THE OMAHA OUIDE
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EDITORIALS
THE RED GANG RIDES AGAIN
OF ALL THE WARS of history, none
have been more destructive than that
made on free government. A Democracy
like ours was especially designed to the
wishes of the people to be amended from
time to time and regulated by them. On
that score and that alone can a free gov
ernment exist.
Otherwise it is government without
the consent of the governed. The eli
gible citizens are the custodians of a type
of government like ours. When they fail to
function at the polls, they prevent the ex
pression of the people and the government
falls into the hands of the minority.
Those who openly refuse to express
their wishes at the polls are parties to
those who would destroy free government.
Those who would flagrantly intimidate vo
ters or work to keep them away from the
polls are quilty of treason against their
government.
No state or nation can lay a claim to
popular government when many of the
citizens are intimidated and threatened
with bodily harm. No state or country can
or would hold out as a defender of a peo
ple while at the same time allowing hood
pie while at the same time allowing hood
ed bands, with terrifying insignias, such
as scull bones and crosses, to attempt to
frighten voters away from the polls.
The right to vote is not exactly an in
herited right as might be thought, it is a
conferred right by the state. The state and
Jthe state alone can withdraw this right.
When a state has conferred this right up
on a citizen he is clothed with the authori
ty of the state to excercise it.
If the state stands idly by and allows
this right to be knowingly abridged, then
it becomes a party to those who would in
terfere with a right it expressly has con
conferred.
Not soon will the ugly orgy of Miami,
Florida be forgotten when colored men,
clothed in their rights conferred by their
state were threatened by hooded bands
floating their insignias wholly un-Ameri
can and un-Christian.
While this is one way to arouse the
colored citizens to a sense of voting and
accelerating their political interests, it is
an ugly picture, one that sma<\l4s of prac
tices foreign to the principles upon which
this country was founded.
It must not be forgotten that a few
years ago, colored soldiers by the side of
white soldiers went overseas to defend the
the conferred rights of the people. They
struggled the duration of that war to crush
down those who would usurp authority
and wrest from popular rule Its vested
rights.
Citizens here at home feel that they
have been openly outraged in the Miami
affair. They feel that their government
should institute a rigid investigation and
bring before the bar the enemiss of free
government here at home. Our attention
is called to those who would scatter such
isms here in our own country as would
make open warfare right at our doors on
our own citizens when the clouds are
heavy with the vapors of war, in which our
people may again be called to clear.
We are all one country now. There is
no North, nor South. We have a common
interests and are met upon a common bat
tlefield to defend the American principles
of government as never before. We can't
go to battle when a few un-American min
ded men are allowed to antimidate and co
erce some of our soldiers.
This country owes our people a debt it
can never pay. It can best assuage its ob
ligation by nipping in the bud those move
ments designed to keep suffrage from
our hands.
The federal government should insti
tute a rigid investigation and those friends
of ours should content themselves with no
thing less than an example being made of
the Florida incident.
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Winter can never Spring into Summer
without a Fall.
GET ON TOUR HORSE
There has been a praiseworthy in
crease of interest in spring and summer
community clean-tip campaigns, which',
are designed to beautify our towns and ci
ties, raise the values of both busines and
residential property, and reduce the haz
ards of that dread destroyer, FIRE.
, An announcement from the National
Board of Fihe Underwriter says that fire
chiefs from many sections of the country
have announced plans for radio broad
casts this season, and are widely
using self-inspection blanks, given free by
the National Board, which makes it possi
ble for anyone to go through his home or
place of business, locate fire hazards, and
eliminate them. .
'Communities which have not yet plan
ned activities of this nature should, as the
saying goes, get on their horse. And where
towns are too small to have fire depart
ments, local officials, civic organizations
and individuals can get together and take
the lead. A clean-up campaign does not
involve any great expense of expendiuture
of time. It does involve making repairs to
houses and buildings, painting structures
where needed, razing fire-traps if ony ex
ist, keeping grass and weeds cut short on
empty lots and fields, etc, In many a case
an intensive week or so of work of this
sort, once real public interest is aroused,
will eliminate literally thousands of fire ha
zards, large an*’ small, and go a long way
toward making a major disaster in the
town impossible.
Further these campaigns are a fine
stimulant for local businesses which
sell paint, lumber and other materials us
ed. They arouse prir!e in the community,
and cause many a lasting resolution by
citizens, to always k'eep their property in
good order and appearance. This spring
clean-up, in brief, helps to make the towns
of America beautiful--and safe.
THE PRESIDENT OF TUSKEGEE DISCUSSES
PROBLEMS OF THE SOUTH <
Hampton Institute, Va., May 24_ln de
livering the anniversary address today in
commemoration of the founding of Hamp
ton Institute, seventy-one years ago, Dr.
Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tus
kegee Institute, proved that not only has
he inherited the presidency of the school,
but, also a deep appreciation of the edu
cational principles of Hampton Institute,
and the interest of Booker Washington and
Dr. Robert Moton in the welfare of the
Following the introductory exercises
of music, invocation, a demonstration by a
student, showing familiar plants on Vir
ginia highways and the annoucement of a
telegram of felicicitation from the Tuske
gee-Hompton alumni group, pres. Arthur
Howe warmly presented Dr. Patterson to
the audience. The tatter discussing the
wisdom of the Hampton program of edu
cation said in part, the wisdom of the
Hampton program had to be established
amidst the early different beginnings of
other educational ventures. We can weii
imagine that the decision reached as to
the kind of education that this institution
should offer required all that a boyhood
as the son of missionary parents in Ha
waii, a close companionship with Mark
Hopkins, one of the great teachers of this
nation, and a period of service with Ne
gro troops in the Civil War could give. Let
us remember that the eagerness for a
classical education on the part of the re
cently emancipated slave was generous
ly endorsed in the attitude of America to
ward education. The land grant college
established according to the Morrill Act
in eighteen sixty-two, in order to promote
liberal and practical education in the re
spective states, was contemporaneous
and even today the battle continues to
establish a complete dignity of vocational
and technical education that will give
it a parity status with the classics. Thus
the oft-repeated question as 10 why the
man who knows what was done and who
did it should be regarded as superior to
the one who knows what to do and how
to do it. To have been able to maintain
a straight course through the years in
terms of the traditional emphasis of the
Hampton program is the finest possible
evidence of the scantity of that program.
, After discussing national, social and
economic changes, Dr. Patterson turned
to the problems of the South and said
among things that no section has been
more heard or wrote about in the past few
years than the South. The country at large
is concerned about the South as an inte
gral part of the nation, a section whose
social and economic lag is finding social
and economic reprecussions of increas
ing severity in the nation at large. The
future of cotton, the freight rate struct
ure, human migration, and even measures
of internal adjustment are being scrutin
ized closely from without lest any sudden
change in any of these factors result in
distress to other areas of the nation. If
the South says equalize freight rates, the
North says no. If the South says we will
grow more livestock and feed and food
crops, the middle west savs no. If the
South attempts to industrialize the answ
er is the same. It is to be regretted that
the interest and concern with which much
of the nation regards the South is weight
ed on the side of alarm for proposed
chanoes in terms of immediate maladjust
ment in preference to what may be a sat
isfactory adjustment for the long pull a
head. .
From within, the South is concerned
about the twenty five million mouths it
must feed irt the absence of new frontiers
to conquer if these frontiers are regarded
in terms of areas of unexploited natural
wealth. With its chief money crop in
unquestioned jeopardy, with millions of
its fertile acres lost by erosion and much
of its prime forest growth want only des
troyed, it must also face the fact that
millions of its citizens are poverty-stric
ken and uneducated. As the South pon
ders its dilemma and wonders about the
next step, it gives a glance in the direct
ion of its resources. As it does, it is a
mazed at the paradox expressed in its
poverty because of what it finds in terms
of potential possibilities of wealth
Here, Dr. Patterson gave a most ex
haustive catalogue of the wealth ;and as
sets of the South and then posed the fol
lowing question and answer
With this largess why, may we ask,
the dilemma? The answer, we are told
is waste--a wanton prodigal waste of re
sources, human and material---.
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