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FACE &lif $m*mmafc Sriluttif. Est«bUabed 1879 tjma um.i.A a jnHNSQNTVEditor A PublUher JOHNSON........Promotion A Adv. .„ Rep, EZRA PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Dial ADams 4-3432 — ADams 4-3433 * 1 ' " ------------------------ ~~ ' Subscription Rates In Advance One Year ______________________________ $4.12 61 x Months Single Copy ------------------------------ .10 ...................................... Remittance must be made by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered Mall. Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Savannah, Georgia DEMOCRATS AND CIVIL RIGHTS From The Louisville Defender Mr. Paul Butler, chairman of the Na¬ tional Democratic Committee, has an¬ nounced that the first order of business of his party’s presidential candidate will be the issue of civil rights. This position of Mr. Butler is consis¬ tent with his previous stand and it. is heartening for those persons who follow the Democratic Party label. Senator Hubert Humphrey declared in Washington two weeks ago that the Dem¬ ocrats cannot win the presidency with- ont its candidate taking a firm stand on the rights issue. The senior Senator fom Minnesota said that the Democrats may nominate a conservative, but they cannot, get him elected. He said for his ADAM POWELL SEEKS TO ANSWER CRITICS From the Cleveland Call-Post One of the most controversial men in Congress is Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, of New',,York Naturally colorful with a flair f<»r publicity, Cong. Powell has add¬ ed to his natural ability bis disregard for strict,compliance with some laws, moral and legal. He is scheduled to come to trial m a Federal charge in the next two months. Because of his seniority, Cong. Powell is slated to head the House Committee on Education and Labor when Cong. Bar¬ den, of North Carolina, retires. Since this is a major committee, the anti-Negro forces are screaming to high heaven over the thought of a Negro, and especially Cong. Powell, heading this committee. Answering his critics, Cong. Powell said last \Wedk, ‘‘I challenge any member of Bates Newspaper Criticized By Los Angeles Editor LOS AN0E1.ES — (ANP) — Daisey Bates and the paper she and her husband edited in Little Rock, Ark., were severly criticised recently by sharp toneued Almena Lomax, editor of the Tribune here. Miss Lomax, apparently annoy¬ ed by calls from readers wonder¬ ing why she hadn't started a fund to help the Bates who were forced to close their paper last October had the following to say: “Mr. and Mrs. Bates went out of the newspaper business in Little Rock because they published, in their State Press, what was, with¬ out a doubt, one of the worst Ne¬ gro newspapers in the entire Unit¬ ed States. “Judging by what was in the State Press, neither one of them had any concept of news coverage nor of editorial responsibility. “Week after week, while the Centra! High School conflagra¬ tion raged in Little Rock, we used to reacji for the State Press, among the 80 or 40 Negro news¬ papers which we get from about the country in exchange for our own, hoping for a firsthand, aut¬ hentic account of the historical and dramatic eventstaking place there. “You would think that if the State Press had carried no other story worth reading — and it didn’t — it would have carried the Central high story in com¬ plete detail since the editor, Mrs. Bates, was one of those making it. “But it didn’t. ‘What coverage there was, ap¬ peared to be a re-hash of what was in the daily papers of Little Rock, and we would already have had that carefully expurgated, downgraded, and biased version from the wire stories of our own Cancer Can Be Cured Six types of cancer caused one third of all deaths from that dis¬ ease in the United States last year, Wilton C. Scott, local vice president of Public Education, for the Georgia Colored Division American Cancer Society’s 1958 educational and funds crusade de¬ clared today. Scott is director of Public Relations and Alumni Af¬ fairs, Savannah State College. He identified the six killers as uterine, breast, rectal, mouth, skin, and lung cancers. National 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, C alifornia Mr. Gordon Simpson Whaley-Simpson Company 700 Montgomery 8t. San francisco 11, California “ L= - L "------= T party to adopt the mantle of conser¬ vatism in its candidate, will be nothing more than “an excuse in futility.” Between the views of Mr. Butler and Senator Humphrey, we believe the Demo¬ crats have valued food for thought. To surmise — if a position on civil rights is a necessary issue for campaign debate, one needs only to review the his¬ tory of the past few' years. The ques¬ tion of racial minorities has been a con¬ sistent burning issue. In view of the gravity of this matter, racial minorities and the South as well, have a right to know how the President-to-be stands on this question. Congress to demonstrate a more demo¬ cratic. non-racial attitude than I do.’ In defending his attendance record Mr. Pow¬ ell said, “May I point out that I am now’ Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs—as chairman of this subcommittee, I have not missed a meet¬ ing, nor have I been late.” It is too had that Conk Powell has been put on the defensive. We hope he can satisfactorily explain the criticisms against him. Few men are better pre¬ pared for service in Congress than Rev. Powell; however, be has not at all times used good judgment, and he certainly should improve his general attendance at sessions of Congress. Pehaps the criti¬ cism of him will cause him to put his own house in order. Los Angeles metropolitan dailies, “And the fighting heart of Mr. and Mrs. Bates . . . and we don’t doubt that both of them had one, particularly since we caught its heat first hand in Mrs. Bates when the NAACP brought her here to speak at a rally, was only faintly to Ik 1 detected in the State Press. “Knowing the hours you have to spend over a hot typewriter to publish a newspaper, we used to look at the pictures of Mrs. Bates, the- editor, flitting about the coun¬ try in mink stole, and cocktail dress, and gardenias, working overtime at being a public figure, and wonder how she expected her newspaper to survive. At best — and we wouldn’t know anything about it ‘at its best’—it is an operation requiring a tremendous outlay of energy and capital, and existence without the latter, is ever precarious. “Without a doubt, Mrs. Bates was an inspirational figure whom people wanted to see. But if she chose to sacrifice her business and her original area of service, which was editing a newspaper, for this superficial type of leadership, she had no one to blame tint herself for her business failure. ‘It would have been far more beneficial to the Little Rock com¬ munity. to Mr. and Mrs. Bates, as business people and newspaper publishers, and to the civil rights cause, had Mrs. Bates resisted the temptation to lie up and away everytime she received an award somewhere, and showed a follow-through on the job she had begun in Little Rock, ot publish¬ ing an articulate work-manlike, and courageous newspaper.” “These forms of cancer,” Scott explained, “are receiving special emphasis in the Cancer Society’s educational program because their combined present death toll could be cut more than 50 per cent if all cases were treated soon enough. Cancer in those six sites can be detected by physicians in an ini¬ tial or ‘silent’ stage in time for a possible cure. It is estimated that lung cancer killed 24,000 last year; breast can¬ cer, 20,000; and uterine cancer, Integration will give them a free choice in learning NEGRO EDITORS- Seventh In A Series EDUCATE FOR FREEDOM John Sengstacke Proves That A Negro-Owned Daily Newspaper Can Succeed In The North The publisher making the great est leap in Negro journalism since its momentous beginning in 1827 with John Russwurm’s FREEDOM JOURNAL, is the youthful, dy¬ namic editor and publisher of the | incredible CHICAGO DEFEND¬ ER, John H. II. Sengstacke. John II. Sengstacke Sengstacke’s bold break with the >* wpekly ” publishing traditions of most Negro newspapers has firm- , y pstat)lishini th( , De f en der as the fh . st SU( . cess ful Negro daily to exist in a major Northern metropolis and has opened unprecedented po¬ tentialities for Negro publications. Sengstacke made bis historic 1950 announcement that the De¬ fender would publish a daily and embark on a $1,000,000 expansion program at a time when most of the nation’s Negro and white news¬ papers were suffering circulation lossps and conducting drastic re- trenchment programs. Many lead- ers friendly to Negro journalism v j ewpd the young publisher’s ven- ture with cautious skepticism, and opponents of the free Negro press gleefully hoped that the Defender had “overstepped its bounds.” Behind the announcement, how¬ ever, were years of careful prep¬ aration and planning by the talent- ed nephew of the Defender’s foun- public during the Society’s April educational-funds crusade. | 1 Moslems Win Police Brutality i (Continued from Page One* and Yvonne Mollette, because of the injuries and damages suffer¬ ed by«the couple at the hands of the policemen. The Moslems, who regard theii victory as a triumph for Negroes all over the nation, whether Mos¬ lems or not. scored n court, win i that will serve as a precedent in 15,000. Procedures for diagnosing these three types of that disease in an early stage are being widely publicized by the American Cancer Society. “Before it has otherwise betray¬ ed itself, a malignant lung tumor can be detected by a chest x-ray. With early treatment, an average of half of all lung cancers are curable. Yet the present salvage is only 5 per cent. That is \\’hy the American Cancer Society is so vigorously advocating chest x-rays yearly for all adults and semi i annually for men over 45 — the ! age bracket in which cancer at-1 tacks most of its victims.” ! Breast cancer, with present-day cares of a possible in 35 per 70 cent per of cent, cases can out be j | discovered by self-examination if ! the subject has learned what symptoms to watch _ for. To guard against fatal delay, women are ad¬ vised by the Cancer Society to examine their breasts once a month for signs of possible can¬ cer. “Only 30 per cent of uterine can¬ cer patients are being saved out of a possible 70 per cent,” Scott pointed out. “These cancers can be detected by the Papanicolaou or ‘cell’ test. Jt requires a doctor j to prepare the slides and a patho- I logist to interpret them. All | adult women are advised to have j a ‘cell test yearly and all women over 35, twice a year. “Combined deaths last year from skin, mouth, and rectal can¬ cer were little more than those from uterine cancer alone. Rectal cancer, with a cure possibility of 70 per cent and a present actual cure average of 15 per cent killed 10,000; a mouth cancer, with a possible cure of 65 per cent and present recovery of 35 per cent, caused 3,000 deaths; and skin can- cer, with the highest potential cure rate of 95 per cent and 85 per cent of victims being saved, took 3,000 lives. “Regardless of the sex or age bracket., alt adults are urged to have an annual physical check¬ up whether they suspect cancer symptoms or not. “The campaign to obtain a larg¬ er percentage of cures in cases in¬ volving the most common six cities of cancer is part of the over all cancer control program of the American Cancer Society, which also includes research and service to cancer patienU. Ibis program is financed by donations, from the THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA der, the crusading Robert S. Ab- bott whose zealous defense of Ne- I gro rights literally “made Chicago j j famous” and caused hundreds of thousands of Southern Negroes to J migrate North, Less than three years after his daily emerged, the publishing world | stood amazed at the top-flight | journalistic engineering. Satisfied with the of the DAI 1.5 ( progress I) h F E N D E R, the indomitable Sengstacke announced the purchase of a million dollar Michigan Ave- nue structure, built to house a sky- scraper, and now the. new home of The Defender. The only Northern daily in Ne¬ gro life was not only here to stay, but its restless founder and pub¬ lisher was methodically preparing for spectacular growth. Nowadays when men have made rockets to reach the moon and are preparing to land on other distant planets and stars, he who fails to venture is lost indeed. “Our peo¬ ple have a date with history, we’ve got to move to meet it,” says the Defender publisher. The son of a Georgia minister and printer, Sengstacke followed his graduation at Hampton Col¬ lege, The Chicago School of Print¬ ing and Mergenthaler Linotype School, with post graduate studies in business administration and journalism at Ohio State and Northwestern Universities. Practical grass-roots training as well as a sound theoretical knowl¬ edge of the publishing field has en¬ abled him not only to build and expand the foundations of the late Robert S. Abbott, but to infuse his own creative concepts which today maintain the Defender as the news- paper most closely associated with the outlook and aspirations of America’s teeming Negro popula- tion. V\ hether through his paper’s outstanding features and crusades or such unique programs as the Defender’s annual “Mayor of Bronzeville” contest which high¬ lights the Negro eitizens aspira- | tions for top-level representation, every city where a black man suf- I * el: ’ indignities through deliberate I police brutality actions. Dr. King Charges (Continued from Page One) goniery that King is charged with lying about failure to report $31,- 000 in personal income during 1956 and 1958. Salary $5,000 A Year King’s salary as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery was $5,000 a year. Thetford declined to comment on (he grand jury's investigation the finances of the Montgomery Do 2>rops By R. W. Gadsden or through such spectaculars as the annual “Bud Billiken” parade and picnic, with its near million par- ticipants in the only such festival in the world staged annually for Negro youth, or while functioning ! in the innumerable civic, fraternal j or community posts conferred upon him> the “Sengstacke touch” has made itself fp , t throughout the life of the nation and thru the chain 0 f j) t .f t nder publications which in- c!ude the T ri-Sf»te Defender, the Michigan Chronicle and, associa- tidn with the Louisville Defender, Unti , reC ently Sengstacke publish- pd thp Npw y 0 rk Age. A member of the Board of Trus¬ tees of Hampton and Bethune- Cookrnan College, the imaginative young Publisher served on Presi¬ dent Truman’s Committee for Equality of Treatment and Oppor¬ tunities in the Armed Services, and for seven years was a member of the Board of Directors of the Vir¬ gin Islands Corporation. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Allen University; he is recipient of similar academic honors by Bethune-Cookman Col¬ lege. In September 1950, he received t he Urban League TWO- FRIENDS award “for courage, skill and teamwork in securing equal opportunity for all.” He founded in 1940 the National Ne¬ gro Publishers Association and served twice as its president. In his own city, the publisher serves as Director of the Washington Park YMCA, as Vice President of the Chicago Council of the Boy Scouts, Board of Illinois Federal SavinKS and T oan Assn ” Mayor’s ! 1 <>tnnlittee ’ etc ' j ’ “The hope of American leader- ship in a world where Africans and Asians will play a dominant role, lies in the fulfillment of the democratic rights of Negro citi¬ zens. If the Negro press succeeds in carrying forth its historic func¬ tion, we will not only have done a service for our children, but for 1 our nation and world,” Sengstacke characteristically has stated. Improvement Association, the or- j ganization King founded and used to combat segregation. King went before Fulton County | Superior Judge J. C. Tanksley I late Wednesday afternoon and was arrigned. He said he would re- I sist efforts to extradite him to ! Alabama. King moved to Atlanta several weeks ago from Montgomery, Ala., saying Atlanta was better-situated as headquarters for his integra¬ tion work throughout the South. Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver said | that King would be kept under “surveillance” in Atlanta. Addresses Demonstrators King 'poke TuF'dav night in 1 Durham, X. C., at a rally of 850 The figures quoted last week about crime draws all sorts of reactions. One of the com¬ monest reactions, next to angry resentment, is the charge that they represent the wishes and work of writers to make the ( Negro look bad in the eyes of; the world; that the statistics! are made up by • people who make the laws, interpret them and enforce them; that they in-1 elude persons w’ho are arrest- ed, tried and convicted by white people; that others are ac- quitted for offenses which draw conviction when committed by Nergoes. Another reaction is that, | one does not deny so much truthfulness of the figures, but! resorts to establishing the rea- \ sons why for them: poor ing, economic conditions, lack: of recreation facilities, and family destruc-j life j tion cf home during 250 years life” when didn’t the j southern “way of j object to “race mixing,” etc. It j is such lots reactions easier to be content with for | as excuses inaction than it is to be up and doing something to remedy or correct or prevent the condi- tions which spawn crime and the ether ills that weight us down. Past conditions, ante- civil war conditions that is, have no immediate remedial value. ■ Certainly this a tremendous-1 Between The Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP FOR HIS WORKS’ SAKE The passing of Bishop Chas. Manuel Grace is an event of more than ordinary importance. When Jesus Christ was In the flesh, there were those who doubted him and suspected that he was an imposter and a false prophet; and his teachings were seriously questioned by the up¬ per echelons of Judaism. They refused to believe the miracles that were being wrought before their eyes and there was always the impulse to shrug him off. But Jesus implored them to hear him in his teachings, and if this seemed impossible, to hear him for his work’s sake. It is easy to appeal from a man’s teachings and doctrines, but it is not so easy to appeal from his works! In the last analy¬ sis Jesus staked his claim to the allegiance of the people on the mighty works he did for the people. Th.e late Bishop Grace should be appraised for the construc¬ tive works he did among the people. Within a generation he did a marvelous work in the building of the religious empire from nothing but a dream to greatness. Bishop Grace cannot be “shrugged off.” When a lead¬ er single-handedly builds an or¬ ganization that proudly boasts of 500 houses of worship and a total membership of 4,000,000 and with real estate conserva¬ tively estimated at $ 25 , 000,000 he has something; and that something is extraordinary. Today our land is overrun with cults of one kind or anoth¬ er, but Bishop Grace’s solid achievements placed him above the cult level and in the class of great achievers. Those of us who have hat! more formal education are at first inclined to shrug off Bishop Grace, but when he shows what he has done without formal degrees, and we show what we have not done with our great de¬ grees, Bishop Grace stands out in bold relief. Aside from the possibility that his religious empire will fall apart when jealousy among his subordinates gets in its work, the fact will note down that the Negro race can be led constructively by those who have the vision and the genius. Bishop Grace easily built one of the most powerful religions organizations to be found in this country. The phenomenal rise and achievement of Bishop Grace Negroes, supporting passive lunch counter “sitdown” demonstrations in the Carolina* and Virginia. In Durham, he told his audience: "Do not fear arrests. No great victory comes without suffering We are willing to fill the jail- SATURDAY, FED. 27, 1960 ly big problem and it is most natural to ask what can we do about it. One of the first things to do about it, is to face-up to the facts. Then start to do something about correcting them. Well intentioned people —workers in ivory towers, coiners of nice sounding slo- gans—do not always get out into the stream of things where hard and intelligent work is to be done. Of course, some of the work is not so hard but re¬ quires constant, steady and pas- gionate desire to do a thorough- iy good job. Almost anybody can say “If the church home did well their part” things would be different, would improve. There is no dispute The only thing wrong 0 r questionable about it is the “if.” Perhaps the family j s the primary agency or institution upon which much, if not most ,of the responsibility rests for preventing ills that af- met society but other agencies must assume, some of the re¬ sponsibility for making the family the efficient institution it ought to be or to become. There is a great deal we can do about the thing under con¬ sideration that we are not doing, Further suggestions about what we can do and ought be doing will be given later on. poses a mighty challenge to the older denominations of Negro churches. What is it that Bishop Grace had that they do not have'.’ Most of his followers were taken out of other church¬ es. .70 Why did these members change churches? One of the outstanding facts of current church history is the growth of the Holiness Church among whites and Negroes, and a sec¬ ond fact is that these Holiness members were once members of other churches the mqst im¬ portant of which is the Baptist denomination. It must be Observed that Bish¬ op Grace’sgreat boast was that ht baptized his first convert in a mud-hole. Almost all of the Holiness churches are some va¬ riety of Baptists since they all make much of baptism. Too often members of Baptist churches join Holiness churches and are re-baptized. Just why people with Baptist inclinations drift away from Baptist church¬ es is a matter which should deeply concern the ministry of the Baptist denomination. This column deplored a few weeks ago that our Negro ar¬ tists too invariably sing over the heads of their audiences, and we are here venturing the suspicion that our better edu¬ cated ministers may be preach¬ ing over the heads of certain segments of their congregation. As one young minister was heard to say, “I am an educat¬ ed man with degrees from such and such colleges and seminaries and I propose to set the level of preaching high and the peo¬ ple must come up to my level. That attitude- invited disaf¬ fection among such people as built Bishop Grace’s religious empire. The young educated minister forgot that the burden of reaching the common people is not on them, but on him. It is a well known fact that the minister w'ho can draw the common people as well as these in the higher echelons of life will prosper. Bishop Grace did a mighty work among the common people and so did Je¬ sus Christ and so do our bus¬ iness and professionals. Thi writer, like many others, lias developed a distaste for the cultist. Bishop Grace was more than a cultist, he was one of the great religious leaders of his generation. His works are a mighty monument. Houses of the South to be free.” King told his Durham audience that Negroes are “not satisfied” with token integration in North Carolina schools. “It is nothing but a new form of discrimination covered by niceties.”