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TDao V®5<s® PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people.” Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street y Pfcooe 5-5481 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare--Advertising and Business Manager Lynnwood Parker_Associate Editor. U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7551 Charles Goolsby .™_Contributing Editor, U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7551 Roberta Molden.___Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. Joe Green—- - —Circulation Mcmoger Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Subscription rate 8250 per year—10c per copy Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Post Office at 1 .incola. Nebraska under the Act ol March 3, 1879. NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ Civil Rights There is now a lot of favorable opinion for the President’s civil rights program and every think ing American stands behind it' because they know that his pro- ; gram will further implement the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, j the Four Freedoms and the | United Nations Charter. The fas cism of some Americans (in Ne braska as well as the South) is not only undemocratic but un moral. What the opponents of this legislation do not admit is that the President’s program is a necessity if America is to retain her leadership in world affairs. In the struggle in Europe today, the wide breech between American ideals and practices furnishes a never-ending source of propa ganda for the Russians, making a persuassive argument for the smaller nations that if they are party to our policies, they may well expect the same treatment which various minorities receive <* Jhrre. Nat^nally, the boogaboo of racial stations has prevented much helpful legislation because such laws would help minority and majority groups equally. From one point of view it is too bad that the tool of punative laws must be used to see that “these truths” which “we hold to be self-evident” might apply to all citizens of our nation. From an other, it indicates how very urgent it is that these changes be ef fected. Even the fathers of our state recognized these facts when they included certain statutes among the laws of the last cen tury. A good example is found in: 8ec. 20-101: ‘‘Civil rights of persons, enumerated. AQ persons within this state shall be entitled to a fall and equal enjoyment of the accommodations. ad vantages. facilities and privileges of Inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theaters and other places of amuse ment. subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and appli cable alike to every person.” Peace in our world, our nation, our state and communities rests finally on something very funda mental, a positive attitude toward the individuals of different races, nationalities, religions and po litical parties. If Americans have sufficiently matured, the Civil Rights Program will pass and all shall embark on an era of shared peace and responsibility. If not, perhaps we are still a bunch of wet-eared kids.—C. G. Appeal To Fear One of the things which is making the co lusion of the pres ent more confounded is the almost universal appeal to fear. When we want people to do certain things we make them fear not to do them; and when we do not want them to do certain things we make them fear to do them! ■ I have never felt that democ racy had to resort to fear to sus tain itself. I believe in democracy because it has done much for me, in spite of its weaknesses and failures. The fact that it took former slaves and made them citi zens is quite enough to tie me to democracy forever. If it did this it can do more; it can make of me a full-fledged citizen of this coun try that my fathers have labored to build and my comrades have died to defend. But there are those who insist on making democracy live by fear of communism. Protestantism in far too many instances seeks to prosper because of a fear of Catholicism. There is always the subtle religious war between the two faiths, and in the final analy sis there is always the appeal to fear. It has come about that the Ku Klux Klan has its very existence in generated fear. It fears Negro domination; it fears Catholic dom ination; it fears the genius of the Jews. The southern demagogue lives and thrives on fear of the Negro which he generates in a hundred ways. Could anything be more preposterous than the belief that 9,000,000 Negroes can take over and rule 30,000,000 whites who have all the money and all the guns and all the ammuni tions? » The weak-kneed advocates of white supremacy create the fear that if you grant the Negroes one advantage he will take ten. They fail to make it plain how the Negro can take ten when he can not take one. Hitler and Musso lini rose to power because they created within the Germans and Italians great fears. It has come about that almost every appeal that is made to the average man, is not to his reason, but to his fears.—Gordon B. Hancock for ANP. Buy Now and Save During White’s Great March Parade of Values Sale 106 NOPJH 10th ST. PHONE 2-1469 North in large numbers by way of the underground railroad. The underground was not exactly a well planned route from the south to the north. Instead it was made up of groups of Christian people, scattered in various places, who wanted to help the Negroes escape their masters and flee to the North. The Quakers were very good about helping the Negro slave escape to the North. I “Effective work was done in the i Northwest Territory. Through this ; section extended numerous routes from Kentucky and Tennessee to I Canada. Josiah Henson and Har riet Tubman used these routes m conducting fugitives to freedom. I The career of the latter in this hazardous enterprise was un > usually romantic. Born a slave in Maryland, but endowed with too much love of freedom not to break the chains which held her. she became in the North the most venturesome worker in the em ploy of the Unde-ground Railroad. When her co-workers had much fear as to her safety, she dared to go even into the very heart of the South. Once she returned to her old home in Maryland, where she met her master along the road, but easily contrived to pre vent him from recognizing he-. She did so much to aid the escape of fugitives and to rescue freed men from slave hunters that the aggrieved owners offered a re ward of $40,000 for her. For these unusual exploits and her service as a spy during the Civil War she became known as the Moses’ of her people.” After the Negroes arrived in the North, it wasn't as easy as some might think to make their way. However, in spite of all of the ex treme difficulties, some free Ne groes attained national promi nence. One outstanding person was Dr. James McCune Smith, a distinguished graduate in medi cine of the University of Glasgow and for years a practitioner in the city of New York. Some nation ally known writers were William C. Nell and William Wells Brown. People became so very interested in the progress of the Negro that these men tried to supply the the need. 1 p—=T I Sports Scope death stalks THE RING accidental fey a coroner** yary j*st fbnssd bcxm-g a« niaaB to he *flff a character sc- urssavcry m£ *±s recutafcle as as nsnl whc&esaie revision cf pnfesszkiral icizg he cast hot Lssa Bis last pHk j utterance was. 1 fipae F» genua be the only £eSa is the history of beads' to wis the title twice ami only get it once.* BASKETBALL This was «sftr a bessy week tor basketball fans. One of the racst interesting fares of the season was played by Boys Town ad Northeast High School The Beys : Town teats led oatQ the las# quar ter where the gam eded wish Northeast M. Boy? Town 32. BOXING J— Madcy. beatTvegM. left Alliance last week tor Chicago where fee will report to Coach . Johnny Befer of the Intercity team j of the Golden Gloves. Motley will go to New York _ ■ =j SHOWALTER ROOFING CO. i_h*»£j=rjL»*fc ^UILT UP BOOF?" m Nor* 22 2-2*3 l Uricoto. 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