PLATFORM OF THE
OMAHA GUIDE
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Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are
the only principles which w ill stand the acid test of good
citizenship in time of peace, war and death.
(1) We must have our pro-rata of employment in
businesses to which we give our patronage, such as groc
ery stores, laundries, furniture stores, department stores
and coal companies, in fact- every concern which we sup
port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res
pectably. We are tired of educating our children and
permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in
to lives of shame.
(2) Our pro-rata of employment for the patronage
to our public corporations such as railroad companies,
the street car company, the Nebraska Power Company,
the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and other
establishments which we are forced to support by right
of franchise. Also our pro-rata of employment in re
turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and
federal government.
(3) To encourage the establishment of a first class
hospital that w e may get the best that there is in medical
science from our doctors whom we know to be nearest us,
also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage
more of our girls to take nurse training.
(4) A one hundred per cent deportment of our cit
izens in our public or private places of business, especial
ly on street cars. If we are to be respected we must act
respectably, especially in public places where we are con
stantly before the public’s eve.
(5) A one hundred per cent membership in the Om
aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage
the efforts put forth by the founders of the organization
and to assist the general office to establish a five million
dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expenses
and to further the principles of the NAACP. All peo
ple of all races must be educated up to a higher principle
and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela
tionship that our countuy may in reality be a government
of the people, for the people and by the people in whole
and not in part.
(b) Ihe re-establishment of the Christian Religion
a* Christ taught it, for the uplifting of mankind, elimin
ating financial and personal gain. A practical Christian
Religion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to
ward our fellow man as a brother in order to establish a
principle which will guide the destiny of each other’s
children; our neighbor’s children today are our children
tomorrow.
(7) Courteous treatment in all places of business
and the enforcement of the State Civil Right Lawr.
(s) To encourage and assist in the establishment of
the following financial institutions near 24th and Lake
Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank,
and. also, a first-class trust company for the purpose of
administering aid and assistance to our widows and
children.
(9) To encourage the erection of a one hundred
ihou>and dollar Young Men’s Christian Association
Building near 24th and Lake Streets.
(10) To enlarge the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom
modations.
(11) To teach our citizens to live economically with
in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud
get system for various salaries.
(12) To make Omaha a better city in w’hich to live
by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among our
American citizens.
(13 To put a stop to the Divorce Evil by passing a
State law making the mistreatment of a wife or a hus
band by either of them, a criminal offense to be decided
by a jury, first offense, jail sentence of a short duration;
second offense, one of longer duration; third offense,
from one to five years in the penitentiary. This, we be
lieve will make men and women think before marrying.
(14) We must become owners of the city govern
ment by paying a seemingly higher salary to those whom
we employ to administer its affairs, a salary that will at
tract men of high calibre. „ _ # ^
National
(1) Fight for a passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill
and ttrus stop the shamful lynching of American citizens.
(2) One of our citizens in the president’s cabinet.
(3) Federal control of the educational system that
every child must have a high school education.
(*) Assist in the furtherance of research by our
scientists and historians to prove that civilization was
first founded in Africa.
(5) Establish a political influence which will bring
almut our pro-rata of higher appointments made by our
chief executives.
(6) Stop graft in politics hy passing a Federal Law
making election day a legal holiday and compelling every
American citizen of voting ag* to vote.
(7) Prevent further wars by teaching the so-called
white race that it is high time for them to quit fooling
themselves abovd white supremacy with only three-ttfnths
of wor^ * population. They must be taught that
color is due to climatic conditions. They must be taught
that sevens tenths of the world’s population is made up of
darker races. They must be taught that the rays of sun
that blaze upon the equator and turn the skin brown do
not altect the power of the brain any more than the cold
ne" of icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race;
anfl that the darker races will not continue to be crushed
by a money mad few. If the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man are not welded into the hearts of this
world’s family now, by teaching the principles laid down
by our Saviour, it will be welded into the hearts of our
children >ome day soon, on the bloodiest battlefields this
world has ever known.
(8) Cut down congressional representation from
the Southern States in proportion to the number of votes
cast.
The OMAHA GUIDE will put forth its best efforts
to bring about the above 22 points with the assistance of
those w ho believe it is for the best interest of good Amer
lean citizenship.
Dreamland Hall, Monday, Oct. 24
Nebraska's Champion
GOVERNOR CHARLES BRYAN '^T
p W. H. Smith, state tax commissioner, says:—
“Nebraska has received from all governmental
agencies a total tax reduction of five million dollars this
year.
J. J* Thomas of Grand Island, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee:—
“The people of Nebraska should know this is the
beginning of a great work started by our own Governor
Charley Bryan.”
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RACIAL EQUALITY AND TJIS
SOVIET UNION
By Loren Miller
(The well known Negro cotShinist
and editor, Loren Miller, sends us the
following article from Odessa, Soviet
Unio*. Mr. Miller with a group of
Negro writers, workers, has been
travelling through the Soviet Union
tihe past two months Reserving con
ditions thero.)
The entire absence of racial strife
and “race ^problems'" in the territory
now encompassed ip the Soviet Union
makes it -hard to Realize that this part
of the <earth was once the scene v>f
some *if the bloodiest and most bitter
national and racial conflicts in his
tory.
I have jtst returned from 'a trip
through the Ukraine, the Crimea and
the Caucasus. In these parts of the
"Soviet Union I saw at least a half
hundred different races and national
ities living side by side in peace. Ev
erywhere we went, we asked about th«
racial problems. The question was
| met with surprise. So completely has
strife disappeared that the people have
put the words “race problem” out of
their vocabulary.
The Old and the New
The Ukraine may be taken as an
example of the old and the new. Since
the dawn of European history, it has
been the meeting place of migrations
from the east and the west. Each
has left its mark. Withm the present
boundaries of this rich and fertile re
public live Poles, Germans, Czechs,
Ukrainians, Jews and at least ten
other nationalities. Under the czarist
rule, these peoples were kept at each
other’s throats. Bloody outbreaks
were the rule rather than the exctp
! tio«.
Massacres and Jim-Crow in Old
Russia
Particularly was hatred of the no'n
1 Jewish peoples for Jews implanted and
kept alive. 'Pogroms, massacres in
the Ukraine were famed far and wide
for their frequency and viciousness.
Jews were barred from government
, positions, denied residence in most
cities, the Jews were forced to live in
'“jinr^Crow” districts, called pales of
settlement, in those towns where they
were permitted. The Russian lan
guage was forced on all minor nation
alities; their newspapers were sup
pressed, their schools forbidden and
their culture attacked from every an
gle. Illiteracy was high, running as
much as 50 per cent among many sec
: tions. Only four per cent of the child
ren in any school could be Jewish.
Reasons, or rather excuses, assigned
for these oppressive acts sound
| strangely familiar to Negroes. It
was said that the Jews were unfitted
for industrial work, that they were
inferior, that they did not make good
farmers and that the race problems
were eternal.
Equality in Soviet Russia
But Alexander Glinsky, vice-official
of the Kiev district o fthe Ukraine,
. will cite you facts and figures to dis
j prove the old official lies so often told
| to excuse racial oppression. He is a
| Jew himself and the very fact that
! he holds his present position is im
| pressive of the fact that a new order
has come. Pogroms have disappeared.
Illiteracy in the whole of the Ukraine
entirely vanished. Jewish ’ workers
are proving their worth in factories.
Jewish collective farms rank high in
production and efficiency. Education
is free. Each nationality conducts
schools in its own language. Lan
guage newspapers, hooks, periodicals
are encouraged. The eolture of eack
group is carefully nurtured. The re
sult is the disappearance of all trace*
of national or racial hareds.
A Lewson for American Negroes
Burdened as he is with racial op
pression of the most vicious kind, the
American Negro must be tremendous
ly interested in the manner in which
the Soviet Union has banished its race
hatreds, once supposed to have been
as eternal as the present American
v.ies. The answer is simple. It has
applied the doctrine of self determi
a^tion for minority groups. This
nght is more than an empty phrase
in the Soviet Union. As I have indi
cated, all groups are encouraged to
seek self expression. Each group is
given a proportionate voice in govern
mental affairs. The Soviet Union is
meticulous in seeing that each minor
group controls its own destiny. So far
does this go that any of the national
republics that comprise the Soviet
Union is given the constitutional
right to secede.
The Communist Party and the Negro
It is more than a coincidence that
the Communist Party of the U. S. A.
has advanced the right of economic,
political and social equality for the
Negro and self determination for the
Black Belt in its 1932 platform. That.
Party, alone of the American political
parties, has a genuine desire to solve
the Negro problem, as it is called. Its
desire for a solution has led it to
settle on the only formula that has
proved successful.
The wave ef lynching that has
swept the United States in the past
year; the wholesale discharge of Ne
gro workers; the refusal to give ade
quate relief to the starving; the brutal
police killings in Chicago, Cleveland
and Cam# Uill; the appaling state of
the Negro farmers in the South and
the mounting rate of Official discrimi
nations force the Negro to grapple
Witib the so-called racial problem as
never before. Any honest evaluation
bf the situation must drive Negroes
to the conclusion that it is to the
Communist Party that he must turn.
The old threadbare lies of the Repub
licans—violated at every opportunity
—about equal rights; the record of the
lynch ridden Democrats and the timid
evasiveness of the Socialists show
them in their true colors.
Who Should the Negro Vote For
Only the Communists with their
straight forward platform of relief
for the poor farmers and workers
their demand for self determination
for Negroes in the Black Belt and
with a Negro, James W. Ford, as
nominee for the vice presidency de
serve the vote of he Negroes of the
T nited States. It is for these reasons
; that I wish to renew my plea to Ne.
j£rroes everywhere in the United States
i to vote Communist!
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j cil.
“The Ideal Woman in the
Community’’
It has been said that, ‘the wom
an s place is in the home whose
walls are where the child is’; and
because the walls have extended
themselves so greatly during this
generation, the ideal woman to
day is an individual in the home,
community, state and nation. It
is the ideal woman in the com
munity that I wish to write. That
every woman is by instinct a
scrub woman is as true today as
when Rnskin said it. She wants
to clean up, put in order, polish
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and make attractive everything
with which she has to do. Ac
cordingly the ideal woman in the
community wants her home city
to be clean, its streets and alleys
clear of refuse, its municipal gar
bage disposed of and everything
in its proper place. She wants
the convenience of modern home
equipments; streets that are wide
enough for safety; public building
pleasing to the eye; and her city
^tractive with trees, shrubs and
flowers. She wants to see the
youths of the community enjoy
ing clean sports, practicing clean
habits, clean speech and posses
sors of clean minds. Then she
thinks, where can they find such
enjoyments? She thinks of their
petting parties and their dire
evil; of the public dance halls
that are always filled to the cap
acity, regardless of class; of the
picture shows, showing their vul
gar western and love romances,
and most always destructive
gangster plays. Can the young
er generation keep a clean mind
and frequent these places? She
hardly thinks it possible. Well
then what? A Community Cen
ter. Why not? One that will fit
the community in which she liv
es. Since the ideal is a commun
ity center it is well to anticipate
its needs, so she thinks first (if
her community is a large one) of
a one room structure, well fitted
with stage, curtains, piano, etc.,
so that the youths of her commun
ity may exercise and develop any
talents they may posses. In years
she visualizes a larger structure
to which is added a gym, larger
stage and seating capacity, a
large playground with its equip
ments. She thinks seriously, if
her visions of such a project
could be made a reality—delin
quency would be cheeked, unvved
ded motherhood curbed, the com
munity would he a safe place in
which to live and a solution to
the cure and prevention of crim
es. Poor community environ
ments invariably overcomes the
best home training. The ideal
woman of the community wants
a deeper insight of +hat culture
that tends lift her city to the
highest standards of intelligence
an-i above all she wants it to he
religious. She wants to spread
afar the message of Christ. She
wants to build good will among
O - - ’
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everyone with whom she cornea in
contact thereby establishing a
relationship that cannot be meas
ured in dollars and cents. Since
ihe only medium through which
we can hope to be saved is the
church— let us fearfully and
prayerfully ask ourselves these
questions: What about your
church attendance? What about
mine? What about the Sunday
School tor our children? Do we
send them to Sunday School reg
ularly f Are w'e sure that they
go there? Do we pay our church
es enough to employ competent
leaders? What about the teach
i ings of Christ ? Does it come in
to your home? Into the homes of
your community,—into my home
and community?
“Ye are the Light of the
World, A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hid.”—Matt. 5-14. Re
ligion is the foundation of social
order, intellectual growth and the
loftiest citizneship. Your com
munity can be as "The city that
sets on a hill.” Mine can be
Community ideal.
Yours truly,
Francis Holloway,
2716 Franklin St.
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CONSTITUTION AND MEMBER
SHIP LAWS FOR THE UNEM
PLOYED MARRIED MEN’S
COUNCIL OF OMAHA
The name of this organization
shall be the Unemployed Married
Men’s Council of Omaha.
I he purpose of this organiz
ation shall be the Stimulation of
Employment.
Membership in this organiza
tion will be open to any and all
unemployed residents of Omaha
providing such person is:
1. The head of the family.
2. Is responsible for the care of
dependents.
3. Must be a registered voter.
4. And in his belief and conduct
will pledge himself to be true to
the ideals of the United States
of America.
1. The government of this organ
ization will he in the hands of an
executive committee composed of
not less than fifteen or more than
twenty-one members and will
meet weekly. The executive com
mittee is to be elected by the Cen
tral Council.
2. The Central Council will be
composed of two representatives
from each local organization. It
will meet weekly.
3. Local Councils will be organiz
ed in each section of the city and
will consist of the entire member
ship in that section. Local Coun
cils will meet weekly.
G. E. Redding, President.
Modern 8 Room House, 2511 Seward
St. Call Ja. 3317 or JA. 1699.
NAMELESS NOBLES
(By Dr. A. G. Bearer)
Naaman’s Servant
(The Literary Service Bureau)
Text: And his servant came near
and spake unto him, and said, My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do
some great thing, wouldest thou not
have done it? How much rather then,
when he saith to thee, wash, and be
clean?—II Kings 5:13.
Somewhere there is used something
about kings walking and beggars on
horses. This mean that often times
beggars are superior to kings and ser
vants wsier than thir masters. In
Naaman the leper, and his servant wo
have an illustration of such disparity.
Naaman had pone to the prophet for
cleansing/ The prophet simply said,
“Go to the Jordan and dip seven times
and you will be healed.” With indig
nation Naaman was hurrying away.
His servant reasoned with him and
persuaded him to accept the terms.
He washed and was clean.
Today, mediocres, inferiors and
sometimes criminals gain places of
renown while worthy ones are perse
cuted and trampled. The moral is
“Judge not by position or rank, but
by test of character.”
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