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Tib® W®m(& Published 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 „ „ 5 6491 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare Advertising <S Business Manager Roberta Molden Associate Editor 1966 U Street 2-140/ Mrs. Joe Green Circulation Mgr. Member oi the Associated Negro Press Subscription rate $2.00 per year 10c per copy_ Enter eclair Second Class Matter. June 9 1947 at the Post Olfice at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879. __ Truman Speaks of ‘Human Rights’’ WASHINGTON. (ANP). In his “State of the Union” message to a joint session of the house and senate Wednesday, President Tru man urged that vast legislative body to concentrate its attention upon the things which bind us together in this country and for “comon aspirations for the fu ture welfare and security of the people in the United States.” His first plea was for a greater consideration of human rights. He urged the nation to regard the four freedoms, and emphasized the necessity of every citizen to have the right to vote. He spoke out against discrimination, and favored equal protection under the law for all citizens. He pointed out the need for equal educational opportunities, for job security and for the eco nomic advancement of all citizens. An adequate national health pro gram was recommended by the chief executive, a more beneficial social security program, more adequate housing, extension of rent control, and a successful veterans’ program. Proper use of our national resources and a workable farm program^ were also suggested. In elaborating on his domestic policy the President said, “Relig- j ious freedom, free speech and freedom of thought are cherished realities in our land. Any denial of human rights is a denial of the basic beliefs of democracy ar^d our regard for the worth of every individual. “Today, however, some of our citizens are still denied equal op portunity for education, for jobs and economic advancement, and for the expression of their views at the polls. Most serious of all, some are denied equal protection under our laws. Whether dis crimination is based on race, or creed, or 'color, or land of origin, it is utterly contrary to Ameri can ideals of democracy.” | JCetters to the Sc/ttor j Want to thank you for sending your paper to us. We enjoy read ing it so please find enclosed $2.00 for your new subscriber. Winniefred Newton Dear Editor: I must say that I am sorry that the Moldens are not included in the contest. They would certain ly be my choice for the couple of the year. They seem so at piece and contented with each other at all times. They seem always in harmony and in ac cord with wishes and desires. I am sending in my vote for another couple whom I admire very much but I simply thought these two young people were so outstanding that they do deserve to be mentioned, J. M. Jackson Lest We Forget By Basilia Bell. Do you remember those days long ago when you were a care free child running and playing with not a care, not a worry? You took no thought of what tomorrow would bring. Just happy and free? Remember when you broke your toy and you had confidence that % either mother or dad could fix it or buy another if it were be yond repair? Those were the sweet days. Remember the day you stuck a nail in your foot, and another I time when you were tryijig to use the hammer and nails as the older ones did, you smashed your finger? Oh, yes, mother could fix Jhat too Remember how, while playing in the mud or making pies or walking in the mud and the sticky mud ozzing up between your toes. Oh that was fun. Then in the evening around the old heater or fire place was the story hour. Mother had time then to sit down with you and read or tell you a story. The whole family gathered around and sometimes a story of mother’s experience was told. How you marveled at the things she had to do .the conditions un der which she had to live. Then sometime a game or two was en joyed by all. This is the time when the idea of fair play was taught. There was no cheating, no fool ing, all pure clean fun; everyone rejoicing with the winner as well as^with rejoicing when you lost. Then at the curfew hour the beds were turned down and each little prayer was heard. Each asking in his own simple way for the things his own little heart desired most. And so often ending with “God keep me through the night.” God Bless mama, daddy, brothers and sisters and everybody. Have you gone so far from that bed side prayer that you don’t ask any more or do you ask half hearted, believing that maybe you will receive? When conditions around you are all wrong and you have tried with all your might to set them right why not remember how He heard so many nights and kept you. Today too much is taken for granted you are being kept yet by His hand and you fail to see or realize or to thank him. The rain falls on the just as well as the unjust but there will be a day when the sun won’t shine on your side of the fence. The rain will fall on your neighbor and pass you by. So let’s go back to the old land mark where we learned to trust and pary the simple way of “Lord Keep me.” or Lord Help me.” Not my brother or my neigh bor but Lord save me. deliver me.” Let’s go back to believing that God does hear and answer the prayer of the righteous For he said, “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, Pray, turn from their wicked %ays then will I hear from heaven. Then the load will be lifted all things will be righted and you can be like that little child happy, free and go along your way singing with joy in your hea/t. 300 Hear Dorie Miller's Mother at Memorial PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). Near ly 300 persons filed into Turner hall Sunday to observe Dorie Mil ler services, which were sponsored by Colonial Knights club. Mrs. Henrietta Miller, mother of the dead hero who as a mess at tendant third lcass aboard the Battleship Arizona at the time of the infamous sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, downed four Japanese planes, journeyed from he Waco, Tex., home and appeared as the guest speaker. The Sports Front By Howard “Smoky** Moiden GIL DOBY, member of the Cleveland baseball club of the American league, is now a mem ber of the all-white (savo for him) Paterson Basketball club of the ABL (American Basketball league) . . . Signed to a Harlem club at a time when its members felt the Doby name would pack in hundreds of court-loving fans from the brown belt area of New York, the Jersey money bags have snatched Doby like a brand from the burning from the ranks of the underpaid, to become a high-priced courteer'in so-called fast company. * * * KID GAVILAN, sturdy Cuban welterweight contender for Ray Robinson’s crown, signed to meet tough GENE BURTON, New York entrant in the 147-pound sweep stacks, for a 10-round contest that will be held on Jan. 12 at the St. Nicholas aren^ . . . Burton, unbeaten thruout 1947, was good enough to whip poker-faced IKE WILLIAMS, world’s lightweight monarch, in a non-title affair and soundly thrashed highly touted BERNIE DOCUSEN, Louisiana boxing-cutey. * * * LLOYD MARSHALL was stricken with virus-pneumonia forcing him to again cancel his Jan. 9 date with the brownskin southpaw toughie, BERT LYTELL. also from the coast, in what Was to have been the Madison Square Garden semi-windup attraction to Olle Tandberg and Joe Maxim. * * * Joe Louis, tells newsman: “My arm has been feeling pins and needles since the Jersey Walcott fight. Could it be neuritis?” The Returns Of the Contest Be sure and send in your votes or your candidates. Best Dressed Woman Mrs. Mary Green Mrs. Agnese Adams Mrs. B. McDaniels Best Dressed Man Mr. Eddie Keys Mr. Herschel Burden Mr. Gilbert Hubbard, jr. Couple of the Year Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peterson Rev. and Mrs. Trago McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Lewis All American Boy Richard Holcomb Albert Bowen Billy Rutherford Miss “Voice” of 1947 Joyce Williams „ Betty Wilson Jeanno Malone PROTECT YOUR CAR WITH O'Shea-Rogers Motor Company 14 & M 2-6853 Dark Merit By Kathryne Favors Dear Readers: Often I like to deviate from the regular chronological order of Negro history to bring you other information which I find from time to time. Following is a quotation from Booker T. Washington’s book, “The Story of the Negro:” *When the average European or American white man thinks or writes of the Negroes ho considers them as one race and attributes to them certain traits which are supposed to be equally common to all groups and to all localities. This is a mistaken view and may be likened to an attempt to class all of J^he Aryan peoples as \a homogeneous race, having com mon features and traits. In fact the Negroes of the world, just as the Aryans, are scattered over a great area, live in different en vironments and have varied and opposite mental and physical pe culiarities. Indeed, the Negro races of the world differ from each other even more widely than the different branches of the Aryan stock. In Africa, for ex ample, the Negroes are distributed over the territory of much great extent and of greater physical di versity than is true of the Aryan races of Europe. They also differ more than Aryan races in general appearance, in stature, physiog nomy, and mental and moral con stitution. Hence, to speak of all Negroes in Africa as one race, having common characteristics, is as misleading and is an unscien tific as if we should consider all Europeans and Americans as of one race, and attribute to all of them the same traits.” Following is a list of a few of the materials which the white man gave to some of the black men of Africa for African slaves: French brandy Men’s shirts or rum Dutch knives Iron bars Coarse laces Brass kettles Crystal beads Earthen cans Olive oil Glass buttons Red cotton Brass rings or Narrow bands bracelets of silk Gunpowder Axes Old sheets Chintz Red caps I have believed the best of every man, And find that to believe it is enough. To make a bad man show him at his best, Or even a good (man swing his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats “Be Kind to Your Clothes” PEERLESS CLEANERS 322 So. 11 Geo. H. 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The following persons were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson on Saturday December 21: Mistresses Willoby and Taylor of Dallas, Mrs. Ruby Taylor of Conroe, Texas, Mrs. Mary Walker and daughter, Miss Arletha Walker who is a student of Prairie View College, Hemp stead, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson Sr. w’ere dinner guests on the following otfassions; Christmas Day, hostess, Mistresses Willoby and Taylor of Dallas; New Year’s Day by Mr. and *Mrs. Andrew Jackson Jr. Mrs. Katie Hiickaby and Mrs. Postell spent a few days in Houston but was called home suddenly due to the illness of their uncle. * =* * l Mrs. Nannie Aikens and daugh ter spent the holidays with Mrs. Aikens niece, Mrs. Beatrice Cole man, of Houston, Texas. George H. Wentz Inc. ' f PLUMBING & HEATING 1620 N Phone *2-1293 r " " MEADOW GOLD ! Means Just The Very Best Grade A Milk . 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