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Come Into Local
Branch of NAACP
In response to its appeal,
sent out to Lincoln churches,
clubs, lodges, and other or
ganizations last week, the
local NAACP branch has
been receiving a steady
stream of contributions
which by Saturday afternoon
had amounted to $83.85. The
funds are to support the de
fense of Mrs. Roas Lee In
g gram, Albany, Ga., widow
who, with two sons, had been
scheduled to die on February
27th. The defenseless threesome
are still held in the Albany jail,
but the scene of their trial has
been switched to the Americus
county (Ga.) courthouse where,
on March 29th, a plea for a mo
tion for a new trial will be heard
by the same judge that sentenced
the family group previously.
These are the reports to date
(March 6). Other offerings are
to come in:
Mt. Zion Baptist Church .$10.25
Quinn Chapel A. M. E.12.81
Christ Temple . 10.00
Northside Church of God . 19.30
Newman Methodist . 2.60
C. M. E. 5.00
Elks Lodge . 5.00
Church of God in Christ . 2.89
St. Paul A. M. E. (Beatrice, Nebr.) 3.00
Mr. George Fenger (Nine-Cent
Cleaners) . 5.00
Lincoln Voice . 2.00
Friends from Elliott School . 6.00
Total .$83.85
At the meeting of the local
branch last Friday night, further
plans were laid for the forthcom
ing rally and banquet on April
11th, When the annual member
ship drive gets under way. Tickets
for the affair, which went on sale
Friday, will be available from
Mrs. Walter Bell, 1*945 Vine St.,
Mrs. Robert Moody, Mrs. G. W.
Harper and Mrs. Zeola Hammond.
Tickets will also be available at
the Urban League office.
Church Body
Would Keep
Meharry Free
CHICAGO. (ANP). The board
of education of the Methodist
church, holding its eighth annual
meeting in Chicago Wednesday
and Thursday, voted against the
proposal to turn Meharry Medical
college over to a group of south
ern states to run as a separate in
stitution for Negro medical stu
dents.
The matter was first considered
by the committee of the division
of educational institutions. There
the resolution as finally passed
was sponsored by President Daniel
L. Marsh of Boston university,
Chancellor Herbert J. Burgstah
ler of Ohio Wesleyan university;
Bishop Robert N. Brooks of New
Orleans and President David D.
Jones of Bennett college, Greens
boro, N. C. The resolution read:
“In view of the long historical
connection between the Methodist
church and Meharry college in its
founding and continuing support
we do not look with favor on
Meharry college changing its
status from a private institution to
that of a public institution, re
gional or otherwise.”
Meharry college was originally
a Methodist school. In later years
and particularly after th^ General
Education board came to the sup
port of the institution helping it to
raise its endowment to $5,000,000,
it was no longer within church
control.
Dr. Matthew S. Davage of Nash
ville, a trustee of Meharry and
secretary of the division of educa
tional institutions for Negroes,
presented the viewpoint of the
trustees of the school. He pointed
out that the institution, which is
valued at $10,000,000, would have
to close its doors before the nex4
term rolls around unless some way
can be found to develop additional
income. Costs of medical education
have mounted with terrific speed
during the past few years.
New Vocational School
Expense Project Announced
The National Urban League
announced today its first Voca
tional Opportunity Campaign Es
says open to student participants
in the 1948 VOC program.
Cash prizes totalling $225, to
help meet 1948-1949 school ex
penses, will be given to writers
of the three best original essays
on “What the Vocational Oppor
tunity Campaign Has Meant To
Me.” The winning essay will re
ceive $100, the second $75 and
the third $50. Contest dates are
March 14 through April 30. All
essays submitted must be post
marked no later than midnight,
April 30, 1948.
The awards were made pos
sible by a gift from Dr. Ross
Thalheimer.
Only persons who have taken
part in the 1948 VOC of the Na
tional Urban League either
through a school, a local Urban
League, or another community
agency are eligible to participate.
Contestants must be:
enrolled In last year of study in a
secondary school; <
enrolled In first year of study beyond
secondary school in a course that requires
not less than two years to complete;
or must have
completed high school Oh or after Jan
uary 1, 1945, and have an application to
an institution for further study accepted
or pending.
Applicants must register for the
essays through their school or a
local Urban League. Winners will
be announced on September 5,
1948, at the opening of the first
National Urban League’s Back
to-School Campaign. The awards
made to the individual will be
paid to the institution of the
winner’s choice, applicable to ex
penses of further study.
For further information regard
ing eligibility, schools and com
munity agencies should write to
VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
CAMPAIGN ESSAY COMMIT
TEE. 1133 Broadway, New York
City 10 N. Y. •
The National Urban League’s
Vocational Opportunity Campaign
Week is March 14-21, directed to
'Negro youth in America, with the
slogan “The Future is Yours—Plan
and Prepare!”
' —Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
GEORGE RANDOL.
‘Over the Hill’
To the Circlet
Circlet theater is going in for
old fashioned melodarama next
month and has scheduled tryouts
for “Over the Hill” Wednesday
evening at 7:30 at the Cornhusker,
Director George Randol expects
to see a goodly number of new
applicants, believing^ that people
will try out for this type of pro
duction who might not for any
otther. The play will be presented
at the municipal bathhouse the
week of April 5. Mr. Randol and
his production staff have a num
ber of surprises up their sleeves
in this connedtion.
Dr. DuBois
Observes SOth
Anniversary
NEW YORK. (ANP). Dr. W.
E. B. DuBois, probably the great
est American Negro scholar and
writer, observed his 80th birth
day, Feb. 23. He was honored at
a special dinner at the Hotel
Roosevelt given by the Fisk Uni
versity alumni.
Dr. DuBois graduated from Fisk
in 1888, then went to Harvard.
At Fisk he edited the Fisk Her
ald, and was one of the school’s
leading and most impassioned
orators, especially against the
color bar.
Dr. DuBois first gained atten
tion in 1896*from the first vol
ume of the Harvard Historical
Studies, “The Suppression of the
African Slave Trade to the United
States of America, 1638-1870.”
In 1910 he was one of the
founders of the N.A.A.C.P. and at
Atlanta university he founded the
quarterly publication, Phylon, a
review of race and culture.
He has written 22 books in
cluding “Black Reconstruction,”
and has signed contracts to write
a fiction book and a book on
Africa and the colonial system.
Dr. DuBois is a member of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and the only
Negro member of the National In
stitute of Arts and letters.
His grandson, DuBois Williams,
spent his birthday with him. .
Church Council
Meets at League
The Lincoln Council of Church
women will meet at the Urban
League on March 16. One num
ber * of the program will be
choral reading group composed
of an inter-racial group of
women from various churches.
They will read, “The Creation”
by James Weldon Johnson. An
other member of the group will
give the life story of the com- ,
poser and writer.
Vocational Guidance for
Youth Planned By League
Parents Urged to Hear Noted
Speakers on Job Choice March 15
On Monday, March 15, 1948 at the Urban League
building, the Urban League Women’s Guild is promoting a
Vocational Guidance program for the boys and girls of the
9th grade and high school. Co-sponsors with the Guild are
the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, the Cornhusker Lodge
Samuel Huston President
Dies Suddenly
By H. S. Hughes.
AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP). Dr. Karl
E. Downs, youthful president of
Samuel Huston college, died sud
denly Thursday morning at the
Breckenridge hospital following
an emergency operation. He was
serving his sixth term as head of
the college, having been elected
to succeed Dr. Stanley E. Gran
num.
Dr. Downs was born 35 years
ago at Abilene, Tex., the son of
the Rev. John W. and Lucrotia
Downs. His boyhood was spent all
over Texas, for his life was no
different from that of the children
of ministers who move from
place to place as their fathers go
from pastorate to pastorate.
Six Lincolnites
New Faces on
U.N. Campus
By Charles Goolsby.
Among the many thousands
registering for the second se
mester at the University of Ne
braska were six local newcomers
and two out-of-staters. After
getting their matriculations in
order, all settled down to travel
the roads of higher education.
Lincolnites are:
Howard Bean, son of Mrs. C. J.
Johnson, 648 So. 20th St., who is
starting his major in sociology.
Fletcher Bell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Bell, 1945 Vine St., who
is in the school of fine arts learn
ing commercial art.
Eugene Graham, son of Mrs.
James Cole, 1043 No. 23rd, who is
studying instrumental music.
Charles Johnson, 1825 So. 25th
St., who is also in the music
school improving his bass voice.
Bill Mosby, son of Mrs. Vashti
Mosby, 1030 Rose, who is regis
tered in the college of pharmacy.
Miss Betty Wilson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilson, 1923
“T” St., who has evening classes
in bizad.
The two out-of-staters are
Churlie Jones from Baltimore,
Md., Engineering freshman, and
George Riley of Little Rock, Ark.,
junior in the College of Business
Administration.
NAACP Bailies With
Congress on Legislation
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The
NAACP was on the warpath again
this week battling with congress
men on Capitol Hill for the pass
age of legislation beneficial to
Negro Americans.
Lesie Perry, legislative repre
sentative of the NAACP, appeared
Monday before the house armed
subcommittee on organization and
mobilization asking that the bill
to establish the women’s army
corps in the regular army and to
authorize the enlistment and ap
pointment of women in the regu
lar navy and marine corps be
amended to include a non-segre
gation clause.
No. 579, I.B.P.O.E. of W.
The objective in this program
is to aid these boys and girls in
selecting a trade or profession in
which they are likely to succeed.
To do this, through the Nebraska
State Vocational Education De
partment, we have been provided
with: Self-analysis blanks which
gives the educational require
ments, special abilities, possible
financial returns and best loca
tions for the various professions
or trades. Kudar intelligence test
which will show how the indivi
dal rates for particular jobs. A
list of the schools, universities or
trade schools in which the indi
vidual can secure the best train
ing.
For the special meeting on Mon
day evening, plans are set to have
as speakers, two outstanding
Negro speakers who will give fac
tual proof that with the proper
training Negroes have succeeded
in many areas of employment or
service.
We are especially urging all
parents to attend the meeting
Monday night for even though
your children may not be in the
age group designated, this infor
mation will be helpful when they
do arrive at that age.
Boy Scouts at
Honor Court,
Seeking Jobs
The boys in Troop 60 are seek
ing odd jobs and other work for
after school and on Saturdays in
order to make enough money to
go to camp this summer. March
2nd, the troop was the guests of
Ital Area Court at the First Chris
tian Church. On March 23rd, Ital
will conduct a round table with
the green-bar men (patrol lead
ers) during which James and
Roosevelt Bass will demonstrate '
the proper handling of a knife
and axe.
At the Mothers Day Court,
scheduled for May 3rd, all boys
advancing a grade will place a
lapel badge, equal to his rank,
upon his mother, according to Mr.
Joseph Adams, scoutmaster.
Cub Scouts Become
Active; Open for
New Members
The Cubs met at the home of
Mrs. Dorothy Lewis on Monday
evening. Six boys were present
and got off to a wonderful start.
The den has two den chiefs, James
Bass and Roosevelt Bass. These
boys certainly know their scout
ing. The boys learned their cub
sign, handshake and motto. It is
open for any boy between the ages
of 9 and 12.
Announcement.
Organizations wishing to submit
items to The VOICE concerning
their activities, should do so by
12:00 noon on Saturdays to ap
pear the following week. Manu
scripts should be typed double
spaced on one side of the poper
: only.
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