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EDITORIALS
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are those ot the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—
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BRASS FACTS
Tty W. I.. Shakespeare
A recent bill before the state
legislative body is the teaching
of Americanism in the schools
I would say that this is the right
place to start. Communism is not
a threat to true Americanism.
The taking up of such fine bill
as this is a fine gesture on the
part of the legislative body.
Strange as it seems some of
the proponents of the bill, were
men who were opponents of the
F.E.P. bill. Perhaps when this
course of Americanism is in
stalled in the school system some
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of them might be encouraged to
attend a few classes.
While driving around the other
day, I passed a Lincoln grade
school which was in the midst of
recess. There I saw real Ameri
canism in action. All races, colors
and creeds enjoying themselves
together. Let us hope that they
shall grow up that way, and
teach some of us true American
ism.
My hat goes off to Thompson,
a small town in the State of
Alabama, where the decent
thinking people renounced the
KKK as a menace to Democracy.
Funeral Services
For Wendell Curtis
Funeral services for Wendell
Oliver Curtis, about 55, of 223 Vz
North 9th Street was held Tues
day at Umbergers Mortuary with
Rev. Trago McWilliams Jr., and
Cornhusker Lodge 579, I.B.P.O.E.
of W. in charge. Mrs. Izetta
Malone sang. The burial was at
Wyuka. Mrs. Mabel Hawkins,
cousin of Chicago came for the
funeral. Other survivors are
Mrs. Vella Ellis and Mrs. No
vella Brown of Oakland, Calif.
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•TATI HISTORICAL SOCIITT
The study of place names, par
ticularly those honoring indivi
duals, reveals a great deal about
the history of the times in which
they were adopted.
Consider, for example, Nebras
ka’s eight original counties, created
by Acting Governor Thomas B.
Cuming in 1854 for the purpose
of inaugurating civil government
in the territory. In bestowing
their names Governor Cuming in
dicated that he was a shrewd poli
tician who understood the value of
flattery. A disease which J. Ster
ling Morton, one of Cuming’s emi
nent contemporaries, declared to
be, “common to all mortals against
which no vaccinating system has
ever been successfully brought to
bear.” Six of the eight named in
honor of living politicians of Cum
ing’s own day.
Cass county was named for
Lewis Cass, then Secretary of
State and formerly governor and
senator from Michigan; Dodge for
Sen. Augustus C. Dodge of Iowa;
Douglas for Sen. Stephen A. Doug
las of Illinois, the man most
closely identified with the Kansas
Nebraska bill; Forney for the clerk
of the House of Representatives;
Richard for William A. Richard
son, representative from Illinois
who had steered the Kansas
Nebraska bill through the house;
and Pierce for President Frank
lin Pierce.
The other two, Washington and
Burt, were named for men no
longer living—the former for the
president of the United States,
and the latter for the first gov
ernor of Nebraska territory.
Two of Governor Cuming’s or
iginal names—Forney and Pierce
—are no longer on the map of
Nebraska. Their names were
changed by the residents, through
the legislature, to Nemaha and
Otoe, respectively. The change
came not out of any disrespect for
the men so honored, but was
bi'ought about by resentment in
the South Platte region against
what was felt to be Governor
Cuming’s unfair apportionment of
members in the legislature.
The name Pierce, it is interest
ing to observe, was later revived
when the present county in north
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New Book
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Well-known writei’ Bucklin
Moon’s new novel, “Without
Magnolias,” released from Dou
bleday and company, last week,
has been selected the winner of
the George Washington Carver
award. The book presents the
whole panorama of Negro life:
The conservative middle class,
the intellectual, the idealistic
radical, and the downtrodden
masses. Mr. Moon is also author
of “The High Cost of Prejudice”
and "Primer for White Folks.”
(ANP).
eastern Nebraska bearing that
name was organized in 1859.
Another interesting sidelight on
these early names is that William
A. Richardson, for whom the
state’s most southeastern county
was named, later was appointed
governor of the territory of Ne
braska.
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