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opinions March of Events comments THE OMAHA GUIDE . Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, August 23,1941 i'age 5 ~ -— — ____ _ _ _____— - ., . , THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WBbster 1617 Entered as Second Class Matter Manet 15, 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. V. J. Ford, — — — Pres. Mrs. Flurna Coopei, — — Vice Pres. C. C. Galloway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway, — Sec'y and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA One Year — — — — $2X0 Six Months — — — $1.25 Three Months — — — .75 One Month — — — — .25 SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN One Year — — — — $2 50 Six Months — — — — $1.50 Three Months — — — $1.00 One Month — — -- — .40 All Newts Copy of Churches and all organizat ions must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre ceeding date of issue, to insure publication. ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL The long awaited announcement from the secret meeting between Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Un 0 ited States and Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill of Great Britain, was given to the world last Thursday. It is one of the briefest and at the same time one of the most far reach ing utterances ever deivered by two world-statesmen. It lays down, in broad outline, the POST WAR AIMS OF THE TWO STATESMEN.. They are: 1. No territorial enlarge ments as a result of the war. 2. No territorial changes imposed by force. 6. Restoration of sovereign' rights to those forcibly deprived of them. 4. Equal enjoyment of world trade and raw materials by all nations 5. Improved labor standards, economic advancement and social se curity for all. 6. A peace securing safety and tranquility the world over. 7. Freedom of the seas to all. 8. Abandonment by all nations of the use of force and disarmament of aggressive nations. What machinery will be necess ary to carry out these lofty aims, was not stated. Presumably, details will be wrorked out and combinations of na tions formed to ensure these ends. Meanwhile, and precedent to the enforcement of the post wrar aims, these great leaders have the task of “THE FINAL DESTRUTION OF NAZI TYRANNY”. To the plan thus far disclosed, wre give our hearty assent, provided all races and colors are embraced in the plan. We have admired Winston Churchill since he first made the head lines in the very early 1900s, And we have long admired President Roose velt. We know of no tw^o men in the world of our time better fitted to per form this great new7 task than Roose velt and Churchill. DEFENSE BONDS United States Defense Bonds are a good investment. It is a safe invest ment, just as safe as the money of the government. Persons who are not able to buy bonds may buy U. S. Savings Stamps, All of us can buy them. If each Negro in the United Stat es purchased ONE DOLLARS WORTH of U. S. Savings Stamps, it would represent $15,000,000.00. Multi ply this by ten and you will reach a figure which the present National Ad ministration will regard as worthy of notice. This is our country; we helped to make it what it is, and its future, come what may. Above all other races in the world, we must turn our faces against tyranny, both at home and abroad. And from this road we must not turn aside. Buy bonds and stamps! The Negro who selected 16th and Dodge Streets to stage the murder of his wife was suffering mental delus ions. Not having been able to get a gallery while butchering hogs at the packing plant, he saw to it that when he butchered his wife he had a crowd; his last crowd, no doubt, for many years, if not for ever. “I will prepare, and some day my chance will come”—LINCOLN. Judge me not by the heights to which I have risen, but by the depths from whence I came”.— —Frederick Douglas. THE FORT BRAGG N. C. KILLING The killing of a Negro soldier and a white Military policeman must be nvestigated and the guilty persons brought to bay. It is the responsibil ity of the President and the Secretary of War to act vigorously, thoroughly and at once in the matter. NEGRO SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS Assistant Secretary of War, Rob ert Patterson, announced last week that there are now 80,000 Negro sold iers in the United States army. The present total of soldiers in the army is about 1,500,000. Officers in the white units are one to each thirteen soldiers. According to our population, we should have one tenth of the army strength, or 150,000. And if the Ne gro officers, as they should be, were one to each thirteen men, there would be 11,538 Negro officers in the armed forces. But there are but 265. Negroes are being taxed to pay officers of other races and must listen to a lot of prattle about democracy in the United States and National Unity, while the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy permits such glaring discrimination against the largest mi nority group in the United States. There can be no unity while such practices are permitted by the leader of our fighting forces. During the first world war, Pres ident Wilson did much better than that. Thus the present administrat ion has a precedent to guide it. But he should go far beyond any thing the late President Woodrow Wilson did in military matters, be cause President Roosevelt professes to be the world’s first disciple of free dom and opportunity for all. Presi dent Wilson did not include all in his profession of faith, but he did much; President Roosevelt should do infin itely more. Mr. President, become realistic on the Negro question and National Un ity. You have eighty thousand Negro es under your command at the present time, but you have but 265 Negro Of ficers, nearly all of them lieutenants. You should riow have under your com mand Negro officers in all grades numbering 6153. But there are only 265, one twenty-third of the num ber the Negroes should have. And we ask again for whose dem ocracy are the Negroes working and fighting? Let us have both war and peace of justice. RUSSIA AND GERMANY Each day the Russian-German war becomes more cortf using. One day Germany will announce that she has destroyed the Russian Army and the whole Russian Air fleet; the next day, they speak of desperate resistance of the Russian army and the destruction of a large number of Russian planes. Last Thursday, however, the Rus sion report was important. It ann ounced the decimation of scores of div isions of the German army. This, if true, means the beginning of the end for Germany. If, for instance, Germ any has lost 60 divisions, about 1,200, 000 men or more than twenty percent of German effectives in a military sense, she cannot continue the struggle in face of such tremendous losses. Moreover, the German task will grow more difficult as her lines of communi cation are lengthened. And very soon, the rains will begin to fall, followed by snow and bitter cold. The forces, against which no mil itary genius can provide a defense, beat Napoleon and they will beat Hit ler, if they descend upon him. And they will come upon him, if he remains in Russia a short time longer. Germany is racing for oil and un less she gets it, she will be undone. And each day the chances increase that she will not get the oil. LET’S PULL TOGETHER (by Ruth Taylor) Have you ever watched a tug of war? If you have, then you know that it isn’t always the side on which there is the greatest strength that wins. The winning team is the team that pulls together. We need that kind of team work now in our haste to rearm in a wTorld maddened by war. And it is the dis ruption of that team work on wThich the enemy, both without and within, is concentrating its attack. True we are not physically at war. There are no hostile armies en camped on our territories. Within the three mile limit our ships are safe. We still watch with eye of interest rather than alarm, the swft flight of the graceful planes across the summer sky. But there is a war on how and here. It is a Blitzkreig of words of ideas. As deadly as the poison gas it emulates and precedes, the attack is on our unity. Beware of all propagan da that seeks to divide this country in to groups—whether the diversions be those of class, race, religion or color! The development of “group” thinking is the forerunner of discord, making men look with suspicion upon their neighbors and unleashing forces of hatred that when fully grown would destroy the unity of purpose which is the backbone of our country. For our unity is forged not as the unities of overcrowded Europe, of fear and hatred—but by a common purpose, a common ideal twards which we strive, however imperfectly we may at times express it. It is the unity of those who love America and its form of government and who would rather live here under democratic rule than any place else in the whole world. And how right they are—and how much better off. We are too apt as a people to think first of what our government can do for us—rather than what we can do to help make our government better. Democracy is not a gift. It is the expression of free men and must be earned and paid for by each succeed ing generation. As Sergeant York, speaking at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, said: “Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once —and then stop. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded on ly to those people who fight to win them and then keep fighting entern ally to hold them.” This is a fight in which we must have team work, so let’s all pull toget hei^-and we’ll win. WHEN LIBERTY MAKES US FREE (by Dr. Charles Stelzle) “Brethern, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word,, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” You can trust any man with all the liberty in the world if he’ll base his actions on love toward his neighbor. You may give him the key to your city and to your home—he’ll honor the confidence you have placed in him, and he himself will become a better man because you trust him. “Democracy” is the keyword that men are conjuring with. But to many of them it simply means “more and more”—for themselves. But true de mocracy actually means a restriction of liberty, for as democracy increases the greater the number of people there are whose interests must be consider ed and conserved. But when the people themseives rule—and when everyone of us thinks that we’re just as good as anyone else, if not a little better—then the question of personal liberty becomes very com plicated. How shall we meet the evils which must inevitably grow out of the demo cratic form of government? Someone—I think it was Thomas Carlyle—once said that the cure for “democracy” is more democracy. It certainly isn’t less democracy. But to make democracy “safe”, it’s going to require something more than mere democracy—it means that we’ve got to introduce more of the ele ment of love, and the apostle Paul put it into “one word” when he wrote the Galatians: “Thou shalt love thy nei ghbor as thyself.” The world’s wisdom will never . evolve a simpler and more easily work able plan than this. ENCOURAGE THE GOOSE Along with the Federal govern ment’s drive to sell United States Sav ings Bonds, it would be in order for the government to encourage the pub lic 10 invest part of its savings in pri vate enterprise. The prosperity of this country is based on the private en terprise system. Our government should be interested in promoting a svstem that is the life-blood of the na tion and the source of all tax revenue that maintains government itself. It should take good care of the goose that lays the golden eggs. While the -government is demand ing and receiving so much from indus try during this national emergency, it should try to strengthen it in every possible manner. But strange as it may seem, there are many industries in this nation that are today being handcapped by lack of government cooperation, or by planned government policies which restrict or compete with them. Elect ricity, oil and coal are good examples —they are faced with the threat of soc ialization backed by the government itself. Instead of such a destructive pol icy, government should help safeguard private enterprise which big and little investors own. Such investments make it possible for this nation to prosper and carry out its national defense pro gram. THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE From the antics of Congress a person is liable to arrive at the con clusion that all of ’em down there are just there jumping through the hoop, etc., waiting for the day when they can be a Supreme Court Judge. Also, lots of ’em are there, some folks think, so as to get their son in law onto Uncle Sambo’s payroll versus their own. But they are not all that kind of a hairpin .There are some Democrats and a sprinkling of Republicans who still think maybe the Constitution is fairly good yet and that Congress has somethng to do except to nod yes sir, like as if you were a one dollar-a year man. This old fashioned group figur es if a Dictator is undesirable and a pain in the neck in Germany on else where, it would also not be so hot here. The idea they been talking up down there amongst the Top Kicks is that a democracy is 0. K. for fair wea ther but to overcome a dictator else where we gotta have one too. Sounds kinda fishy to us folks down around Hickory. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA Evidences are multiplying that even Hitler has plenty war on his hands. BY OL HARRINGTON , A lliri. .I The way I figgers it Bootsie, the mem bers is gettin’ a little older and more settled down. Why not a soul got throwed overboard on the whole ex cursion.