THE OMAHA GUIDE
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927,
at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebr., under
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879._
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~ prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of
God and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail.
These are the only principles whll will stand
the acid test of good.
James H. Williams & James E. Seay—Linotype
operators and Pressmen. Paul Barnett—Foreman.
EDITORIALS
WHO IS THE ROBBER?
When public power projects reduce
the rates below those charged by pri
vate companies operating under the
same conditions, ther’s a reason, pub
lic proj<Jctjs pay little or nothing in
taxes, are allowed to charge off a por
tion of their expenditures to other
activities, such as navigation and flood
control, and, with all the credit of the
government behind them, are able to
get money at extremely low interest
rates. Director Lilienthal of TV A ad
mitted this at the congressional inves
tigating last summer.
Some recent figures concerning a
specific case cast a bright light on this
situation. The Consolidated Edison
Company, the largest private utility in
the nation, pays in taxes 211/** cents out
of every dollar it receives. If it were
taxed on the same basis as the TV A,
(which, with the municipalities distri
buting its power sets aside a maximum
of 8l/j per cent—a far greater reduc
tion than any government project has
yet put into effect.
Another glaring example of public
ownership short-change is the Ontario
Hydro Electric Commission. It pays but
ono mill in taxes out of each dollar of
revenue. If Consolidated Edison were
given the same tax freedom, it could
cut its domestic rate by 66-t-i per cent.
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“How is your son getting along at
the Ford factory, Joe?”
Fine, Ed—he’s been promoted.”
Promoted? You don’t say!”
“Yess! He used to put on chassis
nut number 34, and they jumped him
right up to nut number 37.”
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HE WHO DOES THE SLAPPING
It was an act of typical Southern
bourbonism the other day when Kep.
Cox, unti-New Deal Democrat of Geor
gia arrogantly slapped the face of a
constituent who had come to Washing
ton to protest Cox’s opposition to the
President’s WPA request
The man slapped was a progressive
white Southerner—and there are thou
sands of them coming up to plague the
Coxes today!— who made the trip to
Washington with his fellow constituent
a Negro. Their very presence bespoke
the growing Negro and white unity in
the South. Their trip showed they have
common sense, common need—and
Cox showed they have a common
enemy*
When the white worker asked the
high and mighty Cox to listen to the
Negro, Cox replied with a slap—which
was a blow against the most vital in
terests of the South and the nation.
In Negro and white unity arising
in the South, Cox and the other reac
tionaries see the handwriting on the
wall. And the calm words of the white
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worker, dooms Cox even more: “If that
is the way you feel, wre will remember
this at the election.”
PLUGGING THiu H^LJ
Lower wage scales in the South
have long been a drag upon the econo
mic development that section of the
country and, at tire same time, a men
ace to the wage structure up here in
the North.
The recommendation of the Textile
Committee of the VVages-Hours Board
for a 32U, cent minimum for the textile
industry both in the Not’th and the
South—eliminating the differential—
is, therefore, a notable one and may
well prove to be a precedent of great
importance.
The new minimum, if enacted would
not only tend to bring Southern wages
up to the Northern level,, but wroukl
help put an end to the practice of put
ting the Negro textile worker in a
special category even. below that of
the Southern white worker.
It is hoped that- despite the pres
sure now being exerted by Southern
mill owners, Wages-Hours Administra
tor Andrews will give his official ap
proval to the proposed minimum. Plug
ging the hole made by Southern em
ployers in the wage structure, would
be a boom to the entire country.
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I
Page Joe Owen
First Amateur Golfer: Hey, wait a
minute! How do you address the ball?
Second Amateur Golfer: Do you
mean before I hit it or after I lose it?
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. END OF SEASON WARNING
H<jfw safe from fire hazards will
your home be for the balance of the
time you run your heating plant?
Fire losses take a decided spurt at
the end of the cold weather season. It
isn’t necessary to look far to find the
cause of this, Householdes have been
running their heating plants steadily
since the first cold snap in the fall. De
fects are apt to develop in stoves, fur
naces or chimneys. Chimney flues may
become clogged with soot.
A fire prevention engineer gives
suggestions for avoiding fires from de
fective heating easterns at this time of
year. He warns against forcing furna
ces or stoves and says that if you can’t
get enough warmth from them, it will
pay you to call in a heating expert. He
suggests that householders check over
their heating systems to look for such
defects as broken parts, holes in the
smoke pipe, burnable material near the
smoke pipe or any very hot part of the
heating plant that becomes charred
from the radiated heat. Look for dirty
or defective chimneys.
If you don’t feel entirely sure that
your heating system is safe, it is best
not to wait until you have let the fire go
out in the spring. In fact it may be deci
dedly dangerous in blustery weather.
Heating plant fires, particularly, are
a menace to life, because they are so
apt to occur in the early morning hours
or at night.
Act on this suggestion for safety’s
sake!
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“I’ve come to INew York to make
an honest living.”
Well, there’re not much competi
tion.”
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HOPKINS FACES FACTS
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins’ re
cent Iowa speech pointed directly and
uneeringly to the heart of our present
domestic difficulties.
There can’t be stability in this coun
try so long as labor warfare disrupts
industry and the ranks of labor alike.
There can be no prosperity so long as
great industries exist in a vaccuum, be
cause of fear of governmental compe
tition and "crack-down” legislation.
There can be no recovery worthy of the
name so long as our relief rolls stay at
record levels and private business stag
nates, unable to absorb the unemploy
ed. There can be no confidence to re
vive business so long as investors are
in constant fear of some legislative
bombshell being exploded in Washing
ton.
Mr. Hopkins did well to recognize
these conditions ,and not attempt to
dodge facts. Business does not want to
remain in a state of paralysis. Invest
ors don’t want to hoard their money.
Most of the unemployed don’t want to
stay on relief. To the contrary, busin
ess wants to expand and go ahead- in
vestors want to put their money to
work building up the country, the un
employed want real jobs.
This is a great country. Its capaci
ties to produce and consume are close
to limitless, there is no available ceil
ing to the extent to which it should be
possible to raise the standard of living
of everyone. But—and there is a big
"but” indeed—private business, which
makes all material progress possible
must have confidence. It must have
faith. It must not be taxed to death. It
must not be legislated to death. It must
be encouraged to take the risks that
are an inescapable part of economic
growth and social development
If this government actually puts
into effect a constructive policy such
as described by Mr. Hokins, there will
be a resurgence of industrial expansion
that will really bring recovery. He has
pointed to the sound way out of the
doldrums, it remains to be seen now
whether other men in high position will
take a similarly constructive stand.
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Here’s one about a dumb stenog
rapher who didn’t mail the circular
letters because she couldn’t find any
round envelopes.
-OUo
SPORTS ANJ) ART
The material progress Negroes
have made in the South in the past 75
years is often contrasted with that
made by the same group in the North,
and the conclusion is generally reached
that we have not made the most of our
opportunities north of the Mason and
Dixon Line.
There is, however a type of pro
gress found largely in the large urban
centers of the North not generally
found in the South. We refer to the
achievements in sports and the arts,
especially in recent years, and when
we consider the advertising value of
these achievements to the race we can
not but feel that the North has contri
buted its share to the advancement of
the Negro in America.
The stage has done much to gain
greater respect for the Negro, and the
present season has been an outstanding
one for the colored thespian. The con
cert stage, through the efforts of Mar
ion Anderson, Roland Hayes, Haul Ro
beson and numerous choral groups
have also contributed its share. Then
there are composers such as William
Grant Still- R. Nathaniel Dett, Will
Vodery, Duke Ellington, etc., who have
done remarkably well. Mr. Still's theme
music for the New York World's Hair
Dr. Dett's oratorio, “The Ordering of
Moses,” are signal achievements in the
music world without regard to race or
color.
In the sport world the Negro has
fared equally well in the North. No one
can doubt that Joe Louis would ever
have have been given opportunity to
become the world’s heavyweight cham
pion had he remained in Alabama, nor
wrould Henry Armstrong have gotten
tho chance to win three world’s titles
in St. Louis. The Negro track stars
have bten given the opportunity to
compete wit/i all other races in the
North and have been consistent win
ners over a long period oi years, so
that they now reign supreme m track
in basketball and football, they have
been outstanding stars in many of the
leading college teams.
True, there are occasional show
ings of poor sportsmanship like the ex
ample ot Johnny McHugh in the case -
of John Borican, but these have become
the exception rather than the rule, it is
our opinion that as many whites de
plore these incidents as Negroes and
we have faith that eventually the
weight of public opinion will put a stop
to them.
On the whole, we believe that while
the North has not accorded the Negro
full economic opptrunity, it has given
him much more freedom in the arts*,
sports and politics than have any other
sections of the country. And the use the
Northern Negro has made of these op
portunities has reflected general credit
to the race throughout the country.
—N. Y. Age—
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BUYER'S GUIDE
By Clarence H. Peacock
Last year Colored people spent ap
proximately two million dollars for
hair preparations, in the same yea*
manufacturers of hair uressings and
pomades spent over $100,000 for adver
tising their products in the Colored
press. An additional $25,000 was spent
in this market for miscellaneous adver
tising in the Colored sections.
The Nelson Manufacturing Com
pany, manufacturers ot Nelson’s Hair
Dressing, one of the oldest nair dress
ings on the market, appreciates the
loyal support that Colored people have
given their advertisements in the Col
ored papers throughout the country.
This company shows its apprecia
tion of Colored patronage through the
continued emplqyment of Negroes in
their manufacturing, sales and adver
tising departments and through their
consistent advertising in the Negro
press.
The Nelson Manufacturing Com
pany was established thirty seven years
ago and has been sucessfully operated
ever since without interruption. Only
through manufacturing a quality pro
duct and through consistent advertis
ing has this company been able to sur
vive this length of time- This company
does not use objectionable and offen
sive advertising copy as their adver
tisements are made up with the Color
ed consumer solely in mind.
For greater economic security read
our papers and patronize their adver
tised products. - - w - —
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BROKE AT SIXTY-FIVE
The majority of men who have mon
ey at 35 are stone broke at 65! Busin
ess failures, bad investments, illness
and other unexpected cataclysms tell
the story.
The majority of these men could
have enjoyed financially independant
old age, instead of having to depend
on charity or the bounty of relatives—
had they put aside money at the time
when earning power was at its height*
in some plan such as those offered by
life insurance.
Only charity can help the indigent
old whose savings have disappeared!
We can witness these pitiful examples
and guide our own course according
ly.
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We know' a man who speculates in
airmail stamps—because they’re to go
up. 3
