The Omaha Guide

HERE AND THERE,

In the preparation of this weekly "Digesting the News" release I am assisted by the active cooperation of nearly one hundred publishers who send me their "exchanges" regularly. On many an occasion a reader has called my attention to something specific in some "exchange" that I have failed to comment on, directly or indirectly, and for the benefit of all readers I will briefly explain why. My releases are always prepared on Sunday and fully four-fifths of the weekly "exchanges" received do not arrive until Monday night entirely too late to pick up a comment on some item the following Sunday. Perhaps some day I can arrange my production schedule on a more timely basis but until then I ask the readers and the publishers to overlook these seeming omissions.

Up to the present writing the Amsterdam News of New York is the only current paper in which I read of the return of Max Yergan, the 1932 Spingarn Medalist from Africa. That medal is quite attractive. Floyd G. Snelson, late of Courier fame, is now the managing editor of the Buffalo Star. So, the "Harlem Limited-Broadway Bound", is now running out of Buffalo, instead of Pittsburgh. Negro journalism receives a credit in the manner of its reporting the Scottsboro trial. Special representatives, telegraph service. And the ILD, ANP, and CNS, are sending out many extra special bulletins.

Congressman Oscar DePriest is not only the representative for the first Illinois district but for all Afro-Americans. Recently I wanted some specific information that only a Congressman or Senator could well secure. I wrote to our Congressman, and in a few days the desired information was at hand.

I know that J. A. Rogers, author of "World's Greatest Men of African Descent", is in America, but unless he is using a nom de plume I am unable to locate his connection with any particular paper. (This is for the benefit of that Ohio reader who wanted this particular information.)

Although I was late in reading it, Walter Wilson's "Chain Gangs and Profits" in the April Harper's Magazine should be read by every race reader interested in the subject. And how well do I personally know the truth of the conditions he describes?

Out of all the publications I read none give me the real inside facts on the demerits of advertised products as do the monthly bulletins of the Consumer's Research Society, of New York.

The recent New York Age editorial on the Tuskegee Institute Savings Bank is worthy of being "Reprinted" in all our papers. I owe that particular bank a debt and although, legally, I've paid it, I still recognize the moral obligation involved.