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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
are those of the writer and not necessarily
» reflection of the policy of The Voice. —
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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
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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.
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•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
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something each year to our im
provements and steadily increas
ing our stock. Our sheep farm at
tht■ time consists of 1,040 acres of
deeded and homestead land, on
which we have comfortable build
ings, 400 acres enclosed in pasture
with 1,200 rods of fence, 400 apple
trees, 320 acres under cultivation,
20 acres seeded to timothy, about
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acres of meadow, 160 rods of
hedge planted, and on the same
land there are 400 feet of shed
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fenced with pine fencingf and
three corn cribs made with pine
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