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Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, <
!I and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the !I
]; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ;;
1 ■ state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the • >
I! privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- J;
■ > erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person ;;
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Our Choice for President
in 1928 is
WALTER W. HEAD
of Nebraska
An Astute, Able, Clear
headed Business
Man
JOIN THE N. A. A. C. P.
That there is great need for
a strong branch of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in Oma
ha is becoming plainer every day.
This is the one organization that
has proven itself equal to the
task of protecting the Negro in
the enjoyment of his civil rights
and in securing recognition of
his equality before the law. The
reason for this is that in num
bers there is strength, moral
strength and financial strength.
Power and influence always com
mand attention and respect.
When it was possible, as in the
Sweet case, to have a fund of
$70,000.00 to pay for legal ex
pense and, if necessary to carry
the case up to a higher court it
can be readily seen that such an
organization was not to be un
derrated. When the N. A. A.
C. P. has a membership of a
million, instead of as now, one of
125,000, and a fund of $1,00#,
000 for legal defense, publicity
and the protection of our people
in their rights of citizenship, it
will be immediately recognized
that it will be unsafe to deny
the Negro his civil rights or to
insult him because of his race
and color. The National branch
can only be strong in members
and financial strength in propor
tion to the membership of the
local branches. Now, if in Oma
ha, our branch had a member
ship of 1,500 members and a
fund of $1,50# or $2,000 avail
able to employ the best legal
talent we could easily combat the
spirit of discrimination that is
daily increasing in this city. Al
most daily we have brought to
our attention cases of denial of
civil rights by places of uefresh
ment, theatres and like institu
tions. Objectionable signs are
being placed in public places re
flecting upon our people. The
local branch can do but little to
correct these growing evils be
cause of lack of funds and weak
ness in membership. Where the
Omaha branch has 100 members,
it ought to have ten times that
number. With more than 15,000
Negroes in Omaha, knowing
how discrimination is growing
it ought to be an easy matter to
get a membership of 1,500.
Every self-respecting man and
woman of the race should be a
member of the N.A.A.C.P. in or
der to maintain and safeguard
the citizenship rights we now en
joy and to secure those which
are denied.
SOMETHING ROTTEN
TRat there is something rot
ten about the whole affair of
that California woman evangel
ist or religious leader who has
gathered to herself such a large
following and incidentally col
lected a huge sum of what is
vugarly called jack. The moral
and spiritual superiority of
which some people prate because
of the color of their skin and
texture of their hair is receiving
a solar plexus blow from many
quarters. Let not our people
imitate or covet this brand of
superiority. Emulate virtue and
flee vice.
TRUTH COMING OUT
The arrest and confession of
a white man in St. Louis said to
have blackened his face and com
mitted the crime of rape and
other crimes a»d his charge that
he is one of a gang who does
this thing should open the eyes
of thlose who jump to the con
clusion that the Negro is innate
ly a criminal. There have been
cases without number disclosed
where white criminals have had
their faces blackened and threw
suspicion on Negroes, who in
many cases have suffered at the
hands of mobs and of the au
thorities for crimes which they
never committed. Not that there
are no Negro criminals; for, alas,
much to our regret there are;
but that all crimes alleged to be
committed by Negroes, because
the criminal’s face appears to
be black, are in reality commit
ted by Negroes is by n© means
true. This Mississippi white
man is frank enough to say that
his gang blacken their faces be
cause by this means it is very
easy to escape punishment and
fix the crime on some Negro.
He is to be admired for his
frankness. Truth will eventual
ly come out.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
RENDER ASSISTANCE TO
80# NEGRO FAMILIES
Large Amount of Work Done Among
Our Group by This Important
Agency Than fe Generally
Known.
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SPECIAL WORKER KEPT BUST
Few, rf any of our people, or of
Omaha citizens in general, for that
matter, have any idea of the amount
of work done by the Associated Char
ities, or of the various kinds of serv
ice this agency is called aipon to
render.
The average man or woman has no
comprehension of the many angles there
are to the average ease that presents it
self to a sincere and intelligent aucial
worker. If the individual who befleve*
•hat successful social welfare work is easy
or quick of accomplishment, he should
honestly make a little study of the mat
ter. He will quickly change his mind,
ft is one thing to render immediate and
concrete aid to a needy family and then
to relieve oneself of all responsibility
thereafter. It is quite another matter to
render such immediate aid and then to
grapple with the problem and arrive at
wine woskable plan whereby that family
can be made self st£porting, either in
part or wholly.
The Associated Charities has constantly
to meet just such problems and a satis
factory solution often means months of
close, careful and patient study and work
on the part of Mrs. George Doane, ex
ecutive secretary, and her assistants.
The general public thinks that the sole
province of the Associated Charities Is to
give out a bucket of coal and a basket
of groceries occasionally. If this were
the case social welfare work would indeed
be a simple thing and the public would
more readily see just where and how its
money is spent. But when a social work
er devotes months to the rehabilitation of
one family, it ia very difficult to point out
just where there is an adequate return
for the money donated by the public and
vpent by the social work era. Bht the
conscientious social worker is the one
who courageously fights through the long
and discouraging period necessary to put
the individual or the family once more in
an independent postion. And that in the
final analysis is the real objective of so
cial service work. It cannot always be
accomplished; sometimes it can be accom
plished only in measure.
In order not to pauperize those whom
it aims to assist, the Associated Charities
must consider and solve the problems re
lating to health, hoasing. rent, jobs, food,
fuel, clothing; the problems relating to
marriage, childbirth, divorce, death, en
mity, strife, age. natural fitness or unfit
ness and all the other human conditions
and relationships that are so intricately
tied togeher in the strange bundle of life.
The** workers so often receive criticism
and fault finding rather than intelligent
co-operation among those who might ren
der them aid in their perplexities.
Statistics and figures are cinsidered dry
by the average reader, but they are quite
necessary to present facts which the pub
lic should know. For example, it will
astonish many to learn that within a pe
riod of six months from January 1 to
June .30. 1926, more than 2.000 families
were given attention by the Associated
Charities and of this number 800 were
colored. During this period 3.166 visits
were made to homes and nearly 2.000
interviews were held in the office. Mrs
Grace M. Hulten is the special work*r
to whom is assigned by Mrs. Doane the
investigation of cases among our people
and like all the others on the staff, her
hands are full.
Statistics will not prove interesting hul
the following statement from Mrs. Doane
taken from her semi-annual report tells
an interesting story:
"In reviewing the work of the past six
months, so full of interest to those en
gaged in it, with maay an anxious day
hot never a dull one, the figures will give
s*me idaa of the service given.
First—Who came to the Associated
Charities for help? The destitute, the on
employed, the sick, the undernourished,
the crippled, the ambitious, the unfortu
nate, the incompetent, the wanderer, the
irresponsible, the wayward, the delin
quent, the crafty, the simple, the misfits,
the clean, the dirty, the good and the bad.
As a moving picure they present effort
and indolence—truth and dishonesty—de
votion and neglect—hope and discourage
ment - high ideals and low standards—sor
row and irageefc.
Srcond—What was done for them? If
destitute, relief was given; if sick, medi
cal care wa« prodded through the proper
channels. So far it ■> not difficult to
render such constructive service that un
fortunate conditions will aot continue and
that dependent* may, through their own
efforts become independent—this is not
a matter of a day’s work, but of weeks,
months, and somatimes years id service.
It seem* futile to attempt a report on
such services, lor totals of telephone calls
and inerviews, of visits aid relief given,
mean so little compared wth the urge and
struggle—the hopes anil disappointments
—the dlow gains and frequent failures
that follow the efferts to make better
homes and stronger personalities. It takes
so Kmg to develop charaiuer, to overcome
unfortunate circumstances and to get a
good start toward sacces* that if in a year’s
work only a good beginning is made, we
mult be satisfied.
Without regard to differences of race,
nationality or creed, those who need help
have been aided or have had a suitable
plan worked out for them, whereby their
needs were taken care of.
Mrs. George A. Love. 2430 Grant street,
has been detained at home thi* week by
ilness.
N. A. A. C. P. WILL MEET
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
A joint business meeting and public
forum of ftie Omaha Branch of thd
N. A. A. C. P. will be held in the
Guild Room of the Church of SU
Philip the Deacon, Twenty-first near
Paul street, Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock. A quartet will furnish mu
sical numbers and important local
matters pertaining to the violation of
civil rights will be discussed. The
public is urged to attend.
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