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Tk® Wm®® Published Weekly •‘Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people" Rev. Melvin L Shakespeare Publisher and Owner Business Address S Street Phone 5-6491 ii No Answer Call 5-7508 Bwbie W. Shakespeare Advertising & Business Manager Roberta Molden Associate Editor 1966 U Street 2-1407 Mr*. lee Green Circulation Mgr., Member oi the Associated Negro Press Subscription rate 22.00 per year 10c per copy Entered as Second Class Matter. June t. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of Ifards 1 irn._ Race Relations Institute Founded in Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria, West Africa. (ANP)'. Last month, a group of individuals, representing various nationalities living in Nigeria, met in Glover hall here to organize the Nigeria Institute of Race Relations, a body which has for its avowed aims the promotion of amity and understanding among all races. The organization is the outgrowth of a proposal made last Jan. 25 to “develop social and cultural ac tivities that would help cement and improve good relations be tween races.” Membership in the institute is jCetters to the SxJitor j Letters to the Editor: I am enclosing a money order for $2.00 to cover the scription to The Voice for the year 1948. I think The Voice is a splendid paper. Being so far from home it means a great deal to me to re ceive news from home. I hope 1948 will bring the best for the entire Voice staff, and the recognition a paper as fine as it, is due. Sincerely, MRS. DENNIS BROWN open to all persons from different races, and from all classes, pro fessions and trades. Branches of the body will be established in different parts of Nigeria and the Cameroons. The group also pro poses to establish a junior insti tute of race relations, whose aims w’ould be to train youth in prac ticing tolerance, individual initia tive and collective responsibility. President and chairman of the central committee is Sir Adeyemo Alakija. Vice presidents include representatives of the British, Greek, French, American and Leb anese and Syrian governments, as well as the church. There is a church for every 178 adults among Negroes and one for every 340 among whites. Five Hundred Expected to Attend Elks9 Conference on Illiteracy WASHINGTON.—(ANP). Dele gates appointed by the governors of 14 states, including college presidents, editors, high school principals, teachers community and organization leaders and just plain citizens, are included among the more than 500 persons who will attend a three-day confer ence on functional illiteracy to be held here at Metropolitan Baptist church, Jan. 29-30. The conference is sponsored by the Elks Educational department. It represents the first time in the history of American fraternal life that a fraternal order has tackled the problem of illiteracy among colored people on a national scale. According t« the conference di rector, Judge William C. Hueston, Elk commissioner of education, the conference will be a “workshop” meeting from w'hich will be launched a national community class-room program for teaching thousands of adults how to read and write, according to the army education training plan used in the war. “Our aim is not to try to teach basic English to the entire col ored population,” he said, in ex plaining the plan, “but to provide a six-week course in as many communities as we can reach dur ing the next six months, which will enable large numbers of our people to conduct their everyday affairs more efficiently. “We hope that this step will stimulate a nation-wide interest by the United States government and all citizens for the passage of federal-aid-to-educatk>n bills now before congress. Principal speaker at the con ference will be Dr. Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln uni versity, Pennsylvania. Among the college presidents who will attend are Dr. Charles Wesley, president of Wilber force; Dr. R. V. Moore, Bethune-Cook man college; Dr. Richard I. Mc Kinney, Storer college; and Dr. G. L. Harrison, Langston uni versity, Okla. The Sports Front Br Howard “Smoky" Moldea Courier Sports Award Banquet Honors 1947 Athletes Stars LOS ANGELES. (ANP). Honor ing the nation's outstanding ath letes of 1947, the Pittsburgh Courier staged its second sports award banquet Friday evening at Elks Club 99 in downtown Los Angeles. Nearly 200 famed athletes and guests attended the gala event which was highlighted by the ap pearance of film and radio star Eddie Bracken who acted as mas ter of ceremonies. Among the stellar athletes hon ored were Joe Louis, Jackie Rob inson, Don Barksdale, Marion Motley, Herb McKenley, John Finney, Bill Anderson, Bob Mann. Joe Perry, Ted Rhodes and Har rison Dillard. Mrs. Clara Mann, mother of Michigan’s All-Amer ican end, Bob Mann, who came west from New Bern, N. C., to see the Rose Bowl game, graci ously received her illustrious son’s trophy. Henry Armstrong, former three crown world champion, received Louis' trophy when the latter was unable to make plane reservations to the coast in time for the ban quet. Supervisor Leonard J. Roach made the presentation to Jackie Robinson. The Los Angeles Rams, Dons, Santa Anita and Holly wood Turf clubs and Bohemian Distributing company were rep resented, and former Lt. Gov. Frederick Houser, Councilman Don Allen, as well as the cream of the Angel City’s social set were present. Proceeds of the award banquet are used to provide aid to worthy athletes who are seeking to fur ther their educations. More than 2,000,000 Negro chil dren of school age are enrolled in elementary schools, 250,000 in sec ondary schools and nearly 45,000 in colleges. Annually some 30, 000 Negro youth are graduated from high schools and 5,000 from colleges, universities and profes sional schools. (M Gets top billing in SPRING • • • • \ ' / if ... Bright on the Spring horizon, is this platform lovely at only $£j99 j The New Look ^ ar. Peace and a 3rd Party BY I. YN WOO II PARKER. Several days ago I heard some one make the remark “Stinko Pinko or a third party.” I sup pose the individual meant that if | the two existing parties stink and the new third party is pink, what’s there to be alarmed about? It’s like having six apples in one hand and a half dozen apples in the other hand. We have all heard quite a bit in the past month about the avowed 3rd party candidate, Henry A. j Wallace. Many of us wonder why he chose to run as an independ ent- The question can be best I answered in his own words: ‘‘My reason in striking out for inde pendent action is to give these Americans * (opponents to present party evils) their democratic right ‘ tc choose . . .” (between a war ! and a Peace Party). Continuing, Mr. Wallace states: Neither party puts up any effec tive fight against racial and re ligious discrimination, for the rights of the Negro people, for a genuine F.E.P.C-, for the defeat of poll-tax and passage of a fed 1 eral anti-lynch law. Neither party defends the First Amendment. But stand mute while freedom of speech and thought are under at tack . . .** Mr. Wallace’s speech made clear the things he stands for: Preser i vation of American living stand ards; curbs on monopoly profits; an end to attacks on civil lib erties; elimination of the Wall Street dominated military group j and repudiation of universal mili ' tary training.” Only a few days after Mr. Wal lace spoke, the President gave a State of the Nation address in which he did more handsprings than Wallace could ever do. Yet with this acrobatic act in session, he failed to admit the fiasco on housing, but endorsed the univer sal military training program. He talked of peace when only two days before had ordered a con tingent of American Marines into the Mediterranean to support Greek Fascism. The Wallace candidacy has giv Smith Pharmacy 2146 Vine Prescriptions — Drags Fountain — Sundries Phone 2-1958 “Be Kind to Your Clothes” PEERLESS CLEANERS 322 So. 11 Geo. H. Lemon Breach Office nil Na. 4*th Complete Line of Distinctive Men's Clothing NUNN-BUSH ANKLE FASHIONED OXFORDS WINGS SHIRTS — COOPER UNDERWEAR STORRS-SC1IAEFER CUSTOM MADE SUITS % Card of Thanks We, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams, Supervisors of the Carver Nurs ing Home, wish to express our thanks to the “Wee Moderns Club” of Quinn Chapel Church and Pas tor Rev. R. E. Handy, for their wonderful basket of fruit during the Christmas holidays. We also wish to thank Rev. M. J. Bradford, of the Church of God in Christ for his basket of fruit. We truly appreciate any gifts given to the home in behalf of the shut ins. en Mr. Truman a push to the left, but whether or not he is far enough left to win the election is a question of great speculation. In New York Mr. Gallup, the pollster, reported that Mr. Wallace would draw between 13% and 18% of the total vote. In Massa chusetts a straw vote gave Mr. Wallace 11% of the total vote. With this rising specter of so cial reform facing us, one can not simply turn the head or run away like rats. The issue must be faced and who knows, the People’s peace may usher in the century of the common man after all. * The Voice “Advertisers” are 11 making this publication possible —show them your appreciation by your patronage. The * . 4 First National Bank « • . t / ' £ of Lincoln 10th & “O” St Member F.HJ.C. George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING & HEATING 1620 N Phono 2-1293 -