The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, May 11, 1950, Page Two, Image 2

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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.
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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.
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.”
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•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.
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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
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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.
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The priceless convenience of extension telephone serv
ice costs you only a few cents a day. Call our business
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