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Lady Astor Of irginia

clSlOn, Lord AStOr continued. After his
war work, he said, he did not feel physi-
cally able to undergo the strain Of an
other election contest and he did not
feel it would be easy for his wife to stand
election without his active help, as in
the past. She was tired, too. After IS
years of parliamentary life, then fve
years as Lord and Lady Mayoress Of
blitzed Plymouth, they had had an "ex-
ceptionally strenuous" time Of it.
Return to Commons
Brings Up Two Views
Lady Astor few in. Il am late," she
said breathlessly There isn't any
time"
Lord Astor strolled to a window, his
back turned
If you had it all to do over again,
would you 90 into politics?" asked her.
Indeed I would
Would you ever return to Commons
If you felt some cause justified it?"
Yes" she said, and then caught her.
SELF "Oh, I don't know" she said.
pointing to Lord Astor's back and put.
ting a finger over her mouth. Then, in
whisper, "he doesn't think I ought to-"
Did she intend to write her autobios.
raphy when she returns to England?
Indeed do mott" she shouted, as she
moved toward the door. The only
autobiography ever written that was
worth while was written in the sands"
She moved on toward the porch. still
talking over her shoulder. Outside two
little old ladies in black sat in a small
sedan waiting for her, while a Negro
chauffeur held the door open My re-
cipe for a good marriage? A couple
ought to have common tastes and com.
mon aims and purposes-not Just to.
ward their own happiness, but for that
of others
Does she still believe in prayer? In.
deed I do. More than ever. The mora
/ see OF men the more think of God.
The Protestant churches OF America
are the only hope of the world. In Eu.
ropean countries, there is just one
church. In America, there are hum
dreds of ways of getting to God"
A'S aAoS0FCA GU tllC opOL UIl I1eT nus
bands tie as she was about to say good.
by. "Oh, Lord. Waldorf! Can't YOU do
something about that? Go upstairs and
change it, He smiled indulgently.
She hurried to the waiting car, then
called out as an afterthought: Wall
dorf, do you have any money on your
You know can't be going around shop
ping all day on a 81 bill"
AS Lord Astor watched the car drive
of, asked him if, on the basis of his
own marriage felicity. he had any ad-
vice on the subject. He hesitated, his
ewes still on the disappearing automo.
bile, then said, Let me just say this: I
have known of more homes being blown
up through the wife's gossiping too
much than have where she took an in.
terest in public affairs" and turned to
60 upstairs-to change that tie.
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investigating murders. holdups and rob-
neries have not been registered.
Law Aimed at Ganssters
Has Renewed Usage
The firearms act itself was passed
back IN 1884 for the purpose Of curbing
indiscriminate traffic in the favorite
weapons Of gangdom, the submachine
gun and automatic pistol. Now the
national security angle takes on re-
newed significance. The ATU doesn't
want hundreds Of foreign-made bullet
spraying devices falling into the hands
Of the criminal element.
A mounting file of murders, suicides,
armed robberies and thefts, as we'll as
accidents, all linked with war weapons,
has lent impetus to its drive. now be-
ing pursued with all the resources and
time which investisa tors can devote,
aside from their primary duties of in
forcing the Internal Revenue liquor laws.
In the office of Deputy Commissioner
Stewart Berkshire in Washington, reve-
nue. officials CLEAN satisfaction from re-
suits OF procedure found effective in
most cities. A report shows that since
last September, ATU Investigators have
made 23,063 Investigations; have reg
istered 1891 weapons and have made
imperative 2,452 of these death aling
trophies from German, italian, Japa-
nese and not infrequently Allied sources.
The ATU can only guess the percent-
age Of war trophy weapons this repre-
sents. Customs ofIicials stopped great
many. The Army and Navy both have
rescinded earlier orders permitting i'm
portation of war souvenir automatic
firearms, but in the heyday OF trophy
traf1ic, lot of them entered the country
and remain potential danger to the
owners families as well As to effective
reinforcement.
Philadelphia Customs
Seizes 5000 Guns
At Philadelphia, one of the ports
where the overseas mail comes to be
distributed over the country, the collec-
tor of customs, between October, 1945,
and March l, 1916, seized approximately
5000 machine guns. The ONCE handles
thousands Of parcels monthly from mill
tary personnel and inspection became an
overwhelming job. An inspectoscope has
been installed 50 that packages can be
quickly X-rayed for guns and passed or
withheld.
At Cleveland, military intelligence
seized and destroyed about 800 machine
guns detected by customs while being
imported into this country.
At Chicago, during July, 1945, an
average Of 40 to so truckloads of mail
were processed daily from overseas.
When an unregistered weapon figures
in vicious or spectacular crime, the
ATU has more argument for its cause.
It perfected a procedure at Bethlehem,
Pa. on the heels Of 4 murder, and has
found 1t effective in other places. The
system calls for city-wide participation
in drive for registering guns at various
centers after press, radio. local orsanisa-
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the international scapegoat."
Corporal Punishment
Is Left to Parents
MY father says" the daughter OF a
West Virginia mine operator told Miss
Madeira on returning from vacation,
that he likes everything about your
school except your ideas"
Then why did he send you back?"
Miss Madeira asked.
Because you keep such q good
school," the girl said.
Miss Madeira also teaches the Bible.
While not denominationally aligned
she does not underrate religion. She
has no use for the third chapter of
Genesis, the story of Eve and the apple.
Much difficulty with children comes
from the ideas born therein, she feels,
In other words she has no truck with
original sin
Still there are times she would like
to help some of her charges get over
behavior difficulties with a good switch
ing. She believes corporal punishment
still is the privilege of the parent but
not the school teacher.
Despite her romantic Portuguese
name she is of Pennsylvania Dutch
stock. A Madeira got to Holland in
the religious wars of the 18th century,
She was born in Martinsburg, w. Va.
Her father was a Union soldier. He
died during her junior year at Vassar.
Her mother moved to Washington and
took in boarders.
1t was illness Of sister with tuber-
culosis that caused her to start her
own school. The family, a widowed
mother supported by her four chill
dren, was very poor. In her 10 years
OF teaching her pay had increased
from $500 to $3.50 year. It was the
prevailing wage" She had paid off
an educational debt of s1.4O0.
"Character,' answered John Pierpont
Morgan, the elder. before a House COM
mlttee, when asked what was his basis
for loaning money.
That Miss Madeira had character
was evident. She borrowed $4,000 to
start her school.
For Is years she took out only the
equivalent of salary and put the rest
into the school. 1t occupied rented
buildings At the end of that time the
school had no tangible assets, but was
going concern with good will. On that
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she was able to borrow almost 5000 900
to build the present school, Eugene
Meyer, whose four daughters attended,
advanced her 5000, 900 without collateral.
The new school has never been in the
red All but $160000 of the debt has
been repaid. Gracious living" "a IA
vorite phrase of the head mistress) in
fine buildings runs into money per
capita. Miss Madeira has a stan Of
46, plus cleaning women, stablemen and
nine gardeners. Board and tuition at
the Madeira School are Jumped at 81 800
school year. With extras, such as
music. art or dancing lessons and horse
back riding, the school bill will run
we'll over $4,000 Miss Madeira has 1873
boarding students plus so day students
at $3.50 a school year. A little pencil
work will show that the annual gross
income is we'll above quarter OF
million dollars-something of a busi-
ness. Yet Miss Madeira considers her
self anything but businesswoman.
MY budget is made up for me-" she
says. Il know when I can't spend
money, but when I do spend 1t can
never account for it,
The school is on a nonpersonal profit
basis. Miss Madeira gave it to the cor
poration. When the debt is retired
future profits may be used for new
Evening star., 1946-05-12

HYAT1vE Of one country, citizen Of
nj another, cosmopolite and in
ternationalist, wife, mother,
statesman and former member
of Parliament, social welfare war work
volunteer success in every field she
has entered.
That is Lady Astor, the former Nancy
ing the land of her birth.
"It's all right to take your work seri-
ously but not yourself seriously" is the
advice of this blue-eyed, American-born
dynamo with a half British half-South-
ern way Of speaking, who won't sit down
to discuss herself but will get up on a
platform or even a soapbox almost any
time to speak her mind on cause in
which she believes.
Lord Astor says his wife's energy al
ways has been too much for her body
that Is, until some years ago when she
embraced Christian Science, which he
believes has aided her in keeping her
energies in tow.
In Richmond, Lady Astor who said
she has been interviewed to death" re-
luctantly consented to see me- at the
home OF her hostess and girlhood friend,
Mrs. Saunders Hobson. The interview
was only for five minutes, however, and
Lord Astor supplied most of the in
formation. Lady Astor stood with her
hat and coat on, f1inging words over her
shoulder one minute, firing an observa-
ton straight at one the next. She was
concerned over the state of the world,
and at the same time horrified to dis
cover that Lord Astor had taken away
from the breakfast board slight blem-
ish on his brown silk tie.
Lady Astor and Husband
Both Have Same Age
Lord Astor is just Lady Astors age,
66. Even to the same birthday-May
10. He is slim with smart silvery
mustache and large, good -humored
brown eyes. His handclasp was firm
ing" He had been enjoying his visit in
the United States, he said, and his
health was much improved. He felt
rested, and so did Lady Astor.
He speaks of his wife as "a tremen-
dously human person"
You just can't judge Lady Astor by
the public record alone he said
thoughfully. There are so many things
that aren't in the record"
There were all the years that she was
helping him, before she herself ever got
into the Commons, Lord Astor ex-
planned. 1T was a partnership. When
1 was a member of Parliament, she dio
a great deal to help me. And got be-
hind her when she was member"
Lord Astor said, Not nearly enough
has been made of her work during the
war years. when he was Lord Mayor
and she was the Lady Mayoress of Ply
mouth. 1t is difficult to picture for one
who wasn't there, he said, Just how ter
rble those years were. Our Plymouth
population after the big blitz dropped
from 2l0,000 to lis, ,000 I don't mean by
that everybody was killed, but living
conditions were such that many had to
move away. Houses were damaged and
the water cut OF. You can readily ap-
preciate what terrific problems have to
be faced at such time. Not only did
the people have to be fed and clothed,
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Of accidental shootings and the misery
Of wounds inflicted by war trophies.
They also keep track of thefts Of arms
and ammunition and the capture Of
stolen guns
These accounts are contributed by in
vestigators from u field Offices through
out the country. Each incident tends to
bolster the ATU's bid for full compli-
ance with the firearms act and
strengthens its determination to reduce
the potential danger until casualties at
home from weapons of war no longer
command the headlines,
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~. +. Garter 1OeLdS a Ger
man machine gun at a Treas
ury garage so that it is HARM
less, but still a good 1Oar curio.
tions and municipal officials join in an
educational campaign to make the pub
lie realize the need for compliance.
The ATU also gets in q few words
Of advice to the returnee at the point
he Is sure to be contacted-his draft
board. Boards now tell the returning
veterans what the law on firearms
says and where he can register his
trophies, If they fall in that category.
The act, incidentally covers sawed-on
shotguns and rifles or combinations Of
them; machine guns and machine pic
tolls; seni-machine guns or guns hav-
ing full automatic adjustment or de-
vice permitting more than one shot to
be fired with one pull of the trigger.
Relic of 1918 Days
Turns Up in Capital
The veteran, ATU Investigators find,
1t usually helpful and willing to register
his trophies when once he learns of the
detrimental result of noncompliance.
Frank j. Sweeney, head of the ATU
field office for the District of Columbia,
had one veteran bring in a relic Of the
war Of 1918 for registration. It was an
old water-cooled Maxim machine gun,
practically imperative for its accumula-
ton of rust.
The law provides 5000 tax for sale or
transfer of firearms but If they are
made imperative, they may be traded
or sold as collectors pieces without tax.
Many elect to do this for the procedure
does not detract from the value of the
gun as a trophy. ATU men merely
take the gun to an expert who YIELDS
the barrel and then YIELDS the frame to
the barrel to prevent substituting a
working part. Sometimes the firing pin
is knocked of. There is rarely a charge
for this service and there Is no charge
for registration.
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buildings. The first will be a biology
laboratory. a surprising bow to 20th
century educational trends. In educa-
ton Miss Madeira is more conservative
than liberia. She has never had any
thing to do with progressive educa-
ton. Discipline and Caesar, Cicero
Scott, Jane Austen, Thackery, Dickens
and the Brontes dominate.
Expensive Outfits Go
When Pupil REGISTERS
Expensive clothes, fur coats and jew
elry are barred by the head mistress. If
they arrive with the pupil they are
packed up and sent home Lipstick for
Miss Madeira's teen-agers is SO un-
thinkable that its prohibition isn't even
written in the rules. No smoking is.
Each pupil is obliged to keep a regu-
lar bank account with the school.
Pupils are not allowed to charge any
thing to their parents accounts in WASH
ington shops.
Unlike most boarding school mis-
tresses, MISS Madeira knows what it is
to bring up children in the home. In
her middle years she married David L.
Wing, Of prominent Washington fam
lily, widoWer with a boy and a girl
under 10. She brought them up. Her
husband died eight years after their
marriage. At the school she is Miss
Madeira: in society, Mrs. Wing. Hun
dreds of girls remember her as their
temporary mother.
She wrote comforting letters to some
Of her girls who were widowed in 1918.
No one thought it possible then. but the
time came when she had to write more
of those difficult letters to Madeira girls
widowed by second war
Next Sunday at assembly Miss Ma
deirs probably will quote Emerson, as
she has done before, "in our barbarous
world. the influence of character is in
its infancy" Then she will say, In the
new epoch of history lying ahead of US,
I know the girls from this school, dis
ciplined as they have been by its exact
ing work and conduct, will take great
part"
The exceptional schoolmaster has the
satisfaction Of seeing some of his boys
making names for themselves in the
world. Perhaps 1t would be only fair
If Miss Madeira did live another 73
years. She may have taught mothers
Of great men.
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not juvenile delinquents but spectators
The Judge, although childless himself,
has been actively interested for several
years in work with young people He
says the idea of inviting them to court
came nearly three years ago as he looked
over the people who attended court pro-
ceedinss lust to have something to
do" He thought:
Il wish youngsters could be sitting
there instead. For them this would not
be just \ form of entertainment, but
valuable part of their education"
He passed the word that he would be
glad to have young peoples groups at
tend the sessions Sunday was chosen
because it was time that most children
had free.
The idea was an instant success.
Since then. hundreds of youngsters have
attended from all sorts OF groups, in
cluding H-Y Clubs, civics classes, the
YMcA and YWCA, Boys Clubs and
others.
Judge Kelly calls the sessions his
Evening star., 1946-05-12
BY Quentin r. Mott

I 1NCE last September the Alcohol
\ Tax Unit of the Bureau Of In
ternal Revenue has been engaged
In one of the most fascina fir,n
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BUFFALO, N. Y.
w YHEN Judge John L. Kelly
\A/ holds Sunday session of
w City Court, the room is
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Miss Madeira's girls go to college but
they do not become career girls. They
marry. One exception occurs to her,
Charlotte Carr. who became secretary Of
labor and industry of Pennsylvania and,
on the death of Jane Addams. took over
as head of Hull house
Duty not reward-Miss Madeira sets
the example. She became q citizen OF
Fairfax County when the school crossed
the river. She was chairman of the
Fairfax County Red Cross in the war
years. She is active in the Grange, the
Professional and Business Womens
Club and other organizations.
She tries to keep her girls from becom-
Ing isolated. She herself teaches them
public affairs. She emphasizes the in
equality of the division of income among
American families by citing the invidi-
Gus comparisons brought out by Senator
OMahoney's Temporary National Eco
nomic Committee in 1888: That the top
100000 families received as much in
come as the bottom $4,000 900 families.
She tries to bring home to her pupils
how the other SO per cent lives.
Miss Madeira is a New Dealer and
proud of it. Once she caught pupil
named Paulina Longworth clowning by
initiating the voice of her cousin of the
preceding generation, Eleanor Roose-
welt. Paulina was surprised at the
sharpness Of the breakdown.
The other day Miss Madeira an
on Russia. Il think we all have learned
Evening star., 1946-05-12
BY Valarie Edinger
Associated Press Stan Writer

N1CHMONO, Va.
ATIVE Of one country, citizen Of
another, cosmopolite and in
ternationalist, wife, mother,
statesnnan And former nnern bar
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05
Collins Family Winner OF FSA
Farm Family Of The Year

Pine Bluff-The Roy Collins
family of the Tamo community
near this city, jefferson County,
has been chosen as the state
winner in the Negro Division of
the Farm Family of the Year"
contest sponsored annually by
the Farm Security Administra-
tion in Arkansas. A celebration
IN honor of this outstanding fam
lily was held in Pine Bluff, Mar.
III, by means of tour and in
spection of the Collins farm at
Taino and program in the after
noon at the A M e. N College
at Pine Bluff.
The Pine Bluff Chamber of
Commerce awarded a Sterling
silver platter to the Collins fam
lily and tribute was paid by state
and county officials. Giles A.
Hubert, Professor of Economics
at Fisk University, Nashville,
Tennessee, was the principal
speaker during the afternoon
program. Mr.. Hubert paid tri-
butte to the outstanding work
done by the Collins family in
winning the award as the Farm
Family Of the Year" Jodie An
derson, FSA Director for Arkan-
sas. was featured speaker, L..
a. Davis, President Of A. M. &
N. College presided and Ocie
Lee Smith, Special Representa-
tive for the Farm Security Ad-
ministration, Regional Office,
Little Rock, was master of cere-
monies.
State and county officials of
the Farm Security Administra-
ton were introduced by E1stner
c. Beall, FSA Supervisor, jeff
erson County. Mrs. lvie Foster,
Associate FSA Supervisor for
Jefferson County, presented the
Collins family to the audience.
c. D. McKindra, Assistant Coun-
ty Agent, spoke in tribute to
the Collins family. Arthur Lee
represented the Pine Bluff Cham
her of Commerce. Music for the
program at the college was fur
nished by the college choir I'M
der the direction of Mrs, Aires.
Prior to the afternoon meeting
at A. M. & N. College, Mrs. Bon
ME Gardenhire, Assistant Home
Management Supervisor for FSA
in Jefferson County interviewed
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins over the
Pine Bluff radio station. Inc
Collins family has nine mem
bers-mother, father, four sons,
and three daughters. They were
selected from approximately 81
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05
CURRY UNROBED TILL
JUNE 18th AS BISHOP OF
A. M. E. CHURCH
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
Little Rock was the ecclesiastical
lawyer.
The charges were filed by Dr..
P. w. DeLyles, Presiding elder
of the Tulsa district, DR.. w. D.
Miller, Presiding elder of the
Oklahoma City district, Rev. j.
F. Harris, pastor of ST. John A.
M. E. church, Tulsa, Rev, j. H.
Shelvin, pastor of Shawnee, Rev.
F. j. Straughter, Pastor Bethel
A M. E. church, Muskogee,
Messrs George w. Davis of Mus
kogee, H. c. Ware and H. Caver
of Tulsa and many others.
An effort was made to work
the entire matter out without the
formal procedure of a trial in
which certain interested minis
tiers and laymen felt that some
other way could be found to
overcome the difficulties invol-
we'd but when the matter was
presented to Bishop Curry he
refused and demanded a trial.
A court reporter had been Sc
cured and served throughout the
entire trial over which Bishop
Ransom presided with such fair
ness that not a single exception
was taken to his ruling and both
sides left impressed with his
ability and fairness. Bishop M.
II. Davis of Baltimore and Bish-
OPP D. Ward Nichols of New York,
presiding Bishop of Alabama
were the only bishops present
other than those connected with
the trial. A large attendance
of ministers and laymen from
Arkansas, Oklahoma and adjoin-
ing states was on hand to wit
ness this unusual event in the
A. NJ E. church.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05

Columbia, Tenn.-Acts of van
dalism by members of the state
patrol guard in the Negro area of
this little Tennessee town rival
the deeds of Hitler's Gestapo
against Jews, Poles, or Russians
at the height of their sadistis
fury. The state guard destroyed
the entire Negro business section,
later terrorizing the home area
of Negro people who fled there
for safety. The appalling fact is
that although members of the
State Highway Patrol and the
State Guard were sworn to up
hold the law and to protect equal
ly all citizens, not only did they
terrorize Negro people but vici-
ously beat women, youths, and
men who protested against their
Nazilike tactics. The fury of the
minions of law and order was
especially vehement in its appli-
cation to Negro business; every
vestige of long established enter
prises touched in their rampage
was RACED. AT the Morton Funer-
al Home, they broke lights and
fixtures, destroyed cabinets, and
defaced and demolished caskets,
leaving the initials * X X"
marked in white powder on a
blue casket. The law enforce
ment representatives destroyed
all records and files in the local
office of the Atlanta Life Insur-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05
RECEIVES HEARTY
WELCOME

Ell Dorado -- SGT. WAYMON
MORRIS was give ma hearty well
come by his relatives and many
friends upon his recent return to
the States after 10 months of
overseas duty.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05
To the Public:

This comes to express my APP
probation To my customers and
Well-Wishers while operating in
my new field of endeavor, the
Smart Shoppe, the only Negro
owned and operated in Arkansas.
| found in it a pleasant and fertile
field but too taxing for my health.
Your encouragement and coop
Grafton shall be remembered with
pleasure
(Mrs) Harriette f. Dyer
Owner and Operator
6l3 West 9TH Street
Little Rock, Arkansas
ADV.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-04-05
White Students
Approve Hiring
Negro Teachers

Milwaukee, Wisconsin--(C) ---
White students of Sherwood
High School with the support of
local citizens forced its Superin-
tendent of Schools, Homer S.
Hemenway to withdraw his pol
icy of refusing to hire Negro tea
cheers.
Sherwood, suburb OF Mil
waukee has population of 15,-
000--all white. There is only one
Negro family known to be living