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Evening star., 1937-03-05

III n QOZSll otdICS, CdCll Va W1i1SAA AAoo
two Democratic Senators. there Is
division in the senatorial delegations over
the court plan. Here is list OF them:
Indiana, for the court plan, Senator
Minton, and against the court plan, Sen
ator Van Nuys: Iowa, Herring for, Gil
lette against; New Jersey, Smathers for,
Moore against; Missouri Truman for,
Clark against; Ohio, Bulkley for, Dom
ahey against; Rhode Island, Green for,
Gerry against; South Carolina. Byrnes
for, Smith against; Tennessee, Mcclellan
for, Bachman against; Texas, Sheppard
for, Connally against; Utah, Thomas for.
King against; washington, Schwellen-
bach for, Bone against; West Virginia,
Nicely for, Holt against. Perhaps Moth
ing more graphically indicates the divi-
sion in Democratic ranks over the Prest-
dents court plan than does this align
ment of Senators, State by State.
~ y y
In addition to those splits within the
Democratic ranks of the same State
there are some other divisions in pros
pect such as the expected division OF
the New York Senators, with Royal 8.
Copeland opposing the President and
Robert r. Wagner finally supporting
him, and between members of other par
ties, who had supported Franklin D.
Roosevelt even to the extent of boiling
their own party. For example. in Cali
fornia the union between the Democrats
and the ProgreSsiveS, in which Senator
Hiram johnson played SO important
part has been smashed on the court
issue. Senator johnson, insurgent Re-
publican, is against the court plan and
Senator william Gibbs McAdoo, Demo-
crat, is for it,
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job perhaps pays him small
wages9 You may wonder how
he can balance the scale to get
more benefit from his job. The
answer is that every man must
improve his own job, and i'm
prove himself. He balances the
scale with the maximum bene-
Fit to himself. This is one of the
oldest truths. Do your job well
and it will pay well. "A job well
which Will give you comfort
and security. A job for wages
alone and support in doing it,
will never be anything but a
job. | am working for the pub
lie; one must take into consid-
Grafton the balanced scale by
considering all, especially those
whose support he is getting. To
make a balance, both sides must
be considered, and as it has
been, the scale of Justice has
not been balanced. When they
are equal in proportion on each
side, everyone will get justice.
That j. the only thing that
should be done.
Hoping that the oversight
was not intentional, l remain,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) G. B. Lennox, M; D:
|GBL-DR.
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10
OPINIONS

Negro purchasing power. This
is a subject on which even the
scientific experts of the great
advertising agencies are woe
fully ignorant: and for the most
part the sales directors of ma
tionally advertised products
hold stubbornly to ideas of the
Negroes buying power that are
a mixture of hearsay, prejudice
and inaccurate estimates based
on inferred social status. As a
result Negro newspapers and
magazines suffer and manufac-
turers lose millions of dollars
in sales which they might rea-
sonably hope to gain if a little
more realistic intelligence was
applied to consideration of this
field. The fact that the Negro
in Omaha and the surrounding
territory spends over $4,000
600 annually would appear to be
proof positive that the so-called
Negro market is far from neg
ligible. 1t is estimated that in
normal times the annual pur-
chasing power of the Negro in
Omaha, amounts to $25000000.
And what does the Negro
buyY He buys food and cloth
ing, automobiles and radios,
furniture and household arti-
cles, cosmetics and tobacco, ci-
CARS and cigarettes, and we sus-
pect wines, beer and liquors.
But whether he buys a Ford in
preference to a Chevrolet, Pom
tiac, Plymouth or Dodge, and
whether he buys Camels rather
Chesterfields, Old Colds
or Lucky Strikes, and whether
he buys Listerine or Davoris,
should be of some concern, so
it seems to us, to those who seek
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10

This was Angelo Herndon's an
swer to Judge Wyatt when in 1882
he was convicted of attempting to
incite to Instruction" under a
Georgia state law, first passed in
1861, to prevent slave insurrec-
tions, and revised in 1871 to in
clude "any attempt to induce
others to join in combined re-
sistance to the lawful authority of
the state" 1t is well known that
Herndon as a boy of nineteen was
arrested twenty-four hours after
he had taken part, before the
Atlanta Courthouse, in a demon
stration by a thousand Negro and
white workers who were asking
for adequate relief; that he was
kept in Jail for eleven days with
out any charges being brought
against him; that finally Com
munist literature found in his
room gave the authorities an OPP
%portunitv to invoke against him
an old law passed during the Civil
War to prevent Instructions of
slaves; that he was imprisoned for
more than two years and then
released on bail; that unless the
Supreme Court Of the United
States now reverses his indictment
he will be doomed to eighteen
years on the Georgia chain gan.
Angelo Herndon reviews these
facts in his autobiography, "Let
Ne Lice" which has Just come
from the press. He reviews also
Che circumstances which led to his
being part of that demonstration
before the Atlanta Courthouse, in
June, 1882 - circumstances which
begin with his birth as the son of
u coal-miner, in Wyoming, Ohio.
His earliest memories are of
poverty.
"Get an education, Angelo. Lift
yourself above our condition" This
was impressed upon Angelo even
before he started to school. They
were his fathers last words to
him. He took seriously the trust
put upon him and worked well in
school. But his schooling stopped
when he was thirteen, his father
having died when the boy was
nine. Most of Angeles "educa-
ton" therefore, has been in coal
mines, in labor camps and in jails.
Between the ages Of thirteen and
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seventeen, he had experience in
coal-mines, doing work far beyond
his years, receiving almost nothing
for it; learning about labor agents
labor camps, and discrimination.
When he was seventeen he hap
pened to see a leafet announcini
a meeting of the Unemployment
Council. That was in Birmingham
Herndon attended the meeting,
and for the first time realized thai
the Same vicious interests thai
were expressing Negro worker
were doing the same thing Il
white workers, that both black and
white worker could solve their
problems only by a united effort
against the common enemy" He
was then ripe for the suggestion
that Communism provided that
united effort" His activities
thereafter among the coal-miners
and the share-croppers of Alabama
and his evident affiliation with the
Communist Party brought him in
dlsrepute with the police; and more
than one attempt was made prior
to the Atlanta incident to indict
him. He served more than one
jail sentence, although they were
each of short duration, since no
charge could be found against him.
"Let Me Live" contains an ex-
pose of the prison system in the
South and especially of conditions
in the Fulton County jail, in
Georgia, for Herndon tells of the
lack of sanitation and medical att
tention, of unpalatable food, of
deliberate t%ormenting by the Jail.
ers, of a corpse left in his cell for
twenty hours, etc. When after
twenty-six months under unbeliev-
ably vile conditions he was re-
leased on bail, he was not as
overjoyed as one might expect.
He knew that nothing had been
really solved: zone great truth |
discovered at the moment of nv
freedom: That as long as there
viii be men r~otting unjustly in
foul prisons, neither I, nor anyone
else, can ever be free"
Whether or not one agrees with
1le Underlying philosophy of this
work as pointing the way out, n
cannot fail to find it a moving
indictment of the society in which
We live. 1t is not Herndon who is
on trial but a system in which such
evils as ne describes can flourish.
He asks to live; but his request is
for more than that. He, like many
others who work, would like a
larger reward for his labor; but
he also pleads for a world in
which ".justiee, enlightenment and
humanity should be praeticed
among men," This book serves to
dramatic the oppression of work.
ers, Negro and white, the evils Of
antiquated systems of law that
permit such abuses as the chain
gang, the dehumanizing effects of
poverty and ignorance, the COM
mon cause of labor. 1t is not
Herndon alone, but many others
who are saying with him, 1--WE
will fight on until we have secured
not only social equality, but every
kind of equality. To this end /
will dedicate my life until the day
1 die"
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slept. This demon fortunately got
away just as soon as the victim Was
awakened. Because of the sonsa-
ton of weight or oppression that
frequently accompanies a night
mare, superstition attributes the
visitation to the agency of demons
or evil spirits. By various authors
dreams characterized iby terrors
have been attributed to a bad con-
science. Beyond a reasonable doubt
it is true that people who retire
having had MENTAL disturbances
during the day, as fear or anxious
ness concerning some things in
which they n deeply interested
oftimes suffer nightmares. This be-
ing trfue, few of US have failed to
have the experience of an agonizing
dream or nightmare. We may re
call the sitting ems of oppres-
sion, feeling that we can't breathe
and helpless paralysis of speech and
movement. The mental reaction is
that of AFFECTED fear coupled with
q futility of ones own efforts.
Sometimes on waking, the indiVid-
ual will notice that his heart is
racing, his breathing is rapid and
he feels exhausted.
The common explanation of this
phenomenon is an indigestible meal
such as minee pie, highly seasoned
foods as barbecue or fanatics or
some other foods in~descretion. Mo
dern medicine looks upon night
mares as a combined physical and
emotional phenomenon. However,
the digestive setups cannot be re-
garded as the only aus of fear
full dreams. There are a large num-
Der of people who eat very heavily
and sleep as soundly as anybody
else, also if this were true we could
prove it by either having people
eat heavy meals and produce night
mares and conversely eat nothing
and prevent them. The real cause
of this condition must be due to
fear, dread and terror and should
be sought in the emotion. Again
in nervous children we have the
same conditions manifested. 1t is
obvious that any deep mental
impressions made upon a child
may linger in the sub-eonscious
mind and give rise to exhibitions of
fear in the dream state. Compelling
obedience by frightening children
with threats that "The COLLINS will
get you," may bear fruit in disturb
ed sleep and frightful dreams
While night terrors IN children
may not have the same basic orr
gin as night mares, yet they sim
ulate closely the nightmare sym
ptom complex. By some writers
they have been attributed to the
acid in the system.
People who are victims of night
mares must recognize that while
the stimulus may lie in the dlges-
ton or in some other part of the
body the principle symptoms are
due to disturbed mental or emotion
al state. The reasoning mind IS as
leep, hence the sub-conscious mind
handles the reins and drives the
sleeper owe hurdles of terror
ridden experiences. 1t is therefore
necessary that the victim should
sleep with someone else in order
that he might be arouse if these
conditions come on and very light
meals should be eaten after four
O'Clock in the afternoon.
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to expand the market for these
and similar products and should
endeavor to find the doorway
to this Negro market through
the columns and advertising
space of the Negro newspapers.
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10
Wild Dreams
By DIR. Wesley Jones

The disease commonly called
mares, was observed and de-
scribed by any of the ancient wri-
tiers on medicine and was called
incubus by the Romans. Roman
mythology tells of incubus who was
q demon who went around at night
and bounced on people as they
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10

"You may do what you will with
Angelo Herndon. You may indict
him. You may put him in Jail.
But there will come other thou
sands Of Angelo Herndons. If
you really want to do anything
about the case, you must go out
and indict the social system"
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10
An Echo
From My Den
BY S. E. Gilbert

As l sit here in my den with
pen in hand, meditating as it
were, I feel disposed to point
out some little known and rare
ly considered facts anent the
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10
EDITORIAL PAGE
AN OPEN LETTER

Omaha, Nebr.
April 5, 1887
Mr.. Z. NJ. Jacobberger,
2501 N. 40 ST.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Mr.. Jacobberger:
Some time ago, l wrote you
in regard to what we are emit
tied to-something we are pay
ing for and not getting. Do you
think that it s out of the
question to ask for a part of
what our tax money is being
used for-to help make your
salaryY Too, our voters helpe
TO get you your position.
| an entitled to eonsidera-
ton and deserve an answer,
whether | get it or not. | am
sure some of us pay more taxes
than you. | am a heavy tax
payer, that is why l am asking
for this consideration. Perhaps
it has been an oversight on yonr
part as to why you have over
looked answering my last let
ter. | can only know by hearing
ing from you. l am not seeking
this position for myself. I have
my job, but we have men who
should receive it, and should
receive the same consideration
as others.
What profits a man whose
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10
KELLY MILLER
SAYS
c.
POLICY

inc virgin Islands indicates
president Rooseyelt's broad
minded interest in the welfare
lof the colored race. Professedly
he has no specific Negro policy.
At the beginning of his admin
istratlon, he engaged TO inte-
CRATE all elements of American
-.people barring none, into the
general equation of national
welfare. He began at the very
bottom by asserting his concern
for the forgotten man."
In his address at the dedica-
ton of the Chemistry building
at Howard University last fall,
he declared that there should
be no forgotten race. AS this
address was made at the height
of the presidential campaign, it
may or may not have had any
political implication. President
Roosevelt has refused to single
out the Negro for any particu-
Jar formula of treatment. He
has not dramatized the politi-
cal and civic hardships, as the
Republican party has done ever
since reconstruction. He refus-
ed to indulge in impossible pro-
misses to remedy obvious and
just grievances when he had
neither the power nor the pur-
pose to do so. His policy, if it
can be called such, has been
constructive and ameliorative,
and not blatant and declam-
atory. The Republican Party
has long tince discredited it
lself with the Negro voter by its
prediction promises and post
election nonpreformanee.
Under President Roosevelts
administration the Negro has
received more generous treat
ment than under any of his pre-
deeessors since his distant kins-
man, Theodore Roosevelt. In
deed, he has accorded the Ne
gro greater official recognition
than his four Republican prede-
eessors, including Taft, Hard
ing, Coolidge and Hoover.
Until the coming of Franklin
d. Roosevelt, it was generally
understood that the Democratic
Party, under the domination oil
Its southern wing, was hostile
Ito government recognition oil
the Negro. Although the Demo
crat contingent of the North
was every bit as friendly as
their Republican counterparts
in that section, yet such blatant
ISouthern Negro baiters as Till
man, Vardamann, Helm, Bile
ase and others of that ilk were
so noisy as to brighten theil
northern copartizans into 81
lence.
But during the last four years
no voice of racial y%ituperatior
or bitterness has been heard OF
either floor of Congress which
is Democratic in both its brancl
-
es. Indeed, a resolution was IN
troduced by a Negro represent
alive and passed unanimousl,
fobidding discrimination ON &C
count of race or color IN the re
cruitment of the CCC camp. I'M
forbiddance of discrimination
on account of race or color in
goyegnment function reminds
us of reconstruction days. w
must attribute this subsidene'
of race rancor in the Demobra
lie party to the powerful persua
sive influences of It's head. Witt
out fuss or Juror, the Presiden
has appointed a number of col
ored men to high federal offic'
and has assigned numerous 9th
ers to important departments
positions.
Grover Cleveland, after scou
- Al ao,,n4r.v ca1aotad a Ne
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10

as others.
What profits a man whose
Ito persuade a Democrat senate
to confirm him. Woodrow Will
son nominated a distinguished
Negro as register of the treas
ury, but was compelled to with
draw his nominee because of
the stubborn resistance of south
5ern senators. Indeed, it became
the avowed policy of both the
Democrat and Republican adj
ministrations not to nominate a
Negro for a confirmatory of
flee because of the difficulty
in leaping the senatorial hurdle
The Minister to Liberia and a
municipal judgeship in the Dis
trict of Columbia formed the on
~ exceptions since the days of
Harding. President Roosevelt.
however, has made the custom
airy Negro appointees and secur-
ed their unanimous confirma-
,tion at the hands Of a Demo
cratic senate.
The appointment of Judge
HASTE breaks new ground and
is the first Invasion by the Ne
gro of a federal judiciary. His
appointment was not due to po-
, litical activity on his part. Here
stubborn opposition might have
, been incurred, but none was
Forthcoming. Judge HASTE pro-
badly has never voted in his
life, or controlled or influenced
n single Democratic vote. lie
was appointed as an attorney
in the interior department and
rendered such efficient service
of a legal character that the
. president felt justified in pro-
noting him to the federal bench
The fact of his appointment and
his unanimous confirmation by
, the Senate speaks louder than
! words of President R~oosevelts
policy and purpose concerning
the colored element Of our pop
ulation.
The clear intention of Presi.
dent Roosevelt to give the Ne
gro consideration as a factor II
the government equation has
robbed the Republican party Of
, lis chief political dynamic. The
4 scare-erow of southern hostility
D and Democratic unfriendlines'
S has gone with the wind. Com.
e parafvaly speaking, the bal
ance of advantage now falls OF
{ the Democratic side of the fence
r The method of the New Dea.
d Indicated in Mr.. Roosevelt
I first campaign and demonstrat
L ed in his first administration
e has effectively weaned the Ne
+ gro from his one-sided adhel
ence to the Grand Old Party o.
days gone by. In the future the
+ race vote will, in all probable
: ity, be more evenly divided be
. tween the rival parties, if, in
deed, the COP is again to ac
e quire the status of a rival.
The Omaha guide., 1937-04-10

A R E VIE w
BY ROBERT L. NELSON
international Negro Press

LET ME LIVE: The Autobiography of Angelo Herndon,
New York, Random House, 1887, 400 pp, $3.50.
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Automobiles
Is Service stations. Repairing

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Legal Notices
Notice to Contractors STREET PAVING
WRterburY, Connect

Waterbury, Connecticut. Sealed proposals for performing eS WSfk bS fse sonrd nSae of w puss Works of the City of Waterbury. at O'Clock eiS ti r. Nj Nj. Daylight Saving Time, on Tuesday, July lS, 1887, at which time and place they will Do publicly The work viii consist of building q reinforced concrete pavement on Willow Street and Congress Avenue and R sheet asphalt pavement on n concrete base on Roseland Avenue; laying w@tey waw mSns tEsst stoam ana cos gross Avenue; and constructing new curbing, inlet basins and any other work necessary for the proper com; pletion of tho project. The principal Items of work aro;-
 Reinforced Concrete Pavement
 .,.,,.,......,... .30,b0O sa. yds, Sheet Asphalt Pavement on.
 Concrete Base. e.600 SC. yds, Cprb'ng ng.;..''.'''''lS'e99 iin' tt' S,nr %"t@r MS,Sr lln l,n. H. H. Plans, contract and specifications and all available information may be seen, and copies of tnformatio on for Bidders and Proposal Forms ob. tained, by intending bidders or their accredited representatlves applying
  nocflng, City Hal
 Each proposal must be accom-; panied by certified check for not less than 10es of the bid and drawn to tho order of the Comptroller of the, City. of Waterbury, said cheek forfeited Rs stipulated on tho pro. posal forms.
 The successful bidder at tho time of tho execution of the contract must deposit with the Board of Public Works n Surety Company Bond for satisfactory completion of tho contract in an amount equal to tho amount of the contract award. Tho Bonrd reserves tho right to reject any or, all proposals or to accept any bid, should the Board decn, it to be for tho best interest 0e 0oFFicE SPi OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, CITY HALL, WATERBURY, CoNNEcTICuT.
 R, A, Cairns, C. 10. 7.3.3t City Engineer.
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Guy and brother Carmen Lom. hardO were once the only two bro- thers in the band-now the Royal Canadians include four of the Loni- hardcs, the iate-conners being Vic- tor and Lebert Lanny Ross was heard in Q series of broadcasts known as the '-Troubadour of the Moon".
 Robert |. Ripley presented his flFst s.BeIleve It or Not" program om Che air. After the broadcast he received more than 5000 letters tellang him that he was trying to put something over on the listen- erS. He had to mail each and every peRsom who had written him prooe oa what he had featured.
 Oracle Allen danced in vaudeville with her two older sisters, in Q pre- sentation billed as the "Allen Sister Harmony and Terpsichore." {. Arthur Godfrey played . personal dty set on the Ben Levy Tnid-weSt- erT circuit, as vendor of songs, dances, and witty sayings Cert rude Nieseii first started on the air with uncannily accurate song inc presentations of the leading screen and radio celebrities.
 MANHATTAN; Lanny Rosa, ewsser ef . large farm in upper New YeFk State, izaspects . cole lectaen ef farm equipment on Bar clay street Guy and Carmen Lemhasde at Madison and Slst aAnalring . eoler.phot0 of Ro- beFte yenay, Mrs. Franklin D. ReeseveIt's peotegee, who dances e the I.embsrde rhythms every night at the Waldorf. Astoria Star. light Roof Arthur Godfrey, whe has his own stable of thor. eushhreds On hls Virginia farm, mods approval at the sleek chest- Mut herse Of . mounted pollce- man parked" on West 4Sth street Phil Spltalny strolIing through Central Park at dusk, pauses e lend . critical ear to Che band concert on the Mali Andre Kostelanetx stops at . curiO shep fa East S7th street to ex- amin . strange collection of mu- sicaI shells.
 HOLLYWOOD: George Burns and brother Willie attempt to play bridge with Al Joison and Tony Martin in the spacious Burns gar- den, while Oracle looks on {. Meyer Alexander stops with Benny Goldman, newly arrived, ct c Sum- set Boulevard corner to enjoy the Hawaiian influence and sample c pineapple drink that's c new Holly wood favorite Gertrude Niesen, elmost hidden under c fioppy straw bonnet, hurries along Vine street with Craig Reynolds.
 DOTTED; Duke Ellington was nsMied as the greatest living Amerlean by several enthusiastic in . studenps poll recently at the Umlversity of lewa Cab Cal. loway's phenegraph records, with . tone range from minus ten aeelbels te plus twenty.two, are che most eilficult ef all e broad. east, according te radle engineers Irving Mills, managing di. seetee of Master Records. lne., sails en teh Rex. Saturday tJune 2sl e establish distFibution for his
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