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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1947)
% -Vvf , - " * » * O 1 . ... " ■ Demc d To Jim Crow Schools Tom Carodine Elected Mayor Of Boys Town Tom Carodine, an outstanding student and athlete, was recently elected mayor of Boys Town. Tom has won letters in football, bas ketball, baseball and track and is a member of the famous Boys | Town choir and a student of the piano. When Carodine completes his high school education in June he plans to attend college to study medicine. Boys Town was first opened jgfr by Father Flanagan thirty ye-—s ; ego as a home for the homeless and neglected boys of all races, and he has continually held that there are no bad boys. One unique feature of the “City of Little men” is the self government program under which the boys conduct their own administration. The Labor View Walcott’s Defeat a Lesson to Negro Labor. Now that the fuss over the un successful efforts of Joe Walcott to lift Joe Louis’ crown off his ^ head has quieted down somewhat, it is possible for Negro labor to m draw some pretty valuable con clusions, whether Walcott’s labors wei;e fairly rewarded by the judg es is completely beside the point— so far as the lesson to Negro labor is concerned. The lesson to labor is this: Vic tory which seems certain can be lost by failure to stand up and fight to the very end of the strug gle. Negro labor has lost many sure victories against discrimina tion in numerous local unions in the CIO and in the AFL by failure to fight to the finish after success in the first few rounds of the fight. 0 These first successes usually end ™ with the adoption of a resolution or a clause against discrimination or with the appointment of a Negro to “give our colored broth ers some representation in the official family.” What happens after these suc cesses in the opening rounds and after discrimination has been down for a count of even and is virtually hanging on the ropes? Why, Negro workers and their friends start back-pedaling and running around the ring only to discover to their complete sur prise when the fight is over that discrimination is as strong as ever They start this retreat or engage ment in this inactivity because IP certain people get tired of the race issue or because it becomes necessary to get down to specific cases of discrimination. This tendency to take it easy is j defeating the program of nearly every anti-discrimination commit tee in the CIO. They have not realized that discrimination is a long established champion who has beaten many good men and who can be beaten only by men willing to step in and slug it out with him to the bitter end. Other wise the anti-discrimination chal lengers will wind up on the short < end o/ the battle like Brother Joe Walcott. As for Joe Louis, he should re tire, that is, ma'iy of his friends would like to see him retire. He, Miss Barbara Kelley home for the holidays from Langs ton university entertained a num ber of her friends Thursday eve ning. Miss Kelley will be grad uated in June. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jewell R Kelley, 2641 So. 9th. of course, has the right to manage his life as he pleases but it would be most painful to him and to his millions of admirers to have him hang around long enough to be come a bum—to see a once great champion stretched out on the canvas at the feet of the sorry collection of bums who today call themselves prizefighters. ANP. Bishop Gets 4A’ Rating MARSHALL, Texas. (ANP). In a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Southern Asso ciation of Colleges and Secondary schools “Bishop college was raised from an approved school, Class B, to Class A,” according to a letter received Wednesday by President Joseph J. Rhoads from Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, Raleigh, N. C., secretary of the association’s com mittee on the accreditation of col leges. Dr. Highsmith stated that “Bishop has made real progress” and deserves “recognition as a Class A institution.” Immediately following receipt of Dr. Highsmith’s letter, Dr. W. R. White, Austin, chairman of Bish op’s board of trustees, announced that the board had given formal authorization to the administra tion to strengthen Bishop’s faculty and library facilities for graduate studies leading to the degree of master of education. The board’s action was retroactive to June 1, 1947, thus making possible grad uate credit for the workshop that was conducted by Bishop for 161 Dallas Negro elementary teachers last summer, President Rhoads stated. We Moderns Holds Election of Officers The We Moderns held election of officers at the home of Mrs. Agenese Adams. The officers were: Mrs. Verta Finley, Presi dent; Mrs. Mary Sampson, vice president and reporter, Mrs. A. Adams, secretary; Mrs. Betty Lintz, treasurer. Mrs. Bessie Am bers is a new member. The Car ver Home will be presented with a luxury basket at Christmas. A lovely snack was served by the hostess. The Voice “Advertisers” are making this publication possible —show th-m your appreciation by your patronage. Will You Be One of 15? Holiday Traffic Toll Expectancy Told Lincoln. (UP). Fifteen Nebras kans will be killed in traffic acci dents during the coming holiday season if the current trend con tinues, the State Safety Patrol re ported Thursday, g The announcement followed a statement by Gov. Val Peterson, who called for Nebrpskans to “join forces” with the safety council and the highway patrol* in conducting a campaign to stop accidents dur ing the season. “The effort to reduce the num ber of accidents which may mar Christmas happiness in so many of our homes can be successful if everyone of our citizens will ac cept his individual responsibility.” Governor Peterson said. “The little extra forethought, extra common sense, and extra courtesy that it takes to make a safe holiday for one person can readily snowball into an accident free Christmas celeLration for all.” From December 20 of last year to January 2 there were 12 fatal car accidents, E. P. Tinker, jr., council secretary, said. On the basis of the 23 per cent increase in fatalities this year, three more will be killed this season. World Herald. Daughter Elk Holds Two-Fold Party The Daughter Elks held their birthday-Cnristmas party De cember 20 at the home of Daughter Leona Dean. Those hav ing birthdays are: Mrs. Mattie Botts, Mrs. Leona Motley, Mrs. Leona Dean, Mrs. Lucille Wright, Mrs. Mary Scott. CORINNE FERGUSON ADAMS nr.i~ ri r ni fin ,t 11 ? 1* m unrnni innnr n ah i him —■ni—iiiiim—i ■iiihiiih n iimililiil limi mir i iff rrir~~""~ i i#l « Society editor of the LOS ANGELES SENTINEL, will spend her Christmas holidays in Chicago as the guest of her sister and broth er-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Peters. A former resident of Lin coln, the California society editor atte^ed the University of Ne braska. She is a member of D?lta Sigma T’ -o-^rity. Linrolnites will remember her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Ferguson. President’s Committe Says Higher Education Should Be Re-Examined WASHINGTON. (ANP). President Truman was re minded Monday in a report of his Commission of Higher education that the curriculum, administration and organi zation of the present system of higher education in this country should be critically re-examined at this time and Si. John’s Day Banquet To Mark Beginning of Masonic Porgrain With the announcement of a St. John’s Day banquet Saturday, December 27 by Lebanon Lodge No. 3 A. F. & A. M. to be given i il. - T : TTMUnM Y AMMt.A HI tilt: JUllltUlll KJ 1 kJ CXI I uc«5tic came the announcement of a full year’s program by the lodge in which it hopes to become better acquainted with the community and its problems, it was revealed by Worshipful Master, Jewell R Kelley. The organization plans to visit every church as well as to con cern itself with other character building institution, and to lend assistance. B. T. McDaniels Elected State Overseer for Church of God in Christ B. T. McDaniels was assigned State Overseer for the Church of God in Christ during their annual Convocation held in Memphis, Tenn., the first two weeks of De cember. The Rev. Mr. McDaniels is the founder of the church located at 20th and U streets, a pastorate he has filled for the past six years. Members of the church ex pressed their delight and enthu siasm at the announcement of this appointment. He has a wife and two children and owns his home at 2006 You St. altered to meet today’s crisis, for example the commission point ed out that “marked as has been the progress in Negro education in recent years, it cannot obscure the very great difference which still persist in educational oppor tunities afforded the Negro and the non-Negro. “The district’s superintendent of schools in his 1946-47 report to the board of education states that the student-teacher ratio in the schools for Negroes were sig nificantly and consistently higher than those for non-Negroes from kindergartens through the teach er’s colleges.” Speaking of segregation as a national problem, the report pointed out that schools main tained solely for Negroes are com monly much inferior to those for whites. Because Negi'o schools are financed at a lower level than those of whites, they result in inadequate housing and poor library facilities, if any at all. Teachers are sometimes in need of more education, and profes sional supervision is more a name than a reality. In accepting the 103-page re port released by the 28-man committee, the president urged all citizens to examine it care fully as he expects to do. It was because of the tremen dous responsibilities now con fronting the higher education in our nation; and the burden now placed upon our colleges and universities because of the great over-crowded conditions and a shortage of teachers, that the president asked this commission to make this study and report it to him and the nation. “A carefully developed program to strengthen higher education, taken together with a program for the support of elementary and secondary education, will inevi tably strengthen our nation and enrich the lives of our citizens,’* the president said. The Importance Of Books By Mrs. W. B. Bavin. The days of December bring us every year to two lovely festival lights, the Christian Christmas and the Jewish Hanukah. Of these two religious holidays, Hanukah is the older of the two by several centuries. While it is a movable festival, it always falls near Christmas. The Story of Christmas centers about the birth of Jesus of Na zareth as related by the evangel ists, Luke and Matthew. Less * known to many of us is the story of the Jewish festival Hanukah which is told in the two books of Maccabees that form the last four teen biblical books known as the Apochrypha, which is included in certain editions of the Bible. Once again in all its abundance the autumn out of books for child ren is spread before us. No one reader, parent or critic could pos sibly assimilate in a few weeks the sum and substance of the vast variety of volumes. Give them books and give them knowledge. If they can’t read, read to thett.