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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1940)
• • • PRICE—5 CENTS Per Copy • •• THE WEATHER Weather Outlook for the Period April 8 to April 13. Upper Mississippi Valley and Northern Great Plains, generally fair after Monday until latter part of week when precipitation period likely; temperatures will average near seasonal normals. • •• LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY Entered as Second CUas Matter at Poet Office. Omaha. Nebr., under Act of March 8. 1874. SATCRDAY. APRIL l.'l, 19+0 OUR 13th YEAR-NlllTlber 4 Busmens Phone WE. 1S17 ■MrainiHiMmHiimwMiiiHiiiiuMiKiinwiiiiiiHiinnfHMWiniitiiiiHnui EDITORIAL OPINION OF THE Negro I Press ni!!!iilly!!l!llllilH!)l!ll!ll1llllllil!llll!!:!ll|l!llll!ll||||||!ll!lillilll!lllll!llllllllilllllllllll • •• RAW DEAL BY THE NEW DEALERS Postmaster General James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democra tic National Committee and a can didate for the Democratic nomina tion for President, made a St. Pat rick’s Day radio address, one para graph of which has attracted wide attention and comment. Mr. Farley said: “We have never permitted the ideals of this Republic to sink to a point where any father and mother regardless of race, color or creed cannot look proudly into the cradle of their new-born babe and see a future President of the United States.” Fine talk, indeed; but here in Washington, Postmaster Burke laughs to scorn when Negro post office employees call on him in per son for preferment or promotion. Along the same lines, the New York Age this week makes editor ial comment as follows: NEGROES IN THE POST OFFICE A group of prominent Chica goans held a conference recently with Postmaster Ernest gen, of the Windy City, to lay be fore him a bill of particulars point ing out numerous instances in which Negroes in the local postal service have been denied merited advancement and promotion as clerks and carriers, also that Ne groes are not being added to the service in the same proportion as other racial groups. The Chica goans claim that they have lost four foreman and men in supervi sory positions in the last ten years, and these men have not been re placed. There is a similar situation in New York. A veteran employee of the General Post Office here told the Age recently that there had been very few, if any, promotions of Negroes in the past few years, and that when a Negro employee who is in a supervisory capacity dies, resigns, or is fired, he is us ually replaced by an employee of some other racial group. Knowing Postmaster Albert Goldman as we have for a number of years and of his fairness in the Negro, we cannot believe that he is responsible for this policy of the Post Office Department in gradu ally eliminating the Negro. We are forced to the conclusion that the Postmaster General and some of his Southern executives in Washington are responsible. Negro leaders in all parts of the country would do well to check on the number of postal employees of their race in the service eight years ago, as compared with those now employed, and if our impression is correct that there has been a substantial decrease, the matter should be called to the attention of authorities at Washington. • •• How, we ask, can Mr. Farley be sincere in his lofty and democratic ideal that every baby—regardless of race, creed or color—is a poten tial President of the United States, when in Mr. Farley’s own depart ment—the Post Office—discrimin ation and prejudice are allowed to run riot? GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD APPROPRIATES $1,250 FOR RURAL EDUCATION Prairie View, Texas, April 11 (ANP)—In a recent telegram, W. W. Brierly advised Principal W. R. Banks that $1,350 has been ap propriated to Prairie View State college by the General Education board, for training 50 teachers in rural education. Courses of instruction have been planned at the college to be offer ed during the summer session be Biggest Crowd In History Nears Tuskegee Exercises -0 ACE SALESWOMAN CAN NEITHER HEAR OR TALK Miss Verneda Wells, a living example of “It Can Be Done.” Al though deaf and itnmb slnefc the age of 5, Miss Wells, 24, earns an independent living for herself through her ability as representa tive of the Fuller Products com pany, Chicago, where she is top saleswoman, earning more than $100 per month. Rising from a $5 a week factory job to her present position, Miss Wells’ life is an in spiration of individual triumph over seemingly insurmountable ob stacles. (ANP) ginning June 3. The courses will be offered to promising rural teachers from four southern states as follows Arkan sas 10; Louisiana 10; Oklahoma 8; and Texas 22. The courses in rural Education will include orientation, community forum, rural confmunity, health and recreation. Principal Banks is carefull plan ning the schedules so as to meet the needs of teachers in active ser vice in rural public schools of the southern states, on graduate and undergraduate levels. LEWIS MAKES BID FOR SUP PORT OF NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS IN THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT Mononghala, West Va.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mines Workers of America and leader of more than four million organized workers under the ban ner of the CIO in a militant ad dress delivered here last week to more than 20,000 Negro and white coal miners made a definite bid for the ^support of the National Negro Congress and other Negro organizations in an effort to launch a Third Party in the 1940 elec tions if both the Republicans and Democratic Parties fail to nomin ate candidates acceptable to the Negro and labor vote. Commenting on the breakdown of vital social services during the past year Mr. Lewis declared that labor, youth, the small farmer and the Negro People had a com mon need to unite their forces to insist that the federal government take effective means to solve the problem of unemployment and other pressing social problems, such as health, housing, and edu cation. The labor leader in a vigorous speech lashed out against increased appropriations for the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. He called attention to the fact that this in creased appropriation was being used to develop an oppressive labor spy system under the leadership I' . 150.00 PIECES OF MAIL SER VICED AND CANCELLED AS WASHINGTON STAMP GOES ON SALE WITH STIRRING EXERCISES Tuskegee Institute, Aprli 11— (ANP)—Before the largest crowd of visitors which has attended an event at Tuskegee institute since the 50th anniversary celebration years ago, Postmaster General James A. Farley, delivered the an nual Founder’s Day address here Sunday, and launched the first day sale of Booker T. Washington stamps. Notables from every sec tion of the country, white and col ored, were in attendance during the crowded two days of ceremon ies which included, besides the Founder’s Day celenration, the an nal meeting of the Board of Trus tees, the dedication of the new U. S. Extension Service building and the opening of the John A. Andrew clinic which brought 200 physicians to Tuskegee. A coast to coast broadcast heard the Founder’s Day exercises when President F. D. Patterson spoke, Roland Hayes sang, the famous Cont. on p. 3 ROOSEVELT HAILS OBJECTIVE OF NAT’L NEGRO CONGRESS Washington, April 11—In a let ter addressed to A. Philip Ran dolph, president of the National Negro Congress, President Frank lin D. Roosevelt hailed the forth coming Third National Negro Con gress to be held here in the United States Department of Labor Au ditorium April 26-28. The complete text of the Presi dent’s letter follows: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON March 29, 1940 Deal- Mr. Randolph: It gives me pleasure to send greetings to another great and representative gathering of Ne gro citizens at the Third Nation al Negro Congress. This is a time in the history of the world and in the history of our own na tion when the wisdom of the whole people is more than ever needed if common problems are to be solved. Because of confusion and un rest it is now more than ever important that the place of a minority group in a democracy not be obscured by ignorance and prejudice. It is important that members of a minority group con sider together their special prob lems in order that these prob lems may find expression for the benefit of all. It is of even great er importance that the whole peo ple consider with open and sym pathetic mind these problems of the minority in order that the processes of democracy may work to bring about their solution. For it is obvious that the political, social and economic well-being of the whole people depends upon the achievement of that well-be ing for all sections of the popu lation of color, creed or geogra phy. Very sincerely yours, Franklin Roosevelt Mr. A. Philip Randolph, President Nat’l Negro Congress 717 Florida Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. of G-man Edgar Hoover. Referring to his previous offer to the American Youth Congress for unity with the CIO, Mr. Lewis indicated that he would make the same offer for close cooperation with the National Negro Con gress which he is to address in Washington on April 26 at the Third National Negro Congress meeting. Nebraska's Choice For Republican Standard Bearer Thomas E. Dewey New York City—The position of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate for the President, on an ti-lynching legislation is contained in a letter he wrote to the National Association of Colored people last year. In it he declared, addressing Mr. Walter White, Secretary of the Association: “Your determined campaign to end lynching would aid our government in fulfilling its obligation to secure to all citizens the right to life.” The same letter contains Mr. Dewey’s stand on the color issue in American life. “Your efforts,” he wrote to Mr. White, “to effect those changes in our social and economic organi zation which will ultimately bring about true racial equality will lessen the constant need for special leg islation and obviate the necessity for creating by statute a special category for those of different color or race.” An even more definite and fearless stand on the Negro was taken by Mr. Dewey during March of this year when he was interviewed in Washingon. Asked to comment on his stand in reference to segre gation in Washington he asserted: “I have no fear of Washington prejudice and I would not abandon my policy of making appoint ments regardless of race, creed or color if elected to the Presidency. The world is growing more open mind ed and the intolerant man is eventually destroyed by his own intolerance.” In the same interview Mr. Dewey added : “When I took office as special prosecutor (in New York) colored people had been used from time to time, but had been called deputy assistants. But I found no reason to use these petty subterfuges as long as they could do the work.”
