The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, August 30, 1951, Image 1

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Welcome St< "l- Fair Visitors
Truman Makes Address
At Legion’s New Home
WASHINGTON —(ANP)— De
livering the dedicatory address
for the new Washington head
quarters of the American Legion,
President Truman last week de
fined “Real Americanism” as
meaning “fair opportunities for
all our citizens.”
“Real Americanism also means
freedom of speech,” he continued.
“It means freedom of religion and
fair play.” The President elabo
rated on the meaning of real.
Americanism by pointing out that!
none of America’s citizens should!
be held back by unfair discrimi-i
nation and prejudice.
“In America,” he said, “the
people have the right to say what
they think, regardless of how
much of it ij disagreed with. No
man should be discriminated
against because of his religious
faith, and every man who is ac-|
cused of a crime should be con-,
sidered innocent until he has been
proved guilty. People must not
be penalized and persecuted for
exercising thier constitutional lib
erties.
“Real Americanism means all
of this and more, it means that
liberty is not license. There is no
freedom to injure others. The
constitution does not protect free
speech to the extent of permitting
conspiracies to overthrow the
Government. Neither does the
right of free speech authorize
slander or character assassination.
These limitations are essential to
keep us working together in one
great community.”
The President pointed out that
Americanism is under attack by.
communism "both at home and
abroad,” and it is also under an
other kind of attack.
“It is being undermined by
some people in this country who
are loudly proclaiming that they
are the chief defenders against
communism.”
He charged the latter group as
attacking the basic principle of
fair play that underlies our con
stitution by spreading slander, lies]
and by character assassination.;
“These things are a threat to
every single citizen everywhere
in this country,” declared Mr.
Truman.
He therefore urged every single
American who loves his country
and his freedom to “make a fight
for real 100 percent American
ism.”
Minton Joins
String Band
WILDWOOD, N. J. (AN?). For!
the first time in its history, the|
Wildwood string band has a Ne
gro member. He is Russell F.
Mintqp, jr., of Ardmore, son of
the superintendent and medical
director of Philadelphia’s Mercy
Douglas hospital.
Minton, a clarinetist, made his
first appearance with the band
at its biggest affair—the annual
Baby Parade sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce.
An accomplished musician, he
played first clarinet while attend
ing Lower Merion High school
and was selected as a member of
the all-State high school band.
Now a pre-medical student at
Penn State, he is working in Wild
R.C. Workers
From Indonesia
Visit Lincoln
Two Red Cross workers from
j Indonesia, who are in the U.S. as
guests of the State Department,
are visiting in Lincoln this week.
Coming as they do from an in
fant republic, wartorn for years,
they are seeking ideas as to the
solution of the unnumerable social
and educ|tional problems of the
77 million people.
On Friday they met with the
Lancaster County Red Cross
chairmen of thQge services in
which they are particularly in
terested: Volunteer Services,
Home Service, Disaster Services,
Blood Program, Fund Raising,!
Veteran’s Rehabilitation, Public
Information, and at noon were
entertained at a luncheon at
which the chapter executive com
mittee also were present.
Miss Srijati Sastroamidjoj, sis
ter of the Indonesian ambassador
I to the U.S., is head of the Social
Service Department of the branch
j of the Indonesia Red Cross in
Djakarta, a city of 2% million
'people, and capital of Indonesia.
The work consists primarily of
social services to the thousands
of displaced persons In the area,
whose problems of unemploy
ment, malnutrition, sickness, lack
of support, are tremendous. All
displaced persons in need of as
sistance are referred to the Red
Cross by the Ministry of Social
Services and other welfare or-.
ganizations.
Miss Rades Adjing Foeschet
Erna Djajadiningrat is a member
of the National Board of Gover
nors of the Indonesian Red Cross.
She is in Lincoln primarily to
study the Nebraska program of
Home Economics. She serves as
head of the Department of Voca
tional Training for Girls, Ministry
of Education, and of the Depart
ment of Veterans Rehabilitation.
As such, she supervises 115 voca
tional training schools thoughout
Indonesia for girls between 12
and 19 years of age. She works
closely with public and private
welfare agencies. While in the'
U.S. she is studying social work
in general, education programs,
and Red Cross services.
Increased parking space at thei
Nebraska State Fair grounds in j
Lincoln will park enough cars
each day so that if placed bumper
to bumper, the cars would stretch
for 19 miles.
Sept. l-8th
cIWe Voice
Appreciation
Week
Watch For It
wood where his parents maintain
a summer home;
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Youth Passes
Resolutions
At Assembly
ITHACA, N. Y. <^ANP). The
first triennial general assembly
of World Assembly of Youth
which met recently at Cornell
university passed a resolution on
discrimination.
The resolution submitted by the
workshop, called for removal of
[segregation in schools, and for an
international convention to guar
antee the rights of all races and
religions.
Some 500 delegates represent
ing youths of 64. non-communist
nations attended.
Outstanding delegates for for
eign countries included: Nil wan
Pinthong, a magazine editor and
publisher from Bangkok, an ex
change student in journalism;
Pop Luan Lim, a social science
major at Rutherford college in
North Carolina, from Singapore;
Shahjahan Fahim, wife of the
[prime minister of Pakistan and a
[member of the All-Pakistan Wo
I men’s association; Mary Club-j
walla, a juvenile court magis
trate from India; Zaude Gabre
madhin, a student, Beloit college
from Addis Ababa; and Jacques
Adzomad, a pastor-missionary
from Togo, French West Africa.
The assembly supported a re
quest that passports ye made eas
ier to attain. This OUld aid stu
dents who wanted to study
abroad.
I Colleges Open !
Doors to Negroes |
RICHMOND (ANP)—For the
first time in its history Negroes
will study at Virginia colleges.
Seven colored students already
have been admitted for the fall
term.
Three will study at the Medical
College of Virginia and four will
enter the school of social work at
Richmond Professional Institute.
Another student had applied for
admission, Dr. George T. Kalif,
director of RPI said. All are resi
dents of the state.
A Negro woman has been ad
mitted to the school of medicine
at the Medical college of Virginia.
NEBRASKA CROP LIVESTOCK GROUP FORMED—Meeting at
Grand Island to form Nebraska’s first Christian Rural Overseas Live
stock committee were: left to right, Honor Ochsner, Madison; J. H.
~ Vinton, Gordon; E. P. Rjran, Grand Island; Don Sampson, Central
City; Arnold Lambert, Springfield, Mo.; W. H. Brokaw, Lincoln; Ernie
Weller, Atkinson; W. A. Redfield, Crete; E. G. Ihrig, Atkinson; H. C.
Johnson, Cambridge; Merlin Frantz, Lincoln. The livestock commit
tee’s first action was to set Nebraska CROP Livestock week for
October 14 through 20.
30-Minute Hurricane 1
Rips Through Kingtson
W. B. SHURTLEFF
W. B. Shurtleff,
Businessman,
Builder, Dies
W. Bruce Shurtleff, 64, of 2464:
.Woodscrest, prominent Lincoln
businessman, died Monday, Au
gust 20. He had been hospital
ized for a heart condition for a
(short time.
He was a member of the cham
ber of commerce and St. Pau]
Methodist church.
I HE IS SURVIVED bykils wife,
I Elsa A.; three sons, Woodrow B.,
and Donald O., both of Lincoln
and Bruce K. of Pensacola, Fla.;^
daughter, Mrs. Mary Frances
Danley of Lincoln; brother, L. E.
Shurtleff of Lincoln and six
grandchildren.
Funeral was at 10 a.m. Wednes- ,
day at Hodgman-Splain with Rev. j
James Lamar Ray officiating, i
Burial was at Wyuka,
To Give Pageant
A Pageant, “The Beautiful Gar
den of Prayer” will be given at
the Urban League (tonight)
Thursday, Aug, 30, at 8 p.m.
The program will feature musi
cal and dramatic talent from all
over the city being highlighted by
Lincoln’s Women’s Gospel chorus.
Mrs. H. Denton and Mrs. H. D.
Colbert are sponsors.
Leaves 110 Dead
1,000’s Homeless
By Wilbert E Hemming
KINGSTON, Jamaica—(ANP)—
A 30-minute blast from a 150 mile
per hour hurricane caused exten
tive damage to the city of King
ston last week. Fields in the coun
try areas and food crops were
wiped out. But in the wake only
110 persons perished out of sev
eral thousand homeless.
Communications and fuel sup
plies have been drastically dis
rupted. Electrical power will not
be available for one week. Burst
water mains left the city dry and
thirsty. A famine follows fast at
the heels of the disaster. *
If the water mains remain
broken for any length of time,
there may be an epidemic.
At the moment, the extent of
the damage could not be esti
mated, as the parishes have been
virtually cut off from the city.
Roads clogged with landslides
prevented traffic movements.
| Telecommunications were shat- «
' tered. The electrically operated
radio system was dead. Power
lhad to be turned off because of
'high tension overhead wires.
^ There has been no music for the
cathedrals and no movies for the
cinemas.
, / There were no fires, fortu
nately. It there had been, the
effect would have been chaotic as
1 firefighters would be hampered
by the debris-blocked streets.
* • *
Ed. Note: The following is part of a
letter received by Oscar Harriott (5903
Walker Street) from his brother in Kingston.
Mr. and Mrs. Harriott have been in the
States five years. Two of their three chil
dren are in Kingston. Mr. Harriott received,
his masters from the University of Nebraska
in July. They arc seeking food and cloth
ing to send to the island.
* 8 8
j Friday night, the 17th of
August, at about 9 o'clock, this
island was struck by one of the
■ most disastrous hurricanes in its
I history. The Governor had just
broadcast to us calling upon the
j people to grid themselves for the
impending catastrophe. H e
warned that never in our history
did we experience anything so
catastrophic as that which was
about to strike. Committing us
all to a Great Providence, his
broadcast ended, and immediately
the Public Service turned off the
great turbines and left the island
in silence and darkness.
In a few minutes the wind
burst upon us in all its fury at
125 miles per hour. It was a night
of horror as thousands of roofs
blew away and walls crashed in.
When morning broke everything
presented a piteous spectacle. All
churches in the city were badly
damaged — the Parish Church,
St. George’s, Coke. Little Wesley
came down with a crash. Practi
cally every house was either
badly damaged or demolished.
Giant trees were uprooted and
thrown down. Franklin Town,
Rollington Town, Allman Town,
East and West, are like wilder
nesses. At Morant Bay there is
not a house standing. Spanish
Town, Mandeville, May Pen, and
Bog Walk were all brought low.
In Kingston and St. Andrew there
were some 100 deaths. Six little
boys died when the dormitory at
the Orphanage crashed. One
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