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COMMENTS EDITORIAL PAGE opinions THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Phones: WEbster 1617 or 1618 ®ntercd as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., underAct of Congress of March 3, 1879. TI3CIMS 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 stated the acid test of good. All News Copy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our affice not later than 6:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver ting Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, preceed . jig date of issue, to insure publication. | ..EDITORIALS.. | EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK WHERE THE ONUS WILL LIE (IVom The Richmond Timed Dispatlch, Nov. 23, 1937. remains 10 be seen whether ■ the country will hand for a Senate filibuster lignins, the anti lynching bill, at.or tin farm bill is disposed of. Such a filibuster, if prolonged, iiihj lie up all the impor ant reeo\ ary measures proposed by the adminiatra ion, naid greatly in tenaify the business driline. No filibuster which thwarts the will of better than 2 to 1 majorities in (Vuigiress and in the country as a. whole, is ever jim’ified. That is* not denioera vv t( is 'he negation of denote V!iv<- *o,( when sneli n filihus t*1" W vi*s°s *ha legislative uve.iAas 'o ho'» down at a eviti , ..i n n d delay's for ',M ' ‘s if Tto' months (be en " *' vf nvn.-ii.'lv i«ntnrtnnt ’ .. !»•»! 'loHmi it is move lndrttfeno,iT,lrt (ben ovov 'flte filifns'er of the past eenirts| tbe hnil bns not "mre Vd srVA’ levislnAion. since •ho recovery bills are not rendv for presentation to ('Vtprrvess. At 'he sente time, if the filihus 1 erei*s had talked dense and ■m* discussed the issues, ins ead of reading 14 page speeches deJiv eretl Iwo years ago, and oJuer wise consuuning us much time as possible wi.'h a maximum of wind and a minimum of intelli genV'e, the bill would be out ol the way today, and other mat icrs could be taken up in their regular order. Nor will it be the fault of advocate* of anti lynching leg ( islatiou if tbo opponents choose | to filibuster in the future. The t advocates would have been 4 more tfluui glad to have had ihe ' issue debated on its merits last week, and to have voted utpon it immediately thereafter. Thus the onus for putting sand in the legisj.n,'ive gears will be on the opposition, if it dehides to filibuster again. TThis is espec ially tfrue, in view, of the fact that, at leas|t one of t'he scan 'ors listed as ready to take a part in such an enterprise had said the bill will certainly pass. Tf no, why consume weeks hi fu ile talkt That makes the whole thing more inexcusable tli.au ever. The High Cost of Living Writing in (lie New Republic Jonathon Mitchell observes: Except for war and peace, the high cost of living is now per baps the liveliest isbue before ihe country.’ To anyone who lias watched legislative developments dur iug the past two or three years the present situation is not sin prising. About forty states liave passed laws permitting price fixing of trade marked ar hides by manufacturers. The federal government lias approv <‘d thi^ policy through the Mill or Tydings Act. Also the Fed oral government, through the Robihson Patman Act, has out. lawed various established mcr chandislng and distribution practices which tended to re duce overhead and the cost spread between producer and consumer. In other words, we have steadily jacked up prices by law, until they are becoming clear out of line with the earn ingu of the people. No wonder the High Cost of laving has jittnped to the front rank of public problems. When John Smith Struck A Match John Smith worked in a sec iion of a large factory where a -langeroi<s mixture of vapor nud adtr was present. One day, in spite of regulations, John fctruck a match. Result: John Smith went to the hospital. The factory wait destroyed by the subsequent fire. Hundreds of hia fellow workmen suddenly joined the lists of unemployed. Many times e^ch year a sim »iar incident occurs. And every lime it happens it means that resources are destroyed, taxes age lost to the community, men are thrown out of work; pur chasing power is reduced in the entire soeibl structure and a barrier is( put in the path of progress. When fire strikes a home or a farm, the tragedy, though it may be on a smaller scale is al •o great. Destroyed hopes, ni|in ed plans, lost savings — these are some of the fruits of fire. Last month the nation cele brated Fire Prevetntion Week. Phamiphletsi were issued, and speeches were made, newspa per articles and advertisements were printed—all with the in 'tent ion of acquainting the pub DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS—PLEASE NOTICE The postoffice department does not permit the delivery of 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 reatly appreciated' The Management Adults Attend W. P. A. Night Schools Denied the privilege of public ed ication in their youth by lack of acilitits. apathy on the part of the tublic, or ignorance on the part of heir parents, more than 350,000 olored men and women all over the iountry in the past few years have been going back to school—in lei ] sure daytime hours, evening after work, even late at night. Packing makeshift WPA study centers, they ha'e seized eagerly upon opportun ities for learning which before the start of the work relief program did not exist. Their teachers, too, arc benefiting through the pro gram, as their work with the WPA. keeps them in trim for a better teaching job. Shown are an elementary class in reading and writing (upper left), a shorthand class (upper right)’ a class in the chemistry of cosmetics (lower left), and a class in radio mechanics (lofrer right). The inset shows a student in a literacy class learning simple arithmetic with the aid of his teacher.—WPA Photos. It was learned in juvenile court this week that the e'hild who is permitted to torture and mistreat family pets frequently develops in to a hardened adult. With the widespread sale of rifles and shot guns to irrespon sible hunters, there is little won der that innocent bystanders, live stock, song birds and family pets are shot during the hunting sea son. So long as this nation adheres to tho erroneous belief that all red blooded American boys must be given toy pistols, air guns and rifles to play with, we can expect a murder to be committed in the United States every forty.five minutes throughout the year. Fur thermore, it does not take a mis guided youth who is skilled in op erating an automatic revolver or rifle long to loam how to mani. pulate a machine gun. -o Flying Doctor Huge areas of Australia are will* out a single hospital, and often th* nearest doctor Is .V) miles or more away. Wireless and airplanes have to be used to aid the seriously 111 In these vast empty lands. The I Australian Inland Mission lias de vised a special wireless system with automatic transmitters for use by Isolated stations In the wilds. As soon as anyone falls III a relation nr friend can discuss the case by ■ wireless with the nearest medical officer.— Pearson's Weekly. lie, with fire hazards and how to eliminate tlhem. It has been a common experience for fire losses to drop during and for a short period after the Week, only to rise again. In other words, during the Week, peo pie do lirften and learn—and they apply their knowledge while it is freph in their mind. Then laziness and forgetfulness take hold, and fire loss zooms once more. Make 1938 a different kind of year. Practice fire preven tion every week and every day It can be easily done—the ex penditure of a few minutes of your time a,t regular intervals is all that is needed to keep an average building safe. Is it worth your while to put in the time—>to s^ave dollars and per haps lives. THE LOW DOWN -from HICKORY GROVE BY JO SERRA About every other day. when >ou p"k up a paper, you will see where they are shooting mi other dozen or hatlf dozen, over (here in Russia. And pretty soon they are geui>a have to do quite a little lookin’ aroired to find people to shoot, lake n the en; ly days in the eai Iv days in the l . S., they had plenty of buffab and they thiUg'il tie v would never run out ox ’em, so 'hey shot 'em just for a buffalo robe. Aud some day it will be the same in Russia. And it is fun! ny that you will find people in the United States on soap box es and in other places, here and there—and you will find ’em favorin' making over our gov eminent, and tryin’ out some foreign idea, or some new ism that has not been used but, it sounds great. But the ducks talking up these big ideas, they would not be so hot for them, except they figure maybe tjhcy can be the top sergeant, with a nice new job, and a fur lined overcoat— and not the gt|y standin’ up against the wall. Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA -o——— Hew Is Ramov* Tight Ring If the ring on your Anger cannot be removed In the ordinary way, you might try one of the following methods: Moisten your Auger and rub It with soap, then try to press th« ring over the Anger Joint, turning It round all the time. Another way Is to procure a piece of Ane but strong string. Thread the end under the ring, then wind the string evenl> round the Anger as far as the middle Joint. Take hold of the end under the ring and unwind It slowly upwards, when the ring should move nlong the string and come off. Linen Supply of (Ships One move of any housekeeper at house-cleaning time is to count up the lineu and china. On a ship this Is a major operation; for Instance, one of the largest ships afloat has a jmall matter of 80,000 towels nnd 4.",(XX) napkins aboard of tier when she goes to sea. She need* only A.000 tablecloths for a voyage, howr ever. R»m*n Gold Coins Roman gold coins were Issuer about 217 B. (!., and were railed ses tertii. The head of Mars appears on the early ones, followed by sttv era with the head of young Janus and warriors swearing an oatfc over the body of a pig on the ob verse. Still later, the loauea of gold were resumed by Sulla In 88 D. d, and Julius Caesar la 40 B. C. The Psychological Mechanisms In Dictatorship By William H. Thompson, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy, University of Omaha The world today is full of conversation about dictator ship. The psychologists are interested in many factors in the political and economic picture. Perhaps their observation is from a slightly different vantage point than is usually taken. They feel that dictatorship in the modem world has been made pos sible because of certain psycholog l c a i situations i which arise at given times. I should like to enumerate a few of the situations which make dic tatorship pos sible. Dictatorship is made possible Dr. Thompson largely through crowd situations. Dictatorship is essentially a product of the psy chological mob, organized around a single focus of interest and atten tion. Mobs are essentially cre atures of feeling rather than intel ligence. They are highly suggest ible and are subject to hypnotic in fluence. Must Hare Unity The essential characteristua of the mob must be maintained at all costa by the dictator. He must ob tain unity in the mob above every thing. Dictatorship cannot thrive upon difference of opinion, or upon freedom of speech. One of the firs* acts of any dictator is to suppress all forms of expression which do not attribute to the particular unity for which he ia striving. Action must be restrained to only those be havior patterns which are consist ent with the central theme of the dictator’s objective. All thought must bend toward the mental fu sion point of the mob. 1 In politict.1 life, this mob may be known as the nation or state. In the crowd the individual is reduced |to an inferioi position. His per sonal philosophy becomes one of hopelessness in the face of the power of the group. He asks, “What can I do?” “Ilow can I live independent of the group?” “I am too small to do anything but go with the others,” is tha irresistible conclusion. When an individual oecomes thoioughly inducted into the psy chological mob situation, he feels a new power for himself. He be comes active. He imagines himself superior. He may assume heroic attitudes, feeling for himself a part of the strength of the group. Man of Action The master of the mob, or the dictator, is an interesting study. He is a man of action, supremely sure of himself. He knows where he is going, and, in campus lan guage, he knows all the answers. The mob cannot and will not toler ate a philosopher, a scholar, • sceptic, or a man of deliberation. Every dictator has been s man characterized by superlative action. Every dictator keeps the group in tact by appeal to powerful feelings. Every dictator is a master of emo tional pyrotechnics. His speech may have the superficial aspect 'll thought. His thought is always in very simple terms, couched in highly imaginative symbols which are loaded with violent feeling. He is a phrase-maker and a name caller. He shouts battle cries and coins mottos. He flatters the feel ing of strength and power in the crowd. The dictatoi never loses an op portunity to encourage this feeling. He lights the fires of emotion and depends on the psychology of con tagion to produce one consuming blaze of national feeling. When this unity is intense, dictators are the absolute masters of men. High er forms of thought, morality, ami ethical action have vanished as the ghosts of some pleasant yesterday, and liberty exists only as a name, profanely spoken by uniformed mockers in a land which was once the shrine of free men. 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 cornea to my mind, a statement that was made to *ne la^t week by a young g.u dent, who spems to be alarmed at what the future holds for Ihim. His statement was made wLtti reference to certain busi ness houses to he found on 24 street: "They take all and give nothiiig.’ 'l^hi^ statement eom ing from a student who is for <ced to grope ?n the dark oa his future, struck me like a thunderbolt from heaven when I stopped to (consider that the youth of today iB being handi capped by nonthinking adults. They remain in a state of ieth argy. therefore, in defend of youth, I write: Needless to say, many of merchants on 24,h street usd in other parts of the city thrive solely on the revenue they gar ner from the hands* and tabor of black Americans. An a ra suit of this patronage they owa | beautiful homes in other par a of the city, educate their ektM ren, teach them the prinaaplea of merchandising, and ia faat launch them on successful ca ‘Vers, business or otherwisa, ai the while the customer- tin* black man who foots the bill, hasn’t the least idea what ha ia going to do with his on aea ‘who is about to finish high School. In view of these fact*, there is one thing this cunw* er should expect and that ia reciprocity from rtieSte m<»r chants iVi the form of empltay ment, Not only should this hr expected, but black Ameriaa should develop the habit af trailing with those mertehaaha who through their employing of members of our own gra»p, "how gratitude for our suprpart and thereby forcing thos# wha decline reciprocity to raova 'Iftiere is no excuse an Vila part of bQack America ib Out ha, 16,000 strong, sender# sf I $10,000,000 annually, allowing >heir hoys and girls to wonde* abot.y their future, whes by making every dollar thnt yes spend, play a part in ereating jobs for tlhean, through either the direct avenue of building an economy structure of by the indirect avenue of only spending your dollar with the merchant who wild employ you. The time has come when we gs a group must 'cease allowing parasites remaining among U8: that elass of merchant who be lieves in taking all and giving nothing. We must band oursel v£s tigether and demand a fair deal, and thereby take our boys and girls out of a quandry and aUow them to be able to see a bright and prosperous fufttre. -e IMPORTANT NOTICE! Notice to Subscribers— Please notify the Omaha Gaide office, by mail or telephone, na to your change of address. The post al authorities make a charge for the change of address when we are not notified, in time to prevent de livery to the wrong address. The Omaha Guide will bo forced to charge a small fee of five setts for each change of address with out notice. Please call WE 1517 or mail us a post card with you* now address on it, at one week before you move. This will prevent a im plication of papers and the live cents eharge. Thanking yoat for your cooperation in this mattes, THE OMAHA GUIDR PVB. ••