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Tib® ^©n©® PVBLISHED WEEKLY "Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual Hfe of a great people " Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 a Street Phone 5 649! It Ho Answer Call 5-7508 Bubie W. Shakespeer*-Adrerlistog and Busin*. Manager c^.i^.gy.bT- —££££ Bbk Joe Green_____Circulation Manager fctrmKrr +* *»- fles^toted Heare Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act at March 3. 1879. | year subscription -32.00 Single copy ..— Sc EDITORIALS The risers expressed in these columns are those ot the writer and not necessarily a reflection oi the policy of The Voice.— Pub. SCARLET SPORTS By Leo E. Geier With the Big Seven conference race turning into a guessing game for sports forecasters, Nebraskans are holding their breath to see what the Cornhuskers will do. Kansas Staters have been run ning wild with win fever after breaking out of the conference losing column for the first time in five years. Iowa State, storming into the foreground early is no pushover for any team this year. For its part, Colorado will be out to trim the Huskers again. Oka homa and Missouri are potent again this year and Kansas, tak ing an early back seat, will seek ; to win at any cost when meeting l Nebraska. But the boys at Nebraska are not sitting idly by. Coach Bill Glassford and his staff have a training school setup as efficient as any in the gridiron game. The method, brought to Nebraska for the first time this year by Glass ford, runs something like this: A grading system is set up and each flayer is given a mark for every move he makes in every game and some practice sessions. Movies made at every game serve as proof to back up the coaches’ criticism. Meetings are held separately for the backs, ends and other line men, The coaches study the mov ies and grade each player on every play, rating him on the execution of his assignment. The players, in the separate meetings, learn of each mistake they made and how to correct it. It’s not easy to get three points for a play even if you are the hero of the game after making a touchdown. The system takes cway the individualism in play ing and makes a man work as part of a team. And because J Glassford is striving to make his team function as a unit, he has not been satisfied with his boys. After the Minnesota game the Husker coach praised his charges only by saying, “The boys showed improvement over last week but are still playing for their indi vidual desires.” The improvement is coming, and with tutoring like this Cornhusker fans should not be disappointed. Lena Horne, Jame« Edwards in New Pics HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (ANP)J Film studies are quite busy these days preparing new pics... “The Big Fall” at Twentieth Century Fox has four musicians signed to be part of a swing band in a Paris cafe. It stars John Garfield and Michelene. “The Duchess of Idaho” featur ing Lena Horne will be in produc tion at M.G.M. next month. Esther Williams and Van Johnson are also starring a A documentary film is being prepared by the new Fil makers, Inc., to be distributed by R.K.O. “Pachuco,” a story of Mex ican-American life. James Edwards is playing the ! young doctor who nearly gets j lynched because of his failure on • an operation on a race-baiting southern white in “No Way Out.” | It’s sponsored by Twentieth-Cen i tury ^ox. h IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent •TATI IISTOIICAL IOCIITT Though we’ve never objected to taking the day off, we’ve often wondered just how Nebraska hap pened to designate Oct. 12, the day on which Christopher Colum bus discovered the new world, as a legal holiday. Considerable dig ging in old legislative records and back newspaper files, although not completely satisfying our. curiosity, did provide considerable information regarding the desig nation of the holiday. Columbus Day was made a legal holiday by an act of the 32nd session of the state legislature, approved by Gov. Chester H. Aid rich, April 7, 1911. The bill, S. F. 201, was introduced by Demo j cratic Senator J. H. Buhrman of St. Libory, a farmer and banker representing what was then the 17th senatorial district. The bill occasioned little if any discussion, and made its way through the legislature in routine fashion and with but slight op position. Indeed, the first gen eral discussion of the whole mat ter seems to have occurred on Oct. 12, 1911, W’hen Nebraskans, much to their surprise, found their banks and public offices closed for the day. From that discussion it would appear that members of the Fourth Estate, at least, were not enthusiastic over the prospects of an additional day off. The Eve ning Bee, in a news story outlin ing Omaha’s plans for the day, commented, with apparent ap proval, “The Board of Education failed to discover any reason why it should quit business because Columbus went out on a sea cruise 408 years ago and sighted land.” The attitude of the students was not reported. In all probability, they could have found good and sufficient reasons for honoring the discovery of America by closing school for the day. The Beatrice Daily Sun com cented: “Americans are not holi day lovers. A week without a holiday is a failure in countries where people take more time to enjoy life than we do, but in this country an extra day off is an irritation.” The Nebraska State Journal took more than half a column to express its sense of irritation: “Like a bouquet from the desert arrives the announcement that there will be no mail this after noon. Neither will the clinking of coin be heard in the banks. The tax gatherer’s window will be closed. Nor will the rest of the public officials do any labor . . Fearing the addition of further holidays, the Journal said, “The banking and postoffice and public office businesses are clearly im periled by this holiday movement. We must save them.” That the “holiday movement’ didn’t reach the proportions feared is indicated by the fact that since 1911 only two new holidays have been designated in Nebraska— Lincoln’s birthday, and Armistice Day. 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