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i—————^—————— ■ Mea*ch of Events OPINIONS COMMENTS --- OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WEbster 1517 Entered as Second Class Matter Ma-vh 15. 192], at. the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Ii. J. Ford, — — — Pres. Hats. Flurna Coopei, — — Vice Pies C. C. Galloway, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway, Sec’y and Treas. >• ^1^I-' SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA One Year — — — — tt-ito Six Months — — — Jl.fi Three Months — — - •r,° One Month — — — - ■’& SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN One Year — — — — $2 50 Six Months — — — — $1.50 Three Months — — — $1.00 One Month — — ■ - — -'$0 All News Copy of Churches and all organizat ions must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. in. HVnday for current issue. All Advertising Copy cr Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, pre needing date of issue, to insure publication. ^m^m^^a^mmmamB - ... —— “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST” by Ruth Taylor “And behold there were shep herds abiding in the fields by night.” It was the shepherds who first heard the angel song “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men.” Glory to God—praise to the high est—a deference to Him who is all good ness. Glory to God is not a lip service —but a cry of exaltation, a giving of homage, an acknowledgement that that which is right and just must prevail. We will have to fight the evil a broad in the world today. We will have to strive mightily for the right, but at the end is the promise— AND on earth—peace—not a peace of servile acquiescence, not a peace of appeasement—but a peace of justice, a peace of honor, a peace of joy, a peace of good will to all men. Not to any one group was the pro mise made. Not to any one race or creed or nationality—but to and for all men. That is the lesson of the angel’s I song. If we give glory and honor un to whom it is due—not to man mao'e rulers, not to ambition, pride or self ish desires—but to Him who is all good all justice, all wisdom—if we let the Eternal Goodness, The all powerful all wise, all loving Father of all man kind, rule our lives, we can then—and only then—attain peace on earth—for all mankind—goodwill to men—all men. We must seek first things first and then like the humble shepherds on their hillside in Judea centuries ago we too may hear the herald angels sing^-“Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.” “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’ ” THE RED CROSS All who can should join the Red Cross. Throughout its long history it has rendered splendid service, in peace and war and in times of calamities through the forces of nature, as in stances by earthquakes, floods, tornad oes and the like. They have been es pecially helpful in aiding soldiers dur ing war periods, as wTell as their fam ilies. They have been a vertiable cit adel of strength and service in the af termath of war through service to those who have served and their fam ilies. Their insignia, almost a cross, in spires respect in every land where mercy and goodness abide. Join THE RED CROSS and be come a little better servant and friend of bumantiy. Hannibal of Carthage had an ar my of a million men, composed of many races and creeds. In all his trying cam; :pr of conquest and defense, no division ever deserted his command. That is something for us to think a bout here in the USA. THE CITY CIVIL SERVICE Omaha is beginning a qualified Civil Service system for city employes, i Among the provisions is one requiring examinations annually for all employ ees who were in the city’s service when the law was adopted, to determine their efficiency and fitness for future employment. These examinations will be open, also, to applicants not in the service. For instance, suppose John Wilson has been employed as an assist ant engineer for fifteen years by the city; that his knowledge has been ac quired by practical training; that he lacks formal education in engineering, but is an excellent man in his work. However, he must enter the examin ation against graduates from our en gineerin; schools. It seems to us, the practical man would have but little chan of winning out in such a com petition, yet his failure would mean a loss to the public service. In other words, the man who might pass the highest examination “on paper” might be an utter failure in practice. If this angle has been aptly stat ed, some means should be found to re duce the loss of valuable men in the service to a minimum. Mark you, we are all for CIVIL SERVICE as a selective policy for government in all its units, and we hope that it will succeed here. There will be no doubt about it if Dr. William H. Thompson remains at its head un hampered by politics and its “sisters and brothers.” The present law needs many changes for its betterment. These will come in time, and they should come at an early date. At any rate, there has been a be ginning and that is a good omeii for .me. THE CASE OF THE “CAPTIVE” MINES For the past several years, the Federal Government has had a fixed policy of encouraging Labor Unions to insist not only upon the right to organ ize and bargain collectively, but also to establish in all industry the “closed shop”. It has been in pursuit of this principle that the United Mine Work ers, under the leadership of John L. Lewis, have insisted on the “closed shop’ is the mines owned by the steel companies. They simply mean that only members of labor unions can work in the mines. 97 percent of the 53,000 miners in these “captive mines” are union men; three percent are not. The Federal Mediation Board sided with the three percent in this case, but with a majority of an AF. of L. union the week before and supported the “closed shop”. And there you have it. THE OLD ORATOR AND THE NEW Do you listen to the radio addres ses of our time and note how simple and direct the language used by the various speakers. If you do, you sure ly recall how greatly the style of speech has changed during the past fifty years. The old orator were given to or namentation and embellishment and grandiose figures of speech. We won der often if the change from the old orator to the new has been an unmix ed good. For one thing we think th~ old orators enriched the language of their lands and times and but for them the simple, direct, correct speech of our day would not have been. America today boasts no great orators who compare favorably with Winston Churchill, unless it be Presi dent Roosevelt on the radio. On the rostrom before the visible audience he is no match for Churchill and does not approach William Jennings Bryan. Radio, of course, involving the time element, has compelled speakers to dispense with their long exordiums, their fine elaborate periods and glow ing perorations. Frankly, we would like to hear the old timers on the radio “vindicate for themselves a crown”. The cost of half day orations would bankrupt wealthy groups, hence wTe will have to be content with orators and orations as they are, instead of having them as they used to be. ON THE HOME FRONT Regardless of the war in other parts of the world and on our western shores, men and women in civilian life must do the ordiary work of the coun try. Men and women will continue to marry and be given in marriage and the races of men will go on. The kind of world of the future will be determined by what the aver age person does as he follows the arts of peace. One of these days violence will end, and when that time comes, those of us who did not directly partic ipate in it, but remained in the import ant post of preservers of society on a basis of peace and civilization, will be in a position to bind up the wounds of them who served in ways less harsh than ours. And let us hope that the storm will soon pass away everywhere. Meanwhile, we must maintain the HOME FRONT. COOPERATIVES • • Cooperatives have not grown as rapidly in America as -they have . in England or Russia. In England about half the population belongs fa cooper atives, whereas, in Russia, according to recent reports more than ten million units exist. This method of conduct ing business where it is dependent up on large numbers with small capital., deserves a careful investigation and consideration. Think it over. PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS Much opposition has been ex pressed to bills now pending in Con gress which seek to provide pensions for soldiers and their dependents of World War One. The argument in op position to this type of pension is not new. One view is that many men who served in the army and navy did not see any battle service and received no wounds; that those who served in France and elsewhere outside contin ental United States and escaped wounds by shell and bullets and bombs have no right to ask for or receive pen sions. It will be recalled that 1,000,000 men served in France during the First World War. Each one of them spent about twelve days on a submarine in fested ocean enroute to France. And after their arrival and a brief period in the rear they were sent into the zone of battle where they remained for mrnths. in gas areas, filthy trenches, constantly under fire. May of them participated in the Battles of Argonn<a Forest and the Meuse Argonne. Many of them returned only to find that nhvsfcally thev had Ust many years ^f their lives bv r°°son of their service. They cannot get compensation because they cannot show any wounds from bullets or shrapnel, yet they know they are broken men and their dependents as well as they must bear the burdens of their misfortune. Under such circumstanecs it would seem that Congress would be wise enough and just enough to grant re lief, especially now that the sons of these disabled veterans are being draft ed for service in the second world war. PEARL BUCK, RENOWNED WRITER BLASTS RACE PREJUDICE In recent weeks a “crime wave” has been raging in the section of New York City, known as Harlem. Harlem, you know, is the black ‘ghetto’ of New York City. The New York Times wrote an editorial on the subject of “Crime in Harlem”, and Pearl Buck, world Fam ous Writer, wrote a letter to The Tim es in answer. Among other things, she said: “The reason why colored Amer icans are compelled to live in ghettos, where they are helpless against high rents and miserable housing, is the se gregation to which race prejudice com pells them. Race prejudice compells colored people to take what work they can get because there are so many jobs Negroes cannot get. Race prejudice makes and keeps Negroes’ wages low because some labor unions will not ad mit colored labor on the same basis as white labor. Race prejudice and race prejudice alone is the root of the plight of people in greater and lesser Hari ems all over the country”. And in speaking of many leading Negroes in this country who hold un patriotic views, she adds: “There are those, and some of them leaders, who favor Japan in the present crisis, seeing in Japan the fu ture leaders of all colored peoples in the world”. And she concludes in these words “Are we Americans to go on ac cepting the stupidities of race preju dice? I know the oft repeated wear isome defense. Intermarriage is the fearful specter behind everything. On that there is but one answer. Are we to deny 12,000,000 Americans the rights and privileges of our country, and are we to risk our very democracy itself, by maintaining a determined rul^-subject relationship between white and colored, because some day a few white individuals and colored in dividuals may choose to marry each other7 is democracy rignt or is it wrong? If it is right, then let us dare to make it true”. Thanks, Miss Pearl S. Buck. We have read many of your books and stories, but nothing you have ever written so completely unmasks and blasts “Race Prejudice” as your recent letter to The New York Times. Shad es of Harriet Beecher Stowe. A much maligned Agnostic once declared: Humanity is my Religion and Love is my only Priest”. SUBSCRIBE NOW! READ The Q^p L. ^ I —m—— i MERCHANT SHIPS , ARMED Hoboken, N. J.—Pixpage—One U. S. merchant vessel took on a voice of authority as this gun was > placed aboard here for protection at sea. Navy officials supervised the work. | GOVERNOR RATNER AT EXPOSITION Kansas City, Mo., —Pixpage — Checking up on things agricult al Live Stock Exposition here was Payne H. Ratner (left), Govern or of Kansas. The Governor and Harry Darby president of the Ex position are shown studying the Shorthorn exhibit. Agriculturally minded, Governor Ratner often attends farm events to learn first hand what farmers are thinking. UNITED IN MARRIAGE mu ... .1 Bgzr™... ~~ i Fort Worth, Texas—Pixpage — Raymond Vann, 25 year old Div 1 inity student and the former Miss Lou Wilkins, 70 years old, smiled hapjpily after their marriage here. They will continue their religious work. GERMAN ACE KILLED Colonel General Ernest Udet Nazi flying ace, was killed while exper imenting with a new weapon, it was announced by the Nazi high command. Udet was known to most Americans before the pres ent conflict in Europe as a flyer of rare ability. Udet was the or iginator of the parachute techni que employed by the Nazis, which has been the outstanding success In their many invasions.
