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- READ THE OMAHA GUIDE - Capitol Spotlight Loui' Lautier NNPA Staff Writer Washington, D. C. — The Senate leadership proved Thursday that it is not impotent when it wants action. The case in point is the nomina tion of Simon E. Sobeloff, soli citor general of the United States, to be a judge of the fourth United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Va. That nomination had been bot tled up in the Senate Judiciary committee for nearly a year by Senator James O. Eastland, Dixie crat, of Mississippi; Senator Olin D. Johnston, Democrat, of South Carolina, and ex-Senator Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, Dix iecrat candidate for President in 194S. Objections to Mr. Sobeloff were twofold: 1. As Solicitor General he ar gued before the Supreme Court the questions of how the decisions out lawing racial segregation in the public schools shall be carried out. 2. He is a Jew. Sets Phony Hearing • After a subcommittee, headed ‘ by Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, Democrat of Wyoming, hod ap proved the nomination, Eastland, instead of having the full Judici ary committee vote on reporting the nomination to the Senate, staged a phoney hearing which was designed to keep the appoint-1 ment from ever reaching the sen ate floor for confirmation. Johnston appeared before the j committee to testify on three oc casions. When the majority of the com mittee revolted against this kind of procedure, by a 5 to 4 vote, it was decided that Johnston was 'to j complete his testimony and Sena tor A. Willis Robertson, Democrat, of Virginia, was to be heard by 4:30 p.m., and then, if a quorum was present, a vote would be tak en. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas, the Senate majority leader, made the request after the Senate convened Thursday that the Ju diciary committee be permitted to sit that afternoon, while the Sen ate Was in session, to vote on. the Sobeloff nomination. Although Johnston is a member of the Judiciary committee, he objected to the request on the ground that at the time the com mittee agreed to vote on the Sobe loff nomination, the Senate had not entered into a unanimous con sent agreement. But apparently Lyndon Johnson got in some of his quite behind the-scenes work, for which he has become distinguished, and the Judiciary colnmittee Friday morn ing approved the Sobeloff nomina tion by a vote of 8 to 2. This action, however, was not reached without a further concess ion to further delay. It was agreed that the nomination will not be reported to the Senate until this Thursday because Johnston insist ed that ample time Le allowed for printing the transcript of the hearings on the nomination—a waste of Government funds. Four Republicans and four Dem ocrats joined together in voting to report the nomination favor ably. They were Senators John Marshall Butler, Maryland; Will iam Langer, North Dakota; Arthur V. Watkins, Utah; Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois, Republicans, and Joseph C. O’Mahoney, Wyoming; Estes Kefauver, Tennessee; Thom as C. Hennings, Jr., Missouri, and Matthew M. Neely, West Virginia, Democrats. The same situation that existed in the Judiciary committee as re gards the Sobeloff nomination exists with respect to civil rights legislation. The Constitutional Rights sub committee, of which Senator Hen nings is chairman, approved four civil rights bills in February. Since then, the full committee has been engaged in hearings on those and nine other civil rights bills. In the obvious filibuster which is being conducted against civil rights legislation, the committee on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week heard three witnesses, Rep resentatives James C. Davis, of Georgia, an ex-Ku Klux Klansman, and John Bell Williams, of Missis sippi, spokesman for White Citi zens Councils, and Assistant At torney General Horace Wimberly of Texas. It is up to Eastland as to when the next hearings will be held. Robert B. Young, a member of the professional staff of the commit tee, has indicated that there are enough anti-civil rights witnesses available to keep the hearings go ing indefinitely. What Senate Majority Leader Johnson has done with respect to the nomination of Mr. Sobeloff should be done with respect to civil rights legislation. He is chairman of the Democratic Poli cy Committee which determines what legislation the Senate shall take up. Johnson and the Democratic Policy should instruct Eastland to bring a vote in the Judiciary Committee the question of wheth er civil rights legislation shall be Reported favorably. The same Senators who voted to report the Sobeloff nomination will vote to report the ELsensower Administration’s civil rights pro gram if given a chance to do so. Voter Interest Shows Spurt Registrations Triple In Convention Period Voter interest in Douglas Coun ty zoomed during the two weeks of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, records in the Election Commissioner’s office showed Tuesday. During the first convention week, voter registrations totaled 598. In the second week, they a mounted to 877. The two-week total, 1,475, was three times the voter registration rate for each of the preceding two months. Edge to Democrats For July, the total was 524. In June, it was 396. New Democratic registrations edged ahead of new Republican registrations 305 to 30 during the two-week convention period. Total registration figures, which include voters who reregister be cause of moves within the county, are not broken down into Demo cratic and Republican colum* in the Election Commissioner’s rec ords. The Democratic-Republican count comes only on new registra tions . 10,068 for Year For the year so far, new Repub lican registrations are ahead of new Democratic registrations 1,854 to 1,753. Total registrations for the year amount to 10,008. Of the total, 6,723 voters were registered from March through May, during the primary and city election period. More Farm Credit To Be Available Soon Increased credit opportunities tor family-sized farms soon will i be available, Senator Roman , Hruska (R.-Nebr.) said today. The Senator commended the I D e p a r tment of Agriculture's Farm Home Administration for fast action in getting the expand j ed loan program to the farmer. | “By mid-September," he said, I "all county FHA offices in Nebra ska will be ready to process ap plications under legislation pas sed by Congress to expand farm credit. Training meetings for FHA field personnel are now un derway in the State,” he added. Under the new law, owners of ' family-sized farms can be grant I ed loans to refinance existing ! debts. “These loans," Hruska said, “will give farmers longer I repayment periods they need if they have adequate land security and are otherwise in sound finan cial condition.” "The new law,” he continued, , "also increases amounts available i for operating loans for family | sized farms. In addition, it ex | tends for two years the authority ' for FHA to grant special emer gency loans. These new credit opportunities," Hruska empha sized, "are in addition to the pres ent loan services of FHA which include loans for purchase of family-type farms, soil and water conservation, and farm housing." "This expanded farm credit program is designed to cover the Principles and Practices Differ in Race Question i Eight out of ten Whites agree with the Declaration of Indepen dence that “all men are created equal.” Seven out of ten say they like, rather than dislike, most Negroes. Yet only four out of ten Whites would be willing to live next door to Negroes. Only five out of ten would even be willing to live in the same neighborhood. Why? “Because Negroes are different, that's why.” Approxi mately half the Whites in the U. S. say that and many of the reasons they give reveal extreme dislike for most Negroes. These are some of the facts re ported in the August Catholic Di gest in the first national survey of Negro-White relations. A wide gap between principle and prac tice was revealed by the answers to the survey questions. People Change Answers People would tell the questioner that they believed one thing, then admit cheerfully a few minutes later that they practiced another. Certain person^ kept a consistent point of view throughout the inter view. But many kept switching about, according to whether the questions were abstract or con crete. Despite the fact that seven out of ten Whites claim to like Ne groes the answers to specific ques tions showed very different reac tions. In the South, though two thirds of the Whites like Negroes, half would draw the line at work ing next to them. Fully eight out | of ten would refuse to live next door. In the North, half of the Whites would draw the line at liv ing next door to a Negro family. Think Negroes Different Ideals apart, just about half ofj white Americans feel that Negroes ' are “different.” “Except for their color, in what ways Would you say that Negroes are different from Whites?” They aren’t different; one-half of the northern Whites and a fourth of the southern Whites say that. Those who said they are different gave more derogatory explana tions than they did neutral or fa vorable ones. The strange thing about all this is not so much the fact that many people look down on Negroes or wouldn’t live next door to them. The strange thing is that so many people who believe in differences still say they like Negroes and say that all men are created equal. In theory, most Whites accept Negroes. In practice, few do. How ; does this affect the race problem? , It might indicate that most Whites are probably ready to admit Ne-! groes as legal equals, though not j as social equals For when Whites think abstractly of the Negro race, they tend to think of Negroes as the equals of other Whites. But certainly not, in terms of the “diff erent Negro next door, the equal of themselves.” Hold Those Horses Anybody who wonders at the urge toward automotive speed among youngsters might read closely some of the latest ad vertisements coming from De troit. . . again proves nobody out performs Ford,” says one. “Man, it’s dynamite!” says another of the new Dodge. "Now the hot one is even better,” Chevrolet has said. These are just samples from the Big Three of auto manufacturing. All are boasting of horsepower and performances which might or might not be | safe on a race track but which would be the next thing to sui cide for the average motorist to whom these advertisements are addressed. The fact is that automotive power and speed are daily being impressed on the national con science, and Detroit still tries to impress those who have resisted. This includes Dad as well as Junior. Hence the highway de linquency problem is far from 1 strictly juvenile. And the horse j power bombardment does not I help. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I_ _ loan requirements of farmers which cannot be met by private institutions,” Hruska concluded. “It will be especially valuable to help fafmers weather drouth and other conditions over which they no control." Miss Lucy Wins Elks Scholarship Los Angelos A $1,000 scholarship fund has been awarded to the former Autherine Lucy, Negro coed who was expelled from the Univer sity of Alabama last February following protests against her en rollment. "Her fight to enter the Uni versity of Alabama makes her a symbol of the struggle of the darker people over the world to o b t a in first-class citizenship,” said George W. Lee. He is grand commissioner of the education department of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, donor of the scholarship. The Negro organiza tion is in convention here. The former Birmingham sec retary, now married to the Rev. Hugh Foster of Teague, Texas, | appeared briefly during an Elk oratorical contest for seven re i gional scholarship winners. Young Animal* Even a alight change in feeding schedule can cause a digestive up set In young animals, Just as It does In human beings. Defense Summary Eisenhower Administration’s de fense policy has achieved great est efficiency, economy, prepard ness and adaptability in peace time history. New policy prepares for a long period of uncertainty instead of a succession of arbitrarily assum ed dates of possible attack. 1. Strong defenses have gained the peace and deterred ag gression. 2. Reserve program has main tained adequate manpower with minimum disruption to civilian life and economy. 3. A prosperous economy easily converted to war has been maintained, while cutting defense costs by $10 billion. 4. Research in weapons has per mitted shift from manpower to weapon power. 5. Morale and efficiency of Al lies has been boosted through military aid and encouragement. 6. Flexibility to meet changing world conditions now a chieved. AIR FORCE AND GUIDED MISSILES The Eisenhower Administration has greatly strengthened our air power. 1. By the end of 1955, we had about 128 wings. This was eight wings ahead of our schedule calling for 137 wings by July '57. Also we had on order all the aircraft and equipment to outfit this 137-wing force. 2. Production of the B-52 has been accelerated and will beat earlier planned replace ment of the B-36 by a year. We have over 1,000 B-47s, medium bombers, the Stra tegic Air Command’s “work horse.” 3. Missile squandrons are al ready in Europe. Distant Early Warning (Radar- Line progress is ahead of sched ule. 4. Guided Missile development is receiving top priority. Special "czar" wih top prior ity has been named to ex pedite. 5. U. S. air power is equipped for massive retaliation a gainst any aggressor. 6. Defense against enemy Mis siles has reached advanced development stages. 7. Long range planning allows flexibility to meet research requirements, avoiding fail ure* of Truman "crash build ing” program. ■•eond Smallest Dataware U the second smallest state in the Union. The Bell Tolls By Leonard H. Bell _ In a presidential election year both candidates are supposed to make all issues clear, so that the voter may make his choice easier, according to his convictions. This is truer this year than in previous election years when the voter was more illiterate and far less informed than he is today. And the Negro voter today is in quite a quandry as he attempts to fathom the reasoning that exists among leaders of both par ties regarding that part of the country which wishes to retard the progress of the Negro and con tinue to keep him in psychological slavery. We have candidates, both past and present, speak out in earnest condemnation and with sincere pledges to seek the immediate eradication of Nazism and Com munism in these United States. We have seen both the President and Congress press for sterner laws and stricter enforcement of such laws. We have seen the leaders of these isms swiftly brought to jus tice and their organizations quick ly destroyed. In fact, every law enforcement agency; federal, state and local, have been brought to bear to destroy any isms that sub vert the Constitution and threaten the welfare of the United States. That is, if these isms are not directed solely against the Negro. When they are, they and their leaders are allowed to flourish. Both parties are quick to re-inter pret constitutional law and seek every hair-line legal dodge to a void law enforcement when the Negro’s rights are at stake in the South. This was true of the old Klu Klux Klan until it began to threaten the rights and liberties of white citizens. It is true today in the case of the Klan-like White Citizens Councils—vicious spawns of States Rightism. Even though they daily threaten the life, liber ty and progress of Negro citizens, it is said nothing legally can be done to stop economic and psycho logical depredations. Subversion is but subversion, whether it be Nazism, Communism or States Rightism. To subvert the Constitution of the U. S. in any manner weakens the very founda tions that has kept us a democ racy. We read of the Governor of Virginia calling a Special session of the Virginia General Assembly to enact laws permitting the state to withhold funds from schools forced to integrate the races. In Alabama constitutional a mendments are up for voter con sideration. One of which would give parents freedom of choice (as though Southern opinion would allow them a choice) on whether to send their children to segregate. It would also empower the Ala bama legislature- to turn any school faced with integration into a pri vate school. No wonder our President and State Department are always silent on conditions in Africa, especial ly South Africa, where Negroes are treated the way white south ern bigots would like to treat them here. We who live in glass houses fear to throw stones. But what are our candidates pledging? A Meal In A Matchbox Britain’s Ministry of Agricul ture has announced—what no “Admirable Chrichton’’ could have brought himself to utter at the drawing-room door—a meal in a matchbox. When the famous though fictitious butler of Bar rie’s play said “Dinner is served," he meant that an occassion was about to begin. But his successors at the minis try are snapping their fingers at all that. Those big brick stoves with iron hoods over them, the great copper boilers, the scrubbed white maple table tops, the cook and the assistant and goodness knows who else, the maid in black and white, and the butler himself I in tails—the ministry ignores the lot. It says that its meal is a full | three courses, in tiny tablets to which water is added to make a ! banquet. Probably there will be a match in the matchbox to sim ulate the kitchen ritual. Tiavel Shifts Into High Geai HERE COMES TOMORROW—Italian designers have come up with this sleek plastic bus creation which they claim will cruise over the roads at 125 mph. To be powered with a gas turbine engine, one of the planned models will carry up to 32 passengers. LONGEST ROAD IN THE WORLD —The Kansas Turnpike, terminat ing in this wheatfleld on the Okla homa-Kansas border is, at present, a road with no end, but not for long. Just as soon as Oklahoma allocates the necessary funds, the new four-lane superhighway will knife its way through the farmer’s . field and he'll have a new, faster road to get his grain to market. MAN BEFORE THE HORSE? —Transportation shades of the past are recorded here, but in reverse, as a London dock worker acts as the beast of burden to a valuable polo pony. The animal appears to be enjoying the novelty of watching the man do the work. (United Press Photos) ItOAD.S FOR TRANSPORTATION—Earthmoving equipment such as j these International Harvester giants are very necessary to most forms of transportation. Before sleek automobiles and streamlined busses can skim over the ribbons of concrete and asphalt, high speed earthmovers and crawler-type tractors, must first make tha | roadbeds. Fleets of equipment similar to these units, move millions of yards of rock and dirt in incredibly short .spans of time and at surprisingly low costs. RAINBOW HUES FOR WOOD INTERIORS I , I Newest contribution of tube colorants to interior decoration is the j I development of 24 modem colors in interior wood finishes which are provided by simply adding tube colorants to extra pale clear varnish at the rate of two ounces to a gallon. To be known as Maestro Interior Custom Stains, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com pany development will provide all popular wood tones plus new modern tints in blues, greens and reds. * {~ The One-Bag Wardrobe — • Latest In Long-Distance Travel! Here, off on a 8 weeks trip, a smart young lady who knows the travel score. Taking advantage of the new lightweight, easy-care fabrics, she needs a minimum of dresses to be well-groomed every inch of the way—can carry them all in one compact travel case! Realizing the importance of this new trend, famous-for-nt designer Nelly Don has fashioned a complete travel wardrobe noted for its lightness, packability and non-wilting beauty. ; An excellent example is the new sheath dress above, in resistant pin point suiting of cotton and acetate. In rail shades, ■izes 12 to 40. and custom sizes for the shorter-proportioned figure. A Bowlful of Salad News Here’s great news, because there’s a really “new" recipe to adc to the great family of salads. It’s a hearty supper salad, made with a base of rice, ready in minutes with packaged pre-cooked rice What a great blessing these hot, humid days, to be able to pre pare a meal for your family that’s both hearty and tasty, yet easy and quick. The added flavor of the ham mingled with the cubei of pineapple make it one of the most taste-tantilizing salads ever This is really fine eating for a warm summer evening 1 Ham and Rice Salad % cup packaged pre-cooked 1 tablespoon lemon juice % rice -, 1 teaspoon grated onion ' % teaspoon salt M teaspoon prepared mustard % cup boiling water lMi cups diced cooked ham % to 1 cup mayonnaise 1 cup drained pineapple , Mi teaspoon salt cubes (fresh or canned) teaspoon pepper 1 cup diced celery Add packaged pre-cooked rice and M teaspoon salt to boiling w'ater in saucepan. Mix just to moisten all rice. Cover and remove from heat. Let stand 13 minutes. Then uncover and let cool to room temperature. About 1 hour before serving, combine mayonnaise, % teaspoon salt, the pepper, lemon juice, onion, and mustard, mixing well. Com bine ham, pineapple, and celery in a bowl. Stir in the mayonnaise mixture. Then add the rice and mix lightly with a fork. Chill. Servo on crisp lettuce. Makes about 5V4 cuds, or 5 or 6 servings. Phone Your News To HA0800