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‘ Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, May 11, 1950 Ability To Think, Exp ress Self, Equal Citizenship Stressed By Alpha, Dr. Ward Tells A.P.A. Friends Ability to think for ones self, the ability to express one’s self, and the achievement of first class citizenship, were cited by Dr. A. Wayman Ward as three major fields that Alpha Phi Alpha fra ternity emphasizes. The eloquent Chicago scholar spoke to mem bers and'friends of the fraternity at Love Memorial Library audi torium as part of the 23rd anni versary observance of Beta Beta chapter on the University of Ne braska campus May 7. Alpha Phi Alpha was organized at Cornell University in 1906 when seven Negro students sought fellowship. But as the or ganization grew, the realization that college men must turn the gains in education back for pub lic good also grew. Thus the idea of service became deeply im planted in its tradition. Beta Beta chapter was organized at the University of Nebraska on May 7, 1927. Two charter members. Dr. L. H. Williams, Tulsa, its first president, and Robert Fair child, Tulsa, its first secretary, were present for the occasion. Other platform guests were Ma rion M. Taylor, Omaha, president of Beta Xi Lambda chapter, John C. Foster, Beta Beta president: Rev. J. B. Brooks and Miss Wini fred Winston. Miss Winston, ac companied by Mrs. James Wil son, sang ‘Let Us Break Bread” and “Because.” Charles M. Gools by, regional director lor Ne braska and Iowa, brought greet ings from the national organiza tion, which has more than 10,000 members on campuses and in cities throughout the country. In his address, Dr. Ward pointed out Alpha stresses that man must be able to think for himself. As long as he doesn’t, he ^vill be exploited, enslaved; he will never be free. “A man who thinks is one who (Continued on Page 4) National Music Week Observed The Urban league presented a community program on Tuesday, May 9. Under direction of Mrs. Clyde Malone it included the choirs of Newman Methodist church, Mt. Zion Baptist church and Quinn Chapel A. M. E. The Urban league Sharps and Flats will sing and vocal and instru mental numbers were given by Eloise Finley, Florentine Craw ford and Charlene Dudley. Mrs. Lewis Wins Staff Choice As Mother of Year Mrs. Clayton P. Lewis, 1965 T Street is the Voice’s staff choice for "Voice Mother of the Year.” The selection was made from a number of nominations and in cluded community activities along with personality and homemaking. Mrs. Lewis, who is the wife of the Nebraska Jurisdiction Grand Master of Masons (PIIA), is the mother of three children, Mrs. Ralee Brown, Chicago, Frances Rae Lee Harris, Chicago; Frances Lewis, Urban league office secre tary, and Paul, aged 10. She is ac tive as a member of Quinn Chapel church, the O.E.S. of which she is a past grand officer, the Mary Bethune Literary club, and Den Mother of Cub Pack No. 8, and the Lincoln Urban league. Robinson Story Begins NEW YORK. (ANP). The "Jackie Robinston Story,” starring Jackie Robinson holds its premiere at the Astor Theater here May 17. Journalists saw the preview this week at special invitation of Eagle j Lion Films, Inc. Indian Mother, Hampton Graduate, Chosen 4American Mother Of The Year’ NEW YORK. (ANP). Mrs. Henry Roe Cloud, 59, last week became the first American Indian to be selected as mother of the year when the American Mothers’ committee chose her “American mother of 1950”. Mrs. Cloud is a graduate of Hampton institute in Virginia. She is the second member of a minority group to win this award during the 16 years of its existence. In 1948 Mrs. Emma Clement of Atlanta became the first Negro mother to be so honored. hJorn on tne wnite karth Indian reservation at Fosston, Minn., Mrs. Cloud’s was a Chippewa Tndian, and her father a German home steader. She is the widow of a fullblooded Winnebago Indian. Her husband, the founder of the American Indian Institute for Boys in Wichita, Kan., was the . first Indian ever graduated from Yale university. In Oregon, she is chairman of the Oregon Federation of Woman’s clubs. President Roosevelt ap pointed her in 1940 a delegate to a White House conference on chil dren and youth. She is the mother of four daugh ters, all of them winners of schol arships to colleges. Her daughters are: Mrs. Edward Hughes, 32, first Indian girl to be graduated from Wellesley college; Mrs. Robert North, 31, Vassar college and Ohio university; Mrs. Raleigh Butter field, 27, a Vassar graduate, and Mrs. Leo Freed, 29, who attended Stanford university. Mrs. Cloud won from among a field of 52 mothers representing 48 states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Race Hale Leather Surrenders, Starts Three Jail Terms ATLANTA. (ANP). Emory Burke, former leader of the race hating Columbians, finally sur rendered here this week to begin his prison term. He had been miss ing for more than a week after he was scheduled to go to jail. He is to serve three consecutive sentences of one year each for inciting race hate and intimidating Negroes. He was convicted in 1947, but has been trying ever since to have his case appealed. His organizations, the Colum bians, was anti-Negro, anti-Jew ish. .. .anti-everything. Peace Depends Upon Success Of The U.N. Dr. Bunch Says Nothing is more significant in modern inetrnational life than: 1. The initiative and role of the United Nations. 2. The position of world leadership which is now pondered by the U. N., Dr. Ralph J. Bundle, famed United Nations official, said when he addressed a University of Ne braska convocation at 8 p. . m. Monday, at the coliseum, on “The United Nations Intervention in Palestine.” “Mother’s Day” BY JENNIE i'OI.ES FOB AM*. Of all the fragrant flowers That bloom in the month of May There’s none so fair, so lovely As the rose called “Mothers’ Day.” For this rose is the Queen of all roses A thing of itself apart For its roots are planted in the soul And it blossoms in the heart. A Mother’s love is like a star That shines upon us through dark night To guide our feet and bring us safe Into the paths of right. A Mothers’s love is like a song That thrills the heart at golden dawn And tho th^ words be long for got The lovely mejody lingers on. And with it memory brings once more The vision of a gentle face A lovely smile, a dear sweet voice That time nor tide can e’er erase. Florida Medical Change Rules To Admit Race HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (ANP). A change in the by-laws of the Florida Medical association was made here last Wednesday which will permit qualified Negroes to join the body for the first time in its 76 year history. The change came about on a decision by the house of dele gates, policy-making body of the association. The new by-laws make eligible for membership, all Negro doc tors licensed to practice in Flor ida. There are about 90 who will thus become eligible. Democracy is a great issue in the world today and is facing a great challenge. Dr. Bunche said. Other peoples are using freedom to undermine confidence. The international prestige of the coun try has suffered by the charges of denunciators whose charges are often unsubstantiated. De mocracy, as we believe in it. is its own best defender. Dr. Bunche continued. After asking the question, can the U. N. succeed in its peace mission, he pointed out that it must first fulfill what might be called a short range obligation to preserve the immediate peace, and second, it must fulfill a long range obligation which consists of laying a firm foundation for peace. Hope for the peace of the world depends upon the success of the U. N. in fulfilling these obligations. In its short range task the U. N. is alert to every situation threatening peace. As a result it has developed a pattern of peace making which involves political intervention. U. N. in tends to make immediate peace, even if insecure. The U. N. intervened in the Palestine controversy as in others, for the purpose of pre serving world peace, Dr. Bunche said in his closing address. Dr. Bunche was accompanied by Mrs. Bunche and was pre sented by Chancellor R. G. Gus tavson of the University. Prof. Karl Arndt was chairman of the convocation. mmmmmmmm i wsmm mm m wmmmmmmmm DR. BUNCHE VISITS LINCOLN—On his first visit to Lincoln, Dr. Ralph Bunche, center, United Nations member and the man who successfully intervened in Iraelian-Arabian disputes, is pictured here following a press conference held at the University of Ne braska Student Union. The Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare, left, pub lisher of The Voice and Charles M. Goolsby, right, assistant in structor at the University were among the 15 press and radio rep resentatives.—Rose Manor Studia__ Bowling Congress Fined $2,500 By Illinois Court, Must ‘Clean House’ Members of a United Nations Visiting Mission to West Africa set out to inspect conditions in a plantation labor camp in the British - administered Cameroons in West Africa. U.N. now’ exercises overall supervision over the administration of 11 colonial territories which have been placed under the U.N. Trustee System. (ANP). The fine, imposed by Superior Court Judge John A. Sbarbaro. was substituted by the jurist after he originally directed that the state charter of the nation’s j largest bowling group be re j voked The suit for revocation grew out of a protest by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which announced in Washington last Oct. 18 that it was seeking re vocation of the ABC’s charter on its racial exclusion clause. The American Bowling Con gress was chartered in Illinois in 1903 and now has one million and a half members. Its annual tournament is the biggest event in bowling, and with its mem bers, it controls the biggest com petitive sport in the United States. The suit, presented by the Il linois attorney general, contends that the congress incited to ra cial discrimination by limiting its members to white males only, and the group’s rules are in direct violation of the Illinois constitution and the civil rights’ section of the Criminal Code. ABC Atty. Floyd Thompson, in answer to the C.I.O. statement on the congress monopoly of the biggest organized sport in the world, said: “What is illegal about discrimination? There are literally thousands of organiza tions which restrict their mem bership to people of cei’tain races or groups.” l/.JV. Mission Inspect African Colonies
