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The Omaha Guide « i + A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER JL Published Every Saturday at 2)20 Grant Street 1 OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0800 (Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska under lAct of Congress of March 3, 1879. )C• C- Gallow ty,.Publisher and Acting Edttot f All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our office not later than 1:00 [p. m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising (.Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday rnoon, proceeding 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 0U1 OP TOWN \ ONE YEAR . $3.50 SIX MONTHS . $2-001 National Advertising Representatives— INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Inc{ 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone:— i MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager $5,000,000 ELIZABETH KENNy INSTITUTE CAMPAIGN 'NO Lime CHILD ON EARTH should bt ASKED <0 SUFFER PAIN. HUMILIATING DEfORMlTlttOR OTHER complications UNNECESSARILY * —- SISfCffKCHHV Bing Crosby Announces Opening Of Kenny Drive Bing Crosby, screen and radio star, today announced that the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation nation al 1945 appeal to raise $5,000,000 to wage a war on infantile paralysis will be held in each state from No vember 22 to December 8. The Paramount Pictures star is chairman of the national fund drive and has named leading businessmen and women as aides to conduct campaigns in every community. “We owe a duty to the children at America to make this drive a suc cess," Crosby said. “All of us know what infan tile paralysis has done. Thereis hardly a place where the disease has not struck, leaving in its wakecrippled, de formed children. Bin? Crosby “To me nothing is more pitiful than the sight of a boy or a girl sitting in a wheel chair or standing on crutches on the sidelines while other boys romp and play. Crutches Discarded “Sister Elizabeth Kenny has proved to the world that in thou sands of infantile paralysis cases these crutches and wheel chairs could have been discarded and the children could have led healthy nor mal lives if they had been given quick and proper treatment. “Miss Kenny has proved also that it is unnecessary for children strick en with infantile paralysis to suffer pain, humiliating deformities and other complications. “As the father of four children 1 . have a deep appreciation of the work that Miss Kenny and the Eliza beth Kenny Institute are doing and I know that the people of America will join me in attaining our cam paign goal and assuring the children of America that their future health will be protected." In his announcement, Crosby em phasized that one-half of the funds in each state will remain in that state to further the campaign against infantile paralysis in local communities. Funds, Crosby said, also will help to: Restore countless victims of in fantile paralysis to normal lives. Lessen ravages of this crippling disease for its victims. Enable polio sufferers to recover use of their limbs. Finance full training of Kenny technicians for permanent stay at clinics throughout the country. Intensive Research Provide periodical study courses for physician.* and technicians. Conduct intensive and nationwide clinical research ?n poliomyelitis and related diseases. Perpetuate and extenu the scope and benefits of the Kenny Institute not only in the United Stains but througdbut the world. Polio Is Everyman’s Enemy, Bing Declares The war against infantile paralysis is a war in which all peoples of all nations have a common foe, Bing Crosby, screen and radio star and national chairman of the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation national 1945 appeal, said today in an appeal for contributions. “Wars among nations always end but the fight against dis ease is an unending battle in which<< all mankind has a common inter- I est, said Cros by. who is direct ing the campaign * to raise $5,000,000 to expand the work of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse famous for her discovery of a revolutionary treatment for in fantile paralysis. ‘‘The war against infantile paralysis, thej crippling disease, is a war in which all peoples of all nations are fight ing together against a common foe,” Crosby said. Strikes Everywhere “Infantile paralysis has no partic ular battlefront; it has no particu lar foe. It attacks the White, the Negro or the Yellow man; Protes tant, Catholic or Jew; the strong as well as the weak. It strikes without warning. It may strike in one sec tion of our nation today and another tomorrow. It may strike simultane ously in many parts of the nation, in many parts of the world. “Tomorrow it may hit your com munity, your family or yourself. “The Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation 1945 appeal is being con ducted so we can wage an all out war against infantile paralysis and iust as wars among nations cost money so do wars upon disease. If we are to win the battle against in fantile paralysis there must be money for research, there must be funds for the treatment of those who fall victim to its ravages.” Establish Local Clinic Crosby emphasized that one-hall o 1 the funds raised in each of the 48 states where the drive is being conducted will remain in the state to carry on local campaigns against the disease, to finance training of Kenny technicians for clinics throughout the country and to finance treatment of the stricken. Funds also will be used, Crosby said, to: Enlarge the Elizabeth Kenny In stitute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carry on extensive research as to the causes of the disease. Provide periodical study courses for physicians and technicians. Perpetuate and extend the scope and benefits of the Kenny Institute not only in the United States but throughout the world. Lessen ravages of the crippling disease. Work of Altruism “Elizabeth Kenny’s work has been a work of altruistn,” Crosby said. “She accepts no fees or salary from her work. Her only reward is the realization that she has brought happiness back into the lives of countless persons. “I realize that the people of Amer ica have been called upon to contrib ute to many worthwhile ventures during the trying years of the war. We have won that war through the generosity and the unselfishness of the people of America but another war that rages continually remains to be won. The people of America can help win that war too—the war against infantile paralysis—by con tributing as generously as their purse permits to the Sister Eliza beth Kenny Foundation campaign fund drive..” GIVE TOm SISTER] l ELIZABETH KENNY FOUNDATION BING CROSBY Notional Chairman Editorial: Their Chains and Shackles will be Heavier! DISCUSS GENERAL MOTORS STRIKE—Washington, D. C. . Soundphoto—Members of the Gen eral Motors Negotiating Commit tee and the United Auto Workers met with the Director of Concilia tion Services of the Labor Depart ment to discuss the General Mot ors strike situation where thous ands of workers are out. Picture shows (left to right) seated, R. J. Thomas, President of the United Auto Workers and Edgar L. War ren, Conciliation Director. Stand ing, Charles L. Oswald, Louis Ad kins, and Edgar L. Crago, Sr., all members of the General Motors Negotiating Committee. Norman Mathews, Director of UAW. Chry sler Division, Richard Franken steen, Vice Pres., UAW., CIO.; and Walter Reuther, Vice Presi dent UAW, CIO. I DO’S AND DON’TS: If they couldn’t talk about themselves and their’s, some people would be at a loss for conversation Do re member that you would be nothing without the cooperation of others. MONUMENT DEDICATED TO THE HORSE Minden, Nebraska (Special CFI i photo to The Omaha Guide) from I F. E. Flack—Lewis and Francis ! Newbold, husband and wife, living six miles north of Minden, Nebras ka in Kearney county, over a per iod of many years gjtneied ston es from each of the 48 states in the union. From these the> erect ed a base for this monument on which is the inscription: “THIS MONUMENT DEDICATED TO THE HORSE AND HIS KIND THAT LED THE WAY FOR THE PIONEER AND MADE POS SIBLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUS TRY IN THE WESTERN HEM ISPHERE". It was dedicated this fall. WOT LD LOWER DISCHARGE PETITION NAMES TO lOO Washington DC_Leslie Perry! of the Washington Bureau NAACP said it would support and press for early consideration of legislation to amend the rules of the House of Representatives so as to substan tially lower the number of signa tures required to bring a bill up on a discharge petition. Currently 218 Congressmen, a majority of the House lnembership) must sign a petition but recently Congressman j HURLEY RESIGNS IN PROTEST Washington, DC. Soundphoto — Patrick J. Hurley resigned Iast week as U. S. Ambassador to China with a charge that profes sional diplomats in the State De partment are sabotaging the basic principles of American foreign pol icy. GENERAL WEEMS STEPS FROM RESCUE PLANE Walhalla, S. C. Soundphoto - Brig. General George H. Weems, former Assistant Commandant at Fort Benning Infantry School, is shown as he steps from his rescue plane after spending 13 hours in cold and rain in the South Caro lina mountains. He and six oth ers bailed out of a burning C-54 transport plane. General Weems gives credit to the pilot for saving the lives of those aboard. Thi3 was the General’s first parachute jump. Matthew M. Neely (D., W. Ya„) introduced House Resolution 353 which would lower the requirement to 100. A change of the House rules a Iong the line of the Neely measure, the NAACP said, would make it possible to get a vote on the KEPC bill which, according to informal polls, has 147 signatures and the anti-lynching bill which has 118. Perry pointed out that prior to 1935, when the present 218 rule was adopted, it was only necessary to secure 145 signatures, or one-third of the House membership to pry a bill loose from a committee. He declared that a further change in the rules ■ * imperative “because it i is increasingly apparent that the | present requirement only serves to I frustrate the plain will of the pe*. pie.” ★ FOR SECURITY ★ FOR THE PEACE Buy War Bonds Buy Victory Bonds Regularly Hold Them; Here's What Happens Week|y SAVINGS AND INTEREST ACCUMULATED Savings |n 1 Year_In 5 Years [ In 10 Yean $3.75 $195.00 $1,004.20 $2,163.45 6.25 325.00 1,674.16 3,607.54 12.50 650.00 3,348.95 7,217.20 18.75 975.00 5,024.24 10,828.74 WASHINGTON, D. C.—War Finance officials said here that weekly savings invested in Victory Bonds—$3.75 per week—for one year will total enough to make a down payment on a home. The timetable shows other small savings and their future values. of The Negro Press (from LOU SWARZ’ JOTTINGS) New York, N. Y.—Recently a well-known mag azine asked me to “OKeh” a similar column re leased by me through a National News’ Syndicate, in which I briefly discussed the “Value” of the Negro Press—. To me that is not hard to do because I still feed as always: there is no agency as great as the Press, (Period).—Differentiating between the Press doesn’t make sense to me because every Press— the Negro, Spanish, Jewish, Russian, and what we call the white—gives to its locality, its people or race, and its world.INFORMATION WHICH CANNOT BE MEASURED.... .... However, since we are still Negroes, most of us interested only in racial issues, the Negro Press will be the topic of this brief discussion—it, the Negro Press, is definitely a, WAKE UP AND READ Surely during the World War IT we learned everything about the contributions made by our Boys and Girls through Our Own Press.and we are still learning. Read your local weekly, The GREATER OMAHA GUIDE. and also read your dailies....——Compare News about Negroes in each.- In which do vou find most news about our own race? In your Negro Press, don’t you? Have you kept a scrap book of World War IT events from both your Negro and white news papers? If so, then you are a well-informed per son on all issues. And you must admit that you are informed on what our Negro boys did through the pages of our Negro newspaper. WAKE UP AND READ WAR NEWS IS JUST ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF THINGS ABOUT WHICH WE ARE KEPT INFORMED ABOUT THROUGH THE NEGRO PRESS... To question the value of the Negro Press, is, to my way of thinking, ignorance.... take our great organizations such as NAACP, BSCP, MOW, YW CA, YMCA, NCNW, and others which have made definite contributions to racial progress. In which Press did you read about those organizations'? The Negro Press was the channel which gave us that information. Speaking of general news and information con veyed through the Negro Press is only a “Tiny” angle of the work.There are many Phases or Departments of which the Press can boast—NEWS EDITORIALS, COMMENTS, SPECIAL COL UMNS, PUBLICITY, ADVERTISNG, ETC.— each phase could be given a page of discussion in a newspaper and yet only the “Tip” touched. ....-Through what channels, do millions of Negroes weekly, read, absorb and digest these printed words—Only of course through such chan nels as THE GREATER OMAHA GUIDE. So let us move from the News or Information angle of the Press; and we surely know that Edit orials^ are invaluable. It is so often that through the Editorials that conditions are improved and people are awakened to their duties -....Keep up " ith the Editorials in the Negro Press, especially at Election Times and see the right things about In the field of Advertising, Firms have become rich off Ads in the Negro Press and readers have profited in some way through Ads appearing. Take “Snow White” for instance, and other such Ads. It is easily known that it is estimated that the Negro America spends over ....... $$ 7 BILLION DOLLARS $$ ——- f°r life’s necessities. So Firms readily see the advantage in Advertising through the Negro Press -WAKE UP AND REALIZE THE WORTH OF THE NEGRO PRESS. And now comes the BIG thing PUBLICITY V hat is more valuable than the Negro Press for our Stars in the various fields. Sports, Theatre, Music, Radio, Writing, etc. Thanks to the Negro Press that we read about many race Artists who know nothing about the value, nor do they want to learn anything about the value of a Press Agent, Publicity Agent, or a Public Relations Man, or Woman. Funny, but you can (I belivee) count the Artists in other races who do not have some kind of Press or Publicity Agent.Firms like wise — But how mamny of our race Artists in any field know what a Press Agent can mean to them. .. WHY SLEEPEST TITOU .WAKE UP AND READ. .. AND GIVE THANKS THAT WE DO HAVE THE NEGRO PRESS .!
