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! The Omaha Guide H + A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^ I Published Every Saturday at 2^20 Grant Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA- 0800 j Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 j at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under J Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. j C. C- Gallowry,_ Publisher and Acting Edilct All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our office not later than 1:00 j p. m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising j Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday j noon, preceeding date of issue, to insure public- j ation. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA ONE YEAR . $3.iio SIX MONTHS . $1.75 THREE MONTHS .$1-25 SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OP TOWN ONE YEAR . $3.50 SIX MONTHS .$2.00 National Advertising Representatives— INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Inc 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone: — — MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager March of Dimes Symbol _* ' ~ » I h did not conquer him IMF NATION Al. KOI N RATION KOH INKAjiTIIK I'AKAi.VSlS. INC. For millions of Americans, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who re fused to accept defeat from infantile paralysis, symbolized the nation’s fight against the Great Crippler organized and directed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which the late President founded. The above poster was prepared by the Nation al Foundation for its 1946 March of Dimes, January 14-31. fight on! FIGHT ON! January 30 is the birthday of a great American, - our wartime President, the late Franklin I). Roose velt. Shortly after entering the White House, almost 13 years ago, Mr. Roosevelt set aside his birthday for a nation-wide appeal to support an organized campaign against infantile paralysis. None knew better than he the devastating effects of this dis ease. He was one of its victims; he fought it val iantl}r, and continued to fight it throughout the rest of his life—for others. He did not live to see ultimate victory in the war which he inaugurater against infantile paralysis in America and unified by founding^the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis. It remains for us to carry on the fight without that gallant leader. The Enemy is still stroilg. During the past year, more than 13,000 enw sases of polio were reported in this country. The war against infantile paraly sis cannot end until this derad disease is finally wiped out. Let us carry on the fght—to the finish! JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES—NOW! THE PARLIEMENT OF MAN :-:S by Ruth Taylor The Parliement of Man is now convened in con tinuing and constant session without rules of order, limittations of debate, or privilege of the house, and those who refuse to taek accoutn of its proceedings may wake up to find that its proceedings have taken no accoutn of them.” These words weer written some time ago by Ar i chibald MacLeish, They are given new signific ance by the events of recent weeks. M e are living at a moment in history when the I nature of our civilization is unusually fluid, unus 1 ally capable of being molded in a new direction. |A11 too soon it will crvstalize. Therefore, it is im portant that we take full advantage of this oopor turnty to assure the birth of the world for which we MARCH OF DIMES c JANUARY 14-31 j Editorial: "What Makes This Type Tick?” Lj NEG^O/Sj w// have hoped and of which we have dreamed. It is time for far-reaching plans and for hard and constructive work to put those plans into effect. It is time for men who are willing to lead and to take responsibility, who will put the interests of their fellow men before their own personal ambi tions. The Parliement of Man does not select any one group-it is ALL men, no matter what their race or creed or nationality or occupation. Neither as individuals or as a nation will it be possible for us to stand aside and keep out of the stream of traffic. In a world that is daily growing smaller, we canot avoid being affected by what hap pens to our neighbors. Freedom is responsibility. Freedom must be earned by each man in his own way. No one can shirk his responsibility. No one can work by or for himself alone. The first task before us is to lay the social, polit ical and economic foundations of peace. That can be done only by each man and each nation doing his or its share. In a world which has become “One. World” collective security is the only possible se curity—and collective prosperity the only possible prosperity. And “collective” means that YOLT have a role to perform. The Parliement of Man is in session. Its decis ions are your decisions. Released by Calvin’s News Service Rep. Gore (Dem of Tennessee) was having a little fun the other day at the expense of his Republican colleagues. Several months ago, he said,, “G. 0. P. spokesmen let it be known that they weer drafting a new “platform.” According to the advance bill ing, it was going to be a veritable political atomic bomb and no mere endorsement of the Constitution, the flag, niQtlier love and kindenss to dumb animals. As Rep. Martin (Rep. of Massachusetts) put it, “People won’t fall asleep when they read it. It will be no 2 hour proclamation, and everyone can understand it.” The period of gestation having ended, on Decem ber 5 the Republican mountain labored.’...and brot forth a not very forthright mouse! As Rep. Gore observed: ‘ To say that the world was astounded is to put it mildly, for instead of it being a fresh, sweet lusty, promising youngster, as we had been told, it looked exactly like its Old Guard daddv, dressed up in a enwly phrased paper baby dress.” But this isn t about the new G. 0. P. platform. It’s about an incident that occurred while Rep. Gore was having fun with the “jumble of vague promises, shabby phrases, glittering generalities and vacant viewings with alarm.” The incident was a Repub lican interruption asking fhe speaker what the Dem ocratic party has done “to enact legislation giving force to the utterance of its great leaders,” specif ically what the Democrats have done about the Fair Employment Practice Committee. Mr. Gore re plied by pointing out that a petition to call the FE. PC. bill before the House was on the Speaker’s desk thaPit eneded 218 sigantures, that of the 157 who hai e signed thus far only 50 are Republicans. Whereupon Mr. Martin interrupted to say that six i otes had been cast in the Rules Committee for bringing out the bill and that four of them were Re publican votes. * Six Democrats out of eight voted against giving the House a chance to act on the leg islation. “Furthermore,” Mr. Martin continued “I may say it only requires you to get one of six other Democrats and the legislation will be here < immediately.” Mr. Gore skillfully ducked the question of Demo cratic culpability. He said the Republicans on the Rules Committee were in the majority for the great er part of the day and that they coufd have voted ' the bill out any time they liked. Instead, they de liberately procrastinated “and they were the hap piest four men under this Dome when the other man got theer and tied up the vote. They could then vote for it, in full assurance that their votes would amount to nothng, except to hoodwink supporters of FEPC.” This bit of horseplay is illuminating. It demon strates how both major parties work their three card monte deception on the people. Both parties give official blesing to FEPC., but neither really I want it. Like President Truman, they believe the ! aims of FEPC. are “laudable,” but it is noteworthy that when the President ordered FEPC. to with hold its directive to the Washington, D. C., Capital . Transit Company the Reps, were as silent as the ) Dems.—and the Dems. were as silent as the grave. Why have both parties tacitly agreed to kill this measure, in resigning from the committee to pro test the President’s order in the case of the Capital Transit Company, Charles Houston, charged that “political considerations” determined Mr. Tru man’s action. S<*they did! And if we think back hard enough, we’ll recall that “political consider-* ations” also determined Mr. Roosevelt’s action in issuing Executive Order 8802. We simply deceive ourselves if we imagine that Mr. Roosevelt created FEPC. eagerly out of wholesome hatred of the prac tice of race-hiring discriminations. The late pres ident may, or may not, have had strong convictions on the subject, but the fact is, if he had convictions against discrimination, he concealed them quite successfully until an aggressive Negro movement threatened his Administration with an embarrass ing demonstration and forced his reluctant hand. if we insist on deceiving ourselves, what we real ly accomplish is this: We create a Roosevelt myth. We blind ourselves to the fact that Roosevelt, had lie lived, would have been under compulsion of the same “political considerations” which determine Mr. Truman’s actions. Those “political consider ations’.’ are basically capitalist considerations—the considerations of a social system which would not if it could, and could not if it would, utilize its labor resources rationally. This is not 1941, when the pressure of war demand tended to raise the job ceiling. This is 1946—and the pressure on the job ceiling is reversed. Plain Talk... (BY DAN GARDNER) * NEGRO HAS TO GO FROM D. C. TO NEW YORK TO BUY SHOES Last week I met and talked with a friend who had come to New York from Washington, D.C., where he lives. In Washington he is known far and wide as one of our best educated persons and also as a leader of national renown. His writings are fearless and militant and appear in many of the big magazines, newspapers, and per iodicals. He is unswerving in his views on the race prob lem and believes most sincerely that the key to the Negro problem here in America is hrough universal education of all Negroes. He wants every Negro to hold a Phi Beta Kappa Key cfc to be in a position where it can be had by reaching and taking it. He wouldn’t move away from Washington for anything. Like the New Yorker swears by Goth am, the Chicagoan by the Windy City, and the ’ De troiter by the Motor City, he swears by Washing ton and wonders why anyone would like to live else where. I asked him what he was doing in town, that is, I wasn’t trying to meddle in his busienss, but asked him the casual question as most of us do when talk ing with someone we know very well. ‘‘I came up to buy a pair of shoes,” he said. I looked at him queerly. and then the significance of what he said dawned slowly upon me. He came oWer 400 miles from the capital of the nation to New I ' DO’S AND DON’TS: They say that children use adults as models for their behavior. Do make your conduct a worth while pattern. b==i0l^=]0[^=]0[^=10[^=]0[^=3E][^=]G][^=]e[=: York to buy some shoes. He couldn’t buy the kind of shoes he wanted in Washington because the plac es selling such shoes are owned by reactionary whites and other whites who abide by the strict Jim Crow pattern upon which the seat of American government is operated. So, to keep from going barefoot, he caught the Congressional Limited and spent the three and a half hours needed to bring him to Penn Station traveling to get some shoes when he, had he been white, er had he put his educa tion to some practical use, could have used that time in owning and operating a business that would place the products he desired within reach after a five minute walk. He had to come all the way from Washington to New York to get a pair of shoes because Carfink el’s in Washington won’t sell to Negro consumers! The war is over now to all practical purposes, al though much could be said about the fighting now going on in China and in the Dutch East Indies; but as far as Negroes are concerned, the war is just starting. All the talk we have done, all the blood we have shed in five major wars in which this country has been involved doesn’t as yet entitle us to purchase a pair of shoes in the capital of the nation we call our homeland and where we hold citizenship rights of a sort. tne sacrifices we Have made, all the taxes we have paid doesn’t get us the common respect any efurgee from any of the Nazi-ridden countries of Europe receives as a matter of course. Perhaps there is something wrong in the way we approach our problem; instead of degrees written in Latin we should be seeking emblems attesting to our courage in grappling with concrete problems that have to do with our fundamental right to live. Such degrees and scrolls should be written in blood. They should be based on the fact that we are doing first things first. With all his degrees, his Phi Beta Kappa Key, his position in the Negro White world of interracial relationships, with the money he earns, my friend form Washington is still a “Negro” pronounced the way they do it down South. Garfinkle’s and other fashionable stores in Washington are for white folks and my friend from Washington recognizes this as a fact since lie does not do anything about it there, but comes here to buy his shoes. The same goes for other Washington Negro dig nitaries. They have to come to New York or some other city this side of Philadelphia to eat in any res taurant they choose; to see the shows and plays they read about down there but are barred from attend ing because they belong to a subject people. And a main reason for this sad state of affairs is the fact that our leading Negroes in Washington, as well as elsewhere, haven’t done anything to make the white man respect us enough to give us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And Negroes in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Boston shouldn’t be too happy about it because the same things that take place in Washington can very well be the sit uation in their home cities. It wouldn’t be too presumptuous to observe that the reason things are better for Negroes in New York than in Vicksburg, Miss., is because the while man in the North has schooled himself to tolerate us. He certainly isn’t afraid of us. physically, eco nomically, or otherwise. Until we can develop to the point where we can inspire fear or respect, our leading Negroes in Washington and elsewheer in the South will have to keep on coming to New York to buy a pair of shoes. fine Quality-Personalized PRINTING CARDS, LETTER HEADS, PERSONAL STATIONERY, HAND BILLS — ANYTHING PRINTABLE... JUST CALL HA-0800 or better still Come to 2420 Grant Street
