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Cleaves Temple Missionary Society To Hold Geo. Washington Carver Program Sunday
A George Washington Carver
Program will be sponsored by the
Cleaves Temple Missionary at the
Church, 25th at Decatur Street, on
Sunday, February 11, at 4 pm
Mg. D R- Crooms, Boys Worker
of the Urban League, will speak on
the “Life and Works of Mr. Carv
er.” Mr. Crooms is an able anc
well prepared speaker
Because of the many contributions
to Industry by Mr. Carver, the La
bor organizations affiliated with
both the CIO , which will include
most of the Packinghouse workers,
and the AF. of L-> which include the
Pullman Porters and Auxiliary, and
the Dining Car Waiters and Auxil
iary, have been invited to be the
guest of the Missionary Society on
that day and sit in a body with their
respective organizations
Mr. Frank Cronin, Regional Dir
ector of the CIO will speak on the
“Contributions of Organized Labor
through the CIO to the Negro
Worker.”
Other representative speakers of
the various organizations will speak,
briefly on the contributions made by
their iniviual organizations locally.
Mr. Rufus Long, Executive of the
Local Dining Car Waiters, will
speak on the “Contributions made to
Organized Labor through the A. F
of L. by his organization-”
Mr- eorge Althouse, President of
the Pullman Porters, will represent
their organization in the contribut
ions as made by them.
Key ncople of the various organ
izations and their Auxiliaries will
be introduced.
Musical numbers will be rendered
by some of the best talent in our city
Mr. Cecil Halloway will speak on
“The Contribution and Benefits or
his local to the CIO.”
NEGROES BECOME MILLION
AIRES OVERNIGHT IN MISS.
5
So reported through the columns
of Collier’s Magazine by Harry
Henderson and Sam Shaw, noted
writers.
The Omaha Guide received this
advanced release from the Crowell
Publishing So., 250 Park avenue.
New York, NY., who are publishers
of the magazine.
CLAY COUNTY YIELDS
POT OF OIL
On August 23, ]<J29, a well drilled
by the Union Products Co., brought
in G. C. Woodruff No. 1, Mississip
pi's first commercial oil well. The
well expanded so rapidly that now it
is the third oil producing well in the
country
^ ou will find in the columns ot
the Collier Magazine’s next issue
such headings las the following:
“CLAY HINT YIELDS POT O'
GOLD". “BIG MONEY IN THE
MAKING”, “WHEN IGNOR
ANCE WAS NOT BLISS”
One item especially interesting is
about Mrs- ffusband- “It seems’*
said Mrs. Husband, “we just didn't
know a thing.” One day Mrs. Hus
band accepted $100 from a strange
white man for a third of her royalty
A tew' days later, her son Norman,
to whom she had given some land,
accepted $280 for a third of his roy
alties. Not until a sister got $5000
for a similar share did they' realize
the value of the rights. Yet Mr*.
Husband is not bitter about it. She
is a woman who has come a long
way on a long road, and knows
there is still quite a stretch ahead
She built Heideiburg’s first school
for Negro children by selling cot
lee and cakes to teamsters on cotton
wagons and trains as they passed
her home. She say simply, “God
made te flow'ers and God made peo
pie. too- People are like flowers,
ah always think. They are all dif
ferent coolrs. But they are all alike
and they are all brothers. God
made all of us, people and flowers."
She lives comfortably in a little
white cottage and works endlessly on
quilts for her 74 grandchildren, her
28 great grandchildren and her only
great-great grandchild.
There is an old axiom among oil
men that wherever there’s mud. bad
roads and bad titles, there’s oil.
Mississippi fulfills all these qualif
ications and Heidelburg wins special
honors in the matter of unclear titl
es- Oilmen told us fifty percent ol
the land titles in the field are tieo
up in law suites The chief cause of
all this legal snarling seems to have
been the general poverty of the land
Land would sometimes be sold and
the deed never recorded, because no
body else wanted it- In many cases
the boundaries are vague, often idei,
tified by things, like “the old whit*,
post, which have long since disap
peared.
1hi our way out of Mississippi,
"e walked into the bus station m
Prentiss, in Jeff Davis County.
"Quick." called out the ticket seller
'"a well just came in and Mr. Reggie
Pale says he is going to shout it
from the courthouse roof." We
cliased and caught Mr. Dale- whr
with 1400 acres of land, was fairly
wi,h the good news. He
" isn’t c-eady to climb the courthouse
umd the well was officially complet
- But I’m going to do it when
1,8 off,cial” he said- “I’ve waited
twenty years for this, and another
thing. I m going to get a can of
!r’’h 0,1 and P°ur it over mv bank-'
er - bald head. He always ' said I
was crazy.”
Negro History Week Febraury 11th-17th
Respectfully Submitted by
ROBBIE T. DAVIS
•
As you all know one week each
year has been set aside by the As
sociation for the Study of Negro
Life and History to find more about
the contributions of the Negro to
kjhjtrriational culture. Howet^r
there are some people who have lit
tle knowledge of these contributions
and therefore have no appreciation
for the very fine works of this
group.
In order that we may refresh our
selves at this time of year you will
find below a list of books that may
be obtained from your libraries. Ob
tain a few of these and place them
conspicuously so that you may be re
minded to take a few moments eacli
day to broaden your knowledge of
the contribution of the Negro, to
American life
Akin, E. E., IDEALS AND
ADVENTURE.
Barnes, A. C-. NEGRO ART IN
AMERICA.
Bond, Frederick, THE NEGRO
AND THE DRAMA
Brawley, Benjamin G., EARLY
NEGRO AMERICAN WRIT
ERS.
NEGRO BUILDERS AND
HEROES,
NEGRO GENIUS.
Brown, Sterling A- THE NE
GRO CARAVAN.
Chestnutt. Charles W„ THE
HOUSE BEHIND THE
CEDARS,
THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH
THE CONJURE WOMAN,
BRIEF LIFE OF FREDER
ICK DOUGLASS,
Conrad, Earl, HARRIET
BEECHER STOWE,
Crcmwell. Otelia, READING
FROM NEGRO AUTHORS
Cullen, Countee. CAROLING
DUSK,
THE BALLAD OF THE
BROWN GIRL.
COLOR,
THE MEDIA AND SOME
POEMS,
ONE WAY TO HEAVEN.
Daniel, Sadie I., WOMEN '
BUILDERS
DuBois, W. E.. BLACK FOLKS
THEN AND NOW.
DUSK OF DAWN,
SOUL OF THE BLACK
FOLKS,
NEGRO COMMON SCHOOL
SUPPRESSION OF THE
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
AND DILL, A. G-, NEGRO '
AMERICAN ARTISAN.
Dett, Nathaniel, IN THE BOT
TOMS. (a suite containing
JUBA DANCE)
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. CAN
DLE LIGHTING TIME,
THE FANATICS.
COMPLETE POEMS,
LIFE AND WORKS,
Embree, Edwin R., BROWN
AMERICA (837),
2 BROWN AMERICANS (’3)
d
AMERICAN HEROES- A
Handbook.
THIRTEEN AGAINST THE
ODD
Frazier, E- Franklin, NEGRO
YOUTH AT THE CROSS
WAYS.
Fuller. T- O.. PICTORIAL HIS
TORY OF THE AMERICAN
NEGRO.
Graham, Shirley and Lipscomb
DR. GEORGE WASHINTON
CARVER,
reen, Mrs. E. A , THE NEGRO
IN CONTEMPORARY AM
ERICAN LITERATURE.
Hare. Maud C- NEGRO MUS
ICIANS AND THEIR MUSIC
Haynes. G. E-, THE NEGRO
AT WORK IN NEW YORK
qjTY,
Helm, McKinley, ANGEL MO
AND HER SON, ROLAND
HAYES,
Holt, Rachman. GEORGE
WASHINGTON CARVER.
Hughes. Langston, THE WEARY
BLUES,
THE BIG SEA,
THE DREAMKEEPER AND
OTHER POEMS,
FINE CLOTHES TO THE
JEW.
FREEDOM’S PEOPLE.
Hunter, Jane, A NICKEL AND
A PRAYER
Johnson. James Weldon. GOD'S
TROMBONES.
NEGRO AMERICANS,
WHAT NOW.
COLLECTION OF POETRY
AND BIOGRAPHY.
Johnson, Charles S., EBONY
AND TOPAZ,
THE NEGRO COLLEGE
GRADUATE.
THE NEGRO IN AMERIC
AN CIVILIZATION.
Kaufman. H. L-. ARTISTS IN
MUSIC OF TODAY,
Locke. Alain L., LEGACY OF
THE ANCESTRAL ARTS
THE NEGRO IN AMERICA
THE NEGRO IN ART.
THE NEW NEGRO.
Loggins. Vernon, THE NEGRO
AUTHOR,
Lotz, Philip. RISING ABOVE
COLOR.
I Moton. R R„ FINDING A WAY
IN COMMEMORATING 118TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEGRO PRESS THE OMAHA GUIDE. _
Will Hold Essay Contest for High School Pupils
For Those Leaders, Citizens,
All Who Are Interested
In Politics, Progress.....
Here Is Your Book Of The Year
0$^' • • • EOY AMERICAN
SHOULD READ THE CIO’S OWN BOOK
The First Round
THE STORY OF THE CIO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
By JOSEPH GAER
i/tc tym helped TfCadef
"EVERY labor leader, as, in fact, every
“ forward-looking citizen interested
in political action as a rampart against
reaction, should read The First Round.
It is both a splendid record of what the
CIO Political Action Committee has ac
complished to date, and a primer on the
important educational approaches
leading to political action. I heartily
recommend this book to you."
— Philip Murray, President,
Congress of Industrial Organizations
By special arrangement with the pub
Ushers, you may obtain o copy of the
special edition of The Firtt Round for
$1.50, plus 20 cents for packing ond mailing.
fThe Firtt Round sells for $2.50 in bookstores.)
But we suggest that you place your order im
mediately while this special offer is in effect.
How and why was PAC organized?
What are PACs objectives?'
Who runs PAC and who belongs to it?
What is PAC’s future?
“The First Round is an uncommon book
for the Common Man...‘Must’ reading.”
—Vice President Henry A. Wallace
CIO-PAC • 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Please send me _ copies of the special
edtion of THE FIRST ROUND by Joseph Coer at $1.50,
plus* 20 cents for packing and postage for each copy.
□ Enclosed Q Send CO.D.
Wnn
A AArmtt
i _State__
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Read What Other Say About It
COMMENTS ON "THE FIRST
ROUND* by Joseph Goer
THE FIRST ROUND is an un
common book for the Comman Man.
It tells clearly and forcefully what
PAC is about and why PAC is here
to stay. The PAC program is one
designed to safeguard our democracy
Why this program looks to the wel
fare of all our people is lucidly un
derlined in this work—''must" react
ing for every student of America’s
dynamic institutions.
Vice President HENRY A.
WALLACE.
Every labor leader, as, in fact, ev
OUT,
Murray, Florence, NEGRO
HANDBOOK.
Ovington- Mary White, POR
TRAITS IN COLOR.
Porter, James A., MODERN
NEGRO ART.
Scott, Emmett J-, NEGRO MI
GRATION DURING WORLD
WAR I.
Seageant, E- S„ FIRE UNDER
THE ANDES- (Paul Robeson>
Stevenson. Augusta. A CHILD'S
LIFE OF CARVER.
Sullenger, T. E» NEGRO IN
OMAHA (in Studies in Urban
Sociology)
Yehanen, Kosi, MARIAN AN
DERSON. —A PORTRAIT
Washington, Booker T„ CHAR
ACTER BUILDING.
111E NEGRO IN BUSINESS
UP FROM SLAVERY- ??
Woodson. Carter G., A CENT
URY OF NEGRO MIGRA
TION.
MISEDUCATION OF THE
NEGRO.
THE NEGRO CHURCH
THE NEGRO IN OUR HIS
TORY,
NEGRO ORATIONS AND
THEIR ORATORS.
ery forward-looking citizen interest
ed in political action as a rampart a
gainst reaction, should read THE
FIRST DOUND. It is both a splen
did record of what the CIO Politic
al Action Committee has accomp
lished to date, and a primer on the
important educational approaches
leading to political action- I heartily
recommend this book for you
PHILIP MURRAY. President
Congress of Industrial
Organizations
PAC is here to stay. It has al
ready demonstrated its usefulness in
our struggle to preserve and to
sti^ngthen our democracy- PAC's
educational and political efforts will
undoubtedly increase and expand.
Anyone who wishes to obtain an ac
curate account of PAC’s objectives
and methods should read THE
FIRST ROLND. It contains good
food for deep thinking on our polit
ical future.
SIDSEY HILLMAN, Chairman
CIO Political Action Committee
THE FIRST ROUND belongs on
the desk of every labor leader and
every citizen interested in the polit
ical life of America. Here is a hot
off the press account of how Amer
ican labor has put on its political
long pants- Read THE FIRST
ROUND and you'll understand and
help win the second round
R- J. THOMAS. President.
Un'ted Automobile Workers of
A mcrlca
I liked Mr. Gaer’s book very
much and think everyone with an in
terest in the labor movement and in
1 politics will want to keep a copy of
"The First Round” in their library.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
THE FIRST ROUND is the au
thoritative, inside story of the be
ginning of an epoch in American
Labor history- I comend it heartily
to the attention of workers, public
officials, students, and that cynical
band of scoffers who only a few
months ago were saying, ‘‘It can't i
be done." PAC did it and here's
the 'how' and the ‘why’
EMILE RIEl'E, President Texr
ilc Workers Union of America
THE FIRST ROUND is a live
ly- penetrating analysis of the issu
es that fac America and the PAC’s
answers to them. I recommend it
heartily to all who want to know
what the PAC is and what it stands
for-,
GRANT W- OAKES, President
United Farm Equipment and
Metal Workers.
THE FIRST ROUND serves as
a splendid reference volume on the
history and activities of PAC. It
ihould be read by everyone.
LEWIS ALAN BERNE, President
Federation of Architects. Engin
eers, Chemists and Technicians
This is the story of the political
punch packed by labor in 1944. It
sets the record straight—simply,
forcefully, honestly. No student of
American politics can afford to miss
it. No friend of labor will want to
DR. FRANK KING DON,
Author and Radio Commentator
BISHOP IN CITY
FOR A FEW DAYS
Bishop F. C. Scott of Oklahoma
City will be in the city with the
Church of the Living God- 2316 N.
2">tii St-, Monday night, February
12, 1945 at 8 pm- Bishop Scott will
hold services for three or four days.
The public is invited to hear this
great man preach each night—Mon
day, Tuesadv, Wednesday and per
haps Thursday pm. also.
Rioted White Southerner
To Write Column For
The Omaha Guide
EXCLUSIVE IN |
THIS TERRITORY
HAROLD PREECE
This paper is proud to announce
the addition of a Southern white
man who grew up in a Texas cotton
patch, and who is known throughout
America as a fighter for Negro
rights, to its list of distinguished
columnists.
Harold Preece's “home-made col
umn for home-made folks," “THE
LIVING SOUTH.” will appear
weekly in THE OMAHA GUIDE
EXCLUSIVELY, beginning next
week- Written in the everyday lan
guage of everyday people, this col
umn has run up a record for its
message of unity between white and
Negro Southerners during the two
years when it has been an exclusive
feature of the Chicago Defender.
“The South is changing and white
Southerners are changing it,” Mr.
Preece told this paper. “Bilbo.
Rankin, and Pappy O'Daniel make
more racket than a bunch of tom
cats on a treadmill, leading a lot oi
good folks up North to think that
they are speaking for the South. But
that outfit is just talking for yester
day.
“Right now, we have more white
and Negro Southerners organized
and pulling together than at any
time in the South's history'. We
have new forces coming up from the
cities and the cotton patches of ev
ery Southern state to make our
South a homeland for all its child
ren who will learn to live together
in peace, freedom and prosperity.”
AXCESTORS FOUGHT
SLAVERY....
Mr- Preece is the grandson ot
Texas mountaineers who organized
guerilla companies of Southern Un
ionists to fight slavery and "bush
whack the Confederate forces dur
ing the Civil War. His grandfath
er was a sharpsooter in a Southern
Union regiment, the Texas Moun
tain Eagles. His great grandfath
er. a cousin of Daniel Boone, was
doorkeeper of the first Texas Re
I construction legislature, having been
j elected to this post by Negro ana
poor white legislators.
And Mr. Preece follow-s in the
footsteps of his Reconstruction an
cestors by fighting slavery. He has
written for practically every Negro
magazine and newspaper in the Un
, ited States and went all the way to
1 New York last year, to attend the
| convention of the National Negro
1 Publishers Association. He is act
ively identified with every Southern
organization fighting to bring dem
«>cracy to Dixie.
Ex-Congressman Martin Dies 01
Texas hates Mr- Preece like poison
and accused our new columnist, in a
printed blast of being one of those
responsible for driving him out ot
Congt-ess- Bfjt Harlem Congress
man Adam Clayton Powell is one of
those whom Mr. Preece counts as
his friends- Mr. Preece has prom
ised he will “tell off” Bilbo, Rankin
i and their associates whenever they
FOUNDERS DAY AT ST.
JOHN AME- CHURCH
BY REV. E. F. RIDLEY
Pastor
Throughout the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. Sunday, February
11th will be celebrated as “Founder's
Day,” in honor of Richard Allen,
the founder of the AME. Church
and its first consecrated Bishop
Born a slave, February 14, 1760 in
the state of Pennsylvania, he by his
own labor purchased his own free
dom after he was grown for $2,000
Being thoroughly reliable and a con
sistent Christian, he was in constant
demand in colored and white church
es of his day. even when he was a
local preacher, he was highly respect
ed- Even his own master was con
verted by his preaching.
In 1787, the major part of the Ne
gro membership of St. George Me
thodist Episcopal Church. (In Phila
delphia. Pa ) because they were re
legated to the balcony and snatched
off their knees while in the act ot
prayier. resigned their membership,
and organized the Free Will African
Society. Out of this “Society” de
veloped St. Thomas Episcopal
Churth (opened in 1794 with Ab
solem Jones, ordained as its rector,
the first Negro rector in the United
States), and Bethel Methodist bought
and erected by their own efforts in
1793 on Lombard St., with Richard
Allen as its leader.
Richard Allen and his followers at
Bethel suffered many embarrassing
experiences at the hands of the
white pastors and brethern of Saint
George Methodist Church in the
matter of appointment of pastors
and other things
About this same time, many color
ed churches of Baltimore and sur
rounding places were experiencing
similar difficulties, so, upon the in
get “rambunctious-”
An authority on Negro culture and
history throughout the world, Mr.
Preece co-authored with Arthur 1.
Hayman the book, “Lighting up Li
beria,” published by Creative Age
Press in 1943. His next book, ‘Dew
on Jordan,' written in collaboration
with his wife. Celia Kraft, will be
published this year by E. P. Dutton
| and Co
y
The National Newspaper Publish
ers’ Association in connection with
■ the annual Negro Press Week Ob
servance (February 25 to March 3)
will ponsor a National High School
essay contest—Subject: “The Negro
Newspaper, Crusader tor Real De
mocracy". Coupled with this nation
al contest is a local essay contest
sponsored by THE OMAHA
GUIDE- Local prizes are $10.00
IN CASH. FIRST PRIZE; $5-00
IN CASH, SECOND PRIZE; $2.50
IN CASH, THIRD PRIZE.
The three prize winning essays of
THE OMAHA GUIDE Contest
will be entered in the National Con
test.
National prizes are $100; $75. and
50, all War Bonds- This year marks
the 118th Anniversary of the Negro
Press. All essays must be mailed to
the Negro Press Essay Contest Edi
tor of THE OMAHA GUIDE and
should be postmarked no later than
March 3, 1945
RULES
1 Manuscripts shall contain no
less than 800 and no more than 1000
words.
2. Manuscripts must be written
on theme paper using one side only
3. The contestant’s name must not
appear on the manuscript- Attach
to the essay a separate sheet of pa
per on which should be written the
name and address of the contestant,
tse name of the school and of the
principal
4. Winers will be selected by five
judegs to be named by this news
paper. Prizes listed above for the
local contest will be awarded by this
paper according to the decision of
the judges.
5. The first three prize winning
essays in this cootest will be entered
in the National Negro Newspaper
Week High School Contest
8- A committee of judges, no
more than seven in number, shall
select three National prize winners
from among the essays submitted to
them by the various member papers.
7- The decision of the judges in
both contests shall be final. All
essays become the property of the
NX PA and none will be returned to
the contestants. Judges will base
their choice on the character of the
material* orig^uljiv, composition
an dr.eatness. r
8. Only persufoyof hfeti school
age in the continental United States,
now attending high school, are elig
ible to enter this contest. No mem
ber or relative of a member of the
staff of any newspaper will be elig
ible to compete in this contest.
Omaha Guide Publishing Co-,
2420 Grant Street.
Omaha, Nebraska
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vitation of Richard Allen, delegates
from these various churces met in
Piladelpia. April 9, 1816 and organ
ized the African Methodist Episco
pal Church as a Holy Protest a
gainst segregation in God's house,
duly elected and consecrated Richard
Allen as its first Bishop and set
forth as part of its doctrine “God,
Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer,
Man, Everywhere Our Brother”
The AME- Church will accept as
a member, anyone, regardless of
race, color or nationality.
From this humble beginning, the
AME. Church with over 7.000 chur
ches, 16 Bishops, one to each of the
16 Episcopals scattered over the A
mericas, the isles of the sea and
parts of Africa, 15 General Officers
10 Colleges, 2 publishing house*.
AME- book concern (The oldest in
ihe New World) Seminaries, Doug
las Hospital, and hundreds of thous
ands of members and adherents is
the greatest example, and expression
of self-help and the greatest force
and oraginzation in the Negro race,
working for its religion, cultural,
and general good.
In the quiet celebration of this
“Founder's Day,” February llth, in
St. John, we invite you to come and
take fart and witness the same dur
ing our Morning Worship at 10:45
A. M.
In the afternoon at 3 pm. sharp,
the Blue Jacket Quartette will ren
der a program At 6 pm- will be the
A-C.E League, and at 8 pm. the
“Union Service" will be eld. Rev.
F. C- Williams, Pastor of Zion Bap
tist Church, will be the speaker.
1*1,A\ PRESS WEEK OBSERVANCE—The Press Week Committee of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers Asociation has completed plans for the
Annual Negro Press Observance commemorating its llSth Aniversarv,
February 25—March 3. This years plans include world-wide broadcasts,
national and local essay contests and programs. Shown above as they
ntet in Detroit, Michigan lat week after similar confabs in Washington
and New* York are (left to right): Dowdal H. Davis, Jr.,, Advertising
Manager of Kansas City Cali: (center) Frank L Stanley.: Press, Week
Committee hairman and publisher of the Louisville Defender: and (right
Thomas W. Young, Business Manager of the Norfolk Journal & Guide.