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—Official and Legal Newspaper November 13, 1952
G. Holmes Is Chairman
Of Freedom Fund Drive
Appointment of George W.
Holmes of Lincoln as Nebraska
chairman for the 1952 Crusade for
Freedom fund campaign was an
nounced today.
Mr. Holmes will serve under'
the national chairmanship ofj
Henry Ford II and the national
campaign leadership of Charles E.
Wilson, former president of Gen-'
eral Electric.
Chairman of the Board of the
First National Bank of Lincoln,1
Mr. Holmes has long been active
in civic affairs. He is a past vice
president of the United States;
Chamber of Commerce and a past
director of the Omaha branch ofi
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City.
Mr. Holmes declared that the
Crusade, which’ opens November
11 and continues through Decem
ber 15, will need a solid backing
of contributions to carry on and
expand the activities of Radio
Free Europe and Radio Free Asia.
Pointing out that these stations'
are supported by volunta y con
tributions and have no connection
with the government-sponsored '
Voice of America, Mr. Holmes
said, “The growth and effective
ness of these stations have bean
phenomenal.”
“Listeners behind the Iron'
Curtain are getting the truth at
the rate of more than 1,000 broad- ;
cast hours per week, in seven
languages in Europe, three in
Asia.”
Communist reaction to the haid
hitting programs, he added has
been bitter. Vitriolic counter!
blasts f*om Kremlin propagandist
attest to their effectiveness.
Nebraskans who subscribe to the
campaign will be given an oppor
tunity to sign their names an t
—m—i.iiipm.urn.. i
GEORGE W. HOLMES
addresses to Freedom Grams —
which ai*e messages of greeting
and encouragement to the people
of the communist satellite coun
tries. Prepared in seven Europen
languages and two Chinese
dialects, they will be sent through
the Iron Curtain at the end of
the Crusade’s fund campaign
These messages are expected to
have a strong psychological effect
on those who receive them, and
will prove that American opposi
tion to communism springs from
the grass roots.
Explaining the need of a
stepped-up campaign of truth,
Mr. Holmes declared that the cost
of the Crusade is a small price to
pay for a cold war weapon that
is priceless. Contributions are an
investment in the American sys
tem of Free Enterprise and a
form of insurance against World
War III, he said.
Contributions may be sent :o
state headquarters, or to the local
postmaster.
New Pastors to A.M.E.
Churches in Two States
Most of the leading A.M.E. (
churches in Missouri and Kansa.^
were assigned new pastors by
Bishop D. Ormonde Walker at thoj
closing session of the Southwes j
Missouri annual conference Sun
day afternoon, Nov. 2, at the Ebe
nezer A.M.E. church here.
All except two of Kansas City's
six largest African Methodist
churches will have new ministers
beginning next Sunday.
It was the biggest shift in minis
ters in this conference since
Bishop Walker became the pre
siding bishop of the fifth Episcopal
district four years ago.
Foust Back 'to Allen
Allen Chapel, “mother” A.M.E.
church in Kansas City, and Gregg
Tabernacle were the only large
churches in the Kansas City area
to retain their pastors.
The Rev. Edward S. Foust was
returned to Allen with the specific
instruction from the bishop to
work toward relocating the church
in keeping with the population
shift.
The Rev. Paul Kidd was reas
signed to Gregg Tabernacle, the
bishop’s decision bringing ap
plause from Gregg members.
Martin to Wichita
The Rev. George F. Martin, pas
tor of Ebenezer and host pastor oi
the annual conference, was trans
ferred to the Kansas conference
and assigned to the St. Paul
A.M.E. church in Wichita.
The, new Ebenezer pastor Is the
Rev. Harry M. Davis, who was;
transferred to this conference from |
the Colorado conference where he!
served as presiding elder of the :
Rocky Mountain district. He is a
former pastor of the Benton Ave
nue A.M.E. church at Springfield,
Mo.
The Rev. McCoy Ranso, pastor
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Lincoln U. Announces
New Journalism Awards
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—
(ANP)—Two new awards in
Journalism for students at Lin
coln University (Mo.) have been
announced by the School of Jour
nalism.
The Clarence M. Long Jr. Prize
of $20 in cash will go annually
to the member of the staff of the
Lincoln Clarion, campus weekly
newspaper, • who does the most
outstanding reporting for the
paper during the year. It is the
gift of the Rev. Clarence M. Long
Jr., the first graduate in Journal
ism at Lincoln (1944), who now
serves as co-pastor with his father
of the Bethesda Baptist Church
in New Rochelle, N. Y.
A cash prize of $25 has been
established by the faculty of the
School of Journalism to honor the
student who maintains the high
lest scholastic average among > the
Journalism students at Lincoln.
Each award will be presented
the winning students annually in
j the spring.
Today’s Thought
Scripture Reading for the week
—Submitted for use by the Rev.
Melvin L. Shakespeare, pastor of
of the A.M.E. Church of Roswell,
New Mexico.
i “Wherefore seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a
cloud oi witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let
us run with patience the race that
is set before us.” Hebrew 12:1.
|Council Reports
By DALE WEEKS
The Executive Committee of the
Lincoln Council on Human Rela
tions wishes to take this oppor
tunity to express its appreciation
to all those who participated in
the meeting on Negro housing
held at the Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, October 23. We are all
aware that attitudes based on
emotions and a lack of knowledge
contribute greatly to this problem.
This meeting was a valuable step
in the direction of overcoming
these difficulties.
We wish to state our whole
hearted agreement with Mr. De
Hart Hunbard, race relations ad
viser of the FHA, that any steps
toward meeting the housing needs
of Lincoln Negroes be carried ou*
on an non-segregated basis. Ex
perience in other communities has
j shown that a relatively large n
crease in a racial or national
origin group can be absorbed
with a minimum of friction when
i the group is scattered throughout
the city. Frictions tend to arise
when such groups become con
centrated in a single area.
The Committee especially
wishes to thank Mr. George
I Randol for his efforts as a realtor
toward improving housing condi
' tions for Negroes. We wish to
thank the homebuilders and fin
ancihg agencies for their assur
ance that their facilities are
equally available to all regardless
of race. We also wish to thank
Mayor Victor Anderson for the
offer of his personal financial as
sistance in building rental units
and for the promised co-operation
of the City of Lincoln to meet th
housing needs of the Negro in
Lincoln.
We shall be most happy to co
operate with all sincere attempts
to solve this problem.
OCW Graduates 1st Negro
CHIKASHA, Okla (ANP) —
I Mrs. Almittee Dorsey Rogers, who
recently received her master of
arts degree from the Oklahoma
j College for Women was the first
Negro to graduate from that in-!
stitution.
Mrs. Rogers, a graduate of Lin
coln High school and Lincoln uni
versity, teaches at Cement, Okla
homa.
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Dear Friends:
We are highly appreciative of
the honor and piflvilege of coming
to you as publishers of The Voice.:
We pay tribute to the Shake
speares, to a faithful service ot
six years, and to a publication,'
outstanding in its class. We are'
sorry that Lincoln will lose their;
services, but we are nevertheless,
'thankful for the example and in
spiration they leave for us.
■With your continued co-opera
tion,, we shall strive to not only
maintain, but to build the kind of
publication, needed to serve the
age in which we live.
The Publishers
Eisenhower The
Man of The Hour
The hope of peace in Korea, as
well as the demand for a change
in Washington, helped make the
great Eisenhower landslide Tues
day. Ike’s dramatic pledge to go
to Korea if elected swelled great
expectations in the hearts of mil
lions of Americans. This was a
promise of action from a man
with a reputation for action.
True to that promise, Ike in
tends to go to Korea after a short
rest. President Truman has of
fered to turn over the presiden
tial plane. The Independence, for
the trip, thus making the journey
official business. However, from
previous statements made by Mr.
Truman, he’s still not convinced
that the best man won. We’re
hoping for cooperation between
Mr. Truman and the President
elect, in order that the needs of
our Government might be better
met.
The nation will pray for Ike’s
safety. Only the hope that some
how his personal appearance in
Korea could influence the dead
locked truce negotiations and start
them back on the road to an hon
orable peace would justify the
ever-present hazards of any long
journey. Let us not build those
hopes too high. General Eisen
hower himself has said: “I would
not be honest if I led you to be
lieve that there is an easy way
to peace. There is none. There is
no painless political shortcut; no
glib solution.”
i This isrue of the war hr Kore?
j as well as the Cold war tha>
spreads around the world.
While every American wants to
end the Korean war and bring
MRS. MAXINE SAWYER j
UL Fellowship Winners
(ANP)—Winners of the Na
tional Urban League’s four fellow
ship awards for the school year
1952-53 were announced last week
by Mrs. Begina M. Andrews,
chairman of the Fellowship com
mittee They are:
I
Adam Hat Fellowship, William
S. Jackson, director of work in
the Bronx office of the Urban
League of Greater New York, for
completion of wdrk at New York
university for a doctorate in hu
man relations.
Adam Hat Fellowship, Mrs.
Melvina Squires, Seattle, wjdo /
of the late Bernard Squires, who
served as executive of the Omaha
and Scathe Urban League, for
completion of .vork for master of
Isocial work a4 the University of
our boys home, there can be no
appeasement of Communist there.
Ike certainly did not intend that
his promise to go to Korea should
convey the impression to the
Kremlin that he is willing to set
tle at any price.
Although he has criticized the
decisions of the Truman Admin
istration that allowed the Com
munists to believe we would not
defend Korea, he has said that
the decision to send in our troops
when the agressor did strike was
justified and necessary.
General Eisenhower has said
again and agjpn that the Reds re
spect only strength. If the Krem
lin understands that the over
whelming victory for the General
represents a solid public opinion
believed standing up to Commu
nism and does not mean a desire
to weaken our program of col
lective security with the other
free Nations, then perhaps there
will be a change in the Red’s at
titude at the Korean conference
table.
President-elect Eisenhower can
make that clear with dramatic im
pact—not only to the Kremlin but
also to our friends in Asia—by
his trip. Such a psychological ef
fect would justify the journey.
Until the General has made the
trip, the American people should
adopt a “wait and see” attitude
before passing judgment or get
impatient for results. After all it
\ took twenty years for a change to
i occur, so let’s give our President
elect every ounce of cooperation
iso that he will be more confi
dent in making vital and critical
decisions.
[M -s. M. Sawyer
Advertising and
Business Manager
Mrs. Maxine Sawyer, wife of
the new publisher of The Voice,
started her duties last week as
Advertising and Business Manager
pf The Voice.
Her experience and association
with the public extends over a
number of years. For two years,
Mrs. Sawyer served as president
of the PTA in Chicago where she
lived with her family before
moving to Omaha. Mrs. Sawyer
took a course in Child Study at
the University of Chicago, so
that she might be able to be a
Nursery School Attendant as a
volunteer. She worked as a
Clerk-Cashier for The Cotton
Shop. Her daughter, Sharon, is a
student at the Chicago Teachers
College in Chicago, and a son,
Jimmy, is a sophomore at Central
in Omaha.
After December 1, 1952, the
Sawyers will be at home in Lin
coln at 2225 S Street.
Washington School of Social
Work.
The two other awards were
continuances.
Miss Doris Carnegie, East
Orange, N. J., will receive the
University of Pittsburgh Fellow
ship sponsored jointly by the
NUL and UL of Pittsburgh for a
second year at the University of
Pittsburgh.
Miss Vivian Powell, Queens,
N. Y., will receive the Ella Sachs
Plotz grant for another year for
study at the New York School of
Social Work. She also will receive
a supplemental grant from the
school.
