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IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK

ee events have been casting shadows since V. J.

and V..E. Day to some people, especially President Truman
and a ie congressional leaders, these ~shadows~ are without
substance.

However, ~to analytical economic and political observers,
such is not even the casé. These shadows are living, and are
definitely assuming ~Form and Voice.~~

_THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

NOON. JUNE 24-1

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EDITORIAL PAG

At present 13 countries are undér the shadows and protection of the ~~Sickle,~ They are Finland, Esthonia, Lativa,
Lithuania, Poland Chechoslovakia and zones in Austria and

Germany. e

-As one newspaper put it: ~The hardest thing to get into
most American heads as that attempting to defend democracy
in Europe, we are up against a social war, directed by tough
and tested men in Moscow, who know exactly what they
~want to achieve, and apparently how to acrieve it. The: article
continues: ~~We may lose more of our shirts if we don~t wake
up, and fast, to the nature and extent of the committments
that have been made in the name of the United States. Th~s
is what our columnist Mel Banner meant two weeks ago in the

Banner Line.

BETWEEN THE LINES

By Dean Gordon B. Hancock For ANP

DEGREES: SUBSTITUTE OR SUPPLEMENT? >

The assembly line production of automobiles is not more
spectacular than the mass conferring of degrees. Thousands
and thousands of degrees will be awarded to the youth of our
land these commencement days. Degree worship is easily one

of the major idolatries of the 20th century. If there is in ~this
age a golden calf, that calf is the degree.

It is not difficult to point. out that many with degrees are
ignorant, and that many without them are educated. But this
is the actual fact of the matter. It was this fact that moved
the eminent Président Wriston of Brown university to discourse recently on the limitations of degrees and the degreed.
This great educator made what amounted to a scathing indictment against the degree worship that afflicts our land.

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Celebration Plans

Washington, D. C. -~~ More
than 60 Sepia leaders from
many parts of the country met
Jast Saturday at Carver Hall,
211 Elm Street N. W., to discuss plans.for American participation~ in celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of
the founding of Liberia. The
Ohio Negro. Chamber of Commerce released this week.

The West African Negro re-.

He named an imposing array _, of great men who have
-vrought mightily without degrees. ~Among those named were
Henry Ford, Carnegie, Stalin, Hitler, Chrysler, who were conspicuous examples of what undegreed men could do in a.
world infatuated with degrees. No intelligent man _ could
reasonably minimize the worth of degrees, for whereas such
men as named above wrought~mightily without degrees there
is another imposing array that have wrought wonders with
degrees.

The point is not in disparaging degtees and the holders
thereof but to make it clear that degrees are not substitutes
for character but a supplement thereto. As long as degrees are
thus placed in the proper perspective they are not par
_ ticularly disadvantageous; but when degrees are made a sub-'
stitute for the homely virtues they become downright deterrents to social progress.

Through long years of study and experience this writer
has come to the conclusion that what a person takes to college and universities is far more important than anything
found there. Colleges do little to change the character, and
character is the important thing. Or to put it another way,
education may add quantity to life but does not change the
quality thereof. The shape of the personality is decided in the
home long before school days and certainly before college
days and the concomitant degrees. Education may. give content to the selfish man or woman but it does not change: such
person from selfishness to selflessness.

Or as Stuart Chase says, the power of mankind) has been

increased 40 times within recent year~this was before the
day of atomic fision~and this very multiplication of human
powers without changing human hearts to wisely use such
power becomes one of the great threats not only to the peace
~ of the world but to the survival of mankind upon the earth.
-Education, like science, adds possibly to our powers but it
_;does not necessarily guarantee that those powers will be used
in the public interstate.

To put it more succinctly, whether or not education is

an advantage or a disadvantage depends wholly upon who
gets the education. If a worthy person is blessed with an edu
cation he thereby blesses the ~world; but if a selfish person
secures an education he becomes a downright menace to the
community where his lot may be cast. Who is educated is far
more important than the extent of his education.

Or to put it anotrer way, the persons who have the degrees is far more important than his degrees. The home is still
the most potent factor in the determination of human destiny.
It is more than Passing s strange that our age of degrees coincides with our most devastating wars; that the nation that had

the best educational equipment was the first to hurl the atom- ic bomb. The extent to,which we realize that education is nat

~a substitute for character but a supplement thereto is the extent to which we can profit through education. The extent to
which we think it is a substitute for character and moral stam;
ina is the extent to which it becomes a moral calamity..:

The education of a rascal only multiplies his rascalities;
but education does not change rascals into high-toned Christ
ian gentlemen. This is the pathetic aspects of degrees and for~mal education; Herein lies the greatest danger to mankind's
survival and happiness;-Education and degrees are not sub
public has its centennial July
26. The conference, composed of
representatives of a newly
formed national committee.
Representative William L. Dawson of Illinois, pointed out that
the West African republic was
colonized through American efforts a century ago.

The group commissioned Maj.
R. R. Wright, 95 year old Philadelphia banker, as: its. special
envoy to~ the centennial -celebration in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. It also commissioned specia! musical and poetical
contributions to the celebration

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Mrs, Ethel Fowler
Attends Urbana,
Q. Graduation

COLUMBUS. O. ~ APNS ~

Mrs. Ethel M. Fowler, of 148
Cleveland Avenue, visited in
Urbana, Ohio last week end,
the guest of Mrs. Cleo Mosley
While there she attented the
High School Commencement
exercises which were held in
the Gloria theatre of Miss Irma
Jean Eloyce Guy, a -neice of
Mrs. Mosley. Kenneth Irving
Brown, president of Dennison
University, delivered the ad
dress. He used for his subject |

~Our World.~ Miss Guy received numerous gifts, she graduated with high honors.

Flaxseed: Products.
One~bushel of flaxseed will yield
about 2% gallons of_linseed oi] and
about 36 nounds of linseed oi] meal

by Duke Ellington, composér
and band leader; Dr. James E.
Dorsev, composer, and Melvin
B. Tolson, author and poet.

Clean Galoshes
Don~t throw away a good pair otf
Baloshes just because the inside is

The lining can be cleaned as easily
as the outside. Simplysturn the
overshoes inside out. Put them in
a tub of warm, soapy water to soak
a few minutes. Then with a small
fairly soft brush, scrub over the
entire lining. For very soiled galoshes, you. may need. to repeat the
operation. ~

Red Spiders

Red spiders develop and multiply
much more rapidly in warm, dry
weather than they do in a cool, moist
period, and generally they do not
cause very much damage to strawberry plants in cool weather. These
pests on strawberries may be controlled by dusting the plants with

ably in warm weather because the
kill is greater,

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Checks Root Knot
The material known as ~D-D~
has shown much promise in controlling root knot, In the garden it may
be applied by punching holes (with
a broomstick or similar implement)
six inches deep in the soil one foot
apart, in rows one foot apart, and

rial into. each hole. It cannot be
used in soil where crops are already
growing and it is necessary to wait
two or three weeks after applying
before planting crops. D-D is poisonous and care is important in
using it.,

Amass Fands
The American people amassed
150 billion dollars in the last six
years in cash, bank deposits and

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government bonds.

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ordinary dusting sulphur, prefer- |

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Dyeing Material

Since the dyed article always
looks darker when wet, it is recommended that a small piece of the
material be cut from the seam,
then dyed and ironed dry on the
wrong side. If this test shows a
need for greater depth of color,
simply add more dye to the solution.

Bristle Brushes
New nylon bristle brushes are
priceless for keeping things clean
in the kitchen. The. vegetable
brushes are- good for cleaning
vegetables in a jiffy. Long stemmed
brushes are ex~ellent for hard-to
~clean things such as your glass cof
fee-maker.

Rifsing Cabbage
Two essentials in growing cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli are
an early start and uninterrupted

rapid growth because of being.

pushed with applications of nitrogen
through side-dressings: of poultry
droppings or of nitrate. Plants that
are not well on the way to maturity
when warm weather comes rarely
succeed well; this is true even of
cabbage, but much more so of the
others. The best setting month is
March.

Eye Development

The eyes are among the first
organs of the body to start development in the human embryo, according to ~the Better Vision Institute.
At a very early stage the two
retinas are seen as a pair of dimples on that area which is destined
to. become the forebrain.

Hidden Disease
_A man or woman may remain in

almost perfect physical health for. Many years after contracting lepro
sy. Many victims of leprosy could
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Transit Fuel Charges
The cost of the electricity, gasoline; oil, coal and lubricants used
by the nation~s trackless trolley
coaches, street cars and buses
amounts to nearly $300,000 a day,

Standing Arduous

Standing takes 14 per cent more
energy than sitting, according to the
department of agriculture. For this
reason specialists recommend that
homemakers sit to do all lengthy
jobs located in one place. That
would include such tasks as ironing,
polishing silver, peeling potatoes
and preparing other vegetables and
fruits. It would also apply to handmixing bread, cake or cookies and
packing lunches.

Cooking Hint

The secret of success in cooking
eggs is low or moderate, even heat.
Eggs cooked at low heat are tender
when done.:. At high heat they be:
come tough Jeathery. When
cooking eggs in water, have the water simmering but not boiling. en
drying eggs, keep the heat low and
even by using a thick skillet and
turning ~the heat low.

Attains Rare Distinction

U. S. marine.Dan Daly had the
rare distinction of twice winning the
congressional medal of honor, the
nation~s highest award. He received the first award for services
in China in 1900 and 15 years later
won the medal again for action
against Haitian bandits. The famed |
leatherneck died in 1937.

Kitchen Accidents

Studies of home accidents indicate that about 6,000 men, women
and children die each year from
accidents occurring in the kitchen.
Many times that number are more
or less seriously injured, though not
fatally.

Soybean Patent
English research workers hold a4
U.S. patent on a process to make

_tution within itself. Relatively small

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from soybean, wheat, or rye flour
a product which can be used as a
substitute for whipped cream. The
flour is emulsified with vegetable or
animal oils and may, be colored and
flavored.

~Asks Welcome for DPs

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A. Philip Randolph,

A. Philip Randolph, President of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, has issued a timely reminder: ~Brotherhood is the backbone of labor unions and the
cornerstone of American democ- |
racy. Yet today, when brotherhood
could rescue close to a million

1 people, we turn a cold shoulder,

600,000 Christians and 250,000 Jews
face a hopeless future in the displaced persons camps of Europe.
Let's put brotherhood to work and
welcome oar fair share of these
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presented to President Theodore

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aeciay Operates Largest
Lost and Found Agency

More than 8 million dollars in
personal funds which had either
been lost by army personnel or
found among the effects of deceased
soldiers has been returned to the
proper owners since December,
1942, by the army effects bureau at
Kansas City, Mo., according to the
war department.

This sum, dispatched along with
personal effects valued at thousands
of dollars, was part-of the operations of perhaps the largest lost and
found agency of its kind in the
world.

In assisting in locating owners,
photographic studios, watch companies, high schools and many business firms have furnished leads
which eventually brought property
back to the hands of those who had:
lost it.

Because of the irae amount of
funds received, the bureau has
practically become a banking insti
amounts were received initially. Receipts gradually continued, however, and as of March 31, 1947, the
bureau had received funds totalling
$8,393,072.37 and had made _ disbursements of $8,352,126.19.
Whether it~s money, rings or pets,
the army effects bureau stands
ready to put its elaborate plans for
tracking~ down belongings into~ action. r)
The bureau started its work in
May, 1942. It~is expected that most
cases covering the effects of overseas casualties will be completed
in 1947. Even when this work is finished, however, it still will serve
those now in the army and former
soldiers still in search of misplaced
items. It will continue to operate as
the army~s largest lost and found
department.

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~Sad Sack~ Still Exists~
Even in the Fowl World

- There seems to be a ~~Sad Sack~~
in every form of community, including the animal world.

At the Chicago Museum of Science
and Industry, an exhibit devoted
to the ~~~Sad Sack Chicken~~ demonstrates the social order that. chickens establish among themselves.

Known as the ~~Peck Order~~~a
term generally used to designate
such animal social orders~the exhibit consists of two colonies of five
one-year-old hens and roosters. Each
chicken is banded with a different
color. for identification and the*public is=permitted to determine ~the
social caste or ~~~peck order~ -by
placing colored rings corresponding
to the leg bands.on numbered.posts
and then check their observations ~
against those of the museum,

In each colony,. one chicken will
become the ~~boss,~~ demonstrating
his superiority by pecking the other
members.
peck every other member but No.
1. and so on down the descending.
social scale. The poor Sad Sack:
chicken who becofnes No. 5 in the:
~neck order~? cat do nothing ex-:
cept develop a frustration complex:

at feeding time.

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Lighthouse Beacon

A ~small radar beacon for light-'
houses, designed to supplement and
~in time perhaps to:replace the conventional lighthouse light, has been
perfected. Called -an ~electronic,
beacon,~~ the unit was built for the
coast guard and emits signals invisible to the human eye that are
easily picked~ up by radar-equipped
ships, regardless off weather conditions. The beacon sends out signals,
which appear as a bright ray on a.
ship~s.radar screen,~ showing the
exact direction of the beacon in the
same -way that the lighthouse is
located by its, beam of light. The.
eXperimental unit consists of two
parts, the transmitter, which is said
to beam radar waves in all direc-;
tions at a speed of 186,000 miles a
second, and a vertical dipole antenna, which resembles a police
nightstick in appearance. It is pow-:
ered by one tube~ and operates in
the 3,200-megacycle mange.. Natare~s mineées ae
Insects, disease, storm damage
and similar happenings have
caused far greater loss to American
~forests than removal of trees by |

lumbering. Studies indicate that in |.

the 300-odd years since 1630, disease, insects:.and storm damage
took a total of 5,426 billion board
feet of growing trees. In addition, |
1,698 billion feet were lost in forest
fires. In the same 300-year period,
the lumber cut is estimated at 3,259
billion feet. Nature~s own ravages

man~s use of the trees for construction material. Even clearing woodlands for farms and cities or for
fue] did not make as heavy inroads
as natural causes,

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Escorted Lions
One of the most unusual and difficult assignments ever given the
marines was to transport several
lions from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to

Roosevelt as a gift from Emperor
Menelik.

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By George F: McCray for ANP
THE TAFT-HARTLEY BILL SHOULD BE VETOED

groes and the continued improvement in race relations should
advise Mr. Truman to veto the Taft-Hartley ~labor management relations~ bill, Though the bill was passed last week by t
an overwhelming vote of both houses of congress, the AFL
and the CIO.are marshalling every ounce of politica] influence
in a desperate effort to convince Mr. Truman the bil] should..
be vetoed. bee seem to be ~_ some headway.

a mess of things. It would create more problems.
but weaken it; it would not strengthen demdctacy~ in ~unions:
but pretty much destroy it. For if democracy is to mean any-"

thing in unions, it must be exercised on the local union levels,

but the legal red tape in wrich the Taft-Hartley. bill wear
ensnare local unions, would cause the national. offices, to. de-;

stroy even the little democracy which the locals have left. -
Local union officials would not be able to ~ with: author:
ity on even the simplies things.

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Persons interested i in race relations wit the proigteis of
Negro workers have even stronger réasons to~ be | alarmed - -
over the provisions concerning the closed shop. The bill does~
not out-law the closed shop but would greatly extend. its 7 3
ious, poisonous effects. The closed shop now becomes a. mat,

whelming majority of. workers to vote for it in accord with

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gro workers will come from. the way thie is done.

The union leader wortr~ his ~salt~ can ~easily ~perstiade~
workers, whether white or Négro, to do whatever he wants

done. The method is simple: got a-slant or line that. appeals.

~colorful,
knows as well asthe averagé union leader, that cooling off,
periods, delaying tactics, and all the devices for getting the

ful campaigning, or missionary work,

_ti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and national prejudices,~
If unions now have to persuade workers to vote ~for the,,,

many, of them will argue as indeed. they have argued. that

closed shop, they will argue the benefits to bé deri
called undesirable minorities out of a particular trade~~ OF? a

Rheumatic Fever f

Most of the heart disease in people under the age of 21.is caused.by
rheumatic fever. It has-been esti_mated. that ~there are about half a
million cases of rheumatic heart disease in the United States. The.
disease seems to be caused by certain streptococcus germs and other
factors. From time to time ~most
of us suffer from ~~streptococcus
sore throat.~ A~few people, especially children, seem to have an

~Your ve probably heard some day
dgeamér sit around and forecast
that someday.all a farmer will have
to do is rest in his easy chair, push
-oné button to milk the cows, another button to. feed. the.. chickens
and ahother to chop ~thie~ wocd, AVell,
all that is niée to: thigk about, anyway; but of. cotirse. think: ~modern gc phi will eF" 6 ~

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farming going on in the~:United

States, if you ~can. calf &n electric
switch a push-button. The department of agriculture reports that
~more than half; the farms of the
country~about 53 per cent~now
haye electricity to help do the
chores. Back i~~-1985) only<10:-per
cent of the natitn~s ferms: Hed elees,
tricity. Incidentally, 1935 was the
year. the rural electrification program began.

In~a survey, it was found that the
first pitce of ippdratus that a
farmer. buys wher he gets electric} ~radio,: Next in popularity

| machines, electric Aris,~ * y@trigerators, water
pumps, cream se arators, chicken
~ brooders arid thks OF ie ene

These. sensitive people suffer from
rheumatic fever, which is an inflammation of the lining membranes of
the heart and of the joints. In young
children it is the heart that is dam
In older children and

and swollen, The disease has a
tendency to affect many joints, Thus
the trouble seems to flit from joint
to joint. Eatly symptoms often
are overl6oked because the pains
are not severe.

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Near-Sightedness Increszses

Near-sightedness appears to be
increasing sharply among Americans, according to Better Vision institute. Some ophthalmic practitioners say that their cases of myopia
have increased as* much as onethird during the past decade. Others
in the ophthalmic professions assert

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~officials ~say that. mcr

that while near-sightedness may be eee pened go pt ae
| growing in prevalence, much of the it~s destined: t@ sp a and

apparent increase results from the | ~arther in the uext few years. In

fact: that people are taking better erable condi
fact, if completel
tions existed "et 4 d be
for American farms to be

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éare of their eyés. Visual tasks requiring good distance vision have
| expanded: greatly during the past
quarter of a century. Chief of these
new. visual tasks relate to motion
pictures and automobiles, A person
with un ~myopia is uncomfortable in a motion picture theatre

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the law. The danger to race relations and.to: progress of Ne-\;

Toll of 20,000 Every "Year
Each year almost 20,000 boys and
girls under 20 years

and a very poor driver in an auto- mobile. The motion. picture and the
jteis asserted, have

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~stimulated
persons to adjust their eyes to the
expanded needs of modern living.

family
make plea rea
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~Principal @auses of
dents in the: bony
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tric shock, suffocatic, drowning
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Variety in Bananas. Besides being eaten raw, bananas
may be boiled, fried or baked and
served. as a. vegetablé or as a substitute for potatoes and other starch.
foods. Often they are boiled and
served along with beans, rice and
tortilias. When peeled, sliced, fried
in lard and salted, they resemble
~French fried potatoes, but they
retain. their banana flavor, Dried
green bananas or plaintains sometimes are ground into flour. The
preparation of bafana bread ig not
recommended without the addition of
wheat flour,.but powdered bananas
ean be used in making gruel, soups

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cry out for correction but the Taft-Hartley biil merely makes.~
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~to or arouses the workers, time it properly, and. give it rapid, vs!
and energetic. promotion. The average employers~:

~worker's consent can easily be sidestepped by a litttle care-1~5~ -

Union leaders, the rank and file fellows ~who must gem!
~things done to hold their jobs, are not above appealing to an- 15

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