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"Dedicated to the promotion ol th* cultural, nodal and npiritual
Hfe of a great people."
Melvin L. Shakespeare
Publisher and Editor
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Dorothy Green.. .. Office Secretary
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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.
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■ 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 ,
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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.
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Hamburger and Cold Lunches
Also Groceries
ICE CREAM
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