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Tib® W@n<e® 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 222b 6 Street Phone 5-649) It No Answer Call 5-7501 Ruble W. Qrle«»rtiglng and Business Manager Charles Goolsby_ _ _Associate Editor. Y.M.C.A. Lynwood P»rrira. Qngnriate Editor, on Military Leave Rev. J. B. _Promotion Manager Mrs. ioe Groan._Circulation Manager Member ol the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, tune 9. 1947 at the Poet Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879 i year subscription_82.00 Single copy-5c EDITORIALS Tlie views expressed in these columns are those ot the writer and not necessarily a reflection oi the oolicy ol The Voice.— Pub. Judge Says Half of Ethiopian Budget For Education WASHINGTON. (ANP). Judge Nathan Marein of the Ethiopian high court was a vistor in the United States last week. He is on a six-month vacation tour. In discussing his native country he said that almost half the na tional budget was spent on edu cation. At the beginning of the year Ethiopia had 407 elementary schools, 63 private, and 65 mis sion schools, two high schools, and a junior college. Enrollment has risen from 20,000 in 1942 to 50.000 in 1948. He said his country is trying to close the gap between its primitive ways of the past and the modern world to today. Addis Ababa, he said, brings the old and new Ethiopia face to face. Many streets are so jammed that there is no place to park an auto mobile, yet barefoot farmers from the interior stroll the streets in white robes. Judge Marein is the legal ad visor of the Ethiopian govern ment. During the war he was at torney for the exile Ethiopian government in claims made by the Italian government. Recently he helped set up his nation’s judi cial system. Madison Family Get Award For Superior Farm CHICAGO. (Special). Leo and Clara Tiedgen. of Madison county, Nebraska, outstanding farming couple who started with a desolate and unproductive-piece of land back in the "twenties” which they have built into a model farm now producing a staggering amount of food, will receive the prized W. G. Skelly award for superior achieve ment in agriculture on June 11. "The “success” farming formula was hard, wrearying and back breaking toil plus expert soil hus bandry. Heart of the soil recon struction job is trees—four-and a-half miles of them—from com mon cottonwoods to Chinese elms and Russian olives—which pro vide a shelter belt to keeping the land from blowing away. At a community breakfast to be held in their honor Saturday morning, the Tiedgens will re ceive their joint award consisting of a $100 U. S. savings bond, school and gold lapel pins, pre sented in behalf of W. G. Skelly, president of the Skelly Oil com pany. Teach us to delight in Simple Th ings —Kipling. Speak little, do much.—Frank lin. Independents Off to Good Start Despite Weather The Independents are getting into the swing of the season as they ended their fifth game with four wins to one loss. After get ting off to a late start because of the rainy weather we have had in the last few weeks, the team has begun to click and show their usual metal. Monday, June 13 they were scheduled to Lloyd’s and in a double header Other games scheduled for the near future are: June 16—Wolves, 8 P- nr June 19- DeWitt, Neb. June 21—Vets Administration, 8 p. m. June 23—Guensel's. June 24—Crete, Neb. June 27—Chat'n Nibble. Hank McWilliams is leading the squad with a hot .464 and Grant isn’t far behind with .461. Bat ting averages last Saturday stood in the following order: McWilliams ... .464 Alexander .250 Grant .461 Botts .238 Rogers .368 Tarpley, G.214 Duncan .333 Tarpley, W. .. .200 Wilson, E..277 Vaughn .176 Raymond Botts is the team manager again this year and Hank McWilliams is business manager. Dr. Bundle Refuses Invitation to School FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — (ANP).—Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN mediator for Palestine, last week declined an invitation to attend ceremonies in his honor scheduled for next September at the King George Training school. The September program was to be in Dr. Bunche’s honor. He ex plained in a letter to Supt. T. Ben ton Gayles that previous commit ments would prevent his coming to this part of the country at that time. King George county was one of several counties involved in equal schol suits earlier this year. The King George Training school was not considered equal to the high school for whites in this county. The Triumph of Teresa For the first time, the American Legion Auxiliary-sponsored Girls State has chosen a Negro to be its chief executive. The new Gov ernor is 16-year-old Teresa Little john, of Omaha, a junior at South High. The 250 girls, camped for a week at the University of Ne braska, swept her into office on the slogan, “For a Governor and a Pal, Vote for Littlejohn, She’s the Gal.” Teresa’s election is typical of that spirit of friendliness and fair play which has long characterized the majority of Nebraska citizens. In this state, as elsewhere, inter racial relations are still far from what they should be and could be. but progress toward that goal has h JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI HISTORICAL SOCIITT Though not a legal holiday, except in Pennsylvania, June 14th generally is observed as flag day. In this connection, a few words regarding Nebraska’s state ban ner may be of interest. An official state banner was not adopted by Nebraska until 1925. In that year, Representative J. Lloyd McMaster of Lancaster County introduced a bill into the House of Representatives provid ing for such a banner. It was passed, 92 to 4, and referred to the Senate. Taht body’s judiciary committee reported out the bill with an amendment providing for a new state seal. The amendment was voted down, and the original proposition was adopted unani mously by the upper house. On April 2, Governor Adam McMullen approved the bill and Nebraska was provided with a state banner, described officially as follows: “There is hereby desig nated a banner for the State of Nebraska which shall consist of a reproduction of the great seal of the state, charged on the center in gold and silver on a field of national blue.” Thus, the work of a good many many persons and groups was brought to fruition. Mrs. B. G. Miller of Crete was particularly active in the movement for the adoption of a state banner. The bill also provides that the state banner shall never be used as a business advertisement or a trade mark, as well as establish ing penalties for insult to the bapner or violation of the provi sions of the bill. The seal, which is the banner’s sole insignia, was provided for by N e b r a s k a’s first constitution, adopted in 1866. The seal itself was adopted by the legislature of 1867 and approved by Governor David Butler, Nebraska’s first chief executive after admission into the Union. Embodied in the seal is much that depicts the hopes and aspira tions of pioneer Nebraska—a steamboat ascending the Missouri river; the mechanic arts repre sented by a smith with hammer and anvil; agriculture represented by a settler’s cabin, sheaves of wheat and stalks of growing corn; and a train of railroad cars head ing toward the Rocky Mountains. At the top of the circle is Ne braska’s motto: “Equality beforei the Law’.” There is nothing particularly original about the design of Ne braska’s state banner. On the contrary, it is much like that of several other states. Its coloring, though, and the effective sym bolism of the state seal, make it an appropriate banner for a mod ern western commonwealth. been steady. Congratulations are due, and hereby cordially extend^!, both to the victorious Teresa and/ her charming opponent, 16-year-old Nancy Pumphrey, of Wisner, who went down smiling. Congratulations are due also to the voters. Regardless of which candidate they supported, they fought the campaign through, not on personalities or prejudice, but on the issues. In doing so, they set an example for their elders.— World Herald. liittUa fotoriU fctato Ch»p^ | JJlAlL JthjL JGwMwIjl | BY AL MOSES. NEW YORK. (ANP). Whether colored or white, on the big time or of the forgotten-sandlot-breed, athletic greatness has never been the private property of any race of people. There is no Negro baseball player in the great citadel at Cooperstown, N. Y., that is to say other than in the minds of un biased observers of yesterday and this bright day with its Larry Doby, Roy Campanelle, Jackie Robinson, Satchell “Leroy” Paige and the others. A glimpse at our “Interracial Hall of Fame” might bring to your memory some great names. Sup pose wc thumbnail through the pages of sport history and like the legendary story of a “Roland-for an-Oliver” group one immortal along with his brother-of-skin: Rolands vs. Olivers. Pitchers: Carl Hubbell, Leroy "Satchel'* Paige. Christy Mathewson, Andrew "Rube” Foster. Dizzy Dean, Dizzy Dismuker (Indiana polis, ABC’s). Grover Alexander, Cyclone Joe Williams. Bob Feller. Dick "Cannonball” Redding. Walter Johnson, Bullet Wickware. Infielders: Tony Lazzeri, Jackie Robinson. Honus Wagner. John Henry Lloyd. Eddie Collins, Bingo DeMoss. Joe Dugan, Oliver Marcello. Buck Weaver, Ray Dandridge. Hal Chase. Leroy Grant. Outfielders: Ty Cobb, Oscar Charleston. Tris Speaker, Carlos Torrienti. Joe DiMaggio, Blainey Hall. Terry Moore, Pete Hill. Enos Slaughter. Spottswood Poles. Babe Ruth. Judy Gans. Joe "Shoeless” Jackson, Larry Dob' Catchers: Mickey Cochrane, Rifle Wickware. Bill Dickey. Bizz Mackey. Reindeer Killifer. Roho. Johnny Kling. Josh Gibson. Roger Bresnahan. Roy Campanella. Manager: John, McGraw, Andrew Foster. Connie Mack, C. I. Taylor. Joe McCarthy. Pop Watkins. Boxing Grouping. "West.” "East” Jack Dempsey Joe Louis Gene Tunney Jack Johnson John L. Sullivan Peter Jackson Mickey Walker Ray Robinson Mac Schmeling Sam Langford Bob Fitzsimmons Joe Jeanette James J. Corbett Hank "Homicide" Jimmy McLamin Armstrong L.uis Angel Ftrpo Sam McVey Benny I^eonard Harry Wills Jack Britton Battling Siki (Kid CJeorges Carpentier Norfolk) Tony Zale Joe Gans Bat Battalino Joe Walcott Bushy Graham Jack Blackburn Kid Chocolate Alfonso "Al" Brown The First National Bank of Lincoln 10th A "O” St. Member F.D.I.C. TYPEWRITERS ANT MAKE SOLD RENTED REPAIRED Nebraska Typewriter Co. 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