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The Omaha Guide \ A Weekly Newspaper Published Every Saturday at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebaaaka | Phone HArney 0800-0801 Entered as Second Claas Matter March 15, 1927 at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. C. C. GALLOWAY _ — _ — — ^ — — Publisher MASON DEVEREAUX. JR. — — Gen. Manager - Acting Editor All News Copy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue AH Advertising Copy, not later than Wednesday noon, preceding date of issue, to insure publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN OMAHA ONH YEAR ..--.-— 5100 _ THREE MONTHS..... ST5° ONE MONTH .. ...— -50c SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT-OF-TOWN ONE YEAR .. .. 54 50 National Advertising Representative.: INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPIHS. INC 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone Murray Hill 2-5452 Ray Peck. Manager_ Omaha Guide’s Clean Up And Fix Up Campaign A Success The wsek of Jdhe 23 and' June 30th, the Omaha Guide’s Annual Clean Up and Fix Up Campaign editions brought to the attention of its many reader, and the community at large the progress that .is be ing made in tl\: Mid-City area by tba citizens in improving and renovatng their homes. We believe that a community that is to progress mu* oonunue sot only to improveits economic starts, but also must use these econ omic gains to increase the beauty, of their homes in the surrounding communiky that they reside, and iit is jnusl what the people of tty Mid-City area are doing as evidence by the rebuilding, remodermaing and redesigning of many homes in this area. We urge these good citizens in this community along with citizens of similar communi ties to continup thus progressive movement. Attractive homes add to the pieslige of the person or persons that occupy them and to the community where they are located., At tractive homes thatarepleasant and pleasing breed good cultural living that adds to the health and intelligence of the person or per sons that live in them. Attractive homes cuts juvenile delinquency increases family interest in home life, and makes the home and not commercial amusement places the center of attraction for the children. The Omaha Guide through the Clean L’p and Fix Lp editions encourages and reminds its many readers that spring and summer is the best time of th* year to make their home more beautiful. We feel that attractive and well-kept homes not only adds to the community, but also adds to the total appearance of our city. The Omaha Guide congratulates those citizens of the Mid-City community on the farsightedness shown in the impoving and continu ing renovate their properties. Those citizens making such improve mints and others like them in our city of Omaha can be justly proud of undertaking. To the firms that make possible for the displaying of various homes in these two special editions as testimony that the Mid-City community believes that better living comes from better home, and more attractive homes we thank them and urge our readers when having their homes improved and renovated don’t forgty to say 1 saw my nlighbor s home that you finished in The Omaha Guide’s Clean Up and Fix Up editions. The Unpalatable Truth The people cf the United Staljes have reached a point where they must face facts. We have been taught to look upon our country as a land of inexhaustible resources. We have lived in sort of a dream world created by our own wishful thinkinig. We have been told by so-called economists that wagess could be raised almost indefinitely without an increase in the cost of liviing. We have been told that we could go in debt almost indefinitely, on the theory that when gov ernment borrowed from the people it was not really a debt because the peopje merely owed the money to themselves. Now we face the Frankenstein we have built. W e have found that more wages for less production per man raises prices enormously. We have found that when we loaned money to ourselves in the form of government bonds, interess on hat mon|y has to be collected in taxes and paid to ourselves—this in tuin adds greatly to the cost of living. General Eisenhower has now1 told us in plaifi language that with the present condition of the world, it is possible w'e will be in an other war withinl2months. ( There is only one way the people of the United States can save themsjslves. As wokers we must learn that an increased income can only be made permanent through increased production per man; we must learn that only by work and saving and economy can we main tain a solvent government i.e., save the money v?e have '‘loaned to ourselves. It makes no difference whether we allow extravagance in government or extravagance in our families—either wiill destroy our savings and capital. We must all learn that in a world economy Largely devoted to a race for military supremacy and to the quickest and most efficient means for destroying the human race, we must be prepared to protect ourselves. Today we art like a giant who has become soft due to1 his own excesses. Ltoless w^ correct our method of living, we are simply in viting trouble. W e have had our warning. We have sieen the inevit able results of policies we have pursued. Are we intelligent enough to correct our errors? I The Wall Street Journal recently described what has happened in the case of the 67,000 government backed' business loans made to veterans since January, 1945. By and large, the GIs have" proven good risks. As of May 25, die last reporting date, only 1,412 loans had defaulted, though 3,118 ether borrowers were behind in payments. Blackest spot has been loans made to start little trucking busi nesses. Percentage of failures has been very high here, due largely to the fact that die ex-service people ran their equipment to death and didn't’ service it properly. This seems to have been a hangover from jheir war experiences, when motor equipment was expendable. » „ . . ? Hitler Once Divided and1 Conquered W AMERICAN 'i Lhitlerism’ M, V A MATHEW HENSON By BLANCHE ALICE RICH Continued from last week He grasped an ice-floe and one of the Eskimos grabbed him by the neck and pulled him out. It was a horrifying experience and his trouser froze instantly. The Esk imos helped beat out the ice and he came through all right. During thse five days of travel there was no night. It was a con tinous period of daylight, and there never was a time when the sun was not above the horizon. The sun in that latitude does not cross the sky by traveling over head. It goes around the horizon in a circle, starting low down and gradually rising for a distance, then sinking back to the horizon you can look directly at it with out hurting your eyes. There is no warmth in its rays. The first thing to be done on stopping at “ night” was to make igloos. It is an art to make an igloo. They scrape away the snow andcut blocks of ice 18 or 20” long and 15” wide. It takes 40 or 50 blocks to make an igloo. It tkaes 3 men about an hour to make one. The floor is covered with snow. After finishing the igloo, they feed the dogs—one pound of pemmican to each doy. Pemmican means dried beef ground up fine mixed with sugar, currants, rais ins and suet. It is not necessary to water the dogs as they eat . snow. A supper in the artic consists of pemmican, hard biscuits and hot tea which is made over an aloco-. hoi stove. Their beds are made of deer skin. They can only sleep 2 or 3 hours at a time. They must get up and seat their hands and feets together and move around to start 1 circulation. There was nothing to see on the landscape except snow and ice, no birds and no living things in the sea. They reached the North Pole on the fifth day. Peary had become lame and was exhausted, and Mr. Henson was the first man to reach the North Pole. The North Pole is simply the point where that imaginary line known as the earths axis—that is the line on which the earth revoles in its daily motion—intersects the earths surface. Some people won. der about th size of the North Pole, whether it is as big as a dim, or hat, or atownship— -but precisely speaking, the North Pole is simply a mathematical point, which has neither length,breadth nor thickness. After placing the American flaj in the ice, thy gave three rousing cheers. The Eskimos were glad— their rejoicing was not because they had reached the North Pole, but because they could go back now. As Henson stood at the top of the world he thought of the hund reds of men who had loat their lives in the effort to reach it, he felt gratified, that he, as the per sonal attendent of the Commander had the honor of representing his race in this historic achievement. He felt a joy and exulation—a_ nother worlds accomplishment was finished, and as in the past, from the beginning of history, wherever the worlds work was done by a white man, he has been accompanied by a colored man. From the building of the pyramids North Pole, and on through the on through to the discovery of the years, to the construction of the atomic bomb, the Negro has play_ ed an epical part, but has not been given due recognition for his contribution toward making this a better world to live in. Henson still living, is SO years old. He is an intelligent man and has written articles for magazines published a book, “A Negro at the North Pole.-’ He has lectured and exhibted his polar pictures. He took over a hundred photographs while on the ice, and kept a diary The history of the Negro in this country is one full of acts of un swerving allegiance. CITIZEN JOE ON “I AM AN AMERICAN DAY” I’m an American and. as an American, here are some things I believe-*-things no man or party or government can change with- . wrong. I believe the man sitting next to me in the bus, the man at-the factory bench, the banker in his office, the editor at his desk, the minister in his pulpit is my neigh bor and worth as much to God as as I am. When I went to school. I was taught that men are created free and equal. I believe that and, as an American, I’m against the agitators who want to drive some of our people out because they don’t like their race or religion or the country that they came from. That sounds to me like the stuff Hitler peddled—and we don't have any place in America for anything like that. I don’t see what a man’s race or religion Has got to do with it. We’ . re all human beings made by the same God. We all have the same life. We all suffer from the things —and what makes one man happy is likely to make everyone happy. I certainly wouldn't like it i" anyone spoke against the people of my race or my religion andtried to drive them out of America, So—I’m treating other people the way I want them to treat me. That's the only kind of real Ameri canism there is—and it’s the only kind we have room for in this . country. And I want to say something | else.As an American, I don’t be . men—or capitalists, as some call them. That's communist talk j which divides our people along | class lines. With business it’s the same as it is with races and reli | gions. Youjwdee a man for what ] he is—by what he says and does— it’s a strong America we want. • That’s what I want as an Ameri PREJUDICE IN THE FIELDS BY BARNEY B. TAYLOR A Negro •rganizer for the Nat ional Farm Labor Union originat ed this simple, but devastatingly effective device: “The folks who holler Kike this and Jew that, are exactly the Mime folks who holler Nigger this and Darkie tha!” This theme, with variations, is now an essential piece of the apeak equipment for all organiz ers and officials of our Union. At a meeting of a local union in Southeast Missouri, an other wise estimatable and loyal mem ber closed his remarks with thife statement: “We must not only or ganize against the big planters, but against the Jews—’. He was questioned by this writer, who. found that the good brother per sonally knefw pnJy one Jew—a merchant in the nearby village, who himself “was a pretty good fellow—not like a Jew at all a good friend to the workingman—" We are unfortunate in having, if any Jewish members of our or ganization. But, nevertheless, we were jolted into the realization that we, too. had a problem on our hands. We knew tha hundreds of thousands of our people will join the farm-to industry migration-driven from agriculture by the machines. We | knew that one of our prime funct- j ions was to educate our member- > ship in unicnism-to send workers to the cities who will know the j value of collective bargaining, j who will seek out the union of pro per jurisdiction and join it, who will not become part of a stream of potential “scabs.'’ IMOW, we Knew mai uiat wmui enough. We saw that this blind, desructive superstition of anti Semitism had to be banished- not just because of its basic unright ness but because of its negation of the brotherhood without unions cannot function or exist for the economic beterment of the natio’s workers. The superstition is now being effectively eliminated. The long and difficult campaign of NFLU’s predecessor, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, to eliminate or abate Negro-white tensions has made the job of extending ed ucational work into the field of Protestant-Catholic—lew tensions much easier. The Negro member'3 intelligence finds it more resona ble to accept the Jew in the role of fellow-persecutee than to in sist on adding another group to the already long list of his op pressors. Instead of forming alli ances with other victims-with the ; ultimate objective of freedom for everybody. notby the class he belongs to. We must keep our people united if can—and so I'm against spread ing hate about any race, religion, or class. And I don’t think it’s enough just to be against hate. I believe we must be for democracy and a united America. So I fight for it. And don’t think I haven't a lot of company—good company—be cause I certaily have. I’m part of the majority on this question of keeping America united and free of hate of one group for another. Most Americans think as I do ■ about that. Our big job is to stick 1 together. We must not let the fascists and communists divide us. And that’s what we’re doing, too just sticking together. Worn’s First Champ James Figg, who won the crown as bare knuckle champion in 1719, retirad undefeated in 172Q WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? by RUTH TAYLOR The other I beard a friend whose I value, say "Mo6t of our troubles, at home as well as abroad, stem from the fact that we don’t like anything that is different.” Take the prosaic question of food—though as one who prides. We are set in our tastes by what is familiar. My little assistan can't understand my fondness for frogs legs—but doesn't 3ee why anyone doubts that salt roe and scrambl ed eggs are the perfect breakfast dish Remember the complaint of the British Tommy about—"The bloody jam tastes of fish!” . So it is with people. For ex ample there the famous story of th Englshman who lived in I’aris for twenty years without learning a word of French—he ‘wasn’t go ing to encourage them in speaking their silly language.” The poor man rails at the sins of the millionaire. The rich man looks at ihe poor as a weakling Lagor. Ton can carry this on in definitely. We are apt to try to make our selves big by belittling others. In stead of frankly and freely ad mitting that we have a lot to learn that oher people nigh know and remebering its correlative though that maybe we know some things that it would do them good to learn, we shut ourselves up in a mirror—lined room. Wc need to dir card the mirrors, open the win dows and see what is outside. No group is per‘or*.. No group has all the knoaleige. This re sentment of diffe -em-e is not just a resentment by the majority. The minorities are just as quick to re sent any difference on the part of tb majority. Let us face this problem of dif ferences with some intellignre. None of us can know too much. None of us but who can learn from others. None of us but who has something to ganve in exchange. How about it? The next time you run up against a “different” person, whether his difference of be a differs-" e of creed or class or class or class, can't you say “Here is my opportunity” You never can tell maybe you'll teach him as much as he will teach you. If you analyze the statement wfth which I started you find it boils down to "We don’t like what we don't know'. In that lies the solution. Knowledge is the key to undersfanding. It’s hard to dislike someone you know well. Meat Packing Industry The start of commercial meat packing in North America can be traced to 1641 when a scjuare-rigged ship sailed from Boston harbor'with a eaj^o which a handful of New England colonists hoped could be sold to West Indies plantation own ers. Capt. John Pynchor*. Spring field, Mass., and a few farmer neigh bors had consigned hogsheads of beef and pork, packed in salt, to England's colonies. Story With a Moral By GEORGE S.BOQON FVasidant of Howling CoMwg* Stater. Arkansas "B — ONE TIME there wqs a young man, the younger son of a well to-do farmer. Times were gdod, prises were high. It was a period of prosperityffor everybody. Ap parently, pending had become a habit with most of the folks in that community. At any rate, this son saw that others were having a good time spending money. Since everybody’s doing it, Jie thotigbt, why shouldn't I ft)Joy hayseli ? So this fine yougg man who had all the opportunities one could (wish for and a brilliant future in ^ht, kept after his father until one day “the old man settled him off” with a good.deal of money. This country boy then went to town, and set out to have himself a better time than he had ever had before. He spent more money than he had ever spent before. Friends were numerous. Playboy iBuiifer-de luxe, this young man had swarms of lady friends. But they required money. .Achieved NOW, YOU are won-.. iWisdom dering whether this misguided and pam pered lad ever quit Spending. He iid. He quit spending when a depression set in, for that was ■the time when be found himself ’ffnabKc to obtain any more money. ;At this point, our broken down (playboy began to think. Wisdom was forced upon him and he |learned the hafd way. He found >that be couldn't even buy a sand wich. and panhandling « « out of tbV question. Rather than starve, be took a farm job feeding pigs. kf this lad had done what some at oUr so-called statesmen advo cate, he would have continued to borrow and spend. But having thought the matter through, he went to work, even though his hunger was scarcely outdone ky that of the pigs he whs sent to I _ feed. He had spent all, and he was in want You may read the rest of this story in Luke 15, for it is the story of the Prodiga' Son who finally came to his i senses. Day of MUST WE, as a na- j Reckoning tion, spend all that we have before we come to our senses, like the Prodigal Son? With signs of depression approaching, we con tinue to spend and spend, ap parently from habit. Doing lit tle or nothing about our mon strous national debt of $260,000, 000,000, we continue to look around trying to find things for which to appropriate money. It is easy to justify any and every expenditure. Constituents' in each and every community represented by Senator Bloake anti Congressman Doake can spout a whole book of reasons why this or that pet project must go through. Folks are inclined to think that the money for the whole thing is a gift, just because they don't see where it comes from. But the founding fathers i did not leave at Washington a mill which flows out perpetual dollars. 4 Maybe it's not a nice thought, but you cant keep oiS spending money without knowing when ,it’s coming from. This was a fad the Prodigal Son discovered. / day of reckoning will come to u country that spends all it ha* just as it did to the Prodigal Son , Let us have more wisdom thas the Prodigal, who found that h<< could repent only when hare” , times struck him. Without beiny peony wise and pound foolish, wo > ought to adopt sounS fiscal poli cies that will help as cut down our growing debt. There's no,; prospect of doing this unless we do it while times ere good Ja MUMM THOUSAND new mints im ..-—■■■.-.. PATENTS GRANTED by U&P!(tent Office and Growth of POPULATION too-Slzxce 1880. Patents kept pace with the growth in population of the United States during the period of its greatest development. But in 1933 there was a sharp break, a slight recovery in the late 193C‘s and then a steady, almost unbroken downtrend that this year may carry the total of patents issued to a low point unequalled since 1882! It is probably no coincidence that during the period from 1933 to date that the American Patent System has been under frequent fierce attack. How ever, a backlog of patent applications has piled up in the Patent Office the heaviest in history, despite vast increases in Patent Office per sonnel and facilities since 1862. Said John W. Anderson, president of the Council: “This graph tells a remarkable story, showing, rs it does, how patents helped build an industry to support a rap! !y rising population. The break in fhe first year of the New Deal shows one alarming effect of the relentless attacks by subversionists on the A mprifjin wav of orrorji h. Unfair to Labor - Public Opinion Polls Three Ways in Which Polls Slant Remits Against Labor—And What to Do About Them By Susan Bell Publice opinion polls make a great show of being impartial. But it is now known that these polls are definitely anti-labor. Dr Arthur Komhauser's starting study for the Bureau of Applied Social Research clearly proves this bias (“Public Opionion Quart, erly', Winter, 1946-47). THREE OF A KIND Study of the 155 labor questions asked by the seven leading public opinion agencies (Gallup Poll, El mo Roper “Fortune" Survey, Opinion Research Corporation, Psychologiocal Corporation Nat ional Opinion Research Center. ; Iowa Poll and Minnesota Poll) during 1940-45 revealed three ways in which polls slant the re sults against labor: 1— Choice of Subject—Questions about labor usually discuss a side of labor that hte public likes least. If questions were asked about other aspects o> unions we would have a different impression of the public’s attitude towards labor. 2— Wording of Questions—The poll agenices ask questions in such amanner that they do not get the true feelings of the person quest ioned. He is led to give an anti labor opinion which he may not hold at all. 3— Interpretation—Results of polls are not reported farily. The conclusions and the explanations of the findings lean constantly to the anti-labor side. What Shade of Black? Poll questions mainly concern themselves with what is wrong with unions dn<j what people think about strikers. Of the 155 la bor activity. But 81 were concern ed with faults of unions or pro posed legislation against them. Few questions are asked which suggest that unions prot^t the in terests of the commom pe6f>le' more than big business. No quest, ions refer to what unions have achieved for their members. A mass of poll questions on the few undesirables sides of labor will get anti-labor answers. To be continually asked what shade of of black convinces you that unions are some shade of black. LOADED QUESTIONS The questions “How many un ions are run w-ithe absolute hon esty?” contains an anti-labor con clusions. 'Absolute honesty” is a very high standard for business firms of for unions.but this quest ion was actually asked by one of the polls. It is one example of the shrewd ways in which questions are set up to make people give un favorable answers. The use of questions on whether or not the piecework system of wage payments is good shows an other anti-labor method. An in complete description of piecework was given for those who did not know the term—“workers are paid for what they actually turn turn out”—but no mention was made of the strong labor case a gaints piecework. Such a technical point unless they get a more ad equate explanation. Of all the labor questions ex amined only four were worded in a manner which might tend t.o get a pro-labor answer, while 20 to 90 were slanted to obtain an anti-la bor response. FACTS vs. INTERPRETATION In the interpretation and report l ing of resluts, the reason errors are almost always in an anti-labor direction. "Fortune Survey” asked work ing people: “Would you say that ypur wages are good, only fair, or poor?”, 40 per cent said “good”, 52 per cent “onlyy fair”, 8 per cent “poor”, "Fortune” declared about these results: “A fair w'age Is a fair wage, even if it isn't called good, and With so few of the workers declaring that they are poorly paid, it would seem that most U. S, laborers are getting about all that they expect or de mand". A change in definitions when interpreting results falsely shows the worker to be saying, that he is getting “a fair wage" when he actually is announcing that his wage is not "good" but "only fair". Two meanings of the . word "fair” have been confused: “only fair" does not mean a “fair" wage. FOR BETTER POLLS What can be done about the anti-labor bias of poll agencies? 1— The polls should be carefully watched and liberal groups for bias. These groups should try to fight the bias with widespread publicity. 2— These groups should inform the newspapers and polls they ! print are not Impartial. News . papers and poll agencies should be strongly urged to make polls more fair. 3— Professional standards of fairness for poll agencies should be' encouraged. Existing profess ional committees should continue to call for high ethical standards in opinion work. 4— The big business influence on [ overcome by having less prejudice ! ed groups, sponsored by univer sities, for example, undertake pub lic opinion polls. Liberal groups should use the polls of the Nation al Opinion Research Center of the University of Denver which cus tomarily, has done good work. 5— The polling agencies should have labor and business represen tatives to whom they can submit all labor questions to insure im partial results. More than this, labor representatives should par ticipate in the formulation of all poll questions on topics of nation al importance. »