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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.
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that means
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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
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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.
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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.
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