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COMMENTS E DITORIAL PAGE OPINIONS I THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Phones: WEbster 1617 ot 1618 entered as Second Class Matter March 16, 1927. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., underAct of Congress of March 3, 1879. TIXIMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God and the Brother hood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles which will stand the acid test of good. All News Copy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our affice not later tnan 6:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver tfctng Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, proceed ing date of issue, to insure publication.__ ..EDITORIALS.. * Tin* I'niied Slates News recently compiled what it terms “The New Deal’s ‘Won and DosF Record in the Supreme f’ourt.’ Two Court terms have been concluded in which admin istra.io,, mensurts havebeen decided. In 13 tomes the Adminis trat.Jon has been tustaiued. In 11 it has log . Cases in which il was uphold include site’ll measures as: fluid devalua ion, the TVA; Arms Embargo; Silver Purchase Policy; Second Frazier Lcinke Farm mortgage Moratorium Act and !h'e Social Security Act. Casts in which OFlost involved the NR A, AAA, Guffey Coal net, the Rail Pensionact and if e Aluniiip.*! Bankruptcy Act. Most fiavo ruble to Ad minis;ration laws ,says the News was Mr. Jus ice Cardoza, who east 19 votes for New Deal laws and 5 against. Most unfavorable was Air. Justice Me.Reynolds, 5 for New Deal laws, 19 agains^ It is interes ing to note Mr. fki.rdozo was appointed by a Republican—'President Hoover; Air. Me Reynolds by a Democrat—President Wilson. INDIVIDUALISTS The gaining of Ihree crowns in the ranks of boxing by . colored young men aerv<s to emphasize onjee baore t’mxJt ;we are a rat e of individualists. In each of these instances, indi vidual or personal prowess won top raling. The innocent of us might ask, why we can’t gain some of th« larger rewards of life which '(come through group aeftion. Our answer is. wo are not, organized. And what is the reasont It isi simply that we do not know how to work together. Working together—in unison—is an art which must he learned. To lear,| this art, there is much that must bo unlearn cd by the individual. We must change our thinking from self to “all for one and one for all.” Find the group that does this and you will find the successful group. Find those who think in term of self, and you will find those who s'and Tt. is interesting t‘o note in Negro life, the greatest work ing groitp, and the group with the most money at its com maud is the educational group. Thai in itself should he a le« son to the rest of us, but apparentdy it is not. Our educators ■are our best organized group, and thpy stick closest together. The result is our most substantial group economically is our leaching group. Any merchant will toll you that. When Negro business learns to organize and retallv work together it will get somewhere. Our religious organiznthins do fairly well, because of their organization.Oifr professional classes are gradnlly learning that in union dm*" is strength Hut it is still true that our shining examples of achievement, in most eases, are the individualists who help only themselves, apart. /National Negro Insurance Collection Drive President G. D. Rogers of the National Negro Insurance Association lias {proclaimed December as National Collection Month, in which all colored insurance companies will make a determined effort to collect the highest percentage possible on the insurance they have in force. Uist May the Association sponsored hi Insurance Week drive in which $11,000,000 in new business was written. It is tone thing to put the business on the books, and quite another to keep it there by collecting for it each week, month or quar ter. In this drive empjhastis isheing plaleed o|n keeping the bus iness already in hand. Because the insurance business is one of the most' inviting and profitable for trained young men or women to enter, and "because the growth and development of this business will mean increased employment as well as iitereased protection to the group, the publit is urged to lend its cooperation in making National Negro Collection Month a success. Mr. C. L. Townes of Richmond, Va., says: “This is the N. N. IT. A.'s first, attempt at a nation wide collection effort, anil your enthusiasm and cooperation this time will have a great toffeet on the results of sufcli drives during subsequent years. I believe it possible to make the bellection drive just as suj'* toeasfull as our National Negro Insurance Week drive, which gave our companies a production of $11,916,051 during one week’s effort last May. Frankly, I am of the opinion that a wdll planned collection effort during the month of December wifi go a long ways toward keeping some of that business on the books, despite the fact it is now six months old.” DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS—PLEASE NOTICE The postoffice department does not permit the delivery papers to delinquent subscribers. If your payments are not Up to date, please mail or bring amount due to The Guide office tor call WEB1517 for representative: Tour cooperation will be Teatly appreciated' Tbe Management U. of C., White Realty Owniers, Lambasted In Mass Meeting Chicago, Nov. 11 (AN I’)—A boycott of the avowedly liberal University of Chicago was threat ened Wednesday night at a mass meeting of colored citizens in Du Sablo high school for the purpose of launching a drive against vicious ,nd inadequate housing conditions in the section. White property own ers’ associations bordering on the district which preeent Negro ex pansion through restictive residen tial agreements were lambasted by spokesmen, led by Alderman Wil liam L- Dawson of the Second Ward Two days later, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the univer sity, issued a statement purporting to tell of his own and the institu tion’s opposition to segregation but which, southside leaders feel, mere ly point out the school’s duplicity in the matter. The university, lo cated near the eastern limits of the ‘ black belt,” is charged with financing white organizations now bitterly opposing Negro expansion beyond the present overcrowded district. In defending Chicago U.’s stand, Dr. Hutchins said, “We feel the local community should be encour aged to develop its own policies of improvement, and the university should cooperate in every legiti mate way. To this end, the univer sity, in recent years, has supported a number of community efforts to improve existing conditions and make the area a raoro likely place of residence. It takes satisfaction in doing these things as a good neighbor, but it does not attempt to dictate local policies as a condi tion of its support. “It is in pursuance of the policy I have stated that the university has contributed to neighborhood as sociations. One of these associa tions to which the university be longs has defended restrictive agreements. These agreements were entered into a long time ago, and although many people doubt their social soundness, they are le gal in this state and the associa tion has the right to invoke and defended them. However unsatisfac tory they may be, they are thought to be the only means available by which members of the association can stabilize the conditions under which they live. Prior to the mass meeting Wed ! nesday, a Citizens' committee, work ing with the NAACP and the Peo ples’ Press, a liberal white weekly ! newspaper, covered the southside with a special edition on various aspects of the housing situation. I It pointed out the danger of racial , friction that the situation, had en l gendered, dwelt at length on the part played by the University of Chicago and its cohorts in blocking the building of the Southside Gar dens Housing project, the federal project that has resulted in demoli tion of a large portion of the South side and he further accentuation of ! a serious situation by throv ing over 2,000 persons out on an al ready overcrowded community. Minor Loses Race For Muny Judge Cleveland, Nov. 11 (ANP)—In Tuesday’s election which saw pre dominantly Negro wards vote the Republican ticket, Councilmen Lawrence O. Payne, and Dr. Leroy N- Bundy were re-elected by heavy majorities, and Harold T. Gassaway prominent local attorney, was elect ed to the city council for the first time from the 18th ward. Norman S. Minor, candidate, for the unexpired term on the munici pal court bench lost his race but polled the largest vote of any Ne gro who has sought that office. Harry E. Davis, aspirant for the school board, also lost. ———o GOV. GRAVED - ABUSE BY SHERIFF New York, Nov. 4—A promise to take prompt and thorough action on a complaint that the sheriff of Monroe County, Ala., is guilty of habitual cruelty and abuse of Ne gro prisoners, has been promised to the NAACP by Governor Bibb Graves. The NAACP complaint was made to Governor Graves follow ing the receipt of a letter from a white person in Monroe County, Various aspects of the entire pro blem and possible solutions were presented by speakers. Horace R. Clayton, who has for a number ol years been connected with various research departments of the Uni versity of Chicago, presented sur vey of the situation, showing how a desire for expansion because of inadequate housing resulted in the Chicago race riot in 1919. He sket ched the role played by the Uni versity of Chicago in throttling growth of the Negro community by helping erect and maintain arti ficial barriers in the form of res trictive agreements. Governmental officials were de scribed by speakers as lying down on the housing projects for Chi cago because of the pressure brou ght by white residential and im provement associations. Secretary Harold Ickes had been invited to the meeting as had Director Strauss of the Federal Housing Bureau and PWA Administrator Gray. None of these top officials came, but Dewey R. Jones, form erly of Chicago, now assistant to Robert C. Weaver, Advisor on Ne gro Affairs, was sent as an unof ficial observer. Mr. Jones did not speak, did not advise what the present status of the housing project is, and left the meeting after the first 2 address es. .Robert R. Taylor, jr., Chicago housing expert, who is intimately acquainted with the South Park Gardens project and was expected to give an expose of the present situation, contented himself with declaring that housing should be made a political issue. Later speak ers lambasted the government of ficials, declaring that they were pussyfooting on the isssue and pro posed bearding them in their dens at Washington. BROHZE §Ihimi1oiiSs I tommoN ; »fPOCGYB»K5^ns 'AGRADUATE Of OHIO 'state university.' HE ATTAWEDff W HEIGHTS HER OCIUTON THE TOWN MALI STAGE IN NEW WK CITY. VMi INTERPRETATION OF WDUfF g INTHEWPA.PRODUCION'MACBETH' V WON NATIONAL ATTENTION. ft) mi imumTioHAL antsao prbss An Echo From My Den By S. E. Gilbert - As I sit here in my den with pen in hand, meditating as it were, there comes to my mind a question of who is the great est Negro in America today. Without a doubt, my vote is Philip Randolph. During my school life before embark ing out into life’s school, I re call reading a, historical fact of a great Negro known as Hanni bal, a man who at the age of 12 declared that lie would con quer Rome, following through wiijn a conviction, he later made history as one of the greatest military strategists of ancient times. Standing as it were at the foot of the Alps, a barrier that was thought un conquerable by man, so much so that his cohorts kept chant ing “it can’t be done.’’ “It can’t be done;” but Hannibal stood on his conviction as the rock»of Gibraltar and cried “Ii can be done’’ and with the en genuity of a genius, this! great man made history by crossing the Alps, and into the Plains of Lombardy where he defeat ed the Romans and the dream of Hannibal betaine a reality. Years la.ter another great Ne gro had a vision when he saw in the distance, a victory for the workers and he set out to lead t|ne Pullman porters out of a chaos of poor pay and un desirable working conditions in to the land of better pay and improved working Conditions. Battling as it were against a billion dollar corporation, his pa,tli was all but rosy. Many a day has found this great man who was born in the State of Florida, wondering where his next meal was com ing from, or if he would be ab ' le to purchase clothes in which to 'make the proper appearance as he went about fighting the battle of 14,000 Pullman port ers and forgetting himself. As false leaders all about him con tinned to shout ‘It can’t be done,’ with a will to revolution iV.e the economic condiXion of the Negro, this man among men, cried out ‘ It can be done’ and continued to fight even at the cost of personal (-acrifiees, a cross current of opposition and intrigue from without, and betrayal of trust iwthin. He was abused, trriticized, but in spite of it, all his spirit based on the axiom that greater love has no man, than to lay down his life for his. people, and hu inanity at large; and thus he crossed the Alps of a modern corporation to the plains of bet ter conditions for the backbone| of ’ Ithe Pullman ■ Company, Known to the modernized world as Pullman porters, and he brought to them a victory \ui parrajelled in the history of unionism, a victory that meant an increase to the coffers of Mack America of $2,000,000 a year. Believing that the economic talus of any group is the basic factor in their pursuit of hap piness and knowing the battle that this groat stalwart has waged for its betterment with an unselfish spirit, I t'ast a big vote for him a,s the greatest Negro of modern time, A. Phil ip Randolph. -o 25th. Charles Winter Wood, who succeeded the late Richary Berry {Harrison as ‘‘De Lawd” in the I stage version of “The Green Pas tures,” is now teaching dramatics and producing and directing con temporary drama at Florida A. and M. College. Joe Louis Now In Pictures On the 28th day pf June, 1927, a sleek, well trained Negro prize fighter crawled throught the ropes before a multitude of people in Chicago, a challenger for the world’s heavyweight fistic title. A short time later this same boy crawled out of the ring acclaimed the Champion of the World. Has this struggle from in auspicious be ginning as the son of an Alabama farm hand to the top most ring of the ladder been a vain sacrifice for Joe Louis? Jack Dempsey occupying the same place that Louis now occupies came to Hollywood and made a | picture for a major studio. Max | Baer alndj IJrimo '(Jarnera while challenger and champion respec ! tively made a picture in Hollywood for a major studio that netted each ! of them a handsome reurn. Now comes Joe Louis to Hollywood to make a picture for a company new ly organized for the express pur pose of exploiting the Negro in pictures and with a rating that could not be higher than a quickie independent producer making ‘‘D” product. The question that now arises is—Is Joe Louis champion of the world or is he the Negro champion of the world? Why should he appear in pictures that ^ ^7» Cfth be produced for less than Max Haei' received as his salary when only a challenger for the champion ship? Why should L°uis enter into a contract to make pictures on which the allotted production dOJtjl could not possible give him a fa vorable presentation to the public? Why should Joe Louis be a party to the scheming of a group of pro moters to lower the standard of Negro salaries in Hollywood? As champion of the world, he should be a champion of the less fortunate members of his group and not ad here to any policies that will tear down that which has been built through years of suffering and sacrifice. There are 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States that should re joice and clap their hands with glee because there is a Negro that has through perseverance reached the spotlight at the top of the ladder in the fistic world. These same 12, 000,000 souls should also hand their heads in shame if this young Negro boy, not realizing the value of a world championhip, allows himself to be cheapened in the eyes of the public. Joe Louis is a great fighter and a great champion. He should have a great picture by a great studio. ! 5 Europe's Interest in American Neutrality By Dr. V. Royce West, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Omaha. American neutrality has grown into a world question again. Successive undeclared wars in Ethiopia, in Spain, and | in the Far East have centered attention on the foreign policy j of the United States anew. What does Europe think of Unit ed States’ neutrality policy and leg islation ? Public opinion is difficult to es timate in dictator countries, but public opinion in all European coun ; tries is influenced greatly, as in America, by the newspapers. Europe’s i n - terest in Amer ican neutrality is a direct com mentary on the degree to which neutrality legis lation will guar antee American isolation and in \ iolability. Dr. w«it What were the headlines on Europe's front pages as President Roosevelt asked for administrative freedom to institute embargoes ? What was the editor ial comment T After President Roosevelt's neu trality message, Der Angriff, a German newspaper founded by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, German propa ganda minister, exploded: “Once before we heard the voice of peace coming from an American pres ident. Wilson’s piping sounded even softer. But that American ■Peace President, through his peace treaties, did not leave the world safe for democracy, but prepared the soil for dictatorships." This paper emphasized a com ment from the New York Herald Tribune that the whole neutrality message was “political bombast”. The German Frankfurter Zei tung was quick to point out that automatic neutrality means that the United States withdraws use of its power to influence world events, except in a defensive war. This German paper, and the semi-offi cial French Temps reasoned alike that nations dependent upon the United States for munitions would make themselves independent of other countries for war-time sup plies. The trend toward economic self sufficiency and armament-building accelerated at once. The French press was reproach ful at President Roosevelt’s refusal to make a distinction between the aggressor and the victim in war. As one newspaper wrote: “The United States would make no at tempt to stop the aggressor, and refuse its assistance to both the lamb and the wolf.” In Italy, editorials mocked Pres ident Roosevelt's moralizing tone. The new Uniteo States' policy of neutrality there denoted open inter vention in the war, not neutrality. British newspapers accorded minor ridicule to the anomalous po sition of the State Department in the face of the new neutrality leg islation. Even the London Time* put its finger on a tender spot when it concluded that the United State* should build the strongest navy in the world—-to fight for its neutral