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clopedia in the 1947 edition and do- mated by the publishers, the Quar- Tie Corporation of Chicago, is awarded to the winner in each of the AuXiliary's Departments. with an additional cash award of S100 for the essay judged to be the best in the nation.
 Mrs Carnegie expressed disap- pcintnent over the poor response of the students this year, as only three sssays in all were tulnd in. and these were all in the Junior High School classification
 The Poppy Poster contest is aga.n sponsored this year, and students are reported to be at work on them now. Worthwhile awards are given in this contest also. and with thought and effort a local boy or girl may produce a poster which could win a national award.
 Due to very small turnout of members, little business was con- ducted lass night. A discussion of final plans for the Mask Ball was held, with Edith Walker giv- ing complete report on arrange ments up to this time.
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FRoM WASHINGTON STATE

Chester Poardon rom Port An geles, L. R. Sougal from Belling- ham, and Isabelle Johnson and M. Weiss from Seattle, Wash, are all registered as guests of the Gastin- eau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-02
UNION SERVICES
 ON GOOD FRIDAY

A union service on Good Fri day afternoon has been arranged for ? o'clock by the Salvation Army and Memorial Church. The devotional service at the Church will be from tte Seven Last Words of the Cross. Guest speakers are Henry Lorenzen. Peter Nickel, H. E. Beyer, c. o. Taylor, Walter Soboleff, Elder Mrs Clara Bar low and John c. Coins.
 Pl1,. it tl,rnnof E,n,t,.r.. r.tarntadsl
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MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Statini.s ai 1 :2G P M tnda

MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING THURSDAY EVE NI(5 Protected Sumner Strait and outside waters Ska under 20 miles per houvariable coudness
 ed waters of Southeast Alaska and outside waters Dixon Entrance variable cloudness with local c showers
 Weak low southeast of Cane St Elias
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Buy it through Empire want-adsl
Evening star., 1947-12-21
EARL LEAF

labor group, the Colombian Workers Union
(UTC), claiming $4,000.
Although Colombia is proud of her SOW
ereignty, progress and new merchant fleet, the
Flota Graneolombtana formed with neighbor-
ing Venezuela and Ecuador), there's little of
the keep-the- -gringos-out nationalism apparent
elsewhere in the Southern Americas.
An ex-Colombian president, slight, high
Evening star., 1947-12-21

gress - Ospina Perez believes effective COM
promise is the key to national or international
peace. When invited to the States before his
Inauguration he brought along three members
of his own Conservative Party and an equal
number from the opposition.
Though his uncle and grandfather were
both Colombian presidents, Ospina Perez
was educated as a mining engineer, took
masters at Louisiana State where Il learned
to speak English with Southern drawl," and
then made fortune developing Bogota's
first mushrooming suburbs.
Resisting the hemisphere trend toward con-
centration Of power, Ospina Perez has kept his
cabinet non-partisan; made certain the oppo-
sition continued to function freely in line with
Colombia's democratic tradition. He sum-
married. his aims as "a broad kind of socialism,
as against Communism
Rich Pay More
HE way Bogota's universities function
demonstrates how Colombia nurtures her
democracy. When students report to the green
lawned Ciudad Uniue1sitaria, they have to
bring certified statement of parents income
IF they are rich they pay more" DR..
Gerardo Molina, the youngish, energetic
Rector explains And half our four thousand
students pay no tuition at ALL
Communists, increasingly powerful in al
most every Latin country I've surveyed dur
ing the past six months, are moldefing in
Colombia A larger middle class than in most
Latin republics averts the contrast of utter
poverty and fabulous riches, the political in
Evening star., 1947-12-21

most avid readers. Colombia's high literacy,
which won Bogota the title, ATHENS of the
Americas" results from widespread free
educational system that includes Latin Amer
ica's first adult university extension courses,
prizes for novels, historic works and stories,
school patronage committees and travelling
Libraries, theater and art exhibitions.
Plus philosophy of life that makes every
cafe forum. Wed rather be poets than die
tators,' Bogotoaos tell you. And they mean
it. Poetry is one of the things on which they
get really argumentative. Not everyone writes
but anybody with the three cents to buy a
cup of coffee has critical opinion.
1t even extends to the army - which not
only teaches illiterate conscripts the three
RS but trade and working concept of
democracy. In almost every Latin country
the army runs the show - or decides whom
it will allow to operate things. In Colombia
Evening star., 1947-12-21

justices, spoils system and suppression of
democracy on which Reds thrive elsewhere.
Not even the Communist leaders inter-
viewed claimed more than 5000 members in
Latin Americas fourth largest country. And
"Dia1io POPULAR, long the leading Colombian
Communist daily, lost so much circulation it
has shifted to weekly publication.
Yet Colombians are among the hemisphere's
Evening star., 1947-12-21

those in service don't
even have a vote. There
hasn't been a president
in uniform for as long
as anyone can easily re-
member, even the Minis
ter of War is generally a
civilian.
Colombia's business
and industry is one of
Latin Americas largest,
most advanced. Its labor
legislation is among
the continents best
and there have been
comparatively few
abuses of it. The Gov
ernment-aided Colombian
Confederation of Labor
(CTC), made up of 81
member federations in
742 unions, has between
100000 and 25O,OOO of
the l,25O,OOO industrial
workers. The Catholic
Church supports another
Evening star., 1947-12-21
KURT SEVERN

foreheaded, Alberto ueras Camargo, the man
on whom hemisphere spotlights will be
focused during the meetings in Bogota's
Congressional Palace, told me:
Our general objective will be to codify
the entire inter-American system and give it
permanent formal structure. We also hope
to work out lasting declarations on the rights
and duties of States and their citizens.
There's no better place to do it than Bogota.
For located almost in the geographical
center Of the Americas, we know North
ern and Southern viewpoints"
Most other Colombians feel they know
'Norteamericanos" we'll Not only because
we've long been their best customer. but
because of our help in developing their
airlines.
generation ago Bogota was, with the
exception of Tibet's Lhasa, possibly the
worlds most inaccessible capital. It's weeks
journey by train, river boat and car from the
coast, unless you fly. In consequence, Colom-
bia became the first country in the world to
introduce commercial aviation successfully.
V00y E00400 e6o MANS
But under prewar German Scadta opera
ton, the airlines were primarily an instru-
ment to strengthen strategic Nazi control
aimed at our vital, nearby Panama Canal
With US. cooperation plans were made.
secret schedules plotted. Just after the
fall of France, u. S. and Colombian pilots
suddenly took over Scadta. Within days a
real inter-American joint partnership, 48
per cent owned by Pan American Arways,
81 per cent by Colombians. was operating.
1t not only has given Colombia control over
her own airways, but has linked her romantic
tropic cities, like Barranquilla and Cartagena
on the Caribbean and Buenaventura on
the Pacific, and cut across the fantastically
tortured terrain which has kept the country
almost series of autonomous districts
The important thing is that Colombia
has managed to do this while preserving and
strengthening democratic way that has real
meaning as Latin America faces the tug of
war between democracy and Communism.
Let's have a coffee and talk it over" is
Colombias slogan. More than resolutions
and high-sounding promises, that may well
be the most significant contribution to come
from the forthcoming International Confer
ence of the American States The End
Evening star., 1947-12-21
BOGOrA

BocorA
ATTENTION Colombia and nine out of 10
Nl Americans will say: "Oh yes, that uni
versity in New York" Repeat the question
to Latin American, however, and he'll
answer: Our only hope for the future
For next month in Colombia's Andean-
ringed capital of Bogota, the Ninth Pan
American Conference will be held. This inter-
American get-together will concentrate on
problem vital to the 800 millions north and
south of the border: whether we're to CO.
operate for prosperity or 90 separate ways to
depression.
But the metropolis where it will take place
is hardly known in the U. S. The Conference
is certain to change that - for Bogota is one
of the most interesting and significant of Latin
cities. A rip-roaring town of unimaginable
noise, Bogota lives on conversation and coffee.
No Bogotano could dream of getting through
the day without 10 of the tiny, coal-black
cups he calls tintos The world sale of coffee
is what makes Colombia click.
Bogota's 9,O00-foot elevation makes you
dizzy at first And its honks, clangs and
whistles, open trolleys which never round cor
ners on more than two wheels, and taxis which
give you free lottery chance with every fare
receipt, add such breathlessness to the pace
that often visiting YanQuis have to stop and
sit on the curb until the eye spots go away.
The thing that strikes you when you
recover your faculties is the vital inn
portance Of the coffee shop. In an hours
stroll along Car1e1a Sebtima - Bogota's
Broadway - dropped into four jam-packed,
smoke-flled cafes There were three cabinet
ministers, one ex-president and at least rs
Dtbmtados (congressmen) debating national
issues with all comers. Arguing first in the
cafes, then at the polls, is standard Colombian
procedure.
Boxing Champ
l HIS endless, gesture-punCtuated talk INTO
which every Bogotano considers it his duty
to pitch, isn't just idle chatter. Colombia is
one of the few Latin countries with real,
working, two-party political system. While
was in Bogota, l ran into Jorge Eliecer
Gaitan, dapper, strong jawed ball of fire
who boasts of his Indian ancestry despite the
fact that Colombia's Indians number less
than tenth of its 10 OOOO, 900 mostly Spanish
and nd-Emopean-descended inhabitants.
A one-time boxing and fencing champ and
brilliant law student, Jorge talked so con-
vincingly between tintos that he was nominated
for the presidency. He made good race and
only split in his own party, the Liberals,
kept him out.
But instead of following the old Latin
custom of calling on his amigos to push out
the winner, Gaitan went back to his favorite
cafe. Sounding out ideas and helping form
public opinion have won new gains for the
party subdivision he founded over coffee cups.
Marino Ospina Perez, graying, shy,
55-year-old businessman defeated Gaitan for
the Presidency Sedate, thoughtful, quiet.
havo
Evening star., 1947-12-21

Here's colorful go-getting Latin American city
vou should know about. What happens
there next month will probably affect your future
The echo., 1947-07-15
DID YOU KNOW?
By w. T. Gillespie

Did you know why we colored men
are called boys" by white men? 1t
is because we play and act like boys
too much. Do you know real con-
structive education for the African
race must depend upon a system of
learning in African history. He who
studies Negro history studies no his
tory at all, because there is no such
history like nationality.
History takes its name from land
accordingly. Ethiopian history. Did
you know that James White, Florida,
invented the carpenters rule n d
Clarence Gregg of Kansas City, Kan
sas, the machine gun that carries
$4,000 cartridges.
Watch for this column
The echo., 1947-07-15

of the family and if they canot be
the leader they will resort to almost
anything. I have known some to re-
sort to tearing up and splitting up
good families just because the peo-
pie could see more in one than there
was in another. Read the book Of
Genesis carefully and you will find
my saying to be true. A jealous
brother or sister is a pathetic MEM
beor of any family. That individual
may and can cause a division among
the members of family Mothers
and fathers, be fair, honest and trust
worthy to and with all of your child
rem, remembering that whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also reap.
The echo., 1947-07-15

Dear Friends of the II. B. A.,
Greetings:
All Of US who love this grand order
should be proud of the work that we
have done. Many who are living and
many who have passed to the great
beyond have helped put US in the fine
position that we now occupy.
Those of you who will accept a lit
tie common sense advice, | wish to
suggest that we should all be careful
as to what we do and say. Be care
full as to how you teach and train
your children, for children do not for
get fast
Mothers and fathers should be hon
est, fair and trustworthy with all Of
their children. They should not make
flesh of one and bone of another.
They should get in the middle of the
road and stay there.
Some mothers and fathers will
crush one or more of their children
if they can, and at the same time
try to support and life some of the
other children to higher heights. A
good mother or father will not ex-
hibit malice and hatred toward one.
whereas on the other hand they exalt
another. Mothers and fathers should
get in the middle of the road and if
one is wrong tell him and love him
just the same. have heard of par
ents who would not visit in the home
of some of their children. They
would hardly speak to them, whereas
on the other hand they would do all
they could in praising the others. No
christian mother or father will mis-
treat one and uphold another of his
children in wrong doings. Whenever
an attempt is made to chush child
who stands for what is right, God
and tie people will see to it that such
a child is exhalted.
Since the days of Cain and Abel
there have been malice, strife and
| hatred in some families. Some bro
Their or sister wants to be the leader
The echo., 1947-07-15

CHICAGO-The Rev. A. L. Hol,
land, superintendent of the Meridian
District Of the Methodist Church, one
of 81 leading Methodist laymen and
ministers who compose the denomina-
TONS General Commission on World
Service and Finance, is here this week
Attending the Commissions annual
meeting.
r1,- sv4.c4 by I'll G aoea, Confer
erca Of the Methodist Church to re-
pg- aGt the more than nil 10 mem
bers in reviewing the receipts and
di bars ements Of Methodist banevo-
lie money, tha Commiss.o has heard
reports Of Church boards an az ncies
involving more than $1O,O0O,0OO ham
died during the past fiscal year
The echo., 1947-07-15
MERIDIAN

Dear Editor:
This comes to let the readers of
The Echo know that St. Peter M. E.
Church had a three night successful
drive with Father Lowery as sponsor,
who is "a years of age and still active
is his church work Reverends Trice
of Haven Chapel, Gerald and Vaughn
Of St John Baptist Church, were the
speakers. The drive closed Sunday
evening, June goth with a sermon
from Reverend S. L. Webb of St
Paul Methodist church, after which,
he opened the doors of the church
and three members united with the
church. H16OO was raised on re-
pairs for the church
Mrs Beulah Love Reporter.
The echo., 1947-07-15

When we look back and see from
which the H. B. A. came, we see the
hand and mind of the General Presi-
dent, Reverend E. F. Xoung, and
have to confess that is was born out
of his brains, and he is to be COM
mended for the great work he has
done When we think of the Won
derful work the Association is doing
today, we see the General Secretary,
who thirty odd years ago, saw his
father struggling with a heavy load
that he could not handle withosS ~
son, Roy.
At that time enemies were Jrylng
to put the General President and his
son, in the person of Roy, out of bust
ness Roy caught his fathers arm
and said to him, with God on our
side and with our courage linked to-
gether, they cannot whip US both"
So when we look at the work the
Association is doing from a constitu-
tional standpoint, we see the hand
and brains Of the General Secretary
an4 it o-ings this thought to us. We
cannot s. along without him He
is 10 BE- commended for the wonder
ful d he has made We Sc his
brains working witt his fathers ex-
perie7o7 and with a combination of
the tso, tie have given the people
a t.u-.1 Il ire and this tree is bearing
fruit oIay 1t grated one seed and
up came the Executive Board with
10 81 outs pointing north, south, east
and st. and this Board is presided
over ty thai t1ll giant, A. J Barnett,
whose place would be hard to fill.
Faith r Young will never produce
anoth f. L.
The echo., 1947-07-15

man-hour, and that needlessly add
to the cost of goods, construction,
and so on, Of which we 2ba,. lse
see but little. These thu steps
would bring about tire, con.i-
tons necessary, if we are to pre-
vent depression, unemploy uAent,
and medlocrity.
A Simple ONE OF THE first
Formula things this 10 ala
would lead to Void
be real understanding and CO..
operation between industry and
labor, which is an essential to the
continued welfare of this nation.
We have not fooled ourselves in.
to the foolish belief that these
two great segments of industry
must ever be at cross purposes.
In the second place, these
things would lead to an increase
of at least 40 per cent in actual
amount of goods produced with
out increases in labor costs. At
the same time there would be no
decrease in rate of wages earned.
This would rapidly increase the
effectiveness of competition and
would bring cuts in prices rang
ing from 20 to Is per cent, thus
giving a real raise in standards
Of living for the entire public,
labor as well as all others.
In the third place, these lower
prices would increase demand for
our goods. American industry has,
more nearly than that of any 9TH
err nation, reached the mass mar
kets. Our industry has produced
goods that make the least of us
veritable kings. And the end of /
this is nowhere in sight. May God !
raise up courageous leadership,
for the sake of this nation, our
posterity, and the world. May we,
individually, exercise the intelh-
gent citizenship the days ahead
will require. -
The echo., 1947-07-15
LODGE NO. 4SS LOSES MEMBER

On Thursday, June 10Th, Sister Or
liza Hooker, faithful and loyal mem
Der of lodge No. 488 passed Though
member of No. 481, she helped to
organize her home lodge, got h +
transfer and did much for the pro-
motion and growth of No. 488. She
served as a member of the Sick Com
mittee.
Funeral was largely attended at
Sweet Pilgrim M. B. Church, Wade
town. Agent A. j. Barnett, Presi-
dent Joe Knox and his lodge assisted
President Buckley. Mrs. Hooker will
be sadly missed.
Austin Buckly, President.
Ollie NJ. Buckley, Reporter.
The echo., 1947-07-15
Published LIS of eaci, Month at 25OS
HAWAII FINDS RACIAL EQUAL
ITY PROFITABLE REPORTS
WRITER

Hawaii is finding racial equality
both possible and profitable, writes
Blake Clark in an article titled zone
World on an Island" published in the
current issue of "'47," the new con-
tributor-owned magazine. Mr. Clark
has taught at the University of Ha-
wall and is author OF a forthcoming
book on the islands.
Hawaii has naver known Ku
KluX Klan or Christian Front"
writes Mr.. Clark. at has never had
a race riot. Here ZEN of all races
address each other as Mister. Chin
csc, who would be barred from some
Shanghai hotels, are welcome in all
Honolulu hotels.
The echo., 1947-07-15

TODAY it doesn't require a gem
Us Of Barney Baruch to look
10 the future and see that
4-ln ica faces a great crisis 1t
Doesn't require the wisdom of
..olomcn to know that if present
conditions continue we are head
"a right into a deep and shocking
Oppression, so great that it might
feet the fundamental pattern
u our economy, and hence the
putire future of the nation.
We can, if only we would, pre-
"cnt a serious depression for
many years. To do so would re-
quire three things we now def
1itely lack. But these proper
things will not likely be done, and
he depression win likely come.
an the midst of a SOLDERING de-
preston, we might muster suffi-
tient courage to do the right
things and thereby shorten its
JuratiOn. / want to outline those
necessary steps which could pre-
vent oppression II TAKEN HOW, anu
switch would shorten a depres-
zion if taken after it is upon US.
What II IN THE FIRST
Ut Comes? place, there IS re-
quired a brand of
bold, courageous, fortnight, nom
political executive leadership be-
yond anything Washington seems
likely to display. In the second
place, it would necessitate a lot
of new, daring, venturesome, re-
sourceful industrial activity,
which because Of unfavorable tax
rates, industrial strife, and gem
eral want of vision, we seldom
see.
: In the third place, it would re-
quire from labor leaders in gen.
eral a very genuine, honest, sim
cere, and effective effort to re-
plove all practices and policies that
hinder maximum production per
The echo., 1947-07-15
Re- marks On Lead rship
BEAUTY-REsT HOTEL NEWS

Mis- Lillian Morris and Mr.. John
Il. Davis Of Chicago, Illinois, were
quietly married in tn beautiful bri-
tai suite of the Beauty-Rest Hotel.
Mrs. Davis is a cousin of Mrs. Rene
Flynn, the charming hostess of the
Beduty-Rest Hotel. They left short
y after the marriage for New Or
cans, Louisiana, where they will
spend their honeymoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Hinton from
New Orleans, Louisiana were week.
end guests at the Beauty-Rest Hotel.
Prior to making their home in Louis
lana they were guests of the Beauty
Rest.
The echo., 1947-07-15
SHUBUTA

Dear Secretary:
This comes to let the many readers
of The Echo know that Lodge No.
127is doing splendid work and is wide
awake. The lodge has grown past
the old stage of one hundred mem
bers. The President must be trying
to make this lodge the largest in this
area. The lodge seems to have the
spirit of doing great things. The
members are right in line with the
president.
Levi mccarthy, Pres. Lodge No. 1877
Annie Washington, Reporter.
The echo., 1947-07-15
I'll. B. A. LODGE CELEBRATED
ANNIVERSARY
'EFWIkl|E

Dear Editor: ~rwWFEH
On the third Sunday in June we
celebrated cur seventeenth anniver-
sary with fifty-five members pre-
sent
Our chairman of the Program COM
mittee, Mrs. Ella Carter, brought
US wonderful program. The fol-
lowing members appeared on pro-
gram: Mesdames Leota Triplett,
Matte Spinks, Julia Hines, jamie Tis-
dale and Eliza Talley. The annual
address was delivered by our presi-
dent, Mrs. Annie Howe Baxtrone.
Mrs. Baxtrone is one among many,
who plays we'll her part for the sue
cess of her lodge and members. May
God bless and keep her.
A wonderful sermon was preached
by Reverend j. X. Rush Text St.
John 4:16. Subject, A work that will
stan in Judgment. Total collection,
$500. We have a total member
ship of ninety-eight; took into our
lodge last year twenty members.
Mrs. Annie H. Baxtrone, Pres.
Mrs. Jessie Gary, Vice Pres.
Mrs. Rosanna Baxtrone, Rec. Sec.
Mrs Leota Triplett, Fin. Sec.
The echo., 1947-07-15
MACON
Dear Secretary:

Dear Secretary:
This comes to let the many readers
of The Echo know that lodge No. 1894
lost one of its faithful members in
the person of Brother Nick Gavin. He
departed this life June &c. He will
be greatly missed by his many, many
friends and relatives.
Rev. f. D. Robinson, Repol ter
The echo., 1947-07-15
MARRIAGE VOWS SAID

Miss Quilla NJ. Rose and Mr.. War
dell Gray we're united in holy matri-
mony at the home of the bride, Sat
urday, July 5, $500 p. m.
The bride is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Gray Of Carson.
The marriage was largely attended
by relatives and friends, states. Mr..
Roy L. Young, Jr., who was in at
tendance. They VIII make their home
Y Carr nth the groom's parents.