The Omaha guide., 1935-02-09

the most illogical, debasing, falsif ing
and an~tagenistic attempts at a sensi-
BILE answer to several facts e~xpounded
by this writer against one J. Harvey
Kerns and "The Petersen's Bakery.
Kern's answer mostly delved into per-
sonalities and not facts in this writ
ers accusations which dealt, principal
ly, with the part this gentleman"
played in the celebrated "Petersen's
Dinner for the Colored Old Folks. 1t
seemed that in Mr.. Kerns' sensation
al reply, he falsiied by setting up a
FALSE ALIBI to clear himself!
Kerns forgot to stick to the points at
issue.
This writer has tried to imagine,
but has been sadly disappointed, that
Mr.. Kerns was even a semi-civilized
person, and has finally discovered that
the Urban League Secretary,s reac-
tons or responses to certain stimuli
are more reminiscent Of the 9Th grade
rural ALBANIAN rather than that of
the suave and scholarly Urbanite.
Kerns finds no competent arguments
to rebut the facts which were written
in the Jan. 4th., issue Of "The Omaha
Chronicle, 50, he chose the alterna-
tive Of what we employ in scholastic
debate as REDUCTIO AID ABSUR-
DUN. which means Ito reduce to the
lowest degree of absurdity).
This writer's opponent finds time,
also, even in the beginning Of his
fiimsy answer, to jest by calling
'The Omaha Chronicle" the little
sheet which appears occasionally, but
though he erred not in SO designating
It's actual size, he failed to realize
that its not the size Of a Journal that
counts, but on the contrary its the
quality Of material used which makes
for either it's progress or failure.
The Urban League Secretary, when
"h:t'', did the thing that most FOOLS
do when the truth is told about them;
they seek to cover up behind a smoke
screen of FALSE ALIBIS and fight
back in their mentalla feeble manner
Men Of Kerns' calibre, when under
fire, CHIDE THE TRUTH!
This individual tells us that "The
Urban League" assisted the Peter
sens Bakery in the dinner service
for the "Old Folks. True enough,
but in the beginning, it was another
party who, it is said, was asked to as
sist the bakery in said service-a Mrs.
Borders living at 1922 N. 25th St.,
Omaha, and NOT Kerns! But some
how, Kerns "STOLE THE SHOW"
from Mrs. Borders and her associates!
We frown upon Kerns' statement in
the second paragraph of his grotesque
|'answer" when he said that Mrs.
Petersen did so because it has always
been the policy of this organization TO
assist in a worthwhile effort. Such
"tommy-rot" from Kerns is unbeliev-
ablel Mrs. Petersen has NEVER
lone this type Of charity for Negroes
before to our knowledge; she gave this
dinner because she was losing Negro
business and desired to gain good
viii, so she used Mr.. Judas" to pull
her "chestnuts out Of the fire..
The egotistic gentleman" speaks
indulgently and "deplores the poorly
written and burlesque articles" from
the pen of this writer. Incidentally,
Kerns has forgotten how he has, up
on numerous occasions, praised the
"Chronicle" on its fine brand and pro-
gressive piece of Journalism. If the
gentleman" has forgotten so soon, we
admonish him to think back on the
occasion of the birthday banquet" of
"The Omaha Chronicle" on Sept. 9th,
1884 when he made quite an impress
sive talk on the program with emmi-
nent journalists such as Ballard Dunn,
Editor of The Omaha Journal and
Dwight Griswold, Editor Of The Cor
don Journal on behalf Of this papers
progress. This writer remembers, YER
batum, the above quoted portion Of
this certain stool Of the classes. We
are not sure that the public takes our
articles as a "joke" as kerns infers,
for they continue to call our office
when there's the least doubt in their
minds that our paper would Issue up
on the regular date; the businessmen
also, continue to advertise in same,
and Kerns, evidently, is kidding him
self for if he considered the paper as
a "joke", he would have refrained
from answering this writer's attack!
Kerns makes much ado about
nothing, and goes so far as to call
this writer ignorant. To this, we
reply that if Mr.. Kerns were truly in
telligent, he would never have 'lost
his head when he was criticized by
this writer. To the contrary, he would
have read with imperturbable uav
ity, kept his mouth closed and deemed
the aforementioned "burlesque" un-
worthy of a reply.
We agree with Kerns "that the Ne