Largest _ Negro Pf .4 ^02b. Nl£!*tort*> *+ ' M* ■ ■ ■ in JNebra&iw* FULL pages of Scents lit w fjnmins ■ ; /JUSTTCE/EQUALITY HEWTOTHEUN^ evJI we! "* Entered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice, Omaha, Nebraska— Omaha, Ncbl*., Saturday, NOV. 5, 1938 Number Thirty Robert Smith For District Clerk One local newspaper said there -were 81,000 reasons why Robert Smith should be elected to the of fice of Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County. To the Col ored citizens of Omaha there is just 15,000 more reasons why he should be elected to this office. Robert Smith is known to never say no to any inquiring person. His answer always is “We shall see -what oan be done.” And if it is to tho interest of justice and right and to alieviate suffering human ity, Robert Smith is just the man V’ho would not ard could not stop until relief and justice have been done. "Any charges?” “No.” To tho contrary he has been known to put his hand into his own pocket and, give hours, days^ weeks and (months of hi8 time to do things that are requested of him by men •and women in all walks of life, both whta and black. Robert Smith is known to lend his ear more tenderly and readily to what Is commonly called the underdog. Tho only thing any of his oppon ents have tver been able to accuse him of is that he was hooked up with the wrong group. All give him credit of being the outstanding and upright citizen of today in public life. Negroes can make no mistake in voting for Robert Smith for Clerk of the District Court. -0O0 HARVEST FESTIVAL AT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Tho Harvest Festival is still in progress at the Zion Baptist church which is being conduced by M. M. Roberts, National Evan gelist and Singer, services last week were well attended. On Mon day nigbt, Dr. Wesley Jones, de livered a wonderful address, which was enjoyed by all. He was pre sented by Rev. M. K. Curry, pas tor. The program for th:s week is as follows: Monday, Nov. 7, Visiting Minis ters; Tuesday night, soloists and Musicians, Big Broadcast; Wed nesday night, Gospel Party; Thur. night, Youths Song Review-, Fri day night, Ushers and Usherettes Boards of the city, Mr. M. C. Sands and Mrs. Edith Todd in charge. The old soldiers and Amertician Legion will be welcome guests. -0O0 PICKET COMMUNITY CENTER St. Louis, Nov. 3 (ANY)—Picket ing of the Gamble community cen ter for Negroes, now under con struction, continued thig week with members of local organizations carrying signs demanding that skilled workers be admitted to membership in A. F. of L. building unions and that additional Negroes be employed on the community cen ter project. Electricians started tho picketing last Friday. Sidney Williams, industrial sec retary of the Urban League, said that a count of workmen employ ed on thc project disclosed that there were 26 whites and only two Negroes, both laborers. -O ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES TO BE OPENED TO HALF MILLION MORE Washington, D. C., Nov. 3 (A. NP)—In a statement from WPA headquarter* last week Hairy L. Hopkins said that adult education classes will soon be opened to an additional 500 000 all over the country. Total enrollment is (x pected to reach 2,000,0000 before the end of the year Maximun (n rollment heretofore has been slightly above 1.500,000 which was reached last April. SENATOR NORRIS ENDORSES SORENSEN FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT OF NEBR. In a statement given out October 14, 1938, Senat or George W, Norris declared that the most import ant issue before the voters was the election of a Chief Justice. He urged the people to support C, A SORENSEN for that office. — His Statement follows: “The most important issue before the voters of Nebraska in the coming election is the selection of a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of our state. “There should be no politics involved in the solu tion of this question. “I have no personal interest whatever in it. I feel keenly, however, what a proper judicial system means to the future happiness and comfort of our people. One good way to decide between aspirants for judicial position is to ascertain what kind of clients the candidate has had in his legal practice. If he has in the main represented monopolies, j trusts or seliish interests seeking to get some tech nical and unfair advantage, he is very apt to have the viewpoint of monopoly and greed. He overlooks the rights of the lowly and those who toil. On the other hand, the poor man’s lawyer, like the great Brandeis, by his association with the common people will be impressed with the necessary protection of the liberties and rights of honest citizens struggling in an unequal contest with great combinations of wealth and special privilege. “Measured by this criterion, C. A, SORENSEN would get practically every vote in the coming elect ion. His election to the high office of Chief Justice i would help to keep our highest court on a pedestal of | ability, honor and integrity, above the influence of foarty machines and beyond the control of selfish in “GEORGE W. NORRIS,” SECY WALLACE AND DR, MOTON TO BE MAIN SPEAK ERS AT YMCA. CONFERENCE Washington, Nov. 3 (ANP) — Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, and Dr. Robert R. j Moton, president emeritus of Tusk-' egce institute, will deliver the principal addresses before th“ semi cntennial conference of the YMCA Workers at Howard university^ Nov. 4. 5 and 6. Over 500 leaders | of both races are expected to hon or the 50th anniversary of assoc iation activities with colored men and boys and to consider at the same time the place of the colored YMCA. in tomorrow’s community. -O-— TO STUDY HEALTH IN 32 COLLEGES __ Washington, Nov. 3 (ANP) A study of health services, with em phasis on tuberculosis and syphil is, will ba made this fall in 32 Ne gro colleges in eight states by Dr. I Paul B. Comely, director of Stu-1 dent Health Service of Howard j university. Washington^ D. C., itj has bef n announced by Dean Numai Adams. -oOo-— I COLORED WOMAN OCCUPIES IMPORTANT YWCA POST New York, Nov. 3 (AND Mrs. George W. Lawrence of Chicago was a visitor in New York this week in attendance upon the bud get reviewing committee of the National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association. This highly important position in the organization, being occupied for the first time by a colored v’»man< plans the budget for YW work throughout the entire coun try and is an important cog in the policy making of the body. -0O0—— LISTEN TO THIS By HOBART T. MITCHELL -- By HOBART T. MITCHELL Solomon ordered Hiram of Trye to secure the services of black men to do the skilled hewing and de signing of the timber work on the temple. Solomon declaring that these “black men” were the only men possessed with sufficient skill to take charge and complete the artistic timber work. The three most important events in the history of American slavery all occured on the some date. April 14, 1"75—First movement to free American slaves began in Philadelphia^ as Quakers organized the first anti-society with Benja min Franklin as president. April 14, 1861—The American flag was hauled down from Fort Sumter in Charleston, S. C. harbor as the War between the States over slavery began. April 14, 1865—Abraham Lin coln, 56 emancipator of the slaves was fatally shot in the back of the head in Ford’s theatre, Washington at 10:80 P, M. Jethro, the Ethiopian, father in! law of Moses who was the author 9 who first employed that, which is today, our judicial system. (Quote j from the Bible) And Moses' father in law* said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God .'.hall be with thee: Be thou for the JITTERBUG JAMBOREE AT DREAMLAND' NOV. 14th • i - The Gavaliers Club of which lyromoH Perry is president, will give a Jitterbug Jamboree at the Dreamland Hall, Nov. 14th. Hours 9 til 1 a. m. IJoyd Hunter will furnish the music. A Special Jitter I,si g Contest will he held.. Prize' will be awarded to the winners. people to go forward that thou mayc.t bring the causes unto God. And thou shall teach them ordi nances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must * do. v Negroes in ho United States in 1936 own some 20.000.000 acres of land or 31,000 square miles. Thf, first Negro to be elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa frater nity was Edward A. Bouchet, 1874 Yale University. —-» If the pdophecy of Daniel is , true. Chriat when he left this earth, had wooly hair. Hiram R. Revels, the first Ne gro to serve as United States sen ator and the first man of the race to appear in either house of Congress completed an unexpired term from Ftb. 25 1870, to March ' 3, 1871. Senator from Mississippi. David Walker, a free Negro, the first person of color to attack, slavery through the press. ‘Wal kers Appeal” was published in Bos ton in 1829. which was circulated in the South. The second settler in Ala. was J a Negro. He visited the country with DeSoto— like the climate and the ebrmry—stayed and lived with the Indians (1540). In November, 1910,^ The Crisis, the official qrgan of the National Association for the Advancement j of Colored People^ was first pub- j lished. In 1911, the Association' published its first pamphlet against lynching and held its first large meeting of protest. The black belt was originally a fertile strip of black soil. The black belt of today is that part of a city where most of the colored population reside. Free Negroes in Maryland had a right to vote down to 1783. A law was passed in Virginia in 1723 that they were not allowed to vote. i Solomon’* dark skin should cause no surprise, because his mo ther, Hittite, was also the widow j of Uriah. The Hittites are the de scendants of Heth and Heth was the second son of Cannna. Somewhere I read this 1 ittle poem—I pas* it on to you— This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; Wo helped to turn its "irgin earth Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. -0 DAWSON, MITCHELL CON GRESSIONAL FIGHT LOOMS AS HOT CONTEST! Chicago, Nov. 3 (ANP)—On the cv0 of Nov. 8 elections, national attention is being focused on the race in the fir*t Congressional dis trict of Illinois, the only district' where the election of a Negro to | congress is assured. The battle this year is between Arthur W. Mitchell, twice winner in the con-1 gressional race and present incum bent. and Second Ward Alderman William A. Dawson. Chicago Porter, Winner ot $75,000 Sweepstakes, Won’t Retire from Railroading _ Chicago, Nov. 3, (ANP) Royal E. Spurlark, Pullman porter be tween. Chicago and San Francisco for 27 years, returned here Friday morning richer by $76,000 than he had ever hoped to be. His horse won that amount for him by fin ishing second in the Cesarwitch stakes at Newmarket, England. Northwestern station was the scene of a royal welcome when the winner got off the Overland Limited around 8:30 Friday morn ing. The entire family of the 69 year-old porter^ lodge brothers and friends as well as reporters and photographers were present. Later he was guest of honor at several get-togethers. But his good fortune and sudden riches will not cause him to quit his job. He will continue giving service to Pullman guest for ano ther three years. At that time he can retire with a pension. That will mean a steady monthly in come for the rest of his life. Actually, Mr. Spurlark will col locet for his personal use about $52,087.50 of the 75,000. The fed eral government will take $.1,000 as normal income tax ami $19, 910 as surtax. Of course, the cost of his ticket $2.50 will have to be deducted, and he has until March 15 to pay bis taxes to Uncle Sam. But the residue will mean con sideral comfort to several people. Th0 Spurlark family has been liv ing for 17 years at the home of Mrs. Glover Compton. Included in his family are Royal Spurlark jr. 21. who is attending Loyola Uni versity Law School through earn ings as a red cup and with 'his father's help; Mr. and Mrs. James McKains, cousins, and Mrs Hen rietta Taylor, the porter’s 80-year old aunt. When he left Chicago on his re gular run Mr. Spurlark kn< w he was ‘in the money,” but he had no idea how much. His ticket was coupled with Dubonnet, second prize winner, in the drawing a week ago Friday. He had offers from one source of $7,500 for his ticket. On visiting relatives at Belvidere, 111., his home? he told them he had also been offered $40,000 by a syndicate but turned it down. If he follows hi* avowed inten tion of working until he reaches the retiif ment age, Mr. Spurlark plans to devote the rest pf his life to fraternal work. He is prominent in Masonic ranks and is a grand lecturer for the lodge. He was the only Chicagoan to win a major prize in this year’s Irish sweep takes. -ooo BOY, 12, GIVEN LIFE FOR KILLING WHITE LAD, 9 New Roads, La.. Nov. 3 (ANP) —A 12 year old boy^ Walter Wil liams, was sentenced to life impri sonment in the state penitentiary last week when he pleaded guilty to a charge of shooting and kil ling Hubert Brouillete, 9, white boy. Williams was 11 years of age when the shooting occured. 67 CONGRESSMEN PLEDGE SUPPORT TO LYNCH BILL New York, Oct., 28—Sixty-seven candidates for the lower house of Congrc ss replied up to October 28 to a auestionnaire sent them by tho National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and pledged to support a federal anti-lynching bill in the next ses sion of Congress which opens in January. ✓ THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE q72aazg?i(ypg2]ora Not so long ago I was poppin’ off about one of my favorite Sen ators from down yonder in the old mud-cat State, and ,1 got to talk ing about sor ghum and wish ing for some. And lo and behold, an editor down there, he ups and sends Ime a can. I And I tried it [with corn cakes [and bacon and a Joe Serra .•ouple cups of co- { ffee, ari(j I guess it had a quieting effect .because Susis, she says I 1 gu* ss we better send down there for a winter supply. But I got a friend out in Ore gon who ha,s been around eonsid enable. and he says sorghum and ; cane syrup, they are not the same.1 He miys sorghum is from Illinois , and thereabouts and is made from a eorn-Jike can^-and the juice of the southern cwne, it makes cane syrup not sorghum. But this Mississippi editor, he calls it sorghum. But whatever it is, it is great and grand stuff. And any woman who has a griz zly or polar bear for a husband, she can handle him as easy as pic, if she knows her corn-cakes and sorghum—or cane and maple syrup. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA - 0O0 UNDERHAND METHODS BEING USED AGAINST ADAMS __ - A circular from a mysterious source was being circulated to vot ers in the 5th legislative district this week bearing the pictures of John Adams'and his opponent Dr. Foster, and warning the readers to be watchful. This is apparent ly on attempt on the part of pred judiced individuals to defeat one of Nebraska’s best liked and most able senators though racial hate. No one can question the fitness and ability of Senator Adams and all fair minded voters in the fifth district regardless of race or color can vote for John Adams with complete assurance that they will have the best representation avail able CHICAGO TO SEE HUGHES' HEW PLAY Chicago, Nov. 3 (CNA)—Lang ston Hughes, famous poet and playwright, will be present at the opening of his play^ “Don't You Want to be Free, by the Negro Peeples Theatre, it was announc ed this week by the publicity com mittee of the theatre. -0O0— VIRGINIA MAN HELD FOR ATTACK ON GIRL, 17 Chase City, Va. —Nov. 1—Pro secution of a white man, collector for the Universal Life Insurance Company of Richmond^ Va. charg ed with raping a 17 year old color ed school gild here is being pushed by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. tg---9 Select Your Candidates Now W- by JOE ROSENBLOOM In a few more days the gnernl election will bo over and campaign ing by candidates for the various offices will have ceased. The pol itical meetings, with their floods nn