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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 Lynnwood Parker Special Writer Member of the Assoc. Negro Press Subscription rate $2.00 per year 10c per copy The Voice will. be happy to print your news. All news of general interest will be greatly appreciated. Write it out and mail it not later than midnight Tuesday if it is to be used that week. Your cooperation will be great ly appreciated. -n A Worm's Eye View by L. Carroll Unland Men study and strive and many devote their lives to the con quering of disease. Other men contribute hospitals and sanitor iums for the curing of man’s phy sical and mental ills. Yet disease and ill health are still so common that everyone is familiar with this misfortune. Men fight both for and against the development of a program of socialized medi cine designed to prevent ill health and to arrest disease in its early stages. Man has not learned the way to good health. Men have developed great re ligions purporting to explain God’s plan for His creatures, the mystery of life and death, the hope of eternal life, and a moral code designed to enable men to live in a commendable, construc tive, cooperative manner. Houses of worship, great cathedrals and little shrines, and church of all descriptions are the meeting places for millions of people, ga thered to worship their God as they see the way. Yet religions tend to seek material wealth and political power and in so doing defeat the greater good which is their avowed purpose. Wars have been fought, millions of lives lost homes and communities disrupted because men forgot the true pur pose of their religion and choose to deny other men the right to worship God in some other way and to seek the road to eternal life by the light of some other religion. Man has not learned the way to religious tolerance. Men have built great univer (Continued on page 4) I I The Hub of Harmony, a group of young men from Union College and the University cf Nebraska will present a concert at the Ur ban League Sunday, February 9, at 8:00 The boys are presenting this program for a scholarship fund, a worthy objective. We as a race and as a community should be proud of these young men and give them our whole-hearted sup port. Good luck and success boys! Thomas E. Molden, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Molden is an other one of Nebraska’s favorite sons, having come from Weeping Water, Nebraska. In high school Tom was active in several sports of which his favorite was football. He also gained some of his musi cal knowledge as soloist there. Af ter graduation in 1940 Tom work ed for a while in the Hybrid Seed Company and later in the Kansas City Bridge Construction Com pany. In September of 1942 he left to serve in the United States Army. After two years and eight months most of which were spent in the South Pacific, he was discharged in January 3, 1946. Tom ac knowledged that he was glad that he had had the experience of being in the army and felt that the “social enlightenment” was beneficial to his future happiness. Mr. Molden matriculated in N. U. the second semester term in 1946. He is majorinig in pre-law. What's Doing in Alliance Beatrice Motley M. C. Woodlee Jr. recently dis charged from the army arrived home Friday, January 31st. Mrs. Ruth M. Simms and daugh ter Virginia has returned to their home in Michigan. Mr. J. Ewing gave a supper January 28th. Honored guests were Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woodlee Sr., Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Woodlee, Mr. and Mrs. W. Whitmon, Mr. and Mrs. B. Nelson, L. B. Batts, and C. Dillard. -o Founders' Day N. A.A.C.P. Founders’ Day will be observed in churches through out the nation on Sunday, Febru ary 9. Rev. R. L. Moody, is president of the local organization and Lyn wood Parker, secretary. ~ —TTTTTTTrr. . ..-...— ’ < I ' < ' < I ' <1 When You j i\ r i j Buy a New J Gas Range There is no special and costly installa tion job to add to the price, it is as sim ple to install as it is to use. 3%£ Cotnfuuu/* \ i j Black'N'White or Brown'N'White BARKERS 1107'O' Street 2-1677