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I OUR GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) HITLER AND JIM CROW (BY HERMIT EBY, Director CIO; DepL of Education & Research) WASHINGTON—^Hitler and Jim Crow would have made a fine pair. Fortunately, they had no opport unity. There were probably not enough Negroes in Germany to fill a segregated telephone booth. But if there had been, they’d hard ly be alive today. There were lots of Jews there, however, and, un fortunately for them, most of them are not alive. But neither is HiUer Jim Crow is alive, and kicking. Many of those who are kicking back the hardest are American Jews. They understand the multi ple dangers lurking behind racial discrimination and bigotry. They understand it in much the same way the labor unions understand it. History has taught that minor ity-baiting and inter-minority war fare pave the path to dictatorship and oppression of the majority. Those who strive toward more, not less, democracy cannot limit them selves to protecting one minority group. Each minority must under stand its interdependence upon the others, in order to save its own neck. That is why progressive leaders among various minority groups so often work together on liberal leg islation and questions of social wel fare or international decisions. It is common in the United States to day to find boards and committees composed of representatives of Ne gro and Jewish organizations. Ca tholics and Protestants, trade un ionists and businessmen. Only in this way can our country build Gross JEWELRY & | LOAN CO. PHONE JA-4635 formerly at 24th & Erskine St. NEW LOCATION 516 North 16th I ninififlniiRiniiHiiiii!iiiiiiifijii!iiiiii[iijifiii[i!iiiiiiiiiiiii[iiiiiiiiiiiiiii[iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!iiiiiiiiHifiiiiiK GOME CLOSER!! WeVe Got Something To Ask You!! DID YOU EVER HEAR OF the Negro Certified Public Accountant who is now contro ller c f one erf 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, Bonwit Teller, Inc? or the young Negro interior decorator in Akron, Ohio, who decorates windows and advises decorators for all the shops of a nationally known dress store for her area? or the Negro in New York who was coordinating 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 1 MORE—WILL BE presented as a SPECIOL SERVICE for YOU by more than 100 NEGRO NEWSPAPERS THROUGH OUT the t country—in cooperation with the NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE’S VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CAM PAIGN. W ATCH FOR THEM under a column headed “THE FUTURE IS YOURS What Are You Doing About It” \ CHECK YOUR OMAHA GUIDE NEWSPAPER for this column series which begins the FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY! llllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllililllllllllllillllllllllliliiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiniiiiiiiiii better human understanding dom-' estically and abroad. It is therefore more than fool hardy, not to mention short-sight ed and unwarranted, for Negroes and Jews to pass along the discrim ination against them to one anoth er. Both groups should be so thor oughly familiar with the lies spread about themselves that they would hesitate to swallow equally fantastic malignment of the OTH ER. It is too easy to judge a Illl!lllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllilllll!ll!l!lllllllllllll! whole people by one or several of its least likely examples. It is as if someone in a foreign land were to judge all Americans by a Bilbo or a Mrs. Dilling. Hitler and Jim Crow didn’t get together in Germany. But it’s not too late for them to hit it up here. To completely kill a spirit as evil as Hitler’s will take time. Mutual antagonisms will keep it with us. Mutual protection of minorities for each other will lay the ghost. • FOR GREATER COVERAGE—Advertise in ! THE GREATER OMAHA GUIDE iiaiiiiisiB CLASSIFIED Advertisement WANTED! An Apartment— at least four unfurnished—WE. 2235. WANTED TO RENT—Immediately unfurnished apartment or house for Veteran and wife. Reference furnished—Call JA-0705. Anytime after 5 p. m. Steam heated Room—Gentleman preferred—JA. 7646. VETERAN and family wants apaitment or room—HA. 0693. NEW DAILY SERVICE I < ' \ "CITY OF PORTLAND” NO EXTRA FARE Splendid service for travelers tq Portland! . . . Time-saving Streamliner service every day of the week and no extra fare! Convenient arrival at Chicago for passengers mak ing connections with afternoon trains to points east of Chicago. 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(City Tickot Office), Phono Jackton 5822 1614 Farnam St. (City Tickot Offico), Phono Jackton 5822, Omaha DAILY SCHEDULE « i i Westbound j (Daily Example) « Lv Chicago (CT) 4KM) pm (Sat) Omaha 12:50am (Sun) Grand Island 2:54 am No. Platte (MT) 3:45 am Sidney 5:28am Cheyenne 7:20am Laramie 8:45 am Rawlins 10:35 am Green River 12:50pm Kemmerer 2:01 pm Pocatello 5:15pm Shoshone 7:05 pm Boise 9:25 pm Nampa 9:50pm Ontario 10:35 pm Weiser 10:55 pm Hunt'gton(PT) 10:40pm Baker 12:05 am (Mon) LaGrande 1:25 am Pendleton 3:45 am The Dalles 6:00 am Hood River 6:30 am Ar Portland 8:00am Eastbound (Daily Example) Lv Portland (PT) -5:30 pm (Sat) Hood River 6:50 pm The Dalles 7:20 pm Pendleton 9:35 pm LaGrande 12:05 am (Sun) Baker 1:20am Huntington (MT) 4:05 am Weiser 4:30 am Ontario 4:50 am Nampa 5:35 am Boise 6:05 am Shoshone 8:20 am Pocatello 10:10am Kemmerer 1:18pm Green River 2:40 pm Rawlins 4:46 pm Laramie 6d>3 pm Cheyenne 8:20 pm Sidney ■ 9:49pm r * No. Platte (CT) 12:35am-.Mon; * Grand Island 2:23am Ar ♦Omaha 4:30am At Chicago 1:10pm < Ftrat Service Feb. 17 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AOAO or JMl £~/ataAii£i**£As3 AMO rut This Week • * —- j | Among Women [ juancjliee )Vright—Social Editor QUACKS HAVE SOCIAL HOUR On last Friday night the Quack i Club closed their business meet- 1 ing to an evening of socializing. Guest were invited from out side clubs, and the evening was spent in gtmes of cards. Mr. James Smi^ winning the first prize. At the end of each month, the Social Chairman plans to invite outside clubs- If she should ask your club to take part in these social activ ities, don’t fail her for I am sure you will regret not coming when others tell you of the enjoyable evening. The Quack girls are organizing a Bowling team, and after they have accomplished their aim, they will compete with other teams. jJ* *jc jjj BEAU BRUMMELS BRING OUT SOCIETY IN ZERO WEATHER I need not tell you of the popul arity of this Men’s Club when they packed the Dreamland Hall with invited First Ladies and Esqquires of Society in formal attire on such a cold night. The men in their usual garb and the women, “The ohs and ahs each time one would entr. I can’t help but mention of some of_the beautiful gowns worn. The one' attrcting my attention most, was “Wally Simpson” made of candied stripe satin, worn by Mrs. Cleo Mortimer; not far from me stood Mrs. Corrine Daniels wearing a Gold crepe beautifully draped formal; Mrs. Ruby Reese was seen wearing a bewitching black formal with a bodice of black sequins; Mre. Della Mae Me Clain and Miss Lottye Wright look ing very dainty in their pinks; Mrs Kenneth Moore was seen in a very beautiful white Jersey draped to one side and caught up at the hip by a very clever designed flower of gold sequins. Sevral cocktail gowns were worn in the pastel shades, and several beautiful whit-1 es. helping the CryBtal Ball to make it a polka dotted ball. Need I tell more to endorse it as a love ly affair and enjoyable too. Mr. and Mrs- Floyd Cox of Houston, Texas and Mrs. Minnie McGuire of Desmoines, Iowa, were among the out>oMown guests. All of this happened to the sweet strains of Terry Gordon’s Band with Mrs. Betty Givens doing the vocals as none other can. I 3k sfc ak SEVERAL PRE -and after parties were had on the night of the BEAU BRUM MEL’S’ Formal leading up to, and away from the dance. Some of these were given by Mrs. Lucy Mae Britt and rM. Andrew Brooks at the home of Mrs. Britt. Mr. and Mrs. William Davis also entertained at their home on North 30th; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Moore entertained with an after party at their home on Blondo; a wonderful time was reported by each guest attending. Mrs- Wade Shaw Madison enter tained with a pre-dance cocktail party at her apartment. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ryland E. Mel ford, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. John R. Butler and Mr. Brewer. Entertain ing at the piano for the guests was Miss Katie Billingsley. Well known Omahans seen en joying themselves were Dr. and Mrs. W. W- Solomon, Attorney and Mrs. Ray Williams, Mr. Leo Bo hanon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Myers, Mr: and Mrs. John Simms, Mrs. Lucy Mae Britt, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Skinner, Mrs. Harvey Car ter, Miss Blanchlee Wright. Miss Lois Turner, Miss Mary Ellen O Neal. Prominent among the younger set were Miss Jean Rudd, Mr. Earl Hunnigan, Mr. Foster Good lett and a host of others. uiuD oo Has Memorable Concert Honoring the Late “FDR” DOROTHY MAYNOR I APPEARS ON PROGRAM _ • NEW YORK CITY (Global) _ Club 65, so named for the 65th an niversary of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, and with membership of $65.00 Donors, held its Memor ial Concert here last week at the Waldorf-Astoria- Among those featured on the program was our Dorothy Maynor, Lawrence Wint ers, Robert Merrill, Carroll Glenn, the Juliard Chorus and Katherine Cornell. This Concert was one among the many affairs given during the an nual March of Dimes Campaign just ended. . Trumans Cross Picket Line To Enter “Jim Crow” Theatre wcusmngton. ine iact mat eight pickets, seven white and one Negro, were parading before the National Theatre, failed to disturb the Harry Trumans who crossed the picket line to see “Blossom Time" The President, his wife and daughter Margaret did not ev en glance at the sign bearers but walked through the main entrance and slipped into their 8th row I seats while the overture was being played. Few in the audience knew | of their presence. The “Commit tee for Racial Democracy in the Nation’s Capitol” promptly issued a statement declaring Press Secre tary Ross and the Secret Service had sought to "efect the secret en trance of the President of the Uni ted States into a Jim Crow theatre i —.. The Week By H. W. SMITH * * * Attorney Vernon C. Reddicks of New York was mentioned as being appointed a Federal judge in New York on January 31. He is one of the leaders of the Tammany group *** Babe Ruth the major league star is very much improved from his illness. *** Mrs. Martha M. Mullen a 31 yr. old woman of Clay, Va., died short ly after she had-taken a drink of water which had also been drank by a large church group. *** President Truman has asked one more year of warpower *** The steamship Alaska is at a dock in Seattle, Washington with 90 passengers and a crew of one hundred men. It was in a storm for 12 hours. *** Two U. S. bank workers have been suspended until an investiga tion is made.... there was a short age of $150,000 which was the in formation a news paper reported. *** U. S. Admiral M. A. Melchior, died in a U. S. hospital in Rich mond, Va„ He had a heart attack on his 60th birthday and he want ed to hurl war on the Japs. *** The Austin Motor Co., of London closed down on February 4th as there was a coal shortage. *** NAACP branch of Omaha will hold their regular monthly meet ing at the Elks hall, 2420 Lake St on Sunday afternoon February 16 at 3:30 pm. KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES! ^nurches Supporting Mechanic’s Prayer — . '■■■w miilil—MBiiliHW—in—in iim—ii—iiiiwuwiiiiiiiwuieniiii i n mu — NEW YORK — When Paul Antonio, tinsmith, slipped “the first vote” into the UNO ballot box which he had just made, it was a plea that echoed prayers of religious people everywhere. 1 _ “May God be with every member of the United Nations Organi zation,” the message read, “and through your noble efforts bring last ing peace to us all—all over the world.” t Thousands of churches, regarding civic responsibility as a stew ardship, are encouraging prayerful study of the United Nations prot gram. _ The Methodist lay-activities leaders, as one part of thp denomination’s Crusade for Christ, are making this a mid-winter em phasis. Lincoln’s Birthday by H. W. Smith We are approaching a great man’s birthday, and we all should keep in mind it is a personal duty to honor the name of Lincoln. A man who used so many efforts bringing about ^practicing Democ racy.A very safe Democracy for all human beings, Tht oppos ition that Mr. Lincoln finally over powered was mentioned to him many times, and he always used a smile and thanks and also told them “When I make another mis- : ake drop in and tell me”. And as me man -eaid when General Grant was intoxicated when he reached Richmond, and captured it— ‘‘Mr Lincoln told him tha the would send a case of liquor if he would same the brand.” YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (BY MARILYN DAVIS1 The Bronze bandleader with the golden voice received an award that took almost 2 years to catch up with him.Billy Eskstine has been voted the most outstanding male vocalist throughout the South west. ■ The VOICE made an appearance on the "After Hour Sing Session” all nite record show conducted by Symphony Sid. As you remember Billy “The Voice” Eckstine made the Hines band before going on his “Long, Long Journey.” The Eckstine crew are now tour ing the South and Midwest doing one niters. After completing a week's engagement at the l^usic Hall ballroom in Washington. Elwood Smith is the latest bari tone sensational rave. That’s cap tivating the fair sex this week. El wood Smith is a member of the American Negro theatre group. He is also a graduate of Xavier Uni versity in New Orleans. He is cur rently being featured at Jock’s Music Room, New York. Jo Alexander vocal sensation of the west coast is making his debut on Capitol Record label this week Jo was at one time featured voc alist with the Floyd Ray orchestra .For the past two years he has Mr? Mg own quintette at the “Pico Club” ornate Los Angeles. Jo. Alexander’s baritone voice was dis covered by Dave Dexter, the auth of of “Jazz Cavalcade.” The new sensation is also a drum merman, and brass player. He joins the "King Cole Trio” Geechie Smith and his orchestra and Julia Lee the “I Ain’t Mad with You” gal. Capitol's feature attractions. AT THE AM VETS Miss Irene Gater, Desmoines, Iowa’s own talented pianist and vocalist, opens Tuesday night Feb ruary 11, for a one week’s engage ment at the AMVETS. Miss Gater has played at all top clubs from coast to coast. So don’t forget to come out and get a load of this •itCe lady. Also featured on the same program will be Terry Gor don, with the lovely Miss Betty Givens vocalizing. The TESTIMONYof THOUSANDS: 1 Ift’s tho HOTEL THERESA Whan In NEW YORK . any aaasaa I of tho year 7th Ava. at 12Sth St ...in the Heart of Harlem 300 spacious,' all outside rooms} luxurious suites. The beautiful Orchid Room for dining; cocktail lounge and bar; the lovely Mes sanine for relaxation. Ideal atmos phere for rest, study, and comfort. Larga rooms with pehrata bath •2.00 S*MS-«2S0 DaiM M * Without prrrttt bath •iso urn -»roo Data m a. WALT** W. KOTT. 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