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THE VOICE _ PUBLISHED WEEKLY ” “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people"__ Melvin L. Shakespeare ^ubUf^Mi and tCdltot Business Address 2226 B Street Box 20U 2-4086 U No Answer Call j-760h Ruble A Shakespeare. Advertising and Business Manage! Dorothy Green.Office Secretary Mrs. toe .reen....Circulation Manager Member of .he Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Pres# Ass arts lien _ Entered as Second Class Matter, tune 8. 1847. at the Post Office at lincnln. Nebraska, undei the Act of March 1871 _ 1 year subscription. $?.50 Single copy.Uc _ Out of State 1 fear Subscription 62.60—Single Copy 10c •ITOB1AU riM views expressed in thees columns ire those of the writer and not lecessarlly a reflection of the policy f The Voice.—Pah. Between the Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock For ANP C. C. Spaulding; A Moral Giant The versatile writers of tomor row may well say, in referring to; our times, “There were giants in those days.” They may well in- J elude C. C. Spaulding was one of them. THE PASSING OF C. C. SPAULDING marks the end of an era. He was easily one of the most picturesque moral figures of our f times. He was the ablest ex ponent of the theories and doc- x trines of the late Booker T. Wash ington. He represented Booker T. ^ Washingtonism at its best. Out side of Booker T. Washington I himself, C. C. Spaulding morel truly than any other represented ! the essential philosophy of our great American teacher. Washington has been abused ( and gainsaid. The wrath of lesser ( souls have been poured out upon * him. Craven souls have even sought to cast blasphemies upon ^ his sacred memory, but Booker T. "Washington stands out in bold re- ^ lief, as a peak of the towering Alps, snow-capped and majestic. Degrees were not as popular in those days as now; the accent in education was not learning but on character and ability. Those idealistic Yankees had just come south and infused into the eman cipated Negroes the unadulterated spirit of Jesus Christ Himself. Those missionary Yankees repre sented the finest flower of Chris tian knighthood, and they were easily the finest exponents of the living Gospel of Jesus Christ. ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES OF TODAY is pathetic lack of such mighty men and women. Charac ter formation was the burden of their labors. Today, character has been made a side issue in the great process and program of edu cation. Moral frustration is the tragic result. An educated man without char acter is like a candle without a lighted taper, like a steaming locomotive on the tracks without a hand to pull the throttle, like a singer without a song. No one can at present appraise the moral damage done by this over-empha sis on degrees and the current under-emphasis on character. Like the baffled fishermen on Galilee we are toiling all night but we are taking nothing. We are failing in spite of our supremest efforts. We run hither and yon crying “peace peace; but there is no peace! Nor will there ever be peace while our educational system ma jors in degrees and minors in character. When C. C. Spalding laid his armour down, a moral giant was retiring from the life’s flaming Flander’s Fields. He was retiring as one of the great moral heroes of this generation. When aU the fine and com mendatory words had been said, the half had not been told. The name C. C. Spaulding had been 1 written large on Fame’s immortal scroll. The greatest thing about C. C. Spaulding was not his de grees and his honors, but his fine character and his well-wrought abilities. The North Carolina Mutual stands today as a mighty monu ment and testimonial to his con jstructive genius. The world is just a little bit better because C. C. Spaulding has lived and wrought in his day. The point of this release is to pause and speak an humble word of praise for one of the greatest men of his times and the chiefest disciple of the lamented, but not unhonored, Booker T. Washington, who saw 50 years ago as we all see today, that learning without eco nomic support is hollow and frus trating. Spaulding saw that Washing ton’s philosophy in no way cir cumscribed the aspirations of the Negro race; that it was no device to perpetuate their economic and social subjugation; that industrial education did not preclude higher : education. It has come to pass ;hat the very Dean of Negro busi- ' ^ess was a simple soul of simple 1 Letters; but his character and com mon sense were abundant. SPAULDING’S COMMON SENSE WAS COLLOSSAL, and his character was forceful and exemplary. If somehow the Negro race and the nation could ex change some of our degrees for some of Spaulding’s species of common sense and character, it i would amount to a profitable ex change. c. C. Spaulding’s life and la-'« bours not only represent charac-! ter and common sense, but they1 represent the potency of this1 writer’s own doctrine of the Dou-1 ble Duty Dollar about which he spoke so often. If we were called upon to point out exhibit “A” of the doctrine of the Double-Duty-Dollar we would have to point to the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance com pany at Durham. When Double Duty-Dollars are handled as they were handled by C. C. Spaulding and the North Carolina Mutual, they become battering rams against the walls of proscription that would hinder the Negro’s on ward march. Peace to the memory of C. C. Spalding, a moral hero and giant! For Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 — Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1532 O Street ! h- , , Shurtleff's Furniture Co. h IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI HISTORICAL SOCISTT With school bells tolling again, perhaps it’s just as well for us to be reminded that Nebraskans haven’t always been able to give their young people the educational advantages the youth of today enjoy. Though the first territorial legislature provided for free public schools in Nebraska early in 1855, there was a great deal of difficulty in transforming legisla tive provisions into effective, functioning public schools; and even after Nebraska was admitted to the union as a state, Governor David Butler reported to the legis lature (in 1869) that “the com plaints are so numerous that the feeling prevails that we have no established school system, nor even settled policy of public in struction.” The early territorial schools were not very pretentious. Fre quently the first school in the community would be taught in a cabin home by a mother anxious to do her part in educating her own children. When a separate building became available, it sel dom consisted of more than a rude log structure, about 22x32 feet, roofed with sod. Equipment was practically non-existent. Buildings and equipment, though, have never made a school, and had qualified teachers been avail able, fairly good schools would have prevailed, despite the primi tive physical conditions under which they were conducted. Per sons qualified to teach, however, were rare in the new country.! rhose available usually preferred' ;o try their hands at something a little more promising than the un certain employment at low wages offered by the public schools. In 1857, Acting Governor T. B. Cuming complained that in many of the counties nothing had- been done to. carry out the provisions of the territorial laws providing for public schools, that the law was a dead letter. When communities failed to provide public schools, private in stitutions frequently developed. Though some of these institutions aspired to be exclusive finishing schools for girls, most of them were little better than the public schools. Their most important con tribution, probably, was to keep the idea of education alive. That The Nebraska Typewriter Co. 125 No. 11th Lincoln 2-7285 Royal Typewriters Mimeograph - Duplicators Dictaphones Clary Adders Sold - Rented - Repaired OUTDOOR NEBRASKA v V " % J^DICK H. SCHAFFER JjJ. •tKebr’. GAME COMMISSION With hunting now under way and much more on tap through ithe remainder of the year, it may j benefit all of us to review the major offenses of game laws re lating to hunting as committed in 1951. Following are the major offenses and definitions where not self-explanatory. The order in which they apper- is based on the number of times committed. LOADED SHOTGUN IN OR ON ANY VEHICLE. A loaded 'gun is any shotgun having ammu nition anywhere in its mechanism, including its magazine and cham ber. Such a gun (loaded) cannot be carried in or on any vehicle. SHOOTING UPLAND GAME BIRDS OUT OF SEASON. HUNTING WITHOUT A PER MIT. All residents of Nebraska, 16 years of age and over, must | have a hunting permit to hunt game in this state. All non-resi , dents, regardless of age, must pur chase non-resident permits. SHOOTING GAME FROM THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY. It is illegal to shoot game from a public high way which includes all surveyed roads owned and used by the pub lic. The highway is that portion of the roadway lying between property lines which is usually designated by fence lines. NON-RESIDENTS HUNTING WITH RESIDENT PERMITS. SHOOTING AFTER HOURS. SHOOTING HEN PHEASANTS. Only cock pheasants can be taken during the legal open pheasant the idea was little more than just “alive” is evidenced by a report in 1859 which shows that out of a total of 4,767 children of school age, only 1,310 attended any school during the year, and seven counties with considerable popu lation had no schools at all. The territorial pioneers, though, were doing the best they could— according to their lights — with the resources available to them. That there was great dissatisfac tion with what was accomplished perhaps is the key to the steady improvement characterizing Ne braska's educational system. i- " " ' IP® I Your City I_ Light Department Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 13th St . 2-1246 seasons in Nebraska. USING SHOTGUN IN TAKING OF GAME BIRDS. An unplugged shotgun is any shotgun capable of holding more than three shells in the magazine and chamber com bined—(the magazine of which has not been cut off or plugged with a one piece metal or wooden filler which cannot be removed ■ without dissembling the gun so as to reduce the capacity of said gun to not more than three shells.) 1 HUNTING ON GAME REF UGES OR SANCTUARIES. SHOOTING WATERFOWL OUT OF SEASON, j SHOOTING GAME FROM A VEHICLE OF ANY KIND. IMPROPERLY DRESSED PHEASANTS. All pheasants ta ken must retain sex identification. ; Either head or feet must be left on the bird. HUNTING BEFORE HOURS. SHOOTING GAME BIRDS WITH A RIFLE. It is illegal to (hunt game birds with any rifle, I pistol or revolver. A total of 114 guns were con fiscated during the past year. The 'confiscation of guns used illegally in violating game laws is manda tory under Section 37-610 of the State Statute which states: “All guns and lawful nets while j being used illegally shall be seized upon the arrest of the per son so using them and, upon the conviction of such person for the violation of any provision of this | act, all and every gun and other jwise lawful net so used by such person as a part or element of jsuch violation shall be forfeited I to the state, and delivered to the Game, Forestation and Parks Commission to be disposed of as provided by law.” . Since 1871 ... The First National Bank of Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska __ Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation