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Bernarr Macfadden's New York Evening ("Porno") Graphic has been publishing a series of articles on the Negro, spiced up with intimate glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...
...employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation Board. There remain the engineers and firemen. Eastern firemen want $1 a day more; Southeastern engineers a general 15% boost. They have made claims on individual employers, but have not yet come to discussion. Canadian railroaders threatened a strike last week. But the smoothness of the U. S. arbitration made them pause for further arguments...
...Then boost the fair jitneys forever...
...Owing to a dearth of responsible white citizens in Alaska, the President is considering making appointments to Federal offices in that territory from among the citizens of the 48 United States. Enterprising statisticians announced that such action would boost the population of Alaska nine per cent...
...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...