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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1948)
/ Lincoln ■■ _■ Negr- ” A'*1* Tell Why Negrt _.<ni As Any Histor vtK Highlights Contributions WASHINGTON. (ANP). During the observance of Negro History week it is natural that some peo ple will want some kind of answer to certain questions that the oc casion raises. These questions will be: 1. When did the Negro come to America and under what circum stances did he first come to these shores? 2. Why did the Negro come to America and how did he fare? 3. What right has the Negro to claim himself an American? 4. What are his chances of real izing his best achievements in America and under what circum stances? 5. How should the Amreican Ne gro proceed to achieve his high est freedom and security? With Explorers Negroes were with_ the first white explorers who came to America. Alonzo Pietro was pilot of the Nina, one of the ships of Christopher Columbus. Negroes were with Vasco Balboa who dis covered the Pacific coast. They were also with Herman Cortez in ' Mexico and the explorers of Guatemale, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. Negroes were thus explorers and assistants to those who first came to these shores. Many Ne groes came to America as iden tured servants and like that class of whites were in some cases set free after serving the tenure of their positions or employment, others were captured slaves whose condition remained unaltered throughout their lives. Their chil dren were born slaves, but oc casionally a liberal master either freed his slaves or permitted them to purchase their freedom. There were 59,557 free Negroes in America by 1790 of whom 35, 000 lived in the South. From 1790 to 1810 the rate of increase of free Negroes exceeded that of slaves. After 1810, however, the opposite was the case in most in stances. By 1850% there were 434,455 free Negroes in America. In 1860 there were 488,070. The number of free Negroes in 1800 in Maryland was 53,942; in Virginia, 58,042; North Carolina 30,463; Louisiana, 18,467; District of Columbia, 11,131; Ken tuck, 10,638, or 250,787 in the South. The Foreigners In a technical sense every per son in America is a foreigner ex cept the Indians. Both whites and Negroes are Americans by adop First Birthday Party For January and February Boys and Girls Under 10 Girls and boys 10 years and under whose birthday came in January or is m February call 2-1407. A birthday party will be given for the combined months. You must call in order to come. Lots of games will be played and refreshments served. Mrs. Lester Collier will be in charge of ar rangements. Announcement A delicious chicken dinner will be served Saturday, February 14 at 2006 U street. CaH 2-6244 or 2-2778 for further information. tion and birth. Thus the Negroes claim to being an American is as good as anyone’s. Whatever one may use to determine a white man’s right to being American can equally be used to determine the Negro’s right to being an American. The Negro his contributed to the development of America in music, in politics and government, in agriculture and industry, edu cation, health, commerce, war sci ence, religion, labor, and in every other field of labor. There are outstanding Negroes in all of these fields, past and present. The fact that the Negro has made more progress since emanci pation in America than any other group, perhaps in world history is evidence of the Negro’s possi bilities in America. That progress was due more to the opportunities that America affords and to the benefits of preceding civilizations and the times than to Negroes themselves. The Negro should consider him self not merely a distinct race with its own cultural and histor ical background, but as also an American citizen like all other Americans. It is for America’s benefit and advancement that the Negro strives as well as for his own. While striving for the common good the Negro has given Amer ica 500,000 men and women in the armed forces during World War II; 4,000 physicians, 2,000 dentists and 6,000 nurses. In Government Negroes govern 52 towns and 15 settlements in America. The largest and best known of these is Mound Bayou, Miss., which was founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery. It has a population of over 900 and is so well governed that it has no need for a jail which it abandoned some years ago. There are over 2,000,000 Negro children in elementary schools in America. About 250,000 are in secondary schools and 45,000 in colleges and universities. Some 30,000 graduate annually from sec ondary schools and about 5,000 anually from higher institutions of learning. Howard university, founded in 1867 by General Howard, is the only educational institution in America that depends on the fed eral government for support. It had an enrollment of 3,340 last year and a faculty of 334. Though usually regarded a Negro institu tion, it is operated for students of all races, creeds and both sexes. The Negro has always had the support of some white people in his efforts to secure freedom, se curity and happiness. The aboli tionists were devoted to the cause of Negro emancipation. Whites have suuported the cause of Ne gro freedom, equality and oppor tunity ever since the days of slav ery. Negroes can still count on their true white friends to battle few: their cause. The largest and strongest organization for Negro rights and security, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was founded by white friends of the Negro. . Notice We regret that due to eondl tions beyond our control we are unable to picture winners ot our contesj—“CHOICE FOB 1946,” before Feb? 18. Fine 3 Teachers $5 Each In Orleans Train Dispute NEW ORLEANS. (ANP). Three schoolteachers were fined $5 in recorder’s court here Friday on charges of refusing to obey police orders to move on during the re cent Freedom Train visit. The de fendants are Charles Speaker, 54; Maurice Prevosy, 40; and Bruce Neale, 55. The trio pleaded innocent of the charges, which they said grew out of their efforts to control school children gathered to view the train. They were in charge of 750 students, who had been waiting to enter the train for four hours. Police charged that Speaker be gan the trouble when he insisted on standing fast as they attempted to move the crowd back. The oth er two were arrested when they sought to protest Speaker’s deten tion. However, the trio and five witnesses charged that policemen refused to listen to Speaker’s ex planation that he was responsible for the children. Carver ‘’Bread Saver’ Revived TUSKEGEE. (ANP). At the re quest of President F. D. Patterson of Tuskegee Institute, scientists of the Carver Research Foundation and nutritionists of the school of home economics and the depart ment of commercial dietetics, have revived v and are retesting the flour-saving bread-unaking recipes of the late George Washington Carver, which were so effectively useful during the wheat shortage of World War I. 0 It is the mashed sweet potato— fresh or canned—which does the pinch-hitting for a third less flour in these recipes. Bread and bis cuits, made the Carver way, not only save flour but the color sug gestion and hint of captured sweetness from the potato, provide a finished product, attractive in appearance, and with a delightful ly different taste sensation. Services lo Honor Overseer McDaniels By Mrs. Louise McDaniels. Inauguration services will be held at the 26th street Church of City Government Taken Over For Day by Lincoln Boy Scouts Twenty Boy Scouts took over the city government Monday for a day. They assembled in the council chamber at 11 a. m. to get the feel of their respective jobs. They had luncheon at the cham ber of commerce, each boy ac companied by an official escort. After milling over the responsible tasks confronting them, they re turned to the city hall for the regular afternoon meeting. Mayor Jim Taylor, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Taylor, 2022 So. 23rd, is a member of Troop 27, First-Plymouth Congregational church. He attends Irving junior high and, at some future time, would enjoy being mayor for more than a day. * * * "I LIKE IT," he said. “A fine educational experience. From my observations, I would say that your regular council is doing a pretty good job.” There was a Scout for each councilman, each director and for each of the department heads. The number came out exactly right. Donovan Gatus, of Troop 60, Urban league, understood that he was to be mayor. When it de veloped that Taylor’s name had come out of the hat first, Gatus said: “Of course I’d. like to be mayor but they’re all responsible jobs and I shall be proud to occupy any one of them for a day.” • * • GATUS IS THE son of Mrs. C. R. Johnson and lives at 648 So. 20th. There are only eight boys in his troop. The 20 boys were selected by their respective troops, each electing one representative. After places were drawn. First name out of the hat received assign ment as mayor. With the group were F. M. Chase, scout executive, Cornhus ker area; E. O. Brezina, assistant executive; Ted Lloyd, assistant executive, and Harry Peck, ac tivities committee head in charge of Scout week. * * * THE OFFICIAL ROSTER: Office Name Troop Mayor, James Taylor ..27 Director Erickson, Junior Nelson ....19 Director Berg, Chesmond Bade .......30 Director Venner, Charles Yungblut ..,.46 Chief of police, Larry Jones .5 Fire chief, Bernard Wishnow .21 City treasurer, Garry Greene ..2 Supt. of health, Rex Brinkworth ......38 City attorney, Jerry Cherry .41 Park supt., Glenn Curtis ..........18 Street supt., Tom Witty .......22 Municipal Judge, Richard Vouika -20 Councilman Panging, Richard Trainer 40 Councilman Dunn, Carl Wohlfarth .,..18 Councilman Hubbard, Donovan Gatua. .60 Councilman Iverson, Don Finks ....... 52 Councilman Weaver, Ronald Moeller. ..58 Councilman Wilkinson, Donald Janou_ tat .29 CRy prosecutor, Ed Crlpe .28 City manager, Jerry McCormick . ,u. .12 | To Appear in Play Over Radio On Abraliam Lincoln's Birthday ! mm Mrs. Kathryne Favors, editor of Dark Merit, will appear In a play “The Life of George Washington Carver”, on Thursday, February 12 at 1:30 on KOWH in Omaha. Mrs. Favors will play the part of Mary, the mother of George Washington Carver. Mrs. Favors was graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska in January. Two Negro youths will also appear in the play. Other Negro adults include Mr. Eugene Skinner and Mrs. Thelma Hancock. Mr. Skinner Is the first Negro principal in Ne braska. Mrs. Hancock teaches the first grade at Long School. Cod in Christ, Omaha, Neb., Mon day, February 16, through Wed nesday, Feb. 18. This promises to be a wonderful services as the co-operation of the ministers of the city has been pledged. On Wednesday evening, Febru ary 18, Bishop O. T. Jones, Na tional President of the Y. P. W. W. and Overseer for the state of Pennsylvania will deliver the in auguration message. So plan to attend each service, so as to miss nothing. Everyone is welcome. The climax will be a banquet Thursday, February 19, at 6 p. m. at the Y. W. C. A. Walter White Urges Aid To Europe WASHINGTON, D. C.—Support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored peo ple was given to the European Recovery Program by Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, speaking before the Sen ate Committee on Foreign Rela tions. Mr. White declared: “Unless th« United States and all other na tions which are able to do so co operate in feeding and helping to rehabilitate war-devastated areas of the earth, the physical suf fering and the obliteration of hope all over the earth will almost in evitably lead us into another war whose consequences, in the light of the splitting of the atom and of germ warfare, are too fright ening to contemplate.” Reminding the United States Senate that hunger is as painful to brown, yellow and black stom achs as it is to white ones, the executive secretary urged the ex tension of aid not only to tha countries of Europe but also to the needy in Asia, Africa and tha Caribbean. Mr. White also asked that the European nations in cluded in the recovery plan be re quired to adopt programs under which their colonies would speedily be given the right of self determination. “It would be utter folly for the United States to help white Europe to rehabilitate that part of the world and permit it to continue to deny freedom and opportunity to colonial peoples.” Notice News should be in not latar tljaa Saturday for publication of tha following week.