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H hi m This Is Co operation ♦ > of the rtepteeilrm hare Nrnir *»iw" ff- ierments that MW gwMirn <d >» - group rnnsrirfflsnesB rtf Wd»r»ew fm sh- nurirre of tnrresstng thefr ee* «n*nc power Never before has th~*e |r*n swell a general Interest im«ir three' worker* In bona fide or gnn)agflrms as is now evident (Met* rntnmmi lahe-rer* hare hcuirt ni ih*»ftselves together and throngtiout »*>« bind they are seeking admtsatnn l® • hr A f of I Merhanle* have formed an a*"** t®Hr>rt in sentre more lot* intrfcerr hotel wallers and rooks are IIheap w• -s-r- sod nrganererg are aware of and espies* (he feeling that thetr tally •miration ran eome from within Negro women are joining the move ment and In tnanv large ettlea they have Immed Housewives leagues whose prmtnm Is to boost Negro business In "n*p» of the large renters a special trade wee* has been projected by bus iness men lo «how that they are rom mg of age in terms of efficiency and «r* entitled to the patronage of the group Apparently the old naylng If you dewit hang together you may liang eeparately" Is gradually taking root In the life of a raee sucresslully rent In twain by traditions and psychology of mutual distrust and suspicion fostered Mat engendered by many years of slaverv However the new day Ls at hand It Is dawning upon the Negroes her* tn this beautiful capital city of tdpcetn Hr the housewives of our own etty pledging themselves to patronise the advertisers In the Weekly Review they lew can jotn this happy move ment And this is co-op* ration Lame Duck (pMrrrliu the lamp duck amend ment Cot John O Maher Nebraska *1 PngrrMlvf Leagu- said and honest a* th>< man who wrote it and ehamptoned U for the last decade •hone who take the voters and their rush’* very light iv a* some of us can two years ago When a disreputable scheme to deprive Nebraska citizens of their right lo express a preference »e* Senator m the Republican prinia fw* %aa rspired bv a United State* effort to tide the guilt o# these plot tm bv laiumny against Senator Nor »**»*» the episode, noM^Ut the dig Jh»e wee# ertMc# during that cam pawn who rumsured the worth of a -fatesnwtn by the numb: of federal afbiwtMRU he itHdd **ure abd on a*- $»«•** at the pork burnt Those eedbrs vlwodd now nuttee that while ! *mm turn divided tune wrtli the >ob tW»t«r> and the aortal tobyw .. it has ieatauad for Nebraskaa grand (old »t*fe...van to retire the '-ame ducks.* «W pu* a Mop to log rotting and till InuPkMMg and to Rave ire law such i >.a* if >**<> m again an tJadtioR so « sgewMabningi a* iu he - ,iriua» man cade frgga the p»< pi* R wttt b ipewi ,»* taAwwed by * meeting of legislators W • xkl ' i ENOUGH OF BROKEN PROMISES! In the Inst first Ion It was the small fello# Who gave all and the big fellow who gm alt A bad feeling of diaoen (lofi has crept into certain political ranks f.oud squawk# are coming from the small fish of the Negro group who labored so strenuously, though vainly, j to stem the rising tide of Roosevelt and hts partvmen on promises of fat Jobs Wnf them It was certainly a lesson In politic# since the official statement of I expenditure# reveal# that the big fel ! lows ptnved safe and took their# "In j front" fhe smnil Negroes who demanded pay for their service# were shrewdly denounced Also, word was circulated among colored newspapers that the party had no money and that only small expense account# were being al lowed With which t® carry on Rosroc Simmon#, famed for ht# oratorical abll II v was sen I over the country to tell of the love we should have for the O, O P and his devotion to Abraham f,t neoin Tet statement# of receipt# and e« pendltures made by the Republican National Committee show that all of the Mg shot#” were amply paid for their service# Bishop#, attorneys, teacher#, politician# and Journalist#1 received sum# ranging from 11117 to |9, tVf.09 Workers are now prone to wonder If they were'nt suckers" to give their service# and to work unselfishly as they did. and without pay, only an empty promise Rome day the average Negro poli tician will learn that the first truism of politic#, a# well a# other transac tion# of consequence, l# that the work man la deserving of hi# hire. Only when one I# playing an odd# on fa vorite* is it expedient to deviate from this rule The smart fellows play the game as It should be played. There is one alternative for the small town politician and that is promise insurance". By this method the worker is insured of his reward. To further explain. If the party com mittee refuses to pay off tn front, as they probably will, it is then necessary for the individual candidate to come before a representative group not merely to talk, but to put his prom ises in black and white before the sup port of the colored people is pledged him Any candidates who fail to re fuse to do thia should not expect to receive the support of the Negro and those of the other races who at such times are influenced by them. The day has passed for the smooth tongued politician who formerly only carried a smile at election time, or who felt embarrassed to shake a black man's hand on the street, or who could hope to get a vote for a cigar, or who did not care to believe there were Ne groes qualified for jobs other than that of Janitor, or who lied about what he would do for the individual or his peo ple when he was placed tn his office. The day has come when Negroes fran chise rights must be respected. He will no longer accept empty promises from party leaders who know in advance that their party Is doomed to lose, nor promises to later be broken by suc cessful candidates Past situations in our locality have caused Negroes to unite and candi dates realize they can no longer follow the steps of the old type of politician for they are dealing with a new Negro. Remember no more empty promises -—no more promises to be broken to govern, we must, rejoice in Sena tor Norris Umr Duck Amendment Many of u* were taught In our school days that "ffonesty is the best policy” and that right triumphs. FV>r the past twelve years, the student of gov ernment could not find many instan ces to apply those homely old adages. On the contrary. It appeared from the successes of the Forbes and the Falls, and from the successful cam paign* conducted on trumped-up Is sues that chicanery and deceit were good partners In political life. The triumphs of Senator Norris, gained against terrific odds, rrstores faith In the simple virtues of honesty, patience, persistence and courage. The passage i and ratification of the Twentieth Amendment Is another laurel for the brow of the greatest American of this age Senator George W Norris. Negro Education Week Again the people of America will have their minds focused upon the var ious achievements of the Negro In the field of education. Next week the en- I tire nation will sing the praises of Negro educators, Negro schools. Negro students nnd Negro accomplishments. Praise for the past efforts and encour agement for the future will be broad cast from churches, schools, forums and radios In every corner of the land even In the South, where the bet terment ot educational opportunities In recent years has almost been phe nomenal i Such a program no doubt serves its S purpose well. Many individual* are awakened to Ihcir duties and possible roles that they might play in the de velopment of education for the Ne groes Many are stimulated to extend the limits of their apparent educa tional opportunities. Many philanthro pists urge themselves to help the Ne gro who Is struggling so hard to help himself . even authorities, who rule the finances in states that hitherto have maintained double standards in their educational programs, see they must do better by "their Negroes" if their neighbor state Is not to make them show up bad". tOf course they are not to admit that It was the pri vately built and maintained Negro in stitution that early began to set the • pace In Negro education). This week's program could be fur ther intensified in Its significance, if it were only succeeded by a "Negro Grad uates Opportunity Week”. After all the material good of higher education is reduced to nothingness unless the people of the nation see fit to be broadminded enough to recognise the fact that America, which has long claimed to be democratic, has closed the door* o' opportunity on thousands oi its best trained men and women be cause of their darker complexion. ii . i.i. i . . i igy■ . i .i. . . Unknown Offenses Often things are done by members j of the other race that Negroes take ! offense to. Some of these things are tone by southern people, who would not have done them had they had the slightest reason to believe that anyone would be annoyed or embarrassed as a consequence of their actions. Such was the case last week when the managers of one of Lincoln's moat popular stores in an attempt to adver- ' ise black Jelly beans'' placed a white! girl who had been blacked In the win- j dov of rus store with these beans ftps gentleman ts from Alabama and no doubt has used similar methods to advertise the wares of stores he man aged down there innumerable times. However when approached by some of me more outspoken people of the race who are interested In their own wel lar hereadii apologized and agreed to slop the method that he was using in advertising There Is no question but that these colored people did the right thing and they certainly have the congratulations of the Review on their stand and cour age, Too, we all should appreciate the exceptional broad mindedness of this white man from the south. There is no doubt but that he was honest lv. his statement that he did not realize that he had aroused the H-feellng of the colored people, many of whom would never have said anything but who would doubtlessly boycotted his store. Tli is portrays another Instance in which an organization such as the Urban League could function to help the struggling business man who is not truly aware of the idiosyncrasies of colored people, and who carelessly and unknowingly use methods that might prove detrimental to their pro gress. A Buzzards Nest "Investigator" in the Elk Point, S. D., Herald tells a scathing story of the chattel loan business in Iowa. Here is a brief installment of his har rowing story Sioux City, Iowa, is infested with loan sharks in quality of character and numbers that would dam any city in the country. You see their seductive signs everywhere, and hear their rasp ing voices on the radio, broadcasting their nefarious business to get more victims out of that city. They have the unmitigated guts and gall to charge three and one-half per cent a month, which is $42 per year on the $100; and they have the disgusting audacity to call this the "easy payment plan". And the sad thing of all this is that they have bullied a law through the legislature of the state of Iowa, and operate under that law which the lobbyists made for them At each term of the legislature of the State of Iowa, you will find skulking around the capital, a bunch of lobby ists for these social hounds, watching to see that this damnable loan busi ness is not interfered with; and to make sure that the short loan buzzards can still prey upon the unfortunate and needy, so that these sharks can con tinue undo- the law to pull from the scant and needy underfed homes, the baby cradle, if necessary, in order that they can get their pound of flesh from the submerged and suppressed poor people. A certain man near Sioux City, ouc of work, three years ago. went and bor rowed from one of these economic buz zards $100 at the rate of three and one half per cent a month interest, and on account of no work and sickness in the family, could pay nothing on the prin ciple. but has paid back to this un social vulture the sum of $126 in Inter est, and still owes him the original principal of $100, upon which he is still paying at the rate of three and one-half per cent interest per month. And in the meantime, this ecnomic jungle rat has driven his wagon to the house of this poor person six times to pull the furniture, including the small cook stove, two beds and other scanty furniture. But the poor little house wife each time scraped up the interest and paid this unconscionable agent the interest, and had to give him a new promise that they would try to pay something on the principal at the end of the n^rt month. The hijacking agent remarks, If you do not come across at the end of the next month. I will take everything you have mort gaged to us. Lincoln, like all the nation is afflict ed to some extent with this sort of cat tle. but not to such an extent as the 8ioux City story, but bad enough we can assure our readers. And still we wonder at crime. -o WHEN MAKING A PURCHASE SPEAK OF THE REVIEW Late News From Nebraska Cities The Pevtew ts primarily a p%per for 1 the people of the state of Nebraska I News ts welcome from anyone disposed t to send the activities of their home j town. Let this paper serve as a tie be-1 tween the most remote groups of the | state. Bend your social news, lodge news and records of your community j activities and problems to The Weekly i Review. 230 North 11th Street, Lincoln, j Nebraska. News for each week must be In not later than Tuesday noon. Help ■ us to build up our paper; take a sub- I scription We try to make It interesting I for everyone. BEATRICE. NEBRASKA The 8. P. Reserves spent a very | profitable session in bible work In j connection with the code phase "Rev- j erent to Ood". The club together with j their sponsor, Mias Maybelle 8cott, I have planned to celebrate National Ne gro Educational Week on February 5th. Mr. W Robert 8mf>lls, executive sec retary of the Kansas City Urban League, will be the principal speaker at the S. P. Reserves first annual cel ebration of Negro Educational week The program will be held at the Y. W. C. A. building at eight o'clock, Febru ary 3rd- Every one is Incited. Rev Alfred Newton filled the pulpit Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Oordon spent Sunday in Lincoln The Woman’s club is busily engaged in piecing quilts. At the next meeting, Miss Scott will review’ the book "What Can Literature Do for Me”. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Henry Colliers. The following attended the funeral of Mrs. Frances Hill Taylor, former Lincoln girl, who was accidently killed in Brooklyn, New York, and was re turned to Lincoln for burial; Mrs. Washington and daughter, Mrs. John Casmon, Mrs. Jewell Bruce, Miss May belle Scott and Mr. Henry Scott Boeltz Earns Salary If Senator Boelts does not do anoth er thing during the present session, the people of the state will receive a snug dividend on the salary Mr. Boelts draws down while serving in the leg islature. The senator from Merrick put a resolution in the hopper that result-, ed in a senate committee taking charge of the state capltol. In this way $80,000, to be expended in artis tic adornments inside the building, will be saved to the taxpayers. All the money would go to supposed artists in the East. ■-o Behrens Is Named .»Ex-Senator Henry Behrens »f Bec mer has been named as a member of the board of control by Governor Bry an, Kenneth S. Wherry of Pawnee City having withdrawn Early in the session Governor Bryan appointed Wherry, but action in the senate was delayed. According to law, the governor is required to nominate a republican. Mr. Behrens has served several terms in the state senate. He was formerly in the banking business, but retired sev eral years ago. -o Sports Well, none of you young fellows who are possessed of athletic powers have bothered to send us a thing concerning your own actiylties, so you have forced the old man to do a little research work and send to the press what some of you might call “old stuff". Well, anyway, here is a condensed statement with reference to the exploits of a few of the outstanding colored athletes of the year 1932. We will all agree that this was a banner year for Negro ath letes. PUGILISM: We will merely mention a few that we consider outstanding: George Godfrey. "Unknown" Winston. Ace Clark, and Harry Wills are the leading contenders in the heavy weight j division. John Henry Lewis, Billy Jones, Larry , Johnson, and Larry Gaines lead the light heavies in the order mentioned. Kid Chocolate the junior lightweight champion remained the idol of the fight fans throughout the country. Panama A1 Brown maintains his po sition. Eddie Phagan. Mark Hough, and, Richard Carter are the outstanding amateurs. WRESTLING: Reginald Siki is in a class by himself in this sport as far as the Race is concerned. Bear Cat Wright and George Godfrey did well at times. TENNIS: Reggie Weir and Johnson of Tuskegee are easily classed as cham pions. Ora Washington is the women’s i champion. FOOTBALL: Wiley wins the Nation al championship. Lyons, Babb and Ward starred in mixed colleges and young "Fritz’’ Pollard followed his dad’s footsteps. He was granted a scholarship at Harvard. OLYMPIC GAMES: There is not much review necessary. The trio of Tolan, Metcalfe, and Gordon stood out by winning world championships. Oth ers of track and field fame were: Eu gene Beattie. Cornelius Johnson. James Johnson. Nathaniel Oeorge. Ashley1 Burch and John Brooks. Please let’s have some news next week -o Helen Bina. Chicago’s best girl skater, who was captain of the Amer ican Women's Olympics skating team of 1932. is winning more triumphs this winter. Unemployed March To Feasting Solons Hungry Men Advance to Door* of Chamber of Commerce and Send Committe to Banqueters. Police kept more than a hundred un employed men at bay before the doors of the Chamber of Commerce Wednes day night, while a committee of five demanded the right to petition Sena tor McCarter and Representative Cone for a committee investigation of the conditions of the unemployed in Lin coln. Legislators were the guests 01 the chamber at a dinner furnished free to the members. Across the street in the Labor Temple about five hundred men had congregated. Word came that the solans were at the banquet table. About a hundred of the unemployed rushed across to the chamber. Guards at the door refused admittance to the men. Police hurried to the scene. Final ly the unemployed chose a committee of six, Morphew, Haaelrlg, Dennison. Wltstrack. Brophy, and Owens, and under police escort, they finally gained admittance to McCarter. The commit tee rehearsed the grievance and de manded an investigation of the County Commissioners and the trained social workers; also that the unemployed be given work with cash salary. Senator McCarter agreed to meet a committee of the unemployed or to ap point a man agreeable to them Thurs day morning at ten o’clock for this In vestigation. Bolen Criticised ' During the last campaign, Floyd L. Bollen, running on the democratic tic ket for state railway commissioner, pledged reduction In telephone and carrier rates. Moreover, he promised to at once inform the people if the rail way commission was impotent to bring about relief. In his recent appearance before the state senate, Mr. Bollen defended the commission against the abolition rec ommended in Governor Bryan's mes sage. Now tomes ex-State Senator Harry Eactou, democrat of Omaha, and declares that Bollen promised rate re duction to Omahans. Easton asserts that no effort has been made on the par of Bollen to keep this pledge. -A Remington Machine Breaks All Records When the gavel fell in the Nebraska state senate Tuesday morning, news paper reporters gaped in amazement at George W. Kline, one of the veteran legislative reporters. On the desk before Kline in the press gallery was a new typewriter. It was the first machine ever to appear on the floor of a Nebraska legislature. "There is a rule here of 40 years standing against the use of typewrit ers," complained one of the reporters to Lieutenant Governor Jurgensen. “Point it out," said the lieutenant governor. The scribe flashed the time-honored rule. "That does not forbid typewriters," said the lieutenant governor, “it is to prevent disturbing the senators when the senate is in session. If Kline dis turbs them out goes the typewriter." The lieutenant governor called the senate to order. A red hot debate start ed. Kline’s copy began to flow to the office via messenger boy and the other reporters did not dare leave the session to write it up. So far none of the senators have even noticed that Kline is using a typewriter. The assistant secretary, ten feet from the machine says he does not hear a sound. Kline uses a Rem ington noiseless portable. -o Sunday School Lesson By Charles E. Dunn Jesus and the Sabbath Lesson for Jan. 29th. Mark 2:23-3:6. Golden Text: Mark 2:27. 28. In this lesson Jesus takes exception to the artificial Sabbath regulations of His time. Numerous petty prohibitions made the way an excessively burden some one. It was forbidden to trod glass on the Sabbath, to wear shoes with nails, or. as our lesson indicates, to pluck grain. One is reminded by the quaint Sunday laws of the Puritans, forbidding a woman to kiss her child cook victuals, or make beds, preventing a man from shaving, and banning all travel, except that required for at tendance at public worship. By such trivial rules the cherished liberty of the Lord's Day was seriously curtailed The Master brushed aside all such absurd emborgies, To Him they wen more honored in the breach than in the observance. He pointed out how David, on the ground of hunger, defied the strict law of the tabernacle. To Jesus the needs of humanity came first. This is vividly illustrated by the in • cident in the lesson of the healing ot the man with a withered hand. The Master's enemies were eager to make this merciful act an occasion of accu sation. In the light of a generous inter pretation of their law, they had no case, for medical assistance on the Sabbath was not absolutely forbidden But, by legal quibbling they could ar gue that the cure was a piece of work, involving the release of a high degree of energy and therefore in violation of Sebbath legislation. Jesus openly and indignantly rebuked them by de fying their casuistry and restoring to the cripple the use of hfs hand. CORYELL 70 Better, Cleaner, Cheaper CHANCE OF A LIFETIME to buy a 5-room, 2-story Modem Home; less than cost of lot for 9900.M Mrs. Olive Maple, 1820 J. St. Phone B-6692—Room 240. »o<>v^/s>v/>v>»y>y«vy/y»>< COAL' COAL! , THE VERY BEST AT THE LOWEST PRICES MisHouri Nut___ Primo Lump _ Pea Carbon __ _ Crown Semi Lump “SAVE WITH CASH” Baughan Coal Co. B-5389 16th & Holdreffe Call ADAIR TRANSFER For HAI LING & TRUCKING Moderate Priees Dav Calls — Night Calls Phone—B-5487 — B-4020 UNDERTAKERS—1110 Q St. UMBERGER Ambulance — B-2424 GREEN SUPPLY CO. 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