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-u-u I ' An Unbridled, Outstanding— Mouthpiece for Your Community “The Omaha Guide Is Your Paper” VOL. VII.— Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1933 ^Number Thirty-One ( U.S. W| DO OUR PART Tune In: ” "DI6ESTING !D)e NEWS” i BROA DCASTT.l' i Every Week from this Colomo 1 By CLIFFORD C MITCHELL The Negro and the NRA. There has been so much controver. sy on just where the Negro fits into the President^ NRA movement that I have taken considerable pains to ascertair some correct and reliable data on things national, even to the point of contacting our Congressman t Oscar DePriest and his secretary Mr. Morris Lewis, and just when I thought I had enough facts to make a complete "‘digest” of same along comes a ‘‘flash”, to use a newspaper term, with information and from such a direct source that I am pro. r mising my readers that next week I’ll have a complete “digest” prepar. ed, devoid of Emotionalism, preju. dicial or biased thinking The day before this is written a few of the successful men of the colored rae were summoned post haste to Washington to confer on just what the problems of the Negro are and how the NRA can best solve them This information is known to me for I happened to be in the office of Mr Harry H Pace, president of the Su_ preme Liberty Life Insurance Com. pany, discussing some matters to be attendee to during the week, when the notice from Washington arrived and after handing it to me to read he immediately shelved all of his own business affairs and arranged for immediate transportation to Wash, ington, promising me that imme. diately or his return that I can have a resume of the Washington confer, ence for the purpose of making a “digest” for my readers One thing is certa'n and that is that Negroes are facing a critical point in their career and when all the various codes affiliated with the N R A are put in force, making many changes and in some instances com. pletely revolutionizing certain com. ' mercial and economic methods, the Negro must be on his toes if he is not to be ruled out of the game even before the start For it is a sad eon_ dition; but a true one, that very few of our own commercial concerns, as | now administered, will be able to operate successfully within the intent of certain codes now being formulat_ ed Even many of the socalled success ful white concerns are very much ex_ cited and apprehensive over the ef_ feet that the new codes will have on their mode of operation. Eventually in behalf of the small consumer but all these changes are going to react in the meantime the small independ. ent merchant as well as the middle— class type are wondering whether their business will be squeezed out in favor of the larger concerns whose capital and methods enable them to more readily accept all of the con_ ditions of the several new codes now being suggested And no saddler reflection on the state of the race, economically, need be cited than by the letters constant, ly being received from readers, strangers, friends and relatives, from all over the country, not to even mention the personal talks with visitors from everywhere Hardly a letter do I open from any point in the country but what my heart be. comes saddened and I even hate to reply to the many letters in a truth, ful manner for fear of upsetting an \ already harrassed mind At least, until certain adjustments have been made which will be square ly made dur fwet xete nhnig hr shsc ly made during the next few months, I can advise all my correspondents to be extremely thankful if they are already holding a job Not only to be thankful but be willing and glad to stick to the job and not become enamored over a rainbow that looks good in some other direction, espe. cially is this true in the ease of those correpsondent who after reading a recent newspaper item that Chicago contained more colored business than any city in the country, etc . decided / immediately they should come here V and have written to me to help them get located here With few exeep. tions most of the colored business places are now thriving on the horde of visitors that have been invading the city and in just a few more weeks even this condition will change So, Community Chest Drive 7o Get Underway Oct. 31 if you havt a job in some other part of the country, stick to it, and forget all thoughts of changing until after 'it has clearly been seen just how the Negro is going to fare in the nerw scheme of things, and on this point I promise you the latest information from the most reliable sources and plainly interpretated Cecil Smith Fined $100 Cecil Smith 2712 Erskine Street, was raided last Saturday night by i the Morals Squad, headed by Brig. ham under Chief Allen A white wo. ! man clad in transparent pajamas was I in the house. Police Commissioner Myers granted her permission to change her attire She was taken to the station and fined $5.00 for being an inmate of a disorderly house] Smith was fined $100.00 for posses, sion of liquor, and a suspended fine of $25.00 for keeping a disorderly1 house It is alleged that two other women (colored) were in the house Everything Set For YWCA Membership Dinner — A delicious, hot Chicken Pie Din ner with all the good things that go with it will be served to all of those who come to the North Side YWCA, Thursday night, September 28 begin_ ning at six o'clock This is the Second Annual Mem bership Dinner and is the one Big Home Coming Event for the Comm, unity Be sure to meet all your friends at the “Y” on that night Mrs Addie Seals and Mrs Minnie Dinner served at a very nominal price Dixon assisted by the Committee of Management and the membership committee are in charge WILL APPEAL TO CONGRESS TO SAVE ARCHITECTURE AND EN_ GINEERING AT HOWARD CHICAGO—(CMS)—-The National Technical Association in annual meet i ing here last week decided to appeal to Congress to save the architecture1 and engineering department at How_! ard University. ! BUY now] • HUGH S. JOHNSON SAYS START “BUY NOW CAMPAIGN OCT. 1 WATCH FOR THE OMAHA GUIDE’S BIG “BUY NOW’’ EDI. TION BY HUGH S. JOHNSON which will be published soon. All space buy ers are requested to make their reser vations in this edition as arly as pos sible Complete coverage of N. Omaha will be made No space reserved less than ten inches Call Webster 1750 and ask for C C Galloway, who will explain more fully to you the value of having your advertsement in this edition Negro Teachers Lose Jobs General Agent HERE IS ONE FACT THAT MUST BE POUNDED INTO THE CON. SCIOUSNESS OF EVERY CITIZEN . Federal relief, if and as received, can only be used to help buy food, and clothing for families depend, ent because of UNEMPLOYMENT. In other words, Federal relief will only help us to more adequately care for the unemployed. Our other de_ pendents, our aged and infirm, our orphaned and neglected children, our sick— poor and our settlements and our neighborhood centers must still look to the Community Chest for their help Federal relief CANNOT be used to meet the relief needs of the thousand cr more families dependent because of sickness, ill health, old age or chronic disability It CANNOT be used to pay rents, light bills or gas bills It CANNOT be used to pay the cost of the investiagtors who must be ; employed It CANNOT be used to care for crippled children It CANNOT be used to maintain educational, recreational or charact. er building institutions so necessary j to community and individual morale ■ in times like these Mr. H. L. Anderson To my friends and patrons whom I had the pleasure of contacting and serving during my several years of connection with the National Benefit Life Insurance Company. I am pleased to announce that I have con. nected with the National Thrift As surance and Life Inusrance Company of Nebraska (A Mutual Legal Re. serve Company) with Home Offices in Omaha, and the Western States Health and Accident Insurance Com pany with Home Offices in Omaha, and that I am in a position to serve your every insurance need. With the type of Policy that is best suited for your particular case. Life Insurance, Health and Accid. ent Insurance, and a systematic plan of saving as well are all very essent ial to one’s welfare and success in life. They not only provide protection for one’s self in the time of need and trouble, but guarantee an income for the family in the case of illness, old age and death: and should have a de„ finite place in every man’s program of living. NATIONAL THRIFT ASSURANCE COMPANY 205 South 19th Street Omaha, Nebraska August 22, 1933 CHICAGO—(CNS)— The tempor.1 ary retirement of 1,300 Chicago school teachers, principally those employed in the junior high schools—which have been abolished—Kindegarten teachers and teachers of manual training, household arts and physical education effect a number of colored teachers including Mrs Maudelle B. : Bousefield, principal of Douglas ele_i mentary school Some of the other Negro teachers temporarily retired are: Elase Davis, Medill Junior high school; Mable Wilson, Medell Junior high school Clifford Campbell. Phil, lips junior high school; and Len C. Scott, Phillips junior high school Kindergarten teachers* Marguerite Blanchard, Imogene McKay, Char, lyne McKay, Ida Mae Cress, and Julia Jackson Elementary Physical Education teachers: Hatton Eunice Jackson,' Nathaniel “Buster” Lofton, Ra? Lu_ cas, William P Moore, and Anna L. Renfroe. Elementary Manual Training Tea. chers: Louis H Bustill, Fred C Downs, Raymond Johnson, Clifton | E Jones, Bernard Lewis, Victor Lewis, Robert E Lewis, Henry Spaulding. Albert Stump, Arthur! Turnbull, L R Watson Elementary Household Art teach.! <rs: Ruth T Jordan, Jeanette B i Marks, and Clara S Mosby URBAN LEAGUE TO SPONSOR i VOCATIONAL COURSE FOR MECHANICS Fourteen auto mechanics and their assistants enrolled for special train, ing in auto mechanics to be conduct ed by the Omaha Urijan League and the Smith.Hughes Department at a meeting held at the League head quartrs on Friday The course is in. tended to give mechanics who are actually engaged in business more! definite knowledge about some of the n wer and more recent developments. n autu mechanics. A specia! course in! welding will be given as part of the instruction. Mr Jerry Hawke, Di-1 rector of the Smith.Hughes Depart-1 ment( was guest at this meeting and; outlined the proposed course ’ M rs. Ester J4 Horton Granted Final Decree Elks Hold lODay Cir cus Rally The I. B P 0 E of W , Elks’ Lodge will be engaged in a Big Cir_ cus Rally at 22nd and Burdette Sts., starting October 4_14 inclusive There will be amusements for all, the old as well as young There will be a Big Community Dance, and Free acts of the best entertainment by noted artists in the middle west, un_ der a huge circus top Each night at 10 p ,n. one ton of: $7.50 coal will be given away and delivered to the address of the Holder; of the Lucky Number There will also be a Main entrance prize The admission is only ten cents, and you will have barrels of fun Children twelve years will be admitted FREE. Mrs Ester J Horton filed a petition for divorce from Johnny B Horton, April 26, 1933 and was granted a decree September 19, 1933 She was granted a divorce on non. support She was given alimony. Mr i Horton is to pay cost of Attorney fees and cost of court. He will be allowed to visit their daughter, Es_! trelda, as Mrs Horton was given \ custody of the child. Johnny Horton and Miss Ester J I Brannon were married August 3, 1931 and have the one child, Estrelda, who is 18 months old Local NAACP. Puts on Membership Drive N. A. A. C. P. Membership Drive Begins October 2nd. The biggest membership drive ever sponsored by the local NAACP will begin October 2nd., 1933 There is a special appeal to every citizen of the city of Omaha to get behind this drive, in order to go beyond our goal of a thousand (1000) members. We are asking many to participate in the contest, of which prizes will be awarded as follows: first one half of our share of money raised; second, one third of our share of money raised, and third, one fourth of our share of money raised. There will be special radio pro_ "rams over all the popular stations of Omaha The first of which will be over WOW September 29 at 10:30 to 10:45 p m ; KFAB will be about October 10, and KOIL about October 20, all of which time and date will be announced in a later edition. Watch for these interesting "broadcasts, as some of our best talent of the city will be heard at this time. This is to announce the appoint- j ment of Mr Harry L Anderson, as general agent for the National Thrift Assurance Company, of Omaha, Neb raska The National Thrift Assurance Company is an Old Line Mutual Leg al Reserve Life Insurance Company, and has as it’s Directors, twenty of the outstanding business men of the City of Omaha, and have been very successful in the writing of Thrift Savings Any courtesy shown Mr Ander son will be greatly appreciated by the National Thrift Assurance Com. pany NATIONAL THRIFT ASSURANCE COMPANY P A Lyck, Secretary. Stable Bely Gets Three Years For Part in Horse Charge CHICAGO—(CNS)—Hinton Parks,! a Negro exercise boy a various race racks pleaded guilty, before Judge John P Barnes here on September 11 to six charges of violation of the Harrison anti barcotics law and was sentenced to three years in the Fed_ eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth Several owners and trainers who t , t were indiced after an investigation of alleged wholesale “doping” of race horses, will be arrainged some time next week on similar charges. Park will be a principal witness against the indicted men and may be paroled for his service to the State. Omaha's Ghetto Must] Go Says Towl m I Mayor Roy N. Towl has made ap_ plication for a Federal loan and grant for the purpose of renovizing the area from Paul to Clark, and fom 18th to 24th Street. He says that this is typical of a certain area where Colored, Tewish, and Italian people live, and the im_ provments in this vicinity would be a cross section of what would be ex_ pected farther North. The purpose is to organize a non_ profitable Corporation and take over some of ,this area and improve it so as to increase the valuation of the property for the owners. Mayor Towl further says that this will probably involve the question of play grounds, parks etc., and they will probably destroy more buildings than they will rebuild, but at the c?me time the buildings that will be erected will be of higher profitable value than the ones destroyed. Mayor Towl expresses the desire that the Colored People and everyone heartily cooperate in this movement for the better improvemnt in our city Let us all make a bigger and better Omaha. i The Omaha Guide congratulates The Mayor for this splendid move in the effort to improve an area which is and has been very much needed for some time and is in a vicinity where owners were not able to improve pro perty conditions, due to the fact that all Building and Loan Associations and Real Estate Investors had re_ fused to considered loans on property in the area between Cumings and Wirt and from 18th to 33rd St. even though it were on paved streets, clear of in_ cumbrance, and taxes paid up to date.1 3400 lbs. of Watermelons Sold in One Day Carey’s Naborhood Grocery on last! Sunday broke all records of selling Watermelons. The store had pur. chased a car load of melons, and de_ dared a sale on the same. Before the day was over 3400 pounds of water, melons had been sold. The Naborhood Grocery is always ; pleased to serve you, and its mer. chants greet you at all times with smiling faces. They have a complete! line of fresh vegetables grocries, and | meats, and guarantee satisfaction! with their merchandise. Omaha Couple Cele brate 25th Anniversary HOWARD UNIVERSITY GETS AD I DITIONAL $70,000 FOR NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING WASHINGTON—(CNS)— The Se cretary of the Interior has just an. I nounced an additional allotment of . $70,000 granted to Howard Univer sity for the construction of a new building to house the chemistry de_ partment of the University With this additional appropriation of $70,000, there is now available $460,000 for the chemistry building, and also $460,000 for a heat, light and power plant Another $98,811 has been allowed for repairs and improve mets, a total of $1,018, 811 - I A lovely surprise was given Mr and Mrs Edgar Lee, 2417 Maple Street when their friends and Mrs Love entertained at her home, 2425 Maple Street with a lovely Anniver_ sary party for their 25th Wedding Anniversary. It was Mrs Love’s idea to surprise the couple, and it was carried out very beautifully. A gor_ geous centerpiece of the bridal table was of yellow roses and green ferns in a hugh beautiful baby blue bowl Colorful soft lights added much to the allured setting A very palatable dinner was served to twenty six guests Bridge was the featured ev_ ent of the evening, with prizes being awarded first to Mrs C Singleton, booby to Mr Lois Shaw, and a guest prize to Miss Marguerite Wilson of Chicago Mrs Lee was presented with $5.00 in silver) and lovely silver Sheffield water pitcher by Messrs and Mes_ dames George Love, Stanley Madison, Haywood Bascom, Theodore Thomas, James Jewell, James Hieronymous, Wilbur Robinson, Dr and Mrs C H Singleton and Mrs Mary Brown. NEW YORK—The unequal salary scale for Negro teachers which has been set up in North Carolina by which the maximum for colored in_ structors is set at $560 a year, will be attacked in the courts by attorneys acting for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo_ ple( it was announced here today by Walter White, N A A C P , se_ cretary White teachers with eight years experience will recieve a maximum salary of $720 a year or $90 a month; Negro teachers of the same exper_ ience will recieve $560 a year or $70 a month These are the absolute maximums for teachers of this grade. Under the new schedules the sal_ aries of Negro teachers will run as low as $322 a year for “C” classi_ fication teachers of no experience A conference of attorneys will be held in Durham next week attended by William H Hastie of Washington, D C , and Conrad O Pearsi.^n and Cecil H McCoy, both of Durham, to outline the procedure of the asso_ ciation’g legal battle Messrs Has_ tie, McCoy and Pearson handled the case last spring in which the N A A C P ., sought a writ of mandamus to compel the University of North Carolina to admit Thomas Hocutt, a macy 1'e suit was brought because colored student, to the school of phar_ North Carolina does not provide pro_ fesslonal training for its. Negro stu_ dents in taxed supported institutions and thus denies equality in education. The present legal fight against unequal salaries is only one phase of the association’s campaign to wipe Carolina and the South, Walter White out inequalities in education in North said The whole. battle will be for itable distribution of school funds, equal salaries, equal equipment, equ_ and adequate provision for training in the professons No southern state now provides training for Negroes in medicine, dentistry, law’, pharmacy^ engineering and nursing in tax sup_ ported institutions. i ne Hocutt case last spring aroused North Carolina citizens, both black and white( as has few occurrences in the last generation. It received almost} as much attention in the white press of the state as the fight on Judge John J Parker The propa. ganda machine of the whites got to work among the Negroes as soon as it was announced that the N A A C P would fight the case Negroes were told “it’s not time yet” to make a fight for equal training The old, well worn social equality bugaboo was trotted out to frighten the Ne_ groes It was said and written in many newspapers of the state that the Hocutt case was not an attempt to get training for Negroes in phar_ macy, but to get Negroes “in asso_ ^nation” with white students. A great many Negroes, including some of the gocalled leaders in the state took to cover The younger fighting element, however, carried on the battle. When Hastie, McCoy and Parson got into court they were faced by the greatest array of legal talent the state could muster, includ. ing the attorney general and his first assistant, the dean of the North Carolina University law school and his vice dean and a leading white at_ torney of Durham When they came out of court they had defeated the attorney general and his aides, but had lost their case on a technicality due to the refusal of a Negro edu_ cator to supply the defense with a vital document In the present movement for equal salaries, the whites are using their same old tricks They are getting certain Negroes to come to the front and put on the soft pedal Some per. sons whom the Carolina Times calls “Uncle Toms” have already written letters to the dailies saying “the good white folks’’ will look after Negroes and no “outside” interference is needed But again the younger ele_ ment is ready to fight and indications are that the bulk of the Negro popu_ lation, after seeing the Hocutt court action, is ready to fight, also. 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