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Evening star., 1949-10-23

would marry him. Watch me-"
The Rutherford B. Hayes,
Children" l said loudly, was
actually gunboat. I'm allow
ing you to share this happy
secret because, later in the story,
there is gunplay."
Tell that part first" said
Melinda.
"Once l threw an egg in our
electric FAM" said Tommy.
EARLY one evening"" l went
on, the princess climbed to
high tower hoping for a sight of
Everett. Suddenly the power
lines failed"
Both Kinds
Ho," SAID Molly. "They did
MT have power lines in those
days."
'You forget the eels," l said
quietly. Underneath the castle
were vast ponds filled with elec-
tric eels, both AC and DC"
"Bro-ther!" said Molly. This
is worse than the one you told
me last winter when l had single
pneumonia"
"You like it, dop't you.
Tommy" l asked.
YES" he said, ''but l wish
I had an egg"
How about you, Melinda?
Or would you rather be cast into
the streets and possibly run over
by an ice-cream cart?"
I'D rather be run over by an
ice-cream cart" she said. If
had a nickel"
This should explain to the
police why three children threw
themselves under the wheels of
an ice-cream cart last Tuesday
evening. They all had nickels in
their hands, and they all got up
off the street without a bruise.
The only bruise is on my ego.
DICK kSHBAUGH
Evening star., 1949-10-23
''NOW I'LL TELL ONE!''

Our humor writer tries
to spin a yarn for the
kids. They'll take vanilla
Tn THE pioneer days parents
Il would gather their children
around their knees before an
open fire and spin fairy tales.
They spun them out of their
heads because the nearest IL
brary was in Boston, Mass,
while the pioneers were gener-
ally just the other side of
Topeka, Kan.
Storytelling today seems to
be a lost art. The last time un-
hinged my knees and assembled
a flower garden of upturned
faces, the results were dull. Since
it was warm evening gathered
them around an electric fan in
stead of an open fire. But there
must have been a flaw in nv
grouping, for the flowers inn
mediately began slugging
each other.
This abated momentarily when
I began to describe my cast of
characters. 1t was a fairly stand
ard list, centering around a
beautiful princess named Cup
cake. She was kept a virtual
prisoner by a wicked stepmother.
The castle gate, of course, was
guarded by a three-headed ogre.
when does he get killed."
asked Melinda, who is five and
can't wait for the holocaust.
Plying the moat outside the
CASTLE" l went on, was an ex-
cursion steamer, the Rutherford
B. Hayes, captained by a hand
some young man named Ever
ett."
I'm learning to spit" said a
young man named Tommy, who
had stopped in to see if Melinda
Evening star., 1949-10-23

Our humOr writer tries
to spin a yarn for the
kids. They'll take vanilla
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Final Pact Depends Upon
3 Issues; Force Barred

of the peace. Arab leaders even
now are using the threat of a
second round in the bargaining
at Lausanne.
This difficult task of negotiat-
ing the peace has been assigned
by the General Assembly to a
three-nation Cancellation Commits
sion consisting of the United
States, Turkey and France. Their
three-fold problem involves tn e
question of boundaries, the Arab
refugees and the question of Je-
rusalem.
The question of frontiers, COM
plicated by failure of non-Jewish
Palestine to gain the partition
awarded independence, subsided
as a burning issue with the As
sembly rejection of the Berna-
dotte report with its award of
the Negev and Jerusalem to the
Arabs.
The city of greater Jerusalem
was designated by the Assembly
for Observation-Disclosures under the
United Nations.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23

taking efforts of pioneers of
many years. Here is the story
of a typical settlement, telling
how the pioneers joined their
strength and courage with the
funds of philanthropy and pri-
vate capital to build the home
land and create an entity that
could become a state when the
time was ripe.
BEERSHEBA = Far down in
t h e southern littoral of Israel,
near where the northwestern Ne
gev marches with the approaches
to Egyptian-held GAIA, memo
rial woodland was planted t h e
other day.
Pine saplings were lovingly
placed in the soil where, a year
earlier, wilderness battles h a d
ragged. The occasion was the first
anniversary of the deaths of a
group of gallant boys and girls of
the Palmach, who fell on this spot
in beating back a formidable in
vasion army.
Hundreds of people, relatives
and comrades-in-arms of the fallen
young Israelis, attended the sim
pie, though stirring, ceremony.
The place, almost opposite t h e
Biblical site of Ascalon on the
coast, will be revered in the his
tory of hose defense bastions
within which the Independent, SOW
ereign state of Israel was firmly
established.
THE KIBBUTZ at Ovarian is
still a small one. 1t began life in
1885 as a small group calling it
self "Machar" (Tomorrow), and
went on the land at Kfar Saba,
on the plain of Sharon. There it
remained until 1914, when h e
kibbutz was assigned by t h e
Jewish National Fund an area of
1000 dunams $1,000 acres) in
the Negev.
Their new settlement was To-
Gated 20 kilometres north of the
Arab port of GAIA and about IL
kilometres south of Negba. 1t in
cluded citrus-grove of 100 du-
mans, and in the first year of set
tlement, the farmers were able to
pick a moderate crop of citrus
fruit and to join in the export
shipments to British markets.
The first pioneer group went
out from the lush and verdant
fields of Kfar Saba to the arid
Negev wastelands in 1914. A year
later they were joined by their
fellow-settlers, wives and children
who remained in the Kfar Saba
region during the preparatory pc
riod.
The first budget they were
granted by the Jewish Agency
amounted to $4,000 pounds and
within a short period the pioneers
were able to install an irrigation
network and other machinery.
AS THEIR ASSETS grew, the
settlers started borrowing from To-
cal banking agencies for expan-
sion In 1914, they needed a
truck. They had received permis-
sion from the Palestine (British)
Government to purchase Chew
rolet three-tonner, and it was to
the Central Bank of Cooperative
Institutions in Palestine, Ltd, that
they applied for a loan of 1000
nounds To finance the purchase.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
By Alexander Gabriel
q. T. A. Correspondent at the
United Nations)

united INdClOnSJ
LAKE SUCCESS - eve have
won the war; now we must win
the peace" This slogan VII i h
haunted the Allies on the eve of
victory in World War II sums
up the position of Israel follow
ing the collapse of the Ara b
armies in Palestine.
The alternative to a conclu-
sive peace is that an unliquidated
war will deterioriate into a cold
war between Israel and the Arab
states in the same way that it
has produced the present cold war
between the wartime Allies.
The world in general and the
United Nations in particular know
only too well the fear that cold
war may run out of control into
the real thing. Neither the young
state of Israel, nor the economic
ally backward Arab countries can
afford the uncertainty and the
threat of a protracted half peace.
Four Agreements Made
At present this half peace has
brought to the Middle East free
dom from violence, however tenn
porary, through the successful
and brilliant conclusion of four
armistice agreements.
By mandate of the Security
Council resolutions in November,
Acting Mediator DR.. Ralph J.
Bunche, by direct negotiations be-
tween Israel and the separate
Arab states, hammered out de-
tailed agreements with Egypt,
Lebanon, Transjordan and finally
Syria, laying the foundation for
more hopeful outlook at the dead
locked peace negotiations at Lau-
same.
Iraq and Saudi Arabia bound
themselves by tn e Jordan and
Egyptian cor S respectively,
while Yemen, too far removed
from the area, with no troops in
action automatically lapsed into
non-violence.
No-War Pledge Taken
While the agreements differ in
territorial and military juxtapo-
sition of forces, they all have this
in common: all carry identically
worded provisos barring the par
ties from resorting to force in
seeking to liquidate their differ
ences.
Forces were withdrawn and re-
duced behind carefully designated
neutral zones under the vigilance
of United Nations observers.
Mixed armistice commissions of the
parties were established to nego-
tiate any disputes threatening the
truce and to effect virtually un-
conditional exchange of prisoners
of war.
But above all the parties bound
themselves to abstain from "plan-
ned" war, that is, any large-scale
preparations for resumed hostili-
ties beyond the immediate zones
of demilitarization. AS summed up
by DIR. Bunche in his final report
on the agreements to the Security
Council: each agreement incor-
porates what amounts to nom
aggression pact between the par
ties"
} Second Round" Threatened
Reassuring as this pronounce
ment sounds, it must be remem-
bered that non aggression pacts
are generally signed between
friends. But while there may be
truce and armistice between Is
rael and the Arabs, there def
nitely is not and probably cannot
be friendship between them until
final peace is written, settling
all of the outstanding problems
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
Half Peace Prevails Middle East IsraeArab Cold War Feared


NEW YORK, (JTA) = Zionist
labor groups here this week issued
an emergency appeal for funds to
aid prosecuted Zionists in coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain. The
call was issued following a special
conference held at the Hotel Astor
attended by representatives of all
branches of the labor Zionist
movement in the United States.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23
University ReoPened

JERUSALEM, (JTA) = After
being closed for a period of one
year, during which the institution
suffered great human, scientific
and material damage, the Hebrew
University has reopened in rented
premises in Terra Sancta.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-09-23

By Julian [. MeIfzer
Copyright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
EDITORS NOTE: Behind
the drama of the birth of the
state of Israel lie the pains
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
A Maids Dilemma

JACKSON, Miss, May 9. GAN
PA maid for a white family in
northeast Jackson finds herself
confronted with a perplexing sit
uation-she's a day ahead of time
Although she doesn't understand
how it could have happened to
her, she is positive that the wealth
err is the guilty culprit.
On her day off last week-Sun-
day-the skies turned dark and
heavy rains poured down upon the
city. With nothing to do, the
maid went to sleep. When she
awoke, the skies were still dark
and it was still raining.
However, the skies began to
clear and the rain stopped. 1t was
just like early morning. The maid
thinking it was Monday, made her
self ready, caught a bus and went
to her job. There, she began fix
inging breakfast, readyings the
children for school and started
about her days tasks.
The woman in the house thought
the maids actions peculiar, so she
called the doctor. The maid told
the physician she thought it was
Monday, she had slept soundly
and that daylight had dawned a
short time before.
The physician brought her up
to date, or rather back to date.
He explained she vas "a hours
ahead Of time and sent her home
with a sleeping pill so she wouldn't
remain awake all night.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
IFS The Talk O. Town

That this column of two weeks
ago had an atomic effect on prac-
tically every individual and group
mentioned. The writer already
has said he was sorry about the
misunderstanding. 1t is definite
ly not his intention to indulge in
small talk, petty gossip, wanton
criticism or the like. Nor does
he desire to do any ~low-rating or
signifying. The only object of
this column is to pass along items
of general interest, unusual &C.
currences, constructive criticism
and other noteworthy topics ard
bizarre happenings. Well leave
the gossip and slurs to the idle
prattlers. We hope what is writ
ten will be accepted in the proper
spirit.
That not enough groups and in
dividuals send us their news items.
We notice items that we don't
get but which are sent to white
papers are shunted aside to the
insulting "Afro-American" Sec
ton or to a small paragraph in
the middle of the paper. W. wish
Dunbar High would send US 0
items. And the Y's. All groups,
in fact.
That HELEN BLANKS is the
beauty Of the week. She came in
from Fort Wayne to visit with
her sister RUBY TAYLOR.
RUBY, of course, is the business
manager of the EXPRESS.
That many downtown offices Of
Continued on Page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Powell Introduces Bill
More Money for Henson

WASHINGTON, May 9. (ANP)
Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr. dem. N. W 22nd
Congressional district, introduced
last Wednesday, a bill to provide
Matthew Henson a pension of 49,
600 per year. The introduction
Of the bill was prompted by a conf
munication, dated April FL, from
Admiral Richard E. Byrd. 1t read
as follows:
"May l take the liberty of sug-
costing that perhaps a bill to
increase Matthew Henson's pen
sion would meet with the approval
of the American people. If you
would agree that such a bill would
be possible, we explorers would
approve it if you would bring it
up in the house I would do
all that I can that is possible to
help you get it through.
Powell's bill in it's opening SEN
tence states, "That the faithful
and m%eritorius services rendered
to the U. S. by Matthew Henson,
of New York, who was a member
of Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary's
expedition to the North Pole il
1909, and who is now advanced
in age, are hereby recognized >
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Establish Organization

CALAIS, Va. May 9. (ANP)-
A new organization, The Better
Tomorrow was recently estab-
lished with headquarters here to
promote the general welfare of
Negro children in Carroll county
and vicinity. The organization
secured it's charter on May 2 from
the state Corporation commission
in Richmond.
The first organization of it's
kind in Virginia, the group also
plans to raise funds to erect a
recreational building for the use
of Negro children as a commun-
ity center for all types of pro-
grams beneficial to children ard
youth. The new organizations
has no stock. Its president is Mrs.
Ollie Mae Brown. Other officers
are Mrs. Elsie Robinson, vp; Mrs.
Blance Blair, secretary; Miss .Ber-
nice Maxwell, assistant secretary.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Urban League
Meets Tonight

Tonight in the auditorium of the
Central YMCA, the second annual
meeting of the Dayton Urban
League will be held. Charles w.
Washington will give a report of
the operations of the Legues dur
ing the past year to directors,
members and friends. The League
is a Community Chest Red Feath-
er Service.
Frayser T. Lane, secretary of
the Community Organization De-
partment of the Chicago Urban
League will deliver the principal
address. A.. B. Sacks, president of
the Board of Directors of the Day
ton Urban League will preside.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09

WASHINGTON, May 9. (ANP)
The much talked Of civil rights
bills are now bobbing up here and
there on Capitol Hill, in spite of
the dreary outlook on the posi-
oility of getting favorable action
in this session Of Congress.
Poll tax hearings began in the
committee on House administra-
ton last week, while hearings on
the FEPC bill scheduled to begin
May 3 were postponed until May
10, and the federal anti-lynching'
bill which passed the Senate Ju-
dietary subcommittee last week is
now resting in the full committee
pending action. The committee
reported last. Thursday morning
that it had no idea when the full
committee would take a vote on
the bill.
Irving Brant, who for the past
II years has been writing the BIZ
ography of James Madison, the
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Civil Rights Bill Bobs
Up In Congress

father Of the Constitution, ap-
peared before the House commit
tee in opposition to the poll tax
last Monday. He said when Madi-
son was 80 years old and his
hands too crippled to hold a pen
he related, ga government rest
ing on a minority is an aristocracy
not a republic, and could not be
safe with a numerical and physi-
cal force against it without a
standing army, an enslaved press,
and a disarmed populace."
Madison, he said cited three
reasons for federal control of
elections, (1) to prevent the dis
solution of the federal government
(2) to insure equal representation
in congress and (3) to give con-
gress power to act "should the
people of any state by any means,
be deprived of the right Of suf-
frage."
Being a historian, Brant was
able to relate the entire history
of the poll tax, when and how it
had it's beginning, and the injus-
tees which it has imposed on a
large segment of the American
population, poor whites as well as
Negroes.
At the conclusion of his dis
course, Cong. Burleson of Texas
asked Brant why he advocated the
abolition of the poll tax as il
doesn't affect him personally
care you a crusader or do yor
consider yourself a reformer?" re-
quested the representative.
To this the witness replied thai
he felt that "a number of on
States have departed in seriou'
and dangerous manner from tn:
Continued iva page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Church Federation 10
Hold Scout Conference

The Church Federation of Day
ton and Montgomery County in
cooperation with the Boy Scouts
of America will hold a Protestant
Conference on Sc outing on May
II. Meetings will: be held in the
Recreation Building of the Grace
Methodist church at Harvard and
Salem Ave. from II am. to 4 pm.
DR.. Albert E. Iverson, execu-
tive secretary of the Protestant
Committee on Scou ting will be the
honored guest at the conference.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09
Ohio Committee for
FEPC Calls Special
Meeting Tonight

The Ohio Committee for Fair
Employment Practices Legislation
in strong words condemned the
FEPC bill passed by the state
senate last week. Chairman
Lockwood Thompson said, "The
Ohio Committee for FEPC can
not support the bill which passed
the Ohio Senate -. The so-called
educational amendment sponsored
by Senator Sawicki, and passed
by the senate 17-15 struck out
the entire bill which passed the
House and was approved by u
committee
The committee hastily called
an executive meeting for today in
Columbus at which time future
action will be chartered. An at
tempt will be made lis being made
as this comes off the press) to
prevail upon Senators Sawicki and
Boyd of Cleveland to change their
minds and move for reconsidera-
ton of the bill tonight.
Failing in this, the committee
will ask the House membership not
to concur on the amended bill
thereby sending it to a joint con-
ference committee in the hope an
effective measure will result.
The Committee against asks for
public action on this. 1t urges
kilograms and phone calls to state
representatives and senators ask
ing them to reconsider the bill as
it now stands.
"But-act now! If we are to
have an effective FEPC bill in
Ohio in 1949 we have only the
next few days within which to
make this possible"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09

L. H. Mayfield of the department
of Christian education of the
church federation has urged all
pastors to see that the Scoutlnast-
err and his Troop attends the meet
ing (if the church sponsors a
Troop.
Discussions on various subjects
will be held and timely and vital
messages will be presented during
the conference.
H. NJ. Privette, top scout execu
tive in the Miami Valley, is we'll
known for his liberal ideas which
he puts into practice. Don Craw-
ford is the top Negro in the To-
cal Boy Scouts. He edits the
publication of the Scout Troops
in the valley.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-09

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