Tib® 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 2220 8 Street Box 2023 2-408 if No Answer Cab 0-700. Rubie W ahaKespeare . Advertising and. Business Manage Dorothy Green........Office Secretar Mrs, roe .reen. Circulation Manage _ Member of .he Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, fune 0. 1047. a* the Post Office at Lincoln Nebraska under the Act of March 3. 1871 1 year subscription . I? 50 Single copy.10i Out ot State 1 Year Subscription 32.00— Single Copy 10c ■DITOK1AUI The views expressed in these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the pollcj of fhe Voice. —Pah. Gen. Eisenhower Presents Stand On Race Issues at Press Conference ABILENE, Kan.—(ANP)—Manj noted newspapermen and womer last week attended Gen. Dwighl D. Eisenhower’s press conference here and heard the Republican presidential hopeful present his stand on vital issues facing the world. Only a few representatives of the Negro press were at the meet ing. Perhaps the reason for their absence was that very few colored people live in Abilene. Gen. Eisenhower commented on two issues of interest to Negroes. In answer to the question: “Do you favor a compulsory FEPC,” he said: “The FEPC—when you use these initials, you are proposing, ' as I see it, a sort of shotgun ques tion, because there are many things involved in it. “I have no objection whatso ever to stating my unchangeable, my unalterable support of fairness and equality among all types of American citizens, and I believe that insofar as the federal govern- 1 ment has any influence or any ( constitutional authority in this Call On Us for All Your Home Decorating Needs ' —52 YEARS IN LINCOLN 143 So. 10th 2-6931 ! IDEAL Grocery and Market Lots of .Parking 27th and F Streets field, all of its means, all of its Expenditures, all of its policies should adhere firmly and without any kind of equivocation to that ! principle. | “I do not believe that we can cure all of the evils in men’s jhearts by law, and when you get to compulsory action in certain specific phases of this thing, I really believe we can do more by leadership and getting states to do it than to make it a federal com pulsory thing. “This I say with the 'utmost sympathy for anyone who feels himself to be a member of a group that has been depressed or un fairly treated; and I will say this: 5o far as my own personal in fluence can extend in this coun try, I shall never cease to fight ’or it . . The other question relative to Negroes was asked by a woman vho identified herself as Mrs. Smith of the Chicago Globe, a low defunct weekly newspaper published in Chicago. Her ques ion was: “Gen. Eisenhower, if you are i ROSE MANOR STUDIO 1319 O Street Phone 2-2247 Portraits by Appointment George lUndol, P. A. of A. Prices reasonable Work guaranteed elected president, would you be I willing to appoint to your cabinet some Negro of competence, such [as Dr. Bunche?” I On this question the general was jless specific. He said: j. i , . I “Well, first, you are "jumping 'about two bridges to get to a par i ticular spot. But accepting your question, I should say this: By no : manner of means have I even given thought to the possibility of the people I should appoint to major positions. “If I were confronted with such responsibility, I can only say that in all of the tasks I have held for and on behalf of our government in the past, I searched for the best I could find. “Whether or not it would be best to use Dr. Bunche, I don’t [know, but I tell you this: Not only do I admire Dr. Bunche very much but wKn I was president of Columbia, we called him up and gave him an honorary degree —and we don’t give out too many degrees there because we think a great deal of our honorary degrees ' at Columbia university. News Association Admits Lincoln U. (Mo.) Pub. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ANP) —Overriding a motion to defer! action until next year, the Mis souri College Newspaper Associa-j Lion last week voted unanimously '+ [ Congratulations May the future hold hap- l piness and success for you. v Koar Service 1821 N Street j Aim High Class of 1952 LATSCH BROTHERS 1124 O St. 2-6838 ■>»wnwinrwPT