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TIk® V@n<e® _PL HUSH Hi M Hitl _ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural toctal and spiritual iije of a great people " _____ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Rdltor Business Address 2225 B 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 <>• tbe Associated Negro Prree and Nebraska Press Association Filtered as Second Class Matter June 9, 1947 at the Poet Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. i year subscription.. $2.00 dingle copy.'.....5c EDITORIALS The rtewa expressed in these columns ire those ot the writer end not necessarily t reflection ot tbe policy »f The Voice. - Pub. White Cites Civil Rights Gains NEW YORK. (ANP). Some of the most far-reaching gains ever made in the field of race rela tions were attained during 1950, Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, said in a report submitted this week at the asso ciation’s annual meeting in the Willkie Memorial building. However, he warned, “we face one of the most difficult legisla tive struggles in American history in the 82nd Congress, where Dix iecrats and conservative republi cans are already ganging up on civil rights legislation. “If those forces of darkness succeed, then the colored peoples of the world may have their last hope of democracy destroyed, be- I cause they will not believe that the United estates can place de mocracy above color prejudice.” The gains made last year, Mr. White said, had been won at greatly increased costs, and had also stimulated “a new respect of the bigots for the Negro’s struggle for freedom.” Groups, like the Dixiecrats, which former- ^ ly disdained the Negro’s rights to ^ secure his constitutional rights ( have “become more devious in their methods because they now , respect those who fight against • bigotry, especially since the not able victories won in the U.S. Su preme court during 1950,” he as serted. Those Supreme court decisions smashed the color line in higher education in the South, Mr. White said. As a result, approximately 1,000 Negro graduate and profes sional students have attended state-supported universities in the South from which they were formerly excluded. Segregation of Negro passen gers in southern dining cars has been banned by a decision of the Supreme court. As resistance continues in some states, the fight for complete equality must be continued and stepped-up, the NAACP leader asserted. “For forty-one years the bulk of the struggle has been carried by Negroes themselves,” Mr. White declared. “It was signifi cant to note that in Ambassador Warren Austin’s report to the United Nations on the progress of human rights in the United States more than 60 percent of the specific gains cited were won oy minorities, and especially by :he Negro. “This progress, if propertly publicized and continuously ac celerated, is the most important neans of loosening anti-white eeling in Asia, which is one of he chief reasons why Americans lie in Korea.” Following the talk, departmen al reports were submitted by cloy Wilkins, administrator; Thur good Marshall, special counsel; Gloster B. Current, director of branches; Clarence Mitchell, di rector, the Washington bureau; Walter Offutt, church secretary; and Henry Lee Moon, director, public relations. Dr. Ralph J. Bundle Addresses American Political Science Body WASHINGTON. (ANP). Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, who returned last week from Stockholm, Swe den where he was presented the Nobel Peace prize, Thursday headed a list of numerous guest speakers at the meeting of the American Political Science asso ciation. In his talk Dr. Bunche criti cized the lack of democracy in Washington, D. C., denounced the isolationism of ex-President Her bert Hoover, asked for the end of colonialism, and expressed faith in the United Nations as a hope for world peace. Of the nation’s jimcrow capital, Dr. Bunche said, “Washington still has failed to provide a shining example of cemocracy at work.” He hinted that Europeans feared the possibility of a return to iso lationism by the United States as expressed by Hoover in a recent address. He also asked for alert ness on the world front, saying: “Above all, we must be ready next time to insure that a Korean adventure cannot be repeated elsewhere with any chance of success.” Dr. Bunche pointed out that • more than half of the world are darker people of Asia and Africa, “little known, little understood.” * He said the West must overcome a “long unsavory history of co lonial imperialism to win those peoples for peace and democracy.” Finally, he acclaimed the United Nations as a great factor in world peace. °Ld NEB SKA i i h IAMBS C. OLSON, Sup*rinttnJtnl • TAT C HISTORICAL IOCIBTT A frequently told tale out of old Nebraska is the story of “The Dougnut Squaw.” I’ll not vouch for its accuracy, but it’s a good yarn, and in this last column of the old year (or the first of the new, depending on when your pa per is published ( I’d like to pass on the latest version to come to, my attention. I got thur L. and Harry veteran Omaha lawy ing in California. As they tell it, t mother, Matilda Lundin Peterson, was the original “Doughnut Squaw.” With her husband, Sven Johan, she had come to Nebraska territory from Sweden, bringing with her a doughnut recipe such as could have originated only in that Scandinavian home-land of so many pioneer NebrasVans. It wasn’t long before the Peter son home was a favorite stopping place, for Indians as well as whites. Among the former, the comely Matilda’s doughnuts be came a legend, and she became known as “The Doughnut Squaw.” One day, so the story goes, a visiting chief, completely charmed by the lady of the household and her cookery, offered to trade Sven three squaws for the Doughnut Squaw. The amused husband jokingly agreed and promptly for got about it. Not so the Indian. A few days later he appeared at the door with three squaws in tow, all set to demand performance. Scared and angry, Mrs. Peterson loosed Viking thunder and lightning on her penitent and panicky spouse before she ran for help. Even though Sven was well and favorably known among the In dians, he now was in a desperate situation. The Indians were in no mood to have the bargain can celled, and it was only after much consideration that they agreed to call it off. The grandsons, who knew Ma tilda in later years as a dominant and vigorous figure in an aggres sive business community, venture the explanation that the Chief decided to call the deal off lest he and his tribe be ruled by “The Doughnut Squaw.” As they wrote me, “he had seen her flash eagle and regal and he was bargaining for docility and doughnuts.” It’s a good story. George Washington’s second in augural address is the shortest on record. Racial Equality Teaching ‘ContiyU Loses Custody of Children to Father LOS ANGELES. (ANP). Mrs. Jean B. Field, white*, is a staunch believer in racial equality, and be cause she believed that there is no such thing as “w'hite superior ity,” she taught her two children, Jay, 13 and Mary Kay, 10, to re gard Negroes as their equals. Last week in Judge Harold Schweitzer’s court, she lost cus tody of her two children to their father because of her condemna tion pf racial discrimination, for and domestic fascism and had raised the chil years after her hus C. Field, deserted Kay was three weeks the time. Recently the mother sent the children to visit their father, who lives in Okla homa. Field refused to send them back to their mother. He instituted a suit in an Oklahoma court to re tain custody of the children, bas ing his claim on letters which his wife had written to them. At the hearing in the court or der from Oklahoma before Judge Schweitzer, a statement by the children’s paternal grandmother, Mrs. Laura B. Field, charged that Jay had an inferiority complex because his mother allowed him to invite a Negro boy to their home to view television programs. The grandmother said that be cause of this incident, Jay spent considerable time in the company of other Negro boys. The grandfather also accused Jay of having an inferiority com plex because the youngster re fused to accept the jimerow law's of Oklahoma. The grandfather objected to the child’s belief that “color is the only reason the two races do not mingle.” In addition, the grandparents objected to Kay’s admiration for athletes like Jackie Robinson, Luke Easter and Larry Doby, and HOME AND OFFICE FILING EQUIPMENT METAL CABINETS FILE FOLDERS GUIDES INDEX TABS LETTER SIZE FILES CARD FILES Latsch Brothers Stationers 1124 O St 2-6838 to the youngster s frequent ob servations that "Negroes arc as good ns whites and are entitled to the same Privl,e*es-,'____ ROSE MANOR STUDIO 1421 O Sired Phone 2-2247 Portraits by Appotntmem George Randol. 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