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cleaning uf
I 'he clean-up promised j„ , )U |itics and
the clean-up of streets, lanes and prem-
l.-’es proja.sed by tile Chamber of t’om-
rncrce are appropriately timely and c<>-
incidental. They furnish the uf>-ai)d»com-
ing political party and the Chamber of
< omrnerce opportunity to make the toni-
munity aware oi its obligation to get and
preserve good government and to keep
itself presentable—“it s lace clean" to
make everybody conscious of his duly to
•keep his own premises clean and pre¬
sentable, to make home owners and oth¬
ers careful as to the disposal of trash.
Effort to keep our city dean should enlist
fife co-operation of every man, woman and
‘ • A tri l‘ a!, "iit the city reveals the
litter inditiereiice , ol too many people to¬
ward the trash and litter they let exist
around their premises. They make little
or rjo .effort to put trash into suitable
containers or to clean it up after it has
tallen on the ground round about
Perhaps prop]** who liw in congested
areas are more careless and indifferent
ni this regard liucausu their onvironmeiit
conduces to carelessness and indifference,
and because such areas are. curiously,
neglected by inspecting and supervisory
agents. (hose They are le.^s blameable than
who live in areas of better housing:
housing projects for instance, A trip on
alien a recent Sunday morning revealed a sit ii-
both depressing and discouraging:
paper all over whai was intended to be
well-kept lawns, and in the streets, just
lots of it. and along the curbing. Certainly
tenants of any pride should desire to live
in clean and inviting surroundings, and
th>- city or someone in authority should
see, to it that the streets are kept dean
even if violators have to be docketed. In
passing we note that scavenger truck at¬
tendants are frequently careless in col¬
lecting ft ash and garbage^ lames often
look worse after they have passed through
(and whd has not seen trash flying front
the trucks on their way to the dumping
ground?).
We believe we can get and keep a clean
citv , if everybody—residents, yhildren, pc
(lestri.-.iis, store-keepers and trash collec¬
tors (and the police department) coop¬
erate to this common end.
WHAT OF THE RECORD?
W hat sort of residing will the news of
today about the gubernatorial candidates
and their campaign platforms make even
r>0 years from no-.? Against the back¬
ground of the Ideas and ideals of the
Founding Fathers, and the inexorable on¬
ward trends of democratic Christian
ideals, showing signs, now and then, of
approchipg ground-swell proportions, chil¬
dren of a half century hence will wonder
how their forefathers could have done
and said the things the books lecord. We
suspect (hey-will be as ashamed oi the
“white supremacy" claims and the defi¬
ance oi the F. S. Supreme Court by their
fathers as their fathers are of their
gra mil at hers' defense of slavery, of the
“black codes 1 and the devices for circum¬
venting the rights and the basic ideals of
American democracy. Our grandchildren
will learn among other things that “white
supremacy" in !*>5J was a discredited
myth; that it had actually been disproved
by science; that it had li st respectability
even as a theory. They will learn that one
ol the strongest cases against it. aside
from that brought by science, was that
it required the bolstering of legal enact¬
ments and extra legal practices, to main¬
tain the status it claimed ol "having in-
BUSINESS AWAKENING
TO EXPANDING NEGRO
MARKET. SAYS TIME
STORY
NEW YORK Businessmen
everywhere are paying more and
more attention to the huge and
profitable but long-ignored Negro
market. TIME, The Weekly New.--
magazine, say- in its business
etday in the curreai (July 51 is
“lie, out tomorrow. The coin lu-
sit n is based on » urvey conduct-
ed by TIME'S news bureaus
throughout the coumry.
Overall. TIME stivs. the
market is estimated at >15 billion
a year. Lensu- figures show
the total income of Negroes ha -
quadruple since 1940, and t'neil
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
31 West 46 Street
New York 19, New York
Whaley-Mikkelsen Company
6513 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Whaley-Mikkelsen Company
235 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calilornia
slinelive conviction of superiority." They
will learn that prejudices always warp the
thinking of those who possess them, and
this will explain to them why X out of ■>
gubernatorial candidates pledge them¬
selves to find ways of violating or other¬
wise circumventing the law of the land.
It will explain why it was suggested even
(o repeal certain amendments and to abol¬
ish the F. S. Supreme Court. The children
can not fail to note the lengths to which
their daddy went to get campaign mate¬
rial to use to get voters to elect them to
office.
ANOTHER REASON
When we think we have exhausted the
list of reasons why Negroes in Chatham
County should have an effective organi¬
zation. another presents itself. We note
that election machines in all probability
will be used in tin- next election and that
those in charge of them are discussing
ways of having voters learn how to use
them. Our information is that it will tale
some time for all the voters to have a
chance to get necessary instruction in the
use of die machines. It will require the
services of many persons and the use of
several places suitably located for the
convenience of the voters. It will require
something else more important that the
machines even. It will require that people
be interested in learning to use them. It
is going to take a lot of persuading to
get nine thousand people to get away
from home or work to learn to qperate
a voting machine, when they would not
go to a |)olling place just to scratch a line
through a name to elect one man. So. v
use the occasion of the voting machine's
appearance on the scene,’ to urge again
that somebody try to get our “folks” oi-
gan/.ied. If somebody doesn't wake up and
turn about soon, the bus will leave us.
MORAL RE ARMAMENT
Notice has come to us of a revival in
this very significant movement which was
initiated by Dr. Frank Buehrmtn song**
years ago. We have known of the move¬
ment almost since its beginning but a
recent copy of its magazine firings infor¬
mation of new a n d almost amazing
achievements that it is attaining through¬
out the world: in government circles, and
in labor and in human relations. Remak¬
ing home, relations bet weep employer and
employee, government and subjects, citi¬
zen and citizen by remaking men is the
philosophy of the movement as promul¬
gated by Dr. ituchman. Admiral Byrd
>ays this about MUA: : v
"MRA is above party, class or point
of view. It is not an organization you
join, but an ideology yoii live. Ndt a
new religion, but a dynamic force. It
starts when yen start with yourself
to live out the four absolute moral
standards of honesty, purity, unsel¬
fishness and love.”
Moral Re-Armament is receiving the
endorsement and encouragement of men
and women of all walks of life, every¬
where around the globe, who believe the
salvation of civilization and the peace of
the world is attainable through liv ing out
the “four absolute standards": through
remaking men.
The New World News splashes over
its covers and through its pages what ap¬
pears to be the theme of its Spring Issue:
“Reaching The Millions.” We commend to
vou the reading of the New World News
which gives a panoramic account of what
Moral Re-Armament is doing for the
world.
i median income has shot up even
j faster. whom For Negroes, pon-whites t96 l ( of
are the median in-
vmr has risen almost four times
from $4S9 in 1939 to $1,94:! in 1951,
,
> while the white income has inereas-
ed less then three times over the
same period.
’ Fapping I he soul hern Market
The increasing notice business¬
men art taking of the Negro man
! ' ■ i- patrieulerly evident in the
i South, where two-thirds of the 15
million I . S. Negroes live.
| To help tap this market
Southerners have begun employing
Negro salesmen. A Negro hired by
a Packard .tealei in Charleston, S.
C., for example, sold two new
three used ears in his first 15.days.
I The month before the entire staff
had sold Negroes only four used
Growing Negro \u Field
Market surveys show the Negro
customer responds best to an ad-
i vertisement emphasizing quality
and prestige. A long history of ex-
’ ploitation makes him wary of
cheap, shoddy goods. Thus. TIME
says, a Negro will spend more of
hi.- salarv on high priced gi>ods
than a white man.
Some 374 U. S. radio stations
now broadcast special programs to
entertain and sell to Negroes. And
the Ncgv • ad field ... growing so
fast that Manhattan's Bgtten,
Barton, Durstine 4- Osborne hired
a Negro two years ago as special
on the Negro market,
has since boosted its accounts in
trip mvanwah rntmiiw
THE COURTS DECISION WILL REMOVE THIS EVIL INFLUENCE”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon Hancock
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OUR SUBVERSIVES
Subversism is one of the live
issues, before the nation,
for'attention, it would he national
suicide to minimize the gravity of
the current situation which has
revealed that there are subversive
forces at work which threaten : he
survival of our great nation. Those
who would minimize the current
threat of subversism are danger-
ous to the common weal.
1 The abuse of prerogatives of
fwhich McCarthy is guilty, is
greatest sin. and not the careful
I utilization of those prerogatives,
! This country, unfortunately, needs
(someone to do what McCarthy has
| 'to overdone, urui therein lies the path
greater 1 national security.
1 More than once, this column has
belaboured the point that it would
! he traitorious for us to sit supine-
l.v hv and let our great moral
heritage go by default. Our lovely
jand and our glorious liberties
Itave Li been wrought with a price
| are worth fighting for. This
nation of ours must he preserved
against any and all subversives!
We have not done our whole
duty until we attack with equal
vigor subversism wherever found,
It is not enough to fight
death the subversism that stems
from Moscow; but if we would
t>« , vw . to God and native land we
must fight the subversism that
stems from l olumbia. South Caro-
Dina and Atlanta, Georgia. There
'is little to choose between these,
who would emasculate the Cousti-
tutiun and those who would pinas-
eulate democracy and Christianity,
It must be admitted that opposi-
tion to the spirit and letter of the
Constitution is no less subversive
than fellow-traveling and common-
ism In the last analysis one is as
I deadly and dangerous as the other,
We are not going to give this
the field from two to 40.
Fiction of Credit Risks
The economic rise of the Negro
has not only helped break down
j many segregation harriers; it has
also helped dissipate the widely-
held belief that Negro customers
are necessarily poor credit risks,
Trend Towards Equality
Retailers have found that the
Negro shopper does not want spe-
f rial handling, but he dots want to
( he treated as any other shopper.
| The trend toward with equality whites is of help- pur-
power
ing him find the same equality at
the sales counter.
Most retailers feel that even >r.
Southern stores discrimination will
disappear gradually, he wiped out
by the legal pressure against segve-
gation and tile economic rise
the South. Eventually. TIME con
eludes, the Negro market will
merge l into anil become undistin-
TENN. PAR0C1AL SCHS.
CROP SEGREGATION
NASHVILLE—-ANP—The most
Rev. William 1.. Adrian, bishop of
the Catholic diocese *<f Nashville.
has ordered on e of the city’s Two
v-gro Parishes Hosed and has
j opened all parochial schools in the
«’it.v to both races, in accord with
J the Although recent Supreme the bishop Court said decision, the
j I
der applied to the schools of Nash-
great nation of ours the requisite
security while we seek out ami
j punish the subversives the communists who would and wink de-
‘ qt |
stroy the country by destroying
the Constitution. The time is com- j
ing in this country when giving
comfort is given with in the its name of j
white supremacy segrega
tion, whether given by the devo-
tees of Lenin, the .dead god of
‘ ' V
.. Russia. -
The story goes that’.once prinking a girl j
and her lover were with
a gun in the parlor, and there was
an explosion and the girl fell mor-
tal'.v wounded with a bullet in her
j heart. Her lover caught ne; up in
; his arms and cried, “Maud, Maud,
darling. 1 didn’t go to do it!”
But Maud was as dead as if he
had been aiming to do her to
.
j death. *The person who dies by
j accident is just purpose! as dead Subversism as one
’ who dies on
j by Negrophobes is just as deadly
i as subversism of the Kremlin.
I When governors and attorneys-
! general and other officials meet j
j ! in conclave circumventing and seek ways the and i
means of man-
j dates of the Constitution witnessing of the
United States, we are
a species of subversism. The soon-
er this sordid fact'is faced the
• sooner we will he prepared to fight
unto the death the battle
; communism in a hundred forms is
forcing upon us. A divided nation
cannot defeat communism.-
Russia was startled and stunned
and thrown off balance when the
j , outlawed
Supreme Court segrega-.
tion. Their long silence on the de- I
I cision was studied and calculating.
But Russia’s silence has been bro-
' ken “The thus: peoples of Asia and -Africa. j
i form their ideas of the U. S. policy
'as regards the so-called colored i
...iio ville .,„!>■ on!v, a., he umiwI assured newspaper newsnaner
nen that the order would become
j effective throughout the state
{ £),,, near future.
The T he two two parishes parishes serving serving Negro Nog...
j (congregations congregations are are Holy Holy Family Family
an j gt. Vincent de Paul. Holy
j family church and its grade and I
high schools_ will be closed and the
| P'opcty sold.
Tht . Holy grade school attend-
j anet , | as t year was 34—Catholics the I
, am j pjo n0 n-Catholics; and hi
high school, 2d Catholics and IP
non-Cat holies. , , t, The report . said i ,u„ the
non-Catholic ..... students , . . would , , be • ac-
schools of the city 1
cepted in the
beginning this term.
Bishop Williams said the stu-
dents now attending M. v Vincent .
Paul school may now attend
schools nearest their homes, should
they so desire.
'
BLIND VETERAN SAVES
THREE LIVES
LUCEDALE. Miss.. (ANl’l —
1'ht* citizen? of this southtastei n
Mississippi ' city are sticking out
their ch ests t h es e days because
, , jn( , ex . ill!lrin ., savei1 the |j ves of
three persons last week,
-pin hero was Charles Vines. 22.
■ „ ho was blinded by bursting
shrapnel in Korea,
He plunged into the dark river
after hearing a cry for help from
people by the deeds of American
racists, American ruling circles
from time to time make dema-
gogic gestures designed for export
as W ell as to lull the American
public ami conceal the struggles
of .American officials with the
pro UI<*m of Negro discrimination,
The Russian newspapers further
declared, “The decision was of a
purely masking character and it
. has been . undertaken i.i with ...:ii........ proga-
aims alone."
“Touching in one of his press
conferences on the decision -of the
Supreme ( ourt .United Stares
President Eisenhower gave a nog-
ative , ivpJy to the question °
whether he could advise the
ern States how they are supposed
to react.
“Thus behind a formal position
of non-interference, which is by
itself sufficiently revealing,
support, of race discrimination
being concealed.”
Isvestia. a national organ, had
this to say.
“Isn’t it clear, even if the deci-
sion is implemented, that factu-
everything will remain tY--
old way? For the powerful
American racists will find | h ' ,u ;
of loop-holes, thousands of
starting with laws and end-
with direct terror to preserve
inviolability of segregation.”
To prove its case Isvestia quotes
Byrnes of South Carolina,
Hugh White of Missis-
Governor Talmadge of Geo.-j
Senator Russell of Georgia,
Senator Eastland of Missts-
Just how accurately Russia lias
our situation is a seri-
ous matter and one which con-
involves the future of
in the world, its our
move!
( WH teen-aged gills who
swept toward midstream after
stepping into deep water, while
wading near the bank.
Usin} , ttu , ^is’ cries „f distress
,, s a KU y e he swam rapi( „ y toward
them. Reaching Annie Louis Ball
first, he caught her by the arm and
sWam with he , in tow until he
Barbara Wood, 15. Telling
to hold on to both Anne and
hesadesj foi t,he shore.
Within 4<) feet of the shore, Anno
told him she could make it. She
started to swim, but was swept
into the swift water. \
Vines reached land with Barbara !
and then returned to save Aunt j
for the second starter time. out'"into" Hearing her I
he 300! the J |
300
^ the ^ woman.1
who was going under the third j
After making the long swim
back. Vines then turned and pulled
1 eacoek. who faltered in the
lescue. out of the water. /
After the rescue, the mother of ,
of the young women rescued bv
Vines sr.id only God could have
hi,, he strength.
J
j NEW YORK Initiation of an
I intensive ten-year drive to secure
| full citizenship rights for Amor-
•
leans of all races within the
decade, continuation of a frontal
assault on racial segregation in
public education, and the success¬
ful conclusion of a Supreme Court
lNase "’hich rendered the racial
st sti rift ictive i VP covenant iTivenniit in in real »•* * u I estate a
“mere scrap of paper” are describ¬
ed in the 1953 annual report of the
National Association for the Ad-
j ' of Colored People as
among ^ ^ important 't ‘ activities of the
(> n za j on d u r i the past * year
h< ‘ re,K "' t ' *•» titled “Ninety
,,s ,ls le-doin,
was made public here today,
Die Association’s ten - year
1 tight for Freedom” campaign,
report relates, was initiated at
the 1 dm, annual convention of the
fZ^lTi °» 1 k <> step l'"' upjhe T'*" group
“ I'ghU work to achieve the
Assocwtion s goal of an integrated
Amt lean society free of racial.
J, b j .... nn |'°'rha^aatJ »•>. t i t
marks the centennial of the Email- !
l» . reclamation, j j
To achieve this goal, the report
notes, the 1953 convention voted
Freedom _“ nous Fund” t |> tojawe^Jright of $1,000,000 for
an¬
nually for the succeeding decade to
underwrite the work of the*
NAACP.
Reargument before the U. S. Su-
pi-cine Court of five NAACP eases
challenging the constitutionality of i
segregation in public elementary
and high schools is detailed by the
report as a “new challenge" which
the Association’s Legal Department
“lost no time” in meeting. The
cases were reargued Dec. 7 to 10.
In another case brought by the
NAACP to the Supreme Court last
year, the booklet says, the high
court ruled that since restrictive j
covenants in real estate cannot be |
enforced by state or federal courts, j
signers of such restrictive coven- j
ants are not entitled to damages
if a co-signer breaks the agreement |
and sells to a Negro or other pre¬
scribed family.
The main areas in which the ac-1
NAACP worked during 1953.
conUn * t!,e rc ‘ ,ort ’ wcrc educa *,
tion, housing, employment, travel,
public accommodations and recrea- j
tion ’ an<i thc mHitary. In all these j
areas the Association sought to
break ,iown racinl discrimination
an '^ > , -Kiegation.
Further accomplishments of the
NAACP last year cited in the re-
port include passage of a fair en.-
ployment practices law with en-
f°rcement powers in the Territory
of Alaska - li,,eel >' as the ,esult of
work carntJ on b >' the Assoc.a-
tlon ’ s bl anch in Anchorage, Alaska
'
passage of civil rights legislation
spearheaded by NAACP units in
that locality: and successful reg-
ister-and-vote campaigns waged by
Southeast units to increase the
number of Negro voters in the rt-
gion to three million by the 1956
presidential election.
SKE l’AFl. ana aNIiY
For [gnition. Stqrters,
Generators and
F arburotor« ;
Phone 2-0221 I
1
Negro Wants First ( lass i
OMAHA. NEBR. - * ANP i—Dr.
Ralph Bunche. one of the top-*
ranking members of the Unit-
ed Nations, speaking before
15,000 people at an Inter-Faith
Day Rally here at Municipal
stadium last Saturday flight,
said that the Negro is seek-
mg 'only to be .treated as^ an
American' citizen in full.” »
He continued, ‘The Negro
seeks no special privilege nor
consideration He merely seeks
to find the level in society
merits deserve without the
handicap of the color of his-
skin or the texture of his hair.”
Dr. Bunche referred to the
recent unanimous decision of
th" U. S. Supreme court against
segregation in the public schools
as a ‘ momentous forward step
in the onward march of democ¬
racy” but declared that de.
r.i;: ftcy is still being “built
and perfected,"
The Inter-Faith Rally was a
part of a year-long celebration
of Omaha’s Centennial cele-
oration and drew the largest
crowd on record here.
Three choirs from Jewish,
Protestants and Catholic faiths
gave several selections. Then
they joined in with Arthur God ¬
frey's famous Mariners in the
"Era of Peace" and
"One World. The
N A AGP REPORT
REVIEWS GAINS BY
GROUP
Pending at (lie end of tire year
was ^ comprehensive complaint '„ filed
t|)) , ( m nierce
, iy NAAC1 . lawyers
,. ny the Commission to ban
M - 1 L '-'‘ lon of interstate passen¬
gers by railroads, stations, and
restaurants in stations. This move
is • dcscrilie l in the report as an
attempt to “end Jim Crow travel
at a single stroke,”
Mining the year, the booklet re¬
ports, the Association tried and
failed to secure enactment of an
nnti-Iim Crow travel hill by Con-
grc.ss.
The report s-ays the Association
also tried, tmsiieressfully. to curb
Senatorial filibusters 1 >y securing
a new cloture rule; to have a time
set for hearings on a fair employ¬
ment practices hill with eti for ce¬
ment powers in the House Labor
Committee; and to have attached
to the Taft-llartlev law an aincul-
men , t() tli: „. rimil(atj<M1
af) j( . t , by either .....
ma unions.
Continuing work on behalf of
a S , ' i< ult"ial 'niigrant workers was
conducted during (he year. Efforts
by the NAACP, in cooperation
with other organizations, resulted
in the closing of two migrant labor
camps in Pennsylvania by the state
labor end industry department for
“filthy” conditions, and the an¬
nouncement by several Pennsyl-
.vqaia stutv agencies of a “rigid”
program of inspection and enforce-
meat in migrant .camps in that
Gate,
yC, J he report states that during
1953 the Association’s membership
climbed for the fourth consecutive'
year, reaching a total of 240,000
members—as compared with 215,-
000 members at the end of 1952.
1 he board of directors clwdrtered
119 new units last year, which
brought the number of local units
to 1,235. fliese were located in 44
states, the District of Columbia
at "' the territory of Alaska,
continued on Page •
Soothes
chafed
Simple, safe, soothing
^FIRST-AID KIT--
TirraSDAY, JULY 9, 19sV ^
also sang a few other num¬
bers.
The highlight of Dr Bunche'a
speech Included: “In the course
j of our leaned great thqt experiment, it is not we
h^ve pe-
jce&iftryAo achieve eradicate single differences human;
j to ji
: pattern, in order to enjoy de-
1 mocracy or to attain national
unity. It 1s only necessary for
people to change their attitudes
I and suspicions about differ-
This can be done and
is being done.”
In a very apparent and lash¬
ing referenre to "MsCarthy-
ism” without calling it by
name, Bunche said: “Then*
arc diversive forces at work in
society. Emotions are played
upon, fear is sown, increasing¬
ly we become suspicious of
each other and harsh accusa¬
tions are (hurled hack and
forth.
"AH of this can serve only
to disunite and seriously weak¬
en us at the most critical mo¬
ment in our entire history
when our maximum strength,
unity £tul .self-confidence tire
imperatively demanded.”
Dr. Bundle’s speech was re¬
ceived with great acclaim. The
roaring applause lasted for
several minutes as he was co
gratulated by many persons on
speakers’ stand.