Nebraska Newspapers

    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
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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.
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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
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A c#rtoB -for delivery of milk,
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jalve for controlling an opening
1 r -on the milk and cream cham
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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
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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.
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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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26 Eastern term
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28 Swarthy
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43 Last state of
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48 Endures
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80 Coterie
81 Biblical
garden
82 Card game
54 Moon goddess
53 Remainder
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18 Son at Noah
22 To disentangle
28 Quotes
24 Bottle top
29 Shoshonean
Indian
27 Head
covering
29 To employ
30 Negative
35 Omits
86 Obliteration
87 To hang
laxly
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40 Deputy
42 Becomes
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The great blue heron is consid
ered the Chesterfield of birds. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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