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VOL. VII.— Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1933 ^Number Thirty-One
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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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