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THE VOICE PUBLISHED WEEKLY ' “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people." Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and tfdttor Business Address 2228 B Street Bo* 202* 2-4088 If No Answer Cali j-VOOts Ruble A Shakespeare . Advertising and Business Manager Dorothy ... Office Secretary Mrs. ioe ,reen ..Circulation Manager " Member of .he Associated Negro Press'and Nebraska Press Assoetattoo _ time rid as deconu Class Matter, tune 9. 1047. a*, the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska undet the Act of March 3. 187k__ 1 year subscription . $? 50 Single copy. .10* _ Out -»t State I Year Subscription >2.50— Blngle Copy 10c Between the Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock For ANP Speaking of Sparkman Shortly after I had organized the department of economics and sociology in Virginia Union 30 years ago, field trips for my classes were inaugurated. The most interesting was the, annual trip to the Central State| hospital, where a clinic was held; showing the various stages of amentia and dementia, feeble-, mindedness and insanity. The various treatments for the insane were stressed. It has been interesting to note the steady improvement in the ways and means of treating the mentally ill. Within recent years insulin as a therapeutic in certain types of dementia has been indi- ’ | 1 cated, with reassuring results. The: writer once inquired of the clinician what was the particular 1 therapeutic effect of insulin in those certain cases of dementia? ® His reply was to the effect that ^ insulin produced a kind of shock 1 to the patient that often left him improved both mentally and/ physically. Shock therapy is re-'c ceiving more and more attention * today. / The writer was once, an in-/ veterate, and apparently incurable 1 Republican. It took the New Deal * and the Square Deal of Roosevelt ^ and Truman to shock him out of Republican psychosis that pos sessed him. It was not a little shocking to compare the little that Negroes gleaned from their loyalty to Republicanism with the Widely extended benefits that jcame to them under the New and 1 Fair Deals. Today Negroes are again at the political cross-roads. They may again rest their hopes on the Re publican party with its Eisen hower, seeking the support of the dixiecratic south, or they may chaase to stick with the Demo cratic party which has in a pro nounced way made valiant at tempts, at integration. While far from complete, inte gration is going apace with even the dixiecratic south laboring with the question, not whether, but when and how? I This release is addressed rather to those “incurable” Republicans! who are trying to find excuses for biting the hand that has led them far along the high road of full fledged citizenship. These in curables dwell long on vice-presi dential candidate Sparkman, a southerner, whose record in his voting on civil rights legislation is not impressive from the Negroes’ point of view. If this writer were asked to give ' in appraisel of Sparkman’s record, j he would have to admit that it j lacks much of being satisfactory. . But this writer also appreciates the fact that being dependent on certain elements in Alabama for , his election to the congress of the United States, Sen. Sparkman had to speak the language of his sup- : porting constituency who unfor- ' tunately are against civil rights for Negroes. But the stubborn fact must ever be borne in mind that one of the chief duties of a man in politics is to get elected, failing this, his in fluence is decidedly limited. Roosevelt had to get elected. Tru man had to get elected. Lincoln WE ALL JEST GOTTA GIVE ALL WE CAN TO THE SISTER KENNY POLIO FOUNDATION SO THAT MORE PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE AND PLAY NORMALLY AND NACHERLY v—.-- -.--o' b JAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI ■(•TOUCH • OCIITT An election year inevitably brings forth memories of hot po litical campaigns of the past, and in Nebraska such memories sooner or later focus on the election of 1890, one of the most spirited and confused in the history of the state. Describing it, the late Dr. Addi son E. Sheldon wrote: “There never has been such a political campaign in Nebraska as the cam paign of 1890 and there never can be such another. The later presi dential campaigns of 1892 and 1896 were full of fire and en thusiasm, but none of them ap proached the sublime energy of the human tornado which swept the prairies from August to No vember in 1890. As one of the speakers in that campaign said from the platform in the hearing of the writer: ‘We farmers raised no crops, so we’ll just raise tell.’ ” The long-endured economic grievances suffered by the farm ers of the West erupted in 1890 into a series of third parties whose vigorous campaigning threatened —and frequently defeated—par ties who had been entrenched in power since the Civil War. In Nebraska, the People’s Party, had to get elected. Sparkman had to get elected, and that by re specting the wishes of those who supported him. One of the strong points in fa vor of Sparkman is, he is a south-j ;rn Methodist. And this is espe-| dally significant in view of the act that Southern Methodists! lave always led in programs of nterracial co-operation. They are he most liberal of all the denomi lational groups throughout the; South. The interracial gestures now be ng made by the other denomina ionse were made by the Southern Methodists years ago. In race re ations Southern Methodists lead ind the other denominations fol low. This is Sparkman’s religious background, and a great one. The principle behind Spark man’s religious training is far more important than any expedi ences foisted upon him by his po litical necessities. The motiva tions of Sparkman, the devout Southern Methodist, are far more important than the maneuvers of Sparkman the politician. Sparkman, a southerner, had to get elected! But it is also one modern history that once a south erner sees the light, he becomes invincible. What about Mr. Jus tice Black? What about Harry Truman? What about the Judge Warings, the moral titans of this generation? With Sparkman on the spot, Negroes have nothing to fear. The Nebraska Typewriter Co. 125 No. 11th Lincoln 2-7285 Royal Typewriters Mimeograph - Duplicators Dictaphones Clary Adders Sold - Rented • Repaired NEGRO MEDICS HONOR HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL COL LEGE OF SURGEONS—At a special dinner at the Bismarck hotel in downtown Chicago, a group of 20 of the nation’s greatest Negro surgeons last week honored Lit. Max Thorek of Chicago, the founder and permanent secretary-geneial of the International College of Surgeons. The 20 Negro surgeons, in Chicago for the 57th annual con vention of the National Medical association, Aug. 11-15, presented to Dr. Thorek a bronze plaque for “hie courageous devotion to the ideals of democracy.” Shown above left to right are: Dr. Thorek, the honoree; Dr. Rivers Frederick of New Orleans, and Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, recently elected to the bo?.rci cf trustees of the International College of Surgeons. Dr. Frederick also is a member of the International College of Surgeons. (ANP) organized out of the Farmers’ Alliance at a convention in Lin coln, July 29, 1890, swept across the state to win control of the' legislature, elect a Democratic! governor, and unseat all three Republican members of the House of Representatives. As Dr. Sheldon wrote, “there, never has been such a political campaign in Nebraska.” Crowds turned out in unprecedented num bers to listen to Independent ora tors and to sing Independent songs, most of which were set to the tune of well-known gospel hymns. Indeed, the Independent campaign took on much the color of a religious crusadeN At Wymore on Sept. 23, 1,050 farm wagons were counted in an Independent parade, and 1,600 wagons paraded at Hastings the same day. Parades from two to ten miles long were the order of the day everywhere. At Cushman Park near Lincoln, 20,000 people assembled on Sept. 1. The crowd was so graet that orators spoke from different platforms so that all could hear. 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