The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, April 27, 1935, Page EIGHT, Image 8
BUILD Your Own COMMUNITY By Patronizing Your Naborhood Stores HARRIS’ GROCERY 2639 Franklin Street We Specialize in Fresh Vegetables and Meats We Appreciate your Patronage. NORTH SIDE TRANSFER Long Distance Hauling Moving and Storage Phone WE 5636 2414 Grant St. FOR REAL BARBEQUE MEATS Cooked With Hickory Wood. Aiwa: p Have the Flavor and Taste. BILL HARPER 2923 Charles St EASTER SALE Swagger Suits ..._.$6.95 Sport, Street and Afternoon Dresses. The KRAFT BARGAIN Store 2518 N, 24th 1701 N. 24th AFTER THE WRECK -CALL KAISER & CHRISTENSEN AUTO TOP AND BODY CO. Auto Painting AT 8972 2810-12 N. 24th St. SLAUGHTER BAR-B-Q HUT and RESTAURANT 2002 North 24h Street Under New Management EDNA MITCHELL & Son, LEON. DEEP ROCK SERVICE STATION 24th and Charles EXPERT ALEMITING SERVICE 15 Years Experience. KOHRELL and CARPENTER. Expert Auto Repair ^ and Battery Service Quick Service Ja. 8103 M. & W. GARAGE 1706 N. 24th Street MILTON WILSON Says Come in And Look Us Over. BULGER TEXACO SERVICE Goodrich Tires. Willard Batteries. Recharge Batteries Fix Flats Have Complete Road Service. FOR JOB PRINTING CALL WE. 1750 OMAHA GUIDE Sponsored and Supported by Public Spirted Northside Business Men for the Purpose of Creating Better Understanding Between Merchants and Consumers an dfor the Purpose of Bringing Dircetly to You the Latest Price Quotations MYERS FUNERAL HOME Dignified, Efficient Supervision Nothing Over-Or Undone 2416 N. 22 St. WE 0248 S.-/ 1 TUOIMAN BROS. The North-Side Largest “Food Market.” Lowest Prices on Quality Foods 24th and LAKE 24th and LAKE Large English Walnuts _Per pound 20c Forbes Bread 16 oz. loaves I -2 for 15c Florida Grape Fruit extra fancy, 2 for 5c Porto Rican Yams Per pound 5c MASON & KNOX CAFE | 2307 N. 24 St. Prompt Delivery WE 4208 FREE! FREE! FREE! For A Few Days Onty Free, with your stein of beer the following sandwiches: Hamburger, Imported Swiss or Cream Cheese, Boneless Cold Ham, Tender Prime Roast Beef. Let us Club you with a club breakfast in a Mason and Knox way -FOR BREAKFAST HAM AND EGGS, German fried potatoes, Three hot Tea— No, Man-sized biscuits with coffee_u.20c BACON AND EGGS, American fried potatoes, hot tea biscuits, coffee__ • •__20c HOME MADE SAUSAGE, Knox fried potatoes, hot tea biscuits, coffee_•... 20c AUNT DELILAH HOT CAKES with Sausage or Bacon, coffee 20c Storz Triumph Beer On Draught HOME OF THE BARBEQUE KING -- -.. S HERMAN'S / Market ✓ WE FILL RELIEF ORDERS WE-5444 24th & LAKE Sts. I W The Best Quality Foods At The Very Lowest Prices WE DELIVER k--' Economic Highlights (Continued from Page 7) NRA would be virtually impot ent. —0O0—■ The S.resa three power confer ence, between Italy, France and England, has closed; and repre sentatives assert that they have leached full agreement on ways and means to save Europe from war. Highlights of the parley were: Decision to support France’s ap peal to the League of Nations against Germany's treaty viola tion in rearming; approval of the principle of an air pact for com bined attack upon any aerial ag gressor; approval of rearmest, to an extent not yet specified, for Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria. If the conference really does as sure peace it will have worked a miracle, in the belief of most authorities, who feel that no pact can long prevent war is Europe. BLACK AND WHITE CAFE 2210 N. 24th Street. Sandwiches, Steaks and Chops, c. H. HALL EXPRESS 2422 N. 22nd St WE-0846 PHONE JA 8585 RES WE-1056 WE MOVE WITH CARE Office: 1405 N 24th St. Omaha. .. JESSIE’S ORIENTAL TAVERN. The Place Where Good Fellows Meet—Hear GREGG WILLIAMS AND HIS FINE BAND 2525 Erskine St. WE-5758 ^S^ .. ^Ti MRS. RANDLE. Home Made Candy Pop Corn Carmel Corn and ICE CREAM. 2510 N. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. SWANSON Plumbing Co. Plumbing—Heating and Repairing. 1918 Cuming St. E. A. Backlund, Mgr. Phone JA-3434 Night JA-4356 ~ ' 1 ■ i — ■ 4 Do You Want Naturally Wavy Hair? Try Our CROQUINGNOLE MARCEL WAVE Affords Numerous Changes of Coiffure. CHRISTINE ALTHOUSE BEAUTY SALON THE TRUTH WHAT HAPPENED IN HARLEM Continued From Page 6 ‘ ‘ Let the Bastard Die. ’ ’ Cop Says Murray Samuels and Harry Gordon, two white youths, tell of how they were carried to the po lice s ation, beaten on the way, and beaten again as soon as they arrived. Every protest they made made met with one response1 “Get mixed up with a bunch of Goddam niggers, will you stick? S ick up for these damn black bastards, will you?” They were cuffed about the head, hit with billies across the shoulders, jab bed in the stomach with clubs. The cells filled rapidly, police dragging in fresh prisoners every few minutes. The jail looked like the scene of a bloody baitle. Workers—‘particularly Negroes; were thrown into the cells and left to lie, many of them helpless and bleeding. Gordon called for help for a Ne gro cell mate who was suffering torture, but all medical aid was denied. Another white man who begged for attention for a bleed ing Negro friend was told by the janer: “Let ;he bastard die.” Po lice dashed in and out, bringing new victims, calling the Negroes “black dastards” and dozens of unprintable names, and leaving the cells aLer each trip with the announcement that they would go out again and “kill us some nig gers.” Court Room Scenes Liketfwyap Like Scottsboro Court' Scene On Wednesday morning, the scenes at 121st Street and at Washington Heights rivalled ihe Scottsboro trial. A police cordon was flung about the courts. Any Negroes who managed to run the gauntlet were searched before they could enter. The prisoners were marched in, staggering and weak from the beatings they had received. Nearly all of them were bandaged, many wore shirts and collars dyed crimson with their own blood. Hardly any of these prisoners had counsel; but no at torney except those previously employed was permitted inside he rail with the arrested men and women. Not once during the day was anyone dismissed. Every three or four minutes another case was disposed of; no Misssis ippi court could have made a more cynical diplay. Thirty days: sixty days; six months; mechani cally the courts ground out sent ences, all thought of constitution al rights, all pretences of imparti ality, thrown to the four winds. A Negro boy of 17 was brought up on a charge of looting. The ‘evidence”—and apple and an arange found in his coat. The ‘proof”—the “identification” by a grocer of that particular apple and that particular orange. The court accepted the “evidence” and held the boy in $1000 bail for special sessions. MORE JOBS | The easiest way to prevent unemploy l ment is to create jobs. This Community | offers a great variety of employment op portunities. When you patronize your |community merchants wholeheartedly, |you increase their volume and make it possible for them to give all the mem bers of this neighborhood additional em ployment. ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART Grant Street Pharmacy PHONE WEbster 6100 Registered Pharmacist Prompt Delivery prescriptions carefully compounded MIDAS ICE CREAM Flavor—Quality Always P. J. Robinson* Mgr. 24th and Grant Streets Omaha, Nebr. *____/ Outside the sourtroom, fright ened city officials were laying plans for a monstrous whitewash uid a monstrous frame up. The Hearst press ,as usual, prepared the ground. In open and shame less lynch excitement, the Hearst newspapers during the week rival led the official organs of the Ku Klux Klan. These papers report ed . he brazen lie that the Negroes had called on each other to kill ihe whites, that they had at tempted .o do bodily harm to a white woman in a parked car. Typical of the headlines and sen tences of the stories carried in these papers were the following phrases: “Negroes roar for blood.” “The Negroes showed their yellow fangs.” “The blood lus.y cries of the frenzied black hordes.” The Courts and Rights of Negroes to Vote (NOTE: The following article on the Supreme Court Decision on the Texas Primaries was contribut ed by a young white Southern writ er, a native of Texas.) Austin, Tex.—(CNA)—If you are black, you cannot vote in a Demo cratic primary! This is what the Southern planters and politicians have 'always said. This is what the United ! States Supreme Court has just said in its decision upholding the Jim Crow ^procedure of the Texas Democratic Party. Surely in one corner of the bed we have the white-robed knights of the ku klux klan; and in the other, the black-gowned justices of the Su preme Court j The exclusion of Negroes from the primaries has meant the virtual dis franchisement of the entire race. The Dcmocatic party exercises a political monopoly in the South, and its nomi nees are almost invariably elected. These nominees are selected by white voters only, with the result that a Ngro citizen has no right to say who shall make his laws, assess his taxes, or govern his schools. The Negroe of Texas have become increasingly resentful toward this high-handed discrimination against them. A few counties have allowed Negroes the right to participate in the primaries, but only when their votes were needed td keep some polit ical machine running. In certain counties where the Ne gro voters have demanded the right of participation the ku klux klan has been called out to enforce the wishes of the local election officials. Court Leaves Loophole Tho state legislature attempted in 1925 to bulldoze the Negroes by pass ing a law forbidding them the right of participation in Democratic primary elections. The Supreme Court de clared this law unconstitutional, but left a loophole for the politicians by declaring that the Legislature could not bar Negroes through statuatory enactment. How quickly these politicians in cluding James V. Allred, the present Governor, jumped through this loop hole! The state party convention of 1930 adopted a resolution opening the primaries only to persons of white descent. Two years later, another state con vention proceeded to restrict party membership to whites only. The hy pocrisy of these resolutions is shown by the fact that there is no set form for becoming a member of the Demo cratic party. Any white person may vote in the Democratic primaries of the South, even though he may be a convinced Republican or Socialist at heart. But a Negro who may be a convinced Democrat is automatically barred from participating in the af fairs of that political group. Fosters Prejudice Last year, the Negro issue again came up to embarrass the aspiring politicians who were stumping the state. Allred, then attorney-general and a candidate for' governor, saw a golden opportunity to get the votes of prejudiced white people. In his capacity as attorney general, he ruled that the resolutions of the two con ventions did not conflict with any pre vious ruling of the Supreme Court. During the campaign, he proceeded to play the race issue for all that it was worth. “Stand back, you niggers,” he yelled at one political rally, “and let white Democrats hear what their next Gov ernor has to say.” R. L. Grovey, 44-year old Negro voter of Harris county, decided last year to bring Jim-Crow into court. When he was refused a ballot by Al LOOK! WITH EACH CHANGE WE GIVE A COMPLETE GREASE JOB. WALKER GARAGE 24th and Lake Sts. Call JA-7G86 bert Townsend, county clerk, Grovey sued for $10 damages, asserting that he was qualified by law to become a member of the Democratic party and vote in its primaries. The lower court decided the case against Grovey, but the United States Supreme Court agreed to review it. And this is the gist of the Supreme Court decision, written by Justice Roberts: “We hold the party was a voluntary association and was competent to de cide its own membership.” Fourteenth Amendment Buried Thus the Fourteenth amendment is finally buried under a mass of legal rubbish. The lesson for the Negro masses shoul dbe plain. There is no hope for them either in the capitalist courts or in the capitalist political par ties . The Republican party did noth ing for the Negro except to transfer him from a chattel slavery to wage slavery. The Democratic party has been the conscious instrument of the lynching planters. Now the sup posedly non-partisan Supreme Court gives the Negro a kick and tells him to “stay in his place”! This is our answer to the nine old judges and the vicious exploiters for whom they speak: That the Negro people of America will make their own place, through the unceasing struggle against oppression. That struggle will be remembered when the decisions of the Supreme Court are but dusty rlics for curious students. Young Liberators Are Slugged; Revenge Charged New York, N. Y—(CNA)—Follow ing a mass meeting at Rockland Pal ace, a group of Young Liberator club members were set upon by policemen and plainclothesmen. James Warfield, severely^wounded in the encounter, was arrested. iJames Ashford, Harlem youth lead er, stated in an interview that “the real motive for attack was the work of the Young Liberators in exposing the actions of the police in the re cent Harlem outbreak”. Laundry Workers Vote to Strike Birmingham, Ala.—(CNA)—Strike action was voted here by the members of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers Local 109, composed of Ne gro workers. Similar moves were made by Local 112 and Laundry and Dry Cleaning Drivers Local 339. The workers are demanding an in crease of three percent in wages, and check-off for the collection of union lues. The latter is tantamount to un ion recognition. QOOR,CHILD I 7m the: school; ; *r tV. ALLEN O. IRELAND t y A,aiW W H*Jlt UifJht' _. tw> tmiUt ImmIm' Home Work Once upon a time I was unal terably opposed to home work for; elementary school children. Even, the slightest amount of it aroused! my indignation, i j spoke against it at! every opportnnity. Indeed, I wrote an! article unfavorable! to home work for: this series. gjmgfgBa This isnT: a con fession of a change! of heart, bnt rather an admission that I hadn’t analyzed the situation ■ quite far enough. It was a school, principal, a good friend of mine, who pointed out the weak spot. As i a matter of fact this principal would oppose the old idea of home work as readily as I do. I know that is true because she is opposed to home work as a substitute for school work. We both agree that evening work at home shouldn’t be so many hours tacked onto the school day. But she pointed out to me this philosophy: Children like to be ac tive. But if the home isn’t inter-. esting, if there isn’t family unity j for an evening of games and music,' if parents turn to their own desires, J what becomes of the children and J this irresistible urge to do some- * thing? Many, of course, beg to go) out after supper. Older children) easily acquire the “corner” habit, j They seek excitement and adven- J ture. Or they must have the ; movies. That is enough to call to j mind the well known problem. If the home isn’t interesting, more so than the movie or the gang, can’t the school provide something? ; And there’s the answer. Interest- ■ ing books to be read; art posters to ! be sketched; collections to put in order; science questions to answer;} and things to make. The list can J be long. It gives the child some- ! thing worth while to do. It uses j energy; it takes those troublesome . hours. And there is educational ■ value. It’s a new type of home work and in many instances de- ■ cidedly worth while. What may we substitute today . for the rugged life of our ances tors? Dr. Ireland will answer * next week. r