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EDITORIAL- COMMENT Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, June 16, 1945 THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER MAILED TO C. C. GALLOWAY, EDITOR OF THE OMAHA GUIDE FROM A HARD WORKER IN CIVIC AND FRATERNAL ACTIVITIES, DR. CRAIG MORRIS, ENOUTE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON A SEVEN WEEK VACATION. Dear Mr. Galloway: I am recounting some of the things the new Negro Medical Society has accomplished in the last few years which I believe are going to be helpful to the Society and the Community. The Society Incorporated in November, 1943, to be in a better position to undertake sponsorship of public health education, supervise and control clinic, initiate such movements and assist in move ments to promote public health, to elevate the pro fession and its members by meetings where inter change of ideas and the setting up of study courses would better prepare the members to serve their clients and to raise funds to promote public health. The accomplishment of these objectives has been a difficult and trying task. In connection with the U. D. program started by the Surgeon General Thomas Parreen we cooperated with the City, State, and U. S. public health service in presenting a course taught by a U. S. Public Health Service man and a man from the Department of Public Health State of Nebraska in the diagnosis and treatment of V. D. disease. The Society was requested to consider the es tablishment of what is now known as the North Side Clinic and it was due only to the efforts and endorse ment of the Society that this Clinic was set up. The American Legion furnished the place and are due the thanks of the Community for such generous ac tion. The Society has cooperated and furnished the manpower to conduct two large Clinics in connec tion with the Nebraska Tuberculosis Society, the City, State and United States Public Health Service, using the facilities of the Woodson Center and Ur ban League and the North Side Y. W. C. A. Two years ago a meeting was called for all the recognized health agencies, the two Medical schools here and a representative group of our people. This meeting brought out the fact that the Negro Professional man cannot develop to his fullest abili ties under the restrictions placed over our people in Omaha and the only solution to provide adequate hospital facilities for the group and making it pos sible for the professional man to realize his full abili ties was the establishment of a hospital in our Com munity. It now appears this objective should be rea lized with the purchase of the land in Bedford Park by the money donated by the members of the Ne braska Negro Medical Society. Space will not permit me to research all that we have done or relate the trials and tribulations that we have endured to get recognition here in Oma ha that should have been quickly given to the Ne braska Negro Medical Society as a constituent mem ber body of the National Medical Association of which Dr. Lennox is State Director being recognized by the President of the United States as the proper Society through which to approach public health problems affecting our people. Finally we succeeded in becoming a member of the Community Welfare Council along with the recognized health agencies and activities in Omaha. Dr. Wiggins has completed a hard, thankless but very commendable task in raising the money to purchase the land in Bedford Park for a hospital. I can give you a full report on this in about two weeks, giving the names of the Dactors and laymen that donated the money to purchase the site for the hos pital. Where all the resources and means of the Com munity should be utilized to bring the hospital to a quick completion. I know the town and we are not going to get 100 per cent of a support and coopera tion. That is human nature but we are determined and fully set on one thing and that is no longer will the progressive people in Omaha permit selfishness, conceit or obstinacy to check, prevent or hinder the development of those things within our group for our group which processes further possibilities in Omaha for our qualified, alert young people. I know we can count upon you to advise the cause of prog ress in Omaha. Yours truly, Craig Morris. A Real Prize Winner! ■ I KINSMAN. OHIO—Paul F.. Hutchins, 14-year-old 4-H club mem ' her here, is an outstanding boy farmer and he is shown with Elmcrest Ruby Pontiac Ormsby, his three-year-old prize cow which he raised himself from a calf as a club project. When Paul was only eleven he first showed his cow, then a calf, and took the blue ribbon at the> Trumbull County Fair Next year he repeated. Now Paul is 14 and ! Rubv is three and Paul is showing Ruby’s calf and hoping for a third j blue ribbon George Smidt. county agent and 4-H leader, is Paul’s leader. J Bible Enjoys Postwar Revival of Interest World Is Reawakening to Spiritual Values; Scriptures Source of Inspiration For Millions of Disconsolate. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Last week I sat down to write a piece about a man who wrote a book about the Bible. I thought the book and its creator were worth more than casual comment because of the nature of both creation and creator. Both are unique. But before I had made more than a dozen inquiries in search of colateral material for my article I discovered that the produc tion of the book was news in another sense. I found it to be more than another contribution to modem lit erature and scholarship. I found it to be part of a modern phenomenon —a phase of what appears to be the greatest revival of interest in the Bible which the world has ever seen. George Stimson, who wrote "A Book About the Bible." is one of Washington’s newsmen whose name is known to many readers of his dis patches and his column, especially in the Middle West and South. He is known to a smaller circle for the profundity of his knowledge on many subjects, especially the Bible. I think it more than coincidence that he completed the work to which he has given a lifetime of study and devo tion this year. He may have guessed that this period in the world’s his tory which has witnessed the great est brutalization of humankind would naturally be followed by a I strong reaction toward things of the spirit. In any case the arrival of this "Book About the Bible” could not be more timely. Lloyd Douglas, author of that gripping work, “The Robe." informed me last month that the American Bible Society has re ceived the largest order for scrip tures in its 129 years of history, and , that the distribution of Bibles, New Testaments and Bible portions by this non-profit organization has reached the highest level since it was founded in 1816. This biggest single order was for 350.000 Protestant scriptures (includ ing military missals and prayer books) for the European theater of operations and in addition 500 Ger man Bibles, 120.000 testaments and 95.000 “portions” for use with Ger | man war prisoners and interned ci , vilians. Right here in the nation’s capital. Dr. Darby, District of Columbia sec i retary of the same society, tells me that this was the busiest year in the chapter’s history. War’s Brutalities Bring Reaction So much for the situation to date. Why is it predicted that this great revival of interest in the holy writ in this country is only the beginning of a movement of world-wide magni tude. First, there is the obvious suggestion already mentioned that it is logical to expect a reaction toward things of the spirit after these years of brutal warfare. However, there is another answer which is given by many thought ful people They say this: The de feat of nazi-fascism was the defeat of an idea as well as a military pow er. That idea based on a purely material concept was opposed and overcome by the western nations whose philosophy of government as well as of morals and ethics is based on the Christian religion. This triumph of the Christian democratic ideal has affected dif ferent people for different reasons but with the same general result. To many who yielded to the lure of nazi fascism its failure revealed its fun damental error. Their alluring idol showed its feet of clay and they are turning repentingly back to its opposite, Christianity. To many who have been but pas sive followers of the Christian teach ings, the terrible price the world has paid in blood has been a harsh re minder of their delinquencies. They have a renewed zeal in their faith. To those, of course, who have suf fered or are bereft, comfort comes with the contemplation of the scrip tures, with their hopeful message. And then there is another explan ation of this desire to renew and re inforce their communion with the word of God. If I may venture into the realm of the metaphysical let me quote from an anonymous article in a pamphlet entitled "Let Freedom Ring," (also a product of the Amer ican Bible society). The author states that Samuel Smith, author of our patriotic hymn “America," put only one major idea in his verses. "It is God that is the ‘author of liberty’,” this article continues. “Liberty does not have its origin in man. God has implanted it in man’s breast. Perhaps this is the reason that, more than all others in the op pressed lands, the churches have stood up before tyranny and rebuked it . . . perhaps this is the reason urgent requests are coming from the liberated lands for the Book of which they have been deprived. . . . Chris tians all over Europe are again studying the Bible to learn afresh its lessons. . . Whether for these or still other reasons of which we are unaware, we know that a tremendous renais sance of interest in the Bible is sweeping the world. And so it is the good fortune of the Bible lover, whether he be an erudite scholar or a simple and de voted reader spelling out the texts as he goes along, that George Stim son completed his helpful, interest ing, searching and authentic "Book About the Bible” in this particular year of our Lord. “The purpose of the author in writ ing this book,” says Stimson in his brief introduction, “is to supply re liable and adequate answers to a great number of popular questions asked about the Bible.” And that is what he does. Take the first one: when was Jesus born? and the last one: does “mile” occur in the Bible? Or, how old are the oldest Bible manuscripts? And that brings us to the inquiry, who is this man Stimson, anyhow? He is a man of about fifty, born on an Iowa farm and is still a keen lover of the soil. He worked on his college (Valparaiso, Ind.) paper and then on small town papers, came to Washington to help edit the “Path finder” and was on its staff for 10 years. He is the author of four suc cessful volumes of popular infor mation, and still syndicates a unique and colorful column called “You’d Be Surprised.” I wish I could take you into George Stimson’s little office in the National Press building in Washington and see him toiling at his old-fashioned roll-top desk. You will probably find him poking at his ancient typewriter with two fingers or running them through his healthy mane of brown hair while he cogitates. You might find as a call er the speaker of the house of rep resentatives, some foreign diplomat, a distracted correspondent or some poor, ambitious girl or boy seeking advice on a career. In any case you would be welcomed with a smile and the chances are you would not leave without some aid and comfort, moral or material. g Intrigued, by Bible Through Life Of course I asked George how he happened to write “A Book About the Bible.” “Because,” ne said with no hesitation, “I wanted answers to those questions myself.” The first Bible Stimson ever owned he got from a mail order house when he was 15. It was his second “own” book. The first was “Pilgrim’s Progress.” He read them both, by a kerosene lamp, stretched out on his stomach on the kitchen table. Then he began to ask questions— questions—questions—of his Sunday school teacher, of the preacher, of anyone who would listen. How did Paul look? What about Jesus’ brothers? What became of the lost tribes of Israel? and many others which thousands of readers of the Bible have asked before and since. The answers weren’t so staisfactory to the young inquisitor and so he kept on asking. And reading, and clipping and searching and re searching. Nor did he cease to examine the source of his curiosity. He has read the Bible from cover to cover at least 10 times. He has read it count less times if you added up his brows ings. He has read it twice aloud to himself. And now, he gives the world the answers to the questions he himself began asking back there in the little country church, giving them to the world simply, authoritatively and completely, at a moment whem the Book which is more widely read than any other ever printed, is be ing read more widely than ever, by a yearning, asking world. BARBS . . . by Baukhage Many new faces are appearing in the White House these days but the Old Gray Squirrel on the White House lawn has made no changes in his competent staff. "Farmers are assured equal op poitunlty to supply their needs out of surplus property. . . .” says OWI. Did you ever hear of a farmer who believed there was such a thing as “surplus" property? The Japs said that Germany’s sur render “had not been entirely unan ticipated.” Russian soldiers in their avid ad miration of American canned food ate a number of cans of delousing powder and died. They are now transporting fresh vegetables from Guam to Iwo Jima. Also race horses and dogs to rac« tracks in the United States. The grocery store at 2602 Sew ard, formerly operated by a Mr. Rundel, is now owned and operated by Mr. Davis. You are cordially invited to come any time and look him over and his mice, sanitary store. Mr. Davis wants to meet you so give him the opportunity. Mrs. Bessie Hamilton of 3119 R St., had a letter from her hus band, Pvt. T. Jesse Hamilton who is in the army in Oakland, Calif., and he sends his best wishes. Miss Christine Snodd seems to be going along nicely. The mother, Chapel and attends her church reg ularly. She just came from Kan sas but is expecting to make this her home. Mrs. Anna Kellogg of 3216 Em mett St., reports that she has been sick, but at the present she is fel ling better. She wishes the Guide all the success in the world. lUecttome H&panie/i Qin WASHINGTON I By Walter Shead ^ WNU Correspondent , I Mail From Home WNU Washington Bureau 621 Union Trust Building. CONGRESSIONAL mail from Home Towns of the country this week was swamped with postcards and letters favoring the pay increase for postal employees, testifying to the efficacy of the postal employees’ organization. Next came “gripes” against the beleaguered OPA and then there was a sprinkling of in quiries concerning unemployment. And that’s important and leads to the question, "What is being done in your community to combat any prospective unemployment?” That there will be unemployment of both men and women during these next few months of cutbacks and re conversion is certain. Workers will be laid off in certain war industries. In other industries work time will be shifted back to the 40-hour week with a resultant decrease in overall pay of about 20 per cent. It is estimated here, however, that approximately a million and a half jobs are readily available to these unemployed from war plants, in the small towns and rural communities of the nation. Farmers could read ily use another million workers on the farms. Tour filling stations are short a man or two. The cream sta tion, the groceries, hardware stores, service shops, the depart- j ment and general stores, the fivf and ten and the variety stores, the banks, restaurants, the co operatives, the lumber yards and feed mills, the garages, the drug stores and even the ice cream parlors, and the taverns . . . all these can use one or more employees and immediate ly [ Some of these letters to the con gressmen point out that business men and others are loath to take on additional help now for the reason they exect war veterans home this year who will apply for their old jobs. It is true that some million and a half veterans are to be re- j leased by the army this year. The records show, however, that of those veterans, totaling more than a mil lion, who have been released up to this time, less than 30 per cent have j aplied for their old jobs. The ex- ! perience further shows, that in many thousands of cases, these returning veterans do not expect to go back to work in their home towns. They want to visit the folks, of course, but they do not expect to settle down in the same old job and circumstances they left before the war. They plan dif ferent work in different fields and in what they consider greener pastures. They have grown, their horizons broadened and many thousands L will return to finish their education ' under the provisions of the. G.I. Bill of Rigirts. Some progressive towns have al ready taken steps to publicize their need for workers. The chamber of commerce, or even service clubs, such as Rotary, Kiwanis or Lions, or in some instances committees named by the mayor or town coun cil have made careful surveys list ing the needs of every business in the town in the way of labor. Farm organizations, or the county agent have canvassed the farm territory to determine the needs of the farm ers for farm labor. In some cases these lists have been filed with the nearest United States Employment office with excel lent results. In other instances the lo cal paper has undertaken a cam paign to publicize the needs of the town. If there is a local factory which has been manufacturing a war product and has been shut down or likely will be shut down even temporarily, this survey could readily place the workers in your own community, taking up the labor slack without loss of time. It is pointed out here that if every small town and community in the nation thus made known the labor it could immediately absorb, it would not only be helpful to the mer chants and business men in the town, increase the purchasing power of the community, but it would help take up the slack in unemployment to the tune of some 2Vi million work ers without any lost motion. • • * Discharge Plan. If your boy, husband or father is eligible for discharge under the 85 point rating, don’t expect him home too soon. It may take months to move him from Europe or the Pa cific. And another thing, don’t expect to rush out and buy a new automobile, washing machine, radio, vacuum cleaner or other household equip ment within the next few weeks. It will be the latter part of the year before these things are on the mar ket and probably after the first of the year before they are available in any quantity. And in spite of the announcement that 1942 prices will prevail, don’t expect to buy the same quality you bought in 1942 at the 1942 price. It appears to this reporter that the trend here is to relax price controls to some extent, which means upward, on all manufactured articles. Materials for civilian needs are still scarce and high and labor wages are almost bound to in ! crease. Mrs. C. H. Edmond, who lives at 3008 S St., is on the sick list and has been confined to her bed for some time. We all hope she recovers soon. Airs. Mildred Allen of 1823 North 23rd St. has a family of eight children. Mrs. Allen belongs to the Church of God in Christ and attends regularly. Her pastor, Rev. Benson, is a very conscientious minister and everyone admires him very much. The Omaha Guide ^ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^ Published Every Saturday at 2)20 Grant Street OMAHA. NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0800 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. C. C■ Galloway,.... Publisher and Acting Editor All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our office not later than 1:0t) p- m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday noon, preceeding date of issue, to insure public ation. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA ONE YEAR .$3.oo SIX MONTHS . $1.75 THREE MONTHS . $1-25, SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN i ONE YEAR . .. . $3.50 SIX MONTHS . $2 00' National Advertising Representatives— INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Ine\ 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone:— MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peek, Manager I Who May Think? By GEORGE S.BENSOH President of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas — STOPPED by a traffic signal while driving in a narrow, busy street a few' days ago, my ear caught a familiar musical note. Just beyond the sidewalk, through a big open door, a black smith was shaping shoes for a farmer’s heavy team. Horns be hind me suggested moving along before I had finished looking, but it was inspiring to watch this young workman, so skillful, so energetic. The picture he unwittingly posed has come to mind several tunes since, when 1 heard people speak of shaping public opinion. Of course public opinion can be shaped like a blacksmith shapes iron shoes for horses and mules. No informed person will deny it. Hitler did it. National leaders do it all the time, consciously or' un consciously, for better or for worse. Moulding KNOWLEDGE Sentiment is power. It is also the antidote for false propaganda. For eleven years in China I watched selfish, local war-lords exercise power over a patient, toiling peasantry. It’s easy to do when the great mass of people are unlearned. In China 80 % could neither read nor write. Sometimes unlearned masses re bel but they usually fail because what they have is crude force, not power. It is not possible to estimate the power of an informed people. Every man and woman has a brain, and there is only one way to keep them from using these assets to enrich themselves and the whole race, namely, keep them ignorant. The American way is the other way. Schooling is free here. Libraries are everywhere. Press and radio prosper keeping people intelligently informed. American A COUNTRY whose Strength leaders wish to profit by the thoughts of all the people is on its way up. A nation that limits its thinking and planning to boards and bur eaus is on its way down. The central planner reasons thus: Mr. Blacksmith has a head on him, so does the hammer. Why bother u>ith them’ We will do the thinking and planning. For 156 years the United States has prospered and grown as a republic; superior to a democracy in that it provides safety and pro tection for the minority. A democracy sometimes places the minority at the mercy of the majority, just as cruelly as a dic tatorship. But minorities have re tained their freedom in America. Here each individual is still free to think for himself. In America, our people have knowledge and our nation has power. It is my conviction that we ought to keep the form of gov ernment that draws from the in telligence and originality of its whole people and enriches them; that the entire population should be kept fully and correctly in formed because “knowledge is power.” This true saying has stood the test of 25 centuries. j^PAMfc HAT L/ ! Jack Keller W " 1 OF OHIO STATE, WORLD'S * GREATEST HURDLER AT fI THE TIME, FAILED TO { QUALIFY IN HIS LAST v N.C.A.A. MEET,JULY 19S1, BECAUSE IN 2 EVENTS HlS FOOT HIT A , HURDLE WHILE HE WAS LEADING Ip* a ®ILL donthron OF PRINCETON, BROKE ladoumegue's WORLD RECORD FOR THE MILE IN JULY 1933 but ran 2nd TO JACK LOVELOCK WHO SET A NEW MARK OF 4:076/ MD £fM£M8« Q LEE Barnes WHO WAS ELIMINATED IN THE 1932 OLYMPIC / TRVOUTS when f BOTH Miller AND graber beat his POLE VAULT RECORD OF 14 ft I'AiN (it HAPPENED ON HlS birthday) m OF 17- JO/N THE COAST GUARD!! LOOK OUT BELOW / 5upeR-mrzzss \ tS -A t? -f Crusade Victory ^ m CHICAGO. ILL. — Bishop J Ralph Magee (left) prepares to run the victory banner up the flag pole atop the Chicago Temple where he has his office. He has been the leader of the nation's Methodists in raising a $25,000,000 . fund for postwar relief and recon-1 struction. It has just been over- . subscribed by more than $1,000, 000. The Bishop believes this is the largest sum ever raised by any church for a comparable purpose. Assisting him is Dr. J. Manning Potts, who came from Roanoke, Va., to become associate director of “The Crusade for Christ." In the bnckg- ound is part of the world’* ' church spire. (—QUOTES— OF THE WEEK “Thanks for practically noth ing!”— Mrs. E. E. Wade to San | Dfrgo, Cal., judge who awarded \ her only 104 of $50 damages I j sought. j “Isn’t there a ban on talking about postwar?”—Sec. of Comm. Henry Wallace, at press confer ence. — “Only a ban on doing some thing about it!”—Response by i newspaper correspondent at same. """ ... “There’s nothing much that free enterprise cannot—or could not—accomplish in this landof op portunity.”—Lowell Mellett, col- j umnist, one time of Washington. “Benefit to the public is the ; basis of U. S. patent grant legis- o lation.”—Senior Judge Evan A. I Evans, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. - _.>l ' “It takes about 100 years be fore a man gets any sense.”— 1 Geo. Robt. Lore, Bridgeport, Conn.,celebrating 101st birthday. J . i — Mr. Nolan Anderson of 1524 North 24th Street, is making his home in Denver, Colo. He reports that he admires Denver very much but he still likes Omaha also. Mr. Anderson reports that he is work ing for the Reiser making bombs Mrs. Snodd, is a member of Clair and he likes his job fine, fine. They like their home and are trying to improve it. Released by U. S. War Department. Bureau of Public Relation* RIGHT THROUGH THE CLOUDS — Captain Milton R. Brooks, fighter pilot from Glass port, Pa., got a Jerry plane shortly after he strafed a German airfield after a dive from an altitude of 33,800 feet. He dived through an opening in the clouds to do it. He’s home from the 332nd Fighter Group in Italy for reassignment. (Army Air Forces Photo from bpr.) ;
