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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
ETTERS TO THE EDITOR

curing Of a liquor license for Mr..
Anthony B. Cassius at his estab-
lishment located at POT So. Third
St, Minneapolis.
The issuing of the license to
Mr.. Cassius by the health and
hospitals committee and the city
council has proved to me that
they are interesting in meeting
the needs of all the populace.
Congratulations to Mr.. Cassius
and all parties white and Negro)
for a fine contribution to the city
of Minneapolis.
George A. Tyrell
Oak Terrace, MINI.
Dec. 81, 1913
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
1949 Looks Bright
For First Glass
Citizenship for Negro

Citizenship for Negro
Editor: With the year 1919 one
week old it would appear that the
prospect Of the American Negroes
being elevated to a first class cid-
zenship look brighter than ever
before.
Undemocratic practices which
go on daily are being pointed out
to hundreds of millions of Ameri-
can citizens by powerful nation
wide organs. The report on Jim
Crow in Washington, D. C. has
been widely pubHcized in newspa-
per and sectional magazines. The
two current issues of Golfers"
contain excellent articles which
reveal snobbish practices of col
lege fraternities. Don't miss them
and don't fail to congratulate the
editors of Golfers" for their
courage in bringing this matter
to the attention of their huge
reader audience.
There is an excellent common
tary by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
against the Ku Klux Khan in the
current Paramount News release.
Let US resolve to cooperate
within our group, and as a group
with other groups or organiza-
tons concerned with our status
quo, that adequate legislation will
be enacted wherever needed to
make this country the true dem.
ocracy it was intended to be.
H. Ransom Coins
St Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07

Philadelphia or New York for
hospital treatment. Negro doctors
are prohibited from joining the
District Medical Society, and can
not care for their own patients II
these patients (mostly Negroes, Of
course, have been lucky enough to
find bed in a hospital ward.
Do Negroes live in slums be-
cause they have a natural attrac-
ton for them? The National As
ISOLATION OF Real Estate Boards
says not. After a nationwide sur
vey. It reports, on the contrary,
that when a Negro buys a house,
he fulfills his obligation better
than whites of the same econom-
ic status" When he rents, he
takes better care than other
tenants Of his economic group"
Negroes live in slums for two rea-
sons: First, they are underpaid
and cannot afford to live else
where; second, through restrictive
covenants and other devices, white
men keep them penned up in ghet-
toes, just as Hitler penned up the
Jews in Germany.
A Supreme Court decision q
few months ago ruled against
restrictive covenants ~ such;
but this ruling IL easily eyaded-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07

not exceptional-14 people living
In one room. A small house was
occupied by 20 people.
Homes owned by Negroes are
eleven times less likely to have
running water than those of
whites. They are ten times less
likely to have central heating,
four times as lacking in indoor
toilets, eight times as deficient in
electric lights, nine times more
likely to need major repairs.
Thirty per cent Of the Inhabl-
tantS Of Washington are Ne
ErOes. but they occupy 10 per
cent Of the Sums. 1t Ii perhaps
not surprising that they have
% per cent Of the deaths from
tubarculosis Though the notion
that they are peculiarly suscep-
TILE 70 this disease IL mere
white vOOdool.
Their life expectancy Il ten
years les than that Of white peo-
pie. A Negro baby has half the
chance Of survival that . white
baby has, and q Negro mother ID
six times more likely to die in OF
after childbirth Washington hos.
pitfalls have hardly any space fol-
Negroes, and no Negro may oc'
Clpy q private noon. Members Of
the colored race habitually 60 to
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
WITHOUT ENVY

BY WILLIAM HENRY HUFF
I'd rather with a pleasant voice
From deep within confess
How much it makes me to rejoice
At every ones success
The seed Of envy never can
Find Judgement in my heart;
And how I wish that every man
Would say to it, Depart"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
Card Party Sponsored
BY Wheatley Auxiliary
Friday, January 14th

The Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary
is sponsoring a series of enter
tainments for the coming year,
and the first of these entertain
ments is card party This party
is to be given on January IA, and
the admission is 25c per person.
Three prizes will be given away.
The first prize is $500; second
prize is $500. and the third prize
is $500. Time of the party is 500
p. M, and the location - Phyllis
Wheatley Settlement House, 800
Aldrich Ave. No.
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MINNEAPOLIS soCIALs

Mrs. Oscar Brown, Jr. and
daughter are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Conrad Austin, 9S6 Bryant Ave
No. Mrs. Brown is the sister OF
Mrs. Austin. Mrs. Brown and
daughter will leave Saturday,
January sth, for their home in
Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Virginia Lee Walker of
Chicago spent six days in the city
visiting her sister and brother-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Walker,
1915 Fourth Ave. So.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
THEN AND NOW"

BY JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
When 1 was a little boy,
About half past three,
All the world was a garden to me.
Rain and other things from the
sky
Was the grace of God passing by.
But now, I bow my head and sigh,
AS bombs fall and babies cry,
In a world wreathed in wild con-
fusion,
1 have lost every trace of my
beautiful illusion.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
Commends People Who
Backed Cassius Bid

For Liquor License
Editor: I am taking this oppor-
tunity and profound pleasure to
commend the individuals and or
CARNATIONS who worked so pains
takingly and diligently in the Sc
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
ALONG THIS
WAY
BY CHARLES h. HOUSTON
OUR CIVIL RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The big question around Washing
ton this column being written how segregation will
be abolished at the Washington National Airport Although the
Airport the Virginia side of the Potomac River the Air
Federal territory the exclusive control of the Federal
Government The catch that the Federal Criminal Code
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
By BRUCE BLIVEN in

concluding insament of Black Skin
the New Republic of Dec. 20 The
first nstalmert appeared in this papers Dec 81 edition
Said Agnes Meyer nationally known journalist and wife
Of the of the Washington POST writing that paper
No in the Negro slums of Detroit not in the South
cities have human beings subjected such unae
waited wretchednes the alleys of city of Wash
ngton" Mrs Meyer found-and these conditions typical
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-07
BLACK SKIN AND WHITE
MARBLE; OUR CAPITAL
cTTY'S SHAME IS EXPOSED

While the NutiOnS cuPu ProushOs Democracy the World
~ PruefIsOS Something VoY Different lis Own Doorstep
By BRUCE BLIVEN in the New Republic
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
Science And Machines Have Doubled
Agriculture Production In so Years

farmer behind the steering wheel.
II not only made the farmer more
efficient but released additional
acres for raising more food and
fiber for human consumption.
While horses and mules were
declining from around 10000. 900
head TO about 100000 farm
tractors, trucks and automobiles
were increasing from zero to
10, 900, 900.
In the past few years science
has become a full-fledged hired
hand of agriculture. Better seeds
were created, more knowledge
was uncovered about the use of
fertilizers and insecticides, better
animals were bred and more
know-how was accumulated about
how to grow crops.
In estimating the efficiency of
land and farmers the st%atisticians
add up the total farm production.
Then they subtract the products
needed to feed the animals that
supply farm power. That gives
the efficiency factor in terms of
the ability of land to produce
needed foods and materials-for
clothing. etc.
In 1900 this factor stood at 240
and now is around ass, an in
crease of more than 80 per cent.
(The year 1870 was rated 1907
The total farm output divided
by the volume of agricultural eff
fort (total hours worked) gives
an estimate of the efficiency of
each worker.
= In 1900 this factor was Isl and
now is around 325, an increase of
more than lis per cent.
Actually. fewer agricultural
workers now are producing far
more feed and materials than
were produced in ls00-and from
approximately the same number
of acres of croplands.
Breaking down the increases
that have taken place, the experts
rate each improvement as fol-
lows:
l.. About 80 per cent of the in
crease in supplies for human
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
Real Oil Gushes
Through Wells
In Spare Room
AP Newsfea

Wichita, Kas.-Got a couple of
oil wells and a refinery in your
spare bedroom?
Frank w. McCurry has.
They're models. of course, but
real oil gushes out of one of the
wells.
Oil from the other is pumped
to the refinery and turned into
gasoline, kerosene, distillate and
diesel fuel.
The models are McCurry's hob
by but it's hard to tell where his
hobby leaves off and his bust
ness begins. He's a vice-president
in the Derby Oil CO., a leading
Kansas independent petroleum
firm. Nearly 40 years have gone
into the building of the miniature
oil field and refinery, McCurry
says.
81 started working on ii when
| was a 12-year-old farm lad liv-
ing near Peru, Kas.," he relates.
Our farm was close to one of
the early oil discoveries in Kan
sas and | would sneak away from
home to watch drillers working
on a new we'll"
Several years later he enrolled
at the University of Kansas and
began TO study oil and gas. He had
to build equipment for some of
his experiments and that gave
him the idea of constructing a
complete model refinery to add
TO his simulated oil well.
Today after nearly continuous
remodeling and Improvement, his
hobby Stimulates practically every
phase of the oil industry.
McCurry has carried his show
piece over much of the Midwest
to give demonstrations before
school children. college students
and even oil industry and army
officials.
There are a lot of model refin-
cries but this is the only working
model" McCurry explains.
He makes one exception, Sew
eral years ago he built a similar
plant for the University of Neb-
raska but he doesn't know if it
is still working. McCurry says he
has since turned down fancy
offers from persons and even
foreign governments desiring a
similar model.
How much does he figure his
plant is worth? McCurry says
money couldn't buy it. However
he estimates it would take about
$4,000 TO duplicate it.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

needs has come from acres no
longer needed to feed horses and
mules. Almost 10000, 900 acres
were transferred from raising
livestock feed to producing things
for humans.
2. Most of the other 20 per cent
increase comes from improved
farm seeds and animals, from the
increased efficiency of machines
and improvements in farming
methods.
Of savings in manpower, one
Agriculture Department expert
says:
If the farmers in World War II
had used the same types of ma
chimes and methods commonly
in use by farmers in World War
l, it would have required 4,500,-
600 more farm workers to raise
the crops this nation produced in
1914.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
AP Newsfeature

Washington-In so years sci
ence and machines have just
about doubled agriculture's abil-
fly to produce.
That's the score-card of farm
experts summing up progress in
the first half of the Goth century.
Z They estimate each acre of
American land can produce 50 per
cent more Of the foods and fiber
needed for human consumption
than ii could produce in 1900.
And because of mechanization
the farmer himself is lis per
cent more capable of producing
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

materials for human use than
was the FARMER of 1900.
INFLAMMATION was well under
way before 1900. This was the
changeover from hand tools such
as the scythe to horsedrawn ma
chimes like the mower. These
animal-drawn machines made the
farmer more efficient, but the
animals themselves mostly
horses and mules - required
hours of care, and many acres
were needed to feed them.
In the early 1905 steam and
gasoline vehicles began appear
ing on farms. This placed the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

Portable one-man saws, driven
by small gasoline engines, have
considerably lightened the labor
of the lumberman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

pAsER IN 30 MlNoiE~'
Minute Rice with M:., Bali: sssss each
s g; 4;
!: III ": ss 'ss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
How Not to Diet

POPULAR ones are bananas and
milk, watermelon and raisins,
chopped raw liver and rye bread,
or plain peanut butter and lettuce,
three times a day. They'll rake
the weight off, all right. but with
disastrous results to health. In
Seattle, Wash. three foolish wives
were hospitalized recently because
they had tainted after dieting
too strenuously.
If anything of the kind is going
on in your home, put your foot
down firmly. If your wife is over
eating, you can be strong-minded
about it, but don't 60 to the lengths
one Jealous husband did. He
prevented his wife from eating
dessert by picking a quarrel
after the man course. She used
to rise in tears and leave the table.
Thanks to his efforts, she lost 20
pounds, then sued for divorce.
Your wife's tendency to go in for
food fads is only equaled by her
fiat refusal to have anything to do
with organized exercise. Il get
enough of that. she says, around
the house,"
Her doctor disagrees. but again
it is you who must persuade her of
the value of the daily dozen and
the virtue of fresh air. One hus-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

your masculine demands for some
thing filling" probably overbalance
the family menu in the direction
of bread, potatoes and pastry.
Her daily food allowance should
include a pint of milk, one egg,
citrus fruit or tomato juice, one
other fruit, a raw salad, another
green or yellow vegetable. some
butter or margarine. small serv-
ing of potato. at least one serving
of meat or fish and six to eight
glasses of water. Your wife will
be delighted to plan more
wholesome meals if you ask for
them. When she does so. be sport
ing enough to praise the string
beans and the salad with the same
superlatives you used to reserve
for her apple pie.
Because your wife's chief fear is
getting fat, she may be one of the
nations 10 million crank dieters.
DR.. Jonathan Forman, a Column
bus, Ohio. food specialist and edi-
tor of the Ohio State Medical
Journal, says wives often use food
as an emotional crutch, the way
some men use liquor. But wives
feel guilty about this overindul-
gence and when their guilt is con-
frmed by their bathroom scales,
they're apt to launch themselves on
crank diets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE
Don't miss W. Somerset Maughams Words To Live
By Il Am a Nature Widow" by Mrs. John kieran,
Gossip Can Be Dynamite by Howard Whitman, and
top fiction by Octavus Roy Cohen and Corey Ford
HOW TO KEEP YOUR WIFE YOUNG
Continued from page five

band solved the problem by buy
ing his wife a dog - the small,
active kind that needs to be aired
four or five times day. You may
get your wife on the tennis court
or golf course if you whisper in her
ear that a famous movie star often
plays there incognito. Or try buy
ing her a smart sports outfit.
Movie stars themselves fall for
this one. Not long ago band leader
Phil Harris decided that his wife,
Alice Faye, was not getting enough
exercise. As hint, he gave her
pair of riding boots. He succeeded
only too well. She not only learned
to ride but bought herself a 5000
Palomino.
Doing the >Bumps"
"A PERSISTENT roll of flesh across
the abdomen may plague your
wife even though her weight is
perfect. Prominent obstetricians,
such as DR.. Marion Laird of
Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center, New York, recommend a
simple exercise to redistribute this
excess flesh. Doctors call it '.pel-
vic rocking but it is really just
the ''bumps" routine of the
burlesque queen! Maybe you
can show your wife how it is done.
Proper rest will do as much as
exercise to help your wife keep
her schoolgirl figure. Muscles re-
freshed by long hours of sleep re-
tain their snap and vigor. Few
wives, however, 60 early to bed.
Many are troubled by insomnia
after they get there. Pharmaceuti-
cal records show that housewives
are the greatest purchasers of sleep
ing pills, ear stopples, eye shades
and other artificial aids to sleep.
About Twin Beds
DoCToRs prescribe pills with re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

,,.xr NIGHT SNACK II, IN , rs % %ss: Is:
:;
s: ::
tablespoon ~~~~~-~.~ss~-.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

About Twin Beds
DoCToRS prescribe pills with re-
luctance. When one nervous, over
tired housewife asked her physician
for a barbiturate. he wrote instead,
Take thou $40 worth of new
nightgowns. a pair of pastel sheets,
store near a perfumed sachet and
use when needed" The prescrip-
ton worked.
The twin bed, says DR.. c. Ward
Champion, geriatric specialist, is
the best insurance for the wife who
is interested in good nights sleep.
Husbands often snore, toss and
turn, and steal the blankets. But
lift is nervous tension which keeps
your wife awake, the cozy security
of a double bed may help her to
relax.
One of the most distinguished
members of the U. S. Supreme
Continued on page Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
New RICE DISCOVERY makes marvellous
huStle-u up me-

Simply bring Minute Rice to a boiI-no
more cooking needed-and you have the
finest, fastest, snow-white rice every time!
Makes hundreds ofnew, different, delicious
dishes. Makes glamour meals so easy-anl
quick-its smart to keep it handy. Buy o.
} boxes at time!
Evening star., 1949-10-03

A wife writes: Haven't you said
that it is entirely proper to put
a roll down on the tablecloth?
My husband says it belongs on
the plate and when breaking of
a piece the rest should be put
back on the plate and not on the
cloth. He thinks I misunderstood
your advice"
According to the most formal
precepts known. no bread and but
ter plate is ever put on at dinner
The bread served is dry and is
laid on the table cloth always. If
you have bread and butter plate
(Which does not belong at for
NAL dinner) buttered bread should
be put on it.
Gift for Remorried Couple
Dear Mrs. Post: Is it customary
to send a wedding gift to couple
who. divorced and several years
later remarked each other?
Answer: Certainly not expected
but no reason why you may not if
you want to.
ChiIdren's Porents Invited
Dear Mrs. Post: When children
are in music recitals tickets to
which have been sold to the pub
lie, shouldn't the parents of the
ones taking part be sent compli-
mentary tickets?
Answer: The parents, yes-but
not the whole family.
Announcing Boby's Birth
Dear Mrs. Post: I had been
working in the same Office for
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Capital Items
Of Oflnterest

Mr.. Carleton Smith, director Of
the National Arts Foundation OF
New York, is in Washington and
is staying at the Raleigh Hotel.
Mr.. Smith flew here directly
from Europe to be on hand last
evening to introduce Miss Mary
Garden, famous opera star. at the
first in a series of lectures she will
give throughout the United States.
Mr.. Smith win be in Washing
ton until tomorrow.
- Mr.. and Mrs. James Jacobs,
who are now making their home
at 2300 Forty-first street. were
guests of honor at cocktail party
given yesterday by Miss Elizabeth
Eisinger. Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs,
both of Washington, were married
recently in Scarsdale. N. Y. She
lis the former Miss Virginia Lee
Galloway. daughter of Mr.. Clark
Galloway and the late Mrs. Gal
loway. This is the first party
given for them since their return.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Emily Post

some years and when left. be-
cause I was going to have baby.
the women there got together and
gave me a lovely baby blanket
and all said to let them know
when the baby arrived. If I sent
each one of them an announce
ment of the arrival, could each
possibly feel that this obligated
her to send gifts?
Answer: Send an announce
ment to the head one and add a.
note to say how sweet the baby
looks in the blanket. Z.
Ex -husbond Discords Ring
Dear Mrs. Post: Should a man
discard his wedding ring after a,
divorce? You have only men,
toned a divorce, but I suppose
the same applies to the ex-hus-
band.
Answer: I have never heard OF
husbands continuing to wear
his ring, but there is no rule
against his putting his wedding
ring on his other hand to show
he was married. if he wants to.
Suggestions for second mar
rage details for Wido1Ds and d.
Uorcees are giuen in Mrs. Posts
leatlet, E-S. To obtain a copy
send S cents in coin and d
stamped self = addressed en-
relope to her, care The EDentng
Star, P. O. Bor SO, Station G,
Neu York 10, NY. Mrs. Post
is sorry she cannot ans,Der per-
Sondl mail.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Society News
Wife Of the Army Chief Of Stoff
To Be Feted by Wives of Officers

and at Fort BeIvoir. This party
will be given in the Officers Club
at Fort McNair with 1890 given
as the hour.
Mrs. Lewis A. Pick, wife Of the
chief of engineers, will preside at
the luncheon which will be fol-
lowed by a fashion show. The
models will be wives of engineer
officers who will wear dresses
furnished by the Cotton Shop and
hats by Davanne Millinery. Music
will be provided by Sidney's
Orchestra. Mrs. John j. Kingman
is general chairman of the event.
Thursday there will be another
luncheon, this one given by the
wives of the members of the Judge
Advotate Generals Corps for all
of the ladies in the families of
newly arrived officers of the corps.
The time will be 1890 o'clock
and the place the Kenwood Coun-
try Club, and those in the receiv-
ing. line will be Mrs. Thomas H.
Green, Mrs. Hubert D. Hoover
Mrs. Franklin P. Shaw and Mrs.
Claude B. Michelwait. Music will
be by Mrs. Reginald Field.
Mrs. Charles c. Young. Mrs.
Francis J. Sullivan, Mrs. Carlos E.
McAfee and Mrs. Laurel L. Cham
bers are in charge of arrange
ments. and those attending are
invited to bring bric-a -brac for
JANGO exchange.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
PortyHonors
Newcomers to
Washington

1t was a gay group that gath
cred at the home yesterday OF
Miss Margaret Wark Woodhouse,
daughter of Representative Chase
Going Woodhouse. The occasion
was a cocktail party being given
by Miss Woodhouse for Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Stouffer.
The hostess and Mrs. Stouffer,
the former Miss Margaret Car
michael, were sorority sisters at
the University of North Carolina.
of which the latter's father. Dr..
William Carmichael, is president.
Mr.. and Mrs. stouffer have
come to Washington to make
their home while Mr.. Stouffer
attends the George Washington
Law School.
Unfortunately Mrs. Woodhouse
was not able to be present for the
6 to 8 o'clock party because she
is still in Europe, but the hostess
was generally assisted by Miss
Norrisa Poulson and Mrs. Roberta
Douglas.
The 60 or 10 guests who dropped
by were greeted informally by
Miss Woodhouse and the Stout
fers. and the two assistants saw
to it that everyone met each
other.
Miss Woodhouse wore black
crepe cocktail dress. trimmed with
black lace. and her honor guest
had on a gown with gold lame
top and black skirt.