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Tlh® ^r@n€@ _ __ PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people." Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 2-4085 If No Answer Cali 5-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare. .. .... Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green .. .Office Secretary Mrs Joe Green ..Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered a* Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at teh Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879. 1 vear subscription . $2.00 Single copy...5c » it-oi-' tnte 1 Year Subscription $2.50—Single Cupy 10c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns necessariG a reflection Of the policy are those of the writer and not of The Voice.—Pub. Negroes Invited to Join Seminar To India, Pakistan and Far East SAN FRANCISCO. (ANP). A special request inviting Negroes to participate in a summer sem inar to the Far East in Asia has been issued by Dr. Alfred S Fisk, professor of philosophy al San Francisco State college. The seminar, to begin June 25 will take its participants to such • places as Honolulu, Manila, Singa pore, and Bangkok as well as tc India and Pakisten. The group is expected to interview Prime Min ister Nehru of India and Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan of Pa kistan plus a number of other Eastern leaders. Speaking of having students of all groups participate in this trip, Dr. Fisk said: “I am very anxious to have participation by qualilied Ne groes.” Please Ask for UMBERGER’S AMBULANCE 2-8543 Imherger’s Mortuary, Inc. Cox Plumbing and Heating Co. Contracting Repairing Retail Plumbing and Heating Supplies 2-3077—140 N. 14 BE*L. -. ' .. Visitors as members of this seminar, thanks to the co-opera tion of the embassies and offi cial governments of India and prominent other leaders. They also will receive official receptions at various centers. : Their visits will include historic sites and places of sociological 1 significance including Indian vil lages. The purpose of this seminar will be to get facts, observe con ditions, and each member of the seminar to draw his own con clusions about Indian and Pakis I tan. It is designed for profes sional people, especially speakers, writers and university teachers. I I Selected students working for advanced degrees also may at- , tend. San Francisco State, itself, ^ will espouse no doctrine or spe- j cial position for this tour. , Most of the travelling will be ] by airplane, beginning June 26 in San Francisco. The trip to In- i dia will include full day stops with interviews and sightseeing ^ in Honolulu, the Hawaiian islands; , the Philippines, and Bangkok, Siam. For the remainder of the trip, ' the seminar will tra^fl through India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Cost of the seminar is an es timated $1,500 for each person. The project is non profit, and any surplus at the end of the trip will be pro-rated among the mem bers. Persons interested in making this tour may write for more de- j tails to Dr. Alfred G. Fisk, San Francisco State college, San Francisco 2, Calif. Numbers Turned Around? mot whim you chick tmi micTORy host Don’t let a tricky memory give you a wrong telephone number when a quick look in the directory before calling will keep you straight. It just takes a few seconds to make sure—and it will save you many a second call. So for better telephone service, get that "looking in the directory” habit. The Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. mA Ndb*i$ka Company Serving Tts People” °Lt> SKA I try JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent r STATS BISTOSICAt SOCISTT Ordinarily I don’t review books • in this column, but there was a book published last month that will be of interest to so many Ne braskans that I want to devote my space this week to discussing it with you. That book is The World of Willa Cather, by Mildred R. 5 Bennett (Dodd, Mead & Com t pany, New York, $3.50). Mrs. Bennett, herself a resident of the Red Cloud in which Willa Cather grew up, combines an inti mate knowledge of the commu nity with literary skill to describe the Nebraska environment which produced one of the 2T)th century’s most important novelists. Her discussion of the Red Cloud of Miss Cather’s day is rich in detail—including even a floor plan of the Cather home. "The 1 real-life counterparts of many of the famous novelist’s uriforget able characters — Mahailey, Claude Wheeler, the Bergsons, and many others—are identified. The life of the community with its significance for both the young Willa and the world-famous Miss; Cather is given sympathetic por trayal. Mrs. Bennett also discusses the part of Miss Cather’s world that was the University of Nebraska where “people thought her inde pendent and eccentric.” It was there she abandoned her original1. enthusiasm for science and turned ] to letters. As had been true of many another budding author,' \ seeing herself in print (in the Ne- | braska State Journal) had a pro- ] found impression upon the young ( Willa. J, Among the book’s most impor- i tant contributions is the answer J VIrs. Bennett uspplies to the ques- •! tion (asked most often by East- i erners), how did anyone so ! closely tied to a Nebraska-prairie childhood develop such a world- j liness of outlook and style as to win wide acclaim as a student? “The answer,” she writes, “probably lies in the little-re- i alized fac that Nebraska frontier ] life of the 1880’s, while rugged in the extreme, was far from the notionl of barren, cultureless j lickdom that the vaudeville' jomedian has tried so hard to nake popular. The countryside, n particular the countryside iround Red Cloud, Willa’s child mod home, was an intellectual; Tielting pot of Bohemian, Rus-1 don, German, French, Swedish and Norwegian f irst-generation Immigrant pioneers, to which were adde the cultures of New England and the Cathers* own gracious Virginia.” Essay Contest Sponsored by Medical Association Closes on March 15th All entries in the ^*say contest sponsored by the Nebraska State Medical Association must be sub mitted to district representatives by March 15,-it wa; announced Thursday by Dr. C. H. Sheets of j Cozad, medical association presi- . dent. The essay contest, which is be ing managed by the woman s auxiliary of the state medical as sociation, is on the topic, “Medi cine’s Role in Preserving the American Way of Life.” Mrs. R. E. Garlinghouse of Lincoln is ■ chairman of the auxiliary com mittee. / Dr. Sheets said that informa tional materials had been sent to each high school in the state foi use by-pupils entering the con test. Re emphasized that each of the association’s 12 councilor dis tricts is Offering prizes for the best essays. The prizes, he added, are a $25 bond for first lace, $10 in cash for second place and a certificate of honorable mention for the third best paper. ‘‘Representatives have been se lected in each Of these districts to supervise the contest in their areas. All of the contest papers | must be submitted to these repre- ( sentatives by March 15, the medical association president as serted. Dr. Sheets also noted that state prizes will be awarded for the three best essays taken from the district races. The winner of the state contest will be given a $100 , bond and an expense-paid trip to j the medical association’s annual meeting in May at Omaha. Second md third prizes are $50 and $25 >onds. Mrs. Garlinghouse pointed out hat the contest is open to all 11th ana l^in graue suiuciiwj, wiui xne exception of sons and daughters of physicians. She added that the papers should not exceed 1,500 words. “Interest In the contest,” Mrs. Garlinghouse continued, “is at a high point. Returns received al ready indicate that a considerable number of high school students are entering the contest. We hope it will encourage a majority of high school students to study thoroughly the role of professions and businesses in a democracy.” IieaderK Present (Continued from P. 1) The darker peoples are looking into the United" States to see what role the colored people of this country are playing in this democracy. The feeling of the group was that the President appeared very much impressed with the con solidated thinking of prominent American Negroes representing a cross section of this country and such a varied group of citizens. The conference with the Presi dent initiated a program of in tegration and recognization of the Negro citizens which the group expects to follow up on until it is carried out. Its mem bers hope to meet soon with Wilson, head of the mobilization such top people as Charles E. program, and to put pressure on federal executive to include Ne groes in their program. Through the accomplishment of their na tional effort they will insist up >n regional and local mobiliza tion boards including Negroes in :heir manpower planning. . I. - Gilmour- Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 13th St. 2-1246 CALL 2-7331 HARVEY'S GARAGE Phone 2-4295 2119 0 St. « ru. 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