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White Teachers Get
$104.14 Per Month
Negro Teachers Get
$51.44
Washington, D. C.—The second
volumc orf Index of Research Pro
jects issued by the Works Progress
Administration, in cooperation
■with the National Resources Com
mittee and State Planning Agen
eits, includes the situation of the
Negro as shown in the educational
surveys made by State Planning
Agencies in several Southern
States.
Many of thrse reeoareh activi
ties have been made possible by
the assistance of WPA research
projects employing trained white
collar workers taken from the re
lief rolls.
"The ratio of population to
teachers in 19.34-35 was 25.5 for
white and 29.2 for Negro,” th
WPA Index reveals in its digest
of the report of the of the Florida
School Code Committee. Within
the Everglade State the average
monthly salaries for Negro teach
ers during the 1934-35 per'od was
$51.44 a month, as against the
monvhly salary of $104.14 paid to
white teachers,
Surveys in North Carolina com
pleted in 1936 by the Department
of Conservation and Development
strike a wore encouraging note in
Negro educational welfare, accord
ing to the WPA Index. The num
ber of accredited Negro high
schools in the Statf increased from
clevfn in ip2&, with an enrollment
of 1,500, To 120 in 1934-35, with
25,00 enrolled. During the 1920-35
peritjd, the enrollment of five in
tcon'Jnued on prge 2)
Demand Negro Assist
ant To The President
Hitler and Mussolini
Miss A Bet
Hitler and Mui-solini missed a bet
when they overlooked Gestalt psy
chology as a twans of justifying
their ruthless suppression of indi
vidualism, Mrs. Pearl Weber, Uni
versity of Omaha psychologist, de
clared ‘today.
“The notion of the Gestaltists,
with h'' ir emphasis on the ‘whole
mt:s’ of things, could very eas;ly
be used to support Fascist to
talitarianism ” said Mrs. Weber.
The Gestalt school of psychology
which was developed in Germany
before the World War, recently
has been gaining ground among
Amer'can psychologists. Gestaltists
say that it is the ‘whale’ of a thing
and. not its parts which is impor
tant.
F< .' ixample, a man must be
considered as a “whole” and not
ar jus a combination of arms,
legs head, body, etc. No part of
hi51 body is significant, except as
it is a part of the man as a whole.
Moreover, state the Gestalf'sts, a
man is much more than merely the
um of his parts.
If this idea is carried over into
society, as it may be, according
t> some Gestaltists, the individual
losies hrs importance.- Thus life
Fascists assert, that the individual
or part) is not important—only
the state (or whole) is important.
“There is enough similarity be
tween Gestalt and totalitarian
NEWSHAWK WEDS N. C. GIRL
PioturEd as they arrived in New<
Orleans recently are Mr. and Mrs.
C. C Dejaie, Jr., whose marriage
occured April 9 in Wilminghton,
N. C., home of the 'bride, the form
er Miss Julia Belden. Both are
graduates of Talladega college,
where .the romance began which
culminated in the marriage. Their
honeymoon was spent in Philadel
phia with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Manley, relatives of the bride, and
New York City. Several days were
enjoyed in the lovely country home
the Benjamin Lockes near Mon
roe, Nr. Y. Mr. Dejoie received his
Master’s Degree in journalism
from the University of Michigan,
where he won membership in Kap
pa Tau Alpha, nationally honorary
journalistic society He is manag
ing editor of the Louisiana Week
ly, well known militant newspa
per. Mr. and Mrs. Dejoie are re
ceiving score* of good wishes at
126 South Prieur Street in the
famous Ore sent city, (ANP)
Washington, May }8 (C)—A
Jegro “Assistant to the President”
.’as called for in six points of
roposah made by the United
Jovemment Employes, in a letter
o the Supreme Court Justice
Pe-d, chairman of the President’s
Committee on C vil Service Im
provement, Monday. The UGE re
peated its request for appointment
of a Negro to the Federal Civil
Service Commission, asked for “re
res nt'ation for 12,000,00 Negro
it:zens as one of the Assistants
^ the President,” demanded abol
ition of pho.ographs and substi
ution of fingerprints for id<nti
ication purposes in examinations
and selection of the highest eli
ible on the register—“which list
hould available for public in
pect!on at all times;” urged ap
pointment of Negro laison offi
ers and advisers to departments
and agencies of the Federal gov- !
rnment; requested “represent;'-1
ion for the Negro citizens on the 1
Personnel Board of the Civil Ser-1
t 'co and in the respective depart- i
mcn-ts;” and urged $1,500 mini-1
mum annua] wage and classified
| status for all District and Federal
mployes, with a standardized pro
notional procedure.
;theories to warrant the Gestaltists
[looking very i-tfrfully into the
! matter at once if they would fore
1 *tall being branded and baited as
j guilty in the present world crisis,”
j th<> University of Omaha psycho
logist averred.
“Under Fascism the individual
is minimized by a Hitler whose
own distorted sense of self impor-1
tanco Fads him to believe that he
alone is the symbol of the social
and political whole—as Louis the
Fourteenth who said “I am the
Sta e”—or even that he is the
symbol of the universal whole—
as the last Kaiser did when he
spoke of his private partnership
with God”.
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500 TO BE IN LINE
OF MARCH
I. B. P. Elks 0. E. W„ Cherokee
Temple No. 223 will hold their re
gular Annual Sermon at Pilgrim
Baptist Church, 25th Halimton St.,
Sunday, May 21., at 3 P. M.
Line of march begins at 25th
St., sat on Lake to 24th, South on
24.h to Hamilton and west on
Hamilton to Church.
Atty. Charles F. Davis, Exalted
and Dr. Price Terrell, secretary.
WANT RACE
CITIZENS ON —
JURIES —
Action Follows Reversal
of Case By High Court
Nlw Orleans, May 18 (ANP)—
Addressing the La., sheriff’s
association in Gretna, Louisiana,
District Attorney John E. Fleury
of Jefferson parish, urged the
nKeting to endorse a state move
ment to revised the sheriff’s law
and the jury system to include Ne
groes on grand as well as petit
juries.
The movement grew out of a
supremo court decision last month,
when a trial of Hugh Pierre,
charged with murder, was reor
dered because “it is a policy of
the state to exclude Negroes from
jury service.”
j No Ngroes appeared on the
jury when Pierre was sentenced
1 to death.
The sheriff expressed general
favoritism to the movement. Some
however, thought that if Negroes
are included in the jury panel, as
$35,374,000 for 7714
For New Homes
For The Underprivil
eged
Washington, D. C.—The low
rent housing program of the Unit
ed States Housing Authority was
further expanded recently when
Pr* s'dent Roosevelt approved loan
contracts with local housing au
thorities totaling $31,822,000 to de
fray 90 per cent of the $35,374,000
estimated cost of 28 projects in
U cities. In 12 of these cities pro
visions are included for the rehous
ing of Negro tenants
In recommending approval of
these loan contracts, Nathan
Straus, USHA Administrator,
called attention to the fact that
“the rentals to be charged in the
new dwellings will be on the same
general level as those contemplat
ed under previous loan contracts,
which were the lowest ever set
for decent, safe and sanitary new
construction in th’s country. In
every case the rentals in the US
HA pi*ojects will not be in excess
of rents now being paid by fami
lies in the slums for miserable
quarters. This means that the new •
decent homes to be built act
ually will be available to the low- !
est income third of our popula
tion those who constitute the un
der-privileged”
Of the 7,714 new dwelling units
for which these loan contracts pro
vide, approximately one-third will
be occupied by low income Negro
families. The USHA program now
provides for the construction of
of 85,416 units in 108 communities
with Negro participation estimat
ed at a third of the total.
Cities for which provision has
most recently been made for Ne
gro participation in the low-rent
ousing program include Denver,
Colorado; Jacksonville, Miami, and
Sartsota, Florida; Boston, Massa
chusetts; Meridian, Mississippi,
Charlotte, North Carolina; Akron,
Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina;
Knoxvi'le, Tennessee; and Waco,
Texas.
is (the case in Orleans parish, the
law is being compiled with. It was
further explained that the supreme
court ruling specifically pointed
the Negroes must “serve" on
juries.
Easit Baton .Rouge parish has
already complied with ruling in
the selection of its grand jury for
tho spring term. Other parishes
are expected to follow.
RESOLUTION
Be it remembered that on this
16th day of May, 1939, coordinat
ing Committee of the Negro or
ganizations of the City of Omaha
and undersigned by the Secretary
thereof, in regular assembly, a
dopted the following resolution, to
wit:—
Whereas a vacancy has been
created in tho office of the Exe
cutive Secretary of Omaha, Urban
L* ague Community Center, and
whereas the Negro Citizens as re
presented by the members of the
Coordinating Committee are desir
ous of recommending for this ap
pointment a man whom they be
lieve qualified and capable of gain
ing the requirements of the office
to the be»t intersts of the Com
munity, and whereas, this Commit
(3e believes that preference should
be shown to Negro men of Nebras
ka and the City of Omaha, who
have pursued a course qualifying
them to assume the position to its
own; and whereas, we are of the
belief that coupled with the ap
pointment of an Executive Secre
tary, placement should be made for
the training of an Omaha man to
ucceed to tho office of Executive
Secretary, at the first opportunity.
And whereas, we have carefully
nalyzed the qualifications and
‘Listen In’ Sunday, May 21st
10:30 to 11:00 a.m., Uni. of
Chicago on “The Negro In
■ America”...
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histories of applicants for this po
sition, BE IT THEREFORE RE
SOLVED. that we recommend the
appointment of Millard T. Woods
Executive Secretary, and Wanase
be Fletcher, as Industrial Secre
tary, for training under Mr. Woods
and, that a copy of this resolution
be presented to the National Ur
ban League, the President and Di
rector of the Omaha Community
Chest and the Local Board of the
Omaha Urban League.
W’tness the hand and seal of
t ic Secretary of the Coordinating
Committee of the organizations
listed hereinafter:
R. C Price, chairman Charles F.
Davis, Secretary.
The Business & Professional
Men’s Club Dr. A. L. Hawkins;
Elks Lodge, Charles F. Davis,
Exalted Ruler; Ministerial Alliance
Rev. C. H. Hilson, Chairman; Ne
gro Chamber of Commerce, Dr. C.
P. Lennox, President; Pullman
Porters Local Union, Taylor Mur
Jell. President; Logan Fontenelle
Homes’ Tenants’ Organization, Ar
thur B. McCaw; Dining Car Wait
ers ’Union, Elder C. Scott, Rep
lesentative; Postal Alliance, J. C.
Carey, Representative; Packers C.
3 0. Union, Clifford McKinney,
Representative; Joseph D. I>ewis,
Member at Large; American Le
gion Roosevelt Post No 30, Cha«.
Coleman, Commander; Masonic
Lodges, Nat Hunter, C. M.
THIS RESOLUTION CONCUR
RED IN by the UNDERSIGNED
INDIVIDUALS and ORGANIZA
TION
John Adalms, Jr., S.ate Senator.
Omaha Guide Publishing Company,
by C. C. Galloway, Manager.
Standard Brands Has
Jim Crow Toilets At
N. Y. World’s Fair
New York, May 18—Old Man
Jim Crow came into full view this
week at the New WoHd’s Fair
when it was learned that separate
toilets for employees, marked “col
ored” and “white,” have been set
up by Standards Brands Inc., in
its exhibit building.
Standard Brands includes such
well-known products, as Chase
and Sanborn’s Coffee, Tender Leaf
Tea, Fleischmann’s Yeast, Royal
Gelatine, Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise,
and others.
A vigorous protest against the
jim crow lavatories was sent to
the New York office of Standard
Brands at 595 Madison Avenue.
The NAACP letter said its lawyer
weie investigating the possibility
oi legal action under the New York
Civil Rights law
The standard Brands exhibit
has about 150 white employees ard
about 30 co.KCd, including imv
lers, porters, dishwashers ail’
maids. The separate toilets are
*u d to be the idea of a Coion®l
Snap and Mrs. Snap, who are re
ported to be in charge of the
exhibit.
When the arrangement was pro
tested to Colonel Snap by one of
the colored employees, the colonel
said that he was responsible for
the separate toilets and that they
wero going to remain there “be
cause he didnlt want white south
erners insulted”.
The NAACP letter to Standard
Brands pointed out that millions
of Negro housewives and maids
and cooks working for other peo
ple were purchasers of food and
that this jim crow arrangement
HONORS SAILORS
JAY CLIFFORD
President of the Booker T.
Washington Tours, 236 W. 136th
street, New York City, low-cost
tours to New York during the
World’s Fair who greeted the open
ing of the Fair last Sun. During
the first week in May a committee
which Mr. Clifford headed staged
a monster reception for colored
sailors of the Aalantic Fleet at
the Renaissance Casino.
Judge James S. Watson,
Judge Charles E. Toney, Magis
trate Myles A. Paige, Dr. H. Binga
Dismond, Assemblyman Wm. T.
Andrews, Miss Ethel Waters, Cab
Calloway, H L. Bruce, political
leader, Henry K. Craft, Y Offi
cial, and other notableg were
members of the ecrtmmittee to en
tertain the colored sailors.
(Calvin Service.)
at the World’s Fair would not
build up any good will for Stan
dard Brands.
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Chicago Preacher In
‘Dutch’ with Alabama
Members
Wetumpka, Ala. May 18 (ANP)
-Transplanting the glib talk and
high pressure methods of Chica
go “slickers” to this Alabama town
aat Monday proved the undoing
of “Reverend House.” who through
lleged questionable methods had
nduced the congregation of Pine
Grove to oust their old pastor,
Rev. Sam Brown and install him
s pastor.
As time wore on, however, the
hurch folks became suspicious of
he doctrines and preachments of
he new pastor, and there were
oud mumblings when they learned
Rev. House carried a pistol, even
n the pulpit. To make matters
whenever he wanted to impress
h:s hearers or show authority, he’d
display a shiny badge, and inti
mare, they said, that he was in the
South for an “investigation."
Cliwax came when the church
members appealed to old Pastor
Brown, telling him they’d restore
his pastorate if he’d rid them of
the Chicago preacher. But Rev.
House shoute ddefiance, “If you
coma fooling, ‘round my church,
I’ll kill you!" Rev. Brown took
he matter up with police, swore
ut a peace warrant against Rev.
House and had him arrested. Po
lice took his gun and badge, which
hey have been unable tx> identify,
nd jailed him on charges of car
ying a concealed weapon and im
crsonating an officer. . Peace a
ain reigns at Pine Grove Church
nd the Rev. Sam Brown again
xhorts the worshippers.
V ... r
RADIO ROUND TABLE TO DIS
CUSS "THE NEGRO” ON
MAY 21
Chicago, 111., May 18—The fa
mous University of Chicago Round
Table of the Air w’ll discuss on
Sunday, May 21, "The Negro in
America.” The program will be
on the National Broadcasting Co.,
network from 10:30 A. M. until
11 A. M. etntral standard time.
Speakers on the Round Table
will be Professors Paul H. Doug
las and Louis Wir.h of the Uni
versity of Chicago, and Waiter
White, of New York, secretary of
tho National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
The University of Chicago Round
Table has discussed all kinds of
topics, but this is the first time
tho speakers have dealt with
tho Negro It is felt that a favor
able response from listeners will
be helpful in stimulating further
discussions on this topic.
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Murray Latimer of R.
R. Retirement Board
to Address Workers
During the afternoon session ol
the first day of the National Con
fer* nee of NegTo railroad work
ers Friday, May 19th. Murray W.
Latimer, Chairman of the Railroad
Retirement Board, will address the
onference on the subject of pen
sion's for railroad workers, and the
Railroad workers during periods
f unemployment, states A. Philip
Randolph, Internatienal President
J rotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
I ers. The question of pensions for
| aihvay workers has been of wide
and general interest for many
.decades and was only recently re
cognized by federal statute as a
retsult of agitation, education and
organization of public opinion by
bom fide railroad unions.
Unemployment insurance for rail
way workers was enacted into law
his year These two pieces of
ederal legislation are of para
nount importance and significance
o Negro railroad workers since
under the pension law annuities
arc paid the beneficiaries of the
worker.
A complete analysis of the un
mployment insurance and the
Railroad Retirement ^ct will be
made by Chairman Latimer, an
minent authority in this field.
According to Mr. Randolph, the
conference is attracting nation
fide interest among Negro rail
oad workers and all of the vari
ous crafts and callings in this
industry will be represented there.
The conference is being conducted
under tne supirvision ui me jdiu
therhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
These sessions will take place in
4he 12th Street Branch of the,
YMCA in Washington, D. C.
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DIES ON OPERATING TABLE
Mr. Charles Scott died on the
operating table at a loci'! hospital
Thursday. Mr. Scott was just a
bout to be retired, having put in
23 years at the Postoffice at 16th
and Dodge Streets.
DOING NICELY
Mr. Sam I*awson, 2214 North
29th St., was rutehed to a local
hospital Thursday a. m. and was
operated on about 4 p. m. the
same day. At this time he is re
ported to be getting along nicely.
