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COMMENTS 'E DITORIAL PAGE OPINIONS I THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Siinirilay at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Ph«nes: W Eke ter 1517 or 1-618 Enter*-! aa Second Cla a Matter March 15. 1927 at tk<- Paateffice at Omaha. Neb., under Art of Congreaa of March 3, 1879._ ’ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.6# PER TEAR Iknce prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of Gad and the BretAer hood of Man must prevail. These are the only principle# which will •Un-tl the arid tost of good. AU News Oapy of Charches and all Organnratlnns must bo in our affice not later than 5.-00 p. rn. Monday for current rsauo. All Adver tising Cdpy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, proceed ing nate of issue, to insure publication. ___ ,__ m a a a t t 1 T T —-«■ ..EDITORIALS.. i _ a.+ aS-aSB t“T— ECHOES OF THE NEWS By H. J. FORD, Washington, D O SCOTTSBORO COMPROMISE News comes from AllfcM’ima tln»t «■ pl®1* bah been reached t<> end the six year old Scottsboro cases noJU, fall ill a compro mise between the defense and prosecution. On the surface iti is indeed refreshing news, hut when we consider the nature of the compromise we h/ftve 'a much better name for ihe arrange ment It looks more like a complete surrender tof the defense. A report says the judge has fluid the people are sick amd tired of the affair and don't o'alre whht happens so long as it is net died once and for all." We, too, are side and tired of the affair, I lie country at !a,rgo—in fact tjhe whole worid—is stick and tired of the nfair, hut we do care what happens. According to the terms of tli0 proposed compromise the de f on dents are 1o plead guilty to rt crime tluj world believes they did not winmit, and the state will sentience them for b period «f less ihsn fu-venby-PiVe years. Aud they call it ft compromise. W(. fail to sco the wisdom of ^ compromise tha# fnhcs all ntid «lr«i nothing. If the hoys a*e guilty they should lie punishari wiihmat prejudice or favor, and if they arc innocent they should ho liberated without delay. Any arrangement whi*h does not tucorpoThte theae conditions cannot be considered a compromise. A (Vir and impartial trial for these Ignorant boys who have suf £&r«<l a living hell at the ltiuida of the Btats of Alnlbtvnm, would ha as much of ft comprOBiiSrt as ws could do«r«. FOMTICAL PERPLEXITIES Th» Supreme Court issue holds the spotlight today in the fcoft •( nfftiouni politics ami recent happenings u<«m more U> t-.nuH'M® tlmti clarify the aifiuatiJorL The adverse report of the Aduate judieihry committee the retirement! of Associate Ju« tie# Van Itfcvanier, the "whole hog or none attitude of the pr«s i^aaift the ill-adrlscd statements of Mr. FafTey, and (lie deleh nhimtinn of those opposed t othe bill, nil tend 1o Imlia .the mnch reputed «hatemeut tha* "all is vrclfl along the Potomac." Domo senators opposhig the president’s plan to add sfs new nleni biv* to the court, face opposition of t|he party leaders in thp doming eicotions, if alleged statements of the chairman of the party national oommittco arc correctly interpreted, and the offer of the Republicans to support at the polls 'Demcorat Sena tor Clark and others foreshadows a shift in alignment heretlo fore unknown. » The vacancy created so uncxpefttodly by the voluntary re tirement of Mr.* Justice Van Pevanter has given the president his first, opportunity to make an appointment of ta jwlgo wligto ho is ao asxions to appoint bik, but herein lies another difficulty. Any appointment at. this stage of the court fight would cause diHjttitisfactiou in soma quarters, anjlto delay an appointment would plaee the president artother ikihHnma. Today the unan imous opinion of congress is thafl Senator Robinson is the logi cal won for the place, bdfc being |h® outstanding spokesman of the fdministrSt ion on the floor of tlip ssnate arid engineef-xtra •rdAisry of the president’s bills, ria services fn the ftiidsj of the gaentaaS light in congress for generations oould not ^cll bo ifiaged. 0 constitutional quostio* alefc arises. The constitution fprlwda t3ra appointment of iCfiy membonf the House (it Sonata ta any office arealed during tike term served by suell member. €i0 ratirtment ®f Mr. Vam Pevanter comes Uqder tliq Act of l£a*5h f, 1937, as Stated in his letter t.o the president, then ’no niemibor of the present Congress h eligible for fhe Supreme Vonri appointmontJ. Again the alemAfit of time which the pres ident hopes would help in gaining strength for the bill, has n«4 provided the dosirod result. Time, howevnr,, and a plenty at it will lie consumed, from lajtt indication/*, beforn this out standing question will he s.ttled. } WHAT—ANOTHER DEPRESSION.. .Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland, speaking in the Senate a few days ago, in opposition to an appropriation for a dan, predicted another depression. He named as authority foU hi6 prediction, Marriner Eccles, femier Vice-president Dawes, and many eminent economists throughout the cxmtry. These men should be in petition to read the signs of the times and, our group would do well to ttvke them seriously. While it is true that most of us are still in dfepression of 1929, the rmiahpubhcized prosperity not] having reached us, we know that when and If mother one comes we again will be tile...first to .be fired—and the last to he rehired, and must unravel bales of red tape to secure assistance. Why not lay aside a little eaok day and. otherwise fortify ourselves for any eventuality. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION The Social Security Botfrd hhs announced the appointment •f a special advisory council to cooperate \v%h the Board in working out possible changes in the old age provisions of the act find other necessary ammendments. The advisory council of HA representing Ichor, management and the public, is to meet IBRORZE Skndattfe i R05E DEXTER l umu lAHIt.PUYtD A KATU*tT> PAPT IN Ew lfonaho stiumam's I *VIE\N FAC1S Of 1936" ]\ AT THE VAVtDETCWIT THEATRE jfVTNNEVY 'fOAK. Off. ,Mur OfclANDO H0WH.S01N4 SILVER THROATED TENOR,IS NOW CONDUCTING MIS OWN ORCRESTRA. VTMS'\NMIIK SONGWRITER AND PIANO SlYLlST HAS AECORPtD SO MANY SONGS THAT THEY MAY RE HEARD WHEREVER ENGLISH IS UNDERSTOOD. © 1957 IHTKHHATIONAL SSOBO PIUBB in a few days and will htnve before iit an eightkpomt pla|i of action prepared by the board. IMie board, it seems, was ■very careful In its selection to cortft- every phVijBe of American life, but ns usual, bad to say), overlooked the and by far tbe most indispensible, t|io |s'egro laborer. Tliis group, unorgan ized it is true, is labor’s liSapkbone and usually prepare* the way for the organized skilled laborer work, receiving only a pit tance. Hut an excise tax in expected of tlliis pitanee just as of the highey paid organixbd jluborer. Who, then, w81 r*pr#*»«tn ike Negro •wnmon laborer when the council inetrtnf WORLD’S THRIFT RECORD Probably the world’s most powerful object lesson in tftrtft ia the extraordinary ranking of America a® the lending nation of lifo insurnjice owners) Thi® country contains only seven per ernt of the world's population Bat Americans own 70 per cent of all the world's life insurant. t Equally astonishing is tho growth in popularity of Iffo in aurance an this country in only A few ycttra. For instance., 'in 11900, only one America^ in every eight, had made provision, for lais dependents and liirnsedf through TOfo iusumMpe. Today, ev ery ether Aaverrcngi is numbered in the nnnks of life insurance owners—04,000,1X10 of them. And this army of provkUujk peo ple have pooled their resources t® tho extent of creating $104,500,000,000 of life insurance in force. These millions of Amerieaas c,ro expressing iheir Ameri can love fol* freedom—by bandiirg together to achieve individ ual security—seeurky agaiast leaving dependent .families (if they die too soon) and agVf'mii tlheDr* own dependence Upon others (if they live tao long). ’Wipsc figures give added empha sis to Life Insurance Week, widen was observed throughout the Unliod State! May 17 to ‘i2. They also lend powerful em kafils to the slogan of the week-—-"Thesooner you pl;gn your I future, tho better your future wCf be." ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS By E. Hofer In the past, labor trouble us ually consisted of disagree ments between employers and unions. In the future, e-ome of our bitterest labor troubles may be the fruUjs of a remarkable between Afferent kisds of la phenomenon — dis&greememts bor unions. Signs of this ha.ve already be come apparent} in a few strikes; the ship strike in New York, shoe stjrike in Maine, and the automobile strikes for instance. Principals in the inter-union argument} are the Committee on Industrial Organization headed by John L. Lewis, and the old American Federation of Labor, led by Wm. Green. Seeds of discord between ,tfie two groups were sown long ago: the A.F. of L. is the staunch defender of the craft union—a union composed of men doing the same kind of work, though they may be employed in a hun dred different industries. C..I O. dream is the “one big union" for example, all automobile workers would be listed in one union, all the stgel workers in ►mother and so on, irrespective of what their jobs were in the industry. Mow every time a labof con troversy starts, representatives of the CIO and of the A.F. of L. imaiediately appear on the scene, attempt to influence the workers to join their organiza tions. In many instances, CIO and A. F. of L. are farther apart ami are more bitterly op-' 1 possd to each other, thfin are the strikers amt the companies, j Matters occasionally reach the comie opera *t«tgo—for exam ple, jfcsent cases are ou record such a0 where a CIO picketed a shop as being unfair to or ganized labor, and was in turn picketed by A,. F. of 1j. man with h bairn# declining the same shop bo be fair. So far, ttie CIO has ball th$ best of the buttle. But the X F. of 1/. hasn't hoisted the flag of surrender yet. It is far big ger than the CIO, has great pros tige. Within it are some of the jmt..ssa 31 X richest, bes^ established unions. Big A. F. of L. hopes are pin ned on a change in the Nation al Labor Relations Act (Wag ner Aet) which it hopes Con gress will endorse. As mow constituted, this act forces elections among workers when trouble appears in an in dustry. These elections are se cret, are impartially conducted, hnd workers vote for whatever union they want.. Union getting a majority vote is the legal rep resentative of all thp workers and other unions are out. A. F. of Tj. wants an amendment to the Acf which wrould permit a craft union to represent its members in an industry, irre spective of whati union speaks for other workers in the same industry. m!av be that such nn amendment is neeessarv *n the vnrv* life of A F. of Tj.—5n an industry prnft workers, who nsrudlv hifVhl’tr skillpd men. in t>m minority and can he HrsiP- outvoted. Tlie company union, Business Week says, is definitely on the w“ajne, may entirely disappear before long. Workers just do not like it. Recent test came in the Packard motor company election, kald by the Labor Re lations Board, when workers had their choice between a com pany union a*id a CIO union. CIO came out on top, by four to one majority. So the union warfare will involve only the two major groups—CIO ar$ A. IT. of L. Both are gfrding for the fray, both realize thfat they are in for real action. Both have been rais ing money—nowadays anions are big business and require tre monduous war cheats. Both are conducting most Intensive mem bership drives tn years. What influence a labor “cibil war” will have on labor's do znafids on management remains ho be seen. Under any circum stance, the feeling is growing that legislation Imposing rv><s ponsibilities on unions as well as corporations, mii^t be passed. < --o Bill Robinson Heads Juneteenth Fete at Dallas, Texas Dallas, June 6 (ANP)—Two ser ies of programs, one given by. the Pan Amelcaa exposition to lure in Emancipation day crowds and the other by colored eitizens who re sent the attitude of the exposition’s executives, will be held hero on June 19th when this section makes its annual "J’unotecnth” celebraftion. The Pan Alherican announces It lias contracted for Bill Robinson, tho tap dancing king, to appear hero h*th fun® 18th and 20th, L**ky MilHnder’s orchestra is be ing brought for tha aama period. Exposition officials plan to present them from a stags in tha semi-cir cular errtranca way of the marbla hall of Stats and at a stseat dance in the big Court of Honor. Many thousand Negroes are expected, said Director Gcnsnal Prank L. Ma Neny. f4 Colored leaders, however, are asking citizens to remain away from this special attraction and at tend a aountpr-setebratiom They declare Pan American officials have refused to allow Negro parti ipation in tha fair this year and ara interested now only because they plan to grab a large part of the money ordinarily spent in June teenth observance. Tl»ey plan on staging a mammoth panels with floats anfl banners, with amusements provided at Griggs, Wahoo Lake and Oak Cliff parks. Emancipation day speeches will bo made by Roscoe Dunjce, Ok lahoma City editor and R. D. Evans Waco attorney. State brandies of tho N. A. A. C.. P. will also hold their convention at the same time. An fccfio j, From iMy Den * By S. E. Gilbert ----- As \ sit here in my dee, wilt (pen in Itfijnd, meditating as it I were, there comes* to m/ mind j the fact that the average Negro , thinks black and reads white. As a Negro, it is possible yo* ( often think black, but you in I variably read white. There is j no disputing this, for here ia j Omaha it is shown in th* race s I la*dk of solidarity. Economical ly the Negro is a slave, not be cause he does not know thii| the Negro, as a citizen and as a group, needs to develop busi ness enterprises which are the bulwark of economic freedom and independence, but because he lias rdad white so long that be believes there is no way by which these much needed en terprises may be launched. His thoughts are that in a Negro community a Negro grocery is needed. But, when he reads, he comes to the conclusion “Tha-t if it is white, it ba right." Going a bit further by illuc talartion, let us take the Negro consumer, fer instance. Ninety per cent of the Negroes in Opa aha know that it would be help ful to the group, and espec ially to the many boys and giclk , who this week are coaplotifcg their high ^hool and eolleg® cjajreena, should they iuppeat the Negro merchants, newspa pers, profe^sioal men and otitcw who are struggling to build ! something ol which w# eouM and would b« proud, ft & thXa they tliink. But when th^ tonu , to read, they taka who poaitiaa that because it in whit* it is right hence they tflirow tiheis support not to tk© bike* but to Ihe white. It is not going to do w a»y good a* a grenp to bewail owr eeonomie plight. It i9 not sa ough for us to think. “Mack". We must also read black. That mdana that we must not only think ef what will help \m as a group to get out of this eco nomic morass, but wc mu s' mid it into realization by acting up on the thoughts. Fo,r what good will it. do, or has it done, Ihsii we should pity ourselves in our ; thought* while in our action* we throw our sympathy to thfe other fellow. Say what you may but that is exactly what is bp ing done in Omjalia today. And the pity of It i9 we 9eelu tc *** unable do oth^rwbie. But tl»o possibilities of •Ur ever beetftpjng economically free depend* almost entirely ©* our ability to eoordi»sU o» action with our thoughts. W© are classed as black AAcrioasp, and as such, we cfimoi Succeed by flunking and reading of ofik selves aa otherwise. If we aspect the respect of nil men wc mupt qualify by building our <r0% economic structure and this ©ck only be don© through the coor dinating of mind, heart arid ac tion. _ * —-o-— White Manager Slays Worker in Pay Dispute Columbus, S. C., Jtme 6 (ANP) —Because he argued with a lum ber plant manager over what he be lieved was a shortage in his pay en velope, Harrison Smith* 40-year old World War veteran, was shot and killed Saturday night by R. L. Whitson, white. Officers said Smith complained Saturday afternoon about the short age and that evening went to Whit son’s home to talk with him. The white man borrowed a pistol and shot at his employe five times, t\vo bullets taking effect. Smith died instantly. The slayer was placed in the County jail.
