ji i y] * j_ " ^'*** * * " » - __ * * - Per Copy HEW TO THE UNE\ _ VOLUME VIII_ THE OMAHA GUIDE OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934 NUMBER 27 •_ _ -- -r—:--- --- — — -— ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Paii.» . ! vblend Checks and Tax Bills of every Individual. National And Interna tionl Problems Ir. sepera le from Local Welfare. The great drive for November votes la begin ing—both major parties are throwing themselves into the job of 4getting them wih more than hey have shown ft>! many years. The Republicans, who have been dor man for the last year and a half, are emerging, efinite, reasoned oppo sition to the RoiK-evelt program is s .prlnging up. In a recent magazine Article Senator Dickinson, who propos ed Herbert Hoover at the convention •which nominted him, made these defi nite criticisms of the present admini stration: That the Democraic party has been leading _us owrd a dictator ship: that its rale of expenditure of public funds, if continued, will result ia national bankruptcy; that it Is de stroying individualism and private Ini tiative; : bat a return to Republican prnciples is essential to the preserva tion of the constitutional government traditions. Mr. Dickinson's points are generally in complete accord with those of chairman Fletcher of the Republic an Central Committee The Democratic party Is not taking criticism "lying down." The Demoortic party is not taking criticism “lying down." For example: Recently only two cabinet officeds— Hull of the State Department and Perkins of the Labor Department— were in Washington. The rest of them were alx>ut the country, making speeches and looking thngs over. Less Important officials, such as the aub •abinet meml>ers. were likewise in far places, and it would have been hard to find state not visited by some Ad ministration official. Gist of the talks made by these men is that* the New Deal, far the most part, hs been suc , A cessful: that we are in the midle of the / Stream not nd tjhai clinging htxrsts would spell ruin; that if Mr. Roose velt bis permitted to carry on his poli cies, with full Congressional support, lor two years more, he will succeed in bringing prosperity back. The ordinary voter is obviously In a difficult position when it comes to making up his mind. He has no means of knowing how much recovery has actually been achieved—almost all the reports he receives are prjudiced in favor of one party or another. He is aware that neither party is above doctoring the facts to prove a point; that when election time rolls 'round, political considerations are paramount. Most forecasts lead to the belief that the Adi: ni ; has lost consider able s at it will still main fcin - - . nouses of the Con t ret- m for that is Mr. *tcM»sev 1 popularity—it is though -t ns of people who are fuiiuamt.i.aiiy opposed to his policies will vote for him and for Democratic candidates because of his personal magnetism. It is a fact that sheer personality is one of the greatest aasets any public man can have—and the November elections will show how potent Mr. Roosevelt’s is. .. A major issue of the time is state •f government finances. The ta* prob lem which has always been wih us, grown amazingly during the last few years. Depression, which increased the need for relief expenditures of Idnd an another, intensifle dit. 0. OF C. HIRES NEGRO * I*FRS O* September fifth, j^n •gement o< the Wo: .. isio-i of the Camber >7 s wf' turn to v or, th > Waiters we. - by Whi girls. 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BOYCOTT METHOD OF GETTING JOBS IS DEFEATED IN THE CRISIS NETW YORK—Aug. 26—A debate on the use of . . the boycott to get jobs , Negroes in neighborhoods where colored purchasers are in the majority is contained in the September Crisis be-; tween George S. Schuyler and Vere E. Johns. Mr. Schuyler lambasts the boycott In his usual slash-bang man ner. contending that it acts as boom ering on he economically helpless Ne gro minority and often causes the loss of more jobs outside the Negro resi dence area than are secured in it. Mr. Johnson Staff writer for the New York Age, tells of the picket work against the L. M. Blumstein depart ment store, largest in Harlem, which resulted in Blumstein signing an agreement to hire colored clerks. He urges colored people to adopt the boy cott as a means of geting work. In the same issue is an article by Dr. Gustav Peck, executive director of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA. entitled “The NRA and Negro Work ers,” in which the writer tries to ex plain the differential wage scales set up by many industrial codes. Other features: “Russian and American 1 Theatre,” by Way land Rudd; “Liberl Natives Tell Their Story," a letter from a native Liberian leader: "Jim 1 Crow in South Africt,” by H. G. Coka. A short character sketch of Thomas “Fats" Waller, radio organist and pianist, is done by Roy ilkins. j There is a report also of the student j conference held in Chicago early this month and the prize winning essay on ; “Which College Prepares thd Young Negro Better for Life? The Crisis will ! be out August 23. _ .YNCHINGS EXCEED 1 A WEEK SINCE JUNE; ROOSEVELTTOLD p' ■ — YORK, Aug. 17.—President .evelt was told on Tuesday that “Lynching in the United States since June first have" been at the rate of more than one a week.” The telegram to the President was sent by Wilkins fof the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fol lowing the lynching at Michigan City, j Mississippi, of Robert Jones and Smith | Houey, and again urged Mr. Roosevelt |al anti-lynching law. The telegram —— - -- THE HYPROCRTCY OF THE NEW DEAL WASHINGTON — (CNS) — The Richmond Planet of August 4 severely criticizes Lieut Lawrence T. Oxley for his defense of the New Deal at the recent meeting of the Labor Institute held in New York City. The editori al states: “It was perfectly natural for Lieut Oxley, Chief of the Negro Division of Labor to rush to the defense of the ‘New Deal’ when it was attacked by represenatnve Negro leaders * * * Lieut Oxley knows how to get jobs and to hold them- What does the hardships worked or Negro labor and small Negro business men by NRA, to say nothing of the flagrant discri mmation against Negroes in every Federal Relief project man to this distanguishd member of the “Black Cabinet;” who is a confirmed pacifist and conformist, “It is alright for the Lieutenant to continue in Washington his job get ting and job holding proclivities, practiced so successfully in North Carolina, but it is deiidedly unfair to Negroes for hm to ascribe their plight to lack of faith in themselves and to prclaim that the Negro is not ‘organization minded’ * * * “He should quit running around the country blaming Negroes for condi tions for which they axe in no wise responsible and making excuses for the downright injutices and discrimi nations practiced by the administrati’n to which he is obligated for his ‘Black Cabinet’ portfolio “Certainly President Roosevelt can not wave a wand and change the hearts and prejudices of white Missis sippl and the ret of the South Neither can Chief Oxley trough poetic gener alities, alter the fact that the ‘New Deal’ administration found the Negro poor at firat and keeps him so read: Two Iynchings in Mississippi yesterday bring the total for the year to fourteen with six of this total from Mississippi alont. This total from Mississippi alone. This to this date. Twelve of the 1934 Iynchings hav^ aketn place since it became apparent that Congress was not to enact a federal anti-lynch lng law during its closing days. Lynching in the United States since June first have been at the rate of more than one a week bearing oat (continued next issue) REV R. R. BROWN TO SPEAK AT ZION BAPT. CHURCH ; Rev. R. R. Brown, the radio minis ter; will pleach a special “Labor Day” Sermon t Zion Baptist Church; Sunday Sept- 2 at 4 p_. m. under the i auspices of the “Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters ” : MRS. E S. BRYANT Mrs. E. S.. Bryant wife of Rev. L: P: Bryant; the able pastor of St John AME-. Church; who attended the annual Missonary Convention held in Lawrence Kansas. Mrs. Bryant was elected delegate to the 12th Quadrennial Convention of the Woman’s Parent Mite Missionary Convention to be held in Baltimore Maryland in October POLICE TAKE 26 IN RAID Twenty-six persons were jailed and nearly $500 In cash was seized early Wednesday evening when the police morals squad raided a “policy" game operating in a 6 room apartment at 1820 and 1-2 North 24 th Street Two men Richard Ward, 2332 North, 26th Street and Otto Mason, 26321 Parker Street, were held on $200 cash , bond each and it was indicted chargee of operating a policy game would be | charged against them Thursday. The1 other 24 were held under $100 cash bond each. All were book for Investi gation. t In police court Thursday, bonds for1 24 persons still held were reduced to 110 each, and all were released. The j case was continued until Aug. 29th. I PROTEST WATER j DIET FOR ALLEGED JAIL ARSONIST NEW YORK, Aug. 26—A d: ; olely of water “is clearly a violation of the 7th : amendment to the federal Constitution prohibiing cruel and unusual punieh meitts, WJ titer White, encretary of the National Association for the Ad | vancement of Colored People, tele graphed Governor H. G. Kump of West Virginia on August 6, in protest j against the treatment of Robert Hugh es, colored prisoner at Jefferson County ! 1 W Virginia jail. • Hughes, who has bten in solitary confinement at the jail In Chrles town i for some time, is accused of twice starting fires in his cell within the last two weeks. As punishment he was put t on a diet of water only, on order of! the jailer, Richard Mdison. j The N .A. A. C. P. promptly urg- j ed its West V irginia branches to pro-J test to Governor Kump against this in continued on pag-e two) YOUNG WIFE TAKEN BY WHITE MAN; HUSBAND BEAT EN BY MOB NEW YORK, Aug. 17—A pathetic leter from a thrifty Negro farmer own ing 35 acres of land near Mantee. Miss, whose wife has been taken from him by a white farmer booked up by a mob. has been received by Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The writer for obvious reasons perfers to remin anonymous. His Jetter in part follows: My name is residing in East Chicago, Indiana, until the pest four years.t . 1 canto to Mantee, Miss., the native home of my par ents. After being there two montiis I married. My wife and I got along fine until about eight weeks aKO her gardian sowed dissatisfaction and deciet in heir mind. She was sixteen years of age when we were married, being only nineteen now, so she was young and ignorant of life. This kept up until they event ually persuaded her from me. “My wife in the meantime had started cooking for a white man in Mantee. He was supposed to have sent word that she was there with them and he wanted me to leave the country, that he didn't want me around there try ing to persuade her from working for him. I didn't know he said and didn’t care. I couldn't afford to work all year aud leave it without a cause “Well, Sat. nite June 30 I went up to my wife’s unde was stand ing in the! house talking to her and twelve of them or more sur rounded the house sticking rifles and shotguns thru the windows and four with pistols came in threw them on me, forced me out in the woods about two miles from town town and 8 of them took turns beating me with a four inch wide gin belt doubled. When one got tired he’d sit down and each one of the remainder would flog me. After keeping this up for hodrs, they carried me to the nearest plkee which freight trains stop. I was in an unconscious state. They gave me orders to get out of the State and never return. By the help of two transients I got aboard of a freight train bound south. I to a place called Louisville, Miss. There railroad commission er Johnson nad Constable Cal Cap leson got me off the train. “Seeing my conditions (my clothes my knees to the middle of my back) they felt sorry for me. They car ried me to the F. E. R. A. and se cured medical aid for me and got me some clean clothes and got a place for me to stay until I was able to hobble round” . _In his letter the man gives the name of thee white man who took bis wife, the names of the white men who beat him and the names of the Negroes who witnessed the kid napping. WASHINGTON REFUSES TO BE A “YES MAN” reigns froiv "ERE F. E. R. A WASHINGTON _ (CNS) - Forresl er B. Washington who came to Was} ington February 1 to join the forces of the Roosevelt Administration anc to assist the so called ‘‘long rang* planners” as director of Colored worl under the Federal Emergency Relied Administration has resigned — effec tive September 1. Mr.. Washington will return to At lanta, Georgia, to give his full time to the work of directing the Atlanta School f Social Work, afer less than six ninths in the so called “New Deaers.” His suocessod has not been named. It is rumored, however; that Eugene Kirtkle Jones; now Ad viser on Negro Affairs to the Depart ment of Commerce; will be shifted ovr to work under Harry L. Hopkins; Director of the FERA. Although an announcement of the resignation was broadcast from the office of Mr.. Washington no definite reason was given for his sudden re signation- It is known however; that In less than a month after taking his oath of office; Mr. Washington be came disillusoned and began to chafe in governmental harness- As outlned by one in a position to know: ivir. wasmngTjis troubles began from the time he made his first sug gestion to his chief Harry L.. Hopkins and soon thereafter he began to have grave doubts and fears that he could serve in the FERA with credit to himself and his race constituents un der the restrictions thrown around his social activities. “In plan language, he made it known to all that came in contact with him that he had come to Wash ington to try and be of service to his race and to the Government under which they live- That as an indlvids al he had nothing to gain and every thing to lose by remaining as director of colred work under the Federal Re lief Administratin’ in name only “Neither Mr. Washington nor his assciates and close friends will .tell the whys and wherefores that led up to his draping out,’ enough has cropped out to show that from the start he refused to either serve as money window dressing for the Roosevelt Administration or he a ‘Yes Man’ fer the long range plan ners and sign on the dotted lines when ever requested “Mr. Washington Is known to have made a report dierct to the President Roosevelt for the latter take with him on his vacation- It was thought therefore that he would ‘stick it out’ until the President’s return gives evi dence to the rumor that Mr.. Wash ington whn presented with a certain set of papers and told that he had to sign hem promptly replied: ‘Oh; no you are mistaken- I don’t have to sign those papers.’ And he did not. Instead he wrote out and signed his resignation.. “It Is said that the papers he was asked to sign on the dotted lines would have tended to offset his ‘urg ing the President to exercise his duty personally in seeing hat rolord peo pie are given a better chance under the NR A, CWA; etc. “In his report to the President Mr.. Washington called attention to let ers addressed to Mrs- Roosevelt that had been en to the FERA for con sideration with her personal signa turn. “It is also reported that Mr.. Wash ington was a ‘thorn in the flesh’ to the Consolidated Negro Advisers of the Departmental Service, who meet and talk once a month; but do noth ing.” VISITING IN OUR CITY Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis of Mlnea polis, Minn, sister of Mrs. Frank Ste wart. is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart, 3015 Manderson St. They will leave in a few days to SHOT FI 01 It TIMES OVEIt LIGHT FUSE; DIES ON' WAY TO HOSPITAL Friday August 21th. Raymond Young, 2010 North 23rd St. shot and fatally wounded Robert Mayard, of 2006 North ’ 23rd St- about 8 P. M. He was rushed to Lord Lister Hospital in the police ambulance, but died on he way. These men h:ui qu: A reded over *>na Grant was taken to the Station for question ing. Arrested On Seward Street After All Night Search Young captured at 2798 Seward St., was cut on the left side of Breast and a stab wound in the lower back -sup potted o have been cut by Maynard. Mns. JWiIl\t Bte'venson. common law wife of Maynard and Mrs. Leona Grant a sister of Raymond Young was also arrested in connection with the shoot ing and held for qu«*doning. BERT MOORE'S COLUMN Bert Moose was elected as delegate to te County Convention, Aug 14. Thanks to his mpny friends for their loyalty m voting for him. STRUCK BY AUTO Anna Soskin was crossing the street at 19th east to west on the No. side Burt Stbaft. Was struck by Isaac Wright's car of 2881 Miami St. She was cut on the left cheek and bruised left arm; bad shtouddr. Wright w«af» booked for reckless driving and releas ed on Bond. The woman was taken to the Methodist Hospital by Wright. BOY CUTS FOOT Kenneth L