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GEORGIA MUST WIPE AWAY THE TEARS
(From The Savannah Morning News)
If any Georgians have gained the im¬
pression that our Milledgeville State Hos¬
pital for mental patients has been brought
up to acceptable standards by recent ac¬
tions of state officials, then we trust
the report of Gov. Ernest Vandiver’s in¬
spection of (he hospital jarred them from
this thought.
“Nightmarish,” said the governor. Mrs.
Vandiver cried.
Gov. Vandiver saw some food ”... I
don’t sec how a dog could have eaten.”
"... we’ll he haunted by what we
have seen ...” said Georgia’s first lady.
The Governor has allocated extra funds
to the hospital. His two-day tour
prompted him to promise more.
Georgia was grateful for the recom¬
mendations for improved management of
the hospital resulting from a study made
by a special committee of the Medical
Association of Georgia. The Georgia
Health Department, acting on those
suggestions, has started work on reor-
v ganization. A nationally (noted, psy¬
chiatrist and outstanding administrator,
Dr. Irville Herbert McKinnon, has been
named to head the hospital and the
state’s mental health program. He
comes to Georgia from a professorship
at Columbia University College of Phy¬
sicians and Surgeons.
The Milledgeville Hospital had been
allowed to slip backward, and the Medical
N0 HELP EXPECTED FROM WHITE HOUSE
St. Paul Recorder)
Those Americans interested in the Civ¬
il rights issue and who seek Congression-
a action this session need not expect
mu h help from the White House. Doris
Fleeson, syndicated Washington colum¬
nist confirmed our worse fears on this
score in her release for Monday, July 6
daily newspapers when she wrote: “The
White House atmosphere on civil rights
this year is temperate. No trouble can
he expected there for proponents of in¬
action or moderation.”
This has always been more or less true
of the White House, since Attorney-Gen¬
eral Herbert Brownell, who charted the
administration civil rights program re¬
signed from the cabinet.
Since no leadership need he expected
from Eisenhower on this crucial issue,
it remains for those who support the
CIVIL RIGHTS RULING
Political ambitions and fears have al¬
ways played an effective part in perpet¬
uating prejudice. Apparently the fear
of a probable change in the Negro’s po¬
litical status is a contributing factor,
too. We are all familiar with the fa¬
mous “grandfather clause” to block the
Negro’s exercise of free and full suf¬
frage. Terrell County, Ga., goes one bet¬
ter: it has a “literacy test” which col¬
lege graduates cannot pass. If that
surprises you, it holds no 'marvel for
Judge T. Hoyt Davis of Macon, Ga. To
Mr. Davis the provisions of the Civil
Rights Act of 1957 are unconstitutional,
period. If they pretend to expose the
monstrosities of Terrell County's voting
laws, so much the worse for them.
Doubtless Judge Davis’ verdict will be
overruled in a higher court next fall.
Just the same it is good for us to review
the points of his reasoning because they
reveal the kind of reaction Civil Rights
legislation (and may there be more of
it!) has yet to encounter in Georgia and
elsewhere.
The Act of 1957 provides that when
"any person has engaged in any act . . .
which may deprive another person (of
his right to vote), the l T . S. Attorney
General may institute a civil action . . for
preventive relief, including an application
for . . . (an) injunction.” Last Sep¬
tember he Justice Department charged
that five Georgia county registrars had
prevented Negroes from registering to
vote, by the use of “literacy tests.” They
asked for an injunction to halt the prac¬
tice. Negro teachers with college de¬
grees were named and the court was ask¬
ed to accept registration from these and
other qualified Negroes without racial
discrimination.
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Association committee did Georgia t a
great service in revealing authoritative¬
ly the shocking conditions there. But
more important were their plans for im¬
provements.
This Newspaper pointed out, just fol¬
lowing release of the medical group’s
report, that considerable time and effort
must be devoted to a thorough reorgan¬
ization of the management of the hospi¬
tal, building and remodeling of the hospi¬
tal plant, and implementation of an effec¬
tive state-wide program of mental health
services.
Too many times in the east a condition
needing correction at Milledgeville has
been given publicity, then there would
he a step taken to do the necessary
thing . . . but after that . . . forgetful¬
ness. hv officials and by Georgia citizens.
Georgians must never forget that the
adeouate treatment of mental patients
at Milledgeville is a state concern, a con¬
tinuing responsibility that cannot he tak¬
en care of in spurts, or in a lick-and-
promise fashion.
Let no Georgian dare believe we have
snent enough or done enough, until our
Milledgeville State Hospital and our state
mental health program have reached
standards that will he justification for
pride, rather than such a shameful con¬
dition that it causes our governor’s wife
to cry.
needed implementation of civil rights,
especially in connection with the right
to vote, and school integration, to insist
that Congressional leadership bestir it¬
self.
Letters to Congressmen and Senators
of (he northern and western tier of
states may help create support for action
in this session. One of the weaknesses
of the civil rights legislative program is
that not enough citizens who are in favor
of civil rights let then- views be known
to the members of Congress.
Letters should bo sent not only to Con¬
gressmen from Minnesota but to Sena¬
tors from other states. rpan.v of whom
have presidential aspirations and are
therefore move responsive to national is¬
sues. since they represent the nation as
a whole as well as their respective states.
All clear so far. But what was the
opinion of Judge Davis?
Judge Davis based his decision on a
view of the Fifteenth Amendment that
can be seen only through States’ Rights
colored glasses. He claimed that the
amendment aims to prohibit discrimina¬
tion in the exercise of voting when it
falls within the purview of State official¬
dom. But that would be to violate State
sovereignty. Therefore, as things now
stand, the Federal Government can reach
a private citizen only when he interferes
with a Federal election. Because only a
State official would be the guilty party
in a matter of discrimination in a State
election, Negroes have no protection.
Federal sanctions may not stretch into
State confines. One gets lost in this
style of involved ratiocination. May our
Civil Rights commission have the pa¬
tience and fortitude to unravel its de¬
vious involutions.
The Poplarville murder of Mack Charles
Parker in Mississippi brings out another
curious anomaly in voting requirements.
No Negroes are registered to vote in the
county where the lynching took place.
Few or none, therefore, can serve or.
juries, because jurors are chosen from
the lists of registered voters. Long¬
standing custom has voided convictions
where such discrimination exists. But
where Negroes are systematically ex¬
cluded from serving on juries, no crim¬
inal conviction can be constitutionally
given. Do you follow us.
It is quite likely, then, that had
Parker been brought to trial, any verdict
would have been declared unconstitution¬
al. Not bard to see why bis fellow-
townsfolk decided to take the Jaw into
their own hands.—Interracial Review.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
Premier Azikivve In U. S.;
Seeks Aid For University
In Eastern
NEW YORK—(ANPi —
Nnamdi Azikiwe of
Nigeria arrived in New
last week accompanied by
eral advisers. During the
schedule which he has
while in the United States,
expects to discuss his
for the establishment of a
university in Eastern
creation of a new television and
radio center and hopes to
trest investors who may
to establish American
in his country.
Dr. Azikiwe said he was
ticularly Interested in the devel-
opment of factories for
stuff s and in the
of tar-making in view of
ambitious program for the tar-
ring of 2,000 miles of
during the next three years.
The premier will call upon
several American
which have expressed interest
in the idea of developing a uni-
versity and will call at Michi¬
gan State university,
Mich., whose officials have
I working out a plan whereby a
j university of the land grant col¬
lege type may be built at a site
which has already been
ted.
Ibadan University Overcrowded
Nigedra already has one
university at Ibadan,
Nigeria, but it is already over¬
crowded. The university
is built upon the
pattern and it is
stood to be already
crowded. Dr. Azikiwie,
a product of American
sities, is understood to
the American type of
to which he credits the
rise of independence and
tionalism in his nation.
Numerous events are
during his stay. Tuesday
ing, he was guest of honor at
dinner given by Harold
Hoch child, chairman,
Between The Lines
By Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press)
the late H. G. WELLS WAS
RIGHT '
T h0 i a t e H G. Wells, eminent
.
British historian, is said
race prejudice of the worst
mankind
today. tndav He He spoke spoke deliberately, ciui e y,
with full knowledge of war and
its horrors of disease in a
thousand forms and of eco-
nomic exploitation that has
been practiced in the uttermost
parts of the earth.
He knew of he ravages of
peer., and crime. Mil In
calculation, he saw in race
jndice the greatest threat to
the well-being of mankind.
risTng'hkra'ude^n thfwort!
and threatening the peace and
happiness of millions. It is
setting race against race, group
against group, organization
against organization, brother
against brother, home
home, parents against children
and kinsmen, against kinsmen.
Today, our great United
States of America is threatened
with disruption because of
pant race prejudice. We
just finished celebrating the 4th
of July as a memorial of the
founding of the nation. These
courageous men who met in
Fanue 1 Hall in Philadelphia
and decided to be a free na¬
tion were heroes; they pledged
their lives and property and
sacred honor to the proposition
that these colonies were and of
a right ought to be free.
That Fanuel Hall meeting is
easily one of the high points
of history, with the winter
1777 and Valley Forge lying
just ahead. History tells us
that during that awful winter.
Colonial . . soldiers < .. lived for the
most part on a diet of potatoes;
that the Colonial armies were
poorlly clad, with one uniform
between two soldiers. While
one had on the uniform at the
battle’s front, the other was
siting by the campfires keeping
warm as best he could
But not an American cried
“lay off” and not a patriot
whimpered A great nation was
conceived and brought forth to
biess the world.
Today, this nation is threat-
oned by race prejudice. There
are those who would sell it
down the river, if thereby seg-
American institute, at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria hotel.
Guests at this event Includ¬
ed Dr Horace Mann Bond, Mrs.
Etta Moten Barnett, Dr. John
W. Davis, Prof. W. L. Hansberry,
trustees, African-American in¬
stitute; Lloyd V. Steere and
Gordon P. Hiagberg, of its staff;
L. J. Barnett, vice-president,
Standard Vacuum Oil Company;
Jos. A. Farrell, president, Far¬
rell Steamship lines; C. Vlaughn
Ferguson, Office of Central &
Middle African Affairs, U. S
Department of State; Melvin J.
Fox and John Howard, Ford
j j foundation; John Gardner, pre-
sident, Carnegie Corporation;
j Lester B. Granger, Urban
j League; Walter Ilochschild,
j American Metal Climax; C. D.
, Jackson, vice-president, Time-
i Life Corporation; John Mumn.
i president Foreign Policy Assn.;
j James K. Penfield, deputy as- of
sistant, U. S. Department
Ft ate; Rev. James Robinson,
Church of the Master; Dr. Em¬
ory Ross, president, African-
American institute; Mrs. Oscar
Ruebhausen, chairman. Wom¬
en's African committee; Mason
Sears, Trusteeship Council; Al¬
bert Sims, vice-president, insti¬
tute of * International Educa¬
tion; E. Ladd Thurston, Afri¬
can-American institute; Nor¬
man Thomas, Post Whr council
and Heunrich Viewschoff, Divi¬
sion of Trusteeship, United Na¬
tions.
In Dir. Azifciwe’s party were
G. E. Okcke, minister of educa¬
tion; Dr. Pius Okigbu, econom¬
ic adviser; and I)r. T. O. Elias,
principal secretary.
Dr. Azikiwe, who will spend
17 days In the United States,
will be the guest of President
Eisenhower at Blair House next
week, and during his visit, is
expected to engage in discuss¬
ions with various government
officials.
I rogation, according to color,
| could be eternally maintained,
The late H. G. Wells further
concluded that only by the de-
struction of race prejudice could
I mankind hope for peace in the
world. With millions for
paganda purposes, the tne old c a
South is determined that pre-
judice shall not only live in
the Old South, but that it shall
spread in the uttermost parts
of the earth.
Battle after battle is being
won here and rhere about the
world by the shrewd manipuia
tions of propaganda, designed ot
sell to the world the Olid South’s
way of life—segregation. The
| of church protest is raising at the a machinations feeble voice
f of race prejudice. There is
i
a sector of whites which wo
may call the New South gii d *
in g for tlic 1,a y-
In 0llr feverish fight foi n
j citizenship, we must not fotg<
1 these new abolitionists who are
fighting gallantly to save the
j Negro for it must be clear to
them—even as it is clear to
c vcn a casual observer—that
1 this nation must save its Negro
citizens or itself be lost.
So determined was the writer
to rivet It upon the minds of
many college generations at Vir¬
ginia Union university that in
his class in race relations—the
I first course as such ever offer-
od by a Negro college—that he
| wrote on the blackboard what
i he hoped would be the epitaph
on his tombstone: ““Praciudici-
nm generis delendu mos,’’which
interpreted means “Race Preju-
dice must be destroyed.”
j we further found that there
; s only one moral ingredient
j that .. will ... destroy . . race prejudice . . .
i and that is personal worth,
Prejudice falls before human
worth as frost vanishes before
j the rising sun. The basis of
human worth is to be found in
Christian ' character. Godly
character is the only thing
that can break the backbone of
iace prejudice.
it seems rather far-fetched
for a serious student of
relations to emphasize Christian
character in the face of the
bitterness and hatred being
currently engendered by the
struggle between the forces of
1 integration and those of segre-
Legal Notice
SUPREME COURT OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
IN THE MATTER
Of
the Application of
ARTHUR BROWN, Petitioner
for Dissolution of his
Marriage with
PHYLLIS TRULLE BROWN,
Respondent.
TO: PHYLLIS TRULLE BROWN
TAKE NOTICE that a petition
has been presented to this
count by ARTHUR BROWN,
your husband, for the dissolu¬
tion of your marriage on the
ground that you have absented
yourself for five successive years
last pa. t without being known
to said Arthur Brown to be
living and that said Arthur
Brown believes you to be dead.
-- --- -
of^thS^coCrTnterVV/^ |
day of June, 1959, a hearing
will be held upon said petition
at the said Supreme Court
wSUTer” County C o^i ?t !
House in the City of White i
Piains, State of September. of York, 1959, on the a j
3rd day
10 o’clock in the forenoon.
Dated, June 23, 1959.
ARTHUR BROWN,
Petitioner
LAWIRENCE EBSTEIN
Attorney for Petitioner
Office and Post Office
Address
60 East 42nd Street
Borough of Manhattan
City of New York.
Awards To Go To
18 NAACP Units
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Prizes to¬
taling $755 will be divided here
between 18 NAACP branches
and state conferences during
the Association's 50th anniver¬
sary convention. July 13-19.
Presentation will be made at
the annual Freedom Fund Re¬
port Dinner, Thursday, Jiuiv 10,
in the Grand Ballroom of the
Waldorf Astoria hotel.
They arc the Thai helm er
awards, established by Dr. Ross
P. Thalheimer of Baltimore in
January, 1941. The awards are
provided for by an annual
grant made possible by a lega-
cy bequeathed to Dr. Thalhel-
mer.
Tap prize of $100, far bran¬
ches without paid staff, will
go to the Norfolk, Va., unit,
This group backed parents who
filed the suit which broke the
I back of “massive resistance” in
Virginia.
It compelled review of stu¬
dents denied permission to at¬
tend previously white schools
and conducted workshops for
j parents and children prior to
j desegregation of the schools.
The Norfolk branch also op-
crated its own junior-senior
| hW> innately $1,000 monthly They
.
utilized retired and substitute
| teachc
.
Seocrd prize of $50 for bran-
j J® 10 the Wichita. it*” Kansas, ^ unit, u°
j ^ vvas outstanding during the
I ^ ear i n effectively fighting em-
|
,
Honorable ______ , , mention in this
; cate Sory will go to the Hartford,
i j ? onn ” Baittle Creek > Mich -> and
EaTwilTr^eive C
j $25.
T among branches with
paid staff is Chicago, 111., with
j a membership of 18.6C8. it will
receive $100 for legislative and
fund raising activities. Second
Drize of $50 will go to the Bal-
I ^ more, Mid., branch, for its
offectlve v o t e r - registration
campaign.
| Highest honors in the NAACP
strife conference category
1 to Virginia for its successful
fight to keep from disclosing
[ j membership list to committee, a legis-
lative investigating
It will receive $100. The Penn-
sylania and Georgia conferen
Dr. Ridley To Address
FAMU Graduates
TALLAHASSEE—Dr. Walter
N. Ridley, president of Eliza¬
beth City State Teachers Col¬
lege, Elizabeth City, N. C„ will
| serve as the commencement
SDea k er f or Florida A x M Un-
i
iversity Saturday, August 8 in
j n p w Bra p g . stadium,
’
j
gation. But even today, with
all our fine beginnings in ev¬
ery field of human endeavor
and with all our scholars scholars and and
! their scholarships, the Chris-
| t-ian religion offers the most ef-
fective antidote against the de-
structiveness of race prejudice
It was said of old that the
stone which the builders
r e j e c ted became the
head of the corner Chris-
tian religion will play a major
i part in our struggle.
Shift Davis Cup Play From
Forest Hills, AJ Congress
The American Jewish Con-
gress, Thursday, July, 9, called
on the United States Davis Cup
Committee to move the chall¬
enge round symbolizing inter¬
national tennis supremacy from
the Forest Hills Stadium of
the West Side Tennis Club to
another site.
Stanley If. Lowell, chairman
of the executive committee of
the AJCongress New York Met-
ropoUtan Council, said in a let-
ter to the US. Lawn Tennis
Association — whose officers
comprise the Davis Cup Com
mittee-that the club's policy
in refusing membership to Ne-
groes and Jews makes it “to-
tally unsuited for international
competition in which the Uni¬
ted States is represented as
host.”
Unless the Davis Cup compe¬
tition is moved to another site,
Annual Report of NAACP
Sees Setback For
NEW YORK—The advocates
of “massive resistance” to the
Supreme Court’s desegregation
rulings “lost ground on every
front” last year, the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People asserts
in its annual report for 1958
released here la t week by Roy
Wilkins, the Association’s ex¬
ecutive secretary.
The 96-page booklet, entitled
“Progress and Portents,'' was
published on the eve of the
50th annual NAACP convention
here, July 13-19. It reivews the
activities of the association dat¬
ing 1958, evaluates the progress
made in the area of ciil rights,
and projects a program of ac-
j tion As for indications 1959. of ground lost
I
by the segregationists, the re-
port cites the Supreme Court
decision of September 29, 1C58.
in the Little Rock case “re-af¬
firming, amplifying and clarify¬
ing its historic 1954 ruling
which banned segregation in
| public education;” the public
reaction to the closing of
schools in Little Rock and In
Virginia; the revulsion against
the bombing of schools, church¬
es, and synagogues; and the
election of two southern mod¬
erates,—Senators Albert Gore of
Tennessee and Ralph Yarbo¬
rough of Texas—“over oppon¬
ents committed to defiance of
the United States Supreme
Court’s desegregation decrees.”
For the NAACP itself, 1958
was “an encouraging year,” the
report states. “Membership and
income figures reflected the
| upward trend of the assocta-
Bishop Love Writes Senators
Southern Leaders
BALTIMORE, ............ Md, — Bishop ......
J Edgar Love, Bishop of the
Baltimore Area of the Metho-
diiist Church, and Vice-President
I of the Southern Conference
i Educational Fund, sent a per-
j g0 nal letter to members of the
united States Senate,
Enclosed with the bishop’s
letter was a copy of a State¬
ment by Southern Negro Lead¬
ers, including the names b y
Supreme state sedition Count and reviving
laws.
’ Under these proposed laws ”
the statement said “Each state 3 e
could have ho« n its it own sedition
lc.-c laws In t„ the South c. we know ,
...
aii all too tor. well that many pal ti-
^ ^ * utopia
tion as subversion . and accuse
•
1 leaders 1 Ota H ore in in ,+ the Kn fight for deseg¬ ___
regation of being communists.”
In his letter to the Senators,
Bishop Love wrote: “We consid¬
er these bills a threat to the
integration movement, and we
urge you to vote and
a ® ainst this 1 station. **“ wuun '
**we are especially disturbed
j>y section two of S 3, introduc-
e d as a separate bill,
giving stale sedition laws con-
current enforcibility with fed-
eral lawis. ’
Bishop Love pointed out ttiat
: the Statement by Southern
Negro leaders “has been signed
I by more than three hundred
SATtriDAY, JULY 18, 1959
Mr. Lowell said, “the spotlight
of world attention will point up
the fact that our country—
leader of tire free world — can
provide no better setting for an
event aimed at encouraging
sportsmanship and internation¬
al good will than a club which
has still not accepted the De¬
claration of Independence and
the concept that all men are
created equal.
“The damage to American
prestige is already great,” Lo¬
well said in his message to
Oup officials. He urged that swift
action be taken to move the
competition elsewhere, thus dis¬
avowing the policy of the West
Side Tennis Clu/b. Otherwise, he
deloared:
We may retain the Davis Cup
—but we will surely lose the
respect of millions of people
around the world of all races,
colors and religions.”
ion from Alabama under a
state court injunction and re¬
strictive pressures in other sou¬
thern stales, the membership
losses of 1957 were recouped and
for the first time the associa¬
tion’s income from all sources
exceeded $1,090000, reaching a
total of $1,052.282 30. The num¬
ber of fully paid $500 life mem-
hers amounted to 1,216 with an
additional 4,000 partially paid
life memberships.”
Various chapters of the report
deal with organizational pro¬
gress and fund-raising activi¬
ties, legal cases, political and
legislative action, efforts to
eliminate discrimination in
housing, the economic status of
the Negro and church support
of the organisation.
Among goals indicated by Mr.
Wilkins for the following year
are: “Intensification of the
school desegregation fOgiht thru
the courts and in the arena of
public opinion . . . ; enactment
of additional and stronger civil
rights legislation in the 86th
Congress . . . acceleration of
the continuing campaign for
the registration of Negro voters
in the South and in the North
. . . ;defense of the association
against attacks made on it by
iegislatife committees in the
South and by state legislatures
themselves through special an-
ti-NAACP laws . . . ; vigorous
piur ait of the entire NAACP
program . . . ! and strengthen¬
ing of branches and state con¬
ferences through a program of
education and structural but¬
Negro leaders from eighteen
S miit horn and border states.
The signatures include sixteen
bishops (fifteen of them Meth¬
odists); also the Birmingham
Baptist Ministers Conference,
composed of two hundred and
thirteen ministers; and by one
thousand and one Christian
laymen of Birmingham.
“Furthermore,” wrote the
bishop, “May we call to your
| attention that on June 25th, in
1 T ^
I ’ JOn * m eg ™ Melodists, c ™'
! demne d ^ „
> 531In „ M ° mph!S ’ the m Na ‘
tional S.S.&B.T.U. Congress, ’ re-
presenting —• approxunatcly . v five ..
million .... . XT Negro Baptists, . also , took , ,
; l 7 l
strong . stand ^ against • *.-• this , leg-
a
islatton.
“This group of prominent
clergymen, educators, business,
labor and professional workers
speak for a considerable seg¬
ment of the Negro population
of the United States.
“We should be glad to hear
from you and we assure you
I that we shalI 5e matching your
! vote on these bills with eonsid-
j erable interest 1 and concern.”
i
DID YOU KNOW?
j fj e u anc j destruction are never
j full; so the eyes of man are
j never satisfied. —Prov. 27:20.
. —Read the Tribune Weekly—