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The Washington times., 1933-06-01

) So the zeal was signed, sealed,
and delivered, j. P. Morgan pay
ing a little more than $23 900, =
600 for the Mohawk and Hud-
son stock and warrant units and
turning them over to its creation,
the United Corporation, at vir-
tually the same figures.
But it so happened that only
five days before the deal was
closed-that is, on December TO-,
1928, the value of the shares had
gone up on the market from the
The Washington times., 1933-06-01

S23 ,634 l20 acceptable TO Owen
ID, Young and Gerard SWOpe to
the sum Of S2G ,s83 ,975, an in
creass Ut almost $4,000 600.
The eyidence brought out yes
= rdsy showed that the heads
Oi the General Electric took no
C0gnlzsnCe 6f that fact, but per-
miLted The House OF Morgan 10
take the shares st the old price
offered baCk IN June.
But thsL Is not all
on January 10. 1929, just a
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
THE FIRE AT TOWNSVILLE

Inc OJner DAY there was a fire at
Jonesvllle. 1t started in the towns prin-
cipal industry, a factory employing sew
eral hundred persons. 1t wasn't great in
dustry, as industries go, but from the
standpoint Of Jonesville's hopes for pro-
sperlty and progress it was very import
ant indeed.
At first the fire didn't seem especial
~ dangerous. The local fire department
was called and responded at once. But
the blaze began making better progress.
1t found its way into a storeroom con-
tanning readily combustible materials
and roared into walls and floors and
stairWays.
Even 50, there was no great worry
felt. 1t wasn't beyond control-if the fire
department had the essential facilities in
good working order. But that's where
the tragedy came in. The engines were
Old and inefficient. There was less hose
footage than there should have been.
with some rotted to where it could not
stand maximum water pressure.
The upshot was that Jo~nesviIle's
factory was destroyed. It was covered bv
insurance, OF course-but the best insur-
ance policy ever written can paw for bit
q small part of the damage. Jobs were
1ost-and rates on other property had to
be increased. And JonesVille entered in
to the deepest depression of it's history.
In this case, Jonesville is a mythical
town, and its factory a mythical factory.
But that little drama has been repeated
hundreds of times the past few years, in
many sections of the country. Fire de-
partment appropriations have been cut
engines allowed to deteriorate without
being repaired, or cheap new engines in
stead of those of standard make have
been bought. And where cents were
saved, irreplacable dollars were DESTROY
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
WE CAN'T HAVE BOTH

The greatest obstacle business is
struggling against now is taxation. And
taxation, as a result, is the principal
barrier III the way of achieving the fullest
success for the recovery plans that are
now in operation.
No business can spend money it has
not got. No business can put more men
on its pay rolls when it is having a hard
time bringing in enough revenue to meet
existing demands. No business a ex-
pand with profitless balance sheets.
It's a moot point as to how great an
influence taxation was in %prolonging and
deepening depression. But it was, to say
the least, considerable. When the nation
al income touched the lowest point in de-
cades, the cost of government loomed
like Everest out of the plains of Tibet.
To regain governmental economy, it
is not necessary to curtail OF damage
necessary governmental functions-it
simply means that the waste, ineffi-
cheney and duplication Of effort that is
actually harmful to legitimate govern
AS in the post office apartment. which
is breaking even for the first time in
many years. But the work has barely
begun.
Reasonable taxation is the friend of
recovery, of employment and higher
wage scales, and Individual and corpor-
ate prosperity. That must not be for
gotten.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
RAILROADS ON THE UP-GRADE

The news that the Glass l railroads
OF the country had better financial ex-
p%erience during the first three quarters
Of 1893 than in the same period last wear
will be received with pleasure by an in
t~erested public. AS matter of fact, their
earnings were close to being 100 per cent
improved. However, there's nothing to
wave flags about as yet this year the
income was IL per cent on their invest
ment, as comparer with .92 last year.
Small as their profits have been. the
1888 experience produces one very i'm
portant fact: The railroads are still our
basic transportation medium, and they
will remain so for a long time to come.
They are still carrying the great bulk Of
heavy and long haul freight. They are
the only common carrier which complete
~ covers the country with it's facilities,
and the only one which really pays its
W way, without benefits from the tax
payers.
1t is apparent that the railroads
can't KEEP on forever without making a
reasonable return on their investment.
That return was specified at 5 per cent
IN the Transportation Act-and, in spite
OF unremitting efforts to achieve further
efficiency and advance economy of
operation, they have not been able to
earn it in a single year since the war. It's
good to know that their position has i'm
provedAbut the statistics speak for
themselves as to how much more must be
done before they share in the prosperity,
they do SO much to create.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18

STATE REGULATION AT ITS BEST

In an article in the Public Utilities
Fortnightly, William A. Prendrgast, for
mer chairman Of the public sedvice COM
mission Of New York, points out that the
state commissions are at the crossroads.
On the one hand they are subjected to
political prssure of an unusually strong
nature, due to the uncertainty of the
time, and on the other they are confront
ed by Federal incursions into fields
which formerly were exclusively in the
province of the state.
Mr.. Prendergast makes two sug-
gestions which he believes must be adop-
ted if the utility commissions are to sur
vive and if regulation is to be honest, eff
fectve and in the public interest. The
first is that the commission should be
agencies independent of political inter-
ference from any quarter, whether it be
governors, municipal governments or
civic organizations, and, secondly, that
they should establish a definit system Of
determining q rate base and adhere to it.
The second suggestion is a matter
for economists and engineers to thrash
out. The first, which is much more vital,
is, in one sense, up to the public. If poll
tical pressure Of one kind or another has
sometimes harmed and disrupted state
regulation, it is because the public has
permitted it to do so. High officials, par
~ticularly in state government, have at
tempted to make the commission do GER
tain things - such as to reduce rates
irrespective of legal or economic justi-
fication. They have sought to make the
commissions an ally in their efforts to.
manufacture votes and curry public fav-
or. In brief, they have attempted-and,
according to Mr.. Prendergast, not with
out success in some instances-to "polit-
cize" state regulation of public service
institutions.
The commissions, like the courts,
must exist above and local considera-
tons, above the machinery Of political
manipulation, or they must eventually
cease to exist at all. This is a public mat
ter indeed - and a wise and awakened
public has it in it's power to cure a condi-
ton which may rapidly become unendur-
able.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
GOVERNMENT SPEEDS HOME
BUILDING

A recent announcement from Wash
ington is that Presidential pressure has
been applied to expedite plans for re-
opening banks, liberalizing credit and to
make possible the building Of low-cost
homes.
Here is the prelude to a revival Of
major dimensions in the construction in
dustry. For three or four years there has
been a virtual lack of residential build
ing. Accompanying it has been an alb
normally high rate of depreciation on
existing homes, due to poor maintenance.
And the result is that the nation is short
many thousands of homes.
The person who waits a few months
or a year before building and repairing,
is going to be confronted by a tremend-
Gus advance in costs. He's going to pay
many dollars for what a few dollars will
buy now. That is true of every phase of
building from the purchase of the land
the house is to stand on, to the finishing
OF its walls. 1t is true of even minor re-
pairs and additions-new roofs and
steps, repainting, undermining and re-
pairing heating plants, ~renovizng cleo
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
SILVER IN THE LIMELIGHT

Silver IS going to be very much in
the headlines when Congress meets
again.
It's going to be there for a number
OF reasons because world trade is still
tagging and many authorities believe
that higher silver prices must be achiev-
ed before it can pick up; because talk of
initiation has caused still other author
tiles to remark that some plan for silver
monetization might be a cure for cur
rency ills; because the nation loss mil
ions in purchasing power, taxes, etc.
The silver problem hasn't yet re-
ceived the official attention it deserves
there's been a great deal Of talk, with a
minimum of action. And that attention
should be Forthcoming as soon as pos
sible. s.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
Awarded Fellowship to
Pursue Post Graduate
Work in DermatOlOgy

CHICAGO November Is - (CNS)
DR. Horace c. Scott has just been
awarded a Fellowship by an Eastern
philanthropic board to enable him to
pursue postgraduate work in Der
matology at the University Of Chi4x
cago under DR.. Samuel w. Becker
Associate Professor of D~ermatology
K~uppenheicer Research Fund. Dr..
Scott who recently was appointed a
Junior Clinical Assistant in Der
matology at Provident Hospital is a
graduate Of Howard University reY
ceiving the B. 81 degree in 1925 and
the M D. degree in 1890. He served
a years ~internship at Freedman's
Hospital at Washington after the
completion of which he began the
practice Of medicine and surgery in
Chicago.
Last week he was appointed a med
ical examiner for the Victory Mutual
Life Insurance Company Of Chicago
being perhaps the youngest physi-
clan to have been appointed to such
a responsible position by Victory
Life.
DR. Scott who il the son of Dr..
Emmett j. Scott secretary Of How
ard University has been associated
for the past two years with Dr. Fred
O. Cade prominent Southside physi-
clan with offices at SO E. 35th St.
and resides with his brother-in-law
and sister Attorney andMrs Aaron
H. Payne at $3.50 South Parkway.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
SPECTRES ON PARADE

One reason why there is less apprecia-
ton than there should be of the horror
Of our annual automobile death toll is
that the accidents happen far apart geo.
graphically, and at intervals throughout
the entire years so that the total of a
single day in a single locality does not
mental work, must be eliminated. In
some cases a start has been made, and
the taxpayer have been saved millions
particularly disturb us. Again, few mo-
florists, comparatively speaking, see an
accident in which someone is killed or
seriously injured.
1t would be we'll for the public to put
it's imagination to work on this situation.
Here's one way to do it. Suppose that
you, and all the millions of other car
owners, could be stated in a tremendous
reviewing stand. Marching by slowly in
front of you are the $4,000 shrouded
spectres of persons who wre killed by
automobiles last year. To each shrouded
figure is clinging n or more bereaved
relativ. The parade would take many
hours to pass-a silent, marching line of
lives that had been destroyed because
some one was careless or reckless or in
competent.
The very u-npleasantness Of that il
lustration is what makes it valuable. The
fact that only an infinitestimal proper
ton of the $4,000 victims are killed in
your community doesn't make any diff
erence. Nor does the fact that only a
comparatively few deaths occur on a CIV
en- day. Remember that each year sees
hundreds Of tragedies as horrible as
those Of the Titanic or tn Arkon WV and
they are all unnecessary.
Think Of that long, horrible parade.
And then decide what kind of a driver
you will strive to be in the future.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
GENERAL JOHNSON, THE N. r. A.
AND THE NEGRO .
By M. L. Harris

Last Tuesday night at the Auditor
ium a great %concourse Of people as
sembled to receive from President Roose-
velts mar Friday" General Hugh John
son, who has been delegated to lead Us
out Of the wilderness Of doubt, despair
and disaster, first hand report Of his
stewardship. From the reception he was
accorded by those present, if there was
any doubts as to what the people thought
at least in Omaha, it was displayed at
that meeting.
We are fully persuaded the "wailing and
crashing of teeth, of such men as
Hearst, Mccormick and Senator Dick
inson Of Iowa, has not even disturbed or
denied the confidence Of the people in the
President or his Recovery program. The
American people will not forget when
seven months ago, Mr.. Roosevelt was in
Quoted int office, Mr.. Hearst and others
Of that ilk was dumb "as a shepp led
to the slaughter"-nothing constructive
to offer and no suggestions to make. AS
they had none to make then, the people
will have no confidence in what they
have to offer now.
There was a time the American
people could be hoodwinked into lending
a listening ear to the voice Of the de-
stroyers Of confidenc in such men as
Roosevelt, Johnson and Wallace. but that
time is past.
We are a reading thinking nation, will
not be stampede and herded as a drove
Of cattle down the hillside Of National
destruction. AS Moses did in the days of
old, they are going to stand still and
watch the salvation Of the Lord" with
an undying faith and confidence in the
policies Of President Roosevelt, if it
takes until March 1885.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
UPLAND: UPLAND BANKING
COMPANY
Dedicate t h e Restored
Lincoln Village in Illinois

CHICAGO November 15-(CNS)-
Headed by Governor Homer other
State officials and thousands of stu
dents and loves Of Lincolnia the re-
stored village of Old Salem Illinois
where Abraham Lincoln at one time
lived was dedicated on Thursday
November l at New Salem State
Park near Petersburg Menard Coun-
ty Illinois 1877 miles from Chicago. IT
was at New Salem that Lincoln
courted Ann Rutledge his first love.
The ceremonies were in charge of
Robert Kingery acting director OF
the State department Of public works
and buildings who had directed the
restoration.
The preservation Of scenes Of Lin
coins young manhood is due to the
fact that William Randolph Hearst
has been a great admirer Of the
Emancipator. In 1908 Mr.. Hearst
purchased the 60 acres covering the
old village which was well on its way
to o~bliteration.
He presented the property to the
State Of Illinois and in 1919 the leg
islature passed a bill accepting the
gift and turning it into a State park.
Since then Is Of the original log
cabins and buildings Of Old Salem
have been restored following re-
search over several years. The in
teriors have been equipped with furni-
ture and utensils some Of which were
originally in the village. The others
are true to the period.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

The test of a financial institution, as
James Rodman, President of the Amer
lean Thrift Insurance Company, wrote
recently, is not the ability to meet its
obligations in normal times-but to do SO
when times are abnormal and financial
conditions are without precedent. That
is the test the life insurance industry has
met the past three years, with an amaz-
ingly small record Of failures. During
those three years-1930, 1881, and 1892
the industry paid to the public the vast
sun of 100000, 900. The magnitude of
this sum may be appreciated in the light
Of the fact that the total income Of the
farming industry in 1892 was less than
$4,000, 000,000 = and close to 100000
people are dependent on the farms for
their livelihood.
When the history Of the depres-
sion is finally written, the chapter that
deals with life insurance will be one of
the brightest. The stock market broke
wide open and high grade bonds drop
ped to unbelievably low levels - yet al
most every insuranc policy was met pre-
cisely as the contract stipulated. Banks
failed, businesses went under, and thou
sands Of persons had their savings swept
away with the exception Of their life in
surance investment, which was unim-
paired. It's impossible to detail in Stats
tics the poverty and the want that life in
surance prevented during these years of
crisis-it is sufficient to say that, with
out it, the country might very we'll have
been swept by a panic without rival in
history.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
VIRGINIA NEGROES CALLED TO
SERVE ON JURY

NORFOLK va. November 15-(C
NS)-Two newspaper men we're
among four Negroes summoned for
jury duty at the November term Of
the Federal district court which con-
vened November 8. While the prac-
tice Of calling Negroes for Federal
jury duty is not new here III has fall
en- into disuse in recent years.
Of those summoned two were Of
the staff Of the Journal and Guide
p B. Young editor and G.. j.. Elem
ing n Of his employees. Both wer4
designated for grand jury duty. MIR.
Fleming however is now in New
York City city editor Of the recently
established Daily Citizen.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP.
WHAT?
By M. L. Harris

Oy V1. IL. HARRIS
10 the thinking Negro, who was at
the Auditorium last Tuesday night. to
heal the address of General Hugh John
son, on the n. R. A. the absence of at
least one representative Of the $4,000
Negroes OF Omaha on the stage was at
least very significant, if not ~disappiont-
ing.
America is engaged in the greatest
war OF her existence, not a militant war
as was tn war of the colonies; War Of the
Rebellion, Spanish-American, or the
Worlds War, but a war it is Just the
same fraught with more grave conse-
quences and National danger than anv
OF the others. No man can see behind the
veil which separates us from the future.
n as that is true, no one can prophyesy
or conjure up in his mind the things
which cOnfrOntS us as a nation, if the
struggle which is now being carried on
to say this country thru the medium Of
the NRA. fails. The President is so intent
on putting over his recovery program,
that, all sectional, racial and partisan
lines are being, ignored.
Men from every race party and vo-
cation are being called in for conferences
and consultations. Only the one thing
matters. AS it vas the cry of the immor-
tai Lincoln in the days Of the rebellion,
"The union must be saved at any price,"
SO it is today with our President.
Representatives from every race
and nation are being consulted that the
(President) may be informed as to the
needs and desires Of each component
part of this great melting pot. Negroes
have not only been cnsulted, but have
been appointed to places of trust, that
they may advise the administration as to
the things by which the members Of our
group may work out their temporal
salvation. AS these are self evid-
ent truths, why had the Negro no re-
preventative on the platform at the aud
itorium Tuesday night? 1t cannot be
charged to prejudice, nor a it be said
that Omaha boasts of no Negroes who
are competent to represent US on such
an occasion. Why then was he not there?
Saturday, November II, the greatest All
American Day Of modern times, there
was more people in line with $4,000
spectators %applauding and looking on, a
day set aside to honor and commemorate
the QeaQ, VINO Tell on FreNh SOIL and
others, who offere their lives as a loving
sacrifice to Old Glory, the symbol of
freedom to all who come with her gates.
This day was set aside that the black boy,
who fell fighting for his country should
receive the same honor as the white boy.
AS this is true, why was there not one
Negro organization there to do them
honor? Why was not there one bugler to
blow the last taps over the body Of their
comrade? Why was there not one band
to give the last note over the grave of
the unknown soldier? Where are all the
exservice men in Omaha, who would not
honor their dead comrades? Was it lack
Of leadership, or what?
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
OMAHA. NEBRASKA, SATURDAY NOV. 18th, 1888
trio wiring, and everything else.

trlc wiring, and everything else.
The "buy now" movement that is
underway at present is very different
from sporadic movements of the past
which adopted the same slogan. This n
is based on fact, not fancy-on the know
ledge that recovery is actually under
way, that residential construction is a
tremendous influence in speeding it up,
and that the era of bankrupt prices is de-
finitely waning. Every citizen who can
should "get in at the bottom"-and the
opportunity won't be present much lon
ger.
The Omaha guide., 1933-11-18
ONE in TEN JOBLESS SAWS
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE l.

CHICAGO November 15-(CNS)-
National Urban League reports that
OF the unemployed that tramp the
city streets n in every ten IS q Ne
gro.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-14
Wants Banks to
Loosen Credits
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, Sept. IA. - Til"
penny pinching policies of the
commercial banks Of the nation
are doing more to retard recov-
erv and delay the working out of
national recovery efforts than
anything else, Representative
Frank w. Hancock, Jr., of the
fifth congressional district, said
while here on business Monday.
Congressman Hancock, who is a
member of the house committee
on banking and currency, said he
was returning to Washington
Thursday to confer there Friday
with Jesse Jones, chairman OF
the Reconstruction Finance cor
poration, relative to Hancock's
plan to thaw out the frozen as
sets of the banks Of the country.
owe need a revaluatiOn of the
dollar" Congressman Hancock
said. "There is not enough
money in circulation in this coun-
try to pay off the debts which
form one of the biggest barriers
to the return of prosperity. If
money can be made more avail
able and more debts liquidated,
will return to normal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-14
PIT. A. Congress
Will Meet Soon

HOUSTON, Texas. Sept. ID
Parent-Teacher Association lead
ers from all parts of the country
will gather here for the semi-an-
nual meeting of the Board OF
Managers of the. National Con-
greSs of Parents and Teachers,
Sept. 10 through Sept. Fl.
Presidents of state congresses
of parents and teachers, national
committee chairmen, and national
officers. who comprise the Boart
of Managers, will discuss plans
and policies affecting approx
matelv 10000 parent-teacher as
sociations during the coming
school year.
Much of the time probably will
be spent in discussion of the part
which the national organization
can play in defense of the coun-
try's educational system against
the trend to cut down school costs
because of decreased receipts in
communities and states.
Faced with shortening school
terms, closed schools, overcrOwded
class rooms, and thousands of
children being deprived of school
opportunities" a statement from
the associations headquarters
says, "Education's lay leaders III
the parent-teacher movement are
urging vigorous action to main
tain school standards"