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COMMENTS EDITORIAL PAGE opinions I -> — “ • -**1- X * ■ * ^ ... » * .- .. ‘ THE OMAHA GUIDE --t_- A'_11--* „ Published Every* Saturday ai 2418-20 (iraru Street, f ' 4 Omaha. Nebraska i* pMilies: A\ Ebsier 1517 or 1518 -— .. m*rn x-+-- — ' Entered a> Second Class Matter March 15. 1927. at the Postoffice at • • — Omaha. Noh.7 umlei Act of Congress of March 3, 18%U. ! I«:MS of'SUBSCRIPTION S2.00 PER YEAR Khi i' (irejudice nuist go. I he Fatherhood of (.od and the Brother hood of V|»n must prevail. These are the only principles which will j •land tin a. <ri tc-l nl good All News Copy of Churches and all Organisations must be in our sffice not iuiet loan o:0u p. tip Monday for current issue. Ail Advei tising l opy or Paid Articles not later than AVednewday noon, proceed ing date of issue, to insure publication. - ..EDITORIALS.. | Shorter Trains Means Higher Costs Farming America is very, much concerned with the pro J posed law to limit the length of freig.h trains to 70 ears,; which has parsed the Senate j and is now pending before the Ifomie. A long list of r..v..t pa pers and magazines have pub lislied editorials opposing ,'lte law, pointing out mat it will make railroad operations more dangerous instead of safer J and would eventually neee*si fate general increaM' in r« es which would boost the cost of transporting farm product#. A typicaJ editorial appear ed in the Ki"itn'J >' TT|,,o« .Tom* na), which s••'d l» • “T1\e increased cost of operation un der the new train-limit bill is conservatively estimated at *00,000,000. The question is who will pay it ? The roads can not, out of present earnings. Freight charges Will have to he increased and products of agriculture will have to bear their full share of the increas ed e<wt. • Any general rise in freight rates, like a rise in tax es rnwtt he borne by the pub 11'. and the farmers will, n.s usual find themselves paying1 a li.tle more than their fair share. I*‘t us hope that when the train limit hill reaches the House of Representatives, that body 'rill have the wisdom to kill ilii-. bill and not harass th» railroad managements w i t h higher costs than they have at present." Fanners, manufacturers and other .-/nippers have la.ely got l\ it a tas e of what it means to force up operating eos.s on our principal agency of trans porta ion. R&ilrond labor has long been among the highest pa.id in the world -hut this year both ojH'rating and non operating workmen 1 ’ and family received wage iu crensis. The railroads were forced to pe/ition the IOC for higher rates. The ICO justly allowed vtwte boosts on a num ber of articles. Yes, the pub He must pay the hill. And the public, 100 per cent, pays for all rate boosts because it is doubtful if a sin gle jierstui could be found in this whole nation who is not using a commodity affected by rail tariff. The Special Session and Business NS hen President Roosevelt milled the special session of Congress the country was vir t.ually in a boom stage, ns eom pared with today’s conditions. Stacks were at high levels. Re employment was going ahead on a comfortable scale Though unfavorable signs existed, they were apparently insignificant, and almost everything pointed to a highly prosperous win 1er season. Now, in two months, the pic ture has changed completely. Storks are holding stubbornly at levels close to the Etcher lows, in spite of occasional up ward flurries. NVitfh few ex ceptions. industrial production conbinnes to sag. Unemplov ment is inerettfting alarming. Tt is very likely this winter’s re liofl problem will bt as grave as in any year since 1029. Op.® result, of ibis is a bom " change in the attitude of V Wgress—and ie<ser de a change Tn the attitude Jl? * c administration. The spe i « ssion was primarily eall i e i r three purposes -the .a1 -hour Taw, the farm relielf ft o' >sal, and the hill to create ► ■ n new regional electric ap riorities sim'ilar in nature to he TV A Tt was assumed these atters would absorb the undi ded attention of the session nd nothing else of moment would lie brought up on file floor or in (lie committee. What hast happened The wage and hours law is in n eon dit.ion of chaos, with warring factions seeking to change it one way or another, and with a strong Congressional bloc op posed to the passage of any law of its type. The chances are againstt, it going through in the special session. The farm hill is in a similar predicament it seems almost impossible that a law sn.tiafac tory to the various blocs in the House and Senate can l>e pre pared in months. The seven regional authori ties hill is according to last re ports, dead. Congress in almost wholly occupied with the business ve oes^ion, and with proposals de signed to prevent it from be coming another major long lasting depression. Tax ye form seems closer to achieve ment than a,t any time in the last four years. There is a de finite sentiment in favor of a more conciliatory policy to ward industry: There is a sen timent we have gone too far with regulation, especially as it affects markets and exchan ges. There is a movement on foot to encourage business to spend on a big scale—of which is the president’s announced ' 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 Teatly, appreciated* Management ; Ckjjldren In Court _ j •-- ■ - - * * lb Judge MuJcolm JCatfield | t ' * , ■» ••• In seeking the causes for the United S’ates having tine.! u‘id a half million criminals at large, those who are interested fn crime prevention are now scanning the types of reading material which our present day criminals read when they pass through their ado lescent years. It has been found that a score or so years ago youngsters were permitted to attend motion pic- ( lure theatres and read books and magazines which not only dealt with murders, wars, cattle rustl- ! ing and Indian massacres, but in many instances the plots were bas ed on morbid and ch pressing sub jects. Even the public schools of twen ty or thirty years ago assigned outside reading material which, while although literature, also por trayed violence and morbid cond: tions. Among the assigned read ings were ‘The Black Cat’ and Gold Bug’ by Poe, ‘Les Miserable*’ bv . Hugo, ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘Nicholas j Nicholby' by Dick<ns. The Deer slayer’, Spy’, and 'bast of the Mo- 1 hicans by Cooper. ‘Ivanhoe’ by ' Scott, ‘Treasure Island by Steven- 1 son and ‘The White God’ bv Wall nee. Educators and others interested inpresent day crime prevention are wondering whether the reading material of several decades ago might have indirectly stimulated certain present day criminals, they were adolescent yo-’hs, w-ith a desire to imitate the deeds of dar ing which their favorite characters performed. -o N. Y. Doctor Says Tuberculosis Can Be Eradicated ’‘Tuberculosis can be ernd’catcd by proper procedure,” Dr. Philip P. Jacobs of the National Tuberculos is Association. New York City, sta ted on his recent trip to Nebraska. Dr. Jacobs came to this state to at i tend a tuberculosis survey confer ence in York. In outlining the means of eradic ating the white plague, Dr. Jacobs listed six important steps; finding cases; hospitalization and isolation; supervision of ali known cases in the community; supervision of those in contaot with victims of I the disease; health education of adults as well as chldren. and money necessary to finance the era dication program. Dr. Jacobs stated that tubercul osis most often spreads from fam ily centers, so health workers must find the families where there is tuberculosis and treat it as a fam ily problem. Through use of X-ray and other scientific methods tuber culosis can be discovered in much earlier stnges than in past years. By early discovery there is a pos sibility of cure and a great reduc tion in the cost of treatment. .Referring to tuberculosis being a disease, costly to the individual costly to his family and Costly to the community, Dr. Jacobs estimat ed that tuberculosis is costing Ne braska $5,500,000! This amount is | based on his estimation of there ! being 2,200 cases of Tuberculosis in the state and that the approxi mate cost of each case is $2,500. Realizing he great need that ex ists. leaders in the Christmas Seal campaign, now being conducted in this state bv the Nebraska Tuber culosis Association, urge citizens to respond generously to the ap peal. They emphasize that only through buying and using Christ mtr Seals can the cause be advanc ed. policy of a more friendly atti tude toward the electric utili ties, and his recent talks with utility executives. The principal question now is, can Congress act quickly enough and drastically enough to stop the decline T Some re cent events have been encour aging, hut they by no means assure a change in the down ward trend. Whatever happens it seems impossible for any im portant change to take place i before la e in January—a fact which augurs badly for the Christmas sea-on. Wage Differentials Not Justified By _ Liv ing Costs New York, Dee. 16—The argu ment that the cost of living in the South is so low that lower wages can be scheduled i nthe pending wag: s and hours bill is not based upon facts, according to the N. A. A. C. P. which cites Department of Labor statistics to prove that it costs almost as much to live in the South as it does in the North. In fact, that statistics cited by be N. A. A. C. P. indicate that in some southern cities it costs more to live than it does in Chicago. The Association’s objection to the favorite argument of those who want a wage differential inserted in the pending bill wras contained in a letter to the New York Her ald Tribune on December 6. “There is a widespread notion,” the letter declares. “That a bene fit ient climate and other natural advantages permit southern rs both white and colored, to live an idyllic life at considerably less cost than persons living in other sec tions of the country. “This myth is eompetely explod ed by a study by the Department of Labor. This studv reveals that the cost of lent, fuel and light is lower in the South but that cloth ing, h«u«c furnishing goods and ether necessities are more expen sive. There is liltie difference in the cost of food when the prices of commodities necessary to make up a minimum standard of living are compared. When all items are averaged, the startling revelation is made that the cost of living in many souhern cities is considerably greater than in many northern ci ties. For example, the index of the cost of goods purchased by wage earners and lower salaried workers, as of September 15. shows that the average for all items in Chicago is 81.J, but in Atlanta the average is 83.9; in Baltimore. 88.2; in Jack sonville, 82.4; in New Orieans. 85.2 ' The cost of living in these vari ous southern cities differs very little from that of New York where the average is 86.7 and of Washington where tbs figure is 89.7. widely known as two of the highest priced cities in the United States. levcn more startling are the figures for housing where even without central heating plants, gas or electric cooking ranges, the cost per room in Columbia, South < arolina. a small southern city, is about as high as centrally heated and electrically (quipped projects in Chicago and Boston." The letter states that there is a growing opinion in the South, con trary to the views of the politicians that the South must have the bene fit of differentials in order to exist The letter asserts that differentials in favor of the South will m an n"t a difference in cost of living ‘but in lower standards of living which in turn mean higher morbid ity. mortality and illiteracy rates, ■r moral standards and other conditions detrimental to the South and to the country as a whole.” -o— The Works Program WPA WORKERS AIDED IN EARNING CHRISTMAS FUNDS To give every Security wage earner on Works Progress Adminis tration rolls a chance to make as much money as possible before ( hristmas, and thus brighten his holiday season, all State Admin istrators of WPA today received instructions to reschedule project operations, so far as possible. Aubrey Williams, Deputy Admin istrator of WPA. issued the follow ing order: ‘In order to allow security wage employees every reasonable oppoi ti nity to earn maximum wages before Christmas, every effort should be made to reschedule pro ject operations for the purpose of p< rmitting workers to earn their scheduled earnings for December and to make up any allowable lost time possible prior to Christmas. To effect delivery of pay checks, treasury accounts and disbursing offices will cooperate and all pay rolls submitted to Treasury Ac counts office prior to noon, Decem ber 21. will be paid in time to de liver checks to workers before Christmhs. 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 is paramount in my mind a fathers day service held at Claire Chapel M. E. church Sunday night and a banquet held at the Northside Y. W. C. A. Monday evening at which the duties of the adult toward youth was indeed exploded. At the fathers day program we found your correspondent serving as the principle speaker, and in the course of his address we find him challenging the fathers of Omaha to prove their rights to be called father, rfhrdugh *t!heir action to create an economic opportunity for their children by directing their dollars into an avenue through which they shall he able to see a return in the form of employment for their sons and daughters, those precious beings whom they sacrifice to give an education and then drop them to face the cruel world. He vividly pointed out that in the city of Omaha there were 16,000 Ne groes and placing their minimum expenditure at the sum of $1.2S per day would total approximately $10,000,000 per year. He climaxed his analysis stating that if they would spend this amount with the Negro merchants and those who show their appreciation for their patronage the worry that we have in regards to the future of our youth would he greatly diminished. Black Americans let us become atoused for that state of indiffer ence and watch that hard earned dollar that we spend far the neces sities of life. When we need bread let us stop and think if the com pany that puts out the bread we art about to purchase employ Ne groes, and with this same chain of thought follow through in the purchase of milk, coffee, coal, flour, etc. Following up this talk on race consciousness and the duty' of a father came master addresses falling from the lips of Rey. Geo. Robinson of Des Moines, Moderator I o’ tne Midwestern Kaptist conven tion and J. Westbrook McPherson, | president of the Omaha Council of ! the National Negro Congress, speaking at a banquet sponsored by the Autumn Leaf club of Plea sant Green Baptist church. Mon day night in which they stressed the need of the church to be toler with youth and to build an in centive calculated to draw the church members of tomorrow into its fold. It was also vividly brought rut that the tim>? is now at hand when the Negro must if he hopes to loosen himself from the chain of economic slavery, begin to build an economic structure of his own through individual and cooper ative efforts there by creating an opening of employment in enter prises of our own for those who are to be the men and women of tomorrow, those we claim to love. Greater love has no man than that ho lay down his life that another may live. —-« I Twenty years ago—December 18 1P17. the Prohibition Amendment was passed in Congress. Since then this amendment has been re pealed. Those who have lived in nil three eras pre-prohibition, prohibition and now post prohibi ted days, and we younger people wonder, Haw we turned prosper ity’s corner? -o I^odgre Celebrates 70th Anniversary _ Washington. I). C., Dec. 16 (ANP)—Warren Lodge, FAAM of the District of Columbia, observed its seventieth anniversary with re Igious services at Lane CME church, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. Edgar Love, superin tndont of the Washington District of the Methodist Episcopal church. Ripresentative Arthur W. Mitchell, Illinois, discussed the Constitution, the annual address being given by Ernest R. Johnson, Worshipful Grand Master of the Lodge. James Rabey gave an address of wel come. Music was furnished by the choir under the direction of Mrs. I Sarah Moxley. Are We Suffering From Economic Jitters? By Dr. Joseph H. Rhoads, Head of the Department of Business Administration, - University of Omaha For the past* three months the United States has been suffering from declining trade level accompanied by an uncer tainty in the minds of business people and the public. The air is full of talk about a “recession.” Nobody seems to know exactly* what is at the base of the business slump that leaves us, according to -_» Barron’s Finan cial Weekly, with only 69.9 per cent of our normal trade volume (the years 1923-1925 being used hs the norm.) Everyone has his guess. One Dr. Shosd. 15 that the sur' plus profits tax and capital gains tax are causing a “sit-down strike’ j of big business. Another is .hat government curtailment of relief projects has slowed consume! s| ending. Others suggest that consumer re sistance has forced prices down (as in the meat industry), unemploj ment has created unemployment, wage increases have hindered in vestment for expansion, railroad buying has dropped and other heavy goods industries -'ave lagged. It is said many times that the feeling of nsecurity which has kep* the coun try watching for the “next depres sion” has made people with money arraid to build new homes or spend money for permanent equipment. Fear Psychosis In my opinion, this psychological factor is very important. What we seem to be suftertng from mainly just now ia fear paychoeia. With most of our newspapers playing up recession news and centering arti cles around wobbling business, leaders jump at the conclusion that we’re tobogganing to another se vere depression. They forget that minor recessions are normal, corn* ing approximately every three years. They should remember that bus-j iness see-saws; that businessj emerging from the depths of a de pression, often over-expands. Con sumption being more or less con stant, certain industries have to slow up and rest awhile. Last year we were talking, for example, about automobile volume being way ahead of the year before. Now we are alarmed because the motor car output is nowhere near the 1936 figure. But this is merely a phase of business highs and lows, not the sign of a coming panic. Major depressions follow booms, which in turn are an aftermath of wars, industrial over-expansion, or speculation gone wild. World Situation The world situation contributes tc our present attack of fear. But America is fundamentally sound, Unlike Japan, Germany, and Italy, we have an abundant supply of raw materials. We have a geniu* for organization, we have a stable gov ernment, we have a highly mechan ized industry through which ws nave developed techniques of mass production at tow cost, we ars learning our lessor about soil ero sion and the conservation of nation al resources, and we have a people so diversified that the "Isms" which have seized other nations cannot get a strong foothold here. I feel that the economic jitters of these last three months are unjust ified. There has been too much un warranted talk of a depression soon to come. As long as it keeps *»p, capital will bo afraid to go to work and the recession will be prolonged This Week In Thought and Religion By Robert I*. Moody How are the mighty fallen! We bcw reverently with the C. M. E. church as colored Methodism in particular and the religious world in general, mourns the loss of Bis hop Isaac Lane and Elias Cottrell. Bishop Lane had the distinction of being the oldest living bishop in world. He was 103 years old. * * * * Real Fellowship—Good news reached us that the Armory at Jacksonville was opened to Ne groes for the first time in history. The occasion was the National Preaching Mission. If the preach ing of the Cross is beginning to break down race prejudice in the dc . p South, we rejoice because this is the message for ‘He hath made of one blood; all nations to dwell in the earth.” Another gathering is reported where col ored and white people have for gotten facial differences and have begun to see eye to eye. Awake thou that sleepest! Often we sit and wonder why we don’t succeed as a race and why the ma jority group remains ahead. Of course, we don't control banks, stock companies and great enter prises, but we can if we will. Those of us who earn enough should not stop until we had taken our sur pluses and savings and invested them in such business concerns as Utilities, electric power and tele phone systems and other sound cor porations where we Negroes spend our money and are great cons”.m ers. Then when the question of em ploying Negroes in such enter prises, we have an adequate claim to these privileges. Support the Commercial Club and all clean civic organization that have as their aim: the promotion of opportuni ties of Negroes of the present and future generations. Dr. Booker T. Washngton said: .The foundation of everv race must he laid upon the every day occupa tions (oppoi*tunrties) that are right about our doors. Let us see that we obey this ad monition. Zion Church Holds Annual Conference Ensley. Ala., Dee. (By Page M. Btverly for ANP)—The North Alabama Conference of the A. M. E. Zion church closed its annual session in Trinity church 19th St. and Ensley Ave., on Sunday night at which time Bishop Benjamin Garlad Shaw read the appoint ments. Rev. J. E. McCall, the pastor, gave one of the greatest entertain ments ever accorded the confer ence. Rev. H. D. Tilghman of Me tropolitan church, Birmingham, as sisted in caring for the large dele gation. Presiding Elders M. C. Glover j and B. J. Williams assisted the Bishop in the successful conduct of the conference. Oscar W. Adams, secretary of the church Extension reported several churches saved from the auction block by wise dealing. The general officers pre sent in additon to Oscar Adams were Dr. H. T. Medford, secretary of the Foreign Board who spoke Friday night; Dr. Thomas Walker Wallace, secretary of the Home Mission Board and Dr. Eiehelberge jof the Sunday School department. Mrs. Henrietta M. Davis of St. Louis who is President of the Wo man s If. and F. M. Society, deliver ed the chief address to the women. The preachers addressing the conference were Revs. Avant. C. E. Stewait of Montgomery, Rev. A. L. Hudson of Tuscaloosa and sev eral younger men. Bishop Shaw stated in his opening address that his mission in Alabama is not only to build Zion church but to aid the Negro in every movement for ra cia1 advancement. -O IMPORTANT NOTICE! Notice to Subscribers— Please notify the Omaha Guide office, by mail or telephone, as 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 be forced to charge a small fee of five cents for each change of address with out notice. Please call WE 1517 or mail us a post card with year new address on it, at one week before you move. This will prevent a du plication of papers and the five cents charge. 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