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If ATerica wants to mainta n
her traditional policy of “hands
off Europe,” Dr. Harry Williams o
the University of Omaha think
present plans for a larger war ma
chine and the President's
diplomacy” are steps in the wrong
direct on.
Scoring present demapds for in
creased armaments, the professor
of history and government sapl a
nation's defense policy should go
hand-in-hand with its foreign po
lio.?.
Officially, he pointed Gut, despte
tho President’s, secret deals with
tho-French and British, the United
States is committed to a policy of
defense.
“If our policy is aimed only at
defending ourselves, 'f we have no
intention of joining other countries
in a program of collective security,
then the United States doesn’t need
a large army or navy or air force.
“On the other hand, if we are
abandoning our hands-off Europe
policy and are preparing to cooper
ate w'lh the democracies of Eu
rope- -I prefer to call them the
‘western imperialists’—then the
President is correct in asking for
’ncreased armaments and in extend
.g aid to Britain an l France."
Dr. Williams, however, s oppos
>d to United States participation
n b collective security pact with
„ho Ghamlberlain and Daladier go
vernments. He favors an armament
program designed solely for defen
sive purposes. If other states want
American goods, let them come and
get the goods on a cash-and-carry
hasls, s«ys he.
Mainstay of Professor williams
dofense program, designed to pro
tect both American continents from
European or Asiatic aggression,
would be “an adequate savy.” His
is essentially tho same proposal
for relying on naval strength as
that of George Fielding Eliot, mili
tary expert and author recently of
tho book, “The Ramparts We
Watch.”
r i)r. Williams doesn’t say exactly
how large a defensive navy should
be, but ho thinks it should be “near
the top" as compared with the
strength of other naval powers. He
admits that if the United States
contemplates an aggressive war a
gainst another sea power, then a
“defense navy” might be too small.
Tho historian believes good na
val bases are “the first line at
American defense”; hence he lays
particular stress upon them as part
of his hypo.hetiral armament pro
gram. If the pacific island of Guam
were fntified, Japan might be
afraid to attack us, he stated. On
a previous occasion the mere threat
to fortify Guam kept Japan from
building up her navy
Dr. Williams is convinced that
fhere is no need for a two-squad
ron navy at the present time. Since
Germany and Italy are not naval
poWifs. he sees no possible threat
in tho Atlantic. In the Pacific, the
United States can readily defend
herself against Japun.
“A second canal, probably
through Nicaragua, would be good
insurance againr.* possible mishap
to the Panama Canal. Cost of a
new canal might be just as great
as a second fleet; but it woul 1 be
a more valuable peace-time a^et
and a better investment since bat
tleships beorne obsolete but canals
Jo not.”
7The University of Omaha profes
;or turned thumbs down on a large
air fleet and a large standing
army.
touch a large air force as the
President proposes—to consist of
eight or nine thousand planes—is
absolutely unnecessary for our de
fense. Wo should limit our air
strength to about five thousand
planes and make provision for re
gular replacements. Also our fac
tories should be prepared • to turn
planes out rapidly in event of war.
“The danger of a large peace
time air force is that it becomes
obsolete within a few years New
types are produced and existing
pianos become useless for war
fare. France built a huge air force
after the war but new develop
ments soon make the planes ob
solete.
‘ i ntn j >posed to a large stand
ir -; r because it is too great
• oc»? *n e drain to support one.
,*• u, J about 500,000m«n com
•*' —** regular force* and the
National Guard, is large enough
for peace time." Here again, Dr.
Williams emphasized that his con
ception of what our armed forces
should be is based on continue ad
herence to a foreign policy of peace
neutrality, and the Monroe Doc
trine.
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ert L. Thomp cm, the ::m.n-m’s
priva ci secretin y, •*:>■»! 3J>ftv3" Wri
ter White' that the iims'igators
would “take every . os’lfi'c dep
to apprehend guilty parties.’’
Meanwhile, the Wayne ou-ity
graad jury in Gldsboro eurfoune
oi through its foreman. Graves
Smith, that it would m ■ -t Febru
ary 14 for an investigation.
Baldwin and Edwards were a’’
rested on assault charges growing
out of an attack February 4, on
Mayor J. H. Hill of Goldsboro. A
band of anre<i white men took
them from the jail, out into the
country, beat them severally and
set them free. The men were re
apprehended and taken” to jail.
They showed evidence of a severe
beating.
Off oialr. of tho NAACP. are un
derstood to regard in'iients sim
ilar to the Goldsboro one as a new
technique in keeping alive the mob
spirit of lynching while remaining
safely away from the charge of
actual lynchng.
Mayor Hill issued a statement
asserting that the perpetrators by
“taking the law into their own
hands have greatly distressed the
citizens of this city.’’
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FLASH
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Washington, D. C. The Afro
American did not get the Washing
ton Tribune after all, it wus an
nounced Monday .when it was stal
ed that a local syedicate, heuded
by Robert A. Pelham, for years di
rector of the Capital News Service,
had purchased the paper, and that
G. James Fleming of Philadelphia,
formerly city editor o fthe Amst“—
dam News of New York, would be
the r.ew editor.
* $ *
New York (C) The 1939 Inter
national Year Rook number of
Editor and Publisher ,17(H) Times
Square, newspaper trade publica
tion. was issued Saturday, Janu
ary 28, carrying the regular list
ing of the Negro press on pages
192 and 193, wb'c'a was compiled
with the assistance of Calvin’s
Newspaper Service, the W. It. Ziff
company and the H. R. Crohn com
pany.
* * *
New- York (C)— Bernice Joyce
Calvin, 14, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Floyd J. Calvin, the Paul
laturence Dunbar Apartments, 2816
8th Avenue, graduated from Wal
ton Senior school for girls, the
Bronx, in exercises at Carnegie hall
on Tuesday morning, January 31.
Bernice was a member of the scho
larship Circle, and her- final marks
were above 90. There was 750
members of Bernice’s graduating
class .An accomplished pianist, now
studying under a tutor at Stcinway
hald. Miss Calvin plans to enter
college in February.
* * *
New York (C)—The .“irculation
of tho Pittsburgh Courier dropped
25,814 in one year, according to
tho International Year Hook of
Editor and uPblishor, issued Satur
day. The Courier circulation is
given at, 122,033, while a year ago,
it was quoted at 147,847.
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Atlanta, Gn., (C)—Atlanta Uni
versity is opening a comprehenis'e
course in Negro History beginn
ing tho second semester, in whiet
courses on the Negro in politics
and lectures on the Negro press
will be given.
* * *
Chester, S. C. (C)—Prof. Wil
liam McKinley Oglesby, instructor
of French and English in the Jun
ior College Department of Brain
erd Institute for the past eight
year, has just completed a book
of selected prose and poetry en
titled “Poems of the Soul". Prof.
Ogltsby haa written numerous short
stores and poems that have been
published.
* • •
New York (C)—'The West Afri
can work of Bishop E J. Howard
of the AME church has received a
total of $1,445.08 from the mission
convocation held by Bishop D. H.
Sims, according to J. L. Link, ata
Tutorial Fystem
HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S vol
untary tutorial system, instituted
at the end of the second semester
of 1933-34 because of the high
scholastic mortality rate among
freshmen, has proved to be so suc
cessful that students living outside
of the dormitories have applied
tor ft d. The present staff is com
posed of 1G men. all of whom h';ve
high averagas in tho subjects they
tutor. In the pictures above, top,
lefi. shows Arthur Carter, senior,
tutoiing Robert Floyd, freshman,
in zoology. At top, right, is shown
Edward Watkins, senior, tutoring
Noah Allen H.ir.'is, :opnhmore. in
;rathemalics, tnd the bottom pic
t"ro shows another pose of Noah
Ham's, sopohomore, bein" tutor
ed. by Edward Watkins, senior, in
mathematics. (ANT photos)
ti.-tician. A total of $1,120.08 has
been spent, leaving a balance of
$2J,
* * *
Washington (C)—Tho fourth an
nua! convention of the Federation
■ i Arch tects, Engineers, Chemists
and Technicians, the CIO, with
tadouarters at 116 E. 16th street,
New York, has just released reso
lutions affecting Negro labor,
passed by the body. The organiza
tion. which is composed of white
i and colored members pledged itself
to “uncompromising opposition to
any form of d’serimination, whethei
p: litical or economic, based upon
tece, color, creed or nationality.”
H'GHWAYS [NLY
Omaha, Nebraska, Feb 1(5 —
(Special)—Attempts by certain
members of the Nebraska Legis
lature to force passage of measures
which result in diversion of revenue
collected through the gasoline tax
have drawn the fire of the Board
of Directors of the Nebraska Di
vision of the Travelers Protective
Association, it was learned today.
In a bulletin released by Charles
L. Hopper, secretary-treasurer of
the local post, members of the
board have repeated their consis
tent policy to oppose the diversion
| any part of funds produced by
the taxes levied on gasoline for
any purpose other than for use
in building highways and the main
tenance of same.
“Resolution have been repeatedly
passed by members of our fourteen
posts and by delegates represent
ing these local posts at our an
nual meetings to this effect,” the
bulletin continues.
The message also voices the
charge that passage of any bill
which would divert the referred-to
funds would be a case of unfair
class legislation.
SPORTS DAY—NEW FEATURE
AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
Hampton Institute, \'a., Feb. 16
—On February 18, 1939, th Wo
men's Athletic Association of Vir
ginia State College of Peterburg,
Virginia; Howard University of
Washington, D. C.; and Hampton
Institute of Hampton. Virginia, will
participate in their Second Sports
Day, at Hampton
This is a new feature in compe
titive sports for women in these
three colleges. The first experiment
was tried in November at Virginia
State college, and proved to be very
successful. It is not to be confused
with Women’s Day exercises at
Hampton Institute.
The program will include basket
ball, ping-pong, badminton, stunts,
relays, square dancing and com
petitive folk dancing—the last-nam
ed being the only one in which
there will be competition between
the colleges.
Most of the exercises will take
[ pLaco in the Gymnasium. In the
evening there will be a banquet in
‘‘Macedonia” dining room.
The Third and final Sports Day
of the year will be held at Howard
University in the spring.
_ _
TO SAVE CN FUEL WATCH
THE CHIMNEV „
ONE WAY TO PREVENT
HEATING W ASTES ESTI
MATED KHALF BIL
LION DOLLARS A YEAIJ
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It’ you . want to save fuel this
winter, keep an eye on the top of
your chimney advises the National
arm Air Heat'ng anl Air con
ditioning Assocation. This organi
zation esti.rates that American
: omo woners throw away at least
half a billion dollars’ worth of
l'ucl every winter keeping warm;
and smoky fires are responsble
for a large share of this waste.
“Smcke is fine soot mixed with
air; and soot is finely powered, un
burned fuel,’’ says an Association
bullet n. “Very few people realize
how much is costs them to turn
coal, coke, or oil, into soot and
blow it up the chimney without
burning it.
“Many homes lost twenty pounds
or more of fuel a day in the form
of smoke, soot, and unburned
gases; and that means the waste
of at least a ton 0f coal, in the
course pf every winter.”
roinn the habit, the Association
advises ,of stepping outdoors every
once in a while, this winter, and
taking a look at your chimney top.
If you see a lot of smoke coming,
out, go down and open the top
draft a little more, and party close
the bottom draft Of you may be
carrying too thin a fire, or with
bituminous coal, have the c al too
evenly spread over the grate, co
vering the live eo°l, for f* to burn
properly. Build it up a Title in the
middle and push „,e coal hack
until bright fire shows in front;
shift the drafts and damper, a very
little each time, and adjust the
thickness of the fire, until the
smoke disappears.
I Dont keep shaking the fire down
all the time to make it shine
through brightly underneath. It
looks cheerful; but you’re not only
taking some of your heat down
into the ash-pan where it goes to
waste; you usually open the fire
to too strong » draft from be
low, and that means the fine coal
d”st wont have a chance to burn
thoroughly before it get* blown
up the chimney—literally “gone up
ui smoke."
-0O0—
There are no windows In the
Bank of America building at the
1939 California World’s Fair, a
streamlined structure which is the
latest in hank design.
TRAIRIE FARMS FSA PROJECT
DEDICATES COMMUNITY
SCHOOL
i
Tuskegee, February 23 (ANP)—
Prairie Farms, an FSA rural re
settlement project for Negro fann
ers of Macon County, dedicated its
recently completed community cen
ter and school building Sunday
afternoon wit'.i addresses from
members of the state board of edu
cation, FSA and a member of the
faculty of Tuskegee institute. Prof.
A. L. Turner made the principal
address.
The Prairie Farms school build
ing, modern in plan and equipment,
was planned for the first six
grades, and an enrollment of 150.
Because of the scarcity of good
rural schools for the 8,000 Negro
children of school age in Macon
county, the Prair'e Farm school is
already faced with the problem of
teaching the W'ork of nine grades
to 230 children.
Superintendent Riley said that
inasmuch an only 5,000 of the 8,000
are enrolled, it i3 well nigh im
possible to reduce the crowded con
ditions until more school buildings
are provided.
Miss Katherine Deetz, supervisor
community centers of the FSA, at
the dedication service made it clear
that the building was to be used
for work and play and not only for
the 34 families who belong to the
project but by all the Negro fami
lies in the community.
Florence Wright, graduate of
Tuskegee recently employed by
FSA as itinerant worker for five
Negro projects, invited the parents
to join the activities planned for
the adults. Many, she said, had
already joined the improvement
and arrangement of kitchens and
bedrocims.
Prairie Farms i3 located at Ty
scnville, about 12 miles from Tus
kegee just off the Montgomery
High—ay Route 80, in Macon coun
ty. Tne first resettled famili -■
moved on the project May 8, ii
. rt
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A ONE GUN SALUTl ’ .. .
DAY
‘‘The Navy fire: a one-gun sal
ute every day. Each night at 0:30
a single gun is fired at the base
of the main mast of the U. S. S.
MAINE in memory of the men who
went down with her. This mast
is on the Naval Academy grounds
at Annapolis, Maryland.
Advfancement in the Navy is
regular, but it depends on a man's
natural ability, his intellectual
background, and the force of his
own personality. With proper ap
plication, be can work his way up
through the ranks to become a
commissioned officer. There are
men in the Navy today with two,
three, or four Gold stripes on their
sleeves, who began their Naval
career as enlisted men of the com
mon garden variety called appren
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
• : __ _
I have been kinda half-way in
terested in knowing how Nebraska
,s getting along with her power
scheme.
And I hove not heard much about
i; till lately. But the news trick
ling out now', :t does not look so
r '0'!, or proenis
Inj.
If you do not.
nappen to remem- *
ber it, the idea
there, it was to
ouild dams and ^
make power, kind |
of a Socialist plan l
where the State {
and tho Govt, run Joe Serra
things—and no profits. And from
tho way it is commencing to pan
out. it looks like it is 0. K. in one
way—'there is no profit But also,
i; looks like there is maybe going
to be poor lights.
They are starting a rumpus now
the paper says, and the State fel
lers. and the Govt, and the Local
'Communi ties, they are argufying
and putting on a kind of a 3-ring
circus—'but getting no place.
And the people who put up the
money, it looks kind of sickly for
them. They are going to have some
trouble getting their money back—
at the ticket wagon.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
tice seamen.
A one-ton rowboat could pass
through the Panama Canal for sev
enty-fivo cents, but it would take
just ar. much water for the row
boat as for a 35,000 ton battleship.
T'. e only vessels too large to pass
through the Canal are the “Nor
mandie” and the “Queen Mary”.
When the tl. S. S. New York
was a eoal burner, the late King
George of England and the late
K ng Albert of Belgium became.
“Honorary Coal:Passers” aboard
the ship after they had visited the
boilers of the good old man-of- j
war. The two shovels used are'
now on display in the Crew’s Re-i
ception Room of the U. S. S. New
York.
The energy released from the
eight 16-inch guns of the battleship
Maryland, when all are fired at
once, is great enough to drive a
locomot've and four cars from Los
Angeles to San Francisco, a dist
ance of 475 miles.”
very truly yours,
H. E. Peifer,
Lieut., U. S. Navy,
Officer in charge.
6 JERSEYITES FREE IN
IN SCHOOL BUS CASE
Mt. Holly. N. J. Feb. 16-Six
colored people, men and women,
went free here February 9th after
being in jail 60 days following
charges of assault and battery in
connection with a small riot in a
school bus.
On December 8, 1938, a fight
took place in a school bus which
was returning white and colored
children to their homes. Police
charge that the fight started when
certain colored parents boarded
the bus and ellegedly attacked the
driver and some of the white pup
ils.
The colored peoples’ story is that
their children had been subjected
to insults and threats for several
weeks and the colored parents were
determined to put an end to it
once and for all.
Responsible white people in Mt.
Holly admitted that the white chil
I dren on the bu3 were known for
trouble making', but at the same
time expressed the opinion that the
colored people could not get a fair
jury trial in the county.
On -February 9, the colored de
fendants pleaded non vult and were
paroled. Dr David Anthony, pres
ident of the Princeton, N. J.
NAACP. branch, and E. Frederic
Morrow, of the NAACP. national
cffice, personally investigated the
situation and conferred with at
torneys. A protest was sent by
tho NAACP. to Governor A. Harry
Moore.
TO START NEW ATHLETIC
FIELD AT SOUTHERN
SCOTLANDVILLE, I*., Fob. Id
(ANP)—A new athletic field, mak
ing the sixth Federal project set
under way on the campus of South
ern university, is scheduled to be
gin in 10 days, according to an
nouncement by President F. G.
Clark,
While the stadium-dormitory,
w hich is well underway, is not con
sidered a part of the athletic field
pioject, the two, when completed,
aie expected to give Southern the
best facilities for athletic comoeti
ticn of any Southern Negro schorl.
The athletic field will be suffic
iently large to accomodate such
contests as football, baseball, track
in all of its aspects, together with
six tennis courts. The playing
field is to be tile-drained witn an
underground system, making it
possible for a football contest to
t&ke place writhin an hour after, cn
unusually hard rain. Appropriate
fence and shrubbery completely
enclosing the athletic field and
stadium also form a part of the
new project.
The university has been assured
use at its new stadium and athletic
fnld in the coming fall.
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