Tib® V@ne® >--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 222b 6 Street Phone b-649) 11 No Answer Call b-7S0ti „ Rubie W. Shakespeare . .Advertising and Business Manager Charles Goolsby___-.. ..Associate Editor, Y.M.C.A. Lynwood Parker_ - - _ ■ _Associate Editor, on Military Leave Rev. J. B. Brooks_ ____Promotion Manager Mrs. ioe Green. .-.. ... __^—Circulation Manager Member oi the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as becond Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Poet Cilice at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879 t year subscription...B2.0C Single copy-—...he EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those oi the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.— Pub. PROGRESS ] By Noble William R. Greene ] Chicago, 111. WILLIAM R. GREENE The time has come when the Western nations know that this is the beginning of a new era. They fully realize that some 350 million whites can no longer force their rule on a world of some 1,350 million persons that total four times their number. With the passing of the wars, other nations have lost their awe of the Westerner who for cen turies has seemed all powerful. The Eastern world has revolted from Western civilization and set out to create,a new order, stress ing common ownership of natural resources and production, eco nomic security for all people, equality of all racial and cultural groups. In the passing of the two wars, the Western nations grew weaker while other regions and orders grew stronger. The most striking proof that Negroes develop in ac cordance with their opportunities is the recent Army testing. In these tests of literacy and apti tude northern draftees excelled those from the southern states. This was due to the fact that the North had better schools and more opportunities. Northern Ne groes outranked southern Negroes. *y\ / The shock came when the^est proved that the thousands of Ne groes from the North ranked above the averages of all white candidates from the south. It shows that Negroes as well as any other nationality will profit with better opportunities. Negroes studying in good northern acttools have quickly excelled their white fellows who study in poorer schools of the southern states. Negroes have proved their ability in every phase of American life. Discrimination will soon be as ob solete as the horse and buggy. Denver (,iub Gives Awards For Inter-Group Relations DENVER, Colo. (ANP). Seven persons or institutions were cited here last week for their work in intergroup relations, at a dinner given by the Cosmopolitan club. About 300 labor, religious, and civic leaders attended the meeting. Dr. Clarence F. Holmes, presi dent of the group, presented the awards. Guest speaker was Louis WHITE’S— FIRST IN FURNITURE I "Satisfaction With Every Transaction" i 1IO8 NORTH 10th ST. PHONE 2-1489 * ' , • Conveniently Located Inst 27 Steps North mi "O" oa 10th Heroes from the Post Office ’ * ,1- ' * . h IJ&MZS C. OLSON, Superintendent •TATE 1IITOBICAL SOCIETT The fame of Mark Twain’s Mis sissippi River steamboat pilots has tended to obscure somewhat the equally exciting exploits of their counterparts on the Missouri. In deed, in many respects, the job of a pilot on the Missouri was more dangerous and called for greater skill and judgment than did the same work on the Father of Waters. For the muddy Missouri, tum bling past eastern Nebraska, was as changeable as it was treacher ous. Snags and sandbars met on one trip could not be depended upon to be in the same place on the next. The ever-shifting con dition of the channel presented new problems on every excursion. As an early Sioux City editor wrote, “Of all the variable things in creation the most uncertain are the action of a jury, the state of woman’s mind, and the condi tion of the Missouri river.” The shifting sandbars provided a particularly ominous threat to river navigation. The pilot avoided them wherever possible. All too frequently, however, that was im possible and the pilot had to get the boat across as best he could. With luck and skill he could jump or “grasshopper” the boat over the bar. Occasionally, though, the craft would become mired so deeply that his only recourse was to unload the freight and drag the boat from its moorings by sheer human force. Now and then even the passengers had to man the tow-lines. Particularly dangerous were fallen trees lodged in the channel. To strike a large one head-on meant certain disaster because the frail bottoms of the river steamers were easily pierced. It is little wonder, then, that a pilot skilled and responsible enough to guide a boat along the Missouri commanded top pay for his time as well as being a man of high standing on the river. After all, men’s lives as well as their property were entrusted to his care. ---- E. Sidman, tri-state director of the Anti-Defamation league, B’nai B’rith. ' Those receiving awards were: Dr. Malcolm A. College, dean of the college of arts and sciences, for the University of Denver; Mrs. Mildred Westbrook for the George Washington Carver day nursery, and David H. SstatTonersJV printers 1124-26 O Street .. The I First National Bank I of Lincoln 10th & “O” St. Member F.DJ.C. | MONTE & SONS I Body and Radiator Shop Expert Wrecked Car Rebuilding Body and Fender Repairing RADIATORS— Cleaned, Repaired and Recored 1 Complete Paint Jobs 2222 O St Phone 2-5097 If your merchant does not idvertise in The VOICE, ask him « place an ad. WANT FINE FURNITURE? WANT TO SAVE? 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