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Volume 2, Number 48
30,000' , ,rtt* /n South Carolina
The Voice Scholarship Fund's
New Look Has Great Appeal
Will Aid Students in Effort to Meet
Requirements at Bryan Memorial Hospital
With the doors of Bryan Me
morial Hospital now open to Negro
students, The Voice assifines a new
responsibility of assisting girls
who may wish to become nurses
and who may find it difficult to
pay tlfteir entrance fee. Of the
four girls who have expressed a
desire to take advantage of the
opportunity The Voice will assist
two of them and has already made
plans to secure funds.
£•- The girls will be selected ac
cording to their scholastic stand
ing as well as requirements neces
sary for entrance at the Methodist
hospital.
The board prefers that two
girls would enter training at the
same time.
Funds are being raised through
a cook book project which is being
compiled by Mrs. John Miller who
is in charge of the Household Hint
column for The Voice.
Recipes which have been used
in The Voice and other special
ones are being tested and ap
proved by Mrs. Miller.
The book promises to be at
tractively bound and a must in
• every home.
Socialist Holds
Convention
NORMAN THOMAS.
Courtesy of the Lincoln Journal.
Norman Thomas, quadrennial
socialist party candidate for
president, addressed a state
convention sponsored by Ne
braskans for Norman Thomas at
4 p. m. Sunday at the state
fairgrounds 4-H building.
The convention was held in
an attempt to secure 750 signa
tures of eligible voters so that
t Thomas and his running mate,
Prof. Tucker F. Smith, could go
on the Nebraska presidential
ballot.
The signatures secured were
far short of the requirement.
Officer to Serve hi Army’s
Public Information
Division
WASHINGTON. (ANP). First
Lt. Robert E. Smith, Jr., of Jack
sonville, Fla., has been recently
assigned to a one month tour of
duty with the public information
division of the army in the press
section. He will, assist 1st Lt.
4} John T. Martin, Jr., in the Negro
interest unit.
A reserve officer, Lt. Smith
graduated from Howard univer
sity in 1946, and is now a sopho
more in Howard’s school of den
tistry.
Music in the Air
Show Theme
The annual Fall Opening at the
Lincoln Urban League will be
September 24 sponsored bj the
Urban League Glee Club with
Mrs. Eugenia Brown directing.
Assisting Mrs. Brown will be
Mrs. Sara Walker, Mrs. Roberta
Molden and Mr. Clyde W. Ma
lone.
The program will consist of lo
cal and out of town talent with
many surprises in store for the
audience including duo piano se
lections by both local and out of
town artists.
The girls of the Glee Club will
be in formal attire with special
lighting arangements with Mr.
Jewell Kelley in charge.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the program.
The public is invited. No ad
j mission will be charged.
Editor Returns
From Vacation
BY DOROTHY GREEN.
The Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare
returned Thursday evening after
a three week vacation in San
Diego, Calif., where he spent time
with relatives whom he had not
seen for 23 years.
Being a minister and newspaper
editor he 'mixed business with
pleasure. He did not only attend
WmMsMBi
REV. SHAKESPEARE.
several church meetings at Bethel
A. M. E. Church, but he had the
pleasure to be guest speaker Sun
day, Aug. 15 at a special men’s
day program.
Another of the highlights of his
trip was that he visited two of
San Diego’s leading newspaper
plants—The Lighthouse and The
Comet.
One of the things he liked best
was the fishing on the Pacific
ocean.
Rev. Shakespeare also spent
some time in Mexico.
William Broden Speaks
At Doane College, Crete
William Broden, liberal arts
junior at the University of Ne
braska was speaker on program
at Doane College at Crete Thurs
day, August 18. His subject was
“Democracy in Its Responsibility
Superintendent of Schools
Announces School Opening
Courtesy of the Lincoln Journal.
GILBERT S. WILLEY.
Registration
Starts Aug. 30
Lincoln public schools will open
for all pupils on Tuesday, Sept.
7, Gilbert S. Willey, superintend*
ent of schools has announced.
Mr. Willey announced the fol
iowing information fo« parents of
children of school age:
Time of opening—Pupils in ele
mentary schools will report at 9
a. m. Tuesday. Junior and senior
high pupils will report at 8:40
a. m.
Registration—It will not be nec
essary for pupils in the kindergar
ten thru the sixth grade inclu
sive to register before Sept. 7.
Pupils new to the city who are
planning to enter junior or senior
Negro Vote
Important in
Elections
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP).
The Negro vote in the state of
Arkansas was vital in various
elections throughout the state last
week. It helped elect the new gov
ernor; it elected several sheriffs,
and in the town of Morrilton,
the whites thought enough of the
Negro vote to keep the Negroes
from voting.
The election of McMath for
governor was definitely decided
by the colored vote. Counties
< heavily populated by Negroes
1 gave the newly elected governor
a margin of more than 7,200 while
his margin of victory was only
slightly over 7,000. If a few of the
colored votes had switched to
Holt, McMath could not have won.
In a typical county, Jefferson,
Pine Bluff reports that Garland
Brewster was re-elected by a
wide margin. This campaign was
marked by frantic efforts of his
opponents to grab the colored
vote. Negroes, however, recog
nized Brewster’s fair treatment
toward them during his past term,
and voted for him to serve again.
In Morrilton, the story was dif
ferent, according to Frank W.
Smith, superintendent of the Con
way County Training school for
Negroes. Although 151 Negroes
were eligible to vote in Howard
township, whites led by Sammy
Carl Plummer, Democratic party
leader, stopped them at the polls.
According to Smith* when he
and other citizens came to vote,
Plummer said:
“We are not letting any colored
vote today.” When the Negroes
suggested going in he added, “If
you attempt to go in there I doubt
that you will ever get in there."
“We seem to be without protec
tion from this type of disfran
chisement,” Smith said, “but if
protection is to be had under the
constitutions of Arkansas and the
United States, we are going to in
situte the means of finding that
protection immediately.”
He said the polls were blocked
by belligerent white bystanders.
to the World.” The Rev. R. Mc
Nutt, in charge at the Methodist
Student house, accompanied him
and spoke on Minority Groups.
high schools should register at
their respective schools from 1
p. m. to 3 p. m., Monday, Aug. 30,
thru Friday, Sept. 3. New high
school pupils should bring tran
scripts of credits earned in other
schools.
Home bound classes—Instruction
for homebound pupils will be of
fered in all grade levels for which
there is a demand.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing—
The class for deaf and bard of
hearing pupils will be housed at
Prescott school, 20th and Har
wood.
Huskerville—Pupils living in
Huskerville will be transported by
bus to schools in the city. Kinder
garten, grades one and two will
attend Lake View school; grades
three thru six, Bancroft school;
junior high, Whittier school; sen
ior high, Lincoln high school.
Additional information may be
had by calling 2-1400.
Members of the teaching staff
will report for duty for the week
beginning Aug. 30. They will get
their classrooms ready and attend
several professional meetings dur
ing the week.
A meeting for principals, direc
tors and supervisors will be held
Aug. 31. The Lincoln Teachers
association will sponsor a recep
tion for new teachers at 3 p. m.
Wednesday. Thirty committees
appointed to study instruction
problems will meet Thursday fore
noon. A general teachers’ meet
ing will be held at 10 a. m. Friday.
College Instructor
To Teach in China
JACKSON, Miss (ANP). A
member of the summer school
staff of Jackson college, Dr.
Aguinaldo Lanier, on leave from
Fisk university for 1948-49, re
ceived a grant to teach in China,
last week.
The Board of Foreign scholar
ship under the Fulbright act has
given him a grant to be a visiting
professor in foreign languages
and literature at the Tsing Hau
university in Peking. He was in
vited by his Dartmouth class
mate, Dean Quenton Pan of the
Chinese school.
Dr. Lanier will teach at Jack
son college until he goes to
China. Lanier high school in
Jackson vns named after his
father.
- COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP). More
J than 30,000 Negroes voted last
week in the South Carolina demo
cratic party primaries without in
cident. This was the first time
Negroes had the ballot in the par
ty primary since Reconstruction
days.
Although James H. Hinton,
president of the state NAACP
“recommended” that the colored
voters cast their ballots for cer
tain candidates, results reveal that
they did not vote in bloc.
One candidate, theoretically
favored by the Negro group, Ne
ville Bennett, failed miserably in
the senatorial race won by the in
cumbent, Sen. Burney R. May
bank. Bennett did not even poll
30,000 votes, the estimated num
ber of Negro ballots cast.
In Cherokee county, however, a
Negro supported candidate for the
house won easily over Probate
Judge Roy C. Cobb. Another “rec
ommended” candidate, Rep. John
J. Riley, lost in his attempt for
re-election. The two losers, Ben
nett and Riley, said that they
knew nothing of alleged Negro
support.
Only one incident was reported
during the election period. Two
crosses were supposed to have
been lighter near Aiken. Hinton
said the crosses flamed, but the
Aiken county sheriff, Price Fal
low, said they did not burn.
The Negroes gained their right
to participate in the primaries
when Judge J. Waties Waring, the
son of a confederate soldier and
native of South Carolina, ruled in
the federal district court last
month that the democratic party
had to enroll Negroes on their
books.
In the past the party has oper
ated as a “private” club which
excluded Negroes from member
ship.
Speaking of the election in gen
eral, Hinton said that colored peo
ple “were very appreciative” of
the treatment accorded them at
the polls.
Savannah Gets
First Colored
Case Worker
SAVANNAH, Ga. (ANP). Sa
vannah got its first colored case
worker for children last week
when Miss Pearl Lavender was
appointed to work in the Child
Placement services, Miss Maude
M. Butler, director, announced.
A native of Savannah, Miss
Lavender recently earned her
master’s degree in social work at
the Atlanta University School of
Social work. She earned her
A.B. at South Carolina state
college, and graduated from
Beach high school here in 1942.
She will work with Negro chil
dred up to the age of 16 years.
Men’s Club Gives Fish Fry
The Men’s Club of Mount Zion
Baptist church is giving a fish
fry Saturday, August 28 at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Stewart, 1939 S Street from 5:00
p. m. until all dinners are sold
out. Mr. Robert Letcher is presi
dent of this fine organization and
would like other men to join.
Plans are ]fti tne very near future
to have a men’s chorus.
