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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1950)
I ' Official and I<egal Newspaper Thursday, Way 25, 1950 FRED ZIMMER, GOVERNOR VAL PETERSON, AND SCOTT GREENWOOD look over a proof of one of the 52 pages to be used in the forthcoming Creater Nebraska Campaign. JZimmer is President and Greenwood is Manager of the Nebraska Press Association. The Greater Nebraska Campaign, designed to acquaint both the people of Nebraska and outsiders with the marvelous resources of our great state, will appear each week beginning in July in Nebraska newspapers par ticipating in the program. It is expected the Greater Nebraska Cam paign will have the people of our state talking and boosting Nebraska .is they have never done before! Lincoln Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Vote To Baek Equal Opportunity, Education Among the items before the Lincoln Diocesan Council of Cath olic Women, when it met in Lin coln at the Hotel Cornhusker, was consideration of its stand on our greatest local social problems. The council, recognizing the dif ference in ideals and practices, • called upon women to become in terested in the housing problem and denounced race and religious discrimination and segregation as “contrary to doctorine of the fatherhood of God and and the brotherhood of man.” The reso lution passed May 12 read: “We urge- every woman to create a more lively interest in the hous ing project in her particular community be it rural or urban, and in the building of homes ade quate for family living at prices or rent which families can afford to pay. “One of the crucial social problems of our day is racial dis crimination. It is appalling how blind we can be to this evil. We preach democracy as an ideal but fail to live up to it in practice. “We resolve, therefore, to decry discrimination and segregation as contrary to the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the broth erhood of man, and to practice tolerance and Christian charity toward our fellow man, regard less of race, creed or color, and to support legislation designed to assure equality of opportunity, especially in the fields of employ ment and education.” Urban League Cleanup Drive Starts May 20 The unusual hustle and bustle in evidence around so many homes may be attributable to the annual Urban League yard in spection tour which will be started after May 20. As it has for 17 years a committee will visit the home of each Negro family in Lincoln and on the basis of their findings eight prizes will be awarded to those judged the cleanest and eight prizes to those which have made the greater amount of beautifica tion. Since the institution of this annual event prizes have been awarded to more than 50 differ ent families. These awards include cedar trees, flowering shrubs, rose bushes and other nursery items. This year’s yard inspection committee is Mrs. Ann Newton, chairman. Mrs. Lillian Powell, Mr. C. O. Shepard and Mr. John Adams. Libya To Be Fi *ee January 1950 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (ANP). Libya, the former Italian posses sion in Africa, will become the fourth independent country in Africa on Jan. 1, 1952, under the terms of a recent UN resolution. Three other countries, Egypt, Ethiopia and Liberia, have already been freed of ties to colonial em pires. They comprise about one fifteenth of the African continent. Lest We Forget: Mrs. Virginia Brown, St. Eliz abeth hospital. Mrs. Capitola Seller, St Eliz abeth hospital. Mrs. William Woods, 650 So. 20th. Mrs. Lucille Wittcomb, 643 So. 20th. Mr. Harry Adams, Veterans hospital. Ethiopians Picket UN For Colonies LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (ANP). Thirteen pickets, acting for the United African Nationalist move ment, paraded before the main entrance of UN headquarters here last week, carrying placards de mands that Eithiopia be given Eritrea and Somaliland. Some of the placards urged that Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship affairs division director be “kept out” of Eritrea. However, Dr. Bunche appeared before the pickets and told them no proposal had been made to send them to Eritrea. He said that a UN commission had been sent to the colony to sound the wishes of the inhabitants. He told the pickets nothing would be done until the commission’s report had been received. Dixiecrats and GOPs Kill Fair Employment Law OES To Mark Esther Day Sunday,June 4 The annual observance of Esther Day will be marked by members of Amaranth Chapter No. 3, Order of the Eastern Star, with a special public program at Quinn Chapel church. The tra ditional day will be celebrated with an afternoon meeting at 3:30 Sunday, June 4, to which the public is invited, according to an announcement made by Worthy Matron Fiances Lewis. Mrs. Evelyn Irving, program chariman, said an interesting pro gram is being pepared for the occasion. Last week the chapter was visited by a number of Grand Officers. They included Worthy Grand Matron Mamie Houchins, Lincoln; Grand Patron I. S. McPherson, Grand Associate Ma tron Edith Wheatley, Grand Sec retary Josie Moore, Grand Treas urer Margaret Moore and Grand Lecturer Susie Jones. All except Mrs. Houchins were from Omaha. Clerics Name Rev. Brooks Sec’y-Treas. Rev. J. B. Brooks, pastor of Quinn Chapel AME church was elected secretary-treasurer of the Lincoln Ministerial association at its regular meeting May 15. Rev. Brooks has been active in the as sociation for the last year and a half. Others elected were: Rev. Paul William Barnds, St. Matthew’s Episcopal, president and Dr. C. Vin White, pastor of First Pres byterian, was named vice presi- ■ dent. ' Walter W hite Back At NAACP Helm; Calls On Nation To Support Rights NEW YORK. (ANP). With his self-assurance of the old days, Walter White upon being recalled to his post as executive secretary of the INfAACP last week declared that in the light of the civil rights crisis it was highly imperative for everyone to buckle down to work and pledged himself to do. The board of directors at its regular monthly meeting on May 8 voted to bring Mr. White back to the NAACP as the top executive - after a year’s leave of absence. The board also named Roy Wil kins, who served as acting secre tary during Mr. White’s leave, to the newly-created post of admin istrator. Action on both positions is effective as of June 1. In order to carry out the pro gram of the NAACP, Mr. White said in his statement, “My asso ciates and I need the support of every man, woman and child in the United States who believes in our program. I ask that support— not for myself or any other indi vidual—but for the cause itself.” NEW PLAN ADOPTED The appointment of Mr. White and Mr. Wilkins, which will con tinue until Jan. 1, 1951, “the nor mal period of appointments,” were made under a new plan of or ganization adopted by the board, designating the executive secre tary as the top executive with the administrator as second in com mand. The duties and relation ships of the offices were also de fined by the plan. “The international picture of race and colonialism and the na tional civil rights situation with respect to federal legislation, fi nances and the overall struggle for jobs are so acute that it is imperative for all of us to' buckle down to work. This I pledge my self to do. In large measure, ti*e fate of not only 15,000,000 Amer ican Negroes but of democracy itself depends on the effective ness and integrity of the NAACP. “There are two new and power ful influences which can greatly speed up our fight for freedom for the Negro. One is the growing realization that the United States must clean up its own backyard so far as minorities are concerned or continue to lose valuable pres tige and friends abroad. “The second asset is the tre-^ mendous number of loyal and in telligent white Americans who, in Lucas Fails To Rally 64 Names To Beat Cloture; Wherry, Butler OK Vote WASHINGTON. (ANP). The United States Senate, last Friday, killed the chances of a Fair Employment Practice law in this session of Congress as dead as the proverbial door-nail. This conclusion was made after the Senate major ity leader failed to corral the 64 votes necessary to invoke cloture, thus, shutting off debate on the motion as to whether the FEPC should be brought to the floor for debate. The motion which was intro duced in the senate by Majority Leader Scott Lucas, was given a full week of debate before a vote was taken on the cloture pe tition. Senator Lucas circulated the cloture petition last Tuesday and filed it on the following day with 26 republican signatures and 14 democrat signatures. The cloture petition was defeated in the sen ate last Friday by a vote of 32 for it and 52 against it. Of those voting for the cloture motion 33 were republicans and only 19 were democrats. Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry (r., Neb.) and Sen. Hugh Butler (r., Neb.) voted to limit debate, and thus enable a vote on the measure. * Perhaps the most heated debate on the measure came on Wed nesday, after Senator Lucas had filed the loture petition. It was then that Sen. Russell Long (dem., La.), came to the forefront and served notice that the south ern bloc would fight night and day for six months if necessary to kill the administration’s bill. Earlier in the day Senator Humphrey, one of the foremost contenders for civil rights in the democratic party, had been “sat down” twice under senate rules for remarks interpreted as re flecting on the good faith of members of the senate. Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, first called Senator Humphrey to order after he emphasized that the FEPC bill “is an effort to de lude the American people.” The chair ruled that Senator Humphrey should take his seat, later, however, he was permitted to proceed. It was not long be fore the Minnesota senator was again ordered to take his seat after Senator Holland of Florida had objected to a reference to communistic fatherhood of FEPC legislation as “blasphemous.” Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia had said the day before that this controversial legislation had been fathered by the com munist rather than by the demo cratic or republican party. With a week of southern fili buster on the motion to call up FEPC, and the final defeat of the cloture rule, the fair employment practice legislation has now gone “down the drain” as far as the 81st congress is concerned. Xavier Speaker I ARCHIBALD T. LECESNE, ! Chicago attorney, will return his Alma Mater, Xavier univer sity in New Orleans, on May 31, to deliver the commencement ad dress. A native of the Crescent City, Attyorney LeCesne has made an oustanding legal record in Chi cago. To his credit are two first events—he was the first Negro assistant states attorney to prose cute a case in criminal court after indictments had been returned and the first Negro assistant states attorney to have a triel call of his own. (ANP). enlightened self-interest, are eager to join their Negro fellow Amer icans in the fight for unquali fied and unrestricted opportunity. Many of these persons look to the NAACP to supply leadership as the largest, oldest and most effec tive civil rights organization in America. If we supply that leader ship there is no limit to the size and influence for good of the asso ciation.