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Vol. 5, No. 16 0d V 0 J * * ' Linco,n Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, February 15, 1951 Significant In Race Relations trains In sketching the 1950 picture of Negro life and Negro-white rela tions in the United States, sig nifican results are shown in the efforts of organizations, certain state and local legislation, the United States Supreme Court ruling on segregation, and the active work of churches, educa tional groups, and individuals in various communities in bringing certain civil rights measures nearer to fulfillment. Many of all people, regardless of race; but in many cases they were given — «n a .... .. ....^ Mrs. Camillia Leftridge Los Angeles Observes lOOth Year Methodism • Mrs. Camillia Leftridge, ex ecutive board member of the Southern California Conference layman league of the AME church in Los Angeles, is chair man for a luncheon to be given during the Bishop’s council to be in session February 22 and 23. Mrs. Leftridge is reporter for the Laymen’s Executive board, and a conscientious worker for the development of the lay movement throughout the AME church. Extensive plans are outlined j for the entertainment of all visi- j tors during the observance of the 100th year of African Methodism on the West Coast. impetus because of existing dis criminatory practices against Ne groes. Also, even with these hopeful signs of ground gained, there are still evidences of the need for continual hammering at the question of equal rights. Among the year’s outstanding achievements are those of: Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations Mediator for Palestine, who re ceievd the Nobel Peace Prize for 1950—the first Negro ever to win this award, and the eleventh American to win it. Althea Gib son, Negro college student, be come the first Negro ever ad mitted to play in the National Tennis championships of the United States Lawn Tennis as sociation at Forest Hills, N. Y. Mrs. Edith Simpson, Chicago at torney, was appointed by Presi dent Truman as alternate dele gate to the United Nations general assembly . The annual Spingarn Medal was awarded, posthu mously, to Charles H. Houston, Washington, D. C. attorney. ; In the annual report on Negro students published by Crisis mag azine, it was stated that 60,000 Negro students enrolled in col leges, universities and profes | sional schools in the U. S. during the year 1949-50. Rosenwald Gives $10,000 To 1SAACP NEW YORK.—A contribution of $10,000 from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Foundation of Jen j kintown, Pa., l^t week started the ball rolling in a $250,000 fund raising campaigs of the Legal De fense and Educational Fund, Inc. of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. The Huber Foundation of Red Bank, N. J., contributed $1,000 to the campaign. Other gifts re ! ceived during the past two weeks | include $500 from E. Snell Hall, ! Jamestown, N. Y.; $250 from the Scerman Foundation, New York | City. Members of Executive Board Pictured above is a group of the members of the Executive Board of the Laymen’s League of the Southern California Conference of the A.M.E. Church. Left to right, front row: Mrs. Mabel Norman, conference branch secretary; Mrs. Cora Ross, member of executive board; Presiding-Elder A. K. Quinn; Mrs. Pinkie Wilson, con ference branch chaplain; Rev. J. W. Price, founder and pastor of Price Chapel; Mrs. Camilla Leftridge, member of executive board; Mrs. Helen Maupin, field director of Los Angeles County X-ray Service. Standing: C. W. Stafford,' conference president; John R. Wright, conference vice president; Benj. W. Inghram, member of executive board and chairman of league committee; James Crafton, member of execu tive board; Mrs. Vassar L. Burks, member of executive board; Don aid A. Brunson, vice-president and member of executive boards of conference and district; Dr. William A. Beck, respiratory dis eases specmialist; M. E. Webb, member of executive board; Mr. Evans, member of executive board; Henry H. Pettigrew, mem ber of executive board and dis trict president’s advisory board and William Thomas Person, member of executive board. Not shown: Mrs. Edna Willis, Mrs. Jos. C. Ellis, Mrs. Lucy Minor, and Mrs. Sadie Wilson. National Heart Week Will End February 18th Heart disease caused 34.2 per cent of all Nebraska deaths in 1949. It was announced today by Dr. Harold C. Lueth, President of the Nebraska Heart Association, in a letter to A. Q. Schimmel, Lincoln, state chairman of the 1951 Heart Fund, “Heart disease caused twice as many deaths as did cancer,” Mr. Schimmel said, “One of every three people who died in our state died as the result of heart disease.” “We must fight this battle against heart disease together,” Mr. Schimmel urged. “If we sup port the Nebraska Heart Associa tion in its three way program of research, clinics and education, I we can greatly reduce the fatali I ties from heart disorders.” “National Heart Week began February 11 and ends February 1 18 It marks an intensified edu cation campaign to bring the facts about heart disease to the public. It’s a good time to think about hearts, with Valentine’s Day,” Mr. Schimmel said. “Knowledge of cardiovascular diseases can eliminate fear, care j lessness and neglicet. With early checkups we can avoid needless suffering, premature deaths and j check heart damage,” he said. “We must meet our responsi bilities,” the chairman said. “We must support our state association and contribute to the Heart Fund. Senevty-five percent of the funds will remain in the state to be used here. Nebraska post offices are co operating in the heart drive con tributions may be sent to HEART, care of any local post office, Mr. Schimmel announced. Library of the Late Dr/ Garnett Dedicated to Indiana University 1 GARY, Ind. (ANP)—The li brary of a great Negro educator and business man, born a slave, last week was dedicated here to the Gary center of Indiana uni versity. Turned over to the university was the collection of the late Dr. James H. Garnett, a man who founded two Negro colleges and headed five others. His daughter, Mrs. Ida Guy, a speech teacher in Gary public schools, delivered the main ad dress at the opening of cere monies. During her talk she re counted how her father fought his way out of slavery. She said: “When he was a slave on a! Georgia plantation during the Civil war some Union soldiers came along the road and asked for horses. Although the slaves had orders to say no, he gave the soldiers three horses, and then ran off • and joined the Union army, himself.” More than 600 personal volumes belonging to Garnett form the nucleus ofc the new Garnett li brary. Presentation was made by the Anselm human relations forum here. Arthur R. Todd headed the library committee. The library is open to students with the beginning of the second semester of the school year here. Dr. Garnett died here five years I ago when he was nearly 100 years j old after he had led a distin guished career as an educator. He was the founder and/or president of the following schools: Arkansas Baptist, 1886-87; Gau dalupe, Seguin, Tex, 1887-91; State university, later Simmons, Louisville, Ky., 1891-95 Houston college, 1895-99, and Western col lege, Macon, Mo., for 10 years. He also taught at Lincoln (Mo.) for 10 years, was dean of theol ogy and chaplain, Kansas I&E institute, 1922-25, and teacher, American Baptist Theological seminary, East Nashville, Tenn., after 1925. Born in 1847 as a slave on the j Carter plantation, Gordon County,' Ga., he joined the Union army in ' 1864. After being honorably dis charged from the army, he later began to get an education. In 1875 he entered Oberlin in the prep department. In 1881 he was graduated. Then came sev eral degrees from other colleges. He founded in Gary an insur ance firm and held large real estate properties including an apartment house. He also served as a welfare officer for Gary. The Gary center of Indiana university is a branch of that school. Fair Employment Practices Law Is OUR DEMOCRATIC HERITAGE teaches equality of economic opportunity for all, regardless j of race, religion or national origin. Today our way of liie faces the threat of totalitarian- . ism and its propaganda. Wc j must be able to demonstrate a national unity and morale which proves: “This is the land of the free!” Those who have fought side by side for our democracy deserve assurance of equal opportunity for work. A BASIC TEACHING OF OUR RELIGION: In the eyes of God, all men are equal. Can this oe reconciled with denying a man the right to earn a living on grounds of his color or creed7 Fair employment Practices leg islation will be a practical realization of the basic ideals which we embrace. Even though they are making prog ress in rooting out our preju dices, education and religion alone cannot accomplish the job of wiping out harmful dis crimination! Here is a law which, by the policy it declares and the experiences it provides, is education for democratic and religious justice. Working people benefit from laws which make employment and advancement dependent upon merit and ability. All workers suffer from lowered labor standards and conditions which result from employment discrimination. Each worker fares well when all workers fare well. The American Heart Associa tion was formed in 1922 by a group of cardiologists to fight heart disease with planned scientific and educational work. Recently reorganized into a na tional voluntary health agency, it is fighting heart disease in all its phases. Dr. L. S. Goolsby Sparks $147,000 Housing Program COLUMBIA, Mo. (Special) Co lumbia will receive $147,000 from the federal government for low cost housing because of the ef fects of a local minister, Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Goolsby, pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. church. Dr. Goolsby, leading Negro minister in this city of 70,000, first brought to the attention of r 5 t the Ministerial Alliance of Colum i bia, the deplorable conditions un t der which many Negroes and t whites alike are housed. Through l his efforts, the ministers began (a four-month survey of the situ ation and then began to interest the city officials. Finally state and federal administrators were in the picture, and on January 15, the government announced that Columbia would receive its grant for public-sponsored low rent housing. Plans are now be ing drawn for the construction of the units sometime this spring. Dr. Goolsby is a native of Georgia. He received his B.D. from Morris Brown college in Atlanta and his A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has pastored churches in Georgia, California, Colorado and Missouri during his more than 40 years in the min istry. He wa3 awarded the Doc tor of Divinity degree in 1946 at Western University. Dr. Goolsby came to Columbia in 1948, and since that time has taken an active part and provided outstanding leadership in religi ous, school and community af fairs. (Editor’s Note: Rev. Dr. Gools by was formerly pastor of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church in Lincoln and presiding elder of the Omaha district of his church). Pastor Has. Idea On Fighting Reds HASTINGS, Neb.—“The Pest way to battle communism is to live a purified democracy,” Rev. Charles Shedd, Presbyterian min ister from Ponca City, Okl, told a Christian Emphasis week audience at Hastings college. The people of the United States are in part responsible for the spread of communism, Rev. Mr. Shedd declared, because we have failed to live up to our high ideals of liberty and justice for all. Heart disease comes second only to accidents in causing deaths of children front 5 to 19 ! years old.