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GUIDE I OMAHA The eye of a Master will ^ w i i_ w i i ' I I ' ^ do more work than his * .!!•“ ever hand. __ ——_ Glorious who was not ==”===— March of Events j City, ana Nat’l Lite L*bor°118’’ • __ m ___ >MAHA NEBRASKA, SATURDAY APRIL 8 1934 _ Pa^6 TH E OMAHA GUiDE PnKliahfw) Fverv Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street by ^THE MfAHA GUIDE' PUBL. CO, UW*** All News Cepy must be in our office not later than Monday at 5 p. m.,and all Advertising Copy, or Paid Article*, not later than Wednesday at Noon. Fntjrred as Second class mail matter, March 15, 192. 5!ti£p“t offke at Omaha, Nebraska, under the act of Congress of March 8, 1879. SUSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly m Advance) One Years ..$2.00 Six Months.... $1> Three Months. . _$l-00 . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION The Omaha Gwde is issued weekly and will be sent to any pant of theUm \ed SUtes for $2.00 per year in advance. Foreign jubscriptions (including postage) $3 00 m advan^ Trial six months’ subscriptions $1.25. 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There is nothing to be gained now by pointing out to the Illinois Congressman the error he made in not forcing a decision on the issue the day he introduced his resolution to Congress. He pernfitted himself to be persuaded by Speaker Henry T Rainey of Congress who comes from Illinois not to raise ruction and demand redress for the.: insult offered his office, his people and himself in the House of Representatives restaurant He let Ramey per suade him to introduce instead a request resolution. The Democratic Congress voted down that resolution on a strict party vote at the stipulated expiration of thirty days DePriest now seeks another devious route in his effort to get the hundred and forty-five Congressmen’s signatures to a petition for the consideration of the race outrage on the floor of Congress. In the event that he fails to get the signatures of one hundred and forty-five Congress men he wll fail again in not having the issue considered on its merits. His office will still be barred from the rights of the restaurant and his race will remain under the I .infamy of the insult offered its representative. We measure our words in now advising Congressman DePriest. He did not listen to us before. Let him listen to us now and get results. He called us ignorant or vicious then. He now realizes that we were wise and sincere. # Congressman DePriest! Send your office secretaries back again into the House Restaurant. The manager, un der orders of Congressman Warren of North Carolina, whose committe runs the restaurant will again bar your secrtaries. Rise up forthwith on the floor of Congress. Demand redress on a ‘high question of personal privilege. Speaker Rainey will probably listen to the tar-heel chair man and the ancient evil spirit of his party and rule you out of order. He will doubtless declare that you have no question of ‘personal prvilege’ at issue You then appeal from the decision of the chair and cite the countless prece dents in Congress and in law to sustain your position. If you can not find thm, we will furnish them. The chairman must then step adise to have your question decided by the House. If the House sustains you, you and yours have won glooriousty. If the House refuses to sustain you, you have gone down to defeat gloriously. You will get your decision, your people will know whether or not theyhave equal rights in the capitol building of the country. Thata decision in itself will be a great moral victory because it will lead on to a greater popular victory. The American people wiU not stand for such brutal bigotry in the capitol of their country. This is your prime duty, Mr. Congressman. ANTI LYNCH LAW HELD CONSTITUTIONAL BY CHARLES TUTTLE Brief Declares Lynching No Longer Matter of Local or State Concern and Cites Legal Csees Sup porting Right of Federal Government to Act.. "Washington, D. C. March 30—A comprehensive 28-page rief setting forth the constitutionality of the Costigan-Wagner federal anti-lynch ing ill was filed last week with the Senate sub-committee on the judici ary by Charles H- Tuttle, former U. S. district attorney for New York. The brief declares that lynching has become a national menace and ed men last year “have been eloquent ed men last year “have been eloyuent proof that. this form of primitive savagery is not on the decline, and that both in its manifestation and its consequence it is not only of gra've concern to the. individual states, but -an imminent peril to the nation as a whole.” nation should defend self The introductions of the legal argu ment continues: “Hie time, therefore, has come when the nation, should defend itself against this national evil which has assumed colossal proportions. What ever our views of state rights may be, we must recognize that, under present day conditions, in the solu tion of national questions state boun daries are becming less distinct. More and more the national resources are called upon for the making of local imprvovements within the sev eral states and for the relief of their population from economis and physi cal distress.. Hardly, then, does it seem fitting that where the national government is, on the solicitation of state and local communities, making ever increasing investment among! them, they should deny to the na tional government an interest and voice in preventing in their own midst recurrances of mob * insurrec tion which destroy the security of the national investment and which undermine the strength of the na tional credit and of the national in stitutions . No Constitutional Bar “Surely nothing in our national Constitution prevents our national government from undertaking such an act of self preservation and from protecting itself against the conse quences of the break down of due process of law through state inac tion or ineffectiveness, and of whole sale discrimination in th* woteetion of the laws through the tyrannies of mob rule. ‘“The power thus to protect the nation against internal national dang ers of this character were expressly confered upon Congress by the United States Constitution,’* The brief then cites many decisions of the United States supreme court in support of constitutionality of the Costigan-Wagner bill. It closes with a citation of the opinion of the su preme court in Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U. S.. 371, (p.396): “We hold it to be an incontrover tible principle, that the government of the United States may, through its official agents, execute oft every foot of American soil the powers and functions that belong to it.” Letters to Committee Urged The national office of the N. A. A.' C. P- has sent a Copy of the brief to every member of the Senate judiciary committee urging prompt and favorable report of the bill out to the floor of the senate. All bran ches of the N. A. A.. C. P. and all '-rganizritions and individuals sup porting the federal anti-lynching law -re urged to write members of the judiciary committee asking them to vote the bill our favorably and to support it on the floor Their address is Senate Office Building, Washing ton, D. C- The members of the com mittee are: Senators Henry F. Ash hurst, Arizona, chairman; William H. King, Utah; Hubert D. Stephens; Mississippi; Clarence C. Dill, Wash ington; Huey P . Long, Louisiana; Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana; «,Pat McCarran, Nevada; M. H. Logan, Kentucky; William H. Dieterich, Il linois; Wiliam E. Borah, Idaho; Geo rge W. Norris, Neraska; Arthur R. Roinson, Indiana; Daniel 0. Hast ings, Delaware Felix Herert, Rhode Island Thomas D- Schall, Minnesota, and Warren R. Austin, Vermont PAYING THE WAY FOR CRIME The growing volume of resistance t the stringent anti-gun law now pending in Congress is encouraging to those who still believe in consti tutional guarantees. The proposed law would make ownership of small arms virtually im possible for the honest citizen. And like similar state laws, it would thus favor the criminal, who violates all laws. It would assure him that his victims were unprotected. Violence, robbery and other crimes would be made immeasurably easier and safer. Hundreds of newspapers, maga zines, and a legion of well known citi zens, are against the law. It is to be hoped that it never passes out of its present embryo stage. POLITICAL NOTE A few months ago “everybody” was forecasting that this congress would be as rubber-stamp as the last —that the President would have no trouble in runing the show “Every body” was wrong. The St. Lawren ce Waterwar Treaty is near to the heart of the administration—and the Senate turned it down. And house and senate have refused presidential decrees opposing the soldier’s bonus and restoration of federel workers’ pay—cuts—both are contained in the Independent Offices Bill. Much of the opposition to the President comes from within his own party, and whipsnapping by Demo cratic floor leaders is losing some of its effectiviness. Result will doubt less be strong pressure to jam most important administration bills—es pecially those containing appropria tions necessary to the continuance of present recovery plans—through con gress, and get an early adjournment THE PRIVILEGE SEEKER_ In the opinion of the Los Angeles Times, few if any, of the municipal eleetic systems of the country will sign the NRA code of fair practices for the power industry that is now passing through official channels in Washington. Why won’t they sign? Because if they do, they will be required to have the same kind of book-keeping as private utility corporations, which would mean a record of their efficien cy and rates to compare with those of private management. Anyone not familiar with the practices prevailing in municipal electric plants will regard that as. rather a strange eason. But the aveage municipal estalishment has laid considerale importance on its be ing exempt from taxes and business methods which the law, through state comini'sions, forces on the private interests they compete with. The Los Angeles Times for example says that a fa;r statement of the activities of the local power ureau would show that rom its inception it has lean ed heavily for support both upon the taxpayers of the city a d upon the water consumers, that the fanners pay a good share of its bills, that its claimed “surplus” is ficti tious, and that its waste of money has been enormous.” If that is true of municipal busi ness establishments they deal in power, water, or anything else—the tax paying public should know it. The fact that many municipal owner ship advocates are fighting the pow er code, because of its book-keeping provisions, shows bow imperative they believe it to be that the facta be disguished. WEALTH TAKES A HOLIDAY “The American peoeple have never felt the lash of the tax collector,” says a well-known writer on econom ics- “The treasury has only recent ly indicated that it will make a door to door canvass. It must have i taxes. Suppose the people who be lieve the wealthy aren’t paying their taxes should say, ’Get it from the rich. Soak them!’ The tax collector brings forth statistics to prove that there aren’t any rich any more. .. ” In 1928, according to income tax returns, there were 43,000 persons with incomes of $50,000 a year. In I 1932 there were less than 8,000—and later statistics will probably show a further drop. Wealth has literally taken a holiday. The result is that i the old policy of piling increasingly ; heavy tax bumeds on persons with large incomes is no longer productive <J: substantial revenue. The incomes simply don’t exist. What must inevitably happen, if government expense continues to rise, is heavier taxation on small and moderate incomes—on the day labor er, the salary worker, the owner of a small business and a modest amount ^ of property. Government will have to take more and more of his income and earnings to carry on the func tions with which it has been loaded. Higher income and property taxes on the businesses providing food, clothing, power, gasoline and other necessities and luxuries, mean high er prices which are passed on to con sumers. Exhorbitant taxes mean fewer jobs, fewer opportunities, hard times— less money to spend for the things that give employment, a constant threat to recovery. Interstate Commerce Com mission shows Prosperity Salaries for Pullman Com pany Officials Despite De nression and Pauper Pay for Porters. PRESIDENT OF PULLMAN COM PANY GETS SALARY CHECK OF $51,821 WHILE PORTERS PAY DAY OF .29 CENTS NEW YORK CITY, April 2—Pull man officials, according to study of high salaries of Utility Executives for 1933, made public by the Inter state Commerce Committee, Feb ruary 19, 1934, do not need any TIPS from the long suffering public, such as the Pauperized porters and maids, says A. Philip Randolph, National President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, at the head quarters of the Union 207 West 140th Street, New York City. The report states that the Presid ent of the Pullman Company, D. A. Crawford, received in 1933 the salary of $51,300, exclusive of $250 of other compensation from the same source, for whgt service is not indicated. This pay, too, was the salary follow ing the cut in 1932. But the Pullman Porters’ wages were reduced by $5.00, which brought their pay down from $77.50 in 1932 to $72-50, out of which $33 62, according to a study of wages and working conditions by the Labor Bureau, Inc., of New York City, was paid out by the porters occupational expense. The expense includes meals on train in transit, shoe polish equip ment for shining passengers’ shoes, two uniforms a year, lodging at the termini, and two Insurance Policies, one, with the Prudential Insurance Company of America and the Pull man Porters Benefit Association of America, States Mr. Randolph Two sharp contrasting extremes of pay of Pullman officials and Port er exist. Thousands of porters through the country receive pay checks ranging down to as low as -29 cents, for two weeks work, observed Randolph. Thus while the porters are working at the rate of $7-.50 a mon .,h, there is no definite mininum j wage for them, since thousands of porters are on the extra board who do not make enough to keep body and soul together, since tips during the depression, according to porters from coast to coast, have dropped over 75 • r cent, continued porters’ Leader, Mr. Randolph A stuiy of Pullmen tlal-ies of of f'cials roves’, the following facts: First V:c? - b <*-.• - bor c mpmsation. , $36 75 to Vice President and General Manager: $17, 300 to another Vice President: $20, 820 to a Vice President and Assistant to the President; $15,675 to st^ll an other Vice President; $14,825 to a General Solicitor; $13,125 to a Gen eral Attorney; $15,675 to a Controll er and $16,250 to another Vice Presi dent But a porter must be a veritable “Philadelphia Lawyer” to ever figure out the starvation wages he is sup posed to receive on the complies tec time sheet* which places porters or three different time bases, namely, day, mileage and hourage, said the porters’ Union Chief, Randolph- Pull man President, continued the head of the 'Sleeping Car Porters’ movement, receives in one days pay in salary, $15.30 more than a porter receives in wages for three months work at the rate of $72-50, if, per chaaoe the average porter is lucky enough m make a full month- The Brotherhood is demanding a minimum wage of $140 per month, free shoe polish and equipment, free meals on the train while' in transit and free uniforms, which, though, is much more than the present meagre wage of the porters, is still vastly inadequate as a conse quence of the reduced purchasing power of the dollar ased upon the de valuation of its gold content and the steady rise in the cost of living, ob served Mr. Randolph. Columbian Educational As sociation Washington, D- C CLEVELAND, OHIO AT THE CON VENTION OF THE DEPART MENT OF SUPERINTEND ENCE FEBRUARY 28, 1934 The Executive Committee, Department of Superintendence, National Educational Association. Greeting: On behalf of the Columbian Educa tional Association composed of offi cers and teachers of Divisions 19-13 of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia we beg the high privi lege and honor of the moral support of your committee in the furtherance of our project in Character-Training and Good-Citiaenship-Training- The project consists of arranging for the children in our schools voluntarily to contribute one cent each toward im proving and beautifying the grounds of the Memorial Home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D- C This home has been made a perm anent shrine, and is held in trust by the Douglass Memorial Association. The house is on a high hill and is in an excellent state of preservation- It is well kept by a paid caretaker and contains numerous relics of historical interest- The National Education As sociation very graciously included a trip to the Douglass Memorial Home in their program of pilgrimages dur ing their convention in 1924. And we hope they will see fit to include it in their program next summer. However, the grounds surrounding the house, which cover about two city blocks on account of insufficient funds, are sadly in need of replace ment. And we feel that nothing could furnish a better lesson in civic duty and in economic self-help than for the children in our schools to contri bute one cent each toward renovating and beautifying these grounds- The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools endorsed the sugges tion by a resolution in their annual convention in Louisville last summer. We are inspired in this project by the worthy example of the children of Cleveland who presented to the City of Cleveland the magnificent statue of Lincoln, which stands in front of the Board of Education Building. We are inspired also by the precedents of Wakefield, the birth place of George Washington; Mooti cello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, and the U- S- Battleship Constitution. We ask that your honorable com mittee lend its moral support to the extent of writing a brief letter to these Superintendents having colored children in their schools notifying them of this project, in the hope that they might see fit to notify their teachers. The plan is a very simple one- The subscriptions by the children must be purely voluntary- They must be limited to one flay only, namely, Tu esday, April S, 1934. The*' must be restricted to only one cent from each child. And the amount collected must be sent on the following day, April 4. 1934 (preferably by check or mon ey order) to Mr- W. W. Sanders, Ex ecutive-Secretai y of the National Associatio n of Teochers in Colored Schools Headquarte s in ti e Henry Wilson School, Washington, D. C This should be accompanied by the name of the head of the schoo1 (col lege, institution or public school); the name of the class teacher, and the names of the students contributing one cent each- These will bo bound and placed in the Douglass Home. We feel that' the life of Douglass from slavery to an undisputed place in Am - an history will furnish an incent vc to children to perse* ro and • overcome many of the handicaps which are brought on by the depres sion. We fed that your moral support will help greatly in the success of this project for its educational value. , Yours very truly, (Signed) M- GRANT LUCAS , President, Columbian Educational Association. 1738—15th Street, N W., Washington, D. C The Board of Education of the Dis trict of Columbia upon recommenda tion of Superintendent Frank W Ballou and First Assistant Garnet C. Wilkinson voted unanimously to per mit the collection in the schools of Divisions 10-13, all the officers «nH principals of the Divisions having endorsed the project. Guide Platform Local Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood ot God and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles Which will stand the acid test of good citizensidp in time of peace, war and death. - (1) We must have our pro-rata of employment in businesses to which we give our patronage, such as groc ery stores, laundries, furniture stores, department stores and coal companies, in fact every concern which we sup port. We must give our citizens the chance to live res pectably. We are tired of educating our children and permitting them to remain economic slaves and enter in to lives of shame. (2) Our pro-rata of employment for the patronage to our public corporations such as railroad companies, the street car company, the Nebraska Power Company, the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and other establishments which we are forced to support by right of franchise. Also our pro-rata of employment in re turn for the taxes we pay in our city, county state and federal government. (3) lo encourage the establishment of a first class hospital that we may get the best that there is in medical science from our doctors whom we know to be nearest us, also to encourage a high respect of them and encourage (5) A one hundred per cent membership in the Om aha branch of the NAACP. should be had to encourage the efforts put forth by the founders of the organization and to assist the general office to establish a five million dollar endowment fund to maintain operating expenses and to further the principles of the NAA#P. All peo ple of all races must be educated up to a higher principle and a more thorough understanding of interracial rela tionship tjiat our country may in reality be a government of the people, for the people and by the people in whole and not in part. (6) The re-establishment of the Christian Religion as Christ taught it, for the uplifting of mankind, elimin ating financial and personal gam. A practical Christian Religion, week day as well as Sunday. An attitude to ward our fellowman as a brother in order to establish a principle which will guide the destiny of each other’s children; our neighbor’s children today are our children tomorrow. (7) Courteous treatment m all places of business and the enforcement of the State Civil Right Law. (8) To encourage and assist in the establishment of the following financial institutions near 24th and Lake Streets: A building and loan association, a state bank, and, also, a first-class trust company for the purpose of more of our girls to take nurse training, administering add and assistanee to our widows and children. (9) To encourage the erection of a one hundred thousand dollar Young Men’s Christian Association Building near 24th and Lake Streets. (19) To enlarge the Young Women’s Christian As sociation that it may supply sufficient dormitory accom modations. (11) To teach our citizens to live economically with in their earning capacity by printing in each issue a bud get system for various salaries. (12) To make Omaha a better city in which to live by inaugurating a more cosmopolitan spirit among our American citizens. National (1) Fight for a passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill and tints stop the shamful lynching of American citizens. (2) One of oar citizens in the president’s cabinet (3) Federal control of the educational system that every child must have a high school education. (4) Assist fat the furtherance of research by oar scientists and historians to prove that civilization was first founded in Africa. _ . , (5) Establish a political influence which will bring > about our pro-rata of higher appointments made by our chief executives. (6) Stop graft in polities by passing a Federal Law making election day a legal holiday and compelling every Amerku citizen « voting age to vote. (7) Prevent further wan by teaching the so-called themselves about white supremacy with only three-tenths of the world’s population. They most be taught that color is due to climatic conditions. They must be taught that seven-tenths of the world’s population is made up of darker races. They must be taught that the rays of sun that blaze upon the equator and turn the skin brown do not affect the power of the brain any more than the cold ness of icy glaciers affect the brain of the white race; and that the darker races will not continue to be crushed by a money mad few. If the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man are not welded into the hearts of this world’s family now, by teaching the principles laid down by our Saviour, it will be welded into the hearts of our children some day soon, on the bloodiest battlefields this world has ever known. (8) Cut down congressional representation from the Southern States in proportion to the number of votes The OMAHA GUIDE will put forth its best efforts to bring about the above 22 points with the assistance of those who believe it is for the best interest of good Amer ican citizenship.