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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1948)
Tib® 5®® _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 Phone 5-649.' 11 No Answer Call 5-7508 pubie W. Shakespeare_ __Advertising and Business Manager Lynnwood Parker_.... --Associate Editor. U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Charles Goolsby_ Contributing Editor, U. N. Dorm-B, 2-7651 Roberta Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. Joe Green____Circulation Manager Member oi the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, lone 9. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ol March 3, 1879. NATIONAL €DITORIAI_ SSOCIATION _| -JHuhU Advertising A Cooperative Venture The successful publication of' this second year of “The Voice” is the result of an unprecedented gesture of cooperation on the part of the loyal citizens of Lincoln who are continuing to express a desire to give assistance in any way needed. In our efforts to give you a newspaper which will be rated among the best of its size we are thrilled and inspired with the response you have given. It is necessary now to ask your coop eration in the matter of patroniz ing our advertisers. We do not believe that it is necessary for you to spend more money in order for “The Voice” to get its quota of ads, but we do believe that it is to your advantage to make an investigation as to why some ad vertisers do not advertise in “The Voice.” We are calling this matter to your attention because we know you are interested and you will do a great service to yourselves and your community if you will pay greater attention to the business firms who advertise in The Voice and the size of ads they give. This is of special significance. We must make it known that this is the only direct independent medium of expression the Negro, people of Lincoln have. It is just as important to the people it rep resents as any paper can be to any people. But it is up to us—you and I—to make this fact known. We can do so through a continued cooperative venture. When we think of the business firms who have made the publica tion possible—many of whom have advertised in every issue—and others who have taken a larger space and have advertised peri odically, it gives a feeling of pride and encouragement because we know that their interest goes be yond the mere fact of buying ad vertising space. They are inter ested in you. We are therefore urging you to show your interest and appreciation.—R.W.S. Now That Graduation’s Come I can think of no more comely season for graduations than late Spring. The promises of the bursting buds that came with the melting snow have given forth the full and verdant leaf. The trees are full of green fruit and the vines are yet tender. This week many thousands of boys and girls throughout the land will be receiving last words of appro bation and advice from doting teachers and educational admin istrators. They are like green fruit. Now there lies before them the days and nights of heat, dust, rain, storm and plagues that must be faced before the mellowing ripeness of age and success comes. Our nation can expect to reap a bountiful harvest from the crop of sturdy Americans that will go out seeking their place in society this year. If they are alert, they will survive. If they do not bury their heads in the sands of personal successes never heeding their responsibilities to the civic as well as the social aspects of life, if they are not afraid to face squarely the issues of the day and think them through, then there is still hope for a peaceful world in the days ahead. But if prepared young people fail to take their places as leaders, we shall be doomed. —CMG. WHITE SUMMER CASUALS 2 *0* ' m p very low price... white OScUuuUiAr’ 5,000 Negroes Homeless In Oregon Flood, Urban League Reports NEW YORK, June 4, 1948:— “The community of Vanport has been completely demolished. Five thousand Negroes, a large portion of the population, are hojneless,” Edwin Berry, Execu tive Secretary, Portland Urban League, stated in a report to the organization's national head quarters in New York this week. The make-shift town, thrown into panic by late warnings of danger, was flooded within min utes by fifteen feet of water when the Columbia River tore through the weak dikes protect ing the area. Reports of casualties, Berry said, are very conflicting and entirely premature. Associated Press reports have already indi cated that no one knew how many of the 18,700 Vanport res idents had perished. Portland city officials admit that there is no way of making a complete report on casualties until the river recedes, a matter of weeks. Vanport, six-year-old suburb of Portland, one of the nation’s largest war housing areas' was completely inundated when the Columbia River dikes gave way on Sunday afternoon. The tem porary war housing, built for shipyard workers and their fam ilies, too flimsily constructed to meet the onset of rushing flood waters, collapsed miserably. The inhabitants had made no prep aration to leave. According to Associated Press reports, army engineers had checked the dikes on Saturday, May 29, before they broke the next day at 4:15 p. m., and released a notice say ing, “You will have time to leave. Don’t get excited. You will be warned if necessary.” Only the Vanport Housing Au thority warning siren, sounded minutes before the flood waters broke into the area, saved the lives of those who escaped. More recent reports indicate the “dikes” were hardly more than trestles covered with dirt. High water is still hampering efforts to make rescues and recover bodies. Berry, who is serving as a member of the Disaster Com mittee, stated that the flood suf ferers are being taken care of “without the slightest indication of discrimination or segregation.” "All local and national social work agencies located in the area.” he said, “have generously provided their services, with the American Red Cross in charge. Food and clothing have been provided in abundance and there is no actual material discomfort among the suffer ers. The homeless are being housed in temporary dormitories and homes of people In the Portland communlty.,> The Urban League staff has been working without let up, twenty-four hours a day, to help distribute food, clothing, and arrange lor housing of flood sufferers. There have been no dis orders, little looting, with no Negro ar rests made for looting. “The major problem now con fronting the community,” the Urban League Executive empha sized, “is that of rehabilitation.” He believes that the Urban League and other agencies can place a goodly number of Negro families on jobs in surrounding agricultural communities, in which case housing is provided for those employed. The services of Red Cross case workers will in all probability be needed for this project, and the National Urban League has already made contact with national Red Cross headquarters in Washington and received assurance that this co operation will be given. Vanport. was established almost over night in 1942, to meet the housing needs of. defense workers with the nearby Kaiser shipyards. The community was built in six months. From 1942 to 1944 the Negro population in the Portland area jumped from 2,105 to 20,000 many of the migrants settling in Vanport. In a 1944 survey of the Portland area by the Urban League, which led to the establishment of a branch of the or ganisation there the same year, it was revealed that approximately 50% of the migrants planned to remain in the area. Of the original 35,000 or more inhabi tants of Vanport, some 18,700 are still there, with the community virtually a town unto itself having its own schools and hospitals. The Urban 'League of Portland, since its organUaUon four years ago, has worked very closely in helping to adjust the resultant employ ment, welfare and social problems aris ing from the post-war let up of activity. Mr. James Hamilton, the first president of the Urban League, then superintendent of the Van port schools' was responsible for the employment of the first Ne gro teachers. 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