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EDITORIAL
OBSERVATIONS OF “A STRANGER
WITHIN YOUR GATES”
One feels a strange and peculiar satis
faction on finding oneself in a in a city
where they are not generally known,
moving in and out among the people,
hearing their expressions of faith and
confidence in the integrity and ability of
some moving, progressive man or woman
of the community on the one hand, and
on the other hearing others condemn ev
erybody and everything who may have
the tinerity to attempt to put over any
proposition for the-good of the public in
general. At times it is rather amusing.
Not so much by the strife engendered as
the secret pleasure one gets from the
mental exchange of positions of the per
sons doing the condemning and fault
finding with the one who is being con
demned. The kicker is as old as the
creation. The Good Book speaks of it.
“Ephram waxed fat and kicked”. One
peculiar trait of those who condemns the
actions of those who try to build. Those
who essay to build in a great number of
cases fail utterly. Not so with those who
try to destroy and retard every forward
step.—They never fail — for the reason
they never try to lend their aid to any
forward progressive movement, and not
having the initiative or ability to form
ulate a plan where it requires the quali
ties of leadership to promulgate a gen
eral forward movement requiring col
lective efficiency to bring the desired re
sult whereby the whole race may be bene
fited. Consequently the onyl way they
can ever fail is when they are unable to
attract others to aid them in their de
structive ambition.
At times, especially, depressive times
like these, people may from a fit of hy
steria lose sight of the true worth of
those who have made the sacrifice and
stood the test of depration, persecution
and death that those who follow after
may be benefited, may listen to the voice
of the sirens of Hate and envy until they
lose sight of the value and worth of such
unselfish characters, that if they don’t
help stone him to death—they will hold
the clothes wThile the others does the
throwing. But when history gets a hear
ing and once the hysteria has subsided
and the people again can see clearly their
reactions wall be responsive to good sense
and to just conclusions.
For ages the hardest task with which
man has been confronted, was how’ best
to govern man. As a people we must solve
the same problem. Can it be solved by
throwing stones? Calling names? find
ing fault? distrust, suspicion, hate and
emy? We have tried that method lo’ these
many years and we are still in the wild
erness. Evidently w7e must retrace our
steps. There is a way out—we must find
it—And w7e must find it together—Trust
ing God and an unselfish Leadership,
magnify the virtues of truth, patience
and tolerance, believing all things, hoping
all things with a supreme faith in God
and an everlasting confidence in Leader
ship. Let us close ranks, advance on the
enemy in a solid phalanx and the victory
is ours.
‘THE NEGRO’S OPPORTUNITY AND
RESPONSIBILITY IN NATIONAL
RECOVERY’
By DANIEL C. ROPER
PHILADELPHIA—(CNS)—The Hon
orable Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of
Commerce, as a representative of the
Roosevelt Administration appeared be
fore a large gathering in Convention
Hally Friday evening September 22, as
the principal speaker at the 70th Anni
versary Celebration of Negro Progress.
Mr Roper’s appearance on the celebra
tion program was the result of an invita
tion extended by a committee, consisting
of Major R R Wright, chairman; the
Rev. J. H. Dwelle, the Rev. J. E. Philpot,
T. H. Hill, ad others, who visited Wash
ington and extended the invitation to a
member of President Roosevelt’s cabinet.
Mr. Roper chose as the subject of his
address: “The Negro’s Opportunity and
Repsonsibility in National Recovery” a
very timely subject, as many Negroes
throughout the country are fairing poor
ly under some of the provisions of the
N. R. A. codes of fair competition and de
cided ill under many manipulations of the
same.
Mr. Roper took occasion to say:
“The increasingly difficult economic
problems of our complex society require
cooperative thinking and sympathetic
support to bring about a solution of all
Government problems. It is in recognition
of this fact, and with paticular apprecia
tion of your place in this program that I
initiated recently in the Department of
Commerce, a movement toward a closer
cooperation between this Department and
the Colored people. The Department of
Commerce was instituted to encourage,
foster and develop business, and, with
your interests and welfare in mind, I in
vited a committee of capable and exper
ienced colored leaders to confer with me
on the best methods of solving problems
bearing upon Negro business conditions.
It is my thought that this committee will
serve as a clearing house on matters re
lating to your problems, and I shall, with
the committee’s assistance, select a man
of your race who will be located in the
Department of Commerce He will be
charged with the responsibility of mak
ing business and commercial studies con
cerning the (Negroes’ economic problems
and their relationship to our national
economic program. Through this new set
up, we hope to develop plans to help the
colored business men to better under
stand and accept the highest American
standards and practices of business and
commerce. I interpret it as my patriotic
duty to assist those groups of business
people in poorer circumstances to gain
the efficiency and advantages of those
who are in better circumstances. In this,
I am endeavoring to express the spirit of
the “NEW DEAL”—the spirit of the
Square Deal as it is interpreted and
practiced by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.”
Many people have been unable to con
trol their greed and selfishness, thinking
more, of material possessions than of the
infinitely more important welfare of hu
man. beings. These exclusively selfish
motives and objectives have led us to
dangerous extremes; in fact, they have
brought upon us the greatest economic
cataclysm of all times. This unprecedent
ed economic catastrophe swept millions
into unemployment, paralyzed our pro
duction, our distribution and financial
processes, and carried us all into a dismal
swamp of despair. Most fortunately, we
found and put into the White House, du
ring this disastrous crisis, a leader with
a chart and a compass and possessed of a
heart and mind devoted to humanity. His
chart shows a program in the interest of
all the people—and he quite naturally
lebels it — “NATIONAL RECOVERY.”
In this great struggle to attain a better
and happier condition for all our people,
everyone can find and should fulfill his
opportunity and responsibility to serve.
“The loyalty and patriotism of your
people guarantee a sustained, cooperative
attitude on your part in meeting the chal
lening task that faces us all.
“It is natural for you to ask what you
can do to assist in this battle for national
recovery. My answer is that you have two
opportunities for service; the first
prompts your help in making the emer
gency N. R. A. program a success. Every
revolution brings with it certain hard
ships for some of the people. But we
should recognize and understand that
while rough spots and hardships in the
hurried program cannot be prevented we
can and should strive to make them tem
porary in nature.
“The second line of service and cooper
ation relates to the problem of long term
economic planning and future business
stability for our people. Our long term
problems cannot be postponed until the
present emergency is over. They must be
evolved and built upon the foundation of
our immediate recovery program. It is
with especial reference to this that our
newly formed Negro Advisory Council
will direct its studies and efforts through
conference with the Secretary of Com
merce.”
In closing Mr. Roper said:
“In the seventy years since your eman
cipation, your people have created a heri
tage of enobling characteristics and
racial accomplishments that should pro
vide a great inspiration for meeting your
problems of today and planning for your
attainments of "tomorrow. The United
States Government guarantees to you the
inalienable right to the 'pursuit of life,
liberty and happiness.’ It is under this
Flag that you secured your emancipa
tion. This should be a symbol of the
American ideal of freedom and of the in
creasing opportunities for you and for all
under the guiding principles of the Con
stitution of the United States.”
Pres- Addresses
Workers
( Continued from p. 1)
before.
Defines Federal Relief Policy
I believe we Americans do not wish
to see a permanent extension of pure_
ly government operationg carried to
the extent of relieving us of our in_
responsibilities as citizens, and it
is with that thought in mind that
very early in this administration we
laid down in regard to one portion of
this great picture a somewhat simple
rule
When we came to the problem of
meeting the emergency of human
needs we did not rush blindly in and
say: “The government will take care
of it ” We approached it from the
other angle first We said to the
people of this country: “When you
come to the problem of relief you
face the individual family, the in_
dividual man, woman and child who
lives in a particular locaity, and the
first objective and the first necessity
is that the citizens of that comm,
unity, through the churches, the com_
munity chestj the social and charit.
able organizations of the community
are going to be expected to do their
utmost extent first Then we come to
this second need, or objective, and
that is the participation of local,
government in the additional need.
Local Governments Must Do Their
Part
We demand that local government
shall do its share to the utmost, and
then, if that is not sufficient, if those
two features do not meet the needs,
we come to the next unit, the state,
and if that still is not enough, if the
state has done everything it reason,
ably should do, then obviously the
Federal government must step in, be_
cause, whjle it isn’t written in the
Constitution, nevertheless, it is the
tion Of course, in an organization of
inherent duty of the Federal govren.
ment to keep it citizen from strava.
that kind. I suppose-that there is
a certain tendency to feel, “If we
don’t do it, the Federal government
will.” Municipalities or counties feel,!
“if we don’t do it the state govern,
private organization, and individuals
ment will,” or a local organization,
say, “well, if we don’t do it, the
municipalities will.” In other words,
putting the burden on somebody else
with the general thought in the back
of our heads “if we don’t do it some
body else will.” And, in the last ana.
lysis the kindness of Uncle Sam will
see to it that we don’t fail.
Problem of Lagging States
We have had a great many exam,
pies of late of areas in this country,
areas which have not done their share
and are coming, hat in hand, to the
Federal government, and saying,
“we want Federal relief.” There have
been stats which have not done their
share — states where the problem of
relief have got mixed up with poli.
tics; Legislatures that are thinking
in political and not in human terms.
There are municipalities which are
going ahead with the spending of the
taxes for political purposes and then
find they haven’t any money left for
relief purposes
A a in giaa to say that those indi.
vidual cases are diminishing in num.
her because the people of this coun_
try understand it and are telling the
government bodies, local or state,
that they have got to “play ball” and
not shirk There are a lot of cases
which are so close to the border line
of emergency that they do not be.
long to the border relief problem.
Yesterday the Governor of South
Dakota came to my office with some
extraordinary pictures of farm lands
where grasshoppers had devoured ev
erything down to the roots. Where
there isn’t anything left for man or
beast to eat; where many thousands
of farmers are not faced just with the
temporary problem of being helped
out a little here and a little there,
but with the fact that neither they
nor their livestock have any chance
of getting anything to live on until
next summer some time. There is an
emergency. We are going to try to
take care of it as an emergency It
comes very close to the border 'line—
where the Red Cross has got to step
in because it ig a peculiar kind of
disaster and does not result from
flood or fire.
Expects More Local Relief
There are cases in some of the coal
mining sections of this country where
families have been starving week in
and week out over a long period of
time and where the community or
the state failed to do their share
These are not disasters in the same
sense or with the same result that
grasshoppers and floods are respon.
sibls The point I want to make is
this: You have a very great oppor_
tunity, not merely to keep people
from starving. You have a further
opportunity of inculcating the un_
derstanding that we have to build
from the bottom up—not merely to
supply food from the top down.
There will be a tendency this year
in obtaining the wherewithal for lo_
cal relief for people to say, “We can’t
do it.” I believe they can do it, big.
ger this year and more generously,
more successfully this year than they
could last Taking it by and large,
the country is in a much more hope,
fui frame of mind. People have more
money to spend and more time in
which to do it. It isn’t only the fact
that a great many people have al_
eady been put back to work, the fact
that people of property have been
getting more from rents; there are
fewer defaults on bonds and mor.
tgages.
Absolved From Forty Hour Week
I believe today that you can go
forth, in the spirit of the N R A ,
and work under it. You, of course,
are going to work a great deal more
than forty hours a week I want to
tell you that you are hereby absolved
from the N R A.—if you want to
work. seventy hours a week, go to it.
The executive branches of the United
States government, and some of the
othj” branches of the government
also are exempt
I think you must go into this cam.
paign with the right to expect greater
success this year than last Tell ev_
erybody that we are a little bit like
the old railroad train that has to
travel up a long grade The first
thing to do is to get that train start,
ed, and the more we can accelerate
the pace of that train, the more cer.
tain it is that it is going to get over
the top. We have got the train start_
ed and it is running, let us sayf twen
ty miles an hour. We must get that
train to go forty miles an hour, and
then there is an assurance that it will
go over the top
Community Chest Work
All of this community chest work,
all of the uniting in the cause of
meeting human needs, is based on
that old word “cooperation ” During
the war when I was on the other side
the Prime Minister of England, Llyod
George, was lunching with me at the
American Embassy one day and our
Ambassador said something about
our cooperation in winning the war
Lloyd George turned to me ventive
—you have imagination — will you
please send word back home that the
British government will offer a prize
of L10,000 to any American who will
discover some other word to take the
place of ‘cooperation’ V’ No one has
ever won the prize.
The point I wish to make is that
there are a great many people in this
country who are going to say: “Oh, I
have given, I am helpng through such
and such an organzation, through
such and such an individual; leave
me out ” There is no such thing as
being left out. They can’t be left out.
They have got to join you Because,
unfortunately, we know the frailty of
a certain type of human nature that
says something like that as an excuse
for not doing his or her part
Indiv.dual Responsibility
The government cannot get along
without you. The Federal, state and
local government can’t The whole
period we are going through will
come back in the end to indivdual
citizens to individual responsbility
to private organzation, through the
years to come We are going to have
unemployed throughout the United
States, and we know it. I hope,
though, the time is going to come
when government will not have to
give relief I hope the time is going
to come soon when everybody who
normally wants a permanent job is
going to get it. And so I like to think
of government relief of all kinds as
emergency relief
Your work has a twofold purpose.
1 ou are meeting the emergency and
at the same time you are building for
the future Community chests are go
j mg to keep on just as long as any oi
us ace alive — and a mighty good
; thing they are too.
I tell you very simply that you
have a great responsibility on your
shoulders; and I know that you are
going to fulfill it. You are going back
to your states and your communities
and give them this message from
me—this work is an essential part of
the government’s program, the. pro.
gram of the people of the United
States to bring us back to where this
country has as right to be So, get to
it and make a record not only of
money but a record of service of
which we shall all be very pioud.
TOWL EXPECTS HOUS
ING PLANS READY TUES
Groups Finish Work Lead
ing to Project for Improve
ment of North 24th Street
Real estate men, architects, Coun.
ty Assessor Greenleaf, County Trea.
surer Baumani offciers of building
and loan companies and city officials
are cooperating so successfully in the
proposed housing project along No
24th Street that all preliminaries will
be out of the way by next Tuesday,
Mayor Towl said Wednseday.
“We hope to have the proj_
ject s« well worked by next week
that it will be ready to submit
to the federal government,” the
mayor said.
SURVEYS COMPLETED
Real estate men have made sur_
veys of the district extending from
Paul to Clark Streets and from 18th
to 24th Streets, and architects, ac_
companied by Philip Klutznick, as_
sistant city attorney, were to make
a trip through the district Wednes.
day afternoon. The architects are
George B Prinz, William L Steele
and Alan McDonald
Mayor Towl said all the facts and
figures relating to the property and
the mortgages thereon will have been
compiled by the end of the week so
that the cost of the proposed rehab,
ilitation of the district can be esti.
mated
PARKWAYS IN PLAN
The project includes parkways and
playgrounds throughout the district
as well as the renovating, remodeling
and rebuilding of houses and the er_
ection of new dwellngs. Some old
houses in the district already have
been torn downf in anticipation of
the improvement
Mayor Tow] said he also had in
mind a similar project centering
around 28fn and R Sts in South
Omaha He said the district was run
down and that streets were unpaved
and badly washed away, making the
property of little value in its present
condition
PALMTAG PUT IN
CHARGE OF MORALS
SQUAD
Myers Says He will Shake
Group Up Now and Then;
Works Under Commissioner
A new leader of the police morals
squad Detective Sergt. Fred Palmtag
—was announced by Police Commis.
sioner Frank Myers Tuesday night,
as well as a new policy of shifting
supervision of the squad at irregulai
intervals among Chief of Police Geo.
rge Allen and Inspectors Samardick
and A C Andersen
Palmtag, Commissioner Myers an.
nouced, will replace Sergt. George
Brigham as head of the squad or
October 1, and will work under di.
rection of Chief of "Detectives A C
Andersen, Brigham hag been taking
orders from Chief Allen and his pre.
: decessor worked under Inspector
Samardick
The purpose behind the change oi
policy, Myers said, is to insure a
‘‘square deal" for all in the conduct
of police law enforcement.
“While I have o fault to find
with Samardick or Allen in the
way the squad has been directed,”
he said. “I feel that the new sys.
tern will prove more satisfactory.
“It will create better feeling
generally because the heads of
morals squads, unconsciously or
i otherwise, might play favorites.
I Each head of the squad, as I ro_
i tate the supervision, will take
command and handle the pro.
blems in his own way.”
Myers said that “against every
head of the raiding squad there made
accusations of persecution and fav_
oritism, and I feel that by shifting
the exofficio head of the squad from
time to time everybody will feel he is
getting a square deal.”
The changes can be mad at any
time at his discretion Myers said.
They may come on a moment’s no_
tice, and the succeeding head can
select his own raider.
He said, however, that he had of.
fered th: raiding post to Palmtag and
Palmtag had accepted it Palmtag is
to confer with Myers and Andersen
on the personnel of the sQ.uad, but
will be permitted his own recom.
mendation of assistants
The commissioner also revealed he
already is considering ways of deal,
ing with the flood of legal hard li_
quor which he anticlates will start
flowipng into Omaha from Iowa and
, Missouri after repeal becomes ef_
fective in November, as now seems
| likely
ROOSEVELT READY TO
STATE PLAN OF CREDIT
EXPANSION
(Special to The Omaha Guide)
NEW YORK—President Roosevelt
was to return to his home at Hyde
Park Wednesday, obviously confident
of the national recovery drive and
ready to lay down the terms for
putting credit to work to make suc_
cess assured
A series of talks with financial
leaders convinced his advisers he was
about to make known his desires for
expanding credit through regular
channels as the alternative :o out_
right currency inflation. Welcomed by
a crowd that swarmed over his route
from Pennsylvania station, Mr.
Roosevelt remained Tuesday night
and early Wednesday at the family
residence on East 65th St., with his
own folks
A call by Jes(e I Straust ambas.
sador to France, was regarded unof_
ficially as meaning France was con_
sidering the two defaulted war debts
payments to the United States
The President visited the metro_
polis to have a family reunion and
say good bye to his eldest son, James
who sailed at midnight for Europe
with his wife, Betsy. James is going
to London and Paris on a trip de_
scribed as a vacation. There is spe_
culation whether he will go to Rus_
sia
In the quiet of his ancestral estate
at Hyde Park on the banks of the
Hudson river, the President will
watch the national recovery drive and
outline shortly his ideas for putting
idle cash in closed banks and frozen
bank deposits to work to support his
price lifting campaign
His immediate object is the release
of funds in closed banks, but he is al_
so watching steps by open banks to
put their resources to work.
There is increasing belief the Presi
dent will go to the American Legion
convention opening in Chisago next
Monday.
SEARS SPENDS MILLION IN
STATE IN 3 YEARS
Sears Roebuck and Company, spent
$1,115,960 in Nebraska during 1930,
1931 and 1932, according to figures
received by J L McCormack, man.
ager of the local store, from D. M
Nelson, vice president of the company
in charge of merchandising
The report, prepared in connection
with plans for its 47th anniversary
celebration now in progress, contains
an account of the firm's expenditures
in the state
Disbursements included $326,973
for merchandise bought from 18 man.
ufaeturers in Nebraska; $481,262 for
wages and salaries; $165,340 for ad_
vertising, and $142,385 for rents and
taxes
The Great Community
Builder
In days gone by, the gold mining
and silver mining industry made his_
tory Some of our greatest states
were settled and built up as the result
of mining activity.
Copper, lead and zinc played a
tremendous part in our industrial'
development
Mining has suffered severely from
economic causes during the past tec:
years.
Today the outlook seems to be’
brighter for mining activity. If fav_
■ orable conditions develop, it will be a
I godsend to many states which have
had a vivid object lesson as to the
value of mining payrolls, purchasing
power, employment, etc
Penalizing the mines with exorbit,
ani taxation will not be as popular a
pastime as in the past More people
will realize that condition,, which en.
courage, rather than discourage min.
ing, are the greatest benefit to the
commonwealth
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