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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1947)
THE VOICE A NEGRO WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Owner Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 5-6401 If no answer call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare Advertising & Business Manager Mrs. Joe Green Circulation Mgr. Member of the Assoc. Negro Press Subscription rate $2.00 per year 10c per copy Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. "Is The Negro Ready For What He Asks For" This question was put before us two weeks ago in a letter to “Our Editor.” It created in me an in terest to find the answers to your questions. On the whole we can stand a great number of improve ments. We do, however, lack leadership for our young people. The boy scouts which is sponsored by the Urban League is inactive because of this lack of leadership but I am glad to report to you that there are organized 4-H clubs including brownies, girl scouts, teen-agers, and y-teens but the overall response of our young people has been lax. Mothers and fathers, your clubs and organizations are needed to back these young people in their organizations. The community spirit has been -lacking. As you know, your leaders of tomorrow will come from these young men and women; and for the responsibilities you will hand them they need the training that these organizatoins can give them. Citizens of Lincoln, open your eyes to the above facts for the responsibility rests upon your shoulders. Joseph W. Adams _r\_ Flowers to the Living Since the first of the year Rev. R. E. Handy has followed a prac tice started by him several years ago of paying honor S' the mem bers of his congregation . He believes that people should be told, while they live, of the nice things they do, the affect their lives have upon others and of the importance of a life reflec ting sunshine and consistant Christian living. In an effort to do this, Rev. Handy takes one name from the list without know ing who it will be; he talks about 5 minutes about their lives and then dedicates a poem from his scrap book to them. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harris, So. 8 St.t were so honored Sunday morning, August 31. -o Illinois American Legion Elects First Negro Chaplain Springfield, 111. (ANP)—The Rev. Kelsey Johnson Siddall, a local minister, officially became last week the first Negro chaplain of the Department of Illinois of the American legion. The move to elect Rev. Siddall to the office started last year un der the leadership of Alonzo C. Mosely, commander of the Col. Otis B. Duncan Post, No. 809 and ended successfully during the re cent Chicago state American Le gion convention. Bilbo's Passing Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo admit ted that he fought Negroes as f matter of self-preservation. He knew that as long as he could keep Negroes down, his place was safe but that the day a million of Negroes and poor whites of Missi ssippi who are denied the vote ever had their day, at the polls, he would be finished. Some say he got what was com ing to him. We cannot rejoice at the suffering of any man, es pecially one stricken with the dread disease Cancer, but it does seem an act of Providence that he who was best known on the American scene for his bitter tongue should be stricken with cancer of the mouth. Bilbo was dead long before the actual end came . In spirit, power and influence. He died when he was barred from his Senate seat in January. Two Island papers commented as follows: * * * * Hawaii Comments on Bilbo's Passing By Hubert H. White Honolulu (ANP)—In the pass ing of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, Hawaii could not help but say something editorially about him. The eight inhabited islands of colorful Hawaiian archepelago practice racial intermarriages. People living here do not publicly condone racial prejudice and are not notoriously addicted to an cestor worship; therefore all a greed with the Honolulu Star Bulletin editorial, which said: “There will be few tears shed for Theodore G. Bilbo or the passing of the era which he repre- | sented. Bilbo made a political living for two score years by dealing in prejudice and hate. Lately, he had had to appeal to his denouncers outside of his na tive state of Mississippi for sup port—by claiming the “Yankees” and “outsiders” were trying to tell Mississippians what to do. By utilizing every trick of his trade—and he knew them all— Bilbo was able to keep going. Yet he was already on his way out. As in other southern states, the day of old time demogogue in Mississippi is spent. The Tom Heflins, the Gene Talmadges, the Huey Longs, the Bilbos are thru. The shallowness of their appeal is worn out. Slowly but surely intelligence is taking the place once held by bigotry and hate.” * * * * The other island paper—The Honolulu Advertiser—preached a sermon equal to the Star-Bulletin: “The death of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi removes from the American scene one of the last exponents of American dem ogoguery, a political school that is disappearing as America be comes more adult in its thinking. The few remaining demogogues are vestigial remnants of another era, with no useful place in the political life of the nation. Their practices and posturings have be come as objectionable to the bet ter element among their own con stituencies, as they are to the peo ple at large.” -o Beatrice Rev. and Mrs. A. Newton at tended the A.M.E. Annual Mis sionary Convention held Thurs day and Friday in Omaha. Miss Rosa Robinson, sister of Mrs. Newton, accompanied them to Omaha. They spent Saturday in Lincoln and motored to Grand Island for services on Sunday. Lee Harris, extreme right, is here being congratulated by Cedric Adams, celebrated northwest columnist and radio personality, for his winning performance on a recent broadcast of “Stairway to Stardom” over WCCO in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Harris sang “Or Man River” before a capacity audience of 10,000 who witnessed the special Minneapolis Aquatennial broadcast of the talent-hunt program in the Minneapolis auditorium. As prize for his perform ance, Harris was awarded a week’s paid engagement on “DeHaven’s Date,” popular week-day afternoon variety show on WCCO. Extreme left is announcer Frank Butler complimenting Eugene Yahn, whose piano playing on the same program won him a $50 Sears merchandising certificate. Lee Harris is the third Negro to win recognition on “Stairway to Stardom” since the first broadcast of the weekly program three months ago. The others are Dick Mayes, Minneapolis tenor; and Omar Dale Williams, piano-and-vocal boogie woogie sensation of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 'World View of Negro Question' Course at New School of Research New York (ANP)—A new course by Dr. Lawrence D. Rod dick and a group of eminent scholars, “The World View of the Negro Question,” will open at the New School here to run for 15 weeks. This is the first time a course of this kind has been given. The Negro problem is viewed in its world setting, both historically and in the light of the struggle for liberation of Negroid peoples throughout the world. -o Roland Hayes to Start Tour Boston (ANP)—Roland Hayes, renowned American singer, plans to begin his transcontinental tour in Washington about the middle of October. This year signalizes Mr. Hayes’ 30th season of suc cessful concerts. GOLD CUP BREAD LINCOLN BAKING CO. 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