Pvt. Gerald Russell Davis who has been stationed at Ft. Ben ning, Georgia for the past 10 mo. was discharged recently. He plans to continue his education. Pvt. Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Davis. Mr. Lynnwood Parker has had many speaking engagements dur ing Race Relations Week. Sunday he spoke at Seward to an audi ence of more than 250. Mr. Chas. Washington spent ^Wednesday in Omaha. Mr. John Cacon of Clinton will join his wife and family here Sat urday. They are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Tarpley. Mrs. Brevy Lilly and Mr. John Miller will be dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Kelley on Saturday evening. Mrs. Wm. B. Davis, and son, Tommie left Thursday morning | for Omaha where they were call ed because of the illness of Mrs. Davis’ mother. • The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kimbrough is a pa 6 tient at St. Elizabeth Hospital . Mrs. Maude Johnson spent the week end in Omaha on business. She was accompanied by her son Donovan Gettis. Mrs. Mary Lois Pierce with her mother, Mrs, Eleanor Emory, Seattle, Washington, who stopped here for her daughter, left Mon day night for Marshall, Mo., to bury her grandfather, Mrs. James Smith. The 400 Club met at the home * Douglass's "Birthday" As a boy held in bondage on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Fred erick Douglass had a hard time trying to keep comfortable in the scant clothing allowed him and scrambling with the dogs for the crumbs and scraps thrown from the planter’s table. He was beaten and driven around by those set over him and therefore knew very little about what free people call happiness. In this miserable condition he had one joy occasionally. His dear mother held on a plantation miles away would steal away from her cabin at night to visit her child and bring him comfort of the presence of the only one in this world who really loved him. After fondling and caress ing him as only a mother can, she would hold him on her lap within her comforting arms while he quickly ate the nice things she had brought him. Her dear child in tears of joy and sorrow would tell her about the cruel things which had been done to him, and she would try to console him with the hope that some day his lot would be better. This was her daily prayer to God. She did not live to see the new day dawn, but Douglass broke the bonds which held him and became the great man to lead the right way to free all his people. When Douglass became a na tional figure, and people wanted to write and talk about him, they desired to begin their story with the date of his birth, but Douglass did not know when he was born. In those days no one kept accurate records of colored people’s birth days. But Douglass wanted to be remembered and he selected the day when the public might turn its thoughts toward him. Because of the loving kindness of his dear mother he always said that he was her valentine, and he selected Valentine Day, the 14th of Febr uary, as his “birthday.” -o TRAFFIC SAFETY Careless drivers are often earless. Driving (?) off the road rates second to collisions as cause of accident. When one lone car runs into a bridge how can we alibi? Patronize Our Advertisers v v t-v v v vr^"rv vf ^ »1^' ^*rv ^ v I I f PRESTON CRE0IT JEWELERS