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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1947)
Our Children By Mrs. W. B. Davis Shut-in Children All normal young children ex press their feelings easily and readily. They laugh and cry, become merry or sad, grow angry or fearful whenever they are placed in any situation which ex cites one or another of these emotions. Nature evidently in tended that a young child should react immediately and fully whenever he is stimulated in any way. As he develops, he learns from experience and from train ing that he should sometimes re press his tendency to react at once and completely upon any situation in which he is placed. If everything goes well with him, he will repress only those actions that are likely to result harm fully either to his physical or to his social well-being. But it is not uncommon to find children who go to the extremes in clamp ing brakes upon their feelings so that they cannot express them selves as freely as they should do for their own physical and mental welfare. The shut-in child suffers harm. There are children who are spoken of as “inexpressive.” They seem never to be quite as free in their actions as their companions. They never laugh as freely; never give them selves up to merriment as com pletely. They seem to be al ways on the alert for some pos sible harm, physical or social, afraid people will laugh at them or criticize their looks or their dress, speech, walk or what not. If only one could lay open a child’s emotions, and also inde cision regarding the right way to act because of doubt and lack of confidence in himself in re spect to his relations with his companions, every time one is aroused to action but cannot act, he suffers some disadvantage. It would be better if he were not j stimulated if he cannot react. IN CONCERT SUNDAY NIGHT. February 9th The Hub of Harmony, under the direction of their arranger. Frank Hale, will be presented in concert at the Urban League Com munity Center, 2030 T Street, Sunday, February 9th, at 8:00 P. M. The Huh of Harmony Chorus will be heard over KFOR begin ning Sunday, February Ifith. Check your paper for the time. A Worm's Eye View (Continued from page 2) sities and institutions of learning and the body of knowledge now available to the seeker covers great areas of all subjects. Yet the greatest interest is usually in the physical and material fields. Nearly everyone has some know ledge of these things. The sciences of psycology and sociol ogy are highly developed but the common man takes little interest and neglects the very fields of knowledge most necessary to a peaceful contented existence. Man has not solved the problem of education. In some areas great quanities of food are produced. Great sur pluses allow the people to live in relative luxury and often re ' suit in wastage and loss. In other areas equally great numbers of people suffer from starvation and exposure. One group undermines the general health by overeating while the other group suffers from many diseases resulting from malnutrition. Man has not solved the problem of distribution of the necessities of life. Men profess to believe in dem ocracy and the rights inherent in each human being. Men fight wars to defend this belief. Yet the world is full of minorities, racial, religious, economic, and others, which are continually sup pressed and denied equal rights with the dominating majority. In other instances more powerful minorities seek to dominate ma jorities for selfish purposes. In each case the more powerful group, neglecting to give thought to the rights of the weak, is de feating the goal of democracy. Man has not learned how to se cure the greatest good for the greatest number. Mankind has learned how to discover, capture, and exploit the great, God given, natural re sources. But in blindness and selfishness men are rapidly ex hausting and destroying while neglecting proposed activities to conserve, perpetuate, and rehab ilitate natures bounty. Men achieve great astounding feats of construction and trans portation; but some misuse these wonders for purposes of war. Un told wealth and energy is used to destroy the best and greatest achievements upon which equal amounts of wealth and energy have been expended. That is war. Men have not learned how to prevent race suicide. (Continued on page 5) UMBERGER'S 2-2424 * '1110 Q. Funeral and Ambulance Service. Roy A. Sheaff, Darold Rohrbaugh. Floyd Umberger families. 2-5059. 120 So. 13th St. Lincoln The FIRST NATIONAL BANK * of Lincoln 10th & "O" St. Member F.D.I.C. BENTZ GROCERY and MEATS A Suburban Store run in an | uptown way * Independently Owned but Not Independent 22nd & Dudley 2-4077 GREETINGS from EARL WOOD’S DAIRY 15 Stores * All over Lincoln -:- Patronize Our Advertisers ..♦..♦..♦.A .. . DONLEY STAHL CO. — PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY — 1331 N Street 2-3248 f PURE ITALIAN OLIVE OIL 4 07 59c 8 07. SI 09 Limit 2 bottles