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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1946)
Our Children By Mrs. W. B. Davis /Trv n-y*/// Courtesy and consideration oil the gears of good living and you can help your children to see that politeness is not only pleasant but practical as well. Manners de mand skill in speaking just as learning to use a knife and fork well demands skills in muscle control. Do not expect too much in the way of good manners from a child. Its enough that he is learning. We don’t want a cour tesy to block off spontaneous enthusiasm toward people nor do we want simpering acceptance of rights violated, but we do want to see a child have the security of being able to be gracious and pleasant socially when he wants to be or needs to be. To have good manners a child needs practice and a good example. Good manners become a part of child’s way of living when he can see a reason for them and is not just forced to comply with out the desire to do so. If you give a child as much responsibil ity as he is able to assume for his age level, he will use all the skills which he posseses, including good manners. A child’s best apology is not the artificial repetition of “I’m sorry,” but the restitution that he makes of his own voli tion. A child repeats in his drama tic play the adults around him talk and act. This can help to fix patterns of kindness and the skill of politeness. INVALUABLE GIFTS By Delight Killinger graduate Hastings College During this Christmas season when we think a great deal about gifts of one kind or another, let us consider one of the most inval uable of all gifts—that is good health. A strong, healthy body, a keen mind, and a fresh spirit are gifts which cannot be purchased with money. Often we do not ap preciate our good feet until we see someone who is lame, our good eyes until we see someone who is blind, or our hands until we see someone who has no hands. That almost indescribable some thing that we call the mind with which we think, reason, and make decisions to benefit or de stroy mankind is also a very es sential part of the healthy body. A sick mind leads toward de struction—a healthy mind toward happiness. We may look at the sorbid or we may look at the beautiful. There is much of both in our world. One can not always have a sound physical body, but one may rise above many physi cal handicaps with a mind that is attuned to beauty and a desire to leave the world a better place. The poet Longfellow, in his “Psalm of Life,” says: “Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.” Perhaps it would be good if we would stop now and then to see if we are making the best use of all the gifts that God has given us. Perhaps it would be even better if we would stop more often to really consider all the wonderful gifts that we have which are too often taken merely for granted. A MERRY CHRISTMAS to All of our Customers from AMES to Please 1131 O Street \ Campus News by Jeanne Malone The annual performance of the Christmas ortorio* Messiah was presented Sunday, December 15 at the University Coliseum. This year it was unusually good and I there was a record crowd present to witness the performance. We were especially pleased to see Miss Ruth Norman, James Brax ton and Thomas Molden in the chorus while Richard Harrison played in the orchestra. It’s a real pleasure to see members of our race participating in Univers ity affairs especially when they are of a cultural nature. This week we interviewed one of Lincoln’s promising young citizens in the person of Mr. Hen ry “Hank” McWilliams. Henry received his diploma from Lin coln High School, where he had been active in football and track, in January 1943. About two weeks later February 13 to be exact he enlisted in the United States army. While in the army Henry attained the rank of Ser geant and fought in North Africa, Italy and France. In December 1945 Henry came back to Lincoln and six months later on June 23 he married Miss Betty Thomas of Omaha. Mr. McWilliams is at present enrolled in Teachers College of the University of Nebr. Henry plans to either teach athletics or work in a YMCA probably in the south. HOLIDAY WARNING By William Henry Huff for ANP Don’t spend it all for holidays, Put some of it aside; Don’t- follow foolish peoples ways In common sense abide. The big smoke stacks may cease to smoke And jobs may cease to be; That surely will not be a joke— With this all must agree. Each should lay up a dollar now The time for making hay Is when the sun shines on the brow, Not on the rainy day. UMBERGER'S 2-2424 ♦ 1110 Q. Funeral and Ambulance Service. Roy A. Sheaff, Darold Rohrbaugh. 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