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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1952)
Tib® ^©Scs© PUBLISHED WEEKLY Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritua life of a greatLpeople.,t_ _ _ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher arul Editor Business Address 2225 S 8treet 2-4081 If No Answer Call 5-7508 Ruble W. Shakespeare. Advertising and Business Managei Dorothy Green. ..Office Secretar) Mrs. Joe ,reen..Circulation Managei Member of .he Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, Tune 9, 1947, at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1871 I year subscription.$?.50 Single copy.10c Out of State 1 Year Subscription 42.50- Single Copy 10c EDITORIALS The views expressed In these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.- Pub. Religious Education for Our Youth Religious training in this mid twentieth century year, is most vital and significant. Evil forces, hate, prejudice, and intolerance are swirling in many areas. Doubt, uncertainty, and fear are dulling the minds of youth and pervert ing their souls. The individual, the community and the nation have great need for a reawaken ing to the eternal truths of life; truths found in the greatest book! in history—the Bible. Religious education needs em phasis today. The religious and political foundations of the free world are menaced by an aggres sive police state, and by our own selfishness, intolerance, fear and j ignorance. Through the study cf religion, of the life of Christ, and of the application of religious principles to current problems, we , may come to a deeper apprecia tion of the worth and dignity of the individual and to a new de termination to strive for the brotherhood of man. Religious education is the most important thing that the church has to face in these days. Unless we can have an informed mem bership we can hardly hope to Christianize the world. There is so much new material giving ad ditional information corncerning biblical times, that our people need to keep abreast of it all. Let us work to save our youth. Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign 1 To Get Underway February 15 L The Committee of 100 Families under the sponsorship of The' Voice will launch a Gel-out-the-\ % vote campaign beginning Febru ary 15. During a series of meet ings a special committee will point out the many interests of political concern which Lincoln citizens should have. Voters will be urged to become informed and to make an effort to let candidates know their opinions. The Committee of 100 Families Netc Hospital to Open in Virginia MARTINSVILLE, Va. —(ANP)! *— If present plans run according I to schedule, the 30-bed Martins-' Ville Community hospital for Negroes will open formerly on Feb. 1. The building is nearing completion, and hosDital officials expect that it will be ready for the opening date. Only the installation of certain equipment was to be completed last week. C. E. Taylor Jr., chair man of the Jeycee Committee handling the finishing of the pro ject, announced last week. The one-story T-shaped ma sonry building when completed will cost about $141,000. A total of $60,000 was originally spent on the building three years ago. An additional $31,000 was raised by the Junior Chamber of Com Jess Williams Spring Service 2215 O Street Lincoln 8, Nebraska Phone 2-3633 Please Ask For UMBERGER’S AMBULANCE 2-8543 Umberger^s Mortuary, fisc. will be supported by the North- i side Council. Members of the special committee are; Harry Peterson, Howard Molden, C. O. Shepard, Clayton Lewis, Rosco W. Ambers, Fred Bradley, Carl Fin ley, George Randol, Jewell Kelley and James Wadkins. The first meeting will be held at the Urban League, Friday, February 15, at 8 P.M. The meet ing is open to the public. merce last year, and $50,000 was collected during the Martinsville joint hospital campaign held early this year. Officials reported last week that B. Rudolph Hess had been j employed as administrator for the | hospital. S. W. Bowles Construc tion company of Martinsville was contractor for completing the job on a non-profit basis. Pa: “Well, son, how are your marks?” Son: “They’re under water.” Pa: “What do you mean, under water?” Son: “Below C level.” For Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 .. - Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1532 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. / Flowers By Tyrrell's D. L. TyrrelVs Flowers m 6-2357 1133 No. Cotoer [ h VANES C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI ■ItTOAICAL SOCIETY One of the most important trades on the frontier of Nebraska i was that of the blacksmith. In deed, the blacksmith appeared on I the Nebraska scene long before towns were established and settle ment begun in Nebraska territory. The early Indian agencies all had blacksmiths assigned to them as a part of the regular agency staff. Every town in old Nebraska had its blacksmith. These frontier, blacksmiths were no ordinary workmen. They were skilled mechanics, able to make new machinerv nr to reDair the most complicated machinery then use equal ease. Indeed, the early, blacksmiths were the fore-runners j of the manufacturers of farm ma-, chinery who played such an im-| portant part in the development of a commercial agriculture on the prairies of Nebraska and other i western states. Four items of manufacture in i use on the frontier, and made in the home communities, were 1 wagons, buggies, carriages, and i sleighs, The first three, of course, < were made for use the year i around. The sleigh was made for - use during the winter. In many respects, the wagons and other vehicles made at home were con- ! sidered superior to those made in the east, inasmuch as they were heavier and more substantial. Two types of workers usually combined to manufacture pioneer cehicles. d One was the wood worker, the other was the black smith. Many of the blacksmiths,' however, combined their talents for working in iron with those for working in wood and on occasion cmpleted the entire vehicle. One of the early territorial blacksmiths was Lyman Miller j who lived at Falls City. He did horse shoeing, plow sharpening, J tire setting, and in addition ironed i wagons and buggies, Money was scarce in Nebraska during terri torial times and Mr. Miller, like i many another tradesman or j craftsman in old Nebraska, took WtMtkm Dr. Bunche to Speak at Dinner CHICAGO — (ANP) — Dr. ! Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship ^ director, will be the main s|>eaker at this year's annual ‘Salute to Roosevelt College” dinner to be held Friday, Feb. 29, in the Grand ballroom of the Hotel Sheraton here. An annual city-wide event, the farm produce in exchange for his blacksmith work. One of the first wagon makers at Brownville was S. B. Miller j who in 1856 was doing an active business. The next year, 1857, the Thompson brothers from Ohio also opened a wagon shop in Brownville. That same year com petition appeared in the form of the arrival of Charles Sultzpaugh from Ohio who came in on the Steamer Moses Green-wood with a stock of ready made wagons of his own manufacture. In addition to selling the wagons he brought with him he intended to go into the business in Brownville, for he brought tools and machinery necessary for opening an exten sive manufacturing establishment J As might be expected, local! newspaper editors were generous in their praise of the local wagon manufacturers and blacksmiths. The editor of the Nebraska Ad vertiser at Brownville, for ex ample, was fullsome in his praise of a buggy manufactured there in 1860. I LATSCH BROTHERS Stationers 1124 O St. 2-6838 dinner pays honor to Roosevelt for the example it has set in pro viding equal educational oppor tunities for all races and religions. The dinner also gives financial support to help maintain the school’s low tuition policy. I Dr. T. K. Lawless, eminent der ' matolgist, is chairman of the dinner. Roosevelt college was organized in 1945 among former members of the faculty of the YMCA college. A controversy developed between I faculty members of the YMCA college and the board of trustees. Source of the disagreement was the desire of some members of the board to limit the number of minorities in attendance at the school. They demanded that the president of the YMCA college submit a list of Negroes and other minorities at the school. This the president refused to do. He then resigned and many members of the faculty went along with him. From this nucleus Roosevelt col lege was formed. DONLEY-STAHL CO. 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