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J? 50 single copy. .10c __ _ _ State 1 Year Subscription <2.00—Single Copy 10c , The Fight for Civil Rights Plank j The Negro vote is perfectly capable of swinging the 1952 Presidential election in either di rection, and the position of the NAACP on political matters Is J •held in respect by at least 45 per cent of Negroes—these were1 the two most noteworthy points stressed by Elmo Roper, noted' public opinion analyst, in his Sun-J day afternoon broadcast over the facilities of the National Broad casting Company. “Probably no other group in America is as conscious of a sin gle issue, and votes according to that single issue, as the Negroes do on discrimination and civil rights,” Mr. Roper stated. • * * 11 Non-punitive FEPC approved last week by a Senate Labor sub-1] committee for educational pur- i poses will get nowhere, according ; to experts in D.C. Negroes want ] something with teeth in it. The fight for an unequivocal civil rights plank in the 1952 plat forms of both major parties will be carried right to the source, with four top executives of the Natidnal Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People maintaining civil rights head quarters at the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Chicago. Walter White, executive secre tary; Roy Wilkins, administra tor; Clarencp Mitchell, director of :he Washington Bureau; and Renry Lee Moon, director of pub ic relations, have been designated ay the NAACP board of directors o represent the NAACP in Chi :ago. The association has also in cited the 52 organizations that aarticipated in the 1952 Leader ship Conference on Civil Rights to loin in on using the civil rights aeadquarters established by the association. p* States’ Rights—or Wrongs? An editorial States’ rights—or v wrongs? from America, June 28 ' merits a reprint for considera- ( tion. Every candidate for the Presi dential nomination has had the question of a Federal Fair Em ployment Practices Commission put to him squarely. Our people realize that well over a billion hu mans in Asia, Africa and the Mid die ana Near East are watching our every move on the question of racial descrimination. In 1948 the Democratic platform committee reported out a “safe’ plank on civil rights. By a vote of 651% to 582% the convention substituted for this plank the straightforward minority report identified with then Mayor, now Senator, Hubert H. Humphrey. It called for congressional action V guarantee . . . the right of full and equal political participation, the right to equal opportunity of employment, the right to se curity of persons, and the right of equal treatment in the serv ice and defense of our Nation. Today’s Democraticc contender? are likewise split on FEPC: Aver ell Harriman alone is for a com pulsory commission. Senatoi Kefauver opposes compulsion bu' will accept the decision of thf convention. Senator Russell hat not even accepted the principlt of non-discrimination. He invokes “free enterprise” to defend pres ent discriminatory practices, but would favor compulsion to settle major labor-management dis putes, “where the whole country has a vested interest.” Surely America has at least as much in terest in non-discrimination, so this just doesn’t add up. The Republicans, in 1944, ac cepted without dissent Senator Taft’s plank favoring a purely in vestigative FEPC. In 1948, again vithout dissent, they accepted s senator Lodge’s much stronger :ivil-rights plank: ' ... We favor the enactment and 1 just enforcement of such Fed eral legislation as may be nec essary to maintain this right (of “equal opportunity to work,” etc.) at all times in every part of this republic. Of the leading Republican con tenders today, only Governor Warren seems ready to do “what ever may be necessary” to abolish racism in hiring practices. | Unquestionably, the FEPC is sue has become political bait, on both sides. Nevertheless, un derlying the political issue is a grave normal issue. Barring American citizens, or any human beings, from the chance of earn ing a decent livelihood merely be cause of the color of their skin is a very serious injustice, an arbitrary deniel of a basic na tural right. We have no quarrel whatso ever with those who sincerely want only to give the States more time to right this wrong. We do 'not care what particular meth ods they use to right it. The ques tion is: how many States really have any serious intention of ever righting it? Only eleven of them have adopted any sort of FEPC, compulsory or voluntary. None of the rest has adopted nondis crimination even as a matter of public policy. They are allow ing citizens of the United States to be kept in economic thraldom for racist reasons. If the states come clean on this issue, so much the better. If they don’t, how long do they ex Ipect the Federal Government to tolerate racism practised against U.S. citizens in laggard States? Are “States’ rights” merely a cloak for “States’ wrongs”? That’s .the issue, and only the States can produce the answer. i —America, June 28. 0\Jt C>4£ b JAMES C. OLSON, Suptrinttndent •TATS HIBTOBICAl IOCIBTT Nebraska was settled quite largely during what we now call , the Victorian Era and the fine . homes which developed in virtu ally every community reflected the tastes of that period in their recoration. By present-day stand ards they were heavily over decorated, but the taste of the middle and ltae years of the 19th century revelled in the ornate. The period was one of great creative activity in the decorative arts, and the housewife whose husband had been able to build a fine home felt obliged to beautify it with objects of her own handi work. Many of these home wrought objects of art are pre served in the State Historical So ciety’s museum in Lincoln. Among the most interesting are the wreaths, made of a wide vari ety of materials, and framed in oval glass and wooden frames, bordered with gilt. A favorite material for making wreaths was human hair, fre qvently from the head of a de parted loved one. Occasionally the wreath surrounded a tintype showing the likeness of the de parted. One of the most elaborate hair wreaths in the Historical So ciety’s collection was made in the’ late seventies, using hair from various members of the family,! including ten children. The wreath has a dark border, the: hair for which was provided by the family’s favorite horse. Buttons, feathers, wool and seeds also were frequently used to make wreaths. All were very complicated, and one purpose served by the wreaths—usually! made by young ladies—was to ] impress the young beau or pros-1 pective suitor. The David D. Whitney Collection in the mu- t seum includes many objects of this sort. Particularly noteworthy is a many-colored, highly-elab-1 orate seed wreath made in 1865. Another similar type of framed decoration was known as pictorial embroidery. This was a com bination of embroidery and paint ing and was taught young ladies in finishing school as a indis pensible part of their education. Keepsakes and heirlooms fre . quently were framed and hung on Please Ask For UMBERGER’S AMBULANCE 2-8543 1 Urnberger’s Mortuary, Inc. —— ".".L""-„ DONLEY-STAHL CO. 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