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Certain extenuat ing circumstances made the esteemed semanticist’s dictum seem un just. The first reply which came to mind was, “If Negroes do not patronize Negro created culture, who else will?” And secondly: “What other Negroes can afford a healthy diet of the best books, the theatre, chamber music and the symphony, except the educated, upper middle class?” But I was unable to convince myself that Dr. Hayakawa had been wholly wrong. Dr. Hayakawa plainly meant the highest order of art; thg dis turbing, the highly original, the ikon-smashing creative world which must transcend its age. Then I reasoned thusly: “Well-educated, upper middle-class Negroes are precisely that; middle class, bour geois — and they share the tastes common to the burgher — in every land and age. In effect, what Dr. Hayakawa is doing is urging Negro “society” to be more perceptive, more intelligent,more aware, and more passively creative than the congeneric white strata. He wants them to swap their aspirations to the glamorous confines of the Beverly Hilton grand ballroom for the elegant atmosphere of UCLA’s Schoenberg hall. In short he wants educated Negroes to become liberal aristocrats of taste. Artists throughout the ages have accused the bourgeoisie of ev ery sin from venality and gross stupidity to innate prejudice and or ganized persecution. But the middle classes like to have their cre ative pleasures prepared for them. This is the function of the popu lar critic, who tests or tastes the offering to see that it contains no poison. Let us take the case of the theater. Four plays with high artis tic qualities which received mixed reviews in recent years, come to mind: Truman Capote's “The Grass Harp”, “Mrs. Patterson,” which starred Eartha Kitt, Louis Peterson’s “Take A Giant Step,” and Joyce Carey's sublime West African masterpiece, “Mr. Johnson”. In each of the cases chosen, the pl2ys dealt imaginatively with the problems of Negroes (in mixed casts) which were far from the stereotype. After the failure of “Mrs. Patterson”, Miss Kitt publicly de cried the unwarranted power of the critics. I sympathised with the actress, but she was dealing with a curious phenomenon of power. Eight men, the powerful drama critics of the New York dailies, hold the fate of a new play under their pens. They can crush it with a stroke or write it on to illimitable fame and fortune. Is the tired businessman to be blamed if he accepts their opinion Mr Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times’ drama critic, will generously analyse serious and literate non-conventional theater—as long as it remains in the theaters of that respective movement known as “Off Broadway’. When Mr. Atkinson panned “Mr. John son” (and I’m not merely punning; although he praised the play’s fine stars, Earle Hyman and Josephine Premice) he met with some spontaneous resistance. Miss Santha Rama Rau, the beatuiful Hindu novelist who had visited West Africa, and Eloit Eliofson, the dis tinguished photographer, led the chorus of protest with literate let ters of protest to the Times in praise of he play. Los Angeles has lately been developing an interest in serious theatre. There are several fine young companies, among them The Stage Society, Negro Actors Associated, and an exciting new com pany, Theatre Universal, whose maiden effort, “Our Three Selves,” a touching play of authentic Jewish life, held great promise. On the evening of May 16 Theatre Universal will present its second effort at Dan O’Herlihy’s Hollywood Repertory Playhouse on Beverly blvd. “The Magis Amulet” by Hoy King is a provocative, diverting and sophisticated highbrow comedy. It is directed by the well known actor-director, David Bond. The unique cast is headed by Zachary Berger, veteran of the German stage, Broadway, Off-Broad way and films. It features the consummate Canadian Negro ac tress, Miss Euni Wright, who has appeared in Pirandello and Truman Capote, in her American theater debut, and that exciting young film beauty, Kathy Marlowe, whom columnist Gene Sherman last Sunday graphically dubbed “a living screaming doll.” I don’t think that Dr. Hayakawa will be around to take statis tics on the presence of “upper middle class Negroes” but that ebul lient panjandrum of the experimental theater, Mr. Orson Welles, along with many lesser, but no less celebrated mortals, has prom- ■ ised to be on hand for the opening. Back fence and street corner talk have spread many fallacies about high blood pressure which should be corrected, says the Ne braska Heart Association. The Association is conducting a campaign now to create a bet ter public understanding of hypertension or high blood pressure, which afflicts 15,000,000 Americans to varying degrees. Common falsehoods and their corrections are listed here for the general public and especially the estimated 125,000 Nebraskans af flicted by high blood pressure: 1. High blood pressure is always a serious disease. FALSE! Two-thirds of all hypertensive cases are mild and cause little or no trouble, only the other one-third may develop into hypertensive heart disease. 2. How severe your case is depends on the height of your pres sure alone. FALSE! A high level of blood pressure is an important factor only when judged against the strength of the heart and ar teries to withstand such pressure. Some persons with exceptionally high pressure have lived long lives because of strong heart and ar teries. 3. High blood pressure is a disease of old age. FALSE! It gen erally develops in persons between early 30’s and 50’s. Persons in all types of occupations are affected, particularly people with a good deal of tension and anxiety. Heredity is thought to be a factor in 40% of the cases. 4. Your normal blood pressure is represented by 100 plus your age. FALSE! What is normal varies from person to person and de pends on many factors including your age and the condition of your circulatory system. Only a doctor can determine what is normal for you. 5. You can tell when you have high blood pressure. FALSE! The symtoms are similar to many other ailments or there may be no symtoms. A thorough medical examination is needed to diag nose hypertension. 6. Nothing can be done about high blood pressure. FALSE! Re search has made great strides in the past decade, providing new diag nostic techniques, new drugs and other treatments which can effec tively lower blood pressure. The death rate in several serious forms of hypertension has been drastically cut. For more information about high blood pressure, anyone may write the Nebraska Heart Association for a free, 32-page booklet Write Heart, Omaha 1. News Around Nebraska Unusual news was scarce around the state this week. Most newspapers dwelt at length on graduation activities and the fact that voting at the election was light. Morris Paine, who runs the Hooper Sentinel, did some figuring and revealed in his newspaper last week that the 114 votes cast in Hooper cost $5 per vote, when all election expenses were tallied. * • • Voters at Fairbury turned out 2000 strong, mostly because they had a school bond issue at stake. The $65,000 bond issue almost passed- and may yet if the mail votes turn out right The percentage at the count of ballots was 54.55% FOR the bond issue. The law requires 55%. When the Fairbury Journal went to press there were 60 mail votes yet to be counted. • • • Voters at Central City placed their OK on a bond issue to pay for a new hospital there. The bond issue passed with a 58% majority-not much of a lead but enough to make the bonds legal. • • • Onawa held its first stock car races last Saturday night, the Onawa Sentinel announced last week. They have a quarter mile track at the Monona County fairgrounds just north of Onawa. A number of racing fans from Blair went to the races there to see how they would go. The fans report about twenty cars on the track and a crowd of 800 or 900. Officials felt that it was a good start although it is a far cry from the success of the Arl ington track which last Sunday night drew 2906 people and 80 cars. • • • Two surveyors from Missouri Valley who were surveying north of that place last week, barely escaped with their lives when ! they were caught on a tressle before an oncoming freight. The men were in the middle of a 320 ft. tressle and could not hear the oncoming train because of a stiff wind which was blowing. They looked up and saw the freight bearing down upon them. One man jumped 25 feet into the river below, landing in a bout 8 feet of water. The other did not choose to jump but laid down on the outer end of the ties hoping that the train would pass over without striking him. The engineer jammed on the brakes and brought the train to a halt when about half of it had passed the man. The teriffic bouncing of the braking train on the tressle injured the man considerably causing numerous cuts and abras ions. He was taken home for recuperation from his harrowing experience. • • * Water rates go to half June 10th at David City and residents are URGED to use all they can. David City wants to be the green spot of the nation and they emphasize that plenty of water is what will do the trick. David City has four wells which produced, last year, over 125 million gallons of water, according to the David City Banner-Press. A fifth well has just been drilled but is not yet in operation. • • * Prairie Dogs are the target in the Ainsworth area and the Star Journal has announced a number of "demonstrations” on how to eradicate them. The Prairie Dog “towns” cover areas of 25 to 50 acres, the newspaper stated. Sodium Cyanide pellets -are placed in the runs, the gas from which follows down the tunnels and kills the dogs in their runs. A nearly 100% kill can be effected. • • * The Garden County News at Oshkosh was jubilant last week because a new producing oil well had been brought in. It is the second producing well north of the North Platte river and, accord ing to the News, may be an indicator that a sizeable oil field is awaiting drilling in the area. • • • The Rural Youth of Colfax county wanted to have something different in the way of entertainment. They put on a real old fashioned barn dance-in a barn, of course, and had a whee of a time, according to the Schuyler Sun. After the square dance the group held an out-door wiener roast around a big bonfire. * * * Members of the Junior class at Schuyler recently showed their artistic ability in creating characters and scenes from poems, plays and stories which they had studied. Some of the scenes which they portrayed were “Snowbound”, “Feather Top”, “Huckle berry Finn” and numerous others. The Schuyler Sun showed pictures of some of the scenes in the newspaper last week. • • * A teacher at Chadron High School who has taught 47 years— and in Chadron high since 1936, is going to present the 1956 graduating class. The unprecedented move was prompted by the popularity of the veteran teacher to whom the 1956 yearbook was dedicated. According to the Chadron Record, she is very popular with both student body and faculty members. * • * One of the largest plowing bees ever heard of in the state took place at Minden last week. A veteran who had been hospital ized all spring had 160 acres to plow and neighbors with fifty tractors tackled the job, doing it in less than three hours. The number of volunteers was so great that not all tractors were able to plow at the same time, but all waited their turn to have a part in the good deed for the ailing man. Someone estimated that one trip across the field for each of the tractors would plow 10% acres, the Minden Courier revealed. • • • Because a youth paid his speeding fine so readily, a judge at Crete recently decided to let the speeder “cool” awhile in the county jail. The 19-year-old Davenport, Nebraska youth pealed off $31 fine money too quickly and too happily to suit the judge. So he was sentenced one hour in jail for every mile over the speed limit, which set him back 20 hours on his time schedule. Bank Approved For Home Loans The Center Bank of Omaha, Nebraska has been approved to make FHA property improve-1 ment loans to home owners, ac-1 cording to Mr. W. B. Hargleroad, i Jr., President of the institution, i The approval was contained in a letter received by Mr Hargle road from Mr. Cyrus B. Sweet, Assistant Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration. The authorization granted un der the National Housing Act permits the Bank to offer its customers an attractive low-cost, long term home improvement plan. Loans are available to home owners for remodeling, al terations and repairs under this widely-used FHA low cost bud. get plan and are repayable in monthly installments. The moneys loaned for home improvements under this pro gram are from funds of the lo cal institution. Any individual, contractor or material supply dealer who wish es to participate in the program is invited to make application to qualify at the office of the in stitution. “I am pleased to announce to I all residents of Douglas County that we are ready and anxious to serve them,” Mr. Hargleroad de dared today. "The benfits of this program have been proven over the years. More than 19,000,000 families have obtained FHA loans to im prove their properties. "Home owners can borrow up to $2,500 for periods ranging up! to three years. All types of home improvements, such as re Buria Thompson Mrs. Buria Thompson, 46 years, 2894 Miami Street passed away I Friday afternoon, May 18th at a local hospital. Mrs. Thompson' had been in poor health for some time. She had been a resident of Omaha thirty-nine years. Mrs. Thompson is survived by one son, Mr. Howard Thompson, father, Mr. Denis Bryant, sister, Mrs. Fometta Elmore and broth er-in-law, Mr. Leo Elmore with whom she made her home; aunt, Mrs. Ada Hines, niece, Miss La sonia Elmore, all of Omaha, brother, Mr. Alonzo Bryant, Kan sas City, Missouri and other -re latives. Funeral services were held at two o’clock Tuesday afternoon from Mount Moriah Baptist Church with the Rev. David St. | Clair officiating. Honorary pall bearers were Mr. Clainne Smith, George Curry; active pallbearers, Mr. George Camper, John Har vey, Wayne Harris, Melvine Swil lie, Narvel Lee Evans, Thomas Brown. Interment was at Grace land Park Cemetery with ar rangements by Thomas Mor tuary. modeling, painting and decorat ing, insulating, plumbing and heating, wiring, cement work, i etc., which add life and value I to the property, are eligible for, FHA loans. “We urge our customers to' deal only with reputable, estab-j lished contractors or building supply dealers,” Mr. Hargleroad continued. “A telephone call to the Cham-' ber of Commerce or Better Busi ness Bureau can quickly estab-, lish the reliability of the con tractor.” I ■ i EUjajUyyggg WITH BLUE BLADE DISPENSER AND STYRENE CASE »l°.° Q'/tti Re/ief of PAIN Ease PAINS of HEADACHE. NEURAL GIA. NEURITIS with STANBACK TAB LETS or POWDERS. STANBACK it not a on# ingredient formula . . . STAN* BACK combines several medically proven pain relievers into one easy to take dose. . . . The added effectiveness of these MULTIPLE ingredients brings faster, more complete relief, easing anxiety and tension usually accompanying pain . . . 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