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EDITORIALS
v referee should be fair
$’fCiri ..a feature editorial, the Kansas
City, Missouri, Journal urges the swift
enactment of the transportation legis
lative program proposed by the special
committee of six appointed by the pie
! sident, which recently made its report.
•• The welfare of the railroads, the
editorial observes, “is synonymous with
the city’s welfare.” And this is true of
thousands of other communities, large
and small, in evey state. These com
munities look to the railroads for a
large part of their tax revenue—for
the payrools that flow into their stores
and industries—for the indirect and di
rect employment that is vital to muni
cipal as well as national prosperity. • <
They look to the railroads to perform
the major part of the great job of
quickly and efficiently transporting
the products of farm and factory. Oth
er agencies perform valuable transpor
tation services, but it is the railroads
which are the backbones of the whole
system.
The proposals of the President’s
committee of six are characterized by
moderation and common sense, i. e.,
that all agencies be placed on a basis
of equality so far as regulation is con
cerned—that such white elephants as
the government—subsidized Inland
Waterways Corporation be abolished—
that the outmoded long-and-short haul
clause of the Transportation Act which
damages the interest of both the rail
road's and the shippers, be repealed.
The program is designed to stabilize
trjinsportation, giving all units a fail
competitive break, and to enable each
type of transportation to perform the
services for which it is best fitted.
Summing up, the Kansas City Jour
nal says, “It is time to abandon the
policy of gouging the railroads with
subsidized and unfair competition. The
railroad^ should stand on their c^vn
feet, meeting competition from their
own resources when the competition is
reasonable.” Enactment of the commi
tee’s program would go a long way to
ward enabling them to do that.
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“Our present relief system is in pol
itics by its nature. It will remain in
politics so long as the distribution of
Federal funds remain in the unfettered
discretion of any single man or small
group Or so long as those on relief can
be made to feel that their jobs and
the level of their pay depends upon
which local candidate or national party
is elected to office. This situation will
not be cured until the distribution of ;
Federal relief funds is made on the
basis of some impersonal formula that
the whole country understands clearly
and accepts as fair.”—The New York
Times.
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However this medical argument
ends, we’ro bound to work out some
system that will give sick people more
doctoring and idle (factors moire pa
tients.
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JUSTICE DEPT. ASKS FOR
DATA ON LYNCHINGS; GOP
HITS AT ANTI-LYNCH FIGHT
New York. March 3 (ONA)—
Petitions in support of the Wag
ner anti-lynching bill were being
circulated thsi week by the 22nd
A. D. Manhattan organization of
the American Labor Party. The
organization has also called an
anti-lynching mass meeting for
Thursday evening March 22, at
3785 Broadway, near 157th street
in a white district.
Washington, March 3 (CNA)—
The anti-lyneh forces of the nation
were encouraged this week by a
request from the Department of
Justice jDor data on the recent
lynch attack on two Negroes work
ers in Goldsboro, N. C. At the
same time ind'gnation was expres
sed at what was considered a
move by Senator W. Warren Bar
bour, New Jersey Republican, to
■split the united support behind the
Wagner anti-lynching measure by
introducing in Congress a rival
bill that omits the punitive clauses
of the Wagner bill.
The Department of Justice re
quest was contained in a telegram
sent by Brian MacMahon, Assistant
Attorney General, to James W.
Ford, Negro in answer to a wire
by Ford to Attorney General
Murphy Ford’s telegram declared
that tbe brutal flogging of Floyd
Edwards and Kirby Baldw:n in
Goldsboro necessitated an invme
'diate Federal investigation. In his
reply, MacMahon asked that all
facts be submitted “in order that
determination may be made wheth
er a Fede'ral violation” had taken
place.
Proponents of Federal anti
lynching legislation assailed the
Barbour bill rs weakening the
penalties of the Wagner measure
by making them applicable only in
the case of “wilful neglect” on the
part of peace officera in taking
precautions' to prevent mob vio
lence. It was pointed out that the
Barbour bill provides a loophole
for officials in communities where
a lynching takes place. It was
also recalled that last year the
Republicans joined with the fili
bustering anti-New Deal Demo
crats of the South to kill the Wag
ner anti-lynching bill. The Wag
ner bill already hag been re-intro
duced into the Senate.
“I think as we develop the strug
gle for the passage of the Federal
anti-lynching bill that a precedent
should be clearly established for
the office of the Attorney General
to take the responsibility to in
vesigate lynch acts. I trust you will
act accordingly.”
With the letter wa3 enclosed a
complete copy of Ford’s corres
pondence with the Department of
Jusice.
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LOW PAY DECREES
POOR DIETS FOR
URBAN WORKERS
Washington, March 3 (CNA)—
Almost two-thirds of the Negro
employed city workers have insuf
ficient diets, according to a sur
vey o<f 43 industrial centers re
cently completed by the govern
ment.
From 40 to 60 percent of the
white families and 60 percent of
the Negro families included in the
nationwide survey had inadesuate
diets from the standpoint of nu
trition and health.
The survey of diets and food
costs, the most comprehensive and
detailed ever made, was conducted
by the Federal Bureau of Home
Economics under the direction of
Dr. Hazel K. Stibeling and Esther
P. Phippard.
* The Bureau;selected “samples of
about 100 tyiJical families of wage
earners and low-salaried clerical
workers in each of the 43 cities.
Each kept detailed food records co
vering the period of December 1934
to February 1937.
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‘ NEW DEAL/SONG WORRIES
GOP
Washington, March 2—(ONA)
Republican strategists are repor
ted worried at the growing popu
larity of the song, “Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jones,” from “Sing out
the News.” With the 1940 elect
ions approaching, they are distur
bed at the prospect of an ever
widening curcle of voters singing
or whistling to:
“The folks in the town all
agree
He’ll be as famous aa famous
can be,
How can he be a dud
Or a stick-in-the-mud,
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BEflUTy.-ROIHflnCE'
The Larleose Beauty Foundation vai established by f
the Godetroy Manufacturing Company te study methods
ef preserving women’s natural beauty, and to make
the results of this research available to the public.
With the worst part of the winter
behind us, we are all thinking about
spring clothes. But before we get
around to the actual purchase of
our spring wardrobe, it Is well to
take a good long look at ourselves
In the mirror.
The chances are that during the
winter we have let up on our regu
lar exercises. The weather was
not conducive to outdoor activity
and most of us, I am afraid, have
fulled to keep up our daily dozen
Indoors. Then, too, we seem to
have bigger appetites In winter, due
to the cold weather, and we eat an
a h and a nee of heavy foods, Many
of as added a good five pounds dur
ing the holidays from the rich holi
day fare and have neglected to do
anything about it. And now Is the
time that we must pay for our Iasi
ness and neglect If we hope to wear
our spring clothes with an ulr.
Improve Your Posture
The feminine figure shows the
first signs of neglect 111 one (or nil)
of throe places: the hips, ttie abdo
men and the waist. The day of the
wasp-like waist Is gone, but a slim,
trim midriff Is still in demand if
yea want to wear your clothes to
advantage. And, of course, nothing
detracts more from the line of a
dress, or suit than a bulging tummy.
And lids common feminine failing
is more the result of poor posture
and weak stomach muscles than of
surplus poundage. Slumping actu
ally ndds several Inches to the
waist, hips and abdomen. Try hold
ing yourself erect and notice the
differente. Holding your stomach
in strengthens the stomach muscles
Htid, If w.ii keep It up long enough,
you will lie rid of at least that par
ticular defect.
Exercises Must Be Done Regularly
The hips, however, tire the big
gest problem. Nothing will trim
them down but regular exercise and
diet, I suggest diet only If you are
all arnond overweight and then Jt
must be accompanied by exercise.
But many of us have unnecessarily
well-padded hips without being
generally heavy. This condition is
brought about by a lazy life and Is
remedied only by a well-established
routine of exercise. I nm going to
give you a couple of simple exer
cises to reduce the hips and, for
tunately, these same exercises, it
done regularly, will slim your waist
too.
(1) T,le on back and roll hips
from side to side, keeping the shoul
ders tlat on the lioor. Start with ten
rolls a day and work gradually up
to fifty.
(2) Standing erect, bend for
ward, trying to touch the toes. Then
bend backward, then from side t<
side.
I have selected these two exer
rises because they are simple, and
do the same work as the more com
plicated, and oftentimes confusing
ones. Nor will they leave you sc
worn out that you will neglect the
proper cure of your lialr, your skit
and your general good grooming
Itemeinber that a few days, or ever
a few weeks of exercise Is lu-l
enough. You must keep It tip regu
larly over a period of time If yon
hope to slip into spring with a silo
silhouette.
What are your beauty prob
lems? Write Marie Downing,
Larteuse Beauty Foundation,
Room 521 — 319 North Fouith
St., St. Louis, Mo., and she mill
be glad to answer them. Be sure
to enclose a self-addressed
stamped envelope.
When he’s Franklin I).
Roosevelt Jones?”
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SOJOURNER TRUTH ANI)
HARRIS TUBMAN
By Louise Thompson
Negro woman abolionist, went to
see Abraham Lincoln she was not
a stranger to him. He had known
of her long fight for the freedom
of her people long before she, her
,self, knew of Lincoln.
It was not strange that Lincoln
should have heard of Sojourner
Truth. The Negro woman who was
bom a slave about J800 in Ulster
County, New York, and who never
throughout her long life learned
to read or write, was known by
those in high places as well as by
the great masses of her own peo
ple for her uncompromising fight
agaist slavery and for the rehab
iliation for the ex-slaves after the
war In her “Book of Life’’ which
she earned wherever she travel
led are testimoials from the great
est abolitionists of the day—Will
iam Lloyd Garrison, kFrederick
Douglas, Wendall Phillips, Charles
Sumner, to name a few, similiar
to her fearless struggle for equ
ality of women was paid by Su
san B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott.
In the halls of Congress, in
churches and meeting rooms, on
street comers—anywhere and au
dience was to be found, went So
journer Truth, travelling thous
ands of mile* without funds, a
lone and unafraid. Her audiences
were not always friendly.
War Nurse
During the Cvil War, when So
journer Truth was over, six
ty, she nursed the wounded sold
iers in the hospitals around Wa
shington. After the war she work
ed among the freed people there,
teaching them how to adapt them
selves to freedom.
Sojoyfrrter Truth kept up her
travels and..speeches until she was
well past' eighty. Peoples were a
maz’ed at the vitality and intelli
gence of this aged woman who
lost none of her fire and passion1
to struggle.for the rights of her
people .
One could not end this brief
| sketch of Sojourner Truth with
out at least mentioning her con
: temporary fighter for liberty. Har
riet Tubman. I know of no meet
ing between Lincoln and thus brave
woman, but I am confident that
ho heard of her many times, too.
No one, pro-slave or abolitionist,
did ever not know of this fugitive
slave woman, who with a $40,000
price on her head, made nineteen
trips into the South to bring over
three hundred Negro men, women
and children to freedom. She was
known as “The Moses of her
people.” John Brown called her
“General Tubman” in recognition
of her assistance to him.
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Two Unsung Heroines
During the Civil War. Harriet
Tubman undertook the dangerous
work of spy and scout for the Un
ion Army at the request of Gov
ernor Andrew of Massachusetts.
Into the South she went, facing
fire from both armies, leading
the orthern tlroops through the
jungle and' swamps, overcoming
the fear of the slaves as they
went.
After the war ended, Harriet
Tubman returned to Auburn, N.
Y., to find her little farm sold to
satisfy a mortgage an herself with
no means to redeem it or care for
her parents. All during the war
che had received no compensation
for her invaluable service to the
army and had had to maintain
herself by making pies ginger
bread and root beer to sell td the
soldiers. Now', despite the plead
ing of Secretary Seward and other
prominent citizens, the government
denied her a pension. She was
compelled to depend on the assist
ance of abolitionist friends and
her own labor.
Sojourner Truth as well as Har
riet Tubman, was never compen
sated dby the government for her
work in the Civil War. Likewise
these two noble women have been
ignored by historians and unsung
in the nation’s literature. Our
task today is to bring them out
of obscurity into the front ranks
of our country’s heroes that their
ives may be an inspiration to the
emancipation fighters of the twen
tieth century.
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CITIZENS SCORE OHIO SOLON
FOR BLOCKING CHANCE TO
GET NEGRO CONGRESSMAN
Cleveland, March 2—(ANP)—
Many citizens here who for years
have envisioned the day. when an
Ohio Negro will be sent to the
U. S. congress, were outspoken
in criticism this week of Rev Da
vid Turpeau, colored minister of
Cincinnati, and a state represent
ative, whose opposition to a con
pressional redistricting bill last
week at Columbus has killed pre
sent chances of eecting a Negro
congressman in this state.
There are only two colored Ohio
st|ate representatives—Rev. Tur
peau and Rep. Chester K. Gilles
pie of Cleveland’s Cuyahoga coun
ty—the latter being author of the
Congressional RedLstricting bill.
At the state capital in Columbus,
the bill under which Ohio’s con
gressional districts will be redis
tricted came up for hearing on
Wednesday before the Federal Re
lations committee of the house of
representatives.
Citizens throughout the state
hailed with joy the forthcoming
hearing and anticipated strong
support from Rep. Turpeau for the
Gillespie bill, inasmuch as Turpeau
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was the only other Negro member
of the state legislative body. Their
desappointmet was keen therefore,
when it was learned that insteal
of supporting it Rep. Turpeau of
Hamilton county was the only per
son who spoke against the bill.
Claybome George, Cleveland
civic and political leader, commen
ting on Turpeau’s action, said,
“Rev. Turpeau objects to the bill
on the ground that if the state is
redistricted, they in Hamilton
county will lose the services of
two congressmen-at-large. Upon
being asked by Mr. Gillespie as to
whether he was more iterested in
the retention of two congressmen
at-large or the election of a Ne
gro to congress, Rev Turpeau re
plied. “I do not represent the Ne
gro. I represent all the people.
“The way the bill is set up, it
will definitely assure the possibi
lity of elect ng a Negro from this
county to the U. S. congress. For
the first time in several years
wo have a state legislative over
whelmingly Republican. If we can
not pass such a bill now, I do not
know When we can.”
The Federal Relations commi
ttee, by vote of ten to four, agreed
to indefinitely postpone action on
the bill, W'hich means that the bill
was killed in committee.
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CLERIC SAYS CHURCH
SHOULD HELP SOLVE
ECONOMIC ILLS OF T1IE
PEOPLE
Jacksonville, Fla., March 2
(ANP)—At a crowded held at Mt.
Z on AME. church several days af
ter the funeral of the late Bishop
R. A. Grant, presidng prelate of
the Florida district. Rev. C. A.
| Gibbs, presiding’ elder of North
Jacksonville district and business
manager-treasurer Edward Wat
er seollege, strongly condemned the
apathy of some churchmen for the
civic and economic problems faced
by members of the race.
Sounding the warning that the
church should lead all movements
aimed at bettering *he conditions
of Negroes, improving education
al facilities and releiving econo
mic distress and unemployment,
Dr Gibbs, pointed out that the
influence and prosperity of the
church depended on the prosperity
of all the people in ail sections
o fthe nation.
I)r. Gibbs has been prominently
mentioned as a candidate for the
AME bishopric at the General
conference to be held in 1940 at
Detroit, Mich. He is president of
the AME Ministerical alliance
here, and a former president of
Edward Water, college. He is now
working with Bishop Henry Young
Tookes. who has been assigned to
fill out the unexpired term of the
late Bishop Grant, As presiding
prelate of the 11th distric, Bishop
Tookes is president of the trust
ees board, Edward Waters college,
of which Dr. C. S. Long Jr. is pre
sident, and Dr. Gibbs the treasur
er and business manager.
COAST LIBERALS
AND LABOR FIGHT
ANTI-NEGRO BILL
Olympia, Wash, March 3, (CNA)
—Liberal and labor forces this
week sought to prevent an inter
marriage ban from being added to
the statutes of tihis last American
frontier state.
Publicity and organized protests
were prepared to oppose enactment
into law of a bill that would out
law marriages between whites,
Negroes and Orientals. The bill is
now under consideration by the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Proposed by Senator Earl Max
well, upperhouse whip of Governor
Clarance Martin, the measure
would minify “fixed marriages,”
and make both parties to ~ such
marriages and person “authorized
to perform or solemmizo” them
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Opponents of the bill have been
urged to wire or write their pro
tests to Chairman Fred S. Duggan,
Judiciary Committee, State Senate,
Olympia, Washington.
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PLAN BASKETBALL WORLD
SERIES IN CHICAGO
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Chicago, March 3 (ANP)—The
i New York’s Renaissance and the
Harlem Globe Troters basketball
teams have been invited to compete
along with several leading white
professional teams, in a $10,000
basketball world’s series to be play
ed here March 26, 17 and 28, it
was announced last week by Harry
Hannin and Harry Wilson, co-spon
sors.
White teams receiving invita
tions include the Nerw York Celtics,
Philadelphia Hebrews, Jersey City :
Rods, OsCokosh All Stars, Indiana
polis Kautskys, Akron Fire stones.
Siieboygran Redskins, and Ham
mend Street armory on March 26
and possibly in the coliseum the
next two days.
The Globe Trotters and the
Celtics are scheduled to meet in
White City on the Southside Sun
day afternoon, March 12.
TEXAS COURT REVERSES
DEATH SENTENCE WHEN
NEGROES ARE EXCLUDED
FROM JURY
Austin, Tex., March 3 (ANP)—
J. D Hill, 17 year old youth, who
was convicted of an attack upon
a white woman here and sentenced
to the elecrtie chair, saiw death,
postponed temporarily at least
when the eTxas court of criminal
appeals reversed the death penalty
and dismissed the prosecution in
his case on the grounds that he
had been denied, a fair trial and
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equal protection under the law.
Justice J. W. Hawkins, who read
the decision, pointed to the United
States supreme court case which
held that consistent failure to have
Negroes on juries constituted «
piima-facie evidence of denial of
the. equal protection which the con
stitution guarantees. It is said that
Negroes have not served in Dallas
county in which the case was ori
ginally heard for 30 years.
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NEGRO DESIGNS AUTO
STICKERS FOR STATE
INSPECTION SERVICE
Philadelphia. March 3 (ANP)—
The automobile sticker placed on
cars inspected and certified by the
Pennsylvania State Revenue De
partment was designed by a colored
man, it was learned this week.
Arthur Chapin, mechanics art gra
duate of Overbrook, high school,
class of 1934 created the design
while an employe in the Harrisburg
office of the Revenue department.
When the department needed a
new sticker for the 1939 period, it
was discovered they had no drafts
man available. Chapin, employed as
statistician, but trained in mecha
nic arts, volunteered to draft the
label and it was accepted. But
‘■honor” was all his achievement
brought him. He received no extra
remuneration for his labor, and in
addtion, being a Democrat—lost
his jcb with advent of the Repub
lican administration at the state
capital.
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STRIKES SPREAD IN
BRITISH GUINA
Georgetown, British Guiana,
March 3 (CNA)—A complete tie
up of the sugar industry loomed
this week as strike3 spread to all
estates in the colony, and workers
mostly Negro, began a march on
Georgetown to seek settlement of
their dispute with operators.
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ARMSTRONG TO DEFEND
TITLE IN LONDON
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Miami Beach, March 3 (ANP)—
Henry Armstrong has been signed
to defend his welterweight title
in London the first week in May,
it was announced Monday by his
manager. Eddie Mead. Hia oppo
nent will be the winner of the
forthcoming bout between Erie Ro
derick and Jake Kilrain,
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PAPER CHANGES HANDS
Washington, March 2—(ANP
Tho Washington Tribune, which
lias enjoyed a wide circulation here
for a number of years, has chang
ed hands. The Capital News Ser
vice Inc., assumes ownership and
management of the Tribune, with
Robert A'. Pelman at the head.
WINS OHIO ORATORICAL
CONTEST
Akron, O., March 3 (ANP)—
Herbert Bracken, student at the
University of Akron, last week
won the Ohio Intercollegiate con
test held at Kent State university
with his address on “The Economic
Color Line.” White student from
Wittenberg college was second.
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Louisville, Ky. March 3 (0) —
Domestic Life and Accident Insur
ance company has assets of $64->.
464.93 as of December 31, las:, ac
cording to its annual statement,
just made public The company ha*
*26,660.44 in cash.