WAITERS’
COLUMN
(BY H. W. SMITH)
FLASH! We eannot keep a rec
ord of the many compliments
made known about the Christmas
issue of the Omaha Guide and a
very large number of phone cill3
telling us that it was the most
beautiful holiday edition ever pro
duced and that the makeup of the
ads was a very fine and lovely fea
ture. It just goes to show what
careful attention produces in the
right way. Now how soon can wo
give you a receipt for a one yea-s
subscription. Please hurry a3
1942 is in the making.
The White Horse Inn iq going
over the top in modern service and
Mr. Branch, Mr. White and Mr.
Dave Russ and Mr. Chester Hodg
es are always on the up and go.
Mr. John Evans of the Rome
Hotelry is out in front at all tim
es and can go around in double)
quick time—as head or side wait
! er.
—
Mr. Jack Hall, one of Omaha’s
1 popular waiters, is in the running
' at all times and has the very be«g
, of respect of all the boys.
Capt. Langley is quite a strang
er on North 24th street and Mr.
Geo. Thomas can be seen in Om
aha’s Harlem most anytime as he
has a large number of friends a
mong the waiters.
The railroad boys are on the
job and the late trains and douhi- ]
We Offer for Y«ur Approval
A
Complete Curtain Service
and Another thing,—
Have Your
Dry Cleaning Done Now!
—Cash and Carry Discounts—
EDHOLM&SHERMAH
2401 North 24th Street
WE. 6055
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Whatever your youngsters become when
they "get big" depends a lot on good eye
sight protection—now! Whether it's farming
or mediciiie, engineering or any other pro
fession—eyes must be fit to do the Job.
Check up on your home lighting, today.
Make sure your youngsters have the right
light for studying and hobbies—and check
up on the lighting your family reads by,
too. Eyestrain doesn't have a chance in
homes that are light-conditioned—and your
family deserves light-conditioning, too!
This Information Furnished by
YOUR ELECTRIC DEALER
AND NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY
ing out is what they are taking
care of in a very fine way.
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We had the pleasure of wishing
the race horse headwaiter, Mr.
Corbert, A Merry Christmas and
A Happy New Year in person and
Capt. Booth told this writer over
the phone to watch my step and
as it was a joke, we could only
smile—as all the Paxton waiter4
are a very fine bunch of gentle
men and we are always ready to
to say hats off to them.
The Fontenelle boys are going
over the top and Mr. Reed and
Mr. Underwood can always do the
job right and the two front door
men, Mr. Donley and Mr. Schrop
shire are top notchers at all tim
es.
The Cottonwood room at tho
Blackstone hotel is the Dundee
sensation of Omaha and Mr. Av
ant the wide awake room serv.ee
man of the dining room is in a
class by himself as his many years
of good service stands up in the
right way.
We would like very much to see
Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Pace as they
always go over the top with their
work.
We should all be proud of our
Colored police officers and firemen
and those in the government mail
service as they are making his
tory for the race.
And now don’t overlook the busi
ness men of our race—give them
some of our trade and if they ex
tend credit to us, pay our bills
promptly and they will prosper.
The Nelson Real Estate Co. wish
es every one A Happy New Year
and will take very good care cf
your business at 2223 North 24th
St.
LINEMEN
BUCK STORM
(Continued from page 1)
hours after going on duty.
When the line serving the Union
Pacific’s signal tower and other
customers in the Lane Cutoff vic
inity was reported out of service
at noon, Lineman Henry Gladden;
and Lewis Chubert succeeded >n
fighting their way to the trouble
spot at 156th and Dodge streets
and making repairs in less than
two hours. Luck was with them,
they reported, for at 156th street
a high wall of snow blocked furth
er travel westward. “Had tho
trouble been west of that point,
we’d still be there fighting to
reach it,” Gladden commented.
On returning to headquarters,
they were sent to help Honaker
and Pakiser scrape the ice from
the wires on the Fort Calhoun
line’s trouble spot. They, to?,
stayed on the job nearly twelve
hours.
Iowa lines also gave their shat e
of trouble and hardship to power
company linemen.
With one of the two main trans
mission lines between Glenwood
and Council Bluffs reported out,
Linemen Sam Walker and J. H.
Spinus set out to locate the trouble
They reached Glenwood and report
ed finding defective insulators
near Island Park, but were unable
to return.
Lunceford’s crew went out from
Omaha, equipped with wading,
boots to fight their way through
the swampy lowlands. The in
sulators were replaced within two
hours, but this did not remedy the
line trouble, and the linemen con
tinued -to work on the line until
midnight without finding it. Glen,
wood meanwhile was being served
by the dual transmission from
Council Bluffs.
In the Underwood vicinity all
lines were reported out of service.
A crew led by Monte Hardwick
shoveled and fought the snowdrifts
but failed to get through. They
walked to farms seeking horses to
help, but the farmers refused lo
risk their horses at this tremend
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ous task and the crews had to
wait until a snowplow came thru
to continue their work.
Nine men recruited from the
Council Bluffs office, store room
and other departments returned to
the patrol of the Underwood lind
Friday morning and cleared up
the trouble.
“Our most important tools were
shovels to dig our way through.
The rest was easy,” John Schus
ter, company lineman at Under
wood, commented. In the crew
were Monte Hardwick, Quentin
Nagel, John Huebner, Sr., John
Huebner, Jr., Don Keefer and
Claude Dilley.
INDUSTRY MAKES ITS OWN
SURVEY IN PREPARATION
FOR EMPLOYING THOUSANDS
OF NEGRO WORKERS
(Continued from page J)
ly common labor and janitor serv
ice and some of the more exhaust
ing and disagreeable semi skilled
jobs No one would seriously
question the ability of large num
bers of colored men to absorb the
necessary knowledge to qualify as
skilled mechanics, but relatively
few have been found holding such
jobs.
“.... There seems to remain,
however, an instinctive opposit
ion to accepting colored co-work
ers on a basis of full equality, but
if the needs of the present emer
gency require the admission
qualified colored mechanics to
trades where they are badly need
ed, barriers erected by precedent
may be broken down and all con
cerned be the better for it.”
EDITORIALS
OF THE WEEK—
(continued from page 1)
contact with the “Little Brown
Men”, ♦‘'ey were t nought *. be
very d: cilc. cute and artistrc.
’’hey v.ere hardy, prolific and in
i-i trices and ra lidly became a
people of import ime in manufjc
turing, fishing and in trade anu
commerce. Their products have
reached the markets of every coun
try in the world. Meanwhile,
they did not neglect the art of es
pionage through which they have
learned so much about the streng
th and weakness of those countr
ies under the rule of the lighter
races. They have been very act
ive in this way in the United
States. Graduates of the Imper
ial University of Japan have be
come “House Boys”, Butlers, Wai
ters and Valets and Chauffeurs
for wealthy white Americans and
thus have learned many things
useful to Japan in the war she is
now making against America^
Their employers thought they
were getting very expert servant^
for very small cost. They served
well enough, but first and last,
they served the Emperor of Jap
an and no one else.
Perhaps, a lesson has been learn
ed. Therefore, let us return to
the “FORGOTTEN MAN”, the N?
gro here in America and advance
hm. He knows a great deal about
what is happening and what has
happened in America, but he is
faithful to them he serves and to
his country.
And let us remember the pres
ent world war cannot be won be
cause millions of our countrymen
are “Free, White and Twenty
One”. Long ago, the Japanese and
other dark peoples, aware of this
weakness, have emphasized the
fact that the darker races consti
tute three fourths of the worid’s
population and that the majority1
should rule. Of course, such a'
view is, as it has been since the
Romans invented the “Color” the
ory, false.
Men of all races, good enough
and wise enough and just enough
to do so, should rule. The sad
fact is that the lighter races of
mankind which have been fore
most in civilization for many years
have practiced upon less advanced
groups exploitation and oppres
sion. When such groups gain
freedom and power and ascend
ency, they apply the lesson they
have learned on the weaker ele
ments. Both as a philosophy and
a practice, they are wrong and
destructive.
Germany and Japan and Italy,
are examples of the full fruition
of the destructive lessons man
kind has been taught during its
two thousand years of the Christ
ian Era.
The Japanese will be vanquish
ed in the end; so will Germany
and Italy. Let us, therefore, so
build upon the ruins of the pres
ent war as to avoid adherence to
any philosophy or practice not
based upon right and justice.
THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE OF
THEIR HOMELAND
The defense Russia has made of
her soil against the German in
vader has claimed the admiration
of all peoples everywhere, and har,
demonstrated that the present;
Russian system of government is
strongly entrenched.
Thus far two Russian generals
have become quite as conspicuous
for their military genius as any
military commanders of the past.
Civilian Defense conference held on Monday, December 29, 1941, at the State Defense Coordinator
Clarence A. Jackson s office in Indianapolis, Ind.
Left to right; William D. Alexander, Office of Civilian Defense, Information Division, Washington, D. C.;
C. A. Jackson, State Defense' Coordinator; Dr. Theodore Cable, State Defense Council member of
Indianapolis, Ind.
Mr. Jackson stated at the conference that Indiana is doing everything possible to complete its plans for
civilian defense.
Conference held in Gov. Henry F. Schricker’s office to discuss future plans for Negro participation in
Civilian Defense Programs in the State of Indiana.
Left to right: The governor, seated; William D. Alexander, Office of Civilian Defense, Information Divi
sion, Washington, D. C.; Rev. J. A. Alexander, pastor, Bethel A. M. E. Church; Mr. F. E. DeFrantz,
executive secretary of the Center St. Branch of the Y. M. C. A.; Sen. Robert Lee Brokenburr, member of
both county and State Defense Councils; Chester Hibbet, editor of the Indiana Recorder; Councilman B. F.
Ransome, member of the State Defense Council.
Gov. Schricker, of Indiana, stated extensive plans had been made for civilian and plant protection. Ha
expressed confidence in the Negro members of his council in the carrying out of plans for defense 1.1 the Stata
of lorf^na.
Mayor Reginald L. Sullivan’s office.
The Mayor and members of the conference discussed various plans for civilian defense with participation of
Negroes in the State of Indiana and employment problems in general.
Tis^t:,Dr-'^eodoSeCabIe'StateDefenseCounciI member; Senator Robert Lee Brokenburr, Countv
and State Defense Council member; James Scott of Washington, D. C.; Chester Hibbet, editor of Indianan
v i Counci Iman B. F. Ransome, Defense Council member; F. E. DeFrantz, executive secretary,
Y. M. C. A.; -xayor Sullivan; Earl B. Dickinson of Chicago, 111., member of President Roosevelt’s Fair Em
ploym- .i Practice Committee.
And if Russia finally wins through
in this struggle, mankind will owe
her a debt forevermore and accord
her the respect due a hardy and
valorous people.
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PUBLIC HEALTH FORUMS TO.
BEGIN MONDAY, JANUARY 12
The first of a city wide public
health forums arranged under the
Hair Style
Charts
send stamps OCc
or coin
I
For These Charts
BROADWAY
GLAMOR CO.
Box 8-G, Station
Y
Brooklyn, N. Y.
direction of Dr. A. S. Pinto, city
Monday evening, January 12th, S I
health commissioner, will open
p. m. at the Joslyn Memorial. •‘O
maha Health Defense in War” will
be the subject under discussion on,
the first night.
Second meeting cf the series
will be held February 9th on the I
subject “Venereal Disease Control
in War.'*’ All meetings are open
to the public.
Here’s Happy Way
to Wake Lazy Insides
Year in and year out spicy, a-o- isfying relief.
matic BLACK-DRAUGHT has
been a standby in thousands oi
American homes. Your drug deal
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The reason? If constipation has
you logy, uncomfortable take some
BLACK-DRAUGHT tonight by the
simple directions and see if it does
not give you gentle, thorough, sat
BLACK-DRAUGHT is made j
from purely vegetable ingredients.
One of them is a tonic-laxative |
that helps to tone lazy intestinal
muscles.
You get 25 to 40 doses in the
familiar yellow box for 25c. Look
for it and get the genuine, time
tested BLACK-DRAUGHT.
On January forum panel will te
A. Greenberg, A. L. Miller, M. D.,
F. Lowell Dunn, M. D., Victor E.
Levine, M. D., Miss Leeta Hohl
rege, Miss Rosemary Tuttle, a rep
resentative from the Army and a
leading Omaha citizen who will
be introduced at the meeting. C.
M. Wilhelm, M. D. will preside.
The twenty-four health and wel
fare agencies sponsoring the ser -
j ies are: Omaha-Douglas County,
Medical Society, Omaha-Douglas
County Health unit, State Depart
ment of Health, Douglas County
Dental Society, Visiting Nurse As
sociation, Nebraska Tuberculosis
Association, Omaha Health Coun
' cil, Chamber of Commerce Health
] Committee, Coordinating Commit
I tee on Negro Health, University of
Omaha, University of Nebraska,
Creighton University, Nebraska
State Nurse Association, Omaha
Public Schools, Council of Parent
Teacher Associations, Fort Crook
Council of Social Agencies, Doug
las County Assistance Bureau, Na
tional Youth Administration, Om
aha Safety Council, Omaha Labor
Temple, Nebraska Division, Am
erican Society for the Control of
Cancer, Women's Inter-Club Coun
cil and other professional and lay
groups in Omaha.
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Year.
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