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Volume 1, Number 24Lincoln 3, NebraskaMarch 21, 1947
Race Newsman Admitted To Press Galleries
T. T. McWilliams Sr.
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Rev. Trago T. McWilliams Sr.
received an appointment this
week as pastor of Christ Temple
Church (Holiness) 702 Oakland
Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The
appointment was made by Wm.
A. Washington, Presiding Bishop
of the Western Diocese.
Rev. and Mrs. McWilliams will
leave Lincoln about April 1, 1947.
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GEORGIA
fr ATLANTA. (AP). The state
supreme court in a 5 to 2 decision
Wednesday held that M. E.
Thompson is Georgia’s governor
and that Herman Talmadge’s
election by the legislature was
illegal.
Talmadge, yvho assumed office
with the backing of national
guard officers and state troopers,
announced that he would vacate
both the executive office and the
mansion “as soon as we can get
the files out and our personal
effects packed.” Thompson will
serve until January, 1949.
TALMADGE SAID in a state
ment to newsmen that he con
sidered the people the court of
last resort in political questions,
and said the question “will be
* carried to the court of last re
sort.” He did not elaborate
further on the statement.
Talmadge said he would not
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"BI FOCAL VISION IN
RACE RELATIONS"
Theme for Woman's Society of
Christian Service
Race relations is one of the
greatest ethical issues today and
the tempo of bridging the gap
between the democratic ideals
and the practices of the Ameri
can people needs to be increased,
Mrs. Rubie Shakespeare, Editor
of The VOICE, told members of
the Women Society, Wednesday
afternoon at the St. Paul Meth
odist church.
“We should spend most of our
energy in the elimination of dis
crimination and less in trying to
argue people out of their preju
dices,,” she stated. She urged
that her listeners follow the ex
ample of “the great Humani
tarian”-Jesus Christ—in ex
emplifying in every day living
the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man.
The church should exert its full
influence in the eradication of
racial segregation and discrimina
tion and to fight against what
ever “implies for any group a
’ghetto pattern’ of living,” she
stated. “If the church *is to re
main the champion of human
rights,” Mrs. Shakespeare ex
plained, “it must take immediate
steps to eliminate all racial seg
regation and discrimination.”
She asserted that “there comes
from every quarter evidence
that the Christian church is be
coming ashamed of itself and of
the too often passive roles it has
played in the realms of race rela
tion.”
Mrs. Izetta Malone gave high
lights of the book “Portrait of a
Pilgrim” by Buell G. Gallagher.
Dr. Aaron McMillian, missionary
to West Africa, also spoke of his
work and about the positive side
of race relations.
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What is a culture? It is a care
ful Knowledge of the Past out
of which the group as such has
emerged: in our case a know
ledge of African history and
social development—one of the
richest and most intriguing which
the world has known
GOOLSBY CITES
GOALS OF SOCIAL
ACTION COUNCIL
Charles Goolsby, University
student? and member of the Lin
coln social action council, spoke
to the members of the Y.M.C.A.
men’s club Tuesday night.
GOOLSBY OUTLINED the
work of the council in trying to
promote the welfare of minority
groups in Lincoln. He described
the work of the council as “an
honest attempt by citizens to
make democracy work.”
“Employment and housing are
the serious problems of the mi
norities in Lincoln,” he empha
sized. One of the council’s ob
jectives in this regard, he ex
plained, is to impress on the busi
ness men of the city, the produc
tivity of hiring skilled members
of minority groups rather than
letting this manpower pool go to
waste.
AT THE PRESENT time, Gools
by elaborated, the council in con
ducting a survey of business and
the employment of minority
groups in an effort to effect an
Improvement.—Lincoln Journal
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Veterans Administration
Press Release
Ashley Westmoreland, Veterans
Administration Regional Office
Manager at Lincoln, urged vet
erans in this vicinity not to
write, wire or telephone to Kan
sas City if their subsistence
checks are delayed.
“Through some misunderstand
ing,” he said, “a considerable
number of Nebraska veterans
have concluded that the Veterans
Administration office in Kansas
City has something to do with
the issuance of their subsistence
checks. This conclusion is with
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WASHINGTON—In an unpre
cedented move here Friday, the
excutive committee of the Peri
odical Correspondents Associa
tion voted unamously to grant
membership in the Senate and
House Press Galleries to P. L.
Prattis, nationally-known news
paper man, as the Washington
representative of “Our World”
magazine. Mr. Prattis is also the
executive editor of the Pittsburgh
Courier.
The approval of Mr. Prattis
marks the first time in the his
tory of the association that a
Negro magazine or newspaper
writer has been given the privi
lege of sitting in the select Con
gressional galleries reserved for
periodical representatives.
Meanwhile protests to Capitol
Hill against the barring of Louis
Lautier, a Negro newspaper cor
respondent, from Congressional
press galleries, brought action
from Senator C. Way land Brooks
(R., 111.) chairman of the power
ful Senate Rules Committee.
The Senator from Illinois called
for a meeting of his full commit
tee this week to consider the mat
ter, after the NAACP and several
white dailies had spoken against
the action of the Press Correspon
i dents Association, in denying Lau
tier admission.
The local branch of the NAACP
sent a strongly worded telegram
to House Speaker Joseph W. Mar
tin Jr. and Senator Brooks, ask
ing them to see that Negro re
porters are admitted to the gal
leries.
Commenting on Lautier’s re
jection, the Washington Post de
clared: “The present rule denies
these newspapers (Negro papers)
any representation in the galleries
and thus makes extremely diffi
cult for them the ‘courageous,
constructive reporting* for which
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