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TBn ® V©n<e© _ PI HUSH Hi WEEKLY _ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, tociaI and eplritua M/r Melvin L Shakespeare Publisher and editor ■uilttu Addreae *334 I IUmi Ptoea# l «*■ II No Answer CaU » not Ruble W Shakespeare... Adverusln* and Business Marta** Dorothy Green .,... Of Item Secretan Mrs joe Green . ... Circulation Manager Member ml the Associated Negro Prone sod NrbrsAi Press ttodsdso Entered as Second Claso Matter June k i#*r el tefe Pool Office el Lincoln Nebraska under the Act of March 3 187k _ I rear njbscrlption . $2 50 glagte copy . ...*01 »' • ^1 *tato t Te-u Suhocrlption *2 M) single Copy lOe__ , KgnOBIALe rhe views expemed a these column: , tecessarUs a reflect :jc of the ooLtcy ire those mt Owe writer end mot • rl The Voice - Ptsb Seaton an Able Mein Few should be able to argue about the ability of the man chosen by Governor Val Peter son to serve a portion of the re mainder of the late Kenneth Wherry’s term in the senate. Fred Seaton, a successful busi nessman who owns valuable newspaper and radio properties in the midwest, has been active* ! in Republican politics and it was he who led the successful cam paign of Harold Stassen in the Nebraska presidential primaries in 1948. Seaton belongs to a more liberal and non-isolationist element of the Republican party — a point; which may be rfistastful to aome! Wherry backer*. Doctor DuBois Acquitted A United States Federal District Court, sitting in judgment of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois for “failing to register the Peace Information Center as a foreign agent,” de cided that there was no evidence whicht could be substantiated on which to base such a charge. Nat urally we are gratified over the' decision and regret exceedingly that such a flimsy charge could ever be blown up to such pro portions in America against' so4 distinguished a man. Indeed.' America owes to Dr. DuBois. more than to any other living Negro American, a great debt at gratitude for his contributions to 1 the spirtual and intellectual life of this nation. He is no ordinary student of human relations. The; work of the National Associatior ’ for the Advancement of Colored People is strong today because of the pioneering leadership—Intel- ! lectual and spiritual—given to it by DuBois. Race relations have advanced in the direction of brotherhood because of the work of Dr. DuBois. It is unfortunate, therefore, that after laboring so long so well in the cause of freedom and for a great America, we have citizens among us who are so firkin as tc fall prey to such insiduous prop aganda. The pattern for sucb nonsense, of course, heads up ir what we Americans have sadlj come to know as the Red Hunt No opportunity should be lost ir running down Communists in tilt s *. 1 1 jo •] <Season s i | (greetings i | from 8 s \ JOHNSON I SUPPLY & COAL CO. | “The Home of Good Coal” 932 North 23rd 2- 72jk I# Hi § i _ fiMM : 'Nation. But it is equally as im port nat that the Government pro tect its honest upright citi zens from assassination by head line hunters. Dr. DuBois no reason for being arraigned. -- Miss Anderaoa*a TV Debut Postponed NEW YORK—<AKP>—The teie Tsioc debut of Miss Marian Ac ierson, originally scheduled for Ed Sullivan’s Dec. 23 "Toast of the Town” program, has been post poned until Easter. The St. Vincent Ferrer Boys Choir, under die direction of die lev. Paul C. McKenna, win re 4ace her on die pre-Christmas vogram. Foe Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 L j "*ARRISH MOTOR CO. ' r\ 120 Ho. 19 St. L I a t * e 5 ^5WE*SJ=.iSSTB&JSS2aSElS^Sr3SS3ri3aaUffiE3^ it I ii i II ijuletide (greetings f IS . g n s 11 „ . , , i May joy be yours to the fullest this happy season I* I li I I 2 1 I g 8 4! HILL HATCHERY | || 91* R 2*7025 1 ’J? SpanagSlCBnEBKTaraargsc faeiearwgar •_ ( h IAMBS C. OLSON, Swfnnt'njrnl IUTI IllfOIICU ••CUT? | The celebration of Christinas to Iday. with its month-long buying spree, its dazzling lights and elab orate gifts, is a far cry from the Christmas celebrated by the pio neers of old Nebraska. To point up the contrast, I'm going to quote a few Christmas day entries from 'the diary of James M. Patterson, a prominent merchant in. the old Missouri River town of Bock Bluff, once a thriving community in Cass County, now a ghost town. The diary has been loaned to me by >r. G. H. Gilmore of Murray, well known historian of Cass County. On Christmas Day, 19C1, the irst year of the diary, Mr. Patter Kin wrote: “Clear forenoon A cloudy afternoon ... fixed up cow (table, A after dinner went to the Store. Not much going on through, be day. At night we went to the’ jrand supper at the Church. Large umottt I also was at the Dance i while." The next year. Dee. 25, 1862: “Cloudy. Warm. Rained pretty hard all afternoon. We were all over to Ambroses to eat a Turkey. Very dry Christmas. Nothing go ing on. . . .* Christmas, 1866, was “rather dull" although the family at a turkey and in the evening went to a dance for a while. On Christmas eve, 1868, the family went to a dance. Hr. Pat ter* •n's entry for Christmas t»ay : "Cloudy A not very fluid. Nothin*; of Importance going «*n. We were busy in the store. We had .Turkey for Dinner .... At night , . . played cards till about 3 o'clock» in the morning." In 1889 there wu« a dance on. Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day: “Clear, pleasant day. I spent my Christmas in the store all day ' Masons installed their new offi cers. I had to be installed by proxy, could not leave the store.” Christmas in 1871 was cold, with' the thermometer showing six de t grees below zero. Nevertheless, , Mr. Patterson records that he took 10 hogs to Plattsmouth, and in the evening played pitch until three o’clock in the morning. :j Christmas was cold again in 1872. Mr. Patterson wrote: "Cold. Thermometer at aero. . . . Ellen I and the children went to Christ mas Tree at the church. I staid home. . . . We had turkey for din !ner In 1873, the last year of the , diary, the family spent the day i before Christmas cutting up and J salting down some hogs that had / been butchered the day before, j and in the evening, "all went to I Christmas tree at MJE. church.” J The next day, Mr. Patterson was j ever town moat of the day, "not j much gn4iu| on," and in ttn eve ning, he went to a meeting of t»„> dimige. 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