Voi. 3, No. 43 JLincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, May 12, 1949
Laymen Of 5th A.M.E. Dist.
Plan Meeting In Denver
OSKALOOSA, Kas.—George J.
Jones, president of the Laymen’s
organization of the fifth Episcopal
district of the A.M.E. church, has
issued a call for a meeting of the
executive committee Saturday,
June 24, at 10 a.m. in Denver,
Colo., at the Shorter Community
A.M.E. church.
The purpose of the committee
meeting as stated by Mr. Jones in
his call:
1. The first meeting since the
general conference in May, 1948.
2. The first call meeting of the
Executive committee since we or
ganized.
3. To get acquainted with -our
selves.
4. To hear reports of our district
and conference officers.
5. To confirm and bond such
officers as we deem necessary.
6. To plan and put in effect a
more co-operative lay program in
the district that will help our
bishops and ministers increase the
spiritual life, membership, loyalty,
and more easily solve the material
problems of the district.
7. To plan a reason to ask our
friendly bishop to declare and set
aside one day in «ach year as
Laymen’s day throughout his dis
trict.
8. Jo plan for a wide open dis
trict meeting of the district in the
near future.
9. To plan for more youth ac
tivities in our church program.
10. Finally: To plan the future
unified program for the district
and perform all those duties usual
and customary to this committee.
I). Ockander
Named As
Co-op Head
Don Ockander, of Malmo, Neb.,
was named president of the
George W. Norris co-operative
house, inter-racial men’s co-op at
the University of Nebraska, last
Monday night to succeed Earl
Dyer.
Other officers are: Churley
Jones, Baltimore, vice president;
Merritt Cushing, Nebraska City,
housemanager; Francis Hatanaka,
Hawaii, steward; Richard Bennett,
Fullerton, treasurer; Clarence
Thornby, Nebraska City secretary,
and David Pickerill, Syracuse,
and Kenneth Lindquist, Holdrege,
members-at-large of the board of
directors.
The only men’s organized house
on the campus that specifically
attempts to be international, Nor
ris House has members hailing
from ten differnet countries, in
cluding Singapore, Holland, Swe
den, Turkey, two South American
countries and others.
Norris House was organized last
fall and occupies a former fra
ternity house at 1504 S which the
group rents from the university.
? Organized specifically as an
inter-racial, international and in
ter-religious house, Norris House
constitution forbids consideration
of race, color, nationality or re
ligion as a qualification for mem
bership. Membership in the house
is obtained only by putting one’s
name on a waiting list, from
which members are taken in
chronological order as vacancies
occur.
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R. T. MALONE.
“100 Families”
Elect Advisers,
Hear Speakers
“The Committee of 100 fami
lies’’ held its first semi-annual
dinner-meeting at the YMCA
Wednesday, May 4, to elect its
first Board of Advisers who will
be the active unit of the commit
tee. Four persons were elected
for a six-month period. They
will serve with four other busi
ness and professional people of
Lincoln to discuss Voice news
coverage with an aim of making
this newspaper more expressive
of community forces.
Mrs. Rubie Shakespeare, who
organized ta<? group last year as
a group that pledged support to
The Voice advertisers, brought a
welcome with a brief history of
the committee’s founding.
Dr. William F. Swindler, direc
tor of the University of Nebraska
School of Journalism, explained
the reason for and function of an
editorial advisory committee. He
pointed out that the idea has
been slow to take hold; yet it is
natural that the small paper
should seek the opinions of ex
perts in interpreting the news.
However, he pointed out that
there should be a fair distribu
tion of news subjects, even
though the expert may point out
the importance of certain hap
penings in the long chain of
events.
After an introduction by Rev.
Melvin Shakespeare, Mr. R. T.
Malone, State Unemployment of
ficer and past president of the
Urban League pointed out some
of the long-range effects of such
a publication in increasing mu
tual goodwill and understanding.
The four persons elected were
Rev. Merle Stith, Mrs. Alberta
Cooke, Mrs. Frances Robinson
and Mrs. Frank Williams.
Charles Goolsby, toastmaster,
kept things moving with jokes
labeled “Raised in Nebraska.”
Bohanan Talks On
Organization Of
Negro Community
Mr. Leo J. Bohanan, executive
secretary of the Omaha Urban
League, addressed the class in
community organization on “Com
munity Organization in Negro
Omaha.” After an hour lecture,
Mr. Bohanan answered questions
for another hour. Mr. Robert Glass
is the class instructor.
Social Workers
Have Positions
This Summer
Among students in the Gradu
ate school of social work at the
University of Nebraska who are
taking positions this summer are
Mrs. William I. Stanton (nee Po
mona Banks) and Miss Charlene
Jane May, both of Lincoln. They
have both accepted positions with
the Family Service Association.
Mrs. Stanton will be a case
worker with the Cleveland, Ohio,
agency and will leave about mid
June to assume her duties on
June 20. Family Service operates
a very large Cleveland agency,
which, with the aid of the Com
munity Chest there, spends more
than $450,000 in serving the needs
of all peoples’ especially the emo
tional needs of disturbed persons
more than on a monetary basis.
Miss May has accepted a posi
tion as caseworker in Omaha, the
association’s outstanding ^ agency
in the state. There she will do
intensive case work and help in
terpret the program of the agency
to the city’s Negro population
mainly. Although she has done
case work all year in Omaha, her
duties will not begin officially
until July 11.
Miss May served as an officer
in the Women’s Army Corps dur
ing War II and is a member of
Gamma Xi chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta sorority Phi Gamma Mu
Sociology society and Psi Chi, na
tional psychology honorary. Both
Mrs. Stanton and Miss May will
receive M. A. degrees in social
work in June.
Two Omahans
Elected To
Church Meet
OMAHA.—The 82nd annual
council of the Episcopal diocese
of Nebraska, which met in Grand
Island, Neb., adjourned Thurs
day, May 5, but not before new
council members and delegates to
the general convention of the
church to be held in San Fran
cisco, Sept. 23 to Oct. 14.
One of the five clergymen
elected to the executive council
was Rev. Shirley G. Sanchez, pas
tor of St. Phillips church. Named
as an alternate delegate to the
general convention was Mrs. Eliz
abeth D., Pittman, Omaha attor
ney. Rev. Sanchez also was elected
an alternate delegate.
—Courtesy The Daily Nebraakan
Miss Ruth Sorenson, right, Uni YWCA delegate, just after her
election to chair the "Student Bill of Rights” committee, calls for
nominations for secretary. Looking on are Bob Axtell, Neal Baxter
and Jeanne Malone. Miss Malone won the tilt for scribe.
Choirs, Soloists, Community
Singing, Mark Observance Of
National Music Week At L.U.L.
Nebr. Students
Work On New
Constitution
Tuesday, May 10, University of
Nebraska students were scheduled
to resume their efforts to forge
a new student constitution that
would be acceptable to the Fac
ulty Senate. The Constitutional
convention was adjourned May 3
until the faculty group would give
its assurances that students would
be given a voice in their govern
ment. The Constitutional conven
tion was called after the univer
sity administration had cancelled
spring elections because, it
charged, the present council as
being “unrepresentative” and
“controlled.”
Working on the committee for a
“Bill of Student’s Rights,” ope of
five groups attacking student
problems, were Jeanne Malone,
representing the Co-ed Counse
lors, Bill Broden and Charles
Goolsby of the Y.M.C.A. and 17
other students. (See cut).
I
Racial Prejudice
Costly To Business
Says Elmer Roper
CHICAGO. (ANP). “There is
a loss of real wealth to business
and to the people involved in
racial and religious prejudice,” de
clared Elmer Roper, public rela
tions consultant and director of
Fortune magazine’s polls, here re
cently.
Roper was speaking for the
American Brotherhood in its local
campaign for funds at a confer
ence of leaders in the food and
grocery business in Hotel Sher
man. Title of his address was “The
Cost of Prejudice to Business.”
“It is my contention today,” he
said, “that we cannot afford to
continue to discriminate against
Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Mexi
cans, Nisei and others and still
say our economy is an efficient,
fully productive system. We can
not afford to train a Negro car
penter in a Negro engineers bat
talion during war and then have
him return to find that building
houses for other veterans is a
‘white man's mission’—that the
The Annual Music Week was
climaxed Friday evening at the
Urban League with an apprecia
tive audience participating, with
Mrs. Eugenia Brown in charge of
the program. Mt. Zion Baptist
choir, under the direction of Mrs.
Maud Coggs, and the Quinn
Chapel A. M. E. choir, under the
direction of Mrs. James Wilson,
sang many spiritual numbers.
The male chorus, composed of
Raymond Botts, Collin Davis,
Harry Peterson, Verne Wilson,
Walter Bell and Victor McWil
liams was a special feature. Other
numbers on the program in
cluded several songs by the
Brownie group with Bettie Rose
Huston in charge, solos by Peaches
Winston and Elois Finley were
“Maytime” and “Today”; numbers
by the Urban League Glee club
were “Good News” and “If You
Ever Needed The Lord,” both
spirituals; and a duet by Vonna
Finley and Peaches Winston, “At
Dawning.” The program was cli
maxed with an “everyone sing”
movie in which the audience par
ticipated with unusual enthusiasm.
Mrs. Brow'n made mention of
the observances staged at the
coliseum by the various schools
and pointed out the importance
of music week in bringing to
community attention our every
day dependence on music for
recreation.
Over 100 Attend
Midwest NAACP
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ANP).
The recent Mid Western Confer
ence of NAACP branches held at
South Bend, Ind., had more than
100 delegates from 11 states and
was highlighted by a forceful
stand on securing civil rights.
Special attention was paid to
the Federal Loyalty order and the
Cleveland, Ohio, post office where
many Negro postal clerks face the
loss of their jobs due to accusa
tions of disloyalty.
carpenters’ union won’t let him
join. We cannot any longer af
ford to deprive a large number of
our citizens of reasonable econo
mic opportunity, simply because
a man’s skin happens to be darker
than others, or his name is Green
berg or Scuderi.
“Today, democracy is on trial
throughout the world. We must
prove to peoples of all races and
religions that our system, founded
on basic respect for the dignity of
individuals, represents real free
dom from want and fear. Our way
of life is competing with the Rus
sian way.
“On our side we have enormous
advantages. We have democratic
processes, the right of free speech,
press, assembly and religion. We
can proudly say the existence of
these liberties is something of the
exception rather than the rule in
the history of the world. We also
have the highest living standards.
Our laborers’ real income outstrip
by an enormous extent the real
pay of workers in any other coun
try. Our economic system, in spite
of its many flaws, still is the most
productive and the wealthiest in
the entire world.’’
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