COLORED OLD FOLKS HOME
The residents at the home thank
•,he Zion Junior church for the love
ly Easter afternoon made possible
by the nice program they render
id and also the beautiful basket of
Easter Eggs, candies, little rabbits
and chickens and lovely Easter lil
ly presents by little Evelyn Rog
ers, who made such a grand pres
entation speech.
We also thank Mr. Taylor of
the Ritz theatre for the beautiful
basket of potted plants sent us.
-We appreciate it so much.
MR. WALTER WYNN PASSES
Mr. Walter Wynn of New York
City, brother of Mrs. Bessie Kirby
2203 Grant St., died Sunday Mar.
31. His funeral will be held Wed.,
April 3. He lived here for 20
years, but the last few years he
made his home in New York city.
He leaves a wife Belle Wynn,
sister Bessie Kirby, aunt, Alice
Arcee and a number of cousins.
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Unredeemed Quality Merchandise
at a Great Reduction. Up-to-date
Clothing. Dry Goods. Ladies Ready
to Wear Millinery, Hosiery, Blank
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EDNA HASTEN
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MRS. BRUCE DONALD
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REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL
COMMUTE E W
April 9th
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MUCH BETTER
Mrs. Cora Jackson, 2536 Hamil
ton St., who has been confined to
her bed for a month is much im
proved. friends all wish her
to be up and out again soon.
OBITUARY OF MR. JAMES Mc
CLA1M
One from the neighborhood has
gone;
To reap his just reward;
And while his body molts in the
grave;
His soul is safe with God.
On Saturday morning, March 16,
1940, the chariot for eternity stop
ped by, and James McClaim step
ped on board for that Celestial City
of God, where there is nothing but
rest, peace and joy.
James McClaim was a kind and
loving neighbor, and a devoted and
loving husband,
111 health had made inroads on
his body which kept him confined
to his home most of the time, nev
ertheless, he smiled through it all,
and greeted the neighbors with a
smile, and pleasant, "Howdy-do.”
He was cheerful until the end,
and had no fear of death, but met
it with a smile, and when it came;
he was ready and willing to go.
James McClaim was born in Mid
land, Tennessee on December 6,
1878, to Solomon and Ellen Mc
Claim, and remained there until he
was 21 years of age, after which he
moved to Adairsville, Kentucky,
where he made his home for a
number of years, then moved to j
Topeka, Kansas, and from there
came to Omaha, Nebraska with
Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Loomis with'
whom he worked for a number of
years.
He was a licensed fireman, a job j
that he held for a number of years j
until his health failed him, and he
was forced to give up this job. j
He was a member of Zion Bap- i
tist Church, and departed this life j
on Saturday morning Marc^ 16th, I
1940 at 10:45 a m. at u local hos
pital and was laid to rest in Pros
pect. Hill Cemetery from the Myers
Mortuary, with Rev. F. CL Will-1
tarns officiating.
He leaves to mourn his passing,
a wife, Emma McClaim.
Two daughters, Edith Ransom,
Detroit, Michigan, and Katherine
McClaim, Chicago, 111.
Two brothers, William McClaim !
of Jeffersonville, Indiana and Joe!
McClaim of Cleveland, Ohio.
Two sisters, Mrs. Leah Cook,
Springfield, Tennessee, and Mrs.
Susie Summers, Louisville, Ken
turkv.
Pour nephews, Waller anil wil
liam McClaim, Jeffersonville, In
diana, Ralph McClaim, Topeka,
Kansas and lawman McClaim, De
troit, Michigan.
Six nieces, Mrs. Ida Townson,
ami Mrs. Vancie Thomas, Jefferson
ville, Indiana. Mrs. Eula Rock
well, Louisville, Kentucky. Miss
Jean McClaim, and Mrs. Costello
(loina, Detroit, Michigan. Mrs.
Dorothy Stanton, Washington, D.
C. and a host of friends to mourn
Jobs For
| Everyone!
Chat's what we need to put
us on our feet. And that's
I what a sensible Utt>ublic«A ad
ministration will try to bring
about in a sound, planned pro
gram for recovery.
BUT
Until those jobs are created.
I favor a well-managed relief
program to care for the needy
in a proper manner.
Vote for
HUGH BUTLER
Republican for
U. S. SENATOR'
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(Formerly Herman’s Market)
2422 NORTH ‘24th ST. Telephone WE-5444
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Francis b. v.ivers (.eft) a id Jumea M. \eargin, . .osistant L»ia
t iet i Itorneya i li t t aft ( I •'! honiaa i.. i.. ewey, .istrirt
Attorney c.’ New tark County and leading candidate lor toe
cpuolican nomination for President.
his passing.
Mrs. Thos. H. Goodwin,
918 North 27th St.
Omaha, Nebraska.
THE ETHIOPIANS
With all (hit* reipect to the Col
ored students of history, I cannot
swallow the “Cock and Bull story”
they serve as to Negroes in ancient
medieval and modern history. The
whites ruddy races as John Clark
Ridpath calls them have been
dominant in Europe less than 500
years. In preceding ages as far
back as authentic or conjectural
history reach, the world was ruled
by races neither white or Colored.
The Flthiopians were originally a
mythical race. The Greeks claim
ed kin with them. Homer in the
Illiad tells how Memnon Prince of
Ethiopia, son of Aurora and the
Dawn-titular deities of Ethiopia—
assisted the Greeks in the seige of
Troy. A lot of their heroes were
hung up in the skies as stars
Bephas, Bassiope, Andromeda, and
the Seven Sisters, one of whom
married a mortal hid her face in
shame, so we don’t see but si*. Her
odutus, who travelled in Ethiopia
and Egypt, described the Ethiop
ians as tall and dark with long
straight black hair.”.
A better description of the lute
Janies K. Vardanian is impossible
in words. The term ‘dark’ as us
ed in ancient, classical or any lit
erature pitched above the vulgar
plane, mean* black hair, brown eyes
and complexion light (all colors)
meeting black, no colors. South
ern Europe, all of Asia, ami North
Africa, may be considered as being
Colored or dark races for at least
the past 1,000 years. 40 years a
go or more, the bust of Hannibal in I
Collier and Daniels first latin book
looked like H. G. Wells, while the
oust ot sctpio Afncanus looked like
Touissant L’ Overture' brother. The
African family is divided into three
muin divisions, namely, Bantu, Hot
tentote and Negroid. Dr. Dubois
claims Bt.otu origin, so you see
Bantu Must Be the Highest Type.
You cannot choose your immediate
forebears but you have quite a bit
of freedom in selecting ancestors
in the corridors of antiquity. Most
of our old folks came from the Ne
groid branch for the simple reas
on they were the easiest to catch.
I wouldn’t feel like a “burgers baby
scared by a scolding name,” whom
you came from is unimportant.,
Where you are going to means ev
erything. According to biology
Ann Sheridan was once a Possum,
tree shrew and spectral tarier and
to go back to a dateless age of 0-0.
she was a gas ring “oomphing”;
through atom and the void.
Homer A. McCraney, Sr.
SOUTH TEXAS MEAT SHOW |
WINS PRAISE
HOUSTON, April 4 (ANP) —
with more than 1000 exhibits of
home cured meat and 700 displays
of other foods, the South Texas
Meat Show came to a close recently
after a successful two-day run dur
ing which time 3000 persons viewed
the exhibits. The show, sponsored
by the white and Negro Chamber
of Commerce and directed by the1
Negro Extension Service, showed,
remarkable progress in farm meth
ods, according to agricultural offic
ials attending the exhibition.
A feature of the show was the
“live at home” rally writh H. H.
Williamson, director of Texas Ex
tension Service, J. W. Rice, execu
tive secretary of the Colored Tea
chers State Association, and C. H.
Waller, state leader of Negro ex
tension work, speakers.
Among the smoked meat contest
winners were: M. H. Callahan and
S. Merriweather, 1st and 2nd prize
winners for hams; E. A. Viola and
John Truitt, winners for prize
shoulders; G. M. Rolligan; E. C.
Columbus; E. Blackshear; P. Heart
Calvin s Newspaper Service f
TESTED RECIPE |
—By France* Lee Barton—*
PLACE one hundred and twenty
eight square Inches of tti'T
sugar crumb coffee cake before
your family and
watcn tne raeca
. light up. Sounds
' like a big cake,
doesn't it? Well!
It only requires
-an 8 x 8 x 2-lnch
pan, at that.
Sugar Crumb
Coffee Cake
1 Vi. cups sifted cake flour; 1%
teaspoons double - acting baking
powder; 14 teaspoon salt.; 3 table
spoons butter or other shortening;
Vj cup sugar; 1 egg, unbeaten;
6 tablespoons milk; 114 tablespoons
butter; 4 tablespoons cake flour;
2 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar;
dash of salt; 14 teaspoon cinna
mon; few drops of almond extract;
14 cup chopped walnut meats.
Sift flour once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, and sift
again. Cream butter, add sugar
gradually, creaming well. Add egg
and beat until light and fluffy. Add
flour, alternately with milk, a small
amount at a time. Beat after each
addition. Turn into greased 8 x 8 x
2-inch pan. Cream butter well.
Sift together flour, sugar, salt, and
cinnamon; add to butter. Add
almond extract and nuts and blend.
Sprinkle over cake mixture. Bake
In moderate oven (360* F.) 30
minutes, or until done. Serve warm.
Or bake In greased deep 9-Inch
layer pan In moderate oven (376*
F.) X minutes, or until done.
K. Holland; I. Thompson; and
Dave Clark. First and second
prize winners in the contest for
lard, boiled soap, cold water soap,
eggs „nci sausage u'c’-e: Amelia
Johnson, Mary Jones, Fiancis Tru
itt, Lula Thomas, Grade Winn, D.
R. Wilson, Jettie Dukes, Mtry Hen
derson, Gussie Viola and Irene A1
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TAKING ACTIVE PART
RALPH E. MIZELLE
Assistant solicitor of the U. S. Post
Office Department at Washington,
D. C. lauded President J. R. E. Lee
of Florida State college, in the
Founder’s Day address last week.
Mr. Mizelle is taking an active part
in the development of the Booker
T. Washington stamp celebration.
(ANP)
RALPH E. MIZELLE VISITS
CHICAGO
CHICAGO. April 4 (ANP) Ralph
E. Mizelle, Assistant Solicitor for
the United States Post office, vis
ited here this week on his tour of
principal cities to develop interest
in the Booker T. Washington stamp
issue, which will be honored by Ne
groes throughout the country April
7. Mr. Mizelle, who reported find
ing great interest in the Washing
ton stamp, said:
“Negroes will be responsible for
a large share of the success of the [
first United States postage stamp
to bear the likeness of a colored
man. Indications now are that they j
will live up to the same race loyal- j
ty which made the name of Booker ;
■T. Washington the symbol of hon-.
or it is today.
“The Washington stamp may be
used as a special delivery stamp,
Mr. Mizelle said, as well as on par
cel post mail requiring ten cents or
more postage, and expressed the
hope that it would be used in this
way and as a collector’s item.
MIDDLEWEST GREETS DEWEY
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 4 (ANP) ;
Thomas E. Dewey came to St. |
Louis and the middle- west this
week and colored voters were am- 1
ong the most enthusiastic in the j
crowds gathered to greet him. The i
tremendously busy day spent here j
Wednesday found some colored rep
resentatives at every gathering.
Constable Billy Moran was a mem
ber of the reception committee. i
Mrs. Sabra Parker and Mrs. An
nie McKindra, presidents of local
republican clubs, were on hand at
the Statler Hotel meeting, Wednes
day morning. At the luncheon for
Mrs. Dewey at the DeSoto Hotel,
among those who dined were Mrs.
Lillian Baker, Mrs. Naomi Oldham,
Mrs. Maud Oswald, Mrs. Sabra
Parker and Mrs. Luella Shobe.
Later Mr. Dewey met with a prof
essional group which included Sid
ney Redmond, president of the Na
tional Bar association; Atty. Silas
E. Garner, Harvey Tucker, presi
dent of Mound City Bar association
Nathan Sweets, manager, St. Louis
American and Dr. Robert Scott of
Mound City, 111.
The largest colored gathering
was at a round table gathering ar
ranged by Mrs. Eunice Hunton
Carter, assistant to the candidate,
at the Statler hotel at 2:00 p. m.,
when Mr. Dewey talked informally
and frankly upon various questions
propounded by members of the
group.
Among those present were Mrs.
Luella Shobe, committeewoman of
the 6th ward; Mrs. R. S. McWhor
ter, Mrs. Henrietta M. Davis, pres
ident Woman’s Home and Foreign
Missionary Society of the AME*Z.
church; Mrs. Beulah Ellis, member
Republican state committee! Lang
ston Harris, committeeman 6th
ward; Dr. Leroy Dabbs, Josiah C.
Thomas, Atty. Chas. C. Calloway
of Kansas City, Atty. J. A. Davis,
Dr. T. A. Curtis, Dr. C. M. Long,
pastor Central Baptist Church, J.
C. Campbell, Dr. James M. Bracey,
First Baptist church; Mrs. C. K.
Robinson, Mrs. W. C. Gordon Sr.,
aunt of Mrs. Carter of Mr. Dewey’s
staff; N. B. Young, editor of St
Louis American; Dr. R. C. Haskell,
Dr. G. J. Dixon, Mrs. Sabra Parker,
committeewoman 5th ward; Mrs.
Lillian Baker, committeewoman 16
ward; Mrs. Naomia Oldham, com
mitteewoman 23rd ward; Mrs. S.
P. Stafford, Edward White, vice
president, Young Republican Club;
Mrs. M. T. Oswald, committeewom
an 20th ward; Rev. William Mun
ger and E. N. Davis of St. Louis,
American.
The group expressed themselves
as being impressed with Candidate
Dewey’s openness, frank manner
and eppreciation of problems which
confront the Negro group in Amer
ica.
Warner Is
Vindicated
—The Greater Nebraskan
His Position on Major Issues in
His Campaign for Governor in
1938 Fully Vindicated by
the 1939 Legislature
1C has.,/. Warner
Friends of Hon. Chas. J. Warner all over Nebraska are
getting a lot of satisfaction in the triumphant vindication of his
position on the major issues of the campaign of 1938, in the light
of the way those issues were dealt with in the 1939 legislative
session, including some rather vibrant echoes of those issues in
the special session that has just closed.
The shifting position of Nebraska’s present governor on
the extra one cent per gallon in the gas tax, in contrast to the
consistent position of Mr. Warner on that issue, is interesting to
notice. It will be recalled that the governor has had three sep
arate and distinct positions on that issue in as many legislative
sessions. Starting with the legislature of 1935, one full cent per
gallon was added to the gas tax, all of which vvith the approval of
the governor, was to be applied to the old age assistance program.
In the 1937 legislative session, he recommended cutting off three
fifths of this extra cent and applying it to the road program. This
split in the gas tax brought on an acrimonious debate in the leg
islature with the result that a 50-50 split in the extra cent was
finally arrived at as a compromise. The governor’s next move
in the 1939 legislative session, was to voluntarily repudiate his
previous position on the application of the extra cent in the gas
tax, by recommending that three-fourths of the cent he applied
to the assistance program, but the legislature went him one better
by putting the full extra cent of the gas tax on the assistance fund,
as it was back in 1935 before Cochran started tampering vvith it.
Charlie Warner’s position in this matter has remained un
changed and consistent throughout. He favored the full cent
when he was a member of the senate in the last bicameral session
and supported the full cent when he was speaker in the first uni
cameral session in 1937. He also strongly emphasized the restor
ation of the full cent of the gas tax for old age assistance when he
was campaigning for the governorship in 1938 and the legislature
of 1939 vindicated that position by a unanimous vote less than a
year ago and he carried an overwhelming number of counties in
the state where he explained his position on that issue in the 1938
campaign.
Considering the fact that there were three candidates for
governor in the field in 1938, Cochran was a minority choice to
the tune of nearly 60,000 votes, even though he was elected by a
small plurality. This situation when read between the lines,
doubtless explains why the governor has developed this sudden
anxiety' to “do something” for the old people at this time and hence
this grand gesture of convening the legislature in special session
on the unique discovery that there is a large “estimated” bal
ance available for appropriation to supplement the assistance
fund. Just how much this will turn out to he, is a growing ques
tion, hut these old age recipients of assistance cast many thousands
of votes in Nebraska and it goes without saying that in the April
primary, Cochran will be sorely in need of those votes.
v cm
The present questionable tactics of playing hide and seek
with the old age assistance vote would hardly be employed as an
expedient at this time if the sage advice of veteran legislators like
I Charles J. Warner had been followed.
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