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V The Omaha Guidites ^ ‘The Door of Expression” — — Edited by ‘UNCLE GIL* Fourteen Churches Select Queens for May Day , 35 35 55 55 icfiefisfif & Zi ^ ^ ^ 35 Handicraft Demonstration Proved an Entertaining Event -a--— Demonstration Held At Urban League Center Saturday afternoon a very inter esting demonstration of handicraft was presented to the Guidite club at it« regular meeting held at the Omaha Urban League Community Center by Mr- David Biddles, fea turing Technique in the making of Model areoplanes, Motorboats, Freighters, Kitf« and other models that proved exceedingly interesting to {hoae present. Uncle Gil announced at this meet ing tfctot beginning with the next mealing that the girls will be put under a separate heading and shall be known as the "Gutdiretten.” Miss Ida Rowland, a member of the re creational staff h*n promised to gfv« a demonstration to the Guid iretttrt at the meeting Saturday April 17th at the Urban League Dear Guid it es and Guidirettea you are urged to follow the program of your elub, don’t miss a meeting which will be held each Saturday from one to two o’clock, every min ute will be filled with something interesting. give goods cpFF AWAY ■ Ktyitonn Aftnti Mmk# Big Mon*f Giving Thing* Avif Ba Successful Write today lot tgtnm bi« momy tealdna •Un. I no acmplte Magic Numbar Incan#*. Koraaa Half Draaain«. KmSaaa Uboc* mtlaa Dcpc P. G. 10. Mcmpbla, Tate Church Worker in Charge of Music Appreciation Class Mats. Hjenryetta Makins of 2415 Hamilton street, has been appoint ed by tihe Works Progress Admin istration, instructor for music ap preciation classes, which will in clude vocal, piano and chorus work. Mrs. Makins who is an ardent church worker, serving as organist for the Junior choir of Cleaves’ Tmplc, is a former student of Lang ston university, Langston, Okla., now a student at Omaha university, announces her classes in music ap preciation will be held at the Ur ban League (Community Center and cfesse* in piano will be held at her home ■—— ■ • -O— Question 1. Who is Dr. Roscoe Conklin Brown? 2- Who was Richard B Harrison ? 3. What Negro is a member of the Chicago Zoning commission? 4 What Negro was recently nam ed a federal judge by the Presi dent? 5 Who is the Negro inspector of weights and measure for the city of Otonha? 6. What Negro did Congress hon or Recently? HAVEN OF HOPE FOR MILLIONS In them time*, when we ore so greatly concerned about jobs, it it refrethmg to know that here it one company where the color of one's tkm it not a bar to employment. Countless women hove availed themselves ef the ever widening oppor tumty a* Wolker agents, and hove learned what it meant to be economically free and financioBy independent. MADAM C.J.WALKEK PREPARATIONS MUjtkStf Colored People* * *jfe Colored People By their secret formulae, etpectaBy conceived far the peculiar torture af Race hair and tkm, Mmo. C. J. WoAer'l prepara tions have renewed the hopes, brightened the future r I mceeased the self respect ef eur entae Race. Do yoo want a 900c! job? Hats gon ihort, flan Buightli hair? M your tcolp itcHa*. you kovo dondniff, tottor or rcotp kudo I —if your Koir it brittlo, tklo ond fating out, TOTTER SALVI 4 You owo it to yourtolf to «» far aay amaryacy ia Ma. la aama a laoaty CJimi —a Mma. C. J. Wa&ar Aywi Ian your awa anaaw. la Mapaadaat Wa «aw yaa Ua t < la par dm qilnfrM tail K»ll I ; TAN-OPP I tnn PO« HtSt CATALOG Ul_ *+-**j t£*-*. /2ct*4^- ^2^/++C& \ ^**>*-«y ^<^iv<tfcv -i*v ■■»<<tnc/ ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS RIDDLES Both have needles. 2 Holes 3. Casket 4- An egg, cotton, sheet of paper. -o Uncle Gil’s Fan Mail Hello Uncle Gil: I was so sorry that I wasn’t at homo When you came over to see the last. week, have some many that. I wish to tell you and show' you. Mamma is teaching me how to sew and I can thread my own needle I want you to watch me do it some times. When I isew II have to have some material, needle, thread, thim ble and a pair of sissors. I like to sew very much and yesterday I took some buttons off my coat bo I could sew them on again. Mamma didn’t like i1) very well, so I told her I wouldn’t do it again. When I gat big I want to be a seamstress. Pearl Jane Billingsley Dear Uncle Gil: I am asking Mrs. C. W- Porter, with wih)t»m I live to write this for me- I call her mother because she is more than a mother to me. When I was isick in bed she always read the Guide to me, cut papers for me and save dipping for my scrap book. Betty Louise Porter, 1 call her sister, too, because I can not come to the meetings alone, I had her to join the Guidite club in order that I may have company on going to the meetings We sent it two subscriptions and wo are going to continue to send them in Mrs. Harrington is our collector and neighbor so I gave it to her tto send in- Uncle Gil I can recite the preamble to the constitu tion of the United States which mo ther taught me. Yours, Carl Thomas Goodman Dear Unde Gil: I am only 9 years old and know a beauiful rhyme. Seasons come and seasons go, Sometimes slow and some times fast Our Apple tree in the orchard knows exactly, Wins Kite Flying Contest of Omaha Kenneth Myers, a student at Lake school, a patrol leader of Boy Scout trqop No. 79, member of the Junior Fire Patrol and a loyal Guidite, has proved his ability as a superb kite flyer Saturday morning when he won from a large field of representatives of the Recreational Centers of Omaha, the first prize Kenneth came to the club meet ing wiflh the air of a champion. Re cognizing his achievement, Mr. Bid dies, his instructor allowed him the privilege to demonstrate the tech niouo he (had used in winning the coveted honor Kenneth is the son of Mr. and Mils. W- L. Myers, prominent mor tician, 14 years of age; a member of the aeroplane class of the Urban League and the St. John A. M. E. ohurch Sunday school. --o When to change it® clothes Katie Marie, Allen Dear Uncle Gil: Please enroll us in the Guidite club. We promise to abide by the rules as set forth in The Omaha Guide- We are as follows; Ruth E.Summer s Betty Jean Summers Charles Summers Alice Clemantine Summers Floyd Summers Jessie Summers Robert Savory Sumimers Our parents are Mr. and Mrs Charles Summers. Thanking you in advance we are very truly youns The Summer* Family Dear Uncle Gil: My little grand daughter, Mar lene is sick with a cold, lam awful ly sorry I did not take her to the Easter Egg hunt. Hoping to meet with you all soon. I am, Her Grandmother Bessie James Dear Uncle Gil: I am happy to be a member of the Guidite club I will send in in teresting stories and pictures. I also take muisic lessons. Yours, Nathaniel A, Brown The Musicians My Mrs. H. Makins In everythin# there are law* of reason, laws of ways and where fores, Ls that when applied "to one case; would be misapplied in an* cither, Then tlbere are standard laws, fundamental laws, fundamen tal law a foundational law's. If we build a house be it ever so fancy or small, we must have a founda tion, we must have a plan- Little children do you know that way back in Genesis when Moses ruled, God had #i'’en the Ne#ro (Ethio pian) by name traditions. One of them bein# naturalism. With little or no practice at all anythin# that a Ne#ro cun do, he does it from nstinob One of the instinctive beau ties is his music. When God made him planted a son# seed in his soul. Every nation has song, but Anv er**, away bank in 1600 the Negro was brought to this country, slaces in Hades- Eut "ang his song. Tor tured to deaths door, yet the songs went on. Today hi* *ong i« the only ntutive song America has. Years ago his songs were handed down. mnly by mouth, today they have been written recognized and re corded as Negro music- No other people ar)e able to sing or write them in the style that the Negro knows them. Minors, augmented perfects, and many other modern musical terms used unknowing by the ancient Negro. Songs of weari ness, songs of ciheer, spiritual songs and blues songs came from the seal and milking clear its mean mg of the black man Each expressing through the natural emotion only the song of Ham possessed. Beginning next week, meet me here., tlhat we may study together and discuss music as the black man known it. i Friedman’s Shoe Store 1510 N. 24th St. JA. 0353 New Stare in Footwear Jolene Fashion Shoes Styled ia Hollywood Different Colon? in Gabardine | SU8IE-V |^>MOwWe;M«S JONES 7s~ r -OH DEAR-I CAN'T TAL<“CAUSE 0 ♦ * -" VE^ /»’ HERE, AND YOU ALWAY 5 don't WAnTA GO TO PEP, BUT SAY THE WRONG THING WHEN SOMEBODY OUGHT TO :'S HERE/ SO IF YOU SAY ONE - MRS JONES / WORD WHILE WE U MAYBE PAPA ARE VISITING- -- ^ YOULL GO RIGHT '6*4 nn/iw/A / i TO BED/ S* ‘ . \ \ Pi; ; 1 l fflLtXu’.rr I CO OPERATIVE. fEATUREO,INC CHICAGO Membership 243 Audrey Maurice Willinson 2876 Ohio St. Donald Whitley 2036 Seward St Ruth Childs 3614 No. 22nd St. Rupert Whitley 2036 Seward St Isaac McDonald 2013 Grant St., Apt 4 Maulice Simpson 2213 Miami St Norma Thomas 2216 Geace St Klnora Alycie Jone« 2811 Caldwell St Mariraret Whitley 2636 Seward Joseph Thompson 3320 Emirnet St Herbert Thompson 3320 Emmet St Lois Somelia Whitley 2636 Seward Golden Brown Hair Dressing NOW ■ftfcM kadr keeutlfullr ■nooUi ud iwr to drew. Bum an paekaie that told to »U Ikwa ad SOo. at row fararlta drut alora NOW It*. @LUCK B I SOo Algerian Ida Jo LdKfe Rag and aamplea Hair Dnsalng.Pow dar. Ointment Fraa. Band 10c to eovar mailing coat Golden Brown Ctaadul Oa., Dapt. O, Ifemphla, Team. — ..<)■ ■ Intense Interest Being Manifested For Big Event With spring upon us we find in tense interest being manifested by the churches of Omaha in the com ing May Day Festival that is to be held May lfith, 3:00 p- m., at St. John AME church. The following '•hunjhes are giving 100 per cent cooperation in order to make tiuJ coming event the most colorful that Omaha has ever witnessed, with other e> neoted to fall in line sluort ly. They are: Zion Baptist, St. John AME, Cleaves’ Temple, Be thel Baptist, Hillside Presbyterian, Bethel AME, Pleasant Green, New Hope, Christ Temple, .Advetist, Mt. Moriah, Metropolitan, St John Baptist and Primitive Baptist. Those that have queen contestants are as follows: Zion Baptist ehnrrh, Mins Winifred Williams; Bethel Baptist Priscilla Gilden; Bethel AME, Josie Woods and Johnny Lee Brown; Hillside Presbyterian, Miss Marion Gray; St. John AME, Mable Kin, fjueen, Evelyn Lucky and Ada Lee Walker; Metropolitan Spirit ual, Betty Louise Porter, St John Baptist, Jacqueline Johnson, Lucille Young, Bernice Bragg and Pleasant Green, Julia Key. RULES of THE GUIDITE CLUB -OBJECTS OF THE CLUB To teach our boyB and girls to appreciate Art, Literature, Science and Physical education. . To help develop talents of our boys and girls and give hem an outlet for their expressions. . To teach them the value of reading weekly and daily news >apers. To acquaint them with boys and girls throughout the world vho are striving for higher ideals. . To bring them before the public. 6. To teach love for the church and Christian workers and a uller appreciation for the words, “Do unto others as you would ave them do unto you.” -Rules For Membership In The Guidite (Rub 1. You must be a regular reader of The Omaha Guide to be come a member of the Guidite Club. » 2. Each member must send in interesting stories and pictures. Write newsy letters and answer letters written to yon. 3. Each member must show evidence to the club sponsor that he or she has written and received, at least two letters from members of the club before becoming eligible for the honor roll. 4. You must write neatly and only on one Bide of the paper, signing your name and address plainly at the bottom of the sheet. 5. Every member must read the interesting features on the Guidite Page in The Omaha Guide and discuss same at the weekly meetings. 6. You must extend the hand of fellowship to sister and! bro ther Guidites when they aro seen with tb« Guidite eaird and button. 7. Each member must attend the weekly meetings of the Guidite Club or give a plausible excuse in writing from their parents. 8. You must go to bed! each night with a Guidite smile and promise never to frown when Mother says go on an errand, wash the dishes or sweep the floor. 9. Every member most be a real booster of The Omaha Guide and agree to interest at least 5 grown-nps in purchasing The Omaha Guide. APPLICATION-GUIDITB CLUB Please enroll me in The GUIDITB CLUB, I promise to abide by the roles as set forth in The Omaha Ghiide. My Name is__ Age_ My Address is__ City -----State ■ School Grade _ Name of Parents’ Name . .....—— Date of Birth _ _____ . . — Cot this oot and bring or mail to “Unele Gil”, Omaha Ghiide, OMAHA, NEBRASKA