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THE OMAHA GUIDE
Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street,
Omaha, Nebraska
Phones: WEbster 1517 or 1518
Entered aT Second Class Matter March 15. 1927, at the Poatoffice at
Omaha, Neb., underAct of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Race prejudice must go Ihe Fatherhood of ».<>d mid the BfOtltSf'
hood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles which will
•tai.d the acid test of good.
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•ffico not later than 5t00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver
ting Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wedneaday noon, preceed
(ng date at issue, to insure publication. _
NEGR OHEALTH WEEK
j PUBLIC HEALTH
Mo«t communities have Health Hoards whose function is to
generally protect the health of the municipality by such activi
ties hs, regulating building don*tru<-tk>n to a»«ure ventilation,
dr#mag» and plumbing; to oontrol the siale of drugs and foods
and thereby prevent the marketing of impure or dirty foods pro
ducts and the sale of foodtv in unsanitary stores or restaurant;
the supervision of street cleaning and the inspection of schools
and other institutions.
Good health is man’s most important possast-don. The world
today, with its thousands f opportunities, offer a boundless outlet
for all form of useful ambition*. To take full advantage of these
opportunities one, must have « sound mind and body free from
the drain of disease germ*.
Health authorities have for years waged a courageous and relent
Ie»s fight tp eradicate and isolate disease* g«rn»s, in spite of their
efforts, there is a notable amount of neglect in the* observance of
everyday precautions which are necessary for a long and useful
existence.
While the economic status is a factor in many <vases, simple
health habits ean be and should be religiously practiced by every
teach and observe good health habits at all times,
one. It is tfh« profound duty .of mdivicfualsi and parents to study,
Hsppy Womanhood—Health, The Foundation
You who aspire to take a part in tihe work of the world should
assure yourself of ^ood health. Without it all, other preparation
may be in vain. Today, in addition U> the mope familiar duties
of the homo, new occupations in factory und office are open to
you. In many fields you may now domjpejte With men I But
only if you possess good health—a vigorous body and a clear
brain—can you expect to undertake the new and trying work suc
cessfully. No matter how thoroughly you are trained, such train
ing will be of little Value topless tit (icgts upph a foundation of
good health.
Goo<l hralth is e'Vn mfore* important front the point of view
of motherhood- In some of t;V war-ridden countries of Europe
most of the babies who are born die (hiring the first year of life.
Thousands of others begin their lives under tremendous handi
caps. W’hy? Largely because t.ho strength of the mothers has
been sap paid by food shortage and overwork so that they cannot
give their babies proper nourishment. Tito dream of these mo
thers of chubby, rosy cheeked babies, Who were lo have bpen
their Joy has vanished- Upon hoalthy Wonutnhood depends to a
largo extent happy motherhood.
Physical fitness during youth Is the host foundation for heal
thy, happy womanhood. It is an asset of w[hi«h ypu may rightly
feel proud- With (health you dan look forward to the time when
you can participate actively in the work of the world; with health
happy motherhood (becomes a well grounded hope for the future.
orauiy ana lupmaniy
Besides fitting you more effectively for your life's work, good
health will incidentally increase your beauty and attractiveness
True beauty come* from within, it cannot be plut on from without
Good health gives 8U<fh beauty, a beauty that will wear. Its foun
dation is health) of mind and body; its expression la a sparkling
eye, a clear complexion, a graceful body and pctive brain.
Every girl wants flo be popular With her companions- Today
the popular girl is the girl who glows witjh life, who can swim
and danoo and play outdoor games, who has plenty of energy for
fun when she has finished her daily tasks. Good health, since it
produces high spirits, vitality, cheerfulness and leadership, will
help to make you popular. Every girl like* to enjoy herself. She.
likes to go V.) parties and picnics, to find the real joys of living.
Physical fitness, by enlarging your opportunity for enjoyment
and your power to enjoy, makes more suehi occasions possible.
How Fitness Is Attained
Plenty f physi/d, fresh aid, sufficient sleep, frequent bathing
three well balanced meals a day, erect, carriage, and comfortable
clothing will help to make you strong and well.
HowVigorous Manhood Is Achieved
These who would achieve the maximum vigor must observe
at least five essentials. The first of these is is sufficient exer
cise of the right kind- Reading the sporting pUge, yelling in the
grandstand, and watching the baseball bulletin boards may be en
joyable. but will rtever make a man vigorous. He himself must
take daily exercise. Hiking, baseball, Rowing and canoeing, skating
in the open air, swimming, if takon moderately, general gyrnnas
ium work, boxing and wrestling where the air in fresh, arc coming
the most beneficial of exercise
A young man’s daily exercise should be vigorous enough to
cause him to pnespire freely. This helps his body to throw off
certain waste products which would act as poison if they were
allowed to accumulate. Aftetr extends® a bath should be taken.
A sihower is better than .a tub bath- A wash bowl or any contri
vance is better than nothing. Warm waiter should be used first
then cold- The both should bo followed by a vigorous rub-down With
a coarse town, the whole process taking no longer than four or five
minutes. The bath and rub down should produce a healthy glow of
the body and a gemral feeling of well-being.
Second, young nten should sleep in the fresh air, work and ex
ercise in the fresjq air as murji as possible, and be sure to have
t}ie indoor air kept fresh. Fresh air is often more valuable than
any quantity of medicine.
In tihe third place, most young m^n ntecd at leapt eigth hours’
sleep everynight, and most 'boys btween the ages of thirteen and
sixteen need from eight and one half houps to nine andone-half
hours. With less one can g«tt along, but he cannot kteep himself in
the best possible condition. One should not lie in bed after wak
ing up, but should jumip out and dress immediately
Proper food is another requirement. One shold eat chiefly veg
etables, cereals, bread, buttier and fruits with fresh meat or fish
not oftener than once a day. All food should be chewed to a pulp
KELLY MILLER
SAYS
ROOOSEVELT’S NEGRO
POLICY
The appointment of William
II. Hastie us federal judge of
the Virgin Islands indicates
President Roosevelt's broad
minded interest in the welfare
of the colored race. Professedly
he has no specific Negro policy.
A,t the beginning of his admin
istration, lie engaged to inte
grate ajl elements of American
people barring none, into the
general equation of national
welfare. He began at the very
bottom by asserting his concern
for the “forgotten man."
In his address at the dedica
turn or the Chemistry building
at IlowarJ University last fall,
he declared that there should
be no forgotten, race. As this
address was made aj the height
of tiie presidential campaign, it
may or may not have had any
political implication. President
Roosevelt has refused to single
out the Negro for any particu
lar formula of treatment. He
has not dramatized the politi
cal and civic hardships, as the
Republican party has done ever
since reconstruction. He refus
ed to indulge in impossible pro
rates to remedy obvious and
just grievances when he had
^either the power nor the pur
pose to do so. His policj', if it,
can be called such, has been
constructive and ameliorative,
and hot blatntnV and declam
atory. The Republican Party
has loitg bincd discredited it
self with the Negro voter by its
pre-election promises and post
election nonpreformance.
Under President Roosevelt')'
administration the Negro hat
received more generous treat
ment .than under any of liis pre
dee.essors since his distant kins
man, Theodore Roosevelt?. In
deed, he has accorded the Ne
gro greater official reeogni ioi
than his four Republican prede
censors, including Taft, Hard
ing, Coolidge and Hoover.
Until the coming of Franklir
D. Roosevelt, it was gcnerallj
understood that, the Democratic
Party, under the domination o1
its southern wing, was hostile
,to government recognition oi
the Negro. Although the Demo
crat contingent of the North
was every bit as friendly as
their Republican counterparts
in that section, yet such blatant
Southern Negro baiters as Till-1
man, Vardaniann, Heflin, Ille- j
use and others of that ilk were |
so noisy as to frighten their
northern copartizans into si
lence.
But during,the last four years
no voice of racial vituperation
or bitterness has been heard on
either floor of Congress which
is Democratic in both its branch
cs. Indeed, a resolution was in
troduced by a Negro represent
ative and passed unanimously
fobidding discrimination on ac
count of race or color in the re
cruitment of the CCC camp. Tnis
forbiddance of discrimination
on account of race or color in a
goveriyn^nh function reminds
us of reconstruction days. We
must; attribute this subsidence
of race rancor in the Demobrat
ie party to the powerful persua
sive influences of its head. With
out fuss or furor, the President
has appointed a number of col
ored men ,ty> high federal office
and has assigned numerous oth
ers to important departmental
positions.
Grover Cleveland, after scour
ing the country, selected a Ne
gro Democrat for the position
of Recorder of Deeds for Wash
ington, D. C., hut. was unable
AN OPEN LETTER
Omaha, Nebr.
April 5, 1937
Mr. E. M. Jacobberger,
2601 N. 49 St.,
I Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Mr. Jacobberger:
Some ,t4me ago, 1 wrote you
in regard to what we are enti
tled to—something we are pay
ing for and not getting. Do you
,think that it s out of the
question to ask for a part of
what our tax money is being
used for—to help make your
salary! Too, our voters help*
to get you your position.
I I am entitled to conddera
'tion and deserve an answer,
whether I get it or not. 1 am
sure some of us pay niore taxes
'.tjian you. I am a heavy tax
payer, idiiat is why T am asking
for this consideration. Perhaps
it has been an oversight on your
part as to why you have over
looked answering my last let
ter. T ean only know by hearing
ing from you. I am not seeking
.tdiis position for myself. T have
iny job, but we have men who
should receive it, and should
'receive the same consideration
'as others.
What profits a man whose
jto persuade a Democrat senate
I to confirm him. Woodrow Wil
son nominated a distinguished
Negro as register of the treas
ury, but was compelled to with
jdraw his nominee because of
! the stubborn resistance of south
'em senators. Indeed, ij became
| the avowed policy of both the
Democrat and Republican ad
ministrations not to nominate a
Negro for a confirmatory of
fice because of the difficulty
in leaping th<> senatorial hurdle
i The Minister to Liberia, and a
municipal judgeship in the Dis
trict of Columbia formed the on
ly exceptions since the days of
Ilarding. President Roosevelt,
however, has made the custom
ary Negro appointees and secur
ed their unanimous confirma
tion at the hands of a Demo
cratic senate.
| The appointment of Judge
jllastie breaks new ground and
is the first Invasion by the Ne
gro of a federal judiciary. Ilis
appointment was nut due to po
litical activity on his part. Here
stubborn opposition might have
been incurred, bull none was
forthcoming. Judge Has'.ie pro
bably lias never voted in his
life, or controlled or influenced
a single Democratic vote, lie
was appointed as nn attorney
in the interior department and
rendered such efficient service
of a legal character that the
president felt justified in pro
moting him to the federal bench
The fact of hits appointment and
! his unanimous confirmation by
the Senate speaks louder .than
words of President Roosevelt's
policy and purpose concerning
the colored element of our pop
ulation.
The clear intention of Presi
dent Roosevelt .to give the Ne
gro consideration as a factor in
the government equation has
robbed the Republican party of
i.s chief political dynamic. The
scare crow of southern hostility
and Democratic unfriendliness
has gone with the wind. Com
para/vqly speaking, the bal
ance of advantage now falls on
the Democratic side of the fence
The mVthod of the New Deal
indicated in Mr. Roosevelt ;s
first campaign and demonstrat
ed iu his first administration,
has effectively weaned the Ne
gro from his one-sided adher
enee to the Grand Old Party of
days gone by. In .the future the
raw vote will, in all probabil
ity, be more evenly divided be
tween the rival parties, if, in
deed, the GOP is again to ac
quire the status of a rival.
in > » > > > I I I » t -T—“
An Echo
From My Den
By S. E. Gilbert
As 1 sit here in my den with
pen in hand, meditating as it
Were, I feel disposed to point
out, some little known and rare
ly considered facts nnent the
job perhaps pays him small
wages? You may wonder how
he can balance tjhe scale to get
more benefit from his job. The
nnswer is that every man must
improve his own job, and im
prove himself. He balances the
scale with the maximum bene
fit, to himself. This is one of the
oldest trialhs. Do your job well
and it will pay well. A job well
which Will give you comfort
and security. A job for wages
alone and support in doing it,
will never be anything but a
job. 1 am working for the pub
lic; one must take into consid
eration the balanced scale by
considering all, especially those
whose support he is getting. To
make a balance, both sides must
be considered, and as it has
been, the scale of justice has
not been balanced. When they
are equal in proportion on each
side, everyone will get justice.
That Is the only thing that
should be done.
Hoping .that the oversight
was not intentional, I remain,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) G. B. Lennox, M: D:
GBL-DR.
j Negro purchasing power. This
ip a subject on which even the
scientific experts of the great
advertising agencies are woe
Ifully ignorant: and for the most
par^ thte sales directors of na
tionally advertised products
hold stubbornly to ideas of the
I Negroes’ buying power that are
u mixture of hearsay, prejudice
and inaccurate estimates based
on inferred social status. As a
result Negro newspapers and
magazines suffer and manufac
turers lose millions of dollars
in sales which they might rea
sonably hope to gain if a little
more realistic intelligence was
applied to consideration of this
field. The fact that the Negro
in Omaha and the surrounding
territory spends over $15,000
000 annually would appear to be
proof positive that the so-ealled
Negro market is far from neg
ligible. I,t is estimated that in
normal times the annual pur
chasing power of the Negro in
Omaha, amounts to $25000000.
And )whnt) does the Negro
buy? He buys food and cloth
ing, automobiles and radios,
furniture and household arti
cles, cosmetics and tobacco, ci
gars and cigarettes, and we sus
pect wines, beer and liquors.
But whether he buys a Ford in
preference to a Chevrolet, Pon
tiac, Plymouth or Dodge, and
whether he buys Camels rather
than Chesterfields, Old Golds
or Lucky Strikes, and whether
he buys Listerine or Lavoris,
should be of some concern, so
Jt seems to up, to those who seek
~ ME LIVE '
A REVIEW
By ROBERT L. NELSON
International Negro Press
LET ME LIVE: The Autobiography of Angelo Herndon,
New York, Random House, 1937, 409 pp., $2.50.
“You may do what you will with
Angelo Herndon. You may indict
him. You may put him in jail.
But there will come other thou
sands of Angelo Herndons. If
you really want to do anything
about the case, you must go out
and indict the social system.”
Angelo Herndon
This was Angelo Herndon’s an
swer to Judge Wyatt when in 1932
he was convicted of "attempting to
incite _ to insurrection,” under a
Georgia state law, first passed in
1861, to prevent slave insurrec
tions, and revised in 1871 to in
clude “any attempt to induce
others to join in combined re
sistance to the lawful authority of
the state.” It is well known that
Herndon as a boy of nineteen was
arrested twenty-four horra after
he had taken part, before the
Atlanta Courthouse, in a demon
stration by a thousand Negro and
white workers who were asking
for adequate relief; that he was
kept in jail for eleven days with
out any charges being brought
against him; that finally Com
munist literature found in his
room gave the authorities an op
portunity to invoke against him
an old law passed during the Civil
War to prevent insurrections of
slaves; that he was imprisoned for
more than two years and then
released on bail; that unless the
Supreme Court cf the United
States now reverses his indictment
he will be doomed to eighteen
years on the Georgia chain gan.
Angelo Herndon reviews these
facts in his autobiography, “Let
'fie Live’’ which has just conie
from the press. He reviews also
the circumstances which led to his
|M>ing part of that demonstration
|>efore the Atlanta Courthouse, in
June, 1982 — circumstances which
liegin with his birth as the son of
a coal-miner, in Wyoming, Ohio.
His earliest memories are of
poverty.
“Get an education, Angelo. Lift
yourself above our condition.” This
was impressed upon Angelo even
before he started to school. They
were his father’s last words to
him. He took seriously the trust
put upon him and worked well in
school. But his schooling stopped
when he was thirteen, his father
having died when the boy was
nine. Most of Angelo’s “educa
tion,” therefore, has been in coal
mines, in labor camps and in jails.
Between the ages of thirteen and
seventeen, he had experience in
coal-mines, doing work far beyond
his years, receiving almost nothinj
for it; learning about labor agents
labor camps, and discrimination.
When he was seventeen he hap ;
pened to see a leaflet announcing !
a meeting of the UnemploymerJ (
Council. That was in Birmingham) ■
Herndon attended the meeting:
and for the first time realized thal
the "same vicious interests tha'
were oppressing Negro worker
were doing the same thing tt
white workers, that both black and
white worker could solve theii
problems only by a united effort j
against the common enemy.” Hd'
was then ripe for the suggestion!
that Communism provided that
“united effort.” His activities
thereafter among the coal-miners
and the share-croppers of Alabama
and his evident affiliation with the
Communist Party brought him in
disrepute with the police; and more
than one attempt was made prior
to the Atlanta incident to indict
him. He served more than one
jail sentence, although they were
each of short duration, since no
charge could be found against him.
“Let Me Live” contains an ex
pose of the prison system in the
South and especially of conditions
in the Fulton County jail, in
Georgia, for Herndon tells of the
lack of sanitation and medical at-<
tention, of unpalatable food, of
deliberate tormenting by the jail
ers, of a corpse left in his cell for
twenty hours, etc. When after
twenty-six months under unbeliev
ably vile conditions he was re
leased on bail, he was not as
overjoyed as one might expect.
He knew that nothing had been
really solved: “One great truth I
discovered at the moment of my
freedom: That as long as there
will be men rotting unjustly in
foul prisons, neither I. nor anyone
else, can ever be free.”
Whether or not one agrees with
the underlying philosophy of this
work as pointing the way out, one
cannot fail to find it a moving
indictment of the society in which
we live. It is not Herndon who is
on trial but a system in which such
evils as he describes can flourish.
He asks to live; but his request is
for more than that. He, like many
others who work, would like a
larger reward for his labor; but
he also pleads for a world in
which “justice, enlightenment and
humanity should be practiced
among men." This book serves to
dramatize the oppression of work-i
ers, Negro and white, the evils o£
antiquated systems of law that
permit such abuses as the chain
gang, the dehumanizing effects of
poverty and ignorance, the com
mon cause of labor. It is not
Herndon alone, but many others
who are saying with him, “We
will fight on until we have secured
not only social equality, but every
kind of equality. To this end 1
will dedicate my life until the day
I die.” (
to expand the market for these
and similar products and should
’endeavor to find the doorway
to this Negro market through
the columns and advertising
space of the Negro newspapers.
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, Wild Dreams
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By Dr. Wesley Jones
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The disease commonly called
night mares, was observed and de
scribed by any of the ancient wri
ters on medicine and was called
incubus by the Romans. Roman
mythology tells of incubus who was
a demon who went around at night
and pounced on people as they
Dr. Wealcy Jones
slept. This demon fortunately jot
away just as soon as the victim was
awakened. Because of the sensa
tion of weight or oppression that
frequently accompanies a night
mare, superstition attributes the
visitation to the agency of demons
or evil spirits- By various authors
dreams charaicterized (by .tjerrors
have been attributed to a bad con
science. Beyond a reasonable doubt
it is true that people who retire
having lhad rrfental disturbances
during the day, as fear or anxious
ness concerning some things in
which they are (jeePly interested
oftim.es suffer nightmares. This be
ing true, few of us have failed to
have the experience of an agonizing
dream or nightmare- We may re
call the stifling sense of oppres
sion, feeling that we can’t breathe
and helpless paralysis of -speech and
movement. The mental reaction is
that of abjected fear coupled with
a futility of one’s own efforts
Sometimes on waking, the individ
ual will notice that his heart is
racing, his breathing is rapid and
he feels exhausted.
The common explanation of this
phenomenon is an indigestible meal
such as mince pie, highly seasoned
foods a« barbecue or tamalies or
some other foods indescretion. Mo
dei-n medicine looks upon night- >
mares as a combined physical and
emotional phenomenon- However,
the digestive setups cannot be re
garded as the only causes of fear
ful dreams. There are a large num
ber of people who eat very heavily
and sleep as soundly as anybody
else, also if this were true we could
prove it by either having people
eat heavy meals and produce night
mares and conversely eat nothing
and prevent them. The real cause
of this condition must be due to
fear, dread and terror and should
be sought in the emotion- Again
ir. nervous children we have the
same conditions manifested. It is
obvious that any deep mental
impressions made upon a child
may linger in the sub-conscious
mind and give rise to exhibitions of
fear in the dream state. Compelling
obedience by frightening children
with threats that “The goblins will
get you,” may bear fruit in disturb
ed sleep and frightful dreams
While night tJorAirs In dhikiren
may not have the same basic ori
gin as night mares, yet they sim
ulate closely the nightmare sym
ptom complex. By some writers
they have been attributed to the
acid in the system.
People who are victims of night
mares must recognize that while
the stimulus may lie in the diges
tion or in some other part of the
body the principle symptoms are
due to disturbed mental or emotion
al state- The reasoning mind is as
leep, hence the sub-conscious mind
handles the reins and drives the
sleeper over hurdles of tesrror
ridden experiences. It is therefor*'
necessary that the victim should
sleep with someone else in order
that he might be arouse if these
conditions come on and very light j
meals should be eaten after four
o’clock in the afternoon.
