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The Omaha Guide A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER + 1 " I I 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 Mardi 3, 1879. C* C- Gallovny,_ Publisher and Acting Editor All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be a our office not later than 1:00 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 1 ONE YEAR . $3.0' | SIX MONTHS .$1,751 THREE MONTHS .$1.8f| SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN | SIX MONTHS .$2-<*l National Advertising Ret>resentatives— " INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Inti 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Fhone:— / MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager 1 Booker T* Washington Birthplace Memorial Endorsed Nationally Rocymount, Virginia, March 31—1046—S. J. Phillips, 1 President of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memor ial, announces that the State of Virginia in the General As sembly which closed on March 9 appropriated $15,000 to wards the $2,000,000 Memorial, which is planned for the birthplace of Booker T. Washington. This appropriation was made towards the establishment of permanent build ings and to promote the general idea of the Memorial. The idea of establishing a Memorial to Booker T. Wash ington at his birthplace in appreciation for his contribu tions to National welfare has been endorsed by 33 Gover nors over the Nation, the Press, the Church, Departments of Education, organization leaders, women’s groups, and is being heartily received by the general public. Much publicity si being given the movement by the rad io. A Booker T. Washington Memorial Quartet, compos ed of men who recently served with the Army Corp Group at Ft. Benning, Georgia, has been organized and is broad casting daily in the interest of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial. These singers will also make per sonal appearances before groups over the country. On April 5, the day which is celebrated at the birthday of Booker T. Washington, “ground breaking'” ceremonies will mark the beginning of the establishment of the $200, 000,000 Memorial was held at Booker T. Washington’s birthplace. Arrangements were made with the All Ameri can News Company to make pictures of these ceremonies to be shown in Negro theatres over the country. Other news producers were also invited to film these events. Rad io broadcasts were made on that occasion, trustees of the Memorial were present on the grounds, together with groups of outstanding individuals from various organiza tions of white and colored over the country. The public was invited to attend this epoch marking event. The Strength of Freedom by RUTH TAYLOR The first time I heard that phrase it came from the lips ®f one of the truly great elder statesmen. There was a life time of experience in his tone when he said, “We under estimate the strength of freedom.” What he had learned in his years of struggle to improve the conditions of his fellow Americans, is the secret of the power of democracy. It is the vital spark of reserve pow er of our republic. There is a hidden strength to freedom, an innate power which is invincible. Fearful souls have spoken and writ ten much of the might of totalitarian nations—of the speed with which they can act, of their cohesive power. But all of these are as nothing beside the strength of freedom. Fredom has powers beside which the powers of dictators— either of the left or right—crumble into their native noth ingness. There is a balance of power in freedom because it is applicable to all without regard to class, color or creed. Without equal rights for all there is no freedom for any— no liberty, just license to oppress for the favored few. Freedom means the possession of self initiative and the exercise of the powers of deliberation. It takes courage to be free, because it demands the acceptance of duties as well as of rights. A man who is free is a strong man. He is free from the ehains of hate or prejudice, from fear, selfishness and des pair. The man who is free has learned to walk alone, to think and decide for himself. He does not lean on others. He stands firm by himself. We have underestimated the strength of our freedom. It is like the education of a child. If a child has been prop erly trained, he can be trusted as an adult to make correct decisions. Those who have been trained to freedom have the strength to use it wisely. This is our salvation as a nation. This is the cohesive quality of democracy. / Share Your Easter Joy! Buy and Use Easter Seeds! Editorial: “fln Idea!” “WE-WE THOUGHT MAYBE, IF WE HAD A UNITED STATES ORGANIZATION HERE IN OUpT OWN COUNTRY WE'D GET ALONG BETTER, TOO! J - •'V . f ,v V PLAIN TALK—by Dan Gardner- . . Washington, A Racial Panacea Another gentleman with the “interest of the Race” at heart has come forward with a panacea for solving once and for all the American Negro’s dilemna. He is a Dr. Wil liam A. Brown, “La Casa Willadora”, Cave Junction, Illin ois Valley, Oregon. I don't know Dr. Brown and I don’t know whether he is white or colored, but his program labelled “Washingtonia: Land of the Free Born” came to me in a mimeographed tract and that is the reason for this piece. Washingtonia, according to Dr. Brown, “is envisioned as a living memor ial to the great American Educator, Dr. Booker T. Wash ington. It takes the form of a vast cooperative Negro Community Enterprise in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, op posite Port Arthur, Texas. As projected, it contains 400 square miles withni a proposed city named Washingtonia and 600 square miles contiguous thereto, this area to be served absolutely for every sort and size of Negro-Initialed INDUSTRIES to be Negro-Owned and Negro-Managed. In developing W ashingtonia the Gulf of Mexico is to be made the Mexieo-America Inland Sea. Dr. Brown's W ashingtonia harbor woultl be made large enough to provide for all the shipping in the Mexieo-Amer ican inland sea and establish ample anchorage for ihe Am erican Navy. In 1950, Dr. Brown wants to stage a Golden Jubilee of Booker T. W ashington’s launching of the National Negro Business League with a most fittingly inaugurated interna tional, interracial exposition of the 60 colored nations; thus making W ashingtonia the cultural, commercial, fiduc ial, industrial, recreational, educational, musical, spiritual center of the 1,600,000,000 colored people of all the wide, wide world. Brother Brown waxes further eloquent in discussing this brand new dream of racial advancement by concentrating on two names—George W ashington, the first President of the United States, and of course, a white man. and Booker T. Washington, a Negro Washington who' a dopted the name of the white man and later became world famous for his endeavors in racial advancement through the race working with their hands. Dr. Brown’s program is solidly nationalistic and was set up within the American system, the monster black belt sent to the reservations of the W est upon which the Indian braves are allowed to roam in the most prejudiced section of the United States outside of Florida and Mississippi. The Jim Crow Wrashingtonia would be hemmed in on three sides by various mixtures of the raker redneck element, with Uncle Sam’s Navy manned as per custom by whites anchored at a business-like distance off shore so that all that could happen in Washingtonia would be loud hosannas, hand-clapping, singing of spirit uals, picking cotton and other activities the white man ascribes to us as our purely racial inheritance. His scheme calls for “the requisition, development, disposition and control of all W ashingtonia property, with the approval of all enterprises and personnel to be vested in a Board of Trustees composed of nine busi ness and professional men well known as thoroughly capable and trustworthy, incorporated under the laws of the State of Louisiana and a Washington National Bank of Commerce with $1,000,000 paid up capital, organized and managed by experienced men self; ted from Negro banks in various centers of population.” The Washingtonia Certificates of deposit maturing in 1950 a tthe time of Brother Brown’s international, in terracial exposition would show $3.75 purchasing a $5 bond; $7.50 purchasing a $10 bond; $15, a $20 bond; $37.50; a $50 bond and $75, a $100 bond which at compound interest would yield about 5%. Washingtonia would teem with institutions. I) >ctor Brown’s elaborate vision encompasses with one full sweep the University of Washingtonia (the Brown Man s Oxford) with professional studies equal to those common to the greatest universities anywhere in the world. He would have Marian Anderson School of Music; a cappella choir, symphony orchestras, military bands, artist courses, pring and fall festivals, tours of Metropolitan cities hi permanently equipped streamlin ed trains which Mr. Brown neglects to say, but may be presumed to be a strictly coal-car proposition since Mr. Brown has yet to indicate in his prospectus that Louisiana will allow trains to run through their state without custom ary Jim Crow regulations. He would have in Washington t ♦ ' v'- ■ '■ 11 - - - — ■ -- .. - - ^ la exclusive publications of Negro music and spirituals, Negro magazines, Negro stories, publications, dailies, books by Negro authors, a 25c popular library of pocket books for circulation in all public schools and appropriate for family reading and culture. The Washingtonia radio would reach the entire world and every program would fea ture a Marian Anderson selection (by that time poor Mar ian would have sung herself to death) and there would be hourly news comments from Negro reporters from the cap ital of the Nation, where they have yet to get in the Congres sional press roll despite vehement agitation. The laborate panacea calls for Washingtonia in Texas, I some place near Brownsville, and* Corpus Christi. Then1 Dr. Brown would invade Mississippi, stamping ground of j the Bilbo-Rankin-Eastland coalition where a health resort l similar to Mayo’s in Minnesota would be built. This is a- \ bout all he could figure up for Mississippi. In Alabama, he would set up a George Washington Carver Laboratory in which much cotton picking and sweet potato planting would be very much in evidence since his plan does not call for any further incursions into elaborately lai dout racial lines of this birth state of the late Booker T. Washington. Brown's W ashingtonia in Florida “conspires to beckon the American Negro to his native heath”. Here the Negro would be placed in close contact with chickens, mules, sheep, goats, cows, hogs, turnip greens and other vegeta tion of the garden variety which “will lure the naturally ambitious.” Thus, we have the picture of our immediate future. We can rear back in our swivel chairs and enjoy belly laughs, as usual, for the self-sufficiency of the race. That is the natural tendency among us since few are as brave as Dr. Brown in the origination of any kind of idea that might have a sound basis. The scheme of Washingtonia may be one in a long line of crackpot shakedowns that frequently rise to plague our well-being, but it is safe to say that where Brown may in terest thousands in the South and elsewhere who are inter ested in being wholly Negroes, there will be twice that many who will not willingly concede the hard-earned privilege of marrying white women, eating in white restaurants, going to mixed summer camps, etc., for any idea of this nature. They take and stand on the issue of integration or nothing. “THE NEGRO IN LATIN AMERICA” by Harold Preece So You Want to Go to Brazil Several Negro servicemen have written me that they would like to take a try at living in Brazil, once they get their discharge papers. They have asked me for inform ation about job conditions in the country and about pass port requirements 01 the Brazilian government. Well, Brazil is on a big in dustrial boom and needs skilled workers. But that's only half the story—the new Brazilian industries are large ly controlled by the same A* merican monopoly capitalists who have always fought full and equal employment for Negroes in this country. Al though fully half of Brazil's 40,000,000 people have vary ing percentages of * Negro blood, Jim Crow is making headwav in that country be Harold Preece cause the Americans who con trol the money largely control the country. JOB REQUIRED Here are the rules for getting a permanent or a tempor ary visa to Brazil. The rub comes in the requirement that anybody wishing to settle permanently there must have a job already lined up and letters from his employers to prove it—and that may work against American Negroes wishing to get started in this big and almost wholly unde veloped country. The rules for a permanent visa are as follows: 1. Passport; fTHEY’LL NEVER DIE u £(**?**{ SOBDnHHr-1 mmr ,ra aldrid&e, WWB/ BORN BELAIR.MD. I90A, gaa^ ROSE FROM A HUMBLE ^1 CW CARPENTER TO ONE OFTHE N W FINEST SHAKESPEAREAN W ACTORS OFTHE WORLD// |f HIS TALENT WAS DEVEL | OPED BY THE GREAT ACTOR, I EDMUND KEAN, WHO TOOK ■ IRA TO EUROPE WITH HIM |\ THERE ALDRIDGE f»\ REACHED THE HEIGHTS/ BBL HIS OTHELLO PLAYED TO CAPACITY AUDIENCES AND WON HIM BOTH ^P^WEAUH AND FAME/ /UMUD5E SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR/ _Cwf1rwrt*l_FMiiir L- —mi -ILilt - -JLUL ——mi — • Jl II - it li HU - 2. Police certificate of no criminal record; 3. Two letters from officials of reliable firms stating bearer is not harmful to public order, to the national se curity or to the public institution; 4. Certificate of health (form furnished by the Con sulate) ; t , 5. Certificate of vaccination against smallpox, issued in last five years; *• 6. Proof of lawful occupation (not needed for married women accompanying their husbands) ; this may be letter, in duplicate, from applicant’s employers and should state that he is in their employ and that they will be responsible for his maintenance in Brazil; 7. Birth certificate; 8. Marriage certificate; 9. Two application forms, furnished by the Consulate; 10. Four photographs, on white background for each adult or child; Fee for visa—$10.00. According to the Brazilian Bulletin of Feb. 1, official Brazilian government publication issued at 551 Fifth Ave nue, New York and from which this information is taken, all persons desiring to enter Brazil in a permanent charac ter must appear in person at that country’s consulate near est to them or having jurisdiction over the locality in which they have resided for the last six months. If you don’t know the name of the nearest Brazilian consulate, write and ask Ambassador Carlos Martins, Brazilian Embassy, Washington, D. C. If you want to go to Brazil on a tour or a business mat ter, you will need only a temporary visa. And here’s what is required: « 1. Passport; 2. Certificate of vaccination (smallpox) ; 3. Certificate of Health, stating that bearer is not suf fering from any communicable disease; 4. Police certificate of no criminal record; 5. Letter in duplicate, stating the purpose of the trip; 6. Four photographs, for each adult and child (pass port size) ; 7. Two application forms, furnished by the Consulate. These rules for both temporary and permanent visas will be changed when Brazilian Decree—in Law 7967 of September 18, 1945, goes into effect. I do not have a copy of the decree before me, but-1 am told that it makes no mention of rare or color in its provisions regarding qualifications for new settlers in the country. Even so, I’d like to hear the results, good or bad, of any application made by a Negro for entrance into the country. If Negroes are being admitted on an equal basis once they are assured of jobs in Brazil, we ought to know about it. If they are being refused admission, we ought to know about it too. Drop me a letter in care of Continental Features, 507 Fifth Avenue, New York, letting me know what happens in case you ask for a visa to enter Brazil. DO’S AND DON’TS: \ P'fo Vo^ _ __ 0^ > 1 I i. Little women, if you would be called ladies, avoid profanity. 4
