AN OPEN LETTER FROM R. C.
PRICE REGARDING AFFAIRS
AT THE COUNTY HOSPITAL
Sept. 9, 1936
Mr. George D. Gesman,
Supt. Douglas Co. Hospital,
40th & Poppleton Ave.
Omaha, Nebr.
Dear Mr. Gesman:
I am a citizen, home owner
and taxpayer, and I have lived
in Omaha for the past 25 years.
During my entire stay in Om
aha, 1 have paid my taxes, part
of which goes to support the
institution over which you are
the Superintendent. When my
wife, the late Mrs'. Mintie Price,
2411 N. 22nd St., was commit
ted to the County Hospital, it
happened to be my first time to
ask aid from the county. I feel
perfectly justified in making
application to the Douglas Co.
hospital. A man of moderate
means ,who had a wife to ling
er under the care of doctors,
some of which were the best in
the city, part of the time she
sepnt in a hospital, for a period
covering seven long years,
should be eligible to pull the
bell cord of distress and ask
for help. If a person is forced
to place his loved one in the
County hospital, I do think in
fairness to humanity, to Whom
It May Be, the help should not
assume the attitude of a prison
personnel.
Below I shall register my
complaint:
On or about August 1. 1936,
I took my wife Mrs. Mintie
Price, to the Douglas Co. hos
pital, thinging her condition
might improve over her
home care. After observing
there was no noticeable im
provement in her condition, I
called at the hospital in com
I any with a lady, Tuesday ev
ening, August 11 ih and asked
permission to take my wife
bac.k back home. A man was
sent, with us to the women’s
division, Mrs. Adeline Jones,
2415 N. 22nd St., the man in
question, and myself composed
the trio, for the purpose of
bringing her out of the hospital
in a wheel chair. The time was
about 9:00 p. m. This man will
weigh about 200 pounds, and
I should judge his age at past
60 years. T have received in
formation however, that his
name is, Chas. B. Sharpe. Af
ter my wife had been dress d,
by the nurse and Mrs. Jones,
and placed in the wheel chair,
this man shoved her out into
the hallway, notwithstanding
her weakened condition. Mrs.
Jones advised this mail that my
wife was leaning to the front
too far, and would be apt to
fall out of the chair, and just
as she become overbalanced in
the act of falling forward out
of the chair, Mrs. Jones rushed
quickly and grabbed her. Thus
man. replied to Mrs. Jones,
“Take your hands off of her,
I have been wheeling sick peo
ple out of here for more than
four years and I know my bus
iness.’’ In as much as my wife
had subsequently fallen out of
bed twice in the ward room, wre
knew it would have been an
easy matter for her to have fall
en out of the wheel chair.
,Tins man was admonished by
both of us that this woman was
a very sick person, and he was
not exercising proper precau
tion for her safety, whereupon
he seized her in the back of the
collar with such force she could
scarcely draw her breath. He
seized her in the same fashion
that a person would seize a dog
in the collar, in an attempt to
separate them from fighting,
and then he defied either one
of us to place our hands on her.
This man’s attitude display
ed contempt from the time he
started for my wife, until he
wheeled her out to the hospital
he was sore, because he had to
’entrance. He acted as though
bet out of his easy chair to per
form his duty. He was impolite,
rough in his manner of speech,
and his every action was that
'of indifference. I feel safe in
saying, that prisoners in the
penitentiary, are accorded more
courtesy than helpless sick pa
tients are accorded at this
man’s hands. To prove the ser
iousness of my wife's condition,
and the reason why he should
have handled her with the
greatest ease and care, she was
taken out of Douglas Co. hos
pital, Aug. lltli, and she died
Aug. 15th. When I placed her
in the waiting taxi, this man
I was swelled up like a poisoned
toad frog, and he was too stub
born to raise a hand to assist
i
me.
i A copy of this letter will be
placed on file, pending a reply
from you, before releasing same
for publication in the newspap
ers, and I am also sending a
[copy of this letter to Mrs. Chas.
Burns, County Commissioner in
charge of Douglas Co. hospital.
I remain,
Yours very truly,
R. C. Price.
Omaha, Sept. 11, 1936
To Editors of Newspapers:
Immediately upon receipt of
this letter to Mr. desman, Supt.
Douglas Co. hospital, he laid
everything down and rushed to
the place of business of R. C.
Price, and thanked him for this
information. He stated he had
been watching this man for
some time, but he had no spec
ific complaint on him; but since
he had such a complaint, he
had been instructed by Mr.
Chas. Burns, County Commis
sioner in charge of Douglas
County hospital to proceed for
the immediate discharge of
Chas. B. Sharpe. Mr. desman
said, “The place formally held
by Chas. B. Sharpe would be
taken over by a woman, and he
further said 1 think it will add
dignity,and grace to the hos
pital office to have a woman
there at nights to receive pa
tients. The hours are from 7 :(X)
p. m. to 7 :00 a. m.
11. C. Price.
Disciple Of Father
Divine Pays 6-year
Old Debt for Seals
New York, Sept. 11—Peaceful
Love, formerly known by a differ
ent name before she became a dis>
ciple of Father Divine, paid this
week a six-year old debt to the
N.A.A.C.P. for Christmas seals
which she received but did not pay
for. In her letter transmitting a
money order for $2.50 she writes
that she pays this debt because of
Father Divine’s teaching and his
advocacy f “Legislation making it
a criminal offense for any indi
vidual to spend money except for
necessities of life, while he owes
a just debt to any other individual
or organization.”
Tho National Association for the
Advancement oif Colored People,
expressed hope that certain others
who owe sums to it may follow
Peaceful Love’s example.
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Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 12—(C)
—Bennett College for Women op
ens here Sept. 8.
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|Union Pacific Buys Monster Locomotives
The new Union Pacific ‘‘Challenger type” high-speed locomotives are veritable leviathans of the mil, capable of pulling a
freight train of 100 loaded cars at a speed of 60 miles per hour. Fifteen of these new engines cost $2,000,060.
Powerful enough to pull a1
freight train of 100 cars at a
speed of a mile a minute, its
length equal to the height of the
average 10-story building, with a
firebox as large as the average
bedroom, the first of fifteen new
locomotives has just been re
ceived by the Union Pacific Rail
road at Omaha. The balance of
the $2,000,000 order will be de
livered by the American Loco
motive Company of Schenectady,
[ N. Y. during the next 90 days.
The new locomotives, known'
as the Union Pacific "Challenger
type”, were developed by Union
Pacific experts and the locomo
tive company designers for high
speed freight service, especially
for mountain territory. In loco
motive parlance they are of the
4-G-6-4 simple articulated type.
To the layman this means that
the front truck has four wheels,
behind which are two sets of six
coupled driving wheels followed
by a trailing truck of four wheels. ,
There are two six-wheel trucks
under the tender, which has a
capacity for 22 tons of coal and
19,000 gallons of water.
The overall length of the en
gine and tender is over 110 ft.,
the weight is 432'a tons (without :
load of coal and water). The
firebox of the locomotive, not
including its 714 ft. combustion
chamber, has a grate area 9 ft
wide and 12 ft. long and is 6V4
ft. high which would require a ,
heap of coal shoveling on the
fireman’s part if it were not for
the fact that it is fired with a
mechanical stoker.
The two sets of six coupled
drive wheels on the engine me
69 inches in diameter, the height
of the average man The two
pair of wheels on the front truck
are 33 inches in diameter. The
first pair of wheels on the trailer
truck is 36 inches and the second
pair is 45 inches. The wheels on
the tender are all 33 inches.
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Closing Arguments
For “New Deal”
In the South
Chapel HU. N. C. (Calvin Ser
vice)—The closing arguments of
the speech of Prof. Guy B. John
son of the University of North Car
olina. before the Institute on Re
gional Development, for a “New
Deal’’ for the colored people in the
South, follow: “One thing which
we need very much to do is to
make the better white university
libraries more accessible to Ne
gro scholars innear-by institutions.
Does it not seem a bit stupid to
make a Negro professor forego
research on his 'particular problem
except when he can get away to
Chicago or Columbia or some other
northern school while alll the time
he has been living within the shad
ow of a good library? These
things go on much more than we
realize. I know a number of first
rato Negro scholars teaching in
the South who would give almost
anything to be able to use a uni
versiy library. In some cases they
could have the use of the library
for the asking, but so many of
1 these Negroes have learned from
bitter experience that their re
ception may be anything but cor
dial that they simply forego this
privilege rather than risk the dan
ger of being insulted or Jim
Crowed.
“Another thing which could very
easily be done is the matter of co
ordinating the future expansion of
white and Negro libraries in cer
tain educaional centers. I have in
mind such centers as Durham
Chapel Hill, Atlanta, Nashville
and New Orleans. It is out of the
question for any one library to at
tempt any longer to provide itself
with *all the works published in a
particular field. If the various col
leges in centers such as these
could get together and agree on
certain specialties in which thy
would avoid expensive duplication
in the future, they would then be
able to go ahead in a coordinated
manner. I might mention the pro
gress which has already been made
along this line at Duke and the
! University of North Carolina. Re
i eently these universities wre giv
! en 'a grant for books on the con
| dition that they eliminate duplica
lion in their purchases. The ma
Ichinery for this has already been
I set up and several thousand books
have been added to each of these
libraries. Each library has provid
d the other with a duplicate author
| catalogue of its holdings so that it
I is possible to find out in a few
seconds whether the other library
! possesses a certain work. Thus we
| no longer purchase competitively
j and haphazzardly, and in a few
I years these two libraries combined
should rank among the best in the
| United States in certain fields. If
this plan were enlarged upon to in
| other colleges, white and Negro, in
the surrounding 'area, we should
have the beginning of an intelli
gent program jof future library'
expansion.
“Finally I want to mention
briefly the problem of correspon
dence and extension teaching. I do
not know to what extent other
states have held their separate
school laws must apply to exten
sion work but in North Caroiina
such has been the holding. I have
for a number of years given by
correspondence a refine pn the
Negro, and from time to time the
Oont'spomde" (Bureau has had
applications from Negro students.
The Bureau is willing for them to
register, I am willing for them to
register, but he law prohibits the
registration of Negroes. This also
applies to the extension courses
given in various places over the
state by University professors ex
cept when no question of credit is
involved. Our Extension Division
has done some very worth while
things—for example, along the
line of dramatic art in Negro col
leges—but these are always re
stricted to non-credit activities. It
seems a bit harsh to withhold ex
tension and correspondence credits
from Negro students, even when
there is no question of residence,
work or social contact involved.
Yet, these are the facts; and I
hope that our southern white uni
versities will find some way of eli
minating hese restrictions in the
near future.
“This whole question of coop
oi'aion and coordination in the
work of white and Negro institu
tions is one w’hich challenges our
wisest thinking and planning in
the future, and I hope that what
ever planning or action board is
set up in the South, will give it
the careful consideration which it
deserves.”
Tuskegee Has
New Front
Tukegee, Institute, Ala., Sept. 12
—(C)—Advertisements now going
out give a completely “new front’’
to Tuskegee Institute. The three
chief officials whose names unu-al
ly appear in advertisements are all
new—F. I). Patterson, president;
Lloyd Isaacs, treasurer; and Albert
L. Turner, registrar.
SHE LOST 20
POUNDS OF FAT
Feel full of pep and possess the
slender form you crave—you can’t
if you listen to gossipers.
To take off excess fat go light on
fatty meats, butter, cream and sug
ary sweets — eat more fruit and
vegetables and take a half teaspoon
ful of Kruschen Salts in a glass of
hot water every morning to elim1
cate crease waste.
Mrs. Elma Verille of Havre d*
Grace, Md., writes: "I took off 20
ibs.—my clothes fit me fine now.”
No drastic cathartics—no consti
pation—but blissful daily bowel ac
tion when you take your little daii.,
dose of Kruschen.
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New
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Headquarters
for Rapidly Growing
:r
Northern Natural Gas System
Steady expansion of the use of
Natural Gas has necessitated new
and larger headquarters for the
Northern Natural Gas Company.
The company now occupies the
third floor of the Aquila Court
building, comprising 12,000 square
feet of office space.
Starting in Omaha in 1930, the
Northern Natural Gas Company
has increased its employment
from 10 to 110 employes in the
Omaha headquarters office. More
than $750,000 was spent during the
last year in Omaha, and the an
nual pay roll in Omaha was
$290,000; the total pay roll over
the enthe Northern Natural sys
tem was approximately $900,000.
The main pipe line of the North
ern Natural System extends from
the Panhandle gas field of Texas
to the Twin Cities in Minnesota
More than 2.000 miles of natural
gas transmission pipe lines are
now in service, serving more than
300.000 customers in 155 towns
and cities, with a total population
ol 1,417,000 persons. Natural Gas
home heating is enjoyed by 28,000
customers over the system.
The growth ol the Northern Nat
ural Gas Company typifies the fast
growing appreciation of Natural
Gas as the ideal inexpensive fuel
for modem home heating, cooking,
water heating and refrigeration.
Each year thousands of new cus
tomers are added to those who al
ready enjoy the convenience and
comfort of Natural Gas service.
The new offices of the Northern
Natural Gas Company are open
for public inspection. You are cor
dially invited to visit the new
headquarters, third floor. Aquila
Court building.
*Thc line on the photograph in
dirates the space occupied in the
Aquila Court building by the new
Northern Natural Gas offices.
NORTHERN NATURAL CAS CO.
General Oiiices and Headquarters Aquila Court Bldg., Omaha
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