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THE VOICE A NEGRO WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people” Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Owner 2225 S Street Phone 5-6491 If no answer call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare Advertising & Business Manager Mrs. Joe Green Circulation Mgr. Dorothy Green Reporter Rev. Trago T. McWilliams, Sr. Special Writer Joseph V. Casmer Special Writer Member of the Assoc. Negro Press Subscription rate $2.00 per year 10c per copy Editorial Comments Thanksgiving this year has a greater significance to the people all over the world. It is a traditional American holiday. It means more than eating or watching a football game. It is a day full of religious and histori cal meaning. The Pilgrims in the Mayflower set sail, leaving friends and loved ones behind in search of a land of promise very much as the Israelites did when they went out of Egypt. America has since remained that land of promise and hope to the oppressed and deprived people of the lands. This year as we return thanks for the blessings and privileges that are ours let us not forget the poor, the homeless, the sick and oppressed wherever they are. Let us give thanks not only for the blessings we have enjoy ed but also for the opportunities we have to help others so that they can live life more fully. Let us show our gratitude by our acts of good will as by our prayers on our lips. We are reminded by the Pil grims that whatever hardships we have we can always find a great deal to be thankful for if our hearts are right. Although they faced every kind of hardship they did not complain. The wealth and power we have achieved as a nation are the fruits of a religious faith expressed in the Thanksgiving Day obser vance, a faith that is the very basis of our American way of life. This faith has brought us safely through trials and triumphs and will carry us to still greater heights in the years ahead. Dramatic Club Presents Plays Under the direction of Mr. George Randol the Dramatic Club of the Urban League gave its first of a series of plays sched uled for the season. The Cast of Characters displays unusual tal ent in both plays. The first, “Lov ing Lunatics,” furnishing a few minutes of good wholesome fun was a scene taking place in the waiting room of a doctor’s of fice at an Asylum. The charact ers were Elbert Starks, Jeanne Malone, and Mrs. George Randol. The second play, “And The Vil lian Still Pursued Her” was a screamingly funny burlesque on a typical old time melodrama, written for laughing purposes only. The characters were: Mrs. Connie Ewing, Mrs. Ida Fuller, Misses Dorothy Molden and Mat tie Sue Nevels, James Wadkins, Benjamin Jefferson and Fred McCullough. -n PRF Seeks Radio Permit ! NEW YORK—(ANP)—The con viction that “radio, while speak ing to the millions,” is the moti vating reason prompting the Peoples Radio Foundation to sub mit an application to the Federal Communications Commission for licensing of a frequency modula tion station, it was revealed here last week. The view is taken that “radio reflects the deep conservatism of a very small group of people—the big money people,” that there are 15,000,00 union members in Am erica, but the way they feel about America is rarely heard on radio; there are 12,000,000 Negroes in American, but the way they feel about America is even more rare ly heard. “The millions who despise the KKK and Gerald L. K. Smith and Gene Talmadge find their opinions kept off the air as too controver sial,” the group holds. -o Election of Officers Officers were elected at Christ Temple Church of Christ (Holi ness) Sunday, November 17, for the H. Y. P. U. Richard E. McWilliams, Presi dent; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Vice President; Miss Ionna Adams, Secretary; Miss Delores Hull, As sistant Secretary; Mrs. Basilia L. Bell, Treasurer; Miss Ida Adkins, Librarian; Livingston Wills, Mu sician. Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Smith were elected Group Leaders. Transfer of Major Day (Continued from page 1) Lewis institute and the Chicago Art institute in Chicago and the American university here. Ray, a former 92nd division artillery commander, is a gradu ate of the University of Illinois and director of the South Central Clinical laboratory in Chicago before entering the army in Janu ary, 1941. He was appointed ci vilian-aide to the secretary of war early this year upon the resigna tion of Truman K. Gibson. Both men are married and live here with their families. LOVELY GIFT HOSIERY PURE SILK 51 & 45 Gauge HOSIERY Full Fashioned ... Ever/ pair perfect... in warm, glowing SUN TAN Shade. Sizes 8Vi to lQ’/a. 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