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Th® W@n<g© __HLUUSHU) WkEKUt *Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural social and spiritual Ufe of a great V*opl* “ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 222ft 8 Street Pbons 2 408ft It No Answer Call ft-7508 Aubis W. Shakes pears .Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green ..... Office Secretary M ra Preen .Circulation Manager _ Member of Ibc Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June g. 1847 at the Pan Oftim at UnTouT Nebraska undet the Act of March 3. 1879 _1 year subscription .TT $2 00 Single copy.ftc EOITOKLALS The news expressed in these solumna are those of the writer end not necessarily • reflection of the policy of Tbs Voice. Pub. I 350,000 Attend 426 Negro Confabs During 1950 WASHINGTON — (ANP) — An estimated 350.000 persons attended 426 Negro conventions, according to the U. S. Census report re leased this week. These 426 conventions were held in 218 different places with 138 in the South, 66 in the North, and 18 in the West. Chicago and Washington, D. C., top the nation as convention cen ters, playing hosts to 14 each. Philadelphia was the site of 13 ( conventions; Kansas City, Mo., 12, ! Atlanta, 11, and‘New York, Nash ville, Tenn.. Tuskegee Institute, ! Ala., and Richmond, Va., 10 each. Sponsoring the conventions W'ere 224 organizations with total membership of 10,188,773. Leading the types of conven-, Harry Buford, Omaha Police Officer, Dies OMAHA, Nebr.—Lt. Harry Bu ford died 3 a. m. Monday, January 8, 1951 at his home, 1804 N. 30th St. after a short illness. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, January 10th, at 10 a. m. at St. Phillips Church, 26th and Binney Sts. Pallbearers were Dr. Price Terrell, Mr. Milton John son, Atty. Charles F. Davis, Mr. j M. A. McGee, Sgt. C. C. Dudley, Mr. Cleveland Lockard. Survivors are his wife, Carrie, and two aunts, Mrs. Florence Johnson of Omaha, Nebr., and Mrs. Effie Brown of Atkinson, Kansas. tions were religious and general fraternal, followed by educational. Medical Asociation to Work Closely With Armed Forces The president of the Nebraska | State Medical association an- 1 nounced Tuesday that the as- j 1 sociation has completed plans for close cooperation with the armed forces in securing adequate medi cal personnel for all branches of the military. Dr. Charles Sheets, Cozad,' stated that the medical profession in Nebraska “is anxious to aid the military in every way pos-! sible to meet the medical man-' power needs of a rapidly-expand ing service organization.” In order to help meet medical personnel requirements, Dr. Sheets has recently appointed a committee of doctors to obtain in formation and make recommenda tions to the military as to the availability of Nebraska physi cians for active service duty. The medical association presi dent stated that the committee will have two main responsibili ties: 1. Help provide Nebraska’s physician quota. 2. Prevent the induction of doc- ; tors who are critically needed in i their home communities. Drt Sheets explained that the ■ names of all Nebraska doctors { ] will be submitted to the commit- j tee by the military before they are inducted into the service. The committee, he continued, will in vestigate the status of each doc tor and then make a recom mendation to the military as to whether or not he should be called. Final decision in each ; case rests with the armed forces. ‘‘This system will help speed the induction of doctors when they are needed," the Cozad doc tor said. “It will also prevent many doctors from being called into the service who are more critically needed at home. “As physicians it is our mission | to care for the sick and injured, j whether they are in civilian or military life. During the present emergency, Nebraska doctors will make every effort to carry this | double load." MEMBER'FEDERAX DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 10th and 0 St. Since 1871 W AIM'S USED CARS HI North 2#th LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Phone 2-5797 Role of Religion in Personal Life Part of the report from »»* MMceslorT t Whit* House conference on children an youth. “If we cannot learn to live together here, how can we ex j pect to get along with people of other nations?” asked Pro \ fessor Moses Jung of Columbia r University, New York, in open ing a discussion of the part reli gion should play in the personal life of Americans. Professor Jung pointed out that there are areas of agreement among the different faiths which are enough to link their efforts together. He emphasized their common concern for children and youth. Dr. Raymond B. Johnson, Pas tor of the First Parish Church, ^iingham, Mass., said he was appalled by statistics which showed that not even half of the nation’s children were even nominally connected with a church. “Nevertheless,” he ad ded, “among the other unchurch ed half we could find many per sons who have many of the basic religious impulses.” The speaker declared that the religious factor is necessary for rounded personality develop ment. “We need to broaden the base of our conception of reli gion,” he said. “The difficulty is that we start off with defini tions instead of developing in the individual a capacity for re ligion, giving L»im an opportunity to think the subject through and then to follow any particular ; j faith which he may prefer.” He described the fundamental con cept of religion as consisting of j three factors: A feeling that j there is order in the universe ' guided by a supreme intelli- ! gence; a feeling that the in- j dividual has a right to a place i in the overall scheme: active j participation by the individual. Msgr. John J. McClafferty, Washington, D. C., Dean of the National Catholic School of So cial Work, Catholic University, discussed religion as a way of < life. “Religion is not magic,” he declared, “nor is it philosophy or eithics or art. Essentially, it is the liaison between man and God.” Monsignor McClafferty added that it is impossible for religion to be free of doctrine. He called faith a valid method of acquiring knowledge. "Life is meaningless without religion,” he said. “Unfortunately, many persons try to use religion as they would use a trolley car— only when, and as long as, it is going in their direction.” Rabbi Urt Miller. New York, Director of tbe Synagogue Council of America, •aid that tbe role of religion in rela tion to tbe normal child ta long-range rather than remedial. “Lack of reli gion is the principal reason for tbe wide development of psychiatry m recent years.- declared Rabbi Miller. -Nearly all religion teaches that this is a friendly world that there is a God who loves i os. Because tbe religious person does [ not feel that he lives in a hostile world i he is much leas subject to emotional dls turbances. Religion also stresses the importance of the individual, and tbe ! religious person is therefore less likely to have a feeling of being rejected." ==5^»a ROSE MANOR STUDIO 1421 O Street Phone 2-2247 Portraits by Appointment I George Randol. P. A. of A Prices reasonable Work guaranteed 1 B. O. MeField f Cleaners A Pallors ™ I I Specialize in Hand-Weaving * 341 No. 9th Phone 2-5441 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ .if ■ 'TiMHMk VINE ST. MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS t2ad ud Tin y t tni March of Dimes BY DR. R- G. GU8TAVSON Chancellor. Unlvertlty of Nebraska: »«•»• March of Pimaa Chairman ami Mem* Ki-N,,isTiJrKS-.*.tarxre": '(EdltiV'lBt.: To bring our readers up to date on the most recent progress in the fight against infantile paralysis, The Voice will publish a series of ar ticles especially written by Dr. Gustavson. This is the second of the series. The next article will appear next week.) Last week we discussed what polio means to the people of the U.S. and of Nebraska in terms of money. But this does not give us a balanced account of what the polio scourge really means. The human element involved must not be overlooked. We maintained last week that the past three years have seen more than 100,000 fellow Ameri cans stricken with polio. We did not mention the 80,000 volunteer workers who are regular, active members of the National Founda tion’s 2,822 chapters serving every county in the United States and its territories. Nor did we men tion the more than 500,000 addi tional volunteers who carry out the annual March of Dimes. It is itneresting to know, I think, that this vast organization is staffed by only 418 paid em ployees of whom 189 work in the national office and 129 in the field. Here in Nebraska, we have two paid state level personnel with an office secretary for each. When we realize that Nebraska has had 1,856 polio patients in the past three years, we can better understand the tremendous work being done by the volunteers in Nebraska’s 93 county chapters. Of inestimable value to hospital staffs and, of course, to our pa tients has been the work of the Polio Emergency Volunteers. These volunteers for the most pvt are housewives who have taken at least 20 hours of training in caring for polio patients. They perforin a myriad of non-techni cal services for patients, thus re lieving professional personnel for the more demanding aspects of patient care which only they can perform. In Douglas and Lan caster counties, more than 175 such volunteers have devoted lit erally thousands of hours to help in the care of patients in polio treatment centers in Omaha and Lincoln. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is, in fact, a volunteer organization. It is con ducted on every essential level by unpaid workers. The foundation’s national president, Basil O’Con nor, himself, serves year after year without financial remunera tion. Without these volunteers there would be no National Foun dation. Care of the patient might be a hit-and-miss proposition, resulting in an inhuman percent age of life-long cripples which characterized the pre-Foundation days. There would be no co ordinated research program. The nationwide educational program would not exist. Each local county chapter of the National Foundation (and there is one serving each county in the nation) is administered by an executive committee of at least five persons elected at the annual meeting by members of the chap ter. Anyone sufficiently inter ested to take an active part in the work of the Foundation may hold membership in his local county chapter. The officers include: chairman, vice chairman, secre tary, treasurer and at least one member-at-large. Assisting each local chapter is a Medical Ad visory Committee. (Next week Dr. Gustavson discusses the unique features of poliomyelitis.) I. ~~ ll ~l [REGULAI?^^ CLEANING . . . . . . will go a long way to help you: • LOOK SHARP • BE SHARP • FEEL SHARP Remember "GRIME NEVER PAYS" CALL 2-6731 PEERLESS B CLEANERS 322 So. 11 Geo. H. Lemon Offlo* m» M*. 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