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TTlb @ W© as® PUBLISHED WEEKLY • -—■— ---“7-~-r “Dedicated to the promotion of the ^cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people _ Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2?2S S Street Phor‘e 5M9' If 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 Molded_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 Cia^r Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under tbe Act oi March 3, 18/9. I year subscription -$2-00_Single copy .— ^-Sc_ NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ ASSOCIATION y'Jfcrn&A-. EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection ol the policy ol The Voice —Pub.__ STONEWALL TRUMAN By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP. We have heard much about Stonewall Jackson, a majestic figure in the War of Secession. The name “Stonewall” was given him because in the thick of one of the great battles someone re marked that Gen. Jackson was “standing like a stone wall” and henceforth he was to be called Stonewall Jackson. May this column present an other majestic figure standing like a stone wall? His name is Harry Truman from Missouri! Truman has surprised the nation and has easily become one of the most ma jestic moral figures of the times. And it is just as well for us to know that Harry Truman is not going to be anybody’s pushover in the coming elections. It is true the various “polls” are counting him out but these polls have a way of getting over what certain interests want. It is by no means a fore gone conclusion that the doty Re publicans will sweep the country. There are millions of men and women in this country who admire a real man who will stand up and slug it out. Truman is such a man and to his everlasting credit be it said, he absolutely refused to play dead when the Dixiecrats w'alked out on him! Instead of retracting his stand on civil rights he came back slugging and these self same polls are now whispering that “Truman is gaining.” It was noised about when Truman first took his civil rights stand that certain elements in the south would revolt and say mean things about him. Truman simply replied that he was elected to uphold the Constitution of the United States and that he did not give a whoop what they said. To date Mr. Truman still had not given his whoop. There are a lot of people in this country with votes to cast who rather like a man who takes a stand for God and righteousness and who does not particularly give a whoop what the hecklers say or do. If Truman had not been serious about what he said, the Dixiecrats would have swung him long ago. But Truman really and honestly was sincere about the whoop-giv ing-business and because of that millions of whites and Negroes are going to the polls to let the world know what they think of a man who takes a stand for righteous ness not giving a whoop what the hecklers and Dixiecrats say. Truman is on safe ground, wrhy should he give a whoop? He has the Bible on his side; he has de cency and civic righteousness on his side; he has the constitution on his side; he has time and right on his side; he has God on his side. Why, will someone tell us, should he be interested in giving whoops? It is true that I cannot use the same language but he came pretty dose to expressing my sentiments. There is another side to this >s matter that we are tempted to forget and that is, there are mil lions of whites in the south who are not Dixiecratic in their sym pathies. Negroes therefore not only owe their support to Harry Truman who refuses under pres sure to give a whoop for the Dixiecrats, but they owe it to those southern whites who are resolving to support him in this no-whoop-giving campaign. If the sizeable voting contingent of the white south is added to the sizeable voting contingent of the Negro south there is a possibility that Harry Truman may be swept into the White House on one of the most miraculous political tides of history. Negroes who admire Truman and who plan to vote for him must refuse to believe this hokum that he is already a politi cal dead bird. Far from it. With the Negro vote solid and the vote of the white south split most de cidedly, Truman has more than the proverbial gambling chance. „ Truman has something of the Roosevelt spirit in his natural out look and we need just such an outlook today. Honestly this writer is afraid of the Republican party and therefore afraid of Dewey who will be its rubber stamp. If he refuses to be this rubber stamp, we shall have another case of President and congress at logger heads. The Republican crowd that hopes to take over is the same old crowd that politically destroyed Hoover and came near destroying the country. They may have an other standard bearer but it is the same old Republican party that never forgets anything and never learns anything. This column is supporting Harry Truman who re fuses to give a whoop even under Dixiecritic pressure!!! The men who try to.do some thing and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.—Lloyd Jones. ... a name that means | fine furniture SHURTLEFF j FURNITURE CO. § | 1532 0 St. | jji LINCOLN Out of old Nebraska . . BY JAMES C. OLSON Superintendent, State Historical Society Fifty years ago, in the Trans Mississippi and International Ex position at Omaha, the West served notice on the rest of the country that it had come of age, and that the once commonly-used description, “The Great American Desert,” no longer was appro priate. As was proper for the age of electricity into which America was moving, President William Mc Kinley formally opened the ex position on June 1, 1898, by push ing a button in Washington, and from June through November Ne braska’s first city was host to thousands of visitors from all parts of the world. Later, on Oc tober 12, the President and mem bers of his cabinet visited the ex position. The visitors came to view the wonders of art, mechanics and electricity. They saw exhibit after exhibit which gave proof positive that America west of the Missis sippi had developed into the world’s greatest breadbasket. They were introduced to the exotic and the strange on a Midway studded with such attractions as “The Streets of Cairo,” and “The Chi nese Village.” The Omaha Exposition grew out of the success of the World’s Co lumbian Exposition held in Chi cago in 1893. This success had prompted a number of western cities—notably Kansas City, Den ver, and Salt Lake—to consider the' possibility of holding an in terstate exposition in the West. Apparently, even though the citi zens of Omaha got on the band wagon comparatively late, they worked so effectively that Omaha got the official approval of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, the organization spon soring the fair. In preparation for the exposi tion, the Nebraska State Legisla ture in 1897, was asked to appro priate $350,000.00 to construct a state building on the grounds and to gather exhibits for it. There was considerable opposition to the exposition in the western part of the state, and the appropriation was whittled down to $100,000. Even so, Nebraska appropriated more than twice as much money as any other state, and from all ac counts the Nebraska Building was one of the marvels of the exposi tion. William Jennings Bryan and Governor Silas A. Holcomb were the principal orators on June 14, the day it was dedicated. „ Many other states and the fed eral government cooperated to turn a section of Omaha into a great, gaudy concourse, which i ____ - At Winterhalter’s Complete line of Wallpapers, Paints, Enamels, Varnishes, Brushes and decorating sup Dlies. PINE DECORATIVE WAUfATIRS AND 1A1N1» Formerly Colombia Glam A Petal Co. 14th m4 P Streets Phone 2-7549 | TYlcingels j ' FEMININE ) APPAREL * I y \ i 1225 O ! i | Sports Scope | Is Your Answer Here? Q. In your story or stories on Harrison Dillard, America’s top 100-meter find of 1948, I agree with you in everything but one point. I thinH Dillard would have beaten Owens at his best. Joe Burnham, Chapel Hill, N. C. A. So, we still differ on that point. Champ. Owens would have whipped Dillard. Q. Rate these Negro all time pitchers in order of ability: Slim Jones, Whitworth, Buttet Rogan, Dizzy Dismukes and Leroy Paige. Bob Chesnut, Darby, Pa. A. Paigfe, Regan, Dismukes, Whitworth, Jones. Q. What shortstop of recent years (big leagurer) reminded you of Dick Lundy. Negro baseball great? O. H. C., New York City. A. Joe Cronin, now business manager of Boston Red Sox. Q. What divisions did “Ken tucky Rosebud,” Larry Temple and young Jack Johnson fight in? Pete Crawford, Cedar Rapids, la. A. Bantamweight, light-heavy and middle; 175 pounder. Boxing NEW YORK. (ANP). World welterweight champion Sugar Ray J Robinson is caught in the middle ; of a boxing promotion “war” be- | tween the established 20th Cen tury club and the newcomer, the Tournament of Champions, Inc. The squabble between the two' fight groups broke out last Wed- j nesday on whether Robinson has a contract to fight under 20th Cen tury banners on Dec. 17. According to 20th Century, Rob inson signed a contract for a non title bout against Middleweight Steve Belloise of New York. The rival club, however, quoted Rob inson as saying he had not signed to face Belloise. After a conference with Mike Jacobs, it was announced that Robinson had agreed to meet made it difficult for visitors to be lieve that less than half a century earlier not a building stood in the city which now was host to an im pressive international exposition. THE ANIMAL HOSPITAL COMPUTE VETERINARY SERVICE DR. G. A. ACKERMAN, Veterinarian 919 L StreetDial 2-5424 I Indiana Univ. * oP ens Dormitory To Negro Women BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (ANP). For the first time a dormitory on the campus of Indiana university was open to colored women stu dents when the school redecorated and made Lincoln hall available to Negro girls this semester. Negro men had already been in tegrated on the campus. The cam paign to have women on the campus was led by the N.A.A.C.P. The ^opening of Lincoln hall was made possible after a conference of N.A.A.C.P. officials with Dr. Herman G. Wells, president of Indiana. After the opening, Willard B. Ransom, state N.A.A.C.P. presi dent; F. E. DeFrantz and Robert Starms, board members of the Indianapolis N.A.A.C.P., inspected Lincoln hall. All Negro Town Elects Mayor, Council Members HOBSON CITY, Ala. (ANP). A new mayor and members of the city council were appointed ^ by citizens of this all-Negro com munity in last week’s elections. H. H. Flowers was elected to the office of mayor to succeed Mayor Ed. Pierce who declined re-elec tion. Flowers was unopposed for the office. The city’s five council seats went to W. M. Bates and A. Snowl, with 29 votes; Willie Mosely, 30 votes; Albert Nichol sons 10; Clyde Atkinson, 21 and Edgar E. Hanna, 27. Belloise as the best available mid dleweight to gain prestige for a shot at the crown now held by ^ France’s Marcel Cerdan. Robinson is slated to get about 32 percent of the gate at Madison Square Garden? with 27’ 2 percent going to Belloise. At the same time, Robinson's manager was having a talk with Promoter Andy Neiderreiter of the Tournament of Champions; hence the conflicting claims over the Dec. 17 bout. ..:—■— ---3 UMBERGER'S 2-2424 1110 Q. Funeral and Ambulance Service. Roy A Sheaff, Dar old Rohrbaugh. Floyd Um berger families 2-5059 •
