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9 1947 at the Post Oltice at Lincoln.
Nebraska under the Act of March 3.
1879 _ _
Last Rites Held for
Dr. DeBerry, Fisk
Alummis-T rustee
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (ANP).
Funeral services were held here
Jan. 24 for Dr. William Nelson
DeBerry. 77-vear-old eminent
alumnus and trustee of Fisk uni
versity, who died in his home
four days earlier following a long
illness.
An 1896 graduate of Fisk, he
was a member of the university’s
board of trustees for 34 years. Or
dained as minister in the Congre
gational church in 1899, he
served as pastor of the St. Johq’s
m Congregational church, one of the
country’s first successful institu
tional churches, from 1899 to 1931
and retired as pastor emeritus.
Active in various fields, he was
appointed by Gov. Saltonstall as
member of the Governor’s Com
mittee on Religious and Inter
racial understanding in 1943 and
received the first award from the
Harmon foundation for distin
guished service in religion among
Negroes in 1927. In 1935, Dr.
DeBerry was appointed a mem
ber of the Springfield board of
public welfare, awarded the Py
chon medal for outstanding pub
lic service in 1928, served as
assistant moderator of the Na
tional Council of Congregational
churches, and was executive sec
retary of the Dunbar Community
league from 1931 until his death.
He is survived by Mrs. Louis
Scott DeBerry, wife; and two
daughters: Mrs. Charlotte Pearl
Trae, Charleston, S. C., and Mrs.
Anna Mae Johnson, St. Louis.
Survey on Future of
Negro Business Published
NEW YORK. (ANP). A new
book which traces the beginning
and development of business
among Negroes, its trends and be
liefs, has just been published by
Harper and Borthers, it was dis
closed here last week. Entitled
“Negro Business and Business
Education—Their Present and
Prospective Development,” it is
written by Dr. Joseph A. Pierce,
professor of mathematics and
statistics, Atlanta university.
Sponsored jointly by Atlanta
university and the National Urban
league, the book gives factual in
formation on the beginning and
development of Negro business,
trends and beliefs, kinds of busi
nesses operated, their location,
type of operators and owners,
methods of record keeping, pa
tronage, management policies and
methods, and operating and finan
cial studies.
It covers life insurance com
panies, banking, building, savings,
loan associations and a selected
Study of consumer cooperatives.
Background material for the book
came from an extensive study
made over a two year period of
Negro owned and operated busi
nesses in 12 cities, and of business
education given by Negro colleges
and universities.
The 12 cities covered are At
lanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dur
ham, Houston, Memphis, Nash
ville, New Orleans, Richmond, St.
The Voice Staff
Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Shakespeare, publishers
Mrs! Roberta L. Molden, associate editor
Mrs! Joe Green, circulation manager
Miss Dorothy Green, secretary-treasurer
Mrs. Brevy Miller, writer for Household Hints
Mrs! Wm, B. Davis, writer for Our Children
Mrs. Kathryn Favors, writer for Dark Merit
Rev. R. E. Handy, writer for the Sunday School lesson
Mr. Howard Molden, sports writer
Mr. Lynnwood Parker, special writer
Mrs. Basilia Bell, writer for Social Briefs
Mr. Joseph W. Adams, special writer
Miss Delight Killinger, special writer
Miss Beatrice Motley, Aliance reporter
Mrs. Esther W. Green, Los Angeles reporter
Mr. George Randol, Photographer
Persons whose names appear above are members of The Voice
Staff? and were not eligible for “The Voice” contest.
PICTURES OF THE WINNERS WILL APPEAR IN NEXT
WEEK’S ISSUE OF THE VOICE.
Louis, Savannah, and Washington.
The book contains 338 pages, 58
tables and sells for $4.
White Editor Scores
Separate But Equal
School Cheat
CHICAGO. (ANP). Citing the
instance of a southern public
school for Negroes set up by a
disinterested white board of edu
cation in a chicken coop, New
York Times education editor Ben
jamin Fine declares in February
Negro Digest that school facilities
for Negroes in most dual states
is a disgrace to U. S. democracy.
“Frequently in dual states,” Fine
says, “the Negro child does not
have an equal opportunity with
whites. His teachers are far less
competent, receive substantially
lower salaries. The equipment
and supplies are meager and obso
lete, the school plants are inade
quate. And no matter how bad
it is in cities, the setup for Ne
groes in rural areas is far worse.
“Very often,” the Negro Digest
article continues, “The Negro stu
dent cannot go farther than the
seventh grade. And out of 9,000,
000 Negroes in 18 states there are
only 30,000 colored candidates for
graduation each year.”
North Carolina is pointed out
by Fine as an exception to the
general practice by southern ^ates
of relegating Negro education to
a degenerate back seat, and has
gone far toward eliminating dis
j criminatory distribution of funds.
Most other states in the south al
low far more for whites than for
colored. In Mississippi 606.6 per
cent more is spent on each white
student than on Negro.
In many instances, Fine asserts,
Negroes are given condemned
buildings for school houses. Rain
pours through the roofs or swoops
into the doors, heat is bad or non
existent, there are no lights, and
in some even blackboards, desks
and school books are not pro
vided.
Mississippi Daily Deplores
Education of Negroes
In State
JACKSON, Miss. (ANP). A lo
cal daily, the Jackson Daily News,
indicated the educational program
for Negroes in Mississippi, in a
recent article. It brought out the
fact that the state spends more
money for the transportation of
white children to and from school
than for the whole educational
program of Negro children.
Although there are 477,000 col
ored to 377,000 white children of
school age in the state it spends
$3,500,000 on transportation alone
for the latter and a total of $3,
333,000 in all for the former, the
article pointed out.
Of the Negro students, 207,752
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Succumbs
Hundreds paid tribute to Jos
eph P. Geddes, beloved mortician
of New Orleans, who was buried
last week. Active locally in
business and civic organizations,
he was president of the National
Negro Business League.
The funeral procession was
several blocks long, as people all
over the nation attended. A. G.
Gaston of Birmingham, president
of the National Negro Business
League, represent^ his organ
ization.
(ANP)
children are not even in school,
the article revealed. The state
must do something to educate
these children and provide better
education for the others for the
improvement of Mississippi as a
whole, the paper said.
The article also declared thot
if the state wants to avoid outside
Interference, particularly federal
funds for the education of colored,
the state must educate Negro chil
dren.
“We of the south,” the article
said, “must comprehend that ig
norance, poverty, illiteracy, dis
ease and criminality are costly
factors in our society. It makes
no difference what race con
tributes more to these community
evils.
“Many a white person has died
from disease spread by Negroes—
and vice versa. We must rise
above our prejudices and recog
nize that the means of over
coming these liabilities is through
a constructive system of public
school training.”
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By Dorothy Green
Hi there: Due to the fact that
I was 01 last week I did not
write and T. A. C. and I had a
lot of explaining to do, but I
hope you did understand.
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It’s good to see Lavanda Hill
and Leon Wilkins back in Lin
coln again. I hope they had a
nice vacation from Lincoln.
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Miss Florence Washington of
Kansas City, Kan., was the
house guest of Miss Kathryn King.
She left Lincoln Febr. 1st.
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I am going to make an addi
tion to my column to make it more
interesting, I hope. The only way
I can do it is to have the co-op
eration of each and everyone of
you teen agers and pre-teens. I
am going to call it ‘'Around «the
Schools” and it will include news
about every one in the following
schools:
1. Campus
2. Lincoln High
3. Whittier jr. high
4. Irving Jr. High
5. Elliott Grade School
The only way I can find out
what goes on, you will have to
tell me. CAN I COUNT ok YOU
TO MAKE YOUR PAPER MORE
INTERESTING.
« * *
Campus . . . Well, most of the
exams are over about now and
some of them were pretty stiff.
Lincoln High . . . Semester has
ended and new classes have
started. We have noticed that
Juliet Ette Hammond is in the
choir and will participate in the
opera.
Whittier . . . Among the many
assistants in the office are Ionna
Adams and Peaches Winston.
There you have it.
Bye now,
DOTTY.
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