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Hub of Harmony on Six-State Tour
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THE HUB OF HARMONY CHORUS, composed of eight Union College stuaents, unaer me direction
of Coach Wayne Hooper, left Friday morning on a singing tour to include Iowa, Missouri, Minne
sota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The singers, with their organizers and director, Frank W. Hale,
jr., a senior majoring in speech and religion, will be gone until December 1. All of the members
of the organization have had radio and stage experience and their natural rhythm and keen in
sight of music are familiar to music lovers all over the city and state. They sing with their ‘'Hearts, j
Heads, and Hands.” The tour is sponsored by Union College, and is the first in a series of artist
tours by student groups.
Church Women
Resolve to
Support FEPC
“Negroes proved that they have
the qualifications to hold many
jobs during the war, but now that
we are at peace, their help doesn’t
seem wanted,” declared Rev. John
Lepke, Congregationalist student
pastor. He continued his talk
before the Lincoln Council of
Church Women Nov. 16 by point
* ing out that the economic discri
minations faced by various minor
ity groups is holding back the eco
nomic advance Of the people as a
whole.
Following the talk, Mrs. Ned
Darlington, the Council’s chair
man on race relations, presented a
resolution which stated that sound
fair employment practice legisla
tion is needed in Nebraska. Such
legislation as was so effectively
operated by the Roosevelt admin
istration, has since been adopted
in several eastern states and in
our largest cities and is operating
in the best interest of all the peo
ple. The resolution was unani
y mously passed by the 200 ladies
attending the meet at Tabernacle
Christian church.
After the passage of the reso
lution, Rev. J. B. Brooks was and
several others were designated to
present the resolution to a group
that is preparing support for such
legislation from other groups,
with the hope that it would be
presented to the mayor with the
idea of a mayor’s committee be
ing formed to study local dis
crimination.
Later the Council heard Miss
Theresa McKenna, Lincoln YWCA
director who told of her expe
riences with the reputation of
American democracy in Europe,
pointing out that the gap between
( ideals and reality must be closed,
she declared that brotherhood
should begin in the community
VOC Dates Named
By National UL
The National Urban League an
nounces its 17th Vocational Op
portunity Campaign, March 13-20,
1949. As before, the campaign
will be under the joint leadership
of Ann Tanneyhill, director of Vo
cational Guidance, National Ur
ban League, and George Edwards
of the Southern Division of the
National Urban League. The Vo
( cational Opportunity Campaign,
popularly known as the VOC, will j
channel the thinking of people j
along the lines of a job choice and
stress the need for preparation
in keeping with the campaign
theme and slogan: “The Future Is
Yours—Plan and Prepare.”
UNCHR OK’s
Women's Right
To Marry
PARIS. (ANP). Despite objec- j
tions to various sections by the
United States and Great Britain
and by Roman Catholics, the U.N. ■
Commission on Human rights'
adopted a plank advocating equal j
rights for women including the'
privilege of marrying persons of
any race they chose, last week.1
The United States and England 1
opposed Russian proposals which
gave women equal rights “both 1
during marriage and at its disso
lution” and protecting the family
by society and the state. Both
amendments were approved oy
th® body, however.
Catholics originally objected
to the use of the word “divorce”
in the resolution. In its place the
word “dissolution” was substi
tuted.
In the final vote for the com
plete plank, the United States and
Britain voted in its favor. The
completed statement reads:
“Without any limitation due to
race, nationality or religion men
and women of full age have the
right to marry and to found a
family and are entitled to equal
rights as to marriage.
“Marriage shall be entered into
only with the full and free con
sent of the intended spouses.
Men and women shall enjoy
equal rights during both the
marriage and its dissolution.
“The family is a natural and
fundamental group unit of so
ciety, and is entitled to protec
tion by society and the state.”
The later two paragraphs were
the controversial planks in the
resolurtn.
Negro Doctor to Study
At Louisville Hospital
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (JP). Louis
the first time in the hospital’s his
tory.
*Dr. M. F. Rabb, 40, is a staff
ville General Hospital officials
revealed Thursday that a Negro
physician is taking training for
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FROM ALL OF US
THE STAFF
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American Girl
Enrolls in Freetown
University College
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone.
(ANP). Mi^s M. Weller, a daugh-j
ter of the Rev. and Mrs. Sailman
W. Weller, Waterbury, Conn., is
enrolled as a freshman in the
Church Missionary Society Uni
versity college of Fourah Bay, it
was disclosed here recently. Miss
Weller is studying for a bachelor
of arts degree from Durham uni
versity, England, to which the
college is affiliated.
She came to Freetown last
Oct. 16 from the United States,
via Britain, with her elder sister
who became the bride of Dr.
John Karefa-Smart last March
27. Dr. Karefa-Smart, a mis
sionary doctor, recently com
pleted a year’s postgraduate work
in Harvard university, returning
home via Amsterdam, Holland,
where he attended the World
Conference of churches.
_Mrs. Karefa-Smart, the former
Miss Rena Joyce Weller, is a
graduate of Connecticut State
Teachers college and Yale Di
inity school. The couple lives in
the town of Rotifunk where the
doctor is in charge of the United
Brethren Mission hospital. Her
sister is a resident student at
Fourah Bay college.
member of Red Cross Hospital for
Negroes here but had no op
portunity there to study profes
sional use of anesthetics.
Courtesy Omaha World Herald.
Great Inspiration Results From
United Church Women s Group
Delegates Pledge Themselves To Take Lead
In The Eradication of Racial Segregation
By Rubie W. Shakespeare.
The Fourth biennial United Church Women’s Council,
composed of delegates from 44 states and a number of for
eign countries, which met in Milwaukee November 15-18,
went on record as favoring proposed legislation which would
aid in the realization of Christian principles.
Mrs. William Byron Davis, corresponding secretary for
the Lincoln Council and delegate, termed the convention
Hunter Is
Victim of
The Hunt
A rabbit hunt was brought to
a near tragic close Sunday after
noon when Mr. Sonny Austin,
1946 “U” street was accidentally
shot. Austin had been out hunt
ing with five companions about 22
miles south of Lincoln near Ben
net, Neb., and was apparently un
der the impression that he had
unloaded his gun, as the party be
gan loading up for the trip home.
As Austin entered the car, owned
by M. C. Tarpley, his gun dis
charged, the bullet passing very
near to a jugular vein. He was
then rushed to Bryan Memorial
hospital where, Sunday night, he
was reported as resting “comfort
ably.”
Lt. L. Parker .
Manages PX
At Fort Dix
Lt. Lynnwood Parker, associate
editor now on leave, has been
made manager of the Army Ex
change store the 365th Infantry
Regiment at Fort Dix, N. J. The
store serves approximately 3,500
men and has cafeteria facilities,
watch repair, jewelry and notions
departments and a four chair bar
ber shop.
Loss of Farms in
Germany Brings
Need for C.R.O.P.
LINCOLN.—“There is a con
stant and continuing need in Eu
rope for projects similar to the Ne
braska Goodwill Train,” Dwight
Dell, state Christian Rural Over
seas Program director stated to
day. “Scattered reports have put
doubts in some peoples minds as
to conditions in Europe,” Dell
stated, “but the weight of evi
dence in statements made by men
and women who have lived in
Europe or visited there recently
shows the majority of people in
war-ruined countries to be in piti
ful condition.”
The state C.R.O.P. director, now
in the midst of preparations for the
Nebraska Goodwill Train which
leaves for Europe December 10
cited Germany as ah example of
the effects of the war on foreign
economy. Germany, he said, has
been forced to import as high as
40 percent of its food require
ments for many years. Never a
self-sufficient nation, the Ger
mans lost a great portion of their
food producing territory through
the Potsdam agreements. This
fact coupled with the entry of
11,000,000 additional citizens as
displaced persons after the loss
of one-fourth of its territory has
completely disrupted the German
economy.
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me most successiui ana con
structive that she has witnessed in
recent years. Other persons elect
ed delegates included Mrs. M. C.
Leonard, Mrs. Viola Hackman,
Mrs. Lacy Belnap and Mrs. E. S.
Wegner.
Mrs. Davis spoke first of the
hospitality which she received and
the beautiful spirit of Christian
brotherhood that was evident
throughout the meeting. Shetalked
at length about the number of
MRS. WILLIAM B. DAVIS
' delegates who publicly pledged
! themselves to return to their
j homes, in Southern states particu
larly, and use their influence in
the elimination of the States
I Rights Program an5 the entire
eradication of racial segregation
I at home and in the armed forces.
! Legislation on FEPC and Federal
• Aid to Education were approved
i by the body.
The council pledged themselves
to “Clean-Up” Washington, D. C.,
j which may be called the center
of discrimination and racial seg
regation.
Mrs. Mary Bethune and Dr.
Howard Thurman were both
prominent figures at the council.
Nurse Admitted
To NCLNE
DURHAM, N. C. (ANP). Miss
i Esther P. Henry, director of the
department of public health
nursing of North Carolina col
lege, was recently admitted to the
North Carolina League of Nurs
ing education. She became the
first Negro accepted by this or
I ganization.
Mays Is Mum on
Hampton Hitch
NEW YORK. (ANP). When
asked to give a statement con
cerning his accepting the presi
dency of Hampton institute this
winter, Dr. Benjamin S. Mays,
president of Morehouse college,
feplied “no comment.”
In the city for a two-day
speaking engagement, Dr. Mays
said that he preferred the state
ment should come from the
school’s board of trustee* rattier
i than from himself.
