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The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
USING YOUR MONEY tn
CREATE UNEMPLOY-
MENT

What would you think Of a program
to spend hundreds of millions of dol
lars of taxpayers money to produce
something Of which the nation already
has surplus, and throw thousands O
men out Of work?
You would oppose it. If the opinion
of Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island,
is correct, that is precisely what taxx
free, federally-financed hy~dro-electric
projects are doing.
1t is assumed by the senators that
hydro-electric projects undertaken by
the government will displace $4,000,
100000 kilowat hours Of electric en-
ergy now generated by fuel plants
which use 4O,OOO,OO0 tons of coal
annually. A miner, on the average
produces 1000 tons Of coal a year.
As a result, unnecessary government
power development would be respon-
sible for throwing 10000 miners out
Of work-in addition to oorailroad
and other workers whose jobs, dir
ectly o. indirectly, depend on steam
electric plants
There might be some excuse for
this il there was a power shortage.
But private electric systems are now
capable Of producing % per cent
more energy than the nation uses.
They are adequately prepared to meet
any prospective demand. They sell
electricity at very low rates-and
they contribute tremendous sums to
government in taxes. The political
power program, menacing as it does
q legion Of jobs and billions Of dollars
worth of Investments, is a genuine
threat to sound recovery.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
BLOCKING FUTURE
D~EPRESSIONS

The American people, consciously ~
not, are busy erecting a mighty &C.
onomic barrier against the possibility
OF future depressions.
They r doing that bv buvinp
life insurance-and more life insur-
ance. The trend Of sales has been
steadily upward for a nJmber of
months. Men are finding job. Many
families r enjoying regular and de-
incomes for the first time in years.
And life insurance, through n or
another Of the many policies it writes,
is able to guard against almost any
human exigncy. 1t protects ones
family's and dependents-and it like
wise protects oneself against one Of
the greatest Of all human tragedies,
a proverty-stricken old age. 1t re-
builds depleted sstates+or creates
new ones. 1t assures an education
for ones children-and it covers loss
in case Of business reverses-
Life insurance is the friend of good
times. It is the u~nreuenting enemy
Of depressions. During the five try
ing years that have passer it has car
ried thousands Of families through &c
onomic storms, and kept them from
and distress. And, with more
citizens showing greater realization OF
its possibilities, it will do a still finer
in the future to assure financial
independence. f.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09

?l'oov,oo0oOo. inns included more than $13,5OO, OOO. 900
IN death claims and payments to living policvholders. and
S3,ooo 100000 in loans to the United States government.
to corporations and to property owners.
Inc ability OF life Insurance companies to hold the
confidence OF the investing public is due to the fact that
lie insurance has kept its promises. Those who SOUGHT
safety found it in life insurance and will continue ~ ~ u
Only three cents of each dollar of the income of tba
people OF the United States it put into life insurance The
lac that 81 cents of every dollar left at death is derived
from lie insurance proves beyond question that life in
Sufance IS the surest and safest way of providing sun
port Tor ones own old age, as thousands Of annuity own
ers testify today.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
COL. E. HOFER

The death Of Colonel Hofer On
March 18th signed $50" to one of the
most dramatic and colorful careers
IN Oregon newspaper history. He
was a leading figure in state, civic
and development enterprise in Oregon
for AS years.
It can be said of Colonel Hofer
that he would be the first to smile,
perhaps a little disdainfuIly, at a
formal eulogy. To those who came
n contact with him his occasional
eccentric moods were as endearing as
his most serene ones. You were
aware always, even when he had 5
sed % OF his amazing vitality-and,
much lore important still, of his
youthful viewpoint You were aware
OF his hatred of hypocrisy and of
sham-things which were no part of
him. You were aware Of a direct, a
brilliant -forcefulness, that found out
let IN crisp phrases, in turgid cpl
grams, that you would not forget
Prominently, Colonel Hofer repre-
sented a disappearing figure-a
newspaper mar Of the old school. He
surrounded himself with the things
he loved-family friends, gardens,
pictures, books. He was always
proud of the fact that he was a
country publisher" He was no wor-
SHIPPER of money. In people he loved
genuineness and loyalty-their po-
sitions Of prominence were secondary
to him. He would have felt highly
honored to know that the Negro
bootblack who shined his shoes for
years, attended his funeral. There
can be nc finer, no more accurate
Characterization of him than that.
The Colonel did not acquire his out
standing qualities by chance. He
came from a line of bordears who
fought and died for personal liberty.
He was without fear and without
malice-and he never scorned a
good fight when the cause. in his
opinion, was justified. He stood IN
flinchingly for what he believed to
be right, but he was without false
pride which makes a man hold a po-
sition when events have shown him
that he was in the wrong. He had a
hatred for crooked politics and sharp
practices He was opposed to pater-
nalism in government and top-heavy
officialism which brushes individual
ism. He conducted, through the me-
dunn of the printed page, aggressive
disagreements of opinion with other
editors-and it is a testimonial to his
character that some of those with
whom he differed most vehemently
were. at the end of his life, his de-
voted friends.
Colonel Hofer was born in Clear
mont, lava, in 1855. He entered the
newspaper business with his father
on the McGregor News, McGregor,
Iowa. He moved to Oregon in 1889
and with his brother, the late A. F.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

N average of $10,956,16 a day was distributed by life
insurance companies in the United States in 1888, accord
ink to statements of Arthur F.. Hall, president of the
Lincoln National Life Insurance company.
"Life insurance companies paid out more than $4,000
probably twice as much as will be paid out by our gov
eminent in 1884 in federal relief" MI. Hall pointed out
that during the past four years life insurance companies
have put into circulation in the United States more than
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
G CORRESPOND
ENTS POURING THOU
SANDS OF
INTO

Washington -(CNS) Complaints
by the thousands are pouring into the
Departments here in relation to the
working of the AAA, NRA, FERA,
as they relate to Negroes throughout
the country. The White House alone
is in receipt daily of several hundred
complaint letters from Negroes" ad-
dressed to the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Clark Forsman's recent newspaper
article NEGRO Seen AS Gamer in the
Recovery Deal" seems to have stir
red up many to state just how they
have been left out Of the new deal
picture
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
and the chance Of fatality was greater than in other

and the chance of fatality was greater than in other
types of accidents.
Pedestrians crossing in the middle Of the block
proved the most hazardous-that caused 81 per cent of
the fatalities. Careless walking on highways was re-
sponslble for Il per cent. Children playing in the street
came to Ii per cent. Walking out from behind parked
cars into traffic accounted for IL per cent, with the
balance OF 70 per cent laid to miscellaneous causes.
The careless pedestrian is a menace lust as is the
careless driver-buth he receives less attention. Crossing
against sgnals-playing hide and seek with parked
cars-walking along rural roads with his back to oncom-
ing traffic-these are some of the surest means of court
ing death. Think over your walking habits-and correct
them.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09
RECKLESS

RE you a safe walker? If you can't make and honest
"A answer in the affirmative your life and health is
literally in peril.
Last year neutrality-suspicious. collions accounted
Tor 81 per cent OF the foo'ovo accloents Wnlch occurred on
ing from accidents comprised 45 per cent of the total Of
1880 fatalities. In other words, pedestrians were in
volved in more than a third of al traffic misadventures
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09

Until private industry is made profitable and at
tractlve, and the rewards of success are made avaiTahIo
% business men, there can be no full recovery from the
epfeSslon."-Dav |. Walsh, United States Senator
from Massachusetts.
The Omaha guide., 1934-05-09

Hofer, acquired ownership of the
Daily Capital Journal, Salem Oregon.
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b 600 ATTEND
LAST RITES FOR
MONROE TROTTER

BOSTON, Mass Especially Ov-
er five thousand persons represent
ing every walk of life paid their
last tribute to william Monroe
Trotter at his funeral services held
at the Peoples Baptist Church on
Tuesday.
The Rev. David Klough official
ed, and was assisted by every min
lister in Greater Boston. The Rev.
Thomas S. Harten, of Brooklyn,
delivered the eulogy. Intermert
was in the family lot at Fairview
Cemetery.
A military guard of honor was
provided by the Massachusetts Ma
tional Guard. The police detail
consisted of motorcycle escort.
The body lay in state for five hours
and was viewed by ten thousand
persons.
The body of William Monroe
Trotter, 81, editor of the Boston
Guardian and secretary Of the Ma
tional Equal Rights League, was
found on the street in front of his
home at Al Cunard Street, Satur-
day morning at $50 after a plunge
from the roof of the three-story
building.
The report of DIR. Timothy o.
Leary. medical examiner, was that
the champion of race rights had
met his death by multiple injur-
les, including a crushed skull, as
the result Of a fan from a distance
of about Al feet"
While the coroner viewed Mr..
Trotter's death as an accident, Bos-
ton newspapers pointed out that
Mr.. Trotter had jumped from the
roof of his three-story residence.
Died on Birthday
The militant editor was born in
Springfield Township, Ohio. His
death occurred on his 62nd birth
day. He received his degree of A.
B. magma cum laude at Harvard In
the class of 1895, and a degree of
M. A. the following year. He wac
a Phi Beta Kappa man and recog-
nized as scholar.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
The War ON LYNcHlNo


NEW YORK Especial to Enter
prise)- The National Association
for the Advancement of colored
People was born out Of the despair
Of Negroes and the indignation Of
white people over the rising tide of
lynching. Following the fiendish
race riots in Springfield, Ill. Ia the
summer Of 1908, William English
Walling. noted white writer, said
in an article in the Independent
for September 3, entitled Race
War in the North"
Either the spirit of the abolI-
tionists, of Lincoln and Lovejoy
must be revived and we must come
to treat the Negro on a plane of
absolute political and social equal
ity, or Vardaman and Tillman will
soon have transferred the race war
to the North The spirit of the
abolitionists must be revived"
Accordingly, Walling. a southern
white man, Or. Henry Moskowitz
and Mary White Ovington, with
others. met in a small New York
City apartment in the first week
Of 1909, and called a national con-
ference for Lincolns birthday, at
which time the mounting evils of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Negro Followers
Resent Closing Of
islam College"
COLORED NURSE
BITTEN BY CHILD
GETS THOUSAND

NEW oRLEANs-(cNs) -
Mrf. Addie johnson, a nurse of
tbs city, has been awarded ST.
600 as damages, in suit ag-
aInst the parents of little Eve
Camille Butterworth, aged s,
who she charged bit her on the
arm.
Circuit Judge Janvier, who
handed down the decision, made
the following comment on his
ruling:
Domestic animals are pre-
sumed to be gentle and harm
less until the contrary is made
to appear, whereas what seems
to be a contrary rule with ref
erence to children may be bas-
ed on the conclusion to which
some of US have come, that, as
a matter OF fact, all small chill
dren are potential sources of
danger. Parents who desire to
enjoy the blessings Of the pat
ter of little feet must be respon-
sible for the damage done by
little hands, 6r As IN this case
by little teeth"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
TOLICE UNABLE
TO COPE WIN
LITTLE JOSIE

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ANP)
The Kansas City police de-
partment Is supposed to be
equipped to meet all sorts of
emergencies, but one arose here
which policemen were unable to
cope with.
Santa Monica California; po-
Ilcemen had asked Kansas City
police to "pick up" one, Joseph
Inc Kline, 81, for questioning in
connection with an automobile
she had borrowed"
TWO detectives essayed to o.
hey the order. but soon return
cd, stating that they had found
the object Of their quest, but
had not been able to bring her
to headquarters. The two de-
tectlves told the lieutenant. be-
fore he could frame his usual
stern reprlmand for their fail
ure to carry out his orders, they
would have brought In the Jo-
sephine Kline but she was
''too large to get into their car"
Soon in walked Josephine in
person as the lieutenant sat at
his desk, weighing, as she did,
a little more than 500 pounds.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
LAWYERS DEFEAT
HOTEL EXCLUSION

NEW YORK = Efforts on the
part of the clerk of large down
town hotel here to exclude c. Fran
els Stratford of Chicago and Jesse
S. Heslip of Toledo, member of the
legal staff of the N.A.A.CP., were
foiled last Thursday.
Told that the hotel was filled
when they applied for their rooms,
earlier reserved by phone, they
called Walter White, N. A. A. c. p.
secretary, who arranged for a
white lawyer to go to the hotel for
a room.
When The white attorney was
promptly given a room, Messrs.
Stratford and Heslip again deman-
ded their reservations and were ac-
commodated.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Negro Doctor Battles Leprosy,
EIephantiasis in French Guiana

admits that he likes 1t.
For the past two years he's been
nosing around in ratty little hos
pitfalls and poor houses, deeply
STEPPED in despair. He's jumped
where excitement promised but is
getting bit weary of all that now.
For instance, when Colombia and
Peru had recent war which made
the rest of us yawn and turn to
the sport page, DR.. Williams was
high up the Amazon, spying on the
sex life of maggot and tape worm,
of all things. He thought one war
ing side or the other might want
spare surgeon, and since he's
had lots of experience sewing up
emergency cases at Royal Victoria
Hospital, Montreal, he got an air
plane and zoomed off for war.
Gets Gold Braid
The Colombians promptly made
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
NAILS ORDER BAN
ON AFRICAN ART

BERLIN, Germany-The extent
to which Hitler and his Nazi fol-
lowers intend to ban Jews and col
ored people was demonstrated last
week when Coburg officials order
ed all manifestations of African
art removed from public buildings
within seven days.
AS a result Of this order, work.
men started Immediately to alter
the municipal coat-of-arms which
featured the head of a colored man
and is therefore not considered to
be in keeping with the new "racial
ideals" policy.
TO Design New Image
Nazi artists have been asked to
suggest new designs to take the
place of the African image in the
coat-of-arms.
Although Germany's merchants
are encouraged to carry on a pro-
fitable trade with West African
towns, her political leaders are
carrying on propaganda to bar all
colored peoples from Nazi-controll-
ed territory.
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ing picture house. They were not
expected to go to any Rollins col
lege performance. They could not
battle in any one of the % lakes,
not even in summer when the tour
lists were away. After $3.50, unless
they were working for the whites,
they must be on their side of the
railroad track. Their pay was We
ry small. A laundry that cost me
$1.30 when given out at the hotel,
cost thirty cents when given to a
colored woman who called for it
and returned it in "a hours. Few
had money to go to the larger city
Of Orlando. Their neighborhood is
dark at night There is good
feeling at Winter Park I. but the
Negro who did not keep his place
would destroy the social fabric
Negroes and New Deal in Dixie
Commenting on the workings of
the New Deal as she observed it
on her lengthy tour. Miss Ovington
declared: THE politicians are in
the first row, the poor whites in
the second, and the Negroes a good
bit back in the third line. Natur-
allv thew get what the others leave
and in many places, where the
whites are pretty hungry and need
work, the leavings are old clothes,
some food, little work. But where
the money is considerable, the Me-
gro may get good job. You see
them on the roads. two Negroes
languidly using shovel and two
white men lounging by them as
overseers."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Battering Barriers Of Prejudice
Stirring Chapters From the 25-Year History
OF the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People

Acknowledgement, segregation and
mob violence were discussed. With
the assistance of Oswald Garrison
Willard. then publisher of the New
York Evening Post. al lther con-
ference was arranged for May 81
June /. It was attended by 1000
people. A committee Of forty was
organized with Miss Frances Bias
coer (white) as secretary. During
that year four great mass meet
ings were held, thousands of pam
phlets distributed and hundreds of
members enrolled.
In May 1910, this committee be-
came the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, being joined by the Niagara
Movement. a Negro organization
formed in 1905. Moorfield Storey
Of Boston was chosen President;
william English Walling, chairman
of the executive committee; John
e. Milholland, treasurer; Oswald
Garrison Willard, disbursing treas
urer; Frances Blascoer, secretary;
and w. E. B. Dubois. director of
publicity and research. Offices
were opened in the Evening Post
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
1866 At SMOKER
IN ELKS HOME ARE
ARRESTED IN RAID

PHILADELPHIA-The showing
of an alleged obscene motion pic
ture, last Saturday night, at a
smoker" held at Quaker City
Elks Hall, resulted in a raid by the
vice squad.
Over a score of patrol wagons
were necessary to convey the mem
bers and friends of the lodge to
the goth and Fitzwater Streets po-
lice station, where Magistrate Ed
ward w. Henry, awakened from
his sleep at his home nearby, held
emergency court and discharged
all but three of those arrested.
Wholesale Arrests Scored
In discharging those caught in
the police net, Magistrate Henry
scored the police because of what
he considered wholesale arrests
without sufficient justification.
Police said Girls in Apartment
49," Fighting for Pleasure" and
Hunters Social Club" were three
of the titles of pictures, Mary Doc
little was the star in the last
named picture.
Scantily Clad
The characters of the sexy pic
lures, police said, showed activities
of fairies, and homosexualists
among men and women.
Aside from Selling the films and
motion picture projecting machine,
the police confiscated five slot ma
chimes, operation of which are il
legal here. The slot machines,
not being operated at the time the
raid was made, were located on the
third floor of the place, in the grill
room.
Marques Absent
John M. Marques, exalted ruler
of the lodge, was not on the prem
ises when the raid was made, ac-
cording to members of the lodge.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Special for Cooperative Negro
Press by Gordon Sinclair

Because 30 percent of the black,
yellow and chocolate brown home
towners of French Guiana have I8
percent leprosy and have its twin
horror, elephantiasis, the feyer-in-
tested interior of this Land of Do
Without" viii soon have a Canad-
ian public health officer.
He's black DR.. Charles williams,
who was graduated from McGill
in 1881 with two degrees, a three
year scholarship emitting him to
explore the tropics for the bad
bugs that some day get us ell, and
deep curiosity about that awful
swelling that makes men and wo-
men look like punctured balloons.
He Likes II
DR.. Williams, during his three
years, has spied out the Equatorial
belt line from Brazil to Bangkok
and from Bolivia to Bombay. He
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Fight Closed Shop

AS STRANGE as it seems the
colored worker gets a better deal
from capital than he gets from la
Dor
The Wagner bill now before Con-
gress has as its primary purpose
the advancement Of labor Of all
classes. It's chief sponsor, Senator
Wagner, is one of the best friends
Of the Negro in public life.
The bill gives organized labor,
which often means the American
Federation Of Labor, the exclusive
right of collective bargaining and
control In all issues arising be-
tween capital and labor. Many,
who interpret the meaning of the
bill, think it means that all indus
try viii be forced to employ only
union labor That is the meaning
Of the CLOSED shop
THE FACTS show that there are
many unions that either by their
laws or customs refuse member
ship to colored workers Now if
only union men can work and col
ored citizens can not Jc.a. how can
they get employment
The open shops, using both I'M
ion and non-union workers, employ
more colored people than the clos-
ed shop. Unless the Wagner Bill
is amended to force the unions TO
admit all workers to membership,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
THE STARS, Where They Are

Glenn and Jenkins doing their
working for the railroad dance
skit at the Lafayette Theatre in
Harlem, this week.
Jules Bledsoe, noted baritone, is
singing the title role of the grand
opera THE Emperor Jones" now
touring Holland.
The Southernaires, nationally
known radio and concert quartette
at Tindley Temple, Philadelphia,
this week.
Thorton Lewis Evans, baritone,
feature at the Paramount Theatre,
Seattle, this week singing Wagon
Wheel"
Teddy Hill and Band and stage
show headed by Virginia Ray az
Lincoln Theatre, Philadelphia, this
week.
Jelly Beans Johnson, premier CO.
median, is star and producer of
floor show at Harlem Mite Club in
Seattle.
The theatrical world was shock
ed last week with news of the fat
al accident to Hurl Nay and Harry
Nay, famous Nay Brothers dance
team, killed in an auto and train
collision at Flint, Mich.
Danny and Edith Brown dancing
team feature at the Orpheum The
atre in Long Beach, Calf.
Clarence Robinson's "Jazzmania'
featuring Four Flash Devils, San
dy Pdrns, ], clie Mabley, Ralph
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-04-19
Scottsboro Youth
dam Tired OF 1t"

BIRMINGHAM, - After three
weeks in solitary confinement af-
ter a fight with another prisoner,
one of the Scottsboro boys, Glen
Montgomery, in jefferson County
Jail here, writes that he is dam
tired of it.all."
"These dam people won't let us
do right" he writes. These people
don't believe in a dam thing but
framing and mistreating us"
"They framed me into this and
they are trying to kill me. They
wouldn't give me nothing to eat,
and I raised some hell he says.