Tlfo ® V©n all Americans alike and treat the ( news of Negro people like that of anybody else. But no matter how fair-minded the daily paper,! there is little space for the rou-. tine news of Negroes in their church, civic and social life. They! must depend upon the Negro press1 for this. The Marian Andersons, I Jackie Robinsons and Ralph Bunches among us get adequate! space in the daily press but Mrs.j John Jones and Jack Brown must, wait for their weekly paper to. come off the press to read about '< their family and friends. |» The Negro newspaper is a pub- 1 lie agenpy with the editor and1 the publisher the servants of the 1 people. The sincere editor and 1 publisher do not operate a news-! paper for their own personal gain, 1 but for the good that they can s do for the public as a whole. The • Negro publisher, especially, is* conscious of his obligation to the people. He recognizes himself as the voice of his people. He takes his responsibility serious and strives to be worthy of the trust which the people have in him. Every day in every way open to it, the Negro press works to abolish segregation and racial dis crimination from American life. I When that great day comes when there is no distinction based upon race, the job of the Negro news paper will have been done. Its great battle will have been won. The Negro paper at that time will either go out of existence or it will become a publication of in terest to the general public. I The Voice is happy to be among IDEAL Grocery and Market Lots of Parking | 27th and F Streets ' by IAMBS C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI ■ISTOIICAL SOCIITT We frequently think that the In dians’ only contribution to the settlement of the West was an effort to impede the process. Actually, the Wyandot Indians, a branch of the Huron, who moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1843, were very active in promoting the or ganization of Nebraska territory. The westward trek of the Wyan dwots was made pursuant to the government’s early 19th century policy of removing all of the In-1 dian tribes to the region west of the Missouri. The tribe ceded its lands in Ohio to the government ;in 1842, and the next year bought land from the Delawares in the fork of the Missouri and Kansas I . rivers. The Wyandots, last of the tribes to relinquish their lands in Ohio, brought a highly developed cul ture with them. They had a well organized Methodist church (the result of earlier effort among them by Methodist missionaries), a Free Mason’s lodge, a civil gov ernment, and a code of written laws which provided for al elec tive council of chiefs ,the punish ment of crime and the main tenance of order. Under the leadership of William 1 Walker, the Wyandots pressed for,] a treaty which would recognize ] them as citizens of the United ' States. When they failed in their effort to secure this concession they did their best to foster the organization of Nebraska terri tory. During the winter of 1851-52 they petitioned Congress to estab-, lish a territorial government for Nebraska. When this effort failed, they decided to elect a delegate to the Thirty-second Congress and’ send him bac kto Washington to I plead their cause in person. Abe lard Guthrie was their unanimous earlier column, he thus became the first delegate to Congress from Nebraska territory, if anly from the provisional territory. ' Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1532 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. Flowers By Tyrrell's D. L. TyrrelFt Flowert 6-2357 1133 No. Cotnor % ‘The Challenge of Lent’ by Dr. Frank A. Court Pastor, St. Paul Methodist Church Lincoln A week ago as I flew from j Miami to Chicago I could not ' help but think of the words, “North with the spring.” Looking down from the plane, you pass from the warm summer days of Florida, through the late days of j spring where the farmers were out working, to where spring was still a sug g e s t i o n and then into Chi cago where a snow storm was raging. But I spring is on its i way north. | So Lent is a time of life’s Courtesy Lincoln Journal renewal when Court we turn our thoughts to a suffer ing Saviour and the healing power of God. The forty days of Lent are the most meaningful in any j church year. In the old Fifty-First Psalm we read: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Lent is a time of life’s renewal through the gift of God’s spirit. Throughout the church Lent has come to mean sacrifice and discipline. So sometimes it is kept by giving up some trivial thing, foregoing entertainment and in outer ways foregoing some luxury. Yet Lent is always more than this. Primarily it means that one tries to keep in step with the thought and spirit of Jesus. If one truly kept Lent it would mean that they would try whole heartedly to give their life for the principles for which Christ died. The brotherhood of man, ’ the Fatherhood of God, the oneness of His spirit should be foremost in our thinking. If we truly kept Lent we would try to make the Spirit of Christ in our relation-1 ships one with another. This past summer I toured Europe with a1 party of ministers and church leaders and one of them was Dr.! Samuel Sweeney, pastor of St.' Mark’s Methodist Church, Har-i ilem, New York, which is the largest Negro Methodist Church, or of any denomination for that 'matter, in New York City. He has close to eight thousand members. My, what a gracious Christian spirit permeates the life of Dr. Samuel Sweeney at all times. I suppose he was the most popular member of our party for his hearty laugh, or his readiness to pray, or his ability to take things in stride as they came along, endeared him to all. Yet, I think the thing about him that appealed to me the most was his ability to find the best in any situation. Perhaps this ability came out of his own background of overcoming and finding success in the ministry, not through i way of ease, but growing strong through facing difficulties. So Lent is a time when we re turn to the message of the Cross and the defeat of a Good Friday being turned into the victory of an Easter resurrection morn. So beyond days of sacrifice, Lenten days are also hopeful, leading up to the great day of victory in the Christian Church. Men, through inhuman acts and un-Christlike deeds, continue to recrucify Christ. In John Mase field’s great play, “The Everlast ing Mercy,” Saul Kane, a prize fighter, is challenged by a Quaker maid. In one place in the play she said to Saul Kane, “Saul Kane, when next you drink Do me the gentleness to think That every drop of drink ac cursed Makes Christ within you die of thirst That every dirty word you say Is another flint upon His way, Another nail and another cross All that you are, is our Christ's loss!” And it would not be difficult to carry that thought out into the world today and say that much that we do seems to be our Christ’s loss and another flint and another stone upon a Calvary’s Way. Yet we believe in peace and that the dreams of God will still come true. Such is our Lenten (Continued on Page 3) POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT I---- -1 “THOUGHT IT BEST FOH NEBRASKA” Editor l auds Butler's Big Sacrifice Senator Hugh Rotter McCook, Neb.—“No man ever made a greater sacrifice for Nebraska ’ than Senator Hugh Butler did during the 80th Con gress, when he turned down the chairmanship of the Senate Fi nance Committee. This U the opinion of H S Strunk, editor and publisher of The McCook Daily Gazette, who explains the reasons for Sena tor Butler’s decision as folloSt, “HU seniority entitled lum to the chairmanship of the Finance Committee when the Republicans took the Congress in 1947. Since that committee writes the nation’s tax laws, he would nave had the country’s fi nancial leaders waiting in his office for Just a moment of his time. “But Senator Butler waived tluit position of great trust and elected to take the chairmanship of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, because it was that committee which had under its juris diction the critical subjects of IRRIGATION, FLOOD CONTROL and SOIL CON SERVATION. "He thought it would be best for Nebraska. "Senator Butler contin ues to hold the rank of minority leader of that committee, and would again become chairman in 1951 If the Republicans took the Congress this fall. And he continues to be a high ranking minority member of the Finance Committee, as well . . .*» Keep this great Nebraskan in the U. S. Senate. •-. Vote April 1 l2i|HUGH BUTLER l*oi* jj, S. Senator Omaha, Neb*.* C,Sb' 1101 C!‘y Natl. Bank Bid** ^ —B. U. Guenzel, Treaa.