The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, May 11, 1950, Image 1

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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
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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.
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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