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TDn © W®n<e® _PUBLISHED M EEELl _ "Dedicated to the promotion ot the cultural, tocial and tpirituai kfe of a great people.* Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 B Stnrt Phene 2-toll. U No Aniwir Call O-7508 Ruble W Shakespeare. Advertising and Buimes* Manager DoroUyr Green .. .. .... .. ..... Office Secretary Mrs. Joe Green .. .....^ . Clrculatior Manager Mrmbrr ef the Associated Negro Prrr« and Nebraska Pre«« Association Entered aa Second Claw Matter Iune • 1947 at tab Poet Office at Lincoln Nebraska under the Act of March 3 1879. 1 year nibscrlption.82 50 Single copy..10c . Out-ol-Ktate 1 Year Subscription 82.50—Single Copy 10c ■ DITOBIALB Die views expressed in these columns aecessarll. a reflection ol the policy tre those ot the writer and oot of The Voice —Pub National Bible Week National Bible Week will be observed from October 15 to 21 this year. It is sponsored by the Laymen’s National Committee, a non-sectarian and non-profit or ganization whose mission is to en courage belief and faith in God, daily reading of the Bible and re ligious education for all. The work of the Committee has been en-j dorsed by the President, gov-, ernors, members of Congress, and leaders in industry, labor, and the professions. Today, in a world which has been corrupeted by cynicism and ROPER & SONS MORTUARY 1319 N I, SMITH Pharmacy 2146 Vine Prescriptions — Drugs Fountain — Sundries Phone 2-1958 SPS Jis£ ^[r^&Cotnpa/Uf ; fear, a thorough knowledge of the teachings of the Bible is more im ; portant than ever before. The t world’s most terrible problems ■ have resulted from the loss and I destruction of those spiritual val ues which our ancestors held to be preeminent. As Walter H. Judd, National Chairman for the Week has said, “Because Ameri-; can pioneers had a firm belief ini the spiritual fatherhood of God, they put first in their scale of lvalues the freedom and dignity of, individual man as a spiritual be-! ing. As a result their political system released, for the first time, the creative capacities in herent in men everywhere . . . We shall not live victoriously, either as individuals or as a nation, ex cept as we come to know God and His eternal laws and love through eternal searching of the Scrip tures.” The greatest strength of a peo ple lies in the realm of the spirit. ’ —A Thought— A man will remain a rag-picker * as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker. We should have ambition to do our best, and re -fuse to accept our second best. Doing easy things does not tax us, i neither does it challenge us. It is ja good plan to make it a point to J tackle one hard job every day. If •we do this, we will find that we . have exercised our will power, iour minds, and our bodies to good • purpose. One of the rewards of i learning to do hard things is the power to do still harder things. Rubber Stamps Made to Order . . . 24-Hour Service Date Stamps Time Stamps Endorsement Stamps Signature Stamps -—Notarial Seals— Latsch Brothers Stationer*—Printer* 1124 O St. 2-6838 r = 1 b IAMB# C. OLSON, S*[*rintt*dmt When J. Sterling Morton came to Nebraska territory as a young man still in his twenties, his father warned him: “Now the sawmill business is a humbug, let it alone. If there are any fools in Nebraska let them build the saw mills and you sell them the timber if they want it and will pay cash for it ... If I had $10,000 not a dollar should go into a saw mill in Michigan or Nebraska.” The young man, who was to be come one of Nebraska’s best known citizens, followed his fath er’s advice, but there were enough people willing to gamble on saw mills to make lumber manufac ture the territory’s leading indus try. The new settlements created a tremendous demand for lumber, and while Nebraska was for the most part treeless, the river val leys of the southeastern section provided a considerable quantity of raw material. The streams provided the necessary power. The U.S. census of 1860 re ported 46 sawmills in Nebraska territory, representing a total in vestment of $1^7,800 and giving employment to 155 men. The an nual value of lumber turned out by these mills was $335,340, more than half of the total value of all territorial manufactures. In terms of the number of; establishments Nemaha was the leading county, with seven saw nills. Next came Richardson - % - --1 1-1 with five. Douglas, Otoe. Sarpy and Washington followed will' four each. The remaining coun ties iiHd from one to three saw fnills each, und it is interesting to ' note that every county Included jin the census except Dakota had' |at least one sawmill. In Cuming. Dodge, Johnston and Plutte coun ties sawmills were the only in dustries reported. By 1870, the number of saw mills in Nebraska bod increased only to 50. The capital invested, however, represented $152,000, al-; though the valuft of the product j had fallen to $278,205. A total of 202 men were employed. The| census of 18870 reported the type of power supplied each sawmill, | and 30 of Nebraska’s were pow ered by steam-engines, the re mainder using water-wheels. Many of the early sawmills sawed lumber “on the shares.”, .....~ The putron would cut his own logs nod haul them to the mill After they were sawed the mlll owner and the putron would dl , vide the lumber ntul the slabs equally, the former retaining half 1 of the total product as payment for the milling operations. The sawmills, like the grist mill, be came a neighborhood gathering plied. DONLEY-STAHl CO. LTD 1331 N St DRUGS—PRESCRIPTIONS SICK ROOM NECESSITIES WE APPRECIATE TOUR PATRONAGE BEAL'S GROCERY Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Meats 2101 R Tel. 2-6933 Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1532 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. —i —: 1 Flowers By Tyrrell's ' D. L, TyrrelT* Plotter* 6 2357 1133 No. Cotner -| . 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