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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1947)
Literary Column WINTER. THE ARTIST / A versatile artist she is—painter, sculptor, etcher, glass-worker, jeweler, See her applying a hasty coat of whiteness to an ugly array of L aging barns ancl crumbling stone walls. See her, too, as she takes her fine etching tool and cuts slender lines that makes delicate figures on the window pane. See her showing her knowledge of the theories of lines and masses, as she stacks snow in drifts. See her stiffening brooks and ponds into strange glasslike shapes. But her best artistry is her jewelry, for she makes incomparable gems for the black boughs of such a pine tree as this. In all its flaming finery of autumn it was never so beautiful as now. Here are diamonds, moonstones, calcedony, opals, pearls and hanging on each twig. And they all belong, not only to the tree but to everyone who will look. Dark Merit by Kathryne Favors Slavery Often the slaves were treated so very wickedly that they felt they were all alone without friends. In utter despair and wor ry, the slave turned toward God. He poured out his heart to God, and pleaded with him to aid him in his plight for freedom. It was when in this frame of mind, that the slaves gave to America it’s | beautiful folk songs. I feel that all of these songs should be with us always. I disagree with the person who believes that the Negro Spiritual is dead. We’re still desiring freedom today. We shall have that freedom when we are prepared. However, among the people liv ing during slavery, there were many who were anxious that the slaves be freed even when slav ery first was introduced. They lectured continously that no man had the right to enslave another. The first protests against slavery were on religious grounds. The objection seemed to be that the condition of salves gave them no time for religious education. At first many men felt that bringing »!, >3, -^ ^ ■•>• the “heathens” into the “Chris tian land” of America might con vert them to Christianity, and they were very disappointed when the masters were so cruel. The first slayes were largely housemaids functioning almost the same as a maid today. “Al though not advocates of social equality for the blacks, the New England colonists believed in equality before God and, there fore, in the freedom of the body. The Puritans thought that slav ery was the particular offense that called down the avenging wrath of God; but not wishing to make money of it, they sought at first to restrict it to lawful cap tives taken in just wars.” Richard Baxter said, “Remember that they are of as good a kind as you; that is, they are reasonable crea tures as well as you, and born to as much natural liberty. If their sins have enslaved them to you, yet Nature made them your equals. To go as pirates and catch up poor Negroes or people of another land, that never for feited life, is the worst kind of thievery in the world.” Some think that because of the curse of Canaan Negroes were slaves; others because they were ignor ant and wicked. These people who voiced their opinion against slavery caused many a drousy person to wake up and reason with them. All over the United States people were lecturing against slavery. Anti-slavery atti tudes were developing quickly, even though the slave owners protested because of the large sums of money they had paid for slaves. American College of Surgeons Inducts 10 Negro Medics (Continued from page 1) medics were accepted, marking the first indication of a break down of the ACS’s jim crow mem bership policy. They were Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, gynoco logist at Sydenham and Harlem hospitals; Dr. Roscoe Giles, asso ciate surgeon, Provident hospital, Dr. Ulysses C. Dailey, associate surgeon, Provident hospital and Dr. Carl G. Roberts, associate sur geon, Privident hospital, all of Chicago. The 10 inducted Friday include six New York medics, namely Drs. Farrow B. Allen, associate surgeon, Harlem hospital; Chester Chinn, specialist, Harlem Ear and Eye hospital; Aubre de L May nard, associate surgeon, Harlem hospital; James C. Whitaker, as sociate surgeon, Harlem hospital; Russell Nelson, assistant profes sor of gynecology, N. Y. Medical college; and Ralph Young, visit ing surgeon, Harlem hospital. Those from Newark were Drs. A. E. Blythewood, visiting sur geon, Community hospital; C. E. Jones, visiting surgeon, Essex General hospital, East Orange; and Euclid Ghee, visiting surgeon, City hospital. Dr. Douglass Stubbs, chief of surgery, Douglas and Mercy hos pitals, Philadephia, was the 10th new Negro fellow of the Ameri can college of Surgeons. The 15 Negro members of ACS are con sidered to be only a small percent age of the total number of Negro surgeons who have passed the complex tests of surgery boards and are recognized as specialists. Negro surgeons demonstrated to 5,000 of the nation’s top white specialists last week here what they can do. Dr. M. M. Lambright Jr., one of the visiting surgeons of City hospital here, performed an “abdominoperineal resection” operation before their amazed eyes. A paper on “The Effect of Au tonomies Blockade on the Urinary Bladder in Man” was read by Dr. Martin Sutler, a former resident in surgery at Freedmen’s hospital in Washington, D. C., now on the staff of surgery of the University hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich. 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