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Patronize Our Advertisers RESERVED FOR The FEDERAL Market 1414 N. 24th St. AT 7777 Across the street from the LOGAN FONTENELLE HOMES HOLIDAY AT • _ft AK-SAR-BEN RAGES OMAHA MAY 2 8-JULY 4 RAIN OR SHINE 0 ft A A Dally Enc.pt Sunday A r flrt and * Monday* In Mm I .1*1. June LADIES DAY Tuesday and Friday ADMISSION —i 1 n cl u d I n g ft GRANDSTAND a# V Against Fasism New York, May 28 (ANP)—Six colored writers joined with 386 of the natioru's leading white authors in opposing fascism and General' Franco's fascist supported rebel lion against the Spanish loyalists, according to the booklet Writers Take Sides," just published by the League of American Writers with national headquarters here. Because of the conquest of Ethi opia by fascits Italy and the grow ing attempts of Hitler and Mus solini to extend their influence throughout the world, the league queried its members on the issue in an effort to discover whether American writers, who help mold the nation’s thought, were for or against tht system of government. Of the 400 replies, according to the booklet, 392 were opposed to Franco ami fascism, seven were neutral, and only one, Gertrude Atherton, nuthor of “JJlack Oxen", was for fascism. The six colored league members quoted in the booklet are Courotee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Dr. Alain Locke, Frank Marshall Davis and Langs ton Hughes. Mr. Hughes is a na tional vice-president of the league and Donald Ogden Stewart, fam ous humorist and scenario writer, is national president . — -o BAHA’I FAITH . The simple Divine Teachings presented i nthe preceding arti cles offered a new way of life— Deeds in a spirit of perfection fel lowship and harmony in the ser vice of God. Curious or interested, Please ac rept an invitation to “A BAHI’I Fireside Chat" each Wednesday evening, 8 p. m. at 3014 No. 28th Ave. Kit/ Photo Shop Kit/ Photo Shojp 1 Rifz Photo Studio £ s For that HollyWood Smile 3 Hring the Family ““ Open 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. .5 20.31 North 21th St. 02 Kit/ Photo Shop Kit/ Photo Shop Your Kldneya contain 9 million tiny tube* or filters which may be endangered by neg lect or drastic. Irritating drugs. Be careful. If functional disorders of the Kidneys or Bladder make you suffer from (Jetting Up Nights, Nervousness, Leg Pains, Circles Under Eyes, Dizziness, Backache, Swollen Joints, Excess Acidity, or Burning Passngcs, don't rely on ordinary medicines. Fight such troubles with the doctor’s prescrip tion Cystex. Cystex starts working in 3 hours and must prove entirely satisfactory In 1 week, and be exactly the medicine you need or money bark Is guaranteed. Tele phone your druggist for Cystex (Slsa-tex) todav The guarantee protects you..Copr. 1937 The Knox Co. Gov’t Competition Under the direction! of Secretary Ickes the Public Works Adminis tration has allotted $144,569,298 to the construction of 277 elecric pow country. This is a small figure as compared with the aggregate val ue of the ration’s private owned utilities. But it is a large figrue considered from the point of view of the damagei t has done to con fidence in the utility industry. Gov ernment investments in 277 power projects which are i actual or po tential competition with private owned systems have furnished 277 reasons why investors have been' chary in their purchases of the new securities which the utility indus try must sell if it it to add to is facilities and expand its markets. When the President’s new “pump-priming” bill was passed by the House of Represerutatives a fortnight ago it carried an author ization for the Public Work Ad ministration to continue the policy which has so successfully under mined confidence i nthe utility in dustry—the policy of making mon ey for the construction of new power projects which compete or threaten to compete with privately owned lines. A change was pro posed in this section of the bill when it reached the Appropriation's Committee of the Senate. By al most unanimous agreement an amendment was recommended pro viding that no PWA funds should l-e appropriated “for any income producing project which will com pete with any existing privately owned or operated public utility ! the ra.bes of which are subject to ! public regulation.” Prompt adoption of this amend ment by the Senate, with the sub I sequent concurrence of the House | and the approval of the President, would have been a. move of the highest passible importance from I the point of view of peace between the Government and the utilities. Unfortunately, as soon as the amendment reached the Senate floor various spokesmen of the Ad ministration expressed their op position to it- They are demanding now either the out-right defeat of the amendment or the adoption of a subsitute amendments which would enable lonns and free grants of money in all cases where muni cipalities are unu.ble to buy out existing at a “fair price”—Mr. Ickes himself to be the judge of what is “fair.” It is obvious that this proposal is not satisfactory substitute for a clear-cut prohibition which would take the Government out of com petition with private enterprise. Assuming every wish on the part of Mr. Ickes to play the role of an impartial judge, the certain ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN IN HONOR OF MISS BROWNING Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rone were hosts and hostess at a very de lightful card party honoring Miss Rozetta Browning. Miss Browning will enter the Kansas State College at Emporia, Kansas. Other guests present were Mrs. Gladys Bell, Mrs. Alberta Cornell, Miss Rosa Streeter. Mr. Ronald Bartelson, of Law rence, Kan., Mr. C. C. Galloway, Mr. Raymond Towles, Mr. Horace Taylor, Mr. Travis Dixon and Mr. Virginia Dixon. -_o Flays Bread Profiteers Washington. May 25 (CNA)— Profiteering on bread was charg ed against the lrge baking corpor ations this week by D. E. Mont gomery, consumers’ counsel for the Agriculture Adjustment Adminis tration. The cost of ingredients has de clined sharply but the price of bread remains high, declared the AAA head. Sunset Taxi On Job Mr. Frank James, Proprietor of the Sunset Taxi-Cob Co., on May 9 purchased 4 new V-8 Ford cars as serwice cars for his customers, from the Sample-Hart Motor Car Co., 18 & Webster Sts. Mr. James stated to the reporter that he did not especially see any news value in buying a few cars, as that was only in keeping with his policy of service to his custo mers for the past 17 years, and too, and expression of apprecia tion to his loyal cab-drivers who have been with him for ten years without even bending a. fender on the car they drive. And they seem ingly take a personal interest in keeping up a nice new car in ap pearance. The reporter explained to Mr. James that a contract ad vertiser is entitled to one news item each month. His ans. to this was: Just what do you mean by that? Well, Mr. James, the re porter further explained, there will bo no charge for the news item Mr. James stated, that is OK with me, but, don’t make a mistake and send me a bill. prospect of continuous disagree ment over complex questions of utility valuatin would hang like a sword of Damocles over the in vestment market at a time when confidence is needed. -o __ & Girls A Prize Free FREE Free Alright boys and girls, here we are. Lots of fun for your School racation. Thirty days to win three big prizes. 1st prize, one set of Ball-bearing Roller skates and you letter with your picture in the Omaha Guide if you win a prize. 2nd prize, one Van Avery soft ball and your picture in the Oma ha Guide; 3rd prize, one Old Hick ory Baseball bat with your pict ure ir» the Omaha Guide. The rules on how to win the above prizes Write a letter to the 7-star Com ic Section Editor, 2418 Grant. St., Omaha, Nebr., telling why you like the Omaha Guide 7-Star Comic Section in 50 words. The answer must be in the Omaha Guide Of fice on or before July 1, 1938 at 8:00 P. M. Prizes will be awarded July 15th at the Omaha Guide Of fice 2418 Grant St. Omaha, Nebr The heading of the Omaha Guide 7-Star Comic Section must be en closed in your letter. The verdict of the Judges will be final. OMAHA GUIDE PUB. CO. INC. 2418-20 GRANT STREET OMAHA, NBER. Starts Program Before Retiring PRESIDENT J. S. CLARK President J. S. Clark of South ern university who is preparing to retire from the leadership of the famous Louisiana school on June 22 to be succeeded by his son. Dr. Felton G, Clark, present Dean of the college. Dr. Clark is terminat ing an illustrious career at the Relm of the school in the midst of a half million dollar building pro gram he has energetically inaugur ated. He will be elevated to the position of President Emeritus upon relinquishing the Presidency. (ANP) -o Armstrong Wins Henry Armstrong, 126 pounds of fighting energy pummelled Barney Ross, welterweight cham pion for 16 rounds and walked out of the ring with two titles, one the featheirwerght 'that he won last winter and the welter crown he won from Ross. There was never any doubt of his superiorty. The only question in the minds of most of us who listened to the fight was how long iRoss could stand up under the beating Armstrong was adminis tering to him. The boxing experts say it was utterly impossible to get an; ac curate desricption of the fight over the radio because the broad caster could not see “Homicide” Henry’s flying fists. They gave Ross four rounds and the Human Buzz-saw eleven. Armstrong fights Lou Ambers for the lightweight crown in July. If he is successful, he will be the first man to hold titles of three divisions at once and will make the number of colored champions in five of the seven divisions with John Henry ,I,ewi* bossing the lightheavies and “King” Joe Louis the heavyweight champion. Armstrong weighed 13314 and Ross 142. Mrs. Brown’s Roomer On Thursday morning, the room er came in town off of a long 4-day trip working every nght and an noyed by his comrades all day, up four day and four nights and a cigarette smoker don't work out so well whrin things get quiet. When Mrs Rrwn's roomer reached home, being dead on his feet he rushed up stairs to his room, his hat went one way his shoes went another, his pants another, his shirt another, he lit his cigarette, got in bed for a long undisturbed rest. Unfortunately he threw his trousers from his new' Easter suit across his bed and fell fast asleep and the cigaret fell out of his mouth, the next sight was smoke coming out of all three windows. A neighbor called Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Brown called the fire de partment and when the firemen arrived they rushed upstair and the room was so full of midnight darkness their flashlight made lit tle impression on the dense dark ness for invetigation. After blindly fumbling through the room they found the man lying on the bed springs, the cigar ette had set the pillow on fire, the pillow set the mattress on fire and the mattress set the quilt on fire and the quilt burned up the roomer’s Easter pants to the roomers Easter suit. The roomer was still asleep, undoubtedly he must have been carried to a local hospital about barbecued. And now Mr. Lloyd Hunter, with his recording orchestra needs a new drummer for the drumsticks did not work so well putting out the big fire. Mrs. Brown is grief-stricken oyer the loss of her new $5.00 down pillows, her beauty rest mattress and her woolen blanketsi Believe it or not, this is just what Debo Mills, the famous drummer told a fellow musician, Mr. Charles Wil liams, and Mr. Williams said it seemed so much like a fish story, if the Guide didn’t investigate and print its findings, he would make, an investigation and cover No. 24th St. with hand bills, for fear Mr. Williams might get the news paper fever after printing his bills and the fact that Omaha cannot support another newspaper at this time, being, another publisher. The Omaha Guide reporter thought he had better l'eport the matter to the editor of the Omaha Guide. This all happened at the residence of Mr. Bobbie Brown, residence, 2614 Parker street. Washington, D. C. May 28_ The story of the Government’s na tionwide low-rent housing program is graphically recounted in text and photographs in the May issue of “The Architectural Forum,” a magazine of the building arts. Among illustrations of various housing projects throughout the cuntry are photographs of govern ment financed homes occupied by Negroes in New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, Indianapolis. Washing ton and other cities. Aecompaning the pictorial parade are brief out lines of the essential facts con cerning each project. Phil McQuillan of Denver fought Tommy Corbett of Omaha to a draw Thurs. May 19 at the Oma ha Athletic Club. The decision booed by the three hundred mem bers of the club who had thought that McQuillan had won. McQuil lan floored Corbett in the fifth with a straight right to the jaw. Corbett was just barely hanging on nt the end of the sixth. Mc Quilbin will fight Bob Venner on June 10th at the City Auditorium. In. the welterweight division Phil is a very smart fighter with plenty of class. For Your Benefit Now at Central High Registration for the summer ses sion of the WPA Adult Night school at Central high school will begin June 7, at 7 o’clock, in room 235. Credit courses will be given in both grade and high school sub jects. For additional information call the Vocational Department at the City Hall, ATlantie 3140. The Negro College .! _ (Reviewed by Ethel R. Harris for ANP) With the use of 5,512 question aires of interviews from college graduates, a vast supply of mater ial on the Negro college gradu ate and the colleges and univer sities which produced them, Dr. Johnson has carefully analyzed historically and contemporaneous ly the nature and trend of the I vocational, collegiate and univer | sity processes as they affect Ne gro life. In addition to an enum eration and geographical distribu j tion of these graduates, this book I is a study of factors which deter I mine this distribution, and some thing of a discription of the Negro I college graduate in his social mil ieu. Muct of its value is in the study of such sociological factors as mobility, divorce and separa tion, number of children, size of family of their parents, sex ratio and marital status. Interesting comparisons are made with college graduates as a whole and the Ne gro population at large. The number of college educated Negroes as opposed to self-educa tion has increased astonishingly in the past 25 years. All of the phy sicians and practically all the lawyers anrl teachers are college graduates. The largest number, so far, have become teachers. During the past decade, there has been an increase in the liberal arts gradu ates, and a decrease in the profes sion*?. Graduation from college often means and uprooting of the hme emiroment and a cultural break with the family setting. With a view to vocational opportunity, the graduate becomes increasingly mobile and tends to locate where [ provisions of support of elemen tary education are greatest, as W. Va., where there are 48.3 gradu graduates per 10,000 Negro pop ulation. The highest degree of con centration has been in Washington where there are 134.6 graduates_ mostly from Howard—per 10,000 population. Northern born gradu ates tend to remain in the North, but despite the process of migra tion, urbanization and industrali zation, the proportion who have gne South Is slightly greater than that of southern graduates who have gone North. There are advan tages in the South for teachers in the separate school system and professionalls among a large Ne gro population. These graduates have not mea sured up to their role as poten tial leaders. Except for organiza tions concerned with Civil Liber ties as the NAACP, their support is negligible. A large number have no definite racial philosophy be cause they’ do not recognize a ra cial problem. Many are content within the social and cultural li mits of segregated communities. If Negro education is to be more successful, Negroes must be come sufficiently ethnocentric to view the world from their own ' point of view. The training must be more realistic with more knowledge of racial history, tools, and technics based to a modern technological age. and “the value of intelligent cooperation with things social.” Encouragement should be given to share wider the industrial fields and 'skilled oc cupations. In addition to being a study of the Negro college graduate,' per se, Dr. Johnson has achieved his aim of laying “a factual basis for further study and planning of pro grams of advanced education with some reference to the social and cultural problems which continue to be a great part of life.” The book exhibits precision, maturity of judgment, thorough and consci entious research. One cannot help being stirred by Dr. Johnson’s vi sion. He has written the book with sympathy, scholarship and profund understanding. --o Federal Music As a token of their appreciation of the Federal Music Project Civic orchestra’s music appreciation con certs at their schools during the past year, the children of Central Park school Tuesday presented the orchestra with a box of fragrant cigars. A feature of the Annual May Day Festival held in Zion Baptist i church. Sunday May 22, was the I fine plaving of the Works Pro gress Administration Concert and Dr.nee orchestra of the Federal Music Project under the direction of George rBryant. Walnut Hill .Reservoir with its beautifully lighted fountains will be the venue of a series of con* certs to be given by the Civic or chstra, the fist of which will take place on Wednesday June 8. at 8 p. m. J The orchestra will play for the outdoor pageant at Brunei 1 Hall on Saturday June 11. nnd on Sun day will present a program at the German Home. 4206 South Thir teenth street. This concert which , will begin at 6 p. m- will be under | the direction of State Director ' William Meyers. Admission is free, i In The Nation ^ By Arthur Krock Washington, June 4 The Admin istration is using every ounce of pressure it possesses to retain Sec tion 201 of the pump-priminb bill. This means the Administration s employing all it political strength to scrap with one hand the utilities settlement it is writing with the other. This means also that the government is determined to use money forcibly collected from in vestors in utilities securities to de press those securities and the vaJ ue of many insurance investors. The Senate Appropriations Com mittee, acting constructively and on the plain common sense of the situation, amended the pump-pri ming bill to provide that none of the relief money may be used by WPA to make loans or grants for construction of income-earning public pwer plants to compete with private ones. This inmunity was restricted to those private plants which operate under gov ernment rate regulation. If busi ness recovery is to come, the pri vate utilities must be permitted to attract new money to spend with the heavy industries- If the government is to continue to make loans and grants for power plant building, purposes the utilities cannot refinance. This being a self-demonstrating theorem, the Senate Appropria tions Committee applied it, as Re presentative Bacon vainly asked the House to do. But no sooner had the cmmittee’s adoption of the Hale amendment to Section 201 become known than the President bestirr ed himelf to check the action in the Senate. So sensible and logical is the provision that the first at tempt decided upon by he Admin istration was o modification. This was Senator Barkley’s proposal, af ter he had conferred with the President, that the limitation on PWA'should not ppply in instances where a public community had of fered a “fair price’’ for an exist ing plant. Back to Section 201 But, even though this amend ment proposed that the defcermina tor of what is a ’’fair price” should be the wholly WA-minded, utility baiting Secretary Ickes, it was im mediately resisted by the private utility abolitionists led by Senator ' Norris. After a caiwass of the Senate, they announced their in tention to try to vote down both the Barkley ad Hale amendments. This wrould leave Section 201 as it was formulated by the Administra tion and passed by the House. This would make a joke of the efforts of the SEC, of Commissioner Hanes and of the Groesbeck com mittee to attack the recovery prob lem on the utilities-governments salient. But the Administration appar ently is determined to make the joke complete. Half a joke only would b left under the Barkley amendments. It is fair to conclude that the Administration really wants what Senator Norris propo ses, since, the bill was written un> der White House inspiration, and the House stood by Section 201 at ' the behest of the President’s lead ers. Citizens may be sure that if the Norris move is successful it will be far more pleasing to the President than if he is obliged to take the half-hitch of the Barkley amendments, which the legislative conference yesterday though he would have to do. It is remarkable situation, and one that will spread the belief so many already hold that the Presi dent really does not want recovery. Here is a plain and logical path to recovery through the Hale mendment and partly even through the proposed Barkley substitute. Only those who are willing to post pone and imperil recovery so that they first may strike down the pri vate power business in the service of their ideology have been vocal against the resti-iction on Section 201. The Prise<jent’s initiative a-'' gainst the Hale amendment, and is his undoubted encouragement of Mr. Norris, align him with this group through circumstanial evi dence. To Perpetuate Control? If the general public, after it fully understands the issue here involved, lends a more attentive ear to those who assert that the Presider?, in disregard of recovery supports a free spending policy for the purpose of perpetuating his group in office, there will be much apparent justification. In other years, when the emergency was more visible and the crisis shadow ed every lintel, there was some ex cuse for canflicting current poli cies, for steps that suddenly rever sed the direction of the one taken before. But that excuse does not now hold. The only visible explan ation is ruthless politics, and, un> less the Administration canfind a better 0139* "it cannot reasonable complain of misrepresentation. The same suspicion attaches to the stubborn resistance of the Ar ministration to any effort to im prove the distribution of the WPA funds. Both Mr. Bacon and Senator Vandembert have offered plans. They a.re rejected without raeding. And as further circumstantial of the President’s spokesmen to the attempts to earmark PWA funds. Urmesricted, they will amount to a new grant of executive political power. The Senate will soon be voting on the various proposals to improve the pump-priming bill. A public which registered such emotional protest against the far less import ant Reorganization Bill still has a few hours in which to speak out "" bn this truly grave issue.
