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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1950)
Tib® W®n®® PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated, to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people.3" Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 5-6491 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare.Advertising and Business Manager Rev. J. B. Brooks.....Promotion Manager Dorothy Greene ...Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Greene..Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association ..Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879. 1 year subscription.$2.00 Single copy.5c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.— Pub. Lay Down Burden of Excess Weight; Find Out Average Weight and Live Overweight is excess baggage. Carrying around 10, 15 or 20 pounds over your ideal weight is just the same as carrying around a 10, 15 or 20 pound suitcase everywhere you go. Here is a little game that will vividly bring home that fact to you. Send off to your state health department or to any insurance company for a height and weight chart. Find out your average weight based on your age and height. Such figures are in no sense absolute, but can serve as a guide to what your normal weight should be. You may al low for a 5 percent difference either up or down and still be on the safe side. If, for example, you are a woman of 40, five feet, five inches . tall with normal size bones and f frame, the chart will inform you that you should weigh 133 pounds. Now see what the scales tell you. If the scales say, for example, that you weigh 150 pounds, then you are carrying around a 17 pound burden. Pile up 17 pounds of books or magazines. Pick up this 17 pounds and hold it until you can feel the strain on your arms. Look carefully now before you put the burden down. That is how much excess weight you are carrying around. That is the extra self you have to deal with every waking and sleeping moment. What are some of the effects of carrying around this extra burden of overweight? First, you are im posing needless strain on your vital organs. You are making it harder for your hearts, kidneys, bony structure of the feet, to name just a few of the ill effects. Ah, the poor feet! They are flat tened out like pancakes from try ing to carry you around. You can’t get into small seats without embarrassment. You can’t run for the street car. People avoid taking seats beside you be cause you take up so much room There are a thousand and one ways in which you are encum bered and inconvenienced. Why not lay down that burden of excess weight for good? It will not be easy as putting aside the 17 pounds of books, but it cer tainly can be done. You can be that person you secretly dream of being. Any woman can be beau tiful, and she does not have to be born with anything except de termination. Even if you don’t become beautiful, you can be so dynamic and attractive that no one will ever know the difference. The place to start is with your excess weight. The time to start is NOW. What’s Doing In the Churches QUINN CHAPEL: Among the many out-of-town worshippers at Quinn Chapel Sunday morning were: Cleveland Marshall, La Verne Farmer, Mrs. Belle Taylor, Mrs. L. Charlotte Crawford, Miss Florence Scott, Miss * Clara Bell Scott and Miss Doris Darling, all of Omaha; Robert Fairchild, Tul sa, Okl.; Mrs. Orie Cooper, Coun cil Bluffs, la.; John W. Williams and W. Wayman Ward, both of Chicago, 111., and Bettijane Mor row of Des, Moines, la. . . Dr. A. Wayman Ward from Chicago, 111. was guest speaker at the morning services. He spoke on “Your Mir ror.’’. . .The usher board sponsored Miss Clara Bell Scott in a recital Sunday. She was accompanied by Miss Doris Darling. The choir also participated in the program. . . NEWMAN: Mrs. Odessa John son was chosen godmother for baby Shepherd when she was christened Sunday morning. Baby Shepherd is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Shepherd. . . January 1 became generally accepted as the first day in the year in 1752. Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 13th St. > 2-1246 Let’s Listen With Mildred Jovien Choirs Heard in ABC Series HOLLYWOOD. (ANP). The finest choral music produced by the Negro colleges of the nation is available to radio listeners, via the new Sunday broadcast series, “Negro College Choirs,” aired over the ABC network on Sundays (see local paper for time and station. Robert E. Kintner, president of the American Broadcasting com pany announced that the series— developed by ABC’s Public Affairs Department with the co-operation of the United Negro College Fund Inc.—is a “decisive move in the patten of revision and improve ment of the network’s public in terest programming.” l©'-25'-39' Lincoln’s Favorite Potato Chip ■=- 1 ■■■■■-■ ■■ ■ -^_—__ BEAL'S GROCERY Freeh Frails & Vegetables IWi ■ TeL 2-6933 o'ffffloU> NEbMskA h JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent •TATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY Corn, Nebraska’s leading crop, was likewise the first crop planted by most of Nebraska’s early pioneer settlers. During the first year on his new ' farm, the settler usually contented himself with raising sod corn. The process was rela tively simple and was well adapted to conditions found in Nebraska. The sod was broken, then the corn was planted by dropping the kernels into holes cut with an axe. Barring seri ous drouth, the planting was al most sure to produce a yield, and with little or no cultivation. The second year, the sod was backset and the crop was often checked. To do this, a device resembling a sled was dragged both ways across the field, with the corn being planted at the in tersections of the small furrows made in this way. During the sixties and early seventies, most of the actual planting was done by hand. Stories are told of boys and girls walking along and digging their bare toes into the moist earth, dropping three or four kernels at each intersection. With practice, they could walk along at a steady gait, dropping the kernels swiftly and accurately. The “droppers” would be followed by men with light hoes covering each hill. The earliest planters used were hand planters. These wrere car ried and used like a cane, and while they were advertised as a labor saving devise (as indeed they were) they still necessitated marking the field both ways. With the coming of the me chanical planter, farmers needed only to mark their fields one way. The “rotary drop” planter was used in a limited way in the late seventies. It required two men to operate, and the man who worked the lever needed to pos sess considerable skill of the field was to be properly checked. As a result, the few available fre quently were hired out to those who did not own the machine. The wire check-rower made its appearance in Nebraska in the early eighties. This probably was the most important step in the evolution of the modern planter. Listers were placed on the market in the early nineties, al though they did not come into general use in Nebraska until about the turn of the century. THE EVANS CLEANERS — LAUNDERERS Save Money Use our Cash and Carry Plan 333 No. 12th St Dial 2-6961 Umherger’s*2-2424 11130 Q Funeral and Ambulance Serv ice. Verna Burke, Roy Shears, Darold Rohrbaugh. Floyd Umberser FamlHee 1-5050 Sentence Sermons By Rev. Frank Clarence Lowry for ANP. Do You Know God? 1. In these days when so much depends upon who you know; are you letting God pass by, and keeping worldly friends within a stone’s throw? 2. When one early learns that God is love, and that of His de gree of friendship none can rise above—that He is kind and so very true; it is a blessing to know Him, and He knows you. 3. The most priceless gift that could come to you, and the high est profession one could pursue, is to know that you know God, and that beyond a doubt, God knows you. 4. There are a lot of things that are depressing and would become very upsetting and distressing, if you did not know God, and He did not know you. 5. The greate mistake that most men make, and sometimes never correct before it is too late, is to ask of God “wherein am I untrue” —Do you know me and do I know you? 6. The answer is clearly known when your daily acts leave help ful tracks, and following these, your fellowman can safely travel and his soul expand. 7. What a privilege to walk in the steps of a guiding Savior, and to pattern your life after His mo del behavior, and live happily with Him as a loving neighbor. 8. Living then, even in this world of sorrow where weeping endureth for the night, but for you joy on the morrow; this mo mentary experience you can daily PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING & hEATING 1620 N Phone 2-1293 -- renew, if you know God, and He knows you. 9. It does not matter then what men think, say or do, when you are close enough to God to get your prayer through; for you * know God, and He knows you. 10. Earth has its sorrows and life has its woes, and these seem to rage wherever man goes; but not so among the faithful, the tried and the true—for even ene mies know when you know God and God knows you. “Novel” comes from an Italian word meaning tale. VINE ST. MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS 22nd and Vine 2-6583 — 2-6584 PARRISH MOTOR CO. The home of clean used cars. 120 No. 19 St. h.w«. SAVE STEPS by the thousands Install an EXTENSION TELEPHONE and you’ll be astounded at how much you’ll reduce the walking mileage in your house. In addition to saving you steps and time, an extension telephone may prevent you from missing important telephone calls. You will also enjoy telephone privacy when entertaining guests. The priceless convenience of extension telephone serv ice costs you only a few cents a day. Call our business office and order your extension service today. The Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. •A Nebraska Company Serving Its People*
