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ten es _2^* [Dean Gordon B.Hancbcko y SEX-IFIEI) MOVIES At tho risk of be ng called a prude, this writer wishes to regis ter his objection to the picture “The Birth of a Baby" recently prearnted in Richmond. As an ex perienced teacher, I feel that sex education has its place in the study - of every youth, but the time and place and circumstances are mat ters of the greatest moment. It is true that hitherto much of any. education has been given in the streets and imbibed in the streets b> the youth of the land. This hu« been unfortunate for the youth and tho community. A new day has dawned in which sex h"s its place in tho educationnl scheme; and aex is no longer to be regarded as something indecent or degrad ing but it is fast coming to be regarded as the high and holy thing is is. Hoerin lies the dangers. Too mako too much of Hex in try'ng to ’•nautify it and idealize it is to V'stroy it* beauty and sanctity. Man is to constituted psychologi cally that he cannot worship that which is common and it may be x the reason that his Creator screened from view tho eternal verities of the hereafter. To make thing** of sex too common is to degrade them eventually. “The Birth of a Baby" as a cross section of movie education may not appear ill'cit or undesira ble, but as a trend it is horrible! The unsophisticated and guillible public does not know in the long run what is best for itself. The public must be saved from itself by those who understand the foibles of human nature Nobody denies that pregnant mothers need the attention of their physicians; that informat^n relative to the pre-na tal development of the child should be made clear; that certain exami nations are pertinent to her con dition and that labor pains are • * part of the ordeal through which -—~ -- —_1 -W -» «•« ■ —— Mm BASEMENT * For Womoo Who Art Difficolt to Fit r Marie Dressier Dresses especially de signed to bring perfec tion *«i fit and style for barn .o - fit women. Youthfully slenderising, amazingly comfortable. Sketched. Tailored style with embroidered organ die and pique collar. 80 square percale prints ... Navy, aOpen, laven der or aqua backgrounds. Sim $8i IB SS|. HALF SIZIS far flfaret of* small bast, large hips. SI Vs to BSVt. 9UARTIR SIZIS far flgares of smell bast and larger hips. >7V« fa SI Vs. a Kilpatrick*$ Basamant 1 **n*Wmamammmmmmmmmmmmmamarntm I ".'c- mrlbar must o to bring intc ills V'Ci-11 a ch'M. live v *< ly knows in u way t.’vo part the phy i Irian plays in the dr-livery of n child. But foe t.'-r producers to screen every deta'l of this solumn procedure before m'xed audiences in the nsimn of educating rbe pub lb is deplorr-bie to say tie least. It would be a fine picture for expectant mothers and prospective i I'nthers but for the general public i it is simply another play up of sex for the commercialising of cine isf humanity’s most sacred passions. Picture producers are not necessarily interested in improving the morals of a nation and U.i world. They ore primarily in’er I rstH in Rolling a ocreen p’-*tfuc fion and although they in ninny ■*u>vi do much, the said good is a hy-prcduct. i I One man was askrd his oh - | jcction to restaurant food ir.'i Iw replied, "restaurant food is not cooked to seat but to sell." While this ig not true of all restaurants it cun be applied to the produces r.f screen pictures. For ho long matters of sex were taboo that vv • me coming to the other extreme i ai.o make them too common. Here in lies the possibilities of moral I degradation! It has come about i that every picture has its love seme with its embracing and ils inevitable "mushy kissing.” All l-.nds of suggestive th ugs ;,tv<kon I i mi acted before the gaze of im* ! mature persons. From one degrei | of six incss to another the movie if. going. It this generation »• coopts the “Birth of a Babv” the will i be shown "The Begetting of A | Baby etc.” Somebody ought to call u halt | to this debasement of the only pas i Plon make life worth living. Some I thing of its privacy and beauty should be safeguarded There ..s | no partcular point to be served by showing a baby coining into this world head-foremost assisted by a physician and nurse. There is noth ing that a movie audience can gain from hearing a mother groan in labor. The movie producers know that such things will sell 'for they cater to the rnorbib propessities of human nature . These producers know that if ‘‘sex-iness’’ is paraded under the guise irf sex education the gudlible public will crave more and more of it. The producers know that matters of sex have always been, are now and will ever be interest. They know that if this can be put on the screen pictures will sell. They are right* I sent my class in Family Re lations to see the picture and out of 35 only 5 did not approve of it. The majority thought it fine and I am not surprised nor disconcert ed at their conclusion. The end of all this sexiness will be sex per version and national decay. Con genital sex perversion among1 the lower animals ig common; acquired perversion among human is dan gerous. Life in the movies begin i at SEX-TY. A nation’s shame! ———oOo GOOD NEBR. ROADS— INCREASED LABOR i _____ ONE DOLLAR IN GASOLINE TAX REVENUE MEANS TWO DOLLARS IN GOOD NEBR. HIGHWAYS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOUBLES NEBRASKA’S ROAD REVENUE Pending in the Nebraska legis lature are numerous bill9 intend ed to divert some of the gasoline tax revenue for purposes other than the building and maintenance of Nebraska's highways. Today, State Engineer A. C. Til ley anticipates that by June, 1939 there will be $1,176,000.00 of fed eral aid funds available for Ne braska highways—but which won’t be matched due to present inroads on state highway funds. Adding to the federal aid which will be unmatched by June 30, 1939 fcho federal authorizations for the mHE member* of my family call 1 this "mother's diplomatic pie.” For when strawberries first arrive and the wnoie household unite * in clamoring for ^ hig helpings of atrawtberries, there Is a strug gle between , economy and my ' desire to be ac commodating. So gpaBaMMI to aerve the first strawberries in a Strawberry Pie Olac* Is nothing short of inspiration and high diplomacy. The strawher riefi are artfully eked out in a dea sert which leaves nothing to he da sired and my budget for the week 1 remains balanced. Freeh Strawberry PI# Olac* 3 cups hulled strawberries; % cup sugar; 1 package etrawberry-fla I vored gelatin; IV* cups hot water; ! dash of salt; 1 baked Mnch pie '■hell. i i Combine strawberries and sugar and let stand 10 minutes. Dissolra gelatin In hot water. Add salt and . I pour over berries. Chill. Whatf slightly thickened, turn Into cold pie shell. Chill until firm. Garnish with whipped cretin, If desired. / I next two years require matching. Thus there is a total of $6,616,460 1 .00 wh'ch must be matched with stato funds if Nebraska it to make i full use of the federal funds avail | able during the biennium. 1 If the present rate of financing l is continued, Engineer Tilley esti I mates that Nebraska will be able 1 to match by June 30, 1941, appro* • ximately all except $6,500,000.00. | And reduction in the present rate 1 of highway finances will effect j th'r in direct proportion Translated into mileage of fin : ished roads, 100 additional miles | of concrete slab, 400 additional ] mile of bitumious mat or between i 800 and 12,000 additional miles of i gravel farm-to-ntarker roads would bo added in Nebraska if the state highway funds were available by June, 1939 for matching by the federal government. Loss to Nebraska Labor totals | mere than two million dollars, I since 90 cents of every dollar of | f.ho highway fund would be spent for labor. I -- RADIO RAVES Thin list'ng is in effect for the wte' off March 12 only! All time jihown is Eastern Time. Substract ' ) hour for Central time, 2 hours ! for Mountain time and 3 hours for West Coast time_ ORCHESTRAS VOCALISTS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS COUNT BASIE—MBS scattered schedule (Southland, Boston) BON BON, SONGS—with Jan Sauitt's ork.—NBC Blue—Thurs., 11 p. m„ Fri., 7:15 p. m. NBC Red ■Tues., Wed.. 12 midnight. (Hotel Lincoln, NYC) CHABfOTEERS— NBC Blue— ’ Tues., 8:15 a. m.{ NBC R«1—Sat.,! 10:45 n. (Vocal quartet) DEEP RIVER BOYS—CBS East and South only! Mon., 8:30 a. m. Sun., 10:30 h. m. Columbia—Thurn. G p. m. JIMMY DUDLEY—WTMJ (620 k) Mon., Wed., Fri., 1:30 p. m. (Saxaphone solist wit hthe Rhy thm Rascals from Milwaukee, Win. ERSKINE HENDERSON—NBC Red, except West Coast, Sun., and Con., 12:30 a. m. WENR (870 k) Nitely exrept Sat., 11:30 P. M. al ro Wed.. 12:45 P. M WMAQ (670 i k) Tues., Thurn., Fri., 12:80 A# M. Sat., 12 midnight (Grand Terrahe, Chicago.) CHARLIE JOHNSON—WAAF (660 k)—Thurs. 11 P. M. (pianist and vocalist) KING COLE JESTERS—NBC Blue Sun., 8:30 P. M.; West Coast only Sat, 6:30 P M. (3:30 West Coast) Instrumental and vocal group. SATURDAY NIGHT SWING CLUB—CBS—Sat., 6:30 P. M. NOBLE SISSLE—NBC Blue Sun., 11 P. M.—NBC Red—Tues., 11 P. M. (Diamond Horse Shoe LET PEOPLES DO IT Ole&n up that front room. We specialise la making old houses look like new, inside and out. No charge (Or «sti mation on work. No job too small or too large. Ten trained decorating medhatnica. Our Motto—Service First, at the lowest prloes. Call WBbster 2858. Peoples P ‘ t and Papering Shop LABBT PEOPLES, Proprietor Ba; NYC) PRINCE STEWART — KITE j (1530 k) N tely, 11:30 P. M. (Club Continental, Kansas City) MAXINE SULLIVAN—CBS — West Coast only, Tues., Thurs., 10:45 P. M. West Coast Time Past Time: Bluetress Maxine is an ex pert caricaturist with pen & ink. VAGABONDS—Club Matinee — NBC Blue, Mon., thru Sat.. 4 P. M. and the Jamboree Fri., 8:30 P. M. WMAQ (670 k) Mon., 7:45 P. M. (Vocal quartet) HERMAN WALDER-KCMO,— Kansas City, Nitely, 11:16 <Lu cilia's) TEDDY WILSON A LIONEL j HAMPTON with BENNY GOOD MAN’S ORK—CBS, Tues. 9:30 P M. INSPIRATIONAL, VARIETY & COMEDY PROGRAMS Henry Armstrong vs. Lew Feld man, Prize Fight, CBS—Thurs. March 10 only! MAJOR BOWLES AMATEUR HOUR—CBS—Thursday 9 P. M. RUBY ELZY—Soprano—KEHE Ix*i Anegeles Tues. 9 P. M. West Coast time. GEE GEE JAMES—CBS Mon., thru Fri., 12:16 P. M. (regular member of the '’Her Honor, Nancy Janies” daytime serial.) MAGNOLIA BLOSSOMS—NBC Blue Tues., 11 P. M. (Fisk Jubilee Cbcir) LILLIAN RANDOLPH—CBS— Thurs., 7:30 P. M. (West Coast re broadcasting 8:30 P. M. Miss Ran dolph portrays tho role of “Ar butus” with comic Joe Penner. ROCHESTER, JACY BENNY’S RADIO VARET— NBC Red, Sun.,1 7 P, M. (Rebroadcast for West Coast 11:30 P. M. Eidie "Roches ter" Anderson, Jack Benny’s mo del valet is building a model rac ing car two feet long which will develop a speed of 66 miles per houi\ SOUTHERN AIRES, —VOCAL QUA RITET—NpC! Blue, Sun., 11-30 A M. Thurs. 12 noon.** RUDY VAU.EE VARIETY HOUR NBC Red Thurs., 8 P. M. (Prominent colored guest artists are frequently heard.) VINE STREET VARIETIES— WHB (860 k) Sat. 8 P. M. (Kansas City. Mo.) WE, THE PEOPLE—CBS Tues. 9 r. M. (A parade of real life persons representing every creed ard race) WINGS OVER JORDAN—CBS —Sun. 9:30 A. M. (Pronvnent guest speaker and choral group.) “ADD SOUTHERNAIR.ES—A salute to Ind ana will be given by the Soutbernaires during their pro gram on Friday, March 10, at 12:15 P. M The Quartet will sing “Back Home in Indiana.'* and On tho Tanks cf the Wabash.” Other songs to be featured by the vocal group aro “In the Gloaming,” "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow,” “Softly and Tenderly,” and "Com ing Home.” KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS (IBS INDICATESERHAP7.. MoQ CBS indicates the Columbia Broadcasting System; MBS, Mu tual Broadcasting System; NBC Red or Blue, National Broadcast* Ing Co. (K) is the abbreviation for kilocycle. Consult your individual local network stations for broadcasts listed, subtracting time given, BST to your own time zone. -w_oOo ONTHEUR By Sailye Bell for ANP Last week students of Washing ton’s Armstrong high school were featured on a program represent ing the fourth of a series of “Stu dent Radio Workshop” programs under the auspices of Station WJSV and the Washington Post and with the cooperation of Wash ington’s board of education. The school’s 65 piece boys’ band played John Phillip Sousa’s “Thunderer” and the 18 voice girls’ chorus sang "Irish Love Song;” Craig Wesley played a violin solo, and talks were given by Helen Morton, senior at the high school who Bpoke on “Crime and Youth” and Francis A. Gregory, teacher of applied elec tricity at Armstrong whose sub ject was "Industrial Arts in the High School.” Dramatic skit of the program was a scene from "The Beggar and the King.” The pro gram was produced under the su pervision of Mrs. Estelle P. Webs ter, music teacher at Armstrong high school, and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith, teacher of dramatics and English Those participating in the program arc members of the Stu I dents’ Radio guild of Armstrong ; high. I’m sure Washingtonians enjoyed thlu broadcast by Negro students, and I only hope they didn’t keep their enjoyment secret, but immed iately wrote letters of apprecia tion to station WJSV, officials of the high school and board of edu cation. It is only by audibly voic ing, you know, tohat we can let them know that we want to hear more Negro talent. ▼ ▼ T If. Arthur Gilbert, concert was guest at h's alma mater, Los An geles’ Sumner high from which he graduated in June, 1936. Mr. Gil bert is assistant to the musical con sultant of radio station KFUO. and may be heard Mondays and Fri days featuring piano selections from 7:46 to 8 A. M. and plays daily for the Concordia Chapel from 9:80 to 9:45 A. M. His other broadcasts are: “Organ Reveries’’ on Friday from 10:30 to 10:45 p. m.; and “From the Organ Loft,” 10 to 16:80 p m., Thursday and Saturday, whieh is hear over the mutual chain. If west coast fans are getting h?s programs, I hope they are letting him know much they like him. If you listen to "Her Honor, Nancy James,” dramatic sketches on Columbia network Mondays thru Fridays (WABC-CBS, 12:15 to 12:30 P. M., EST), you'll be inter ested to know that Gee Gee, color ed housekeeper in the sketches, is one actress who doesn’t have to change her name for the script’s sake. Her real I fe nickname in 1 Miss Goo Gee James. She was christened Regina Theodore James, but ever since she was a little girl in Philadelphia, she’s been called Gen Gee. Her dramatic career began one summer when she won a dance contest A producer engaged hei, then 14, for “Charleston Dances,” in Wilmington, Dec, When vaca tion was over, she resumed her studies at John Halahan Catholic Girls’ High school, where she be came captain of the first colored professional basketball team in cham of Canada. The decision was Philadelphia. After graduating from high school, she sang with Claude Hopkins’ band in Atlantic City and Los Angeles, then came to New York in “Hot Rhythm.” This season sihe was seen on Broad way with Arelen Francis in “Mic hael Droos In.” In private life Miss Janies is Mrs. George Wiltshire, a mother of a six year old daughter whosi name is of all things, Gee Gee. These little biographic sketches of stars always make them a bit moro interesting, and I hope you readers will tune in on "Her Hon or, Nancy James” and listen to Gee Gee, and then drop her a line and tell her how you like it. I know gbo’d be glad to hear from you, «o how about it? Don't look now, but Zora Neale Hurston was interviewed over the air last Wednesday morning ovc the NBC network, station WLW Cincinnati, at 10:30 a. m. Miss Hurston is in Cincinnati for « series of commercial broadcasts, and may remain to continue her radio work until the latter part of May. Earl Hines and his orchestra | played the Frog Hop ballroom, Si. Joseph, Mo., and Skyton, ballroom, Sioux City, la., March 11 and 12. WHEN ONE IS DOWN By William Henry Huff for ANP Almost everybody tries To Kick one in the face When he is down and out But the one who never cries Who keeps his usual pace Is he who will win out. Let the one now out and down Have naught to fear or dread For up the road somewhere Nebraska" produce 1202—4—6 North 24th St. Phone WE 4137 Poultry and Egg Dealer* Otu prices are reasonsable, see us first. Free Trading Stamps with each Purchase. ...» « » ■ »m ».««■»»■■ »■.» | He may seize the very crown Now on his foeman’s head. 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