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The Omaha guide., 1936-09-12

ing greater strides in practical
knowledge during the last thirty
years than any other branch of
the direct connection of diet to
science, and everything points to
health or disease.
The Good Vegetarians
A religion was made of diet.
Seventh Day Adventists were
among the first here to supplant
meat with nuts and milk with
plant ~juices.) These good brothern
declared the bad lold meat maulers
The Omaha guide., 1936-09-12
Paper Establishes
500 Scholarship

San Diego, Cal, Sept. 12-(C)
The San Deigo Informer, C. E.
Ware, publisher, announces the es-
Enlistment of a 500 scholarship
"to be awarded each year to the
colored boy or girl having the high
est percentage for he full high
school period"
The Omaha guide., 1936-09-12

He has tried to forestall successful
appeal to your great group-the APP
peal of gratitude towards the party
that set your fathers and mothers free
from slayery-the appeal of loyalty to
your citizenship in the Republic-by
the substitute of giving you food,
shelter and clothing.
He has tried to supplant in your
hearts, noble and spiritual thoughts
with base and material thoughts.
He has tried to substitute for the
qualities of love and patience in the
hope of real emancipation for full
citizenship-the qualities of cynicism,
ayarice and greed.
What a wicked thing
Seventy yeas ago, you had more
than food, shelter and clothing but
you had not freedom-eYen in i'm
perfect form.
Are we to turn back the hands of
the clock of time?
Are we to render as waste all the
progress and magnificent example of
your leaders of the past seventy years2
l bow my head in shame-for the
memory OF those boys of bronze OF
mine-yodr brothers and cousins-my
soldiers and comrades-who made SUI
preme sacrifice ITO make the world
safe for Democracy
Food and shelter and clothing
Is that all you want?
If hat is ADJUST say so!
Millions of Americans who look
upon you as belonging to a lower
class" would jump for joy and look
upon one of the racial problems of
America as-"SETTLED."
Seventy-fiYe percent, in response to
your own advocacy, would give you
their votes.
But you'll never get my UOtet
And 1 know, when you come to
your senses, such a program will
never get any of your own votes.
Now,-let us look with some sense
upon the problems of the Presidential
Election soon to be net.
We've made a disappointing start.
The country is fed IN with the lead
ership of Loud speakers of reckless
/ pIOAAlots
1 repeat the words of Captain Sigs-
bee Suspend Judgment
In November your Votes-massed-
in a dozen or so States, could probably
determine the Presidential elect on.
Let us "Stop-Look-and ] isten"
to the progress of the campaign and
determine which of the parties offers
us the best chance of getting what We
want. Not promises OF trickery, mind
you, but actual progress.
If we don't make a fight to get
what we want-then we have only
ourselves to blame-if we don't get
what we want.
Suspend judgment !"
"Honor your F%orefathers :"
Hold your fire until you see the
whites Of their eyes, !" (That means
until about October 20.)
Recall the order of Farragut at
Mobile: Damn the torpedoes-go
ahead /"
Then-all together.
"DamR the pork chops"
And VOTE.
The Omaha guide., 1936-09-12

The Young peoples Department of the Colored Division
of the Republican National Committee enjoying an informal
conference with division chiefs. Poung coored voters and work
es are adding power and enthusiasm to the present campaign
which seeks to liberate the eoored people from the domination
of the New Deal Party. Those in the picture are, from left
to right, front row Myrtle Strowler, director of Young Re
publican Women, Arthur NJ. Curtis, assistant to the chairman
of the Republican national committee; Cornelius r. Richardson,
associate chairman; Col. Roscoe Conkhng Simmons, chairman
of speakers bureau; Robert Kratky, liason officer to National
committee. Back row-Louise Lee, Lenora Jones, VALUE b
Jones, Mabel Reves, Kenneth Smith, Artishia Green, Edwin B.
Jourdain, Jr, Sidney Jones, Charlotte Howard and Robert NJ.
Cumby.
The creed of the young peoples department is best express
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Not Much Help.

Senator Blacks bill to require Civil
Service employees who have been pro-
NOTED to file affldavits that they have
not solicited political influence" from
members of Congress or political organi-
cations in connection with such promo
ton Is the sort of measure that can do
no harm and may possibly do a little
good in strengthening the merit system.
The Senate quickly approved the bill,
although it has little chance of atten-
ton in the House this session.
The bill is not to be regarded as the
sort of bulwark to the merit system
that is needed and which Congress has
so far failed to supply. 1t is, as matter
of fact, of greater protection to mem
bers of Congress than it is to the merit
system. It aims at those employees who,
in search of promotion, get their Con-
gressmen or their influential political
friends to write letters urging their Sc
lection. The law now forbids such
activity. But it is presumably flouted
on occasion, and Senator Blacks meas
Me stops the loophole that lies in the
lack Of an afidavit. Some Civil Service
employees would never think Of seeking
political influence. But others have ap-
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Reign of Terror.

Speaking of trends toward fascism,
relationships and other un-American
theories and practices, as some political
critics were doing at length in Cleveland
last week, what does this administration
think of Mr.. Blantons proposed reign of
terror for the public school system of the
District of Columbia?
The question is pertinent If Mr..
Blanton is acting as private individual
in sending a QUESTIONABLE to teachers
in the public schools, asking to know
their private predictions concerning
religion, politics, literature and travel
and threatening them with one of his
well-known cross examinations if they
do not answer, the teachers should be
so informed by competent authority.
On the other hand, if Mr.. Blanton, in
sending this extraordinary QUESTIONABLE,
is doing so in accordance with the wishes
of the leaders of the House and
majority of its membership, that fact
should be made abundantly clear. 1t
will come as a revelation to a great
many citizens as to conditions existing
in the National Capital in the year 1896.
The sending of the QUESTIONABLE is
indefensible. Congress has authorized
no investigation of religious beliefs, COM
munism, membership in the National
Education Association, familiarity or
agreement with the writings of DR..
Charles A. Beard and DR.. Charles S.
Counts on the part of Washington
school teachers, their travels or the
other subjects on which Mr.. Blanton
seeks information. And everybody knows
what would happen to the unfortunate
school teacher who, under the duress of
this QUESTIONABLE or committee cross
examination, admitted to a personal
fondnesS for the works of DR.. Beard;
who has visited and studied in Russia
or who approves of the book, boy and
Girl Tramps in America" That teacher
would undergo the risk of being pilloried
as a Communist and attacked on the
floor under the protection of congress
sional immunity, as red menace, unfit
to teach in the public schools.
The teachers of Washington will doubt
less use their good Judgment about
answering Mr.. Blanton's QUESTIONABLE.
But if they all refused, the spectacle OF
Mr. Blantons subcommittee calling be-
fore it the 5000 teachers of the Wash
ington school system and interrogating
them individually on their religious and
other beliefs would be something new
under the sun in the Capital of the
United States. And, unless this is no
longer America, it would happen only
once.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

parently thought of it first, last and all
the time Senator Blacks bill is aimed
at the latter.
What is political influence? II
John Jones, Civil Service employe, asks
his Congressman to write letter bring
ing to the attention of his superior the
excellent qualities of John Jones, is he
seeking political influence? John Jones
would deny it. The Black bill should
not stop with prohibiting the soliciting
of members of Congress for their "po-
litical influence" but to be effective
should go all the way and prohibit the
soliciting of any aid in connection with
promotions.
Under a real merit system there would
be no occasion for an employe to solicit
anybody's aid. And the duty of Con-
gress is to build up a real merit system.
When Congress, as 1t has done in the
past three years, specifically exempts
new agencies from the Civil Service and
goes to the extent of denying to the
President the authority to cover such
agencies into the Civil Service by execu-
tive order, Congress is weakening the
merit system as a whole. And such
reforms as those proposed in this case
by Senator Black, while possibly bene-
fetal in a small way, do nothing really
to strengthen the merit system.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Merited COmmendatiOn.

The Washington Post Office added to
its laurels by the promptness and eff
cheney of it's delivery of the bonus bonds
and checks. Such is the verdict of the
veterans who received the adjusted
compensation" certificates and Of the
general public whose share in the event
was merely that of sympathetic
audience. Postmaster Vincent C. Burke
and the entire personnel of his organ
ization are entitled to the thanks of the
whole community. They did their work
in line with the best traditions of the
service.
But appreciation also is due to Di-
rector Alvin w. Hall and to the men
and the women of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, who toiled day
and night for weeks manufacturing the
bonds, and to Public Printer Augustus
E. Giegengack and the staff of the Gov
ernment Printing Office, who likewise
labored long and tirelessly in prepara-
ton for the occasion.
4IedSuIy OepdlGHleIlG He1p, OF course,
was basically necessary, and the fruition
of the efforts of members of Congress,
their secretaries and clerks, the War
Department, the Navy Department and
other branches of the Federal establish
ment were represented in the final chap
ter of story begun nearly two decades
ago.
Merited commendation, then, should
be accorded to an army almost as nu-
merous as the veterans themselves. The
payment exemplifies cooperation on the
part of thousands of citizens. Perhaps
that is something worthy of remem-
brance.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

the growth of unemployment to the in
PRODUCTION of female labor" and stating
that "the congress attached the highest
importance to individual liberty and
consequently opposed any measure tend
ing to restrict the rights of women"
"The solution" the report concludes
must be sought by better distribution
of the wealth created by the machine
and not in ousting one sex for the benefit
of the other"
PoSthumouS and well-deServed honor
was bestowed today upon a former Gov
ernment official in the dedication Of
forest tree nursery in Louisiana to the
late Maj Robert Young Stuart, at the
time of his death several years ago
chief of the United States Forest Serv-
ice. This nursery, the largest in the
South and one of the largest in the
world, with an annual capacity of 50,-
100000 trees for reforeStation purposes,
has been fittingly named the Stuart
Nursery. Creation of this nursery was
decided upon before his untimely pass
ing" said E. A. Sherman, acting chief
Of the Forest Service, in the dedicatory
address. 1T is, then, a fruition of his
desire; the sturdy growth from a seed
of his planting. I can think of no
better way to honor his memory, for Mai.
Stuart was particularly interested in the
expansion of forestry in the South, and
in the reforestation phase of our ma
tional forest conservation program"
Brown University, in comforting an
honorary degree on Secretary of State
Hull this week, was the twelfth institu-
tion of higher learning thus to recog-
nize the marked ability and the out
standing accomplishments of the dis
tinguiShed TenneSsean. Since he has
occupied the premier position in the
cabinet similar honors have been be-
slowed upon him by five universities in
1884, by five more the next year and by
Lafayette and Brown this year. Previous
Secretaries of State over whose shoulders
the Rhode Island institution has placed
the purple doctorates hood have been
Charles Evans Hughes, John Hay, Rich
ard Olney and william L. Marcy.
X %**
Tin plate scrap has taken on an added
significance as a product in the export
trade of the United States since the
establishment of the National Munitions
Control Board several months ago. AS
result of study which has been given
to methods for regulating shipments of
this product, it has now been decided
that export licenses will be issued on
the basis of allotments to producers
covering the period from July next to
the end of the present year. The board
holds that the allotment system will
assure fair and equitable consideration
to all producers of this commodity.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-06-17

as having explained that the United
States attorney in New Orleans recon-
mended dropping the prosecution, as the
cases were weak" and the atmosphere"
in New Orleans has changed. The for
mer grand jurors demand to know how
a case that was strong enough to bring
an indictment may now be so weak"
that its prosecution is to be abandoned.
How has the atmosphere" changed?
The death of Huey Long has doubtless
changed it. But that, of course, should
have nothing to do with the Attorney
Generals decision.
The grand jurors demands for a
thorough explanation should not go un-
answered. The Attorney General would
be wise to engage the services of the
best man available as special prosecutor
and see the New Orleans income cases
through. No change Of atmosphere"
warrants a change of attitude by the
Department of Justice in prosecution Of
persons formally charged with violation
of law.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

To those who believe that the IT.
year locusts, properly called cicadas,
have damaged their trees and shrubs,
Nature might well say:
Trust in me!
after millions of years, know what
am doing.
Recall how there are more leaves on
the trees this year than ever before.
Remember the usual growth In length
of all branches of all shrubs.
For what purpose did you think I
caused this exceptional luxuriance which
delights your eye?
did you think 1t was Just to please
you? Excuse me if smile" (The sun
comes out)
Mother Nature continues:
"I brought the extra leaves to the
trees, the added length to the branches,
SO that my cicadas could function.
"In the ground for II long years they
lay at my command, awaiting my bid
ding.
Finally I gave the word!
Like obedient servants of the great
mother, they came into the light and
air by their thousands, by their hum
dreds of thousands.
They found I had prepared things
for them. Normally, after three cold
Winters I would have killed back many
shrubs, kept the tree branches and tips
down short, so that the roots would not
have had so much to do.
This Spring I prepared for my little
friends, those sweet singers Of the tree
tops.
II
''1 made the trees a bit taller, so
that when the locusts laid their eggs in
the branch tips still no harm would
come to the trees when the branches
fell.
ITO your mortal eyes, you whose in
stinctS are all toward f-preServation
(Which means my divine selfiShneSs) p,
these falling branches, these slit end tips
Of shrubs, mean loss.
II am larger than you thought. I
contain multitudes, as your poet said.
Little, if any, real damage will result
from these activities of the cicadaS.
What interesting things they are. really!
How much you should rejoice, you
who now bewail them upon occasion,
that I have given you this opportunity
to witness again one of my wonders.
Have faith in me.
1.-The slightest of my activities has
millions of years of preparation be-
hind it.
Il think Of stars and men; keep in
mind lions and locusts.
"I am Nature"
With this address of the Universal
Mother in your ears, folks, we hope that
some Of you will give over this insiStence
upon the i'll effects Of the locusts.
Cicadas are in no sense pests" as
we have seen them described.
They are not "scourge" at all. Any
one who believes that is simply confus-
ing them with the real locuStS, or grass
hoppers, whose enormous appetites make
them consume the greenery of an en-
tire countryside in an afternoon.
Compared with these, the true locuSts,
the cicadaS are inoffenSive, indeed. They
eat nothing, after they come into the
light, which is their reward for their
long stay underground.
What hurt they may have done to
branch ends will be repaired shortly by
the tree or shrub itself, with Natures
aid.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

There is a vast deal of ignorance
about these creatures, probably because
they come to the attention of the Iayman
only O few times, at most, In his en-
tire lifetime.
Many of the statements heard about
them have been based on this lack Of
understanding, fathered by a general
misunderstanding of Nature as she is,
not as man might like to have her, at
times.
One sees, for instance, the assertion
that the new locusts Of II years hence
will be born" at that time. Only in a
poetical sense.
Actually, they are born now. The
long term of years underground is prop
erly part of the lives of these new
locusts- although only Nature and the
naturalists would recognize.
Each 17-year period of life has its
beginning at its real beginning which
was and is II long years before they see
the light Of day.
The length of time in the light, few
weeks, seems absurdly out of proportion
with the years in the,soil. But they are
enough, evidently.
y
We also noticed an interesting state
ment how baby birds have SO stuffed
themselves with locustS that they lay
on their backs on the ground, unable
to move.
The idea is intriguing, but it does not
show much knowledge of bird life.
The capacity of young birds for food
is tremendous. This appetite is backed
by a really wonderful digestive system.
If the two parent birds, working all
day long, cannot even fill up the baby
birds, which are perpetually hungry,
how can the youngsters do it themselves,
even when food is plentiful?
1t is an engaging picture, that Of
f1edglings so gorged with locusts that
they could not move but we suspect 1t
does not jibe with known facts.
Not every one can suddenly pick up
and observe Nature.
The amount of painstaking observa-
ton which is necessary is utterly un-
known to most people.
The simplest bit of writing about nat
ural things may have years Of intellec-
tual absorption behind it.
An example that comes to mind is
Thorntown w. Burgess, whose Bed
time Stories" have been read by adults
to children for many years.
Purposely kept in simple language,
these stories are, in effect, little Nature
studies quite evidently based not only
on much reading, but also on personal
observation.
One of the greatest pitfalls of the
Nature observer in any phase is that of
deductions. He must stick absolutely
to what he sees, and refuse to draw
inferences, or to place his observations
on specimens other than he sees.
If he sees three thrushes singing on
the ground he is wise if he says that
he has seen and heard three thrushes
singing on the ground.
If, making an inference, he says that
all thruShes sing from the ground. or
even that 'thruShes sing from the
ground" he is likely to be less right
than if he had stuck to his first simple
observation. 1t is because this rule is
often forgotten that the charge of Ma
ture taking" is hurled sometimes at
heads which do not deserve it.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Moment.
Just a moment for a smile,
Even though a sorrow
With sullen hint of guile
Threatens for the morrow.
Hard the lesson is and long,
If we've truly learned it.
Just moment for a song!
Surely we have earned it.
Fiercely frets the storm on high
With relentless seeming,
Till the stars that fill the sky
Light us to our dreaming.
Then smile, or else song,
Helping us to borrow
Strength to face the task so long
We must meet tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Why?

Members of the Federal grand jury
in New orleans who indicted several
persons in connection with income tax
frauds are within their rights as good
citizens in demanding to know why the
Department of Justice has consented to
prosecution and subsequent imprison-
ment of one such person while agree
ing to the abandonment of prose-
cution in other cases. The question as
sumes greater significance when it has
been reported, and not denied, that the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, which
made" the cases, strongly disagrees
with the Department Of Justice over the
propriety of abandoning prosecution.
The Attorney General is represented
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Getting Started.

How did you get your start in poll
tics?"
Il wanted to reform everything that
came my way" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. And I attracted the attention
of practical politician who just then
happened to need an industrious young
reformer in his business"
Evening star., 1936-06-17
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Shadows and Starlight.

Into the heart Of the sunset travelled,
And thru the sunset to dusk
Shadows played over wide fields Of clover
Sweet as the fragrance of musk.
On into nightfall and starlight I wan
dered,
Into the heart of the dark;
Famed by cool breezes blown thru the
pine trees,
Lighted by flrefly spark.
Shadows and starlight-they filed all
my senses;
Odors Of clover and pine,
Clean Of the firefly, fairy lamps fitting
Night and It's raptures were mine.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
DAYLIGHT Saving.

IT wish mosquitoes could be trained
to work in the daytime instead of at
night" said Farmer Corntossel.
What difference would that make?"
Might help to keep Josh and the
hired man awake durin' the hours when
wakefulness is really needed"
Evening star., 1936-06-17

There are so many initials in evidence
that the art talent of the administration
must show great skill in weaving them
all into one F. D. R. monogram.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

Proverbs are misleading. The unex-
pected does not always happen-not to
the extent of bringing kind word from
Postmaster General Farley for the
Cleveland platform.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Cutlery.

"Of course, you don't believe the story
of George Washington and his hatchet."
NO." answered Senator Sorghum,
"but I like it. Great men today are
so busy looking for one anothers scalps
that prefer the hatchet to the toma-
hawk"
Evening star., 1936-06-17

Japanese aggressions are gradually
reducing China in size to an extent that
causes trainers to inquire how far it is
desirable to reduce in order to attain
fighting weight.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

Successes Of ]. Edgar Hoover are con-
spicuous. Yet crime is sufficiently per-
sistent to make it look as If he were en-
titled to a life job regardless of political
vicisSitudeS.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Short Wars.

From the Shreveport GaJ Journal.
A French strategist says the next war
viii last but "a hours. Most any nation
ought to be able to afford one for that
length of time.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
X-Ray Ailnent.

From the Saginaw Daily News
Find cure for x-ray sickness" That
must be the ailment which youngsters
frequently get on school days, the one
it is so easy to see through.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

Volumes continue to be written about
the Shakespeare plays. One writer who
could initiate their style would be worth
a million esSayistS.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Skill.

From the jacksonville (Fla.) Journal
The months award for dexterity goes
to the unnamed dip at Cleveland who
picked the pocket of passenger ON
merry-go-round.
Evening star., 1936-06-17
Sopori6c Springs.

From the Watertown IN. " Times.
A girl in New York was knocked un-
conscious by a bed spring. Sufferers
from insomnia will unquestionably wish
to know the name of the bed.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

The Department of Agriculture, since
swords have been beaten into plowshares,
has undertaken something like turning
the plowshares into fountain pens.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

A bomb released offensive odors In a
Vienna theater. The eyes and the ears
have become Injured to so much that it
seems necessary to attack the nostrils.
Evening star., 1936-06-17

The candidate selected in a smoke
filed room" escapes publicity just in
time to avoid being utilized by radio pro-
moters as a cigarette ad.