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EDITORIAL Main Office 2628 Centre Avenue at Francis Stree Telephone: Mayflower 1401 Pittsburgh, Pa. Publithtd at Fa ory Saturday by THB PITTSBURGH COURIER PUBLISHINO COMPANY, Inc. ROBERT L. VAN'S, EDITOR (UEttORIA IN AETHRNAt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: HJ)0 Per Yar In Advanet; SIJO Pit 8iM Uontht in Btngl Copy, lOe Portign Canada 11.00 Entered aa aecond clasa matter at the Plttaburgh Poat Office, May 10, 1010, under the Act ot March 8, 1879. Incorporated Under the Laws of Pennsylvania.

1010 INTERSTATE UNITED, NEWSPAPERS, INC. National Advartitina Rtvrtuntativat 645 Fifth Avenue, New York City Murray Hill 2 $452 Tha Plttaburgh Courlar doca not guarantee altbar tha uaa or return of unsolicited manuacripta and photograph SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1942 COMMON SENSE IN THE DRAFT Army authorities have proposed to Congress that all men over forty five years of age who are in the Army be discharged upon their request, and it is probable that such a law will be passed within the near future. It certainly should be passed, and the age limit should be lowered to thirty five or, at most, forty years of age. Most men of thirty five are married and have dependents. Moreover, a largo percentage of them have skills and experience more valuable in vital civilian production than in the armed As a rule young men are more physically fit to withstand the hardships and excessive strain of modern war, they are less set their ways and thus more amenable to military discipline, and they usually have less dependents.

In another connection, too, it is better that the older men be deferred from military service. These men frequently have families in which there are sons and daughters in their 'teens who, because of disruption of family life caused by drafting of fathers, are all too often apt to' become delinquents. There has been a marked rise in, juvenile delinquency in the past two vears, and it is well known, that most delinquents come from broken homes. We have a war to fight but we must also look to the years after the war and the generation which must take over after this one is gone. The discipline and training of stable home life are needed to give that generation moral character for the heavy tasks of post war reconstruction.

It is for this reason that thoughtful people are urging the withdrawal of older men'from the army and warning against the drafting indiscriminately of women, many of whom would be or are mothers. On the other hand, drafting of the eighteen and nineteen year olds is a sound policy which has obtained in all armies recruited by selective service. While it interferes with the educate of a small minority, it gives the majority 'of them valuable training, discipline and experience which most of them could not obtain at home, and which will be valuable to society after the war. All in all, the new draft policy seems to be eminently sensible. IN DEFENSE OF CHURCHILL At the recent Lord Mayor's dinner in London, Prime Minister.

Winston Churchill of Great Britain reassured his Tory hearers that "I have not become the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Km piro." The statement meant that the British Government has no intention to give, up any of IU colonial territory, despite the clamor of liberals' on both sides of the Atlantic that the provisions of the Atlantic Charter be applied to India and other lands and peoples subject to the Raj. There 'has been much loud criticism of Mr. Churchill for this forthright statement as sabotaging the war aims of the United Nations and furnishing ammunition for Axis propagandists. Winston Churchill must, however, be given credit for being frank and honest. Always noted for forthright statement and vigorous defense of the interests of those who own and profit from the Empire, Mr.

Church Ill has said time and again that "India is the brightest Jewel In the British crown" and that one out of five Britishers live off the colonial peoples. Neither Mr. Churchill nor those for whom he speaks have any intention of winning an empty victory by giving up their profits and high standard of living by any such self sacrifice as the liberals In Britain and the. United States advocate. Instead of censuring Mr.

Churchill and his class, we should commend them for their self interested defense of their income and capital, and wish that other leaders would be as frank in stating their war alms. Each country and group has a primary duty of protecting their self interest first and foremost and not being led astray by fancy mouth filling rhetoric and Utopian programs to save all humanity. Now that we have been told bluntly that the British Government has no intention of freeing its colonies, we will all have a clearer understanding of war aims and a more realistic picture of the post war world. For this service, Mr. Churchill is more to be commended than condemned.

GIFTS FOR INTERRACIAL UNDERSTANDING As Christmas approaches once more, Negro individuals clubs, secret societies, fraternities, sorprities and labor groups should avail themselves of the opportunity to make gifts for interracial understanding. In each community there are white private, public and school libraries patronized by billions of people who have never seen a Negro newspaper and do not even know that such publications exist. Here is an opportunity to reach these millions and ilr'' mmmm editorial Any man who is good enough to offer his life in defense of his counfry is entitled to a square deal from that country. No man should ask for more. Ho man should receive less' (KLdPnundDIUS SHEW WOMHHLIID PESSIMISTS foresee a long period of privation.

FAMINE and disease when this war is over and the battling armies have stacked their arms. They tell us that most of the habitations of men will be destroyed and that we shall have taken a long step back to BARBARISM. LEARNING, they say, will suffer and free institutions such as we have known will disappear for centuries. World ORDER and that internationalism so characteristic of the Nineteenth Century will never be seen again, so they tell us. It is a frightening picture they paint of the world of tomorrow when the clouds of war have blown away and humanity has returned, to SANITY.

They are probably HONEST in their beliefs, these pessimists. It is admittedly DIFFICULT to believe that the world will ever be again as we have known it, when one considers the carnage and destruction ruining so much of what man holds dear. And yet there is actually as much reason for OPTIMISM as thev is for pessimism. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that the world after the present war will enjov the greatest period of PROSPERITY, peace and happiness that it has ever known. For one thing, out of this struggle will come only three or four great sovereignties, States which are truly INDEPENDENT.

No 'country can be trulv independent todav unless it possess nf 'the multiple RESOURCES necessary for the waging" nf mechanized warfare. The ONLY countries today that can conduct mechanized warfare are the United States. Great Britain, Russia. Germany and Japan. The defeat of Germany and Japan will leave only three great economically self sufficient States, and the acquaint them with Negro progress, activities and problems by presenting them with free subscriptions to The Pittsburgh Courier and other publications of the kind.

It is an inexpensive way to contribute to the interracial education of white people weekly throughout the year, and doubtless this addition to the various white library reading rooms would be welcomed. The more understanding there is among white people, the greater will be their tolerance and the more frequent their championship of our fight for freedom and equality. Three dollars is little enough to pay for so much, and this small investment will draw large dividends beneficial to all of us. BAHAMA LABORERS The Government is now studying plans to import five or six thousand swarthy skinned laborers from the Bahama Islands to meet a serious shortage of manpower which threatens Florida's huge winter vegetable crop. When the detailed plan has been placed before the War Manpower Commission, thei Ho rid a State department and the Immigration authorities, it Is hoped that the customs and practice of the white people of Florida in dealing with people of the colored races will be taken into consideration.

The depressed Bahamas are governed by the Duke of Windsor and he In dealing with his Majesty's subjects should take caution that these proposed laborers will not become indentured slaves and be treated as conscripts. There are enough peons in the Southern states now ir ii rest of the countries while politically independent will be economically DEPENDENT, mere satellites. The fact that only States with GREAT industrial organization will be able to wage war, and that the victors in this war will monopolize war production, means that PEACE may last a thousand years. With peace will be an end to INSECURITY and hunger, because all States will be Planned Economies, and it has alreadv been demonstrated that unemployment can be ELIMINATED in planned economies, whether called Communism, Naziism, Fascism or New Deal. The desire and necessity of putting hundreds of millions back to work and the need for tens of millions of NEW HOMES and factories, new roads, new railroads and equipment, countless consumer items, ships and passenger planes, will make the entire world hum with industry.

In the United States alone it is estimated that a MILLION new homes will have to be built EVERY YEAR for the next ten years and that ALL the rolling stock of all the country's railroads will have to be replaced after the war to prevent a crack up in our transportation system. This means that the world will be LITERALLY NEW, in that people will have new homes, new cars, new refrigerators, new radios with television attachment, new clothes; new transportation facilities, new colleges and schools, new ways of amusing themselves. In such a world of SECURITY, leisure and plenty, MUSIC, painting, literature, sculpture, architecture and the sciences will FLOURISH. It will be a society without internal strife such as characterized the ACQUISITIVE AGE that carried us into this war. It will be a world such as men have written and DREAMED of but never really believed they would SEE.

It WILL be because humanity now has the hope and determination to MAKE it come true. LAUDED FOR BUILDING CROSS IN NEW GUINEA SOMEWHERE IK NEW GUINEA. Dc (AXP) Col. Ir lng L. Bnnttt, chief of cbaplalna of the Southweat Tarlflc area, forwarded thla week a letter of commendation to Flrat.

IJeut. T. R. Frleraon. no of tho two Negro chaplalna at thla baae, tor tho aplendld work that Technical Fifth Claia Loula Pedro Tureaud, New Orleana youth, did In building a portable croa.

Tureaud aoared to new helghta In hfa popularity aa a carpenter and cabinetmaker with thla contribution to tho rellgioua life of hla organlzaUon. Tho croa la a materplece of artlaUe work. It'a SO lnchea tall. 16V4 Inchea arroaa, with a haae It lnchea aquaro with threo layers. one Inch margin on each baa.

and while it Is to be hoped that the shortage of man wwer can be met In some fashion, it will neither promote lappLnesA nor domestio tranquility by bringing more dark people to our shores to be treated as half men and forced to live in a half world. There will be more Intermingling and interlocking of labor issues with South America and the Caribbean Islands as time moves on. The plan for the treatment of dark skinned people Involved should Include a determination to protect them from the insults and indignitim that are heaped upon our citizens of similar color who now abide In Florida and South of the Mason Dixon line. The problem of labor and the acute shortage of manpower In tho present crisis can be met by this Government with firm decision. Those in authority must put more premium upon the shortages than upon the tender feelings of the Southern farm blocs.

Illustrated By HOLLOWAY Auwfl AIM iffl If YES Ve All Talk By II BOULWARE MENARD. 111. For aoma tlmi I hava enjoyed your V's We Alt Tulk." aa published In Tha nttaburgh Courier. A a number of difficult queationa In English that 1 "5 them to you, with a aelf addremed envelope. In order tht I n.v.

i celva a personal reply. QUESTIONS 1. la tha "Imperfect tenaa" aver uaed In modern Onrtm Fnoliah ma Ha Inrliirfa a "nratarlta" tna 1 tha correct iie? 3. In tha aentenre. "John'a mother calling him." la l.r.

n. 'J an adjectival phrasa uted aa a noun? 4. la It proper to say alow" or "Go I graduated from Johnnon C. Fmlth unlveraity BiMi Whlla In achool there, I atudled English and Pedagogy urvW famous Prof. C.

Drayton. Tha renownad Dr York. Jon tutor in clastic English. (Signed) A Dear Reader: I. too, am a Smithsonian.

It la with great pleasure thit I pr i First Question: In modern English tha "Imperfect ire ferred to aa tha "paat" tense. Tha "imperfect tens" la the pioir form of tha past tens. For example: "I waa losing." In th thla would be: "I lost." Second Question: Tha past tense la often termed "pretem i comes from tha Latin meaning "gona by." Soma grai.imauana eiy It la a better name for tha past tense, becausa both tha perfect r. pluperfect tensea refer to past time. Third Question: "John'a mother" la not an adjectival phias.

It would ba mora lightly called a noun phrasa. Hera "John is uH "mnthir" It would ba better to v. Th? a II Hujrin. mother of John waa calling him." Fourth Question: "Go alow" la an adverb of commrl la brief commands, "sharp, alow, quick." ara correct. Thesa ara called "flat adverbs." Henca "Go alowly" or "Go alow" la correct.

STAMMERING BOOKLET Writ a ma concerning my booklet, "HOW TO CORRECT STAM MERING AND STUTTERING." READERS: fiend your queaUona to Marcus H. Boulware, the St' Teachera' college, Montgomery. Alabama. For a personal reply, st" a stamped, aelf ddresed envelope. (CODTDIffilllEM VEHUSE (Note: MR3.

REDD la a natlva of Padueah, Ky, and Eddyvilla, Ky, whara aha la a public achool teacherv Ed TRIBUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS Troopa of Brown Gold, our own boya, Brava and eager Join tha inarch. Strength and courage each employs: To keep flaming freedom's; torch. Troopa of brown boya. an our own. In the thickest of the fray.

Shall go down, urnung. unknown. Yet they atop not on their way. Why to war? They do not make It. Still they offer up their aU On the aacrlflclal summit That thla cation might rot fall.

Marching Brown Troop; Hall to thee! Keep In thla Immense parade; Keep America strong and free, Glorioua, mighty cavalcade! CHRISTINE HOLLAND R' 1.