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MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
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The symbol for the new year and the
symbol for new hope is tradition ally a
new baby. We think of young fijr.
only a few days old at the moment, as
a youngster radiant with ‘health and
brimming with optimism.
To us it has always seemed fitting
that the March of Dimes appegl should
l be " held L ” in January. T For years, the. Mary6 _______ rf
of Dimes meant hope to the children
Buffering from p olid, Dnl.V
a few short years ago a M-* ,r c h
of Dimes financed research project - pro¬
ducer! a polio vaccine that has protected
millions of youngsters from* a crippling
disease.
And this year, too, it is fitting that
the March of Dimes comes at a lime
when hopes are high for the new year.
This year, it’s a New March of Digum, be¬
cause it now offers hew hope to even
more millions—the patients suffering
from crippling birth defectk and crippling
arthritis, as well as those suffering froth
crippling polio. These three.diseases gjV
feet one family out of every’' four ip
this country.
CONGRESSMAN • HAS 5 GOOD POINT
• * * -
From Tjie Nt. Paul Research
Congressman Charles Dijyjfs of
iran in suggest in? that President Fisen-
hmver make a peace tour of our Mmtflern
states was echoing- the hope of American
Negroes who have felt since the
C S. Supreme Court decision, that the
M hite House should give some leadership
to the issue of racial peace riftRt. here
in our own country.
A tour such as Mr. Eisenhower has
been making during the past few days is
a fine thing but when it is over India/and mariy
the people who cheered him in
other places may logically wonder, hOw
/ Kt UN-tVEKYTHING
From Tb? St. Psnl Recorder
The Oklahoma HAGUE puhli.Mied
Tulsa, Okla., recently had a ‘front paf^
article by titled “Think With Me” bv J.'
Castina Jackson which.dealt with felloyf-
Negroes who don’t register arid vote. D
reminded us that in the Idiunea[>/iiis hiy’-
nicipal election in which the firirt and only
Negro judge was defeated by only'* few
thousand votes, there were an estimAfed
4,600 Negroes did not bother to vote.
There must lie some Negroes in Tulsa
just like those we have in Minneapolis
because Mr. Jackson wrote:
“Any able-bodied Negro who lives in
Tulsa and won’t register and vote is lazy,
indolent, slothful, trilling, unwise, undig¬
nified, un-American, uncouth, unscrupu¬
lous, unreasonable, uninformed, uneducated
unethical, unconcerned, uncivilized, unad¬
vised, unbalanced, uncalled-for, unobserv¬
ing, unmindful, unintelligent, unsteady,
Delay Income Tax Trial
Of
NEW YORK. N.
The income tax trial of Rep
Adam Clayton Powell
to begin Jan. 7 will be
at least another 30 days.
The trial w-as set over
Edward Bennett Williams
is representing the
Congressman, charged that
government had amended
Bill of particulars to such
extent that more time
be needed to prepare his
fense.
A on Christmas
MEMPHIS. Tenn. —<ANP» —
flow ridiculous can one get?
That question might well be
asked of Miss Lala Stephens,
public school music supervisor
here. w r ho. it iA reported, cen¬
sored an opera of the Biblical
Three Wise Men because one ot
them is black.
The opera is “Amahl and thf
Night Visitors.” add is to be
staged at segregated white
. chools here. A religious opera
by Gian-Carlo Meaotti, the
play is based on the three k,iags
front the east whi, ndlhiAJ Ur
*n angel of G0d mad*
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C r i p p 1 i n g birth defects are
the major unmet childhood medical
problem in the United States. About
360,000 children annually, or one in 16,
are born each year with significant birth
defects.
The number of Americans suffering
f>um some form of arthritis and rheuma¬
tism is more than 11,000,000. Among
these are children afflicted ujth rheu¬
matoid arthritis. They live in such a
painful, tragic world that the touch of a
sheet on the body can be excruciating at
limes.
And finally, there are more than 50.000
victims of paralytic polio still being aided
bv the March of Dimes. Some are chil¬
dren whose parents neglected to give them
Salk shots.
Remember all these numbers when you
pass a coin collector for the New March
of Dimes. Remember all these numbers
when you see pictures of fat. and sassy
Mr. I960, exuberant with good health.
Remember these numbers when you look
$tt your own children, exuberant and ac¬
tive and protected by the Salk vaccine.
sincere a man is, who advises American
school children in Delhi to practice racial
tolerance, and justice, and refuses to ad¬
vise.the |H*opIe at home to do the same
thin?—in a verv forceful manner.
Marty of us hope before Eisenhower's
term ends he will give real leadership to
the civil rights cause, and the cause of
iustiee to American Negroes, for in doing
do he would dramatically impress noon
the world, and the nations he visited that
America seeks to lead by example, as
well as words, in the delicate area of hu¬
man relations at home and abroad.
it\di.*creet, inconsiderate, incautious, in-
tjitmous, rash, reckless, heedless, careless,
foolhardy, neglectful, indifferent, thought¬
less, inattentive, apathetic, dull, stupid
simple, sluggish, silly, ridiculous, senseless,
.frivolous, contemptible, inept, disgraceful,
perverse, obstinate, clumsy, dilatory, un¬
ready, sloven, detached, malicious, ques¬
tionable, insignificant, little, mean, nar¬
row, confused, erratic, uninterested, inju¬
rious, unjust, unfair, retarded inconsis¬
tent, short-sighted, unimportant, uninflu-
ential, useless, unenlightened, fraudulent,
dangerous, untimely, inadequate, awk¬
ward and misfitted. . . ”
(Editor’s Note: There must be some cit¬
izens in Savannah like those in Tulsa and
St. Paul. YVe hope that these citizens
will wake up and “Register to Vote’’ in
order to be ready for future elections.)
Since the return of the Pow--
ell indictment in May 1958 the
case has been adjourned many
times. The list postponement
was granted on Powell’s request
that he be excused because he
had to undergo a hernia opera¬
tion.
Whilt hospitalized; doctors
discovered that he had a
growth on the esophagus which
required immediate surgery.
still hasn't had the hernia
operation.
journey to 'Bethlehem to see
the CYirist Child. One o>f them.
King Balthkzar. is black.
According to Mrs. Fred Niell
director of the Memphis
Theatfer production, Miss
phens objected to the
king apd wants the person
playing the part to ease off the
blackface makeup. Why?
She fairs the NAacp might
use it as an Argument in
o airs. fmtecratiun in the schools
Nidi s4id atiss
told her tai NA»VCP “could
thm Miky ah ipfra
her* in A*hieh ht th*
kings was black, so why couldn’t
some of the students be Ne¬
groes.”
However, Miss Stephens had
no objections to another Negro
role of pageboy in the opera.
Pointing to Miss Stephens’
paradoxy, Ken Carter, the basso
who sings the role of King
{JSaJtiiaaar, remarked:: “What
does she want to do? Does she
want the boy to sing, “One of
them is light tan?”
Kasper Finishes
Second Jail Term
NASHVILLE. Tenn.—fANP)
Segregationist John Kasper
perhaps regrets he ever enter¬
ed the integration dispute.
The lanky white trouble¬
maker left the Federal correc¬
tional institution at Tallahas¬
see. Fla., early last week
serving a six-month term
stirring up integration
and Immediately faced
jail term here. He is to
a similar six-month
in the Nashville
! County workhouse for
t<o riot during the start of
public school
here In 1957,
The term Kasper
wai his second lor the
reason.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1960 SHOULD BE A FULL TIME JOB
McGhee Predicts 1960 ’s Will See Emergence
Of Negro to Full Citizen Status
CLEVELAND Ohio—“With the
ushering in of the New
the „ Negro .. in , the ,, United
stands upon the threshold of
r.ew decade—the 60’s declared
Norman L. McGhee, head of
nation’s first Negro investment
Brokerage Firm at the close of
its eighth year of activity in
securities market, in a
ment. issued this week, “It is time’
rays MrGhee, “for an account¬
ing of the progress of the Ne¬
gro during the 50’s. From the
record, we find the past ten
years have seen great gains in
education, civil ights .and job
opportunities.”
’Today, the main question
facing the Negro is: will
leadership meet the challenge
to initiate a program to lift the
economic status of the Negro
masses? This Is the all
masses by action .and example
to adopt and follow a plan
Cong, g- Diggs Asks Pres. Eisenhower to
Make “Goodwill Tour of the South”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANPi
— Congressman Charles
Diggs (D., Mich.) has urged
President Eisenhower to extend
his "goodwill tour” to his own
southland upon his return from
foreign shores.
In a letter sent to the
dent, Cong. Diggs expresed a
deep sense of appreciation for
his contribution toward world
peace and human understand
ig. But, he added, “this pattern
of personal diplomacy could
also be extended and applied
to the grave problem of human
relations here in America.”
Back From Little Rock
Diggs returned recently from
a fact-finding trip to Little
Rock with respect to the status
of integration in the high
schools there. On this trip he
discovered that no high rank-
ing official from the executive
branch of the government has
made an on-the-spot investiga-
tion of the race problem. And
that no such individual has
made a forthright speech on
this subject in the South w'here
the problem is most acute.
“There is no place you have
recently visited where the ^ieed
is greater than here in Ameri-
ca,’ Diggs wrote the President,
The Michigan Representative
suggested that Mr. Eisenhower
could —,,u find no better — or more
........
dramatic way to crown his
distinguished career as a public
servant than by directing
personal message to the high
school and college students of
the South.
This might be accomplished
by addressing joint
Central and Hall High
Schools in Little Rock. And he
might also speak to the stud-
ents at Alabama University
where Autherine Lucy w a s
f° rced out becaus of her race,
Conditions Same As In 1957
I On his trip to Little
j j in Diggs the found high that schools the is situation almost
as bad as it was in 1957 with
I the exception of having troops
around: Inside of the building
the Negro children are still
1 under severe duress.
Publisher Martin Returns
CHICAGO— I ANP t —Louis E.
Martin, former editor of the
1 Chicago Defender and publish¬
er of the Michigan Chronicle
in Detroit, returned here this
1 week from Africa on a month's
leave of absence
Martin has been serving as
editorial adviser for the Amal-
gamated Press of Nigeria based
in Lagos, the qapital. During
The National Foundaton.
supported by the Jan. 2-31 New
March oi Dimes again, t birth
defects, arthritis and polio, has
whereby each Negro family
save and invest a minimum
1
$100 00 , a year for the next ten
years in the common stock
the major American
corporations,” advised
“Thru this planned
(program the attainment
1 economic security and
emergence cf the Negro into
1 citizenship will be .an
able result,” he predicted.
“Such a program will
for investment by the Negro
annually the sum of a half
billion dollars making it pos-
sibie to acquire sizeable
ings of common stock of such
companies as: General Motors,
Westinghouse Electric,
Roebuck, Standard Oil,
Corp., Republic Steel, A
Stores, General Tire. Dow Chem-
‘°al, General Foods, Ford Mct-
American industries that direct
the economy of the nation. It
his stay in the United
Martin will rest and gather in¬
formation about Nigerians in
this country to be used in the
Nigerian papers.
The well, known newspaper-
ma n went to Africa in January
j of 1959 ad expects to complete
| his assignment with
mated in April of 1960.
I helped train more than
I sorely needed medical
iouaL with more Ilian $33,000,
000 in March of Dimes
is only thru this means will
^ be ^ e S r ° achieve an advanced
| I standard of living, and full cit-
12 ■„ “ lS ,, ip „
-
,^ s ^ be ^ e ® ro heads into the
be rnast cast the clothes
0 * se cond-class citizenship, and
take on the garb of e d uali ty in
ad ,areas cf living and citizen-
ship responsibility. This na-
* d:m bas overl °oked an enormous
benefit to itself in ignoring the
j vast potential of its Negro cit-
izenry,” asserted McGhee. “Only
in recent years has recognition.
j of his value in many areas been |
j accorded. His athletic
I was disregarded, his musi- i
j cal . talents . . . suppressed, - and - his |
mental acumen discounted. It |
remained for a few individual
Negroes to prove themselves.”
“The Negro potential in this
country must b, explored
zenship will be worth it, con-
eluded McGhee.
There is not a day when they
do not encounter some
pleasant experiences. They
called all kinds of vulgar and
repulsive names, spat upon
threatened with such
as fist shaking, elbowed in the
corridors ................... - and - on the . stairway.
\ Sometimes they are even struck
' or kicked from behind, books
knocked from their arms, chairs
pulled from beneath them,
tripped or molested in other
ways in the cafeteria.
Female students suffer the
is shocking to him, said Diggs,
shocking to him. said Diggs,
because of America’s tradition
j to respect ladies,
| School Board Evasive
! The School Board claimed
that it was unaware of any
such harrassment. If these con-
ditions had been reported they
would have taken action,
j Diggs contended that some of
, the incidents had been reported
| to school officials. But the re-
j ports had either met a negative
attitude, ignored, or were “soft
pedaled.”
: Your contribution will help
j train the additional thousands
still needed to care for the sick
and injured.
‘‘.Tolin nprrr }i*i any trouble
vilh the foreman anymore.”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 136D
2>o 2) reps
By R. W. Gadsden
Things are seldom so despe-
■ate that one can not do some-
thin- himself to help bring
about relief, or remedy or
lease. A look into past expert-
ence will support this state-
merit. Certainly, there are many
current signs to support it.
Alert observers of what is
J taking place now and what, has
taken place in the last fifteen
or twenty years in the matter
of making democracy work in
.luman relations, know that
there'is a limit to what govern-
mental agencies can do. This is
aecoming more and more evi-
lent in the enviable and con-
clusive record achieved by Ne-
groes in their quest for first
class citizenship.
It should be clear now that
the Supreme Court of the Uni-
ted States can go only so far.
Aggrieved citizens must go the
rest of the way. While it is the
1 duty of liberty loving citi-
I zens to obey the laws of the
land as handed down by the
Court, it is also the duty of
citizens to make themselves
worthy of citizenship. Again,
people who are alert to the re¬
sponsibilities of citizenship will
do everything in their power
to measure up to these respon-
sitoilities
There is a long list of things
that need to be done in this re-
spect, but the one area which
needs emphasis and action
right now, is that of politics—
more specifically, the area of
registration. It assumes high
ranking among the things Ne-
groes must do if they are sin-
cere about their aspirations for
^ .
liPtWPPll I ll^ 1
liy Dean Gordon B. Hancock tor AM
A GREAT BUT HOPELESS MISSION
V>2(iv w:th humane instincts
would wish for President Eisen-
howel anything . u t.ve , es
as he launc es out 0,1 one 0
the greatest peace missions
known to history; as he at-
temots to retrieve the name
and fame of our great America,
He deserves the prayers and
'on the^other
, fatally handicapped in his
| great adventures to many lands
j in the interest of world peace
and cur own survival.
When I was ,a lad in South
Carolina the chain-gang sys-
tern of imprisonment flourish-
ed. All of the prisoners, trus-
tees excepted, wore chains
such fashion as to hobble
prisoner in case there was
1 effort cf escape.
I
Many wore chains with
i b'on balls attached, and as
! prisoner moved from place
place in doin . the chores
8 as-
j si up &' ned- his bal1 he would and carry have St to pick
| wherever he went.
Tho.se balls and chains
impediments which made
I easy for a few white
to handle large numbers
prisoners, the greater
j impediment ;f whom were of those Negroes.
reminds one of the moral
pediment which President
enhower must take with him
many lands in his attempt
recoup the international
will and respect that we
lost so ingloriously within
'•ast few years.
Our nation that emerged
World War 1 as the hero
of the nations has
fallen from grace and is
most hated of nations.
nations have spent of
which the United States
payers have shelled out
out regard to the fiscal
appertaining thereto.
In our attempt to win
by our generosity, we have
terly failed. The nations
.eceived our largesse and
read j to spit ____ upon us. if
be, to show their contempt
us There must be a
wh\ we are hated and
ed among the nations of
earth and no better reason
bp found than in the
behaviour of the old South
securing first class citizenship
Of course, when one looks at
the indifference of Negro lead-
ers and at the apath,r and1 the
(smug ignorance himself of with the « senou*
he finds
j misgiving and grave doubt as
j to whether Negroes are really
sincere about their desire for
j first class citizenship.
j | However, many questions
CQme tQ mind a p 0 ut this matter
q{ regis tr a tion .and we are
i concernec j about Chatham
County: w hat keeps Negroes in
th - g coun ty from registering?
They have resisted coaxing,
.p^gy re fuse to expose them-
se]ves tQ organization . They will
nQt listen a pp ea is to register,
They evidently do not know the
importance of registration and
voting. There is certainly no
j reason to fear harm or intimi-
■ dation in Chatham County,
| There has been rather encour-
j agement. Is the trouble with
| their leadership? Is there not
1 available leadership material of
the right sort in this commun¬
ity of a score of professional
men, a larger number of busi¬
ness men and women and more
than a hundred ministers? Is
j not the political welfare of the
j people who support them a
' matter of concern to them? If
j ' it nish is not the their needed business leadership, to fur-
j whose is it? Is Savannah so
i different from other cities in
i this respect? The answers to
these and other kindled ques-
j tions column will from be time discussed to time, in with this
emphasis on the things we can
1 DO.
j their attempt.^ to^ e,, d c the
j subjugation of the Negroes of
..
e
! While it must not be forgot-
ten that ., , there ,, is . a M New South „ th .
j emerging, with a willingness : and'
j readiness to “let the Negro go,”
j the fa"t remains that the Old
South is still very much in the
^ a( a^i e w yien it comes to hand-
j iRg "*««*•
Its current campaign to pro-
dangerous signs of the times.
Little by little newspapers
and influential persons are go-
1 ing over to the Old South’s way
I of thinking. One of the latest
of the northern newspapers to
1 fall for the propaganda line of
| the Old South was the Syracuse
'N. Y.» Herald American, which
the crime situation in
the North to the Negroes who
! migrated from the South,
Happily T the Pittsburgh Cour- ,
i
j ier soundly and convincingly
rebutted this Northern newspa
per, recently gone Southern in
,
r s sentiments. The Old South
is prosecuting its propaganda
campaign with studied .abandon
and this is but the beginning.
But since the Old South’s po¬
sition is anti-democratic, anti-
Chrisitan anti-Negro and anti-
God, anti humane, it is becom¬
ing more and more distasteful
to the peoples of the earth.
The Old South’s revival of
lynching the appeal to dyna¬
mite: its denunciation of the
Fupieme Court’s mandates
;c,andalous attempts to disqual¬
ify Negroes for the suffrage
and its custom of rushing its
Negro citizens to the front in
time of war and to the rear
in times of peace—these all are
so many “balls and chains” that
President Eisenhower must car¬
ry about with him.
Our nobly intentioned Presi-
dent a better interna
tlonal atmosphere in which to
wo / k f or thi ; s country's sum-
val and , woyld peace
The Old South has our Pres¬
ident on the defensive and even
a moral Hercules can be dis-
I South, T ^ , , b still f.,f grouchy fl „ S ... h ^g-mad over , Old the ,
loss of ,, the War of \ Rebellion,
,
Before the peace we are cur-
ren tly championing can pre-
va ji among pther nations, it
j must prevail right here in
j I these United States, even in
the Old South! A great but
! hopeless mission.