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Tlh© V®!©© _PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 2-4085 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Rubie W. Shakespeare. Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green. Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Green ...-.Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Ne*ro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at teh Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1.879._ 1 year subscription.$2.00 Single copy.5c _ Out-of-State 1 Year Subscription $2.50—Single Copy 10c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns necessarily a reflection of the policy are those of the writer and not of The Voice.—Pub. Military Might Is Not the Answer BY MARK HYMAN PHILADELPHIA — (ANP) - “The United States had better be ware. If we do not change our position in world leadership, th< moral forces of the entire work will rise up against us,” Dr Mardeccai W. Johnson, president of Howard university, who re cently returned from a study tour of Asia and Europe, told the Race Street forum at the Friends Meeting House here Sunday night. Dr. Johnson lashed out against America for having freed herself from England two hundred years ago because of economic and moral injustices and now endors ing the same today by joining with colony-holding nations in keeping alive the old system of “heartless” imperialism. To bear out his point, Dr. John son cited the millions America was sending to South Africa an nually to help develop the mines where 10,000,000 black men are held in a type of concentration, camp slavery and economic and self respecting drudgery. He blamed America for send ing arms and planes to the French in Indo-China to aid the French1 “to maintain a system of economic slavery which the Indonesians are about to throw off.” In this same j category Dr. Johnson placed Com 1 munist China and India both of which grew tired of the Western heel and threw them off. “America and the imperalistic nations left the doors wide open for communism,” the educator said. By overlooking and ig noring the will of men to be equal and self-respecting and against the policy of centuries of the larger nations to capture the weak and exploit them, communism came as a savior since no other non-communist force ever offered a helping hand, he said. Dr. Johnson outlined America’s chance to combat communism all | over the world by taking 25 bil ! lion and develop the aborted re sources of the colonies and near bankrupt and desperate countries and “bring food and shelter to every human family on the face , of the earth.” The speaker said that this : would make the present* preach ings of the communists useless. The fault lies, Dr. Johnson said, 1 in the Western nations’ belief ihat ' the march of communism can best : be stopped with armed might. He 1 pointed to the failing world moral leadership of America and what damage might be inflicted upon ———————— ou> SK.A 5 . b MNIS C. OLSON, Sutxrinltndtni r IT1TI IISTOBICAL^ lOCIItt One of the most pronouncec - difficulties faced by pioneers or the plains was the absence o; wood—for building material anc - for fuel. The substitute for wooci in building was the tough prairie sod (“Nebraska marble,” the pi oneers used to call it). The sub stitute for wood as fuel was any ! thing that might burn—buffalc : and cow chips, sunflowers, weeds, hay, and corn. The most generally used of all these substitutes — particularly after the buffalo had disappeared and the range cattle industry had moved west—was hapy. I dis cussed its use and the hay-burn ing stove in an earlier column. Of other wood substitutes, corn was perhaps the most widely used. Indeed, one of the reasons be hind the development of com production in certain areas was to provide fuel, and the cob-bas ket became a standard item of kitchen equipment (as in many places it remains today). The stalks also were used for fuel, and in times of extra low prices, the farmer simply fed his stoves corn on the cob. Another substitute for wood as fuel was the sunflower. Even in the eastern counties there was in terest in this form of fuel, and the Nebraska Herald, published at Nemaha City, on January 12, 1860, carried a letter from a man suggesting the sunflower ag a substitute for wood. He advocated planting crops of sunflowers for just this purpose, S pointing out that it was possible to grow enough sunflowers on an j acre to provide fuel enough to :ook for an ordinary family for a year, and that two acres would produce enough sunflower stalks to furnish any family with all of its fuel requirements for a year, 1 “if provided with a tight house.” 1 Where wood was available it was used with great care. Brownville, in territorial days, had an ordinance which provided I that it was unlawful to sell wood j in the city without first having it weighed or measured by the city the powers by the billions of op pressed people who have not be lieved in America’s leadership. Bunche Scholarships Created at Oslo Uni. WASHINGTON (ANP) — Four “Ralph Bunche scholarships” of $350 each have just been estab lished by the Oslo University for American students interested i'1 studying in Norway during the 1951 summer school session. The scholarships have been made available by the Association 1 of Electro-Chemical and Electro Metallurgical Industries of Nor way and were named in honor of Dr. Ralph Bunche, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize award. The Oslo summer school has several other scholarships ac cording to an announcement made public by the Norwegian Embassy last week. The Norwegian Ameri can Line is offering one full scholarship to the American stu dent whose main interest is in the field of economics. All expenses will be covered, including round trip from New York to Oslo, room and board, tuition, student and excursion fees. The summer school, itself, will grant 10 scholarships of $110 each, covering tuition, student and excursion fees. All awards will be made strictly on a merit basis. American students who wish to apply for admission to the 1951 summer school will, upon request, be considered for either one of these scholarships. Fixed fees for the six-week ses sion, covering tuition, room and board .student and excursion fees will total around $190. An ad ditional $50 or $75 will be needed for books, supplies, amusements marshall and obtaining a certifi cate of weight or measurement. ; For this service the marshall was entitled to a fee of 10 cents a load. Those failing to comply were sub ject to a fine of not to exceed $3.00. and incidentals. Round trip from New York to Oslo arranges from $360 to $400. Students interested in apply ing for scholarships should write immediately for application forms and descriptive catalog. Address the inquiry to the Oslo Summer School Admission Office, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Applications must be received before March 15. South Bend (Ind.) Wins ‘Brotherhood Award’ SOUTH BEND, Ind.—(ANP)—. The city of South Bend was named last week as the 1951 win ner of the community human re lations award given each year by the National Conference of Chris tians and Jews at the opening of annual “Brotherhood Week” ob servance. The award, announced by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, NCCJ presi dent, cites the honoree for “out standing improvement in rela tions among its religious and racial groups.” Previous winners of the award, established in 1949, were St. Paul, Minn., 1949 and Portland, Ore., in 1950. WANT ADS Anyone interested in two pair of used children’s shoes contact Mrs. Howard Molden, 1966 You Street or call 2-1407. 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