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TBn@ W®n€@ PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ ’’Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people " Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editas Business Address 2225 d Street Phone 5-649) It No Answer Call 5-7506 Ruble W. «p*«.« - Advertising and Business Manager Charles Goolsby fl«go<-into Editor, T.M.C.fl L vn wood Parker_ Associate Editor, on Military Leave Rev. J B. Brooks_Promotion Manager Mrs. |oe Green_ Circulation Manager Member oi the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, tune 9. 1947 at the Post Oiiice at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription_$2.00 Single copy--5c RRbrrskr vV / // / \ EDITORIALS Tr f-y 1 1 M % The views expressed in these columns / * * A m are those ot the writer and not necessarily /P S SOCIPT/OH M • » a reflec,ion o( *he oolicy oi The Voice.— pub A,. A K NATIONAL fin ZiJAA D EDITORIAL i r lAWrW&L—r ASSOCIATION COMMUNISM AND OUR SCHOOLS By Edward J. Sparling, President, Roosevelt College, Chicago KDITOB’S NOTH: On March 2, the Illinois House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling upon the Chairman of the State Keditious Activities Investigating Committee to take steps to investigate "any and all subversive activities which may now evIsT In any form ’ at the University ©f Chicago and at Roosevelt College. The following article by President Kdward 4. Sparling of Roosevelt college is reprinted for Voice readers because It typifies the trend of education throughout the country. Only through liberal-minded, truth-seeking educators will we be able to continue to break down the wall of prejudice that exists in many areas of education and living. The issue of Communism and the schools is being hotly debated throughout the nation. This cru cial problem challenges Amer ica’s best thinking and leader ship to find a workable and democratic answer. This issue has flared into headlines with the news that Roosevelt Col lege will be investigated for pos sible subversive activities. I wish to repeat a statement that I made publicly; Roosevelt College will welcome and coop erate with a fairly conducted in vestigation. We are content to stand on our record of sound de velopment in line with the ob jectives of the college “to pro vide a teaching faculty for the discovery and dissemination of truth; and ot provide educational opportunities to persons of both sexes and of the various races on equal terms.” “I should like to make clear my own position on Communism in the schools. I am opposed to Communism, its theory, its prac tice and its methods. I have op posed Communists in community organizations and I, as well as the college, have many times been attacked by the Com munists. I am thoroughly devoted to the liberal democratic prin ciples of freedom and equality, and I have always tried to be known for what I am for and not whaf I am against. Roosevelt college is an educa tional and not a propagandistic * institution. In the interests of truth all viewpoints can be heard. In choosing the faculty of the school we try to make sure that each professor is free to search for the truth, i. e., that each fac ulty member chosen has no higher loyalty which would take prece dence over his loyalty to the truth. It is obvious that it would profit the college nothing if the college guaranteed academic free dom for faculty members who were not free to discover and dis seminate truth .because they are bound to a greater loyalty. Students are free to learn un hampered by dogma, superstition, or prejudice, and they are all ad mitted on the basis of ability and training which enable them to complete successfully college re quirements for graduation. All student activities groups are re quired to register with the Stu dent Activities Office the names of their officers and a statement of their aims and membership policies. It so happens that this kind of college is the most deadly of all the enemies of Communism, since Communism cannot thrive in a fertile soil of freedom of expres sion. As proof of this we have a Communist Club which is free to get 6,100 members in Roose velt college but has never had more than from five to ten stu dents. If the doctrines for Com munism were attractive to Roose velt students and if the faculty were propagandists for Com munism, I am quite sure that there would have been far more than ten converts out of 6,100 students. The truth is that as long as the average American produces about ten times as much of the good things of life as the Russian Communist, there is little likeli hood that American youth will desert their American freedom of self direction for the yoke of prescribed directions of Com munism with its curtailed free dom and regimentations. We are in hopes that the stu dents of this college will be so cially conscious of their respon sibilities and privileges as Ameri can citizens to leave the world in a bit better condition than they founnd it. Lou Boudreau Makes Tribe Nine Tick The resurgence of Bill Veeck’s Cleveland Indians as we near the July 4th “Gypsy-guessing” dead line, brings us around to a dis cussion of a man, Lou Boudrea, Cleveland’s playing-m a n a g e r, often called by writers a “class guy.” Now we cannot agree with that statement in its entirety as far as Boudreau is concerned. The Cleveland “front office,” and we do mean President Bill Veeck, has not seen eye-to-eye with the de bonair Frenchman in this or other baseball seasons. But all baseball men agree on one thing: Lou Boudreau does an honest and ex tremely creditable job on the dia mond whether as shortstop (where he has few equals around) as catcher, first or third baseman and, of course, as a first-rate field thinker for the whole skyboodle. That he has been more than kind to his members whom we know best as Larry Doby, Satchel Paige and Orestes Minosa (Bow in PCL circuit) etc, etc., is lau idatory but might we also say man jdatory ala Bill Veeck. h IANKS C. OLSON, SufHrinttndtiU •TATI HISTOBICAL SOCIKTT When William A. Richardson was appointed governor of Ne braska territory in 1858, he en joyed the distinction of already having a county named in his honor. Richardson county was so named by Acting Governor T. B. Cuming when the territorial gov ernment was organized in 1854. At that time, Mr. Richardson was a member of congress from Illi nois, and had been instrumental in the passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill. Born and reared in Kentucky, William A. Richardson moved to Illinois as a young man, where he engaged in the practice of law and soon became active in poli tics. He served several terms in the Illinois legislature, and dur ing one of these was speaker of the house of representatives. He represented an Illinois district in the house of representatives from 1847 to 1856, when he resigned to run for governor of Illinois on the democratic ticket. Richardson’s appointment as governor of Nebraska came after his defeat for the governorship. The first time President Buchanan offered him the post he refused, but finally in December, 1857, he was persuaded to accept. Governor Richardson served Nebraska territory only a year, but it was one full of problems resulting in many a headache for the chief executive. The basic difficulty arose out of a conflict in the legislature which had torn that body asun der, and when the governor ar rived he found that part of the legislature had vacated the ter ritorial capital at Omaha and was in session at Florence. This group invited the new governor to co-operate with them, but that he refused to do. Instead, he in sisted that they return to the regular territorial capital. One of Richardson’s principal acts as governor was to call the legislature into special session to take action correcting the “great confusion and uncertainty” which in his judgment characterized the laws of the territory. He issued this call on Aug. 14, 1858, just two days before he penned his resignation to take effect Jan. 1, 1859. He left the territory about a month before his resignation was to take effect, returning to Illi nois to run for his old seat in the house of representatives. He was elected, and in 1862 he was sent to the senate to fill out, the term of his old friend, Stephen H. Douglas, who had died. Although his term of office was short, Governor Richardson suc ceeded in bringing order out of the chaos existing in territorial affairs when he arrived. He has been credited with having “pro duced the best state papers ever submitted to this commonwealth,” marked by “maturity, brevity, and straightforward simplicity, with a strong paternal appeal.” Answers on an Exam: A gulf if a piece broken off a peninsula. Monsoon is a French writer. All people were petrified dur ing the Stone Age. LINOLEUMS TILES METALS SHADES VENETIAN BLINDS EXPERT installation AMERICAN LINOLEUM & SHADE CO. 114 No. 14 8-5123 1 I Cards Split Games With Merchants In Alliance Contest BY BEATRICE MOTLEY. ALLIANCE, Neb.—The Musko gee Cardinals, baseball cham pions of the Southwest, met the Alliance Merchants in two thrill packed games June 9 and 11. 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