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Tib® ^©n©® 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 Z?2S S Street Phone 5-649.’ it No Answer Call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare___Advertising and Business Manager Lynwood Parker.___Associate Editor, on Leave Charles Goolsby__-.—. Associate Editor, Y.M.C.A. Roberta Mo!den__—--Associate Editor 1966 U Street, 2-1407 Mrs. Joe Green....Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Past Otiice at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act ol March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription _-$2.00 _Single copy. ....-—5c_ NATIONAL CDITORIAI— j SSOCIATION EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those ol the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—Pub.__ Teacher Sees Free India as Symbol Of Hope for Colored People (Dr. T. Thomas Fortune Fletcher made a tour of free India and Pakistan. He is one of the American teaching in Ethiopa to help this nation on its road to recov ery in the post-war world. This article is the second of a series. I put up at the Taj Mahal hotel, India’s finest and one of the world's best. Behind the counter I noticed a sign which read in black bold letters six inches high: “South Africans Not Admitted.*^ Both India and Pakistan seek a trade embargo against South Africa. They have the moral courage to invoke such an em bargo alone though other nations lack such courage. Since the loss of India, once known as “Britain’s brightest jewel,” repressive measures againtst Indians and Africans alike seem to have become more severe and intolerable in British East Africa and South Africa. How much longer can England and America vaunt their “democ racy” before the rest of the world when black peoples are not given a full share of that democracy? India is a living reality of what a people can do to achieve their lull stature and freedom. What the darker people of In dia have done* black people in the benighted regions of British East Africa, South Africa and south and north Georgia can and must do if they are to walk up right and unafraid as the 400, 000„000 Indians do today. In New Delhi I made a pil grimage to the spot where the mortal frame of the toothless little browm saint, Ghandiji, was consumed by fire on the funeral pyre. It lies in the center of a green plain, and is approached by a plain dirt road. Within a simple wire enclosure is a gray marble slab, the site of the pyre, plain and unadorned. An Indian family was visiting the shrine—a young father, the mother in a beautiful blue saro, and four adorable doe-eyed chil dren, four to eight years old. Lovingly, parents and children Iai<LSarlands of white jasmine on the_sbrine, bowed reverently and then walked slowly around the shrine seven times. These pilgrims and others, in cluding myself, removed their shoes before entering the pre cincts of the shrine because they had an unmistakable feeling they stood on holy ground. A national monument is to be erected on this spot. Here, the highest and the lowest, richest and poorest, peasant and prince, Brahman and Untouchable, will have a part in paying homage to Ghandiji, father and creator of the New India. (In his final story of India next week, Dr. Fletcher will tell of his visits to the interior of India and to the Moslem state. Pakistan ) | Walter White To Take Leave From NAACP NEW YORK. (ANP). Because of his health, Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP will take a year’s leave with pay, beginning Dec. I, it was an nounced here this week. White is now serving in Paris as a consultant on race problems to the United States delegation to the General assembly of the United Nations. When he returns to America, Nov. 1, he will orient Roy Wil kins, the NAACP assistant secre tary, with office routine. The NAACP board appointed Wilkins to serve in place of White during his leave of absence. The NAACP announcement said that White’s personal physician asked that he be relieved of his duties at this time. It said that White “has worked to the detri ment of his health for several years without sufficient rest.” White has worked with the NAACP since 1918 after leaving the Atlanta Life Insurance com pany. Wilkins started working for the NAACP after leaving the Kansas City Call in 1931. In 1934 he became editor of the Crisis, the NAACP magazine, when Dr. W.E.B. DuBois resigned. Card of Thanks We wish to thank everyone for the lovely gifts we received for our wedding, also the people who assisted us with the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Son Bizer Hard Teacher We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.__ THE ANIMAL HOSPITAL COMPUTE VETERINARY SERVICE DR. G. A. ACKERMAN, Veterinarian 919 L StreetDial 2-5424 Sports Scope Football Last Saturday, Potsy Clark’s Cornhusker eleven romped across the zero stripe three times to down the Iowa State Cyclones 19 to 15 in a thrilling season opener. The Iowa tribe got off to an early start when Billy Myers blocked a punt attempt by Don Ferguson and scored a touchback against the Husker eleven. The game was characterized by spirited play on both sides, but the crowd that jammed the stands got a thrill when Bob Schneider fumbled a pass from Fischer, only to have Fred Haw kins to retrive the oval and dash for a score. The Cornhuskers win was according to expectations. Buddy Young NEW YORK. (ANP). Claude “Buddy” Young is the most missed man on the New York Yankees team and it is believed his injury helped speed the dis missal of the coach, Ray Fla herty, Flaherty, a crack end in his own right when he played at college and later with the New York Giants, was dismissed last week by the Yankee management which can’t afford a losing team in the metropolis. The absence of Buddy Young weakened the team in its two losses to San Francisco and Bal timore and now the proud east ern champions boast one win and three losses in as many games. Tom Casey, the heralder Hamp ton back, can’t take up the slack caused by Young’s absence. It's in the Satchel I When the venerable (approach ing forty, he says, Satchel Paige was signed up by the Cleveland Indians, Manager Lou Boudreau probably figured that he had ac quired a foxy old veteran who would be good for a couple of in nings on the mound when the Tribe was in a tight spot. The Dark Destroyer himself, when asked whether his aged frame (well, he has been pitching for twenty-odd years) would stand up to the competition offered by the youthful and vigorous sluggers of the American League, allowed that he might not be as young as he used to be, but that he could still “outcute ’em.” In Chicago, however, the dazed White Sox, who faced the ancient one on two successive Friday nights, are still wondering what hit them. “Paige Blanks White Sox” is threatening to become monoto nous. In the first game, a solitary White Soxer -managed to get as far as third base; in the second, even that meager consolation was denied the boys from the Windy City. And in Cleveland, at the announcement that Satchel Paige is going to start, the fans pack themselves into the stadium until it gapes at' the seams. To date, he has five wins and one loss. But about this business of the old gentleman's age. In an unguarded moment Ol’ Satchmo offered $500 to any Cleveland man who could prove that he was in professional baseball before 1927. Promptly up bobs one Carl Goetz with the photostat of a 1926 box-score from Memphis, listing “Satchel” as pitcher. This was confirmed by Alex Heritian, who signed Satchel to the Chattanooga Black. Look outs in 1926. As the veteran parted from $500, he asked Goetz: “Say, how much did that photo stat cost you?” “Two dollars” said Goetz. “Five ‘ hundred for two,”-said Paige, ‘“maybe I oughta quit pitching and start lookin’ for suckers like me.” No need to look far, venerable sir; just think of all the club owners who passed you up for twenty years because you were a Negro.—America. NAACP (Continued from Page 1.) citizens,” he continued, “are ne glecting to register and vote.” October 23 is the closing date for registrations and all persons who have not registered since September 1947 or who have moved since that time are re quired to register, according to the new state law. The Election Commission’s offices are located on the ground floor of the Ter minal building at 10th and “O” streets. “From time to time, the local branch and the national office of the NAACP has occasion to refer matters to local state and national officials and its work is easier and ; more effective when people are registered for voting and members of the Association. Already there has been an increase of 250 per cent in the number of Negro vot ers this Fall, but there are still a great many who have not availed themselves of that privi lege,” he said. A block campaign is planned to survey the extent of Negro registrations and all who are not registered will be urged to do so before the final date. The Rally portion of the meet ing will be presided over by Mr. Dale Weeks, instructor in politi cal science at Nebraska Wesleyan University and President of the Lincoln Urban League. Mr. I. R. Pansing, City Councilman and Chairman of the Young Republi cans of Lancaster county, and Mr. Arthur Weaver, City Councilman and Chairman of the Nebraska Delegation to the National Repub lican Convention, will present the various aspects of the Republican platform. Mr. Don Morrow, Chair man of the Young Democrats of Lancaster county will present the Democrats’ view of the present situation and their platform. Mr. Joe Ishawa will speak on the Socialist Party platform. Rev. John Favors, Omaha teacher and pastor of Mt. 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