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Negro Medical Society ENDORSE PLAN OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY By a unanimous vote of all pres ent, the Coordinating Committee for .Negro Health, at its last meeting, endrsed a plan of educational act ivity designed to place the faces of venereal disease before all its mem ber organizations. Meeting with B. A. Frary, M. D.. head of the State Department of Venereal Disease Control. S. L. Pearlman, M. D., Dir c?ain&fL ^7.7/ r) £ Those with tanned-dark skin, externally ca jsed, who want it JB lighter, smoother, softer, should ^B try Dr. FRED Palmar'* Skin H Whiteeier. Use 7 days as directed. §£§ If not satisfied MONEY BACK. V 25c at druggists. FREE Sample. «g Send 3c postage to GALEN OL, l Dept. CS, Box 264, Atlanta, Ga. \ Dr. Fred Palmer’sSkinWhitener VO YOU Have trouble with your feet? Do they perspire too freely and crack the skin between the toes? Do they ache and burn? Are you troubled with painful corns, cal louses or Athlete's Foot? 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Mr. Warner informed the Comm ittee that in January and Februaiy of this year, there were four times as many cases of syphilis reported in Nebraska as all the cases report ed of smallpox, typhoid fever, tub erculosis, diptherja and pneumonia added together. A plan was presented which would place all the facts of the cause, the cure, and how to find these diseases before the public. The plan outlin ed the facilities available to carry on the fight against these destroy ers of our potential soldiers and workers. Rev. F. C. Williams, of the Zion Baptist Church- was appointed chairman of the speakers’ bureau. A plan for the training of speakers on this problem was presented and all citizens were to be asked to Yol (Political Advertisement) We Offer for Your Approval A Complete Curtain Service and Another thing,— Have Your Dry Cleaning Done Now! —Cash and Carry Discounts— EDHOLM&SHERMAN 2401 North 24th Street WE. 6055 Eclipse of the Rising Snn! 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Thousands of pamphlets are avail able for distribution and Suitable films are available and will be shown at the meetings. Dr. Craig Morris, acting as chair man of the meeting, asked that the Coordinating Committee for Negro Health go on record as recognizing venereal disease as our number one health problem. Dr. S. L. Pearlman pointed out that the picture was not without hope, since the medical and clinic facilities are ready to care for i hr problem, and the records show an increasing demand from the public for treatment with these facilities. There were 1,219 visits to the clinics in June 1941, and 2,433 visits in June 1942. Many people are now having blood tests at these clinics, so that they may be sure that they can do their part in this war effort. This is the second of a series of articles written by members of the local Negro Medical Society to hell) the fight against syphilis and gon orrhea. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SYPHILIS? (BY DR. WESLEY JONES) You may wonder why this series Of articles on venereal disease is being published. You have that right. So little has been said about syphilis and gonorrhea that many people assume that they are rare diseases. On the contrary, they are too common. For every person who is killed ijn an auto accident, three die of syphilis. If our front page car ried the news about these deaths as it does about auto fatalities, the public would be aroused. Since we know that all of the deaths are not reported, and all cases are not on record, the known results of the ravages of this dis ease would be much greater if the truth were told. In Nebraska, there is four times as much syphilis reported as there is smallpox, typhoid fever, pneumon ia .tuberculosis, and diptheria com bined. You can understand, then, why this series of articles is being writ ten. If you realize that there is one hundred times as much syphilis as polio, and the results in each case are as likely to be as terrible, then you will want to do something about the control of syphilis. The best authorities estimate that there are a half a million new cases of syphilis each year. The conser vative estimates indicate that there are at least 6,500,000 cases of syph ilis in the United States. This is an army almost as large as our present armed force. Many of these 6,500, 000 are 'unable to work, fight, Or earn for our war effort. This is the result of a program which has not made adequate provision for their care and cure- We cannot af ford this type of program. We here in Omaha must be care ful not to think that we are differ ent. All these figures may be true Bertha’sBAR-B-Q AND HOME COOKED MEALS 1024 So. 11th St. Omaha, Nebr. . 1 i' TO ROUSE FLOW OF LIVER BILE Get a bottle of Kruschen Salts tonight. 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That is our problem. That is why these articles are being published. This is not a problem for someone else. It is your problem. Have you had a blood test? Do you know what it would show if you were call ed up for duty for your country? You can know; your country is ask ing you to start acting, talking and working to change these figures on the amount of syphilis and the number of new infections. How would you feel if tomorrow’s paper said “One-half million people killed or wounded by the enemy?” Would you sit quietly by and say nothing? You would not. You would go to work as you have done, to win the war. Let’s go to work to stamp out syphilis and gonorrhea. GEORGIA POLICE BEAT, JAIL ROLAND HAYES (continued from page 1) the sidewalk, Mr. Hayes, who had been in the nearby bank, walked up and asked: “What’s is the matter?” The clerk, breaking in just as the manager was about to speak, shout ed: "She cursed me and called me old Hitler.” “I most certainly did not curse,” the indignant wife replied. The proprietor then returned to the store, and recognizing Mr. Hay es as an old customer, sought to settle the matter, urging him and her family to come back in the store. "I’ll be glad to wait on you myself,” he was quoted as saying. The offer was declined by Mr. Hayes who with his wife and dau ghter continued on down the street, considering the incident closed. Mrs. Hayes had walked into a nearby grocery store and Mr. Hayes arid his daughter were strolling up anli down on the sidewalk when a big uniformed officer approached. Walking up to the noted singer without saying anything, he reach ed out with his right hand and gripped him b ythe belt of his trous ers, dragging him backward to the store. The frightened daughter, still clutching he rfather’s arm be gan screeming. "Is this him?” the policeman ask ed the shoe clerk. “That’s the man, but it was the wench who cursed me and called mo a nold Hitler,” the clerk whined. “My wife didn’t curse you,” Mr. Hayes asserted, witnesses said in describing the sidewalk scene. Before Mr. Hayes finished his re marks, a big fist smashed into his face, knocking him to the sidewalk. Two other policemen quickly appear ed and pounced upon the noted aii ist, who is of slight build. Throw ing his hat over his face, as if to» hide his identity, they began pom meling him on the ground. Mrs. Hayes ran from the store and began begging the officers n._.t to molest her husband any further. The driver of the patrol wagon which arrived on the scene came up. Two of the officers grabbed the bad ly bruised singer by his clothing and dragged him to the vehicle. Lift ing him up bodily, they threw him head first onto the floor. Another policeman quickly round ed up Mrs. Hayes an dthe daughter' an dput them in front. Two police men got in the back and pounced on t hehelpless figure of one of the greatest tenor the world has ever known. Wrenching his arms backward, they clamped handcuffs across his wrists. Another sat straddle across his body .while the second began brutally beating him in the face with his fists. The daughter kept screaming, drowning out the heart-breaking sobs of the badly frightend wife:1 The big driver shouted, ‘If you don’t shut up I’ll give you some of the same thing.” Arriving at the city hall, in which is located the jail, the Hayes were rudely hustled to the lower floor cells and stuffed into a hole with another occupant. The daughter was left seated in the corridor. Mr. Hayes’ chauffeur came to the cell window and was told to find Out how much bond was wanted and what were the charges. Returning to the police chief's office, he was told the bond would be $50. $25 iOr each prisoner. The chauffeur was turned down when he asked for tile release of the little daughter. After slightly more than two hours: the jailer came down and told the couple the chief wanted to see them. unU/BUY STORE " 32 oz. omrs RANDOLPH SAYS THAT NEGROES SHOULD RESENT MARK ETHERIDGE LECTURE TO LEADERS AS THOUGH THEY WERE BOYS Los Angeles, Calif., July 14th — At the opening session of the Presi dent’s Committee On Fair Employ ment Practice, in Birmingham, Ala., and in an editorial in his paper the Louisville Courer-Journal, Mr. Mark Etherdge states, referring to the fight of Negro leaders against rac ial discrimination and segregation %at the ‘‘Negro must recognize that there is no power in the world —not even in all the mechanized armies of the earth, allies and axis —which could force the southern white people to the abandonment of the principle of social segregation.” If by social segregation, Mr. Eth “You know I’ve been talking with the FBI about what your wife said” the chief began, “and they tell me if she had,just said it another way the government would make a case against her.” “I see ycu nave some cash,” the chief continued holding up Mr. Hay es’ billfold, whcih had been taken from him by the police before he had been locked up. "But I've looked you up. You can save your cash. Just give me a check for the 990. The bond made, the famed singer, his face badly swollen and suffering severe pain in his back, accompan ied by his wife and daughter, walked from the Rome jail. Rumors were being whispered a bout Rome Tuesday that the police chief during the interim when the Hayes’ were in jail had called long distance to contact Gov. Talmadge, reaching him at the state capitol. “I haven’t got time to be bothered now,” the state chief executive was quoted as replying, “You’ll have to handle it up there by yourself.” Efforts are being made by prom inent Rome city officials and busi nessmen to have the whole matter hushed up. The check given by the famous singer for bond was myster iously returned uncancelled. When the case came up for trial Monday, no one appeared for the prosecution and it was indefinitely postponed. Many in Rome are giv ing odds that it will never come to trial. The charges, it was later dis covered, were the usual blanket, “disorderly conduct.’ Meanwhile neither, Mr. Hayes ncr his wife would discuss possible ac tion. Just what steps he will take to secure redress for his humiliat ing experience have not been an nounced. The proprietor of the shoe store, the clerk, and the police men, it is said, are fearful that a damage suit might be instituted. NegTO citizens expressed the opin ion that it was the most disturbing thing that had ever happened to the delicately balanced racial relations i nthis North Georgia community. eridge means all fotms of racial dis crimination, segregation on and Jim crow, he has taken in an awfully wide territory. Moreover, how does he know? The South is not omni potent and Mark Etheridge is not ominiscent. The old slave masters said the same thing about slavery but slavery was abolished, observed Mr. Randolph The Negro’s reply to Mr. Ether idge is that Jim Crowism is wrong and un-democratic. It is of the same cloth of Hitler's nazism, Mus solini's fascism and Hirohito's mil itarism and it is booked to go. Mark Etheridge should wake up. Ths is a new day. We are living in a period of saciol acceleration. So cial changes, amazing and unpredic table, that might have taken decad es and centuries to happen may The old order of southern jim crow now occur within a month or year, can, must and will be destroyed. He is evidently blind to the fact that the Negro has changed. The Old Uncle Tom is dead and gone for ever. Mr. Etheridge should also know that if as he says that all of the mechanized armies of earth, allies and axis, canot force the South to the abandonment of segregation and jim-crow that it is also true that all of the power in the world—not even all the mechanized armies of earth, allies and axis, could force the Ne gro to the abandonment of his fight for the destruction of racial discrim ination, segregation and jam-crow, stated Randolph And since Mr. Etheridge feels this way about the fight of the Negro for his legitimate fight for his de mocratic rights ,he should have the decency to resign from the Presid ent’s Committee On Fair Empljy ment Practice, concluded Mr. Ran 1 olph. FIGHT FOR RIGHTS TO CONTINUE DURING WAR ^Continued from naee 1) laid down the issue for us,” said the speaker. The NAACP keynoter declared Ne groes cannot abandon the fight for their rights—all of them—because the predicament of the races for ces action for redress of wrongs, be cause the tradition of the great pio neer fighters of the race drives present day Negroes to act, and be cause the struggle of the Negro is identical with the ideals and princ iples of the Declaration of Indep endence. ‘‘This struggle is one with the war effort!” Wilkins asserted. "It is nonsense for anyone to say that this convention and this association; are hindering our nation’s fight a gainst the Axis. Victory is vital to minorities, but, as our President has said in his greeting to this conven tion, minorities are also vital to vic tory. The objectives we seek are not at variance with the war effort. These things that we feel in our By Talking Less We Can Shoot More Never before have so many local and long distance calls been made. During the past few years this Company and the other companies of the Bell System have made tremendous ad ditions to their plant, equipment and organiza tion to handle the increased use of telephone service; yet over many long distance routes and in many exchanges there is a shortage of facilities. In normal times, we would build more lines, but we can’t now because copper and other critical metals are needed for the shooting side of the war. Ten cam help conserve critical war materials and keep the lines open jpg war call* Long distance lines to Washington, D. C., the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coast areas and other centers of military activity are very busy with war calls. If it is really necessary to make a call over these lines, won’t you please try to avoid the busiest hours, which are on week days be tween 9 and 12 in the forenoon, 2 and 5 in the afternoon and 7 and 9 in the evening? If you share a party line, please be consid erate of the other fellow. In war-time, many more people have to use party-line service. Everything must be subordinated to winning the war and the Bell System is dedicated to that task. NORTHWESTERN COMPANY NOTICE- PAY UNION DUES ONLY AT LABOR TEMPLE OR AT UNION OFFICE AT MEAD. NO MAN ON THE JOB IS AUTHORIZED TO TAKE MONEY. There are Only Four Authorized Men in Local 1140. They are Pete Bell, Walter McClelland and Kelly Gates at the Omaha office, and Henry Schaefer at the Mead office. hearts, and these things that we yearn for, and these things that we are determined to fight to enjoy in spite of edath itself... .these are the things the war is about.” Wilkins cited the lynching in Texarkana, Tex., July 13 as a prime example of why the NAACP must carry on the fight until every pro tection is won for the race and ev ery right secured. ‘‘This is the time o fdecision,” he said, "a time whe nthe destinies cf men and nations are being remold ed. We here in 1942 cannot fail the Sojourner Truths, the Denmaik Veseys, the Nat Turners or Fred erick Douglass, or the victims of lynch-mobs, or Dorie Miller and Joe Louis and our other boys in the uni form of the country. We cannot turn our backs upon the Declaration of Independence and say we believe we are not entitled t0 life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the.t we are not created the equals of other men. No man can ask this of us. No power ca nforce us to so stultify ourselves. So we cannot sell out. We cannot step to one •ide. We cannot and will not re main silent. The fight goes on am! on, until we win.” Greetings to the conference were extended by Mayor Fletcher Bow ron for the city, and by George A. Beavers, vice president of the Gold en State Mutual Life Insurance Company, for the Los Angeles branch. Thomas L. Griffith, Jr., presided. 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