OUR Guest Column AND SO THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT! By Morgan Bloke The group of some 20 white men, who brutally murdered four Negroes in Walton coun ty, will very likely spend the rest of their days on earth sec ure from punishment. A feder al grand jury that for four we eks investigated the murder ad mitted the quest futile. So confident wefe the per trators of this foul crime that they would never be brought to justice they didn’t even wear masks. The victims were two men and their wives. One of the two men had been relea sed on bond after stabbing a white man. The other three were entirely guiltless of any illegal act. The murders, ot course, Qiu not vanish after the crime. They are still pursing their nor raal lives in the same locality. One can assume that most of them are married and have children, and celebrated1 the birthday of the gentle Nazar ene who proclaimed peace on Earth, good wall towards men. Many of them, no doubt, go to church every Sunday and join in singing the Christmas carols and perhaps even pray to God and thank Him for their blessings. What horrible blasphemy is merely the thou gh of it! It is increditable that these murders, or many of them, are utterly unknown to any of the law-abiding citizens of their community. Yet not one brea th of testimony involving any of them was presented to the grand jury at Athens. If the victims of the crime had been white people, the murders long since would have been discovered and put on trial. But because of that aw ful thing called racial prejud ice even white peoples who are ordinarily kind and noble and are rated’ the “the best people" do not react with righteous in dignation over the murder of four memebrs of a racial min ority. Some apparently have the attitude that, as nothing can be said to bring the victims back to life, and will only tend to add to the stain against the state and probably stir up fur ther racial troubles, the best thing to do is to forget ail about it. I have been informed that my further mentioning of it would only lose friends for my self and not help the general situation at all. My reply to that is if niy attitude towards this murder loses me friends, niv only regret is that 1 was ever dishonored by their friend shin in the1 first place. As long as this crime'goes unpunished that terrible stain in indelible black ikn will for ever remain o nthe escutcheon of Georgia. “Out. damned spot,” cried MacBeth. But it wouldn't out. And neither will this spot. Some people seek to Square their conscience about the mas murder of innocent people by saying, “Don't you read in the papers about horrible crimes committed by Negroes? \\ hy don't you think about that some time?” hTe deeds of the criminals of both the Negro and white races have no bearing what ever on such atrocities as com mitted by those 20 white men in Walton county. As the whi tes outnumber the Negroes in population some tenfold in the Uinted States, so do the crimes of white people proportionate lv outnumber the crimes of the Negroes. There is no more jus tice in blaming the Negro race as a whole for its criminals than to blame the white race for its criminals. Perhaps there may not be citizens of respectability who could apprehension of the Wal ton county murders. But let us assume that is at least one. I mean with such information, who is a member of good stan ding in the church and com munity. with a wife who loves and respects him and little children. H i s conscience begins t o give him a little trouble, and his prayers are sounding a bit hollow in his talk to his consc ience thusly. “My first allegiance is to my wife and children. If I give ev idence in this case I may be c©l Society » VOL-XXrNO:,-^ THE~OMAHA~GUIDE OMAHA, NEBR. Sa,U,day. March^O,H. ,9a8 ONLY TEN CENTS PER COPY knocked off myself.” And concience will reply, “What shall it profit a man to gain security and lose honor and self-respect?” And conscience will recall the words of Jesus. “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of hea ven.” MODERN SCIENCE Man proven dead over 60 hours, brought back to life by Electro-chemical process In demonstration the effects of the Galvanic currents and electrolytes on tissue, combin ed with the new discovery (el ctrolyte serum) this work will be shown to the public for the I first time. It is necessary to have in imind if you are to attend. You are not going to see experi ments. Research in this work began in March 19440 when the serum was discovered. En ough progress was made that enabled life to be restored to a human body, requiring about two and a half days of work. Recorded 1945-1946. Proposed Program 1. Demonstration on ani mals, remove life organs, and maintain life and control acti on. 2. Revive and control action of dissected tissue. 3. Revive animals, put to death for this purpose. 4. Repeat (for the second time in the history of medical 'science) Revivification of a I human corpse. (A man restor ' ed to life in 1945 still alive to j day.) « Permission to demonstrate this work in the State of Cal ifornia was asked of Sacram ento in 1945. With no issuan ce of objections, such work jwill be carried out with the ■permission of the Los Angeles Health Department, and the Los Angeles Police Commis sion. Some that have shown interest I in this discovery: University of Calif. Hospital San Francisco, Calif. Freedman’s Hospital Washington, D.C. Putnam Memorial Hospital Bennington, Utah Torbett Clinic and Hospital Marlin, Texas Hennemann Hospital Philadelphia, Pa. ! The Brooklyn Hospital Brooklyn, New York ! Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, Pa. San Rosa Hospital San Antonio, Texas Laguna Clinic Laguna Beach, California , Wayne University Detroit, Michigan i Utter McKinley Mortuaries Los Angeles. California National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, Incorporated. New York, New York Some that are expected to have representatives present: Argentina Iceland Belgium Italy Bolivia Latvia Brazil Lithuania England Luxembourg Canada Mexico Chile Netherlands Colombia Nicaragua Costa Rica Norway Cuba Panama Czecholovakia Paraguay Denmark Peru Dominican Rep. Poland Ecuador Sweden El Salvador Mexico Estonia Uraguay France U. S. S. R. Honduras Venezuela i Cooperating in this work are [nearly 500 participants, of .whom are many technical en ' gineers, doctors of nealv every branch of science, and many laymen to fill every important need. Of these are about 50 lo cal nurses and about 150 local doctors. The public will be invited to attend as an audience. Presentation of this adver tisement or pass will permit those that make reservations to claim such reservations for the demonstration. Special Notice Retain this copy or pass. Ex act time and place of demon stration will be mailed to those that request reservations. Make reservations now. Send $330,000 Scholarships $330,000 SCHOLARSHIP 91 Negro Boys and Girls to Benefit from $330,000 Comp etition financed by Pepsi Cola Company as a Public Service: Largest Scholarship Project in United States Outside of Gov ernment Subsidy In keeping with its purpose I of presenting opportunities for higher education to the Negro youth of the South, the Pepsi Cola Scholarship Board has an nounced the names of 17 Neg ro high school seniors who will receive scholarships which will send the mto college with full tuition, a monthly allowance, and traveling expences paid for four years. Seventy four other outstanding students sel ected from the finlaalists in the competition will receive Col lege Entrance Awards, each of which will pay $50 when the winner enters college in the fall. Announcement of these aw ards was made by Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University and a member of the Pepsi-Cola Board, stated that the winers were chosen from among 1,875 candidates' representing 652 Negro high schools in the South which par ticipated in this forth annual Pepsi-Cola scholarship- compe tition. Winnigs top honor in this search for college material was 16 year-old Sanford Pearl Bra dby, Jr., of Schofield High school in Aiken, South Caro lina, who ranked highest a mong the 667 Negro boys and 1,208 girls who took part in this contest. Maureen Delores Watson, 16. a student at Sum ner High school in Saint Louis Missouri, was the highest ran king girl participant. A total of 46,112 white and Negro students from 10,629 high schools throughout the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico participated in the 1948 Pepsi-Cola Scholar ship program, according to the report sent by John M. Staln aker, the Board’s director, to President Johnson. In the Sou th, scholarship awrads were set aside specially for Negroes, but in northern states, white and Negro students competed for the same scholarships. Al together, 72 2 awards were made this year. The awards these contest ants have won, which have a value of $330,000, are financed by the Pepsi-Cola Company upon the recommendation of its president, Walter S. Mack, Jr. Designed to discover young men and women of outstand ing ability and train them for leadership within their own fi elds, the entire program is of fered as a public service to the youth of America, Stalnaker iaid. The administration of the program has been placed in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola Scho larship Board, which is incor porated seperately fr*om the company and composed of some of the nation’s leading educators. In announcing the 1948 win ners, Stalnaker said thatja tot al of 722 awards were granted to boys and girls throughout the country this year. One hun dred and twenty-one were four Year Scholarships, at least two [of which were awarded in each of the 48 states and in the Dist | of Columbia, and one ea‘ch in | Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Seventeen of these schol arships were set aside sepci ally for the colored in those states which have seperate ed ucational systems for the col ored. Twenty-six additional a wards, called Honary Sckolar [ ships, were given to students who made distinguished recor | des in the contest but did not I have financial need. Seniors who won the Four Year College Scholarships will have their full tuition and o ther required fees paid for 4 years at any accredited college they wish to attend. In add ition, they will receive a $25 a month allowance for four sch oolyears and traveling expen ses at the rate of three cents a mile for one round trip betw een home and college each yr. They may select any course of study which leads to an A. B. or a B. S. degree and they need only remain in good stan ding intheir colleges to main tain their scholarships, Stal naker said. The 575 runner-ups for the Four Year College Scolarships were given College Entrance Awards. Approximately ten of these granted in every state an five ineach of the territories. College Entrance Award win ners will receive $50. to help defray initial college expences if they registar at an accredit- , ed actdenlic college for the 1948 and 1949 term. 1 he boys and girls who won Pepsi-Cola scholarship compet awards in the fourth annual ition were first elected by their < classmates to compete as stu dents who were “most likely to make animportant contri bution to human progress,” Stalnaker said. These candi dates then took a special schol astic aptitude test in their own schools in Nevember. Fifteen finalists from each state (eight 1 where only one scholarship was to be granted) were select ed on the basis of the scores made on the test, and these finalists took the regular sup ervised college aptitude test of ' the College Entrance Examin ation Board in'Januarv. Of the 12 contestants in each state (6 ir the case of only one scholar ship) who ranked highest on this second test, the two top scoring students who had fin ancial need were given the 4 year College scholarships and the runner-up received the col lege Entrance Awards. Described by Director Stal naker as the largest scholar ship program project outside of government subsidy, the Pe psi-Cola scholarship program is completely controled and ad ministered by educaters them selves. The Pepsi-Cola Scholar ship Board is composed of 18 members as follows: Floyd W. Reeves, professor of administration, University of Chicago—president Francis L. Bacon, principal, Evanston Township High School, Evanston Illinois Edmund E. Day, president, Cornell University Harold W. Dodds, president, Prinston University Milton S. Eisenhower, presi dent, Kansas State College Paul E. Elicker, executive sec retary, Natl. Anss. of Second ary School Principals Alvin C. Eurich, vice presid ent, Stanford University Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S. J., president Fordham Univer sity Willard E. Goslin, superinten dent of schools, Minneapolis, Minnesota Frank P. Graham, president, University North Carolina Rufus C. Harris, president, Tulane University Henry T. Heald, president, 111. Institute of Technology Mordecai W. Johnson, presid ent, Howard University Wilbur K. Jordan, president, aRcdliffe College Walter S. Mack, Jr., president Pepsi-Cola Company Paul A. Rehmus, superintend ent of schools, o Nsas- s Marjorie H. Nicholson, prof essor of English, Columbia University. Paul E. Rehmus, superintend ent of schools, Portland, Ore. John M. Stalnaker. professor of psychology, Stanford Un iversity—Director Washington, D. C.—Honor ed or his efforts to eliminate the poll tax, Rep. George H. Bender, Ohio at Large, is pre-4 sented atestimonial plaque by Mrs. Virginia Foster Durr, (right) vice chairman of the National Committee to .Abol ish the Poll Tax. Participat ing in the ceremony, is Mrs. Mary McLeob Bethune, pres ident of the National Council for Negro Women. The pre- , sentation was made at a rec- 1 ent dinner given by the nation al committee. Bender is the author of an anti-poll tax mea sure which will soon be debat ed on the House floor. $10,000 PRIZE CONTEST A nationwide contest' is now under way, running from now until/April 10, sponsired by the Bird’s Eye-Snider Division of General Foods Corporation. Contestants are asked to fin ish in twenty-five words or less, the sentence: “I serve Birds Eye peaches because. . ” Prizes will total $10,000, with first prize of $2,500, a second prize of $1,000, and a third pr ize of $500. In addition, there will be ten $100 prizes and 500 $10 prizes. Each entry must contain the name of the contestant’s local Birds Eye dealer, and include a box top from a package of Birds Eye quick frozen peaches. That quick-frozen peaches are popular is indicated by the fact that as Birds Eye points out,in 1942 13,800.000 pounds of peaches were frozen, where as the 1946-47 pack was 103, 600,000 pounds. N. A. A. C. P. Regular monthly meeting will be held Sunday, March 21, 1948. At Bethel Baptist Church South Omaha 30th and R. Str. at 3:30 P. M. Mrs. Lucille Gordon in charge of program, you are requested to attend this meeting. (no money) name and address only. There is no charge of admit tance. Demonstrations spon sored and financed by discov rere. Mail to Mr. Edward R. Stewart P. O. Box 1710 Los Angeles, 53’ Calif How Iowa Ranks Iowa ranks first in the percentage of farmers owning automobiles and fourth in paved road mileage. Those Reptile Migrants Turtles are the only known rep tile migrants. At fixed periods-they move to shore to deposit their eggs. To Her Who Waits Women inherit 70 per cent of the estates left by men and 64 per cent j of those left by other women. AMERICAN RED CROSS Douglas County Chapter Thousands of Nebraskans have had the occasion to know and value the services of the Red Cross during the 1947 and thousands more will be aided by the Red Cross this year”, W. B. Millard, Jr., 1948 Red Cross_ Fund Campaign chair nan for Douglas County, said this ‘week. “The Red Cross serves every hour, every dav in countless, unheralded ways,” he added. Millard urged volunteer workers who have been unable towork because of weather conditions to make use of good weather in their solicitation work. He thanked those who have given to their Red Cross and asked others to give generous ly when the volunteer workers com eto call. • Old Temperature Test By holding incubator eggs in the eye, the ancient Egyptians and Asi atics determined the proper degree of heat for the eggs. Army recruiting ad will be _On Page Five. QGS3 Receives Check Rev. Shirley G. Sanchez, Re ctor of St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church receiving check for okl church property from Edward Sklenicka, Omaha City Solic itor. When the City of Omaha condemned the St. Philip’s Church property for the Kell om school Recreation Center, the amount the city could pay was far below the replacement value of the church building. It was decided however, to ac cept the amount offered rather center. he check or warrant, was for $18,250 and another war rant for about $1,000 will be added when some legal matter are settled in connection with the transfer. St. Philip’s Church has pur chased ground for a new chu rch at the southeast corner of 30th and Spenser Streets. A campaign to raise funds for the ne wehurch building is now being conducted by all Epis copal churches in Nebraska. Matthew Kennedy Matthew Kennedy’s piano recital at Fisk University, Mar ch 7th, was warmly received by local music lovers and crit ics. The Nashville Tennessean listed amoung its assets a “bril liant technical equipment’’ and “a clear conception of interpre tation.” A graduate of Fisk, and former piano accompanist with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, he is now a member of the muis faculty of the universitv. I --- Frank J. Kobe's' Omaha -\ebr., March 11— Frank J. Kobes, 58, bond and insurance man of Crete, Nebr. today was named a director of the Metz Brewing Company. PHILADELPHIA ADOPTS FEPC MEASURE Philadelphia, March 12th (NIPS) By a unanimous vote of the 19 members of the City Council, a Fair Employment Practices bill was enacted into law during a regular session of that body held yesterday. Philadelphia this has joined the ranks of other large metro politan cities which have ad opted equable employment op portunities for minority group. Considerable interest has been displayed in the hill since its introduction by Councilmen Woodie Armstrong, lone Neg ro member frfcim the fourth District; George Maxman, al so of the 4th District Louis R. Council head Fredrick Garman Although the bill had been approved by a sub-committee after a hectic preliminary hear ing during which the oppon ents and proponents of the bill had vigorously conducted their positions, final adoption had been delay ed at the last regular session of the body. liTe final debate was conduc ted in an orderly fashion, and the more than 500 gallery sp ectators who were in attendan ce broke into spontaneous but subdued applause when the tal ly was announced, since unan imous apporval had not been anticipated. As finally passed, the ordin ance bans discrimination a gainst employment opportun ities because of race, color, re ligion or national origin. A five member, non-salaried comm ission is to administer the law, and investigate all complaints. Violators may b e punished with fines up to $100 or jail terms of 30 days. The measure is applicable to all employers vv ohhave 1 or more employees on their payroll, but does not include religious, educational, or charitable organizations. Mr. Kobes, who has been Mayor of Crete 24 years, was elected to the board at the Metz annual meeting at the brewery in Omaha. His election was announced by Robert A. Drum, Omaha, president of Metz, who also announced the re-election of the other members of the board, Sam W. Reynolds, Al lan A. Tukey, John H. Hop kins, L. B. Long, Walter J. Singer and Robert A. Drum, all of Omaha. Mr. Drum said Mr. Kobes was elected “because of what he can add to the Metz Brew ing Company’s operations in knowledge,- 'experience and character and to give outstate Nebraska representatives a moung the company’s direct (Continued on Page 3) ■MMMnnmMiimimRfMTHwimiNraintiwiKHiHiiiii>: