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.
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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.
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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?
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W. G. Hastings
Asks Re-Election as
District Judge
County Attorney Saline Co., 1891.
Jua^e 7th District, 1892 to 1900.
Supieme Court Commissioner to
1904.
In U. of N. Law College to 1921.
Judge Here Since 1923.
JUDGE
L. B. DAY
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Douglas—Washington and
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Judge Day is capable, effi
cient and satisfactory.
Re-Elect
Frank S. Ho well
Supreme Judge
|r; Judge Frank S. Howell th» ;!j
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S dorsement of the Omaha Bar as- j
sociation, receiving 202 votes to
his opponent's 93
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Experienced in All
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