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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02
Esquire Magazine Requests Work Of Famed
Memphis Writer And Civic Leader

Signal recognition of the literary ability OF famed Mem
phs Author 1t George W. Lee indicated this week in
communication received by the writer last week
The internationally famed Esquire Magazine, through
its New York City editorial office Mr. Lee letter ask
ing him to sell them of his latest articles and short so
ies The title of the article requested is Mr. Lees drama
TIED short human interest essay the bues meant to
establish Memphis right to lay claim the birth place of
the blues Esqure's letter indicated That Mr. Lees
will be used in the magazines famed annual edition
sic known "Jazz-Men.' The letter follows:
Dear Mr. Lee
am extremely happy to tell you that Esquire maya
zine would like to buy your article Blues Paradise Lost
for $4,000 and would like your permission also to
this piece in their Esquire Jazz Book book which you
undoubtedly know. believe the book comes out year
ly. will have to check this.
VIII you telegraph me your acceptance if okay?
would have telegraphed you, but wanted to explain
about the Jazz Book thing. | will write you in detail
about this and the other article soon [ am really de-
lighted because this is your first piece for and Es
qure the first place tried
Sincerely Marcella Powers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

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and pains are eased. Phlegm loosens,
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These are the reasons so many peo-
pie everywhere are using Penetro, and
why your druggist SO often recon-
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02
Mississippians
Continued From Front Page


jority Leader, py the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare.
The signers urge the Senate
latter giving adequate opportunity
for full discussion to halt any
filibuster by invoking cloture, tc
maintain majority rule and pre-
serve democracy"
Among the signers of the peto-
ton in Mississippi we're:
Rev. Joseph Smith, Centenary
Methodist Church, McComb, Miss
Rev. j. Ors Cresap, Episcopal
Rectory, McComb, Miss.
Rev. c. C. Clark, jefferson St.
Methodist church, Natchez, Miss
Rev. Stewart Smith, Crawford
St. Methodist Church, Vicksburg,
Miss.
John Long, president Southern
Christian Institute, Edwards, Miss.
ARENA c. Mallory, SITS. Indus
trial School, Lexington, Miss.
Rev. G.. A. Riley, Jackson, Miss.
Mrs. w. H. Ratliff, members of
Southeastern Jurisdictional Coun-
Gil, Methodist Church, Sherard,
Miss.
T. D. Davis, Jackson, Miss.
Mrs. r. P. Neblett, Counselor
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

In all things that purely separate
fingers but in all things that affect progress
selopment be together the handBooker
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02
FEPC Seeks To
BOttleneck South
Gov. Sparks Says
BIRMINGHAM. Ala IS

BIRMINGHAM. ALA (SNSo-
Defiantly, Gov Chauncy Sparks
boasting of the helpful things ne
has done for the Negro, IN 2
speech. He before the Council OF
State Governments in session at
the Tutwiler Hotel, declared that
This FEPC bill is nothing more
than another effort to bottleneck
the South.
Governor Sparks said that the
educational POLLEN. but that white
and black must be educated sep
problems must be decided in
fair and equitable.
It am not fighting any race; /
have done more for the Negro than
any other man who has ever held
my Office. But l am fighting O
false sense of equality. the gov
ernor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

he passed before the doctor ar
rived.
! Mr.. McDuffle was BORN In Elber-
ton, Georgia, but spent most of
his life in Atlanta. He was {. bar
Der by trade and for a number OF
years was co-oWner of the Nc
Duffie-Herndon Barber Shop on
Marietta Street. His family physi-
clan advised him to discontinue
the barber business and get off his
feet. Through friend Of the late
President he became acquainted
with Mr.. Roosevelt and took over
the duties OF valet at Warm
Springs, Georgia in 1927, and con-
tinued his services while Mr..
Roosevelt was Governor of New
York.
SERVED AT WHITE HOUSE
When the Late President took
over his duties at the nations
capital, living qua. tiers were provid-
ed for Mr.. and Mrs. McDuffie at
the White House.. Mr.. McDuffie
not only served the President at
the White House, but travelled
with him on important govern
mental missions as well as yaca-
ton trips, etc. It is generally
known that he idolized the late
President and that they wer NUT
ual friends. Mrs. McDuffie also
served the Presidents family.
In 1889. Mr.. McDuffie suffered
a nervous breakdown and after
three-months vacation, went to
work at the Treasury Depart
ment. He was on this new job
from 1889 TO l945., advancing to
the position of Head Messenger.
FUNERAL FRIDAY
Funeral services will be held at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

stringing thousands and thousands
of miles of communication wire
across rivers, through steaming
jungles, over icy mountain passes,
with artillery shells crashing
around them, with snipers forever
shooting at them.
"It meant trucking high eXplo-
sives and octane gas over the Red
Ball highway-continuously under
aerial bombardment.
at meant building the Ledo
Road, under impossible conditions,
cutting and blasting their way
through jungle and over mountain
passes - riding their bulldozers
down with tons of sliding rock
when the narrow lodges gave way,
to save the precious equipment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02
WITHOUT OPPORTUNITY

"And again and again and again
it meant a shovel and picking up a
gun from the stiffening hands of a
falling fighting comrade."
Mrs. Douglas said it was her
prayer that civilian leaders "as
they undertake their task of build
ing a firm and lasting peace, may
look upon citizens as citizens
not white citizens, black citizens,
yellow citizens-but as citizens
citizens of the world"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

Liberty Baptist Church, Friday, at
/ o'clock, with Rev. B. L. Davis,
pastor, officiating. The body will
be carried to his residence at S
o'clock, today, and will lie in
state at the chuic between 11:00
am and 100 pm, Friday.
Mr.. McDuffie is survived by his
wife, Mrs. McDuffia; a son, Joseph
A. McDuffie, an invalid in New
York hospital; sister, Miss Arnie
La, and several nepheWs and
nieceS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

, Negro School. Holly Springs. NO.
| Mississippi Conference Womens
| Work, Shelby, Miss.
H. G. Williamson, dean, Wood
Junior College, Mathison, Miss.
Frand Highlander, Wood Junior
College, Mathison, Miss.
Walter L. Russell, president.
Wood Junior College, Mathison,
Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02
Hardships Trials
Continued from Page u

tillery fire. unable to take cover,
unable to shoot back.
at meant landing ammunition
on the Normandy beaches on D.
Day, always under fire. 1t meant
setting up field kitchens on those
beaches, even before the fighting
troops they were to feed and give
heart to had all come ashore.
1T meant Negro Seabees win
ming commentator for building an
airport on Pacific island under
heavy Japanese fire. 1t meant
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-02-02

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You rub Pcnetro on chest, throat
and back. AS its medication reaches
nerve ends in the skin, pain eases.
And penetro draws more warm red
Evening star., 1946-12-01

Under the changes proposed by the
advisory committee, the potential
parole period would be widened by
lowering the minimum sentence and
raising the maximum sentence of
the indeterminate penalty meted out
for crime. This would give parole
authorities more time in which to
supervise and guide a parolee before
he Is given his unconditional free
DOM It would mean, of course,
greater work loads and greater re-
sponsibilities for the Parole Board,
which already is hampered by fund
and personnel shortages. 1t Is but
logical for the committee to recon-
mend, therefore. that the board be
reorganized to include a full-time
salaried chairman and two members
paid on per diem basis. A larger
staff of workers would be a corollary
necessity. A parole system thus ex-
panded would be wise investment
in the field Of improved law en-
forcement.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Questions Needing Answer

Coroner Macdonald evidently feels
that in the absence of new evidence
he is not warranted in ordering an
inquest in the death of Charles w.
Scott. The ambiguity of the District
Code on the subject may support his
position. But the situation thus re-
vealed is indefensible
Scott, it will be recalled, was driv
ing stolen automobile when appre-
hended by police. Detective Harry
E. Hamilton was killed in the chase,
which ended in collision. Scott
was brought into court the same day
and twice, on that day, the presiding
judge ordered the prisoner removed
for hospital treatment. That night
he was given an injection of anti
tetanus serum and died the next
morning. After a post-mortem ex-
animation, the coroner attributed
death to shock following administra-
tion of the serum, "even after skin
test was negative
These circumstances suggest a
number of questions which have
never been publicly answered. They
should be answered under oath, with
opportunity afforded for examina-
ton of all witnesses. Was Scott
subjected to any mistreatment at the
hands of the police? Was there any
negligence in failure to administer
proper medical treatment? Did the
treatment itself suggest negligence?
The District Code rests substan-
tial amount of discretion in the
hands of the coroner and it is diff
cult to believe that the Code itself
closes the door to an inquest which
would provide opportunity for public
examination into all the circum-
stances of this affair. If it does, the
United States attorney should step
into this void and arrange for a
recital of all evidence before grand
jury.
The facts that Scott was colored
man with bad police record and
that policeman was killed In a
courageous attempt to arrest him
argue all the more in support of an
investigation which would establish
beyond any public doubt that his
death, as the coroner put it, sis con-
sidered a traffic fatality" disposed
of, in the records, by an accidental
certificate.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Where Communism FoiIed
By George Weller
From the Montreal star.

From the Montreal Star.
Those in our midst who yearn for
the establishment of a communist way
of life, closing, their eyes and ears to
reports of what that way of life actually
is overseas, would do well to read in
the American Magazine for November
the account of one American Communist
community, what happened to 1t and
what happened when its younger men,
bers persuaded the elders that the adop-
ton of system of free enterprise would
be their only salvation.
The community, we are told, is in
the Iowa River Valley, settled by a
German sect. For seventy -seven. years
the community held to its communist
doctrine, reaping bare existence, eat
ing in common dining halls, pooling
everything, no one drawing wages or
earning profits In the twenties, house
holders still had none of the conve-
niences which were by then common
almost everywhere. Waste, inefhciency
and a growing lack of initiative under
the community system brought, in 1882,
what amounted to revolution on the
part of the few who had managed to
see something of the rest Of the country.
In 1923 and 1929. when America was
in the midst of boom, the communist
society marketed a general production
valued at 100000 For this year. with
individual members Of the community
receiving dividends from their stock
corporation, and wages for work done.
production is estimated at $4,000, 900.
every building in the area has been
electrified, the common ownership OF
equipment has ended and each house
wife owns her own vacuum cleaner
where once she had to share broom.
And, most important Of all, these one
time communists know far more per-
sonal happiness that their forebears
ever did,
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Wider Purole Scope

In recommending lower minimum
and higher maximum sentences in
local criminal cases, the special
Parole Advisory Committee ap-
pointed by the House District Com
mittee is following line of penolog-
ical thought that has proved highly
successful in other jurisdictions. The
idea behind the plan is to extend the
period during which parole authors
ties are required to maintain their
supervision of prisoners.
One of the major criticisms Of
Washington's penal system voiced by
former Parole Board Chairman Will
bur La Roe, jr., was directed at the
failure to provide for any type~of
postrelease contact with criminals
who have served out their sentences.
Not being subject to parole, many of
these ex-convicts are turned loose on
the community without supervision
and with little hope of obtaining jobs
even if they desired to go straight.
Oregon has solved this problem by
placing upon parole authorities the
responsibility for determining proper
sentences.
However, local parole officials have
complained that maximum sentences
imposed by the courts often are not
long enough to provide the type Of
extended parole control necessary to
get prisoner firmly re-established
in the community and thus reduce
the risks inherent in exposing the
public to an unreformed ex-convict.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Iran Again

Renewed tension between the CEN
trail government at Teheran and
the provincial regime at Tabriz,
Azerbaijan, brings once more into
the limelight of world interest the
obscure and scrambled politics OF
Iran. As a matter of fact, this is
only the latest in a series OF Incl
dents denoting the profoundly un-
stable condition of that truly
distressful country. What lends it
special significance is that it comes
on the eve of the parliamentary
elections slated to begin on Decenl-
ber 6. the outcome of which may go
far to determine the political balance
OF power throughout the nation.
In Iranian politics it is especially
important to distinguish between
surface legalities and underlying
realities. The prolonged crisis that
began year ago, when self-styled
autonomous regime established it
self in the northern province of
Azerbaijan, under obvious Russian
protection, resulted in rather am
biguous compromise, under which
the autonomists theoretically recog-
nized the sovereignty of the central
government but remained in effec-
tive control of the province. Fur
thermore, these autonomists extend
ed their de facto control over several
adjacent districts, which the central
government has been striving to
redeem for its authority. A further
complication has been the series of
tribal revolts in the south, tradi-
tionally under British influence, on
the ground that the central govern
ment was in danger of falling under
the control of prof. Russian partisans.
All this adds UP to efforts by
various factions to be in position to'
dominate local situations when the
elections are held Iranian elections
are apt to go as the authorities de-
sire. The central government,
headed by Premier Qavam, appears
to be asserting its right to supervise
the parliamentary elections in Aver
baijan as elsewhere throughout the
nation, and is implementing that
claim by endeavoring to install its
officials there. Whatever the legal
niceties of the matter may be, this
clearly does not set well with the
authorities, who seem to be mobiliz
ing their, local forces and preparing
to resist or nullify the central gov
ernment's action.
While the autonomist attitude is
fairly clear, on the assumption that
1t is acting with Russian support,
the policy of the central government
is less predictable. Premier Qava11l
has, in the past. indulged in such
tortuous maneuvers that it is url-
certain how far he is now prepared
to go. His policy will, of course. be
largely determined by the extent to
which he feels he would be sup
Evening star., 1946-12-01
Mr.. Porter Resigns

In reSigning as price control ad-
ministrator, Paul Porter relinquishes
a title rather than job. Not even
the harshest critic Of the OPA will
contend, however, that he is re-
sponsible for the disintegration of
that controversial wartime agency.
Although the formal obituary had
not been written, OPA, for practical
purposes, was dead when Mr.. Porter
succeeded Chester Bowles as admin
istrator last February. The formers
job since then has been to conduct
what was essentially a delaying ac-
tion-to use such powers as he had,
powers that were drastically cur
tailed In the OPA extension bill
finally passed last summer, to retard
and minimize the scope of price
advances.
It is hard to see how any one could
have performed better in this thank
less role than did Mr.. Porter. But
as popular resistance to controls in
creased, and as the conviction grew
that OPA regulations were retarding
rather than aiding economic re-
covery, the presidential order abol-
ishing virtually all controls became
inevitable.
With that order there disappeared
not only the basic functions of OPA,
but also any reason for man of Mr..
Porter's abilities to remain with the
agency. His plans for the future,
presumably centering around some
post in private industry, remain his
own secret. But on the record of
his public service "a record which
underscores the emptiness Of the
"bureaucrat" label which some per-
sist in pinning indiscriminately on
Government employees he will move
into a position of consequence. For
Mr.. Porter is one of those individuals
who leave the Government service
with their future ahead, and not
behind, them.
Evening star., 1946-12-01
The Season Of AdDent
By the Req. Or. Francis r Cassidy,
Professor Education Catholic University OF Aerc

Advent prepares us for the coming
of the Prince Of Peace. Thus Isaias
the prophet hailed the promised Re-
deener several centuries before His
advent: For child Is born to us,
and a. Son is given to us, and the
government Is upon His shoulder; and
His name shall be called Wonderful.
Counsellor, God the Mighty, the
Father Of the World to Come, the
Prince Of Peace. His empire shall
be multiplied and there shall be no
end Of peace
Peace on earth was also q part OF
the message brought down from
Heaven on the very night Of the
Saviour's birth. GLORY to God in
the highest; and on earth peace to
men of good will" formed the burden
OF the angels refrain.
-
Unfortunately, even nineteen CEN
turies after the advent OF the Prince
Of Peace there are glaring instances
OF the brutality and cruelty OF war
among professedly Christian people.
Those who regard themselves as
having outgrown Christianity point
to these examples as proof that the
coming OF the Redeemer did not
inaugurate an era Of earthly peace.
They fall to see that while Chris
tianity has had an eleyating and
liberating influence on western civili-
zation, men In their conduct as in
dividuals, groups, nations, have re-
fused to honor the responsibilities
that follow therefrom.
The peace proclaimed at Bethlehem
Is no illusion. Not to all was the
promise made. A condition was ap-
pended thereto: ION earth peace to
men of coed will" Peace is for those
who cultivate in their souls spirit
Of good will. Such as despise the
law laid down by the Prince of
Peace and refuse to submit to His
guidance are not men Of good will.
Wherever the Prince of Peace is
Evening star., 1946-12-01

esteemed and His counsels honored,
there peace reigns. This is true Of
nations and communities as well as
of families and individuals. When
men hout His saving precepts, in
the place Of peace will be found
misery, bitterness revenge and So
cial conflict.
The peace whereof the angels sang
is not commodity that may be
bought in the market place. It is
denied to none who desire it. It is
given to all without distinction-that
is, to ali who are of good will. It is
not identified with pleasure, honors,
or any other material advantage, It
is ours for the asking, but we must
be prepared to meet the terms Of
the Prince Of Peace-right living as
sons of God. This is the only kind
Of living that succeeds even In the
face Of apparent failure. With the
help Of God all things can be dis
posed peacefully And with the peace
Of Christ, only one kind Of discon-
tent is compatible, the blessed dis
content Of the restlessness to be
closer to God
II 4 i
An Advent looking to q goddess
peace Is as futile as an Advent
without Christmas. Without the
Prince Of Peace men will not come
into possession Of the enduring
peace Which surpasseth all under
standing" There are omens and
portents of woe in all parts of the
world. The President and Congress
are deeply concerned with perplex-
ing problems both national and in
ternational. Never was the world
more in need of divine guidance
than now when man-made mech
anisms, political and social, that
were to bring the millennium, appar-
emily have broken down. Advent days
seek to develop in us sense of pro-
portion between God and man. They
seek to restore God to His rightful
place and establish us in ours.