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rAUI FOUR %he fttmutitab STnhmr. Established 1B78 MRS. WILLA A. JOHNSON..Editor A Publisher EZRA JOHNSON.............Asst, to Publisher GEORGE E. JENKINS______Advertising Manager PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Dial ADams 4-3432 — ADams 4-3433 Subscription Rates In Advance One Year ______________ $4.13 Biz Montns________________________________$3.09 Single Copy ----- .10 Remittance must be made by Express. Post Office Money Order or Registered Mall. Second Class Mall Privileges Authorized at Savannah, Georgia MAGAZINE EXPOSES NEW YORK’S RACIAL UNREST >15 SYMPTOM OF POWDER KEG Reprinted From The Charleston, S. C. News and Courier In its usual frank and full manner, U. S. News & World Report has published an article entitled: “Is New York Sitting 1 on a ‘Powder Keg’? Racial Unrest Forces Its Way To The Surface.” The answer to the magazine’s question, though a reader of the New York daily press might not suspect it, is yes. The article under the caption answers the question. The answer has been yes for several years. In unguarded moments, New York newspaper men admit that the story of Harlem is “dvnamite.” It is too hot for them to handle. The explosion is coming closer. U. S. News & World Report is accus¬ tomed to handling hot stories. This one, we assure our readers, is authentic. While much of the material will he al¬ ready familiar to readers of The News and Courier, which has endeavored to keep up With race relations north r>f the Mason-Uixon Line as well as south of it, the article is a useful—and shock¬ ing—summary of facts. One angle that may be unfamiliar to many Southerners is the emergency of L rro “Muslims.” We have seen refor- en ’s lately to such a sect, mostly in the Negro press. Its leader calls himself “Eliiah Muhammad.” He has headquart¬ ers in Chicago and a lieutenant in Harlem known as Malcolm Little, and also as Malcolm X. U. S. News & World Report says Mohammed has drawn crowds of two to three thousand Negroes eager to hear the “spiritual leader of America’s Muslims.” He promises they soon will >1 SOUTHERN PARADOX From The Carolina Times The car had a New York license plate. It was parked in front, of a building in which are housed Negro corporations with over 70 million dollars in assets. In the car were three small white children whose ages appeared to range from five to three years. Apparently their par¬ ents or parent had left them in the car while they shopped. The three small children were having the time of their lives shouting to every Negro who pass¬ ed. hey mVger, hev nigger, after which thev would fall back in the car and roll with laughter. We watched this scene for fully 20 minutes and our hearts went out, not to Ilow Does The Steel Strike Affect The Negro? By Dick Jarrcft For Associated Negro Press CHICAGO—With the eyes of the country focused on the steel strike and its impact on the nation's economy, welfare workers and community lead¬ ers are asking: “How does all this affeot the Negro steel worker? Is the strike putting him on the relief rolls ,or has he a ‘cash reserve' to fall back on until Union and Industry come to an agreement?'’ None of the steel workers interviewed by a reporter has wanted to strike. They say it leaves them in a hole and they are months catching up with their bills. Negroes are among the 590,000 workers in 24 states now on strike that is costing the steel industry and members of the Ur d Steelworkers un¬ ion a combined loss of 29 mil¬ lion dollars a day. Felt the Pinch Of Payicss Paydays The strikers, who have al- ready felt the pinch of paydays, are losing about million dollars a day in wages, How long they can hold out de- pe.: on financial aid from the. local unions and how much they have set aside for « “rahiy day.” Some businesses have already started to extend credit to responsible workers made idle by the strike As to the wages paid the workers prior to the strike, the National Advertising Representatives Associated Publishers 55 West 42nd Street New York 3 «, New York 188 W. Washington 8t. Chicago 2, III. Mr. Robert Whaley Whaley-Simpson Company 6608 Selma Ave. Los Angeles 28, California Mr. Gordon Simpson Whaley-Simpson Company 700 Montgomery St. San f ranclsco 11, California A gain control of New York—a pledge that may not be as fantastic as it sounds— and that “white rule” in the United States will be overthrown by 1970. The magazine reports charges by Ne¬ gro spokesmen of police brutality in New York—charges that appear to have relatively little validity. For their part, police complain of lack of cooperation among the Negro people in their at¬ tempts to keep order. Negroes are breaking out of the segre¬ gated purlious of Harlem and exploding into almost every section of New York City. They are clamoring for greater representation in city government. U. S. News & World Report says they are "embarked on a ‘revolt’ to gain those ob¬ jectives. The result at this time is to bring New York’s racial troubles into the foreground, and fears are being ex¬ pressed that these troubles are going to mount in the months ahead.” We resist the temptation to gloat over these troubles, and to taunt our Northern friends with jeers of “we told you so.” We sympathize with the decent self- respecting persons of both races who are being terrorized bv hoodlums, egged on bv agitators and fleeced by a gang of so¬ cial and political mountebanks. The plight of New York—and the same thing is happening in other great cities of the North and West—may bring at least some relaxation of pres¬ sures on the South. Our region will continue to be a haven for respectable white and colored people who want to live in harmony and separation. the Negro men and women who passed. Nearly 300 years of insults, abuses and disappointments have steeled the Negro against the crudest insults and treat¬ ment. He can take it. Our hearts went out to these three small children who in the tender years of their lives have already been taught to hate and to insult those of another race. Our hearts also went out to their par¬ ents who knowingly or unknowingly have failed to have enough vision to prebare their off-spring for the new world in which they must live 20 years from now: a world in which men will be measured for what they are instead of by the color of their skin. Federal Bureau of Labor Statis¬ tics reports that the average steel wage before the strike was $310 an hour and $12710 a week. This compares with the pay of $2.23 an hour and $90.32, for the average factory worker. Gary, “Steel Center of America" In the greater Chicagoland area, plants closed include those at South Chicago, Ham¬ mond and Gary, Ind, the latter being known as the “Steel Cen¬ ter of America.” Many Negro workers in Chicago commute , daily over the Toll Road to the j huge mills in Gary, Although the general thinking among business analysts sur¬ rounding the steel strike and how it will affect the economy indicates a favorable future for the general population, it can not forecast its effects on par- 'icular regions and groups. The Negro is an ethnic group I which will experience differ- j ent effects because of the steel strike than others in the prpneral population. Such is to i be expected, as the Negro oc- j cupies more constitutes crowded areas, greater is exploited, portion of the relief rolls and is under severe employment re- j sitrictions. The strike, according to ex¬ perts, is expected to last in¬ definitely with business giving labor a battle to remember. However, a compromise may be reached in which labor will se¬ cure a Flight wage increase of about three percent. Following the compromise, other indus¬ tries are expected to raise wa¬ ges for their employees. All in all, everyone is predicting high¬ er wages and an eventual boom. But just as/ thunder follows lightning, higher prices are ex¬ pected to follow higher wages, with a slight variation. Tire price increase .demanded by steel will be out of proportion to the wage increase. A general rise in prices for most commo¬ dities is inevitable. Negroes Last to Get Raises While a smal lminority will benefit from the raise in wa¬ ges, the majority of working Negroes are fixed income em¬ ployees in industries that will not immediately receive any wage increase. Some such are government employees, teach¬ ers, etc. Another great portion of Negroes on public assistance will not realize an increase. WHY I AM BLACK By William 11. Huff, For ANT The Lord saw fit to make me black And I am glad He did Mb’ race, at last, is coming back With powers long since hid. My Africa's no longer dark She’s moving in the modern light She’s turned the switch, and felt the spark By which to march with all her might. THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE STILL ON THE LOOSE AND CAUSING E YIBARRASSMENT TO OUR WORLD LEADERSHIP Is U. S. Black The Black? By Special Correspondent for Associated Negro Press IBADAN. Nigeria — Dr. V. McKinley Wiles, a urology spe- ±!TV 1937 devoted f „ N 7, his York vacations ' h ? s £in f to I what he describes as a “medi¬ cal service tour” of African countries—all free of charge. ; A diplomat of the American Board of urology, fellow of the International College of Sur¬ geons and a devout Seventh- day Adventist, Dr. Wiles be¬ lieves it is his duty to give some part of the year to those who | may need his medical apec’alty j the most. Toward that end. this j» v 'bf I i made arrangements befcAe he j left the United states, to lend his skills in urology to the staff j j of the local modern University College horpatal. < When he arrived in Ibadan a few days ago, he reported to the medical head of the de¬ partment cf surgery to begin his “gratis” services. lie was told quickly that (1) the post was no longer vacant; and (2) his services were no longer Writer Asks: “Why Wasn’t NAACP Founder DuBois on 50th Anniversary 4 ’ By Victor Alverton NEW YORK (ANP>~The only Negro leader who attended the meeting which resulted in the organization of the National Association- for the Advance¬ ment of Colored People did not appear on the program of the 1 jubilee celebration of the founding of the organization here recently. Whether he was invited is not clear, but ex¬ pressions of criticism have been heard from different sections of the country over the fact that Dr. W. E. B DuBois was appar¬ ently not listed on the jubilee I program. j The NAACP was organized as I a result of a call issued by 53 j distinguished Americans on Fob.: 12. 1909, the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the abolitionist. Dr. DuBois was the only Negro leader attend-1 ing this momentous meeting, j The originator of the idea of Ebony Publisher Says, “Communism Not Answer Race Problem 4 ’ CHICAGO ,H1 (ANP)—Any Negro who feels that ism is the solution to the race problem in the disappointed United States if he | will be sadly takes a trip to Soviet Russia. This Ls the opinion p of John H. Johnson, publisher of Jet! T and and Ebonv Ebony Magazines Magazines, wfto) who I with his wife. Eunice, was a; member of the press group which accompanied Vice Presi- dent Nixon on his recent trip to Russia and Poland. There nceded. Barometer of Things To Come? Although an investigation is underway, most top level quer¬ ies of such delicate nature in Nigeria are squelched and that is the end. The medical, surgical, and administrative heads of the hospi tal are predominantly British. Prior to Dr. Wiles’ ar- rival, African doctors made known their intentions to strike if conditions for quali¬ fied Nigerian nurses were not improved immediately. These burses are continuously kept on probationary periods while hn " des of nurses from England ,lft,cn !css Tiahfied HU per- mancnt P Gats - Too Little Known The refusal of Dr. Wiles in (he only truly modern hospital in Nigeria is an affront to all American citizens of color. It i. difficult to make the comfort¬ able American understand that the rest of the world knows practically nothing about him except for an isolated case here and there, like Dr. Ralph uch an organization was Ham liam English Knelish Wsllimr Walling «,hn whose S P widow was honored during the 50th anniversary celebration. It was Dr. DuBois who through The Crisis magazine which founded , , , Oha M wide publicity . ,. .. was given to the program and NAACP. The CrW, magazine. monthly under Dr. DuBois editorship, became the first Ne- cm magazine in America to seif supporting. 1 housands of readers bought the magazine, and Dr. DuBois became the mouthpiece for thousands of. Nogroes whho were yearning for complete freedom and mocracy. How is it that Dr. didn't appear on the anniversa- ; ry celebration program? Was j he snubbed? If so, why? How is it that Congressman A. Clay- ton Powell, Jr., was invited at are relatively few Negroes in the Soviet Union, and Mr. son agrees with the Russian claim that it does not have a race problem. However, he quick to point out that most of the privileges which we take for granted * such as freedom of :?peech h a d . np press „. arlH a d the r ' ht to own property P £ are not en oy- pd fey th ussian people . The American Negro w’ho wants better housing, more pro- ductive employment, and more NIXON LOOKS TREMENDOUS Some months ago, Ebony ran a story of a Texas Negro octo- generian who was getting ready to marry a girl in her late teens. Smart neighbors, of course, were ready with their criti¬ cisms and raised the question that when young girls of that age married men of his age, they only married them for their money. Replied the octogenerian “If money is what they want by golly, they can get it.” That is the attitude of this writer with regard to casting his vote in the oncoming pres¬ idential election: if Nixon wants this vote, he can get it, and there will be sufficient mil¬ lions likewise impressed who will guarantee his sojourn in the White House. On his recent visit to Soviet Russia, Nixon looked dous! He did not enter Iron Curtain with ness, doing obeisance to the pntedly powerful Russians with their bantering Krushchev and his comrades. Nixon stood up to Krushchev and talked way a U. S. statesman should talk. He made it clear that our j great country was not to be j bull-dozed into submission to godless communism, with its “bayonet in the side.” Nixon not only rendered a great service to the Russians by j j letting them know that he was not a chamber iain and that Moscow was not our Munich, but his straightforward talk stiffened the backbone of our at-times weak and cringing spokesmen, who prove to be the unworthy representatives of our great country. The time is at hand when Americans must be told once and for good, that our gallant countrymen—who fell at Valley Forge and Gettysburg and the Marne—the beach-heads of Normany and Korea—did not die in vain, and that we like them prefer to die like heroes than to live like cowards. Too i | long already has this country been represented by men who j seemingly soft-pedalled our de- termination to defend our great j country even at the risk of | a l nm i c war. Nixon made it ' n,ain should - as have been j j Russia ma de plain risk years ago. atom that if can an war, j so can the United States! The time is ripe for such ex¬ pressions of national determi¬ nation that Nixon gave on his recent visit to the Soviet Union. He spoke like a President-to-be. If nominated, he gets this vote in the next election—the vote (J. Bunche, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robin¬ son Mahaiia Jackson, Marian Anderson, and others of that standing. The progress and highly de¬ veloped technical skills of col : ored Americans should be made j known to the world, and par- ! ticulariy Africa south of the j Sahara, to avert more disre- j “ipeetful and embarrasing — to i sa y nothing of inconvenience— situations of appointed or self- appointed ambassadors of color who are desirous of “helping i be African, Continues Journey, Service However, Dr. Wiles is spend- ing the “extra time” at the Seventh-day hospital in Ile-Ife, 45 mile's away. He is still giving his much needed service — but •t the mission, instead of at lbadan hosiptal as originally planned. Upon completion cf his stay, he and his wife, Mary—an in- structor of nurses in New York City—-will fly to East Africa and continue their good work un- deterred. the last moment to attend the J 1 | celebration? n P lphr tin„v At At least u,.. this i, is a a report which has been circulat- ed on the program participants. Dr. DuBois, who is 91 years | old. is a distinguished ® historian and , sociologist . , . In recent , years he has exhibited keen interest j He in he,e,„p„„„ has been ts champion in Red Russia.. ol thej a rights of what he called the "Talented tenth.” No Jeader , n America was ev _ er mcre militant in the cause 0 j Negro freedom or ever devot- PC j as much time to this cru- sade as Dr. DuBois except Fred- crick Douglas and William Mon- roe Trotter. He is one of the most scholarly ........_ __ leaders _______ the Ne- has had in America, and is P prna PS me most oinnam writ-1 wru er race lias produced in j America. Why was he snubbed at the NAACP’s jubilee celebration? individual opportunities will find that they are not avail¬ able to him in Russia because they are not available to the | majority of the Russian pic.” Mr. Johnson does however, that even though the' communist philosophy is not a good one for Negroes or white: | Americans, there is no reason w hy the United States and Rus- j s ; a should not be friendly and | peaceful. He believes that ! Nixon trip contributed much to | the rfpvplnnmpnt development ot n f fripndlv Inendly re- re lations between the two coun- “ ries and . nd th that „ t further further cultural cultural and educational exchanges should be continued, . — Patronize The Tribuna I SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959 W-++-W-M-M-++* Between The Lines By Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press) ]Y'f 11 *111C ' 1 I\$ U ItILIIIUI Mnnmuutl Itlll/A iu’/t Late W. C. ST T ' Gnp of three p top . P features f . of the 36th , fith annuaJ c onvention of t he Na- ,. , . . ... L ' K 0 , s[ Loul5 Muslc associ . ation, August 16-21, will be a program in memory of the late W. C. Handy, Musician-author of the world-famous “St. Louis Blues.’ The program has been given the title of “Mississippi Riverfront Program.” Added attractions of the 40- year-old non-profit oragniza- tion’s meeting will be a mance of the opera “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Rusticana,” and and a a concert concert by by Robert McFerrin, former Metro- Randolph Lauds CORE Action Institute “Qualities of courage, dedi-1 cation and all goodwill participants are re-1 in quired of Congress of Racial Equal- Interracial Action Institute, said A. Philip Ran¬ dolph, president of the Sro- therhood ^ of Sleeping Car Por- P today p an d 0 iph went on to say that „ Th€ Miami Action Institute wjU ^ a chal j cnee and an op _ portuntty to learn action tech- niques which can bring about dpmocraiie democratic living patterns in every city in our land.” Participants in the workshop, which will last from Sept 5-20, will engage in action projects tu bring about integration in' restaurants, schools ,and em- j | that his foreign visit and at- tendant demeanor justify. Eortunateiy Krushchev and his co-interrogators did not ask some questions that could have been embarrasing. For instance what is our greatest boast aside from our high standard of living? The greatness of nations cannot be measured by standards of liv¬ ing but by standards of intra¬ national righteousness. As a matter of fact, high standards of living, when unaccompanied by equally high standards of righteousness hastens national decay. High standards of living are conducive to flab¬ biness of muscle, flabbiness of mind and flabbiness of morals. It has been thus from ancient days. Civilization has to date been q failure for this same reason. Nations have striven to attain linto h | p!l standards of living wllilp high standards of morals aild righteousness were lagging What would have been Nix¬ on’s answer to the question of. i “Why is the state of race rela- tions worsening all the time in this country?” “Why has the , old South unleashed a cold war against the Negro citizens 0 f these United States?” “Why has Judge Lynch again ; been called to the bench?” 1 “Why is prejudice being race j assidiously ciless propaganda cultivated by campaign a mer- that is fierce and waxing fierc¬ er day by day?” “Why, in too great a segment of our popula¬ tion, race prejudice is being worshipped as the god, before the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob?” “What about our inci¬ dence of murder and rape and robbery?” “Why is inflation threaten¬ ing to break down the economic structure of the country?” “Why the United States is ex¬ pending millions to buy inter¬ national friends who refuse to stay bought?’ “What about our back-breaking national debt?” “Why the nation winks at the wretched and ugly poli¬ cy of rushing Negroes to the front in times of war and to the rear in times of peace?’’ “Why our Congress is generally ruled not by great statesmen, instead of ‘segregation experts’ who specialize in ways and means of eternalizing segrega- tion?” “What are the ultimate implication of massive resist¬ ance and massive resisters in the Year of our Lord 1959?” Nixon could have been em¬ barrassed! That he was not is something of a credit to the Russians. li!* e S C Louisaru I >PPra baritone and na * ' On the regular agenda will be daily evening concerts, morning and afternoon confer¬ ences in piano (jazz and class¬ ic), voice, organ, chorus, choir ^. 1U1C ’ nu ' ic ' muac composi- pu jlic scll ° o1 music and opera. On the committee in charge cf the convention are Kenneth B. Billups, chairman: Leon E. Doom, president, St. Louis branch; Grazia C. Barners, Mid- west region vice-pres'ident; and Clarence H. Wilson, nation- al al president-emeritus pre; u ’’ all aU of 01 St Louis. The workshop mem- will aid th : Miami CORE group in several of its action projects. Aided Scholarship assistance will be available for those unable to the $100 fee for the 16 day However, travel expen¬ must be undertaken by participants themselves. Those interested in applying to the workshop shomd write to the CORE off- Ice: 38 Park Row, New York 38, New York. CORE is a national organization of affiliated local working to abolish dis- crimination by direct, nonvio- means.