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COMMENTS EDITORIAL PAG £ OPINIONS THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Phones: W Elwter 1617 or 1618 Entered a.- Second Ginas Matter March 16, 1027. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., unde: Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. TI«:;M. OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Race prejudice r ust go. The Fatherhood of God and the Brother fceod of Man must prevail. These are the only principles which will itai-d (he acid test of good. All News Copy of Churches and all Organizations must he in our sffice not later twin 6:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver tising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, proceed ing date of issue, to insure publication. ..EDITORIALS.. “Our” Not “Their” “Cooperative association members should think of their organization in terms of ‘our’ rather than 'their,' ways a farm expert. “Instead of looking upon the cooperative as belong ing to the directors and the management* members should eons'der it as their own organization and thould be willing to play their part in the gaune. If tlilry believe in its objectives,, policies and principles, they should be willing to work for its1 •cess" Thj farm marketing cooperatives that have regis tered the greatest success shave been those whose members regard the organization in this manner. No group or associa tion can i#'hiev( much if those it is designed to serve are not interested, rente e or suspicious. A farm cooperative, to be sound must refb'ct the cohesive views of a loynj, aggressive, informed membership. ) Feeble-Minded Regulation The Chicago Sunday Tribune, in commenting on recent disastrous bus accidents* said “the economy of bus travel is largely artifidid, and maintainunce of schedules, conveniences and speed arc all on flic side of the railroads. Rome fifty years ago, the nation adopted a policy of damning the railways for everything in general. Anti-railroad measures w)rro viciously passed without regard for the fact they we# 'overshooting tfie mark and hitting the traveler and shipper. That the prac tice has continued down to the present may be observed from Senate acquiescence to a hill that would limit, the number of cars in a railway train, as well as state lays till:\t foreg the railway : to t arry two motormen on n Diesel locomotive, all Tor no otlnr purpose than to matte railroading expensive. • “Regainlory measures have practically placed railrond management in the hands of commissions, and thus under the dead hand of government interference. This is not a catch plirn-e. but n stern reality.Had the government interfered in the manufalP.ure of matches half a cenury ago, the public would still he vying ‘eight day’ lucifers, and if regulations of the motor industry had been adbpted twenty years ago, tho Model T would sl'itl ho in the future. “Railway travel is the lensti expensive mass transporation that has yet. been devised. The price can be reduced to a ceut a mile and less, hut the public must first demand a truce to political railway hailing. Improvements in the nrt of railroad ing must he aided by sympathetic encouragement and not dis icouragcd by arbitrary and vicious legislation. Because we have adopted the latter course, we have unnecessary buses and un necessary accidents. Loaded With Dynamite In a recent article, Gordon Cook, a spokesman for organ ized independent retailers, observes that efforts to legislate the chains out of business “are loaded with dynamite so far as Ihe independent grokver is concerned.” Furthermore, he says, “Such efforts are futile because all fehain stores haveto do to avoid being put out of bubiness is to change their form of organization. They turn 4heir systems in to voluntary chains, consolidate stores into super market’s, or follow some other plan which will remove the penalties that are levied against regular chain groups. “Equally important, almost every attempt to tax the chain stores out of business has resulted in additional tax upon the independent groo.er. “There is only one way to put the food Stores out of business and that is for the independents to out volume of business done merchandise them.” In recent years, by chain stores, ns compared to volume done by independents, has tended to decline. Unprejudiced economists who have sur veyed merchandising, are largely of the (minimi that chain growth has reached its opex and that in the future the business done by chains will either remain constant or decrease. Independent merchants, through mass buying associations have met chains on their own ground. The only merchants who havo reason to fear chains are those behind times and inefficient—and such merchants are doomed in any event. Merrhants who advocate puloitive legislation against the chain systems endanger their own existence. ’ DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS—PLEASE NOTICE The postoffice department does not permit the delivery ef papers to delinquent subscribers. If your payments are not up to date, please mail or bring amount due to The Guide office or call WEB1517 for representative: Your cooperation will be Teatly appreciated' Ttie Management By h. L. STEVENSON Economics: A diner at one of those snooty and expensive West chester roadhouses told the waiter to serve two orders of fresh shrimps with his dinner. Instead of eating them, the diner waited until the waiter turned his back. Then he wrapped the shrimps in a napkin and stowed them away In his pock et. A scout for this department, who happened to be present, made inquiries and learned from the diner that he has a dozen small turtles which he cherishes highly. Turtles tire ef a diet of ant eggs and are especially fond of shrimps. So in his pocket was a big meal for his pets. The scout did a bit of figur ing. At that eating place, shrimps are 75 cents an order, which con sists of six—and small turtles re tail at a dime each. • • • Ingenuity: Two small boys, equipped with a pole on the end of which was a piece of chewing gunv were Ashing for a quarter through the subway grating in front of one of those old bVownstone tenements on Central Park West. The Janitor came out and chased them. When the lads had vanished, the Janitor came up from the basement with a big hook and a short ladder. Re moving a section of the grating with the hook, he descended by means of the ladder, pocketed the quarter, came up, replaced the grat ing and returned the ladder to the basement. Then he resumed his business of polishing brass railings. • • • Tops: More fat women ride the Brighton local of the B. M. T. sub way than any other line . . More bundles and packages are carried aboard the Interborough subway trains at Fourteenth street than any where else along the whole system . . . More newspapers ore read on Washington Haights trains . . . More beoks and magazines ore read on Bronx expresses . . . The great est mob scenes are nt the Grand Centra! end of the Times Square1 rhuti'e during rush hours . . The deepest subway station is at One 1.1 -bvtl and Eighty-first street . . The highest elevated station is at One Hundred n ’ 1 Tenth street on the £ :th and Ninth avenue lines . . ' ' « coolest station is the lower 'evel of the Fifth avenue stop of the tut: 'pendent system . . . Ihe long est subway station in the world is | •ho Forty-second street station of; that same line. * • • Brief: New York’s shortest street J is Edgar street, which starts at 23 j Trinity ph.ee and runs through to Gre. nvich street. Its length is only ' about 43 feet hnd it is possibly a dozen feet wide. So short is it that a sandwich shop runs the en;lr« length cf the downtown side, with entrances on Greenwich street anii Trinity place. On the uptown cor ner on the Greenwich end is another sandwich shop and on the Trinity plr.ee end there’s a store dealing in hosiery and other articles for wom en. But despite its brevity, Edgar street has a sign at each end. Ana when Inspected by this correspond ent, there was a sign on the Trinity place side which announced that it was closed to through traffic. • t • Starts: Nadine Conner first lured fame across ti e footlights as a con cert pianist. Severe stomach trou ble convinced her she should sing to strengthen the abdominal mus cles. So she renounced the piano and entered on a new career as a soprano . . Barry McKinley, bari tone, got his start on the air as a soprano. He sang falsetto as a sub stitute for one of the Morin sisters who was taken ill during a broad cast . . . And the station put him on as a staff vocalist . . Jolly Co burn is Radio Row's representative of the United States Naval acade my . . . Jerry Cooper was a steve dore on the New Orleans docks. In spare time, he was shortstop for the New Orleans Orioles, a serni pro baseball team. • • • Information: Dorothea Lawrence likes to pull this one at house par ties: "Who’s the treasurer of the | United States?” Eight of ten usu ally answer "Morgenthau." The correct reply is W. A. Julicn, whose j name graces the nation’s currency. ©Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Treasure Island, man made site of the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Franc'sco Bay, stands 13 feet above sea level. -o-• To solve construction problems, two exhibit palaces for the 1939 Golden Gate International Expos! tion were built “from the top down,” with roofs completed before walls. EDITORIAL < (From the Raleigh, N. C. News Observer, Septomb r 10, 1937) Color and Tenancy The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People b< lieves that it makes a reasonable »*ifuest when it urges that one of the three men who will administer the recently enacted Farm Tenancy -■ ~ .—- --■> AnEcho liy S. E. Gilbert - - -- ■ ■■ ■ - V. 4 As I sit here in my Den, with pen in hand meditating as it were, there comes to my mind the fact that thoughtless people give little attention to their personal appear ance and conduct. They fail to realize that the es tinmtion in which they are held by society isgenerally determined by the way they look and the way they act and what they say. Recently your correspondent was I talking to a local dealer in liquor on 24th Street, and he was strong on eondeming black America, stat ing that they make themselves un pleasantly cdnspicious by their loud and uncouth language- By such action they thus advertise their lack of training and their lack of intelligence. By wearing dirty, ragged, ill smelling clothing, although soap is both cheap and plentiful. They complain that other people are prcjvWiced against thlem be. cause of their color. They do not understand that these other people are prejudiced against them largely because of their lack of culture. They do not realize that people are generally judged by their out ward actions and not by inner worth. Such a condition breeds segre.ga tion, discrimination against not | only the loud mouth, uncouth ignor | nnt representatives but it also mi j tigates agonist the neat, well dressed, intelligent Negro. Dear Reader, I hope that I have pointed a true word picture, of actual facts existing right here in Omaha. It is your duty as n ci tizen to do your part in having that group who do not care how 1 they look or act to realize that society more often judge a dis tinefc group by its worst than by its best, and such conclusion will keep that portion of black Amer ica in Omaha who cares for his personal appearance from winning ; the place in society which they crave. Now black America let us refrain from such actions, dress neat whenever in public, let us not ar.noy the neighbors with loud and uncouth talk, let us not become rowdy workmen who disturb the thoughts and conversations of others by outlandish noises and gestures and the wearing of ill smelling clothes ns we ride to and from home to work. Let us conduct ourselves as gentlemen and ladies in public places, whether the owner be black or white, and thus by our conduct and personal appearance reflect credit upon a great race— Black America. NOTE:—Each week your corres pondent takes his pen in hand and writes on local issues as he sees it. Written comments on these Echos will be welcomed. Just address' your letters to ‘‘An Ecfho From My Den” Omaha Gu:de, 2418 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. -o Stein songs will be a lively part of the brewing industry’s display at San Francisco’s World’s Fair in 1939. --v— Emeralds to Be Mined in Salzburg Mountains Vienna, Austria.—Europe’s only emerald mine, Habachtal, 7,000 feet high up in the Calzburg mountains, will be put in operation again soon. Its owners, SchafThausen & Co., have engaged ten workers to drive a new gallery into the mountain. If pure emerald crystals are found in the gallery, work will be resumed on a large scale. Habachtal was operated during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth cen turies by various companies, includ ing a British firm, which is said to have exported most of the gems to India. Crystals with a diameter of up to one inch were found in Ha bachtal. They were of beautiful dark green color, but lacked trans parency. )F THE WEEK Act, designed to help tenant farm era become farm owners, be a Ne gro. Certainly the Nepfro is an im portant figure on the southern land and not only for him but for the south. And yet, the tenant problem in the South has seemed to become less and less a racial problem dur mg recent years. During the period t.920 to 1930, the number of white tenant farmers in the cotton conn try increased by 200,00, while the number of Negro tenant farriers decreased by 2,000. And yet! Exactly what these figures mean is not clear- It is cer tainly not clear that a larg'- num her of Negroes have advanced to the status of ownership while thousands of \vh:te farmeis have fallen back to tenancy. Indeed, is study of ‘Social Security for Southern Farmers,” H. C. Nixon of Tulane university has pointed out ‘‘the precarious ccompetitive plays an important but declining status of the rural Negro who part in Southern farming." Does this mean that the Negro is not only being deprived of such cm ployment in the towns as formerly was his by custom, as barber, wait er, etc-, but is also being driven from the crowded southern land? If it does, then certainly a situa tion more serious than even the tenancy problem calls for solution in the South. The white South may not like it, but the Negro is in the South to stay and the Negro in the. country or the town cannot be competitive ly driven in the direction of dis placement and starvation without contributing to the reduction of all social and economic sandards in the South. There must be a place for the Negro and a decent lace. And nothing in the long run could be more disastrous for the South than the contnuatiotn of its apparent discrimination against the Negro on the land under the very act that is designed to help landless men of both races. SeJ.nty years after the war between the states, the nation nnd South should have had time to learn that all men are slaves where any are. The National Association for the Advancement <f Colored People suggests that only by the incl .' ‘ ion of a Negro on the board can the danger of discrimination again: t the Negro be r.moved. Tha suggestion should he considered by the Secretary of Agriculture. Cor t.tinly, however, a Negro member of the bo&rd could not prevent discrimination unless the other two members of he board were ready to vote with such a Negro member against every suggestion of dis elimination. Therefore, obviously what is needed is a board of three members all honest, unprejudiced and capable of understanding the tremendous huntim and economic problem with which the Farm Ten arey Act was designed to deal. Here are needed character and in telligence, not color, white or black. A wise Negro might throw light on dealing with this old and desperately difficult problem of economic discrimination. So might a wise white man. And less wise men of both races may only look and wfonder in despair. Japan P!ays Losing Game By DR. S. L. WITMAN, Professor of Government, University of Omaha DR. 8. Is. WITMAN Japan has apparently achieved an Oriental ascendency of a degree and extent hardly an ticipated by the Western World. Since the Japanese occupation of Mukden in September, 1931, Far Eastern political af fairs have appeared to follow the course sel for them by Japan. Resistance by China ancj Occidental disapproval as expressed by the League of Nations and the United States have failed to stem the tide of empire upon which Nippon rides. Disregards Pact Manchukuo is under the direct control of Japan, her armies are j astride the Great Wall of China, 1 her government uas, with apparent impunity, disregarded its obliga tions under Article ten of the Lea ; gue Covenant, under the Pact of Paris (the Kellog-Briand pact for 1 the “outlawry” of war) and under I the Nine Power Treaty. In the ! light of these circumstances is the Japanese military leadership justi fied in assuming credit for a great national advance since 1931 ? What has happened in the diplo matic field? From 1928 to 1931, American friendliness toward Ja pan reached a new high point of development. Russia was too deep ly involved in the task of domestic reconstruction to exert willingly her energies in foreign entangle ments and so she more or less gra ciously yielded to Japan on issues in conflict. China was torn by in ternal strife. Americans Shocked The Manchurian episode and those which tollowed have effected a positive change in all these situ ations. America has been shock ed by its belief that Japan has vi olated its treaty obligation.*. Con stant territorial expansion from Manchuria to Jehol to Inn: r Tlon golia to Shensi have gene ; tad a militant anti-Janar.esc viewi-mat in Russia. And at long last Chinese internal solidarity has rea"! 1 an extraordinary point of development under the stimulus of foreign inva sion. Even the Chinese c nmun ists Have thrown in their let on the side of nationalism. C:i the strategic side, Japan’s i 3 since 1931 are imp ;. r.ive. V ') the limitations imp d by the C-" "> i .) wf the Was'higton nave! r , at 1922 re was pram.- !'v i - :r»gr. bio in 1 -r own v:at .j r.; a.r.st a naval of.*-. e by cither of her chief »■-.'■ r I i ala Since the termination by J: n cf the Washington naval treab.es not only must she enter a competitive building race with both United States and Britain but the latter countries are now free to advance with the fortification Oi their Pa cific naval bases. Great Britain is proceeding rapidly to strengthen Hong Kong and Singapore. Japan lacks the economic strength to suc cessfully compete with these coun tries in a full fledged naval build ing program. The continued con centration of Russian forces on the The horticultural division of San Francisco’s 1939 Exposition is plan ning an “Avenue of Olives” which will contain 280 old olive trees, 25 feet in height and with a branch spread of 20 feet. -"1 HIE .f° %\\Ums f?PD!0 50(105 TRESS KAS BEETIC* OUEST STAR Oil PlAliy jmflJOR 51UDI05 TOP (10TCH PROGKRITIS I _ axse.w****, 4 i i f vAftlor// IDTERPRETIVE niGHT CIUBDAHCER ^ roRniERiy of'blpck&irds* pod conmrs inn revues m i eastern Siberian frontier adds still another strategic threat. Great Financial Losses In the economic field actual and potential Jai anese losses since the earlier Manchurian episode are even more impressive. The na tional debt is piling up to an om inous degree—n debt incurred by military expenditures which, this year, equals Va the budget and % the revenue. Japan lacks the tunde tc adequately capitalize Manchu rian expansion to the extent neces sary to attain her alleged objectives there. The huge costs which her Oriental policy involved have de manded increased taxes which in turn will tend to increase produc tion costs and hence the price of commodities. This factor Increases the difficulty of maintaining her export trade which must be contin ued to support her militarily nec» essary import trade. The only alt ernative is the shipment of gold or foreign exchange, a movement which tends merely to accentuate her monetary Problems. Gains Temporary As Japanese policy continues irr its present course these difficulties will become greater not less. Hot diplomatic and economi pos.tioe has been and will oe fact, weak ened not improved. Alleged prog ress has been hollow and founded upon drifting sand. In one sense this cannot be said to have resulted from mistakes ol Japanese military judgment. Thi error is found in the failure to em ploy certain fundamentals of mod ern international ptecepts. Na tions can no longer win at the old imperialist game. Some can af ford to play it longer than others but inevitably they mart nil find as Japan miv-t find that the cost far exceeds the gain. The only solution lies in the nc-f ccptance by the nations of thd world of collective responsibility for the enforcement oi internation al law—a law redefined in some particulars in recognition of the political and economic interdepend ence of all modern national states. Another column of discus sion by a member of the Uni ' versity of Omaha faculty will V appear in this space next week. THE LOW DOWN *-from HICKORY GROVE Some kind of a battle seems to be goin’ on just about everywhere, and right here in the U. S. the paper it says, that war has been declared on sena tors. And the sen ators the war is called on, they call 'em rebels And they are re bels because they didn’t say, yes sir. to the boss. So they are going to eliminate this type of person. And the side tryin’ to eliminate the senators, they have plenty of guns, but lots of them are pop guns and squirt guns. But the real ly big guns, they just keep on shootin’ up in the. air, and people are not payin’ so much attention to them, any more. And it is some thing like when you watch roman candles and rockets go up with a hiss and a loud pop—and then go out, and after awhile you get tired of the noise. And in this Senate war, I would not want to be on the other side and tackle some of these senate rebels, bare handed, for they have backbone and are smart ducks And when it comes to votin,’ they are the kind of hombres the people ^ like. Yours, with the low down, Jo Serra