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Sen. Bilbo Antidemocratic Threat » U UW lfcn AT uUueat Bilim” DINNER Mayor William O'Dwyer warned guests at the Unseat Bilbo” din ner of the Civil Rights Congress held in the Hotel Pennslyvania last week against “the dangers which lurk in the wake of Bilboism and added that if the people are aroused “we will succeed in sav ing our country from the reac tionary forces which are seeking to take it away from the millions who follow in the footsteps of F. D. Roosevelt”. “I share with vnu the firm con viction that Bilboism, as a way of life, is inimical and offensive, not only to our history and tradi tions. but to the good sense and democ,-atir disposition of our peo ple”, the Mayor wrote in a mess age which was read at the dinner. “It is important that support be rallied for your nation-wide drive on Bilboism”. Rep. Helen Cahagan Douglas of California, who arrived in the city yesterday to serve as a member of the American Delegation to the TT«if»d Notions Assembly, declared at the dinner last night that the United Nations is meeting here I “under a Charter whose verj foundation stone rests on beliel 1 in the fundamental equality ol i men.” “There is a new day coming— ; and it may not be far away when the north will refuse to be swung by the tail of the south”, Mrs. Douglas said. “Northern labor will I one day rebel against laws passed I or defeated in the United States Senate by reason of what a hand ful of southern Senators, suppor ted by Republican reactionaries ‘hink is good for the Negro—laws that are designed to protect and encourage labor on a national ba j ;is are filibustered against.” "The right of free speech does not include the right to incite to -iot and to incite to violence”, Mrs Douglas said, and added, “such incidents are inflamatory and are in violation of the laws of this land. They are certainly in viola tion of Congressional dignity and Congressional integrity and Con gressional demeanor. They consti tute in my opinion moral turpi tude”. Hvnan Blumberg. executive vice ■geehefJtSR M vl L fx] BERGQUIST xj BEST /[xl HRUSKA ■ i • *i liiCAl AUVEKTU£MEN1 > tfolitical Advertisement) "i iff If (Political Advertisement) I JA. 4834 Margaret Smith - Beauty Salon Expert Hair Styling —Call for Appointments 2821 North 24th Street ! J MARGARET SMITH Omaha, Nebraska I -BEATRICE L. MORGAN I Dramatic Studio • ATTRACTIVE TEACHING METHODS. • RECITALS. STUDENTS ALL AGES. zm&s 2537 Patrick JA-0559 ■ =ril. . it= lf= |- .. r j Rom where I sit ...Ay Joe Marsh* mg who Gets Off Easiest W Men or Women? ■■ Maybe you saw that poll on who a., the easiest life—men or wom en? Of course, the men voted that women did, and the women dee versa. It would be the same in our town m_take -any family. Thad Phibbs envies his Missus spending the day at home, with no hot office to at tend to. And Sue envies Thad his luncheons with the boys; and his evening glass of beer with friends (while she cleans up the dishes in the kitchen). Of course, none of it goes very deep. Thad knows way deep down that the Missus has plenty of work running a house; and Sue knows Thad’s friendly glass of beer is well deserved relaxation after a long hard day’s work. From where I sit, most husbands and wives may grumble now and then — but they know in their hearts it’s a case of live and let live, give and take, that conies out pretty even in the end. _»—__ Copyright, 1946, United Suites Brewers Foundaam president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and State chair i man of the American Labor Party 1 told the audience that Bilboism in volves the issue of decency against indecency in public life, and that it enlists the support of members of all political parties. “We fought a long and terrible war to eradicate fascism from the face of the earth and to put an end to the hateful doctrines and disgraceful practice of racial dis crimination he declared. “In that war thousands of Negroes, Jews, Italians and other minorities laid down their lives. But the victory they helped to win on foreign soil will never be realized so long as race hatred is permitted to flour ish in our own land. A Bilbo in our Senate is a threat to all Americans he is an insult to the memory of our heroic dead. The campaign to ! unseat him should and must cora ! mand the support of all those who love America". Percy Greene, publisher of the Jackson (Miss.) Advocate and one of the signers of the petition that urged the Senate to investigate charges that Bilbo disfranchised qualified voters through intimida tion and violence during the July 2 primary campaign, was a voice for Missippi and the South at the dinner. Mr. Greene said: “For thirty years I have known Mississippi political campaigns I with the Negro question almost 'the sole issue. I say to you that . the 1946 campaign was the most | violent, vituperative, vulgar, un Christian, undemocratic, un-Amer ican and illegal in all the history of the State. A campaign in which 1 every emotion born of ignorance, I prejudice, passion, bigotry and I hate was called upon to keep the Negro citizens and soldiers of the state from exercising the right of every American citizen, the basic ‘right in a democracy, .the right 1 to vote”. Mr. Greene added that “Our grievance is not against an indi vidual as such, hut calls for the iprooting and destruction of a philosophy, an ism, a way of pol itical action and social conduct which not only threatens the fu ture right of Negro citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness amid freedom from fear, but which in equal degree threatens the future happiness and progress of all the people of the State, the South and the entire na tion”. During and since the primary election in Mississippi on July 2 the Civil Rights Congress has had attorneys and field investigators in that State collecting evidence of Bilbo’s disfranchisement of qualified Negro voters through in timidation and violence. This evidence, in the form of af fidavits, was the legal basis of a petition drawn up by a Civil Rights attorney and filed by 50 eligible Negro and white voters of Miss issippi with the Committee on Cam paign Expenditures and the Com mittee on Priveleges and Elections of the U. S. Senate. Hie petition ers urged that Bilbo be unseated as unfit to hold public office. As a result of this action the Campaign Expenditures C o m - mittee sent three investigators to Mississippi two weeks ago, accord ing to a wire received by the civil rights group from Senator Allen J. Ellender. The chairman of the Senate commitee said the course of the investigation into Bilbo’s primary campaign will be deter mined “soon” after the committee studies the report of its investi gators. The Civil Rights Congress also wired Senators Harley M. Kilgore and Homer Ferguson of the Sen ate War Defense Investigating Committee, urging a thorough in quiry into charges against Bilbo of graft and irregularity in con nection with war contracts. Last night the Civil Rights Con gress launched a national cam paign to rally support for the ac tion to remove Bilbo from the Sen ate. It will gather a million sig natures on a mass petition add ressed to the Senate, urging that it bar Bilbo from the Mississippi seat when the 80th session con venes on the first of January. The affidavits sent by the 50 Mississippians with the petition to the Senate committees attested that qualified Negro voters, many of them veterans of World War II, were threatened with lynch ing, beaten, arrested, thrown off their jobs, told to “study your civics awhile” and in other ways deprived of the right to vote. As evidence of Bilbo’s part in the disfranchisement of qualified vo ters, the Civil Rights Congress re called some statements he made during his campaign for renomin ation this past summer. Federal Employment Opportunities (Limited To Veterans) A. POSITIONS 1. Contact Representative for Veterans Administration a. Salary-$3,39J per annum (beginning) b. Place of employment;_ Veterans Administration in the state of Nebraska. Some travel may be re quired. Closing date: November 12 1946 Applications may be obtained from the Omaha Post Office. Per sons wishing general information on qualifications, duties, etc., are to call in person at the Omaha Ur NEGRO DOLLS Every home should have a Colored Doll. Give her a beautiful Brown skin Doll for Christmas. Three flashy numbers with Hair,. Voice, Moving Eyes. Shoes, Stockings, nicely dressed. Prices: 19 inch, $5.50; 21-inch 6.49; 22-inch, $7 69 Order Now! If C.O.D. postage ex tra. (Wholesale and Retail). Write NATIONAL COMPANY 254 West 135th Street New York 30. N. Y. At “Oust Bilbo” Dinner ■pwWM»"W J'l' l1""!—*'«<** ■.- m . Pam Kobeson, singer and actor, Rep. Helen Gahagen Douglas of California, and Dashiell Hammett detective story writer and Presi dent of the Civil Rights Congress of New York, at an ‘Oust Bilbo” dinner sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress. The dinner, held in New York launched a nation wide campaign by the Civil Rights Congress to gather a million sign atures on petitions urging Senat ors to refuse Bilbo a seat in the Senate. I ban League, 2213 Lake Street. -—Signed Leo Bohanon, Executive Secretary Appliance Dealers Elect Officials Election of officers for the 1946 -1947 year was held at a recent meeting of the Appliance Dealers Assn. John Kresl wras elected president; Pat Jensen, vice-pre sident; Paul Matthaidess, secy.; and F. E. Maxon, treasurer. Mr. Jensen is from Council Bluffs; the other officers are from Oma ha. Four Board members from Om aha were lected as follows: Joe C. Brehm; Harry Flescher; Geo. Roth and E. J. Grafentin. Gene Haney was elected to represent Council Bluffs on the Board of Directors. F. E. Pace of Malvern, Iowa and C. V. Jansen of North Bend, Nebraska were elected from the territory outside Omaha and Council Bluffs. At the meeting, retiring presi dent Jack R. Ward reported that during the past year, many . jpr ward stepfe have been taken wWcll 1 were designed to better serve the public interest. He also stated that the members of the Appli ance Dealers Association now re present over 90 percent of the to tal volume of appliances sold in this area. Mr. Ward predicted a bright fu ture for the organization and com mended the membership for their splendid choice of electing the new group of officers and Board mem bers. Announcement was also made at this meeting that on November 4th, the electrical industry’s 1st Annual Conference will be held at the Fontenelle Hotel in Omaha. I --- Reader s Digest Article Hails Agriculturist The leadership of Otis Samuel O'Neal, one of the first Negro county from agents, brought agri cultural prosperity to two pover ty-ridden counties in Georgia. Hailed as “the South’s outstand ing Negro citizen today”, Otis O’Neal and his achievements are the subject of an article by OK Armstrong in the Reader’s Digest for November. The Digest article, condensed from the Progressive, tells how O’Neal brought him from penni less obscurity to the position he occupies today. Both his parents had been born in slavery; O'Neal himself worked is way through Tuskegee Institute, where Profes sor George Washington Carver ►became his inspiration. Upon his oppointment as farm agent for Houston and Peach counties, O’ Neal found everywhere “rank po verty from the one-crop system” with sharecroppers paid a pit tance for their year’s work in the cotton fields. O’Neal tought the farmers to diversify their crops rather than depend on cotton alone. He found idle land which tenant farmers could buy, and arranged loans for them. He organized his ter itbry into communities, with a key farmer as leader of each. "Today”, the Digest article says "in O’Neal’s territory you see niimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii painted houses, improved roads, and high-grade cattle. You hear boys talking about their calf club and girls about their chickens and egglaying contests”. Home own ership among the rural colored families has climbed from eight percent to sixty percent in the 32 years of O'Neal’s agricultural guidance. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WALTER H. HOLLINS, assist ant professor, Lincoln University School of Journalism, came to Lincoln this fall, after teaching printing at Florida A. & M. coll ege, Tallahassee, 17 years, where he headed the printing depart ment. A master of arts from the University of Minnesota, he was elected into membership of that school's chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national and professional journalism fraternity, last year while studying there. He is the second Negro to gain member ship. \ ets Hospital To Remain As General Treatment Center For Ailing Veterans LINCOLN. Oct. 30—The Veter ans Administration has received notice from Washington that plans to convert the Veterans Hospital here into a special center for the treatment of tubercular cases have been scrapped. The decision to retain the Lin coln institution as a general hos pital conforms with wishes of state veteran’s group who felt that Stalin’s Russia and democracy as for treatment of general cases than for treatment of special T-B cases. Dr. H. A. Scott, manager, said the hospital at Lincoln is now using 344 beds, including 64 set up on a temporary basis to help meet requests for hospitalization.. Plans call for the construction of two additional VA hospitals in Nebras ka, one for 500 beds at Omaha; the other for 200 beds at Grand Island. In Washington, it was announced a 250-bed addition will be added to a VA hospital at Alburguerque, N. M., for treatment of additional tubercular cases, GO TO THE POLLS Next Tuesday, Nov. 5th AND VOTE! lllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiinitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiinjii Cure for the Blues Gene Robinson (left) and Terry Berge, both of Minneapolis, Minn., forget their war injuries for a while as they watch professional juggler James Evans entertain in the General Ward of the Minneapolis Veter ans Hospital. Diversion such as this is provided in veterans hospitals throughout the country by USO-Camp Shows. The generosity of the Amfican public in the current USO appeal will enable entertainme1-' , •. .-r-itaijjed t* - „■*. |l||py5«||lf^| ' Mm“. M n N aiV ^ J IK MIND AND HtAIT CAW SIIK COUNSIL AND CUIPAHCi STr^M ^rrT^l • Wben ^°r "ind * *«Kht«d down with worry rUneT^T-ite y^r Jd*in°t>^eL0f “? <™i«r»tandin* friend r“f“ .sEns/si ,x s ^®'r Paoolema within the realm of reason. Write to THE ABBE* WALLACE SERVICE •P. 0. Box 11. Atlanta 1, Georgia Perplexed—I am a senior in high school. I manage to hear the wolf call sometimes but my problem is why can’t I hold my man? Sure, I can get a boyfriend with the charms most girls have but after that something goes wrong. Sometimes the boys cut out because of someone else. Some times I am responsible for losing them because I say something so smart. I hope you can help me because if this keeps on I may be an old maid. Ans: Enjoy a few years of fun and popularity before concentra ting your efforts toward winning a husband. You have no difficulty attracting the fellows which is a mighty important factor in your favor. You must learn to be more tactful in your dealings with the opposite sex and use diplomacy in handling them. Keep them suf ficiently interested in you but guessing. Be entertaining and con genial and keep conversation flowing but never centered around yourself. Make the boys enjoy your company and they will come back. AWC—For a long time I have been enjoying your column in the paper. I am heavily burdened at this time aqd need advice. I have been living with this man for 6 months and we are in a house to ourselves. His sister wants to live with us but I don’t want her. I fear we won’t get along. If he lets her move in should I go, af ter all. I’m the woman of the home Ans: Your position there with this man is extremely uncertain as it is and the first change in your affairs should be a wedding if you expect to continue together. If you were married to him and felt at all secure, you would be able to overlook his present cir cumstances. Get your own affairs in order before considering the other problem. B. T.—I am 23, married and I have three children. Now I am on my vacation and since here I met a man who is married too. He is nice to me but my hus band is also. Do you think I had better go home or wait ? This man seems to be wild about me. And if my husband should hear about this man, do you think he would quit me? Ans: Pack your duds and get back home. You were sent on a vacation and not an adventurous love fest. You know very well HIIUnilltMHIItMlIlilllllllNIIllltllllllimilllllMMfriltllilMi Joe C. Stolinski Vote For Joe C Stolinski • He has Saved you from Paying More than your just I share of taxes. • He Has Kept His Promise of being Fair in Employment. • Since He has been County Assessor, He has employed the following people from this Community: Mrs. John Adams. Jr., Mrs. Alice B. Harris, Mrs. Mose Ransom, Miss Pamona Banks, Mrs. James C. Jewell, Mrs. Cleota Reynolds, Mrs. Paul Barnett, Mrs. Shirley Kennedy, Mrs. Adele Richards, Mrs. Eugenia Chue, Mrs. Harry Leland, Mrs. Mae Pankey, Mrs. Charles F. Davis, Mrs. Leona Lee. Mrs. Jarrett T. Scott, Mrs. Olive Davis. Mr. Arthur B. McCaw, Mrs. Malcolm Scott, ’ Mrs. Chas. Dickerson, Mr. Herbert L. McCaw, Mr. Burns Scott, Mrs. J. C. Donley, Mr. C. C. McDonald, Miss Eva Mae Stewart, Mrs. Lucille S. Edwards, Mrs. Maggie McGowan, Mr. Lonnie Thomas, Mrs. Francis Fountain, Mrs. I. S. McPherson, Mrs. Victoria Turner, Mrs. Bessie Gordon ’ Mr. J. Westbrook McPherson, Mrs. Earl Van Foote.’ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiBiiniiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiinniniiiiPiiif what your husband would do if he gets wind of this other man. He would make it hot for you. As for the other man.. you are just another pebble on the beach to him and it wouldn’t worry him at all for you to make your exit. C. W. L.—I want to buy a home and go in business too but I dont know what to do first. At times I think of entering business and again I think it would be wise to buy a home. Advise me. Ans: For you, Mac, the pro blem of making money should be first and foremost. A young man your age doesn’t particularly need a home until he gets mar ried. But you do need to establish yourself in business or to make good connections so that you can afford a home and other invest ments that you mav desire to make. . ^ I-—I am in Chicago work ing and I have a home in the south and I wish to know should I rent it out or let it stay as it is? Sometimes I think it may be a good idea and then again I don’t. Ans: Depends entirely upon how long you expect to be away from your home. If you plan to be away for at least a year or more it would warrant the incon venience you would have to un dergo to rent it. However, if you are uncertain about your stay in Chicago continue just as you are at present. The place could not be rented unless you returned home and stored your furniture which would be quite expensive. N. W. —I am single and there is a man in mv life who says he loves me and I know that I love him but he seems to be halted by some reason. He keeps telling me to wait awhile. Shall I still wait on him or let him go? He is most affectionate but I am get ting tired. Ans: Waiting without any de finite plans or assurance of mar riage is enough to try patience. Let him know that you intend to encourage other friends if he can not decide what to do. Why wait for someone you aren’t sure of. A jolt will do him good and may ^ wake him up. -BE A COOD CITIZEN VOTE Not. 5— SO0 & 9 B jj I THEN TRY f One-A-Day p (BRAND) Vitamins Oet o package of genuine One-A-Day (brand) Multiple vitamin capsules They cost only $2.00. 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