THE OMAHA GUIDE
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Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood ef
God and the Brotherhood of Man most prevaH.
These are the only principles whlf will stand
the acid test of good.____________
EDITORIALS
SUFFICIENT FOR A NATIONAL
TENSION
The functions of government exist
for all the people. There should be no
deviation from that rule whatever re
gardless to creed, race, religion or pre
vious condition of servitude. The citi
zens are the subjects of the republic,
paying their taxes and contributing to
national sentiment and expecting that
tiheir rights be cleared throtugh the re
gular channels of government.
The citizen is powerless to right his
own wrong. He pools his strength with
the masses and depends vpon the regu
lar procedure for his protection.
The recent outburst against the
Jews in Germany has aroused inter
national tension. The all-absorbing
question in the public forum is wrhat
must be done about the terrible crisis.
In our own land there has been a
rocent renewal of lynching and whip
ping of peaceful law abiding citizens.
There have been recnt occasions where
citizens were banished from their
J^mes in this state. While the colored
populace represents a minority, there
Should be no differential of justice ad
ministered. They contribute to the na
tional chest in proportion and are en
titled to the same inalienable rights
accorded others.
From time to time, there have ap
peared strong editorials in the daily
newspapers against the evil of lynching
and during the past Congress an anti
lynching bill hung fire for some forty
days without passage b(y the United
States Senate. The long filibuster in
that body sponsored by senators in the
main from the so-called lynching state
prevented a vote being taken. That fi
libuster has been answered in the Unit
ed States with almost one lynching for
every month. Lynching is nothing short
of war levied our citizens. The burn
ing of Jewish synagogues and the ban
ishment of Jewish citizens should re
ceive the condemnation of the world.
Likewise should the atrocities practiced
an the colored group, in America re
ceive that same protest.
The effective protest against vio
lence inflicted upon the colored group in
America will be the passage of a feder
al anti-lynching law by Congress. And
just such legislation should be made
by the Congress which convenes in
January. This issue cannot well be
evaded IongOr by the law-makers of
our nation if they are to exert effective
moral influence on international pro
blems. —Atlanta World.
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A NEGRO LEADER SPEAKS OUT
AGAINST BRUTALITY
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There can be no doubt but that the
scorching denunciation of Hitler’s bar
barous anti-Semitism by Dr. Mordecai
W. Johnson, president of Howard Uni
versity, represented the sentiments of
many Negro peole on the question. Nei
ther can there be any doubt about the
timeliness of his statement that the Ne
gro people are furthering their own
cause by more firmly uniting with the
democratic forces of the land against
race persecution.
Speaking in Washington the other
day, Dr. Johnson, went on to say:
“The Negroes instinctively beljong
on the side of all decent-thinking peo
ple who are repulsed by Nazi terror.”
Again revealing themselves as one
of the most politically alert a»d pro
gressive sections of the American pop
ulation, the Negro people arose in uni
son to protest Nazi bestiality. Negro
leaders from church, labor, education
al, civic and from every walk of life
made their voices heard. The Negro
press with virtual unbroken uniformity
thundered out its protest in unmistaka
ble tones.
VVV
GERMANY WILL KNOW
(From Memphis Press-Scimitar Nov.)
Gernmns will never know of meet
ing here because Reich no longer allow#
free press.”
We quote these lines from our
newspaper. They were printed Monday
as we reported the fine-spirited mass
meeting at the Auditorium to protest
the Nazi persecution of the Jews and
rededicate Americans to their own
ideals.
But Germany will know about the
“orderly” mob that lynched a 24 year
old Negro at Wiggins, Miss., the other
day following our meeting in the Audi
torium.
They will know it because Hitler
will make it his business to see that
they know it. “They point a finger at
us,” he will say, “and see wiiat they do
themselves.”
The mob at Wiggins did more than
lynch a Negro. It lynched the law. It
lynched civilization.
And it lessened our influence
wherever and whenever wre speak out
against brutality, against race hatred,
against disregard for the laws of the
land the laws o fhumanity and the laws
of God.
Let us hang our heads in shame, not
only for the /crime itself but for the
fact that so many of us who are so
brave to speak out against the crimes
of Nazism wilt and cringe when faced
with the responsibility of denouncing
a crime so close to home.
The atrocious crime which was
committed at Wiggins could and should
have been handled promptly and fully
by the American law and the American
courts.
If our courts at time are slow and
uncertain, if they sometime favor the
erimal rather than the law1, let us re
form them, not turn to the desperate
remedy of mob violence.
Let us make America known every
where ae a land whtfre citizens are
free and are made safe by fair laws
vigorously uphold.
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FIRE’S ALLIES
Fire has two great allies. One is
ignorance. The other is carelessness.
With the help of these allies, fire
consumes about $300,000 worth of pro
perty each year—and, of infinitely
greater importance, destroys some
10,000 human lives. - .
Ignorance leads us to improperly
repair electric cords, c|r put pennies
behind burned out fuses. Ignorance
causes us to hang wet clothes on elect
ric wires, to use wooden barrels for
hot ashes, and to search for gas leaks
with matches.
Carelessness is an equally potent
friend of fire. It causes us to postpone
needed repairs to heating plants, elect
lic wiring ect., qn the grounds that
“we’ll get arorund to it tomorrow or
the next day”. It causes us to store junk
in attics, and to leave inflammable li
quids near stoves and heaters. It causes
us to leave matches where they may
be easily reached by the igonorant
hands of children.
The old saying to the effect that “to
morrow may be too late” is especially
applicable to the hazards that breed
fire. Alertness on the part of everyone
would prevent the majority of Ameri
ca’s fires. The unpreventable fire is
extremely rare. Ignorance can be easi
ly conqured if the individuals wills—
any fire insurance company or fire
marshall can provide you with the sim
ple instructions that will serve to eli
minate most common hazards. And
knowledge of fire’s ghastly, unneces
sary toll is all that any man should need
to conquer the vice of tarelessness.
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PRAY HEAVEN!
Private business has some friends
in Congress—one of them is Senator
Bailey of North Carolina. In a talk
made a short time ago he had this to
say:
“Why substitute government man
agement for business management?
The average politician is in politics be
cause he was failure in everything else.
They do not believe in a balanced bud
get because they never had one. They
do not understand finance because
they never made a dollar. Their cur
rency is votes, not dollars, their balance
sheets are election returns, not book
accounts, and their stock is nostrum*
for people afflicted with a diseases
known as gullibility. It is bad enough
that they must run the government.
Pray heaven business may escape
them.”
Politicians who figure that the best
way to attrack votes is to attack the
industries wrhich provides jobs, taxes
and opporunities in this country,
should think that over, for after all the
taxes to maintain government and pay
the politicians must come from private
enterprise.
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THE ICC DOES JIM-CROWISM A
TURN
The recent dicision of the Inter
state Commerce Commission in the
Case of Rep. Arthur Mitchell, Negra
Congressman, was a flagrant violation
of those basic constitutional rights
which the ICC is sworn to uphold. * .
Briefly, the facts were these: A
train down in Arkansas, wantonly vio
lated the citizeniship and passenger
rights of Congressman Mitchell, an
elected representative of the people,
by forcing him out of his Pullman ac
commodations into a foul, jim-crow
coach scarely fit for human use. It’s the
sort of vicious discrimination against
the Negro that goes on daily, particu
larly in the South.
Rep. Mitchell filed a complaint be
fore the ICC urging that this sort of
palpably unconstitutional practice be
ended.
The ICC denied his complaint, thus
brazenly flying into the face of the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The
raling had the effect of upholding the
open and unlawful discrimination of
the railroad eompar(y against an elect
ed representative of the people—des
pite the fact that the jim-crow Arkan
sas law itself required as least equal
accommodations” for Negro passen
gers. The decision Was so raw that the
majority of the ICC barely got it
thr ough by a 6 to 5 vote. The dissenting
view of Commissioner Joseph B. East
man laid bak-e the issue j&impjly and
tersely :
“It is clear that the Railroad waa
not conforming to the equality-for-all
race regulations.”
The Mitchell case, with its goial
of seeking enforcement of the Negr#
people’s citizenship rights on the rail
roads, should ntot end here. It should
be pressed to full victory. It should be
used as a battering ram against the
whole jim-crow system which not only
denies Negro first-class service on pub
lic carriers, but which denies them jobs
adequate educational facilities, decent
housing and their full-fledged constitu
| tional rights.
BUYER’S GUIDE by Clarence H. Peacock
Colored Americans spend many
millions of dollars yearly for chemical
and pharmaceutical products, yet there
is only one large chemical manufactu
rer that has recogni«ed the need and
value of a Negro representative..
The Abbot Laboratories, one of the
largest chemical and pharmaceutical
manufacturers in the word employs
Mr. Richard Alphran as their Colored
representative. Mr. Alphraa is a gradu
ate of Illionis University, for four
years he has demonstrated extraordi
nary ability in this position.
Why is it that other large chemical
and pharmaceutical manufacturers,
such as Park Davis, R. E. Squibb and
Sons, Eli, Lily, Sharp and Dohme,
Merck and many others are overlook
ing the Negro market? These com
panies spend milions of dollars a year
to advertise thejr products and ser
vices, yet none of these companies
spend any money with the Negro press
nor do they employ Colored represen
tatives to service and detail the 4,000
Colored physicians, the 2,000 Colored
dentists, the 1,500 Colored pharmacists
and the 190 Colored hospitals through
out the country.
N. * L
As long as our physicians, dentists
and druggists continue to do business
with these companies, without making
any appeals or demands of them for
Colored representatives, just so long
will these companies continue to ignor
the »Negro market.
If the physicians dentists and drug
gists that are now doing considerable
business with a chemical or pharmac
eutical house that does not employ
Colored representatives or advertise in
the Negro market, if they are interest
ed in helping to create new employ
ment opportunities for Negroes, send
me their name and address with the
names of the companies they are now
patronizing.
Also those people that are seeking
positions as drug salesmen or detail
men might also write to me in care of
this column, that is if they have the ba
sic requirements for these positions.
Most chemical and pharmaceutical
houses require that their representa
tives be a graduate of a pharmacy or
medical college.
For greater employment oppor
tunities, patronize our newspapers and
their advertised merchandise.