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The Omaha Guide A Weekly Newspaper Published Every Saturday at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Ncbaaska Phone HArney 0800-0801 Entered as Second Class 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 ajl Organizations must be in our office not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy, not later than Wednesday noon, preceding date of issue, to insure publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN OMAHA ONH YEAR ... 54 00 . . .52.50 THREE MONTHS..—1- Sl-50 ONE MONTH ..._ __—- -50c SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT-OF-TOWN ONE YEAR ...---- *4-50 Public Conduct and Citizenship Our wprth as citizens is largely by our public conduct. Our public conduct is a relative display of ou^ intelligence or ignorance. So long as this display is calm,# courteous and respectful we are classed as decent, lawabiding citizens. When it becomes loud, boisterous and vulgar we are misfits in a descent society and present ourselves as being in tne class of criminals. You are none less than a “character assassin,” when yous public conduct is displeasing, in the least, to others. \ ou, not only reflect youru own ignornce and disregard for law and order, but you lay others of your group liable to the same sizeup, the same criticism. Themerits of good citizenship were the objectives of a South wide observance of Good Public Conduct ^Veew, May “Itli through j May 11th. It was planned that every person come to realize how un American it is to be disturbing in. any degree tof your fellowman. While the gesture became a realit,y it did not penetrate deep enough into the minds of all persons t0 be as effective as we had hoped; it did bring vividly to the surface our responsibility as citi zens of various communities; that we are our brother’s keeper and can contribute either to his well-being or his discomfort i Some of us are ignorant enough to feel that promiscuous pro fanity and loudness are smart acts. A person that uses profanity in any respect is as low as the worst ol criminals. His or her base ness compares with the lowest of human beings and is a by-rule for classification as ignorant and practically unfit for association with decent people. First of all. our worth as citizens of a community is the most important goal in our civilization. The great honor and advantage of being an American citizen carries with it an obligation just as great,and that obligation is to preserve inviolate fhe rights and pri vileges which our forefathers won for us in blood and toil, that we may inspire and hand this precious heritage of freedom and dign-j ity down to our children, undiminished and unipaired. , We can only do this by being upright citizens endowed with an ambition to contribute to the welfare of our' communities and na tion. Through our public conduct is one way we can demonstrate how American we are or want to be. If we incite friction or class dis unity in any degree we are contributing to a violation of the prin ciples of our national heritage. This is bad conduct and untimately undesirable citizenship. (Reprinted from July, 1947, Negro South Magazine) t Tools of Tryants Human gullibility sometimes has no apparent limit. Every suc cessful tyrant, ambitious cynic, or plain demagogue has recognized llfls fact. Hitler was a past master in the art of deception, and ex plained liis formula in brutal frank passages in Mein Kampf. It was simple. People are siispicious of small lies but fall for the grand lie. Righi now, for example, a lot of sincere persons and some not so sincere are promoting the colossal falsehood that the way to a better society is through rapid expansion of the authority of govern ment. They have become so contused or wry that they have iden tified their cause with the highest ideals of the( liberal. They see to it that their every act wears a halo of “liberalism” or “progressiv ism” as contrasted to the conservative “reactionaries.” The way the press at times confirms the deception is more than, a little sickening. Recently a national wire service release in a large western newspaper was captioned,“Liberals for Public Rail, Power Seizure.” The story quoted the “Progressive Citizens of America” who condemned Amer ican public service industries and advocated prompt seizure by gov ernment to “create the conditions for a richer and better life for all . . .” There is no country in the world with a more efficient group of basic industries—power, rail, oil, coal—^haxi the Unted States^ The products and services of these stringently reguulated, heavily taxed industries are small items in the family budget, and fapiilles in America enjoy their benefits to an extent undreamed of any where else in the world. So why do the self-styled liberals attack these industries with such intensity? What about the really expen sive necessities of life which inflation has carried! to staggering price levels? The bitter truth is that our so-called service industries are the key to the form of government which we will eventually have in this country. They are owned by hundreds of thousands of pri vate citizens. They employ millions directly and and tens of millions indirectly. If government owns or dominates them, it will control the. people Absolute economic power always leads to absolute political power. America must be wary of abuses of liberalism and false slogans. These are the tools with which tryants delude fools. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs hiis powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation streng thened by fixity Gf punpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius—Bulwer. t • ■ The hired man had finished his first month on a farm at a very busy time. “Well, boss I’m leaving,” he said. “You promised me a steady job. “Well, it’s steady enough, ain't it?” asked his employer. ! “No,” replied the man with a wry grin, “there’s at least 3 hours in the middle of the night when I’ve nothing to do ” To Bring About Democracy At Homte Would Aid Communism! vr]Z'snot/0 f^X END OF STEREOTPYlKlG pF NEGRO ARTISTS “Herald Pictures is now in the unique postion of having every major motion picture studio care fully observing its efforts to eli minate the stereotyping of Negro artists," Jack Goldberg declared at a Herald Pictures exeutives’ luncheon. Goldberg, who is president of the new company, pointed out that the results of Herald’s efforts will decide the roles the Negro performers will be given in the future. "It i.s up to us,’’ Goldberg said, “to make sure that an actor will not be type cast ’ according to the colu/ of his skin or the way he prays.' Outlining the history of such progress efforts in the motion picture fi • u, Goldberg emphaized the fact I ri.it the major companies had all made a« attempt at giv ing the Negro artist a chance to display his full dramatic talent. However, he value these anti-bias films could have had was destroy ed by the very obvious effort each of these films seems to have been. ‘‘Rather than admit that the Negro actor could compare favor ably with the white performer, the studios kept casting him in a stereotyped series of roles. It call ed the talent of the Negro ‘great NEGRO talent' rather ‘great tal ent’. We of Herald Pictures be lieve that good acting and good pictures are of primary import ance—and talent does not come in color. ’ “The future plans of Herald Pictures’" Goldberg explained, ‘‘fall in direct line with our basic premise—that drama is color blind. Our firs: production, “Boy! What a Girl!," was received en thusiastically by movie going audiences in spite of some criticsm from sceptics who said, ‘you can't mixed Negro and White actors as ordinary people and sell the public on it’. “Our setor.d picture. ' Sepia Cin. derella,’' which wa.-’ world premi ered at the Apollo Theatre in New York on Ju’y 25, features a fine mixed cast inclu ling the noted picture star Freddie Bartholemew. “While other studios have tried to combat prejudice by waving a delicate finger and ■whispering ‘naughty, naughty, what you're doing is intolerant, our produc tions nave eliminated any color line. The results have been re markably statisfying.” Goldberg explained that in order to carry out this fight successfully Herald Pictures had decided to release a minimum of 0 full length productions every year. He also announced that the new film com. pany was in the market for best sellers that have, heretofore, con sidered taboo for screenplalys. sidere t taboo for screenplays, "Don’t forget that the motion picture industry's spnlight is cent ered on us ” Goldberg concluded, “Let' i nay right in the center of it!” Heavy Tamers Latest statistics show that the United States has more than 22 tele phones for Srvery 100 inhabitants, compared ts 2.2 telephones per 100 Inhabitants in the world as a whole. New York Leads New York City has more tele phones than any city in the world, with a tcftal of-2,218,000. This com pares with 1,290,000 in all of South America. Land of Quarters Africa is the land of quarters. One quarter of Its area is forest and bushland, one quarter is grass land, one quarter is desert and the re maining quarter is cultivated, World Bank enevolonpilia dicclnss* \ Liberia Celerbate 100th Y ear of Its Independence On July 26, 1847, a small group of 12 men flung to an apathetic world their DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Thus was an independent, soverign state. Today (now), one-hundred years later, the Republic of Liberia, a respected member of the family of nations celebrates its centen nial anniversary. For the historian, sociologist, and lawyer, few stories in mod ern times rival, in dramatic in terest, that of the founding and turbulent history of Liberia. It was the son of a Negro slave and an Indian mother who first carried out, alone and unaided, a plan to coionize Free Negroes in habitating merica, and to carry them at his own expense to the West Coast of Africa, This person was Paul Cuffc. His efforts failed, but the seed took root and the American Colon ization Society triumphed where Cuffe did not. The “story of how a stable and enlightened republic grew of early struggles with adverse natural and physical conditions— how internal strife, external ag gressions, personal ambitions and the inevitable internal politics of any nascent politically organized society were overcome and a feeble colony with only a volun tary organization behind it, and of doutbful legal status, became an independent modern state’’ is told in THE POLITICAL AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORf OF LIBERIA by the late Dr. Charles H. Huberich. Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard in his FOREWORD goes on to public law and of international law are raised—and have received full and competent treatment— Dr. Huber ich's painstaking and learned investigation and discuss ion of these questions will be of interest to jurist, publicist, and historian”. Of particular interest is the APPENDIX OF LAWS, compris ing the major portion of Volume 11, wherein are reprinted the LAWS OF THE COLON V AND COMMONWEALTH from 1820 to 1847. The orginals of these im portant documents are so rare that most are know only in single copies. There appearance in this set has been sanctioned and cert ified by the Secretary of State of Liberia. Record History Hieroglyphic, or picture writing, on stone by ancient Egyptians which has been deciphered by his torians tells the -story of the early Pharaoh dynasties thousands of years before the birth of Christ Writing on clay or stone was man’s first attempt to leave his' history and that of his fellowman to future generations. Later the Egyptians made a writing material from the papyrus weed, a tall reed that grew in the marshy land long the Nile. It was used as early as 3600 ft. C. and it is from the word papyrus tKat nanar dapivoH its noma, — American Meat Packing From a humble beginning 306 rears ago, meat packing has grown •o become one of the nation’s larg *st industries. Meat packers in the United States produce more than 20 Pillion pounds of meat annually. From five million farms and ranches in every state the meat packers purchase 127 million cattle, ralves, hogs and sheep to make into (teaks, roasts, stews, sausage items and canned meat, as well as utiliz ing by-products for many pharma ceutical and manufacturing items. 1 looking back a century • Not every day does something succeed in catching the imaginat ion and interest of our people. However, the recent trek of the Mormoms did just that as evi denced by the thousands of curi ous folk who turned out. re-enacting as closely as modern living premits the westward jour ney of their ancestors 100 years ago, the present day disciples of Brigham Young traversed the very same route from Nauvoo, 111. (where Joseph Smith, the prolfet founder, as killed) to a goal we all recognize. Salt Lake City, Utah In every possible detail these present day caravaners pattered their journey after the eariler one which now makes up one of the captivating chapters of our his tory. The most notable difference, probably, in the two trips was the time element: instead of three long months, his one took only 9 days. Indeed, a younger member of the Church of Jesus Christ of j Latter Day Saints, a lieutenant in | the Air Corps, using a P-80, or 1 jet propelled plane needed only about 2 hours! __ PLEAS FOR FLOOD FUNDS _ Senator Hugh Butler, (R.-Neb.), i made an urgent plea this week to the House Appropriations Com mittee to provide additional funds for construction of flood control dams by the Bureau of Reclama tion to prevent recurrence of the flood disasters of recent weeks in Nebraska and other states. “Twelve years ago, a flash flood swept down the Republican River | and one hundred twelve lives were lost on that occasion,” Senator ( Butler declared “surely that should have been enough of a lesson to us all. For twelve years every member of the Nebraska delegation in Washington has been trying to get assistance for the people of the Republican Val ley in meeting this danger. Yet in that twelve year period almost nothing has been done. A start was made last year with the appropriation of funds for Enders j Dam, but it was only a start.” “Now this year. Cambridge and | many other towns have been flooded, and again many lives i have lost,” Senator Butler con- , tinued. “The people of Nebraska j are depending on this Congress | and its new majority to prevent j a third disaster. We do not know j when another flood will strike. If delay and inaction premit another great catastrophe, it will be impossible to excuse it or ex plain it away.” Handled Many Times Iron ore is handled five times from the time it is removed from the earth until it emerges from the furnace as liquid metaL Only Hngnenot Church Only Huguenot church in Amer ica is at Charleston, S. C. It was founded in 1687. An Open Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: Pieture yourself in the days of the frontier, when Nebraska was Indian country and every man went armed about his job. There was no law to depend on, no gov ernment—the law and the govern ment were a couple thousand miles away, on the East Coast. No one had any real protection Except self-protection. Because that was so, each individual per son had to be quicker at the draw than his neighbor, and sometimes had to act aggressively in order to protect his interest and his very life. Often a group of men would form a posse and go afer a gang ster, catch him and string him up. They had to take the law into their own hands. The only way I they could punish a lawbreaker was to break the law themselves. Does that sound familiar? Com I pare it to the international situa | tion today. It’s just the plight the naions of he world are in right now. They each have to arm, to make bombs, and other weapons of war. to prepare for attack. And because they prepare, they are of ten attacked. The only way a group of nations can punish a law breaking nation is by going to war against it. We have no interna tional government. You may say, “What about the United Nations?” Well, the U.N. isn’t being used by the nations right now. It's being used by passed; for instance, the Marshall plan to help Europe get on its feet again is a United States plan— I | it did not go through the U. N. The U, N. will never be trusted as a real basis for cooperation as long as nations do not use it. It is definitely the best thing we’ve got, but it needs strength ening. It needs some important amendments. If we want peace, we can work to get our Senators and representatives to recognize the need for these amendments. The U. N. must be changed into a real world government^ The As sembly would become the legis lature, like our own Congress: the Security Council would fill the executive function; and the International Court- of Justice, now without power, would become a powerful and respected Sup reme Court of the World. Under such a World Government the threat of war removed the people fo the earth could mingle in true fellowship. No National government would be forced to deprive its citizens of liberty in order to wage war. No foreign country would attempt to divide the peoples of one country by hate in order to conquer it—as Germasy divided Fnarce, and tri ed and almost succeeded in divid ing America. In war time minorities suffer most—No longer would there be a need for a national army with -Tim Crow segregation and discrimination. And it is very likely that the rest of the world Wouldn't allow race hate in go on in this country. A world government would elimate war and be better for everyone than what we've got now Let’s work together to achieve it! Sincerely, Cynthia Mallory Omaha Peace Caravan Original Alloy Prehistoric ornaments of plati num hammered over gold were found in the graves of the priests and kings of the ancient Indian in habitants of Colombia. This was probably the original idea of com bining the two rare metals to obtain the two-tone color effect for jewelry. Alloy Is Strong The green color of emeralds is due to small quantities of chromium in the jewels. When this same chromium is added to steel along with nickel, the resultant alloy is a hard, strong, wear-resistant metal, nickel-chrome steel, often used in gears and axles. Industrial Uses Milk is used in a wide variety of industrial products such as plastics, textiles, paper coating, paint, glue, films, pharmaceuticals, insulation, fertilizer, insecticides, penicillin, plaster, dyes, animal feed, preserva tives. explosives, electroplates due 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 corf or of purity, love and fidelity. Say you saw it advertised in The Omaha Guide BusinessTells a Story ‘ By GEORGE S.BENSON^ freeident of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas '"H TIME WAS when it was fashion able for everyone to talk about big business and count over the gross and net sins of corpora tions. Of course, there were mighty good stories even then about our steadily rising stand ards of living. But the busy bodies didn’t bother with* those success stories, big or little. I have said that America is now beginning to assume her task in public relations, that of selling her ways and her freedoftis and her institutions to people every where. I should like to say that some of our groups and institutions have special responsibilities in this job. I think that labor does, as well as- business. The. task * important to agriculture, to tradesmen, to education, to the professions, and to civie minded folks in every walk. Certainly labor and industry are each so im portant in our economic system, that they must be interested in reawakening the people to an ap preciation of America. I A Report I WOULD LIKE to To Workers tell you about a company that is do ing its part, thereby shouldering its responsibility for this kind of public re-education. . Somebody sent me a copy of a report this company makes to its employees. The report answers questions em ployees want to know. The an swers are frank, fair, and simply stated. There is no doubt the re port has made its readers better informed Americans. It did so to me. It takes $7,507 worth of capital to give a person a job in this company. Naturally, there would be no jobs for their 3,951 people if it were not for this $29,660, 626. Shareholders who put up this money out of what they earn and save, hope to get “a fair rental” for their money. These folks, the report tells us, are capitalists — “and so are you!” Because we own our possessions, we are “capitalists” and this is a “capitalist” country. Why Make “WE HAVE a ’eapi A Profit? talist' industry in the United States because millions .' ; . use part of their ‘capital* to Own and operate the most productive farms, stores,, mines, and factories on this earth And that is the reason why typ, as a people, have the highest standard living of any nation in the world. N<5 other system' in any. country* at .any time, by jmy other meaoss^as .ever produced so nvuch for so.imany at. such little cost as our ‘capitalist’ business does in America.” The company says frankly that it made money in 1946 — about seven and one-half cents on every dollar’s worth of products sold. While this record is termed a nar row margin that calls for econ omy all alon'g the line, the report makes it plain that the company expects to keep on making money. All this, midst healthy competitors that cause them to keep, putting out better products for less money. Tribute is paid to the keen competition they meet as an effective price regulator. , “A company that can’t make money is like a ship that can’t float. Neither is safe for you and. your family. A company may lose money for a short time, just as a ship may spring a leak and take in water for a short time, but if the losses and the leak can’t be stopped soon, the ship; sinks and the company goes out of business. Passengers on the ship that sinks and employees of the company that fails are victims of disaster." - 4 URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS NEW JOB OPENINGS Placement of Negroes in new employment fields highlighted industrial relations activities of the past months, it was reported today by Julius A, Thomas, In dustrial Relations Director of the [ National Urban League. » ! Taxicab drivers for the Yellow i Cab company in Milwaukee and the Led Cab Company in Toledo; skilled and unskilled workers on construction projects In Guam and other Pacific Army bases, and machine shop workers in two large establishments were among the openings resulting from the work of National sod local Leaue offices^ The first Negro taxicab drivers to be employed by 'be Yellow Cab Company *n Milwaukee were placed " i ho Milwaukee Urban League after extensive negotia tion3 ;viLi the management. In Toledo similar placements were made v'"u the Red Cao Company through the Industrial Relations Department of rredenett Douglas ! Commas t.y Center. Veterans, Hampton Students Employed Acceptance of Negro applicants, principally veterans, for employ ment on military construction pro jects in the Pacific Islands follow ed the Leagues investigation and disclosure of discriminatory hir ing policies practiced by firms holding contracts for this work. In New York, Chicago, and San Frascisco, qualified Negroes have | been employyed and others are applying for job3 as carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, steel workers cement finishers, and and mechanics on Pacific Army ' installations, the National Urban League Industrial Relations Dir- . ector pointed out. In cooperation with the Balti- : more and Newwark, New Jersey 1 Urbas Leagues and the Trades 1 and Industry Departments of j Hampton Institute placement of students from machine shop, dcisel engineering and metal work de partments or the Institute were made in Baltimore and Newark industries. The Maryland, Dry Dock Company in Baltimore,. Maryland, and American Type Foundries ;n Elizabeth, New Jer sey, are providing work experi ence for twenty-l'ive students dur ing the summer months. Mr. Thomas said these current job openings promi:to be among the mo <t significant developments' in the League's efforts to secure employment fur hundreds of vet erans asd trainees specializing in the mechanical trades. Other firms have already ixprenad an interest in employing trainees who will eventually become highly skilled workers, the Urban League offici al added. MURDER OF CHAIN GANG PRISONERS AVOIDABLE NEW YORK — Austin H. Mac Cormick executive director of the Osborne Association expressed the view that tlit fatal ^hooting of eight Geoigia ehaus gang prison ers July 11 a the Ar.guila state highway work can:p was "avoid able’. Writing Albon Man, secretary of the Workers Defense League’s prisoners aid bureau, MacCormick said: “I read everything I could find on the affair at the*Asguila •amo and was much distrubcd bv it. “While I try not to form con clusions on the oasis of newspaper accounts alone, che shooting sounded to me avoidable, to say the least," Warden H. G. Worthy whom prisoners "barged was drunk when he ordeied the Angui'.\ shootings, and the five guards wh? fired the shots vert acquitted by a super ior court grand jury in Brunswick. An .avertigat>n by the National Association for Auvascement of Colored People .uvealed that the strike which led ’o :re shooting was caused by he reiusal of prison authorities to supply prisoners; fHIS IS AMERICA ■■ f , By JOHN RANGE After tke Battle of the Bulge, PhilBucci and several Buddies began asking themselves! WHWMWWIHf...I m ft"' \ ' ™ir J Returned to U.5v Bucci, ■ ' PREWAR NEWSPAPERMAN, AND f* ( S OTHER VETS DETERMINED ' TO START OWN PAPER IN PHILA DELPHIA TO PRESERVE IDEALS for which they fought... \ A—1 I /TOW semi-monthly with 35,000 cistc., and climbing Journal and ms editors dedicated to FReecTn'o? / OPPOgTU.T~.Tr, FAITH IM AMERICA. I ^
