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EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK
From American National Red Cross
Concern for the welfare of others is
one of the most ad m wide of human at¬
tributes. It is a characteristic of all who
achieve true distinction in life. And it.
is certainly one that can be found in the
hundreds of thousands of Americans who
regularly serve as Volunteers with the
American Red Cross.
The 1960 Red Cross Annual Report
drives this point home again and again
in pictures, text and statistics. It is a
Proud record and tribute to our neighbors
who freely provide services that arc es¬
sential to the welfare of our community,
nation and the world around us. But the
real story cannot be found in the text
or the photos. It is in the statistics.
It is in the fact that—
Life-giving blood was provided to pa¬
tients in 3,900 civilian and government
hospitals; instruction in first aid and
water safety given to three million Amer¬
icans; help provided to those stricken in
Austin Accepts Federal |
Post In ]
WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP)
—Miss Elsie Austin, noted at¬
torney and authority on Afri¬
can affairs, has resigned her
position as executive director
of the National Council of
Negro Women to accept an
appointment by the United
Statas Information Agency for
an African assignment.
Miss Austin expects to leave
the States around March 1 for
,
Nigeria where she will serve as
Assistant Cultural Affairs offi¬
cer, with special work dealing
with women’s activities. Al¬
though she will be stationed in
Nigeria, her work will probably
carry her to Ghana, Liberia,
and Sierra Leone.
A spokesman for USIA said:
“The agency is aware that there
is a tremendous interest among
women in Africa of what wom¬
en in the United States are
doing, and for this reason we
believe that Miss Austin will be
very welcome in the African
countries.”
Welcomes New Assignment
Commenting on her new as¬
signment the former NCNW di¬
rector said: “It will be a won¬
derful opportunity to relate the
experience I will find in wom¬
en’s activities in Africa with
the Ameican experience. And if
African Sovereignty Is Bringing This Disgraceful Chapter To An End
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disasters—88,000 persons with food, cloth¬
ing and shelter and 17,000 families with
rehabilitation aid; and each month an av¬
erage of 87,000 men and women in uni¬
form and their dependents, and 34,700
veterans and their families received
assistance.
These facts and others make one re¬
alize the value of Red Cross work and
wonder what astronomical amount these
services would cost the nation if it were
not for the Red Cross volunteer. As
the report states:
“The work of the volunteers—2,000,000
strong—is evidence of the nation’s belief
in the principle that the common well¬
being can best be served through volun¬
tary action.”
The I960 Red Cross slogan is “Good
Things Happen When You Give.” The
record for the past year shows it is
equally true that good things happen
when you serve.
desired, I will arrange for
relationship between the wom¬
en of Nigeria and the United
States. There may be some way
that the American organiza¬
tions can help the women of
Africa. No matter where you
go, and how different the cul¬
ture between countries, there is
always a common bond between
women. They have the same
problems and same aspirations
in regard to the welfare ot
their children and opportuni¬
ties for them.”
Native of Tuskegee
Miss Austin is a native of
Tuskegee, Alabama, but main¬
tains legal residence in Ohio.
She served as Assistant Attor¬
ney General in Columbus, Ohio,
before coming to Washington
to accept employment in the
Federal Government.
Her first positon in the Gov¬
ernment was that of executive
director in the office of the
Reeoider of Deeds. Next she
worked in the legal division of
the Office of Price Adminis¬
tration, and finally with the
National Labor Relations board.
Goes To North Africa
After 14 years in Govern¬
ment service she accepted a
position in Morocco, North Af-
with the American School
of Tangier, where she served
for four years. Upon her return
to the United States site was
appointed executive director of
the National Council of Negro
Women, serving in this capa¬
city for two years.
Miss Austin is a life member
of the National Council of Negro
Women, is past national presi¬
dent of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority and is very active in
the American Association of
University Women.
Now Negro-
Owned Oil
• ConttnueO from rage One 1
drilling in adjoining Pickett,
Overton and Fentress County
in Tennessee.
The well was brought in at
1012 feet, and about three feet
below the Pencil Cave forma¬
tion. The Alaska Drilling Co.
at Cave City. Ky., is in charge
of the drilling.
Horn is ore of the few Negro
oil drillers in the nation. He
brought in Ills first 3.000 bar¬
'd a day gusher 20 years ago
in Illinois.
Patronize Our Advertisers —
TIIE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Negro Editors 1st In A Series
W.O. Walker !s j
Achievements
Equal Papers’
By Charles L. Sanders
However history rates Negro
journalism, it will almost cer¬
tainly record that, when the
time of dying came for bias,
bigotry and intolerance, the
Negro Press was the power that
thrust the rapier that inflicted
the mortal wound.
And rubbed salt into the sore
did the Negro editors whose
writings were voices of con¬
science and warnings, virtually
thorns in James Crow’s flesh.
William O. Walker
William O. Walker, editor and
publisher of the Cleveland Call
,t Post, has been a newspaper¬
man for 40 years. In 1919 he
turned in his first news story
to Managing Edito-r Ira Lewis
of the Pittsburgh Courier.
■Walker covered a speech of
Riscoe Conklin Simmons at the
Syria Mosque. An expert shert-
hand writer, the young repor¬
ter wrote down every word the j
orator said.
The complete story enabled
the Courier to hit the streets
with an “Extra” and scoop all
competition. For his night’s
work, William Walker was pro¬
moted to City Editor.
A year iater he wept to the
c.ty desk .of the Norfolk Jour¬
nal and Guide. After working
there for a year, he got fed up
with the town and started to
look for another job.
Started Tribune
He went i.o Washington, D.
C., where, with the Murray
Brothers (job printers) he star¬
ted the Washington Tribune.
The Tribune grew to be one of
America’s largest Negro week¬
lies in that era.
After working as Tribune
managing editor for nine years,
W. O. quit when one of the
Murray brothers died and sub¬
sequent family bickering be¬
came intolerable.
He went to work as adver¬
tising manager of Washing¬
ton’s famed The Fair Depart-
ment Store, a store that
pioneered racial integration of
its sales clerk. Walker rose
rapidly and finally became ma¬
nager of the Baltimore branch
store.
But the newspaper bug had
bitten deeply: W. O. wanted to
get back brio journalism. He
studied opportunities in several
large cities and finally decided
to try Cleveland.
In 1932 he came to Cleveland
as Managing Editor of the
Cleveland Call & Post news¬
paper—if indeed, it could be
called a newspaper in '32. Here
is what he found:
The Call & Post was so deep¬
ly in debt to its printers they
refused to work.
Subscribers had not received
mail copies of the newspaper
in 17 weeks.
A former employee had just
won a court judgment for un¬
paid wages.
The corporation had lost its
franchise because it had failed
to pay state taxes.
There was little, if any, un¬
encumbered real property on
the premises.
Rebuilding Effort
Even though the Call A Post’s
future looked as bleak as the
Prince Hall
Masons
(Continued from rage one)
commander of the organization,
President Tubman, himself a
1 thirty-third degree Prince Hall
1932 Depression years, the
youthful M. E. plunged in
headfirst and started a rebuil¬
ding effort.
Acquaintance with Lawrence
O. Payne, a popular young
lawyer and Republican Party
leader, caused Walker to de¬
himself and the newspaper
Republican. His hard-hitting
editorials and practical ap¬
proach to the Negro electorate
won him enough financial back¬
ing to purchase crude news¬
makeup equipment and
second-hand linotype ma-
Walker ananged to set his
type, lock it in newspaper
forms and transport the forms
the city to a Bohemian
plant for steiectyping
printing.
In 1910 Payne and Walker
a partnership and in¬
the PW Publishing
The alliance proved to be s
one. Advertising steadily
ncreased, the corporation’s
account grew and the
& Post started to really
its slogan: “Ohio's Fast¬
Growing Weekly.”
Today the newspaper plant
every conceivable me¬
device necessaiy for
production of an excellent
350,000 Payroll
There are 50 fulltime employ¬
about 30 part time writers
photographers. The com¬
payroll is nearly $350,000
Each week the plant produce
editions of the Call & Post
edition for Cleveland, the
for smaller Ohio cities,
newspaper, “Tile Neigh¬
News,” and several
for Cleeland super-
William O. Walker’s personal
r.chievements have paralleled
success of his newspaper.
He has served as president of
the Cleveland Board of Trade,
president of the Cleveland
of the NAACP, president
of the Cleveland Urban League.
He is president of the National
Newspaper Publishers Associa¬
tion, an organization of Ameri¬
can Negro Newspapers.
He was one of the founders
of the Future Outlook League,
a militant organization respon¬
sible for numerous boycotts
that forced open doors of em¬
ployment to Ohio Negroes.
Walker served for six years
as a member of the United
States Commission for UNESCO
and, in 1946, he was a member
of a three-man team appointed
.by the Secretary of War to
tour Europe to seek evidence
of discrimination against Negro
soldiers. The evidence was
found and, after a report was
made to the President of the
United States, efforts were
made to eliminate discrimina-
tion in the Armed Services.
Politically Acti\e
He has been active in
Republican politics for 27 years,
He served for six years as mem¬
ber of Cleveland City Council,
and S j nce 1956 , he has been a
member of the Ohio Republi¬
can State Central and Executive
Committees.
While serving as a Council-
naan, he spearheaded a success¬
ful tight to get Negro motor-
men on Cleveland streetcars
and used his vote to force num¬
erous industries to hire Negro
workers.
He held training classes in
the Call A Post building for
Negroes seeking to become po¬
licemen, firemen and highway
patrolmen, and was a co-spon-
sor of legislation in Council
that created the Cleveland
Community Relations Board, a
forerunner of the Ohio Fair
Employment Practices Commis¬
sion.
Walker, a business adminis¬
tration graduate from Wilber-
force and Oberlin Business Col¬
lege, is married, has no child¬
ren. and belongs to the Metho¬
dist church.
Mason and a past grand master
of the Liberian Grand Lodge,
had the Masons in Liberia
assembled to meet the ranking
Masonic leaders,
Lewis and Allen left Liberia
fo rvisits in Ghana and Nigeria
where they planned talk
with national leaders prepara-
lory to organization ol Prince
C. C. DeJoie,
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Courage”
By Marcus Neustadter, Jr.
With such a terrific demand
on the part of the intelligent
reader these days to know not
only what is happening, but
why it is happening, and how
such transpires and fits into
the general political and social
pattern, it is no small wonder
vhy the Louisiana Weekly has
withstood the challenge of a
host of Negro newspapers and
still remains the largest circu¬
lating weekly in Louisiana.
The story of the Neg:o Press
and its importance to the
Negro’s problem, particularly
in the South where many
the white-owned channels of
communications have declared
a “black-out’' on truth and the
news concerning Black Ameri
cans, could be told through the
activities of C. C. Dejoie,
editor of The Louisiana Weekly
which is published in New Cir-
leans.
C. C. Dejoie, Jr.
Mr. Dejore, as editor of Louis-
iana’s largest circulating week-
ly, could be considered a com-
posite picture of Negro editors
and reporters who have
to “expose the truth in spite of
threats against their lives and
families.”
Succeeds Father
For almost a quarter of a
century, he has f.lled the post
of managing editor. He succeeds
his illustrious father, C. C. De-
joie, founder and organizer.
The 'Weekly, as Louisiana’s old-
est and foremost weekly news¬
paper, is called by its many
readers, was founded by senior
Dejoie on September 26, 1926,
and recently celebrated its 34th
year anniversary with the for¬
mal opening and dedication of
its newly renovated office buil¬
ding at 640 South Rampart
Street.
Mr. Dejoie was born in New
Orleans on October 25, liC14. He
went to Chicago, 111., where he
attended the Wendell Phillips
Junior High School and return¬
ed to Louisiana to complete his
high school training at South-
ern University High School at
Baton Rouge. In 1937, he was
graduated from Talladega (Ala.)
College and received his M.A.
degree in Journalism from the
University of Michigan. While
studying at Michigan, he was
inducted into Kappa Tau Al¬
pha, a national journalistic
fraternity. He joined the staff
The Louisiana Weekly in June,
1933.
“Voice of People”
Under the dynamic and ecu-
rageous editorial guidance of
Mr. Dejoie, the true story of
the Negro has been told—his
religious life, his political ad¬
ventures, his social world, his
underworld crusade, his athle¬
tic achievements and his strug¬
gles for first-class citizenship
and equality of opportunity in
the areas of employment.
A modest man of few words,
Mr. Dejoie has wielded more
power and influence through
his editorial columns than any
newspaperman on the New Or¬
leans scene. Many of his prize¬
winning editorials have won
Hall Masonic lodges in those
countries.
CAUTION, Pleote'- Drive with CARE
NO ONE hu> o tMl<4 to SPARE!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1360
2)o 2)rops
R. W. Gadsden
| The suggestion that; Negroes
are not sincere in their clamor
j resented for first by class citizenship segments of is
some
: our nnrmlatinn population rmt. not hprflllSP because
they believe it is a false
implication, but because
they regard it as something
that should not be admitted
publicly; something that is
close to betrayal, somethin!
that reveals a weakness that
ought to be concealed. Weak¬
nesses, hard truths must not be
faced-up to. We delude our¬
selves into thinking they do
not exist because we cover our
eyes, like the ostrich, and can
net see them.
However, the 10,000 that do
not register are not among
those who resent the implica¬
tion that Negroes do desire
1;rsl c ‘ a3S Citizenship, became
lbe y do not know the sugges-
i ’ j 0n bas been made. They do
I not know what it means to be
j Lrst class citizens. They do noi
know how precious a thing it
j I s 10 be a citizen *ith tae
rights and privileges thereto
j appertaining. They do no*-
> know the long and costly
1 struggle men underwent to
I have the right to participate in
the government which rule>
over them, which they support,
35th Annual Negro History
Week to be Observed
! WASHINGTON, D. C.
! The 35th annual celebration of
j | Negro History Week will be This held
this year February 7-14.
| is one of the most important
I observances in which Americans
can participate, especially Ne-
gro Americans who should as-
sist in the vital ta^k of secur-
ing and distributing
tion about the race.
The celebration was launched
j n 1926 , and is sponsored
i v bv the Association For the
Study of Negro Life and
which was organized by Dr. Car-
ter G. Wcodson in Chicago, Sep-
teirmber 9 , 1915.
Trie association was
rated under the laws of
District of Columbia on Oct. 2.
| ] 915 - The first number of the
J Journal of Negro History was
j published Jan. 1, 1916.
I a feature cf Negro History
Week is Proud American Day
celebrated on February 14, the
birthday of Frederick Douglass.
An announcement this year
| points out that the life of Doug-
| lass is typical of what the cele-
bration commemorates. In the
more backward days of our
country, there came out of the
American melting pot this man
Frederick Douglass who rose
from the depths of slavery to
high positions in
He was indeed a proud Ameri-
can ’’
him high acclaim. During his
tenure as “chief,” he has dis¬
played sterling ability in put¬
ting into practice many of the
countless theoretical skills he
learned while at the University
of Michigan.
Unlike most newspaper ex-
ecutives, Mr. Dejoie takes per-
sonal sonal command command in in the hip editorial
department. And on numerous
occasions substitutes as manag¬
ing editor, reads copy, makes
page layouts, writes headlines
and works like a ball of fire
: wben P us hed for time. He has
i an uncanny knack for keeping
a Personal ti^uch on the news
as it develops, besides offering
impeccable suggestions to staff
members.
N.N.P.A. Head
A crowning achievement be¬
coming his years of devoted
and untiring efforts to serve his
people well through the medi¬
um of his press occurred in
June of 1954, when he was elec¬
ted President of the National
Negro Publishers Association.
He was re-elected for a second
term in 1955 and presently
serves as a member of the As¬
sociation’s Board of Directors.
He has been active in relig¬
ious. civic and social affairs of
h i s community for several
years. He is an active member
of Central Congregational Uni¬
ted Church of Christ, where he
served as a member of the
usher board. He is a member j
of the governing boards of the j
Urban League of Greater New j
Negro History Week is not
just an occasion for orations,
public meetings and radio pro-
grams. It is an opportunity
for interested individuals and
families to gather up facts, doc-
ements and other materials
bearing cn the life and history
of Negroes to be sent to the As-
sociation for the Study of Negro
Life and History to help in the
compilation of data on the race
for P ubllc use and education,
11 is also an occasion to get lo- .
:
cal sch ° o1 boards to include"
books b ’f and about Negroes to
j f,s used as text books and re ”
source material in the public
j school.
Some Negro families have val¬
uable information about their
members which should be made
available to the public. Clip-
pings, pictures, copies of .his-,.j
torical, programs and documents
that contain information of a
historical value should be gath¬
ered up and sent to the Asso¬
ciation for the Study of Ne¬
gro Life and History.
Association officials would
like to form branches of the
organization in the large cities
of the country. Information on
the procedure may be secured
from the association headquart-
| ers at 1538 Ninth Street., N. W.,
Washington, D. C. All histori-
cal facts and documents and
I j pictures should be sent to the
association headquarters.
Gleans, the New Orleans
Branch of the National Associ¬
ation for the Advancement of
Colored People, the New Or¬
leans Improvement League. He
is a past vice-chairman of the
Boy Scouts of America, the
Community Chest and served as
a member of the L New Orleans
vr™ Mayors Ne m § ro Advisory Com¬
mittee.
Merit Awards
The Louisiana State Confer¬
ence for Labor Education pre¬
sented Mr. Dejoie with a “Cer¬
tificate of Recognition in Hu¬
man Relations.” Other plaques
and citations include an Award
of Merit from the NAACP. a
plaque from Trinity Methodist
Church for Community Service,
a citation from the United
Fund of Greater New Orleans,
and an award by the Faculty
and Students of Clark Senior
High School for interest and
efforts in the area of journa¬
lism. He is a Prince Hall Mason,
a member of the Studs Club,
Inc,, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fra¬
ternity, Inc.
A devoted family man, Mr.
Dejoie is married to his college
sweetheart, the former Miss
Julia S. Belden of Wilmington,
N. C. They have one child, a
boy, Michael Charles, who is 12
years old.
Mr. Dejoie’s hobby is golf,
golf and more golf. He con-
stantly dreams of the day v.N, n
he will get out of the high 80's
and move into the ‘select 70 s.
which exists to carry out their
wishes. They do not know that
at this very moment, men and
women in many countries over
the world are fighting and dying
in order to secure a voice in
their government. They do not
:now that there are 800,000,009
people under the influence of
one government alone who not
only do not have such a voice,
but who run the risk of being
exiled into some concentra¬
tion camp or blotted out in
some population purge, if they
even dare to say they want a
voice in the government which
exercises authority over them.
This summation of specific ig¬
norance on the part of Negroes
may seem a severe indictment,
however, it serves the purpose
of this column if it awakens
any interest or desire whatever
for doing for ourselves the
things that only we ourselves
can do.
However, it suggests that the
r espcnsibility of the more vo¬
ciferous of the 10,000 who are
registered, who are more or
less politically literate, is to
help others become so. It is
safe to conclude that it is the
handful who clamor loudest
about first class citizenship,
that are insincere.