LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS ^ Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To Sell It, ADVERTISE** L M HEWTOTHE LINE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PHONE HA.0800 ~ i -—■ i Mu ———— * ★ ★ SATURDAY, NOV EMBER 30, 1946 Our 19th Year—No. 43 Entered as 2nd Mass matter at I'nst Offioe. Oni.'iLa. Nebraska, t'mier Act of --—... - " — ' ___ March S. 1874. 1*1 RI.INTTIXO niPFlPFS at oj>>n nitivr c'r LINCOLN, J 'OUR 1 GUEST . Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) THE CASE FOR EQUALITY By Melvin Douglas, Columbia Pictures' star, currently co'starring with Rosalind Russell in "The Guilt of Janet Ames" If it were not for the present, chaotic conditions surrounding the whole question of Negro equal ity, the race prejudice and lynch ingB which have disgraced the national social and political scenes it would be presumptuous for any white Americas to comment on the matter at all. But those conditions do exist, and I have been asked what is the case for Negro equality. My answer to that is there is the same case for Negro equality as there is, let us say. for white equ ality or for religious equality. In the first place, Negroes are people. As such, they are equal to ull other people, neither below them nor above them in the hu man scale. In a world gravely in danger of being blown to bits by its own Frankenstein thinking and acting, it seems to me some sort of new high in idiocy for one kind of human being to place himself in a superior position to any other And no contrary law of natural selection, to my knowledge, or ever has existed. In the second place, Negroes in this country are American citi- 1 zens. As such they are entitled to enjoy all the political rights and privileges enjoyed by other Americana be they white or red or brown or yellow or black. If political justice and and democra cy exist, there simply can be no dividing line between one sort of citizen and another. If they taught me nothing else | my years years in India with the American forces taught me that j bitterness and violence must al ways accompany race prejudice. It was evident 50 any observer in that field that much more detest ed than the economic exploitation which the people of India resented was the arrogance and assumed superiority of those who had been sent to govern them. In my opinion, the bill for a Fair Employment Practice Com mission is the most important piece of unenacted legislation in the country today and its early adoption should be urged by every one able to make himself heard. —APA— SEMPER GETS N. H. A. APPOINTMENT ' Appointment of Joseph Semper as reporting analyst for the region al office of the National Housing Agency was announced today by Clrarles J. Horan, regional ad ministrator for the agency. Semper, former assistant chief of training with Illinois State of fice of the United States Employ ment Service, will have charge of reviewing housing reports for the planning and program section of the agency, and will serve “as an administrative assistant to the pro gram planning chief. Semper has served with the USES in Chicago for the past six years. For two years Semper worked closely on studies of business pro blems in Chicago *areas with hea vy concentrations on Negro pro blems, and cooperated with the authors of “Black Metropolis” in making their study of this city. He is a graduate of Wilberforce ’ University and took two years of' graduate study in soci'al admini stration at the University of Chi cago. For three years he served as research assistant in social an thropology at Yale Institute of Hum*an Relations. Semper is a veteran of World War H, having served in the Navy in the United States and Hawaii. JEBR. White Students Join Fight On Texas "U” HOUSTON—That the fight for Equalized educational opportuni ties is not restricted to Negro ef fort was shown when a large group of University of Texas stu dents joined NAACP representa tives in discussing means of rais ing funds to carry on the court fight for Herman Marion Sweatt to enter the University of Texas Law School. Sweatt has emphatically declar ed that he plans to enter the law ' school if the “doors are opened." He has also indicated that he will not enter any State-sponsored school with facilities not equal to those of U. T. Sweatt applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School last February and was de nied admission. He later filed a suit against the Board of Regents. LINCOLN MO. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE TO SHOW MATERIAL IN OMAHA JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. 23,—The Lincoln university office of public relations is preparing the third in a series of requested exhibits for display at the Public Relations conference, meeting in Omaha, Nebr., Dec. 1, 2 and 3. Injured In Auto Crash Syvella Brown, 26. 2302% Grace Street, suffered face cuts Satur day night in an auto, truck col lision at Thirteenth and Dodge Streets. She was treated at Doc tor’s hospital and released. Miss Brown was riding in a car driven by Arthur Mitchell, 2807 Charles Street. Myron Nelson. 3332 North Thirty-eighth Street, was reported as having been the driver of the other auto. Police said both drivers were booked by them on charges of reckless dri ving. | FOB THE BEST IN NEWS. 1 READ The Greater OMAHA GUIDE' ilowans Give $1,000.00 To Isaac Woodard Fund NEW YORK. Nov. 21st—Isaac Woodard's appearance at mass j rallies held in his behalf have been heartily supported by NAACP branches throughout the country, as is attested by the returns com ing into the national office. Ike Smalls, president of the Iowa State Conference of branches which held a rally for Woodard when he was there on November 17th sent in $700 from the rally. In addition, the Des Moines NAA CP branch gave $300 making a total of $1000. i Harvey Parham, ^ treasurer of the St. Louis, Mo., branch brought a check into the national office for $500 as a contribution to the Isaac Woodard fund. Of this, $392 was raised at the mass meeting for Woodard on October 27th and $107.83 was contributed by the branch. Mr. Parham also brought with him, as a gift from the St. Louis branc, the original of a cartoon by D. D. Fitzpatrick which appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch during the Lawrenceburg trials, entitled, “New Method in Law renceburg, Tenn.”. The cartoon de* picts a judge referring to a big book, labeled, “Legal Lynching.” Inatl news I! I REVIEW i i Liberian Republic Buys Home In Queens NEW YORK—Global—Mr. Jas Suozzo of 29-04 Gilmore St., East \ Elmhurst, Queens, has sold his one family brick dwelling to the Re public of Liberia. The purchase was completed through Dr. Fred erdrick Price, Consul General of Liberia, according to the Corona Holding Co. U. S. Marines Manhandle Filipinos MANILA—Although a published report from the presidential palace issued last week supporting alleg ed manhandling of Filipinos by Marines, the report stated that these cases emanating from the Olongapo naval base, were isola ted cases, not following any set pattern. Rep. Ramon Magsaysay made the original charge. Crowd Boos Name of Field Marshall, Jan Christian Smuts at Meeting NEW YORK—Sen. H. M. Bas ner, white representative of four million natives in the South Afri can Parliament, brought jeers and boos from the audience of a mass meeting held at the Abyssinian Baptist church Sunday, November 17. Field Marshall Smuts is head of the African Delegation to the U. N. Senator Basner called Mar shall Smuts, the architect of a system which has reduced the na tive population to a shameful so cial and economic condition. Frank Anthony, who shared the speakers platform with the head of the Indian delegation, Mrs. Vi jaya Lakshmi Pandit, called the union’s incorporation plan a viol ation of the U. N. charter. He said 'what we want is the setting up of a trusteeship council to ad minister Southwest Africa”. The administration of the for mer German colony, now a union mandate, jhe said, has been so discreditable that he would not consent to the union’s being given administration of the territory even under a trusteeship council. It could not be trusted to ad minister a trust territory he said. Mrs. Pandit asked for fewer U. N. words and more U. N. ac tion. She said “the great need to day is a speedy implementation of the promises which the charter holds out to the people of the world.” Pvt. Lem as Woods Granted New Trial by Truman WASHINGTON, D. C—The War Department announced last week that President Truman had gran ted a new court-martial trial to Pvt. Lemas Woods, jr., Detroit G I who was found guilty of kill ing his tentmate in the Philippines. THE MORE YOU TEIX--THE MORE YOFXL BELL I ADVERTISE IT!!! * • • CNS NEWS ROUNDUP i On His Trail NEW YORK. (Calvin's News Service)—Now’ that Representa tive May has escaped investigation by a Senate committee, the docket is being set up in earnest to give Senator Theodore Bilbo the work3. It is predicted that Bilbo will only resume his seat for a few weeks, it at all, in the next Con gress. Meanwhile a petition that will contain one million signatures is being circulated to unseat ‘ The Man” on the grounds of fraud and intimidation. Boom—Then Bust! NEW YORK—Max Lerner. not- I ed newspaper and radio commen tator said in a recent broadcast, that the cost of living would rise another five per cent, mid..‘after the boom has spent itself, the bust will come sharper and sooner.." A Full House BERLIN—If you’re wondering how the Army of Occupation is ^ making out in Germany, here is 1 an item that will give you a slant on one side of it. The Berlin jails are so badly overcrowded that on ly those persons accused of the most serious crimes are held for trial. Hot Bananas! SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—Despite a revamped labor policy, the Uni ted Fruit Company still has its troubles with the natives in this paradise of bananas. Recently it wras necessary to have troops sum moned to quell a disturbance by the natives who threatened to set fire to the plantations. Back Again! INDIANAPOLIS—The Ku Klux Klan and its spawn are under in vestigation in this community. Masquerading under a dozen inno cent-sounding names, the Klan off sheets are dedicated to the prin ciple of ‘‘White Christian Ameri canism” only. Gov. Griswold Designates Christmas Seal Week The Period of November 25 to December 25, 1946, has been offi cially named by Governor Dwight Griswold as “Christmas Seal Month” in Nebraska. “This year,” said Governor Gris' wold in his official proclamation "in keeping with its tradition, the Nebraska Tuberculosis Associat ion will conduct its Fortieth an nual Christmas Seal Sale to ob tain financial assistance in carry ing on the fight against tubercu losis. The sale began November 25 and will continue through the Christmas season’’. "People of Nebraska are well aware of the great and effective work that is accomplished through the use of Christmas Seal funds. L