Dates Set For
19 Annual VOC
The 1951 Vocational Opportu
nity Campaign will be held dur
ing the week of March 11-18, ac
cording to Ann Tanneyhill, vo
cational guidance director, Na
tional Urban League. The League,
the nation’s oldest and largest in
terracial social service agency,
sponsors the annual event. The
VOC is a nation-wide program
carried out through schools, col
leges, and public-spirited groups
in cooperation with the League.
“Plan and Prepare”
The event seeks to focus the at
tention of young people, their par
ents their teachers, and employ
ers on the need to plan and train
for vocations. The theme of this
19th Annual Vocational Opportu
nity Campaign addressed to youth
is “The Future Is Yours—Plan
and Prepare.” The 1950 VOC
reached over 350,000 young peo
ple, and was observed in 362
schools, colleges, and njniversities.
and 350 cities and towns in the
nation.
Next year’s VOC will feature
the services of a speakers’ bureau
of “Career Guides”—adults inter
ested in helping young people to
better prepare their careers. These
H speakers in all parts of the na
tion will talk with and advise
groups of young men and women
about choosing vocations and pre
paring for them.
Troop No. 60 In
Grand Showing
Urban League Scout Troop 60,
under the direction of Jewell Kel
ley, Jr., and Johnny Reed, made
an excellent showing at the Boy
Scout circus at the University of
Nebraska Coliseum November
24th and 25th. The Co nhusker
Council Boy Scouts of America is
a community chest agency and
had as its 40th anniversary
theme “To Strengthen the Arm of
Liberty.”
Scouts taking part in various
events were: Clarence Brown,
Leonard Parnell, Donavan Gettus,
LaVerne Perkins and Cornie
Reynolds.
Calendar of Events
Quinn Chapel
December 3—Youth Clinic, 7:00
p. m.
Newman Methodist
December 13—New England
turkey dinner, 5-8 p. m.
Urban League
December 1—Basketball game.
December 8-9—Hobby show.
December 13—Dinner, Church
of God In Christ.
December 21—Christmas party.
December 27—Masons, St. John
banquet.
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UN Seeks To Proclaim
Dec. 10 '’Human Rights’
(LAKE SUCCESS— (ANP) — A
move to set aside Dec. 10 of each
year as “Human Rights Day,”
was launched by UN delegates
here last week. On that day,two
years ago, the UN general as
sembly proclameid the Declara
tion of Human Rights as a stand
ard of achievement for all peoples
•and nations.
The social committee approved
a recommendation without dissent
to invite all states and organiza
tions to observe the day in recog
nition of the manifest and urged
them also to increase efforts in
promoting fundamental freedoms, j
The recommendation is said to j
I be certain of winning the full as- :
sembly’s approval.
PRESIDENT AND MRS. FREDERICK I). PATTERSON of Tuskegee
institute bid America farewell for four months last week when they
sailed for Europe on the Queen Mary. Dr. Patterson, who is chair
man of the United Negro College fund, will make a survey of
vocational and adult educational centers in Europe, the Scandinavian
countries, and Africa. A high point of his trip will be his attend
ance at the First International Conference of Universities in Nice
Dec. 4-10. Mrs. Patterson is the fcrrmer Catherine Moton, daughter
of the late president of Tuskegee, Dr. Robert R. Moton.— (ANP).
Photo by Randol
—Courtesy The Lincoln Journal
MR. AND MRS. COLLEY
60th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Colley,
1035 Rose street, celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary Fri
day, November 17.
Mr. and Mrs. Colley came to
Lincoln from Lexington, Mo., in
the spring of 1905. For a number
of years Mr. Colley was employed
at the Armstrong Clothing com
pany, t he late Spier & Simon
Clothing company and for 20 years
he worked in the state law library.
While in the latter post he worked
under every governor in the new j
capitol up to Gov. Val Peterson. 1
Mrs. Colley is a longtime Lin
coln dressmaker.
Mr. and Mrs. Colley have been
members of Quinn chapel AME
church since coming to Lincoln
and have served in various de
partments. They have been mem
bers of the senior choir for 40
years.
They have two daughters, Mrs.,
Clyde W. Malone and Mrs. George
Randol; a son, Horace E., all of
Lincoln; two grandchildren, El
wood E. Randol, St. Louis, Mo.,
and Jeanne Estelle Malone, Lin
coln; and two great grandchildren.
Grand Island Woman
Dies of Heart Attack
GRAND ISLAND, Neb.—
Genevieve Henderson, died Wed- i
nesday of a heart attack. She
had suffered with a heart ail
ment for many years.
A son, Gerald, is a student in
theology at Nebraska Wesleyan
university in Lincoln.
Lawyer Elected
Senator In Hawaii
By Frank Marshall Davis
HONOLULU—(ANP) — When
the new territorial legislature
convenes here at Iolani palace in
January, one of the 15 senators
will be a Negro lawyer, Wendell
F. Crockett of the island of Maui,
a republican. A threatened con
test over Crockett's elcion on Nov.
7 when he defeaed his democratic
opponent by 43 votes has appar
ently fizzled out.
Crockett, who has been as
sistant county prosecutor on Maui
for over 20 years, came here
after graduating from the Michi
gan law school. The only Negro
lawyer in the Hawaiian islands, it
is not generally known that he is
Negro.
He has been bitterly opposed
by organized labor which accuse.'
him of siding with the employers.
Crockett has been county chair
man of the republican party
which is dominated by the sugar
plantations.
It is understood that the lawyer
prefers not to identify himself
with the Negro group. He is on
lriendly terms with hardly a
handful of the Negroes living in
the territory, according to old
timers.
The second Negro candidate in
the Nov. 7 elections, William
Hale, Jr., was defeated in the
race for democratic representa
tive from West Hawaii. Hale is
the son of the late president of
Tennessee A. & I. State college in
Nashville.
Walter White Named To
Korea Care Committee
NEW YORK—(ANP) — The
board of directors of the NAACP
has approved the participation
of Walter White, the association’s
executive secretary, on the CARE
for Korea committee, it was an
nounced last week.
Mr. White is one of a number
of outstanding Americans and
Lester Granger Appeals
For A United America
Receives Commission in llie Great
Navy of the State of Nebraska
By Charles Goolsby
“With the cost of living rising,
and the Korean war upon us,
Americans, all of us, find that we
are faced with an emergency for
which we must be prepared, but
since there is no way of knowing
the exact nature of the emergency,
we do not know against what to
prepare,” Lester B. Granger, of
New York, executive director of
the National Urban League, told
an audience of about 200 at the
Lincoln Urban League auditorium
Klaus Warned
To (^uil in S.C.
COLUMBIA, S. C.—(ANP)—A
warning to the Ku Klux Klan to
go cut of existence was made here
last week by Governor-elect
James F. Byrnes, who begins a
four-year term of office in Janu
ary. Speaking before a demo
cratic banquet audience of about
600 persons, he said:
“Recently we have had two Un
fortunae incidents of violations
of law by men wearing sheets.
The press states that the grand
dragon of the Klan denied that
the violation of law referred to
was committed by members of
his organization.
“Accepting his statement as
true, it only proves that existence
of such an organization encour
ages lawless men to commit
crimes and attribute them to the
organization.
“We know the Klansmen are
few in number, but the people of
the nation do not know it. Many
of these men do not realize the
harm they are doing the state.
I hope they will withdraw from
the organization and leave to the
state the duty of punishing viola
tors of the law.
“But if any of them are under
any misapprehension as to what
will be the policy after January,
I want them to know that in this
state there can be but one gov
ernment, presided over by a gov
ernor elected by the people.”
The incidents referrd to wre
the recent gun battle between Ne
groes and the Klan at Myrtle
' Beach, in which a robed police
man was killed; and the whipping
of a white farmer by robed men
last week.
L. A. Loyola Sends
First Negro to Confab
LOS ANGELES. (ANP). Loyola
university recently sent its first
Negro to a national convention
to represent the school.
Honored student was W. Wel
ford who attended the national
meeting of American Law Stu
dents and the American Bar as
sociation at George Washington
university in Washington, D. C.
He was elected to represent the
Junior Bar association of Loyola.
He works as the field super
visor of the division of apprentice
ships standards in the Los Angeles
office of the state department of
industrial relations.
heads of national organizations
serving on the committee, which
will bring the needs of the Ko
rean people before the American
people. It, also, will provide a j
| channel for voluntary support of
the United Stages cooperative ef
| fort with the United Nations. j
Nov. 21. Nothing is as important
as helping our country get suc
cessfully over this crisis, he said.
However, the importance with
which race is regarded in Amer
ica causes suspicion among many
peoples around the world and
lends fuel to the propaganda that
democracy is not real—it falls
down at the point of race.
Problem Is Economic
Earlier he told Jaycees that
“when you have solved the prob
lem of economic opportunity for
Negroes, you have opened the
door to the solution of all their
other problems.” Mr. Granger
pointed out that in the past 10
years, Negroes in industry have
increased almost 1,000,000. Later
he listed three reasons why man
agement has been slow in increas
ing Negro employment:
1. It is easier to ignore the hu
man side of problems and it is less
“trouble”.
2. Management generally is
| quite uninformed about its labor
! interests.
3. Those who approve of equal
opportunity are quiet while those
who oppose it have a lot to say.
Many leading industrial con
cerns such as RCA, Belding Wire,
etc., are now hiring Negro scien
tists and engineers.
The armed forces have also
widened their opportunities for
Negro troops, largely through the
NUL efforts.
In commenting on the Supreme
Court decisions of last Spring, Mr.
Granger said he didn’t think these
decisions would affect Negro col
i leegs right away since only grad
i uate schools are concerned; but
j the South cannot long escape the
j establishment of graduate colleges
j and the increased training will
; lead to increased pay fo Negroes.
He predicted that eventually there
will‘be a mixing of schools in the
South, but when, no one can say.
Commenting on Lincoln, he ob
served that “Lincoln is neither as
good as some of us think it is nor
as bad as some others believe it
to be.” Employment practices and
housing patterns can be improved,
he said. Mr. Granger concluded
that we should all work together
to build the kind of America we
all want—unified and strong.
Receives Commission
At the conclusion of his Tues
day evening address, Mr. Granger
was presented with a commission
as an Admiral in the Great Navy
of the State of Nebraska together
with a letter from Gov. Val Peter
son. He thus becomes the first
Negro to be named to this top
state honorary group. The presen
tation was made by Robert T. Ma
lone, director of state unemploy
ment insurance and a former
president of the Lincoln Urban
League board. Clyde W. Malone
is executive secretary of the Lin
coln league.
Lest We Forget
Mrs. Virginia Brown, 930 Short.
Mrs. Susie O’Donnell, 623 C.
Rev. Trago McWilliams, sr.,
2015 U.
Mr. Herman Tapp, St. Elizabeth
hospital.
Mr. George Wilson, 426 No. 24th.
Leon Humbert, St. Elizabeth
hospital.
Miss Martha Hammonds, Bryan
Memorial hospital.
Mr. Joe Hill, St. Elizabeth hos
pital.
