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61st Teachers* Confab Is Grand Success In Kay Cee, Missouri Pearl Schwartz. Past Term Pres. Elected to Executive Sec’y. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Global)— This month marked one of great historical value for the Missouri State Assiciation of Negro Teach era (MSANT) when the group held its Sixty-first annual Con vriition here, November 6th to 9th inclusive with Pearl Schwartz sister to the great actress Lou Swartz, presiding in a most effi cient and successful manner. Rounding a program with a theme of that ‘Forward Look” which has been Miss Schwartz’ aim thru out her regime, timely discussions and activities brought to the front "Beginning the Next Forty years’ Outstanding accomplishments of the association with in the past two years were the equalization of teacher’s salaries in Missouri; a step indicating the removal of discriminatory practices against Negro Teachers; participation in the movement for state-wide re tirement for teachers; the appoint ment of a greater number of Jeannes’ Supervisors thru out the state: influencing the shaping of the State Constitution: and influ encing the ceiling for transporta tion for Negro elementary school pupils and the establishing of a much needed vocational school for Negroes in the southern part of the State. Among the many prominent speakers for the convention were: C. S. Robinson, K. C. Brd. of Ed; Maycie K. Southall; George Pea body: J E. Mitchell, Mi. State Bd. of Education: D. F. Martinez, the State Supt. of Negro schools of Mo.; Hon. Roy Scantlin. State Commissioner of Ed. of Mo; Phil lip Hickey, Sup. of Instr. of St. Louis, Mo... Dr. Feltin Clark, Pres, of Southern U. of Louisiana; Dr. Herald Hunt, Sup. of schools in K C Mo.; Mr. Clemment Rich ardson, pres, of Western Semi nary, K. C. Kans; Mr. Irving Le vitas, Youth Director of the Jew ish Community Center of K. C. Mo; Lucille Bluford. Mgr. Editor of K. C- Call; Sherman D. Scruggs pres, of Lincoln U. Jefferson City Mo.; Louise Thompson, industrial sec'y K. C. YWCA: Nan Murlin sup. of music. K. C. Mo; Rev. S S. Myers; L. Charles Gray; L. R. Hayes; D. A. Holmes and Bernard G Whitlock. FOR THE BEST IN NEWS. READ The Greater OMAHA GCIBE' #-d \a —#— 6-# Place Your Order for.. Thanksgiving FOODS at the Red £? White Stores -sst i —aM— ids Phone JA. 0798 SOL LEE • EXPERT ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE REPAIRS Plumbing Drains Opened & Repairs 2022 North 24th St. Omaha, Nebraska v <rJ ; CAMPAIGN FOR $2,000,000 . . . Kate Smith, Bing Crosby and Sister Elizabeth Kenny confer on eve of third annual campaign of Sister Kenny Foundation for $2,000,000 to slash crippling toll of polio. rv Miss Smith is national chairman of 1946 fund appeal, Crosby chairman of national executive com mittee. I --— Educational Institutions To Get OPA Equipm’t OMAHA—Office equipment in 2S discontinued Nebraska OPA offices will be available to educa tional institutions urgently in need of additional facilities to accom odate overflow enrollment of ve terans and other students, the Omaha War Assets Administra tion announced today. The date for complete removal of property from the price board offices has been set for December 12, 1946. All property, except typewriters will be offered at five per cent of the fair value. The typewriters will be sold at the usual discount of 40 percent granted educational institutions under WAA regula tion 14. This action follows a find ing made by the WAA Admini strator that it would be impracti cf’e and uneconomical for the OPA to dispose of the typewriters in other other way. Preliminary estimates indicate that the average OPA price board now being cleared contains ap proximately ten desks, from 10 to 20 chairs of various types, two or three filing cabinets, hall trees some office machinery, tables and typewriters, all in various condi tions of repair and usability. The equipment in each board office will not be subject to pri ority sales because it falls into the small lots category. READ TIIE GREATER Omaha GUIDE FOR GREATER COVERAGE -1,1 - ■■ " v Nothing C oks Like fylcune.! This is the season of good eating! It’s the time of ■the year when the family looks forward to Thanks giving dinner . . . cooked to perfection . . . done to a turn . . . the annual tribute to Mother’s skill in the art of good cooking. Thanksgiving points up the importance of the modern GAS RANGE which makes possible perfection in cooking. It emphasizes the superiority of FLAME in modem cookery. No wonder 50,000 Omaha women say: Nothing cooks like FLAME! LYLE De'riOSS, WOW Program Director, poses as “The Old LamplighteP', for a live facsimile of the design on the 1946 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal. Lyle trill officially light this replica of the lamp featured on this year's Christmas Seals on the “WOW Jamboree” program heard over WOWr, in Omaha, on Saturday, November 23. WOW TO AID IN SALE OF XMAS SEALS Lyle Demoss and Morton Weils Featured in Official Opening The sale of Christmas Seals in Nebraska, almost as much a part of the Yuletide spirit as Santa Claus himself, will begin this year on November 25, and continue all through the holidays, it was an nounced by the Nebraska Tuber culosis Association, which annu ally sponsors the sale. This year’s Seals feature the figure of an old-fashioned Lamp lighter, symbolic of the progress made against tuberculosis since the first Seal Sale in this country in 1907. Forty-s i x million Christmas Seals will be sent out in Nebraska this year, each one a weapon a srainst tuberculosis. In 1945 this disease caused the deaths of 173 Nebraskans, and there wrere 446 new cases. Since January 1, ’46 to November 2, ’46 there have al ready been 523 new cases reported in Nebraska. This indicates that more early cases of the disease are being found due to tuberculin skin testing and X-rays, the two principle methods in detecting tu berculosis, which are financed by the sale of Christmas Seals, the only means of support for tuber culosis associations. An official opening of the an nual Seal Sale for 1946 will take place over Radio Station WOW in Omaha. This 'ceremony will be featured on a portion of the WOW Jamboree program at 10 a. m. on Saturday, November 23rd. Simultaneous with the placing of the millions of Seals in the mail, Lyle DeMoss, WOW Pro gram Director, will actually light a replica of the old English street lamp from which this year’s Chri stmas Seals are designed. Morton Wells will do a special arrange ment of the new hit tune, “The Old Lamplighter”. Elsie Robinson Praises Negro Magazine By Paul R. Simon Recently, Elsie Robinson, writer of the syndicated feature “Listen World” used her column to write a glowing welcome to a new Ne gro publication, Color Line.’ Hail ing the magazine as an aid to na tional unity and justice, the wide ly read and published Kings Fea tures writer assured the venture of the support of thousands of Americans of good-will. Wrote Miss Robinson: “It is a simple news magazine, without propa ganda .. a plain record of news events in America, particularly those which relate to the Negro. There is no hate in it, there is no fear, there is no cringing appeal for understanding”. Color Line has been commended by the NAACP, the National Ur ban League, the Southern Region alaj Council, Catholic Charities of New York, Division of Youth Ac tivities, and by many city and state interracial organizations. The bulletin is already being used in schools, libraries, YM and YW's where its non-partisan, factual style of reporting has resulted in it being acclaimed as ideal ma terial for the effective, non-emo tional attack on the roots of race prejudice-ignorance about the Ne gro. OPENINGS NOW ro» *, WITH THIS ARMY TRAINING! If you are 18 to 34 inclusive and were discharged from the Army, Navy, Marines or Coast Guard on or aite^Aay 12, 1945. amd had served; ftr six er more months in any of certain spe cialties, you may enlist now in the Army directly into certain non-commissioned grades. In addition to those specialties listed here, there are many more for which you may be qualified, and which will earn you the new higher Army pay and many other enlistment advantages. Get all the facts at your nearest U. S. Army Recruiting Station. • Bring both your discharge certifi cate and your occupational history (W.D.A.G.O. Form 100 — Report at Separation). MOS 067 Dental Laboratory Technician 149 Pharmacist 264 X-Ray Technician 319 Construction Equipment Mechanic 366 Orthopedic Mechanic 528 Airplane Hydraulic Mechanic 555 Airplana Sheet Metal Worker 624 Finance Clerk 647 Radio Repairman, Aircraft Equipment 678 Power Turret & Gunslghf Mechanic 685 Airplane Electrical Mechanic 686 Airplane Instrument Mechanic L. S. Army Recruiting Stations: 1516 Douglas Street Omaha 2, Nebraska South Omaha U. S. Postoffice 24th and “M” Sts. Polio Called j | Jekyll-Hyde Foe of Ulan BY EFFIE ALLEY, Noted Woman Journalist. In times to come infantile paral-! ysis doubtless will be known as the i disease with the double nature, the ' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the ] medical world. First described in 1840, it man aged for nearly a century to show the generations of hardworking doc tors and research men who studied it, only one side of its personality. It posed—and posed successfully— as a disease which worked on the spinal cord and on that alone. As such, it was invu’nerable. It could not be attacked. No real treat ment was possible. And none would be possible today had not the keen eyes of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, intrepid Austra lian nurse, surprised this killer and crippler in another guise. f ound at work She discovered it at work—not in the spinal cord, where it was inac cessible—but in the muscles, where it could be fought and routed. This in essence is the whole dif ference between the old, orthodox idea of polio and the newer, hope ful concept of Sister Elizabeth Kenny. Medical scientists studying the disease in the usual way, by micro scopic examination of dead tissue, saw disintegrated motor nerve cells and diagnosed paralysis. Sister Kenny, the woman and the nurse who worked with living, suf fering patients, quite naturally saw something else. She saw tender, painful, knotted muscles and diag nosed muscle spasm. Both, of course, were right, for infantile paralysis is the disease with a double identity. The only trouble was that most doctors, knowing so well what took place in the spine, believed that everything took place there. Not knowing that the muscles were sick in and of‘themselves, they failed to treat them in the acute stage and hence got a great deal more paralysis among their patients than there was any need for. Prove Theory It has since been confirmed by many inquiries attested by the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that true paralysis occurs at the maximum in only about 20 per cent of the badly affected cases. All the rest—pseudo-paralysis, de formity, muscle weakness—is due to muscle spasm. Doctors were amazed at this idea and yet, seeing Sister Kenny re store function to muscles they had been sure were paralyzed, many were convinced the Australian nurse “had something.” Bearing witness to this, Dr. Alfred Deacon of Canada, said: “We were astounded to see Miss Kenny restore what we had record ed as completely paralyzed and flaccid muscles to full function.’ The significance of Sister Kenny's work has been attested by the many honorary degrees bestowed on her by institutions of learning. The University of Rochester, by means of delicate electrical instru ments proved in the laboratory that muscle spasm does exist and that nerve impulses continue to reach muscles which are apparent ly paralyzed. As a result, the University con ferred on Sister Kenny the degree of Doctor of Science. Other honors followed, New York University giv ing her the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters and Rutgers Uni versity, a similar honor. More than 20 scientific and medical societies have singled her out for special dis tinction. Practical Aid The great value of her discovery of muscle spasm is in its practi cality. It gives a basis for treat ment. It points out the spot where the greatest crippler of all time can be reached. But more than this, it shows how the old treatment based on the old concept of polio as merely a disease of the spine, had encouraged crip pling and deformity. For Sister Kenny and others have proved that if muscle spasm is not relieved it will persist for years, shortening and hardening muscle fibers per manently, drawing them up until eventually they distort the skeleton itself and deny movement even to the joints. Doctors had known with what tragic regularity such things as this occurred as the aftermath of polio. They tried to prevent it by splint ing, and when that failed, they tried to correct the deformities by sur gery. But it was not until Sister Kenny came along with her con cept of muscle spasm that they realized these shortened and con tracted muscles were sick and need ing treatment. Unhealthy Muscles She has demonstrated that mus cles which all medical science had considered strong and healthy were, in reality, very sick. Muscles which had been thought paralyzed were, in fact, normal. Thus sick muscles had been neg lected and woefully mishandled, forced into rigid casts where their spasm could only increase until it caused fixed deformities. Normal muscles had been mis takenly treated as paralyzed and in the process often rendered so. For these apparently paralyzed muscles are usually opposite to muscles in spasm and do not regain their function until spasm has been relieved. Through the old treatment of splinting, they were forced into inaction until pseudoparalysis be came real, merely through atrophy and disuse. I I Miss Kate Smith I P. O. Box 191 I Hollywood, Calif. j Dear Kate: | Enclosed please find $--—as | my contribution to the Sister Kenny Foundation’s fight against J polio. J Name j Address__ j City | State GOOD READING ★ The GREATER Omaha Guide ■■■■■HHHIHHHMWWKIUUINIMannrmnit'rrini’: :n; !U1 TIPSTER SHEET RACKET FILTCHING PUBLIC SAYS BETTER BUSINESS B’REAU "One of the clever schemes de veloped to divorce the unsuspec . fi? from their money, is the tipster sheet" warns the Better Business Bureau. Today millions of Americans have money in the bank, war bonds, savings accu mulated during the war, or bonus money. Swindlers and gyp arti sts realize that many of these peo pie are inexperienced in investing their funds and jump to take ad vantage of this situation. The smooth operator who works this "tipster sheet” racket con vinces his intended victim that the place for him to put his money is in the stock market. And be cause the customer is a novice in the market, the racketeer sug gests he ought to subscribe to the special sheet which he puts out giving tips on good market buys. This seems reasonable to the no vice, and he does as suggested. The tip sheet, at first appears to be on the up and up. Reliable stock names are mentioned and a few easy but impressive predic tions are made. For the swindler, however, this is all just the groundwork. After he has obtained the customer's good will and trust he comes forth with his big plan. The tipster sheet includes a special offer of an extraordinary buy. Those who • Radio Programs SUNDAY RADIO PROGRAMS Nov. 24, 1946 WOW (590 kc 508 2m) (CST) 6 30 Sunday Serenade 6 55 News 7 00 Revival Hour 8 00 Chapel in the Sky 8 15 Midwest Report 8 15 Chapel Service, Rev. R. R. Brown 9 30 STORY TO ORDER Labor 9 45 Cheer Up Time 10 00 WOW News Tower 10 15 Gems and Jottings 10 30 Furs on Parade 1 10 45 Solitaire Time. NBC 11 00 World Front, NBC 11 30 House of Beauty 11 45 Canary Pet Show 12 00 WOW News Tower 12 15 Farm Magazine of the Air 12 30 Your University Speaks Democratic Committee 12 45 Life Time Favorites 1 00 RCA Victor Hour, NBC 1 30 Harvest of Stars, NBC 2 00 Carmen Cavellero, NBC 2 30 One Man’s Family, NBC 3 00 The Symphonette \ 3 30 Nebraska Iowa Quiz 4 00 Quiz Kids 4 30 Circle Arrow Show 5 00 Catholic Hour, NBC 5 30 Bob Burns 6 00 Jack Benny, NBC 6 30 Bandwagon. NBC 7 00 Edgar Bergen & Charley McCarthy, NBC 7 30 Fred Allen Show, NBC 8 00 Manhattan Merry Go Round, NBC 8 30 American Album of Fami liar Music, NBC 9 00 Don Ameche Show, NBC 9 30 Meet Me at Parkey s, NBC 10 00 WOW News Tower 10 15 Show Time 10 30 Pacific Story, NBC Foundation 10 45 To Be Announced 11 00 WOW News Tower 11 15 Music by Shredmik, NBC 11 30 America United 12 00 Midnight Melodies 12 15 Mary Ann Mercer, NBC 12 30 Symphony of Melody 12 55 News, NBC KOIL (1290 kc) 7 00 Paul Harvey, News AB 7 15 Tom Glazer’s Ballad Box, 7 30 Coffee Concerts ABC 7 45 The Chosen P^P1®—Dr Joseph Hoffman Cohn 8 00 Sunday Morning Melodies I 15 Christian Science Ppn.ET 8 30 The Christians Hour ET 9 00 Old Fashioned Revival El 10 00 Church of the Air 10 45 Th^New World Coming 11 00 This Week Around the World, ABC 11 30 Melodies of the Southland 12 00 News 12 15 Your Sports Question Box With Leo Durocher 12 30 Your University Speaks 12 45 Vagabond Dreamer 1 00 To Be Ann 1 30 Friendship Hour, ETb 1 45 Portraits of Music, ETS 2 00 Sammy Kaye’s Serenade o OK Mpnrq 2 30 Geislers Canaries 2 45 Sam Pettengill, News ABC 3 00 Are These Our Crildren? 3 30 Green Hornet 4 00 Darts for Dough, ABC 4 30 Counterspy, ABC 5 00 Sunday Eveniny Party, 5 30 Easy Aces, ET 5 45 Flight with Music, ET 6 00 Drew Pearson, ABC 6 15 News 6 30 Stump the Authors, ABC 7 00 The Paul Whiteman Hour 8 00 Walter Winchell, ABC 8 15 Louella Parsons, ABC 8 30 Jimmy Fidler, ABC 8 45 The Policewoman, ABC 9 00 Theatre Guild of the Air 10 00 News 10 15 Vera Massey, ABC 10 30 Music You Want, R 11 00 News, ABC 11 05 Clyde McCoy’s Orch. ABC 11 30 A1 Donahue’s Orch., ABC 11 55 News, ABC 12 00 Sign Off. are interested are urged to clip and send in the coupon. Once the promoter recieves the coupons he goes to work. All those who res pond are immediately bombarded with phone calls. letters and te legrams urging them to snap up this golden opportunity to pur chase as many shares as possible of this special stock..the chance of a lifetime for a really profitable investment. Lulled into a feeling of security by the correct and quite conservative tips the sheet has given heretofore, many of those approached will fall for the plan and invest all they can scrape together in this sensational offer. The purchasers are urged to main' tain a strict silence on the matter so the special tip won’t leak out. “Don’t even tell your banker what you want the money for,” warns the gyp. “If this gets out it’ss spr ead like wildfire and there isn’t enough for everybody”. Thinking he's well on the way to sizable profits, the unknowing customer invests his savings only to find, when he tried to collect dividends or to sell his shares, that the stock is of little or no value and that nothing can be recovered from the tipster. So. the Better Business Bureau warns the public to deal with re putable well-established firms, an0 to investigate thoroughly before investing any money. One of the easiest and safest ways to invest igate a firm or a person is thru your local Better Business Bur eau. Nehru Honored At Dinner NEW YORK_(Global)—A din ner to celebrate the birthday of Premier Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India was held last Thursday at the Hotel Pierre under the spon sorship of the Natiinal Committee For India's Freedom. Guest of honor at the dinner was Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit.. sister of the Indian leader and chief Indian delegate to the U. N. Assembly. NEGRO DOLLS Every home should have a Colored Doll. 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