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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23
Rridde Club

brldqe Club
Mrs. Gillian Gwin was hostess to
the Thursday Bridge Club with four
tables of members and guests en-
joying the games. Mrs. E. N. Nc
Kibben won the club prize, Mrs.
Hugh Nichols, the guest prize, Mrs.
w. j. Penn low score and Mrs. w. w.
Woody the bingo.
The Halloween motif was carried
out in decorations and in refresh
ments. A Jack O. lantern centered
each table and a delectable salad
course was served by the hostess.
Iced coca-colas were enjoyed during
the games.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

An informal dance was given by
the Tchula high school ballroom
dancing class, and their teacher, Bill
Bidwell, Friday night, October II,
at 900 in the school gym. Those
present were the dancing pupils and
friends.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-23

Mrs. Everarde Jones and Mrs.
Montfort Jones went to Memphis,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin McKibben and
children spent Sunday in Duck Hill
with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Nc
Kibben.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

pie of the South did something's
well and some things were not
done so well, and self-consciously
you asked, haven't we cared for
the colored people of the South
better than the North?"
"The Negro people are entitled
to the right to care for themsel-
YES. They will never be able to
care for themselves as long as dis
elimination is permitted.
II am not interested in remote
social theory. There has been a
great deal of living on the part
Of white men with colored women
in relationships illegal and that
does not seem to be decried with
anything like the earnestness with
which intermarriage is decied and
feared by the white people.
Rabbi Wise told Senator Ellen
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

lana where the ration is 2 to l
and in some counties in Mississ-
ippi where it is 3 to 2, Senator
Ellender asked:
Are you against the segregation
laws that the South has had on
the stature books for quite some
time ?" Senator Ellender asked.
81 am aginst ny ndEevery segre-
gtion law that vioIa1es the basic
rights of American seftizens, Rab-
hi Wise replied, adding that 81 do
not think | am under obligation
to discuss race relations or enter
into an anthropological discus
sion. / am here to discuss the Ives
bill, which I favor. l believe a
Negro has just the same right to
employment as a white man does
in every state in the union"
$50 do l." said Senator Ellen
der, "and I think the South with
it's meager means has taken care
of the colored people better than
the North
'People do not want to be taken
care of in a democracy, remarked
Rabbi Wise. "They demand the
right to shape their lives and have
the right to work.
eve have made a marvellous
progress continued Senator Ellen
der. ,"The South doesn't have en-
ought money. Give us moe money,
and that is what we are tying
to get out of this Congress for
education"
Senator Ellender pointed out
that the amount of money now
spent in Louisiana upon the edu-
cation of colored people is equal
to the amount of money the State
was spending for the education of
white and colored children thirty
years ago.
Il have not enough mathemat-
ical sense to comprehend the sig
nificance involved said Rabbi Wise
after he had asked whether per
capita expenditures for the edu-
cation of colored and white child
rem in Louisiana were equal and
Senator Ellender had told him, -
No.
Suppose after the Civil War the
States of the South had not seen
fit to pass segregation laws and
the colored people would have been
permitted to miingle promiscuous-
ly with the whites. Don't you
think that would have led to in
tqmarriage % Senator Eflender
asked.
"Your question is interesting but
| cannot see it relevance to the
problem that I have been privil-
eyed to discuss here" replied Rah-
bi Wise. 81 think the white peo-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
RANDOLPH - EELLENDER
CLASH

A1x1OI1
keep on advocating social equal
ity until probably they will at
tain it politically. Today you have
in this country colored people pol
itically powerful in seven or eigh
pivotal states and l think the.
will make demands upon Congress
make a lot of Senators and Re
representatives. dance to their mus
ic.'
Continuing to expound his soc
biological views, he said Brazil il
larger than the United States, j:
as rich in natural resources, was
discovered before the United Stat
es but is backward.
The reason for its backwardness
he said, was the intermarriage OF
the Caucasian discoveries of the
country with descendants of AT,
rican slaves, Indians and Chinese
and as a result Brazil has SO
mongrel race and no progress, and
| don't want that to occur in this
country"
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Con-
gress, said people were rendering
a service to the republic by III
sisting that there shall be no VIC
lation of the right to work.
He interpreted the Ives-Chavez
bill as not compelling any employ
er to employ certain people but
as denying him "the right to deny
employment to men and women
because Of race, faith, color OF
national origin
American citizens are entitl-
ed to the right to work without
abatement or limitation, without
regard to race, color, or faith, he
said.
Rabbi Wise stated that he be-
lieved in changing the hearts of
men but cat the same time there
are segments of life in which the
law and law enforcement must re-
inforce anything that may be done
to educate men,"
"In the pre-war days. he said,
Eve had a great meause of dis
elimination in the field of en-
ployment. Because of the pressure
of the manpower shortage that
was dropped during the war. Now
there is a great danger that there
will be a reversion to the pre-war
discrimination We feel it is nee
essay to adopt such legislation (the
Ives-Chavez billy to avert a re-
currrence to pre-war standards OF
sins of discrimination
Citing population ratios of col,
cred to white in the South, par
ticularly in some parishes in Louis
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

der that he was willing to have a
public debate with him on the sub
ject of social relations.
Other witnesses who appeared
before the committee last Thurs
day included Gilbert Harrison, ma
tional vice chairman, American
Veteans Committee: Roy Wilkins,
assistant secretary of the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, and Mike
NJ. Masaoka, national legislative
director of the Japanese Ameri-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

Interested in the long rang well
fare of the Negro. They are in-
tereSted rather in using the issue
as explosive and revolutionary
finder in destroying America.
2. They have placed them
selves on record as favoring an
independent Negro Soviet Repub-
which in essence is a call to civil
war in which the Negro popu-
lation would be the unhappy vic
TINS and in which all their social
gains made in recent years would
be sacrificed"
Among the people the report
attempts to smear by showing
that at one time or another they
had come tot the support of de-
tense of individual Communists
lie in the southern Black Belt
are.
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown,
Rufus E. Clement, Judge Hubert
T. Delaney, Roscoe Duujee, Les
ter Grangar, Governor William I'll.
HASTE, Charles I'll. Houston, the
Revv. William III. Jarnigan, Can
ada Lee, Benjamin Mays, Ira Dea
Reid, Stephen G. Spottswood,
Charming HI. Tobias, E, Frnak-
lin Frazier.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

The Pisa raid, staged by the
Italian Questura agents and 25
soldiers of the Ninetieth MP Com
pany, brought the arrest of ten
men and 70 women, all suspected
of black market operations.
Twenty two of the soldiers. sur
rounded in "house of i'll repute"
were taken in the same raid, along
with both SEPs, who were des-
scribes as Germans.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21
so CONFERENCE HUI
MAN WELFARE

CONTINUED from Page u
ion." iss iS'Es VI
One of the statements quoted
to support the charge that Com
munists were in part responsible
for the organization of the Con-
ference was made in 1888 by
James w. Ford, Communist cand-
idate for Vice President. Speak
ing of the Conference and the
Southern Negro Youth Confer
ence, he was quoted as having
said that the Communist "may
Justly claim to have laid the foun-
dation for these great sicial
movements"
The report also smeared John
p. Davis, a magazine editor, as
having been identified by testi-
mony before the committee as
"a leading member of the Com
munist party He is a former
vice president of the conference.
Also named as one of the Com
munist manipulatorS of the con-
ference was Edward E. Strnog,
whom the report said had been
described by MIR. Ford as ga COM
ing leader Of the Negro people"
According to the report, he is
the secretary of the National Ne
gro Congress, a contributor to
The Communist youth magazine.
The Champion, and signer of a
statement in March, 1871, defend
ing the Communist party.
The report also said Strong was
prominent speaker in the panel
on youth problems at the 1898
conference and was electd NM
Der of the executive committee Of
the Council of Young Southern
GERS. IT also said he is a member
of the Especial branch" of the
Young Communist League.
Also named as supporters Of the
conference were Langston
Hughes, writer, and Paul Robe
son, "who has frequently defend
ed the Communist party and at
tended its meetings"
The report called Hughes a
known Communist and referred
to the fact that Robson had
voiced an appeal for the release
Of Earl Browder at the confer
ence's meeting in 1892" IT added
tina this appeal "was echoed" by
Frak p. Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina, in
a statement sent to the President.
Mr.. Graham was the first chair
han Of the conference and is at
present its honorary president.
The report, however, admits he is
not a Communist and states that
''n odoubt on occasion" he has
had some differences with the
Communist party.
The report also admits that DR.
Foreman "has no open affiliation
with the Communist party" and
that he has Frequently denied
any such affiliations or connec-
tons" 1t charges, however, that
Gle has been most successful in
confusing the people as to the
Communist-front character" of
the Conference.
1t listed as a Communist con-
trolled" organization supporting
the Conference of The United
Negro and Allied Veterans.
With specific references to col
ored people, the report states;
'1n allying themselves with the
Communists and in permitting
the Communists to control policy
and stragetic positions, the nom
Communists in the Southern Con-
ference for Human Welfare are
willingly or unwittingly promot-
ing the following fundamental
principles of the Communist Party
in dealing with the Negro ques-
ton:
81. The Communists are not
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

COLORED MPS DOING ALL
RIGHT IN PISA
Pisa, (NNPA)-A surprise raid
by the all colored Ninetieth Mil
itary Police Company here last
Sunday Melted 80 suspected Ital-
ian blackmarketeers, % AWOL
soldiers and surrendered enemy
personnel, Army officials amour
ced last Monday.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-21

can Citizens League Anti-Discri-
mination Committee, Inc.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
To OUR REPRESENTATIVES
IN THE LEGISLATURE

BE II Further Resolved. That a
copy of this resolution he sent 10 all
labor. civic. and fraternal oreaniza-
tons asking for their endorsement
and requesting them 10 wire or write
their representatives. in the l~egisla-
ture as they see fit.
BE II Further Resolved. That a copy
of this Resolution be spread upon the
minutes OF our meeting.-ANN BLAIR
secretary. Rocky Mountain Sports
men Association.
Now is the time for citizens who
are opposed 10 an increase in the price
of resident hunting and fishing Il
cense to write or wire their repre-
sentatives in the legislature.
The Rocky Mountain Sportsmen 5
association will hold lis regular month
" meeting. Tuesday evening. Febru-
AIRY {. in the council chambers of the
city hall. Wild life motion pictures
will he shown at this meeting Final
ARRANGEMENTS will be made also for
onr annual wild life motion picture
show. elk and buffalo barbecue in the
high school auditorium. Saturday
March -, 80 pm. Public invited.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
Here Is Why Labor
CONTINUED from Page Onc)

make known its actual profit figures
is Understandable. Monopoly's right to
take as big a cut Of production as it
can get away with has been carefully
concealed under phrases like free
enterprise industrial initiative and
rugged i~ndividualism." Never does
business concede that the percentage
of production that goes to profit and
tho percentage that goes to wages is
and inequitable.
The time has come for Il fundamen-
tai denomination of the relationship
Of the forces of our society. business
and labor. While profits boom to their
highest peak since 1920. wages, in
terms Of what they can buy, are lower
than before the war. And. all the while
the business economists predict a cor.
rwective dip" for 1917 or 1913 in which
q number of smaller American bust.
nesses will be "corrected' ont of eX-
istence and a number of American
workers will be Corrected out Of
jobs.
The handful Of industrialists who
own or control our economic society,
who refuse to concede that our living
standards are too low and who threat
en- to plunge our economy into anoth-
er depression, must be curbed,
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
Rural Teachers Go
On Strike In Iowa

Fort Dodge. ~Ia.-FP-That outpost
OF rugged individualism. the rural
school. is becoming a stronghold of
union ideas.
Country schoolma ans used to take
$40 to $50 a month. hints on hows to
dress. where to board and how to be-
have, and an advance requirement of
a high school education with some
college level additional training pre-
ferred. That was before the day of
teacher strikes.
Five teachers in the Pleasant Valley
district near here provided a demon
stration which meant more to agricul-
tural Iowa than similar. activity in
neighboring st. Paul-they went on
strike.
Perhaps inspired by the example of
gypsum miners in this locality, al
though they themselves belonged to no
union, the five ONE walked out de-
manding $50 per month increase in
pay. They went back to work for 500
more but the raise was retroactive To
September !. AS a result the monthly
pay IN Coalville. Gypsum, Shady Greek
and Holiday Creek schools, with 81
farm children as pupils, is now $3.50.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
continued from rage Oneb
Increase In Silicosis Payments

Indications are that lib. 50. by Ben
ich of Silver Bow. has a fair chance
OF receiving a do pass report from
committee ON social security. Tn
der terms of this proposal. victims OF
~silicosis would receive $40 per month
more from the Department of Public
Welfare. Blewett and Ballard of Silver
are on this committee.
Several measures ON increasing UNI
employment compensation may be
acted upon before the week is out.
lib. 50 by Cook Of Cascade and
Head. Missoula. and Mayo. Mineral.
would increase weekly benefits to S25
for % weeks. If this bill is To pass ac-
ton must he had, and had now. from
the home folks. This bill is also with
the social security committee.
Senate Bill SO by AIulholland of
silver Bow and Stewart Of Deer Lodge
appears to be a companion measure
To lib 50.
Another measure introduced by Foot
of Flathead is reported to be an I'm
employment Compensation Commits
sion bill. This bill would increase bene-
fits to 500 for 16 weeks-and. note
this-would establish a merit or ex.
perience rating basis for computing
employer taxes. Estimates are that
steady employers would have their
- per cen tax cut by more than LOG
per cent should this bill be approved
Two-Term-itis
More or less on the humorous side
are two proposals which have started
through the mill. One, a memorial &c
the Congress by the Republicans
would limit presidential tenure to twC
terms. The other. noticed" by prac
tically every Democrat in the House
which. instead Of carrying on a fiehI
against a man now passed on-Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt-deals with con
Temporary "evils'-and would limit
the tenure OF the Governor to two
terms.
There is also a rumor, which seems
~well-founded. that another bill will bt
introduced on restricting the tenure
OF state legislators to not more thai
two consecutive terms. Younger mem
bers Of the House. alarmed at tn
"smoothness' with which the key cog
of the legislative steamroller operate
are determined to do something abou
it. The idea would seem to have a 10
of merit.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
1916 Job Injuries Up
Per Cent Over
Previous Year

Observation-Disclosures than two
million Americans were injured on the
job in 1916. $500 of them fatally, the
bureau of labor statistics reported
January %.
BIS said the two per cent increase
Over tn 1915 injury total, when related
to the number of persons al work, re-
fleets a higher incidence Of accidents
indicating that many Establishments
have eased up on their efforts to pre-
vent work injuries.
Time lost from work through iniur-
les would amount to full-time employ
ment of 1856 900 workers for a full year.
BIS estimated. While most injuries re-
suited in total disability for a limited
time. $4,000 workers were permanent.
~ impaired in one way or another,
and l,S00 were injured so seriously
as to be permanently unfit for indus
trial work.
Manufacturing injuries added up tC
$4,000 during the year. construction
injured Isl 900, mining and q%uarrying
81, 1000, and r%ailroading, 7G,0o0.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
Tired Of War
Stain Tells Son
OF D

New York-FP-There is no danger
people are unwilling to fight. They
are tired OF war" Premier Joseph Stall
in told Elliott Roosevelt in IN inter-
view in Moscow December 81.
R~oosevelt's account Of his talk with
Stain appeared in Il copyrighted story
in Look magazine January 81.
Not a single great power, even If
its government were anxious to do so,
could now raise a large army to fight
another allied power. another great
ROVER. because now one cannot fight
without ones ~people-and the people
are unwilling to fight Stain said. Be
sides, he added. there are no under.
standable detectives to Justify a new
war"
Asked if it were possible for the
democratic US. and communist Rus
sia to live side by side in peace, Stain
said it sis not only possible. 1t is wise
and entirely within the bounds Of real
ization."
On United Nations control of atomic
energy, including international inspec
ton. the Russian leader told Roose
welt. ION the principle of equality ne
exceptions should be made in the cast
Of Russia. Russia should be subjec'
to the same rules of inspection ant
control as any other nation must.
Roosevelt said Stain did not eve
mention the veto.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
Senate To Continue
War Profit
Probe

Washington-FP-By a vote OF ~
to AZ. the Senate decided to continue
its special investigating committee
despite the new reorganization act for
bidding such special inquiry groups.
Senator ". Lee O'Daniel 3D., Tex
was the lone member Of his party to
join the republicans or the ballot.
The leader of the fight for the com
mittee was Sen. Owen Brewster tR..
Me.) who is expected TO be its chair
man. He agreed to limit the inquiry TO
excessive profits. fraud, corruption,
waste, extravaganza, mismanagement,
incompetence and inefficiency of ex'
penditures' in the national defense.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
IT'S LIE
BY z SOLOW

When it comes to dollars and cents
the press has the sense to know where
its dollars come from. That's why it
lit into the Nathan report for the
ClO with the fury of a Hitler panzer
division. In brief, this report held
that generally industry was In a posi-
ton to afford a wage boost of $50
without raising prices
biggest lie spread about the report
to connteract its effectiveness was the
charge that Nathan presented a pie
ture of industry profits. as a common
pool from which money could be
drawn to give everyone a $50 wage
increase
However, IN page II the report de-
clared that THESE FACTS ARE De
SCRIPTIVE OF THE BASIC GEN
ERAL SITUATION. THEY DO NOT
APPLY EXACTLY TOANY INDIvID-
UAL INDUSTRY. OBVIOUSLY THE
PROFIT AND WAGE PICTURE
MUST BE CONSIDERED SEPARATE
LY IN EACH WAGE NEGOTIATIONS"
tAIy emphasis. MS)
Guess some people Just can't read
Or don't want to.
This column has cited instance after
instance in which the much respected
New York Times has either lied out
right, distorted or suppressed vital
news. Here's another example.
Associated Press story on a report
from the senate military affairs sub
committee investigating disposal of
war snrplnses. Omitted by the Times
from the story was the most signifi-
cant fact of the report, that 1Oes Of
all the sales Of plants and leases We're
made to approximately 60 firms which
rank among the $50 largest in the
country.
Tho Times. ON the side of Big Bust
ness, doesn't want the American peo-
pie in ON the fact that Big Business
is getting bigger and bigger.
4
Leslie Gould, financial editor of the
Hearst Journal American in New
York. isn't much Of a whiz at figures.
Eager to help the COP put over its
plionv across-the-boar 20G tax reduc-
ton plan, Gould wrote December II:
"A tax cut Of 20c,-Or whatever per
cent-will be a reduction in living
costs. and those in the lower brackets
will get the bigger relief"
Some quick figuring will show how
silly that assertion is. A man with
9 family Of -four earning 81 million
VIII save SlG1 thousand a year IN
taxes while a man with a family OF
-four earning $2.5o0 will save just $40
that's right ten bucks.
Gould and the reactionary Repub.
mean congress know that a flat tax
cut Will help biz income people most
but that's what they want
Montana labor news., 1947-01-30
Green Says Enactins Of Anti-Labor Laws
May Swing Labor To Left

a mood for action. Let's take advan-
tage of it. Let's say we are liberal and
perhaps the people will believe it. Let
us say all we want is to restore the
balance Of power between labor and
management. And let's lynch labor in
the process.
"To my mind that sums up the So
called new and socalled liberal pro-
gram which the NAM is advertising
so widely in the newspapers"
Green reiterated the AFL position
for free enterprise and against com
munism. but adding the AFL does not
believe that free enterprise is a one
way street. We do not believe indus
try can enjoy the benefits Of the free
enterprise system without according
equal benefits to labor
The AFL chief said he believed the
current bills against labor would be
the first step toward wrecking the
free enterprise system in America
and suggested that industry avoid leg
islative remedies and enter into true
and free collective bargaining"