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BAR ASSOCIATION v Gathering place in all USO clubhouses is the soda fountain. Besides clubhouses outside of Army camps and naval stations the USO, a member agency of the National War Fund, operates mobile units for Hi? boys stationed at remote outposts. DRINK “PEPSI COLA” AMERICA GOES WITH PEPSI.COLA Negro Servicemen to Benefit by Nat’l War Fund and Combination Drive More than a million visits a month are made to the 118 USO. Clubs by our men in uniform.... to McGlLL’S — BAR & BLUE ROOM E. McGill, Prop 2423-25 NORTH 24th St WINE, LIQUORS, and CIGARS Blue Room Open 8 p. m. to 1 a. m Open for Private Parties from 2 to 7 p. in. —No Charges — WE SPECIALIZE IN MIXED DRINKS. Free Delivery from 8 a. o V> 1 a. sa. JA. 9411 WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF BONDED LIQUORS dance, play games ,eat, read, write letters, or just to laugh and loaf. And this number includes only those clubh exclusively for Negro es. There is now way of taking count of the thousands more vis its that Colored servicemen make monthly to clubs in Northern areas -which cater to all races. Thus spoke Henry W. Pope, con sultant for Negro services of the United Service Organization, in connection with the launching of the first drive of the newly formed National War Fund which is gett ing under way. The USO is one of the sixteen war relief and service organiza tions which have recently combin ed their fund raising activities in the National War Fund to keep things going on the war front, the home front and the United Nations QUICK FOOD ENERGY IN THE BIG, BIG BOTTLE m il'l'TiVhl'J POST GRADUATE COURSE FOR PHYSICIANS Physicians from all parts of the south were in attendance at the eighth annual postgraduate course for physicians held last week at Flint-Good ridge hospital of Dil’ard university, New Orleans, at- which leading white and Negro medical authorities served as lecturers. Those attending included.. FIRST ROW LEFT TO RIGHT:— Drs. B. J. Covington, Houston, J. L. Procope, superintendent of the Flint Goodridge; W. Roderick Brown, consultant, medical divis ion, OCD, Washington; Major Har old W. Thatcher, lecturer on syph ilis, Fort Huachuca; Capt. Vance Mullen, Camp Livingston, La.; 1st Lt. James E. Guinn, Camp Living ston; M. A. Clark Wynnewood, Okla.; R. C. Bryant, Tulsa, Okla. SECOND ROW: Drs. R, M. Bal ance .Baton Rouge, La.; O. V. Coo per, Alexandria, La.; IV. C. Hayes, Lake Charles, La.; C. M. Smith, Hattiesburg, Miss.; O. H. Smith, Ardmore, Okla.; O. W. McPeters, Texarana, Texas; M. W. Foster, Monroe, La.; T. H. Mims, New Or leans. THIRD ROW: Drs. M. L. Smith. Hattiesburg, Miss.; S. D. Hill, Mon roe. La.; X. A, Hill, Prairie View, Texas; J. H. Murray, New Orleans. FOURTH ROW: Drs. A. W. Du mas, Natchez, Miss.; R. F. Spears, Meridan, Miss.; A. C, Terrance. Opelousas, La.; C. B. Christian, Jackson, Miss.; T. L, Welch, Port Arthur, Texas. FIFTH ROW: Drs. B. E. Roberts, Blytheville, Ark.; S. B. Banks, For-, rest City, Ark.; H. Horne Huggins, Baton Rouge, La.; J B. Matthews, j Port Arthur, Texas; P. G. Byrd,' Beaumont, Texas; E. N. Ezidore, J Gramercy, La.; and J. Wesley Lang | ford, Houston, (ANP) front “Negro leadership, together with leadership by other groups, is giv ing its best to the common task of fortifying the heart and soul of men in uniform,” continued Jfc Pope “Together we seek to ach ieve victory and a lasting peace to follow this global war.” More than 53,000 persons volun teer their services to the USO. he explained, and it is up to the pub lic to see that these services to our men continue and improve by giv ing to the National War Fund; for it eliminates duplication, reduces administrative expenses and con serevs the energy of community leaders in the huge task of collec ting funds for the support of these agencies. The war agencies participating in the National War Fund includes be sides the USO. (United Service Or ganization), United Seaman’s Serv ice, War Prisoner's Aid, Russian War Relief, United China Relief, British War Relief Society, Greek War Relief Association, Polish War Relief .French Relief Fund, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Bel gian War Relief Society, United Czechoslovak Relief Fund, Queen ■Wilhelmina Fund, Norwegian Re lief, Refugees Relief Trustees, U.S. Committee for Care of European Children. 50 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY Ed Shields, 3529 Hascall street, was honored by the Nebraska Pow er Company last Thursday night, July 1, at an informal dinner party at Cesar's country club on his com pletion of 50 years of service with the company. J. E. Davidson ,pres idene, presented him a specially de signed service pin set with 10 dia monds for being the first employe to complete a half-century of ser vice with the company. At 26, Shields began work as an arc trimmer with the New Omaha Thomson-HoUston Electric Light company, predecessor of the Neb raska Power Company. He con tinued work with ehe local comp any when it was reorganized as the Omaha Electric Light and Power Company in 1903 and later with the present corporation, which was formed in 1917. During the Trans-Mississippi ex position held here in 1898, Shields was trouble-shooter for the comp any. Since 1905 he has been re moving and installing meters in O King Yuen Cate CHOP SUEY 2010</2 N. 24th St. JAckson 8576 .Open from 2 p. m. Until 3 a. in American & Chinese Dishes j BUY YOUR | POULTRY j AT THE ! : NEBRASKA PRODUCE 5 l 2204-6 NORTH 24th ST. 1 | Get the Best in Quality at the ? | NEBRASKA PRODUCE jj I —LOWEST PRICE— ’ 1 Phone WE. 4137 j I ! REAL SHOE MAN FONTENELLE SHOE REPAIR CASH & CARRY CLEANER 1410 North 24th St. —CARL CRIVERA— I maha homes. During his employ ment with the company he has been absent only because of illness. EDITOR SPEAKS AT LINCOLN U Jefferson City, Mo., —Mr. C. A. Farnklin, editor of the Kansas City Call, addressed the students and faculty of the 1943 summer session in a special convocation at Lincoln, university of Missiuro, Thursday, July 8, 1943. _ Plain Talk..] ELMER A. CARTER And now they know. For Los Angeles.. ..Mobile-. •• Beaumont and Detroit have spoken more elo quently than all the high sounding vainglorious words about the four freedoms and liberty and equality that since Pearl Harbor have been shouted from these shores. The millions of India know and the brown people of the Southwest Pac ific know and the black of Africa know that America’s protestations of democracy are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, and that op pression and persecution because of race and color may be found not only under the swastika of Nazi Germany but under the stars and stripes. And they will have a clear er idea of the perspective which America will bring to the Peace table and to the aspirations for! freedom and equality of the nor- j white peoples of the world • We who are American citizens of African descent, d edidn’t lose at Detroit as much as America lost. It is true that the numbjr ot our dead and dying is greater bv far than that of our attackers who were evidently aided and abetted by officers of the law sworn to protect the lives and property of the citizens no matter what their rae? or color. But we lost no pres tige; we lost no respect: we lost no honor. But America lost and the measure of her loss is incalcu'.ahi For to the ends of the earth where ever there are those who possess skins that are dark and they are numbered in countless millions, I Seven months ago in November 435 men and women were elected to membership in the House of Representatives, seventy of this number were sent to Congress for iiMiimmiiiiiimiiiiiimiimimiiiiimi th eluster of America’s name "'ill be tarnished and faith in the Am erican democracy will begin to ebb. For what can America tell Great Britain of India! And how can A merican condemn the ruthlessneSs of Japan. America which sprinkl es the pavements of her cities with the blood of citizens whose only offense is the color of their skin. In the face of the program at Detroit and the increasing boldness if those elements of the population intent on depriving the Negro cf his rights as a citizen by threats, intimidation and mass murder, the silence of the Presdent of the Uni ted States is as strange as it is disturbing. His is the only voice that can stay a repetition of De troit in a half dozen American cit ies including the city of Washing ion where racial tension is at the breaking pjint And it cannot b* expected that Negroes will supine ly submit to these unbirdled and unchecked attacks on their person ana their property. Great Caution is being exerted by the federal government to keep accounts of the racial disturbances m American cities from Negro sold iers on the fighting fronts. Bet there is no way on earth to com pletely suppress the news, and un less tnere are assurances from those high m authority that the Negro at home will be protected by his government, there is grave and nnmedate danger that the bit terness and resentment of colored citizens In America will find ex pression in the t„nks of colored soldiers whc now face the enemy across the seas. For how can ore rigni an enemy abroad when be fears for his kinsmen at nome knowing them to be at the merej of enemies just as savage and brutal as the Germans or the Ital ians or the Japanese. The Japanese rodio is probably hr: tiing with accounts of the iaep terror in America. And it won’t make the task of the American foiues in the tenth west Pacific any easier. In a ore of native ton rues and directs ihc Japanese propaganda machine is probably broadcasting wit hsuitable dress ing Up the bloody story of Detroit, pointing ridicule at America's pre tensions of democracy, sowing the seeds of distrust and hate among 30,000,000 brown me nand women who are in the path of America’s armed forces. It may well be that Detroits greatest contribution to the war ef fort is to make it enormously dif ficult if not impossible for Amer ica to Conquer Japan. And that would indeed be a high price to pay for racial prejudice—govern mental apathy and incompetence and moral cowardice. THE OMAHA GUIDE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant St OMAHA, NEBRASKA PHONE WEbster 1517 Entered as Second Class Matter Maxh 15, 1927, at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 1. J. Ford, — — H pres." Mrs. Fluma Cooney _ _ vice Pres. C. C. Gallowav, — Publisher and Acting Editor Boyd V. Galloway. — Sec’y and Treas. 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Dawson, the second colored Democrat to be elected to Congress, was among the dozen or so new Democrats elected for the first time. Of all the legislation introduced in Congress .since January 6, the anti-poll and anti-lynching and Civil Rights Bills are of the most vital importance to the 13,000,000 colored Americans and their 700, 000 sons and daughters serving, fighting, bleeding and dying with their ten million comrades for de mocracy and the four freedoms, Congressman Marcantonio led the fight with GOP. colleagues. ***** The anti-poll tax fight ,was chief ly sponsored by Congressman Mar cantonia .independent ffrom New York, Congressman Baldwin, Rep ublican of New York and Congress man Bender, another Republican of Ohio. The Bill was finally taken from the House Judiciary Commit tee, headed by Congressman Sum mers of Texas, the outspoken lea der of the Democratic opposition and brought on the floor for a vote by a nation-wide campaign, which secured the necessary 218 signat ures of Congressmen. The anti poll tax bill was then passed by 285 favorable votes of members of the Huose, 170 of this number be ing Republicans. The anti-lynch ing bill .introduced by the late Con gressman U.S. Guyer, Republican of Kansas met a similar fate at the hands of the Texas Chairman and was buried in a pigeonhole, because of the Texan’s prejudice. Just be fore the untimely death of this distinguished champion of eiiual justice he filed a petition to re move it from the jurisdiction of Chairman Summers and it is now on the Speaker’s desk, awaiting the necessary 218 signatures to auto matically bring the anti-lynching bill before the House for a vote, over the solid Democratic southern leadership in Congress. NO HOPE IN DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CONGRESS The further revealing truth and incontroversible proof of the fact, that there is absolutely no hope for colored Americans in their all out struggle for their constitutional rights in 1943 or 1944 .than in I860 and 1861, as long as the southern democrats dominate all the comm ittee of Congress, as they do today, in the 78th Congress may be def initely confirmed by the Congress ional Record. Let it speak for it self. 1 Despite the passage, over whelmingly of the anti-poll tax bill in the House, because of solid Re publican support .nearly two mon ths ago, Senator Frederick Van Nuys, Democrat .Indiana, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to which this legislat hearings and favorable action has ion was referred for immediate for all practical purposes killed it. This northern New Dealer first appointed a sub-committee, with Senator Tom Connally of Texas, bitter enemy of the BiP. as one of the Democratic majority members. Of course .nothing has been done i to advance this anti-poll tax bill in 1 the overwhelmingly controlled Sen ate. ***** OPPOSITION OF NORTHERN DEMOCRATS, TOO Now with Congress about to quit, Senator Van Nuys announces that the summer recess wil> not permit the committee sufficient time to take up this measure. Senator Connally and Senator MeyFarland, another Democrat from Arizona and sub-committee chairman has made it ’.c:rt to two against th# Republican members of the Sen ate Judiciary Committee to side track the issue. Thu.t. the colored People’s hopes of a frP« and un abridged franchise for which they Acid Indigestion Rrfieved in 5 minutes or double your money back I g'aa'.y give more than half a mil lion of their own preciou i sons in the name of 'he Four Freedoms have been jgain blasted by the combination of Northern and Sou thern Demo<>-£t.ic enemies of the Race in the Senate. It is extreme ly important to point out that the once great champion of the anti poll tax legislation, Senator Claude ^epper ot Florida and inside adm inistration spokesman has been as siiPnt as the President Roosevelt himself, in this session of Congress After •»•*• months he still -o' s e.* ic re-in■ c. uce his orevr-a" nnti Eoi* tax le gislation and at the iarr .■ time, because of Senato: iai court esy keeps any other Se .ator frt m taking ’.it) the fight for fear of bp ing accused of trying to steal his thunder. This was done in the case of Senator Wayland Brooks, (Rep.) Illinois last Fall, after the GOP. leader had been successful in securing an anti-poll tax amend ment to the soldiers vote law. It will be utterly impossible to pass the anti-poll tax legislation in the U. S. Senate, until more than two thirds of the membership is Republican .instead of Democratic, as at present in the 78th Congress. 2. Congressman William A. Ro wan, 1st Distrit of Illinois, compris ing 100,000 colored voters, at the instance of the National Negro Council and United Government Employees introduced a Civil Rights Bill for the District of Col umbia. Congressman Jennings Randolph .Democrat ,WTest Virginia and chairman of the House District Committee to which it was referr ed. He re-assigned it to a sub committee, headed by Congressman McGehee of Mississippi, in an ob vious and vicious effort to make sure of its death. The NNC and UGE urged upon Congressman Ro wan .followed the expiration of 3C days as provided under the rules of the House, that a resolution be served to discharge this committee from further jurisdiction over the Civil Rigths Bill. This, Congress man Rowan carried forward suc cessfully. ***** WHY DOES CONGRESSMAN DAWSON REFUSE TO SPEAK9 The 13,000,000 colored Americans and their 700,000 sons and daugh ters in armed services ,who may some day visit their nation's Capit ol .regardless of race or color, and desire to get a sandwich or a cup of coffee on Pennsylvania Avenue, the same street, the White House is located on, will be interested to learn that the Petition which needs 218 signatures, after a month’s evi dence on the speaker’s desk con tains less than a dozen names. The ‘VWWr^-rtVVrtYVVW'gVWWi 24th AND LAKE STREETS PRESCRIPTIONS —Free Delivery_ WE. 0G0D DUFFY PHABMACT W/^.V.V.V.V+IVAV/AWi general excuse of this shying away and failure of hundreds of disting uished Congressmen, to publioly register their professed friendship for the colored citizens was ex plained by the sponsor, as due to the Unwillingness of the House to go on record at this time, while so many outbreaks of racial strife have been manifested in all Sect ions of the country. It is plausible to expect a great deal more inter est in this Civil Rights petition to expedite the securing of the nec essary 218 signatures of Congress men for action. If it were possible to get Congressman William L. 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