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rvr c AeC°?d 9ass Matter March 15th, 1927, at the Post Office of Omaha, Nebraska, under the Ast of Congress oi March 3, 1879. & C C. Galloway — — — — President Mrs. Flurna Cooper — —- — Vice-President paniel 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. _ TO THE PEOPLE OF OMAHA AND DOUGLAS CO. THE GUIDE cannot urge upon you too strongly or too many times, the necessity of registering for the coming Novem ber Election. This is important that you do so immediately, we feel that >every citizen of voting age should readily agree that it is his duty to go to the polls and by his vote help to select the men and women who will represent him or her in public office. If you have moved, you must go and have your regis tration corrected so that your vote will not be chalenged. Also there may be some who are reluctant to register, for fear that it will require the payment of some tax or some other obli gation, this is not the case at all. This is no POLL TAX State, all you have to do is go down and register. Housewives, Veterans, Students, and just plain every body, REGISTER NOW! ROAST DUCK—YOU BRING THE DUCK Things aren’t quite as bad as they may seem, when the National Association of Retail Grocers can prepare a lot of interesting-sounding menus which will serve four people for a dollar. Even shrimp and roast beef included. We couk even afford dinner gusts at that rate. Housewives who plan to follow these menus had better tak more than a dollar along when they go shopping, how ever. The menus include only the main dish—potatoes, salad, bread, butter, and drink being “extra”, if you please! Of course we! can still afford to invite guests for dinner— if they’ll BRING the potatoes, salad, bread, butter and drink! BETTER WATCH THIS TAFT TOO! Charles P. Taft, Protestant Episcopal lay delegate from Cincinnati to the World Council of Churches at Amesterdam, last week said that the United States need not be> ashamed of its treatment of the racial problem in view of the harsher methods used in Africa, Palestine and India. He thought that we had done a good job in racial tolerance as these other countries. We know that some white people in high places have no apology to .make fon.segregation in the United States and for the method used by prejudiced folk to rob their darker brother of jobs and of their votes, but we never expected that they would go to a council of Christian delegates to stand up and boast about it. > And as to Mr. Taft’s comparison of the U. S. with other countries and his statement we have done as well or better than they, if h reads his Bible at all, Mr. Taft should remem ber our Lord’s condemnation of th Pharisee who preached aloud in public and boasted that "he was not as other men”. We have successfully succeeded in defeating one Taft 'kyho desired to be President of the U. S. Real Christians in America must do something about his brother, Charles, who before the whole world demonstrated his unfitness to be called a represntative Americaa spiritual leader. • - ~ i USTEMNGPOST THE COUNTRY IS SAFE IN THE HANDS OF TRUMAN We are all set for the final big drive to name the next President of the United States. The country will be safe in the hands of Mr. Truman, for he has demonstrated his ability to lead in times of a crisis. Let us look at the record of the Republican party back for more years than we care to remember. It has been and is tb£ party of the vested interests who have consistently con spired with the white supremacist groups in the South to per petuate degradtion, political and economic slavery of the Negro i and poor White in the South and to extend that slavery to these ie two groups wherever they go. Mr. Truman will go down in history as one of the great presidents of the United States, because of the things for ch he stands in the matter of human rights can not be ated The enlightened people of America and the whole Id for that matter, believe in those things. And they will to it that they are vouched safe to those to whom they denied as of now as fast as the latter demonstrates by iuct and otherwise a readiness to accept the responsibilities ch so with the enjoyment of the earned fruits flowing from which builds and maintains freedom and equality. People are concerned over America's human resources should ; careful study to the record of the two parties before New Milk Carton A c#rtoB -for delivery of milk, £ided with a cream chamber and jalve for controlling an opening 1 r -on the milk and cream cham £i is the subject of a recent pat rec uti\---— 19*j Temperature Test ceived I Incubator eggs in the -ent Egyptians and Asi lined the proper degree The aveie eggs spends ne ,eeds Lemons ob ald snap, lemon trees ' ins with more seeds. Floating Fruit Fruit may float In Jars because the pack is too loose or the syrup too heavy, or perhaps air in the tis sues of the fruit has not all been forced out during heating and proc essing. War and Population Although nations involved in World War n count their total war dead at 15 million, the world’s popu lation now is 10 per cent larger than it was in 1939. That increase is one of the reasons for continued hunger in countries which have not been able to restore food production to its prewar level. SOUTHERN MINE FIELDS ~~v~~- 1 - --— —.— 1 "— - —— - - This weeks cartoon depicts the PRESIDENT attempt ing to steer the GOOD BOAT “CIVIL RIGHTS Legislation” through the turbulent Dixie Waters of JOB DISCRIMINA TION, JIM CROW, POLL TAX, and LYNCHING. As |One can plainly see, he is not having a very easy job doing so. But President TRUMAN will, despite troubled waters, see his BOAT safely through! His hand will remain steady upon the oars, for so long as he shall draw breath he will guide the good boat, CIVIL RIGHTS Legislation. Pres ident Truman’s Faith in Right, which is the real basis of the anger thus vented against him, by the South, will be vindi cated by all democratic people who hold dear his steady rowing through these raging waters of HATE, FEAR, DISCRIMIN ATION and other ISM’S foreign to any democratic people. Any failure to live by the Constitution, or to abolish the things that are depicted here, strike at the roots of America. The southern mine fields imperils the North as much as the South, indeed it imperils the very life of our nation. The Veteran Asks: GIS MUST SUBMIT PROOF OF DEPENDENCY Tre Veterans Administrat ion today reminded seriously disabled Nebraska veterans that they must have submitted proof of dependency before they can qualify for govern ment compensation increases provided by a recent law. Ashley Westmoreland, Lin coln regional office manager, said veterans of any war or peacetime service, have ser. vice-connected disabilities of 60 per cent or more, and who have one or more dependants, are eligible for the increases, which range from $6.72 to $91 per month depending on the number of dependants and the extent of the disability. The VA official explained that increased compensation payments become effective on the date VA recives the veter an's proof of dependency. Such proof, he said, should consist of certified copies of birth records in tre case of dependent child ren, certified copy of marriage record for dependent wife, and any acceptable proof of the rela tionship and dependency of the veteran’s parents. Westmoreland said any dis abled veteran who had inform ed the VA prior to September 1, 1948, that they had depend ents, "but who had failed to sub mit legal proof of such depen dency, still can receive the new compensation increase retroct ive to September 1st, if they provide the required proof be fore December 1, 1948. He ad vised veterans in doubt about their dependency situat ion to contract their nearest V A offlce. - - — ■ ■ ■■ - Alcohol From Bananas Alcoholic beverages have beet made from bananas. Some years ago banana whisky experiments were conducted in Guatemala. Ba nana wine from fully ripe fruit al lowed to ferment in water was known in the West Indian island of Barbados as early as 1657. Dena- I tured alcohol from bananas is ar age-old possibility. Home Building Facts The retail cost of building mate rials is about double the cost ot their production, says a Twentieth Century fund report Used houses account roughly fof thrfee fourths of annual residential sales and 10 per cent of the total new dwellings be fore the war were produced under public auspices. About 40 per cent of the communities in the United States do not have building codes. Found New Mexico Instead Searching for the fabled seven golden cities of Cibola, the Spanish conquistadores were the first white men to set foot upon what is now New Mexico. 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To his middle claw is attached a small comb, with which to preen his feathers. All herons fly with their necks drawn in, and their feet ex tended. About 25 species are found in the Western hemisphere, 24 in North America. Young herons are awkward, staddly birds, comical in their expressions and attitudes. -- This Machine Age With new coin machines designed for air terminals, travelers may shave themselves, press their ties and dine on hot sandwiches and cof fee while a robot bootblack shines their shoes. Synthetic Rubber Alloy Alloyed with certain plastics, syn thetic rubber will be used in great quantities in the future. They form a tough, resilient floor tile which is unaffected by oils and grease. « Earlj ice Enterprise An early American enterprise was the shipping of ice from New Eng land to the tropics. The ice was packed in white pine sawdust and Americans promoted its sale by showing the natives how to make lice cream and iced drinks. Warm Water for Plants Tepid water instead of cold water should be used for watering house plants. Cold water may shock the plants, damage the roots and retard growth. Still Forbidden Begging was forbidden in Eng land as early as 1349. Colonial America provided punishment against beggars. | Type for Printing Lead hardened with antimony usually is used to make type ; metal Daniel West Says: —In My Opinion Every American owes Mr. Truman a debt for his courag eous stand on civil rights. Al though Negroes would be ben efited, more by his program, if it is ever enacted, than any o ther group, it is aimed at cur ing basic evils of our demo cracy: discrimiation and segre gation, from which white peo ple as well as Negroes suffer. The Wallaceites are volun tarily helping the conserative Republicans win re election so that, they hope, the country can go to the dogs ;in a hurry and they , the Communists can take it over. This, in my estimation is the sole reason or uppermost anyway-why are opposing President Truman. It was President Truman’s duty to sponsor civil rights leg islatioi* the same as it was the duty of every one of his prede cessors since the Civil War. Do You Remember? Like the Fourth of July, Dog Days, Friday the 13th, and a few other peculiarly Ameri can dates, “Black Thursday” October 24th 1929, will be long remembered. It was the day of the big crash, when the ficticous values of the Republican boom and bust prosperity cycle lay broken and strewn the length of a narrow canyon called Wall Street. It marked the decline of a fantastic era herald almost 9 years before by the Republic an regime of Harding. It was the beginning of the end of a purefy syntheftic condition known as “Coolidge Prosper ity” a bubble which Hoover promised would never burst. Indeed, it was the twelve long locust years; even as the Republican administration was proclaimed a pot of gold at the end of the corner, the end of the rainbow was too great a distance, so they told the people it was just at the end of the corner. 4,000,000 people were jobless on March 4, 1933, the day FDR was sworn in as our president. How well I recall that event ful day, as I sat in the great throng that chilly day in front of the capitol and heard FRD proclaim to the American peo ple that all we had to fear was fear itself, and that they could now breath a bit easier for ev ery one could go to bed that night assured of a new deal. It came too. on my way to Washington, and even before I got there, I had seen all ar ound me bread lines, which got longer by the day, I saw job less forming lines to protest, I saw courthouses surrounded not because they sought to overthrow the government, but to demand jobs and bread, I saw sheriffs hold auctions be cause land owners could not pay off his mortgage. Things got worse and fast. Do You Remember? Because you were a part of that 4,000,000 jobless and hun gry caravan, it is pertinent to remember now, in the year 1948, History has a perverse way of repeating itself. The locust years must not repeat. They will not return of you remember, and remember ing, register and vote! “Do you remember?” will help voters, by word and by picture, to resolve that 1948 will not mark the return of those days when grass grew on the streets and every curb stone had its apple vendor. Carnival Setting Prevails In Modern Industrial Plant The late Ernie Pyle once de scribed a tin can as one of the sim plest things In the world to make— if you make it slowly. But when cans come off a line many times faster than you could possibly count, he ^8aid, the whole thing becomes intricate and fantastic. The speeds attained in modem can manufacture — as high as 400 cans a minute — have been made possible by some of the most in genious machinery in use in Ameri can industry. A coincidental reflec tion of this ingenuity is the resem blance of some equipment in a can plant to the frolic and thrill appara tus of a typical carnival or amuse ment park. A visitor to an American Can company plant will see “ferris wheels” in operation, dark “tunnels of love,” • "electric scooters,” "shooting gallery” targets, “roller coasters” and “shoot-the-chutes.” All of these things have been de signed, of course, for the serious purpose of achieving maximum effi ciency, so that the country's can ners, packers and manufacturers of j industrial goods can obtain at low prices the billions of cans they re quire annually. But the visitor who wants to squint his eyes and dream a bit will be reminded of happy, carefree hours spent on merry-go rounds and throwing balls at peep hole targets. Mushrooms for Dentists Mushrooms were used to stupefy patients by dentists of the Zapotec Indians of Mexico. Shipyards Increase Output Of Small Seagoing Vessels During the past year shipyards in the United States built 216 self-pro pelled vessels of more than 100 gross tons each, aggregating 313,360 gross tons, according to Marine Engineer ing and Shipping Review, marine industry publication. This compares with an output of 198 vessels in 1946, aggregating 683,867 gross tons. It indicates the increasing demand for smaller vessels, as the average size of the ships built in 1947 was only 1,450 gross tons as compared with 8,454 gross tons in 1946. Of the total tonnage produced last year 82 per cent consisted of sea going vessels, each over 2,000 gross tons. Forty vessels of this class were built, including four large sea going dredges. These large seago ing vessels totaled 257,584 gross tons and required a total of 321,620 horse power for propulsion. Of this ton nage, 58 per cent consisted of cargo vessels and 29 per cent of combina tion passenger and cargo ships. Only one tanker was built but she was the largest vessel of this type ever built, having a deadweight of 27,928 tons. Atlantic coast yards led in pro duction of seagoing vessels of over 2,000 gross tons each, producing 43 per cent of this tonnage. The Gulf coast was a close second, however, yards in this region producing 40 per cent, while Pacific coast yards turned out only 17 per cent Thrifty women would Just as aoon throw out pennies at a scrap of fat Your meat dealer will pay for every pound of used cooking fat you turn In. ‘Mum’s the Word' “Mum’s the word” commemo rates Christian Mummer, an Eng lish brewer of the 13th century, who swore his employees to secrecy on the formula of his ale. Prevented Scurvy Potatoes, which contain vitamin C, prsvented sailors from dying of •curvy in the days of long voyages on aslllng ships. BROTHERLY , BEHAVIOR _ By Earle Conover “Why, I know more about Abraham Lincoln' than I do a bout Jesus Christ.” The speaker was a young man who had attended a Sun day school, later a young peo ple’s society, and divine ser vices with their wonderful ser mons, all of his life. He had never had class instruction in the life of the Great Emancip ator, yet he had sat for years with teachers in religious in struction Yes, somewhere, a|d somehow, someone’s failed. The democratic way of life is truly on trial today. It has been gaining support for sen turies, with endless attempts to incorporate it into the body pol itic. Now it is facing, some will say as never before, the very antithesis of democracy in dictatorships notably now that of godless Soviet Russia. Religion Is Needed If a nation is to be success fully ruled by its representat ives, the principles and practic es of religion must make the pattern for daily living. Other wise, the many opportunities for unselfish control of the gov erred and for promoting the greatest good for the greatest number will be neglected. THE PEOPLE’S /OPEN FORUM Letters from readers printed on this page may differ in i opinion widely with the opinions of The Omaha Guide. Letters must be addressed t otae editor, not; to third persons, and the right to shorten them is reserved. Complete signatures and postoffice addresses are necessary and they will be printed with the letters. Contribrtors are limited to not more than one letter in any 30 day period. Letters and their contents become the property of this newspaper and CANNOT BE RETURNED. Address letters to: The Open Forum Editor, Omaha Guide, 2420 Grant St. Omaha 10, Nebraska. Writes Civil Disobedience Not New Sirs: You may say what you will in regards to the ‘wrong’ or the “right” of people squaking a bout what’s wrong with Amer ica; but if the American Negro decides to go all out for a pol icy of non-violent civil disobed ience in answer to a draft call into a jim-crow army, he cer tainly won’t be setting any kind of a precedent. (Before continuing, let me go on record in saying that this letter is NOT in support of any such action and this writer, is NOT a communist.) Americans have long used the persuasive power of this thing called civil disobedience. The war for indeper.dance, the slave insurrections and rebelli ons, the succession of the con federate states, and lately, the strikes against the people, were all, actually, acts of civil diso bedience irregularless of their intentions an ultimate attain ments. These actions could never fall into the category of “non violence” by any stretct of the imagination. Under the Constitution and Labor Agreements Forty-five per cent of all wage earners covered by collective bar gaining agreements were employed under closed shop and union shop conditions, according to a Twentieth Century fund report. democratic system of govern ment we boast as The Law of our land. Lots of ‘little’ things may quite truthfully be classi fied as civil disobedience. Vio lating the laws of our Constitu tion, and the laws of democrat ic government, as well as the principles of Christian civiliz ation, are: lynching and other persecution without due and y' just process of law; color, rac ial, and religious segregation or discrimination; unequality be fore tre law. • If these “little” acts of un i Christian, un-democratic, un constitutional “non-violence” be tolerated, indeed, sanctioned and encouraged, under a gov ernment whose greatest laws WRITERS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE NOT NEW GALLEY EIGHT EIGHT they violate, one might well wonder just where does treas on start in America? With a non Caucasian’s fight for free dom? Sincerely, Marjorie J. Bryant Indianoplis Indiana Bulbs Need Shades Bare light bulbs cause glare, and should not be used without shades unless in little-used parts of the bouse. Our Timber State About one-sixth of the total stand ing timber in the United States is in Washington state. 1 THEY’LL NEVER DIE j &t* OlWFTTTV/r x#««BORN iaw in IW <ENTUCKY, l*AAC vl,M m^Y MURPHV WAS THR. y/ TOCKIY of the LAST \B / CENTURY.' IN His HEYDAY v| // HE RODE ‘BUCHANAN" ‘RILEY* \l AND * KINGMAN " HOMF TO VICTWYU IN THE CLASSIC KENTUCKY DERBY/ V MURPHY'S PHENOMENAL TURF -r - „ SUCCESS IS SAID TO HAVE I RIONEBRCOLtRED A -SEEN DUE TO CLEAN LIVING; i JDCXTY WHOSPNCYEAR A ORE AT DARING; UNUSUAL k *®£gj**\ P^SlCAL STAMINA, /A KENTUCKY DERBY WIN- \ AND AN UNCANNY /^A NBRS WAS FINALLY HATCH- \ SENSE OF PACE/ Jm BOBYEMUESMOe INI93IY 4A Continc. J fratmts_