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7 TrLfiAA / \ EDITORIAL.
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A Lot of Sioux Cities
Last week the nation was
shocked to learn that the Me
morial Park Cemetery association
in Sioux City, Iowa, had refused
to permit the remains of a war
casualty, a Winnebago Indian,
from -being buried in one of its
plots. |
A wave of indignation swept
over thv# land and President Tru
man, as outraged as anybody
else, ordered that the Indian,
Sgt. John R. Rice, be buried in
the Arlington National cemetery;
which was done with full military
honors.
We were as indignant as any
other Americans over this out
rageous incident but our indigna
tion was somewhat tempered by
the knowledge that there are
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
Sioux Cities in .he United States.
Indeed, segregation of graves
along the color line was the rule
at Arlington National cemetery
until 1947, and had Sergeant Rice
died for his country before that
year his remains would have been/
Jim Crowed. ‘
The length and breadth of this ,
land, North and South (but j
thousands of lily-white cemeteries
especially in the South), there are J
in hundreds of Sioux Cities which
are no better nor worse than the 1
one in Iowa.
Indeed, there are few unsegre
gated cemeteries in Dixie and
there are plenty of lily-white'
burial places outside the South. I
We haven’t checked on it but
we are willing to wager that the1
cemeteries in Independence, Mo.,
the president’s home town, bar
the bodies of Negroes.
There is probably more wide
spread segregation in the dead in
this country than there is of the
living, because there is no consti
tutional or legal provision pro
tecting the rights of cadavers.
We do not know the exact ex
tent of this practice of separating
in death those who have worked
and fought side by side to build
'and preserve the nation.
Pittsburgh Courier
But we do know that it exists;
ithroughout the nation. Here in!
our own Lincoln we find segre
gated policies in all of our burial
grounds, Fairview, - Wyuka and
Lincoln Memorial Park. The lat
ter permitting burial to those of
African descent only if they are
a servant of some prominent
'j white who would desire that they
be buried there.
Student To Study
NEW YORK—(ANP)—Joseph
Delvalle Jr., of this city recently
received a Fulbright Grant to
study for one year at the Uni
versity of Paris, School of Fine
Arts.
Delvalle has also earned a
scholarship from the committee
for the Negro in the Arts for one
year’s study at the Hans Hoffman
School of Fine Arts, New York.
Delvalle is the son of Joseph
Delvalle Sr., a postal employe.
ply has been sold to pharmaceuti
cal manufacturers for processing
into a form to be used by hos
pitals and doctors.
I Join Tenn. Slate Faculty
NASHVILLE — (ANP) — Two
new instructors have been added
to the faculty at Tennessee State
college for the fall term.
The new faculty members are
Dr. Hillard A. Bowen, former
registrar at Fort Valley State
college, instructor in education,
and Dr. Frederick D. Smith, for
merly v/ith the Daily Poultry de
partment of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
NEW YORK — (ANP) — Sports
| commentators made much last
week of the clutch pitching of old
Satchel Paige for the St. Louis
i Browns against the Cleveland In
dians. They said two years ago,
Satch helped pitch the Indians
into a pennant, but it looks like
this year, he might help pitch
them out of a pennant as his relief
stint shut the door in the Indians’
faces with the tieing and winning
runs on bases.
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• TATI BISTOAICAL SOCIITV
Delegates to Congress
Bird B. Chapman, Nebraska
territory’s second delegate to
Congress, was, like his predeces
sor, only a transitory Nebraskan.
The charge of “carpet-bagger”
was levelled at him by his ene
mies, and, in a large measure, it
appears to have been true. It
should be remembered, though,
that he was but one of a large
class of enterprising young men
who came to Nebraska territory
to make their fortunes—political
or otherwise—and who had no
reason to stay in the territory
when they failed.
Little is known of Mr. Chap
man’s early life—we do not even
have the exact date of his birth.
We do know, however, that he
was born about 1821, and in 1843
he was practicing law in Elyria,
Ohio. In 1852, he purchased the
Lorain (Ohio) Argus, editing that
paper until 1854 when he closed,
shop and moved his equipment:
to umana to start the Nebraskan.
The newly-arrived editor ran
for the post of delegate to Con
gress in 1854, being third in a
field of six. The next year,
though, there was another elec
tion (required under a territorial
law enacted in March, 1855), and
this time Chapman was successful,
receiving 380 votes to 202 for
Hiram P. Bennet. In what was to
establish a precedent for a num
ber of other delegate elections,
Mr. Bennet contested the results
of the election. The contest failed,
and Mr. Chapman was allowed to
take his seat in the House of Rep
resentatives. *
Chapman’s efforts to seek a sec
ond term in 1857 were opposed by
Fenner Ferguson, chief justice of
the territorial supreme court;
B. P. Rankin; and John M.
Thayer. When the votes were
counted, Ferguson was found to
be the winner, with Chapman
running a fairly close second.
This time Chapman contested the
election, although like Bennet the
term before, unsuccessfully. The
question was not resolved, how
ever, until February 10,' 1869,
with the term half gone.
It - was frequently remarked—
and the foregoing gives it va
lidity—that one reason the terri
torial delegate was able to do so
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Tlialheimer Essay Winners
NEW YORK—Prize winners in
the Thaleimer Essay Contest for
1951 were announced last night
(September 5th) at the 41st an
nual conference of the National
Urban League held in St. Paul,
Minnesota (September 3-7). Made
possible by a gift from Dr. Ross
Thalheimer, the essays highlight
the league’s Vocational Opportu
nity Campaign (VOC) held each
spring.
The essays dealing with the
subject “What It Means to Me”
pointed up the value of the VOC.
The contestants told how they
had been helped through Urban
League clinics, career conferences
and vocational counseling to be
come acquainted with various
occupations and to make wise
choice of useful careers. The
league is the oldest and largest
national interracial social service
agency to promote equal economic ■
opportunity.
Winner of the $15CV first prize j
is Marvin Douglass Mack, 18, of,
618 Tenth street, Laurel, Mary
land. A graduate of Fairmont
Heights High in Washington, D.C.,
he will enter Howard University
this month. *~
Second prize of $100 cash went
to Lucy Mae Madison, 18 of 526
Denny Avenue, Birmingham, Ala
little for Nebraska was that he
had to spend most of his time and
energy defending his seat in Con
gress. The Ferguson - Chapman
contest also helps to illustrate the
bitter sectional strife that racked
the territory. Chapman, an
Omaha man, was vigorously op
posed by the South Platte people,
and particularly by J. Sterling
Morton, whose vitriolic pen casti-!
gated Chapman regularly in the
columns of the Nebraska City
News.
Following his failure to be
seated as a delegate, Chapman
returned to Elyria, Ohio, where
he remained until 1862, when he
removed to Put-in-Bay Island.
There, September 12, 1871, he
died. j
bama. A graduate of Birming
ham’s Parker High school, she
probably will not enter college
until next September. In that
event, her award money will be
held and presented to her at that
time.
Third prize winner of $75 cash
is William Charles Brown, 18, of
2813 Norton street, Kansas City,
Missouri. A Lincoln high school
graduate, he will enter the Uni
versity of Kansas City later this
month
Honorable mentions went to the
following: Ernest York, 22, of
Morgan State College, Baltimore,
Md.; Anne Parsons, 18, of 749
Dennison Avenue, Dayton, Ohio;
Rosa Maye Dwyer, 17, of 27 Sec
ond Avenue, Sumter, S. C.; and
Verona Evangeline Nelson, 17, of
204 “E” street, N. E., Washington,
D C.
The Essay Contest is open to
any youth who has taken part
in the VOC either through a
school, local league, or any other
community agency.
Contestants muri be enrolled in
the last year of study in a second
ary school or enrolled in the first
year of study beyond secondary
school in a course that requires
not less than two years to com
plete, or else they must have com
pleted high school on or before
January first.
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