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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 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.
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•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. As a matter of record,
jhe and I did not always agree.
jBut never once was our personal
friendship endangered nor was
ithere ever an occasion to question
his sincerity or his integrity.
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