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The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
BATTLE AGAINST LYNCHING
New York, Mar. 5-An editorial in the Miami Daily News.

1t is probable that, within a number of years, Southern
legislatures will be ready to pass laws against lynching. 1t Is
evident that no such general assumption of state responsibility
~ Immediately in view. This leaves the federal govern
ment to deal with a menace which is inspiring increasing pub
ic impotence with the brutality of numbering mobs.
Into the senate yesterday went an antilynching bill,
modelled after the Cosigan'Wagner measure which was killed
by fnibustering Southern senator's in 1885. Al companion bill
has already been introduced in the house. The measures pro-
yide that any legal officer found guilty of negligence IN the
projection Of prisoners is liable to five years in prison or a fine
of $1,000. The city or county in which the lynching occurs is
also liable to a fine. This ranges from $4,000 to $4,000. I'M
mediately following amy reported ~lynching the Gmen will be
set upon the trial.
The law is not SO drastic ais lynching legislation goes.
Probably it is not drastic enough. Virginia has had an antf
lynching law for 10 years which not only Furnishes the negligent
officer but provides for lodging of murder charges against
members of the mob. The law is accompanied by provisions
for strict enforcement and there has not been a lynching IN Vr
GINA since it was passed.
1t will be said the proposed measure violates state rights
Constitutional authorities have argued both ways as to that
But lynching violates human rights and few states have shown
a disposition to protect their rights by assuming the response
biities which they entail.
1t is doubtful that our Southern opinion will long tolerate
perpetuation Of mob rule. Last year there was founded an as
ISOLATION of Southern women which declared its resentment
that the honor of white womanhood is used as a skirt for brut
ahty and crime.
Lynching submits one human being to hideous fortunes
1t submits a dozen or a hundred or a thousand other human De.
ings to moral degradation and loss of self respect In recent
wears it has been a matter for gloating in the European press.
America should tolerate no further compromise with barbarlsm'
The states have hung back. Now it is up to the federal govern
ment to drive the matter through.
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
CalUun's Digest
BY Floyd j. Calvin

veloped to a point where it is no
longer possible for back7sliders,
straddlers and even group traitors
to sell out without the public
knowing it instantly.
Speaking like this, it is not ne
cessary to call names; but those
for whom the orchids are meant
know who they are
Hastie's Nomination
We note opposition is develop
ing to the nomination of w. H
HASTE by President Roosevelt tc
a Federal Judgeship in the Virgin
Islands. Unfortunately, a Demo
cratic Senator SENS to be leading
that opposition. The confirmation o.
Mr.. HASTE is absolutely essential t
a new and higher step in our civic
life which should be taken under
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
An Echo
From My Den
BY S. E. Gilbert

AS l sit here in my den, with
pen in hand, meditating as it were,
there comes to my mind something
of Importance. Mr.. VIM. E. Borah,
Of Idaho, has introduced into Con-
gress an extremely dangerous
amendment The man whom we
remember SO well as a foe of anti
lynching legislation, and for that
reason fought by progressive Ne
gro leaders when he offered himself
as candidate for the presidency.
His Excellency now seeks in all
probability to carry out his hid
den ambition of multiplying rights
of the Negro to have the
advantage of te due process of law
as set out in the Fourteenth
lAmendment-the amendment which
he now seeks to change, giving the
states the right to act as they
see fit as pertains to social and
economic legislation, leaving the
federal government and the Su-
preme Court powerless to interfere
therein lies the danger. Such q
change would permit open discri-
mination against people of color
on juries and before the law action
now held illegal before the Surpeme
Court. When they begin tamper-
ing with the Fourteenth Amend
ment there is no telling where fan.
attic negrophobists will stop.
The doctrine of states rights
has been almost an unsur-
mountable barrier to the race. Al
ready many states have sufficient
leeway to treat Negroes almost as
they please. State Administrations
take tax money and give little in
return, not even a school teacher OF
a county doctor; they have tricked
laws prohibiting the black vote
they have done everything to pre-
vent our receiving an equitable
share of Federal Relief Funds. I'm.
der Borah's amendment a Fedora
anti-lynch law would be an impos.
sibility.
Now we in Omaha, who r i'd
certified with that group for whom
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth ant
Fifteenth Amendments stand on.
as a Rock of Gibraltar, should re
gister u protests with u repre-
sentatives now in Congess. Fellow
citizens, I beseech each and ever!
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13

There never has been q time since
the great flood when the world
was more wicked than it is today.
Our boas5ed civilization consists
in parallel progress in wealth, wis
dom and wickedness. When we look
over the face of the civilized world
and witness the ~rathlessness of
the Italians in Ethiopia, of Hitler
in Germany, of the British in In
dia, to say nothing from patriotic
~reticence of Americans in America,
our hearts sink within us.
The peoples of African descent,
scattered throughout the world,
bear the heaviest brunt of this af-
Fiction, but they must not permit
themselves to be overcome of evil;
but must overcome evil with good,
They cannot fight with carnal wea-
pons; they cannot match might
with might, wealth with wealth.
knowledge with knowledge, or po-
wer with power. They find them
selves in the plight of an infant
crying in the night, an infant cry
ing for the light, and with no Ian
guage but a cry; and yet a cry is
the most powerful and effective
language in the world. Prayer
petition and protest constitute the
only weapon which the weak car
command against the strong.
But let us not be down cast. Al
ong with the growing wickednes'
of mankind, there is also a grow.
ing conscience, else there would be
no reeompense for those who suffer
and are heavy laden. Every religt
Gus system that comes into the
world releases ONE new doctrine
which serves to quicken the human
conscience. Although the human
race has come a long way sine,
mankind, like brutes, was red II
tooth and claw, yet we have no
reached the halfway point on tn
winding stair that stretches from
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13

wolfishness to brotherhood; from
] enmity to amity; from earth to
heaven.
Think of the time of universal
slavery, when the weak were re-
garded as the legitimate prey of the
strong; when the Lords Amounted
could boast of a heather as their
possession, to be ruled over with
a rod of iron and broken to pieces
like a potter's vessel.
The slowly quiekening conscience
of mankind has gone far beyond
the initial stage. There is always
an ever increasing minority in all
lands to whom the afflicted may
cry for sympathy and suceor; 9TH
erwise prayer, petition and protest
would be in vain. The Christian
conscience is not yet keen and al
ert enough to heed the cry of the
afflicted at too great a cost to it
self. It is only in spasms of virtue
such as swept over this nation and
wiped out the iniquity of slavery
that this conscience asserts itself
with righteous indignation. It soon
lapses into a state of sloth and in
action. 1t is not dead, but sleepeth
to be awakened only when the vol
ume of prayer, petition and pro-
test would not allow it ease in it's
slothful slumber. Herein lies the
only hope of the Jew in Germany,
the uncounted millions in India,
and the scattered fragments of
the African throughout the world.
If there were not a God in Heaven,
the helpless and lamentable condi-
ton of these helpless folk would
create one and place him there, SO
that there might be a personalized
God of compassion who stitch in
the clouds to look into the bottom
of our grief.
The peoples of African descent
are the chief beneficiaries of that
Beatitude with the promise "Bless-
ed are they that mourn, for they
shall be comforted." The Negroids
of the world have the moral and
spiritual advantage over their more
arrogant and naughty Brethren
Moral and spiritual reforms come
from those who feel the need of
them. If the Negro fulfills his
high mission he may regard HIM
self in truth and in deed as Gods
chosen people to serve al monitor
over the conscience of a wicked
world in a wicked age.
Appeal to government may fall
appeal to philanthropy may prove
of no avail; even appeal to reason
may leave US be-puzzled in scorn
and derision; but appeal to con-
science faileth never.
Kelly Miller
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
Ray l.. Williams, Atty.
Tuchman Bldg. oath and LAX

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate Of
HATTIE WILLIAMS, deceased:
All persons Interested in said
matter are hereby notified that on
the 9rd day of February, 1887 w.
L. Myers filed a petition in said
County Court, praying that his
final ADMINISTRATION account filed
herein be settled and allowed, and
that he be discharged from his
trust as administrator and that a
hearing will be had on said petition
before said court on the 9Th day
of March 1897, and that If you
fail to appear before said Court on
the said 9th day Of March, 1887
at 9 o'clock a. M, and contest, the
Court may grant the prayer of said
petition, enter a decree of heirship,
and make such other and further
orders, allowances and DEGREES, as
to this Court may seem proper, to
the end that all matters pertaining
to said estate may be finally settled
and determined.
Bryce Crawford
County Judge
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
Courage Commended

We wish to commend the cour-
age of certain Of our college execu-
tives who have come out and taken
a clear-cut and progressive stand
on the Harrison-Black education
bill. We have watched with interest
the moves of certain Negro lead
rs who had much at stake and we
are now happy to observe that the
men with most to lose have hewed
closest to the line. Ordinarily this
would not be saying much but in
Negro life, we all know what ire
mendous pressure it is possible to
bring on u leaders who have ex-
ecutive power-even pressure not
seen by the public. Fortunately
however, Negro life, has been de-
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13

part, played by Claudette Col
bert, down to see the children
look decent and clean, while
the slave character is made
black, filthy and foul. History
does not make her black. If
she were black, she no doubt,
was clean and kept.
Down with "The Maid of
Salem picture until it drops
its bold reflection upon a great
race.
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
Sitting With the
Organizations
By the Review Editor

We who r DESTROYS of being
the looking glass through whom
the past, present and future of the
many organizations of our city
may reflect, bring to you, dear
reader, a statistical review of the
meritorious work done by the Oma-
ha Urban League Community Gen.
ter for the year 1896.
There were, on an average basis,
A groups Glasses and clubs) with
a definite enrolment that met each
month at the center.
Those groups held an average
of 158 meetings per month.
The average monthly enrolment
of these groups was 605 persons.
The average monthly attendance
at these group and class meetings
was 2,543, a total attendance of
2O,346.
During the year AZ special ey-
ents such a dancing parties, NOV
les, plays, etc., were held for the
community.
The attendance for the above
mentioned special events was 1896.
The gymnasium was open for
an average of twent-four days
each month.
The average monthly attendance
in the gymnasium was 1902 per
sons, and the total attendance H.
018.
There was a total of $50 meet
ings Of outside groups, committees,
and organizations using the facil-
tiles of the Center with a total at
tendance of 6,229.
The aggregate attendance Tor
the above programs during the
year was 42,459.
The WPA orchestra met on an
average of 81 days every month
with an average attendance Of SCI.
There were 829 persons applying
for work in the industrial and
placement department.
There was listed 440 jobs to be
filled during the year.
There was filled 437 of these jobs
failing to fill only three of the
440.
In filling these jobs there was
placed 568 different persons.
In the neighborhood department
of the Center, since July LIST there
has been held SO different meetings
There was 725 persons in attend
ance at these meetings.
These meetings represented the
activities of seven different out
side n~eighborhood groups.
These groups have a total men,
bership of ITO persons.
Thus ends in brief an account
of the stewardship of the Omaha
Urban League Community Center
for the year 1886.
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
KELLY MILLER
SAYS

March l, 1887
4 WEAK RACE IN 4
WICKED WORLD
DIR. Kelly Miller,
Howard University
Washington, d. c.
Dear DIR. Miller;
We, of the United Aid for PEG
pies of African Descent, r pain.
fully distressed by the news from
Rome and Adds Ababa telling O.
the wholesale slaughter of hundreds
of Philippians as reprfsal for tht
bomb-throwing incident in Add:
Ababa. Such wanton destruction Of
human life cannot but arouse the
conscience of the civilized world
particularly members of minority
groups.
AS a result of a a meeting
held last night at st. James Pres
byterian church, a number of cable
grams and kilograms, protesting
these Fascist acts of barbarism,
were sent to President Roosevelt,
His Holiness Pope Plus XI, The
Right Honorable David Lloyd Geo
rye, the italian Ambassador at
Washington and the Italian Con-
sular-G General at New York.
Another mass meeting has been
called for Monday evening, Mar.
1st at the Renaissance Casino,
138th Street and Seventh Avenue,
to further express the Indignation
of liberty loving persons of all races
We respectfully request that you
send to the mass meeting an ex-
prssion of opinion condemning on
tinued Fascist slaughter of practi-
cally defenseless Philippians, whose
greatest crime is that they stand
in the defense of their country.
The United Aid for Peoples of
African Descent is pledged to use
every legitimate means to help
save the Ethiopian people from
further attempted determination.
May we rely upon your help
Yours very sincerely,
William Lloyd lines, Pres.
United Aid for Peoples
of African Descent
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liOOo. NAOA Z 10
girl is pictured in filthy fright
full form, looking out of demon
ish eyes and fleeing like a hum
an devil.
The shrewd effect of this
picture on the minds of the A
merican public is intellectually
harmful. Frank lloyd, the
producer, and the Paramount
Studio might as well know now
that the Negro resents this Ell
fort to veil white peoples sup.
erstition by palming it off on
a poor Negro slave girl. His
tory shows that this superSti
ton swept Europe and North
America and destroyed even sc
notable a person as Joan OF
Are. This was official and moi
slave superstition.
What is more, the c%oloreo
slave girl was Indian, but yor
get no hint of this in the "Maid
of Salem film. The Indiar
race has established a reputa
ton of resentment to misrep
resentation ON the stage anC
screen. so the producers dare
not. The whole foul business
of that holocaust is made to be
Gin in the superstition of
! slave girl, who was mostly In
dian with, perhaps, a Negrt
), strain. The whites brought II
' court from the Salem's maid
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13
'Maid of Salem"
False Film
BALD REFLECTION ON A
GREAT RACE
by BISHOP W. J. WALLS

Ch1cago, March (ANP.) -
The picture entitled "The
Maid of Salem" showing at
the Chicago theatre, is another
instance of the habit of prod
ueers to defame the Negro race
by sinister implications on the
screen. History is distorted to
make it appear that a Negro
slave called Tituba started the
witchcraft at Salem
This woman is pictured IN
weird and disgusting supersti-
ton, conjuring the minds of
groups Of old and young with
blood curdling stories, telling
fortunes by ~palmistry and Civ
ing herb drinks to intoxicate
the brain. That feature of the
picture misrepresents history.
The child of John Goodwin
is made to fall out with a Ne
gro slave woman, Tituba,
whose Arrest and confession
starts the frenzy that caused
the deaths attending this witch
craft episode. This is not true
As a matter of fact, the person
whom Goodwin Is young daugh-
ter hated and falsely accused
of stealing family linen was an
Irish servant woman. The mo-
Their scolded the girl SO furious
ly for lying that she fell down
in a fit. The other children of
the family joined her. The
witch minded doctor, clergy
and magistrates decide it was
a case for them and instructed
the girl to accuse the one who
had tricked her by pointing the
finger when the alleged trick
ster appeared. The headstrong
pretending girl pointed her
finger at the Irish servant wo-
man and the servant was forth
with hanged. Then the raging
storm against invisible imps
began. This occurred in Bos-
ton in 1858.
The events that touched off
the Salem brainstorm were not
until 1892, as the film states.
Tituba, the slave, did figure in
a group with girls when three
were arrested for palmistry
and hysterical acts, of whom
two were white. The white
girls denied what they were do
ing and the slave girl told the
truth. Mark you, the picture
makes the mobbish officers ar
rest only the colored slave and
connects her with the 1858 Bos'
ton incident in place of the
Irish woman servant. This
makes the picture a plain false
hood. More is true. The slave
girl is pictured in filthy fright
full form, looking out of demon
ish eyes and fleeing like a hum
an devil.
The shrewd effect of this
picture on the minds of the A
merican public is intellectually
harmful. Frank lloyd, the
producer, and the Paramount
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13

on of you to give this serious
thought now.
The Omaha guide., 1937-03-13

Rev. VIM. Lloyd lines, Pres.
United Aid for Peoples
of African Descent.
New York City
Dear DIR. lines:
I am enclosing herewith a state
ment to be used at your mass meet
ing Monday night.
1.-THE world has reached a state
of wicknedness unequaled since the
days of Noah. With the guilty ac-
quiescence of church and state, It
ally is permitted to rape the an
Gent Kingdom of Ethiopialand to
exterminate her loving sons who
resent the atrocity. Organized
government and organized Chris
tianity break down at the color
line. 1t may be that it devolves
upon descendants of the so-called
Ozark Continent" as Gods chosen
people, to quicken the conscience Of
mankind"
Kelly Miller
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-09-24

cukrovka a chmel. Kukurice
Dude meme, jezto sucho v srp-
nu snizilo O 40 odhad V Ne
brasce, Kansasu a Missouri.
Suche pocasi v posledn1ch
tydnech ohrozuje vsak jiz nyni
1rodu pristine roku. Povetr-
nostn1 uradovna udava, re pod
zimni orba a osev pasmu, kde
Sc seize ozima psenice, jsou O.
hrozeny nedostatkem spodni
vlahy, nasledkem cehoz sucha
p1da je tvrda. Ozima psenice
a ozime Tito pro sklizen pflst1-
no roku mali byti vysety prave
nyni.
Nedostatek vlahy byl ozna-
men z nekterych cast1 Nebras-
ky, Kansasu, Iowy, Mississippi,
Illinoisu a Wisconsin,.
- Statni department. ozna-
mil, re s Franci1 doslo k move
dohode O snizenf ella ma dovoz
americkych jablek a hrusek.
Licencn1 dan ma dovoz Dude
snizena o 500 pro sezonu
1898.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-09-24
Davy lidu pfepadlv syna

= Davy lidu prepadly syna-
Fgogu Czeladzi, Polsko, pri
zakoncenf zidovskeho svatku
Yom Kippur, ktery dial podnet
k prudkym vybuchdm proti III
dim. Dav hazel kamen1m ma
synagogu a rozbil v nj vsechna
okna. Strachem zdeseni Eide
ut1kali z modlitebny vsemi
dvermi. Jakmile Sc vsak do
ST al ven, byli pTepadeni a
zmlaceni, kdyz Sc pokouseli o
dtek. Policii podarilo sc W.
trznost zastaviti, pri cemz Eat
kla pGl tuctu osob.
" zeneve vybor odborn1-
XII kteff studujf zamyslenou
rozluku dmluvy Ligy narodI
cd mfrovych smluv We Versail-
les a .jinych m1stech, usnesl Sc
ma predelavkach 1mluvy, o
nichz Sc veT1, re mohou prive-
sti N6mecko zpet do Ligy.
- MinistTi valky Francie a
Velke Britanie pc shledanf vel
kych podzimn1ch manevrG
income francouzske armady
znovu utuzili vzajemne zajmy
svych armad s ohledem ma Cd
por proti moznemu vyboji.
"Povazuji tuto armada "a
nepremozitelnou," prohlasil
britsky ministr valky Leslie
Hore-Belisha, Kdyz byl prihlf-
Eel k manevrdm, pri kterych
francouzska "modra" armada
zatlacila sve "cervene" druhy,
kteff pfedstavovali vpad ne
pTatel.
= zivotnf potreby v Anglii
v roku 1887 jsou drazsi O 55
procent neil byly roku 1914.
Jedine cena potravin v teto do
be stoupla O 40 procent.
= Deset muzd zamestna-
nych pr sklizni brambor6 ma
farme nedaleko Kirkintilloch,
Skotsko, uhoTelo kdyz pozar
zachvatil k6lnu, v ktere spali.
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"Resoluce Soustrasti:''

Pod dojmem 1mrtf nejzaslouzilejsiho Presidenta-O-
svoboditele TOMASE GARRIGUE vyslo-
vujeme tn nejhlubsf soustrast celemu Ceskoslovenskemu
narodu jak v Americe tax "a morem.
JEz nen1 no vice, perut smrti dotkla sc skranl Jeho
a je1 selest zachvela srdcem vsech pratel rodiny a celou
zeml Ceskoslovenskou pro kterou on $ celym srdcem a
cely zivot neunavne pracoval a vSe vital S radost1 co ku
zdokonalen1 drahe vlasti smerovalo. A ten neutuchaj1-
Ct zajem 0 narod byl pr mem az do %poslednch dnd jeho
zivota. Jeho prace a snahy tn zdstanou S Mani do let
neznamych. A tie 1--WE a blahodarne pamatce budiz cest
a nehynouc1 vzpom1nka mas vsech.
Jmenem Prvn1ho Ceskeho Damskeho Demokratic-
no Klubu Z. Wardy vyslovujeme t1mto vazene rodine
hluboce procltenou soustrast mad ztratou jejich milujicf-
no otce a naseho Osvoboditele Tomase Garrigue Masa-
ryka. Budiz nehynoucf cest Jeho pamatce!
Ia Prvni Cesky Damsky Demokraticky Klub 2. Wardy
Bessie K. Rfha, predsedka. Marie Senger, tajemnice.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-09-24

z New Yorku vysla zprava,
re americky letec, Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, ktery Sc pred
skoro dvema roxy odstehoval S
rodinou do Angle, zamyslf
vzdati sc americkeho obcanstv1
a staff sc obcanem Angle.
Zprava tato nemohla byti nj
-jak p~otvrzena.
PTatele, kteTf navstfvili Lind
berghovu rodinu byli presved-
ceni, re manzele Lindberghovi
Sc do Spojenych Stat1 nevra-
tt.