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
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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
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