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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
are those of the writer and not
necessarily a reflection of the policy
of The Voice.—Pub.
Florida Bombing America’s Shame
The death of Harry T. Moore,
executive secretary of the State
chapter of NAACP branches, is a
crime which will bring shame and
disrepute on all America. Every
soldier on the battlefront, every
visitor to foreign lands and every
ambassador to a foreign court
must bow his head in remorseful
regrets that in their native Amer
ica such things are possible.
To assert that Christmas bomb
ing is an indirect reaction to the
United States Supreme Court de
cision, which reversed the Grove
land, Florida convictions, is to re
echo the beliefs of many observ
ers, including Walter White of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. The
failure of the state to take positive
action after a Coroner’s jury
whitewashed the slaying of a
Negro prisoner by the sheriff and
seriously injuring another.
Incidents of this kind do Amer
ica more harm in the farlung
stretches of the world than all of
our s peeches and preachments1
about democracy. That is why the'
smaller nations are naturally sus-'
picious of our claims for democ
racy in the face of these racial!
injustices. With ten bombings
the governor has done little to
track down the guilty ones. What
reasonable person could expect
any far reaching action in an
atmosphere where even the law
enforcement machinery appears,
not to be too disturbed.
The federal government, if it
can reach its long arm of author
ity down into the backward
reaches of Florida, Mississippi,
Georgia and all of the other states
to draft its best manhood, then it
has a similar obligation and duty
to protect these individuals and
their loved ones wh o sacrifice
equally on the home-front. For it
is plain that there is a moral
breakdown of the enforcement
machinery in these communities.
Another important consideration,
is that the government remove j
the trail of such cases to an at
mosphere which at least is not
hostile to justice by reason of race
or class.
Developments on Bombing
1. $20,000 in reward offered for
. arrest and conviction of slayers
of Harry T. Moore.
2. FBI combing death scene, ling
ing bombings to Groveland
rape case.
3. NAACP’s Walter White inves
tigation; swaps verbal blows
with Florida governor.
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, 4. Bomb victim’s widow said she
'[ had idea who took life of her
lj husband.
5. Walter White says he knows
names of men who threatened
Harry T. Moore.
6. Bombing followed pattern of
Klan, but Kluxers deny part in
bombing attacks.
“If I die, I was only trying to
help my people; if I go that way
I will go as a hero—somebody
has got to do the work!” Those
words were spoken by 46-year-(
old Harry T. Moore as he breathed
his last breath in the arms of
Mrs. Rosa A. Moore, his mother.
Just 1951 years ago—to the
very day—another man-child had
been born into the world; another
man-child who—like Harry T.
Moore—was to give His life 33
years later for his fellow-man and
for the world. Unheralded and
unsung by blazing headlines,
Harry T. Moore, like many other
unsung Negro heroes, had done
his job. He had fought for his
race. On Christmas night he died
for his race ... a true and cour
ageous leader.
Second Million
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men to do the job. Let us tell
our judges that we will no longer
tolerate “slap-on-the-wrist” sen
tences when prison or at least
permanent revocation of all mo
toring privileges, including own
ership of a car, should be the
penalty. Finally, let us look
squarely at our own selves and
'.grimly say:
“Yes, you too!”
Sure, this is tough language!
But it is mild compared to get
ting splattered to death or maimed
for life by some fool at the wheel.
Of this you may be sure—unless
we write tough, talk tough, get
tough and stay tough, an awful
lot of us are due for a mighty
brief and not at all sweet life.
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One of the most serious catas
trophes in Nebraska’s history was
c the great blizzard of January 12,
- 1888. The book, In All Its Fury,
published by the Blizzard Club
under the editorship of W. H
O’Gara of Lincoln, for many years
' president of the club, contains
many reminiscences of the ex
periences of Nebraskans and
others during the great blizzard.
Typical is that of Mrs. Mar
garet Davey of Greeley who ap
parently was serving as a baby
sitter when the storm hit. In later
years she wrote:
“I was twelve years old at the
time, and living with a married
sister, but at the time of the bliz
zard I was visiting my mother
who lived five miles south of
Greeley.
“That morning her neighbors,
Mr. and Mrs. Cleary, wanted to
go to town to do some trading and
they asked if I would stay with
! their children while they were
I gone. There were three children,
one of them a baby about seven
months old. They expected to bo
gone only three or four hours.
“There was a little boy out
herding the cattle and just be
fore noon he came in and said
the cows were acting wild. So Ii
told him we would put them in
the yard and leave them until j
after dinner. Just as we got them
in the blizzard burst upon us. I
investigated and found no fuel.;
There was only about half a
basket of cobs. There was no
milk, no water, not a thing to
feed the baby.
‘We had a little old-fashioned
cook stove to keep us warm, and
I went to the corn crib and
brought in corn to burn. It was
about thirty yards to the corn
crib and I had to make three
trips. I did not have any difficulty
in finding it and getting back to
the house as the chickenhouse and
windmill guided me, but I had a
serious time of it, just the same.'
“I went to the windmill for
water but it was frozen so I had
to melt snow for water.
“In those days women nursed
their babies so I had to find
something to feed the little one
in my care. After a long search 11
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Letters to Editor
Dear Editor,
I wish to congratulate you in
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found a little bit of whiskey in
the cupboard and I mixed a
drink for him with sugar and
water and whiskey so we got
along all right, though die
children got hungry, of course. 1
found it hard to have to walk :he
floor with the baby far into the
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Here and There
Won’t Say When
He’ll Tell Plans
President Truman kept every
body guessing Friday whether he
plans to run for another term.
At his news conference Thurs
day, Mr. Truman repeated that he
has made up his mind whether to
seek re-election. But he again re
fused to disclose the decision. He
said he would announce his plans
when he gets ready.
• • •
Governor Peterson Friday an
nounced appointment of Herbert
F. Thies, 53, as State Civil De
fense Director succeeding Ed Gil
lette, who has taken a job with
the Michigan State Civil Defense
organization.
Mr. Thies will receive six thou
sand dollars as Nebraska chief.
Mr. Gillette got $6,500.
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Dr. Ralph Bunche is one of
America’s seven top brains! Every
body has felt that way about it
all the while. But that fact has
never been more emphatically
brought home to America than it
was last week when Harold E.
Stassen tossed his hat into the ring
for the GOP presidential nomina
tion.
Former Minnesota Governor
Stassen, now president of the
University of Pennsylvania, told
the country just what sort of pro
gram he would put into execution
if elected. He knew who the men
were who were capable of suc
cessfully executing that program.
And he named those men. Dr.
Ralph Bunche was one of them.
Only the brains which Mr. Stas
sen considered the nation’s abso
lute best were on the list.
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