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VOL. VI. Omaha, Nebraska, September 24,1932 NnmW TW*v_nr,0
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i By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL
Sis Months of Success
Exactly six montha ago the subject
•f this column was, “Introducing A
Daily.” and immediately thereafter
various comments were noted in quite
* faw of our leading publications and
by various writers. Most of tnese
comments acknowledge the particular
undertaking but referred to it as an
"experiment” and indicative that after
a few weeks time the project would
m und i Motiy collapse, like the many
Other attempts at launching a daily.
Of course, the daily referred to, is
the Atlanta Daily World, published
by the Southern Newspaper Syndi
cate, and while 1 do not enjoy the
confidence of William A. Scott, the
founder and owner of this enterprise,
i have, through my regular releasing
services, and through observation,
been able to watch and record the
progress of this new journalistic ven
ture.
Apparently some of the obstacles in
the path of operating successful Ne
gro dailies arise in the excessive
equipment cost and an enormous
amount of technically skilled labor
unless lhe equipment and the labor
ran be kept constantly busy. Pre
sumably, the cost of maintaining a
news and feature service sufficient for
a daily is also quite an item. Even
after these obstacles have been sur-1
mounted there is the all-important
matter of circulation and prompt dis- j
ftributioa to the readers.
In order to lower a necessarily j
large equipment and labor cost the
Southern Newspaper Syndicate (SNS)
have organized other World papers in
nearby southern cities with the result
that these added papers require but
little more effort to edit and publish
than would an extra edition of the
Daily, merely changing mastheads, a
substitution of pertinent “local" news
and the rearrangement of a few feat- j
area, and strictly “local” advertising ‘
matter.
Therefore, in addition to the At
lanta Daily World, the SNS also pub
lish four semi-weeklies. The Birming
ham World; The Memphis World; The
Jacksonville World and the Nashville
World. in addition to a weekly, The j
Jackson World of Jackson. Mississippi
*nd through a mutual cooperation,
*!%« Louisiana Weekly, of New Or
leans, is also published in the SNS
plant at Atlanta
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Thi* enables the SNS to keep their
costly equipment rn constant use. A
corJ* skilled workers are kept con
stantly busy. The cost of securing
national news and features can be pro
rated among the several n-.blications,
while each local member of the affilia
tion can supply for the complete SNS
service all of the “local” coverage.
The SNS also publish a national
feature, the Gravure Weekly, being
the only one of its kind published by
er for Negro publications. This feat
ure has a combined circulation of
around sixty thousand weekly and is
used by over s score of papers in
nearly as many states. All at which
Indicates that the subject of this re
lease could rightiy be entitled, “It Can
Be Done—and by Negroes.”
N. A. A. G. P. FIGHTS FOR JOBS
Nutter Believes Elks’ Treasury Empty
1809 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1865
“ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY
THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG
THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS._
—ABE. LINCOLN.
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N.A.A.C.P. Asks Hoover
and Roosevelt for Plain
Declaration on the Negro
ELKS THREATENED WITH
RECEIVER SUIT
Atlantic City, N. J.-(CNS) A
suit for the return of $1,000 “earnest
money”, and the possible suit seeking
a receivership for the Elks, loomed
as an aftermath 6f the recent annual
convention of that body held in Aug
ust. Isaac H. Nutter, prominent
New Jersey Elk, and member of the
local Grand Lodge committee which
sponsored the convention here, will
ask for that a receiver be appointed
to take charge of the depleted Elk
treasury and that the sum of $1,000
claimed to have been advanced by the
Atlantic City Elks simply as a guar
antee that local expense would be
cared for, be returned.
In an interview granted to a Phil
adelphia newspaper last week, Attor
ney, Nutter is quoted as saying, “I
believe the grand Lodge treasury is
empty and I want to know the reas
on why. I know that it could not pay
the committees and had to borrow
money from the educational depart
ment.”
J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted
Ruler of the fraternity, when advised
of the pending suits declared that he
knew all about the controversy. Dif
ficulty arose, it was stated, over the
refusal of the Grand Lodge to return
the $1,000. The Grand Exalted Rul
er delared that the Detroit session of
Elks in 1931 passed a resolution de
manding that the entertaining lodge
contribute that amount to the Grand
Lodge. Attorney Nutter insists that
the resolution was not passed until
this year and is not applicable to the
New Jersey Elks.
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The Omaha Guide
a Great Paper
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By M. E. Arbuckle
To the Editor of the Omaha Guide:
Being a constant reader of the Oma
ha Guide since my arrival in Omaha, I
find it a GREAT PAPER. I must
congratulate Fireman Cole upon his
stand in regards to the incident which
took place at the Orpheum Theatre.
I admire the way he stands up for the
right. We need more men of that
type to help our young people as well
as helping the older ones. Not that
Mr. Cole wants publicity, for he is a
man of intelligence, and a man among
men. Were I not a constant reader of
the Guide I would not have read of the
incident. I think every one should
read the Omaha Guide each week and
keep posted on what is taking place
among our people and in our cities.
Tours for a greater paper.
The NAACP. has launched a de
termined fight for jobs for Negro
workers. You have seen in the
newspapers the story of the investi
gation we made of flood control work
on the Mississippi River: showing
that Negroes are brutally beaten in
the camps there; paid ten cents an
hour; worked twelve hours a day,
seven days a week; fired without
cause; robbed at the commissary
stores; and in general subjected to
slavery.
President Hoover and Secretary of
War Hurley have been forced to or
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JUDGE RHOADES
I am happy to congratulate the
Omaha Guide Publishing Company, its
editor in chief C. C. Galloway and its
staff of workers for the wonderful
work being done in this community in
uplifting and carrying forward the
work of the colored people of this
state.
Your work is holding together and
enhancing the influence of your people
in this community.
While conflict and depression has
been our major trouble your paper has
constantly pressed toward a goal ad
vocating harmony and progress among
your people. Such a constructive
course aids us and points a way to all
people for a solution of our problems.
Unity, harmony, and unselfishness
are the guide posts toward the road
to reconstruction.
Yours for continued success in your
noble work.
Herbert Rhoades,
District Judge.
Washington—(CNS)—4 statistical
survey of Negro voting strength in
the nation just completed here indi
cates in its conclusion that Negro vot
ers will be the decisive factor in the
coming presidential election, surely
determining the outcome in 16 states,
and looming up importantly in eight
other States if balloting is close, as
there is every indication that it will
be.
The survey points out that the re
cent State elections in Maine have giv
en varification to the statement that
practically every State is a doubtful
one. The general unrest caused by the
economic depression, the wide and
unhealed breaches in the regular ranks
of both major parties due to such
ranking issues as prohibition, the bon
us, the drift of many voters towards
Communism and Socialism, the bitter
ness of many A1 Smith adherents are
elements depicted in the political study
as indicating that the ultimate elec
I tion result in almost any State “will
j hinge on a few thousand votes."
New York, Ohio, West Virginia, In
diana, New Jersey, Maryland, Miss
ouri, Kansas, Massachusetts, Dela
ware, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Californi,
States with a total of 219 electoral
votes, are listed in the survey as high
ly doubtful.” In these States, it was
pointed out, th«re was a combined
population of 1,665,044 Negroes of 21
years of age and over, to whom cam
paigners of both parties will have to
appeal. In' many of these States where
the Negro vote is comparatively small
m comparison to the total number of
voters, the survey shows that the
strength of the two major parties is so
evenly divided that Negro voters hold
the balance of power.
As an example, Massachusetts was
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To Give Lecture
Rev. J. S. Williams of the Hillside
Presbyterian Church, who has just re
cently returned from a seven weeks
trip abroad, to his home at Kingston
Jamaica, West Indies, will give a
lecture at his church, 30th and Ohio,
on his trip, and exhibit articles of
interest which he has brought back
with him. A feature of the afternoon
will be Mrs. William Haines as gue?t
pianist. Music by the choir and other
guest soloists. The lecture will be.at
3:00 P. M. The public is cordially in.
vited.
PROMINENT LODGE AND CLUB
WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Lula White, prominent lodge
woman died at her home 2529 Decat
ur St., Wednesday morning, Sept.
21, 1932, after weeks of serious ill
ness. Mrs. White is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Fannie Phoenix of 0
maha, and father Mr. Wesley Early
of Oklahoma, three daughters, Mrs.
Earle Roberts, owner of the Youth
Beauty Shop, Mrs. Willie Mae Moore,
Mrs. Mattie Thomas and four grand
children.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon from Zion Baptist Church
with the Eastern Stars and Isis
Lodge® in charge. Mrs. White was
past Commander of the Isis Lodge,
and well known in the community as
! a club-civic worker.
SUBMIT QUESTIONAIRE TO END POLITICAL
EVASION ON RIGHTS OF THE NEGRO
New York, Sept. 16—Asserting that heretofore the
demands of the Negro had been “EVADED IN AN AM
ERICAN POLITICAL DISCUSSION WHEN THEY
HAVE NOT BEEN REGALATED TO THE HATE-IN
SPIRING DIATRIBES OF DEMAGOGUES”, the Na
tional Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has submitted to President Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, a quesionnaire calling for “PLAIN AND UN
EQUIVOCAL DECLARATION ON THE SUBJECT OF
RACE RELATIONS.”
In its letters to both candidates the Association
states that it is asking the questions to provide Negroes
with a “competent and authoritative basis in determing
their choice of candidates in the coming election.” No
questionnaire is being sent the Socialist or Communist
party candidates, inasmuch as these parties have ade
quately declared themselves on the issues involved. The
questions to which replies as full and as direct as possible
are asked from the leaders of the two main political part
ies, are as follows:
, “1* To what extent will you as head of your party,
personally assume responsibility for ending the attitude
of intolerance to Negro participation in politics in the
South, manifested in schemes to prevent Negroes from
qualifying as voters, tricks of lily-whiteism, and in devic
es to bar Negroes from Primary elections?
“2. Will you seek to eliminate racial consider
ations from appointments and promotions under civil
service, for example by substituting finger prints for the
photographs now required for identification purposes?
“3. Will you, if elected, appoint Negroes to office
in proportion to their numerical strength in your party,
including in your appointments, diplomatic and consular
posts?
“4. Will you endeavor to stamp out entirely all
forms of racial segregation in the government service,
particularly in Washington?
“5. Will you take steps to open to Negroes oppor
tunities for training and service without regard to race
in the armed forces of the United States, including the
academies at West Point, Annapolis, and New London, the
air service and other branches?
“6. Will you maintain a cordial and constructive
interest in the federal-supp
education for Negroes—Hoi
“7. Will you favor (
lynching law and will you s
Congress?
“8. Will you protect
dependence of the Republic
store to self-government the
dominated in fiscal matters 1
in the interest of American t
“9. Will you person
3olor discrimination on relit
financed wholly or in part
Negroes be given a fair shar
“10. Will you person
diture of federal funds for
be adequate safeguards ag;
the expenditure of such func
or localjy through states?
“11. Will you in won
power lies, procure the recog
full citizenship rights of the ]
orted institution for higher
vard University?
inactment of a federal anti
ign such a bill if enacted in
the self-government and in
of Liberia, and will you re
black Republic of Haiti now
>y the United States govem
ankers?
ally order that there be no
f and public works projects
svith federal funds and that
e of work on such jobs?
ally order that in any expen
educational purposes, there
ainst race discrimination in
is by the federal government
1 and deed, so far as in your
nition and observance of the
STegro in the United States?”
