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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.