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Page 2 THE ARIZONA GLEAM Published at Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday of each week. Entered in the Posioffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as second class mat ter, undr Act of Congress of February 13, 1930. MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Editor and Manager ' G. S. Rodgers Advertising Manager : Jas. L. Davis Associate Editor Floyd L. Easter OUR POLICY We array ourselves as the parties of NO individual, group or party. In defending the great cause of human rights, we wish to derive the assistance of races, religions and parties. As senting to the "self-evident truth" maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created qual, and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable right— among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," we shall strenuously contend for equality of justic, and the right of life, liberty and happiness unhampered by petty prej udices, and for the political freedom of the Negro. OUR PLATFORM 1. The employment of Negroes in all public works sup ported by public utilities or from any tax fund from which Ne groes are not exempt. 2. Race employees in all businesses which are patronized largely by our group. 3. Aid and encourage Negro enterprises. 4. Broadcast facts of the health restorative facilities of our climate. • & 5. Encourage and advocate the buying of homes and the creating of bank accounts among Negroes. , 6. To fight prejudice and discrimination. 7. The advancement of the race educationally, morally and spiritually. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Per Year : $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Three Months .75 Per Copy 05 Payable in Advance GLEAM COPY MUST REACH THE OFFICE NOT LATER THAN TUESDAY AT 6 O'CLOCK P. M. Around and About By FLOYD L. EASTER Well, last week went into a local doctor’s office ,and when I gave the office girl my name, darned if she didn’t start complimenting my poetry that used to be warbled over KOY occasionally. She began “shooting the bull” about how much she liked it. Was she really telling the truth, or just being “kind” to my feelings. Decided that whoever writes some of these bridge hands that appear in the columns of papers must either be a dope, or a darned big optimist. The hands they print are whom-dingers to some that I pick up. And I’ve played for six and seven hours at a time with out getting over five cards of one suit in any hands, so the hands they print with eight and nine cards in a suit headed by ace, king queen must either be picked out or never existed at all. Or am I just getting pessimistic about hands. Heard a little sketch over the radio about an editor who was howling for news from some of his reporters. At the hospital, an old Italian fellow was waiting for his wife and his youngster. He got the youngster, but not the wife. Understand? Os course he was broken hearted, and robbed of ev erything that meant life to him. Another occasion was the pilot of an Army mail plane. He was trap ped in the fog, and doubted if he could clear the mountains in his path. He radioed the landing field j THE ARIZONA GLEAM and told them to tell his wife good bye and the usual course of last salutations. After about a half hour after he should have landed, all ground crews gave up hope for him. About ten minutes later, he landed; minus his landing g£ar that had struck the mountain, barely missing wrecking the plane. A few other instances similar to the above were mentioned, but the editor would not accept any of them for NEWS. Finally he heard a rumor that some big shot was going to fill bankruptcy papers. He nearly went wild with ecstacy. Here was a story people would like to read about. Someone was gon na get drug through the mud. Now I would much rather read about the other happenings, although they might not have been more important to the editor of that pulp paper sheet. Would you ? Aft er all, the really touching and feeling occurrences aren’t printed. Those happenings that really mean life and death to individuals. The Arizona Gleam endeavors to give you the news that you will be interested in, while it is still news. The news of those vital things in life. We will never know if you are being satisfied with the news you are getting unless you let us know just what is wrong, just what you would like discon tinued, and just what you want to read about most. A postal card or telephone call is all that is need ed to give you what you want to know about. And if any of these columns are getting in your hair (except this one. It’s always in ev erybody’s hair) we want to know about that too. It all depends on you whether you get what you want to read about, or whether you have to be satisfied with what someone else wants to know about. “Peter Called The Great” writ ten by Maurice Bethell Jones; ($3.00). This is fictionized history, a novel about a man whose title of great was really and truly justi fied, at least in terms of physical magnitude and $Eu ropewide achievements. And if history justi fies fictionizing it is the obscure, confused contradictory history of Russia. The novelist begins with the Gargantuan youth on his way back from his brief civilizing per iod in England and Holland, to a Russia full of intrigue and rebel lion. What follows is personal his tory; the debauchery and mass acres of a barbarian; the ruthless governing of a despot; the really magnificent assualts of an auto crat determined to force his bar j barims country out of medievalism j during a lifetime. With the politi cal and social aspects of this his tory, we are familiar. 5.1 r. Jones has told his story from the inside. It is of Peter’s personal life with ■ his mistress, his wife, his friends, his enemies, his fellow plotters against the weaknesses of Europe, that we read. What this book gives • is probable dramatic history, that is, fiction. The attempt is to make this barbarian with a skin-deep cultyre credible and in this the novelist has done his best and is often successful. The reader who knows his Russian history only in brief outline will certainly get a sense of reality from this novel. But he must have a taste for his tory, and sensibilities not too deli cate and whimsical. I often wonder if people ever stop to think of, and appreciate all the modem conveniences that science has placed at our disposal in our homes. The radio, electric refrigerator and fireless cooker, airmail, automobiles, and myriad other pleasures and labor savers. When we turn on the radio, we take it for granted that the room will immediately be flooded with music, or the chimes from Big Ben in London. Very few of us ever think of the magnificant net works and contrivances that are necessary for such services. We merely throw a switch and the room is immediately made as bright as day. We mail a letter in New York City and one-and-a half days later the letter, is de livered on the opposite coast. People, or most of them, fail to appreciate those conveniences just as they fail to appreciate their present condition, when they are far better off than their neighbor. The fellow who usually grumbles is the fellow who should be thank ful that he is in the position that he is, and that is usually a pretty good one, considering the plight of other people. A good job, good health and a happy family, is to be considered by anyone as a very happy and contented life but usually. we find something to grumble about, when our neighbor is scuffling trying to get a loaf of bed and a bottle of milk. Think of what we have, and not of what we don’t have, and we all will be much better off. Whad d’ya think. Minute Meanderings: I wonder why every one rushes off an ele vator when it stops on the ground floor. I nearly get trampled every time I ride one of the darned things. I’m all fixed now, though. As soon as the door opens, I make a dash for the opening, and,’ at j (Continued on page 7) •