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Lincoln on the March at Last!
There are gratifying moments
which made the struggle for full
citizenship status worthwhile.
One of those moments came last
April 14 when a conference was
held at the Cornhusker Hotel for
the purpose of examining com
munity attitudes. It was most
satisfying to hear citizen after
citizen, some representing organi
zations of large membership, get
up and tell the conference that!
the city needs a council to work1
toward the elimination of preju-1
dices and misunderstandings
among groups of different cultural'
and racial backgrounds. It was ,
good to hear white Lincolnites say;
that the time is long overdue and ]
that we should have had such an
organization long ago.
j The unanimity of opinion was
heart-warming.
Saturday will mark the second
1 meeting of the group, now known
'as The Lincoln-Lancaster County
Council of Human Relations.
Mayor Anderson and Governor
Peterson are scheduled to appear
on the program.
We sincerely hope that Mayor
Anderson and members of the
City Council will remain long
enough to get a realistic view of
working and living conditions of
Dur minority groups.
The work of the council is
argely educational. Studies will
, be made and iniormauon reiaung
I to various problems in human re
[ lations will be given to the pub
lic. The public will be informed
and prepared for the changes
which are inevitable in the field
of race relations.
Those persons who are respon
sible for this growing interest in)
minority groups, such as the aged/
national and racial minorities,
D.P.’s and the handicapped are toj
be commended for their intelli
gent interest and their deep con
cern over the welfare of the city
as a whole.
Lincoln is on the road to
democracy at last.
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Winter on the plains and in the
mountains is something not to be
taken lightly, particularly by the
traveller, and even with our pow
erful automobiles, well-marked
and well-patrolled highways, we
still read the weather forecasts
pretty carefully before taking an
extended winter trip. Think what
it must have been like in the days
before the automobile and the
railroad, when the roads across
the plains and mountain passes
were little more than trails.
It is little wonder that the over
land emigrants who made their
way across the plains and moun
tains from the Missouri River to
Oregon, California and Utah took
pains to start early enough in the
spring to reach their destination
before the snows of winter set in.
Evenso, some of the emigrants
miscalculated, and some of the
greatest tragedies in the history of
the West are the stories of emi
grants caught in a snow storm.
Perhaps the most famous of all
the tragedies of the trail is that
which overtook the ill-fated Don
ner party in November, 1846.
George Donner and James F.
Reed, prosperous farmers of San
gamon County, Illinois, left
Springfield with their families
and others (32 emigrants in nine
wagons altogether) on April 16,
1846. That year—the "year of de
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gration, and in the month it took
the Reed-Donner party to reach
Independence, the jumping-off
place for the West, they encoun
tered many other travellers bound
for Oregon and California.
At Independence, the Spring
field emigrants became part of a
much larger caravan. It was not a
happy party, and before it had
reached Scotts Bluff, it had
changed leaders a number of
times.
West of Fort Laramie, there was
argument about the route. Reed,
Donner and a few others wanted
to take a short-cut advertised in
Lansford Hastings’ guidebook.
Though warned by James Clyman,
who knew the mountains as Has-,
tings did not, that they should
stay on the main trails and avoid
cutoffs because they might get
caught in snow on the western
slope before they arrived, they de
termined that they would try the
shorter route.
Beyond Fort Bridger they left
the regular trail and tried to make
their way over the much more dif
ficult—and at times almost impas
sable—trail to the Salt Lake Val
ley. Beyond the Great Salt Lake
the road was even more difficult,
and in November, at Truckee
Lake they were caught in a bliz
zard. They suffered indescribable
hardships during the winter, and
only 47 out of 87 survived.
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