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2 he Omaha Lirban League When an agency changes from a group work program to a com munity organization program misunderstanding as to the a gency's new aims and philosophy may arise in the community. A group work agency is primarily concerned in working with and influencing groups of individual-. It works to improve the lot of persons who, as members of the communlitty, who may Influence others. This it may do by organiz. ing and sponsoring clubs and •classes' in recreational, voaational And social activities. A community organization Pr° gram, which the Omah Urbn > fers basically with a group work program in two ways. First, a community organization program Is directed toward the Improve ment of the total community rather than Any particular Indi ViduaJs or groups of individuals. Secned, the League’s formual for attaining its e.;- s is to form working committees of interested persons representing a cross sec tion of the community. These committees under the direction of the Executive or the Industrial ■Secretary carry out programs dc signed to Improve the community and thus the individual members of the community. Essentially, a community organization program is one of organizing community leaders to work toward overall neighborhood and community oeitermeni. y The Urban League works in the fileelds of Industrial and Vo. cational adjustments. Health, Race Relaions, Housing, Welfare, Education and Research. Some of the accomplishments of the Lea gue since its change in program -are as follows: 1. Industrial and Vocational Since February 18, 1947, 271 persons registered for employ ment with the Industrial De partment. Eighty-five (85) were placed hrough referrals, making a total of ninety seven (97) persons who received jobs through the League’s efforts. Figuring the average # income of each person as one hundred dollars per month, the total monthly income of the group would be $9,700 fo a yearly gross of $116,400. This Income ia a factor inde termining living standards in the Negro community and business development in the area. The Industrial Department does not compete with either State or private employment the State or private employ, ment agencies-rather, it sup plements their work and coop, crates with them. The State Employment Service has used the League's Industrial De partment many times to find jobs for Negroes whom they could not place. The reason for this is simple. The Indus trial Department seeks out work opportunities for Negro es. To (his end conferences have been held with the Util ity and Power Districts, State Veterans Service, Omaha Cold Storage Company, C. A. Swan son Company, City Directory Company, Sterling Manufac Victor Machine Company, Tumpane Manufacturing Com pany and others. Concurrently with these act. ivities the Industrial Depart partment is adivsing and counselling Negro applicants and workers regarding job training, job conduct and job responsibilities. A special Vo cational Campaign was put on last March in which over 700 workers and youths were reached. Housing I Housing is still the number one social problem which the community must eventually face. In addidtion to the over all lack of sufficient number of homes; the problem of Ne gro housing is aggravated by; (l)the low irtcome of Negro workers; (2(the rise in rental rates due to the removal of OAP controls; (3) restriction as to areas where the Negro may rent or purchase homes; and last the eviction of 76 Ne gro families, consisting of 286 persons from the Fontenelle Logan and South-side Terrace homes beginning in January of 1948. The newly formed Housing Committee has hardly beer* able to even scratch the stir, face In trying to meet these problems. The committee did make known to representative agency, civic, and business heads at a meeting in the Council Chamber, the pro blem and plight 6f Negro housing in Omaha and urgent need for immediate action. Al so the Housing chairman has brought the matter directly to th® Mayor. Other projects which the com mitte« has sponsored are; advising the Police Deparf ment of the need for better traffic control in the Near. Northside district; holding ar. educational mass meeting to acquaint interested agent ies with the housing problems of Negroes in Omaha and work, ing with other organizations In the promotion of better homes, yards, etc. trtiueauon There is a common—feeling among all citizens that our educational Institutions fall short of the desired standard. i The problem is neither new nor unusual. The Omaha sit uation, as in other commun ities, is the result of school neglect and indifference. The upsetting war yearsand the shortage of qualified teachers are contributing factors. The Urban League is working with the school’s administrat. ive heads and school princi pals to give Impetus to the solving of these problems. The League executive has given his services as race relations advisor on matters effecting Negro-white reltionshipa in the Omaha public schools. Race Relations The Race Relations Commit, tee has been the most active committee in the League pro gram. It has distributed over fifteen hundred (1500) pieces of appeal literature. It has placed selected issues of pub lications on race and minority problems in the high schools I and public libraries. It has promoted a mass fellowship serviceat Joslyn Memorial. Lime Essential Lime Is essential on acid soils for proper growth of many crop and pasture plants. To promote this de ' tired growth, sufficient lime should se applied to change the acid condi tion to a near neutral point. Under tnost conditions in the upland area the addition of lime to the soil also provides calcium for plant growth. Commercial fertilizer, incorporated with the soil management practices previously mentioned, fcs essential tor continued high crop production. Every crop harvested for grain, forage or other use removes plant food from the soil. Soils under con tinuous cropping systems, coupled with erosion, lose their plant nu trients faster than they can be re placed by nature. '8181 °1 *I»iI tnojj sajeis paituxy »qt o}oj paonpojjat scm jaAop ubsrapo *1*11 uiojjj jaaoio NELSON EDDY TURNS ADVENTURER If REPUBLIC'S “NORTHWEST OUTPOST” ~_ j» ted YATES PUBLICATIONS ^ Baritone Nelson Eddy ip a new type of role - that of a swashbuckling , adventurer-in Republic’s thrilling tale of California’s last frontier i d?y3. Northwest Outpost.” Ilona Massey co-stars in the big-budget picture for which Rudolf Friml composed the entire musical 'score. ►Featured, in top supporting roles are Joseph Schildkraat, Elsa LanJ (Chester, Hugo Haas and Lenore Ulric._ r ^jj PREJUDICE IS EXPENSIVE By Leo CHern®, Ex®cutive 8*0*/ Research Institute of America, Whatever the nature and how ever far the extent of our parti cipation in world affairs, discri mination—particularly that dir ected against the Negro—is the haeviest millstone around the nfeck of American foreign policy. In our effort to prevent Soviet domination of independent and deomcratic nations, a federal law against discrimination in employ ment would, in our Influence abroad, be worth the sum we have appropriated under Truman Doctrine. And so that I may be completely underatood, may I say that I wholeheartedly support every peaceful effort that will successfully impede the wesL ward march of th« Russian pol ice state. There are equally valid day-to day, dollars-and-centa reasons right here at home for the elim ination of prejudice in employ, ment, Any fiPSEimimity of work ers that Is discriminated against in employment Is also a com munity of consumers who dis criminates against the purchase' of American-made goods. Any mem who cant earn cant buy. The bare subsistence group in the American community is not on the market for radios, auto mobiles, washing machines, nor even bathtubs. When the aver age salary of one teacher in southern elementary schools is oaly 60 per cent of that of another teacher, quite obviously that teacher is only 60 pep cent the purchaser. He provides only three-fifths the economic stimu. lation to our total society that he is capable of. In ’the rural south, the Negro family’s income is only one-half that of his white neighbor. In the southern city it is only one third as large. In the north, the average white family's income is almost 60 per cant. It is estimat ed that in the south 80 per cent of all Negroes fall into the low. est income bracket as compared to less than 25 per cent of the white population; and while in a normal year 18 per cent of the white population will earn over $2,000. only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the Negroes will do so. If other words, America’s magnificent productive capacity and its even more Remarkable standard of living are not shared by one in ten of our citizens. Furtehermore, the costs of dis crimination in terms of product.! ivity, although diffuclt to meas ure, are substantial. When an em ployer is limited in his choice of qualified employee* to certain racial Or religious groups, he can not always choose the most skill ed man for the jojb. Every time he must hire the poorer man, productivity suffers and costs of production are increased. Like wise, when a skilled mechanic must take a job as a servant, the community suffers a double loss. Not only is his productive j capacity unutilized, but our in- ] vestment in bis education is wast. ed. j No economist can precisely in cate the dollar-and-cents cost of ' certain aspects of discrimination. * But we do know that the follow ing conditions involve an enor-1 mous national cost. The Negro’s average life is ten years shorter than that of the white population. Three times more Negro than white women die in childbirth. Illness and dis. ease do not confine themselves conveniently within color groups. Wherever the death rate for the Negro is highest, so too does the death rate rise for the members of the white race. In those states in which infant mortality among the Negroes is greatest, the deaths of infant white children are greatest. There are many times when an economist wishes he could actually compute the dollars-and-cents value to our na tion of a single life. We know that life has a value. A live person works, buy, builds, ex-! pands, stimulates every faee of our economic activity. To the ex tent that we fail to protect the lives of any group, we diminish the fruits of our society and the share of each of us jin them. All the factors add up to an enormous cost to any area where a large segment of the popula tation is discrimination was greatest, whereas the income for the more democratic states was the highest per capita in the country, averaging $800. There have even been responsible estimates that the total cost of discrimination in our country is between $15 billion and $30 bill ion a year. There are valid economic rea sons for the United States seek, ing and enjoying markets in other countries. There are few people Who question that miy in crease in the living standard of the Chinese or the English or those in Greece and Italy will en large the demand for American goods and services. There can ob ( LYNCHING FIGURE ASKS $50,000 SUIT DISMISSAL SHREVEPORT. La, — A plea ; to the jjjurisdiction of United of , United States Disrict Court ark ing the dismissal of the $50,000 ! damages brought by Mrs Carrie Lee Jones, widow of John C. Jones, Minden lynch mob victim, against Oscar Henry Haynes, Sr, i sheriff of Webster Parish, i In seeking the dismissal of the suit. Attorney Harry D. Bobth of Shreveport, of the Booth, Lock ard and Jack law firm, repre sented Sheriff Haynes and raised several exceptions on which he based the plea. Haynes’ attorneys contended that Mrs. Jones is not a bona fide resident of California, as was stated in her petition, and that if she is now living in California she Is merely there for the sole Sole and '"exclusive purpose of attempting to vest jurisdiction’’ in the federal court. I It was further contended that * on or about August 7, 1P16, Mrs. I Jones was a resident and citizen I of Webster Parish, La, and con. ! tinued to be a resident and citizen and that her present residency in ! California was brought about by ■ the intervention of a third person ■ soley for the purpose of bringing the suit and attempting to vest Jurisdiction thereof in the federal courts. 1 In conclusion, it was- requested I that plaintiff’s suit be dismissed for lack of purisdlction. NAACP Attorney A. P. Turc aud, representing Mrs. Jones, de scribed the plea as an attempt j to raise “sectional prejudices’’ in the case. John C. Jones, a World War 11 veteran, was taken from the Webster Parish pail at Minden.! La., where Haynes is sheriff, on August 7, 1946 and was lynched by a white mob at Dorcheat Ba- ’ you. His 17.year.old cousin, Al bert “Sonny Man" Harris, also taken from the pail with Jones where both were held on supicion of spying on a white woman, was severely beaten but feigned death and was successful in es. escaping the mob and fleeing to the New York headquarters of j the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People I where he told a full story of the j lynching. New Orleans newspapermen and NAACP officials conducted an on-the-scene investigation of the affair and secured the names of several alleged members of the J mob. Five of the persons were j brought to trial and were found not guilty. Mrs. Jones fled her home in Cot ton Valley shortly after the in vestigation, going to Shreveport thence to Los Angeles, California. At that time Mrs. Jones told new. spapermen that she feared for her life. viously, therefore, be no valid arguments against the removal j of those arbitrary barriers to the ! expansion of economic opportun- j ity for all groups in our own conutry now suffering discrimina tion. Each economic advance in the history of the United States has been aohieved by the elimi. natic^n of an area of distaste, social myth or prejudice. Sweet Sea' • The Amazon river is sometime* known as the “sweet sea." PORTRAIT IN GLASS ___! w — This photograph is printed in— not on—a new glass, which through prescribed use of ultraviolet light and heat, can receive* permanent colored prints with three-dimen sional effect, according to National Patent Council. Photographic re productions in this newly patented. *“■ have an ageless quality. They j will not fade. Sensitive only ts .ultraviolet light, the glass does not .have to be handled with the car* photographic paper. There is no “grain” in the design i ( Forgotten Inventor_HflM OBTAINED PATENT FOR. , FIRST PRACTICAL CAST-IRON PLOUGH.*. P*tfUOltd4y YlatumnL Patent Council THE HOLLYWOOD LOWDOWN By 3 id INSIDE BRIEFS!!! Joyce Reynolds is limping around the Warner lot with a pair of sore feet, cut by coral when she tried to spear a fish while vacationing in Hawii—Hurd (the actor) Hatfield is a devotee of unique amusements. His fav. orite diversion, he says, is snub, bing snobfi!—Jane Wyman is hav. ing a routine health checkup, ( after which she’ll begin her star-| ring role in “Johnny Belinda’’ at Warners—Claude Rains wants know if thi3 is "re-e-evenge!” In Michael Curtiz’ mystery-thriller,' “The Unsuspected” (coming soon I he slays Audrey (peachy) Totter ! with same pistol Bette Davis used to kill him in “Deception”—Once upon time stellar Robert Hutton was an usher at the New York; Strand—Add Hollywoododdities ■ i Peter Lorre is writing a book ■»* i humorqurs poetry—“Joan of Lor ! raine” (with Bergman) is now scheduled to roll at the Hal Roac’- ! lot on Sept. 16—after two false starts—Add working wives: Mrs. Eric Blore manages the Ann Meredith Snack Bar in Beverly Hills—Speaking of music: David Raskin’s 450-page score for "For ever Amber” was written in V days, recorded in another 18 and plays through 118 minutes of t* • picture, all but 16 minutes of *t3 entire running time— Rural note: Gale Robbins, recently arrived from Gotham to make her screen debut in “Ever the Beginning” bakes the best angel food cakes in all Hollywood!—nAd Lilli P<0 nier fell from one of those hign boy, 1880-bicycles while starring in the same film—Bette Davis’ HOMOCENIZED Bond Bread new baking miracle winning thousands jggl Aw * Hpaappppi■■ I n^ggB • pp OUR RADIO MINISTRY j The Council of Churches offers a ministry of the air to the Omaha area in its daily radio program, “Morning Devotions’, broadcast over Station KBON, i which is now housed on the sixth 1 floor of the Saunders-Kennedy j Building at 18th and Douglas. Please note that on Monday, j September 29th, the time for the : “Morning Devotions” broadcast | will be changed to 8:15. Ministers in charge are: | Sept. 15: Rev. K. W. Brown Sept. 8-12: Rev. Everett Cormack Sept. 1519: Rev. Joseph B. Bar. j nett Sept. 22.26: Rev. J. B. Brooks Sept. 29-Oct. 3: Rev. Charles Liv ingston Oct. 13.17: Rev. Allen C. Berg. ' quist i Oct. 20-24: Canon George gt Tyner Oct. 27.31: Rev. Harvey Clark | APOLOGIES TO COUNCIL . BLUFFS j , - We intended to broadside foi* ^ the Council Bluffs Sunday School Parade Sept. 13 an invitation to Omaha. We are late. 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