The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, February 25, 1939, City Edition, Page Two, Image 2
Siu! o lit it.’k. L, .wiiwii *> If ATerica wants to mainta n her traditional policy of “hands off Europe,” Dr. Harry Williams o the University of Omaha think present plans for a larger war ma chine and the President's diplomacy” are steps in the wrong direct on. Scoring present demapds for in creased armaments, the professor of history and government sapl a nation's defense policy should go hand-in-hand with its foreign po lio.?. Officially, he pointed Gut, despte tho President’s, secret deals with tho-French and British, the United States is committed to a policy of defense. “If our policy is aimed only at defending ourselves, 'f we have no intention of joining other countries in a program of collective security, then the United States doesn’t need a large army or navy or air force. “On the other hand, if we are abandoning our hands-off Europe policy and are preparing to cooper ate w'lh the democracies of Eu rope- -I prefer to call them the ‘western imperialists’—then the President is correct in asking for ’ncreased armaments and in extend .g aid to Britain an l France." Dr. Williams, however, s oppos >d to United States participation n b collective security pact with „ho Ghamlberlain and Daladier go vernments. He favors an armament program designed solely for defen sive purposes. If other states want American goods, let them come and get the goods on a cash-and-carry hasls, s«ys he. Mainstay of Professor williams dofense program, designed to pro tect both American continents from European or Asiatic aggression, would be “an adequate savy.” His is essentially tho same proposal for relying on naval strength as that of George Fielding Eliot, mili tary expert and author recently of tho book, “The Ramparts We Watch.” r i)r. Williams doesn’t say exactly how large a defensive navy should be, but ho thinks it should be “near the top" as compared with the strength of other naval powers. He admits that if the United States contemplates an aggressive war a gainst another sea power, then a “defense navy” might be too small. Tho historian believes good na val bases are “the first line at American defense”; hence he lays particular stress upon them as part of his hypo.hetiral armament pro gram. If the pacific island of Guam were fntified, Japan might be afraid to attack us, he stated. On a previous occasion the mere threat to fortify Guam kept Japan from building up her navy Dr. Williams is convinced that fhere is no need for a two-squad ron navy at the present time. Since Germany and Italy are not naval poWifs. he sees no possible threat in tho Atlantic. In the Pacific, the United States can readily defend herself against Japun. “A second canal, probably through Nicaragua, would be good insurance againr.* possible mishap to the Panama Canal. Cost of a new canal might be just as great as a second fleet; but it woul 1 be a more valuable peace-time a^et and a better investment since bat tleships beorne obsolete but canals Jo not.” 7The University of Omaha profes ;or turned thumbs down on a large air fleet and a large standing army. touch a large air force as the President proposes—to consist of eight or nine thousand planes—is absolutely unnecessary for our de fense. Wo should limit our air strength to about five thousand planes and make provision for re gular replacements. Also our fac tories should be prepared • to turn planes out rapidly in event of war. “The danger of a large peace time air force is that it becomes obsolete within a few years New types are produced and existing pianos become useless for war fare. France built a huge air force after the war but new develop ments soon make the planes ob solete. ‘ i ntn j >posed to a large stand ir -; r because it is too great • oc»? *n e drain to support one. ,*• u, J about 500,000m«n com •*' —** regular force* and the National Guard, is large enough for peace time." Here again, Dr. Williams emphasized that his con ception of what our armed forces should be is based on continue ad herence to a foreign policy of peace neutrality, and the Monroe Doc trine. N. C GOVERNOR ORDERS FLOGGING PROBE R I ... nor Is i-y hie • m ujtU it oni tho tUua D. pat rr I v -sti gation to Gob .-.oe tv . ’ _’. *» i vesTg tc the Rivr ‘ r [ p. j,]u RM(* pVyj - j . „j fey 8 i mob on lebru . y 9. 1 Hi i iMvemoT • * 'm •«< 1 '• 1 hr re iponse t a t 1 g n *' 11 t-e | Ni'atiojiM A 1. * • - vancement cl' Co] i d • ■> 1 > ert L. Thomp cm, the ::m.n-m’s priva ci secretin y, •*:>■»! 3J>ftv3" Wri ter White' that the iims'igators would “take every . os’lfi'c dep to apprehend guilty parties.’’ Meanwhile, the Wayne ou-ity graad jury in Gldsboro eurfoune oi through its foreman. Graves Smith, that it would m ■ -t Febru ary 14 for an investigation. Baldwin and Edwards were a’’ rested on assault charges growing out of an attack February 4, on Mayor J. H. Hill of Goldsboro. A band of anre<i white men took them from the jail, out into the country, beat them severally and set them free. The men were re apprehended and taken” to jail. They showed evidence of a severe beating. Off oialr. of tho NAACP. are un derstood to regard in'iients sim ilar to the Goldsboro one as a new technique in keeping alive the mob spirit of lynching while remaining safely away from the charge of actual lynchng. Mayor Hill issued a statement asserting that the perpetrators by “taking the law into their own hands have greatly distressed the citizens of this city.’’ ■» FLASH * * * Washington, D. C. The Afro American did not get the Washing ton Tribune after all, it wus an nounced Monday .when it was stal ed that a local syedicate, heuded by Robert A. Pelham, for years di rector of the Capital News Service, had purchased the paper, and that G. James Fleming of Philadelphia, formerly city editor o fthe Amst“— dam News of New York, would be the r.ew editor. * $ * New York (C) The 1939 Inter national Year Rook number of Editor and Publisher ,17(H) Times Square, newspaper trade publica tion. was issued Saturday, Janu ary 28, carrying the regular list ing of the Negro press on pages 192 and 193, wb'c'a was compiled with the assistance of Calvin’s Newspaper Service, the W. It. Ziff company and the H. R. Crohn com pany. * * * New- York (C)— Bernice Joyce Calvin, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Floyd J. Calvin, the Paul laturence Dunbar Apartments, 2816 8th Avenue, graduated from Wal ton Senior school for girls, the Bronx, in exercises at Carnegie hall on Tuesday morning, January 31. Bernice was a member of the scho larship Circle, and her- final marks were above 90. There was 750 members of Bernice’s graduating class .An accomplished pianist, now studying under a tutor at Stcinway hald. Miss Calvin plans to enter college in February. * * * New York (C)—The .“irculation of tho Pittsburgh Courier dropped 25,814 in one year, according to tho International Year Hook of Editor and uPblishor, issued Satur day. The Courier circulation is given at, 122,033, while a year ago, it was quoted at 147,847. * ♦ • Atlanta, Gn., (C)—Atlanta Uni versity is opening a comprehenis'e course in Negro History beginn ing tho second semester, in whiet courses on the Negro in politics and lectures on the Negro press will be given. * * * Chester, S. C. (C)—Prof. Wil liam McKinley Oglesby, instructor of French and English in the Jun ior College Department of Brain erd Institute for the past eight year, has just completed a book of selected prose and poetry en titled “Poems of the Soul". Prof. Ogltsby haa written numerous short stores and poems that have been published. * • • New York (C)—'The West Afri can work of Bishop E J. Howard of the AME church has received a total of $1,445.08 from the mission convocation held by Bishop D. H. Sims, according to J. L. Link, ata Tutorial Fystem HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S vol untary tutorial system, instituted at the end of the second semester of 1933-34 because of the high scholastic mortality rate among freshmen, has proved to be so suc cessful that students living outside of the dormitories have applied tor ft d. The present staff is com posed of 1G men. all of whom h';ve high averagas in tho subjects they tutor. In the pictures above, top, lefi. shows Arthur Carter, senior, tutoiing Robert Floyd, freshman, in zoology. At top, right, is shown Edward Watkins, senior, tutoring Noah Allen H.ir.'is, :opnhmore. in ;rathemalics, tnd the bottom pic t"ro shows another pose of Noah Ham's, sopohomore, bein" tutor ed. by Edward Watkins, senior, in mathematics. (ANT photos) ti.-tician. A total of $1,120.08 has been spent, leaving a balance of $2J, * * * Washington (C)—Tho fourth an nua! convention of the Federation ■ i Arch tects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, the CIO, with tadouarters at 116 E. 16th street, New York, has just released reso lutions affecting Negro labor, passed by the body. The organiza tion. which is composed of white i and colored members pledged itself to “uncompromising opposition to any form of d’serimination, whethei p: litical or economic, based upon tece, color, creed or nationality.” H'GHWAYS [NLY Omaha, Nebraska, Feb 1(5 — (Special)—Attempts by certain members of the Nebraska Legis lature to force passage of measures which result in diversion of revenue collected through the gasoline tax have drawn the fire of the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Di vision of the Travelers Protective Association, it was learned today. In a bulletin released by Charles L. Hopper, secretary-treasurer of the local post, members of the board have repeated their consis tent policy to oppose the diversion | any part of funds produced by the taxes levied on gasoline for any purpose other than for use in building highways and the main tenance of same. “Resolution have been repeatedly passed by members of our fourteen posts and by delegates represent ing these local posts at our an nual meetings to this effect,” the bulletin continues. The message also voices the charge that passage of any bill which would divert the referred-to funds would be a case of unfair class legislation. SPORTS DAY—NEW FEATURE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton Institute, \'a., Feb. 16 —On February 18, 1939, th Wo men's Athletic Association of Vir ginia State College of Peterburg, Virginia; Howard University of Washington, D. C.; and Hampton Institute of Hampton. Virginia, will participate in their Second Sports Day, at Hampton This is a new feature in compe titive sports for women in these three colleges. The first experiment was tried in November at Virginia State college, and proved to be very successful. It is not to be confused with Women’s Day exercises at Hampton Institute. The program will include basket ball, ping-pong, badminton, stunts, relays, square dancing and com petitive folk dancing—the last-nam ed being the only one in which there will be competition between the colleges. Most of the exercises will take [ pLaco in the Gymnasium. In the evening there will be a banquet in ‘‘Macedonia” dining room. The Third and final Sports Day of the year will be held at Howard University in the spring. _ _ TO SAVE CN FUEL WATCH THE CHIMNEV „ ONE WAY TO PREVENT HEATING W ASTES ESTI MATED KHALF BIL LION DOLLARS A YEAIJ - «*’ * It’ you . want to save fuel this winter, keep an eye on the top of your chimney advises the National arm Air Heat'ng anl Air con ditioning Assocation. This organi zation esti.rates that American : omo woners throw away at least half a billion dollars’ worth of l'ucl every winter keeping warm; and smoky fires are responsble for a large share of this waste. “Smcke is fine soot mixed with air; and soot is finely powered, un burned fuel,’’ says an Association bullet n. “Very few people realize how much is costs them to turn coal, coke, or oil, into soot and blow it up the chimney without burning it. “Many homes lost twenty pounds or more of fuel a day in the form of smoke, soot, and unburned gases; and that means the waste of at least a ton 0f coal, in the course pf every winter.” roinn the habit, the Association advises ,of stepping outdoors every once in a while, this winter, and taking a look at your chimney top. If you see a lot of smoke coming, out, go down and open the top draft a little more, and party close the bottom draft Of you may be carrying too thin a fire, or with bituminous coal, have the c al too evenly spread over the grate, co vering the live eo°l, for f* to burn properly. Build it up a Title in the middle and push „,e coal hack until bright fire shows in front; shift the drafts and damper, a very little each time, and adjust the thickness of the fire, until the smoke disappears. I Dont keep shaking the fire down all the time to make it shine through brightly underneath. It looks cheerful; but you’re not only taking some of your heat down into the ash-pan where it goes to waste; you usually open the fire to too strong » draft from be low, and that means the fine coal d”st wont have a chance to burn thoroughly before it get* blown up the chimney—literally “gone up ui smoke." -0O0— There are no windows In the Bank of America building at the 1939 California World’s Fair, a streamlined structure which is the latest in hank design. TRAIRIE FARMS FSA PROJECT DEDICATES COMMUNITY SCHOOL i Tuskegee, February 23 (ANP)— Prairie Farms, an FSA rural re settlement project for Negro fann ers of Macon County, dedicated its recently completed community cen ter and school building Sunday afternoon wit'.i addresses from members of the state board of edu cation, FSA and a member of the faculty of Tuskegee institute. Prof. A. L. Turner made the principal address. The Prairie Farms school build ing, modern in plan and equipment, was planned for the first six grades, and an enrollment of 150. Because of the scarcity of good rural schools for the 8,000 Negro children of school age in Macon county, the Prair'e Farm school is already faced with the problem of teaching the W'ork of nine grades to 230 children. Superintendent Riley said that inasmuch an only 5,000 of the 8,000 are enrolled, it i3 well nigh im possible to reduce the crowded con ditions until more school buildings are provided. Miss Katherine Deetz, supervisor community centers of the FSA, at the dedication service made it clear that the building was to be used for work and play and not only for the 34 families who belong to the project but by all the Negro fami lies in the community. Florence Wright, graduate of Tuskegee recently employed by FSA as itinerant worker for five Negro projects, invited the parents to join the activities planned for the adults. Many, she said, had already joined the improvement and arrangement of kitchens and bedrocims. Prairie Farms i3 located at Ty scnville, about 12 miles from Tus kegee just off the Montgomery High—ay Route 80, in Macon coun ty. Tne first resettled famili -■ moved on the project May 8, ii . rt ^ wu --- A ONE GUN SALUTl ’ .. . DAY ‘‘The Navy fire: a one-gun sal ute every day. Each night at 0:30 a single gun is fired at the base of the main mast of the U. S. S. MAINE in memory of the men who went down with her. This mast is on the Naval Academy grounds at Annapolis, Maryland. Advfancement in the Navy is regular, but it depends on a man's natural ability, his intellectual background, and the force of his own personality. With proper ap plication, be can work his way up through the ranks to become a commissioned officer. There are men in the Navy today with two, three, or four Gold stripes on their sleeves, who began their Naval career as enlisted men of the com mon garden variety called appren THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE • : __ _ I have been kinda half-way in terested in knowing how Nebraska ,s getting along with her power scheme. And I hove not heard much about i; till lately. But the news trick ling out now', :t does not look so r '0'!, or proenis Inj. If you do not. nappen to remem- * ber it, the idea there, it was to ouild dams and ^ make power, kind | of a Socialist plan l where the State { and tho Govt, run Joe Serra things—and no profits. And from tho way it is commencing to pan out. it looks like it is 0. K. in one way—'there is no profit But also, i; looks like there is maybe going to be poor lights. They are starting a rumpus now the paper says, and the State fel lers. and the Govt, and the Local 'Communi ties, they are argufying and putting on a kind of a 3-ring circus—'but getting no place. And the people who put up the money, it looks kind of sickly for them. They are going to have some trouble getting their money back— at the ticket wagon. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA tice seamen. A one-ton rowboat could pass through the Panama Canal for sev enty-fivo cents, but it would take just ar. much water for the row boat as for a 35,000 ton battleship. T'. e only vessels too large to pass through the Canal are the “Nor mandie” and the “Queen Mary”. When the tl. S. S. New York was a eoal burner, the late King George of England and the late K ng Albert of Belgium became. “Honorary Coal:Passers” aboard the ship after they had visited the boilers of the good old man-of- j war. The two shovels used are' now on display in the Crew’s Re-i ception Room of the U. S. S. New York. The energy released from the eight 16-inch guns of the battleship Maryland, when all are fired at once, is great enough to drive a locomot've and four cars from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a dist ance of 475 miles.” very truly yours, H. E. Peifer, Lieut., U. S. Navy, Officer in charge. 6 JERSEYITES FREE IN IN SCHOOL BUS CASE Mt. Holly. N. J. Feb. 16-Six colored people, men and women, went free here February 9th after being in jail 60 days following charges of assault and battery in connection with a small riot in a school bus. On December 8, 1938, a fight took place in a school bus which was returning white and colored children to their homes. Police charge that the fight started when certain colored parents boarded the bus and ellegedly attacked the driver and some of the white pup ils. The colored peoples’ story is that their children had been subjected to insults and threats for several weeks and the colored parents were determined to put an end to it once and for all. Responsible white people in Mt. Holly admitted that the white chil I dren on the bu3 were known for trouble making', but at the same time expressed the opinion that the colored people could not get a fair jury trial in the county. On -February 9, the colored de fendants pleaded non vult and were paroled. Dr David Anthony, pres ident of the Princeton, N. J. NAACP. branch, and E. Frederic Morrow, of the NAACP. national cffice, personally investigated the situation and conferred with at torneys. A protest was sent by tho NAACP. to Governor A. Harry Moore. TO START NEW ATHLETIC FIELD AT SOUTHERN SCOTLANDVILLE, I*., Fob. Id (ANP)—A new athletic field, mak ing the sixth Federal project set under way on the campus of South ern university, is scheduled to be gin in 10 days, according to an nouncement by President F. G. Clark, While the stadium-dormitory, w hich is well underway, is not con sidered a part of the athletic field pioject, the two, when completed, aie expected to give Southern the best facilities for athletic comoeti ticn of any Southern Negro schorl. The athletic field will be suffic iently large to accomodate such contests as football, baseball, track in all of its aspects, together with six tennis courts. The playing field is to be tile-drained witn an underground system, making it possible for a football contest to t&ke place writhin an hour after, cn unusually hard rain. Appropriate fence and shrubbery completely enclosing the athletic field and stadium also form a part of the new project. The university has been assured use at its new stadium and athletic fnld in the coming fall. 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