I Natl Negro Health. Week April 1 -8 (By Hyland B. Melford, Sr.,) Anat. Director of V D Education State Health Department The birth of the National Negro Health Week was the timely fruit cation of Booker T. Washington’s practicable philosophy of “head, heart hand and health” education for effective service and wholesome living. Controversy on the adjust ment of the Colored man to his new environment had ranged around the social hypothesis, "Can the Amer ican Negro Survive?” In 1915, Dr. Robert R. Moton, of Tuskegee In stitute guided the National Negro Health Week movement toward its destined objectives in his articlei I “Organized Negro Effort for Racial I Progress”, which briefly defined the origin of the Health Week as an observance in which persons of all races cooperate and the object, of course, to improve the health of Negroes and the conditions under which they live. Today the Nation al Negro Health Week movement has grown to proportions undream ed of. As outlined by the present National Negro Health Week Move ment, under Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Health Education Specialist, for the U. S Public Health Service, Wash ington, DC. two definite objectives are outlined (1) to stimulate the people as a whole to cooperative endeavor in clean-up-educational, and specific hygiene and clinical services for general sanitary im provement of the community and for better health of the individual, (Continued on page 5) Saturday, March 31, 1945 Our 18th Year, No. 8 ★ 10c Per Copy ★ W rite Your Senators to Support RR-lb9b ™ * M " « " | RACE NO FACTOR IN FIGHTING ABILITY’ | ...Says General Mac Arthur REP. POWERS HITS VIOLENCE £ AGAINST SOLDIERS IN SPEECH FOR ANTI-LYNCHING BILL WASHINGTON, DC —The first move toward getting a federal anti lynching hill before Congress this session was made March 21 when Discharged Petition No. 3 on HR 1698 was submitted to the House by Congressman D. Lane Powers (R-NJ ) who is sponsoring the NA ACP measure. The petition requir es 218 signatures in order to get the bill out of Committee where it is how bottled up. Every supporter of anti-lynching legislation is there fore being urged to write his Con gressman to sign the Discharge pet ition. In outlining ihe re..sons why the 79th Congress should outlaw the crime of lynching without further delay Congressman Powers declar ed that 5,144 persons in the United States met death at the hands of lynch mobs from 18S9 through 1944 He asid 3.688 of the victims have been Negroes and in the overwhelm ing majority of cases> they were lynched by native white Americans Placing stress particularly on civ ilian police brutality against Negro servicemen following World 'War I and the increasing gravity of sim ilar incidents in the present period, Powers cited the lynching of sold iers who were slain “simply be cause they had tasted a little free dom, a little travel and had a little pride in the part they played in the army that fought for democracy.” He pointed to the April 3, 1941 lynch slaying of Private Felix Hall, found hanging from a tree in Ft. Benning Ga., and to the recent beating (Mar 13, 1945) of Negro overseas veter ans by Jackson. Mississippi civilian police> because they were fratern izing with some white soldiers whom they met in the railroad sta tion at Jackson. — In quoting from a newspaper ar ticle describing the incident Repre sentative Powers, read "The police, seeking to preserve southern cus toms informd the men that they could not mingle together in Miss issippi. When they did not immed iately break up the conversation the story continued, civilian police, nftned with sawed off shotguns and tommy guns, beat the Negro sold iers about the head with blackjacks and forced them to immediately board their train enroute to Camp Shelby." Concluding that such instances are only a foretaste of what is to come, Powers declared, “I am con cerned about the violence that has been, and is being, perpetuated upon the Negro soldier and the Negro veteran. There is no room in Am erica for lynchings; there is no room in America for race riots. This must apply particularly to the <£astcr 3s ] ^»tmbap Attend Church Services (See Church Directory, page 3) -j i Executive Secy. FEPC. Committee Here April 8 Mrs. Ann Arnold Hedgman, Exe cutive Secretary of the Committee for a Permanent FEPC. will be in Omaha, Sunday, April 8. to stimul. ate efforts for the Drive to make the Fair Employment Practie.e Com mitt<* a permanent Institut on. postwar period. Wo, as a nation, are reparing to take our rightful place of leadership in world democ racy. "That democracy for which men fought and died is not, and must not ibe a democracy labeled “for white Europeans and white North Americans—only.” It must be a democracy for all of the nations and all of the peoples of the world. We w'ill assume world leadership in the post-war era because we have won it. I a*k this House then to make this democracy a real and meaning ful thing to the millions of Negro servicemen and their families who have helped to make victory and leadership possible. I ask that this' House take immediate steps to out- j law lynching by adopting HR 1608 so that when these boys come home, black and white alike, they will know that they have truly fought for—and won—a better America and a better world.” Leslie Perry of the NAACP Wash ington Bureau said that “any Con gressman who is in the leastwise concerned about the postwar Am erica wdll lose no time in signing Discharge Petition No. 3 on the Anti-Lynching bill and letting vot ers in his district know that lie has done so.” ! Girl Alleges Father Inflicted Back Hurt Yvonne Ellis, 11, of 2530 Maple Street, told police she was beaten by her father, Edward Ellis, 36, at her home early Sunday. She said he hit her when she re fused to tell him the whereabouts of her mother, from whom he is estranged. She was taken to Doctor's Hospital with a back injury and a j broken tooth. Due to space we will run the Kate Smith Article next week._ 5 INDIGNANT OVER RT MORS Md DIVISION FAILED: ARTILLERY BATTALION GETS HIGH PRAISE FOR WORK Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea —,— “Itace has nothing whatsoever to do with a man’s ability to fight,” Gen eral MacArthur told Walter White 1 when he conferred recently with the New York Post war correspondent in the Phillipines. "Any man who says that another man's fighting a bility can be measured by color is wrong. I learned that,” declared the General obviously provoked at the persistent rumors discrediting combat performance of the 93rd Infantry Division, "in serving as a junior officer with the famous 25th Regiment. One of the greatest armies I have ever commanded was l a Filipinio one.” I Mr. White in his report stated that recent developments in the at tempt on the part of certain pers (Continued on page 8) Nat Towles’ Home Burglarized On March 26th between 7:30 and 9 o'clock, burglars broke into the home of Mr Nat Towles, 2626 North 24th street. Every lock in the lock in the house had been tampered with and every room ransacked. If it had not been for the return of Mrs. A. Miles, the loot would have been much larger. From all ap earances of the condition of the house, there must have been two or three burglars working together. J All the closets, trunks, dressers and chiffoners’ drawers were emptied out. Choice select items had been stacked on the bed ready to lift, but seemly time was too short when they heard Mrs. Miles enter—for Them to make their get away with the planned haul. The following items have been missed by Mrs. Towles so far. She is investigat ing trying to determine just what is missing- camera, carton of cigar ettes, two dinner rings, two bill folds, one with Mrs. Towles’ name engraved, three pints of whiskey, (Old Thompson), and a quart, box of nuts shipped from Florida to Mrs. Towles from Mr. Towles, and a bank t with approximately $12 in nickels and dimes, $250 in war bonds with either Ruth or Nat Towles name on them and Mrs. Miles lost a cigar ette case and a clock. Mrs. Towles is very much upset over the loss of her two valuable dinner rings and a camera that was presented to her by her husband on her last birthday. Mrs. Nat Towles is offering a lib eral reward for the return of the camera. Mrs. Towles will apprec iate of being notified by anyone to whom the above items might be offered for sale. Just call JA-5255 and you’ll be amply paid for your trouble. A Much Needed, Long ‘ Dreamed of Negro Institution Finally becomes Reality PROGRESSIVE MEN LAUNCH COMMUNITY BANKING ENTERPRISE To the side is the Home of Th«( Carver Savings and Doan Associat ion. This building has been pur I chased by this Institution. It is not the largest building in the city of Omaha in stature, but it repre, sents a firm foundation of the larg est financial institutions in the State of Nebraska to the Mid-City section. It is a partial fulfillment of the dream of the founders of the Omaha Guide which was decorated in the Guide platform 18 years ago. The idea of this Association was conceived and planned and worked to its present perfection by one of Omaha's keenest legal minds, Atty. Charles F. Davis, assisted by a group of men who he has been work ing with in Iroquois Dodge No. 92 and of which he is Exalted Ruler. Atty. Davis' strict business admin istration, in the Ellcsfi dodge and his ability of working out a solu tion of the problems which com fronted him, with the assistance of his able Secretary, Dr Price Terrell, placed in the men who he was tvork ing wth, a confidence that was un shakeable. When Atty. Davis was elected as Exalted Ruler of the Elk’s Dodge he set as his goal a permanent home for this organization. He found a frail structure to begin with and a group of men divided betweet. themselves—destroying the very things which they were organized to perfect. With the rental agree ment on a building which was prac tically worthless due to the lapse of time, it was no small job for him to weed out the selfish interests which was in the hearts of a few of its members. With his eye on the beam, he pisked his co-workers to perfect an organization that would do the job and during the time he was working out these problems, he established such a permanent confidence in his closest associates until they observed in him a man who was giving unsting iously every ounce of his energy in the interest of building a firm or ganization in the interest of its members and not for no one indiv idual. When Atty. Davis took charge of the administration of this Lodge they had no home, no money in the treasury, no credit, and practically no respect in the community tn which it existed. Today, they own the building which cost $64,000.00 to build and which at one time was purchased by C. C. Galloway for the sum of $40,000.00 With the in crease of property value at this date we would say this building today is well worth $60,000.00 and could not be reproduced for $85,000.00 cash for the same. They are now carry ing an average balance in the bank of from 12 to 15 thousand dollars— with a good credit rating and sev eral thousand dollars worth of U S War bonds to their credit and thi. Lodge has been instrumental in this community in contributing to many | charitable institutions and individ uals and above all this organizat ion now has a group of men who have ■implicit confidence in Atty Davis' firm business administration in the interest of humanity to such an extent that he was able to pick out a few men of this organization and organize the Carver Savings and Loan Association. There isn't any doubt in any of the incorpor ator’s minds, as to the future suc cess of this financial institution. The Negroes of Omaha alone, have deposits in the downtown financial institutions of $18«,000.00 and are paying interest on capital stock controlled where they cannot get ! but a meagre financial considerat ion and where they are given em ployment to 49 employees. Why not transfer this in the whole to where it will give your boy or your girl who is coming out of High school every year, some thing in the line for which they are | trained for. The Carver Savings and Loan At I sociation not only deserves a 10091 cooperation of the Negro in thi. community, but it also deserves and I will expect the full cooperation of every business that is operated it this section of the city of Omaha The Omaha Guide firmly believe, that when the fundamental princ: pie of this organization and tin worth of it to this community i properly unfolded to the business firms of this section, that they vvii rally to the strengthening of thi? structure, for the business firms o this section, heretofore have alsi felt the sting of refused consider ation from a financial point of viev by the downtown financial institu tions, due to the fact that their bus nesses were located in this area. So, we The Omaha Guide, suggest to the official family of the Carve Savings and Loan Association, to b« gin to-day to build that confidence j up in the business men of this sec- ! tion -—that confidence which is (Continued on page Si IROQUOIS LODGE No. 92 No. 4056 i. a. p. a. e. or w. Dollars - UfoauOtB « ri SITED STATE $—£h j\aiional BAN R 0/ OmaUm _tfthratkm CHECK: Iroquois Lodge No. 92, first with active group support as evidenced by their check for One thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). j , ! BUILDING: Purchased for the future home for The Carver Savings and Loan Association. Occu pancy planned within sixty days. Watch for opening date! ★“ * * A ★ ~if if-★ ★ ★ —~ ★-★ • Members of The Carver Savings & Loan Association DR. CRYIG MORRIS, President —Board Member CHARLIES F. DAVIS, Secretary -Trenailrer— Hoard Member an