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Prize For
Dr. Bunche
BY IRVING PFLAUM
The Chicago Daily Sun
When the awards are given out
by God and man, near the front
of the line should stand an Amer
ican Negro, grandson of a slave
and son of a poor barber. Ralph
J. Bunche is worthy. He is a
credit to his race and country, a
flower in the lapel of mankind.
When Ralph Bunche came to
Northwestern university to study
anthropology, he was an honored
student of political science. On a
fellowship of the Social Science
Research Council he had gone to
Togoland, on the African Gold
Coast. But he discovered that
unless he knew why the natives
live the way they do and what
makes them what they are, he
couldn’t understand them.
Anxious to help improve the
mandate system in Africa, Dr.
Bunche appealed to a famed an
thropologist, Melvin Jean Hers
kovits of Northwestern. For six
months Bunche worked in Evan
ston. Then he went to London
and to South and East Africa to
study colonial problems. He trav
eled arpund the world studying.
War sent him into government
service and war has kept him in
since. From OSS to the state de
partment to the United Nations,
Dr. Bunche has been the l^irned
voice of the dark skinned colo
nial.
Thus, when a murderer struck
at Count Bernadotte, Bunche was
prepared. He understood the Arabs
whose war with the Israeli he was
called upon to stop.
He had inherited a history of
political blunders. High passions
had been aroused, ancient hatreds
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revived, sensitive prestige sorely
inTured. The fanatics on each side
still were struggling to prevent a
settlement and peace.
Dr. Bunche, of course couldn’t
create brotherhood where so lately
there was only bloodshed. But
with gentle tact, fine understand
ing and endless patience he, and
he alone, brought a modicum of
peace to the Holy Land.
For this he deserves, in these
barren days, our highest honors.
The U.S. and UN should start
to reward him.
“Since he lost his money, half
of his friends don’t know him
any more.”
“And the other half?”
“They don’t know yet that he
has lost it.”
* * *
“Here’s one name on the com
mittee that I never heard of.”
“Oh, that’s probably the per
son who actually does the work.”
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The fact that Nebraska has
more miles of running water
than any other state in the Union
didn’t make life any easier for
the thousands of emigrants
whose covered wagons traveled
its trails to the west. Indeed,
one of the most serious prob
lems facing the overland emi
grant was that of getting across
Nebraska’s many streams.
The traveler was faced with
the problem no matter which
trail he took—that north of^the
Platte or the one running along
the south side of the river. There
were no bridges until in later
years, and ferries, in addition to
being few and far between, often
were so expensive that the.aver
age traveler simply couldn’t af
ford to use them. In most cases,
the only feasible way to get
across a stream was a ford it.
This always was time consum
ing and frequently hazardous. At
some places, the streams were
shallow enough to make it possi
ble to take the wagons through
without endangering the con
tents. At others, it was neces
sary to remove the baggage and
ferry it over on rafts. Frequently
wood for rafts was unobtainable.
Hence in time the beds of some
of the better emigrant wagons
were made with calked seams so
that they might be turned Into
clumsy barges when the occasion
demanded it.
Along the northern route—
usually called the Mormon Trail,
but actually used by many others
! in addition to the Mormons—the
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principal river barriers in Ne
braska were the Elkhorn and the
Loup. William Clayton’s Emi
grants’ Guide, prepared for the
Mormons but much used by all
travelers, gives specific instruc
tions for fording these two
streams.
Regarding the Loup, Mr.
Clayton wrote of “the wisdom
and necessity of having several
men go across on horses, to find
the best route, before you at
tempt to take wagons over.”
“If this precaution is not
taken,” he warned, “you may
plunge your wagons from a
sand-bar into a deep hole, and do
much damage."
The South Platte Route was
even more difficult, because ul
timately the Platte itself had to
be spanned. Tlo matter where it
was crossed—west of Fort
Kearny, at Brule or at Julesburg
—the Platte was a formidable
barrier. In time, bridges or fer
ries were provided at other im
portant crossings, but never at
the Platte. Too shallow for fer
ries and too wide for bridges,
from the days of the first fur
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