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The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

cult prominence. Temples we're to
be established all over the coun-
try, and in a little while yogi
Jackson" would have a following
that would make Father Divine's
look puny.
But they intended to get this
costly at the expense of Uncle
Sam, so as Uncle Samuel deports
aliens, they thought all they had
to do would be to deny their
American citizens, but wished to
return to Egypt. Jackson said his
name was Herfe Tashari, the
women were Keturah Zion, Ru-
homa jon and Hamela Teshari,
and that they were born in Egypt
OF Abyssinian parents. They
yearned for their native homes on
the banks of the great Nile, they
eloquently declared, so the quicker
Uncle Sam booked passage for
them, the better.
Unfortunately for them the au-
thorities refused to be convinced
even by their attempts at broken
dialect, so they were all arrested
and booked on charges of sus-
picion of false representation. So
last Friday the federal grand jury
indicted them on the charge. They
are nov back in the county Jail,
awaiting trial. Conviction carries
a severe penalty.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

Greenville, S. C., August 3 VIII
liam H. Anderson, president Of the
Greenville youth council Of the
NAACP, was convicted here, July
q. on two charges, breach OF
peace and disorderly conduct. An
derson was accused of having tel
ephoned a fifteen-year-old white
girl asking for a date.
The jury was out more than foul
hours. The trial was behind locked
doors and non one was adm tied
who did not have some connection
with the case. Anderson was put
under a SIS, 700 peace bond and sen
fenced to serve thirty days or pay
a 500 fine. The N.A.A.C.P branch
here announced that the case
would be appealed to a higher
court
It is generally agreed that An
derson is the victim of a crude
frame-up. The N.AA.C.P. youth
council leader has been active Tor
the past few weeks in advising
and registering Negro voters for
the city primary which occurs here
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

W lIllE 0ASOAAoAIh -
ASK CIVIC LEADER. WHAT
WOULD YOU DO FOR THE NE
CROP"
Fitzgerald, Ca, Aug. II CAMP
Members of the senior class of Ben
Hill County Training School
(white), this city, recently wrote
to William ]. Schieffelin, New
York City, nationally known civ
ic leader and chairman of the
board of trustees, Tuskegee insti-
tute, for first-hand information
on the needs of the Negro. The So
GEOLOGY students asked Mr.. Schief-
felin to frankly answer this qhes-
ton:
"If you had everything neces-
sary-money, influence, even the
gift of prophecy and magie-what
would you do for the Negro"
Mr.. Schieffelin interesting answer
follows:
"Your question suggests that If
n were omnipotent what could
be done in the behalf of the Ne
gro. The fact that such a ques-
ton comes from a group of white
students in the heart of Georgia
itself is indeed an encouraging
sign that the movement to bring
about better conditions s gaining
momentum. Your question used
the term "magic" which may be
interpreted as faith-faith that
can remove mountains. So let us
that faith has removed
race prejudice and put in its place
human sympathy based upon the
knowledge of the aspirations, and
appreciation of the achievements
Of many of our Negro fellow cit
liens.
'Your class in Sociology might
well invite members of your coun-
tv or state i~nterracial commission
to picture to you how constantly
local difficulties are removed and
good will is restored through study
of the situation and by invoking
helpfulness in place of jealousy
o.. competition. The class should
make a wider survey covering the
crisis in which the share-croppers
find themselves. Here of course
is where money is vital and the
example of Sherwood Eddy's COM
munity plantation points toward a
solution
"Most of us feel that Negroes
should have the same opportuni-
ty for training and employment as
other citizens have, there is no
doubt if race prejudice is over
come the labor unions would well
come the Negroes into their mem
bership.
Negroes today do not want to
have things done for them, but
they do want the same opportunl-
ty to do things that other people
have, therefore your question
might be more wisely what can
the Negroes do for us?' This |
would answer, they can teach us
how to value the more important
things in life-loyalty and laugh
ter. music and song, sacrifice and
friendship and last but not least,
real appreciation of character, or
what they call quality"
"The point of view of both the
white and the Negroes would be
truer. and therefore, freer from
prejudice, if the more enlightened,
better educated and most sue
cessful Negroes were given oppor-
tunity to discuss these questions
with their white neighbors, and |
think your class might well seek
out ten or twenty of the leading
colored men and women in your
county and ask them to confer
with you from time to time. What
you will learn and what they will
learn will bring about great good"
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
TEXANS COLD TO GARNER
INTERVIEW

Houston, Aug. II, (By J. Don
Davis for AMP Negroes re-
ceived coldly Vice President John
Nance Gamers interview released
by the Washington bureau of the
Associated Negro Press, in which
the veteran Texan said he was OPP
posed to the lilly white" primary
in Texas.
Garner has been in the posi-
ton to use his influence in break
ing down the primary bar ,bu+ has
he ever uttered a word before -,
is the query being placed by Tex
ans in all walks of life. The ma
jority opinion is that Garner is at
tempting to use his off-the-record
opposition of the Texas primary as
bid to secur support of the
d~isfranchised Texas Negroes in his
bid for the 1910 presidential NOM
ination on the Democratic ticket.
Many Texas Negro leaders ex-
pressed the opinion that Gamers
social equality talk in his home
was the result of his forgetfulness
that the day of "Uncle Toms" is
over in Texas and to expect the
support of Texas Negroes in his
presidential aspirations, Garner
must speak on the record as be-
ing in favor of the states large
colored popular receiving its full
political rights.
Former congressman, Maury
Maverick, present mayor of San
Antonio has openly expressed him.
self as being opposed to the Gar
ner candidacy and it goes with
out saying that Texas Negroes will
follow the lead of Maverick, to
whom they look as a future Polit-
zeal saviour.
Maverick has expressed the o.
pinion that Garner is far too old
to effectively guide the d~estinies
of the nation in this turbulent
period and predicts a victory for
young Robert Taft if the Repub-
licans throw him in the race a.
gainst Garner. Maverick will be
remembered as the sole Southern
Congressman to vote for the anti
lynch bill.
Recently a group of Texas lead
ers approached Garner supporters
in Texas and queried them on Gar
ner's racial attitude. Nothing def
mite was given and Texas week
lies have all come forth with bur
ming editorials admenishing Gar
ner and his supporters that he and
they must get right on the primary
question, for many prominent
Texans of color will tour the coun-
try during the presidential cam
and tell the nation of con-
ditions in the Lone Star state
should a resident of a state that
interprets democracy as being the
disfranchisement of 100000 of
citizens, be in the race for the,
post in this great common
wealth.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
1~nsanitary buildings.

uIfsdIIIaI4 UuIIuIHBs.
Bohnen's subject was the general
economics of low-cost housing, in
GLIDING the relation of the Negro
population to those groups which
lack economic opportunity.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19
BEAT UP NINE
NEGRO VOTERS

New York, August 3, Eugene
Gordon for CNA)-Looking for
f~irst-hand facts on the recent beat
ings of Negroes on Washington
Heights, this city, | stumbled upon
a case that seemed almost to have
been staged for my especial bene-
fit.
Indeed, had I been on the other
side of the street and just a few
minutes earlier | myself might
have been the bruised. bleeding,
AMI unconzcious victim lying face
up in the middle of the sidewalk
and pressed upon by scores of the
curious.
The assault victim was a II
year old youth. Two others of APP
proximately the same age stood
over him, one of these also lacer-
ated and bleeding, while the po-
lice shouted at the crowds to
stand back and everybody awaited
an ambulance.
The beatings had occurred in
150th st. a few PAGES east of Am
sterdam Ave. The neighborhood is
predominantly a white" one. A
side from the victim and his two
friends, | was the only Negro a
mong the hundred or nor ex-
cited spectators.
Crowd Sympathetic
Despite the fact that the as
naulted youth were Negroes and
that they had probably been
punished for ventufing into a
neighborhood that of late has come
to be looked upon a taboo even
for Negroes hurrying by on foot,
the attitude of the crowd was
clearly sympathetic toward the
victims and condemnatory OF the
hoodlums.
1t was learned later that the
victims were Marvin Jackson and
Edward Meigs. The latter and the
worse injured of the two lives
at AIT w. 150th st. Jachson's adj
dress was not ascertained. Jack
son is suffering from decorations
of the face and abrasions of the
body. Jackson had conclusion of
the brain, in addition to other in
%juries, but may live. They are both
in Harlem Hospital.
From questioning persons in the
crowd it was possible to learn
that the three Negro youths were
going up the hill from the direc-
ton of Riverside Drive, when a
crowd of white youths, reputed to
be Couglinitos, slipped upon them
from behind and attacked them
with crude piles and clubs.
The attack was second within
"a hours. The night before, at
149th st. and Riverside Drive,
Walker Verne. a Negro cook, 81
of All W. 10th st. was set upon
and beaten by a gang of white
hoodlums while he a walking
with his wife and child. He is
still on the danger list at Harlem
Hospital.
During the past month there
have been no fewer than five ca
SEES of assault on Negroes by
Coughlinite gangs in that local
'ound murdered in tn hudson,
ity. A Negro boy recently was
Just off the place where these
fights have taken place.
Members of the Communist Par
ty and other progressive organi-
cations in Washington Heights are
rallying their forces to combat the
growing influence of the Cough
linites there and their race ha-
tired propaganda.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-19

President of Youth Council, 10,
Who was Active in Registering
Negro Voters. is Convicted on
Charge of Telephoning White
Girl for Date; Case will be APP
pealed
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
ArmOrSville

Mr.. and Mrs. w. |. Moore spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Dye of near Alvada.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. p. Hartman called
at the Purl Hartman home Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Hosafros
took Sunday dinner with Mrs. Eliza
beth Hosafros of Findlay.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Hilty and
daughters Fern and Rosann, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Ewing, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
C. Schaublin and daughter Rachel
and Emanuel Boutwell, were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
ford Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly Moser and son
spent Sunday afternoon at the Levi
Hauenstein home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Henry of Dayton
called Monday of last week on Mrs.
Eva Montgomery.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. E. Coldiron
spent the week end with the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Klingler
and son. Sunday dinner guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Wilkins and
family.
Those that called Sunday on Mrs.
Eva Montgomery were Mrs. Ernest
Klingler and daughter Betty, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kent Klingler and son Perry
Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brown
and son Gary Allen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vaughn Spellman and daughter
Patsy.
The young people of the Pleasant
View C. E. will visit Liberty Chapel
C. E. and take charge of the program
next Sunday evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

cts are on sale at SO a plate, two for
S5.
+
Arrangements have been completed
for two new trips by the Gospel Team.
On Sunday, January %, a program
win be presented in the Methodist
church at Wapakoneta. The second
appearance will be in the First Men
MONTE church of Berne, Ind, where
the group viii present a program on
Sunday, Feb. 10.
Opening a series of meetings relat-
ing to the symbolical triangle of the
Y. NJ. c. A, Coach A. c. Burcky spoke
on "The Body" at meeting of the
campus organization last week. Other
subjects to be discussed at later meet
ings include "The Mind" and 1.-THE
Spirit"
Plans are underway for the annual
banquet Of the staff of The Witmar-
sum, campus newspaper, which is
scheduled for March 81. Carlton K.
3Tatson, former editor of The Toledo
News Bee, viii be the speaker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

sea floor at higher speed than through
the continents. 1t Is probable that
the dominant kind Of rock in the con-
tinental masses is not the same as
that beneath deep-sea floor.
From a study Of the earthquake
lwave which pass through the earth,
geologists and seisnologists are now
ready to make some definite eonclu-
sions concerning the competition of the
earth at depth.
Most scientists favor the view that
the core of the earth Is metallic. It
/ IS believed that the central core Of the
earth, more than 1000 miles in diam
fetar, Is composed Of iron ard nickel
with an average density Of 8.
The evidence indicates convineingly
that the earth has a density stratiG-
cation" with the heaviest materials
near the center and lightest near the
surface. This arrangement is the
strongest reason for believing that the
earth passed through a molten stage.
/ Gravity caused the heavy metals to
settle toward the center, and proges-
sively lighter substances formed q
spherical shell between the core and
/ the surface.
| An analogy is furnished by a smelt-
err furnace in which metals are ex-
Itracted from ore. The metal settles
to the bottom of the container. Di-
rectly above is a layer Of oxides and
sulphides with an average density Of
5 to 6.
/ The seismoIogic evidence indicates
ithat rock extends continuously from
the surface to a depth of 750 miles
This rock, a heavy material, has an
average density of about l. A zone
few tens Of miles thick, composed
largely of granite and the familiar
rock types, forms the continents.
The zones probably grade into each
other 1t should be kept in mind that
the entire conception, no part of which
lis subject to direct proof, is a hypo
thesis. 1t is merly an attempt to give
a picture consistent with the known
i facts. However, the facts are formid
able and the hypothesis is more val
liable than the guesses of the last cen
/ tury.
| With the improvement of the Seis
mograph and the constant progress
of scientific investigation, it is certain
that we shall know more about TIN
constitution of the earth as a whole
i Next week-"The Atmosphere") !.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
Richland Center

Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Moser and
sons were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Switzer and family of
Ohio City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hilty and
daughters Fern and Rosann, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Ewing, Emanuel Bout
well and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schaublin and daughter Rachel were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Gratz. Afternoon call
ers were Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Schaublin and daughter Patsy Ann.
Miss Evelyn Mullett and Emerson
Niswander spent Sunday afternoon
with Miss Mae Belle Amstutz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne thinner
man and daughter spent Sunday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Matter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Clouser spent
the past week in Hammonsburg.
Joe Powell and John Hirschfeld
and son Billy and Myrtle Mangus
were Sunday guests at the John
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
CAMPUS COMMENT

Examinations for the first semester
will be given at the college starting
Wednesday, Jan. 25, and continue
thru the following Saturday. Regis
tration for the new school term win
be Monday, Jan. 30.
"a
A number of new courses have been
added to the college curriculum for
the second semester. Among the lew
subjects will be Introduction to Edu-
cation, Modern Social Theories, Philos-
ophy of Religion, Mathematics of Fl
nance and Descriptive Geometry.
=
Inaugurating social events of the
new semester, the annual Faculty
Student reception will be held Mon
day night, Jan. 30, in the Musselman
library. Prof. Otto Holtkamp is chair
man of the committee arranging for
the event. He is assisted by Mrs. A.
C. Burcky, Mrs. Pearl Bogart Mann,
Mrs. P. w. Stauffer, President L. L.
Ramseyer and Prof. F. A. Babione.
A new event on Blufton colleges
annual program viii be the Booster
banquet to be held at Ropp hall, Fri
day, Feb. 3. Business and professional
groups, clubs, churches and individuals
of the town and community are being
invited to cooperate in making the
first Booster banquet q success. Tick
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19

binders, and many were repaired with
in the library. ~ volumes OF Nation
al Geographic magazines were also
bound. These magazines were donat-
ed by Edgar Hauenstein, a member of
the Library Board.
New equipment includes is feet of
steel shelving IN the stack room to
help take care of books added to the
library.
National book week was observed
November. A number of new juven-
lie books were purchased and posters
were displayed. A one-act play enti-
tied "And then what happened. was
given by the following grade school
children: Freddie sumney, Elmer
Stonehill, Donivan Augsburger, David
Stearns, Jean Ann Burcky, Sarah Am
stutz and Patty Ryan. It was given
for the Parent Teachers Association
and for Grade School Assembly.
A reading project entitled 'sTravel-
ing Thought Books" was arranged fol
the summer months. Children in tht
grades 3 to s reported the books rear
and to what country or city the story
took them. The prize Of a book was
given to the child from each grade WIKI
read the most books. Prize winners
were Malcom Basinger, 3rd grade, Ell
ner Stonehill, 4th grade; Charles
Trippiehorn, 9Th grade; Earl Dear
Luginbuhl, 9Th grade; Harriet Fett
7th grade; Bib Amstutz, 8th grade.
Bulletin Boards advertising nev
books and books Of interest on various
subjects were arranged by student Ii
brary assistants and Miss Anderson
the librarian.
A course of instruction in the u.s.
of books and libraries is given in til,
seventh and eigth grades and as al
elective course for students assistant
is offered to high school students. Tn
total number enrolled in these classe
is ia
Members of the Library Board are
Mrs. Clair B. Fett, President; Mrs. w
A. Amsutz, Vice President; Lelan,
Diller, Secretary and Treasurer; Mrs
w. Z. Marshall, Mrs. Ralph Stearns
Noah Basinger, Edgar Hauenstein.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
BlufftOn Residents Read Average
Of Ten Books Each During 1898

The following statistical report Of
the Button -Richland Public Library
for the year ending December 81,
1888, was submitted by Miss Ocie An
derson, Librarian.
The total book circulation for 1888
shows that the Blufton- Richland Pub
lie library's 1857 registered borrow
ers read 30,938 books during the year,
an average of IT books per borrower,
and an average of 10 books per capita
circulated (the school district popula-
ton being 3,100). According to stan
dards OF service set up by the Ameri-
can Library Association in cities Of
less than 10000, the number of books
lent per capita should be 10.
Registration Of borrowers and the
issuing of borrowers cards was begun
in June 1896, and 1877 borrowers
cards were issued to December 81,
1898, about so percent of the district
population registered within that time.
According to the American Library
Association standards Of service in
cites Of less than 10000, the per cent
Of population registered as borrowers
should be so. The lower the popula-
ton the higher the standards.
The library's book lending service
can be measured statistically, while
many of the most important services
cannot. Example of such services are
the provision Of reference and study
facilities, the encouragement of pur-
poseful reading Of adults and young
people, cooperation with the schools
etc.
An average of about 40 reserve no
tees per day are given to patrons anc
the student body. Students of al
grades are notified the day their book:
are due. Books and material request
ed by borrowers that cannot be sup
lied by the library are borrowed from
the state library.
The library now has 1870 volumes
on its shelves, 918 of these having
been added by gifts and purchases thii
year. Of this number, 191 books anC
AZ volumes of magazines, were gifts
the donors being A. J. B. Longsdorf
Sidney Stettler, Theresa Slusser, Ell
mer Fett, Mrs. Paul Studler, Mrs. j. S
Steiner, Eileen Weinhold, 2. T. Sho
walter, Orden Smucker, Mrs. Gract
Cox, Edgar Hauenstein, the Board O
Education, High School debate team
Century Circle and different publish
ing companies.
The years purchases includes a nev
set of the Encyclopedia of Socia
Science by Seligman and many othe
general reference books. The nev
books also include fiction for both ad
ults and Juveniles, and on-fctiol
books of biography, history, travel, re
Egion, literature, science, fine arts
useful arts and social science. Pur
chases are made from requests o
teachers members of clubs, student
and other patrons. Requests for boo
purchases for both study and pleasur
reading are always welcome from al
patrons. The purchases also includ
56 magazine subscriptions, while man
valuable files of magazines have bee
donated by patrons. The popular maya
zines suitable for young folks ar
bound in red rope binders and circu
lated.
453 books were rebound in certife
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
REPORT

Financial report of the Ladies Auxil-
iary of The Bluffton Community
w Hospital from Jan. /, 1898 to
Jan. l. 1889,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-19
The Structure Of Earth

IF it were possible to make an OPEN
ing to the center of the earth, what
would be revealed Does the compo-
sition Of the earth change radically
with depth? What is the tenpera-
ture at various levels Is any large
part Of the interior IN a liquid or
molten condition? How do the MAJ
terials at great depth behave under
the enormous over-burden? These
are profound questions and represent
the goal Of scientific investigations.
The average density of the carts is
$50. That is an average sample Of
the earth weighs five and one hall
times as much as an equal volume Of
water. The density Of all the differ
ent kinds of rocks at the earth's sur
face give an average value Of 81 As
this is less than half the density o.
the earth as a whole. the interior must
consist of much heavier material thar
the outer part.
Theoretically the surface Of the
earth would be quite smooth if the
material below the surface were uni.
form in chracter By highly techica
determinations, a strong probability
has been established that the rocks
underlying the deep-sea are in general
denser than those composing the con
tinents.
The mountain ranges are composed
of and underlain by material that il
lighter, compared with the EARTH:
crust as a whole. 1t seems that diff
ferences in elevation are the result Of
differences in the density of the un
DERIVING rocks. In other words, tht
mountains are higher because they are
composed of lighter material, wheras
the oceans are lower because the un.
derlying rocks are heavier.
The body of the earth responds tC
the tidal forces of the moon and sun
as would be expected if the earth were
composed of the toughest steel Earth
quake waves pass through the deep