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The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Baltimore TO sele .
brate RosenWald
DAY

BALTIMORE Md. February 81
(CNS)-National Julius Rosenwal,
Day was celebrated here on Sunday
February IL at the Druid Hill Avenue
Branch Of the YMCA. Rabbi William
Rosenau Phi. D. Of Eutaw Place Syna-
gogue and Professor in Johns Hop
kins University was one Of the
speakers the Reverend E. w. White
J. T. Coates and c. g. Ferguson as
sisted IN the program presented.
Or. Emmett j. Scott Of Howard
University Washington Delivered the
principal address. The following are
extracts from what was called a most
notable eulogy:
"Just a bit more than two years
ago a rare soul passed to its deserved
reward. We have gathered here to-
day to pay tribute to his memory 1t
is to be feared however that we are
likely in our love and v~eneration to
create Incur minds a legendary TT
cure possessed 81 all the virtues Of a
super-philanthropist a ~super-god Of
the machine of Big Business thinking
in terms always Of bigness Of thou
sands Of millions-a creature Of
tremendous driving force without the
divine attributes of warm heart inn
pulses and deep human sympathies.
Such q picture would not adequately
represent julius Rosenweld.
"True it is that he was one eff the
worlds richest men; true it is thar he
was one Of Americas most distin-
guished and one Of it's most success
full business men; true it is that he
was a great benefactor a munificent
giver to causes which intrigued his
heart interet; true it is that he was
a great humanitarian a thinker and
a guide to many in the world Of So
cial activity and service-but greater
than all these he was the MAN
Rosenwald.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Ethel Waters Spo-
nsers Cut Georgia
and Florida

NEW YORK CITY February I'll
(CNS)-Reports from the executive
offices Of Columbia B~roadcasting
System have cut their hook-up SO
that stations in the States of Florida
and Georgia will not receive the Ethel
Waters programs on. Sunday even
ings. This comes as a result of the
wholesale protests from listeners in
those States that object to a colored
artist being featured with a white
company.
AS a counter movement thousands
Of other listeners in other parts of
the country are expressing great de-
light in her features as sent out by
the broadcast company.
Miss Waters has recently been the
toast of New York's effete critics and
doubling from the Music Box Theatre
where she is n Of the stars in GAS
Thousands Cheer she has delighted
and won many staunch admirers who
are now rallying to her support and
sending in concentrations to the
Columbia Broadcasting Company.
Miss Waters newest venture will
probably u her salary we'll over
seven thousand dollars a week, ac-
cording to figures published recent
" in a well known weekly magazine.
It was said that this noted star re-
ceives $1,000 per night for her Sun
day at Seven concerts; $4,000 for
each movie short she makes; with
her salary in "As Thousands Cheer
unquotted. This stamps Miss Waters
as the highest paid star on Broad
way.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Plan For ConVenti-
on Of CosmetoIOgist

Plans for the convention Of Ne
braska Association Of Cosmetologists
to be held in Omaha Feb. 26, n, rs
were discussed by Norman Folda at
the monthly meeting Of the Omaha
association Monday night at Hotel
Fontenelle.
The committee in charge Monday
night included Miss Irene Gray, chair
man; Misses vi Miller, Emma Ohms,
Nettie Mae Koch and Wynn Rene
Sturgeon, secretary Of the a~ssocia-
tion.About rs members attended.
Lorenzo Donarico is president.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Honor 10 Thirteen
In CoIored Priest

WASHINGTON, February 2fc
NS)-The Rev. William Leroy Lane,
Of New York thirteenth Negro to be
ordained in the Catholic priesthood in
America, celebrated high mass and
preached the morning sermon at St.
Augustine's Catholic Church, Sunday
February II; services being attended
by the District Commandery Of the
Knights Of st. John, whose staff Of
officers acted as a guard Of honor in
full-dress uniform. The Ladies Auxi-
liary also participated in the serv-
ices.
Father Lane will serve as priest in
Trinidad, British West Indies on a
voluntary mission.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
News Reel 10 Be
Made OF Anti
Lynch Hearing
Governor Richie VIII Appear And
Tell OF Action BY The State In
Armw0od Lynching.
Dramatic Surprises Promised From
Long List OF Prominent
Witnesses.

Washington, Feb. 16.-Following
closely upon Governor Ritchie's ac-
ceptance Of the Senate judiciary sub
committees invitation to testify at
its hearings on the Costigan-Wagner
anti-lynching bill, Feb. 1921, the
committee issued a subpoena sum-
moning Attorney General William
Preston Lane Of Maryland to tell
about the breakdown Of law enforce
ment in his state following the lynch
ing Of George Armwood at Princess
Anne, Oct. IS, 1888.
The committee also plans to sub
poena all those accused of participa-
tioifi1 the Aranwood iysching the
state police who were present during
the burning, together with colored
and white newspaper reporters who
covered the crime. Louis Azrael, as
sociate editor of the Baltimore Post,
has also signifed his willingness to
appear before the committee.
At a conference held here this week
between Senators Costigan, Wagner
and Van Mugs, chairman of the sub
committee, with Walter White, Sec
rotary Of the n. A. A. c. P, it was
decided to go thoroughly into the
burning Of George Armwood as a
demonstration Of the complete i'm
portance Of the states in dealing with
lynching and the necessity for a fed
eral anti-lynching lazy.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Called To Testify
Before Senate
Pullman POrters Prepare For Call to
Send Brotherhood Leaders to
Washington For Hearing

NEW YORK, February PA.
Philip Randolph, national president
Of the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car
Porters announced at the headquart-
er5 in New York that he is in receipt
Of a letter from Senator Hiram w.
Johnson Of California, which direct
Cd attention to a communication
which he received from Mr.. Joseph
B. Eastman, coordinator Of Federal
transportation relating to the status
Of Pullman Porters and Maids under
Federal legislation governing rail
way employees. The letter from Mr..
Eastman reads in part:
1t is my understanding that the
standard railway organizations, act
ing through the Railway Labor Exc
cutive Association, have filed and are
supporting an amendment to the
Emergency Railroad Transportation
Acr, which, If enacted into law viii
make the same applicable to the Pull
man Company and other transporta-
ton agencies in the same manner and
to the same extent as such Act is
now applicable to carries by steam
railroad. In that connection, | pre-
sumo that Mr.. Randolph will have an
opportunity of giving TESTIMONY
before the SENATE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMITTEE, which
undoubtedly is the proper procedure
for him to follow in getting action
upon his complaint"
Receipt of knowledge among the
porters that Brotherhood representa-
tives may be called to give testimony
in the hearing on railway legislation
before the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee for the Pullman
Porters, concerning rates of pay,
hours of work and rules governing
working conditions together with the
status Of the Plan Of Employee Re
presentation or Pullman Company
Union, has had the effect of awaken
ing and arousing a new interest and
spirit Of loyalty and devotion among
the porters and maids to the valiant
fight of the Brotherhood for eco
nomic justice. From all sections sa-
crifice 50 as to be able to send the re-
representatives. Of the Brotherhood to
Washington to prosecute the porters'
program with Congress and the Co
ordinator of Federal Transportation,
according to Randolph. Because Of
the serious nature Of the matter to
be considered in the union meetings
that are being held throughout the
country, great care is being taken
only to admit members who can pro-
duce an A. F. Of L. membership card,
continued Randolph.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
VIRGIN ISLANDS ATTRACTING
MANY VISITORS NOW

NEW YORK CITY, February 21-
(CNS) - Governor Paul Pearson Of
the Virgin Islands who has been in
Washington on official business fol-
some time flew back to st. Thomas
on Tuesday, February 18th.
A distinguished visitor to the is
lands in the very near future will be
Mrs. Roosevelt who is taking a lot OF
people with her. My guess is that Os-
car Chapman, Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior and Harry Hopkins Fed
eral Administrator, may be of the
party. President Roosevelt is plan.
ming to go, but no date for his visit
has been set
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Woman Who Saw Lincoln Shot Recalls Night
Recalls Killing OF
Lincoln

WASHINGTON. February 21-(C
NS)-"Every time I look at it, I see
the flash of Booths shot and hear
his CRY from the stage" says Mrs.
s. r. Eastman Of Falls Church, Viz
ginia, recalling incidents Of the Good
Friday night when Lincoln was shot
5y John likes Booth, an actor, at
Ford's Theatre, April IA, 1866. II
was only liz then, but I shall never
forget it' continued Mrs. Eastman.
Marion Butler writes of the tragic
event as follows: On a Good Friday
afternoof nearly 70 years ago, Abra-
ham LiHPoln lounged in a White
House caair, his legs stretched out
before him, his head cupped in his
hands. The Formally Of the meeting
Of his CabIdtt not Vet begun, he was
describing to a few early members a
dream which had come to him the
night before.
Only a few blocks distant on this
same afternoon, q pretty, brown
haired debutante sat in one of Wash
ington's fine old residents absorbed
in dreams Of her own Daughter of d
New England minister newly arrived
in Washington, she had just won per-
mission from her reluctant father to
attend the theatre that night.
While Lincoln told his ministers
how he had seen himself in some
strange ship moving with great
rapidity toward D dark and indefinite
shore" Sarah N. Russell was dream
ing happier dreams of the evenings
performance at Ford's Theatre on
Tenth street, where she would see
both President Lincoln and the new
ly victorious General Grant.
Miss Russell, who is Mrs. S. r.
Eastman, Of Falls Church, Virginia
is now SO but her memories Of that
tragic night are as vivid as ever. She
recalls them each year as February
u brings Lincoln's birthday around
again.
Carefully cherished all these years
is a rare, old playful which she re-
ceived from an usher on the night Of
that world shaking drama. Her cyl
cort Of that evening. j. Merrill Or
mes, Of Washington an attache Of the
Wan Department of the stirring
186O's, had it framed for her half a
century ago.
It is dated Ford's Theatre, April
IA, 1865 the night Of Lincoln's assas-
sination, and announces a benefit
performance Of Tom Taylor's comedy,
"Our American Cousin" starring
Laura Keane, John Dyott and Harry
Hawk.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

testimony was barred at the trial that
might have tended to show a dispo-
sition on the part Of Mrs Thomas to
commit suicide, Thomas did not have
a fair trial
It was brought out that Mrs. Thorn
as was a colored woman and she and
her husband had ~quarreled over her
alleged refusal to have children, but
this testimony was not admitted in
the lower court insofar as it had
bearing over her alleged threats to
kill herself.
This excluded testimony" Justice
Townley's opinion read, was clearly
competent as bearing upon the proba-
bility Of suicide.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
$4,000 TO

Los Angeles Calf, Feb.-Ordinar-
lily it costs nothing in Los Angeles to
obey traffic laws but when James
Boyd, of 1897 E. 46th street observed
a boulevard stop on Central avenue, j
cost him approximately $4,000.
When Boyd's car slowed down, two
bandits leaped aboard and forced him
to drive to Goth street and Paloma
where they robbed him Of $500 cash
and a 3-carat ring valued at $4,000.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
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C. W. S. Maids
TO Aid Families

The families of jobless men who
are out all day looking for work will
be aided by the federal government.
The Civil Works Service Of New
York announced on Monday that zoo
trained colored housemaids would be
put to work in the homes of unem-
ployed families at a $12 weekly sal
airy.
It is hoped to expand the number
of houseworkers to 1000, the an
nouncement stated but for the present
time their services would be limited
to homes in which the wife is i'll anc
unable to are for her children.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
CAFE OWNER IS SHOT

Little Rock, Ark.-(ANP)-Henry
Thomas, Cumberland street cafe own
er, was shot by police Friday night
and may die. Two detectives had
gone to Thomas home, above his res
taurant, to question him. He came
from the restaurant below, yelled fo1
them to come down and threatened to
shoot. They beat him to the draw.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Wanted

Anyone having knowledge or wit
Messing an accident occurring October
20, 1888, $50 p m. at 10th and
Nicholas. Car involved travelling
south collided with pedestrians at
north cross walk Of said intersection.
Write Box 16S Omaha Guide Office,
2418-2O Grant Street
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
FOundryman's Face Is
Burned AT Oil Furnace

Flames which bulged out Of the
door of an oil furnace at the Federal
Metal Products Co., 4O41 Park avenue
about 8 a. M, Thursday, scared the
face Of Elijah Butler, 81, 1916 Papin
street. Butler was tending the fur
mace and opened the door. His con-
dition was said to be serious at City
Hospital No. 8.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
Original, Little Eva
Celebrates Birth
Day

Belmont, Mass.-Mrs. Edmund J,
Mcdonald, white, the original "LittIe
Eva" in ~Uncle Toms CABIN, cele-
brated her eighty-sixth birthday
Thursday. She was four years old
when she played the part the first
time "Uncle Toms Cabin" was staged
in Troy, N. ~, in 1852.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
NEW YORK HOUSE HITS


Albany, N. Y, Feb. 8.-The New
York State Assembly Tuesday adopt
ed a resolution urging President
Roosevelt and Congress to take steps
to prevent lynchings. DAssemblyman
J. E! Stephens, colored member, spon-
sored the resolution
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
VOICE LOST 2 YEARS:


Philadelphia Nor
gan, 80 yrs. old, can now talk clearly
after having lost her voice for more
than two years. Speech returned to
her after an operation for the re-
moval Of a tumor of the larynx in
Mercy hospital.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

The most remarkable thing about
the present congress is its lack of re-
markableness. Before it convened the
prediction was that it would simply
be an echo Of the President with
possibly a few false notes to add in
terest. Nineteen-thirty-four is after
all the year in which all the Repre-
~sentatives Il for reelection and
normally there would be a lot of per-
sonal political fence building done in
both houses. But Congress has been
even more Of a rubber-stamp than
was forecast Matters have reached
the point where it's doings outside of
routine approval Of one Roosevelt
measure or another aren't even front
page news. The Republican party has
made only sporadic attempts to pre-
par for elections. 1t has no general
no outstanding national
leader no unanimity Of opinion
among its members. A large percent
age Of Republicans in both houses
vote with the President.
The meaning Of all this Of course
~ that most Senators and Represents
atives believe that the New Deal TAX
ing it as a whole still has the public
confidence IS still popular. They be-
lieve that to oppose it in a strenuous
way is the equivalent Of political sui
eide although practically all the Re
publicans outside Of the insurgent
wing and many Of the Democrats
fear 1t is being carried too far that
the experiments IN various instances
are getting out of hand that some Of
the new laws and bureaus are ham
periag not forwarding the progress
If The NRA and the con-
sumer is a case in point. A definite
feeling is growing that the big manu-
featuring industries are running ram
pant 80 far as prices r concerned
and are sticking the buyer good and
plenty. Costs have gone up appre-
ciably faster than has, the average
income. But only a handful Of Con
2ressman have had nerve enough to
speak OF this. And what they've said
hasn't made a dent.
So far as general business is con-
eerned the most important law to
come before Congress in the near fu-
ture viii probably be a White House
supported plan for revising the Sc
curities act. A number of grave err
rors were made in the daft that be-
came the law Of the and at the last
Congress. 1t was designed to prevent
the selling of dubious stocks and
bonds-but as matters turned out it
prevented the selling Of the most
honest securities. Capital has simply
ceased to flow into industries which
soreiy need it and are entitled to it.
Revision of the bill will probably in
clude modification Of the liability
provisions and viii tone it down gen
orally SO that honest businesses wish
ing new capital will have nothing to
fear when offering securities to the
public.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

Money is a strange ardcle. The
economist figures out what this OF
shat monetary policy viii do-and
when it is put into effect results are
ant to be Numerically different
THAT is true to an extent Of the Roose
1gelt 80 cent dollar. Reason for Great
ing it was to boost commodity mar
kets and strengthen the American
position in foreign trade.
AS soon as Mr.. Roosevelt signed
the bill fireworks started in the stock
and bond markets. Activity was the
heaviest in many months with shares
changing hands at a dizzying rate
Prices were generally up. But the
commodity market did not react ac-
cordingly. And across the water the
pound started to d~epreciate faster
than the dollar. In London a dollar
CONTINUED On Page TwO)
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
MAN HANGS SELF-WARNS
FRIENDS AGAINST TREACHERY
OF WOMEN

STANTON Va. February 21-(CN
S)-Leaving a note warning his
friends against the "~treachery of
women" Wilbur F. Hicks colored war
veteran hanged himself last week.
Folded around the note was a biblical
picture. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of suicide.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24
ECOn0mI &c
HlGNlIGR rs

Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pals Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual. National
and international Problems INSOFAR
able from Local Welfare.
The Omaha guide., 1934-02-24

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23

conspiracy. This theory was to gain in popularity and was des- tined to produce far-reaching re- suits.
 On two points we can be we'll assured. First, the stock market cracked for one reason only-5e- cause prices went too high. The law of gravity brought them down. Second, 1t was not the stock mar ket crash which produced the de- pression. Furthermore, the de- pression did not begin on October 23, 1929, when the market col- lapsed.
 WHAT IS A DEPRESSION? A man out of work is a depression. A factory closed down is a depres- sion. An industry working at a loss and without business is A still 1928 to 1929 there were plenty of such depressions. Always our economic life Is made up of a number of individual prosperities and a number of individual de- pressions. It is when the individ. ual depressions get too numerous, when they merge into one huge depressive mass of unemployment and loss and dominate our whole business structure that we are in what we understand by a national depression.
 All through the boom years there were plenty of depressions focal points of infection. The wheat farmers were in a deprcs- sion. So were the cotton growers. The textile industry bordered on collapse. The copper industry was in bad way. So was the coal industry. So were the retail gro- cers who were failing at the rate of 33 per cent a year. It is in- credible how many there were when we supposed the nation prosperous.
 We refused to notice this. We liked the preaching of the blatant optimist who tells you to look at the doughnut and not the hole. The trouble with this hole was that it was an infectious hole and was eating up the doughnut. The simple truth is that the collapse should have come in 1927. Why didn't it come in 1927?
 
 WELL, FIRST we have to ask why were we prosperous at all? The answer is that our prosperity was the fruit of the capital goods
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23

industries. Here are the simple
 Every time we make a pair of economic facts.
 Every time we make pair of shoes to sell for $5 we must make somewhere $5 of purchasing pow CT to buy them. We know how shoes are made. But how do we make purchasing power We make purchasing power while we are making shoes. Your money in- come comes from your work or investments used in producing goods. The trouble is that we do not make enough purchasing pow CT to buy the goods that we pro- duce. If something else did not iri-' tervene we would be be in perpet- ual depression. What is 1t that comes to our rescue? It is credit.
 We didn't make enough pur- chasing power in 1925 to pay for what we manufactured that year. But we could buy lot of things in 1925 and promise to pay for them in 1926 or 1927 or 1897 or 1897. We borrow from the future to buy in the present. We keep borrowing each year until finally we have piled up such a mass of debt that we can borrow no more.
 If earn $2,000 a year and can borrow another $2,O00, can borrow. But the day comes when my creditor won't lend me any more. Then I cannot spend $4,000. I cannot even spend $2,000. For now have to pay interest on all I borrowed and must pay back some of the principal. And hence the people of whom I paid that $4,000 each year no longer get it, and can no longer employ people to make goods for me. Now if there are enough people like me you can see easily enough that the effect, when the borrowing ceases, will be very serious.
 THE NEXT POINT to remember is that the borrowing that does the trick for us and produces pros- perity is long-term borrowing. Short-term borrowing is to be re- paid in few months is practically the same as cash. It is 1ong-term borrowing which we do not have to repay for several years which counts. Lots of our railroads and corporations borrowed money WulCu IS IlOL tO US I0pdlu uutll A. D. 2037. This kind of borrowing is almost always done for the pur- chase of capital goods-invest- ment goods-durable things like houses, buildings, locomotives, heavy machinery. Cities, states, counties, railroads borrow huge sums for this purpose. In ten years preceding the break, Balti- more, for instance, borrowed $199, 100000 which she promised to pay back in the future. Mean time 1t was all spent putting men to work to make streets, put up buildings. schools, etc. New York borrowed hundreds of millions. But the time came when these cities, these states, these railroads, these building corporations could borrow no more. Their credit was exhaust ed they had built more than they could sell. They stopped. And when the capital gods industries stop the depression is here.
 But why did we spend so much on capital, goods in those years?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23

sible for car to communicate with car. This two-day system is the one most newly developed and is found in very few cities.
 The $6,00O estimate allows for ten motor patrol cars, a chiefs car and two fire department machines. It Is planned to have the fire de- partment ready at any time to hook into the broadcasting system.
 Sentiment al lover the state is in favor of police radio as a means of combating and checking crime. The Democrat on its editorial page has long advocated police radio protection for Waterbury, being one of the first newspapers in the east to advocate radio protection.
 HatfOrd FavOrs Plan
 In Hartford, Rollin Posey, direc-- tor of the Hartford Research De- partment. has recommended that police radio be installed. He sug- gests the installation of a one.way system at first. with two-way com munication as the ultimate goal. A meeting of the police board in Hartford tonight Is expected to consider the subject and to study MT Posey's recommendation.
 Police all ove rthe state are en- thusiastic over the possibilities of police radio in Connecticut, know ing of what aid it has been in other cities and states. They agree that modern crime. abetted by fast motor cars and speedy communi- cation methods, can be stopped only by the employment of the most modern anti-crime devices to halt 1t.