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The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16
WHAT GUIDE
READERS SAY:
A Tech High Alumnus Address
es Graduates of 1885 The
Negro Youth Looks Up
on Graduation"

Fellow Graduates "A met
ropolis of unperturbed human
ity, crescendoing and falling,
once was immune to the masses
of youth thrown upon its null
tiple resources. Now that pull
asting mass cannot richochet in
utter solicitude the lombard.
ment of those spirits of flame,
but must extend its arms in a
welcome encouragement to the
graduates for furtherance oil
higher achievement.
The colored youth is gradu-
ating now at the average age OF
high school students, instead OF
disseminating study when gram
mar school, work is finished and
then returning to- high school
to later graduate even if that
is done, at an age older than
that of the average high school
student.
1t is often found that even
after a course of study is com
pleted successfully, that that
course is not suitable for the
situation the youth faces when
he enters into an almost non
committal and frigid world.
He finds that the only business
open for him unless he is fort.
unately favored is one of a
common laborer, or one in
which advancement is fancy OF
very slow. Therefore, the grad
uating senior does not see all
the rosy colored rainbows that
optimists would have him Wis
ion. Instead he realizes more
than ever that competition in
the daily bread fight is keener
than could be anticipated; even
by any pessimistic viewpoints
he might have ventured before
hand.
The graduate is handed his
diploma with a smile and word
of good cheer from the donor.
He finds that that smile and
good wish lasts him for only a
short while after; then all be
comes a memory.
One cannot live on smiles
and in this period of depression
"good luck" is a sobriquit Civ
EN- those who are working and
acquiring the necessities of life
or a fraction more.
One cannot tell the SUDDEN
to use his initiative in making
a success of himself if such I
success is spoken of in term o.
the money value Of the individ
ual. Money making is STRESSED
far too much by authorities.
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Sheriff. fears. He's been a Gen
eral so long that he thinks the
world owes him his gold braid.
He believes that underlings be-
long in the ditch.
But there's no use of doing
the General an injustice. There
is a point in his advice to Jews
to take their grievances lying
down. You can't get around it;
i ia man is willing to lie down
in the gutter you needn't push
him there. He's already where
you want him.
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Inc student is urged to fin
lsh high school and college so
that his higher education might
facilitate, mostly, a larger in
come. Thus, the morale of
higher education is cut down
by the deprecating, selfish as
pirations of the amatuer bust
mes sman to become rich quick
ly, and then retire from such
astentatious service he might
have been undertaking. Those
amatuers would be the gradu-
ates whose zestly hopes have
not as yet really dramatized
the throes of experiences nor
the sequences of defeat. True,
these graduates have been told
that the life ahead of them is
one of rising hopes, struggle.
and fortitude yet, it is true
that the graduate, helped by a
nonchalant community, stress
es far most ardently the rising
hopes and comforts Of life af
ter graduation and looks upon
the discomforts as a matter of
course and not vital consider
alton.
Success is reached only when
ones heart is put altruistically
in an endeavor to create, and
infuse such idealisms or achieve
ments that benefit the cause of
a yenerated humanity, and
when such asuccessful individ-
ual acquires as satisfaction
without egotism.
1t is only in ~stressing the
above principles that one will
approach cooperative living and
that our posterity will succeed
in mastering the art of living
together will in a complicated
habitation.
One must admire the effotrs
of the graduate who finds that
he is an unwelcome member
of the army of unemployed ;
one must respect the feeling in
him that is 'invictus', in spite
of set backs, and extend to him
not a nopen armed world, but
one of equal opportunities.
Above all humanity must
prove to him that the time has
come when the Negro student
must ealize that the soliloquies
of the past ae in the shadow of
the setting sun, and that the
Using sun shall make such a
shadow merely the darkest
hour before the dawn of a new
propagation.
Very truly yours,
William l.. Davis.
June 1885.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Pennsylvania forest rangers ri
guided to fires by portable two
way short wave radio sets with
which they a communicate with
watchmen on fire towers who dis
cover blazes as they start.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

The League of Nations is making a fairly effective stab
to show that it have grown its eye teeth and knows how to use
them. No peaceful nation should do anything to prevent the
Leagues success in hating the war in Ethiopia.
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NOTES AND

Many newspaper men are against accepting public jobs
until somebody offers them one.
BY and large, it might be better if the laborer of the
country managed to get larger incomes.
If you see two men putting their heads together the chances
are that one is telling the other a joke.
Correct this sentence: 81 believe strongly in the enforce
ment of all laws that seem to be just and proper to me-"
A forest fire is a dangerous thing-so be careful when you
are in the woods and see that you don't start a blaze.
The average man will be glad to extend you financial as
sistance after you get to the point that you don't need it.
A survey says that youth is losing its infuense-why the
fact is the old folks are getting younger every year.
A newspaper, as a general rule, is no better than the COM
munity in which it circulates and rarely is it any worse.
Pay up your subscription during the early part of Novem-
Der and enjoy Thanksgiving without any qualms of conscience.
Promise the average voter a job, or a few dollars off, and
he will forget all he knows about the law and the Constitution.
The course Of history shows that nations have generally
resorted to war for material gains in short, they sought plumber.
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We know at least a dozen men right here in Omaha, who
can solve the problems of the universe faster than you can put
the propositions before them.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

National joke; Tariff protected manufacturer yelling his
head off because the government has a processing tax Will
which to pay farmers crop benefits.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

A few years ago most of US had too much money in closed
banks; now we hardly manage to kepe anything in the open
ones.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Getting mad with a newspaper because 1t doesn't print
everything to suit your opinion is a sign that you are not sure
of your opinions.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

speakg of transformatons-have you ever seen a sensible
couple imagine that Junior or SISTER inaugurated a new speciest
of geniusf
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Despite the talk that's handed around the country by
those who know better there are very few newspaper men who
can be bought or bribed.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Borrowing money to spend today may sound easy, if you
can find a lender, but when the payments fall due the job
assumes proportions.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

BY and large, it might be better if the laboreI
country managed to get larger incomes.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Many newspaper men are against accepting public jobs
until somebody offers them one.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

If you see two men putting their heads together the
are that one is telling the other a joke.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

A forest fire is a dangerous thing-so be careful
are in the woods and see that you don't start a blaze.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Correct this sentence: 81 believe strongly in the enforce
ment of all laws that seem to be just and proper to me-"
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

The average man will be glad to extend you finar
sistance after you get to the point that you don't need
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-16

Pay up your subscription during the early part of
Der and enjoy Thanksgiving without any qualms of con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

ress Of a kind which creates new problems to
replace the old ones.
John T. Flynn summed It up very concisely
in his recent newspaper articles.
Comparing our Industrial output today with
that Of 1929. Mr.. Flynn demonstrated that we
have travelled 81 per cent OF the way back-a
pretty fair record. as far as production is con-
cerned.
But in the matter OF unemployment, We
have covered only q per cent Of the distance.
In wage levels. the gain from the 1882 low
point is only 10 per cent. In pay rolls, We have
gained but 81 per cent.
Mr. Flynn draws this inescapable deduction
from these figures:
1T is perfectly plain that employers are
spending an even smaller fraction Of the cost
Of producing goods upon their workers"
This does not mean that employers are a
mean and conniving set Of chiselers. 1t simply
indicates that our recovery efforts are humping
US up against the knottiest problem of the
modern age-the dismaying fact that modern
industry is progressively able to produce more
and more goods with the expenditure of less
and less human effort.
In the long run. any society which hopes to
find its way back to a condition of peaceful
plenty must find some way Of answering that
challenge.
The Marxist says that there is no answer
that under capitalism it is utterly impossible
to have both plenty and profits.
The ordinary American won't accept that
statement. But for that very reason his OBJ
legation is so much the greater tc find out
how, under the existing social framework, the
puzzle can be solved.
no recovery can be on a sound basis until
employment, wage. and pay roll levels rise at
something approaching the rate Of production
levels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
AN AMERICAN SPEAKS

D EP. MAURY MAVERICK Of Texas is at
IN lacking the latest American anti-red in
QUESTION.
The Texan, who wears medals for bravery
in battle assailed the bills in Congress abridg-
ing the rights guaranteed in the First Amend
ment. He attacked the tyranny Of California
planters. the bunk about Communism in the
Army and Navy, the attempt to initiate the
handful Of Communists in the country into
a red menace. He advised Army and Navy
officers to go back to their business of defense
and discipline and Congress to its job of re-
leving the distress of the people.
If We pass any statutes on the subject"
he told the House, 'let us pass statutes to pro-
tect labor and the people of this country
in organizing for their rights. Let us stop
police brutality, deportations and illegal &C
tons by officers.
1T is very necessary that We do funda-
mental things for the restoration of world
trade, for agriculture, for the reiuvenation of
business and. in general, putting IL 100000
men back to work. It is not necessary to pass
hysterical legislation or hunt reds. There are
enough laws on the books now to save this
country.
we must maintain the freedom of speech
and press and the liberty of conscience and
religion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
MONDAY. MARCH II. iai5
FROM CUBA TO GREECE

OWL var IN Cuba and Greece. Italys i'm
- perialist march toward Abyssinia. the con-
nict Of relationships in the Baltic. the four
coruered maIeuvering for power Of Germany,
France. Britain and Russia. and the steady
Japanes5 push on the Asiatic mainland. spot
light the grim haste with which all OF the large
nations including our own are increasing their
war preparedness.
The immediate threat is in the ever-explo-
sive Balkans. Larger stakes are at issue in
Greece than those Of republicans versus mon
srchists or dictators. Italy is suspected Of
supporting the Venizelist revolt in the hope Of
drawing Greece. with Albania and Bulgaria,
into Mussolinis orbit. Yugosalvia and Turkey,
partners Of Greece in the Balkan pact are
preparing 10 prevent this. Bulgarias protest
against the concentration Of Turkish troops on
her border caused such alarm among the great
powers that the League of Nations has inter-
vened and induced Sofia to withdraw her
Provocative memorandum
Whatever the outcome Of the present bitter
civil war in Greece. prospects Of Balkan peace
are dark.
Fortunately the United States is not di-
rectly involved in the Balkans. but We are
less lucky in the Caribbean with another
Cuban revolution ablaze at our back door. A
nationwide general strike has been followed
b. martial law and suspension Of the con-
stitution and the Mendieta- Batista dictator
ship IS taking extreme measures.
Back OF this revolt are both political and
economic pressurcs. Political unrest IS fed by
Mendieta's failure TO carry out reform pledges
Of the 1888 revolution. and by increasing de-
mand Tor return to power of the more liberal
Grau san Martin. Economically the island
and most OF the people are IN wretched condi-
ton. Improvement along lines Of land distri-
button and crop diversificatiOn. recently recon-
mended by the Foreign Policy Association re-
port ami by others. is a slow process appar-
entity too hard for the compromising conserva-
tive government OF Mendieta-
The United States is involved indirectly not
only because American capital dominates the
island. but also because Of the popular belief
that Washington displomacy got rid of Grau
and handpicked the failing Mcndieta. Even
. Washington's concessions TO Cuba in the form
Of a new trade treaty and abolition of the
Platt amendment protectOrate, and our avoid
ance Of military Intervention in the last revo-
luton. have not eliminated the suspicion OF
many Cubans that Washington rules them
through a puppet dictatOrsi m.
That Cuban hostility. VIII is reflected in
part throughout Latin Amer is an added
reason for the Roosevelt adj 'istration to
keep its hands as far away as sible from
the present revolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
THAT LIFE-SAVING COMMA

NEARLY four years ago. three officials of
L a defunct mortgage company in Cleve-
land were convicted OF fraud charges in con-
nection with their companys sale of partial
payment gold trust bonds.
The conviction didn't end the matter. 1t
went to the State Supreme Court, which or
dered a new trial on the ground that the
judge erred in his charge to the jury. The
other day the retrial finally began.
Then the defense attorneys argued that
the indictment in the clause was faulty-be-
cause Of misplaced comma. They argued
so well that the trial judge was obliged to
agree with them and the men were freed.
Addressing the jury the judge remarked
that this should illustrate the fallacy of
making criminal case game instead of
method Of arriving at justice"
That's putting it mildly Here we have a
criminal case that had dragged out for four
yeara-and it is finally disposed of because
some typist put comma in the wrong place!
It is any wonder that laymen grow impa-
tent with the technicalities of the law?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
GYPSY FARMERS

A SENATE subcommittee is considering the
~ Bankhead bill to create Farm Tenant
Homes Corporation with one hundred million
collars capital and power to issue one billion
dollars in government guaranteed bonds.
The funds would be loaned to that stable
population Of tenant and sharecropper fami-
lies now wandering from farm to farm, with
no inducement to preserve the land and equip
ment they use. Through 30 to 5O-year loans
at low interest. they would be encouraged TO
become farm owners establish homes. build
land values and enter the social life Of their
communities.
Forty-fye per cent OF American farmers
10 not own the land they till. In Southern
states-the single cash crop areas-tenanoy
ranges from so TO so per cent. In the Ken
lucky tobacco belt and the Oklahoma cotton
sector. the subcommittee learned, approx
mately 40 per cent OF grade pupils drop out
Of school each term. Half of these depart
during the tenant moving season.
During the last half-century, the increase
Of farm tenancy has been one Of the undeSira-
bic yet widespread characteristics Of rural
America" Henry Wallace, agriculture secre-
tary. told the committee.
"A large proportion Of our tenants have
little permaneI. interest in the land. We can
hardly des- fundamentally with soil erosion
and other types OF soil waStage until We bring
about a change in the relationship OF tenant
farmers 10 the lands they operate.
In communities where tenancy is extensive
there is an unusual degree Of rural iAstabl-
fly and lack Of wel-knit social life.
Present conditions, especially in the South.
provide fertile soil for Communist and Social
ist agitatOrS.
The American way to preserve the tradi-
tional order is to provide these refugees Of the
economic system with an opportunity to
build and develop their own homes and to live
on land which they can call their own
Arguments that the government may lose
money by inability to collect back al it lends
IN such a program are less persuasive than
the need TO make ours once more nation
Of freeholders-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
PRESS SHOULD NOT SHEER
AT TOWNSEND PROPOSAL.

BY A Reader.
No one has ever read your ed
itorial page with more pleasure
than I do, but can not say 1 agree
with all your views, although may
be wrong in mine.
But it seems strange that all
papers keep so quiet about the
Townsend plan and when there is
a small item, its tone is sheer and
laugh.
I have lived long enough to be
able now to prove that the Town
send idea is right as thought and
talked when school boy, but my
elders said was foolish and not to
talk such crazy things, but if that
plan had been put in force at that
time we would not be in the con-
dition we are now.
You may think am still crazy,
but what chance have the children
of today when they get to be 90
years?
You write special editorials. Write
your views soberly, not with sneers
and laughs or that 5000 a month
is too much or we can not raise the
money or taxes would be too high.
The government should tax every
young man, then he would have a
pension at old age.
Everybody can not be Mellon or
q Rockefeller at 60. Some one has
to plant and dig the potatoes and
those who can not should have a
rest and worldly peace near the end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT

THE man who said that there are lies, dam
Il lies. and statistics touched popular chord.
Most OF us learned TO dislike figures while We
we're studying arithmetic IN grade school and
never got over II.
Unfortunately. however. about the only way
We can gauge the progress OF our business
recovery is by statistics. Stin more unfortu-
nately. the statistics that are now at hand
are not entirely comforting
Tney show progress. TO be ure7-hgt ~ g
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
Police Sirens Disturb Sleep

BY j. W. Eich
AS one of a considerable num-
Der of travelling men who pc
riodically find themselves in your
city where, as elsewhere, we labor
diligently to conquer that tough
old bird, "sales resistance" I
should like to draw your indulgent
attention to nuisance that is
tending to make Indianapolis
city wherein the travelling man
finds it most difficult to obtain the
requisite amount of refreshing
Slumber so necessary to him if he
exp IT'S to be at his best during
the day.
need not point out to you that
the path of the travelling man has
not been Strewn with roses in re-
cent years. When, after a hard
day-and most of his days are
just that-he seeks his room in
one of your excellent hotels, he
needs a bit of quiet in order that
he may the sooner fall under the
restful hypnosis of the god Nor
pheus. But what usually hap
pens? Hardly has he laid his head
on the pillow when his ears are
assailed by the blood curdling,
nerve Shattering screams of police
sirens. Rushing to the window he
looks at the sky and up and down
the street expecting to see half
the city in flames, but usually all
he sees is motorcycle cop down
at the corner just making a left
turn with the red lights against
him.
Our weary traveller returns to
his bed. just as he again is on
the verge of a sound slumber, hell
breaks loose again. He gets up.
This time it surely must be a fire
or, perhaps some belated dis
tinguished visitor such as Indy,
Amelia Earhardt, our President,
or even Huey Long himself, is
being given a motorcycle escort to
his hotel or club. But no! This
time he misses even the motor
cycle cop speeding around the
corner.
Now muttering to himself, he
seeks his bed once more, hoping
the police have finished testing
their sirens under nocturnal con-
ditions. Alas!-just as he has
drawn the covers about his chin,
the Internal din is resumed. This
time he reaches for the telephone
and inquiries Of a sweet, sleepy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Civil War southern plantation with
the present situation.
Then. the slaves toiled and their
masters, who we're in power, re-
ceived the wealth. Weekly, some
times oftener, they went to the "big
house" for their supplies.
We have substituted relief de-
pots" and transient houses" for the
big house" of that age. The basic
principle Of legal bondage was re-
pudiated by society. The funda-
mental principle, the one factor
which makes economic bondage in
evitable is cherished and protected
as an economic necessity and bull
wark.
Wealth is power. The profit sys-
tenn of production and distribution
so affects the balance of surplus
wealth that a pauper nation may
still have a wealthy group and a
wealthy nation contain pauperized
mass. Society needs capital Surplus
wealth. and we have it. The wide
spread sentiment for the Townsend
plan is an awakening social con-
Seiousness that society no longer
reeds the private capitalist.
Labor Is not wealth; labor Is life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
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FACTORIES OF STATE HIT
AT SMALL MERCHANT

BY Henry Mears.
would like to say a few words
about what the factories of this
state are doing. I guess the factory
workmen think it great thing for
the company to sell them anything
from food to diamond rings. Per-
hapS they don't know that there is
a sales tax on what they sell, but
they sell the goods for what the
merchant has to pay for it, and, in
turn, knock the merchants out of
the business. Why don't these fac
tories secure store licenses? Be-
cause they do not want their en-
ployes to go to a merchant who is
trying to make a living.
1t is not only the factories that
are doing this, but it is also the
Governors Relief Commission. Here
is an example: The commission
buys four buckle arctics and sells
them to their workers so cents
cheaper than the merchant can Sc
cure them wholesale.
Why doesn't the Governors COM
mission stop competing with bust
ness when it taxes business to the
limit to maintain the commission?
What are you men going to do?
Buy from the commission and let
the little merchant go out of bust
ness? Why not get your eyes open
and make the factories and the
Governors commission stop this. 1
might also add that I am not a
buyer, but 1 happen to know that
all this is the truth.