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Bishop G. Oxnam Denounces Intolerance and Bigotry
OVERTONES
(BY AL HE XING BURE)
Rules for Conduct:
One Mr. Eastland is undoubtedly happy over the
fact that the Tokio radio charges American oeeupa
tion troops with looting, brutality, and other unlaw
ful conduct. Even alter making allowance for the
Japanese penchant for propaganda, there is reason
to believe that the need for locking doors and avoid
ing dark places is more than just a suggestion. If
American men don’t rape some Japanese women, it
will be the first time in history that an army of oc
cupation has deported itself like gentlemen. And
however much patriotic Americans would like to
have it otherwise, donning a uniform doesn't make
a gentleman out of a rowdy. Of course the Japan
ese must rememlier that the current list of horror
stories coming out of Japanese prison camps doesnt
make for much go*d feeling.
Hill Billy Snake Charmers:
You can never understand the extremes of life
found in these United States until you know some
thing of that queer down-South religious sect
which makes the handling of oisonous snakes one of
its rites. Not only do these fanatics allow them
selves to be bitten, but they refuse medical aid. In
every instance, members of this sect belong to the
underprivileged members of the community. Drawn
together by poverty and ignorance, they give them
selves to weird orgies which are almost unbelievable
in the twentieth century. Even the death of a
m< ther and a new-born baby as a result of being
bitten serves to intensify the feeling among these
unfortunates.
Hate-Mongers' Convention:
Representing as anti-social a group as the hill
billy snake charmers, but far more dangerous, are
the growing hatemongers in this country. With
such catehlines as “America for Americans" and
“Deport the Jews and Negroes", one of these
groups held a meeting in New York City last week.
Not many came out, for this kind of demagoguery
doesn’t appeal to New Yorkers, but groups like
the- are determined to destroy every ideal cherish
ed by Americans.
On War Housing:
It is axiomatic that imserupolous real estate
dealers always make their best profits on the most
undeprivileged residents of a community. As you
have guessed, that generally means Negroes. And
the story threatens to^p at itself in connection
with the disp sitiun of war housing unless commun
ity groups bestir themselves to see that such hous
ing is NOT used as a means of exploitation. Con
sumer groups may buy "r rent this housing, but if
they don't '*qualify private dealers may buy in the
property and disose of it as suits their fancy. No
ceiling prices are placed on this housing. The Na
tional Urban League has released a monographed
which outlines the steps for interested citizens to
take in order to avoid the grave danger of specula
tion. Copies are available to community organiz
ations.
In Commercial Art:
One of the bright spits of the week's news is the
awarding of a Rosenwald fellowship to Frances
Chandler h r the study of commercial art. Caring ,
for younger children in the family has not prevent
ed her doing creditable work at Fh-att Institute,
where she will continue her studies. Miss < 'hand
ler probably realizes that the work' of the commerc
ial artist is in great demand, and that the profession
pays very well indeed. It is also one of the few
fields in which the color of the skin has made prac
tically no difference.
Community Highlights:
In almost every community, there are ore or two
Negroes who are doing unusual and exceptional
things. This is particularly true in the field of
science. The writer of this column is now compil
ing thumbnail sketches on young people in differ
ent parts of the country, and would like to have any
leads that you know about.
A Great Message:
The Congress of the United States has just heard
a great message from a man who now promises to
become a great president. Already well known for
his simple, direct phrases, Mr. Truman makes it
verv clear that he stands for the fullest possible use
of human and natural resources. Whether you
know it or not. that stand makes him very unpope
ular with many groups in this country.
Calif. Governor
Women’s Leader to
Confer onState Fepc
LOS SAXO ELKS—A Ccnferer.ce
at w • cfc the Governor of the State
and the leader of one of Califomlas
strongest Republican organisations
are to discuss fair employment leg
islation is planned for the near fu
ture it was revealed last week.
In view*of the urgent need for
fa.r employment legislation in the
State of aCIiforma, and the inevit
able censure of the voters if the
Republican Administration allows
the Democrats to take the lead in
enactment of a State FEPC law at
the com ng special session of the
Legislature. Mrs. Betty Hili. exe
cutive secretary of the Women's
Political Study Club, said last week
that she and the Governor were go
| mg “to talk FEPC "
The Woman's Political Study
! Ciub is one of the strongest Repub
■an organizations in the State.
Date for the conference had not
, been set alst week, but the Gover
nor was in the Southland, conferr
ing with government, labor and
business leaders on postwar prob
1 lem*.
At the WPS*' scholarship tea on
Urban League Urges Racial Action
On Disposition Of War Housing >
CONTRALTO
Carol Brice, outstanding young
American contralto, was soloist
with the Columbia Broadcasting
Symphony during its Sunday,
Septemoer 2.broadcast. Miss Brice
sang the 4 vocal solo in de
Falla’s "El Amor Brujo,” which
the orchestra performed under
the direction of Fritz Reiner.
Sunday. August 19. Beach Vasey.
legislative secretary for Governor j
Warren, told over SO') persons thar j
the Governor was "thoroughly in
accord" with FEPC legislation and
was "very much disappointed" I
when it failed of passage at the last '
session of the legislature.
To trengthen and put “teeth" in
Assembly ill 1399 Mrs. Hill has or
ganized a committee composed of
judges and lawyers which is pat
terning the bill after the New York
FEPC law. Her women's group is
one of the originators of AB 1399
One of the fair employment bills |
which was not passed last session.
Its function also to ee that FEPC !
is included in “must” legislation at
the special session, the committee's
membership includes Superior
Court Judges Goodwin Knight, chair
man: Walter 5. Gates. Thurmond
Clarke. Municipal Judge Roger!
Marchetti. Attorneys McIntyre
Fairis and Leo Anderson and Wm,
Nickerson Jr.. Insurance Company
Executive.
“The P.epublicans are ‘in the sad
dle ' " Mrs. Hill said ‘‘and it
* 9
■would be a slap In the face' it we
allowed the Democrats to take the
lead in the campaign to enact a
FEPC law."
Educational Mass
Meeting
The Extension department of the
Omaha City BTT7. will conduct its
first Educational Mass Meeting at
the Paradise Baptist Church 23rd
and Clark streets. Sunday. Sept. IS.
at 3 o'clock pm.
The theme of the meeting will be 1
about Denominational Life Feat
ured on the program will be some
of the best gospel singers in Oma
ha. as well as religious speakers,
followed by a ermon with Rev. C.
C Adams pastor of Paradise Bapt
ist Church in the pulpit.
Every person present will rece;ve j
a booklet :“Tbe New aBptist Cate
chism" as a compliment of the O
ciaha City BTC. Extension dept.
Mrs. E F. Wesley t Program chair-1
mm.
Mr H T. Swain. Pres.
Brooklyn Girl A
Rosenwald Winner
New York City i CXS1 Twenty
three year old Frances E Chandler
has been awarded a 11.299 Julius
Rosenwald Foundation fellowship
; for her commercial art sketches.
Frances, who lives in Brooklyn,
says she will study at Piatt Insti
j tute in the day time witn the dm
| ey. Hitherto, she has studied at
I Pratt Institute in the evenings
while caring for 3 brothers and s.
sister at home.
NEW YORK—The post Uty of*
adding Ja.OOO permanent dwellings
to the housing supply of the Negro
population, provided prompt com
munity action is taken, is pointed
up *n a monograph. "Dispo> cion of
War Housing”, released thii week ;
by the National Urban League. An
outline of steP-by-step procedure to ’
.be followed by citizens’ gr jps in
order to obtain the wisest possible J
use of war housing, and th- dang- '
ers which would result from the
fa:lure to act quickly and approp
riately. are highlighted. Lester B.
Granger. Executive Secretary of ‘
the National Urban League stress- j
es the need for immediate action if j
the interests of Negroes and ither '
minority groups are to be safe- I
guared; "If Urban Leagues end
other interested community lead r
ship act promptly concerning 'he
matter of peacetime disposition of
war housing, it would be possible
to relieye much of the tension re- I
suiting from, the shortage of hous- '
es for Negroes.”
Provisions established by the
ederal Public Housing Authority en
able individual or group consumers
to purchase war housing, but if
such consumers fail to “qualify"
private investors may buy up the.
housing. In view of the fact that1
no ceilings have been set for the
1“ or rental of any of these units,
possible that speculators will
buy in the properties at very low
prices, and proceed to unload them
at exorbitant prices.
Bu.lt with public funds, these
houses should not be allowed to
flood the market and dislocate pro
perty values and be resold or re
rented for prices that moderate in
come groups cannot afford to pay.
This would mean that Negroes par
ticularly. whose need for housing in
congested centers i3 greatest, and
who have been most consistently
exploited by unscrupulous real es
tate dealers throughout the coun
try, would be hardest hit. War
housing, the League points out,
was in many instances the first
opportunity that Negroes had to ■
live in standard, moderateiv-pr ed
homes, and many of them will be
disposed to pay unreasonable pric
es in order to continue to live in
such homes
The dangers involved in specu
lation in war housing can be am d
ed if such action as is proposed ir
'Disposition of War Housing" is
taken promptly in the communit
ies concerned
La. Registration Case
Argued Septemeber 12
»_
New Orleans. La.—A motion to
dismiss the suit brought by Edw
ard Hall against the registrar of
St. John the Baptist Parish fdr
denying him the right to register
in the 194 election was argued here
SeSptember 12 in the Cnited States
Distr.ct court for the Eastern Dis
trict of Louisiana.
Hall, a colored citiaen of the stat
charges that T. J. Nagel, parish
registrar, subjected him to "un
reasonable testa not required of
white electors" when he sought to
register in August. 1944. He is be
ing represented by NAACP attor
neys Thar good Marshall of New
York, and J A. Thornton and A P.
Tur-ad of 'hi, city.
Hall's complaint, filed uty 24 al
leges that when he came in to reg
ister Nagel took him in a back
room to the office and the follow
ing conversation took place;
"Wha' judicial district do you
live in?”
Answer: “Twenty-fourth."
•'■What congressional district”'
Answer: “Second."
‘"What senatorial district?"
“Answer: "I don't know."
Hall charges that Nagel there
upon refused to register him. and
points out that the registration law
provides that "said applicant shall
be able to read any clause in this
Constitution, or the Constitution of
the Cni'ed States, and give a reas
■ cable r'erpretat: r. thereof." He
avers that he was ready, willing
and able to satisfy this requirement
BISHOP OXNAM DENOUNCES
INTOLERANCE, BIGOTRY
PRESIDENT OF FEDERAL
COUNCIL OF CHI BCHES OF
CHRIST SAYS ANYONE WHO
DISCRIMINATES AGAINST A
NEGRO OR A JEW IS A NAZI
A plea for Americans tf> beware 1
of the seedlings of intolerance, big- '
otry and greed prevalent in tbR
United States ‘3 made by Bishop j
G. Bromley Oxnam. President of tre j
Federal Council of Churches of i
Christ in America, in a signed art
icle in the October issue of The A- |
meriean Magazine.
Bishop Oxnam says he wishes it
were so. as "we contentedly imag- <
ine now that Germany is destroyed
and the vicious leaders of the Nazi
party dead or imprisoned, that Naz
ism has perished from the face of
the earth.” But. he writes.
"The Nazis aren’t all Licked yet. j
They masquerade in Sunday-go-to
meeting coats as well as brown
shirts.
“Nazism is not merely a political ;
philosophy or a system of govern- ,
meat. It is a condition of the hu- |
man heart, a state of mind. It is
man's inhumanity to man masquer-j
ading in a brown or a black shirt,
or even in the white collar of res - 1
Pectability. This state of mind
breeds sin. bigotry, intolerance,
selfishness, greed, cruelty. Godless
ness. In Germany we saw Nazism
in full flower—a poisonous flower.
We saw it in its organized form. In
America we see only its little seed
lings, here and there, unrecognized
for what they are. Beware of
them.
"The men who excludes a Negro
from any of the privileges of this
democracy, who connives with a
re 1-estate agent to exclude a Jew
from a neighborhood, who sets up,
barriers against any human being
because of his race or his creed, is
a Nazi. He is an oppressor of peo
ples, an enemy of freedom, a bigot.'
He is laying the foundation for Iyn
ehings, riots and the enslavement of I
his fellow man."
The Methodist Bishop relates that
when his secretary recently tele
phoned a railroad ticket office to
get him a reservation she was ask
ed “is the bishop white or colored”
but the clerk explained that “col
ored people can't ride in the parlor
ear.” He adds:
“That is Hitlerism, the voice of
super-race, religious intolerance,
cruelty. Beware of it.”
and that Nagel's action was "arbri
trary and capricious and not war
ranted by law."
Hall also charges that white peo
ple who presented themselves for
registration were not required to
answer such questions.
The NAACP lawyers opposed on
September 12 the motion of the
plaintiff to dismiss the suit. This
is one of a number of cases brough1
in several southern tates by the
NAACP challenging both registra
tion procedures and the denial of
the vote under the so-called white
primary laws which the United
States Supreme Court declared un
constitutional in an opinion rend
ered in a Texas case on April 2.
1944.
MIKE JACOB* IN*I«T« LOri*
COW BOUT CAN BRING
TOP PRICE*
New Tork CNS i Eustling Mike
Jacobs is defnitely against the idea
that a Louis-Conn match can bring
so much per ticket and no more.
Remarked Jacobs scornfully. “When
the class is there like a Louis-Conn
match, a fight is the biggest sport
ing thing in the world. Bigger
than any ball game, any race or
whatever yon name."
Continued Mike gruffly. “Right
now I don't know exactly what Td
make the Eouis-Coan top. It could
I- -
Fiddlers Contest
to Feature Urban
Lge Community
Fair, Sept. 24th
Miss Mae B. Taylor, chairman of
the Omaha Urban League Neighbor
hood Committee: Heard reports of
sub-committee chairmen at a meet
ing held in the League auditorium
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Joel Brooks, chairman of
the Program Committee announced
the following additions to her com
mittee: Miss Bella Mae Jones. Mrs.
Ethel Marie Price. Mrs Mary Al
fred. Mr. H. L. Preston. Mr Luther
McVay. and Mr. Joel Brooks. She
also reported that her committee
has plans to present musical selec
tions to be presented by elected]
musical groups of the city.
Mrs Walter H. Harold, chairman
of the awards committee, announc
ed the following additions to her
committee: Mrs. Althea Alston.
Mrs. Lucy Mae Britt. Mr. Walter
Harr--id. She also reported the en
trance of two contestants in the
Old Fiddlers' Contest
Mr J hn Watkins and Mr. Her
bert Patten. co-chairmen of the
Parade Committee named as add:
tional members of their committee.
Mr Woodrow Morgan. Mr'. Rvland
Meiford. Mr. Morgan suggested
ths use of war souvenirs for d’
play. He will submit some that he
acquired while a member of the
99th Pursuit squadron in Italy.
Mr. Saybert Hanger, chairman of
the Exhibits Committee announced
that the display window of the E
lectronic Sales and Service Store
will be available for display of ex
hibits prior to the opening. Mr.
Harvey Carter has been named to
Mr. Hanger’s committee.
Mr. Biddiex of the Refreshment
Committee announced the addition
of Katherine Saunders to hia com
mittee.
The Omaha Urban League is sup
ported by the Omaha Community
Chest.
be $59 $75. or $190. It depend? on
where I put it. New York hasn’t
got a really big enough place al
though it belongs here- But there s
one thing. I won't undervalue It.
A heavyweight title fight is worth
what you put on the ticket."
POWELL «i PPOKT« FELL
EMPLOYMENT BILL
Sew York (CSS) Of the eleven of
Sew York City's 24 Congressmen in
favor of the Full Employment Bill,
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell is in full
agreement. Said Powell about the
bill which will liberaliae cr.empoy
mentl benefits and broaden social
security program. "I am 190 percent
n favr r of the leg'-la- n_
ROBINSON'S BACK INJURY'
C 11 SE? POSTPONEMENT ON
BOLT WITH LA MONT
Chicago (CSS) The fifth meeting
between Ray Robinson and Jake La
Motta. heretofore scheduled for
September 12th. has hit another
snag. When Ray appeared here
Thur-day. repor'ing a spine irjury
a new date for the 12 round battle
waa tentatively set for Sept. 2Sth
Official sanction is being awaited
from Sheldon Clark. Chairman of
the Illinois Boxing Commission.
•Sugar" underwent a series of
examinations an<j waa told to re
j frain from training for at least one
week. He returned to Harlem Fri
day night for therapy treatments.
Pastor To Attend
Annual"*
Conference
REV. E. F. RIDLEY
WINDING IT FOURTH YEAR
AT NT. JOHN ARE CHURCH
Rev. E. F. Ridley, the Pastor of
SSainr. John AME. Church on find
Street, at Willis avenue, is winding,
up his fourth year as Pastor of St.
John.
He plans to leave Monday night.
Sept. 17 to attend the Nebraska An
nual Conference which will be held
in Trinity AME. Church, Kansas
City, Kansas, Sept, the 19th through
the 23rd.
Sunday Sept. ISth. h.s last Sunday
here before Conference, is the day
on which he is urging all of his
members to turn in their $:5 00 Con
ference claims and class dues, and
he hopes that his friends will find
it possible to help too in this cause.
During the four years of his Pas
i torate of St. John over $35,900 have
been raised for the Building Fund
alone of the church All of this
amount has been spent in the fin
ist^png of the wails of St. John that
stood for 20 years unfinished, prior
to his coming, and in putt.ng on the
steel and concrete roof, and other
work on the building.
In spite of this difficult under
taking under such trying circum
stances. Rev, Ridley has taken an
active interest in the various com
munity affairs as far a* his time
and heavy responsibilities have al
lowed.
The mils of the church have all
been paid as the building progress
ed, and the sanctuary will be ready
for occupancy a* soon as the floors
which are partially finished are
completed. Windows, doors, furn
ace, wiring and plastering are in
stalled This of course will not
FCTO8H the building, but the sanct
uary will be so we can "go upstairs
then $18,000 more are needed to do
this work The CRUSADE Re a
ladies Club of the church have put
on an effort to raise this am an',
with which this is to be done. The
Pastor and members of St. John
j are asking and thanking our kind
friend* to help the CRUSADERS,
Please!
Rev. Ridley is grateful too and
hereby expresses his great apprec
iation to all of the Tine members
and friends of St. John for the r
wonderful kindness and loving aid
which made the great task of com
pleting the structure thus far, suc
i cessful. He hopes to have the
I pleasure of having a large congre
. gation of members and friend* pres
[ ent during the "Morning Service"
| Sunday Sept, 18th, his last SSunday
I before Annual Conference. A warm
! welcome await* you at St. John and
we extend to you an invitation to
1 come and worship with us.
Finishing Touches
Put On for A Sound
Working Basis
Officers Elected
The finishing touch wag put on
an operation basis Tuesday at noon
at Attorney C. F. Davis' office at
2420 Lake street to assure the mid
city section of this city, a hospital.
This all happened at high noon
Sept 11th.
All incorporators were present
but two. Dr. C. H. Singleton who is
out of the city and Mr. M. E John
son who is snowed under with work
and could not be present.
The following board of trustees
who went down in their pockets
and put up the cash to bay the prop
erty for the hospital site in beaati.
ful Bedford Park's eduition. 38th &
Wirt streets, are:
BOARD OF miATEE'i
Dr. Craig Morris,
Dr D. W. Gooden.
Dr S. B. Northcross,
Dr. Clarence Singleton,
j Dr. W W Peebles.
Mr. Milton Johnson,
Dr. G. B. Lennox.
Dr. Herbert Wiggins
Dr. Wesley Jones.
Dr. A. L. Hawkins
*
Dr J J. Jones,
Mr. Hiram D. Dee.
Then the trustees took a short
recess. At 12:55 the trustees were
again called f> order by the temp
orary chairman, Mr Hiram D. Dee
At this time Dr. Craig Morris was
unanimously elected President.
Immediately the temporary chair
man turned the chair over to the
elected President and the following
officers were elected:
Dr. Craig Morris, Prsident.
Dr. D, W Gooden. 1st Vice Pres.,
Dr. A. L. Hawkins, 2nd Vice Pres (
Dr S. B, Northcross, 3rd Vice Pres-,
Dr. Herbert Wiggins, Treasurer,
Hiram D. Dee, Secretary.
(Watch The Omaha Guide for a
pi' ture of the official family and
the Provident Hospital Building )
Average Working Girl
Isn’t Much Interested
In Voting
NEW YORK. NY.—Believe it or
not Che average Working girl isn't
much interested in voting.
That's the conclusion of Colum
bia University Professors Paul Laz
arsfeld and Bernard Berelsc.n. who
wrote is a recent issue of the Pub
lic Opinion Quarterly that the worn
en's vote constitutes a major prob
lem for the CIO Political Action
Committee as it girds for the muni
cipal campaigns of 1945 and the
1948 Congressional elections.
The Lazarsfeld-Berelson study,
conducted during the last campaign
among 2,000 women in key indus
trial centers as New York. Chicago,
Cleveland and Kansa3 City, pro
duced the disturbing fact that
while only 10% of the women in
professional or semi-professi..tiaI
positions or the wives of men in
these fields failed to vote. 23% OF
WAGE EARNING WOMEN OR
THE WIVES OF WAGE-EARNING
MEN DID NOT VISIT THE POLLS.
While the 1944 presidential camp
aign evinced greater participation
by women than in 1938 and 194®.
the educators poll disclosed the
unavoidable fact that greater stim
ulation is needed among the em
ployed of the fairer sex, CiO-FAC
officials stated this week.
The study further indicated that
the failure of the working woman
to vote was not just accidental but
was deep-seated and revealed a
"long-run anti-suffrage prejudice.”
Clearly, the highest percentage of.
non-voters i3 to be found among
the low income housewives —
many of them the wives of union
members, many of them the wives
of men who followed PAC leader
ship in 1944." According-to the poll
takers, if PACs drive to bring more
women to the polls, is successful
“it would have tapped the major
reservoir of political power in the
United States.”
In commenting on the educators
survey Mrs. Verda Barnes. PACs
Direct' r of Women's Activities,
stated that greater stimulation for
political action was one of PACs'
foremost assignments for the com
ing year. “This poll shows not only
the serious absence of women at the
polls,” Mrs, Barnes declared, but
reveals a vast non-voting potential
which can be harnessed to the pro
gressive cause
The time is ripe for accelerated
women'* activity. Mrs. Barnes con
tinued. citing three chief reasons.
“The first and foremost is the ques
tion of jobs. With unemployment
mounting and women are among
the first to be Iayed off—there is a
quick awakening to the fact that
political action i* necessary. to pr. -
vide full employment. The ques
tion of jobs is of prime importance
for women, as so many must work
to support their families a fact
which is regularly disregarded by
the ’optimistic busines* surveys'.
■Secondly, the war has developed
such execellent legislation as the
child care and school lunch pro
grams. equal pay for equal work
and price control—all which face
the threat of being killed unices
, women join with progre- s e fn—
( es working for their conhnrai" e.
Thirdly, I think that women * :-h
i husbands. socs and sweethearts re
| turning from the armed forces are
j more eager to assure that jobs and
security—only attainable through
Congressional action—a® ait their
men."
