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EDITORIALS
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necessaril. a reflection of the policy
are those of the writer and not
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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.”
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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.
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