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The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
THINK THIS OVER

The plight of our boys and girls
who have graduated from the higher
branches of learning is pathetic. There
seems no where to place these youths. It
is about time mothers and fathers SER
iously considered this problem. Of course
you are saying what can be done about
it? And especially at this time, but this is
not true, something can be done, but it
must be done through cooperation. Sup
posing every father in this community
contributed one dollar a month to a fund
for one year, and that fund was used to
put us in business, we believe a different
situation would exist in a year, but so
long as my boy is not affected, my neigh
boris boy or girl, is no concern Of mine.
Here is where we are wrong, a chain is
no stronger than its weakest link. You
can't enjoy prosperity if your neighbors
are poverty stricken. Our whole onom-
ic system depends on cooperation. Vice
and crime are the hand-maiden of idle
ness. Statistics play no favorites, they are
the figures chalked up to a races discre-
dit or credit, and bears hard on all Of a
particular group, Fathers and mothers
think it over.
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, July 20, 1888

fair competition, as a factor to be separ-
ately and expressly considered, the in
creased cost of living will carry human
misery in ever greater quantities to the
home of every tenth man in the alton. de-
clared the spokesman. He called attention
to the fact that the code for cotton textile
industries in its present state, like the
codes for all organized labor groups, is so
framed to exclude Negro unskilled
groups.
The economic factors in American
life never will be united satisfactorily
until the black worker is taken into full
account and given his just consideration.
The purchasing power of 100000 peo-
pie cannot be overlooked by the admin
istration. The black consumers represents
an unusually large part Of the total pur-
chasing power of the nation. Much of the
slack in the American export trade in
cotton textiles could be taken up by the
improvement of the Negro market at
home. The buying power Of the Negro
family must be increased to meet the rise
in prices. 1t is as important to the manu-
facturer and the merchant as it is to the
Negro himself that this buying power be
restored.
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
GOSPEL R~ACKETEERS

With disgust we have observed the
extent to which some so-called ministers
of the gospel will 60 to exact every dollar
they can from the pockets Of their ignor-
ant congregations. These gospel racket
GERS care nothing about the economic
condition Of the people who constitute
the membership of their churches, but
are alert to any move which means less
money for them.
We know of instances in which
these gospel racketeers received as high
as $500 per week in cash with a home,
lights water and fuel furnished on the
side. We have had occasions to visit a
number of churches where often we have
seen persons in the congregation hungry
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
FAITH
FAITH CABIN Librar,

FAITH CABIN Library repre-
sents concretely a keen and sincere inter-
est Of a young white man of ordinary
means but fine training in the Negro
race Of his community. His name is Will
lie L. Burlington of Edgefield, South
Carolina. He comes from a large family
OF Woodworking, honest people and has
grown up with splendid ideals of citizen
ship which he has practiced from youth
up to the present time.
After working his way through
the famous Martha Berry School at
Rome, Georgia, he returned to his own
County still poor in material things but
rich in ideals and understanding of the
fundamentals of brotherhood, kindness
and service. In connection with a Rosen-
wald School for Colored people at Plum
Branch in Saluda County, he established
a Library known as Faith Cabin. This
building is made Of logs all the mater
ial and building Of which were prepared
and constructed by faith. 1t is now hous-
ing twenty-five hundred books, the gifts
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29

of friends who have encouraged the
worthy undertaking DR.. Lorenzo H. King
Pastor Of st. Marks Methodist Episco-
pal Church. in New York City, has been
attracted by the work and has been in
strumental in securing several books for
the Library.
Young Mr.. Burlington is plain,
simple, but earnest and sincere in his en-
deavor to be useful in the interest of a
struggling group Of people. He is a mill
hand on a small salary Of $3.50 per week
with a family to support. And yet he finds
time and a few spare pennies to be used
in the development Of this splendid SER
ice.
More will be said about Faith Cab
in a later issue
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
WHO IS THE
BY r. A. Adams

(For the Literary Service Bureau
The erratic demagogue, Jim Ward
man, used to say "The Negro has just
a thin veneer of civilization, so if you
just scratch him you find him a bar
barian." But just a short time ago the
famous, also e~rratic, Jim Reed Of
Missouri, declared, eve are savages
bereath our white skin"
Winnie Ruth Judd killed two wom-
en-. .dismembered them and shipped
them in a trunk. A few days ago a
boy still in his teens, decoyed a boy of
IL years to a vacant house, bound
and gagged him, then in the presence
Of another little boy stabbed his VIC
tim to death. Only a very short time
ago a youth of 10 cruelty murdered
his wife of three months. He choked
her, fractured her skull with the
crank of his car, pushed her out of the
car while it was running and when
her foot caught in the door dragged
her for miles along the highway.
Not long ago members of a murder
gang killed five officers at the Union
Station, Kansas City, Missouri, Civ
ing them no possible chance to save
their lives. And any day press de-
spatches give information of many
such heinous crimes. These are white
people 80 Nordics 80 and their crimes
show that Jim Reed was right. Who
are the barbarians?
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
WORKERS DEMAND SQUARE DEAL

Standing squarely upon his feet
and speaking plainly concerning the
plight of Negro unskilled workers in the
textile industry, John P. Davis last week
told President Roosevelt's new recon-
struction public works control program
aides that his people had been forgotten
by the Democrats in their effort to stab
ilize our country. Asking parity of pay
and equality of treatment the textile
workers representative pointed the way to
better understanding to our passive lead
ers who stated around waiting for their
customary crumbs. Davis showed how we
must stand up and state u complaints
against industrial, legal and social dis
ordinations and injustices in order to
secure concessions in the mad race for
national re-adjustments.
The labor spokesman informed the
Administration that unemployment Of
Negroes has been relatively greater than
that of whites since the depression began.
Social and welfare benefits provided for
white workers are withheld from Negro
employees. Undoubtedly Mr.. Davis will
secure action as a result of his plea for
our workers.
There must be frank recognition to
the fact that unless Negro labor is openly
and fairly dealt with in these codes of
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29

as | can walk without getting too
tired and then riding back on the
bus. Sometimes l can walk for mil
es and observe enough peculiar E.
vents in each block to fill a magazine
with short stories-yes someday may
be I'll have a magazine and then I
can write just what I see without
having to doctor or color the mat
erial up Of it the ideas of the editor
you can picture me walking down
the avenue" on such a stroll, just
like any hick who has just come to
town with a bag of popcorn in my
hand and my neck staring at the
buildings and the sights as I stroll
along. I guess though, unlike the
country hick, | have no corn tassels
visible about my person for no one
has attempted to sell me a gold brick
or the South Parkway statute as yet.
| had better knock on wood for it is
not too late yet to get bit.
A very annoying dislike" is the
positive poor mail service on the
South side. In five weeks I have re
ceived more complaints from the
newspapers receiving-or failing to
receive-my releases than 1 did in
over three years in prison. 1 have
tested, time and again, this mail ser
vice by mailing extra copies to my
self and usually they arrive the sec
ond-and on instance-the third
day after it was mailed. A friend of
mine, about a mile away, sent me
some information by special delivery
at ten O'Clock one morning and I got
it with the regular mail at eight
o'clock the next day. So friends, do
not waste your money sending me
any communications by special de
livery for there is no special delivery
on the south side-it is all special If
It arrives at all.
"And / "like" those persons who
make a definite appointment and
KEEP it. And distinctly dislike"
those persons who say they will see
you at nine in the morning and then
after waiting a day or two they phone
you up TO explain that they were un-
able 10 see You. And I "like" those
people who phone me little bits Of
that they think I would
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
WOULD BLAME TT ON A NEGRO
Ru r A Adams

(For the Literary Service Bureau)
According to his own story. Ken
meth Buck, the kidnapper of Peggy
McMath, blackened his face with
burnt cork before he undertook the
nefariouS crime. In his mind was more
than the thought of escaping detect
ion by obviating identity. but his pur-
pose was to blame it on a Negro. Not
long ago in Arkansas, a black man was
killed but when tie inquest was held he
was found to be a white man with his
face and hands blackened.
There have been thousands of such
cases where white men have attempt
ed to escape responsibility for crime
by this method. Many cases Of rob
berry, murder, and rape have been
covered up in this way. And only God
can know how many innocent Negro
es have been punished for crime com
mitted by men who blackened their
faces and hands, and whose hearts
were already black enough to injure
innocent Negroes in this way.
Usually injustice Of this kind is
perpetrated in the South, in this ease
it was in the East, showing that in all
sections, now, there are unprincipled
wretches who commit these crimes
against the race. Then, let US be con-
stantly on guard, and let US urge re-
representatives. of the law everywhere.
to make full investigation in every
such case, lest the innocent suffer and
the guilty Ego unwhipped Of justice"
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
CHICAGO-AND CHICAGOANS
by Clifford C. Mitchell

by Clifford u, Mitchell
Some Likes and Dislikes!
This is being written on the COM
pletion of my fifth week in the windy
city-quite long enough to form some
positive likes and some very positive
dislikes.
Perhaps the greatest "like" is the
manner in which the employees of
the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance
Company cooperate with me. So
friendly, so courteous and so pleasing,
always willing to help me in any
little way they can. I thought when
| was leaving the "boys" back in
prison that / wouldn't find the free
folks SO willing to help me in the
many little ways that go to make
living and work a success and brings
to it contentment and happiness. And
| am frank to admit that without the
cooperation of these new made
friends I would be unable to operate
with continued regularity.
There is no doubt that the great
est dislike" comes in the radio re
ception of some advertisements for
liver pills, baby carriages, alarm
clocks, and everything from z
blades to o plasters, especially
when these radio sales talks ON
right in the middle of some interest.
ing program. And if you attempt
to dial on to some other station to
avoid hearing the high sales pressure
OF some line of beer you manage to
get another station for about a min
ute and then are told Of the fine quail
tiles of peruna-no this is not an
advertisement for peruna. Someday
someone will invent a device to fit
on all radios that will automatically
tune in on something else when the
gift of CAB spielers start their radio
shell game. Of course to you radio
fans who are used to the radio you
know what to expect but you must
remember that my intimacy with
radios-any radios just exactly
five weeks old as this is written.
Aother "like", next 10 taking an
early morning walk, is to take a
walk late at night Is far down the
beautiful South Parkway Boulevard
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29

July IL, 1875
Omar Baking Co.,
General Manager,
45th and Nicholas St.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
We a you to know we highly
appreciate the employment and con-
sideration you have given, and are
hoping the driver, Harry Hardy, is
making good, as he is putting forth
every effort to do so. We are also in
hopes the one who was recently put
on probation will prove satisfactory.
AS | have often stated, if these men
should not give service, do not hold
the masses responsible, as we have
those who can and will fill these posi-
tons satisfactorily.
| am expressing the sentiment of
approximately $4,000 people, and
hoping they will manifest their APP
probation by using Omar products
and not consider other concerns who
have failed to give us consideration
of employment. You have moi asked
for this consideration, but by your
manifestations you are entitled to
same, and we shall see that you re-
ceive it.
Taking into consideration the
many drivers as a whole that You
have, we should like to know if Won
find any difference in the services
compared with others, Of these two
individuals, especially in regards to
the one who has been employed for
. some time.
We do not have words in our small
vocabulary to really express our an
probation for your unselfish and un
prejudiced move. Other concerns have
stated perhaps tomorrow" or some
time in the near future we shall give
you consideration. We do not know
what tomorrow will bring, and today
is the thing that counts. Never be
fore was employment needed by this
group as it is today, and as you have
considered US, we shall consider Won
Hoping to hear from you, and again
thanking you, / am
d. Very truly yours,
Or. G. B. Lennox, President,
OMAHA WORKING MEMS COM
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29

be interested in. And greatly eds
like" those who tell me to phone them
at such and such a time as they will
have something of Importance for me
and after spending about a quarter
in phone calls I am still unable 70
contact the party desired.
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
Omar Baking Company
18th and Nicholas Streets
Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska
July 8, 1888.
DIR. G. B. Lsnnox, M. ID.
2122h North 24th Street
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear DIR. Lennox:
In regard to your letter Of July
18th, we wish to let you know that
Mr.. Harry Hardy is doing a very good
job and we r very much pleased
with his work. His sales are coming
along in fine shape and he is holding
own with the rest of the men.
Mr.. Carter is still in training school
mere and is showing up very well. We
expect to later place him on a route
if he continues to show progress.
These boys are getting the same
consideration, the same training, the
same money for their work that any
n else gets here and believe that
they are working here is going to be
of mutual benefit to both Of us.
Thanking you very sincerely for
your interest, we are
Very truly yours,
OMAR BAKING COMPANY
F. J.. Wear, Manager
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
Dr.. Lennox
On the JOB
July 12, 1888.

July IL, 1888.
Omar Baking Co.,
General Manager,
45th and Nicholas St.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
The Omaha guide., 1933-07-29
EDITORIAL
ON III RIGHT TRACK

Here is what the railroad problem
really amounts to:'How can the transport
alton needs and interests of the public be
best served?"
1t is obvious that this can't be done
by permitting the basic transport indus
try, the railroads, to go into bankruptcy.
Nor "a it be done by throttling newer
agencies or transport, such as BUSES and
trucks and pipelines, which perform valu-
able service in smaller fields. 1t can be
done by cooperation and coordination
under a forward looking policy which will
protect and aid all concerned.
The great percentage of all inland
tonnage moved in this country is still car
ried by the railroads and there seems to
be no c h a n e in the near flu
ture. The rails are fast and economical
their arteries touch the most remote
places OF the country, and they have
created facilities whose worth is beyond
question. The trucks have a place because
of their pliability.
The government, in its railroad
legislation, has taken the position that all
carriers have a place. That is certainly
logical. There many will undoubtedly be
necessary changes, but the country can
be thankful that, in transport policy, we
are on the right track at last.
Today in every profession, indus
try and commerce, one finds men who
look at their work in a broader per-
spective than was possible Is years ago.
They are the men who give more for the
customers dollar than just the yard Of
cloth or the pound of butter demanded.
They call their attitude service" and are
convinced that it is the creator of per-
manent and loyal trade. People like to
feel that there is a little human consid-
Grafton for their individual problems be-
hind the ordinary process of barter and
trade, and they 60 where they car get it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09

Believed RooseveIt's Choice
for International Trade
Conference.

Bernard NJ. Baruch, chairman of the
War Industries Board during the World
War, will be President-elect Roosevelt S
choice to head the American delegation
at the coming international economic
conference, it was reported here today.
Democratic leaders in Congress. when
questioned about the report said q
better selection could not be made.
Mr.. Baruch has had a distinguished
public career and Is one of the best
known f1nanciers and economists in
the country. In 1916 he was appointed
a member of President Wilson's Ad-
visory Committee of National Defense
and later became chairman of the
Committee on Raw Materials, Minerals
and Metals for the War Industries
Board and a member of the commission
in charge of all purchases for the Allies.
On March 5. 1918. he was made chair
man of the War Industries Board. He
later went. abroad as economic advisor
for the American Peace Commission.
Consulted by Presidents.
Since the war he has been called in
as economic adviser by each successive
President. In 1919 he was a member
of President Wilson's Conference for
Capital and Labor and in 1922 he was
member of President Hardings Agri-
cultural Conference. During their ad-
ministration both President Coolidge
and President Hoover have called him
to Washington and consulted with him.
Mr.. Baruch, a Democrat took an
active and energetic interest in the last
presidential campaign, contributing
money. time and the fruits of research
and thought.
man of wealth and extended in
tereStS, he is the author of The Max
ing of Economic and Reparation Sec
tons of the Peace Treaty" and several
articles on Government retrenchment.
Two American Committees.
The American delegation to the In
ternational Economic Conference is
composed of two committees. the
Organizing Committee and the Expert
Committee. On the Organizing Com
mittee are Norman H. Davis, who was
in Geneva on the dual mission of
American delegate to the Disarmament
Conference and member of the Eco
nomic Conference. and Frederic Sackett,
American Ambassador to Germany. The
committee of experts consists of Prof.
John H. Williams of Harvard Univcr-
sity and Edmund E. Day, director OF
social sciences in the Rockefeller Foun-
dation.
There have been two meetings of this
delegation this Winter The Organizing
Committee recommended that the next
conference be held in London and the
Expert Committee discussed the advisa-
bility of meeting again to prepare the
agenda. Last year Congress appropri-
ated $4,000 for the delegation and 1t
is said President Hoover is going to ask
for an additional s1500oO this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
BUTLER FUNERAL
TO BE IN OREGON
Train Leaves Tonight With Repre-
sentative's Body Escorted
by Colleagues.

The body of Representative Robert R.
Butler, Republican, of Oregon, who
died Saturday at Providence Hospital,
will be taken from the Capital tonight
for burial Friday at his home, The
Dalles, Greg. No services will be held
in Washington for the legislator.
A committee to represent the House
of Representatives at the funeral was
named by Speaker Garner this morn
ing 1t includes Representatives Haw-
ley and Martin of Oregon, Atkins OF
Illinois, Smith of Idaho, Lovett of Ten
nessee; Hill, johnson and Horn of
Washington; Daughton of North Caro-
lima, Simmons of Nebraska, Black Of
New York and Hall of Mississippi.
The committee was appointed along
with ore to attend the funeral of Rep
resentative Kendall, who shot himself
in the House Office Building yesterday
after the House had passed separate
resolutions expressing profound sor-
row" at learning of the deaths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
TWO HELD IN FORGING
OF POSTAL ORDERS
Arrests in New York Follow Theft
of Papers in Midwest
Cities.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 9.-Two men
for whom. postal inspectors said, police
of several Western cities have been
searching. were under arrest today in
connection with the forging and CASH
ing of postal money orders stolen from
Station 9, Oak Park, Ill, early last
month.
The arrests were made in a midtown
hotel yesterday and the men were
booked on charges of forgery. but the
facts were not disclosed until today
The men were booked as Elmer Boucher.
Al. salesman. of Chicago, and Wesley
Davis, 40. of South Bend, Ind.
Postal inspectors said Boucher was
a friend Of Lillian Hall. who was ar
rested in Chicago December IT on
charge of cashing several of the stolen
money orders, part of about 200 blank
orders which could BE- made out for an
aggregate maximum amount of $4,000.
On December 7. postal inspectors said,
a few days after the Oak Park theft.
a similar number of blank orders were
stolen from Station 40, in ST. Louis.
Postal authorities said Boucher and
Davis drove here from Chicago last
Friday, with a number of empty hand
bags, which they used to register with
out paying in advance at several hotels.
Postal inspectors charged Davis would
enter hotel with enc bag, register, go to
his room and few minutes later cash
one of the stolen orders at the hotel.
leave the hotel within a short time
and repeat the performance at another
hotel.
The arrests resulted from a telephone
call from a hotel which cashed an
order. The cashier called the post
oShce to inquire whether the order was
good and learned it had been stolen.
Several postal inspectors then began
a tour of hotels and found the two
men early Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
lNTERMENT OF G0FF
TO BE IN ARLINGTON
Former West Virginia Senator
Will Be Buried Tomorrow
With Brief Rites.

Former Senator Guy Golf Of West
Virginia. who died Saturday at Thomas
vile, Ga. will be buried at pm. to-
morrow in Arlington National Cemetery.
Funeral services were held at Thomas
vile yesterday and there will be no serv-
ices at Arlington except for brief COM
initial service at the grave, in the South
ern section of the cemetery.
No military honors will be accorded,
but the committal service will be con-
Quoted by an Army chaplain, to be des-
ignated by 18th Brigade headquarters.
The burial will be private.
Funeral services at ThomaSville were
conducted by Rev. Robb White. Episco-
pal rector, according to Associated Press
dispatches. The funeral was held from
the home OF COTS daughter, Mrs. 3.
Carroll Reece, wife of the Republican
Representative elect from the first con-
greSsionsl district of Tennessee.
Mr.. COTS death followed a long III
ness. He retired from the Senate in
1881 because of i'll health and his con-
dition became acute a short time ago.