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GRAND CHAMPIONS
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*SEHKF 4 KARL HOFFMAN I
g ^COMAfcfflMUTOCK SHOW t9*S 1
STORZ-HOFFMAN SET ALL-TIME RECORDS!
Champions 4th Year, Sell at $2 a Pound
The Storz-Hoffman Herefords set
two new records at the recent Chicago
Market Fat Stock Show.
1. They sold for $2 a pound to the
Wrigley Restaurants of Chicago. Pre
vious high record was 59 cents.
2. They won the grand champion
ship for Storz & Hoffman for the
fourth consecutive year.
This was the first time an exhibitor
has won the grand championship four
consecutive years in the 45-year his
tory of the International Livestock
Show or the Chicago Market Fat
Stock Show, which has substituted for
the International during wartime.
Sale Value $31,000
The cattle averaged 1,040 pounds
when they were shown. There were
15 of them in the car load. At $2 a
pound that would make their sale
value around 31 thousand dollars.
Karl Hoffman, Ida Grove (la.)
farmer, had shown fat cattle in the
Chicago show 18 years without win
ning. He broke into the grand champ
ionship class the first year of his
partnership with Robert H. Storz of
Omaha, and hasn't been out of it
since.
Mr. Storz and Mr. Hoffman go to
ranches each year to buy commercial
cattle. They feed about 150 head of
Herefords, pick out their choice to
take to the Chicago show. This year’s
grand champions were purchased as
calves from the T. O. Ranch Company
at Raton, N. M.
Mr. Storz, vice-president of the
Storz Brewing Co., said he is in
terested in demonstrating that cattle
from a commercial herd if properly
chosen and properly fed can attain
grand championship quality. He
stated that no pure-bred cattle were
included in this car load. He has pur
chased the 4-H grand champion at
the Ak-Sar-Ben show several times
GRANGER ASKS LAWYERS
TO TAKE LEAD IN INVESTI
GATING LEGALITY OF THE
PRESENT FHA RACIAL
POLICIES
Negro lawyers meeting in Cleve
land recently, were petitioned by
Lester B. Granger, National Urb
an League Executive Secretary to
take the lead in investigating the
legality of present FHA racial pol
icies. In a letter addressed to
Charles Anderson, President of
the National Bar Association, in
its annual session, Granger assail
ed the government agency’s prac
tice of guaranteeing building and
mortgage loans to Negroes only if
they remain in Negro neighbor
hoods and to whites if they remain
in white areas.
Granger pointed out that FHA
has not only encouraged the
spread of racially restrictive cov
enants, but it has justified them in
its Underwriters Manual — the
“bible” for appraisers and financ
ial institutions throughout the
country. Although FHA has re
vised its manual to eliminate the
references to racial restrictions,
the League Executive stated that
“it is too late for such revision to
have any practical effect. Local
lending institutions and building
interests have, on their own init
iative, continued and strengthened
these practices which have distort *
ed housing conditions for Negroes
throughout the entire country.”
Legal Minds Needed
Asserting that the time for
“quiet education” has passed,
Granger set forth the opinion of
the National Urban League that
the situation will be changed only
through court and legislative act
ion. He asked that the Negro
lawyers organization join forces
in a national project to make it
impossible for public funds to be
spent in “what amounts to a prac
tical subsidy of racial ghetto build
ings in American cities.”
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j Two Beauties and the Beast
ALL during the war, pretty junior
hostesses Jean Stovall and
Rosa Walker (above) helped train
ees—during their shore leave from
the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station—trade their sea legs for a
rollicking gallop on horseback. It
seems unnecessary to point out that
the cavalry division of the Wau
kegan, 111., USO club was one of
the most popular land activities
with the marine-minded contingent
of our armed forces.
The important thing just now is
that young misses like Jean and
Rosa are still on the job. Actually,
horseback riding is only One of the
countless ways junior hostesses
and older volunteers help service
men as well as service men’s wives
through the present difficult and
restless waiting period.
Because the National Y.W.C.A. is
the USO member agency primarily
concerned with women, many of
the feminine-slanted projects fall
naturally under its wing. Today,
for example, volunteers are welcom
ing the GI wife who comes to visit
her hospitalized husband; running
baby checks for visiting mothers;
and inviting reunited service men’s
families into USOs for a home
cooked dinner. Promoting better
race relations is an underlying
theme in all Y.W.C.A. activities.
30.000 OMAHANS NOT HEARD
FROM IN XMAS SEAL SALE
According to figures released
by the Nebraska Tuberculosis As
sociation, $16,810.83, has been re
ceived to date, in the 1945 Christ
mas Seal Sale. The Association
emphasizes that the average in
dividual gift is larger this year
than it has been for some years
past. But 30,000 Omahans have
not yet been heard from.
4It is important”, said Farrar
Newberry, Omaha’s 1945 Seal
Sale Chairman, “that these 30,000
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seals just as soon as possible.
These funds are badly needed to
carry on the preventive program
of the Association. I think some
contributors are inclined to be
lieve that their one, two or three
dollars will not make a great deal
Editorial:” Americans are Great Sportsmen”
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of difference in the grand total.
But the real facts of the matter
are, that every dollar counts. The
work of the Nebraska Tubercul
osis Association is supported by
small contributions from thous
ands of Nebraskans. It does not
depend upon a few large gifts
from wealthy individuals. The
fight against tuberculosis is every
body’s fight because anyone may
get the disease.”
The association announced that
at the same point in last year’s
Seal Sale, $19,159.13, had been re
ceived.
GENERAL MARSHALL AT
PEARL HARBOR HEARING
Washington, D. C. (Soundphotoi
General George C. Marshall de
clared that in 1941 Hawaii and
Panama were America’s main out
posts of defense and that the Phil
ippines were so poorly equipped
that “no defense against a first
j class power was conceivable”.
Photo shows General George C.
Marshall as he testified at the
Pearl Harbor invetigation. Presi
dent Truman recently named Mar
shall special emissary to China,
replacing Patrick Hurley who re
signed.
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Pauline Zolko, Pennsylvania farm
girl, when checked and timed,
while using two modern milking
units, actually milked 15 cows in
31 minutes. That’s at the rate of
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-i (Jbe ,£r°T',l VlCle “ based on medical *tudie* of ‘he effectiveness of
the Sister Elizabeth Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis.)
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Medical Studies Back |
Sister Kenny Theory
Sister Elizabeth Kenny’s demonstration of her treatment
for infantile paralysis at Minneapolis General hospital
aroused the interest of the medical profession and resulted
m a five-year study of her theories.
The result of these studies and clinical observations by
six eminent medical men is told in a report made in the Au
gust issue of The Journal Lancet, a national medical publica- |
uon, by Ur. John F. Pohl, attend-®
ing orthopedic surgeon at Minne
apolis General hospital and tlje
Michael Dowling School for Crip
pled Children in Minneapolis and
now medical supervisor at the Eliz
abeth Kenny Institute.
Dr. Pohl was one of the six men
who conducted the five-year studies
in co-operation with the University
of Minnesota medical school.
Other research was conducted by
orthopedists at the world-famed
Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota
and by the Rochester (New York)
University.
Studied 364 Cases
The Dr. Pohl report is based on
the most comprehensive study to
date of Miss Kenny’s revolutionary
treatment and the results of that
treatment.
In The Journal Lancet, Dr. Pohl
points out that his evaluation of the
“Kenny concept and treatment is
based" upon a study of 364 patients
suffering from infantile paralysis in
the acute stage who were admitted
and treated at Elizabeth Kenny
Clinic during the years 1940 through
1944.
Of the 364 patients 341 survive.
“Upon completion of the treat
ment 16 per cent of the patients
have extensive residual paralysis of
one or more extremities but 84 per
cent may be considered to have good
recovery from the standpoint of
muscle strength and ability to move
the limbs,” Dr. Pohl wrote.
He explains in his article that the
cases studied were not mild ones
but "were of average severity” in
comparison with previous experi
ence in the same hospital (Minne
apolis General).
Remarkably Successful
‘A patient may be a success from
the standpoint of retaining good
muscle power but the same patient
definitely represents a failure of
treatment if he suffers permanent
crippling deformities in spite of his
good muscle strength as was too
frequently the case under orthodox
management of the disease.
“On this basis the Kenny treat
ment proves to be remarkably suc
cessful as 95.5 per cent of the pa
tients in this series appeared to
have an assured further existence,
free of cumbersome braces, gro
tesque deformities and awkward
methods of locomotion.
The other 4.5 per cent (15 pa
tients) are by no means helpless or
“even necessarily crippled but are
considered as having retained mus
cle weakness to such an extent as to
prevent them from being fully in
dependent. None have gross de
formities.”
Only 2.3 per cent or eight of the
entire group of 341 wear braces.
Crutches are used by only 3.4 per
cent of the patients and 2.8 per cent
use one cane.
“For the most part,” Dr. Pohl
adds, “the crutches are employed
as a means of continuing to teach
the patients good motor habits rath
er than as a means of support.
Crutches are later displaced by a
single cane in most patients or art
discarded entirely. Gross deformi
ties have been eliminated in all
cases.
Surgery Unnecessary
“None of the patients has required
surgery to date and no indication
has arisen in which surgery might
Sister Kenny Given Degree by Presi
dent Robert Clothier of
Rutgers University.
materially improve the condition of
any of the patients.
“None of the 341 patients, includ
ing the severely involved, have en
tered orthopedic hospitals, rest
homes or institutions for the care of
the crippled and chronically dis
abled.”
Pointing out that orthopedic hos
pitals and schools for crippled chil
dren give an overall picture of the (
infantile paralysis situation in any |
community, Dr. Pohl presents fig-1
ures in The Journal Lancet article i
to show the effect of the Kenny
treatment on the number of admis
sions to the Michael Dowling School
for Crippled Children, Minneapolis,
during the years 1937, 1938 and 1939,
prior to the time Miss Kenny began
her work, and in 1940 through 1944.
From 1937 through 1939, Dr. Pohl |
said, 178 Minneapolis school chil
dren 14 years of age or under were
afflicted with the disease and 57 or
32 per cent of them eventually were
enrolled in Dowling school; 45 or 80 |
per cent of those admitted had gross j
deformities; 15 or 26 per cent of
those admitted were required to
wear braces, and 12 or 21 per cent of
those admitted have had surgical
operations.
From 1940 through 1944—the Ken- j
ny period—146 Minneapolis children ;
14 years of age or under were af
flicted with the disease and placed
under the management of the Kenny
treatment. 1
None Deformed
None of the 146, Dr. Pohl reports. |
had to be enrolled in Dowling J
school; none had a deformity; none j
had to wear a brace, and none had
to have surgical operations.
Dr. Don Henderson, head of the
orthopedic department of the Mayo
Clinic, in a letter to Miss Kenny com
mented on her concept of the dis
ease and her treatment of it and
said:
“I am fully convinced that your
method offers the infantile paralysis
patient more hope for complete re
covery than any other method or
treatment today.”
At Rochester University the acid
test of science was applied to Miss
Kennv'g theory that sp&snr does ex
ist. By use of delicate electrical
instruments university scientists j
proved Miss Kenny’s theory and as |
a result that institution conferred
upon the Australian nurse the de
gree of doctor of humane letters ini
recognition of her findings. New
York university also conferred an
honorary degree upon Miss Kenny
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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 feel
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 II 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 you find most news about
our own race? In your Negro Press, don’t you?
Have you kept a scrap book of World War II
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 LS
JUST ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF THINOS
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 purely know that Edit
orials are invaluable. It is so often that through
the Editorials that conditions are , ifnproved and
people are awakened to their duties ...Keep up
with 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 —....
$$ 7 BILLION DOLLARS $$
....— for 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 eemes the BIG thing PUBLICITY
What is more valuable than the Negro Press for our
Stars in the various fields. Sports, Theatre,
Music, Radio, Writing, etc. Thanks to tbe
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.Finns like
wise — But how mamny of our race Artists in any
field know what a Press Agent can mean to them....
' ....... WHY SLEEPEST TIIOU- -.WAKE UP
AND READ.AND GIVE THANKS THAT
WE DO HAVE THE NEGRO PRESS.!