhear rangylookng guy telf
ing broad that here is where dances like the Lindg
Hop Big Apple, Susie O. Shorty George and Don't
forget Truckiug!" she cut in.
Yep, the place is like that When you think you've
collared an unhep chick she tells you to latch on
The place is gr0ovy and about four Of five couples
are daucin while the others stand around and grin
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

as Buddy ohn6n OrOh Of (aematng blasts
with popular tune Joe Medln has through sngin Snaa
styled d that had the gals ookn stryeyed The males
look m when this occasion arises They Charles
but vdena the chicks know that wouldn't find
Ounns playmate here So the feers look the chumps
From nine until TWO the place That the
floor jumps hops ps Murray
grabbed betty dusy belle and pgeg started
out to do imitation of cuttin'
loose and down o, six-ootfoar Yates.!
Somebody then boered out raares Ella Fitzgerald" Ii was
like The b
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

Somebody just then hou.red out "Tlere's
like the arrival OF FDR in New YoE the VI,
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

Rousseau said: "Never exceed you
lights and they viii soon become un
limited" Or as Milton put it: "They
who seek nothing but their own JUS
liberty have always the right to wiz
it,"
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-02-09

s. But go rather to the lost sheep
Of the house of Israel.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
Pan.American
Wants Lines
In u. 5. Borders

WASHINGTON, March 20. tUP)
Pan American Always handed a
new problem to domestic airlines
and government agencies trying to
break its strong hold on overseas
air commerce.
The big international airline APP
piled to the civil aeronautics board
for 1878 miles Of routes within the
United States. The routes would
cut deeply into markets of the do
meStic lines which want to extend
their routes overseas.
Pan American proposed routes
between New York and Miami. New
Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco
and Seattle; Chicago and Miami
and New Orleans; Los Angeles and
Seattle.
A representative of the domestic
lines called the Pan American APP
plication an attempt to confuse the
issue with an eleventh-hour threat
which will be recognized as such by
government agencies, congress and
the public
Company officials said they did
not want the domestic routes if %
a chosen or monopoly instrument is
set up or 90 domestic carriers arc
kept out of foreign operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
Swallows Keep
Schedule on
Return Flight /.

SAN JUAN CAP1STRANO, Cal.
March 20. (UP)-The swallows
came back to Mission San Juan
Capistrano Monday-just as they've
done for longer than the memory of
the oldest padre.
Scores of watchers stood in silenccI
before the ancient walls of the mis-
sion. looking into the sky.
There was whir of tiny wings
overhead. Then down the swallows
came, dropping unerringly into the
nests they'd abandoned last year.
There were no sparrows to be
driven out this st. Jcseph's Day
better known as swallow day at the
mission. Some years the sparrows
take over the nests when the swal-
lows leave and have to be routed
out. But there were no sparrow
this winter and the return was
peaceful.
When the swallows were settled
down to their nests, the padres of
Capistrano and their people went to
the chapel to give thanks for the
miracle of their return.
The swallows will stay until their
young are born in June. then leave
as soon az the youngsters learn to
fly.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
Ensign Liebert
Visits Valley

Ensign Wayne M Liebert, who
was born and reared in the Mt.
Signal district and who has been
in the navy nine years, visited
relatives in Imperial Valley rec
entity after more than three years
of almost continuous service in
the Pacific area.
He was at Pearl HarbOr Decem-
Der Z 194l. He saw service in the
SolomonS. New Guinea, took part
in the Coral Sea battle and the
first battle of the MarShalls, was
at Gilbert Islands, and was on
the naval advance on the Philip
pines. Ensign Liebert came through
the whole thing without scratch.
His parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Liebert, who are living at
Alpine now. His wife and two
small children are living in San
Francisco. In Imperial Valley he
has a sister. Mrs. Dorothy Nc
Cain of El Centre, and three
brothers. Lawrence and Tom Lie
bert of e Centro and Harold Lie
bert Of Brawley.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
SOME PHONY FIGURES

clos Angeles TlmeS)
The final report of the Senate cam
paign Expenditures Committee, while
presumably correct and detailed as the
committee could make it, nevertheless
leads to misleading conclusion-so
misleading as to Justify branding its tlg-
ures as phony. This is no fault OF the
committee but results from the limlta-
tions of the Hatch Act which appears to
have so many holes as to present sieve
like appearance.
1t is obvious that committee Whlch
is able to find only that the Republican
National Committee received S2,999,999
and spent So, ,651. while the Demo
cratic National Committee received
So. .562. .7S4 and spent S2,056 III, while
it estimates the total expenditures IN
the campaign as in excess of S23,0O0,ooO
probably several millions in excess
does not tell the public much that is use
full. For it does not specify the eXpend-
itures of the various polltlcal-actlon
committees and pressure groups, nor list
what was spent by State and local Or
ganizatlOnS.
The senate committee appears to SHOW
the Republican party as spending more
than the Democratic in the 1914 cam
paign. which is so far from the truth
as 70 be ludicrous. For the special com
mittees and pressure groups such as the
freely spending PA.C of the CLIO. were
all on the side of Mr.. Roosevelt, as every
body knows. Unless the law can be a
mended to cover all expenditures 1t is
no l 1SpfuI
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
GERMANY STILL DELIVERS
PUNiSHING BLOWS

Official recognition has been given the
continued bombing of London from the
stratosphere by Germany's rocket killers
1t had been believed that this murderous
phase of warfare had not been stopped,
but il wasn't until Churchill permitted
the official word that the world knew
that the V-Rocket launching places still
remain hidden and operative.
With the Nazi west line now pushed
we'll inside the Reich, it now appears
certain that these missiles are beng
hurled from greater and greater dis
tances from the target. According to the
London reports these rockets reach an
altitude of 70 miles and that current
types are far more deadly and advanced
in construction than the first ones to
wreak death and damage on London and
other English cities.
All of which goes to show that there is
no limit to the Londoners morale and en-.
durance and to the ingenious minds OF
those who would make war more hldeouS
and deadly.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
0PA Freezes
Mark-ups on
Home Articles

WASHINGTON, March 20 tUP)-
The Office of Price Administration
moved ahead Tuesday in its pro-
gram to cut living costs by changing
draStically the method of fixing
price ceilings in the retail clothing
and furniture field.
Under the new OPA order, some
100000 retail stores are required to
"freezev their mark -upS-the dit-
ference between what they pay for
an article and what they sell 1t for
at where they were yesterday in
each general class of goods. Here
tofore, retail ceiling prices for fur
niture and clothing were frozen at
the highest price charged by the
seller in March, 1912.
Price Administrator Ch c e +
Bowles explained that the new set
up was intended to pass along to
consumers the lower prices expect
ed to take effect under the gov
ernment'S new low-cost clothing
program and under similar low-cost
furniture and house furnishings
programs now being planned.
The OPA said the new regula-
ton will make it possible for pur-
chaSers to see at glance just how
much they should pay for goods,
Retailers are required to put CELL
ing price tickets on every article. or
at least on the bin, rack, or shelf
containing the article.
The order applies virtually TO all
kinds of mems, women's and child
ren's clothing, linens, yard goods
bedding. rugs, lamps and lamp
shades and household furniture.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
JURISDlCTIONAL SQUABBLES

(San Diego Unlon) .,.
For several days some 10000 workers
in the motion picture industry at Holly
wood were forced into idleneSs because
two rival unions disagreed on question
of jurisdiction over rs employees. Wnen
the issue rose several months ago the
Intervention of the War Labor Board was
invoked. The board named an arbitrator
who decided in favor of one union. There
upon the producers sought to follow the
ruling of the arbiter. The rival union
called a strike which paralyzed produc-
ton and left thousands Of workers IN
other unions idle.
If there is any one function that should
be and could be fulfilled by federal labor
agencies it would seem to be that OF de-
Gliding these petty jurisdictlonal SQUAD
bles and enforcing their decisions. 1hey
do not involve any question OF wages
hours or conditions of employment, but
merely represent struggle fer prestige
and the collection of union dues between
one set of leaoers and another. Neither
the employer nor the public is consldered'
while the authority of the government IS
ignored or defied. Strikes like this have
q decided flavor of autocracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
Warren Budget
Figures Stir
Cities, Counties

SACRAMENTO. March 20. CUP)
City and county organizations to-
day issued a statement contesting
the accuracy" of a budget state
ment CT Governor Earl Warren that
81 per cent of the state budget is
paid to county, city and district gov
ernments for performance of their
functions.
The joint statement of the League
of California Cities and the County
Supervisors association said that
the governor had been quoted Ito
the disadvantage of the local gov
ernmentS and with prejudice to our
pending request" for 500 100000
ALLEGATION to cities and counties.
OF the sum allocated by the budg-
ct to local governments, the state
ment declared, 81 per cent is for
education and social welfare, which
it contended were not local pur-
poses"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
GOOD PLACE TO START
WORLD NEWS FREEDOM

The United States delegates to the San
Francisco peace parley next month have
declared for an "open door news policy
to govern all the deliberations. There
should be no backing down. In fact the
deliberations should be in the nature Of
warning that there will be no repetition
of the Dumbarton Oaks closed doors, nor
of the world financial conference.
There is every reason why all the
people of all the nations concerned IN
this eventful conference should be kept
advised of each step. There had been the
necessity of withholding and censoring
of war news, but nothing like this should
obtain in the parley where machinery
will be set up to put the world back on
its feet
The pronouncement by the American
ENJOYS has been far enough in advance
of the session to give all delegates from
other nations opportunity to consider the
free news policy.
Not only is it the right of the peoples
to know, but whatever evolves from the
San Francisco parley will be people
peace. If for no other reason, there
should be Tree press because Ill IH0
end the fate OF the decisions will rest on
public opinion If public opinion is per-
mitted to mould the framework for peace
then the pattern already will have hur-
died its hardest test
A single example Oh d suppressed press
is Germany. Hitler and his Goebbels
and Goering and Himmlers never could
have spent ten years building war
machine that is taking its thousands OF
lives, even now as it rapidly is falling to
pieces. Nor could they be carrying on
now in the face of certain destruction II
the free news system we know IN this
country could be put in running order
in Europe at this late date.
1t would seem impossible for any ma
ton or envoy to object to the plan as
outlined by our own delegates, but there
are hints that the matter will be an issue
as the parley opens. If this turns out to
be true we should stand firm. Etiquette
and good manners should not be permit
ed to enter the issue. If the meeting place
were in London or Moscow or Paris, we
should expect the open door and would
put up a fight for it. The fact that the
barley is in an American city purely is
incidental.
Here is where we can make our IN
fluence count. If we give in at all, we
shall have invited secondary place IN the
parley at the start.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
COMPARED TO GERMANY

The report compared the bombing
of Tokyo with the heaviest oblitera-
ton raids en- Germany, and said
that more persons wele bombed out
than in the heaviest raids on the
Reich.
The man who invented and car
ried out the large-scale attacks on
Hamburg is now directing attacks
on Japan from the MarianaS," the
radio said. The reference apparent
ly was to Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay,
chief of the 2lst bomber command.
He repeated here in Tokyo what
he once learned in Germany"
In a raid on Tokyo a few nights
ago. owing to various unfavorable
circumstances, fire caused by in
cendiarieS swept away whole dis
tricts of the Japanese capital which
burned to the ground" the broad
cast said.
"AS soon as the first incendiary
bombs fell, the starlit night was
lighted up. the report added. The
clouds were suffused with a red glow
from the ground
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
PLANES FLEW LOW

The Superfortresses flew incred-
IDLY low above the gradually spread
ing fires. A B-29 exploded almost
over the very heart cf the city.
Red fire clouds kept creeping
higher, and the tower of the Parlia-
ment buildings stuck out black
against tic background of a red sky,
The city was aS bright as at SUM-
rise. Clouds of smoke, SCOT and even
sparks driven by storm swept over
the city. During the night we
thought the whcle of Tokyo had
been reduced to ashes. Yet in the
morning when most of the fires had
been brought under control and pale
blue smoke was rising over the
streets and smouldering ruins, one
could realize the good effects CT the
measures adopted earlier to guard
against fire"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
Biggest Warship
Waits on Tide
To Get AfIoat

NEWPORT NEWS. Va, March 20,
(UPD-The worlds greatest warship
was christened here Tuesday. but it
won't be floated until balky tide
get around to playing the full role
assigned 10 it in the ceremony.
The ship is the 45,OOJ-ton Super
Carrier. Midway. from whose decks
one day will fly a brand new kind
of Warplane designed to give the
enemy a brand new kind of trouble
Built in a drydock instead of on
the conventional ways, the Midway
was to have been floated at pre-
ciSely 9:43 a m Eastern Standard
Time by the simple eXpedient of ad-
mitting sea water into the dock.
The way it turned out, however
the tide was four inches short.
Navy officials said they expected
the tide to make up the missing
four inches later Tuesday or early
Wednesday. Meanwhile, the christ
ening went on as scheduled.
From the Midway'S blocks-lone
deck will fly bigger and better
planes than were ever carrier
borne. It will be able to handle
with ease two-engine planes even
bigger than the BPS Mitchell
bombers that scared from the car
rier Hornet for the first Doolittle
air attack on Tokyo.
Since the Midway is described as
the bigget warship ever built, it
must be close to 1000 feet long. The
33.0OO-ton Saratoga now the larg-
est carrier in service, has an over
all length of 868 feet.
The navy reports that the Midway
will have a greater speed than any
other existing carrier. The fastest
carrier now in service is the Enter
prise, with a rated speed of "a
knots.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
114 Feared Dead
In Blazing Ship

IQUIQUE, Chile, March 20. up
The Chilean ship MapCcho caught
fire off the Chilean coast Tuesday
and most of the l43 persons aboard
were feared lost.
The Swedish ship Sammerland re-
ported that it had rescued 30 per-
sons from the sea around the vessel
and said there might be other sur
vivorS. The Mapocho carried crew
CT II men and &c passengers. Fire
followed an explosion aboard the
Mapocho.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
GOVERNMENT AGAIN PLEADS
FOR WARD CASE HEARING

WASHINGTON, March 20. tUP)
The Justice department, for the sec
end time, late Monday asked the
supreme court for an emergency
hearing on the legality OF the gov
ernment's seizure Of Montgomery
Ward &; Co. properties.
The request was made in petl-
ton urging the court to reconsider
its decision Ct last week refusing to
review the case prior to ruling by
tic seventh circuit court of appeals.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
PLEADS NOT GUILTY

LOS ANGELES, March 20. tUPJ
John Aloysiour o Boyle so, pleaded
innocent in federal court on charges
of stealing s150,250 in bonds last
MAY 2 from the Bank of America
here. OBoyle. who is held en- $4,000
bond. was arrested last January in
Chicago. His wife, Kitty O'Boyie,
arrested in Toledo, Ohio, is now
serving a prison term for theft Of
ration coupons. Federal Judge Ralph
E. Jenney set O'Bcyle's trial for
April 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
PAY BOOST PASSES ASSEMBLY

SACRAMENTO. March 70. IUPJ
The assembly Monday confirmed
passage of a bill increasing the
salary of the state corporation COM
missioner frcm $500 to $4,000 a
year and GENT tie bill to the senate
The action was on defeat of mo-
tion for reconsideration of earlier
passage by Asscmblyman John w.
Evans, 3D., Los Angeles. Evans
argued that lower bracket salaries
should be considered ahead of high
er ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
AIR COMMAND CHANGES

MAN1LA, Mafch 70. IUPI-BTIg.
Gen. Paul B. Wurtsmith. famed
tactician who developed the 49th air
fighter group has been named COM
manding general of the 18th air
force. headquarters ann un q
Monday. He succeeds Mai. Gen. w.
st. Clair Street, who has returned
to the United States on an undis-
closed assignment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-20
SENTENCE BLACK MARKETEERS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.
UP)-Federal Judge Louis Good
man sentenced four defendants in
a San Francisco black market meat
case to terms of imprisonment rang
ing from three to four years. Julio
Rodriguez, chief stewart, and Pierre
Barrall second stewart on troop
transport. were sentenced to four
and three years, respectively. Bar
rail- pleaded guilty to charges of de-
frauding the government by divert
ing meat intended for shipment
overseas.