The Omaha guide., 1945-06-09

Copyright, 1915, by New South
Features.)
l reckon that my fellow South
erner, P. B. Young, Jr., of the Nor
folk Journal and Guide, was tes-
tifying for all the little people of
Dixie when he wrote from San
Francisco onNMay 18th:
so far as the little people of
the world and the United Nations
Conference here are concerned, it
is to America and Russia Of the
Big Five that they Must look for
whatever ~deliverance is in store
for them"
Now, Brother P. B. Young is
sitting up there with other news
papermen in the amen corner at
San Francisco listening to what
the big people, who are the diplo-
mats, have to say about Russia.
Me, I'm sitting up here on a noun
tain top in Tennessee, trying to
get enough fencing for my five
acres, and listening to what the
little people who r my neighbors
have to say about Russia.
My neighbors say that they're
not going to help filthy little old
John Rankin, cuss-hollerin' old
! Pappy O'Daniel, and fnaglin' old
Bob Taft, who comes from Ohio
but who hangs in with the Dixie
landlord crowd, build any fences
to shut out Russia-N
A"We're tearing down an awful
lot Of old fences down here in our
part of the country" said my
S~cotch-Irish neighbor, Iva Lee
Eldridge, when she brought over
a jar of home made plum jelly for
my baby the other day. "We're
tearing down the fences that kept
white folks and colored folks from
doing anything together.
Fence Out Rankin
"The only fencing out / want
to do is to fence out John Rankin.
| believe that you've got to put a
wild man, like a wild bull, inside
a pen, and if anybody starts a
movement to pen up John Rankin,
I'll help buy the fence.
America and Russia are the
only two big countries where the
little people have a chance. |
reckon that the little people down
here in Tennessee will have a bet
ter chance when we learn from
Russia that you can't put a bad
sign on a colored man without
putting a bad sign on your own
SOUL"
Now, I've just come back into
my house from a talk with old
Brother Joe Tucker who used to
trade horses and who still rides
'em. Brother Joe came riding up
this morning, wanting to sell me
some hard locust fence posts to
tack hat fencing on when | get
it. He's got four boys in the army.
He thinks that those boys won't
ever have to 60 out to fighting
again if America and Russia work
together to keep peace in this
world that the Lord made for folks
of all colors.
Ensign for the Nations
"I've quit making sharp horse
trades and I've got to be a Bible
man." said Brother Joe. Il don't
study no more about turning an
old horse into a young one to get
five dollars boot come first Mon
day. l read in the Lords word,
this morning, that He will lift up
an ensign to the nations Russia
saved all Of US when Hitler was
cutting up wors than a horse
thief trying to shoot a sheriff. /
believe that Russia may be the
ensign for all them other nations
if they let her alone and let her
be-"
I've got another friend who is
a black man and who raises cotton
on the shares over in St. Frances
County, Arkansas. | won't give his
name because the men who own
the land Of st. Francis County are
like the rest of the Dixie ku klux-
eTs who red-bait the worlds peace
at the same time they black-bait
the South's people.
My friend has been reading of
the Russian cotton country and of
the black Uzbek people of Russia
who raise the cotton. The Uzbeks
grow cotton, not because they are
black but because they live in