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THRU THE | Darkness I See BY FRED C. WILLIAMS ART AWAKENED—In the news this week is the story of 85 year old Bill Taylor, an ex-slave and farm hand now living in the old capitol of the confederacy, Mont gomery, Ala. The new South art galleries of that city are displaying drawings by this octogenarian which according to one critic shows that “his roots of art lie deeply within the great African tradition” The race is truly blessed in hav ing within its group one of their number who still retains his love for his race and is glad and willing to express it in drawings that proves his ancestors possessed an artistic culture that will not die, but is still slumbering in the blood stream of his people. Bill Taylor will leave a heritage that will a waken the present and the future generations of his people and de velope this latent artistic ability which under the Whiteman’s influ ence they have long neglected. 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Try it! tion just asked, I have put to my race of people. It was prompted by a news item from a California paper which says that Jews double themselves in population every ten years in that state and that they are told not to succumb to fear and passimism but to continue their creation of new industries and help to expand those already created. What is true of the Jew as a race can be said of the Negro for just now, he is playing an import ant part in the development of the Golden State for the Negro must not and cannot decline to accept tlfe challenge thrown to him by the enemies of democracy and free dom. ROBESON IN A FOG:—What was to have been a triumphal return for Paul Robeson, seems to have met with failure because it is hid den behind a heavy blanket of “pink fog” for Paul Robeson, born in America where freedom of speech is guaranteed has expressed himself too often and too eloquent ly of his sympathies for Soviet Russia and the Communistic ideals which he imbibed when he left the USA. CORRECTIVE MEASURES: Much ink has been spilled and a lot of unnecessary apprehension has been developed in this country about the possibility of Black-Americans becoming Communist. There is one thing certain that the black people of this country are look ing forward to the day when the Constitution of the United States functions fully in behalf of all minority groups, especially their own. Albama could have killed any possibility of sympathy for the Communist by giving the Scotts boro boys a fair trial and their freedom; should have encouraged race lawyers to appear in the courts in their behalf and meted fair and full justice but instead, they allowed the ILD. to come in, make a fight and thus use this ac tion as a basis to engender the friendship and sympathy of the race. These United States and es pecially the southland, should de mand that Alabama wash this stain from their escutcheon and free the five remaining victims of the Scottsboro fiasco. THE SAME OLD GAME:—It was with amausement that I read in the news the following item: The book “RACE RELATIONS”, by Dr. Charles S. Johnson, and Dr. W. D. Weatherford of Fisk University, has been selected by the advisory board of Oglethorpe University, white school, for inclusion in the “Crypt of Civilization” which will be closed in May and not opened until the year 8113 A. 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Easy to make and inexpens ive too! hattie McDaniel wins ACADEMY AWARD Hollywood, March 6, (ANP) — Hattie McDaniel, who portrayal of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind” was reported by many critics to have stolen the picture, won the annual supporting actress award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here Thursday night. This is the first time a Ne gro film player has been so honor ed. Miss McDaniel was boosted for the coveted award by many nation ally known movie folk and column ists, including Jimmie Fiddler and Hedda Hopper, who said in a syn dicated article shortly before the winner's were announced.— “I believe everyone is delighted that Hattie McDaniel who gave such a superb performance as Mammy in GWTW is up for an Ac ademy award. But I wonder if vou know anything about her his tory? While she was making that picture, they called her in for an hour’s interview to get her biogra phy, but she wound up by spending shots watching her. Because she the day there with most of the big illusctrated her story. ‘‘She’s the 13th child of a Baptist minister, her father had a good bass voice and her mother sang so prano in the church choir. Her1 mother also taught her to cook and she worked at that job in Denver during the time she made her way through the East Denver High school, where she studied dramatic art and public speaking. She got a gold medal there for reciting verses of Paul Dunbar. She crooned over the airways for two years as High Hat Hattie. “Once when she was taking care of the powder room in a Milwaukee cafe, the leading lady of the floor eered-to put over the show. She show fainted, and Hattie volunt did, and from then on the ladies powdered their noses without Hat tie’s assistance. Her success in ‘Showboat’ brought her to Holly wood. And I remember her in Ka therine Hepburn’s ‘Alice Adams’ in which she did a female Stephin Fetchit cook. It was one of the funniest scenes in the picture. She still sings and recites in church. “It must have been fun the last time she passed* through Denver where she started her career as a cook, for they had to call out the Fire and Police departments to hold the crowds back.’’ SAYS ONLY FEW NEGROES HAVE EQUALITY IN FRANCE New York,—Contrary to popular American belief, only a very small section of the French colonial pop ulation is permitted to enjoy the status of citizenship, or even per mitted the enjoyment of elemen tary civil liberties, according to George Padmore, specialist in col onial problems, writing in The Cri sis magazine for March. Mr. Padmore points out that most people, and especially Amer ican Negroes, have been deceived about racial equality in the French empire, because they have based their judgement on the “very min ute’’ section of French Negroes who are granted equality. The French have been more clev er than the English, he declares, in dealing with their dark colonial populations. Like the English, they educate and train a small group of colored people to help them control the masses of Negro subjects. But whereas the Engl ish maintain a color line even a gainst the dark leaders they seem to favor, France embraces this small group and grants it full soc ial equality, including intermarr iage. This policy, with the English and the French, has had the same re sults, namely, iron-clad control of the masses of the darker colonies; but the French have been able to plant the impression throughout the world that they really believe in equality. The Padmore article in The Cri sis entitled “Subjects and Citizens in French Africa’’ declares that France, which has the largest em pire in Africa, has divided its Ne gro people into two classifications, citizens and subjects, and that the vast majority—some sixty million, is made up of subjects who have no citizenship rights. DIVINE FLEES; “HEAVEN” ABLAZE Philadelphia, March 6 (ANP) — Father Divine, cult leader, was forced to flee when fire broke out in a local “heaven” last week. The firemen, Philly’s colored unit were greeted by Divine with “Peace, brothers”. Little damage was done by the blaze, caused by a de fective flue. H-M Buffet 2420 -V. 24th St JA. 88.r,2 Best Chili in Towny Liquors, Lunches 8 Beer THE OMAHA GUIDE SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1940 Published Every Saturday, at 2418 Grant St., Omaha Nebraska. $2.50 per year. 5c single copy. “Entered as second class matter March 18th, 1927 at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. CLASSIFIED ADS HARDWARE DOLGOFF HARDWARE Paint, Glass and Varnish. We do glazing and make window shades to order. 182 N. 24th St. WE. 1607. LAUNDRIES & CI.EAN ERS EDHOI.M & SHERMAN 2401 North 24bh WE. 6065 EMERSON LAUNI)RY~ 2324 North 24th St. WE. 1029 MEN! WOMEN! USE Y<OUR CREDIT to get all the stylish new apparel you need. Great values. 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