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r u.r. i sw 'Tlhe Voice PIJMASHED WEEKLY _ "Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, toe la I and spiritual H/« of a great people Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor dual not* Address 222b b Stroot Phono b 649) U No Answer Coll 6-/501 Rubio w Orlt.Hi.lnif and Bustnooe Managor Chariot Gool.by — Ooo«v?t«io Editor, Y.M.C.A. Boo. I. B. Brook* - --Promotion Managor Hr*. |oo Groan_ _ ftlrgubHlnii Managor Member ol tho Associated Nogro Prooo and Nebraska Prooo Assort a ties Entorod cm Second Clan Matter, |uno 9, 1947 at tho Poet Of bee at Uncoin, Nebraska undot tho Act of March 3, 1879. I year subscription-12.00 Single copy..—.5c EDITORIALS Dio rtews expressed in these columns are these ol the writer and not necessarily a reflection ol tho do 1 icy ol Tho Voice.— Pub. BETWEEN THE LINES Bv Y>ean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP ‘ UNHAPPY FOREBODINGS THESE When Cardinal Spellman un-' limbered his politico-religious bat teries against Mrs. Roosevelt, he was doing a desperate and dan gerous thing. Far more important than what he said was the spirit in which he said it; and Mrs. Roosevelt’s calm and studied reply put the cardinal to flight. Just as little David with his sling and smooth stone felled the giant Go-, liath, so Mrs. Roosevelt in words' that breathed strongly with the spirit of Jesus slew the giant car dinal that in the final analysis 'God was the only judge of human worth she uttered a rebuke that was justly deserved. Which the Cardinal's contended that he did pot want support for Catholic edif c-ation, but merely for “auxiliary’ support, he threw his case to the winds and became a penitent cry ing for mercy at the hands of the American reading public. I have heard many adverse things about the Roosevelts, but I have never before the cardinal's indictment, heard anyone call them intolerant. But the Cardinal found out to his utter dismay that Roosevelts cannot be pushed around. Personally this writer be lieves that it would have been a far wiser move on the Cardinal’s part had he retracted his state ment outright, instead of the spe cious explanation that it was not support for Catholic education but auxiliary support that he was demanding. There* is precious lit tle difference in paying for a child’s education and feeding him while he gets it. It is true, in the crowd that stoned Stephen there were some who did not hurl stones, but they held the cloaks of those who did; and they thereby Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 12th St. 2-1246 J. G. IRWIN JEWELRY AND REPAIRING 111 NO. 11 became particeps criminis to the tragic affair. I am a Baptist but I do not want the U. S. government to finance Baptist education lest the U. S. government regiment Baptist thought and thinking. Denomina tional choice is a spiritual luxury that the individual and his de nomination should finance. The most ominous thing about the controversy that Cardinal Spellman's ill-advised pronounce ment has kindled is conviction forced upon many that Federal aid to education is a lost cause in the current Congress and that the demise of the bill was designed in the Cardinal’s attack on Mrs. Roosevelt. If one Roman Catholic cardinal can thwart in such fash ion the will of the people, it is high time that we take stock of our political and social heritage in this country. Could the anti Catholic forces wish for better ammunition in their fight against the Catholic church? This writer is a Baptist and bit terly and stubbornly opposed to Baptists running this government or even aspiring to do so; but he is just as stubbornly and bitterly opposed to government by Cath olics. So far as power in us lies this must forever remain a gov ernment of the people by the peo ple and for the people rather than a government of Baptists by Bap tists and for Baptists or a gov ernment of Catholics by Catholics and for' Catholics. Tolerance in religion, politics and race happens to be one of the fundamentals of my life’s philosophy. The greatest wealth is content ment with little.—John Roy. MONTE & SONS Body and Radiator Shop Expert Wrecked Car Rebuilding Body and Fender Repairing RADIATORS— Cleaned, Repaired and Recored j Complete Paint Jobs 2222 O SL Phone 2-5097 j I CLEANING and SANITATION I SUPPLIES All Types Brooms—Furniture Polishes Mops—Floor Seal and Wax Sweeping Compounds Mopping Equipment Kelso Chemical 117 North 9th St. # 2-2434 vnr *-• ____ NEBj||SRA h IAMBS C. OLSON, $»f*r\nlr*4mt • mi ■ IBTOBICII IOCIBTT While we don’t hold with the school of thought that contends climatic extremes were greater in pioneer days than they are to day (witness the blizzards of last winter, for example), when the thermometer is crowding the cen tury mark we frequently marvel at the courage and fortitude dis played by those pioneer Nebras kans who endured such weather without refrigeration, air condi- j tioning, or any of the many con veniences we of this generation ! have come to' look upon almost as necessities. From looking at the record left j by those pioneers, we have con- ; ! eluded that one of the greatest hardships resulted from the ab sence of trees: many a pioneer j woman found her heart filled with despair as she looked out day after day upon the blistered I prairie unbroken by so much as a single cottonwood. Arbor day was no accident in Nebraska. It developed out of a very real necessity. Fortunately, the sod house, made necessary by the lack of lumber, provided much better protection against the summer sun than an ordinary frame house; its heavy earthen walls had < insulating qualities not found in lighter structures. Another source of comfort to the pioneer homemaker was the well. In addition to providing an abundance of pure, cold water, it served as an excellent refrigera tor. Indeed, butter kept in a well was usually just the right consistency for spreading, not too soft and not too hard. Probably the greatest summer time luxury of all was ice. This perhaps watt even more tine foi cmigtanl* making thell weary way along the dully trail* of the Platte Valley than it was for the pioneer settlers. Thomas Crelgh, who went ovorlund In the tummei of l«6(l with a load of mining machinery bound for Montana, re- j Corded in hi* diary for July 10. not far west of present-day Lex ington: “Had a bushel of ice to duy, a perfect godsend to us in this country of poor water.” We assume the ice was procured at one of the road ranches along the trail. The ice house came to be an important institution in the pio neer prairie town, and frequently farmers took advantage of a near by hillside to dig a cave for stor ing ice. The community ice house con sisted of sawdust or straw’ encased in a wodden frame, and covered with a board or shingle roof. A firm in Beatrice stored 400 tons of ice in 1873, and another, 200 tons during the same year. The busy man has time for ev erything. The man who thinks he is busy, has time for nothing.* I0c-2.jc Lincoln's Favorit® Potato Chip . i . I ONE-STOP LOANS $100-$200-$300 or More FAMILY FINANCE CO. 206 1st Nat. Bk Bldg. C V stromdahl. 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