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TIh® V©5@@ PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people " __ Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 222S S Street P*°ne 5-649) If No Answer Call 5-7508 Bubie W. Shakespeare --Advertising and Business Manager . Lynnwood Parker___Ass<5ciate Editor, U. N. Donn-B. 2-7651' Charles Goolsby___Contributing Editor. U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Roberta Molden_Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. foe Green........Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9. 1947 at the Post Otiice at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879. NATIONAL € DITORI AL_ SSOCIATION What Type of Men Should Be Elevated? Wednesday, May 5, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest Negro church in America, convened at Kansas City, Kan sas in its 33rd session of the General conference which meets every four years. One of the most significant features will be the election of bishops. There will be election of General officers, making of laws and the revising of others, whereby nearly 1,000,000 people will be affected. But that is less important since the church has an episco pal form of government. The 15,000 assembled delegates will be more critical today about the kind of man to be elected than ever before. First, because of experiences and embarrassing positions under and thru which the church has struggled during the past two years. Secondly, we need men of integrity, vision, honesty and character for a day like this. The great imperative is that men and women who truly love their church work together. It is quite natural for men to say glorious things when seeking the suffrage of the people. Then how are the delegates to select the right man? Fervent prayer will never fail.—R. S. Veterans Walk Out On Minstrel Show COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP). • Complaining that the show in sulted the colored race, veterans of both races confined at Vet erans hospital here walked out on a minstrel show here last week. Negro veterans walked out en masse on the black face show presented by the Woodmen of the World for the “entertain ment” of hospitalized $ets. Col ored ex-GI’s told Mrs. Thomasina Scott, director of programs for colored vets, that the Negro was insulted in the show, and the word “nigger” was used several times. Future programs will be screened by officials, Mrs. Scott said. Troop 60 at Honor Court Itan Section Court of Honor was held Monday evening at 2030 T. Troop 60 received ribbons for at tendance and Clifford Dunn of Troop 60 received his Second Class badge. Saturday, May 8, the troop will spend the night at Camp Minat kuo, south of Lincoln, for the sec ond time this spring, according to Mr. Joseph Adams, Scoutmaster. Itan Section will have a field meet on Monday, May 14, at 7:30 p. m. at 2030 T at which time Troop 60 will be host. Parents and friends are invited to attend. There will be a contest of scout ing skills ^uch as knot tying, fire by friction, and first aid. The average life of a dollar bill is six months. Sunday, SdwoJL Theme—Ezra Leads a Religious Revival. Ezra 7:6-10; Nehemiah 8-10; 13. The {leading of the Law. On the first day of the seventh month, the time of the Festival of Trum pets, in the year 445 B.C., the people of Jerusalem were as sembled in the broad place that was before the water gate. The streets of Jerusalem were very narrow, just as they are today, most of them resembling an alley more than a street. The only spot where a large crowd could as semble would be the broad place, or open square, or else beyond the city walls. The water gate was the gate through which the water carriers entered the city with their water from Gihon, or the Virgin’s Spring as it is now called. And they spake unto Ezra the scribe. “The name of Ezra appears here for the first time in the Book of Nehemiah. What had Ezra been doing all this while? This we do not know. We may speculate, which is harmless. He may have gone back to Babylon. He may have remained at Jerusalem and gone on with his reforms, and we are left without information solely because the part of his memoir which contains information about his work has perished. What we have now before us is the account of the promulgation of the Law.” They spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses. Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach to Israel the statutes and ordinances. The “Book of the Law of Moses.” Of just what this book consisted is a disputed question among scholars: the entire Pentateuch, others believe; only the legislative por tion of the Pentateuch, others maintain. Ezra read from early morning till midday—and, all, men, women and children, were f attentive listeners. Ezra stood upon a wooden plat form above the people (the omitted verse four lists the impor tant people who stood with him), and when he stood up the people stood up also. And Ezra opened the book. He unrolled the roll. As he read the law he was aided by thirteen Levites who gave the sense so that all under stood what was read. Seemingly Ezra read the law sentence by sentence and briefly expounded it and then the Levites made his explanation clear to the people. To the reading the people re sponded with Amen, Amen, and with a lifting up of the hands, probably with the palms upward \ VACATION-DAY WHITS CASUALS ‘1107 O Open Thursday 'til 9 2-1677 Chosen as May Queen Attendant Miss Jeanne Malone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Malone, 1035 Rose Street, was chosen by the girls of the Sophomore class at the University of Nebraska to be one of the attendants of the May Queen’s court in the traditional Ivy Day festivities at the univer sity Thursday, April 28. Miss MalOne is a sop homore in the Arts and Jeanne Maione. Sciences college where she is ma joring in psychology. During the year she has been a member of the University Y.W.C.A. cabinet, the Co-Ed Counselor Board Ind the university chorus. She attends Quinn Chapel AME Church where she is Sunday School secretary and sings with the Junior Choir. She is also a member of the Ivy Leaf, A.K.A. sorority pledge club. in supplication for the divine blessing, -»and then they wor shipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.- We should learn the lesson taught by that waiting crowd prone on their faces and blessing God for his word. Such attitudes must ever precede read ing it, if we are to read aright.'* The Solemn Covenant. The re vival was sealed by a solemn cov | enant to which the leaders of the people set their seals. It thus means a reorganization of the Jewish Church. The revival gave birth to a new set of institutions by which it was crystalized and perpetuated. Again and again in the history of the church, move ments of revival have issued in the formation of mighty institu tions. The great missionary so cieties of the Protestant churches came out of a revival of the evan gelistic spirit. The Reformation, it self a revival, gave birth to new churches. It was from a revival of religion in England that the Methodist churches all over the world sprang. From the revival led by Ezra came the mighty in stitutions of Judaisnm Our prayer. Lord do it again. I TYPEWRITERS I ANY MAKE SOLD RENTED REPAIRED Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 No. 12th S«. Phone 2-2157 Lincoln, Nehr. Letter to * The Editor Dear Editor: May I take the pleasure of commending you and your wonderful staff on your fine work of publishing THE VOICE. Its well rounded presentation of local and world events excel many of the leading publica tions of its kind, and I sincerely beiieve tt will go far in the journalistic world. It would be greatly appreciated If you would kindly print a photograph of all the colored students that are now attending the Unirersity of Nebraska. The names would be just as well, also the number of colored students attending. Any consideration to this request would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours. Kathryn “Peaches” Dean, Oakland. California. 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