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Little Things That Hurt
It oiitfht not be too (fifficult to under¬
stand why Negroes are sensitive about
certain labels or terms of description, of
indignities which may seem too small to
kick-up a row over. It should not be dif¬
ficult especially if one remembers the
apparent intention of those who use these
taboos, shall we call them.
The failure to recognize the fact that
Negroes have moved a long way from the
situations out of which these taboos
arose is responsible for the continued use
of them. VVt* recall that not too many
years ago, it was common to read in news¬
papers that “a big burly Negro” did this
or that, or to be called “uncle” or “big
boy,” or “auntie” by salespeople in stores.
They could be talking to a preacher, or
a college professor, or a doctor, or the
most respected Negro in the community.
However, it is fair to say that the most
frequent and persistent offenders are
persons of whom too much can be ex¬
pected with respect to good manners
or common courtesy. Not only are labels
and disliked terms the cause for resent*
ment, but the refusal to use,the titles
necessary to distinguish men from wom¬
en, and married women from single wom¬
en is among the little things that are
cheap and unnecessary, which hurt a
justly sensitive people who are crtizeiwuyn striving'
to become worthy of good
it doesn’t help to say that those most
often guilty of ignoring the ^dignity of
Negroes are most often those «ljp tlo not
recognize the fact of human dignity at
all.
A few days ago, a reporter who inter¬
viewed a famous Negro baseball star end¬
ed up a generous comment on Frank Rob¬
inson of the Cincinnati Reds — a very
much deserved comment — by saying
Tebbets, the manager, was satisfied when
lie saw “his kinky-haired” boy out there
in left field.
Frank Robinson is one of the Negro
athletes who are giving good account of
themselves in major league baseball. It
is to be said to the credit of sports writ¬
ers that they have long ago ceased to
identify athletes by their color or race,
so that unless one knows better he would
hardly know that Frank Robinson or Wes
Covington or Hank Aaron were Negroes.
The use of the language, “kinky-haired”
boy was like a dash of cold water. It
was a thoughtless and gratuitous use of
a term which, because of the original pur¬
pose of its use, Negroes dislike and are
sensitive about.
The Important Negro Vote
Writers and politicians are showing
continuing concern about what Negro
voters will do in coming elections. Will
they go overwhelmingly for the Demo¬
crats to discharge the obligation they feel
they owe to the party that dispensed al¬
phabetical welfare? Will they vote for
the Republicans because of the party's
traditional interest in them, manifested
since the advent of Lincoln and the Eman¬
cipation, in the passage of Xllith, XIVth
and XVth Amendments? Will they be in¬
fluenced by the passage of a civil rights
bill by Congress, or the intervention of
the President in the Little Rock affair and
by the reaction of the South to Little
Rock’s effort to implement the Supreme
Court’s decision on segregation? It is
natural for Negroes to show resentment
or approval of these action. However, it
is difficult for political analysts to do
more than guess about what will happen,
how the Negro vote will go. The diffi¬
culty is increased by population move¬
ments from country to cities in the South,
and from the South to urban centers out¬
side the South. Negroes w|jo migrate from
country to city take with them their tra¬
ditionary or customary fears, defeatism
and lack of interest in voting, and drift
into situations which isolate them from
sound leadership that is not too abund¬
ant in most Southern cities. The over¬
all picture is not very different for Ne¬
groes who migrate from Southern cities
to cities in the East, North, West and
Mid-West. They, are arriving in Chicago
at the rate of 2,000 a month, in Los
Angeles at the rate of 1.700 a month.
Many of them with hearts full of bitter¬
ness at the South, will become voters and
will do whatever they can to get back at it.
It Is our feeling that it will not be too
difficult for good leadership to influence
most of them who have any interest
in voting. There is evidence that Negro
leadership in the whole country outside
the South is beginning to realize that the
battle over civil rights legislation is not
settled; that it will not be settled right
as long as Southern reactionaries are
dominant in the Congress. As we have
pointed out often, the big problem for Ne¬
gro voters in the heavy voting states out¬
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side the South will be to find a way to
recqpcile, their loyalty to the Democratic
Party with their desire and their right to
full American citizenship which the
Southern wing of the Democratic Party
blocked for 82 years and threatens to
block it further or to greatly limit it.
Southern politicians have shown great
concern about the Negro voters who have
lied the South because it will be they who
may determine who will control the or¬
ganization of the next Congress. The in¬
cessant charge that the Administration’s
civil rights stand and Supreme Court rul¬
ings are such as they are in order to win
the support of “minority voters,” is cam¬
paign fodder.
Neither all nor a majority of the Ne¬
groes of the South will leave the South.
Really the South can not afford to let
them leave. More of them will become
voters. It would seem to be a part of vis¬
ion and wisdom for the leadership of the
South to welcome and encourage Negroes
to become voters. An intelligent Negro
electorate, participating in the enjoyment
of the rights and privileges of American
citizenship with all the opportunities that
are attached to American citizenship,
could solve the South’s problems. Negroes
ask no more than this. Less than this is
; umicpeptable.
A Signal Honor
We salute Benjamin S. Adams who has
beerf ekV-ttsFl'cn-efnan of a trial jury in this
county. He was one of three Negroes
on the jury, a fact which indicates that
he was the choice of white men also. Our
congratulations go to the members of that
jury. It is a matter of gratification that
this should happen in Chatham County at
a time when most people are permitting
themselves to believe that they are in the
grip of tension and bitterness between the
races. We have thought a great deal of
the tension is due to the way people allow
themselves to be influenced other than by
the facts of life as they experience them
day bv day. Should the nice people we
meet every day and the people we Iry to
be nice to every day affect what we call
racial tension? We are not pleased with
every thing that happens in Chatham
County, but we are pleased with the good
things that happen. The election of Ren.
S. Adams is one of them. We congratulate
him and the fellow-members of the jury
that elected him.
Ah Sputnik No. 1
The launching of Sputnik, No. 1, is an
amazing achievement, even in this won¬
derful age of events which become out-of-
date in a day, which become obsolescent
almost at the moment of their beginning.
Observations of Sputnik itself reveal that
its capers defy prediction as to what it
may do next, how long it will live, what
laws it seems to be following or violating.
However, there is one thing certain: Sput¬
nik has won the race for Russia for being
first in launching a man-made satellite.
Underneath the calm displayed by most of
official America and the courtesy of con¬
gratulating the Russians upon their
achievement, lies down inside a
smarting mixed with chagrin and political
hysteria. Scientists express no surprise
that Russia launched Sputnik and insist
there was no race between the two coun¬
tries. We have been inclined to be amused
at Russia’s claim for credit for many of
the world’s great discoveries and inven¬
tions, but we have to admit that there can
be no dispute or amusement about the fact
of Sputnik. There is something else we
can not dispute or be amused at: ItCissia
has been concentrating heavily upon the
teaching of science and mathematics for
a long time in its schools so that the aver¬
age high school student by the time of his
graduation has had “five years of physics
and four years of chemistry” and a pro¬
portionate amount of mathematics. Russia
has been training scientists without stint.
It has been using its human resources to
the full, and it should not have been sur¬
prising to us that she has taken the lead
in scientific output in terms of intercon¬
tinental missiles and the launching of an
earth satellite. And, so call it a propa¬
ganda stunt if we will, Russia’s launching
of Sputnik has given her a decided edge
militarily speaking, in terms of psycho¬
logical effect. The poorly disguised hys¬
teria of the West is evidence of this. There
is as yet no telling what Sputnik’s launch¬
ing will do to the thinking of nations out¬
side Russia’s or the sphere of influence of
the West, who are teetering on the edge of
decision as to which they will yield. Some
of them have not fallen to the allurements
and propaganda of Russia, but this dis¬
play of Russian power may do something
to the world's population becoming more
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Between The Lines
15v Dean Gordon li. Hancock for ANP
Race i’n jndioe mul a Nation's
Embarrassment,
When the writer came to Vir¬
ginia Union University in 1921 to
<»rgftnjae a department of econom¬
ic rt -and sociology, one of the first j
| courses--; in race relations, us such,
j ever offered by a colLege/or uni-
I versify in this country was started.
| Siwe that long, agp offering, there
I are today hundreds if not thou-
j sands of race relations courses of-
j | fered by the colleges and universi-
ties of the nation,
j j In that very first course of we
dwelt long on the evils segre¬
gation and race prejudice and even
then it was easy to point out the
casual relation between the two.
There has been for many years a
friendly but serious argument be¬
tween one of, my white contem¬
porary writers and me as to which
| causes the other, race prejudice i
jr segregation.
Arguing such question is much
like arguing the question as to
which came first the egg or the
hen, so close is the relation. But
philosophers have long since con¬
cluded that the hen came first, in-
as much as that which is actual
must precede that which is poten¬
tial.
Tire hen is actual and the egg
is potential. There is some such
and segregation. It is thit writer’s
conclusion that, whereas segrega¬
tion causes race prejudice and
race prejudice’ Auses t segregation,
segroj§iti6ii f was caused in the
At the conclusion of that first
course in race relations, the writer
wrought out the Latin phrase
“I’nitiudieuigi --generis delendum
est” which being interpreted
means “Race prejudice must be
destroyed.” Cato the old Roman
came to the conclusion that the
only hope for Rome to survive
was to destroy Carthage; for he
saw that Rome had either to de¬
stroy Carthage or be destroyed by
Carthage.
There is something just as def¬
inite about race prejudice and the
nations’ survival. It is becoming
more and more evident that unless
tkv, natioiiji. dgijtjroy pace prejudice
they will one by. one be destroyed
by it. The late H. G. Wells one
of tiie world’s greatest historians
and philosophers was going to the
heart of the matter when he said
that race prejudice is the worst
Ptjbjjrg ii» the life of mankind: today.
Wells said that; he spoke
DIV. 1 IV, UCS
(Co"firmed from Page One)
tuber 22, 8 p.m. at the West Broad
j I members Street YMCA. of the At team this will time begin all
their .round-up donations and
I pledges. Dates on which reports
| are to be made will be announced
at Tuesday’s meeting. All persons
taking’’part in' the campaign are
requested to attend and receive
| their working material. Refresh-
i mqqts. will bg served.
erately when he made ’ such
ominous observations of his time.
What is going on currently in
the ’ South in general and Little
Rock, Ark., in particular, moves
me to write that unless somehow
race prejudice can be banished,
it is going to destroy this nation,
bought with the price of sweat and
tears and blood.
Race prejudice with a large sec¬
tor of our people is a religion
that takes precedence of every¬
thing. We are toid in the Bible
Thou shalt have no other gods
before me.” But even the casual
observer can note the fact that
racism is today put above God
and above Jesus Christ and His
teachings.
Race prejudice is not only placed
above God arid tiie teachings of
His Son but above the Supreme
Court and the welfare and safety
of the nation. There are today
millions in the South that would
r ather see the nation destroyed
than to obey the command of
Jesus to be brothers with the Ne¬
groes.
The tilings that are happening
in Little Rock are liable to happen
anywhere , and this , . makes it . all , tne .
more dangerous for our great coun¬
try. Tlrere are millions that would
rather see the Negro slaughtered
a la Hitler than to receive him as
full-fledged citizen of the country.
Our nation stands today embar¬
rassed in the eyes of the world.
Our vaunted democracy is being
moqju-d today in the uttermost
paris ol the caith.
Why you ask? Because race
prejudice, raging in Little Rock,
I is belittling our great country be-
tore the peoples of the earth, i he
I United States has poured its bii-
lions here and there about the
globe; and what does it amount
to in the face of goings on in Lit¬
tle Rock and elsewhere about the
nation.
These ugly happenings are a
terrible scar upon the fair face
of our country’s record before the
nations. What is now taking place
in Little Rock will take place else¬
where when prejudiced men and
women have had their way and in
the meantime our nation is under¬
going gradual destruction.
Race prejudice must be destroy¬
ed by this nation or our nation will
be destroyed by it. Our enemies
need no greater comfort than the
current display of race prejudice.
MR. TOLBERT DIED
LAST NIGHT
(Continued from Page One)
I end came.
Mr. Tolbert was a native Sa-
: vannahian. Prior to his recent
| illness he was a pressman at
: the Herald Publishing Company,
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by the Bynes-Royall
j Fune ral Home.
; The deceased is survived by
his wife. Mrs. Doris T. Tolbert;
and more nationalistic, two-thirds of
whom are colored, to whom Sputnik and
I.iftle Rock Arkansas, U. S. A., may fur¬
nish just the little nudging they need to
move over on the side of Communist Rus¬
sia. Who can tell?
vfi: or fl
daughter,Esther Tolbert;
son, IlQ.i^tpn L. Tolbert, HI;
and father, Houston L. Tolbert,
Sr. :oriJ
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
GBSFRVES BIBLE
RELIGIOUS ED. WEEK
Tiie Children’s Department of
Carnegie Library will observe Na¬
tional Bible and Religious Educa¬
tion Week October 14-26. The
theme: “Have You Met Your Bible
Friends?” A very colorful dis¬
play will include the following
hooks:
Alien, author, The Ten Com¬
mandments; Battle, Boys And
Girls Who Knew Jesus; Bowie,
The Bible Stories For Boys And
Girls — Old Testament; Bowie,
The Bible Stories For Boys And
Girls — New Testament; Blyton,
Before i Go To Sleep; I)e Jong,
Bible Days; Evers, In The Begin¬
ning; Fanehiotti, Stories from The
Bible; Paris, Old Testament Stor¬
ies; Faris, New Testament Stories;
Field, Prayers For A Child; Fitch,
One God; House, A Girl’s Prayer
Book; Johns, My Friend, God;
Jones, Bible Stories; Jones, Tell
Me About The Bible; Jones, Tell
Me About Heaven; Juergens, The
Big Book of Favorite Bible Stor¬
ies; Ilingsley, The Heroes; Lillie,
I Will Build My Church; Madison,
pkture Stories From THl , Life
Of Christ; Marshall, Friends With
God; Moore, Children’s Prayers
! For Every Day; Petersham, David;
j | Petersham, Joseph And His Broth-
ers; Petersham, Ruth; Pyite. The
| Story Of Religion; Rosage, Hail!
: I The Altar Boy; Segner, Bible
| Stories; Smart, A Promise To
Keep; Smither, Early Old Testa- i
ment Stories; Smither, First
Be Called Christians; Smither,
Later Old Testament Stories;
j Steeple, Bible Stoifes; jA ,Gold's Suter, First A Book Loy Of
s
\ Prayer Thomas, If I’d Been
i Bora In Bethlehem; Trent, Al-
[ ways There is God; Trent, Stories
Of Jesus* ‘ Tfeht, To Church We
Go; Tuliby, A Picture Dictionary
Of The Bible; Walpole, A First
Book AbwtlfiWj Watson, My Lit¬
tle I’.oofy, A-VpM God; Werner,
Bible Stuph“^ ; j£or Boys And Girls;
Werner, .*.-’** j^efpc^ ' ■ Of The Bible; Wol-
Werner,.First Bible Stories; '
cott, God Cares For Me.
How many of these have you
read ?
Suggestions To Survivors
Of Deceased Veterans
: Four suggestions to aid sur¬
vivors of deceased veterans in fII-
j ing claims for compensation or
| pension under new laws enacted by
the last session of Congress were
j offered today by Mr. William G.
j Gnann, Contract Representative of
the Veterans Administration Of¬
fice, 35 Bull Street, Savannah,
Georgia. By following these sug-
gestions, Mr. Gnann said, surviv-
ors will expedite adjudication of
their claims.
1. If the veteran’s death certi¬
ficate does not contain a state¬
ment as to cause of death, it should
be accompanied by a certificate
from the attending physician,
showing dates of treatment and
cause of death.
2. A widow filing a claim
should furnish the record of her
marriage to the veteran. If she
or the veteran were previously
married. she should, if possible,
furnish copies of death or divorce
SATlHI)*?'. OCTOWEH T957
TREND
By TED YATES
The Real ‘ Exploiters’
The McClellan Committee hearings show that it is not.
employers who are exploiting workers in h.s country but
those union leaders who make use of dictatorial power they
wield bv virtue of compulsory membership to enrich them¬
selves and their stooges at the expense of the rank-and-file.
Rut their greed in this respect is not the most serious
aspect of compulsory unionism. The affront to the dignity
of the individual worker and his basic rights as a free
American is even more deplorable.
When a man is forced to join a union and subject him¬
self to union discipline to make a living for his family, he
can neither cry out in protest nor resign when the self-
appointed and self "perpetuating leaders of the union betraj
his trust.
The consequences of such immoral and un-Aifierican
compulsion have been placed on the public record b\ several
Congressional investigations, of which the McClellan (om-
miltee’s is the latest.
certificates to establish that the
previous marriages were dissolved.
3. If minor children are among
the survivors, birth or baptismal
records should be furnished, con¬
taining the names of both par¬
ents and date of birth. If the
children were adopted, a copy of
the court order should be provided.
4. Parents filing a claim must
j establish their relationship to the
veteran by furnishing VA with a
certified copy of the veteran’s
birth or baptismal certificate con-
taining the names of both parents.
Detailed information about com-
pensation and pension claims is i
available at the VA Office in Sa¬
vannah, Ga. Mr. Gnann said.
BOSTON SYMPHONY
EMPLOYS FIRST
NEGRO ARTIST
IIY SAMUEL PERRY .1R.
For Associated Negro Prtss
BOSTON, Mass. (ANP). —
Oritz M. Walton, whose musical
ability on a double base was al¬
ready known to members of the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,
this week became the first Negro
member of the famous Boston
Symphony Orchestra.
The formal announcement of his
joining the orchestra came the
day before the opening of the 77th
season in Symphony Hall.
Pending the result of the con¬
tractual arrangements with the
Buffalo Philharmonic, where
young Walton, who is 23, played
for the past two seasons, will be
one of the youngest members of ■
the Boston Symphony’s regular |
complement.
“It is sort of like Jackie Robin¬
son getting into big league base¬
ball,” commented young Dalton.
“It comes at an opportune time,”
he continued, “and I think there is
a change of attitude around the
country.
“Formerly, a young Negro
studied sax or trumpet because he
could probably get work only in
dan6e bands. Now there seems to
i, e openings for string players.”
A spokesman lor the Boston
Symphony Orchestra said simple
that the orchestra took “no notice
0 f Walton as a Negro, but simply
very gifted bass player,”
FREEDOM FUND
DINNER OFF TO
GOOD START
The 1957 Freedom Fund Dinner,
sponsored by the NAACP, got off
to a strong start last week with
the naming of 100 prominent fig¬
ures—in the entertainment,, busi¬
ness, labor, religious and judicial
fields—to a sponsoring committee
for the $100 per couple Ellington-
Rickey Testimonial Dinner, to tie
held on November 22 at the Hotel
Roosevelt in New York City.
Jackie Robinson, chairman of the
Association’s Freedom Fund Cam¬
paign and dinner committee, made
the announcement.
The dinner, which is expected
to attract more than 2,000 people,
will honor Branch Rickey. Sr.,
formerly general manager of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, and Duke El¬
lington, talented composer and
orc hestra leader,
Mr. Robinson told of his deep
admiration for Mr. Rickey who,
as manager of the Brooklyn Base¬
ball Club, opened the door to Ne¬
groes in professional baseball. He
also cited Mr. Ellington as having
consistently worked for the Negro 1
cause throughout his long career,
Coneurrently, Robinson said that .
Steve Allen, star of NBC-TV’s j
“The Steve Allen Show,” had ac- j
cepted the invitation of acting as ]
toastmaster to the National Free-j
dom Fund Dinner.
Named co-chairmen of the spon-
soring committee were Mrs. Effie
A. Gordon, Rye, N. Y.; Dr. Harry
Greene, Philadelphia; Kivip Kap¬
lan, Boston; Dr. Alf E. Thomas,
Detroit; Dr. Cecil Marquez, Pound
Ridge, N. Y.; Oscar Hammerstein,
III, the Hon. George Gregory, *
Mrs. Rose Morgan Louis, Dr. C.
B. Powell, the Rev, James H. Rob
inson and Cornelius McjQougald,
all of New York City, li
Persons in various sections of
the nation have been asked to
serve on the sponsoring commit¬
tee some of whom include Dr. Al¬
gernon D. Black, Mrs. Marguerite
Belafonte, Mrs. Ralph J. Runche,
Mrs. Benjamin A. Coheb, Nat
“King” Cole, Sammy DaVis, Jr.,
Jinx Faikenberg, the ReV. John
LaFarge, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
John T. Patterson, Jr., Dr. C. B.
Powell; the Rev. James H; Robin¬
son, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
the Hon. Meier Steinbrink and the
Hon. Stuyvesant Wainwrfght.
Each member of the colnmittee,
said Robinson, has been ikked to
raise $1,000 through the sale of
tickets to the dinner. Thq Asso¬
ciation hopes to raise $100,000 for
the NAACP national budget. It is
also hoped that the .(Jjnner will
stimulate participationy&rwl inter¬
est in life membership^.-jn the
NAACP.
Credit will be offered to any
ticket purchaser to the dinner as
an initial payment on ,a $500
NAACP life membership. Among
eminent life members are, Jawa-
harlal Nehru, Mrs. I’rapklin D.
Roosevelt, Goodwin Miss J. Lena Knight Jtprn’e, of Cali¬ Gov¬
ernor
fornia, William C. ri® Rich-
ard Rodgers, - - Duke [igjton, A.
™ lh P Randol P h and Samm Jf Davis *
Jr.
“People everywhere, both Negro
and white,” stated Robinsbn, “are
deeply disturbed about what has
happened in Little Rock, Nashville
and Charlotte, as well as in Bir¬
mingham. They want to know
what they can do to help. They
are responding with pledges and
an overwhelming support for our
Freedom Fund Dinner.”
DR. LAWLESS NAMED
TO CH'CAGO BOARD
OF HEALTH
CHICAGO, (ANP) — Dr. T. K.
Lawless, internationally famed
dermatologist, last week was ap-
pointed by Mayor Richard J. Daley
to the city’s Board of Health and
became the first Negro to win
such an appointment.
His appointment came as a re¬
sult of an ordinance calling for
increasing the board from five to
nine members.
Dr. Lawless said the appoint¬
ment came as a complete surprise
to him, as he did not learn about
it until it was announced in the
local newspapers. His duties so
far have not been defined.
The appointment to the board
was only one of the many achieve¬
ments of Dr. Lawless in recent
years. Recognized as one/ of the
world’s leading dermatologists, Dr.
Lawless has been credited with
curing hundreds of rare and baf¬
fling skin diseases.
Dr. Lawless recently returned
from a six-week tour of western
Europe and the Near East, includ¬
ing a visit to Israel, where the
wing of a recently built hospital
was named for him. R
A physician as well as a;'derma¬
tologist, Dr. Lawless holds mem¬
bership in several top .medical
associations. He is a member of
the International Congress of
Dermatology, the American Med-
ical Association and a Cook. Coun-
ty (Illinois) Prison We If agp com-
mittee. He is also a former con-
sultant of the U. S. Chemical Wel-
fare Board.
A man of many talents, Dr.
Lawless is a scientist, business-
man, civic leader and philanthro-
pist.