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The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Underlying Causes Of Crime
Reprint From The Omaha Bee
we are determined to continue the campaign and get at the
UNDERLYING CAUSES of crime"

we are determined to continue the campaign and get at the
UNDERLYING CAUSES of crime
The foregoing sentence was uttered by Homer S. Cummings,
attorney general of the United States.
1t was prompted by the arrest in Chicago OF a lawyer, a for
mer prosecutor, accused by federal investigators Of harboring the
Dlhnger gang,even to the extent of providing office seclusion in
which robberieS were planned
A grand jury has been impaneled to examine the substance
of the charge. Pending court action, comment on the case in ques
ton would be out Of place.
Right now the important fact about the attorney generals dec
laration is that it evidently puts the federal government definite
" into action against the notorious alliances of criminals and criminal
lawyers and grating local politicians which are and have been
among the chief underlying causes of our era of violent crime and
racketeerng.
We will seize those who PROFIT BY CRIME without tax
ing any risks. =
Insofar as it goes-and may it 60 far, indeed-the federal
campaign meets a demand for law enforcement By LAW ENFORCE
MENT OFFICIALS which the Hearst newspapers have been max
ing insistently for month and years.
AS the public very well knows, public officials everywhere
have been prone to offer excuses for NOT ENFORCING the law,
instead Of ENFORCING 1T.
Crime conditions, we were told by men in official life, were
'tdue to the indifference of the American people
Gangsters and blackmaiers could not be prosecuted because
'terrorized Witnesses would not testify.
In a signed editorial published on Sept. 2, 1888, William Ran
dolph Hearst pointed out plainly the speciousness Of these pleas
Mr.. Heart wrote:
Existing criminal conditions are NOT due to the indiffer
ence Of the American people. They are due to the ineffiGency of
American government
In this connection, a phase of the attorney generals campaign
is to be a series of crime conferences in Warrington in December
IN order to gain the confidence ad cooperation of the public in
the war on crime. Mr.. Cummings explained:
q hearings Will be open to the public. To the hearings we
shall mvn neaos OF metropolitan police departments. UNIVERSITY
men interested in criminoogy, heads of all government aoenc;es
oeanng Win CRIME and all others who we think may aid
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK.
from the ristoI Tenn Herald Cur
Ter, August Is, 1891
TWO NOPE TXNruTNcc
TWO MORE LYNCHTNGS

There has been a double lynching
in Benton County, Mississippi. The
outrage was perpetrated by two sep
arate mobs but the victims were
hanged to the same tree. Both were
Negroes who were accused OF the MUIR
der OF a white man more b a year
ag,.
he trial OF the two Negroes was I
awe stared Monday in Circuit Court
at Ashland. They had been confined
in different jails in other parts Of he
country and officers we're taking
a. Il. TO Ashland. In each case the
cficers were stopped BY 4 dozen or
moAa masked men. the prisoners were
seized and the mobs- came togethe-
and put Them to death.
For these lynchings. As for all others
ers there was no defense or excuse.
TIE Negroes were in the hands Of the
law and on their way to court. If they
wele guilty, there could have been no
doubt as to the fate that was in sore
for them. If they were no guilty,
they had as much rigi,; to live as 9th
er Innocent men.
ri sheriff says he is going to do
hi: best to find the guilty parties ana
tie District Attorney gays he il going
to see that a rigid investigation is
made. These statements sound faal-
iliar. Two more accused persons have
heen deprived Of life without due pro
cess of law, in violation of all the
principles of justice and Of M Am.
e. ican Constitution, and il may lie too
much to hope tina sometE ing w:n be
done about it.
That is why Congress viii yet, and
probably at an early day, nae a
Federal anti-lynching law. 1t is pro-
tested that such legislation would in
firing on State rights. But States have
no right to bow to mob rule and if they
and their Governors are so strongly
against a Federal law designed to pre-
ven and to punish mob murders they
can make it unnecessary as well az I'M
desirable.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
SHOULD strikers SHARE
RELIEF
r. A. ADAMS
(for The Literary Service Bureau)

Thousands Of mel have given UP
work and gone out on a strike.
Now comes the question as to wheth-
en- or not they are entitled to share
emergency relief. There are two
sides to- this question. stJme who
Whate'er may be your pain or loss;
are in sympathy with the strikers
contend that they are forced to do
this, hence, they should have support
while they fight against unjust cap
italism- But this view seems I'm.
reasonable.
The other view, and the more log
ical one, is that since these people
deliberately give up the employment
which affordd them a living, it
would be manifestly wrong to take
money from the taxpayers of the ma
ton tc support them while in idle
ness.
These capitalists are citizens.
lhey art large property holders
They pay heavy income taxes, prop
erty taxes and taxes for the privil-
eye of conducting their business.
Should the money Of these industrial
lists go to support the men who are
fighting them? Should they be re-
quired to maintain men who force
the closing Of their industries and
the cessation Of their revenue, and
who will not hesitate TO commit ar
son, sabotage and even murder, to
accomplish their ends?
1t seems unreasonable and unjust
to impose on these citizens and sup
porters Of the nation. If the direc-
tors of relief compel this injustice
they will do ST in the interest Of pol
itics and against the principles of
justice and equity.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
EDITORIAL or The WEEK
(From the Bristol, Va. HEARD
Courier" September 2, 1884
Another Closed Lynching Incident

A recent dispatch from Nashville
carried the d-iscouraging information
that the Davidson County Grand Jury
had reported a mo true bill" follow
ing its Investigation of the kidnap-
ping and lynching Of Cordie Cheek,
young Negro whose body was found
hanging from a tree n Morgan County
last December. IN other words, the
Grand Jury failed to indict any person
in connection with that lynching. This
probably closed the incident.
The time of which this Negro was
accused was an attempted attack on
a white girl in Maury County. The
Grand Jury Of that county, after in
curing into the charge, declined to
indict Cheek and he was released
from jail at Nashville, where he had
been sent pending the investigation.
But that might or the night following
was done to death by a mob. The
Davidson County Grand Jury investi-
gated the case because it was report
ed that Cheek was abducted from a
home in that county.
The lynching Of Cheek under any
circumstances would have been a law
less and indefensible act. His lynch
ng after a Grand Jury had failed to
indict hing vas an outrage which
stirred the Indignation of all right
thinking people, including Governor
McAlister and other responsible au-
theories who announced that every eff
fort would be made to apprehend the
members of the mob and bring them
to account. Doubtless those efforts
were made, but it now appears that
this is another lynching for which no
me will be punished.
Thus is presented one more argu-
ment for the enactment of the Fed
raj anti-lynching bill now pending in
Congress. The was offered
because lynching mobs long had oper-
sted with impunity, and it will be
passed because mobs continue to OPP
crate with impunity. After its enact
ment mob murder will become more
hazardous. Were this bill now a law
the members Of the mob that lynched
Cordie Cheek probably would be
found.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22

"Well, whatever happens I am set l
bought the farm the other day so
that ii things smash completely /
can raise potatoes and turnips and at
least eat" That is the amount of
confidence that he has in the reform
ed capitalism which he was defend
ing so delligerently.
The simple fact is that the pre-
sent order is washed up. There is
no possible way for the p~resent-rul-
ers to maintain their power short of
dictatorship and capitalist dictator
slip means Fascism. And Fascism
doesn't mean fundamentally jew
batting Black or Brown Shirts, cas-
tor oil and all the rest of the silly
business that we read about in the
papers as bad IS those secondary
characteristics certainly are. 1t means
the limiting Of production by the
owners of the machines and the star
walton Of the great masses Of the
people in order that their proftsys-
TEN may be maintained a while long
Ell. It means even worse than that
it means War for part Of their pro-
gram is to seek expert markets for
the goods denied the starving mit-
lions.
Economically we have the begin
ming of Fascism here in the United
States. Codes are limiting produc-
ton and the government is ordering
the farmers ia burn theeir wheat,
plow under their cotton, and kill their
little pigs. Why? Because people
have no need of these things? Not
people in order that their profit sys-
tenn can be maintained only if there
is a scariity Of goods, and the mas
tiers are determined that there shall
be profits ever if it means starvation
and misery for the vast majority
We are suckers If we allow them
to get away with it, and by "we" I
mean everyone. for all but the very
few on top are going to suffer more
and more as this thing develops. It
means, first of all, starvation. Ut
means further the suppression of all
liberties and the enslavement Of man
kind. The churches will become the
handmade of the state, just as they
have been made to buckle under in
the Fascist countries of Europe. All
who prize religious freedom must OPP
pose Fascism. Educators are enslav-
ed-witness what has happened to
them in Germany and Italy. Trade
Unions will be put out of business.
Civil liberties will most certainly be
ruthlessly denied, with anyone dar-
ing to express an opinion displeasing
to the masters either killed or thrown
into a concentration camp or prison.
All of us-Christians, Jews, Athe-
lists, Conservatives, Liberals and Rad
icals-must fight this thing before it
developes any further. The way to
fight it is, first of all to understand
the economic forces that are driving
US rapidly in that direction. The only
ultimate escape, | believe, is into a
new social order. There we will find
not starvation but plenty for all;
not dread Of restitution in old age
but the assurance of security; not
the denial Of all that makes life worth
the living but the releasing of pow
r in man that makes for the free
and abundant life.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
PLAIN TALK ON WAR AND
FASClSM
BY WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD
Editor of The Witness, Episcopal
Church Weekly : Secretary of the
Church League for Industrial Demo
crazy

A lot of smart people are writing
these days on the Choice Before Us.
but it seems to me that few of them
get down to brass tacks. They all
know that the world is in a mess and
that changes are inevitable. But
most of them are looking for an easy
way out.
As a well-known writer said, peo-
pie are willing to do anything for
the workers but get off their backs.
So toray we find mild reforms advo-
Gated by all sorts Of people 1 was
talking with one of them the other
day. He was arguing his head off
about the permanence of the present
economic order, slightly reformed:
but ended the convention BY saving
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Proverbs AND PARALLELS
Taking the win for fhe Deed.
by A. B. MANN
(For the Literary Service Bureau

(For the Literary Service. Bureau)
Frequently is this axiom glibily
quoted and very often misapplied. Tt
means that if an individual desires
to do a thing worthwhile, perform a
noble deed or render a needed serv-
ice, and is hindered because Of in
superable difficulties, he SHOULD be
given the same credit as if he had
accomplish what he wilIed to do.
But it is 2 misapplicaiion to use this
maxim to excuse incidence and neg
ligence-
The saying is honestly used only
when a person has striver earnestly
and found it j4lross' lie t, accomp-
lish what Was desired AID what was
viii A in such a ease and from an
etl-cal point of view, the individual
il entitled to the sra credit as if
the deed had been performed.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
DARING DEATH IN MOTOR CARS
BY r. A. Adams

(For The Literary Service Bureau)
They are spooning. They were in
a motor a r 1t was night. The car
was parked on Highway 40, the most
dangerous highway in America, and
the lights were out. The car was
not far down the hill. Another car
dashed down the hill at fifty miles
an hour and crashed into the rear
of the parker car. 1t was thrown in
to a ditch and caught. fire.
The spooners were crushed,
mangIed and burned. Both are
dead, and the young people in the
death car will never forget their ex-
~periences as they struggled to re-
lease the boy and girl from the burn
ing ear.
When those young people parked
their car on the highway and turned
off the lights, they were daring
death and thousands do this almost
every day. Driving while under in
fuence Of rum, driving with one hand
on the wheel and the other arm
around a girl, driving at reckless
speed, passing cars on grades, driv-
ing with defective steering gears and
defective brakes racing when it is
raining and the road is slippery, all
are different phases of the folly Of
daring death in motor cars. But
death will not always take the dare,
as the daily records show.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Small Hope for Wills Hope

WHILE FLYING OVER HOOVER DAM ON A
RECENT AIR TRIP FROM CHICAGO TO THE COAST
WILL OGERS DROPPED OFF HISS DAILY MES
TO NEWSPAPERS. ONE OF HIS REMARKS
WAS:
Hope THEY DONT IRRIGATE MORE
AND SO THEY A RAISE MORE THINGS THEY
CAN'T eli M WILL HAVE TO Pillow UP MORE
ROWS, KILL MORE PIGS TO KEEP EN- FROM BE-
COMIN HOGS"
OUR POLITICIANS STILL TALK LIBLY OF
POURING NEW MILLION INTO
HEN TO AXE MORE FARMS I OF WASTE
LAND IN DESERTS. THUS BOOSTING OVER-PRO-
DUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS, WHICH AN
OTHER GROUP OF POLITICIANS WILL EXPECT
THE TAXPAYERS TO A FOR, TO BRING ABOUT
FARM RELIEF.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, Sept. %, 1884

There can be no quarrel with this idea, so long as the govern
ment's campaign does not BREAK DOWN into a series Of mere
conferences. For conferences are necessary to arouse the public.
AS Mr.. Hearst said in his editorial:
THE American public is SUFFICIENTLY AROUSED over
the criminal situation. There is NOW a strong public sentiment over
THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE THE LAW"
Uniting federal, state and local agencies behind aggressive law
enforcement efforts on a nation wide scale will be constructive action
But the federal government must continue in the role of leader
ship, and the federal government is ON THE RIGHT TRACK IN
running down not only Criminals, but also the respectable" allies
of criminals.
Very lately, the bar associations have shown some disposition
to aid in riding the legal profession Of lawyercrlmmais.
The government should hold them to this duty
And also, when ferretng out for punishment the LAWYER
FRIENDS Of chronic crooks, let the government not overlook the
other underlying cause of crime-the PREDATORY LOCAL
POLITICIANS. III office and cut, without whose protection and
connivanee few if any of our criminal rackets could either exist o.
continue.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
Seven

ed and deputized. In Rhode
Island and many other states,
National Guardsmen were called
out to aid the police, and federal
troops are called as a last resort
So large groups of strikers, un-
armed, peaceful ill intent, but de-
termined to demontrate the pow
err Of their numbers in bringing
out their fellows on strike, sud-
denly find them selves confront
ed with formidable armed forces.
Who fires the first shot or the
strikers the first blowg Seldom,
if ever, il it the strikers or the
unemployed. for the gun-power is
all on the other side.
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Usually the police, the troops
or the deputized company gun
men make some provocative move,
or some stoolpigeon makes 1t for
them. Then the slaughter begins
The workers have only rocks or
such other improvised weapons as
they can pick up to defend them
selves; the agents Of the rich have
rifles, machine guns, gas bombs
aHd every weapon OF modern war
fare, the bravery shown by I'M
armed workers is amazing. In
battle after battle, American
workers have refused to be cowed
into submission by almost over
whelming armed force.
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Where lies the erux Of the
whole question? Obviously in the
control or armed force. If the
strikers or the unemployed had
the guns, if the police, militia and
federal troops were on Their side,
there would be no bloodShed. The
supposed aw of democracy that
the will Of the majority should
prevail would take its natural
course. But it is precisely the
fear that the majority would have
their way if undeterred by VIC
lence, that drives the rich pane
stricken to bloody suppression Of
the aroused masses.
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Which side controls the armed
forces?No theoretical arguments
are needed to answer this ques-
ton. Every shooting, every kill
ing, every battle Of every strike
or demonstration shows police,
deputies, state militia, federal
troops in action against labor.
That s why hardened reporters
gasped with surprise when L. T.
w. leaders in Washington sug-
gested that the president call out
federal troops OH the side Of the
strikers. 1t sounded completely
absurd to them. And the next
day the same strike leaders were
having to protest that federal
arms were being used against the
strikers by National Guardsmen,
and having to place the final re-
sponSibiIity directly on the federal
authorities.
Federal responsibility was adj
mitted in 1929 by the legal div
isiOn Of the U. S. War Dept. After
protest from the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor against state
militia attacks OH Elizabethton,
Tenn, strikers, t advised Sec. Of
War Good that federal arms and
equi pment should only be used
when state militia were acting as
national guards and not as state
police.
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And ironically enough, a few
days after u. It. w. eaders had
suggested use Of fedora troops,
these troops were in fact mobiliz-
ed for call to Rhode Island, but
at the instigation Of mill owners
had not at labor request nor for
5 on labor's side.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
WINGS
Over WASHINGTON
BY Len De Caux
Federated Press

WAsHINGTGON-(FP - The
next time you read the newspaper
jargon about "sttikers breaking
into a riot" just stop and check
up. What is this "rioting" that
fills the papers7 What causes it?
Who killed and how does it hap
pen?
Take the textile strike. Twelve
persons killed in less than two
weeks and many more injured in
many street battles. Who are
they? All but one or two are
strikers or strike sympathizers.
How are they killed? Nearly all
are shot in the back. Who does
the killing? Company gunner
(deputized and armed to break
up picketing), police or National
Guardsmen.
How does 1t all start7 To read
the accounts in newspapers which
dare not offend rich advertisers
and owners, oe mightn imagine
that the strikers suddenly "break
into a riot by running backwards
into the bullets and bayonets of
the "DreSerVerS Of Deace
What actually happens? Any
conscientious reporter who has
covered a number Of such "labor.
riots whether they involve.
strikers, demonstrating unem-
ployed, farmers or any other
under-dogs, will recognize that
most of them follow a certain
pattern.
On the one side, in nearly every
case, r the rich and powerful,
weak in numbers but mighty in
the armed resources that money
power places at their disposal. On
the other side are the poor,
without arms, without money and
political power, but mighty in
numbers and in an aroused sense
OF burning resentment.
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How do these two forces come
to clash? The poor seek to mobil-
ize their chief weapon, the power
Of numbers and solidarity, in self
defense against oppression
whether this take the form of
low wages, inadequate relief OF
what not). They 60 on strike,
they picket, they meet in mass
demonstrations.
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Immediately the rich are panic
stricken. They call upon all the
political power and armed force
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22

And ironically enough, a few
days after U. T. w. eaders had
suggested use Of fedora troops,
these troops were in fact mobiliz-
ed for call to Rhode Island, but
at the instigation Of mill owners
had not at labor request nor for
use on labor's side.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22

Immediately the rich are panic
stricken. They call upon all the
political power and armed force
which their money can command.
AT Honea Path, s. O., the mill
owners had strikebreakers arm
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-29
Bison Lodge U.B.F.
Suspended By Grand
Lodge Head

Like a great thunderbolt from a
clear sky was the surprise when it
was learned that Bison Lodge No.
158 of the U. B. F. had been sus-
pended by the National Deputy
Grand Master, Daniel L. H. West,
Bison is the oldest lodge of U. B. F..
in the northwest and it's suspension
was great surprise to all.
A representative of this paper
sought to learn why the suspension
was issued but was told by officers
of the lodge that it had been ex-
pected that the present deputy
would take some action against BIZ
son, but not so sudden. Mr.. West
refused to comment on the matter
other than he had issued the notice
of suspension September 26, under
Article /, Section and 8 of the
National Grand Lodge Laws. And
that Bison had refused to pay its
grand lodge tax, and that he had
taken their charter and seal. West
is also the Master of Bison. The
action of Grand Deputy Master
leaves only one lodge in Minnesota,
Minnetonka No. 159. Mr.. West is
also over the S. M. T. Temples of
this state.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-29

BORDER NJ. E. CHURCH
9Th and Lyndale Ave. No.
Rev. F. C. WALKER, Pasor.