I I Column ***** by Vmrrm F. Harris *_ 1 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 BOWEN Appliance Co. NOW OPEN AT OUR NEW LOCATION #/New Units. •New and 1 Rebuilt Refrigerators A ! Sweepers. “Guaranteed Repair Service— Quality Workmanship—We Solicit Your Trade” 3024 LEAVENWORTH Phone AT-2003 LOANS 910 TO 91000 You can obtain a loan from us for I ahnoat any purpose and repay in »m*il monthly payments Salary loans on your signature I only. We aim. make auto and furniture loans. We will gladly make you a small loan or a large one. Phone AT-2300. tell u> what you need, then come in and pick up the money. 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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 Brice. Itching Skin? Stop Scratching! Here Is Quick Ease and Comfort Now that stainless, powerful, pen etrating Moone's Emerald Oil Is available at drug stores thousands have found helpful relief from the distressing itching and torture of rashes, eczema, poison ivy and other externally caused skin troubles. Not only does the intense itching, burning or stinging quickly subside, but healing is more quickly pro moted. Get an original bottle of Emerald Oil—Greaseless—Stainless. Money re funded, if not satisfied. 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 | The Omaha Guide tt + A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^ m Published livery Saturday at &f20 Gram Street I OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0*00 ■Entered aa Second Clan Matter March 15, 1927 ■ at the Post Office at 'Omaha, Nebraska, under ■Act of Congress of March 2, 1879 ■ C« C- GeUovny,-Publisher and Acting Editor m All News Copy of Churches and all organiz* ■ ations must be in our office not later than l :00 ■ pm. Monday for current issue. AH Advertising ■Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday ■ noon, proceeding date of issue, to insure publk ■ation. SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA m ONE YEAR .. sanu® SIX MONTHS . £„■ THREE MONTHS .mM SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN W ONE YEAR . «3 SIX MONTHS .$2.oo« National Advertising Representatives— m INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, IncM 645 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone:— I MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager % tions in these areas with the iss ue., involved clearly defined. 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. 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