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VOL. 7, NO. 19 Lincoln 3. Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper March 12, 1953
National Urban League '
Plans Vocational Cap vV‘c,
“The Future Is Yours: Plan and
Prepare”, is the theme of the 1953
Vocational Opportunity Campaig
of the National Urban League.
Carried on nationally during the
week of March 15th-21st, this
campaign promotes vocational
training opportunities for Negro
youth.
Believing that useful wage
earning citizens need guidance
and preparation during their
school years the National Urban
League works with the educators,
school vocational guidance coun
selors, and with leaders in in
dustry, commerce, the arts and
crafts, to give Negro students and
out-of-school youth the best pre
paration for their future.
Over 450,000 students and out
of-school youth have been en
couraged by career consultants
who serve as advisors to the com
paign. Emphasis is laid on train
ing and education to prepare
youth for rewarding careers.
The ~ jy
rr>' .ng to
eager tu
rn the spring of 1930
an aucted on college, high
school and junior high school
levels, the VOC is held in both
League and non-League cities.
Thousands of out-of-school youth
participate in the program.
The Urban League, organized
in 1910, is a national interracial
voluntary service agency designed
to promote equal economic oppor
tunity and better race relations. It
operates through local branches
in 60 cities in 30 states, with head
quarters in New' York and re
gional offices in Atlanta, Ga., and
Pasadena, Calif. It is affiliated
with the National Social Welfare
Assembly, the National Confer
ence of Social Work, and the
United Community Defense Serv
ices, Inc.
Today’s Thought
For right is right since God is
God;
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.
F. W. Faber
Got A Mortgage?
Every Nebraskan who has a
mortgage on his farm or home will
be sorry to learn that the “quickie
foreclosure” bill is back again
with the Legislature.
The present law requires 30
days’ public notice before a mort-j
gage can be foreclosed. Under the|
measure now being considered, LB;
142, foreclosure 'can be completed j
on only NINE days’ public notice.
You might go on a 10-day vaca-i
tion and return to find that your
home or farm had been foreclosed.
This same measure came up in
the session two years ago. It was
defeated, because Nebraska people
wrote their senators about it, and;
told them in plain words what!
they thought about this effort to I
cut down protection to the poor
and make it easy to grab property
by foreclosure.
If you have a mortgage, better
write your senator now and ask
him to vote against LB 142.
PRACTICE TEACHING—The Kindergarten cl&ss
at First Christian Church serves as a laboratory
for practicing teachers. Shown (from left) Mrs.
Raelee Harris, Sunday school teacher at Quinn
Chapel Church, looks at a picture drawn by
Susan Chilen, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A1
Chilen, 1900 So. 52nd, while working at the table
are Darrell Obert, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen E.
Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star
Obert, 729 J; Viki McPherson, 5, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. McPherson, of 624 So. 37th;
Robert Weber, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Weber of 816 So. 32nd; Mrs. R. J. Kahm, Sunday
school teacher at St. Paul Methodist Church;
David Pardee, 5, son of Dr. and Mrs. Alton Par
dee of 2915 So. 25th and in front of the table is
Anita Bogott, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pau’
Bogott, 1814 So. 45th. (Staff Photo.)
Sunday School Teachers Learn ‘in Service’
“In-service” training for Sunday
school teachers is being carried out
in a program at First Christian
Church, with seven teachers rep
rese'.ing four denominations tak
ing part in the experiment.
Planned by Mrs. H. C. Carl for
the leadership training committee
of the Division of Christian Educa
tion of the Lincoln Council of
Churches, the project is a new
idea for Lincoln.
* * *
THE TEACHERS from five Lin
coln churches “learn more about
living with children and teaching
In the church school kindergarten
department by observing and par
ticipating in the educational pro
gram of the church,” Mrs. Carl
explains.
Weekly study, evaluating and
planning sessions are conducted for
the teachers by Mrs. F. R. Brad
ben, superintendent of the First
! Christian kindergarten depart-j
ment.
Each pupil-teacher, Mrs. Carl
'said, assumes definite responsi
bility for group work with the
| children on each of the six con
secutive Sunday mornings of the
'course.
1 EACH CHURCH represented
pays for the cost of training the
teachers. Tentative plans are un
der way by the leadership training
committee, Mrs. Carl said, to ex
tend the “in-service” training
course to teachers in the primary
and kindergarten departments
next fall.
Teachers now enrolled in the
course and their churches are:
Mr*. Robert Kahrn. St. Paul Methodist.
Mrs. Grace Ferguson, Bethany Christian
Mrs. Clifford Harris, Quinn Chapel Meth
odist.
Mrs. Ray H. Steinachcr,, Firsl-Plymouth
Congregational.
Mrs. S, F. Darnell, First Christian.
Mrs, Henry Thomann, First Christian.
Mr*. Herman Weber, F’irst Christian. __
PLANNING SESSION—Weekly study, evaluation
and planning sessions are part of the “in-service”
training for these kindergarten Sunday school
teachers (from extreme left, ^clockwise). Mrs.
Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star
F. R. Bradden, class instructor, reviews study
material with Mrs. Ray H. Steinacher, Mrs.
Henry Thomann. Mrs. Herman Weber, Mrs. Clif
ford Harris, Mrs. Robert Kahm Jr., and Mrg.
Grace Ferguson. (Staff Photo.)
Roosevelt College
Honored At Dinner
Chicago’s Roosevelt College was
honored Friday evening, March 6,
because it “practices what it
preaches about democracy.”
More than 1,500 Chicagoans at
tended the fourth annual “Salute
to Roosevelt College” dinner at
the Hotel Sherman. The dinner is
an annual affair sponsored by the
Chicago Negro community Walteg
P. Ruether, president of Congress
of Industrial Organizations, was
the principal speaker.
The school receives its annual
salute because of its leadership in
providing equal educational op
portunity and making democracy
a living thing rather than a text
book theory to its students.
The salute dinners are unique.
They mark the first organized
support ever given by Negroes to
a ^school not maintained exclu
sively for Negroes.
wDon‘t Dispose of
Sales Records,’
Says OPS Director
In winding up operations of thej
Omaha District Office of Pricej
Stabilization, Henry C. Winters,
acting district director, cautioned
| Nebraska business men against
premature disposal of records re
■ quired under the price control
| program.
“For enforcement purposes, the
law prescribes that business men
must preserve for specified per
iods of time what ever records
were required by OPS regula
tions,” Mr. Winters explained.
“Generally, records of sales trans
actions must be kept for two years
after the date of the transaction.”
The ruling applies only to rec-j
ords and information required be
fore decontrol of a commodity or;
service, Mr. Winters added. It
does not apply to records of trans
actions entered into after the ef
fective date of the decontrol
order.
He pointed out that neither de-!
| control nor expiration of the De
fense Production Act is a bar to
enforcement action for a violation
;that occurred while OPS regula
tions were still in effect.
Mr. Winters said that after the
Omaha district office closes March
9, inquiries on OPS matters should
|be directed to the regional office
in Kansas City.
Founders Day
At Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE — “A Genera
tion's Faith and Hope” and “Shar
ing One’s Faith” were the subjects
of the Founders Day and Found
ers Sunday messages that were
delivered at Florida A and M Col
lege last week end.
The speaker was the Rev.
Walter C. Wynn, executive direc- f
tor for the Council for Equal Job
Opportunity in Philadelphia. He
delivered the Founders Day mes
sage on Friday, the 6th, at 12;
noon and the Founders sermon on
Sunday, March 8, at 10 o’clock.
Miss Amelia Meyers, an in
structor in piano at Fisk Univer-'
sity, was presented in recital
Sunday evening during the annual
Founders vespers. Both Rev. Wynn
and Miss Meyers are graduates of |
Florida A and M College.
This year’s goal was to raise
$35,000 for the college, which has
no endowment or cash reserve.
Roosevelt College has a low tui
tion policy. It spends $70 a year
more on ea h full-time student
than it receives in tuition. This
deficit must be made up by con
tributions and gifts.
More than 6,000 individuals and
30 foundations have contributed
more than $1 million so far in
gifts ranging from $1 to $75,000.
The faculty as well as the stu
dent body at Roosevelt is inter
racial, and no records are kept of
race, creed or color.
The school believes that educa
tion should teach students to work
with people of widely different
backgrounds.
Without this, the learning of
facts and techniques is largely
wasted effort, according to Presi
dent Edward •!. Sparling.
Senator Butler
Predicts 90%
Support
“1 feel confident in predicting
that 'Congress will continue 90
per cent supports on the basic
crops, even after expiration of
existing law unless a belter
j method can be devised in the
■ meantime,” Senator Hugh Butler
j(R.-Neb.) told a Nebraska radio
I audience in an address delivered
lover Station KRVN Sunday after
inoon, March 8.
j Discussing the controversy over
the farm program to be followed
by the new administration,' Butler
pointed out that Congress—not
the Secretary of Agriculture—is
the policy-making branch of the
government. Secretary Benson
will enforce whatever laws arc
passed by Congress, he empha
sized.
With regard to the collapse of
cattle prices, Butler pointed to
the sharp increase in cattle herds
as the principal cause. ‘‘On the
first of January of 1950, just be- *
fore the fighting broke out in Ko
rea, there were about 78 million
j cattle on farms,” he said. “Since
then, the number of cattle has in
creased to a remarkable extent.
From 78 million in 1950, the num
ber increased to almost 94 million
in 1953. That was an increase of
almost 16 million head of cattle
in this country.”
| To find markets for these addi
tional beef supplies, the important
thing, Butler declared, was “to
get our customers back in the
habit of eating meat every day.
In other words,” he said, “I think
our job now should be a spb'n?
job.”
R. E. Edwards
Grand Inland Pastor
A recent edition of the VOICE
stated that the Rev. R. E. Edwards
was filling the pulpit of the Afri
can Methodist Church at Grand
Island for the Rev. John Humbert.
It has been brought to our atten
tion that this was an error. The
Rev. Humbert was the pastor at
Grand Island last year but due to
illness did not accept any assign
ment at the iast conference. The
Rev. Edwards was assigned to
Grand Island in February by
Presiding Elder John Adams.