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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 all Organizations must te in our office not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue All Advertising Copy, not later than Wednesday noon, preceding ca^e of issue, to insure publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN OMAHA ONE YEAR . S4 00 .$2150 THREE MONTHS . 51 5° ONE MONTH ....- -50c SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT-OF-TOWN ONE YEAR... - 54.50 National Advertising Representatives: T-T„ INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS. INC. 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone Murray Hill 2-54,>2 Ray Peck, Manager And Some Want It Here The believers in the totalitarion stale always argue that that form of government does the most to advance the interests of the com mon man.” They prate of production for u>e instead of producticn for profit, and point to the achievements of dictatorship in advanc ing the standard of living of the worker. In the light of that, some figures concerning the Russian econ omy are of interest. In less than a year, the price of black bread, the staple item in the diet of the average Russian, has increased 240 per cent. Milk has gone up 220 per .c<snt, sugar 196 per cent, butter 136 per cent and beef 114 per cent. The cost of clothing and all manufactured goods have also advanced tremendously, and art obtainaile at any price. But, in the same period, the wages of Rus sian workers have gone up only 25 per cent. The “fortunate” Russrans are not burdened with a free, com petitive economy such as that in the United States. They don t have to suffer along with such typically capitalistic monstrosities as great factories producing a growing flood of consumer goods—nor do they have chain stores and independent stores all competing with each other for consumer favor. In Russia everything is owned and controlled by the state, and the factories produce and* the stores sell only what the masterminds at the top think fit and proper. The result, according to a U. S. Department of Labor survey, is that the living standards of American workers are about 1,000 per cent above those of their Russian counterparts. Keep that in mind when you hear the virtues of Communicm and other ‘“isms” compared to the vices of the competitive enterprise sys tem of production and distribution. Tjhe European Road It has been but two short years since the United States showed its ability to produce the materials needed to win World War II. The electrict utilities companies of th? nation rendered outstanding ser vice in making this production possible. They were able to supply electric power when and where needed to meet the exhorbitent de mands of war. This is the record ot one of the nation’s outstand ing industries during a national emergency. President Truman is asking a quick start on a ten-year program for Controlling floods and developing the water resources of the Mississippi River basin. This is a sound, non-commercial function of government. But it is a safe bet that the advocates of socialized electric powcr_m the United States will use flood control as the ve hicle to build power dams and proceed with such tax exempt pro perties to force present private electric companies into government ownership in the territory affected, thus establishing a government monopoly of electric power in another vast area of the United States. President Turnan makes no reference to existing electric com panies in the flood control message, no invitation is given to private industry to work with the government in the development and dis tribution of electric power at the various dams. If allowed to do so, private enterprise, publicly regulated, would undoubtedly be glad to join with the government in financing electric development, thus saving the hard-pressed taxpayers enormous sums. Investor owned electric companies would thus be c reating vast new taxable assets to help support government, in contrast with government-owned tax exempt power plants which gradually put taxpaying plants out of business. This is something to think about unless the country is ready to ready to go whole hog towards socialization of industry. Are we going to follow the European road to the ultimate destruction ol private enterprise and individual opportunity, Wjhip of Progress Most of us thing that the “boomtown” days of the oil industry ended many years ago, and that the industry can now (take it easy and supply the public’s needs with its present facilities. The truth is that oil is engaged in a tremendous and dramatic race to bring output up to the enormous civilian demand that came after the war The geologists and wild-catters are searching for new oil reserves in every corner of this country—and in a long list of foreign coun triesas well. As rapidly as the necessary materials can be brought they are sinking new wells and enlarging refineries. The labor atory technicians are seeking new methods of getting more oil pro ducts out of each barrel of crude, and for producing oil from sour ces which so far have been untouched. Never in history was so much oil needed now—and never in history was so much knowledge, money and sheer drive given to producing it. Competition within the Industry is extremely keen, both in ob taining supplies of crude and in seeking public favor with ready-to-use oil p»v>Juct». That in itself is the best guarantee that demand will be met with a minimum of shortages—and that the price* charged will be as low as current costs allow. Oil isn’t standing still. The Ivhiy of progress is keeping it on the run. “There is only one way to lift our living standards—one way to prot |?e every American with even more of the good things which he already has in unique abundance—and that is to turn out more and better goods.”—Emil Schram, President, New York Stock Ex change. UN Lowers M’s Dignity to Level of Ametica’s Jim Crow! loF CO\.oStoC^|j The Veteran Asks... (This service is based on questions most often asked at Veterans Administration of fiices in Nebraska. Offisial answers are supplied by VA.) Q. I. would like to attend classes at a university on a part-time basis. Is it necessary for me to go to school on a full time basis in order to take ad vantage of the G.I. Bill edu j cational benefits ? A. No. Your can take a part time course and it will be charged proportionately against your ed ucational entitlement. For exam [ pie, if you take a half time course I for a year, you wall have used up only six months of your period of educational entitlement. Q. I am considering reinstat ing my lapsed National Service Life Insurance and converting it to a permanent policy, but I don't know how to go about it. Where can I get informa tion and assistance? A. Go to any office of the Vet erans Administration. In addition to the regional office, there are many VA conttct offices in Nebr aska each serving veterans of sev eral counties. VA reppresenta tives at any of these offices can provide you with full NSLI infor mation and assistance in reinstat ing and converting your policy. I want to get a govern ments guaranteed loan to buy a home, where do I go to bor row the money? A. Money may be borrowed under the G. I. plan where people 1 normally go to obtain loans: Banks, building and loan associa tions, insurance companies, public and private lending agencies or individuals who are in a position to handle the loans properly. The Veterans Administration does not make loans. Q. Under what circumstances does the Veterans Adminis tration consider a veteran's parents dependent upon him? A. Dependency will be held to exist if the parents do not have an income sufficient to provide reasonable maintenance for them selves and members of their fami. ly under legal age, or otherwise dependent by reason of mental or physical incapacity. Q. I have heard that veterans may use their terminal leave bonds now to pay National Service Life Insurance pre miums. Is this true? A. Yes, you may endorse your j bond and send it to the Veterans Administration office to which i you send your regular premium paymens. Be sure to give full in formation when you submit the bond, so that it may be promptly credited to your account. For fur ther in formation, visit the near est VA office. Q. Does a discharge “under conditions other than dishon orable” mean any kind of dis charge except a dishonorable discharge ? A. Yes. An honorable discharge or discharge under honorable con ditions qualifies a veteran for pro vided by the G- I. Bill, and a dis- , honorable discharge disqualifies him. A discharga that is neither honorable nor dishonorable may qualify or disqualify him, depend ing on the “conditions” under which he recevied it. The Veterans Administration determines all such cases. Original Alloy Prehistoric ornaments of plati num hammered over gold were found in the graves of the priests and kings of the ancierft 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 Say you saw it advCrtised in The Omaha Guide _ " M U S T '.B E _ A misprin \\r r -that ALL men mail I'V out tfV lives in freedom frof Jsear anJuiant... Courtesy Institute for American Democracy, fnc. %J 777,000,000 POUNDS . USED FATS SAVED BY AMERICAN HOUSEWIVES IN PAST 4'A YEARS IN ONE-POUND CANS THEY WOUIP STRETCH 43,282 MIIESI; JIM CROW TAKES DIVE IN PA. POOL YORK.Pa.. — Rev. Frank A. Reed, president of the York bran ch NAACP stated that througli efforts of the York branch NAACP. segregation in the Muni cipal Swimming Pool has been broken down. The City Council removed the barriers against Negroes after presentation of the case of denial of accommoda tions by two Negro youths at the pool. The City Council went on re cord on July 18th against bar ring Negroes from the Municipal Swimming Pool after a session with representatives of the York branch NAACP was represented by Counsel Attorney Judson E. Ruch. For a number of years, it was understood that the policy of the York Municipal swimming pool was to discriminate against Neg roes. On Sunday, July 13, two Negroes youths presented them selves for admission and was de nied. On reporting their case to the president of the local branch Rev. Frank A. Reed. A com mittee from the executive board was formed and presented the case Monday, Julyl4, to Council man director of Parks and Play grounds. He acknowledged issu ing the order, but when confront ed with the fact that the matter would not rest there but would be referred to the NAACP le gal counsel he disavowed full re sponsibility for the act. claim ing that the responsibility rests with the whole council. The committee, the two young men involved, and Attorney Jud son Ruch, counsel for the branch appeared on Julyl5th before the City Council. The case was dis cussed and the NAACP attorney specifically pointed out that the denial of admittance to the city pool was a violation of the Pennsylvania Civil right law. beforewv hioc, xcO xvbzg vbmfg Because of the absence of one of the councilmen the discussion was deferred until Friday July 18th. At this meeting the case was thoroughly discussed, and the council being again confronted with the law, by motion unani - mously voted to rescind the act, and issued the following public statement: “In a caucus this morning of the City Council it was unanimously agreed that the law of Pennsylvania strictly pro vides for the public admission of any person to any public place and that includes the recrationa! facilities of the City of York.” Hipn nre Ten _ For many years deaths in the United States due to fire have been i • uoroointi orannH 1 fl 000 a voa* Fats and Oils Stocks Stay Dangerously Low Domestic industrial stocks of fats and oils will be about the same on November 1, 1947, as on that date a year ago, when they were the smallest in the past 18 years, the Department of Agriculture reports. Domestic fats and oils crops are expected to be larger this year than last year, but indus try's requirements have been such a drain upon fats and oils > s-ocks that household grease salvaged by American women 1 as been a most important factor j ia the production of goods that Hied this raw material. “Used cooking fats turned in fy women.” says Secretary of / -rricuifire Clinton P. Andersen. • ..ave been and continue to re i - ■ . i an important part of our j • -"i ’.'•cu?trial fats supply.’ ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION hCENTENNIAL 100 St. Mo. — A special Centennial message commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Evangelical Lu theran Synod of Missouri. Ohio and other States, was featured this morning over Bringing Christ to the Nations, the International Lu theran Hour. The Rev. Dr. John W. Behnken, President of the de nomination, asserted: ‘‘A hundred years ago, also in the city of Chicago, the first convention of j the so-called Missouri Synod as- I sembled for the purpose of organ izing our church body. At that time Chicag was a sprawling town of only 20.000 population. But even that small town paid little or no attention to the fact that about thirty-six men representing about 4,000 communicants from small .congregations in Missouri, Ohio and other states were assembled in Frist Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church. Nor was the population of town interested in the fact that all the delegates to this first con vention were so scrupulously con scientious about adopting a con stitution which would give precise and adequate expression to the important matters that weighed so heavily uron their hearts. They were so deeply concerned about organizing a church body which would stand foursquare upon Holy Scripture as the divinely inspired i Word of God. Speaking over the Mutual Broadcasting System and affilia ted stations. Dr. Behnken asserted “Today our Synod celebrates and sounds forth anthems of praise 1 and gratitude to God besause we realize and are fully convinced that God's grace has preserved for us pure Bible doctrine. After one hundred years we stand upon i the same platform of Holy Scrip ture and the Lutheran confessions upon which our fathers stood. We know that it is something unique, something very extraordinary that a church body should continu; for an entire century in sound Biblical teaching Church history shows that gradually and persis tently all manner of human inter pretations have crept in caused deterioration and disintegration in many church bodies. Even in Christ’s day this was true. The Savior in speaking of the Phari | sees say: "In vain do they wor ! ship Me teaching for doctrines the , commandments of men." Hence we recognize it as something de cidedly exceptional that a church body established upon a platform of soundly Biblical orthodoxy has maintained its doctrinal position for a hundred years.’’ Dr. Behnken concluded: “On the ! occasion of the many celebrations ! throughout our Synod as well as our celebration today we pledge ourselves anew to cling unserv ingly to thg truths of God’s Word and to adhere loyally to all its doctrines. We dedicate our selves anew to aggressive pro clamation of the precious Gospel of Christ, that many others might i share the wonderful blessings with us. We come with a fervent plea before our people that they may put forth ever greater efforts to , carry on the work of Christ in their local congregations, in their district, in the church at large, as well as over the radio.” Say you saw it adv«rtised in The Omaha Guide What’s Wrong With Profit? By GEORGE S BENSOH President of Harding College V~ Searcy. Arkansas --E3 _“ SOME FOLKS have the idea that , profit is something business takes unfairly and harmfully out of buying and selling and manufac turing. This idea is that what ever a company earns, no matter if it is a fraction of a percent of the total sales, this money is extracted underhandedly from the public. If you have ever felt that way, I dare you to take a good, straight look at America’s econo mic picture—and yourself. You arc paid a salary or a wage each week, are you not? You have invested your time, your energy, your brain-power, your muscle-power, your special skills, your training and experi ence. Do you think, each time you get your check, that you have done something harmful to your rommunity? Do you feel that you have cheated America ? Chances are that you do not feel that way at all. Taking YOU MAY BE able, af Profits ter paying all your ex penses, to put a little into the bank or insurance. You may be interested in investing a part of your savings in stocks or bonds. If you are like most Americans, you find you can in vest in some luxury goods. That is, you put some money into a car, an electric refrigerator, or perhaps a good collection of fish ing tackle. You find that these and other things you can put ■ your profit into will help you continue to live and to work. Business corporations are pret ty much like this picture of your sedf. Whether General Motors, the corner delicatessen, or your self — profit is what is leftover after all the bills are paid. Profit results from good management, thrift, imagination, and hard work. The big corporation turns some profits back into the com pany for new plants and new tools. The rest goes to the folks whose buildings, tools, machinery, and money the company has been using. A Way To THIS PROFIT is More Wages usually none too much. Compensa tion of employees in 1945, as estimated by the Department of Commerce, would have gone up only 7.9 per cent if the entire corporation income of the country had been turned into wages. Yet, if this were done, it would mean that millions of people, perhaps including yourself, would fail to receive dividends. Corporations would soon become bankrupt. Jobs would become scarce. The important thing is that . good profits and good wages go along together. The success of an enterprise, as well as the well being of everyone who gets in come, depends upon profits. When corporations have to accept losses, or even meager profits, wag’es for everybody go down and jobs be come hard to find. It is not just chance that brings these two things, small profits aqd low wages, in the very same' years. They belong together. All of us want profits. Why then, all the hullabaloo about wanting business enterprise to hand over any profit it makes to employees? To do this would be to cut our own threats. What we really need is more folks with the idea of going into business, mak ing money, and employing peo ple. The need is not more bank rupt corporations, but more prof it, more wages, and better living for everybody. I PRESS LABOR INSTITUTE — NEW ORLEANS —“Tectniques for Improving Relations between the Press and Organized Labor” is the general theme of the second worker education institute, origin ated by Dr. George Snowoen, liai son officer of the Louisiana State Federation of Labor, AFL. The institute will be a Press Labor luncheon and panel discus sion. Friday. August 8, at 1:00 p. m. in the Dryades street YMCA. Among the outstanding labor leaders to attend will be Ernest Delpit. president of the Carpent ers’ Union, J. Harvey Nette-, president of the Longshoremens Union, E. H. ‘Lige'’ Williams, president of the State Federation of Labor. E. J. Bourg. secretary - j treasurer of the Union and Mrs. j Veronica B. Hill, president of the League of Classroom Teachers. The oress will participate in the nanel through Carter Wesley, of Informer Group of Papers, Luc-'us Jones, the Pittsburgh Courier. Clarence Laws, the Lou isiana Weekly and Chester Sel tzer of the Item. NEGROES SUE CITY FOR FACILITIES LOUISVILLE.Ky., — On July 29. NAACP attorneys appeared in behalf of Dr. P. O. Sweeney, a Negro Louisville dentist in a suit instituted by him against the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Louisville. The suit is designed to make available to Negro citizens of Louisville factilities of those parks from which they are ex cluded. In the petition for man damus it was alleged that the white citizens had facilities which could not be found in those parks restricted to Negroes. Specifically, it requested that j Negro citizens be admitted to the ] golf courses and the amphi theater in view of the fact that no such facilities have been pro vided for them. Lengthy argument on pre liminary rpotions of the de fen- i dants was heard and briefs were i requested by the court to be sub mitted by August 15th. The case will probably be set for trial the latter part of August or early ■ part of September. orae at weaning 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- I or of puritv love and Sdelitv. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF. FATS AND OILS I 400 MILLION IbfT6XPOHTS^^^z~r—~ _ > 5“ ifffft If* 4** 1“ rffHTl P j (2,000 MILLION lb*. IMPORTS y .. >'r(BiT ~ 650 MILLION lb*. EXPORTS , j TODAY* w mm ' } s T_2miJ in i . V > ‘ 850 MILLION lb*. IMPORTS^ Before the war the United States imported five times as much fats and oils os were exported. Today, becauta of the world-wide 1 shortage, exports almost balance imports. JR. CHAMBER AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE GARDEN PROJECT Omaha school children will have an opportunity to display results from their summer gardens at Joslyn Memorial August 21st and 22nd. Bob Butler, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee Garden Project, announced today that the Jaycees and the Metropolitan Utilities District will act as co sponsors of the 1947 Garden Show. All children are eligible for com petion with 6,039 registered in the Yard and Garden Project. Twenty five classes will be available so youngsters can enter any type of fresh vegetable they produced this year. In addition, there are fifteen class ifications for canned goods, and ten for flowers. Schools with out standing group exhibits will be honored. Last year’s w-inner in group ex hibits, Miller Park School, is ex pected to defend its title. Details of the show can be ob tained from the Junior Chamber of Commerce office in the W. O. W. Building. Omaha public and parochial schools, Parent Teach er Associations and Douglas County Extension Agents are co operating with the Jaycees in the Project. JEWISH CONGRESS The AmericanJewish Congress today sharply criticized Justice Benvenga's dismissal of motion in the Supreme Court to grant a temporary injunction preventing the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from practicing racial discrimination in its Stuyvesant Town housing development and announced that an appeal would be taken against the decision. In a statement issued by the Chairman 0f its Executive Com mittee. Rabbi Irving Miller, the Am»r,C'i Jewish Congress declar ed that Justice Benvenga’s decis ion that the Metropolitan Life can exercise "all the usual powers and functions of the owners of a pri vately owned and controlled a partment house.” if upheld, will mean that laws involving the civil rights and liberties of Americans are to be applied in a complete vacuum where social, economic and political facts are utterly without relevance and meaning. It is completely unrealistic to pre tend that here is no difference be tween the owner of a ten-family tenement and the world s largest private corporation, between a two-stroy apartmen house and a housing project with a population larger than that of such Ameri can cities as Cheyenne, Wyoming; Stamford, Conn.; and Ithaca, N.Y. declared Rabbi Miller "Such thinking will set back by at least fifty years the fight to protect the democratic rights of Americans against the power of { corporate enterprise,” Rabbi Mil. ler’s statement emphasized. Primitive Origin The universality of man’s love of1" color was demonstrated early in antiquity. Each region and sub-re gion of the globe developed its own dye sources. It is estimated that nearly 1,000 different plants, vines, shrubs and trees were, at one time or another, employed for extract ing dyes. However -My a few ot the primitive ayes survived to an cient and medieval times.
