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ABBE’S NEW IMS READINGS ARE NOW READY
M. M. B.—Through a relative of{
mine in the Pacific a soldier whom
I have never seen started writing
me. That was nearly 8 months a
go. He has sent 2 nice photographs
of himself. Recently 1 read in a
magazine how bad it was for a girl
to correspond with a stranger and
I am ready to stop corresponding
with him if it is the thing to do.
Must I write and tell him why 1
refuse to answer his letters which
are awful nice or just refuse to
answer without his knowing why?
Ans: Whether you realize it or
not, your letters have been a great
source of inspiration to this young
man and to stop them suddenly
would be very depressing to him.
A correspondence of this nature,
should never, under any circum
stances, be taken too seriously by
either party. The only motive
should be to boost morale, and to
give as much pleasure as possible
without committing yourself one
way or the other. After all your
relative respected him, else he
would not have given him your ad
dress. There can be nothing wrong
with your writing this boy as long
as you keep your letters on a friend
ly basis provided it meets with the
approval of your parents. Ret this
be the exception rather than the
rule.don’t encourage correspond
ence of this kind in the future, but
since you are already writing this
young man, continue on and do not
let him down while he is out of the
country.
MSW—I am 18 years old and have
been married for two years. ]
don’t love my husband. I am in
love with someone else. The pers
on I love is very lazy and he does
not like to work. But I love him
very much. Please write and tell
me what to do in the column.
Ans: If yon give up your present
husband for an irresponsible,
shiftless man who tells you frankly
that he dislikes work and all It
stands for you would be letting
yourself in for untold misery. How
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long do you think you could hold
his love if your pay check were to
suddenly stop? His love would
cease at the same time. Its unfor
tunate that you have become involv
ed in an affair of this kind during
your husband's absence. Be the
woman tlmt your husband believes
you to be—loyal, true and able to
resist such cheap temptations.
MMH.—I see where you have help
ed many people. I am a young
widow and I don't like to stay long
in any one place. I have planned
a trip to Chicago. Do you think I
could go there and settle and
would 1 be able to make it allright?
Ans: The recent tragedy which
made you a widow is forcing you
into a period of readjustment and
unrest. That alone is reason for
you not feeling satisfied and con
tented in any one place. Go to the
city ifyou feel you can find your
place in life there. The excitement
and activities of the city will prob
ably fill this gap quicker than the
solitude of your present environ
ment.
CM.—Please put my problem in
the paper right away as I am very
anxious to know the answer. X met
a fellow and he has a good job. He
claims that he has saved a good bit
of money too. He is talking of
getting married. I wish to know
if 1 should marry him and would
every day be like Sunday if I did
marry him?
Ans: No.there would be an old
blue Monday in every week follow
ed by five more ordinary days. No
marriage is a perpetual honeymoon
and you shouldn’t go Into It w'lth
this thought in mind. It's the ob
stacles and upsets in marriage that
tends to adds zest to life and brings
couples closer- together. If you
are sufficiently in love with this
boy to consider marriage, there is
no reason why you shouldn’t look
forward to a happy life with him.
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A News Lettei
_from WAVERLY ROOT _
One Month to
San Francisco
I suppose readers get awfully
tired of finding little except crit
icism in this News Letter week
after week. I know I get awfully
tired of writing it. I sometimes
wonder if the fact that I see many
more clouds than silver linings is
not due to a natural pessimism, to
aii innate tendency to "view with
alarm." But analysis convinces me
that, unfortunately, there are more
clouds than silver linings. Moreover,
what silver linings there are have
been perceived so long ago by those
of any vision that there doesn't
seem to be much point in cheering
them when they finally arrive, long
overdue.
Take the Yalta communique. It
would be possible, of course, to
give the major part of the limited
amount of space available to discuss
it, to praising its indisputable
achievements--closer military coop
eration among the three powers, the
terms established for the peace with
Germany, the calling of a United
Natians conference. But all of these
things, the press had been demand
ing for three years. They should
have been accomplished in, say,
1942 instead of 1945. I could even
make out a good case for the thesis
that the calling of the United Nat
ions conference now, particularly
because of some Of the circumstan
ces (Insistence on acceptance of the
Dumbarton Oaks principles and the
admission of countries which have
not earned their seats at the
council table) is too late to serve
the purpose for which such a meet
ing has been desired in the past
three years.
Not only is the tendency to put
emphasis on the achievements of
the Big Three conference combated
ty the realization that those ach
ievements were so long in coming
that the reluctant "leaders" on
whom they were forced hardly de
deserve laurels for sapience or vis
ion, but the urgencies of the mo
ment obviously make it more im
portant to concentrate on what is
not yet satisfactory instead of what
is. Given, let us say, one column of
space, what is more important for
the commentator to do with it--be
stow praise upon the finished work
of the past (which has, perhaps*
beenfinished precisely because he
and others had hammered away at
its necessity before it was complet
ed) or turn his energies to attack
ing what is still unsatisfactory and
urgently demands rectification?
Sometimes the difference between
the politicians and the critics who
are so rarely able to find anything
very good to say about the former
seems to be chiefly a matter of tint
ing. The critic gets the answer
first, and by the time the politic
ians has come up with it too, the
critic is again a few jnmps ahead of
him and again belaboring him for
lack of foresight. Political solut
ions are more or less imposed by
events. The difference between
good and bad political strategy may
often be nothing more than a funct
ion of the length of time it takes a
given statesman, or a given admin
istration, or a given nation, to dis
cover which way events are tending
It is no fun being right first. Cas
sandra, as you recall, was both dis
disbelieved and disliked. She was
also right. To see a solution, or to
describe correctly a situation, be
fore the politicans have seen or un
derstood means friction withoffic
ialdom; and when it turns out that
the critic has been right and offic
ialdom has to accept his solution or
his view, it is not usual for the
politicians to remember that their
critics were right. They remember
only that they were irritating.
Perhaps they recall, inwardly, that
they were right also, and that only
increases the irritation.
I remember irritating a good
many people at the time of Munich
when I called it a sell-out and they
called it the salvation of the peace
, of the world. None of them have
since admitted any error. In fact,
they refer to Munich as a sell out
themselves now and imply that they
never felt otherwise about it. I was
so unpopular with administration
circles (though I was not anti- ad
ministration myself) in the days
when I was fighting Americ's anti
de Gaulle policy on the grounds
that he would inevitably win out.
and that therefore America's wisest
, policy would be to cooperate with
him, not buck him, that my news
! paper column was thrown out of my
best paper as a direct result of
pressure from Washington. Today
de Gaulle is, as predicted, running
France, but the fact thet my advise
! was good has not impelled anyone
in Washington to suggest to this
paper, and one or two others which
j acted similarly, that perhaps they
! should reconsider. Of course today I
don't see precisely eye to eye with
the official theses concerning the
results likely to be attained by
Dumbarton Oaks or the Yalta Con
ference, which could account for
that. It's a curious thing: politic
ians are apt to be more hostile to
criticism in their own camp than
when it comes from with out. I hap
pen to agree with the administrat
ion on its announced goals. I just
don't think it is heading towards
them. But a suggestion that it get
the magnet out of it's compass is
resented much more bitterly than j
the action of slipping one in. Holly- j
wood isn't the only place that likes
yes men.
There is a meagre satisfaction to.!
be gained from noting on minor
points that one's suggestions, after
being originally combated, are later
quietly adopted. I forget how far
back it weis that I nanoyed UNRRA
officials after they had set to work
to make plans for the repatriation
of French prisoners and workmen
on the basis of the necessity for
taking three years to return them
to their homes by saying that they
might as well toss that program
overboard because the French
would walk home before they would
wait three years. Remembering the
way the French had provided road
side feeding points and overnight
shelters for the refugees who pour
ed out of Belgium in 1940, I sug
gested that if transportation was't
going to be available for so long a
period, UNRRA had better figure on
walking the immigrants home and
concentrate on handling them in
this fashion on the w'ay. Last week
the papers announced that UNRRA
expected one-third of the deportees
to walk home and would establish
wayside canteens to accomodate
them.
The Army was a little tart also
about suggestions that its feeding
of German prisoners in France with
such luxuries as chocolate and
oranges which were not available
for undernourished French children
had serioue inconveniences. The ar
gument was that the Geneva Con
vention permitted nothing else. My
suggestion was that German pris
oners in France be transfered to
French custody, when they would
receive French rations instead of
American ones, in complete com
pliance with the Geneva Convent
ion. I see now that is being done.
The Uses of Criticism
It is only sometimes by looking
backward at the accumulation o*
small and large issues, consistently
resisted by officialdom, and consis
tently proved right, that I succeed
in resisting the tendency to close
my eyes to the palpable errors of
men of good intentions, and praise
them for their intentions, refrain
ing from criticizing the imperfect
means selected to carry them out
on the often accepted theory of giv
ing them a chance to work out
their ideas. The trouble is that the
matters with which we are con
cerned today are too important and
eoo urgent to permit benevolence
to stand in the way of giving warn
ings. When examples of history
shriek out that a certain course of
action is dangerous because, often
tried before, it has invariably given
the same result and must therefore
be expected to produce It again
(as coalitions, of Big Threes or any
athernumber, have invariably pro
duced new wars,) how is It possiblei
to remain silent? In my view, ac
quiescence in an error made by
those whose objectives are the same
as your own is not “supporting”
those men, in any real sense fo the
word. Itis support to combat them
when their errors are certain to
lose their objectives and yours.
If, therefore, some of my readers
may think that I harp to constantly
on the errors of the present Allied
leaders, 1 can only answer that my
convictions and my consciousness of
the urgency of the moment do not
permit me to do otherwise. Their
tendencies have been consistent, and
I have been consistent too. It would
be pleasanter and more profitable
not to be so, and if I renounced
looking for the flaws, 1 should re
main in more congenial company
than I do when I find myself crit
icizing the Big Three plans along
with men like Burton Wheeler,
with quite different motives. I am
interested in getting rid of the bugs
so that the objectives of establish
ing universal democracy and inter
national peace can be attained.
Wheeler is interested in defeating
the objectives. He may have noth
ing against peace, except that he
doesn't believe it can be attained,
but he certainly doesn't want any
genuine democracy even if, for
political reasons, he does have to
mouth the word very often.
As I think it over, I am convin- i
ced that what may appear my own j
pessimistic attitude is actually the
product of considerable optimism. I
am fighting fora genuine world,
government because I believe it ears
be attained. The Big Three are
shooting short of that mark because
they don't believe it will work. I
am in favor of going the whole
hog in establishing democratic gov
ernments because I trust peoples.
| In Greece, Italy, France and else
where, the democracies have shown
that they don't. Their first concern
has been to disarm the people—
that is, the resistance movements—
to end the direct exercise of the
power by the people themselves.
So I think I will remain a “per
fectionist.” After all, there is re
spectable precedent for it. One rea
son why I believe in aiming now
(if it is not already too late) for
the maxium possible achievement is
that I doubt if the nations will ever
be convinced, except by the preas
ure of immediate danger, of the
necessity for pooling the national
sovereignties whose clashes are a
basic cause of war. Unfortunately,
since international organization re
mains largely a European question,
Asia being in a lower stage of
politicol development, the approach
ing end of the European war has
reduced the urgency and with it
the likelihood that international
unity can be achieved. It was exact
ly this belief that inspired another
perfectionist to oppose an imper
fect solution at a time or urgency
He argued that if the moment were
permitted to pass without a com
plete solution, if an imperfect an
swer were allowed to crowd the
perfect answer out, the passing of
the urgency would end the oppor
tunity for finding the right solut
ion—an argument commended to the
attention of those who say that we
should be content to take Dumbar
ton Oaks in its present form with
the idea of amending it later. Ob
viously, if there is not sufficient
realization of peril in wartime to
urge us to get it right now, there
will not be enough in the laxer
times of temporary peace to procure
its amendment.
But let me quote that other per
fectionist, speaking in circumstan
ces much like these:
“Danger may spring from delay,”
this perfectionist said to those who j
wanted to let well enough alone.
“The present temper of the states
is friendly to the establishment of a
lasting union: the moment should
be improved; if suffered to pass
away it may never return; and,
after gloriously and successfuly
contending against the usurpations
of Britain, we may fall prey to our
follies and disputes...A nominal head
which at present is but another
name for Congress, will no longer
do. That honorable body must
dictate, and not merely recommend."
The author of those words was
George Washington; and the result
of the perfectionist attitude which
. he expressed was the decision to re
i place the 'Articles of Confederal ion
and Perpetual Union”—the Dumbar
ton Oaks plan of their day, a coali
tion—with the Constitution of the
Uunited States—a government. To
day also the demand of interne*
ional unity is for a body which will
dictate and not merely recommend
a government and not a coalition.
A Suggestion
I might point out that my var
ious criticsm of governmental perr
ies have not boen restricted to sair' 1
“Let's not do this/* but have alweys ;
contained, either directly, or b"' im
plication, the suggestion, “Let's do
this.” Thus I didn't simply advocate
getting rid of Darlan and, later, of
Giraud, but of cooperating with de \
Gaulle. And in discussing the man
ner in which both Dumbarton Oaks
ind Yalta seemed to me to fall
■ short of what is needed, I have
made it clear, I hope, sometimes by
implication, in what direction they
seem to require amendment to ful
fill their aims.
I have therefore never advocated
simply rejecting Dumbarton Oaks>
and leaving a vacuum where an in
ternational organization should be
I doubt, however, whether this
would even be the result of a sim
ple rejection of the Dumbarton
Oaks formula and its consequent
abandonment. For then there yvould
still remain an international organ
ization--the League of Nations.
It is my personal opinion that the
Dumbarton Oaks plan is a back
ward step from the League of Nat- j
ions. Even if their merits were
equal, I believe ie would be prefer
able to keep the League of Nations
rather than to replace it by some
thingelse, for this reason: if Ger
many's attack is allowed to succed
in one of its objectives, the distruct
ion of this international body, giv
ing up the League and trying an"
otherform of organization means
starting from scratch again. Re
asserting the inviolability of the
League and amending and restoring
it as experience may have dictated
would, on the contrary, constitute
a positive gain. I have written in
this News Letter before that I thou
ght the best we could do would be
to make this war, not the last war,
but the next to the last war, since
one war to test the invulnerability
of the American Union, would be
necessary to establish the principle.
But this might not be true if the
League survived, for then this war
could be the one which had attempt
ed to substitute one-nation domin
ation for international cooperation
and had failed.
The enier disatisfaction expressed
with the Dumbarton Oaks plan, and
with the Big Three agreements
which seem to carry on its spirit, is
that it is in essence a directorate of
the world by the big powers which
took it upon themselves to establish
its statutes without consultation
with others. Its adminstration in
practice will rest on too narrow a
base. The League of Nations is also
open to objection along this line,
but at least Its foundation Is broad
er than that of the Dumbarton Oaks
plan.
The defects found in the League
of Nations organization were: lack
of any machinery for automatic en
forcing of the peace; lack of any
permanent police force at the direct
service of the League for immed
iate employment without the neces
sity of securing agreement among j
the powers which would supply
armed forces and their individual
provision of those forces after the
crisis arose. These same defects are
also contained in the Dumbarton
Oaks plan. In both cases, the
machinery only works if there is a
will to utilize it at the t'n e of ti e
crisis. The League did not ace be
cause not enough of - '• ’
members were willing to implement
its provisions. The Dumbarton Oaks
security organization will not act
either unless aH its directing mem
bers have the will to use force
against one of their own group-for
only a world power can make a
world war. If this will existed un
der the Dumbarton Oaks plan, it
could also be made to work under
the League of Nations plan. Finally
for the addition of the present set
up at a later date of the necessary
police fore and automatic action, it
would be easier to amend the
League than the Dumbarton Oaks
plan as at present drafted.
There ermains one more chief rea
son why the League did not work
The United States was not a mem
ber. Obiviously, that defect is very
easy to remedy.
If the Dumbarton Oaks plan is ac
cepted at San Francisco, the logical
next step would be for the League
to wind up its affairs. So far it is
still technically in existance, and
many of the member nations are
still paying their dues. If opposit
ion to Dumbarton Oaks should be so
strong at San Francisco as to block
agreement, however, it is less likely
the the nations would secede from
the League in the absence of any
organization to replace it.
Agreement to be
Expected
However there is practically no
chance that no new organization
will emerg from the San Francisco
meeting. Diplomats frequently fail*
but they rarely admit failure. Hav
ing commited themselves to meet
at San Francisco, they will un
doubtedly adjourn with the accept
ance of some sort of an organization
even though it may be evidently
very for from what is desired. It is
almost unthinkable that they should
say “This is not what we want, so
we will take nothing.” At the very*
worst, they will postpone the
settlement of details on which
agreement is not reached untill a
later date.
It is to be expected, then, that
the San Francisco conference will
mark the death of the League of
Nations. Yet there is a very simple
means by which it could be convert
ed into a meeting to revive the
League of Nations.
The American Senate could take
the initiative from the executive,
and, in fact, from the whole world,
by a very simple act- It could recon
sider the action it took on the
League of Nations and vote Ameri
can adherence to it. without reser
vations.
Of course, it is practically impos
ible that this should happen. But
there is no reason why it should not
work. If the United States should
suddenly join the League of Nations
the present members certainly
would not resign. And with the fu
ture life of one international league
assured, certainly the project to set
up another would be side-tracked.
The San Francisco conference would
be converted into a meeting for the
rehabilitation of the League of
Nations. And international cooper
ation would continue from that
point which it had reached before
the war, instead of retreating before
makeing a fresh start.
There are many good points
about the Dumbarton Oaks plan
which are not likely to be accepted
easily by several nations--even
though the invitations to neutral
nations to declare war on Germany
by March 1 and win a vote will have
the effect of packing the vote
against the formerly occupied nat
ions whose experiences have made
them desirous of a much tighter
world government than is provided
by the Dumbarton Oaks plan. This
reduction of the comparative in
fluence at the conference of the
real United Nations by its dilution
with spurious after-the-danger is
over members makes it likelier
that the plan will be railroaded
through without essential mod
ification, but if it is, there will re
main much biter feeling among the
smaller countries. But there is noth
ing about the League of Nations j
’ ,"°nant which cannot be accepted j
by all the countries concerned, for
all of them except the United States
had already accepted it. As for the
possibility of putting t““»h into the
League, it should be remembered
that the only reason why it was not
barn with them is that Europe
watered down its own version of
what it thought was needed because
President Wilson said the Senate
would never accept a real security
system. So the League was ham
strung to please the Senate--and
then the Senate turned it down
leaving Europe with an insufficient
instrument.
Having sabotage peace after the
last war, the Senate could redeem
itself by preventing the Big Three
(with the best of intentions) from
sabotaging it again. Unfortunately,
it won't do it.
Words of Praise
After having expressed my dis
taste at the necessity tor being so
often in the opposition, I may allow
myself the luxury now of a couple
of approving comments. The Siret
concerns the speeches of Messrs.
Churchill and Kooseve:i to Parlia
ment and gress. It is true •tmt
"cj pro • Idt • little inf . motion
v^n ch had •'•it i lready os-ci printed
in the pao,s (the Fresi l-n: )os
ti-an the Pi-n.' Minis:* c> not ih. ir
speeches were so obvious.y those of
sincere men .striving t • do their
L-re- in a d.if *ult situ -in r •»' mi
cso at least dismiss the irm li lations
of sinister motives sometimes made
for some of their actions. The
President s report to Congress also
set a good precedent. Voluntary
rendering of accounts to the legis
lature and the people by the Chief
Executive would go a long way to
remedy the defect in the American
governmental machinery which re
sides in the fact tha the executives
is not responsible to the legislature
as it is in practically every other
^ •1 1 r— i
democratic country.
The second development which
may be noted with satisfaction oc
curred at Mexico City meeting.
Preparation for it was inept and
early developments showed the Lat
in American countrie’s taking the
ball from the United States, justi
fying the criticisms made recently
of Americas western hemisphere
policy. But after being surprised
by the proposal to guarantee all
frontiers from attack by western
hemisphere as well as outside na
tions, the United States delegation
rallied nobly, and produced a
scheme for geting over the immed
iate difficulty of securing Senate
ratification of a treaty to this ef
fect before the San Francisco meet
ing by splitting the application of
the agreement into two parts, tak
ing advantage of the fact that the
President’s wartime powers would
permit him to implement such an a
greement without express Senate
consent now, and preparing to get
Senate ratification later for a perm
anent arrangement. The American
draft is over-cautious and lacks
such important features as a perm
anent police force and automatic ac
-tlon, but it represents a consider
able advance on the past, particul
arly as an example of genuine co
operation with other nations. For
that reason it deserves hearty com
mendation.
WAVEHLY L. HOOT.
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being published Feb. 28 by Harper
Brothers and is a book of The
Month Cclub selection. The vol
ume portrays the noted author’s
life in the south until he was 15.
Mr. Wright’s most noted book is
"Native Son,” published in 1940_
(ANP Photo)
NARRATOR
Gordon Heath, noted Negro
actor, was narrator on the “Ten
nessee Valley Authority* telecast
recently over CBS television sta
tion WCBM-N.Y. 0 lANPt
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A bill to abolish Lincoln univers
ity was introduced in the Missouri
House of Representatives last Tues
day by Rep. Frank Mashak (D., of
! St. Louis).
Mashak said the bill was introduc
ed at the request of David Grant,
| St. Louis attorney and president of
1 the St. Louis NAACP branch, which
j has indorsed the bill.
Mashak is quoted as saying that
several Negro organizations feel
that they do not get enough priv
ileges undei* the new constitution
and are using the legislative meth
od in an effort to attain them.
Under a U. S. Supreme Court de
cision rendered in 1938 in the Lloyd
Gains case, Missuri is required to
furnish equal facilities” for higher
education of Negroes or admit them
to white institutions.
70 YEARS TOO LATE
“The bill to abolish Lincoln U
is about 70 years too late,” stated
the Jefferson City Post-Tribune in
an editorial paragraph last Wednes
day. "The state has a huge invest
ment in the college which is one of
the best Negro educational institu
tions in the United States.”
