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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1934)
1 » i | EDITORIAL f < ■ -w ■: .* *» ■: ———-*—- ' :• :i > "i'-v-, | ^AV/.,«%V.V.%V.VAVAV.VWA%V/.,.V.V.V.V.V«^,i ——CWK3—«J..If . eg-'". -JL .-ni Jf: KrzxxacyuTmcrsMMiKjri-u i t 1 js* ibmk jujmmrsocg-^r*r: v «— “DELIVERING THE VOTE" YEAR AFTER YEAR AND CAMPAIGN AF TER CAMPAIGN SUCH FAMILIAR STATEMENTS ARE HEARD AS, “I CAN DELIVER THE NEGRO ! VOTE,” “I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU OUT NORTH,” OR, “GET HOLD OF SO AND SO, HE WILL GET THE, NEGRO VOTE TOGETHER FOR US,” OR “MR. CAN j DiDATE, GIVE MY CHURCH A DONATION TO THE NIAGARA FALLS RALLY, THE WHIRLWIND RAL |LY, OR THE MORTGAGE BURNING RALLY,” J (WHICH EVER NAME SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST APPEAL) AND WE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. REDICULOUS, THOUGH THESE STATEMENTS' MAY SOUND,♦THEY NEVERTHELESS HAVE BEEN THE VEHICLES THAT HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENT i AL IN EXTRACTING A LARGE SUM OF MONEY FROM OFFICE SEEKERS, ALWAYS IN* SMALL QUANTITIES, CARRYING AN APPEAL TO THE GULLIBLE OFFCE SEEKER, WHO SITS BACK AND WAITS FOR THAT BIG VOTE THAT NEVER COMES IN. PCt WHEN WILL THE OFFICE SEEKERS BE STIR HIMSELF AND COME TO THE GRIM REALl ZATION THAT THE SELF APPOINTED DELIVER ER OF THE NEGRO VOTE, AS A GENERAL RULE HAS ONE VOTE, HIS OWN, THAT THE NEGRO ELECTORATE IS SIZING UP THE CANDIDATES. AND VOTING WITH INTELLIGENCE, AND THAT THE NEGRO VOTE CAN ALONE BE DELIVERED TO A CANDIDATE UPON A CONSRUCTIVE PRO GRAM SUBSCRIBED TO BY THE CANDIDATE THE DAY OF GULLIBILITY AMONGST NEGRO VOTERS IS GONE. IT IS A THING OF THE PAST. IT S DEATH KNELL SQUNDED WITH THE RING ING OF THE SCHOOL BELL. NO LONGER CAN VOTES BE DELIVERED BY THE RALLY, JUG OR BARBECUE METHOD ACCOMPANIED BY THEi PROVERBIAL HANDSHAKE AND SLAP ON THE j BACK. PRACTICES OF ANOTHER GENERATION POLITICIAN AND ACCEPTED BY THE SAME GEN OF v0TF/RS FOR WHOM THE TORCH-LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE DID NOT ILLUMINATE THE WAY. THE NEGRO YOUTH OF TODAY IS HOLD ING TIIE TORCH HIGH, ENABLING HIS ELDERS TO SEE. TO UNDERSTAND, AND TO RECOGNIZE THE GENUINE FROM THE FALSE, AND TO RELE | GATE EMPTY AND MEANINGLSS PLATITODES TO; THEIR PROPER PLACE. I CANDIDATES SHOULD PROFIT AND BEi ABLE TO WALK ARIGHT WITH THE LIFTING OF, THIS MANTLE OF DARKNESS, AND REALIZE, THAT THE SIGN OF THE TIMES IS UPON INSiy\ UERITY AND HYPOORICY. NEGRO YOUTH IS NOT INTERESTED IN GOOD JOKES* FRIENDSHIP. OR SPECIAL PRIVI LEGES. RACIAL RECOGNITION IS THE GROUND; UPON WHICH THIS GENERAT’N OF NEGRO VOT ERS STAND, YIELDING NOT ONE INCH OF THAT GROUND. THE NEGRO MEASURES UP WITH vNY R\CE IN ALL OF THE FIELDS OF LEARNING AND ACCOMPLISHMENT. NEGRO CHILDREN IN SCHOOL MUST HAVE INSPIRATION. THEY MUST BE ABLE TO LOOK UP AND SAY, “I AM GOING TO FINISH SCHOOL, AND BE PREPAED TO HOLD THE HIGH PLACE NOW HELD BY MEMBERS OF MY j R ACE ” THESE CHILDREN ON LEAVING SCHOOL AND COLLEGES MUST BE ABSORBED INTO THE ECONOMIC WORLD AND FILL THE NICHE IN LIFE FOR WHICH THEY ARE TRAINED THERE IS NO BETTER PLACETO STRIKE THE TELLING BLOW FOR RACE RECOGNITION THAN IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LIMITS, ALSO T\\ MAINTAINED INSTITUTIONS MUST COME IN FOR THEIR SHARE OF SCRUTINITY BY THE NE GRO VOTER. THE NEGRO IS FIGHTING, AND NOT ASKING FOR HIS PRO-RATA OF EMPLOY MENT AND APPOINTMENTS IN EVERY ARM AND BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. THE WISE CANDIDATES CAN DELIVER THE NEGRO VOTE TO HIMSELF BY SUBSCRIBING TO THESE BROAD PRINCIPLES. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT THE VOTE CAN BE OBTAINED. THE WISE CANDIDATE LIKEWISE WILL SHUN . THE PAN HANDLING (NEGRO POLITICIAN AS HE ►WOULD A LEPER. THE VOTE HE WILL BRING WILL BE NEGLIGIBLE, BECAUSE HfS CONSTITU ENCY KNOWS HIM AS A PAN HANDLER, AND A PARASITE: THE VERY FACT THAT HE PASSES I TUES G4YRS PRESSIOOKTHAT THE CAN LOUT A POLITICIAN’S CARD, AND EXTOLS HIS VIR JOIDATE IS MUCH THE SAME AS HIS CARD BEAL UR, OR, AS THE SAYING GOES, “BIRDS OF A FEA THER FLOCK TO-GETHER” THE NEGRO VOTE WILL BE A DELIVER ED NOT BY A PAN - HANDLER OR A SELF AP POINTED WHITE OR NEGRO LEADER, BUT ALONE BY' THE CANDIDATE SUBSCRIBING TO A PROGRAM OF RACE RECOGNITION, THAT AN IN TELLIGENT AND ENLIGHTENED NEGRO ELEC ' TORATE MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN CASTING A BAL LOT FOR. ; ' -G IS ANYBODY DOWN HEARTED ? Omaha Is No Place For Him (Reprint from the Bee .News A 4 _ 1 - j 1 DID YOU READ THE SUNDAY OMAHA NEWSPAPERS—WHAT THE BUSINESS MEN HAD TO SAY ABOUT BUSINESS CONDITIONS? IF YOU DID, YOU MUST HAVE BEEN EN COURAGED BY THE STATEMENTS THEY MADE, AND IF YOU DIDN’T READ THEM, YOU MISSED SOMETHING. LEADING BUSINESS MEN OF OMAHA FR VNXLY ADMITTED TH AT DAILY THEIR BOOKS SHOW AN INCREASE IN RETAIL BUSINESS. A STEADILY AMOUNTING TIDE OF RETAIL SALES. ALLEN T. HUPP, SECRETARY FOR THE AS SOCIATED RETAILERS OF OMAHA, SPEAKING FOR THEM ALL. SAYS SALES FOR THE FIRST! EIGHT MONTHS OF THE YEAR ARE ABOvE THOSE! OF 1933, AN AVERAGE OF 25 PER CENT. “WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE OPTI MISTIC,” SAID MR HUPP. “BUSINESS IS CER TAIN TO BE BETTER THIS FALL. THERE WILL RE MORE MONEY COMING INTO NEBRASKA THIS YEAR THAN LAST. . .PEOPLE ARE BUYING BET TER THINGS. THE DEMAND FOR QUALITY IS GROWING, WHICH MEANS ONLY ONE THING: SHOPPERS HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR QUA LITY. THIS IS NO TBALLYHOO IT RESTS ON THE SOLID FACT THAT FARM PRICES HAVE IN CREASED FROM W TO 300 PER CENT, AND THAT, IN SPITE OF THE BACKSETS OF THE SEASON, NE BRASKA FARMERS ARE FAR FOM BEING DESTI TUTE. RETAIL DEALERS FROM FIVE STATES WHO CAME TO OMAHA TO BUY DURING THE RE CENT MARKET WEEK ALL TOLD A SIMILAR STORY. THEY WERE LOOKING AHEAD TO A l BUSY FALL SEASON, AND MADE PREPARATIONS' ACCORDINGLY. _ I THIS REGION IS GETTING ALONG WELL,! BUSINESS IS GOOD AND GETTING BETTER. AND EVERY BODY LOOKS CONFIDENTLY AHEAD TO BETTER IMES. BECAUSE COURAGE HAS NEVER DROPPED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO WIN IS STRONG AS EVER. FOLKS MAY HAVE SUNG THE “BLUES” WHEN THE WEATHER WAS HOT AND ALL WERE SIZZLING, BUT THAT’S ALL OVER NOIV. -G HEALTH FOR EVERYBODY Organizing Work To That End (Reprint from the Bee News > HEALTH IS SOMETHING THAT CAN NOT s BE PURCHASED IT MUST BE ATTAINED, AND; THEN SAFELY GUARDED. [ ALL THAT A DOCTOR CAN DO IS TO RE * STORE HEALTH, ONCE IT IS LOST OR IMPAIRED, AND A LOT CJ' PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE THE DOCTOR CAN EVEN DO THAT. DOCTORS DO NOT PRETEND TO BE INFAL LIBLE, BUT HUMBLY CONFESS THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE AND METHODS OF CURE OF A GREAT NUMBER OF DISEASE. YET THE DOCTORS, THROUGH MANY YEARS OF STUDY AND EXPERIENCE, HAVE A CONSIDERABLE FUND OF INFORMATION WHICH THEY ARE WILLING AT ALL TIMES TO IMPART TO THE PUBLIC FREELY AND WITHOUT PRICE THIS INFORMATION CONCERNS GENERAL HEALTH AND HOW TO GUARD IT. TO CARRY FORWARD THIS WORK, EF FOTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO SET UP IN COMMU NITIES GENERALLY GROUPS THAT ARE INTE RESTED AND WILLING TO RECEIVE AND IMPART : SUCH INFORMATION. ONE OF THE AGENCIES FOR CARRYING ON THIS WORK, AND SPREAD ING THE NEEDED INFORMATION, IS THE NE BRASKA WOMAN’S MEDICAL AUXILIARY MRS. C. W. POLLARD, HEALTH EDUCA-i TION CHAIRMAN, HAS JUST DISTRIBUTED TO I THE COUNTY GROUPS AN OUTLINE FOR THE WORK TO BE DONE DUR’G THE COMING WINTER. IT CONTAINS MANY POINTS FOR STUDY SYSTE SAJJ£A/LLX^5^GEP’ LEADING TO COM PLETE SURVEY" /USD .UNDERSTANDING* QF THE LOCAL SITUATION, FROM WHICH DEFI MAY BE OBTAINED. 1 | MTE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENERAL SITUATION* MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL THE INFORMA TION IMPARTED BY THE CHAIRMAN TSTHF ! FACT^THXT NEBRi&tLY STANDS AT THE FOOT1 OF. THE.LIST OKM&STATES-IN THE AMOUNT TSjrt'* PENDED . IN PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE LESS* OMAHA REGARD AS FLAGRANTLY" AS THE SMALLEST COUNTIES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE WHAT SORT OF INSTRUCTION IS NEEDED TO SECURE AND PRSEERVE HEALTH? ALL SORTS. FOR EXAMPLE. M. J. JULIAN, PRESIDENT OF THE BETTER VISION INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK CITY, ESTIMATES THAT BLIND NESS HOVERS OVER MORE THAN 2,600 CHILD REN WHO WILL ENTER SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TP/E THIS MONTH. THEIR EYES DEMAND AT TENTION THEY WILL NOT GET, BECAUSE PA RENTS ARE NOT INSTRUCTED F. B. WRIGHT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGI NEERING AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY SAYS IN MOST HOMES ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING IS NOT ADAPTED TO MEET THE DEMANDS MADE UPON THE EYES. . . . , I MRS. POLLARD'S SCHEDULE SUGGESTS THAT THE MONTH OF JANUARY BE GIVEN TO THE STUDY OF BLINDNESS AND HOW IT CAN BE PREVENTED. OTHER SPECIFIC DISEASES ARE SUG GESTED FOR STUDY. AND PARTICULARLY ARE THE WOMEN ASKED TO FAMILIARIZE THEM SELVES WITH WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THEIR COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND SE CURE IMMUNITY. NOT MERELY FROM EPIDE-i MICS, BUT FROM SPORADIC DISEASE. HERE IS ANOTHER INTELLIGENT AT TACK BY THE WOMEN ON A DEFINITE PROBLEM AFFECTING WELFARE. THEY ARE NOT WAST ING THEIR TIME ON GENERALITIES. RUT AP PEOACH THE PROBLEM DIRECTLY AND IN DE TAIL SUCH EFFORT SHOULD EVENTUALLY RE SULT IN AT LEAST TAKING THE WHOLE MATTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH, STATE HOSPITALS AND ALL, OUT OF THE REALM OF POLITICS, AND SETTING IT ON A SOLID FOUNDATION OF INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT. SUCH A RESULT WOULD BE GOOD FOR ALL, E'EN THOSE,WHO HAVE NO FAITH IN DOC I tors and their Profession. . -G AK-SAR BEN LIVESTOCK SHOW Planning For The Great Exposition (Reprint from the Bee News GEORGE BRAN DEIS, PRESIDENT OF THE KNIGHTS OF AK SAR BEN, ANNOUNCES THE 7TH ANNUAL LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION, TO BE HELD IN OMAHA. ONE WEEK EARLIER. THE SHOW WILL OPEN OCT. 28, AND CON TINUE ONE WEEK, WITH 11 INSTEAD OF 10 PER FORMANCES. AS USUAL, THE -EXHIBITION OF THE KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCES AND PRINCESSES OF THE LIVESTOCK REALM, ROYALTY IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, THE EXPOSITION WILL BE ENHANC ED BY HORSE SHOW, PIG SHOW, RODEO AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES GREATER EMPHASIS THAN HERETO FORE WILL BE LAID ON THE LIVESTOCK EXHI BITS. OMAHA HAS GAINED STEADILY ^ FAVOR WITH THE EXHIBITORS SINCE THE SHOW WAS SET ON FOOT, AND EACH YEAR HAS NOTED IN CREASES IN THE NUMBERS AND QUALITY OF THE ANIMALS EXHIBITED. AN AWARD FROM THE OMAHA SHOW IS VALUED BY ITS OWNER. i EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST SUMMER EM PHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVESTOCK IN NEBRASKA’S LIFE, AND THE PURE BRED STOCK IN PARTICULAR. WHILE THE CROPS WERE DETERIORAT ING UNDER THE DROUTH AND THE HEAT, AND THAT LOSS WAS FELT KEENLY, IT WAS ONLY WHE NTHE HERDS WERE THREATENED THAT APPREHENSION DEVELOPED INTO DREAD. WHEN DESTRUCTION OF FEED THREAT ENED THE CATTLE, HOGS AND SHEEP, THEN THE PEOPLE WERE AWARE THAT A MAJOR DIS ASTER IMPENDED. HAPPILY, RAINS CAME IN TIME. SUFFICIENTLY GENEROUS TO REDUCE IF NOT ENTIRELY REMOVE THE D ANGER, BUT THE CRISIS IS NOT ENTIRELY PASSED RELIEVED FROM THE IMMEDIATE THREAT, NEBRASKA STOCKMEN ARE INTEREST ED IN REPAIRING THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE; THEY WILL WANT TO START AGAIN TO BUILD UP THEIR HERDS. .NEBRASKA’S POSI TION IN THE LIVESTOCK AND DAIRYING INDUS TRIES WILL BE MAINTAINED. SO THEAK SARBEN LIVESTOCK EXPO SITION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE YEAR IN NEBRASKA. IT IS VITAL TO THE GREATEST INDUSTRY OF THE STATE, THE PRO-i DUCTION OF MEAT ANIMALS. GROWERS HAVE LEARNED THAT IT PAYS TO RAISE ONLY THE BEST. MILK PRODUCERS KNOW THE SAME THING SO THEY ARE DEEPLY INTERESTED IN WHAT THE LIVESTOCK BREEDERS HAVE TO SHOW THEM. HORSE SHOW, RODEQ, AND OTHER EN TERTAINMENT FEATURES ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE SHOW, FOR THUS IS IN j TEREST SUSTAINED. AND THE BEST POSSIBLE, ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, “HOW’S THINGS IN NEBRASKA?” WILL BE THE SEVENTH ANNUAL} AK-SAR BEN LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION, --G_- fHHOS 01 ( II Ca ^ ^ ( ... 1(^ i. THINGS ONE. .REMEMBERS R. ,31..,. fio£cr b6« moji i ; _ . i t#Ml tP Stn(f*jttT - -rf- -4 Newspapers of the country recent-’ ly carried the story of Richard U1 ram, the Jersey City, New Jersey, barber who appealed to General H. S-. Johnson for protection against preseevrtjea _a£dr ifc^SetutiOjr •<)£ hiefrv Jersey Code authorities whose f caused-hiai to ckwa-his bather. shofT^Suse®}?}’ uialJiiity &' operate under state code prices in his neigh borhood, in a poor section of the city. He said, “I can open only when haircuts will be 30 cents and shaves ^ 20 cents,” and that he would either have to ignore the state code price* and be jailed or t*ey the’ 50-cent haircut and 25-cent shibe minimum* and go out of business. Ulram is a cripple and left without a livelihood. This happened in the United Statcs r.ot in Russia or Germany *G wwitt* roitij gMft Those Crocodile Tears Instead of the advocates of tax exempt power development by the government crying their eyes out about saving the people a few cents a menth on their electrib bills, why don’t the Republican and Democratic Socialists who want the government to run the power business, be logical and fair, and advocate the govern ment furnishing food clothing, doc tors and burial servioc at cost? These items consume the bulk of the family income. No family is worrying about its power bill, but millions are worrying about food, clothing and doctor bills and last but not least the cost of burying loved opes . Tho politicians shed crocodile tears over power. They want to eliminate profit from power manufacture, which profit amounts to practically nothing jn the family budget. The average American believes in tho profit system. She wants to ope rate his own business and make a profit. He does not want to be an almstaker from the government. But if we are going in for socialistic government, why not socialiae tihe things that would eliminate the most profit. Take the cost of a funeral service for example. Every peFson faces the inevtable end. Every famly is subjected to the high cast involved, including the price of a last resting? place. Many families are destitute in their time of need when they are called on to meet funeral expenses It is laughable to see the croeodHe tears flow about the cost of power when the same dyes remain dry as the working man and his tami'.v shoulder the expenses of burial ser vice There are good reasons why gov ernment should not go Into the buri al business, but there are better rea sons why it should not go into the power business.. If we are to estab lish socialization of industry in this ration, why not start with the most logical socialization first, whereby every p<*son, without exception, would become a beneiciary.. —OoO— The manufactured gas Industry, along with all other business, sufferr ed during depression—but the public still reaps the benefits of better ser vice at lower rates. In 1933, tha gas utilities sold 3(10 000,000,000 cubic feet of gas to 9,700 0CG -customers for a total of §380,000 00Q. Compared with, 1932 this Repre sents a decline of 5 per cent.n,the, quantity of gas sold-—and a drop of 7 and one half per cent in revenues rceived. On the avenge, you can cook a meal or heat with gas cheaper now than y9U could last year, and the try has, as usual, made steady progress in perfecting its standards of service, and in Improving the safer ty and efficiency of devices of usin^ fuel. ' I " ——. . I ; looking back (Wlwn No Mean* No!) (For The Literary Service Bureau) I a* a girl sixteen, and mf sitrfo* and I were'visiting a girl of our flieighf borfloojjf This irgl wanted to go tom} with us and spend the night. She aste ed her mother and the cother refer red her to the father who promptly said no. My sister whispered, "Why don't you go to .him, talk pice and beg him, ,, that^s the way we do, sometirneh,'* Our friend shook h^r head slowly,' and asked, "Did yot .u hear him s. .ay not" She added, "Wei), he moan# aol” , Our father wvis ftot quite so hard- 91 I boiled. Sometimes we could go to hltn B j and present our case and persuade' tiitb * 1 | to change a declhlon. But always I JK have admired the strength of charac ter of. that father who said no, and^jj meant no. It is certain that fathersi of the 'positive^ Class Will always be ie-j ,; I spected. more th. .an those of the wtak,j| MT J* 1 Z « 14 vacillating kind. I g* , IF I SHOULD DRIFT By R. A. Adams (For The Literary Service Bureau) f. 9 if I should drift from God, From paths nty feet have trod, In weakness, turn away, 'And wander1'" far astray, VI Ah, whither wpoUL 1 gp i| For comfort, since I know, V\ And .Just* in meekness own That God is God, aldne! . U If -1 UhonJd ♦Ipnvja the path \ \ Of right, invoke the wrath IA tetetkwpnmz head, . . , When best for me, instead, “ His kindness and His love To prize, it would but prove, God is both just and kind, And man is weak and blind
