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Omaha Elk Order Seek To Make Lodge Largest In The Midwest TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE INTERRUPTED BY THE WAR The Officers and Members of Iroouois Lodge are glad that for tne first time since the beginning of the great conflict, that we are again able to renew our policy of a drive for membership to our order. Through this Membership Drive which will last Sixty days, we are planning to make Iroquois Lodge Needed ' 3 or 4 Room Apt or House FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED. COUPLE AND ONE CHILD WE. 7005 > j Tt PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery Duffy Pharmacy —WE-0609— 24th & Lake Sts. -- E§E t>h ^ itjL I the largest Negro lodge of this or der in the midwest. The onth of February has been an ill-fated one for our order. We I have suffered the loss of two bro thers who ewre very dear to us. .. Brother Booker McKenzie, who for years had been a constant builder, and benefactor of this order. Bro. James Monday, who had joined this order on his return from serv ing in the armed forces of our country, and believing that the unity of this order was one way, for him to express himself, and to offer us the knowledge of his ex periences.for his experiences, and his knowledge was what we believe the bases for the better ing of the conditions of the young Negro of today. The loss af these two Brothers is a great loss to our Order, and a great loss to our soc iety. Each and every officer and Member of this Order wishes to of fer his deepest of sympathy to the families of our departed brothers. It is a proud factor that Iroquois Lodge has to offer to this commun ity, and this factor is the two Units of this Lodge which are at this time laboring to better the ability and the morality of the most out standing factor in any one comm unity; the building up of the young people. The ones who will some day take our places, and carry on for the completion of the tasks which we are working to accom plish today. The Units which we are referring to are: The Elks Band, which is doing great things by the consistent cooperation of each and every young man who is a member of this unit. The Iro quois Jr. Herd Drum-Bugle Corps, the boys and girls who take pride in being a part of a unit that is outstanding as being the only Ne gro unit of this field in the state of Nebraska. These are the factors for which we the body of this order are proud of, these are the factors for which we the body of this order are working for.the factors for which we hope that the commun ity will appreciate.the factors for which we all must support. 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SEND SAMPLE OP TOUR MAN OR STATE THE COLOR Dor Postman Pod Amount an DMNmy JESSIE EASE BEAUTY PRODUCTS ] l K7 FIFTH AVL moon 90S) NEW TOK 17, N.T,D*tT' Negroes Rally To Support 1947 Red Cross Campaign WASHINGTON, D. C_Enthus iastic endorsement by Negroes in every walk of life has been given to the 1947 American Red Cross Fund campaign for $60,000,000 which began March 1. Of this a mount approximately 75 percent is needed directly and indirectly for the armed forces and veterans and their families, while disaster relief and health and educational services absorb the remainder. College presidents, church lead ers, and organizations such as the Urban League have sent letters to Red Cross national headquarters expressing approval of Red Cross activities. From GI to general, the military has voiced its apprec iation of Red Cross morale-build ing work for homesick occupation troops as well as hospitalized men. Writing from the Negro-staffed Pasay Club in Manail, Cpl. Wen dell L. Thompson, Jr., of Hampton, Virginia, who has been overseas a year with the 810th Engineering Aviation Battalion said the -club is a “swell place for a GI thousands of miles from the United States. It makes him feel as if home Is just around the comer ” And from his office at the War Department in Washington, Brig. Gen. Benamin O. Davis penned this tribute: “The American Red Cross has rendered inestimable as sistance in keeping up the morale of the Army personnel. For years to come, it is my opinion that many servicemen and ex-service men will look to the Red Cross for assistance.” Eugene Kinckle Jones, general secretary of the Urban League, wrote: “These annual campaigns. .. afford the public the chance to sense participation in the good work done through gifts it makes in supporting this organization,” while Claude A. Barnett, director, the Associated Negro Press, stat ed: “The American Red Cross, greatest humanitarian organiz ation in the world, deserves the support of every man. woman and child in our land.” This tribute from T. M. Camp bell, Tuskegee Institute field agent for the U. S. Department of Agri culture Extension Service, was typical of many: "The annual drive for the Amer ican National Red Cross.is an opportunity for all able-bodied A mericans who have jobs to join in and give of their means, no matter how small. “I have witnessed this great or ganization working at national headquarters; I have seen it in ac tion in the metropolitan centers, on transportation lines (land, sea and air); in the backwoods sec tions of the rural south, including the Mississippi flood areas; in Army camps of this country. South America, Africa and Europe. I know of no other single agency that comes more nearly meeting the urgent needs of all peoples in times of stress and disaster, irre spective of race, creed, or color, than the American Red Cross.” Similarly, James E. Shepard, president, North Carolina College for Negroes, in endorsing the cam paign, stated: “In the wake of CLEO’s Nite & Day BARBQ 2042 North 21st St. ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUS SANDWICHES •OPEN 24 HOURS A DAT” Deliveries Made—Small Fee Charge for the sam*. Call ATlantic 9541 What the Law Says About Selecting Beer Retailers Licenses will soon be issued to the tavern-keepers who will operate in your town next year. The law covering the selection of these operators provides ample safeguards against the licensing of the unworthy. The law specifies that the local governing bodies of cities and villages have the right to ex amine, under oath, any appli cant for a retail license or re newal. The board may au thorize its agent or attorney to act in obtaining any desired in formation. Further, the law provides that the local governing body must consider any signed complaint from any citizen of a violation of the law or any objectionable conduct on the part of an ap plicant. A license may be re voked, or a new license refused if there is cause. This Committee urges the co operation of every citizen in bringing law violations to the attention of licensing bodies. NEBRASKA COMMITTEE ] United States Brewers Foundation Charles E. Sandal!, State Director 710 Fir*» Nat Bank B dg L oco'd I mimiiimtii»iiniinnniniliwimituiimwiMn.iniitiiiiillliwiiimmiHnminwnmwmiw»www OMAHA AND DOUGLAS COUNTY GOAL IS $153,000 The Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross, through nearly 1000 volunteer workers, will ask the people of Omaha and Douglas County to subscribe $153 000 to carry on its far-reaching program for 1947. In making the goal announce ment, Red Cross fund chairman, E. C. Schmidt, pointed out the con tinuing need for Red Cross services to veterans and servicemen. "Never in time of peace", said Mr. Schmidt, “has the American Red Cross been called upon to ren der such extensive services to the military forces at home and tu broad and to veterans as are now required. Approximately 75 per cent of Red Cross funds are stil spent in war related services at home and overseas. “The 1047 goal of $153,000 was set after a careful survey which reduced the 1947-48 budget to the minimum consistent with the res ponsibilities of the organization.” At the present time the chairman emphasized that the local organiz ation must continue all of their usual Red Cross activities plus their services to men in the serv ices, veterans and their families. Mr. Schmidt said the 1947 fund campaign will continue through March, proclaimed by President Truman as Red Cross month. earthquakes, floods, fires, torna does, or any other catastrophe which might befall mankind, the Amercan Red Cross can be found on the scene of action as soon as the calamity ocurs- This great or ganization deserves the support of all people everywhere, for it truly serves.” Summing up the general attitude toward the appeal for funds, Ben jamin E. Mays, president, More house College ( Atlanta, Ga„ declar ed: “In war and in peace the Ameri can Red Cross extends the helping hand to those in dire need and dis tress. This country would not be true to its highest ideals of con structive helpfulness without the work of the Red Cross. And this means that the forthcoming cam paign needs the support of every loyal American in order that this organization may be able to con tinue its service to veterans and their families and meet the unfore seen emergencies of the future. iOUR 1 GUEST Column (Edited by VERNA P. HARRIS) MILITARISM AND MINORITIES (BY GRIGADIER GENERAL, H. C. HOLDRIDGE, USA., Retired) o o o WASHINGTON, D. C. Militarism has followed much the same pattern throughout his tory Resentment against the Brit ish "Red Coats" was one of the causes of our Revolutionary War, and fear of the military was so strong after the war that safe guards against military dominat ion were written into our Consti tution. And now, in our time, a new military power is beginning to emerge in the United States which may well lead to the domin ation of the civilian population by the military. Let us look at the pattern of American militarism which is beginning to take form. 1- Money is Power, and the mil itary gains power through spend ing billions of dollars each year. It has a hand in every taxpayer’s pocket. 2. The military machine is a tot alitarian agency which submits to little control by representatives of the people. It would be a brave congressman who would dare chal lenge the military machine single handed, knowing that the military could accuse him of being unpatri otic in destroying national secur ity. 3. The military is under the con trol of an aristocratic leadership which works in complete harmony with the most reactionary elements of the population. This leadership is separated by barriers of caste from the broad base of the enlist ed personnel who are in sympathy with the people as a whole. 4. The system of justice within the armed forces is ideally design ed to maintain its power. In the BROTHERLY BEHAVIOR -BY CAPT. EARLE CONOVER __ The story is tild about Charles Lamb, English essayist (1775-1834) that, in walking with a close friend along a street one day, he indicated a man on the other side of! the stret and said, “You see that man. I don't like him.” The friend, who was in the same circle of acquaintances as was. Lamb, replied, “Why, 1 shouldn't have thought you even knew him.” To which came the answer, “I don't. That’s why I don’t like him.” It had been said about “Al” Smith, former Governo*" of New York State and Presidential candidate in 1928, “If you don't want to like him, don't meet him ” ‘Tis strange, isn't it, what meeting a man will do for him— and ub. The reaction is usually in the proper direction: we will have a normal appreciation of him as a person. Gone then (usually) will be the fear and distrust of him as an ut ter stranger, which is probably a relic of the days of the cave men when such was perfectly normal and good. These cave men passed the “first law of nature”, that of self-preserva tion! Instinctively all of us are “afraid” of those things and those things and those persons which are not part of our normal life. The “fear” frequently is not a conscious thing, but it shows itself in the aversion of many to meet strangers, to pur I posely widen our friendships. Other people act exactly opposite; they are quick to make new acquaintances. An invitation to go into a strange group causes no shudders. Indeed, it is welcomed. We can live expectantly. Every person we meet can bring to our eyes and to our care a now vista of life, because of his wealth of expxeriences. Much can be learned from every stranger, for after all we learn more from those who differ from us than we fan ever learn from our “own kind”. Con versation is still one of the fine arts. Meeting a man enables us to get at least a partial glimpse of that real person. A little tiime in his company may re veal a person who is, after all, very much like ourselves. He has no dagger hidden at his waist; he has not swung at us with his fist. Indeed, he looks harmless and peaceable enough. His face and voice are reassuring. He smiles pleasantly—per haps we laugh together. Casual conservation becomes per sonal. After a little while if we learn that his background is quite different from our own, that he worships God in a little dif ferent way, or that his people were immigrants more recently than our own, what difference does it make? We knew him first, didn’t we? ___ final show-down decisions are made by the Pentagon bureau cracy, and not by the courts of the land. Negro GI’s will not soon for get the star-chamber proceedings of Army courts martial. 6. The system of conscription and compulsion now in effect, and proposed even for times of peace, dominates every home, influences the educational system of the coun try, and affects the social and mor al life of the people. 6. Our executive department places greater and greater reli ance on the military—so much so that it can hardly be considered as accidental. Military personnel have infiltrated into positions for merly held by civilians—in the State Department, as ambassadors as rulers of defeated foreign nsu tions, as administrators of nation alized industries which places them in a position to put down strikes by force of arms because they are strikes against the State. We must now ask ourselves how military power might be used in the United States. From this an gle the actions of the military as sume a special significance. Our military leaders are conceded by all to be among the most reaction ary groups in the country. During the depression of the 30’s the army dusted off its mobilization plans covering domestic disorders and street fighting It would do so a gain *f we drifted into another de pression. From this point of view its program of compulsory milit ary training can be understood. You cant use a .30 caliber rifle a gainst an atom bomb, but you can. use it in street fighting or in put ting down strikes, or racial dis turbances. Herein lies the danger of Amer ican militarism to minority groups. In all great world crises, when in telligence and good-will fail and we find ourselves up a blind alley, instead of trying to think things through we often start trying to shoot our way out, and end bv com "“OSCAR, CAN'T YOU FIX THOSE EXTENSION CORDS LATER ?"_ Don’t overload your electric circuits. When you build or modernize provide ADEQUATE WIRING. NEBRASKA.IOWA ELECTRICAL COUNCIL mmammmmmtmm—mmmm—wmmKmmm I mitting suicide. A reactionary military leadership, controlled through totalitarian techniques from the top down, and having an abiding faith in the use of force, might lend itself willingly as the weapon with which we try to shoot our way out of our next impasse. And when the shooting starts, the minorities suffer. So we Americans must do * two things, First, we must be on our guard against the military even as our liberty-minded forefathers were. Second, we must THINK our way through the difficult pro blems which lie ahead and not wait until we come to the end of our blind alley, and then try to shoot our way out. Our way must be the way of unity and cooperation. Popular With People Evr’ywhere JESSE OWENS, Lecturer Wilmington, Ohio—Facts were re vealed today by Kroger Babb, head of Hygienic Productions, whose world offices are located here in the ‘hygiene capital’ of the universe, establshing beyond any doubt the great popularity of Jesse Owens with people everywhere Owens, America’s outstanding young colored athlete and a hy giene lecturer, under contract now to speak to theatre audiences on health and hygiene subjects in con junction with the special Holly wood motion picture "Mom and Dad ", is in the greatest demand of any of the company’s ‘‘Mom and Dad”, units of the show. Babb said since his company ac quired Owens’ contract last year, Hygienic has received over 1,800 requests for his personal appear ance from theatres, auditoriums, colleges, high schools, churches and civic and fraternal groups. Owens’ personal appearance tour Classified Ads Get Resuits! | Would Like to Buy 39 to 42 model car from private party. 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