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The Omaha ouide A Weekly Newspaper Published Every Saturday at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Ncbeaaka Phone HArnay 0800-0801 Bn red as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927 at the Post Office at iwnaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. C. t GALLOWAY — — — — — — — — — — Publisher MAliJN DBVBREAUX, JR. — — Gen. Manager - Acting Editor Ai .ncv/s Copy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our ofi:-o not later than 1:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. Ad Advertizing Copy, not later than Wednesday noon, preceding date of . .sue, to insure publication. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN OMAHA ONE YEAR ......54 ®° ..$2.50 THREE MONTHS._ ... 51 50 ONE MONTH ..._ .-.-.-. SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT-OF-TOWN ONE YEAR.. 54.50 National Advertising Representatives: INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS. INC 5,5 Fifth Avenue, New York CStj, Phone Murray Hill -54<>2 Ray Peck, Manager_ Huge Fire. Losses Spur Observance Ot tf'ire Prevention Week Fire destruction in the United States threatens to break all records his year. , as the nation and The Omaha Guide prepare to toob serve Fire Prevention Week, October '53 to 11, by proclama tion ui President Truman, the local fire department called on all citizens to join in the annual city-wide drive againsi fire. < Fire Chief B. Meister cited estimates of the National Board of Fire Underwriters that U. S. fire losses may exceed $700,000,000 by the end of this year, the highest in U. S. history. this $700,000,000 loss will be twice the destruction caused by the burning of San Francisco, and nearly three and one-halfti mes the devastation done in any yearoi' the Luft waffe’s blitz on Britain. Deaths by fire also may set a new record wiM the! 552 deaths in thq Texas City disaster added to the 10,000 annual death toll. .Jcj*. According to estimates made, by President Truman’s conference on Fire Prevention, the United States suffers more than 831,000 fires annually, an average of one fire every 38 seconds. To combat this menace, the nation has to maintain a huge army of municipal fire fighters—800,000 of them—to guard life and property. By presidential proclamation and by order of state gov ernors, Fire Prevention Week will be observed in nearly 10, 000 communities in efforl, to. focus public attention on the need to save lives and resources fron* fire, PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION Whereas, each year preventable fires claim the live^ of thousands of our citizens, both young and old, and cause per manent disability or painful injury to countless others; and Whereas, the destruction by fire of our natural and created resources has almost doubled during the past decade, and cost this nation more than five hundred and sixty million dollars in the year 1946; and Whereas, this ravage, if unabated, threatens an even ea.anr.tous loss of life and waste of material wealth; and Wheretts, the program promulgated at the President'n Confivtgec on Lire i r^eni.un held at Washington^ in May, 1947, is designed t<* assist in stemming the! tide of death'a..J destruction from fires: Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President o£ the United States of America, do hereby/designate the week be ginning Oetobr 5, 1947, as Virtf.'Prevention Week. I earnestly request every citizen to eliminate all possib o eansr i of destructive fire in bis home and in his place ofbusi ness, and 1 urge that vigil ane< i against fire bo expended he vend Fire Prevention Week and bq zealously continued ail throughout the year. I invite State ant) local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, the Amrican National Red Crofts, busi ness and labor organizations, churches and, schools, civic groups, and agencies of the press, the radio, ant) the motion picture industry to cooperate fully in the observance of Fire Prevention Week with the objective of initiating a fire pre vention campaign continuing throughout the year. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in very feasible way in arousing the public to the ser iousness of the fire problem. In Witnest whereof, I have hereunto* set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of W ashington this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the In dependence of the United States of Amer ica the one hundred and seventy-second. HARRY S. TRUMAN Mechanical grocery store that eliminates clerks, cash re gisters and cashier-checkers has been patented by Memphis man, National Patent Council reports. The store is based on a miniature adding machine, called a key register, carried by customers from shelf to shelf. When the shopper inserts the key register into an attachment on the shelf it adds ithe sale and releases an item from the! locked stock/ of goods. The store has only one attendant. He inspects the final amount shown on the key register, collets and puts the money in a drawer. Inventor claims grocers can operate with this mechanism on a five percent profit margin. Oscilloscope, built into the cabinet of a phonographic recorder, permits voice of a singer or the tones* of an instru ment to be “watched” while the record j> being] made. In. vention lias been patented by two* Californians, says National Patent Council. ._____ I A radio system for distance and velocitv measurement has been patented by New Yorker says National Patent Coun oil. i ne People Dishonored” j I X ''a FILIBUSTER IS LE GITIMATE WHEN IT'S LEGITIMATE - I WANT TO TRANSFER TO THE SENATE -IN BILBO'S PLACE-TO STOP SOME OF THAT CRAZY LEGISLATION THEY'VE GOT OVER THERE! — Water... The parched earth jn the country ia gasping for water and watches every rain cloud as it floats by in the sky with a wistful eye, meanwhile the ' hot Nebraska zephyrus makes one think fondly of past blizzards. The 1 City earth has a much easier time, all I it needs to do is to turn its covering of emerald green lawn to a rusty brown. The house owner sees his lawn in trouble and turns a valve and lo! a sprinkler throws a steady stream of water until the parched earth cry« enough. This long spell of hot dry weather has made a real problem in distri bution for the water operating depart ment of the Metropolitan Utilities Dis. trict. The management determined, if it was humanly possible, to supply every one with their requirments of water without regulating the demand. This was accomplished by working every j main, every pump to the limit of its capacity and extending the filter plant beyond its registered rated capacity. The morale of the crews never broke, although on some of the hottest days they were forced to work around the clock. The water department were not only out for a record but determined to outlast t’ e weather. The new nr,:u built lr«t year, when it was possible to obtain supplies helped. This year when six miles of main now under con I it*— -ticn are completed cur problems of water distribution should be com peted for years to eorae. Here in a nut shell is our August pumping record. 1,842,070,000 Gallons of water. The nearest approach to this record was back in the drouth year of 1936 when in July we pumped 1, 475,300,000. The first 23 days of Au gust we averaged 62,870,000 gallons a day. This was higher than the pre vious day top record made August 2, 46 which was 62,600,000. The all time high for one day was made August 7, 47 with 71,600,000. The average daily high temperature for August according to the weather Bureau was 94 degrees. Average low 72 Degrees. This however is nothing to get excited about, why in July 1936 routh year high registered 114 low 54 degrees. This is one reason why Nebr. Summer weather is not discussed in polite society. A newi Yorker happened to be in Fremont one evening of that July 1936 when the themometer onlv registered 105,, He paced up and down the lobby of the Pathfinder Hotel, finally stopped before a native, who was seated enjoying the compara tive cool spell. “How large is this town?” Inquired Hie New Yorker” 110,9(36 proudly replied the native when they are all here. “What iir God’s name keeps them here?” Inquir ed the perspiring New Yoorker.” The 1 native replied wearily “It is just too ! damned hot to move.” i CAN YOU GUESS THESE? 1. What film star’s real name is Dona Mag Jaden? She’s a native of Tacoma. Wash. 2. What very rugged hero of the cinema played hopscotch in “Hands Across the Table” and changed a baby's diaper in “The Lady is Willing”? 1 3. In Warner Bros.’ forthcom , ing pioneer thriller, “Chey enne” Dennis Morgan won a poker had with four sixes in one “take”. How many takes r',ght have been required if hp h«d used an unstacKo-’ deck ? .. ■ —- ---" HAMPTON APPOINTS SEVEN IN GENERAL STUDIES HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va-- Ap pointment of seven new Hampton In stitute instructional staff members in the Division of General Studies—four of them in the Communications Center was announced by the college with the opening of the fall term Septem ber^. Other new staff members will be announced in the near future, an administration spokesman said. The four new Communications Cen ter staff members are Dowling M. Col ton, Instructor in Speech; Dr. Harry L. Faggdtt, (Associate |Professor of English; Mrs. Mary Neal Hopkins,j Assistant, Communications Center; - and William Kearney, Coordinator of Audio-Visual Aids. Mr. Bolton, a specialist in radio (writing and possessor of a B. A. de gree from LeMoyne College and an M. A. degree in Speech from North western University, taught at Virginia Union Universty last year. Dr. Faggelt holds a B. S. degree from Hampton and M. A. and Ph. D. Degrees from Boston University. Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Kearney are both 1947 Hampton graduates. The three other new instructors in General Studies are: Miss Dorothy, Lewis (B. S., M. Ed., and further study, University of Pittsburgh1, chemistry; Williston Hobbs (B. S., M. S., Howard University), mathematics; and C. Emerson Smith (B. A., Uni versity of Richmond; B. D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond), Applied Religion. Mr. Hobbs came to Hampton from the Howard staff and ! Mr. Smith from the staff of Davis j and Elkins College. Cecil T. Lewis, Acting Director for the Division last year, has been ap pointed Director for 1947-1948. He will he on leave of absence during the second semester. The new appointment in audio-vis ual services implements a plan to iro j prove the services through a new building and new equipment for the Coummnications Center. The $70,000 FWA-financed structure, nearing com pletion, will help the college in ita plan to bring every student to an est ablished level of proficiency in writ ten and spoken English. DID YOU GUESS RIGHT? 1. Janis Paige. 2. Fred MacMurray. 3. Approximately 54,132. Four sixes come up once in that many deals, according to the law of probabilities -- WHY, MR. POWELL! » j Put down William “Life With Father”) Powell as Adolphe Men. | Jou s rival for honors as a best. ! dressed man. It has just been dis j covered that tjie veteran actor never carries matches because they cause his pockets to bulge! HOLLY ITOODODDITY Raoul Walsh, famed throughout the | worId for having directed many of Hol lywood’s great outdoor adventure | classics-,lately “Sliver River” for j Warner Bros.—is strictly a city fellow | by birth and by rearin’. He was born j and educated in New York City. | FLYNN BLEACHED Errol Flynn, whose hair was bleach 1 ed several shades lighter for Warner j Bros. “Stiver River,” will keep it that ! 7Vor his next “The Adventure' | of Don Juan,” which will be in Tech moclor. I ’ Haver From Italy 1 • • r ,clover was introduced j ]'31g ’”~d S,a,es from Italy in ..CLEEVLAND NEGRO CITIZENS COUNCIL FIGHTS FOR CLERK The Cleveland Negro Citizens Coun cil learned this week that the case of Joseph P. Bryant, Jr., former postal employee, will be been made a na tional issue by the National Alliance of Postal Employees. The biennial convention of the Alliance, meeting in Cleveland recently, made the fight for the reinstatement of the falsely accused former postal clerk the num ber one objective of the postal organi zation by taking positive action to as sure the ultimate success in this case which has already attracted national national attention. Joseph Bryant, formerly employed as the only Negro window clerk in the exclusive Shaker Square Station of the j Cleveland Post Office was removed l from that assignment by postal in spectors who charged him with frau dulently demanding and receiving 72 partment took steps to secure his dis missal found Mr. Bryant was not guilty of the charges upon which the ; Department based their action in h;s dismissal. The Post Office Department per functorily refused Joseph Bryant's ap plication for reinstatement after h" had been exonerated by the Federal Court, however, after a tremendous storm of protest raised by the Cleve land community and echoed through out the nation and on the floor of Congress, the Department announced on July 29, that the case is being re viewed. Since that time no official word has come from the Department, although it has been reliably reported that Mr. Bryant has been offered his reinstatement on the condition that he first renounce in writing all claims to any back pay. The offer is said to have been rejected. The Cleveland Negro Citizens Coun cil was formed out of representatives of interested Geveland organizations, primarily to carry on an intensive campaign in close cooperation with the local Branch of the Alliance, to gain simple justice for Joseph Bryant. The NAACP, Urban League, Future Outlook League, religious, civic and labor organizations are all represent ed in the Council whose activities have aroused the support of all responsible individuals and organizations in the community. The magnificent response has included action by both central labor bodies, members of the Congress and the cooperation of both the white and Negro press. All recognize the inherent threat to the fundamental right of trial by jury and the power of the courts to protect an innocent victim from the effects of false charges. The Council was greatly heartened by the news of the action of the Na tional Alliance convention which, after ttnanimously passing strongly worded resolutions of protest against ‘ arbitrary actions of the Post Office * Department and of all-out support to Joseph Bryant, proceeded to set up a committee responsible only to the con vention and charged with the duty of taking whatever steps are necessary until the verdict of the Federal Court is fully implemented. The Ceveland Negro Citizens Coun cil has advised the National Alliance Committee that the Council will co operate fully with the Committee on the Bryant case and has in turn been advised that Dr. George M. Johnson. Dean of the Howard University School of Law, has also offered his services in any capacity. Dr. Johnson is a mem. ber of the Supreme Court Bar. Thus, it becomes apparent that with the Cleveland community solidily behind Joseph Bryant and with the Postal Al liance, counseled by Dr. Johnson, spearheading the fight for his rein statement on a national scale, the in gredient* for ultimate victory are at hand Lynching Is> Murder ... Continued from Sept. 20th. The federal Government and the State of Georgia are not ready to ap prehend "white men who lynch Negroes. They are not ready to stop lynching. Any mob, anywhere in the South, know in advance that it can lynch a Negro and that in nine hundred and nineiy nine times out of a thousand, nothing will be done about it. It is a racial matter based on color. If Jews, Germans, Danes or any other nation ality were lynched, something would be done about it—immediately. There are millions in America who would not participate ir. the lynching of Negro but who would not lift a finger to create an eu ironment that would make the lynching of a Negro possible. There .we perhaps millions in America who would not be one of mob to tesify against a lynching if they knew the lyncher by name. It all means that there are million of people in America of whom it cai. be said they condor" lynching. In thi> sense, many of us, good people educated people, and congressmen arr I part of the mob. The twenty men who lynched four helpless Negroes last July will never live in peace with themsel es again. As long as they breathe air, their con sciences will prick them. It will ! aunt them day and night. Every Negro they | see from last July up to the very mom ent they close their eyes in deatn will serve to remind them that one day “We lynched four Negroes.’’ Every time they pick up a newspaper or a magazine and see the word Negro, it 1 will serve to remind them what they I had done. Everytime they close their , eyes and in their dreams they will i see and hear the screaming voices of the four Negroes pleading for mercy. They will see the bodies of the lynch ed—black, innocent, helpless, dangl ing. They will never be at peace with themselves again. It will even effect their children as they will have to suffer deep-seated prejudice against Negroes, of atone in their souls for the sins of their fathers, or bear for ever the thoughts that their fathers lynched Negroes. It is a terrible load to carry around. ! The public seems to have the opin . ion that lynching is caused by sex or “racial intregity." It is a very con venient publicity material for leaders of the American Lynchings, but sex attachment is infact one of the small est causes among even the alleged causes of this barbarious forms of re pression. Lynching has always been the means of protection, not of the white women, but of profits. Is there a way out? Some of the ieaders of Interacial Commission are Ministers and there are a few cournge eous-ministers and Bishops who have taken an active stand against lynching. Unfortunately they are too rare. Lynching—means—rule by rope nJ faggot (faggot is a bundle of Stic's) instead of by orderly and civil)i.ed processess—has far too long been a curse to American and an affront to i decency and humanity. I I hope all who reads this poem by 1 “Isabelle M. Taylor” will give it a 1 thought The Lynching The moon lights the wooded death spot, To the shame of the wide spreading tree, The leaves wail in rustling protest. Their whispered threnody. A cloud veils the moon into •iarkness. Hie c shine less br . Itanlly. And tiic voice of th; dying black man Cries, Hast Thou, too, forsaken me"? See how the battered body j ills In a heap when they cut it down— See how the red, red. blood flows From the black man on the ground. LOYAL PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. George MacDonnell made a special trip from Austin. Tex., to Burbank, Calif., to watch their dau ghter Kyle make her screen debut in j “That Hagen Girl” at Warner Bros. U. S. SAVINGS BONDS DIVISION During the month of August, Nebr askans invested eight million nine hundred and nine thousand dollars in U. S. Savings Bonds, according to Le Iand R. Hall, state director of the Treasury U. S. Savings Bonds Division. Of the August total for Nebraska, five and one-quarter million dollars was in Series “E” Bonds, Hall stated. Purchases of Series “F” and “G” Bonds in August totalled three million 665 thousand Dollars. Residents of Douglas County invest a total of $2,022,194.04 in E, F and G Series U. S. Savings Bonds, during the month of August. “Nebraskans have invested more than 106 Million Dollars in U. S. Sav ings Bonds since January 1, 1947 ” Hall said, “This fine sales record has been accomplished with the help of Nebraska bankers, who have continued to recommend government bonds to their custoomers as an ideal form of investment for surplus funds.” «***• IMM*„ aqj ft c.ttoira I *»tnn9tnos si joaij uozeury »qj. ‘ «*3S J33J1G. I Wages and Baskets By GEORGES. BENSON rf Hading Cottaga Sl(D6/>AflUhM9 -a.— I-I A REAL BASKET of food, ac cording to the American Federa tion of Labor, is a good unit to use in measuring income. That is, how many baskets of food will your wages buy? The Fed eration’s “Monthly Survey” for July has put together some in teresting figures comparing wages in America in 1940 with wages in Europe in 1940. These figures are in terms of baskets containing items for adequate nourishment. An American fam ily of five would need about four of these baskets a day. One hour’s work by a factory Worker in the United States in 1940, according to the A.F. of L., would buy 2.83 baskets. In Britain an hour of work would buy 1.26 baskets. In France. 1.11; in Germany, 1.02; in Italy, .65; and in Russia, only .40. This means that the American worker could buy with his wages seven times as much food as a Russian could with his in 1940. Measure of THESE FIGURES Freedom are in keeping with personal observa tions in Europe in 1936 and again in 1946. The amount of food a worker could buy with his Wages was in direct proportion to the amount of freedom that a Worker enjoyed in his own coun try. Russia had the least indi vidual freedom and the lowest wages. America had the most freedom and the highest wages. More than 20 years of Com munism in Russia, under a totali tarian state which owns and op erates the tools of production, has i failed to change the ratio in com parison with America. The '‘Monthly Survey” is right when it comments that history har, proved that “free enterprise un der • democratic form of govern ment provides the highest living standards for workers." Workers are becoming aware that their best opportunities lie in preserv ing individual opportunity—free-! dom to own property and to ere-, ate and operate an industry or s business. I Threats I FEAR, however, that Today the American public does not understand some of the threats being made upon this very essential factor in ♦ he American way of life. I an» interested in seeing industry pay the highest possible wages. America must continue to pro vide the best for the most. But I see dangers threatening the very things that enable Ameri cans to buy more baskets of food than the workers of any land. 1 High taxes are cutting off investment of new venture capi-1 tal. This will prevent expansion I and growth. New tools and new j industries will not be available to provide jobs 2. An extravagant federal bud get continues to spend and to ■■ create inflation. This restrains men from venturing and invest ing. 3. Industrial relations are un steady. This instability again makes capital afraid to venture. Taxes must be lowered enough thal the ordinary man can keep a larger percentage of his earn ings, and so that men will he in- j spired to invest and venture out ‘ into business enterprise. We need ; to overhaul the federal budget, to get rid of wasteful and inflation- j ary government spending. We ; need firm but friendly industrial relations. If these things were achieved, they would do much tc preserve the essential ingredient of our system of high wages and high standards of living in thia land of the free. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE KANSAS CITY, Mo., — Maximum reinbursement to next of kin toward actual burial expenses for deceased of World War 11 to be finally interred inprivate cemeteries in the United States or Jn foreign countries under Pubic Law 383 has been ordered in creased from $50 to $75 as of Oct. 1, Col. M. A. Quinn, Commanding Office er, Kansas City Quartermaster Depit, , has been informed by The Quarter master General, T. B. Larkin, Wash ington, D. C. Col. Quinn said that this increase would affect all cases under the gov ernment's return or reburial progtam , inasmuch as final burials in this country and overseas would not be , under way until during October. ! In addition to' the reimbursement to ward burials in private cemeteries, the gove-nment provides transportation to the final destination, the caskets and headstones. Forms next of kin will use in ap plying for the reimbursement up to Si 5 will be left with next of kin by the military escort accompanying the remains. Although the first return of World War 11 dead is scheduled for October, Col Quinn pointed out that the Army and Navy Departments in Washington still are engaged in mailing out letters of inquiry to next of kin to poll their desires regarding final disposition of the remains of their loved ones. “This mailing^” the colonel said, “will continue over a period of sever al months. We have inquiries every day from next of kin who say thev have not received the letters. Next of kin will receive such a letter when the cemetery Jn which their deceased is buried is reached in this program." F'HAT NEXT! Oren Haglund, former famous ath lete and now an assistant director at Warner Bros. Studios, has an elabo rate inter-office communication system I between his house and his dog ken J nels. When the canines take a notion J to howl at the moon, he doaen't have i 10 out of bed to tell ’em to “Shut I up!" School Principals to Hold Meeting In Richmond, Va. RICHMOND, Va.—To form an ef fective liason between college officials j and elementary school principals, the ; Department of Elementary School Principals of the Virginia Association for Education, whch hoolds its 60th annual meeting here October 16, 17, and 18, has arranged an all-day dis cussion program for Wednesday, Oct. 15, a day prior to the convention. Educators at most of the collcge jn Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina which furnish teachers for the state, have been nvited to participate ir. the discussions. L. E. Sydnrr of Roanoke, president of the department, will preside; and P. J. Chesson of Norfolk will lead the discussion. Mr Chesson has been directing for more than a year a study of teacher selection, employment policies and new teacher success in the state's elemen , tary schools and training and apren ticeship requirements for student-tea j chers in the colleges. A preliminary survey of this report showed that many of the persons who accepted teach ing positions in the past few years have been handicapped because they J were trained for teaching position* i oother than the particular edlementary grades to which it was necessary to assign them. One of the aims of this meeting will he to work out between public school ^administrators and ccjlegce an im proved system of guidance which will seek to direct students to take teacher training in the area in which, because of school population and need, they I are more likely to receive employment, j “It is the purpose oof this division's j annual session” declared J. Rupert Picctt, executive secretary of the Vlr I einia Association for Education, “that i by mutual sharing of experiences and j policies he*ween college officials and 'elemcntr^v school principals plans I mar he pffprted for improved s'and ! ards for Virginia education. j READ THE OMAHA GUIDE LOO^I GUT BELOW! By Mackenzie ' - _