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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.
The Negro Press Is YOU
• The Negro press is celebrating
the 125th anniversary of its birth
this week. For over a century the
Negro newspaper has been the
eyes, ears and voice of the
American Negro. It has recorded
the every day happenings among
this minority group, its achieve
ments, pointed out its shortcom
ings and voiced its protests
against the injustices and discrim
inations practiced against it.
The Negro press is the Negro’s
most vocal representative and its
most forceful spokesman. It is
the medium through which Ne
groes express their views, their
desires, their ambitions. The
voice of the Negro press has con
tributed greatly to the change j
In status of the Negro in America ]
during the past 125 years. p
The Negro press, and its allies j
such as the National Association j
for the Advancement of Colored |
People, the Urban League and i
other organizations working in'
the interest of the Negro, have’
improved the Negro’s lot in1
America a hundred-fold. With-1
out the Negro newspapers to work
in cooperation with these great
organizations, the Negro would
not have advanced as far toward
first-class citizenship as he has. I
The Negro newspaper exists
primarily to furnish*to the Negro
public the news, the opinion, the
inspiration and the guidance that
the colored man, woman and cly.ld
in America can get nowhere else.
The daily press, in most cities,
even in this age of improved ra
cial relations, still ignores for the
most part the news which con
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i exceptions, of course. There are
! those few papers which consider
> 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
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• 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.
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‘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
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
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“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**
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