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A HANDSHAKE
From the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram
LSUALL\ MORAL Re-Armament
works quietly in furtherance of its pur¬
pose but sometimes its efforts culminate
in drama.
One such instance was the recent meet¬
ing in Little Rock between Gov. Faubus
and Mrs. Daisy' Rales, president of the
Arkansas NAAfT (National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People).
As you might suppose thev had not
been on friendly terms since the violence
over integration flared in Little Rock
two years ago.
Their meeting ended in a handshake.
Mrs. Rates’ husband, L. (’. Rates, pub¬
lisher of the Arkansas State Press, told
POLIO RESEARCH YIELDS DOUBLF HEALTH DIVIDENDS
The medical discoveries uncovered bv
basic research in the fight against polio
have significance for the health of man¬
kind which may somedav overshadow the
Salk vaccine. March of Dimes supported
research has acted like a double edged
sword advancing all medical science by
decades and opening the way for treat¬
ment and prevention of other diseases
beyond polio.
Since polio is a virus disease. The Na¬
tional Foundation started its studies with
the nolio virus and other viruses which
might shed light on polio. These virus
studios^ led of to viruses. the discovery What of a whole
new group these or¬
phan or ECHO viruses cause no one
knows but they nmv unlock secrets
to cure some of mankind’s ailments.
Since viruses spend their active exist¬
ence inside of livinir cells. The National
Foundation supported cell studv. Some
of the
beyond polio.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
From The Oklahoma Eagle
candidates year
drawn, are filing, the issues are being
and we may expect, as always in
the wake of these activities, the organi¬
zation of political campaigns and the
subsequent appeals to us for our vote.
It’s iust going to he “shame on us 1 ’
when this round is all over, if statistics
still show that we have neither the inter¬
est or intelligence to exercise our fran¬
chise.
The stakes have been big <r er or more
important in onr interest nr the countries
as thev are at the end of this decade.
We have seen the program of integra¬
tion move forward slowly, verv slowly_
and Orval Faubus tells us that the process
is now at a standstill. If it is at a stand¬
still it would he ijpost unsfrategie to show
weakness now ,at the ballot box.
We heard encouraging sounds about
the almost certain passage of civil rights
legislation early in this year’s congres¬
sional session. Why even Sam Rayburn
and Lyndon Johnson of Texas agree that
it not onlv will lie considered by the
congress but is expected to pass in order
to cure some of the most painfully ob¬
vious inequties in the matter of voting
in the South.
This being true we would do ourselves
irreparable damage if iu our voting re¬
sponse we did not make it certain to the
White Pastor Boycotts I
JC Businesses I
By Victor Calverton |
LYNCHBURG, Va. (ANPl —
The Rev. John H. Tetter. 34, |
white rector of racially inte¬ 1
grated Good Shepherd Episco¬
pal Church here, told his con¬
gregation last week that he
would no longer take part or
attend any public event which
segregated Negroes or barred
them.
The minister said he will not
patiomze any institution or „ bus- .
ness which practices segrega- *
tion. f nat includes . restaurants
hotels, motels, concerts, theaters
and libraries.
Hopes Campaign Will Spread ‘
„ He said . ne , hoped nis one man
campaign of passive
would spread until “Christians
like a mighty T army, breach the
walls .. that . separate them .
God and from their fellow Chris-
tians.”
TLj v’ator one ef the found-
ers of the Episcopal Society for
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
55 West 42nd Street
New York 36. New York
166 W. Washington St.
Chicago 2. 111.
Mr. Robert Whaley
Whaley-Simpson Company
6606 Selma Ave.
Los Angeles 28, California
Mr. Gordon Simpson
Whaley-Simpson Company
700 Montgomery St.
8an Francisco 11, California
&
a Washington MR A audience why he
thought the meeting had come about.
He said it was his wife’s “experience
with MRA that gave her the courage
to ask for this appointment with the Gov¬
ernor and if was probably something of
MRA in him that made him accept. It
is hard to evaluate this now, but it may
be a turning point.”
MRA, as you probably know, is an ide¬
ology based on the truths of God, and it
is one of the most effective counter-ideol¬
ogies to Communism in the world.
Well this story couldn’t have come at
a better season, could it?
which are looked upon by some investiga¬
tors as cancer cells. These findings have
been useful for the cancer research
scientist.
Dr. Theodore Puck of the University of
( dorado Medical School, a March of
Dimes grantee, has developed a method
of growing mammalian cells in a stable
slate in the laboratory. This permits the
study of characteristics and genetics of
cells grown from most tissues of the
human body. Cultures of this kind have
helped to establish that there are 46
chromosomes rather than 18 as was
thought to he the case several years ago.
Ha sic P'dn -iph's discovered in produe-
iae the Falk, vaccine have made possible
a vaccine against measles and mav speed
(he de'"dopment n f vaccines against other
virus diseases. These ar° but a few ex¬
amples of how March of Dimes research
for election, both Democratic
and Republican, that our attitudes toward
them ami their attitudes towards us could
make the difference between election and
defeat.
Here we go again, pleading to this lo-
cal eppstitiienev to comp alive and exer¬
cise this priceless privilege.
Here we go again, making ourselves a
nuisance bv pointing out the fact that we
are wav out n n the edge of onr own local
economy. That through the veers we
have been the victims of a local studied
prostitution - that has left us without
iob opportunities that matter; excluded
from the right to ehoos« from the most
derivable sites when wp have the desire
and the monev to build our home: year
after year no provision, has been made
for ps to participate in municipal govern¬
ment and consistently refuses to consider
ps for a p'aee among the technological
and professional trades.
We say we want what any other citizen |
wants, no more no less. If we get it. we | j
are going to have to do what every citizen
has had to do to get what he got - - - get !
up. and go after it, move out and contend
for that to which we are entitled — And i
this contending has both its beginning
and its victory at t he ballot box.
Cultural and Racial Unity
which was formed last month
in iRaleigh, N. C., came
August 1.
He resigned last spring
rector of a white
in Rocky Mount in a
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over integration of the youth
camp operated by the Diocese
ol Southwestern Virginia near
Marion. Before entering the
J Priesthood, he was a newspaper-
man It years iii Des Moines,
Iowa and Chicago.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAII, GEORGIA
NEGRO EDITORS- 3rd In A Series
EDUCATE FOR FREEDOM
Versatility And
Service Describe
Lawyer-Publisher
Attorney Rhodes
One of the three
lishers of the Negro press is
Washington Rhodes of the Phila¬
delphia Tribune. ‘Gene’ was born
October 29, 1895, in Camden, South
He was graduated from
University, Pennsylvania 19 2 1
(cum Saude) and attended the
School of the University of Penn¬
He actively edited The Phila¬
delphia Tribune from 1922 - 41.
He attended the Law School
Temple University from 1923
He was admitted to the
ladelphia Bar, February 1926.
He served for a period of seven
years 1926 to 1933 at
United States Attorney for
Eastern District of
on the recommendation of
George Wharton Pepper. His
cord in this office shows that
was active both in Trial and
pellate work.
In 1933 he received the
Award of the Northeast High
School.
He was president of the
al Bar Association from 1933
1935 and was a member of
Board of Trustees of Lincoln
versity from 1939 to 1941.
From 1938 to 1940 he was
presentative in the General
sembly for the 0th Legislative
■
SDrope
By R. W. Gadsden j '
•
We do not like to admit that
apathy and indifference toward
registration and voting is a
common complaint amongst us,
worse in some states than in
others, and some states have
done a good job of overcoming
it. Of course, there are many
other factors that enter into
the reasons why Negroes do not
show more interest in voting
but those reasons do not hold
in Chatham County where there
are no pressures against regis¬
tration and voting, where Ne-
groes are no less educable than
fhey are in some other commu-
nities which have overcome
apathy and indifference, and
have increased their registra¬
tion nearly upto the national
average.
While there has been no sus-
tained and united effort in
Chatham County, to bring our
registration upwards to twenty
thousand, there have been three
attempts within 13 years which
looked promising because they
included well outlined plans for
organizing . the county into dis-
tricts, precincts, blocks and
streets.
One of these plans was
ly local which projected an
ganizatton with Headquarters,
paid secretary and volunteer
wdrkers. This group lived
a dying rate for about three
years, and then expired.
Another attempt was made,
initiated from an outside source
with a background of phenom¬
enal success in another state
Its plans suggested methods
work in a two-evening work-
shop, as a result of which
oral precincts held one or
meetings under sporadic
vision. This effort died
in a year.
The third attempt at
ing a registration drive,
sponsored in a citizenship
ie by the Georgia Voters
with headquarters in
This movement excited
tary enthusiasm, but not
first thing was done as a
low up f o implement or
Hit instructions given in
trict of Philadelphia county.
He was Chairman of the State
Commission to study conditions of
the Urban colored population of
Pennsylvania 1939 to 1944.
He has been a member of the
county Board of Law Examiners
from 1947 to the present. He also
i has been a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Philadelphia
State Hospital at Byberry from
1947 to the present.
He is a member of the Phila¬
delphia Branch, National Asso-
j elation Colored for People the and Advancement has been of
a
member of its Board of Directors
since 1948. 11c is a member of the
Philadelphia Urban League and
has served as its solicitor from
1950 to the present. He has been
a member of the Philadelphia Clean
Up, Fix Up, Paint Up Committee
for 5 years, and was a member of
i the Cancer Crusade Committee for
I Philadelphia in 1952 arid 1953.
He was a member of the Gene¬
ral Committee of the 150th An¬
niversary' Committee of the Phi¬
ladelphia Bar Association in 1952,
of vv hich association he is a mem¬
ber. His Honorary Degrees include
one from Morris College, L.L.D.
in 1918, and one from Lincoln
University, D.D.L., in 1952. He is
founder and teasurer of the Phil¬
adelphia Tribune Charities, Inc.,
and has been Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Downing-
t.o\vn Industrial and Agricultural
School from 1948 to the present.
He was a member of .the Penn¬
sylvania Parole Board from Octo¬
ber 8, 1953 to June 1956.
He is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Citizens and
Southern Bank & Trust Company.
He is a member of the Baptist
Church. Other affiliations include
the Elks, Masons, John W. Langs¬
ton Law Cluh, National Bar As¬
sociation and Citizens Republican
Club.
He was married to Beitha Perry
in 1932. Thev haye no children.
He is publisher and treasurer of
the Philadelphia Tribune.
America’s oldest Negro Newspaper ;
(now in its 76th year) which has
been published twice a week since
1941. Gene Rhodes is another sterl-
ing example of a journalist dedicat-
cd to the caus e of H uman Decency, j
clinic. 1
Those old questions with their
imiplications, rise up to haunt |
us: What’s wrong? Why didn’t
these plans succeed? Of course, I
the same old answers bob-up,
tod: (1) ignorance, apatny ana
unconcern, and < 2 * the
pie who were needed to put j
the plans into execution, ignor- :
ed invitations to become a part 1
of the movement which they!
shunned as they would a con- j
tagious disease. I
Who were these necessary po¬
j j tential leaders who stayed away?, the!
Wel! a il the doctors, all
j teachers, all the preachers ex -1
eept three, all the FTA workers;
except a half dozen, all the| ’
business men and women ex i
eept about a half dozen. It
is this sort of unconcern that
is so distressing, so disturbing ■
and so puzzling to some of our
friends who risked social and
economic reprisal advocating
our cause. The question,
What's wrong with Negroes in
Chatham County, is still with
and will . with un-
j us remain us
til a self-denying leadership,
j with a passicn for developing
social and pc iitical conscious-
ness In Negro citizens emerges.
gy a q present signs, the
twe j ve mon ths will present
K f ,g roes in Georgia opportuni-
ties .. . to do . a great , deal , , toward .
determining , . . . what , , their social
and political status in the
ture will be. If our leader-
ship fails to interpret the tem-
po of the times, and fails
make us ready for making the
best of those opportunities, then
our situation will be
tragic indeed. Neither the
nor the NAACP nor our
do anything about R it, hnr but
j we—Negroes—can and MUST
; DO something about it.
Arthur S. Flemming. Secre¬
tary of Health, Education and
: Welfare, stated “There is no
j such article “as a simple, device safe
and sane food, drug or
which will bring about loss of
t body weight withuot exercise
of the wil lto cut down food
intake.
3 Degrees And
Professions Propel
Corlton Goodlett
Dr. Goodlett
Carlton P.. Goodlett had already
proven himself a success in two
professions by the time he be-
came interested in the publication
of a weekly newspaper.
Upon graduation from Howard
University in 1935, Dr. Goodlett
decided to continue his studies in
the field of Psychology, and enter-
ed the graduate school at the Uni¬
versity of California at Berkley.
In 1938, he was awarded the de¬
gree of Doctor of Philosophy, at
the age of 23.
He launched h is first career as
a professor in the Department of
Psychology at West Virginia State,
where he became a favorite teacher
and staunch friend to many of the
students who were his contempora-
ries in age.
Perhaps it was a feeling that
he was not fulfilling his deepest
desires that impelled him to resign
from the college and enter Me-
hairy Medical School. To under¬
stand Carlton’s restiveness, it helps
to know his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Goodlett came to Omaha,
Nebraska, a few years after Carl-
ton was born in Chipley,' Florida.
This move was no doubt an ex-
pr( . ssion of their burning desire
^ better their own c ondi ti ons and
also to provide wider and brighter
Jcl s "ob.^rvh, J'hL
efforts and concern, Carl-
^ on became aware of the necessity
to “do something to help my race.”
When the thousands of Negroes
began migrating to California in
lhe World War 11 vears > Dr * Good “
saw this area becoming a new
frontier for America’s minority
groups. In 1945 he opened his medi-
( a j office in San Francisco — the
third Negro doctor to practice in
thi< citv.
He immediately became involved
m the social, economic, and politi-
problems of the large number
of Negroes who were being ex-
time, and in a community that had
posed to urban living for the first
very little experience in dealing
with this influx.
As president of the local branch
of the NAACP, Dr. Goodlett came
a rips with the day-to-day strug-
rie of the Negro to become an inte-
” r;l ' P a, t of the San Francisco
community.
He F ave his leadership to or-
ganiZed efforts to secure equal job
opportunities for minority groups
— anJ constantly hacked away at
tlie powers-that-be to break down
the racial barriers to better hous¬
ing, to obtain more adequate re¬
creational facilities, and to end dis¬
criminatory policies a gainst Negro
physicians and patients in San
Francisco hospitals.
During this time, two weekly
publications — the Sun and The
Reporter — were bravely trying
m provide a voice for the new
In 1948, these two papers were
merged with 9r. Goodlett and Dr.
Daniel A. Collins, a dentist, as
co-publishers of . The Sun Reporter, ,
With the newspaper as a me-
dium of communication. Dr. Good-
lett was able to make more and
more people aware of the prob-
that the Negro and other
I minority groups were facing in
the fast-growing West.
1 he P assa £ e of a non segrega-
tK>n ordinance affecting pu tc
‘ hoosmk' ‘ n 1949, the adoption of
la Fair Employment Practices
(Commission for the City of San
Francisco in 1958, symbolized frui-
tion of part of the publisher’s
I dream 'to help my own race."
j The of Sun-Reporter objectives has kept as
(one its major —
; fair representation of Negroes in
political life. Within the life-
: rime of the Snn-Reporter, San
i Francisco and the Bay Area have
SATURDAY, JANUARY JO, 1980
| Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE NEGRO EMISSARY
It has come about that more,
and more, Negroes are being j
called upon to travel in foreign j
lands by influential organiza-
tions and by the government,
They go as emissaries and ex¬
amples of race relations in this
country and as “Exhibits Num¬
ber One” of the Negro’s progress.
In the first place, this whole
Negro emissary movement is a
defensive one from a national
viewpoint; and as such has
some merit.
The Negroes chosen thus far
have exercised a marvelous abroad.' re-
straint in their manners
and so far as this writer .knows,
not one has attempted to
over” the conditions which Ne
groes must face here in their
beloved United States.
i In fact it is one of the fine
signs of the times that Negroes
have so successfully measured
, up t0 the high obligation en-
tailed in their deputations to
j j-j e r lands.
' the second place, the cal-
In
ibre of Negro who has gone
forth shows the possibilities
which reside in the Negro, and
they give some idea of what the
j nation is wasting when it al¬
lows race prejudice to curtail
and handicap so large a
ment of its population.
j There is a great national
being entailed when the
j j groes’ moral and physical ener-
gi e s are bedissipated in the mere
struggle for full citizenship in
, a country his own fell-racement
' have helped to build and for
1 which thousands have died,
i The outstanding Negro emis-
J sar y has attained unto his pres-
, en t stature in spite of the cor-
j roding influences of a that most like vi-
| r nlent race prejudice
a cancer is eating away the vi¬
tals of our nation.
The tragedy is, that emissa-
ries are necessary to
ac ^ a sord i d impression that our
great nation has made on
world and there arises the
tal question, How far can Ne-
( gro emissaries go to erase
tlle American Negrophobe
1 d0ne “ is doing to dls « race the
nation in the eyes of the world?
This country has done much
for the Negro but it is equally
true the Negro has done much
for America and with his hands
tied behind him. The greater
question arises, as to whether
this country can afford to let
the race prejudice of the Negro-
phobe contaminate thl
j | se /" Negroes elected , , and , appoint-
| ed ‘ 0 res P° ns,ble P° sltlons ’ m focal,
j
1 Through its Public Affairs
eau, the community’s attention has
(been focused on special aspects of
j new problems that have arisen
This pin-pointing has not been
limited to lo>'al offairs, but has
provided a widening of the horizons
of the local citizenry, for example;
the presentation of Tom Mboya,
brilliant African labor leader, in
a public lecture, May 3, 1959; Sir
Adetokunbo Ademola Chief Jus-
I tice of the Federal Supreme Court
of Nigeria in a public lecture and
reception, May 22, 1959; the pre-
sentation of three local Negroes
(a writer, a Savings and Loan exe¬
cutive, and a physician), who visit¬
ed abroad this year in a travelo¬
gue, ‘We have seen Russia* on
November 8, 1959, and the spon¬
soring of Dr. and Mrs. W.E.B.
DuBois in a joint public lecture
discussing “Behind the Iron Cur-
tain and China,” November 18,
1959.
An annual Merit Awards Pro-
gram was designed as an impetus
for individuals and organizations
to give outstanding service to the
community. Each year the men,
women and organizations who have
made the most remarkable con¬
tribution to the Bay Area com¬
munity are cited by the citizens
through the Sun Reporter Merit
Award Program. In recent years
Youth Awards have been an add¬
ed category.
Dr. Goodlett and The Sun-Re¬
porter have been, individually and
collectively, cited for distinguish¬
ed service by local groups.
The motto on the masthead epi¬
tomizes Dr. Goodlett’s personal
zeal as well as the guiding spirit
of the Sun-Reporter; “Dedicated
to the cause of the people — that
no good cause shall lack a cham¬
pion and evil shall not thrive un¬
opposed.”
Dit you know paralytic
cases in 1959 rose more
i one-third over 1958?
tains of our national life with-
out more desperate efforts to
counterac t its horrid influence,
When Negroes, the invariable
victims of race prejudice, must
be called upon to correct impres¬
sions race prejudice has made
abroad, we are brought face to
face with a serious situation
which involves a nation’s in¬
tegrity.
This writer regrettably doubts
that the Negro emissary can ac¬
complish much toward bolster-
is being done in this country
ing the nation s prestige. What
from day to day and published
throughout the world, will in
the long run, far outweigh what
the “Negro Exhibit Number
One' can do, however nobly-
inclined.
To have the Negro abroad
building up, and the Negro-
phobe at home tearing down,
strikes us as getting nowhere.
What this country needs to
know is that the Old South can
destroy overnight more than the
Negro emissary can build in
years.
The Old South with its rabid
race prejudice is this nation’s
“Draw-back Number One,” and
it is just as well for us to face
the ugly fact, that unless ways
and means of correcting this
mental sickness can be found,
the nation is in for great tri¬
bulation.
Already we have let race poli¬
tics color things in Washington
so long, that we find ourselves
outstripped in the space and
missile races. With our almost
limitless resources as a nation,
only our preoccupation with race
j politics can explain our failure
j to lead Russia instead of follow-
| ing her in things scientific. The
bluster and boast of our South¬
ern politicians, has given this
1 nation a false feeling of secur-
ity, when we should have been
j girding the lead for in the things task scientific: of keeping
Unhappily our Congressional
j Negrophobes have not learned
the difference between holding
the Negro down and competing
with Russia " 14 is ferventl y to
be hoped that we in this coun¬
try do not close our eyes to this
fact too long.
The Negro emissary is not the
answer to the question of fH 11
citizenship for the Negro! Our
foreign impression must be cor-'
rected here at home. Deiiloc-'"
racy like charity, begins at
_ ^ GuU Store
C <; J T:
j MONTGOMERY 'Director Ala (ANP).
State Highway Sam
| Englehardt, one of the leaders in
the re-zoning of Macon County and
the resulting exclusion of Negro
residents from that voting district,
suffered a financial setback recent¬
ly when fire gutted his store in
nearby Shorter for the second
time in eight years.
, *
I The latest fi:e cost Engelhatflt,
' a member of the White Citizens
| Council, between '^ $15,000 activities and in $20,- the
| sa
Council might have something to
j do with the incident. Investiga¬
tors, meanwhile, were checking the
posibility of arson.
The store, located between Mont¬
gomery and Tuskegee, was first
gutted in 1952. Located in a serv¬
j ice station, the store was stocked
with mercantile,
| Englehardt,
j some months ago,
| I, helped push a drive in the State
Senate that led to the re-zoing of
j the county> in whlch the Tuske -
j gee c0 )i ege town is located. As
I a resu jt hundreds of Negroes
| ‘ were pushed out of the city limits
ar , d rendeled ine! i K i b i e vote in
the town’s elections.
SSC Library
Presents
(Continued from rage one)
the Zagreb Conference in Yugo¬
slavia, at which time she inter¬
viewed Marshall Tito and broad¬
casted for the Voice of America.
Twice a delegate to UNESCO, she
was also in attendance at the Sixth
Nations’ Assembly in Paris. Wide¬
ly known as a lecturer both at
home and abroad, she has develop¬
ed a large following.
The public is invited to attend
the lecture.