For the BEST in Dietcs ^ Read The Omaha Guide I ... .... Tell them they are "second rate" Americans Tell them they aren't entitled to o real education Tell them they can't have decent homes Go ahead, tell them—if you can—but DON'T LET AN AMERICAN HEAR YOU t&sed on "look Them in the Eyes," o pomphlet of the Southern Conference of Human Welfaro , Notional Citizens Political Action Committee, 205 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. The Common Defense (by Rev. William C. Kernan) FACT AM) PREJUDICE Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, Assistant Professor of An thropology, Queens College, mil author of tiie widely read book. 'Probing Our Prejudices,’ defines prejudice ns 'jump teg to a conclusion before considering the facis.’ Many Americans, and others, knowing what rutn preju dice has brought to Europe, and realizing more than ever what a potent enemy it is to democracy, are to<:av relying more on facts about their neighbors, less on prejudice. One prejudice which has done incalculable harm zo unity in this country is that which arises from the fiction that the Jews crucified Christ. The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick exploded this pre judice when he set forth the facts in the December 2-i. 1945 issne of *Ufe\ “The idea that the Jewish people crucified Jesus is a travesty on the truth,” Dr. FosuicK wrote. “Crowds welcomed Him when he entered Jerusalem at the beginning of His last week. When the Saddurean clique —the Quislings and I.avals of that day. the collaboration ists with Rome—plotted to seize Him. ‘they were afraid of the people’; anti at last they arrested Him at night, catching Him in the Carden of Cethsemane where the people could no tintervene. Even whn He went to the cross, ‘He was fol -lowed by a large multitude of the people and also of wom en who beat their breasts and lamented Him,’ and after the dreadful tied was done on Calvary, ‘when all the crowds who .iad collected for the sight saw what had happened, they turned away beating their breasts.’ As for the clique ll»-i —ied, ‘Crucify Him!’ in Pilate's court, they were an other crowd—the hirelings of the high priests. tTie hangers on of Judea'e collaborationist \ ichy government. “The Jewish people did not crucify Jesus. They were stirred by Him and responded to Him. It was die small circle of the ruling class who teamed up with Pilate and nailed Him to the Cross.” KLAN STRIVES TO KEEP HITLERS CONTENTIONS ALIVE (Continued from Page 1) Iu an introduction to a statement by the American Council’s board of directors. A. A. Liveright, exe cutive director, said, “the killing of two Negro servicemen in Free port, Long Island, the firing of Negro hot tes in Chicago, and the burning and bombing of Japanese American homes on the west coast are evidence of the national char acter of this danger”. Liveright stated that the Ameri can Council has evidence that the Ku Klux Klan is attempting to •pread its organizations to every aection of the country, and that the Klan and such mongers as Gerald L K Smith are seeking to create a public climate in which violence against minority groups may go unchallenged He urged the mayors and governor’s com missions and the civic unity coun cils to seek city, state and nation al government action against such groups as the Klan and individ uals like Smith. The board of di rectors’ statement urged these bodies to join with other commun ity and national groups in establi shing a bulwark of opposition to disunity and support of genuine freedom for the whole population. Copies of the two statements have been sent to United States Attorney General Tom C. Clark with a letter stating that the De partment of Justice “has respon sibility not only for prosecuting the lynch criminals in such cases after they occur, but for taking steps to protect our citizenry and prevent such cases before they occur". Negro College Grads Inferior Says Writer NEW YORK, July 25—Arthur P. Davis, in a thought-provoking article, discusses Negro scholar ship in the August issue of The Crisis, an NAACP monthly publi cation, Mr. Davis’ article will cer tainly stimulate fevered discus sion when he states “our colleges are turning out graduates in prac tically all of the academic fields.. We are getting the quantity; a college degree is almost as com mon among us as a grammar achool certificate was forty years ago. But what about the quality of these students we are sending into the world ? Are they thorough ly educated? Are they scholars? Mr. Davis continues, “If this question were asked of the prof essors in Negro schools, 93 per cent, we are certain would answer ffo. Our schools they feel, are grinding out sub-standard gradu ates. National tests would corro borate this opinion Mr. Davis paints a dark pic ture, not without optimism how ever. During the course of his dis cussion he reveals many interest ing educational sidelights, among them the fact that ‘ Harvard Uni versity alone has an educational income larger than the 100 Negro colleges listed in the U. S. De partment of Education Biennial Survey.” Davis also points out, It is interesting to note that Rus sia, our greatest rival for world power, spends $13,000,000 or 20 per cent of its national, income on education; with all of our wealth we spend $3,000,000 or two per cent”. TRIBUTE PAID TO LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ROCKY MOUNT, Virginia—Con gress paid high tribute to Booker T Washington, the late educator, Thursday, July 25, when the Sen ate passed without a dissenting vote, a bill to issue five million commemorative coins, to help est ablish a memorial at his birthplace in Franklin County, Virginia, that will commemorate his life and per petuate his ideals and teachings. Previously, the bill had unimous ly passed the House in history making time, where it was intro duced by Rep. T. G. Burch, Vir ginia, who since then as appointed to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Glass. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Alben Bark ley, Ky. for the late Sen. Carter Glass. It is believed that this mea sure was the last official act of the senior Senator from Virginia. Season observers on Capitol Hill commented on the Speedy passage of this legislation through Con gress. Under the chairmanship of Rep Compton White, Idoha, the chairman of the Coinage, Weights and Measures Committee in the House, and Sen. Robert F Wag ner New York, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, both bills were uni mously reported without amend ments. When the nes of the passing of FlgSlt Wtrnimmmm***** mr^^nM-Mnwrai i ■ i Avoid removal of tonsils or adenoids prior to and dur ing nolio epidemic season. the bill reached S. J. Phillips, pre sident of the Booker T. Washing ton Birthplace Memorial, at his headquarters in Rock Mount, he said: “Passage of this bill is of national importance. It should be an inspiration to all Aemricans; a fitting tribute to Booker T. Wa shington, and will have a direct bearing upon the lives of all Ne groes. The Legislation was en thusiastically supported by mem bers of Congress on the basis of the greatness and fame of Booker T. Washington, who had served mankind.” LAST RITES HELD FOR FORMER SLAVE Funeral services for Henry L. Brown, 91, a former slave who had served pioneer railroad officials, politicians and statesmen during 55 years of work on the Burling ton Railroad, were held Wednes day at 2 pm. at St. John’s AME Church. Born and reared on a Virginia plantation, he ran away during the Civil War and entered the service of a Union caiptain. Then he work ed as a steward on a Mississippi River side-wheeler steamboat. In 1876 he joined the railroad as a dining car cook at Chicago, 111. He came to the Omaha office in 1879. As steward and special chef on the private car of George W. Hold rege, for many years general man ager of the Burlington Lines, West Mr. Brown met Burlington Presi dents John Murray Forbes, Chas. E. Perkins, and Hale Holden, Buf falo Bill Cody and Gen. C. F. Man derson, then a Nebraska Senator. He retired once in 1921, but said he “could not sit still at home”, so he worked as a handy man at the Burlington offices until 1932. He was a life member of the railroads Veterans’ Association, and had lived at the Colored Old TABLE MODELRa °eR now, T U3s uUSSi&r u*ning st.