rage 2 The Greater OMAHA GUIDE
Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, November 30, 1946
Says Mechanization of South
To Create Unemployment
NEW ORLEANS—Swift mech
anization of the South dooms
every wage-earner, white and col
ored, unless he is unionized, Pat
Ryan, coordinator of the AFL
Southern Organizing Campaign iri
Louisiana, warned the past week
end after returning from a long
trip in the rural parishes of the
State.
Mr. Ryan pcihted out that the
old pattern ha1" been for the ru
gar cane worker, toiling by hand,
to make a minimum of five doll
ars a day. but the threat is
that, today, wnth a machine that
can do 100 times as much work
as a single employe, one machine
operator v-nj raid a mere $A50
a day, although it is SI.50 less
than a eing'e bend worker used
to get despite the fact that he
may be the symbol of 99 other
men out of work.
Grsvest Problem
“The only way the workers
can protect themselves’’, Mr. Rvan
warned “is organization. They
simply must join some union. The
AFL recognizes that * the swift
mechanization of the South now
taking place is the gravest pro
blem of the low income worker,
for which a movement is on foot
at the present time to organize
all such workers. Two hundred
fishermen have been unionized in
the Mobile Area; around 800 milk
producers have been organized
into two locals in Franklinton and
Amite. There is an organizing
drive among the tung oil grove
workers and in the saw mills and
box factories at the present time’.
Figures released by State uni
versities of the South estimate
that, with the present tempo of
mechanization of the South be
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45 workers presently employed,1
will remain in the near future.
Mr. Ryan further warned that,
without organization, the other 44
workers will have to rely on State
or Federal support or replace
many plant workers who now
think they are farely secure in
their jobs.
STUDENTS SAY
Negro Press
Harps Too Much
On Race
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.—The
nations Negro press got a good
dressing down last week in a poll
ta'ken among students here at
Lincoln university.
Most of the critics found the
newspapers laying too much stress
on the wretched lot of the Negro,
others deplored the sensational
ism. The few favorable comments
pointed out that the Negro press
carried news ignored by the white
press and that ‘under the circum
stances”, it was doing a service.
Said one left'handed compli
ment, “It couldn’t do any better,
with the kind of public it has.”
Other adverse comments:
“They should not talk so much
about prejudice. They emphasize
bad dualities of the white man in
stead of the good. All bad things
make headlines, and good things
are placed in the background”.
“They are a letdown to the Ne
gro race. Negro papers are scan
dal sheets.”
“I don’t approve of the way it
plays up unimportant events as
important. Things one should
know about Negroes are hidden
in the middle. Trivial incidents are
played up on the front page. It;
keeps people excited and angry.
Angry people can’t contribute
their best to society. I don’t think
the Negro press thinks.”
“I don’t think it does it’s jobs”.
There is nothing educational in
it.”
“It breeds race hatred.”
“It is a drag..too much racial
conflict.”
“You can tell a Negro newspa
per a mile off.”
“It stresses the idea that ‘I am
a Negro and everybody must know
it and I must not forget it’.”
“The press is rotten. It gives
trite news which doesn’t mean
enything. It plays up prejudice,
with screaming headlines”.
A hopeful postscript came from
young Mamie Ruth Butler, win
ner of the first Abbott journalism
scholarship, who conducted the
poll. “Need for a change..is ap
parent, and some change is bound
to take place. Not a drastic, sud
den change, but one which will
come through careful thought and
planning. Training in journalism
can do this indirectly, but not
alone, for the journalist must have
the support of his public most of
all.
“The education of the public to
accept and read only the best
j reporting is one of the jobs facing
I the journalist. Unless the public
is discriminating in its reading,
unless it fully appreciates the ef
forts of the journalist to promote,
tf ’ucate, fight, inform, and en
tertain, there can be no advance
ment in the Negro press.
“The journalist and the public
must quickly realize there is no
Negro world. Whatever happens
to the Negro has a bearing on
the happenings if the world and
vice versa.”
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GREAT HEART of Sister Kenny is never happier than when
she can bid goodby to a polio patient after treatment at Eliz
abeth Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, as she is doing here
with Billy Kistler, son of a Tulsa, Okla., oil executive. Billy
has- been restored to health and happiness at world-famed haven
of hope.
Carol Brice Scores
At Town Hall
“Carol Brice the brilliant young
Negro contralto and holder of
many distinguished honors for her
vocal feats scored again at Town
Hall This Saturday”—Richard
Lawrence, New York Times.
Richard Lawrence, distinguish
ed critic of the New York Times,
asserted in that paper, Sunday’s
Edition, that Miss Brice scores
again. The occasion was Miss
Brice’s first New York concert for
the 1946-47 season and in a sense
her first fully professional New
York concert. Her former Town
Hall concert was sponsored by
the Naumberg Foundation whose
award for vocal excellency Miss
Brice won in 1944. Since she was
still in school at the time the con
cert was more in the nature of an
amatuer giving a private preview
I before turning professional. How
ever, at this time Miss Brice came
into Town Hall w'ith a string of
professional triumphs to her cre
dit which she justified. The cri
I tics agreed that Miss Brice’s voice
is even finer, clearer and purer
in the upper tones and richer in
the lower tones than in her first
Town Hall concert.
ST. LOUIS SCHOOLS SUPT.
EDUCATION WEEK SPEAKER
AT LINCOLN U. (MISSOURI)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo_Thru
the years, from Washington to
Truman, men gravely concerned
with the preservation of democr
acy gave the same prescription
for its maintenance—education in
the public schools of this coun
try.
Philip J. Hickey, superintend
ent of instruction, St. Louis made
this statement to a National Ed
ucation week convocation audience
at Lincoln University last week.
BALTIMORAN LIFE MEMBER
AFTER 5 YEARS’ PAYMENTS
NEW YORK, Nov. 21st-—An
earnest desire to be an NAACP
life member, and five years’ na
tient planing for that goal, were
rewarded on November 19th, when
Dr. T. Henderson Kerr, of Balti
more, Md., completed his life mem
bership payments.
His name will go up on the
Bronze Plaque of Life Members,
which adorns the hall of the NA
ACP National Office. His exam
ple will undoubtedly inspire many
others to work to acquire a simi
lar status in the Assn.
BARBERS
BEING ORGANIZED
NEW ORLEANS—Now that a
lot more than 10.000 workers in
the waterfront industry and the
building and construction trades
have been alligned during the past
several weeks under the direction
of the two AFL coordinators, Pat
Ryan and George W. Snowden, the
Southern Organizing Campaign
committee, which they head, is in
vading other fields. Presently, the
movement is among barbers, res
taurant workers, school teachers
and office employees.
Organization of colored barbers
took definite shape last week
when nearly 75 journeymen of this
personal service craft filled ap
plication blanks and were certi
fied for a charter to be issued by
the Journeymen Barbers Interna
tional Union, AFL.
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Doctor Hails
Sister Kenny
Polio Method
Paying high tribute to Sister Eliz
abeth Kenny as "a brilliant worn
an,” Dr. John F. Pohl, prominent
orthopedic surgeon and professor a'
the University of Minnesota Medi
cal School, told the 1946 Annual Con
ference of Kenny Foundation Stati
Chairman that those members oi
the medical profession who have
seen her work are convinced she
has discovered “a great truth"
about polio.
Nearly 100 chairmen and field
directors from 25 states heard Dr.
Pohl declare “something new has
been added” to the old idea of in
fantile paralysis by Sister Kenny.
Treatment in the United States, he
added, has not been satisfactory
and will not be until Sister Kenny’s
new concept is accepted generally.
He said:
“According to the old idea of the
disease as being purely and simply
in the spinal cord, deformities were
inevitable. All we doctors could do
was repair the damage in the limbs
after the disease had passed and
left us a crippled child.
Attacks Muscles Too
“Sister Kenny holds that the
disease in the spinal cord is only
a part of the picture. She believes
it works on the muscles too, mak
, ing them tense and stiff and pain
I ful.
“You cannot treat the spinal cord.
But this condition in the muscles
is a separate thing entirely and it
is something which can be treat
ed. When rightly handled, this treat
ment will reduce crippling and pre
vent practically all deformity."
Dr. Pohl, one of the first spe
cialists in the United States to give
Sister Kenny a hearing when she
arrived here in 1940, has been medi
cal head of the Kenny Institute
since its founding. He is a graduate
of the Harvard Medical School and
studied abroad for some time be
fore beginning his practice in Min
neapolis.
Speaking of 1.0C0 patients who
have been treated at the Institute,
he said:
“Some of the patients may be
weak from paralysis, but they don’t
have the twisted spines, the short
ened limbs and the wasting of mus
cles once so common when the dis
ease was- regarded simply as a
paralytic condition.”
Polio Not Recognized
He recalled that when Sister Ken
ny saw her first cases of polio in
the Australian bush she did not
know it was supposed to be a
spinal disorder which could not be
treated, adding:
"She treated what -she saw and
she saw painful tender muscles. The
patient cried with pain and tended
to get twisted up, to draw himself
up in a deformed position. Every
body today knows the result of that
treatment. Her patients recovered
and they recovered without crip
pling or deformity.”
From this. Dr. Pohl went on, Sis
ter Kenny got her new idea of the
disease as something wrong with
the muscles, adding:
“She does not disagree with doc
tors who say infantile paralysis af
fects the spine. That is true." It does
affect the spine and Sister Kenny
knows it, but she says this idea
does not go far enough. Polio also
affects the muscles and if it is not
treated in the muscles, it stiffens
and hardens them, causing deform
ities. This, she says, is the serious
part of the disease and this is the
part that can be treated.”
Federal
Employment
Opportunities
The Executive Secretary, Board
of U. S. Civil Service Examiners,
Robinson Quartermaster Depot,
Remount. Fort Robinson, Nebras
ka, has announced examinations
for Probational Appointments to
the position of Mason, Brick, and
Stone or Block at a salary range
of $1.04 to $1.28 per hour, for
duty at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
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Indefinite Positions.
Applications may be secured
from the Secretary, Board of U.
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Applications must be received
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December 1946.
1946 NEGRO HANDBOOK
READY FOR PUBLICATION
NEW YORK—Classifying the
1946 Negro Handbook, compiled
and edited by Florence Murray,
“as the only book of its kind on
the Negro published in America,
at the present time,” Bernard B.
Perry, General Manager of Cur
rent Books, Inc., New York pub
lishers of the book, paid high tri
bute to Miss Murray for her out
standing work. In a press review
Mr. Perry said:
l “In the compiling and editing of
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her 1946 Negro Handbook, Miss
Murray has exhibited extraordin
ary industry, infinite patience and
thoroughness in her research, and
has shown top-drawer editorial
workmanship in presenting illum
inating facts and figures and ac
curate information on the Negro
in America in concise ready re
ference form. Current Books, Inc.
is proud to be the publisher.”
The 1946 Negro Handbook is
scheduled for December publica
tion.
Presented for the first time in
the 1946 Negro Handbook is a
complete factual summary of the
Negroe’s role in World War II.
This book also contains up-to-date
facts on all phases of Negro life
in the United States. It includes
a chronology of events since the
preparation of the 1944 edition;
up-to-date information on Negro
population, business, labor, farm
ing, health, religion, social and
cultural organizations, govern
ment and politics, sports, theatre
etc.
Surplus Property
Transferred To
Omaha, Nebr.
Transfer of all War Assets Ad
ministration surplus property and
personnel in the State of Iowa
from the Chicago Region to the
Omaha Region was announced to
day by Gordon T. Burke. Omaha
Regional Director. The transfer is
effective November, 1946.
In making the announcement,
Burke said the transfer was made
to equalize inventories between
the regions and to affect a speed
ier and more efficient disposal of
all surplus property in the state.
Premliinary estimates disclosed
that inventory in the state as of
this month, was approximately
twenty million dollars. The surplus
is located at about 75 sites thru
out the state.
Included in the transfer are a
bout 150 Federal employees loca
ted in Des Moines. Clarinda, Al
gona. and Davenport. Burke said
no transfers or cuts in personnel
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