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Address of S. E. Gilbert At Zion Mass Meeting c _ Mr. Master of Ceremonies, Pre sident McPherson, affiliating or ganization of the National Negro Congress Council, fellow citizens; we have gathered here today for the purpose of playing o-ur part as American citizens to aid the effort now being made to force the Wag ner Van Nuys anti lynching bill to success, realizing that should it be defeated the most staggering blow since tihe never to be forgot ten Dread Scott Decision shall have been perpertrated against thirteen million black Americans. The lynching record in our coun try, America, the land of the free and the home of the brave from Reconstruction days to the present time constitutes one of the black est chapters in the nation’s his tory. And lest you forget th s das tardly practice has not aitoge' her been limited to members of black Americans. The records show thrt since the Civil War, 5,500 Negroes have been lynched; of that 5,500, more than 100 have been helpless women. The record also shows that 1,454 white Americans have fallen victims to this unAmerican act. The mob spirit is not confined to ► the South, but in lesser degrees is present in all sections of the coun try. Only Sunday, two weeks ago t tl.e lynching of a Negro in the su burbs of Detroit was prevented only by the quick and loyal action of deputy sheriffs, who rushed to the scene of the disorder and saved the life of tihe accused man. The mob had already secured gasoline 7 and a rope and were preparing to take the law in hand and aside from taking the life of the would be victim they would have trampled upon the Constitution of this great country of ours which gives every person the right of the due process of the law. The alleged criminal, according to reports was charged with that age old cry by blood thirsty mob sters, RAPE of a white woman. We have no sympathy for rap ists, whether colored or white. They should bfe punished, but the punishment should be adminstered by the courts and not by mobs. Rape of a woman by a white man is just as reprehensible as the out rpge of womanhood by a colored criminal. Each is equally guilty and deserving punishment; but when a colored man is charged with this offense the press and pu fclic sentiment are inclined to paint the crime blacker than when the criminal is white. Only last month in the state of I North Carolina, a white man was charged with having raped a little seven year old colored girl, but d? spite the strong testimony against him he was acquitted. Rape is rape A no matter by whom it is commit ted. Still we live in a civilized country in which every person ac cused of crime has the right to a fair trial in the courts. Convicted rapists should be duly punished, but mobs have no authority to under take the job. Let the law take its course. Tuesday history was made when United States Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri, presiding tern porarily, recognized a member to make the motion which brought the anti lynching bill up for discussion and a vote. Simultaneously with this history making act came that age old procedure on the part of Negrophobiertji to do all in their power to block the passage of this bill which is so vital to black Am erica, Leading this battle is Senator Connelly of Texas who is using as the subject of his filibustering speech "the right of the states will be jeopardized by a federal bill against lynching and that in doing so he decares the bill to be unconstitutional. This age old cry has fallen from the lips of men who have and had no regards for the right of human beings for more than 26 years against the struggles of black America and many white people to stop lynching in this country. Today, my friends, 72 per cent of the voters in the country are in favor of the passing of the Anti lynching bill. In the South, the hot bed of lyn ching, the count stands 67 per cent for passage and 43 per cent against, thus proving that fair minded Americans, both black and white arc against any delay in passing the measure that is design e<i to safe guard the constitutional right*, the peace and safety of every Amercan citizen. When the measure was being debated in the lower house a mob went on a rampage in Mississippi and lynched two Negroes by heat ing irons red hot and applying them to the screaming bodies of their victims. During the first part of last week while Mr. Connolly, U. S. Senator from Texas, was doing all he could to prove that the anti lynching bill was unconstitutional because such a bill would supercede stato rights and in a burst of ora , ory, declared (hat the southern states could take care of lynching. Came the news that Jesse Turner had been mobbed by 300 heavily aimed barbarious Americans be cause he had resented being man handled by Sheriff Le Matthews (white) of Clarksdale, while being transferred to the Clarksdale jail. Rclivers in justice and fair j play, fellow citizens, here you have the picture of how Mr. Connolly means that the southern states will take care of the problem of lynching. Thanks be to God that in Amierica there are millions both black and white who are able to see the gross neglect of the rights of Americans because they are black and have come to that undeniable conclusion that yvhen a state or states consistently neglect the right of too large a percentage of the citizens there is no alterna tives left but for the Fedral gov ernment to tep ini and protect its citizens. Black America, and friends of justice, lynching is more than a crime it boldly thwarts the most elementary ends of justice constit utes a complete denial of the rights and responsibilities of citizens and represents anarchy in its most vi cious and insolent form. It flag rantly strikes at the foundation of all organized social life and out liberty. It tramples under foot the Con stitution of America, that docu ment which guarantees every Am 1 erican regardless of color or creed a fair trial and a right to life and a right to life and liberty. In closing may I state that the National Negro Congress Council MMI.C-1 r—. WALKER P twmu.* MMwn I HAtncTou.r> (•OtCASATMim I Beauty Culture on Wheels Life never stands still. Perhaps the latest innovation in the popu lar profession of beauty culture is the streamlined trailer fitted up with the latest appurtenances for beautifying women and demonstrat ing* the most modem methods in hair and skin treatment, shown above. Mrs. Mlarjorie Joyner, pro ident of the National Beauty Cul tuns League and national super visor of Mme. C. J. Walker Beauty Colleges has just finished a 4,000 mile trip which took her from Chicago to Dallas, Texas, where she took part in Negro Day sub stitutinig for Hon F. B. Hansom of Indianapois. (ANP) Wedding Anniversaries The following are the most gen erally accepted wedding anniver saries; First, cotton; second, paper; third, leather; fourth, fruit and flower; fifth, wooden; sixth, candy; seventh, woolen; eighth, rubber; ninth, willow; tenth, tin; eleventh, steel; twelfth, silk and linen; thir teenth. lace; fourteenth. Ivory; fif teenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twenty fifth, silver; thirtieth, pearl; thirty-fifth, coral (or sapphire); fortieth, ruby (or emerald); fiftieth, golden; seventy-fifth, diamond. today issues a call for every red blooded man and woman who be lieves in justice and fair play to notify your state representative in Congress that you are among that 72 per cent of American citizens who belieives that a Federal law against lynching is needed and that as your representative you expect for him to do his part to wards getting the same. Lovers of justice and liberty can pull this bill through the Senate as it was forced through the House if they pull together and pull to gather now. Victories are not won by wishing but by fighting. And the desire for dividual freedom and security in America will be gauged by the of fictiveness with which Negroes support this fight. The Household o By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER I"'HE name American patchwork was given by the English to a certain type of piece patchwoik evi dently originated on this continent. It is a name unfamiliar to most Americans, although credit for the beautiful work is given to the wom en in the United States and Canada. American patchwork found its way from this continent to England in the latter quarter of the last cei, tury, somewhere about 1875 or 1880. In Great Britain it was attributed equally to the United States and Canada, both countries being in America, and there being an un certainty about just which section was responsible for the distinctive patchwork. The name of loghouse quilting was given the design abroad. It has an odd sound to us for log homes are termed log cabins in America. Here the pattern has been known through the century as the log cabin pattern, but the name loghouse quilting has a fascinating ring to it. The patch work was, and is, one of the hand sornest types of all. Its special fea ture was its use of ribbons foi patches and also silk and satin <anc sometimes velvet) cut into strips a' ribbon widths. IIow To Make Squares. The strips are positioned in ever widening rows about a small square of one of the materials. In eacl row strips overlap one another Ends are straight, that is they are not dovetailed or mitered. The rib bon-like strips can be sewed to s foundation square or be seamed to gether. In the old work the rib bons were sewed to a foundation, with a square of silk sewed on the exact center of the foundation square After this the rows were set in order about it. Edges slight ly overlapped so no lining was vis ible. The method of arrangement ol colors is definite One diagonal hall of a square is of dark colored pieces, the other of light ones. When squares are sewed together dark comes against dark and light against light, producing a fascinat ing sequence of ever widening squares of light and dark. When colors are artistically combined, the quilt with fts rich materials is su perb. We can well be proud of the quilts which bear the name of Amer ican loghouse quilting. e).Itell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Loghcuse Quilting Fashion* This Cherished Coverlet. BARING SECRETS OF APPLE PIE Famous Expert Wants Hers With Double Crusts. By EDITH M. BARBER • < O LESS my soul! No apple pie?" exclaimed the Earl of Dud ley, according to legend, whenevei dinner was served without his fa vorite dessert. From my own experience with Englishmen I feel sure that he prob ably demanded an apple tart rath er than pie, which may be called purely American. We demand oui pies with double crust. We use plain pastry, while the English pre fer crust of the puff-paste type Both are good desserts, when wel' made. Be sure that your apples are tart and that you use plenty oi sugar. I like to mix a little floui with the same amount of sugar t( sprinkle over my bottom crust be fore I put in alternate layers oi apples and sugar. Then I add a good-sized piece of butter before 1 put on my top crust. What, no cinnamon or nutmeg? I do not go so far as did Irvin Cobh when I asked him his stand on the much discussed question of which belongs with apple pie. “Neither." he pronounced, "it is a sin againsi a great fruit.” If I use either. 1 prefer cinnamon, but I usually re serve it for brown betty with which I think it does belong. I keep nut meg for other important uses. Apple i'ie. 5 or 6 apples Vi cup sugar Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon butter Pare, core and slice apples. Mix sugar, salt and spice. Line a pan with pastry, sprinkle with flour mixed with a tablespoon of sugar. Add the applies and sugar in alter nate layers. Dot with butter and cover with upper crust of pastry. Bake in a hot oven, 450 degrees Fahrenheit and bake until the ap pies are soft, 40 to 45 minutes. Pastry. 1V4 cups flour Vi teaspoon salt Vs cup fat Cold water Sift together flour and salt. Cut in the fat with pastry blender or two case knives. When fine add at one side of the bowl one tablespoon of cold water and stir in as much of the flour and fat as the water will take up. Continue this until you have four or flve balls of dough and some dry flour left in the bowl. Press together with Angers. If all the dry flour is not taken up, add a little more water. Chill and roll. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons shortening 2 eggs 1 cup milk 4 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon cinnamon V* teaspoon grated nutmeg X teaspoon salt Flour (3V4 to 4 cups) Cream the shortening with the sugar and add the beaten egg. Add < two cups flour mixed and sifted with baking powder, salt and spices, al ternately with the milk; then add more flour to make dough stiff enough to roll. Roll to one-fourth inch thickness. Shape with a dough nut cutter, fry in deep fat, 375 de grees F.. and drain on brown paper. Size of Humming Bird The size of the humming bird zeeins very diminutive when com pared with the world’s largest hlrd the ostrich. The smallest humming bird Is found In Cuba, and Its body la about one and one-foui th Inches long, while the ostrich may be elghl feet In height and weigh as much aa 800 pounds. The largest known bumming bird Is the “giant hum mer,” eight and one-half Inches long, found In the Andean moun tains of South America. It re sembles our swifts. The Yorkihira Terrier Although tho Yorkshire terrier combines many of the characteris tics of the terrier family, It has been so pampered and petted that its working terrier qualities have been subordinated to the develop ment of a beautiful and unusual pet and show dog. It possesses the del icate refinement of the Skye terrier ami Pomeranian, the lovable dls|H> sltion of the spaniel and pug, and the Intelligence of setter and Scotty. -- Alcohol and Opium Alcohol Is not a food but a drug which has a definite effect on the uervous system and numbs the brain. Alcohol breaks down a per son's resistance, and the body con tracts disease more readily. Opium Is a powerful habit-forming drug, and once it becomes master it Is practically Impossible to stop It, for the victim loses all self-control.— Hvgela Health Magazine, Napoleon's Turn of Mind De Bourrleune, Napoleon's class mate at school and Inter his pri vate secretary for many years, said that If scientific courses had been taught at ttie military schools Bona parte attended he “would have pur sued these sciences with all the genius nnd spirit of Investigation which he displayed in a career, more brilliant. It Is true, but less useful to mankind," Cactus Juice Because the cactus has to live on an absolute minimum of moisture, the Juice of ibis plant Is markedly potent In Its ability to handle min eral in solution. For Instance, It makes alkali water, that would otherwise he poisonous, safe to drink, nnd it was used for this pur pose by the Indians of the South west before Ooliitnbus discovered America. APPOINTED SOLICITOR ROBT. D. BARKERS tUL Philadelphia, Nov. 26—Robert D. Raskervill, 31 yegr old attorney was appointed Assistant City Soli citor by Mayor Wilson, Monday. Baskervill is a political protege of Councilman James H. Irvin and is legal advisor to the Colored Ameri can Citizens Organization of Phil adelphia, a political group of which Irvin is president. The appointee is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1 »avin?’ gained his bachelor’s, mas I t-er’s and law degrees in the school there. He finished law in 1933. He is editor of the Oracle, Ome ga Psi Phi fraternity organ; direct or of thSe Achievement Project and president of the local interfratern ity Council. He has been junior partner in the law firm of Rhodes and Bask ervill since the beginning of the year. By L. L. STEVENSON At the annual meetings of the great corporations, many of which are held at this time of year, there are always present holders of a few blocks of shares — and In many instances, holders of only one share each. With various proxy holders ensting thousands of votes, their voice in the proceedings means nothing, Vet they turn out in num bers. Often, they are as fully cog nizant of the affairs of the company as the officers themselves and al ways they are given due considera tion by the officers and board mem bers. Some of course come to make I as much trouble as possible. Others. ' even though they are decidedly in the minority, are generally inter ested. With still others, it is a I diversion. Retired from actual busi i ness, they buy a few shares here and there and attending the meet ings gives them something to do a feeling, at least, that they arc still taking part in the business oi the country. • • • It’s a leap from the financial con I ter up to Columbus circle and from business to soap-box orators, liu' last night 1 happened to stop Ion; enough to hear a ragged, whiskerei individual declare that business o all kinds was iniquitious. So far as I could learn, he didn't have any remedy for existing condition: though he was sure tha. they shouh be changed. What I started to say, however, was that at Columbus cir cle there are traffic signs direct ing vehicles, to "right" and "left." Curiously, the groups seem to divide with th::&? signs, those who support the government standing noar the "right" signs and the reds and others moving over to the "left." Consistent observers hold that It always is that way, so it must bc< by choice and not mere chance. • • * Addicts of marijuana cigarettes ("reefers," "muggier," "good butts," or in Harlem, "Mary Warn ers”) are having trouble in obtain ing supplies. The cigarettes, dead ly in their effects, formerly sold at a dime each or three for a quart er, with a heavy Broadway demand. The price now is 50 cents each and many peddlers have retired not only because of difficulty in obtaining stocks but because the government has taken a hand in the matter along with the police narcotic squad Dealers and peddlers have been retired for periods ranging from i year up. There are said to b 15,000 narcotic addicts in New Yor city. How many arc "Mar. Warner" addicts is not known. But prior to this fall, report shave it that the use of them was spreading. • • • Behind the acute shortage li months of activity on the port ot the narcotic squad, aided by the sanitary division of the Works Prog ress administration. Marijuana is a Mexican weed but it grows any where. So it was extensively cul tivated in open spaces in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. As the plants grow four feet high, they are easy to spot. Whenever encountered, the WPA men rooted them up. It is estimated that they destroyed in all half a million pounds with a retail value of about $9,000,000. Funniest tiling in any country is to see a “revolution" undertaken without the aid of the people. Last Min uteSnappy News Items FromNational Field Washington, iD. C., Nov.* 26 (ANP)—While the streets were thronged with late shoppers ah, the New Cental' Market* a threeway fight in a house on L street t|uxw the neighborhood in wild egeite ment. As a result of the affray, one man was stabbed to death and another was slightly cut. The dead man is Romeo Bryant, 21, who was pronounced <l>ad upon arr'val at Freedman’s ho pitai. T. ; o hjr vie tim, Preston Hines, was treated at the same hospitrl for stab wounds in the right, leg. Police are holding a neighborhood character, I.ulu Belle Davidson, in connection with the killing. Austin, Tex., Nov. 2fi (ANP)— The Austin Students Interracial Forum, comprising students orf Si.mu< 1 Huston and T'llos*on col leges and of the. University of Texas, presented tha Rev. Father d. M. Rinch in a lecture on current conditions in Europe, in the Tillot ‘■on nudtorium on Monday after noon. Father Riach, widely travelled, arresting speaker, reviewed im nrersions from his recent tour of Europe. He gave a stimulating ex position of the totalitarian poli tical philosophies as exemplied in Nazi Gee-many, Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy, particularly with re feronco to freedom of worship. •**•*■•**•*••”♦•*•* Telephone—ATlantdc 2120 Res. Phone—KE 5872 STANDARD Barber & Beau* Supply Co. 114116 North 16th St. Louise Zacek, T Omaha, Nebr CHOPSUEY American and Chinese Dish.a King: Yuen Cafe ill O'7, N. 24th St. Jackson 8576 Open from 2 p. m. until 3 a. in. NEBRASKA PRODUCE 22024-6 North 24th Street Phone WE 4137 Poultry and Egg Dealers Out prices are reasonsable, see us first. Orchard & Wilhelm Co* USED FURNITURE it taken into our Exchange Dep't to encourage the purchase of new merchandise. It is •d for resale at the lowest prices ws can put upon it Our first and constant purpose is to maka it easy lot out customers to have the new. Our second is the quiak «► posai of the old. Every day in the year there are laraa assortments affeiwi, [ In fact you can furnish a whole house from this stock j which changes constantly. ; It’s worth your while to come to the Exchange Depart* l ment today, and a week from today, to secure what you IS wf LIS'1' A FEW TYPICAL EXAMPLES. j Pillow arm mohair davenport and chair . 12.50 Tapestry upholstered davenpo rt in good condition-12.50 Odd upholstered davenports, each .—. 3.00 Walnut reflectory dining table.—.—.. 17.50 8- pe. oak dining suite round ta ble ... 15.00 Several late style 8 pc. walnut dining suites.... 46.00 to 79.50 Odd room size rugs .4.50 to 27.50 Good selection of coat heaters and ranges. Convenient Terms