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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
are those of the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—
Pub.
Negro Vets Due Over $200,000,000
In Insurance IIP fund. Declares VA
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Joseph j
F. Albright, special assistant to j
the Administrator of Veterans Af
fairs, has issued a warning to vet
erans concerning the insurance
refund which VA expects to be
gin paying after Jan. 1. Included j
in the warning, are the following
statements:
File only on the official VA ap
plication blank, procurable at post
offices, through veterans and
service organizations, and through
other interested groups (Albright
appeared before many national
contentions last summer, urging
organizations to render every aid
in assisting veterans to file for
the refund. He has estimated that
over $200,000,000 are due Negro
vets). No other form will be ac
cepted by VA.
Do not write VA about the re
fund after you have filed prop
erly. Any correspondence is
needless and will only slow down
the process of getting the pay
ments out as scheduled.
Do not listen to “advice” from
well meaning but misinformed
persons. If in any way in doubt,
contact a VA office personally
and have your questions officially
answered.
There are still too many appli
cations not yet received by VA,
and Albright is fearful that a dis
proportionate number of these
missing applicants are Negro vets.
His office has renewed is cam
paign to arouse organizations to
assist in reaching every eligible
veteran (every policy which was
in force over 90 days is eligible
for a refund).
Speaking recently before the
Frontiers’ club of Baltimore, Al
bright made this significant state
ment: “It will be folly of the
most inexcusable kind if Negro
vets do not get their share of this
money because of any lack of as
sistance on the part of organiza
tions. Two hundred million dol
lars is a lot of money, and we ■
need every penny of it.”
Farm-Home
Week Planned
For Nov. 16-19
“There will be a hot time
in the old tow n,” from
Nov. 16-19. The occasion marks
the annual Farm and Home
Week activities on the University
of Nebraska Agriculture College
campus in Lincoln.
A series of meetings has been
planned for the entire family.
These will include addresses, in
formational movies, panels, la
boratory periods, and discussions
each to help bring about bettter
rural living.
There will be many special fea
tures of interest for the women as
well as their husbands.
The Lincoln Chamber of Com
merce is assisting the University
who is sponsoring the etfent. Spe
cial entertainment has been plan
ned including a concert by the
University of Nebraska 100 piece
band, and singing by the County
Extension Choruses. A special
Square Dance Jamboree also has
been planned for the evening of
Nov. 16 at the University Coli- !
seum.
Special tours have been ar
ranged through many of Lincoln’s
leading industrial firms and busi
ness houses.
Even though the weather may *
be cold outside there will be a i
“hot time” in Lincoln Nov. 16-19. j
Channing Tobias
Attends Luncheon
For Pres. Truman
NEW YORK. (ANP). Dr. Chan
ning H. Tobias, head of the
| Phelps-Stokes fund, was among
the select group of luncheon
guests at a special affair for Pres
ident Truman at Gracie mansion.
The president w^s honored with
this luncheon after he laid the
cornerstone of the new UN build
ing here.
Gracie mansion is the home of
the mayor of New York.
The first long distance airplane
flight in the United States—from
Albany to New York City—was
made in 1910 by Glenn H.
Curtiss.
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h JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent
•TATS HISTORICAL SOC1BTT
This Nov. llth marks the 21st
anniversary of the Armtice which
brought the shooting phase of
World War I to an end. It seems
like a good time to review some
of Nebraska’s achievements in
that struggle.
* * *
One of the most important of
those accomplishments was the
establishment of Base Hospital No.
49. Organized at Omaha by the
College of Medicine of the Uni
verity of Nebraska, the hospital
functioned at Allereye, France,
from Aug. 7. 1918 to the Armis
tice. It was one of ten hospital
units forming an American medi
cal center adjoining the little
French village about 40 miles
I from the Swiss frontier. Seven
of them were regular army units
Three, including No. 49, were uni
! versity units—the other two were
from Minnesota and Cincinnati.
# * * *
Maj. A. C. Stokes of Omaha
! was chief of the surgical staff,
and most of the professional staff
members were drawm from the
faculty and alumni of the Ne
braska College of Medicine. Like
wise, many of the enlisted per
sonnel were Nebraskans.
* * *
The late Addison E. Sheldon
visited the hospital as a corre
spondent and has an interesting
account of its activities in an early
issue of Nebraska History, in
cluding a roster of the staff.
* * *
Although its period of active j
field service was relately short.
Base Hospital No. 49 performed
j significant and heroic work in
the salvage of men wounded in
the last great push which brought
on German capitulation. A total
of 4.844 casualties were carred
for by the Nebraska unit. Its
rated capacity was 1,000 beds, but
frequently there were many more
than 1,000 wounded being cared
for in the hospital. At one time
there were as many as 1,934.
* * *
Between Sept. 12 and Nov. 11,
the hospital staff performed an 1
average of 20 surgical operations
a day. Altogether, the stuff dur
ing that period performed a total
of 614 operations and treated 180
persons for gas burns. The Ne
braska hospital is reported to have
had the best record for saving life
, of all American hospitals in Eu
rope.
* * *
Of its success, the Omaha Bee
said editorially on April 21, 1919,
as the unit was returning to
America, that it was “due to the
willingness with which men of
medicine and surgery responded
to the call, giving over their pri
vate interests, most of them mak
ing considerable sacrifice of per
sonal prospects or income, but all
of them devoting themselves with
true American zeal to the work
set before them in the emergency
of war.”
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When the Cornhuskers went to
Missouri Oct. 29, they proved to
everyone who saw the game that
they could play football. Certain
ly Missourians weren't expecting
what they saw that day. They
couldn’t imagine wrhy they should
worry about Nebraska. Instead,
they were thinking about Okla
homa and the Big Seven title so
much they looked right past the
Cornhuskers.
The night before the game,
students and townspeople talked
with confidence about the terri
ble beating the Huskers were go
ing to take the next day. They
were convinced that the only con
test would be between Bob Fuchs
and Tom Novak, two great cen- :
ters. All they^knew’ about our
team was that we had a center.
The next day they awakened to
the fact that we play with eleven ,
men on the field who are all on
the same team.
It was homecoming for the j
Tigers, but they drew a crowd of I
only 29,000. There were plenty
of empty seats in the stands. It
appeared people didn’t want to go
all the way to Columbia to watch
a rout. And a lot of Nebraskans
stayed at home for the same rea
son.
While the fraternities and so
rorities on the campus sported
elaborate homecoming decora
tions, the visitors noticed that
Nebraska was given a minor role 1
in most of the displays. The fea- |
tured item was the Big Seven ti
tle.
By the time the game wTas over,
Missourians had nothing but re
spect for the scrappy but out- I
numbered Huskers. They wore
stunned. They agreed that Ne
braska should have won the
game, and began asking more
questions about Oklahoma’s team.
They weren’t so sure any more'
that the Big Seven crown was in
the bag.
The Cornhuskers’ mighty stand
News From El w ood, Kansas
By Wilberta Brady
Hello Folks:
I know the school children are
happy, there is no school Thurs
day and Friday because of the
State Teachers association being
held in Topeka, Kas. The schools
all over Kansas are closed.
Mr. George Johnson is home
this week .visiting family and
friends. Glad to see you back,
George.
Mrs. Elnora Ridings was burned
Sunday when her pressure cooker
blew up. She is better now.
Miss Nova Barker is seriously
ill. She is in the Missouri Metho
dist hospital. She needs blood
doners. If you can spare some,
it may save her life.
Sunday, Nov. 6 the Hiawatha
Sextet rendered 3 o'clock serv
ices at Bethel A.M.E. church.
Well, folks that is all this week.
Bye now. Bert.
was enough to open the Tigers’
eyes to what was coming when
they tangled with the Sooners. The
21-20 score not only surprised the
experts, it also put an added
determination into the Tiger team
to work harder for their game
with the nation’s No. 3 team.
Meanwhile a -few hundred Ne
braska rooters at Columbia that
day changed their minds about
the .kind of team the Huskers
have. And so did the wide-eyed
unbelieving Missourians.
So the future looks good. Next
year Glassford is going *to have
the bulk of his varsity team back.
He will lose only nine men and
will add a crew of stroag frosh
that will give the team a big
boost. Regulars playing their last
year for the Scarlet ?re Ralph
Damkroger and Bob Schneider,
ends; Dick Goeglein, tackle; Mike
DiBiase, Arden Means and Dar
win Salestrom, guards; Tom No
vak, center; and Del Wiegand and
Ken Fischer, quarterbacks.
The territorial legislature of Ne
braska first met in Omaha in
1855. Later, when Nebraska was
admitted as a state in 1867, Lin
coln became the capital city.
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