Vol. 4, No. 30 Lincoln, 3
Bundle Says Break With Red
Countries A Certain Step To
Isolation, War;—Busy Man
By Charles M. Goolsby
Last week we had the pleasure of interviewing one of
the most talked-of figures of our time—an affable gentle
man of learning, accomplishment and discreetness, Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche.
Dr. Bunche, who has plenty to keep him busy at Lake
Success as Acting Assistant Secretary-General of the De
partment of Trusteeship and Information from Non-Self
Governing Territories of the
United Nations was on his way
west filling a few speaking en
gagements, most of which were
made before last June. It was the
noted mediator’s first visit to Ne
braska, “an important state and
in a part of the country” that he
has often felt was “overplayed for
isolationism.” In constant demand
as a speaker, Dr. Bunche says his
secretaries write about 20 regrets
a day in response to invitations to
make personal appearances.
In the careful but unstudied
sentences of a master diplomat,
Dr. Bunche gave us a figurative
peek behind the international
peace picture. A query about Mr.
Hoover’s recent suggestion that
the U.N. be scrapped and reor
ganized without the Russian bloc,
Dr. Bunche opined that such an
act would be a step toward hot
war. He said, “that such an act
would not only isolate the United
States from what the Russians
were doing and thinking, but
would also be a certain step to a
hot war. The more differences and
the more acute these differences
are, the more need there is for the
U.N. To put out of the U.N. the
nations with differences would be
a certain step to help the cold war
to become a hot war.”
“The United Nations,” he said,
“is not intended to replace nego
tiations between countries, but it
steps in when asked or when the
peace is threatened. “If we ever
decide it’s impossible to negotiate
peace, the consequences are in
evitable—the breaking off of dip
lomatic relations or war. But we
have reached neither of these
stages.”
A very learned political scien
tist, whose post doctoral studies
have taken him to the leading uni
versities in Europe and America
as well as Capetown—(I wonder
how that happened?)—Dr. Bunche
also had a word about the effects
of domestic politics on interna
tional affairs. He said Europeans,
especially, were “bewildered” by
the fact that a representative on
a mission vital to the United
States would also be smeared by
members of his government. He
said also that although freedom
of communications is basic in our
democracy, there are those who
abuse and thus undermine these
freedoms.
Hair Styles Modeled
Fifty persons attended the hair
styling of the Nebraska Cosme
tologist of the Lincoln Unit held at
Cotner Terrace Saturday, May
13 th. Models for Mrs. Lenora
Letcher were her daughter, Doris
% Roberts, Goldie Peters and Cor
rine Johnson. Mrs. Corrine John
son had as her models Mrs. Lillian
Rife and Mrs. Lenora Letcher.
Other models included representa
tives from over the state.
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Animals with long legs also
I have long necks in order to reach
their food without bending their
knees.
To Honorary
CHARLES M. GOOLSBY.
Charles M. Goolsby, graduate
student at the University of Ne
braska, was among the 62 scien
tists and research workers initi
ated into the University of Ne
braska chapter of the Society of
the Sigma Xi, research honorary
society. He is the second Negro to
be elected in the 56 year history
of the organization, having been
preceded in 1949 by Granville
Coggs, now at Harvard medical
school. At the initiation banquet
held May 9, Dr. Carl Georgi, uni
versity bacteriologist, gave the
presidential address.
AMEs To Hold
Conference
Here May 24
The Omaha District conference
of the A.M.E. church will sit in
Lincoln May 24, according to an
announcement made last week by
Dr. John Adams, sr., presiding
elder of the district. The meetings
will be held at Quinn Chapel
church, 9th and C streets and will
bring delegates from as far south
as Atchison, Kans.
The district Sunday school and
. "'.tern Senators Start
lalktest Against FEPC
Wilbur King
Places First
In ROTC Meet
Cadet Sgt. Wilbur King, son of
Mrs. Martha Williams of Omaha,
was the University of Nebraska’s
only first place winner in the
annual Pershing Rifle regimental
drill meet held at Iowa State
college May 5.
King won first place in the in
dividual sophomore competition
over the representatives of eight
other colleges. Cadet Sgt. Robert
Munger placed second in individ
ual pledge competition, while
Cadet Pfc. Robert Massey was
third in individual freshman
competition. The Nebraska crack
squad placed second and the
crack platoon and the IDR squad,
both third.
A company of 24 men, under
the command of Cadet Capt. Der
ald Lembrich, represented Ne
braska at the drill meet. Maj.
James Pearman, faculty sponsor,
and two representatives of na
tional headquarters Brig. Gen.
William Mook and Lt. Col. James
Tighe, attended the regimental
assembly.
The men flew to the drill meet
in two C-47 national guard
planes.
The nine companies in the
regiment are: the University,
Iowa university, University of
Wisconsin, University of South
Dakota, University of Minnesota,
North Dakota State college, Iowa
State college, Superior State col
lege and North Dakota univer
sity.
—The Daily Nebraskan.
Sgl. Bill Mosby Here
Oil Furlough
Sgt. William (Billy) Mosby,. son
of Mrs. Vashti Mosby, 1030 Rose
St., is in Lincoln on furlough
from his duty with occupation
forces in Japan. Sgt. Mosby is
with the 630th Ordnance Ammu
nition Co., at Ikego.
Christian endeavor meetings, usu
ally held concurrently with the
conference have been rescheduled
this year to meet in July, said the
Rev. J. B. Brooks, pastor of the
church.
National Council Of Negro
Veterans Is Progressive
One of the lesser known of the veterans groups which
is making progress in Nebraska is the National Council of
Negro Veterans. Chartered under the state laws of Ne
braska, Kansas and Missouri, it is recognized as an inter
state veterans organization in other states and is recognized
by the State Department of the Federal government.
The NCNV was organized by a
group of Negro veterans of World
War I who, as member of other
national veterans organizations in
border states, had labored for
more than twenty years trying
to induce these organizations to
accept, as members, Negro vet
erans in certain southern states.
After this long period of fruit
less labor and disappointment,
*these comrades finally decided
that their interest would best be
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served and their progress much
quicker through an organization
in which Negro veterans could
work all over the United States,
unhampered and without discrim
ination. The NCNV is an organi
zation of persons who honorably
served in the armed forces of the
United States.
The National Council of Negro
Veterans was organized to pub
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Bv Charles B. Seib
WASHINGTON. (INS). A southern filibuster against
the Truman administration’s fair employment practices bill
began in the Senate at 3:18 p. m. EDT, Monday, May 8.
The talkfest aimed at preventing a vote on the civil
rights bill got underway when Senator Russell (d) Ga., took
the floor as the first of a series of southern speakers against
the measure.
Russell charged that the bill to ban discrimination in
employment would “follow the Russian idea” by setting up
an army of “thought police” who would harass business
City Council To
Get New Plan For
Federal Housing
The Citizens Housing commit
tee, an organized group to study
ways and means of persuading
the council to reconsider its de
cision made public a revised pro
posal which met the unanimous
approval of the housing author
ity of the city of Lincoln. At a
dinner meeting of the committee
at the Y. W. C. A. Friday night
answers to all objections to a pre
vious contract that was rejected
by the council who voted 5-2
against approving co-operative
agreement with the housing au
thority were outlined. Provisions
revised:
A survey of housing conditions
and family characteristics will
be completed by the authority
before any construction will Le
undertaken.
Any site or sites selected by
the authority will be subject to
approval by the city council.
Preference in selecting tenants
will be given to low-income fam
ilies who have established resi
dence in Lincoln.
Payment in lieu of taxes will
be distributed to the city, the
county, the state, the school dis
trict and the sanitary district in
the same proportion as actual
taxes.
The 800 temporary dwellings
at Huskerville, scheduled for re
moval within the next five years,
may be counted as meeting the
equivalent elimination features
of the law.
The authority will install all
utilities, including water and
sewer mains, streets, etc., within
the projects at no expense to the
city.
The city will not be asked to
revise the present building codes
unless they are found to be un
duly restrictive and result in
higher costs without adding to
the safety of the dwellings.
R. E. Campbell, chairman of
the Lincoln housing authority,
pointed out the appalling lack of
decent housing for the low in
come families.
Prof. F. K. Beutel, chairman of
the Lincoln citizen’s housing
committee and a member of the
University of Nebraska law col
lege faculty, said the committee
investigated what private indus
try is doing to help the housing
situation, has looked over the
housing program, and has made
a check on the units in Lincoln.
A resolution presented by A.
T. Anderson, assistant professor
of history at the University of
Nebraska, after an extensive in
vestigation of housing conditions
in Lincoln by the Citizens hous
ing committee, was unanimously
approved by the housing com
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men.
The Georgia senator fired the
first shot for the Dixie bloc after
Senator Thomas (d., Utah) labor
committee chairman, declared that
the FEPC measure is needed to
correct a “flagrant wrong” in
American society.
The filibuster promises to con
tinue at a leisurely pace, with no
real test of endurance, until next
week when administration leaders
plan to try out the senate’s new
“gag” rule.
Thomas declared the Fair Em
ployment Practices bill is needed
to put into effect “an old estab
lished right, the right of an equal
place in our democracy for all its
citizens.”
He asserted that discrimination
in employment has been “one of
the most stubborn dislocations in
our national life”-—a “flagrant
wrong” that “fairly shouts for its
remedy.”
Thomas spoke after Democratic
Leader Lucas, of Illinois, told
newsmen that he would not test
the senate’s new gag rule—the
only means by which a filibuster
; can be halted—until next week.
Under the rule, 64 senators must
vote to impose “cloture” on a
measure before a filibuster can
be interrupted.
The filibuster is on the pend
ing motion by Majority Leader
Lucas (d., 111.) that the senate
consider the Fair Employment
Practices measure. Normally the
calling-up of a measure is a rou
tine matter, done in a minute or
less at the motion of the leader,
without debate.
The bill-blockade in committees
is a retaliation against the ad
ministration.
Caught in it will be President
Truman’s request for a five-point
program of legislation to help
small business. Bills that would
implement that are awaiting hear
ing in the banking committee,
headed by Senator Maybank (d.t
S. C.).
Maybank’s committee also is
holding up its decision on
whether to report out President
Truman’s rent control extension
bill.
An informed source said the
committee-work slowdown was
part of the strategy discussed by
southern senators last week.
Senator Johnston (d., S. C.)
postoffice and civil service chair
man, publicized the work stop
page in his committee with a
news statement.
He broke off hearings on the
postal rate revision bill and
blamed the FEPC advocates for
what he said will be the failure
of congress to pass important leg
islation.
It was understood that the stop
page will not extend to the ap
propriations committee, which
Senator McKellar (d., Tenn.)
heads, since the money bills are a
“must.”