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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1948)
Tlh© ^©5©© _PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of c great people___ Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street _ „ „ _ Phone 5-6491 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare_Advertising and Business Manager Lynnwood Parker_ _ _Associate Editor. U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Charles Goolsby. ..Contributing Editor, U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Roberta Molden__-Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. Joe Green.___Circulation Manager Member ei the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Qct of March 3, 1879. NATIONAL €DITOWAL_ 04O&^soapoN II */ylun&tA— Brass Facts With the presidential election just around the corner and no one saying anything, the Negro is wondering just what stand the Democrats and Republicans are taking. Their eyes and ears are pretty well taken on Mr. Tru man’s Civil Rights program and yet they wonder what will the Republican turn up with if elected. Will the Negro hear the words, “That was President Tru man’s bill not ours”? Will they still allow a Southern minority to filibuster it down and finally out until the next campaign? If re-elected will the Democrats allow their estranged brethren from below the line of demarca tion hoot and frighten them out of taking a stand for righteous ness? Strange as it seems that is what is running through the minds of fifteen million people and of that number those of us that can vote will be guided by the answer. Receives Gifts On 89th Birthday Mrs. Lucy Follings, mother of Mrs. Estelle Hammond, celebra ted her 89th birthday April 9th. Mrs. Follings was breakfast guest of Mrs. Jane Williams and received a beautiful birthday cake from her granddaughter, Mrs. Lucy Hubbard and her great granddaughter, Mrs. Ruby - Reed. Mrs. Follings received greet ings from her daughter, Mrs. Mintie Wilson of Harvey, 111., and her daughter, Mrs. Estelle Ham mond. Mrs. Follings has eight sons, 25 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren. Cub Pack No. 60 Growing The Cub Pack No. 60 under the direction of Den Mother, Mrs. Clayton Lewis, assisted by Mrs. Roberta Molden, is growing. The members of the Pack are: Roosevelt and James Bass, den chiefs; Phil Anderson, keeper of the buckskin; Robert Saunders, Donnie Whitman, Laverne Per kins, Lester Collier, Robert Moo dy and Estelle Bass. The boys are working on hand craft and are preparing to enter their hobbies at the hobby show at the State Fair Grounds. The Cubs had a cookie sale last Saturday. The profit from the cookies will help to buy uniforms for their investiture service. Ivy Leaves Have Vesper The Ivy Leaf Club pf the AKA Sorority held its vesper service in Newman Methodist Church on Sunday, April 18. The program included: Prelude, Celestine Ligh tener; prayer, Anita Smith; Scrip tui’e,. Robbie Powell; Miss Light ner introdtioexi the speaker, Mr. Henry Angelino of Teachers Col lege, who gave the meditation. AME General Conference Plans Set KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The 33rd quadrennial session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church will open here May 5. Sessions will be held at Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial hall, 7th and Barnett Ave., and more than 15,000 per sons, including all bishops, general officers, delegates and visitors from the United States, Canada, the West Indies, South America and South and West Africa, many of whom are already in the United States, will attend. “All plans are complete,” the Rev. S. H. Lewis, D.D., host pas tor said. “We are ready. We have had splendid cooperation from all citizens of Greater Kansas City.” The Rt. Rev Noah W. Williams of the Fifth Episcopal District, which includes Nebraska, will be the host prelate. The election of Bishops will highlight the conference, the elected elders to be consecrated to the office of Bishop on May 15. j The conference will open at 10 a. m. with communion at the First AME Churjh with the Bishop Williams delivering the quadrennial sermon and Bishop R. R. Wright, Wilberforce University, the Episcopal Address. Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas will wel come the conference that night. Preceding the conference, the Rev. John S. Williams will di rect 150 selected voices from Kansas City AME choirs and a unit of the Kansas City Phil harmonic orchestra in Nathaniel Dett’s “Ordering of Moses.” Make “The Voice” your shopping guide. r ~ — The Book Shelf BY GEORGE FOSTER. PATH OF THE THUNDER by Peter Thomas, is a thrilling ac count by Lanny Swartz, who is the central character in this bit ter-sweet drama, of the love of an African Colonial for Sarie Viller, a German plantation own er’s daughter. Lanny’s troubles begin when he wins a scholarship to the Uni versity of Capetown. After six years at Capetown, he forsakes an opportunity to return home and teach school. It is in Cape town that he meets Sarie and they fall madly in love. Their love af fair is in direct defiance of the rigid social system of that coun try. Although their lives as well as their love is short, it is doubly passionate and interesting while it lasts. This intensely absorbing story makes one feel as if he was look ing into a mirror. Except for the setting, the story is characteristic of life in our own country. Path of Thunder is a must.! Once you start reading it, you won’t stop until you have finished. The author is an African Col onial, educated in Capetown and later at Oxford. He has written three excellent books. Path of The Thunder is the first of his books to be published in America. 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