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The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
JULIUS ROSENWALD
DAY
IN BALTIMORE

"He loved his fellow man with a
sympathy which knew no bounds. Es-
pecially did his great heart lead him
to espouse the cause of disadvan-
tagged and under-privileged groups
everywhere. When he passed away
the world laid beside his bier the
h~eaped-up treasure of its respect its
love It's affection its v~eneration Of
his almost divinely appointed life of
rare vision service and generosity
"The grant gamut of his bene-
factions is to be noted in the S35000-
900 fund which administered and still
administers the projects which were
so close to his heart; the 100000
Rosenwald Industrial Museum locat-
ed at Chicago; the 100000 given by
him for Jewish Colonization work IN
Russia; the 100000 he gave to the
University OF Chicago of which he
was a trustee; the $2500O00 model
apartments for colored families IN
Chicago similar to the Dunbar Apart
rnents established in New York by
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and last and
not least his wonderful gifts making
possible more than 5000 rural schools
for colored children in nearly 1000
counties Of practically all the South
ern States at a cost including his
contributions those from colored PEG
pie and from public school funds on
nearly $300OOO0O thereby providing
for the education Of nearly three
quarters of a million children and
giving employment to about $4,000
teachers; also his gifts for Is Y. Nd.
c. A. buildings for colored youth and
men and 2 Y. W. C. A. buildings for
coIored girls and women. Also he
provided literally for ~fellowships for
Negro scientists artists writer's and
in the interest of the social sciences
and public health. 7
"And yet after all of this recital it
still remains to be ~chronicled that be-
hind it all was the mantle Mar
Roserwaldl. :
81 must not fail to speak of his IN
terest in the political rightsk of the
Negro; of his feeling that nofpart Of
us can be wholly free unless all OF us
are and untrammeled in all of the
rights and privileges guaranteed to
us by the Federal Constitution
"This nobleman not only gave mon
ey to Causes but the gave himself as
well. He used the power OF wealth
that anne to him with continual
thought hat he was only a trustee
for the advancement of humanity. : :
Imperfect and inadequate as this
sketch of the Man is | hope it has IN
some measure portrayed to you a
modest unassuming gentleman a
warm hearted devoted American who
possessing an eager n OF justice
rose to great heights but who never
lost his simplicity or his human COM
mon touch and who gave his time his
great ability and his colossal fortune
for the betterment of mankind-all
mankind. Like Abou Ben Adhem he
loved his fellowmen.'
Continued From Page One)
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

In spite of all the obstacles to be
overcome the signs of better business
are growing more numerous. A short
time ago n of the best of all Of
them appeared - the report on mail
order sales which is a sure-fire baro-
mete Of the rural purse Sears Roe
buck showed so per cent improve
ment wei last year and Montgomery
Ward 45 per cent. Wards retail
stores operated in large and medium
sized cities were up 81 per cent. It's
mai order department which serves
the very small town and the farm
was so per cent ahead.
There's hardly an industry that
isn't feeling the change. The terrific
jump in automobile business is re-
sponsible for much of the betterment
inasmuch as a thousand other indus
tries contribute to the making selling
repairing and servicing Of cars. The
department stores are likewise doing
much better.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, sArURDAY, FEB: q, 1884

ing in size a family. The Court held
this contact to be a special pr.vi-
lege, and upheld the action OF the
University in discriminating against
Miss Weaver. Justice Allen con-
Cured in this vicious discrimination.
If appointed to the job she seeks
Justice Aliens district viii include
the states of Michigan, Tennessee
Kentucky and Ohio, a section having
q Negro population Of around one
million.
The N. A. A. C. P. is rallying Ne
gres throughout the country to fight
the appointment Of this preludiced
judge.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
SALEM TUT WHITNEY or
GREEN PASTURES DIES IN
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, February 21-(CNS)-
Salem Tut Whitney SIS who played
the role of Noah in "The Green Pas
lures" died here Tuesday, February
Is at the home of a cousin Mrs.
George Sawyer. Whitney a native Of
Logansport, Indiana had been i'll Of
heart disease for several months
Mrs. Sawyer, Homer Whitney and
a stepson Gaylord Whitney of Phil
adelphia are the only surviving rela-
tives, she said.
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Another Tragedy Follows
Family Whose Home Was
Struck By An AerOplane

Red Bank, N. ARTIST King
bought a coal truck last November
with the money the State Of New
Jersey paid him after his wife and
two children had been killed by a
National Guard plane that crashed
through the roof Of their home, set
ting it afre.
The truck went over a 75-foot cliff
at Elmhurst, near Scranton, Pa, on
Monday, February 5, and King was
burned to death.
Six deaths resulted from the air
plane accident.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
CENSUS OF 1910 RECORDED ABE
LINCOLN AS MERELY WHITE
MALE UNDER TO-

WASHINGTON, February 21-(C
Ns)-The first official notice Of
Abraham Lincoln was in 1910 as
shown by the census Of that year
when ne was listed as zone white
male under 10 years Of age"
This was recalled on Lincoln's
125th birthday anniversary celebrat-
ed last week. The census listed four
members of the Lincoln family His
father, Thomas was head Of the
family, which lived in Hardin Csun-
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Woman Who Saw Lincoln
Shot Recalls Tragic Night
Continued From Page One)

Il sat in the third row IF he oar
lery, then known as the dress circle
The Presidential box was On the
right. | could see it distinctly. II was
draped with flags and a center par+i-
ton which had once divided it into
two boxes, had been removed to bro
vide room for General and Mrs
Grant, who however did not come
Packed as the theatre was that
night by gay parties, celebrating the
close Of the Civil War with Lees spr-
render at Appomattox only five DAYS
before, the Presidential party itself
was s~ingularly small. Only Mr.. and
Mrs Lincoln and Major Rathbone
and his ~fiancee, Miss Harris formed
the Presidential group.
Late in entering, they arrived in
the middle Of the first act unknown
to the intent audience until Laura
Keane abandoned her lines to q low
courtsey, and the orchestra struck I'D
Hail to the Chief
Il was watching for them, and saw
them enter the box" Mrs. Eastman
says. And, curiously all these years
have remembered the lines that
were being spoken on the state at the
time. As Lincoln stepped into the box
Lord Dundreary on the stage was
asking. Why does a dog a his
tal?' Lincoln smiled at the answer.
Because a tail can't wag the dog"
Lincoln al always, received his
ovation from the crowd very quietly,
n the play continued Immediately.
Count even in the clothes which were
especially made by tailors to conceal
his 30-pound loss in weight during
the war years, Lincoln watched the
play with a tired smile.
A frequent patron Of the theatre.
the management had provided him
with the cozy rocking chair which he
liked best. He rocked slowly back and
forth, intent upon the lines Of the
comedy, until Booths pistol suddenly
roared forth at the last Of the play.
"The shot came at a time when the
stage was clear. | think Booth, who
knew the stage routine well, had
planned it that way" Mrs. Eastman
points out. II saw a burst Of flame
and smoke come from the box and
heard Mrs. Lincoln scream. Then a
man in dark clothes and spurred
boots leaped from the railing Of the
Presidential box to the stage. 1t was
a long jump Of about Is feet and he
: caught his spur in folds of the
American flag that was draped
acros the box.
He crumpled to the floor as he
fell but picked himself up again and
dashed into the wings shouting .Sic
Semper Tyrannis!' I learned later
that it was Booth and that he broke
his leg in that fall"
Mrs. Eastman will never forget
the pandemonium that reigned under
the Pickering gaslights- Men shouted
and cursed women screamed and
tainted after the first stunned sur
prico If Ala ao+
Mrs. Eastman remembers both
Lincoln and Booth clearly-the older
man with his grave and noble fea-
lures the younger with his dark
handsomeness. Every Sunday morn
ing she passes the scene Of that I'M
forgettable night and always her
thought is the same.
81 don't see how anyone could have
done that to Lincoln" she says re-
membering that bleak April night
SO years ago.
Every time look at it. 7 see the
flash of Booths shot and hear his
cry from the stage" says Mrs. East
man. Il was only IL then, but | shall
P.-- -
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
The Majority of CoIored
Citizens Are Conscious of
The Need of a Necessary
Nero Leader in Omaha.

I believe his very purpose was to
inspire the school children that pass
by, to awaken their future in the way
of living as an incentive to them.
This is why he chose his residence
where the colored people were the
thickest and among the very ordin-
airy, that he could be their neighbor
and their friend. The doctor is not
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
SPINGARN AT FORUM

Baltimore, Md, Feb. Isl. E.
Spingarn, Of New York, president of
the N. A. A. C. P, will speak here
Friday, Feb. % for the city-wide
Young Peoples Forum.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
KNOWS TEN DOLLAR BILL BY
ITS SMELL

WASHINGTON February 21-(C.
NS)-Identifying a ten dollar bill by
its scent Carthonia Payne a young
colored woman was principal witness
against Earl Foreman who charged
with taking the money from an attic
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

trunk.
While testifying in the case Mrs.
Payne was asked: "How did you
know the bill was ycurs?" She re-
piled Because l could smell it." A
bottle Of perfume she explained up
set in the trunk. Foreman was sent
enced to so days in jail.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

ty Kentucky. Lincoln was actually
n year old at the time of the CEN
sus.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

hilated the Russian fleet, ana
the general who was supposed
to defend Port Arthur till the
last drop of blood had sold out
to the enemy long before the
last drop of vodka had been
consumed.
Even the long suffering Slavic
soul began to show a cer-
tain impatience with the doings
of the Little Father. There
were riots in st. Petersburg
which were suppressed in the
usual idiotic fashion. And so
there were more riots. Until
the Little Father discovered
that even the blank cartridges
of his own imperial artillery,
firing a welcoming salvo, could
no longer be trusted (they were
found to be loaded with Shrap-
neD and generously gave his
people a constitution and a
reform government"
BY the Carload
Count Witte was to be the
head of this New Deal. He was
a simple fellow who had worked
his way up as a railroad man.
When I was in Russia in 1907
they used to say that the Car
used to weep every time he had
had a session with his prime
minister. For Witte was a
methodical man and addicted
to statistics. And Nicholas II
did not believe in statistics.
Otherwise he might still be
playing blind mans buff with
his children in Tsarskoe Selo.
Now while the excellent and
methodical Witte was examin-
ing the national budget. looking
for things here and there that
might be either cut out entirely
or reduced to more simple pro
portions, he came upon a singu-
lar item. For the last 81 years,
regularly once a year, the in-
perial household had been
charged for an entire carload
Of birdSeed.
All of us at one time or an
other have had a pet canary.
AS a rule. 10 cents worth of
birdseed kept him in fine feather
for at least half a year. Heaven
only knew why the imperial
household should have been in
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
Hendrix Willem van Loon T0'Hijt~1 F%

need of an entire carload Of
that diminutive fodder.
Witte ordered an investiga-
ton. And then it appeared that
in the year 1852 a certain Rus
sian grand duchess, a little Ger
man princess recently married
to a cousin of the Gear, had
brought her pet canary with her
when she Travelled to the dis
tant banks of the Neva. And
having exhausted the little crea-
lures supply of birdseed, she
had casually asked that they
bring her a little box of fresh
birdseed.
In the hands of a competent
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
More Holidays
BIZ Frank Sullivan

next holiday, which is Lincoln's
Birthday and is not celebrated
with a bang.
What we need is more
Christmas holidays that we can
celebrate with a bang, and I
suggest some as starter.
Others may have different Sug.
gestionS to offer:
Swat Waits Day-This holi-
day could be a lot of fun. 1t
would be devoted to pursuing
and chastising Christmas waits.
Under the Christmas truce
these waits enjoy immunity
and cannot be molested or
struck down between December
"a to January 2, inclusive.
That is why they sing during
the interval. Swat Waits Day
could be observed on January
8 and would be great sport.
I can think Of no trophy I
would rather have adorn my
library wall, if I had a library
wall, than the head of fine
bull Christmas wait.
Breaking Day-A holiday de-
voted to smashing Christmas
toys, particularly drums, horns
and toy pianos that have been
given to the children by kinfolk
and friends" who do not live
with you.
Package Day-The day after
New Year Eve, so called be-
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

} fleet of armored cars, planes
and arms to use in his war
against crime.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mould haze been presented tDith
a section of land 1Uhere she and
her family could sometime find
complete priUacy.
The Chief Executive would
have received a ruler with
which to rap knuckles of recall
citrant schoolboys holding high
Government positions.
A.A.A. Administrator Chester
c. Davis would have received
general acclamation of the pro-
gram for crop regimentation
from his farmers.
Luther Steward, president Of
the National Federation of Fed
cral Employees, and E. Claude
BabcOck, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Government
Employees, would have had their
socks filled with money with
which to restore full salaries to
Federal workers.
Secretary of Labor Frances
w. Perkins Would haze received
report from the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics that national
unemployment waS on the
1Ddne.
One billion bales of hay with
which to feed drought area cat
tie would have surrounded the
Christmas tree of Federal Emer.
gency R elief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins.
General Jim Farley, POstmas-
ter General, would have re-
ceived a box containing ten
million patronage jobs that he
could dispense as he pleased.
Donald Richberg, would have
received an act of Congress
giving him the official title Of
Assistant President of the
United States.
Vice President Jack Garner
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z e 44 e z z & z
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

You, calloused hands to serve
You, ragged shepherds kneeling
reverently.
Born in a manger-as many
another poor mothers babe had
been. Born to the hopeless
hardship of laborer's lot.
Just one more forgotten
drudge in a world where all
workers had been beasts of bur-
den through centuries of dark
ness.
But that night the darkness
broke! That night hope came,
at last, to desperate souls. Above
Your manger a star blazed, an
angel Sang-and across the
desert of mans inhumanity,
Wisdom and Charity and Broth
erly Love came riding to do You
honor!
Long years since that light
first daWned for working men.
Yet today, while the inns blaze
with revelry, Joseph still knocks
at the barred doors, Mary still
trembles in the wintry street,
the shepherds still shiver above
their Scanty fire.
For we, who should have
kept that star blazing, that
song ringing, have forgotten
and there is no room in our
greedy hearts for the love that
all were to share.
Jesus, come back!
Come back, Christ Jesus!
Enter again our darkened
Bethlehem. Knock at our
drugged minds, our barred
hearts-tear down the cruel
walls of greed and Selfishness.
Make us see, as You saw, the
pity of those who stand wait
ing, helpless and hopeless.
Make us willing, as You we're
willing. to share their lot and
carry their burden. And out of
Your infinite friendliness, grant
that love may be born again in
our hearts today. in the manger
of a new humanity.
JESUS, COME BACK!
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate Inc
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

Night from its place between
Eleventh and Thirteenth Nights
will return same they will avoid
trouble, as they are known.
Which is Twelfth Night? I
have never been able to find
out, although I have tried many
times and have covered many
cuffs and backs of envelopes
with calculations, but with me
it always comes out Thirteenth
Night. I think it's December
81 that throws me off.
The British have in Boxing
Day a first-class Yuletide holi-
day which We might we'll envy
them. Boxing Day has no more
to do with boxing than the
spelling of most British names
of more than one syllable-and
even many of one Syllable-haS
to do with the way they are
pronounced. Boxing Day is the
day the British unwrap their
Christmas gifts. Or maybe
wrap them. Or maybe it's the
day they take them back and
exchange them.
We have no Boxing Day. The
British ease off their Christ
mas holidays, but we take the
cold turkey treatment; we do
Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day with a bang and then
New Year with another bang.
and then 60 to bed until our
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

courtier. that demand for a
little box had become a car
load. And since all courts live
by and for "precedent." that
one load Of birdseed had be.
come an annual carload. In
due course of time the Thur
ingian canary dealers had sent
enough birdseed to Russia to
cover the whole of the country
with about three inches of the
pesky stuff. It made no diff
ference. In the year 1854 a
grand duchess had asked for
20 kopecks' worth of birdseed.
And in the year 1906 the i'm
perial household was still pay
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
NICARAGUA ROUTE FROM NEW YORK TO WEST COAST,
$50 MILES SHORTER THAN VIA PANAMA. FROM
NEW ORLEANS, $50 MILES SHORTER

Japan objects to Americas constructing the Nicaragua
Canal because it would be military
Most Americans will say: Even if is military measure
that's business, and OURS only
America has two coasts to defend
fleet depends canal Panama alone pas
sage between the two
If that canal of commission in war; defense
might be seriously-even fataly-crippled
A Nicaragua Canal would minimize this danger.
Moreover have bought and paid for the right of way
and surveyed it.
Steps construction would thus to be excu
clusively American affair.
They certainly the affair of any foreign nation.
AS the map shows however Nicaragua Canal is far from
being defense
It is highly important COMMERCIAL
It would shorten the shipping route from New York to Cali
forna by $50 nautical mes-a full days tmeand from Gulf
ports to California by $50 nautical miles-TWO days time
The saving to shippers between these points would mount
into millions of dollars year, and by tolls the canal
could be made to pay for itself within reasonable period
Aso the construction of this necessary public work would
call for materials which American industry and American labor
would furnish.
The Congress should authorize the digging the CANAL
appropriate for it and START il"
essential for defense and for and Japa
nese friends unduy perturbed they think designed
for any other purpose.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
For Historians the Woods Are
Full of AbSurditieS

ing several thousand rubles an.
nually for carload of birdSeed
that indubitably was dumped
into the river just as soon as it
had reached the shores of the
Baltic.
The world, of course, is full
of such absurdities. When the
King of Spain was sent about
his business, some four or five
years ago, it developed that the
wellington family of England
vas still enjoying an annual
revenue from Spain, in grateful
recognition of the services
which the original Arthur Wei
lesley had rendered to the
Spanish throne in the year 1910.
And if somebody wants to write
a book upon the subject, I shall
be delighted to give him some
more examples. For the histori-
cal woods are full of them, and
it will be another fascinating
subject in the endless story of
mankind's almost fantastic un-
willingness to change tn t
which has always been"
Truth of the matter is that
in neither nature nor history
is there such thing as this
always has been" 1 love to
listen to preachers when they
compare their faith to the
strength of the eternal noun
tains." The highest of them
all, the Himalayas, were not
even visible 100000 years
ago, and will be as flat as our
plains within another 40,000,-
900 years.
And in matter of geography
and geology, a million years are
like a minute, while waiting for
your best beloved to come down
to dinner.
OBSTINATE
The Swiss mountains, in case
you have invested some of your
money in Swiss railroads, are
only good for another 100000
years, and the receding coast
line of eastern America will
have swallowed up New York
before another hundred thou
sand years.
"Permanence," therefore, is a
word that is not found in Ma
ture's highly interesting diction-
ary. But mankind is so terribly
scared by the idea of oblivion
that it must forever find some
thing to whihc it can attach it.
self as a veritable Rock of Ages.
We shall have to do a great
deal of educating before the hui
man race of the year 1884 shall
be ready for the ideas of the
year 2034. And ere We can
start work on the new struc-
ture, we shall have to dig deep
enough to make room for the
foundations.
While engaged upon this use
full if difficult task, we shall
come upon all sorts Of OBJ
Stacles. And the strongest of
all those will be mans obstinate
desire to live changelessly in an
ever-changing world.
Copyright 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

M S S iSSlppi, kep. Sol Bloom
would have pulled a $4,000 a
year job out of his stocking.
A suitable silver bill, accept
able to the President would
have hung on the tree of Sena-
tor Elmer Thomas, of Okla
homa.
Republican National Commit
tee Chairman Henry P. Fletch-
er would have liked a harmOni-
Gus song from his discordant
flock.
Brain Truster Rexford G.
Tugwell would have received a
hatchet buried in lifelong
friendship by Senator Ellison D.
Smith, of South Carolina.
Former President Herbert
HooUer Would haze received
Scythe 1Dith Which to cut the
"grasS that wil gro1O in the
Streets"
An iron sceptre with which to
enforce his dictatorship" of
many offices would have been
hanging by the bed of Secre-
tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes,
Public Works Administrator
and what not.
Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings would have found a
box with 1000 investigators, a
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

sought for haven and were told
mo room" Room in the inn
for rich men to revel. Room in
the courts for drunken soldiers
to brawl with dancing girls and
skins of purple wine. Room even
in the temple for splendid
pageants, jeweled censers, golden
Ark of the Covenant.
But no room for a shabby
carpenter, a gentle, trembling
girl who bore the little Son of
God.
No room in Bethlehem-nor
in all the world-for the poor
and the weak and the helpless.
So You were born-in
stable. Weary brutes to guard
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

Had Santa Claus been the
genial gentleman that he is
supposed to be he would have
arrived in Washington today,
stopped over at the home of
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
and presented him with news
from Japan that that country
would accept the $50 Naval
ratio treaty.
He would have given Repre-
sentative John J. O'Connor, of
New York, enough votes to be
elected Majority Leader in the
HOUSE.
Senate Majority Leader Jo-
Seph T. Robinson Would haze
had letters from 96 Senators
promising "peGce and good
Will" in the SeDenty-Fourth
Congress.
PnnreSentotiVe Sol r | n n m
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

There are not enough Christ
mas holidays in this country.
They do these things better in
England. There they have Box
ing Day, Little Christmas,
Twelfth Night and all sorts of
fetes to taper off Christmas
proper.
For instance, there is no cele-
bration of Twelfth Night in the
United States. Why not? what
has happened to our Twelfth
Night? If the person or persons
who were seen taking Twelfth