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Ti© ^©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 Call 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 as Second Class Matter. June 9 1947 at Teh Post Office at Lincoln Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879 1 year tubacrlption.*2 50 Single copy.i<x> Out-ot-State 1 Year Subscription *2,50—Single Copy 10c fh€BRRSKR Tn/>AA / \ EDITORIALS III m * The views expressed in these columns / M ■ necessarily a reflection of the policy S S OC/R Tl OH K • ^ are those of the writer and not of The Voice.—Pub a # NATIONAL fYlsiA+1 D EDITORIAL t ¥ LGfflA/tyL—V association Discrimnation Costs Highlighted By League Discrimination against Negroes is one of America’s most costly luxuries, according to a dramatic booklet released today by the Ur ban League. Called “The Price We Pay,” the pamphlet shows the effects of slum conditions, job discrimination, and the League’s methods of relieving these. In terms of cash, says the League, the nation pays an increasingly heavy price for discrimination each year, assessed in “heavier taxes — in loss of business — in waste of effort and ability.” Pointing out that all cities have slums, the booklet says slum areas pay about 6% of a city’s taxes, but they absorb 45% of the police cost, 35% of the fire cost, and contribute 55% of its delinquency And almost invariably, says the League, it is the Negro who is1 forced to live in the slums. Citing the effects of job dis crimination, “The Price We Pay” compares job patterns of whites and Negroes. Where the majority of whites work in clerical or fac tory work, most Negroes are in factory or laboring jobs, with the BEAL'S GROCERY Fresh Fruits & Vegetables I Meats 2101 R TeL 2-6933 I mSmSSmSSm -;-Tiii At Sears Only . . . Men’s Gold Bond Crepe Sole Shoes / - Men’s Gold Bond Crepe sole work shoes that are just the thing for work or play. Genuine crepe rubber soles for springy, relaxing comfort. Handsome brown leather uppers. 'Sa&tfccl&fljKOUdA&tct Cf ADC ^ ^ <nyou* Jaai' j[HK) PhoiW 2-7611 " i < ! largest number in jobs at the lowest pay levels. “It is almost ; too self-evident,’ ’the League says, j “that slum areas claim the greater : part of people with low-paying jobs.1* Job discrimination and slums cost New York City alone $1 bil I lion or more per year, says the League. These costs are in un ; warranted rents, in slum condi (tions, and in wages and produc tion which would result if Ne 1 groes could work at jobs they are qualified to perform. “The Price We Pay” is based on a recent report by Richard Wood, economic consultant, for mer editor of Fortune Magazine, j The booklet was designed as an 1 aid in the current Urban League Fund camp a i g n for $600,000. Dwight R. G. Palmer, president of General Cable Corporation is chairman of the drive. 1 . --“ Eisenhower’s Ground Groups To Be 1/4 Negroes STUTTGART, Germany — (ANP)—Concensus of opinion among U. S. officers of the U. S. Seventh army in Europe is that one-fourth to one-third of all' American ground forces to be sta tioned on the continent under the command of five-starred Gen. Dwight Eisenhower will be Ne groes. This would be a big jump from the army’s old-line policy of one tenth and would virtually put Ne | groes in control of the ground force units. °U> NEB SKA _ b JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent STATE ■IBTOBICEL EOCIBTT Appleton Milo Harmon was a member of that hardy bank of Mormon pioneers who under the leadership of Brigham Young set out from Winter Quarters in April, 1847, to push through the Platte Valley and across the mountains in search of a new : home in the far west. His jour nal, edited and published in 1946 by Maybelle Harmon Anderson, makes a significant contribution to that part of Nebraska’s history which concerns the colony at Winter Quarters and the Mormon Trail. Harmon was an early convert to Mormonism and had partici pated in the building of the Mor ( mon community at Nauvoo, 111. Likewise, he had taken part in the exodus from Nauvoo, in Febru ary, 1846, the trek across Iowa, and the establishment of Winter Quarters on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. His account of that dreadful winter on the banks of the Mis souri corroborates stories told by others who were there. The Harmons, like all others at Winter Quarters, suffered severe ly from want of food. To replen ish the family’s supply, Harmon set out in January to take a wagon he had made down into Missouri to sell for money to ob tain food. He went 150 miles in to Missouri, sold the wagon, and got a load of corn, pork, and gro- I ceries. The trip was made by ox I team, and he reported, “I suf fered greatly with cold, my clothes were worn rather thin and the howling blasts of the bald pfairies were piercing as we had to go at the tardy ox pace.” When he returned to Winter Quarters, he found his mother dead and his sister so low that she died shortly after his arrival , giUiKBIIWW"* fllWnaWW1 ■■ r j{ S H. O. McFipId ■ Cleaners A Tailors ■ 2 Specialize in Hand-Weaving 301 No 9tb Phone 2-5441 wlaiujuW CALL 2*7331 j Both were buried in the Mormon cemetery which now is an im portant feature ofthe bluffs over looking Florence. Harmon was one of those se lected to accompany Brigham Young on the pioneering trip j west. His journal of the trip, in adition to providing valuable comments on the “look of the land” through which they passed, contains an interesting discussion of the invention of the famed Mormon “roadometer,” that de vice by which the pioneer Mor mons were able to tell the dis tance travelled each day. 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