Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1943)
LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS =r:.. ---■- — ... 1 -.■■■.- ..— - ----- ■ - , ___ ^ nSNebr"‘“ Saturday, Sept. 25, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR-No. 33 City Edition, 5c Copy L^crion Sidelites (BY JULIUS E. HILL) New Member of Theo.Post LT. WILLA B. BROWN Before an audience that taxed the capacity of the Mirror Lounge Lieutenant WlUa B. Brown was made a member of Theodore Roose velt Post No. 30 at 11:30 p. m. Tuesday night. Sept 21st This honor was bestowed upon her by Commander J. C. Carey, who pre sented her with a membership card amid thunderous applaune from those present. This world famous aviatrix accepted the card graciously, with the same lovely personality she has shown since she «?rived_tn tout. ... . ... % I RGES MORE AIR MINDNESS In her address at St. John's Church, Wednesday evening. Sept. 22nd, Lt. Wills B. Brown stressed the need for more air. mindness among members of our group. She stated that af ter the war as now, there will be a great need for pilots and airplane mechanics, as aviation will be more in evidence com mercially. (A more comprehensive account of her address will appear in this paper next week.) Legion Buys Jewell Bldg The Roosevelt Post has acquirtd another piece of property—the Jewell bldg at 24th and Grant St. ***** MRS. R. E. REESE ON THE JOB Mrs. Russell E. Reese, Direo.tr'ss of the North Side USO.. also a member of the A.W.U.S, with Mrs. Leonard, sold Saving Stamps at the Legion Post (Roosevelt) during their Convention. ***** AUXILIARY GETS SPECIAL CITATION— As with the Post, so with the Auxiliary. Roosevelt Post, as has been published in this paper, is in permanent possession of the Spaf ford Trophy for having the larg est percentage gain in membership over a period of three consecutive years. With it in their possession of course, its auxiliary couldn’t win it, but they DID win a citation. You just can't keep persons belong ing to this post down! Below is the exact wording on the citation: AWARDED TO THE UNIT BY THE AMERICAN LEGION AUX ILIARY DEPARTMENT OF NEBRASKA FOR OUTSTAND ING SERVICE IN FURTHER ING THE 1944 MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM IN HARMONY WITH THE MEMBERSHIP KEYNOTE. DEDICATION TO GOD AND COUNTRY And the ladles of the Auxiliary wants it to be known that they haven't really got started yet! » ♦ ♦ ♦ * ALLOWED TO DANCE Monday evening, Sept. 20th, the Post let down its hair (so to speak) and allowed the jitterbugs to do their stuff in the Lounge, because it was Convention Week. They really did their stuff in a big way. And to put it in the words of a popular song—We don’t know how they did it, but they did it? They will be allowed to dance (Continued on page£?»=4) - ' '■ ' I... . ■ "■ \ Bayard Ruslin to Speak at Downtown F. W. L. A. 4We MUST MOT Fail Nebraska!!?* Buy another Bond l\ow, Sc Worth ot GoodRectdin Bishop, Mrs. ISioah 7. Williams, Honored at Reception The Pastor, Rev. E. F. Ridley, Officers, and members of St. John African Methodist Episcopal church held a invitational recep tion Friday evening, September 24. at 8:30 o’clock, honoring Bishop and Mrs. Noah Wellington Wil liams. at the church at 22nd and Willis avenue. Door cards were presented for reserved seats. Soldiers and Paul Robeson ! To Appear with London Symphony London, England—The ears of the world will be turned towards London’s famous Royal Albert Hall on September 28 and 29, when the voices of some 200 American Ne gro soldiers fill the air in the first concert of Its kind evr held in the Sponsored by Lord Beaverbrooks British empire. “Daily Express" in cooperation with the Army’s European Theatre Headquarters, the concert will also feature Roland Hayes, distinguish ed America ntenor, and the London Symphony Orchestra. In attendance at the concert will be high ranking empire officials an dmany foreign dignitaries. The concert will be broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company and the National Broadcasting Comp any which have agreed to make selections from the concert avail able to listeners throughout thg world. 1111 . .. _~ Subscribe Today! COL. BENJ. A. DAVIS, JR. FAMILY ALLOWANCES KEEI* MEN’S MORALE HII.H SAYS’COL. DAVIS Newark, N. J. Sept. 22—Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., one of the heroes of tjie. Sicilian Campaign, and organizer and first command ing officer of the famous all-Negrc Figmer squadron, brought word to Newark that a big lactor in the high morale of the men at the front is the knowledge that their families are receiving their family allowances and allotments of pay regularly each month. Colonel Davis has returned to employ his battle experience in training a larger fighter group. ( Stopping in for a visit at the War Department Office of Dependency Benefits to authorize an increase llotment of pay to his wile, VIrs. Agatha S. Davis of 97 Carmel St., New Haven, Conn. Colonel Da vis declared that “the efficiency of our men in the service, is a major factor in the high morale which prevails.’’ Colonel Davis is the son of Brig. General Benjamin O. Davis, now in Washington. He was graduated from W'est Point in t Continued on page 2) Chicken Coop housing— - - These are Quakertown. Pennsyl- j vannia chicken coops in which,mi- I grant tomato pickers must live with their families. Some of the 6 FLORIDA FARM FOLK CRAMM ED IN PENNY. HENCOOPS MAY HAVE TO ocrr FARM BEFORE TRIAL OF EMPLOYER CHARG ED WITH DEATH OF TWO MIGRANT WORKERS Quakertown. Pa.—When the trial of E. O. Mastin .tomato farm own er, her*" in wohse barn two migrant workers were burned to death last August 17. begins next month, the tomato harvest will be over and most of the impoverished farm hands which he imported from Florida will have moved away in order to continue to make a living. XAACP lawyers said this week. With these witnesses gone chances for a conviction lessen. At a coroner’s hearing at Quak ertown on August 27 the coroner’s jury held Mastin responsible for the deaths of Willis Cooper and I Mrs. Odell May. Cooper and Mrs. coops, the largest of which is a bout seven feet square and five feet high, -are housing families with as many as five members. I May were trapped in a crowd ?d barn in which several families liv ed on the Mastin farm. There were no fire escapes and only one exit. A. ^investigation of the case by * John Grantham, president of the Lehigh Valley branch NAACP here had revealed that the workers on the Mastin farm lives almost in the state of peonage. Most of these workers, who were brought here from Florido to pick tomatoes which are sold to the government through the Campbell Soup Company, are housed with their families in tiny chicken coops filthy and unfit for human habit aton. Although dissatisfied with living conditions, the workers claim they have been unable to earn enough money to leave the farm. ###»########»#####»#######»#####» I TEXT OF SERMON OF ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH ON THEIR GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE CONSECRATION AND THE 65th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PARISH, DE % LIVERED BY THE REV. FR. S. J. MARTIN. Honor Memory of The Late Father John A. Williams SERMON PREACHED ( in St. Philip’s Church, Omaha, on the Golden Jubilee of the Consecration and the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Parish by The Rev. Fr. S. J. Martin, Rector of St. Edmund's Church, Chicago 12th Sunday After Trinity “ANNIVERSARY SERMIN” We come this morning to cele brate a very solemn and pleasant occasion.. Solemn because we are mindful that we are in the pres ence of God and have been charg I ed with responsibilities—pleasant because not withstanding our short comings God has been gracious unto us. I have been thinking of one of the most important inci dents in the life of the Blessed Mother. It was a day of great celebration, a day of remembrance, a day o fthanksgiving. Wwhen ever a child was born to a Jewish .mother, it was required in the law that she should go to the Temple and there present her offering and fee Purified. It was not merely a time of pomp and outward show but a day of deep significance.—a time when the mother offered her child to God. It was an occasion on which the Jewish Church sought to impress upon every mother—a day that they should never forget. It is so easy to forget but hard to remember... There are many things we like to forget—we strive so hard to forget and yet we can’t forget.. I imagine Judas who be trayed Our Lord tried to put that awful act out of his memory— but he could not bear it—to think I have betrayed innocent blood. The very thought of it caused him to go out and hang himself... Peter denied Our Lord and went on his carefree way, not realizing, not remembering that Our Lord had said to him. “Before the cock crows, thou sholl deny Me thrice.” The cock crew and Peter remembered and he wept bitterly.. The words of the Psalmist are touching, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning, If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I prefer not Jeru salem above my chief joy.” And the most mystical experience of all is certainly to share in the great Service of the Altar when we recall—remember that it was ] in a little upper room with twelve men that the Saviour of the World took common bread—broke it. took ordinary wine—blessed it, gave it to them and said, “As often as I you remember and do not forget: you show forth My Death.” ..So | we have been asked to remember. I 1 know that there are mvstical and imponderable, difficulties we can’t < understand. Why is it that we have been endowed with the gift of1 memory?. Is it a gift or a curse? St. Paul cries out, ”0 wretched man that I am. who can deliver me from this death?” “Out. damn ed spot, out.” . ’’Wash me thor oughly fropi my wickedness and cleanse me from my sins.” ..We want to recall the lovely, the beau tiful, the pleasant, but the unpleas ant and the evil we want to forget. Anne Proctor tried to work it out: “'Seated one day at the organ. I was weary and ill at ease. And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing. Or what I was dreaming then; But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen.1 It flooded the crimson twilight Like the close of an angel's psalm. And it lay on my fevered spirit With a touch of infinite calm. It quieted pain and sorrow, Like love overcoming strife. It seemed the harmonious echo From our discordant life. It linked all perplexed meanings Into one perfect peace. And trembled away into silence. As if it were loath to cease. I have sought, but I seek it vainly. That one lost chord divine, That came from the soul of the or gan And entered into mine. It may be that Death’s bright aneel Will speak in that chorff again. It may be that only in heaven Crucifix ... memorial to Father William* I shall hear that grand Amen.” The woman who came to anoint Our Lord’s Feet with precious oint ment was confronted with this problem. Judas found fault with her. It would have been better to have sold the ointment and given the proceeds to the poor. Accord ing to political economy, Judas was right. Matthew tells us that the other Disciples agreed with him and were indignant at the waste. They wanted to know, “To what purpose is this waste?” Yes, the ointment was wasted if everything is wasted which does not produce a useful, outward result. If noth ing is useful which cannot be weighed, evaluated, tabulated and put into statistical tables then this action is wasteful. But, if that is good which feeds the mind and heart, which strengthens the soul, —if affection is useful and senti ment is useful—if man does not live by bread alone but by every M ord that proceeds out of the mouth of God. the ointment was not wasted but put to its highest possible use. This woman did not forget—she remembered. She gave her precious ointment as a memo rial. She did what she could. She wanted to keep forever in her heart and memory the fact that she an ointed the Feet of the Blessed Master with the most precious thing she had—an alabaster box of precious ointment. Is this not the meaning of this day? The presentation of our gifts, the offer ing up of our memorials—our souls and bodies to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice. There are people here this morn ing I know, who are able to share I in this great service. It is not me chanical. They are those who. no doubt, have not forgotten the Saintly Dean of Trinity Cathedral who made it possible for this mis sion to come into being. We can not forget the late Bishop Worth ington who wa sresponsible for the formal organization of this work. This goes back to 1878. The Rever end Father John Williams, Jere miah Reed. Cvrus Bell, William R. Gamble in 1891. 1892. This pres ent building was erected and con: secrated by Bishop Worthington on April 21. 1893. This church is an alabaster box of precious oint ment. A memorial given by the wife of Bishop Worthington in memory of her dear mother. Amelia. In_1879 a young colored man was ordained a Deacon and became Priest-in-charge, then, in 1891 came that Saintly man John Albert Williams. In 1882 a por tion of the temporary structure used for the Cathedral was given to this parish and was moved to 19th and Cuming streets, where it remained until 1890. In 1890 it was removed to this present site! and Bishop Worthington laid the Corner Stone on September 21, 1892. In 1926 your Mission became a Parish with the Reverend Father [ Victor Holley, grandson of Bishop Holley of Haiti, became your Rec tor. Then came Father Wright who remained w-ith you a very short time, having been called to his reward. Your present Rector came in October, 1938. Since his coming the whole church has been completely renovated, the base-j ment and heating plant remodeled, i a new kitchen and guild rooms have J been installed, a new Chapel has ) NOTED NEGRO FIELD SECY OF FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION HERE SEPT 28TH —7 O’CLOCK Bayard Rustin, National Field conciliation, will speak at a meet Secretary for the Fellowship of Re ing to be held at the YWCA., 17th and St. May's Ave., on Tuesday evening, Sept. 28th at 700 o’clock. Mr. Rustin, a Negro has worked with the American Friends Serv ice Committee in this country and in Puerto Rico, and the past two years has been traveling over the United States gathering data about the American Negro and conditions affecting him He is a dynamic speaker and has definite facts and figures to give. There will be time allotted for discussion after his talk. The meeting is open to the public. BAYARD RUSTIN' was born in West Chester, Pa. After some travel abroad ,he returned to pub lic school in West Chester where he participated extra-cuiricula*1 activities, winning major letters in football .track, tennis, singing and speaking. He was graduated from high school with scolastic and act ivitieh honors. After high school he attended Chayney State Teachers College, Wilberforce University and the City College of New York. He spent several summers in the Student Peace Service and Work Camp program of the American i Friends Service Committee. Dur- ■ ing the summer of 1941, he worked : with the Friends1 Camp in Puerto Rico where 12 students from Am erican colleges, working without pay assisted Puerto Ricans in build ing a school in one of the under privileged areas. Since 1941 he fcas been a field secretary with the ft 1 lowship of Reconciliation. He nas been most concerned to explore the Candhian technique for winning freedom and overcoming injustic es. He has attempted to apply this knowledge to the American Ne wo’s struggle for better jobs, hous ing, education and doing away'with discrimination. been built, and the Altar remod eled. He has been upheld by the mystical experience of those who have entered here and gone on. Only one of the clergy is alive to day who was present on that mem orable occasion—The Right Rever end Irrm P. Johnson, retired. Bish op of Colorado. On that afternoon twelve persons were confirmed and I believe that five of them are liv ing today, Leonard and Edward Gamble, Lillian Cox. Delcia Good child, and Ellsworth Pryor. But we have still today people I who are asking, “Why the waste of this precious ointment?” What of the sick and the poor? What about the world torn with strife and racial conflict? Why spend money for music when the world is starving? How can your Priest stand before the Altar in costly Vestments w-hen the world is crack ing up? Can God be pleased with ritual and ceremony when children are underfed and ill housed? Our Lord said to those Disciples, “You do not understand this mystical gift of memory. You can only see the present. You understand the thing from a standpoint of weight, tabulations, statistical tables, out ward results, but you will learn as you know more of me and are with me longer that man cannot live by bread alone.” I remember when I was a stu dent in college in Boston, I would walk down Tremont Street and gaze upon carved statues of gran ite that cost thousands of dollars. In that wonderful horticultural hall there it seemed to me that the building would have answered the same purpose without these stat ues. The amount which they cost would have provided a comfortable home for a number of persons who were living in cellars and were ex posed to disease. According to political economy it was a waste to put those statues there but every poor man in Boston is a little better, every child that lives 1 loday! Telegram Sent to All County Chairmen:_ "Nebraska stands forty-sixth with only 3fi percent of its Third War Loan Bond Quota sold. The time is half gone. Nebraska never has and MUST NOT FAIL in main taining its sector of the Battlefront. The present crisis necessitates your using sufficiently resourceful and aggressive methods In canvassing or recanvassing every individual and eligible concern in order that you will meet your quota and that the price our boys are paying in Italy and the Pacific will not be in vain, W. DALE CLARK, State Chairman War Finance Committee" AN EDITORIAL FROM THE OMAHA WORLD HERALD “As these lines are written com es word that the state of Nebraska now stands forty-sixh among the 50 divisions (the states, including California, in two parts, and the District of Columbia) in the sale of war bonds, relative to quota. “That does not sound like Xeb 1 raska. “That ,we venture to say is NOT Nebraska. “It is simply an accident of the reports. Other states made their returns faster, or completed their solicitations earlier. Nebraska nev er was and please God never will be as far down he list as that in any patriotic activity. Nebraska ■* is habitually at the top or very near thereto. “But the word from Washington, as of September 18, should convey a warning to us nevertheless. It is time for all of us to get busy. To turn in our contributions (and double them if we can). To do energetically and at once whatev er tasks have been assigned to us in connection with the campaign. “For Nebraska must not fail. America must not fail. We, the people, must not fail our sons.” LEON J. MARKHAM, Executive Manager, War Finance Committee ELKS BOND 'CHIEF Lt. Geo. W. Lee, Memphis, Teniu, author, business man, and civic leader, who, as National Chairman of the Elks War Bond Committee, has set the fraternity’s Third War Loan goal at $5,000,000; and re ports steady progress through his six regional chairmen. in a cellar is a little happier be. cause besides cold brick walls there is something to please the eye and fill the heart. Even the bootblack of the street does not live by bread alone. God must have approved (Continued next week* FEPC. Meet — on RR Hearings Washington. DC.—The long a waited investigation of discrimin ation in the railroad industry got under way Wednesday. Bartley C. Crum .chief FEPC counsel outlin ed the committee’s case. Bartley’s statement, forthright and pertinent defended he commitee's investiga tion of discrimination in the rail industry durng the “crisis period of our national war effort’’ with the remark that it was Its firm con viction that his issue must be fac ed during the war. Outlining the objective of the rail probe. Crum stated its sole purpose is to afford "equality of job opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed or col or.’’ Crum concluded with the in spiring assertion that "in doing justice to the Negro railroad work er today we shall both serve the practical war needs and eliminate the evid of bigotry and discrimin ation at home and give heart to the peoples of Europe .and Asia. Shown seated around the counfer enee table are: Miss Sara Southall Supervisor of Employment and Service, international Harvester Company. Chicago: P. B. Young, Sr., publisher, Norfolk, Va., Jour nal and Guide; Samuel Zemurray President, United Fruit Company, New Orleans, La.; Malcolm Ross, assistant to the chairman; Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis J. Haas. Chair man; George Johnson .chief inves tigator; John Brophy of the Con gress of Industrial Organizations; Milton P. Webster. Internat.onal Vice President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Chicago; and Boris Shiskin .American Federation of Labor. Washington. DC. (Press Photo Service)
