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Evening star., 1950-07-02
No Right to Teach

It may be that Elizabeth Bentley's charges
that william w. Hinckley, discharged Mont
gomery County public school teacher, is one
time Communist are wholly without foundation.
But If the charges, given under oath before the
House Committee on Un-American Activities,
are false, it would be logical to think that Mr..
Hinckley would have grabbed an opportunity
to tell the committee so. Instead, when asked the
direct question: "Are you now or have you ever
been member of the Communist Party?", the
teacher replied: 81 refuse to answer that ques-
ton for the reason that my answer might tend
to incriminate me-"
Under the circumstances, School superin-
tendent Broome of Montgomery County was
warranted in firing the teacher, who was still on
probation. For Mr.. Hinckley's refusal to answer
the vital question put to him by the House
committee raises questions concerning his in
tegrity which cannot be ignored by Maryland
signed the loyalty oath required by the Ober
law of all State, county and municipal employees
in Maryland. If he signed that oath, he swore
that he was not a member OF any subversive
organization defined by the law as including the
answer a similar congressional inquiry, for fear
of standardization is mystery which only
Mr.. Hinckley is in position to clarity.
Mr.. Hinckley may have the right in this
matter to take refuge in constitutional guaran-
tees against self-incrimination, but he has no
constitutional right to be teacher. And any
teacher who is afraid to say whether or not he
Is a Communist because of a possibility of in
eliminating himself is not proper person to
be teaching In the public schools.
Evening star., 1950-07-02
By Frederick Brown Harris, D. D.

our passion for liberty must surpass the
fanatical faith Of the communistic
hordeS We, too, must be crusaders. We
cannot beat something with nothing. In
our personal lives we must exemplify
our democracy. We must live our re-
hgion. We must bow at the altar Of
discipline. We must be willing to give
to the cause of freedom everywhere in
the world. and to all its spiritual impli-
cations, fealty expressed in every
breath of our bodies and in every beat Of
our hearts.
Americas greatest foe is a listless
faith, tame, timid and tepid. Such
denials and betrayals muff1e the bell.
AS the bell rings again in this time of
crisis and alarm, we must match our
profession with the sacred promise of
the Declaration: Eve mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor"
As with ancient skill these 1850 Liberty
Bells were fashioned and lovingly started
on their journey across the sea to the 48
States of the Union and the District of
Columbia, with tender emotion French
man, speaking for his country, bade
Godspeed to the departing bells and to
the cause they symbolic. with these
eloquent words:
"The hour is solemn: the destiny Of
humanity is at hand Millions of men
are bent under the yoke of an atrocious
deSpotism. Any one who listens can
hear the dull murmur of the moaning
of the banished, the displaced. OF those
without family or country There are
whole nations Of which it may truly be
said that they live in darkness, over
shadowed by death.
Bells. may your voice, stronger than
these sighs and sobs. proclaim to the
world that such times will end; that the
nightmare will finish. and that the era
to come will bring liberty to all, with
peace and JOY finally regained. Ring.
ring for freedom, for the sacred liberty
OF all nations and all persons, in all
continents and in all climes! Proclaim
liberty through all the land, unto all the
inhabitants thereof. Ring, bells! Ring
out wildly!''
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Willie and the Judge

Last month. in The Star. there was
recorded an inspiring demonstration of
mans humanity to man.
A defendant, one Willie Wolfe, col
ored, age so, appeared before Judge
Alexander Holtzoff. Willie can neither
read, write nor speak. and is further
handicapped by q partially -paralyzed
right arm.
Willie, however, has a penchant for
nunnbers-writing. He had been hailed
into court for violations of the numbers
law. He pleaded guilty. This was not
the first time that. Willie had been in
court for that offense. Previously he
had been locked up.
Judge Holtzof was moved to COM
passion and made the observation, IT
don't like to send mute to jail" And
ne didn't either. He set about juggling
the law In such way as to relieve him
self Of the obligation of sentencing
Willie to serve time and to make 1t pos
sible to place Willie on probation.
The incident attests eloquently Judge
Hoitzoffs fine human impulses and re-
fleets conspicuously his pre-eminent
fitness for service on the bench. -
1t Is clear that the judges judicial
philosophy includes the concept that
there Is q time when the law must be
grimly enforced. and there Is another
time when the law should be- relaxed.
Such sense. Of balance Is prerequisite
to 9 humane and competent adminis-
tration Of Justice. '-5 E
CAY
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Americans Need Meat

The American people are not eating
enough meat because they cannot afford
to pay the high prices now being charged
for 1t. Meat should hold first place on
the American table because, in reality,
1t is the staff of life. The human body is
actually made Of protein, and ample
meat is necessary to keep the body in
healthy state.
Congress should summon the meat
monopolists to Washington and warn
them that they must reduce the prices of
meat. Otherwise meat should be Inn
ported.
Harry Daniels.
Evening star., 1950-07-02

say, at q Time
when the lack Of
milk was worry
ing every one,
that 1t is not
uncomfortable to
substitute milk
with q balanced
diet. The reverse,
however, is not
feasible since
the almost per-
feet food" does
lack certain i'm
portant n utri-
ents. I
Notice how Pc
diatricians make
up for this by
su p lennenting
babies diets Of
milk with other
foods. As time
goes on. babies
WIN moi. ton 1Onp
Evening star., 1950-07-02

ago got along exclusively on milk are
eating more and varied foods-to the
everlasting Improvement Of the babies.
This. to my mind. would indicate. that
the public is catching up with my "high-
priced" pediatrician, who has long de-
emphasized milk In favor Of q variety of
other foods.
doubt II his Judgment should be
doubted. although it has been questioned
before: for example, after World War !,
when he was feeding his babies mashed
ripe bananas in spite Of the CONSERVATION
of many mothers.
Lam inclosing pictures OF q couple of
horrible examples OF his dubious good
Judgment"
Grace B. Clifford.
Adult animals Of the wilds don't need
milk, and never get it. The North ,Ameri-
can Indians were q sturdy set. the only
milk they ever got vas what their babies
nursed from their mothers. They had no
cows. so they had no milk. butter or
cheese.
If calcium were not found in other
sources besides milk, the animal world
would be In bad way. Water cress has
3.5 per cent calcium; lettuce. 2.65; dam
delions. 2.62; spinach, 2.27: white cab
bage, 2.16: Swiss chard, all: cottage
cheese. 1.43: lemon. 1.27. and cows milk.
1.22. So animals that can't get milk will
not fall over on account Of lack of cal
cium!
H. b. Bradford.
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Bodies and Milk

Perhaps Mary Grier (whose letter to
The Star was published the other day.
would have taken more kindly to my let
ter had she read it In its entirety.
Surely we are all aware OF the nutri-
tional benefits Of milk. but wanted to
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Harris Critic Answered

In answering the critic of DR.. Harris
who states. ut would be interesting To-
know just what spirit is meant In Spires
OF the Spirit which appears In The
Sunday Star:
Spirit means the soul, the intelligent,
immaterial. immortal part Of man, life,
courage. energy. power of mind, moral
and Intellectual. Spires mean antennae
to raise prayers from the heart and mind
towards God.
But the phrase Spires Of the Spirit"
Is its own definition, and like most
phrases of abstract beauty and truth is
more easily felt than defined. DR.. Harris
is scholar who writes with crystal clar-
ity. Hence it would seem that Mr.. Me-
Even will just have to sit down, reread
and ponder, without any additional help.
The press throughout this land has
many times commented on the Christ
like charity of DR.. Frederick Brown Har-
ris. He needs no defending.
Evening star., 1950-07-02

A pseudonyn, Is permissible only
10hen letter carries correct name
and address of 10riter. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Letters to The Star
Cause to Celebrate?

Along Pennsylvania Avenue today
public address system blared forth, in
viting all to come to the biggest Fourth
of July celebration yet. In view Of the
distressing developments in Korea, I
think this build-up should be stopped
and II possible any resounding explosions
at the celebration should be eliminated.
The cunning forces at work in Asia will
see to it that word spreads everywhere,
telling Of what was going on in the
capital Of the United States while the
Koreans struggled for their lives.
= The few premature f1recrackers heard
in our neighborhood have chilled my
blood. Pictures fly through my mind of
fathers and just-grown SONS dying,
babies perhaps already bereft of their
parents crying alone in the yard, the
luckier people who got away In their
flight leaving behind everything they
had been able to achieve in years of
working. These are red-blooded men
and women whom each Of us. but for
the accident of birth. might be among.
VI. B.
Evening star., 1950-07-02

A telegram from Berlin to The Star of
July 4, 1900, read: "At a banquet at
, 1950-12-12
BURGLAR SIGNALS
CAB; COPS ANSWER

CHICAGO (ANP) A dollar bill
Used to signal a passing cab caused
the arrest of Ray Brown, 80, and
his female companion here when
a patrolling squad car answered
the summons instead.
Brown had just burglarized the
apartment of Mrs. Minnie Evans
of goods valued at $1,000. He was
standing at the doorway of the
apartment building, waving a dol
lar bill at a cab which he wanted
to haul away his loot. A police
squad a answered the signal in
stead Of the cab.
Arrested with Brown were Wet
or Woods and Miss Melva Zim-
norman, %.
, 1950-12-12
Hospital Refuses
Negro Student,
Injuries Fatal

DURHAM, N. c. (ANP)- Re-
fused admission to a hospital be-
cause it had no more beds for
Negroes, Matthew Avery, a stu
dent at A & T college of Green's
boro, died here last week when he
finally reached a hospital that did
have room.
Injured in an automobile ac-
cident, Avery was taken to the
Duke hospital after being sent
there from Alumae General hospi-
tai in Burlington for treatment it
could not provide.
A spokesman at Duke said he
was moot admitted because there
Continued on page 4
, 1950-12-12
Even Alabama Editors
Cant Stomach This One

MONTGOMERY, Ala. CAMP
The time-worn saying Justice is
blind" comes out in a different
fashion in the south.
For example, in Alabama recent
ly, the saying was Justice is a
colorphobe" meaning, justice is
partial to whites, but death on
colored people.
AS an illustration of this fact,
a white man in Montgomery
county received a fine of 5000 for
theft Of grocery items to the a
mount of at least $1,345, but
three Negroes went to Jail for six
years for the theft of hogs.
, 1950-12-12
Select Jury To Hear
Mans|uughter Evidence

sented to go after the car, but re-
turned with one of the tenders
slightly damaged. An argument
started, according to Mrs. Steele,
when her husband blamed her for
the accident, saying: eff she had
gone after the car, there would
have been no accident"
The argument resulted in a
fight which Curry is said to have
attempted to stop. He was shot
through the heart and lung and
was pronounced dead at the Miami
Valley hospital.
Steele, the father of five chill
dren, is an employee of the Wright
Patterson Air Force Base. He was
arrested by bet. Sgt. Charles M.
Teeter and Walter III. Knight and
signed a statement regarding the
shooting.
Curry, listed as a transient a
few weeks prior to the Staying had
been a part-time porter at an
east end cafe. He had lived at 961
Pruden Ave, He also worked part
time as a painter and was paint
ing, the home of n of Steele's
neighbors the day of the shoot
ing.
Mondays session was devoted to
selecting a jury and a visit to
the scene of the Staying. The pro-
secution is being handled by AS
sistant Prosecutors Lloyd O'Hara
and William Wolf, while the de-
tense is under the direction of
attorneys Lloyd r. Mowery and
Dick Olden. The mandatory pen
atty if convicted carries a prison
sentence of one to twenty years.
sentence of n to twenty years.
, 1950-12-12
YMCA
TO GIVE FORMAL

SPRINGFIELD The Board of
Management of the Center St. Y
MICA in Springfield will present
it's first annual formal Benefit
Ball on Saturday, Dec. % at the
New YMCA Building from 9 pm.
to l am.
Alonzo Moss is executive secre-
tary of the Center st. YMCA. Lee
land Rice is chairman of the pro-
gram committee sponsoring the
dance.
, 1950-12-12

Charged with first degree man
slaughter in the fatal shooting of
an arbitrator in a family quar-
rel last July l, Cleophis Jimmy"
Steele 80, of 35 Diamond ave-,
went on trial before a jury in the
Common Pleas Court of Judge Cal
vim Crawford Monday morning.
Steele is charged with the kill
ing of Wallace Curry, 32, no
home, when, according to the re-
cord, Curry is said to have inter-
vened in an argument between
Steele and his wife Emily, %,
when she told her husband to go
get their automobile parked a
short distance from their home.
According to the story told bet.
Sgt. Charles M. Teeter in charge
Of the Investigation, Steele con-
, 1950-12-12
II Shopping Days Left
Buy Christmas Seals

Principal speakers at the testi-
monial banquet for Fred Bowers
will be Attorney Theodore M.
Berry of Cincinnati and Common
Pleas Court Judge Robert U. Mar
tin of Dayton.
Attorney Berry is a member Of
the Cincinnati City Council and
a national board member of the
NAACP. Judge Martin is presi-
dent of the Church Federation Of
Greater Dayton.
The dinner, honoring Bowers as
the first Negro ever elected to the
Ohio General Assembly from
Montgomery County, will be held
in Phillips Temple CINE Church,
corner Of Broadway and German
town ST., at 8 pm this Thursday.
Tickets and reservations may be
secured at the offices Of The
, 1950-12-12

The white man, James w. War;
and an accomplish were charged
with stealing merchandise from
Schloss and Kahn for a grocery
store WI h War; operated.
Though War; pleaded guilty to
$2,345 worth, the actual amount
may have been many times that.
He paid the company $4,000 a
court fine of $500 and costs and
was freed. His accomplice, who
also pleaded guilty, got off with
$50 and costs.
In the same court, the three Ne
groes were given jail terms for
stealing hogs from a Judge Arthur
Glover.
In commenting on the two
cases the white daily Montgo-
merry Advertiser said:
GAS War; strobe from the court
a free man, the Negroes were led
to Jail to commence sentences of
six years each. In one case or the
other, justice has miscarried.
A writer to the "Tell it to Old
Grandma" column in the same
paper, said:
another thing important
is the fact that our northern
friends, who are SO interested in
the welfare of the south, will have
a parfect case to criticize us with
this time. How can you explain
that a poor unfortunate Negro who
steals a hog to provide food for his
family gets six years and a white
man gets only a nominal fine for
stealing thousands and thousands
of dollars"
The Montgomery Examiner ed
itorialized, "Justice, it is plain to
see, was not here at her best"
, 1950-12-12
Reports Negroes
Barred From Bow|inu

Attorney Morris H. Simmons,
president of the local branch, MA
ACP and chairman of the organi-
zation's legal committee, said to-
day that a full investigation will
be made of reports that seven Ne
groes were refused use of facili-
ties at the Recreation Bowling AL
ley, 218 N. Main ST., last Satur-
day.
Alvin David, spokesman for the
group said they entered the N.
Main St. Alley and asked the man
ager if they could bowl.
"No you can't" David said he
was told. When the group asked
why they couldn't bowl, the man
ager said the proprietor was away
in Florida and couldn't be reach
ed. David said the manager also
claimed that the empty alleys were
being reserved for a league game.
According to NAACP reports
two other witnesses, both white,
have signed statements to the eff
feet that one entered the alley a
, 1950-12-12
Rev. J. nrnun Dixon
New NAACP President

The Dayton branch of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People (N-
AACP) elected officers for 1851
at it's Annual Meeting in the Fifth
st. YMCA Sunday.
Rev. J. Inman Dixon, pastor Of
Mckinley Methodist Church, be-
came the new president of the To-
cal branch. He was elected by a
unanimous voice vote after the
three-man nominating committee
announced it's slate. The committee
included Rev. James l. Davis,
Oliver Robinson and DR.. M. R.
Clarke.
Other officers elected were:
Rabbi Benjamin Lapidus, vice
president; Mrs. Matte Williams,
secretary; Mrs. Kathryn Mason,
assistant secretary, and Oliver Ro-
binson, treasurer.
Elected to the 27-man execu-
tive board were:
Ollie Ashby, Mrs. Margaret Bo-
rah, Rev. J. Welby Broaddus, At
torney Russell Carter, DR.. M. R.
Clarke, Judge Calvin Crawford,
Rev. James l Davis, Attorney
Arthur O'Neil Fisher, Charles J.
Francis, Rev. O. Graves, Rev. P.
E. Henderson, Mrs. Elizabeth Hill
and Pete Jones.
George Lawrence, Rev. Robert
w. Lawson, Rev. George w. Lu-
cas-, Attorney James H. MCGEE, C.
]. McLin Jr., w. D. McLoud,
James E. Norman, Jesse MINI
MONS, Rev. M. C. Pollack, Attor-
new Morris H. Simmons, Rev. Ro-
bert Wadlowe, Mrs. Bessie Wall,
, 1950-12-12
LOCAL SO1, IUE-CIO
SET FOR

Frigidaire Local sol, Interna-
tional Union of Electrical Workers
(ICE-CIO) will elect officers for
1851 in Dayton this Thursday and
Friday.
Robert Elsner, president of the
local, said balloting would take
place at plant gates on Thursday
and in sol Union Hall, 313 S.
Jefferson ST., on Friday.
, 1950-12-12
Councilman, Judge 10
Speak At Testimonial

Daily Express, 1907 Germantown
St., or by calling HEmlock 1916.
final plans for the event will be
drawn up at a meeting of the non
partisan Citizens Committee to-
night in the Fifth st. YMCA. At a
meeting of the group Sunday,
Stanley Bell, ward committeeman,
was elected chairman. Other Of
ficers of the committee include
Mrs. Thelma Latham, secretary,
and Mrs. C. E. George, treasurer.
Committee members are Stanley
Bell, Andrew Freeman, Mrs. G. E.
George, George Lawrence, Mrs.
Thelma Latham, Rev. George w.
Lucas, DR.. Owen McFall, C. Josef
McLin Jr., Edgar Nickerson, At
torney Morris Simmons, Paige H.
Strickland, and Mrs. Miley O.
Williamson.
, 1950-12-12

short time before the Negro boys
and that he was approached by
the management and asked if he'd
Continued on page 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-28
CONTROL OF SCARCITY

Readers Digest recently carried a re-
vealing article by Henry ]. Taylor on Brit
ism business methods. The point of sit Ais
that. even before the Labor government
came 10 power, free enterprise as tvpiefow
il did not exist in England.
Mr.. Taylor said, 1T has always been
legal for manufacturers, middlemen and
retailers each to fix prices among them
selves and. further for all of them togetfl-
or TO Fix and enforce prices collectively
at every step along the line.
'Britain's system represents con-
troll Of scarcity"
The Portland, Oregonian, commenting
editorially on Mr.. Taylor's article, said,
There can be no free enterprise without
competition"
Il may be that post British economic
policies were one reason why the country
adopted Ocialism-g0vernmen and bus
mess had been working together so long
20 control everything, at the expense OF
the consumer, that the people may have
decided that they might as we'll go whole
hog. In any event, the contrast with this
country is glaring. Here every manufac-
turer completes with other manufacturers
and if an opportunity occurs to cut prices,
and so get more business, it is seized upon
with enthusiasm. Every retailer, whether
il be chain with hundreds of stores or a
small operation with but one, is constant
~ looking for ways and means to attract
custOmers-including lower prices, better
service, and other inducements. This spirit
the spirit of open competitions the
very heart of free enterprise. And it's one
reason we have abundance when most OF
the rest of the world has scarcity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-28
$50 FUNDs

fContinusd From Pare Ona)
informed Of the action b. ions
distance telephone
The committee decided. firse
that the notice given % the
withdrawal Of funds % take anf
action, and. second. that the a.
nance committee headed By Joe
Pinder would scruunize the
budget and determine how -
continue operation Of the YMCA.
Turner informed the commit.
tee that the YMCA would cen
t.nue 10 pay for one operating
executive Of the ~ bul that
other funds would b. neoenaTg
TO maintain the activities "a TIE
local eY.r which IS largely 81
sailors Of the U. s. Navy.
Turner had given ne present
forces Of three members tso
weeks notice rs Of "Wednesday
The three members indicated -
day that they would confines
with the work until some mstiod
of paying them could BE- wokei
out.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-28
CHARLES DUERKES

An unofficial weather an
nouncement from TED SHAWN
forecasts rain for the night of
February ? He will appear at the
High School Auditorium on that
night in recital sponsored by
the P.T.A. of the Junior Senior
High School.
Included in his dance presenta-
tions is the spectacular Invoca-
ton To The ThunderbirdH it is
an Indian prayer-danceA to the
thunderbird, who is the God of
rain. TE8 }as
AS a test case Ted could stage
this dance in. the middleepf the
Sahara, which is am. interesting
geographical spot, But l do not
suppose Mr.. Shawn wishes to
tamper with the elements to that
extent.
At any rate. rain or shine we
will be there at eight in the p. m.
Tickets are selling at Roberts
Office Supply and Southern
most Flowers and Gifts.
4 4 X
HUSBANDS OF THE B.PW
ARISE! Count off! The time has
come ION second thought
maybe we'd better sit down..
Anyhow, we men of the B.P.W
Auxiliary" had betterQS make
no plans for the night of Febru-
airy sixth. Our lively and UMPIRE
dictable ladies are invading the
Elk's Club that night for canas-
ia party.
There will be table prizes, the
ladies assure us. l personally have
no need for a table. The last time
my better half took me to a
BP.W. party l got nice pipe for
a prize.
The party is for a worthy cause
and one and all should buy a
ticket. | have five here in the
corner" for sale. Just phone 13f
and ask for MR.. DOROTHY RAY
MER. Or you can phone MR.
MICKEY RENNA or MR.. MARY
LEE GRAHAM.
1t seems to me that there should
be a house rule at the party max.
ing it illegal for a wife to have
her husband for a partner, This
will save us lot of nagging fan
into the night after the party is
over. We should also get some
sort of handicap. Or have we?
Proceeds will go for the reha
Utilization of the BOULEVARD
POOL and the GENERAL FUND
The girls are doing a splendid jol