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I TO THOSE WHO GRIEVE by Ruth Taylor ]
"It is better to break your hearl
than to do nothing with it."
I read that line once and it has
stayed in my memory. 1 talk now
not to those whose dreams come
true—but to those who have been
hurt—to those who dread to look
ahead—to all thosoe whom war has
bereft
To them 1 say—nothing can take
away what you* lave had Even
though you have lost what was
dearer than life, would >ou rather
never have had <it?
Suppose you have lost what you
dreamed of having? So What?
Would you rather never have dream
ed?
Can you truthfully say that you
would rather never have loved and
lost? Can you truthfully say you
would rather have no memories?
Is your heart broken or bruised?
Remember, a bruised flow'er gives
the sweetest fragrance.
I say to you—wake up—life is
richer because of what you have
had Stoy bewailing Be grate
ful for what happiness was yours,
—that is one thing no one can ever
take from you
“This day I’ve lived”( Horace
wrote centuries ago.
However deep your grief howev
er great your loss, you had some
thing out of life Would you, to
protect yourself from hurt—never
have lived? Onl} those who do not
live do not suffer Shut your heart
from those things that are worth
caring for and you shut your heart
toyuiy reason for living.
What if you have lost? Face
yolir sorrow! Be glad for what you
have had! You can overcome sor
row—but yo n never fill the
vacuum of r .iermit heart!
Brace up! “It IS better to break
you heart, than do nothing with it!”
NAACP. HAILS ACTION ON FEPC^ Warns
Against Taft Bill, Compromise without Teeth
Washington, DC—The NAACP
hailed the action of the Senate Ed
ucation and Labor Committee in
favorably reporting SI01, the Cha
vez-Aiken Permanent FEPC bill.
The vote came on the heels of an
effort by Senator Claude Pepper (D
of Fla ,) to work out a compro
mise which would satisfy southern
members of the Committee who
threaten a filibuster It is report
ed that the proposed compromise in
volved the substitution of S450, the
Taft FEPC stcdy Commission Bill,
for that of the Chavez B 11, which
actually has "teeth” in it.
Working to beat off any compro
mise which would weaken the bill,
Leslie Perry of the Washington
Bureau, NAACP, told Senator Pep
per that “employment diecrirnin
ation has been adequately studied”
and the enactment into law of the
Taft Bill would “only be a snare
and a delusion so far as minority
groups are concerned ”
Other members of the Committee
known to have been friendly to the
bill were further urged to give "un
compromising support" t> 'he Cha
(Continued on Page W^2)
Northside Area Plans
for Post>War Business
I
■ PROGRESSIVE MEN, WOMEN EITHER ADDING
TO OR STARTING VARIOUS NEW BUSINESSES
In addition to the Carver Savings and Loan Association enterprise, and1 the
Hiram l). bee extensive building program in this community, other progressive
men and women, with their eyes on the future, are establishing various busi
nesses in Ibis locality. Among the new ones beginning are those below:—
A New Beauty Salon to Open
for Business June 10th 5 \p.m.
Mists Oorts Hawkins who formerly
wits a operator at Florence's at
24th and Grace Streets, and is pres
ently at the Victory Beauty Salon,
2tth and Burdette, has spared no
pains to give Omaha the most beau
tifully decorated and equipped
Beauty Salon Omaha has ever had
f‘e*. Miss Hawkins has newly decor
ated the west room in the Omaha
Gsidc building at 2422 Grant Street,
throughout, with the color scheme
designed to quiet your nerves while
you are being served at the Modern
istic Beauty Salon, with anyone of
the four leading and experienced
Omaha beauty operators They are
as follows: Mrs Dorothy Harris
Allen. Mrs Ethel Smith, Mrs Wil
lie Mae Killingsworth and Doris
Hawkins
The opening House date is set
for Sunday, June 10th and Monday
June 11th Time 5 until? The
public is most cordially invited at
the Grand Opening of the Modernis- j
tic Beautv Salon. 2422 Grant street
>
Miss Doris Hawkifls> Proprietor
Harry Buford Opens
Electrical Appliance Store
l.ieut Harry Buford, wishes to i
announce to hl» many friends and
acquaintances, that the Klectronic
Balt.: and Service Shop, will open
its doors to the Public on Saturday,
Juno 9. 1945
Yes there will be a worthwhile
door prise for all who register on
the visitor's book on that day and
date
Mr liuford. stated to the Omaha
Guide reporter, that he expects to
carry a full line of all electrical
appliances, also records, phono
graphs and radios Rendering the
very best of repair services for all
types of electrical appliances
Don't forget the date, Saturday.
June 9 1945 You have a date with
the Electronic Sales and Service
Shop at 2411 North 24th Street
Off-sale Ltqour Store to Open Soon
^V^^^N^^r^l^t'hnsni^prnprirUir
of Johnson's Drug, secured his off
sale liquor license Monday He
will open his new Liquor Store at
North 24th Street (next door
: . his drugstore, just as soon as it
become* vacant This building is
now operated by Dr J J Jones, 1
flenns^^^P^iF ones has bought the
building at 251S Xorth 24th Street,
which is now occupied by Lillian's
Bargain Center Just as soon as
the Bargain Center is vacated. Dr
Jones, who recently purchased the
building, will take over.
FIRST TWO NEGRO BLUE JACKET
NEWSMEN ASSIGNED TO SO. PACIFIC
Great Lake*. Til,—Lieut Chatlcs
W Payne. Officer-in-ctaarg« of the(
Fleet Home Town Distribution Celt
ter. Chicago, Illinois. presented
letter* of recommendation to Mur
ray J Mania, Jr , seaman, fust
class. 216 Coulter Street and Charl
es W Campbell, seaman, first class
.Ml North 12nd street. both of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as they t
were about to depart for duty in j
the South Pacific area These Blue
jacket newsmen are two of the first
five Negroes to be assigned is fleet
correspondents under the i-’V'y’s
new program of furnishing inter
esting news sidelights to the home
town newspapers of Navy men serv
ing in the Pacific battle /ones
Campbell and Marvin worked in the
Public Relations Office it 'treat
Rakes and were more recently at
tached to the Fleet Home Town
Distribution Center in Chicago
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MR. MILTON E. JOHNSON
President Truman
Confers with
Walter White
Washington. DC.—In a half
hour conference with President
Truman. Walter White, executive
secretary NAACP. vigorously pro
tested the action of the American
delegation at the San Francisco
Confernece in its siding with Great
Britain and France against event
ual independence for colonials and
dependent peoples, as originally
proposed by China and Russia
Mr.• White told President Truman
it was imperative that the United
States modify its position and if
possible change !t altogether.
On the question of minority
rights and Federal legislation. Mr.
White reported the President much
interested in the FEPC bill. Other
matters discussed included the Anti
Poll tax measure. Vetera.is rights
and the Veterans Bureau. Toe
NAACP Secretary was asked to sub
mlt memorandum of his observat
ions on conditions and treatment of
Negro troops by Army, Navy and
Marine Corps, during his recent
trip to the Pacific 4
President Truman indicated a de
sire for further discussion if tinse
and other issues. Mr White sug
gested leaders of Negro opinion be
invited—if another conference is
held
A .4IHVIIUI P1BI.ISHKK RA\
QI ETS CHICAGO AI.PII V**—Doctor
Henry Allen Boyd, in appreciation
of the many social courtesies ex
tended him through the years, gave
a unique banquet for 175 of his
fraternity brothers at the Parkway
ballroom on May 18 Left to right
Dr E K McDonald. Dr. James
F Smith, V-president of XX Lamb
da Chapter. Dr Luther S. Peck,
president of the Theta XI Lambda'
Foundation, Dr Boyd addressing
the gathering, Paul Robeson, guest
of honor. Atty. Sidney A. Jones^ Jr.
toastmasteri and Dr Charles M
Thompson (Atlas Newsphoto Ser
vice) .
Wm. Z. Foster, Labor Leader
to Speak at Swedish Auditor’m
^-—--V
Miss Ilena Bradley,
Dr. W. W. Solomon,
were crowned King
Queen last Monday
eve’ at the Annual
St. Philip’s Corona
tion Ball.
t/
Council o£ Churches
Join NAACP Fight
for Anti-Lynch Bill
Washington. D. C —The Frater
nal Council of Negro Churches i«
America joined the NAACP this
week in pressing for signatures on
i5frfcharge Petition No. 3 to bring
the Powers’ Anti-Lynching Bill be
fore the House.
In urging congressmen to sign
the petition. Dr. William H. Jerm
gan. Director of the Council's Wash
ington Bureau> declared: “As this
war closes the Church is concerned
with the possible outbreak of viol
ence. The usual search for a
scapegoatj identifying it with a
minority group, has fostered anti
Negro strikes, race riots and lynch
ings. and increased the msecurity
df 13 million American citizens of
Negro descent. We are painfully
aware of the tragic experiences
which followed World War I and
we would be woefully neglectful of
our Christian duty if we failed to
point up the need for adequate gov
ernmental machinery to prevent
such a recurrence following World
War III
The Anti-Lynching Discharge
Petition has 87 signatures
Reverend Jernigan said that it
was the Christian duty of every
| FRIDAY, Jl'\E STH—8 P. M.
William Z Foster, one of Amer
1 ica's outstanding labor leaders will
; speak at the Swedish Auditorium,
1809 Chicago street, Omaha, Nebras
ka, on Friday. June 8th at 8 pm .
on the occasion of his 50th anni
versary in the labor movement.
Mr. Foster’s topic will be thej
“Xgw Labor Charter", and “Prob
lems Facing the People in Connec
tion with the San Francisco Con
ference” and the building unity
and a world security organization.
Mr Foster is known to the peo
ple of Omaha having spoken here
on numerous occasions :n connec
tion with the organization of the
workers into trade unions
For the past ten years Mr. Foster
lias devoted his activities to work
ers# education. He has written
hundreds of articles and pamphlets
which have served as a guide to
understanding what active steps
should be taken in a given situation.
.His books have been used in con
nection with classes Mr. Foster
is also the author of many books
More recent books are "From Bry
an to Stalin” and an autobiography
“Pages From A Worker’s Life."
Mr. Foster was one of the lead
ers in the drive to organize the
stockyard workers after the first
world war. He was responsible to
the A. F of L in 1919 for the
great drive to organize the steel
workers of the United States along
the lines of industrial unionism
Mr Foster is one of the Vice
Presidents of the Communist Polit
ical Association under whose aus
pices the Omaha meeting will be
held
I
I Negro church and church-goer in
! America to make a titantic effort
to push this bill through Congress
lilBERATED AMERICAN SOLD- Aboard the vessels are American
IER.S New \ ork ( Soundphoto) — soldiers who were liberated from
A convoy of four ships—first to German prisoner of war camps^
leave Europe since \-E day car- several hundred wounded soldiers,
rying a total of 4.3S1 army passen- as w'ell as contingent of returning
gers arrived in New York last week troops for fotational furlough or
PETITIONS
COLONIALS
EQUALITY
STATUS
URGES SELF GOVERNMENT
GUARANTEES
San Francisco—The NAACP vig
orously protested action of the A
merican delegation in voting with
Britain and France, two largest
colonial powers, against China and
Russia who proposed not only self
government but independence be
assured in the charter of interna
tional organization, to all colonial
and dependent peoples. The Chin
ese proposal further provided for
punitive action against any nation
branches and others joined in this
proposal and the latest report ;s
that the American delegation is at
tempting to work out a compro
mise .
Additional action by XAACP con
sultants Walter White, Dr. W. E.
B DuBois and Mrs. Mary McLeod
Bethune included the circularizing
of an appeal to the American dele
gation petitioning it "in the name
of 13 million Americans, tlood bro
thers of many millions of colon
ists:
“FIRST, to make a i ieliminary
, statement on the essential equality
' of all races, the same statement
which the United States and (Jreat
Britain once refused to grant Jap
an; and identical with the suppres
sed proposal of the Chinese delega
tion at Dumbarton Oaks; and that
“SECONDLY, the United States
delegation propose this article for
the Charter of the United Nations;
The colonial system of government
however deeply rooted in history
! and custom, is today undemocratic,
'socially dangerous and a main
cause of wars. The United Na
tions recognizing democracy as the
only just way of life for all peoples
make it a first statute of interna
tional law that at the earliest pos
sible moment no nation or group
shall be deprived of effective voice
I in its own government and enjoy
ment of the four freedoms. An in
ternational colonial commission on
which colonial peoples shall have
representation will have power to
investigate the facts and imple
ment this declaration under the Se
curity Council ”
i In preface to the plea tor specif
ic provision for the 750 million col
onies, in an Internation Bill .if
Rights. Dr. DuBois challenged the
wisdom of the 3 great rations in •
ignoring those peoples whose ex
ploitation “has been a prime cause
of war, turmoil and suffering for 3
centuries”. He declared "we ail
know' that the opposition of Great
Britain to any International action
on the colonial problem has made
the United States refrain from this
step and make no allusion to the
festering problems of India, of the
Netherlands, Indies and of West
and South Africa.
“But is this wise—not only for
our own sakes but for the future ot
the people of Britain, many of
whom have denounced the colonial
system? We have allowed oursel
ves in this conference to be estrang
ed from Russia by the plight of a
dozen reactionary and jew-baiting
Polish landlords, and have made no
comment and taken no action on
the great words spoken by Molo
tov: ‘We must first of all see to t
that dependent countries are en
abled as soon as possible to take
the path of national independ
ence.’ ”
Dr DuBois further pointed out
that "the omission of specific ref
erence to these peoples is almost
i advertisenemt of their tacit exclu
[ sion as not citizens of lrte states
I and that their w'elfare and freedom
would be considered only at the
will of the countries owning them
and not at the demand of enlight
ened world public opinion.”
Druggist’s Wife Dies
MRS. BESSIE E. ROSS
SUCCUMBS.
Mrs Bessie E. Ross, the wife ol I
Doctor Thomas C. Ross, who form-!
erly lived in Omaha and operated
the Ross Drug Store, and who now
resides at 2125 6th avenue, Council
Bluffs. Iowa, died Thursday at 2 p
m , May 28th at her home
Mrs. Ross was 56 years old She
was born in Hannibal, Mo. She
leaves to mourn her loss a husband.
Thomas Ross, Sr , a son Thomas
Ross. Jr., 2 daughters Mrs. Margie
Williams and Miss Anna Mae Ross,
who is a student at Creigtiton Uni
verity, studying for pharmacy in
her Junior year, two grandsons,
Robert George Brown, Joseph Dav
id Brown, a sister, Mrs. Fannie,
Green, a brother A. Lagon Shep
herd, all in Omaha, except Thomas
Jr , who is in England.
Funeral was held at Lewis Funer
al Home in the Chapel at 2 p m .
Thursday, burial at Forest Lawn
cemetery.
reassignment. *»hotw sviows view
of one of the loaded troopships,
decks crowded with returning
Yanks, as volunteer Red Cross Can
teen girl wave greetings from the
“Welcome Home' boat which -met
the troopships down the bay
Congressman William L. Dawson and Bishop R.fiims
1C ilberforce Commencement Speakers
President Charles H Wesley an
nounced that the 1945 Commence
ment speakers at Wilberforce Uni
versity include Congressmas Will,
iam L Dawson, a graduate of Fisk
University. Magna Cum I aude. the
Chicago Kent College of Law and
Northwestern University School of
Law Congressman Dawson was
admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1920
lias served as Aledrman is the city
of Chicago; First Lieutenant in the
American Expeditionary Forces.
United States Army. 1917-1919; and
has been a member of the Seventy
eighth Congress since 1943 Con
gressman Dawson will deliver the
Commencement Address on une 14
1945
Bishop David H Sims, of the 1st
Episcopal District of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, a grad,
uate of Georgia State College, Ober
lin. the University of Chicago and
Yale university; a former dean of
Morris Brown University and Allen
University asd President of Allen
University at the time of his elec
tion to the Bishopric, will deliver
the Baccalaureate Sermon on Sun
day morning, June 10, 1945
These two speakers are looked
forward to with great interest and
expectation by the Graduating class
of 1945, the Alumni and those inter,
eeted in education It is believed
that these addresses will sound new
notes in the Education of the Ne
gro
Other speaker* include Dr Leon
idas H Berry, distinguished spec
ialist in internal medicine, a grad
uate of Wilberforce. the Rush Medi_
cal school the University of Chicago
and specialist in research m Chicago
Medical Research Centers, who will
deliver the address to the Alumni of
the University on June 13, 1945
Mr Tanner Duckery. Assistant to
the Board of Superintendents, board
of Public Education. Philadelphia,
Pennslyvania, will deliver the ad
dress to the Wilberforce University
Laboratory High School on June 11,
1945
Fort Huachuca "Sweetheart”
Miss ‘Dot” Davis of El Paso, Texas, lias been sel
ected by soldiers at Fort Huachuca as their favorite.
Miss Davis is now attending school at Hilliston Col
lege, Austin, Texas.
A AAA A a
'THE LIVING
SOUTH
(HY HAROI.lt PREECE)
(Copyright, 1945, by New South
Features)
HAROLD PREECE *
Ed West, who works in the coal
mines, wag telling me the other day
that one reason Dixie practices so
much discrimination is that Dixie
has been discriminated against so
much herself
“Now, you understand. Harold "
said Ed West, "that I’m not making
out cases for all that bunch of two
legged buzzards which go around
eating out the insides of colored
people I’d like to wall ’em up all
inside that truck mine where I dig
coal and then light a match to a
smidgeon of black powder and blow
’em skyways to hell. I figure that
colored people and all kinds of peo
ple have the right to the same
chance because the same Lord made
all of us with the same mouths
that's gotta be fed.
“But I reckon the trouble is that
all of us white and colored, live
behind the same vails that they
call discrimination so that we’ve
been shut out from the rest of these
here United States Them walls are
so derned high that we can’t look
over ’em very far and see what’s
hurting us. So we just naturally
take it out on each other.”
Now. brothers, 1 kept studying a.
bout those walls of discrimination
which have shut us all up until long
after Ed West had left because hi3
wife had told him to get home
early for supper And while I was
studying the news broke over my
radio that the Isterstate Comm ?rce
Commission had knocked one of
those cussed walls into a dirt pile
that a one-eyed cockroach wouldn’t
dig a hole in .
VKXAU AT THE BAT
The interstate commerce commis
sion plumb played hell with what
was called "Discriminatory freight
rates” and it was the South's num
ber 1 progressive leader. Governor
Ellis Arnall of Georgia, who raised
cain with tehm until the commis.
sion got busy and did something
AVhic hmakes me feel mighty prou.l \
because it shows that Dixie is start- I
ing hammering at these walls from
the inside at the same time that
good friends up North are ham
mering at them from the outside.
No, I figure that Old Jim Crow
got his tail feathers blown skyways
j when the Interstate commerce com
mission handed down that decision
I agree with Brother Osceola Me.
Kaine, who helps get out that cour
ageous paper, the Columbia, S C.
Lighthouse and Informer, that the
best way to run old Jim off his nest
in Dixie is to build a Dixie where
all our folks have something to do
and something to take home to their
families on Saturday night
Professors like my friend. Dr
Charles S ohnson. of Fisk, call
that “attacking discrimination at
the job level " They say that when
people work together, form unions
together, and realize that they have
common economic interests, that
there's much less danger of some
body getting mad because somebody
of a different color accidentally
steps on his toe
NET’ JOBS FOn NEW DIXIE
T‘l, this decision means that we
car ~e thousands of new factor
w w
New Cabinet
Members
■au
JUDGE LOUIS SCH WELLEISBACII
Washington, DC., (Soundphoto —
Judge Louis Schwellenbach of Spo
kane, Washington, an intimate
friend of President Harry Truman,
pictured here has been named to
succeed Mme. Frances Perkins as
Secretary, of .Labor.
■33
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY TOM C.
CLARK,—Washington, I) C Sound
photo-This is a recent photo of
Assistant Attorney General Tom C
Clark who was named by President
Truman to succeed Attorney Gen
eral Francis Biddle, who resigned
last week.
HKP. CLINTON P. ANDERSON —
Rep Clinton P. Anderson (D) of
New Mexic'o has been named by
President Truman to replace Claude
Wickard as Secretary of Agricult
ure Wickard is slated to be Rur
al Electifii atio i v dm in infra tor
ies with thousands of new jobs for
the people of both colors in a new
Dixie It means that we can have
| factories and that we can have jobs
because Southern industries can
now compete on an equal basis with
Industries in the North without hav
ing to pay Jim Crow rates to ship
out their goods
I reckon that's going to make the
j South forget the Civil War and that
i Is going to make the South take
! Old Jim Crow out and wring hi.s
! neck along with the last kluxer and
the last bilbo.
I reckon that Ed West is finding
out that the Lord meant him to be
a man and not a bilbo
Old Time Omaha
Resident, Dies
j Mr Charles Dickerson died Sun
day evening, May 27, 1045 at his
homej 2814 Ohio street Cause ot
death, high blood pressure He
leaves to mourn his loss, son Char
les Dickerson, J' t two daughters,
Mrs Leroy Wright and Mrs Rob
ert Myers, and 3 grandchildren
Mr Dickerson was employed at
the Omaha National Bank for 31
years He was a lay reader at St
Philips Church Funeral was held
Thursday morning at 10 a m.
Burial at Forest Lawn cemetery.
Hal
