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THE WEEKLY REVIEW Published Weekly and “Devoted to the lnt»ests of the Colored Citixenry of Nebnwka." VOLUME ONE LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JtJrSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933. __NUMBER FIVE The Entire Nation Is Starving for Money i BY P. A. Spain, Paris Texas The following facta and most of the expressions are taken from A. W Rick er. editor of Farmers Onion Herald of Wisconsin. The eyes of an expectant agricul ture are now turned on Washington where the American congress is again wrestling with the problems arising out of the depression. The twelve milium* of jobless men and women, with their dependents, are also look ing to Washington for relief. Out in the country where the farm er* live, there is no scarcity of food. Farmers are eating three meals a day. but they are not paying interest on their debts, and in some sections thou sands of them are deliberately ignor ing their tax bills. Recently the sheriff in a North Dakota county tried to collect one hundred thousand dollars of taxes against various properties by selling than from the court house steps. Of the total tax titles offered for sale, lljree dollars was all the money in the county available for purchase. Tax collections for the support of counties are dwindling with each passing month. Millions of bushels of wheat are in the granaries of the northwest, and there are other millions of feed grains which cannot be marketed because the price offered will not pay the freight to take it to market. Chicago's policemen and teachers received a Christmas check of one month's salary, the first they had re ceived in several months. Tax in comes are drying up in every state county and city in the union. The in coming governor of Texas is reported to have said, “Taxes must be reduced, or the government will falL" And now let us look at how this situation Is beiiig handled. It is be ing met by federal loans through the reconstruction corporation. The na tion’s private money bags are still full of coin, but it is unsafe for the owners of these money bags to make loans to private business. The farmer cannot borrow money oecause two cent hogs, ten cent corn and twenty-five cent wheat offer no sound basis for security. The only debtor now to be considered a safe risk is the government itself. The government has the first lien on all property. The government alone has power to reach into the pocket of the citizen and take his last dime, cr his last piece of tangi ble property. So the money bags turn to government as the only available source of collecting interest. The money bags loan to the finance corporation, which is guaranteed by the government. The finance corporation then loans to the railroads. The rail roads pay the interest on their bonds and back the money goes to the pri vate money bags. The finance corporation loans to a state and the state passes the money on to a city. The city uses the mon ey to feed, clothe and house the un employed. The money thus employ ed flows back to the private money bags and is reloaned to the finance corporation. Thus the private money bags are collecting interest and the people’s government is going deeper into debt. As debts increase, so will taxes, for it is tax money which must be used to repay the money bags' principal and interest. Now how long is this sort of pro cedure going to be kept up? How long will the people and thir congress ig nore the fact that the sovereign gov ernment itself has full constitutional power to issue money, instead of bor rowing it from the private , money bags? Money is, and must be provided to the states and their cities with which to house, feed and clothe their thir ty millions of destitute men. women and children, otherwise we will have insurrection and hunger riots, with soldiers patrolling the streets of of our cities. Then why in the name of common sense, does not the gov ernment issue its own currency in quantities sufficient to supply this need? Why Borrow? Why should a sovereign government borrow money from its private bank ers, pay them interest, involve the masses of people in a deeper debt, when the power and authority to is sue money is directly and explicitly given to congress by our constitution? The precise way to devalue a dollar which has become too dear, is for the government to start issuing govern ment currency. The thing that is fun damentally wrong about our situation, is that the moneybags have control of all our money. It gets into circulation now in quantities only through govern ment channels. Government, in the eyes of the moneybags is the only safe debtor The nation is currency starved. If the government would start the print ing press, and commence to issue gov ernment currency with which to pay Grand Opening a Great Success Thank you, Lincoln, Omaha and Falrbury, all of you good people, for attending and making our opening a grand success. We also take pleasure In thanking the C. R I. & P. and it's employes for their cooperation that made the get together possible It makes us feel truly grateful to have had you take Interest In coming to see our modem plant, of which we are duly proud Our endeavors will be to keep your confidence you have shown In us by maintaining a high class ser vice and quality. Bar-be-que Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, Also on special occasions or by request. Short orders any night. -o Church Notes The Quinn Chapel Allen Christian League will sponsor an Allen Day program next Sunday, February 5th, at 7:30 P. M. The public is urged to attend. Miss Thompson, President Services at Quinn Chapel were fair ly well attended The pastor. Rev. O. H Burbridge discoursed on "As a man thinketh. so is , The evening top ic was “Let your light so shine among men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.” Visitors present were, Mr. H M. Carr, Yakima. Wash., Misses Inez Cocklin and Mildred Williams, and Messrs. William Ivy and Edwin Rose. Quinn Chapel Sunday School at the usual hour. 9:30 A. M. Everyone is cordially invited to come. Mrs. M. Shelby, Supt. The Rev. G. N. Jones of the Newman Methodist Church will occupy the pul pit of the Grace Methodist church on Lincoln’s birthday, February 12th, honoring the Negro Educative History. Needless Legislation It is almost time to wonder if pro hibition has not had a great deal to do with our present day difficulties. Many of us were not willing to admit that such was the case a short time back but those who have made the contention have much to support their i argument just now, and their numbers ure growing day by day. It is rather silly that a supposedly free people should be brought to a con dition of near chaos by an organized minority and held there by an even weaker minority, but such is the case. It would be wholly democratic to al- j low each state to determine whether or not it wants prohibition. Better still it would have been had a national refer endum been held to decide the issue, so that the people might have been given an unobstructed vote, but the pro fessional reformers and highly organ ized and prosperous bootleggers would not have liked that. Unfortunately, we fell into error when we made too much haste in plac ing the 18th amendment in the consti tution. And so it is we must make haste very slowly in getting rid of this un popular law. Our constitution is looked upcn as our most sacred document. Certainly we. as a group, cannot be too eager to run rough shod over the constitution and its amendments, be cause we hai’e a grave concern in two of its amendments—the 14th and 15th The prohibition situation has brot us more grief and embarrassment than any other measure in our national his tory. One thing is certain: It has pointed out to us the danger and fu tility of passing unpopular laws. Late News Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. White are the proud parents of a fine baby boy born Wednesday, Jan. 25th. They have christened the baby Theodore. We wish Mrs. White and baby best of health. Mr. Harvey Washington suffered a stroke Wednesday afternoon and is very ill. j all government expenses, the money in | the possession of the moneybags would ; come out of the bank vaults so fast j you could see it move. Start to cheapening the dollar, and I those who have the existing dollar I would start to changing that money for ; goods, and do it "pronto.*’ A dollar which is decreasing in purchasing j power, comes out of its hiding place i and goes into goods and property. A Cheaper Dollar I The moment congress adopts a pol i icy of cheapening the dollar, the de j pression will begin to disappear. This writer does not believe that the farm problem can be solved by any kind of marketing bill which congress may eventually pass We must get the value of the dollar down and the value of labor and commodities up. The price of gold is too high and the price of commodities too low. We can’t borrow ourselves out of poverty. We must lower the value of the dollar and raise the value of human toll. I- can not see this depression departing until we begin precisely at the point which will change the relationship between money and the commodities. N. A. A. C. P. Launches Membership Drive The N A A. C. P. met Sunday at tf* ' Neuman M E church. 13rd and 8 streets for the purpose of reorganisa tion Several persons, many who were previously not members, were present. The meeting was opened by the pres ident. William Woods, who has served as the chief executive in this organi zation with great success more than any other individual He stressed the good that such an organization with the proper program could do in this community. “The work done by the Na tional Association this year and in 1932". declared Mr Woods, "merits un limited praise "Lack of finances and non-coopera tion of many branches such as ours were not sufficient factors to deter the i officers and workers from making last year the banner year for achieve ments." he said. He further stated that the local branch should have but one object at present and that to be to meet its as signed quota of fifty dollars. The best method of doing this would be to launch a membership drive that would net 80 one dollar memberships. Short talks were made by Mrs. Anna Hill, Mrs. Austin Curtis, the Rev. Mrs Sarah McWilliams Mr M T. Woods, and O. B. Evans The secretary. Mr. Q B. Evans, read j several communications from the New j York office, all of which seemed to j emphasise the fact that if the N. A. A, j C. P. is to continue its fight for the . race this year it must have the fin- , ancial support of every branch. The time and place of the next meet- | ing will be determined by the executive committee which meets tonight at the home of the president. Mrs. Austin Carr was appointed a member of the executive committee. Election of offi cers will be held at the next meeting. j University News On Sunday afternoon, from three to six o'clock. Alpha Theta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority enter tained at a tea at the home of Mrs. Edmi ds. 2450 P St TYie occasion the celebration of founders day. which happened to be ihe twenty-fifth or i silver anniversary of the founding of j the organization. The Sorority emblem hung over the j doorway leading from the front room i to the music room, to the right of this : was a table on which was displayed the charter of the local chapter the official recognition of the chapter, as! c. campus organization by the dean of women. "Ivy Leaf's" (the national Publication, i pictures and clippings j and also two maps which show the > growth in twenty-five years form the ; first chapter, founded at Howard Uni- ' versity in 1908, to the forty-four grad uate chapters and forty-nine under graduate chapters in existence today The decorations of the tea table j were pink and green, the sorority eel- , ors. Mrs. James Dean and Mrs. Leon ; Lily were at the table the first part i of the afternoon and Mrs. Marie Cope land and Mrs. America Marshall the latter half The hostesses were Sar- j ars Grayce Dorsey. Maladene Hill, Charlotte Loving. Katherine Thomson and Catherine Williams. Miss Beulah CTaft and Miss Hilda Bernard, mem- ; bers of the Ivy Leaf Club also acted as hostesses and assisted with the serv ing. Musical numbers throughout the afternoon were rendered by Mr. Pri mus Wade, who sang "Somewhere A Voice Ls Calling" and also by Mr. P. ! M. E Hill who gave two groups of ! three numbers. "Pale Moon.'* Kash miri Song" and "The sunshine of Your Smile.'* in the first group and For gotten.” "A Brown Bird Singing" and "Because" in the second. -x Pictures Classified ■ The critics of the movie world have ccme forth with a list of the ten best productions for the year 1932. and a list of the ten worst for the same year It is just too bad that we did not know that these shows were so bad before we spent our hard-earned money to see them Maybe the producers will be a little kinder this year and tell us in advance when a picture is poor. Well, anyway, here are the lists as they were given out by the Judges from the Mo tion Picture Producers Association. The ten best: "Arrow-smith', "Broken Lullaby”. "Scarface". "‘Bill of Divorce ment". "Meadchen in Uniform", Trou ble in Paradise", "Blessed Event", "The Guardsmen", and “Strange Interlude." The ten worst: "White Zombie". “Blondie of the Follies", "Dancers In the Dark ", -The Conquerors”, '13 Wo men", “The Crash", "Scarlet Dawn”, "Night Court", “The First Year", and “Cook o' the Air." -o Mrs. Walter Seals was surprised by a group of friends Saturday night, who gave her a birthday surprise at her home. 2808 Miamie Street, Omaha. Mr and Mrs. M. E. Williams were guests cf Mr. and Mrs Walter Seals over the ! week-end. W. Robert Smalls To Visit Lincoln W Robert Smalls, evecuUve secretary of the Kansas City, Muwwuri, Urban League, will be a Lincoln visitor this week-end Mr Smalls will arrive in Lincoln Saturday morning from Be atrice, where he will appear as the principal speaker on a National Ne gro educational Week Program Friday night. Mr Smalls, who has been doing Ur ban League work for many years has established himself as an outstanding executive in this field. He comes to Lincoln on an Invitation from Mr. M T Woods, president of the Lincoln Ur ban League Mr Smalls is originally from the east, having come west when he was appointed executive secretary of the St Paul-Minneapolis Uuban League He Is serving his second year in Kan sas City. This Is Mr Small's first visit to Lincoln ■ ■ ■ -» . Sports Someone has asked the editor of this column if he sere actually sincere in his efforts to establish a sports column for this paper, if so. where was the source from which the local news was to be derived This would infer that there were flktfoy^ or girls, for that matter, who wWP IzAerested in the many branches sA sport Well, the mat ter of fact is. this columnist knows that the youth of this city, though restrict ed to a large extent by his limited op portunities that are offered him, does try to make the best of the advantages .that he possesses. In our midst we have a young boxer who is about as classy as any you will find In these parts. He is none other than "Bus” Jobe, whose right Is known and feared by all the local boys in his weight division. There are three basket ball teams— two professional and one amateur Tho handicapped by places to practice and a lack of good equipment, these boys do play. The Hot Shots", captained and managed by Vernon Layer, play in nearby towns once or twice every week -Last week they journeyed . Bruno . Nebr.. and lost by a close margin Lon nie Thomas. Hobart Layer. Bill Bums Waller Gill. Don Talbert, and Romon Valez are the other members of the squad. Last football season found Bill Burns Robert Dorsey, and Lonme Thomas rtarring on local amateur grid squad' Thomas was chosen on every sports writers “All City” elevens as end Wc feel that he would have been an asset to the Nebraska University team-hut of course, his complexion forbade that Already the boys who are interested in the diamond sport are beginning »-> limber up their arms, according to John Williams, who for many seasons has played catcher and fielder on suc cessful baseball teams that the colored boys have sponsored. Elwood Randall was the best quarter miler that Lincoln high had last year and we are looking for him to bring home the jacon this year Walton from Kansa. City is capable of making Ne braska Universitie’s basket ball or track team. As the warm weather approaches we can hear talk from men. women, boys and girls about how good they expect to develop in both golf and tennis A number of us would like to swim, but there is no place for us to even learn hew. unless we go to some other place, such as Omaha. Chicago, or St Paul _V_ - — The Needy Benefit Association The Needy Benefit Association of Texas. Nebraska and Iowa which was I organized in Lincoln last November will endeavor to enlarge Us member ship in a drive which will start in the next few days. This organization offers an oppor i tunity to members of the race for bus iness training that few other organiza tions of its kind do. An outstanding proposition in which the members are offered policies ranging from $75 to $500 varying according to age limits. Anyone between three months and 95 years old is eligible for member ship In addition to the business phase there is the fraternal aspect with all of its advantages also included in the program of the organization. The Lincoln lodge is known as Cap itol Lodge No. 4. The president is M. T, Woods, and the secretary is T. T Me > Williams —-o Mrs. Mamie Todd, who was paihlullv burned last week, is much improved . -o Reinstatements in Comhusker Lodge are coming in at an encouraging rate, and before the membership drive is over many old Comhuskers will be back in the ranks of 579 Mr and Mrs Monroe Williams and family were week-end visitors of their daughter and family, Mrs J Walter ! Scott, Jr and family of Omaha Janizaries 1 hreaten Policies of Gov. Bryan 1 Force* of Reaction Invade Lincoln, Seeking In Evade Reform in Taxa tion and Salary Redaction. By George W Kline Represented by some of the most adroit lobbyists of the state, opponents of tax reform in Nebraska have set the stage for an epic drama. The policies of Governor Bryan are to be assailed from one angle. At the same time such doctrines as the mon» arium. the income tax and drastic cut* in fees and salaries are to be resisted. In this strange union of forces re publican reactionary joins conservative democrat. Progressive republican takes up the fight in support of democrat ic apostle of reform. Partisan lines ere vanishing It is a weird combat of the disorganized Many against the skillful defenders of big interests, the war riors of the Few With a deluge of bills Introduced. Speaker O’Malley In the house has is sued a call for action. In the senate there is the same sparring for speedy results: the air surcharged with fore bodings: over all suspense, apprehen sion. Ten days will tell the story. Already three of the newly elected state offi cials show- weak spots In their newly donned armor. Let the legislature day iy overlong and an embittered populace will voice Indignation throughout the I state The C onciliation Policy Governor Bryan sought to avoid the passage of a drastic moratorium hy hts commission for debt conciliation Tax Commissioner Smith is at the head of I this body Prom various sections of the ' state come the reports that this idea I is too conservative to afford relief. The insistent demand is for legally enacted moratorium Everywhere there is a disposition on the part of the progressives to embrace new ideas. They seek to cut fees, re duce salaries, shave down taxation Then Uie pew ideas in taxation jtre. to be given consideration Opposing income tax and other re forms are the Rodmans, the Stephen sons, the reactionaries of the republi can party, the men charged with lur ing the O. O. P to its doom With them une united the stalwarts of conservative democracy, all eager to preserve the special privileges of the past. Interest rates are doomed to reduc tion. It is good-bye for such little juicy items as the Chicago exposition. Educational institutions will get a combing and a currying. The board of control probably will escape being re ferred to the people. The railway com mission is pretty certain to run the gauntlet of the ballot box. From he committee emerges the Muir bill to consolidate the office of secretary of state with that of the au ditor and abolish the land commis sioner's cffice. Bryan wants the attor ney general's office placed on the ap pointive list. There are bills jogging along to re form the state fair board and to place the game commission under the eantrjl of the governor. The Bryan Planks Since there will be considerable dis cussion about what Mr. Bryan prom ised the people in the campaign, it is well to review his platform. As summarized from advertising during the political fight last fall, the planks are: 1 Repeal cf the intangible tax law. 2. Reduction of interest on delin quent taxes from 12 to 8 per cent 3. Repeal of the deficiency judg ment law. 4. Favors a state income tax to equalize taxes between farmers and the holders of untaxed intangible prop erty. 5. Favors organizing to promote or derly farm marketing. 6. Reduction of state tajces 7. Reduction in the valuation of farm and home property for taxation purposes. 8 Legislation to reduce and equal ize taxes "so as to give the farmers a break ” In his message to the legislature. Mr. Bryan urged the abolition of the rail way commission and the doing away with the office of attorney general as an elective office He urged the 1 abolition of several bureaus and the reformation of the fish and game de partment. Salary Bill Passes The senate nas passed S. F. 52. the , salary reduction bill for constitution al officers. It bears tie emergency clause and becomes effective as soon as passed by the house and signed bv the governor The schedules are slightly higher than the Muir bill in the house The senate gave the governor and supreme judges $5 000 and the state officers $4,000. The railway commission was put down to $3,000. The state officers, judges of the su preme court and all district judges are under the temporary peak schedules fixed by Uh* constitutional convention The legislature ha* never revised these salaries although authorised to fix sal aries once In each eight year period Lawyers, eager to protect Judicial sa'anes, insisted that the old consti tutional provision in the constitution of lib was in effect and salaries could not be increased or diminished during an official's term of office After they had made this argument they were confronted with the fact that all these officials gobbled up their salaries in 183d and 1031 at the increased rate for the term for which they were elected. Then, too, many farmers dug up from their files copies of the "Address to the People" circulated in 1930. promis ing that the legislature could revise schedules once in eight yean, said re vision to be effective immediately. |C Salary Cuts Proposed In the final rush of bills in each Ignine, salary cuts from everybody on tbe state payroll was proposed. It seemed that few deputies or subordi nates escaped and these will be un lucky when the committees make a check. , The house finance committee put lh« advocates of an appropriation for the Chicago exposition out of their misery in short order. The request for $40,000 was turned down Victor B Smith of Omaha. Prank Eager, J. H Agee and others appeared before the committee. They won a unanimous verdict in the negative. Bock has a bill in the house to reor ganise the state board of agriculture McCarter has filed in the senate his gross income tax bill. Cushing h' the income tax advocate in the house. Evening Classes The University of Nebraska and the Lincoln high school are again offering classes of instruction along many dif ferent lines of endeavor There is no improvement as helpful to one as sell improvement. Of course, no one Is ever too old to learn, be It by books or worldly experience, but our recom mendation is that everyone should for his own sake take advantage of every opportunity that is offered him. Do not forget the old adage: "Those who Improve opportunity do not fight Father Time." -o Lincoln High School News The Review has appciiitcd Mbs £- - - estine Taylor, Junior student at the Lincoln high school. Miss Taylor will sponsor and edit each week this col umn under the title of Lincoln High School News.” Taylor contributes her first article this week. Lincoln High School News Welcome Junior high school grad uates Indeed. Margaret Lee. Hazel Walker. Paul Beck. Fred .levels, and Edwin 'I.ittle* Hammond, we con gratulate you on your achievement. We hope that daring your stay in Lin coln High, you will exceed the records you made In Junior High. We marvel at an unusual situation at the high school. There are an equal number of Negro students eating at the firrt and second lunch periods. Alfred Ray has returned and is tak ing a post-graduate course. The Mines and Southmore Dramat ic clubs try outs for places m the cast have begun. The first meeting of both clubs will be Friday, February 3rd. We feel that our race is honored by the selection of Miss Orvilla Banks as one of the enLrtainers during both the first and second lunch periods. Miss Ernestine Taylor. From Nebraska Cities Beatrice The S P. Girl Reserves will sponsor a program Friday night at eight o'clock at thr Y W C. A. building. The pur pose ol the program is the celebration of Negro Educational Week. Mr. Rob ert Smalls, executive secretary of the Kansas City Urban League, has been selected as the principal speaker. Indi viduals from Beatrice and Lincoln will make up the rest of the program. Every one is welcome. Miss Maybelle Scott is the director of the S. P. Reserves. Mr and Mrs. L. J. Gordon proved themselves very congenial hosts when they entertained a group of friends at their beautiful home last Saturday night. The following Lincolnites were out of town guests: V.r. and Mrs. C. R. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hus ton. Mr and Mrs. James Dean, and Miss Alma Wiley. Fremont Rev Alfred Newton filled the pulpit Sunday Rev Newton is from Beatrice. Mr. Burt Newton and Mr, Gaitha Pegg were visitors Sunday. Mr Jack Herndon, with his guest. Mr Pegg and Ml. Newton drove to Omaha lust Sunday afternoon.
