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March Of Events
By REV. 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!
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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.” '
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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
