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EDITORIALS
rhe views express ctr~m these columns
are those of the writer and not!
necessarily' a reflection of the policy
•f The Votoe.—Pub.
The U.S. Negro, 1953
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The Negro Is a good customer
He wants to feel that he can buj
the best. Swift & Co. does noi
advertise its ordinary fowl in Ne
gro publications, but the more ex
pensive Swift’s Premium “The
dream chicken that came true”)
Several Negro families often pool
their savings to buy an expensive
car and drive it on alternate days.
On Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, Ca
dillacs are so commonplace that
nobody turns to look at them any
more (a situation which one re
sourceful driver met by having
his Cadillac’s top painted a gay
plaid). I
Some of the Cadillac prosperity j
is obviously false or forced; many j
Negroes are driven to spend their!
earnings in showy ways because
they still cannot get the more or
dinary things a white man with
a similar income would buy, e.g.,
a decent home or a vacation trip1
to a good resort. Says a Negro j
leader in St. L.ouis (where Negro'
housing is particularly bad): “A
flashy car becomes their living
room, the only one they've got.”;
Says a San Francisco Negro: “It is j
a sort of mobile aspirin tablet.”
Despite the flashy cars, the j
Negro’s spending habits have
changed radically. He saves much
more than he used to. Big insur
ance companies, which once con
sidered Negro business more trou
ble than it was worth, now go
after it. Loan companies, car
dealers, etc. find Negroes excel
lent credit risks. There are signs
that the Negro has begun to de
velop a large, strong middle class.
Some Negro leaders, in fact, be
lieve—and they do not consider it j
a bad thing—that the Negro is ^
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s: Babbitt.
) | Though Negro home ownership
.'has gone up dramatically, the
f most depressing feature of the
t Negro’s existence is still his home.
. Negroes now own nearly a third
. of tfie places they live in, a two
? thirds rise over 1940. (White home
.! ownership has risen more slowly
| in the same period, is now 57 per
> cent.) But nearly a third of all
, Negro homes ^re dilapidated, com
pared with less than 10 per cent
in the nation as a whole. More
than 20 per cent of all Negro
homes are overcrowded, compared
with 5V£ per cent in the nation
as a whole.
Notes of Interest
The Lincoln Gardenetts Club
met at the home of Mrs. R. W.
Ambers on last Tuesday evening
at 8:00 p.m. Although there were
not all members present, there
was a very good informative
meeting. Mrs. George Randol gave
a talk on the culture of roses. Mrs.
Arthur Patrick, gave a very good
talk on how to raise African vio
lets and Mrs. Richard Huston read
a paper on wild life in the spring. ,
The club is planning a flower
show in the very near future.
Obituary
Funeral services for . George
Taylor, were held on Friday after- 1
noon at 3:30 P.M., May 8th, at
Marcy’s Mortuary, in Ashland,
: Nebraska.
I Rev. H. H. Utterback read the
i eulogy. Sam Kimbrough, William
Wheeler, Homer Duke, and Ber
nard Dill served as pallbearers.
Q. When a girl enters a res
taurant with an escort, should she
remove her wraps before she ar-l.
'rives at their table?
A. No. She should wait until (
seated, and then her escort or the',
waiter should assist her.
Q. Is it preferable to write a j
business letter in short sentences
and short paragraphs?
A. Yes. Brevity is preferred
in a business letter, though it
j takes real ability to “tell the1
story’’ in a few words. It is often'
more difficult to wrrite a good
short letter than a lengthy one. j
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Capitol News
By Melvin Paul
Statehouse Correspondent
The Nebraska Press Association
LINCOLN —The Budget Com
mittee df the Legislature this
week uncorked its recommenda
tion for state appropriations for
the next two years.
The committee report wasn’t
yet off the presses when the
$172M> million it recommended
was upped by $18 million with
Gov. Crosby’s signature of the
bill increasing the state tax on
gasoline from five to six cents a
^gallon.
With other revenue measures
pending, the grand total is likely
to reach $195 million, far and
away the biggest budget ever
adopted by a Nebraska Legisla
. ture.
The $18 million from the gas
tax increase was easily the big
gest single increase but there
iWere other sizable ones:
An expected $4 million from
the bill raising vehicle license
^ ifees.
Approximately $1 million
from a special quarter-mill levy
for the University of Nebraska
College of Medicine at Omaha.
About $3 million from a half
mill levy for the Teachers’ Re
tirement Fund.
Around $2 million which the
(Budget Committee left out of its
'report because Gov. Crosby wants
| to -unload that amount onto the
I counties for over-ceiling assist -
jance grants for medical services.
| The Legislature blocked Crosby’s
'plan to make the shift in time
for fixing the levy this summer
so at least a part—and maybe all
—of the amount will have to go
back into the budget.
Carmody, discussing the
budget, was asked whether he
thought the committee had ad
hered to the policy of “restraint”
laid down by Crosby at the start
of his administration. The an
swer was one of the week’s bet
ter ones:
VI can’t see that restraint was
our duty."
Lumps
Crosby was trying to make the
best of the budget. He said the
fact that t he general fund in
crease was relatively small, prop
erty tax payers should be heart
ened. It took reporters a good
deal of questioning to get the1
governor to concede that with the
two special levies, the total state
property tax bill for the next two
years will be about the same as
it is this biennium, $48V2 million, i
The governor got his lumps j
from the committee on several
points:
Crosby had proposed cutting :
off the Division of Dental Health j
without an appropriation. The I
committee gave it $30,000.
Crosby made no provision for j
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, One of the most dramatic njoments of the recent conclave of the
National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa came when the Rev. Archi
bald J. Carey Jr. of Chicago addressed the public meeting. Rev.
| Carey, considered one of the nation’s outstanding Republican lead
ers, is an alderman in the city council of Chicago.
the Milford Trade School. The
committee recommended $400,000
Crosby lopped $30,000 from the
State Fair Board. The committee
put it back.
Crosby slashed Department of
Public Instruction funds which
the department said would mean
the end of the school lunch pro
gram. The committee restored
$23,000.
Crosby, the committee found,
over-estimated agencies’ balances
in several places.
Figures
Here’s how the committee’s
recommendations stack up against
other standards:
Committee: $172,590,039. Gov
ernor: $166,379,614.
Asked by agencies: $172,367,416.
Current appropriation: $173,383,
571.
The General Fund (general
property tax, cigarette tax, liquor
tax, drivers licenses, etc.) appro
pration includes $51.3 million in
lew money compared to $55.1
million for 1951-53.
Highways
Nebraska had a highway pro-'
?ram this week with the signature
:nto law by Gov. Crosby of a bill
ncreasing the tax on gasoline
from five to six cents.
The boost is expected to bring
n $9 million of additional revenue
'or road construction in the next
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| two years. All of this can be
| matched with federal aid, so the
total increase will be $18 million.
I The Legislature this week also
| started a registration fee bill and
a diesel bill on their way to pas
sage. Beth measures were due
for some fire but sponsors were
optimistic they could save their
! bills.
The fee bill, as it now reads,
would produce an estimated $3
million. A third of this would go
to the state highway department
and the other two thirds to coun
ties and municipalities, but all is
eligible for matching with federal
aid.
The diesel bill would tax all
other motor fuels by the gallon,
the same as gasoline, but it is not
j expected to yield any more reve
jnue than the old equalization fee
charged for vehicles using some
fuel other than gasolineTX.
A cardinal duty for the seven
member advisory highway com
mission set up under a bill passed
last week would be to lay out pri
mary and secondary highway
systems or Nebraska. And a bill
ready for a final vote tthxs week
would require, county boards to
establish county road systems and
file plans with the State Highway
Department or else lose their state
funds.
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