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Tib© V@n<s© PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritua life of a great people_ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2226 8 Street Box 2026 2-408 If No Answer Can 6-7008 Ruble W. Shakespeare.Advertising and Business Managi Dorothy Green...Office Secretar Mrs. Joe ireen.Circulation Managt Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association ~~ Entered as Second Class Matter. June ®, 1847, at the Poet Office at IlnooM Nebraska, under the Act of March 8, 187t _ 1 year subscription.6?.50 Single copy.10 Out of State 1 Year Subscription ®2.60— Single Copy 10c_ You Can*t Vole If You Dou't Register One of the great bulwarks of the American system is the idea ol representative government by the free choice of the people. Our en tire political structure is built upon the theory that those gov erned shall determine those who govern them by expression at the polls. It is the method by which political despotism is guarded against. It is the means by which the citizens restates the principals of behavior in office that he eon-, aiders important. The greatest danger to that sys tem is to be found in the careless ness and laziness of the citizen himself. It is easy to take the attitude that one vote doesn’t: really mean much. It is simple to say, “I don’t have time to vote this year.” Enough people with that feeling means simply that we ] no longer have a government which expresses the preference of; the majority of the people. In the last presidential election in 1948 less than half of the per sons qualified to vote actually cast a ballot. This means that thej actual selection of a President and a Congress was made by a little under 25 per cent of the voters. In this kind of indifference lies po tential disaster. Any citizen who meets age and residence requirements can qual ify to cast his ballot by placing his name on the registration books. Registering to vote is more than an opportunity. It is a duty that every citizen owes to himself and his community. The procedure is simple. Reg istration can be made at the office of the Board of Election Commis sioners. If the voter has changec his place of residence the time ol the last city election, it is neces Club Has Silver-Sip (Left to right) Mes dames Alma Austin, Clara Wimes, Docia Hamilton, Betty Lintz, Mary Sampson, Delores Griggsby, Lenora Lintz and Gearaldine Thomas. Not pitcured is Mrs. Evelyn An derson. Pictured above are members of the La Foll’etts club who gave a Silver-Sip in the Urban League Auditorium on May 18th be tween the hours of 4-8 p.m. The club met at the home of Mrs. Clara Wimes and Mrs. Gearaldine Thomas the past weeks. The next meeting will be held at the Urban League on Thursday, May 29th. The next attraction of the club will be Harlem Review. ? sary that he have this change re ( corded. » No citizen can afford not k> vote. It is the one positive voice he has in his own government. It ’ is the one means by which he can express his approval or disappro val of those who hold, or seek, public office. The first step in voting is in registering.—K. C. CalL Council Appoints Seven To Human Relatiou Croup The City Council has approved appointment of seven members to the newly formed Council of Hu man Relations. Appointments and expiration dates are Charles Stuart, 1955, Hyman Rosenberg, 1955, Wyatt Williams, 1954, Dr. Stephen Wat kins, 1954, Miss Lucille Ledwith, 1953, Mrs. M. C. Leonard, 1953, Rev. C. Vin White, 1953. Two members of the solicita tions commission, Max Meyer and Msgr. Maurice W. Helman, were also appointed. Mrs. Roosevelt io Speak In Brooklyn BROOKLYN — (ANP) — Mrs. .Eleanor Roosevelt of the U.N. Hu man Rights Commission will be guest speaker at a rally for The United Negro College Fund, Inc., June 11, at Cornerstone Baptist church. Mrs. Margurite V. Brown and Mrs. Dollie L. Robinson are co | chairmen of the program. Mrs Marguerite Johnson, director oJ ■ the Brooklyn campaign for the ■ College Fund, stated that the l workers are highly confident ol t success in the first organized drive - here for the fund. f h MNIf C. OLSON, SuptrinttnJtnt - ITITI IIIIOIICU lOCIITf This May 30th marks the 98th ’ anniversary of the organization of • Nebraska territory—it was on ' that date, 1854, that President Franklin Pierce signed the con troversial Kansas-Nebraska Act. Come Memorial Day, 1954, then, 1 Nebraska will celebrate its terri torial centennial. The occasion can mean a lot to Nebraska, if we will let it. The state historical society now has a committee at work considering the best way to commemorate this- important event, not only in the history of Nebraska, but in the history of the nation as well. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was closely bound up with national and sectional politics in the 1850’s. The basic impetus for the organization of the territory came from the needs of the greatly-desired transcontinental railroad. Northerners were much concerned that the road follow a northern route. The Platte Valley, over which thousands of covered wagon emigrants had travelled to the far West, offered a marvellous road bed. No one was interested, however, in building a railroad through unorganized Indian coun try. If the Platte Valley were to be utilized for the trans-conti nental railroad, the territory would have to be organized. To help make the dream of a Platte Valley railroad come true,( Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, one of the project’s most ardent enthusiasts, repeate<yy in troduced bills in Congress provid ing for the organization of Ne braska territory. In this effort he ran directly afoul of southern am bitions to build the road west from some city of the South—no one ever dreamed that there would be more than one trans continental railroad. I He also ran into a nasty com plication regarding the extension (of slavery. By the terms of the .Missouri Compromise of 1820, (slavery was prohibited in the area out of which Nebraska would be (carved. Southern politicians, un t enthusiastic about the organiza tion of Nebraska for railroad pur poses, were downright hostile to the idea of setting in motion the |chain of events that ultimately would lead to the admission of (another free state into the union, thus worsening the South’s al ready dangerous position in. the sectional struggle for power. In his ehthusiasm for Nebraska, Douglas agreed to the creation of two territories instead of one. and to the doctrine of “popular 4ov ereignty,” by which the citizens of each territory would decide for themselves whether or aot they would tolerate slavery. Many Northerners were highly critical of this concession to the Every Item in Our Entire EAST WINDOW OFF CHEAPPER DRUG STORE 1325 “O" St AME’s Elect 3 Bishops Bishop Frederick Douglass Jordan Ordained a preacher in 1921, a deacon in 1922, and an elder in 1924. He pastored in St. Paul, Minn., and Moline, 111., before coming to St. Mary’s AME in Chi cago in 1929. He later pastored Carey Temple, also in Chicago. He organized the Bishop Wil liams School of Religion at West ern university. His wife is Mrs. Artishia Jordan, a Chicagoan. For years he was pastor of Eighth and Towne AME church in Los Angeles. Since 1950 he has been pastor of Ward Chapel there. Bishop H. Thomas Primm Born in Brentwood, Tenn., reared in Nashville, and educated at Wilberforce and Fisk univer sities and Payne seminary, holds B. A., B. D., and Ll.D., degrees. He has pastored in Nashville, Memphis, Alexandria, La., Port Gibson, Miss., Little Rock, Ark., Hot Springs and New Orleans. He has taught school at Tenner col lege in Tennessee and Shorter college. He has represented the AME Church in two world con ferences, and has traveled and studied in England, France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Before becoming bishop he was director of physical education in the AME church. In New Orleans, Bishop Primm has served the past six years as chairman of the advisory commit tee of the mayor of the city of New Orleans. The new bishop is married to Mrs. Edith May Primm. They have a daughter, Rita May, 12 years old. Commenting on his ele vation, the bishop said: institution of slavery, and “Anti Nebraska” meetings were held all over the North, particularly in the states of the Old Northwest. Out of these developed the Re publican Party. Out of the con troversy of which the Kansas-Ne braska struggle was an important part came the Civil War. 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