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"A DECALOGUE OF RACE"
I. “Thou shall not how down before the
false god of racial superiority.
2. Thou shalt not boast that only thy race
is pure.
3. Thou shalt dijf^c}^| not preach that whole races
are at levels of physical de¬
velopment.
4. Thou shalt not attach importance to
color of skin or other racial traits.
5. Thou shalt not establish racial groups
as fixed and unchangeable,
6. Thou shalt not, to the detriment of
thy neighbor, assert that cultural
achievements are based on racial traits.
7. Uhou shalt not hold that there are
racial personality traits that are in¬
born or inherited.
3. Thou shalt not look down on thy broth¬
er because his appearance differs
from thine.
9. Thou shalt not, because a man is of a
different religion or nationality, say
that he belongs to a different race.
10. Thou shalt faithfully and sincerely act
on the foregoing admonitions and then,
indeed, thou wilt love thy neighbor as
thyself.”
—Wilton Marion Krogman.
ONE THING WE LACK
Three of five articles on conditions in
the South as they are affected by the con¬
troversy fn over integration, have appeared
The Saturday Evening Post. Bartlow The Mar¬ ar¬
ticles are written by John
tin. The editors comment under the cap¬
tion, The Plain Truth:
“John Bartlow Martin's assignment
was to travel through the South for as
long as necessary and report the facts
about integration, as he found them.
These articles — which we know will
bring little comfort to the partisans of
either side—-are the result. We think
they bring the light of fact to a crucial
social issue, as it is developing both in
the inflexible Deep South and in the so-
called Border States.”
As far as we are concerned, statement
of whatever the facts revealed is accept¬
able to us. We ask other people to accept
it also, proponents as well as opponents
of integration and civil rights legislation.
We have kept up with much of what has
been written in the controversy. So far no
article we have seen gives much comfort
to the South. We believe intelligent-read¬
ers can discriminate between fact amd
propaganda, between truth and falsehood,
between the demands of justice and the
dedication to preserving out-moded tradi¬
tions to maintain a way of life that is out
of harmony with world ideals outside the
South. Honest people know that all the
money raised by White Citizen’s Councils
or appropriated by state legislatures can
not destroy or overcome facts. It can
subsidize some sections of the press. It
can hire writers to tell falsehoods about
conditions in the South, but the actual
truth, no matter whom it favors, will re¬
main.
One state that has allocated $250,000 to
a commision to be used to get its point of
view before the country, made the costly
error of inviting newspapermen from the
other side of the Smith and Wesson line
to come and see what is going on. They
came, they saw, and they reported. The
newsmen got lost from their guides and
stumbled upon sources of information that
were not listed on their program. What
they reported of what they saw and heard
won for them an ugly name from their
host.
The articlejtu8^*i#til*to at the beginning
show that S^rapnerton, S. C. is spending
more than $909,000 il-sillocatcd on its school system,
most of which for Negroes.
This alone establishes the facts which
brought on the furor over integration,
which the NAACP and the parents of
TO CURB BAN
HOUSING PROJECT
NAVAL DEPOT
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community, are housed in
restricted three-block area.
NAACP Field Secretary Lester
said that two NAACP
investigated housing seg¬
in Babbitt and found con¬
substantiating the com¬
of local residents.
“We have learned that this dis¬
housing pattern is
imposed by Ideal mili¬
and civilian authorities,” Mr.
Bailey reported.
The NAACP complaint was sent
the Defense Department
month.
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Negro children used as testimony in the
cases before the Supreme Court that re¬
sulted in the famous decision of May 17,
1954.
Southerners forget that for a long time
they had all the say. They dictated what
should go into newspapers and books. It
was therefore easy to control and or sup¬
press any mention of facts which they con¬
sidered inimical to their way of life. Writ¬
ers either distorted facts or fabricated the
grossest libel against Negroes. By now
whatever is good about the “South’s way
of life” should have been established be¬
yond question, beyond the necessity for
defense.
We in the South need more than any¬
thing else, to understand each other, Ne¬
gro and white. We know what is true.
We know what is false. If intelligent men
of both races could sit down and talk and
plan and work together, they could come
to understand each other better. But that
would be race mixing, and few white men
would want it known that they did such
a thing; no official has the courage to au¬
thorize such a getting-together which is
too cheap a means to accomplish good re¬
sults. It is thought better to spend $37G,-
000 in a gamble.
IT'S YOUR JOB
We have been mentioning a matter
which is so elemental and personal that
it seems too simple to prove. We have
been saying that there are some things
Negroes can do for themselves that no¬
body else can do for them. It is generally
stated that Negroes believed that after the
decision of May 17, 1954, “Jim Crow” only
needed to be buried on May 18, 1954; that
everything was settled and they could go
into white schools, sit anywhere they
chose in a bus, that they could leave the
usually dirty waiting room in rail road
stations and that they would be admitted
to cafes and theaters without question.
Some believed this, but they were soon
disillusioned. The question of their right
to vote was settled long ago, but less than
fifty per cent of those who are eligible
have taken the trouble to register. This
is something the NAACP or the Supreme
Court can not do for them. Indeed, since
May 1955 Negroes have been on their own,
so to speak. They must register and vote.
This is the job of every man for himself.
It is a personal matter just like cleanliness,
bathing, good manners, clean speech, clean
clothes, and, to a large degree, good health
and education. This is not the whole list
of things we can do; that we ought to do.
We do not speak this time of things that
are just as important. Observant people
can easily see them. Everyone of them
is a must.
BUBBLE GUM
We have watched youngsters chomping
on their gum and blowing bubbles, and
every time we can not help running back
in our mind to the time when we did the
same thing with the significant difference
that after a bout with our bubbles we, oft-
ener than not, wore a black ring around
our lips, the result of the sticking gum
when the bubble broke. It perhaps was
due to the fact that we made our own.
Where we got the art, when and how we
came by it, we do not have the slightest
idea. Perhaps some migrant from the
country taught us how to get resin from
the pine tree and sap from the sweet gum
tree to make our wad. This mixing was
necessary because the gum from the sweet
gum tree was as a rule too sticky and un¬
manageable to use by itself. To make it
possible to blow bubbles from our wad, we
used the inner membrane of the berries
of the giant smilax. We called them
stretching berries. And the" boys used to
blow great bubbles. We made our own.
LA. CLERICS
(Continued tioin Page One)
i inodated.
The bus driver, 11. B.
stopped the vehicle and called
Shreveport Transit Company.
was reportedly told to make no at¬
tempt to force the ministers to
: rear.
Rev. Scott, who is an
member and also is affiliated
[ the United Christian
a Shreveport anti -
group here, said other
would follow the "ministers in
ing segregation laws on the
No other Negroes lode the front
of the bus during this ride,
was the first organized
by Negroes to break down
on buses.
4 -H DISTRICT WINNERS
ANNOUNCED
(Continued from Page One)
Greene. ABC of home wiring.
The following boys and girls
won junior awards: Milton Mal-
1 colm Walton, painting; Cortez
Jones, Burke, field crops; Dannie
) Colbert. Jackson, gardening; Otis
Malcolm Walton, forestry; Julia
Lester, Jackson, dress revue; M.
R. Powell, Greene, canning; Min¬
nie Wilson, Jackson, biscuits; An¬
nie 1). Herrington, and Sylvia
: Clinton, Burke, corn meal muffin
team, and Bernice Dent, corn meal
muffins (individual).
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
j ^4 „|
Between The Lines
(Hy Dean Gordon B. Hancock for
Associated Negro Press)
RUINING A REPUTATION
man who faithfully attended Sun-
day School to "argue" the
tures. He argued on every point
^ whole argument could catch a toe-
Very often they arc habitues of
barber shops and take pride in
asking “wise” questions to puzzle
those they think are educated and
| should know. And it is so easy to
ask even an educated person a
question he does not know! Recent
ly one of tiles arguers bumped
into the writer with old hacken-
eyed question as to whether a man
could have his candy and eat it
too.
M . , . . . . .
in the affirmative to the effect
that a man could eat his candy and
have it too; because when he eats
it he has it where it belongs and
will do the most good. Instead of
just having some candy to look at
and think about, when he eats it,
put to its highest utility and
builds strength and energy and of
| course his are the strength and
the energy, therefore he has his
candy after he has eaten it.
But while it is possible 1 , to eat
one’s candy and have it too, it is
not possible to destroy one’s repu-
tation and have it too. It is well
who are currently holding forth in
the Congress of the United States,
I he course ..... that the civil • rights ,
bill . ... is . running without and
proves
beyond a reasonable doubt that
I the justice and integrity of the
South is in serious question. The
very fact that the South wanted
to insert a trial by jury amend-
ment show? that they would take
refuge in their way of life in a
prejudiced jury that would acquit,
prejudiced servant of the law.
The trial by jury drive was a
resort to prejudice to carry points
indirectly that they could not carry
directly! These Southern
g.o cohorts , , in . Congress by the,r .
very attempts were making
tionable the reputation of the
South.
The very fact that the trial by
South's*^reputathm ^ ntt^avwy
In other words the South mill cannot nnn....T
be trusted to do honestly and just-
ly in matters of race relations,
WINNERS AT MEN’S
ROSE SHOW LISTED
(Continued lrom Rage One)
I following:
Class 1 — single specimen of
hybrid teas, Mesdames Helen
Brown, J. S. White, L. Batchelor,
E. Castain and R. M. Perrin;
I Janies Sampson, Roger Jones, S.
| Grant, B. S. Hannah, John
Grant, E. Walker, winners of
blue ribbons.
J S. Adkins, A. Maynard, W.
; Fleming, and Mesdames J. w.
1 Murphy, Bessie Fleming, E.
Moore, J. R. Cooper, Richard
Bennett and Henry Mack, win¬
ners of red ribbons.
Winners of white ribbons
were Roger Jones. B. S. Han-
nah, Henry Artis, Levi Grant,
Mrs. C. M. Singfield, Bessie
^ Fleming and Lester
B. Johnson.
Class 2 . Floribundas—awards
received by Mesdames V. R.
Trappio. Mary Jones, blue rib-
! sons; Ellis M. Trappio, two blue
I ribbons, which made him eli¬
gible for the gold ribbon award.
Section 11 — Arrangements:
, Theme, Midsummer Night's
i Dream.
Class 1 — The Castle Tower,
j Mrs. Helen Brown, featuring a
vertical arrangement in a glass
| container, red ribbon. Mrs. J. G,
| Sampson, Class 2 white ribbon.
— Arrangements. The
Royal Line. An asymmetrical
arrangement in a flat silver
| container won the gold ribbon
award for Mrs. J. B. Williams.
Sr. Mrs. J. G. Sampson won a
j red ribbon. ]
Class 3 — Princess, one rose
in a bud vase; Ellis M. Trappio,
blue ribbon; Mrs. Eunice John-
son, red ribbon, and E. R.
Rtiffner. white ribbon.
Class 4 — The Queen's Jewels.
Corsages made of roses, Roger
43, Jones, blue ribbon.
Class 5 — A Dream—Modern
Mass of Roses. Mrs. Lilllian
Grant, blue ribbon, and Mrs..
Simmons, red ribbon.
Horticulture sweepstakes were
won by J. G. Sampson, J. S.
Adkins, tri-color award, and E.
M. Trappio, gold ribbon award.
j For arrangements: Mrs. J. B
Williams, gold ribbon; tri-color
■ and sweepstakes, won by Mrs.
The South's long hi tory of treat-
1 x,
with Negroes is too well known to
be conducive to full confidence.
Negroes had to resort to law to
j gain most of their civil rights
ends of justice may be served.
The very fact that the
jury amendment was voted down
shows that the Congress of
United States lacks confidence
I the South's protestations of fair-
j ness and justice towards its
: gro citizens.
^ ig a lack of reputlltion fl „
, the South just as there is lack
I «P ut «tion of this nation abroad,
1 I which lack confidence ,T many in our nu tie-
mocracy just as this nation
confidence in the Soutn’s proles-
tation of justice and fairness.
Then, too, the only hope that the
^th’s a change way of that life will w-ll mean not full
citizenship for the Negroes is in
the < m ” ,ohrd hlibustor. The fill
buster is the last refuge of
I Negro-phobes and what a
i . refuge , v it will ... prove ’...... to , "..... be. ,
When resort to the fililm ier i:
forced upon then the ami N-
: t::
I against the Negro. When an a - u
i ment must be predicated upon a
technicality it is weak to
i. breaking , • point, ■ .
|
So the South’s .stand against
the Negro is nearing a
point when resort must be found
in the filibuster. The resort to
filibuster and the voting down
I the trial by jury amendment are
just so many straws in the wind
showing ...u.T,..* that ...... the ... c old ..... south ... is
struggling hard against the tide
i that must overwhelm it at last,
| God and Time and Right are
against the anti-Negro traditions
and the mores of the Old South.
, There ,s . a , hard core of „ the , new
white South that see this clearly
i and are heroically trying to
the Old South the pains of a clie-
hard opposition to a change that
Ur.fof'cmr gLif nlt'^re'to 1 bl!
saved.
| The South is not only
but also ruining its reputation.
Levi Grant for an asymmetrical
arrangement.
Mrs. C. W. Flournoy gave two
rangemerHa°'The U first°'was
asymmetrical arrangement fca-
urin 8 canna lillies and
blooms; second demonstration,
1 Japanese adaptation.
Judges for the show were Mrs
c - w Flournoy, Mrs. B. S
Adams, and Mrs. L. S. Priester;
clerk, Mrs. V. R. Trappio.
M. S. Brown is president
the club and Ellis M Trappio.
or., cnanmari ot puouciiy.
DOWDALL DAVIS, MGR.
KANSAS CITY CALL
(Continued from Page On* 1 )
1951. He has been a member
its board of directors for
years.
He was appointed by Presi¬
dent Truman in 1948 to the
President's committee on Com¬
pliance. He was vice president
of the Kansas City Urban
League, a member of Alpha
Alpha fraternity and the Sigma
Pi Phi journalistic fraternity.
Davis was born in Indepen¬
dence. Kansas. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy
Davis; a sister, Mrs. Calvin
•Sims, and a number of cousins.
KANSAS U. STUDENTS
ENTER MISS. NEGRO
COLLEGE
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(Continued from Page One)
zc,ls Council.
Dwelling in the same dormitor¬
ies, doing menial chores side by
side with Negro students and en¬
gendering a friendly atmosphere,
the Kansas University student
group, including five white women,
indicated they are completely con¬
tent at the Mary Homes
ColU-<ge for Negroes.
The group said they are doing
menial chores because they believe
labor “generates a spirit of
nity.”
i rale pro-segregationists, anger-
0 d by widespread publicity of the
event, stood by .heatedly taking
note of the situation.
APPOINTED
TO “Y”
COMMITTEE
* Continued srom Page One •
Cour.ci'.s of the United
and Canada, notified Joseph
s k ;:;, F
.
YMCA - 01 ms elect;0n t0
Jnu-t.,nional - -------— ’ Committee
May 1959.
ofl joint i y with the
Council « Canada and
countries .
The plenary meeting of
I: ” . tern . tional Commlttee will
h ^ ln Detroit ’ Michigan ‘
.
. .. ‘ °
s ™ rt , and to discuss
develop strategy for the
ir ‘" for Brotherhood'
Jenkins - - has been assigned
. ^ Area Hear , ng Group
: is interested countries
in m
western Paonic, namely,
; Korea, I w an an, Hong Kong
j ^ ph , ippines
The E mmons Singers will
poreserted on the “YMCA
Action” program Saturday
n m. over radio station
Mr. Jenkins will begin
series cf talks on “The
q. ta ..y rs a
j, .. j,, , w ,or ! d
rugose ' - >
T ' m n will be the
T'p wrrVrlv servicemen’s
will he h":d at the Y
nil f. 8'30 K'.n'tO'" s will be
'hand ' and Mrs. Frances John-
USO Staff " ........ Aide, will be
Cho-ge
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ZFTAS HONOR
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fContinued from Page One)
veal ' " r . -o ^'."
"
nrh. Under the presidency of
Ruth ^tripling, the organization
Mildred Hutchins, ^ Viola Maynor,
p ,„ nes . L , o1a
Stevens, Willie V, Williams
Miss A. M e 'PaVker.
Visiting sono's’ who were in at-
t?ndnr\ce *' im|svi!Jo, ’ISo’wh Anne* ('on-
: yi ' v Ti W Orene Hall
1.1 ,1 ^,'1
j vania ^orh^ end Dorothy of’savannah Butler a n
State
| College undergraduate chapter.
Gurus were played and
won bv Borors H-irgrett Hall
j and j Mesdames
^ ,
the^two !• ''during
group:;
: i
The highlight of the evening
was the installation service con-
ducted bv the outgoing
Soror Ola Dingle. The new offi-
. y, 1957-5!) are:
Ella W. Fisher; First Anti-Basil-
eus, Frankie N. Golden; Second
Ai.ti-B isHeus Viola Halbroek,;
j soft; Tamais _ . Grammateus, ^
i Ring; Tamais, Alma K Wade;
Epistoleus, Drucilla Hargrett;
! Antipokritis, Gwendolyn Keith;
Keeper of Properties, Iiosamae
Perrin; Chaplain, Luretha Prince;
Parliamentarian, Nancy Walker;
I Official Accompanist, lone T.
‘FGCUS SOUTH, YOU WILL FIND BOMBINGS, SHOOTINGS AND DENIAL OF
THE BALLOT ”
i'll ju?r GLiucF across rus
TOO BAP HERE AT HOME-
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TEACHER WHO TURNED TO FARMING IS
SETTING EXAMPLE FOR NEIGHBORS
A Tennessee school teacher who
turned to farming 20 years
is setting a good example in sound
agricultural practices, says W. H.
Williamson, assistant state agent
of the Tennessee Extension Serv-
~ *“ pis'*"university
r *, J gradu- b
•
ate, who ___ 100 acres near
owns
j be a farmer,” reports L„ Mr. William-
he he get .I*.
tracked and ended up at Fisk and
! later at the University of Minne-
sota.”
However, when his parents died
I some 20 years ago, he returned to
t f, e farm and has been there ever
; «*•* '**< a " d daily
i tobace0 ’ C raln > vegetables,
and eggs.
“I have 20 brood cows, mostly
Angus with a few Holsteins and
i Jerseys mixed in,” says Mr. Henry.
I “This way, we have plenty of milk
j I for all the ca j veg alM j f or our cus-
t ome ,. s intown to whom we sell
a bout 40 gallons of buttermilk a
week, as well as fruits and vege-
| tables in season.”
j; rs Henry cans or home-
f ie ezes all the vegetables a n d
fruits they do not sell. Her home
agent, Miss Esther Hatcher, help
j to keep abreast of the latest meth-
LA. _ . METHODIST rnKlr CONK Art ADPPnVFC KUV £>d
congregations
i» v ». i VFRKITE MOORE
’ SHREVEPORT, La. (ANP)
P,y a vote of 273 to 118 the
iana Methodist Conference
! e«l a resolution passed last May at
the General Methodist Conference
in Minneapolis which will allow
i Negro and white Methodist
churches presented" to integrate.
As by the General
j Conference the proposal came the in
the form of an amendment to
1 Church Constitution, needing a
two-thirds majority to pass. Thir-
, te „ n more th#n the required vote
were received.
j The action of the Louisiana con-
ference came following a lengthy
di; .. u .. gion of the issue8 involved.
An Alexandria attorney, T. W.
' Holloman, called the
j "an opening ,n the dike which can-
i ! not be shut, without it the Gen-
aval Conference cannot bring about
He called for the
preservation of the traditions and
ideals of the South.
Dunmore. Sotor Fisher, the new
BasUeus - accepted her office with
I hu ” lility and di «*»ty.
A beautiful coffee server was
I P^iathm ‘of^her twT'yeaTs ‘ns
Basileus ‘ Besidcs those previously
j mentioned, other sorors in attend-
1 an ~ e were Allnc W - Joldon - Anita
^ Eugenia Durden and
Dorothy bams -
I -
SUPREME CT. REFUSES
Tf) RUVIFW *____* I \ \ * f ’
j
. Continued DomUage One.
'
11954.
I The case was carried to
Court of Appeals with the
tion of whether a Federal Court
! could declare a state
invalid.
The three-judge court issued an
order restraining and enjoining
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1937
| ods of
While his wife and sister are
| teaching school in nearby commun
ities, he is out in the field on his
I tractor, plowing rows of tobacco or
corn on the contour around t h e
i . f 0 n ini
s s
acre—the sixth highest in his
county.
a - la " d ea >’ ab ’ llty "“‘ P a !LvdL>dv»
He believes in farming efficient¬
ly. but he doesn’t believe in going
overboard buying machinery, Mr.
Williamson points out. He and a
neighbor have worked out a good
arrangement. One or the other ”,
I Sng S, man™ Sender,’
and feed grinder. They take turns
at sharing each other’s equipment.
Mr. Henry's goal is to acquire
I another 100 acres to expand his
\ pastures of ladino clover, orchard
grass, and other grazing so that
he may ultimately increase his
herd to 50 brood cows and two ^
registered bulls.
j “His farm is a good demonstra-
tion in sound practices for all his
neighbors,” says Mr. Williamson,
“It does a lot to make up for the
lack of an agent in his county,”
he adds.
Speaking for approval of the
proposal was Dr. Guy Hicks, chair-
man of the Louisiana Methodist
Conference. Dr. Hicks declared
j fails “If to the Louisiana this amendment, Conference may
| pass
: God have mercy on any delegation
going to the General Conference
j from the South.” Dr. Hicks eon-
i eluded by calling the legislation
! “the most democratic piece of leg-
| islation ever passed at a General
i Conference.”
| ' The the amendment Central reportedly Jurisdiction. abol- b£
iahee
the Methodist Church which, em¬
braces all Negro conferences , and
j i this jurisd iction is absorbed by the
1 w hiLe onnferen confcltnces ops -
whitu c0 J {c re„ ces have indicated
j wantc(J a ,, olitinn of the Cen-
tfa Jurisdictjon and its ctM .
CnceS inte * rated with othcrs '
-
j The vote canie by secret ballot
j resulting in victory for the advo¬
cates of desegregation.
the school officials of Orjpans
, County from “requiring and .per-,
j j school milting under segregation their of supervision.” races in any ■
| 1 Ilnge^‘to‘permit ehTl.Iren t' enmll
in such schools on a racially non-
discriminatory basis with all de-
j liberate speed as required by the
j decision of the Supreme Court.”
! In their decision Judges Rivers,
: rutt,c and Blwn - ftated that this
‘‘ Is a problem which wi!1 m uir{S
l
i the ut,noht patwnoi’. understand-
| L"*” Lt-neiosi y atu oiebeaiame
! BuTti
I not nullify the principle. And
that principle is that we are, all
. frccb Amcrlcans w,th
“f’. ? rn unfettered ’ a
i'*" " raJ E . oul way,
J s “ nr '°i.s imposed by man be-
| caUse of thl -' wov “ of God -”
This decision was sanctioned by
i the United States Supreme Court.