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Lincoln 3, Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper April 16, 1953
ACS Vc1 Useless,
Don’t Lei ''.a Fight Alone
■ "r *.
t!VC TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY/
One of these fine Spring days,
so lull of life and hope, you may
well be approached by a volunteer
of the American Cancer Society
who will ask you to contribute to
the cancer crusade.
What manner of being is this
volunteer?
Young or old, married or single,
tall or short, male or female, the
vqlunteer represents all religions,
races, nationalities and creeds.
Coming from every level of our
social .and economic strata this
volunteer is quite a person. We’re
proud of him. We’re proud of herr
.Together, the untold thousands
of volunteers who these days ring
doorbells and buttonhole passers
by, form a citizen-army which is
leading the fight—our fight—
against the great national enemy,
cancer.
In spite of recent, encouraging
progress in the treatment of
cancer the fight is still far from
w’on.
It is a fact that cancer, which
strikes one in five Americans, is
still the most mysterious of hu
man diseases. We must all join
the ACS volunteer in helping sci
ence continue and expand its tre
mendous research program.
It is also a fact that the number
of lives saved last year could have
been doubled if the American
public were armed with the essen
tial facts about cancer. We must
help the ACS volunteer to con
tinue and expand the effective
program of education now under
way.
It too is a fact, and a heartfelt
one, that cancer caused untold
suffering and pain last year. Again,
we must join the ACS volunteer
in maintaining and increasing a
humanitarian program of service
to cancer patients.
Through these three programs
of the American Cancer Society
cancer eventually will be broughl
under control. To speed that day
meet the crusade volunteer with
an open heart and a generous
pocketbook. Literally, ACS vol
unteers are fighting our battle for
us. We should not let them fight
it alone.
Police Drive
To Cut Child,
Cycle Mishaps
A campaign to cut down on
child pedestrian and bicycle ac
cidents was launched last week by
Lincoln police.
Taking the motto, . ‘‘Give the
children a brake,” police urge mo
torists to be especially careful
now that it is spring and the chil
;dren are outdoors. The children
lean help by learning these safety
rules, says police:
1. Learn the meanings of traf
fic signs, signals and pavement
markings.
2. Obey traffic officers, safety
corps boys and girls and all traffic
rules.
3. Learn to stop at the curb and
look both ways before crossing the
street.
4. Play only in safe places.
5. Learn and use the safest
routes between home and school.
6. Keep bicycles in good repair
7. Walk on the left hand side
'of the street when there are nc
'sidewalks.
| 8. Remember that to be an ex
pert bicycle rider requires the
same kind of skill and judgmenl
and is as important as being ar
expert driver of a motor vehicle
'Negro Press Creed
j The Negro press believes that
, America can best lead the work
away from racial and national an
| tagonisms when it accords to ever)
man, regardless of race, color oi
creed, his human and equal rights
Hating no man, fearing no man
the Negro press strives to hell
every man in the firm belief tha
all are hurt so long as anyone k
held back.
Today9s Tbought
Men should be judged, not by
their tint of skin, the Gods they
serve, the vintage that they drink,
nor by the way they fight, love,
or sin.
But by the QUALITY OF
THOUGHTS THEY THINK
Kappas Hold NW
Province Meet
In Des Moines
DES MOINES, Iowa—Achieve
ment trophy award to University
of Minnesota’s Psi chapter, C. Ro
ger Wilson’s banquet speech, and
presence of former Grand Pole
march featured the Northwestern
Province Council meeting of
*Cappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Des
Moines, April 3 and 4.
Dr. Thomas Scales, provincial
polemarch, in awarding the
Achievement Trophy, a silver cup,
told of Psi chapter’s accomplish
ment during the past year. Don
ored by Dr. Scales, the trophy is
awarded each year to the province
chapter with the best-rounded
program. Edgar Pillows, pole
march of Psi, accepted the trophy.
“Fraternities must seek ever
broadening objectives to meet,
present day needs.”
So declared C. Roger Wilson,
supervisor of employment offices
for the state of Illinois, in his ban
quet address on “Certain of the
Constructive Elements of Frater
nity” at the Fort Des Moines Ho
tel on Saturday evening, April 4.
A member of Chicago Alumni
chapter, Mr. Wilson’s address cli
maxed an evening o£ “fraternity
shop talk.” Other speakers were
A. A. Alexander, Audley F. Con
ners, Omega of Drake University,
and former Provincial Polemarch
Dr. J. W. Crump of St. Paul.
Matthew Johnson and W. C.
Adams, “Two Oldest Kappas,”
both members of Des Moines
Alumni, were introduced. Attor
ney W. Lawrence Oliver, Des
Moines, was banquet toastmaster.
The two-day business sessions
started on Friday afternoon, April
3, at famed Wilkie House with
Provincial Polemarch Scales nam
ing committees and meeting with
chapter polemarches.
The Saturday, April 4, session
included welcome address by
'James B. Morris, polemarch of Des
Moines Alumni on behalf of host
chapters, Omega of Drake and Des'
Moines Alumni.
Polemarch Scales gave his mes
sage in which he stressed the need
for fraternities becoming a serv
ice organization today.
A workshop, at which chapter
i problems were discussed, took up
most of the Saturday afternoon,
April 4, session.
Officers for the coming year:
Provincial Polemarch — Dr. E.
Thomas Scales, Des Moines.
Provincial Vice Polemarch—Ed
gar Pillows, St. Paul.
Keeper of Records and Exche
quer—Kermit Wheeler, St. Paul.
Strategus — Edward Thomas,
i Lincoln, Nebraska.
I Lt. Strategus—Willis Gray Jr.,
Omaha.
Board of directors — Charles
Holmes, Des Moines, and William
Cropp, Iowa City.’
Next year’s province meeting
will be held in the Twin Cities—
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
More than 100 delegates, mem
■ bers from province and other;
. chapters, and wives attended the
, two-day business and social ac
i tivities.
I Northwestern Provincial Coun-!
i cil includes following chapters:
! Minnesota—Psi, University of
Pageant Salutes Joe Louis,
A Great Guy, Epic Fighter
An American Legend
Joe Louis won more for his
people than he ever won for him
self, says a penetrating article
in the May issue of Pageant Mag
azine. “The shining story of his
climb to fame and fortune is not
only a great American story,” says
Pageant, “it’s an important one.”
Twenty years ago, boxing hit
an all-time low. Then Joe Louis,
the young man with uranium in
his fists, came up from Alabama.
Joe was a guy who meant busi
ness. A clean, honest guy with a
punch and a killer instinct and a
hard-burning passion for the ring.
From the beginning, says Pag
eant, Joe r’ard back and put
boxing on its feet. More than1
that, he made it possible for Ne
gro boxers to enjoy the same
rights as white . . . for all Ne
groes, in every profession, to
hasten the lowering of the Color
Line by at least 10 years.
In ’34, when the chips were
down on boxing, Joe had already
won 12 fights in the Middlewest,
states Pageant. His mentors, three
influential Negroes, tried to book
him at Madison Square Garden.
The Garden refused—no negroes
allowed. In stepped Mike Jacobs,
an independent promoter. “I'll
promote him in the East,” said
Mike, “on one condition—that he
win every tight as fast as pos
sible.”
Jacob’s know-how, contacts and
savvy got Joe a New York fight
with celebrated mastadon Primo
Camera. The referee stopped it
in the sixth. Camera, 65 pounds
heavier was a bloody, helpless
wreck. The audience, predomi
nantly white, took Joe to its heart
—and the Color Line in boxing
was utterly destroyed once and for
all. From then on, Pageant points
out, Joe’s climb to the top wasi
meteoric.
He came one cropper — when
Nazi Max Schmeling knocked him
lout. In ’38, after beating cham
pion Jim Braddock, the Bomber
fought Schmeling again, and, in
I an all time classic of the ring,
.knocked Schmeling out in the
first round and sent him back to
j Hitler with a cracked vertebra.
| After that, barring his stint in
the army, it was clear sailing for
Joe until ’47, when the aging King
of the Ring fought Jersey Joe
Walcott and won—but in a 15
round close decision victory. A
year later, he fought Walcott
| again, knocked him out and an
Minnesota, and St. Paul Alumni.
Iowa—Gamma, Iowa Univer
sity; Omega, Drake University;
and Des Moines Alumni.
Nebraska—E t a, University of
Nebraska; Alpha Eta, Omaha and
[Creighton Universities; and
[Omaha Alumni.
J Social activities at the two-day
meeting included a party at Wave
[land Club House given jointly by
: Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta
[Sigma Theta sororities and Alpha!
Phi Alpha and Omega Psi Phi
fraternities.
j Luther T. Clanton, Omega Psi
Phi, and Mrs. Nadine Ware, AKA
president of Pan Hellenic Council,
welcomed the Kappas to Des
Moines.
| Activities for Silhouettes—wives
of Kappas—included a coffee
hour, tour of Des Moines, and a
dinner.
The closed Kappa formal party
was held at the Fort Des Moines
Hotel following the banquet.
nounced his retirement. But in
’50, the Bomber came back to
fight Ezzard Charles, and, over
weight and slowed-up, he took a
terrible beating.
The last chapter came in ’52.
Bruiser Rocky Marciano knocked
the Old Warriar through the ropes
in the eighth. Joe hung up the
Gloves this time forever.
“But what did it all mean,
loe?” asks Sidney Carroll in Pag
eant? “Was it worth it
The answer has been summed
up by Bob Considine, with bril
liant simplicity. “Joe, you’ve been
the finest, cleanest and most hon
est fighter any of us have ever
seen. You’ve given boxing more
than it probably deserves.”
Senator Butler
Optimistic
Over Truce Deal
“I am frankly quite optimistic
that there is a real prospect of
settling the cold war, not only in
Korea but all over the world, for
the time being, at least,” Senator
Hugh Butler told a Nebraska audi
ence in a broadcast over Station
KRVN, Sunday, April 12.
“I certainly do not claim to be
able to read the minds of the
Communists,” Butler continued.
“The Russians have a new dicta
tor. I do not have much hope that
the Communists have given up
entirely their program of world
revolution. But it is just possible
that the new dictator will have
different ideas about how to pro
ceed.
“He may figure thut it is
smarter even from the Communist
point of view to put his energies
into building up the Russian eco
nomic system. Certainly the Rus
sians have no more to gain from
war than we do.
“Our efforts at negotiations in
Kor^a must be comprised of two
factors—firmness on the essential
points involved in our own secu
rity, but at the sarrje time a spirit
of give-and-take on all other
questions where it is necessary to
reach a compromise solution,” he
emphasized. “I believe you will
find that President Eisenhower
has these two points clearly in
mind in the conduct of the nego
tiations over the exchange of these
sick and wounded prisoners.
“It is much too early to draw
firm conclusions about the ulti
mate intentions of the new Rus
sian dictator. Certainly we cannot
afford to let down our defenses.
On the other hand, we must con
tinue to hope and work for more
peaceful relations in order to avoid
a third great war which might
well destroy the whole fabric of
civilization,” Butler concluded.
Grand Island Hospital
Adds New Polio Device
GRAND ISLAND, Neb—St.
Francis Hospital here has put into
operation a new apparatus to as
sist in the treatment of polio pa
tients.
The machine is a rocking bed
which aids breathing of those who
have progressed far enough to
leave an iron lung.
New Mahtematicg Degree
A new major in the field of
mathematics leading % to a Ph D.
degree at Wayne University will
permit a student to specialize in
pure mathematics, applied mathe
matics, or mathematical statistic?.