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TIh® ^©n©® _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 Ruble tV Shakespeare .. Advertising end Business Manager Dorothy Green .. .. Office Secretary Mrs Joe Green .. . . Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter June 9 1947 at reh Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3 1879. 1 year nibscrlption.$2 50 Stngir~copy . .... .10c Out-ot-State 1 Year Subscription $2.50—Single Copy 10c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns necessaril. a reflection of the policy are those of the writer and not ■tf The Voice.—Pub Hospital Shows Courage St. Francis Hospital in Charles ton, W. Va., is a small enough in stitution—it has only 140 beds— but, being Catholic, it is mindful of the large claims of social justice. In the spring of 1950 the hospital hired a nurse who hap pens to be colored. Last fall it took on another Negro nurse. When, in early April, the hospital hired a third Negro nurse, a group of white nurses on the staff threatened to resign unless the Negro nurse was dismissed. Sister Helen Clare, the hospital super intendent, was unimpressed by this display of prejudice, un moved by the threat. Reverend Mother Perpetua came up from the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Wheeling, W. Va., to urge the white girls, pledge to see j Christ in their patients who are sick, to try to see Christ in their I fellow nurses whose skin is dark ! er. Twenty of the white nurses ] refused to withdraw their unjust ! and uncharitable demand. On May 18 they resigned, generously 1 offering to meet Mother Perpetua at any time she can “give us as surance of a sincere desire to cor rect the existing situation.” The Sisters of St. Joseph, whose alle giance is to Jesus Christ rather than Jim Crow, flew in substi ' tutes from other hospitals. The : airlift is a symbol of the courage of the Sisters. The Rev. John Warren Ander son, ordained on May 19, will be the first Negro priest to serve the Archdiocese of Omaha. On the same day, Bishop John F. O’Hara, C.S.C., of Buffalo, ordained the Rev. Peter C. Carter, a convert, as the second Negro priest in his diocese. Debbie and Gamma Phi The Gamma Phi Beta sorority house on Hilyard Street is on§ of the handsomest at the University of Oregon. Strategically sur rounded by fraternities, its green lawn slopes away to a mill race that meanders through the cam- ' pus. One morning last month, so rority row was alive with the news that the Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven- \ foot fiery cross. Sorority members 1 vowed they didn’t know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sis ters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Ne gro, DeNorval Unthank of Port land, a husky senior in the School of Architecture. The friendship had been com- ( mon knowledge for weeks, and the sorority girls had been sub jected to some unpleasant wise cracks from their own dates. A few of them had girl-to-girl talks with Debbie, and then the house mother spoke her piece. Finally the alumnae adviser had a quiet meeting with the errant pair, and treated them to her version of the facts of social life, urged them to stop seeing each other because “it isn’t the accepted thing.” It was a bad influence on the house, said she, and the house would have to take action if something wasn’t done. After the cross-burning, Debbie met the adviser again, agreed to move out of the sorority house. “I didn’t say I wouldn’t move, so I guess you can say I went volun Itarily,” she explained. “1 felt I 1 had no alternative.” With that, the Oregon Daily Emerald took up the cry. In a pair of scathing editorials, the student editor attacked race prejudice and alumnae control of sororities: “An Oregon sorority has just paid homage to one of the strongest satans of our so ciety. It has given way to fear of an unwritten social code and executed an injustice ugly on a college campus .” Last week the Gamma Phis , yielded, let it be known that | Debbie would be welcomed back , among her sisters, whether she | stopped seeing DeNorval or not. But Debbie, who still dates De Norval, likes it where she is. in Hendricks Hall, and will prob ably finish out the term in a ] college dormitory. Said she: “I wouldn’t feel right about moving j back in after what the sorority has done.” Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 142 So. 13th St. 2-1246 !>—WINTERHALTER’S - Have ALL the Materials You#ll NEED tor Your Spring Cleain-Up, Paint-Up PROGRAM 14th at P Street b YANKS C. OLSON, SuptrinUnJtnl • TATI KSTOIICAL SOCIBTT This Memorial Day the people of Orleans, in Harlan County, dedicated a marker recently erected over the grave of Alex ander Culbertson, the famed fur trader of a century and more ago. The fact that the mortal re mains of the “King of the Mis souri” (as Culbertson frequently was called) lay in their cemetery was only recently brought to the attention of the people of Orleans. The public-spirited response to this information will be told by Charles E. Hanson, Jr., of Loomis, in an article appearing in the June issue of Nebraska History, the quarterly journal of the State Historical Society. I’d like to tell you a little about Cublertson him self. Born May 16, 1809 at Cham bersburg, Pa., Alexander Culbert son began his illustrious career in the wilds of the Upper Missouri River region in th,e early 1830’s. He occupied positions of increas ing importance in the service of the American Fur Company, the giant concern which by that time had a virtual monopoly on the fur trade of the far west. He succeeded Kenneth McKen zie as head of Fort Union, and in 1847 was instrumental in the es tablishment of Fort Benton. Il lustrative of the confidence which the Fur Company had in Culbert son was the fact that when busi ness began falling off at Fort Laramie on the North Platte, Cul bertson was the man sent to re vive it. In 1848, he was named the company’s general agent on the Upper Missouri and Upper Yellowstone rivers. In common with most fur trad ers. Culbertson married an In dian girl. Unlike most of his con temporaries, however, he re mained married to her throughout his life, producing a family of well-educated and successful chil dren. For a time they resided in a handsome country home near Peoria, 111. Alexander Culbertson was more than a successful fur trader. He was a notable frontiersman as well. A mighty hunter and a skilled horseman, he was particu larly effective in dealing With the Indians. An outstanding bit of service was that rendered Gov I. I Stevens of Washington Ter ritory in connection with a sur vey made in 1853-55 for a north ern route for a Pacific railroad. Like many another giant of the fur trade, Culbertson was unable to hang on to his great fortune. His last years were spent in the home of a daughter in Orleans, where he died, August 27. 1879. —1 ■' ' I BRIGHAM’S j . . . for cleaning . . 2-3624 2246 O St I n ft* Ml" M M mm -Wi.- ii,h • ■ m m fli . ■ Ob * | n. O. 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