The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, May 09, 1934, Page SIX, Image 6
The eye of a Master will ^ U I D t M TUT O M H >\ . do more work than his I I II I “No Man was ever hand.- I I LM I _ ______ Glorious who was not ——— March ot~ Events^ I ■ ■ J M Ctt^r^N^tTutT L,borous’’ ... ~ .. ■ ■ _ - _1 ™ — - page SIX OMAHA NEBRASKA MAY 9, 1934 ” ' -------- TH E OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street by THE OMAHA GUIDE PUBL. CO., Incorporated All News Copy must be in our office not later than Monday at 5 p. m.,and all Advertising Copy, or Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday at Noon. Entered as Second class mail matter, March 15, 192'. at the Post office at Omaha, Nebraska, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly in Advance) One vears . .$2.00 Six Months . $1.2b Three Months . $1.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION—The Omaha Guide is issued weekly and will be sent to any pant of the Uni te u States for $2.00 per year in advance. Foreign subscriptions (including postage) $3.00 in advance. 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Incorporated, 2418.20 Grant St., Omaha, Nebr. _ jj n _._jMEMBtR| ” • '■»--> sp) -> tr7oTm< ir C rZ^S This paper is represented for renera) ^ [i ~y^f| advertising by the Nebraska Press Association. v I EDITORIAL OSCAR DePRIEST THE LAST MOHICAN ’ C°ngresSm Oscar DePriest got scant applause Sunday .... , aat week at bis patriotic musical in the House office building when he paid a tribute to the lowalfv if colored people to the government in timeVo? p^and +,.. " °t ?nn- ^ing, that is a peroration now worn f-iirlv hin. Intelligent people are beginning to realLe that then* is something wrong with the head so willing to lick the boot that is kicking it. wmmg to TvleMPterS,,Wr “P°? ^at, audience was William „ ' ‘ uhite, ancient clerk and jobholder in the House, u ho first insulted his audience by telling it he had a black mammy and then insulted Mr. DePriest his host hi elected to Congress C°1°re'1 man who wili last ofthe MoWcans!^ ““ "'aS that ^ DePriest is the tMr,Hk(tf(e““ny-br®!' many white People do not irm chat k is a special mark of distinction to have had a black a mammy, or in good taste to brag about it heed of a wet nurse indicates that the mother was unable to function normally and had to call for help. To many a baby a cow’ or a goat is a wetnurse. No body can say this makes us more tender toward a cow7 than toward a goat. Long experience.with the fellows who talk loudest about their black mammies has taught the AFRO to watch them carefully. Mr. Page and many of his neighbors born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland had black mammies. They also lynched tw7o colored men within a year. —Afro-American. x YES-YOU’LL PAY. 1^ ro^nt eclltoi'ial on excessive taxation, the Philadel phia Dispatch said: “If the rich are made to pay, the rich will find a way to pass the burden down the line, so that m the end every penny of these burdensome taxes wi!l be paid by the average man. He may not realize that he is paying it, because it won’t reach him in the form of a direct tax. But he will pay it just the same just as he always paid it, and always will. He’ll pay it in increased i ent, in a surcharge on everything he eats or wears or uses. He’ll pay it in reduced wages. He’ll feel it for many a decade to come.” That old fallacy of taxing the rich to help the poor was never more dangerous to the public welfare than it is now’. We, as a people, have watched cities and states and the federal government appropriate and spend mil lions and we ve sat by and said nothing, thinking that none of it would cornel out of our pockets and that some of it might go in. We’ve been conscious of waste, of ex travagence, of graft, of duplication of effort. We have thought that wealthy individuals or great corporations were paving the necessary taxes. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough wealthy indivi duals or big corporations to pay thei cost of government. Thev can’t meet even a small percentage of it. Over-taxing individuals w-ealth simply drives it into tax free bonds and takes it out of productive enterprise wdiere it wmuld' provide iobs. pavrolls, purchasing powder: And when wTe overtax business, we simply increase the cost of every thing we use. Business has no magic means of creating money. Evervthing that adds to the cost of a comoditv or a service, including taxes, must be pasred on to the customer purchasing it. Yes, the average man paftrs the bulk of the cost of all units of government. He bears the burden of wraste and inefficiency. And he is the one wTho, by united action can cure an intolerable condition that means recovery. -3L RECKLESS WALKERS. A RE you a safe walker? If you can’t make and honest ** answTer in the affirmative your life and health isj literally in peril. Last year automobile—pedestrian collions accounted i for 37 per cent of the 756,000 accidents W’hich occured on! the streets and highways of this country. Deaths result ing from accidents comprised 45 per cent of the total of 29,500 fatalities. In other words, pedestrians were in volved in more than a third of aU traffic misadventures and the chance of fatality was greater than in other types of accidents. Pedestrians crossing in the middle of the block proved the most hazardous—that caused 31 per cent of ti.e fatalities. Careless walking on highways was re sponsible for 17 per cent. Childrefn playing in the street came to 13 per cent. Walking out from behind parked cars into traffic accounted for 11 per cent, with the balance of 28 per cent laid to miscellaneous causes. The careless pedestrian is a menace just as is the careless driver—but he receives less attention. Crossing against signals—playing hide and seek with parked cars—walking along rural roads with his back to oncom ing traffic—these are some of the surest means of court ing death. Think over your walking habits—and correct them. A NEED—AN OPPORTUNITY T'HE greatest potential business development in this: country today is that of building, equipping and fur nishing better homes, according to the American Builder. Recent official surveys show that millions of Americans live in homes without plumbing of any kind—without kitchen sinks, running water, indoor toilets or bathtubs. Rural homes are particularly bad in this respect—lack of modern conveniences and coforts is the rule in manv sections, rathelr than the exception. And more than half of the entire population of the nation lives in houses that do not meet the accepted requiremesns for a decent level of living. Here is a great need—and a great opportunity. It’s not only an opportunity for raising the standards of hous ing, but for providing jobs and payrolls, for stimulating a thousand industries, for putting money into circulation. America needs homes—and she needs the jobs and investment opportunities that home construction and modernization will provide. When the boom starts, costs are going to-rise—and rise fast. Supplies and materials and skilled labor will, as compared with pre sent levels, be at ia premium. The wise property owner, by building and repairing now, can spur recovery—and, at the same time, obtain a genuine bargain for himself. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES The Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill is now be fore you for consideration in the Senate and the Ford Bill, which is identical, is before1 the House of Represen tatives. We the undersigned writers, publicists and editors of the United States, take this means of urging immedi ate passage of thir legislation, which has been declared constitutional bv Charles H. Tuttle, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other eminent lawyers whose opinions are a part of the official record. Far too long has America been held up to shame and ridicule throughout the world because of the unres trained activities of lawless mobs which have lynched and even burned human beJings at the stake. Among the victims have been white and 94 of them have been women. The argument that the majority of lynchings are in punishment of rape has long since been exploded by im partial examination of the facts, which reveals that less than one-sixth of these victims have been accused of sex offenses. No part of our country has been immune to this. crime and the evil is spreading with alarming rapidity. State governents have clearly and unmistakab ly manifested their unwillingness or their inability to prevent lynchings or punish lynchers. A solem obligation therefore rests upon the federal government speedily to enact this legislation into law. UNNEEDED HORSEPOWER Writing in Public Utilities Fortnightly, Herbert Cor ey recently said: “The Columbia Basin (hydro-electric) project is a plan to double the present supply of power in a territory which is now using only one-third of the theoretically available supply.” The question that brings up is: How will the govern ment create a market for this surplus power it is to create? The on}y answer is: By using its innate advan tage of taxfreedom, plus subsidization from the public treasury, to undersell both heavily taxed, privately plants —and small municipal plants serving the same area. It’s an amusing fact that a group of municipal utili ties in the Pacific Northwest have joined in a protest against threatened federal competition. They too are tax free—but they can’t offer competing rates. And the private utilities, representing the savings of thous ands of investors, are in a still worse predicament. As a result, the Columbia River project—like vari ous other projects of the sort, distributed about the coun try will create hundreds of thousands of horse power of unneeded electri—c energy. It will deprive counties and states and towns and the federal government itself of millions in taxes paid by private plants. It will menace investments, and throw men out of work. It will, in case of an operating deficit abcorb more tax money. And the public, which has more power than it can use, now will foot the bill. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. " ~N average of $10,956,164 a day was distributed by life insurance companies in the United States in 1933, accord ink to statements of Arthur F. Hall, president of the Lincoln National Life Insurance company. “Life insurance companies paid out more than $40,000 000,000 last yesar in death claims, loans on policies and other payments to policyholders,” said Mr. Hall. This is probably twice as much as will be paid out by our gov ernment in 1934 in federal relief.” Mr. Hall pointed out that diuring the past four years life insurance companies have put into circulation in the United States more than $17,000,000,000. This included more than $13,500,000,000 SfirAnnnInnn1S- ai?d ******** to living policyholders; and p,6o0,000,000 in loans to the United States government to corporations and to property owners. “The ability of life insurance companies to hold the confidence of the investing public is due to the fact that life insurance has kept its promises. Those who sought safety found it in life insurance and will continue to do so “Only three cents of each dollar of the income of the people of the United States it put into life insurance. The fac that 87 cents of every dollar left at death is derived trom life insurance proves beyond question that life in surance is the surest and safest way of providing sup port for one’s own old age, as thousands of annuity own ers testify today. FARMER COMING OUT OF THE RED. JHERE is good news for the farmer in a late Depart ment of Agriculture report. The farm. price index on March 15, was at 76 as compared with 50 a year ago (The 1909 to 1914 average equals 100). g In addition, the index of prices that farmers pay for the things they buy was 120, as compared with 100 a year earlier. In other words, the price he pays has risen but -0 per cent, leaving him a substantial advantage. A gi eat deal of the credit for that must go to the farm cooperatives. They have put in what is possibly the hardest working, most aggressive year in their history, they have brought home to their members the necessity ol crop curtailment. They have steadied markets, and held up price levels in the face of strong adverse condi tions. They have had a commanding voice in agricultural commodities. Those are definite achievements. And during the present year, the co-ops are carrying on their campaign tor better, and more prosperous farming with unabated energy and vigor. The outlook is better than at any time since 1928. The attitude of the average farmer toward his cooperative is more understanding—and more en lightened. “Until private industry is made profitable and at tractive, and the rewards of success art' made available to business men, there can be no full recovery from the depression. ’—David I. Walsh, United States Senator irom Massachusetts. COL. E. HOFER The death of Colonel Hofer on March 18th signed “30’' to one of the most dramatic and colorful careers in Oregon newspaper history. He was a leading figure in state, civic and development enterprise in Oregon for 45 years. It can be said of Colonel Hofer that he would be the first to smile, perhaps a little disdainfully, at a formal eulogy. To those who came in contact with him his occasional eccentric moods were as endearing as his most serene ones. You were aware always, even when he had pas sed 75 of his amazing vitality—and, much more important still, of his youthful viewpoint- You were aware of his hatred of hypocrisy and of sham—things which were no part of him- You were aware of a direct, a brilliant forcefulness, that found out let in crisp phrases, in turgid epi grams, that you would not forget Preeminently, Colonel Hofer repre sented a disappearing figure—a newspaper man of the old school. He surrounded himself with the things he loved—family, friends, garden*, pictures, books- He was always proud of the fact that he was a “country publisher.” He was no wor shiper of money. In people he loved genuineness and loyalty—thetr po sitions of prominence were secondary to him- He would have felt highly honored to know that the Negro bootblack who shined his shoes for years, attended his funeral- There can be no finer, no more accurate characterization of him than that The Colonel did not acquire his out standing qualities by chance- He came from a line of bordears who fought and died for personal liberty. He was without fear and without malice—and he never scorned a good fight when the cause, in his opinion, was justified. He stood un flinchingly for what he believed to be right, but he was without false pride which makes a Iman hold a po sition when events have shown him that he was in the wrong. He had a hatred for crooked politics and sharp practices He was opposed to pater nalism in government and top-heavy officialism which crushes individual ism- He conducted, through the me dium of the printed page, aggressive disagreements of opinion with other editors—and it is a testimonial to his character that some of those with whom he differed most vehemently were, at the end of his life, his de voted friends Colonel Hofer was bom in Clear mont, Iawa, ia 1855- He entered the newspaper business with his father on the McGregor News, McGregor, Iowa. He moved to Oregon in 1889 and with his brother, the late A- F Hofer, acquired ownership of the Daily Capital Journal, Salem Oregon THE MAGIC KEY In commenting on problems faced by agriculture, particularly those concerning international exchange of farm products-C-O. Moser, vice president of the American Cotton Cooperative Association said that cooperation is the magic key to suc oess—“cooperation n production, co operation in moving products into market, and cooperation in regula ting their exchange value-” Th best proof of that lies in the ex perietnce of the immediate past- It is not an exaggeration to say that agricultural, a year or two ago, was faced with complete choas- Narkets were disorganized and prices had fall en far below the cost of producton There were tremendous surpluses of almost every agricultural commodity —and moe were constantly being prod uced- At that time the cooperative* started a determined and aggressive campaign to cause farmers to pull to gether for the common good, and to urge the passage of essential legis lation. That campaign was a success. Pri ces are low—but they are risng, and are substantially better than they would have been had the coopera tives not existed. Markets are be coming stabilized- And the work of the cooperatives finds its reflection in federal legislation designed to carry the farmer through the pre sent peiod of stress. The coopeative movement is the farmer’s insurance for the future It deserves the support of every citi zen in bringing and keeping good times — FIREMAN SELLERS SAVES WOMAN CLING TO WINDOW SHUTTER Washington—fCNS)—Trapped on the fourth floor of a burning apart ment house on tenth street. Miss Jesse Harris, 27, climbed through a window and clung to a shutter by her finger tips until a fireman raised a ladder and carried her to safety. Miss Harris, who was clad only in pajamas, lost her grip as Fireman C. C- Sellers, white, reached for her from the top rung of the ladder and dropped nto hs arms. The fireman, although severely jolted, held onto her and carried her to the ground. Meanwhile Mrs. Mary Clark. 60. had been assisted from the second floor of the four-story building by other firemen, who reported she was nearly overcome by smoke. USING YOUR MONEY T0 CREATE UNEMPLOY MENT What would you think of a program to spend hundreds of millions of dol lars of taxpayers’ money to produce something of which the nation already has surplus, and throw thousands o men out of work ? You would oppose it- If the opinion of Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island, is correct, that is precisely what taxx free, federally-financed hydro-electric projects'are doing It is assumed by the senators that hydro-electric projects undertaken by the government will displace 53.000, 000,000 kilowat hours of electric en ergy now generated by fuel plants which use 40,000,000 tons of coal annually. A miner, on the average produces 1,000 tons of coal a year. As a result, unnecessary government power development would be respon sible for throwing 40,004 miners out of work—in addition to oorailroad and other workers whose jobs, dir ectly or indirectly, depend on steam electric plants. There might be some excuse for this if there was a power shortage. But private electric systems are now capable of producing 26 per cent more energy than the nation uses They are adequately prepared to meet any prospective demand. They sell electhclty at very low rates—and they contribute tremendous sums to government in taxes- The political power program, menacing as it does a legion of jobs and billions of dollars worth of nvestiment-s, is a genuine threat to sound recovery. PRIEST ADMONISHES PARENTS TO FORGET MYTH ABOUT STORK Cleveland, O.—An admonitio to parents to drop the stork myth in explaining birth to the child comes* from Rev. Felix Kirsh of Catholic university, a speaker at the confer ence on family life. It is better to give the child in struction in sex matters a year too soon than too late, he declared before a thousand parents and educators attending the Conference Parents have placed the responsibil ity for sex education, which he said rests entirely with them, too much in the hands of pastors and school teach ers, the priest asserted. The younger the child the less emr harassment there will be for both parents and the child he added, when the time comes for a clear explana tion. BLOCKING FTtttrf. depressions The American people, consiously or not. are busv erecting a mightv ec onomic harrier against the possiblity of future depressions. They are doing that bv buying h'fe insurance—and more life insur ance. The trend of sales has been steadily upward for a number of months. Men are finding job- Many families are enjoying regular and de incomes for the first time in year*. And life insurance, through one or another of the many policies it writes, is able to guard against almost any human exigncy. It protects one’s family’s and dependents—and it like wise protects oneself against one of the greatest of all human tragedies, a proverty-stricken old age- It re builds depleted estates—or creates new ones- It assures an education for one’s children—and it covers loss in case of business reverses Life insurance is the friend of good times. It is the unreuenting enemy of depressions. During the five try ing years that have passer it has car ried thousands of families through ec onomic storms, and kept them from want and distress- And, with more citizens showing greater realizaton of its possibilities, it will do a still finer work in the future to assure financial independence NEGRO CORRESPOND ENTS POURING THOU SANDS OF COMPLAINT INTO WASHINGTON Washington —(CNS) —Complaints by the thousands are pouring into the Departments here in relation to the working of the AAA, NRA, FERA, as they relate to Negroes throughout the country. The White House alone is in receipt daily of several hundred “complaint letters from Negroes” ad dressed to the President and Mrs Roosevelt Clark Foreman’s recent newspaper article “Negro Seen As Gainer in the Recovery Deal” seems to have stir red up many to state just how they have been left out of the new deal picture.