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Phone 35-4917 James Hawes, Jr., 879 S. 4lh Phone 39-2980 Gayther Myers, 675 Lipford Phone 48-O627 Pullman Porters' Jubilee The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters has recently celebrated its Silver Jubilee in New York City. In that observance the organization presented for recognition a great an illustrious chapter of achievement to the labor movement in this nation. The story of the growth, development and handicaps of the Brotherhood from a mere dream entertained 25 years ago by six lone men, without friends and without organization, money or influence of any kind, to a great and powerful branch of the American Federation of Labor is a story worth repeating on many platforms and from many pulpits. School children, especially our Negro children, should be required to study and understand something of the history of the 3rotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Today it has 18,000 members consisting of a half dozen different racial nationalities. Twenty-five years ago a porter's pay was a scant $67.50 per month; today he is guaranteed a minimum monthly wage of $235. Twenty-five years ago, a pullman porter was accorded the worst sort of treatment by the travelling public. He could loese his job at the slightest suggestion of discourtesy of negligence reported by a passenger. In many sections of the South the porters were not permitted to leave their cars and go into the towns, where they were frequently required to supervise what porters called "deadhead" cars. Truly the pullman porter has come a long ways in its 25-year history. And what is more, he has achieved with goal without strikes, without violence or political pressure. But beyond even this consideration, the Brotherhood's history is one of great economic and spiritual maturity. There we had men who, by the guiding genius and leadership of A. Phillips Randolph, united for the common welfare. It is a history of wm dedicated to the welfare of their own brethren who were willing to forego personal gain and serve their fellow unionists and the entire American public. Says Russia Must Abandon Its Policy Of Aggression American U. N. Delegate John Foster Dulles declared yesterday that Russia must abandon its policy of, aggression before the United States will drop its "get tough" policy of' world rearmament. The Republican leader of the U. S. team at U. N. shot back his answer to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky by asserting in a news conference that the American "get tough" policy is in reality a "get strong" policy designed to create confidence and security around the globe. Vishinsky yesterday challenged the U S. in the political committee to drop its "get tough with Russia" policy and said agreement could be reached on the basis of a return to war-time policies of cooperaton between Russia and the West. In rejecting Vishinsky's repeated demands for big power negotiations in place of giving the U. N. assembly the authority to call on all members for troops to- smash aggression, Dulles stated that it is time for Russia to change its policy if it wants to see a change in U. S. policy. He declared that Russia can show its change through "deeds" and not through demands for the renewal of negotiations which in the past four years ave served—as Dulles put it-as a screen behind which aggression has flourished. Muriel Rahn, Lawrence Tibbett In Backstage Chat At Metropolitan _ Opera House, New York Muriel Rahn and Lawrence Tibbett at a recent benefit performance backstage at tike Metropoliten Opera House. After a sensational personal success as the star of the Langston Hughes—Jan Meyerowitz music drama "The Barrier." Which opened for a pre -Broadway tryout at the Gayety Theatre in Washington, D. O., last week to a non-segregated audience. Murial Rahn, noted concert and opera star, returned to New York for further revisions and rehearsals of the show in an ticipation of the opening on Bradwav scheduled for October 30. Miss Rahn whom nil Washington critics praised unanimously for her heartbreaking performance in the controversial music—drama having to do with misegenation in the South, had as her co-star, Lawrence Tibbett, the great American baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Critic Jay Carmody of the Washington Evening Star. Mid, "Miss Rahn is a blessing to any stage." "HERE'S your chance to grab some money then" said Randolph. "Give me an opportunity to contact my company and get authorization to offer the customery twenty pet cent. That'll amount to thirty-six thousand. Pay what you nave to tor return of the bracelet. I don't care now much. The rest of the thirty-six grand goes into your pocket os that fair enough?" "What do you want from me. if I agree?" "Your promise not to turn me in. At least not right away. You're the only one who Knows this norrible net ot circumstances I got mixed up in. It you have me arrested now, I'll enever be able to fix up a reward deal ... not from behind bars while I'm accused of murder." The telephone rang. Shayne stalked to it and lifted the receiver, said, "Mike Shayne." A voice said, 'This is last call for bids on a ruby bracelet." Shayne tugged at his earlobe. He glanced aside at Earl Randolph, grimaced and said, "Twenty grand." A chuckle came over the wire. "Get wise, Shamus. We know twenty per cent is regular." "There's got to be something in it for me." "Why not? Say six grand to you. That's good pocket money." The voice became harsher "Thirty grand. In cash on the line. Today." "Wait a minute. I'll check and see." "If you can trace this call?" the voice broke in sarcastically. "Don't waste your time. I'll call back in ready then." There was a click at the other end of the wire. Shayne hung up and told Randolph flatly, "That was it We can deal for thirty thousand." "That leaves six for you." Randolph's voice was trembling. "If you leave me free to make the arrangements. That's not much, I know, but I'll add ten grand of my own. Give me a break, Mike. l swear I'm not guilty, but 1 can't afford such a charge against me. Even if 1 do beat the rap, my reputation will be shot." Shayne crossed the room and poured himself a small drink. He sipped it reflectively, then went into the bedroom, leaving the door open. Lucy Hamilton was asleep again, and liss Naylor was playing solitaire with the cards spread out on the empty Side of the bed. Shayne stood looking down at the injured girl with a queer expression on his gaunt features. A look of tortured indecision. Miss Naylor glanced up at him and Mid quietly: "Doctor says she is out of danger. I imagine she can be moved to a hospital tonight." "Why cant she stay here?" Miss Naylor slapped a red queen on a black king. "1 thought it would be a lot of bother to you." Shayne said, "She isn't any bother tome." He went bark into the living room and asked Earl Randolph gruffly. "How long will it take you to get authorization and possession of the cash?" "A few hours," Randolph told him eagerly. "Say two o'clock this afternoon." "I'll need some cash to pay my secretary's doctor and nurse- bills. Get out of here and be back at two o'clock sharp with the thirty grand in old twenties. I'll take my sixteen grand in thousands, if you don't mind." Randolph bounded to his feet. "Shayne, you'll never know how 1 feel about this." 'Don't think you're buying immunity with ten thousand dollars,' Shayne said savagely, "after halfkilling my secretary. All bets are off if she has a relapse." At one-thirty that afternoon, Shayne and Timothy Rourke were in Rourke's office in the News Tower For the last halt hour they had been going over the telegraphic and telephoned reports from three operatives of the Worldwide Defective Agency in New York, Ohio and Colorado. Shayne shoved the mass of data aside and scowled angrily across the desk at the reporter. "It all adds up to nothing," he growled. "Not a lead worth a nickel on any of the three. 1 can't get over King and Kendrick completely vanishing from sight almost immediately after collecting their insurance money. No trace of their bodies, even. And it doesn't appear that anyone made any effort to trace them." "That's not too extraordinary" Rourke pointed out. "Take James T. King. He broke all his home ties with friends and relatives after inheriting that unexpected wad of dough. He simply shook the dust of Ohio off his teet and started out to have himself a time. Ht and his wife went high-hat and deliberately cut themselves off from their old life. They could be right here in Miami today and we wouldn't know it." "All right for Mr. and Mrs. King," Shayne agreed. "Roland Kendrick wasn't a poor man suddenly made rich. All these reports from New York indicate that he had plenty of jack and was used to spending it. Men like that don t deliberately cut themselves off from everything just because they collect on an insurance policy. Neither one or them made any profit on the ruby deals." "There are some explanatory angles in the Kendrick case, too," Rourke insisted. "Don't forget Mrs. Kendrick was murdered in the hold-up. And all those people contacted in New York and WestChester County appear to nave been more casual acquaintances than real friends. None of them knew the Kendricks more than two years. If we could And out where they came from, what their past history was, I imagine we could put our bands on Kendrick without any difficulty." "If," Shayne echoed morosely. "They seem is have popped up suddenly as tnough they'd both crawled, fall-grown, from under a flat rock." "When people have as much money to spend as they did, no, sac bothers much about their ante cedents," Rourke observed sagely "Like the Dustina." "I Was thinking about those re parts from Denver," Shayne said "If were to disappear today, "It As were to disappear today, we'd be up the same tree we an in trying lo trace Kendrick. None of their friends in Denver seem to know much about their past, either. Why? It's one more odd coincidence that doesn't hook up." "Not so odd about a mining operator like Dustin," Rourke soothed him. "They move around a lot. Foreign countries and all that." Shayne shuffled the papers on Rourke's desk and glared at them. "It's almost as if both Kendrick and Dustin were Intentionally hiding then- pasts. That could be more than mere coincidence." "Still, I don't see what it gets us. Mark Dustin hasn't disappeared yet, and King .. who did disappear... certainly led a blameless life until his lucky break in inheriting money." "If we can trace the California lawyer who handled the estate of his uncle, we might get a line on King," Shayne grumbled. He looked at his watch. "It's time Mathews called in from Los Angeles." The telephone rang as he finished speaking. Rourke grinned and quirked an eyebrow at it for Shayne to answer. The reporter's eyes glowed feverishly when Shayne picked up the receiver. He leaned forward, his elbows on the desk and his chin in his thin palms. Shayne said, when the operator reported, "Put him on," and nodded to Rourke. He settled back in bis chair. "Mike Shayne at this end, Mat hewn. Hid any lurk tracing King's attorney or the uncle who died?" A frown gathered petween his rugged red brows as he listened to the West Coast operative give his report After a time, he- said curtly, "Keep on trying there. I'll make one more attempt to pick up something at the other end and call you back if I get a lead." He hung up and said to Rourke, "Mathews isn't having any luck at all. Nothing in the nineteen forty-three newspapers and nothing in the Los Angeles court records." "We're not sure it was -Los Angeles," Rourke reminded him. "That was just the impression of some of his Massilon friends, and you know how people are. Mention California and they immediately think of Los Angeles. It ain't necessarily so." Shayne nodded weary acquiescence. He lifted the phone, got long distance and asked for a number in Massilon, Ohio. When he was connected, he said, "Mike Shayne in Miami again, Perkins. This is the last time I'll come back at you, but we're still unable to trace that California inheritance of King's. I wonder if..." He stopped talking, and as he listened, his expression slowly relaxed. "Good!" he exclaimed after a time. "Good work. I certainly would like to speak lo him personally." CHAPTER FORTY "HERE'S your chance to grab some money then" said Randolph. "Give me an opportunity to contact my company and get authorization to offer the customery twenty pet cent. That'll amount to thirty-six thousand. Pay what you nave to tor return of the bracelet. I don't care now much. The rest of the thirty-six grand goes into your pocket os that fair enough?" "What do you want from me. if I agree?" "Your promise not to turn me in. At least not right away. You're the only one who Knows this norrible net ot circumstances I got mixed up in. It you have me arrested now, I'll enever be able to fix up a reward deal ... not from behind bars while I'm accused of murder." The telephone rang. Shayne stalked to it and lifted the receiver, said, "Mike Shayne." A voice said, 'This is last call for bids on a ruby bracelet." Shayne tugged at his earlobe. He glanced aside at Earl Randolph, grimaced and said, "Twenty grand." A chuckle came over the wire. "Get wise, Shamus. We know twenty per cent is regular." "There's got to be something in it for me." "Why not? Say six grand to you. That's good pocket money." The voice became harsher "Thirty grand. In cash on the line. Today." "Wait a minute. I'll check and see." "If you can trace this call?" the voice broke in sarcastically. "Don't waste your time. I'll call back in ready then." There was a click at the other end of the wire. Shayne hung up and told Randolph flatly, "That was it We can deal for thirty thousand." "That leaves six for you." Randolph's voice was trembling. "If you leave me free to make the arrangements. That's not much, I know, but I'll add ten grand of my own. Give me a break, Mike. l swear I'm not guilty, but 1 can't afford such a charge against me. Even if 1 do beat the rap, my reputation will be shot." Shayne crossed the room and poured himself a small drink. He sipped it reflectively, then went into the bedroom, leaving the door open. Lucy Hamilton was asleep again, and liss Naylor was playing solitaire with the cards spread out on the empty Side of the bed. Shayne stood looking down at the injured girl with a queer expression on his gaunt features. A look of tortured indecision. Miss Naylor glanced up at him and Mid quietly: "Doctor says she is out of danger. I imagine she can be moved to a hospital tonight." "Why cant she stay here?" Miss Naylor slapped a red queen on a black king. "1 thought it would be a lot of bother to you." Shayne said, "She isn't any bother tome." He went bark into the living room and asked Earl Randolph gruffly. "How long will it take you to get authorization and possession of the cash?" "A few hours," Randolph told him eagerly. "Say two o'clock this afternoon." "I'll need some cash to pay my secretary's doctor and nurse- bills. Get out of here and be back at two o'clock sharp with the thirty grand in old twenties. I'll take my sixteen grand in thousands, if you don't mind." Randolph bounded to his feet. "Shayne, you'll never know how 1 feel about this." 'Don't think you're buying immunity with ten thousand dollars,' Shayne said savagely, "after halfkilling my secretary. All bets are off if she has a relapse." At one-thirty that afternoon, Shayne and Timothy Rourke were in Rourke's office in the News Tower For the last halt hour they had been going over the telegraphic and telephoned reports from three operatives of the Worldwide Defective Agency in New York, Ohio and Colorado. Shayne shoved the mass of data aside and scowled angrily across the desk at the reporter. "It all adds up to nothing," he growled. "Not a lead worth a nickel on any of the three. 1 can't get over King and Kendrick completely vanishing from sight almost immediately after collecting their insurance money. No trace of their bodies, even. And it doesn't appear that anyone made any effort to trace them." "That's not too extraordinary" Rourke pointed out. "Take James T. King. He broke all his home ties with friends and relatives after inheriting that unexpected wad of dough. He simply shook the dust of Ohio off his teet and started out to have himself a time. Ht and his wife went high-hat and deliberately cut themselves off from their old life. They could be right here in Miami today and we wouldn't know it." "All right for Mr. and Mrs. King," Shayne agreed. "Roland Kendrick wasn't a poor man suddenly made rich. All these reports from New York indicate that he had plenty of jack and was used to spending it. Men like that don t deliberately cut themselves off from everything just because they collect on an insurance policy. Neither one or them made any profit on the ruby deals." "There are some explanatory angles in the Kendrick case, too," Rourke insisted. "Don't forget Mrs. Kendrick was murdered in the hold-up. And all those people contacted in New York and WestChester County appear to nave been more casual acquaintances than real friends. None of them knew the Kendricks more than two years. If we could And out where they came from, what their past history was, I imagine we could put our bands on Kendrick without any difficulty." "If," Shayne echoed morosely. "They seem is have popped up suddenly as tnough they'd both crawled, fall-grown, from under a flat rock." "When people have as much money to spend as they did, no, sac bothers much about their ante cedents," Rourke observed sagely "Like the Dustina." "I Was thinking about those re parts from Denver," Shayne said "If were to disappear today, "It As were to disappear today, we'd be up the same tree we an in trying lo trace Kendrick. None of their friends in Denver seem to know much about their past, either. Why? It's one more odd coincidence that doesn't hook up." "Not so odd about a mining operator like Dustin," Rourke soothed him. "They move around a lot. Foreign countries and all that." Shayne shuffled the papers on Rourke's desk and glared at them. "It's almost as if both Kendrick and Dustin were Intentionally hiding then- pasts. That could be more than mere coincidence." "Still, I don't see what it gets us. Mark Dustin hasn't disappeared yet, and King .. who did disappear... certainly led a blameless life until his lucky break in inheriting money." "If we can trace the California lawyer who handled the estate of his uncle, we might get a line on King," Shayne grumbled. He looked at his watch. "It's time Mathews called in from Los Angeles." The telephone rang as he finished speaking. Rourke grinned and quirked an eyebrow at it for Shayne to answer. The reporter's eyes glowed feverishly when Shayne picked up the receiver. He leaned forward, his elbows on the desk and his chin in his thin palms. Shayne said, when the operator reported, "Put him on," and nodded to Rourke. He settled back in bis chair. "Mike Shayne at this end, Mat hewn. Hid any lurk tracing King's attorney or the uncle who died?" A frown gathered petween his rugged red brows as he listened to the West Coast operative give his report After a time, he- said curtly, "Keep on trying there. I'll make one more attempt to pick up something at the other end and call you back if I get a lead." He hung up and said to Rourke, "Mathews isn't having any luck at all. Nothing in the nineteen forty-three newspapers and nothing in the Los Angeles court records." "We're not sure it was -Los Angeles," Rourke reminded him. "That was just the impression of some of his Massilon friends, and you know how people are. Mention California and they immediately think of Los Angeles. It ain't necessarily so." Shayne nodded weary acquiescence. He lifted the phone, got long distance and asked for a number in Massilon, Ohio. When he was connected, he said, "Mike Shayne in Miami again, Perkins. This is the last time I'll come back at you, but we're still unable to trace that California inheritance of King's. I wonder if..." He stopped talking, and as he listened, his expression slowly relaxed. "Good!" he exclaimed after a time. "Good work. I certainly would like to speak lo him personally." auds Navy fortunate incident" and gave "assurance that "the Navy will not officially participate in endorsing, sanctioning, promoting or subsidizing affairs of local sponsors in exending hospitality which involves or implies restrictions, segregation or discrimination of racial or other groupings." The Secretary said further that he had ordered investigation of the lncident and had "directed steps be taken to remove any repetitions or implications of discriminatory or special treatment by crew members or guest." He urged Doctor Cobb to complete the cruise. Meanwhile. officers of the Missouri had apologized to Dr. Cobb and assured him that omission of his name from the list of guests for the officers' ball was "accidental." Dots And Dashes THE NEGRO COMMUNITY is something set apart. The "pattern" demands that it be so. Three very important area" In which this distinction is most notable are HOUSing. HEALTH, and HOLDINOS Those three factors are to a very large extent related to each other. They an the points about which the vicious circle of race bale is often circumscribed. HAVING ALWAYS been a work er, but NOT ALWAYS RECEIVING a salary, he has not generally acquired any large amount of goods.. And, because he does not possess large taxable holdings, this is often cited as justifiable "reason" for not allowing him to enjoy the fruits of justice. "THERE IS NO BETTER INDICATOR OP THE OENERAL CONDITION OF A PEOPLE THAN ITS HEALTH." In the last forty years there has been commendable progress in the general health of out people. But there Is yet a considerable amount of work to be done. Infant mortality declined 42 percent during the decade between 1937 and 1947. During the same period tuberculosis mortality was cut 39 percent, wfumonia and Influenza nearly 65 percent; syphilis 48 percent, and mortality among mothers, from conditions related to child bearing was decreased 62 per cent. It will not require much imagination for ona to recapitulate the conditions of the period before that described. Is It therefore either Christian, or Democratic to penalize a people because they have not been given the proper facilities for the promotion of good health? IF HOUSING AND HEALTH be two points of the oblique triangle, about which this vicious circle Is drawn, the third point Is HOLDINGS. For certainly In a., society where the getting of goods Is considered so Important, almost every item of our dally existence is related In direct proportion to our HOLDINOS — money, and other negotiables. IN THIS CONNECTION there was a very Interesting article in the ATLANTA DAILY WORLD recently concerning a proposed housing project. The project was conceived In the mind of a local physician, who reports that during his calls he saw the need for more adequate HOUSINO. The ATLANTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, has agreed to finance the project. In this instance HEALTH. HOUSING ind HOLDINOS will be brought together to affect the well being of he Atlanta community. THESE THREE factors - HOUSING, HEALTH, and HOLDINOS, must continue to concern all of us. They are vital to our existence. People must not be denied adequa' HOUSINO because they are poor: nor should they die for lack of proper medical attention. With ten 1 percent of the population, we only have two percent of the medical doctors. How soon will there be housing to absorb the thousands who were displaced to make for the right of way of the North — south Highway? How many persons are denied treatment at Grady Hospital, because of inadequate facilities? What part does CAPITALISM play in the total picture? Now abideth HODKNG, HKALTH, and HOLDINGS, but is not the greatest of these "HOLDINGS"? REVIEWING NEWS BY WILUAM GORDON According to reliable reports the employment status of this country during recent months has been the highest in the nation's History. Upwards of 61,000,000 people were gainfully employed which is o million above the total for all-previous records. A lot of this may be traced to our wide-ranged social security program and the present war-time economy. Nevertheless,' the average income of the American working man it constantly on the increase and the standard living we enjoy in this great country of our is still rising. The improving job situation is now for the first time showing up in other significant reports. The Labor Department reports that the state unemployment insurance reserve funds gained ground in July and August, after dropping steadily for 18 months. This brief spell of irregularity naturally came about due to strikes, and many other minor disturbance! occuring on the labor scene. They were all temporary causes. It is without question that as we move forward with new techniques and developments in industry, the income of the nation will likewise increase. Improvements in mass production and division of labor have made it possible for us to enjoy all of the comforts available to man in the western world. The ability of manufacturers and business men lo visualize what the future will bring to a nation wide awake and alert, has kept us out front as a nation running second to none in national income. The fact that we are able to wear the latest and best materials for clothing and the ability to have at our disposal the choice foods of the world on our tables today, is because we have always had men in our country who were given the freedom and the opportunity to plan and build for the future. Our streamlined Social Security program extends its protection to about 10 million more people who are in need and who before trfe present Administration took the lead in things, were on the outside of this protection. There is still more streamlining to be done by the Congress that is to be elected on November 7. One of the most important things for all of us to do on this most Important date in our lives is to not waste our votes by sitting at home. If the wrong kind of Congress is elected on November 7, this present high income for the American working man and the high profits for the average business man, may be curbed. There is always a chance for reactionaries to sabotage the program now in force. American Security BY WILUAM GORDON According to reliable reports the employment status of this country during recent months has been the highest in the nation's History. Upwards of 61,000,000 people were gainfully employed which is o million above the total for all-previous records. A lot of this may be traced to our wide-ranged social security program and the present war-time economy. Nevertheless,' the average income of the American working man it constantly on the increase and the standard living we enjoy in this great country of our is still rising. The improving job situation is now for the first time showing up in other significant reports. The Labor Department reports that the state unemployment insurance reserve funds gained ground in July and August, after dropping steadily for 18 months. This brief spell of irregularity naturally came about due to strikes, and many other minor disturbance! occuring on the labor scene. They were all temporary causes. It is without question that as we move forward with new techniques and developments in industry, the income of the nation will likewise increase. Improvements in mass production and division of labor have made it possible for us to enjoy all of the comforts available to man in the western world. The ability of manufacturers and business men lo visualize what the future will bring to a nation wide awake and alert, has kept us out front as a nation running second to none in national income. The fact that we are able to wear the latest and best materials for clothing and the ability to have at our disposal the choice foods of the world on our tables today, is because we have always had men in our country who were given the freedom and the opportunity to plan and build for the future. Our streamlined Social Security program extends its protection to about 10 million more people who are in need and who before trfe present Administration took the lead in things, were on the outside of this protection. There is still more streamlining to be done by the Congress that is to be elected on November 7. One of the most important things for all of us to do on this most Important date in our lives is to not waste our votes by sitting at home. If the wrong kind of Congress is elected on November 7, this present high income for the American working man and the high profits for the average business man, may be curbed. There is always a chance for reactionaries to sabotage the program now in force. BROTHER BILUE FINDS OLD MAN INFLATION IS GRADUALLY CREEPING UP ON US We ran across our very good friends, Brother Billie the other day and he was busy trying to make ends meet In this age of everrowing Inflation. We picked up a conversation with this worthy man of God, who always has something to tell us that we consider useful in many ways. "How is inflation effecting the people since the Korean War got underway?" That's what we asked our good friend. He began by point ing out the fact that the powerful effect of the inflation of recent months on the budgets of American families can be seen in the results of surveys being made around the country. Brother Billie declared that the overwhelming majority of the people say that It is harder to make both ends meet today that it was —say six months ago. In most cases, he told us, prices of most goods have gone up since the Korean War started a little over three months ago. Our good friend stated that he saw a sign the other day in a business place which read: "Wieners with chili, fifteen cents; without chill, ten cents." He said that he also saw in the newspaper where some barbers have increased the price of haircuts. Brother Billie warned that the people haven't felt the full weight of inflation yet, stating that many of the merchants have been selling pre-war stocks, but around 1951 the situation will change and we will begin to feel the full weight of inflation on our pocketbooks. Our good friend said that the. following example will illustrate just how much inflation is effecting most American budgets. "The army must now pay $220 for an instrument and medicine cabinet that cost only $195 before the Korean war." That's the way one writer summed it up. Brother Billie said it is sad to think about it, but we are going to have to pay a big price in order to protect our way of life. We are going to have to do a great deal of sacrificing in the not distant future. Our good friend, in closing, declared that most of the people you meet today don't look like they are happy; many of them look like they are burdened down with the heavy weight of the world's problems. Little Junior had permission to bring the kittens Into the kitchen, but an awful meowing and whining was heard. "Be careful, Junior," said his father, "don't-hurt-the 'Kittens." "I'm not hurting 'em Daddy," replied Junior, "I'm carrying' 'em real easy by the stems." And that's that. FAMOUS LAST WORDS: By DR. LOO KOO MARKE KITTENS DIDN'T THINK LIKE THAT BROTHER BILUE FINDS OLD MAN INFLATION IS GRADUALLY CREEPING UP ON US We ran across our very good friends, Brother Billie the other day and he was busy trying to make ends meet In this age of everrowing Inflation. We picked up a conversation with this worthy man of God, who always has something to tell us that we consider useful in many ways. "How is inflation effecting the people since the Korean War got underway?" That's what we asked our good friend. He began by point ing out the fact that the powerful effect of the inflation of recent months on the budgets of American families can be seen in the results of surveys being made around the country. Brother Billie declared that the overwhelming majority of the people say that It is harder to make both ends meet today that it was —say six months ago. In most cases, he told us, prices of most goods have gone up since the Korean War started a little over three months ago. Our good friend stated that he saw a sign the other day in a business place which read: "Wieners with chili, fifteen cents; without chill, ten cents." He said that he also saw in the newspaper where some barbers have increased the price of haircuts. Brother Billie warned that the people haven't felt the full weight of inflation yet, stating that many of the merchants have been selling pre-war stocks, but around 1951 the situation will change and we will begin to feel the full weight of inflation on our pocketbooks. Our good friend said that the. following example will illustrate just how much inflation is effecting most American budgets. "The army must now pay $220 for an instrument and medicine cabinet that cost only $195 before the Korean war." That's the way one writer summed it up. Brother Billie said it is sad to think about it, but we are going to have to pay a big price in order to protect our way of life. We are going to have to do a great deal of sacrificing in the not distant future. Our good friend, in closing, declared that most of the people you meet today don't look like they are happy; many of them look like they are burdened down with the heavy weight of the world's problems. Little Junior had permission to bring the kittens Into the kitchen, but an awful meowing and whining was heard. "Be careful, Junior," said his father, "don't-hurt-the 'Kittens." "I'm not hurting 'em Daddy," replied Junior, "I'm carrying' 'em real easy by the stems." And that's that. A GOOD Companion! 93 PROOF IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman has asked the United States Supreme Court to withhold action on the petition of Bertram Washington and twenty-five other employees of the Post Office Department until the cases of Dorothy Bailey, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., have been decided. The three cases, which Mr. Perlman wishes to control the dispositionof the Washington case, were argued before the high tribunal last week. Miss Bailey was a white Government employee, who was discharged after a finding that reasonable grounds existed for the belief that she was disloyal to the Government of the United States. The twenty-six complainants in the Washington case, who asked the Supreme Court for a review of their case, are colored persons, Jews and others who were active in combatting racial and religious dise mination. Each of them was dismissed from his employment as post office clerks delivery men and so forth in Cleveland, Detroit. New York, Philadelphia, and Plainfield, New Jersey, for alleged disloyalty to the Government of the United States. They sued in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Their complaint was dismissed by Judge Alexander Holtzoff and the United States Court of Appeals, by a 2-to-l decision, affirmed the dismissal. It decided the constitutional issues by relying upon its decisions in the Bailey and Joine Anti-Fascist Refugee cases. Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the Court of Appeals, in his dissenting opinion in the Bailey case, held that her dismissal was illegal because (1) President Truman's executive order required that the finding of ineligibility must be "on all the evidenee" and, therefore, could be made upon secret information' (2) any dismissal for disloyalty and discrimination of ineligibility for fe eral employment is a punishmep requiring the safeguards of a judicial trial, and (3) the dismissal and adjudication of ineligibility in this case abridged freedom of speech and assembly. Solicitor General Penman concedes that one difference exists between the Bailey case and the Washington case. In a footnote td his memorandum asking dispension of action in the Washington case, he states that, although Miss Bailey had been working for some time prior to her discharge, her employment was conditional and, hence, her position was technically that of an applicant denied federal employment rather than that of a removed employee. There appears to be one other distinction between the two cases. All through the Washington case runs the allegation that at every level of the loyally proceedings against the twenty-six petitioners within the Post Office Department race and religion were Important factors in the determination that these removed employees were disloyal to the Government of the United States. As to these allegations of racial and religious discrimination in the administration of President Truman's loyalty order, the Court of Appeals held that upon consideration of the affidavits submitted by the Post Office employees involved there appeared "to be no genuine issue of fact upon the subject." The questions which the Supreme Court is asked to answer in the Bailey case are: 1. Whether a Government employee who has been discharged after a finding that reasonable grounds exist for belief that she is disloyal to the Government of the United States. is entitled to judicial relief. This involves the questions: a. Whether her removal from public employment complied with the procedural requirements of the executive order. b. Whether the executive order conforms with statutory restriction upon the executive's power of removal. 2. Whether the executive order is unconstitutional. If the Supreme Court should affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals in the Bailey case, it appears that there still remains the question in the Washington case of whether the order was wilfully and intentionally administered in such a manner as to discriminate against colored employees, Jews and those active and militant In combatting racial and religious discrimination. Racial and religious prejudice is unchecked throughout the Post Office Department. A Congressional committee has so found. Only a review of the Washington case by the Supreme Court can allay the suspicion of people who know the twenty-six petitioners that they were the victims of race and re. ligious discrimination in the administration of President Truman's loyalty order. Around Thanksgiving Day when fans will be watching the closing drive of football elevens in the running for 1950 championship rating, the spirit of Jackie Robinson will be discussed, How he bashed out a homer in Philly (with a crushed hand) when the "Whiz Kids" were rattling at the money bags in the last stretch.