THE % VOICE
I Volume 1. Number 26 Lincoln 3, NebraskaApril 4, 1947
I Primary Bill Killed by Georgia’s Governor
BARNETTS TO VISIT LIBERIA
Chicago (ANP) Claude A. Bar
nett, director of the Associated
Negro Press, accompanied by
f[rs. Barnett, leave New York
ity this week by plane for
Liberia. Mr. Barnett, who is a
trustee of the Booker T. Washing
ton institute, a vocational school
at Kakata, Liberia, is making a
business visit to that institution
They were to fly to England on
a British Overseas Air Company
plane, then fly to Freetown,
Sierra Leone, West Africa, and
thence to Liberia by boat.
While in Africa, Mr. and Mrs.
Barnett will visit also the princi
pal cities in Sierra Leone, The
Gold Coast, the French Ivory
Coast and Nigeria. They expect
to remain about three months,
travelling 12,000 miles and re
turning by way of London and
Paris, wljere they will join their
daughter. Etta Vee Barnett, who
is engaged in Red Cross work in
Germany.
Because of the rapidly rising
interest on the part of American
Negroes in Africa and vice-versa,
Mr. Barnett will visit newspapers
in the area and arrange for more
effective coverage of news of
interest to Negro reade^in the
United States. He p<MPts out
that Accra in the Gold Coast
maintains two daily newspapers
operated by Africans, while in
Nigeria there are six dailies,
several of which are members of
a chain.
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EASTER SINGFEST
Climaxing the Easter season
will be an all-community sing
fest at St. Paul Methodist Church
Sunday evening, 8 to 9 o’clock,
under auspices of the Lincoln
Ministeried association and the
Women’s Division of the Chamber
of Commerce. Mrs. Ellen Eurtz
Jacobson will direct the Union
College a cappella choir of 60
voices in Easter anthems. The
brief meditation will be given by
Rev. F. F. Gross of Calvary
Evangelical Church, and Rev.
Ronald Dickson of the Vine Con
gregational Church will preside.
Boy Scouts will serve as ushers,
gand Rev. Harold Bryant will lead
^community singing of familiar
hymns. Everyone is invited to
attend this interdenominational
singfest and service.
AA G/filenJi
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/~\H, rare as the splendor of lilies,
^ And sweet as the violet’s breath,
Comes the jubilant morning of Easter,
The triumph of Life over Dfeath;
And fresh from the earth’s quickened* bosom
Full baskets of flowers we bring,
And scatter their satin soft petals
To carpet a path for our King.
In the countless green blades of the meadow.
The sheen of the daffodil’s gold,
In the tremulous blue on the mountains,
The opaline mist on the wold,
Y] ) 1° the tinkle of brooks through the pasture,
I j The river’s strong sweep to the sea,
A'''// Are signs of the day that is hasting
/ A In gladness to you and to me!
/ its Oh, dawn in thy splendor of lilies.
Thy fluttering violet breath,
v /j AS) Oh, jubilant morning of Easter,
JY J Thou triumph of Life over Death!
/ /J Then fresh from the earth’s quickened bosom
// Full baskets of flowers we bring,
// And scatter their satin soft petals
HV/ To carpet a path for our King!
—Margaret E. Sangster
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Talmadge Says " I Knew It";
Two Anti-Labor Measures to
Get Nod
Atlanta (ANP) The Talmadge
sponsored white primary bill got
the "thumbs down" treatment
from Georgia’s legal governor,
M. E. Thompson here Thursday.
The veto, given without comment
returned the legislation to
Thompson’s political enemy, Her
man Talmadge, who had pushed
the measure through as a law
during his illegal reign.
The bill provided that Negroes
would be barred from participa
tion in Georgia’s Democratic pri
maries, and was supported by
the Democratic State Conven
tion last October, before the death
of the late Eugene Talmadge.
The ousted would-be governor
commented on this action by
saying, “I knew Thompson would
veto the bill.. He wrote a book
several years ago opposing the
white primary then. I knew it
was my duty to be a candidate
for governor because I knew
what his views were.”
However, things are not as
rosy as they would seem in
Georgia with the vetoing of the
white primary measure. Gov.
Thompson announced that he
would attack labor interests with
in the state by signing two anti
labor bills backed by the Georgia
Farm Bureau federation. These
measures outlaw the closed shop,
mass picketing and involuntary
check-off of union dues. Both
had been signed by Talmadge
during his reign.
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Most of the Negro newspapers
are weeklies, the one exception
being the Atlanta Daily World.
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Hear The Souihemaires
TO ADDRESS ATHLETIC CLUB
Mr. Lynnwood Parker, student
at Nebraska University, will ad
dress the Omaha Athletic Club
Sunday, April 6 and receive an
honorary membership along with
Mr. John Butler, Executive Sec
retary of the New North Side
Y.M.C.A. and Mr. Marten Thomas
athletic director of the Omaha,
Urban League.
Mr. Parker will speak on “A
Program for Minorities.”
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