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Courtesy Lincoln Journal
MAYOR ANDERSON
Anderson to Run
For Lincoln Mayor
Mayor Victor E. Anderson an- '
nounced Saturday that he will run
lor a two-year term as Mayor in
this spring’s municipal elections.
Tht Lincoln City Council un
animously appointed Mr. Ander
son to the Mayor’s office last
September after Clarence G. ;
M ies resigned to run^ for Con
gress i
Mr. Anderson, 48, a former I
state senator, said Saturday, “I I
have enjoyed my term because I j
have had the fulL co-operation of
the public, City Council, tlte city
directors and all of the city em
ployes, which has made my work
pleasant.
“I believe we have a very fine
city and a good form of govern
ment and I am happy to offer my
services to help continue to
make our city a good place to
live.”
Mr. Anderson owns a hardware
store in Havelock, a Lincoln
suburb, and is president of the
Havelock National Bank. He is
a director of three insurance firms
and an investment company.
Mayor Anderson is a Republi
can, but the Mayor and Lincoln
City Council members are elected j
on a nonpartisan ticket.
Mrs. Tobias Named
Manager at Macy’s
NEW YORK. (ANP). The ap
pointment of Mrs. Mary Tobias
Dean as manager of the Men’s
and Women’s Handkerchief de
partments for Macy’s store here,
was announced last week by Kirt
Meyer, vice president in charge
of Women’s Accessories.
Mrs. Dean, who succeeds Abra
ham Kavadlo, came to Macy’s in
1947 as a member of the Execu
tive Training squad. Later that
year, she was named Junior as
sistant manager of the Men’s and
Women’s Handkerchief depart
ment, and, in May 1948, she was
promoted to her present position
as senior assistant manager of the
Handbags department.
Prior to joining Macy’s staff,
Mrs. Dean taught art at Atlanta
university from 1938 to 1942. Dur
ing the war, she served as na
tional arts and crafts director for
the USO, and from 1946 to 1947,
she was an art instructor in the
New York City High schools sys
tem.
She received her B.A. from New
York university in 1933 and her
master in Fine Arts from Colum
bia in 1936.
Mrs. Dean is the daughter of j
Ennis News
The Christmas holidays in En
nis, Texas seemed to have been
enjoyable and well-spent by the
majority. The weather was pleas
ant and no one experienced seri
ous accidents.
The school had its program and j
Christmas tree on the 22nd of
December and school was dis
missed until January 1, 1951.
On the night of December 21,
a choral program of spirituals |
and carols was presented under a
beautifully decorated tree with !
numerous church and school j
choirs of the city participating.
Mrs. Andrew Jackson was host- I
ess to many friends at a delic- I
iously prepared turkey dinner |
with all of the trimmings on De
cember 26th at 7:30. The follow
ing Christmas decorations carried
out the holiday atmosphere in her
home: A pretty Christmas tree in
the living room, a center piece of
small Christmas trees and a bowl
of fruit on the dining room table
j and -small cedar branches grace
! fully hanging above the fireplace
m the living room.
Everyone attending this affair
enjoyed it heartily.
On the night of December 28,
I Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson
[ and Mr. and Mrs. Claudle Terrell
1 motored to Dallas to view, with
hundreds of others, the beautiful
and impressive “Nativity scene”
displayed and sponsored by Mr.
and Mrs. Snowden, on their spa
cious lawn surrounding their home
at 5200 Swiss Avenue. There were
many trees decorated with lights,
the largest being over 12 by 6
feet with approximately 1,000
Christmas lights. There were four
scenes at different locations on
the lawn depicting the following
— (1) angels appearing with the
message of Christ’s birth; (2)
shepherds watching their flock;
(3) three Wise i^pn on camels
bearing gifts; (4) the manger
where Christ was born. Every
character and feature of the en
tire story was life-like and life
size.
This nativity scene has been
displayed in the same manner for
at least three years in succession,
and sight-seers from far and
neighboring states have witnessed
its beauty.
Many Ennisites spent Christmas
holidays out of town, while others
living elsewhere, came back home
for Christmas.
Bible All Lies,
Says Red Press
Vatican City—A dectionary of,
foreign words printed by the
State Publishing House in Mos
cow defines the word “Bible” as
■"a fantistic collection of legends
without scientific basis,” accord
ing to reports reaching the Vati
can.
The dictionary gives this defi
nition of religion:
“A fantistic belief in God, an
gels, spirits, etc., which has no
foundation whatsoever from a
scientific point of view.
“Religion was strengthened in
the interest of the reactionary
classes. It served to oppress the
working classes and to reinforce
the bourgeois classes.”
Omaha World-Herald
Dr. Channing Tobias and wife of
Dr. William Dean of the U.N.’s
trusteeship division. She is also
the mother of two children.
Johnson Says
Improvements
Needed In U.S.
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Im
provement of minority rights in
' the United States will help Amer
ican foreign policy, particularly in
relation to the Far East, it was
declared here recently by Dr.
Charles S. Johnson, president of
Fisk university.
Speaking under the auspices of
the Sidney Hillman Foundation,
i Dr. Johnson addressed an audi
j ence at Mandel Hall, the Uhiver
sity of Chicago.
He gave three main factors in
America’s role in the world:
1. Recent U. S. Supreme court
decisions involving Negro citizen
ship rights.
2. Importance of color in rela
, tion to the rest of the world, par
ticularly to darker skinned Asiat
! ics.
3. The doctrine of human
rights that is spreading through
out the world.
Explaining to the audience how
democracy as practiced in the
United States affects its position
in the world, Dr. Johnson said:
“The new and sudden leadtn
ship role of the United States now
being challenged with such
sweeping force by elements of
Eastern society, and the some- ^
what apathetic acceptance of its
leadership by some European
countries, are making it urgent
and imperative that concrete ex
amples of our own democratic
convictions be set now.”
Dr. Johnson cited what he
' called numeroud gaps. Among
them were enforced racial segre
gation in many public places, in
direct restrictive housing despite
the U. S. Supreme court ban
against racial restrictive cov
enants, lack of enforcement of fair
fmployment practices laws, and
violations of civil rights.
The Fisk president concluded
with a plea that the United States
has no guilt on its conscience in
reference to the practice of demo
cracy. He said:
“We know that desiiny is press
ing hard upon us; that we must
abandon the luxury of gradualism
that what matters most now is not
only this change, but the speed of
this change.”
Ga. House Passes
Anti-Hood Bill
ATLANTA—(ANP) — By an
overwhelming vote, the Georgia
house of representatives passed
149 to 1 an anti-hood bill outlaw
ing the wearing of a mask by
persons over 16 on private or
public property. The bill also
outlaws cross burning and mob
intimidation by the Ku Klux
Klan
Only member to vote against
the measure was Alex Boone, a
newspaper publisher of Irwing
ton county. Boone claims that he
is an “unreconstructed rebel.”
Although to many persons the
overwhelming vote in favor of
the measure has come as a sur
prise, it may not be one. It was
sponsored by the administration
of Gov. Herman Talmadge, and
probably was sure of passage
anyway.
The bill before becoming law
will have to be passed by the
state senate.
Foxholes Have
With Eighth Army, Central Ko- £
rean Front—There is no color i
line in the front line foxholes of
one United States infantry di- s
vision. — j \
White soldier and Negro soldier s
are fighting shoulder to shoulder , t
Courtesy of Lincoln Journal
Dr. S. D. Scruggs
Dr. S. D. Scruggs
The Lincoln Urban League will
observe its annual meeting wit!
I a membership dinner January 31
I at 7:00 p.m. at the league buiJcf
J ing, 2030 T. Members and friends
are invited.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Sher
man Dana Scruggs, president of
Lincoln University of Missouri,
Jefferson City.
Dr. Scruggs received his doctor
ate in 1935 from the University
of Kansas. He has held several
prominent public posts, including
that of vice president of the Mis
siour council of the United Na
tions educational, scientific and
cultural organization, and as such
was a member of a special com
mittee which visited India last
summer to study its social and
educational conditions. He is also
vice president of the Missouri
State Association of Adult Educa
tion.
As a member of the Missouri
state committee of the midcen
tury white house conference, Dr.
Scruggs was one of the' special
advisors appointed by the na
tional committee.
The local Urban League was
organized in 1932 as a social
work agency for Negroes. It is
regulated by a bi-racial board of
directors, 14 Negro and 13 white
members. It has been a partici
pating agency of the Community
Chest since its organization.
Membership has increased each
year to the present number of
800.
Dale weeks is president of the
board. Mrs. Robert Molden is
chairman of the annual meeting
planning committee.
Bunche to Speak
At Smith College
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—
(ANP)—Dr. Ralph J. Bunche,
senior director of the U.N. Trus
teeship council, will give the tra
ditional Washington’s birthday
address at Smith college, famous
girls’ college.
Each year an outstanding
speaker is chosen for the special
mid-morning assembly on Fefc>.
22, which is the formal celebra
tion of Rally Day, a day of varied
Smith campus activities.
Ao Color Line
and as officers are commanding
mixed units.
In civilian life at home, the
subject of race relations may pro
voke endless debate and no pat
solution. Here in the crucible of
battle, the integration of black
man and white man on a * co
equal footing is an accomplished
fact.
“We eat together, sleep to
gether, work together, fight to
gether,” said Col. Edwin J. Mes
singer of Tacoma, Wash., com
manding an infanry regiment. “I
am sold on th2 idea of integra
tion.”
Colonel Messinger was an All
America end at West Point where
he was graduated in 1931. He was
chief of the United States mili
tary mission in Costa Rica in
1948.
While integration is taking
place in all legiments of the
Eighth army in varying degree,
this regiment has gone farther
than any other and offers the
best testing ground.
It came here from Fort Lewis,
Wash., last summer with two
v/hite and one Negro battalions.
Thirty percent of the Negro bat
! talion is now w-hite, while 30 per
I cent of the other two is now Ne
I gro.
/ “Replacements started this, and
non-commissioned officers are
I Negroes,” said Colonel Messinger.
His regimental surgeon, Lieut.
Col. John F. Harris of Washing
ton, D. C., is s Negro. Colonel
Messinger and the regiment
swear he is the best medic in the
division.
One of the most surprising as
pects of all integration is the re
action of Southern soldiers. Lieut.
Col. Joseph A. Lerot of Eugene,
Ore., regimental executive of icer
since the regiment’s first flight,
offered one example.
“I assigned a white replace
ment to our battalian,” said Colo
nel Lerot, “telling him it was a
Negro outfit. The boy cocked n
eye at me and said he was from
Virginia, but would give it a
whirl.
“A week later he came to see
me. He told me, ‘Colonel, no one
knows I came here to see you,
but 1 wanted you to know that
I have never been treated better
by fcny one in the army than I
was by my platoon leader and
my squad. That squad of mine
really takes care of me. I
wouldn’t leave the outfit.”
Everywhere he went, through
all companies and battalions, we
saw the same mixture of white
and colored soldiers.
Omaha World Herald.
A pieman Church to Hold
Baby Popularity Contest
Newman Methodist church is
sponsoring a baby popularity
contest to end January 28, 1951 at
4 o’clock.
Babies entered in the contest
are as follows: Sunya Reed,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Reed; Ruth Colleen Hale, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hale;
Rosanne May Gardenheir, grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Gill; Fern Hassell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hassell; Car
men Francine Brame, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Larmen Brame and
Deborah Yvonne Shepherd, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Shep
herd.
Mrs. Mary McWilliams is chair
man of the contest.