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“Johnny
Horton s
Political
DOPE”
by John Benj. Horton, Jr.
WELL FOLKS!
BRAINS
FOR
SALE!
It might be in
teresting to re.
mind yon that
with the passing
of each year,
hundreds, if not
thousands, of Johnny Horton
young colored men an women finished
schools and *re fully competent along
all lines of human endeavor, fully ’•*•
piet^ with the knowledge and skill re
quired to render the highest type of
service that would be demanded by
those who would hire them.
There are two avenues which would
help greatly to advance our cause e
conomically if only those channels
would loose the shackles of prejudice
and narow.mindedness and give those
competent, of my race a chance to
show their merits; those avenues are
the business and the political world.
Do we not spend a fair share of our
earrings with the business or com.
mercial institutions of our land? Do
we not dispense a porportionate am
ount of our income in National, State
County and City taxation? Now:—
Do we receive n fair share of em
ployment in the business world of A
merica and particularly Omaha? The
answer is NO! Do we receive our pro
rata of employment in the political
world of America and particularly
Orraha? The answer is NO!
Then, something is wrong some
where. In these particular cases, the
ecrnomic law of diminishing returns
as regards a just consideration in re
turn for the energy and money ex
pended in these directions, works per
fectly, only in an adverse manner for
the race.
Truly, it can be said that the Ne
gro youth of America and particul
arly Omaha have brains for sale with
not many prospects of selling them in
return for a proper economic stabil
ity so necessary in these miserable
and wretched days of suffering.
A Strange Contrast:
LYNCHING. The Oldest Child of
America's Political System;
Just the Opposite in England
and Ireland!
They t*U me that politics is tho
science of Government *nd they don’t
distinguish that is, whether govern
ment is good or bad.
Inasmuch as lynching is bad, then
I would call it the child or bad and
non-courageous political leadership in •
the many States where it is so ram-1
pantly practiced.
A more diabolical system could |
scarcely have been conceived in Eng
land or Ireland; if such a system had
bloomed in Great Britain or Ireland
where laws are upheld to the super
lative degree, it is probable that their
police would have discovered the per
petrators and secured justice for all
and lynching would have long ago
been a ‘forgotten thing” in the minds
of her people.
The American criminal system with
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Remember!
A FEW
gasolines are EITHER high
test or high anti-knock.
Moat gasolines are NEITHER
high test or high anti-knock.
Shell) Gasoline is BOTH high
test and high anti-knock and
tailor made for each state at
No Extra Cost.
24th & ^4 20th &
Ohio Izard
aat-.....
its endless delays and numerous ap
peals, is really an aid to the law
breakers, especially of the above nam
ed character.
In Ireland, the most complicated
criminal case can be finally disposed
of in two or three months from the
commission of the crime, whereas,
across the Atlantic, a case can drag
along for years.
So long as there’s corruption in the
police to the extent that is notorious,
the criminal and especially the ‘mobo
crat’ and ‘lynchocrat’ will find his
respective lot easier in America than
in England or Ireland.
What this American commonwealth
needs is less talk about LIBERTY
end more determined WAR on those
who outrage Liberty and take their
‘oil. annually, of Negro as well as
White lives with the TORCH, the
| CUN and the ROPE!
March of Progress
Demands Dept, of Education
with Sec’y. in President’s
Cabinet!
Unlike the educational equipment
for a business career a century ago,
business has become so complex that
a business education now covers lit
erature, law, accounting, business or
ganization, ethics, banking economics
sociology, physcholotjy international
relationships, etc.,
Business has become scientific,
touching every phase of human and
commercial relationships, Education
became scientific, far ahead of busi
re-s. lake law, medicine and the
other branches of learning, it is, in a
generic sense, but a child of educ
ation.
Now adays, the individual must
l'-arn or perish; nations as a whole
must learn or perish; civilization
must expand to greater levels of
learning or it is doomed. There is no
standing still; we either move for
ward or step backward. Let’s keep
our contribution to modern civiliza
tion moving forward through our sys
tem of public education, aided, en
couraged and sustained in the future
as in the past, by Federal assistance
and by headquarters and facilities ad
equate to coj e vith the present de
mands of education and our growing
civilization; this march of progress
demands that the United States Govt’
make possible a Dept, of Education
with a Sec’y of Education in the Presi
dent’s Cabinet ait Washington, D. C.
Writer’s Note—Watch this column ev..
ery week and you'll read the truth ex
posed politically wherever warranted,
regardless of political connections.
Making Good
Jimmie Jones and his Brown Ber
ries are now on location at the Thom
pson Hotel in Marshal Town, Iowa.
The band is now under the direction of
Jack Oglesby, who is better known as
the Clarinet King. Jack and Jimmie
are two boys who are making quite
a name for Omaha musicians.
For the last two years, Jack and
Jimmie have been playing each other
competition with Bands. Now that
they have consolidated, they will be
a hard combination to beat. Jack is
one of the best musical arrangers in
the mdidle West.
The band is going over big. The
boys stay in the hotel where they
play. Each and every man in the
band is a gentleman, therefore the
boys don’t have any trouble anywhere
they go. Jimmie and the band have
made a name in the middle West that
any organization should be proud of.
They are welcomed everywhere they
I go.
The members of the band are Jack
Oglesby, sax-clarinet, arranger, vocal;
Alfred Abney, sax and clarinet; Ted
Sum met, banjo, guitar, vocal; Lewis
Vann, trumpet, vocal; Dave Alex
ander, piano and accordian; Joe Jon
es, drums, vocal; Jimmie Jones, trom
bone, bass viol, arranger.
The boys wil receive their mail at
the Thompson Hotel, Marshal Town,
Iowa.
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A mother found it necessary to go on
a trip at a time when her baby w,as ill. She
left the baby with its grandmother—but
worried about it almost all the time. Her
hu-band suggested she call home by Long
Distance—she did—she learned the baby
was well again. That call saved her end
less hours of anxiety and worn'.
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HOME LOAN BILL
Federal Home Loan Bank of
Topeka
Topeka, Kansas
December 9. 1932
Office of
Chas. A. Myers
2nd vice-pres.
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] Mr. G. B. Lennox.
11602% North 24th Street,
| Omaha, Nebraska
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Dear Dr. Lennox:
We are enclosing a questionnaire
December 7th, asking for information
concerning home loans.
We are enclosing a quesaionnaire,
together with a statement of avail
able information for the guidance
of those desiring to make application
for an individual loan on their homes.
We ask that you read both of these
forms carefully, and if you believe
that your circumstances are in line
with the promises described therein,
and the only reason you cannot be
served locally is because of the dearth
of funds, we will be glad to receive
your direct application.
The Federal Home Loan Bank does
not loan money on farm or business
property. It does not loan money on
homes which are worth more than
$20,000 or occupied by more than
three families.
All loans made by this bank will be
on the monthly payment plan. The
length of time which a loan may run
has not yet been decided upon, but it
is our opinion that it will be made
only until a time when a local build
ing and loan association can take
over the loan. All loans will be made
upon the same terms of repayment
and interest charge which are requir
ed by lending agencies operating in
the applicant’s community.
When you have filled out the ques
tionnaire properly, mail it to the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank of Topeka in
the enclosed self-addressed envelope
and it will receive due and timely at
tention.
Yours very truly,
Chas. A. Myers,
2nd vice-president.
Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka
Information for Applicant for
Direct Individual Loan
It is the purpose of the Federal
Home Loan Bank System to increase
the supply of first mortgage money
for home owners by advancing money
to Building and Loan Associations,
Insurance Companies, Savings and
Loan Associations and Savings Banks
secured by their mortgages as collat
eral. In this manner, these institu
tions will have additional money to
lend on first mortgages to home
owners in their communities.
It is not the intention of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank to engage in
competition with existing mortgage
lending institutions. Instead, the ob
ject of the System is to provide el
igible institutions with still more
money to lend in first mortgages to
home owners.
Those desiring first mortgage
loans on home should first call on the
eligible institutions in their locality.
Where such institutions require ad
ditional funds to lend on first mort
gages, they may obtain them by
joining the Federal Home Loan Bank
System.
Direct loans to home owners can
be made only on well constructed,
well situated homes occupied by the
owner, who must demonstrate that
he can make regular payments, and
provided there is no eligible institu
tion in the vicinity that can borrow
money from a Federal Home Loan
Bank.
The Federal Home Loan Bank does
not lend on busness property. It does
not lend on homes worth more than
$20,000. It does not handle second
mortgages. It does not loan on pro
perties that house more than three
families.
Applications for farm loans should
be made to the Federal Land Bank in
your district.
Use your Building and Loan As
sociations and Insurance Companies
They can and should be members of
this bank and able to supply money
for all good loans on urban homes.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK of TOPEKA
LOAN QUESTIONNAIRE
1. Name of home-owner {applicant .
\
2. Address of applicant .. .
3. By whom employed ...
4.’.. . .
5. Income per month ,$ .
6. Location of property to be mortgaged: .
7.Street Number . .. .
8. City ...
9. State .. . .
10. Is there any tax unpaid? . .. . . .
11. For what years? . .. ...
12. State amounts .
13. How much repair needed at this time? .
14.
15. Present fair value of property $..
16. Assessed value 5 .
17. Number of families occupying house ..
18. Amount of loan desired $ .
19. Amount of ground .
20. Purpose of loan .■.
21. Ia property now mortgaged? ,.'.
22. If ao, to whom? ....
23. Give unpaid (balance of mortgage $ .
24. Give original amount of mortgage $.
SPECIAL!
Announcement!
We wish to Announce to the Public, effective
Sunday, January 8th, Mr. C. Adams, will commence
distributing GOLD SEAL MILK and Cream Dairy
Products in place of Mr. J. F. Taylor, w ho has been
our distributor heretofore. We wish to take this
means of thanking you all for the splendid patron
age that you have given us in the past. We are
sure that Mr. Adams will give you the best of serv
ice and he will appreciate your patronage very
much.
Sincerely yours,
GOLD SEAL DAIRY CO.
GLen. 2929
Read WhatOthers Say ll
To The Omaha Guide.
Dear Editor:
Please note the article enclosed I
clipped from the World-Herald issue
of January 10th inst. I think that
Prof. Richard Borden did wrong by
writing such a story in view of the
fact that history shows good record
of Colored forces in all of U. S. wars
and added to this fact the present far
Eastern situation proves that such
stories of ridicule is unfortunate to
U. S. and should not be allow'ed. It
seems possible that Prof. Borden was
absent when the New York Univers
ity instructors were giving out in
structions on how to use some brains,
respectfully,
Joseph W. Lane,
2422 Cuming St.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
INSURANCE iSALESMANSHIP
(The Cockle Bur)
Here is a story from Postage and
the Mailbag that I had a good chuckle
over:
Prof. Richard Borden of New York
university tells of his experience in
selling government insurance policies
during the world war. It seems that
in a certain camp the idea of taking
the premium out of the pay check
didn’t go over so well in the colored
contingent, so Borden was chosen as
one of the men sent out to sell the
idea of insurance to these men.
After Borden had made several
speeches to them using well-establish
ed advertising principles, but without
success, he was approached by a
young colored doughboy who suggest
ed that maybe Borden was “pressing
the wrong button.”
Then although he admitted he knew
nothing about selling and had never
made a speech in his life, he consent
ed to make a two-minute speech.
“Niggahs”, he said, “You’se all in
Uncle Sam’s army now, and youse all
goin’ to France. Now over in France
Uncle Sam’s got two kinds of colored
boys. One kind he keeps in the front
line trenches, where all the shootin'
is goin’ on. The other kind he keeps
10 miles behind the lines to take care
of the mules. Now you jest stop and
think. If every time a colored boy gets
killed Uncle Sam has got to pay out
10 thousand dollars, where do you
think he’s goin’ to put those insured
niggahs ?”
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IMPOSING ON GOOD NATURE
by R. A. ADAMS
(The Literary Service Bureau)
A minister has a car. His mem
bers do not hesitate to accept rides,
and they often call the pastor to take
them to and from club meetings, but
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they do not offer to buy a gallon of
“gas”. There is a fellow minister
who constantly makes use of his bro
ther’s car. Once in a while he will
buy two gallons of gasoline, but, most
times he says “Thank you, my good
friend.”
A family has a telephone. The next
door neighbor makes use of it, Mem
bers of the family call early in the
morning and late at night. They
give the number as their telephone;
their friends call them at all hours;
they sit and hold conversation and do
not hurry; but they never offer to
“chip in” on the charges.
A young woman is a stenographer.
She makes her living that way. A
minister frequently calls and requests
her to write a few lines for him. She
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writes a letter, or, several letters and
her compensation is, “Thank you,
“Honey; you are a fine girl.”
A man smokes. He never has to
bacco. He borrows from a friend and
generally he has to borrow “a light”
also. Wjhen his friend is out, he ia
out, also.
These are just a few of the thous
ands of cases in which unreasonable
persons impose on good nature. If
the generous souls who are imposed
upon should refuse, they would be
called stingy. But such “riders”
ou^ht to be taught a lesson—and’ the
sooner the better.
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