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The Omaha guide., 1943-05-15
FLOODED AREA EASEMENTS
REFILL FROM SEEPAGE
AFTER BEING PUMPED OUT

With more than three-fourths of
the forty Easements that were
pumped out last Saturday and Sun.
day again full of water, Jack Var
de Water, chief mechanic of the
auxiliary firemen in charge of the
pumps, agreed Friday to make a
survey with City Engineer E. w.
Woodbridge to determine whether
it would be worthwhile to continue
pumping this week end.
In a conference with Fire Chief
JO'Connor, Floyd S. Reep, training
[ chief of the auxiliary firemen and
Arthur L. Rearodn, battalion chief
of the escu corps, Van de Water
| said that he and Woodbridge would
investigate the possibility of sur
face drainage to hasten runoff Of
the flood waters and prevent fur.
ther seepage.
'It is obviously a waste of time,
effort and gasoline to pump out
easements that will refill almost
Immediately" Van de Water said.
In one home, pumped out Sun
day, 8 inches of water had ecu
ulated in the basement by Monday
and by Thursday it was three feet
deep. The firemen and air raid
wardens had worked three hours
to pump out this basement. Sim
liar seepage was experienced in
nearly all of about 80 more homes
pumped out Sunday.
The Volunteer office of the Civ
ilian Defense Council has received
many calls during the week from
residents of the flood areas request
ing the free pumping service offer
ed by the firemen and air raid war
dens. Fire Chief O'Connor and
Chief Air Raid Warden Forest N.
Croxson urged them to be patient.
These men are giving their
time and labor to this work as a
civic service. None is getting paid
for it by any one," O'Connor said.
He also urged residents should be
present and aid the crews in this
work. In some instances. he sail,
they merely stand idly by as
though they were paying for tie
work.
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Lin.
Continued from page -

AS Lin Yutang paced the floor OF
his beautiful duplex apartment over
looking the East River It Saith st /,
he seemed to forget the subtle hu-
NOR and satiricol style that pervad-
es his great writings. He seemed
to be getting something off mis-
chest. He continued: "Our idea CT
racial prejudice is as u~nscientific
as Hitler's Aryianism. 1t has new
er been proved that the Negro is
mentally inferior to the white man.
That is something hard for tine
white man to swallow. That is a
fact. If you say you dislike Ne
groes, that is your private opinion.
But if you say the Negro is men
tally inferior to you, that is an un-
truth. No one has a right to CON
denim Hitler's race arrogance II
that one shares it himself"
These remarks were in answer
to the question: do you feel de.
mocracy and full citizenship should
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NEW EQUIPMENT RECEIVED
FOR OCD. CORPS

With 345 firemen's coats receiv-
ed Thursday and L 1920 feet of 2h
inch fire hose arriving earlier this
week, property valued at about
500, 900 is now on hand for use of
the Omaha civilian defense corps,
P. X. Walsh, local property officer,
estimated.
Included in equipment received
are 5000 steel helmets, 20 skid
mount fire pumps, 2S trailer mount
pumps, and SO feet of suction hose.
The property is stored in No. 6
fire station, oath and Cummings SITS.
which has been turned over to the
defense council by the fire repart-
ment and is being fitted for use
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student: Thank you sir.

Student: Thank you sir.
| Student: DO the Negroes in a
merica have these rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happin-
ess?
Professor: In the main-er-a-
yes. OF course there are some NAL
! adjustments which still exist but
era.
Student: Do the Hindus-and
the Africans now posses these
rights?
Professor: There are some peo-
pie of the less advanced groups of
humanity who are not yet ready
for complete equality. But when
they are ready they will receive it.
Student: How will they know
when they are ready?
Professor: We will tell them.
Student: What does the word
"lynching" mean Professor?
Professor: Lynching-er- ahem
means taking a persons life, with
out due process of law by the &C
ton of a mob.
Student: Do they still have lynch
ings in America?
Professor: That is not the sub
ject of today's discussion. We are
dealing with principles.
Student: Is the Negro really e
quail to the white man?
Professor: In a way-er-a -
physically 1 would say there is
little difference-but intellectually
1 believe mental tests and history
will show that the Negro is an in
ferior race.
Stu dent: (cautiouslyGThen you
believe in racial superiority
Professor: OF course, we of the
white race are superior to the Ne
gro, but that does not justify OF.
preston or exploitation.
Student: Has the Negro really
contributed anything to c~ivilizat
ion?
Professor: In America quite &
few Negroes have distinguished
themselves in various fields Of en-
deavor, because of our democratic
way of life.
Student: Are they not mulattol
for the most part-mixed bloods.?
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AS the call comes to Nebraskans
to enter the third scrap gathering
campaign, the question might arise
in some peoples mind as to just
how badly this scrap is needed.
At some points in the state scrap
piles have been but partially re-
moved. Tht Sc are few but they
undoubtedly give the impression
locally that scrap is not a serious
problem.
VARIOUS reasons can be pointed
out for this condition, but that
which covers most cases is that
dealers have gone out of business,
or have been called into the serv-
ice. To point out the true scrap
! picture, we quote from an editor
ial of the Waste Trade Journal,
addressed to dealers:
This is no time for complacency
| and there would be none if the pub
lie were made aware of the serious
ness Of the situation; if it were
made to realize that substantially
as much scrap will be needed in
1943 IS was the ease last year, and
| unless proper safeguards are taken
the scrap supply is likely to prove
a greater headache this year than
it did in 1912.
1T is conservatively estimated
that the steel industry will con-
sumo approximately 2 million net
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tons of purchased scrap each month
this year, or a total of "a million
net tons. 1t is important to bear
in mind that this is purchased
scrap; scrap that must come from
households, from automobile grave
yards, from industrial plants, from
farms and from highways and by
ways of the nation.
THE scrap supply problem is
something that cannot be gambled
with. The safety of the nation and
the lives of millions of our own and
of our allied soldiers depend upon
the steel mills delivering the I'M
PIGMENTS of war when and where
needed. Scrap must not be p"r.
| mitted to become a bottleneck. 1t
| will be far safer to have too much
rather than too little. We certain
ly car not risk a recurrence OF the
shortage thai Geve cred last var.
No one KNOWS how long this
Wa will las. We must prepare.
for any eventualities. The only in
surance against a scrap iron short
age is to build UP an adequate re,
serve. Unless this is done and done
quickly, and unless the appropriate
machinery is put into immediate
motion to assure this stockpile, the
consequences may be disastrous.
This is no time to engage in wish
full thinking or to take chances
The Omaha guide., 1943-05-15
Plain Talk.
EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR
WE INSTRUCT THE AXIS
ELMER A. CARTER

EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR
WE INSTRUCT THE AXIS
No less a person than Henry Wal
lace vice-President of the United
States has asserted that the United
Nations must undertake the reed
ucation of Germany after the war
so that never again will that coun-
try disturb the peace Of the world,
This is a highly interesting pro-
I. sal to say the least. 1t prcsup-
poses that the United States of A.
merica and the British Empire will
perhaps supply teachers or esta.-
lish the c%urricula for the schools
and colleges of Germany and Japan
There will be difficulties Of Ian
guage of course but they can be
overcome. But there are other diff
ficulties which might prove embar-
rassing-say for instance when the
American or English professor op-
ems his seminar we will say in Ber-
lin or Tokyo and begins to incul-
cate the great principles Of democ-
racy into the minds of the mis-
guided young Aryans Of Germany
or the stubborn little Mongolians of
Japan.
We can imagine the following
scene in a classroom:
American Professor: 1.-The idea of
a superior race is wrong. Jeffer-
son, the author of the American
Declaration of Independence pro
nounced the only true principle Of
human relationship, "All men are
created equal and endowed by their
creator with certain i~nalienable
rights, and among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happin.
essi
Student: Does this include the
Hindus and the Negroes too?
Professor: This includes every
human being on the face of the
| earth.
Student: Is this the policy thai
F. the great d-emocracies follow?
Professor: Err, Yes. This il
the principle which guides then
and which must guide you in thu
future.
Student: I once read a book by
an American called 1.-THE Rising
Tide of Color" and if I recall cor
rectly the author advocated the
suppression Of the aspiration Of the
| colored peoples in India and Afri-
ca, even in Japan, as defense fol-
| the preservation OF white civiliz
! alton.
Professor: This idea has now
been d~iscredited and the theory a
bandoned for the most part.
!
as headquarters of the auxiliary
fire and rescue corps. A LOUD
speaker, ticker an dbell alarm sys
TENS r being installed.
Evidence that the lock on the
building was tempered with Sunday
night prompted Walsh to war;
that this property is protected un
der federal law with severe penal.
ties for theft or property damage
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TO
FORT DIES MONIES

Fort DesMoines, Ia, May 10 ~
Auxiliary Alberta o. Bradley of
2817 r. Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska,
is one of the Colored women whc
have started training in the Won
ems Army Auxiliary Corps at Isl
WAAC Training Center, Fort Des
Moines, Ia. Her Auxiliary rating
is the WAC equivalent of Private
in the army.
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r. IS BADLY NEEDEDM'

Il
for both at the same time. Be
cause we refuse to face the issue
! fuarely, we are thrown into con-
f'ision about u postwar aims
In fact certain powers are already
beginning to be scared Of the At
lantic Charter and regard the oc
castor of its Application as dang
erous.'
DR.. Lin made several references
to religion in the cours of his in
terview. His father was pastor of
the American Reformed Church
Mission in China, and before Lin
studied in Jena and Leipzig in Eur
ope and received his Pm. D.. at Har-
ward. he had studied for the minis
try at st. Johns in Shanghai until
he had to break away because of
conflicts in belief. So when l ask
ed him for some comment on treat
ment of the Negro in the radio and
movie world, l was not surprised
at the answer: 1T is up to the
Christian, protestant and Catholic,
who have organizations contfol
ovar HoI1vuroo5 ~ +alvo - 4L: III
sue if they believe in what the Billie
teaches Them"
Lin Yutang came back from tie
war in China in 1910 predicting
the Chinese would never lose. He
had seen his country after yeats
of war and millions of his people
sacrificed for freedom-a freedom
he had suffered and fought for a.
gainst the ancient tyrannies of the
oil regime in China. Some months
ago he became very critical about
the failure to give proper aid 70
China and pointed out it's extreme
danger. Some attacked DR.. Lin for
trying to make a race issue of the
war. 1 asked him about this. f:e
answered: Japan and Hitler have
tried to make this a racial war, but
China stands in the way and makes
it impossible to say this is a war
between the white and the yellow
races in the Pacific. China has a
cellar u war aim based upon prin-
ciples and equality for all people. ;
1 told DR.. Lin it was difficult for
many Negroes to see this war as a
peoples war, in view of the con-
tinued treatment they receive here
and the failure of the Allies to 10
anything about India and the Afr
lean and Asiatic colonial peoples
freedom.
Speaking of his people, DR.. LIN
said: The Chinese are feeling I'M
certain about the post war aims of
her Allies. They are a little con-
fused about what our Allies are
fighting for"
OF Lin Yutang, Pearl Buck has
said: He is Chinese to the core.
He is a great patriot and lover Of
his country and has done more
than any other person to make
China intelligable and likeable. His
is an honest intelligence. He is a.
fraid of nothing and of no one
B~lacklisted, Lin Yutang spent
months in hiding during the Chin
csc rebellion but returned later to
China as a professor in Picking Ma
tional University. He says: ITO be
human is the great thing in life,
and to be allowed to live human,
individual lives is the primary
longing of every human being"
DR.. Lin va pleased to know that
the American Negro is interested
in the liberation of China from any
domination and that they were dis.
appointed in the failure to invite
China to Casablanca and at Church
ills failure to mention China in his
recent broadcast, as one of the pow
ers that will do the planning fCr
the postwar world.
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be enjoyed by all regardless of race
o rreligion?" His first remark to
this question was: 1T should new
er have to be brought up. / think
this question was settled some 70
years ago. No one questions It Oh
paper"
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Professor: I would say on the
whole, I believe they are.
Student: Would you advise then
further mixture of the races?
Professor: The class is dismiss
ed.
Tomorrow's discussion will be
Freedom Of the Press
Evening star., 1943-11-26
0PA ReIaxes Curbs
On Used Typewriters
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The once of Price Administra-
ton today announced an easing of
rationing restrictions covering the
retail and sale Of used typewriters.
Beginning next Wednesday, Office
size typewriters manufactured since
1885 will be placed on the same
basis as older machines and may
be rented with or without rationine
certificates. However, priority must
still be given to persons who need
typewriters for essential war work.
OPA also released for unrestricted
sale offlce-size typewriters built be-
fore 1924. Heretofore, only ma
chimes of this type which were made
before 1915 could be sold ration
free.
Likewise released were portable
typewriters manufactured before
l941. Previously, only models built
before 1885 were exempt from ra-
tioning.
The eased restrictions result from
decreased Government requirements
for used typewriters and resumption
of limited production of new ma
chimes.
Evening star., 1943-11-26

Rubber may be synthetic, but the
viii to victory must be genuine.
Lave you bought any War savings
stamps today?
Evening star., 1943-11-26

should originate In Lord Louis
Mountbatten's Southeastern Asia
theater, probably as an attack on
the Andaman Islands in the Bay of
Bengal. That is regarded as an es-
sential preliminary to any naval or
amphibious action against either
Rangoon, the Malayan Peninsula or
the Dutch Indies.
Two Courses Open.
BY timing this with the Mac
Arthur drive on Rabaul, now ap-
parently nearing its climax, and the
Nimitz campaign just beginning, the
Allied high command has arranged
to force maximum dispersion of
Japanese strength. This compels the
enemy leaders either to concentrate
their strength at one point and let
the others 60 or to spread their
strength weakly and widely over
three active sectors and thereby
lose them all.
That predicament is imposed on
the Japanese by the numerical su-
periority of Allied forces, the higher
quality of our weapons and the in
flnitely better performance of our
troops.
Reconquest of the Philippines will
complete blockade against Japan,
which eventually must be frightened
by an American advance from the
Aleutian Islands across the North
western Pacific into the Kuriles.
Beyond that it will still be neces-
sary to get bases from which to
bomb Japan heavily, which means
reopening the Burma Road to China
unless Russia enters the Pacific war.
Ranking America officers with
whom this reporter has reviewed the
Pacific situation still emphasize.
however, the enormous amount of
time required and the huge number
OF ships and planes necessary even
to return to the Philippines and split
the enemy's conquered empire.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
107 Die in Accidents
On Thanksgiving Day;
Traffic Toll Only AZ
By the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
America today counted lO7 violent
dtaths on Thanksgiving Day, with
travel restrictions and other wartime
factors credited with holding traffic
fatalities down to a throughout the
Nation.
The National Safety Council had
estimated that, on the basis OF 1912.
when conditions were generally the
same, 10 persons would meet death
In automobile accidents.
In 194l, the last peacetime
Thanksgiving, las persons were
killed in traffic mishaps.
Sixty-three deaths over the cur
rent holiday resulted from fires, air.
plane and train mishaps and other
accidents, an Associated Press survey
showed.
California reported the highest
number of highway deaths, 10,
while nine persons lost their lives
by fire in Tennessee and a like
number met death when an Army
bomber crashed In Utah. A Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad train was
wrecked near Newton Falls, Ohio,
killing two persons and injuring
nearly so.
Deaths by States:
Arizona, l traffic; Arkansas, 4 mis-
cellaneous; California, 10 traffic, 4
miscellaneous: Colorado, 1 traffic, 2
miscellaneous; Idaho, l traffic; Illi-
nois, S traffic, l miscellaneous: In
diana. l traffic: Iowa, l traffic, 3
miscellaneous; Kentucky, / traffic;
Maine, l traffic, 3 miscellaneous;
Michigan, 3 miscellaneous; Mime
sofa, traffic. l miscellaneous; New
Jersey, l traffic. / miscellaneous;
New Mexico, l traffic; New York. 2
traff1c, 5 miscellaneous; Ohio, 3
traffic, 6 miscellaneous; Oklahoma,
4 traffic, miscellaneous; Pennsyl-
vania, 3 traf1ic; South Carolina,
miscellaneous; Tennessee, l traffic.
8 miscellaneous; Texas, traffic, 6
miscellaneous: Utah, miscellane-
Gus: Virginia, miscellaneous;
Washington, traffic, 2 miscellane-
GUS, and West Virginia, traf1ic.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
BY JOHN NJ. HIGHTOWER,

| hSSOSldtCu lCSo Otuh WIN
Americas lightning conquest of
the Gilbert Islands leaves the Jap
anese in the nearby Marshalls only
two choices-retreat or die.
That is the conclusion expressed
by strategic authorities here follow
ing announcement by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz that our holds on
Tarawa, Maxim and Abemama in
the Gilberts have been secured.
The authorities are certain the
Marshalls cannot be held by the en-
emy without a daring and successful
fleet action on their part, and no
one here believes the enemy will use
his fleet now at the risk of his whole
strategy, which is to fight war so
long as to discourage the American
people and produce a compromise
peace.
Main Base at Jaluit.
The main Japanese base in the
Marshalls, a much larger group of
islands than the Gilberts, is Jaluit.
That island, with nearby Wolfe, is
the eastern anchor of a line of en-
envy naval bastions running east
and west across the Equatorial Pa
cific. The western anchor once was
Palau, in the Western Carolines.
Now the japanese probably regard
Singapore as the western anchor.
Jaluit is only a little more than $50
miles northwest of Tarawa. That is
easy bomber range and working
range for land-based fighters.
AS was the case with KiSka, in the
North Pacific, and various japanese
bases in the Solomons area, Jaluit-
Wolfe can thus be Virtually isolated
by American land-based aircraft any
time they are not under attack by
naval planes and big guns.
Look for Heavy Fighting.
The Marshalls campaign un-
doubtedly will be more severe than
that in the Gilberts, and take longer.
But top strategists are convinced
that it will roll smoothly to sue
ceSsful conclusion. Once the Mar
shalls are cleaned up, Wake Island.
which the japanese captured almost
two years ago, probably will fall of
its own weight.
But beyond the Marshalls stretch
the Carolines, studded with strong
bases and many defenses, including
the great bastion of Truk. Truk will
have to be knocked out and perma-
nently f1anked before a line can be
driven close to the Philippines.
Truk probably will not have to be
taken, for while it is of great use to
the japanese as their Pearl Har.
bor," its location gives it little stra-
tegic value in relation to American
objectives.
Many Long-range Results.
The invasion of the Gilberts is
expected to produce many important
long-range results. Primarily, how
ever, it should be viewed as the first
step in a westward pincers move
ment aimed, like Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's Southwest Pacific offensive,
at getting back to the Philippines.
Once in the Philippines, where
large air bases can be set up, it
will be possible to sever Japan's
economic arteries to the Nether-
lands Indies and Malaga, cutting
off her richest sources of raw mate
rials and such strategic outpoSts as
Singapore.
A third Of these pincer arms
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Finnish News Official
Ousted as Pro-AIIied
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 26. Nils
Meinander, assistant chief of the
Finnish Information Bureau, is
being removed and sent into the
army because of German dissatis-
faction with his pro-Allied leanings,
reliable informants said yesterday.
Meinander had been a leader in
the campaign to ease Finland's
ironclad censorship.
His reported Punishment came
soon after the Nazis had demanded
the custer Of Social Minister Eager
holm for writing a newspaper ar
ticle which displeased them. Eager
holm, however, still is in Office.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Seven Killed in Crosh
OF Bomber in FIorido
BY the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, Nov. 26.-Seyen
men were killed and two badly In.
jured In the crash Of q Liberator
bomber at the Pine Castle Army air
base last night, the public relations
ONCE Of the Army Air Forces tactical
center announced today.
The two injured men are in the
AAFTC Hospital here.
The bomber crashed during q
take-off for routine training flight.
Names Of the dead were withheld
pending notification of next OF kin.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Car Stolen Twice

NORFOLK, Va. (R.-An automo-
bile was stolen a second time while
the original thief was being chased
down and captured. The second
thief had to abandon it after hitting
a fire hydrant but he was faster than
the first and escaped.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Chester Bow|es' Mother
Dies in Springfield, , Mass.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 90
Mrs. Charles Allen Bowles, 78,
mother of Chester B. Bowles, chief
Of the Once of Price Administra-
ton, died last night at her home.
Her late husband was the second
son Of Samuel Bowles, Civil War
editor Of the Springfield Republican.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
kidnapping Defense Claims
Only Po|ygamy Is Proved
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 90
Federal Judge Tillman D. johnson
today studied defense arguments
that three Utahans charged with
kidnapping are guilty only of polyg-
amy-and hence should be acquitted.
And, the judge commented, IF the
testimony is to be believed, there
are lot of people here teaching the
same thing"
The Government established a
straight case of polygamy," argued
Defense Counsel j. H. Mcknight,
representing Mr.. and Mrs. John
Virgil zenz and their son, Frank
William Zenz. He asked for a di-
rected verdict of acquittal.
The three allegedly transported a
15-year-old girl to Nevada. The
girl told Judge johnson she had
married the elder Zenz under Gods
law Government witnesses said
she had been converted to polygamy
One witness, Schuyler Call of
Murray, Utah, testified that in his
ccnion there is group of 500 or
more persons in the area teaching
or advocating polygamy.'
Rubber may be synthetic, but the