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WINGS • r ' 7* ' Over WASHINGTON b.v IJE.V I)E CALX Federated Press W ashinHpon (FP>— "America is a middle class country,” declared Up ton Sinclair. And even as he spoke thes^ words in Washington, guns were barking in a dozen textile towns. The gun.s did not speak, the same lan guage as Sinclair. Hired by a small owning class, they shouted death and terror to a large working class. Sin clair’s middle class were there, but dividi d nto support of one or the Other < amp when the batte lines wore drawn. Mos writers, like Sinclair, are mid d e <’i..as The nature of their work separates iliein from the great mass of- wage earners and working farmers, and few make money enough to rank us cap!.lists. If one half the world doesn't know how the other half lives, this is still more true of that small segment of the world who have created the great myth of a middle class America. They (live in middle class sections of town, they travel in middle cniss s ySe, the few workers i with whom they associate are those closests to the middle class. So they Jock at the world through inidd-e class glasses and find it middle ciass. j IX Sinclair wo | ^ reread his owm books,.. however, he would see a dif fered picture. He chose a queer time too for his conversion to the idea, that the middle class are America’s chosen people to lend us to a promised, land, .fop. wh<|n Washington hi^s had. at hut to recognize the existence of the work.n..g class explicity in all its leg islation; ju»„ when labor boards, relief authorities, framers of social legisla tion are laboring to define the exact status of working and employing classes; just when the class lines are snore sharply drawn than ever belo-e in one gigantic strike wave after an o her; just when the middle classes are '• oskita’ing into which camp 'to jump, as monopoly cuts the ground from under them—Sinclair leaps into national prominence and says; “I was wrong before. America! is a middle class country with a tradition of pion *-oring democracy We have a work ing c-.:jis=, but they don’t know it. "What we have to do is to talk to the middle class. Sinclair tliil not mention the textile strike in his Washington speech: he did not mention any strikes. Bu,t •astional leaders of the textile union interrupted their round of strike dut ies long enough to listen to his talk. What they thought of it, they refused to tell curious reporters. But if they bought back through American libor history, they may have reflected that the Sinclair phenomenon was nothing hut an old friend bobbing up again— another movement essentially middle eU*>s, but seeking labor support. W'm. Jennings Bryan once thnatter ed to the populace against Wad St. Theodore Roosevelt shouted, “Bust «XZXZ>CXZ>^XZXZ>CD0C3)00 the trusts'’; Robt\ M. LoFollette Sr. was another champion of “the people’ against the money lords. They and many others found many eager lis teners in the working claat^ Trade union leaders again and again have » thrown labor’s support to move ments which did up as suddenly as ooUB*pe as quickly. Wall St. has continued doing busi ness at the same old stand, through all the turmoil. It has thought and acted in class erma, It has consolidat ed and entrenched iteelf in control of government, even when the middle class shouted most against It. It has sneered at the erractic and often fan tastic slogans of the recurring cham pions of a middle class America. It has not feared them, for it has looked 1 up its books to check the credit stand ing of this middle class. ‘‘They can’t last long,” it has said to itself, "they are our debtors now, and soon they’ll be our e^n;).oyes. Then we’U tell them where to ge: off.” And the money changers ef Wall St. have rubbed their hands when they have labor, politically leaderless, trailing in the wake of the middle of the elasss. For they know that while he midde cl lass represents a dwindling tnd uncertain power, .he working class -epresents a very certain and a growing power. Anything that keeps this class com learning its power and acting in its own right help us, they have said to themselves, and they have' looked with not kindly eye, at times on the middle class of Don Qui xotes that have broken their lances in brave charges against the Wall St. mills. . But with, each charge the midle-class weakens, and history moves on mean- i while. Sinclair mounts his Rosinante a. .t a time when a great economic \ crisis has Widened the gulf between rich and poor as never before. Under j a regime of "business self-government j with government supervision” monoply ! haoa consolidate* its political power still further The. . ranks of the work Ing class have been swollen by count less former members of the middle class. Farmers have been divided more than ever into rich and poor, with growing I numbers of tillers of the soil as much in the power of bankers, landlords and bosses aa are the warkers of the city. So . . Sinclair’s mlddksclhsa Ameriea. hesitates beofre this gulf On the one side there beckon to it the political parties financed by Wall St. and con trolled by it. Their siren voices sing any song they think will win the hesit ant, and the piping voices of would-be Hitlers contribute to their chorus. On the other side is a power stiM to be reckoned with, a power that shakes the earth.. when hundreds of thousands wajk out on strike—a working class that when it knows it is a working class and acts accordingly will sweep all before it. -G CORRECTION The Omaha uide Wishes to make the following corrections. In the Sept 1 issue, concerning the death of Mr. Homer Burdette of 1&29 North 22nd St., his mother’s name was rrinted incorrectly. The correct name is Mabie Jenkins ef Denver, Celo. 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Pne of the characters, Annie, brought up by white folks, first finds happi ness when he goes to a gathering a-1 mong his own race. For the fihat time in his life Arnie was haopy. Somebody had offered him something’ without beirrg nice.” According to without prayer, without distance and wihou being nice.” According to Langston Hughes’ picture, contact be tween the two races never makes for | friendship. White folks* waf-s ?!© not natural ways. Sometimes they are terrible and we have the too fam iliar lynching at the end, sonveiimes they are condescending, and the Ne gro eseapes as soon as he can. The two worlds never meet in friendly sympathy. The stories vary greatly. “Little Dog”, to my mind the best, shows the love that a lonely white working wo man gives to her Negro janitor and the complete unconsciousness of the janitor. The little dog brings the two together for a flew minutes of the day. Of course, in the end, the white wo man runs away. “Poor Little Black Boy” shows the good intentioved but hopelessly obtuse white Northern fam-; ily bringing up a colored boy. He is kept from his own group but never FADED, or GRAY HAIR "< WILL NEVER WIN HIT#! ! Mil > ---- ; j HER DULL, HE'S WILD t- j FADED HAIR ABOUT f,i WILL CAUSE HER* ITS TOO M HER'TO ‘ BAD SHE m LOSE ' dolsnT use ■J GEORGE IF-I ’SODEFROY'SJ Look At Her Soft, Gleaming, Black hair George Fights For Her Attention Now / SORRY- ') ( SAY- ) GEORGE, WHOSE THIS IS GIRL IS MY DANCE SHE? V ' , - Don't let colorless, faded hair rob you of leva and Happiness. Keep ' 3-jut youthful, appearance Keep your luxuriant. Jet-black tresses. Keep your*man' Do v-hat thousands*bf stagehand screen stars and ’other celebrities dq. Oet a bottle of the famous’Uodefroy’s Latieuse French Bair Coloring at your faVorite dealer’s today. If lie can't sup ^yiy^yeu send $1.25 <stamns or post ofTir - ncney order) direct to' ' <1 ■dsfroy.Mfg. Co.. 3504 Olivo St.fc, 8t. Louts. Mo. * W % v* GODEFROY’S L A £ I E U S E French HAIR Coloring receives full entrance into the white. He is aSways on the side lines. In a third, “Cora Unashamed’’ a young white girl, gets into trouble and only j the colored servant understands her, Here at least the two races meet in iove, but the older members of the white race are antagonistic. The end of live story is poignant. Langston Hughes ahvays writes of the over worked servant girl, upo* whose back the labor of the house is placed, and who receives scant reward, with deep sympathy. That jfaithfufl mojhmy whom the white writer loved to depict he sees in her true light, a servile wo man whose natural instincts were ap propriated by her owner for her self ish uses. She was to be a mammy' for her mistress’s shildren but not for her own. After the reconstruction period the white South took upon itself to edu cate Northern opinion regarding the1 Negro. We were flooded with books showing the black man as sullen, un grateful. Sometimes a rapist. “The Birth of a Nation” marked the high water niftfk of this propaganda. Now we have the Negro’s conception of the white man and woman, and it is as severe as the picture the South once drew- of the black. I use the word, “oncer* advised ly. Negro s > ries Jay white writers today are usually sym pathetic, but such stories are at their best when dealing only with the block rave. One sees from this most inter esting and entertai*g bock how far the groups still are from one another, how little change they h. re really to understand each oiher. The “Ways of White Folk” are sorry ways indeed. I especially recommend the hook to rho Caucasian reader. SOCIAL SINS (Covetousness and Envy) DC A. C. BEAER (or The Literary Service Eureau) TextSThou shalt nrit covet—Exodus 20 - 17. 1. Definitions. S> Monm is the dis tinction made between covetousnesb and envy. (1) To envy is to “be grudge” the possessions or the go» fortune of another. (2) Covetousness is the de sire and the willingness to drsposo an other and to appropriate and use what is taken from him. 2. Some Illustrations. (1) Cain the favor short his brother Abel, and const quently 3 low him. (2) David I coveted the wife 0? Uriah and ft led to j adultery and murder. (3) Ah&b covet ed Naboth’s vineyard and had him klll ‘ed in order to possess it. (4) Hainan •everted tho honor and the influence of Mordecai, sought to destroy him, tad thereby lest hi* own Ufa. (&> Wane ire fought and millions siain, because ruers covert the prestige, the honor and the possessions of other ruler and other other people. 3. This Sin Injures the Sinner Alsa Then© be no peace within the breast of an individual v,fco envies the good for tune or covtts. . the possssions of an othr. Such a spirit burns and con urns he fier values and deprives f peace and contentment. This is a part of the penalty for this common sin. -G RUDE A BRIEF VISIT T0 24TH STREET Ai Pativina and his men went through twenty fourth street like a storm Thursday night, Sept. 6, vis-i ited several places. It was alleged! that he destroyed a tablet at Twenty lourflh and Clark St., and ordered pe titions, and other obstructive views at various places torn down and mov ed. -G PARA-EL.. ES AND PROBERBS.. .. (The GGoose an dthe Gol. .den Egg)" By It. B. Mann (For the Literary Servies Bureau) The axiom “Don't kill the g<*ose that lays the golden egg,” is derived from an o d fable. The fable is that a goose owned by a man laid a goden egg each day. He wanted to get rich. He im agined that the body of the goose con . .taiued many such eggs. To secure this tr-jasure he killed the goose—and all; e.v..en what be had. There have Teen women who becamt a fit, Pdienatcd the afection which they., prized greatly. Societies, a wife quarrels . nd nags ..because her hus . aad believes in economy ratber than 6Ktravagar.ee, and in thus quarreling she loses the love of her husband. A man has a profitable position, hut he than his income mkes possibje. He Etcais, is discovered, is diseased, and perhaps is prosecuted and punihhed. These, aad all such are just so many instances of “killing the goo.--» that lays the golden egg.” -- G THE TOWN BULLY —- . ..«■■■ -- ■ i i Who pays your wages or salary1? Business ar.d industry WTio pays the politicians and of fice holders ? Business anr industry. Who pet's the doles now handled out by government? Business and industry. Who mproves property that pays taxes ? Business and industry. Where does permanent employ ment for the masses comd freta? Business and industry Who Is injured by government go ing into business?. Business and in dustry. Who suffers most from such a pra gram ? Miltons of wage earners and inventors. What will replace the taxes de stroyed by tax-exempt government business competition with private ci tizens ? Higher taxes on remaining private property. » What is the differenle between the town bully and the politician who us es the force of government to take what he wants from helpless .private citizens ? None. The people make the government. The people make the politicians Industry and business create in comes property which polticlans tax. If the politicians destroy private business where will they get taxes? Where wiH people get jobs? Can we all get jobs with fhe gov ernment? No. fff politics ean’t get taxes, then whaWiappens? Government Is bank rupt. Will business and employment in crease under a town bully policy It is our businesses, our jobs and cur taxes that are at stake. Private business cannot compete with government business. Try it if you think it can. What is the answer? Keep gov ernra’t out of the business and confine it to the function of governing a free people, for which it was established. What has • government in busness done for other natons of the world? Bankrupted them iif most cases and made the tax slaves out of the peo ple. _a_ whXt tiie railroads mean TO YOU What the railroads mean fo the American people was well expressed | in a recent statement by A. J.'Coun-: ty, of the Pennsylvania system. The financial condition of the lines affects the financial status of about 50 per cent of the population, who either own railroad seeurties themselves or own them indirectly through insur ance, banking, edulational and similar institutions which aue heavy invest ors In railroad otocks and bonds. The railroads give employment to about lOCOOOO people whose jobs are imperiled when the lines operate at a loss Millions of other worker* in mines; factories and all types of in dustry are dependent on railroad pur chases for their livelihood In nor mal times, radroads axe the greatest single purchaser of supplies in the nation. Government itself — local, county, state end national is dependent on the lines for much of its tax rweaue Railroad money pares roads, brieL public buildings, carries on all kinds of government activities, and eda cates thousands of our chHdren. Every person benefits when rail reads prosper — every person feels the Hi effects when they are depressed It is an excellent sign that thousands of industrialists, repcesentlng aU lines of business, are behind the move ment to give the rails a fair deal. Mill made Screens and Doors while you wait. 2717 North 24th Street. | Loves Kitchenette appartmont for rent at 2516 Patrick Aye. We.. 5553. 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