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TDn@ 'W©I©® __PUBLISHED WEEKLY "Dedicated to the promotion ol the cultural social and spiritual Ufe of a great people ’ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 2-4085 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare..Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green .....Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Green.Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, 1947 af the Post Office at TJnenuT Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ 1 year subscription.$2.00 Single copy.....8c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily » reflection of the policy of The Voice. — Puh. Red Cross Tosses Racial Designation of Blood Out Had Abandoned Segregation Of Blood Sometime Ago CHICAGO. (ANP). The vexing question of designating the racial source from which blood con tributed to the American National Red Cross for blood banks comes has been laid to rest. The national board of governors in its annual meeting at the Pal mer House Sunday adopted a pro posal of the committees operating the blood program that other means be worked out for provid ing research information without requiring a notation of the donor’s race on his medical history card. The Red Cross long ago issued a statement that all scientific findings showed that human blood whether from Oriental, white or Negro peoples was identical. Without fanfare, all blood, when collected, was sent to processing plants and classified according to type, presence or absence of Rh factor, the amount of red and white corpuscles, etc., and without racial designation. The organiza tion held that such designations were meaningless. Even in the south, according to | Charles H. Kellstadt, chairman of the blood program committee, no attention is paid to the fact that all blood is lumped together and processed purely on the basis of type. Initially, when the blood pro gram was started some years ago, there was considerable reaction from the white south which asked if Negro blood would be adminis tered to white patients, the Red Cross was flooded with letters of protest. However, in the army wounded soldiers soon learned that any sort of blood which would save their lives was good blood. Inquiries in various sections of the south by Mr. Kellstadt, who moved recently from Chicago to Atlanta, have indicated that ex cept in rare cases where some person may have a psychological attitude toward blood, the ques * tions are dead. The current action was to re move from the cards racial desig nations. These had been kept at the request of the medical policy committee located at Harvard uni versity in Cambridge, Mass. The medical committee, which is closely affiliated with the Amer ican Medical association, has spent When You Need Money See Federated Finance Co. 1503 “O'* Phone 2-7211 huge sums in studying the various aspects of blood. The committee, which raised most of the money itself, con tended that all the questions re garding racial differences had not been answered and insisted on having the donor’s racial identity indicated on his registration card. This requirement has now been waived. Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee institute, and a member of the blood committee has*”fought consistently to have the designa tion removed. He pointed out that with the abandonment of segrega tion of blood and the declaration that all blood was alike any dif ferentiation on a card was stupid. Claude A. Barentt, also a mem ber of the board of governors, was at the session Sunday. The matter came to a head last month when a group at the United Nations refused to contribute blood so long as the request for a racial designation was on the card. Both, the organization’s new president, E. Roland Harriman, New York financier and railroad executive, and its retiring chair man, Gen. George C. Marshall, now secretary of defense, ap proved of the decision of the blood committee and the board of gov ernors. Please Ask For UMBERGER’S AMBULANCE 2-8543 Umberger’s Mortuary, Inc. Iffiljnaimaa All-Alike, Singly or | Assorted. With or Without Imprinting Also Christmas Letter Sheets See this large selection before you buy. Goldenrod Stationery Store 215 North 14th Street WALL VS USED CARS 150 North 20th LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Phone 2-5797 - - = - - -- ——- in-.—-— i ——————J b VANES C. OLSON, SuptnnUndtul •TATE SISTOEICAt SOCIETY One of the most interesting of Nebraska’s early settlers was Moses Stocking, a pioneer resident of Saunders County, and an im portant sheep raiser. His auto biography, included in the state historical society’s first volume of Transactions and Reports (pub lished in 1885), is an important bit of Nebraskana. The first 23 years of Moses Stocking’s life were spent quietly enough on his father’s farm in New York state. At the age of 23, though, he “determined to push into the western country and explore it for myself.” Before he finally came to rest in Saunders County, Nebraska, he had wandered all over the West, driven a herd of cattle from the Missouri River to California, had taken part in the Colorado gold rush, tried his hand at overland freighting, and had farmed with out much success in Michigan and in Cass County, Nebraska. For Nebraskans, the most val uable parts of his autobiography are those which deal with his ex periences as a pioneer Nebraska farmer. On his Cass County farm, during territorial days, he found the going very tough. He wrote that in 1859, “having lost by fire, flood, and storm the greater por tion of three out of five crops,” he determined to try to find some thing else to do. It was then that he engaged in the freighting busi ness, and with a considerable de gree of success. After about five years as a freighter, he returned again to Nebraska. This time he brought with him a flock of sheep all the way from Jackson County, Michi gan. He headed for a new location in Saunders County. Here he pros pered. His own account tells the story better than anyone else could. | “Here in Saunders county we GEO. H. WENTZ Incorporated Plumbing and Heating 1620 N St. Phone 2-1293 Louis May Beat Charles But you can’t beat Hompes Tire Co. Home of Hudson for a better deal in a new or used car 1701 N Ph. 2-6524 Lot 1928 O Street something each year to our im provements and steadily increas ing our stock. 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