The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, September 11, 1947, Page 3, Image 3

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    War Teaches African Youths
New Skills
Two African youths returned
home from the war to make good
are Emmanuel Oyadiran and Ade
wale Cole, both of Lagos, Ni
geria, British West Africa. Oy
adrian recently returned home
after 12 years in Manchester, Eng.,
where he attended the Manchester
School of Art to study sculpture.
He operates a lucrative business
of casting automobile number
plates, street and other signs.
Cole, who served with the West
African Air Corps, was a trained
carpenter before the war. He
studied British furniture design
ing while away and now manfac
tures furniture, employing six as
sistants.
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Teen Age Chatter
Asst. Ruby Lee Harper
Asst. Loretta McWilliams
When Fletcher Bell goes back
to Los Angeles, we will miss him,
but we hope the year will go fast
for him at the University of Cal.
Understand he has received an
offer to play football. Good work
Fletcher.
# After you have completed your
training under L. Williams, the
famous architect, you might plan
a few love nests for the “chicks”
who will be needing them here.
Norma Jean and Auline Al
britton of Kansas City, Missouri,
graced our city for a few days the
past week. They met only a few
teen agers, but we are anxious
for a return trip.
Norma Jean, a senior at R. T.
Cole Vocational Jr. High School,
is planning to be a professional
singer and does a good job at it
now. Auline is taking dancing
lessons and plans to be a teacher.
! They are cousins of Jeanne Mia
lone.
Beatrice and Tresa Motley of
Alliance, Nebraska, have been va
cationing in New York City. They
had lots to tell about the big city.
They spent several days here with
their uncle Mr. Lynn Motley and
Mrs. Motley.
4-H’ers made a lovely present
ation to Miss K. Thompson Tues
day evening at the reception at
the Urban League . Spec they
felt rather grown-up.
Numbers of girls were in Oma
ha on Sunday. Wonder what the
attraction was. Anything unusu
al?
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They were Robbie Powell and
Freddie Powell, Joyce Williams
and Ruby Harper.
* Iona Adams spent her usual
vacation in Iowa.
Millard “Mitz” Woods Jr. left
for Muskegon, Mich., on Saturday.
He is always so much a part of
things here, we hate to see him
leave.
How would you feel to have
the remark made of your family
“They are one of the most res
pected families in town?”
That is exactly what happened
at the close of the Blackbird ball
team series, after they won the
city championship.
The family lives in Weeping
Water, Nebr., and the comment
was passed by a deputy collector
of Internal Revenue. The girl
in question is Jane Molden who
has played pitcher on the team
for about 8 seasons. She is the
only colored girl on the team and
is given much of the credit for
the 15 victories of the 17 games
played.
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Fraternal Notes
Dt. Elks
Mary Sampson, Dgt. Ruler
Leona B. Motley, Sec’y
Miss Mary Sampson has re
turned from Philadelphia. She
reports the Elk Convention as an
Educational and enjoyable event.
All Dgt. Elks are asked to at
tend the next meeting, September
19, in the lounge at the Urban
League.
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Literary
The Arrow and the Song
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and
strong
That it can follow the flight of
song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to
end,
I found again in the heart of a
friend.
Henry W. Longfellow.
Our Children
By Mrs. W. B. Davis
C5P
Little by little the Nations of
the world, America amoug them,
are realizing the strength of the I
family is the strength of the na
tion. Studies are being made,
experiments tried, with the aim
of improving the quality of the
family, of easing some of its many
burdens. Since our American
ambition is to create as many
ideal families as possible, it
might be interesting to discover
just what the ideal family would
be. First of all it should be start
ed by a young father and mother
in their early twenties, physically
' and mentally sound, emotionally
stable, able and willing to give
their children the components of
a good home. The children of
this family will be spaced suffici
ently close together for the mother
to make childbearing her pri
mary occupation for an ardous
but limited time. Then with in
fant raising behind her she can
relax, in a manner of speaking,
and have the time to enjoy her
fruitfulness. The babies be born
so close together that the new one
depletes the mother not yet re
covered from* the effects of cre
ating the previous child. The
period of recovery will of course
differ with different women.
Children born fairly close together
enjoy one another and their
youthful parents as well. But the
parents, despite youthfulness,
must have sufficient capacity for
adjustment, so that marriage will
last and not collapse as does the
one in five which now ends in
divorce. This appears to be a
large order, perhaps too much to
ask of two young people who
would like to have their fling for
a few years before tying down to
a family. Nature with an eye
always to the perpetuation of the
species, wants them to set right
to the business of bearing babies.
The young woman in her twenties
faces less danger from high infant
and maternal mortality rates than
the older mother, providing of
the babies are not crowded too
close together. The young mother
is physically flexible, her muscles
are adaptable, her fertility at its
highest point and she is in every
way the best health risk. Chronic
illness tha tmay make child-bear
ing either difficult or impossible
later on occure least often in
young parents.
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Attention:
Playmate Club Members.
“Get the clipping habit.” A scrap
book of your life will be of great
interest.
Call it by any of these names:
“My Life”
“Going Places”
“Where I Began”
“From Now On”
“The Starting Point”
“Where Do I Go From Here”
“My Prize Possession”
“So I Will Know”
“So You May Know”
“My Proof To You”
“It Started Here”
Or any other name you may
choose. As soon as your note-1
book is selected and the first item
recorded—if only your name—
send a one-cent post card to “The
Voice” telling the name of your
book and when you started it.
It will be published.
Once a year we will have an
exhibit at the Urban League with
1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for the
best judged.
You do not have to live in the
city. You are, eligible to join the
club and start a scrap book no
matter where you live.
“Start today.” It’s lots of fun.
A “Voice” representative will
call from time to time and report
on your progress.
Who will be the first to start?
This week’s poem for you.
There was an old Woman who
lived in a shoe.
She had so many children she
didn’t know what to do;
She gave them some broth with
out any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly
and put them to bed.
Mother Goose.
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