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Tib© V@5<g© Published Weekly “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great peopleu Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Owner Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 5-6491 Rubie W. Shakespeare Advertising & Business Manager Roberta Molden Associate Editor 1966 U Street 2-1407 Mrs. loe Green Circulation Mgr. Member of the Associated Negro Press Subscription rate 12.00 per year 10c per copy_ “ Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879. ____ Guest Editorial Common Sense versus Contemporary Living By Obbie Brown. The loose use of the term “Com mon Sense” would suggest the common or general responses to stimulation having environmental origin. The present environment, due to advanced scientific tech nology, is world wide. Hence, the total responses we make in a com mon frame are but manifestations of this common sense. Common sense of yesterday has dangerous implications in our con temporary society. Common sense suggest giving attention to the im mediate, acting in defense of the past, during the present-expedient, on the spot prescription, and short vision in general. If you question the validity of the above implications, (we all should), numerous examples will come automatically, once you carefully examine your own re sponses to your environmental . stimulation. Considering the well-being of this democracy; the era has past for these common or age old re sponses. These responses are not sufficient for the preservation of our present democratic way of life. If democracy would be pre served, Common Sense is not enough. Common sense, as used during the last quarter century, will undermine the very founda tions upon which democracy and this great common-wealth was built. I am suggesting not the dis missal of common sense but rather the elevation of, or a positive change in the responses that are implications thereof. The world is our neighborhood and its inhabit ants our neighbors. This is true whether we accept it or not. This new type of common sense would not suggest capitalism, de mocracy, as we know it in Amer ica nor would it suggest commu nism as we know of it in Russia. To be continued. Obbie Z. Brown. $25,000 for Jackie in ’4fi NEW YORK. (ANP.) On his re turn home from Boston last week. Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers intimated that first base man Jackie Robinson had already been signed up for next year. “I want Jackie with us again,” Rickey told newsmen, “because he’s a great ballplayer and a gen tleman.” Local sports editors did not ap pear surprised by the announce ment although many of them have “laid Rickey out” in print for pay ing Robinson, as they claimfed, only $5,000 last season. Informed Harlem observers of Jackie Robinson informed the As sociated Negro Press that the widely acclaimed baseball idol signed up with Rickey at the end of the world series for a salary of $22,500 next year. The people you call cranks are the only ones who take an interest in anything but themselves. —JANE WARDLE. r~ ''1 " " '1' .-"'"l | Letters to The Voice Dear Editor: To the Saints of God and the editing staff of “The Voice. Greetings through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It is with great pleasure I feel God’s hand in writing this article according to His will wrho has begotten us to a lively hope through Jesus Christ. To Him be glory and honor now and forever more. Brethren and sisters in Christ I am endeavoring to set forth what God has done in the past right here in Lincoln and what He can do in the future if we meet the conditions as laid down in His Word. In that word I find no ecclesiastical, nor man con ceived nor man-made organiza tion. But, I do find the saints spoken of in various places, also the children of the living God. Now I have no quarrel with denominational o r g a n i za tions where they are of God and where His word is being preached in all its purity and souls are be ing saved and sanctified. In other words people are being born again and that not of the will of man but the will of God. Now how is all this to happen? Through the preaching of the word. So beloved brethren in Christ it is up to us. Christ tells us in Matthew 28: 19-20, “Go ye, therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,” teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And Lo. I am with you always even untol the end of the world.” Even He has said in Mark’s gospel 16:15-16 as a direct command. Verse 15, “Go ye, into all the world and preach the gospel to every crea ture.” Verse 16, “He that be lieveth and is baptized shall be saved.” Brother ministers are we preaching the kind of gospel that gets people saved? Or is it a church-joining, hand-shaking card-signing gospel? Are we seeing people at our altars pray ing through and hearing from heaven and getting blessed so that they can and do give to the whole wide world a clear, clean ringing testimony of the saving grace and keeping power of God? If not we are laboring in vain. Does our preaching bring about a lova in the heart and a peace that passes all understanding; a love that human tongue cannot tell, neither human mind can grasp? Yet it is so real and so pure that we forget denomina tional lines, creeds and colors. Because the love of God and its glories when shed abroad in our hearts outshines and over shadows all else. We see Jesus, the proprietor for all human kipd. It’s a love that lasts Where real Christian experience has possession. (Continued next week.) Dear Editor: As you have brought to a close the first volumn of “The Voice” with your permission, I would like once more to speak “From My Chair at Midnight.” First let me congratulate you I on your fine and "outstanding j work, and from my own experi | ence, reminds me of this little squibb, “there was once a spin ! ster in stern and rock bound New England who, after many years of struggle with work and poverty, married a man of large means. A friend, greeting her a year or so after her marriage, congratulated her upon her luck. “Tain’t all pie,” she replied. Life isn’t all pie or cake with fancy frosting, but the pages of The Voice exist not to suggest fancy things, but to simplify mat ters, to lighten the burden of the people it represents. And what’s more, this very thing can be done and it is going to be done. You have a Universe of experience and skill to draw from and I know you can tap this vast fund, not like Moses extracted water from a rock, but The Voice can now and then remove a mountain. THE VOICE The weekly lifting of the cur tain so that all Americans may: see conditions as they are and events as they occur is its strong est bulwark. Whosoever resents the press re sents his country for the paper is America as it is. The press of the United States with few exceptions, does not live by scandal. It tells the news—the good and the bad, the inspiring act and the sordid one. Like the recording angel, it registers the deed as it is done—and there are too sides to the ledger. The Press is the public. We chafe when the mirror is* held up before * us, but we applaud when it reflects the rest of the population. The men who make our news papers are as a whale, builders, not destroyers. They came to judgment daily. As they serve they grow. If we are to change our news papers we must change ourselves. The fault is not as we see it with the mirror, but with us the thing it reflects. ^ In closing may The Voice in years to come remain the highly polished mirror it has been through its past volume and con tinue to grow and prosper. “Red” The Typesetter. Initiates Artist Series LANGSTON, Okla. (ANP.) M. B. Tolson, interpreter, poet, and professor of creative literature at Langston university, opened the 1947-48 artist series here with an interpretative lecture on poetry, before an appreciative audience in historic Page Hall auditorium. Mr. Tolson, whose “Rendezvous With America” (Dodd, Mead-1944) is in its third printing, opined that “poetry is the greatest art in the world” and that one must draw a distinction between the versifier and the poet. He added that “the poet expresses new ideas in new ways.” The audience applauded the reading of his poems, particu larly “My Soul and I” and “Ad dress to America.” According to Mrs. S. G. Wash ington, chairman of the student faculty entertainment committee, the other offerings in this series include: Robert Harris, pianist, Dec. 18; H. Edison, Anderson, vocalist, Jan. 11; Warner Lawson, pianist, Jan. 25; Carol Brice, soloist, Feb. 12; Eugene J. Brown, painter, Feb. 26; Jeanetta Temple, literary in terpreter, March 8; Oklahoma Uni versity Glee Club, March; Mary Moore, pianist and soloist, April 9. Although the date has not now been set, the series is to end with a play festival early in May, 1948. Humility is to make a right esti mate of oneself. —C. H. SPURGEON. The Sports Front By Howard “Smoky” Molden Neb. U. Students Against Big Six ‘Race Prejudice’ Fifty-eight percent of Univer sity of Nebraska students parti cipating in a campus poll have backed The Student Council pro test against what the council termed “Racial Prejudice” in Big Six conference athletics. The result was announced Saturday by Managing Editor George Miller of The Daily Nebraskan, student newspaper which conducted the poll. The council has passed a res olution urging that Nebraska drop out of the conference un less a change is made in rules under which Negroes do not compete in varsity athletics against Oklahoma and Missouri on the home fields of those two teams. Under conference rules home teams may set rules of eligibility of Negroes. Six conference schools have in formed the University of Nebras ka Student Council that they will attend a racial discrimination con ference in Lincoln, Nov. 29-30. The University of Oklahoma has not accepted the invitation. —Courtesy of Lincoln Journal. Jackie Second In Fidler Poll HOLLYWOOD. —Jackie Robin son, brilliant first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League champions, won second place in the annual nation-wide popularity poll conducted by the famous commentator, Jimmy Fid ler. Jackie not only won the acclaim of Brooklyn baseball bugs, but of fans throughout the entire Nation. The outstanding Dodger infield er, placed second to Bing Crosby, the popular crooner. Urban League Executive Here on Official Visit Wm. Valentine of the National Urban League office, was present Monday evening at a call meet ing of the Urban League Women’s Volunteer Committee, it was an nounced by Clyde W. Malone, ex ecutive secretary of the Lincoln Urban League, today. Mr. Valentine discussed with the group plans of vital interest to the Urban League program. i . a Let us help with your I Christmas shopping | give J| 1 “Oh Uoks" I 8 - I 1 » The Voice g 2225 S St.. Lincoln, Neb. $ K Editor: H « S g. ENCLOSED FIND $. for. YR. 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