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National Advertising Representative ML N ewspaper Representatives, inc \ New York • Chicago * Detroit • Philadelphia A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Thursday, Dated Friday Branch office for local news only, 2420 Grant St, Omaha 11, Nebr. teconrt rim mail privileges authorised at Omaha, Nebraska. p, ft, ^Al.lilWAV - Publisher and Managing Editot (MEMBER) CALVIN NEWS SERVICE * GLOBAL NEWS SERVICE \ ATLAS NEWS SERVICE STANDARD NEWS SERVICE This paper reeerwes the right to publish all matter credited As these news services. __ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pm Mott_I ** Three Months_-___1-®* 81a Months_20® One Year -_4.00 OUT OF TOWN SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Month---1 -®0 Three Months_1-®® 81a Months_1M 3m Year-4.58 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON REQUEST Is Mr. Talmadge Right? By B. F. Bullock, School of Education, Atlanta University In a recent nation-wide TV interview, Mr. Talmadge told the TV audience that the Negroes of Georgia wanted to maintain segregated schools. As evidence of this, he made a positive statement that the Negroes, come November are going to vote the Democratic ticket to elect the great group of southern Democrats, who are known to be bitterly opposed to integration. This statement was thoroughly disgusting and irritating to a large number of Negroes who believe that a vote cast for the Democratic party in November would be against the best interests of the Negro people. But the statement of Mr. Talmadge was not nearly so irrita ting to me as a statement from a secretary in one of our Negro educational institutions here in Atlanta. Upon walking into this office a few days ago with an IKE button on the lapel of my coat, this secretary was utterly shocked to learn that I was a Republican. Her bitter criticism of me, and her enthusi astic support of the Democratic party, made me begin to seriously wonder how much truth there might be in Mr. Talmadge's statement. But, I just can not yet believe that the great masses of Negroes in Georgia and elsewhere in the United States are letting themselves be mislead by the sugar-coated phrases of Mr. Stevenson in behalf of civil rights. We just can not separate Mr. Stevenson from the entire gang that is putting forth every effort to nullify the Supreme Court’s civil-rights decision—members of the KKK; the White Citizens Coun cils; the one-minded odd Congressmen who signed the manifesto in open defiance of the Court; Messrs. Talmadge—Eastland Sc Co.; etc. All of these are Democrats, and Mr. Stevenson is their chosen leader. A Democratic victory would put this group in position to defeat any and all civil-rights programs. There seems to be but ONE way for the Negroes to register their bitter protest effectively against this powerful combination, and that is to vote solidly for a Republican victory in November.4 Plowing And Politics Mixed At Contest By Max K. GiLstrap Newton, Iowa “Are you for Ike or Adlai?" A farmer in blue denims push ed back his straw hat and squinted down from the top of a red-paint ed hay baler at one end of a big crowded tent. A tuneful square dance was in progress at the other end of the tent. Four farmers astride indi vidual tractors were whizzing a round and around as a “caller” shouted above the lively music of a string quartet. It is here at Newton, in the heart of Iowa, that the nation’s attention was recently centered when President Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson spoke on suc cessive days to farmers attending the National Plowing Contests. Politics was beginning to appear simple in contrast to the farmer’s complicated world, wnicn Here in cluded everything from a tractor square dance to intricate conversa tions about the soil bank. An ar ray of fancy looking new com bines, cornpickers, three-bottom plows, and other puzzling farm machines looking like creations out of Buck Rogers were on dis play in hastily built Conservation City, set up here on the farm of Henry Steenhoek. “Did you ask if 1 am for Ike or Adlai?" The farmer slid down to the straw-covered floor in the International Harvester exhibit tent. I nodded. 'I'm Undecided' “Well, to be frank, I haven’t made up my mind,” Mid the farmer, “Adlai and Ike—they’re both good men but they’re sure different. Adlai sounded sarcastic but maybe he didn’t mean it— it's Just his way. That wit of his makes you want to laugh. And he's smart. Ike didn't say enough a bout farming but we already know what a good job be can do. We'd do ourselves proud to elect either man." Outside, a farmer was bundling his family Into the car to gat an early start borne before darkness caught him. "How is your emmomie situa bon’" He looked hesitant as he glanced at the pram badge on my lapel, and WMMSursd that ha ■Hogs, as you know, art up to $15 and $16 from last year’s dis astrous low of $11,” he replied. "Corn prices are fair and beef prices are holding their own. But they’ve got to go up some more for comfort The cost of things we have to buy keeps sprinting ahead of our income. “You can say that the soil bank saved me down in the drought area. It hasn’t helped some others who signed up Then it rained and they wanted to get out and couldn’t without losing money. Get the word to Benson that all his talk about the farmers wanting independence and freedom had better be accompanied by more help if the Republicans want our vote.” Down the hill an exhibitor was packing away some of his materi als. “I am a Republican. I'll prob ably vote Republican. But you've got to admit that we were put on to our feet by the Democrats and then the rug was pulled out from under us by the Republicans. No party can make it rain when it is dry or stop the hail or get rid of the grasshoppers. But it can keep its promises and the Republicans haven’t done so to the fanner and everyone knows it If that isn’t the way it really is, that’s the way we feel.” A farm housewife working at a I refreshment stand: “Talk about farm prices all you want, but peace is the main issue. Ike has kept us out of war. They're afraid of him over behind *he Iron Curtain because he's been through war. We’d be in a war today if it wasn't for Ike. He knows bet ter than anyone how to keep us at peace. He’s not likely to make biting remarks to make other countries want to fight. Peace is a thousand times more inportant than all that’s being said about farm economy. That's whit will win for Ike on the farm and everywhere else. I’m a mother—I know." A farm implement dealer "Business in farm machinery has definitely been picking up in the last two and a half months and we expect it to hold up this fall This is the best indication you can rind of an upturn in farm condi ! lions. When farmers are uncer tain, as they were last spring, they ' w.\ buy." ! Help Needed “““ Owner of a diversified farm Stevenson bought a lot of votes with that speech he made today., (He either understands, or hta speech writer* understand, what the farm problem la all about. In ms?, Stevenson was too general, in hi* statements, Now ha talk* specifically on things (he people ‘want tw hrsr about last time ha ’waa so sharp 1 was tetrad at hint This time he's more down to earth.” Corn-hog fanner: “You can’t help but like I*e. He got off a good speech out of his head and was smart enough not to make it political before this nonpolitical gathering. It's his instinct in knowing what to do at the right time that makes his re-election so important in November..” Editor of a farm newspaper “The farmer is a pretty sensible fellow. He would be the last one to expect help from the govern ment if he could make it other wise. He doesn't want to have to take subsidies. And he knows be can’t borrow himself out of debt. But he is faced with little alter native than to accept assistance. “Just as one small example, a power mower be bought for $135 in 1940 now costs $325. His in come has failed to keep pace with his expenditures. And since such a condition is no fault of his own the farmer doesn’t believe he should be a vicitm of circum stances, especially when others aren't experiencing the same diffi culty." In view of the famers’ many difficulties, farmers here were asked frequently what they would propose as the best means of as sisting them at the present time. Several suggested that a floor be put under hog prices so they won't drop below $14 a hundred weight. Credit at better rates was sug-: gested by some others. “What is wrong,” several asked, “with paying direct subsidies to j farmers such as are now being j paid to wool and sugar growers?” A frequent suggestion was heard that better prices be offered for! corn taken out of production. Regulation of meat packers’! prices was another suggestion. What the farmers appeared to want more than anything men tioned above and apparently what they are getting, is a public ap predation of the seriousness and scope of their problem. If there is apathy in the present campaign, it exists less on the farm than in other places. This fact is prob ably the most hopeful aspect of the farm picture. Our Problems Know No Race To The Christian Science Monitor: Has the right to progress been denied the Negro race? What do they want Equal opportunities with the whites? In the Pentagon I saw Negro supervisors in some of the offices with whites work ing under their suppervision. Better wages in the South? 1 worked in a dairy store in the south—Florida. True the Negro dishwasher received only $1.15 an hour, but I received only 22 cents an hour more and had to pay half-price (pr everything 1 ate. Better housing? Many times I drove through the Negro residen tial section of St. Petersburg: there were well-kept homes and badly kept homes, the same as in many white districts. Some had : hrubbery and flowers, painted houses; some showed lack of am bition, the same as in many white districts. Some very brilliant Negro peo ple have come out of segregated schools to win the respect and ambition of the white race. 1 am white but I have not had the educational advantages of many Negroes. I never finished the sixth grade in school. Shall I say this because my skin is white. Not all white people are well housed; not all white people are well educated; not all white peo pie’s incomes are in the top brack et but are in the low-incomc bracket. Many white people have to have public assistance. In short the white race has the same trou bles as the colored; so what is the argument about? Can desegregation heal these conditions? I have peat respect for the Negroes. They have come very far in 100 years. They are a people of peat compassion. I have had reason to be pateful for their compassion. But let us not enter into strife when there is no reason for strife Mentor, Ohio Mrs. G. M. Hewes The Omaha Sales Executive Monday announced the winners of the two $290 scholarships a warded yearly to marketing ma jors in Creighton University's College of Commerce and In the University of Omaha's College of Business Administration The winners are Sara Circo of tM8 So. 13th Street, a senior at Creigthon, and Ray Crouse, 4S10 Vinton, a senior at Omaha Uni versity. The scholarships were awarded by Richard Davis, Chairman of the Club's Education Committee. John J. Kursk la President of the Club. Winners are selected by facul ty representative* at the two schools Selection la made on a »Msta of need. Interest in salM rsaagement and leadership in coilsw*. A bore t« who boasts about Ids accomplishments when, he should be boaauag about NAACP Here To Support New Charter The Omaha Branch of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of the Colored People tNAACP) adopted a resolution offering its “whole-hearted sup port” to the proposed new City Charter, the Rev. E. T. Streeter, president, announced Thursday. "Our board of directors voted unanimously to favor the new Charter”, the Rev. Streeter said. “The Charter Convention is to be complimented for writing a fine document and one which deals with the colored people in com plete fairness." He pointed out that during the Charter Convention hearings, rep resentatives of his group made many suggestions on how to ini prove the Human Relations Board provided for in the new Charter. “The Convention delegates not only paid attention to our sugges tions, but they went much further rnd recommended many more protective provisions”, he said. The Omaha Branch of the NAACP has a membership of more than 1,000 persons in Oma ha. “We all hope to offer our ser vices in supporting the new City Charter,” he said. Rev. Streeter is the pastor oi the Clair Methodist Church at 2028 Miami Street. MRGIMA WILL DESTROY ITS Pl'BLIC SCHOOLS—NAACP Petersburg Va. — A predic tion that Virginia’s public school system will be destroyed by its own state legislature was ad vanced here last week by Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive sec retary. Mr. Wilkins commented at length upon "a program of con fusion as to public schools” and "a package of seven bills aimed at the NAACP" recently passed by the Virginia Assembly. He addressed guests at a testi monial dinner held on Oct. 6 in honor of Dr. J. M. Tinsley of Richmond, a member of the As * sociation’s national Board of Directors and president of the Richmond NAACP branch, The event was sponsored by the Vir ginia State NAACP. On the public school question,' the NAACP leader asserted: “The Assembly has passed a pro gram of confusion as to public schools that will destroy the sys tem as surely as we sit here to night. . . . The Stanley plan (on school) is supposed to guarantee that a Negro child will require about two years to take all the hurdles set up by the new state law. If he surviv?s and succeeds in his quest, then the Governor personally intervenes, funds are cut off, schools are closed, and so forth." Package-Bills "Threaten Virginians Mr. Wilkins said he agrees with the Richmord News Leader and Times Dispatch that the package of seven bills aimed at the NAACP, passed by the As sembly on Oct. 1, “threaten the liberties of all Virginians.” “investigating committees are to be set up," he continued. “Citizens may not ‘advocate’ any thing touching upon racial mat ters. Citizens may not chal lenge any racial practice in the courts. Lawyers may not ac cept employment to challenge any racial matter. Citizens may not, either Individually or as or ganized groups, resort to the courts to redress a racial in equity." If the laws are enforced, he de clared, “free speech will be dead” and “the General Assem bly will never again hear an other word, pro or con, on racial matters. CATHOLIC UNIT LABELS RACISTS 'SUBVERSIVE' New Orleans - Southern white supremacy g r o u ps promoting racism and segregation were d e e rn ed “anti-American, anti Catholic, anti Southern and ir ! religious" by a unit of the Catho lic Committee of the South. In a ten-point statement issued ! here, the Committee’s Commis j sion on Human Rights scored the ! white supremacy groups for ad vocating defiance of the Supreme Court decision on school inte gration to the point of armed Article in Readers Digest Reveals Jittery Pre-Menstrual Tension Is So Often a Needless Misery! Do you suffer terrible nervous ten don—feel Jittery, irritable, de pressed — lust before your period each month? A startling article In READER'S DXOE8T reveals such pre-menstrual torment is needless misery in many cases! Thousands have already discov ered how to avoid such suffering. 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