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Trial Three months' subscription $1.00. Single copy, 5 cents. RENEWALS *3:1 renewing, give the name just as it appears on the Jab. i unit *h it he mcorret t. in which case please call our attention to tic- ctikt and always give the full address to which your paper has been sent. CHANGE OF \DURESS In ordering a change of address, always giv- ' li old and new addresses. If the paper does not reach you regularly, please notify us at once. ADVERTISING KATES—Given upon application. REMITTANCES— >-• ml payment by postal or express money order, e.ish iii registered letter, bank check or stamps. OCR ADDRESS s.-ml all communications to The Omaha Guide lb. list mg C .mpany. Incorporated, 2418-20 Grant St., Omaha, Nebr. ♦ EDITORIALS^ | Rev. J. (’. Bell of Bethel A. M. E. Church Is the Man The colored citizens and churchmen of Omaha asked the question when will the A. M. E. Church give Omaha another minister who has a vision of not only, the spiritual needs of the people, but one who is concerned about the general affairs of the race as a whole? , This question has been answered in the person of Rev. J. C. Bell whose efforts have been untiring in doing whatsoever he could to promote the best interest of his race. There is not a movement started in Omaha that has to do with or for the best interest of the people, but what Rev. Bell becomes an interesting factor in it. And then there is another thing that gives Rev. Bell special prestige among the people. He is dependable and his life is clean. This coupled with his other efforts makes him almost indispensable to our race group in Omaha just at this time. We as a people are not trying to dictate appointments for the Bishop, for we know that work belongs to him and his cabinet, but we feel that we do have a right to exploit the good works of a worthy character, and we further assure the conference, that if Rev. Bell is returned to Omaha that he will have the co operation of the people of the city both in the ministry and laity. THE OLD NEGRO AND THE NEW (By J. Harvey Kerns) “When I get to heaven, gonna put on my shoes,” says the Old Negro spiritual and we find so on throughout the Negro spirituals that he expected to climax his am bitions in the terrestial city. You may take all the world but give me Jesus was theold Negroes’ defense for lack of economic possessions. But the New Negro has a differ ent view. He is lacing up his shoes with the intention of not only walking over God’s heaven, but over God’s earth. He no longer believes even if he sings, “Take all the world and give me Jesus.” The New Negro wants some of the world that he may appreciate Jesus more. The Old Negro sang his songs aid was little con cerned with his status quo because of his surroundings and his years of domination. His philosophy of life was not of his making, but had been shaped by his masters o\er generations spent in servitude. He possessed a very definite inferiority complex which exhibited itself not .1 ^* a ct^ and expressions. VV ith the Lmancipation from slavery, with opportunities for education, with examples of accomplishments and the effective weapon of the ballot in his hands, the Negro no longer needs to ding to the old philosophy. While the Negro should appreciate the spirituals and the songs of his ancestors, he should not take them too seriously and allow them to cloud his real hopes and aspirations for better things on earth. The Old Negro was patronizing, servile, satisfied. The New Negro is in dependent, aggressive, restless. The Old Negro asked no questions, but was content with his status quo. The New Negro is not content, but has an urge to know. He feels \\ hat othri Americaiis aspire for, he too should aspire for. His yearning for knowledge has been rewarded as honor graduates of the leading colleges and universities of the country. The New Negro is not only willing to be -served by competent administrators, but he too is serving Judges in New York, a Congressman from Illinois mem ber of the School Board in Cleveland, Civil Service Com missioner in New York, State Represntatives in Nebraska .and Corporation Councilmen in Chicago, are evidences of this dauntless spirit of the New Negro. The New Negro is interested in present day issues economic problems, war, social legislation, housing re forms. He knows how these problems affect America and the world and he is studying that'he may know and add his contribution to the general state and community wel fare. but he is studying Fascism, Socialism, Communism, and Trade Unionise as present day forces affectin'* wo*M conditions. The Old Negro was mad° to f on] the Republican party not only gave the Negro his freedom, but held eternal hope and happiness to him. Th = thinking Negro has learned that there are virtues in the Demo cratic party and that the Socialists are not the Bolsheviks that they are usually featured to be. I resoect the Old Negro for he served well his day and left a glorious heritage of faith, hope, honesty, loyalty and devotion for the succeeding generation. I honor the New Negro for his dauntless courage, his eternal quest for knowledge, his unquestioned bravery and his love and devotion for the right. The New Negro is not altogether a new product; even in days of slavery we had this New Negro. Fred erick Douglas, J. C. Price, and other men whose courage, honesty of purpose, fearlessness, and integrity were as surely representative of the New Negro of whom I speak ! as James Weldon Johnson, Claud McKave, Langstor Hughes, Oscar DePriest, and Eugene Kinckle Jones. The New Negro as the New White man bases his actions on facts. He is not a sentimentalist. The Old Negro was tol erated—the New Negro is respected. There are todav ! many young Negroes who are old in thir thinking, and j in their outlook on life. They are young but are still lead ing the Uncle Tom Existence. The world respects a genuine man and woman. Men of honor, of virtue, of character, of courage. Men who believe in a principle and in spite of obstacles or fleeting popular sentiment will fight for that principle. These are qualities of the New Negro. Are you an Old Negro or a New? _ ■Ilk BIJILT ON FACTS NOT THEORY The stability of the life insurance industry is based on the premise that it does not substitute imagination for facts. It deals with figures, not theories. • It is not swayed by business cycles. It is not carried away by skyrocket ing in prices. As a result, in normal times it has an extremely wide margin of safety, and in depressed times the margin ; is more than adequate to meet any conceivable condition. It knows that business cannot always be good—that an above-normal period must be followed by a sub-normal period, and it runs its affairs accordingly. Life insurance has made a magnificent record-dur u-n-^be de^ressmu. Last year it paid out close to three billion dollars to policyholders and beneficiaries—about 30 times as much as was raised to meet unemployment by relief agencies. Its record of sales, though naturally be ow normal, has been far higher than the general business level. It is being used increasingly by those who wish to build estates, to bolster up shrunken fortunes, and to find a safe and profitable investment. Life insurance represents as high a degree of saf ety m an investment as is humanely possible to attain. r9?e^e^sl5rom Maine has had a very depressing effect Pn U tL; • blg ^uns and.the opposite effect on the Bour bons. They see the election won, and the lean years that have been theirs seem to be at an end. The Republicans are offering no alibi, the trend is against them, and it now a question whether a campaign of education can turn the tide. Mr. Hoover’s record is history, Governor Roosevelt’s is m the making, and if he doesn’t talk too much a large number of his fellowcitizens will believe he is a statesman, but whether the farmers of the middlewest will be able to get more for crops through the plan offered by politicians is a question; as any plan that boosts the price of a com modity at the expense of any class of consumers is not go mg to be popular and that statesman is liable to feel the wrath of those affected. You hear much about the far mer and his problem, but almost every group in this coun try has a problem. . , 'Ple effort t0 line up the Negro vote for Democracy is based on vengeance, because of the policy inaugurated by Hoover 1 nthe south, in his effort to build up a white man s Republican party. We are not trying to file a brief !IwReftai1 th^party is to blame for not protecting the Negro m his franchise, but those discredit ed leaders c\n t be said to have done much for anybody but themselves about convention time, now because of this we are asked to visit vengeance on the G. 0. P. Let ns apply these to ourselves. Have individualism, think for your^ iVll are not just, because they do no wrong But he who will not wrong me, when he mav 3 He is truly, just my friend.” “GANDHI THE MARTYR” “Greater love hath no man than to : lay down his life for his friends”! Gandhi the little frail, brown, bald leader of India's millions, threatened \ to starve himself to death if India’s j 60,000,§00 outcasts were not removed from caste discrimination. This lit tle leader in order to save the de pressed classes, made a dcision with his fife—a fast of aix days, without food, nothing but drinking water. In other words, Mr. Gandhi has made the supreme sacrifice, offering his life for the ^ uplift of the depressed classes. , Gandhi has shown to the world his leadership and strength of character. He beieves in tearing away the masks which are worn to fool the world. He wants Indian Freedom. As one reads I of India’s suppressed classes, thoughts > come unwanted to the mind. With proper apologies, America conven iently submits to a chloroformed caste system, which has almost destroyed the moral status of intellectual crea tion. We will never be free of Eco nomic and Social uncertainty, until ! we ourselves break down the barriers ! of caste discrimination. Those who are given the opportunity of an intel interests of the less fortunate. Pro- ] gress of a nation will never be at tained by individual striving. Omaha Commun- < ists Seek Berths on Nov. Ballot Election petitions are being circu lated in Omaha, and throughout Ne braska, to place presidential, con gressional, state and local candidates of the Communist Party on the No- < vember 8th ballots. Foster for Pres- '■ ident. and Ford, nationally known Ne- : gro Communist, for Vice President, : are leading the Communist Party tick- ■ et. Wilbur Howard, Dakota Cit; , for 1 Governor; Edward Schlekau, Omaha, < for Lieutenant Governor; Herbert Hoi < brooks of Lincoln, for Congressman of < District 1; 'Charles O. Black, South i Sioux City, for Congressman of Dis- t trict 3, comprise the balance of the i Red ticket. j The importance of the Communist s CNE WHO BELIEVES IN OUR PRO-RATA OF EM PLOYMENT IN THE OFFICE AS WELL AS IN THE DITCH iiY.iiini • i --C I • -"/if •'' GOV. CHARLES W. BRYAN It has long since been the policy and platform of this newspaper to fight for our pro-rata of employment. In these grey days of depression the testing time has come. After proper investigation, the Chief Executive of our State and his Administration have shown due consid eration, in the endorsement of the appointments given our group. A source of great satisfaction is manifested by this move made in our behalf. As the Mouth Organ of this Community, we are glad to know that we have such fair minded citizens as Gov. Bryan and his Co-Workers, who will give consideration to thpse of ability, regardless of Creed or Color. By giving the Negro his pro-rata of employment, it enables him to retain his dignity as a self respecting citizen in the Community, for every community has some contribution to make to the development of So cial and Economic Progress. We must have our Pro-rata of employment in every concern which we support. We do hope these officials will have the cooperation of other de partment heads in giving us our pro-rata of employment. We are proud to know that we have such men of charac ter as Gov. Bryan and the other Officials who are working for Justice and Friendship, in Race Relationships. workers and unemployed, cannot be over emphasized. The Communist Party is the only political party which demands absolute equality for all Ne groes ’’and self determination in the Black Belt.” The Communist Party is waging a strenuous campaign against white chauvinism within its own ranks The Communist Party has, by lead ing the masses in every part of the world, to demonstrate against legal lynching of Negroes, succeeded so far in saving the lives of the Scottsboro Negroes, sentenced to death on a frame up rape charge; as well as win ning a new trial for Jess Hollins in Oklahoma courts, framed as part of the boss terrorist program in the south to stem the tide of white and black unity among the workers. The Communfct Party asks the sup port of voting Negroes in the signing sf the election campaign petitions to place the Communist Candidates on :he ballot. Platform of Immediate Demands 1. Unemployment and social in surance at the expense of the state »nd employers. 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting >olicy. 3. Emergency • relief for the im >overisKed farmers without restric ions "by the government and banks; sxemption of impoverished farmers rom taxes, and no forced collection if rents or debts. 4. Equal rights for the Negroes md seif-determination for the Black lelt. 5. Against capitalist terror; a rainst all forms of suppression of the lolitical rights of the workers. 6. Against imperialist war; for the efeiise of the Chinese people and of he Soviet Union. t , Truth About Massie Case to Be Disclosea fenolulu, Hawai—(CNS) — Grave ioubt exists as to the guilt of the four mrviving defendants under indictment 'or the alleged criminal assault upon Urs. Thalia Massie in the so-called \.la Moana case here, and of Joseph Cakahawai, the fifth defendant mur lered by Lieutenant Thomas Massie >f the United States Navy, husband if the victim of the alleged attack, her nother, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, and wo navy enlisted men following an nvestigation conducted during the ast four months by Pinkerton oper .tives, it was learned last week. I^mkerton investigation on the island, have been carefully guarded, it has been characterized by those who are acquainted with the facts uncovered as “startling evidence which may com pletely change the opinions of the public on the United States mainland with respect to the entire case." It is believed that it will reveal that criticism to which Hawaian officials have been subjected for their delay in disposing of the case and of their act ion in trying the Massie case, has been unduly harsh. The report will be submitted to Ter ritorial Governor Lawrence M. Judd on October 3, in New York. Territor ial Attorney General Harry Hewitt and John C. Kelly, Honolulu prosecu tor, will be with the governor when he receives the report. They are now enroute to the United States from Hawai. Mr. Kelly announced before sailing that he and Governor Judd would lay the report of the Pinkerton operative before Secretary of Interior Ray Ly man Wilbur, after their New York conference. The four defendants accused of at I tacking Mrs. Massie one year ago are awaiting re-trial, the jury having dis agreed. They have steadfastly denied their guilt although every legitimate pressure has been brought to bear upon them. When none of the island’s law enforcement agents seemed t<j be able to unravel the mystery Governor Judd decided to go outside official sources to seek a solution. Fraser conducted the case here, while two other Pinkerton operatives have been engaged in a similar inquiry in the United States concerning Mrs. 1 Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and the three ^ white sailors convicted with her of Kakahawai’s murder. It is rumored that the Pinkerton investigation will lead to the nolle pressing of the charges against the four living de fendants. Lieutenant Massie, who is now at tached to the U. S. S. New Mexico in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, his con viction not having affected his status in the navy, has recently announced that his wife, who speedily left the island to avoid a court subpoena, is now willing to return to the island to aid in the prosecution. He did not indicate that he would return with her, however. --— u--— 0 ..Read the..... Every Week HABITS (By A. B. Mnn Fits of Temper ((The Literary Service Bureau) This is a dangerous, serious, and destructive habit Many marital ships have been wrecked on this rock. And it is largely true that the vast major ity of homecides are traceable to this weakness. “In a fit of temper;” “in a moment of anger;” “seized by sudden passion;” “swept away by a raging passion;” these are expressions read in connection with tragic events feat ured in the press reports every day. It is unquestionably true that he redity plays its part in this weakness and the appalling consequences. This makes the problem more intricate and more difficult of solution. But, recog nizing the faults and the dangerous consequences, one should employ all his strength to conquer this grievous fault and save himself and others from the sufferings entailed by act ions due to fits of temper. Negro and White Veterans to Renew Fight For Bonus Cleveland, 0.—(ONA)—“The fight for the soldiers’ bonus has just begun, was the slogan of the Negro and White veterans of the world war, who met here last week in a national con vention called by the Rank and File Committee of the Bonus Marchers, and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. The immediate cash payment of the bonus, immediate relief for the un employed and unemployed insurance at the expense of the employers, and a fight on all discrimination practiced against Negro veterans, are the most important objectives which the dele gates have set themselves. A major part oi tne work of the work oi tne Workers Ex-Servicemen s ■utague arm us sympathizers is tne tigiu lor me equality oi negro and vimite veterans, a numoer oi delegates poiiueu out. xnree negro veterans were eiected to me executive Goinimt tee ox tne organization. One oi mese is James W. 1 dru, communist candi uate lor vice-president, lormerly a member of the 36«th Infantry. The two otners are Joseph Gardner, for merly a member oi the Uth Cavalry, and ool Harper, formerly of the 34ath r leld Artillery. A special resolution on the Negro veterans, adopted unanimously by the delegates, reads in part: “The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, as a major part of its work, has carried on a strong fight for the unity of the veterans, Negro and White. Only through the closest soli darity of Negro and White veterans, and the united defense of the special demands of the Negro veterans, can the aims at the Workers Ex-Service men's League be achieved.” 1247 NEGRO LAWYERS IN UNITED STATES Washington—(ONS)—Negro law yers in the United States have in creased more than 30 per cent in the past decade according to occupation statistics of the 1930 Census recently released by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. The fig ures show that there are now 1,247 Negro lawyers in the United States as compared with the 950 in 1920, in cluding 24 women lawyers who num bered only 4 in the report of the for mer census. The distribution of these lawyers is particularly interesting. Two thirds of them, or 854, including all of the women lawyers, are located in eight northern states "and the District of Columbia where only one-fourth of the Negro population of the country resides, while 89 or 7 per cent are lo cated in the eight southern states where over 52 per cent of the Negro population of the country is found, 'here are eleven States in which there are no Negro lawyers. Three States, Colorado, Oregon and Dele gare. have two each, and Arizona has me. The remaining 309 lawyers or 14 per cent of the total are scattered imong 17 States where about 21 per :ent of the total Negro population hnA good Printing ! 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