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THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418 20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WEbster 1617 Entered as Second Class Matter Match 16. 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. H. J. Ford~ — — — Pres. Mrs. Flurna CoopeT, — — Vice Pies. 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 — — — 6c 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, pro ceeding date of issue, to insure publication BETWEEN THE LINES— by Dean Gord m B. Hancock for ANP EIN KAMPF Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” has startl ed the world. In it he sets forth his dreams iof a new world order wherein the Germanic people will be the regn ant peoples of the world. As a social prophet Hitler made certain predict ions which if fulfilled will fill the world with great woes. Step by step Hitler moves towards the consummation pre dicted in his Mein Kampf and step by step the world moves nearer to the brinks of destruction. Hitlerism is proving a scourge to the smaller nations of the earth and a threat to the mighty ones. The very foundation of Britain’s mighty empire, is trembling and our own United Stat es of America is being weighed in the balances lof time; and woe unto us if we are found wanting. The most pres sing matter before this nation today is to snap out of an indifference and lethargy and money grabbing and real ize that “MEIN KAMPF” lies before us. ! Only our supremest efforts will save our great and mighty nation! Our isolationists and pacificists have sung their siren songs of peace until the hour of our doom is nigh at hand. The holding-out power of the British may save us; but it will be merely by the J prove^biaj hair-breath. With Nazi-in j spired strikes brooding here and there 1 in the defense industries and with the Nazi-filled industries being crippled in a hundred ways, Uncle Sam needs to take some positive and summary meas ures if we are going to cpme through with out national hide intact. mi i• • • 1 • 1 I ine question in my iiimu is nuw long before Urfcle Sam will realize that for every Nazi in industry there are ten Negroes who can be trusted with out fears or qualms? How long will this country let race prejudice stand between them and that internal secur ity that is more and more a pressing problem? How long will the Negroes’ true and tried patriotism be rewarded with a scant recognition, while f oreign traitors threaten destruction to a coun try that takes them to its bosom? How long before dear Uncle Sam will see the futility and danger of excluding from strategic industries Negijoes who can be trusted while bundists and com munists enjoy the richest fruits of our great land? How long will America’s finest patriots famish with hunger while its enemies enjoy its richest op portunities? A nation that cannot see straight in times like these need not hope for great success. If Ge/rmany had such loyal patriots in Germany we may rest assured that Hitler would use them to the greatest advantage. The Negroes are this nati n’s only super-patriots, and just whether our country is going to use them to the 'fullest advantage mm' the deciding factor in this conn try’s survival as a democracy. If a Calvin’s Digest BY L. BAYNARD WHITNEY LOVE AND GIVE—People and the Lord love a cheerful giver. We come now to the Gift Season of the year when, for a brief interval we doff our mantle of selfish getting and wear the royal robe of bene factor. The gift without the giver is bare; we dis cern no heavenly radiance there. But the giver adds that radiance rare whicih brightens our dull lives everywhere. At this blessed season we pass on to you a scintallating extract from a Sixteenth Century let ter penned by the wise Fra Giovanni. It expresses the Spirit which this column would convey to you at this time. *'I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got; but there is. much, very much, that while 1 cannot give it, you can take.’’ “No heaven can come to us unless our hearts rest in today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future wfiich is not hidden in thi8 present little in stant. Take Peace! WORLD'S GLOOM A SHADOW “The gloom in the world is but a shadow. Behind it yet within our reach is JOY. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see it— and to see we have only to LOOK. I beseech you to LOOK." “Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging iCs gifts by its covering, cast it away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and touch the Angel’s hand that brings it to you. Ev erything we call trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that Angel’s hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing Presence. Our joys too: be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.” “Life i8 so full of Meaning and Purpose, so full of Beauty—beneath is Life’s covering—thal you will find earth buj cloaks heaven. Coinagte then, to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrimage togethef, wending, through unknown country home. “And so, at this Christmas time we greet you. Not quite as the world send8 greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shad ows flee away.” ---—-w nation becomes so morally unsound as |o refuse to use its best in the very best way, that nation is threatened with de struction. When prejudice is put a head of a nation’s safety and security we may listen for that nation^ swan song. In other words that nation that minimizes true patriotism and magni fies false values canrtot hope to over throw so powerful a movement as Hit lerism. One of the great disgraces of this nation is that a conference at Hamp ton must be held to decide how to use the nation’s most patriotic citizens. As it is, because of blood ties with Europe it is hard to tell when a true American or a Nazi is being given a place of trust when a white man is being given a place. The Negro has no European ties and wheriever a Negro goes on a jiob a hundred per cent American is on that job! In a crisis a nation needs such assurance. What is the point in hoping and praying for true Americans when mil lions of Negroes are standing by wait ing for the word? The Negso must not be grouchy in this crisis. He must not quarrel arid quibble and he must not sulk in his tents. As in past crisis’ the Negro must give his best and re affirm the world’s exalted1 opinion of him as a nation’s super patriot. The struggle before our nation and the ■ World is a struggle for Christianity land democracy and the Negro’s fut ure is bound up therein. The Ein | Kampf of our nation must be the Mein Kampf of every Negro. The Negro goes up or down with this country. WE ARE READY!!! READ THE GUIDE *'_and just before he went under Cousin Eulace says—• please doan' stuff me wid bread crumbs!” Watch and Jewelry We Loan Money Repairing On Everything GROSS JEWELRY & LOAN COMPANY GENTS’ FURNISHINGS - CLOTHING JA-4635 514 North 16th Street f L.WOLK 1 TiOfi North 24th Street Phone J A-9384 RABEN AUTO EXCHANGE Tires—Accessories i Tubes WE SPECIALIZE IN PARTS FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS AND TRUCKS RABEN AUTO EXCHANGE j Meyer Raben HA- 2533 1819 CUMING ST. Omaha, Nebraska jCentral j 1 Market INCORPORATED “Everything For The! 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