When Diplomas !
Unfurl In June
• By Mias Sarah T. Nm. kyrarau
t»ae from the Mth District, tilth Sea
don, Nri>ruka Legislature Mho Matr
Ht head of the English department h
the Lincoln high arboei She dimow
a subject of nheml Interest after
having made a our*m of the Itcas
poets for the rmpto'mcnt of the grad
oaten)
What to to becr'.nt at the young men
;tnd women who about June 1 «r mm
thereafter, will be graduated from the
colleges and universities all over the
country? We are used to the Jests
about them and have smiled comfort*
My at cartoons which show them, rib
boned diploma tn unraUouaed band
standtoig before the Industry or busi
ness of the piofwertom. broadly urging
the world to a faster spin
That was the fear before last. We
smiled at them with this easy tolerance
because we knew tn our hearts (hat
these same high-held heads would see
farther than some of thorn very elders
who were pictured, with forced fierce
ness. barring the door of the future
to them.
This year the problem of unemploy
ment to acute, and the solutions offer
ed do not take this new harvort of
graduates Into account at all "Declare
a moratorium oa lawyers." says one
authority, adding. "We have too many
now The country reached the satura
tion point when last year’s classes had
been turned out. Stop the mill We
don’t need the new crop.”
"All the young engineers working for
their diplomas tn the universities of
the United States ought to give up
their plans to build dams, make tele
vision practical, rear hydro-electric
power plants, harness power to do the
world’s work,” says another expert,
"and go back to the farm” This last
they add for lack of any other place to
put them.
Physicians wave back the oncoming
tld'- "No more The physicians we now
have fill every possible niche open to
their services.”
Crowded to the Door*
In a word, every business, every in
dustry, every trade, every profession is
crowded to the doors. Nobody needs
or wants the services of these young
minds that we have been at such pains
to train.
Ask the chap who brought you your
•'chicken fried” steak at the restaurant
this noon what he Intends to do when
this year is over? He will say, "I am
a senior in the engineering college, and
I'd like to get a job in the Westing
house Electric company or the Gener
al Electric. I’d like it li I could find a
berth with the telephone company here
in Lincoln. What I'll probably do”, he
will admit as he wipes of! a splash of
coffee from the saucer, ‘‘is to go back
to the farm. Trouble Is. they don't
need me out there and cant pay me.”
The girl who is about to finish her
course in Teachers’ College has visions
of teaching domestic science in a high
school near McCook. As the situation
now stands there are already a few
score of seasoned teachers of domes
tic science who have fallen back on
the family kitcherv range as their only
laboratory. What foothold can she hope
to find? When men and women with
families to support are searching for
work—any kind of work—there seems
to be scant time to spend in worry
over what future awaits college men
and women. It is cheering to find, un
der such circumstances that ptent* of
fattier* u'jA mothers are continuing to
sacrifice. knowing that in then boy*
and girls rests (he only real wealth ol
the country
Suppose we say. CVwe sc hoots, put
the young men and women to work:
science, teaching, medicine and inven
tion have gone far enough What is
good enough lor us is good enough
for the next generation We must have
:<wd and clothing What do we need
of a device to transmit the likeness at.
wen as the voice over the telephone?
what do we care for cures for cancer?
why seek new commodities for produc
ing beat, when there are coal and oil
mnd gas enough to last out our life
time?”
Near ihe museum in the Yosemlte
valley park stands a cross-section of
on• of those superb old trees that buf
feted the gales for thousands of years
before it was laid low. Scientists can
trace its life history in the size and
shape of the rings which lie exposed
for even unscientific eyes to see Here
was a year when the water supply wtjs
low and the winter severe Witness the
thinness of that ring. A mild year and
plenty of moisture have caused the
next ring to grow wide and uncramp
ed Every sort of weather has left its
mark in the fiber of the tree
The Tell-Tale Truth
These last years, marked depres
sion". are leaving their mark on the
fabric of many live*. Surely we cannot
afford to have the eyes of later years
trailed upon this particular period of
our structure and see the tell-tale
truth. That was the period, shall we
permit the future to say, at which we
shut off progress because we let no
new blood into our research, our busi
ness, our professions, our industries?
Suppose we shut the doors in the
faces of our college graduates of this
year and offer them no chance to do
the work for which they are specially
fitted? It looks as if two results would
be inevitable: one immediate; one ul
timate A few who have money will go
on into graduate work, perfecting their ,
talents against the better time when
their chosen fields will be open to
them, A very few of the most fortu
nate may find coveted berths in spite
of our failure to welcome them in.
Many, the largest number, will work
on farms, wait on tables in restau
rants, do odd jobs in gardens and
kitchen*, take care of their fathers’
books or mothers' housekeeping, or just
mark time This large group will inev
itably force out of work less skillful
men or women who In better times
filled these comers acceptably, and
drive the latter Into still greater
drudgery or unemployment
Threat to Morale
These are the immediate results. It
will be noticed that the writer has not
paused to consider the possibility that
some of these eager young beginners,
denied a chance to put into practice
the noble ideas simmering In their
heads, may be added to the already
large throng of those who have tried
to take short cuts to wealth, and there
by constitute one of the sorriest of all
the hazards of these last disturbing
years. That Is another side of the
story.
These are the prospects which we
face today. What about the ultimate
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A Social Chat
With Loretta
Owing to the death ol Mrs Frances
Taylor beloved daughter of Mrs. Jack
Gslbreaih, well known social leader |
of Lincoln, society happenings for the
past week have been very quiet. Mrs j
Taylor's body arrived Wednesday
morning from Brooklyn. N. Y., and ]
was taken to Alba Brown's funeral 1
parlors, where services were held on j
Thursday afternoon
Mrs Roy Howard, a patient at St.
Elizabeth Hospital for some time past,
will be operated on Wednesday morn
ing
Mrs Maymr Todd received painful
bums about the chest and arms when
she fell across the gas stove at her
home last Saturday night.
Mother Davis, who but recently cel
ebrated her 90th birthday, was honor
guest last Sunday evening at the New
man church of which she is a devout
member People who have known this
grand old lady for years responded to
brief talks and a nice sum ol money
was taken up for her
Mr and Mrs. Lyle Crews ol 931 No.
22nd street were hosts to a newly or
ganized club. “The Good Fellowship
Club” a social club oi the elite, which
meets twice a month with a covered
dish luncheon. Mr. Trago McWilliams,
Jr., is president. Miss Thera Crews
viqe president. Deimar Woods, secre
tary. and Mias Ruby Webb, treasurer
It's present membership is 16 of our
foremost young men and ladies, and we
feel sure that they will soon make the
public sit up and take notice. As a
starter, they are sponsoring a large
musical program some time next
month. It will be the talk of the ♦own.
Watch for the date. They are rearing
to go, and how!
Mr Dacus, state president of the B
Y. P. N and a resident of Omaha, was
a visitor of Mt. Zion Baptist church
B Y P N last Sunday evening
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Here And There
Mr Mumoe Williams J. who has
spent the winter in Grand Island has
returned home.
Word comes from Honolulla that
Mr Wilbur Woods, former Universi
ty of Nebraska graduate is at the head
of physical education in that city.
Eddie Tolan. fastest human being
and winner of two most important
Olympic events is wwking as filing
clerk at Detroit.
Mr. 8humpert Logan, another of the
graduates of the University of Neb
raska is business manager and pub
licity man for one of the largest beau
ty manufacturing concerns in New
York City. Mr. Logan, former Pole
march of Zotan Chapter of Kappa
Alpha Psi, taught in the south before
entering the business world at New
York.
Mr. ZaZa Westerfield is president
of the Commercial Electrical Co. of
New York City, a commercial enter
prise composed of prominent Negroes
of the Metropolis. Mr Westerfield is
one of the parly Race men to com
plete college work at the University
of Nebraska.
Mr. Milton Bledsoe who finished his
Journalistic work at Nebraska U in
1926 is making good with the Kansas
City Call. Mr. Swingler who graduated
in the same college two years later is
City editor of the Atlanta Georgia's
leading Race paper
Mr. Harold Adams and wife are still
carrying on at Tuskegee Both are
Nebraska U graduates. t
We hope to present letters to our
readers in an early issue from Miss
Mary Nelson an<j Miss Aneitha Miller,
bolh graduates of the University here
and teaching now in the south.
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Handicap
Aftcrthfct, Stirred by the Sermon of
The Rev. Jones, M. E. Church
Last Sunday evening the Reverend
Jones of the M. E. Church preached
one of the most sou) stirring sermons
I have ever had the pleasure of hear
ing, and it was a pleasure indeed. The
Reverend Jones is one of Lincoln’s
leading pastors, a light in the religious
world. It would have been a blessing
if every living person in Lincoln could
have heard this sermon. He talked of
the handicaps of this life, some by be
ing ugly, are handicapped by their so
cial ambition, others by the color of
their skin. Some by the loss of a
hand, a leg or an eye. Still others,
by their dispositions are barred from
their goal. Last, but by no means
not least are the ones that are han
dicapped by the gossipers and scan
dalmongers, who are continually peek
lng into some one’s closet i other than
their own) for the skeleton that
MIGHT be there, hoping that it will
be there, so they can go forth and
spread the gossip. Always looking for
the destructive pari instead of the
good.
As I listened I thot of a young col
ored girl, a very dear friend of mine.
She came from a small town to Hvp
in a large city. Her parents were so
cial standards In their community,
above reproach in every respect.
Leaving that environment and enter
ing a locality that knew aught of her
character she secured a good job, be
came a member of one of the churches,
made a citizen that any one might
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Is Better
feel proud of, and arose from one po
sition to another until now she holds
one of the highest positions that oru*
of her race ran attain (Handicap*
This girl Has made friends among all
that she meets, she has endeared her
self to her employer, she ts Intelligent
and deserving of something better, but
her color Is her handicap and she
can never reach the peak of the ladder
on account of It. I watched this gtrl
In her climb to success, rung ty rung
she climbed, overcoming all obstacles
as they appeared, fighting adversity
and temptation at every turn, but the
one handicap that she couldn't fight
was the gosslpers, they came as a thief
at night to steal away her character,
to batter her down, by fair means or
foul to prevent her from reaching the
goal of success, but her character and
her will power was so strong that
she has Weathered the storm of the
gosslpers and now the handicap of
color has her stopped dead still.
As I write this a scripture comes
to mind "The one among you with
out sin, let her first cast a stone.”
"The one among you without a Skel
ton In your closet, let her first look
for a skeleton In some one rise's
cioset."
Rambling Thoughts
By REV. L B. SMITH
The thinker last week wandered into
the realm of Silence, and he discoursed
about the beauties thereof, so this
week the Rambler turns hts footsteps
into the busy walks of existence,
THE HOUR
The hour is coming when men's
holy Church will melt away in ever
widening walls and be ‘ for ALL man*
kind. And In Its place, a mightier
Church will come, whose covenant
word shall be the deeds of Love.
Not "Credo"—I believe—then. "Amo"
— I love — shall be the password
through Its gates. Man shall not ask
his brother any more, 'Bellevest Thou?"
but 'Lovest Thou?' till all shall answer
at God's altar, 'Lord I Love!'
For hope may anchor, Fiith may
lead, but Love, great Love alone, Is
the captain of the 8oul.”
The above statement was written
by a man with a keen vision named,
Alfred B Henry, six or seven years
ago
BROTHERHOOD
“In every patch of timber you
Will always find a tree or two
That would have fallen long ago,
Borne down by wind or age or snow.
Had not another neighbor tree
Held out its arms in sympathy
And caught the tree the storm had
hurled
To earth. So. brothers is the earth.
In every patch of timber land
Samaritans of forest land,
Tlie birch, the maple, oak or pine,
The fir, the cedar, all the line;
In every wood, unseen, unknown,
They bear the burden- of thir own
And bear as well anothei form.
Some brother stricken by the storm
Shall trees be nobler to their kind
Than men, who boast the noble mind?
Shall there exist within thfr wood
'rhis great eternal brotherhood
Of oak and pine, of hill and fen
And not within the hearts of men?
God grant that men are like to these,
And brothers brotherly as trees.”
The rambler in his mental circum
ambulation has run across a quota
tion form the pen of Rabindranath
Tagore, the Indian Sage who visited
this country several years ago. For
fear that some of our readers may not
know much concerning this truly great
man, let me say that when it is known
that he was to read Divine service in
the largest church in Calcutta, not
only was it crowded, people even
standing in the windows , but the
streets we.e almost Impassable, because
of the people anxious to hear him.
He possesses the rare quality of one
ness with Nature, the hem of the gar
ment of the Creator, which makes
squirrels come from the boughs and
climb onto his knees and the birds
alight upon his hands.
•LOST’
When the Creation was new and
all the stars stioije In their first splen
dor. the gods held their assembly in
the sky and sang.Oh. the picture of
perfection! The joy unalloyed!
But one cried of a sudden—It seems
that somewhere there is a break in
the chain of light and one of the
stars has been lost.
The golden string of their harp
snapped, and they cried in dismay—
Yes. that lost star was the b?st. she
was the glory of all the heavens!
From that day the search is un
ceasing for her, and the cry goes out
from one to the other, that in her
the world has lost its one joy.
Only in the deepest silence of night
the stars smile and whisper among
themselves—'Vain is this seeking! Un
broken perfection is over all!"
There is a saying that the Lord
tempers the wind for the shorn lamb,
and it is exemplified in the mildness
of the winter that Is now passing into
history. I will now "sign off" by say
ing "Au revoir"
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Imagination is a wonderful thing,
as A. B. Ferguson of Los Angeles
now realises. Missing his falst teeth,
he thought he had swallowed them.
A sudden feeling of uneasiness in his
stomach seemed to confirm his fears.
He rushed to a hospital and just as
he was being placed on the operat
ing table his wife telephoned that the
missing terth had been found in his
home.
Colored Given Places
In University Play
The play. '‘Porgy" which depicts
the life of a certain class of Negroes
will be given by the University Play
ers during the first week in Febru
ary. A colored rhorus directed bv Mrs.
Merle Deane will furnish all of the
music for the production Mrs. Dean
not only possesses musical talent, but
she has had extensive training and a
great deal of experience in this type
of work With the excellent volunteer
support that Mrs Deane has, there
I3 every reason to believe that the un
dertaking will be nothing but success
ful.
Speaking parts have been assigned
Claude Gordon, Dedmar Woods and
J R Dillard Mr. Dillard is a senior
student in the fine arts department
of the University and is a member of
the University Players His work in
plays that have been held before thin
season certainly merits his being
awarded one of the most Important
roles in "Porgy."
Since this is strictly an ameteur or
g&uiation those taking part will re
ceive no financial renumerattjn How
ever. two organization of acknowl
edged Importance to the welfare of
the colored people of Dtncoln will be
donated liberal sums from the week's
proceeds, at the will of those taking
part In the production.
The Home Benevolent Charity Club
and the Presbyterian Bible Institute
are the two organizations to be ben
efited.
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Church News
Quinn Chapel Stewardess Board No
2 met Thursday at 8 P. M in the
prasonage
Quinn Chapel Allen Christian En
deavor League will use lor the Topic
next Sunday evening at six thirty P.
M. "What good Is the church doing.”
Mrs. Halite Brunnon of North Plr.tte,
Nebraska was a worshipper at Quinn
Chapel Church Sunday Mrs Brunson
U a sister of Mrs Mabel Galbreath,
2521 So. 8 St.
Cuthbert Taylor
Lincoln Visitor
Cuthbert Mack D. Taylor of Brook
lyn, N. Y., was a visitor of Lincoln the
past week He was the house guest of
Mr. and Mrs. John Galbreath, 2521
South 8th street.
Mr. Taylor's visit to Lincoln was oc
casioned by the death of his wife, Mrs.
Prances Hill Taylor, formerly a Lincoln
girl, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Galbreath, who was burled here last
week
Mr. Taylor attended the University
of Nebraska in 1926-27. He was a pre
medic student and a member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He is at
present employed by the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey as informa
tion clerk in New York City. He com
pleted a leal estate course in the Col
lege in the City of New York and, to
gether with his sister, operates a grow
ing real estate business.
Mr. Taylor says he likes Lincoln very
much and plans to visit here again
within a very short time.
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Third Christian Church
Sara J McWilliams, Pastor.
Sunday services were well attended,
especially the Bible school.
Mr. Perry Stepney Is much improved
and we hope and trust that he will be
able to be with us again soon.
Mrs. Phannle Corneal, who has been
teaching a Bible class at Lancaster,
will have charge of the morning serv
ice at Third Church January 29th.
Mr. Henry Tway has volunteered his
services for two days In helping with
the basement of the church.
Miss Helen McWilliams, who brought
a visitor nearly every Sunday last
year, is making an effort to better her
record in 1933.
Mr. Gus Harding is showing much
improvement and Is able to sit up a
short time each day. Mr. and Mrs
Harding wish to thank their many
friends for their many kindnesses dur
ing the illness of Mr Harding.
The Garden club of the Third church
will meet with Mrs. Sarah McWilliams
Thursday evening, February 2nd, and
plans will be made at that time for
the planting of shrubs and the beauti
fying of the church grounds, which
have already been graded.
Mrs Mamie Todd was painfully
burned last Tuesday afternoon while
engaged about household duties. Al
though Mrs. Todd Is unable to be at
the University Club where she is em
ployed, it is thought that her injuries,
though painful, will not prove serious
We learn upon reliable authority
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Apple Cider, per gal. ISc
bring container
Hams, Picnic smoke 6Vic
Neck Bones, meaty 6 lbs 16c
Pork Roast, per lb ...B^c
Beef Roast, per lb _ 7ki<*
Reef Steak, tender, 2 lbs Us
Bacon, sugar cured, lb Sc
Pork Chops, 3 lbs 26r
Potatoes, per peck __ lie
Spare Ribs, lb_ Sc
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Fred Hock. Prop.
Shoe repairing of the hotter
kind; work called for and
delivered.
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Lincoln, Nebr.
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215 No. 9th Street
Barber Shop — Billiards
Confections
.1. W. THOMAS, Proprietor.
that Mr. William Hightower, who pur
chased the American Cafe, has taken
in a partner in the person of Mr. Guy
Wiley.
Rev Jones, chainnan of the scout
troop No. 60, called a meeting of the
committee last Wednesday evening at
the Bancroft school and important
matters pertaining to scouting were
taken up. Another meeting is to be
held in the near future.
The Zero Hour
According to advices from Lincoln,
the hour for the supreme test of the
sincerity of the democratic party is
fast approaching. It is the acid test for
the minority as well as for the crisis
in this state and the nation demands
unselfish courage and true patriotism
from every citizen.
The lawmakers, many of them untri
ed and unaware of the pitfalls of leg
islation. have been taken from their
humdrum tasks and placed in seats of
power. More than that, they are sur
rounded with splendor almost oriental,
tawned upon by sycophatic tax eaters
Small wonder that some might turn
from the path of public duty and
hearken to the siren call of the selfish
interests.
This is no time to be cajoled into
dallience with the forces that counsel
delay. The people are in earnest about
tax reduction They mean to have sal
aries reduced
Public sentiment is in such u state
that it behooves the legislature to have
something more than oratory to place
before the people on Abraham Lin
coln's birthday.
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