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The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
INTERIOR DEPT. SAYS IT
CANNOT INTERVENE" AT
BOULDER DAM

NEW YORK 60 The department of
the interior, which has supervision of
the construction of Boulder dam at
Las Vegas, Nevada. Cannot inter-
vene" with the contractors and see
that more Negroes are given employ
ment, it announced this week.
In a letter to Roy Wilkins, assist
ant secretary of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, Harry Slattery, person
al assistant to Secretary Harold l..
Ickes, admits that an investigation
has shown that not many Negroes are
employed on the construction the 165
million dollar dam. Mr.. Slattery gives
two reasons for this: ~ much of the
work requires men to operate special
construction machinery ard the var
ious contractors at work on the dam
bought their own men with them who
have worked on similar jobs else
where, and (2) the government has
no voice in determining the labor that
shall be employed by the contractor.
He writes:
The contract with the Six Com
panies, Inc. provides that so far as
practicable preference shall be given
at the time of employment first to
qualified e~xservice men, and second
to citizens Of the United States.
From this it will be seen that no law
and no contract provisions require
Six Companies, Inc, to employ Ne
gro labor. After considering the facts
reported by the investigator and the
governments relation to the con
tractor, | am frank to state that the
department is without jurisdiction
and as long as the contractor complies
with all the laws and the provisions
Of the contract, we cannot intervene"
Sets Dangerous Precedent
The spectacle of the United States
government, denying Negro citizens
a chance to work on projects financed
out of public funds blasts the faith
Of colored people in the New Deal
and sets a dangerous precedent, the
N. A. A. c. P, wrote Mr.. Slattery
in reply.
fLrrT
"This Boulder damn matter is
simply a question of opportunity to
work and earn a living on the same
basis as any other American" replied
Mr.. wilkins. eff his federal govern
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL
CLUB NEWS

The Executive committees of the
Quacks and Trojan clubs held an in
teresting meeting in preparation for
their fall work. One of the outstand
ing events Of the department will be
the Conference Symposium and Tea
on Sunday afternoon, October % at
4:30 o'clock at the North Side "Y".
The public will be invited to listen
in on the Industrial Conference at
Lake Okoboji A special musical pro.
gram is being arranged.
Clubs Open
Seventy five high school girls and
approximately $50 Grade school girls
attended the opening party Of the
high and grade school clubs.
All groups their meetings
this week. Registrations for joining
any club will be opened for the rest
of the month.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30

And yet when nothing tangible is
ever accomplished we don not hear
much yelping but let the same amount
be invested in the form of ownership
in SONS of u corporate bodies and
the investor can be heard to wildly
acclaim all sort of grievances. mag
mary or otherwise, on how his money
i being handled, or mishandled.
1t is too bad that our commercial
enterprises cannot adopt the methods
Of some Of our religious and social
organizations and put on big rallies
to share in the dollars. If they could
adopt these methods then we would
see that with every rally we would be
launching on some new industrial or
commercial undertaking that in its
very existence would have TO employ
some of u own boys and girls and
thus whether we personally ever re-
ceived a dollar back as cash dividends
we would have the satisfaction of
knowing that we were part owners in
an undertaking that is paying hand
some dividends to the race in giving
direct employment and in teaching
business practices to our members.
And speaking of dividends it is
regrettable to observe that a great
many people can only judge the cor
porate worth of a concern by the
amount of its cash dividend Many Of
u racial concerns that have paid the
best cash dividends are no longer in
existence. Why? Simply because
they violated the laws of good fund
amental business principles in cater
ing to the whims of those who pre-
ferred a cash dividend to a partici-
patng worth in a concern who con
served its assets and built up strong
and necessary reserves before at
tempting to pay a cash dividend at the
later expense of its W financial
soundness
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
Every Tub Must Sit
On It's Own
BOttOm!"
o. YOUR BENEFIT

On Sunday, October 1, 1888 at $3.50
p m there will be a meeting at THE
OMAHA GUIDE Building, 2418-2O
Grant Street, for your benefit. Ev-
cry working mar and woman is espe-
cially invited to attend this meeting
Now as never before in the history
Of America the old sayings is true
in the every day life Of the American
Negro. Every tub must sit on its
own bottom If you can't find the
bottom Of your tub, for Gods sake,
let someon show you how to find it
The Negro is being cut from the pay
rolls of every industry in the country.
Even the mop and broom is being
taken away from him, and many 9TH
er positions that have heretofore been
commonly known as our regular ways
of earning livelihood
At this meeting Mr.. and Mrs
Hayden, the proprietors of the Hay
denis Cash Market will tell you in
details the story of their arrest and
conviction, and believe me friend, it
certainly will be worth your hearing.
Negroes heretofore have been run
ragged, arrested and thrown in Jail
unjustly, but never in the history of
Omaha was there eve a Negro ar
rested because he had mastered the
art of craftsmanship and the ability
to cater to his trade.
Don't miss hearing this story. Ev-
cry effort will be made to have the
little boy to tell the story of the
methods that was used in this arrest.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
NOW WE HAVE OUR OWN

What have we derived from the
outcome Of the Storz Soft Drink Bar
Discrimination? First we got ac-
quainted with the heart Of a group Of
citizens that have lived in Omaha for
forty years or more Some of them
we have gone through school with.
For thirty years the Storz Bar has
been the halfway point for a sand
witch and a cool glass of refreshment
for the Negroes enroute to our bus
ness center.
Since we can no longer feel wei
come there we have decided to open
several places of our own that will
be just as centrally located enroute
to and from u business section.
Charlie Trimble has opened a love-
ly beer garden at 2210 Seward st /,
where you are privileged to dine and
dance, without a owe charge. He
can accommodate US in any line OF
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
A News Feature
By CLIFFORD c. MITCHELL

AS | read the many Exchanges
and follow the thought of many of
our colored citizens / a munable to
feel pessimistic because of the fail
ure of a few of our concerns where
the stockholders have lost all or a
part of their investments.
Were l fortunate enough to be a
publisher of some national publica-
ton. and even in my limited space
available in the many papers from
coast to coast that carry these news
features, | would not hesitate, and do
not hesitate, to say that for every
failure we should build a dozen new
structures for it is only by our fail
ures that we can learn to overcome
weakness and eventually erect struc-
lures that will appear, in later gen.
erations, as super monuments.
While it is granted that one large
financial failure in the colored field
looms as a serious handicap to pro-
gress, yet it is a fact, comparatively
speaking, that colored investors have
lost practically nothing in our own
companies as compared to the losses
suffered in white companies.
We have no definite way of ascer-
tanning the amount of millions that
we have invested in white companies
at their peak and on which the mar
ket shrinkage has brought the in
vestments down to perhaps ten per
cent or even less of their original
market worth. Yet we see or hear
comparatively little in the way of
publicly expressed complaints against
such concerns and our voice in their
arrangements have ever been. In
fact we have not even been privil-
eyed to find employment in the same
concerns in which we speculated in
their stocks and in some instances
these same firms did not even care
for u consumer patronage.
Personally I would rather invest
or speculate if you prefer that term
a Five Dollar bill in the ownership of
any of our going racial concerns. en-
ploying our people, whether it be a
publishing house, hotel, commercial
organization, insurance or financial
organization, than to donate a dollar
bill to our many protest organiza-
tions, religious bodies or socalled
charitable agencies.
Time after time we can donate to
various organizations, probably Sc
curing a receipt, but beyond that re-
ceiving no tangible evidence of the
worth or wiseness of our donation.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE TO
BE HELD AT Y. W. G.. A.
DR.. George E. Haynes to Speak

"The Economic Life Of Negroes in
Omaha" will be the theme of an all
day conference to be held in Omaha
Friday, October 20, and will be spon-
sored by the Public Affairs commit.
tee of the North Side YWCA
DR.. George E. Haynes. of the De-
partment of Race Relations of the
Federal Council of Churches OF
America and DR. Philip Altar
Swartz, chairman of the Chicago In
terracial Council and DIR. Erwin K
Merchant, assistant secretary, De.
partment of Race Relations, Fedora,
Council of Churches in America will
be among the speakers of the day
Members of the Conference COM
mittee are: j. R. Hawke, Ernest
Zschau, Verna Smell, Lillian McGrew,
Jenny Robinson, M. l.. Rhone. Rev
William p Akin, William Parkin-
son, Lucy Mae Stamps, j. Harvey
Kerns, Dan Kooken, and DR.. A L..
Hawkins, and Rev. Lawrence Plank.
The first committee meeting was
held at Central YWCA on Monday,
Miss Rachel Taylor presiding
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
GIRL RESERVES ATTEND
CAMP

Seventy five girls from high
schools of the city spent the week
end at camp Brewster discussing the
club work for the year
The following girls from the North
Side Branch were among those pres
sent: Misses Vonceil Anderson, Helen
Wilkes, Ruth Williams, Helen Sher-
wood, Ethel Terrell, Thema Dickin-
son, Velma Rose, Iantha Hall, Kath-
ryn Taylor, Margaret Blair, Ada Lee
Walker, Leona DAYS, and Ruth Gale
Griffin.
Miss Christine Dixon, former girl
reserve was pianist for the confer
ence and Miss Taylor, Executive Sc
cretary was one of the discussion
leaders.
The Sunrise Ceremonial planned by
the North Side Girls was held on
Sunday morning.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30

ment, the highest authority in the
land, denies him a chance to work, to
what agency shall the Negro Amer
lean turn and what methods shall he
adopt in order to remain alive and
win some of the fruits of living?"
"The chief danger in the depart
ment's attitude . is that it is certain
to set a precedent for employment on
all public works projects, with the
result that the Negro worker will
continue to be excluded from employ
ment at the within of private con-
tractors. The governments attitude
is bound to influence builders on
private construction; the belief thus
becomes intrenched that the Negro
workman is not entitled to a fair
share of employment. 1t is dangerous
to set such a precedent and the re-
! suits may be far reaching and I'm
pleasant"
Moral Obligation on Government
The NAACP. admits that contract
ors on private construction work have
had the practice of carrying certain
know employees with them and Of
selecting other employees as they saw
fit The association contends, however,
that on public works, paid for out of
the public treasury built up by taxes
upon all the people, the government
has a moral right, regardless of
words and phrases in contracts, to
insist that all citizens be given an
opportunity to work without discrim-
ination because of race, color or creed.
No mention is made in Mr.. Stat
tery's letter of the exclusion of Ne
groes from residence in Boulder City,
Nevada and the NAACP. reply
states:
Here is a city, built by the United
States government with federal funds,
and the government itself has either
promulgated Or permitted to be pro-
mulgated the edict that no colored
American can reside within the city
limits This is a shameful condition
and about which we can under
sand the government wishing to re-
main silent"
In the same mail with fIr. Stat
tery's letter the NAACP. received a
letter from Las Vegas, Nevada stat
ing that a total of the colored men
are employed at the dam, nine by the
Six Companies and one by another
construction firm. About 5000 men
are at work on the dam.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
DYING WOMAN FAILS TO GET CARE FROM CITY
- OR COUNTY

that the case had been diagnosed ~
encephalitis, he said, and that the
medical students were caring for it.
AS long as the case was getting care,
he said, there was nothing For the
health department to do.
Asked if it was not customary for
the students to withdraw, after mott
fication Of a contagious case. Dr.
Kinyoun said that the health depart
ment had not classified encephalitis as
contagious.
eve put a sign merely as a pre-
caution, and it prevents people from
coming IN" he said.
Asked if the city wouldenforce the
quarantine. as in other diseases con-
sidered contagious, Dr.. Kinyoun re-
piled: 1--WE are determining that now,
taking it up with the state health
department and the public health
service Encephalitis cases are taken
IN other hospitals, so | don't see why
the county should object We can't
put encephalitis cases down there
with scarlet fever and d~iphtheria."
Furthermore, there are several
kinds of encephalitis, DR.. Kinyoun
said, and the report last Thursday did
not state whether this was the cpl
demic varieyt.
"Some forms are contagious and
some are not" he said. I'VE placard
all cases, just as we would suspicious
cases of scarlet fever or smallpox.
This case wasn't proven to be the
epidemic form F"
Mrs Thegpen has lived in Omaha
for the past II years She is survived
by two sons, James and Johnny
Crum, a daughter, Mrs. Anna Bra.
boy, Alice Crum a granddaughter and
others The body is at Lewis Funeral
Home.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
THREE PUPILS NAMED TECH
HIGH EDITORS

Dorothy Ross and Ann Embree,
seniors, and Vaughn Thompson, a
junior, have been named editors Of
the Technical News, student publica-
ton of Technical high school
Other members Of the staff are:
Anthony Piccolo, Michael Ruberti,
Frank Sparano, Betty Way, Otto
Merger, Irving Merriam, Anamae
Curtis, Gladys Thompson, That's Will.
son, Bessie Bailen, Mildred Caravan,
Margaret Coyle, Hattie George, Mary
Gordon, Irwin Lesovosky, Samuel
Rikin, James Rosso, Charles Susman,
Marie Thompson.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
GOV. BYRAN'S OFFICE

Governor Bryan signed requisition
papers for the return of Kirby Black
to this state where he is charged with
the crime Of drawing a no. fund check
committed in Lancaster County on
December 80, 1882. 1t is alleged the
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30

defendant issued the check to E. C.
Haschenburger upon the First Nat
tional Bank Of Springfield, Illinois, in
the amount of $4,000 and that he
did not have sufficient funds on de-
post in the bank to pay said check
in full upon its presentation. Black is
now in custody of authorities at
Jacksonville, Illinois, and is being
held for Nebraska. j. H. Harlan is
named as agent.
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30
food we wish Sandwiches are a spe-
ciality

The new Mason and Knox Cafe
affords you an evening of enjoyment,
where you may go out for a lovely
dinner served in al a carte style, and
The Omaha guide., 1933-09-30

at the same time enjoy a cool re-
freshing stein of beer.
Let us get in the habit Of patron
izing these two places, where we are
always welcomed and treated With
courtesy.
Evening star., 1933-12-17
High Lights ON Fashions
From Three Designers

The evening silhouette Is romantically
figure. because of its close fitting over
the diaphragm. Whatever fullness there
is is placed at the center back, where
iC often spreads into tain. There are
a few square decolletages on gowns with
short sleeves, but the majority of neck
lines are low. with pointed shoulder
pieces.
While most of the daytime clothes
arc in monotonous effects. color contrast
is widely used in the evening mode.
There are many two-color evening
gowns, an especially striking model
being developed in pale gray crepe. with
inserts of dark gunmetal tone on the
bodice.
THE wool evening dress has found
its place in the mode. According
to Chanel, that place is in the country
house. 1t is the ideal gown to take with
you when you go out of town for the
week end. The dress of this type, as
with a round. very youthful neckline.
an0 is worn with fip-length, unlined
coat. One very effective model Is de-
veloped in a beautiful coral-red shade.
A dress of this sort, while formal in cut,
lacks the swish and dash of the silk
evening gown and is eminently suitable
for the casual formality which prevails
after a long day Of outdoor sports.
There is a shade less formality in all
OF Channels new evening designs, with
many of the skirts trifle narrower,
although her tulle dresses still spr -ad
widely at the hemline She still favors
gowns of black tulle trimmed with pink
one having pink satin shoulder straps
and being worn with pink tulle cape
ard she is also showing a great deal
of lovely light blue with black, as when
she trims a black lace dress with mar
row blue grosgrain ribbon.
Black velvet is used for several new
informal evening gowns with skirts
heel-long at the back and shortened
irregularly to instep length in front.
These are simple, youthful and un-
trimmed, and they button in front or
back, or sometimes both. with jet or
paste buttons. A very new silver lame,
rather like heavy damask. is used for
lovely evening gown with a cape
bclero and scarf, both lined with ruby
req velvet.
Evening star., 1933-12-17
CHICAGO To REVIVE
CIVIC OPERA SEASON
Opening December 90 First Since
Days of insult and Edith
Mccormick.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 16.-For the
frat time since the utilities empire Of
Samuel insult crumpled under the
weight Of the depression and Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick lost her vast
fortune, Chicago will have civic opera
when the newly organized Chicago
Grand Opera Company begins iss FIVE
week season at the Civic Opera House on
December 26.
The hackers plan a gala season, with
society turning out to hear once more
such stars as Rosa Raisa and Edith
Mason, old-time favorites; Maria Jeritza,
Schipa and Chamlee in the pink and
gold setting which saw only three years
of opera.
Since January, 1882, the huge audi
torium in the 42-story building financed
by insult has been dark, save for an
occasional convention or music show
Ironically, the opera house which insult
intended to climax his career as a pa
trOn Of opera was dedicated in 1929, the
year of the crash which eventually led
to his downfall and subsequent exile in
Greece
An imposing array Of opera talent has
been signed for the short season, includ-
ing Marion Ta1ley, who went from OBJ
scurity in Kansas to overnight fame on
the boards Of the Metropolitan and back
again to the farm. She will essay a
comeback in her Metropolitan debut role
of Gida in "Rigoletto"
The opening performance will be la
Tosca," with Maria Jeritza in the lead
ing soprano role.
Evening star., 1933-12-17
Company Talk
BIZ JEAN NEWTON.

IT LOVE it when there's company for
dinner" said a little girl of
well-to-do, cultured family. i like 1t
because then we have company dinner,
but best of all I like the company
talk!''
Company talk!' Well did the adult
understand what that meant. For one
thing, of course, mothers attention
could not be concentrated on daugh-
ter's posture and table manners. But
particularly it meant that interesting
things were talked about; current hap
penings, books, music. When mother
put herself out to be interesting, that
was company talk.
We need not contrast that with the
drab topics Of everyday dinner-table
conversation. Household routine and
troubles usually, on mothers part.
Father doesn't talk about his business
troubles: they wish he would, for that
would at least be something new. But
he is too tired tC say anything-or
without incentive,
That incentive for father, for the
whole family to be at their best, could
come from mother. It is she who
leads the conversation into agreeable
channels when there is company. And
how father responds then! Why,
mother has to remind him that she's
waiting for him to finish his course
to ring the bell-that, talking instead
of eating. he's holding up the whole
(Copyrisht. I933D
Evening star., 1933-12-17

T<HE evening mode at the house Of
Jean Patou remains much the
same, very formal and very
Il lovely of line. In crepes and
velvetS, this designer continues
to use his long. sheathlike line. with
skirts only just wide enough for walking
and trains that twist gracefully. In
crepe and marocain dresses, he uses
fan-pleated godetS to widen the trains
slightly and on black faille gowns he
places fan pleats at intervals to widen
the skirt and tops each group of pleats
with a fiat fan-pleated rosette about 5
inches in diameter. Scarlet mouSSellne
capes, also widened by fan pleating, are
shown with black evening gowns of
heavy, smooth crepe.
Huge hustle chous are favored. some
times fairly fiat and spreading over
larger surface than did the first more
or less tinid attempts at this type of
trimming. Indeed, some Of these new,
larger bustleS are almost overskirts.
A very loud, although altogether de-
lightful, evening gown is made on the
bias of fuschia pink and rich leaf green
mousseline in big brokenbar effect.
There is a reserved Use Of flouncing to
widen the skirt slightly and an overskirt
hustle of larger hounces. The trimming
on the belt and decolletage are of rich
green velvet.
A LII sorts of odd green shades appear
in Patou's new collection, together
with a delicious honey color, which is
used for evening in moire and taffeta,
and a great deal of bright red, for
sports and town clothes, where it is
used in sleeve trimmings, at the neck
line and in tabs and belts, as well as for
bands on hats.
Patou enters the Winter sports scene
with costumes made entirely of Eng
lish materials. those tried and true Brit
ish outdoor reliables-long wearing and
impervious TO dampness. Although made
in Paris, these are decidedly British in
cut.
Trousers are made of the same cheviot
that goes into riding breeches or of
strong weather-proof whipcord, and
CATERS that are snow and water proof
harmonize in color with the suits or are
sometimes made of leather. Scarfs,
sweaters, gloves, blouSeS and socks are
made of tricot woods in cross-barred ef-
fects and bright Scotch plaids are used
for the divided skirt of some of the
Tyrol suits.
The colorS are mainly rich browns,
with some green and pale khaki tones,
and there is a gay plaid skirt, cut in
one piece, for the woman who prefers
the ski skirt to trousers. This costume
is worn with long leather CATERS.
X X x
THE Augustabernard collection up
l. holds the reputation Of this house
as one of the most important in Paris.
All of the 30-odd creations presented
are interesting, especially some of the
crepe daytime dresses. The princess sill
houette is retained in these models and
given character by a skillful use of un-
pressed pleats or darts, or by big sleeves
that had gathered nonchalantly into the
armholes.