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“Why could vve not have learned from
llteiory? Why could vve not have peaceful bless?
and lawful means of extending tht 1
ings of freedom to all our people, irikpead
of having liberty extended through blood
and toil and wholesale destructfbn? Why
could we not have learned thatiwhen we
are claiming freedom for ourselves we
arc in a strong position, and in a very
weak position when we are denying that
very freedom ty others? Segregation by
force of law is a vestige and a hangover
from slavery days, and the sooner it. is
eliminated from our minds and from our
statute books the better.”
—Rev. Marion Boggs, Little Rock, Ark.
INSPIRED FIENDISHNESS?
We have no words in our vocabulary
with which to describe the inhumanity of
white men in Alabama, who renounced
their claim to decency by their mutilation
of a human being ostensibly because they
“wanted to (make a Negro) a race ex¬
ample.” The crime of these sadists shows'
to what depths of depravity human of beings
call, descend. V\ e hope the state Ala¬
bama will so act in this case as to relieve
us of the misgiving that justice has fled
the state entirely. Unhappily! we recall
that it is not uncommon for Negrohs to
be mistreated in the Birmingham; area. Tt
is'all too fresh in our minds that two Con¬
fessed white bombers were treed iii an
Alabama court, a fact which increases otir
misgiving about what will happen todhelte
self-confessed sadists.
This unspeakably a t roc ions crime
against human decency furnishes us the
opportunity to make an observation which
seems to us to follow logically from the
intemperate reactions of most southern¬
ers, especially during the decision last three years,
to the Supreme Court on segre¬
gation. As a matter of fact, while the
segregation case was pending l)gfor<; :th.v
CdMrt,. Aoutborn 1 governors, tegfsbitors,
and leading lawyers anticipated the
Court’s ruling by making or proposing a
whole raft of mew laws designed to cir¬
cumvent it, and some went so far as to
advocate defiaigc of the Court and the
Constitution of the United States. They
predicted violence and bloodshed would
follow the action of th > Court. This was
all irresponsible elements of white peofle
needed for fiiuijng ways of intimidating
Negroes amrvfoing violence to them and
their property on the slightest provoca¬
tion or no provocation at all. Why
shouldn’t open advocacy of defiance of law
by governors and attorneys general be a
cue for irresponsible people to adopt any
means to take things into their hands?
Doesn’t it sound like a promise of immun¬
ity if they adopt such means? Do .vve have
to search too deeply into experience to
find justification for our observation?
Defiance of law is defiance of law whether
in high or in low places. The guilt may
be on other bands as well as on thq,hands
of the confessed sadists.
A 0 SOLUTION
The proposal of Rep. Fowler to migrate
Negroes from the South to the least. West
and North is nothing to occasion alarm,
lt-is not entirely new, and neither needed
nor workable. Many attempts have been
made to move Negroes out of the South.
None of them worked. They failed for
many reasons. Negroes have been mov¬
ing away from the South at a rate that
has been alarming to other sections of the
country as well as to the South which not
too long ago made it unlawful for any¬
body to induce them to leave. It was wise
leadership for Negro leaders to advise
them to stay in the South which"Visede'd
thefn 1 * r eei iiomic reasons. HbwevOr,
Negro leaders were divided in opinion as
to the wisdom of such advice. ..The,-ma¬
jority of those who left or stayed* did so
uninfluenced hv the advice of their lead¬
ers. The likelihood is they will continue
to do so, whether .Mr. Fowler’s plan is
adopted by the Legislature or not:.
The plan poses several interesting ques¬
tions: What classes of Negroes will he
selected? Will Georgia want to get juJ.of
its more desirable Negro citizens or its
less desirable ones .’ Will otherejections'
agree to receive the less desirable? Who
will determine the suitability of the real
estate to tie offered to migrants?
We suspect most ot those whom Mr.
Fowler contemplates getting rid of have
no desire to pull themselves, root and
stock, and seek a new climate both social
and weather wise; who feel as other
Americans do that they have a. rigid to
live wherever they can afford to live;
who have a desire to enjoy the liberties
they fought to secure to Americans: who
have helped to create the I’mindal ion iifxm
which the South now bases its hopes and
ambitions to become the country’s fastest
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We propose that, instead of trying to
get rid of Negroes, a plan be promoted
to make living more satisfactory for Ne¬
groes in the South. Cities and real estate
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RESPONSIBILITY -■ i M. —
OUR
last We two have years commented article" ofU^.-yWhin l> Thomas the
Waring and on an by Hdifmhg'in f y
on one
a recent issue of the Virginia Quarterly
Review, both dealing with the same sub¬
ject but under different titles: the weak¬
nesses of Negroes in certain important
areas which determine social acceptability.
Since the Supreme Court decision and
even before it, we have felt that there
were some things the Court decision could
and did accomplish, but there were some
important things that it could not do,
that only Negroes themselves could and
should do for themselves. A Presbyterian
preacher of Little Rock, Arkansas, speak¬
ing to his congregation states our position
exactly. He says, “Are we prepared to
remove from our, minds and from our
statute books the legal hindrances that
stand in the way of full citizenship for
our Negro citizens? It is not in our power;
of course, to remove the hindrances that
Negroes impose upon themselves through
crime or ignorance or immorality. That
is something they must take into their
own hands.” We are sure there are others
who feel as vve do about this matter,
but it has appeared impossible so far,to
get any action among the leadership on
it. In last Sunday’s Constitution, Sibley
writing on the Unwed Mother’s Situation
in Georgia, points out the seriousness of
this particular problem and complains that
the leadership seems unconcerned about
doing anything “to help the Negro girl in
trouble or to prevent her getting into
trouble.” That 1600 out of eighteen hun¬
dred illegitimate babies born to unwed
mothers in three counties were Negro is
an alarming condition which ought to
challenge Negro leadership. Practically
the same challenge exists in other areas
of weakness which hamper and hold down
the Aspirations of the entire race for a
place of acceptance.
-4htr weaknesses, no* matter what the
cause, must ( be faced and recognized. It is
stupid and puerile not to do so. Negroes
in some cities are facing the situation and
are trying to do something about it. Ne¬
groes everywhere must do the same. It
helps nobody to deny, or try to ignore the
situation. Pharisaism is not the answer.
A DEPLORABLE AND HEINOUS
CRIME
(Reprinted from The Savannah Morning
News)
Two Ku Klux Klansmen and in Birmingham
have confessed that they .tour others
did a cruel job of butchery, using razor
blades and turpentine, on a feeble-minded
Negro they chose at random “to scare
hell out of.”
They admitted they went out looking
for the first Negro they could find follow¬
ing a Klan meeting for tHbe—expressed
purpose of venting their IV,n<ii;iRtF hatred
at the first opportunity. A..j^Lyear-old
part-time house painter, described as hav¬
ing the mind of a four-year-old. was
dragged bewildered to the meeting place
of- the Klan where he was severely beaten
and castrated by the crude Klansmen.
Turpentine was poured on the fresh
wounds, the victim was huddled into the
trank .of an automobile, and “thrown
out” near his Thorne where police found
him several hours later, lie was later
described as in “fair” condition in a Y'A
hospital where he was taken for treat¬
ment.
s> * *
Others who participated in this beastly
episode must he apprehended as rapidly as
possible. be
They should punished to the limit of
the law. They do not deserve nor should
not be shown a shred of mercy. Their
crime is unpardonable.
They have, at a critical time, provided
aid and comfort to tho enemies of the
South.
They have brought shame on their
fejiovv Southerners.
They have proved themselves only
slightly above animals. They have for¬
feited any right they may have had to
live As free men anti enjoy the respect
of their community.
They have been sadistically cruel.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUN*
Who Are The Negroes In
New Orleans, Is the Question
BY O. C. W. TAYLOR
dWSffif'SegvS Tress
new Orleans— way down
yonder in New Orleans where
there are the blacklist white folk
| and the whitest Mark folk in the
world, they are calling the roll to
S -(,(■ if it ran he determined just,
i who is white and who is not.
j Those who have been passing
! are on edge for it is hard to have
1 been wri te ami to be declared
' bjack again. Those who are really
white, and there are just a few of
these, do not seem to be worry¬
ing ut all.
They feel safe from the buz¬
zards of hate and segregation.
Thotje who are light skinned and
want to go to the other side are
keenly looking at what’s happen¬
ing. Many-who have been passing
are threatening to tell on many
' others who have been getting by.
Tbevbh 4 .<*H if caught up with.
I TOUt;If EKING A NEGRO
And there is no wonder that
' there is such n hubbub down there
: in deep Dixie. It is hard to be a
i Negro there. You. are kept away
! from all of the good things Ameri¬
ca has provided for its citizens;
I fine hotels, rcsturants, schools,
theaters, parks, playgrounds, etc.,
I and you are cornered off into a lit-
tie dirty spot in the town, a special
! place on .street cars, buses and
trains and juU labeled “impure”
j ir “untouchable.”
Dixie has helper; Negroes to
pass or attempt to pass the color
i 'the. The greed of the white man
j for the Negro woman's love and
affection has given rise to a light
‘ colored neither Negro nor
group
white. His love for some of these
mixed children has led him to aid
j them in passing. mulatfoes
| The influx' of from
| Haiti Where the blacks had
chased them but and their coming
Suggests Program To End
Racial Clashes
CHICAGO, Shp't. 5 * A pro¬
gram to end this city’s racial dis¬
turbances was proposed bv the
president of the Chicago NAACP
branch at a public hearing here
last week.
The Sept. 1 meeting was called
bv the Coordinating Council for
Civil Rights. A stat-#ient of \Vil-
krughby Abner, Chicago NAACP
president, read for him in his nb-
enco, dealt with ‘NAACP policy
jucuL act.km .regqrdipg., racial vio¬
lence such ap that which occurred
recently at Calumet Park.
Calumet Park was the scene of a
racial clash on July 28 when some
75 Negro picnickers were stoned
by whites and the windows of
some of the Negroes’ automobiles
mashed-
Mr. Abner’s statement held the
disturbances here to lie that Chi-
HER CREAM COMES TRUE
I Co .ued from Page One)
blcdm. England, before Queen
had ever captured this title,
heart set for was the women’s
]\e. had worked -fpr for seven
'
Dears.
So when she won the Forest
| Hills final match on last Sat-
urday in straight sets from
LOuise Brough of California to
become the first Negro player
to win this greatest of all
American tennis titles, h e r
i host cherished of all dreams
and ccme true.
Her overwhelming victory
over t h e veteran California
player was witnessed by 12.000
! -pectators including Vice Pres-
dent Richard Nixon who pre-
-ented her the championship
: trophy.
In commenting on her tennis
trirm-phs she said before the
PRESIDENT URGED TO NAME
RIGHTS COMMISSION MEMBERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 — The
| civil rights hill enacted by Con-
gress (in Aug. 29 “can mean much
; or little depending upon the poo-
j pie President Eisenhower appoints
! to carry out its provisions and the
sincerity with which they devote
themselves to the discharge of
their responsibilities,” asserted a
statement issued here on Sept. 1
by the Leadership Conference on (
Civil Rights. !
The Leadership Conference is
■■(imposed of 22 organizations. Roy
Wilkins. NAACP executive seere-
' tary, signed the joint statement on
behalf of the Association.
Urging tKc President to appoint
immediately an Assistant Attor-
They have refuted, forever, any excuse j
that might be given for the continuance |
of the organization in whose name they
acted. |
And they have caused other white peo¬ ]
ple. everywhere, to blush in anger at the
thought that these sub-human scum are
members of the same race.
to New Orleans with real money
iuis led citizens to forget the real
race and color o f the person and
1 only see the color of their money.
HAVEN’T PROVED IT YET
This week they teamed up to
prove thut Ralph Dupa.x was a
black man instead of a white man.
They have not proven anything
vet, but there are those who are
determined to do so.
Many Negroes have entered the
white group and have risen to
great heights. And they and their
families have stayed there. They
lave become interwoven with oth¬
er families of power and to have
turned them up as blacks would
have wrecked the community. i
POLICY KING PASSES
WIFE CAN'T
One of the kings of the numbers
game is reported to have pu-sed
Into the white group while his
Mack wife must remain in the
kitchen whenever company is
around. A public school principal
prefers the company n f low-stan-
; laid whites to that of high-type I
Negroes with whom she could 1
easily have social relations.
Many light-skinned persons, un¬
able to attend white schools, at¬
tend no schools and grow up igno-
; rant and illiterate but on the
border line of race where there
may be some who call them white
J whether public they high mean school it or teacher not. of
A
j ! over 35 years experience says Canal it is
pleasing to pass through the
Street department stores and see '
the number of Negro (?) girls I
employed as clerks. j
It is rather late to call the fig¬ |
ures in this racial dance in New !
Orleans. There has been too much J
j cream in the coffee already and |
who can tell whom or what? Can I
you ?
disturbances here to be that hi-
, I
cage is “a segregated citv — setr-
I regated housing and do facto seg-
i negated schools are the rule, not I
the exception.” !
W : th this situation, the state¬ -i
ment continued, “how can there he
racial friendships and amity with¬
out racial understanding? And
how can there be racial under¬
standing without association?”
One part of Mr. Abner’s pro¬
gram dealt with Several methods
of working toward open occu¬
pancy housing. These methods in¬
cluded support by the city admin¬
istration of anti-discrimination
housing legislation at both the city
and state level and instuctions to
the police to protect citizens exer¬
cising the right to live in other
i than all-Negro neighborhoods.
the first time a Negro
what, no doubt, she had her
of America, a prize ,
“Words cannot express how I
I thank God for giving me !
ability and opportunity to
appear here. I hope to wear the [
crown with dignity and hu-
miiity.”
,. Now i have been doubly
honored. I won at Wimbledon
before Queen Elizabeth II and
now j have won here before our
V j ce president. It was a thrill
to win Wimbledon but it was a
3Umax t0 win here before so
many of my friends and well-
-wishers.”
After a much deserved rest, |
Miss Gibson will continue her :
quest for further tennis charn- I I
pionships, starting with the Col-
orado at Denver.
ney General and six Commission¬
ers “genuinely devoted to the ad¬
vancement of civil rights,” the
statement President does predicted bill that if the j
so the “can be¬
come an important, turning point j
in the struggle toward equality
for all Americans.” ,
The Conference organizations
pledged their “whole-hearted co- f
operation in every effort to realize i
the purposes of the legislation,”
and recorded their thanks to
"those Congressional supporters of !
civil rights in both parties who
fought for a stronger bill and by
their fight made this one possible.”
“We trust that the enactment of
law, the first in 82 years, i
Otrrs APPOIX TM ex T—
CARE, the nonprofit overseas aid
genw, todav announced the ap-
pointinent of Antoine G. Golden,
if 132 Shepard Avenue, Teaneck,
X. J., as director of its Treasury
md Insurance Division.
Mr. Golden, 40, a native of
Fredel ikstad, St. Croix, Virgin Is¬
lands, has been a staff member of
CARE for the past nine-and-a-half
/ears.
Mr. Golden attended St. Pat-
"ick’s Parochial school in Frcd-
erikstad and the Immaculate Con-
ception College of Port of Spain,
Trin'dad, BWI, before he joined
his father, Arnold M. Golden, in
representing American shipping
• nd business firms in the Virgin
1 lands.
In 1934, upon his marriage to
the former Miss Mildred E. Clarke
of St.'Croix, he joined the Virgin
Island Company, a U. S. Govern-
ment agency/for the economic
habilitation of the Virgin
as a cost accountant. After seven
Years’ service with the company he
became a payroll clerk at the U.
S. Submarine Base, St. Thomas,
and later was transferred as
chief clerk to the Navy’s Public
Works Department of the base.
After World War II, he served
inspector of . the OPA enforce- j.
as V
division . , . St. Thomas for ,
ment in
two years and later established
the first bus transit system for the
islands.
In January, 1948, soon after
moving permanently tm the United
States, Mr. Golden joined the
CARE accounting staff. At first
an accounting clerk, he rose to
junior and senior accountant, act-
ed for a year and a half as as-
sistant director for the CARE
Surplus Commodities Division, and
became administrative assistant
and eventually supervisor in the
Accounting Division.
Mr. Golden is the father of two
children. His son, John Arnold
Golden, 22, has been an employee
of the Fairlawn, N. J., Western
Electric plant, since the end of
his recent three-year service with
the U. S. Air Force. A daughter,
Geralda Adela, 20, is the wife of
Welcome, of the Teaneck
address. The young couple are
the parents of a five-month-old
daughter, Michelle Antoinette.
HAITI TO ELECT NEW
PRESIDENT
PORT At PRINCE (AND )•--
The military junta that has ruled
Haiti since the oustei of anK
12th aspirant to the pres-
idency of the Negro republic, last
week set Sept. 22 as the long-
awaited date for the election of a
new president and Congress.
Some 800,000 men and women
are eligible to vote.
The election, to be held on a
Sunday, will mark the third at¬
tempt at selecting a new president
and legislative body since a gen¬
eral strike last December forced
^ He
Gen. IHul Magoile into exile.
reportedly tried to stay on as pres¬
ident after his term expired under
the constitution.
In the- wake of Magloire’s oust-
er, a dozen candidates have vied
for the office, all unsuccessfully.
Finally the military junta took
over.
NASHVILLE INTEGRA¬
TED SCHOOL
(Continued from Page One)
x
scene.
A fetal of twenty-seven white
persons have been arrested
since demonstrations began on
Monday against the mixing of
white and Negro pupils in the
-Aihcols.
Ii) the seven schools in which
integration was started in the
first grades Monday, only a few
Negro pupils have registered at
any one of the schools. At the
sehool dynamited but a single
Negro child was enrolled.
will mark the beginning of a new
era — an era in which the Con-
sjress of the United States will
move steadily forward to secure
to every citizen of the United
States the rights guaranteed by
the Constitution and the Supreme
Court,” the statement declared.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1957
TREND
By TED YATES
An Essential Reform
Americans are paying high (axes to Uncle Sain — the
top rate is a near-confiscatory 91’<. 'I his, to put it mildly,
is detrimental to continued economic growth since it penal¬
izes hard work, risk-taking and achievement.
It's essential that income lax reform be enacted at this
session of Congress; the longer it’s delayed, the more diffi-
\ cult it will be to attain.
Rep. A. N. Sadlack (R.-Conn.) has introduced a bill in
the House that deals with the rea tax prohlcm-the high
and discriminatory rates. His bill provides tor uniform
annual reductions for each bracket of income tax over a
5-year period. gradual and orderly income tax reduc¬
This proposal for
tion. reducing individual and corporate income taxes to a
top rate of 12V, would encourage economic expansion. It
holds a hope for fair and equitable taxation.
4,000 COLORED FARMERS BORROWED
IN
More than 4,000 colored fanners I
reeeived loans totaling close to $10
m jllinn f rom the Farmers Home
Administration during the fiscal I
year 1957, the U. S. Department j
j 0 f Agriculture estimated this week, \
j xhe estimate does not include
j those colored farmers who were :
i already operating their farms with !
j Farmers Home credit and received
! additional loans, or those who re- !
ce i V ed emergency credit in drought
and flood areas.
The loans went for a variety of
needs designed to develop and im¬
prove family-type farmers farms. loans A total ] j
of 153 obtained to
^uy f alms develop 0 f their own, their or present to en- j j
(holdings ] ar g e or
) into economic units; ID
I received loans to build or repair
their homes; 10 were given credit
.i 'aid . i in • carrying ■ out . sound i sou -i and i
i | water conservation .. practices; .. and , t 1
; 3,875 obtained loans to buy
chinei'y, livestock, fertilizer, in¬
secticides, and to take care of other
operating expenses.
Since the loan programs were
established 20 years ago, the
Farmers Home Administration and !
its predecessor agency have made fam-j j
loans to 280,000 Negro farm
ilies. These total more than $300
j families million. More received than loans 10,000 to purchase of the
;
I family-type farms of their own.
SECOND RICHEST WEST INDIAN TAKES
ILL IN JAMAICA
KINGSTON, Jamaica (ANP).
—II. G. J. Lindsay, the second
richest colored West Indian who
fought his way doggedly from
(poverty sick his to opulence, plush is reported
I at Mannings Hill
J | Road address.
Residing just few chains off
where the Caribbean’s first rich-
jest single Negro (Percy Junior)
1 lives in Constant Spring, Lindsay
said to value in cash and prop-
'■rty, far over $2,000,000.
born o . a ii, lonely boy who , grew nn
in the squalid cane areas of St.
j fhonias where his poor parents
atru|r(cled to e(!uip him with mod _
; crate elementary school education,
L]n(Jsay got his first detormina-
tion to kick himself to the top
vhen one day, a Chinaman refused
to sell him the type of goods his
j j.””’ mother would wish him fetch from
Kr(K . ery
“I shall return here,” he said in
a boyish boast to the Chinaman,”
and open a bigger and better shop
than yours.”
Few days later at the age of
16 he boarded a boat bound for
Cuba. From there he traveled sev¬
eral Latin American countries and
finall yfound himself in New York,
where he finished educating him¬
self at a business college.
He did return to Duckenfield,
St. Thomas, and fulfill his dream
| of opening the first real rural
j ! merchandise store. But fired with
the zeal to prove to his fellowmen
| that Negroes were as blessed with
talent as others, he traveled again.
When he returned to Jamaica,
he was just in time to clinch the
I license for the West Indies biggest
Hear Nixon To Aid Drive To
Register 5 Million Negroes
WASHINGTON, D. C.
—Vice President Richard M.
on is expected to join the
Martin Luther King and
members of the Southern
tian Leadership Conference
j spearheading a drive to
some 5,000,000 Negro voters
*he South this fall, it was
i n<)Unt 'ed.
Re '/ Km *' k ’ adl ’ r of thc
ful , Montgomery bus boycott,
the drive would be waged by
I large organization of Negro
; isters on a $200,000 budget
| will utilize all available facets
| j the "We law. intend
♦ to use all
! of the iaw and to appeal to
Justice Department whenever it
Altogether, during the 1957 fis-
cal year, white and colored farm-
borrowed $356.3 million from
Farmers Home. During the same
period, farmers repaid the agency
$294,693,000 on previous loans,
leaving a balance outstanding as
of last June of $1,013,180,000.
The loans were extended to farm
families who had or could obtain
the land, labor, and other resources
needed for successful farming, but
who could not obtain from local
sources the credit needed to fi¬
nance their operations. All loans
were accompanied, to the extent
necessary, by technical assistance
in planning and carrying out sound
farming operations.
During fiscal 1957, in connection
with the Rural Development Pro-
gram, the agency was authorized
to make , operating loans , to ... farmers
who own less than family-Jype
farms. The agency was also au¬
thorized to make real estate loans
primarily for refinancing debts.
Approximately $4,533,000 was
loaned for operating expenses to
3,045 farmers who had part-time
off-farm employment. These in¬
eluded 659 colored farmers. $■’?,(!),’?iL'OOO ,The
agency also advanced
for farm development to oSS'farm-
ers who own less than faniily’-lype
farms.
j network of transportation. His
! buses supplied between Kingston
j | urban nearly district. every He conceivable extewdcxj.ihim- sub¬
j se lf by capturing also, the ,b*ggest
1 “IK' 0 of rural Jamaica^,, cu^for
| transport ^ onu ^ system. the >B „ job , of
! ' )U1 years ago,
P |(,v i ( bng a public transport sys-
I *' cm ^ l>r Kingston, got so very
\ Lige that the public began howl-
{fbat j P lalned be thcn was of lagging. « b'reat He deal co.m- of
> >
Government obstacles and aabo-
tage. Finally, the Government
wrested the system from him, gave
it to an English combine with
headquarters in London.
He called the Government’s ac¬
tion, “an organized feudal system
is :w,inst lhe Nl ’« ro ,H ' in “
at the top of any gigantic con¬
cern.”
With vast sums of money and
know-how, Lindsay about two
years ago, sets out for Liberia. A
perfect effigy of President Wil¬
liam V. S. Tubman, the Jamaican
won the favor of many 1 East
Africans. He bought about 800
square miles of Liberian forest
and started a Liberian co-oper¬
ative marketing system. He plan¬
ned the republic’s most ambitious
sugar industry and arranged to
buy American machinery to light¬
en the Liberian forest.
Still with this major plan in
process, the industrialist and busi¬
nessman has worked himself to a
break-down, lie is under physi¬
cians’ orders in his Jamaica resi¬
dence, but figures that life may
be kind enough to him to fulfill
his African dream.
necessary,” Rev. King stated.
With Vice President Nixon sup-
' porting the drive, indicated by
as
j Rev. King, the organization expects
j to enlist large contingents of Ne¬
gro voters in towns and cities
throughout the South. But the
campaign would be waged by
Southern Negroes in order to avoid
charges of outside interference.
San Francisco was the first
city in the nation to build a
ciivc opera house and to vote
muncipal support of its sym¬
phony, according to the San
Francisco Chamber of Corn-
rnerce.