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Tib® ^©n©® '_PUBLISHED WEEKLY Dedicated to illr prornotion o) the cuttural, s< ,i spiritual Hie of a great people." Hev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Kditor Business Addrear 3826 8 Street Phone 5 649) it No Answer Call 6-7508 Hubie vV Shakespeare....Adveillslng and Business Manager Hev > B Brooks ...Promotion Manager Dorothy Greene .... I...Office Secretary Mis Joe Greene ...Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Pres* and Nebraska I'rcss Association . .Kntered as Second Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879 I year subscription. %2 00 single copy. ...6c KiirroKi a i.s The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.— Pub. Non-Compromising FEPC Bill to Be Brought to the Senate By Alice A. Dunnigan WASHINGTON. (ANP). Sen ate Democratic Leader Scott M. Lucas of Illinois has scheduled the administration’s non-compro mising FEPC bill to be brought to the senate for action about March 10, according to a recent announcement Senate leaders hope to “put teeth" in the toothless FEPC measure which passed the house last week by pushing the strong est bill possible through the sen ate. If the McGrath bill (which is a companion to the defeated Powell bill) goes through the senate it will have to go to a a compromise between the pro visions of the two bills will have to be reached. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (d., Minn.) who helped force the compulsory FEPC plank into the democratic platform thinks that the house passed voluntary bill is at least a beginning and hopes the senate will be able to im prove it. Some other senators think the McConnell bill will have a better chance of invoking senate cloture against a southern anti-FEPC filibuster, and in getting through the senate. In rechecking the republican support for the forth coming motion to shut off de bate, G.O.P. leaders discovered that their party was mainly in favor of the voluntary FEPC bill and expressed reluctancy to pledge their cloture votes to call ud the administration’s compul sory bill. A spokesman for the republi can party estimated ytat 35 or 40 republican senators would vole for the cloture “if they think there is a fair chance to substi tute the voluntary bill once the filibuster is broken.” Under the so-called “Wherry cloture rule” aodpted in the last session. 64 votes are necessary to cut off debate. If the republicans can supply 35 cloture votes, only 29 will be necessary from the demo cratic ranks to kill the filibuster which the southerners are al ready planning Senator Humphrey said the re publicans will have a lot of ex plaining to do in the next cam paign if they force anything less than the McGrath bill. He said that in case the Taft voluntary bill come out of the senate, he is prepared to offer an amendment requiring the proposed five-man FEPC commission to report back to congress within two years time, recommendations for “the next legislative steps.” The Tafi bill is a companion bill to the McConnell bill which was passed by the house last week. Every member of the senate received a round robin lettei last Wednesday signed by nine individuals who represented na tional organizations on the round-the-world Town Meeting of the Air seminary, appealing to them to refrain from obstruc tionism and undignified discus sion aimed to prevent a fair dis cussion and vote on the civil rights measures. “We appeal to you to think of this issue of hu man rights as an American and from NAACP; Alfred A. Albert not a politically partisan one.” The letter was signed by Wal ter White, secretary on leave of the American Civil Liberties union; Irving Brown, European representative of the A. F. of L.; Edith S. Sampson of the Na tional Council of Negro Women; George W Welsh of the U. S. Conference of Mayors; Saaja Stokowski; Dr. Clarence Decker; Robert S. Byfield, and Robert Hansen. Roy Wilkins, acting secretary of the NAACP referred to the House passed FEPC measure as an “emasculated bill, which is little more than a declaration of principles.” The task is now to carry the fight to the Senate, he said, “in an uncompromising ef fort to strengthen the toothless and inadequate McConnell bill.” Among those who voted in the House for the McConnell bill as a substitute for the Powell bill wrere 115 Democrats, one Demo cratic-Liberal, and 124 Republi cans. Those voting against the McConnell substitute with the hope of eventually getting a stronger bill through, included 134 Democrats, 42 Republicans and one American Laborite. “The best proof that the substitute is weak and ineffec tive,” declared Wilkins,” is the fact that southern Democrats went down the line for it with even Representative Rankins voting for it in the initial test.” Elmer Henderson, director of the American Council on Human Rights, said his organization would “devote its resources to breaking the inevitable filibuster and passing an FEPC bill with enforcement powers.” Henderson denounced the scut tling of the Powell bill in the House by the coalition of South ern Democrats and Northern Re publicans. What passed the House, he said was “merely a pious reso lution. Even its piety was tar nished by numerous frivolous and insincere amendments tached on to it by the coalition . . . ‘‘The whole exhibition, particu larly the dilatory maneuvers of the southerners, was a travesty of parliamentary democracy and, if not quickly repaired, may have the tragic consequence of lessen ing the faith of many people, at home and abroad, in our system of government,” declared the ACHR director. Immediately after the passage of the weak-kneed FEPC bill by the House last week. President Truman renewed his stand for the original compulsory bill. Al h VAMES C. OLSON, SufitrinUnJtml •TATB ■IBTOBICAL SOCI8TT With Nebraska quietly passing its 83rd birthday March 1st. it is a little difficult to realize the extent of the controversy which raged around admission of the state into ihe Union in 1867. That controversy was national as well as local. Nationally, the struggle over Nebraska’s admission was part of the postwar conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the radicals. The radicals, who controlled congress, insisted that Nebraska include no restrictions on voting because of color, in its constitution. Johnson, who op posed typing up the admission of a state in this fashion, had yet another reason for opposing Ne braska’s entry—Nebraska’s two republican senators (already elected) would be sure to throw their weight against him in the struggles that were to follow'. Locally, the population was split along lines of the national controversy, with tne democrats opposing admission and the republicans favoring it. In addition, local republicans pointed to the ad vantages that would accrue from state hood while local democrats argued that a state government would he too expen sive. Reaction of Nebraskans to admission Is reflected in the editorial columns of the .sevvspapers of that clay. The Nebraska Herald, a repub lican paper published at Platts mouth, heralded news that the act of admisffon had been passed over President Johnson's veto with the following: “UP WITH THE FLAG—FIRE THE BIG GUN—NEBRASKA A STATE!— Nebraska is no longer a territory, but assumes, from this day hence forth, the proud position of a state in the great American Union; not only a state, but a FREE state, recognizing the rights of all men, whether white or black . . J. Sterling Morton’s ardently democratic Nebraska City News greeted the announcement with sarcasm: “According to the prom ises made to her inhabitants, they will now enter upon a career of though he had not read the vol untary House version at the time of his press conference last Thurs day a few hours after the passage of the bill, he said he had made his FEPC position perfectly plain in his message to Congress. Sen. Owen Brewster (r., Me.) said if the voluntary bill came to the senate his party would sup port cloture. Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, G.O.P. leader from Nebraska said he would vote for cloture on FEPC and would favor voluntary legis lation, but would oppose “controls upon millions of Americans such as would prevail under the pro posed compulsory FEPC legisla tion. HARVEY'S GARAGE 2119 O St. George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING & HEATING 1920 N Phone 2-1293 | I!*» New at N.ll. | Hy Charlene J. Colbrrt An International F r i e ndahip dinner was given last week un der the joint sponaorstiip of the Religious Welfare Council, the Nebraska University Council of World. Affairs, and the Cosmo politan club. Foreign students representing more than 40 coun tries. were guests of American students. The meal featured Ukrainian dishes which were prepared by Ukranian cooks. Dr. G. W. Rosenlof presided over the pix>gram for the eve ning. Included in the program were vocalists from Latvia and Norway, a Persian instrumen talist, and a group of Latin American students who provided South-American music. Following the program was a ! style show in which students modeled costumes of different countries. The University Theater is going to present the play, “Home of The Brave” at the Nebraska Theater Monday, March 13th. The play treats the adjustments of a Jewish soldier. In the pop ular movie, the main character is a Negro. unexampled prosperity. Taxes will be low’. The prices of labor will be high. Flush times w’ill drive out lean times, wealth will be the rule and poverty the ex ception among out people. And the total expense of this bene ficient change, will not exceed, remember, according to the elo quent advocates of statehood who perambulated Nebraska and harangued her people during the pleasant months of May and June 1866, the inconsiderable sum of twelve thousand dollars each year.” The Nebraska Advertiser, pub lished at Brow’nville, hailed word of statehood as “glorious news,” and predicted: “Nebraska ..will grow' in importance and strength henceforth and forever.” * * *■ *1 * Dr Jan O. M. Broek, head of the geography department at the University of Minnesota, ad dressed a university convocation last week. He discussed some of the problems of Asiatic coun tries, and the importance of IDEAL Grocery and Market Lots of Parkin# 27th and F Street* BEAL BROS. GROCERY Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Meats I 2101 R TeL 2-6933 ‘ 1" ..- - I Filming of Tin* Itohinson Story Is (!oitiplc*te<l By Harry LrveKr HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AND. 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