THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418 20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WBbster 1517 Entered as Second Class Matter Match 15, 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. H. J. Ford” — — ~ Pres Mrs. Fluma Cooped — — Vlce Pies C. C. Galloway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway. •- Sec’y and Treas. SUSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly in Advance) One Year v — — “ ?2'^ Six Months — 1,25 Three Months — — — Single Copy — — 6c All News Copy of Churches and all organisat 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, pro ceeding date of issue, to insure publication EDITORIALS CALLENGE TO YOUTH As they return to colleges and high schools fo|r the full term ot grim 1940, America’s adolescent boys and girls have understandable f,o'r doubt ing the future, doubting the value of sincere effort, doubting the worth of ideals. They have grown up as children in a nation beset by economic depres sion, and as they prepare to enter upon manhood and womanhood, the shadow of war spreads omniously. What solid ground remains upon which to build for usefulnes, security and happiness? It is a pity that all American youth could not have heard, with new students at the University lof Californ ia, the mighty challenge of the times as voiced by President Rcjbert Gordon Sproul; the challenge that never has this nation been more desperately and deeply in need of tolerance, earnest ness, willingness to sacrifice, and fid elity to democratic ideals on the part of her youth. This nation, declared rresictent Sproul, “has shown an alarming tend ency to grow soft while the rest of the world growls hard. American citizens young as well as did, will have to de vote less energy to insisting to the last iota of their rights and privileges, and more energy to the duties of cooperat ive citizenship, or the democracy in which we live will either disintegrate like a cracked flywheel or be destroyed by more powerful and consecrated peo pies. If you are not as much interested in the welfare of others and in the pre servation of democratic ideals as you are in yourself and yiour pet causes and if you are not sufficiently concerned with the unity of this nation during a crisis to forego promoting dissension, then you have no business at the Uni versity of America.” Upon the manner in which youth meets that challenge, depends the fate of America in the mot distant future. And upon the mariner in which the vast majority of Americans of all ages meet it now, may depend the fate of Ameri ca on a surprisingly near tomorrow. * MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK The American People, fully a wake to the menace to our institutions are willing to make any conceivable economic sacrifice in the name of lib erty and security. But that does not mean that people are going to be sat isfied with mere bills appropriating money and raising taxes. They are going to make sure that tax money spent produces results that bureau cratic red tape is cut, waste reduced, delay avoided. It is one thing to appropriate bil lions. It is another thing to translate these billions into airplanes and artil lery and fighting ships. Any one can vote to spend taxes, but will be a dark day for this country if politics are per mitted to dominate the actual job of making our needed weapon^. The wisest industrial and economic states manship is vital. Speed, efficiency and economy are the essentials. This is the time to make democr acy work. America’s capacity to pro duce is limitless, the genius for achieve ment has proven itself too often in oth er crisis to be doubted a single second now. And that genius must be freed of the political shackles that have been welded on to it in recent years. TOO MUCH KNIFE WIELDING While it is the function of a news paper to mirror the news, it is hardly creditable to any group and far from our delight to chronicle day after day ir^tances in which knives are drawn into play by certain elements among us. In some cases the stabbings prove fatal and there are bereaved mothers and dependent children and almost on every hand, shades of sorrow. Human life is far too precious and our inhabitants represent too much of an investment for such wan ton waste of life for trivial reasons. In some cases there are thiose who whip out the knife after losing at a “skin” game; others include fracases tangent to some imagined love affair in which jealously plays a major part. Still, old man “corn” takes his toll where the drinkers assemble. We could go on and oit enumerating the causes of much of this crime and wan ton outlawry without reaching any ' plane of horiorable justification or naming those who look for life’s high er ideals. From time to time the suggestion of the appointment -of ma(re police to patrol the places has been made. It has been suggested by many of the crimes committed in the open could be obviated if wte had proper police pro tection. It would not hold that police can stop by themselves the great crime wave now before the people. This condition calls for every law abiding man and woman to enlist in a campaign to help run to cover lawless ness and immoral places wherever they exist. On the other hand there is something for the schools, churches and civic organizations to do. In spite of the fine work df the schools and the teaching from the church, we have an element bent on going along the way of lawlessness. The basic principles for the cure of lour trouble cannot be legislated or policed into the people. OUR PEOPLE NEED TRAINING and the development of those res traints that of themselves are the great est police forces. A people, with little or no education, no local prestige and nothing at stake can afford to disgrace itself without feeling any loss. In many places where our busin esses are located, it is no uncomon thing to see the professional loafer, the meddler and the idler engaging in' ugly conversations audiable bo any one pass ing, often to everlasting regret and chagrin. This is the class which upon the least provocation, will whip out a gun or knife and proceed before the passing guests. Our people need training. Most of the crime is done by the younger group. These have left the churches, the schools and homey firesides. We must get them back there ore we are doomed. Legislation does not make morals. Crime will decrease with the rais ing of a better living and training stanr dard at home. READ THE GUIDE DARK HUMOR by ray willis “Cheer up’—Brotha’ —After All it rwlas one of tha finest weddin’s I eber went to.” rv \ r-1 _ONE OF-SIX B-^ I l &SK&33&9 UAPPY PUPEQT DOMIN-ATfJ) C.I.A.A. FQ6T- .Ur** ^ I | gflLU^owiuq PAsr H YerxZS" CHmVlOHS IN 1936,1930JIM /G>/ \TWrf - WQmm STAT£ &UEQ£ - He Ojas Developed _ IIJTO a CfcEflT LlN£*VW **^**-—^ <6f -RU6S FlN£T£RuJAUD. OHIO CCACR AiT THAT TlMB flwo at prjFVSOt a 8i£r'rew Fccne^ui. O^FlQiAu. XviovT-isL Wo-K I' Y° Hl'J'ReCoSD PoR 6'PEABS Ci* •:a rtcKmc HIE 1940 VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE— Home Games (Played on Rog sr’s Field. Ettr'ck Virginia, 2 pm.) October 5, Bluefield; October 19 Howard; October 26 (Homecom ing) Hampton; November 9, W. Va. 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