TIh® _. PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ _ “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritua life of a great peopleS’_ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 S Street Phone 2-408; If No Answer Cati 5-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare . Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Green .. .. .. Office Secretary Mrs Joe Green .. .. . .Circulation Manager Member ef tbs Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at teb Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1879 _ ______ 1 year subscription.12.50 Single copy.10c Oul-of-State 1 Year Subscription 12.50— 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. Southern College Students Speak While President Gordon Gray of North Carolina college would seek a reversal of the court’s de cision to admit Negroes to its law school, the college press and stu dents throughout the South are voicing approval of admitting Ne groes to southern colleges in view of court decisions. An editorial in The Plainsman, college paper in Alabama, reads in part: The Plainsman feels that soon, probably during the present school year, a Negro will ap ply for admittance to the j Auburn School of Architecture. 1 And, we feel that if the Negro j possesses the qualific a t i o n s necessary for admittance, but is denied admission because of his race, the case will be thrown into the courts. According to the judicial precedent set by the decisions on the fore-stated, similar cases, the final ruling will be that the Negro applicant must be admitted to Auburn. And, thg Negro will enter Auburn and attend classes, for ■ the word of the Supreme Court ' is final. If this does happen during the i 1 term of the present edi- ^ torial staff. The Plainsman Vvill not oppose it. Nor do we believe that the Auburn student body will oppose it. e will not oppose it because we feel that the answer to the whole Negro problem inu the South lies in education. The Negro must be given full educational opportuni ties so that he may raise his standards and improve his wray of life. If the desired educational ia cilities are not available in state Negro schools, we don’t see any | course of action open other than1 admitting qualified Negro stu dents, on a selective basis, toj white schools where they may re ceive the benefits of the hereto fore unavailable educational fa cilities. As one University of Texas stu dent said, upon being asked to give an opinion on admitting Negroes to-the Texas law school, “It’s the only thing we can do, living in a democracy.” A letter to the editor of the Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University paper, is printed be low.—Editor’s Note. To the Editor: The decision of the LSU Board of Supervisors to appeal the de cision in the Wilson case is a ridiculous demonstration that the South is still unaware of the Con stitution. Of course, the Board is probably meeting political ex pediency and other pressure in this action, but in the face of almost certain U. S. Supreme Court affairmation of the de cision, it appears pernicious to drag the names of Louisiana and LSU through a legal battle which will only emphasize the South’s faults, so that those who would can capitalize on it. But it is not this lone incident in the struggle for democracy in I the U. S. which riles me—it if the perfidy of Southerners in worshipping a way of life that is the antithesis of all America stands for, and with which they | idealistically parade, but illog ically maintain their American j ism. Fundamentally speaking, South erners are not idealistically Amer icans. Sure, Southerners pay nominal respect to the Constitu tion, but they stoutly insist that only its privileges belong to the Caucasian, while the duties must be distributed to the Negro as well as white. They loudly pro claim Dixieism their most noble1 ideal, but let us see what the Old I South was and would be if still existing today. The Old South was and would be today a feudal society and a degenerate one at best. If such a system existed in Louisiana at ; this time, a small fraction of the j people would be the rulers or oli- « ?archs; a majority of the whites t would be, at best, sharecroppers, i overseers, or “Po White Trash,” t and the Negro would be a slave. 1 3h, sure, the South was a cul- \ ured society for those who were / aorn to its benefit; but it was a nore rigidly a caste society than p Louis IV’s France. If that is the ype of social unit Southerners c want, and some of them do, they - deserve all the contempt and in terference that the rest of the ' American states should give. It is about time that the South join the Union by putting its house in order. It is about tibe that thinking college people for get that they are Southerners and remember they are Americans lirst. 1 hese Southerners, wHc, want to think, should remember: in this idealistic fight against! Communism that false advertis- ■ ing by the U.S. as to political, economic and educational equal ity is especially dramatized by the South itself. We cannot proclaim democracy to the world and ex pect the Russian propaganda ma chine not to play up our weak nesses. Either we practice de mocracy and respect the rights of minorities, or else we play the fools to the colored peoples of Asia and Africa who are quite able to distinguish the artificial from the McCoy. I am perfectly aware of the fee/ing of Southern people. I am a Southerner myself. I realize that it will be very difficult to extend these educational, politi | cal and economic rights without | some feeling of hatred branded VINE ST. i MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS » 22nd and Vin* uma — 2-6584 BEAL'S GROCERY Freak Pwik & Vegetable# 1KHB TeL 1*6333 1_ 1 q\JT Q1£> NEB SK.A h I JINKS C. OLSON* SmptrimttnJtfd • VATS HISTORIC At SOCIBTT In the Missouri river number of Nebraska History (March, 1925), there’s a map showing the names and locations of steamboats sunk along the Nebraska shore from 1830 to 1902. It’s a crowded map, because it contains the names and locations of steamboats sunk along the Nebraska shore from 1830 to 1902. It’s a crowded map, because it contains the names of 60 steamboats whose careers ended in a watery grave —and there’s considerable evi dence that it’s not complete. When you consider that this was only a fraction of the craft sunk along the entire distance of the Missouri River, you cannot escape the conclusion that steam boating was a dangerous as well as profitable business. The most common causes of steamboat wrecks on the Missouri were the everpresent snags. The shifting channel seemed to be loaded with them, and much to the discomfiture of the river pi- 1 lots, snags encountered on one trip could not be depended upon to be in the same place on the next. Next among the causes of steamboat fatalities were fire and ice. Fire all too frequently was caused by carelessness, such as the carrying of candles into the j lold, and he overturning of lights. !j 3oiler explosions were frequent j n the early days, but as con- J truction improved accidents from j his cause lessened, the list in | Nebraska History shows only one J ►oiler explosion. That was the j >*Ils, a 70-ton stem-wheeler, /hich exploded and sunk above j| irago, October 26, 1878. It struck |j snaw, though, before the ex losion occurred. The earlier fatality on the list f those sunk along Nebraska was nto our minds by years of * raining and centuries of preju dice. But it can be done. As to social equity, under the present scheme of things it is \ apparently close to impossible ; and will remain so, for possibly j centuries. As to segregation ' itself, that is a situation of choice that no law can change, unless it be by unnoticed consent I of the races themselves. Segre gation is basically an individual choice and occurs intra as well \ as inter race. The issue is here now and 1 will be for some time to come, and whether we Southerners like it or not, it will prevail. Since, in spite of what the pro- Jj fessional Southerner wishes, the " majority of the American people rule the United States—and they seem to want democracy ex- _ tended everywhere therein. JOSEPH DERMODY, JR. Gillett Poultry FRESH DRESSED POULTRY QUALITY EGGS Phone 2-2061 528 No. 9th the Pocahontas, a aide-wheeler sunk, by a snaw near Rock Bluff, August 11, 1840. The steamer was descending the river reportedly loaded with small lots of groc eries (where they came from, I don’t know), when it hit a snaw forward and tore a hole nearly to its stern, sinking immediately.' The steamer and cargo were a total loss, but its money, books and cabin furniture were saved. One of the largest boats lost in water adjacent to Nebraska was 1 the Benton, a stern-wheeler of 394 tons near Sioux City, July 18, 1897. It had been built in Pittsburgh in 1875. Prior to its last accident, it had been sunk twice, but raised both times. On its last trip, it was coming down stream. The Sioux City combina tion bridge failed to open. The steamer backed and swung around, striking some submerged piling, which broke a hole in its bottom. The boat filled rapidly with water and became unman ageable. The swift current car ried it against the bridge, tearing away its upper works. It was a total loss. TRADE USED GUNS! Top Prices Paid. 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