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Omaha, Nebraska, Hunmlay, Dec. 15, 1934 AAA AGGRAVATES NEGRO PROBLEM IN THE SOUTH Cotton Fhogram Produces Critical Situation in Displacement of Negro Farm Labr, But Dale Miller Believes Most Serious Effect is Upsett ing of Equilibrium in Social Order (from The Texas Weekly) THE GRIM SPECTER of unemployment in Southern cotton fields, whoaq forthcoming shadow caused economists to sound a warning when/ the cotton control program and subse quent Bankhead act were first suggested, is no longer a mildly annoying theoiy to regi mentation enthusiasts bu an actual condition reflected in heavily burdened relief roils throughout the South. But while this condi tion discloses an immediate crisis with respect to the subsistence of this displaced farm pop ulation, its most injurious effects, which now eaxi only be guessed by the stories of suffer ng which seojl like unreal legends from the submerged masses of the Southern people, can be expected to become increasingly mani fest in a further dislocation of social strata in the South. Particularly is this true of tin plight in which 1'housands of Negroes have found thdmselves. An interesting and authentic insight into this Negro problem is afforded by an appeal ing letter which has come to light, but Which probably was not intended to be made public, from C. W. Rice, president of the Texas Ne gro Business and Laboring Men’s Association of Houston, to A. W. Mitchell, the new Ne gro Democratic Congressman elect of Chicago. The letter follows: A( GEPT OUR congratulations upon your newly elected office as United States Congressman. We (feel that you as a Demo crat, can help us in many of the problems that affect t'he Southern Negro. “As executive head of the Texas Negro Business and Laboring Men’s Association, I am calling your attention to t'he cotton busi est* which furnishes employmet to hundreds of thousands df Negroes in the South. “Because of present day ob.tacles in the channels of trade, the most important business in the South, cotton, is rapidly dicing up. Be tween August 1st and November 9th this year, exports of cotton from the United States drop ped 1,334,000 bales under the same period in 1933. Fojreiga fhjuidrs ar$ rapidly taking the markets of world away from the Cotton South. as xnese mar nets are lost, Negro ten ant farmers, Negro farm labor, Negro work ers in the gins, compresses, and warehouses on the railroads, in the cottonseed oil mills, on the wharves, etc., will more and more lose their jobs. “According to figures released recently by the Federal Relief Administration, Wash ington, D. C., relief cases among Negroes at Houston had increased 63 percent between October, 1933, and May, 1934, and at Atlanta, Georgia, 123 percent. From all indicatipns he demand for relief will be greater as winter comes on. “The white employes in the South are organizing and appealing to their Senators and Congressmen for relief and protection, but Negroes in the South have practically no vote in electing these officials; therefore, we appeal to President Roosevelt, who represents ALtL the people, and to you, the only repres ipntative of our race in Congress. “Won’t you please look into this most important matter and do what you can to help save our occupations and jobs by removing the obstacles now in the channels of the cot ton trade? “The very food and shelter required by ©ur wives and children are at stake.” A companion letter went to the Presi dent, in which the Texas Negro recited cases of distress among his people and further ap pealed (for aid: “When we ask what the trouble is, the white leaders tell us that the South is losing its export market for cotton, and without an export market a great many people Will lose their jobs. “What can our people do for a living if the South loses its cotton business? What can we do to help you save the cotton business for the South? • “We ask your help, Mr. President. We need it and need it very much now.” THF IE IS an inescapable pathos in this picture of a humble people, struggling in an effort to answer their own question to the President, ‘‘What can we do to help you save the cotton business for the South?” And surely there is a certain sense of futility in the pic.tre of a Texas Negro imploring a lone Negro Congressman to “do what you can to help save our occupations and jobs by remov ing the obstacles r.ow in the channels of the cotton trade.” Ilut if there is a certain pathos and fu tility reflected in this incident, there is also a f: . degix-j of irony which cannot be escaped, t is an unfortunate characteristic of. American politics that momentous social and economic problems seem to be recognized by practically everyone in The country before politicians have the remotest conception of them. The eliects oi the cotton restriction program com prise a case in point. Economists who first foresaw the dangers buffeted a surging, hos tile sea of public opinion by criticizing the poplar program, but gradually as the results have l>eeii sheen to conform so . closely with the evidence a disposition to change perceptibly and give audience to the explanations of eco nomists that a restored world trade is the only sound solution. But from indications Con gress has heard nothing whatever' about this theory. j Texans and not landowners were dis pressione of such, aa that of the Texas Negro worker a clearer insight into the far ramific ations of the cotton control program could be afforded, because it is undoubtedly true that the prostrate Negro class has suffered more than any other, from the operations of the con trol program and the Bankhead law. If © victions from cotton farms resulting from the agricultural progiam had only been distribut ed proportionately between Negroes and whit es, a far greater percentage ttf Negroes than Whites would still have been evicted, for the percentage of Negro farmers to the total Ne gro population in the South is far greater than the percentage of white farmers to the total white population. Tenants and not landowners were dis placed, of course, and the percentage of land owners among white farmers is far greater than that among Negro farmers. It will not be long before the South gen erally wakes up to the fact that what has act ually been undergone is a tremendous social and economic upheaval in the South, the grav ity of which it is almost impossible to con ceive and the effects of which will be felt in the South for many years to come. The most deplorable effect of these gyrations in our e conomic ife has been the violent dislocation of our social order, bringing with it a serious retrogression in the South’s patient, endless struggle to achieve a more substantial equili brium by striving for the betterment of its submerged population—its stolid, unrespons ive, often illiterate Negro people. The task •is herculean in its dimensions, and conducted under conditions so peculiar to the South that it is not always understood elsewhere, but it has been as relentless in prosecution as it has been kind and sympathetic in character. DALE MILLER. -—---- I OPPORTUNITY Now that the smoke of the terrific pol £cal combat of >34 has cleared away, and the National Administration having received a tremendous vote of confidence from the Am enean people by reas0n of a Democratie ,and slide, which swept Federal, County, and State offices clear of Republican exocrpt in a few instances, their being a lone survivor here and there, and the Negro democrats with their audacious pioneers having succeeded in break ing the thralldom of traditional republican ism within the race, an almost super human task, placing the bulk of the vote in the demo cratic column for the first time in the history of these United States. What does political wisdom dictate? All good field generals time attacks never striking at an inopportune time, but holding back for that one right second, the psychological moment. Such a moment con sents the Democratic party generals at this time. The opportune time to take and hold PaT‘t7’S SI'eatest st™ng T, he Vote” presents itself. The . Psychological moment for a successful sallie has arrived. Equipment can be supplied to completely route tho enemy wm » £ generals be far sighted' enough to furnish this necessary equipment for the success of this ^tetpnse, worthwhiie political recognition tor Negro Democrats? T For hLstoncaI reasons, the Negro and the democratic party have been at arm length. The Negro deeming the Democratic party an enemy contributing nothing to its success. On ■e mher hand the democratic party believing *,egr°°ne 0f lts latest obstacles, contri j! d n°th;n" toward the Negro’s welfare. W^H ’ Ti C£"? a ^eat leader int0 the and, Honorable Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vet1? \t0Vt Mths, upset a seventy jear tradition, making overtures to the race sufficient to convince the Negro that good I "I'T the dem0cn*ic Party, and as a result the Negro went arm in arm with the | demoeratle Party in the >34 campaign. It >s one thing to get the vote and another to keep it. V ' \ (Continued from page one) N. R. A HIGHLIGHTS must be built.** — Window Glass Manufacturers Get A | Code The window yria'fs manufacturing i industry code goes into effect this' month. Though window g!& b l* * very coymon and widely distributed I product, there are only 17 manufac. ] taring establishments in thn industry! and 3 of thtwe receive 75 per cent cf all orders. In 1928. when many new' windows were being installed the in. I du .try had 5.000 workers The num- j her fell off to 3,000 in the depression- j but has now risen to about 4-500. ! — labels i About 75 or 80 codes provide for the utjo of labels to show the consum-1 ing public that the articles to which | they are attached are made under pro rribed NRA code conditions. How j many of thd^e little reminders are! pursuing their mission to keep the! general public a\v^ke to the need of standing behind the recovery pro- i gram may be guessed from a recent report of the umbrella indurtrv code authority to the NRA. So far, (5.000 000 NRA labels have been dr iributed to meyber manufacturers, it says “ | Use of NRA Labels Spreading A new amendment to the light sewring industry code requires manu facturers of mattress covers, com fortr and quilts to affix NRA labels to their article*. So. w« wrtil not only carry the label* on our clotsing and umbrella*, but th« NRA mav recall itself to our memories ju»t before we go to sleep at night. If the proposed supplemental code for the sponge industry, now being eonhldered *t public hearings, 1* approved, the sleepers myv awaken In the morning to scrub themsolvai with sponges equipped with NRA tags. NIRB Gives Santa Clans a Br«*k For several weeks, machines of the Westinghouse Electric Company have b«en striving to iHftall a movable electric stairway In one of the nation al capital’s leading department stores to provide for the Chritma.i rush. They failed to make the grade- So, the company risked the NRA to per. mit it to work its men overtime till they complete the job «nd permission we,s granted. Razor Bakers Not Allowed To Cut Workers The Code Authority of the razor manufacturing Industry has received an answer to its question as to whether workeus could be docked for Christmas Day off. The NIRB rules that employer's may not dock workers for taking off legal holidsjys. unless that was their custom before codifica tion. Packers and Alteration Workers On Holiday Schedule Skilled packers and alteration workers will be allowed to work over time between now and the end of the year. Extra work in peak periods is permitted under the retail trade code They mr«v work 8 hours extra a week, but not more than 2 hours extra a day, and will receive time and a third for their additional hours of labor. 15 FERA NURSERY SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA Washington, D. C-, Dec. 10. 1934 Or. Grace I>nvdon. head of the FERA nursery schools, this week re ported to Administrator Harry L. Hopkins real progress' in thia through out the South. rThe colored population of North Carolina is three-tenths that of the white,” wrote Mrs. Mary G. Scarbor ough, State Superintendent of nurery schools in North Carolina, ‘%o thirty, five white and fifteen Negro nursery schools were approved 'by the State administration”. There is one colored nursery jn Greensboro, Gastonia, Greenville, Method, Goldsboro, Black Mountain. New Bern, WiJ=on, Durham, Tarboro, and Winston-Salem, and two in both Wilmington and Charlotte. In each of these nursery schools "here are two full-time colored te^cherla and two part-time workers Twenty to thirty colored children of needy,.uneyployed parents are aecom. modated in each nursery school. In dividual cots are supplied by the War Department toys donared by the corcv ntunity, cne or two meals a day in cluding orange juice, fruits, and other food stuffs are contributed by the Federal Surpldsi Relief Corporation in many instances- The colored women employed in the nursery schools are trained professional people, well veised in teaching children proper behavior, tidiness, dreeing them selves, and in forming early habits of orderliness. Play is supervised and the youngtfters are also tausht group games and entertainer by jjtory tell ing. The children come at nine in the morning and stay u^til late afternoon. Parents are often given additional in struction in child guidance and edu cation. My Social Attitude By R. A. Adams (For The Literary Service Bureau) I want to rise, high as I jifatly may; Ambition’s high behest I would obey; But, even on ambition I would frown. If rising, I must c«s1i another down I w nt to bo just everything I car*—, All thats in reach of any honest man, i But I would . pirn honor, and renown. Attt&iablo by casting others down! I w’nt to win ir. life’s exciting rare; >"i 1 d the van, «nd bese t the fore naodt place. But I'd refuse, a yi tor’s crown. That must be won by cat ting others down! X w this my attitude I summarize: The best that s in me I will do, to ri>e, Ect will refuse advancement. If 1 must In ri ing. bo to •’■ny ma.i unjust. “PROVERBS and PARABLES” Dv A. B. M»nn (For The Literary Service Bureau) “Whom the gods would de> troy, They first m-'lte mad '* This is the human conception of heathen gods. These gods were crea tures of the human imagSrptien, and their cre^torj attributed to them human passion* and weaknesses. If gods were temperamental, impul sive, cmel. relentlers, inexorable. This axiom means, tlhat when the “gods” decided on the destruction of anyone, they provoked him to anger, caused him to commit some act which would be used to justify such destruc tion. Of course, this is fiction. These gods were but imaginary person&ges But there are those who are foolish enough to apply this to the Deity. This .s foolish and wicked too, be cause “The judge of all the e*rth. h« will do right,” and He is “alow to an ger and yet plenteous in mercy.” And He would not deal bo unjustly with His own creatures. There Is an abys mal difference between “the sods and and our “God”! “LOOKING BACK” (Liberties by Married People) By Videtta Ish (For The Literary Service Bureau) In our younger days married people were more disceet than now. Yees, there was jealousy. There was dan 8Ter froip jealous husbands and wives. But the chief deterrents were home teachings and fear of scandal. Not long ago in a Missouri town an old woman was killed. She attended a party. The revelers were “mostly drunk”. A married woman under in fluence of drink sat on the lap of a married man. The man’s wife became angry and “took him home”. The conduct of this woman was discussed. The old woman gave testimony that this younger woman did sit on the man’s lap. Hnraged the younger wo man went to the home of her accuser, struck her over the head with a heavy lantern and killed her. The conduct of this mfarried woman is a sampie 0f the liberties taken by married people today. Perhaps the reason why such things do not more often end in tragedies caUSed by jeal ousy than they do, is because the practice is so general that few mar ried perrons have right to complin because of their own improper con duct. In regard to the caution and propriety of the other days it seems Appropriate to nate. Them days is gone forever.” Berating1 Leaders In The Presence of Children * By R. A. Adams (For The Literary Service Bureau) Among the youth of today there is lacking respect for leaders and con fidence in leadership. Much of this is due to the mistake of parents in ex coriating these leaders in the presence of their children. This is especially true as it concerns preachers and teachers. Children hear it said of preachers and other religious leaders, “They are crooks”; “They are as crooked as a barrel of snakes”; “They are grafters, living off the churcs”; “They are as rotten as they can be”; “They steal everything in sight”; “The preachers are worthless and just in the minis try for what they can get out of it.” School teachers come in for their share of harsh, unfounded criticism. They too. are berated in the presence of the youngsters whom they are striving to help; and by this their work is made more onerous and more difficult. Even little children hear their mothers say of the teacher, “She don’t know nothin’ to teach”; “She’s dumb, herself, that’s why the child ren don’t learn nothing”; “She’s a mean old huzzy and I wish she didn’t have to teach my child”; dnd I’ll raise the devil with her if she bothers my child!” Often business leaders are called “scoundrels”, “cheats”, “fakes”, and sometimes, just plain “thieves and robbers”, who would “cheat an angel”, or who would “steal a nickel off a dead man’s eye.” Parents of the past generation h«d more respect for leadership and were mere careful in this particular. They wanted their children to have confi dence in their leafders; and they did have confidence in them. But this reckless berating of leaders in the hearing of the you+h of today £3 rapidly undermining confidence and doing irreparable injury to the cause of progress. Weekly' Short Sermon •MARA” By Dr- A. G. Bearer (For The Literary Service Bureau) j Text: Call me M*ra-—Ruth 1-20. I No one can understand the my«-' tones of human vicissitudes, humap divergencies, and human diversities. I But “nv<-ra” enters in the expeteenc* * j cf all mankind- The expression w*s used by Naomi when she returned homo from her stay in Moab. She: said. “Cal! me Men*4. because the aj. ■ mighty h:ith dealt bitterly with me.” So “mara” means “bitter” or “bitter. nes»” And the bittern" s of hunten , experiences is not always the disposi- i tmn of providence, as Naomi indicat ed. 1. By Bereavement. In this case Naomi was bereft of her husband.. Elimelech, «nd her two s ns, Maihlon and Chilion. The bitterness of be. reavement she dharger to God. Doubt le-ti there were natural causes which she did not consider. 2. Bitterness Caused by Affliction. Th'*re are many who complain against God. when afflictions come because they cannot understand, be. cause they are weak. and blind, yet, the afflictions are due to violations, of nature's laws. 3. Bitterness Oused by Material Looses. Many people honor and praise God amid prosperity but when adversities come, they complain Rnd charge Him with inequity. But in » large number of such cates the bitter, ness s due to sins or mistakes, mak ing the responsibility hum*n rather than Divine. 4. Beneficial Effect of Bitterness. Accepted and borne in the proper spirit, bitterness tends to make us sere ible of human weakness and de pendence and of the need of Divine help and support. MAXIE MILLER WRITES: (For The Literary Seryie® Bureau) The age.Old Story— We*kiu»« of Women’s Love and Man’s Perfidy_ 0*her Boys May Be Telling Lies f0r Spite—Yesy Son. M»rfy This Girl— Make Atonement for Your Sin! (For advice write to M^xie Miller oare of Literary Service Bureau. 518 Mnnesota Ave.. Kansas City, Kans. For personal reply send self-addressed, stamped envelope.) Maxie Millet; il’m, in a pickle sure enough and I’d like for you to advise me. I s.m twenty-two and I’ve been going with * girl seventeen- Now, this girl tells me she’s to be a mother and says I ought to marry her. I confess I’ve been with her in that way. but other bo«ys say they have been with her too, so I can’t know if the baby is mine. J wonder if she knows. I’d hate like the devil to marry this girl and haVe another fel low’s baby on my hands. What ought I to do ?—Sorry Sammy. Sorry Sammy; You ought to be sorry in reality for taking advantage cf this girl as you did. Have you a sister ? How’d you like for some other boy to deal with your sister in that way? Now, you Wouid squirm, play the coward and evade responsi. * bility. You’d be just a contemptible wretch to do such a thing. These other boys may be telling lies to spito the girl because she refused them. However, you confess you have ‘<been with her in tha,t way” and it is your duty to marry her. save her from dr£nace and saVe the child from illegitimacy. To do leS3 you confess yourself a despicable knave , and a scoundrel.—Maxie Miller. NOTE FOR CONSUMERS Of special interest to the consumer is * recent amendment to the code for the handkerchief industry, con taining new provisions against mis leading labels. Hereafter, “seconds”, unless plainly marked, must not be sold in sealed packages; and handker chiefs cannot be labeled “linen” unless the linen in the fabric constitutes, by thread count, at least 80 per cent of the material. In products where the major fibre is leSs than 80 per cent of the fabric, the exact percentage must be “prominently indicated” on the label. Handkerchiefs bearing the term ‘pure linen” are already regu lated by Federal Trade Commission requirements. Ask for a 1935 Ladies Birthday ALMANAC The nearest druggist will be glad to give you one oi there popular almanacs If you w:ll ask for It before rncr I they are all gone, rli&ftl Swiftest and Best RHEUMATIC PRESCRIPTION 85 Cents Pain—Agony Starts to Leave in 24 Hours, Just ask for' Allenru—Withhj U hours after you start to take this safe yet powerful medicine excess uric acid and ether circulating poisons start to leave your body. In 48 hours pain, agony and swell* lag are usually, gone—The Allenru prescription ia guaranteed—if one bottle deesn’t do as stated—money back. ' # STUART'S SERVICE BUREAU “M ANDY AND ANDY" ■VT mdy:— Andy, I thought you said th t the elation would be over Nov. 6th and that you would try to finish writing your trip to Arkantab. Andy;—Yes 4 know I told you that, but it seems ar* though those who were selected to run the Norths ide .Democratic Headquarters, just moved out to another place when the rent tell due and tries! to make a nameless organisation out of it. From the action of some of these Afro-Amen eans, who voted th„ Democratic tick et for the first tin**, many of them afraid to declare themselves for foor the Republicans would win. I arn not sure whether they know the elec tion is over or not M—I was over to “SI; Fanny’s" the other day «nd she said that she heard that you were out to a political ing the ether nite; when a “Big Shot" fired some kind of a committee and appointed himself. When you got up ;,nd asked some fool que.-n.ion that didn’t concern you. A —Yes I w«s at a meo.ing. but I don’t know what kind. The question of a con Aitution come up and I ex erted my constitutional rights, and ask«d what was the constitution for? No one seemed to know. I though*, that it was just another one of those Amos and Andy” resear al3. sp j left, and went over to the Community Center, to hear T. Arnold Hill, of New York, speak on organization- 4 am sorry that I didn’t come home for you. M. Wh»t did you have to do wijth it. two years ago the Nebraska Negro Democratic Club met and kicked you °“t- p°“ that one of the BIG SHOTS” who was running this show the other nite wa* placed on a commute two yean, ago, and was fired because he showed no result*, and that the N. N. D. C.'a haven’t met since ? A —YM I told you that Th*t is why I took the moling for a 8*tting for “Amdf and Andy”, The big ZZt w9o was running the s<W two year* ■go, w*8 on that committee, and fell down on the job. When the question <*nw up there was no mincing of word. They were just fired, and the boss took full charge of the works. You know Mandy. in this world, one reaps what they sow. M-—But there were Doctor*. News Paper men, Lawyers. Welfare work, ers and also politicians. If they were thtl^ riffht had you t0 «k the Bd*s what he meant? You are so dumb (that l am always uneasy when you go away from home A—You don’t know what you rIlhtnf ab0UJ' 1 haVe just as much ght to speak as anyone else. Didn’t I vote the Democratic ticket? Be sides there are three jobs that the de serving Negro Derq|ocrats feel that they should have and want 0ne of them And if I can be one 0f the seven ®P. that c°ntact committee, (all of om, are after jobs for themselves) wiH get a chance to see the good (White folks first. M—You make me laugh. You old broken down decrepit, not able to walk a block, and talking about a jo - If you were as well as Jaek Johnson when he whipped Jim Jeffrie* you would only be fitted for a Pullman orter. For -the only thing that you rV*Z ,h0neSty‘ S*” Fanny ^id that iZ °°nmn had one of those polite t^JObT: and he ^ to know his zizttekes brains-vhich y A.—You are right. But everybody *** know that, and I don’t tZJ *°around Mune ****. oody that I am sick, as harH ™ T „ . . ' , as aar<1 up as we are. I a^ (that if j werc abJe f pC n°mng bett€r- ' a that f* J’°b- But 1 Want to 30 °n that contact committee. A. Stuart. Atty. Ray L. Williams, Room 200 Tuchman Block, 24th and Lake Streets. NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT FINAL administration account In the County Court of Douglas County. Nebraka. In the Matter of the &tatQ of feamuel Houston, Deceased. All persons interested in said mat. ter are hereby notified that on th« “7t“ ray of November. 1934, Joseph D. Lewis fiied a petition in said Coun. ty Court, prayij^ that his fina, ^ ministration account filed herein be •settled and allowed, and that he bo discharged from his trust as adminis trator and that a hearing will fee had on said petition before said Court on tho 22nd day of December, 1934, and that if you fail to appear before said Court on the said 22nd day of Decem ber. 1934 at 9 o’clock A. 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