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H ELI. FOLKS!
THE POLITIC.
\ L GAME
KEVKK ENDS!
V* a.le politics U
the tucBCe of
Government. it
may he said that
it is also likened
to a fire which al. Johnny Horton
way,- barns,—a votes that is never
atilL
Fur t!i** ru vt three or four months
Omaha'* citizenry will be forced t<»
consider the many issues which will
U-.m up cither in defense of or a
gainst the many candidates who will
seek the office* of City Coin mis-ion.
e.*-. Variois strong organizations
w :!1 rise and -ome of tht*m will fall. I
Politics is a ‘funny* game; it mak.
• »> '‘range bsd.frlktws. Oh. well,
we il watch and s'udy as we read and
I*-ten to the “hot air” as it pours
forth fnm the mouths of the so.,
n'lni “friend <*f the Colored Folks”, j
WE SHOULD HAVE PROPOR
TIONATE REPRESENTATION IN
AU, BRANCHES OF GOVERN
MENT. acc*trding to the competency
of the individual.
ftlORJt COMPETENCY
NEEIIKO IN VM.MINISTRATIVE
OFFICE!
It has b.en the practice, over a
i ii.g period of years in many cities of
•»ur land and especially in Omaha, of
complete separation of National from
local politics in the nomination of I
Mayors. Council members and other
elective offices; this has proved a|
every progressive step. It is gener
ally believed that at least Two New
Reforms, especially here in Omaha,,
-dn uld he attempted which would be !
essential t<» the attainment of better;
and less costly Municipal government
to include:
(a. 1 Extension of the Civil Service
law to cover, through one process or I
.415 >ther, the highest administrative
officials and the r assistants usually)
called "deputies” thus reducing the j
opportunities for the misuse of the j
h gher offices for partisan politicalj
service*. |
(b.) The adaption of better and
more mod rn forms of charter legis
lation; the abolishment of useless de
partments or other administrative a.
gencies. the consolidation of others
and the simplication of government
methods wherver found to be practic
al.
Writer's Note:—Watch this column!
every we 'k and you will read the
truth exposed politically wherever
warranted re gardless of political con
nections.
A Correction
Mrs. Ada McGill of South Omaha
said that an article in the December
10th issue of the Omaha Guide quot
ing her as saying—That she had
known Mrs. Ada MacCurtis (who had
been killed in an automobile acci
dent) for seven years and that she
was always drunk—was erroneous as
die did not testify at the inquest.
NEGRO. PROPORTIONATELY HAS!
LOST MORE JOBS THAN ANY j
OTHER GROUP
In submitting the report of activ
ities of the Omaha Urban League for
1932, J. Harvey Kerns, Executive Sec
retary of the organization said, “The
Negro in Omaha had lost proportion
ately more jobs than other groups due
to the fact he is a marginal worker.”
The report pointed out that Negroes,
because of exhausted savings and loss
of occupations, had suffered greater
mortality losses, lower health condi
tions. and a high juvenile and adult
delinquency rate than in 1931.
The report states, qroup conferenc
es with workers, efficiency classes and
conferences with employers have been ,
used as a means of improving the !
status of Negro workers. In the era.!
ployment office conducted by the. ‘
league. a total of 405 men ami wom
en were placed in employment. There
were a number of conferences and \
campaigns designed to improved com. j
munity conditions and race relations.;
Most significant were, the All Day
Conference on the Social Determin.
ants t»f Juvenile Delinquency, the
('n To High School. Go To Collegei
Campaign. and a course in Business
Relations and Salesmanship, and
Child Welfare.
Thirty five different groups were
addressed by staff members of the \
Urban league on various phases of
Race Relations. These addresses and
gT > ip conferences, the report stated
have been a definite factor in improv
ing race relations in Omaha. The t
various neighborhood activities were
drected t« improving health, family
relations and eommunitv pride thru
garden and yard projects and clean
up •-ampnigns.
The re nor* states that Two of the
vital problems of providing for tbe
increased leisure of young men and
bnvs; and securing for Nerroes tbeir
rightful share of employment in the
nxiMle institutions of the citv which
he is taxed to support.
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Dr. llomer W. Anderson,
j -Supt. of Schools,
| City Hall, 6th floor,
I Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Dr. Anderson:
Sometime ago I wrote you seeking
nformation and consideration. This
vidently must be an oversight on
/our part, as I have not received a
eply •dative to same.
I am sure you have been given
more than sufficient time to look in
to this situation, make investigatons,
nd eonsder it from every angle.. Al
hou h I realize the difficulties one
~ confronted w-ith coming into a
j tew field, having to outline your
dans to better different situations,
ml to bring about a complete satis
action to all involved, and who are
•oonsrhle for your presence in this
my.
Our group is 5Mir'i responsible for.
th'- members of the Board of Eduea
linn, who are appointed by votes, and
this board makes investigations and
a{ points the superintendent and pres.
:dert, which js all indirectly through
the public.
We have not asked for something
unreasonable, unfair, unjust or im
possible, but a consideration that is
deserving and needed. A consider
ation that will represent over 11,800
citizens of this city.
Evidently you are one well pre
pan-d along educational lines, and are
appreciative and fair, regardless of
who concerned, or the amount of in
dependence involved. Representing
this group, before taking the matter i
ut) with the board. I am again re
minding you of same.
Cooperation has been received
from any number of the members of
the board, and we are hoping you
will give this situation your earnest
and heartiest support, fully express
ir;; your view point regarding same.
However, it is our fullest intention
to strive with endless efforts to
bring about justice and the proper
consideration relative to employment
of qualified members of our group
on Omaha’s school board.
I am hoping you will not misinter
pret my meaning, and thanking you
very much for your reply to same, I
am
Yours very truly,
Dr. G. B. Lennox, Pres.,
Working Men’s Commissioners,
1602V» N 24th Street.
Dr. G. B. Lennox,
ir.02'4 N. 24th Street,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Dr. Lennox:
This is to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of December nineteenth
concerning the status of the colored
citizens with regard to the schools.
I am glad to know what your pos
ition in this matter is.
Yours Sincerely,
H. W. Anderson,
Superintendent of Schools.
January 12. 1933|
Dr. Homer W. Anderson, 1
Supt. of Schools,
Board of Education, 6th floor,
City, Omaha, Nefer.
Dear Dr. Anderson:
I am receipt of your letter of Jan
uary 6th in reply to the one written
some time ago.
Coming into a new field, with many
transactions to work out, I took for
granted you have been busy and per
haps over looked, or did not have a
chance to consider this situation. I
am sure by this time you have re
ceived my second reminder.
After looking into this situation, I
am sure you will find our claim just
and should not think that I take a
different viewpoint along these lines,
especially when we are great sup.
porters of the city’s taxation, at
least 5*6%.
In fact, we think those who are
greatly benefited yearly by our sup
port, should be willing to give back to
us in return for that which we have,
,riven, or are entitled to. We are
only asking for consideration in pro.
portion to that we give. If we were'
given more than 5%%, the same
would be beyond our pro-rata of em.1
ployment, and unjust to others invol
ved.
Wo shall appreciate a reply stat-1
ing definitely your position and view
point regarding this matter, as we!
are seeking with endless efforts to
obtain the consideration of employ
ment on the city’s school board to
which we are fully entitled.
Thanking you very much for same.
I am
Very truly yours,
Dr. G. B. Lennox. Pres.,
Working Men’s Commissioners,
1602^ N. 24th Street.
MEMBER OF NEGRO FILM GROUP;
IN MOSCOW SIGNS SIX MONTHS
CONTRACT
New York. (CNA) “Just signed six
months contract with the Meschrab.
pom Film Company. Well and happy,’
was the text of a cablegram received
here last week from Dorothy West in
Moscow, LTSRR. The cable was sent
to Louise Thompson, secretary of the
group of 22 Negro men and women
who went to Moscow last spring t»
take part in the making of a film of
Negro life, “Black and White.”
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Miss West, who was one *f the
group, decided to remain in Moscow
after it was announced that the mak
ii*j of the film would have to be post
poned for * short while because of
technical difficulties. She is a nat
ive of Boston, Mass., and a writer by
profession. A number of her short
stories have been published.
Together with Langston Hughes,
and a number of others of the group,
j M iss West made an extended tour,
through Turkestan last summer and
fall. The contract which she has
signed with the Mescrabpom Filnt«
Company will give her a part in a
new picture being produced under
the direction of Eck. who took charge
of the production “The Road to Life”
which has had great popularity in
America.
All the other members of the group
of 22 who are still in the USRR. have
! secured congenial work.
PRISONS AND PRISONERS
by Clifford C. Mitchell
We have all read the account of the
prisoner in an Eastern prison who
sent a touching poetic plea to his sen
tencing judge—'and we all know the
results. The judge could have ar
ranged the prisoner’s immediate re
lease but first wanted proof that the
prisoner" had developed his talents to
the extent that he was worthy of ju
dicial and executive clemency.
When put to the test the prisoner
could not produce anything further in
the poetic line and eventually admit
ted that he had stolen the words from
a poem he had read and converted it
to his own use, hoping thereby to at
tract sufficient attention and consid
eration to obtain his freedom.
The circumstances of the above case
indicates that prisoners, no matter
where located, realize the advantage
of portraying an excellent showing of •
prison accomplishment. It also indi- j
cates that the people in the free world
are willing to respond and aid any
prisoners whose showing merits con-;
sideration.
There is a valuable lesson taught in
the Eastern prisoner’s misguided at
tempt to plagiarize and cash in on
someone else’s ability. His futile ef
forts proved to the authorities that
he was not ready for his freedom.
He stole to get in prison and he stole
in an attempt to get out of prison,
with only himself the loser in both in
stances.
Some time ago I read an excellent
book on present-day economics, “Res
pectfully Submitted,” by Harold G.
Aron, and from it I shall offer a quo
tation that is quite fitting for this
particular theme: “Be only that, do
only that, of which you may justly be
proud.”
Nr> sane or rational prisoner can
possibly go wrong if he lives up to
the above motto. You do not need
a rule book, a guardian or a censor in j
order to follow its teachings.
No matter what line of prison en
deavor you are engaged in there are
many opportunities by which you can
make a favorable showing and one j
that will stand the acid test. The |
“flash” artist may obtain the spot- j
light for a moment, but the very heat
of the rays will melt the camouflage,
leaving only the skelton of the fakir. I
The real artist, in prison or out, is j
the one who takes such pride in his ;
work that he will not permit of a
single flaw if it is within his power to
make the job a work of perfection. If
the workman has this thought in
mind, it matters not what the voca
tion, he is an artist.
Recently I was watching a carpen
ter put a piece of moulding around
a shelf. To me it seemed as though
he made several unnecessary trips,
and operations, just to get one partic
ular piece to fit right. It was ob
vious that he could have been less
painstaking and could have finished
the job sooner than he did.
Finally, I questioned his method
and he quickly replied: “I could have
finished that space with left-over
pieces but that wouldn't have been a I
perfect job and my dad always taught
me never to make. a botch of any
piece of Carpenter work.”
Indeed, that carpenter is an artist,
and in his work he truly lives to
the motto of doing only that for which
he may justly be proud. If each art
ist, in his own line, maintains the
same spirit, he will find it unnecess
ary to plagiariae the thoughts, or ac
tions, of others, and whatever he ac
complishes will withstand the acid
test.
“Be only that, do only that, of j
which you may justly be proud."
“Mscxie
Miller !
Writes”
The “Eternal Triangle” Again— A
Lazy Husband and A Generous
“Sweet Man”—Worried Wife Liable
To Be a Dead Wife—One Man at a
Time is a Better Policy
(for advice, write to Maxie Miller,
care of Literary Service Bureau, 516
Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kan.
For personal reply send self-address
ed. stamped envelope.)
(The Literary Service Bureau)
MAXIE MILLER: I am a married
woman of a certain age, have two
small children and I am >n love with
another man. ' My husband never has
provided a living for us as he should
and this other man gives me anything
I want, It seems like I owe my best
respect to the other man. I have nev
er written you b%#we but I haw read
so many of your letters and letters
from others, that I believe you can
help me, too.—Worried Wife.
Worried Wife: You are most unfort. I
ate to be tied to a man such as you
report your husband to be. But yo-u
are wrong to be intimate with anoth
er man. You call it love, maybe so,
but I fear it is just passion.
Talk matters over with your hus
band; tell him what you think of his !
nev.iect. But if possible, remain with
your husband for the children’s sake.
—MAXIE MILLER.
Mother Is Puzzled—Girl of 19 Can’t
Finish School and Wants to Marry—
Mother Say* “Too.Young”— Man
Industrious and Good—Better
Marry Than Do Worse.
MAXIE MILLER: My daughter is
II', has finished high school but can’t
go to college because w'e are too poor.
She wants to get married. I consid
er she is too young. The man is a
nice fellow and industrious, but he is
not educated and I think my daugh
ter might get a husband of the edu
cated class. She says she won’t
marry without my consent, but I do |
not know what to do. What—?
—Puzzled Mother.
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her. Get out of the way and let this
girl have a chance to be happy.
—MAXIE MILLER.
LOOKING BACK
by Videtta .Ish
(The Literary Service Bureau)
I am thirty- I stand on the crest of
“the great divide" of womanhood.
From this crest, I look back. I believe
the school folks call it retrospect, or j
some such big thing. To me it’s
simply looking back. Way up here, at
an altitude I never expected to reach,
I see just lots and lots o’ things. I
see the things gone by, and I see tbe
right now things.
I think I‘ll just jam the have beens
and the right nows into a sack, invert
the sack, shake out everything to
gether and get what tbe wise folks
call the—watchu-eallit? O, yes; the
average. My! that’s a big word for
poor me to cough up! Well, that’s the
way I see it from my “great divide”.
Looking back I see tragedies of
childhood. I don’t laugh at children’s
griefs, sorrows, and tragedies. The
doll’s head was broken; the cat broke
her leg and became permanently
lame; the dog got lost and never
came home; and there were other sad
happenings. Older people laughed,
but to the children, they were heart
rending tragedies, spelled with capit
als and underscored.
Friendships of Childhood
(The Literary Service Bureau)
In their friendships, children are
simplicity and sincerity personifed.
These early frendships are stronger
and more permanent than generally
considered. They are serious, too—
to the children. Sometimes they
crab a hold and keep it through a
whole lifetime.
Children are resentful toward those
who show unkindness toward their
friends. Perhaps they are even more
so when this unkindness is shown
while such children are their guests.
Generally such attachments are be
tween children of the same sexes.
Sometimes there are between those
of different sexes, but absolutely pla
tonic. At other times, there is the
sex element. Little sweethearts are
not uncommon. There have been many
instances where these early sweet
hearts have formed marriage union*
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HABITS
by A. B. MANN
Over Credulity
(The Literary Service Bureau)
It is unfortunate to be sceptical or
cynical. There are already too many
snearing cynics in this old world,
now. But, t° be excessively credul
ous is more dangerous and more des- j
structive than to be moderately cyn
ical. Some people will believe any
thing, and everything. They would be
lieve it if told that “the moon is made
of green cheese,” or that the stars
‘ just go out.” in the morning and
“come on again,” at night.
Many people believe all the flattery j
offered them not realizing that the1
flatters may have axes to grind. Some j
are foolish enough to believe every
evil report concerning their neighbors.
Believiixr every body to be sincere,
and honest, very credulous persons
make loans, indorse notes, go secur
ity, give recommendations and in oth^
er ways involve themselves to the ex
tent that they suffer financial loss
and serious embarrassment.
Paraphrasing, if scepticism has
slain its thousands, excessive credu
lity has stain its tens of thousands.
A bad habit this. Better “watch your
corners.”
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MOBILE ACCIDENTS”
by Victor W. Page
(Norman W. Heney Pub. Co., 2
West 45th Street, New York City)
• • •
This little book came off the press
last October. Because of the import
ance of its text it should have beeu
read and commented upon immediate
ly upon its receipt. The fact, how
ever that there is nothing racial •
bout the book, caused me to delay,
somewhat, its turn for study and
comment.
• • •
Nevertheless, “Prevention of Auto
mobile Accidents”, costing but seven
ty-five cents, should be owned, or at
least read, by every racial driver.
And the pedestrians themselves would
find it of considerable value to read
and study this little book.
• • *
Just as the name describes, the text
is written in language for the lay
man, with pertinent illustrations, des
cribing and detailing the causes of
most automobile accidents and illus
trating ways to prevent same, along
with many rules and pointers that
will aid any motorist in obtaining the
maximum results from his car at the
least cost and degree of safety.
* « *
Of special value is the information
outlining the various motor laws in
different sections of the country; the
uniform methods of signalling, and
tips for local traffic guidance. Tech
nical mechanical information concern
ing various car appliances are so
worded and illustrated as to make
their proper use perfectly clear to
each reader.
—Clifford C. Mitchell.
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