Recalling the accomplishments of the 73rd Congress which adjourned several weeks ago does not thrill the average American newspaper reader and citizen.

Those that followed its daily "deeds" are familiar with certain backward and forward steps taken for the "good of the people".

They know that Congress failed to pass a single bill that would tend to raise the standards of our wobbling army from the place it now holds as 17th among armies world. They know that a congressional mandate classifies the people of Puerto Rico as alien s rather than American citizens and that hereafter they shall be so treated in teh regulations of sugar production.

Interested readers and citizens know too, that a bill was passed which places a heavy embargo on imports of oils from the Islands to the mainland, which may destroy one of the chief products of the Pilippine Islands and bring starvatoins to millions loca ted there.

They shall never forget either how legislation, that caused the cancellation of all domestic air mail contracts and took the lives of a dozen or more army flers [sic], was legalized. They know also how The House Committee on Army Affairs blocked the mea sure to create a G. H. Q. Air Force that would have strenthened our forces in the air.

The blunders of the recently adjourned 73rd Congress were many. Most Negroes however, are more deeply concerned with the most brutal of blunders, the failure of that body to consider the Costigan Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill, because 4,000 Negroes h ave been lynched in America since 1882 and because three men have lost their lives by lawless mobs in Southern states since the adjourment of the Congress of Errors a month ago.