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Red Cross Cooperating with Nat’I Negro Health Week AT5TLEXE, TEXAS.—C. D. Snell, volunteer Red Cross Instructor and member of the Abilene Fir# Department, shows members of Girl Scout Troop 30 how to administer artificial respiration in a Junior Red Cross First Aid course. Edna Earl Parks and Mary Francis Williams act as victims and Gwendolyn Jordan and Christian Lott apply the pressure. RED CROSS COOPERATING WITH NEGRO HEALTH WEEK Washington, D. C.—Increasing Negro participation a*d 1 adership in the nutrition, home nursing. 1st aid, water sifety and accident prevention p ogram of the Ameri can Red Cro3» was pc'nted out by Red Cross Chairman Basil O’Con nor in announcing the cooperation of that organization with the 32n(| observance of National Neg"o Health Week, March 31—April 7, 1946. Returning recently from a trip to New Orleans where he confer red with Negro health workers, educators, and civic leaders, Mr. O’Conner said that one of the principal aims of the Red Cross is to raise the health standards of the total population. To interpret the Red Croe.- Nu trition Service to various groups, Mrs. Jane S. Williams, former nutrition teacher in the depart ment of home economics at Ho ward University was added to the “IT PAYS TO LOOK W cLL" — MAYO’S BARBF.R SHOP — Ladies and Children’s Work A Specialty 2422 LAKE STREET nutrition staff of the Red Cross la't fall. After completing a two months’ demonstration in Chester field County, Va., she is now wor king in the Philadelphia area. Tae3e rural an-j urban communi tifs "ere chosen partly because of the large proportion of Negroes who live the-ie- chesterfield Coun ty, spreading over an area of 484 square miles, had a population in 1940 of 31,183, of which 20 percent was colored. Cooperating with Virginia State Teachers College, he state extension department, .he public health department, and the county schools, Mrs. Williams studied the existing nutrition pro gram and offered assistance to .ne teachers in menu planning, buying guides, attractive services j and methods of vegetable cookery. She stressed the value of an ade quate daily lunch in talks to PTAs and through classes for adults and rchqol children. Five husbands, five wives, an hd grandfather (who came to hear .he new fangled things his chil Iren were talking about), and a eacher attended one of the school groups, and according to Mrs. Wil iams, the men displayed more in erest than the women. 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Box 492 Omaha, Nebraska C No. 201 5 Ple*\*»« send n:e your bargain offer: _ No. 202 ■ Please s ni me your bargain off^r: Q Ne. 202 A . * S Enclosed is $ . paj-ment or (SEND COD) KEY C-1 • Name. ■ » ■ • Address . ■ • ■ • City.Zone.State.• • 6 LBS. OF LAUNDRY 1_ LLY LAUNDERED FOR ONLY CQp AND ONLY 7c For Each Additional lb... • This Includes the Ironing of all FLAT-WORK with Wearing Apparel Returned Just Damp Enough for Ironing. Emerson - Saratoga 2324 North 24th St.WE. 1029 cabbage, bread, cole slaw, and ap-1 pies. Some of the schools did not, serve mil^ because of lack of sto rage space or difficulty of deliv ery. Mrs. Williams, however, said! that she was able to develop in terest in milk drinkink an^ in the use of evaporated milk. HOME VISIT Among her visits to a variety of homes, comfortable as well as poor, was one to an isolated farm, described as not unusual in its nutrition needs. It was necessary to park my car' at the end of the lane, the ruts were forbidding—and to proceed on foot to a house that seemed held together by hope—hope that it would not tumble in. It was not neccary to knock, as five pairs of eyes had watched my approach; the door was flung open as I stepped gingerly on what was suppose^ to be a porch. The baby a too fat youngster of 11 months was on the floor of a room identi fied as a bedroom only by the fact that it had a bed in one corner as balance for the stove in an op posite one- Otherwise, the room was bare. There were 11 ‘heads’ besides the father and mother, with three absent ones, 2 children working out, and a son in the Army. He talked about the baby, what he ate and how well he ate, because I could see that he was a perfect picture of under nourishment. He didn’t like oranges or tomatoe jui ce, and the mother saw no sense in giving him cod liver oil. Two sick children had always been spindly and with good cause, for one had had rheumatic fever, the, other a spot on her lung The only encouragement P found in the home was the oldest dau gheter, who eyed me furtively ai d called me the food lady who came to her school. The mother relaxed then, and I saw a ray of hope. From the north area of Phila delphia where, she says 90,000 Negroes are living, and a new house h'w ’'nr- built in 50 years, - :j. V ' -- j writes that interes" in nclr tio : is graduilly growing. .me t:l s ex interviewing a little old man. weighing 79 lbs. who wouldn’t eat. He had no one to take care of his food need5, and Mrs. Williams visited the restau rants in the vicinity to investigate the price and quality of foods. She is preparing material concerning minimum adequate meals served in restaurants in- Negro areas where families on relief, or on marginal incomes, are living. This material will be used to establish standards for minimum food al lowance for adults eating their meals in restaurants or living on exceptionally low incomes. She gives an example of a man with ulcers, who lives with his family wife and 11 children in 3 rooms. Trying to make nutrition educa tion practical in situations of this kind is one of her problems. NEW HOME NURSING UNIT Last month in Kansas City, 5 Negro practice classes were well taught by Red Cross Home Nur sing instructors in Unit H, Mother and Baby Care and amily Health, which is in the process of being perfected. Suggestions from actu al class problems have been fol lowed by the master training su pervisors at national headquarters of the Red Cross. Unit I in Home Nursing, the i Care of the Sick, is gaining thru i out the country in the numbers of Negroes, both men and women, who are attending classes- In the city of Greenwich, Conn., recentlv a group of men from the Crispus A.ttucks Association received cer tificates for completing this unit and requested a class for their, wives. A course in home nursing for colleges is to be ready for u?s next fall, and it is expected that i , will be installed in a large number of Negro colleges. A high school course is being widely used, and effects are seen in community and 2 standards of bedside care sickness prevention. A ’.IDENTS ARE HEALTH ARDS The Red Cross program in acci .ent prevention combats the fact at accidents present one of the most serious hazards to the health and safety of the American people today Taking the lives of nearly 100, 000 persons every year, accidents rank fifth as a cause of death in the United States. And among persons from 1 to 19 years of age accidents arethe chief cause of death. The accident death rates are somewhat higher among nonwhite groups than among white, accor ding to recent statistica published DR. CALLOWAY APPOINTED LECTURER IN MEDICAL SCHOOL Breaking all precedents and aga^n setting a new record, Dr. ^aiioway, with ol'4-ces at 1658 YV’est Roosevelt Road, has been appointed lecturer in internal Me —cine at the University of Illinois .n Chicago. This is particularly signficant at a time when many other med ical schools are denying admiss ion to colored students because of allegedly patient objections. Dr. Calloway says that although he was forced by the administration to withdraw from the University of Chicago Medical School on ac count of race, he has never had "’■/ friction with patients or nur SeS. —>r. Calloway completed his ^raining at the University of 111 .nois. He then was appointed in .ern and later resident physician at the University of Illinois Hos pital in two record breaking ach -evements For the past two years Dr. Cal loway has directed clinical resear ch in the Department of Interal Medicine. He was named a respon. Sibie Investigator of the Office of Scientific Research and Develop ment during the war, and studied convalescence and special diagno stic procedures for the armed forces. More recently Dr Calloway has had the responsibility for plan ning the medical units of the new University of Illinois Hospitals, planning a brochure for procedures on the medical wards and the job of planning and organizing the special precision diagnostic me thos and laboratories. Dr. Calloway’s specialty is in ternal medicine and his main in terest is in Glandular Disorders, metabolism and diagnostic proce dures. He holdg the Ph. D. as well as the M. D. degree. He was form erly an instructor in chemistry at Tuskegee Institute and Fisk University and taught Pharmaco logy at the University of Chicago. He has written many scientific papers and is a member of sev eral honorary societies. He be longs to the Kappa Fraternity. Dr. Calloway is particularly in terested in the underpriviliged. He is conducting a study of the nou rishment and development of Ne gro children on Chicago’s West Side. This is being done through the cooperation of Randall House and Father Anderson. by the Children’s Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor. For white population under 20 years of age' the average accident death rate in a recent three year period was 56.3 per 100,000 for boys and 25.3 for giris. For the corresponding nonwhite group, the death rate was 74.2 for boys an^ 36.3 for girls. To combat this loss of life and injury caused by accidents which are largely preventable, the Am erican Red Cross carries on a vast educational program in first aid, water safety, and accident pre vention. Courses are conducted in schools, at camps, and among community groups by volunteer instructors through the facilities of Red Cross chapters. Many instructors in all three phases of this safety program are trained at national aquatic schools which are conducted at camp cites throughout the nation during the summer months. Plans for the 1946 season indicate that 3 Negro aquatic schools will be conducted this year—in Midwestern, East ern, and Southeastern areas. Last year more than 100 Ne groes from eastern and southea stern states were qualified as in structors in first aid. water safety or accident prevention at t"o aq uatic schools. Negroes are inclu ded on the faculty at these sch ools. The Red Cross course taught by these instructors and others are used to great extent in the sch ools and colleges. For example, a recent course for seniors at Prai rie University, Texas, resulted in qualification of 55 first aid and 53 accident prevention instructors. Individuals attending this school will go to all parts of the US, and principally as teachers in Negro schools In addition to offering these courses the Red Cross contributes to the safety program through its vast network of highway first aid stations and mobile first aid units and the increasing need for these stations and units is indicated by the fact that from VJ Day to the end of 1945, traffic deaths in creased 36 percent over the cor responding period of 1944. The 1945 total death toll of 28,500 re presented a 17 percent increase over 1944. Deaths from accidents of all types totalled about 96,000 in 1945 a one percent increase over the 1944 total, according to prelim inary figures of the National Saf ety Council. MEDICAD AND HEALTH WORK To increase the efficiency of Need a LAXATIVE? \ Black-Draught is 1- Usually prompt I . 2- Usually thorough / 3- Always economical / doses 1 nnlv Hi Red Cross medical and health work, Chairman O’Connor has ap pointed Dr. G. Foard McGinnes, medical director of the American Red Cross, as vice chairman in charge of a newly established Of fice for Health Services. The new office groups together all Red Cross services relating to health and medical activities: the Office of the Medical Director, the Nursing, Nutrition and Distaster Medical Services ,and irst Aid, Water Safety and Accident Pre IkeJlome H&pjosit&i in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent WNl) Washington Bureau. 1616 Eve St.. N. W. Short-Sighted Greed Imperils Our Future uTN OUR relations abroad and in I our economy at home, forces of selfishness and greed and intol erance are again at work ... If certain interests were not so greedy for gold, there would be less I pressure and lobbying to induce con I gress to allow the price control act to expire, or to keep down mini mum wages or to permit further concentration of economic power ... as among men, so among nations.”—President Truman. If you folks, who live in the home towns and the. rural areas of the nation, could but sit in on one ses sion of congress considering ar im portant piece of legislation ... if you could but watch briefly the op erations of these lobbies . . . these interests “greedy for gold,” here in Washington, you would under stand fully the reason for the Presi dent's recent speech at Columbus, Ohio, and why he called for a “moral and spiritual awakening in the life of the individual and in the councils of the world” . . . why he declared that if we really believed in the brotherhood of man there would be no necessity for considera tion of a fair employment practices act. Unified During War As a nation during the war, we were unified in a common cause against a common enemy to protect and preserve our liberty. Industry and labor and agriculture, indeed at tremendous profit, worked hand in hand for the common cause. But the moment the shooting stopped, what happened? Although we are still at war, although no peace treaty has been signed, al though we as a nation have made tremendous commitments to keep the world peace and police the con quered nations . . . although we emerged as the greatest humani tarian and political and military ■force in the world ... we imme diately started to throw our unity, our self-discipline, our humanita rianism, our military force, our political prestige to the winds . . . for what? The greed for gold is the answer. Here in Washington, the answer is self-evident. The halls of congress are overflowing with lobbyists but tonholing members . . . money is pouring in by the thousands of dol lars from power lobbies, business lobbies, agricultural lobbies, labor lobbies . . . congressmen are pulled and hauled one way or another, some willingly, some unwillingly, and the fact is there is not suffi cient stamina in congress to with stand this pressure for special priv ileges. Reactionaries in Saddle Measures instituted for the com mon good are emasculated, ripped to pieces by amendment, rendered ineffective and meaningless. Oth er measures are pigeon-holed be cause there is a lack of moral cour age even to bring them into the open for debate and a vote: with congressional elections in the offing this fall an unholy coalition of south ern Democrats and northern Repub licans, who have no natural affin ity, but wTho do have the common purpose of batting down every lib eral and progressive movement which rears its head into their re actionary vision . . . this coalition controls legislation. Whether the administration pro gram of President Truman is for the good of the people or not, whether it would have brought about early reconversion, prevented inflation and made for the common welfare | or not ... we will probably never | know, for it has not, nor will it be permitted to become the law of the land ... so long as there is reac tionary control of congress. We are living under make-shift legislation, under the salvage sys tem — with a part of one measure salvaged here, another there and with most of the core and heart chopped out. And this writer pointed out once before, in my humble opinion, the j people in the hometowns and rural j areas are largely to blame. We have not lifted our voice in protest . . . we are too busy “getting ours” . . . too concerned with our individual and personal lives to bother about government here in Washingion. but which if we stopped to consider, has more bearing and more influ ence on our personal lives than any other one factor. Shall our national life be shaped by the powerful minority lobby and pressure groups, or will it be deter mined by the rank and file of the American people? Will our foreign policy be returned to power politics and trade wars by this strong under tow which is pulling us back to ward isolationism and nationalism? Or will we follow the chart of the United Nations charter, the re ciprocal trade agreements, the Bret ton Woods agreement? Will we make a credit loan to Britain, to France, to Russia or shall we return to isolationism? vsntion. ''' The need for expanding Rtd Cross health and mediuai projects provided in cooperation with other public agencies, has become in creasingly important, Mr. O’Con nor Said. (Establishment of the Office for Health Services will in sure a closely knit program will conserve Jx>th funds and effort (and at the same time provide maxium benefit. In addition to being responsible for Red Cross Health and Medical activities, Dr. McGinnes will main tain liaison with the Offices of the Surgeon General of the Army, Na vy and Public Health Service, and with other medical and health agencies. JOB BIAS COMPLAINT DISMISSED New York—(C)—Thirty year old Isaac Ross, filed a complaint that he, a Negro had been discri minated against the City Home on Welfare Island since it offered him a kitchen worker’s job instead of the night watchman's post which he applied for Henry C. Turner, Chairman of the State Commission against Discrimination dismissed the complaint for he had found it was the Home’s practice not to hire persons under 45 as watch men. I-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Conservative Bloc Fights OPA; G. M. Strike Settlement Spur to All-Out Automobile Production . . Released by Western Newspaper Union (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) CONGRESS: Conservative Coalition Having first shown its strength in passage of the Case anti-strike bill, a coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans is being organized in congress to loosen government regulation over the nation’s econ omy. Led by Representative Hartley (Rep., N. J.). 100 congressmen al ready have joined the coalition, with a strategy committee composed of Hartley himself, Crawford (Rep., Mich.), Smith (Dem., Va.), Barden (Dem., N. C ). Camp (Dem., Ga ), Roe (Dem., Md ), Jenkins (Rep., Ohio), Buffet 'Rep.. Neb.), Pace (Dem., Ga.) and Sundstrom (Rep., N. J.). Though the coalition strategy calls for an attack on OPA pricing regu lations such as requiring sellers to absorb part of increased costs of production and distribution, the group will seek modification rather than outright abolition of the agency. Support would be given to a one year extension of OPA. Senator Wherry (Rep., Neb.) was to head the coalition in the senate, where support may be slower in de veloping because of the need for members to canvass their positions more accurately in view of their wider constituencies. Reflecting this more cautious approach, the senate greatly watered the strin gent Case bill which restricted la bor activities. WAR CRIMES: Hermann Brags Attired in a baggy uniform with a red scarf tied around his neck, Hermann Goering showed all of his aid cockiness in being the first of j the Nazi war criminals to testify in his behalf in the historic Nuernberg trials. With a noose staring him in the face, the rumpled former Reich air Marshall proudly boasted that he aad been Hitler's right-hand man and striven mightily to strengthen the national Socialist party rule “to Hermann Goering on stand. nake Germany free.” Though the 'Jazis had come into power through ree elections, he said, every effort vas made to retain their leadership :ven to the elimination of all politi :al opposition. In recounting the notorious blood >urge of 1933, Goering claimed that Jen. Kurt von Schleicher and Gen. Jurt von Hammerstein-Equord had iought to overthrow Hitler shortly >efore the installation of his first :abinet. In a quick Nazi counter nove, the putsch was crushed and mn Schleicher murdered. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Russ on Spot Russia was put on her honor by ligh American and British officials n the midst of reports that re nforced Red armies were fanning wer northern and western Iran and hreatening Turkey and Iraq. In Washington, D. C., President Truman openly expressed confl ience that the U. S. and Russia :ould resolve their difficulties aris ng over Iran and the Reds strip ling of Manchurian industry through liplomatic procedure. At the time dr. Truman spoke, Russia's only inswer to the state department’s irotest over continued Red occupa ion of Iran in violation of a tri-par ite agreement was an unofficial doscow radio broadcast that re lorts of Russian troop movements n Iran were inaccurate. Coincident with President Tru nan’s expression of belief in Rus :ia. Foreign Minister Bevin of Great Britain stressed premier Stalin had World Hog Numbers Show Big Drop Showing a sharp decrease of ,000,000 head, world hog numbers Topped to 244,000,000 at the start f 1946 in comparison with the year •revious. Reductions in central Eu ope, Canada and Argentina were •ffset only partially by moderate in reases in the U. S., France and the oviet Union, and small increases 1 other countries. Because of the critical world hortage of grains, further decline in hog numbers outside the U. S. is forecast in 1946 despite a de mand for meat well above the sup ply. Canadian hog numbers continue to decline and at the beginning of 1946 showed a drop of 1.8 million head below the year before, or 38 per cent below 1944, while in the U. S. they rose 4 per cent, thus recuperat ing part of the loss shown on Janu ary 1, 1945, compared with 1944. unequivocally assured his major war allies that the Reds would respect Iranian territorial integrity in ac cordance with tri-partite agree ments. Foreign Commissar Molotov reiterated Russia's intention to pull out of Iran during the London con ference of foreign ministers, Bevin added. Behind the political tension, re ports persisted that the Reds were exerting the strongest pressure on Iran for oil concessions in the north. The British have extensive petro leum holdings in the south as well as in neighboring Iraq, where a na tive movement for self-rule backed by the Reds is feared. LABOR: Auto Wages Emerging haggard and bewhisk ered from the conference room after 17 hours of continuous negotiation between CIO-United Automobile Workers and General Motors offi cials, UAW Pres. R. J. Thomas muttered: “Considering everything, I think we’ve got a pretty good contract.” Settled after a bitter 113-day strike, the pact did provide substan tial wage and other concessions to the union, though falling short of UAW goals. Despite the long-drawn bickering, the company granted only 1814 cents an hour instead of the 1914 cents demanded, and the average G. M. wage was set at from $1.12 to S1.30V4 cents an hour, still below the Ford and Chrysler pay rates. By obtaining important conces sions from the company, however, UAW officials claimed that the total financial gain would exceed the 19*4 cents an hour sought. Gains in cluded adjustment of inequalities in wage rates in certain plants, im proved vacation pay up to 414 per cent of gross income of employees of five years or more, double time for the seventh consecutive day on the job, and equal compensation for women. In winning substantial pay con cessions for the future, the strikers paid a heavy price in lost wages of between 138 million and 150 mil lion dollars. The company was estimated to have dropped 600 mil lion dollars in unfilled orders while distributors lost 150 million dollars in sales commissions. Production Prospects With the settlement of the G. M strike, the auto industry hoped to clear the decks for all-out produc tion to meet the tremendous pent up dfemand for new cars. Because many parts suppliers still have to negotiate wage demands, however, the threat to full-scale output re mained. In any event, the auto industry will be unable to meet the goal of six million cars set for 1946. With reasonably clear sailing, it is ex pected that three million passenger vehicles will be turned out during the remainder of the year. Indicative of the high gear into which the industry must be thrown to meet production goals. Ford has assembled only 76.000 cars thus far: Chryslq*-. 53,000: General Motors, under 100,000; Willys-Overland, 62, 000; Studebaker, 38.000; Nash, 11, 000, and Hudson, 4,000. Other Strikes Despite settlement of the Gener al Tutors strike and the agree ment between General Electric and the CIO-United Electrical Work ers, strikes continued Jo cloud the postwar economic picture, with the dispute between International Har vester and the CIO-Farm Equip ment Workers the most serious. With International Harvester and the union deadlocked over the com pany’s proposal that an 18 cent wage raise be conditioned upon gov ernment grant of an offsetting price increase. c". ->f Agriculture Ander'- management and ’ -e in the pro dur' eded equipment to rop goals. Unless fari, .<• to step up the out put, ht this country will be un able to furnish sufficient food to avert mass starvation abroad. Termination of the General Elec tric strike, with an 18% cent an hour wage raise bringing average weekly earnings to approximately $42, opened the way toward large scale production of home appli ances. Previously. General Motors' electrical division had made peace with the CIO union on tne same terms. POLITICS: ' Bad Mixture Though stubbornly fighting to the last. Big Ed Pauley finally conceded that oil and politics don't mix. ask* ing for withdrawal of his nomina tion as undersecretary of the navy despite President Truman's deter mined support in the face of strong congressional opposition. A millionaire California oil-man and former treasurer of the Demo cratic party. Pauley faced rough go ing from the start, with astute politi cal observers terming the nomina tion of any petroleum operator for a navy job a blunder in view of past scandals over navy oil. Edwin W. Pauley (seated) reads missive from President as broth er Harold looks on. Whatever hopes Pauley nourished for confirmation were rudely shaken with former Interior Secre tary Ickes’ testimony that he had told him that $300,000 could be raised from oil men for the 1944 Demo cratic campaign if the government would withdraw its suit for title over underwater petroleum deposits in California. In asking the President to with draw his nomination, which was done, Pauley declared that he had been cleared of all charges against him. Commending him for retiring from the fight. Democratic mem bers of the senate naval affairs com mittee upheld his personal integ rity. CONSCRIPTION: Prospects Brighten Because of the precarious inter national situation aggravated by Russian moves in the east, congres sional support grew for extension of the selective service act beyond May 15. With war department officials calling for maintenance of military strength in the face of unsettled world conditions, it was revealed that plans called for an army of 1.500.000 officers and men by July, 1948, and 1,000,000 by July, 1947. Pending determination of the aims, policies and programs of other na tions, and the efficiency of the UNO in resolving disputes, no decision can be made about the permanent size of the armed forces, it was said. General Eisenhower declared that one of the principal arguments for the retention of selective service was that it acts as a spur for volun tary enlistments. With volunteers permitted to specify what branch of service they prefer, many young men act to pick their spots before being drafted and made subject to compulsory placement. In five months, 600,017 volunteers enlist ed, with 67.07 per cent being World War II vets, 18.7 per cent recruits and 14.23 per cent pre-Pearl Harbor enrollees. WORLD RELIEF: Sharing Burden Assuming the honorary chairman ship of the government’s emergency famine committee, former Pres. Herbert Hoover called upon South American nations to join with their Big Brother of the north in con serving cereals for feeding of the hungry in war stricken Europe and Asia. Prior to leaving for a first-hand survey of overseas conditions. Hoover told a news conference that he believed both North and South America could save upwards of 7 million tons of cereals during the next 120 days to help fill a need for about 9 million tons. The year’s re quirements will total 21 million tons, he said, but only 12 million tons will be available without the under taking of broad conservation meas ures. Of the total of 7 million tons that the western hemisphere could fur nish within the next four months. South America could contribute 5 million tons. Hoover said. This amount could be made available by cutting down purchases of foreign goods requiring payment in grain; reducing consumption, and turning over all surpluses to famine threat ened areas. MTLK: Per capita consumption of milk and cream jumped to 442 pounds in 1945, the highest total ever reached, and 102 pounds more than the per capita consumption in the five year period from 1935-39, government fig ures show. Translated into housewife’s terms, these figures meant that an aver age of about 206 quarts of milk In 1945, almost four quarts a week, was consumed for each man. wom an and child in the nation, in th« form of milk and cream.
