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Tlh® _published rimy ' indicated to the promotion of the cultural, «octttl and epirttua life of a great people.*_ Melvin L Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2228 S Street Bo* 2023 2-4088 It No Answer Call .>-760* Kurile * shsKespeare ... Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Qreen .....• Office Secretary Mrs toe ,r«en ...Circulation Manager Member of .lie Associated ISerro Press and Nebraska Pree# Association Enteratl as Second Class Matter, lune 8. 1847. at the Poet Office at UneoUl. Nebraska indei the Act of March 3. 1871 ______ I year subscription .I? 80 Single copy...10d _ Out if 8tats 1 Year Subscription 32.80— Single Copy 10c ______ ■DITORUU Tbs views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—Path BETWEEN THE LINES By Dean Gordon B. Hancock For ANP • INTRA-RACIAL CRITICISM Some years ago the educational authorities of this country decided to take stock of our educational assets and liabilities. They decided as an approach to this momentous question to evaluate our leading! universities. They decided upon( certain criteria by which the leading universities would be classified. After years of research the re-( port was ready. It rated Harvard as the nation’s leading university with the University of Chicago second; Columbia, third and Yale, fourth. 1 Of course the final rating did ,j not please any except Harvard devotees; but what stunned the^ country was the fact that a Yale 1 man headed the committee. Ed-J win R. Embree, as I remember. If one makes a visit to Yale uni- 1 versity all he can hear is how great Yale is and how great are its ‘ history and traditions. Everything, a Yale man does is just right. A( Yale man can do no wrong. So,' far as the Yale men are concerned * Yale men are faultless and infal- * lible. At least such is the infor- 1 mation coming to this writer by1 men who have been to Yale. At Harvard it is different. The ' criticism of Harvard by Harvard j men is ceaseless. One gradually j gets tired of hearing what Har-, vard is not from Harvard men.* The university is criticized from! bottom to top. All the courses! and professors are intellectually | castigated. When the rounds of criticism are ended one always wonders what led one to matricu late at such a ham-fat school. But in the national rating Har vard not only stood first among the universities of the nation, but numbered among the first four * great universities of the world. The point here is, self criticism at Harvard must be a most potent factor in keeping ancient Harvard amoving along the educational highway of modern times. There might be a lesson here for Negroes ^who are more and more disinclined to face up to the weak points of the race. Since all races have weak points, it becomes Incumbent upon somebody to Study these. We are not going to get far un less we learn to constructively criticize ourselves. Wq. obviously have failings and weaknesses, but unless we are willing to look these squarely in the face, and do some thing about them we are lost al ready. It matters little that the white THE HOME OF COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE t n • ' * '• 4*1 ,1 13th and O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska MEMBER F.D.LC. 'man is heir to these same faults. ! They are just as surely a prelude i to his destruction, unless corrected, as they are to our own. The point this writer has always tried to emphasize is that if the Negro is to survive he must stand up where the white man falls down. If the white man has weak nesses it is no sign that we should imitate them. The man who starts behind in the race must outrun those who start in front. Jealousy may serve the white man ( and his purpose but too much ] jealousy among Negroes could > mean destruction. i The white man can afford to i go to his job minutes or hours , later, but can the Negro afford it? , The white man may be able to i lay off after every pay day on a £ pay day drunk, but can a Negro x afford it? £ The reason there are Negroes romping the diamonds of the < major leagues is just because they j are a little bit better. \ Just the other day I was talking i with a young Negro teacher who was sold on the Negroe’s infalli- < bility. He had an explanation ! for every Negro weakness. So had I; but this did not solve the mat- < ter. ! Explanation is not salvation. It 1 has come about that when a Negro speaker addresses an audience un less he goes heavily on the Ne groe’s longcomings and lightly on his shortcomings he finds himself in bad with his audience. We are fighting for integration which is our rightful dessert as citizens of this nation. But Ne groes should be taught certain 'fundamentals of citizenship with jout which his full integration will be independently postponed. | Our attention to personal clean liness when using the public car ' riers is far too casual. Our over . loud talk in public too often is : embarrassing. The full weight of the ballot 1 has not been foisted upon us. We L too often will stampede to get to some city hall to make a protest ‘ but we are entirely too scarce I around the ballot box. ' How can we overcome our 1 shortcomings unless somebody has the courage to point them out to us? Intra-racial criticism has a place if requisite courage can be found! r j [ Tuxedo Barber Shop ; Open evenings for your .1 convenience, 7 p.m. Closed Thursdays. 600 N. 20th Street f. D. Bradley, Mgr. °L/) NEEpftSKA I jgjgg h IIKIl C. OLIOlt, SuftrinUnJM •TATI ■IBTOBICAL BOCIITT Each spring during the years of [the great overland emigration, thousands of persons headed west across Nebraska to find new homes in California, Oregon, or Utah. The year 1852—just a cen tury ago—was no exception, and in the fall of the y6ar it was esti mated that the emigration the past season consisted of 40,000 people, 8,000 wagons, and about 60,000 cattle. Accounts of diarists at the out-j fitting places and at strategic points along the trail—fefries, fords, and bridges—give every in dication that the trail was heavily traveled in 1852. The newspaper in St. Louis and various towns up the Missouri re ported a great deal of activity. On May 1, a correspondent from In dependence wrote that the number of emigrants “passing out from and through here, has exceeded all the calculations we have ever made.” The road to the Little Blue was “lined with wagons.” The Kanesville crossing (now Council Bluffs, Iowa) was particu larly busy, and some travelers were forced to wait as long as a week to get their wagons across ( he Missouri River. It is little wonder that the Kanesville ferry was something of a bottleneck— he ferry service consisted of two »mall scows propelled by two men ising oars. The capacity of each; icow was two wagons. One traveler reported: “Thei :urrent is very swift in the river I md accidents happen every day' :o one or the other scow. The emi grants are pushing and crowding and frequently quarreling and even fighting to get aboard of the scows as they touch the shore.” Similar conditions existed at ither ferries along the way in the spring of 1852. E. W. Conyers, leaded for Oregon, arrived at the Elkhorn ferry at 12:30, May 22, to find 150 teams ahead of him. He was able to get across about 7:30, however. John T. Kerns, there the same day, had better luck—he got his wagon across after a wait of only two hours. Conditions were so bad at the Loup ferry that emigrants fre quently went on to the ford which though some distance away, was not particularly off the road, j Near Fort Kearny, June 2, Kerns AUTO PARTS MOTOR REBUILDING MOTOR EXCHANGE BEN’S NEW WAY AUTO PARTS 2418-2024 “O" St Ph. 2-1039 **9 out of 10 your best bet is Ben" 4 PARRISH MOTOR CO. The home of clean, cars. / 120 No. 19 Sf. Since 1871 ... The First National Bank of Lincoln Lincoln. Nebraska Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |)r. Itiilpli Ituiirlie to Addreiw St. Louis U. Graduation Glass ST. LOUIS—(ANP)—Dr. Kaipni Bunche, director of the United Nations department of trustecsh'p and 1950 Nobel Peace Prize vin ner, will be the principal speaker at commencement exercises of St. Louis university in Kiel audi torium June 3, the Very Rev. Paul C. Heinert, S. J., president of the university, announced last week. Dr. Bunche, who was chairman of the department of political sci ence at Harvard university from 1938 to 1950, has been top-rank ing director of the U.N. depart ment of trusteeship since Decem ber, 1947. He served as acting U.N mediator in Palestine from Sep tember, 1948 until August, 1949. Before that he was principal sec retary and personal representative of the Secretary-General with the U.N. mediator there. • He served the State department as an expert on African affairs from 1944 to 1947 and was con nected with other government of fices before that. He holds 35 hon- j orary degrees awarded him in rec-1 ognition of his outstanding record of public service. BUNCHE GETS ALGER AWARD NEW YORK—(ANP)—The Di rector of the United Nations i Trusteeship Division, Dr. Ralph J.| wrote: “The emigrants are cross ing over from the south side (of the Platte) mi account of cholera. We have heard of twelve cases this evening and all very danger ous ones. I begin to feel like I would rather it was somebody else than me. I believe I could count 5,000 wagons this evening at sight, io not know where all these peo ple intendent to make fortunes, but I am going to Oregon myself, so I am, go it while yer young, when old you can’t.” AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING WRECKER SERVICE 2-4295 HARVEY'S GARAGE 2119 O St. All the items listed here, Latsch's sell $*00 at e Ball Point Pens, by Papermate Waterman Eversharp e Fineline Automatic Pencils Wearever Tri-Color Pen (Writes in 3 colors) LaMJrolhers Printer* 1124 “O” St. 2-6838 - ^■■■ DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE Bunche, gets honors in bunches. The Nobel Peace Prize winner along with six other prominent Americans who rose from humble beginnings was picked by 3,000 educators for the 1952 Alger awards. The UN official was first in line to be congratulated by Frank Russell, Alger awards national committee chairman. Dr. Bunche on the same after noon also officiated at the open ing of the first exhibition of oor traits ever to be shown of the chil dren of the United Nations Inter national School, painted by Mar garet Yard Tyler. The U.N. offi cial was beaming and like the rest of the excited parents said he was looking forward to seeing the painting of his son, Ralph, at the Grand Central Art Galleries. ■ FREADRICH BROS. • • • • Since 1902 The Beet Place To Trade After All—1316 N Street VINE ST. 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