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f AGS TOUR ihf iavawrafc Etitowte. MfcbU*i*4l ir» —*- |CRS. WILLA A. JOHNSON-.Mit«r 4 Pubiluhef KIRA JOHNSON........Pr axiStiex 4 A6V. fafr. PtJBUSHXp CTBftr TwmScSr 19M Ml W1BBT WRBT b «QiP d rmwrr DlAl AOanu 4-U32 — ADwn* <4411 Subscription Rates In Advance One Year_____________________________**1J Nx Month*------------------— Kngle Copy ----------------------—....Till r , i. A» 1 1■’■— 11 '.xsiaarrn'li'irnUjB-w'» iSltM— ewAj— Remittance must be made by jayrede, Nat Office Money Order or Registered Mali. « g. , ■■„■ ; ,ii—mrr-mrn i irmriirin-milil ni l I .— >3*—a» Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Savannah, Georgia MUST AVOID APPEARANCE OF EVIL From The St. Paul Recorder The lesson offered by the indictment of Manhattan, N. Y., Borough president Bu¬ lan Jack, who held the highest municipal elective office held should by , an .American Nd- gro, is one which b# studied for profit by Negroes who hold or aspira to public office. -1 Without coming to a conelij*iqn about the merits of the Jack indictment---Mr. Jack, like all accused person*, is presume ed innocent until his guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt, ’ Mr. Jack’A own statements reported in tbA N. Y. press, indicated that even if he. is not guilty, his action in accepting monetary favors was stupid, unintelligent and hardly a credit to a man who had risen to his position. , ■ 1 <>•'■ • ' i * . Jack’s indictment has . certain element the been seizejl ctylly bv a of southern press as evidence that a Negro cannpt be trusted in high political offjcf. .This preposterous view blandly ignores that there is hardly a day which goes by, that some village, town, city or state official someplace in these United State* is b^ihg charged, tried, freed nr convicted in o®n- neetion with some malfeasance in office. As long as public offices are held by hu¬ man beings there will be some who will make mistakes which will result in in¬ dictments such as the one faced by Ind¬ ian Jack. In view of the Negro’s position in this country most of them realize that Kan the appearance of evil is to be avoided by a Negro who has achieved prorhinenCf especially if it is election or 6ppoi unttaenf to political office. Such peasoninf is understandable but certainly not togiekl Negro since it would pre-suppose t-hat the is that of such superior integrity anil morals he is not supposed to err as bis fel¬ low white has always done arid jvill con¬ tinue to do. j , ? • * Nevertheless the average upright Ne¬ gro is apt to be embarrassed by crint- INVITATidN FOR AN ANTI-LYNCH LAW From Tlie Christian Science Monitor A federal grand jury o/ . Mississippi citizens now has found no.cause fdr prds- ecution in the case of Mack 'Charles Parker, Negro lynch victim. But two things are beyond dispute in the Parker case: . 1. He was lynched. 2. No one has been apprehended or convicted for that barbarous crime. Previously, lynching had been dying out in the South. Pmt because the Park¬ er case is so blatantly being left unsolv¬ ed, may have an effect on public opinion like that of the Lindbergh kidnap case, which forced federal intervention in a field previously reserved to the state*. If so, a local description of the federal grand jury action as a “triumph for Mis¬ sissippi justice” may turn ironic should the “triumph” help push civil rights leg¬ islation or an anti-lynch law through Con- gress. Beyond the two unavoidable facts stat¬ ed above, the public record in the case is blurred. At the core of the mystery NAACP Official Says Negro Tired of Studied” WASHINGTON, D. C., (ANP) —Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington Bpreau, NAACP. told the Senate Rules Committee, Thursday, that colored people of the United States are tired of being studied. . . • “Sometimes I feel like a walking encyclopedia with the back coming, off.” Mitchell appeared before the committee along with Joseph I,. Rauh, Jr., vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, favoring legislation that would au¬ thorize the appointment of Federal Registrars in areas where citizens are denied the right to register and vote because of their race. Rauh, assisted by Mitchell, was the official spokesman for thS Leadership Conference, an organ¬ ization composed of 12 national or¬ ganizations. MitcnaU’a statement came t. a . sanction to a previous statement Rational Advertising Representative* Associated Publishers 65 West 42nd Street New York 36, New York 166 W. Washington St. Chicago 2, 111. Mr. Robert Whaley Whaley-Simpson Company 6608 Selma Ave. Los Angeles 28, California Mr. Gordon Simpson Whaley-Simpson Company 700 Montgomery St. San B ranclsco 11, California A inality whether its committed by the man in the street or the Negro in high posi¬ tion. Seeking acceptance as a fellow citizen, the Negro is anxious that the in¬ dividual Negro be above approach in the street, in his home, on his job or in any political office he is elected. This of course is just so much nice wishful think¬ ing because we will always have w’ith us those human beings who are weak and those who will err-Negroes as well as white. The Negro’s reaction to cases like the Bulan Jack indictment is understandable because for years the daily press cov¬ erage of cases involving the criminality of Negroes so far outweighed news carried about the achievements and contributions of the upright majority of Negroes. This is no longer true in the most ad¬ vanced areas of the U. R. but the affect lingers on. Negroes flinch instinctively when the radio and TV report in the news programs of the violent death of Negroes killed by fellow Negroes or when any other unfavorable accounts appear in the papers. This understandable sen¬ sitivity will give way in the years to Come as the interracial mores of this country become rational and the Negroes who are charged with crimes like Bulan Jack will become unfortunate members of the human race, and Americans rather than Negroes, the chronic suspects, among the United States population. Until that time we can but urge that the thinking Negro recognize that his ac¬ tion in public—in public office gives him » responsibility which is the burden of all minority groups, namely: Not only does his actions if they are undesirable reflect upon him personally but his fam¬ ily and more than that, his race. The fairness of such a condition is of course debatable as we have pointed out, but nevertheless it is there and must be real¬ istically faced. lies a complete FBI report on the case— a report spurned by a county judge and grand jury and left effectively suppress¬ ed by the refusal of a second grand jury to take action. This very lack of action makes the FBI document a likely (and legitimate) source of information for any congres¬ sional committee studying ways of con¬ structing a loophole-free anti-lynch law. \Ve believe it is preferable for commu¬ nities—North or South—to govern them¬ selves. But we also believe that respons¬ ible citizens in those communities do not wish to stand before the world as sup¬ porters of lynch law. When a town such as Poplarville, Mis¬ sissippi, proves itself unwilling or un¬ able to prevent or punish lynching, some new legal power at a higher level of gov¬ ernment is needed. The grand jury action in Biloxi is a clear invitation for Congress to devise a federal anti-lynching law. made by Senator Hubert Hum¬ phrey before the same committee. Testifying in. behalf of his own Federal Registrar bill, Humphrey said “The fihie has passed to talk of study and more study . . . The Neg.ro has been studied and sur¬ veyed and "the discrimination against him measured and apprais¬ ed, for some 90 years since the 15th Amendment explicitly guaranteed him the right not to he denied the right to tote by reason of race.” Humphrey’s reference to a “study” was inspired by President Eisenhower’s statement that the Administration “wanted to study” this plait The Minnesota Senator remind¬ ed the Senate Committee that five of the six Civil Rights Commis¬ sioners approved the Federal Reg¬ istrar proposal which Dean George Johnson described a» “the chief fruit” of the Commission's work. Joar.jS*. foinkt daub 6! the How ¬ ard University Lax* Sehedl, is the only Negro member of the Commis¬ sion. Virginia’s former Governor John Battle was the only member of the Commission who opposed the Re¬ gister proposed. He has since re¬ signed from the Commission. Opponents for the have requested time to be heard next week. Senator Everett Jordan of North Carolina said several Senators had sent wires to back in their states asking if they wished time to present their So far only the Governor and Attorney General of Georgia and Senators Erving of North Carolina and Thurmond of South Carolina have expressed desires to be heard. Senator Thomas Hennings of Missouri, chairman of the Commit¬ tee has agreed to give them this time but contends that the ings must terminate by 5. When it's all said and done, only person easy to deceive yourself. THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA NEGRO EDITORS- Fourth in a Series EDUCATE a .. FOR „ _ _ FREEDOM It may well be said that the Pittsburgh Courier has a petti¬ coat regime. As such it has risen to the highest pinnacle of success. Mrs, Robert L. Vann, President- Treasurer of The Pittsburgh Cou¬ rier Publishing Company, has been active in its operation since the death of her illustrious husband, Attorney Robert L. Vann in 1940. Mr. Vann, one of the founders, was the paper’s first Editor and Publisher. From his death until 1948, she was the company's treasurer. When I ha F. Lewis died, she be¬ came titular head of the business. Mrs. Vann has been the recipi¬ ent of many honors. She appeared on the “This Is Your Life’’ TV program. She has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Hu¬ manities from Virginia State Col¬ lege and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Virginia Union University. She is a mem¬ ber of the National Board of the NAACP, and a Trustee of Vir¬ ginia Union University. She has been named as one of “Pennsyl¬ vania’s Distinguished Daughters.” She represented this country as Special U S. Ambassador to Li¬ beria at the inauguration cere¬ monies of President W. V. S. Tub- man. She has also been named to many outstanding government com¬ mittees including the International Development Advisory Board. The paper she heads, celebrates its Golden Anniversary in 19(50. It is a member of ABC and prints editions weekly out of its $500,- 000 printing and publishing house. Completely unionized, the paper employs over 150 people and main- j »*• **♦ ♦*■» y y »J* ►*« »*• y **» «*■» ♦J* ♦»** **• »*• »*• y »*• ♦*» *5* *5* *5* *** •$* *5* ♦£• *1* *** %* v V *5* *** *5* ©o SDrops By R. W. Gadsden • * y The sort of plans mentioned last week, indicate that trouble or failure to get a reg¬ istration drive going lies not in lack of planning, or thinking, but in the lack of leadership willing and strong enough get it across to our people registration and voting are mat¬ ters so vitally important that it neither countenances nor has any room for division. It has one goal for everybody— the registration of every Negro voter; it submits its test or standard for unified ac¬ tion; it furnishes its own to “conscienceless” objectors: is in the best interest of all “people (wiho are) seeking themselves and their the rights and privileges which all normal men desire.” It is indeed a hopeless situa¬ tion, a dismal outlook, a sad commentary on the type of gro citizenry, we think we have in County, that there can not found some one or two or men or women from successful business and profes¬ sional men and women who can attract enough people of mind and industry, to carry well-laid plans to increase registration up to its potential. Of course, to out such plans, 'even with leadership, will require This Should not be too much a problem. There are zations and individuals in community, who will bute to a cause that is proper¬ ly led and organized. The story of jBaltimore, larger city of course—with larger problem- -is an VP Discusses Civil Rights CHICAGO (ANP)—Addressing more than 7,000 persons Wed¬ nesday night, attending the $100-a-plate Republican dinner at International Amphitheatre. Vice President Richard M. Nix¬ on. in his reference to civil rights stated: “We are proud that there been more progress in the seven years of this Administration in in the field Administration of civil rights since than j any ; Lincoln’s, but we shall continue ; to work for constructive pro- grams which will assure pro- gress toward our goal of equal- ity of opportunity for all Amer- icans.” Prominent Negro Chicagoans attending the GOP “Go For j ‘60” dinner-rally included S. B. Fullcr. bUoJncssinan: Golden B. Daraby, Illinois State official; MRS. ROBERT L. VANN tains eight branch offices. An 80-page Hoe press, seven linotype machines and a complete- ly modern engraving and job press department add to its production, Its Promotion and Public Rela- tions Department is located in the Triangle Building, in the heart of the city’s downtown area. The Courier has been in the fore- front of many campaigns, inelud- ing “Self-Respect” drives; crusades y , , y *»* *» 4 ’** V *»* V V V V * *Z* *♦* V *»* ing demonstration of what in¬ telligent leadership can do (o get people to register and vote. Headed by a preacher and two or three tireless and devoted women, and a number of volun¬ teer workers, a drive put 104,- 000 on the voters roll, and wrought changes in Baltimore, and the state of Maryland that the most optimistic would not have believed possible 2 years ago. Their goal for 1960 is to run their voters’ roll up to 150,000. This effort in Bal¬ timore resulted in having Ne¬ groes secure representation in government as secretaries, clerks councilmen, memlbers of the General Assembly, magistrates, and membership on the Board 01 Education of the city of Bal¬ timore. In other cities, in Geor¬ gia, North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, the value of reg¬ istration and voting on the part of Negroes has been clearly demonstrated. In every case, whether they won or lost the immediate end of their voting, they won new consideration from the politicians to whom votes mean everything. Votes make an eloquent appeal to pol¬ 1 iticians that is far stronger I than petitions. Indeed, a vote- less people are a voiceless peo- Registration and are not mutually exclusive' practiced at their best they are not in conflict. P. S. Long lines of people making tax returns or securing automobile tags, offer an ex- cellent opportunity for getting voters on the registration roll, that is being lost by our lead- ers. John H. Johnson, publisher: W. E. King. Industrial commission¬ er and many others. Among the GOP women not¬ ed greeting Mrs. Nixon was Mrs. Jessie Mae Davis, member of the Board of Governors of the United Republican Fund and also president of the Chicago! Republican Officials in Workshop. charge of the af-1 j fair said it was the largest din- j ner ever served in Chicago, j More than 7.000 dinners were 1 served in two sections of the big amphitheatre. The 3351 waiters serving the guests were j all Negroes, mostly fro m the j Palmer House, with a special de- j | tail assigned to Vice President Nixon and his party. It re- quired two days work to clean up the arena and wash ui the dishes and cutlery—77,000 pieces which resulted in opening the doors of organized baseball for Negroes; complete integration disclosure'"of" in the Armed Forces; first the name of Dorie Miller as a Second Wold War Hero; the fight to save the life of Rosa Lee Ingram which eventually resulted in her pardon; the building of a home for Sally Nixon, whose husband was killed because he wanted to vote in Ala- batna; the Case of the 849 Girl. Publishers Meet Candidate Humphrey WASHINGTON, D. C. — Pub-1 Ushers and editors of the nation’s j leading Negro newspapers were on I hand at the Roosevelt Hotel last I week ate Hubert to hear H. Presidential Humphrey Candid- outline j ' his stand on national issues facing ! voters in the November elections. The newsmen were in town at- I tending a midwinter workshop of i the National Newspapers Publish-j ors Association. Introduced to the journalistic ex¬ ecutives by Cecil Newman, pub¬ lisher of the Minneapolis Spokes¬ man and chairman'tof Minnesota’s Civil Rights Appreciation Commit¬ tee for Humphrey, the Democratic candidate told the group that basi¬ cally he believed in three things, j the Constitution, the Declaration i of Independence and the Bible, and j each one clearly states the prin¬ ciples of Civil Rights.” Quoting from John Donne, Sena¬ tor Humphrey said, “I have al¬ ways felt that ‘no man is an island unto himself’ and I am glad to say that I was for the enactment of Civil Rights laws long before becoming a United States Sena¬ tor.” When questioned about the feas¬ ibility of a Federal Registrar to insure the voting rights of Ne¬ groes living in the South, the Minnesota statesman said that he thinks such a bill will become the law and added that “the unfettered right to vote will change the atti- tude of Congressmen and Senators from every section of the eoun- try.” Speaking of his own chances of getting nominated by his party, the Senator said that it would be an uphill fight, but in order to w in the November elections the Democratic party must nominate a “fighting liberal” to run against Mr. Nixon. In closing, Senator Humphrey reminded the publishers that they, as civic leaders and newsmen, had a great responsibility to inform their readers about the basic is¬ sues confronting America today. College, Cultural Development Center Formed in Michigan FLINT, Mich. (ANP)—Each them-! of, 25 Negroes have extended selves “above and beyond the call” and pledged $1,000 over a 10 -year period to assist in i sponsoring a projected College' anc j Cultural center for physician^ the city. The group, led by a | Dr. J. L. Leach, includes bus- , inessmen, professional people anc j the average worker. in all—used at the banquet which featured roast prime sir- loin of beef. —— - Did you know "All in a day’s work” would be plenty of work on the moon? A day there lasts about two weeks, or 330 hours according to WBE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6i I3G8 * i Between ^ miy- lne Bines ByDeanGordonB - HancockforANP Unmatched President Eisenhower’s of the Union” speech was a classic. He missed an tunity to immortalize by delivering one of ; ringing pronouncements, pling with issues and which will determine or not this nation can longer endur-3. He is on his way out, and no political reasons of his why he should have been restrained. He made much our “unmatched There are times when need austerity and not perity. This column has often marked that history gives record of a nation or that could stand lean and hungry tribes of j north have invariably j the better fed nations and ■ pies of the South. The Huns of northern Europe a shambles of a great tion of the south. i It is not without that Belshazzar was feasting his 'banquet hall, when he the handwriting on the What this nation needs is I assurances of an prosperity but of an SeCl With ! r '^' communism battling our doors and with threats nuclear warfare dangling be¬ fore us like a sword of Damoc¬ les, we want to hear less “unmatched prosperity,” more about an unmatched se¬ curity. What kind of prosperity ours with an approximately three hundred debt hanging over the nation and with economy-destroying inflation doing its subtle tout deadly work? What about our prosperity with credit resources strained to their limit and a nation of People eating and dressing and r ‘di n g on ci edit, and spending incomes which, they have no ^ earned ’ There would ^ deafening crash in our economy, if all of us were re quired to settle, at once, the balance on our accounts. And our perfectly guileless President tells us this is un¬ matched prosperity. Is our kind of prosperity something to be boasted of? A tramp can 8° dressed up if he could get the credit, but would his be a kind of “unmatched prosperi¬ ty.” A top-flight political ob¬ server has been recently quoted as saying that within ten Russia will have surpassed Boards Aid Bias CORE Witness Los Angeles — Charges that. doning and perpetuating segre¬ gation” were made in testimony before the Federal Civil Rights Commission by Henry Hodge, | national v i c e-chairman of, CORE. Hodge also testified that all Los Angeles daily newspapers accepted discriminatory adver¬ tisements that used the words “restricted” and "unrestricted.” Tests Show Bias Thp ihe corf CORE leaders UaHor’c testimony to f 1 was based upon actual tests of private housing developments and apartments conducted by members of Los Angeles CORE in the past two months. The testimony comprised direct quotes * of , interviews . t between both white and Negro testers and realty officials or rental agents. In contrasting the in¬ terviews of the testers, a clear- cut pattern of discrimination in both the sale of houses and ren- tal of apartments emerged. * n survey of private h° usin 8 developments when Earl and Mildred Walter, Negroes, sought to buy a home at Ca- Iima Estates, they were told b > 7 i the agent that he was not in a position to sell them one. t!:iat the y would have to contact the builder. Soon thereafter, he informed two white CORE Newton Casper and Adele Eubanks, that homes were, immediately available. At; Brentwood Park, while Henry; Hodge. Negro, received a com- 1 sales talk, the white couple i who followed was assured by the salesman: “In the last we have sold 1.200 to 1.400 hw **-e have not sold one to a Negro.’ 1 United States in every area of i science and by 2000 A. D.the j communist ideals will have | been accepted by most of the 1 world. So it seems to this writer the keyword is not prosperity but security, against such omin- ous possibilities. The first thing wrong then with the President’s State of The Union speech was its boastful refer¬ ence to our “unmatched pros¬ perity'” which may be seriously questioned. The second thing wrong was that his reference to civil rights gave great comfort to the Ne- gro-phobes in Congress. When the shrewd and fighting south¬ ern politicians can find no fault with a Republican Presi¬ dent’s reference to civil rights, we can be assured that there is nothing in that reference that has aught of advantage to the Negro and his aspiration to full citizenship, ! The Richmond News Leader, the organ of the massive resis- j J terpositionist ters, and originator of the in- doctrine, found no j fault with Eisenhower’s refer- 1 ence to civil rights, for it was a reference merely, 1 The 'News Leader goes on, referring to President Eisen¬ hower’s reference to civil rights “Early in your last session, I recommended legislation which would help eliminate several practices discriminating against the basic rights of Americans. The Civil Rights Commission has developed" additional con¬ structive recommendations. I j hope ters to these be will be among mat- | seriously consider- ed in the current session.” The News Leader takes com¬ fort from the phrase “To be seriously considered” which the President urged, rather than enacted. We might conclude that the President’s address was well re- ceived by vicious enemies of, civil rights and this is not a y. good sign, so far as Negroes are concerned: for if there is one iota of advantage, hinted at Ithe sagacious southerners would not have missed the op¬ portunity to attack it. After carefully scrutinizing.- the President’s address, The , , Richmond New's Leader says “The South, it appears is to have fresh opportunity to solve its civil rights issue in its own way and by traditional mea- sures.” 0 i Negroes know too well what those “traditional measures?’. are—and how they work ” even blunter. When Hodge ap¬ plied at the Playa Del Rey Gardens, asserting he had seen the rental sign outside, he was answered by “the manager • “No' we don’t have any and have no idea when they would be avail- able.’ “Will any be available in two months?” asked Hodge, “No,” she replied. on t Have Negroes” The white CORE members 1** the 10 preceded Hodge had asked manager whether there were any restrictions as to race and creed. They were told: “Well we can’t say that, we can t even advertise restricted.” Pressing the point, the white couple commented- “But vou don’t have any y wegroes Negroes here here - " “No, now we don't and we won t have,” was the reply. Hodge testified before the Federal Civil Rights Commis¬ sion that the cases presented were only a few of the many that Los Angeles CORE had un¬ covered. He added: “However, they amply illustrate the need for corrective federal action in the field of housing.” Previously Los Angeles CORE had tested over 100 motels and succeeded in ending discrimina¬ tion at dozens. The group al- so has a “minute-man” corn- mittee prepared to stand non- violent guard duty at the homes of Negrroes . who have been threatened because they have moved into previously allwhite neighborhoods. On several oc- casions the committee has help- to prevent violence and to* smooth the successful integra- tion of the Neero families in the neighborhood.