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TEq® ^r®n€@ _PUBLISHED IPEEKLY ‘Dedicated to ttu promotion ot the cultural. -,ooml and spiritua li/e 0/ a great people Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 b Street 2-408C if No Answer Call 0-7508 Ruble >V. bhaKespeare. Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy Oreen. . Office Secretary Mrs, jo* • itwn......Circulation Manage! Member of .lie Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Pres* Association Entered as Second Class Matter, lune 9. 1947. a* the Post Office at Lincoln^ Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1871 1 year subscription.giToo Single copy 7!T...lOe Out of State 1 Year Subscription §2.60— Single Copy 10c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of fhe Voice.—Pub. Educator Questions Northern Sincerity in Fight for Rights Many northerners are constantly denouncing racial patterns In the South, while at the same time they remain blind to racialism within their own community. In the February issue of the Christian Advocate, Official organ of The Methodist Church, Miss Molly Gatos Daugherty, a white woman questions the sincerity of many white northerners who profess to work for equal opportunities for Negroes. Although born and reared in the North, Miss Daugherty was educated in the South. Her parents were originally from the South; therefore, many of her vacations were spent in the South. With a background of this kind, Miss Daugherty considers her self well qualified to discuss the customs and moros of both North and South in regards to the Negro. She points out that northerners have their racial prejudices too. If they didn’t, she says, there would not be a single colored person living in the South. A former teacher in a northern university, Miss Daugherty cites many instances of the inability of northerners to recognize their own prejudices while at the same time they are over-sensitive to those of southerners. She explains this paradoxical attitude to a white woman from Maine as follows: “You talk about all your colored friends on committees working . for racial equality. Would you invite them to your house for a social evening? I don’t mean as a stunt, but really.” “Certainly,” the woman from Maine answered. “Well, have you?** “No, but I would. It's* just that my husband and I have dif ferent interests fro.u theirs. But I like them better than some of my white friends.” In concluding her article, Miss Daugherty writes: “The task at hand is not to change the South. Change the town in which you live. Would you patronize a beauty parlor that sham pooed a colored woman’s hair? Would you try a hat tried on by a Negro? , ',| “It isn’t too late, however, to hire a Negro teacher in your public schools, unless you’re prejudiced. It isn’t too late to ask your large department stores to hire Negro clerks, unless you don’t want to fight1 racial prejudice so near home. It isn’t too late to check zoning regu lations on your block, if you believe in equality of opportunity for all men.” *' Two Persons Honored at DURHAM—(ANP) — Two per sons were honored recently at North Carolina college. Miss La Vie Griggs, Reidsville Call Qn Us for All Your Home Decorating Needs —52 YEARS IN LINCOLN 143 So. 10th 2-6931 North Carolina College sophomore, who was “Miss North Carolina College” during home coming celebrations, has become a cover girl, and Robert John, pro fessor of music, has been named to a national committee on “Music for Childhood." Miss Griggs’ picture was fea tured on the January issue of a new national picture magazine. Function of the committee to which F*rof. John was appointed is to survey music education in American schools and colleges. The committee is a part of the Music Educators National con ference, headed by Marguerite V. Hood of N.C.C. t 1 1 - PARRISH MOTOR CO. The time of clear cars. 120 No. 19 St. Since 1871 . . . The First National Bank of Lincoln Lincoln. Neoraska Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation h IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent •TATI HIlTOIICAt IOCIITT Nebraska’s Senators (1) The most important business facing the first session of the state legislature when it convened July 4, 1866, was the election of two United States Senators. Finally chosen were John M. Thayer and Thomas W. Tipton. They drew lots to determine the length of their terms—Tipton drew two years and Thayer four. General Thayer, whose career as military leader and as governor I have discussed before, may most ap propriately be the subject foi i this first in a series of columns on Nebraska’s senators. Having been elected to the Senate, Thayer and Tioton found (themselves occupied in trying t<' bring about Nebraska’s final ad 1 mission to the Union. General i Thayer, it appears, was particu larly active toward this end. The 'state finally was admitted on iMarch 1, 1867, and on March 4 [of that year the two senators fron • Nebraska took their seats. Senator Thayer was placed on 'the military affairs, Indians af fairs and patent office committees He was particularly interested in the work of the first two, and be cause of his distinguished war record and his career as an Indian fighter in the West, his counsel was frequently sought. In the tradition of western senators, he was active in support of legisla tion looking to the creation of ad ditional reservations for the tribes whose presence in the West was a barrier to the expansion of settlement. Although he was very attentive to military matters, Senator Thayer was an ardent advocate of economy in the military establish ment.. He often called for a re duction in the number of commis sions granted, for the abolition of needless forts, and for a more careful accounting of military supplies. Perhaps his outstanding work insofar as the interests of his con stituents was concerned was his sponsorship of a law providing for a Nebraska land district and con firming a large number of Omaha land titles—some of which had Wherry’s Place in History Assured By Record of llis Public Service SPEECH OF HON. FRED A. SEATON OF NEBRASKA IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, January 8, 1952 MR. SEATON. Mr. President, il is with deep emotion that I take the floor and speak for the first time as a Member of this dis : tinguished body. The greif which Members of i this distinguished body. The grief which Members'of the United States Senate experienced over the death of Senator ivenneth S. Wherry is shared by myself and all who knew him by per sonal association or merely by name and record. It is may wish to be associated with the tributes which are being paid today to the memory of Ken Wherry. Senators, he was your colleague and earned the abiding affection which you hold for him with no regard for party label. We Ne braskans were proud to claim him as one of our own; one, who by his dynamic energy and his un selfish service will always ue known as among the great states men to be produced by Nebraska. All who knew Kenneth Wherry —and those were of countless number — honor his career of public service; his fair and just dealing among men; his unswerv ing loyalties to those things in which he believed, and his ex emplary life as a Christian, a husband, a father, and a neighbor. The loss which has been jbeen taken under the old Omaha claim club. Thayer generally was on the side of the radical element of the Republican party which favored stern measures against the South. Likewise, he voted with the minority for conviction in the impeachment trial of President Johnson. When Thayer came up for re election in 1870, he was supported by the old guard of the state’s Republican party, but found a sizeable group of Johnson sym pathizers opposing him. This element favored P. W. Hitchcock of Omaha, last territorial dele gate to Congress. Because of the party split, both Thayer and Hitchcock were nominated by the Republicans. Hitchcock was sleeted on the first legisalture’s first ballot. General Thayer ran for the Senate on two later occasions, but both times unsuccessfully, sustained by the Nation in the 'passing of Senator Wherry has been shared in direct proportion by his own community of Pawnee City and by the State of Nebraska. Many who disagreed with Ken neth Wherry will join together with his most intimate political t associates in deploring that death : cut so short the service of a man t who fearlessly and ably served • his own honest beliefs. Men of honest convictions and ability to ■ serve those convictions are a precious ingredient in the formula ! of a free and representative 1 goverment. To my mind, there can be only ■ one Senator Kenneth Wherry of ■ Nebraska. He cannot be replaced. One may succeed him in the office i of Senator from Nebraska, but his : record and career will stand unique and complete. For myself, I am humbly sincere when I say for the people of Ne braska that Kenneth Wherry earned in rich measure the ac colade: Well done, thou good and faith ful servant. It is my belief that the story of Senator Wherry’s service will De an everglowing source of inspira tion. He dedicated his life to public service, to the problems of his city, his State, and Nation. We need men who strive to maintain the dignity of the indi vidual and the preservation of op portunity in individual enterprise as much today as we needed those who founded this Republic on the basic concept that men can only be free and equal in a representa tive and limited government. The wisdom of our founding fathers and the contributions of other sincere and effective pa triots who followed them in the national public service, give us clear guideposts toward the solu tion of the problems which beset us today and will challenge us in i the future. Senator Wherry was one of those; he was a leader and a man of action. It does not seem to me that it is at all important that there were times when his policies and recommendations were adopted while at other times they were not followed. We all know there are those here today who sometimes found themselves in sharp disagreement with him. 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