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/ ¥lh@ V®n®@ HU BUSHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the oromotton of the cultural social and spiritual tile of a great people .“_ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2229 S Street Phone 2-4089 It No Answer Call 6-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare.. ....Advertising and Business Manage! Dorothy Green ... Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Green....Circulation Manager __ Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, 1947 at the Poet Office at Lincoln. Nebraska undet the Act of March 3. 1879. _ 1 year subscription . *2.00 Single copy. ..5c OITOIIAU rbe stews expressed in these columns ire those ot the writer and not necessarily • reflection ot the policy ot The Voice. Pah. MARCH OF DIMES "* By DR. R. G. GUSTAVSON Chancellor, University of Nebraska; State March of Dimes Chairman; and Member, National Research Advisory Committee, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (Editor's Note: 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 articles especially written by Dr. Gustavson. This is the fourth of the series.) The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is a great army of volunteer and profes sional soldiers of science and medicine marching against one formidable enemy of the human race—poliomyelitits. The Na tional Foundation’s offensive is financed by the American people who contribute willingly and freely to this specific cause. The annual March of Dimes, con ducted thg last half of January each year, is one vOf the phe nomena of the age representing the spontaneous eagerness of a generous people to conquer a common adversary. The American people, includ ing many thousands of school children, have embraced the March of Dimes as their own because in they recognize an opportunity to exercise their democratic right to choose the specific humanitarian service they want to support. This sep arate fund raising campaign is dedicate exclusively to the ban ishment of polio from the face of the earth. In every Nebraska county our most respected neigh bors lead the drive. The Honorable Val Peterson governor of Nebraska; Edward Pettis, king, Ak-Sar-Ben; Arthur P. Melies, state commander, American Legion; Charels Mar shall, president, Nebraska Farm Bureau; Gordon Preble, president, State Federation of Labor; Dr. Frank D. Ryder, State Director of Health; Dr. Charles Sheets, presi dent, Nebraska State Medical association; W. N. Antes, Ne-! braska 4-H Club leader; Frank Cronin, regional director, C.I.O., and Fred Zimmer, president, Ne I braska Press association, are but a few of those who make up the March of Dimes army in Ne braska. F. B. Decker, State Superin tendent; Harold Hamlin, com mander, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mrs. Fern Hubbard Orme, president, Council of State Wom en’s Organizations, Mrs. A. E. Hanneman, president, Nebraska Congress of Parents and Teach ears; Alan Tully, president, Ne braska Junior Chamber of Com merce; Bernard Diers. president, Nebraska State Elks Associa tion; John Smith, president, Ne braska Eagles; J. H. Vinton, president, Nebraska Stock Grow ers association, and countless others actively endorse and sup port the March of Dimes. Jack Chapman, mayor of He bron; Judge Wiegardt of Seward, , Jostmaster Emil Nelson of Min I den; County Clerk Leonard Har rison, Scottsbluff; Bank Presi dent E. W. Rossiter of Marting ton; Editor Dan Ziegler of the Monrce Booster; County Super intendent Edgiththa Rathbun of Harrison; theater owner, J. E. Macke, Mullen; Rev. Victor Jor dering, Superior; Father Albert' Sud .eck, Petersburg; Mrs. Frank Hightree, housewife, Lyons; Ar thur Sweet, Nebraska City News Press — are all hard-working chapter volunteers. These Nebraskans and their counterparts in almost 3,000 chapters throughout this country govern the program and policies of the National Foundation for : Infantile Paralysis. They are the folk who, as friends and neigh bors, sit down with the families of polio patients and work out the Congress Is Urged By NAACP To Protect Negro Draftees WASHINGTON. (ANP). A three-point program to protect Negro draftees from segregation and discrimination in the armed services was laid down last week by Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP, in testimony before a subcommittee of the Senate Com mittee on Armed Services. Appearing before the subcom mittee Mitchell said that the new selective service law must pro vide that: 1. All new units be organized without racial segregation; 2. No privately-owned jimcrow establishment bo used for t he housing or feeding of armed serv ices personnel; and 3. Racial designations be elim inated from all forms and records of military personnel. In his testimony, Mitchell cited the continuing segregation of Ne gro troops in the U.S. army, the humiliations and mistreatment im posed upon Negro soldiers as signed to the south for training, and the increase in the number of racial designations in the army records. “The overwhelming majority of NAACP members,” Mitchell told the committee, “believe that the government does not give suffi cient and necessary protection to colored members of the armed services when they are in the South ... It is a frightful thing,” he continued, “to contemplate that their Government will call upon” young colored men “to risk then lives in war and at the same time fail to protect them against un democratic practices if they are stationed in the south. “If the government has power to draft a man, it also has the power to protect him wherever he may be stationed in the United States.” o'*1 °£* NEB SKA h MUSS C. OMOMi SupnnUmb* STATS aiSTOSICAl SOCISTT Nebraska’s governor during the trying years of World war I was Keith Neville of North Platte, the second youngest man ever to serve this state as chief execu I tive. He was only 32 years old i when elected in 1916. His nomination by the demo cratic party and his subsequent election came on his first try for public office. Born in North Platte February 25, 1884, young Neville had taken a degree at St. Johnson’s college in Annapolis, Md., then had returned to his home community to become man ager of the family ranch. In a hotly-contested democratc primary, Neville defeated Charles W. Bryan fo the top spot on the democratic ticket, and then went on to defeat the 35 year old re McKelvie, in the general election. Two years later he beat Mr. Bryan again in the democratic primary, but met defeat at the hands of Mr. McKelvie. The first big problem facing the Neville administration was enforcement of such laws as the legislature decided to adopt to carry out the provisions of a pro hibition amendment approved by the voters in 1916. Mr. Neville had opposed the amendment dur ing the campaign, but he urged the legislature to enact sound and workable laws, and at the end of his term he was able to report that the state’s liquor laws were being rigidly enforced. It was not long, though, before the state government had more serious business before it. The legislature adjourned April 24, 1914 .about three weeks after war had been declared. Governor Neville called it back into special session, March 26, 1918, to con sider urgent problems of state government arising out of this country’s involvement in war. Among the problems requiring immediate attention, in the gov ernor’s view, were the protection of rights of service men, preven tion of sedition and sabotage, and | the development of the state’s potash lands. After leaving the governor’s office, Mr. Neville returned to North Platte to engage in bank ing and the rea lestate business. Though he has not sought state wide public office since 1918, he has been active in political, civic and community affairs. Today, like the young man with whom he contested for the governorship in 1916 and 1918, he is one of Nebraska’s senior statesmen. amount of financial assistance needed. They are the workers who answer the emergency call for additional iron lungs and hot pack machines, who visit the stricken in polio wards and sign the checks to pay emergency nurses’ salaries. And, as if that were not enough, they then turn their en ergies, once a year, to ringing doorbells, arranging special events an in other ways conduct Valentinoh . $oh fcvQhipw! SWEETHEART FAMILY— FRIENDS— Hallmark — Rust-Craft Barker — Gibson LATSCH BROTHERS GREETING CARDS 1124 O STREET 2-6838 Hudson Reelected to Head Broadway Savings In L.A. LOS ANGELES—(ANP) — As exited Dr. H. Claude Hudson replied the challenge of three aspirants and was re e ^ president of the Broadway Fed eral Savings and Loan associa tion, held here recently. Also re-elected to office was Mrs. Zella Taylor, secretary. The elections were held despite suits seeking injunctions asked by by H. A. Howard, deposed president of the association. Among members of the bank’s board of directors are Paul Wil liams, architect; Mrs. Helen Ga ing the March of Dimes, which finances this vast enterprise dedi cated to liberating the people of the world from the crippler— poliomyelitis. 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