Tib® l/®!®® ’__PUBLISHED WEEKLY_ "Dedicated to the promotion ol th* cultural, nodal and npiritual Hfe of a great people." Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor •wmu a Jdryee BM S Street Phono 1-40S3 U No Answer Call n-TSen *ub:e • Sfaafenspeare .... ..... .. Advertising and Sustneas Manager Dorothy Green.. .. Office Secretary Mrs Joe Green ....Circulation Manager _Member W the Aeooriated Negro Preeo and N’obretks Preee Aooeeiatioa Entered ao Second due Matter Jane ft 1*4? at tab Post Office at Lincoln Nebraska ender me Act of March ft l«ft 1 rear oMahtaa — CM Ptagte core.... . 1*»' *«el^«o ft Tear tobcrgtiai « » ever Ho mm-—-■--- : What Is A Newspaper? A newspaper is many things. It is a record of history. It is a market place. It is a voice. It is a guardian. It Is, above all, an institution devoted to the beat interests of the community. It is a servant of the people. Its goal—the public be served. “Your newspaper lights the way of freedom.*1 That is the theme which has been chosen for the 1951 observance of National | Newspaper Week. The choice is a fine one. for the slogan has far-reaching im plications. First of ail, it suggests that where there is no light there is , darkness In thk case the darkness is ignorance, “a night,” some one has said, “without moon or stars.” The National Newspaper Week theme presumes the right to pierce that darkness with the light of information and it presumes at the time the right to keep that light burning in face of all odds. For free man has a right to know. If there is a right to know, there must be a right to teQ, The rrt^n who made this nation considered the right to tell so important that they wrote it into the No. I Amendment to our Federal Constitution: ‘'Congress shall make no law .. abridging freedom of speech and freedom of the press.” But the right to tell is more than a privilege, it is a duty. White Americans sit under the banner of freedom and smugly say “It cant happen here,” the press is being successfully stifled in many parts of the world. The fallacy of the “it cant happen** attitude is this: It couldn’t happen in Indo-China. Mexico, Columbia, or Argentina, where the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. But it is happening in those places—and in many others. ~ _:___ =z::^- 1 'n -- r VINE ST. MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS Ztmd u4 Timm l-ISM — 2-1514 I Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1332 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. Flowers By Tyrrell's D. L. TyrretTs Flowers S-2357 1133 No. Cotaer °£z> NEB SKA h MNKS C. OLSON, Snp*rinU*de*t ■ TATS ■ ISTOBICAL • OCIATV The pioneer federal “highway” in Nebraska was the Omaha-Fort Kearney road, authorized in 1855 as part of an extensive road building program provided for by the 33rd Congress. Constructed by the army engineers, the road was primarily a military one, its principal function being to facili tate the supply of Fort Kearny. Although the Omaha-Fort Kearny road was designed pri marily for military purposes, the civilian population of Nebraska territory was much interested in it. Essentially, the road was but an improvement of tne old Mor mon Trail, since 1847 an impor-. tant avenue of travel to the West. As is true of roads everywhere, there was much discussion lo cally regarding the merits of the route selected. Residents of the South Platte section of the terri tory ivere disappointed that fed j eral funds were to be used to im-1 prove transportation in the North : Platte region—a few years later Nebraska City was to advertise its road to Fort Kearny as better I and more direct than the military ! road. Capt. John H. Dickerson sur veyed the route during the sum mer of 1856. His report, which appears in the Senate Executive Documents of the 35th Corfgress, first session, contains many in teresting observations regarding Nebraska territory. He wrote that while the eastern part of the ter ritory was “fast settling up with an industrious and enterprising class of pioneers . . . the scarcity of timber, stone, and coal, and the remoteness of the country from a market other than home consumption will operate against its ever becoming thickly settled.” By present-day standards, the cost of the road was infinitesimal^ An appropriation of $50,000 paid| the expenses of the survey and sufficient construction (including' bridges across the Elkhorn river , i— ■ - ■ ! Hodgman-Splain MORTUARY 1335 L Street Lincoln, Nebraska The Nebraska Typewriter Go. ; 125 No. llth Lincoln 2-2157 Royal Typewriters Mimeograph - Duplicators Dictaphones - Clary Adders Sold - Rented - Repaired and a number of creeks) to pro vide a dry-weather road. Captain Dickerson recommended an addi tional $25,000 to improve certain low sections in the road which were miry in wet weather. This, together with a recommendation for an appropriation of $85,000 for bridging the Loup folk, was presented to Congress. Congress took no action of these requests. Yielding to pres ■ sures from California, that body 1 abandoned the slow, methodical ■ methods of the army engineers in favor of the speedy improve ment by civilian contractors of Pacific mail and express service. Sports by Dave Ted King was the chief ground gainer as Lincoln High tripped Sioux City last week'on the lat ter’s own grounds. Also very much in the picture was Dick McWilliams, who was credited |with scoring the initial touch down. King although not scoring was brilliant as a ground gainer to set up the scores. When Tom Carodine lined up last Saturday afternoon at Me morial Stadium in a Husker uni form that marked the first time that a Negro represented Nebraska in any sport for some thirty-five years or more. So into the ash can went the old gentlemen’s agree Iment which ruled with un Iron hand for ull these years. Although the Huskers went down, very much noticed was the ex-mayor of Boys Town. We will be hear ing more of this fine back as the season rolls on. John L. Hooper of New York, the first advertising agent, began business in 1841. An orphan car is one that is no longer manufactured. CLYDE’S DAIRY STORE Hamburger and Cold Lunches Also Groceries ICE CREAM 25c 27c riLt 2230 R St. ■ . wu#■ ■ ■ r