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Over WASHINGTON
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Mrs. Mabie Jenkins, motlier of Mr.
Burdett was at his bedside at his death,
with Mrs. Anderson, his grandmother,
and Mr. Harry Jenkins, his step father,
lit. and Mrs enltin.s came to Omaha
with the body to attend tha burial.
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BOOK CH AT I
>- by MARY WHITE OVINGTON—o
“THE WAYS of WHITE FOLKS”
(by LANGSTON HUGHES)
“The Ways of white folks, l
I mean some white folks
They are certainly very trying ways !
for a white person to read about. No
single contact between the races as
-1 escribed in this book is satisfactory.
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 "<
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■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?
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- Don't let colorless, faded hair rob you of leva and Happiness. Keep '
3-jut youthful, appearance Keep your luxuriant. Jet-black tresses.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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THE TOWN BULLY
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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.
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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.
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FAT-DIDN'T CUT
DOWN ON FOOD I
“I lost F7 lbs. by - taking KrusehsaJi
Salts and R had no 111 effect oh mo. 1
didn’t cut down on a single food—C8§
recommend it toany
sue who la over
weight." Mrs. A.
Kopiak. So. Milwau
kee, Wis.
To win a aleaiWv
youthful figure t (Vo
a half teaapoonfu! of
Kruschen Salts in &
glass of hot water*
first t fi rn « every
morning. While fat
is leaving you gain
In strength, heaTtk
and physical charm—took yourypef
Many physicians presents it »’>■!
thousands of fat folk* *11 over t*s
verid ha vs achieved tUondsrne** A
lasts 4 weeks and coats ''tit * tv■
at any drujcstora* J'ut o> etoet '\'wf
health—ms eo sura you tot K-.-owha*
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