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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1950)
Tlh® W®n®® PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual Ufe of a great people."_______ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 8 Street Phone 2-4080 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare.Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green .Office Secretary Mrs. «*oe Green..Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9, l»T7 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. ____ 1 year subscription.$2.00 Single copy.5c Wise Men Followed The Star Nothing in history is more fas cinating and thrilling than the story of the Wise Men who fol lowed the star until it led them to the new-born King. This gal lant spirit of the Wise Men is greatly needed in our world at this very moment. Men seem to be willing and anxious to follow every path except that path which would lead to a knowledge of the Prince of Peace. Just a few years ago Hitler, Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan followed paths which led to their destruction. After their tragic experience it seems that we would be like the Wise Men of old and follow a more safe star, but are we? The Atomic Warfare Race engaged in by the nations of the world tell us that we are following a dan gerous path. But the star of the east is still shining as brightly and as conspicuously and as con tinuously as ever. It is still point ing the way! It is still leading to salvation! We can follow it in our home life, in our community life, in our national life, in our church life, in our individual life. The star of Bethlehem has not lost any of its glow, any of its bril liance, any of its guiding power. All we have to do is to follow it even across the parching desert where the scorching sun is beam ing down upon us. Since we know that it is leading us to our sal vation we, like the “Wise Men” of old, should follow it until peace and love and brotherhood and happiness and all the fruits of the spirit shall cover the earth as the waters cover the mighty deep. Two religious pictures will be shown at Christ Temple Church of Christ “Holiness,” 21 & U Streets, Friday, December 22, 8:30 p. m. * * * Special services will be held at Quinn Chapel Christmas morning at 10:30 a. m. ky IAMBS C. OLSON, Sufxrintendtnt • TAT B ■1STOAICAI •OCISTT Chances are, the same mail which brings this paper will bring a batch of Christmas cards —at least if you are going to get your share. Gabe Parks recently reported in the Omaha World Herald that greeting card pub lishers expect to sell about a billion and a half Christmas cards this year, an average of about 40 per family. Mr. Parks’ story, written in recognition of the diamond jubilee of the Christmas card (America’s first ones were turned out by Louis Prang, an immigrant printer in Boston, in 1875), describes the three-dimensional, sound-equipped greetings which testify to the in genuity of this year’s card design ers. Within the limits of their technology, the early card design ers were fairly ingenious, too, as the collection of early Christmas cards in the state historical so ciety’s museum bears out. One of the most elaborate in that collection is a heavy card trimmed with real silk fringe. On one side is a yellow rose, with the legend, “This Rose accept from me And happy may Your Christmas Be.” The other side is decorated with a pink rose and inscribed “May Christmas Make thy Days with the following sentiment: and Hours As Gay as Summer Flowers.” A slightly smaller card, but still fringed with silk (white), shows on one side a boy and girl playing a delicate version of badminton (with flowers in the shuttle cock!), and on the other, a boy and girl flying a kite. Many of the early cards carried out a spring or summer motif, in direct contrast to those of today. Flowers seem to have been a fa vorite decoration. If a snow scene were used, flowers and birds fre quently were superimposed. One card in the historical society’s col lection consists of a large picture of a vase of flowers under which are the words, “A Happy Christ mas.” Another shows a little Lord Fauntleroy and his girl friend walking under a blossom-laden tree. The legend reads, “Happy thought for New Year’s Day, Joy ous Spring is on Her Way.” Advertisers were quick to take advantage of the Christmas greet ing to call attention to their wares. One old card shows four little cherubs playing with their new toys, “Compliments of the Do mestic Sewing Machine Co.” An other shows a winter scene, over which is printed in bold letters, “Use Rail-Road Pain Cure.” The religious motif made its ap pearance rather early. Here again, though, flowers frequently vvere used. 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