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The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
SPOTS BEFORE HIS EYES

Senator Borah added to his reputation for courage, but not
for sense or liberalism, by his letter to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. He says he will again
oppose an anti1ynehing bill and that he thinks Federel legis-
lation against %lynehing uneonstitutional.
The opinion does no credit to a man who has often talked
of putting human rights above property sights. For the Four
teenth Amendment, which is now the bulwark Of corporate
privilege, was originally passed to protect the rights of the
freed slaves and is ample base for antilynching legislation.
In the debate on THE WagnerCostigan bill in the Senate
last May Senator Borah opposed nti-lynching Legislation, as
he opposed NRA an dAA, a san interference with the rights
of the States and as a dangerous trend toward centralized gov
eminent.
But Senator Borah seemed to ignore the fact that the Four
teenth Amendment, by giving the Federal Government power
to veto acts of States in violation of fundamental rights, had
fundamentally changed the relations between Federal and State
governments.
Congress, under the Fourteenth Amendment, is given
power to enforce by appropriate legislation the guarantee
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or pro
perty, without due process Of law nor deny to any person with
in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"
If this means anything at all, it means that Congress can
~punish-as in the WagnerCostigan b.l-any State officer who
fails to prevent a lynching. 1t also means that Congress need
not wait until a mans hanging from a tree. Federal Marshals
can be empowered to protect against n lynch mob where State
officers fail to do so.
Federal officials might also, if they wanted to, use the
civil rights act of 1870 to punish l%ynchers. 1t is true that the
same courts which found 1T easy to enlarge due PROGRESS on
behalf of property have virtually emasculated due process in
regard to the rights Of persons.
But it i'll becomes such a liberalism as Senator Borah to con-
cur in that proeedure-New York Post, November 26.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
AmericanizatiOn
Project Underway

Miss Martha Fulton, voca-
tional office worker, under the
WPA, is conducting classes in
vocational training at the Cen
trial High school on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings at 1880.
Persons who are interested in
improving his reading, English
etc, are welcome to attend.
Ten or more persons interest
ED in forming groups in diff
ferent sections of the city, mott
fly Miss Fulton, and arrange
ments for the hours and place
of meeting will be made.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
RgI65YYSSfI9S5E9

too, and that's the reason
they're careful to see that Ne
groes don't learn too much
about military science.
I'm pretty much opposed to
war but [ think that the
A is right in protesting
discrimination in America S
armed forces. So long as any
disability is attached to color
we can never be free. Negroes
ought to have the right to serve
n the navy, or the air service
or the tank corps. But before
any Negro enlists he ought to
go hear Major General Smed-
ley Butler speak, or at least
read some of his articles.
After 30 years of service,
Gen. Butler says that war is a
racket and that the armed
forces are used by big business
a collecting agencies for bad
debts. Afer a Negro enlists and
learns how to use a gun he
can decide for himself whether
he wants to use his skill to be
q racketeer or whether he pre-
fers to help abolish the racket.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
BE NOT AFRAID
By r. A. Adams

(For the Literary Service Bureau)
If you are right, be not afraid,
With confidence lift up your head;
Though calumny her venomed
dart
Send piercing to your inmost
heart,
And things as false as hell be
said,
Be not afraid; be not afraid.
If you have faith, be not afraid;
Be brave, and confident, instead;
When dire misfortunes shall
befall,
Let nought your valiant soul
appall,
To friends and helpers all
have fled;-
Be not afraid; be not afraid!
If you would win, be not afraid,
Though rugged be the path you
tread;
All who have b2en approved of
God,
The way of suffering have trod;
Remembering "God is not dead"
Be not afraid; be not afraid!
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
OUT WHERE THE
WEST BEGINS
By RA. Adams

(For the Literary Service Bureau)
Years ago the Mississippi River
was the boundary line between
what was termed "the civilized
East" and the "barbarous West"
It was the point "Where the west
begins" But, by conquest of diff
ficulties, advancement in means of
locomotion, and in courage and
persistence of heroic souls, the
line of demarcation was pushed
back and then eliminated. So we
have today a common country and
no longer is applicable the saying,
"But East is East, and West is
West,
And ne'er the twain shall meet"
AS in the realm of geography,
so it has been and is in the field
of ethics or moral philosophy. For
years there have been sharp lines
of distinction between the admis-
sible and the inadmissible, the
conservative and the radical, in
human behavorism. This was the
line where the east of conservat-
ism and the west of radicalism or
moral laxness met. And expert
ence teaches that this line is in
dispensable to the moral well-be-
ing of the people.
But the tt. ad of the times in
dicates that the methods and the
results r about to be reversed.
1t seems now that the radical will
push the conservative into the
ocean and there will come, final
ly, the domination of moral laxity
and moral radicalism. And this
will take us back beyond "the
horse and buggy days." to the
time when every man was a law
unto himself. And it will mean
the wreck of our civilization.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
SERMONETTE
By Arthur B. Rhinow
(For the Literary Service Bureau)
Love and Hate

You cannot love unless you
hate. You cannot love the right
unless you hate wrong. Love is
a fighter, not a mere gush of af-
lection. If you love yourself you
will fight everything that hinders
you in being and becoming your
best self. If any n is dear to
us we despise the bad habits that
drag him down. Love of country
implies an earnest effort to elm
mate the evils in the nation. The
brotherhood of man is just a
sweet phrase unless we are will
ing to fight the selfishness that
keeps it from becoming a blessed
reality. War cannot be ended
without war; not with the crude
weapons of explosives and steel,
but with the weapons of loving,
fighting minds and hearts.
Wherefore hated slavery be-
cause he loved the slaves. He did
not merely indulge in a sentiment
of aversion, or speak of the
horrible thing in drawing rooms
over a social cup of tea; he
fought the iniquitous trade with
all his might for 46 years to the
day of his death. That was love.
Jesus hated sin because he
loved the sinner. How He loved,
and how He hatedl And when
we meet in pleasant surroundings
to talk about the evils of the day,
do we not hear His words of
seorn against hypocrisy and the
swish of the scourge upon greed;
words and scourge that ought to
rouse us out of u comfortable
but stagnant apathy? Hatred
without love is devilish, but love
without hatred is weak.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
MAKE THE STREETS SAFE

The drive to make Omaha streets safe for the public is an
effort worthy of consideration. The earelessness with which
some motorists drive through streets makes it dangerous for
other motorists as we'll as pedestrians. Each person who drives
a, ear should make the pledge to refrain from carelessness
Omaha ranks with the leaders when it comes to traffic deaths.
Along with the recommendation that each person check
on his or her driving, we believe that strict enforcement of the
traffic laws will do a lot to rid the streets of the Oldfields and
other careless drivers. A little thinking will also go a long
way toward solving the problem.
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
OBJECT LESSON

That lesson has not been
wasted on Americas brass hats
and war makers. They know
as well as the next man that
America is just one great big
Houston where Negroes are
constantly being brow beaten
and bullied. I'm no prophet
but Negroes are going to get
tired of it some day just as
they did at Houston. And when
they do they are going to fight
back.
Our generals, who are so
fond of dying in bed, know it
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
BRAIN TEASERS
do YOU KNOW YOUR
RACE
QUESTIONS

w Eo AONO
l.. Where is Sisrra Leone?
2. What is the location of
Ethiopia?
3. What is the definition of
a Colored person?
A. Who is said to have the
largest life insurance policy
on record?
5. Wh,re was the first Negro
bank organized? When?
6. What Negro inventor per-
fected Therapeutic electric
lamps for the aid of medi-
cal scicnce?
7. Who was Joe Cans?
8. Who was the first Negro
student to be awarded
Magma Gum Laude from
New York university?
8. What Negro woman was
the first to receive the ap-
pointment as assistant
principal in the public
schools of New York City?
10. Uaere was the first norm
al school for Negroes
Established? When?
ANSWERS
1. A British colony in West
Africa.
2. Northeast Africa. From
about 10 to "a degrees
latitude. Described as
modern Abyssinia.
3. In Michigan, Nebraska,
and Oregon. One is not
legally a person of color
who has less than one
fourth Negro blood.
4. Watt Terry, real estate
broker of New York City.
Amount, $545, 100000.
5. The Capital Savings Bank
of Washington, d. C. Be
gan business October II,
1888. After running for 16
years it failed.
6. Paul E. Johnson of Chi
cago who operates his own
factory, has been quite
successful with his inven-
tions.
Z. Lightweight champion Of
the ring from 1902 to 1908.
s. Asa T. Spaulding in 1880.
9. Mrs. Elsie McDougal-Ayer
at public school No. 80 in
1928.
10. New York City in 1853.
John Peterson was the
first principal.-NNF
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
KELLY MILLER
SAYS
HITLER GOES
AMERICA
ONE BETTER

America furnish the most in
teresting laboratory on race
relations to be found in the
world today. In America the
two races are separable by dis
tinction of h G h visibility in
Germany the racial discrimin-
ant is below visibility. There
is no color line to justify Ger
man race antipathy. The Jew
and the German have been in
contact for a thousand years
with every semblance of ami
cal adjustment. But, presto
all of a sudden, as if in a NOM
ent, in the twinkling of an eye,
the Teuton's racial intoler-
ance breaks out in uncontroll-
able fury. Hitler's keen dicta-
torial acumen instinctively
sensed the need of a rallying
cry around which he could
arouse the whole nation. Ap-
peal to racial s%ensibility is a
most powerful social dynamic.
The Hymn of Hate is easily
sung by the Germans who look
upon themselves as God s
chosen people. Looking around
for an object on which to vent
his Teutonic spleen, he saw the
Jewish race as Abraham saw a
ram caught in the thickets by
his horns, which he offered up
as a sacrifice to appease the
demon of race hatred.
The world was amazed at
the spontaneity and sudden
ness with which Hitler was
able to inject the virus of race
hatred into the veins of the
whole German people. Al
though Germany IS perhaps
the most orthodox Protestant
nation in Europe, yet amidst
all of tbs breathing out of hat
red and slaughter against a de-
fenseless race no single voice
of carrying power and Christ
ian conviction has been raised
against this n-Christian bar
barity.
What Germany has done to
the Jew might be easily dupli-
Gated by any Nord.c nation in
Europe should the occasion
arise for arousing the people
by appeal to their racial sensi-
bilities. The Ku Klux Klan
in America made such an
abortive attempt, which failed
for a leader of Hitler's dare
devil recklessness.
The forms in which race
prejudice express itself
against t h e Jew in Germany
run on all tours with that
against the Negro in America.
from which students of the
worldwide race problem may
learn lessons of deep signifi-
canoe and far reaching conse-
quences.
In America race prejudice
takes several legaEzed forms.
% the marriage bar, (2) sep
arate schools, (3) separate
ears, az limitation of political
rights and civic privileges.
Hitler has forbidden inter-
marriage between Jew and
Aryan, set up separate schools
for the Jewish race and made
the Jew a subject rather than
a citizen of the Reich. He holds
himself in readiness to decree
whatever further forms o |
distinction and discrimination
his imperiOus will might sug-
gest. He has not yet set up
travelling facilities, or N
crow ears as we call them in
America, for the specific reas.
on that the Jewish contingent
constituting barely one pei
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07
THE WAY OUT
(By Loren Millerl
oUR sNooTY NAVY

lNCBiOto tAItpJ az mSooiiiVli dhN
personal servants. In a certain
sense this ruling is a blessing
to Negroes. The next war will
probably be a naval one and
the navy's stand will prevent
Negroes from getting killed
to make Alabama safe for dem
ocracy and Texas safe for
lynchings.
Anyhow, the navy has been
snooty for years. There hasn't
been a cadet at Annapolis since
the 1905 and few full pledged
seamen since the Civil war.
In fact, about the only OPP
portunity for a Negro to bleed
for disfraneh.sement and suffer
for segregation lies in enlist
ment in the infantry.
[ cant verify this but | have
been told that the air depart
ment is seriously considering
making it a felony for a Ne
gro to look at an airplane; the
known fact is that the air corps
is lily white. The same thing
goes for all the mechanical
branches of the service.
NOT MUCH GOOD
Modern warfare has more or
less relegated infantry to a.
minor place. The strength of
any nation lies in its navy, its
air corps and in the mechanical
GAL. FIVE ~.a.....~.......~ ~~.....-......~.
branches Of its military service
the very branches from which
Negroes are excluded. About
all infantrymen are good for
is to get shot, wounded ,gassed
and burned to a nice crisp by
a liquid flame.
1t seems to me that there are
two reasons for the exclusion
of Negroes from the first line
of defence. The first is that the
theory that Negroes are infer
Tor is widely held and our West
Point trained generals hold fast
to the lessons taught in their
sociology and history books.
The other reason is that Amer
ica's warmakers don't trust
Negro soldiers at all. They fear
to arm them with weapons that
might prove too dangerous.
HEROES
| can already hear a roar
of protest Negro super-patriots
will descend on me en- masse
to shout that the Negro has al
ways proven loyal in time war
This easy generalization over
looks the fact that Negro
troops revolted in Houston,
Texas at the beginning of the
world war and that at least
fifty of them were condemned
to death for what amounted to
military treason.
As far as | can see the men
were not traitors; they were
heroes and ought to be honor
ed by us much more than they
are. The Houston revolt oc-
cured because the soldiers got
tired of browbeating and bully
ing by the city's police officers.
They did what any other group
of brave men would have done;
they took guns and shot it out
with Their tormentors.
OBJECT LESSON
That lesson has not been
wasted on Americas brass hats
and war makers. They know
as well as the next man that
America is just one great big
Houston where Negroes are
constantly being brow beaten
and bullied. I'm no prophet
but Negroes are going to get
The Omaha guide., 1935-12-07

against the negro 1 Que 10 MS
inferior education, culture and
concrete achievements. On the
other hand Hitler frankly sim
plifies the matter by having the
distinction bluntly ON racial
grounds, although the jew oc-
cupies a level of attainment and
distinction above the average
German.
There is this vital distinction
Hitler has decreed that pro-
scription against the Jew is a
Government function and its
execution must not be assumed
by the individual but by the
Government. In America, es-
pecially In the South, every
white man arrogates to himself
the membership over the be-
havior of the Negro and as
sumes the right to chastise any
member of the race who trans
crosses the border line of race
distinction set up and sanction
ed by the community. 1t is this
racial arrogance and assump-
ton which lies at the basis of
lynching where an individual,
or group of individuals, take
the law IN their own hands in
wreaking vengeance upon the
Negro who commits offense
against the person and dignity
of any member Of the white
race.
In Germany no Jew is allow
ed to hire an Aryan female un-
der thirty-five years of age as
a household domestic. The p lain
object is to prevent the Hebrew
male from exerting authority
and persuasive influence over
Aryan womanhood. The same
disposition manifests itself in
America. A Jewish proprietor
has been jailed for kissing an
Aryan girl in his employ al
though she acknowledged her
willingness to receive his adj
vances. All such intimacy across
the race line is considered a
racial rather than individual
insult, of which the Government
itself takes cognizance.
Hitler's aovwed purpose is to
preserve the purity of the AIRY
an race, free from further in
termixture of Jewish blood.
The Nordic method in this re-
spect differs fundamentally
from that of the Latin or South
ern European races. With the
Nordic, wherever he IS found.
offspring between the white
man and the nOn-white woman
is relegated to the lower class
of the mother status. Whereas
with the Latin or Southern
Europeans such offspring is
given the fathers status. The
result of the first method is
to mix the inferior race while
keeping the superior race pure i;
whereas the effect of the latter
is to mix the superior race
while keeping the inferior race
pure. Which of these methods
will best solve the race problem
in the long run is a matter of
dispute and speculation.
In America the white male is
disposed to take advantage of
the colored female with impun-
ity, free from legal or social
responsibility. This procedure
give the white male aa& the
colored female a free range in
their lascivious indulgence.
But combine and drastic punis-
ment is imposed upon the white
female and the black male
whose sexual inclination cross
es the color line.
Aocor6iOo 70 Hit1ap'c daoraa
La opinión., 1935-08-08
Por PEDRO

vo y proposito de la vida en- socie-
dad, la realization de la vocation
y aspiraciones de los ciudadanos.
c) Sc asigna al Estado un pa
pei exclusivamente coordinador y
director. Ampliando este c~oncepto,
Sc declara, en- otra de las conclu-
stones, que en- virtud de este pa
pei simplemente coordinador y d.
rector. mo puede ell Estado tener
una filosoffa p%recisa."
No queremos ser demasiado ext
gentes con los estudiantes, pero ST
creemos que, siendo estas afirma-
clones de tanta trascendencia, de-
berfan haber explicado mas sus
ideas. Por ejemplo, 5que entien-
den por "fuerzas de II nacion?"
5Tienen derecho a existir, y en- ese
case, como pueden coordinarse con
las demas, las fuerzas retardata-
rias o francamente Discoveries?
Asf Y TODD, son de aplaudirse ell
criterio amplio, liberal, de ancha
oportunidad para que las fuerzas
nacionales den de ST TODD cuanto
puedan en- direction del bien CO.
nun, Y ell concepto de un Estado
regulator, coordinar, impartial,
~justiciero. que no adopta banderias
nj erige catedra autoritaria en- ma
terra de opinion y creencia, que
en- estas conclusiones. Elk
trana, sin embargo, que mas ade-
lante declaren que eel Estado no
es para ell hombre." Porque 81 ell
fin del Estado es facilitar la rea-
La opinión., 1935-08-08

Insistimos una vez mas en- que los casos de Quere-
taro y Tabasco siguen eonstituyendo dolorosa espina en-
cajada en- ell costado de la nacion. Insistimos en- que a
ambos casos no Sc les ha dado sino una solucion a me-
das, y en- que ell pueblo de Mexico sigue clamando justi-
cia, sin que la justicia llegue. He aquf dos stuaciones in
sostenibles va. Osornio, ell matarife de Queretaro, sigue
disfrutando de todas las preeminencias que concede ell
poder a sus %tenedores, mientras que Garrido Canabal, So
layando ell primer golpe %asentado sobre su cabeza, Sc
yergue de nuevo, rehace sus fuerzas, y levanta hacia los
cuatro vientos su figura desafiante.
La Comision Permanente del Congreso de la Union,
d6cil cuando la dociIdad es obligada, da hoy 'largas" al
case bochornoso de Q~ueretaro, declara que no habra de
discutrlo en- 10 future, y que la peticion de desafuero ha-
bra de ser materia para ell Congreso, en- pleno, que, CO.
mo es bien sabido, Sc reune en- Septiembre. Y en- cuanto
al case tabasqueno, no obstante las pruebas r~ecogidas por
la comisi6n universtara envada al sureste, y en- las que
Garrido Canabal es senalado como participants directo en-
la matanza de estudiantes, existe la misma lentitud, ell
mismo parallel que en- ell proceso de Osornio.
va ell pueblo mexicano empieza a yer con desconfian-
"a estas tardanzas que dan a la justcia ciertos aspec-
tos de complicidad con ell crimen. Y la opinion pubica,
que recibiera con jubiloso clamoreo las medidas trascen-
dentales dictadas por ell Executive a raiz de su "emanci-
pacion political, deja en- suspense ell comentario, pero
uuiere sentir la confianza de que las palabras del EJe-
cutivo no sean simples promesas alentadoras. T1ene aun
muy presentes los lindos arranques lricos del Oral. Gales
acicalados con la magica palabra de Ezequiel PadLla. Sabe
bien que nj ell "reinado de las instituciones" nj las demas
bellezas literarias del regimen canista, tuvieron nunca un
sentdo real y sincere. Prefiere, por 10 tanto, pocas pala-
bras y muchos hechos. Tai y como principle su reJuVe-
necida actuacion ell Presidente actual, Lazaro Carde-
mas. Mexico no quiere un goberno de promesas hricas,
sine un gobierno que sea fel i%nterprete de las aspiraclo-
mes nacionales.
La opinión., 1935-08-08
iQue no Quede en- Promesas!

En- reciente dscurso pronunciado ante la asamblea
de maestros reunida en- Uruapam, ell Presidente de la Re-
pubica, General Lazaro Cardenas, declare enfadcamen-
te que "las autoridades de los Estados que no cumplan
con su deber deben ser consigradas a los tribunales COM
petentes". a~gregando que eel pals recama ell cumpli-
miento de la Constitution, tanto por parte de las autori-
dades federales, como de las de los Estados".
Y ha sido en- Inca con estos ~prop6sitos de respeto
constitutional que abriga ell executive mexicano, que ell
Procurador de la RepGblica Sc ha dirigido a todos sus
agentes en- ell pals, pidiendoles una constante vigilancia
a fin de que por ningun motive sean violados los dere-
chos constituencies que amparan a las ~actividades
icitas de los ciudadanos.
Tanto las declaraciones presidenciales como las del
Procurador de la Repdblica resultan intachables. Cam
pea en- elias ell mas estricto apego a la ley escrita y al
espfritu de la ley misma, y sintetizan la mas grande as
piracion que hoy por hoy alienta a la colectividad mexi-
sentido satisfecho con promesas legalistas, nj con la
enunciaci6n de futuros actos punitivos para tambien flu
turas y ~posibles violaciones a la ley. Ha preferido, y 81
que prefiriendo, la naturalization tangible de una &C
tuaci6n gubernamental, ejemplarizada en- casos copcre-
tos y presentes, pues solo sobre una base de ~precedente
puede I'm pueblo fincar esperanzas solidas para ell por-
venir.
Con este queremos decir, naturalmente, que Mexico
tiene en- estos precsos momentos casos concretos sobre
los cuales puede ponerse a prueba la sinceridad y la eff
cacia de los enunciados oficiales. Bien esta que ahora
trate ell gobierno nacional de prevenir futuras violacio-
mes a los derechos constituencies, y bien esta que file
claramente su posicon y su futura lnea de conducta en-
casos de possible transgresion. Pero ell pueblo de Mexico
solo podra convencerse de una futura eficacia, 81 a los
casos presentes Sc levan va materialzadas las formulas
involucradas en- los discursos y las promesas de los al
ts representatives del gobierno.