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ALBERT KUHN The public at large w ill regret the resignation of Professor Raymond Moley as one of the chief economic advisers of the President, from the governmental e very fact that the President, in the choice of his executive body, went outside of the rank of the capitalists, was promising actually a new- deal. Men who made a study of economics without an eye to their own financial interests were more apt to stick to a policy of sympathy for the interests of the masses. _. The hesitancy of Henry Ford to fall in iine with the rest of the Auto mobile Producers behind the N. R. A. Banner puts him in the light of snubbing the government. The sooner he makes up his mind that he is no super citizen with special privileges the better it is for him. Rumor has it that the big Baking Companies plan an other rise in the cost 02 oread. W hen wheat was low in price and the bakers were exhorted to low?er tr.e price of bread they told the public that the price of the raw’ material had little influence on the cost of bread since labor ^.d the cost of distribution made up eighty percent of the cost of bread. Now the public is asked to believe a very different story. The wage scale demanded ty the axle »s so moderate that it should cause very little increase in cost of pro duction and since the price of bread has already been boosted 25' < a newT raise looks very much like a contemptible 1 racket.! trust that both the state and the federal authorities keep a watchful eye on these concerns. Rev. Bready of Omaha, an exper ienced world traveler, states in a local interview thct during his stay of several months in Germany he has learned of one single instance of a Jew having lost his life during the Nazi Revolution and since, as a result of an attack, and that in this man's case his own use of a pistol gave the act some mitigating circumstances. From Italy, England, France and Germany comes the report that the num ber of unemployed has diminished some v. hat At all events the situation has not become worse. That is something to be thankful for. In our own country the number of unemployed has been reduced by approximately ten percent. China seems to enjoy a spell of a recess from the perennial fighting that ha.- been going on in the country since the overthrow of the ancient Empire. < rJang Kai Shek. the President of China, has made at least a temporary truce with Japan and has come *o an amicable under standing with his military rivals, notably with War Lord Feng Yu Hsiang, the Christian general. Japan is left the un disputed ruler of Manchuria and in re * irn this concession has withdrawn his troops to the north of the famous old Wall of China. Japan probably feels that for the moment she has bitten off as much as .-he can chew and that it is wiser to digest what she has conquered before reaching for still more territory It will be interesting to learn Russians future policy in the far east. Will she give up the Siberian seashore on the Pacific Ocean since it has become strategically inde fensible through the advance of Japan? In Cuba democracy is riding a rocky road, a dozen factions want to run the country. Their chief motive is person al vanity. In a community like that a well public spirited strong boss is a God send. The Cubans ought to have a Mussolini. RECOVERY FUNDS AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY The Muskogee, Oklahoma, Daily Phoenix, in commenting on a proposal to the city council that money be borrowed from the federal government to build a municipal light plant, recently said: “The aim of the recovery bill is to create employment and stabilize industry. Construction of municipally owned plants to compete with privately owned companies obviously would defeat this purpose. “Private capital is in a timorous mood. The ogre of municipal opposition would terrify further the operators of private concerns. They would be forced to reduce their operating expenses to a minimum at once in an effort to build up a reserve in preparation for the time when they would have more competition to meet. Employes would be cut off, im provement would be halted.” Well stated! It would be a strange sort of recovery movement indeed that used taxpayers’ money to create tax-free businesses to compete with and possibly destroy those which pay the .taxes! And that is what any community seeking pub lic funds to invade the field of private business is, in effect, asking for. The money appropriated under the public works bill was designed to be used for needed public improvements which would benefit all the people—for highways, bridges, buildings, and so on. It was not appropriated to throttle taxpaying, em ploying industries. As a matter of fact, those who pass on applications for funds have indicated that they will not loan money for muni cipal utilities in cities where private com panies are able to furnish adequate serv ice. Such a course is undoubtedly in the greatest interest of all and strictly to ward permanent recovery. IT’S TIME TO BUILD The American home shortage con tinues to grow, according to government and other statistics of a reliable nature. In the decade between 1920 and 1930 the country added a total of 5,600, 000 families to its population. The need for new housing during that decade was approximately equal to the number of families added. In addition, a certain number of homes were destroyed by fire, obsolescence and so forth — a number which is placed at the conservative figure of 250,000 for the decade. Normal build ing, therefore, should have provided for about 5,850,000 families during the ten year period. The total number of families pro vided with new housing in 257 cities sur veyed during the decade, was 3,616,000. These 257 cities accounted for 70.8 per cent of all residential building. On that basis, the gross of new homes built in the entire country was 5,180,000, leaving us with a shortage of 698,000 homes when we entered the year 1931. And now it is reliably estimated that the shortage has reached 1,350,000. What all this leads up to is that we are on the eve of tremendous expansion in residential building. As recovery gets under wav^ and men go back to work, hundreds of thousands of American fam ilies are going to replace old homes with new ones, or move from rented quarters into homes of their owm. Construction prices of all kinds are going to soar—and we will lookback on 1933 as the year when almost inconceivable building bar gains were offered to us. ]>s time to build! “Advertise It!” SELL or RENT IT thru these Columns Editorial The Intimidation Theory In Our Racial Attitudes From the Birmingham News, Aug ust 26. 1933—The 11 prominent citi zens of Birmingham who Thursday published a statement deploring “the injury done the cause of law and or der” by the shooting of three Negroes taken from the custody of Tuscaloosa deputies are to be congratulated upon the clarity of their vision and their eagerness to place in full view the attitude of the right minded citizens of Alabama This group of 11 men, representing as it does the ministry, industry, fin ance the law business and higher education, offers no revelation of a surprising state of mind Citizens of the type composing his group for | generations in the South have felt I virtually the same way about racial | problems. It is ot that they have just this moment come to a sane attitude I the recent outrages in our state At a polar extreme from the points I of view held by he signers of Thurs | day’s statement is the feeling, which also has been cherished for genera tions, held by quite another level of citizenship in Alabama, as well as throughout most of the South It is this attitude toward the Negro which | represents the kind of anarchy which now and then breaks forth around the lynching tree Before we can get very far in any constructive action toward bringing this outlaw element into harmony with the elements of civilization, it is recessary that we face the nature of th philosophy which motivates them. These people have been fed the wild medicine of “white supremacy” in such large doses and over such long period by loud political leaders that tneir original antagonism toward the Negro—which developed first during slavery days—has been fanned into a white heat at almost every popular election held in Alabama during the last 20 years. Should the final tabu lations of guilt in the recent outrages ever be assembled, it probably will be found that the thoughtless politicians who have periodically stirred the deepest passions and most terrible hatred of some of our people ought to be credited with no little of the re sponsibility - In Alabama, as elsewhere in the South, the will to lynch springs from the deep, black wells of the philoso phy that the Negro must be “control led,” and that the only way to achieve this end is through intimidation. Be tween the class of people represented by the signers of the Birmingham statement and the class of people who would glory in the deed so solemnly deplored, there exists a tremendous gulf, which has appeared to grow’ ever wider through the years as en vironment and inheritance on one side have become increasingly separated from environment and inheritance on the other Until this gulf is bridged through the extension of sympathetic intelli gence, it will do little good for hu manitarians in the South and in the North to cast the hot lightning of tondemnation across the chasm. For the people who consider Alabama’s recent lynchings as a victory for “white supremacy” have been accus tomed to condemnation all these many years. They thrive upon condemna tion; it strengthens the arm of their determination. Like members of the communistic International Labor Defense they have been suppressed by ill fortune are fanned by a favorable wind, they break into flame. They make a fur ious onslaught upon the vested inter ests of the world—demanding their “rights” with a vengeance Before we can ever be sure that these outbursts will not recur in Ala bama, it will be necessary to provide our people with a leadership of in tegrity, which will teach them that the Negro is not really their enemy, and that they may attain self respect in better ways than by a querulous insistence upon “white control ” The indomitable passion and strength of will with which they have tried to maintain their present beliefs would be contributed by them to any cause pictured to them as worthy by a leader whom they respect. It is, therefore, significant that these 11 strong men of Birmingham have asserted themselves. Let us hope that their acfcfon marks the begin ning of a trustworthy leadership of racial attitudes in Alabama _ ' LYNCHING IN PINE BLUFF, | ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF, Ark—Henry Jack son, Negro chain gang victim, was shot down by a sheriff’s posse here on the excuse that he “tried to run” as the gang closed in on him. Jackson was “suspected of an attack” on a guard at Cummins Negro Prison Farm who insulted and struck him as he passed the camp gate Bloodhounds were used to track him When thej first caught up with him, ho made friends with them and tied up three | of them The fourth followed along | with him, and as he paused to tie him up also, the gangsters caught up with him. THE OMAHA URBAN LEAGUE FIGHTS N. R. A. VIOLATIONS — (Continued from p. 1) up by the NRA The most recent case is that affect ing Colored hotel maids who have benn advised by those in authority that the NRA is compelling them to make certain economics and after zhe first of September they will b replac ed by maids of another race The plan related to me by one hotel man ager is to give the new maids $9.00 a week and room them in the hotel, two in each room at $6 00 a week The hotel of which I speak is the Carlton. Some similar plan is to be made at the Fontenelle so the maids have been advised These and other cases of Code vio lation and discrimination cannot es cape the notice of the Urban League which has for six years intersted it self in the social and economic life of Negroes in this community. I am sure the machinery operating to effectuate ! the Recovery Act must include the welfare of 12,000 Negroes in this community if Che organization is to function as it should. If the hotels are permitted to ef fectuate such plans it means that nearly 100 women who have received so little consideration are to be th*> worst suffers in the New Deal we anticipated in the NRA We address ourselves to you gentlemen and trust you will give whatever consideration to this case that the facts justify Very truly yours, J HARVEY KERNS, Executive Secretary. CAN’T INTERFERE WITH LYNCH INGS SAYS U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL WASHINGTON, D C —The state ment that the Federal government! “cannot very well” interfere with lynch law in Alabama was the answer given by U S Attorney General H S Cummings, and .his assistant At torney General Stanley to a delega tion composed chiefly of Negro and white lawyers who called on them late Thursday to demand federal arrest and prosecution of the lynchers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The lawyers forced the attorney general to grant an interview after repeated stalling on the part of their office, which went so far as to state falsely that Cummings was out of town, to get out of it. Those on the delegation were: E W Baker, of the Washington Tri bune, Charles H Houston, vice dean of the Howard Law School: Allan Taub, I L D lawyer who was driven out of Tuscaloosa by Judge Henry B Foster when he came to defend Dan Pippen, Jr AT Harden who were later lynched, and Elrnor< , Clarke, who accidentally escaped death at the lynchers’ hands; Nelson H Nichols, Frank W Adams, Ed ward P Lovett, William H Hastie, Nathan A Dobbins, Frederick L French, B T Sanders, Negro at torneys of Washington, D C ; Bis hop E D Jones, of the Southeastern diocese, A M E ; Miss Dorothy I Detzer, white Washington woman, secretary of the women’s Internation al League for Peace and Freedom: i Samuel Levine, white Washington I Jj u lawyer. Max rosner, toward Runtz ‘and Samuel Goldberg, white New York I L D lawyers After bearing the members of the delegation, Stanley, who is a South i ern Democrat, and Cummings, said merely that “We cannot very well ; interfere with Alabama’s judicial sys i tern.” The only system of law the dele gates had referred to was Alabama lynch law The delegates quoted from the fed eral criminal code a section which makes the federal government re l sponsible for interfering in just such \ situations as that now existing in Alabama, and presente a memorand um of law showing that the govern ment was, under this law, obligated to step in immediately They demanded immediate federal arrest of Judge Foster and Sheriff Shamblin, of Tuscaloosa “For years we have been trying to secure federal legislation against j lynching,” Miss Detzer said. “But as i fcich men were being kidnapped for money ransoms the Roosevelt admin istration was quick to respond with i Immediate special action against lynching ” j “We draw no distinction between j the rich and the poor,” Stanley ans wered j “The Negro churches of the coun i try are behind the I L D ’s demand | for arrest and death penalty for Fos j ter, Shamblin. and all lynchers,” Bis hop Jones told the attorney general. As the attorneys emerged from the r • attorney general’s office bringing | with them a refusal on the part of j federal authorities to take any action in regard to the wave of lynchmgs in progress in Alabama, the Internation al Labor Defense issued a call to ali its districts and branches, to all workers, organizations, and sympath izers to protest to President Roose velt and Attorney General Cummings at WasiTIngton against this refusal, and to intensify their protest to Gov ernor Miller, Attorney General Knight, and Judge A E Horton, in Alabama, demanding the death pen alty for the lynchers safeguards for the Scottsboro boys, Elmore Clarke, Thomas Brown, against whom legal and gang lynching is threatened, and their immediate, unconditional, and safe release TUSCALOOSA GRAND JURY RE CONVENES, THEN IMMEDIATELY RECESSES TUSCALOOSA. Ala — Reconvened on Monday, August 21, after an nouncing a recess until September 4, the Grand Jury supposed to be “in vestigation” the lynching, August 13, of Dan Pippen, Jr , and A T Har den. immediately recessed again until September 5 The meeting Monday was called by Judge Henry B Foster, who, with Sheriff R L Shamblin has been held directly responsible for the murder of the two boys, by the International Labor Defense, as a gesture to count er act the effect of the jury’s cynical i gesture of even pretense of investi-1 gation for seventeen days Protests from every part of the j country and news of hundreds of pro test meetings being held demanding the arrest and death penalty for the lynchers starting with Foster and Shamblin forced this action. Attorney General Thomas E j Knight, Jr , Scottsboro prosecutor, announced he would make the “inves tigation” as long as necessary, in the : hope that indignation of the white' and Negro masses may die down a j littley and permit a smooth white washing The single bullet removed from Dan Pippen’s body was turned over to Jack Stuart, ballistics expert in Bir mingham, for examination. The other i 14 bullets which entered his body! were not produced. The bullet, picked for examination, it was announced, was 38 caliber. | The guns presented by Deputies Mur ray Pate and N W Holeman and private detective W I Huff as the ones they carried when Pippen and Harden were murdered it was aa-| nounced, were 44’s The Grand Jury has not called on these three men to testify. Their guns were given hack to them No attempt has been made to re concile or even cover up the obvious discrepancies in the stones told by officials. Although a Birmingham Negro paper has pointed out that a boy on a bycicle could have reached Birmingham from Tuscaloosa in less than the four and a half h<_urs that went by between the time the sher iff’s car “speeded” out of Tuscaloosa and the time the deputies reported the lynching, no effort has been made to even explain this discrepancy. It was a Negro doctor, B B Mit chell, who turned Elmore Ciarke, ac cidental survivor of the lynching, over to Sheriff Shamblin a second j time it was learned here. In justification for the lynching and | the violent ejection of International j Labor Defense lawyers, the Tusca i loosa News, local daily, says editor I ially : “Social equality never has been, is not now, and never will be recognized ^ in the south. Those who came to preach a different order always have been, are now and always will be re j nulsed.” Governor B M Miller ordered ; Elmore Clarke, accidental survivor oi the lynching, to Kilby Prison hospital, it was learned, until he recovers from his wounds. COOPERATIVES TO THE FRON1 As the new farm bill swings intc j action, the importance of the farnr cooperative becomes more striking j In the administration of everj j measure of so sweeping a kind, there j is room for a great deal of trouble j There will be discontent. There wil be misunderstandings on both sides There will be argument. And the established co-operatives, enjoying af they do the esteem of both the in. dividual farmer and governmental agencies, will be of inestimable use m making matters go smoothly. These co-operatives can explain the problems of the hour and their at. tempted solutions, to the fanners. They can act as advisors to govern ment on occasions when a multitude of viewpoints confuse the issue—in. deed, they have already been con sulted, and their influence is to be found in the most important pro. visions of the bill. It is not too much expect that when various crises appear—as they doubtless will—the co-operatives will be a mighty in. ! fluenee in creating order from chaos. All of this is in addition to the ! basic job of the co.operative—work ing out proauction and marketing problems. They have struggled through years of low prices without ! loss of aggressiveness or enthusiasm. They have kept prices from dropping to till lower levels. They have held the farmers together when a thousand influences were tending to force them apart and wreck our entire agricul tural structure. They are deserving of the respect, the animation and the support of every citizen. AN UNJUSTIFIED POLICY Here is a worth while quotation, from an article by Thomas Woodlock in the Wall Street Journal: “We take rivers and spend hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money to make and maintain channels on which tugs and barg.s may ply free of cost. We allow these barges to charge what they please for carrying freight for port to port rates and these charges are not regulated, nor even—appar ently—always public. We take some more taxpayers’ money and put gov_ ernment tugs and barges on the rivers and forego return on their cost. And we compel the rail carriers to permit these water lines to infiltraf a wide territory outside that which is nat urally tributary to the rivers. Upon what theory of fair dealing can such a policy be justified?” Mr. Woodlock might likewise have asked: Upon what theory of eco. nomics can such a policy be justified ? Our waterways have been almost a national scandal for a decade. They have cost us more millions of dollars than we care to count. They have de prived the railroads—which pay heavy taxes, maintain their own equipment and take their chances or. making a profit, without benefit of govern, mental subsidies—of a va.-t amount of freight, and have thus been an im portant contributing factor to rail, road unemployment and remission of return to railroad investors. Mr Woodlock points out that we now have a National Recovery Act, a prime purpose of which is to bring about fair competition, as distinct from destructive competition, in all types of industry. In the operation of the Act, government would do well to begin at home with a revamping of the waterway situation. AUSTRALIA CHANGES ITS COURSE With the exception of Russia, no country, in recent years, has been so daring in pursuing unorthodox eco nomic courses, as Australia. Various of its states went in for government ownership on an unprecedented scale —beside transporation and service in dustries, the state operated hotels, stores, amusement places and almost every standard business. The total result was gigantic deficits, followed by constantly growing taxes which the people of Australia could not carry. Government bonds dropped, to a fraction of par. That is an old story Now Australia has a new and very different story to tell. It is starting on its way to re covery—and its economic methods, far from being radical, are almost con servative. The great experiments in government ownership are coming to an end—the debacle was complete and the people have learned an expnsive lesson. A federal deficit amounting to about 10,000,000 pounds for the fiscal year 1930-31 was replaced by a ! surplus of 1,314,000 pounds, in 1931 32 The rate of taxation was conse quently reduced for the fiscal year 1932-33, which closed with a surplus of more than 3.500,000 pounds. Where the balance of trade was adverse, it became favorable. And Australian | bonds have been steadily rising in the j world markets. « : NAZIS ANNOUNCE FIGHT 1 AGAINST NEGROES. ASIANS AND JEWS DANZIG—The fight against “the yellow peril, and” the rising tide of color is the ultimate aim and purpose of the Nazis, according to Dr Alfred ! Rosenberg, Hitler’s “private Foreign '' Minister,” who addressed the Germar* Labor Front here today. “The veneration of the heroic will penetrate everything,” he said “It will seize portry and set a new task for science. We shall destroy the j fiction of the freedom of science, which dominated the last century “Thus we shall become harder in 1 order to fulfill our mission, namely, to be the pioneers in the battle of the i white man against advancing Africa and attacking Asia. Thus we shall lay the foundation for the next thousand years. That is the mission of the new Germany.” ' •---- r HAROLD KINGSLEY TO VISIT OMAHA Dr Harold M Kingsley, of Chi cago^ director of Negro work i„ the north for the Congrgational Church will be hte guest of the Omaha Ur ban League on Friday, September 22 Dr Kingsley will address severai of the Business and Professional poups during his day’s visit with the League