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Nebraska Legislature Forty-Ninth Session House Roll No. 354 Pm an act to prevent unfair dis crii!' nation, in wholesale, retail and tnai ifacturlng business of public utll itie. preventing misuse of merchan dise by public utilities, by making un-1 lawful the manufacturing, leasing renting, distributing and selling of merchandise by public utilities, direct ly or indirectly, except those articles which have been owned or used by such individual, firm, corporation, or utility company, in manufacturing, dis tributing, or selling its utility service to , the consumer, or those articles w hich j are the direct product of the business of manufacturing, distributing, or sell-1 ing its utility service, and providing a penalty therefor. Introduced by Representative Paul Brnrrieit of Stanton. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OP THE STATE OP NEBRASKA: Section 1. Prom and after the first, day of January, 19M. it shall be un lawful for any individual, firm or cor poration engaged in the manufactur ing. distributing or selling heat, gas water, or electric current, to engage in : the wholesale or retail business of, leasing, renting, distributing, selling. I or merchandising any chattel article, commodity, or manufactured product directly or indirectly, except those ar ticles which have been owned or used by such individual, firm or corpora tion, or utility company. In manufac turing. distributing or selling its util ity service to the consumers, or those articles which are the direct product of the business of manufacturing, dis tributing. or selling its utility service Section 2. Any Individual, firm, cor poration violating any of the terms of j this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. upon conviction j shall be fined in any sum not less than *100.00 nor more than *500 00 for each offense, and the manufacturing i wholesaling, retailing or leasing of| CORYELL 70 ' Is Better GREEN SUPPLY CO. Barber Supplies C. A. Green ! 232 So. 10th — B-3424 COLLEGE CLEANERS Solicits Your Patronage I Wish You i All Success F O 68 — 4744 Calvert St. “The National SHOE REPAIRING SHOP Fred Hock, Prop. Shoe repairing of the better! kind; work called for and delivered. Phone B-7850—925 O St. Lincoln, Nebr. SPECIALS! Friday and Saturday SI Halt soles. Men’s or j a Women's, pair 50c Goodyear Rubber Heels, A M Men’s, pair Z aC 23c Ladies' Heel i A Lifts 1ZC HOCK’S SHOE SHOP 142 NORTH 12TH such article no manufactured, whole salt'd, retailed, or lead'd in violation of this Act, shall be held U) lit a sej'arate and distinct offense; and in addition to the penally herein provided, any such Individual firm, or corporation may be enjoined in Ihc District Court of any such county In which such act Is being committed, or threatened to be com mitted. by an action brought by and through the Attorney General of the State of Nebraska, or the County At torney. or by ary Interested person, from violating further the provisions 01 this Act. Section 3. Tins Act shall be In force and take effect from and after its passage and approval, according to law. -o Neuman M. E. Church 23rd and 8. SU. Rev Geo N. Jones. Minister. The regular activities of the church are divided aa follows; Tuesday, 7:30 p m. prayer and class meeting Wednesday. 8 p m., literary society program Friday. 8 p. m . choir rehearsal. Sunday. 8:30 a. m.. church school. Sunday. 11 a m. morning worship Sunday, 6.30 p. m . meeting of the teachers and officers of the church school, followed by Bible study. Rev Jones, teacher. Sunday. 7:45 to 8:15. song service bv the choir. Sunday, 8 p. m, evening worship service. The public Is cordially invited to at tend all of the above mentioned serv ices (choir rehearsal excepted!. The church school attendance is very satisfactory for this season of the year —in fact, there has been no noticeable falling off from summer and fall aver ages. The school is very liberal in its conti ibutions to the trustees and the other departments of the church and has virtually assumed the responsibility of raising the church's World 8ervice apportionment. The choir is perhaps the busiest aux iliary of the church. In addition to the service that it is called upon to ren der at home It has, during the past few weeks, sung in the First M. E. church, j First Presbyterian, Second Methodist. Ep worth. Emanuel and in several su burban churches, including those at Roca, Waverly and Pleasant Dale. It also fills an engagement with KFOR each Wednesday afternoon from 1:30 to 2:00 Church choirs are sometimes refer red to as the war department of the church, but the Neuman church choir is more like the athletic department of a university; its motto Is "Team work’’. \ -- Sandhill Trails By J. M. Merritt Sandhill trails, they lead we know not where: Dim trails, invitng us to share An hour, a day, what time wTe mav. The birthright of the Pioneer. Along the oiled and gravelled high ways in the Sandhills are many trails leading off thru the hills or down wide valleys with no apparent des tination. These trails are called ''hill roads" and are substantially the same as laid out by the early rancher or Kincaider, except for seasonable de tours made necessary by wet meadows, snow drifts or blow-outs usually caused by the frantic efforts of quiv ering "Lizzies.” Except in low meadow stretches, rain makes traveling easier. It is the loose sand ol dry weather that is the despair of those not initiated in Sand hill driving. Many of the main roads now have "cross-overs" or auto gates —some of them with only a few inch es clearance. The traveler is in hon or bound to leave all gates as found, either closed or open. To those who go far into the hills, these dim trails hold a fascination. It is then the rush of motor cars and the clash and bang of our super civilization seem a long way off. Here on these trails there is a calm seren ity brought about by the sloping hills, the wide expanse of valleys, that makes one feel that he has come to the end cf a breathless and nerve-racking jour ney. The winding trail appears and disappears in the distance. Here no engineer has decreed that this hill shall be leveled, a valley filled merely to save time in traveling Here time seems unessentitd; one can sense it in the slow movement of grazing herds, the lazily drifting clouds. Here there is an air of endless leisure. Occasionally along these dim trails BAR-BE-QUE MEATS, STEAKS, CHICKEN, CHOPS Rock Island Barbecue Inn J. W. (Bill) Nelson SUPPERS BY APPOINTMENT 526 No. li>th St. Lincoln. Nebraska for the Next 60 Days! We will call at your Home or Business, cheek your Tubes and Set FREE of CHARGE and you are under no obliga tion to purchase merchandise, but if your Radio needs re pairing we will give vou 10' < discount on Tubes, parts and labor. ALL WORK GUARANTEED When in trouble call M 2870 Day. Night or Sunday. Lincoln Radio Service Club 101« No. 86th St. Phone M 2870 on* finds a marsh, again a grov* of I cottonwood tree*, an rpttaph to some ■ Ktncatder's dream of a great ranch If on* wishes, he may stop and enjoy the Inviting shad*, possibly getting a drink of coot water from a nearby windmill One may even lie down in the white clover that grow* on the damp valley margins, and enjoy the peace and contentment of a summer aftemdon. Or if one prefers, he can use his binoculars on the distant purple htlls which scientists tell us were once the bed of an enormous Inland sea If one looks sharply, perhaps he may see a family of coyote puppies play ing about a thicket of wild ptytm brush benrath a steep bank And perchance one should whistle and the voice will carry that far. he will see the mother coyote prick up her ears, then quickly nose and push her puppies to the mouth of a den. then lope off to a nearby hill to stand guard In the evening, too. dim trails offer much. If one Is upon them during that enchanted hour between sunset and dark, or pereliance he Is in a boat on one of the many marshes. he wlU find an Indescribable calm and stillness about him—atUlnes disturbed only by the faint, distant ranch sounds and chirruping and calling of the marsh folk. But even these sounds blend Into the vast calm that prevails throughout the winding valleys. Here, in the solitude of dusk, one has an understanding and deep appreci ation of the adequacy and fullness of nature's plans But dim trails are not always calm and serene Sometimes they are caught in the steel grasp of winter; it is then that the canvas-back rides down upon the roaring wind, wheeling form one pass to another; It Is then that meek herds of cattle are driv en before the onslaught of the blti zard to their death In the swamps. But whether dim trails are serene or severe, they have a beauty that one may find In traveling upon them. And It is that one thinks that You may find peace when all else fails. If you follow down dim trails. —Outdoor Nebraska Rambling Thoughts By Rev. I. B. Smith The rambler, in his mental journeys, which are a source of pleasure to him found a literary gem in the writings of Emerson, the New England author, which brought to mind occurrences of the long ago; Listen to the gem. Nature "Nature never hurries; atom by at om. little by little, she achieves her work. The lessons one leams in fish ing, yachting, hunting or planting are in the manner of Nature—patience with many delays." Our racial group should learn from Nature that in the exercise of patience great things are accomplished. It is a fact, established by history, that no submerged race in modem medieval history has made the progress along all lines of endeavor as the group has moved upward in the past sixty years. The Children of Israel were given forty years probation in the wilder ness before they were allowed to enter upon a national career. They were impatient thus delaying their progress The rambler would say to the group: exercise patience, but do no: cease in their efforts to attain the fullest type of the arts and sciences. As an illus tration of what may be done by a man of color, take the case of Dr. G. W. Car ver. the scientist of the Tuskegee In stitute. Stolen In early childhood from his owners, a nameless child who la ter took the name of Geroge Wash ington Carve", and today is one of the leading sciei.tists of the world He was ransomed from his captors with an old race horse valued about three hundred dollars. He worked his way through school, earning his degree at the Iowa State College. He has taught the south to use the waste products of the farm. He has brought the peanut into prominence by pro ducing over two hundred articles to the financial aid of the farmers of the south. Prom the sweet potato he has made a number of useful articles. The rambler has used ink made from the peanuts. Standing in his labora tory. the rambler has felt that gen ius is not a matter of race or color, but of brains, opportunity and morals. In front ol me as these lines are be ing written, there hangs on the wall a landscape painted by this distin guished colored man. The various hues were produced from clay over which he and I had walked, during a morning stroll. Nature like our Heav enly Father is no respecter of per | sons. Tiiat was the secret ol the an cient Egyptians, whose coloring is un fading in the sunlight of Egypt. This truly great colored man has caught the coloring secret and a factory for producing paint from Alabama clay is now functioning. One trait of char acter of this man is his great humil ity.. and his loyalty to his race. When Edison offered him a great sum to leave the south and come to his estab lishment, he said emphatictlly. No! He wished to give to his race the benefit of his mental development We cannot all be Carvers, but in our own sphere we can work out the problems that come before us with patience and perseverance. The win ner is never a quitter. Front the serious I turn to the light er vein and close my ramblings. John.— “You know the doctor told me last year that if I didn't stop smoking. I'd be feeble minded ” l Mary.— “Why didn't you stop?” An Extract From the Program of the National Urban League The following Is a hrlcf summary of (he primary objectives of the various branches of the National Urban League; l. To coordinate the efforts of per sons and organisations working for the welfare of the colored people 3. Tb secure larger opportunities for colored people through public and pri vate agencies 3. To Investigate the social and In dustrial conditions of Negroes aa a basis for practical work 4. To Improve the social and Indus trial condition of Negroes, emphasis being placed on health, housing, edu cation. recreation, employment, and delinquency. Note:—There are 54 brand** of the National Urban league which has headquarters In New York City Lin coln Is greatly in need of such an or ganisation with such a program as stated above. The success of the effort of the colored people of Lincoln to have a branch of the National Urban League established here will be deter mined within the next few days when Mr. J Harvey Kerns makes the report of his study which will reveal the pres ent social and Industrial conditions of the Negroes ui Lincoln Mr Kerns is the executive secretary of the Omaha Urban League M. T. Woods ts the president of the temporary organiza tion known as the Lincoln Urban League. Claude H Gordon ts the secre tary and T. T. McWilliams Is the chair man of the executive committee. Mr. Kerns' report will be made to a com mittee of which Dr. A. L. Weatherly, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian church, is the chairman -o Graduates Entertained The graduates of Lincoln high school entertained with a dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs Edward Dorsey. 818 So 10th St Each graduate. In cluding Robert Edward, son of Mr and Mrs. Dorsey, invited one guest. The table was exceedingly attractive with a center bouquet of sweet peas and babys breath. About the bouquet were silver candlesticks supporting i ose candles and tied with stiff tulle. After an elaborate meal, tables were provided for bridge. However, the eve ning was climaxed with pleasant con versation dealing with fond reminis cences of high school days. -o Peonage Government The N A. A C P. deserves deserves the support of all citizens in the efforts that it is making to destroy the down right peonage that it has uncovered in the federal controlled Mississippi river flood control project. These conditions are the more damnable because the work is directly under the supervision of the government. Only government officials who wish to be blind could have been oblivious to what was happening These officials as well as the contractors who are fat tening off the profits that come from peonage are determined to kill the in vestigation if they can do so. Negroes can force this investigation and make it a real honest affair if they bombard their senators with their demands. If this is done this will be prevented from being one of the far cical white wash affairs that have re warded some of our previous efforts. Our backs are to the wall everywhere Private employers have discharged Ne groes right and left and today we fur nish far more than our proportion of the unemployed. If the government en dorses peonage we will be left with no way to turn We again say that it is the best thing for members of the race to sup port our local organizations that are affiliated with our best federated na tional organizations such as the N A A. C. P and the Urban League. - — —V" — Kappa Doings In Lincoln there are 13 members of the Eta chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. They meet regularly the first and third Mondays of every month. In addition to the 13 members there are two pledges. This chapter is affiliated with a to tal of 61 other chapters. The annual Grand Chapter meeting was held at West Virginia State College at Charles ton. West Virginia December 26-29 A Moore Sherin was reelected Grand Pol* march. Eta chapter will .sponsor a program during the week of April 10th, The oc casion of the celebration is the Nation al Guide Week program that the fra ternity annually sponsors. • The annual sermon will be preached for'"the local group in the very near future. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the announcement of the date of the an nual "Kappa Spring Party". A plan Is bring made to sponsor an interfraternlty debate in the interest of charity. The following is a list of the officers, members and pledges: Wendell Willis, , Polemarch; Burt Newton. Vice Pole march; Ralph Adams. Keeper of Rec I ords; Gattha Pegg. Keeper of the Ex chequer; Delmnr Woods. Strategus; Roland Young. Adelbert Mouldin, Dr. A. B Moss. Eugene Smith. Albert Burks. Trago McWilliams. Sr.. Jewel R Kelly, and Millard T Woods Lon , nle Thomas and Oliver Kerr are the ; pledges Anti-Merchandise Bill Introduced NtpnamtoUw Paul firm Hell DrdMM Thai Small l>mlm anil Whole saler Nerd Protection. "tn an effort to save the independent dealers Jobbers ind manufacturers of Nebraska In the electric and gas ap- ' pi lance business and to prevent ruin j and chaos thereby testorlng to the communities of Nebraska a certain buying power, H R 334 was Introduc ed Thursday of last week," said Repre sentative Paul Tlruvelelt. of Stanton county, "to drive a wedge Into the monopolistic control of elcctrtc and gas power Interests of Nebraska, distribut ing and selling electric and gas appli ances, in which field the power Inter ests have now scoured a strangle hold ” Representative Bruvelelt, a farmer of Stanton county, when interviewed by the press relative to his proposed leg islation said: "The bill which I have proposed In this session, makes It unlawful for any public service corporation or utility company, doing business in Nebraska to manufacture, rent, distribute, or sell any electric or gas appliances, confining them to the distribution of REP. PAUL BRUVELEIT electric and gas enerby. It was the purpose for which the public service corporations and utility companies In Nebraska were given franchises to use our public streets and alleys and to which large capitalization was dedi cated "Since it has been demonstrated in our political economy that a public service corporation can serve the con suming public with electric and gas energy, more efficiently and econom ically than several, the municipalities of the State of Nebraska, gave to them a franchise, which franchise has been to the present time protected by law. It was never Intended, however, that In giving a franchise to a public corpo ration by the municipalities of our state in the distribution of light, wa ter and gas, that it was to work an in justice eventually upon our merchants and manufacturers engaged in the dis tribution and sale of electrical and gas appliances Yet, it has been demon strated very clearly that It Is having such an effect, to the extent of driving merchants, jobbers and manufacturers in the electric and gas appliance bus iness out of business, and now reach ing a point where, unless checked, will become a serious menace to the bus iness interests of our state, thereby | taking from the several communities i of Nebraska, a buying power which they have heretofore enjoyed ‘•If we ever hope to restore in a j measure that normal economic con- j dition in Nebraska, which we have j heretofore experienced, it first becomes * necessary that we at this time, change t our present views of favoring the con-' centration of big business in the hands of a few. The merchants, jobbers and manufacturers of our state have been compelled to stand by and witness with tolerance and with patience, the de struction of a business, which they have spent a life time to build, be cause of this new menace, resulting from the public service corporations and public utility companies of Ne braska having entered the field of merchandising, distributing and selling i ice-boxes, radios, lamps, stoves, fur naces, and numerous other electrical and gas appliances. Unless remedial legislation is given to these merchants of Nebraska, who have assisted so ma terially in building up our state, the t tme is not far distant when these deal ers, jobbers and manufacturers will be compelled to go out of business, and when that time has arrived, the pub lic corporations and public utility com panies of Nebraska will then have a complete monopoly in the field of elec tric and gas appliances, and as time goes on, their activities in thus field will broaden, affecting other classes of merchants and industries of our state, and that philosophy of favoring the CONCENTRATION OF BUSINESS IN THE HANDS OF THE FEW will have been fulfilled "The proposed legislation prohibiting the public service companies and util | dies of Nebraska in engaging in the j sale of gas ami electrical appliances is | not a new and novel thing in the life | of our nation. This proposed legisla 1 tion has been considered in many other states of our nation At the present I time the states of Oklahoma and Kan | ses have adopted such legislation, and other states are in their present legis lative sessions, considering similar leg islation "The abuse of merchandising depart ments by public otHtty companies af j ford* Abundant reason for the eltmt tuition of tit tit privilege A few of the common misused are! (1) fisiH'hsr* of men hand tiling and , even losses mi merchandise are |<akl 1 out of current Income from the sale of electricity and gas Tills is sometimes charged to ordinary expense of doing business ,md sometimes to a new cus - tomers’ campaign. In either case the public foola the bill (3) Oas and electric companies sell merchandise not necessarily for profit, but to get people to using more gas and electricity They piake their money off the gas and electricity these apptl • aners use Since legitimate merchants do not own a gas or tight plant to make their profit off of they cannot com l*We with gas and electric companies on merchandise Tor this reason, gas and electric companies should not soil merchandise <3) Being placed In a position of advantage by the municipalities and given a monopoly In the sale sod die trlbutton of gas and electricity, utili • ties are In a position to virtually am nopoliar the appliance business Pm this reason it is not fair to legitimate merchants for the state to allow them to deal In merchandise. 141 If the utility companies of Ne braska claim to sell electric and gas appliances at the price charged by the dealers of our state, and show a profit from the sale of merchandise, why have they not reduced the rate of eiccUrlr and gas energy to the consuming pub lie? On the other hand, if they have sold electric or gas appliances at Or below cost, which has been demon strated In other states, they must nec essarily charge such loss sustained as a part of their fixed charges and oper • sting expenses, upon which the rate that the consuming public ultimately pays for electric and gas energy Is fix ed. “A public corporation or utility company, engaged in manufactur ing. distributing and selling electric gas appliances, is engaged In a private business, notwithstanding It Is a public service corporation, clothed with a pub lic service and duty, to serve the pub lic with gas and electric energy at a minimum cost, for which purpose It has been given a franchise from the municipalities of this state, and to which its capitalization was dedicated Nevertheless, the public corporations and utility companies are using then capitalization primarily dedicated for the purpose of distributing and selling gas and electric energy to the public in distributing and selling gas and elec trical appliances. Since there Is no law In the state of Nebraska that requires the public service corporations to allo cate or separate their expenses of do ing business In selling and distributing electrical and gas appliances, from their public duty of serving the public with electric and gas energy, It Is ob vious that If any losses are sustained in the merchandising department, they can very readily allocate or charge the loss to their general operating expenses and fixed charges, upon which the. rate to the consuming public for elec tric and gas energy is ultimately fixed “No doubt there will be a corner lei movement on the part of the public service corporations and utility com panies in Nebraska, assisted by certain newspapers of our state in its frantic effort to defeat this proposed legisla tion by broadcasting and ..ropagandl lng that such legislation is unconsti tutional In answer to such propagan da as may be circulated against my proposed' legislation, I briefly call at tention to the 'Hepburn Act', passed by congress In 1906. which stopped the railroads of odr nation from engaging in the coal business. The railroads at that time, cared nothing about the coal business, as a business. They were willing to sell coal at a little or no mar gin basis, malting their profit from freight charges. The railroads' primary interest in being in the coal business was not the sale of coal, but to in crease their freight revenue Mean while, utility companies of Nebraska are allowed to sell electrical and gas appliance, not primarily interested in a profit therefrom, but rather primar ily interested in increasing the out-put of the sale of electrical and gas ener gy. So why the partiality? The prin ciple involved is the same in either case " -o Scottsboro Girl Admits Perjury A stricken conscience or some untold outside force urged Ruby Bates to cat I egorlcally deny the charges she pre viously brought against nine young Alabama boys Had it not been for two organizations, the International Laboi Defense and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. that brought about the United States Supreme Court's decision of mis-trial. the nine youths would no doubt have been lynched legally by the state of Alabama. However, with this written testimon ial of perjury the defense council has a weapon that ruins the frail frameup of the prosecution to get rid of nine more Alabama Negroes The letter is said to contain start - lings facts with reference to the case Among the things the letter said was that the police had forced her * Ruby Bates* to tell this lie under threats of Jail sentence She further admits that none of the boys ever touched her. Because the defense attorneys were denied the privilege of obtaining pho tostatic copts ol the letter, and because Knight, the prosecuting attorney, man euvered to to get an adjournment, it is thought that Alabama will continue her efforts to legally lynch the nine Innocent colored youths that :aogv from 14 to 20 years of age.