COMMENTS EDITORIAL PAGE opinions I Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Phones: WEbster 1517 or 1518 Entered as Second (’lass Matter March 15, 1027. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., underAct of Congress of March 8, 1870. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 82.00 PER YEAR Race prejudice must go. I be Fatherhood of God and the Brother hood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles which will ttai-d the arid tc-t of pood. All Nmvs Copy of Churches and all Organizations must he in otn sffice t t Inter man 6:00 p. nt, Monday t'oi current issue. All Adver Using <’(i|iv o' l aid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, prececd mg date of i--•!<•. to insure publication. ..EDITORIALS.. i , | ] ECHOES OF VUE NEWS tty H. J. FORD, Washington, D C. AT THE CROSSROAD—The future of the Negro worker ■ is at ihi* n f.i'i and those who should he most concerned are npoareu.ly aslep nt 1 hW snviteh. Organized labor lms never been any 1- friendly to this minority group, although very re laeUmtlv ,i ,i ill iiv a few of them into it« folds, here and there. Every passible device, prompted by pr '.judie'j and nun. ha!red, ha A he. 'ti used to keep iliem from coming into their own. And Him in spite of the loyalty thev have shown that has no para lell among o H«r races, lugrnliltide, you might say, hut wait. To add insult to injury the present Congress has before it for pas sage a bill to legalize these in jus ityia the rn<*<» now suffers— tip. wave * I i i * .ft-n t i a ] of tlm Mark-Connery Win ere Hour hill. Negroes have normally been supporters of the Republican parly in polities, but in the- past two national ivnnipnigns hav'e gotic in surprisingly large numbers into the fold of the Demo crats. Can the Negro depend upon tine party of his adoption, now that they eon rol, overwhelmingly, both branches of Con gre ' Will th,. interest of the race be eared for, or will the dominant parly pass the wage-hour bill in spi.e of those fea tures objectionalde to tho Negro! And then- will the Negro still support a party that will insist upon such objectionable legislation in Kpite of the probes^ of the Negro? We are truly at the crossroad and much depends upon ^he course of events during thP nest few weeks. CHAMPIONSHIPS—The refreshing news flh&t Spelling Bee rlinmpWitiNilups are falling right and left to young Negro contestants convinces us that the field of championships will moou he overrun with Negroes. And, why not! A Black boy must be 100 percent better ihau all other contestants for it chance to compete, and tluen must win with all odds against him. So when Hip news comes that there Bs n new hlfcck cham pion we know ho is a champion indeed. One columnist has said recently that Negroes ltjavo won all the championships except, tennis, and then nsks in disgust “who wants to be tcnmis cham pion,” We wish to commend all who have entered the various contests and won championships. We wish also to encourage those who did not win the prize and advise them to not give up until they too are victors. W0 recall a city where a few years ago annual field days were held in which members of all races took part. A year came when every event was won by a Negro, add the spinsors found an excuse to discontinue the field (leys. Lowering the bars of race prejudice and showing a little moro sportsmanship in all lines of sport, including the big base ball longue may add a few surprises to the list of eluwnpions. Borah—What Does He Stand For? By Louis L. Redding—Reprint from The Crisis, March 1936 It would seem from this analysis of the senator from Idaho, that Negro citizens can place little dependence in him as a statesman and none at all in him as h man having any conception of the hopes, ambitions and rights of Negro Americans Sometime before the Idaho legislature catapulted him into the United States Senate in 1907, at the age of 42, William Ed gar Borah must have adopted as his personal credo a perver sion of Emerson's epigram, “A foolish consistency is the hob of little minds.” This is not to say that Senator Borah has been cognizant that the record he has been building up for himself is one in which inconsthancv is the only constant trait. It may be that he lacks a clear-cut fundamental political philosophy. There are observers who ascribe the Senator's characteristic te tering between opposite poles of a question to ignorance, which might arise from just such a lack. They think Mr. Borah is ns baffling a puzzle to himself as to others—that he ns little knows whiat he wants to do as others know. In her “Revelations of a Woman Lobbyist” Maude Younger has this to say of Senator Borah: “You talk with hitn, and think he is with you through and through.™.But. you never quite know..Sometimes you wonder if h0 knows ” To the superficial observer Borah doubt less appears to be a consistent admirer of the Federal Consti tution. Throughout his utterances, on the floor of the Senate pand elsewhere, recur protestations of revei’ence for the sub servience to the Constitution as framed by the Founding Fh tliers in the Convention of 1787, lie professes to believe “Our fathers understood the science of government as no other sin gle group of men has ever understood it” and the Constitution jthev built “the greatest instrument of government ever de vised by the w*it of man.” Of the fathers, it is Hamilton who most snares his admiration, and Borah has termed him “In many respects the greatest constructive genius who ever dealt >■ «■ —■■>■■■■ III I .1 1 i m jr r .. , ■■ 7 T-—; . ■ - ...— I Sicaidqilts ¥u?& RIT)MA>4 MAX B>I-StVN iUDiNG VVfc* HOKSI^XCN ANX' VlOKNING IN CINTPvM. PMUU WHIN HI IS IN NtW XOILK-.. E.O 2> , HAVE5 •’ NEW& COMMENTATOR. AND \ SKOVV CMTIC.HAS BUN / WAITING TCHA NEVWAKIU5 ? fOA MOJU THAN fOUV V VEAAS.HIS UADHA CAU ) UIM'UNCU bOB'^ ^»k,. I T T >**«*»• , I t>eUoy-D s / N/^Y-NY \ ^. . . / (NllH.NMlONM IV KNOWN " •-.*- • r INN I ST, HNS HtrK UKNT3S INSULT) TOO. <,50,000. (.^viot i'mts.) © 'ini IwniM-nttkl Sr’PO ~RVV1 ,,,lt Hul .- - .■ —..—.. | An Echo j I From iMy Den Ry S. E. Gilbert As I sit here in my DEN with pen in hand, meditating ns it were, there comes to mind that age old subject of “Inferitory Complex-’’ If you conduct yourself proper ly why thq inferiority complex? ,1 ii:’t because your parents arc not college bred, are not wealthy and do not hold a high place in so eiciy is, not a good and sufficient reason why you should feel Inferior to those who possess such advant ages. If you and your famly arc hon est and respoe table, clean in mind end thought, and you take care of whnt you have, you need not fear the other man. , «v It is n false idea that one human being is on a higher plane than the rest of humanity, because he or .she has more in material things. Those who would have you think them superior are not, really. Espe cially if by manner or word, they show arrogance or snobbishness then you know their veneer is only diin deep. So why be afraid of veneer put on to cover up real inferiority? An inferiority complex is some thing that grows rapidly. It unfits the one who has it for carrying on fia be otherwise should. A feeling of mediocrity is a grent stumbling block to progress. Don’t admit, ev il to yourself, that you are not on the same plana with those who try to impress you with their impor tance. Rut instead, say to yourself that if one individual can accom plish a certain feat in life, so can I. : KELLY MILLER wno IS A NEGRO The dMcision of the Supreme Court of New York, upholding the eonvenant forbidding Negroes from I owning, renting or occupying pro perty brings to n focus an issue which is bound to figure in local tote and national litigation. The defendants is this ease base their contention squarely on the ground that they ‘wore not Negroes according to any established seien 1 He or legal definition. The Court, side-stepping the frontal issim, accepted the working definition in general practice and' lctried that the ease in litigation violated any provision of the Con stitution of the United States ac cording to a decision of (he Su premo Court in a case of this spe eific character. Arthur Garfield Hays, the well known mil if ant attorney of radical causes, declared his intention in advance of appealing the case to the Supreme Court of the United States and force from that final tribunal a legal definition of the term “Negro." The fact that the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and the Civil Liber ties joined in the suit indicates dearly that this issue, will be forced to final judicial determinnation. When Mr, Hays announced his intention of appealing the ease to | the United States Supreme Court, 1 was in the midst of preparing an article for the May issue of Oppor tunity on a suitable racial designa tion for the so-called “Negro” or “Colored” group of the United States. I then predicted the outcome of the pending suit and prophesied that both the local and Supreme Court would side-step a judicial with the science of government.” Yet to that concept in the constitutional framework so highly valued by Hamilton and his associates in the Constitu tional Convention Senator Borah was a greater instrument of violence than any other individual. He was chagrined because m 1903, the first time lie was a candidate for the United States Senate, a bloc in the Idaho legislature defeated him by four votes. When he did reach the Senate, he steered through it the Seventeenth Amendment, transferring the election of Senators fiom tlie state legislatures to the whole electorate. No chnaige ^ wrought in the Constitution has had a more devasting effect, on the original plan than this Amendment. The framers believed that the success of the bicameral legislative system depended upon each chamber's owing its election to a different elector ate. Moreover, they thought a highly limited electorate for the upper chamber would send to that body a superior rank of statesmen. Borah's chief hero, Hamilton, set forth in the “Fed eralist,” the idea of flic framers: _ Through the medium of the State legislatures—which are select bodies of men, and who are to appoint the mem bers of the National Senate—there is reason to expect that this branch will generally be composed with peculiar care and judgment. / Whether Mr. Borah reached the conclusion that he and other individuals selected by state legislatures for the Senate fell short, of the high expectations of the founders is not known. It. more nearly appears that to avenge a personal grievance he let himself contribute mightily to the demolition of a cherished concept of the framers whose 'wisdom and genius he professed to revere. (Continued Next Week)) definition. Whatever I said thei was so pertinent to the issue ir volved that I cannot do ben.tr tha | repeat it here. “Prior to 1890 the Census 01 11 fice sought to subdivide the Negr ; group into, blacks, mulatto^::, qua t' oons and octoroons. Subsequcr I to that date it found it impossibl to make such sharp discrimination' since these division ran impercept ibly one into the other, and als since there was no definite do eriminant or oriter’on by whic 1 the one could be separated fror the other. “There are 29 states in whicl legal distinction exists on aceoun of race, such as separate cars, so pitrftte schools, and bans on inter ■acini marriage. It would be seen hereforc, how important it is tha here should be a federal defini ior, of “nice” if law's are to la based on such distinctionn. Hitle: •■■ill soon be confronted with thi -imr.aity of a legal definition o: Aryan and the Jew, since be ha; placed the latter under political an< civil disabilities. “The Southern states have adopt j eel a workable od Xesi| >r has boar discovered, these states have had to fall back upon observation and Common judgment. ‘Of the 29 states which have en acted laws based on race distinc tion, no one of them has an ulti mate or adequate definition ot “race.” Individuals of the twc races tire forbidden to intermarry upon superficial evidence, satisfas tory to the clerk of the court, Chil dren are assigned to white or color ed schools wholly on superficial ap , poaranec. Every train and street car conductor of the south is set up as judge of abstruce science ot anthropology and ethnology. “Tlie nearest approach we lmvt to a federal definition of “Negro’ o • “colored person” was set up by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, where white ant colored schools operate under the paws of Congress. The judge de cided that a “colored person” is one who, by contact and associa tion abides in the racial status. “When ttils question reaches the Supremo Court, if it ever does, it is easy to predict this learned tri bunal will side-step a technical and ultimate definition, and will fall back upon the resourcefulness of observation and common sense. “This august tribunal has passed on laws excluding Japanese, Chin ese and Filipinos from becoming citizens by naturalization. In no instance did it set up a definition of what constitutes a Japanese, or a Chinese, or a Filipino, but took the definition for granted. “Should the Supreme Court un dertake a technical definition of ' race it must first define a white man, and the exact point where, on account of inter-mixture of blood, the white man ends and the colored man begins. This would require more wisdom than the “nine wise old men possess. The Supreme Court will in all likelihood fall back upon the existing definition, based upon heresay and telltale evidence, as long as it is workable.” However the pending case may turn out, it is inevitable that some where down the road the Federal judiciary will have to face an ulti mate definition This nation must either abolish all distinction and discrimination based on blood composition or es tablish a scientific and legal de finition of “race.” - ■ n MAKES NOTABLE RECORD COLORED RED CROSS Cincinnati, June 24 (ANP)— The colored advisory board of the Red Cross which had supervision of the disaster awards made to sufferers who sustained losses in the princi pal colored districts during the re cent flood, has completed its work. 6,433 cases were handled and awards In that office amounted to $74,983.82. B. W. Overton, secretary of the YMCA was chairman of the com mittee upon which some of the city’s most prominent ctizens saw service. The case work was han dled m,' Miss Eileen Yarbrough, supervisor, who had under her su pervision 21 case workers and nine stenographic and clerical workers. Miss Yarbrough was enthusiastic in describing the fine working re lationship between her office and that of the district Red Cross. e The Works Program n National Youth Administration Wash ngton I>. C.—More than 0 35,000 colored high senool and col • l<‘ge students received aid in eon t tinuing their studies from the Na tional Youth Administration dur ng the past school year, Mrs. Mary • McLeod Bethune, director of the J Division of Negro Affairs of the • NYA, reports. This figure repre 1 sents an increase ef more than 1 0,000 over last year’s total, and is vet incomplete because of lack of i data from states making no racial t breakdown in their reports. Practically every' Negro college in ■ the country participated in the , program, acrording to Mrs. Be th tine. Parttime jobs were furn ished for 6,082 undergraduates and ■ 430 graduate students, many of the ■ latter group benefiting from the i special fund set aside for colored ; students seeking higher degrees' who could not be cared for under ! regular graduate-aid quota. The re maining 28,000 receiving student aid were enrolled in high schools. All were between 16 and 25 years of age. rs uc oniy ims i"e 1 immcmi as sir*v nee given by the NYA made it possible for these young me.n ! and women to remain in college, Mrs- Ilelhune pointed out, but in addition the socially useful work to which these students were as signed contributed definitely to their job-training and guidance. This work included book-b'ndinp, j nu king studies in health and sani tation, tutoring, research assist ance in classrooms and laboratories, | preparation of bibliographies, and I recreational leadership. It is be-I Sieved that through this program the NYA is serving as a spearhead of attack upon the problems of masses of underprivileged Negro youths in ail sections of the coun try who are economically unable to get training at a time when trained hands and minds are most needed. With the close of the school year Youth Administration officials the country over are calling upon pri vate industry to open the gates of employment to the young people who are currently being dropped from th NYA payroll, ns ho pro visions are made for continuing Student Aid benefts into summer sessions and budgetary limitations preclude the absorption of any but a negligible flew into the NYA i assistance came from low-income families, the need for either full ; or part-time employment for such i youth is acute. < “We hope that employei-s every where will scrutinize their person- • nel needs to the end that as many 1 of these young people as possible i will be placed," Aubrey Williams, : NYA Executive director, declared, j “Their need for employment is de- I monstrated by the fact that they I MATT HTNSON CITED BY MOSCOW PAPERS Moscow, USSR., June 24 (ANP) “In connection with the brilliant achievement of the Soviet airmen in landing at the North Pole, news papers here make note of the greetings and praise of Matt Hen son, only living person who has been at the North Pole, over the heroic feat. Henson is called an ex plorer by Moscow newspapers. “Matt Henson, Negro explorer, who accompanied Robert Peary to th? North Pole in 1909, highly praised the Soviet airmen who landed on the North Pole,” says one newspaper. Again one reads: “From scientists, explorers, fly ers—from men like Richard Byrd and Larsen, who themselves have flown over the Pole— J'r m Matt Henson, the Negro explorer who stood with Peary when the North Pole was first discovered—all alike are quick to point out the unique character of the Soviet Polar ex pedition.” have been forced to work part time during the last nine months in order to attend school or college. If they are cast adrift now without any source of income, many will suffer seriously. “The—National Youth Adminis tration has always recognized that there arc certain types of begin ners’ jobs which rightfully belong to the young, inexperienced worker Such jobs as these can be filled by youth without seriously affecting the employment of experienced, adult workers with families to sup port. “A co-operative and sympathe tic attitude on the part of employ ers, large and salil, is needed now in order to uncover as many of these jobs as possible. The sudden Iropping of of a $3,000,000 monthly payroll for a particularly needy • < up of people cannot be effected without serious concquenees. The oss can be mitigated only through ncreased opportuniti s in private employment-” Young people dropped from the student Aid rolls with the eessa :ion of the school term in June will iind it difficult to transfer to the lYork Projects program in their Wme communities, Mr, Williams jointed out, as these two phases of he NYA program are set up un k*r sepnratet budgets, one extend ng over the nine months of the ac ademic year, and the other twelve months. In almost every community inotas for out-of-sehool youth on he Work jects Program ape ilready filled, with long waitfKjr i'-ts in reserve. Young people for nerly receiving Student Aid who eok certification to the Work Pro ects Program naturally must take heir places at the botton of the ist. Celebrates Anniversary m- This. m. e. potter Manager of the Tampa Bullentin 1416 Orange street, Tampa, Fla., whose paper celebrated its 23rd anniversary last week- The Bulletin produced by colored men and wo men “from A to Z,” was started in If,14 as a “one-n an” shop, and is today an “eleven-man” 3hop. Editor M. D. Potter, Mrs. Potter’s pro claims that the paper is the oldest and most widely read news paper of his group in Florida- The Bulletn is in its own building and has modem equipment. Mrs. Pot ter is a director of the Tampa Urban League, a member of the Advisory Committee of the colored City Hospital, and recently was elected a trustee of Allen Temple AME church. She is a graduate of Scotia Seminary, now Barber Scotia Junior college, Concord, N. C- (C)