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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
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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
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Coll ers Tells of Vanishing Race I|
Millions With Negro Blood
Not Accepted as Colored
Scientific Studies disprove the
belief that supposedly white couple
can have coal-black baby, Collier’s
article says; thousands of Negroes
pass to white side each year.
Between five and eight million
people of the United States who
have Negro blood are known as
whites, and from 15,000 to 30,000
Negroes ’’pass over” to the white
side each year, so that there 1*
some basis for the theory that
the American Negro, .like the Ne
groes of England will be ultima
tely absorbed by the whites.
This is revealed by Herbert As
bury associate editor of Collier’s,
on the basis of studies of census
figures and studies by laboratory
scientists, in the current issue of
the national weekly. The article
also declares that, contrary to
common belief, a man or woman
of little Negro blood cannot have
a child of obvious Negro blood.
Eminent American geneticists
and anthropologists “agree that
the tale of the white couple and
the black baby has a fatal flaw”,
the Collier's article declares. "It
could not possibly happen. If such
a child appear, there are three ex
planations: 1 a miracle: 2 a
fracture of the Seventh Command
ment: 3 both parties were really
Negroes.
“Here is what, barring divine
revocation of genetic laws, will re
sult from unions of whites, negr
oes and mixed-bloods”, the article
continues:
“1 If one of the parents to such
a union is pure white, it is im
possible for the child to be darker
of its parents. The chances are
very great that it will be lighter.
“2 If both parents have Negro
blood, whether they know it or
not, there may be some accentu
ation of Negro characteristics in
the child. But this is not likely,
and in any case will be slight. If
’j'Tie parents have been able to
pass for white, the child can pro
| bably do so too.
“3 If both parents are mulat
I toes, quadroons or octoroons.. the
| child may be darker than either.
But in all likelihood it will not be
black. Dr. Ernest A. Hooton (pro
fessor of anthropology at Harvard
University) has stated his opinion
that ‘Negroid features seem to be
I.ttenuated, rather than intensi
fied, by successive generations of
inbreeding mixed types., white
features seem to gain on Negroid
features”.
The article declares that Ne
groes emphasize that they do not
“pass” because they consider “the
white man a superior being, but
because of the obvious social and
economic advantages to be gained
and contrary to general belief,
Negroes who attempt to pass are
seldom exposed by other Negroes.’
Hundreds of prominent Ameri
can men and women, including
physicians, scientists and public
administrators, are said to live as
white but to be actually part Ne
gro.
“Supporters of the theory of ul
■ timate absorption point out that
j from an anthropolobical point of
j view, and in the social sense as
! well,” the article says, “the Ne
j gro has already been absorbed in
I Mexico and that the process is
well under way in Brazil and in
I other countries. And it is a hist
j orical fact that during the 17th
I century large numbers were ab
I sorbed by the white population of
England, and that no trace of
them remains”.
By an ironic working of the Jim
Crow laws, it is reporter that
“many white Negroes are com
pelled to pass in the south, at
least temporarily”. For “it is not
at all uncommon for a light-skin
, ned Negro to be ordered out of the
Jim Crow 'section of a railroad
I coach, bus or trolley car, and com
| pelled to sit with the whites".
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Mr. A. B. McCaw Issues Statement
Regarding OPA
Many questions have been ask
ed of the local OPA Office regard
ing the situation that has develop
ed since OPA went out of effect
June 3rd. Mr. Arthur B. McCaw,
member of Consumer’s Advisory
Committee, issues the following
information:
Restoration of OPA ceiling rents
in effect June 30, 1946, and evic
tion controls in the Omaha-Coun
cil Bluffs Rent Control Area jere
announced today by W. S. Wing
erd. District Rent Executive, who
released the following answers to
questions most frequently asked:
Questions and answers on re-esta
blishment of Federal Rent Control:
1. Is there now a rent ceiling
on my house ?
If you live in a rent control
area, effective July 25, 1946 your
home is under the same federal
rent controls it was on June 30,
1946.
2. The ceiling rent for my apart
ment on June 30 was $60. On July
1 my landlord raised my rent to
$75 a month. Now that rent con
trol has been re-established, must
I continue to pay $75 a month ? i
No. Effective August 1, 1946,
your rent goes back to $60.
3. I signed a new lease on July!
1 calling for $75 a month instead
of $50. the ceiling rent on June 30,1
1946. Must I continue to pay $75?
No. After July 25, 1946, the land
lord may collect no more than the
ceiling rent in effect on June 30,
1946, regardless of the terms of
the new lease.
4. I live in a rooming house. In
June my ceiling rent was $45 a
month. On July 1, my landlord
changed the rent to $5 a day. Must
I now continue to pay the daily
rate ?
No. Effective July 25, 1946, your
rent will be on the June monthly
rental of $45 a month. Landlords
who changed their rental basis
contrary to the rent regulations,
such as from a monthly or weekly
to a daily basis during the rental
period, in effect for the unit were
off, must return to the rental per
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NEW YORK — The Big Town’s
aswarm this summer with vacation
ing visitors from out in America
(while local yokels flee to woodland
and shore)—so this is to report on
how you can best see the sights—
for a dime.
Sure, there are the open-deck
buses up 5th Ave. and Riverside
Drive—but don’t miss the 3rd Ave.
“El,” the only one left on Manhattan
and a curiosity in itself.
Take it at 42nd St., near Grand
-Central, going “Downtown.” The
mellow old third-rail train meanders !
along the elevated tracks, two and
three stories high, with frequent
stops' at the antique castellated sta-1
tions with their stained-glass win- j
dows.
Finest view of the midtown towers
—Chrysler, Empire State, Metro
politan Life and its clock at Madison
Sq., finally the Woolworth Bldg. En
route observe East Side life on two
levels—“Lost Weekend” bars and
shops of the street, the front parlors
of the respectable poor above; wash
ing and bedding on the fire escapes;
Poppa in slippers behind the billow
ing white curtains; daughter’s white
pumps drying on the window ledge; |
“window-leaning” Momn s in
neighborly gossip.
Below 14th St., get ready for the
Bowery ... the flophouses just out
side the “El” windows, the “Street
of Lost Men” below ... Disembark
at Chatham Sq. if you want to prowl
Chinatown — or stay aboard while
the train twists down under Brook
lyn Bridge and into the canyons,
with a view of Wall St. “from the
church to the river”; the ocean liner3
docked against South St. and at
South Ferry, the Battery and a swell
view of the Statue... all for 5c 1
The Week
By H. W. Smith
An Omaha and Council Bluffs
Street and Railway Company bus
crashed into an auto at 36th and
Y Sts. July 24. The bus’ motor
compartment caught fire.
Oscar Anderson of Boone, Iowa
an ex-farmer, was drowned in the
Des Moines river July 23.
A 62-yeor-old woman was mar
ried on her way to prison at Fon
dulac, Wisconsin July 19. She mar j
ried the man who had courted her
17 years.
Chicago auto dealers have ve
toed the 1946 auto show.
Marshall Miller a farmer of
Corning, Iowa says an air plane
saves valuable time in a harvest
breakdown.
—
Many Negroes voted in the Tex
as primaries on July 27.
Mr. Stanley R. Osborn of Blair.
Nebr., deceased willed part of his
estate to provide scholarships and |
similar aids to help Negroes.
Lewis B. Musselman of Norfolk,
Nebraska, celebrated his 103 birth i
day Sunday July 28. He told his
friends he was feeling very well.
A new unit has been named for
de-control and all stores are to
post new price lists.
Louis Edward Neil, a former
sailor, was shot to death when he
was sitting in his car in Benton,
HI., July 26.
St. Louis, Mo. has set up a rat
control to help the Board of Health
to eliminate disease.
21 boys of Centralia, 111. were
quarantined because they were ex
posed to polio.
1946 has been a very busy year
for the US Senate and Congress
as there were many important
items to dispose of and they have
had many upsets.
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iod in effect for the unit on June
10, 1946. i
5. On July 1, my landlord
raised my rental from $30 to $45
a month. I paid $45 for July. Can
I get a refund for the $15 differ
ence?
Landlords who charged more
than their ceiling rents for the in
terim Iperic^. when penalties for
violations of OPA controls were
necessarily suspended, are not re
quired by OPA to refund the
amount collected in excess or ceil
ing rents for that period.
0. In July, my city passed a
local ordinance permitting a 15
percent increase in rent. Muse I
continue to nay this increase
No. Regardless of local legisla
tion ineffect between July 1 and
July 25, 1946, rent in excess of the
maximum permitted under the
federal act and regulations can
not legally be collected after July
25, 1946. The federal act express
ly states that federal rent control
supersedes local and state laws.
7. I was evicted in July. A new
tenant now occupies the premises.
Can I now regain possession ?
No. Tenants who were actually
evicted during the interim period
when penalties for violations of
OPA regulations did not apply,
cannot regain possession.
8. My landlord has given me an
eviction notice but has not noti
fied OPA. Can he proceed to evict
me ?
Landlords are now prohibited
from proceeding with eviction ac
tions without complying first with
all OPA requirements covering
evictions. The requirements are
the same as those in effect on
June 30, 1946. Any incomplete ev
iction proceeding contrary to the
regulations may not now be com
pleted. Consult your nearest OPA
office for advice.
9. In July the local court issued
a judgement permitting my evic
tion, but I have not been put out.
Can I now be evicted?
No. Unless your landlord com
plied with OPA regulations. Land
lords who complied with OPA
eviction requirements and then
were given an eviction judgement
in the local court during the in
terim, may proceed to evict leg
ally.
10. I rented my apartment to
a tenant for the first time on July
15. How soon must I register the
apartment with OPA?
You will have 30 days after July
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