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W®n<£<g 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 2225 S Street Phone 5-649) It No Answer Call 5-7508 , Rubie W. Shakespeare___Advertising and Business Manager Lynnwood Parker - — _Associate Editor, U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Charles a«"<«hy . .. Contributing Editor, U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Roberta Molden__Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. Joe Green.. .. ■ ...-.....Circulation Manager Member oi the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, 1947 at the Post Oiiice at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act oi March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription.... $2.00 Single copy.~.-.5c NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ SSOCIATION Between The Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP. It is a tradition that in war fare Great Britain is at times clumsy and faltering, being prone to mistakes, blunders and fumbles. Britain often loses battles but she always wins the last one. The last one is the most important. Now that Britain can no longer win last battles, she relies upon the United States to win them for j her, and we are going about it in a way that should hearten every Briton throughout the world. Just j as it was once said that Britain would fight to the last French 1 soldier, it may with equal truth ' be said that she will now fight to 1 the last American soldier and ' spend to the last American dollar. 1 Just as Britain is famous for ! winning the last battle so Joe Louis will go down in history fa mous for winning that last round. Joe may appear tired and clumsy and slow-footed as they say, but Joe sooner or later gets his men. That is about all that could be . asked of a champion. For quite 10 years he has taken them as they came and without exception he has handled them in most deci sive fashion. It is true that some of the challengers lived to reap pear in the ring but they paid dearly for it. There has always been a killing for the man who entered the ring the second time to fight Joe Louis. Joe Louis is without doubt the greatest fighter who ever put on boxing gloves. This writer re members a long line of champions among them Bob Fitzsimmons, Corbett, Jack Johnson, Dempsey and all the rest; but Joe Louis out championed them all. All kinds of fault have been found with Louis’ fighting style and tactics. He has been disparaged and gain aid and made light of by certain sports writers, but Joe always did his killing that last round. Godoy, Walcott and others tried to devise methods of dethroning Joe Louis. The best minds concentrated on planning his over-throw but Joe usually had the killing in that last round. This writer for one was fearful for Joe during the last fight. *It looked for a while to be a repeti tion of the first Walcott-Louis fight. But when Joe rose up to smite Walcott the latter became just another victim of a brutal killing by one of the fiercest fight ers the world has ever known. Babe Ruth rejuvenated baseball with his home runs and Joe Louis rejuvenated boxing by his wicked knock-outs. And so Joe retires to the rest and comfort that he so verily de serves. He brought another “ism” to the American public already afflicted with “isms.” Lenin b r o u g ht communism, Hitler brought nazism and Mussolini brought fascism. Joe Louis brought “knock-out-ism” that thrilled a listless world. Joe Louis and that famous last round knock out will go down in the annals of pugilism as one of the crowning accomplishments of the Brown Boy from Alabama. Joe was not only a great fighter but he has been a gentleman and a fine representative of his race. Unsophisticated and unlearned in books, he has maintained a dig nity and unrighteous that has won the acclaim of the wondering world. Joe Louis and that last round! t Rally Day at Christ Temple Church, July 18 BY RICHARD McWILLIAMS ' Sunday, July 18th will be an outstanding day at Christ Temple Church, 2149 “U” streets at 3:00 p. m. The Missionaries will render a Rally service with Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor of Tabernacle Church of Christ (Holiness), 2608 Frank lin street, Omaha, and congrega tion will be guests. Rev. Jones is president of the Sunday school and H.Y.P.U. of the Midwest Dis trict of the Church of Christ (Holiness). Mrs. Georgia King, Mrs. Margie Lee Norris, and Mrs. Zora Adams are the Missionaries sponsoring service. We are inviting everyone to come and hear Rev. Jones and enjoy the splendid service that will be prepared for you. Mrs. Georgia King will be Mistress of Ceremonies. CLASSIFIED AD For Sale—Piano, good condition. Coal range, reasonably priced. 650 So. 20. Phone 2-2084. Veteran wants living quarters for family of three. Phone 5-7508. Texas Governor Supports Civil Rights in Platform AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP). Texans were surprised last week when press releases announced that Gov. Beauford Jester, up for re election, supported civil rights in his platform. He is the first south ern governor to favor any civil rights proposals since President Truman’s address to congress in February. The governor’s support of civil rights, however, was not all-out; it contained several if’s. His plat form calls for an anti-lynching law although one is not necessary “in view of the absence of lynch ing in Texas;” an anti-poll tax law “if such move is favored by the people of Texas” and if an other source of revenue can be found to support the school fund. He favors the above if the fed eral government does not inter fere. Development of the new Texas State university and Prairie View college up to the standards of the white state universities is also advocated by the governor. He also said he favored full pro Out of Old Nebraska BY JAMES C. OLSON. Superintendent, State Historical Society. One of the early Americans to report on the Nebraska country was Rev. Samuel Parker, a con gregational missionary, who went through the Platte Valley enroute to Oregon in 1835 to explore pos sible locations for establishing missions among the Indians. Rev. Parker’s enthusiasm for the project had been fired by a report in the Christian Advocate telling of four “wise men from the west,” who had come to St. Louis to seek the white man’s re ligion for their people. When Rev. Parker first offered his services to the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Mis sions he was turned down. After all, he was 56 years old and not particularly robust and an exploration beyond the wild Missouri was believed to demand the services only of young men. He persisted, however, and fi nally was accepted. Accompany ing him was young Dr. Marcus Whitman, whose missionary ef forts were such an important fac tor in the early settlement of Oregon. And so in June of 1835 Rev. Parker and his companion found themselves at Bellevue, the prin cipal center of activity in the Ne braska country. They spent most of the month there while the caravan of the American Fur Company, with whom they were to travel, made preparations for the long journey overland. This caravan, incidentally was in charge of Lucien Fontenelle, one of the important figures in the history of the west. While at Bellevue, Rev. Parker took many walks around the countryside, and apparently he was most favorably impressed by what he saw. He noted even at that early date several hundred horses and mules, and a herd of cattle feeding on the meadows. He also observed an occasional field of corn. He wrote, “But J few places can present a pros pect more interesting, -and when a civilized population shall add the fruits of their industry, but few places can be ‘more desir able.” Finally on June 22 the caravan was ready to start and the long, slow journey was begun. Rev. Parker kept a journal of the trip and from it we have numer ous descriptions of the Platte Valley. He was particularly im pressed by the great bluffs ris ing out of the valley’s floor in what are now Morrill and Scotts Bluff counties. He thought Chim ney Rock misnamed and rechris tened it Beacon Hill because of its resemblance to feature of the s^me name in Boston, but his name didn’t stick. The caravan reached the fur trade rendezvous on Green River, August 12. There the missionar ies found Flatheads and Nez Perces eagerly awaiting them. Parker went forward alone with the Indians and Whitman re turned east with the trade cara van to organize a missionary party. Having explored the Oregon country, Parker sailed out to the Hawaiian Islands and then around the Horn to New York. Upon re turning home he published an account of his adventures under the title, “Journal of an Explor ing Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.” tection of Negroes from bodily harm, giving Negroes their legal rights and raising the health and education of colored to the equiv alent of that provided other races in Texas. —Subscribe to the Voice— Attorney May Get Legislature Seat NORFOLK. (ANP). Atty. Martin A. Martin, partner of Councilman-elect Oliver W. Hill, is being looked upon as a possi ble candidate for the general as sembly next year, it was dis closed here last week. Dr. J. M. Tinsley, local NAACP president, revealed that Hill had advanced the idea at a rally held in honor of the latter's election to the council, and advocated that Negroes must keep themselves qualified to vote in order to elect a member of their own race. -A white speaker, Howard H. Carwile, told the rally that he would campaign for the U. S. senate “against fake labor lead ers, fake Negro leaders and every | kind of a hypocrite in and out of the church.” James E. Gardner, seeking a house of representa tives seat, said he stood on the constitution of the United States “which says equal rights to all and special privilege to none.” Edward H. Bly Taken Bv Death Edward H. Bly, 77, 321 So. 20th, died Wednesday at the Lincoln Veterans Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Surviving are his wife, Lena; a brother, William, Leavenworth, Kans* and a nephew, Val Slaugh ter, Chicago. Funeral services were held 2 p. m. Saturday at Rudge Memo rial chapel. Rev. W. A. Green offi ciating. Mr. Bly was a Spanish American war veteran and burial was in Soldier circle at Wyuka. 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Gimble’s department store hired five girls last week. • — —— Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: I was very elated over this, Fri day evening. As I was coming home from work I saw' little chil dren leaving their homes hurrying to the Community Center to their Bible School. I think it is w'onderful for them to learn about God at an early age. Thanks to the Christian men and women of Lincoln who are making this possible. They are to be congratulated. MRS. LENORA LETCHER, Lincoln. —Subscribe to the Voice— GILMOUR-D ANIELSON DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists 142 So. 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr. PHONE 2-1246 10t-25*-4J* Lincolns Favorite Potato Chip George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING <£ HEATING 1620 N Phone 2-1293 { NOW I'm Ready ( to Serve You! \ keep your telephone alive Please replace your telephone receiver on the hook when you have finished talking. If you don’t, your line will give a "busy” signal and you will not receive incoming calls. Should yours be a party line and you fail to replace the receiver, the whole line will be "dead.” Be a good neighbor — cooperate. Tho Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co.