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“CONSIDER AGAIN”
(From The Birmingham
From Tufikegee Institute, Alabama
comes a news .release which reveals that
the Southern Sociological Society has ad¬
vised its members that its 1960 meeting
set for Atlanta, Georgia will be unable
to accord to both white and colored del¬
egates dining facilities on an open-to-all
delegates basis. Dr. Lewis W. Jones, di¬
rector of social science research at Tus-
kegee Institute and a member of the so¬
ciety is protesting the proposed segregat¬
ed arrangement.
Dr. Jones, an eminent scholar and for-
mer-newsmner editor is urging other Ne¬
gro members of the Society to absent
themselves from all sessions except the
business session, and attend it only to
lodfre a protest against Jim Crow arrange¬
ments. The release says (hat a nresiden-
tiaf memorandum from the Southern So-
ciolosical Society advises that “The Hen¬
ry Grady Hotel (in Atlanta) will provide
a private dining room for the Negro mem¬
bers of the Society.”
It is good to see Negro members of the
Society t a king a firm and dramatic
LYNCHING: UTTFR NEGATION OF RIGHTS
foe (From The Christian Science
03
IJ t he countv grand jurv at Ponlarville,
Mississippi, had done its duty in the Mack
Charles Parker lynching case it might
have earned greater respect, if not snp-
porT Tpr fhe Deep imd South's championing
of states’ richt's acclaim for the true
S'outhamittf Reuse- oft justice. Instead,
by refusing even to‘call witnesses ready
at pilations hand of fp consider exhaustive com¬
...of eymlerice it, has earned world
distrust and clone ah enormous disservice
to the Pause of those..who believe the
raci al—nr oHem should ho solved locally.
a federal ant benching law.
Attorney General William P. Rogers
m-ent,Iy dii*onrsed at a news conference
on the Justice Department reentering
the case via a federal crand fttrv. The
grounds will likeh’ he the federal offense
of conspiracy 'to deprive someone of his
civil rights. Mr. Rogers did not call spe¬
cifically for a federal antilvnehiflg law
hot pointed to the need or additional leg¬
islation.
Surely lynching, whether that of a
Parker in or the
<e CHICAGO’S SLUMLORD TAX
(From The Christian
American cities have tried many ways
to protect tenants and the public in gen¬
eral from the callous operations of slum
landlords. Rut none is likely to prove
more effective than a long-discussed
Chicago tax measure now going into ef¬
fect.
Its idea is simple. Slum properties are
to be assessed, for realty tax purposes,
on their income-producing capability ra¬
ther than on their physical condition.
According to a survey made for House &
Home magazine, this will mean a quadru¬
pled tax bill for a typical tenement owner.
At first glance this would appear to
punish the unscrupulous slum profiteer
without necessarily doing the tenants or
public any good.
But consider this example: Under
usual tax procedure responsible landlord
A pays out of receipts to keep his prop-
Mack Parker Lynching
Case to He Reviewed Jan.
JaIcKSON. Miss. — (ANP) —
Bypassed last month by the j
Pearl River county 1 Mississippi * i
grand jurv, the Mack Parker
lynching case will be reviewed
by a federal grand jury at Bi-
loxi Jan. 4.
The announcement was made
by S. District Judge Sidney
Miz* here last week.
Parker, a 23-vear-old Negro
accused of raping a white wo-
maft w'as dragged from his cell
at the Pearl River county jail
at Poplarville, Miss., April 25
and allot to death by a group
of hooded men. His body was
found in the river several days
afterwards. His abductors were
never apprehended.
!?he case triggered a huge
investigation by-4.be* FBI, who
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stand in vigorous opposition to any seg¬
regated arrangements of this kind. A
society of scholars should know better
than this. No city deserves a conven¬
tion of any kind which can offer nothing
better than segregated facilities. Why
not seek other quarters in Atlanta where
the Society can meet free of the demean¬
ing and humiliating arrangements.
Our scholars bring their practices in
line with their findings which they reject
classification and arrangements based up¬
on racial prejudices and customary ignor¬
ance.
Dr. Jones is quoted as suggesting to
the leadership of the Society, “If you
consider that (the segregated arrange¬
ment) to be gracious concession to the
Society as a result of your astute lending
in making arrangements, consider again.”
We hope that the leadership of the
Southern Sociological Society will “con¬
sider again” and dron either the hotel
which requires such dual Americanism or
find a Southern city in which social cus¬
tom has been up-dated.
vigilante killing of an Orville Gibson in
Vermont (still under state investigation),
is the utter negation of the. civil rights
guaranteed by the Constitution. No
man or woman, guilty or innoepnt, “exe¬
cuted” by a mob has been allowed bis
rights to a “speedy and public trial” by
an “impartial jurv” with “the assistance
of counsel” or anv of the other protec¬
tions vouchsafed him in the interests of
justice.
Kven murder is not lynching—evj} ns.
if is. Lynebtmr short-circuits' rrtf the
processes of justice which free peonies
have established to protect themselves
against both criminal lawlessness and of¬
ficial tyranny.
When the Ferguson antilynching bill
was before, the Senate ft decade ngn this
newspaner declared it would “favor a
federal law which goes as far as possible
toward backing local officials rather than
taking matters wholly out of their hands.”
Rut the visible behavior thus far of the
county officials at Poplarville shouts
that sometimes there is
perty up. It is assessed hig’her. h i gVi He
nays higher taxes; gets less profit.
Profiteering Landlord R lets his property
run down, keeping most of his rental in¬
come as profit. His assessment (irons as
the buildings decav. His taxes go down.
Under the new Chicago assessment sys¬
tem. it is to the financial advantage of
the landlord to keep his property up. He
is not penalized with higher taxes for
doing so. Nor does Landlord B gain
by letting bis property decay.
Such measures must be carefully work¬
ed out. Rut when they are they bene¬
fit, rather than harm, the system of re¬
sponsible private property ownership. It
is the slum profiteer whose operations
expand government participation in the
housing business. Curbing bis activity
curbs the need for more public housing.
later submitted a 378 page re-
port on their findings. The re-
port was turned over to Gov
J. P. Coleman, who forwarded
it to Pearl River county offi-
cials.
However, the pearl river
county grand jury ignored the
report closing its session with-
out even considering the case.
Commenting on the case, At-
torney General William P. Ro¬
gers stated: 'The harm in this
case is not confined to Poplar-
ville. The harm results to the
United States and our stand¬
j i ing before the world.
j “We believe in a government
of law. not of men. But one or
two things like this make it
I hard for people elsewhere in
the world to believe this.
! Many low income rural fami-
lies took a step forward this
y,ear as a result of the Rural
Development Program, says Sec¬
retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson in an annual report to
President Eisenhower.
“Our task now,” says the sec- '
retary “is to constantly further broaden to J
this work and
prove its operation, so that more j
rural people will benefit.
“Chronic underemployment j
small, low production farms
throughout the nation,” he con- j
tinues,, ail “results in a tragic loss J
for Americans.” ,
( The Secretary places consider-
able emphasis on the needs peo-! of j
disadvantaged rural young 1
pie, pointing out that they
should have more and better 1
training for farm and nonfann
irnrstfits: While the nation 1
moves slowly to modify and re- j
Jirect education;!! programs In!
low-income rural 5 afcas, he says |
many thousands of young peo-1
ale\grow up and leave such
ireKs witfcout having had an
jpportunity to prepare them¬
selves for urban employment.
Turning to a remedy
Rural Development Program
which seeks to help improve
farming methods and through
industrial expansion to increas¬
ed off-farm employment oppor¬
tunities--Secretary Benson tells j
the-President that this effort,
inaugurated in 1955 at the
President's request, has at long
last directed national attention
to the needs of small farmers,
The program has steadily ex¬
panded. says the Secretary’s re¬
port. Now some 200 counties
“You hear a lot about states’
rights. I believe in states’
rights, but 1 also believe in
state responsibility.
“It seems clear to me that if 1
the states are going to disre- '
gard responsibilities to the ex- [
tent of like not even the calling Poplarville wit- j |
nesses, in
case, then the Federal Govern- j
ment must consider something ;
else ” 1 I
It was learned that the FBI
investigation cost the taxpayers
SStIWk). it was described by Ro-
gers as one of the most com ‘j
plete reports he had ever seen.
It is said to have identified
certain men as killers of Par¬
ker And FBI agents were ready
and willing to testify to these
facts before the grand jury.
Since the county grand jury |
turned its back on tire case,
the Justice department will j
present it to the federal grand
jury which meets January 4.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
Only Federal Destroy The Weakling Image
%m
Income Rural Families Take Step
in 30 States and Puerto Rico,
are included in it. Individu-1
al State Rural Development j
committees have selected these [
areas for special attention. \
A number of Federal agencies, j
including the Departments of
Interior, Commerce, Labor,
Health, Education, and Welfare,
Agriculture are giving as-
sistanee in various ways. As a
of Agriculture’s alloca-
tion of funds to land grant col-!
leges and universities, 143 pro- ’
fessional workers have been em-;
ployed to assist in the Rural De-!
velopment Program counties
and areas. ;
Last year these workers and I
others helped With establish- [
rnont of 320 community-wide
projects to improve farms and
farming methods in Rural De-
velopment Counties,
Ais,o they helped start 200 ad-
ditiohak projects aimed at more
efficient commercial production
of higher income farm enter-
prises, such as vegetables, poul-
try, and livestock to replace loss
of earnings from cotton, tobac¬
co. and other traditional crops.
Examples of the shift from
cotton to vegetables are report¬
ed by a number of States. In
Arkansas 117 white and colored
families of Ouachita country
are raising cucumbers and to-
matoes for market for the first
time. One of the leading pro-
ducers is Roy Williams, a Negro
farmer whose picture appears
m the Secretary’s report. Cu-
cumbers added $700 to his in-
come last year.
In Anson County. N. C., white
and colored farmers raised 185
Improved Methods and Good
to !
Help Farmer | ]
$40,000 a Year
Percy
N. C., who knows what
is to struggle against low
and crop failures, now
close to $40,000 a year
and good management,
Negro State Agent R. E.
of the North Carolina Ex¬
Service. |
;
And Mr Richardson and his
family live in a $30,000 brick I
rambler built in 1955 after
years of saving and dreaming.
now he and his wife are con-
centrating on the education
their children—Gloria and Per- '
cy, Jr., After that they plan j
to retire. [
“Tt.’ll be time to retire,
says Mr. Richardson who bas>
farming for mroe than 40j I
y ears _____ He started out as a
youngster with his parents
their farm. After he became 1
of age. lie gradually took over ;
operation and management of
the farm and enlarged it. In[
addition to the 450 acres the
family now owns, rents 65. This
gives the Richardson 167 acres
of cropland and 348 of pastures,
and woodland.
Last year the Richardsons
produced more than uO.OOO
a quantity of corn, a
of hogs, and more than
dozen eggs, 'says State j
Jones. 1
But Mr. Richardson has known
time when his crop pu h.’-
not much more than half 1
it was in 1958. Those were !
years when he struggled so
against low yields and
failures without much
Even so, he and Mrs.
kept careful records and
ways of increasing effi-
and lowering operating
This led him to shift
mules to tractor power
to take ___ other steps to
expenses .
In relatively recent years
been placing increased em -
on better production
In this effort, he has
the advice and
of his county agent. Wil-
F. Wright.
Among other things,
now has his soil
from time to time and ap-
fertilizer according to the
needs of his land. He
plants improved varieties
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
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DENATURING NEGRO SPIRITUALS
It was my rare privilege a few
evenings ago to hear the young
celebrated Negro baritone, Wil-1
liam Warfield. He has a voice
of rare strength and beauty
with great range and flexibility.
He, of course, folowed the
regular line—usualy followed
by vocal artists, both Negro and
white. They usually sing the
conventional groups—German,,
French, and Italian—and often
conclude with Negro spirituals,
and most especially, if the ar¬
tist is a Negro. In other words,
the average artist is interest¬
ed in mainly pleasing the few
musical sophisticates, rather
than the common people. They
are out to show their own mu¬
sicianship, and not merely to
please the many whho are not
sophisticated in things musical.
It seems a pity to have a
fine audience composed of rel¬
atively few sophihsticates and
many average people who want
to hear some good music, dis¬
appointed. The average per¬
son who make up the audience
of the average concert, is not
interested in the finer points
of music, but is rather interest¬
ed in the comfort and spiritual
exhilaration which music brings.
We enjoy best what we under-
stand best; and since we do not
understand the foreign language
groups, our musical pleasure in
those groups is strictly limited.
And so we wait - sometimes im- j |
>P atientl y. for the Negro spirit-
uals—which Negroes so well I
understand. |
But the Negro spirituals are
becoming sophisticated 1
so that
we hardly enjoy them. Those
I soul songs of our forefathers, •
with their beauty and sweet-!
ness and pathos have been so
worked over by our composers
that their music has been in¬
terpreted and “arranged” away
by our musical sophisticates. It
has come about that the
“jazzification” and sophistica¬
tion of Negro spirituals have
about denatured the priceless
bditage which is the Negro
[ s P iritual -
As I sat listening to the so¬
phisticated Negro songs, which
were often difficult to recog¬
nize. there was always the re¬
deeming thought that I would
have my spiritual fill when it
came time t o hear “Old Man
River.”
When that lon g ed - f °r ttaif
I }t was difficult to
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j Man „ oi% River” D ., ror „ or _ “Young Man D Riv¬ .„
er.” I only know that I left
the concert hungry for “Old
Man River,” as it was sung yes¬
teryear.
acres nf ciinnmhprs this vear
for q pickle plant, These
farmers also are seeking a sub¬
stitute crop for acres no long-
er planted to cotton.
Another of the many prob¬
lem's the Rural Development
Program has attacked is farm
drainage. In Berkeley County,
S. C.. several white and colored
farm families live in a low-iying
area. They were going down-
hill year after year until drain-
age was provided through Rural
Development.
On the industrial side, local
Rural Development leaders and
cooperative businessmen have andi
helped establish factories
processing plants for manufac-
turing clothing, livestock feed.
charcoal, boats, and other pro
ducts. Due to new plants and
other industrial growth, some
8,000 additional jobs are report¬
ed in 52 counties participating
the Rural Development
Program.
Phillins I hilhps Countv County Arkansas Arkansas for
example, reports the establish-
ment of a hosiery null. Thirty
Negro women were employed
and trained to operate the
machinery in the manufacture
of men's and women’s hosiery.
However, the rural problem
continues to be one of under¬
employment on small frarns and
a shortage of local nonfarm
jobs. As parts of the solution,
the report suggests more vo¬
cational training for the young
people who will not be remain¬
ing on the farm, and more as¬
sistance to low-income areas to
help them establish the proper
climate for industry.
of tobacco, cotton, and corn,
rotates his crops, fumigates his
tobacco against diseases, and
controls insects in his crops with
careful applications of insecti¬
cides.
Through these and other me¬
thods, the farmer has increas¬
ed his tobacco yield from 1 , 200 !
t 0 1500 pounds per acre; and;
j^jg co tton. from three-fourths;
of a bale to a bale and a fourth
p er acse: and his corn output,
f rom 30 to 50 bushels per acre, j
In Mtr. Richardson
grew corn mostly for market.
^ow he is feeding it to hogs.
Encouraged by Mr. Wright and
Assistant County Agent
he has acquired six 1
meat-type sows. In the future
he hopes to market more than
100 hogs a year.
His success with crops
made his farm a kind of model
for many of his neighbors who
drop by frequently to observe
his methods. And the home
demonstration agent, Mrs. Mar-
H. Yflade, often includes
the Richardson home in her
home makers tour schedule.
Above al else. Mrs. Richard-
son likes to show the visiting
groups her home-freezer and
point out that the family pro-
duced just about everything in
it, including several pounds of
golden butter from their Jersey
cow.
1 “The Richardsons have set
NACWC to Open
Health Center It;
DETROIT—I ANP)—The Na¬
tional Association of Colored i |
Women’s Clubs. Inc., will soon
open a new Women’s Health
and Service Center in Wash¬
ington, D. C„ Dr. Rosa L.
Gragg, president, NACWC, an¬
nounced this week. The Center
will be under, the direction of
Mrs. Dorothy Watts, instructor
in public health, Howard uni¬
versity.
The Center, which will be
staffed by people trained in the
field of health and social ser-
vice, will provide pre-natal
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an outstanding example in live-
at-home, as well as in improved
farming and sound manage-
men t,’* says State Agent Jones.
“They are a good example for
Nash County and for all of
North Carolina,” he declaes.
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Sponsor
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meeting.
The CBA will attempt to get
20.000 eligible Negro voters in
this country. The keynote
speaker to start off the cam¬
paign will be John Wesley
Dobbs of Atlanta.
Mr. Dobbs is president of the
Georgia Voters League and de¬
votes much of his time toward
j trying to get as many of the
622.000 eligible Negro voters of
Georgia to register and become
voters and to become worthy
citizens.
Mr. Dobbs is the Grand Mas-
SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, 13j#7
It has been my good fortune
to hear the world s best music,
both here in America and in the
finest opera houses abroad—in
Milan, Rome, Cairo and London
and Paris. I shall never forget
my life’s richest experience "so
far as music is concerned,
when I heard the immortal
Caruso sing the role of Rha-
dames In Alda, with the incom¬
parable Geraldine Farra singing
the part of Aida, in Convent,
Garden, in London.
King George III, and Queen
Mary, with the now Duke of
Windsor and Princess Mary,
were in the royal box. Ca¬
ruso was at the height of his
fame and glory and lifted that
vast audience of thousands to
ecstacies of joy. That even¬
ing the audience was treated
to one of the greatest interpre¬
tations of Verdi.
But when it came down to
the interpretation of Negro life,
the real singer of real Negro l
songs, minus the current so- ' A T
phlstication ,and jazzification, '
has something of which we may
not be .ashamed. I have heard
and known Negro spirituals
their best—at country churches,
along the water coasts, where
and when there was no organ
or Piano, where Negroes sang
out of their hearts to the heart.
Those Negro songs sung the
Negro way were filled with a
rhythm and plaintiveness and
pathos with overtones of me- -
lodic sweetness that was heart-
stirring and soul-reviving
Peop! whho have not heard
those Negro spirituals in the
“raw” cannot appreciate what
is currently happening to them,
T he way they are now ren-
derd gives a great idea of the
artists’ vocal abilities and po-
tentialities; we get good
glimpses of the artist’s art, but
we get very little of the beguty .,
of Negro songs and singing.,;-;
When heard at its best, c
Negro spiritual is powerful..This,?,
music is at its best along t&e :i
coast, where it foliows.,,,.),^^
large rivers hundreds of miles
to the inland. This acapella
singing we hear these days among
college choirs cannot compare
in beauty with the aoapejjj^j
singing of Negroes in the un-j
sophisticated country and vil¬
lage churches along the Savan-j
nah river.
Negro spirituals are being de-i,
natured by sophistication and
jazzification. Those of a form-.fi it
er generation know that happen—It some-
thing has happened, js
ing, to our cherished heritSge— : »i
the Negro spiritual, passe'd on
to us our fathers. ■»■
care clinics, cancer detection, 1 :
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medlcal counseling and guid-;;
ance> as wel1 as instruction in
diet in relation to health.
Other services f)
will include aid ;
to unwed mothers and mental
hygiene counseling. There will 1 \
also be workshops and semi- ! f
nars for professional groups,
clubs and neighborhood pro¬
grams, lectures and film show¬
ings. A public information pro-
gram regarding health and wel-
fare facilities will be maintain¬
ed.
ter of Prince Hall Masons of
the state of Georgia, and is
recognized as one of the out¬
standing Masonic scholars of
America. He has traveled ex¬
tensively in Europe and the
Middle East.
Campy To
(Contmued from Page One)
Orange Blossom classic and
festival committee, said Cam-
panella’s name will also be the
first inscribed in FAMUs “Ath¬
letic Hall of Fame” when it is
completed. The shrine is to be
housed in a proposed new $1
million Ueidhouse.
The classic annually matches
the FAMU Rattlers football
team against the "strongest
possible opponent.’’ This years
rival has not yet been selected.
A crowd of 50,000 is expected
to be on hand for this yeai s
event, to be played in the
Orange bowl. •;