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-- —= OMAHA GUIDE — “No Man was ever W The eye of a Master will who was not do more work than his i porous. y^,. «r j i w .. I H a/t i r- hand. . City, ana Nal l Lite March ot Events _Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, August 26, 1933 Page Five THE OMAHA GUIDE PuMmIm4 Butty Saturd. Grant Streak by ( THE OMAHA GUIDE PUBL. CO., Incorporated All New. Copy rr.u-t be in our office not later than Monday at ft p m..and all Advertising Copy, or Paid Articles, not Sat- r than Wednesday at Noon. Entered as Second dass mail matter, March 15, 1927 at the P> -t office at Omaha, Nebraska, under the act of Congrress of March 3. 1849. St'SCRIPIwN RATES (Strictly in Advance) One Year* ..$2.00 Six Months $1.25 Three Months .. $1.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION—The Omaha Guide is imed weekly and will be sent to any part of the Uni ted State- for SF2.00 per year in advance. Foreign *ut» r.i.:.*r.s (including postage) $3.00 in advance. T iai «ix months’ subscriptions. $1.25. Trial Three Month?’ -ubscnption $1.06. 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This pledge is a very serious business. If the consum ers in an overwhelming majority will live up to it, the «N. R. A. movement will prove a huge success; if on the other hand the public is bent upon buying at the cheapest place even if it knows that the store is ignoring its code, the entire move ment will become a huge joke and will bring our government into disgrace. It will meet with the ^me experience that the prohibition movement met with. Al ready the impression is abroad that many of our Omaha firms are continuing to underpay their men and women workers. Working people thus affected, in every part of the country, should lose no time to find out the location of the official complaint department and to conscient iously inform this department of their findings. They should remember that their own prosperity and that of millions who are now destitute depends upon their conscientious co-operation with the President The cheapest thing we can do is to kick about the measures that the government has decided upon and our selves turn no hand to ma^ nation-wide co-operation a reality. The N. K. A. movement has revived a struggle for supremacy between the j Federation of Labor on one side which would make membership of workmen in their union compulsory, and those huge corporations which do not wish to have their relations with their workmen di rected by a national labor organization and thus insist upon an open shop policy, i There are good arguments for and a gainst each of these policies. The unions, when they become strong, are often as arbitrary, unreasonable, selfish and dis ardful of the needs of the general pub lic as many open shop concerns are apt to be. As a matter of fact, in every large production plant there are three part ners, each of which deserves considera-. tion and must give consideration to the t other two, first the owner of the concern, who furnishes the capital, the workmen who do the actual producing, and the buyers, without whose patronage both the other partners would soon be ruined. The ideal direction of a concern is there fore one in which all the three partners have a voice. Such a direction is the most simply accomplished if some government sponsored body acts as umpire between labor and capital and represents at the same time the consumer — exactly the typeof body which Mr. Roosevelt is plan ning to establish under the National Re covery Act The struggle between ermany and France is at present carried on Austria as the political battle field. Outside of the city of Vienna, which is strongly social istic and hence anti-Hittlerite and op posed to union with Germany the Aus trian population is said to be overwrhem ingly for a speedy incorporation of Aus tria into the German Commonwealth. These people feel that in their isolated position they will always remain a help less pawn in the hands of unscrupulous greater powers. France and Italy on the other hand feel that an additional seven Millions of population to Germany would make Germany to big a power. Just at present France seems to have the upper hand but the situation may change over night. It is not impossible that the An nexations may stage a revolution and that in that case the Union of Austria with Germany will be proclaimed by the revolutionists and at once accepted as a fact by the German government. Czecho slovakia, which in that case would see it self encircled by German territory, would at once appeal to France for armed re sistance while Hungary would join the German side in order to regain that part of her old domains which is now in the hands of Czechoslovakia. Much would then depend upon the attitude of Musso lini. Should his fascist sympathies with Hittler prevail and induce him to pro claim neutrality or even an alliance with Germany, France will think twice before plunging into another devastating struggle. Should no the other hand Mus solini give Germany to understand that he should regard it a danger to Italy if through the annexation of Austria the German frontier would join that of Italy it is most likely that Hittler would hold back his Pan German enthusiasts and avoid an open conflict. SCOTTSBORO AND TUSCALOOSA What the lynchers could not do at Scottsboro—they did the othe day at Tuscaloosa. What the Alabama Judge Foster and his white landlord masters had in mind when they drove the I. L. D. law yers out of Tuscaloosa is now all to ghast ly evident. “We must not let this case become another Scottsboro case,” said Judge Foster at that time. And in the bullet-riddled of the three Negro boys, the workers of this country have proof of what that means. It was only by making Tuscaloosa another Scottsboro that the three Negro lads could have been snatched from the hands of the lynchers. The presence of the I. L. D. made the lynching more difficult. There was danger of world protest, danger of that I. L. D. lawyers would tear away the cloak from the Jimcrow foulness of the Alabama courts. There was danger in the fearful words of the frightened Judge of “another Scottsboro case.” That is why the Sheriff and the white landlord masters had to organize a lynch gang to drive the I. L. D. away. Then the Tuscaloosa lynchings could go ahead without fear of interruption. Tuscaloosa shows what would have quickly happened in Scottsboro had the lynchers succeeded in their efforts. THAT ALABAMA LYNCHING (From The St. Louis Argus) Now that two Negroes have been lynched in northern Alabama near Deca tur, we suppose that the white people of that community have had their thirst for Negro blood satiated. It is not to be pre sumed that the people of the community were moved to action by the heinousness of the crime which had been committed, but it is thorouhgly understood that these people acted because of the color of the skin of those who were accused. There could be no doubt in the minds of those people but that, if the accused were found guilty, proper punishment would be met ed out to them because the accused were Negroes who seldom, if ever, get justice in an Alabama court. There could be no doubt in the minds of the mob but that adequate punishment would be given the victims by any judge in Alabama before whom they were tried. The, why the lycnhing? No body can say that the courts in Alabama have ever been lax in measuring out punishment to Negroes. Then, why should these people take the law in their hands? We have a suspicion, we feel certain, in fact we almost know that the leaders of the mob knew then, just as they know now, that nothing would be done about it. One statement says that the lynching of the two Negro youths was an expression of resentment against the In ternational Labor Defense. Why should these people be angry or feel resentful toward the International Labor Defense? All the International Labor Defense has done in a legal way in connection with the Scottsboro case was to show an Ala bama judge that the State was wrong in its endeavor to railroad nine innocent boys to the electric chair; thus possibly saving the State from a great irrepar able wrong against a weaker people. Wasn’t that the proper thing to do? Was n’t that something for which the people of the State should be proud? If the boys are finally saved and released and set free hasn’t the State been saved a terrible disgrace? Then, why should these peo ple be resetful? Why so bloodthirsty? Let the people of Alabama answer. Let the Attorney-General of the State of Ala bama answe,. Based upon our limited informa tion, it looks as though the Judge and the Sheriff were in collusion or con spiracy with the leaders of the mob to lynch these boys. Everything seemed to have bee timed. And like the clock strikes at a given time, the mob swoops down on the Sheriff, takes the prisoners, and pulls off the dirty work. What is the At torney-General going to do about that? Will he prosecute the leaders and the members of the mob? Attorney-General Thomas Knight answer. Let Governor - Miller answer._ President Gets Protest On Color Line In Code NEW YORK—The growing alarm of colored people over the injection of the color line into the permanent codes being adopted for the basic in dustries and into the voluntary NRA agreements being signed by all busi nesses was communicated directly to President Franklin D Roosevelt, August IB in a telegram sent by the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. The telegram, signed by Roy Wil kins, assistant secretary, declared there is increasing evidence that col ored people “are being singld out, in one manner or another, largely be cause of their color, to receive less than the minimum benefits of the National Industrial Recovery Act.” Approximately 12,000 Negroes were exempted from the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions of the cotton textile code, the tele gram stated, and despite the assur ance that this code was not to be re garded as a standard for others to follow, the other codes proposed have all made a difference between white and Negro workers. Merchants and manufacturers who depend on the purchasing power of Negroes, especially in the sections where they are from fifteen to fifty per cent of the population, will re ceive little benefit from the NRA un less Negro workers are paid at least I the minimum wages, the association’s telegram said. Continuing, the tele gram stated: “In the matter of employment for Negro mechanics and laborers under Title 2 of the National Industrial Re covery Act (the public works section) there appears a disposition to leave this important item to local contract ors who in turn, as experience has shown (notably in the Boulder dam i project) give the Negro worker ieaftlf if any employment. “The Negro people of the nation desire to give their closest co-oper ation to you in your efforts to rout the depression. They are finding it most difficult to co-operate as long as they and their problems are being subjected to special discriminatory regulations based upon their color.” The wire urges the appointment of Negroes to the labor advisory board, V> th research staff of the advisory board and to the post of deputy ad ministrator and concludes: “We bring this petition in all earnestness because we believe that the fortunes of the great laboring and middle classes as well as those of the farmers and industrialists cannot be improved permanently if the for. tunes of one-tenth of our citizens are ignored or impaired by legislative and administrative policies recognizing and codifying the color line.” Square Deal Stores Seek Equal Rights A committee from the Square Deal Grocery Stores composed of Mrs. Hayden, Mrs Cary, Mrs Bell and Mrs Colquitt visited the office of County Commissioer Jacoberger and asked that' the Six Square Deal Stores be given their right to cash the Federal Relief orders now being cashed only on certains stores. Both the Commissioner and Mrs Monsky were agreed that these store having carried large credit balances for the destitute during winter months should , have the priviledge of cashing orders for the same people now. The com mittee was received in the most hos pitible manner and was assured that the Square Deal Stores would get due consideration. Freedom Can’t be Bought Perhaps it is because I have em erged from prison under such spec tactular circumstances that readers all over the country are, in every mail, flooding me with queries con cerning methods of obtaining free dom for friends and kinsmen. At first I promised to give all such let ters my personal attention but after two months of freedom I find myself unable to maintain the enormous ex pense of handling all these letters and to such readers who have written me and perhaps have received no reply I want you to know that your letters have been received, contents duly noted and filed according to the content classification, and each week, through this column, I shall write an article designed particularly to cover the majority of the unanswered let ters on hand, and through this same medium your future letters will be treated. the majority of letters received I am told of various sums which have been paid lawyers who have intimated that they could obtain the freedom of certain prisoners. Other letters tell me of the offers made by othr law yers who are seeking funds for this same purpose. And in still other let ters my advice is being asked as to the best lawyers to obtain and a fair price to pay for such services. Some of the storie3 written to me, and told to me, are pitiful indeed wherein devoted and loving relatives have mortgaged their personal pos sessions to obtain money to give law yers who have promised things that they were positively not in position to promise and although they duly received the money the prisoners are still in prison. My advice, in general, to all friends and relatives of prisoners, in view of my own personal experiences and ob servations, is that no money whatso ever should be paid any attorneys who promise to obtain certain results after so much cash has been paid them. And this not only applies to at torney s but to all classes of persons. One case is before me of a preacher who obtained two hundred and thirty dollars from a prisoner two years ago and he has not even yet called on Ae prisoner and the prisoner cannot even get the preacher to write to] him. So, it is obvious that money paid in advance to any type of person for the promise of freedom is an absolute waste. There are legitimate instances of where a lawyer could be well retain where a lawyer could be well retain ed, even after all court methods have been exhausted, but such services are, more or less, for those cases where many outside contacts are necessary to be made in order to attempt to establish additional facts evidence than what could be procured at the trial, for new facts and new evidence will be considered at all times by the various Pardon Boards and Govern ors. Advising people what not to do without offering some alternative suggestions is of little value so my advice would include personal cor respondence contact, first, with the Pardoning Official to obtain the ex act status of the prisoner in question. From the answer received there usually will be sufficient leads to in timate what the future contacts should be and usually these include an attempt to secure the favorable recommendation of the sentencing judge; a confidential statement from the prison official; and perhaps a few recommendations from respon sible people who know the prisoner. With these letters, if favorable, a home provided for, as well as a job, it is possible then to present the case to the Pardoning Official, sponsored perhaps by some responsible individ uals known to all concerned, and the chances of securing favorable con sideration for the prisoner are much greater, and at considerably less ex pense, than by paying some fabulous price to persons who positively lack the necessary influence to offset se curing the above favorable contacts which without, favorable executive 1 clemency is almost impossible to re I ceive. ..Read the.... GUIDE Editorial (Editorial from the Richmond Times Dispatch, August 10) Negroes on Grand Jury Richmonders and Virginians gen. erally, we believe, will applaud the determination of Judges John L. In gram and Ernest H Wells to place the names of Negroes on grand jury lists. It is a step forward whcih be speaks the proper spirit. There is no sound reason why the Negroes of Richmond should not par ticipate in the administration of jus. tice. They are full-fledged citizens of the community, and, as such, have an inherent right to have a hand in the direction of its affairs. They share in the formulation of governmental policies; by what course of reasoning should they be denied a place in the administration of laws under which they, as citizens, live? Richmond has a large Negro pop ulation, yet there has never been the slightest friction between them and the white population. They have a whole, have proved themselves to be good, law-abiding citizens, ready cause of government will not have suffered by reason of their participa tion in it. In the case of George Crawford, whose extradition from Massachu setts to Virginia, to answer a charge of murder, was denied by a Federal judge on the ground that Negroes did not servfe on juries in Loudoun, al-i though the legality of such service ■ was never questioned, precipitated' the question of doubt as to the valid ity of trials under this system. That doubt should be swept away, and Judges Ingram and Wells are taking the lead in that movement. COLGATE DENTAL CREAM CAR RIES “SAMBO” ADVERTISE MENT NEW YORK — The August 19 is sue of the Saturday Evening Post has a “Sambo” advertisement on page 49 placed by the Colgate dental cream company. The advertisement shows a little colored boy about to bite into a large slice of watermelon with the remark that he doesn’t care if it does stain his teeth. The wording under-1 neath the picture tells “Sambo” to go ahead and not be afraid, “Sambo,” because Colgates dental cream will clean the stain off. The N A A C. P , has written the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet company, the Saturday Evening Post advertis ing manager, and the advertising agency handling the Colgate account saying that the advertisement is not in good taste and will not make col ored people rush out and buy tubes of Colgate dental cream. This company makes Palmolive soap, Colgate soaps and shaving cream and all the Peet company soaps. By this advertise ment the company joins the Barbasol company, shaving cream manufact urers, which allows its radio programs to be full of “darky” and “coon" songs Neither of these firms adver tises in the Negro press. McKeesport, east Pittsburgh AND PITTSBURGH ARRANGE MEETINGS FOR MOTHER WRIGHT AND RUBY BATES PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Three meet ings to be addressed by Mrs. Ada Wright mother of two of the Scotts boro fooys, and Ruby Bates, Southern white girl who repudiated her orign al forced testimony of “rape” and became the star defense witness at the trial Heywood Patterson in Decatur, Ala,, have been arranged in this district by the International Labor Defense. The first meeting will be held at McKeesport, Pa., 2:30 pm, August 6, in Polish Hall, 934 Market Street. On August 7. the two will speak, with local speakers at the Workers Home. Electric and North Avenues, East Pittsburgh, 7:30 p m The Pittsburg meeting be held at 7:30 p m , August 9 at Bethel A M E Church, Elm and Wylie Sts EMPLOYERS WHO FATL IN NRA CAN BE PROSECUTED NEW YORK—Postmaster General James A. Farley Saturday expressed the opinion that employers who sign the NRA code and fail to live up to | it can be prosecuted under the mail fraud statutes. II I ID L=.. :l=^br-=:it==^=^3 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at tha office of the Departmnt Roads and Ir rigation in the State House at Lin coln, Nebraska, on September 18, 1933, until 10:00 o'clock A M , and at that time publicly opened and read for PAVING and incidental work on the OMAHA-WAHOO Patrol No, 219, State Road. The proposed work consists of con structing 0.1 of a mile of PAVE» ROAD. The approximate quantities are:. 6,800 Cu. Yds. Excavation. 675 Sq. Yds Concrete Pavement.. 1 Removal of Structure. 29 Cu. Yds Class “A” Concrete for Box Culverts and Headwalls. 3,700 Lbs Reinforcing Steel for Box Culverts and Headwalls. The attention of bidders is directed to the Special Provisions covering subletting or assigning the contract and to the use of Domestic Materials. The minimum wage paid to all skilled labor employed on this con tract shall be sixty (60) cents per hour. The attention of bidders is also di rected to the fact that George Hodge,, State Director of Reemployment, Lin coln, Nebraska, will exercise general supervision over the preparation of employment lists for this work. Plans and specifications for thn work may be seen and information se cured at the office of the County Clerk at OMAHA, Nebraska, or afc the office of the Department of Reads, and Irrigation at Lincoln, Nebraska. The successful bidder will be re quired to furnish bond in an amount equal to HXK'c of his contract. As an evidence of good faith in submitting a proposal for this work, the bidder must file, with his pro posal, a certified check made payable to the Department of Roads and Ir rigation and in an amount not less than Three Hundred ($300.00) dol lars. The right is reserved to waive all technicalities and reject any or all bids. DEPARTMENT OF ROADS AN» IRRIGATION R L Cochran, State Engineer GRACE BERGER, County Clerk: Douglas County. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION" In the County Court if Douglas County, Nebraska. In the matter of the Estate of: JEANBTTE MATHEWS PEARE„ deceased. All persons interested in said ea_ tate are hereby notified that m petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leav ing ns last will and praying for ad_ ministration upon his estate, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said court on the 16th day of September, 1933, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 16th day of September, 1933 at 9 o'clock A M to contest send! petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to some suitable pdrson and proceed to a settlemeenf thereof, BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge, IN T H E COUNTY COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY. NEBRASKA In the Matter at the Estate of' 0 THURMAN JOHNSON, deceased. All persons interested in said mat ter are hereby notified that on the* 22nd day of August 1933, Dr Price Terrell filed a petition in said Coun ty Court, praying that his final ad ministration account filed herein be setled and allowed, and that he be discharged from his trust as admin istrator and that a hearig will be had on said petition before said Court on the 16th day of September 1933, and Court on the said 16th day of Sept that if you fail to appear before said Court on the said 16th day of Sept ember 1933 at 9 o'clock AM, and contest said petition, the Court may grant the prayer of said petition, en ter a decree of heirship, and make such other and further orders, allow ances and decrees, as to this Court may seem proper, to the end that all matters pertaining to said estate may bp finally settled ard determined. BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge LAUREL: STATE BANK OP LAUREL Prior payments made during receivership 55%_$25,287.29' Court order of August 5, 1933, for further 3.7%_ 1,701.08 (Final Dividend) 58.7% $26,988.3T 80% of original deposits paid dnr» ing going bank period. -- - ' BURTON: BURTON STATE BAXV Prior payments made during receivership 10%_$5,876.46 Court order of July !9( 1933, for further 2.8% 1,645.85 (Final Dividend) 12.8%. $7,521.81