The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
THE NEGRO
IN NATIONAL


TRUE How Jim Crow Feels
is told by Richard Wright, emin-
ent writer, in the November issue
of True magazine. Returning to his
birthplace in Natchez, Miss. af-
ter a 25 year absence. His is the
experience of an American Negro
travelling from the Mexican Dor
der to the Atlantic seaboard, by
train. The time is 1910. His hum
iliations began when he reached
the Texas border, the beginning
of the Land of the Free and the
Home of the Brave. His longest
stopover was in Natchez the
place of his birth. What 1 saw
there made me wonder why I had
wanted to see and feel it all a.
gain, he says. Il discovered the
only thing that had really chang
ed was T..
THIS MONTH A Word portr-
ait and character study of Boston
born, Harvard educated, bigotry
fighting John r. Tunis. sports
writer's and novelist, is presented
in the current issue of This Month
magazine. Under the heading of
Kids Are Important People,"
Dave Stanley says, that instead of
denouncing prejudice, Tunis 'voic-
es his passionate Americanism
through the medium of an excit-
ing yarn. Tunis is rated one of
Americas best juvenile writer's.
His novel, "A1l Americans, a
book on race prejudice that taps
the roots of our Negro : white.
North-South problems, is spot
lighted.
SALUTE Stetson Kennedy gets
behind the scenes in Georgia in
his article, Inside Georgia's Khan
in the November issue of Salute
Magazine. He tells why most of
n Georgians r opposed to the
xxx but are helpless to do any,
thing about it. Examining the re-
cords of some. Of the men who
held high political offices in the
past, he reveals why the Khan To-
gica1ly expects great gains in
membership and increased influ-
ence under Talmadge.
CORONET Ham and Eggs
Georgia Style, has lead Negroes
in Georgia up the road to econo-
mic security, writes Jane Floyd
Buck in the Ceronet Magazine for
November. 1t all came through
the vision of one man, Otis Sam
uel O'Neil, Negro agent of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service. Over thirty years ago,
O'Neil a graduate of Fort Valley
State College and Tuskegee In
stitute, began leading earnestly
ambitious Negri farmers out of
the uncertain existence of hit or
miss hog raising and farming. In
1916 and in each succeeding wear
there has been Q Ham and Eggs
snow OF farm products n the Fl.
valley College auditorium. This
year "bulging succlent hams" and
eggs sized to the fraction of an
ounce and cleaning WHITLEY. on
display, were Of a quality to in
terest merchants dealing in first
class ham and egg products.
LOOK Along with Dinah Shore
BOBBY Sherwood. William Prim-
roes and others, Sam Rowland.
who writes Look Magazines Re-
cord Guide for November 10Th
included and recommends Henry
Red Allen, Negro trumpet plav-
er's latest recordings. Comment
ing, Roland says if Allen. "Hot
jazz Victor has Henry Allen
playing a hot and fast Count Me
Out and a contrastingly slow IF
It's Love You Want. Both sides
feature Red Aliens trumpet and
J. G. Gigginbotham on the from
bone.
EBONY Safe-cracking and bu-
sting locks, professionally. but
legally, is the rare trade of slim.
wiry, deft-fingered, 81 year-old
Tony Donovan, Negro lock expert
of Harlem, says Ebony Magazine
In the November issue. Donovan is
one of only two licensed Negro
Key makers in New York City. He
learned to crack safes 35 wears
ago. Donovan has never done a
stretch in the Big House. Ebonv
says, Recently a police captain
woke him at 4 a. m. to remove a
broken key in a police carr, An
other time, suspicious COPS wit
Messing his uncanny feats with
locks, wanted to know If he "was