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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.
Editorially Speaking
MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
In her column, “My Day,” last’
week denounced the racial policy
of Greenwood Memorial Park!
cemetery which delayed the burial
of Pfc. Thomas C. Reed, 19-year-j
old Negro soldier killed in the
Korean war, in Phoenix, Ariz.
In the face of opposition from
three veterans’ organizations and
an aroused public, the cemetery
changed its policy and Pfc. Reed
was buried last week after his
body had remained in a mortuary
for six weeks. He was buried
with full military honors.
In denouncing the racial policy
of the cemetery, Mrs. Roosevelt,
writing her column from Paris
while serving as an American
delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, said:
“I cannot overlook one piece of
news which has been in our U. S.
newspapers of late—namely, the
story of the long wrangle as to
■whether a Negro veteran, Pfc.
Reed, can be burled in a certain
cemetery in Phoenix, Ariz.
“It is understood that his father
was willing that the effort should
be made to gain for him the right
of burial without being in a
segregated plot, and we can well
understand why his father would i
be willing to make this effort.
“Private Reed fought in Korea
for all of the free world, for its
freedom and protection from ag
gression. The bullet that killed
him might just as well have killed
a white boy, and neither would
have died only for his own race.
“Somehow it saddens one
greatly, as one works for freedom
and human rights throughout the
world, to have these rights flouted
in our own United States.”
NEGROES ARE NOT THE
ONLY ONES who are threatened
with violence as a means of
keeping them in control.
A white Baptist evangelist in
Jacksonville, Fla., who had been
warned to stop his fiery preaching
or suffer the same fate of Harry
Moore, last week defied the in
timidators and held church as
usual and preached to some 2,000
persons. He placed 18 artned
guards around his church just in
case.
IT IS HARD TO PREDICT how
the Negro will vote in 1952 but
it is almost certain that he will
not vote for Bob Taft, thinks
Walter White, executive secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
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THE VALUE OF THE MAR
SHALL Plan dollar in Europe has
been wiped out by the Florida
bombings, according to Dr. Chan
ning Tobias, alternate delegate to
the General Assembly of the
United Nations.
This statement was relayed to
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this country last week by Con
gressman Adam Clayton Powell
(D., N.Y.) who has recently re
turned from an extensive Euro
pean tour.
“What do you think of Eisen
hower for President?” one re
porter asked. To this the clergy
man-congressman replied that
Eisenhower would have to “Stand
| Up and confess his sins before
: he could get the Negro vote.”
Obviously, Rep. Powell was re
ferring to a testimony which Eis
enhower made before the Armed
Services Committee several years
ago when he condoned segrega
tion in the armed forces.
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for funds in most of the towns
and counties of Nebraska. Plastic
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February 16, following Valentine’s
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•TATE ■ 1ST01ICAI SOCIETY
Hugh Glass, who is justly cele
brated by John G. Neihardt, Ne
braska’s poet-laureate, in The
Song of Hugh Glass, is one of
those legendary figures whose
career skirts the edge of Ne
braska’s history but is firmly
fixed in our folklore.
When Hugh Glass Joined
William H. Ashley’s Missouri
River fur trade expedition in the
spring of 1823, he already was
something of a degendary
character — he had been a sailor,
so the story goes, captured by the
pirate Jean Lafitte, escaping on
the Texas coast only to be cap
tured by the Indians. He is suo-j
posed to have regained his “free
dom while visiting St. Louis with
a delegation from the tribe which
held him captive.
Ashley’s expedition was pun
ctuated by two battles with the
Arikaras, participated in also —
and not particularly to their
credit — by troops from Fort
Atkinson. After these encounters,
Glass joined a party returning to
the mouth of the Yellowstone
under the leadership of Andrew
Honry.
Glass was the party’s hunter, and while |
separated from his companions he was at
tacked by a huge grizzly bear. Before he!
could kill the beast with a shot from his
rifle, he was so horribly mangled that his
companions abandoned all hope for his life.'
He could not be. moved, and to remain!
with the unfortunate hunter would expose the
entire party to serious danger from the:
Indians.
Major Henry induced two of his men to
stay with Glass, but after a few days they,1
itoo, abandoned the wounded man. taking!
I with them his rifle and, as the mountain men
j used to say, all his “plunder." Hugh Glass
I was left to die in the wilderness.
But Glass refused to die. He
found a spring near where grew a
few wild cherries and buffalo
berries, and on these he nursed
| himself back to strength. Still
unable to stand, he resolved to
I strike out from his position on
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Teen Asre Chatter
By Mattie Sue Nevels
The Hi-Life club held its an
nual party Saturday night at the
! Urban League. A number of
I guests present included: Norma
| Dunn, Emma White, Rosalie Nev
lels, Beatrice Napue, Shirley Ca
json, Mary Scott, Birdie Powell,
I Ida Atkins, Mary Lou Knowles,
i Lloyd King, Clifford Dunn, Lester
I White, Clarence Zanders, Ray
I Tarpley, Richard McWilliams,
Harold Dickens, Paul Kidd, Don
ald Brown, Ted King, Willie
Ricks and James Bradley.
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For a couple of days we are
having a short:
V-irgil Napue
Ida-A-dkins
C-lifford Dunn
Be-A-trice Napue
Ray-T-arpley
Rosal-I-e Nevels
Shirley Cas-O-n
N-orma Dunn
the Grand River to Fort Kiowa,
a hundred miles away on the Mis-,
souri. Though scarcely able to'
drag one foot behind the other, he
somehow managed to reach his
destination.
Having saved himself from the
fate to which he had been aban
doned, he now was consumed
with a desire for revenge upon
his faithless companions — one
of whom was Jim Bridger, then
a boy of 19, and the other a man;
named Fitzgerald. He found Jim
Bridger at Henry’s new post at
the mouth of the Bighorn, but
because of his youth, forgave him.
Months later at Fort Atkinson,
in present Washington County, he
came upon Fitzgerald, who still
had the rifle he had stolen from
the dying man out on the Grand.
To gain the spirit of forgiveness
came over Hugh Glass, and Fitz
Gerald, like Bridger was allowed
to go his way unharmed.
Such is the story of Hugh Glass.
He roamed the West, a legendary
hero among with whom heroism
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Teen of the Week
Teen for this week wil be Shir
ley Conrad, 15 year old daughter.
of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Conrad
of 2544 Vine St. Shirley is a soph
omore at Lincoln ^ligh school.
Some of her favorites are:
Sport—basketball
Dish—apple-pie
Record—Flamingo
Subject—algebra
Pet peeve—house work
Movie actor—Robert Mitchem
The girls cheering section is
planning to journey to Omaha
next Saturday with the basketball
teams. Friday, January 18th, the
Urban League’s Half Century
team lost to the Omaha League
Busters, 24-17. We wish you bet
ter luck on your future games
boys.
* * ' *
Thought I’d give you a little
more time to think on the ques
tion, “What do you think about
I mixed ages attending parties?”
because I want some good an
swers.
• * *
Father: “Did you give Rita that
copy of “What Every Girl Should
Know?”
Mother: “Yes, and she’s writing
a letter to the author suggesting
the addition of three new chap
ters.”
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to have been killed by the back
feet on the upper Yellowstone
early in the spring of 1833.
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