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‘Green Pastures’

NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 20—Roark Bradford, & man whose name—but never his talent—was often confused with my own, died suddenly here the other day, of tropic amoeba ‘acquired while he was in the Navy. Brad was a writer. I would say he is one ot the few Saltsmen of our time whose work remembered as long as ks i be eb g boo! are printed It is unusual that Mr, Bradford, a white man, should emerge as the sympathetic Homer of the Southern Negro; the nation’s authority on Negro dialect; the interpreter of the levee worker, the cotton-hand, the roustabout, the steamboat deckhand and occasionally, the indentured laborer on the chain-gang. Brad was not a sociologist. He was not a protagonist of ideology. He rarely dealt with the relationship of mass Negro to mass white, but rather with the relationship of Negro to Negro, ‘n certain sections of the South, and the charming, intimate relationship of the Negro to God.

Nothing Stark or Real

IN THE SENSE that highly praised literature today seems to demand the adjectives “raw, stark, grimly real,” Mr. Bradford was a flop. He trafficked with no “isuues,” and injectgd no stinging editorials into his fiction. Brad was a mythologist. He drew a picture of a segment of a race, during a time of adolescent naivete, and I suppose the National Society for the Advancement of Colored People would condemn him for it. He did portray the deep Southern Negro as a child, sometimes charming, nearly always artless, and occasionally meaner than hell. It is of some interest that the cuttin’’ colored man, the whisky-fightin’ colored man, generally got his comeuppance via a member of his own race, when Brad needed comeuppance to fulfill plot requirements. I think that Brad's “OI’ Man Adam and His Chillun,” from which “The Green Pastures” was made, will live about as long as anything written

levees, is already a better piece of native folklore

By Robert C. Ruark

His “John Henry,” a series oi legendary black hero of -the

in this country. tales about the

than the story of Paul Bunyan and the blue ox A couple of his parables, especially “How Come Christmas,” are classic portrayals of the lovingly garbled interpretation of Scripture by the innocents who lived on the plantations of Mr. Bradford’s childhood. His light fiction which he wrote for Collier's magazine, was never the slick potboiling of high-velocity hacks. 1 Mr, Bradford had been an officer in two wars, a newspaperman, a musician of sorts, a cowpoke, and a professional boxer. He long ago quit trying to write think-stuff on unfamiliar subjects, and devoted himself to putting on paper the language, folk tales and stories of his delta childhood. They never lost flavor, and possessed a great delicacy.

‘R’ar Back and Pass a Miracle’

BRAD WAS probably the only person alive who could inoffensively translate God as a portly Negro who smoked big seegars, who occasionally pronounced that the time had come to “r'ar back and pass a miracle,” and who spent considerable time keeping an eye on the lady angels at a celestial fishfry. es Brad continued to write with his microscopically accurate dialect tales in contemporary magazines, at a time when any dialect-writing is poison to the pressure groups, and no humor is supposed to be found in individual frailty of minority races and creeds. Offhand I would say that Mr. Bradford is good enough to swap bets on longevity with Mark Twain, and that his writings of big doings on Little Bee Bend, with Foreman Giles and the Widow Duck, will eventually be pridefully exhibited by a Negro race grown ‘to full national security. In John Henry alone he has provided the Negro with his own Hercules. There was never anything but affection for his colored friends in Mr. Bradford's writing, and I believe that both Negro and white owe him a great mutual debt.

By Frederick: C. Othman

Wishy-Washy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—One of Congress’ incidental problems is why it costs a fellow so much to wash his face. And as for you, madam, with your saving of grease in the kitchen, how's to quit palming off so much water to the gentlemen who manufacture soap? The price of keeping clean, as you and the House Small Business Committee already have discovered, hasn't dropped at all. A cake of soap today costs as much as it did last year.

Soapers and Greasers Clash

BUT THE TALLOW afid the inedible grease that go into it have dropped 70 per cent in value in the last six months. The 600 boiler-downers of grease in America claim their being forced out of business. Some say they can’t sell their soap-mak-Ings at any price; others are renting railroad tank cars to store their surpluses. Rep. William H. Stevenson of Wisconsin thinks maybe the soapers (that's what they: call themselves) spend too much money on weepy radio programs when maybe they ought to be trimming the price of soap. The grease men (I suppose we cgn call them greasers) claim there is a tremendous over-supply of their product; they blame the government for not letting em peddle it abroad.

The soapers, reading from an entirely different ¥ of U. 8. census figures, say the greasers have oap in the eye. They insist there isn't enough grease and tallow for comfort yet and urge the government to keep it under export control. First came a succession of elderly men who run grease-rendering plants in the Midwest. They've given up buying grease turned in by housewives to their butchers. “Stick a pole Into a can of it and the water splashes,” said one. “Twenty-five per cent of the grease turned in by the ladies consists of water.”

tlle EA — “Which you pay for,” remarked Chairman Stevenson. The greasers agreed further that a lot of the glycerine which used to be ‘distilled froin their product now comes out of oil wells. And, also, said they, too many women (including Mrs. O.) now wash the dishes with chemical detergents, instead of good old soap. Dr. John Lee Coulter, the consulting economist of the greasers (who washes his white hair in pure soap), said if his clients could get better prices for

. By ED SOVOLA Each year the merchants seem to be more eager to get Christmas off to a flying start. Makes a man wonder what it will lead to. There was a time when Christmas splendor appeared only after another most enjoyable holiday, Thanksgiving, was out of the way. That sequence I like. There's something old-fashioned about it. And when it comes to holidays, serve them to me with a dash of the past, mix well with old friends and close relatives in old and loved surroundings. Christmas is the season you can leave off the sham, the cheap tinsel, the fake fireplace, scotch whisky and the paper Christmas tree.. Christmas is also the season that ought to come ‘after the last of the ‘turkey has been eaten cold.

” - 2 IF WE DON'T watch out we're going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg and make kids start doubting parents at the tender age of two instead of four. The idea — “For Him” —a stainless steel pocket extension ruler, “ideal for Dad who just loves to putter in the basement.” I'd bet my last dollar Dad would enjoy a bucket of beer more, The idea—"“Santa Claus”—

15 different sizes, 15 different shades of red suits, 15 different voices and 15 different locations. Is there any wonder that Junior balks at eating his grated carrots and then pro-

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ceeds to. throw the mess against the new wallpaper? WE'RE getting so clever with Christmas schemes it wouldn't surprise me one bit if some particularly hard hit citizen didn’t start 2 movement to make &Zcrooge a symbol of the Yuletide season. ® " = I DON'T know exactly what the solution is. All I know is that my head is reeling ‘after what I have already seen “For Him,” “For Her,” “For Dad,” “For Mom,” “For Junior,” and for the luvva Mike. Wow, It has been my contention for a long time that women (bless them, I think they're here to stay, T like them better than I do race horses and all that)—women are the worst buyers when it comes to spending when the mistletoe begins to bloom. Mainly, I think it's because of the word cute. A gift has to be cute. Wnether it's a watch chain you'll never use or a shaving set that turns your nose sideways, if they think it's cute—you've got it, Jack. ~ ” ~ WOMEN somehow have lest that fine touch of giving a man

the grease, the price of steaks and chops would drop. And a fine thing it was, he added, lending foreigners money so they can grow more peanut] oil in Africa, when the government won't let| grease be shipped abroad freely. | Well-scrubbed and pink-cheeked Andrew Feder-| ling, Washington representative of the independent soapers, said the greasers didn't know what they were talking about. His figures indicated there still wasn't enough grease in America.

The. Argument Gof Soapy

“INCIDENTALLY,” said Chairman Stevenson, “have you noticed lately any lower prices of soaps, detergents or washing powders?” Soaper Federline said, well, his membership had to compete with America’s big-three soap makers. “You mean compete with 'em in these giveaway radio programs?” demanded the gentleman from Wisconsin. ‘‘These soap operas?” Mr. Federline didn’t answer that one. An Agriculture Department man said he guessed figures could be interpreted any old way. Wilbur Laroe, representing some grease producers, said yes and how come the Agriculture Department issued the wrong figures a while back on grease stocks? The Agriculture man said that wasn’t his fault and from there the argument got a little soapy. . Quietly I departed to wash my hands, free, with the perfumed soap of the House of Representatives. ®*I've been smelling beautiful ever since.

Desert Base Test Frauleins Rebel at Old Idea Center for Planes That They Belong in Home

> of ‘Church-Kitchen-Home' Tradition Fades Largest Natural Field As Women Find Business Opportunities

In World Used |

MUROC, Cal, Nov. 20 (UP)—| America’s fighting planes of the future are flying for the first time in the hot, thin air above closely-guarded base here on the lonely Southern California desert. Eleven miles long and five-and-| a-half miles wide, Muroc Dry!

ferent ideas.

their own.

In all Germany, there are 7.5

BERLIN, Nov. 20 (UP)—German women are rebelling against the traditional kirche, kuche, kinder—church, kitchen, home. The majority of male Germans still believe women belong in the home. But the women themselves are beginning to show dif-

For one thing, women know that many of them will never be| able to marry and have homes of pty for them in business and the

professions. An opinion survey by military

Lake forms the largest natural million more women than men. government's information servlanding field in the world. Before ID the American zone, according ices division showed that Ger-| World War II, speed-happy “hot-| to the 1946 cemsus, there are 124 mans believe a man shquld have rod” drivers flocked here for auto| Women to every 100 men. The|preference in any position he Can| races against time on théismooth difference is even greater in the!fill satisfactorily. |

oN marriageable ages. For every 100{ American officials assert this

But Muroc has changed sinds) men between 20 and 25 years of attitude runs counter to reality.

41, tiny bo ¢| age there are 171 women. 1941. The tiny bombing range of| Tl roar Of Len i hasloiey Say

World War I has expanded until

{They say it ignores the excess| omen, the pressing|

Muroc Air Force base is Uncle Made women increasingly insist-need for reconstruction and ex-| Sam's largest flight test center. (ont that there be more opportu-'port production.

The hangars and engineering| buildings today house some of the| nation’s prime secrets in super-! sonic jet and rocket plane development. The “hot-rods” have] been moved five miles away to Rosamond Dry Lake, and residents of the few nearby towns have grown accustomed to seeing test flights of craft that seem to be straight out of a carfbon fantasy. Only bout 70 miles from Los| Angeles, the nation’s aircraft pro-| duction center, Muroc has the perfect geographic and atmos-| pheric setup for speed flying. The| current - world speed record of 670.95 m.p.h. was set here last Sept.-15 by Maj. Richard L. John-| son in a production model of the] North America’s jet F-86. Two other previous marks were knocked off last summer. Young Capt. Charle§ Yeager first cracked the sonic barrier here a year ago in the Air Force's first rocket ship, a Bell X-1. Designed to hit 1700 m. p. h, the plane is still being tested, but the Air Force doesn't say how fast it's going these days. It probably has done at least 900 miles an hour. '

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