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CRIME RATE AND RACE
From The Birmingham World
Crime and delinquency are civic prob¬
lems which confront a number of our cities
without regard to geography. These two
related problems are challenging and dis¬
turbing. diate." Solution is not easy and imme¬
Yet there is the unfortunate tenden¬
cy of racists to give “a racial or ethnic
taint’’ with the “crime and delinquency
rate.” Neither of this is a racial prob¬
lem, as such, but more of a community
and civic problem. Solution will have to
be approached on that level.
Still that does not excuse any particu¬
lar population segment from asserting
the fullest leadership in seeking solutions.
SCHOOLS MUST BE SAVED
From The Arkansas Gazette
So long as we cling to the delusion
that we can somehow, some day, restore
our public school system to its old status
of absolute segregation—or create a sub¬
stitute that, is just as good—the commu¬
nity will remain immobilized and thous¬
ands of our school children will be denied
an adequate education.
It must be remembered that the
present public school system came into
being simply because it was found that
the private schools that preceded it could
never provide education for all the chil¬
dren of the state. That monumental and
THE EDUCATION OF THINKING
The From The
' COncept of
which huh has some meaning in education,
and secondary schooling, elementary
American thinking still enters into
Blrno Roper about college. An
69 sampling study finds that *
per cent of American S e e
ir.iff their !,nys and H
to college. wiH go on
Two businessmen homeward bound
Were 0Verhef,rf l discussing this
Said one matter
course. ,!lt f? pects t0 of
i. know what , trouble is he doesn’t
to study—where to aim. He
doesn t know whether it’s business, law
or engineering, or
liberal or what. All that’s left is
arts. Where does that get vou.”
Those men, manifestly, were part of
the RP per cent. Thev might have prof-
Oof. Sta vS“'hedt" el “ ,n ° rf, ’ r ‘'
ticaliy 3v U T a y ° Umr BriUm *’h°
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Negro Family Quits When
Joins
MILWAUKEE (ANP) Al
though one white family recent¬
ly withdrew from the congrega-
tion of St. John’s Episcopal
church because a Negro was ac-
cepted as a member, the church
will continue to accept all
races as members. Bishop Don-
aid Hallock of the Milwaukee
U. S. Supreme
Ct. Saves
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juror in Mississippi is that he
be a qualified voter. There are
no Negro registered voters in
Carroll County, according to a
reported statement from the
Attorney General of that state
He therefore recommended
that Goldsby be retried in ano-
ther county where Negroes
serve on juries.
“This Has Never Been Done
This has never been done
said Patterson, and he did not
know whether the coyrt would
accept it. He could ojaly m’om-
mend action, to the local dis
trict attorney. It would be up
to him to make the final de-
cision.
Patterson told reporteis in
his area that no effort b a
-this art a that no effort ho^
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It is not fair to hold law-abiding citizens
responsible for the misdeeds of any mem¬
bers of their group.
Approached from the angle of solution
rather than stigma some headway should
be made. The criminal and delinquent
fringe of any population segment embar¬
rasses that segment. There will be
those who try to make capital of such
ugly acts. In self-defense the construc¬
tive leadership must do something, and
give what they do a sense of urgency.
Crime and delinquency are both chal¬
lenges to society itself. Society needs to
find the answer to it. Society is bigger
and stronger than any population
essential task, which we are just now
accomplishing fully after more than 50
years of toil and sacrifice, required the
concerted effort of all the citizens of the i
state—translated into the pledge of the 1
full faith and credit of the local and state
governments.
l’rivate schools have their place, cer¬
tainly. But they cannot provide a sub¬
stitute for a public school system—and it
is the public schools that literally will
determine the shape of this state’s fu¬
ture.
Science Monitor
pressed was the entrepreneur with the
young man’s versatile ability that he
journeyed to England to discover what
system of education produced it. Having
learned, he pressed upon Oxford an endow¬
ment to help ensure continuance of the
course.
What was this course? It is called
“Greats,” and it includes such “practical”
subjects as Greek, logic, and the classics
of ancient literature.
course no one should expect that
Greats” can be transplanted into the
typical American college for the typical
American student. But the story leads
<o these observations: The “craft” con¬
cept of schooling asks what a youngster
can pursue that might lead him to an
immediate job at more than unskilled
pay. The liberal arts concept asks what
studies he can undertake that might
give him a “synoptic” view of the world
and educate his thinking for any situa¬
tion anywhere at any time.
diocese announced Monday.
1 Rev. George Bersch, pas-
tor of tlle church, said the man
in question, a vestryman, re-
signed when he learned a Ne-
'gro had joined the congrega-
tion. The pastor declined to
I identify the family.
been made to establish whether
Negroes had been refused the
right to register in Corroli
County.
He claimed that a check of
county officials showed that no
Negro had attempted to regis¬
ter in that county since 1940.
- D hn . *** .. the ,,
! sary . back , poll „ tax ne ? es - •
1 required to
register during that same pe-
riod
Not a Single Negro Voter
- The recent report of the Civil
Rights Commission said that 14
Mississippi counties had not a
single Negro voter registered in
most; recen t; year for
which statistics were available .
Negroes jv, ade up j 09 ,000 of
; thoge counties . 230 .000 popula-
t - on
Kurthermorc, the
; reported, in exactly half of
Mississippi’s 82 counties fewer
than 1 per cent of the Negroes
o-f voting age were registered
In the whole date the
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Son Builds Farm into $150,000
Enterprise by Carefully Following
Methods
Unlike many heirs to familyI
sized farms who sell their hold-1
ings and move to the city, J. T.,
Williamp, Jr., of Shelby, Miss.,
done just the opposite, re¬
ports State Extension Leader W.
E. Ammons.
Mr. Williams, a graduate of ;
Fisk University, left a position
in Nashville 21 years ago and
returned home to take over his
late father’s 200 -acre success- i
ful farm which has now been in
the family for 71 years. I
By continuing to use good
farming methods, says the Ex-|
tension leader, Mr. Williams I
lias developed the farm into.
one of the most modern in Mis- :
sissippi. Valued at $20,000 ^
when he took charge in 1938,
the farm Is now estimated to j
be worth about $150,000. In |
addition to 302 acres of rich!
delta land, including the 102
he has bought, there are four
tractors, a mechanical cotton
picker, two grain combines, a
truck, a well equipped farm shop
and an attractive 1 l-roonj|
ranch-type home.
Farmers and and 4-H’rs from visit his j
own nearby counties
the farm frequently with
Extension agents to observe the
improved farming and home¬
making methods of Mr. and
Mrs. Williams, wiho count on
their own farm and home dem¬
onstration agents, I. D. Thomp¬
son and Mrs. Vera S. Rainey,
for advice and counsel.
mission found only 22,000 regis¬
tered Negroes, and only 8,000
of them were estimated to
have paid their poll taxes.
Goldsby was charged with
shooting Mrs. Moselle McCorkle
Nelms on September 4, 1954,
after her husband had ordered
several Negroes to leave the
Nelms’ gas station and dairy
bar near Vaiden.
Recalls Alack Parker Case
The Goldsby case figured
prominently in the civil rights
hearings before the House Ju¬
diciary Committee when the
Governor of Mississippi and the
Attorney General claimed that
it triggered the lynching of
Mack Charles Parker.
Parker was taken from the
Poplarville, Miss., jail last April
where he was a-wnif-ino- oufp IfatpH
rape p ’ All was as T 1161 stated the
s a e officials until Parker’s
attorney stated that his client
I mi # ht be freed under the
GoIds by decision. It was the
1 of this threat which set
j off the lynch mob that dragged
Parker from the jail to his
1 deat h.
Case Affects Entire South
I The issue
ir„r«hr raised 'L“„ in the z
c
point of N«r„ Joror,
force southern officials to eith-
■ er let Negroes vote so that they
- m *£ht be eligible for jury duty,
or run th e risk of letting pris-
escape prootcution.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
THEY CAN AND MUST BE SOLVED
The visitors are impressed
with Mr. Williams” use of pre-
emergent weed killers, the re-
suits he gets by testing his soil
and then applying fertilizer ac¬
cording to need, the determin¬
ed way he controls boll weev-
ils and other insects, and his
careful method of keeping rec-
ords in his neat, well equipped
office in a rear room of his
home.
Principal crops grown by Mr.
Williams are cotton and
beans. He raises 100 acres of
the fiber crop and about the
same number of acres of the
oil bean in rotation.
“Growing cotton on
thu’s been in soybeans helps
keep my yield up,” says Mr.
Williams. “Most years I also
plow under 40 to 50 acres
soybeans as a soil-building prac-
tice. I grow these acres extra,
in addition to those I put into
beans for market.”
Mr. Williams has increased his
cotton yield from one bale to
bales per acre—three times
.average for the State, and
nearly twice that for his coun¬
His soybean yield stands at
bushels per acre, compared
with a State average of only
19 bushels.
He likes driving a tractor
and working in his repair shop.
And although he doesn’t care
for record keeping, he spends
some time in his office almost
every evening going over the
Polio Shot
(Continues trom Page One)
17 East Park Ave; Charity Hos-
pital, 644 West 36th St.;
Georgia Infirmary, 1900 Aber-
corn street.
These vaccination centers
will be open from 9 a.m.
6 jwn. (later if necessary) dur-
ing which time shots will be
administered at 50c each. No
/one will be turned away be¬
cause of an inability to pay.
Cooperating with the Cham¬
ber in this important Public
Health Program are the Na¬
tional Foundation and the
Chatham Public Health De¬
partment.
Chairman Kamine expressed
, ° Ver the growin8 per
-
; centage of serious polio cases,
| pointing out that less than a
third of white pre-school chil¬
dren in Chatham County have
been given Salk shots w'hile
only one fifth of the pre-
school Negro children
had shots.
Kamine also warned
against complacency on grounds
that immunization of the
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rs
i yoUr neighbor . s shot will pro _
tect you ;- Dr Kamine said.
j During phases one and
j the Chamber sponsored pro-
gram nearly 20.000 men, uom-
books.
During the harvest season,
Mr. Williams often operates his
mechanical cotton picker or
one of his combines in the af¬
ternoons when he and Mrs.
Williams return from their po¬
sitions as principals in the
county school system.
Both like teaching and seldom
miss a summer taking special
graduate work to keep
I abreast of t e a c h i n g methods |
and school administation. “We
like to see things grow,” says
Mrs. Williams, “and children
j are the best crop.”
Most of the work on the
farm is done by four tenant
families working under the su-
pervision of an assistant man-
ager. The tenant families
have been on the Williamses’
farm for 12 to 40 years. “The
j next step in our plan is to
build new houses for all of
them,” the owner points out.
i Mr. Williams’ father and
j mother skimped and saved to
buy 200 wooded acres at $6 per
acre 71 years ago. The father
died in 1938 leaving the farm to
his widow, who is still living,
and his son.
They have been offered as
much as $90,000 for the land
alone, but they have turned it
down. “We hope our farm
will stay in the family for a
long, long time,” Mr. Williams
asserts, and his wife and moth¬
er both nod approval.
en -and children were inocu¬
lated with Salk vaccine.
Chauffeur Willed
$3,000 by Millionaire
-FORT WORTH, Tex. (ANPi—
Joe Daniels, a chauffeur to
one of the world’s richest men
*" ow lias ,a few dollars to call
ls own ' His boss, Sid Rich-
j ardson w ^° a low weeks
j a ® 0, w ^ e< * ^ rn $5,000.
Richardson, a bachelor 68
years old, left 13 minion dollars
to nieces and nephews. Daniels
was the only “individual” out¬
side the family to receive a
bequest. Richardson’s wealth
has . , been estimated at . 100
over
million millinn dollars. /(nil n
Daniels worked for him
years.
My Inner Secrets
By William Henry Huff for ANP
I have one friend in whom I
can confide
And strange as it may seem,
am that friend.
I know my inner secrets will
abide
me as d °os each dream
Un,a! tbe end.
,n hls
»'»“ ** ** defeat,
And bids his foes
Advance -and cut a gash that
smarts and stings
And then as he retreats
He bleeds from crown to toes,
Bethlehem
Center
(Continuea from rage one)
months ■—-—-———--r——----- of Jackie
age. now
joys her group of 6 and 7 y ear
ev d ery° yS Monday ^fter^school,
Jackie is the daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Boston of 522 East
Gaston Street.
Bottom picture shows
children of the Green family
holding their membership cards
which they recently purchased
at Bethlehem Community Cen-
.ter. They are Vera, age 8 ; Ron-
; 0 and wlliie age 12 .
Benjamin, age 10, was absent
when the picture was made.
The children are students at
Robert W. Gadsden school.
Their parents are Mr, and Mrs.
Willie Green. 311 Lorch Street.
Pearl Lee
Smith School
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Smith chorus;
Mrs. Sadie L. Cartled-ge; ack
j nowledgment, Miss Marguerite
| Ur Wright; M !/vV<4. benediction. UAMAAt/tEinvi Rev. Dntr J. T W. W
Green; tour of building, re
freshments.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1359
Gordon Hancock (For Associated Negro Press)
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock
For ANP
Juvenile Delinquency a Basic
Threat To National Survival
Some cynic once wrote that
the study of philosophy was
like unto a blind man in a dark
room, looking for a black cat ,
that is not in there. The
blem of juvenile
cannot be dismissed in any
such facetious manner.
juvenile delinquent is threat¬
ening to run rough-shod over
our nation.
He is a serious threat to
national survival and certainly
he poses a problem that should
tax the ingenuity of our social
and moral engineers to their
utmost. There is before me a
copy of The Journal of Negro
Education, sent me at the re¬
quest and courtesy of the Jour¬
nal and Guide of Norfolk, Va.
The entire summer edition of
The Journal of Negro Educa-
tion is a symposium on Juve
nile delinquency of Negroes. A
summation of the findings in
this excellently wrought edition
leaves one with the impression
that although the delinquent
Negroes, as others, are but
creatures of our cultural crea¬
tion, which is largely of the
white man and by the white
man and for the white man,
there is something of a chal¬
lenge to Negroes whose inci¬
dence of delinquency is invari¬
ably higher than that of the
whites.
There is nothing new in this
finding; but there is something
terribly challenging. Although
the whites have the monopoly
of ways and means of manag¬
ing our American society, one
wonders if there is not some¬
thing that Negroes themselves
can do to lower the incidence
of delinquency among Negroes.
The articles written by experts
and summarized by an expert,
point to the possibility that
the Negro community has a 1
responsibility in the premise,
It is true that
the edition the approach is de-
scriptive and diagnostic rather
than therapeutic, but when
we find that delinquency has
its genesis in the
mic status of the family, we
begin to suspect that in p:o-
portion as the Negro is largely
responsible for the status of
the family, he is to that extent
responsible for his family’s de¬
linquency.
While segregation has its
faults and drawbacks and
should be labelled the curse
that it is, it is also true
under segregation some mighty
fine achievements have been
accredited to the Negro race-
in spite of segregation.
Forced Integration Will be
DALLAS, xca. (ANP)—“We’ll
whip this forced integration
problem some day,” Sen. Her¬
man Talmadge of Georgia said
last week.
The senator had flown in from
Atlanta. He added: “I didn't
come here to talk about Little
Rock,”
He did talk, however, on in-
tegration, Khrushchev, Senator
n Johngon and the 86th
l Can „ resS-
i only ° n way i nte g that ration “forced - he 5ald integra- the
tion” would be whipped was by
complete unity of the South
" and help from the North, too.
Continuing, the leading expo¬
nent of states' rights declared
Chicago Baptist Inst.
Seeks $300,000
CHICAGO (ANP)—The Chica-
go Baptist Institute will begin
a fund-raising drive which they
hope will bring in a total of
$300,000 for the institute. The
drive, to begin in November,
will be headed by S. B. Fuller,
president, Fuller Products com¬
pany, who has been named gen¬
eral chairman.
Earl B. Dickerson and Truman
|K. Gibson, Sr., president and
board chairman respectively,
Liberty Life Insurance
company, and _ John Sengstacke, Defender!
r pubdsh g r Chicag0
will work with Arthur B.
Knight who will head the com¬
The study showed that de¬
linquency reduces as family
status is improved; that de¬
linquency among Negroes stems
from the same kind of circum¬
stances as that of whites; that
there is nothing racial about
delinquency, and that the rea-
son there is more delinquency
among Negroes is due to tne
fact that the unfavorable socio-
economic circumstances more
generally prevail among Nt-
groes.
It is no small matter to note
that between 1952 and 1956
delinquency increased in the
nation 146 percent, ihe facts
Sand figures within the last
three years must add up to a
staggering total.
Long has there been held the
theory that recreational facil¬
ities in plenty, would be a cure
for delinquency. The study un¬
der discussion exploded that
hackneyed theory; for it was
pointed out that recreational
facilities give the would-be
delinquent as much opportun¬
ity for delinquency as for ex¬
emplary behavior.
Exhaustive studies failed to
show any positive correlation
between recreational facilities
and delinquency rates. The con¬
census was that delinquency
has its genesis in the home that
is sociologically and economic¬
ally below status and any mea¬
sures to improve the home in¬
directly — or directly — attacks
the vexing problem of delin¬
quency.
The fact that there is much
delinquency in t h e poorest
homeg — and wea ithiest —
points out that the influence of
the home in the premise. This
home influence is all-impor¬
tant, how else do we account
for a low incidence of delin¬
quency and poverty among the
Jews and little or none among
the JapaneS e.
Fpr fche purpose of enlight-
enment on this p , ob i e , m , the
writer interviewed Miss Almeria
Edmunds of Richmond, Va.,
f has Just returned from a
two . mont hs stay in Japan. She
says that there is no juveni ; e
| de ii n q, uency problem in Japan,
Miss Edmunds is one of the
most highly respected teachers
j in the Richmond school system,
and her observation observation may may be
taken as highly important, as
an appraisal of the situation in
Japan.
She says that the parental
and ancestral reverence taught
in Shintoism, is quite a su-ifi-
cient guide for Japanese youth.
This accounts for the family
influence; and so with the Jews.
Above-average teachers in our
schools hold the only key to
this problem together with a
wholesome family life!
of these days, the people
up there (North) will wake up
and realize they’re tired of the
murder, rape and arson that
go along with forced integra¬
tion. Then they’ll join us.”
Concerning Sen. Johnson’s
nomination, he said, “I don’t be¬
lieve he’ll get the nomination,
frankly. The liberals in the i ,
party ever, “If I’m he will were certain see to nominated, he’d that. get elect- how¬ 1
ed and would make a fine pres-
ident.” I -|
About the 86 th Congress he
spoke on the President’s budget
and ended up with “We also
sustained the status quo with
the forced integration.”
munity committee for fund¬
raising among organizations in
the area. Knight is vice pres¬
ident of Unity Mutual Lile In¬
surance company.
The institute founded in 1935
as an in-service training center
for laymen and clergymen, has
275 students attending classes.
The money raised during the
fund drive will be used for
building improvements and to
clear the institute of ail debts.
Dean Robert C. Wallace of the
institute said the drive will
span a three-year period and
will involve nearly every
church in the area.