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La gaceta., 1935-01-23
GHUNGAS Y NO CHUNGAS
Sc inmuniza wvgga la Viruela, pero no contra la
Difteria.-ze,G00 doodle dias persdidos.-
Aumentaron los alauileres.

Ell DR.. Hopkins, del departa-
mento de sanid5d municipal, Sc
T., extraha de que ia poblaci6n la
tina acepte la vacuna de la Vi
ruela, como medida preventive,
Y en- cambio rechace ell suefo pre-
ventivo contra la aifteria.
Aqui tuvimos 500 casos de Vi
ruela, hace algunos anos-nos
dijo aver csc medico-y solo 3
cayeron en- la poblaci6n latina.
lPor que no fue mayor Ell MI
nero de atacados en- los barrioS
latinos? La ex~plicaci6n es que
los padres latinos, con muy po-
cas- excepciones, acostumbran a
vacunar a sus hijos para prote-
gerlos de la terrible enferme :
dad.
Pero ell ano pasado correspon
do a la poblacion latina, por
descuido, ell $3.50 de los casos de
difteria, 10 que indica que no Sc
inyecta a los ninos ell suero con
ira la peligrosa enfermedad.
Suficiente precauci6n, la jus
ia, en- contra de la viruela que
afea la cara y quebranta Ell or
ganismo; cast ninguna precau-
ci6n para evitar que las criatu-
ras caigan en- las garas de la IL
foide9.
La estadistica de 1888, en- 10
que a la difteria Sc refiere, es
algo asi como un "borr6n" en- la
plana sanitaria y social de Gu
banos, espanoles e i~talianos.
81 los padres inmunizan a sas
hijos contra la viruela, Gpor
que no reconocen la convenlen-
cia de inmunizarlos contra la
difteria?
Los medicos de la municipal
lidad, en- los lugares por eilos
senalados, %inyectan, completa :
mente gratis, ell suero inmuniza
dor contra esa enfermedad, no
menos implacable que la viruela.
Eso3 medicos abrieron una
clfnica para los ninos america
nos Y mas de 5000 fueron in :
y~ectados, sin que sufrieran mo-
lestias de Importance. Los pa :
dres latinos que llevaron a sus
hijos no pasaron de tres doce-
mas.
iCual es la causa de que sin
tenor Sc vacune al nino para
resguardarlo de la viruela y, sin
embargo, no Sc lie llev6 a inyec-
tar para inmunizarlo de la diff
terra?
Una labor de educaci6n debe
realizarse y hemos ofrecido
nuestro modesto concurso.
Asf como Sc inmuniza al nino
contra la viruela, por medic de
la vacuna, Sc lie debe p%roteger
de la difteria por medic del sue
70 que los dcctores de la NUM-
cipalidad inyectan de gratis.
Ell DR.. Hopkins asegura, 10
mismo que ell DR.. Bartlett, que
ell suero inmunizadOr no hace
peligrar la salud de los mines.
lilo que pone en- peligro la vi
da de los ninos es no inmunizar
los, porque pueden enfermarse
de la difteria y entonces los pa
dres pasan dias muy angustio-
SOS V deSagradables!
La gaceta., 1935-01-23
CUBA AL Ola

Varios individuos armados destrozaron la Esta-
.cion de Radio CMBX, en- la calle de San Miguel.
Ell nuevo Alcalde de la Habana nombro a SUI
Rermano Secretario de la Administracio NUM-
cipal.-La madre de Pepito Azcue agredio en- la
Audiencia al matador de su hijo
La gaceta., 1935-01-23

4 ~ NASAA ' 49,
carga y varioS proyectiles atra.
vesaron la puerta y fueron a
: dar en- ell moStrador. Segun sc
Suro luego, un captain, ell senor
Lechuga, lego embellishments
: CRITIC alto Ell fuego" e impidi(
que les soldados asaltaran ell es
r tablecimiento. Engracia tiene
1 hijos, ell mayor de 8 amos.
Los del tercio y r~egaldres dSe-
+, sindn y roban a ma tamilia CT
no estdbIecimiientO hAbid Sido
s0Queado por los rebeIdes
En- la casa llamada de Jose
Matias, me entreviSte con Ma
ria Garcia Fernandez, viuda de
Jose Vill9nueva y Enrique Ur-
dangaray, viuda de Jose Fer :
nandez. De boca de ambas escu-
che 10 que voy a referir:.
Jose Villanueva era labra :
dor y la familia viva con cierta
holgura y Jose Fernandez, CO.
merciante con establecimiento
de ultramarinos, situado frente
a la casa del anterior. Hacia pc
cos meses Sc habia caSado con
Enriqueta. Ell matrimonio Villa
nueva tenia un hiJo de Ia amos,
llamad0 TOmasin, que curSaba
sus estudios EN- ell Liceo Asturia
no. Fernandez y su esposa, asal-
tado ell concrete por los revolu-
cionarios, h3bianse trasladado
al domicilio de Villanueva. El
IL de octubre, viernes, sobre las
cinco menos cuarto de la tarde
llamaron a la puerta numerosas
fuerzas de regulares y del ter
Icio. Fue a abrir Villanueva sc :
guido de cerca y por ell orden
que Sc indica, de Fernandez, las
dos mujeres Y ell nino, cuya ma
Dire 10 escondi6 en- un rinc0n del
zaguan. Franqueada la puerta
Sc Crden6 que salieran los hom-
bres. Asi 10 hicieron y tras de
ellos las mujeres, una de las cua
les arrodillada suplicaba que no
les llevaran y decia que eran
inocentes. Ell nino, asustado, sa
lilo de su escondite y fue deteni-
do con los dos hombres. A las
mujeres Sc les orden6 que entra
sen en- casa Y cerrasen puertas
~ ventanas. A pesar de esta or
den subieron al piso y Maria
Garcia miro a la Gale por una
ventanilla de CRYSTAL. Tn trio a.
traves6 ell CRYSTAL Y la bala di6
en- la pared de enfrente. No obs
tante Maria presa de la natu-
raj ansiedad, sigui6 miranda y
VIC que los tres detenidos eran
maniatados y conducidos detras
de la casa dc Fernandez. ALI ca
yeron muertos. No pudieron ser
I~enterrados h9sta ell sabado por
la manana y fueron Vistos por
todos los vecinos. FL padre y ell
Inino c0ntinuaban atados. A vi
llanueva lie quitaron mil pesetas
en- biIletes; al chico un reloj y a
Fernandez un anillo, un reloj,
un4 sortija de sello y cierto su-
ma de dinero que la viuda no
pudo precisar.
"Encarg6 al agente de vigi :
amelia, ID. Manuel Cabezas, ami
20 de la familia, que recogiera
os objetOs de r%eferencia y este
Ifuncionario comprob6 que no a.
parecierOn al registrar ell cada-
yer. Las respectivas esposas a.
seguraban que los muertos no
militaban en- partido politico al
gunO, nj figuraban en- socieda-
DIES obreras. En- la llamada
Quinta Herrera, pr6xima al lu-
gar indicado, fueron detenidos
un criado llamadO Vicente Y ell
encargado, anciano de unos 10
amos. Aparecieron muertos muy
cerca de los otrOs tres vecinOs.
(C0ntinpdrdl
La gaceta., 1935-01-23

BESIDE noviembre a diciembre
los precics de los alimentos de :
clinarcn en- un SO. Sobre las ci
fras de 1888 ell aumento de esos
.rrecios, en- 1884, es de 9.3 por
ciento, y 27.5 por ciento menos
que en- diciembre de 1929.
Los alquileres a|umentaron
en- un $50 desde noviembre a di
elevando ell nfvel gene
raj, en- relaci6n con 1888, en- un
$40, pero todavia 27.2 5 mas
bajos que en- noviembre de 1929
En- uno por ciento declinaron
las ropas de vestir desde no :
viembre a enero, manteniendo-
Sc en- 1884, apreciados en- con :
%.iunto, los precios de 1888.
La gaceta., 1935-01-23

Aumenta ell costo de la vida y
cuando ell obfAEo, en- mrchos lu-
cares, pide Sc > ayude a vivir
mej0r, con mas altos jorn3les,
Sc lie llama traidor a la causa
de la Republica y Sc lie persi :
que!
La huelga, con todas sus de-
sastrCsas consecuencias, cuando
es ogortuna y justa ayuda al
trabajador a mantener su "stan
dard" de vida, que todavia no
es 10 que debiera ser.
La gaceta., 1935-01-23

Mas de 2o,OA>OoO de dias
perdidos, bajo la fra aprecia :
cion de la estadistica!
Pyo no fueron perdidos, a
juicio de los trabajadores que
no tienen mas arma de defensa
que la nuelg3.
Esos 20 millones han signifi-
cado, en- muchos casos, mejores
condolences de vida y mas altos
jornales y sueldos para millones
de hombres Y mujeres.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Fair Dealings Essential

When times are normal, the mining industry
creates more than Four Thousand Million in new
wealth each year. 1t gives jobs to 100000 work
ers.
Its beneficial influence is fell. in every field Of
endeavor-farmers, stores, factories of all kinds,
are indirectly dependent on mining for the disposal
of a substantial percen, age of the things they make
and sell. x
Mining has been hit hard by the depression
and it has likewise been hit hard by unfriendly
legislation passed in various important mining
states. Our lawmakers are powerless to force up.
turn in demand for mine products-but they would
do well to remember that they can give mining a
chance to fight for its own survival by making tax
and regulatory laws fair and equitable.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
The Texas Vote Decision

The United States Sureme Court has said that
the Texas Democrats may bar Negroes from voting
i'll the Democratic primaries on the ground that the
Democratic party has a right to say who shall con-
Stitute its members. At first blush, this looks as
though the Negroes Of Texas are prevented from
voting in primarie operated by the Democratic
party.
But there is another view: The Supreme Court
has not said that Negroes in Texas cannot form a
party by what ever name, and define qualifications
for membership in that party. Perhaps the Negroes
of Texas should study the decision of the Supreme
Court, with a view to determining what Negroes
may do in Texas withou. Lelcnging to the Demo
cratic party.
the qualifications of it's members, the Negroes are
not prevented from doing the very same thing. The
decision Of the Supreme Court says so much-not
in direct language, but the inference is very clear
and plain. Of course, the Negroes will not organize
a party because that requires money and years Of
struggle, but the decision of the Supreme Court
leaves open to them that very privilege, they may
yet show both Democrats and Republicans that Ne
groes can vote in Texas or an any other State if and
when they set up their own party machinery.
If this should be done, and enough political
force is exerted, it will only be a question of years
before it will be economically unsound for the
Democrats or the Republicans to bar Negroes from
their primaries.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Leads By Doing

William Rickens, field secretary of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, who was the city's guest Wednesday, is a lead
er who sets the example himself.
Although he is devoting his life to the welfare
Of he Negro race, his activities and his influences
are such as to affect and benefit mankind in general
He belongs to all the people as did Booker T.
Washington and Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Mr.. Pickens talked to the Rotary Club Wednes-
day noon on Abraham Lincoln" 1t was a fitting
tribute and a graphic picture by one who has made
the study of 1.-The Great Emancipator'' a labor of
love.
AS a leader of his people Mr.. Pickens has at
tanned wide recognition in wiring, in speaking and
in putting his principals into action. The results OF
his labors have been practical as well as spiritual.
At present Mr.. Pickens is devoting his time and
energies to advancing the interests of the Costlgan-
Wagner bill which would make lynching a Federal
offense, a bill this newspaper has urged repeatedly.
The widespread effect of Federal authority in kid
mapping offenses seems to justify his confidence II
the measure both as preventive and punishment.
Mr.. Pickens is seeking support for the Costl-
gan bill by directing attention to it and by
orgazing the sentiment in its favor.
Those who heard Mr.. Pickens at the Rotary
Club at noon and at the First Presbyterian church
in the evening, were impressed by his personality
and by his intelligence, as well as by his able pres
en-. alton of the cause for which he is so earnestly
working.
AS has been said, he leads by not only showing
the way, but by tackling the task himself.
From the Youngstown, Ohio Telegram,
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Reflections on the Harlem "RiOt"

Now that the Harlem SO-called riot is some weeF
behind us, we can view the occurance with becom-
ing calmness. 1t was quite evidently a protes
against economic discrimination and Jim Crowism
on the part Of ~grasping merchants, who in far too
many colored communities are eager to take all and
leave nothing.
Nothing has been gained by this hooliganism and
vandalism, of course. No additional Negroes have
secured employment, and it is unlikely that such
tactics will be successful in getting additions jobs.
Nevertheless, the feeling Of the Negroes can be un-
derstool now by everybody, and to that etxent the
riot" was educational.
Negroes will have to go about this employment
problem another way. If they cannot secure en-
ployment in certain stores, there is nothing to pre-
vent them from Withholding their patronage or
~shrifting it to stores operated by Negroes. There
is no law compelling a Negro to trade where he
doesn't want to trade.
We must learn to punish our enemies and reward
our friends quietly and without ballyhoo or vio-
lence.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Self Reliance Still Exists

Those who feel that any gov
ernmental security program will
act TO the detriment of the priv
ate life insurance industry are
mistaken, in the belief Of Theo-
dore M. Richie, president of the
National Association of Life I'm
derwri.ers. To the contrary, he
feels that the program will great
ly increase interest in life insur-
ance.
Mr.. Richie bases his opinion on
the belief that "all of these
p~rojec.s for social insurance will
never reach the goals which am
bilious Americans have always
set for themselves; and upon
which they will always insist.
They do not profess, and they
should not be depended upon to
solve The terrible curse Of inse-
curity of the individual, caused
by the. chief uncertainties of life.
That is what life insurance does
"Our citizens must still be pro.
tected against those forces with
which self-reliance cannot deal
Our economic system must be.
come increasingly responsible fol
it's needy victims. But that, | be.
lieve, is as far as social insurance
will 60. And that is where life
insurance begins to function"
Entirely aside from these prac-
teal considerations, Mr.. Richie
might have added that, to the
great majority of Americans, gov.
ernmental financial assistance
through insurance or anything
else, is anathema. They want Sc
curity; but they want to earn il
for themselves. They want te
know that they will be economi
cally comfortable in the future
but they prefer to achieve that
through their own work, thrift
and foresight.
The average American has not
degenerated to the point where
he wants to become a ward Of
government or any o her agency
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Rising Tide OF Public
Protest
By e. Hofer.

When the Public Utilities Act
Of 1885 the Rayburn Bill
which is now pending in Congress.
was proposed, it's advocates init
mated that it had the support Of
the state utility commissions. The
results Of the bill, if it passes, will
be to eventually detroy all utility
holding companies, and place the
operating companies producing
SO per cent Of the nations power,
under the virtual dictatorship OF
a federal bureau.
Now it appears that the state
commissions take a different view
Of the bill. The National Associa-
ton of Railroad and Utilities
Commissioners has drawn up a
long list Of exceptions to various
provisions of the Act, and will
submit them to Congress. And
individual state commissions are
voicing protest against the bill.
Here, for example, is a recent
statement from the Georgia Pub
lie Service Commission: eve
have concluded that the provi-
sions Of the Rayburn Bill as in
troduced, vitality encroach upon
the power Of state commissions to
regulate the production, trans
mission and sale of electric ener-
gy." The Georgia Commission
further said that it had delegated
one Of its members to actively
participate in taking aggressive
action to preserve the state s regu-
latory powers, and that he would
be sent to Washington for that
purpose.
Anyone reading the bill will
not wonder long why the state
commissions are alarmed. If it
passes, they will become almost
entirely powerless-every act Of
operating utilities, from hiring a
lawyer to building additions to
plants, could be carried out only
with the permission of the federal
body. Federal officials could or
der rate reductions, could prevent
a utility from advertising, and
could do a thousand and one
things that now belong either
within the province Of commits
sion regulation or private man.
agement. Under the terms of the
Act, utility executives, in com
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Emptying the Motorists
POcketbOOk

That vast army of politicians
which is always on the hunt for a
new ef raising money tc
spend for this purpose or that, is
again turning its attention to tht
gasoline tax.
Agitation is underway in Cali
fornia and seevral other states tt
boost existing gax tax rates. Ano
the chances are that still more
states will be invited to get in
the parade.
When the tax gatherers see
their fellows across a border pre-
pairing 10 cut a nice juicy melor
at public expense, they want
slice too.
1t might be well to keep in mino
the fact that the automobile ow
ner already bears the largest bur
den of class, special taxation Of
any group in the country. II
California alone he must pay out
Eighty Million a year-and if the
gas tax is raised he will pay
Twelve Million more per year il
the future. This would be BAG
enough if the money were uset
exclusively for road building ano
other purposes directly benefit
ing the motorist. But a rising
percentage Of tax revenues from
gas and other automobile levle!
is going into general state funds
to be used for any and all govern
mental functions; functions tina
should be paid for by taxes con
by a single class.
tributed by all the people, and no
by a single class.
The gas tax shouldn't be in
creased, it should be reduced
And The public should let tn
politicians know how it feels
about it.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20

pany with the state commission
ers, would become merely echoes
Of a voice from Washington. A
new army Of office holders would
be created to be for by the tax
payers or the ratepayer.
What would this mean to the
public? 1t would mean, in the
first place that utilities would
no longer be regarded as a local
business, subject to local needs
and regulations. Instead of the
public policy being decided with
in each state, by men fully con
versant with local conditions, it
would be decided largely in the
nations capital, as is a railroad
regulation. Local management
would become figurehead-re-
sulting inevitably in loss Of inter
est in local community problems.
All of this is entirely aside
from the practical fact that the
proposed Act would partially de-
stroy billions of doallars which
have been honestly invested in
great utility enterprises by mil
lions Of our citizens.
Throughout the country a tide
Of protest is rising agains the de-
structive character Of the Act.
That protest stems not only from
persons interested in the utilities;
1t stems as well from unprejudic-
ed newspapers, public officials
and thinking individuals who fore
e the great and unnecessary
damage the act would do, not
only to the utilities but to the
very cause of general industrial
recovery itself and future elect
ric development. The Act, in
brief, represents destructive legis-
lation of the worst possible kind
the kind that is the unrelent-
Zig enemy of investment, employ
ment, fair dealing, progress.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20

this by showing, first that his
own organization the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, had spent $13,-
600 to defend the boys, and sec
ond, that hundredx of the leading
whites Of the South, whose aid
he had enlisted, felt that they
could work with him no longer
when the Communists came into
the picture.
In other words-this is the
indicators opinion, and not Mr..
Picken's statement-the Commu-
mist made the cause of the Scots
boro boys a Communist cause and
not the cause Of the colored peo-
pie. The Communists have a sell
fish interest in the matter. They
are trying to save the boys SO that
later they can go out and, on the
strength of this, enlist the colored
people for Communism.
Mr.. Pickens and his associates
are not Communist. Rather, they
are common sense. The splendid
colored orator who thrilled his
hearers Wednesday noon, impress
sed all as one Of the wisest of
men. This opinion was confirmed
Wednesday night by Mr.. Pick
ems address to an audience COM
posed mostly Of men and women
Of his own race. The colored peo-
pie need such a leader. After the
war they fell into the hands Of
dangerous men, men who thought
that the way to advance their in
terest was to foment discord and
advocate violence. Mr.. Pickens
is in the old, sound tradition. He
goes back to the deep wisdom and
broad tolerance Of Booker T.
Washington. To resort to VOL
ence, he told his audience, is to
be defeated before you start.
A few hundred heard Mr.. Pick
ems, for whom DIR. Hudnut open
ed his church. The whole city
should have been there, for Mr..
Pickens' counsel of patience and
kindness, understanding and
friendly cooperation were import
ant not for a single race only, but
for all. 1t is safe to say that not
one of his colored hearers depart
ed without an increase in self
respect, and the others carried
away just as much.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20
Things One Remembers
By r. M. Hofer.

Chickens come home to roost.
From four widely separated Sou
thern communities vigorous pro-
tests have arisen against the loss
of local tax revenues resulting
from government acquisition of
property and its consequent re-
moval from local tax rolls.
When people clamor for "free
political pork" government
ownership of industry or land in
heir community they forget
that the only way the pork bar
rel a be filled in order to make
the gift, is through money drawn
from their own hard-earned saw
ings by taxation. The politicians
give" them nothing except what
they first take away.
A Georgia mayor wants some.
thing done about loss of munich.
pal revenue occasioned by two
large tax-free PWA housing
projects which supplant former
tax-paying property.
One North Carolina county
wants the government to compen.
safe it for taxes lost on account
Of huge acreage withdrawn for a
tax-exempt park project.
Another county in the same
state has now lost taxes from ST.
900 acres of land taken by the
government for a waterfowl re.
fuge and wants relief along with
the birds.
Six Tennessee counties find a
loss in their tax rolls of from 5
to IS per cent Of total assessed
valuation, as the result of IVA
purchases.
One Senator declares that pub
lie ownership Of railroads, which
some are advocating, and public
ownership of utilities would de-
prive his state of nine million
dollars a year tax revenues.
"Where in Gods world are they
going 10 make it up?" he asks.
The entire program Of govern
ment competing in business with
its own citizens would be laugh
able if it were not so serious. The
politicians get votes by promis-
ing the people something for
nothing, and the people try to get
something which they think some
body else will pay for. In reality
the people pay for the whole
works, including the government
owned tax-exempt enterprises
which destroy their own highly
taxed businesses and ultimately
government income itself. If this
isn't an endless circle Of de-
struction, what is?
Unless the people wake up to
the menace of government owner
ship of property and industry,
they will find more of their saw
ings taken to finance political
chen houses" than they will
have left to build homes for them
selves.
The Omaha guide., 1935-04-20

lem section staging pitched bat
ties all night. Scores were in
jured, a few fatally, and properly
damage mounted into the humid
reds of thousands of dollars.
Similar riots recently occurred
in Shelbyville, Tennessee, and a
terrible strike accompanied by
loss of life and heavy property
damage happened at the Kohler
plant in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
The waterfront strike in San
Francisco, which eliminated in a
bloody pitched battle, was anoth-
er deplorable instance.
Police forces are often made
quate in meeting sustained riot
ing. Sometimes they are caught
off guard. Property owners are
seldom able to cope with such a
situation and there seems to be
little or nothing they can do
about it, except to forearm them.
selves with insurance. A policy
known as Riot and Civil Commo-
tion," can be Obtained to cover
all direct loss or damage caused
by riot, riot attending a strike in.
surrection, civil commotion and
explosion caused by any Of The
foregoing.
This type o f~protection provid,
This type Of protection provid-
surance companies, meets a def
ME public need-a need that il
intensified in depressed anc
troublesome times.