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VOL. VII.— ___Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, July 15, 1933._ * Number Twentv-One.
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By CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL \
KEEPING A PROMISE!
Back in rr.y prison days over a
month ago now) I promised to use
this column for the balance of my
life in an effort to help the Negro in
Business for I am convinced that ev.
cry wrong affecting the Negro today
can be righted if the Negro, as a
group, will just quit chasing will.of
the.wisp* and concentrate on build
ing up a strong economic group. Fa.
vors of any kind can beat be secured
by that group who know how to con
trol and use their purchasing pow.
er If you don't believe that is true
just put a small want ad in your fav.
orite white paper advertising you
have some money to invest. The
many people who answer your ad and
seek your funds will be courteous,
pleasing, promising and docile to you
that you will even forget that you
are black—auch ia the power of pos.
section.
Since being free the very first step
1 have taken towards helping the Ne_
gro in Business is to ferret out all
the little leaks that waste energy,
and sap the financial vitality out of
our economic system. For years, in
prison. I recorded every significant
fact and now I am checking these
facts—as best as my meagre funds
will permit me. And while a prison,
er I wrote many an article on the
wastefulness of our people chasing
rainbows through following the leads
of uestumable advertisers. The v?zy
spot in our economic system that is
worse than a cancer is the fact that
many of our publishers in their zeal
to achieve a revenue today without
realising the effect it will have on,
their own revenues tomorrow, or on
the race as a whole, use the question,
able, and yes in a great many cases,
fraudulent advertisements thaft are
plastered all over the advertising
columns of some publications.
That conditions is the very worst
spot m oar economic condition today.
How can we as a race expect to build
ourselves up on a sound economic bas_
is when the advertising columns of
our paper lead Hie reader to believe
that all one has to do is to buy a rab.
bit's foot, lucky chanr.. snake ring,
incense powder, confidential tips, or
whatnot and then sit back and wait
for lady luck to do the rest. I am
frank to state right here that every
publisher who encourages this sort
of procedure, regardless of what he
may extol in his editorial columns, or
how public spirited he may be, is
POSITIVELY dragging his own race
down and is POSITIVELY making it
harder for his own paper to secure
the advertisements of strictly legiti.
mate business firms.
Our publishers are continually
harping on cooperation but talk to one
of the paper’s readers about cooper,
ation and you will be forced to wait
until they “hit’ the number or their
lucky charm has brought around their
ship for such readers spend their
earnings in such uackery while their
legitimate business needs are neg.
lected and thier honest debts are ig_
nored. How any publisher can ride
around in his swank car knowing
that he is playing the part of a com.
won “steerer” to a more common and
despicable “racket” and not permit
his conscience to hurt him is beyond
me.
During the past few weeks I have
checked up on some of my previous
compilations and in my possession I
now have FACTS on many of these
questionable advertisers and I have
definite proof of the worthlessness of
their efforts. In some instances their
mail has been definitely prohibited
through a governmental fraud order,
and yet our publishers ran their ad.
vertisements permitting them to use
the telegraph to further mulct our
Negro Operators
Gain In License Fight
Last week the Omaha Guide carried a story and I
commented editorally about the battle being on for two
youths’ right to a square deal for Motion Picture Operat
or s license. Due to this story we have received many in
quiries and many letters, some special deliveries, endors
ing our demand for representation. We believe the whole
neighborhood is more solidly behind this matter than any
thing heretofore that has been sponsored by the Omaha
Guide. We are receivig also from supposed to be inside, in
formation as about what trouble will be started by the |
Union Operators when the change is made. Few people
know there is a penalty of a year in the state pententiary
for throwing stink bombs on the sidewalks, or in any
place of business or private home. Some one has made the
remark that the enemies of this movement would not
have any trouble whatever in employing some Negro
tramp for a five spot to do the dirty work. This, The
Omaha Guide does not believe is true. As many Negroes
as there are out of employment now, surely there is not
one of them who would attempt to do anything that is so
low and degrading to prevent a Negro youth for securing
a position that pays $45.00 a week. If there is one, and he
should be spotted by any .Negro at the time of the act, it is
stated that he will not fair so well.
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Negro Prospector
Discovers Gold Mine
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people.
From time to time, through this
column. I shall expose in concrete
form some of these many propos.
itions, naming the papers in which
such ads are run and the method in
which they are secured, and why
they are run. It goes without saying
that the guilty publishers will not
run such releases but I am grateful
to know that there are a sufficient
number of other reliable publishers
•'’ho can see far ahead and are will,
ing to help a fight that will eradicate'
the cancer from our economic system
and which will, in time, mean a larg
er and more reliable flow of adver.
tising revenue from legitimate adver.
tisers AFTER the illegitimate adver
tisers are first chased to oblivion.
STATEMENT BY THE ACTING
EDITOR TO THE READERS OF
THE OMAHA GUIDE
Every Newspaper must have some,
one at the head of its affairs, in fact,
all businesses must have a head.
Since Mr. H. J. Ford, the founder and
Editor of The Omaha Guide, moved
to Washington, D. C., it happened
to be my misfortune to be the acting
Editor and the business manager of
The Omaha Guide. I say misfortune
because every man who is head of any
business organization these depres.
sion days is everything but proud of
the job he has on his hands. I have
been reliably informed by some of
my employees that the readers of our
j paper are accusing them of being re
sponsible for certain items that are
appearing in our paper. I wish to
correct this matter. The Editor of
any newspaper is wholly responsible
for the contents therein, and as a
rule, the Editor triee doubly hard to
put into his paper what his readers
will appreciate. When we fail to do
that there is only two reasons, viz.
shortage of funds and the lack of cor.
rect information from our readers as
to what they want in their paper.
We will accept, anytime, constructive
criticism, and will regard it as a spec,
ial favor when it is done unselfishly,
and in writing, and not street gossip.
Please hold the Editor, as the Courts
fo and who is responsible for the it.
ems in the paper which he is Editor
of and not the many employees.
Signed,
C. C. GALLOWAY.
Acting Editor of
The Omaha Guide.
MISS PERKINS URGES MINIM
UM WAGE LAW
WELLESLEY, Mass.—An appeal
for ratification of the child labor
amendment and continuance of efforts
for state minimum wage laws was
made tonight by Secretary of Labor
Perkins in an address at the Welles
ly college institute for social pro
gress.
COPPER GULCH NAME OF MIN.
ING TOWN AROUND HOARD’S
GOLD ’HOLE’
Copper Gulch, Colo. CNS) This!
town should have been named “Hoard
ville” after Bob Hoard, the gray.hair
ed Negro who recently hit a rich gold
find that assayed $80 a ton and more.
Some wanted that name given to the
camp, others wanted it called “New
Deal.” The compromise selected
was Copper Gulch, after six.shooters
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COUNTY HAS CHARITY MONEY
FOR 6 WEEKS
County funds are sufficient to take
care of charity needs for the next six
weeks whether federal money is re
ceived or not, County Commissioner
Frank Riha said Saturday.
The deadlock between Governor
Bryan and the federal relief admin
istration which is reported to be
threatening Nebraska’s participation,
still continues. The governor is said
to have notified government author
ities that if they do not want to
handle the administration his, way,
they may do their own administering.
The dispute is over the appointment
of a state administrator.
MR. PRICE WARNS BARBERS
Mr. R. C. Price made a statement
to the barbers warning them against
two men who are working against the
barbers’ Association who are putting
forth an effort to repeal the City Or
dinance requiring a City Board. The
City Board has been in effect for
quite sometifne. In 1928 a state law
was passed requiring a State Board.
The City Board is an exact duplicate
of the State Board, and requires the
barbers to pay a large tax. The City,
in other words, after the state has
licensed one, comes around to collect
its share of tax, when as a matter of
fact, does not deserve anything be
cause it hasn’t done anything.
MAY GET NEW, TAX CUT
There is a likelihood that a further
reduction in assessed values of Doug
las county real estate will be made by
the state board of equalization when
it meets July 14, County Assessor
Greenleaf stated Saturday. He said
the reductions made by some of the
other counties in Nebraska are great
er than those made in Douglas
county.
COMPLETES 3.ACT PLAY
Mrs. Elaine Smith McGee, Office
Secretary of the Omaha Urban
League, has just completed a three
act play entitled “Not Alms but Op_
pc rtunity”, depicting the various ser_
vices of the League. The play is to be
presented along with another skit.
“Scraps”, early in the fall.
Colored Citizens Incensed
Over Unfair Treatment In
Job Created by Themselves
DEMAND SHOWDOWN
To The Editor, Omaha Guide,
2418 Grant Street,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Gentlemen:
I should like to have a word to say,
relative to the alleged discrimination,
so said practiced by labor unions. The
question invloves the hiring of a col
ored man to operate the motion pic
ture machine at the Ritz theatre, from
the information I have, the manage
ment of the picture show is desirous
of hiring a colored man, but the ap
plicant has been unable to pass the
examination.
The examining has been under the
control of union men, but at the last
meeting of the City Council, the old
board was discharged, and placed in
the hands of a committee composed
of City commissioners, one of which
is the mayor.
I sincerely believe from now on, ap
plicants of color, taking the xamina
tion for movie operators will receive a
fair and square deal. I remain,
Yours very truly,
Omaha Branch N A. A C P
R C Price, Branch Pesident.
Tne Omaha Urban League in en
dorsing the appointment of a Negro
operator in the Ritz Theatre is fol
lowing one of the fundamentals of the
League in seeking for Negroes equal
ity of opportunity In view of the
more than 99 per cent patronage of
Negroes in the Ritz there should be
no question of his being entitled to
not only the operator jobs, but to
practically every job in the theatre of
fering wages or a salary In arguing
in behalf of Negroes, the Urban Lea
gue feels that the highest efficiency
should be maintained and the same
wage scale should apply to Negroes
as did for the former white oprator.
There are dozens of young en
ergetic Negroes who can qualify for
these jobs The League feels the
Union Examiner nor any other biased
individual or individuals should be an
obstacle to a Negro candidate for this
job Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville,
have had Negro operators for years
With proper training there need be
no fear of colored young men at the
switch ^ The League believes the
Council will do all in their power to
see that a fair and impartial ex
amination is given the applicants
whose only crime is that seeking a
job not customarily held by one of
their Race
.T Harvey Kerns. Executive Secy
NEGRO OPERATORS SHOULD BE
GIVEN LICENSES
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DEAR EDITOR:—Our idea in re_
gards to the Negro as Moving Picture
Operators would be to boycott the
Theatre if we are deprived of one of
our race as a Motion Picture Operat
of. Since thft Operator is being paid
$45.00 per week and 95 percent comes
from the Negroes’ pockets, they
should have a Negro selling tickets,
ushering and operating. Other cities
have the above mentioned, such as
Chicago, New York, Cleveland, De_
troit and plenty of others, then why
not Omaha? If they fail to give the
Negro what is due them then open
up a theatre of their own, and for
God’s sake, and the sake of yourself
and race, go to it and help keep it up.
It is sure a shame, as large a city
as Omaha is, and not a Colored
theatre, YMCA., or other decent
places of amusement for our people
such as other cities the size of Omaha,
has.
Sincerely,
We are Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Arbuckle
2423 Grant St.
Rev. Burckhardt’s statement as to
Negro Operators in Moving Picture
Shows: I heartily endorse this move
and feel that we are due such repres_
entation.
0. J. Bnrckhardt.
The Ritz Theatre should, by all
At The Dreamland
CLAUDE HOPKINS and his fam_
ous Roseland Ball Room Orchestra
of New York City, who will appear
at the Dreamland, Saturday, July
15th.
means, hire Negro operators because
its main support is from- the Negro
race.
Signed,
Lovejoy Crawford
PALMER SCORES POLICE; “RAID
LITTLE FELLOW'S”
Municipal Judge Palmer, incensed
at some recent liquor raids said in
police court Wednesday: “Though the
repeal of prohibition is near our raid,
ing squad insists on breaking into
homes illegally without a warrant to
search for liquor.
“Our police court is clogged with
petty liquor cases, while big shots
are Seldom arrested. It is just as il
legal to sell 3.2 beer in Nebraska to
day as to have liquor in one’s posses
sion. Why continue to waste taxpay.
ers’ money in arresting poor men or
persecuting certain ones because of
political reasons when the great ma_
jority go free and unmolested?”
CANDIDATE FOR MINISTRY
KILLED BY LIGHTNING
DURING ORDINATION
Savannah, Ga., CNS)— Marion
Moultrie, whose desire to become a
minister was on the point of being
realized, received a “call” in a most
unusual manner. He was struck by
lightning and killed as he stood in
front of the Baptist Church pulpit
preparing o be ordained.
The tragedy occurred Sunday af
ternoon in the presence of a large
congregation of Moultrie’s * friends.
There had been a sharp rain with
some lightning during the day. About
5 o’clock Moultrie took his place near
the pulpit to deliver his sermon inci.
dent to his ordination as a minister.
He began:
“We are gathered here this after
noon”—
He got^ no further. There was a
sharp flash of lightning; the bolt
struck the church and the pulpit be.
fore which Moultrie stood. He fell as
if struck by a bullet. The storm was
not long in passing. The body was re
moved from the church and rays of
sunlight streamed through the win.
dows.
GOVERNOR McNUTT APPOINTS
NEGRO AS A TRUSTEE OF STATE
SCHOOL FOR BLIND
Indianapolis, Ind. CNS) Governor
Paul V. McNutt has just announced
the appointment of F. B. Ransom as
a member of the trustee board of the
State School for the Blind for a term
of four years.
Mr. Ransom is general manager of
the Mme. C. J. Walker Beauty Pro.
ducts company and is known as a
prominent leader among Indiana Dem
ocrats. The position carries little or
no salary, but the political recognition
is of a kind unprecedented in the his.
tory of the State of Indiana.
DENMARK TO FIGHT ILLEGAL
OPERATIONS
COPENHAGEN, Denmark— Start
ling disclosures in regard to the num
ber of illegal operations performed by
Danish physicians in the year have
given new impetus to a drive for the
legalization of certain types of abor
ticides in Denmark. A bill which
would allow physicians to perform
operations of this type when certain
social or physical circumstances ap
peared to justify them, will be pre
sented to the next session of parlia
ment.
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Vann, Pittsburgh News
paperman Made Asst.
Attorney General
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BURKE TO EXPLAIN NEW LAWS
IN TALKS
Congressman Edward R. Burke is
expected to return to Omaha this
week, and will soon begin a speaking
tour of the state, it was announced
Saturday by his secretary, Homer H.
Gruenther. In his talks Mr. Burke
will explain the workings of the home
loan bill, the industrial recovery
public works bill, and the new regula
tions concerning veterans’ compensa
tion.
Mr. Gruenther is in charge of Mr.
Burke’s new congressional office in
the First National bank building. Two
thousand applications for jobs have
been received.
WORKERS URGED TO REGISTER
FOR PUBLIC WORKS JOBS AT
AGENCIES
New York, July—Workers on the
government’s huge public works con_
struction program will be selected
largely from those registered at em
ployment agencies designated by the
United States . Employment service
and colored workers are urged to find
out from their local U. S. Employ,
ment service ofice just which agencies
are to receive registrations.
“Negro workers should register at
once for these jobs in order that no
alibis can be presented when the act.
ual hiring begins,” said a statement
from the NAACP. “Secretary Har
old L. Ices has stated the conditions
under which labor will be employed
and colored workers are urged to fol.
low the rules laid down for everyone.
Then, if any discrimination is shown
and a protest is made, officials will
not be able to say that Negro work,
ers were not registered properly.”
The NAACP. has sent a telegram
to Colonel Donald H. Sawyer, who'is
expected to be continued as perman
ent director of the public works pro.
gram, urging that the govmment see
that contractors do not discriminate
against Negro workers in employing
men for public works. The telegram
asked Colonel Sawyer “to take all
steps possible especially the inclusion
of spcific clauses in contracts, agree,
ments, or other documents dealing
with administration of the public
works act, to prohibit discrimination
in employment on acount of race, col
or or creed. The telegram continues:
“Denial to Negroes especially in gov.
ernment construction and other pro
jects financed by the federal govern,
mnt is notorious through contractors
refusing to give Negro workers full
and fair share of employment. Every,
possible step should be taken to pre
vent continuance of this discrim inat.
ory practice.”
APPOINTED LABOR AGENT
J. Harvey Kerns, Executive Secre.
tary of the local Urban League was
recently appointed by the Director of
the United States Dept, of Labor as
Special Agent in the Employment
Service of the Dept. This appoint,
ment will allow the League to serve
in a broader way the employer and
the employee’s needs. The position
carried with it the use of penalty
privileges of the United States mails.
ROBERT VANN TAKES OATH OF
OFFICE AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT
TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Washington (CNS)JRobert Lee
Vann, Pittsburgh publisher and one
of the Negro leaders who led the
fight for the election of President
Roosevelt, was last Friday sworn in
as Special Asistant to the Attorney
General of the United States in the
Department of Justice Building here.
Vann’s appointment marks the first
of several Negro appointments said
to be slated by the new administra
tion.
Vann is the first Negro to hold
such an ofice under a Democratic ad.
ministration. There have been Repub
lican appointees of equal and higher
rank, however. William H. Lewis of
Beston held the position of Assistant
Attorney General under Attorney
General George Wickers ham; and
Perry W. Howard was Special Assist
at to the Attorney General under the
Coolidge administration.
The new appointee wa3 aceompan.
ied to the Attorney General’s office
for the ceremony of taking oath of
office by Joseph R. Guffey, Demo
cratic leader in Pennsylvania. The
oath was given by Hugo J. A. Carusi,
secretary to Attorney General Horn,
er S. Cummings in the presence of
First Assistant Attoney General,
William Stanley. Attorney General
Cummings was not present at the .
ceremony but appeared shortly after
to congratulate his new assistant.
Doubt was expressed as to the as
signment which will be given Mr.
Vann. The appointee said that he
did not know where he would be as.
signed, but said that he did not ex
pect to move his family to Washing,
ton. It is believed that he will spend
most of time away from Washington
probably around the western part of
his own state.
Among the large group of friends
of the new appointee who witnessed
the swearing in and felicitated him
at its conclusion, were George W.
Coles, Sr., and Mrs. Coles, of Pitts
bugh; Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, of Col.
umbus, Ohio; D. D. Williston, Louis
R. Mehlinger, Robert A. Pelham, Mrs
Eunice Scott, Manuel Roque and Mrs.
Vann.
SALESMAN ACCU3ES PHYSICIAN
OF WIFE THEFT
LOS ANGELES, Cal. — A suit
charging alienation of affections and
asking damages of 100 thousand dol
lars was filed today against Dr. Eu
gene C. Nelson, physician and form
er husband of Helen Lee Worthing,
onetime Follies girl, by Leo F. Des
mond, young oil machinery salesman.
Desmond alleged Nelson persuad
ed his 28-year old wife, Margaret
Desmond, to leave the couple’s home
on Long Island, N. Y., and cmoe to
Los Angeles with him.
Dr. Nelson said, “We expected
trouble but we knew nothing of this
action.”
“I am sure Dr. Desmond misunder
stands the relationshp between me
and his wife. I am planning on open
ing a clinic and she is to be my re
ceptionist, that is all.”
Doctor of Philosopy at 26
Climaxing a brilliant scholastic
career, Dr. Albert Durham has just
been awarded the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy by the University of
Chicago. Dr. Durham who is but
twenty.six years old, undoubtedly the
youngest member of the group ever
to receive so high a distinction, is a
graduate of the University of Chic,
ago, where he wdh the Phi Beta Kap
pa Key and also took his Master’s
degree. He studied at Harvard prior
to beginning his-teaching career at
"''ward University, where he is a
member of the faculty. He has con.
tributed a number of articles to the
Journal of Philosophy and is now en_
gaged in writing an article for the
Journal of Ethics.
Dr. Durham’s wife, Mrs. Frances
Durham, is the sister of Miss Rachel
Taylor. Executive Secretary of the
North Side YWCA, and was the win
ner of a scholarship, graduating with
the highest honors in her claes of
three hundred from the Hartford
Public High School. She is a member
of the National Honor Society of A_
merica and is a graduate of Boston
University. The couple resides in Chi.
cago where Mrs. Durham with Miss
Kathryn McCoo have organized a Ne
gro Ballet. The group appeared be.
fore the Artists’ Ball at the Stevens
Hotel last winter where they attract,
ed much favorable comment. Mrs.
Florence Price, whose symphony was
presented at the Chicago World’s
Fair and Miss Margaret Bonds, win
ner of the Rosenwald Scholarship are
working with the group and compose
the music for the ballets. Dr. and
Mrs. Durham will return to Wash,
ington, D. C. in the fall where he will
resume his teaching at Howard Uni.
versity.