. EDITORIALS .
THE OMAHA GUIDE
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GAINES T. BRADFORD, - - Editor and Manager
Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927, at the Post Of
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Race prejudice must go. The Fatherliood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are the
onlv priciples which will stand the acid test of good
citixenship in time of peace, war and death.
Omaha, Nebraska, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1936
“THE CAUSE THEY SERVED”
Armistic Day calls our attention to the Americans who
gave up their lives in the service of their country during the
great World War.
It is well that the people of Douglas County should place
some emphasis on the sacrifice of brave young men who surrend
ered their lives. Surely we should honor the memory of those
who offered their lives upon the altar of patriotism.
The men who went to their death during the titanic struggle
fell asleep with a dream of world peace in their hearts. Rightly
or wrongly, they were convinced that the suffering they endur
ed and the blood they shed would he part of the price that
mankind must pay for world peace.
Jingoistic speeches and fulsome oratory on Armistic Day
make no impression upon the dead. If happily they exist in the
land beyond and are able to keep in touch with a world they
loved, it should he a source of joy supreme to them to see that
the people for whom they died are at least loyal to the ideals
that eost them most. Our oidy fitting tribute to the dead sold
iers, sailors, marines and others connected with war-time service
is sincere attachment to the ends they sought and a courageous
determination to secure the goal which they struggled.
The Omaha Guide salutes all the soldier dead of this
country. So far as it is concerned, it pledges allegiance to the
high ideals that nerved them to superhuman endeavor. We hope
that the people of Douglas County, along with vast millions
of others in the United States, will always remember those who
died and he loyal to the cause they served.
THE RED CROSS IS YOURS
The annual roll call of the American Red Cross begins this
week and continues until Thanksgiving Day.
This great organization needs no introduction to the
people of Omaha and certainly no praise from us will add to
its prestige. Its record in times of war and peace is well known
to ull of us. The Red Cross deserve the support of the American
people and hundreds of us in Omaha should respond promptly to
its appeal by enrolling ourselves ns members.
The peace-time function of the Red Cross, as an agent of
mercy to those caught in unexpected disasters, may not seem
important sometimes as we sit in the quiet of our homes.
However, when the demoniacal forces of nature are loosened
against us, to leave a populace stunned and amazed at its fury
and destructiveness, the symbol of the Red Cross and the aid
that it extend becomes of transcendent importance.
The few dollars that we contribute to the lied Cross is
cheap participation in the glorious realization of mercy and
relief. Surely there are few of us in Omaha who can afford
not to give at least ono dollar to he included in the army 'of
those willing to help the afflicted and unfortunate.
Pew readers of this article will disagree with the senti’
ments expressed. Many of them, however will put off the actual
signing of the roll call card and the giving of the vital contri
bution to respond to your better impluse and make your con
tribution immediately.
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Many newspaper men are against accepting public jobs
until somebody offers them one.
By and large, it might be better if the laborer of the
country managed to get larger incomes.
If you see two men putting their heads together the chances
are that one is telling the other a joke.
Correct this sentence: “1 believe strongly in the enforce
ment of all laws that seem to be just and proper to me.”
A forest, fire is a dangerous thing—so be careful when you
are in the woods and see that you don’t start a blaze.
The average man willbe glad to extend you financial as*
sistance after you get to the point that you don’t need it.
A survey says that youth is losing its influence—why the
fact is the old folks are getting younger every year.
A newspaper, as a general rule, is no better than the com
munity in which it circulates and rarely is it any worse.
Pay up your subscription during the early part of Novem
ber and enjoy Thanksgiving without any qualms of conscience
Promise the average voter a job, er a few dollars off, and
he will forget all he knows about the law and the Constitution
The course of history shows that nations have generally
resorted to war for material gains; in short, they sought plunder
A few years ago most of us had too much money in closed
banks; now we hardly manage to kepe anything in the open
ones.
Getting mad with a newspaper because it doesn’t print
evehything to suit your opinion is a sign that you are not sure
of your opinions.
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Borrowing money to spend today may sound easy, if you
can find a lender, but when the payments fall due the job
assumes proportions.
Speakig of transformations—have you ever seen a sensible
couple imagine that Junior or Sisster inaugurated, a new speciest
of genius 1
Despite the talk thatis handed around the country by
those who know better there are very few newspaper men who
can be bought or bribed.
National joke: Tariff protected manufacturer yelling his
head off because the government has a processing tax with
which to pay farmers crop benefits.
We know at least a dozen men .right here in Omaha, who
can solve the problems of the universe faster than you can put
the propositions before them.
The League of Nations is making a fairly effective stab
to show that it have grown its eye teeth and knows how to use
them. No peaceful nation should do anything to prevent the
Leagues success in halting the war in Ethiopia.
WHAT GUIDE
READERS SAY:
A Tech High Alumnus Address
es Graduates of 1935 “The
Negro Youth Looks Up
on Graduation”
Fellow Graduates:—A met'
ropolis of unperturbed human
ity, crescendoing and falling,
once was immune to the masses
of youth thrown upon its mul
tiple resources. Now that pul'
listing mass cannot richochet in
utter solicitude the bombard
ment of those spirits of flame,
but must extend its arms in a
welcome encouragement to the
graduates for furtherance of
higher achievement.
The colored youth is gradu
ating now at the average age of
high school students, instead of
discontinuing study when gram
mar school, work is finished and
then returning to high school
to later graduate .even if that
is done, a! an age older than
that of the average high school
student. v
It is often found that even
after a course of study is com
pleted successfully, that that
course is not suitable for the
situation the youth faces when
he enters into an almost non
committal and frigid world,
lie finds that the only business
open for him unless he is lort
unately favored is one of a
common laborer, or one in
which advancement is fancy or
very slow. Therefore, the grad
uating senior does not see all
the rosy colored rainbows that
optimists would have him vis
ion. Instead he realizes more
than ever that competition in
the ‘daily bread’ fight is keener
than could be anticipated; even
by any pessimistic viewpoints
I he might have ventured before
hand.
The graduate is handed his
diploma with a smile and won!
of good cheer from the donor,
lie finds that that smile and
good wish lasts him for only a
short while after; then all be
comes a memory.
One cannot live on smiles,
and in this period of depression
“good luck” is a sobriquit giv
en those who are working and
acquiring the necessities of life
or a fraction more.
One cannot tell the student
to use his initiative in making
a success of himself if such a
success is spoken of ini term of
the money value of the individ
ual. Money making is stressed
far too much by authoritives.
The student is urged to fin
ish high school and college so
that his higher education might
faciliate, mostly, a larger in"
come. Thus, the morale of
higher education is cut down
by the deprecating, selfish as
pirations of the anmtuer busi
nes sman to become rich quick"
ly, and then retire from such
asten.tnrtious service he might
have been undertaking. Those
nmatuers would be the gradu
ates whose zestly hopes have
not as yet really dramatized
the throes of experiences nor
the sequences of defeat. True,
these graduates have been told
that the life ahead of them is
one of rising hopes, struggle,
and fortitude; yet, it is true
that the graduate, helped by a
nonchalant community, stress
es far most ardently the rising
hopes and comforts of life af"
ter graduation and looks upon
the discomforts ns a matter of
course and not vital consider
ation.
Success is reached only when
ones heart Is put altruistically
in an endeavor to create, and
infuse such idealisms or achieve
ments that benefit the cause of
a venerated humanity, and
when such nsuccessful individ
ual acquires ns satisfaction
without egotism.
It is only in stressing the
above principles that one will
approach cooperative living and
that our posterity will succeed
in mastering the art of living
together will in a complicated
habitation.
One must admire the effotrs
of the graduate who finds that
he is an unwelcome member
of the army of unemployed;
one must respect the feeling in
him that is ‘invictus’, in spite
of set backs, and extend to him
not a uopen armed world, hut
one of equal opportunities.
Above all humanity must
prove to him that the time has
come when the Negro student
must ealize that the soliloquies
of the past ac in the shadow of
the setting sun, and that the
ising sun shall make such a
shadow merely the darkest
hour before the dawn of a new
propagation.
Very truly yours,
William L. Davis.
June 1935.
Pennsylvania forest rangers are
guided to fires by portable two
way short wave radio sets with
which they can communicate with
watchmen on fire towers who dis
cover blazes as they start.
PROVERBS
AND
PARABLES
“SEEING IS BELIEVING”
This is intended to convey
the idea of uncertainty, of
doubt, of scepticism. Perhaps
one of its purposes is to warn
against excessive credulity and
to abolish caution. But it is
foolish and self'contradictory.
Believing is faith. And faith is
belief or confidence in what is
not seen. Seeing ends faith; so
it is foolish to say we believe
what we see. Then it is almost
wicked to discourage faith when
the world stands so greatly in
need of it.
Maxie Miller Writes
Married Woman 28, Child"
less and Hopeless—Husband
jects to Adopting a Child—Two
Believes in Heredity and Ob
Sides to the Question—Blood
Will Tell—Wife Too Young to
Despair — Better Wait and
Hope. ,
Maxie Miller:—I am a mar
ried woman 28 but childless. I
feel the call to motherhood and
want to adopt a child, but my
husband objects. He believes
in heredity and fears the child
might have bad blood. I think
that’s all bosh and 1 am will
ing to risk it. What do you
think of such a case? What
should I do? Do you believe in
heredity Advise me.—Margy.
Margy: — In this matter
there’s nothing for you to do
if your husband objects to ad'
opting a child, since he is the
head of the family. In the other
matter there are the proverbial]
“two sides’’. There is every
thing in heredity. Tt is said,
“The blood will tell to the last
drop,’’ and it is a dangerous
thing to take a child not know'
ing of its ancestry. But there
are many orphans of good par
entage which deserve help to
make their lives worthwhile.
Present this side to your hus"
band.
Then, Margy, you are young,
entirely too young to despair
of motherhood .Better wait, and
hope. Maybe your family doc
tor could help you. Yes, wait
and hope and your dreams
might come true.—Maxie Mill
ler.
Girl 18 has opportunity to
go to college—Boy friend is
sensible—Girl wants to drop
out and marry—Foolish girl to
do thus—Better let marriage
wait—Use common sense, Laura
Jean.
Maxie Miller:—I am 18. 1
have finished high school. My
parents want me to go to col
lege and they are able to send
me there. But I’m in love. The
hoy is 22. He wants to go on
with his education but he’s not
able to do it. He is willing to
wait while 1 go to college, but
I’m afraid some other girl
might cut me out and take him.
I’m almost ready to give up col
lege and get married. What do
you think I ought to do?—
Laura Jean.
Laura Jean-—There is but one
sensible thing to do, and that
is to go to school and “make
it snappy’’. The boy shows good
sense and I compliment him. If
you play the fool and refuse to
complete your education you’ll
regret it. Suppose he should
change, that would not he a
calamity. You are young and
will have many opportunities.
Anyway, you are too young now
to know your own mind. Go
on to school, Laura Jean, and
make something of yourself.—
Maxie Miller.
THE WAY OUT
(By Loren Miller)
NO MISTAKE
At first I thought there had
been some mistake ami that The
New York Times had reported
one of Prof. Kelley Miller's
speeches under the wrong head
line.
I still think that Gen. Chas.
H. Sherrill owes the professor
an apology; there isn’t any
doubt that the former ideas
has first rights on the senti
ment that minority groups
shoul dgo slow on portest lest
it move the oppressors to do
them dirtier than ever.
Mr. Miller has been preach'
ing that doctrine to Negroes
for years. Mr. Sherrill has just
returned from Germany to tell
American Jews that continued
protest against entering the
Berlin Olympics may lead to a
“wave of anti-Semitism’’ in
the United States.
Before he gdt through the
General was blaming Jews for
Nazi outrages by saying that
they had “overplayed” then
hand in pre-Hitler Germany.
FAIR PLAY
Unfortunately for the Gen'
eral ,he got back just as Judge
O’Mahoney was adducing con
clusive evidence of Nazi dis
crimination against non'Aryan
athletes.
One of the gems he culled
from official Germany Olympic
literature was that advising
athletes that the Nazies “can
see no positive value for our
people in permitting dirty Jews
and Negroes to travel through
our country and compete in
athletics with out best." That’s
plain enough; Jews and Ne
gores aren’t wanted either on
German teams or as competi
tors.
Perhaps Fen Johnson, Col'
umbia sprinter, hadn’t seen
that statement when lie ad
vised us to go slow on the boy
cott plan. Ilis point was that
there is plenty of discrimina*
tion by the AAU in America.
He doesn’t want us to strain
at a gnat and swallow a camel;
but that’s hardly an excuse for
gobbling down two camels.
GOOD PAINT
Anyhow, I am glad that Mr.
Johnson raised the point. I
think that Negroes ought to
make more of it; every expres
sio nof support for the Olym
pic boycott shoul dbe coupled
with a demand that discrimin
ation against Negroes be
halted right here.
Even Gen. Sherrill had an
uncomfortable moment with the
point; he said that he had no
more right to protect anti-Sem
itism in Germany than a Ger
man would have to kick against
the treatment of Negroes in
the South. I can’t see why Hit
ler should protest the Herndon
decision either.
But I don’t see any reason
why other Germans, especially
Jews, Catholics, liberals and
anti-fascists .shouldn’t protest
Jim Crow in Alabama. Minority
groups will never get far until
they do combine their strength.
Individual protest is easily
downed; it s harder to curb or
ganized outcry.
SHOUT LOUDER
In fact, the end of minority
persecution will be in sight
when the Africans in the Congo,
Jews in Germany, Negroes in
the United States and dissent
ers in Germany and Italy—to
mention only a few'—get to
gether and combine their
strength. They can’t effect un
ity through soft-pedalling their
grievances. Each must protest
loudly so that the other can
hear. That would be tough on
the overlords.
That, I suspect, is what Gen.
In the Walk of Rum
(By R. A. Adams)
Here are some of the things
which are found resultant from
repeal of the 18th amendment.
Disappointment. There were
those who concluded that plac
ing whiskey within reach of all
would decrease drunkenness;
but the opposite is true. One
stock argument was that repeal
J would eliminate the bootlegger,
but the government forces ad
mit that the illegal dealers sell
about as much as the legal
ones. The financial results are
disappointing, because it now
seems certain that the cost of
administration will consume
more than the revenue accrued.
Degeneration of Womanhood.
In the days of the old saloon
only the most degraded women
were found in the drinking
places. Now, with drink sold
almost everywhere women of
all classes may be found in such
places, sitting at the bar, smok
ing and drinking. And in these
places as never in the other
saloon days, women are bar
tenders, or as the English call
them, “barmaids," with cer
tainty that many such will be
come addicted to drink.
Safety. Civil authorities are
agreeing that motor accidents
have increased distressingly,
since repeal of the 18th amend
ment and the beginning of
open sales of whiskey. This
is trtle of and in every
city in the country. And
that it is cheaper and thus
accessible to more people will
increase these deplorable but
preventable accidents.
These resultant evils show
that the best and highest inter
ests of the people of America
have been sacrificed upon the
altar of rum ; for the enrich
ment of unprincipled producers
and dealers in strong drink.
Again, I remind that tremend
ous responsibilities rest upon
those who have brought back
this menace to human well
being.
SERMONETTE
(By Arthur B. Rhinow)
TOBACCA ROAB
“Tobacco Road’' is the name
of a well acted, but depressing
play, depicting the deplorable
conditions of the impoverished
whites of the South. They are
under nourished, indifferent,
filthy, lack initiative, and their
morals are disgusting. No one
could leave the theatre with
the feeling of having been
pleasantly entertained.
Just why is a portrayal like
that given in elegant New
York? They are so different,
this picture of almost unspeak
able squalor and the refine
ments of the metropolis. Why
bring them together?
To give sophistication a
chance to gloat over degenera
tion and congratulate itself
that it is “not as frtd^er men
are?’’ Hardly. One wouti'Hfjfldt
for something less disagreeable
and more melodramatic for
that purpose. Not such stark
realism.
No; the design seems to be
rather to make the high realize
how the low live, and to give
the lie to Cain’s evasive defiance
by asserting with all the pas
sion of a soul on fire, “I AM my
brother’s keeper.”
Sherrill fears. He’s been a Gen
eral so long that he thinks the
world owes him his gold braid.
He believes that underlings be
long in the ditch.
But there’s no use of doing
the General an injustice. There
is a point in his advice to Jews
to take their grievances lying
down. You can’t get around it;
i fa man is willing to lie down
in the gutter you needn’t push
him there. He’s already where
you want him.