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TIk® ^/®n®® 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? U No Answer Call 5-750$ Rubie W. Shakespeare--Advertising and Business Manager Lynwood Parker___—-Associate Editor, on Leare Charles Goolsby_— Contributing Editor, on Lecnre Roberta Molden.___Associate Editor 1966 O Street, 2-140'' Mrs. Joe Green.. . .Circulation Manager Member ol the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association^ tnterea as Second Class Matter, June 9, 194/ at the Post Oiiice at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ol March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription_$2.00_Single copy—.—...5c_ NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ SSOCIATION ^/yicrn&tA— A Worm's Eye 'View By CARROLL L. UNLAND Men study and strive and many devote their lives to the conquer ing of disease. Other men con tribute hospitals and sanitoriums 'for the curing of man’s physical and mental ills. Yet disease and ill health are still so common that everyone is familiar with this misfortune. Men fight both for and against the development of a program of socialized medi cine designed to prevent ill health and to arrest disease in its early stages. Man has not learned the way to good health. Men have developed great re ligions purporting to explain God's plan for His creatures, the mys tery of life and death, the hope of eternal life, and a moral code designed to enable men to live in a commendable, constructive, co operative manner. Houses of wor ship, great cathedrals and little shrines, and churches of all de scriptions are the meeting places for millions of people, gathered to worship their God as they see the way. Yet religions tend to seek material wealth and political pow er and in so doing defeat the greater good \yhich is their avow ed purpose. Wars have been fought, millions of lives lost, homes and communities disrupted because men forget the true pur pose of their religion and choose to deny other men the right to worship God in some other way and to seek the road to eternal life by the light of some other re ligion. Man has not learned the way to religion tolerance. Men have built great univer sities and institutions of learning and the body of knowledge now available to the seeker covers great areas of all subjects. Yet the greatest interest is usually in the physical and material fields. Nearly everyone has some knowl edge of these things. The sciences of psycology and sociology are highly developed but the common man takes little interest and ne glects the very fields of knowl edge most necessary to a peace ful contented existence. Man has i not solved the problem of educa tion. In some areas great quantities of food are produced. Great sur pluses allow the people to live ; in relative luxury and often re , suit in wastage and loss. In other areas equally great numbers of people suffer from starvation and exposure. One group undermines ! the general health by overeating while the other group suffers from many diseases resulting from mal nutrition. Man.has not solved the I problem of distribution of the necessities of life. } Men profess to believe in de mocracy and the rights inherent in each human being. Men fight wars to defend this belief. Yet the I world is full of minorities, racial, religious, economic, and others, j which are continually suppressed and denied equal rights with the 1 dominating majority. In other in ; stances more powerful minorities seek to dominate majorities for ■ selfish purposes. In each case the more powerful group, neglecting to give thought to the rights of the weak, is defeating the goal of democracy. Man has not learned how to secure the great est good for the greatest num ber. Mankind has learned how tc discover, capture, and exploit the great, God given, natural re sources. But in blindness and selfishness men are rapidly ex , hausing and destroying while I neglecting proposed activities to conserve, perpetuate, and reha bilitate natures bounty. Men achieve great astounding feats of construction and trans portation; but some misuse these wonders for purposes of war. Un told wealth and energy is used to destroy the best and greatest achievements upon which equal amounts of wealth and energy have been expended. That is war. Men have not learned how to prevent race suicide. Until such time as mankind can find noble and unselfish motives in its collective heart in suffi cient quantities to guide and di rect the enormous expenditures of resources and energies which \ (JlaA&Jwom, (B&tibunq&UL Crisp while anklets by Bonnie Do on are seliooltiine necessities. And you’ll find every , style you could want at Millers. Park.50c Raquel .50c Rihby.50c Topper .... 50c HOSIERY... FIRST FLOOR (TliLLER l PAIflE Our Children By Mrs. William B. Davis Fat Children The treatment depends on the cause. Many people think the cause is gland trouble, but actually this is rarely the case. There are several factors that make for overweight, including heredity, temperament, appetite, happiness. If a child comes from a stocky line on both sides Pf the family, there is a greater chance of his being overweight. The placid child who takes little exercise has more food calories left over to store in form of fat. The most important factor of all is appetite. The child who has a tremendous appetite that runs to rich food like cake, cookies and pastry, is naturally going to be heavier than the child whose taste runs principally to vege tables and fruits and meats. But this only raises the question of why one child does crave large amounts of rich foods. We don t understand all the causes of this, but we recognize the child who seems to be born (“constitution ally”) to be a big eater. He starts w’ith a huge appetite at birth and never loses it after wards, whether he’s well or sick, calm or worried, whether the food he’s offered is appetizing or not. He’s fat by the time he’s 2 or 3 months old and stays that way at least through childhood. Of the excessive appetites that develop later in childhood some at least are due to unhappiness. This happens, for instance, around the age of 7 in children who are somewhat unhappy and lonely. It is the period when the child is drawing away from his close emotional dependence on his parents. If he doesn't have the knack of making equally close friendships with other chil dren, he feels left out in the cold. Elating sweet and rich food seems to serve him as a partial substi Worries about schoolwork or other matters sometimes make a child seek comfort in over eating too. Overweight some times develops during the puberty stage of development, especially in unhappy children. The appe tite normally increases at this time to take care of the increased rate of growth, but it’s probable that loneliness pljjys a part in some cases, too. It is the period when the child may become more turned-in and self-conscious be cause of all the changes he is ex periencing, and this may lessen his ability to get along enjoyably with his fellows. are now being used for evil and destructive puVposes we worms have no cause to lose sleep or to suffer any nervous breakdowns over who shall inherit the earth — ! Sports Scope Satchel Paige Realizes BaseballDream Courtesy of Lincoln Journal. SATCHEL PAIGE NEW YORK. (ANP). Ten years ago I chatted with Leroy Paige, Kansas City Monarchs ; pitcher, at Yankee stadium about colored stars being in the big leagues. I recall baseball’s legendary ‘Old Man River” say ing: “I would give years of my life to be in there pitching for a ma jor league club and I feel that I would make good against the best of them.” There was no i boastfulness in Paige's speech, just the normal desire of Ameri can baseball players whose life time dream is to pitch before crowded stands and to hear the chant of bleacher fans and box holders after a notable effort. That was back in 1938. Ten years later, Aug. 13. 1948, Satchel Paige pitched a 5-0 shoutout vic tory for Cleveland, American | league, against the Chicago White Sox. The victory eased the In dians Sack into first place and j Joe Louis and Ray Robinson, world champion boxers who 1 witnessed the game, personally j congratulated the tall man with the moustache. His dream to twirl before a packed house also came true for 51,013 turfl-away fans crowded into Chicago’s Comiskey park to see just how the much advertised Negro moundsman would fare over the nine inning distance. It was openly stated that Paige j would fizzle out completely after I four innings but the 44-year-®ld wizard foole<#them badly. II1 Miss Robinson Passes in Denver Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 28. 2 p. m. at Nebraska City, for Miss Georgia Robinson, who passed away in Denver, Friday, August 20. Among survivors are, three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Newton, and Rosia Robinson, Beatrice, Neb., and Edith Robinson, Kan sas City, Kas. 4 Meetings of 25 Negro organiza tions in 17 states were attended in 1947 by the National Founda tion’s Director of Interracial Ac tivities to advise groups and indi viduals of services available from the organization and how to ob tain them. m_ Subscribe To ZJhe Uoice. The t. First National Bank of Lincoln 10th St “O” St Member F.DAC. 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