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Volume 2, Number 26____Lincoln 3. Nebraska___Thursday, April 8, 1948 Dedica^' Omaha Lone* School xi9i«<>* CD nvomOltfM w ‘ c ■■lll■■—il 111 I • T iiiiiiiiiiiiiiir &■ i ? MR. SKINNER Principal The Saga of Long School By Rubie W. Shakespeare. This week our paper is dedicated to Long School of Omaha, Neb. For many, many years, Ne gro teachers have tried to get in the Omaha Public School System. For many years also, qualified Negro Teachers have been turned down. A few years ago, Omaha woke up and realized that teachers could not be denied the right to make this world a better educated one because of race. Ne gro teachers were hired! Many people are not exactly happy about it because most of the schools in which they are placed are in schools with predominately Negro students, and they feel that they are placed discriminatorily. Perhaps they are right! At pres sent, this is not the issue at hand. For now we are studying the well qualified teachers. Six teachers teach at schools where there are both Negro and children of other races and find that the children respect them as they do any other teacher. Omaha is a large metropolitan city of fifty-five elementary schools and five public high schools. It has over 1,000 teach ers. Twenty-two of these teach ers are Negroes. Therefore, about two per cent of the teachers in the system are colored. Of over 1,000 teachers, one hundred and sixty-one members have their master’s degrees. Of twenty-two Negro teachers, twenty-two per cent of them have their master’s degrees. Compare this with the percentage of the master’s degrees in the system as a whole. Omaha teachers who have not graduated from college are many in number, but every teacher at Long school has graduated from college and has received his B.A. or B.S. de gree. Long School has one of the fin est educational records of any ele mentary school in Omaha and per haps in the country. In most in stances, those with master’s de grees teach in high school or col lege. Here is Long’s wonderful rec ord: All thirteen teachers and the (Continued on Page 8.J. 3 4 MRS. WOODS MRS. HANGER I I VV .V. I MRS. EWING MRS. SWAIN MR. FLETCHER I Rev. Harper Gets Pastorate In Missouri Rev. G. W. Harper, pastor of Newman Methodist church, has received an appointment in Inde pendence, Mo. The Rev. Mr. Harper has been pastor of Newman Methodist church since September, 1945. Rev. and Mrs. Harper has been very active in the affairs of the city. Their daughter, Ruby Lee, graduated from Lincoln High School last January. Their son, Joseph, is two and a half years old. The Rev. Mr. Harper held his first service in Independence last Sunday. While in Lincoln, he served as president of the Negro Ministerial Alliance. The Rev. W. M. Green, form erly pastor at Grand Island and Hastings, is the new pastor at Newman. THE VOICE in co-operation with the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., an nounces an ESSAY CONTEST for High School and Seniors on the topic: “How a College Education Will Help Me to Be a Better Citizen.” Eirst prize $10; second prize $6; third prize $4. RULES. The winning essay will be pub lished in The VOICE. 1. Compositions will be judged for content, grammar and neat ness. 2. All entries must be written in ink or typewritten, double-spaced on one side of the paper only. 3. All entries become the prop erty of the fraternity and The VOICE and the decision of the judges will be final. 4. All entries must be in The VOICE office, 2225 S Street, or postmarked prior to midnight Sunday, April 18, 1948. 5. Each page of entries should be signed with a Pen name only and accompanied by a sealed en velope with the pen name only on the outside and containing the writers full name, address and school on the inside. 6. Not less than 500 words nor more than 1,000 words. Pennsylvania G.A.R. Is Generous MONTROSE, Pa. (ANP). A Ne gro girl, Miss Belle Price, will be sent to Washington, to appear in Constitution hall this month by the Montrose chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo lution as its good citizenship award candidate from Pennsyl vania, it was announced last week. Miss Price, an 18 year old high school senior, was chosen be cause of her high scholarship, leadership, dependability, service and patriotism. She will be one of a large group of good citizen ship girls from all over the coun try to be presented in the national meeting of the DAR in Constitu tion hall. Dallas Adds to Police Force DALLAS. (ANP). In special ceremonies at the Booker T. Washington high school last week, three colored officers were added to the Dallas police force to bring the city’s total to four. Many local leaders and officials attended the ceremonies as Jessie P. Dawson, William M. Starks and Charles R. Thompson were sworn in by Chief of Police Carl Hanson. Officer Benjamin Thomas, the city’s first Negro po liceman admitted last year, made one of the welcoming addresses at the program. Education for Citizenship Week Begins for APA The Alpha Phi Alpha Fratern ity will begin the week of “Edu cation for Citizenship’’ April 11, at the Mt. Zion Baptist church morning service. The Rev. Mr. Bryant, pastor of the Omaha Seventh-day Ad ventist church will deliver the sermon. The week will end with a three day radio program, April 17, 18 and 19th (11 a. m. Sat.; 10:30 p. m. Sun.; 10 p. m, Mon.) Participants on the program will be the mayor, superintendent of schools, two college profes sors and a Alpha representative from Omaha. Tenderfoots Working for Second Class Under the supervision of Mr. Joseph Adams, Scout Master of Troop 60, the Tenderfoots went to Antelope Park last Friday eve ning and passed Second-Class re quirements in cooking and fire building. The Tenderfoots are working on requirements for second class for Mothers’ day court. The candidates are: Joe Na than McWilliams, Donavon Gatus, and Clifford Dunn. Rosenivald Fund Cease Operation CHICAGO. (ANP). The Julius Rosenwald fund, established in 1917 “for the well-being of man kind,” will cease operations as of June 30, it was learned here last week. Set up by the Chicago philanthropist more than 30 years ago, it has expended some $22, 500,000 on varied projects rang ing from rural schools for Ne groes to coveted fellowships for writers, artists, musicians, scien tists and educators of all races. In fellowships, $2,000,000 has benefited 600 Negroes and 250 whites. Among those receiving grants were the internationally famous Marian Anderson, who was able to continue her musical studies and Katherine Dunham, who left the University of Chi cago campus to study native dances in the West Indies. A grant - to Willard Motley enabled him to finish his best seller, “Knock on Any Door.” Atlanta, Adds To Police Force ATLANTA. (/P). Negro police men, with instructions not to ar rest white persons, patrolled At lanta streets Saturday for the first time in the city’s history. When asked whether Negro police could arrest white per sons, Chief Herbert Penkins said: “My instructions were spe cific to Negro officers. When they see a white man who should be arrested they are to call the police station and a squad car with white officers will be sent to make the arrest.”, YWCA, LWV Will Sponsor Town Meet On April 9th the YWCA and League of Women Voters of Lin coln will sponsor a town meeting. The subject is: “Your Unicamer al Legislative Candidates and To day’s Issues.” All 16 of the Legislative can didates have been invited as speakers. Each candidate will have five minutes to speak. The public is invited to attend this meeting so that the voters will have an opportunity to meet in person. the men who desire to be our legislative representatives. The public will be given the chance to direct questions to the candidates during the question and answer period. The meeting is free and will start at 8 p. m. 14 Yr. Old Boy Given 30 Years j RALEIGH, N. C. (ANP). A 14 year-old boy, David Bryant of New Bern, was convicted and sentenced to a prison term of 30 years in the Orange County Su perior court last week on charges of second degree burglary. He was found guilty of breaking into the home of Miss Lucille, a li brarian at the University of Nortti Carolina. Publishers Confer With Forrestal and Royall WASHINGTON. (ANP). Before boarding an army transport plane for a three week tour of military installation in Europe, the eight Negro editors and publishers in vited to make the tour conferred last Thursday with Secretary of National Defense James Forrestal and Secretary of the Army Ken neth C. Royall. Those making the tour are: Dowdal H. Davis of the Kama* City Call, Carl Murphy of the Afro-American, Louis Martin of the Chicago Defender, William G. Nunn of the Pittsburgh Courier, Frank Stanley of the Louisville Defender, Carter Wesley of the Houston Informer, and Thomas Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Their official escort is Lt. Thomas Martin of the army’s public relations department.