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EDITORIALS
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necessaril. a reflection of the policy
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Public Housing Is Rejected
The city council has for the
third time rejected co-operation
agreement presented by its own
housing authority.
The vote’ was 5 to 2. The two
supporters were C. W. D. Kinsey,
introducer of the resolution to ap
prove the agreement, and John
H. Comstock, who has consistently
supported public housing. The
negative side consisted of Mayor
Victor Anderson, Mrs. Fern Orme,
Pat Ash, Roy Shea ft' and Rees
Wilkinson.
The vote, numerically though
not in personnel, was the same as
w hen public housing first was re
jected by a council which had ap
proved the authority’s request io
negotiate a loan preliminary to
the then planned construction of
700 units. Later the original pro
posal w'as reduced to 350 units.
Wilkinson then shifted from his'
original opposition to the side of
the proponents, but they were still
in the minority 3 to 4. Wilkin
son’s vote Monday miked a shift
back to opposition again. Mrs.
Orme and Sheaff have remained,
constant in their opposition.
R. E. Campbell, housing au- 3
thority chairman, said the re- ‘
sponsibility for low-rent housing !
now' rests squarely in the lap of
the council.
“The refusal of the council, by
a vote of 5 to 2, to sign the co
operation agreement for a low
rent housing program sponsored
by the city housing authority,
makes it impossible for the mem
bers of the authority to carry out
the primary responsibility of
building low-rent housing. It’s
now' up to the council.”
Max Swan, executive director
of the authority, said:
“I am disappointed but ex
pected this decision. Whether or
not some citizens’ group is willing
to carry the initiative load under
the new state law remains to be
seen.”
Robert T. Malone, president ol
Urban League, said: “It is dis
appointing. I agree with Senator
Taft (r., O.) that a limited amount
of public housing is the only sal
vation for extremely low income
people. This does not conflict with
our system of free enterprise. I
feel that the public housing need
is particularly convincing as to
Negroes.”
In support of his minority vote,
Comstock said:
“I favor and have favored some
low rental public housing to take
care of a small group of families
unable to take care of themselves.
I am not in favor of public hous
ing for those able to furnish their
own. I contribute to welfare
agencies to help furnish food and
clothing for people who are hun
gry arm nave no iooa. i con
tribute to and hold membership
in organizations doing charitable
work, some of which even fur-!
nish homes for people who are
unable to do so for themselves. Ij
consider it only American to do
so.”
In support of his resolution.
Kinsey said:
‘‘The council created the hous
ing authority, a group of fine citi
tenc. This group studied the hous
ing matter from all angles and,'
after hearing all sides, reaffirmed
a stand for public housing. I
feel that if we turn public housing,
down we are not thinking of the
city’s best interests.”
Pro-public housing people gave
noisy salutes following the Kinsey
and Comstock explanations.
NAACP Continues
Amos-Andy Figlit
NEW YORK—The NAACP-in
itiated campaign to remove the
“Amos ’n* Andy” television show
from the air because of its “bur
lesqueing of Negro life” continued
to gain strength this week as
labor, church and civic groups
joined the local NAACP branches
and youth councils in protests to
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Robert W. Furnas usually is
thought of in the history of Ne
braska as editor, governor, or
chardist, manager of the state fair,
or president of the state histori
cal society. It is not often realized
that during the Civil War he
played an important role in the
defense of the West. Dr. Robert
C. Farb, who teaches history at
Simpson College in Iowa but who
received his graduate training at
the University of Nebraska, out
lines Furnas’ military career in a
recent issue of Nebraska Hitsory.
Furnas’ first military venture
was as colonel of a regiment of
loyal Indians organized to accom
pany refugee Indians of the Five
Civilized Tribes on their return
to Indian territory.
This experience failed to go far
toward gratifying Furnas’ desire
to help put down the rebellion.
There was confusion from the be
ginning — confusion of command
and confusion of purpose — and
after a few months of campaign
ing along the Arkansas River,
Furnas resigned his commission.
In his leter of resignation, he told
the Secretary of War that, in his
judgment, it was impossible to try
to make soldiers out of full-^
alooded Indians, and that to at-]
empt it was “a useless waste of
both time and money.” He de
clared that it was impossible to|
maintain discipline in a regiment,
where only a few men could un-.
derstand English.
Much more satisfactory was
Furnas’ later experience as
colonel of the Second Nebraska
Cavalry, organized to protect the
frontier from me Indians. Furnas
was given corHmand of this new,
regiment shortly after his resig-j
nation from the Indian regiment,;
and took it into the Indian cam
paign of 1863 under Brig. Gen.
Alfred Sully.
Sully’s forces ascended the
Missouri River to the vicinity of
present-day Bismarck, N. Dakota.
There they encountered an unde
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Candidate For Mayor
Wins In Little Rock
LITTLE ROCK—(ANP)—Mayor
Sam Wassoll was re-elected by a
substantial majority in the run-off
election held last week in which
his opponent was R. Loy. The
bulk of the Negro vote went to
, Wassoll, a member of an old-time
! aristocratic family of Arkansas
and who is regarded as having
gi, en Little Rock c. good adminis
tration.
Loy made the mistake in ad
dressing a great mass meeting in
a public park which was attended
by a number of Negroes, of de
claring untrue reports which had
been circulated about what he
: proposed to do for Negroes if
elected. He said is was untrue that
he promised to put Negro police
in squad cars. He said he had
not promised that Negroes would
; get new recreational facilities. He
' made dramatic denial that he had
promised Negroes anything,
j Negroes led by Drs. A. H.
Powell and G. W. S. Ish, Atty. J.
R. Booker, president of the Na
tional Bar association, and Harry
Bass, secretary of the Little Rofck
Urban league, went to work. They
| organized groups of women who
were known as “flying squad
rons.”
termined number of Sioux who
retreated after a pitched battle.
In a few days the Second Ne
braska was ordered to return,
down the M^souri, and by Oc-.
tober the regiment was back in'
Omaha to be mustered out.
Dr. Farb states that while the
weather was a more difficult op
ponent than the Sioux, Col. Fur
nas was well satisfied with the
part his regiment had played in
the campaign. Though not a sol
dier by nature* Col. Furnas had
carried out his orders and had
been particularly solicitous over
the welfare of the men under him.
“Probably the most important
effect of this military experience,”
Dr. Farb concludes, “was the
large number of friends and ac
quaintances that he (Furnas) had j
made Many of them were to
prove extremely valuable in his 1
future political career.” # '
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Urban League
(Continued from Page 1)
Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the
CLEVELAND PRESS.
The Minneapolis Urban League,
of which John G. Simmons is
president, will be host at all con
ference activities on Wednesday,
September 5th at the Hotel Nicol
let, Minneopalis.
Industrialist and Labor Leaders
to Report
On Wednesday, James J. Wads
worth, Deputy Federal Civil De
fense Administrator, will speak
on the role of the urban ..^eagi.e
in civil defense.
Wednesday s luncheon will fea
ture top labor executives who a-jII
!speak on the role that the Urban
League and labor must play in
promoting equal economic oppor
tunity in industry and commerce.
The speakers will be James B.
Carey, National CIO secretary
treasurer and president, Interna
! tiona) Union of Electric, Radio
and Machine Workers; and Dr.
George W. Snowden, vice-presi
dent, Louisiana Federation of La
^or and executive director,
! Louisiana State Conference for
Labor Education.
Lester B. Granger, the League’s
;executive director, will deliver his
j annual address, “State of the Ur
ban League,” at the dinner meet
ing on Wednesday evening. At
this affair Lloyd K. Garrison,
NUL president, will speak on
“Race Relations Over Forty
Years.” A special feature of the
presentation of Service Awards
to League staff members.
The Thursday and Friday ses
sions of the conference will be
resumed at Hotel Lowry in St.
Paul. Thursday afternoon an in
dustry luncheon will be held. The
speakers will be W. W. Wachtel,
president of Calvert Distillers,
Inc.; and George A. Beavers,
president, Golden State Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Los
Angeles, California.
Arkansas Governor Discusses
the ‘New* South
Governor Sid McMath of Ar
kansas will speak on “The Chang
ing South” at the dinner meeting
5n Thursday evening.
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