Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1933)
w w vwv- -V-W-w-V -KJ-u-u-u— - U - U - U - O_ % • / iS Outstanding— f s I Mouthpiece I Jgj for Your Community ^ “The Omaha Guide ZijjsyE^ EQUALITY HEW TO THEL1NE\ Is Your Paper>' ___^_VOL. VII.—_Omaha, Nebr. December, 16, 1933 No. 42 r\ ' n n a a Vff rO ObJ* PART \ Tune In - ■ jl "OIBESTING | wide NEWS"|’ i BROADCAST!.I > Every Week froai this CoIcihe J fBy CUFFOMK. MITCHELL ( By Clifford C. Mitchell Omaha Chronicle Compliments: Practically all that a colored col umnist gets is praise and so I am elated over the compliment paid me by John Benj. Horton, Jr., of the Omaha Chronicle, which reads: “***I hope to always publish your articles; they have much valuable merit. At this time I take great pleasure in offering to you a compli ment, namely; That as a writer of news which has the particular bear ing on the Race’s intellectual, politi cal and spiritual future, you’ve done still much more towards helping to develop ourselves economically— through your columns, you’ve made it possible for hundreds, if not thous ands, of our men and women to se cure profitable employment in var- j ious channels mentioned in your col umns. Certainly, this labor on your part is worth the highest esteem from your fellow craftsmen as well as from our vast clientele of four-j teen millions of patriotic American citizens in black. , I am glad that my efforts to dig up money-making propositions for my readers, and potential advertisers for the publishers are appreciated. Without a doubt the most salable ■ specialty that I have yet run across is found in an amazing new inven tion, "The Everlasting Match” which works and acts like a match and can be lit and relit thousands of times by striking over and over again. This little novelty, which is most] useful and compact, is made for both j men and women and is finished in i bakehte of pleasing colors and also in ehronium with a high polish that will not tarnish or wear and is guar anteed for one year, with a money back guarantee to agents. In fact the "Everlasting Match” is made with the same care and precision as a high grade watch. Unlike most automatic lighters, etc., the “Everlasting Match” is es- . pecially adapted for pipe smokers, and, of course, is serviceable for all cigar and cigarette smokers, and are: sold at various prices to meet the poeketbook of every smoker. My leaders, especially agents, will be particularly interested in knowing that on an investment as low as Three Dollars a full one hundred per cent on their money can be made, and where purchases are made in quantity lots it is possible to make much more. This product is one of the many Useful specialties created and sold during the World’s Fair here in Chi cago and the company is rapidly ex panding and offering opportunities to agents throughout the country. From my own personal observation, while in their various local agency offices, I saw this specialty being sold to agents, both men and women, in quantity lots just as fast as the clerks could wait upon them. I would strongly urge every ^reader, especially prospective agents, to con tact the Everlasting Match Company, 445 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, at once as I firmly believe this opportunity to be one of the best I have yet written up. And for my women readers, espec ially for women agents and distribu tors throughout the country I have contacted a firm who is handling a new woman's needed specialty which has been on the market for only five months, being the Elvyn Sanitary Shield made with silk outside and rubber inside, washable with soap and water, and dried with talcum powder. This shield sells for only fifty cents and agents can make one hundred per cent and more on their invest ment when purchased in quantity lots To those actively connected with work among churches, lodges and so cial clubs, the selling of these shields will prove quite profitable. Three samples will be mailed to any address in the United States on re ceipt of one dollar with a money-back guarantee. Send all orders or inquir ies direct to Mrs. Bursmith, care of Elvyn Company, 166 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago Illinois. • Annua! Xmas.Sea! Sale of T. S. Ass. The 26th Annual Christmas Seal 'ale of the Nebraska Tuberculosis Association is now being held in Omaha and the state. Guy Christmas Keels Fight Tuberculosis This month the cheery little Christ mas Seal faces its gravest task in years raising funds for the fight against tuberculosis. Teacher, social worker, and others in daily contact with children report undernourishment, lack of disease prevention, and contact with tuber culosis as conducive of seriously low ring health standards in this com munity. The protection of children and the search for those who have tubercu losis are important parts of the work of the Nebraska Tuberculosis Asso ciation. Many Omaha children owe their first examination to the Christ mas Seal and many more will not be found in time unless the public buy Christmas Seals. The activities of the Nebraska Tu berculosis Association supported by Christmas Seals include: a tubercu losis nurse for Omaha; Nutrition in the schools; chest clinics for child ren; health education programs; and health camps for poor children threatened with tuberculosis. Prof Rl'se - cl 000.000 *° fund . j S1™ down»ent r Preached Three Addresses. the Sunday ■ “f Wright’ School M» ’ CW. DE ::;tr."or * W'‘® ‘ «*»*s fOT ^ hook it S€C.i7lON NAMES- half feet wvde, one ^ poT the weighs { v/Uherforce , -pruitnation ol presidents andP.v'f »hichhe.»th. P versity o ^ contam one gWe This hook rson signing „ps each ,,t„r thus cre» names, one dollar, wdber *„rr“«do^»*s!“d.r ten tboua forec ®i«‘® pre3. F, D, SooM antbwas the first ^^addresses in "or-- ****<£&***■ Bdd attd U”C°’? Slore ttaee diII“!r KOIO and broadcasted HZ in __ Mr. Clark «»’ th“o-tesP^” ^Itrv huainesj 24th St., >» no Distributors Co. »t tke "Sit P301 No. 2«hSt^^ OUT Of **® SEt’ »p Miss Mahle Bjrd1 «h of Dr. M “ _ position m s® ah ted to a P office of th out 0f S,C. fo« mouths ago «' V3 dep artmenh0^,ibodiscont.no • 0f the NRA ___ 1 \ Debate Federal Anti Lynch Law Dr. Caiiver Appointed To F.R.A. Staff Xmas. Bun ized bySoc The Christmas Bureau organized under the direction of the Council of Social Agencies, operates from Dec ember 1st until Christmas. It is de signed to prevent duplication in the giving of Christmas baskets to de pendent families. It is assumed no responsibility for seeing that all families receive a basket or that any family receives a basket. It has on ly one service: that of making more efficient and more useful the Christ mas giving of clubs, churches and individuals. The Bureau receives from all re lief agencies the names and address es of all dependent families. It asks that organization,c clubs, churches and individuals who are planning to give Christmas baskets clear their lists through its files so that duplication of giving may be avoided. It furnishes to individuals or or ganizations who desire it, the names and addresses of families who need help. The Bureau is located this year in 503 Hospe Building. Its work is di rected by Miss Gladys Shamp, and the Christmas Bureau may be reach ed by telephoning AT 9374 or AT— 9016 Because Federal Relief is now be ing furnished on an adequate basis, The Christmas Bureau is asking this year that special attention be devot ed to meeting the special needs which cannot be met either through Federal, County or Chest money. For your information we are enclosing a list of these special needs. In connection with the Christmas Bureau the Junior League operates a Gift shop. Toys, collected by schools, repaired by the firemen and painted by the Boy Scouts, are plac ed in this Gift Shop. Dolls repaired ana dressed by the Girl Scouts Camp Fire Girls, and Girl Reserves are al 'so taken to the Gift shop. Depend ent families are given tickets to the Shop and three days before Christ mas the mothers and fathers go down and pick out presents for their children. ; We believe that a Mother and Fa ther belongs the right of planning: Christmas for the family, and if we i really want to make Christmas a joyful season we will help them plan their own Christmas and not do it for them. We want you to know about our Christmas Bureau and Junior League Gift Shop. Will you not make it a part of your responsibility to see that the clubs and organizations to which you belong are informed of this service and make use of it. Suggested Christmas Gifts for Dependent Families— The following gifts are suggested inasmuch as the food requirements of dependent families can be met this year, while the thing included in this list cannot be furnished thru any of the relief agencies) Lynching most Vile The millions who listened to Pres. Roosevelt on Wednesday night, Dec. 6 felt deeply grateful for his condem nation of lynching and his rebuke to Gov. James Rolqh of California for his expressed approval of the hanging of two prisoners by a mob in San Jo se... Speaking in Constitution hall at the twenty-fith anniversary meeting of theFederal Council of Churches of Chr ist in America, the Pres, also critc ized the frequent tardiness of Amer ican Justice. sauOrgan ial Council GLASSES— We have a list of 64 children who are failing in their school work due to poor eyesight and whose parents cannot afford to purchase glasses. SCHOOL ALLOWANCES— There are dozens of children in de | pendent familiesw ho must drop out of school unless some arrangements can be made to furnish them an al lowance for pencils, paper, car fare ' and the incidental school expenses the children must meet. TEETH— We have long lists of both child ren and adults who need to have their teeth cared for. FIRST AID KITS— There are very few dependent fam ilies in Omaha where there is equip ment to handle minor accidents such as cut fingers, etc. The following are suggested gifts, many of which we consider almost a necessity but which are considered luxuries by most of the thousands of families under the care of our re lief agencies: Rugs Curtains, Sheets Pillow slips Carpet sweeper, children's garters, Dictionary, Waxed paper for lunches Baby bed, Brooms, Books, Dust pans Old furniture (chairs, table etc) Cooking utensils Cots and pads, Dishes (especially cups and saucers) Carfare, Brace for club foot, Cloth es pins, Stove, Bluing, Drawing supplies (Paper, crayon, charcoal,) Clothes line, Beds, Oil cloth for tabl es, tar paper for finishing house, mops special shoes for deformed ankle, hand lotion, starch, hot water bottles, Pipes, Handkerchiefs, Tobacco, Pen cils, Razors, Heaters, Razor blades, Tooth paste, Shaving soap, Tooth brushes, Needles, Toilet soap, Darn ing cotton, Bobby pins, Scissors, dish towels, Safety pins, Combs, Hand towels, Wash cloths, Shoe polish. The Christmas Bureau can furnish names of families who require parti cular things and people can secure them for the family or such items can be furnished for distribution thru the Junior League Gift Shop. When a person offers to buy glasses he is either given the name of the individual and secures the glasses through his own oculist, or if he wishes to make a cash contribution his fund is turned over to the school and glasses are secured wholesale through one of the dispensaries. We do not excuse those in high places or in low condone lynch law, Mr. Roosevelt said. He did not however, directly refer to the California lynching or tr rec ent lynching in Missouri and Mary land. His remarks on lynching brought prolonged applause from the capac ity audience. Mr. Roosevelt expressed faith in the new generation as a pre liminary to his strong condemnation of mob violence. This generation for example he said is not content with preaching j against that vile form of collective; murder-lynch-law-which has broken i out in our midst anew. They know an i we know that it is murder-and a del iberate and definite disobedience of the commandment, Thou chalt not I kill. I _ • GIVE YOUR OWN BOY AND! * GIRL A CHANCE TO EARN ANf i HONEST LIVING AND RESPECT-* » ABLE JOB BY TRADING WITHi THE SQUARE DEAL GROCER Yj STORES. t An Interview With T he Duke _ Bureau) AFTER JAZZ—WHAT?— There has been much talk lately in popular musical circles as to the changing styles in the writing and arranging ; of compositions intended for orches i Lral use. Pro and con the “experts argue—Is jazz in its accepted form going to last and, if so, how long?— Is some new musical form going to be discovered to take the place of jazz and, if so, what will it be called ; —These and many other questions along the same lines; are being ask ed and answered; and the musical de i bate goes on and on—What better way to strike a nail into this contro versy and get a true expert opinion that will hold weight throughout the orchestral realm, than to ask the ver diet of the one person who is most noted for his creative efforts in the field of jazz music—Duke Ellington— creator of such radical jazz depart ures as “Black and Tan Fantasy" and the sensational "MOOD INDI GO”! In answer to many questions the “Aristocrat of Jazz” had thig to say:— “It is my honest belief that the musical rhythm known as “jazz” will actually never make a full exit from the musical earth. I do feel that its accepted forms are due for radical changes but I also believe that in the background the jazz element, based on primitive jungle rhythms, will re main. I have always been a firm believer in musical experimentation. To stand still musically is equivalent to losing ground. It has ever been my ambition and desire to be a few steps ahead of the times—so that they would have to try to catch up with me rather than I with them. Just as a scientist in his laboratory mixes and re-mixes his chemical elements again and again in order to reach a new discovery ... so must the musical ex perimenter mix and re-mix his musi cal elements . . . trying different har monies, melodic strains, tempos, rhy thms—until he may emerge with that sought after ‘something new under the sun*. My belief is that the new form of jazz will be ‘sophisticated jazz’—a more subtle, a more clever, a more startling form than ever before. You must have noticed the change in pop ular song lyrics in the past year or more. They have taken a sophisti cated trend. They are more subtle— the rhyming is more clever—the re sults are more startling than ever before. In a similar way, music must keep satisfying the public taste—even in some cases, it must educate the public taste so that gradually it will learn to know, like, and call for this new type of jazz—this ‘sophisticated jazz’. I have just completed a recording f°r of my latest com position called “RUDE INTER LUDE”. In it are contained new de partures in musical tempo and ar rangement—some pretty daring de partures—but I offer it as my first! contribution to what I sincerely be lieve is due to be the new form of jazz—‘sophisticated jazz’. To try to describe verbally what has been done in the writing of “rude interlude” is an impossible task. Be words is, at best, an unsatisfactory ing asked to describe any music in! assignment. Music is created to lis-i ten to—to react to—to stir emotions ' —and not to describe—“RUDE IN TERLUDE” especially is difficult to talk about—Perhaps it might be best,"! considering the fact that I am its; author, that I leave the description ^ of this new radical ‘brain-child’ of mine—this fore-runner of ‘sophisti cated jazz’—to somebody else”. And so we rush off to the RCA VICTOR Record Company to get for ourselves a glimpse of this new form Appointed As Fed. Relief Administrator Dr. Ambrose Caliver Appointed To FERA Staff The appointment of Dr. Ambrose Caliver, Federal Office of Education Specialist in the Education of Ne groes, as a part-time specialist in Federal emergency relief work in volving Negro education was an nounced today by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Adminis trator. Doctor Caliver, who has been loan ed by the Commissioner of Education to the relief administration for part time services, will continue his work in the Office of Education. His dut ies with the Federal Emergency Re lief Administration will be to give advice in connection with special problems concerning emergency edu cational program for Negroes, and to help in disseminating information to Negroes and other persons inter ested in their education. The Office of Education has been cooperating with the Federal Relief Administration since its establish ment on May 22 and this appoint ment is in line with the general pol icy of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in having specialists in the Office of Education allocated to the administration to direct and supervise the educational phases of relief. , For the past few months, Doctor Caliver has been active in informing State and local school people and other leaders having charge of Negro education concerning the educational projects under the FERA. The*s activities will now be continued and enlarged. - ■ ■ -—~ GAMBLING WITH DEATH The wise buyer, unless he happens to be a thoroughly qualified expert in the field in which he is making pur chases, buy labels. He buys a name which he knows stands for quality and integrity—a reputation gained over many years through the produc tion of an article or a service of un varying excellence. That’s true of food products, of clothes, of watches or automobiles or guns. We have learned that it 's usually better to pay a little more, w-hen that is necessary, to get some thing we know to be the best, than to buy something the salesman rep resents as being “just as good.” Most of us have had sad experiences with products falling in the latter cate gory. We have found them to be expensive at any pri&o. What is true for the individual buy ity buying fire protection. The town ing clothing, is true for the commun buying an unknown make of fire en gine is courting disaster. It is taking a chance on ruin. It is gambling j with death. If an engine fails at a crucial moment, hundreds of thous ands of dollars worth of property and irreplaceable lives may be destroyed, definite interest in seeing that fire Citizens and taxpayers have a very departments are kept to the highest standards, and equipped with engines whose names are the arbiters of qual ity and service. — One thing which is not conducive' to the popularity of any administra tion is a lot of official inspectors go ing over the country looking at every body’s books.—Fort Plain, New York, Free Press. of jazz—sophisticated jazz—in Duke Ellington’s recording of his own crea tion “RUDE INTERLUDE". Ask Legislation In Giving Gov. Power In Lynching Cases GEORGIA WOMEN DEBATE FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCH LAW Ask State Legislation Giving Govern or Power in Lynching Cases_ Commend Roosevelt, Ritchie and Park. Rap Rolfe’s Abject Surrender. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. B:—Facing a (narked increase of mob violence in 1933, the Geeorgia Council of South pni Women for the Prevention of Lynching, in annual session here to iay, discussed the wisdom of asking for a federal anti-lynching law, but ierferred action until the matter :ould be more fully studied. The Council requested the South-wide meeting of rtfhe Association to be >eld here on January 9 to give ma ure consideration to the proposal. It was reported that twenty-seven lynchings have been recorded this year, as against eight for 1932. In view of the unwillingness of local of ficials and courts to prosecute in sack cases, the Council voted its approval of proposed state legislation giving the governor authority to direct in. vestigation and prosecution in lynch ing cases. The following telegram was seat to President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The Georgia Council of the Associa tion of Southern Women for the Pre vention of Lynching, assembled at their annual meeting in Atlanta, wish to express their profound gratitude for the unequivocal and courageous denunciation of lynching conveyed in your address before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.” The Council also expressed hearty appreciation of the emphatic con demnation of lynching recently ex pressed by Attorney General Homer Cummings, and commended the vig orous steps taken in recent lynching cases by Governor Ritchie of Mary land and Governor Park of Missouri. These steps, the Council stated, were the mob and the official inaction so Governor Rolfe's abject surrender to the mob and the ogicial inaction so commonly observed in such cases.” The Georgia Council is a constituent part of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynch ing, an organization of white women fostered by the Commission on Inter racial Cooperation and directed by Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, of the Com mission’s staff. The Association has a membership in thirteen southern states of more than 16,000 women, each of whom has personally signed a repudiation of lynching and a pledge to do everything possible to eradicate it. Hopelessness concerning tuberdu losis has been transformed to hope, and a continuous campaign of educa tion through lectures, movies, news papers, radio, magazines, pamphlets and posters, which reaches every corner of the nation is in progress. This campaign is being held now in Nebraska through the Christmas Seal sale of the Nebraska Tuberculosis As sociation.. Christmas Seals have ac» complished big things—the death rate from this disease has been cut over one half—but there is still a tremendous job ahead. Tuberculosis remains the principal cause of death in the most important years of life— from 15 to 40. Among teen age girls there has been but a slight decline in the death rate, although the death rate for all ages has been slashed more than half. Purchase of Christmas Seals is a simple and inexpensive act yet each contribution added to millions of others thru the country aids in build ing a powerful defense which means protection to each of us and which promises in time to completely van quish the enemy.