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THE OMAHA GUIDE
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Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are the
only priciples whioh will stand the acid test, of good
UNREST IN ITALY
The most recent Ital'an troop mutiny occurred when the
Fifth Alpine Regiment in the South Tyrol was Rent to the front.
The entire regiment of 500 men demonstrated noisily against
MussoSIni. Two men were killed in the fight that ensued. Sev
eral days ago, ia detachment of of infantry at Lugo de Romagna,
in the province of Bologna, mutinied and killed a fascist mili
tiaman. These mutineers were joined by civilians who demon
strated against war. Another mutiny occurred aboard an Ital
ian oil tanker after it had left the Rumanian port of Oonstanza.
At Tripoli, the native soldiers mutinied and killed their Italian
commander. Almost 2,000 deserters ure reported to have fled
across the border into Austria recently. Ahotner 1650 deserted
£yoin the army in the South Tyrol, most of them making their
way into Germany, while about 2,000 more fled to Jugoslavia.
Dissatisfaction of tint Italians at the war front is exceeded
by the grumbling of the Jtu'ian masses at. home. Due to Musso- j
lfyu’s “counter-sanction’’, the Italian, people are forced to buy
only Italian goods sold at exorbitant prices by the Italian trusts, j
Gasoline sells at $1.25 a gallon which has reduced the day’s
traffic by 70 per cent; coal is sold at $30 a ton. The scarcity
of meat brought meatless days to the masses. The schools south
of Florence ure to go without lieut this winter. Rome goes half
dark at 10:30 every nightiund Sienna has no street lighting at
aU. All gold and copper objects belonging to the people have
been com! seated for the “war cheat.’’
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THE AAA INVALIDATED
While the AAA at no time met the needs of the poor farm-1
ers, it did provide them with n medium of crop insurance. The
defeat of the AAA has removed even this hit of security from I
1he small farmers without substitute provision for relief. The I
Conernment will now presumably levy some other type of tax
ation to pay the more than $500,000,000 contracted for benefit
payments. To the large meat packers, millers and food proces
sors, the overthrow of the AAA has proven, a windfall;. These
manufacturers who have paid about, $200,000,000 in processing
taxes are planning to begin suits within the next month to re
cover his money. The net income of the Cudahy Packing Co.
wlpch sought an injunction against the tax, will be increased
by* $3,224,618. Tfr'a umoun was deposited in escrow pending
the Supreme Court's decision. At the end of September 30th
an estimated sum of more than $126,000,000 was held up by
these injunctions. All this money will now find itself buck in
the pockets of the large companies. The stock market also
showed r«es of 1 to more than 3 points on some issues because
of the invalidation of the AAA. Cotton soared $1,500 a bale
and wheat at Chicago rose 2 cents a bushel.
EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK
IT THE STATES DO NOT
The word from Washington is that the proponents of the
dostigan-Wngner nnti-lvnehing hill are planning a new drive
for the measures enactmct, the 'impetus for which they expect
to get from a senate investigation of the 14 or 19 lyncbings—
the number is disputed—since last May.
For some years now the Record has been pointing out to
these advocates of state rights that every unpunished lynching
•is an argument for the enactment of some kind of a federal
anti-lynching law. No unbiased student of law enforcement
methods and systems believes, of course, that the more enact
ment of a federal law against lynching will prohibit lynching,
but some such law will he tried if the states, which might have
made lynching unsafe long since, do not do something about it.
—From the Columbia, S. C. Record, December 31, 1935.
MORE FOR WAR: I,ESS FOR RELIEF
The Roosevelt six and one-half billion dolalrs budget for
1936-37 does not make any provisions for Federal dole, for PWA
loans and grants to cities and states, for FERA, or for most of
the other projects In the current relief program. The budget
also 'includes a recommendation to limit the entire Federal
Work Relief program t o a minimum. On the other hand, the
national defense budget for 1936-37 is tflc largest peace-time
budget ever asked. The Army and Navy expenditures for
1936-37 will be $937,791,966 showing an increase of $193,00,000
over 1935. This is to be devoted to acquisition of new fighting
ships, aircraft and personnel in the year starting July 1, 1936.
Provision is made for the purchase of 507 new airplanes, more
tanks, armored and combat cars.. The West Point cadet enroll
ment of 1,374 is to be increased to 1,960 while the present Na
tional Guard strength ofl90,000 is to be increased by 5,000. It
also provides for the training of 27,500 at the Citizens Military
Training Camps.
To lesson wind resistance German automobile designer has
inserted the headlights in the radiator of a car.
Tennis courts have been invented that arc made of virtu
al indestructible rubber tiling set in concrete bases.
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THE COOK and the POT
for The Literary Service Bureau
Thi axiom runs, "When the
cook talks too much the pot boils
over,” and is a warning against
trying to do too mpny things at
the same time. It is literally
true that a cook should watch his
cooking; that no meals cook
themselves; and that if the cook
shall become engaged in conver
sation and forget his cooking
there is danger that the pot will
boil over, with the usual results.
Cooking is one item in human
activities. It requires concentra
tion and constant observation.
There are many other activities
which, like everyday cooking
requires much concentration.:
The success in performing any of
the various dutties necessary 'to
mans’ comfort and his develop
ment will ever depend on giving
strict attention to what is being
done. Carelessness, inattention,
neglect, will make abortive any
effort in any line. So whoever
may desire success in any given
line should give heed to this par
able and take care of his cooking.
THE CRIME of the AGES
by R. A. ADAMS
for The Literary Service Bureau
There are many crimes. The
catalogue of them seems endless.
These crimes affect all classes.
Some of them have temporary ef
fect and some wll be exertng in
jurious effect for generations to
come. In the light of such facts
one would be inclined to ask
“Well, what then is the crime of
the ages 7” To end suspense,
the crime of the ages is the des
truction of moral ideals.
The ideals of the past included
obedience to parents, respect for
older persons sanctity of the mar
riage relationship, continence for
men nnd chastity for women, re
spect for the House of God and
reverence for sacred things, hon
esty and integrity no matter
what the exigencies or the mat
erial loss; and to these must be
added self respect which supplied
the Incitement to live so as to
hnve confidence and respect of
neighbors.
But there has been waged an
intensive and persistent warfare
on these ideals. Honor is mock
ed and honesty ridiculed. The
world has revised the Golden
'Rule to read “Do others before
they do you." God and religion
have become objects of scorn and
derision. Conventions and safe
j guards have been junked and now
MAXIE MILLER
WRITES 1
(For the Literary Service Bureau)
Conservative Boy in Love with
Girl Who Drinks and Smokes —
Won’t Agree to Quit After Mar
riage— Challenges the Lover’s
Right to Interfere—Better Pass
Her Up, Sad Boy—To Marry this
Girl Would be Taking A Long
Chance with Happiness.
(For advice, write to Maxie Mil
ler, care of Literary Service Bur
eau, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas
City, Kans. Ifor personal reply
send self-addressed stamped en
velope.)
MAXIE MILLER:—I am in love
with a pretty girl. I think she is
a good girl, but she drinks a
little and smokes, too, and I ob
ject to both of these things. She
won’t do cither one when I am
around, and she says she could
quit both, if she had to, but she
say she is grown and I have no
right to interfere with her. She
won’t even promise to quit after
we marry and il know we couldn’t
get along with her drinking and
smoking. I love this girl and do
not veaht to give her up, so I
don’t know what to do. What do
you think is best to do?—Bad
Boy.
SAD BOY:—While it if no long- j
er considered disgraceful to drink
and smoke, there are just thous
ands of people who believe a wo- '
man should not indulge in eithei
habit. If you have your convict- 1
ions and you are sure you could
not be satisfied with a wife do
ing such things, you’d better
change your course and look for
a girl who will not do these
things. To marry under such cir
cumstances' is to take a long
chance, as to your happiness. If
she loves you she will not lose
you for a thing like that; if she
is willing to lose you under such
circumstances she does not love
you and you would be better off
without her.—Maxie Miller.
we have almost reached the place
where “every man is a law unto
himself.” For the must part,
j now, the marriage relationship is
' a matter of convenience or prof
| it.
These ideals which are being
' so ruthlessly trampled constitute
the principles on which this na
tion and the civilization of the
ago have been built. The de
struction of our ideals, means *to
turn backward the wheels of pro
gress. It means the destruction
of what is best In us and of that
for which so many sacrifices have
ben mad*. Yes, the destruction
of our moral ideals is indeed the
crime of the ages.
ALTA VESTA
A GIRL’S PROBLEMS
(By Videtta Ish)
Alta Vesta from Her Father,
Number 27
for The Literary Service Bureau
Dear Alta Vesta: Your dear let
ter made me feel young again. I
thought of my childhood. What
you wrote about the little bird
hopping and jumping up and
down took me back to the days
when I used to wonder about
birds, as you do now.
Now, Dear, as to having a bird
I hate to deny you any pleasure,
but J have been opposed to putt
ing birds Into cages. In child
hood I read a story of a man who
bought a bird and then opened
the cage and set it free. He said
ho was in prison once, and he re
solved never to see any person or
thing in prison if he could give
freedom. This story made a last
ing impression, so that I have
contended that birds are entitled
to be free. I am thinking of the
matter and shall give you my
answer in the next letter.
Now, Daughter, be sure to tell
me about your Christmas celebra
tion, about your little friends to
who you will give presents, and
about the services which I know
you will attend, for your aunt
Cornelia never nesses Christmas
love,—Your father.
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SERMONETTE
By Arthur B. Rhinow
Adversity the Mother of Great
ness
for the Literary Service Bureau
In his address at the Memorial
Service of the .Junior Order of
United American Mechanics in
Queens Borough President Geo- j
rge U. Harvey said: “No Nation ;
becomes great in prosperity,” and {
it seemed to me I coul.l hear the j
centuries and millenniums of the
past endorse the statement with
a fervent Amen.
True, the periods of history
called great have usually been
those of iplendor a)nd .security,
but wre know the nations did not
become great in those periods; ra
ther in the periods of stress and
struggle and suffering that pre
ceded the “golden age.” Then
souls were tried. And we know,
also, that the rottening of nation
I al character usually began in sea
j sons of prosperity and magnif
j cence. Then Babylon grows soft
! and becomes easy pickings for
the hardy Medes and Persians.
•In times of plenty a people is
| likely to live lightly, and indulge
the craving for luxury as well as
the taste for esthetics without
ethics, and religion becomes a
system of beautiful forms. Ad
versity, on the other hand, deep
ens our thought life and awakens
the faith that lays hold on the e
temal powers that never fail us.
Then we grow strong because we
know the Almighty is with us.
But pity, twice pity, the man or
nation that does not learn in the
I school of adversity.
TT jCTT^r a a rnr<;
KELLY MILLER
SAYS
HOWARD, OF HOWARD
Oh no, I do not mean Gen. O.
O. Howard, the famous Christian
soldier and philanthropist who
gave his name to the premier Ne
gro University, but rather one of
his early pupils who caught a full
measure of his spirit of sacrifice
and devotion.
On last Saturday we buried in
Washington, James H. Howard,
who was born in Montgomery
county, Md., in 1861. Young How
ard entered Howard University at
nine years of age and was gradu
ated with the Bachelors degree at
the age of 18, in the class of 1879.
He was not only the youngest
graduate that Howard University
has ever turned out before or
since his time, but his record of
scholarship constitute an all-time
high in the hitory of the institu
tion.
i.mmecnateiy upon graduation, he
entered upon the study of medi
cine and maintained the same high
standard of scholarship which had
characterized his colege course. Up
to this time the medical students
of Howard University were drawn
mainly from the white race.
Young Howard was the first col
ored man to lead his class in the
Medical Department.
Immediately upon graduation
from college young Howard enter
ed the clerical service of the gov
ernment where he continued not
only throughout his medical course
but throughout his entire career.
Ho never engaged actively in the
practice of medicine for which he
was prepared under such promis
ing auspices. Shortly after re
ceiving his doctor’s degree, young
Howard embraced the faith and
tenets of the Seventh Day • Ad
ventists. At that time this relig
ious cult was all but unknown
among colored people. His new
found religious affiliation created
a sensation among the faculty,
student body and alumni who, in
their own mind, had rryarked out
a brilliant career for this young
alumnus who had started out so
brilliantly. By becoming a Sev
enth Day Adventist he caused the
same sort of a shock and disa
pointment among his friends and
admirers as would happen today if
a well known Methodist should
suddenly turn Mormon. Needless
to say, Dr. Howard became a
marked man among his erstwhile
friends and admirers who shook
their heads at what they regarded
as the folly of so promising a
young man needlessly throwing
away his career.
But none of those things daunt
ed young Howard. He embraced
his new religion with all of the ar
dor and devotion of his nature. He
lived and labored for it during the
rest of his days. His whole life
was devoted to the propogation of
the gospel after the manner of his
sect whose tenets he had espoused.
He was never conscious of making
any sacrifice for his new found
faith but enjoyed unalloyed hap
piness in doing the Lord’s work in
what he regarded as the Lord’s
way.
The Seventh Day Adventists
literaly observe the 4th Command
ment which enjoins: “The seventh
day (Saturday) is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt
not do any work.” As a govern
ment clerk Dr. Howard showed
such efficiency and evinced such
moral earnestness and enthusiasm
for his peculiar faith that the de
partm’t was willing to allow him
his Saturdays as an offset to the
j usual thirty days annual leave.
Dr. Howard served as a clerk in
the old Ford Theatre where Lin
coln was assassinated. When the
walls of this building gave way
suddenly killing 26 of his fellow
clerks, he found himself buriedun
der the timbers and debris of the
collapsed building but miraculously
escaped unscathed. In the midst
of it all, he found himself recit
ing a verse of the Scripture with
the assurance that the Lord will
, preserwe those who trust Him.
Such faith could not fail to im
press the entire office with the
! sincerity and earnestness of his
1 belief in God a a ready help in
the time of trouble.
Dr. Howard was a lay evange
list who worked in and out of sea
son without orders, rank or pay,
but merely for the joy of advanc
ing the cause to which he had de
voted his life. He was chief
among the organizers of the Col
ored Adventist church in which he
serwed as a life-long faithful and
devoted member down to the day
of his death. He was a teacher in
the Sunday School, a member of
the choir and served in every ca
THEN YOU ARE BRAVE
by R. A. ADAMS
for The Literary Service Bureau
If you can look traducers in the
eyes,
With naught of fear, denounce
their slanderous lies,
Look the whole world right
squarely in the face,
When enemies would shame you,
and disgrace
If you can thus behave,
Then truly you are brave.
If you can suffer sorrow, grief
and pain,
With manly fortitude and not
complain,
Your burdens bear, your troubles
all endure
With heart unfaltering, you may
be sure,
If you can thus behave,
You must be counted brave.
If you can laugh when more dis
posed to weep,
The secret of your wounded spir
it keep,
Have storms within yet outward
calm, meanwhile,
And face the world still with a
cheerful smile,
If you can thus behave,
Then, surely you are brave!
pacity by which the interest of the
church was promoted. He carried
the gospel with him wherever he
went among his friends and ac
quaintances. I never met him on
the street but that he essayed to
persuade me to become an Advent
ist even as he was. He always
put into my hands circulars and
literature calculated to uphold the
validity of the Bible teachings ac
cording to his creed and cult. Al
though he had the enthusiasm of
a leligious zealot, he always main
tained the approach of the scholar
and the never failing courtesy of
the true gentleman that he was.
After his career through college
and the Medical school he was
easily entitled to rank with Wash
ington’s elite at a time when this
elite put on the greatest preten
tions. But like Moses, he deliber
ately refused such social entice
ments and preferred contact and
association with the humble, un
sophisticated folk of his own
household of faith than to enjoy
the social frivolities of Washing
ton for one season. The recruits
of the Seventh Day Adventists
were, for the most part, steady,
sober, hard-workng people without
any particular social pretentions.
Dr. Howard felt perfectly at home
with these people, using his su
perior culture only to show them
the better way
The Seventh Day Adventist
church, now one of the most flour
i ishing in Washington, was built
jup largely through Dr. Howard’s
efforts and personal influence,
j Several of the most highly educat
ed persons in the community have
i ben persuaded to follow in his
way of religious thinking. I have
in mind a member of this church
(Who is a Harvard Phd., and a
i member of the faculty of Howard
University.
Dr. Howard was industrious,
economical and thrifty as becomes
a devotee of an ardent religious
cult. Quakers and Mormons are
among the most thrifty of the
American people.
Hr. Howard’s prorogation of
'the gospel was not limited to this
country but was caried on across
the seas. On his own initiative and
at his own expense, he went to
Abyssinia and laid the foundation
for the missionary work of his de
nomination in that far off coun
try. Ho established smooth work
ing relations with the government
authorities upon which basis the
Adventists missions have flourish
ed. Recently we have ben horrified
at the ruthlesness of Italian
aviators bombing the Seventh Day
Adventist’ hospital and wounding
the Swedish physician in charge.
All of this was the outgrowth of
Dr. Howard’s endeavor. He found
ed a school for girls in Abyssinia
which he named in honor of his
wife and mother
This, in brief, is the story of
James H. Howard. Since the estab
lishment of Howard University
sixty-nine years ago this Institu
! tion has turned out more than six
| thousand graduates and as many
more sometime students who have
shared the partial benefits of its
j courses. It has been my privilege
anti pleaure to know or to know of
the work and worth of practlcal
j ly all of those who have done or
contributed anything worthwhile.
I can honestly say and candidly
that I know of no alumnus of
, Howard University who by rea
son of intelligence, character, de
ivotion and a consecrated sense of
duty, deserves to rank higher in
the estimation of his Alma Mater
than this unpretentions man of
God, Howard of Howard.
Kelly Miller
