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Tlh® ^®n<g<g 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 2225 S Street Phone 5-649) 11 Ho Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare-Advertising and Business Manager Charles Goolsby-----Associate Editor, Y.M.C.A. Rev. I. B. Brooks ----^Promotion Manager Mrs. Joe Green._Circulation Manager --—--- ■- ..— ' .. Member ot the Associated Negre Press and Nebraska Ptqss Association___ Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Post Ollice at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879. t year subscription_-52.00 Single copy--So NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ SSOCIATION .yyUmJhA— EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those ot the writer and not necessarily ■ reflection ot the policy of The Voice.—Pub. Dr. Frazier 1st Negro to Head American Sociological Society CHICAGO. (ANP). A new first was achieved last week when the American Sociological society, the nation’s leading professional group of sociologists, elected Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, a Negro, as president in its 43rd annual con vention held here at the Congress hotel. This marked the first time in America that a Negro ever headed a national professional scientific society. Dr. Frazier heads the depart ment of sociology at Howard Uni versity. In 1935-36 he was direc tor of the economic and social survey of Harlem for Mayor La Guardia’s Commission on Condi tions in Harlem. He also was a fellow of the John Simon Gug genheim foundation to study the Negro family in Brazil and the West Indies in 1940-41. His learned writings include “The Negro Family in the United States”; “The Negro Family Jn Chicago”; “Negro Youth at the Crossways” and “The Free Negro Family.” Besides Dr. Frazier, 9 other Negroes attended the meeting, they were Dr. Harry Walker and Dr. Frank Dorey, Howard Uni versity; Dr. and Mrs. John Alston, Wilberforce State College; Dr. Charles S. Johnson, Fisk Univer sity and former ^ice president of the group; William Hale, Atlanta University; Prof. A. F. Yarbor ough, Wilberforce State College; Theodore Blackburi?, Flanner house, Indianapolis, and Sydney I 1 " ...HI . Williams, Executive Secretary, Chicago Urban league. Dr. Frazier, Dr. Walker, Dr. Joseph D. Lohman of the com mittee recently making a report | on segregation in Washington, D. C., and Jitsuichi Masuoka of Fisk spoke at the meeting. In his speech Dr. Frazier traced various race theories and ex plained the ones that worked against good race relations. He welcomed bi-racial organization and activities and urbanization as I breaking down racial barriers. He ! also praised the integration of Negroes into industry and labor organizations. In his discussion Dr. Frazier introduced the general topic of the meeting, “Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World.” Dr. Johnson of Fisk was elected as a member at large to the executive committee. Dr. Walker in his talk divided Negro-white relations activities since the Civil war* into three periods: the adjustment state fol lowing the war; segregation era during which Negro leaders acted as liaison men between the two races, and the integration period still in prograss in which Negroes want equal participation in activi ties with whites. A paper, .“Negro leaders in a Southern City” by Masuoka, ex pressed this hope: “We may eventually come to learn to see other men as men and not merely as a sample of a race, a nationality or a creed.” Start The New Year INFORMED! Supplement Your Regular News Sources With A Subscription to 0 THE VOICE NEWSPAPER 2225 “S” Street Lincoln 3, Nebraska □ Please extend my subscription to The Voice □ Please start my subscription to The Voice □ 2 Years $4.00 □ 1 Year $2.00 « 4 * | 1 Signed.f... Address.*. by IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent »TATI HISTORICAL SOCIRTT Convening of the 61st session of the legislature at Lincoln this week calls to mind that Nebras ka’s capital city was the scene of its first legislative session in 1869, just 80 years ago. Although that meeting was known as the first regular ses sion, it actually was the fifth ses sion of the state legislature. Four sessions were held in the old ter | ritorial capitol at Omaha while I the new state capitol was being constructed. In his message to the legisla ture, Governor David Butler re viewed Nebraska’s progress in little less than a year of state hood, and outlined what he con sidered to be the most important problems facing the lawmakers convened in Lincoln. In certain j respects they were problems which are faced by today’s leg islators—schools, support of the state government, and care of the dependent and unfortunate. They had other problems which Nebraskans do not face today. One of these was protection against the Indians. The governor urged that provision be made for a regular militia, so that “those who go out upon the frontiers should be made to feel that the strong arm of the State will be swift and constant to extend to them full protection.” Another problem facing the legislature in 1869 was the man agement of the Lancaster County salt deposits. These were expected to become large producers of salt and were one of the reasons why the state capitol was located at its present site. While still optim istic, Governor Butler was dis turbed at the rate of progress be ing made. The fault, according to his an nual message, seemed to lie with the company developing the de posits. Governor Butler told the legislature: “So far has it failed that the local demand for salt has not been supplied, and that it has been unable at times to sup ply even a single bushel for home consumption.” Probably the most exciting feature of the legislative session of 1869 was the election of a United States senator to succeed Thomas W. Tipton. After a spir ited contest, Senator Tipton was re-elected. Probably the most notable and enduring legislation enacted in 1869 was the establishment of the University of Nebraska. The act was signed February 15— celebrated each year as “Char ter Day.” Patronize Our Advertisers. PIANOS RADIOS SEWING MACHINES WASHERS SWEEPERS Gourlay Bros. Piano Co. 212 So. 12 2-1636 Umberger’s 2-2424 1110 Q Funeral and Ambulance Serv ice. Verna Burke, Roy Sheaff, Darold Rohrbaugh, Floyd Umberger Families. 2-5059. For Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 KATHRYNE FAVORS Well, here I am again. Rather late, aren’t I? I guess I should make a few apologies. I’ve thought about “Dark Merit” so often and wished I had time to contribute. I am a housewife now and all of the ladies understand just what that means. Well, when the New Year comes, the reso lutions come rolling in. Yes, I’m making them too. Besides con tributing to the “Voice,” I’ve re solved to work more in the Y.W. C.A., to play ping pong more, to study ceramics at Tech’s adult night school, to take a course to j refresh my French at any school I here which offers it, and all in all, to get more done in 1949. And ! say, do you know what else has eaten up so much of my time? Well, I’m writing a book. It’s a big job and requires much re search. You should see this stack of books I’ve been reading to find out more information. It’s so much fun and maybe I’d better resolve to finish it in 1949. With teaching, working as school li brarian working in the Y.W.C.A., playing ping pong, studying cer amics, studying French, writing a book, and DOING HOUSE WORK, I’ll be one of those hard shelled objects which you eat at Christmas by the time the year is over. I left out something too — important things like my church work which I am going to find even more time for. Well, readers, after all of that I guess you’re waiting for “Dark Merit.” Well, we’re moving along now. Soon we’ll be at the part I like best—contemporary personalities. When we get to that I’ll be able to use many in teresting books, but for history, (and I’ve looked high and low), I just can’t find a book to equal Carter G. Woodson’s “The Negro in Our History.” One cannot afford to have one ounce of race prejudice when you think of all of the people of the Caucasian race wrho fought so hard to free the slave and some who gave their lives for that cause. In the South there were such people who wanted to free the slaves but because of their location, they could not. They left their homes and moved to j territories in the Northwest prin cipally to offer their services. Many of these ideas were carried to students as the students of Maryville College in Tennessee. By 1841, more than half of the students were anti-slavery. Berea College in Kentucky actually opened their doors to Negro stu dents. It’s charter contained these words: “God hath made of one blood all nations that dwell upon the face of the earth.” Join Our 1949 Christmas Club ★ The Continental National Bank Lincoln, Ncbr. 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