I VOICE
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Volume 1. Number 51 Lincoln 3, Nebraska___ Septf 25, 1947
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Attention Independent
Soft Ball Team
I want you to know that I am
proud of you as an organization.
I want you to know that I ap
preciate your loyalty, sincerity,
and devotion to duty. The orga
nization was a grand success as
a result of the interest which you
have shown. Let us not stop but
continue with the same enthusi
asm. And even though we may
g not all be Jackie Robinsons we
can be a credit to the community
in which we live. To make it
short I’ll just say thank you for
being a swell bunch of regular
fellows.” ' *
Your manager,
Shorty Botts.
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Union Meeting
The Interdenominational Union
Meeting at the Church of God in
Christ, 20th and U Streets, Sun
day, Sept. 28, at 2:30 p.m.
Rev. A. G. Drane, guest speak
er. Rev. B. T. McDaniel, host
* minister; Rev. G. W. Harper,
President.
'Opportunity' Anniversary
Features Editors
New York, N. Y.—Twenty-five
years of publishing OPPOR
TUNITY, official organ of the
National Urban League, 1133
Broadway will be marked with
a special commemorative issue to
appear on newsstands through
out the country on September 29.
Leading features in the Twen
ty-fifth Anniversary Issue of the
Magazine include current editor
ials by Charles S. Johnson and
Elmer A. Carter, first and second
Editors, respectively, of the Jour
nal of interracial opinion.
Dr. Johnston, who held his po
sition with the Magazine from
1923 to 1928, is now President of
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Carter served as Editor of
OPPORTUNITY from 1928 to
1942. He is a member of the
New York State Commission
Against Discrimination.
With attractive page designs
throughout, OPPORTUNITY pre
sents a brief history of its own
birth under the title “How It
Began.” Not only does this his
torical feature include fragments
from the first editorials written
by Dr. Johnson and Eugene
Kinckle Jones, General Secretary
of the National Urban League,
but the cover of Volume I, Num
ber I, is reproduced. A “then
and now,” human interest des
cription of the children pictured
on the cover adds warmth and
appeal to the Magazine’s start
toward its present national and
international prestige.
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PLAYMATE CLUB—BOOKS STARTED
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Rodney Stevens, 8*6 mos., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Molden,
1966 U. Rodney’s scrapbook: “The
Magic Mirror.” Motto, “I have
only to open the cover to see a
reflection of myself.”
Patricia Annetta, 9 xk mos.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Jackson, 2211 R. Patricia’s scrap
book: “From Me To You.”
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What's Doing In Alliance
By Beatrice Motley
Mrs. Kenneth Hampton of Den
ver, Colorado has returned to
Denver after an extended visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Viney Jackson.
Mrs. Viney Wilkinson gave a
farewell party in honor of her
sister, Mrs. Kenneth Hampton of
Denver. It was reported a great
success.
Mrs. Rudolph Ealy and sons,
Robert and Billy, have returned
to Alliance after a short visit
of friends and relatives in Brook
field, Missouri.
STORY OF THE WEEK
One day, many years ago, a
young woman in LirPcoln, Nebras
ka, raced down the street violent
ly waving an umbrella, and fell
panting and gasping upon the
rear platform of a streetcar.
“Well/* she remarked, when
finally she regained her breath,
“here’s one member of our family
who can get what she runs for.”
At this sally most of the pas
sengers laughed uproariously, for
they recognized the speaker as
Ruth Bryan, daughter of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan, who thrice
had run unsuccessfully for the
presidency of the United States.
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Every year of my life I grow
more convinced that it is wisest
and best to fix our attention on
the beautiful and good, and dwell
as little as possible on the evil
and the false. —Cecil.
Services at the Mi.
Zion Baptist Church
By Doris Powell
Rev. Favors delivered a very
interesting sermon, “Stewardship
of the Gospel.”
Persons united with the church
at the morning service were: Mrs.
J. M. Jackson, St. Paul Baptist
Church, Ennis, Texas, by chris
Lincoln, Candidate for baptism;
tian experience; Albert Stark,
and Rooseevelt Bass, Lincoln,
Candidate for baptism.
Visitors were Miss Theodora
Berry from Hawkins, Texas; Miss
Bennie F. Griggsby from Huston,
Texas; and Mr. Otis Brown of
Memphis, Tennessee.
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URBAN LEAGUE NEWS
Merry Cookers’ Club mem
bership campaign to begin
Friday, Sept. 26.
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Washington Coin Drive
ENDORSED BY 1st NATIONAL
The Booker T. Washington
commemorative half dollars, that
are to be sold at a premium for
the purpose of furthering the pro
gram of the Booker T. Washing
ton Birthplace Memorial, Inc., of
Rocky Mount, Virginia, are now
on sale at the First National
Bank, Lincoln. We are informed
coins minted at Philadelphia and
San Francisco will be sold for
$1.00 and those minted at Denver
will be sold for $1.50.
The success of this campaign
will produce a fitting memorial
to Booker T. Washington in that
is contemplates the establishment
of a training school for Negro
youth at his birthplace in Frank
lin County, Va., I hope the people
of Lincoln will support this cam
paign enthusiastically.
A total of 1,700,000 of the Book
er T. Washington half-dollars
were minted, 107,000 at the Den
ver mint, which sell for $1.50,
and 665,500 at the Philadelphia
and San Francisco mints which
retail for $1.00.
“Let us commemorate the life
and perpetuate the ideals and
teachings of Booker T. Washing
ton, a great American—”
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Mr. George Randol was guest
soloist at Quinn Chapel A. M. E.
Church Sunday morning.
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Miss Jane May, of Fails City,
Nebraska, graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska is the house
guest of Miss Belva Spicer. Miss
May is doing special work at the
university this fall.
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Mr. M. T. Woods left last week
for his work in Muskegon, Mich.,
after spending an extended vaca
tion with his mother, Mrs. Eliza
beth Woods and other relatives.
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Rev. L. S. Goolsby, Presiding
Elder of the Omaha District of
the Nebraska Conference of the
A. M. E. Church, was a guest at
the annual conference of the Col
orado District which met in Den
ver, Colorado the week of Sep
turned on Saturday to hold his
tember 14. Rev. Goolsby re
Fourth Quarterly Conferences in
Hastings and Grand Island, Ne
braska.
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In Appreciation
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rodgers
are taking this means to express
their heart-felt gratitude and sin
cere appreciation for the beauti
ful gifts presented for their wed
ding.
