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TWO DIVERGENT SOLUTIONS
One (if these solutions seems to
without much hope of bringing - forth
good lruil while the other is a most forth¬
right manifesto which offers many pos-
sioiiities of easing the racial tension
which is so rampant throughout the
southland. Oddly enough, both of these
propos 1 solutions came from ministerial
groups last week.
The solution which, to us, seems not
likely to have a chance of bringing forth
mm-h reward is that suggested by a
number of white ministers of Little Rock,
Ark., which has been torn asunder by
the integration of nine Negro students
into the previously all-white high school.
The gentlemen of the cloth came up
\ ith the id's that the explosive situa¬
tion in their city could he greatly allevia¬
ted through prayer. No one questions
that they were on the right track if they
he.I f nh called for a prayerful solution
of th" v dole danger instead of invoking
th- Ah’dvhtv’s aid in showing the nine
coorrro mis Negro students the error of
t ji,»■»- v -;.v ;i’’d directing *h f m h ick to the
a!! N< rrn school from which they came.
1* a no* for us to sa.v what -prayers
th" !ie--vnlv F-ither will or will not "*i-
• Put we feel that biased, prejudicial
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, 1 / FSTHFK S’ If t ftRICK
Once again ntion is being
oeused on our . 'bools throughout
he nr.i i,;i. American Education
Veil-: F upon us. 1’iograms have
h. i planned, ■ exhibits have been
up in -truiegic points through-
ut the city, and official proclama-
ams have been issued. The pri-
iary puipo.-e of these activities
, to cndeavbi to interpret to
omnia! ||y, parents a^id laxpay-
i-, tif. 4-eSsdiA why >Flu>oi»
-hat they axe doing and the
nt facilities and inadequacies of
acibt.es in terms of the
f children.
The efforts are being
•a.ied by the leaders in the* field
i education. They represent a
mue and challenging picture ol
* great tlieuu “An Educated
»>pL- Moves Freedom Forward,
e que liri] is dm s the ob.-wt-
mix* of one Week duration suffice
providing the much needed
motion between -elmoi and com-
unity t The writer feels that
c-v Vfforts •••houid be
e process of sowing seeds of
idol standing of appreciation and
rea ation of t he e\ ei inert a
i-..... bam in i-rovidmg
i children with the guidance
cry facet of living tiuougti an
fective* educative process.
Ik.*. ,iu l a. seed need care
i mu'iU' if they are to achieve
•ir -oil 1 ..lion, so does
.it La. a ol building a strong
' i dan citizenry
cacti child comcrned in
bui u.ng ndcu'. t alive in
tui, and pui po: e of schools:
ecu uii', > mi. tanl vigiicncc
io-axi}' guaruing our
rituge of our children and
uad pi i .qivclive in exploring
I scientific scientific discoveries diseoveiie as as
.ear on toe receding horizon
.oniylcx civilization
i'he challenge to achieve
Ic.,i. v. iUi those of Us
...
,i|iy leadership role.': a
tonal the current issue
Jaiiu I). Finn,
toi iai Board, entitled
gotten Mission” points U
tliy the need for us as
reassess our values ami to rec
uze the challenge
in this highly complex era.
’he troubled times in
uoi.' aie compelled to
y create a maze ol
ch may obscure the
pose of their excuse for
iucational values
liel with spiritual Values
hearts and minds of
ding fathers. The need
und educational program
<d if unity, strcugtn and
Of a nation were to be
Sot only during the
)e j n , r irotn, but during
in''* pains of
evement and survival of
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appeals such as those made by these min¬
isters would not be given approval from
on High.
A brighter, more sensible approach to
to the integration picture came from a
courageous group of 80 white Atlanta
ministers who set forth their viewpoint
in the strongest pronouncement yet is¬
sued by southern religionists during these
recent days of racial turmoil.
These religious leaders who serve as
pastors in leading Baptist, Presbyterian,
Methodist Episcopal, Lutheran, Congre¬
gational and Christian churches jn At¬
lanta, said they were not speaking for
their churches hut for themselves.
The six point declaration calls for an
end of prejudice and maintenance of
communications between white and Ne¬
gro leaders; it asks for progress and
obedience to the law; preservation of the
public schools; protection of free speech,
and it refutes the idea that physical race
mixing would result from integration.
No doubt, the stand taken here by
these courageous religious Atlantans is I
going to have a salutary effect on the |
future position of other churchmen in ’
the south who wish to take a hold and
unright position on the integration ques¬
tion.
J democratic way of life.
! Then ’t<’t 'brfWr w
J help :o meet the challenge eon-
fronting us as citizens, parents
and educators:
1. Recognize that schools exist
to touch children. Therefore the
;chool must provide an atmosphere
I that is conducive to learning. We
|. n<l , v the basic “laws of learn-
’ng. Let us implement them.
2 We must plan wisely, work
diligently and evaluate constantly.
(Toils must be set.
and n f i/l inunmitf 1 SrfiU derive fijjiit
definitely goals based upon
sound educational practices. Chil-
Iren must be encouraged to think
critically and to live Vicariously,
,i. I’olitics and sell aggrandize-
■nent must be divorced from the
educational program. If tomor¬
I row’s adults are to enjoy - - the
(carding! purposes of education,
they must have adequate facili-
j ties, tools Me and teachers; be willing these cost to
money. must
invest our material wealth in
these great intangibles known as
! human resources,
The destiny of Young America
wilh today’s adults. How
shall we meet the challenge?
| _ _ __
FEDERAL GOVT. EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY PLAN
WASHINGTON, I). C. The
Federal Government is making
encouraging progress in dcvclop-
j„j, sl program of equal upportun-
j (v j„ Government employment re-
aardloss of race, religion or na-
tioiinl origin, Dr. Archibald J.
Carey, Jr., Chairman of the l’res-
dent’s Committee on Govenmient
- Employment Policy, said today
following a series of Western area
conferences with Federal adminis¬
trators.
Dr. Carey paid tribute ........ to offi-
rials of Federal agencies in their
Job Opportunity in Federal e»n
nloyraent. “It is very gratifying
u , (l |,serve the genuine concern of
! many administrators of the Fed-
c ral (j.jy‘Jd'U)** nt ' n this tke regard
and htniLining tic uqit de-
f .,ce to which some individuals and
agencies have already undertaken
a positive approach to effect these
ends,” lie said.
Four members of the President’s
Committee met with nearly 500
senior Government officials in a
series of sessions in Denver, Se-
a ttie, San Francisco and Los An-
jj C les during the period of October
j; through October 29. In addi
tion to Dr. Carey, other members
„f the Committee conducting the
sessions were Branch Rickey, vice-
chairman of the Committee and
j well-known baseball executive; W.
Arthur Mgl*oy of Washington,
; Committee member; Milton Biow,
| eminent advertising executive of
New York, Committee member;
! and Di. Ross Clinch}-, Executive
Director of the Committee. Mr.
return to Washington on other
government business.
i r j'hc conferences were in the
j j form of phase workshop of President discussions Eisen- of
every
bower's Executive Order dealing
j with non-discrimination employment. Those in Govern- attend
: ment
ing the meetings included the lo¬
cal administrators of the agencies,
their employment policy officers,
and their deputies in personnel
i
I matters.
Mr. Rickey, Vice Chairman of
1 tlje-Committee, pointed out that
1 throughput these ipocUugs the
j Committee was development primarily eon- of
| corned with the
j an alert Equal and Job positive Opportunity policy to as- in
j sure than
, p' t >deial employment, rather
1
with individual cases only.
W. Arthur McCoy, Committee
| member and former Chief of the
.Examining | Division of the Civil
Scrvkc Commission, added that
j j these Wl . stcrn conferences of discus were
(1 j ;l S yiies such
j a ions which have been held along
. the Eastern Seaboard, in the Mid¬
dle West, in the border areas and
the deep South,* and now on the
West Coast.
Four Federal agencies in Wash¬
ington sent top personnel offi¬
cials CHU , from their agencies oil the
u-ip to assist the Committee and
the field offices of their own agen
' ‘‘ ies ’ These officials were Albert
Kransdovf, Department of the
Army; Lester Waiters, Depart¬
ment of the Navy; Harpy Carr,
Department of the Air I'Xu'ce; and
Willard Scott, Treasury Depart¬
ment.
KLANL1KE WHITE
MOB HOGS
(Coutinued from Page One)
.ti.-aUng 1 lint the Ku Klux Klan
i halld
a
According to Rev. Wesley, the
beating occurred in a wooded area
near Siluria. He said he was left
in the trunk of his ear, but man¬
aged to free himself and drive to
v 111(101 l * - ,u > " K1 ‘ H
u an " as a un
ll, spi a.
No arrests were reported by
presstime.
NORFOLK WHITE
WOMAN FAVORS
iContinuca from Page One I
for every thinking, feeling sou¬
therner to concentrate not on
time and emotion—wasting re¬
sistance to the inevitable—but
on how the change can best
i be «>- made ****—'- without ......— strife ------ and -~
j heartache—and without depriv-
ing anyone, Negro or white, of
1 his right for health, education
I and individual human dignity
and freedom ...”
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUN1
THE TENSIONS THAT M AKE IT A QUESTION
3g*aa—MB
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
v v vv v
Divided XV c Fall
Editor Waring of the Charles-
ton, a. C. Nevis and Courier and
Editor Kilpatrick of the Richmond,
Va. News Leader, are two of the
most stubborn defenders of the de-
cadent system of segregation as an
interracial policy in the South.
Within recent weeks there has
been sponsored at Emory Univer-
;ty, Atlanta, a series of lectures
on the current problems of race
relations in the South and nation
and both editor Waring and editor
Kilpatrick have bene invited
this has given these two
of interposition and state
another chance to dispense
sentiment to the nation and
world.
The South has not produced
all its history two more rabid seg¬
regationists, who advise
violence openly, but who
violence by their approaches
the knotty problem that has
ioisted ujion the South and
nation by the Supreme Courts rul
ing against segregation in the pub
lie schools.
Recently, editor Kilpatrick
vocated “rebellion” but he
ried to say he did not mean armed
rebellion, although the course he
was advocating meant armed
hellion ultimately. Nations
not talk war year in and
out without ultimately having
lt is even today. There is
cold war being waged between
democracies and Russia
whereas both sides pretend
war is pot what they seek,
ugly fact remains, if this
war keeps up long enough
vigorously enough, we are going
have hot war. Humans are
that. And s<) when editors
and Kilpatrick talk
but play on the emotions of
lence, we are going to have
lence.
It has taken violence to
the Negro down in his
to full citizenship, and it is
to take violence to keep him
and although these two
advocate non-violent methods
defeating the course suggested
the Supreme Court of the
1 States, we must look for
and more violence.
It is one of the tragedies
the interracial situation in
country.thut the unyielding
gationists cannot attain unto
objectives and the aspiring
i cannot attain unto full
without a bitter struggle and
means force and violence.
though these two arch
of eternal segregation say
are against violence, there is
lenee plenty in the South and
Negro is feeling.
There was violence in
Rock because the course these
hard segregationists advocated
w ..... .
and disgraced our nation in
I eyes of the world.
! Much is being said today
I the increase of interracial
1 The assumption that there are
! tensions when Negroes are
] persecuted and, rushed to the
in tinies of war and to the
in times of peace is without
cal foundation. When the
tentiary guard has his rifle in
| hands there is quiet but there is
j tension. In that case it is unilat-
j eral tension when only the prison-
; er.s are tense.
j j t is when the prisoners break
f 01 . liberty, that the guard becomes
tense> j t j 8 then a bilateral ten-
1 8 i on . This describes the current
1 situation. As long as the Negro
accepts second rate citizenship
things are quiet, but the Negro
is tense and let not the world
limitations of his second rate oti-
zenship that the situation becomes
i t ensej because the Negro's aspira-
tion and efforts make the segre-
gationists tense. When only the
Negro is tense, tension is minim¬
ized.
It is only when the Negro’s
struggle to be free makes tie white
man tense that attention is called
to the “mounting tensions.” The
1 0 ^jy difference between the cur
rent situation and what the segre¬
gationists called “peaceful race re¬
lations” is to be found in the fact
that in the tensions to which the
segregationist advocates look with
a kind of nostalgia.
The eurvent tensions are but the
)r ,. owing pains of the South and
j mition But we ale dangerously
j divi(k , d at the most critical Divided time
jn Alncl . ica . g grea t history.
j J wg fall( all of us whites for all and is Nc-
j aHke- j us t»ce our
j (jnly ho()( ,_
i -——--
MRS. BRYANT RATES IN
“SALU 1'E tO TEACHERS
.Continued from Tage One)
law graduate of Chase La Law a
School of Cincinnati.
“Ive wanted to teach c,,(
sir.Le I can remember. I hk e
to see young people make pro-
said Mrs. Bryant, who
j teaches ninth grade typing and
I /.loricnl students.”
' she is one of a multitude of
I °“ teach-
' le t L Cincinnati area
| mo work rated a
: snec’al bow at a “Salute To
I Teachers” Monday night. No-
I vember 11, at Cincinnati Gar
: den.
1 a graduate of Bennett'Col¬
lege for Women, Greensboro,
North Carolina, Mrs. Bryant
j 0 t her Master’s Degree in ed-
g York University
I ucation at New
'
in 1C52.
Her class at Cutter is the only
one of its kind in a Cincinnati
—
j Junior High Sc , , Tf re _
good, similar _ „, classy occos
sults are
! offering all types of spread office^ ana t
t clerical work, may
areas of the junior high
WIT:, . M B-vant states.
^ cindnnati in 19 55, she was
' 12-city tour under
making a
j auspices of the Ford Founda-
tioq to study juvenile delin-
| quency.
i learned that wit
j t c n
] dren whose homes are close to
the influence of the church,
' there is very little delinquen-
cy,” she said.
Y SECY JENKINS TO
ATTEND SEMINAR IN
NEW YORK
(Continu'd from Page One)
complete set of uniforms for
play during the 1357-58 basket¬
ball season- Letters have gone
°’ trade lt to schools, __. YMCA ’f. asking C _°l 1C f° them 3a ^ to
Include the West Broad Street
x MCA in their schedules.
Dr. R. Crann Liovd, member
of the Adult Program commit¬
tee, met Saturday with a
schools. The yourg people in
these clubs will learn by prac-
tice how to conduct a meeting,
ard simplified parliamentary
i procedure.
The first mectirw of the Y
Phalanx Fraternity was held
this week under the supervis- supervis-
j on of George B.
Youth Secretary.
The Omega Hi-Y club of Al-
fred E Beach will have its
initiation Thursday night
this week at the Y
The USO hostesses will
presented on, the “YMCA
Action” program Saturday
o’clock at the Y over
Station WJIV.
The weekly USO party
servicemen will be held at
Y Saturday night, 8:30.
MANY ATTENDED
DEDICATION
iO' Hied from Pngs One)
, W,. r .. viven by thc members of
Board of Education,
Supt. Abram Minis,
! | , Mrs. Hodge and benediction
Rgv Q ustave A . Caution.
I Music for the dedication
was f u ,. n j s jj ed n.v the Glee
d j re[ded ky Mrs. Joan B.
> IlmU ,. Roys Ensemble and
e
Q^ 0 j r directed by Mrs.
1 Chappell. A selection,
I Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,
dedicated tn Mrs. Hodge.
Refreshments were served
I the end of the services.
j teachers, guests, parents and
! dren visited the classrooms.
Hodge school follows the
present day design, being
one story brick structure
. umerous wings.
There are 20 class rooms,
library, cafe-torium,
room, music consultant
teachers room, and
office. The enrollment of
school is 751.
The r.T.A. of Hodge met
I day, November 5th, Mrs.
| Walker, president, was
j pi ^ g are being made to
^ beautification of
so y,ool. Hodge School Glee
'
,, , v ,
!. w „ wi>h U) tnank our many
friends who have hclped
j .,]] 0 f 0U1 . endeavors.
Frankie N. Golden, principal.
All articles for publica¬
tion in The Tribune must
be typewritten or written in
ink and. should be in the
office by Tuesday noon.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9,1957
TREND
By TED YATES
gains unrelated to productivity, and to the continuing heavy
Since 1948, payment for each hour of labor has increased
twice fast as the amount produced by each hour of work.
as added on top of
; The impact of rising corporate taxes was
this wage squeeze. amount of . taxes . levied . . . on
An 85', increase in the
| profits was far greater percentagewise than the increase
in the profits on which they were imposed. showed
Not a single group in American industry any
improvement in its after-tax profit margin on sales between
IP IS and 1956. Every ma jor industry group had a profit
margin decline. that ., the
Remedy bes in strict government economy bas’S, so and
tax load mav he put on a fair and square
(oration of eooalitv at the collective bargaining table so
that individual producers can make wage settlements which
are economically sound, Instead of bein.tr forced to ^cept
increasingly higher unit labor costs in conformity with an
industrywide “pattern” set by union bosses without regaid
1 .?“ NAACP to the public welfare. To Submit Lists Only
On Order of Supreme Court
NEW YORK, Nov. 7 — Little !
Rook and other southern com-
munities have been warned
that the NAACP will surrender
its membership lists to them
on'-y “if the Supreme Court of
the United States says that we
must submit them.”
Roy Wilkins, NAACP execu- j
tive secretary, voiced this warn-
in<? in an address here at the
Williams Institutional CME
Church on Nov. 3. The NAACP
rally w r as to have been ad-
dressed personally by Mrs. L- C.
Bates, president of the Arkan-
sas State NAACP.
Mrs. Bates addressed the as-
sen i >lage by telephone from her
S,e h&Qre-
| turn d to Arkansas to prepare
I for an appearance in court on
Nov. 4. The meeting was held
on N?v 3 . ]
Mrs. Bates’ arrest was or-
dered on Oct. 31 by the Little
Rock City Counhl because of
j hgr „I„, faUure to comply with a
| | new city nrdinnnre ordinance which which eives gives
j the city thc fight to examine
membership and financial rec-
ords of organizations. On Oct.
15 Mayor Woochovv W. M-ntn
H ■ .fttrttt—
NAACP Girds for Possible
in Dallas
DALLAS, Tex. (ANP!.—Plans
to deal with a school crisis similar
U. the one in Little Rock, Ark.,
I wcrc mapped out at the 21st an-
] „un! .state convention of the Texas
)iranch of the NAACP here last
week.
Among the actions planned at
the convention, held at the Salem
Baptist Church near downtown
Dallas, was legislation to deal with
specific situations. Clarence Mit¬
chell, director of the NAACP’s
I bureau, led the dis-
1 ADMITS SLAYING
! PAIR TO PAY
j (Continued from rage One)
]
d th her husband,
] Alabama authorities have ex-
hunted the bodies of four per-
U>.b ' on whom Mrs. Perkins
held policies, and claim to have
i found traces of arsenic in all
j of them- Future examinations
| may possibly include the body
] 0 f Mrs. Perkins’ 7-year old son
who died during the last week
in October.
In checking a stack of in-
suranee policies found in* Mrs.
Perkins’ home, Solicitor McLeod
claimed to have discovered a
detailed, written confession of
how the seamstress attempted
to slay a Negro minister irt
1955,
j Investigations show that Mrs.
Perkins began her scheme by
taking out policies on elderly
men and women for around
S500. but during the last three
«*«-
trated on children, some of the
! policies ranging as high as
-4,000.
In her alleged confession,
Mrs. Perkins is said to have
admitted feeding rat poison to
only two people. The premiums
on the other policies were due,
and she had no other way of
making the payments, she said.
segregationists groups to submit i
such information,
The NAACP has challenged i
in’* federal court the conrtitu-
tionality of the recently-enact-
ed Little Rock ordinance-
Mrs. Bates’ telephoned talk
was heard over loudspeakers*, at
the meeting, which was atten¬
ded by nearly 3,000 persons,
Also heard by means ofOtele-
phone and loudspeaker “were
four of the nipt* Negro pupils
enrolled in Central High School,
Dr. Channi’ |i H. Tobias, NA
ACP board chairman, who pre-
sided at the meeting, declared
that the Little Rock Nigro
youngsters are “representatives
o, a fight by Americar/t for
America” and that the struggle
“is not a fight for Negxo rights
but for American rights, b '*
Also addressing the hteetSing
was Russell Crawford,-- p^fei-
dent of the New York City
NAACP 1 WiM sponsored the
meotH^'fSSitly with the As-
sociatilWSDMtional sociattotYW'-rnanonai vnricm officel ’ In ^
responsotvwwan appeal by Rev.
L. S. WMW pastor of Williams
InsUtutiorlal X’ME Church, the
audience.boMrtributed $2400 to
the wbt'k bf the maapp- NAACRt ■ AS uoY
mission on political and IcgfisiaHv
action.
The threat of a second 1 Little
Rock” was voiced by Dr. H. Bovd
Hall of Corpus Christ!, the otit-
going state president. He said
he was worried over the possibility
that what happened at Little Rock
would happen here.
Concern over integration de-
veloments in Dallas centered on
the fact that Dallas schools >have
been ordered by a federal court
to integrate in January.
DENTISTS PLAN FOR
(Cpntinued from Page One)
of the host society, the Western
Pennsylvania Dental Association,
had his committee chairman'm
conference consisting of Dr. J
u. w , Williams, Convention Ghair-
man; Dr. W. C. Waller, Chair-,
man of the Scientific Section; D*
J- K- Lewis, Chairman of the Ex-
hibits; Dr. R. C. Boland, Chair¬
man of the Entertainment Com¬
mittee; Dr. B. O. Holland, Chair¬
man of the Souvenir Program; Dr.
W. McK. Cothbert, Chairman of
Sports Committee; and Dr. K. T.
Anderson, Chairman of Public Re-
iations.
The convention activities will
be confined to the hotel for. the
scientific clinics, the Dental Man-
ufacturers exhibits, the business
sessions and social gatherings, in-
eluding the President’s Banquet.
The President of the Ladies’
Auxiliary, Mrs. Lula Haller, was
also present in the interest of the
affairs of the wives and children
attending the convention.
gOLD TIMER
!
“The optimist proclaims
] that we live in the best of all
1 possible worlds—and the pes¬
simist fears that is true.” \