Volume I, Number 12 Lincoln 3, NebraskaDecember 27, 1946
Church Moves to Improve Race Relations
- NEW YORK tANP)—The Enis
PROGRESSIVE SYNDICATE
Highlights Season's Activities
Highlighting the season’s fes
tivities was the all-day party at
the Ideal Hall given by the Pro
gressive Syndicate on Christmas
Day. The affair commenced at
11:00 a. m. and lasted until 9:00
in the evening. More than 200
persons enjoyed the refreshments
served free to the public.
The Progressive Syndicate is
an organization of six Lincoln
business men who have pooled
their resources with the purpose
of promoting better businesses
throughout the city. They were
organized a year ago and now
own and operate the Progressive
Recreation Parlor, with Mr. Lu
f ther Allen as manager.
% The Board of Directors includes
Jeph Adkins, Bradford Conway,
Raymond Holcomb. Richard Hus
ton. and Ed. Todd.
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NAACP Plans 38th Birthday
NEW YORK—After 38 years
a REAL birthday party is being
planned for the NAACP during
Founder’s Week, February 9-14,
1947. Still on the drafting board
but rapidly being completed,
plans call for a celebration to
originate out of the National Of
fice and extend from coast to
coast, involving all 1200 Branches.
Activities will include mass meet
ings with prominent speakers,
a possible nationwide radio broad
cast on which will be heard the
top people in NAACP as well as
other outstanding^personalities.
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West Indian University
College Head Appointed
KINGSTON, Jamaica (ANP)—
Another step in the establishment
of a University College here was
taken recently with the appoint
ment of Dr. Thomas Weston Johns
Taylor, C.B.E., M.A., D.Se., as
principal-designate of the college.
The West Indian University
college will prepare students for
the degrees of the University of
London until such time as it be
jpmes a recognized center of tea
ching and research. A temporary
medical school has been recom
| mended in anticipation of a per
» manent medical faculty at the
i college. ,
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May the coming year
Bring you treasures
Far more precious than
gold;
Sweet memories, friendships
and gladness,
ALL that your HEART
Can hold!
Orphanage Willed Nearly $3,000
PHILADELPHIA (ANP)— A
fund of between $2,500 and $3,000
was awarded last Friday to the
House of Holy Child from the
estate of Clara Funk, the ruling
was made by Judge Charles Sin
kler in orphan’s court.
The funk will made a gift of her
residuary funds “to some worthy
cause or institution.” Her next
of kin unsuccessfully contended
in the Pennsylvania Supreme
court that the bequest was void
for indefiniteness.
Judge Sinljler then received
claims from the House of Holy
Child, Big Brother Association
and the Animal Rescue League.
He said all three are “worthy
charities,” and, he chose the first
named charity.
About 330 children are cared
for in the House of the Holy
Child.
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Money can build mansions
spacious and rare, but it can’t
create kindness in a human heart
when there is no such spirit
there.
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Life is not a matter then of
heaping up fortunes simply to
spend, but the art of spreading
real brotherhood and making
joyous living clearly understood.
White Student Upholds Negro's
Right To Attend Texas Law
School
HOUSTON (ANP)—Negro stu
dents have a right to enter the
Texas university, was the con
tention of John W. Stanford,
white senior of the school, from
Dallas. Stanford was addressing
a meeting of the local NAACP
branch here last Friday
Particularly he had reference
to the school’s refusal to admit
H. M. Sweatt of Houston to its
law school. Stanford, who is a
member of the American Veter
ans committee and also chairman
of a campus fund' to support
Sweatt’s case, declared that “in
justices perpetrated against Ne
groes must end.” Sweatt’s case
is scheduled to be reviewed in
Austin, Texas soon.
Purpose of the meeting was to
protest the establishment of a
Negro law school in Houston with
a $50,000 slate appropriation. The
white student charged the amount
set aside for the proposed Negro
school was “inadequate.
copal church has gone on record
officially for a nationwide im
provement in race relations in the
United States.
Backed by the national council
of the Protestant Episcopal church
Presiding Bishop H. St. George
Tucker last week dropped the
question of race relations into
the lap of parishes all over the
country before retiring on Janu
ary 1, by declaring that “im
provement in the national situa
tion can best be effected by each
parish of the church striving to
improve conditions in its own
country.”
Much of the church’s efforts in
the field of race relations is based
on “Guiding Principles,” design
ed to govern the church’s Negro
work and adopted by the national
I council on Feb. 9-11, 1943, which
I read in part :
“1. Fellowship is essential to
Christian worship. Since there
are no racial distinctions in the
mind of the Father, but ’all are
one in Christ Jesus,’ we dare not
break our Christian fellowship
by any attitude or act in the
House of God which marks our
brethren of other races as un
equal or inferior.
“2. Fellowship is essential in
church administration. Through
the privilege of exercising initia
tive and responsibility in church
affairs, - - - will Negro church
men be assured that their fellow
ship in the Episcopal church is
valid and secure.
“3. High standards must be
maintained in every department
of our work with the Negro.
“4. It is both the function and
the task of the church to set the
spiritual and moral goals for soci
ety, and to bear witness to their
validity by achieving them in her
own life.
Sec. £62, P. L. & R.
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