The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, August 19, 1948, Page TWO, Image 2

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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NATIONAL tDITORIAI—
j SSOCIATION
Even Dixiecrats Help Brotherhood
Negro-hating southerners are falling into the pit which they
themselves digged. The method they have adopted to express their
opposition to President Truman and civil rights makes certain
that more Negroes than ever will vote in November and vote with
the aid and consent of some whites The one-party system which
they toiled to build is headed for the scrap heap.
There has always been an opposition group in the South, men
like Arnall of Georgia who would make politics serve public in
terest. But so surcharged is southern life with race prejudice that
they are seldom heard from. Now with two tickets, they can and
will choose. Liberal southerners will vote themselves and encourage
others to vote.
Bourbon democracy has perpetuated itself in power in south
ern states by keeping the vote small. Two tickets in the field will
cause a new slogan to be heard at the general election. "Get out
the vote” will be in order in Georgia no less than in New York.
Hitherto non-voting whites, the liberals and the Negroes can
outvote the Dixiecrats. That being so, the Democratic national
campaign leaders may be expected to adopt strategy that will
bring about cooperation of these three groups.
Once Negroes vote in the South, with any considerable num
ber of whites approving, whether successfully or not, disfranchise
ment is a thing of the past with black laws j*x>n to follow’. Op
pression always breeds w'ithin itself the seeds of its own destruc
tion. It could not be otherwise if God be God. The Dixiecrats—as
well as we—contribute to brotherhood!
States’ Rights
The Senate of the United States,
convened in special session was
treated last week to a long and
painstaking exposition of the doc
trine of States- Rights. The issue,
it was sail, was not precisely
whether the poll tax should be
abolished, but whether Congress,
under the Constitution, has the
power to abolish it. The conten
tion of the Southern Senators is
that the poll tax, segregation, fair
,, employment practices and the
whole matter of the rights of
Negroes come within the ambit
of those powers which, by the
Tenth Amedment, are reserved to
the several States. ,
We should have heard the
lengthy argumentation with more
patience it we felt that the South
ern Senators were vindicating for
their States the right to take ef
fective action to secure the rights
of Negroes; but we fear that they
were only vindicating the right to
continued to do nothing about it.
The rights of the State govern
ments, like those of any govern
ment, are predicated upon the
.very purposes of government it
self; and among those purposes,
as the Declaration of Independ
ence reminds us, is that of se
curing the right of the citizen to
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
While there is a good case for
States’ Rights, there is no defense
for the system of segregation and
discrimination which hides be
hind the skirts of that doctrine;
for it is a system that subverts
the purpose for which the States
have rights. Wherever “white
supremacy” has A-l priority, good
government must fail; public of
fice goes to him who can most
blatantly appeal to mob passion
and prejudice. There can be no
intellegient discussion of public
issues; that would show up the
weaknesses of the system. Intelli
gence might argue, for instance,
that if Negroes were able to get
good wages they would begin to
buy good houses, furniture, re
frigerators, cars and what not;
and thereby give much employ
ment to the people who build
houses and make and sell all the
other things. But the system re
quires that the Negro be kept in
his place; so the builders and the
manufacturers and the dealers
and salesmen of the South must
do without millions of potential
customers. As with economics, so
with sociology, with political
science; their teachings must be
tailored to fit the system. It is no
accident that the South is losing
a great many professors and grad
uate students to the North, where
the academic air is freer.
Fortunately there is enough in
telligence and Christian demo
cracy in Dixie to ensure the end
of the system; and it is significant
that the present filibuster is con
centrating on States’ Rights and
not on the race issue. “White su
premacy” is going the way of the
“white man’s burden.” All over
the world the black and the
brown peoples are coming to be
their own masters; their ambassa
dors sit in the world council of
nations. The old \ order fitted
naturally enough into the age of
Queen Victoria and Rudyard
Kipling; but that age is gone, and
the ideas that make sense in the
relations of governments and peo
ple today make nonsense of white
supremacy. And the Southern
Senators know it.
America August 14, 1948.
NAACP Will Have Turkey
Dinner Friday, October 1
In an effort to raise funds for the local
chapter of the NAACP a special turkey
dinner is being planned by a committee
with Mr*. R. L. Moody as chairman. Other
members of the committee are Mrs. Ro
berta Molden, Mrs. Birdie Artis, Mrs.
Bastha Bell and Mrs. John Humbert.
The dinner will be given at the Urban
League, 2030 T Street, Friday. October
I, and tickets may be secured from Mrs.
M. J. Bradford, Mrs. William A. Greene,
Mrs. Otis Smith, Mr. James Wadkins, Mrs.
J. B. Bonds, Mm. M. L. Shakespeare, Mrs.
Birdie Artis and the Urban League.
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Former League
Goup Worker Here
For Vacation
I ■■BArv.y mam
MISS KATHRINE THOMPSON.
Former Group work supervisor
of the Lincoln Urban League,
Miss Kathrine Thompson re
tured Friday after spending the
past year doing work on her
masters degree in Philadelphia,
Pa. Miss Thompson, who has
spent the summer in a group
workers camp with young peo
ple, will return to her school
work after several weeks vaca
tion with friends and relatives.
She is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska and has
lived many years in the city,
taking a prominent place in
church and community affairs.
Her absence is always missed
tremendously.
Our Children
Children Should Have
Feling of Importance
By Mrs. William B. Davis.
A child needs to be wanted and
appreciated. This is certainly his
paramount birthright. No state of
brotherhood of man will ever be
reached if human beings coming
into the world do not get a taste
of this brotherhood immediately
after birth and constantly contin
ued thereafter. For cooperation
can be achieved in human beings
themselves. The teaching of the
church and school will not pene
trate the human mind very deeply
or bring universal peace and con
structive action until there is a
degree of kindness and under
standing brought to bear upon
child life such as will make a
child exercise kindness and under
standing naturally and automati
cally in every human relationship
as long as he live. Let a child
start life feeling unwanted, un
loved and inferior, and there are
no lengths to which he will not
go to seek revenge upon a world
which has neglected him and
made him feel inferior. His re
action .can take the form of mari
tal tyranny, religious or racial
bigotry, industrial tyranny and
sadism, or the despotic rule and
destructive aggression of a dic
tator. On the other hand, let a
child know peace and justice in
his early home life and you have
a man or woman working to per
petuate a similar state of affairs in
j everything he touches.
Wiley Professor
Home After
Summer Session
OBBIE BROWN.
Obbie Brown, recently ap
pointed head of the chemistry
department at Wiley College,
Marshall, Texas, arrived home
Saturday for several weeks re
laxation before the fall term
begins In September.
Mr. Brown is the husband of
Mrs. Eugenia Simmis Brown,
music student at the University
of Nebraska.
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l| Sports Scope
Olympians
In the News
LOS ANGELES.—From Van
! couver to Tia Juana, the entire
Pacific coast is buzzing with
Olympic topics.... Dillard’s up
set w in... Patton’s comeback
Failure of colored female ath
letes... .America’s swreep of the
• winner’s circle.
As to be expected, much of this
talk centers around the exploits
i of colored performers wearing the
colors of the United States.
Some of the sports authorities,
I steeped in the success of the team
} from these shores, point out that
j the sepia athletes have Achilles
I tendons that are longer than other
1 persons’, or that they have other
1 muscles that are developed differ
• ently than others. This, they say,
is the reason they are so success
ful.
WIDESPREAD THEORIES.
While the latter theories bump
from comer to corner of discus
sion rooms, or parlors, it is
pointed out that American ath
letes period, only excel in certain
events, namely, sprints, jumping,
pole vaulting, short runs, and a
few weight events.
Reason for this is said to be
the fact that we Americans have
sport temperaments that motivate
us to events w'hich give an oppor
tunity to perform spectacularly
and dramatically. Another item
that comes up for airing on this
subject is the fact that Americans
do not go out for all events, as
do the Europeans, who specialize
in those wind-breaking steeple
chase and marathon runs.
While debates on the topic in
j crease and ebb, it becomes clear
that Americans do hold the ma
jority of medals for winning in
' international sports events, and
that this gives the right to assert
that we are superior.
SUPPORT NEEDED.
With this declaration, it be
comes evident that we need the
support of all our athletes to
maintain our position, the support
of the Pattons, Porters, Dillards,
Ewells and Davises... .People are
saying, from Tia Juana to Van
couver, via San Francisco, that
without the Dillards, and Ewells,
the scope of supremacy held by
our Nation in international sports
would be somewhat curtailed.
| Map Plans For
Ingrams’ Defense
NEW YORK.—Plans for the
continued defense of Mrs. Rosa Le
Ingram and her two teen-age sons
will be developed at a conference
of lawyers called by Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
which has charge of the case.
The decision to call the confer
ence followed denial last week by
the Georgia State Supreme Court
of a petition for a rehearing of
an appeal from a ruling of the
trial court denying a motion for a
new trial. The lawyers will ex
plore federal grounds on which
an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court may be based.
Mrs. Ingram and her sons were
convicted last winter of the self
defense slaying of a white farmer
near Ellaville in southwest
! Georgia. They were sentenced to
death—a sentence' which was
commuted to life imprisonment
after the NAACP sought a new
trial for the three. The case was
taken to the State Supreme Court
which affirmed the decision of the
lower court.
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Veterans'1 Day
September 5
Plans for a “more eventful, more
, colorful, more enjoyable Veterans’
Day than ever before” at the an- .
. nual Nebraska State Fair, Sep
tember 5, were announced this
week at Lincoln by Nathan Gross
man, general chairman of Veter
ans’ Day.
With free entertainment for
parade participants, a huge “fam- ^
ily picnic” and more than 500
posts and auxiliary units of vet
eran organizations in Nebraska
taking part, the day’s activities
tare expected to break a record
in total attendance, declared
Grossman.
“We already have over 25 bands
and drum corps units scheduled,”
he stated.
Veterans and their families from
all over the state will begin gath
ering at the State Fair picnic 1
grounds at 10 a. m. The picnic
| will: be held at 12 noon. Families
are urged to bring their own
lunch baskets if possible, although
food will be available on the
grounds.
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