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■REVEALING' f Lpun ' 1 PAST, PRESENT <W4 EUTPRE •• M. A. B.—Will the mortgage be paid off on my house? Ans: Your children will con sent to have the mortgage trans ferred to their name and they will pay off for you This prop erty is worth too much, for you to lose it. » vV H. M. D.—Should I do as my' sister has asked me or did she do it just because she thought it would please me? Ans: Your sister really wants you to come WEST and live with her. You need not worry about her husband disagreeing with her about you coming for he is just as anxious as she. She will see that you are established in a good business. E. S. J.—tWhat does my friend intend to do? Ans- I don’t believe that he will ask you to BECOME IMS BRIDE. It is my impression, that he will leave the city within the next few weeks. If this is the way he plays—you wouldn’t want him if he did decide to make you his wife E. A. Y.—Should I m a k e the change that I have in mind to make? Ans: Yes — go to the SEA SiHORE and get the job that has oeen offered you for it seems to me this job is a YEAR ROUND posi tion. You have until LABOR DAY before the business slacks up and then you will be able to make a go of it through the winter. P. M .D.—Where will I find my desired happiness and success? Ans: Your ambitions and plans concerning the WORK that you are interested in will bring you the desired happiness that you are seeking. This business will prove successful and your income will also increase within the near future. A. D. H—»Wbat shall I do as I am treated like a baby by the boys and girls I go around with. The boys do not ask me to dances and go places either. What is wrong? Ans: Nothing is wrong with you but you are going around with a group of young people , just a little older than yourself and they consider you an out sider. You are too young to as sociate with these people and be included in their fun. Drop them quietly and go with people your own age. M. L. S.—Should I quit my boy friend or try to prove my inno cence ? Ans: Do not even try to prove your innocence for he knows that you are NOT GUILTY of the things that he accuses you of. He never thinks about you cheating until he gets SLOPPY DRUNK and then he isn’t altogether re-’ sponsible for what he says. Un til he stops getting drunk let him alone „ ' V H V » . ‘ ( A. V. W.—Should I do what I have planned or do as my mother says? Ans: Your mother had rather you carry out her plans than for you to GO AWAY. You could be just as happy if you did so too. If you desire to write me private ly you may send a quarter at any time. See the Special Notice at tached to this column for more detailed information. I. P.—Why did my wife take a sudden notion to come home ? IIow will this affair end? Ans: She found out that you had become interested in another woman and she suddenly real ised that she still LOVED YOU. You two will go back together and try it all over again. R H.—Do you think I will get a job this winter? Ans: You will become em ployed as a CHAUFFEUR for a very wealthy family in PHILA DELPHIA, PA. You will get em ployment around the middle of October of this year. A .L. M.—Please tell me what on earth is the trouble here? Ans: You have allowed mem bers of your household to keep in a constant uproar and confusion until it goes on all the time. It is time that you put your foot down on some of this disturbance and the quicker you do it the better off everyone concerned will be. NOTE—Your question printed free in this column. For private reply send 25c and (self addressed stamped en velope for my New Astrological Read ing and receive by return mail my advice on three questions free. Sign your full name, birthdate and correct address. Address Abbe’ Wallace., P- O. Box—11, Atlanta, Georgia. * If He Only Meant It! Anti^Red Law Challenged By Dothan Writer Dothan, Ala., Sept- 5,—The Dothan Eagle, edited by former State Senator Julian Hall, today carried a front page editorial rid iculing th;e anti-sedition bill, which Gov. Graves vetoed a day too late to make his veto effec tive, and offered to make a test of its constitutionality by declar ing for “violent' overthrow of the State government. In a mocking article under the caption, ‘Rally Round, Com rades! Let’s II’st the Red Flag,’ the editor of The Eagle says: “Because Gov. Graves waited one day too long to veto the anti sedition. bill, it automatically be comes the law of Alabama. “Thus ti is now a misdemeanor for any citizen to advocate the overthrow of the government by violence, or who possesses more than one copy of a publication, cut or cartoon advocating the overthrow of the government by violence. “As a newspaper believing im plicity in the fundamental im portance of free speech and a free press, The Eagle is interested in testing this drastic and un.wholly lmncessarv law. “Therefore we advocate the overthrow of Alabanma’s govern iment by violence. We urge the cit izens to arm themselves with shil hilahs, seta out for Montgomery and whale Hell out of the mem bers of the Alabama Legislature who voted for the anti-sedition bill. We advocate that they also be kicked swiftly in the after deck of the pantaloons. We advo cate that they be chased out of the historic and chagrined old Capitol and back to the donghills of their barnyards .. • !” Roosevelt Supplied With Louisburg * Lynching Facts New York, August 28—Calling his attention to the fact that Senatorf Josiah W, Bailey, a member of his party, and a leader in the fili buster against the Costigan-Wagner bill, has threatened that he will fili buster against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill whenever it is brought up, President Roosevrft was today supplied by the N. A. A. C. P. with the facts of the lynching of Govan Ward at Louisburg, N\ C., on July 30th. The President is asked by Walter White, Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. “What steps will you as President and your administration take in the next session of the Seventy-fourth Congress to insure a vote upon the Constigan-Wagner bill?” Notice, Subscribers: If you don’t get your paper by Saturday, 2 p. m., j call Webster 1750. No reduction in subscription unless request is com plied with. 4 Sharecroppers Strike To Shake Cotton Belt Cotton Pickers Demand Hike in Pay, Less Hours Relief Situation Wretched DADEVILLE, Ala.—(CN A)—The greatest strike movement in the his tory of the cotton belt was predict ed by the 35 delegates to the 3 county convention of the Sharecrop pers Union, held here recently., Tala poosa, Chambers and Lee counties were represented. Each report em phasized the determination of tlV? masses of the wagehands, croppers the strike, to win their demands, and relief workers, solidly behind Preparations for the strike includ ed not only raising funds for strike relief and preparing for terror and evictions, but also forming United Front with churches, community clubs, and fraternal societies which are represented on the strike om mittees and on the plantations. The Union is appealing to the small farmers for support in the strike. Dissatisfaction With Rehabilitation ■ Farms Wide-spread dissatisfaction with Rehabilitation Farms wras expressed. One delegate said, “I have been on a Steer Farm for 2 years and I would rather be in the penitentiary.” An other delegate said, “the government cleans the cribs cleaner than the landlords.” A “Steer” farmer reported that he received rellief checks of $14 a month for January and February, $12 a month from March through June and $10 for July. eH had 14 in the fam ily and had to fed a mtde out of this check too. When the mule died this spring the government accused him of starving the irjule to death and forced him to pay 75 for it. Others reported that the landlords who rent the land to the government for “Steer farms”, try to force the “Btfjar” fsfnrrters to work out the rent by day labor on the plantations. When the farmers refuse to do this, the landlords go to the Relief stat tion and have the rent cut out of the relief. The Government is the Landlord R. K. Greene, Rehabilitation chief in Alabama, states that it cost an average “Steer” farm family $95 for everything, and that 86 percent of the money advanced by the govern ment had been repaid. This is reflec ted in the poverty-stricken conditions of these farmers. Delegates reported that the government took ALL the peas and fodder and MOST of the corn they had raised, and that is it is greedily awaiting the sale of cotton from the 7 acres allowed each farmer to ,boltyect! “ofhjlr debts”. These farmers will be evicted if they don’t sign the papers binding them to another year of slavery by Aug ust 1st. These “papers”, signed trustingly by the farmers, at first, hava turned out to back-fire with all sorts of bills of which the farmers know nothing. Direct Relief Stopped and Projects Cut Down Tho Relief Station has been raov | ed miles away to Montgomery; and all relief has been withdrawn. The demand for 20c an hour, 40 hours a week, pay in cash, is being pushed as a strike demand. Also, a demand for return of the Relief Sta tion to every County seat and direct relief at the rate of $6 cash weekly lor the head of a family plus $1 for each dependent. This demand will al so apply to those held prsoner on “Steer” farms. A strong fight for the right of croppers and tenants to receive gin } certificates, AAA land rent checks and parity premiums is being made with sucesses in many places. The meeting also decided to wage a real struggle for rent reduction of 25 percent this year. The issue of 8 months school, free books, free school buses and free hot lunches will also be raised. Mothers—Let your boys be Guide /newsboys. Send them to the Omaha Guide Office, 2418-20 Grant Street. Alabama Landlords Frantic Over “Black Belt” Cotton Strike SELMA, Ala. — (CNA) — “Road Tax’ law that was abolished several years ago in Dallas county, is being revived and the officials are trying to force young Negro workers out on the roads to work out their “tax”. No white workers have been bother ed at all, nor the older Negro work ers. 100 Negro youth that have been summoned have refused to work. More than five have been arrested in an attempt to force them to do road work. This is a direct blow at the Cotton Pickers strike in that most of these youth are cotton pickers and they are being terrorized into doing this Y ork to break up the preparations for the strike. The Way Out By Loren Miller (Specal to Crusader News Agency) POLITICOL SEASON At the risk of brniing up an unpleasant subject, I am duty bound to report that the political season is open again. I found it out when I went to a tennis tourn ament not long ago. Activities were interrupted while the master of ceremonies presented an as smblyman. The so-called repre sentative didn’t have anything to say but he did beam on the crowd for a full minute. I was alarmed at the time but my alarm turned t opauic when I got home and read the evening paper. Right there just as big as life was a picture of Mr. Roose velt shaking hands with an assort ment of Negro Elks. I knew then that my suspicions had been con firmed and I have settled down to a long siege that won’t end until the last ballot is counted in 1936 HAPPY DAYS Mr. Roosevelt looked happy too, just as happy as he did the time he dashed down to Warm Springs, Georgia an/d lowered the Teljei wages for the benefit of the cot ton growers, and, if I must men tion it, to the detriment of the Negro workers. I suppose it is a gift and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to leam^ that the pres ident is able to smile right 'through the bitterest poverty— our poverty, not his, you under stand. It may be that it was the nov elty of the occasion that put the smile on the president’s face. I remember as if it were yesterday that Negro newspapers were com plaining of the fact that he had consented to be photographed with everybody but Negroes. But time works wonderful changes and time also brings elections closer. NO THINK} NEW Of course, the gag isn’t new. It is a time honored device, this Dusiness of the president, any president, having his picture tak en with Negroes for campaign purposes. The amazing thing is that it works. The procedure is pointed to by campaign orators —-for the proper fee—to prove that the head of the nation is just one of th boys and that he hasn’t got a prejudiced bone in his body. Unhappily, nothing ever comes of the whole business and the president, any president, goes right on hi smerry wav. It has been happening for years and our condition has been growing worse during the whole time. Negroe remain at the bottom of the heap. WHAT A PAL Back of the whole picture tak ing idea is the theory that Negroes are inferior. Subtly, or not so subtly, Negroes are made to be lieve that the whole group has been honored wrhen the president is willing to be seen with one of their number in public- There is always a nice business of select ing the proper Negroes to be photographed with. It s safe to be photographed with members of fraternal order*. On the other hand Mr. Roosevelt has made many trips down south during his term in office. Warm Spring is one of his hobbies. It’s a resort for the cure of infantile paralysis to which white children only are admitted. I wonder whether or not Mr. Roosevet would be willing to be photo graphed with a little crippled Negro child at Warm Springs while he uttered some word of condemnation of the system that exclude them from the resort. Or do yo think that he will have his picture taken with one of the Scottsboro mothers next week? As I said in the beginning, the political season is on. Mothers—Let your boys be Guide newsboys. Send them to the Omaha Guide Office, 2418-20 Grant Street. University of Mary land Raises Sex Issue Annapolis, Aug. 23—The Universi ty of Maryland has raised the sex issue in its formal application to ad vance the hearing of its appeal against the writ of mandamus issued by the Baltimore City Court, June 25, 1935, ordering the University to admit Donald Gaines Murray to its School of Law, The Maryland Court of Appeals is not scheduled to con vene until October, about one week after the University of Maryland opens its fall term. Under ordinary procedure, Murray would be already matriculated in the School of Law when his appeal would be heard but in an effort to keep him entirely out the University of Maryland has ask ed that the hearing on the appeal be advanced to the last part of August or the iUrst of September so that a decision by the Court of Appeals can be rendered prior to the opening of the school. The petition recites that since the writ of Mandamus in Murray’s case several other Negroes have applied for admission to the School of Law, the Pharmicist’s School and the un der-graduate college; that there a»e 2,000 students in the University of whom 500 are females, and H. C. Bird, Acting President of the Uni versity, states that he will not be responsible for what happens in case Negro students actually are admit ted to the University. The petition sets forth a letter f•' m a white man, cno George M. Quirk, a resident in Washington, D. C., who writes to in quire whether Negroes are to be ad mitted and states that he has three daughters enrolled in the University whom he wishes to remove from the University if Neg-oes aie to be ad mitted. The University claims that it is threatened with extensive loss of students and that the consequent loss of income will seriously curtail its educational program. It further states that separate schools as the traditional policy of Maryland and that separate schools have “undoubtedly been a leading cause of the present amicable and cooperative relations which exist in this State between the two races.” The answer of the N. A. A, C. P. raises no objections to having the case advanced but protests the at tempt to befuddle the issue of con stitutional rights.! It points out that there is nothing sped’al to be gained by rushing the appeal because both sides have indicated they are going to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court. The answer states that the issue of constitutional rights is a personal issue whch cannot be measured in dollars and cents and that the state cannot withhold the benefits of law from one citizen simply because other citizens may object The answer further points out thr illegality and inconsistency of tho University's attitude which would exclude Murray, a bona fide citizen and resident of Maryland who I happens to be a Negro, in order that -he white daughters of a white non resident of the state may receive edu- j cation, in the University which Mur- ! ray’s family help to keep up by the payment of taxes. It states that the University can hardly expect Murray to purchase amicable relations by the surrender of his constitutional rights. It further' alleges that the Acting President raised the sex issue to camouflage a deliberate attempt t ■ deprive Murray of his rights. Notice, Subscribers: If you don’t get your paper by Saturday, 2 p. m., call Webster 1750. No reduction in subscription unless request is com plied with. Nudism Is Rightly Named By R A. Adams (For the Literary Service Bureau) The term “nude" me^ns naked; bare; without concealment; and it is rightly named. The foolish nudists go naked, claiming they are “going back to nature." And they are going back to nature in more ways than one. They are turning away from the progress of the years which has brought men from nakedness and ig norance to this period of civilization. These misguided people make bare their lack of common sense and of common decency, resorting to this practice to attract attention and win notoriety, these fanatics expose their superlative folly. Happiness, and life itself depend on moderation. Ex cess in eating and drinking and in dulgence in exhausting pleasures are manifestly detrimental to human well-being. The most disastrous of these are sexual excesses; and nud ism greatly contributes to this what ever may be the claJitais of its vo taries. While believing in personal liberty and freedom of action, one cannot es cape the conclusion that nudism strains personal freedom to its breaking point, and that it should be restrained. By many it is contended that civil ization has reached its zenith; that moral retrogression is now in pro gress; that sex laxity threatens the collapse of the superstructure of our social system for which so much has been sacrificed. And nudism is in deed confirmatory of this contention MAXIE MILLER WRITES (For the Literary Service Bureau) (For advice, write to Maxie Mil ler, care of Literary Service Bureau, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. For personal reply, send self-addressed, stamped envelope.) Man Made Love to a Girl then Mar ried Her Sister—Wants to Get a Divorce and Marry the Discarded One—No, Ruth Ann, He’s a Jump ing-Jack and Would Jump Away From You Again—Let Him Alone and Make Him Let You Alone. Maxie Miller:—Here is a sad case for you. I had a boy friend. We had talked of getting married.. I went off to school and while I was gone he married my sister. They have a baby, now. The trouble is that this boy says his old love for me has revived.' He is dissatisfied and wants to get a divorce and mar ry me. I think I love him some still, but I don’t want to hurt my sister. She thinks something because she says he’s been different since I came horr,e. Sometimes J think she took him from me, so it wrould serve her right if I’d take him from her. How about it?—Ruth Ann. Ruth Ann:—You are wrong. This sister didn’t marry the boy without his consent, so she didn’t “take him” from you. Then that could not have been the case because you had no claim on him. You do not claim you w*ere engaged to be married. This fellow is unstable and dangerous. His duty is to his wife and child, and your duty is to let himj alone and make him let you alone. He’s a jumping-jack and would almost cer tainly jump away from you again. Better let him alone, Ruth Ann.— Maxie Miller. -- Canada Honeycombed With Race Dis crimination Youth Called “Insane” When They Apply For Jobs TORONTO, Canada — (CNA) — Canada is literally honeycombed w'ith race discrimination, according to an interview with J. Spencer Pitts, prominent attorney and cultural leader of the Negro people here. From the government departments and city councils down to the most menial employments the doors are closed to the Negroes. Threatened with Lynching If a Negro youth applies at a big departmbent store for such an un pretentous job as a porter, the man ager of the store would look upon him aS being “insane”. *Tn the words of Mr. Pitts, “they would almost have him burntj” Negro girls are regularly and sys tematically denied jobs as maids or cooks, but when they do happen to find a job, they are paid miserably low wages—much lower then the “generous” sums paid to whtie girls. “Socally Ostraczed” Negroes are not only barred from jobs, but they are treated as “un touchables” socially. Negro girls can not swim in the YWCA swimming pools. Negroes cannot eat in restau rants nor dance in public dance halls, according to the rigid system of jim row which pervades all Canada. Mr. Pitt declared that “we com mon people of Canada must all unite against ths brutal system that fost ers minority race prejudices and us on to war and fascist reaction.” BRAIN TEASERS DO YOU KNOW YOUR RACE HISTORY 1* How many Negroes served in the Revolutionary War? 2. Wrhat great abolitionist was mobbed on the streets of Boston for his figrt for the freedom of Negro slaves ? 3. What noted character was the author of ‘ My Bondage and my Bondage and my Freedom? 4. What president of the U. S. was quoted as being the father of two slave girls—Clothel and Althosta? 5. Who wrote “Fire in the Flint ?” 6. Who is Ruby Batos? 7. How many Negroes vote in the United States? 8. What state has the largest Ne gro population? 9- What is the most famous “blues” song ever written and by whom? 10. Who -was considered the world’s most famous Negro actor who died recently ? Answers on Opposite Page. Chicago Women To Support “Free Hern ddn” Campaign CHICAGO, 111.—(CNA—Support of the Illinois Association of Colored Women, the most important organ ization of Negro women in the state, has been pledged for the movement to free Angelo Herndon. In a letter conveying this information to Her bert Newton of the International La bor Defense, Mrs. Carrie S. Horton, President of the IAGW said. “I, too, firmly believe that the sac rifice and courage displayed by Hern don is inspiring to every believer in Negro rights, and pre-requiste to the emancpaton of the Negro race.” | OMAHA LOW RATE CAB CO. I INSURED CABS c-" 'I made my skin shades lighter! , And now you, too, can have the joy of a lighter, clearer skin—free from freckles, pimples, blackheads large pores, blotches. Tonight at bedtime just smooth on Nadi nola Bleaching Cream—no massaging, no rubbing. While you sleep it actually dis solves dark pigment—for Nadinola is double-acting. That’s why it gets results where ordinary bleaches fail. 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