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th® ^©n©® _ PUBLISHED WEEKLY Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritua life of a great people____ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publishet and Editor Business Address 2226 8 Street Plume 2-408! If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare . Advertising and Business Managei Dorothy Green . Office Secretary Mrs Joe Green ., . Circulation Manage) Member •( the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Asseetation Entered aa Second Class Matter. June 9 1947 at teh Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March :i, 1879 ___ 1 vear subscription.. $2.00 Single copy.5c Out-ol-State 1 Year Subscription $2.50—Single Copy 10c__ EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns necessaril« a reflection of the policy are those of the writer and not ot The Voice.—Pub Booker T. - UP-TO-DATE and BEYOND - By S. J. Phillips, Pres. Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial Booker Washington Birthplace, Virginia COF'r:ght 195: I begin this series of articles to my fellow citizens with mixed feelings; aware «f the tremendous pressure under which most of us live today—the threat of all out war, the loss of loved ones, heavy taxation, fear of an atomic attack, short ages, rationing—these and hundreds of other situations and conditions cause grave concern. Yet, I am not unmindful of other serious events in this country when proved to be beneficial to Negroes. World i Wars One and Two enabled Negroes to | make great strides in many fields of j activities. If others would be little, we can be great; if orthers would be mean, we can be good. If others would push us down we we can help push them up. —Booker T. Washington— HOW SERIOUS IS COMMUNISM? To answer that question, I; might ask one: How serious was Nazism and Fascism? We know1 that both of these isms were the causes of World War II. These idealogies, imposed upon the people of Germany and Italy by ruthless dictators, flushed with political and minor military vic tories, became a challenge to our form of government. World con quest was their ultimate aim. They lost. Imperialist Russia has similar designs, according to authentic sources. Before the physical struggle with Russia actually be gins however, the Kremlin seeks to impose its thoughts, its form of government, its ideas upon the unsuspecting, weak-minded, un r CLEANING and SANITATION SUPPLIES All Types Brooms—Furniture Polishes Mops—Floor Seal and Wax Sweeping Compounds Mopping Equipment Kelso Chemical 117 North 9th St 2-2434 George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING & hEATING 1820 M Phono 2-1293 Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 13th St. 2-1246 Gillett Poultry FRESH DRESSED POULTRY QUALITY EGGS Phone 2-2001 528 -No. 9th HARVEY'S GARAGE Phone 2-4295 2119 0 St: ROPER & SONS MORTUARY 1319 N prepared nations of the world. Many countries have already been swallowed into the Russian orbit. Korea is the last, and there the free nations of the earth are tak ing a stand toward off the spread of Communist domination. Is Communism serious? Yes, deadly. Many people seem to think that 1 Communism is a myth. They be little its influence. They say it ’ hasn’t touched them — they i wouldn’t know a Communist, if I they saw one. Is this a witch- 1 hunt, a red-herring—what is ' Communism? J Because of the activities of the * Federal Bureau of Investigation 1 /■ and our counter-esponiage, plus jv recent laws requiring agents of | a foreign government to register, 2 Communists are no longer parad- 1 ing the streets and holding meet- i ings. They have gone into hid- i ing, making their activities harder j1 to check—by the public. They are still working though . , . stealing our war plans, disrupt ing our war production with strikes, infiltrating our organiza tions, screaming about the in j Justices to Negroes (Msrtinsvill' jense), staging boycotts, Inventlni grievances, picketting, and spear j (leading minority group coin I plaints whenever there is th« slightest chance to arouse, cajole and inflame. They do these thing: in the name of liberty, Justice anc freedom. Democracy is not per fect, yet. But no Russian or Com munist has ever been able t( ; prove or show that people In Russia, or any othei Communist dominated country have as much personal freedom, opportunity, spiritual and mental independ ence as we have in the United States of America. What To Do About Communism Communism is more than a po I tilical theory based on the su premacy of the state; it is totali tarian. Its purpose is complete control of thought and action. Since Communism thrives upon deceit, you can help to expose them. Get to know the facts about organizations and move ments you are asked to join. If you are a worker, skilled or unskilled, become more profi cient; don’t shirk on the job. Help to improve living conditions in your neighborhood; work with civic groups to clean-up and paint-up. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”: Communism is atheism. Communism is a rea’ danger inside our churches according to J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, who said: “I confess t<p a real apprehension, so long as Com munists are able to secure minis ters of the gospel to promote their 2vil work and espouse a cause that is alien to the religion of Christ and Judaism.” Here are two of the most dcious so-called religious organ zations in this country: The Peo ile’s Institute of Applied Religion, iirmingham, Alabama, and Meth >dist Federation fpr Social Action, 'lew York City. Neither or these lave official ‘church' connection, loth use the church to teach !ommunsts ideas. “The Protestant” is a maga ine which spreads Communist >ropaganda under the guise of be ng a religious journal. Its purpose s to ‘build a bridge’ between Christendom and Communism. Communism is an ever-present danger. Don’t be misled by false claims of a more abundant life under imperialist communism; if you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere. We Invite You . To Use Our Service j _^_ h fJINKS C. OLSON, SyfttrtnUnJtnt • TAT* ■I0TOBICA& AOeilTT My column a few weeks back on the naming of Nebraska has prompted requests that I discuss the naming of Omaha. Nebraska’s first city appropri ately is named for the tribe of Indians who owned the land on which it is built. The Omaha, a tribe belonging to the so-called i Dhegiha group of the Siouan fam j ily. The Dhegiha lived at one time on the Ohio and Wabash rivers. In the course of their westward migration, possibly about 1500, a separation occurred. The Quapaw went down the Mississippi and the Omaha went north, ranging through Iowa and into Minnesota, and eventually located in what is now eastern Nebraska. In 1854, in a treaty negotiated at Washing- j ton, they ceded their lands in Ne braska to the United States Sen ate, with the exception of a res- j ervation. The word Omaha means, “those going against the wind or cur rent.” Sometimes this is trans lated to mean, “the upstream people.” The early pioneers of Omaha translated it as “above all others upon a stream,” expres sive of their hopes for the future of the city they were founding. It is a little uncertain just how the name was applied to the town. Omaha was founded in 1854 by the Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company. On May 6 of that year, Bernhart Henn, who repre sented western Iowa in Congress, wrote Dr. J. D. Test, of Council Bluffs, that he had got a post of fice established at ’’Omaha City” and had A. D. Jones appointed postmaster. Alfred Sorenson’s History of Omaha, published in 1889, quotes Experience Estabrook, first United States attorney for Ne braska and a delegate to Con gress, to the effect that the name Omaha was adopted by the ferry company simply because it was * pretty and was borne by the MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 10th and 0 St. Since 1871 Malt. WHITES Your I FURNITURE HEADQUARTERS Its 108 No. 10th Street Just 27 Steps North of JOth S O Sts —_ nearest tribe of Indians in the vicinity. Il lias been suggested that credit for adoption of the mime should go to Dr. Enos Lowe, president of the ferry company and later a prominent citizen of Omaha. Still others claim that Joseph E. John son, editor of the Omaha Arrow’, the city’s first newspaper, and one of Nebraska’s most colorful jour nalists, should have credit for naming the city. In any event, all will agree that the name was well chosen. The town was first known as Omaha City (every place with any pre tensions at all had to have the word “city” in its name), but the legislative act incorporating it used as the official designation, the “City of Omaha.” The town soon came to be known simply as "Omaha.” The Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 N. 12th Lincoln 2-2157 Royal Typewriters Mimeograph - Duplicators Dictaphones - Clary Adders Sold - Rented - Repaired SMITH Pharmacy 2146 Vine Prescriptions — Drugs Fountain — Sundries Phone 2-1958 . — ■ -—, SKYLINE ICi CREAM STORES 1433 South St Phone 3-8118j 1417 N St Phone 2-4074 { All Products Manufactured At Main Plant Skyline Farms So. 14th St.