Mooseheart Youngsters
Make Good Citizens
MOOSEHEART, ILL.—These Children frolicking in the wading
pool here will grow up to be good citizens. Mooseheart, both home
and school for dependent children, has never had one of its grad
uates in trouble with the law. |
It is the famed “Child City”, a 1,200 acre community of more
than 150 homes, schools and farm buildings, operated by the Loyal
Order of Moose, a, great fraternal order dedicated to humanitarian
work. Mooseheart is the home of nearly 1,000 children who have
lost one or both parents through death. Children arc never called
orphans because every child has more than a million Daddies and
Mommies—members of the Moose and the Women of the Moose,
who have pledged themselves to provide support and education for
these helpless little ones. The heart-warming work of the Moose
has attracted so much attention since Mooseheart was founded 34
years ago that “The Child City” often receives cash gifts and lega
cies from non-members. The Loyal Order of Moose, wnich will begin
its 60th year of service to mankind with an international convention
at Columbus, Ohio, August 17-22, also provides for old folks at a
beautiful community called^Moosehaven, Florida.
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Re finishing Cabinets
If the old finish of a metal kitchen
cabinet is not scratched or chipped,
a thorough cleaning to remove any
traces of greasy film, followed by
a light rubbing with very fine sand
paper to dull the gloss of the old
enamel, should be sufficient prepa
ration for reflnishing. After Wiping
with turpentine or mineral spirits,
apply one or two coats of enamel
undercoater, in accordance with the
manufacturer’s directions on the
can, and finish with a aoat of
enamel of the desired tint.
Meat Packing Industry
The start of commercial meat
packing in North America can be
traced to 1641 when a square-rigged
ship sailed from Boston harbor with
a cargo which a handful of New
England colonists hoped could be
sold to West Indies plantation own
ers. Capt. John Pynchon, Spring
field. Mass., and a few farmer neigh
bors had consigned hogsheads of
beef and pork, packed in salt, to
England’s colonies.
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EMPLOYER APOLOGIZE
FOR JIMCROW AD
NEW YORK—Hearsts Journal
American and a beauty operator
coniessionaire have both apologiz.
ed for a classified ad specifying
"white” which the Workers De- j
fense League protested and
brought to the attention of the
Rtae Commision Against Diccrim"
ination.
"Technically, the advertisement
| is a violation of the anti-discrim
j nation law," John L. Trvin, the
' Journal.American’s classified ad
vertising manager wrote Row
land Watts, acting WDL national
secretary. “If you have scanned
our Help Wanted columns care
fully, you must have observed
i such violations are extremely
j rare.”
Amusing in view or Hearst’s
rabble-rousing editorial policy
was Irvin’s statement that, "no
feature of our operation is watch,
ed with greater caution” than the
classified ads.
An official of the firm which in
serted the ad, wrote Watts: “You
are 100 per cent right in the ex
ception you take to our specifica.
tions for this employee. I advised
our personnel director to place
this advertisement but I did not
check the wording of the ad before
;t was released. Please know that
the members and the executives
of this firm are active and cnthus.
iastic sympathizers and support
ers of any cause to defeat pre
judice and discrimination,”
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This * and That
About Van Heflin
BURBANK. Calif.—Prior to his
acting career on stage and screen.
Van Heflin was a seaman aboard
freighters shipping out to the Ori.
ent. South America. Alaska and
Mexico. But. when he decided to
invade the drama and tried out
for the Broadway show, “Sailor
Beware.” the producer made him
an understudy because he felt Van
wasn’t “a salior type.”
While at sea Van thought of be
coming a lawyer, bought a set of
law books and chucked them out
a porthole because the study
wasn’t exciting as he imagined.
He saved money to take a year’s
course in drama under Yale's
famous George Pierce Baker and
he appeared in class shows with
Betty Smith, author of "A Tree
Grows In Brooklyn.”
His full name is Emmet Evan
Heflin.
He cherishes letters written him
by the late Richard Boleslavski,
his first director, who gave him
the technique he now uses.
He uses animals as the basis for
his characterizations. He imagin
ed himself to be fat-faced owl
when he played the drunk in
“Johnny Ea.g-*’” which won him
an AcaJmey Award. Hr became a
tiger for his role n ‘ bad man”
with Errol Flynn in “Santa Ee
, Trail.”
He consile. himself a failure
I after he made hi.' first screen np
j nearance as an . returned to
Broadway vher? he scored with
Ina Clair in “End of Summer "
and with Kjtheeir.e Hepburn in
‘The Philadelphia Story.’*
He has a sister, France, who is
acknowledg'd to be one of the
New York theater's most promis
ing: act re'-as.
His late'', picture the Warner
Bros, drama, “Possessed.” In it he
trifles, *oxil-/, with the affectim.s
of Joan Crawford and makes like
a sly, sleek fox in accordance with
his belief in animal characters.
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Say you saw it adv^rtised in The
Omaha Guide
Salt Lake
Great Salt lake has a salt can
tent of about 20 per cent.
Jim Crow Housing Case to Be
Tried Sometime This Fall
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TWO NEGROES SAT ON
jRANDJURY
MINEOLA, N. Y. — The lily
white policy of selecting grand
jurors in Nassau court ended.
when Judge Henry J. A. Collins j
swore in Ralph S. Braynt and
Shelden H. Dunn, as members of
the July-August grand jury.
William Worthy Jr., Workers
Defense League field secretary,
protested the systematic exclu
sion of Negroes from the country’
grand juries several months ago
when William J. Dessaure, a Neg
ro. was being tried on charges of
assulting two cops. Nassau coun
ty. located on Long Island, is one
of the richest countries in the
U. S.
Coron'et Salutes
Negro Representative
William Anderson
William John Anderson, both as
a legislator and as a man. has
lived up to the expectations of
the people who voted for him, de
clares the August CORONET art
icle, The PRIDE OF VERMONT
Now past 70, Representative
Anderson is a leading figure in
his White Mountain community of
Shoreham, Vermont. The son of a
former slave, he is head of the
only Negro family in the village,
a leading apple grower of the
Lake Champlain apple country,
and a friend of presidents, sen
ators and governors. Everyone in
the town knows him, and almost
everyone, both Republican and
Democrat, voted to send Bill And
erson to the Legislature.
Bill attended the Shorchan: pub- ‘
lie school, then went to Mt. Her
mon School at Northfield. Mass., I
where the students do all the
work. He was assigned to the
laundry and it soon became the j
first school department to show
a profit. After finishing his
schooling. Anderson got a job at
the Hotel Champlain, across the
lake from Shoreham. While Pres- j
ident McKinley was at the hotel
relates CORONET, Bill was made
doorkeeper. One morning the
President asked him if Annette j
Anderson. the first Negro girt
ever to be valedictorian in an
Eastern college, was anv relation
to him. When the bov proudly
confessed that shp was his sister,
the President demanded. “Then
what are you doing here?”
Bill was startled and soon went
hack to Mt. Hermon. As time
passed he spent more and more
time at Shorehama and planted
anple trees on his father’s farm.
We drifted into politics, became
secretary-treasurer of the local
Republican part.v and was the de
legate to the Massachusetts Con
tention that nominated Calvin
foolidge as governor.
Not only has Anderson made a
brilliant record in the Legislature
point* out the August CORONET,
but he has also worked into per
leadership among his fellow
citizens. Thev have named him
to town offices—the school board,
town auditor town agent, chair
man of Selective Service and lead
ed in War Bond rallies; Today the
State of Vermont, watching the
public service of this, her native
son. THE PRIDE OF VERMONT,
is inclined to think it amounts to
to quite a lot.
Say you saw it advCrtised in The j
Omaha Guide
mgn Fire Ton
For many years deaths in the
United States due to Are have been
ovorio pc or'-uijf - '" ^'"'r' n roar
Champion of Clean Milk
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ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. — Clean .milk and milk products wifi
always command a good market, according to Secretary of Agricul
ture Clinton P. Anderson, who isn’t worrying about farm surpluses_j
cither on his own 600-acre dairy farm-ranch near here, or on the
nation’s farm front. He believes the war actually stimulated the
market for milk and milk products. Here he is shown examining one
of the milking machines used on his farm. Anderson is particular
about maintaining high standards of farm cleanliness because he is
convinced that American farmers must continue to improve quality
and production of their milk in order lo bold the oeak market. Thi.
Secretary mitta aboot 150 cows. - rL
NEW YORK .— The Mortgage
Conference of Greater New York
and its 37 member banks and in
surance companies will be tried
this fall on charges which include
maintaining racial maps of the
city, refraining from making mor
tgage loans in Negro blocks and
inducing real estate owners to bar
Negroes from white sections The
original complaint was filed in
June 1946.
“We plan to bring this case tp
trial at the earliest opportunity
this fall,” Seymour D. Lewis,
New York chief of the Depart
ment of Justice’s anti-trust divi
sion wrote Rowland Watts, acting
secretary of the Workers Defense
League. “The crowded condition
of the court calendar for the
southern district of New York
and the probable length of the
trial of this case makes it imposs
ible for us to proceed sooner.”
Urging aprompt prosecution.
Watts had written the anti-trust
division pointing out "how these
same interests, aided by the real
estate operators, have intensified
their activities along this line.’
He mentioned the recent conven
tion of the New York State As.
sociation of Real Estate Boards
at which top real estate and mor
tgage executives openly admitted
that private housing projects in
volving “many millions of dollars”
had been halted because of their
objection to a city law barring
dicrimination against tenants.
TRAIN CALLERS
ADVERTISE BONDS
WASHINGTON. — The Balti
more and Ohio Railroad is now
advertising U. S. Savings Bonds
between train announcements at
its Pittsburgh passenger station,
the Treasury Department was in
formed today
Pioneer in the use of the public
address system of a railway ter
minal to promite savings was Un
ion Station in Washington, D. C„
whose announcers are currently
advising the crowds that pass
through this huge and beautiful
gateway:
“Buy U. S. Savings Bonds on the
Bond a Month Plan ” During the
war the announcers here were too
busy getting service men and
women and their families and
friends together to have time for
anything else between train an
nouncemens. Since the Victory
Loan. Union Station has advertis
ed Savings Bonds in every cam
paign.
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Directors and officers of Vietory
Mutual Life Insurance company,
who met in Chicago, heard from
the preseident and board chair
man, Dr. P. M. H. Savory of New
York, that liens placed on old Vic.
tory Life policies had been com
pletely paid two years before their
schedule time and that the com
pany ended 1946 with $17,000,000
insurance in force.
Shown in the picture, left to
right, seated: E. A. Thompson,
Lewis Biggers, G. W. Jones, C. J.
Valentine, R. R. Taylor, Bindley
C. Cyrus, A. L. Lucas, Dr. J. B.
Martin and Dr. S, W. Smith.
' Anniversary io Sound
In Colliers Year Book
BURBANK, Calif. — Warner
Bros.’ recent celebration of the
Twentieth Anniversary of talking ,
pictures is given a half page
spread in the 1947 edition of Col
liers Year Book, according to
word received at the Burbank
studio over the weekend.
The volume, now being distri
buted to libraries througout the
country, contains he most impor
tant events of 1946 as compiled by
leading auhorities and leads off
the section devoted to motion
pictures with an article on the
advent of sound.
RELEASE OF “THE POWER |
BEHIND THE NATION”
BURBANK, CALIF. — Jack
Warner has concluded arrange
ments with Eric Johnston, presi
dent of the Motion Picture As
sociation, for release by the As
sociation of "The Power Behind
the Nation,” a special Technicolor
documentary short subbject. be
gun a year ago by Warner Studio.
“The Power Behind the Nation-’
was made by Warners as an A
cademy Award contender to de
pict the elements of America’s
greatness, its people,, spirit,
natural resources and industries.
It will be shown throughout the
nation starting Sept. 15, along
with a special prologue made by
Johnston before his departure for
Europe.
Say you *aw it advCrtised in The
Omaha Guide
Urban League Pushes for Job
And Economic Growth Here
%
Of the average dollar received
by the world’s largest food manu
facturers .— the American meat
packing industry — the country’s
farmers received last year 73.7
cents for livestock and other farm
products.
Distribution of the meat packers’
dollar, as shown in the above chart,
is typical of recent years, slight
variations occurring from year to
year. For example, profits after all
expenses, in 1946, as reported to
the American Meat Institute by
companies producing the bulk of
the country’s meat supply, aver
aged 1.9 cents out of each dollar.'1
The average for the cycle of the
past three years approximated 1%
cents-per dollar of sales, or a frac
tion of a cent a pound of meat
sold; a profit so small as not to
affect appreciably the price of
meat to the public, t 4
Next to payments to farmers,
payrolls received the largest share
of the dollars received by the meat
packers, amounting to 12.1 eents
of each dollar. Receipts included
dollars obtained from the sale of
meat and all other products, includ
ing by-products and non-meat
items, such as poultry, dairy
products, soaps, medicines and
cleanser* _
|Conrad Declares Only A New and
Reconstructed Government Will
Put An End to Jim Crow System
NEW YORK—Jim Crow in the
United States cannot be wiped out
until there is new Reconstruction
government in the South, says
Earl Conrad, in his book, “Jim
Crow America, ’ just published by
Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
“Only a new Reconstruction
government in the South such as
was so evilly and forcibly akten
away from the Negro and pro
gressive whites in the 1870’s, can
strike at the heart of the segre
gation evil in American institu
tions and men's minds,” Conrad
declares. Charging that the failure j
to enforce the three amendments j
brought in after the Civil War
condemns the Constitution as a
document that has persisted in
failure, he author contends that
“whether it can be made to work
becomes therefore one of the
major issues of the middle twen
tieth century.”
Conrad, columnist for the
Chicago Defender, says that “It
must be remembered that color
prejudice was born and nurtur' 1
in America out of the wont o'
economic greed. It was legislated
into existence. Discriminatory
laws created prejudice. Enforce
ment of the laws drove the pre
judice into the people’s minds and
ways. Then, generations of whites j
began to appear who accepted,
without question, the status creat
ed by law for them, and conver
i sely he status created for the
| Negro. By the same token lfegis
i lation is a great part of the an
’ swer. and laws can erase prejudice
if enforced. The author then pro
poses a new “Human Rights A
mendment ’ to the Constitution.
“This.” he says “would make it a
prison offense for anyone to
slander, insult or hold in con
! tempt any other for “race, color,
creed, religion or national orgin.
The battle for such an amend
ment alone would heighten the
understanding of millions and set
people in motion.’’
Addressing himself primarily to
white America, Conrad reports
that “the gTeat needs of the Negro
people North and South today are
for land, jobs, freedom from seg
regaed living conditions and insti
tutions, and deliverance from
caste indignity. They demand that
all Jim Crow laws be repealed.
They demand, require, and should
securet full and even special re
presentation in government, es
pecially in the South where in
many areas their majority ought
to have a determining voice.”
The millieu through which
such an amendment and such a
Reconstruction would take place,
is visualized by Conrad as the
modern labor and interacia! move
ments in alliance with all other
liberal forces. He says:
“In our day it is clear that not
noly must moral values of human
freedom be taken into account but
overwhelmingly no new ‘morality’
can obtain save that it inhere in
all of society’s struggle for a more
secure society. Today’s “Garrison
ians”are the great hosts of labor
who must act. with all other
forces of advance in he Negro’s
behalf, even if only in enlightened
self-interest. More and more
segments of white America must
and will be thrown into motion on
this issue. It is time for the for
mation of a kind of Committee for
White Allies,” or a “Committee for
Negro Liberation,” dedicated to
the main object of integrating
the Negro's cause with the whole
national and world cause of free
dom and anti fascism. The pha
lanx of white friends of the Negro,
although operating in labor, chur
ch, business and other sphere,
needs now to be brought into a
great special camp, with the driv
ing forever of the old abolitionist
movement at its heltm Such a
force must be inevitably allied
with all those great Franklin D.
Roosevelt dreams, motives and
practicalities which are by no
means dead in America but wait
ing the press the of the right but
tons to swing once more into mo
tion—The Wrallace ideal and the
reorganization of the coalition of
the dispossed, the struggling, the
honest, the "plain people." the
minorites, the liberal Republicans
I and Democrats—all these must
and will gather together and go
forward to a higher society.”
Conrad’s own faith in imminent
liberation is stated in the con
clusion of “Jim Crow America”
where he says:
“I know that Negro liberation
is inevitable as I know that ulti
mately the liberation of all the
people in the world is inevitable,
for I know that the struggle for
economic and political security is
now a world institution.
“Our country, historical land of
democratic principles, must make
the decision to vanquish racism
If a major task of progress a
century ago was the abolition of
chattel slavery, there can be no '
doubt that in the presen hour a
comparably immense objection is
the abolition of the institutions of
discriminaion legalized prejudice
and barriers to national group
understanding. America cannot be
a free and at the same time the
land of Jim Crow.”
In a resolute effort to raise the
economic level of Negro citizens
in Omaha, the Urban League has
been active in a series of confer
ences in large downtown estab
lishments. “Objectives being
sought, said Mr. Bohanon, Exe
cutive Secretary of the League,
are threefold. First we ask that
Negro applications for work be
properly accepted and processed
along with any others according
to their classification. Secondly,
we seek gradual employment and
intergration of Negro applicants,
according to their occupation and
experience. And third, we request
that Negro persons be tenered job
opportunities in those places and
occupations wherein previously
they have not had the opportunity
to work.”
The utility firms, the State Vet
eran Employment Service, and
| several large private establish
ments are among those places
where negotiations and confer
ences have all in evidence for
weeks. The Urban League reports
that the number of places that do
not hire Negroes at all and those
that hire only a few in unskilled
capacities is a shocking revela
tion. Encouraging is the splendid
cordiality in which top manage
ment has received Mr. Taylor, the
Industrial Secretary and the In
dustrial Committee when they
have called at their offices to con
fer on the problem of employment
and integration. The problem it
self is not foreign to these firms,
Mr. Taylor revealed, but it has
been considered an abstruse sub
ject with cut active reconition.
While in most cases, actual re
sults will be slow and gradual, the
general outlook for some success
is bright. The precarious econo
mic conditions which confront so
| many Negro people creates an
insatiable desire for sure action
and rapid results. Negro citizens
want more and better jobs op
portunities. Notwithstanding need
over coming barriers and pioneer
[ ing new" jobs in new occupations
are accomplishments that do not
arrive with haste.
Partial results obtained only
this week it was revealed, have
been the promise of jobs such as
metalfinishers, process worker,
janitors and several office work
ers. Mr. Taylor emphasized the
fact that office workers must be
trained and experience while other
need only to be staple, opsessed
of good character and personal
ity, have good work habits. be de
pendable exercise good judge
ment and good conduct. Those
persons who meet the above re
quirments and are either unem
ployed on a job below skill and
desire are urged to register at the
Urban League at once.
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eminent w
AMERICAN ACTOR ■
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SO DEEP WAS THIS MANS
REVERENCE FOR GOD THAT
THE AMERICAN STAGE WAS
NEARLY DEPRIVED OF ONE OF
ITS GREATEST PERFORMERS
RICHARD BERRY HARRISON
WAS BORN OF FUGITIVE SLAVE
PARENTS IN LONDON,ONT.,
CANADA IN 1864. AT 17 HE
WENT TO DETROIT, MICH. TO
STUDY DRAMATIC ART,
AND 10 YEARS LATER HE
JOURNEYED SOUTH TO TEACH
CTWFRS WHATHEHAD LEARNED'
THE WAY WAS HARD,AND
HE DID MENIAL JOBS TO FILL
INTHE GAPS-AT GREENS
BORO'S A£T COLLEGE HE
FOUND A TEACHING BERTH
FILLING-CHURCH and SCHOOL
ENGAGEMENTS (N HARLEM
WHEN HE COULD- ON ONE SUCH
TRIP HE WAS •DISCOVERED’
AND FINALLY PREVAILED UPON
. TO PLA V THE PART OF THE?
CREATOR IN-THE GREEK
PASTURES” SUCCESS, NEARLY
SO YEARS LATE, WAS HIS AT
LAST/IN FIVE YEARS MR..
HARRISON PLAYED 1,657
MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES'