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“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. ; '
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IS ANYBODY DOWN HEARTED ?
Omaha Is No Place For Him
(Reprint from the Bee .News
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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.
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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.
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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,
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THINGS ONE. .REMEMBERS
R. ,31..,. fio£cr b6« moji
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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
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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|
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vacillating kind.
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, 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