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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-04-24
Banquets

The Antietam's have their ban
quet tonight, with Skipper" Eyler
making up in eats for his poor score
in the roll-off
The Sunday School League cele-
brates on Tuesday night in the din
ing room of Grace U. B. Church,
and as usual con be counted on to
provide both a real meal and a real
entertainment
The Elks Club League put on the
feed bag on Monday night, April %,
at the Elks Club, at 500 p. M, and
the Eagles Club will hold their
banquet (also on Monday night at
the Masonic Temple.
The Kiwanis Club will wind up
the banquet season on May l.
Now let's look at some of the
scores.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
Builder Uses Psychology as
Means of Initiating Tires

AKRON, OHIO.-Psychology has
been used successfully by a build
ing contractor to combat "infa-
ton" The contractor, having trou-
BILE with punctures in the pneumatic
tires of his wheelbarrows, called in
a B. F. Goodrich Rubber company
field engineer, who suggested re-
placing them with zero pressure
tires-a type which contains air
space but does not have an inflated
inner tube.
However, the laborers COM
planned that the wheelbarrows were
much harder to push without the
pneumatic tires. Knowing this was
Just imagination, the contractor had
dummy valves put through the rim
holes to make the tires look pneu-
matte, and then returned the bar
rows to the job.
Next day, one by one, his em
ployees came to tell him that the
pushing was much easier again, as
they "knew it would be-" they said,
with inflated tires.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23

He estimated that the cost of not
having a scientific program would
average one million dollars a year.
Bennett declared that American
farmers, falling in line with conser-
walton practices made possible by
congressional appropriation. "are
turning the tide; we are winning the
fight against the greatest common
enemy to productive land-uncon-
trolled soil erosion"
He aims to put more than 80 mil
lion additional acres of farm land
under conservation surveillance by
June 80. That compares with new
coverage to 16 million acres of land
in fiscal year 1916.
Total Acreage Rising.
If his new program is realized it
will bring to a total of lis million
acres the farm and ranch land in
the United States which has been
blanketed by complete soil and
water conservation of all kinds
since the program got under way in
earnest in 1888.
Just how far the program has
progressed in the first six months is
shown by these figures: On July 1,
1916, of this current fiscal year
there were 1857 soil-conservation
districts, embracing approximately
1888 million acres, under c%onserva-
ton. BY December IS, the number
of districts has risen to 1,75O and
slightly more than one billion acres.
The growth of districts means
that more farmers and farms are
brought closer to the technicians,
who are available to assist them in
their problems. The utopian aim, OF
course, is to have every acre OF
every district under control. Work
is carried on now almost entirely
through the district program.
This year around $41, 300, 900 has
been made available for soil control
in the w regions of the country.
In 1913 it is -expected that the .
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
Samuel's Testimony to
His Mothers Deep Love

Great men do not forget their
mothers. Samuel forgot his
pious mother, Hannah, who, having
prayed for her child, loaned him to
the Lord for all his life.
When Samuel as a venerable
statesman wrote down the events
of his lifetime, he included among
these the fact that ''his mother
made him a little robe, and brought
it to him from year to year when
she came up with her husband to
offer the yearly sacrifice" l Sam.
2:19.
A strange event to chronicle
among the mighty happenings of a
nationl Yet in so far as it pictured
in one beautiful stroke the relation
between mother and son, it also re-
vealed the human source of great
ness in Israel's greatest judgel
Mothers Day is essentially dedi-
Gated to the protection of the home
and all that implies. In its more
obvious aspects it is a reminder of
a personal duty, from every son to
every mother, but it suggests, too,
the obligation of all sons to all
mothers. 1t is broad in spirit, cath
Ole in conception and admits no
narrowness of Interpretation.
In a summary of the accomplish
ments which it was hoped would re-
suit from the general celebration of
Mothers Day, and the proper OBJ
servances connected with the ami
versary, its founder, Miss Anna
Jarvis said:
ITO honor and uplift motherhood
and to give comfort and happiness
to the best mother that ever lived
your mother"
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
Shoes Of BerIiners Lost in
Repair Shop; Courts HELPLESS

BERLIN. - Berliners, distrustful
of neighborhood service shops, have
started having only one of their
shoes soled at a time. They have
found if they leave only one shoe in
the repair shop they are more likely
to get it back.
Lower German courts have been
flooded with damage suits against
shoemakers, tailors and laundries
by customers who left shoes,
watches, wearing apparel and linen
for repairs or cleaning, only to find
that the items were "lost."
Testimony indicated that the
items found their way into the black
market where heavy prices are paid
for scarce consumer goods articles
newly repaired, while tradesmen
showed a Willingness" to refund
the original purchase price.
Compliments, however, are not
satisfied with such a settlement be-
cause they are unable to replace
their belongings at that price.
The lost and found department Of
the Berlin police reports that
around two hundred persons come
daily looking for lost goods, most of
them ~fruitlessly.
One item, frequently lost but
never turned yer to the lost and
found department, is a food ration
card.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
Farmers Toll to
Cure Soil Waste
Stabilizing the Farm Land
Is Vital to Our National
Welfare. Says Expert.

WASHINGTON. - With its ambi-
tious 1947 program aimed at almost
doubling its 1916 accomplishments.
the soil conservation service admit
teddy has laid out big job for itself.
But on the basis Of past achieve
ments, coupled with the growing
r~estiveness Of farmers toward soil
waste that literally washes dollars
out Of their pockets, the program
appears feasible, experts say.
Progress in the first six months OF
the fiscal year also would indicate
the goal was not too high.
According to H. H. Bennett, chief
of the Sos and the nations out
standing preacher on the evils of
soil erosion for the last 40 years, the
higher goals this year are essential.
"The work of stabilizing our farm
land is vital to the national well
fare" he declared, land must move
ahead with even greater speed, for
it has been too long retarded"
Has Shown Results.
Bennett hits the chord that has
perhaps struck most tunefully on
the a of the farmer debating the
question of undertaking soil con-
servation:
"Where it has been practiced,"
Bennett said, "soil = conservation
farming has resulted in at least a
20 per cent increase in production
per acre, as an average. 1t has
meant increased income to the
farmer and savings in seed, ferti-
lizer, labor and power. 1t has &C
counted for a high degree of land
protection, even under the pressure
of intensified wartime production"
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
Teacher Sends a SITS Check
For icribbing' in 1894 Test

FREDONIA, KAS. - Carl E.
Strecker, Wilson county school SUI
perintendent, said he received a SIS
check from a woman who wrote
that she had "cribbed" (used notes.
in a teachers examination she took
in 1894. She asked that the money
be paid to a rural district where she
had taught for three months, ex-
planning that she felt the district
should be reimbursed for her sal
airy.
Laurel outlook., 1947-04-23
priation will go up to $43, 221, 5O0.

pr1atlon VIII 60 up to $43,22I, 5UU.
Bennett, in his zeal to save fertil-
ity of the soil, has compared the
average American farm to a "pa-
tient beset with a complication of
diseases, many of which are beyond
the powers of home doctoring or
even a general practitioner"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30
Sinclair Lewis Writes q Book

The people who write the buy or borrow
them to read the worlds influential
usually come changes in CUSTOM
The impact of good book important subject cannot
be estimated The Negroes in America
pens Of the couny best writer's until the years
is the practical that Our
best American white novests have SHE'D Negro
and subject Publishers who profit Of books
have not encouraged authors highly
subject as Americas Achilles heel" the problem
Increasing interest minority problem
partly because Of international position
lean authors who would like to deal honestly
exists This circumstance plus the
professional IAN American Dilemma; the Lillian Smiths
Strange Fruit Richard Wghts Native Son. naturally made
publishers that the reading public willing
themes dealing with subject formerly
able sale Of Margaret Hasey further made the
better publishers receptive to the dealt
with Americas perpexng unsoved problem.
Minnesotas Sinclair Lewis the established top
flight noveSts approach the racial system country
OF all the writers with Lewis equipped by his
cosmopolitan life to tell the And he does Kings
blood Royal" As pointed in May edition. has
wide audience which the other writers subject
acquire Because Of this the Lewis good in
putting the spotlight the problem north
and In the nation than the
subject
fiction and the socially people the
problem Of stands today in America
fn the mission Of writer both to entertain and stimulate his
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30
This Breed-This NEGRO

Editorial Los AnReIesTr bunel
NO one weep Tor the who
i've ear last week in the wholesale firing Drug Co. Of m
Negro fountain help Recalling the mdwar OF
IN winch we proposed the P
brigade to Keep the sulky sefcened
them from undong with their all that the efforts
the NAACP the Urban League and sundry
have been able to do for the years certainly won't
brood. 10y "'
And yet we do lament their gongthey go far enough
but the necessity which led to their Wholesale
abe by large firm the Drug fear there will he
lean days in which the Owl many from the
men work project we're enough that or from
fate
Not only do lament because the the racial
empoyah reduced by whatever
contributed to them by the chain
missed by the to its L.
OF possible and because
OF the American white public from its prejudices.
Those young chts the failed do this
they closed door and they points That
they did so really through fundamental fault hardly
be noted either by industry by the public
They did it, of of ignorance. breedng mo
breeding all would be acurate hatred turned
to defensvenes Perhaps responsible for their
failure than they people who own
control and the people and in
dustry like them
It's old old Indigenous Of
like other the world Them America
breeding them In the wild peculiar they
are frequently unhealthy and violent only thew
sometimes bite the hand that feeds them but
and bite off their spite their faces.
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Publishers
Corner

On Mothers Day, Sunday morning May 1th
and privilege of sitting the pulpit Baptist church. g
est Minneapolis church. with Rev. Henry W. Bolts his and
assistant pastor Mr. Henry Bolts J 1t the first time had
had the pleasure hearing young
lesson OF slight build had his would match
his physical structure We that he had well
carrying and excellent pulpit poe
The day grand Day theme
The high and bright The people
beautiful to behold from the The pervadng feeling
genuine fendness missing northern churches
Zion The Gospel direction of
Edward johnson and peoples choir Worthy
Turner the TENOR did Bertha johnson Smith, soprano
talked briefly Mother subject which hearts of
most humans We felt little guilty urging listeners
thoughtful
you neglect to write mother regularly"
Our through the has gets this
each week. it's the letter deep in
heart know that's tomorrow, paper
the mails and the stands going
her that love her
Mrs Evelyn Combs promising young gracious
chairman of lions Mothers Day activity On the program
Mrs Lucille Jordan who read praise of the
the world.
Rev Bolts ST., fine fettle Near of sermon
he said that he had evangest
but just the offered
the church Zion church has stood solid
nOrhside Minneapolis years has made
fine contribution his community people
they seem to know it, appreciate it and love him for it.
Wednesday gave a MINNEAPOLIS Lions
Club luncheon the Radsson Mnnesoas most
useful citizens Judge Edward long years on the
helping the young Judge Waite
Many would gone pipe and easy
slippers Today Judge Waite works promo
of Minnesota life He's one
of the busiest the city.
He found between remarkable
study of THE Negro the Supreme Court"
study high courts decisions
affecting the status Of the American Negro
The Lions Club really honoring paid
Edward F. Waite
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30

pertinent in this field is on too
small a scale to provide anything
significant in the way Of conclu-
Sions. Yet the plan has definite in
terest, for a number Of reasons.
One of this states leading educa-
tors said, not long ago. that he
was virtually shocked by talk re-
vealing racial intolerance he heard
from children attending his schools
classes. The community is u typi-
cal Minnesota small town. The
striking thing in the schoolman's
account Of his impressions was his
remark that the children, of course,
mirrored the views of their parents.
That, unfortunately, is true. Chill
dren do not learn racial intolerance
except from grown-ups. 1t may be
that if children are shown that
there is no proper basis for such
intolerance, they will ultimately be-
come more tolerant and more in
telligent grown-upS.
Yet no adult can deny, despite
all commendable concern for the
training Of children in the right
direction, that full-time job faces
people everywhere in working on
themselves-on the grown-ups so
largely responsible for the shaping
Of innocent children's views.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
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Harris Says Lynchers
Must Be Stopped
VTrnaO TTninH H;Eofsor


Editor: Brothers, what they did
to Willie Earle they'll do again
and again and again-until they're
stopped cold, and / mean cold. .
Twelve murder minded jurors let
20 lynchers go because the MUIR
dered man had more melanin pig
ment in his skin than they. g..
That's 40 mad beasts by actual
count in one court room at Green
vile, South Carolina.
South Carolina-the stencil of it
they did nothing about the sad
list policeman who gouged out Isaac
Woodlands eyes because his skin
was darker colored than theirs. g.
South Carolina, home state Of
former secretary Of state James
Byrnes and cesspool Of fascist
racism. Jimmy, bosom friend
Of President Truman, posed as a
representative of American democ-
racy, peace and goodwill - the
stencil Of it-with an atomic bomb
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30
LETTERS

I in his hand to blackmail people
who refused to swallow his line Of
clatter.
But it isn't only in South Caro-
lima that this insanity finds its
supporters. Look at the Ma
TONS Capitol, in the White House,
in the Congress Of United States,
in the Minnesota State Legislature,
right here at home in the Twin
Cities where more than five out of
six industries do not employ Ne
grOes. . It's here, everywhere to
poison peoples minds and rob them
Of their good sense and humanity.
1t doesn't always work so open
ly, but work it does, right here in
Minnesota. By the denial of
jobs and the right to go ahead ac-
cOrding to ones abilities, by hold
ing them down so Negro men and
women can't get married and have
children, by segregation into ghet-
tos, by Withholding public monies
for schools, Fairgrounds and COM
munity needs wherever Negroes
live, and thus force charity down
our threats, by ridicule, half truths
and whole lies in school text books,
newspapers, over the radio, the
filth of morOns' tongues, by trying
to divide US from our natural allies
the men and women Of organized
labor.
Brothers and Sisters, let's take
the action needed to stop American
fascism cold, and l mean cold. =.
With the trade unions and other
decent people of America we can
go ahead and win the full and
equal status to which the laws of
nature and Of natures God entitle
us" If we are alone, American
fascism will do it to us again and
again and again.
REGINALD HARRIS,
5-27-47 st. Paul, MINI
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Where the Guilt Rests

with the acqutta Of all 81 ynches Greenve c. mass
a another big black mark chakd
OF Justice At the however realized that this
particular does not constitute valid
vile. " '
The purpose of federal legislation national
TO step IN when local officials fail duty
In this Governor Thumond
eht machinery when the Greenv authorities act
police rounded members of the evidence for
helr prosecution The ably
Judge Martin presided with conscientious mpartiality
Blame for the final avesty comes to rest oa
upon the jury which chose what should
evidence of guilt including signed confessions of ma
OF the Defendants And the decision
NOT 'e confronted hy federal law The Greenve
presumed would have returned the
IN federal instead of state courtSt Paul Pioneer
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30
Minnesotu Neqro Workers. Responsibilitv

Negr workers in Minnesota
have greater job opportunities than
they have ever had before. Prior
to the war, only the railroads here
were large employers Of Negro la
Dor. Twin City industry general
ly kept a closed door policy In the
matter Of employing Negroes.
Whenever II did use this labor
supply, 1t was only at the lowest
job levels.
In the construction and opera
ton Of the Twin Cities Ordnance
Plant by the Federal Cartridge
Corporation, Negroes for the first
time got an opportunity to exhibit
their aptitudes and skills ut a va
riety Of jobs, When It was nosed
about that Negro labor was good,
bad and Indifferent as is all other
labor, and that In some instances
II was better because It was CRATE
full for the chance Of proving IT,
self, other firms notably the Mime
apolis Honeywell, international
Harvester, Munsingwear, d. W.
Oman, Western Electric, Minneap-
olis-Moline and others let down the
race bars and Negro workers got
a chance TO show their mettle. They
were found to be neither better nor
worse than other workers as a
class. When personnel manage
ment began to accept them rs in
diViduals rather than members Of
q racial group, results were better
and It was found that a Negro
worker given the same training,
encouragement and chance for pro-
motion did as well as his white
brother.
After the war because Of the
general overall Indignation Of Ne
gro workers time private in
dustry was much more willing TO
employ colored men and women.
A prime example Of this new at.
titude Is the Twin Cities Rapid
Transit Co., our chief local street
railway transportation system. Be-
fore the war II required a great
deal Of pRrleying and persuasion
to get a Negro employed as n
car cleaner In the street car shops.
Today, not only are Negro work
ers employed In the car barns and
yards, but nine young Twin City |
men, most Of them ex-service men |
operate street cars as conductors
or motormen. Both the street rail-
way company and the street car |
workers union, have cooperated full
ly In opening up gainful job ave-
nues to citizens TO whom such areas
were formerly closed, by thought
leSsnesS, custom, prejudice or all |
three. Street railway employees are
usually substantial, we'll paid
workers. The addition Of even nine
such Jobs, to the Negro communi.
tvs economic position is highly
important.
What has happened in the street
railway industry has occurred in
'ther industries, more generally
than is commonly known. Some of
the Negro workers are making
good with their new opportunities,
others are not; more would make
greater effort to make good II they
could be made to realize how inn
Portant is the new role many of
them are playing.
Another factor in the widening
job field, has been the new aware
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30

EuituF note In our May rs edition
by error printed in another part Of the pa
we are repTintinK II altogether.
The decision of the Federal Pub
lie Housing Authority to remove
from Sumner Field "all families
whose incomes are large enough to
permit them to obtain decent hous-
ing on the private market" is GO
ing to pose quite a problem for
many Of the 1913 Negro families
that live in the Government hous-
ing development.
In the first group who will re-
ceive removal notices July /, there
will only be about three or four
Negro families, but as the months
move along there will be many
other families.
The question posed by the whole
Sumner Field situation is that there
is just no decent housing obtainable
in Minneapolis at present and from
all indications the state Of affairs
will exist for sometime. The situa-
ton is bad for everybody and doub-
ly worse for Negroes and Jews who
must seek housing.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-30
Howard Hunt Thanks
People For Interest
Shown During Illness

Editor: l want to take this
means Of saying thanks to the peo-
pie Of the Twin Cities for the in
terest they have manifested in me
during my illness. | would like to
extend special thanks to Rev. Floyd
Massey Jr., pastor of Pilgrim Bap-
fist church, and Rev. J. w. Phelps;
the members and friends of Pill
grim church, the Postal Alliance,
the Household Of Ruth and other
My grateful thanks
to them all.
HOWARD NJ. HUNT,
90S Carroll Ave,
st. Paul, MINI.
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ness Oh the "hlte pubiic, which in
many instances Is Just now real
l@ihB' thaI heretofore, Negroes
nave oeeh rlgiuly excluded from
JoDs III most INDUSTRIES IN the Twin
CiteS' Inc minneapolis Fedora
tioh OF leachers Local No. 59,
a. r. OF L. ana the Minneapolis
rareht leachers Assn cOura-
geousiy TOOK cognIzance OF this I'M
iair CONDITION. when both organiza-
tions went ON record requesting
'hA' Ietaii stores IN Minneapolis
cohSiuer q poilcy OF employing Ne
gro women as sales persons The
minneapolis League oil women Vot-
erS IN d Poii also went on record
rs l"'orihg such piah' Ihls
program IL not revolutionary lor
negro women IN cohsiueraDle num-
Ders serve well AZ safes people IN
some Oh 'he most important ne"
iorh department STORES Inc iact
mat sue" important iocal orEani-
hat'ohs Us Named are interested IN
.ne opening Vi ne" eInP'oSmen'
i'eiuS ior '"e eoiore" iei'o" ciI'
@enS ID one Vi 'he MOST hopelui
symptoms Vi 'ne years Employ
erS VINO p'enu mat Puoiic ac-
''p'"''e ioi iu'' '"tesr"''o" anu
participation Oh the negro worker
"t All Joo ie'eiS' loses the weight
Vi Su'n Il" argument "heh 'he
PuU"e SHOWS 1t Oei'e'es III uecehcy
anu i"ir pay LOT all men ana
"oheh VINO seek 10 earn a hVihg'
a' 'ne Joo LOT "hlcn theIr tram
ing aptitude ana apility III them'
AhoIner FACTOR whlch VIII play
d part III the lur'her widening OF
Joo opportunities, Is the Mlnneap-
OILS r. e. commission ms
's.'"e'e" '''S 'iuii'"''ee Is
expected 10 materially chahge an
u-"ihorlty employment practlces
III the MIN 'ity' mat II Will nave
wlue puDiic support II not lmme-
uiate compliance Is evident by IN
creased interest OF certain stores
ana concerns whlch IN the past
re" Gays nave decided that their
employment practices
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Experiment in Race Relutions

Some Twin City church groups
are now working on plans for a
race relations experiment in which
several Negro and Nisei children
from this area will spend two weeks
this summer with white families in
rural Minnesota. A similar expert