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THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WBbster 1517 Entered as Second Class Matter Maocn 15, 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. H. J. Ford, Mrs. Fluma Coopet, — — Vice Pres. C. C. Galloway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway. — Sec’y and Treas. SUSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly in Advance) One Year — — — $2.00 Six Months — — — 1*25 Three Months — — — -60 Single Copy — — — 5c All News Copy of Churches and all organizat ions must be in ou^ office not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre ceprl:ng date of issue, to insure publication EDITORIALS Pioneering A New Field; Metal Arts Company Employs Seven Negro Salesmen Memphis, Aug. 12 (by Lewis 0. Swingler for ANP) Until recently the existence -of a vast commercial market predominantly Negroid in its racial aspect had not been recognized by white business institutions. Negroes themselves were not altogether cogniz ont of the strength they represented in terms of dollars and cents. Here in A merica were more than 12,000,000 peo ple, whose lives, while enextricably woven with the general business condi tions <)f the country, were separate and apart because of the peculiar prac tice these people have developed meth ods of se'lf-sufficienqy-creating a dis tinctive commercial field within the general industrial life of the nation. The growing commercial minded ness of the Negro is beginning to man ifest itself in many respects; especially during this period of economic trials. Young men and women in college are making studies of cqfrrect business proceedures. Today they are beginn ing to learn methods by which doors of work opportunities here-to-fore closed to them are opened. A fine example of this fact is the story behind the employ ment of a Negro sales-force by.Metal Arts Company, Rochester, N. Y., man ufacturer of jewelries. Nearly four years ago, Aaron L. Allen, while a student at Fisk univers ity, Nashville, made a study of comp anies engaged in the manufacture and sale of class rings, pins, keys, invita tions, souvenirs, etc. to Negro schools and Greek letter ocieties. At that time not a single one of these companies em ployed Negroes in the capacity of sales men, altho doing a large business with these institutions ond organizations. Mr. Allen, in his study, revealed that from $15,000 to $30,000 in sales were being made to( Greek-letter organiza tions alone. These facts, coupled with his knowledge of salesmanship, led him to write several manufacturers of jew elries. This was the beginning of a “New Frontier df Employment” for trained, young Negro men. Quoting from a signed article by Mr. Allen in the February, 1939 edition of “The National Educational Out look”, he said, in part:— “Out of more than 30 or 40 replies all of which took the stand that they had a well trained staff of college sal esmen and, even though they did a lot of Negro business, they did not see a necessity of changing their present force just.tb give a Negro a job. Some of the answers were, if you are able to finance yourself in traveling from town to town, soliciting business, we will be willing to supply your custom ers. Ihis was just another nice way of saying that Negro employment was not wanted, for ione can well under stand what it would mean to finance such a business.” Mr. Alien did not become disheart ened. Determined in spirit, he continu ed to make contact with these compan ies; the same firms in many instances. Metal Arts Company, sizing up the sit uation as explained by Mr. Allen, de cided to give it a trial. No “strings attached” to the proposition. 'The young Fiskite was given the full status of a salesman, with financial backing to work in the territory he himself des ignated as a starting point. It was up to him to make good.—to blaze the trail for others. Failure, perhaps, would have muffled another opportunity of this kind for years to come. But Mr. Allen did not fail. Today, Metal Arts company, with in a period of three years, has employ ed seven full-time Negro salesmen, and three part time representatives. The entire force consists of a director of sales who is Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen is a representative of Tennessee, Kentuc ky and Mississippi; other salesmen represent some of the leading colleges of the country. Lonnie F. Briscoe, Le Moyne college, travels in Texas and Louisiana; W. 0. Yarbrough, graduate of Fisk, is a North Carolina represent ative; C. L. Blackwell, Hampton insti tute, former Dean of Thyne1 institute, travels in Virginia and West Virginia District of Columbia, and Maryland; A. S. Spain, A. B. Fisk, M. A, Univers ity of Michigan, representative of Ok lahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Negroes Should Oppose Universal Compulsory Conscription (by A. Philip Randolph) Universal, military, compulsory conscription is unnecessary in times of peace. If enacted by the congress of the United States, it will sound the, death knell of American democracy. It is of the essence of totalitarianism. It means the regimentation /of our social economic and political life. Under it, minority groups will be helpless to pro secute and fight for democratic rights and privileges. Questions of the en actment of the Anti-lynching law, ab.ol ition of the Poll Tax and White Prim aries, supression of the Klu Klux Klan will all be subordinate to the one big cause of American militarism. Universal, compulsory, military conscription will ndt solve the problem of unemployment, but will disrupt the orderly processes of our industrial and economic life. Under it, anybody may be snatched from their jobs, businesses or professions and placed in some mil itary unit under the guise of the nec essity of national defense. It will par alyze and break up the trade union movement, because it will sweep away all the safeguards of collective bargain ing. Strikes will be outlawed, picket ing curbed and the freedom of individ uals to pursue their ways of life will be definitely curtailed and subjected to a militarized political and industrial sys tem. If the Congress ei\icts this Bill for universal, military conscription, it means that the citizen will be subordin ated to the soldier and the voice of the army will be more powerful than that of the ballot. This Bill to conscript the man power of the natidn should be defeat ed. That does not mean that prepared ness is not necesary. The nation should be prepared completely and adequately but the American people should set their faces definitely toward the pres ervation of their social and labor gains opposition to America entering the war and opposition to sending a single sol dier to fight in Europe. But we should mobilize all of our forces to increase the army in size and power through the volunteer system, until it reaches the point satisfactory to American military, air and naval leaders and experts. Moreover, if we censcript labor, we conscript wealth. Mrs. Garret Tookes Lamb, the only daughter of Bishop and Mrs. H. Y. Tookes of Florida, who is spending her vacation in the north and east. Mrs. Lamb heads the department of history at Edward Waters College, Jacksonville. She received her A. B. and M. A. degrees from Howard university and has studied on her doctorate at Oxford University, Lon don. (ANP) SOCIAL NEWS A SON IS BORN A fine son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ingland Harcoimb, 2618 Ersk ine St., last week. They are both doing nicely. TO PITTSBURGH Miss Charlotte Lawson, daught er of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lawson, 2214 North 29th St, left Omaha last Saturday for Pittsburgh, Pa. to visit her aunt Mrs. Nina Colb ert. Charlotte’s stay is indefinite CHICKEN FRY The Mimo Club girtls honored their husbands and friends at a Chicken fry, Monday evening Aug. 5, at Hummel Park and an enjoy able time was had by all those there. Those present were Air. and Mrs. Kenneth Mk>ore, Mr. and Mi's. George Caldwell, Mr. ar.,1 Mrs. Bowley Miller, Mr. and Mrs Edward Anthony, Jr., Miss Mabel Thomas, Mir. Ebb Barrier, Mrs. Ed na Thomas. The next meeting of tjhe club will be held at the home of Olivia Anthony. Hattie Mooi“ President. Hazel Mliller secretary, Mabel Thomas, Treasurer, Olivia Anthony, Reporter. Grand Jury Terms Negro Flogging ‘Outrageous’ Spartanburg, S .C., Aug. 8 (A NP)—The Spart-angu'g grand jury termed the flagging of four innocent Negroes here last week as “outrageous”. The grand jury said in part in its presentment “We have no place in oar’ comm unity for this kind of lawlessness It is never justifiable flor hooded and robed men to take the law in to their hands”. The jury urged citizens of the county to cooperate with the po lice "in an effort to bring to jus tice that band of hooded and rob ed men, who, in the night time took advantage of innocent Ne g'*oes and beat them unmercifully Shortly after the presentment of the grand jury, circulars ap peared on the street here defeid ing the action of the floggers. Captioned in huge letters. the cir culars mentioned the alleged at tack of a white girl by a young Negito agout a week ago. In this case, in no way connected with the floggin of the four Negroes, the girl stated that she was not hanm:«d and a medical examination also revealed that she was un hartmed. ' The usual klan method when the authorities are close on thein trail was evidenced in this case. A Ne gro is usually falsely accused of rape to distract attention from their own crime and to justify their action. The action of the grand jury has undoubtedly cheat ed fear in the klan ranks. For the first time here a grand jury has pledged tq bring to justice hooded night riding bands. C C C Becomes National Defense Unit Washington, D. C., (C) In order to transform the CCC. ‘‘fiOimi a re lief agency into a true service or ganisation, capable of supplying the needs of this country in mat ters of national defense and indus trial rehabilitation’* officibfe of the Civilian Conservation Corps nave opened its enrollment *o col lege bpys Kvhose families are in the moderate income group. Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Ad iministratar announced the modif ication last week. NORTH24*ST SHOE REPAIR 1807 N. 24th St. WE. 4240 YOU CAN’T TELL THEY ARE REPAIRED— BECAUSE OUR INVISIBLE HALF SOLEING METHOD "leaves No Repair Look” ON YOUR SHOES. 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