Unity at Home Victory
Abroad, . .. Mrs. Roosevelt
TALK BY MRS. ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT ON “UNITY AT
HOME; VICTORY ABROAD".
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1943
N. * Y.’s BLACK, WHITE.
YELLOW, BROWN
New York City is my City. I
was born in this City; my child
hood was largely spent here. I
went away in the Summers, but all
of my education up to the age of
15 was carried on in New York
City. After that age I lived away
at different times for long periods
of time, but I never come back
withou tthe feeling that I am com
ing home and this is the place
where I belong. I’ve spent many
hours visiting the beautiful things
of this City, its museums, its chur
ches, its cathedrals, its picture gal
leries, its shops. Hove to stand
on a rainy day and look down Fifth
Avenue, and on a clear night 1 love
to come across the Bay and see the
lights go on in all of New York e
City buildings. I like to fly over
the City and see it as panorama
below, and I like to visit the dif
ferent sections, each one of which
has a flavor of some different na
tionality. I have grieved over the
City’s slums, but I have vis.ted
them. Ihave regretted it when 1
felt that we were lagging behind
in making our public school system
better year by year, or that we did
not have playgrounds enough for
our children, or that we were not
doing a good enough job on public
health. But. gcod or bad. I’ve
loved and still do love this City,
with its people, black, white, yel
low .brown; some of them newcom
ers. some of them having lived
here a long while, though never
quite casting off the country of
their birth, some of them descend
ed from ancestors who may have
come over in the Mayflower; all
of them human beings and citizens
of a great metropolis.
ONE RACE, ONE RELIGION
DOES NOT MAKE NATION
GREAT
I should like to congratulate our
Mayor who has one of the most
important jobs to be done in our
nation. He has accomplished a
great deal while he has been May - |
pr and I hope he will continue his j
merest in the children and in the
reung people as well as in the oth- \
it citizens, and see to it that those
who cannot protect themselves are
well taken care of. He likss to
see the precedent established here
:n this City which has been the
first to wlcome so many new cit
izens, that those who need protect
ion can get it from their Govern
ment.
Now we. in this City, face grave
responsibility- What we do will
make a pattern for many other peo
ple in many other parts of the
country. It is quite true that New
fork City is not exactly represent
ative of the United States as a
whole, but many people all over
the United States look at what
Happens in New York City and are
influenced by it, whether they live
n a prairie town in Kansas, or on
the coast of Maine or California.
Here, in minature, is the melting
pot—the place where people who
formerly wer citizens of every
country in the worm are becom
ing citizens of the United States.
Here they learn that a nation can
be great because it is bound toget
her by an idea that the nation does
not have to be of one race or of
one religion, but its people do have
to believe that there are a few
things worth living for and worth
dying for and those beliefs are
what create unity and make us a
nation.
NO RACE OR COLOR
SI PERIOR
We, as a nation, believe that ev
ery man has a right to worship Gcd
in his own way and so there is no
discrimination shown before the
Law in this country for any man,
because of his religion. It states
in our Constitution that all men
are created equal. W edo not
mean by that that God endows ev
ery man with the same powers or
places him in the same environ
ments: we mean that in the eyes
1 of the Creator, who knows all there
is to know about human beings, ev
ery man nas an equal chance to
prove himself if he uses his ability
as well as his environment will al
low. We are not the judges of
what makes men equal, but we of
all people -s i not say that the
people of one race or one color are
better than an yothers. Our con
cern is that every race and every
color and every human being shall
have an equal opportunity to de
velope in each generatin to the lim
its of their ability. We will have
bad people among us, but they will
not be all white or all black or all
gentile or all Jew; there will be
fewer bad people as justice and ec
onomic and educational opportun
ities are opened to all.
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
We fight a war today sending
our men to the far comers of the
world, and the principal thing for
which we fight are involved in
these questions at home. If the
A PUBLIC CHALLENGE
to the
WORLDmERALD
In an article in Sunday's World-Herald, unfair rate comparisons were made between the electric
rates charged by the Nebraska Power Company in Omaha and those charged by the publicly-owned
plant in Fremont.
So that the people will not be confused by this unfair comparison of rates, we make this public chal
lenge to the World-Herald:
%
If the Nebraska Power property, operated and managed as
efficiently as it now is, did not have to pay taxes (the Fre
mont plant pays no taxes) and did not have to meet any
obligations of citizenship in Omaha, it could give to the
people of Omaha rates LOWER than those charged in
Fremont!
This year our Company will pay more than S2.500.000 in all forms of taxes. If the Com
pany did not pay these taxes \ OL would have to pay them out of vour own po'-’
Rate comparisons of all kinds are unfair UNLESS ALL CONDITIONS ARE CONSIDERED.
X X X X
THIS SHOWS ABSURDITY
OF RATE COMPARISONS:
COMPARE WORLD-HERALD RATES:
In Fremont, a page of advertising in the Fremont Daily Guide & Tribune
(at the highest rates) is $164.
In Omaha, a page of advertising in the World-Herald (at the highest
rate) is $1,083.
In Omaha, the World-Herald charges its carrier subscribers 42c a week
for morning, evening and Sunday papers.
In Kansas City, the Kansas City Star charges 20c a week for carrier sub
scriptions, which includes morning and evening editions and Sunday. The
WTorld-Herald subscription rate is more than 100 per cent HIGHER!
The World-Herald charges 25% MORE for its evening and Sunday edition
than the Kansas City Star charges for its evening, morning and Sunday
editions.
NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY
j Axis powers were to w.n. there
would be no freedom anywhere in
the world. We think it worth sac
rificing our lives and the lives o.1
those whom we love to proven
slavery and preserve the lio t of
real democracy upon the earth
How illogical we will be if we do
not watch our own attitude and
wipe out of our own hearts what
ever causes a lack of unity among
our own citizens.
UNITY AT HOME:
VICTORY ABROAD
Our slogan is: “Unity at Home—
Victory- Abroad”. I think wherev
er we live in this great Country
we must find a way to give to all
of our citizens the essential thing
that spell freedom in a great de
mocracy. because only thus can we
justify the sacrifices of our boya
throughout the world. Here at
home there are specific things
that we can do—we can make up
our minds that we will work with
any other human being who does
his daily work beside us. and that
we will not inquire as to his race
or religion, only as to whether he’s
doing an honest job. We can ma-te
up our minds that we will behave
with courtesy to thost about us,
and ask only that they will behave
in the same way and allow us to
go about our business undisturbed.
We can decide that in pblic convey
ances where each one of us pays
for a seat we will not look askance
at our neighbors, no matte.* what
his race or his religion. This
same rule holds good in places of
public entertainment which are op
en to all citizens, and where we all
have paid our money and go in on
an equal basio.
What we do in our homes is an
individual thing, and each one of
us can decide for ourselves. How
ever. if we observe the rub's cf
kindness and courtesy at all times
to ail men I think we will go far
toward making our own City a
good place in which to live, and of
such fair repute that we need nev
er be ashamed. Our slogan will
thus become a reality—one people
joined together for Victory— at
home and abroad.
NEGRO SCARE STORIES WITH
OUT FOUNDATION SAYS
CORONET
During the past year, the Un’t
ed States has £een exposed 13 a
ALKA-SELTZER
brightm
MY DAY
OCCASIONALLY, I wake up In
the morning with a Headache.
It sometimes wears off along the
middle of the forenoon, but I dent
want to wait that long, so I drink a
glass of sparkling ALKA-SELTZER.
In just a little while I am feeling a
lot better.
Sometimes the week’s ironing tires
me and makes me sore and stiff.
Then it’s ALKA - SELTZER to the
rescue — a tablet or two and a little
rest malcgg me feel more like finish
ing the job.
And when I eat "not wisely but
too well,” AT ,K A-ski .'i-Zfr.K relieves
the Acid Indigestion that so often
follows.
Yes, Alka - Seltzer brightens my
day. It brings relief from so many
of my discomforts, that I always
keep it handy.
"Why don't you get a package of
ALKA-SELTZER at your drug stare
today?
Large Package SO*, Small 30*. «
host of Negro scare stories. And
more recently, to riots lietween Ne
groes and whites. Frequently,
most of these riots may be traced
directly to rumors, according to an
article in the epteSmber issue of
Coronet magazine.
Investigators_..repertory, local
officials or FBI.- agents.... have
-n variably found these nimois
without any foundation whatsoev
er. There have been no concert
ed Negro attacks on whites. .. .ei
ther planned or consummated. Or
any organized white attacks on Ne
groes. Furthermore, says Coronet
1 this also applies to the nightmar
ihh disturbances in Detroit, Beau
mont. Texas and Harlem.
Belief in such rumors makes
you-and you-a sucker. If
! you pass them along,” declares the
Coronet article, “you're playing ball
with the Axis. They create lunger
ous tension and terrors. They die
down in one place, when nothing
has happened_..only to spring up,
almost identical in another.”
BOY IN SERVICES
WRITES ‘Mora’ ABOUT
NPC CONTROVERSY
Hopes His Job will be
W aiting When He
Comes Home
The following letter was received
August 7 from Pfc John A. -Morris
ey, U. S. A. Marine Corps, in peacs
time an employee of the Nebraska
Power Company. It was written,
to Mrs. Ethel "Mom" Marsh, Resi
dential Sales Manager. Mrs.
Marsh keeps up regular corres
pondence with 58 of her fo.-mer
employes now serving in the arm
ed forces.
Great Lakes, ill.
August 3. 1943
"Dear Mom:
Have noticed the continued agit
ation for sale of N. P. Co. Just
can't understand it all. The peo
ple of Omaha are satisfied, the
City Council is satisfied. The _
company has served Omaha for a
long time in a very satisfactory
manner. The officers of the Ne
braska Power Co. are efficient and
have proved time and again that
we have one of the best comp inies
of its kind in the country. Now
why all the fuss? It seems to mo
that certain individuals or a mall
group have a private reason or
nave their own axe to grin I. We
fellows in the service have left our
homes and family to protect and
guard our American Way cf life.
When this is over there w.Ii be
no more Hitler or Tojo or any of
the “isms". We want none o' that
in Omaha either. When I get back
I hope to find that I will have my
| old job back with N. P. Co. Hope
to find the same fine executives
at the same time, still doing the
' same good job for the whole com
' munity. Our company has done
j its wartime job well and is not for
sale. The City is satisfied and the
| people who are its customers are
satisfied and want no change.
When we get back we all hope to
find that things are the same in
the old home town as when wo left.
If the party or parties who are be
hind this agitation would use their
efforts toward winning this dam
war it would be better for all con
cerned.
Tours, John”
NORTH 24th STREET
SHOE REPAIR
1807 N. 24th St. WE-4240
-POPULAR PRILL* -
LOOK AT YOUK SHOES
Other People Do.
^04 &4tct
l Hj
^^gjpontinental Features