The Omaha Guide
A Weekly Newspaper
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Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927 at the Post Office
at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Omaha Too
A strange title but nevertheless it serves the purpose. Omaha's
whispered Restriictive Covenant Movement agaijnst certain racial
groups has now bust forth in all its vicious an ugly seed of hate and
fury. ; • •
The East and the West coasts of the United States has already
experienced this un-Ameican vicious movement that has only left sor
row and destruction in its wake.
Now, Omaha citizens in certain sections of thfe city have been
affected with this preying sickening disease. Like an insidious men
ace preying on the good judgment of the citizens of this section of
the city of Omaha, this vicios movement is being carried on by per
son and persons who protess thoir love for these great and vast Unit
ed States and its Democratic wav of life and at the same time seek to
deprive through the use of restrictive covenants citizens in ether sec
tions of Omaha the democratic right under the 14th and 15th amend
ments cf our Constitution to live where they so desire in the citv’
of Omaha. .' .•*-«. v.o*
t A small minded lawyer of ouru city is leading a group ot citi
zens that ought to be using their excellent talent to the building of
a great and strong America for future citizens of all races, color, and
creed rather than support of fiendish eslrictive covenants that can only
bring about unrest and ill-feeling cm ;ngst the good citizens of Onia-J
ha. > , !
This lawyer has been so insistent n trying to spread his evil pro- ]
paganda that he has used trickery1, in order toi try and spread his ac
tivities.
The great pilgrimage cf good citizens of Omaha to the office of
the I^egislar of Deeds Thomas 0”Connor demanding that their names
be removed from this list is a definite indiication that thite lawyer
doesn’t speak the sentiments of the community he is trying to operate
This attorney and those that are behiind him show their weak
ness and their unassurance of the legality of such petitions when they
resort to trickery to get citizens to sign such petitions. He and 'they
are already shaking in their boots because they themselves now real
ize they they have betrayed the American way of life by their Am
American deed. They stand accused by the good citizens of the com
munity that they have tried to spread their vicious movement and the
rest of the good citizens of the city of Omaha.
The rise of resentment to such activities by the civic leaders,
business and professional citizens as manfessed by their resolution
and protest shows the trend of thought of these good progressive citi
zens of Omaha.
This newspaper along with the progressive thinking citizens of
the city of Omaha call to the Mayor of our city, City Commissioners
andofficialsof Douglas County to use any and all legal methods at
your command to suppress this evil activity by this lawyer and his
followers that are only—sowers of sepds of unrest and intolerance, j
High Price Tags
Thf? argument over the causes and cues of commodity price in- j
flation has degenerated into a buck-passing contest. Labor blames
capital and capital blames labor. Various segments of business blame
other segments of business. Government officials attack industry, and
industry counter attacks in turn. And a good many consumers seem
to feel .everyone save themselves is at fault.
The truth is that the guilt must be shared by all elements in the
American economy. And the cure, if there is to be onje can be,
achieved only by unified attack on the fundamental forces that push
prices up—skid the value of the dollar down.
First of all, prodigal government is a very strong inflationary
influence. The terrible burden of deba the country now has makes
this danger infinitely greater than iit ever was before. Vi v' must put
our fiscal house in order.
The productivity of labor is all important. A basic reason for
high prices is that output per man in producing iindustry has gone
down—while wages havte gone up. This philosophy of more money
for less work is one ofthe best friends inflation has.
The attempt of some businesses to earn excessive profits comes
into the same category. It is an inexcusable form of consumer ex
ploitation. Fotunately, it is gradually being gorrrected as competition
becomes more intense.
The type of prodigal buyer who will pay anything for what he
wants made theblack market in t!^e past—and is a dangerour influ
ence still. However, the easy money seems to be runniing out, which
is a blessing to the country.
These factors contribute to the high price tags you see on goods
in stores. Theyindicate why efforts of retailers to reduce prices can
not produce much in the way of results underr present conditions.
Reform must begin at the source—and until that happens the price
problem will loom laige inAmerican life, so don't blame the retaile:.
In a Harlem classroom, the teacher asked Johnny, “Is the world
round?”
“No’m”’ was the reply.
“It isn’t. Well, tht{n, is iit flat?”
“No’m.” . . ,
“Well,” said the teacher, “if the world isn’t remind and it isn t
flat, then what isit?” \ M
Johnny confidently replied: “My daddy says it's crooked.”
A little fellow who was jealous of his chum’s new baby sister
came hon^fc complaining to his mother, he too wanted a baby sister.
“Well, Jimmy, perhaps we can arrange to buy one for youshort
To this Jimmy earnestly protested, “No, Mommy, I want the
homemade kind.”
! ECONOMIC
! HIGHLIGHTS
As the first Republican Congress
in fifteen years draws toward its
close.the country is beginning to
valuate its achievements. The sum
of public opinion will be of great
political importance, inasmuch as
the program which the Republi
cans have started will provid e the
campaign issues for next year’s
presidential race- ,
, In the arly days of the current
Congress, the Republican leader
ship was widely criticized for what
• seemed to be an excessive slow
ness in getting started. That critic
ism was based, at least in part, on
misconceptions. For example, it
takes a freshman senator several
years to get on to the traditions,
procedures and customs of the
Senate. The Republicans labored
under the disadvantage of having
very few old-timers in their ranks,
and a disproportionately large
! numberof their senators were
t
brand new, and green as grass.
Some of the Democrats of long
standing took full advantage of
this, and constantlyy tossed mon
key wrenches into the creaking
legislative machinery. Under these
conditions, the Republicans did a
good job in organizing their bat
talions and starting the wheels
rolling. Much of the credit for this
must go to Senator Taft, who,re
gardless of one’s views as to his
opinions, is an able parliament
arian.
In the all-important field of for
steadfastly maintained a biparti
san policyy—due in large part to
the leadership of Senator Vanden
berg. The principle Executive re
commendation, the Greek-Turkey
aid bill, passed easily, with a
minimum of debate. The appoint
ment of Secretary Marshall was1
as warmly received by theRepub
licans as by the Democrats. Thus
the GOP has done its full part in
helping this country present a un
ited front to the world
Biggest domestic issue in the
Republican program was a labor
bill. The bill finally produced may
be imperfect, but it is difficult to
see how a better piece of legislat
ion could have been written on so
controvrsial a matter. The Repub.
lican leadership was most effect
ive. Considering the importance of
the subject, the time consumed in
ironing out the wide deferences
between the orginal House and
Senate versions was not excessive.
GOP party unity and discipline
was remarkable—only three Re
publican senators voted to sustain
the President’s veto. All in all,
that is a considerable achievement
It is apparent now that Mr. Tru
man plans to use the labor issue
as a mjor campaign argument
when he runs next year— and
everyone is certain he will be the
candidate. But the record of his
party members on the labor bill
will bea weakness so far as he is
concerned. In the final Senate vote
nearly as many Democrats voted
to override the veto as to sustain
it. All his efforts to promote party
solidarity in this matter were un
availing. and the split was virtual
ly complete- This was not the
fault of the Democratic floor
leaders, who did everything to gain
support, for the President. Senti
ment Just ran the other way.
TheRepublicans promised a tax
reduction bill, and they delivered
the goods in this as well. The
great majority of the jarty in the
House voted to override the Presi
dential veto, but they simply did
n't have enough votes. Regard
less of the wisdom of tax reduct
ion now, the pary leadership was
excellent.
The tax question will also loom
large next yyear. It is significant
that many observers who were op
posed to tax reduction on the
grounds that reduction of the
debt should come first, did not like
the President’s reasons for vetoing
thebill. He laid particular stress
on the theory that it favored the
rich at the expense of the poor. ,
This, say the Republicans, is not
true and is an attempt to gain the
tvotes of people who are not con
versant with the facts- Some also
beleive that the President vetoed
the bill so that he can propose a
tax-reduction measure of his own
next year and gain whatever poli
tical profit mayy be involved. That
remains to be seen, but it is true
that the veto message was so
worded as to make tax reduction
seem a possibility for the near
future.
With Mr. Truman's nomination
by the Democrats a seeming cer
tainty, the various forces within
the Republican party are getting
down to cases in grooming candi
dates. A little-noted fact is that
the labor bill was, in some mea
sure. a victory for Gorernor Dew
ey. Most of the job of framing the
final version was done by Senator
Ives of New York, who is very
close to the Governor and is beleiv
ed to reflect his point of view. It
is apparently the kind of bill Gov
RISE IN WEEKLY
EARNINGS IN APRIL '
NEW YORK—Hourly and week
ly earnings of production workers
in 25 manufacturing industries
showed an ‘ appreciable’’ rise in
April. The National Industria!
Conference Board independent
fact-finding organization, report
ed that Sunday.
Hourly earnings, registering
their fifteenth consecutive month
ly advance, climbed in April to
Sl.SOM;, which was 17.5 per cer.'
above the highest average reach
ed during the war, and 1.6 per
cent ahead of the preceeding
onth. . ■ . -
Weekly earnings averaging 052.
76 in April, were up 1.3 per cent
over March and wer 84.8 per cent
above the 1929 level.
The board reported “real” week
ly earnings, representing actual
wages adjusted for changes in.
the consumers’ price index, rose
1.3 per cent above the March fig
ure but were 3.4 per cent below
those of April, 1946.
ernor Dewey believes fair and
workable.
Senator Taft seems to have in
creased his lead over most of the
other prospective candidates. Me
is very strong in the poetent Mid
dle West, and he has a good
following in the industrial East.
But the opposed Taft and Dewey
forces could conceivably eliminate
each other at the convention. That
is why some commentators feel
that there is a distinct possibility
that neither may be the candidate.
In the meantime, talk of a
third-party seems to be growing.
Its advocates say that the Repub
licans are hopelessly reactionary,
and that the Democrats aie weak,
ill-disciplined and vacillating.
Some curious third-party tickets
have been proposed, one of them
being Henry Wallace with Elliot
Roosevelt as second man on the
ballot. Very few people, however,
take this kind of talk too serious
ly.
High Fire Toll
For many years deaths in the
United States due to fire have been
ovarauinff arrutnd 10 000 a Voa*>
EMPLOYMENT MAY
REACH 59,300,000
WASHINGTON— Government
job counters said Friday the 1947
employyment peak almost surely
will reach 59.300,000 or 1 300 000
higher than* ever before.
Robert C. Goodwin, director of
the United States Employyment
Service, also said unemployyment
has skrunk to what probably is
the lowest point it can reach “in a
free labor market.’*
“And there is no evidence this
situation will change in the im
mediate future,” he said.
The Bureau of the Census re
ported 58,300,000 civilians were
employedin May, a new all-time
record. The 1946 peak was about
58 milion.
“If seasonal employmentfollows
its usual trend there will be about
one million workers added to the
iiay total,'' Mr. Goodwin saii
Government officials say the
size of this increase “surprise”
them, but there are three things
that xplain it.
“If seasonal employment follows
its usual trend, there wil be about
one million workers added to the
May total,” Mr. Goodwin said.
Government officials saythe size
of this increase "surprises" them
; but there are three things that
explain it.
1. Manufacturing has been at ?
high level.
2. At the same time will exceed
even the war-time peak.
The Department of Labor's The
Laboi- Market, predicts the 19471
exports of goods and services to
tal 20 billion dollars.
The Census Bureau reports
about 1,900.000 unemployed. This
is the smallest number recorded
in peace time. During the wr
the number of unemploy dropped
to about 600 thousand. Most o'
the one million seasonal worke’, j
will be employed in argieulture j
exp ected to come about Sept.
__ _ I
Time Savers
At least four hours a week can be
saved by an ironer in the average
family. A saving of several hours
can be accomplished by the washer.
The total gain from the two amounts
to several weeks a year.
HOUSING PROBLEM COLLIER
!
ACTION URGED ON
RENT CONTROL
X
NEW YORK,—With storm
warmings already evident in
practically all sections of the nat
ion following establishment of the
new rent control law whose pass
age was bitterly contested by lab
or and liberal groups, the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People began mo
bilizing all of its resources, in ac
cordance with a resolution passed
at the Association’s 38th annual
conference in Washington last,
to forestall a general ’5'i increas
ln rents. In the resolution passed
at the Washington conference it
was stated, “We condemn the rent
increase bill passed by Congress.
If President Truman does not veto
it we call on our all our branches
to call for a special session of
their State legislatures to pass ef
fectivestate rent conrol laws. We
also call on all our branches to
take the initiative, rather than fol
setting up tenant’s leagues to re
sist the '5 per cent increased rent
allowed under the law.”
Gloster B. Current, NAACP dir
ector of branches, today notified
all of the more than 1500 branch
es to take action immediately to
sesist the threatened incsese
which would cause unsual hard
ship to millions of Negoes. In a
letter to all branches Mr. Current
listed in detail all of the steps to
be taken; These branches instuct
ions wee taken from information
complied by NAACP Assistant
Special Counsel, Mrs. Marian
Wynn Perry.
NAACP members were urged
to take the initiative by forming
emergency tenants’ committees on
city or state-wide basis. Through
thess lommittees or by individual
action they were urged to press
for special meetings of their state
legislatures to neact rent control
legislation freezing rentals at the
Januaary, ’947 level such as state
laws to take effect whenever fed
eral controls are lifted.
Further instructions from the
NAACP action letter stated —
“Urge your memberss not to sign
leases accepting a 15 per cent
rent increase. It is important that
all tenants band together o refuse
volunary rent increases and act
cooperatively to prevent mass
evictions. In a single building all
tenants should be brought toget
her and educated as to their rights
under the law.
“Under the present law the
Office of Rent Control sets under
De-Control Boards whichs are
authorized to advise the adminis.
strators of the Rent Control Act
when rent control should be lifted
from any area prior to February,
1948. Fight to see that there is
sound representation of tenant in
terests on this De-Control Board.
It is particularly since it is alto
gether possible that a De-Control
Board might recommend that rent
controls be lifted from an ares
where there were sufficient hous
ing accommodations for whites
but where Negroes were still des
pehatelyy short of housing.
“Conferences should be held a.
mong various administrative and
judiperiod pending enactment of
state legislation to prevent mass
evictions, and wherever possible a
legal aid bureau should be set up
to service tenants.”
mae at wedding
The wearing of something blue at
the wedding was ancient Israelite
custom which suggested a blue rib
bon for the bride—blue being the col
or of purity, love and Sdelity.
Who Owns Business?
GEORGE S.BENSON
Rresidant of Hording Co Dago
Saaicy.Arkansas
. sa ;z=
“WHO OWNS American corpora
tions?” That was the lead sen
tence of an Associated Press
story released the other day.
Point of this story was that the
people own business. Stockhold
ers of five big companies in repre
sentative fields added together
number 1,684,868, or enough peo
ple to make the fourth largest
city of the United States. That^
is correct, the people do own our
corporations. It is right for peo
ple to own our business.
I have often contended that in
America you have the people
owning the wealth and resources
of a nation in much more direct
and complete, manner than you
could ever have under any of the
socialistic dream Utopias. This
is the straight answer to the
Communistic dodge that the peo
ple are the state, to which must
be added the fact that in totalita
rian countries the state owns the
people. In America the people,
in a very real way, own the
wealth and resources of the na
tion.
“Veated” IF YOU WERE to
Interests combine the popula
■ t i o n s of Nevada,
Wyoming, and Delaware, accord
ing to the Associated Press story,
you would still not have as many
people as own the American Tele
phone iand Telegraph Company.
A city composed of the 700,000
AT&T stockholders would be
the tenth largest in the country.
Moreover, it is significant that
this corporation's stockholders far
outrank in number its 500,000
workers.
>
This is generally true of Amer
ican corporations, and when you
add the stockholders to the em
ployees, you strengthen your pic
ture of America as a place where
the masses have “vested” intetr
ests in the wealth of the nation.
The stockholders of the richest
railroad in the land, the Pennsyl
vania, outnumber the employees
almost four to three. They live
in every state of the union, and
on the average own 60 shares,
representing an individual invest
ment of about $1,200.
Economic WE THINK of Gen
Freedom eral Motors, biggesj
automobile manufac
turers, as having a lot of em-|,
ployees. Yet, except for a brief
period at the peak of armament
work during the war, General
Motors’ stockholders have out
numbered ^employees for 17 years.
More than a third of General Mo
tors’ individual stockholders have
holdings of 10 shares or fewer.
No single person owns more than
1.5 per cent of all General Mo
tors stock.
While it is remembered that
someiimes large blocks of stock
will be owned by other companies,
it must be kept in mind that
these/ companies in turn have
many stockholders. Notable also
is the fact that many educational,
charitable, and religious institu
tions, as well as' non-profit asso
ciations and foundations, are on
the rolls of "big” business. No
one knows just how many persons
may be dependent upon the suc
cessful operations of our corpora
tions. In the truest sense, all of
us are, either directly or indi
rectly.
^Most of the nation’s wealth has
its source in the^enterp^se of a
carefully conducted business. I
cannot imagine why any free
American would wish to trade
what we have in this country for
any part of the vague economic
systems that have produced only
failure. Not only have these oth
er systems failed to produce real
blessings for their [«opt*. i* 'du*
form of higher living standards j
but they have hreagfcl in
stead of ecu nooaie frcedoet 4
MATHEW HENSON
By BLANCHE ALICE RICH
Few people realize htat Mathew
Henson was actually the first man
to reach the North Pole. Henson,
the trail speaker during the last
lap of the expedition was there
45 minuts ahead of Peary.
Probalby few outsiders realize
the toil and hardship entailed in
i such an achievemnt as reaching
the North Pole; and fewer still
understand how many years of
careful training and preparat
ion there there must be before i
any feat can be attmpted with
any chacne of success. One must
: have great physical strenth and
endurance, and an iron will and
unflinchig courage
They must have the thir^; for
adveture and a keen and far-sight
ed intelligence-all of those must
1 go to th make-up of a successful
I artic explorer.
Peary has taken hundreds of
men North with him on his vari
ous expeditions, and has brought
I them all back, except two, who
' lost their lives by accident.
At the age of 21, in 1488. Hen
son met Robert E. Peary, the fa
mous explorer. They made several
trips to South America and were
together on eight unsucsessful
dashes to the North Pole.
The last eventful trip to the
North Pole was started July 8,
1908. The pole was reached on
April 6, 1909.
Instead of being a mere servant
Henson became Peary's trusted
helper and friend- He did any
work that was necessary, whether
as a blacksmith, carpenter or cook
he knew the customs and langu
age of the Eskimo. He could skin
a musk-ox with upmost celerity.
He not olyy learned the art of I
navigation, but also knew at first j
hand the frozen wilderness in the
North. He built all of the sledges,
with ordinary carpenter tools-and
it was no easy task to make a
curved runner with a straight j
plane.
On April Fool’s Day, the Com
mander, Henson and 4 Eskimos, ;
left the ship “Roosevelt” to make
the 132 mile dash. They had five
sledges, each drawn by eight dogs
who were thoroughlyy trained.
Henson once had to take charge I
of three teams that had become 1
unmanageable. He put the second J
sledge on top of th first, with all
the dogs hitched abreast and
spread out like a fan, and tied
die third sledge be hi ad as a trail. '
r. If aynbody thinks it is fun to
drive 28 Eskimo dog, the rival
teams fighting half the time. Let
him try it.
All of the clothing was madt
by the Eskimo women. They wore
a sleeveless shirt of red flannel a
shirt made out of a blanket, a
koolitah or caot of reindeer skin
with hair on the inside, and with
hood attached. The hands were
protected by sealskin mitts with
the hair on the outside. Only one
garment was worn on the legs
bear skin trousers lined with flan
nel. The feet were protected by a
double covring, nxt to the skin
was a stocking of artic hare, with
fur on thei nside. Over this was
worn a hammock of sealskin. But
the best of artic clothing cannot
kep certain parts of the body
from freezing at times. The warm
est weather that they experienced
during this was 15 degrees F. be
low zero- and the coldest was 59
degrees F. below There is always
more or less wind, and this drives
the snow into the face.
When one of the boys found hfe
foot was freezing, they stopped
to thaw it out. His hammock was
stripped off and Henson pulled up
the lower part of his koolitah and
placed the freezing foot against
his koolitah and placed the freez
ing foot against his bare stomach.
It waslike putting a peice of ice
there, but there was no other to
save the foot.
It is the face that suffers the
most. It is an ordinary occur
rence to have the nose or the
whole part of the face frozen. The
skin keeps peeling off and freez
ing again, until that part of the
face is like raw beef-steak. They
tried "v t!ng protectors over the
exposed part just leaving an open
ing 'o'- the eyes, but the mois
ture from the breath came up
under the protector causing the
fur to freezs to the face-and when
they took the protector off the
skin came also. When the strong,
cold wind blows the snow against
raw flesh, it is torturing. A man
often puts his hands to his face
to thaw it out and finds blood on
his hands when he takes them
away. They cover the bleeding
surfaces with vaseline at night.
Auer tney were traveling for
several days Mr. Henson had a
serious mishap which almost cost
him his life. He had crossed some
' rafters'' and reached the bottom
of the slope where a “lead" had
started to open. (A lead is a lake
or river of open waters caused by
cracks in the ice.) His dogs were
traveling ffast as they reached
the ridge and he noticed his sled
ge began to sag. The dos stopped
and Henson walked around to see
what was the trouble and he be
an to sink, and in a moment wasli jflj
in water up to his hips. T !| '-n
Continued next week B
Eye airi's Wortn
To tempf potential husband^B
many maidens in the Orient, espeStl IB
cially in Asia Minor, build up nicdfeB Mm m
dowries by weaving rugs.
their earnings they buy perforate
gold coins, which they wear a
necklaces around their necks IBBBBBBI
that a young village buck, at
glance, can evaluate a girl's wor j