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UNWORTHY TACTICS
It is unfortunate that the Ne
gro is being used to stir up ra
cial animosities in the presi
dential campaign. It is being
done by representatives of both
major parties to win votes for
their respective candidates.
Democratic speakers, chiefly
of the south, and let us state
frankly that the narrow-vision
ed, racially insane south is the
one great reason why it is prac
tically impossible for the Negro
to divide his vote nationally as
many desire to do—are damn
ing Hoover, because he has re
moved segregation in his de
partment and is therefore ad
vocating “social equality.”
This, of course, is done in the
hope of electing Smith. On the
other hand, to “crash the gates
of the solid south,” and win
votes for Hoover, some repub
lican spellbinders, like Senator
Moses, are holding up the scep
tre of a Negro official in New
York City, referring to Ferdi
nand Q. Morton, civil service
commissioner, “dictating to a
white female stenographer.”
The purpose of this is quite ob
vious. By whomsoever done, it
is a display of a reprehensible
spirit and discloses an attitude
of mind of which America’s
truer self must be most heartily
ashamed. Unworthy tactics
usually defeat themselves.
SCHOOL BOARD
CANDIDATES
Five candidates are to be
elected to the board of educa
tion at the November election
and we should see to it that at
least some of the five elected
will have the courage to de
mand that our people get a
square deal in the matter of the
employment of teachers and
other employees. Among 2,000
employees of the board of edu
cation, there is not so much as
one of our group employed. At
one time we had three or four
janitors, a teacher and other
employees. Why not now? We
want teachers first and
must not cease our efforts un
til we get them. Let us organ
ize our forces and fight, not for
any special privileges, but for
right. “Taxation without rep
resentation is tyranny” still.
Let us get busy with prospect
ive candidates for the board of
education before election and
not after. And if need be let
us crowd the meetings of the
board of education until our
just demands are granted. We
are too easy. We do not fight
hard enough for what we want.
DISTRICT JUDGES
Nine district judges are to
be elected November 6. It is
very important that our courts
should be administered by men
not only learned in the law,
but judicially and fair-minded
men of the highest character.
The district bench has been
most fortunate hitherto in hav
ing judges of this type and the
high standard should be main
tained.
JUDGE DAY WISE “DADDY”
TO GREAT BIG FAMILY
Delivers Strong Message of Family
Welfare Based Upon His Ex
perience in Court of Do
mestic Relations
Eight years on the district judicial
bench, five as Judge of the Domestic
Relations and Juvenile Courts, have
given Judge L. B. Day, now a candi
date for the Supreme Court, a rare
insight into the average American
home problem, perhaps unequalled by
any other living American jurist.
To him, the thousands of troubled
men and women and children who
have come before his bar, have not
been just “cases” in the slow and
steadily grinding court mill, but each
was a separate problem, necessitat
ing careful investigation and thought.
The generous crop of gray, with
which the Judge’s hair has been shot |
during his incumbency on the domes
tic relations bench in Omaha is silent
testimony of this fact.
To those who know him best, Judge j
Day has been the head of a huge trou-j
bled family — a family which em
braces not only babes in mother’.- ,
arms but “children” considerably i
older in actual years than is he. As
“dad” to them all, the hour has never j
been too late or his time too limited
to hear their individual plaints and j
pleas.
Out of it all has come Judge Day’s
idea for “The Ideal Family Court”
now being given careful thought and
attention by social workers from one
coast to the other. It is based on
five years’ actual contact with cases
involving domestic relations and he
outlines it in brief as follows:
“There is a great difference of
opinion among those who have work
ed most with these family problems,
about the ideal family court. The
difference is mostly concerned with
the classes of cases which should be j
made subject to its jurisdiction. It
seems to me that the jurisdiction of
the family court should embrace all
cases in which the family relationship
is involved.
“The family problem seems para
mount in all cases involving children,
including contributing to delinquency
and dependency of minor children;
guardianship of a person (but not
guardian of property) of a minor;
adoption; securing support for the
unwed mother and her child; the ad
ministration of the public funds for
the support of dependent children
(mothers’ pensions); desertion, non
support, abusing wife by physical
violence; cases of divorce, separate
maintenance and annulment.
elusive, but not final jurisdiction of
all the cases just enumerated. There
ought not to be other courts of con
current jurisdiction entering judg
ments upon these cases to conflict
with its judgments and thus leave the
final determination doubtful and un
certain to the parties.
“The family court should have a
staff of trained probation officers.
Effective probation work is the heart
and soul of a successful family court.
The judge of the court, though not
so important as the probation staff,
ought to be one interested in the so
cial problems of the family, in addi
tion to all the other generally ac
cepted qualifications for the judicial
office. It matters not whether the
family court is a specially created
court, but the judge ought to be elect
ed especially for the particular court,
rather than assigned to the division,
in order that he might be in sympathy
with the work.
“The court should have the serv
ices of physicians for physical exami
nations and psychiatrists for mental
examinations. In addition to this,
the court must have the aid and co
operation of all the social welfare
organizations operating in the com
munity. The Court must know how
to use the services of these organiza
tions. And lastly, it is essential that,
such a court be in close co-opcration
with the schools of the city, both pub
lic, parochial and private.”
Such is the message Judge Day
leaves as he seeks promotion to the
Supreme Court.
WOMAN’S AUXILIARY
OF SPANISH WAR VETERANS
HOLD MEETING
The Woman’s Auxiliary held their
regular meeting W’ednesday night,
with a good attendance. One new
member was obligated. Past Com
mander George Douglas of Captain
Allensworth Camp was with us.
Business was transacted and a card
party was planned to be held at St.
Benedict’s Community Home, Wed
nesday, October 24, at 8:30 p. m.,
for the benefit of the Auxiliary.
The public is invited to attend and
help make it a financial success. Re
freshments served free.
Adrian Stamms is home from the
University hosptal, where he under
went an operation for appendicitis
last week, and is reported improving
nicely.
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JUDGE
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Sarpy Counties
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