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1UL. nn I jrniGir moqcj uuir imigsgg, ton I 4 mm By F.L PRATTIS rfmfi Begin to Sprozd u'L nu jutseuisn via iiunpuni age, we had the National Recovery Administration i ja aSed. DireOaf It had been Gen. Hugh S. Johnson who somehow Crixc! somebody during tha World wax that ha knew how to! I fetefs sVn.

Ba didn't get much don la tha National Recovery i i h.j 171a v4na Wanal mm htaa mryA ha a nt Airt Tti hafnra eelied all hla office children together and bad them a some Da Cues ft food old NBA days became immersed in a 1 art af desuetude, tha general has found another job exjkia developed Into a "Boom! commentator enrreDt affairs. His comments are powder blasts, bretrfcoat th years, ha seems to have studiously aaj eoastroctivs reference to the problems of fxa Minorities aa the Nesro. He's beem Interested in Ktr pun, finch references as he has made to the frfr hare been either psironlzing or thinly disguised Csdsia. Tea could discern that he leaned to favor most sf tm MMcries ef Xesro progress, South as well as Karti, although he artfully refrained from saving so Ulead. Lest veek he threw eff the He felt tha urge to comment en eohunn beSeves that such a statement stamps lorh Johnson as a callous, dangerous enemy of Negro Ingres, In fact, tt labels him as one of the most dan proq enemy types.

Hney Long called Negroes names, wt he sras to be preferred. Bilbo would deport the Negro Africa, but even he might be preferred to Johnson. Ibtre is scarcely a white southerner whose attitude octaini more potential injury for us than this expressed attitude of Johnson. In effect, Johnson states that the feck man should forget all about the unconstitutional fistuictions made between him and other American fttHtcs and begin whooping it up in the interests of ttwe who deny him everything. Johnson's statement is noleMioii of ignorance and indifference.

What he nte is tantamount to saying that he doesn't believe the A'etro citizen has anything to kick about, that he is all right. Ts'a eewa mmm lm ttwmrtit tKet tha most dangerous enemy of tat WoECa (gecjiroGir's gg3 Po0int 3 By TED POSTON (Staff Correspondent) fAPAHOSIC, April 11 President Roosereh could Miilv ha alerted1 for term if he choose to rea, Dr. Robert Russa Moton declared here this week, tt presiaeni cacnrcs oi mxitejee ins mule hopes that Mr. Roosevelt declines At the race. "Traditionally.

I am asrainst a third term for anyone," the i people. He has granted every favor that I have ever asked for our group. His appointments to the Federal bench in Alabama did much to secure Justice for Negroes. Judge McCord in Birmingham, for instance, of ten leaned over backwards to see that Negroes got fair play. "Aa a matter of fact, all of tha BooserelU are sound on the race question.

And I wouldn't serve the Lord If ha waa against my people. But Just the same, I hope that the President doesn't run again. I believe that the third term tradition should be upheld." Dr. Moton. as independent Republican who voted for Herbert rf i) farswelL He bad failed.

Gen. Johnson had been confronted ioover In 1SZS and 1332. qualified vnral airaatleM which Be refrained from facing four square uter nowever. ttt fluty eourage which hla nickname "Old Ironpants" suggests, THINKS ROOSEVELT ef tsese sJtuetlona Involved, tha Negro. The National Induatrial CAN WIN IF HE BUNS rerr act bad endeavored to aet up codes for Industry covering retired educator and Southern leader informed The Courier In an exclusive interview at his stately country home overlooking the York River.

I am very fond of Mr. Roosevelt. He has done much for our "I think Mr. Roosevelt could win worktns eeadttioauL eta. Tha white South set up a howl about ttird term if he sought it." he i I a at tLt Jm sl ck man tha same wage for doing the same work that was wf r1? i term preceaent oroaen.

oui ix 11 liteii wfeits worker This howl resolved Itself Into a demand broken, there couldn't be euTereatlals. "Let as pay black workers leas than ws pay white better time for It than sow. I kco tauuted the Sooth. Negre leaders Immediately sprang to the no on ls I would rather see ef Keek workers. They took the ease to General Johnson.

"Old idoJ ithe bre," ome." (discussed the current political situ i stion in the second floor study of his elaborate three story home. Re jcently recovered from a confining illness, he declared thst he now better than at any time in the 'last ten On hla aide ef the pofittcal 1 fence Or. Moton smilingly dabs i himself aa "Abe Lincoln Bepvb I llcan" although he has supported candidates ef both major parties the educator seemed undecided about the large number ef G. O. P.

hopefuls. His feelings were quite deAalU about District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey ef New York however. i.i kept himself busy ths othr way. Ht Cidnt cars to ft oa, Tuakeges in June.

1933. Retires After 43 aeyt ay a Sy. Years in 1.5. Library WASHINGTON. D.C.

April 11 (ANP) Rounding out 43 years of service in the U.S. Library of Congress, Louie A. Alexander retired from active service aa private mas 1 senger to the librarian oa Monday of this past week. with my red in my hand." HE SATS: OLD KEN ABB APT TO BE CONSEBVAXTVX Of his retirement from Tuskegee in 1935: "It doesn't seem five years ago, but I mads ho mistake in quitting. "I im sorry that Dewey decided! Too many old men hold on to 'to run this year." be said.

"He things they ought to quit, uia men should have waited at ieaat four are apt to be conservative, but" Jay bessed proposal af Joha I Lewis, head of ths Congress of In 'yeaxs more." smilingly "few of them think they Wi 4 nT mnA rtris vnrvr. Trr are. We are all right for counsel. 7 (A IIMV MMMt al 1 av WaVaUMla.T m. vsaw etier SBinorltlea into a third party.

Of the m.erits of that pro A LIKEABLE FELLOW the eohnna has nothing ta write at this time. Instead, this writer Of Senator Robert Taft of Ohio: istmek by a particular exception which 'Old Ironpanta" He is more arrressivs than his eiaments tha voting group Lewis would bring together. knew Taft as a boy. 1 at Jekseoa ra substance: "Lewis would bring together the dlscon tended several M. C.

A. confer uj m. li.l it. th.n ii: ences and annual mcetinas with but active work should be turned over to younger men. quit Tuskegee in time, and I am also planning now to resign several other positions which I hold oa various boards.

Dr. Moton pointed out that his wu. him. Tt. Taru too und on famUy i noted for longevity.

His mm WTI.rj." iths rscs question." motner cieo oniy uxree years ago I Of Michigan's favorite son: at ths age of 87. "I rather like Vrandenberg. I have A graduate of Hampton Institute, never met him personally. But I although he has been awarded hon have read his speeches and followed orary degrees from a half dozen his career and I rather believe that 'of the country" leading ccUeges he would make a rood President." land universities, the educator is rs a tustlee for them ta tha courts? What does it mean to; the nearby Tork river he gh Johnsoa that tha black man la practically excluded from auc.a. i Li.

What doea It mean a T.ea at tha ef his govsmmaat? What does It mean tt. eouatry.1 what ths 1 were those eight hundred men who fought si vsnnsh to free this nation from tha yoks of doing? Whst did Crispos At gire his Ufa on Boston Common for? Did Peter lm grsh Old Glory from the British for the sake of men alone? What did black men get out of more Ja 200 years daring which they tilled the soQ and the homes of ths Soathlxnd? For what did nearly clared: Moton. who was in and out of the REPRESENTATIVE iTV, I i room during the course of ths In (XNP) Three mmr Willi mj INm hie eouatry the life. Umb and property of Negroes is not safe several large specimen taken from group, I could not possibly feel any miM nftt iMMsihhr fi anv de 'other way. Mra.

Moton is the only woman It Is not the Negro, but men like Hugh Johnson, arrogant aad indifferent la their sense af whiteness, who forget America despite all ''fit 1A: I J. by the A. J. Holman Com dustnal conferences. Regional In The volume stressed Africa's 1 dustrial convention at Sawyer, contribution to Bible history and Mich.

She is treasurer of the elviHsatien.Hia pahUshc i. th. vile, but petty, peddlsr of racial prejudice, Th. moet JZ22 xwmSaSt An4 mftnuarrirjc. Thev will nrobabiv Ji itiar hlt mu ta Miitiaa af Dovir tia USutSCt, 1.

ii asjtU tha fishing though, he re the Felicia Club. THREE MEN EXECUTED IH ALABAMA qf7Q Lmi a nn nnn a nn SHAPING VP FORYUCA CAUP BENEFIT CIRCUS best element and stand I order, progress, liberty, 1 'f 'i 4 'Jif A. These shapely members of the chorus at St. Louis' famous Club Plantation are getting themselves in finer shape, under the watchful eye of Joe "Little Ziggie" Johnson, for the sixth annual Camp Benefit Circus of the Pin Street YMCA, which will be held Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4 in the opera house of SL Louis' $5,000,000 auditorium. They are, left to rights Mar jorie Davis, Vivian McCuHen, Harriet Hickerson, Hortense Allen, Stella Calloway, Claudia Oliver and Marguerite Randolph.

The mammoth undertaking will make it possible for many underprivileged youth of St. Louis to spend the summer at the camp near Bourbon, Mo. MERGUSON INTERVIEWS BLACK i SENATOR OF FRENCH REPUBLIC nit tt ri i rUDllC LliO nas ravonte 01 uemenceaa ramea OratorHeadi Opposition to Popular Front By R. WALTER MERGUSON (Courier War Correspondent) PARIS, France, April 11 (By Airmail Censored) I am now six months in France and during this time I hare had the honor of meeting many men and women of culture, refinement and consequence; people who are representative in their community ana or wnomt any country not corroded by racial uter hm ri M. Paul Boacour prejudice, would be proud and even BcrUTT cf tDa Conference ef honored.

Lawyers and under Its president. These people, leaoers ana airec pjoyer. delivered a masterful tors or the intellectual ana poniica! oration OB Jul Grevy. third presi llfe of tht nation, represent its Amnt th. R.BubIic for law.

i Airea(jy his career was taking i equai form. He chose a publio career 2 Named For Guggenheim Fellowships Richmond Baxthe and YL Franklin Frazier Among 7S Wnners, NEW YORK. April 11. (ANP) Two Negroes, Rich mond Barthe and E. Franklin Frazier, are among the 73 Guggenheim Award winners, who will receive fellowships for research and creative work, it was an nounced by the John Simon Gug gtnheim Memorial Foundation this week.

Barthe, 29 year old sculptor of this city, will execute a memorial to James Weldon Johnson, noted writer, for which he was recently commissioned, and E. Franklin Frasier. professor of sociology at Howard University, will make a comparative study of the Negro family in the West Indies and Bra zil. Richard Wright, author ef the current beet eeller, "Native Son" aa the lone colored recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1939. The Foundation, established in 192S by former United States Senator and sirs.

Simon Guggenheim aa a memorial to a son, has granted 91 fellowships in the past IS years to assist original work by scholars and artists. Live At Home Program Is Praised GAINXSVXLZX. Fla April 11 (ANP) Letter of 'eommendatlon from all parts ef the country and 'as far away as Burma have been i received by Frank E. Pinder, Ne gro County Tana Agent hers, after Henry Lexnery Has Had Distinguisheo! Career In a radio talk in which he outlined plan for sa Improved standard of living for low income Florida farmer. Pinder plan, a Bve at home program for tha farmer, waa devised, be said to aid tha agriculturist who farms ea a small scale, to raise adequate feed and feed for his famQy aad livestock, but might be adjusted te improve farming on any.

scale. A farm ef SO acres is advised se snake tha following allotment: IS acres, eorn and peanuts; ene acre, sweet potatoes; one half acre, homo garden (year around); eae half acre, sugar cane; five acres, pasture; two acres, peas; and six acre. Sea Island cotton. Soil conservation, health and sanitation, and press rvatloa of foods, under ths guidance ef tha frtMiam. th funduncnttl buu home demonstration agent, aera all good government.

1903 he became aseistant chief or; wTv The Courier has mad. it possible cabinet of the PeaU of StAlfc lLJT m. to meet these people, ex A rqLDIEB "4. for hni viwl With them. ODtaVlD tw ttadi TbT A XaVriliwreP 04 AieVCUUel a aw vs ii a i Itheir viewpoint on world aflairs.

In Apriit 1914i Monsieur Lemery i ti it and especially of the present em elected deputy from Martinque. ClthoUC Center Holds jbroglio In Europe. There is one Dut because of the war. which was! 'topic upon which they all concur, Gecu.red in August, he volunteered Anti Ljnchinf Exhibit and that is the belief in the steady u1 waa at the front for three progress of our group, years, returning to the Chamber of NEW TORK. April 11 Aa est.

The resume of these causeries nnntia in 1917. whrra his taltnt hibtt aralnst Ivnehlnr.and in fa of Mr and Mrs Ashby 6M (talks) I 'have from time to time fcr oratory was soon discovered, in ivor of the buttx of the federal Rhodes avenue 'is representing in these articles. One per propounding a most scathing requi anU lynehing blU now in the Sen the industrial department of the 1 pecially pleased to pre against defeatism." 'ate is being held here at tha Da Akron TAVCA at the national to Courier readers is the Hon. jujy 1917, an Important datejPorres Interracial Center. 20 Veeey Henrv Lemerr.

Senator from Mar French historv. Clemenceau. the street. The exhibit will remain Mr. Moton, who failed to vote now au'y xcuw i 10 t) Jg Shft Ja a member of tlmque, a Tencn in me "Tiger' when the war was at its unui Jtpnt year xor ut rJrimS afr.ir.

Mmrr.ittmm. in west Indies. most crucial moments, delivered his the public affairs committee. In 1956he waa away from home oz campions cia, i on election day is not sure Just AFRICA'S CO N'TRIBUTI TO how he wUl vote in 1940. RUBLE HISTORY STRESSED "1 am still an Independent vot i Last September.

Dr. Moton wrote er," he said. may even vote the preface to a Hainitic Bible is 1 or the Democrats if the Be pub Bue(j licans pat np the wrong man. pany The educator is, as already indicated, a strong supporter of Mr. Roosevelt's policies.

WILL HAVE TO BETAIX BENEFITS OF NEW DEAL "The New Deal "has done much for my people acd for ths South," he said. "It has done much to bring i the southern Negroes and whites Industrial committee, Interclub council and volunteer adviser of a group of girls in the industrial department. She has attended Student In Monsieur Gratian Candace. dep famous speech in the Senate I of the Rhine. With the recent de uty, with whom you are acquainted, against the disastrous political pol velopmenU in SoutheasterB Europe was so charmed with our maustry.

icy of M. Mal y. and one well re would not be surprising if tha journalistic expansion and influence members in what denouncing terms. Balkan States would be drawn rata that he gave me a personal letter: At the same time, in the Palais the conflict. That la ene possible of introduction to this honorable Bourbon.

Monsieur Lemery. i Sjfaetor that might enter Into the gentleman, and admonished me that speech worthy of Caton. asked who equation. by all means I should meet the one Was to save hts country. "It is idle to try to persuade eur nr thin two Fnmu Lea club of the TWCA.

outstanding poUtical figure or pres in November. 1917. Clemenceau selves that the conflict eouid be ds of the Old Testament was She is also treasurer of Twelve nt day France, adding. "Few there formed bis cabinet, and be con avoided, in view of the fact that in Africt Toppers club and a member of are who have attained such marked erred on M. Lemery the Important have permitted Germany to ear At present, he has finished the notes oa a forthcoming volume dealing with the spiritual eoa trlbotioa ef thexXegre to Ameri wuv election, timer win om lorcta 10 1 k'JR.

t. 4. l.vin. TV to this countrv. They fill the rtin most of the benefits of the marked am 'be Rotary.

Xlwaals aad Lions dubs, the Array and the New Deal." Returning bbl 1 a a a a mrmf 't Guinea and bis; industry. They don't know and they don't a 4 BTiat doea It matter ta them er to Hugh Johnson that is uBeoastitutionally deprived ef ths vote in mors than a eta'M ef this aaioei? What does tt mean to them er to Hugh! t.et the aoors te'the aoost arodoctlvs employment are barred. a. af tku What does It mean to them or to that Mt thta vtation'a citizens, hunrry and III are i Moulata this country's i maw lyuvii. 'K'hat dcaa it aaa le them er te Hugh Johnson that In vast Dennltelv rray now, but koh tng much younger thaax hla 72 years, tha trustee and former commandant of men at Hampton Institute Is still slightly weak from his recent Mfriras An be veterate Saherman, however, he was wealing his eld Ashing coat and repairing his tackle la the study when he received the Courier representatives.

Exhibiting his prize trophii ilin gly. again to the third term issue, horn ever, the educator revealed that his wife. Mrs. Jennie Booth Moton. disagrees strongly with on tha question.

And Mrs. a a i si en aa distinction and success; his laurels position of under secretary of stats ry out her rearmament plana, have been won by hard work ana 0f marine transports and of the spread ths doctrine ef racisms, tha conscientious effort throughout his merchant marine, but in less than spirit ef revenge and domination, entire career!" two weeks after the armistice be The Reich would have ua believe MEETS BLACK SEXATOB resigned ths post. In spite of the that her affair with Poland did FOB FIRST TIME vain pleadings of Cletnenceau. and not concern us and that her actio It was In his large specious 11 returned to the Palais Bourbon. 1 in the East did not eon earn En library, replete with the French ela ELECTED SENATOR IX ltl jland.

and France therefore had no sics. rare books and In 1919. M. Lemery was elected 1 right to interfere. And it is hist seated comfortably behind his desk.

Senator from Martinique. A great 'on this point that there exists a busily engaged In examining papers traveler, be knows the West Indies, fundamental difference ef oncep of stats, that I met and formed the the French African colonies, Eu itions. acquaintance of this great man. rope and the near Orient; he has i "For Germany there exists aotb Naturally, I presented a late copy studied the methods of French ex lng but isolated states, and each of The Courier, and when he began pension and its Influence in the one has only the right to be eoa jrnvTvrrpr 'slowly and methodically to open world. He is a proline writer and 'cerned only with itself.

For tha MOMCOMERI, Ala April 11 Mn umri the won rnrtHhiit parulariv to numerous democracies there exists a eellee. prisoners. Jackson. Birmingham, con tw0 derful photographs and admirable daily papers, both French and for of peoples and International convicted of murder and one for presentation, a broad smile of ad man Bell, Mobile county, accused in the island ef Martinque that EXPECTS WAX TO of raping a nurse. Monsieur Lemery waa born, IBE MO BE ACTIVE Judge Raglan convicted ef years ago, the son ef a family ef Ths Senator knew He is siso the editor of two law.

and 1: It is net yet compiettiy as lone as he lives." she said. "I rape, were electrocuted hers at miration radiated his face. I told Paris publications: La Revue des eodifled. it is none the lees a moral 7 .,1.. 'him of the 100 employes in the 1 Ambaasadee and L'Independent (a and poUtical reality.

There is ae vt JUV w7v hw rl I 7 noruy and la ths produc weekly). President Domergue con distlncUon, aa Germany makes, be howinhhM donaouiBllht Frldy there. ojtioa of the paper, of the 200.000 erred upon him the portfolio cf th. tween large and small natloaa. ta cheduled to die, got 30 and 0 day copies printed weekly on The Cour Justice and Vice President of the Ipretending that the latter are toe nn harifhr watt fnr tha waa.

'flJJ representative of the ASTieul disposal vreav won't feel fullv Jtural Adjustment Administration in i Hugh Johnsoa that black men may not eat In the restaurants recovered until I am out In a boat the nine cotton states, whe make their lawsT What doea amaaa to them and to heeoa that the treatment ef tha Negre makes a mockery ef uJf mlHioB blsck men mske their SSCrmes fat tfas feral and state eenstrtotieaa aad ef this system they eaU Demoe World Wr? To msks DemOCTaCJ SSis for them sione? anvthiaar Jkma writea: Btea thmkiax er yoursair ana reprieves from Governor Dixon, ler presses, and that because of its Consell of Ministers. Since the weak to defend their liberties and who refused to interfere in the, other cases. clean news ana superior journausm coming or ine rom opuiaire in existence. lit was gaining in popularity, not France he has become ths national "For us any etbnlo er political clean news and superior Journalism coming of the Front Populaire in Those electrocuted were: David only amonr the colored people, but 'opposition chief in the Senate. entity, which through the centuries Williams, Jefferson county, con many whites were buying and con Recently a great honor has been: has proved its aptitude for exist victed ef killing Newt Garrison and throwing his body la a lake; aulting It regularly.

i bestowed upon hua. Ths French "Wonderful, wonderful!" the Sen Institute has given him tha prise a tor remarked. ATJDDIFRED for hla outstanding victed for slaying hla common law But let me first tell yen some 1 book, "La Revolution Fraocalae a la with aa axa handle, and Her thing of his rise ta fame. It was sacs, at testa by that fact the coat science af Ha unity aad astonomy, aad is entitled te Its place ha the sun." Apologizing for ths interruptl oe. at this point asked tha learned Senator far a word aa ta ths eeV that I was enles part ta the war.

their lip service. They think of the America of their clasa. Ths country slaving an Opelika storekeeper In, merchants whose ancestors came anxious to hare his viewpoint en! "Tea," he continued, "ear ea. which Johnsoa wants as te think about la composed ef the clasa to 1 robbery, waa one of those grant originally from Franca In tha early 'present events aad France's poei jocles are giviag gsaerousry ta asea. lif 1 PA 1 1 I fhA ed reprieves.

He has asserted re wt iwfc i neatedlv his Innocence of charres nation as a whole win grow and endure la proportion to ths active co 1 placed against him. claiming mis operation of all groups, classes and minorities. Such cooperation will taken identity. Sam involve a social consciousness which cannot prevail until indifferent sentenced for murdering a sawmill meharajahs like Johnson have passed to their reward. It Is admitted ZrT 7 Igiven a stay of 60 days on his eoun ue ume wui um jung, vui dbi as jong as iwa nirn, IseTs plea of insanity.

17th century. It was in ths city of Saint Pierre, his birthplace, that he received his Underwood. carry school training before coming to Paris In 1S95 to finish his schooling at ths Lycee Louis Le Grand. In 1SSS he mads his first entry ta the Palais Bourbon and a year tion in ths war. money aad materials for tha eause.

"We are anxious." he began, "to jWe have snany troops under arms see tha war evolve to a happy eon jaad aa eoaditioas permit we wU elusion, about which no ens enter enrcH snore. We are proud. ef ear tains any doubt. As soon as ths fighting men aad you eaa be sure weather clears up mors and It gets that aeon we will hear mere ec warmer, I expect to see a period itheir daring exploits ea the field jof extreme activity aa both sides of battle." i Ti.