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Discrimination May Cause America
To Lose Battle With Communism
WINSTON - SALEM, N. C.
(ANP) — Racial discrimination ir
America may result in the demo
cratic forces losing their battle
against Communism.
That was the warning Elmer W.
Henderson, national director of
the American Council on Human
Rights, gave the local chapter of
the organization.
Speaking last week at Winston
Salem Teachers college auditorium
on the subject, “Human Rights
and the World Crisis,” Henderson
said:
“The world is being divided
into two opposite camps: World
Communism, led by Russia, and:
World Democracy, led by thej
United States. Then there is a
vast mass of people outside of •
these two great aggregations who j
have not yet made up their minds ,
to which camp they belong.
“Many thoughtful people be
lieve the balance of power is still
in the hands of the undecided ,
people who are in general the J
brown and black skinned people
of Southern Asia, The Pacific Is
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— lands, Asia Minor, Africa ana
n India.
“They want to be free, but not
necessarily to adopt Communism
C or Democracy, if there is not real
freedom under these ideoligies.
“They are saying, if we accept
f the offer made us by America we
1 may find ourselves in the same
f situation as those Negro citizens
in America who are constantly be
ing segregated and discriminated
against in various ways. . .**
Turning to allegations on dis
crimination against the Negroes,
the speaker said:
“We saw the race question be- '
come a dominant issue in the last '
national and state elections. The,j
Dixiecrat situation was mainly a ^
try for a new Confederacy. t
“We are seeing now, in the pre- ,
lude to the election of next year.
There seems to be a feeling that f
it would be bettr to go down in ^
defeat than to give all citizens c
full equality.” (
| Citing fear and silence as the (
(predominant characteristics of the <
young generation today, he called ;
for new ideas. (
“No great social changes were I
ever rought in an atmosphere of f
conformity,” he noted. I
Curtiss Todd, attorney and pres- (
ident of the local ACHR Chap- .
ter, introduced Henderson.
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Delegates to Congress
It is a truism of the early years
of Nebraska’s territorial history
that our delegates to Congress had
to spend much of their time de
fending their seats. Experience
Estabrook, elected Oct. 11, 1859,
'not only was called upon to de
fend his seat in the House of Rep
resentatives, but lost it in the
process.
Estabrook, a Democrat, who
prior to coming to Nebraska in
1855 as the first territorial attor
ney general, had lived in Wiscon
sin where he had been a member
of the legislature and attorney
general, defeated Samuel G. Daily,)
Republican, 3,100 to 2,800, a ma
jority of 300 votes. On the strength
of this, he was given a certificate
of election and took his seat when
the first session of the 36th Con-1
gress convened, Dec. 5, 1859.
On Feb. 16, 1860, however,
Daily filed a memorial contesting
the election, and after lengthy
deliberation and the hearing of
much evidence, the Committee on
Elections of the House of Repre
sentatives presented a resolution
declaring that Daily rather then'
Estabrook was entitled to the seat
as delegates from Nebraska. The;
House adopted the resolution onj
May 18, 1860, and Estabrook's
brief congressional career came to
an end.
The House’s action was largely
political, although it was con
:ended that Estabrook had re
ceived a total of 429 illegal votes,
>r 129 more than his majority)
aver Daily. There was no evi-:
denee that Estabrook or his
friends had perpetrated any fraud.
The Committee on Elections sim
ply found that irregular and il
legal votes had been cast.
Elections on the frontier were
not nearly so carefully regulated
as they were in the more settled
aras, and in many election con
tests the question revolved around
which candidate had received the
greater number of illegal votes.
(Daily in this instance was
charged with ten illegal votes.)
Despite this defeat, Estabrook
did not lose his interest in Ne
braska. He returned to Omaha to
become one of that city’s best
! known attorneys. He was a mem
ber of the constitutional conven
tion of 1871 and played an im
iportant part in its deliberations.
During his later years he became
I unsuccessfully involved in a cele
brated lawsuit growing out of his
refusal to pay taxes on real estate
owned in Omaha on the grounds
i that the assessments were illegal
because no official plat of the
city had ever been prepared and
recorded.
j He died at his home in Omaha,
March 26, 1894.
Nation to Observe
Carver Week Jan. 6-8
PITTSBURGH —(ANP)— The
eighth annual observance of
Carver Week will be celebrated
between Jan. 6-8, 1952, with a
number of special programs de
signed to commemorate the life
and work of Dr. George Washing
ton Carver. National Achievement
Clubs Inc. is sponsoring the ob
servance.
The annual Carver Day lunch
eon will be held in the ballroom
of the Hotel Sheraton in down
town Pittsburgh. Spacious Trinity
Cathedral church will be the
scene of the memorial service.
The following governors will
join the peoples of the nation in
honoring the late Dr. Carver:
Theodore McKeldin, Maryland:
Johnston Murry, Oklahoma; John
Lodge, Connecticut and Gover
nor Fine of Pennsylvania.
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