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PERSONALS Mr. James A. Jackson was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith, 2211 Ohio street, during his stay in Omaha. Hard Times Masquerade Party, by the “Ready to Go Team” at Dream \ land Hall, Thursday night, November 8 th. Two Prizes for worst cos tumes. Admission 50 cents.—Adv. Mrs. Jane Turner, mother of the late William Jackson, who was a res ident of Omaha for a number of years, died October 16, in Kansas City, Mo., at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Cornelia Adams. The body was shipped to Glasgow, Mo., for bur ial. Mrs. Turner is survived by five children and three grandchildren. Vera Chandler and Edrose Willis were joint hostesses at a very pleas ant pre-Hallowe’en party, Friday night, October 26, at the home of the former, 2528 Maple street. Decora tions, costumes and refreshments were all in keeping with the season, and a happy evening was enjoyed by all. Hard Times Masquerade Party, by the “Ready to Go Team” at Dream land Hall, Thursday night, November 8th. Two Prizes for worst cos tumes. Admission 50 cents.—Adv. I — The Misses Elaine Smith and Susie ] Whiteside were joint hostesses at a very delightful masquerade party at j the home of Miss Elaine Smith, 3027 j Manderson street, Monday evening, October 29. The costumes worn by j the guests were unique and elaborate. The prize for the most elaborate cos tume for girls was awarded to Miss Gladys Reynolds. That for the boys | was awarded to Thomas Dooley, j About thirty guests responded to the invitation of the hostesses and all en-! joyed an evening of fun. Hard Time* Masquerade Party, by the “Ready to Go Team” at Dream land Hall, Thursday night, November 8th. Two Prizes for worst cos tumes. Admission 50 cents.—Adv. _ Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Ross and Attor- 1 ney William McKnight of Topeka, ! Kans., are house guests of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Hawkins, 2120^ North Twenty-fourth street. The Missionary Federation, Mrs. J. A. Frye, secretary of the Young People’s work, will present two pic tures to the North Side “Y” at 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, November 4. Rev. Robert Wheeler will be the speaker. Eat your dinner and hear the elec tion returns Tuesday, November 6, at the “Y”. Dinner 45 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Drew Harorld have been added to Mrs. A. Hicks’ “Ready To Go” company, who give a Hard Times Masquerade Thursday night at Dreamland Hall. Attend the Apron Scoial of the service committee at the “Y”, Thurs day night. Mrs. Catherine Wheeler returned Saturday night from several months’ visit in California. PUT SECOND “BLACKBIRDS’1 COMPANY ON THE ROAD New York City—Celebrating its eighth sensational month, “Black birds” opens in Boston with a second company Monday night. Gertrude Saunders is taking the role created by Adelaide Hall in the New York run and Allie. Boss is conducting the orchestra. The second company will | be as good as the first company and will tour the United States after a long run in Boston. I TEXT OF THE APPEAL AN APPEAL TO AMERICA The persons whose names are sign ed beneath are alike in the fact that we all have Negro slaves among our ancestors. In other respects, we dif fer widely; in descent, in dwelling place, in age, and occupation; and, * to some extent, in our approach to ward what is known as the Negro problem. More, especially, we differ in po litical thought and allegiance; some of us are republicans by inheritance and long custom; others are demo crats, by affiliation and party mem bership; still others are socialists. But all of us are at this moment united in the solemn conviction that I in the presidential campaign of 1928, more than in previous campaigns since the civil war, the American Ne gro is being treated in a manner which is unfair and discouraging. We accuse the political leaders of this campaign of permitting without I protest, public and repeated asser tions on the platform, in the press, i and by word of mouth, that color and race constitute in themselves an im putation of guilt and crime. It has been said, north and south, east and west, and by partisans of the Pleading candidates: 1. That Negro voters should not ; be appealed to, or their support wel I corned by the advocates of just | causes. 2. That colored persons should not hold public office, no matter what their character may be nor how well they do their work, nor how competently they satisfy their con stituents. I 3. That the contact of white peo ple and black people in government, in business, and in daily life, in com mon effort and co-operation, calls for explanation and apology. 4. That the honesty and integrity of party organization depend on the ] complete removal of all Negroes from I voice and authority. 5. That the appointment of a pub lic official is an act which concerns only white citizens, and that Colored citizens should have neither voice nor ] consideration in such appointments. These assertions, which sound bald ! and almost unbelievable when stated without embellishment, have appear ed as full page advertisements in the public press, as the subject of leading editorials, and as displayed news stor ies; they have been repeated on the public platform and in open debate and over the radio by both republi cans and democratic speakers, and they have been received by the na tion and by the adherents of these | and others parties in almost complete ; silence. A few editors have depre ! cated this gratuitous lugging in of the race problem, but for the most part, this astonishing campaign of public insult toward one-tenth of the nation has evoked no word of protest from the leading party candidates or from their official spokesmen; and from few religious ministers, Prot | estant or Roman Catholic, or Jewish, I and from almost no leading social re i formers. Much has been said, and rightly, j of the danger in a republic like ours I of making sincere religious belief a matter of political controversy and of i diverting public attention from great questions of public policy to petty matters of private life. But, citizens of America, bad as religious hatred and evil personal gossip are, they have not seeds of evil and disaster that lie in continued, unlimited and unrestrained appeal to race preju dice. The emphasis of racial con tempt and hatred which is being made in this campaign is an appeal to the lowest and most primitive of human motives, and as long as this appeal can successfully be made, there is for this land no real peace, no sincere re ligion, no national -unity, no social progress, even in matter far removed from racial controversy. Do not misunderstand us. We are not asking equality where there is no equality. We are not demanding or even discussing purely social inter mingling. We have not the slightest desire for intermarriage between the races. We frankly recognize that the aftermath of slavery must involve long years of poverty, crime and con tempt; for all of this that the past has brought and the present gives, we have paid in good temper, quiet work and unfaltering faith. But we do solemnly affirm that in a civilized land and in a Christian culture and among increasingly intelligent people, somewhere and sometime, limits must be put to race disparagement and separation and to campaigns of ra cial calumny which seek to set 12 million human beings outside of the pale of ordinary humanity. We believe that this nation and every part of it must come to admit that the gradual disappearance of in equalities between racial groups and the gradual softening of prejudice and hatred, is a sign of advance and not of retrogression and should be hailed as such by all decent folk and we think it monstrous to wage a po litical campaign in which the fading and softening of racial animosity and the increase of co-operation can be held up to the ration as a fault and not as a virtue. We do not believe that the majority of the white people whether north or south, believe in the necessity or the truth of the as sertions current in this campaign; but we are astonished to see the num ber of persons who are whipped to silence in the presence of such obvi ous and ancient political trickery. You cannot set the requirements of political honesty and intelligence too high to gain our consent. We have absolutely no quarrel with standards of ability and character which will bring to public office in America the very highest type of public servant. We are more troub led over political dishonesty among black folk than you are among white. We are not seeking political domina tion. But, on the other hand, it is too late for us to submit to political slavery and we most earnestly pro test against the unchallenged assump tion that every Negro in America is dishonest and incompetent and that color in itself is a crime. It is not so much the virulence of the attack in this case. It is its sub tie and complacent character and the assenting silence in which it is re ceived. Gravely and openly these assertions are made and few care, few protest, few answer. Has not the time come when as a nation, north and south, black and white, we can stop this tragic fooling and de mand, not to be sure, everything that all Negroes might wish, nor all that some white people might prefer, but a certain balance of decency and logic in the discussion of race? Can we not, as a nation, assert that the constitution is the law of the land and that the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments as well as the 18th are still valid; that it is no crime for a colored man to vote if he meets the legal requirements; that it is not a crime to appoint a colored man to office unless he is incompetent; and if he is incompetent, the crime lies in his incompetency and not in his col or; that in this modern world of nec essarily increasing human contact it is inevitable that persons of different race work together in private and in public service; that this contact is not wrong unless the persons are un able to do their work properly or un less their helpful co-operation is prov en impossible? We are asking, therefore, in this appeal, for a public repudiation of this campaign of racial hatred. Si lence and whispering in this case are worse than in matters of personal character and religion. Will white America make no protest? Will the candidates continue to remain silent? Will the Church say nothing? Is there in truth any issue in this cam paign, either religious tolerance, liq uor, water power, tariff or farm re lief, that touches in weight the trans cendent and fundamental question of the open, loyal and unchallenged rec ognition of the essential humanity or twelve million Americans who happen to be dark-skinned? Y (My Name Appears on the £ ❖ Separate Non-Political f Sf Ballot) £ 1 FRANK M. ! | DINEEN I $ Non-Political Candidate Y <£ for *| | % i DISTRICT JUDGE | 4th Judicial District !|* | Election November 6th HEY—YOU! SATURDAY’S SPECIALS Just a Few Examples of Our 99 Specials: 10 lbs. Sugar 58c Spare Ribs, lb. 15lie 24 lbs. Flour 79c Steaks, Sirlion, T Bones 22Me Corn Meal, sack 15c Matches, 6 large boxes 17c Malt, can _ 37}*c Rice, fancy, 4 lbs. 25c R3TE-WAY SYSTEM A. A. 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