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OUR GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) BIND THE TWIGS (BY EDWARD J. SPARLING, President Roosevelt College of Chicago) *** Prejudice is a vicious circle— particularly psychologically. Those who are discriminated a gainst, in turn seek others against whom they may discriminate. Un reasoning prejudice, wherever it exists, is a disease, and it is the same disease whether it spreads its virus in a Negro neighborhood or in the homes of rich, white Pro tPQti) ntc BIND rHE TWIGS . mEaI' Prejudice is a vicious circle-par ticularly pschologically. Those who are discrimnated against, in turn seek against whom they may discriminate. Ureasoning pre judice, wherever it exists, is a disease, and it is the same disease whether it spreads itft- Adnis in a Negro neighborhood or in the home of rich white Protestants. The disease, however, does spring from different causes when it occurs among one minority gTotip for another. Therefore it may require different treatment. The strength of unity is an obvious lesson, and yet both Negroes and Jews, to point to two hard-pressed minorities, allow so-called “sub versive activities" to pull them a sunder. propaganda is not lacKing. it is spread everywhere against Jews it is dispersed among all people to the detriment of Negroes and other minorities. But propaganda can be made inaffectaul by sound eth ics, by intelliget leadership in both groups, by widespread education. Lest you shake your head and say “Here are but more words, when what we need is action,” let me ppint to Roosevelt College. A year and a half ago the college was only a gleam in the eyes of a few hopefuls who wanted above all an institutions of higher learn ing which would embody and put into practice the ideals of demo cracy. The gleam has grown into at least a glowing light which shines in the shodows of this com munity. We known, for example, that inmany cases the white Pro testants in our college, who under stand the sufferings of prejudice less than any other group since they themselves have never known it are beginning to appreciate the Christian necessity of working for better understanding and sympa thy between all groups. With the ideal of One World before us, here at the college, are not without op timiism with regard to lessening prejudice on all sides. Within the College we are so set up that no one group may discri minate. Our Board is composed of representatives of Catholic, Jewish and Prtestant relions.white and Negro races, labor, management, faculty, press, cooperatives, and the judiciary- Our faculty con sists of people of all races and creeds, as does our student body. There are no quotas. In thi con genial atmosphere of work and re creation allgroups come together in harmony, sympathy and mutual appreciation. We try in all ways to project the ideals of the collge into community ... Gross JEWELRY & LOAN CO. PHONE JA-4635 formerly at 24th & Erskine St. NEW LOCATION 516 North 16th ] fl j lllllifllllllllllflllllllllilM COME CLOSER!! We’ve Got Something Tp Ask You!! DID YOU EVER HEAR OF the Negro Certified Public Accountant who is now contro ller of one of the country’s largest management and book, ing agencies? or the young Negro woman designer who created the seven fabulous 1946 Christmas-window costumes for New York’s fashionable devartment store, Bon wit Teller, Inc? or the young Negro interior decorator in Akron, Ohio, who decorates windows and advises decorators for all the shops of a nationally knoftvn dress store for her-area? or the Negro in New York who was coordinajting architect in the re-designing of the present United Nations Building at Flushing Meadow? or the Negro labor leader in Chicago who rose from station employee to Secretary-Treasurer of one of the country’s strongest labor unions? THE STORIES OF THESE NEGRO AMESICANS—AND MORE—WILL BE presented as a SPECIOL SERVICE for YOU by more than 100 NEGRO NEWSPAPERS THROUGH OUT the country—in cooperation with the NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE’S VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CAM PAIGN. * WATCH FOR THEM under a column, headed “THE FUTURE IS YOURS~ What Are You Doing About It” CHECK YOUR CjMAHA GUIDE NEWSPAPER for this column series which begins the FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY! li|[|||lillilllllllllll[llllllllllllllllllll!lilllllfllllllllllllllll!lll!llinilUIIIII(l!lllllilllllllHIIIUIIIIIIIII!llllllllilll]ll! life. Getting along together, we think, is part good citizenship. This policy is emphasized, not only in the classroom, but in faculty af fairs and in the extra-curricular activities of the student body, par ticularly in such groups as the American Veterans Committee and the Social Action Training Group, and even in the purely re creational field where students of races and creeds dine together and attend the theater. Prejudice can not maintain itself in such an at mosphere of genuine friendliness. Naturally the problem and its cure extends to other fields than those of education. Hypocritical religion, poor housing, unemploy ment, injustices in the distribution and production of wealth are all contributing causes to prejudice. These areall problems that only time and continous efforts will erase. Meanwhile, each group should set its own house in order by teaching good mental hygiene and business ethics. All groups should examine their thoughts in the light of the following criteria: i First, are we willing to know the I truth about groups? Second, are I we willing to seek the truth about others? Third, are we willing to apply the truth to our actions to toward others when we find it? Only through positive action in accordance with these measuring sticks can we bind the twigs ofhu man brotherhood into an unbreak able bundle of twigs of peace. This is our great hope of achieving One World for oil men everywhere HERE’S A BIT OF CULINARY MAGIC TO HELP YOU STOCK Scho&l marks often suffer at this time of year because young students grow tired and LOSE INTEREST in the pursuit of learn ing. You can do a lot to help your young hopefuls over this midwin ter slump by making sure their appetites are good and their diet is adequate. When they come in from school serve refreshments that are tempt ing and nourishing; then send them out to play before they settle down to home work or other in door activities. Cookies with milk, cocoa or fruit are good after-school fare. It’s no trouble to keep the cookie jar full if you work a little sugar shortage magic and make crispy, crunchy delights with sweetened condensed milk. No^ a bit of su gar is needed; just add nuts, raisins, dates, corn flakes or bran flakes to a mixture or sweet ened condensed milk and peanut butter, and you'll have a batch of mouth-melting cookies in jig time. Serve them with milk, cocoa or fruit after .school, for bedtime snacks, or for dessert at lunch or dinner. They are perfect choice, too, to tuck into the school lunch -1 "YOU WANT A QUARTER TO GO TO THE AQUARIUM AND SEE AN OCTOPUS— WHEN YOU CAN STAY HOME AND LOOK AT THIS ONE FOR FREE ?/ * Don't overload your wiring system. When you build or modernize provide ADEQUATE WIRING. NEBRASKA-IOWA ELECTRICAL COUNCIL (I-,-— box. Magic Five Way Cookies lte cups (15 oz. can’ sweetened condensed milk cup peanut butter An one of the 5 Ingredients list ed below: (2) 2 cups raisins (2) 2 cups cornflakes (3) 2 cups bran flakes (4) 1 cup chopped nut meats (.5)) 2 cups chopped dates Mix sweetened condensed milk peanut butter, and any one of the five ingredients listed above. Drop spoonfuls on greased baking sheet Bake in moderately hot oven; (375 F.) 15 minutes or until brown. Remove from pan at once. Makes about 30. Molasses Brownies 1% cups (15 oz. can) sweetened condensed milk Dash of salt 1-4 cup molosses 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 cup chopped nut meats Vi teaspoon vanilla Mix sweetened condensed milk, salt, molasses, graham cracker crumbs, nut meats and vanilla. Blend thoroughly. Spread mixture in 8xl2-inch pan greased and lined with waxed caper. Bake in moder ate oven (350 F.) 15 minutes or until set. Turn from pan and re move paper at once. Cool, cut into squares. Makes abo^t 24 brownies TRAFFIC SAFETY Speed is a killer. Why rush ourselves into the unknown? Ne braska road laws limit auto speeds to the conditions which exist; such as road, weather, vehicle, driver. Edgar Mayers Warns of Tuberculosis Rise With High Food Costs Fighter Gees Fishing Starting out on a USO. sponsor- bulatory patient at the hospital, is ed fishing trip to Lake Taney- being lifted into the boat by Sgt. come is Pfc. Gaylord David of Hoi- Woodrow Turner, Pioneer, La. dredge, Nebraska, one of seven Through funds to be raised in O soldiers paralyzed from the waist' maha during the week of January down who take these fishing trips 27th, USO? Will be able to carry on frequently. All were patients at its work for hospitalized vets and O’Reilly General Hospital, Spring- GI’s through 1947. field, Missouri. Pfc. David, an am Have l Done My PartV The 1947 March of Dimes Fund Appeal is over on January 30th, the 65th anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, founder of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis. It would be well or every person in this state to ask himself “HAVE I DONE MY PART?” Remember ing the terrific epidemic which hit Nebraska in 1946. when more than twice as many polio cases were reported than for any prev ious year, can anyone let this drive come to the end without giv ing as much as possible to this worthy cause? According to Clinton Belknap, State Director of the National Foundation for Infantile. Paralysis the drive was coming aloYig as well as last year’s in most parts of the state, and was exceeding all expect ations in some communities. Rich ardson County reported that early receipts are double last year’s at this same stage of the drive. Variety seems to be the keynote of the ways and means for raising funds this year. Besides the large number of dances and birthday balls to be held on January 30th, many other ways of making mon ey were devised. Winslow, Nebr aska held a two day polio benefit party, sponsored by their fire de partment. Lindsay Ladies Auxil iary had a bingo party, a pie soc ial at a small rural school house in Scottsbluffs County netted $100 to wards that community’s goal. Bas ketball games, soyote roundups, ups, and wolf hunts also contribu ted subtantial amounts to the loc al drives, and a Grand Champion 4H steer was raffled off at Culbert awawmaMBma i CONGREGAT IONAL-CHR I ST IAN. 2 I CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1 I LATTER DAY SAINTS, 1 ROHAN CATHOLIC, 1 f UNITARIAN, 1 nCTOO»*m CO»o«Ati [THEY’LL NEVER DIE g, Stt** ?«^1 BORN IN THE US. 1809 THIS CHARMING- WIFE OF M LIBERIA'S FIRST PRESIDENT, ■ JOSEPH ROBERTS. WAS AN ■ ABLE ASSISTANT fo HER ■ FAMOUS HUSBAND' ■ MRS ROBERTS WAS ■ TWICE PRESENTED TO . E QUEER VICTORIA IN LONDON- Eg ON THE 2nd VISIT SHE TOOK ■ WITH HER A HUMBLE AFRICAN fl WOMAN WHOSE SUPERB ■ NEEDLE CRAFT WAS, UNTIL W' THEN, UNKNOWN- VICTORIA jf? ENTERTAI NED THEM BOTH AND ACCEPTED THE NEEDLEWORK AS A GIFT TO THE TROVAL ART COLLECTION// A * <d',lr f t** MRS, JANE ROBERTS LIBERIA'S FIRST AND TRULY GREAT i "FIRST LADY"/ _ ^ Continental Feetwae son. Probably the most outstanding fund-raising project was held at Nickerson, a small town in Wash ington County, where a police bene fit auction was held. Among the articles to be aunctioned was an old, weather-beaten rooster, and the minute he was brought up for auction, he started crowing. The higher the bid went, the harder he j crowed until finally, when the bid ding stopped, so did the rooster. He probably won’t be the tenderest fowl to eat, but the buyer and the The MEAT DOLLAR I • « V* m Here’s what becomes of the aver I age dollar received by the world*! j largest food manufacturers — the | American meat packing industry, I It represents dollars received from the sale of meat and from all other sources, including sales of by-products and non-meat items, such as poultry, dairy products, cleansers and soaps. Based on latest available U. S. government figures, the portions of the divided dollar are typical of the industry in recent years; slight Variations occurring from year to year. For example, profits some times are slightly less, sometimes slightly more. Profits on sales are below those of 29 other leading manufacturing i n d u stries and always are so small as not to affect the price of meat to the consumer, averaging only a fraction of a cent per pound. Industry economists say better earnings would permit more scientific research, as well as quick er modernization of equipment and manufacturing facilities; thus pro viding opportunity for the industry to improve further its efficiency, and economical operation. <’ A warning that high food costa may, within the next few years, help cause a rise in both incidence and rate of deaths from tubercul. osis among Americans underlin ed a report on the relation be tween current food prices and tuberculosis made public today by Dr. Edgar Mayer, chairman of the National Medical Advisory Board of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver. Mr. Mayer’s statement, announced in New York, is based on a survey of present food costs for patients at the Denver Institu tion, which provides free care of tuberculosis men, women and chil dren from throughout the country on a non-sectarian basis. His re port further recommends the wide, spread distribution of special high protein preparations developed by the U. S. Army Medical Corps, among regments of the American population suffering from malnu rooster should get a lot of satisfac tion for the fact that they contri buted materially to the $473 which the small own’s sale contributed to the county polio fund. In Nebraska, in 1946, when there were 643 cases of polio reported, at least Five Hundred and Forty Four of these cases received help from the local county chapters of the National Foundation. As far as is known. No Patient who want ed help was turned away. This fact should make every Nebraskan realize that the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis and its local chapters are very real help ers in the battle against polio. For this reason, so that'the National Foundation may keep on function ing and helping in the fight, we must continue to contribute as much as possible. Now, more than ever before, your contribu tion is desperately needed. There is still time for you to help. Add your contribution now, so that you i may know you have done your part! ~ATE MARABLE, FAMOUS BANDLEADER DIES ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Global) Fate Marable, 56, Colored pianist and early associate of trumpet playing Louis Armstrong, died January 16 of pneumonia. The late Mr- Marable, famous as a jazz band leader, led many or chestras playing on excursion boats on the Mississippi river be tween 1918 and 1940. In recent years he was a pianist in - a St. Louis supper club. | TRAFFIC SAFETY i Stop. Period. Stop. Trying to ! stop on a dime, especially in win ter, wrecks the driver “miser.” Coasting, past the STOP is “cost ing.” Let’s stop picking up so many pieces. GORGEOUS, GLAMOROUS GAL ' (ft. tMi ,brl«»H DOROTHY DON EGAN. Chicaeoi gilt co the aitauuioKDt world, tow dUq5 b oostmor an concert ana until 1948 Prevaosn utr dot uxj theatre commitment? arought ifiout cancel Utjoc at several concern, to anon uh** at aa nan.eement it was thought ae* r » d h ultra Inttri Mm Done gar irtej slaving Ciras (Rala): mr Mr V«n« (Bui talo): the star at wage, screen -arfio tnd ait* dim asared the Onental Theatre a Qucago. ' Pleasant Pastime HOW to pass the time? That is the big problem for the half million wounded veterans in hospitals. That, and how soon will I get well? To help them pass that time, to make them a little happier, USO Clubs send volunteers into the hospitals to entertain and cheer the unlucky ones. To carry on this work and to keep USO-Camp Shows playing 115 Veterans Administration hospitals, 10 Army hospitals and 31 Navy hospitals, USO will this Fall ask public to contribute funds for 1947 operations. Photo taken at Hagerstown. Md. _ trition, in order to prevent the possibility of a sharp rise in tuber culosis incidence. These prepara tions, created originally to treat victims of 'malnourishment from Axis prisons and concentration camps, have been successfully used at the National Jewish hospital during the recent meat shortage, and also fOr those patients unable’ to absorb directly large quantities of high protein foods. Indicating that the hospital’s food costs have increased more than 22 percent since June, with meat prices rising in some cases up to 100 percent, buter more than 100 percent, canned foods 33 percent, eggs 52 percent and al most all foods generally experienc ing marked price advances, the report pointed out a definite par allel between conditions prevailing in the United States today and the inflation in European coun tries during and after both World Wars, according to Dr. Mayer. “The report on food prices to our Board of Trustees.” said Dr. Mayer, “gives us fair warning of some unfortunate conditions, past and present, in Europe, eventuali ties which we must do our ut most to avoid here in the United States. Toward this end, the Na tional Jewish hospital at Denver is supplemnting the diet of its patients today. “The privations which were suf fered in Europe in the first World War and which, according to UNRRA reports are being felt again today in various parts of the world, ought to make Amer icans justifiably alarmed. For ex ample, when Germany was block aded during the first war, when food was scarce and Germans were compelled to subsist on a subnormal diet, the tuberculosis death rate per 100,000 rose from 143 to 230. Upon the lifting of the blockade, death from tuberculosis fell to 137 per 100,000. “Again, when Germany witness ed her dramatic post-war infla tion in 1922, the tuberculosis death rate jumped to 152 per 100, 000; when German currency was stabilized, nutrition improved, and the mortality rate for tuberculosis fell to 108. “The consequences of World War II with respect to tubercul osis are extremely grave, and re cent reports indicate initial phases of 'a rise of incidence and death rate comparable to World War I." Dr. Mayer’s report declared. “While the housing and general deterioration of public health fa cilities influence this rise to a great extent, malnutrition is a major factor, it is indicated. Ber lin. for example, is reporting a I tuberculosis death rate 3% times , that prevailing before World War ! II. ! ‘‘UNRRA reports on Greece ten tatively estimate a rise in the tu berculosis mortality rate from 116.6 per 100 000 in 1938 to 400 to 480 per 100,000 today, or 10 to 12 times that of the rate of 40 per 100.000 in the United States. In ! Greece tuberculosis stands out as the leading cause of death, with more than one out of every four deaths in the large cities attribut ed to the dread White Plague. ‘‘Poland as well suffered horribly from tuberculosis, both during the late World War II and in the post war period. The disease In Poland is now very widespread, accord ing to UNRRA reports, particular ly in the large cities. Warsaw, for example, showed a death rate in 1944 fifteen times as high as that in the United States, whereas it was only four times as high be fore the war. Similarly alarming reports are true of Lodz, Krakow, Poznan and other Polish cities. "In Italy, tuberculosis mortal ity rates rose from 128 per 100, 000 in 1944, the last year for which reliable statistics are available from the Health Section of the Secretariat of the League of Na tions. This same record reveals alarming rises in tuberculosis in all occupied European nations, and many unoccupied and neutral countries as well, including Eng land, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Hungary Norway. The Netherlands Romania Swe den and Portugal. The United Na tions World Health Authorities, according to the report, attribute these drastic increases in death from the disease, which has taken more lives than any other in all human history, not only to short ages of food and unavailability of food due to inflation, but also to a general deterioration in public and private health facilities coin cident with the avraeges of war and reconstruction. "Denmark’s experiences during World War I. when most Danish dairy products and meats were exported because of high prices abroad, saw a rise in the tuber culosis desth rate from 138 per 100.000 in 1914 to 176 in 1917” the hospital's survey indicated. "After the war, when per capita consump tion of these products increased the mortality rate fell to 138, ex actly the 1914 level.*’ While the United States did not staffer from a significant rise in tuberculosis following World War I, it was the exception to the gen eral world situation. "However," Dr. Mayer emphasized, “our re port does show that the rise i;i the American tuberculosis deata rate in 1935 may well have been caused by the denression. While the United States fared well after the first World War and during the recent holocaust, we may not be nearly as lucky now. when focd prices have risen so abruptly. “There has been a recent in crease in tuberculosis incidence in the United States, particularly among the colored population, es pecially among younger women,” Dr. Mayer’s report continued. “This may be attributable, accord ing to authoritative medical opin ion. in part, to the greater em ployment of women in war plants during hostilities. The general re sult from World War II in New York City is that while the tuber culosis death rate was formerly declining two or three points an | nually. it came down a total of i only three points for the entire five-year war period of 1940 to 1944, from 49 to 46 per 100,000. The death rate was 40.8 per 100, 000 for the entire United States. *" The hospital’s report on the correlation between high cost of food and tuberculosis deaths does not apply to the hospital’s own situation, where well-balanced meals are made available to all patients regardless of cost, but its findings do apply to the circum stances of the average American family, which does not buy food in wholesale quantities but must I purchase at prevailing retail prices, * according to Dr. Mayer. j The report describes how, when last June the hospital was unable to secure sufficient meat for its needs, special preparations rich in protein were made in the diet kit chen to supplement the patient’s nourishment. These preparations followed the pattern used by the Army Medical Corps in treating victims of malnourishment who were rescued from Axis prison and j concentration camps. Even when i the supply of meat improved, ex tra proteins contiaued to be given ! to the patients of the National Jewish hospital. To supply the necessary amount of protein would necessitate con sumption of tremendous quantities of meat and eggs, quantities larg er than human beings can eat in their normal diet. Extra nourish ment in the form of drinks made from powdered skim milk, gelatin egg whites, sugar and chocolate, in quantities of one pint per per son per day, are given each pa tient. These drinks give each in dividual about 45 grams of pro tein. bringing total protein intake to 120 grams daily. For those who cannot digest who protein, amino acid breakdown products are be ing given to improve their gener al appetite and well-being. The success of this program is apparent, Dr. Mayer pointed out in the report. In the cases of many patients, body weight has substan tially increased, and the results of the program are seen in a sense of improved general health in the hospital’s patients. The suggestion is made that if this type of supplementary pro tein drink, made of dried skim milk which is both obtainable and inexpensive, were made available to poor families by the Federal government or social agencies, a future increase in the incidence of tuerculosis might be avoided. In his general conclusions. Dr. Mayer stated that food prices for the United States as a whole, while declining to a small degree in re cesnt weeks, nevertheless set a new all-time high as late as Nov ember 15, according to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The United States Department of Agri culture, he added, announced as late as December 15, 1946 that: “Retail food pries have risen fast er in the last four months than in any comparable period during j the 33 years since records have been kept.” Prices of all foods combined (October. 1946) were 87 Dercerrt higher than in 1940.” The conclusions to be drawn from his own report, according to Dr. Mayer, are as follows: “While we are not predicting disaster from this study of food costs and the incidence of tuber culosis, we must recognize that any effect of the current infla tionary trend upon the general public health of this nation will not be improved for some time. When proof comes, it will then be too late to do anything about it.” IS THERE SUCH A THING AS PERFECT WOMANHOOD ? “No”—claim medical authorities, who ought to know! Nature has so constructed and physi cally endowed woman that In many cases she’s apt to suffer certain distressing symptoms during her life. 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