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NOTE:—Your question will be analyzed free In this column only when you include a clipping of this column and sign your full name. birthdate and correct address to your letter. For a "Private Reply"... send only 25c and a stamped envelope for my latest ASTROLOGY READING covering your birthdate; also a free letter of advice analyzing three Questions. Explain your problems clearly and con fine your questions to those within the scope of logical reasoning. — Send Your Letter Tp — ABBE’ WALLACE. P. O. BOX 11. ATLANTA. GA. V. L. R.—I am a graduate from ► i High school in May and I love music, dramatics, dancii g, and no venture. I am love hungry too. Do you sec any u • ess in any ot these things for m> ? I thank you in advance. Ans: This summer you will have your longing for love and adventure satisfied. A young man cngrgtd in educational work will be spending the rum mer months in your little town. And will you two have a BIG TIME TOGETHER. M .O.—Where can 1 order some medicine for pyorrhea of the gum« ? Ans: Man ypreparations arc on the market for treating gums, but you would be* play ing safer to call on a dentist and let him treat you as well as prescribe the right kind of medicine. M. B. R. — I have two small grandsons and th'.'r father died. My daughter has married ugain and should I let her have them or must I keep them ? Ans: Keep them if the daughter will permit it, as they have grown attached to you now. If »he prefers to ha^e then with her then rhere is * nothing left to do but consent. -1* The children will be well cared for with her and they will no doubt spend a lot of time with you. A. L, L.—I love my church and have made quite a name for my self here but I have the urge to go away as 1 am sure that as long as I remain here I will never marry and I would like a home of my own with a nice Christian husband. Am: You are mightly de serving of a home and a good husband. A change would do you a world of good. You could take' up your church activities some place else just as well as you are doing there and 1 feel that new acquaintances will bring joy into your life. T. T.—I am contemplating or dering a tombstone from a dis tance) and I wish to know if it would be all right Ans: Quite all right for you to do so The stone would sent you by freight and if this is what ycu desire, go ahead and place your ordei\ It is very likely you could pur chase one much cheaper in your own district. ..i... i. . a L. B. C_Does my husband love me or did he come back just for convenience ? Ans: He loves you and the reason he returned to you was because he was terribly un happy and realized that he couldn't be satisfied without you. Stop FINDING FAULT with him and appreciate him, as he does want to be happy with you again. S. W. E.—I am in love with J. M. B. and I understand she is cheeking with anther guy and is this true? Will I fee successful with her? Ans: The girl in question c rrrc.J y u, but rtmei ber thet , on aren’t married to her e >vi and she has a per feci i-gl'• to have ot’«r friend,’. The only time she will give all h.v time to one friend is after she is engaged. —— M. C.—I do not understand the uvil that has come upon me and a •. caused mo to lo e my job Will I regain the position? Ans: You were very unfor tunate in losing your position. Cd.cuinstance (not some unseen evil) waa the reason for tho loss. You will not be able to regain this job sc-on, but you can secure another if you sin ci redy try. Go back to the mun who you worked for two years ego, he will be able to place you again. A. C. Are the tales which my Si.'ter and kids tell rb^ut my man frien true? Ans: There seems to be some truth in the tales which h°ve been told you concerning 'the man. More than a little will remain a„ truth after shaving off a few corners of exaggerations. I would like to suggest that you go back to your h; me city this Summer. , even if only for a visit. Lonesome Lover—I have been going for a girl for nine years. I have have numerous attempts to back. Hai she got me tricked Ans: No, she does NOT hav' you tricked, neither could she do so if she wishes to. But she certainly does have you eating out of her hand Your failure to stick to your decision is due to your will-power. So long as you are willing to be a nv u«e, instead of a Man, she will continue to use you for a good thing. M. I.. C.—1 am a constant reaJ er of your column and it re<i.,y HcIl'is me the way you get folks told Is my boy frend as seviotv" as he pretends and will we ever marry ? Ans: Within a period of one year, you will be Mrs. F D. J:. O J.—Please tell me will this idea I have in mand ever bring me success and tell me just what to do about it? Ans: This little idea of your will cost a small fortune to put over. Your only hope then is to secure the backing of someone with influence and capital. You can't ever hope to handle this thing entirely by yourself. See if you can’t in terest the right partys to back you. G, K.—God told me in a dream to write you and ask you if I should sell my home and move out to California. Ans: You certainly had an unusual dream. My advice to you would be to keep your your home. You don't don’t a thing about California and don’t know a soul out there. You have a little cash in the bank. Why don’t you take an excursion trip to the World’s Fair in San Francisco and you could find out for yourself what life in California was like. D. L. B.—My husband died and left me with seven small children LET PEOPLES DO IT Clean np that front room. We specialize in making old houses look like new, inside and out. No charge for eati f m&tion on work. No job too small or too large. Ten trained decorating medhatnics. Our Motto—Service First, at the lowest prioes. Call WEbster 2858. Peoples Paint and Papering Shop v LARRY PEOPLES, Proprietor I __ Calvin’s Newspaoer Service TESTED RECIPE ——By France* Lee Barton THE proof of the pudding is in the eating. Never a truer word was written. As children like pud dings, men clamor for them t and women find ' them easy to ^ prepare — well, we offer a real pudding recipe tor your consid eration today. I Chocolate Cottage Pudding 1% cups sifted cake flour; lft teaspoons double • acting baking powder; *4 teaspoon salt; 4 table spoons butter or other shortening; 1 cup sugar; 2 egg yolks, well beaten; 1% squares unsweetened chocolate, melted; % teaspoon vanilla; >4 cup milk; 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually and cream well. Add egg yolks and beat thoroughly: then chocolate and 'anilla. Add flour, alternato./ with itllk, beating otter each addition mill smooth Fold in ogg whites. Turn into gi ci pan, 8x8x2 incher. lithe in moderate oven (325* F.) CO minutes, or until doue. Itemovo from pan. Serve warm or old v*' i piaui or whipped cieam. - '.S !2. Alabama Teachers Pay $600 To Launch Equalization Salary Fight Mongamery, Ala. April 13.— Backing up their unanimous appro val with an initial cash contribu tion of $600 tn a campaign war 0 gist, the Alabama State Teacrer’s Association session here Satur ii y voted full support for a fight 1 ■ Miai'ze the salaries of Negro and white teachers in the state . Th figh‘, which will bo conduc ted oy p committee < if prominent c l zens, together with the Nation el Association for f c Advnncemen '( Colored People, represents the third state in which the NAACP has fully launched its drive to abol i:h the discrimination salary sched ule faced by Ntgn teachers in states where segregated schools ob tained. Preparations are under way for conducting similar campaign* in Tennessee, Florida an Louisiana Tvurgood Marshal’, assistant la gs' co-Ur -l for the Associate < j, cd dressed the teachers on the te ii riqiie of conducting the drive, Mr. Marshall will develop the legal phrase of the campaign. ‘A white person with a Bache lor’s degree has a salary range with a five dollar yearly increase t'.om j'.c to nine' years of $90 to $’50. A Negro with identical train ning and experience ’enjoys’ a snl aiy range with a two and-a-h iIf dallor yearly increase from one to rdne years of $64 to $103. TUis is as of September, 1937." Members of the citizens commit tee include: Dr. E. W. Taggart, a national member of the NAACP; the Rev. F. I>. Thompson, paste r of Birmingham’s 16th Street Bap tist Church; James E. Kelly, grant" secretary of th eElks; Damon Lee Jr., S. J. Benrn't, Mrs. Dovie Bro oks, and Dr. J. W. Dowdell, presi dent of the Bessemer Civic Lea gue) __ t ' support. I live on a farm and have managed to buy two mules but 1 fear that I am not able to do the work. Won’t you help to get another way of earning a liv ing for myself and children? Ans: I regret that 1 am una ble to furnish you with any definite information. I’m sure a change is indicated soon. Try to do the best you can on the farm with the help of your two oldest boys As you are still comparatively young, 1 would suggest that you try to find another responsible man whom you could marry. I. W. S.—I want to marry this man, but he says that he i9 afraid of another woman and eonnot marry me now. Should I wait? Ans: Love and earth wait on no man. Everyone has on ly a certain number of year* life ahead of them It is your right to be able to enjoy as many of them as possible. He will never marry you, because he is in LOVE WITH HER. E. B.—I have been hampered as to what I should do. Must I go away this summer? Ans: Yes, do You need the change, and when the fall of the year rolls around you will be like a different peason. The change will do your nerves good. Midwest To Get “Golden Spike” For World Premiere Celebration For the first time since driven to complete the first transcon tinental railroad May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah, the original last golden spike will leave Cal ifornia for a heavily guarded trip to Omaha, in honor of the world premiere there of Cecil B. De Mille's "Union Pacific” and "Golden Spike Days” April 26 to 29. _ The spike will be the central exhibit at a mammoth historical exposition at the City Auditorium [ in Omaha during the four-day i celebration. The property of Stanford Uni versity, special permission was obtained from the institution for : the trip only after a carefully j detailed plan of protecting the priceless collector’s item was approved there. It has been con tinuously in the vaults of the Wells Fargo bank in San Fran cisco until a few weeks ago when it was made the main attraction of the San Francisco exhibit on Treasure Island at the Golden Gate World’s Fair. Following the Mid-West’s exposition, the spike will again be returned to its place in the fair. Securely sealed in its specially ; constructed safe made up of j heavy steel plates and locked | with both a time and combina tion lock, the spike will leave San Francisco under heavy guard Monday morning, April 24, and will arrive in Omaha Wednesday, April 23. Enroute it will have a heavy armed guard twenty-four hours a day of Union Pacific and American Railway Express special agents and other carefully picked guards. At the historic ceremony at Promontory, Governor Leland Stanford of California and Union Pacific Vice President Thos. C. Durant sealed the rails from the east and west by each tapping the golden sp;ke with a silver headed maul. Dr. Ray Lynam Wilbur, present President of Stanford and former Secretary of the Interior, is expected to be in Omaha to take part in the of ficial opening of the exposition. Seventy-five to one hundred thousand visitors fiom all over the country are expected to at tend the World Premiere of Union Pacific and Golden Spike Days to see such Holly wood notables as Cecil B. De Mille. Barbara Stanwyck. Joel McCrea. Martha Raye, Lloyd Nolan, and many other top-flight motion picture personalities who will be personally present. Rail roads are offering special rates. The World Premiere has been hailed as the biggest thing for the Mid-west since the famous Trans-Mississipoi Exposition of 40 years ago. It will have such features as four great street oarades, a mammoth costume ball to the music of Vincent Lopez and his band, and an In dian encampment. The entire city of 225.000 people will be in lay 1369 costumes. Report Shows Number of Aliens Dropped ty WPA As a resui: of congression al ac tion barring alien< from further < r ploymenrt ort Work Progieaa Vlministratin work 45,500 per ployment. for failure to comply with provision of a new liw Col onel F C. Harrington, Adminis rator, announced today It is an ticipated that about 10,000 of ! those dropped will subsequently be able to comply with this provision I ,.f the law and will be eligible for ! i. instaterren>\ I In order to comply with the provisions of Public Resolution ; No. 1 of td> • Seventy-sixth Con l r ■ o?. parsons employe! on Works Progre s Administration projects were required to file an affidavit t« .‘■'dying as to their citizenship I status. Employees who failed to file this statement were dropped from employment on March 6, *r30. In some cases persons who wero dropped will later be able to establish their citizenship sta tus, Col nel Harrington explained, and cons, tuently the number of employees finally dropped because of alie" status will be reduced. Before the enactment of the «"es , lut:on, it had been permissible to inplcy aliens who had declared, p ior to Jure 21, 1938, their in tentions to became citizens of the Uni ed States. Project employees terminated from WPA program because of failure to comply with citizenship provisions of public resolution No. 1, 7Gth Congress: Administrative Region No. ami State Terminated United States 45,529 Region I—Total 2,527 Connecticut .. 1,268 Maine . 13 Massachusetts . 45 New Hampshire . 600 Rhode Island. 462 Vermont .. 175 Region II—Total 3,876 New Jersey. 717 New York City .1,827 New York City, Federal project No. 1. 46 New York (Excl NYC).... 179 Pennsylvania . 1,107 Region I III—oTtal 411 Delaw-are . District of Columbia ..68 Maryland ..... .. 197 Virginia . 44 West Virginia . 78 Region IV—Total . . 24,591 Illinois . 9,839 Indiana . 1,225 Michigan... 6,288 Missouri . 712 Ohio . 6,527 Region V—Total 486 Alabama ., ... 49 Florida . 353 Georgia . 21 Kentucky . 23 North Carolina.. . 6 South Carolina . 13 Tennessee. 21 Region VI—Total 2,412 Arkansas . ,. 31 Louisiana . 72 Mississippi . 27 Oklahoma . 38 Texas .. 2,244 o o Region VII—Total 5,189 Iowa . 254 Kansas . 112 Minnesota . 1,389 Nebraska . 477 North Dakota . 362 South Dakota . 205 Wisconsin . 2,390 Region VIII—Total 788 Colorado ...•••• 164 Idaho.96 M ntana . 200 New Mexico . 31 U wfh . 173 Wyoming . 125 Region IX—Total 5,249 Aizona . 33 Northern California .. ..2,692 Southern California .1,597 Nevada ... . t........ 50 Oregon . 153 Washington . 815 Division of Statistics Works Progress Administration BUYER'S GUIDE By Clarence H. Peacock I , SELIJNG DEMOCRACY THROUGH ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS By Arthur C. Banks, Jr Note: Mr. Arthur C. Banks, Jr., a constant reader and supporter of this column, gives his views of the Colored Econo mics Situation. Mi*. Peacock’s keen knowledge of the economic needs of the Col ored American, is always solidly based upon the idea of mutual co operation among this groat minor ity He stoutly advocates pertici pation in the American business scheme, through the demium of creating market demands, by care ful and directed purchasing He is constanly exhorting the great mass of Negroes to buy where their money will guarantee them a place in the economic scene, and thus gain greater happiness through linttre&sed standards of living aceuring there from. What Mr. Peacock docs not say, although it might be implied, is that this cooperation is really the test by which we may measure the Negroes’ fitness for Democracy. Although certain channels of en deavor are always closed to him, the Colored man can always fall back on mass cooperation. Certain disgruntled groups who are constanly advocating political and social revolution for the pur pose of establishing a better gov ernment, fail to remember one thing: How do we know the Ne gro will fare better in another system, if he has failed to under stand the present? To compre hend the present capitalistic order, you must participate in it, and cooperative mass buying and self sufficienly is one way to do it. In other word.s the Negro has not properly tested the possibili ties of a democratic order and legic leads us to conclude that he has not tested modern demo cracy. Makes Contact F. A. YOUNG Secretary of the Nat:onal Negro Insurance Week Committee, which ia sponsoring Insurance Week, May 8-13, who has contacted Negro school principals throughout the c untry advising them of the na tional essay contest for junior and senior high sch'-ol students on the subject: “The Relation of Insurance Service to the Economics of the IV •■'gro.” First prize is $100, second prize $50. and third prize $25. Es says are limited to 500 words and may bo turned between April 1 and May 15th to Mr. Young at 2107 Dryades street, New Orleans, New Orleans, La., or Mr. G. W. Cox, chairman of the cormittee, 112 Parrish street, Durham, N, C. Dur ing Insurance Week the goal of twenty million dollars in new busi ness has been set, and awards will bo made to winning agents at tbs 19th annual convention of the Na tional Negro Insurance Association in Lei? Angeles, Cal. July 12-14. (Calvin Service.) Yes, we have gleaned from the Eiyincipation Proclamation the mud of patronizing policies, and various sentimental social idea3, certain civil rights enjoyed by oth er Americans. But we have rot beer granted the right to lift our economic status, and laws, declar a+’ons. ard soda] movements will not achieve this. Only mass coop eration in the intense directioning purchasing power, will make our dream of democratic existence, realizable. Only careful project ed and well organized campaigns of the “Do not buy where you cannot work” variety, the abolition of sentimental appeal, and the ex pert management of cooperative ly amassed capital, will enable us lo grasp the total significance of democratic freedom. Today, our troubled planet is studded with localities where the exorcising of cooperative rights is regarded as a crime, and the free dom of gr*up expression has been abolished In our country, we are striving to preserve some of these rights and privileges which stem from democracy, while the Negro suffer handicaps that tend to smo ther him into oblivion. Think what out chances would be for free ex pression ,under any other form of government. Therefore it becomes the duty of each Negro to get behind this drive for economic self-sufficiency, through mutual cooperation. Get behind this idea of greater directed purchasing, and add Mr. Peacock in his valiant efforts to sell democracy through the me dium of elementary economics. Hon. Robert A. Taft At Howard University Speaking a few days ago be fore the Seventy-second Charter Day Dinner of Howard University in Washington, Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican, of Ohio, took oc casion to point out to Negroes some of the dangers they face if present conditions in this country are not soon changed. He pointed out that the colored people on WPA rolls were threat* tened to serfdom.” It was his con tention that the Colored people w oirld best be served by govei n ment stimulating jobs for them wh-.-re they would have an oppor tunity to earn mors than "a bare! existence.’ As a matter of fact, Senator Taft said, the whole New Deal movement toward Government re- j gulation and regimentation was “more ef a threat to the colored race than it is to the rest of the Nation.” When the government undertakes to fix wages, working hours prices and other practices, he explained, “there is real dan ger that the colored people will get the worst jobs in the worst industries.” ‘‘Under anything resembling re gimentation,” asserted the son of me former President, “minorities aie not likely to do the regiment ing or have much to say about «hiro they will be fitted into the social picture.” “And so,” Senator Taft contin ued, “the colored people, even more than anyone else, are in terested in C//Veil inient policies a .rich will stimulate private in dustry, and stimulate the creation of moro jobs and more prosperi ty, If those provided, then the education provided by Howard Uni vcieity and many other institu tions will show to colored leaders the means by which they can go forward. “They will always have to fight against certain narrow prejudice such as that which seems to have excluded Marian Anderson from a proper. auditorium in the city of Washington and ha8 excluded them from employment in various in dustries But in that fight they will have the support of the white people, and all of the intelligent white leaders. Your goal is equal opportunity, the same goal as that of every other American.” Senator Taft pointed out that he colored people above all oth ers were interested in maintaining the American Constitution and in dependence of the courts 4 in order that no matter what the majority in any community may be, no matter who fleets the legislative body or the Executive, the colored man may receive from independent judges a fair trial in the protec tion of his Constitional rights.” He said we were witnessing wh it had happened to minority groups in Germany and Russia where a Constitution and independent court were lacking. Protection of all minority groups was the duty of tho Government, the Ohio Sena tor declared. One those rights are protected the colored man, like th white, must loook to his own initiative and efforts to make progress, “assisted, but not con trolled by the Government,” Taft asserted. Tho solution of the problems of tho colored people, heVaid, it not Government assistance or the pas sing of laws. No government, ’ I alt contin ued, “has ever poured out so gen erously money for relief and mon ey for work relief like WPA as the present Government, And yet today, after many years, millions of men are unemployed and an undue proportion of colored peo ple are unemployed. We must be grateful for the government act ion, tiding many men and women, ever the emergency of the depres sion, but it is not much of a sub stitute for real jobs, and it does not provide an economic basis on which progress can be actively continued. “In fact, should the present con dition become permanent there is a real danger to the colohed peo ple. Government relief cannot do much more than provide a wage basis, very little, it at all above rhe needs for a bare existence “If more and more of the color ed people drift onj to this WPA scale, it will leave them ultimate ly in a kind of economic servitude akin to serfdom. The man on WPA has no opportunity to go forward. He receives only enough to pro vide a bare existence and cannot bo of the slightest assistance in bringing real progress to the race.” -0O0——— PRESIDENT WILLIAM GREEN •F A. F. OF L. SUPPORTS NATIONAL NEGRfO RAILROAD WORKERS CONFERENCE New York April 20—It was stated at the International Head quarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by A Philip Randolph, International President that William Green, President of the American Federation of Lab or has given tentative assurance that he will address the conference which will be held in Washington, D .C., May 19 and 20 for the purpose of discussing the problems of Negro railroad workers and exploring ways and mean3 of ef fecting some solution of them. President Green expressed h's in terest in and support of the con ference. Reports from ditfo-ent sections of the country ibT.cvl? a broad interest among Negro railroad workers of a large number of dif ferent crafts and sections of the railroad industry, in the confer ence according to Mr. Randolph.
