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***** by Vmrrm F. Harris
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THE KLAN AND AMERICA
By Robert W. Kenny, Atty.
Gen. of California
Recently there was a report
in one of our local newspap
ers of a statement by Con
gressman Rankin, lfis usual
remarks are so wild? his poli
tical position so well-known,
that thoughtful citizens have
gotten into the habit of say
ing: This vicious, reactionary re
presentative of a handful of voters
is just blowing his ton again. Its
just the same old loud and stupid
noise from the ranks of the ene- |
my. But not long ago. Congress
man Rankin made a very import
ant, very profound remark.
He was talking about the Ku
Klux Klan. He was talking about
the possibility of the House Un
American Committee investigating
the activities of the Klan. And Mr.
Rankin said: "After all, the Klan
is a completely American institu
tion and its members are Ameri
cana. That’s not what this commi
ttee was set uo to study. Our job
is to Investigate foreign isms and
alien organizations".
Congressman Rankin mnW the
truth in part. The Ku Glux Klan
ia an American organization. It
has a history in American life. The
National Socialist Party in Ger
many was a German organization.
The German people discovered how
large a role It was to play in their
history. We. here in America, too
found out how immense a rule it
was to play in our lives.
I dont think that we here in j
America can ignore the fact that
the Klu Klux Klan is part of our
nation today. It. is the spearhead
of the most depraved, the moat
vicious and violent force in Ameri
can life. It ia the spearhead of re
action and fascism.
We cannot afford to blind our
selves to the state of our nation.
We cannot close our eyes and treat
the Klan as an organization of
maniacs and fools dedicated to
senseless acts of violence and ter
ror.
The Man with is history of vi
olence against the Negro people;
the Klan with its record of anti
semitism; the Klan with its role
of antf-democrxtic 'activity has
been selected to provide the action
front for fascism in America. And
today, money and brains are being
poured into this organization and
other little groups, such as those
led by Gerald L. K. Smith, in order
to weld together every possible or
ganization form of anti-democrat
ic action in the coming battle for
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Unlike most of the original pro
ductions of the American Negro
Theatre, “Anna Lucasta” has
brought out some real talent. The
ANT has struggled hard for about
nine years and it will probably
make its goal, but at the moment
it doesn’t have an impressive bat
ting average.
Currently plyaing the role of
“Anna” is Yvonne Dolores Mach
en, who at 18 comes out of obscu
rity to • flirt with the Broadway
fates that are sometimes very kind
to pretty little ladies of 18. Accord
tng to a profile in a recent issue
of ‘PM’ Miss Machen is really Mrs
Howard Channon Machen, recent
ly of Chicago, and Loyola Univer
sity where she was a journalism
student. She is the mother of a 21
month old boy, and the happy wife
of an ex-sergeant who is studying
engineering.
From a babckground of singing,
(for her own amusement) piano
lessons and dance training, Yvon
ne has been projected into a lead
ing role that puts her at the top of
the acting profession. What hap
pens from here on depends upon
her native ability and determina
tion.
Contralto Carol Brice was the
distinguished guest soloist at the
Berkshire Music Center at Tangle
wood on a recent Saturday pro
gram and lucky radio listeners
heard her as the feature of an all
Brahms evening. Serge Koussevit
sky, director of the Center, direc
ted the Boston symphony, and it
was a most pleasing program.
Miss Brice sang the Brahms Al
to Rhapsody, made familiar thru
the years by Marion Anderson. It
is a work that take its place by
the side of Schubert’s “Ave Maria’
as being the distinct property of
Miss Anderson’s, at least, for an
other generatio nor two. Miss An
derson needn’t worry eifner, since
she is the possessor of an unusual
contralto voice that I am certain,
will lose the suggestion of harsh
ness that occasionally mars its
otherwise beautiful qualities in the
competition offered her by Miss
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FRONTS
The Week
By H. W. Smith
A 23-year-old bank robber en
tered a plea' of guilty in federal
court in Oklahoma City Sept 12.
He used a harmless pistol by re
moving powder from the shells be
fore robbing the city nat’l bank.
Three daughters of Prime Mini
ster Soong of China arrived in NY
Sept. 12. They landed at LaGuardia
field and will attend American
colleges.
The Wage Stabilization board
I ~-'^t come to an agreement
with the striking seamen Sept 1’
and all.hones for ending the r. trike
were blocked.
U. S. Congressman Buffett?’ fa
ther was reported critically ill at
the Methodist hospital in Omaha
September 14.
Great Northern hotel in Hot
Springs, Ark. was destroyed by
fire early the morning of Sept. 14.
Nine persons were reported injur
ed critically.
Joseph J. McGowan .of Fort
Wayne, Ind. made a statement
Sept 13 that the report of his son
being kidnapped was false.
Leroy Smith of Dover, Delaware
told the judge in court he would
rather take 1 lashes than serve 2
years in prison.
New York was threatened with
a barbers strike Sept. 14. A dis
pute over wages and hours with
the Broadway master barbers
association could not be settled.
580 autos and trucks were re
ceived in Brazil Sent. 14. It was
the largest shipment since the war
started.
i
The large excursion ship Lloyd
I. Seaman has given three million
free rides for 70 years. It is a
floating hospital on every summer
day and they gather at the East
river pier and look for a free ride.
Edmonton. Canada reported Sept.
14 that there were 1500 men out
of work. 20 thousand farmers
blocked the market; roads for the
seventh day.
At the Mexican Independence
Day Celebrbation at Joslyn Mem
orial Sunday evening, Sept. 15th.
Miss Helen Lopez was crowned
queen.
A 13 year old girl of Artison, S.
D. blind from birth, regained her
sight after an operation using the
cantro from a still-born baby's
right eye.
Dr. B. T. Blake of Darrington,
Wash., was presented twelve hun
dred dollars for expenses to the
world series in Boston. They all
met at a Labor Day party in his
honor.
Billy Anderson, a 16 year old
boy of San Francisco confessed to
the murder of his father and step
mother Sept. 14th.
OMAHA BRANCH NAACP
The Omaha Branch NAACP
held their first fall meeting Sun
day afternoon Sept. 15 at Allen
Chapel AME church. It was a
complete success. A very interest-1
ing program was rendered which j
was enjoyed by all. The member
ship committee reported the addi
tion 23 new members. The next
regular monthly meeting will be
held at Zion Baptist church Sun
day afternoon October 20. All mem
bers are requested to be present.
The Waiter’s
Column
By H. W. Smith
Capt. Earl Jones of the Omaha
Club on the job after a two weeks
vacation.
Summer clubs all closed and the
' boys looking around in the city.
' Waiters at the Regis hotel and
White Horse Inn going good.
Fontenelle hotel waiters giving
very good supDort to the new
matridee. .Mr. Hill.
Paxton Hotel has drawn on the
OAC for three waiters, Peterson
Brown and Copeland.
Mr. Frank Hughes going good
at the Highland vlub.
Railroad boys serving on wheels
with a smile.
Blackstone hotel waiters on the
up and go on service.
Waiters at the Hill hotel on the
improve.
Musician headwaiter very much
a headliner and top notcher on the
goodwill tour making good.
Political Action Program
Adopted by Naacp
(Continued from Page 1)
in the committee’s report that the
membership in many instances
would be more familiar with local
situations. Local awareness would
be further implemented, however,
by a clarification of issues af
fecting Negroes and other minor
ities by experts in the national
office.
In the matter of ratings of can
didates the national office shall
limit itself to giving full informa
tion on the voting records of Sen
ators and Congressmen with par
ticular emphasis on issues affec
ting Negroes. Since the National
Office will not rate candidates on
a state level, these candidates
shall be judged on their relative
positions where these issues are
concerned. NAACP members will
be kept in constant awareness of
these issues primarily through the
Association’s regular publication’s
the CRISIS magazine and a month
ly tabloid, THE BULLETIN, co
pies of which go to NAACP mem
bers only. This program will ap
ply to primaries as well as gen
eral elections.
The following resolutions were
voted as recommendations to the
Board of Directors by the Com
mittee :
1. That the Association go on
record as not endorsing any poli
tical party or any individual be
cause of party connections are af
filiation. —
2. That the policy of the NAA
CP shall be that branches are ur
ged to examine proposals, purely
non-partisan in character as lis
ted below, affecting local or state
public issues and which require
electorate approval; to take a po
sition for cr against such propos
als within the Constitutional lim
its of the Association, unless good
cause be presented why a position
not be taken; and give active sup
port to a pflsition taken thereon.
To include such issues as:
a. Proposals arising locally or
state-wide by and through initi
ative and referendum.
b. Bond issues.
c. Charter and Constitutional
Amendments:
Where proposal is state-wide,
state references of branches, where
they exist, are urged to determine
and announce a position to be bind
ing on all branches. Otherwise,
some workable intra-state method
should be devised for unified co
ordinated action after consulta
tion with the national office.
3. That the National Board call
a meeting of all representative Ne
gro organizations to consider the
question of focusing attention on
issues that will come up for de
cision in the election of candidates
in the fall and the importance of
Negroes participating actively by
registering and voting. Further
recommended that advertisements
and other material be carried in
the press.
4. That the Board call upon
every branch to conduct a regist
ration and voting drive.
5. That an entire issue of the
BULLETIN be devoted to regis
tration and voting.
6. That the Board consider the
use of staff assistants and prepa
ration of material that would be
of assistance to the load branches
in the conducting of registration
and turning out the vote drives.
An indication of the far-reach
ing implications in the Associa
tion’s newly adopted program may
be found in the recently published
analysis of the vote by which re
presentative Roger C. Slaughter
was defeated for renomination in
Kansas City. According to an au
thoritative source, this analysis i3
being studied with unusual inter
est in both Republican and Demo
cratic national headquarters.
According to this analysis, com
piled by a member of the execu
tive committee of the National
Negro Publishers Assn. Mr. Slau
ghter was beaten solely by Negro
voters on the issue of his oppo
sition to FEPC. The analysis fur
ther forecasts that the same re
sentment will be shown by Ne
groes toward other members of
Congress, both Republicans and
Democrats, whose records are bad
on legislation involving the secur
ity and rights of minority grouns.
This forecast is murther imple
mented by the fact that in addi
tion to those voting areas where
NAACP branches and members
weild political influence, many
thousands of Negroes are given
the right to vote in the NAACP
victory in the US Supreme Court
are going to the polls. A. concer
ted drive is being planned as part
of the NAACP Political Action
Program to increase the registra
WALTER WHITE, GUY JOHN
SON ON HAMPTON LECTURES
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.—
Two executives of organizations in
the movement for minority rights
share billing on the Hampton In
stitute lecture series this year with
a legislator, a psychologist, a por
trait painter, and a feminine mon
ologist.
Walter White, executive secre
tary of the NAACP •'•dll fill the
January 10 spot of the six-event
series and Dr. Guy B. Johnson, ex
ecutive director of the Southern
Regional Council, will close the
series next Apnl 25 with “The
Changing South".
Charles W. Anderson, member
of the Kentucky state legislature
and former Hampton, student, will
open the series Friday night, Oct
ober 4, with "Aspects of Minority
Group Postwar Problems”.
The other three attractions in
the series are:
Dec. 6: Dr. Franz Polgar, au
thor, psychologist, and demonstra
tor of mental powers, “Miracles of
the Mind”.
Feb. 7: Professor Edmund Gies
bert, of the University of Chicago
and the Chicago Art Institute, in
“Painting a Portrait", demonstra
tion in oil painting.
Feb. 28: Blix Ruskay, monolo
gist, in “Women of Today”.
All six events are scheduled for
Friday night at 8:15 o’clock.
VOTING IS GEORGIA’S
NEW RELIGION
The colored people of Georgia
have a new kind of religion.. vot
ing. This is the only word that can
describe their fervid interest in
the state primary last July”, so
writes Earl Brown in an article rOn
the Eve of Violence’, features in
the September issue of Headlines
and Pictures. Mr. Brown, a staff
member of Life Magazine has re
cently returned from a tour of
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Meat Shortage
(Continued from Page 1)
the farm on June 1, slaughter in
July and August was up 36 per
cent over the same period last
year. But, he said, despite a 36
oer cent increase in slaughter, pork
production was up only 28 per cent
in the same two months. Again the
reason for the lower pork produc
tion was that thousands of hogs
were marketed prematurely in
July and August.
“This discussion, I hope has made
clearer why meat is scarce.
“But the people in this country
want meat and should be able to
look to their government to pro
tect the available supply.
"Their proper question is What
is OP A doing to insure that we
get our fair share?
Here is our answer:
“The OPA has a system of quo
tas whereby each community gets
a fair share of the slaughter. Un
der this system we are now en
gaged in a thorough combing of
all slaughtering operations to de
termine which slaughterers are le
gitimate and which are not. We are
moving rapidly in this field and are
already showing results in barring
those individuals from slaughter
whom we know have Deen engaged
in illegal traffic in meat.
“The Office of Price Administra
tion is watching carefully those
nlaces we have reason to believe
live cattle are being diverted from
the legitimate channels of trade i*>
to slaughter houses that are ille
gitimate. We want to keep mer*
flowing in legitimate channels to
establish and honest slaughter
houses and packing houses," he
said.
We anticipate that we shall have
better cooperation from the public
than we have ever had before said
Moran. We thing that the nublio
realizes that, as American citizen
they have a_ duty to report vioiat
ions of the law to the local price
control boards. We believe they)
will not think of themselves as j
moopers but as people who have!
been overcharged by greedy viola
tors and that they will stamp out
those illegal practices with the
help of their friends and neigh
bors on the local boards.
If we have this cooperation from
the public we, can attain an order
ly marketing of meat supply. We
shall have some meat at hone~t
prices. We are now working on the
problem of public cooperation and
expect to have an important an
nouncement along this line in a
few days’’.
Beauty Contest
Sketches
By Julia
Ann Smitherman, the Althouse
Beauty School entry, is a good ex
ample of our feminine beauty. She
is typical of the modern girl be
ing slightly on the tall side. Five
feet ten inches, Anne has chest
nut brown hair and dark eves. At
the present time she is taking a
course in beauty culture at the
Althouse School of Beauty. Her
hobbies include sewing and read
ing. Before coming to Omaha, Anne
lived in Chicago.
* * »
A career girl. Miss Mary Harris
of 2308 No. 29th St., is another
charming entry in the contest.
Five feet two and one half inches
weighing 115 pounds, Miss Harris
has dark eyes and hair. She is
the office secretary at the YWCA
and a graduate of Technical high
school. Miss Harris' hobbies in
clude sewing which she enjoys
very much.
• • •
An entry from South Omaha is
Miss Carol Collins. With dark
brown almost shoulder length hair
and a flashing smile. Miss Collins
entry iB typical of the feminine
loveliness in this contest, gf-e have more than
$8,000,000 in State aid to run our
schools efficiently, we could
raise the money by an act of the
legislature. The constitution al
ready empowers the legislature
to raise as much money as i®
necessary to educate everyone
between the ages of 5 and 21
years.”
A study of the amendment,
Haynes pointed out, would lead
to the inescapable conclusion
that rural taxpayers would be
soaked to defray tne costs of
schooling big city children. ‘*If
this amendment should be pass
ed in its present form,” Haynes
said, ‘‘residents right here in
Dakota County would have to
pay in 560,000 of taxes and would
receive only $25,000 worth oi
school aid.”
Educational circles are sharp
ly split in their attitude toward
the amendment. Many of them
resent attempts of Frank C.
Heinisch, of Omaha (a paid loo
byist and secretary of the Oma
ha Teachers Association) to *ax
every teacher $5 for a campaign
fund to put over the amendment.
In addition, teachers themselves
had no part in deciding how the
$40 per pupil was to be distribut
ed to the schools.
“The question uppermost in
the voter’s mind,” Mr. Haynes
stated, “should be whether or
not he wants to vote to support
the schools of Omaha, whose
levy is only half as great as most
rural districts or whether lie
will wait for a better law such as
our Foundation is now trying to
formulate.
Other incorporators of the
NEF are J. B. Hillers of Hast
ings, R. G. Dunlay of Alma, Sen
ator Don Hanna of Valentine,
and Paul Sothman of Grand Is
land.
G. I. College
Benefits End
October 5th
The U. S. Army Recruiting Ser
vice is urging that all applicants
who are planning to enlist in the
Regular Army by October 5th in
order to qualify for the full bene
fits under the G. I. Bill of Rights,
do so NOW, rather than wait un
til a few days before the deadline
Georgia.
Mr. Brown points to the organi
zation, political skill and courage
which were behind the outpuoring
of over 100,000 Negro voters in the
Georgia Primary. “The most lau
dable thing about the Negroes vo
ting in Georgia was the fact that
the masses of them were as an
xious and resolved to vote as their
leaders were to have them to” the
Headlines and Pictures article says
Although Negroes threw their'
strength overwhelmingly in the,
Carmichael comer, both Rivers and I
Talmadge sought the 'support of
Negro voters to a lesser extent.
Big business threw its weight be
hind Talmadge and his white su
premacy campaign “For big bus
mess in Georgia and the rest of the
south will move heaven and earth
even back a man like Talmadge..
to maintain racial discrimination
and segregation and their mono
oly over the economic life of that
section’*, Mr. Brown adds.
date.
The deadline of midnight October
5th means that enlistees must ac
tually be sworn into the Army by
that time, and because of the great
number of enlistees who are now
reporting to Recruiting Headquar
ters for their physical examina
tions and final acceptance, the pro
cessing of the men has necessarily
slowed down. Therefore, applicants
should take this into consideration
and enlist in sufficient time to pre
clude any possibility of not being
accepted by the 5th.
Any man who enlists by Octo
ber, 5, 1946, is guaranteed bene
fits of the G. I. Bill of Rights for
the full period of his enlistment,
while the man who enlists after
5 October is assured benefits under
the G I Bill only for that part of
his term of enlistment which is
served prior to the termination of
the present war, regardless of the
term of his enlistment. For exam
ple: if a man enlists by October 5,
say for a three year period, ho
will be entitled to 12 months plus
36 months (or 48 months total) of
schooling. However, if he enlists
after October 5, he will be assured
of receiving benefits for only that
part of his enlistment which is
served prior to the termination of
the war. Should the war continue
for only 3 months after the date
of his enlistment, he will be entit
led to 12 months plus 3 months
(or 15 months total) of schooling,
regardless of the term of his en
listment.
ZION CHURCH JOINS
BILBO OUSTER CAMPAIGN
NEW YORK, (Global)—Last week
delegates to the 150th Annual Con
vention of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church joined 400,
000 others who have signed the
petition circulated by the National
Negro Council in its drive to oust
Sen. Bilbo (D. Miss.) and obtain
passage of a federal anti-lynch
law.
With these 4000 more signatures
obtained from the churchmen, Ed
gar G. Brown, Council director,
promised to call on President Tru
man for a special session when he
has 1,000,000 signatures.
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