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THE jg VOICE Volume 1, Number 13 Lincoln 3, NebraskaJanuary 3, 1947 Am. College of Surgeons Inducts Negroes American College Students Hold Conference at University Of Chicago. * CHICAGO—(ANP)— Approxi mately 600 delegates, including 50 Negroes, representing more than a million students^from all parts of the United States, held a three-day conference at the Uni versity of Chicago over the week end to lay the foundation for a new national student organiza tion. An outgrowth of the Inter national Student congress held last summer in Prague, Czecho slovakia, the Chicago meeting brought together student repre sentatives from 300 universities, colleges and national student or- i ganizations. With a two-fold purpose of ^ hearing a report on the interna tional student scene, growing out of the conference last summer, and of discussing the need for, the character of, and plans for a national student organization in the need for, the character of, and plans for a national student or ganization in the United States, panels were held on the following topics; discrimination in colleges, the economic problems of stu dents, the extension of student scholarships, international student cooperation, and facilitation of student exchange. The group looked to eventual cooperation with the appropriate United Na tions agency to promote the in ^ terests of lasting peace. In addition to the above discus sions, the delegates outlined fu ture projects to include (1) the stimulation of active, democratic, student-controlled student gov ernments on the campuses of -col leges and universities, (2) the eli mination of racial discrimination on campuses, (3) the extension of equal educational opportunities to all, (4) lower tuition fees and the increase of scholarships and government aid to qualified stu dents, (5) the encouragement of such student-operated institutions as hostels, dormitories, dining halls, etc., (6) the stimulation of student dramatic productions, art exhibits, concerts, sports events, etc., and (7) promotion of student ♦Exchange and travel. Among the Negro institutions sending delegates were Tuskegee, Xavier, Howard, Lincoln (Pa.,) Wilberforce, Morgan, Lincoln (Continued on page 5) ■T’-’T1 w ^ ^r-<r ^r-^-«r ^ ▼' y ? y <r y y f V f'f ▼' ’r-^r ^ » V ^ «r ^ "r *r ■^■■’y^r-^ JEANNE MALONE UNIVERSITY EDITOR OF "THE VOICE" Jeanne Malone is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Malone. Having been elected President of the student body in Junior high school she was automatically made a sophmore member of the Student Council in Lincoln high school. Jeanne was active in Girl Reserves, Orpheons, a musical club and choir. She was elected to the National Honor society and finished high school in two and one-half years. Miss Malone is at present enroll ed in the college of Arts and Science at the University of Ne braska but is planning to change her course to a pre-medical course. Jeanne is active in the Sunday School and choir of Quinn Chapel church and in var ious community projects. Rep. Powell Asks New York Ban On Two Racial Issue Films NEW YORK—(ANP)— “Abie’s Irish Rose” and “Song of the South” are an “insult to American minorities,” said Rev. Adam Clay ton Powell, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist church, Christmas Eve in asking that License Commissioner Benjamin Fielding close down the showing of the two pictures in the city. Not only do they con stitute an insult to minorities, but “an insult to everything that Am erica as a whole stands for,” he declared. “Abie’s Irish Rose,” playing at Gotham theatre, gives an exag gerated version of the religious and racial characteristics of Solomon and Patrick, fathers of two lovers, Abie and Rosmary. At Palace theatre, “Song of the South” depicts the subservient life of Negroes in the old South. This is a Walt Disney production and has been playing at Palace since last November 27. Joining with Powell in con demming the two pictures was Jimmy Fidler, radio commentator and columnist, who termed Abie’s as a “black eye” on Hollywood. He suggested that producers chip in to defray costs of the Bing Crosby production and take the picture out of circulation. Accord ing to New York critics, especial ly PM’s Cecila Agar, it “digs up decently buried racial and religi ous antagonism and fumblingly sets them at each other in the name of comedy.” Painting of Negro Mother and Infant Purchased For Art Gallery KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(ANP)— An unusual painting of a depres sed Negro mother and her infant child has been purchased for ex hibition here by the Friends of Art of the Rockhill-Nelson Art gallery. The picture is entitled “The Lynch Family” by Joseph Hirsch, a Jewish artist. Hirsch’s “The Lynch Family” was included among several ex traordinary paintings sent here in a collection by the Assocation of American artists for sale to the Friends of Art of the Rockhill Nelson gallories. “The Lynch Family” was judged the best of the lot by vote. Depicting the agonized suffer ing of a proverty-stricken Negro mother, the picture is slated to especially attract the local Negro citizens to the art gallery to view a scene some may remember, said Miss Lucile Bluford, managing editor of the Kansas City Call. One of the votes cast for the picture came from Sidney Law rence, of the Jewish Federation and Council of Greater Kansas City, who explained in a letter to Hirsch that his picture “will mean a great deal to the 60,000 Negroes who live and suffer discrimina tion in Kansas City,” and will serve to stimulate the acceptance of art with social content as well as “to a greater usage of the museum by the Negroes.” CLEVELAND—(ANP)— A his toric scene was enacted Friday at the spacious public auditorium here when 10 of the nation’s out standing Negro surgeons were initiated in a class of 500 distin guished medical men into the American College of Surgeons. Representing the highest Am erican honorary society for sur geons, the induction of the 10 Negro medics was hailed as ad vent of a new era of liberalism in American medicine, and set a dramatic precedent in the ACS’s 32-year-history. The new Negro fellows marched down the aisle attired in $100 robes of the medi cal society. The initiation marked the fruits of a triumphant fight against racism within the ACS, began a few years ago by Dr. George Thorne, visiting surgeon of Har lem and Sydenham hospitals in New York. He applied for fellow ship but was denied on racial grounds. White surgeons, trained by Ne gro surgeons at the New York hospitals, had been admitted to ACS and steadily advanced in the field of medicine while their Neg ro teachers remained barred from the society. Thorne’s campaign soon blossomed into a nation-wide drive to crack ACS’s color bars. Only one Negro surgeon was a member of ACS at the time Dr. Thorne began the campaign. He was Dr. Louis T. Wright Sr., di rector of surgery at Harlem hos pital, New York, who was accept ed in 1934. He was the second Negro surgeon to be accepted, the first being Dr. Daniel Hale of Chicago, a charter member of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Williams died in 1931. In November, 1945, four Negro (Continued on page 6) Sec. 562. P. L. & R.
