Evansville Argus, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 9 July 1943 — Page 2

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EVANSVILLE ARGUS

Friday, July 9, 1943.

"Next Door”

TED SHEARER

CONGRESS VOTES TO ABOLISH NYA AS NEW YORKER LEADS FIGHT

“De reason I said James wuzn’t worth but a dime er bound was ’cause Mommy said He was cheap as a old tomato i—working in a war plant and wouldn’t put out a dime to get Union, protection.” m X RAY IS VALUABLE IN DETECTING GERMS OF TUBERCULOSIS

I With a war on our’ hands; a War for our Very existence, we hear a lot these days about the Four Horsemen. i These ghastly characters tom in fiotipn, but alive in ac-' tion—are Fire, Famine, Sword and . Pestilence. Opportunists all, they thrive in times of war. ' Now, ih this war, there is. grave danger of a fifth horseihan putting in his appearance ^-tuberculosis, ’ the killer of old. ! Since 1912, tuberculosis has been broken down from the first to the seventh cause of death. We had tuberculosis on the run thanks to , the- medical professibn, public health officials and the tuberculosis associations. i NOW, look , what -is-happening. Tuberculosis is showing an increase -in „ many large cities, throughout the country. The stress, and strain of war can lead to , many things overwork. : poof living . conditions, improper nutrition,. to mention, a few. And these can lead to tuberculosis. . '■Let . us be niore health-con-scious, No one: wants'to be ill at any time. - Eight now, we should do all in our power to stay healthy -for,;, no matter what our job is, we are on the production ;lipe, furnishing, directly and indirectly, the sinews of war to the men on the

firing .line.

Tuberculosis is just one’ of many - health subjects about which we should be concerned. This month (April) the Vanderburgh County Tuberculosis Association, which you support through your purchases oil Christmas Seals, is participating in a nation-wide campaign to find tuberculosis in its early and most easily curable stages. This campaign—properly called the Early Diagnosis Campaign—is not a talking campaign. It is a doing campaign. You make this campaign possible through your support. Now yob have a chance to get interest on your investment. See

that - you and the members of your family have chest x-rays. You know, tuberculosis comes without warning. When symptoms appear, you may be in an advanced stage. Industries, schools, colleges, small and big businesses, are aware of the economy, health and happiness that can come from a campaign to find early tuberculoss. By finding tuberculosis early, we can conquer it: And when we conquer tuberculosis within our borders, our nation is in a healthier,' a better position to defeat the enemy from without. Right now the Vanderburgh County Tuberculosis Association : s conducting its 17th annual Early Diagnosis Campaign. The objective of this campaign is to find tuberculosis during the early stages —■ -’when a cure‘is far mofe ; easily effected. We ycu—and every member of your family—to go' to your doptoij coir a; physical check-up, includ'ng an x-ray of the chest. Remember, our nation’s health n its; strength. And in wartime particularly, we must take extra measures t® protect that healthS-for it is in times like these that tuberculosis takes its ■biggest toll. It is estimated that

Faced with only $3,000,000 to liquidate, the' National Youth Administration, boon to the colored youth -in particular, was abolished last week as a result of a compromise reached by the two chambers of Congress oh Saturday. I The NYA operated on- a fund of $57,000,000 yearly, therefore Congress’ $3,000,000 compromise forced immediate liquidation. Begun in 1935 as a relief agency designed to aid youth both in school and out, NYA continually kept abreast of the times in the changes it made in its program. Typical is the manner in which it speedily converted to the training of yotmg people to take their places' in war industries. '\Vhen the 16 to 24 age limits were found to be excluding many people, this too was changed. For a time it was the only agency providing training for war industries- at

government expense.

The administration was one of the pets of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Her active interest in it is what has kept it alive until now when it is recalled that Congress, has been seeking for at least t'vtj

years, to abolish; it.

It was not until the later period that Colored youth really began to avail themselves of the advantages of NYA although it has always been voluntary. In some ■areas of the country only after intensive effort on the. part of the regional officials did they begin to show interest in the-type of training offered, and this was well after it became evident that skilled workers would be needed

for war work.

Accused of direct responsibility for the death of the NYA is''’Rep John Taber of New York, who led the fight by injecting a race prejudice note into the campaign to save the agency. Taber’s assertion that colored and whites associated on equal footing and were housed together in a private boarding school “in my territory” attracted sufficient votes from the southern bloc to overcome NYA supporters. The House voted to abolish the NYA by 197 to 176, Republicans voting 160 to 23 against the agency. Thirty-seven Democrats yoted with the 160 Republicans, among them “un-American activities sleuth” Dies of Texas. The Senate voted 39 to 33 to abolish NYA, thus . sounding 1 a death j knell to the one agency which Has offered equal training to the colored youth, and dissolving thp Office of Negro:'Affairs headed by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune. Mrs. Bethune has not announced her future, plans.'.

SIX NEW FEPC MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED BY FDR

The President today appointed six members of the new Committee on Fair Employment Practice, of which the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis J. Haas is chairman. The members, representing labor and industry,•in-

clude :

For Labor John Brophy, Congress of Industrial Organizations, 718 Jackson Place, N. W., Washington,

D. C.

Milton P. Webster, International Vice President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A F. of L., 4231 South Michigan Ave., Chicago. Boris Shishkin, American Federation of Labor, 901 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C. ft /> For industry Miss Sara Southall, Supervisor of Employment, and Service,. International Harvester Company, Chicago, 111. P. B. Young, Sr., Publisher, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va. . Samuel Zemurray, President, United Fruit Company, Audubon Place, New Orleans, La. The new committee, established under Executive Order 9346 on May 27, 1943, is charged with the responsibility of promoting “the fullest utilization of all available manpower and the elimination of discriminatory practices in employment.” It replaces the old Committee on Fair Employment Practice established by Execu-

Murray, CIO president. Mr. Shishkin, economist for the American Federation of Labor, served as alternate for William Grefeh, AFL president. * Both have been appointed as full members of the new committee, along jvith Mri, Webster, who also was a member of the old committee. Of the industry representatives, Miss Southall has had extensive experience in the field of labor utilization. A member of the Board of the Chicago Urban League and active ip the industrial division of the YWCA she was serving as ' consultant to the War Manpower Commission on the utilization of women in war production at the time of her appointment to the

committee.

Mr. Young, publisher of one of the leading Negro newspapers, is. chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University- in Washington, D. C., and a meijnber of the. Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute, at Hampton, Va. He is also chairman of the Southern Conference on Race Relations. Mr. Zemurray, who came to this country in his youth as a Polish immigrant and worked his way up to the presidency of the United Fruit Co., is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Atlas Corporation and of Tulane University. Active in civic affairs in New Orleans, he has spent many years in if h e development of

tive Order 8802 on June 25, ’41.1 trade relations ’between Latin The three labor members had America and world markets, served on the old committee, j Chairman Haas is now in DeMr. Brophy, a member of thejtroit investigating the status of United Steelworkers of America cases- in that city now pending and National Director of the before the FEPC. He will report Industrial Union Councils of, to the Committee on the Dethe CIO, acted as alternate on' troit and other pending cases

the old committee for Philip on his return.

States. There undiscovered cases are largely responsible for the fact that, before another year

today there are at least 150,0001 passes, tuberculosis will again undiscovered cases of tubercu-! take its annual toll of nearly losis right here in the United 60,000 lives.

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