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Omaha, Nebraska Saturday March 10th, 1934 Page 6
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| EDITORIAL I
PRAISES .
If praises you would relate
Why? Wait until too late,
To commend some one
For worthy deeds well done.
All the praises held in store
Would have meant far more,
If spoken to some one
For achievements they and won,
Than the choicest flowers you send
When their stay on earth must end,
Too late then—To commend
The good deeds of a Friend.
—Myrtle M. Goodlow.
THE BACKLOG OF FAMILY SAYINGS
A wise purchaser, buying shoes, an automobile,
jewelry or anything else, considers two prime factors.
One is the price of thv desired commodity. The other is its
quality. Price counts—but it isn't everything.
That principle of buying, as a pamphlet issued by
the National Board of Fire Underwriters points out,
should govern the buying of fire insurance, as well as less
necessary commodities and services. Stock fire insurance
is sold at a definite, fixed price. The cost is known, and
as long as a policy is in effect it will not vary. There's no
chance of year being assessed to make up losses. If the
company issuing the policy has a bad year the stockhold
ers bear the burden, not the policyholders.
As the pamphlet says, it is easy to buy "bargain'
fire insurance. It costs you slightly less than that issued
b|y a responsible stock company—if all goes well. If the
concern issuing it sustains tremendous losses there's an
other story to be told. The policy you believe is standing
between you and ruin may prove a liability — like those
bargain suits you've probably bought, which you wore a
few times an dthen gave to the moths.
As a matter of fact, stock fire insurance is remark
ably cheap. Before the war it cost about $1.10 for each
$100 of insurance written. In 1932 it cost about 70 cents—
a reduction of 30 per cent. How many other industries
can show such a saving to customers, while at the same
time rendering a greater service ? The rate charged today
is less than three-fourths of one per cent per year.
You can't afford to gamble with your solvency and
your savings for your family.
COOPERATION MUST BE COMPLETE
“A cooperative succeeds,” says a publcation of the!
Washington Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association,
“when members can talk as intelligently about the plan
and purpose of their organization as they can aboct the
productive operations of their own farms.”
That neatly phrases a fundamental truth. The
farmer who thinks he is doing enough when he joins a
cooperative and pays his dues, is grievously in error.
There must be cooperation all along the line, from the of
ficers and employes of the co-op to eveny producer. There
must be unswerving loyalty, interest and support.
The cooperatives which have made progress du
ring the last few trying years are those whose members
have been most enthusiastic, and have been undeterred by
prejudiced criticism and attempts to destroy the plans
and work of the organization. They are those whose
members have worked hardest in enlisting new members.
In brief, they are the cooperatives whose members have a
vision of the future, and work patiently to bring it real
ization.
There can be no half way measures about coopera
tion. It must go all the way or fail. That’s something for
farmers to keep in their minds.
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GIVE PAYROLL BUILDERS FAIR DEAL
Whom does the railroad problem, affect?
In addition to railway investors, employes and the
traveling and shipping public, depression among the rail
roads adversely affects one of our greatest industries—
railroad equipment an dsupplies—made up of 3,500 com
panies. This industry has plants in 650 cities and towns in
38 states, which in normal times employ more than 1,000,
000 persons. They are heavy taxpayers, and are among
the best customers of other great industries.
Where between 1925 and 1929, railroad purchases
averaged $1,700,000,000 a year, they were less than $450,-:
000,000 in 1933—a drop of 75 per cent. Making loco
motives and cars practically disappeared, the decline be
ing approximately 99 per cent.
The railroads’ plight consists of various diverse
factors—largely over-regulation and extreme taxation,
at a time when unregulated, government subsidized com
petitors were taking their business. That situation has
cost the nation hundreds of thousands of jobs—deprived
industries of one of their best markets — and made bad
times worse.
Thinking persons are solidly behind legislation
that wrill give railroads a fair break.
WHO FILLS THE PUBLIC TREASURIES?
Some day lawmakers and tax spenders will wake
up to the fact that it is the private citizen, private invest
or and private employer on whom they must depend to
fill the public treasuries. Instead of hamstringing him at
every turn they will find it necessary to encourage him in
order that they may be able to collect the money to pay
the terrific tax bills they ran up against the people.
Throughout the nation, security owners are
banding together to demand protection of their savings
from tax and legislative confiscation.
World's Toilers Swing Into
Action For Scottsboro
Boys; Link with Demands
For Freedom of German
—
NEW YORK March 7—The work
Leaders.
j ers of the world swung into action
I last week around the issues of the
; immediate unconditional safe release
| of Ernest Thaelman leader of the
German workers now facing a trial
' as provocative as the Reichstag fire
; trial and Ernest Torgler other ac
quitted Reichstag fire trial defend
ant and of the Scrttsoro boys.
Linking together the struggle a
gainst fascist terror in Europe and
growing fascist lynch terror in Am
erica under the leadership of the In
ternational Labor Defense in seventy
countries of the world already in
action in defense of the victims of
German and Austrian fascism the
workers are preparing monster pro
tests and demonstations to demand
the release of these prisoners
In response to the cable of the In
ternational Labor Defense here
Scottsboro is being put on the order
of the day in every central demon
stration in Europe.
In the United States the I. L. D.
reported preparations are under way
on a nation-wide scale to raise the
level of protest against the lynch
plans of the Southern bosses to a
higher level than it has ever reached
before-'
The I. L. D- has called on all its
districts sections and branches for
the most intensified activity around
the demand for the unconditional
safe release of the Scottsboro boys
reversal of the lynch verdicts against
Heywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris and removal of Judge Calla
han and Attorney General Knight
Linking of these actions to all
those against the fascist terror in
Germany and Austria and intensi-]
iication of these campaigns as well!
is called for
The huge legal task of preparing
the narrative bill of exceptions for
filing with the state supreme court
which by Callahan’s decision was to
be completed and filed by next March
3 would be carried through the I. L
D. announced. Special 3500 pages of
evidence to narrative form
At the same time legal steps are ,
being taken to appeal against the rul- :
ing of Judge Callahan outlawing the
I- L- D- motion for reversal of the
verdicts in his court oh the basis of
his deliberate deception of the law
yers in granting extensions of time
then ruling he had no right to do so.
The I- L. D- has charged that this
action was the result of a plot by the
industrialists and agrarians of Ala
bama carried out by Knight and Cal
lahan to rob the boys of their appeal
rights altogether. It was pointed
out that if the defense had asked for
a postponement of the hearing until
a date later than February 24 Cal
lahan’s ruling would have nullified
entirely the right of appeal and he
would under the statue he quotes
have been able to call in the boys for
re-sentencing on the day the appeal
was defaulted and ordered them to
die the next day.
Callahan’s ruling in which he re
fused to listen to the I. L. D- motion
set the final day for filing of the ap
peal at March 3 90 days after the
sentencing of Heywood Patterson
instead 90 days following hearing of
the motion.
NEW YORK—The Scottsboro case
is ever more clearly bringing out
who are the enemies of the Negro
people and the white masses. Within
the ranks of the Negf> people it is ly it employs as many more in the |
' clarifying the class lines it is expos
! ing those who among the Negro
j leadership behind smooth lying
j phrases are betraying the interest of
the Negro masses to the lynchers
and their state and federal govern
ments. Scottsboro thus serves a his
toric mission.
I Judge Callahan Klan leader and
spokesman for the big Southern
landlords; Thomas E- Knight Jr
chief mouthpiece for the lynchers at
Scottsboro plotted the latest attempt
to murder the Scottsboro boys. They
sought to catch the masses in the
vanguard of the struggle for the
rights of these innocent NegTo boys
off guard- They aimed a body blow
i at the I. L. D- and the liberation
; movement of the Negro masses. They
j planned to destroy the faith of the
i white and Negro masses in the I- L
! D- and the liberation movement of
the Negro masses. They planned to
I uestroy the faith of the white and
Negro masses in the I. L- D. to dis
credit it by legally lynching the two
I condemned boys and having the mur
j ier charged to the “carelessness of
j the I. L. D- But the I. L. D was not
caught napping.
The court stenographer who took
the minutes Tailed to get them ready
tor the defense attorneys within the
time allowed by the law to file the
motion for a new trial for the con
demned boys- Nevertheless the de
fense lawyers sent down the motion
papers in incompleted form but suf
ficient to comply with the law. TVu'y
asked Caliahan for an extension of
time until they had received the min
utes. These were the telegrams that
passed between Attorney Brodsky
and Callahan:
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
MAILED TONIGHT AIRMAIL
STOP ARRIVE FRIDAY A T
REQUEST CONTINUANCE PEND
DECATUR SiOP RESPECTFULLY
ING FILING OF AMENDED MO
TION ON RECEIPT OF TRAN
SCRIPT O F RECORD STOP!
PLEASE REPLY COLLECT.
JOSEPH R. BRODSKY.
A similar wire was sent January 2
on the Clarence Norris case- On Dec
ember 29 the following wire was re
ceived by Mr- Brodsky:
MOTION WILL BE CONTINUED
TO JANUAY 27.
W. W. CALLAHAN.
On January 4 the following tele
gram was received by Brodsky:
ON YOUR REQUEST NOR
RIS MOTION CONTINUED JAN
UARY 26.
W- w. CALLAHAN.
Later Judge Callahan informed
Osmond K. Fraenkel another attorn
ey. for the I. L. D- in Scottsboro that
the hearing for a new trial for the
condemned boys would take place
February 24
On February 24 in Decatur the
lynchers played their trump card in
the murderous deal- Callahan at the
request of Knight refused to hear
the argument for a new trial for
Patterson and Norris- He had no
right he said to send such telegrams, j
He had made a mistake- He could not j
grant an extension of time. He had
done so he said ecause he did not:
think Mr. Knight would object and if
Mr. Knight had not objected he \
would have been quite willing to have
listened to the defendant’s arugment '■
for a new trial.
Help Bring Recovery
In normal times the construction
industry is one of the greatest direct
employers of skilled and unskilled
labor — carpenters, plumbers brick
layers metalsmiths and a dozen other
categories of workers. And. indirect
industries making construction pro
ducts
In 1929. these industries furnished
over a million jobs- They include the
manufacture of shingles pipe cement
wire paints papers lime linoleum
lumber and so on- The total value of
their products was over five billion
dollars- Forty-nine thousand plants
were involved with payrolls of close
to $16000000000 a year.
Those figures show why stimulat
ed construction is essential to recov
ery- Home building is the most im
portant branch of construction, con
stituting about fifty per cent of the
total- It isn’t the million dollar sky
scrapers that make the bulk of the
jobs — it’s the small homes costing
three or four thousand dollars- By
the same token home repairing in the
aggregate is of equal importance.
Spring is almost here. In the aver
age home much can be done to make
it more comfortable and etffident
Prices are still low with sharp rises
in prospect- Build now repair now—
save yourself money and do your bit
toward regaining good times
Municipal Ownership—And
The Farmer
In an article in the Los Angeles
Times, Leon 0. Whitsell of the Cali
fornia State Railroad Commission,
analyze sthe potential effect of the
municipal power movement upon the
farmers of the state.
In California, as in most other
states agriculture is the basic indus
try. It has the greatest collective
purchasing power. Directly and indi
rectly according to Mr- Whitsell, it
gives employment to over one-half
of the city workers- It pays one fifth
of the cost of government and repre
sents a third of the state’s tangible
wealth.
The utilities now serving Califor
nia were developed with a view to
providing the best possible service at
the lowest cost to all classes of con
sumers—urban and rural- All classes
help all other classes to keep rates
down- The peak demands of the var
ious classes are not simultaneous—
making it possible to serve more
consumers with less investment fa
cilities- For example greatest use of
power in cities is reached during the
winter. Rural use at that time is
comparatively small. And when sum
im r comes and city use dwindles, ir
rigation demands increase the farm
need thus stabilizing the year-round
load carried by the companies.
The municipal ownership move
ment, tax subsidized and tax exempt
extended far enough will deprive the
private utilities of their city market-1
And this, in Mr- Whitsell’s belief
must result in one of three alterna
tives: First, an increase in rural
rates to farmers. Second service by
power companies at as uneconomical
ly low figure, resulting in loss of
savings invested in power securities
making it impossible to attract new
capital for expansion. Third, rever
sion by farmers to small individual j
power plants which are inefficient,
expensive and inconvenient. Either
alternative would junk private elec
trical equipment, give service no bet
ter if as good destroy taxes and wipe
out hundreds of millions of savings
now invested in private property.
The private power companies of
the nation have developed cheap
farm service of a high quality. The
municipal ownership movement im
perils all that has been achieved
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Congressional Limited
Loses Its Veteran Head
Waiter by Retirement.
WASHINGTON, March 4— (CNS)
—Born here February 22 18G4—
Washington's birthday seventy years
ago—Francis A. West, the Pennsy
lvania Railroad’s primier waiter re- j
tired Tuesday, February 27 as head
waiter aboard the Pennsyvania Rail
road’s New York-Washington ex
press, the Congressional Limited
West at the age of 30 began serv
ice as a dining-car waiter in 1894
aboard the Nelly Bly, between New
York and Pittsburgh—which train,
named for the famous woman jour
nalist, was the first on which the
Pennsylvania Railroad added a din- j
ing car- In 1879, West came to The1
Congressiona Limited where for
three decades, he filled the gastron
omical wants of Presidents and oth
er such notables as Admiral Togo of
Japan, Prince Henry of Germany
Marshal Foch Marshal Petain Gen
eral John J. Pershing Dr- C. C- Wu
and Admiral Dewey.
For the past nineteen years West
has made his home at 44—A Jewett
Avenue, Jersey City where he has
lived with his wife- The veteran head
waiter made his last run on Tuesday
night and on Wednesday he was hon
ored at a reception given in the of
fice of J. J Finnegan, general super
intendent of the railroad in Jersey
City.
It is claimed for West that at any
and Washington one glance out of
pcirt on the road between New York
and Yrsr.!”r"t n -ne g!ar?e oat of
the window oi Lie cuning oar anu
train was on time- Thirty years of
could tell where they were and if the;
observation into the gustatory habits (
of the great has revealed to the re
tired head waiter aboard the Con
gressional Limited, that princes j
presidents and potentates prefer
roast beef.
“Yes, sir'’ said he seems tike Presi- ]
| dent Harding President Hoover and
j Franklin D- Roosevelt always took
' roast beef when they sort of had their
doubts about the menu. The big bugs
! from abroad used to do the same
thing.”
During the World War, when Her
bert Hoover was Food Administrator,
the Hoovers, West recalled, used to
eat on his car two or three times a
week but President Coolidge, he said,
never appeared in the dining car du
ring all his years m Washington
"Perhaps,” West mused “Cal
brought a box lunch-”
Editorials Hail Fight For
Anti-Lynching Bill
NEW YORK, March White and
colored editors commented on the
hearings before the senate sob-com
. I
mittee on the Costigao Wagner anti
lynching bill, with the Scripps-How
ard newspapers leading off in their
editorial, “The Anti-Lynching Bill."
It declared in part:
“Let the states do it, is the cry of
opponents to the federal anti-lynch
ing bill now under congressional
hearings- The answer is that the
states either cannot or wll not pro
tect citizens from lynch mobs.
“This is not a matter of argument
or opinion- It is a fact—a brutal fact
established by unhindeied lynchings
in every year of our national his
tory."
The Afro-American, of Baltimore,
declares:
“The senate judiciary committee,
hearing testimony in favor of the
Costigan Wagner anti lynching bill
last week got first hand evidence
how state courts break down in the
efforts to bring lynchers to justice.
“There is room all around for con
gratulation that this much has been
done by Senator Costigan and his
committee. We take off our hat to
the NAACP. leaders and their
friends who hatched the idea; and to
William Preston Lane Maryland’s I
courageous attorney-general who did
his duty with no half-heartedness.”
The Woman’s Press, official organ
of the National Board of the Y. W
C- A., says:
“The national public affairs com
mittee (of the Y- W. C. A.) on Feb
ruary 8 voted to support the Costi
gan-Wagner anti lynching bill. The
decision was taken after thorough
preparation. Letters were sent to all
state members of the public affairs
committee . . Of the 37 replies re
ceived from 32 states, many of which
represented board, committee or
group action, 27 were in favor of
supporting federal legislation, 6 were
decidedy against it, and four, while
not wishing to oppose, were inclined
to believe that federal legislation
would not accomplish the purpose
sought • • The 16 letters which came
fi'om those states frequently called
“the southern states”, including
Missouri and Texas, were grouped as
follows: eight for federal legislation;
four against, and four not wishing to
oppose, but inclined to doubt . . ”
MRS. MARY BETHUNE AIDS
FLORIDA WORK OF N. A. A. C- P
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla- March 4
—A recent tour of Florida for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People by
Miss Mary White Ovington of New
York has been aided materially by
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, presi
dent of Bethune-Cookman Institute
here. Mrs- Bethune had Miss Oving
ton as her guest and it was from this
city as a gase that Miss Ovington
carried on much of her worfc in the
state. Miss Ovington is returning to
New York visitng branches of the
association in eastern Georgia and
parts of North Carolina
•FOUR SAINTS’ TO CONTINUE
ON BROADWAY
NEW YORK CITY, March 7— (')}
NS)—The good news that “Four
Saints in Three Acts’’ the Stein
Themson opera announced for a two
weeks engagement at the Forty
fourth Street Theatre, wil continue
there indefinitely comes from its
producer Harry Moses.
Beatrice Robinson Wayne one of
the principal singers in the opera has
made a hit and the response of more
than the sophisticated public which
greeted its appearance, has enabled
the management to prolong the
work’s run
Arrangements are also being made
to take the opera on tour.
JULES BLEDSOE TO SING IN
‘EMPEROR JONES’ ABROAD
NEW YORK CITY, March 4—(C
NS) — Jules Bledsoe is sch eduled to
sing the title role in “The Emperor
Jones when the Louis vEutiioerg
opera based on Eugene O’Neill play
has its European premier soon in
Amsterdam
DENY RELIEF TO AUTOMOBILE
OWNERS WHO USE THEIR CARS
RICHMOND, Va- March 7—(CNS)
—Down in Lancaster County, relief
workers say “No more relief funds
will be given to families who con
tinue to operate their automobiles,
receive any further help must sur
rective any further hep must sur
render their automobile license tags
to relief workers. Persons refusing
to do so will be dropped from the re
lief list
Many recipients of relief funds
who own automobiles are using part
of such funds to purchase gasoline,
oil accessories and other automotive
“luxuries” it is said.
BISHOP RAMSEY OP UNION
A. M. B. CHURCH DEES
PHILADELPHIA, March 4— (CN
S)—Bishop J. E- Ramsey, senior bis
hop of the Union A, M- E- Church
| died here hut week. He was buried
at Camden, New Jersey. He leaves a
wife three daughter* and two eoew
NATIONAL HOUSING DIRECTOR
Washington D- C.
.Attention Mr- J. M. Hamilton:
RESOLimON
Whereas; The Citizen*’ Housing
Committee; of the Mid City has made
a thorough investigation and survey
of the living conditions in the Mid
City District. The District which the
government is contemplating at this
time to put into effect a Housing
plan.
And; Whereas; the Committee has
found the following conditions exist
ing at the present time; in the above
district:
cirst; that there are at least 600
homes in this district occupied by one
to three families in one home: said
homes being unfit and unsanitary for
human-beings to live in
Second; that the people occupying
these socalled homes are paying un
reasonable and excessive rents for
houses that ought to be condemned
and wrecked.
Third; that there are no apart
ments in the city of Omaha to house
this group of people; whose popula
tion is approximately fourteen thou
sand (14000).
And; whereas; the Citizens’ Com
mittee is informed that the govern
ment is interested in improving hous
ing conditions for all people and
particularly of the kind heretofore
mentioned; for the purpose of creat
ing employment for the unemployed;
as well as bettering the living condi*
tions of its citizens.
And; Whereas; this Committee has
discovered as a result of this survey
that the families above mentioned
are living under conditions unbear
able for human beings and these
conditions are causing the spreading
of diseases and undermining the
morals to the deterimental of all the
people in our community; and that
these conditions ought to be remed
ied by the government at this time;
that these people are too poor to own
homes and therefore will not be
helped by the government Housing
Plan; but can be assisted by the fol
lowing recommendation.
THEREFORE; be it resolved by
the Citizens’ Committee of the Mid
City District that the Government
Housing Committee be urged and re
quested that they seriously consider
in the furtherance of their plans that
they aid in whatever manner possible
this committee to construct the build
ing of an apartment; home of at
(96) apartments: each unit taccord
least three (3) units of ninety six
ing to the plans attached and sub
mitted herewith.
Mr- Herman Frielander; chairman
Mr. C- C- Galloway 1st Vice chair
man
Attorney John Adams; secretary
and Legal Adviser.
Mr. Charles Solomon; 2nd Vice
;hairman
Dr. J- B. Lennox; Health and Sani
ation chairman.
HOME BURNS
The home of Rev. F. C. Williams;
2513 North 30th Street was partly
burned last week destroying most of
the upstairs and practically all of
their clothing. The Tire was caused
by defective wiring
BULLETIN!
An afternoon meeting for Mr.
Crosswaith of New York City has
been arranged at the Mid City Com
munity Center 2213 Lake Street; at
3 p. m. Frank Crosswaith'* subject
will be “THE NEGRO AT THE
CROSSROADS.” Everyone is wel
come- Bring your friends!