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Jim Crow of the Mind
By Bernard C. Wade
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa’s notion, quoted in a Tribune story last week,
that Negro society practices a ‘jim crow of the mind’ by discriminat
ing against non-Negro art struck me rather hard. 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.”
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Allen Miner
Allen Walker Miner, age 49
years, of 3028 Pinkney St was
killed Saturday, May 12, 1956
when struck by two cars at 30th
and Pinkney St.
He was an Omaha resident 35
years and was a veteran of
World War II.
He is survived by two aunts:
Mrs. Lucy Payne of Pittsburg,
Pa., and Mrs. Anna Hayes of 0
maha; uncle, Charles Smith of
Omaha.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, May 22 at 1:00 p.m.
from the Myers Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. F. C. Williams
officiating . Interment was at
Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City,
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