LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS J0C Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE** /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE IINE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY _ PHONE HA.0800 2420 GRANT ST ciTriDmv ntIV *-■ , „., „ „„ . ,. _ _ , Entered as 2nYl class matter at Post* oft ice, Omaha, Nebr„ Wnder Act of SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1946 Oar 19lh Year—No. 22 j, IQc Per Copy ★ M^d, «, im. Publkhh, onto. „ mo Great Saw Omali* Nebc. "OUR I GUEST Column Edited by Verna P. Harris By Lester B. Granger, Exe cutive Sec’y National Ur ban League. Antisemitism is a mean and Ugly manifestation by any racial or religious group. Whether it is formally preached by a Charles Coughlin or Gerald L. K. Smith, or whether it is displayed in aim less remarks or half-educated in dividuals, it is a revelation of base qualities too often found in American life. When manifested by Negro spo kesmen, however, anti-semitism is the last word in doltish and bru tish bigotry. That Negro who art iculates anti-semitism attitudes -nd seeks to stir up hatred again st Jews as a racial group auto matically forfiets any right to pro test against wrongs practiced against Negroes. It is disturbing to note that during the last several years there has been an increase in anti-semi tic remarks in Negro gatherings; sometimes made by rabble-rous ers, bat sometimes made, also, by suave, college bred professionals. This situation can be explained, of course, by referring to the re cent hysteria which was felt by Negroes as keenly as by whites. Hitler did a thorough job, and though we defeated his armies we are still struggling against the tide of his propaganda which c«n imues lo roll on. There is another explanation for anti-semitism, however, espe cially in the crowded urban cen ters of Negro populations. It is a result of the presence of Jewish small shopkeepers in the Negro neighborhood and of Jewish rent ing agents for white landlords who may themselves be Jews but are more apt to be ‘Christians’. The Negro customer in neighborhood stores w’ho pays more than veil ing prices, or the Negro tenant in a crowded apartment section who pays more than a fair rental is apt to blame the Jewish shopkeep er or renting agent for extortion, rather than the forces which act ually control these little business men. A third reason lies in the fact that certain Jews themselves pra ctice discrimination against the Negroes, and certain Negroes are blinded by their own racial ex perience and insecurity to be glac to lash out at some other min ority group. Whatever the reasons, this quiet growth of anti-semitism among Negroes is a real threat to racial progress of our own group. It Ne- 1 gro Americans are to succeed in pushing aside the barriers that restrict and hamper them in find ing the good life, they will do so only through the help of millions of white Americans of different religious and economic back grounds. Any attitude carried by Negroes which discourages white supporters from rallying to our cause, or which further handicaps members of other disadvantaged minority groups, is bound to re act disastrously against Negroes tnemseives. This is why the National Urban League and local leagues all over the country have struck out against anti-semitism on every possible occasion Our Board and staff members have written and spoken on the subject and we have followed up these pifblic expres sions by actively organizing act ivities which bring Jews, Negroes and white Christians together in working partnership Every Urban League Board or working commit tee is an example of this policy. • Some Leagues have been able to go a good deal further. For in- | stance, when two or three years ago the Christian Frontiers of Boston initiated a campaign of violence against Jewish families, the executive secretary of the Boston Urban League was the secretary and spark plug of a ci tizen's committee organized to break up this anti-semitic cam paign. The Chicago Urban Lea gue similarly joined, a few years ago, in a city-wide movement aimed at stopping the spread of anti-semitic agitation in that city. These are only a few examples of how one organization primarily interested in Negro welfare finds itself obligated to work for Jew-1 ish welfare in order to protect the interests of Negroes. Our race leaders throughout the country would do well to address their at tention to this urgent problem, for unless the Jew’s place in Am erican life is protected and im-1 proved, there is slight hope for Negroes or for members of any other disadvantaged minority group. ORLANDO ROBERSON CLICKS IN HARLEM NEW YORK, N. Y.—CPB—Or lando Roberson, sensational song stylist, recently discharged from the army after 38 months in the service and a purple heart to his credit, premiered at the Celebrity Room at the Heat Wave Tuesday r.ight last, going over with a de finite bang. As you no doubt know Rober son is responsible for making the nation ‘Trees’ conscious. A pack- \ ed house bombarded him with one request after another until the wee hours of the morning. HONOR GRADUATES REBUFF THE DAR NEW YORK, N. Y— Calvin’s News Service—-Two American girls, Florence Kauffman and Betty Goldberg, top ranking sen iors at Seward High School are proudest today of having refused medals from the Daughter of Am erican Revolution than from any of their other achievements. I refuse to accept anything from an organization that discri minates like the DAR, said Flor ence, who is valedictorian of her I class with a 96 average. 1 Jack Howard W ins Cornhuskers Invitational Golf Meet BAR ASS’N OPPOSES EASTLAND'S AMENDMENT Ni.W YORK—In a strongly worder statement, the National Bar Association this week de nounced the proposed constitut ional amendment offered last Tuesday by Senator Eastland of Mississippi designed to unpack' the United States Supreme Court by removing four Roosevelt ap pointees. Pointing to the relentlessness ith which the South is fighting progressivism, Earl B. Dickerson NBA president, said that his or ganization could not permit this unwarranted attack upon our highest tribunal to go unchallen ged. He then cited the superbly meritorious service to the cause of liberalism, that has been ren dered by Associate Justices Wil liam O. Douglas. Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, and Wiley Rutledge, the men who would be displaced. Senator Eastland is motivated solely by his dislike for decisions of the Court in such cases as the Virginia segregation law, white primaries, union representation for minority groups in collective bargaining matters, and equal pay for school teachers Dick., son said. In the interpretation of its laws, our own Supreme Court, more than any other court in the civilized world, has most nearly approached that area of reasoning which guarantees to all people the , principles involved in the Four! Freedoms. It is the demagogues of America and of the world who! want to stop the clock in the face of this truly peoples movement." Dickerson urged Negroes and ‘our allies in labor” to organize to “vigorously oppose this amend ment on the grounds that it is a blow against justice for the com mon man.” SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM MADE PERMANENT .. USDA Photo by Forsythe With President Truman signing tne National School Lunch bill, the eleven-year-old program lias become a permanent source fit good nutrition for the white and colored school children of America. At the peak of the temporary program more than a million colored youngsters received lunches. Looking on, as the President signs the bill which authorizes the_ United States Department of Agriculture to assume, half the expenses for school , lunches in any State assuming the other half, are Agriculture officials and members of the Senate and House Agri culture Committees. Left to right: Rep. Clarence Cannon of Missouri, Secretary Clinton P. Anderson, Pep. Mal colm C. Tarver of Georgia, Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, Sen. Allen Ellender of Louisiana, Rep. Clifford R. Hope of Kansas, Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont, Rep. John W. Flannagan of Virginia, Executive Assistant to the Secretary Nathan Koenig, Director of Food Distribution Programs Paul C. Stark, Under Secretary N. E. Dodd, * T,--ndi>rtion and Marketing Administrator Robert II. Shields. City ffecreaticn ti