WORD SQUARES
The numbers, 1 to 0, on the board refer to the arithmetical and
alphabetical notations on the dial. The test of skill consists in fann
ing a magic square reading five words across and five words down,
as defined. Pick the right letter for each and every space to obtain
a complete solution.
HORIZONTAL
First How—Egyptian dignitary, -j
Second How—Labor leader.
Third How—The constellation Ham.
Fourth How—Water-sprite.
Fifth How—Trials.
VERTICAL
First Row—Establish. _
Second Row—Crag, habitation.
Third How—Native of a European
country.
Fourth How—Biblical, “- thou thy
way.”
Fifth How—Blockheads.
8 6 1
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3 4 8
4 5 8
8 8 5
8 2 8
Solution on Pa^e 12 _
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN
An official railroad watch in
spector in a southern city recently
ran an advertisement in a local
newspaper. He pointed out the
vital importance to the railroads
to the farmers and manufacturer?
of this vast nation. And he said:
'■Almost one-third of the railroad
mileage of the w'orld is in the
United States. Have you ever
stopped to think what a paralyz
ing effect it would have on our
entire nation if the railroads
■would cease operation for even
48 hours? It would be well if
we would ‘stop, look and listen,
considering well what the rail
roads, and their employes mean
to our community, their insurance
of support to good school, church
es and homes.”
The direct employment afford
ed by the railroads and the rail
equipment concerns which serve
their needs, is a tremendously
important factor in the economic
life of all America. And the in
direct employment they preside
is an even greater and more
widespread factor. Your neighbor
employed by a steel mill may have
his job because of an order from
a railroad. The grocery store
down the block may stay in busi
ness and prosper because of dol
lars spent with it that originally
were part of a railroad’® payroll.
That is why the railroad prob
lem is very citizen’s problem.
That is why the welfare of us
all depends, to some extent, on
the welfare of our greatest single
industry. That is why economists,
labor leaders, government offi
cials, newspapers and others have
long pointed out that the country
faces no more important domes
tic problem.
“A square deal in transporta
tion” means money for millions
of workers, and for thousands of
other businesses, large and small
-—’the businesses that keep this
nation going. The issue comes
straight home to you.
BAPTISTS ASSAIL ‘GONE
WITH THE WIND’; BACK
ROOSEVELT ON PEACE
Philadelphia, Sept. 28 (CNA)—
The nation’s Negro Baptists this
week backed President Roose
velt’s peace policy and assailed
the anti-Negro filim “Gone With
the Wind.”
A telegram urging “keep us
out of war” was sent to the Pres
ident by the 6,500 delegates of thr
National Baptits Convention who
represent more than 3,000,000
Baptists in the United States and
Canada.
The women’s auxiliary of the
convention declared that Margate4
Mitchelll’s book “Gone With the
Wind” defamed the Negro people
and opposed its release as a
movie.
The action on the movie fol
%
lowed hard on the heels of its
condemnation by the Grand Army
of the Republic, at their national
reunion in Pittsburgh last month.
The convention elected the Rev.
L. L. Williams, of Georgia as
president of che organization.
“PAINLESS” SAVING
Net the least of the virtues of
life insurance is that it “makes
yon save.”
All of us, being human, would
rather have some fun with our
spare money ithan to conserve it
against the possible needs of the
future. It’s a very easy thing to
take savings out of a bank ac
count, or to sell a security, to
raise cash for something not vit
ally necessary.
But it is a rare person who
will let an insurance policy lapse,
when there is any way to prevent
it. Depression prov % that, when
thousands of people imade great
sacrifices to keep their life in
surance in force.
Life insurance instills the habit
of saving. It makes it as nearly
“painless” as ift can be.
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WEST INDIES PUT ON WAR
BASIS
(By Crusader News Agency)
Persistent reports that German
submarines are operating in the
Caribbean Sea have served to turn
the British and French West In
dies into virtually another war
front. Practically all the capital
cities of the islands have nightly
blackouts, while soldiers patrol
the coasts 24 hours daily. Planes
and war ships are in constant
patrol of the coast lines.
The islands have been placed
under a state of emergency, with
strict censorship of mail and
printed matter and curtailment of
meetings and free spefech.
In all of the French and Bri
tish colonies man power is being
mobilized, and' in Jamaica, BWI,
the National Peoples Party, an
opposition party, has stopped its
agitation. The labor unions have
pledged support to the govern
ment.
The Paramount Chief of Basu
toland, South Africa, and the
Queen cf Tonga in the Friendly
Islands have placed the resources
of their countries at the disposal
of Great Britain to prosecute the
war on Nazism.
Underlying the wide support of
the colonials for Great Britain
and France is their hatred of fas
cism aad all it stands for. They
have no illusions about Chamber
lain’s position and policies but
want to see Hitlerism crushed
This is reflected in an article in
a recent article in a recent issue
cf “Public Opinion,” published in
Jamaica:
“.the sabotage of the Lea
gue of Nations, the true reasons
for the policy of appeasement
and the unwillingness to accept
in fci<m« the proffered help of
Russia; the. long history of in-1
action in the fact of the cold
blooded and insane aggression of
German, Italian and Japanese im
perialisim this past seven years—
these things should not be for
gotten.”
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LOUIS BY THK KING OF
FRANCE
In the crypt of the Chapel at
U. S. Naval Academy are the re
mains of John Paul Jones. In the
United States Navy Jones was
never given a rank greater than
that of Captain; but in the Pus
sian Navy under the command of
Eir press Catherine, Jones was
recognized as a Vice Admiral.
The King of France deoo'rated
him with the Cross of St. Louis,
which Jones prized so highly that
after he received it, it was seldom
he wore any other decoration.
On the eve of Jones’ departure
in command of the BON HOME
RICHARD, 'the Duchess of Or
leans gave him a gold watch that
had belonged to the great French
Adm’ral, Jean Bart, her grand
father. Jones was delighted and
promised when he returned to
France to put an English Frigate
at her feet. On his return in the
midst of a great ball given in
honor, he reminded the Duchess
of his promise by saying that
the SERAPHIS was too large to
place before her, but in tead he
would place at her feet the sword
of the SERAPHIS’ commanding
Officer, and did so.
The Navay Academy is practi
cally the only source of Naval
l ne officers. The Naval profes
sion is too technical and too high
ly specialized for appointees
from civilian life.
Expects on ship? to which
Chaplains are assigned, the Navi
gating Officer is responsible for
the library books issued to the
ship by the Navy Department.’’
the zig-zag tactic
The demand of the Navy for
suitable ordinance material has
made its presence f'It in the field
of transporation. The ever-increa
sing weights have severly taxed
the capacities of the railroads, and
I cars have been designed, outgrown
1 and redesigned, prirarily for the
purpose of transporting Nava
; guns of large cabiler. In this field
1 the Bui^au of Ordinance has been
the pioneer. At the time when
cars of 80.000 pounds capacity
were in common use, special cars
had to be constructed of greater
e, parity in order to transport
Naval guns from the steel works
! to the Navy Yards. Cars of 200,
1 000 pounds capacity have been
j constructed for naval purpose, and
the average capacity of the ordi
nary freight car has gradually in
creased to the cars of 120,000 lbs.
capacity of the present day.
A Naval tactic, invented by an
American Naval Officer in the
Spanish American War m 189b,
was the means of saving more j
Allied lives and shipping in the
World War than any other Naval
or Military discovery. This was
the Zig-Zag tactic, first used by
Captain Richard P. Leary, com
manding the U. S. S. San Fran
cisco. She zig-zagged to safety
when fired on by Morro Castle
guns. This tactic also saved Bri
tish cruisers and destroyers ait
Jutland, according to admissions
made by their Captains.
The first ‘armored’ ships are
believed to have been used by the
Chinese in conquering Siam. The
Chinese used ships armored with
raw ox hides, which protected
their crews from arrows and
stones shdt at them by the enemy.
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The Low Down
From Hickory Drove
For short speeches, Mr. Henry
Ford, he is the USA champion.
And his latest, it is about the
Constitution guaranteeing free
speech. He sees no reason, he
says, why he cannot indulge in
free speech as he sees fit, he and
they are going to do so.
And that was his speech—and
he went back to work.
A bureau down in ourOapitol,
it had been making rules that the
Boss, he cannot talk and advise
with his men or his stenographer
or his clerk.
At one time I had a half-way
grudge against Uncle Henry and
the 3 pedals he put on his car. I
never knew when I touched one of
them, whether I was gonna go
backward, forwards or sidewise.
But his new car, it is improved,
so I have ofltened up a little.
So, for backbone—for tending
to your own business—and for
general usefulness, I nominate
this modest Detroit gentleman
and I do it now versus putting it
on his tombstone.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA
-□
TOTALITARIANISM AND THE
WORKER
There is a certain group of lab
0,. leaders, chiefly of the left-wing
advocates increased government
school of thought, which strongly
control over the affairs of indus
tries and individuals. Their phil
osophy would lead us inexorably
in the direction of totalitarianism.
That is the inevitable result of
any long-eontinu.-d policy of col
lectivism, with its growing politi
cal power over the property and
'cstincs of the people.
Just how much of a following
heso leaders have among work
ers, ia a matter of guess-work.
But if it is very jp.rge, their
followers are suffering from a
'rave declusion. For nothing is so
inimical t» the welfare of the
worker as the totalitarian state.
You don’t have to take any
one's word for that. Just look
ibroad. In Russia, where the com
mon man is theore'ically master,
‘he liberties of the worker have
been abrogated one by one. He
is the vassal of the state, sub
jected to every whim of that se
lect circles which controls the
Communist party and the soviet
government. If he protests a
gainst the low standards of pay
and. long hours that have become
his lot punishment, swift and
sure, follows.
In Germany, where another to
talitarian gospel is in the saddle,
a similar situation obtains. Not
long ago the Reich decree that
private business would no longer
he permitted to offer government
workers jobs at better pay, for
the rea on that this was taking
good men from the government
service. The workers’ wages are
rigorously f xed by the state
Trade unions have been obilsher
and made illegal. The worker ma>
be moved without notice Mrm
one end of the country to anoth
er. His own wishes and desires
count for nothing.
So it goes, in other power? when
the authority cf the ruling pol
tical clique is supreme. Only ir
the democratic nation is the work
er a free agent, who can choos?
his work, go on strike if he an?
his fellows have a complaint a
gainst the management, and ris<
as fast a? his abilities permit I'
will be a sad day for Americar
labor when it forgets 'that oui
system of government has giver
it the highest standard of living
in the world.
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iS THE WAR PHONY?
BRITISH PAPER ASKs
Lomion, Sept. 28 (CSNA)—Lor<
Beaverbrook’s Evening Standiai?
wants to know why Britain i.
not giving more effective aid t<
the Poles.
“What kind of a war is this?’
the newspaper asked editorially
“We ask it seriously. Nineteer
out of 20 persons are asking this
Question: ‘Are we making as de
cisive an attack upon Nazid^n
as our strength allows?”
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BUFFALOES HOLD 43RD
ANNUAL CONVENTION
IN PORSTMOUTH, VA.
Portsmouth, Va. Sept. (ANP)—
The Benevolet Protective Herds
of Buffaloes of the World and
Daughters of the Prairie, Inc.,
held its 43rd annual convention
here last week, Monday through
Wednesday. The sessions being
held at Portsmought Auditorium.
All grand lodge officers were
present and Eugene R. Camblor
of New York, grand exalted ruler
presided, assisted by Hazel B
Lawson, Portsmought, grand vice
exalted daughter. The convention
banquet was held on Monday
night with Rufus L. Goodman act
ing as toastmaster. The musical
program featured renditions by
the Lawson Harmony Quartet, by
Mrs. Myrtle P. Edwards, Charles
A. Butts and Miss Emma Amos
TRe convention speakers includ
ed E. R. Camblor, J. Thomas
Elliott, Raymond Scott, Myrtle P
Edwards, Dr. Charles E. Stewart
David MuckLe and several and
several others. James Choate, PGE
R. and one of the founders of the
organization gave a brief history
of the lodge. At the election of
officers, E. R. Camblor GER,
was reelected, as was Dt. Hazel
B. Lawson, GVED. On the dos
ing night tokens of esteem were
presented ranking officials of the
lodge, by both sections of the
jurisdiction. The 1940 session^
will be held in Norfolk, Va. as
guest of Powhatan, Rose of Shar
on and Ideal Lodges.
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TRAIN PORTERS RESTORED
ON TWENTY-TWO
TRAINS
Mobile, Ala. Sept. 28—Train
porter service which had been cur
tailed in the past has now been
restored on twenty-two passenger
trains of the Southern Railway
system, officials of the railroad
announced here recently.
Expansion of this service which
following strong pressure brought
to bear by the southern confer
1 ence of NAACP branches repre
sents a victory in tha more jobs
will bo opened to Negroes, J. L.
| LeFlore, chairman of the confer
ence officials and officers of the
! Gulf, Mobile and Northern Rail
road with a view to employing Ne
gro agents on that road.
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NAACP WIN FIRST
ROUND IN LONG
BRANCH BEACH
Long Branch, N. J. Sept. 28—
Tha right of Negro citizens to use
the pubi c beaches of this city
was upheld by tj.e State Supreme
Court in a decision handed down
last week, which at the same time
denied without prejudice, a cour,
action brought against the city
hy Mrs. Allie Bullock, a taxpay
er of this city, charg ng that Ne
groe.i were limited to the use of
1 only ono of the city’s beaches.
.Judge Joseph B. Perskie, in his
decision, advised Mrs. Bullock
that she could liring a manda
mous action against the C ty Clerk
and the city of Long Branch to
get the relief to which she was
entitled. The decision represented
a partial culmination of a long
fight waged by the local branch
of the NAACP under Dr. J. C.
I McKelvy. The branch was re pro
i sented by Counsellor Robert S.
I Hal'.grove. He was assisted by
Attorneys Roger M. Yancey and
Walter J. Upperman.
Mrs. Bullock applied for a
permit July 17 to use the bathing
facilities ard access to one of .the
I city Ibeaehea J. Arthur Wood
. ing, city clerk refused to issue
her a permit to any of the four
| beoches save that of No. 3, to
which beach all colored persons
had been exclusively assigned.
Mrs. Bullock contested this denial
on the ground that the ordinances
. under which the city clerk was
I acting were invalid in toto. In an
' opinion handed down September
11, Judge Berskie of the N. J. Su
preme Court, said “it is clear thal
the agreed and determined policy
or plan of regulation is based up
on the admitted premise that the
governing authorities did not wanl
members of the black race to in
1 termingle with members of the
white race while using the bead
I and bathing facilities of the Citj
i of Long Branch. The fact that
thees ordinances are illegally ad
i ministered does not render them
void in toto; but it is settled that
Bho dignities, equalities and rights
of citizenship cannot legally be
denied to members of tihe Negro
; race.”
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BUSINESS LEAGUE
DELEGATES
— — «
Oklahoma City, Sept. 18 (ANP)
—In the vanguard of delegates
arriving here for the National
Business League Convention, Aug.
29-31, was the delegation arriving
by special train from Alanta,
among whom were C .C. Spauld
ing of Durham, N. C. fjormer
League president. Stops were
made in Chicago, St. Louis, De
troit and other cities, were ad
ditional deegates and officials
joined the party. The train was
made up of all Pullman cars with
t emulation, first-class equipment
and service.
A local, pre-convention high
light was an elaborate entertain
ment and lawn party, staged on
Aug. 28 at the Hassman Heights
Addition—a low-cost housing pro
ject being built under direction
of W. J. Edwards, president Ok
lahoma City Negro Business lea
gue.
That night, after the lawn party
attended by delegates and their
wives, a Stag party was arranged
by the Local League at Rubyv
Grill, night dug de luxe and one
of the show places of Oklahoma
City. Those in charge of •'•range
mentis for the NNBL conclave are
the following heads of committees
Thomas Edwards, Roscoe Dunjee,
H. McK. Rowan, Roy Blanton,
Tohmas McNeeley, Dr. A. P
Bethel and George R. Ragland.
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RED FLAG WAVERS MISLEAD
PUBLIC
The professional politicians has
long used the “band’ ’and “mon
py powers” and “Wall Street” as
the red flags he has waved when
trying to inflame constitutents sc
they would vote for him to save
themselves from Something, al
though neither they nor the politi
cian really knew what the some
thing was.
Discussing the subject of how
well the banks meet the public
needs, W. R. Burgess of The Na
tional City Bank, shows up some
of the ltd flag wavers. He said
in a recent address:
“It is a long standing habit in ;
this country to blame the banks
for our troubles. Everybody wants j
money, and the hanker has it. In
every community there are many
people who think the hanks should
lend them money, and to whom
the bankers had to say ‘No.’ They
orread the news of the banker’s
sins. They go to the politicians
with their stories, and he hears
ten such wtories to one of the oth
er side, and each story carriies one
vote.
"The bunks of the country are
organized to make loans. They
are eonipped to make at least
twice the $1(5,000,000,000 of loans
which all the commercial banks1
of the country now have outstand
ing. Many banks are advertising
for loan.-:. All art eeking them.
“The reduced volume of bank
loans is not aseribable to bank
policy but (.< a combination of
business depression a n d the1
change in practices in financing
business which ma V it elf evident
before the depression.
“But i nanswer to the question,
‘Are hanks lending money freely
enough?’ there is much better
ev dence than the naked testi
mony of the parties concerned.”
Mr. Burges* then shows that
he Reconstruc'ion linnnce Cor
poration and the Federal Reserve
hanks have been given broad pow
(rs to make loans for long terms
on 1 on risks commercial banks
could not take, but in spite of that
in March 1939 nceordiing to fi
gures published in the Federal Re
servo Bulletin, these two agencies
had outstanding a total of only
$125,000,000 of loans, which is
less than 1 per cent of the to‘al
commercial loans of the banks of
the country. Further, the Bulletin
sa d that the risky type of loans
did rot return sufficient income
to cover expenses and los es.
“That experience is substantia1
evidence,” said Mr. Burgess, “that
in general the banks are doing a
pretty good job of lending and
that most borrowers turned down
are not good risk*.”
It is interesting and rather sur
prising that the RFC and the
Federal Reserve banks with theii
liberal policies and their longer
term lending, have been able to
make as few loans as they have.
It is sometime; well to know the
facts before you wave a red flag
or allow yourself to be stampeded
by one.
I ABOR PARTY BACKS
NEGRO FOR N. Y. COUNCIL
New York, Sept. 20 (CNA)—In
a move to elect the first Negro
to the City Council, the American
I^abor Party will nominate Frank
Crosswaith, veteran Harlem trade
I unionist, as one of two candidates
1 on its Manhatten slate, it was
learned this week.
The name of Crosswaith, chan
man of the Negro 1-abor Commit
tee 312 West 125th street will be
included in a full slate of can
didates to be announced shortly
by the executive committee of the
A. L. P., Alex Rose, state secre
tary revealed.
“The Negro residents of New
York form an integral part of
our population,” Rose said. “They
also form a large percentage of
the citizenry of our municipality,
and their desire f°r a member of
their group in the City Council
must be recognized if proportion
al representation is to effective.
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NEWSPAPER
advertising
IS FOREMOST
Despite the appearance of oth
er advertising media, the newspa
per remains itihe most productive
channel channel whereby indus
try can reach the buying public
and industry is fully aware of
that fact.
A recent survey well illustrates
the sustained popularity of news
papers among advertisers. The
survey was made by four nation
al associations serving chain
stores, and covered 138 represen
tative systems operating more
than 33,000 stores, cosat-to-coast
and having annual sales well in
success of of $3,000,000,000.
During the typical year covered
by the survey, these companies
spent more than $55,000,000 for
advertising, an average of $1,
754 per store. Almost 58 per cent
of the money was spertt with
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newspapers. A little less than 16
per cent was spent on handbills
and similar printed matter, much
of which was produced in locr.i
newspaper plants. Only 4.30 per
c<>nt was spent for radio, with
t! • balance made up of expendi
tur h on miscellaneous media.
Hr aking the figures down, 'i
was found that drug chains spent
82.24 per cent of their advertis
ing dollar with newspapers,
grocery chains qpent 66.53 per
cent and general merchandise and
variety chains spent 51.35 per
cen:.
That is a testimonial to ths
character of the American pres .
No institution holds a high- i
place in the esteem of the Amer'
can people. This is particular^
true of t’ e n wspapers serving
the smaller towns of the country,
which are real from ‘cover to
cover,’ by their subscribers—news
locals, advertisements and all.
Is Epilepsv Inherited?
— Can T* He Lured?
A booklet containing the opinions
of famous doctor son >th s intere> '
I ing subject will be sent FItE
while they last, to any reader wri
ting to the Educational Division,
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