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WASHM6T0N BUREAU '■ ASSOCIATED PRESS Other than the fact that Wash ington is the capital of the Uni ted States, few Negroes know vary much about the town, excepting of course those who live here and those along the Eastern seaboard Save Money! SMASHING BARGAINS! New and Used Bankrupt Merchandise. Suits $2.00, Coats $1.00, Dresses SOc. Many other Bargains. Write for Free Catalogue. FAIRMONT CO. 160—NG Monroe Sl.^New York, N. Y. A1BS ENNIS and Daughter ARE BACK,—VISIT THE LITTLE DINER 2314 North 24th St. The Best in Home Cooked Meals at Popular Prices who make thi# trip a atop in their annual vacation trips. According to one report, the population of this city has reach ed the impressive figure of 627,000 compared to a little more than 200,000 a decade or so ago. And of the entire number, at least one gives Washington a Negro popu lation comparable to that of the greater metropolises, New York and Chicago. However, among these Negroes there is property ownership esti mated at close to $90,000,00, on which the non-voting citizens pay a neat tax. Being a “border town," that is1 neither Northern of Southern, the city has adopted the worst char acteristics of both. For instance, Negroes are permitted to ride on the street car swithout fear of segregation or being asked to move is ordcs to permit a white person to sit But thero the freedom ends. Segregation of the vilest sort is practised everywhere else. No topnotch theatre downtown thinks of Negroes attending a THE AWFUL PRICE YOU PAY FOR BEING '■ NERVOUS Chwk Below And See If You Have v Any Of The Signs Quivering nerves can make you old and haggard looking, cranky.and hard to live with—can keep you awake nights and rob you of good health, good times and jobs. Don’t let yourself r’go” tike that. Sta^t taking a good, i eliabie tonic—one made espe cially for women. And could you ask for any thing whose benefits have been better proved than world-famous Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound? Let the wholesome herbs and roots of Pinkham’s ('impound help Nature calm your shrieking nerves, tone up your system, and help lessen distress from female func tional disorders. Make a note NOW to get a bottle of this time-proven '' skham’s Compound TODAY without fail from your druggist. Over a mil- I lion women have written in letters reporting i wonderful benefits. For the past 60 years Lydia E. Pinkharo’s ! Vegetable Compound has helped grateful women go “smiling thru** trying ordeals. Why not let it help YOU? • show. And a favorite paettime of the very lightskinned Negroes is to go uptown to these very thea tres and see pictures which will ho months later coming to their shows' They laughingly boast of it. In governmental departments, large groups of Negroes working in a department are usually segre gated to themselves—not permit ted to enjoy the usual facilities furnished for other workers and usually dare attempt to eat their lunches in the general cafeterias found in these huge buildings. Many of the buildings have se parate dining facilities for Ne groes. The same condition exists in the matter of lavatories—se parate for white3 and Negroes. However, the latter are permitted to use the front door and the ele vators. SHHE In the Negro section of Wash I ington, especially along U street —at 10th and U. there is a magni ficient building, originally belong ing to the Masons—subsequently as usual, lost by the Masons— now housing the Railroad Retire ment board, A few blocks higher on the same street is the huge new building housing a branch otf the Social Security board. Negroes are employed in these buildings as at tendants and messengers Down at the House Office build ing two colored visitors seeking information as to the direction to follow to find a certain represen tative’s office were advised by a rosy-cheeked, laxy-looking white son of Alabama, “Deed, Ad don't •IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL” MAYO’S BARBER SHOP Ladies and Children’s Work A Specialty —2422 I ake Street— Classified Telephone Directory Automobiles SHAMES BODY BUILDERS 1906 Cuming Street Cara in very good condition—good rubber, like new. Beauty Culturists CHRISTINE ALTHOUSE It Pays To Look Attractive 2422 N. 22nd St. WE. 0846 BEER TAVERNS ~ ItABE’S BUFFET ~. 8229 Lake St._JA. 9195 I CHARLIE’S PLACE 1604 No. 22nd St. WE. 4019 BEVERAGES & LIQUORS FREE DELIVERY JOHNSON DRUG CO. Liquors, Wines and Beer Prescriptions We. 0998 1904 N. 24th St. DOUBLE COLA IDEAL BOTTLING Company WE. 3043 THE LIQUOR STORE £315 Cuming St. JA. 6564 "We Appreciate Your Patronage" ICE CREAM JOHNSON DRUG 1904 N. 24th WE. 0998 DUFFY PHARMACY £4th & LakeWE. 0609 Contractors W. F. HOCH Grading and Excavation 4506 Ames Ave. KE. 0316 Let It Rain! Improve Your Home Experienced Roofers _ Asbestos Siding— Reasonable Prices. B. Jones,— 34th Taylor, E. Omaha, Call WE. 5310 . Groceries HERMAN’S-MARKET £4th and Lake WE. 5444 MONUMENTS & MARKERS “ HEFT &NOYES 40th & Forest Lawn Ave. KE 1738 TAILORS Economy Tailor—Cleaning & Re pairing. We cut, trim, make suits to order. 1918 N. 24th St. HARDWARE DOLGOFF HARDWAReT Paint, Glass and Varnish. We do glazing and make window shades to order. 1822 N. 24th WE. 1607 Laundries & Cleaners - EDHOLM & SHERMAN !. £401 N. 24th WE. 6055 CURTAINS Laundered 20c Pr. Will Assist In Your Spring Cleaning To Obtain The Best Results in Curtain Laundering Call JA. 1628 EMERSON"!LAUNDRY I £824 N. 24th St. WE. 1029 Painting - Decorating Ben & Hermit Anderson Painting, Wall Washing & Decor ating Work Guaranteed 2801 Miami, 2872 Birvney WE. 5826 Let PEOPLES Do It—Ten train ed decorating mechanics. — Our Motto ‘Service’. Peoples Paint & i Shop— AT. 0054. NOW is the time to Improve Your Home— Let Bob do your Paper ing, Painting & Plaster Patching Reasnable Prices. WA. 8199. Poultry and Eggs .. METROPOLITAN PRODUCE .. 1301 N. 24th WE. 4737 Poultry dressed while you wait.— Strictly Fresh Eggs. ' NEBRASKA PRODUCE ~ 2206 North 24th St. Our Prices are Reasonable—See us first. WE. 4137. Shoe Repair LAKE SHOE REPAIR ‘Shoe Pride or Shoe Shame’— Shoes look new again with Our New Invisible half soleing. 2407 Lake St. Wanted Salvation Army Industrial Home Needs Your Aid—Call Us When House Cleaning—Clothing—Furn iture, Magazines, Newspapers, or Anything You Have. Call JA. 4135 WANTED housework or will servc as maid or nursemaid. At. 7470, Doretha Watson. FOR RENT T* A nice clean room—All modem for one man, 2220 Willis—$2.00 per week. Call WE. 1008. FOR RENT—Love’s Kitchenette Apartments, 2516-18 Patrick, or 2613 Granf St. Call WE. 5553 or WE. 2410. FOR RENT: Two furnished kit chenettes AT 8392. Modern Kitchenette Apt. Hot run ning water WE. 4285 . Large Front Room WE. 0162. FOR RENT ROOM WITfT TWrO MEALS PER DAY 2220 Willis Ave., small room with 2 meals a day—$6.00 a week. WE. 1008. A warm cheap room and semi basement for Rent. For woman or man. AT. 9460. FOR RENT Strictly modern rooms on car-line 2602 Lake St., Call AT. 3529. FOR RENT Neatly furnished rooms strictly modem for rent $2.00 per week and up. Apartment and houses for rent. Call ATlantic 7436, or Mrs. E. Z. Dixon, WEbster 3678. Furnished or unfurnished Apt., 2226 Ohio. For Rent Furnished Kitchenette Apt. AT. 8392, 2621 Blondo St. Strictly modern 2 room Apt., WE., 2742. Furnished Kitchenette Apt. For Rent Ja. 7536 Furnished Kitchenette Apt for Rent. PA. 7568^ Furniture for Sale,—Dresser, Buf fet and Gas Stove, WE. 1008. Furnished Rooms for Rent, 2424 Erskine St., WE. 0718. CHOP SUEY American and Chinese Dishea KING YUEN CAFB 2010'^ N. 24th St JA. 8578 NURSERY SCHOOL Small children care for in home For information mail a postcard to Mrs. T. J. Sanford 3118 Corby St SPIRITUAL Spiritual adviser and divine healer in readings daily. Edna Mitchel 2429 Lake St. EARN -18.00 DOZEN Sewing Dresses Home. Everything furn ished including Cut Materials, ready to sew; Trimmings, complete instructions. Experience unnec essary. Write Quality Dress, Dept NP Church Annex P. O. Box 245, New York. LEGAL NOTICES Atty. Ray L. Williams, 24th and Lake Sts., Room 1, Tuchman Bldg. PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of Mary Holliday, deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of the said deceased will will meet the administratrix of said estate, before me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebras ka, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 15th day of May 1939 and on the 15th day of June 1939, at 9 o'clock A. M., each day, for the purpose of presenting their claims for examination, ad justment and allowance. Three months are allowed for the credit ors to present their claims, from the 15th day of April 1939. Bryce Crawford, County Judge begin 3—25—39 ending 4—8—89 know. Ad jus’ been hyah three days.” And they tell me these ele vator jobs formerly were handled by Negroes. The lad didn't have a uniform—he hadn’t been there long enough—and it was apparent that his intelligence didn't rate a job any more important than the one he held. Throughout the town there is a lusty overcome of the fair (sic) South. Even the telephone com pany’s employes speak with that drawl usually associated with the deep South. Yep, as sure as you aro reading this, the more con vinced the writer is that this is not a border town at all—it be longs entirely to the South, and to that portion which prides itself in being called the “Rebel South.” Thero is no gainsaying the fact that tho lack of voting power has much to do with the condition Ne groes find themselves in here. Con sider the immense balance of pow er in their hands should some, shall we say unthinking, congress vote to give the residents of the district the right to vote! The pro blem there, however, is how many would exercise that right? Focusing attention on the Ne groes o(f the capital—one finds several interesting items. In the city, there are more educated Ne groes than in any other section of the country. They hold degrees from local schools and from other institutions as well And many of them do not even bother to prac tice their professions. Yotu can scarely turn without bumping into a lawyer who is now working as a messenger in one of the depart ments—or a doctor of physician who Just, refuses to give up his secure if not lucrative government Job for the uncertainties of an in come as a professional man. Yet there are professional men who are making nice incomes at their professions. Retired government workers, se cure that they will be provided for the balance of their lives, take on interesting sidelines to keep from idling away the rest of their days. Real estate is the chief “plaything” for these ‘ youngsters” and they are as earnest in the pursuit off an occassional dollar . aa any younger hustler in the KEEP Good Government with OAK B. BUTLER J. B. HUMMEL RICHARD W. JEPSEN HARRY KNUDSEN WALTER KOflISKO JOHN ICRESL HARRY TRUSTIN VOTE FOR ALL 7 The present city commissioners have given Omaha a clean, ef ficient, honest and economical city government. They have kept taxes down. They have kept the city’s expenditures within its income and have re duced the city's bonded debt by $6,000,000. They have enforced the laws of the state and city impartially and have given Omaha an envi able reputation as a clean, well governed city. Their re- election will insure to the people of Omaha another three years of Good Govern ment. The Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, April 11. The polls will be open from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. VOTE FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE “GOOD GOVERN MENT” TICKET Vote for ALL SEVEN! Political Advertisement business. The dual system of schools, that is on-3 for white and one for color* o dehildren gives employment to hundreds of colored men and wom en and pay comfortable salaries. The elimination of this system which many decry but do nothing about, would throw many of the upper strata out of work. These constitute the upper class in Washington’s society, and they are just about as snooty as any group people could be. There is a story of a church in Charleston S. C., which often told, revoke? much comment elsewhere to the effect that light-skinned Negroes sit on one side of the church and their darker bretheren sit on the other. That isn’t exactly true of Washongton, but it is true that many of our best folk are what is commonly, called “color sturck.” Below this group is the domes tic group—large in any city and especially so here in Washington, for many of the Southern resi dents in the' city insist on having colored servants. They form their own little cliques and rarely break through the barriers to the upper social level. HusineSs is limited to insurance companies, of which there are five operating in the city—with a white insurance company doing the bulk of business and maintaining a sep erate office downtown to handle colored clients! There is one bank, many barbershops, billiard rooms, liquor stores, restaurants of a kind and bootblack stands. Of course, there are beauty shops and sev eral good printing establishments. But, as usual, the scope of the busi nesses is limited. Amusements here are in the hands of concern—as far as thea trical enterprise is concerned. The Marian theatres control practical ly every theatre in the upper sec tion of the city, and one or two in outlying areas. However, it must be said that these theatres are models of cleanliness and the ser vice rivals that of the Keith-Or pheum circuit in larger cities. Com fortable houses, good attractions, excellent service mark the theatre’s inducement to Negroes to attend. This situation is far superior to that in other large cities, especial ly New York, where the owner of a group of theatres doeg not begin to measure up to the Licht man houses. In fact, one of the theatres presenting legitimate shows makes certain of our form ers "launder” their acts before presenting them to the public. This censorship is unheard of elsewhere But it is a tribute to the manage ment. And on and on, reams could bo written about this city of strange contrasts where governmental rule permits two thirds of the city to live in one manner and the other on third to be restricted according to the best usages of the deep South. And the sad part of the Washingtonians long accustomed to these things have accepted such usages while at the same time, at tempt to maintain a distinct caste system among themselves. And so looking at Washington from an outsider’s viewpoint, there is much to admire, there is more to con demn. But as long as the Rebel South through its leaders and ‘.Missionaries” continues dominate the Capital, there will be even more unfortunate conditions a ris ing to torment an already tormen ted, though placid, population. -- ■ . v/v.. SOCIAL SECURITY A study of old-age insurance claims, filed by the heirs of de ceased workers showg that appro ximately 60 per cent of the insur ed employees left no estate. Nearly six times as many old people are receiving old-age in surance now being filed with the Social Security Board by the heirs of male workers who have died, a wife is the beneficiary. Three and one-half million work ers who were temporarily unem ployed during 1938 received a total of $400,000,000 in out-of-work ben efits under State unemployment compensation laws. Earnings of industrial and com mercial employees from employ ment covered by ’ s old-age insur ance program averaged about $900 in 1937, a study of the Social Se curity Board’s records reveals. Johnson Drug Co. Prescriptions LIQOURS. WINES and BEER WE 0999 1904 N. 24th St Lamp-sum payments at age 65 and de«lh payments under the Fed eral old-age insurance system averaged approximately $67 for the month of January. Every month since these benefits first became payable at the beginning of 1637 has seen an increase in the sizo of the average payment. Regular annuities, payable monthly for life, are scheduled under the present law to begin in 1942 Mov ing them up to 1940 has been re commended by both the Social Se curity Board and the Advisory Council on Social Security, --oOo— NAVAL NOTES The Navy Department has modi fied the physical standards for enlistment so that young men as tall as 76 inches are now' eligible for enlistment. Previously the ’maximum height accepted was 74 inches. The minimum height re mains unchanged 64 inches. For fellows between the ages of 17 and 18, the new height standards are minimum, 63 inches, maximum 76 inches. » l ne longest range guns used by tihe Allies during the World War were the five 14-inch Naval rail road guns assembled and operated in France by our Navy personnel under command of Rear Admiral Plunkett Tho first American Fleet was commanded by Commodore Eeek Hopkins and consisted of 2 24-gun frigates jtwo brigs, two sloops and two schooners. The fleet cost $134,* 000. Commodore Hopk'-ns was the only man to hold the rank Com mander in Chief of the Navy. This title was later merged in that of the President of the United States. The eqaulettes and shoulder marks now worn by Naval officeis survive from olden days wnen fighting men wore metal plates on their shoulders to protect them from saber cuts. International law permits *he use of false colors up to the instant of opening fire, but requires that the CHOP SUEY Open from 2 p. m. until 3 a. m. 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Abranson for CITY COMMISSIONER I Believe in A Sanely Liberal and Econom ical Administration (Political Advertisement) Women’s Query New Takes In 20 Cities While so many women discuss facts already brought out by the famous CARDUI query, Reporters question women in other cities. With 2011 users called on in 20 cities, the record stands: 93 per cent declare they were definitely benefitted by taking CARDUI! So many tell of the remarkable way in which CARDUI stimulates the appetite, assists digestion, and thus helps restore their strength energy and nerve-tone. Thus many avoid headaches, depression, nerv ousses, cramp-like intermittent pains, and those other symptoms of functional dysmenorrhea due to malnutrition. The words of to day's CAitDUI users, and its 50 year record, bespeaks your confi dence. Special! —DELIVERY SERVICE— 2 Suits A 2 Dresses ‘plain’ I i 1 Suit & 1 Dress " I i E-j L _ Im 0 USUAL DISCOUNTS dtiolm & Sherman cash & carry WE 6055