The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, March 04, 1939, City Edition, Page Five, Image 5
THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St. 4 Omaha, Nebraska Phone WEbster 1517 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebr., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $27oO PER YEAR All News Copy of Chrurches and add Organi xations must be in our office not later than 5:00 p. m. Monday for curren issue. All Adver tising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, preceeding date of issue, to insure publication. Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles whil will stand the acid test of good. James H. Williams & James E. Seay—Linotype operators and Pressmen. Paul Barnett—Foreman. EDITORIALS v referee should be fair $’fCiri ..a feature editorial, the Kansas City, Missouri, Journal urges the swift enactment of the transportation legis lative program proposed by the special committee of six appointed by the pie ! sident, which recently made its report. •• The welfare of the railroads, the editorial observes, “is synonymous with the city’s welfare.” And this is true of thousands of other communities, large and small, in evey state. These com munities look to the railroads for a large part of their tax revenue—for the payrools that flow into their stores and industries—for the indirect and di rect employment that is vital to muni cipal as well as national prosperity. • < They look to the railroads to perform the major part of the great job of quickly and efficiently transporting the products of farm and factory. Oth er agencies perform valuable transpor tation services, but it is the railroads which are the backbones of the whole system. The proposals of the President’s committee of six are characterized by moderation and common sense, i. e., that all agencies be placed on a basis of equality so far as regulation is con cerned—that such white elephants as the government—subsidized Inland Waterways Corporation be abolished— that the outmoded long-and-short haul clause of the Transportation Act which damages the interest of both the rail road's and the shippers, be repealed. The program is designed to stabilize trjinsportation, giving all units a fail competitive break, and to enable each type of transportation to perform the services for which it is best fitted. Summing up, the Kansas City Jour nal says, “It is time to abandon the policy of gouging the railroads with subsidized and unfair competition. The railroad^ should stand on their c^vn feet, meeting competition from their own resources when the competition is reasonable.” Enactment of the commi tee’s program would go a long way to ward enabling them to do that. -0O0 “Our present relief system is in pol itics by its nature. It will remain in politics so long as the distribution of Federal funds remain in the unfettered discretion of any single man or small group Or so long as those on relief can be made to feel that their jobs and the level of their pay depends upon which local candidate or national party is elected to office. This situation will not be cured until the distribution of ; Federal relief funds is made on the basis of some impersonal formula that the whole country understands clearly and accepts as fair.”—The New York Times. -- However this medical argument ends, we’ro bound to work out some system that will give sick people more doctoring and idle (factors moire pa tients. i JUSTICE DEPT. ASKS FOR DATA ON LYNCHINGS; GOP HITS AT ANTI-LYNCH FIGHT New York. March 3 (ONA)— Petitions in support of the Wag ner anti-lynching bill were being circulated thsi week by the 22nd A. D. Manhattan organization of the American Labor Party. The organization has also called an anti-lynching mass meeting for Thursday evening March 22, at 3785 Broadway, near 157th street in a white district. Washington, March 3 (CNA)— The anti-lyneh forces of the nation were encouraged this week by a request from the Department of Justice jDor data on the recent lynch attack on two Negroes work ers in Goldsboro, N. C. At the same time ind'gnation was expres sed at what was considered a move by Senator W. Warren Bar bour, New Jersey Republican, to ■split the united support behind the Wagner anti-lynching measure by introducing in Congress a rival bill that omits the punitive clauses of the Wagner bill. The Department of Justice re quest was contained in a telegram sent by Brian MacMahon, Assistant Attorney General, to James W. Ford, Negro in answer to a wire by Ford to Attorney General Murphy Ford’s telegram declared that tbe brutal flogging of Floyd Edwards and Kirby Baldw:n in Goldsboro necessitated an invme 'diate Federal investigation. In his reply, MacMahon asked that all facts be submitted “in order that determination may be made wheth er a Fede'ral violation” had taken place. Proponents of Federal anti lynching legislation assailed the Barbour bill rs weakening the penalties of the Wagner measure by making them applicable only in the case of “wilful neglect” on the part of peace officera in taking precautions' to prevent mob vio lence. It was pointed out that the Barbour bill provides a loophole for officials in communities where a lynching takes place. It was also recalled that last year the Republicans joined with the fili bustering anti-New Deal Demo crats of the South to kill the Wag ner anti-lynching bill. The Wag ner bill already hag been re-intro duced into the Senate. “I think as we develop the strug gle for the passage of the Federal anti-lynching bill that a precedent should be clearly established for the office of the Attorney General to take the responsibility to in vesigate lynch acts. I trust you will act accordingly.” With the letter wa3 enclosed a complete copy of Ford’s corres pondence with the Department of Jusice. -0O0— LOW PAY DECREES POOR DIETS FOR URBAN WORKERS Washington, March 3 (CNA)— Almost two-thirds of the Negro employed city workers have insuf ficient diets, according to a sur vey o<f 43 industrial centers re cently completed by the govern ment. From 40 to 60 percent of the white families and 60 percent of the Negro families included in the nationwide survey had inadesuate diets from the standpoint of nu trition and health. The survey of diets and food costs, the most comprehensive and detailed ever made, was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Home Economics under the direction of Dr. Hazel K. Stibeling and Esther P. Phippard. * The Bureau;selected “samples of about 100 tyiJical families of wage earners and low-salaried clerical workers in each of the 43 cities. Each kept detailed food records co vering the period of December 1934 to February 1937. ZX* AVI ‘ NEW DEAL/SONG WORRIES GOP Washington, March 2—(ONA) Republican strategists are repor ted worried at the growing popu larity of the song, “Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones,” from “Sing out the News.” With the 1940 elect ions approaching, they are distur bed at the prospect of an ever widening curcle of voters singing or whistling to: “The folks in the town all agree He’ll be as famous aa famous can be, How can he be a dud Or a stick-in-the-mud, . .9. .trrUtdiSQgxurum} BEflUTy.-ROIHflnCE' The Larleose Beauty Foundation vai established by f the Godetroy Manufacturing Company te study methods ef preserving women’s natural beauty, and to make the results of this research available to the public. With the worst part of the winter behind us, we are all thinking about spring clothes. But before we get around to the actual purchase of our spring wardrobe, it Is well to take a good long look at ourselves In the mirror. The chances are that during the winter we have let up on our regu lar exercises. The weather was not conducive to outdoor activity and most of us, I am afraid, have fulled to keep up our daily dozen Indoors. Then, too, we seem to have bigger appetites In winter, due to the cold weather, and we eat an a h and a nee of heavy foods, Many of as added a good five pounds dur ing the holidays from the rich holi day fare and have neglected to do anything about it. And now Is the time that we must pay for our Iasi ness and neglect If we hope to wear our spring clothes with an ulr. Improve Your Posture The feminine figure shows the first signs of neglect 111 one (or nil) of throe places: the hips, ttie abdo men and the waist. The day of the wasp-like waist Is gone, but a slim, trim midriff Is still in demand if yea want to wear your clothes to advantage. And, of course, nothing detracts more from the line of a dress, or suit than a bulging tummy. And lids common feminine failing is more the result of poor posture and weak stomach muscles than of surplus poundage. Slumping actu ally ndds several Inches to the waist, hips and abdomen. Try hold ing yourself erect and notice the differente. Holding your stomach in strengthens the stomach muscles Htid, If w.ii keep It up long enough, you will lie rid of at least that par ticular defect. Exercises Must Be Done Regularly The hips, however, tire the big gest problem. Nothing will trim them down but regular exercise and diet, I suggest diet only If you are all arnond overweight and then Jt must be accompanied by exercise. But many of us have unnecessarily well-padded hips without being generally heavy. This condition is brought about by a lazy life and Is remedied only by a well-established routine of exercise. I nm going to give you a couple of simple exer cises to reduce the hips and, for tunately, these same exercises, it done regularly, will slim your waist too. (1) T,le on back and roll hips from side to side, keeping the shoul ders tlat on the lioor. Start with ten rolls a day and work gradually up to fifty. (2) Standing erect, bend for ward, trying to touch the toes. Then bend backward, then from side t< side. I have selected these two exer rises because they are simple, and do the same work as the more com plicated, and oftentimes confusing ones. Nor will they leave you sc worn out that you will neglect the proper cure of your lialr, your skit and your general good grooming Itemeinber that a few days, or ever a few weeks of exercise Is lu-l enough. You must keep It tip regu larly over a period of time If yon hope to slip into spring with a silo silhouette. What are your beauty prob lems? Write Marie Downing, Larteuse Beauty Foundation, Room 521 — 319 North Fouith St., St. Louis, Mo., and she mill be glad to answer them. Be sure to enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. When he’s Franklin I). Roosevelt Jones?” --r\ SOJOURNER TRUTH ANI) HARRIS TUBMAN By Louise Thompson Negro woman abolionist, went to see Abraham Lincoln she was not a stranger to him. He had known of her long fight for the freedom of her people long before she, her ,self, knew of Lincoln. It was not strange that Lincoln should have heard of Sojourner Truth. The Negro woman who was bom a slave about J800 in Ulster County, New York, and who never throughout her long life learned to read or write, was known by those in high places as well as by the great masses of her own peo ple for her uncompromising fight agaist slavery and for the rehab iliation for the ex-slaves after the war In her “Book of Life’’ which she earned wherever she travel led are testimoials from the great est abolitionists of the day—Will iam Lloyd Garrison, kFrederick Douglas, Wendall Phillips, Charles Sumner, to name a few, similiar to her fearless struggle for equ ality of women was paid by Su san B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. In the halls of Congress, in churches and meeting rooms, on street comers—anywhere and au dience was to be found, went So journer Truth, travelling thous ands of mile* without funds, a lone and unafraid. Her audiences were not always friendly. War Nurse During the Cvil War, when So journer Truth was over, six ty, she nursed the wounded sold iers in the hospitals around Wa shington. After the war she work ed among the freed people there, teaching them how to adapt them selves to freedom. Sojoyfrrter Truth kept up her travels and..speeches until she was well past' eighty. Peoples were a maz’ed at the vitality and intelli gence of this aged woman who lost none of her fire and passion1 to struggle.for the rights of her people . One could not end this brief | sketch of Sojourner Truth with out at least mentioning her con : temporary fighter for liberty. Har riet Tubman. I know of no meet ing between Lincoln and thus brave woman, but I am confident that ho heard of her many times, too. No one, pro-slave or abolitionist, did ever not know of this fugitive slave woman, who with a $40,000 price on her head, made nineteen trips into the South to bring over three hundred Negro men, women and children to freedom. She was known as “The Moses of her people.” John Brown called her “General Tubman” in recognition of her assistance to him. p Two Unsung Heroines During the Civil War. Harriet Tubman undertook the dangerous work of spy and scout for the Un ion Army at the request of Gov ernor Andrew of Massachusetts. Into the South she went, facing fire from both armies, leading the orthern tlroops through the jungle and' swamps, overcoming the fear of the slaves as they went. After the war ended, Harriet Tubman returned to Auburn, N. Y., to find her little farm sold to satisfy a mortgage an herself with no means to redeem it or care for her parents. All during the war che had received no compensation for her invaluable service to the army and had had to maintain herself by making pies ginger bread and root beer to sell td the soldiers. Now', despite the plead ing of Secretary Seward and other prominent citizens, the government denied her a pension. She was compelled to depend on the assist ance of abolitionist friends and her own labor. Sojourner Truth as well as Har riet Tubman, was never compen sated dby the government for her work in the Civil War. Likewise these two noble women have been ignored by historians and unsung in the nation’s literature. Our task today is to bring them out of obscurity into the front ranks of our country’s heroes that their ives may be an inspiration to the emancipation fighters of the twen tieth century. _-_aaH_ __ CITIZENS SCORE OHIO SOLON FOR BLOCKING CHANCE TO GET NEGRO CONGRESSMAN Cleveland, March 2—(ANP)— Many citizens here who for years have envisioned the day. when an Ohio Negro will be sent to the U. S. congress, were outspoken in criticism this week of Rev Da vid Turpeau, colored minister of Cincinnati, and a state represent ative, whose opposition to a con pressional redistricting bill last week at Columbus has killed pre sent chances of eecting a Negro congressman in this state. There are only two colored Ohio st|ate representatives—Rev. Tur peau and Rep. Chester K. Gilles pie of Cleveland’s Cuyahoga coun ty—the latter being author of the Congressional RedLstricting bill. At the state capital in Columbus, the bill under which Ohio’s con gressional districts will be redis tricted came up for hearing on Wednesday before the Federal Re lations committee of the house of representatives. Citizens throughout the state hailed with joy the forthcoming hearing and anticipated strong support from Rep. Turpeau for the Gillespie bill, inasmuch as Turpeau I was the only other Negro member of the state legislative body. Their desappointmet was keen therefore, when it was learned that insteal of supporting it Rep. Turpeau of Hamilton county was the only per son who spoke against the bill. Claybome George, Cleveland civic and political leader, commen ting on Turpeau’s action, said, “Rev. Turpeau objects to the bill on the ground that if the state is redistricted, they in Hamilton county will lose the services of two congressmen-at-large. Upon being asked by Mr. Gillespie as to whether he was more iterested in the retention of two congressmen at-large or the election of a Ne gro to congress, Rev Turpeau re plied. “I do not represent the Ne gro. I represent all the people. “The way the bill is set up, it will definitely assure the possibi lity of elect ng a Negro from this county to the U. S. congress. For the first time in several years wo have a state legislative over whelmingly Republican. If we can not pass such a bill now, I do not know When we can.” The Federal Relations commi ttee, by vote of ten to four, agreed to indefinitely postpone action on the bill, W'hich means that the bill was killed in committee. ■■_Ann____ CLERIC SAYS CHURCH SHOULD HELP SOLVE ECONOMIC ILLS OF T1IE PEOPLE Jacksonville, Fla., March 2 (ANP)—At a crowded held at Mt. Z on AME. church several days af ter the funeral of the late Bishop R. A. Grant, presidng prelate of the Florida district. Rev. C. A. | Gibbs, presiding’ elder of North Jacksonville district and business manager-treasurer Edward Wat er seollege, strongly condemned the apathy of some churchmen for the civic and economic problems faced by members of the race. Sounding the warning that the church should lead all movements aimed at bettering *he conditions of Negroes, improving education al facilities and releiving econo mic distress and unemployment, Dr Gibbs, pointed out that the influence and prosperity of the church depended on the prosperity of all the people in ail sections o fthe nation. I)r. Gibbs has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for the AME bishopric at the General conference to be held in 1940 at Detroit, Mich. He is president of the AME Ministerical alliance here, and a former president of Edward Water, college. He is now working with Bishop Henry Young Tookes. who has been assigned to fill out the unexpired term of the late Bishop Grant, As presiding prelate of the 11th distric, Bishop Tookes is president of the trust ees board, Edward Waters college, of which Dr. C. S. Long Jr. is pre sident, and Dr. Gibbs the treasur er and business manager. COAST LIBERALS AND LABOR FIGHT ANTI-NEGRO BILL Olympia, Wash, March 3, (CNA) —Liberal and labor forces this week sought to prevent an inter marriage ban from being added to the statutes of tihis last American frontier state. Publicity and organized protests were prepared to oppose enactment into law of a bill that would out law marriages between whites, Negroes and Orientals. The bill is now under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Proposed by Senator Earl Max well, upperhouse whip of Governor Clarance Martin, the measure would minify “fixed marriages,” and make both parties to ~ such marriages and person “authorized to perform or solemmizo” them guilty of a gross misdemeanor. Opponents of the bill have been urged to wire or write their pro tests to Chairman Fred S. Duggan, Judiciary Committee, State Senate, Olympia, Washington. __oOo PLAN BASKETBALL WORLD SERIES IN CHICAGO 1 Chicago, March 3 (ANP)—The i New York’s Renaissance and the Harlem Globe Troters basketball teams have been invited to compete along with several leading white professional teams, in a $10,000 basketball world’s series to be play ed here March 26, 17 and 28, it was announced last week by Harry Hannin and Harry Wilson, co-spon sors. White teams receiving invita tions include the Nerw York Celtics, Philadelphia Hebrews, Jersey City : Rods, OsCokosh All Stars, Indiana polis Kautskys, Akron Fire stones. Siieboygran Redskins, and Ham mend Street armory on March 26 and possibly in the coliseum the next two days. The Globe Trotters and the Celtics are scheduled to meet in White City on the Southside Sun day afternoon, March 12. TEXAS COURT REVERSES DEATH SENTENCE WHEN NEGROES ARE EXCLUDED FROM JURY Austin, Tex., March 3 (ANP)— J. D Hill, 17 year old youth, who was convicted of an attack upon a white woman here and sentenced to the elecrtie chair, saiw death, postponed temporarily at least when the eTxas court of criminal appeals reversed the death penalty and dismissed the prosecution in his case on the grounds that he had been denied, a fair trial and ■■v equal protection under the law. Justice J. W. Hawkins, who read the decision, pointed to the United States supreme court case which held that consistent failure to have Negroes on juries constituted « piima-facie evidence of denial of the. equal protection which the con stitution guarantees. It is said that Negroes have not served in Dallas county in which the case was ori ginally heard for 30 years. —-oOo NEGRO DESIGNS AUTO STICKERS FOR STATE INSPECTION SERVICE Philadelphia. March 3 (ANP)— The automobile sticker placed on cars inspected and certified by the Pennsylvania State Revenue De partment was designed by a colored man, it was learned this week. Arthur Chapin, mechanics art gra duate of Overbrook, high school, class of 1934 created the design while an employe in the Harrisburg office of the Revenue department. When the department needed a new sticker for the 1939 period, it was discovered they had no drafts man available. Chapin, employed as statistician, but trained in mecha nic arts, volunteered to draft the label and it was accepted. But ‘■honor” was all his achievement brought him. He received no extra remuneration for his labor, and in addtion, being a Democrat—lost his jcb with advent of the Repub lican administration at the state capital. _ f.ftn_ STRIKES SPREAD IN BRITISH GUINA Georgetown, British Guiana, March 3 (CNA)—A complete tie up of the sugar industry loomed this week as strike3 spread to all estates in the colony, and workers mostly Negro, began a march on Georgetown to seek settlement of their dispute with operators. -ooO——— ARMSTRONG TO DEFEND TITLE IN LONDON . ■ i i. • Miami Beach, March 3 (ANP)— Henry Armstrong has been signed to defend his welterweight title in London the first week in May, it was announced Monday by his manager. Eddie Mead. Hia oppo nent will be the winner of the forthcoming bout between Erie Ro derick and Jake Kilrain, -nOn——_ PAPER CHANGES HANDS Washington, March 2—(ANP Tho Washington Tribune, which lias enjoyed a wide circulation here for a number of years, has chang ed hands. The Capital News Ser vice Inc., assumes ownership and management of the Tribune, with Robert A'. Pelman at the head. WINS OHIO ORATORICAL CONTEST Akron, O., March 3 (ANP)— Herbert Bracken, student at the University of Akron, last week won the Ohio Intercollegiate con test held at Kent State university with his address on “The Economic Color Line.” White student from Wittenberg college was second. --0O0 Louisville, Ky. March 3 (0) — Domestic Life and Accident Insur ance company has assets of $64->. 464.93 as of December 31, las:, ac cording to its annual statement, just made public The company ha* *26,660.44 in cash.