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Entered as second Class Matter March 15th, 1927, at the Post Qffice of Omaha, Nebraska, under the Ast of Congress of March 3, 1879._ C. C. Galloway — — — — President Mrs. Flurna Cooper — — — Vice-President Daniel L. H, West_—_—_—_—_Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA One Year — — — — — $4.00 Six Months — — _ — — $2.50 Three Months — — — — — $1.75 SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT OF TOWN One Year — — — — — $4.00 Six Months — — — — — $3.00 Three Months — — — — — $2.00 All News copy of churches and all Organizations must be in our office not later than 4:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All advertising copy or paid articles not later than Wednesday noon, preceeding the issue, to insure publication. National Advertising Representative: INTERNATIONAL UNITED NEWSPAPERS, INC. 545 Fifth venue, New York City, Phone MUrray Hill __ 2-5452. RAY PECK, Manager. _ TIME TO~EX AMINeToUR POLITICAL PARTIES We are now in the midst of a talkathon, and when double talk is the accepted thing. We are speaking about the pres ent political campaign, and the promises and pledges the part ies and their candidates make to special groups in order to win f their votes. These are indeed, times that try the souls of men. And if ever the souls of any group, has ever been tried, it has been those of the colored voters. He has been wooed and he has been damned by every political group who has made an attempt to win an election. These are very crucial days in which wre live, and the time is now come for some serious thinking on the part of every man, woman, and child.. Of couse. thre ar Negroes who would not think of voting for any one, except a Republician, be he a good or a bad republician, and for no other reason than that it hap pened to be the party in power when Negroes were emancipat ed. Then, there are Negroes who swear the Democratic party, and ar just as sincere in their reason for supporting it, as are their republician brethen. Also, we heve another segment who are ardent supporters of th Progressive party and the Socialist and other minor parties. rohtical parties are built upon the threshold ot great qu estions of time, and once those questions have been settld they go on to other qustions or disband. But w fail to see any great democrats as far as the Negro is concerned, one is no better, or worse than the other. It doils down to th point where you must choose your man. For instance in recent yrears, Teddy Rwosevelt was a good man, perhaps as good as Lincoln, and both were republicans. On the other hand, Grover Cleveland, was certainly no worse than republician Rutherford Hayes, he was neither the best nor the worst as far as Negroes .were concerned, you might say that he steered a middle course, but he >vas fair, and he was a demo crat. Likewise, was Franklin D. Roosevelt democrat, and he too. was a mighty good man as far as Negroes wre concerned. Taft and Wilson wre about alike, and one was a Republician and the other was a dntocratj Each of them has somthtng worthwhile to his credit, but please bear in mind, that whatever any of them did in behalf •of the Negro, was not done because of ai\y spontaneous action •on their part, or that of the party they represented. \\ hatver the benefits the Ngro received, was because of constant ham anering at the gate of democracy oh bis part. The republician administration in 1860, would never have freed the slave, if it could have forced the surrender of the South bv any other means. The democratic administration in the 1930’s and up to now, would not have issued executive orders and acceded to the demands- of the Negro for justice and demo fcr^cy, had they not seen the handwriting on the wall in t&w matter of winning elections; to doubtful states. Politics is pol itics. and whether played by a republician or democrat both wiU ; at times stoop mighty low to get intooffice. And! whew menseefc; to get into office the forget f-aboat mccai and ethms. __ The record of the Northern republician has been just a.-L bad as that of the Soutem democrat,, both have played dirty, politics with America’s ooe^tenth. ] Look at the records of each will bear ihis out, The only differ-; gnee, depending upon which,- was in p«wer. , Party platforms are meaningless most of the time, for they-'] verv seldom carry out what they pledge in them. Taka- for in-5 stances the republican platforms;; they have a plank concern-! ing the rights of Negroes in every platform since 1920, and. what: have \hey done to carry out any part of it? They certaualy werer i in control of both branches of Congress fretn 1920 until 1932,. and from 1946 until the present. j They have delibertly brought: up measurers, knowing full 1 weT' that they did not intend to uee them trough,but only toj nee lie the southern dmpcrals into, filibustering therm t* death., f Tre did not want the poll-tax to pass, or the arati-iynch F hill FEPC or any other civil rights measurers for that mat-, ter' rhev were brought up only U> embarrass theadndnistrat-j inn now in office. The democrats,, on th other hand, brought no these measures only because it neded votes to win elections . W< have only benefited from eitiaer party, because the Negm like other minority groups has grown strong enough to put ore sure upon the politicians, thus, forcing them to accede in P \tincr his rightful share of democracy they talk so much g™ t fhere is no way under the sun, .that the repuWxcian can awav the reason why it acted as it did in the last speci 1 sion not onlv about those measures affect all of the peo ple Unless it was'to gather campaign araumticm. The question c' lather or not the president is sincere, or is playing poht ?t '' hfhe matter of civil rights program, is left to-the individual B,,,™e do know, that if be is it is no more than what the «m,bl.“ians have done and are now attempting; to do. except Iha‘ Truman has beaten them to the draw. thl ™ citizen should be interested in men and measures, and 71. nartv In the South, where there are only demo not m the P - choice must be made between the candtates. Sod iTSstf North West or South, men and measures should bC C BnutCtehedtragety ITit alibis the fact that the kind of Con h^ve been electing; set such a bad example m demo greSSeSthat d is a hollow mockery to democratic ideals and ip m?in es It is a sad commentary but true that our Congress iltrian f nothing more that a side show. There is nothing m ictrlcally ’ - t ;t nothing that can make us feel proud of the fact elected them to represent us. There is nothing too.high ,dr™keX>eiow to which most of our present day statesman won’t > 20 mink, if it means keeping his party in office. nnally |p -- ” ed in the CASE WE’RE MAKING PROGRESS _ Mavbe he saw the movie, “Gentlemen’s Agreement, or J, the book Maybe he thought of it himself. At any rate, p°r° e winning reporter Ray Spring* of the P.tts fo® b Post Gazette shaved his head, got him a deep sun-tan m ” “orida and then 5pen. four weeks in the Deep South disguised *’ 3 (biSs a cleaver stunt. *.d Sprig* made the most of it. He *ravled around using jim crow railroads and bus facilities, he r ed fn Negro comminities, and talked to Southern Negroes as a Negro from Pittsburgh. He came ’back almost hating the white race for what it does toits colored brethren, and wrote an emotional series of articles about what it feels like' to be a Negro in the South (when you-re used to being a Northern white man.) One of the reasons white men behave so badly toward the Negroes it that they are only partly concious of what they are doing. Most Northerners have no conception of the disabilities under which Negroes labor. Southerners are not so naive as that, but they usually manage to make themselves believe that they treat Negroes as well as they deserve, and that Negroes are happier when “kpt in thir place.” It is only by mental xperiments like the one Sprigle per formed physically-imagining yourself in a Negro’s position that white men can get any idea of what they are really doing in human terms. 0 o o o o Hodding Carter, Southern liberal who edits the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Miss., has been writing an able series of articles in reply to Sprigle’s . He points out (not quite correctly) that th Negro’s lot is far from perfect in the North, and that conditions in the South are changing fast in manyrespcts. Some of Sprigle’s worst horrors still happen occasionally, but are no longer typical. In Carter’s own Mississippi Delta county, for example, there have been no lynchings for 40 years. It’s still a trigger happy country, with lots of homicides but few of them have any interracial aspects. Last year, says Carter, the Greenville trade area (70 per cent Negro) had an average of two killings of Negroes per week, usually over gambling or women. (Incidentally this is one of the chief grievances of Southern Negroes: the law gives them little protction against violence by whites or Negroes.) There were three killings of white men by white men. Thre were no killings of Negroes by white men. There were two killings of white men by Negroes. In one, a Negro watchmen shot a white hold-up man in self -defense, was tried and freed. In the other case a low grade moron confessed to killing the white salesman whose chauffeur he was in an attempt at extortion. But the bod^ has not been found, his stories conflict, so the chauffeur may be^ tried only for forgery. Carter says there was much local indignation when the chauffeur lost an eye while in custody. n n n n We prefer to think of the Carter and Sprigle series not as a debate, but as division of labor. Race relations are one of the things Americans have bungled. It is important that all Amer icans should be conscious of what their mistakes have been— their own as well as their neighbor’s in another state. It is im portant that they would know what canges are taking place— and they are many North and South. These things are ibportant not just as an intellectual exercise, but as a preparation for action. When we know the evils are in American race relations, when we know that grow ing points are for better race relatipns, then we can go on more surely toward up which is "bored with grandpappy’s obsession. For two generations the South has been biting off its own nose to evade the 14th and 15th amendments to the federal constitution: lying the gutter to hold the Negroe there; now in the face of a ser ies of Supreme Court decisions knocking the props out of many of its evasions,, the South is considering the whole matter anew for the first time in half a century. In the North, four industrial states and five of the larg sst cities have mbarked on an adventure which gives promise of healing the worst sore in race relations here: with laws aga inst discrimination in employment and new administrative tech niques of enforcement which amount to- ‘“Compulsory educat ion.” CROSSWORD PUZZLE f \ __— horizontal Flying ! mammal a Migration 12|No score, in tennis 33 Chalice i 14 This place 15 Solar disk 16 End 38 Gull-like bird 39 Spanish article 20 Constrain 21 Feline 23 Archaic* antiquity 25 Gone by 27 Heraldic: grafted 29 Kiln** 33 Third sign of the zodiac 35 Yellowish 37 Sweetsop 38 Latvian 40 Instrumental duet I 41 Local: to J' bewitch ’ 42 Before ~f 44 Tilled land i 48 Symbol for calcium ; 50 Annoys 53 Catastrophe 55 So be it 56 Entry 57 Poetic: to unclose 58 Narrow ribbon 59 Receptions 60 Greek letter 61 Poker stake Vertical \ 1 Lath ‘s' t Colloquial: to 2 carry r 3 To conquer 5 Foundation Selxtien in Next Issue, No. 44 6 Charm against witchcraft 7 Sticky sub stance 8 Those things 9 To gather 10 Gaelic 11 To capsize 17 Spanish hero 22 Numeral 24 For fear that 25 Turkish title 26 To become 28 River in Africa 29 Symbol for oleum 30 City magis trate 31 French coin 32 Pair 3* Exists 36 Devoured 39 To exclude 41 Owns 43 Lasso 44 Mine entrance 45 Ceremony 46 On the ocean 47 Barriers in rivers 49 Plane surf a e 51 Retained 52 To cut, with “snick” 54 Digit Answer to Pottle Nnmber 43 —n Berios B-47 Navigated Lake Michigan Jean Nicolet Is credited with be ing the first white man to navigate Lake Michigan, according to Ency clopaedia Britannica. Sent west by Champlain on a voyage of explora tion, he "treaded his wdy in a birch canoe through the Straits of Mack inac and discovered Lake Michigan in the summer of 1634. Daylight Saving Time Daylight saving time Is a menace to the health of school children, according to Dr. John P. Turner, Philadelphia board at education. He stated that school children are get ting only six or seven hours’ sleep and many are suffering from nerv ous reaction because of fast time. Death of Presidents Seven Presidents have died in of fice: William Henry Harrison, Zach ary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield. William McKin ley, Warren G. Harding and Frank lin D. Roosevelt. Only Taylor and Roosevelt died in office while con gress was in session. Largest Attendance The largest football game attend ance was at Soldier field, Chicago, November 16, 1929, when 112,912 •pectators watched Notr^ Dame de feat Southern California 13 to 12. Popping the Question Most young men present their dia mond engagement rings just before escorting a girl to a social affair, a recent survey shows. _ BUT IT’S YOUR BUSINESS ____ HAVE A HEART ' By MACKENZIE ) The caption on this week’s cartoon is “HAVE A HEART”. But we think that there is more to the story than just THAT. We have here before us a clear picture of the present-day situ ation, as it really is. As is shown, we have the cost of Gov ernment, then taxes, and more taxes! John Q. Public now has just about all that he can possibly carry. But in the back ground he hears the voice of a non-de-script character, asking him to take on another bag of expenditures, under the pretext that it is an emergency. All of this is YOUR BUSINESS! Since you, and you, must pay the bill. We are afraid that the average citizen does’t know too much about how his tax dollars are spent, or just ; doesn’t care! fvery one should be interested enough to make some in quiry about how his money is being spent. We do so in our every day activities, WHY not do it so when it concerns our Government? But to learn these things afterwards, costs us Billions annualy, and while no one would not hesitate to pay his taxes when due, IT is also our duty to see that they are spent wisely and will be of benefit to ALL of the People and not for a PRIVILEGED FEW. Indeed! This matter of spending billions for unnecessary expenditures IS YOUR BUSINESS, for it is YOU w'ho must pay!__ LOOK WHO’S TALKING!- By COLLIER SLAVE LABOR yOURE A materialist/] .(TAKES By Baer | . "Yes, pet, I knew you're 'Queen for a Day'! But ifcrhere are my dean shirts?" Massage Those Gums A new electric vibrator for home use features a rubber cup attach ment for gum massage. Three other accessaries are a roller for s)dn stimulation, rubber fingers for the scalp and a rubber cup for tired muscles. Care in Cleaning It Is safer to do dry cleaning out of doors because of the danger of accidents When this wrork is done in the house. There is always a dan ger of ftre when cleaning fluid is ex posed inside a home. Daniel West Says: —In My Opinion It is haru to measure the re sults of the new laws against racial or religious discriminat ion in employment in New York, New Jersey, Massachuse tts and Connecticut, because several other forces are workin’ in the same direction, p-ood times, and public setiment. But these forces are at work over much of th country; the laws are just in four state and five additional cities. A study of Situation. In a period of one to three years, the difference is really measurable. LeRoy W Jefferies I assistant director of the indus trial relations department of the National Ur'Dan League, has a manuscript of the employ ment of Negro white collar workers in privat industry in 25 selected cities. The 25 were cities where the Urban League had adequate staff to find out how many Negroes were employed on Jan 1st, 1948 as white collar work ers, technicians or profession al employees, in private enter prises for profit- not counting those workers in Negro com munities. Half in Four Cities Half of these Negro white collar-and up mployes were working in FOUR CITIES ONLY—and the four cities were in states with anti-discri mination laws for employment. Another third were in Chicago, which has a city anti-discrim ination ordinanc. Chicago is a special cate, however, Most of the Negro white collar ^workers therr were clerks in mail order con cerns at the edge of town, wh ere they do not meet the public Chicago had only three Negro 1 department store sales persons outside Negro neighborhoods, against New York’s 382 and little Hartfords 891 Omitting Chicago, the four cities in anti-discrimination law states have 77 per cent c>£ the Negro white-collar and up workers in all 24 cities. Squeezed Out of Jobs Negroes do have more edu cation, more property, better health now than they did 20, 30, or 70 years ago. But they have not yet regain ed the political power they had briefly in the late 1860s and 70s when they had far less prepar ation for it. And there has been a steady drive to squeeze them out of one occupation after an other, and to keep the best of the newly developed jobs from th(em, except when they are cat ering to their own race alone. I his has been true North an South. In some ways it has been worse in the North, while restrictive unions are stronger and the Negro’s need to earn a living is less apparent. The wartime shortage of lab or made a temporary dent in this trend, with the assistance of the federal fair employment practice commission. The state anti-discriminatory laws give promise to holding these gains, and making vast new ones. They give promise to bridging the long-time gap between the American WORDS about- eqa ality of opportunity and Amer ican DEEDS. They give promise of mak ing the Negro and other op pressed minorities first- class citizens, for the first tim. Your Fire Loss Direct losses by fire in 1947 soared to an unprecedented 700 million dol lars. or 23 oer cent higher than in 1946. This fire loss, if apportioned j equally among America’s 60 million Jobholders, would cost each wage earner $11.66 Need More Timber Growth The forests of the U. S. are now growing at the annual rate of 13.4 billion cubic feet. A growth of about 20 billion cubic feet annually is needed by the nation. BROTHERLY BEHAVIOR By Earle Conover Finding the combination of a safe nearby recently made pickings for a thief. Each va cation time brings for me a happy combination of visiting, recreation, sightseeing, and possibly a little business. While you have been read ing (?) this column for the past five weeks its writer has ben riding about the country by train and auto. Certain memories stand out today. An automobile trip of about 4,000 miles took us into east ern states where we saw a host of relatives and old friends. Some had not been seen for years so we were shocked by their changed appearance. Gray hair had come out all over the place, and those “‘crow foot” wrinkles at the eyes that tell tales. (We must have looked just as ancient, also.) Historic Spots Some of the historic spots visited include Gettysburg Bat tlefield, Valley Forge, and the Lincoln Log Cabin Court House at Decatur, Illinois. We felt sorry for the exceptionally tall squire, Abe Lincoln, who must have had to lower his head constantly as he walked underneath the low beams there. Gettysburg is holy ground for many reasons. Innumerable statues, markers . and imple ments of warfare dot the sur rounding countryside. Valley Forge brings back memories of real deprivation and impending disaaster Bar'bara Frietchie s home in Frederick, Maryland, is now a museum. Whittier’s poem has immortalized her waving an early American flag from an upper window in the face of passing British troops. A post age stamp commemorating tnis event was placed on sale there just two days before our arrival. John Brown’s fame is tied to Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. The little fort he defended is fre quently visited. At nearby Charles Town we saw the court house in which he was condemned. The appletree in a neighboring yard from which he was hung has disappeared now. I stopped at the little house of two elderly spinsters, friends of long ago, and learn ed that the second one had died recently. These sisters as young ladies, had provided food for John Brown’s besieg ers. Do You Know These Nebraskans: Beginning next Week, the Omaha Guide will run a series on Nebraskans, pastor present, yho have distinguished them selves. How many of them do you recognize? The quizz will appear weekly. Lest But Won Election a A man who made no election cam paign and who did not have the high est number of electoral votes was elected President of the United States in 1824. World Book encyclo pedia says that John Qlxincy Adams made little effort to get votes, but received 15 less eleetoaal votes than the leading candidate, Andrew Jack son. Adams was' selected by the aouse of representatives because lone of the candidates had a ma (ority. ’ nace Horse wires Probably the first commercial telegraph system in the United States was constructed in 1827 by Harrison G. 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