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THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE Sure io>;kj» odd t ■ ne? how gome countries can re main out of war, and olhr coun tries, they can squeeze into eve ry one when they can uret their foot in the door. jv, oeiia You take Swed en and Denmark and Norway, they were next door to the World War -an'1 kept their nose out of it— and they were smart. An take it right now, they are snapping and frothing arounil a gain in Europe, 3 or 4 thousands miles from our U. S. A., but we are trying to show off and bal ance a chip on our shoulder, or something. Tn the Encyclopedia you will read where Bismark went out of bU way and finally stirred up a war with France. 70 years ago. Tho German people, they were not itching to fight. But Mr. Bismark hi craved to be a great person. He craved a uniform with gold braids, and he craved to ride the lead horse. But Mr. Bosm»rk, he did nod carry a musket—when war came. In the U. 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Mass. Why not take Pinkham’s Com pound and go “smiling thru”? CHILDRESS UNMOVED BY PLAUDITS OF CREDITS aLVIN CHILDRESS By Monroe Burnett U .like a great many Negro ac t<>» who have skyrocke-.e dto star dom overnight, Alvin Childrens w'», portrays tho crippled Jacques in tho WPA Federal Theatre pro ji -t’s sensational df-ama, “Haiti,” now in its fourteenth successful week at he I^fayotte Theatre in Harlem, adamantly refuses to ac cept the plaudits of leading critic■ proclairing him 'one of America’s outstanding actors.” Boro in Meridan, a little town ir. Mississippi, where life unfold? itself gently and without cxcite men1. this newly acclaimed star is tho in of Bent-ice Childress, who for tho past eighteen year* has held a responsible position in the Department of Agriculture in Mer idian. ani Dr. J C. Childress. Prior to her appointment in the 'dept, of Agriculture Mrs. Child - ess taughft school. Alvin recalls j nany a spanking from his loving iut strict mistress during the Smc he win one of her charge*. After C mpleting his elementary ind high school training at Meri lian. ho attends! the fashionable ‘luso College in Holly Springs, Miss., a parochial institution under the direction of the Methodist Church of that town. Whatever laurels are heaped on *ho head of th;s lad who has been ,-fo p from yokel ism into the Broad way limelight is owed a strange and unfartomed quirk of fate. At Rust College, along with o h <;r academic *tudies, he took up dramatics as *. sideline. Venzella June*', noted director of many BroPifwny productions, and recent ly a direct*r for the WPA Fed eral Theatre Project, was Al’s dra- ■ matic teacher at} Rust and is di- ; rectly responsible for his swif' rise to stardom, for it was she that persuades! him to come to New York to appear in a play en titled "Wharf Nigger.” later pro duced as "Stevedore.” Unfortunately, a certain ciHcum stances arose and ho did n» t Ret the pari of in "Stevedore.” Re fusing to accept defeat, the am bitious Childress male the rounds of Broadway theatrical offices. John Golden, famous Broadway producer, impressed by the glib talk of this lad from the deep South, gave him a part in a play called “Savage Rhythm.” Since then Childress has played with numerous stock companies in and around New York He appear ed in “Romeo and Juliet,” “Faust," “Dreamy Kid,” “Ham’s Daughter” and a one-act play by Eugene O’Neill. We next find the ambitious youth writing material for radio. In collaboration with Mr. Burke Boyce, who for the past eight years 'has been Tiead of the Con tinuity Department of the Nation al Broadcasting System. He wrote three radio scrips, “Sneeze It,” “Thunder in the Valley,” and “Dixie.” He made a great impres sion with his dramatization of a slavo in a skedch entitled “Two Faces,” which was broadcast over WNYC. At Teachers College, Columbia LET PEOPLES DO IT Olean up that front room. We specialize In making old houses look like new, Inside and out. No charge for eeti m&tion on work. No job too small or too large. Ten trailed decorating medhatnics. Our Motto—Service first, at the lowest prioes. Call WEbster 2858. Peoples Paint and Papering Shop v LAJE&Y PEOPLES, Proprietor University, under the auspices of the Services Bureau for Education and Human Relations he did re search work on play8 for Negro audiences. During the two years ha spent at Columbia in search of appropriate plays, he wrote a play entitled “The Child of the King." On ‘.1he screen, Chit f \ ss has portrayed roles in “Harlem is Heaven,” starring Bill Robinson. “Crimson Feg" and “Hell’s Alley a gangster pricture which he wrott in collaboration with Ftanke lumdon. Chiil(’ris8 is married and is the proud father of a baby girl. He likes to play tennis and swims like a duck. —_—0O0 [OS ANGELES CAVALCADE By Gypsy Payton Thought for the week—However rleceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of Life.—la Rochcfoueald. A FEW YEARS AGO, ALL roads let to Harlem. Today, all loads and all traffic leads to Io Ar.geles —and Central Avenue. It is quite obvioug that many of these person i who follow these roads, think tho words spoken many y.,irs ago by Horace Greeley— ‘Go West mMung Man’—still has nr -aniiyf an rewards. In 1 ‘.*20 there were 40,000 Negroes in Los Ange la. Today, there are 84,000. Tho fast increasing population has caused a H>u» ing problem that is becoming acute and alarm ing. Einding a nlace to purchase • .as not yet Ibecome a diff:cut mattes'. But finding a place to cent—fund hed or unfurnished — is like finding lili es of the valley growing on a desert. As in other large cities, the vast bulk of people come from the South There are few native Cali t’ornains. Ard P few na'ive East erners. Texas, Louis t.rj'a, M is t uri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, seem to lead in importations. ALL AT HOME HERE— No matter what part of the country people come from they can find their own climate here. Here or in neui<by communities, wo have the cotton fields of the Old South, the gant oleanders of Georgia, the magnolias of the low er Mississippi valley, the jasmine of New Orleafis. You can go a short distance to tho mountains and find the cli mate of the colder states, to gether with winter sports of every kind. Or go down in the vulLeys and find the climate of Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Rent and food are dheap in com* parision to salaries obtained here. More food can be bought for a dollar in Los Angeles than in any city in the v^orldi. Salaries are very good too, but work i« scarce as foliage in January. And be coming more scarce every day be cause of the constant new-comers Many new arrivals have been greatly dissappointed because of their inability to find work. ROUND AND ABOUT IN HOLLYWOOD Hattie McDaniels has been cast to play the part of Mammy in “Gone With the Wind." And Os car Polk, New York stage actor ha^ arrived in town to play the part of Pork the butler who re* mained at Tara during Civil War. Mr. Polk is a well known actor, having played on Broadway in many well knowrn plays, including three Pulitzer prize plays. Harry Popkin, producer of Mil lion Dollar Pictures (all Negro casts) has announced his inten tions jto make a film with six Harlem “Dead End Kids." The STUDENTS LEARN IDEAL HOME MAKING The new Home Making Resi dence at Dillard University in New Orleans which was opened this week. A director and eight girls will live in t'J house for six weeks during which time the stu dents wtudy courses designed to help them meet the problems in volved in home making The cour ses include the fundamentals of nutrition, Nod service and eti (ruette; clothing selection; house planning and decoration; family relationships; and child care. Un der the supervision of the director the students will plan meals at a cost of forty cents per person per day. (ANP) ANDY RAZAF. SONGWRITtit Though Andrea Razafkeriefo j (p.v nounced Ra-zag-ker-raf) is actually a grand duke by birth, be ' irg the nephew of the late Queen ! oj! Madagascar. Ranavalona 111, on ;his father’s side, and the grandson i of a United States Consul, on his mother’s side, he prefers to be known in Tin Pan Alley as ‘Andy Razaf.' Razaf, considered the mo^t pro lific ami outstanding popular H jngwriter of his race and whose lyrics are considered second to n e, has written nearly a thou- : sand songs. Some of the hits from | ms pen have been “Ain’t Misbe havin’ ”, “Sposin”’, “Make Boliaw.? Ballroom,” “Christopher Colum bus.” “My Fate is in Your Hands,” “Stompin’ at the Saw y,” ‘ Mem ories of You,” “Handy Man,” “Keepin’ out of Mischief Now,” “Hack and Blue," “Honeysuckle “If it Ain’t Love,” etc. ASCAP, or the American Socie ty of Composers Authors and Pub 'ishers highly respects Razaf as , no of its top-ranking membeis. He is one of the only two coloied jonjrwriters to succeed in maaing a living entirely by writing songs, j C. Johnson is the other one. (AN?) j name of the film will be “Re form Schoql.” Hall Johnson’s choir is playing a spectacular sequence in “Its Spring Again,” at the Hal Roach Studio*. In this picture the ahoir will feature the old Southern song “In the Evening by the Moon light.’' WAY TO A MAN’S HEART— Pity the poor housewife who frequently complains of the dif ficulty of planning a menu. To help lighten the burden of readers, of this column, this spinster sug gests listing dishes—meats left over, meat substitutes, vegetables, salads, desserts etc. And keep in a conspicuous place to be fre quently referred too. And give poor dad a break by putting a cross after his favorite dishes— lest you forget. FOLKS YOU SHOULD KNOW— Edna Roselyne Hearde, versa tile composer. The only woman in the west Coast Federal theatres doing original work. She recently completed musical score for “Vol pono” which opened with an all white cast at the Belasoo theatre on January 4th. The musical score includes Over tures, Entra’actes and songs. In them Miss Hearde has preserved and revived the beauty, charm and drecdom of style that came into being during 15th and 16th cen turies with the music of the mas ters of the Italian Renaissance. Langston Huges: Who needs no introduction: and whose name will go down in posterity as being not only a great poet, novelist play wright and lecturer, but also as one who dearly /beloved by everyone who has been fortunate enough to hear him speak, or read his works—and who hasn’t? Mr. Hughe” recently arrived in Los Angeles after a cross-country lecture tour Since in Los Angeles ho has lectured at high schools, colleges and churches—some of them all white audiences. He is now writing the script for “St. Louis Woman,” for the Federal Theatres. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Din ner Pail”, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every' Individual. National and International Pro blems Inseparable from Local Welfare England “appeased” Germany at Munich, by changing the map of Europe and giving the Reich almost free rein in Czechoslova kia. Today, in the opinion of many foreign experts, England has started on a new policy of “ap peasement” with Soviet Russia— a policy which is designed to make it possible for the British lion to show a much stiffer backbone if and when Hitler and Mussolini make their next demands. And most important of all the quiet course of world events in the last few months has apparently sub stantially dimished the ehance of a major war occuring this year. March 6th was a dreaded day to European observers. For on that day according to well supported rumor., and unofficial reports, the dictators would enforce the issue. Hitler would make another of his ringing demands for more terri tory, either in Europe or the Bri tish colonies, Mussolini would' tell France in unmistakable terms hat *he must accede to his de mands for sovereignty over Tuni ia and Corsica—or else. Britain and France would refuse— and war would automatically begin. March 6th came and went and nothing happened. As Time puts ,t, “No ultimatums were delivered, no troops marched (except in Spain), and the dictators even ! temporarily ceased barking for more land. No week in months lias been so generally peaceful in £urop>e.'’ Most authorities ascribe this change to a number of diverse things The European democracies have been rearming at a rapid rate, and from the defense stand point, are in a materially better position than they were last year. French and British public opinion seems to favor resisting to the utmost giving any further “con cjssions’’ to Italy and Germany. The attitude of the United States as signified by the ?peecheb of the President and the Secretary of State, are said to have en j couraged France and Bngland and given the dictators something to think about. In some high quar ters, it is believed that Hitler and Mussolini have done a great deal cf bluffing, and are in no position to fight a major war—and know it privately. And apparently res oneible reports say that the temper of the people of Germany and Italy is so strongly opposed to war that the dictators would risk the chance of domestic uprisings I and perhaps revolution if they 1 smarted one. England—which still holds tins of losses in prestige—ha* app« icntly come to the view that, much as she dislikes Soviet Russia,, Stn lir is a friend worth having. It is highly significant that e Bri tish trade delegation recently left 1 on 'on on a tc ur of Northern Eu ope, and that it spent almost a week in Moscow ,u igainst a single day in Berlin. Commerce makes allies—and Russia is un questionably the most potent ally that France and Britain could have in Europe. Russian distrust of British motives and actions is •“■aid to ha'le her very distans when she was approached by the democracies before Munich as to what she would do in the event of Hostilities^ And trurnor that Stalin is considering an alliance with Nazi Germany if England wouldn’t make a better bid, is said to have sent chills up the spines of the worried British ca binet. Upshot of all this: A better morale in the democracies than has been seen for a long time, and a very definite moderation of the talk of the dictators. Our interest in anything that makes for peace or war in Europe is obivious Even if we stayed out of the conflict—and many authori ties think we could not— a major war would disrupt trade and world finance, and bring dire repercussions here as well as a broad. It is a known fact that the possibility of war has been one of the factors that has held us back economically. If as seems true now, the chance of a long peace in Europe has been better ed, the outlopk for “recovery" here at home has been immense ly improved The Wall Street Journal re cently described business during the past few months as having been undergoing a “sidewise” movement. And it forecast, in a headline, that break is “expect ed to be on ‘up’ side.” Most of the barometers and indexes justify that prediction. Commodity prices, one of the I best barometers of conditions arc holding firmly to good levels, i Steel production in the week | was at 55 per cent of capacity. | And in the same week, the stan dard Dow-Jones average of in dustrial stock values was 13 pts. above the year’s low. A rise in automobile produc tion is considered to be of im oortance— many industries de pend an this vast industry for their existence, and when motor j production is down the ill ef ifects are felt throughout the ; land. Domestis construction con tinues its steady rise, and gTeat hope* are placed on spring build ing. Retail trade—prime baro meter of family purchasing pow er— is fairly good Especially encouraging to bus iness is the fast developing sen timent in Congress in favor of economy. Those who want to cut government cos's aren’t in the majority as yet, but they seem | to be gaining new supporters all the time. »___ RED CAPS EXECUTIVE BOARD MEET IN CHICAGO Complete unity of action was es tablished by the General Executive Board of the Irjteroa iona] Bro theidiood of Red Caps on the ques tion of the future course to be taken by Red Caps throughout the ccuirtiy in regards to the tip-wage con troversy before the Federal Wage and Hour Administration. | Meeting this week in Chicago for the first time since the Bro therhood was formed here a year ago, the Board voted after a report from its committee on wage and hour legislation to “direct its main energie; in the direction of bring ing ths case to successful close.’r The legal nature of the case has shifted due to a changed posi tion of the attorneys for the rail roads. Previously the railroad" held that tips could be legally counted as wages within the meaning of the provision!; of the Fair Ijabor Standards Aea. Today, the nail roads maintain in substance, that tips are the legal property of the company. As a result; the Brother hood is fighting for both the min imum wage and the tip®. I The outcome of this case is of I vast importance to service em ployees other than Red Caps. It is estimated that approximately 800,000 service employees through out the country depend largely up on tips as a form of income. Unity of action and internal co hesion was the keynote of Presi dent Willard S. Townsend’s re port td .he board. A detailed ana lysis was given of the work ac complished by the uni^n in the fol lowing fields of activity; Organi zation, Interstate Commerce Com mission case on job* status, cer tification petitions before National Mediation Board, Agreements and collective bargaining, inclusion of Red Caps with the Railroad Re tirement Act, the tip-wage con eroversy before the Wages and Hours Administrator and problems of affiliation. Secretary-Treasurer John L. Yancey, in his report emphasized the need of establishing greater soundness in the financial struc ture of the union by the mainten ance of a “pay your own” policy. He reported an increase in mem bership through the organization of new locals in Minneapolis, Houston, Indianapolis, Providence, San Antonio. New Orleans. Miami and Waco, Texas. Other reports were heard from regional officers Clarence E. Ivey of Portland, Oregon; John R. Lee, New York Central System; James O. Gen nady, Boston area; A. J. McGhee, Penn System; C, M. Gray, Forton and Albany System; W. H. Browrii Hartford, New Haven and New York System; Henry White and William Massey, Illinois Central System and W. P. Hicks, Louis ville and Nashville System. Re ports were also heard from Ernest Calloway, chairman of the Edi torial Commiteee and Hazel Hayes Director of Ladies Auxiliaries. Other actions taken by the Board are 1) Referendum on an increase of per-capita tax to meet the increased duties of the Inter national Union (2) Selection of attorneys to handle the wage-tip case. They are Leon M. Despres of Chicago and George E. C. Haye3 of Washington (3) To strengthen the work of the Ladies Auxili aries. (4) To develop and extend its educational activities and press. (5) Recommendation to the ex tention of the Convention to Jan uary 1940.