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The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
REPORTS 100 NEGROES SENT m
CHAIN GANG FOR TRIVIAL
OFFENSES IN s c

Charleston, S. C. Nov.-Robert W
Marks reports having e almost 1oo
Negroes sent to chain gang in Char.
lesion "for trivial or entirely incon
s~equential o~ffenses" such as curs;no
lettering on streets at night, gambI
ing, and being a ~"disorderly person
which in many instances meant sim
ply being unemployed.
The report was sent to the Civil
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
Election of Officers

The NAACP. will have a meeting
end the annual election Of officers
Sunday afternoon, A p. m. at the Ur-
ban League, oath nd Erskine Sts.
All members and friends are asked
to be present.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN
CLOSES

The 1928 Community Chest
campaign came to a victorious close
at the final report meeting of work
ers and division leaders at the Font
enelle Hotel Tuesday noon. with a
total of s594 .318.45. which is ten
thousand dollars more than was rails
cd at the close of last years cam
paign. Gwyer H. Yates. general
chairman, presided. w. F. Cozad
was introduced as general chairman
OF next years campaign.
Additional contributions yet to be
reported are expected to bring the
campaign total to above the six hun
bred thousand dollar mark, provid-
ing money urgently needed to feed,
clothe and shelter more than five
thousands of Omaha families and hun
dreds of individuals dependent upon
Chest agencies.
Mayor r. Z. Metcalfc at the clos
ing meeting paid tribute to the 'gen-
erosity Of thousands of Omahans who
have proven that no one will be al
lowed to suffer from cold and hunger
in Omaha this winter. He praised
the work of Gwyer H. Yates. general
campaign chairman and the division
leaders as well as the work of the
$500 Omaha men and women who as
volunteers. worked for two and ne-
half weeks until everyone in Omaha
who could afford to give to the Chest
had been given a chance to do so.
The workers at the final meeting
reported $23, 30O.15 in additional con-
tributions as follows:
Business division. w. Otto Swans
son, chairman, 81. $685.; Women's
Residential, Mrs. F. F. Whitcomb,
chairman, S2,S84 90; South Omaha
Business, Alvin E. Johnson. chair
man, S552.30; Industrial. w. F. Coz
ad, chairman, ST. 1872 80; and Initial
Gifts, w. Dale Clark, chairman, $1O.-
266.0O.
~ want to thank every worker in
the Chest army for the wonderful
cooperation they gave me in helping
to make this campaign a success"
said General Chairman Yates.
z. S. Waterbury, president Of the
Community Chest. said that the cam
paign was the most successful since
the Chest was organized, and that
worker had completed their task I'M
der the most adverse conditions.
cit was the most magnificent cam
paign ever Card on in Omaha or any
place else" said Waterbury. "The
work of Chairman Gwyer Yates was
splendid. / want to assure everyone
who contributed that the Chest board
Of directors and the 81 Chest agencies
will see that every penny is spent in
the most economical manner, so that
the most good will be accomplished"
Waterbury announced that the
Chest directors at a meeting Tuesday
morning had selected w. F. Cozad,
general manager of the Northwestern
Bell Telephone company, as next
years campaign chairman. Cozad has
been chairman of the industrial div
ision for the past four years and this
year with only $1,000 industrial con-
tributors, as against $4,000 last year.
succeeded in raising the per capita
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
Zones Not Denoted
Says Hopkins

November q. 1882.
Mr.. John Hopkins,
Commissioner Of Police,
City Hall,
Omaha, Nebr.
Dear Sir:
| note that one Of your plain cloth.
es detectives of our race LEROY
Jones) has been denoted.
Many different rumor to the cause
are being circulated in our commun
ity. We have also had many inquir.
les about this matter. If possible
we would appreciate a statement
from you why he was denoted fol
publication in this weeks edition.
We go to press Thursday morning
Yours truly,
c. c. Galloway. Acting Editor.
Omaha Guide Publ. Co.
November rs, 1882
Mr.. c. c. Galloway,
Omaha Guide Publishing Co.,
2418 Grant ST.,
Omaha. Nebr.
Dear Mr.. Galloway
With referece to your inquiry a.
bout the demotion of Leroy Jones
wish to say that Mr.. Jones was not
denoted. A few months ago Leroy
Jones was assigned to the detective
department to work temporarily il
plain clothes. Officer Jones was as.
signed to his regular duty as a patrol
man, without any change in rank Of
pay.
Officer Ephraim Rose has been as.
signed to duty in the detective de.
partment.
You will realize that in the oper-
alton of the Police Department, the
good of the service sometimes requir.
es that changes be made in the as
signment Of members Of the depart
ment.
Very sorry that due to my absence
from the City l was not able to ans.
wer your letter in time for public.
alton this week.
Yours very truly,
JOHN HOPKINS.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

giving of every employee subscrip-
ton so cents.
In responding to an introduction by
Waterbury, Cozad said: I'VE have
served this year under a great lead
er. Gwyer Yates. | ask you to give
me the same cooperation which he
received. | promise to do my best
with your kind assistance"
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
N 4 JACKSON.

There "a much co~njec.uring in the
col0rcd publications these days as to
the possible changes that xill be made
in the Official working personnel in
the various departments a. the Ma
ti0n's capital. Washington.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
XMAS SPECIALS

See our attractive Xmas cards. with
your name engraved free. III dozen
cards for s1-00- Lowest prices.-first
Quality Cards
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Many changes win be made, for
many PORTIONS are purely political,
but there ia office holder whose
work. accomplishments and personal
sty Ia above polities-and that i
james A. Jacksno. Business Special
1T IN the United States Department
" Commerce.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Dear Mr.. Garner:
l do not wish to bore you with the
problems of our community, and i
am sure the same is universal, but
as you are to be our next Vice Presi-
dent. | know of no other one to seek
the proper information with the cor
rect guidance which gives more sat
isfaction than if | should obtain
same from another source.
| have had communications with
different departments relative to the
Federal Home Loan Bank Act. in
Guiding the branch in our territory,
located in Topeka, and the home office
located in Washington.
They state protection will be given
to individuals whose homes are I'M
dergoing liquidation. l know that
you will give me the proper inform
alton, and there will be no hesitation
or doubt regarding the facts.
Our country looks with anxiety and
satisfaction to you and Governor
Roosevelt, our Presidents elect, that
conditions will materialize to the ex-
tent the public or the masses will be
vel fortified from every angle, with
employment and protection of homesI
which is all necessary at this timed
for a body of people who are waiting
for an opportunity to make good. /
Again thanking you for your in
formation, and whatever future con-
.sideration you may give. / am
Respectfully yours,
DR.. G. B. Lennox, Pres.
Omaha Working Mems
Commissioners.
1602h N. oath st.
The Speakers Rooms
House of Representatives u. S.
Washington, D. G.
November %, 1882.
DR.. G. B. Lennox,
1929 North oath St..
Omaha, Nebraska.
Ny dear DR.. Lennox:
Yours Of the 10Th has been receiv-I
ed, and as Mr. Garner is away and
will be absent for some time, | am
taking the liberty of replying.
| note what you have to say in ref
erence to administration Of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Act. For sew
eral week | have been endeavoring ii
secure the regulations under whic
this act is to be administered, bu
have been informed, as | was todaJ
that these regulations are not yet a
valuable. | am bringing your lette
to the attention Of the Home Loai
Bank Board here, requesting tina
they give me full information. and
will communicate with you as 0 0 as
I receive anything definite from the
board.
| note that your office is only al
few blocks from my boyhood home.
For several years l lived at 1915
North oath Street, opposite what
was then the G. A. R. Hal, or rather
Saunders Street as it was then gen
orally referred to. However, I have
not been in Omaha in twenty years.
Very truly yours,
HARRY L. SEXTON
Secretary to Speaker
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Theoretically he holds his position
through 4 civil service rating but in
politics many strange things can
happen 70 the civil service machin-
cry. Sometimes whole departments
are abolished and the employees turn
ed loose only 70 be superseded By 2
new department with a slightly chang
Cd name, the same working routine,
but a new set Of civil service employ
res
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

There is not a Negro editor, pub
Usher, correspondent, business man,
organization or a professional man
Of any standing that Mr.. Jackson is
not personally acquainted with and
all Of these should make it a point
to watch and see that no changes are
manipulated in the civil service stand
ing Of Mr.. Jackson, or the depart
ment he has built up. If anything,
his work should be expanded. with adj
ditional assistants hired
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Not only is he making beneficial
contacts for the Negroes in business
but through his vast personal &C
quaintanees. knowledge and exper-
ience among all classes Of Negroes,
Mr. Jackson. has collected and dis
seminates pertinent and valuable in
formation that any business person
a secure merely by contracting Mr..
Jackson's office.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Mr. Jackson. C~Billboard" as he is
known 10 the Negro Press) has so
many connections that he could easily
shift for himself but the race needs
him at Washington. His work may
rot Be 50 readily appreciated by the
masses but he is slowly but surely
building UP contacts for the race, in
the business fields, that it would be
impossible to achieve without his ser
vices. backed By the U. S. Govern
ment-
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Ny argument in behalf Of Mr.
Jackson is not that another man
couldn't perform the same work. IN
der the same circumstances, but
there Is not another Negro who
could assume the work and do as
much good as Mr.. Jackson can do by
continuing his present services which
are the result OF many years of labor
and contact.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03

Personally. ! have made excellent
use Of my correspondence contact
with Mr.. Jackson. fer through him |
have secured many volumes of stat
istical reference information and
scores Of supplemental pamphlets
containing current information on the
Negro. Much Of this information
that I have secured has been the re-
suit OF compilations from many de-
partments at Washington but it has
always proved a very simple matter
70 send word TO Mr.. Jackson a to the
nature Of the work | needed and
through mis- connections he would Sc
cure and dispatch it Immediately.
The Omaha guide., 1932-12-03
Lennox Asks Garner
For Data On Home
Loan Bill

November 10, 1882.
Speaker John N. Garner.
Washington, D. c.
Dear Mr. Garner.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Discretionary Authority
Essential i'm Reductions
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Unless a discretionary power Of Sc
lection is granted heads of Federal de-
partments, offices and services In drop
ping employees as the result of pending
legislation, impairment of efficiency,
great personal hardship, and even trag-
edy, may result; also some remarkable
anomalies.
Waving the question whether. in
dropping employees, it is wise or safe to
take into account considerations other
than demonstrated efficiency. what If
the combined salaries Of husband and
wife. both in the Federal service, total
no more than moderate living? Pro-
vided woman has a husband who is
regularly in receipt of a salary, what
difference IS there, in principle. whether
the husbands employment Is under the
Federal Government or outside? Yet,
under the terms of the legislation pro-
posed in the pending pay-cut measure,
in one case the woman faces dismissal
and not IN the other. What If, in a
group of employees from which a dis
missal is necessary. the person in best
financial circumstances Is unmarried,
whose salary represents either pocket
money or pin money, depending upon
the sex of the recipient. and efficiency
Is practically equal? What II the per-
son who must be dropped has a service
of over 20 years, which, In the event of
separation, will count for very little
under the Federal retirement law, but
who has had little chance to lay some
hing by?
Turning to the second class. what If
the "superannuate" land one may come
within this category at as low an age
as 62) Is the most valuable employe in
an entire group or office, in full physi-
cal and mental vigor, and, in addition.
equipped with a body Of knowledge and
experience Of much value and to be at
tanned only by years of service? Dis
carding such person Is akin to throw
ing away gold or silver ore after all the
trouble of digging it from the ground;
in short, sheer economic waste, incon-
sistent with regard for economy and ef-
f1ciency In the Federal service. The
Federal retirement law recognizes this,
and makes provision for It,
Surely there should be lodged in re-
sponsible Government heads a discre-
tionary authority in these matters, so
that the best interests Of the Nation
may be safeguarded.
GEORGE A. WARREN.
Evening star., 1932-05-06

members yield to no native son or
daughter of America in reverent admi-
ration of him who was first in war.
first in peace and first in the hearts
of his countrymen. The sponsors of
these Tributes From Many Lands" are
hopeful that their publication, unique
contribution to the literature Of the bi-
centenary era will find, as it deserves,
wide reception by the American pub
lie everywhere.
Glancing through this genially c5l-
ceiv5d broc hure, enc is struck fortil III
by the fact that George Washington
was vene-ated as a world figure more
thcn a full century ago wherever civil
lied man was eXtant. On February y,
1900, by command Of Napoleon Bona
parte, funeral oration in Gen. Wash
ing on's honor was delivered in the
Hotel des rnvalides at Paris-the Tenn
pie of Mars" in which the great soldier
emperor himself now lies entcmbed.
Excerpts from that eulogy are repro
Guced We find that Simon Bolivar,
South Americas George Washington,
acclaimed the North American patriot
statesman in an official communication
to the Colombian Senate on June 4,
1926.
Englishmen, while the wounds OF the
lost American war were still smarting,
did not shrink from generous lauda-
ton of its hero. Between the covers
of the Americanisation Associations
booklet are an ode to Washington by
Lord Byron, panegyric on his virtues
from the European Magazine and
London Review of March. 1900. and a
no less feryent estimate of his achieve
m-nts end character from the Annual
Register of Lcndon, dated 1899
strictly up-to-date appreciation of the
Father of his Country is the address
broadcast to the United States on
February % of this year by President
Masaryk of Czechoslovakia.
The American people are drenched
and deluged with Washingtoniana in
this year of bicentenarian grace. Moth
ing so truly demonstrative of the
esteem in which the founder of Amer
lean freedom is held by all mankind
has been vouchsafed us as these
Tributes From Many Lands" They
are entitled to take their place in the
Nations annals.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Tampering With the Army.

It is earnestly and urgently to be de-
sired that Congress will scrutinize with
the utmost care the proposal of the
House Appropriations Committee to
make sweeping reductions in the War
Department budget. The projected re-
moval of two thousand officers from the
active list, with incidental decreases
bringing Army expenditures for 1888
S58, ,789 900 below current appTopria-
tions and $24 $50 900 below budget esti-
mates, deal the land establishment far
more serious blows than may appear
upon the surface.
President Hoover himself. on numer-
Gus occasions, has deprecated the wis
dom of further skeletonizing our al
ready highly skeletonic standing Army
or crippling its manifold peace-tirne
activities at home and abroad. The
American delegation at Geneva is at
this moment putting forth and defend
ing the thesis that the United States
has rothing to offer the rest of the
world in the field of land disarmament
because the forces We maintain are
already barely adequate for our re-
quirements. BY no stretch of the i'm
agination, this Government has fire.
quently pointed out, can the American
Army be considered a menace to any
other country in the world. 1t is, on
its face, probably the most purely de-
fensive military organization in exist
ence; and certainly 1t is incomparably
the smallest maintained by any first
class power
It is a particular pity that it should
be planned to minimize the usefulness
of the Citizens Military Training Camps
system and the Organized Reserves.
These institutions were created by the
national defense act following the
Great War and had the special approval
Of Gen. Pershing. No man knows so
well the evils of unpreparedness, which
chronically assail this country when
q great emergency requires it to resort
to arms The elements which Sleep
lessly and Systematically oppose keeping
the United States in state Of rea-
sonable readiness for such emergencies
have always made the Citizens Military
Training Camps and the Organized Re-
serves the special targets Of attack and
abuse contending that they are breed
ers of the war spirit" If these effective
agencies for providing the Nation with
q trained nucleus at times Of unex
pected national crisis are done away
with, in part or in whole, very distinct
and very dangerous disservice will be
rendered the country.
President Hoovers ringing appeal to
Congress to balance the budget by "a
definite and conclusive program" merits
prompt and comprehensive attention.
But it will be easy for the friends of
the Army to quote the Commander in
Chiefs own views as to the inadvisibility
and inadmissibility OF tampering with
the United States Army.
Evening star., 1932-05-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC BILLIAM VILE.

Dawes stunt in arguing the impropriety
of undermining our already dangerously
Skeletonized military establishment
Gen. Pershing holds strong views on
the American peoples incorrigible habit
of letting national defense go to pot
after their wars. That's been the un-
varying custom of the country from
. the Revolution down to this day. Per-
shing considers it a perniciouS and
perilous habit. The commander in
chief of the A. F. arrived in France
this week for his annual tour Of in
spection as chairman of the American
Battle Monuments Commission.
Japan Speaks on the Sino-J Japanmee e
Crisis is a book Just written by K. X.
Kawakami. Washington correspondent
of the Toxic Hochi Shimbun. 1t con-
tains an introduction by Tsuyoshi
Inukai prime minister of Japan, who
says: Japan is not imperialistic. She
is not actuated by land lust. She has
not deliberately embarked upon a course
of aggression. All that the Japanese
desire in Manchuria is to live and toll
peacefully and harmoniously with other
peoples. Only when that privilege, to
which we are fully entitled by treaty
and by the great sacrifice We had made
for China, was persistently denied us
through 30 years deliberate policy of
obstruction and exclusion did We resort
to an armed Intervention, which seemed
the only means to cut the Gordian knot.
This, I am sure, will be appreciated
when the world is In position to look
at the stirring events Of these days
through the perspective OF history"
Author Kawakami is married to an
ANA n
foremost authority on affairs in the
United States.
* X X
President Hoover isn't likely to sc-
commodate Senator Tydings, Demo-
cratic wet, of Maryland by disclosing
his prohibition views-at least, not just
now. The big chief is talking freely
enough with White House callers about
the burning issue, but not for publica-
tion, nor, as yet, with any clear indica-
ton of what his 1882 stand is going to
be- The best bet is that Mr. Hoover
will succeed in bottling up his liquor
leanings until just before the zero hour of
battle at Chicago next month. The two
Walters-Brown of the Post Office, and
Newton, of the White House-will be
the custodians of the presidential pro-
hibition secret at the convention.
X x
If Gov. Roosevelt moves to Washing
ton next March, he'll find full-f1edged
uncle and first cousin waiting for him
here. The uncle is Col Frederic A.
Delano, prominent Capital lawyer, who
is brother of the Governors mother.
Warren Delano Robbins, social arbiter
of the White House and State Depart
ment. is the Governors cousin. Their
mothers are sisters. Roosevelts middle
name, ss nearly everybody knows, is
Delano.
(Fnpvriaht 1QN1
Evening star., 1932-05-06
Ford's Plan Approved by
''The Man With the Hoe"

To the Editor of The Star:
A letter, published in The Star on
the 29th of April, denounces Fords
farm factory" plan as faulty eco
nomically because 1t fails to make an
economic slave of everybody. Poor
logic is prevalent these days and
EanaceaS are numerous. Buc the
widest vagary of a rabble rouser never
surpassed in stupidity this attack upon
fundamental freedom.
Mr.. Ford'S plan is not new, but
it is credit to Mr. Ford to support it.
The factory workers of Belgium and
France have recently saved themselves
miSe1y-whereas the less wise workers
OF America, England and Germany
have found it-by maintaining small
truck gardens to help out the family
budget and, if necessary, to prevent
starvation.
This unassailable, fundamentally and
incollapSibly sound unemployment in
Surance-for that is what Mr.. Ford's
plan really t-has found enemies
among those who conceive the average
mans sole function and primary pur-
pose TO be that of consumer of goods,
products and articles emitted by this
gigantic economic machine, which at
present has run amuck. How narrow
mind hss the fiend who thus en-
visions man! How perfect a deScrip-
tion of such a man is Markham'S
great masterpiece The Man With the
Hoe"
What is q farmer for? Is he made In
order that he may slave all his life to
grow all the soil will give him, so that
he may buy SulStenance for longer
slavery? Is factory worker created
that he may slave in factory for
wages which enable him to consume
what the farmer slaves to produce?
Must such mems sole ambition be to
increase the mutual drudgery? And
must each never change from the same
monotonouS drudgery because changes
are inefficient? Must ell men pl'ce
their reliance for livelihood upon sin
gle type Of slavery?
The man who denounces Ford's plan
says yes" to every question.
II this Is our sole solution let us
have Communism. 1t will let us con-
sumo more. that we may slave more.
Or better vet, let us all jump off the
top OF the Washington Monument
Man is luckily, however. something
more than mere consumer. He Is a
creature that deserves freedom, an
independence. and bit of color and
tone in his life.
odVe US lIotu IIlOSe whose eCOIOHnIC
laws make us slaves of efficiency.
When We see the victims of such
flends. we ask, as Markham:
Who made him dead to rapture and
despair?
Whose breath blew out the light within
this brain?
How will the future reckon with this
man?"
And We will feel perhaps, as Mark
ham cid, that:
There is no shape more terrible than
this,
More filled with censure of the worlds
blind greed,
More filled with signs and portents for
the soul.
More fraught with menace to the uni
verse" JOHN M. COURT.