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EDITORIAL
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WE REAP WHAT WE SOWED
If a murderer or a thief were to be
aided toward escape by a citizen, he
would be an accomplice after the fact and
be subject to punishment as such. But the
kidnaper not only has the assistance of
the friends and family of his victim but
actually commands the acquiescence of
^the officers of the law in his crime.
The United States was threatened
a decade ago by the Ku Klux Klan, which
put forth a claim of high moral purposes
as the reason why it should be allowed to
set up a supergovernment to which re
gularly elected officials would be sub
servient
Today a supergovernment is made
up of men who make no claim of good
ness. They boast their intention to com
mit crime and for ’hat boast are paid
hard cash in staggering sums.
Having accepted the nullification
of its laws because only Negroes were
cheated, the United States has come to
see its most favored citizens outraged
and itself standing with hands tied and
its tongue silent. The lesson is plain to
see.—no man and no nation can set his
feet on the wrong path and say “So far
will I go and no farther.” The way of the
transgressor is hard.
A LETTER OF APOLOGY TO THOSE
WHO THINK WE HAVE HARMED
THEM
An opened letter of apology to any
one that feels they have been harmed, or
their feelings hurt in the columns known
a> “Miss Eyes” that have appeared in
The OMAHA GUIDE in the last five
weeks. .
—By C. C. Galloway.
Truly as I have stated in my Edi
torials of July 15 and July 29 editions we
hold no ill will, nor do we intend to hurt
any one's feelings, nor do we intend to
emerge anyone’s character. I have truly
tried to not let anything go through this
column that I thought could be construed
or was so pointed to any one individual.
We have tried to run this column as an
amusement column for those who enjoyed
reading such. We have called no names,
nor given any initials or addresses, and
in most every case where we have re
ceived a complaint, there were from two
to five people claiming it was meant for
them. Of course these complaints cam?
over the phone, and we could recognize a
different voice each time.
For thirty years I have lived in
Omaha. For seven years I have been con
imted with the Omaha Guide. For three
gears I have acted as Editor of The Oma
na Guide, and not once have I, or the pa
per advocated a program of destroying
or tearing any individual’s character. To
the contrary everything I have been
connected with in these past thirty years
has been to improve character and build
up instead of tearing down individuals.
I haven't even fought back for I have al
ways felt that the intent to do the other
fellow a wrong in your heart first left its
intent imprinted in your own heart,
thereby clouding your conscience to such
an extent you would always do yourself
two wrongs while trying to do the other
fellow. I have fought continously for is
sues and principles that I thought were
uplifting to our youth in our city, and I
found some of my dearest friends on the
opposite side of my fight, but not once
have I ever held any ill will toward any
individual for their own belief in comm
unity affairs. I truly hope that all who
read this article will accept it as an open
ed apology for any wrong they feel that
has been done to them.
Signed: C. C. Galloway.
RENOVIZE THE UNITED STATES
Eighty-five per cent of Americans
are inadequately housed. Seventy-five per
cent live in hand me down quarters bare
of modern comforts and conveniences.
Where our annual building expenditure
in 1928 was $6,500,000, it was only 2 bil
lion last year.
These facts appear in an editorial
in the Clairsville, Ohio, Chronicle. And,
as the editorial further points out, there
are sound indications that a major build
ing revival is on its way. Every American
desires better living conditions; millions
of Americans have been prevented from
achieving them the past few years either
because of financial stress or fear of the
future. That fear is now being allayed—
recovery has started, and it can be seen
in all parts.of the country. Men are going
back to work, factory chimneys are
finding their way into pockets from
where they will go to buy the necessities
of life. A good part of those dollars will
either be used to build new homes, or re
build and modernize old ones.
It’s time for a national campaign
to “Renovize the United States.” That
would speed recovery and be the most
potent influence that could be brought to
play in stabilizing price levels and pro
viding employment.
Remember that employment and
investment are better and cheaper than
charity. Remember, too, that in a few
months, when the building boom gets un
derway, prices are going up and are go
ing to stay up. Get in on the “building
bargains” while they are still being offer
ed.
AMERICANS DEVELOPING CHAR
ACTERISTICS OF THRIFT
In a recent month sales of ordinary
life insurance were but 10 per cent below
the same month last year—an experience
representing the smallest monthly de
crease for a year ad a half. It likewise is
a very favorable record in comparison
with other basic industries.
Now that recovery has really
started—that the wheels of industry are
turning steadily faster — the life insur
ance industry has every right to expect a
bright future. Mr. Average Citizen has
learned much in three years. He has
learned that to look for quick and gig
antic profits on a small investment is to
court bankruptcy. He has learned that
security and safety are the true arbiter
of any investment. Life insurance offers
these—plus benefits nothing else can of
fer.
Every time another life insurance
policy is sold, another American has de
monstrated a growing national charact
eristic of thrift, foresight and wisdom.
THE RETURN OF SILVER
Silver: 38 and one-half cents per
ounce.
That quotation probably doesn’t
explain much to y^u. But it means that
the poor man’s gold recently touched its
highest level since May, 1930.
During three long years of depres
sion silver has been on the bargain count
er—it’s been offered at fire-sale prices.
And that statement, too, explains little
until cause and effect are related, until it
is expressed in the terms of purchasing
power, trade among nations, jobs. The
collapse of silver was the principal eco
nomic cause of the decline in world trade
—a decline which finally became a rout.
More than half the world’s people saw
their purchasing power drop to less than
half of former levels, and factories all
over the world, here and in England and j
Germany and elsewhere, closed because
cheap silver had taken their markets
from them.
Silver is coming back. And that j
means that prosperity is coming back in j
a dozen states and in a score of great in
dustries. It means that men are going to
work, and that great markets are again
going to open up.
AND THEY THOUGHT TAXES WERE
HIGH 25 YEARS AGO
A tax story in two chapters.
. . Chapter 1—San Francisco Chron
icle m its “25 Years A,go Today” column:
“The Board of Supervisors today recom
mended a tax rate of $1.48, which, with
the estimated state rate of 47 cents, will
make the total rate for the year $1.95.”
Chapter 2—In the same edition of
the Chronicle: “The Board of Supervisors
is enforcing the strictest economy in its
budget this year (1933). Nevertheless the
tax rate will be $3.75.”
San Francisco isn’t in a class by
itself. Virtually every community has
had the same experience — some a great
deal worse. If government keeps loading
up with new propositions which continual
ly require more tax funds, how will indus
try and the private citizen pay the bill
ten years hence? Think this over when
you vote for schemes that require the
raising of public funds through taxation
or otherwise.
THE TRADEMARK COUNTS
What do you see when you look at
a fire engine?
You see steel and brass and wood
and paint. You see an object that is very
similar to a large motor truck, with the
addition of a number of interesting and
unusual gadgets. And, believe it or not,
you are not seeing the real fire engine is
under the paint and brass. It’s inside the
motor and the differential and transmis
sion. It’s at the heart of the pump. You’ll
never see it—only the makers, and per
haps the mechanics who keep it in condi
tion, ever do. And if you could see it vou
probably wouldn’t know whether it is
good or bad—that’g a job for the engineer
and the expert.
This being true, the average citi
zen naturally asks how a good fire en
gine can be told from one that isn’t quite
so good. That isn’t a difficult, question to
answer. He can tell from thte name on the
radiator—precisely as his ohly test of a
j good watch is the name on the dial. In the
case of many products, we take quality
for granted — because the makers have
been making quality articles, with never
a deviation, for decades. That is true of
the pioneer standard fire apparatus
makers—quality comes first with them,
and all other considerations run a poor I
second.
When your community buys fire
apparatus, see that it looks at the trade
mark.
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THE OTHER HALF
Many automobile drivers who
think they know7 all about the right-of
way law’ understand only the half of it.
In answ’er to question, “Who has the right
of-w’ay?” the average driver would quick
ly reply, “The man on the right.” The
answer is partially correct but isn’t com- !
plete. >
The best statutes on the subject
say. “The car on the right has the right
of-wray provided it enters the intersection
first, but if the car on the left happens to J
be first into the intersection, the car on
the right must yield.”
Maxwell Halsey, Traffic Engineer
of the National Bureau of Casualty and
Surety Underw’riters, says the best way
to elimiate confusion on "this point is for
all cars to slow’ down when approaching :
intersections. “In this wray drivers will :
be able to gauge each other’s distance
and obey the law’ with greater conven- |
ience.
“The driver of a car approaching
from the right has no justification to
suppose that all traffic must stop to per
mit him to cross. This attitude has pro
duced a high toll of accidents. More than
twnce as many accidents occur at inter
sections as between intersections. Last
year, 2,430 persons were killed and 184,
750 injured in 146,500 accidents resulting
from misunderstandings over the right
of-w7ay.”
State law’s should be clarified in
order to coincide w’ith common sense and
the free flow of traffic. If this is done,
another bad hazard will be eliminated.
Meanw’hile, motorists, slow’ dowm at in
tersections.
THE NEW AGRICULTURAL ERA
It would be an interesting thing if
a farmer of thirty years ago could be
suddenly transported to the Chicago
World’s Fair and shown the model ex
hibit of electricity at work in agriculture.
As the saying goes, his eyes would
pop out. He would see chickens treated
v ith ultra violet rays, and their hours of
rest and work controlled by light. Cows
in a scientifically built lactery are auto
matically washed and then "milked by
sanitary, efficient electric equipment.
Electric cooling and bottling equipment
has superceded old hand methods. There
are no hay lofts in the modern barn—in
stead, a large new type silo, a silo within
a silo stores both ensilage and dry feed
and reduces fire hazards. Two small
structures store grain which is trans
ported by electric conveyor systems.
In the fields of this farm, he would see
still more startling things. Even the tract
or, thought up-to-date a short time ago,
has been dispensed with, its place taken
by an electric cable plough which makes
its way about the field carrying its own
self-winding cable. There are no power
poles to interfere with work or mar the
farm’s appearance—all the distributional
lines are underground.
As a matter of fact, the farmer of
thirty years ago wouldn’t be the only one
to stare with unbelieving eyes at the ex
hibit. Today’s average farm is still waste
ful and inefficient, exacting a maximum
of hard labor for a minimum of result.
The exhibit at the world’s fair shows
what the farm of the future will be like
in a really “new agricultural era.”
PAYROLLS VS. TAXES
The time has arrived when the
people—laboring man and capitalist
feel the pinch of taxation with equal
force. Take the specific case of the man
with $10,000 invested, the widow with
$100 invested, or the laboring man with
a job, in the Pacific Gas and Electric
Company of San Francisco.
This company had its taxes raised by
the last California Legislature, $1,150,
000. Congress placed a 3% tax on the
production of electricity used for dom
estic and commercial purposes, which
added another million a year. Congress
also levied a tax on the company’s stock
which amounted to another $200,000. On
top of this Congress placed a tax of 5%
on all dividends to stockholders, which
meant another million, and ordered the
company to deduct the 5% before sending
out dividend checks. Leaving out the
$1,000,000 to be collected from stockhold
ers, this company’s total tax bill for a
year will now exceed $10,000,000.
Compare this sum with the wages
and salaries paid by the company for
1933, which amount of $15,000,000. For
each $1.50 paid in wages the company
must pay $1 to tax collectors—state, fed
eral and municipal.
What becomes of savings, and
earnings on the same, for thousands of
stockholders who have worked and slaved
to accumulate a few dollars to put into an
industry which would pay them a reason
able annual return? What is the future
prospect for additional jobs for thou
sands of laboring men, clerks, and other
employes of a company that has to pay
out a dollar in taxes for each dollar and
one-half of wages and salaries?
Another five or ten years of pro
portionate tax increases and there will be
no money for jobs.
Think it over. When you break a
private, company with taxation, who will
furnish the revenue for government,
which the tax-exempt government-owned
enterprise now escapes?
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pails, Dividend Checks Tax Bills of
Every Individual. National and Internat
ional Problems Inseparable From Local
Welfare.
* * * *
The month of March isn’t the only
thing that comes in like a lion and goes
out like a lamb. The World Economic
Conference bested it—welcomed with the
blare of ten thousand brass bands, it ad
journed to the wheeze of a mouth organ.
WHEN GAS W AS FIRST USED
One hundred and twenty-five years
ago London became the first city in the
world to use gas street lights, installing
a system along Pall Mall.
The response was universally unfav
orable. Cartoonists showed innocent
citizens being choked to death by the new
illuminant. Sir Walter Scott, greatest
of the novelsits of adventure, spoke of
“the da-man’s scheme for lighting the
city with smoke.” Another well known
personage observed that it would be as
easy to light London with a piece of the
moon as with gas.
Electricity, when first employed, met
much the same reception. Pioneers of
great industries are often the victims of
jibes and abuse.
Dr. Lennox
On the Job
FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMIN.
ISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKs"
August 2, 1933.
Washington. D C
Dr G B Lennox, President,
Omaha Working Men’s Commission,
Omaha, Nebraska.
My dear Dr Lennox:
This will acknowledge your letter
of July 20, addressed to the President,
relative to the equitable distribution
of labor in connection with public
works projects in your city.
I wish to assure you that your
views on this matter are appreciated.
It is the intention of this administra.
tion to see that labor is distributed
equitably through the regular chan,
nels not only in Omaha, but through,
out the United States.
For the Deputy Administrator:
Sincerely yours,
Philip B Fleming,
Major, Corps of Engineers,
Executive officer.
August, 3, 1933.
Mr Paul F Martin,
General, N R A Campaign,
Woodman of the World Bldg
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
We highly appreciate knowing
that the National Recovery Admin_
istration has stimulated the comm,
unity to the extent individual carry
a different attitude and spirit than
previously in regards to employment.
As “general” of the N R A.
campaign of our city, we should like
for you to consider representatives of
this community where unemployment
is prevalent. * During this economic
and employment strife members of
this group have been the first to be
discharged, and are always the last
to be hired We consume 514% of our
city’s products and are tax payers
and citizens, and are entitled to all
| consideration of employment effect_
ing Omaha
Whatever methods you have in
mind to put over your program we
shall be glad to co.operate with you
in any way we can.
We are hoping all those who have
been out of employment for months
and years will be able to secure jobs
as all would rather work than receive
charity as conditions have forced
many to do.
Hoping in the National Recovery
Administration the different officials
will see that all regardless of nat_
ionality receive equal opportunities of
employment, I am
Respectfully yours,
Dr G B Lennox, President,
Omaha Working Men’s Com.
212214 North 24th Street
Law Offices of
WELLS, MARTIN, LANE AND
OFFUTT
524 Omaha Natonal Bank Building
1 Omaha
August 7, 1933.
Dr. G. B Lennox, President,
Omaha Working Men’s Committee,
212214 North 24th Street,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Doctor:
I have referred your letter of Aug_
ust 3 to the newly organized Federal
Unemployment Service Bureau which
I am sure will be glad to comply with
your request.
Yours truly,
Paul L Martin.
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