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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

They tWn % head of workstock,
two tractors. two trucks, and a
hay t.leI
In concluding his report. Mr.
holsey says that the Federal Land
Banks and the Production Credit
Associations are great help to
eolored farmers. These agencies,
he states, have assisted many
farmers in need of sound credit
aid based upon collateral and abil-
ity TO repay,
In addition to Mr.. Holsey. PEA
has a full-time Negro administra-
tive officer. A. II. Fuhr, who
spends a large part Of his time in
the field helping to aequaint col
ored farmers with the credit SER
vices available through the agen-
eies supervised by Farm Credit
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19
Ho|sey Says FCA Helps Co|ored Farmers
Hold Their Land And Increase Net Worth

failares, the death of two of his
mules, and a mortgage on his
farm had Mr. Moore hard pressed
But his Pea loaned him enough
TO replace his mules, meet the pay
ment on his mortgage note, and
to make a crop. AT that time. Ills
net worth was only s2,700; today,
it's in excess of $4,000.
Another Louisiana colored farm
er, George Higgins. was about to
lose his farm few years back
when he shifted from cotton 10
potatoes with disastrous results
IN other years he had demonstrate
ed his ability as q successful farm
err so his Pea extended him add
tonal credit, enabling him TO hang
on to his land, return 10 cotton,
and pay his debts.
In Mississippi, Mr., Holsey visit
ed a father and son team, viii
Walker. sr., and jr., whose net
worth now exceeds $4,000. The
elder Walker started out as a
tenant farmer after dropping out
o. Morehouse college. He skirlped
ana saved up to buy a farm OF
his own. Finally, with the aid q
a Federal Land Bank, he bought
3NU tcrcs near Tupelo.
Today, he and his son own ~
acres Last year, they harvest.
500 tons of hay, 500 bushels O.
co-n, and lol bales Of cotton,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

levied on all the people. In a
word, he seeks public funds for
seetarian education. Ii is hari TO
understand how the Roman Cath
lie Church can espouse democ-
raey when il rejects democracy in
its own totalitarian and autoeratic
organization. The blunt fact is that
the Roman Catholic Church does
not believe In our public school
system
Continuing he compared the
Catholic Church with the Com
munist state by saying that, 1.-The
COMMUNISTS, like the Roman Cath
Ollie hierarchy claim a monopoly on
truth. Both are totalitarian. Both
seek control Of the minds OF men
everywhere, Both practice excom-
munieation, character assassination
and economic reprisals. Neither
Roman nor Moscow knows what
tolerance means. Neither believes
in the separation Of church and
state. Neither can brook opposi-
ton Both have perfected the Hit
Ter technique of repeating prevar-
ication often enough and big e.
noush TO insure acceptance.
From all appearance. Bishop
Oxnan1 was issuing an official
call TO battle with Protestant
backing. due to the assumption
that other protestant officials have
been consulted.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

Colored Farmers. like the oihel
farmers of the Nation, are being
aided by the Farm Credit Admin
istration in holding on to their
land and in increasing their net
work, says ALBION l.. Holsey, assis-
tant TO the president of Tuskegee
institute.
Mr.. Holsey. who is serving as
part-,ime FCA consultant, made
this observation in a report which
he submitted recently TO l. W
Duggan. Governor of Farm Credit,
following a tour of farms In Louis
ana and Mississippi, .etf.
The tour was made by Mr., Hol-
sey at the request OF Governor
Duggan for the purpose of find
ing out the extent Of Negro par
ticipation in the credit services
of the agencies supervised by &c
A.
During the tour, Mr. Holsey
conferred with Federal Land Bank
and Production Credit Associa-
ton officials. and visited several
colored farm families.
Near Alexandria, La, he visited
the 1l8-acre farm of Elijah Moore
who has been able to hold on tC
his land largely as a result Of
credit assistance he has received
from his Production Credit As
ISOLATION.
In 1912. two successive croi
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19
Boy Scouts Return
From Camp Trip

The Boy Scouts of the Quapaw
Area council have just closed &
very successful summer camp held
at Camp Kiwanis, 10 miles north.
east of Conway, under direction
of Field Scout Executive M. L.
Rudd as camp director and Scout
err James S. Hugges as program
director
As result Of a well-planned
program by the camp staff, the
large number of scouts attending
the encampment took full advant-
age of the opportunity to make adj
vancement in the following activ-
tiles; swimming, kfe-saving, pio-
neering, hiking. nature study, sig
Mailing, physical development, per-
sonal health, bird study, rifle
shooting, pathfinding. tracking
and first-aid. Other activities in
cluded acquaintance night, camp
fire ceremony, stunt night and
talent night.
During the encampment prizes
were awarded various Troops for
outstanding records in camp in
spection and special camp events.
Troops sharing top honors were:
Troop 48. Center Star Baptist
church; Troop 40. Miles Chapel
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

made ii possible for the Boy
Scout to use the camp, and other
friends from Conway.
Other members on the camp
staff were: Seouter Mack Brown,
Batesville; Scouter Johnnie
Brown. Batesville. Theodore Jones
Conway. Scouters from Little Rock
were Fred c. Byrd, Advancement
chairman: Earl d. Underwood,
camping chairman; Charles Ruth,
Eddie Sims, Elijah Rhodes, Au-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19
"Fatha" Hines Says Gangsters. Booking
Agents Forced Him Out Of Band Business

IN the show world Hines con-
tlnued, important folks like Lena
Horne, Duke Ellington, Cab Gallo
way Billy Eckstine and Louis
Armstrong. who haven't had to
work indirectly with the syndi-
cate The story says:
Its been a good fifteen years
since the last prohibition racket
teers dropped out of the night
club business, but the smell ling
ers on. The smell is the booking
agents whose control of every
choice date from coast to coast is
a hangover from the DAYS when
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

gustus Mitchell, Ambrose Robin
son, Walter Burks, and Leo Al
ford, csunsellors. The waterfront
staff included Jimmy Dowell as
director, assisted by five qualified
life guards.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

sas City after visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Evans C.
Bryant. Mrs. Bryant accompanied
her home. Mrs Bryant will also
visit friends in Oklahoma City.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

Ccean. 81. Augustine, IN the same
mood, says somewhere about things
lie wasps end spiders that 4 we
Sr.id forget that they bite, We
would be greatly awed by their
i.auty and the perfection OF their
echanism. Indeed. st. Augustine.
g. one Of his prayers, calls God
Pulchritudo. Beauty. just as
c A Is The Truth and The Good,
90 he Is The Beautiful.
Law
ne writers OF these nature
! Psalms ESPECIALLY 10 and s.,
were impressed by another
facl aboutbna,ure: its regularity.
Yc. can count on the sunrise, you
alv.ss know which order the sea
sor~ viii follow. Even things like
ear yuakes and tornadoes, which
seen pretty unpredicable, follow
law snftheir own. Science has now
shdeT this TO be true on a cosmie
scale The stuff Of which the farth-
est ;, IS are made is just the same
toni, lot hoiterD as the stuff in
the ks under your feet at his
minute
a. 9 laws that govern tho fan
Of q ieaf or the shape OF a rain
drtp are the same laws that
car seen In the whirling OF
S~ s,af rst fifty million light
yes away.
The locator Of all is not errauc,
eccen or capricious. He is the
God Of Law, for from his infinite
Mind e ne all the patterns. known
10 us o. vet unknown, by which tho
vast ~ Of the universe Is woven
Mystcly Power, Beauty, Law AL
nature. rot only the stars, shine
with al these and as Addison
says.
.sForeVei singing as they shine,
The hard that made us Is divine.
tcopyri BY ne International C &,
Protestant denominatiDs, Release'
~ VIM tsalurss.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

verse we can set
ne God who II
a ore wonderful
than all his works,
The selected Psalms
express four differ.
ent aspects Of Gods
creative pow er,
Psalm 9 brings out
the dignity and the
glory Of man. msie
10 be master Of the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

Lessen for August 81. 1910

EVERY ATOM Of the universe.
- said Calvin. sparkles with the
llosy Of God. That Is our thought
1br this week: In the created uni-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

Our News Agents declare that the PRESS sells itsel
a YOU have do to show it, Many OF our little ageni
are making So aud 81 weekly You too can make your extp
spending money Thursday and Friday afternoon dave you
oth father or guardian fill out the coupon below ant
bring office and Join the other boys and girls W.
are now making meney
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

Naming the notorious Capone
brothers. AL, Ralph and Mitzi, as
gangsters who ruled Chicago en-
tertainers and orchestras. Earl
Hines charges in September Eb-
ony that Every big name Negro
in the show world was at one
time or another involved with the
syndicate.
As rulers of the New York
show scene. Hines says in Ebony
that owney Madden. George Big
Frenchy' DeMange and the fao-
ulous Jack Legs Diamond, ran Tire
Cotton Club stars just as the Ca
pones bossed stellar names 90
Chicago's Grand Terrace.
In the feature he wrote for Eb|
ony entitled How Ganesters Raj
The Band Business Fafha' says
Now that the FBI has SMASHED
the gangs and many OF the log
public ueplies are dead, I. t1u1l
possible to tell the stofN
these raeketeers once priN
ran the band business. And M
their successors still thro,il5 Jazz
with their ironhanded RUE Of all
bookings.
There's not a single big name
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19
Conway

Martha Carol Veasley, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Rosal Matterson
has returned to her home in Kan
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

The camp was visited by a
large group of Cub Scouts from
Pack 70. MI Zion Baptist church.
Li'tlo Rock. The Cubs We're under
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

- listens to the majestic music Of
sun and stars; Psalm 65:9-l3 sees
nature as q farmer sees 1t. In terms
Of sun. rain and crops; Psalm l0s,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

ahines areat and smali
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= hearfv and : splsns all q.
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- Ca 40 create6 n 40, On.
p - thouahta mssee11 n tbeir
nDa.1e ~ - mvsie,v, nature
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= common grass hla1 erforms
0Eocloe that ehemisex has not
- initaeeo. The mysteEs nature
mooests The deeper terry Of
eeeHs's God.
=: ARE beginning .. to real
-, Even ever, oes'eI an a .ne
U4WlulU C00l0, now ~ eHeiby
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-08-19

running away, but just getting
needed strength to place jazz back
into the hands OF musicians who
deserve i5 get the fruit Of the
business, =
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-02-17

This table is for an average re-
action time of O.75 second and
brakes that just meet the require
ments for the Uniform Vehicle
Code.
No person shall start a vehicle
which is stopped, standing or
parked unless and until such move
ment can be made with reasonable
safety.
Street Cars and Safety Zones:
20. Motor vehicles must stop 10
feet behind the nearest exit of a
street car which has stopped to
load or unload passengers where
there is no safety zone. No vehicle
being driven on a one-way street
shall pass on either side of a street
car when such street car is stopped
FIR the loading or unloading of
passengers.
81. Safety Zones: Where safety
zones or loading platforms have
been established motor vehicles
may pass with due caution for
safety of pedestrians. No safety
zone shall be entered or Travelled
through by motor vehicles whether
occupied or unoccupied. 1t is per-
missible to drive to the left cf
street car loading platforms and
safety zones except where official
signs indicate otherwise.
20. Hand Signals and Signal
Devices.
2S. Before turning right or left,
or before stopping.
I. Left turn-Hdnd and arm err
tended horizontally.
2. Right turn-Hand aud arm
extended arpsoard.
3. Stop or decrease speed-Hand
and arm extended doacnUdrd.
PEDESTRIAN REGULATIONS
Pedestrians must obey traffic
signals and the directions of police
officers.
Pedestrians who start to cross
an intersection on go" signal
have the right of way over vehi-
Giles even though signal changes
before they complete crossing.
Pedestrians must not use road
way between intersections negli-
gently or recklessly or when a We
hicle is approaching so that to use
roadway will constitute a hazard
for his own safety.
Equipment:
"a. Headlights: Should be so ar
ranged and adjusted as to reveal
object size of small child 200 feet
ahead. No glaring beam shall rise
higher than horizontal plane pass
ing through lamp centers parallel
to level road. None of the bright
beams shall rise higher than the
lamp center at any point ahead OF
the vehicle.
%. Use only low beam in city
driving. Use high beam for coun-
try driving unless other vehicles
are approaching, when the low
beam should be used.
26. Rear Light: Shall show a
red light visible from the rear at
distance of 500 feet and illuminate
by white light the rear license
plate SO that numerals thereon are
legible at least 80 feet from rear.
q. Brakes: On a dry, hard,
level road, passenger cars and
trucks under ton capacity, going
20 miles per hour, must be able to
stop with foot brake within 40 feet
If equipped with two-wheel brakes;
within 80 feet if equipped with
four-wheel brakes; within 60 feet
with emergency brake when equip
ped with two or four-wheel brakes
Hcsns:
2S. Must be audible from dis
lance of 200 feet. Sirens, bells OF
compression or exhaust whistle.
are unlawful on private cars oil
trucks. The use of horn for any
purpose other than as a reason
able warning of danger is pro-
hibited. The making Of any UNI
necessary or unreasonably loud or
harsh sound by means of a horn
except for emergency vehicles
fire, police and health depart.
ments) rs unlawful.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04
PlentvOf Cars In Czechoslovakia

There's no trouble in buying car in Czechosla-
yakia where theautomobile industry has been ma
tionalized and like practically all other enterprises
is run by the state. All you have to do is walk
into an agency and PUNK down the money.
The only catch is the price The available car.
two door sedan, mosts more than 415,OO0 crowns,
which is about $500. The sum represents 80
months of the average workers pay The car, ac-
cording TO an APP dispatch is considerably small
er than the 1888 Chevrolet" If you have ration
permit proving your need for car other than a
desire to own one, you get it for about 81 OO0
That is an excellent example Of how regAnented
economies which have abolished all competition
and all free enterprise, produce goods for the
people, There is no need to improve quality or re-
duce prices-the customer takes what the govern
ment offers him or does without. Absolute mono
poly prevails Only the ''elte" class or office hold
has sufficient income or political pull to live
beyond a subsistence level.
In this country, by contrast, every producer
must face he competition of many other producers
every one Of which is out to get more business
This only be done by pleasiD- the customer
On the retail level regardless of the kind of goods
involved the competition is particularly intense
intense, with every merchant and dealer looking
Tor new ways to bring the customers in. We get
oetter goods, anG more varied selection We get
them at price which competition holds to the
lowest Possible level. And those goods are within
the reach OF the millions, not of just the few
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04
Chalk Another Win

When the House passed the Illinois FEPC bill
last week we colored Americans won one more
victory in quet for social, political and econ
omical equality.
But we must not allow the glory of this tri-
umph to intoxicate to deter the function OF
our civil responsibilities toward winning absol-
ute Iteration. The attic is not yet over it is still!
going strong, and the passing of this bill should
should spur us on rather than appease our in
sistence upon all civil liberties AS loyal
members CT the and true Americans it
should be expreed duty to adhere to our de-
termination to win complete freedom.
Some Of might be inclined to sit back SNUG
in the comfort Of cur commonplace and eXclaim:
'Well, at long last we've the fight for equal
opportunities in employment. Our future is Sc
cured'
It isn't by long shot. Remember FEPt
bill is law which has been instituted agans
tie will and desire of many people But now tina
it has been officially decreed-they must com
ply with its demans.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04
Destroying The HIGHWAYS

Every motorist has personally seen the damage
done TO our highways by heavy commercial We
hicles. He has also personally paid part Of the
bill for maintenance and repairs through higher
taxes than would have otherwise been necessary
Thomas H. Macdonald Commissioner of Public
Roads, recently said, eff we accept the principle
that highways are provided to serve the public's
interest a whole, it reasonably follows that the
cost Of building and maintaining them must be
held at the level of true economy. This involves the
limitation of axle and wheel loads to those for
which the highways designed. The highway
user does not wish to pay for new highways
to replace those destroyed by excessively heavy
loads NV. The heavy truck operator is, or should
be, concerned, because most certainly he will be
held accountable for whatever damage these
trucks do :"
What makes this particularly important is the
tendency Of states to legalize heavier and heavier
axle loads. Mr.. Macdonald, who is of the
foremost experts the subject is convinced that
axle loads in of 49, 900 pounds should never
be authorized. Yet there has been an alarming
increase in the number of vehicles in use with
heavier Loads ranging up to the terrific figure of
29 900 pounds. You don't need an engineer to ex-
plain to you what carriers of that weight do when
they pound over our roads.
There has been remarkable growth in the
number and size of commercial trucks using public
highways. Measures which will protect the roads
from excessive deterioration under such traffic
must be adopted to protect all taxpayers from even
heavier levies for the highway funds.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04
III fg.-rs .sU M I'D "a WVHVp ~f.eE
~ is7sI- ] ENHl OLD -;
-%'
By GEORGE S. BENSON
President Of Harding College
SECRECY. Arkansas


alarming. If any one individual
were powerful enough to dictate
governmental appointments with
threats of strikes, new era OF
demagogues would indeed be at
hand. Such power would be ,po-
tentially disastrous.
Protect THE WEAPON of in
Workers : discriminate strikes
is one which labor
leaders alone control. Neither
government nor management pos
sess such a power. The rank
and file Of labor, too because Of
their organization, are subject to
the orders Of those leaders. Many
labor leaders recognize this situa-
ton and act in farsighted man.
ner. However, the selfish actions
of any one leader casts unfavor-
able reflections on the whole
movement.
No more loyal group of Ameri-
can citizens exists than the miners
themselves. 1t is sad irony these
people should suffer the brunt Of
the strike. According to the AS
ISOLATED Press, they will lose
about S68 million in wages during
the two weeks layoff. This means
$68 million in food, clothing, and
other essentials must be forfeited
to the whims of one leader who
was elected by workers to safe
guard their interests.
This points up sharply the need
for adequate labor legislation.
Without violating the rights Of
labor, we must draw clearly the
line where those rights end and
national responsibility begins. The.
average worker has everything to
gain in such legislation. Labor
must be accorded complete pro.
lection from responsibility -
found within its own leadership,
or elsewhere.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04
This Years Meat Supply

AS of the early part of March. retail meat prices
in the Chicago area, which are generally typical
of the country whole, down an average
of 20 per cent below last summers peak levels.
Some popular cuts down much more-round
steak, for instance, was being offered at 80 per
cent less than at the high point
Supply and demand did that A heavy supply
of meat came to market, and at the same time
there was some slackening in consumer buying
The meat had to be moved and lower prices were
the inevitable result. AS an interesting byproduct
of the change, one of the biggest meat packers
took substantial operating loss for 1948.
At present, there has been something of re-
versal in the trend of livestock supplies and Irices
are expected to level out. However, no need
fear meat shortage Last year, the average
American at 146 pounds of meat. This year, it is
estimated, he will account for 145, made up of so
pounds Of beef, pounds of veal, 72 pounds of
pork, and pounds of lamb and mutton. A decline
in available supplies Of beef, veal lamb and NUT
ton will be made up by an increase in the amount
of pork.
The American dining table will continue to carry
its share of the good things of life and meat is
one CT them. The price must pay, when mea-
sured against the average increase in dollar in
come, will be fair and reasonable.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-04

At a time when many people talk almost glibly
Of the possibility of third world war, it is, wise
to, attempt to the cost of the last conflict
Nothing resembling exact accounting be
made-there are too many imponderables and in
tangibles, which permit Of only an informed guess
One Of the most thoughtful efforts to arrive at the
cost of World War II appears in Harpers Maya
zine for April. 1t is written by c. Hartley Grattan
who has long been student of the economic i'm
plications Of war.
Mr.. Grattan concludes that about 100000
members of armed forces lost their lives The last
war was unique in that civilians suffered heavier
mortality than did men in uniform The casualties
from bombing; the planned determination of whole
categores of civilians; the terrible death rate
among slave laborers; the losses in underground
movements-these and other causes probably were
responsible for 100000 deaths. Thus the total
human cost of the war 100000.
TO total the material cost brings the analyst to
extremely difficult ground. The most obvious and
easily-unearthed cost is the money actually spent
Tor military purposes by victor and vanquished
This IS recorded in national budgets 1t came to
more than trillion doars-S1 III 900 900, 900.