THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
I do not often
get st anieil up
and froth at the
mouth or excited
about what ia
going on or not
going on.
Most stuff be- i
ing done, you I
forget about it I
anyway, by to- Jo ,>ei ra
morrow, and all you get out of
stewin' around, is a bad stomach.
And I want to preserve my stom
ach for things like baked beans,
etc., which my Susie, she is a
champion at fixing up.
But once in a full moon some
thing happens that gives me a
half-way pain in the neck, and the
latest, it is this talk about helping
tho farmer—like it used to be
tho fashion to get elected by pop
pin’ off about electric lights.
But farmers, I would feel more
like envying them, than being,
sorry. You don’t see any farmer
who is worth a hoot, going hungry
like people in the city. He just
waltzes out there and digs a fe'
potatoes and carrots, and his wife
pops a chicken in the skillet- and
depression number one or depres
sion number 2, it makcs no differ
enc'd.
Feeling sorry for a farmer hid
ing behind a plate of fried chick,
en—brother that is comedy.
Yours, with the low down,
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IjOGAN FONTENELLE HOMES
‘Air !
Raid... ;
By WILLIAM PICKENS
(For ANP)
Barcelona, Spain, August 24, a
bout 10 P. M. the sji en screamed
and motorcycles officers flew
down the stjWetg With ratt’rng
whistles. ‘A raid!"—all lights
went out at once,—that is nil
lights insic.e all houses, as the
outside lights are never lighted
these days jn Barcelona. A great
city wjth morc than two million
people in it, and not a street
light.
When the alarm sounded we
went out to see the sights, altho
it is said that one is generally sa
fer inside. But inside, half a
building may fall jn on you: while
outside the fragments or shrapnell
may get you. But outside you can
seo tho sights: the long streams of
searchlights playing from hills &
harbor, searching among the
clouds for the threatenng bom
bers Those searchlights are the on
ly lights o'er a vast darkness that
wag once a luminous city. Then
ono hears the droning plane pro
pellers and does not know whether
they be the defense planes, or the
hell-machines from Mallorca Is
lands.
Strange: one is not afraid. No
body expects to be kj 1 led, altho in
a recent raid HOO were killed and
1500 wounded. Ev n all auto
lights go out, but the machines
keep moving at about 20 miles
per hour, some faster.
During the afternoon I had vL
sited several government officers
and had been given a permit and
assigned a chauffeur for a trip to
Motaro hospjtal next hy. Ax A
merican woman irom bom on weni
along, as she too wag wanting a
hospital permit, which she failed
to get. But just before dinner
I stepped into a moving picture
place on I’aseo de Gracias, and
saw Mickey Mouse! Or as he is
heralded in Spain: “Raton MJe
kcy”. There was quite a crowd at
the movies and Mickey entertained
with ono of his westerns,” rescu
ing “Raton Minnie”, and with a
be© scene and anothe rreel . But
Mickey was not the whole of this
show; there were war scenes, de
corations, war-manufactures, pub
lic construction, the building of
planes, tanks guns great guns.
Tho war-psychology holds the mo
vie news. There was a running
commentary on the scenes, Lowell
Thomas fashion.
Then wo had dinner between
eight and nine in the Majestic ho
tel and most of the guests had
retired to thL. various coffee ta„
bles in the anteroom to talk of
war and society, o|f home and
friends and plans.
Then suddenly the siren and the
whistles and complete darkness. A
rajd!
Th0 defense plans and the
searchlights and the semi-cloudi
ness evidently discourage the in
vaders, for apparently no bombs
were let loose on the city. The
moon isn’t shining there nights an
air invaders prefer moonlit nights
whjch better discover the dark
ened city for them.
Did you ever walk up six or
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(Musio Features & Photo Syndicate)
A GREAT number of schoolboys and girls assembled at Jnt*r1<?*
Mich., the other night and, under the billing °fr^!‘°"ai ti.gh bchoo,
Orchestra, massed their cornets and fiddles for a concert of the
and ot sucn
popular pillars of
musical Ameri
cana as Sousa
and Goldman.
To hear some of
the tunes of the
latter was to feel
the heart pound
a little faster, to
recall even a
vanished youth.
I \ - i-1 When recourse
Loui* Reid is had to Sousa’s
marches tn parades or bandstand
encores it is usually "Stars and
Stripes Forever," "Semper Fidel is
or "Washington Post" that is heard.
These three were omitted the other
day from the music racks, probably
because they are so familiar.
Persons continue to view with.
alarm, the tremendous change that
has come over America, the rise of
class-consciousness, movements to
ward the right or left. Bo long as
h inh school hogs can assemble in
terring Tschaikowsky to fox tret ■
tempo, waiting for the latest theme
song from Hollywood.
Were all of New York’s hot-and
bothered bands assembled in mass
formation It would tako longer for
them to pass, say, Carnegie Hall
than was necessary for Von Kluck’s
army to pass through Brussels,
which, if you remember your Ulch
ard Harding Davis, was thirty-six*
hours.
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Columbia University announces
it will continue to offer a course in
publicity. If Columbia should con-(
suit Yale, it will learn that the best
publicity is a crooning bandleader,
who can sing "l love you" as if he,
meant it.
Honor for Lee Sims
Recognition of an American song
writer by a foreign symphony or
chestra is one of the rarities of the
musical world. Such distinction has
come to Lee Sims at the hands of
the London Symphony Orchestra,
the first American composer from
Michigan to blare the
notes of Sousa and Gold
man to the world all's
well, it seems to me,
with America.
In enumerating the
kinds of business in New
York City, 4,500 of them,
ranging alphabetically
and appropriately from
“abattoir” to “zinc,” the
publishers of the tele
phone red book fail to
give the slightest nod to
jazz bands. Perhaps the j
omission is intentional. *
Perhaps, drawing a fine
distinction, they have
decided jazz is not busi
ness; after all. But to these old
• ears, jazz has become the dominat
ing industry of the metropolis.
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The jazz leader, apparently,%has
no redress. Ho is, by nature, friend
less, isolated, individualistic. He
doesn't go in for letters of protest
lo editors, nor is he organized for
the protection of his interests. He
|i devoted solely to the work of
a mad eity madder—trails
Ernie Burnett
a.h.C.A.1*
tne popular nciu w
so honored since George
Gershwin and the
“Rhapsody in Blue”.
Sims’ work, a tone poem
for piano and orchestra,
entitled ‘‘Blythewood,’
will be performed by the
London organization
early next season, with
(the composer as soloist.
The orchestration of the
work has just been com
pleted by Ferde Grofe. <
There is a possibility
m Sims’ composition will
& be performed this Sum*
mer in the Hollywood
Bowl by the Los Ani
gcics
Among the popular songs that re
main favorites with
choly Baby," by Snne frumen. LUi
“Sweet Sue" tmd "Dinah," it rani*
among the leaders in the surveys ft
the American Society of Composer* I
Authors and Publishers. In the la* '
annu*l survey It was performed
ll.m times.
eight flights cf Stairs in a grt-ai
hotel, in total darkness, knaf
yourself into »jf7*ral great eolumnt
find your room in total darkness,
undress, bathe, go to bed, determ
ined to start your sleep in spite
of tho treats of France, of death
and of the devil? Djd you ever?
After 1 and one half hours no
body knew whether the raiders
were goig to break through, but
for some of us it was bedtime,
and to bed we went.
Then just as I was fully asleep
tho siren screamed again! I got
up, opened the door and asked the
Catalan maid whether the raiders
had got through. She explained
that the second siren meant: The
raid was off, the invaders were
beaten or turned back.
Inside ligghts went on. Outside
lights still dark.
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSN
ASKED TO SUPPORT
LOYALISTS
Hampton, V., Sept. 8—A plea
for the support of the Loyalists
cause in Spain on the part of the
National Medical Association, was
voiced by Dr. Louis Wright, prom
inent New York surgeon in a
speech before the Association’s
convention held here recently.
Dr. Wright told the medical
group that he made the plea “in j
behalf of the International accord j
and amity of all colored people.”!
The New York police surgeon urg. j
ed the medical men to “contribute
personally and otherwise” to the
nation-wide drive for funds for
Spain” so that an ambulance do
nated by the colored peoples of
America may function for the aid
of the Loyalist cause in Spain.”
Announcement was made List
week by the Medical Bureau and
North American Committee to Aid
Spanish Democracy that Miss
Thyra Edwards, a field represent
ative of the organization, is now
on tour with the ambulance in an
effort to raise further funds.
Tho tour includes the following
cities during September: Chicago,
7-10; Springfield, 11; St. Louis,
12-13; Kansas City, 14-15; Tulsa
Okla., 17; Oklahoma City, 18;
Dallas, Texas, 20; Austin, 22;
Houston, 24; New Orleans, 25;
Birmingham, Ala., 27; Atlanta.
28; Durham, N. C., 30.
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k* I Writ* m* today. Information fUKI
M. WILLIAMS, Journal Square Sta
Jersey City, N. J. Dept. q.
SMALL BUSI
NESS MAN
The small business man has a
distinct place in the American eco.
nomic orbit, Dr. Douglas Belle
moro visiting professor at the
University of Omaha, declared to
day.
An ardent opponent of monopo
ly, the visiting economist stated
that more than 81 per cent of all
economic activities are carried cn
by partnerships.
“The ro is an absolute need for
tho continued existence of these
small enterprises because many
important fields are not well suit
ed to large scale operation,” he
said.
Dr. Bellemore, an associate pro
fessor of economics and account
ing at the University of Toledo,
has just finished teaching courses
in economics and government at
the University of Omaha’s first
summer session.
The Toledo economist believes
that in agriculture, in retail sell
ing, in industries a ‘ flexible” pro
duct and in the professional ser
vices the small entrepreneur will
continue to be most important.
Agriculture will continue to be
the “little man’s” filed because
most of the efficiencies and eco.
nomies can be had on the small
farm.
In such retail businesses as the
groeeyr store where personal rela
tionship is a valuable factor, Dr.
Bellemore says the “little fellow”
has a good field and could “outsell
tho chain stores if he would follow
certain practices.
‘ Small retailers should band to
gether in voluntary associations.
Such association facilitates their
abililty to buy and to sell.
“hey should put their business
on the same cash and carry ba
sis as tho chains. Overextension
of credit by small retailers has been
a major factor in many failures.
Finally, the small retailer should
standarize his products rather than
try to display a great variety of
brands.”
As an example of a “flexible”
industry, Dr. Bellemore names the
clothing industry which style plays
such an important role. The small
scale producer is successful in the
making of women’s clothing be
cause style and frequent variabili
ty is the rule rather than stan
dardization.
“The small business man has a
chance wherever standarization
is not great.”
Dr. Bellomore believes that in
< > pergonal e’er ice professions,
- i. i, as mi ’'cine, the independent
; .ti. tioj.n- \ ill remain para
mount because “the factors of con
fidence and of personal relation
ship are so important.”
A Portrait Of Harlem In
''New V ork Panorama
Tho problems, history, and a S'
achievements oi the world’s larg
es! urban Negro population ere dis
cussed in “New York Panorama,”
a volume in the American Guide
Series by the Federal Writers’
Project of New York City that
will be published on September
14. An entire chapter of this vol
ume, to which many prominent j
writers contributed, is calld “Por
trait of Harlem.”
‘‘Portrait of Harlem” tells of the
first immigration of Negroes to
New York, their struggle against
slavery, their early educational and
religious instruction, the abolition
ist movement, and the Civil War.
Mention is made of Negroes who
in the city’s early days distinguish
ed themselves in business, sports
theatre, and in the struggle for
human rights.
Discussing the present period,
tho book treats of religion .hous
ing, living conditions, economic
problems, literature, art theatre,
music, dancing, sports politics,
trade unionism, fraternal orders &
social affairs in Harlem,
Prominent persons mentioned in
“New York Panorama” include:
Walter White, Countee Cullen,
Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson,
Bill Robinson, Duke Ellington,
Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway,
Jimmie Lunccfcrd, Joe- Louis,
Myles A. Paige, Eunice Hunton
Carter, Ellis Rivers, Elmer A.
Carter, A. Phillip Randolph, and
scores of ojjier outstanding Ne
groes.
Among the organizations discus
sed are the Elks, Odd Fellows, Ma„
?3ons, Pythians, Woodmen, and
PUilomathear.s the Young Men’s
an<l Young Women's Christian As
sociations, the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, National
Negro Congress, Negro Labor
Committee, and the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Tho influence of leading chur
ches, publications, the LaFayette
Theatre, and other cultural influ
ences in Harlem is stressed, with
special emphasis on tho housing
problem and overcrowding in the
schools.
In addition to the detailed spec
ial study of Negro affairs, ‘New
York Panorama’’ covers a score
of other topics. Negro writers
contributed to many of its chap
ters.
“New York Panorama” chatter
headings include sucb subjets as
speech, art, literature, music, ar
chitecture, theatre motion pictures
sports, trade and industry, press
radio, city planning, housing, go
vernment and social affairs. This
volume is ;the first part of “New
York: A Guide to the World’s
Greatest Metropolis.”
‘ New York Panorama’* has 526
pages an end paper map, and more
than 100 pages of photographs. It
is sponsored by the Guild’s Com
mittee for Federal Writers’ Publi,
cations, Inc., which includes such
distinguished writers as Mark Van
Deren, Franklin P. Adams, Var.
Wyek Brooks, and Lewis Gannett,
and it is published by Random
House.
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! European Comments
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By Rudolph Dunbar for ANP)
I Cannes, France, Sept. 8—Ade
laide Hall, who seeing to be en
dowed with perpetual freshnes3 of
youth, is now London ascending
the ladder of fame and fortune
under the careful guidance of her
husband, Mr. Bert Hicks, who acts
as her manager and who cannot
bo easily outwitted. Adelaide, un
fortunately, had a short run of
“Th0 Sun Never Sets,” which was
playing for some time ago at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Lon_
don. The show will, however, begin
a provincial tour of England at
the end of August. Prior to her
arrival in London Adelaide had a
chievod unrivalled success in “The
Big Apple” Paris Cabaret, of
1 which she was part owner.
Garland Anderson and his wife
are the subject of unusual atten
tion in London from noble and
distinguished people. They are en
joying an exceptional round of so
cial engagements. They are per
sonal friends of Lady Simon, wife
of tho Chancellor of the Exchequer
of England. Garland Anderson
was recently at a gala given at the
overseas Club in honor of the Ma
harajah of Kapurthala and Prin
j cess Duleepsingh.
ALTHOUGH I am on the Riv
iera, news has reached me that
quite a number of American Ne
gro scholars aie visiting London.
For example, there is Reed Peg
gram, Fellowship Scholar from
Harvard University and, on my
way through Paris I was informed
that Langston Hughes was just a.
bout to go to London. Then there
was Mr. Aden from the Art De
partment. There are several others
about whom I have no space to
write at present. If they make
tho right contacts they will servf
a useful purpose in breaking down
some of the prejudice against our
race. I am sorry that I am not in
London to be of service to these
distinguished scholars.
HAD a most delightful after
noon with the Robesons recently
and they informed me that Paul
junior, who is studying the piano,
show's signs of creative ability. It
it quite likely that he may turn
out to be a composer desipte the
face that, at the moment, he has
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intentions of becoming an engin.
eer Paul senior has a stupendous
program for the near future. He
will probably visit America in Oct.
chiefly for the purpose of taking
to London, Dr. Dubois’ play “Hai
ti.” If such a scheme materialises,
it is sufficient to predict a pheno
minal success for the run of this
play in London, because the name
Paul .Robeson has a tremendous
box_office appeal in England.
THERE is a curious and aston
ishing assortment of trousers worn
by the feminine sex on Lhe Rivie
ra. They represent a galaxy of
colors against the sun-tanned skin
of the holidaymakers who are try
ing to get at brown as colored
people, as some of them informed
me. For example, I went to the
Monte Carlo and saw the most pic
turesque spectacle in proof of this
at the famous cafe in front of the
casino. To my great surprise, I
saw at the same cafe a group of
colored people, beautiful shaded by
Nature's pigmentation which is
such an alluring attraction and no
velty in theso parts. We all looked
at each other as much to say,
“What are you doing here?” and
I was pleased to see how beauti
fully turned out they were, and
thought what an attractive picture
they made among the elegant as
sembly who has gathered to sip
cocktails and gossip.
THE BRITISH BROADCAST
ING CORPORATION is mindful of
the potentialities of the American
Negro collectively and individuals
ly. For example, the Corporation
expressed poignant grief at the
tragic death of Mr. Weldon John
ston. On the day prior to my de
parture from London I was sp ak
ing to a British Broadcasting Cor
portion official who informed me
that he could not find words great
enough to express his sympathy at
the death of so great a scholar as
Mr. Weldon Johnston. He also re
minded me of his famous Negro
sermcn “Go down, Death,” which
was broadcast by Alistair Cooke,
som time ago in a program called
“The American Negro in affairs
of Literature and Music.” 1 am
myself robbed of the pleasure of
meeting this distinguished gentle
man of our race, pleasure which
I had hoped to have when I visi
ted America in October.
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Security Card Not Suffic
ient Identification
Lincoln, Nebr., Sept. 15—Em
phatic warning was given today by
Nebraska Unemployment Compen
sation division officials that So
cial Security cards do not provide
sufficient identification for cash
ing checks or other finanial tran
sactions.
Many reports have come to the
Division of Social Security cards
being lost or stolen. In some cases
forged checks have been cashed or
credit extended on the basis of
possession of a Social Security
earn.
These numbers have no signifi
cance beyond use as indentification
of wage accounts established under
state unemployment compensation
agencies and the federal old age
program and should not be accept
ed by merchants as indentification
by persons who seek to open ac
counts or have checks cashed.
Neither should Social Security
account number cards be regarded
by employers as evidence that
young persons may b ehired in ac
cordance with child labor require
ments, the warring continued.
Such Social Security cards are
frequently lost or stolen and might
ccme into the hands of the unscru
pulous, it was pointed out.
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