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I LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS T ^ Per Copy AND WORTH IT— “To SeU It, ADVERTISE” /JUSTICE/ EQUALITY HEW TO THE LINE\ EQUAL OPPORTUNE _ PHONE HA.0800 2420 GRANT ST ★ tt, ★ SATURDAY MARCH I, 19*7 Our 20th Year—No. 4 ■jgS'iiimf ^S. Towles Analyzes... “Brotherhood” and “Brotherhood Week” ^ To mold Benefit Dance At Amvets Club, Mar. 17 TO CLIMAX FUND FOR WIDOW OF JAMES E. SEAY A dance will be held at the AM VETS Club No. 2, 24th and Miami streets, on the 17th of March for benefit of Mrs. James E. Seay and her child. The James E. Seay Fund, spon sored by The Omaha Guide, has just moved past the $250.00 mark. The dance will end the drive head ed by this newspaper. In cooperation with the AMVETS Club, No. 2, plans are under way for a gala night of enjoyment and entertainment Make your plans now so that you can attend this Benefit Dance, which will be held Monday night, the 17th of March. Tickets can now be purchased for this exciting affair. TICKETS GO ON SALE * FOR BENEFIT DANCE Tickets for the Benefit Dance for the Widow and child of the late James E Seay, may be purch ased at the following business es tablishments: AMVETS Club, 24th and Miami Cosmetique Beauty Salon. 2310 North 24th St, Work man's Club, 5219 South 29th St., and The Omaha Guide, 2420 Grant street. Many people have volunteered their services and tickets may al so be purchased from them. (FUND LISTING ON MONEY CONTRIBUTED ON PAGE 7) Wilberforce U. Gets Approval And Funds For Air Training CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION GRANTS UNIVERSITY $33,750 FOR PROGRAM AND OHIO AVIATION BOARD GRANTS APPROVAL President Charles H. Wesley has annuonced that the planned avi ation program at Wilberforce Uni versity is becoming a reality, growing out of the announcement in Columbus that an allocation of $33,750 had been granted by the Civil Aeronautics Administration for an air training course at Wil berforce University. This ann ouncement was the result of nego tiations which have been carried on since the midsummer for train ing in aviation at the university. Funds for the purchase of 258 acres of land between Wilberforce and Xenia have been sought from the Legislature for the develop ment of an airfield. This will make possible a practical training school for the curriculum in aero nautics. Lewis A. Jackson, in structor in aeronatics at Wilber force University, is a trained pilot who has had considerable exper ience in aeronautics, and has de veloped the courses in theory and ground training, organizing the curriculum so that courses are now being given in this area. He has a plane which is being used for this purpose and the University's land has been used temporarily as a landing field. The courses have been approved by the Ohio State Board of Education. Arrange ments have been made with the Xenia Aviation Company which op crates Port Xenia, to provide flight training. State Aviation Director, C. E. A. Brown, has announced the approv al of allocations for eight commun ities in Omhio, one of which includ es Wilberforce. The grant would cover operations, equipment, and other expenses, and is to be paral leled by state funds. This is another significant ad vance of Wilberforce in the field of technology. Red Cross Sets $60,000,000 Goal for 1947 to Carry On Work Here and Overseas Workers Will Open IVation-Wide Fund Appeal March 1 ' WASHINGTON. D. C—On the 1st of March the American Red Cross through 2,500,000 to 3,000000 volunteer workers will ask the public to subscribe $60,000,000 to carry on its far-reaching program for the next fiscal year 1947-48. In making the goal announce ment, Red Cross Chairman Basil O’Connor said that Harry D. Gib son of New York City, who headed last year’s campaign, has accepted the fund chairmanship again this year. Nationally known as a phil- I anthropist and financier, Mr. Gib- j son served with distinction over- i seas as Red Cross Commissioner in Western Europe and Great Brit ain for three years from 1942 to 1945. Pointing out the continuing need for Red Cross services to veterans and servicemen, Mr. O'Connor said j “Never in time of peace has the I American Red Cross been called I upon to render such extensive ser- | vices to the military forces at home and abroad and to veterans as are now required. "Approximately 75 percent of Red Cross funds are still spent in war-related services at home and overseas. We still have more than 2,900 workers serving outside of the United States. As our work in army and navy hospitals and other installations gradually de creases during the next few years work with veterans and their fam ilies will increase.’’ The 1947 goal Of $60,000,000 was set after a careful survey which pared the 1947-48 budget to ths minimum consistent with respon sibilities of the organization. At the present time, the chair man emphasized, more than 10,000 Home Service workers are employ ed in chapters, supplemented by 19,000, volunteers in this service a lone. These workers are serving men in uniform and veterans and i their families. Added to this, Mr. O’Connor pointed out, is the work of the Red Cross in supplying warm clothing and milk for children and medic . ines for the sick in battle scarred areas, and, at home, the provision of surplus blood plasma for civil ians, and the courses in home nurs ing. nutrition, first aid, water safe ty and accident prevention. The 1947 fund campaign will con tinue through March, proclaimed by President Truman as Red Cross Month. Red Cross Sabbath and Sunday were approved for Satur day, February 22 and Sunday, Feb A New Feature The Greater Omaha Guide takes great pleasure in announcing that effective this issue, March 1, 1947, we shall pick two persons each week for Our New Feature, WHO’S WHO in the Near Northside Community! It is the belief of The Omaha Guide and its Staff, that "the finest persons in the world”, Our Subscribers, should know of the efforts being put forth by the many stalwart citizens in Omaha, to make this, Our Commun ity, a finer, cleaner, more harmonious, democratic city in which to reside. ^e of The Guide, further believe that the younger ritidens in the community, those in our high schools, and others in our colleges and universities, should and will become imbued with a spirit of responsibility to ward their community. It is our hope that the entire community,—the pro fessional persons, the business interests, the citizen who daily toil at the machine,—our unfortunates, who are unable to be productive at all, shall through this New Feature, and by other journalistic improvements to this your leading weekly, now under research and soon to be announced, will learn to re-evaluate, greater apprec iate, and more willingly cooperate with those persons who give unselfishly of their effort and time toward making Omaha a better City in which to live together. Ryland E. Melford, Sr., EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE OMAHA GUIDE PUBL. CO. ruary 23, by leaders of the Catho lic, Jewish and Protestant faiths. STATE INSPECTOR OF— Cosmetology - --——- I MRS. NAOMI H. BYRON of 2918 Burdette Street, Omaha, has been appointed as State Inspector of Cosmetology. Mrs. Byron is very popular in civic and social affairs. She is a member of St Johns AM E Church and serves as Secretary of the Usher Board. A member of Queen Esther Chapter No. 12 O. E. S.. Mrs. Byron is a graduate of the Althouse School of Beauty Culture and a member of the Alpha Beta Nu Chapter of the Alpha Phi O mega Sorority. Lester Corbin To Be Presented at YWCA W ill Launch Beginning of Membership Drive On Sunday, March 2 at 4:00 p. m., Lester Corbin promising young vocalist, will be presented in a vocal recital at the Northside YYV CA when the Membership Comm ittee launches its initial drive for the renewal of memberships and the securing of additional ones. This recital will be called “Round the World Musical” since Mr. Cor bin will sing numbers from many lands. Mrs. Leola Jones, who is Chairman of the Membership Com mittee, together with the members of her committee, are sending out invitations to members and friends to attend this recital. It is expect ed to be an enjoyable one. The public is cordially invited to- at tend. Because the YWCA launches its j membership drive every year at I this time, it is expected that many Attorneys Map Dining Car Suit Attya. Sidney A. Jones Jr. of Chi cago and Belford V. Lawson of Washington, are shown seated in Washington, mapping out their fight on behalf of James E. Stamps (left), manager of the Southside branch of the Social Security of ' fice in Chicago ,and Ennis L. Pow er, (right) manager for West Vir ginia for the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance company, against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, growing out of the refus al of the company to serve Mr. Stamps and Mr. Powell in their tween Louisville and Cincinnati. • dining car on March 17, 1946, be Mr. Stamps and Mr. Powell were returning from .Nashville where they had been attending an execu tive committee meeting of the Fisk Alumni association, of which Mr. Stamps is president. (ANP) So. Carolina Scheme on White Primary Is Challenged In Court Columbia, Sotuh Carolina —The opening wedge in the fight to de feat the Southern states’ latest de vice to keep Negroes from the polls was made by the NAACP in a South Carolina court on Febr uary 21st, In an effort to regain for Negroes in that state their abrogated constitutional right to vote in the primary elections, NA- I ACP counsel filed suit here in the j federal district court for the we£ ■MmMiinitiiiititiiiiiMiHNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiniiHtHiiiiiiiiittmMiRimiiimt*. tern district of S. C- against the election managers and the Demo cratic Executive Committee of Richland County for their refusal to permit George Elmore, a Negro and other qualified Negroes to vote in the 1946 primary. By its repeal, in special session of the legislature in 1944, of all state laws regulating the primar ies, South Carolina sought to cir cumvent the Supreme Court decis HAITI’S FIRST LADY MME. LUCIENNE H. ESTIME', . ercetion of a home for orphan wife of the president of Haiti, who children and has^asked the aid of not only is a charming first lady of I American Negro '"womanhood in her country, but vitally interested , helping to establish it. in the welfare of the needy there. | She presides over the president She is espousing a program for the ! ial palace in Port-au-Prince. ANP persons will be at this meeting and twelve thousand dollars and per will gladly give their memberships sons are urged to contribute as In'addition to the renewal of much as possible toward this nec memberships. there is already in essary project. No gift is too large progress the campaign for the re- ; or too small to help in rebuilding construction of YWCAs in foreign the YWCA in areas where war has countries. The quota for Omaha is played such a devastating part. ion obtained by the NAACP in Texas primary case, in 1944, mak ing illegal the practice of a state allowing a private group to de prive the Negro of his constitution al right to vote. As a result of this abolition of all primary laws, the conduct of the primaries in South Carolina is now entirely in the hand3 of the Democratic party, (without any state regulation), and that party denies Negroes membership. In their complaint, NAACP at torneys allege that the defendants, the Democratic Executive Comm ittee and their election managers, are performing a state function in conducting the only meaningful primary, and that their refusal to permit Negroes to vote is a state action and, therefore, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The NAACP’s complaint also con tends that although the state’s in tention was to destroy the agency relationship between the state and the Democratic party, actually their relationship has not been de stroyed whatsoever by the abolit ion of all laws regulating primar ies. In practice, the Democratic party is continuing to perform the same state function which it per formed before the laws were re pealed. The NAACP’s complaint qquotes the message of Governor Olin D. Johnston, now U. S. Senator for South Carolina, in calling the spec ial session of the legislature in 1944, to repeal all statutes men | tioning primary elections. He stat ed: "If these statutes are repealed, in my opinion, we will have done ev erything within our power to guar antee white supremacy in the pri maries of our state insofar as leg islation is concerned. Should this prove inadequate, we South Caro linians will use the necessary meth ods to retain white supremacy in our primaries and to safeguard the homes and happiness of our people. White supremacy will be maintained in our primaries. Let the chips fall where they may!” MAKES WEEKEND TRIP TO DENVER DISTRICT Mr. Arthur H. Reed, General Chairman, P.O.D. C.W., Local No. 465 made a week end trip to the Denver District. A series of meet ings were in progress with good attendance. Mr. Reed adjusted a housing situation that had caused some confusion among the men of the Ogden District. Mr. George E. Brown, Vice Pres ident-at-Large, International Un ion Hotel and Restaurant Employ ees’ International Alliance, AFL. was in the city Saturday and Sun day, February 22-23, 1947. He gave an address to the men of the district, Saturday, February 22nd which was enjoyed very much. Mr. Brown will return to the city during the month of March and we hope to give the citizens of O maha an opportunity to hear him speak We are also going to in vite other national officers to visit our city. Brother Brown covers the entire United States. He is now enroute to Chicago after which he will visit the eastern states, Mr. and Mrs. Aljay Sims enter tained at breakfast for Vice Presi dent Brown, General Chairman Reed and Secretary-Treasurer Por ter, Sunday morning. Brother Brown left by plane for Chicago, Illinois, Sunday afternoon. GEORGIA RIVALS FACE SUPREME COURT MAR. 6TH Atlanta, Ga. (CNS) Messrs Her man Talmadge and M. E. Thomp son have a date with the Georgia Supreme Court March 6th for on Following the observance of almost all special events, it is customary that some recognition be given them. Thus, we feel that it is our duty to the public to, aside from joining all others in praising NATIONAL BROTHEKHCb:>D Week, ana lyze it with the view' of all of us being more able to make im provements from year to year. And, to our way of reason ing, we cannot make a true analysis without searching out the defects, mistakes and etcetera and laying them out for the public to judge for itself whether it can make some improve ments, then offer what we intend as constructive criticisms. For, just as a child must learn frcfm experience, corrections and etc., so do organizations whatever nature they may be. We all whole hear^edly agree that Brotherhood Week is definitely a step in the right direction; that it is an ideal ap proach toward solving many problems. But the ohservatons we wish to make, concern those many who chose not to take that right step. It there was ever a group that needs and should practice and support Brotherhood week, it is the INegrov We cry out about being “last hired and first fired” yet we all too often spurn the right hand of fellowship when it is extended. There is no denying the fact that we are too indifferent, non chalant, and careless when opportunities present them selves for us to take our rightful position for us to make pro gress. We charge others with being too narrow and prejudiced, but we fail to take into consideration that there is a possibil ity that we can be branded with apparently being satisfied with our present status. We lose sight of the fact that we ourselves are equally, if not more, in many instances selfish and clannish than those we find fault with. We are all familiar with the fact that it toqk a World War to unite the American people. More harmony, coop eration, prevailed during the war than in peace times. And since the war has been won on the battlei fronts, we are tod prone to crawl back into our shells,—into the same old ruts, complaining about a lack of tolerance, recognition, oppor tunities and the like, when in fact there are agencies laboring night and day in an effort to recognize and advance the Negro. And many of those agencies are not all Negro spon sored. Can we answer in the affirmative that we lend them any support? Many of us do—but how many of us fail, not only to support, but to appreciate them? But since we chose BROTHERHOOD Week for our discus sion, permit us to single out one incident; the Inter-racial, Inter-denominational meeting at Joslyn Memorial last Sun day night was well advertised. We all know that no part of the program was financed by us, yet how few of us attend ed? Can we deny that to be an effort a program for ex tending fellowship? But suppose we speculate as to why we chotee not to ac ; cept. Evidently the majority of our churches “must have” their services, there’s a “job to be done for the Master, we must carry a message to the people.” “And last but not least,” our treasury must be bolstered. Let’s see if we can find an answer \« these reasons To have chosen Joslyn Memorial Services would have eliminat ed expenses at many churches, heat, lights, etc. Contribu tions could have been increased at morning services or sub sequent services, thus not losing anything in collections. To have influenced congregations to attend Joslyn Memor ial services would have been a feather in any minister’s cap. For there was a message, many of them in facti, that would have served the ministry itself well. Those who attended can attest to the fact that one got a spiritual^ lesson—lessons in fact on BROTHERHOOD, which leaves little to be said. There were lessons even in the music rendered. Thus we feel that a program of such import is doing good work, carrying a message to the people, preparing them to live in peace on earth with good will] toward all mankind. Which is, following out teachings, one of the primary re quisites of becoming a candidate for a resting place in peace when we take our departure from this world. It is our belief that a greater/ service could (be rendered our people and more progress made if more olf our leaders including the ministry, would take the initiative in promot ing BROTHERHOOD in its broader sense. They should take cognizance of the fact that this is a period of transition as well as transgression, and strive to educate our people that we should de-ehannelize our thoughts and lives—that we should become less selfish and clannish and more broth erly. .. V When we make up our minds to shed many of those in hibitions and begin teaching our audiences accordingly, we will have made a step further in the right direction—putting ourselves in a deserving position of accepting the hand of fellowship that other groups are so valiantly extending. W'e would do well to advocate and concentrate on BROTHERHOOD WEEK— in fact we don’t think it would be too far amiss to consecrate it. _ _ Local B.S.C.P. Hole GIVE FULL EXPRESSION TO BROTHERHOOD WEEK The Omaha local of the Brother hood of Sleeping Car Porters at its annual banquet at the Masonic hall on last Friday night, gave full expression to “Brotherhood Week.” Mr. N. H. Comans, Master of Ceremonies, introduced Pres. Alt house, who in welcoming the guest stressed good will to mankind and brotherhood among all races. He pointed out that in order to accom plish this objective, practicing and living brotherhood.it is essen tial that we, as minorities, keep in mind our motto.that “a winner never quits and a quitter never wins”. Following a sumptuous turkey dinner, a lovely program was pre sented. A piano solo “Juba dance' by Mrs. R. L. Chattman, as an en core she played ‘Rustle of Spring’ A solo was given by Blanchlee Wright. Dr. Aaron McMillan, medical missionary in Africa, gave an len gthy, interesting talk on his exper iences in Africa. He related many of the handicaps he encountered when he began his work there, some of which were the beginning 1 Annual Banquet in a two room dobe hut for a hos pital, a lack of modern equipment, limited funds, one hundred miles in bush, no modern transportation, lights, movies nor telephones. Seventeen years ago, after leav ing America and Europe a modern hospital was set up in Africa. At one time, he had a staff of 64, but when he left, many of those had gone out into the field. Dr. McMillan reminded us that medicine had its origin in Africa, and how difficult it was to sell na tives modern medicine or any oth er modern convenience_hence the need for missionary work in Africa was badly needed. Dr. Me Millan also stated that in consid ering Brotherhood, we must keep in mind there can never be perm anent peace as long as one race or most races are dominated by anoth er. He plans on returning to Afri ca in the near future to resume his missionary work. He has lectured extensively during his sojourn in America and, as some have so of ten said "he is doing missionary work in America as well.” While the BSCP. is due credit for their progressive activities, much of that credit should go to the Da dies Auxiliary which made it pos sible for the grand success of the banquet. that day the three appeals from Superior Court decision will be air I ed. Counsels for both sides agreed I on the single hearing. So far, two I decisions by Superior Court Judg es Walter Hendrix and Bond Aim and have upheld Talmadge’s elec tion by the legislature and one de cision by Judge Claude Porter of Rome, Ga., has declared Thompson the legal acting governor.