. ..t t I t > • ♦ t i > * t f hU+*k*n 1 ..EDITORIALS.. m m m * -t r 9 * • * * *-* f - THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Evert Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha. Nebraska Phones: WEbster 1517 or 1518 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927, at the Postoffice at Orcnna, N’ch., underAct of Congress of March 3, 1879. IMS OF SUBSCRIPTION S2.00 PEE YEAR Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God aod the Brother hood of Msn must prevail. These are the only principles which will stand the acid test of good. All News Cany of Churches and all Organizations must lie in our affic# not later tnan 5sO0 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver tising Copy or Paid Articles not latei than Wednesday noon, proceed ing date of issue, to insure publication. Have No Mercy On Drunken Drivers Here is an pxeeUent thought from the Port Pmpquo, Ore gon. Couri* r “If the Courier man were a judge in eour.s dis pensing sentence upon drunken auto drivers, there would onlyj be first, offenders. Regardless of race, color, erced or alleviat ing circumstances, the person who lias so little consideration for tflu* lives of infoeeut people as to drink iiitox’ennV before or after placing himself h hind the h eering wheel of an auto mobile should never be allowed to repeat the performance. ’In vocation of lieen-ics would he faital and final. Driving a car is a Privilege- not a right.’’ It is impossible to prove exactly what percentage of auto mobile accidents aye caused by drunken dr ying, for the reas on that in many case- where liquor pi,ays a part, arresting of ficer! and prosecutors are unable afterwards to produce suf ficient evidence for a conviction. But al It Vie best estimates say that alochol is the definite factor in much hi given propor tion of mishaps than is generally realized. Furthermore, an | accident ini which ai drunk is involved is more likely to be, serious than once involving sober drivers. Drunken drivers are often released after paying relative ly small fines. Some juries ytre notoriously derelict in their duty in bringing in conviction!. • The drunken driver should never be allowed to pay a fine a!nd he should be denied the right to use the public streets and highways. If such a program were carried out through out the country, one of the grayest menaces to life Would be greatly minimized. -O-— Handwriting On The Wall Unless labor unions and employers exercise self restraint over their respective powers ami recognize the righ:s of the public, the government will step in and take control, Dr. ltob ert L. Sutherland of Bucknell, University, declared recently when speaking on the Long drawn out Pacific Const ship strike and the automobile striko in the East. Dr.Sutherland said it was “only a maitter of time until any group using power without responsibility will be eheck cd,’1 and pointed out that ns a general rule this country never veurbied power until it was abused. When any group of leaders, no matter who, deliberately plan to win their point at all costs, regardless of suffering of workmen, or th|0 public, it is time to break their grip—that is what government 'is for, to protect all the people. If the day arrives when our government can be controll ed by either labor oi^ industrial dictators, to the detriment of the people,individual rights will be wiped out and labor wM become a form of slavery. Good Food At Low Cost Consumption of lamb throughout the country is increas ing as a result of the curent campaign conducted by 37,000 stores in 48 states to help market, at reasonable prices the sur plus crop of nearly 3,000,000 lambs, a most palatable and nourishing food. Th*o campaign was inaugurated at the request of the Na tional Lamb Producers’ and Feeders’ Committee when a laTge increase over normal lamb production and a depressed market threatened farmers and stock raisers with heavy losses. The gravity of conditions in lamb areas preceeding the campaign are shown in this statement from W. P. Wing, manager of the California. Wool Growers’ Association, who pointed out that there were 80 percent moTfe Jambs on feed in seven Western states than there were a year ago. “In California,, our supply of lambs is 130 percent greater than that of the last five year period. We want to move these lambs without loss to the growers and are greatly encouraged by the farmer-consumer campaign that has been been instituted by the national food chains.’’ Such campaigns, designed ns they are to prevent distress price collapses, are in the interest of the consumer as well as the producer because if surplus farm commodities were dump ed on am unprepared market the loss would he appalling. The economic welfare of all of us is directly related to the econo mic welfare of- agriculture. The farm market absorbs a, very high percentage of the products of our factories, and it is the source of employment for millions of workers in all fields. Collapse of the purchasing power of even a small segment of thl- ju nket would hit us all. Campaigns that move farm products are economically and socially sound, and mark a definite forward step in at taining stabilization. KELLY MILLER SAYS THE BLACK CABINET —THEN AND NOW The Block Cabinet Is supposed to consist of high colored office holders at the national capltol who have the oar of th<* administration in matter touching the welfare of race. These celebrities were suppos ed to exert Rfreat influence and were held In high esteem In the go<>d old days of the years gone by. Frederick Douglass, John M I King ston, B K. Bruce, Governor pinch beck and John R. Lynch stood our pre-eminently like great Colussl In the golden age of the Grand O'd Party, The term Black, however, was not applied until these old re construction war horses had passed front the scene and Hooker T. Washington had risen t° political ascendency. The Black Cabinet is essentially a Republican institution nrtd does not flourish und‘-r a Democratic regime. The two non consecutive administration of Gro ver Cleveland almost wiped the in stitution out of existence. The few n], red nu n who were appointed to high siationa under this liberal minded Democrat, such as William Trotter and C. H- J. Taylor, exert ed on'y Individual and personal In fluence upon their great sponsor and did not attain mu«’h favor or following among their own race. The Black Cabinet readied its cli max in the administrations of Roosevelt and Taft. Such outstand ing figures as A. P. Cheatham, Judson Lyons, Lincoln Johnson, William H. Lewis, John C- Daneey, W. T. Vernon and Ralph Tyler oc cupied the front seats In Booker Washington’s band wagon. What ever Influence they exerted on. the administration was through the master hand of the great Tuskgee an who after all is said and d°ne, was the only commanding political leader of the race as a whole, who, has yet appeared. His political fol lowing flocked to Washington from east and west north and south to sit down in the kingdom of their great leader and eat sugar out of his hand. Booker T- Washington was recognized by Roosevelt and Taff as the unchallenged spokes man for his race, whatever patron age they accorded to the race was dispensed by Him. The Black Cabin et knew its leader as the ass know eth his master’s crib. There usid to bo held at the national < apitol a banquet for the Register of some thing, the Recorder of something else, or the minister to somewhere. Two inaugural bad were held for the administration of President Taft who visited the capltol with a h°pe of swelling the ranks of the Black Cabinet. Although many of them fell by the wayside still hope sprang eternal in the politician’s breast. But alas, times have changed. In the dministration of President Taft the influence and fame of the B'ack Cabinet began to dwindle. With the coming of Woodrow Wilson and the passing of Booker T- Washington, it faded completely out of sight. The eight consecutive Democratic years of Woodrow Wilson put the Institu tion entirely out of commission and only the Judge of the Municipal Court was left to tel’ the tale of departed glory. Under the admin istrations of Harding Coolige, and Hoover, the Recorder of Deeds, perry W. Howard and a Municipal Judge were about the only ones left. There was some faint attempt at reviving the Black Cabinet but tho lily white Republican spirit which invaded these administrations hardly encouraged its revival. There were not left enough office holders to keep alive the spirit of the Black Cabinet which, under the leadership of Booker T- Washington, flourished like a green bay tree. I had intended to include in this release the substitute for the Black Cabinet under the New Deal, but perhaps I had better reserve this for another story. Kelly Miller Hasn’t Seen Husband In 12 Years; Woman Wins Divorce Suit Cleveland, 0., F*'b. 6 (.\NP)— A marriage that took place In Bill ings, Montana in December 1921, and lasted until June 1925, at which time tho husbant was accused of wilful desertion, came to end last week in Commons picas court when Mrs, Meta Wilson filed suit through Atty. Lavelle asking for a divorce fr<>m her "husband whom she has not seen for 12 years. Tht husband, Leo Wlson, is still A. W. O. L.. she says. Mra. Wilson asked permission to resume her miaden name, Meta Armstead. STRAIGHT m CAPITAL^* BY EDWARD LAWSON xWashlngtotn, D. ■Cv Fleo. ti— despite loud howls’from Negroes in all parts of the country, the blank space for designation of “color” on application for Social Security bene fits probably will not be removed at any time soon. Social Security Board members ; say the designation of color Is nec essary for “identification"—obvious ly a subterfuge, since few Negroes are really black and many cannot bo distinguished from white per sons. Since there is no sharp divid ing line between the pigmentation of white and colored persons, the knowledge of a person’s race does riot necessarily aid in his identifica tion The truth is that the SSB wrants a record of the race of its benefie aries for statistical purposes. It wants to know just how much Ne groes are getting from its various programs. How this knowledge will be used depends upon the men in power. Statistics may work distinct ly to the advantage of Negroes in bringing cases of discrimination to light. At the same time, they can be manhandled in such a way ns to rob the race of many intended bene fits. The reason the request for design ation of color will remain on the application cards is that Negro readers will not support a fight to have it removed- If this fight were won, they point out h«w could any one tell whether Negroes are parti cipating in the program as they should? Without stastics, what bas is would there be for concrete pre sentation of complaints against dis crimna^ion? There the Issue stands today. Undoubtedly many colored per sons will suffer as a result of the designation of their color on social security cards, Those who swing back and forth ‘‘across the line” in their efforts, to find decent jobs may be the hardest hit. But on the other hand, if there is no racial breakdown in the So cial Security Board’s statistics, the Negro, as a minority group, will find it harder than ever to put a fin ger on any actual or imagined dis crimination In the choice between two evils, leaders of the race claim it is bet ter at this stage to have the racial “breakdown” in stasties, so that the faults in he program can be ob jectively pointed out. For the time at least, then,, it looks as though “color” blank will stay. Incidentlly, it might be interest ing to ask the Social Security Board just how It defines "Negro” —where it draws the line between white and black. * * * * Interesting news In the housing field is that, of five PWA low-rent projects Opened to date, three are to be occupied predomlnently by col ored tenants. These projects are Liberty Squ are, Miami, Fla.; William Patter son Courts, Montgomery, Ala.; and University Homo:, A Wan i a, Ga. PWA Advisor Robert C. Weaver says that on these three projects Negro labor received more than 20 percent of all money paid for skill ed work, and more than 60 per cent of all money paid for unskilled work. The percentages are significant because they showed that I>r. Wea ver’s scheme, by which special pre cautions are being taken to pre vent diecrimination against Negro skilled and unskilled labor on hous ing projects, is really working Secretary of Agriculture Wall ace, in his recent address t« the National Conference on the Pro blems of Negroes, said some things about the farm tenancy problem that would have made front page headlines but for the fact that he was overshadowed by the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt and dozens of other dignitaries on the same pro gram. Much of his speech, lost in the shufflo by the press, was of efinite interest to Negroes all over the country. It bears resurrecting now. A keen-minded ex-dirt farmer, Wallace told of a recent trip he made Into the south to study the tenancy problem. He said he had found that of 1,200,000 tenants, two ■thirds were white and one-third c«l ored—contrary to the usual assump tion that there are more colored tenants than white. The number of white and c&lored sharecroppers, he said, was about even—approximate ly 350,000 of each. ' i\o matter what the government does," he said, “all of the tenants in the south cannot be land-owners in the next ten <*r even twenty years. Some of them, even if they were o become land-owners, would net be able to hold their land. “We .have to recognize that It is not merely « matter of coming into possession of the land, but a mat ter also of coming Into possession of certain training.It is a mat ter of developing in the minds of hundreds of thousands new habits of thought and better health As long as bad habits and bad health and the results of insufficient edu cation and under-nutrition aren’t corrected, putting a man into pos session of land won’t cure the sit uation.’’ Apparently Wallace, with the Re settlement Admlnisration now in hie charge, will tackle the tenancy pro blem at its roots rather than at tempting an over night Solution Experts agree this is the only way. But meanwhile, tenant 'armers want immediate relief. Undoubtedly! the growing strength of their un ions wdi force the government to give it to them. Negro farmers would do well to jointhese unions) or to form unions of their own. Otherwise they may find themselvej a few years from, left out in the cold. U. * Ik Many strange tales come to the desk of Alfred Edgar Smith, WPA administrative assistant- One Southern woman wrote to Com plain that she had been firfied while two of her closest friends remain ed on the job—although both list ed the same man as their depend endl From Alabama cam© a yarn con cerning a 90 year old ex-slave who was enrolled in a WPA Education course. A reporter and a photo grapher were sent out to get the ex-slave’s story. They reached the schoolhouse and found the teacher, but the old man was not there. ‘‘Where’s Jim Walker?” the re porter asked. ‘‘Lordy, that man’s gone good ness knwtV wbeifle,” the teacher answered. “He waited for you all, but he just gave out-” “Can he really read and write?” she was a ski'd. “Yes sir, he can read and write all right. Jim’s got a good mind, but you know, he just can’t keep his mind on his business.” “You mean he’s slow?” “Slow nothing. He wants to court all the time. And what’s more you can't keep him from courtin! In school and out of school yu.’H find Jim always trying to catch up with his courtin-’ ” “I see,” said the reporter, ‘‘may be he’s in his second childhood." “No sir,” declared the teacher, ‘he passed that long ago. That Ne gro’s in his second manhood-” * * * * The rain that fell in torrents while Roosevelt’s second inaugural parade was marching down Penn sylvania Avenue made the spa cious wooden stands, erected to ac commodate thousands of specta tors, practically worthless to those who had paid as much as $10 a seat to occupy them. But to about 200 colored men who were employed In the process of erecting and tearing down the structures, they were a godsend, furnishing employment over a per iod of several weeks. Many of those employed on the job said they hadn’t worked reg uladyfor months. All seemed to wish that inauguration day came oftener. TAKE THIS TIP FROM ME By WilHam Henry Huff If happiness you’d not defeat You’d better take this tip, And marry not for bread and meat But for companionship. I know a girl who took the vow To get a coat of fur But she has heen deserted now And no one cares for her. I know a man who married too For where to hang his hat, A place to park and food to chew And all such things as that; i Eat soon she kiaked him out of doors Where all such men should be Now d° not let this lot be yours— Just take this tip from me. A MODERN CANUTE (bv Frank R. Crosswnih) N'ew York. an. 25. 1917 ENGLISH LIERATURE TELLS THE fascinating story of a by-gone Danish King named Canute who became so drunk with power that on one occasion he invited a group of noblemen to the seashore to watch him wave his regal wand and command the waves to “cease rolliiig!’. However, the record informs us that the waves defied the King and kept on roling. A recent des patch from Rome, Italy, tells us that that cheap imitation of Canute (Benito Mussolini, the Castor Oil Statesman) has is sued a decree forbidding Ital ians in Ethiopia from entering into “sexual relations with nar tive women’’, in order to in sure “the purity of the white race”. AFTER ALL THE FUA1LE EFFORTS BY THE 1DIOES of the WORLD SINCE ADAM and EYE. to establish as a fact the myth about a “pure race’’, one would suspect thatj even such a glorified Interna Fonal burglar as Benito would have heard something about these failures. Ls it really pos sible that all of the accumu lated scientific works of emin ent biologists and anthropolo gists have escaped the notice of this Italian Dictator? Some body ought to relate to Musso lini the remarkable success a chieved by Dixie in its efforts to keep the South “pure”. So much success have attended those efforts that today about 80 percent of the mulatto pop ulation of the United States originate in the Southland where “purity of race"’ is a religion and where the lynch ing of a Negro takes on the fervor and frivolity of a Rom an holiday. * AFTER MARCHING UPON ROME with his black shirted minions and subjecting the trade unionists and Socialists of Italy to liberal doses of Cas tor Oil, blackjack, murder et al, Benito next turned his at tention 1/) the burglatmaition of Ethiopia. With the covert support an dencouragement of other imperialistic vultures and w’'lth the aid of poison gas, aeroplanes and other divine in struments of a “superior race” he has sueeedied fo rthe present at least, in raping Abyssinia and harnessing her “inferior” peoples to the chariot wheels of Italian Fascism. ALBEIT, WE WHO HAVE rend history wdth an intelli gent eye and a, retentative memory, are satisfied that the day of reckoning for all the Mussolinis, the Hitlers and others of thei r'ilk, is bound to come sooner or later. Such evils as Fascism, Klu Kluxism, and Nazism canot last forever. Their baneful influences upon the world will wane and finally disappear, as the common peo ple of every so-called race and color in every land learn the wholesome lesson of class soli darity and thus un’lte to rid the world of these evils, that now so boldly stand between mankind an da more abundant and enjoyable life. Every Ne gro should set his heart, head and hands in the struggle a gainst these orges of imperial ism and with courage and de votion oppose them until they peoples everywhere. The are no more. This is aspecial ly the task of the “inferior” soner we realize this truth and act upon it, the sooner will the day dawn, when the insip'.d braying of a Musolini, a Hitler or any of their tribe will no longer disturb the world’s pro gress towad human brother hood an dhappines. i Pig Latin and Dog Latin Are Entirely Different Pig Latin, which la perhaps a | modern version of back slang, does 1 not depend solely on the reversing of spelling or position of syllables , to cause the desired change Id pro nunciatlon, advises a writer in the Kansas City Star. The modern use usually centers around one syllable words beginning with one or more I consonants. The initial consonant ! or consonant group is dropped from ; the beginning of the word and added to the end with the further addition of “ay.” Thus “scram” becomes "amscray," “nix" becomes “ixnay” and “dough" becomes “oday." In the examples given, the difficulty of understanding is doubled by the fact that not only Is the pronunciation of the word entirely changed, but also the use of this system on a slang word necessitates for proper interpretation a listener who is con versant with the original slang word. Dog Latin does not retain its original implication of a corrupt Latin, but is the name given to un other system of distorting English words for the sake of secrecy. In dog Latin “olie” is to be disguised, and "g” placed before the remain der of the word. Following this system, “let me go" becomes “lo Ileget moliege goliego." If the list ener makes the proper allowance for the sound of the inserted “olie g" and if the speaker does not talk too fast, there Is little difficulty in understanding dog Latin. Many Irish People Died When Potato Crop Failed Year after year, beginning about vs to, the potato crops of Europe and North America suffered terrible losses. So discouraged did the grow ers of New York state become that each five-year census showed a drop in production till only 6,447,394 bushels were grown In 1860, Worst of all was the terrible Irish famine of 1845, 1846 and 1847. Be fore potatoes became generally used for fond In Ireland the population was estimated at about 850,000 In 1630. By 1845 It had Increased to 8.295,061. More than 4 per cent of the land of Ireland was planted to potatoes. So complete and disastrous was the loss of the potato crop by blight and rot, and so great was the dependence of the Irish people upon their staff of life that between 200.000 and 300,000 persons perished of starvation or of diseases brought on by Insufficient food. Literally millions of the IrlBh race emigrated iill the population fell to about half hat In 1845.—Rural New-Yorker. Wicked Fruit i' there is one really wicked fruit, .1 is the durian, which weighs mor* limn 10 pounds and Is covered with slmrp, steel-Hke spikes, says Tit Hits Magazine. It grows on trees well over 80 feet high, and often falls on those who gather It, Inflict ing terrible wounds and sometimes ‘•nosing death. Although It smells like a mixture of bad meat and pu trid onions, the natives of Malaya like it so much that they give It re sounding titles and their poets glor ify It in verse. Europeans can sel dom bring themselves to eat it be i cause of its odor, but those who have declare It to be the most de licious fruit on earth. Derivation of Term "OK” tine writer says that the terra “OK” dates hack to Martin Van Daren's race for the Presidency, In IStli A coin of that time, they say, was ... that bore the Inscription, “The sober thought of the people is OK." Another theory traces "OK” to the days when Andrew Jackson found that the Choctaw Indians, in their bartering with other tribes, used the word “Okeh" to designate a piece of merchandise or livestock as tit and good. Still another theory Is that years ago a customs In spector whose initials were “6. K." stamped them on bales of goods that he passed. Opportunity and Grit Many great merchants have found