Attitudes On Minorities Studied
Shakespeare, Lewis Cited
By National Urban League
Rubie Shakespeare, business j
manager of THE VOICE NEWS
PAPER, and Dorothy Lewis,
Den Mother of cub pack No. 8,
were given the annual Urban
League awards for outstanding
race-relations work during the
past year.
Mrs. Shakespeare, wife of the
Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare, Edi
tor of THE VOICE, received the
award for being instrumental in !
getting the first two Negro girls
in nurse training at Bryan Me
morial Hospital. She presented
each of the girls with a $100
scholarship made possible by the
sale of cook books which she
published as a project of The
Voice.
. Mrs. Lewis, wife of Clayton P.
Lewis, Nebraska Jurisdiction
Grand Master of Masons (PHA),
won the award for being den
mother for an inter-racial Cub
Scout group.
The awards were made at the
Urban League Annual Volunteer
Party held Saturday, April 7th.
They were presented by past
president of the board of direc
tors, Dale Weeks.
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Discrimination
Is World Issue
Says Johnson
NEW YORK (ANP) — Dr.
Charles S. Johnson told an audi
ence at a lecture Monday that the
struggle of the Negro and other
minorities for full citizenship had
become “an American issue of the
first magnitude.”
His address was the fourth in a
series entitled “The Citizen Looks
at His World Today” under au
spices of Columbia University’s
Institute of Arts and Science.
Among the causes of interest in
minorities, Dr. Johnson listed a
“cultural revolution” that has en
abled minorities to find “the first
sure basis for incorporation into
the national mentality”; a modifi
cation of the once popular ra
tionale that liberty rather than
equality or fraternity was prime
values; the world-wide condem
nation based on race, nationality,
religion or social origin; the end
of imperialism, carried on
through the encouragement of in
terracial tensions, and the grow
ing strength and challenge of the
Soviet ideology that has caused
a re-evaluation of our own
values.
To most of the other nations,
Dr. Johnson said, this country’s;
racial system represented the
“most serious test of our domestic'
sincerity.”
In spite of serious lags, he said,
“there is improvement in race re- j
lations throughout the country
and particularly in the South.”
Name Negro Assistant
To U.S. Price Stabilizer
WASHINGTON (ANP)—A Ne- ■
gro was named here last week as
assistant to Director Michael V.
DiSalle of the Office of Price
Stabilization. The new assistant
is Russell R. DeBow, circulation
manager of the Chicago De
fender, a weekly newspaper.
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—Courtesy Lincoln Journal and Star
Bernard Brown
Bernard Brown, of Kansas City,
spent the week-end in Lincoln
making a survey of the local
chapter of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored people.
Mr. Brown, assistant field sec
retary of the National Organiza
tion, spoke briefly at the Annual
Urban League Volunteer Party,
Saturday night and addressed an
audience in a mass meeting at the
Urban League Sunday afternoon,
and was main speaker at a kick
off dinner Monday, at 6:30 p.m.,
for the annual membership drive.
He is director of the Midwest
Regional District of six states in
cluding Nebraska.
Mr. Brown gave a detailed re
port on Thurgood Marshall’s re
port of the court marshalls of Ne
gro soldiers in Korea.
Biggest Educational
Job Will Go To King
NEW YORK — Biggest educa
tional job in U.S. history for a,
Negro will go to Dr. John B.
King, principal of a Brooklyn
elementary school, who becomes a
$13,500-a-year assistant superin
tendent of schools in New York
next week. He won it on merit
alone.
Nebraska Children Need You!
‘Nebraska children and youth
shall not be short changed in edu
cation,'* say the more than 1,500
members of the Nebraska Divi
sion of The American Association
of University Women. Mrs. E. W.
Orme of Lincoln, president of the
group said, “We must be prepared
to use wisely all human power
not only for today’s needs, but
also for safeguarding the future
of the state’s chiv_-f resource—its
children.”
A volunteer plan proposed to
combat a shortage of trained
teachers if an emergency should
arise has been developed by the
members of The American As
sociation of University Women
Women working closely with the
office of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
All persons who have been
teachers and are not actively en
gaged in teaching now, but who!
would help out if needed, are
asked to fill out the attaached:
blank and put it in the mail.
Questionnaires for listing training
and teaching records will be
mailed to these former teachers.
Upon receipt of this information,
one copy of the qualifications will
be filed with the County Super
intendent in the volunteer teach
er’s area and another in the of
fice of the State Superintendent I
of Public Instruction.
It is hoped that trained persons
can be secured to supplement
needs on a full-time or part-time
basis if a shortage arises in the
schools of our state.
I am willing to help out in the
schools, if I am needed, and I am
interested in listing my qualifi
cations.
Name .
Town .
County.. Nebraska
Mail this blank to: Mrs. E. W.;
Or*ne, 3025 Sheridan Boulevard,
Lincoln 2, Nebraska,
Program To Be Dedicated
To The Late Clyde Malone
Freedoms
Award to
Dr. Bunche
NEW YORK—As the result of
a national ballot, Dr. Ralph
Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize win
ner and director of the trustee
ship division of the United Na
tions, on April 11 at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel will receive the
Four Freedoms Award for dis
tinguished service in behalf of
the cause of the Four Freedoms.
The award will be made on the
[eve of the sixth anniversary of
the death of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and will be pre
sented by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
the late President’s widow, whc
received the award in 1950.
Dr. Bunche will deliver an ad
dress at the awards dinner as will
Vice-President Alben Barklej
who won the award in 1949, anc
Maurice Tobin, Secretary of La
bor. The award was established
in commemoration of the public
service of President Franklin D.
; Roosevelt.
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Committee Probes Slavery
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (ANP).
The four-member Special Com
mittee of Experts on Slavery
passed its second session at the
United Nations Monday.
At its first session in March,
1950, the group addressed ques
tions to members of the U.N. re
garding practices within their
territories, especially colonial
areas. One of their tasks now is
to study responses to these ques
tions.
It was decided to continue the
investigation of slavery in various
forms as still found in certain
areas. It deals with persons ac
tually treated as private property.
Social Action Council
Originators of Meet
Blood Donation
Call Answered
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Urban
NEW YORK, N.
tional Urban League staff mem
bers today donated blood as offi
cial representatives of their or
ganization in response to an
emergency appeal for blood is
sued by Brig. Gen. C. M. Wal
: son, administrator of the Red
I Cross Blood Program in New
I York. Washington Red Cross
headquarters had called Monday
(March 19th) for “a large quan
tity” of whole fresh blood to be
rushed to wounded soldiers in
Korea by air shipment Thursday
evening (March 22d).
Had Opposed Policy
The League was one of th«
organizations which had bitterlj
opposed Red Cross policy o
I segregating blood according to th<
I race of the donor. The National
i Urban League’s executive direc
tor, Lester B. Granger, called the
staff donation symbolic of “the
ever-deepening confidence and
steadily improving teamwork be
tween American citizens of all
races, faiths, and personal cir
cumstances. Together all of us are
faced with the responsibility of
defending and exemplifying
democracy before the attention of
the world.” The National Urban
League is the nation’s oldest and
largest interracial service agency j
working for equal economic op
portunity.
Changed Method
Concerning the Red Cross’
change of policy, Mr. Granger
said, “though League staff mem
bers have donated blood many
times in the past, this is the first
time that they have been able
to donate in this official fashion,
because of reservations regarding
methods of collecting and han
dling blood which were estab
lished during World war II and
administered by the American;
Red Cros^ We are extremely
happy that through the process
of argument, discussion and nego- |
tiation, local and national Red
Cross leaders have come to agree
that racial designations have no
place in the community-wide
humanitarian task to which the,
American Red Cross has been tra
ditionally committed.”
League staff members who do
nated on this occasion were: Sallie
M. Branch, Mrs. Betty Carter,
Mrs. Leah A. Holmes, Mary
Finger, Mr. Granger, Mrs. Philitus 1
W. Joyce, Manson A. Melton,
Frank C. Montero, R^ Maurice
Moss, and Mrs. Carmine Se
guinot.
Who is Miss or Mr. Lincoln?
Enter the contest now!!!! spon
sored by the Trustee Board of
Newman Methodist church. Cash
prizes of $30, $20, and $10 . . .
Tickets can be secured at the par
sonage, 2236 S Street, or call
2-8251. !
An all-day conference “to ex
amine our community attitudes
toward minority groups,” will be
held April 14, at the Comhusker
hotel. Plans were outlined Mon
day night at the Y.M.C.A. by rep
resentatives of 20 civil groups.
Named “Inventory of Com
munity Relations,” the conference
will feature workshop sessions at
which panels will answer ques
tions and discuss minority group
I problems.
I The opening address will be
! made by Whitney Young, execu
tive secretary of the Omaha
Urban league. Rev. John P. Mar
koe, S. P., of Creighton univer
sity, will give the luncheon ad
dress.
Panel discussions and their
leaders:
Recreation- Dr. Steven Watkins,
superintendent of public schools.
' i Public services and health:
, Frank Glick, director of the Uni
- versity of Nebraska school of
social work.
! Housing: Max Swan, director of
the Lincoln housing authority.
Employment: Harold t’ritchard,
secretary of the Nebraska Citizens
Committee for Fair Employment
Practices.
Clarence Miles will be general
chairman for the morning ses
sions. Willard Gaeddert and Mrs.
Louis W. Home are Leading a
committee making arrangements
for the conference.
The program will be dedicated
to Clyde Malone, late member of
the planning committee and
executive secretary of the Lin
coln Urban league unti- his death
in February.
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Newman Methodist Has
Women’s Day Program
Women’s day was observed
Sunday at Newman Methodist
church. According to Rev. Ralph
G. Nathan, pastor, the purpose
of the day was to interest non
affiliated church women in a
more active church life.
General Chairman for the day
was Mrs. Lucille Bowman. Rev.
Mrs. William Farmer, of Omaha,
Neb., was guest speaker for the
morning service and Mrs. Estelle
Davis was speaker at the 4 p.m.,
service. Mrs. Lenora Letcher was
directress of the chorus and Mrs.
Izetta Malone, pianist.
Sunday, April 29, 1951 is sched
uled as Men’s day with Mr.
Nathaniel Fitz as chairman.
Subscription Rate
Will Increase
Due to the increase in printing
it is necessary to increase sub
scription rates to The Voice, as
of April 20, 1951, all one year
subscriptions will be $2.50; six
months subscriptions will b«
$1.50 and single copies will b«
10 cents.