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SENATOR JOHNSON’S CIVIL RIGHTS GAME
From The St. Paul Recorder
It is obvious to the naked (-ye that
Senate majority leader and aspirant to
the Democratic presidential nomination,
is less than a dedicated adherent of a
meaningful civil rights measure in this
session of Comrress, despite his grand¬
stand play of Monday when he attached
civil rights amendments to an Innocuous
Missouri school bill, thereby outwitting
his former southern allies in the Senate.
Of all of the civil ritrhts advocates in
the Senate. Johnson is the only phony
excent possibly Senator Everett Dirksen,
Republican minority leader of Illinois;
whom this paper considers an architect
of the Dixieerat-northern Republican
coalition.
The sincere advocates can be easily
counted. On the Republican side there is
Keating and davits of New York. Anionic
the Democrats of course is Minnesota’s
Hubert If. Humphrey, (Mr. Civil Rights)
Josenh Clark of Pennsylvania. McCarthy
of Minnesota. McNamara of Michigan and
the ten or twelve northern Democratic
senators who are not very vocal or ac¬
tive but who can be depended upon for
varied reasons to supnort the current
civil rights campnijrn in any session of
thp Comrress.
To this croup con'd be added Wayne
Morse of Oregon, who in his desire to
be a “one man show” is ineffective in a
legislative body, where compromise and
tradinir is the order of the day, in se¬
curing nassaw of tlx; most desirable and
needed legislation.
Gettimr back to Johnson, it is easily
discerned that his ..desire to seek the
Presidential nomiftfttlon motivated his
tum-abont and .mimurjced advocacy of a
mild civil riehts’ ' measure. Another
tactor in his realization, because he is a
smart man. is that this country cannot
any longer put ofrjifricticing the preach¬
EXCESSIVE DRINKING IS DANGEROUS
P>eing a moralist (that is assuming to
tell others how to fashion and live
lives; what to do anil bow. and whatnot
to do and why) is a-thankless undertak¬
ing. Rut there comes a time when it
seems necessary to Point to certain tvpes
of public behavior ir\ the social group
that threatens to burden our lives as a
group and do great harm to the welfare
of the entire community.
It is an established truth that exces¬
sive alcoholic drinking bv individuals
contributes to crime, domestic discord,
loss of life and property by traffic ac¬
cidents. and that it undermines the moral
fiber of the entire c o m m-n n it y.
M hen the drinking’ of alcoholic beverages
reaches these extremes, it ceases to be
a personal matter and becomes a matter
of public concern. We feel that mount¬
ing crime, increased juvenile delinquen¬
cy and the general lessening of our moral
standards can be attributed, at least in
part, to the tendency towards excessive
consumption of alcohol that has seized
WHACKING OFF VOTERS
From the Rirmingham World
A news story in the Rirmingham News,
Sunday, February 21 indicated that the
Jefferson County^ Board of Registrars
is purging from the voters lists the par-,
ents of illegitimate children. There is
no specific constitutional feature for such
action. However it is brought under
the “good character and citizenship”
clause of the voter-qualification laws.
Such use of alleged “illegitimacy” acts
could lead to confusion and serious in¬
volvement, it would seem to place a great
responsibility on the department which
furnishes such information and open the
floodgates to innumerable lawsuits. The
burden of proof would seem to rest upon
Our Past
By Fannie S- Williams
An ANP Feature
March 1. 1841—Blanch K
Bruce, Negro Seriatci* from Mis¬
sissippi born, a Republican, he
served in U. S. Senate from
March 4, 1.875 to March 3, 1881.
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ments of equality, justice and freedom
that it so copiously ladles out to the un¬
committed nations.
Johnson also knows that our business
interests with an eye on the undeveloped
world markets, plus the battle our nation
will have to make to meet the trade
competition in Asia, and most important-
lv in emerging 1 Africa, is no longer sat¬
isfied with a condition in any part of the
C. S. which mi ,r ht preiudice our trade in¬
terests in the black nations of the world.
Johnson is a realistic politician who al¬
so perceives that even in the white south
there is a erowinir awareness the basic
ritrht the American Negro to stiff race,
and equality of treatment, must be
granted, and that such a departure must
not he delayed much longer.
His present role is to on the one-hand
indicate his liberal attitude on the civil
riehts issue to northern, and border state
vofm-s, and on the other hand show his
southern colleagues that his proposals, if
approved will protect the south from
more stringent legislation which the
Congress seems prepared to enact, at
this time. If he is successful in his
strategy his supporters like Sam Ravburn
might he able to convince the south to
a large degree, (hat only Johnson’s mod¬
erate measure kent the Congress from
enacting a touch bill. Johnson has bit¬
ten off a tough assignment but he has
(he effrontery, ability, and senate power
to almost accomplish the trick.
It may be also that Johnson realizes
that the chances for the election of a
southerner to the White House will re¬
main remote as long as the civil rights
"issue remains unresolved. However, his
ambition to be President is most prob¬
ably the over-riding basis for his present
congressional campaign for a watered
down version of civil rights.
urban Oklahoma and the rest of the na¬
tion.
We find no navti'iilar fault with con¬
trolled social drinking. We make no
effort; to proscribe rules for the distribu¬
tion of alcoholic beverages. We only
suggest that it might be well for the on-
tire community, if those who must drink
alcoholic beverages would make a con¬
scious effort to so control their drinkin" -
as not, to bring pain, tragedy, loss and
suffering upon the innocent. We
concede that one has the right, more or
less, to do with his personal life about
what he pleases. Rut we contend that
no one has the right to so live his life
as to bring pain, suffering and depriva¬
tion upon others. We say that when
any personal habit reitches the point
that it encumbers and burdens the lives
of others, it has then reached the point
of public concern and we then have the
right to mention it and plead for its. con¬
trol.
both the individual and the department
making such charges.
It is doubtful whether the Hoard of
Registrars has been authorized to deter¬
mine the morals and the social conduct of
any individual or group. It appears that
the new standards are both a misuse of
vital statistics and an unwarranted inva¬
sion of privacy. This also indicates
stretching conduct to make it serve a
racial prejudice.
The News’ story observed: “Although
the rules are being applied just as strictly
to white voters, the results probably will
knock more Negroes than whites off the
voting lists.”
This Week
declaring free the wives and
children of Negro soldiers in
the Union army.
March 5, _crispus At-
tucks died He was the first .
to fall in the 'Boston Massa-
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perish in the defense of lib-
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NEGRO EDITORS- Fighth In A Series
EDUCATE FOR
Publisher P. B. Young, Sr. and Two
Journalistically Trained Sons Build the
Most Weekly Newspaper
Plummer Bernard Young rose to
his newspaper career by what
some of the early American pio¬
neer iurnalists called the stair¬
step route.
He served a four-year appren¬
ticeship in a newspaper office,
worked two years as a journeyman
printer, was an instructor in print¬
ing three years at an educational
institution, after which he became
an a.ssaici^te piKtfcMv ufld tben;cdi-
tor.
After serving a short time in
the latter capacity in Norfolk, he
acquired by purchase in 1910 the
LODGE JOURNAL AND GUIDE.
This was the house organ of a
fraternal organization known as
the Knights of Gideon.
Immediately after he became
owner of the organ he converted
it to a secular newspaper, drop¬
ped the word “Lodge” from its
title, and as Editor and Publisher
began the long, arduous task of
building a plant and first class
newspaper.
At that time the paper’s circula¬
tion was 500 copies a week and
four pages in size. He has seen
it grow in the past fifty years to a
21 to 32 standard page newspaper,
with the largest circulation of any
weekly newspaper published be¬
low the Masop-Dixon line, Negro
or white.
In 1913 he incorporated the busi¬
ness and took into the corporation
his wife, the later Mrs. Eleanor
White Young, who served as trea¬
surer and a director diligently un¬
til her last illness in early 1940.
His brother, Henry Cheatham
Young .also became a stockholder
and served until 1939 when by
mutual agreement the commercial
printing business which had been
built to considerable volume was
separated from the publishing and
printing of the newspaper. H. C.
Young took over this business
which he now operates under his
ownership on a much larger scale
as the H. C. Young Press, Inc.
Later, in 1929, when his son, P.
Bernard Young, Jr., graduated
from Ohio State University, he
joined the paper, and in a few
months was assigned to the posi¬
tion of Managing Editor. In 1932,
when his son, Thomas W. Young
graduated from the school of
Journalism and the College of Law
at Ohio State, he joined the paper
and served consecutively as assist¬
ant to the President, vice President
and Business Manager. Both are
still with the paper, the former
serving as Editor and the latter
as President and General Mana¬
ger.
To the members of his family
and a large number of efficient
and faithful employees. Mr. Young
attributes much of his success as
a newspaper editor and publisher.
From 1910 until the summer of
1940 Mr. Young served as both
Editor and Publisher of the Jour¬
nal and Guide. In that ycai he
shifted more of the re^ponsibili-
P. B. YOUNG, Sr.
tics of the business and editorial
departments t<- his two Sons.
The task, of financing and build¬
ing an adequate newspaper plant
between 1910 and 1930 was one
which Mr. Young worked at ar¬
duously, and the paper has been
able to serve its public in the
measure it has because it has con¬
stantly expanded its mechanical
plant and news and editorial staffs,
and has at at the same time con¬
stantly expanded its. floor space
until it is now ten times that
,
which the paper occupied in 1910.
The new Editor in 1910 felt the
urge of crusading, and his first
foray in that line was against the
location of saloons in residential
areas of the city. He stayed in
this crusade until the saloons.were
abolished, not through his crusade,
but by an act of Congress. Then he
turned his attention to a crusade
for more and better schools. This
crusade he has never abandoned. !
The paper has been a constant
advocate of political and civil
rights, and won its first Wendell
Willkie Award for its expose of
public school conditions ih Prin¬
cess Anne and Gloeester Counties,
Virginia.
Between 194(>-48, the JOURNAL
AND GUIDE received three Wen¬
dell Willkie Awards for outstand¬
ing performances in journalism.
Because of interest manifested
by the rapidly rising and vocal
newspaper, Mr. Young was invit¬
ed in 1915 to become Vice-Presi¬
dent of the Negro Organization 1
Society, Ine. in Virginia. The slo- 1
gan of this organization is “Bet- 1
ter Schools, Better Farms, Better j
Homes, Better Health and Better
Business.” This slogan coincided
with the aims of the JOURNAL
AND GUIDE. Mr. Young remain¬
ed active over the years and still
maintains his membership and in¬
terest in the Society, a state-wide
organization.
In 1930 Mr. Young was invited
to join the board of the Anna T.
Jcanc, Foundation, Thir philan¬
thropic organization supported in
i whole or in part supervising
teachers for colored public schools
in 800 southern counties. Mr.
Young served as a member of this
hoard for ten years until it was.
i merged with the Slater Fund to
I
j form the Southern Education
Foundation. Meanwhile, he had
| been called to serve bn the boards
of Howard University, Hampton
Institute, St. Paul’s College and
Palmer Memorial Institute. He
served twenty-three years on the
Howard University board, five
years as chairman of the execu-
live committee, and six years as
chairman of the board.
Early in 1943, Mr. Young was
named a member of the President’s
Fair Employment Practice Com¬
mittee, and served two years in
that capacity.
Because of his numerous activi-
ties connected administratively
with educational institutions, and
because of his humanitarian work
in general, he received four honor¬
ary degrees as follows: Doctor of
Laws, from Shaw University in
1934; Doctor of Humane Letters,
from Virginia Union University,
1937; Doctor of . Laws, from Vir¬
ginia State College, 1940; and
Doctor of Laws, from Tuskegee
i n . sl j tute j n ^43
Last year MfllHfJunfe received
a citation as tb<a r f<IKstinguish«d
Editor of tbd?Yi*ar from the Nat¬
ional Newspaper Publishers As¬
sociation. I, V .
He was Chairman of the Ad¬
visory Committee to the Norfolk
Housing Authority from its incep-
tion in the late 1930s and helped
plan the extensive slum clearance
program. One of the projects,
Young Park, bears his name.
He is chairman of the Advisory
Board of Norfolk Division of Vir¬
ginia State College. He was one
of the organizers and first vice-
president, and a member of the
Board of Directors of the South¬
ern Regional Council.
Mr. Young attended public and
private schools in North Carolina,
and studied at St. Augustine’s Col¬
lege during the three years he
was an instructor in printing at
that institution.
He is married (2nd) to the for¬
mer Miss Josephine Tucker Mose¬
ley of Norfolk, who is a teacher
in the Norfolk schools. They re¬
side at 2833 Beachmont Avenue.
AKAs Present
Fashionetta
(Continued From Page 1)
Gloria Shank, Miss Fashionetta of
1959 relinquished her crown with
grace and dignity to Miss Fashion¬
etta of I960, Miss, Elspie Moore.
Soror Ouida Thompson, basileus
of the chapter made the presenta¬
tion.
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Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
The Task: Keeping Non-Violence Non-Violent
As a means of protest against
segregation and its evil
itants, . the current
dents movement among understandable. Negro stu-j
is quite
I: will be a sad day for Ne-
groes—and for whites—When
the Negro ceases to protest!
Of course it may be a little
more difficult to observe, but
the protest will help the whites
as well as Negroes. Our pro-
test agaifist segregation is an
attest of Christianity and de-
mocrady, by which our nation
lives if indeed it lives at all.
Nothing would be more disas¬
trous than a cessation of pro¬
test against the un-Christian j
and the undemocratic. These!
sit-down students have been
taught in our great American
history that resistance to tyr¬
anny is honorable and righteous.
And happily they have come
to, believe It, knowing from his-
tory that our great nation had i
its inception in righteous pro-j
test against the tyranny of Eng-;
land. If it is courageous and
honorable to resist the tyranny
of England, it must be the ^
same
to pretest against segregation
and the segregationist.
The sit-down movement then,
is-a phase of passive resistance,
which has been commended by
Jesus Christ, Mohandas
and Martin Luther King of our
own race and generation.
The power of the passive re¬
sistance ideology is moral. Je¬
sts Christ passively resisted the
evils of his time and especially
in high plaoes. He never ap-,
pealed to force. And so did,
Mohandas Gandhi who took the j
pattern of Jesus Christ and his
teaching and broke the back of
the British Empire.
Martin Luther King took the I
path of passive resistance and |
broke the back of transporta¬ I
tion segregation in the South |
and particularly in Montgom¬
ery, Ala. When non-violence
was made a requisite stipula¬
tion of the passive resistance
movement of Gandhi—and King
sifter him, the enemies of de¬
segregation were in a large
measure disarmed, for a fight:
against Christian passive re-
sistance is virtually a fight
against Jesus Christ Himself.
It is hard for even the rabid
segregationist to kick against I
the pricks as is the case when
one fights against Jesus Christ
and his life and teachings.
The passive resistance move- j
ment currently manifested in
Integration, which is still a burn-
ing issue in America, is no longer
a major problem in the United
States Air Forces in Europe, ac-
cording to the March issue of
EBONY Magazine.
In' Germany and France, the
magazine reports, Negroes are
commanding white men and white
men are commanding Negroes
without friction or fuss. In the
churches, which are at least
years ahead of civilian churches ,
Negro chaplains are administering
to pre-dominantly-white congrega¬
tions.
■ A* Negro, EBONY reveals, is
ope of the top four officers in the I
iL’SAFE (United States Air Forces
in Europe) command. Major Gen- 1
eral Benjamin Oliver Davis, for¬
mer commander of the famed 99th
Pursuit Squardon, is deputy chief 1
of staff for operations. He is the j
highest-ranking Negro officer in
armed serviefes history. As opera¬
tions chief, Major General Davis
supervises the heart of the USAFE
command, the combat arm. Should
war come USAFE fighters, bom¬
bers and missiles will bear the
brunt of the West’s defensive and
2 Million Youths to *
National 4-H Week
colored young peopie in the 50
States and Puerto Rico will ob¬
serve National 4-H Club week,
March 5-12. the U. S. Depart¬
ment of Agriculture has an¬
nounced.
Negro 4-H'ers, numbering
close to 350,000 make up al-
most a seventh of the total
number of members. They
completed mor p than half a
million projects last year in;
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 19u0
the sit-down of Negro students,
essentially a Christian move-
and should be thus con-
strued. The spirit of Jesus
Christ should be as much a
part of the movement as His
precepts which motivate the
movement.
Students must know that the
power behind the movement is
moral power which must be en¬
gendered by the knowledge and
feeling that the protest against
injustice is a righteous act and
has not onl y th e approbation of
file conscience but the ultimate
power of God behind it. The
great task, then, which lies be-
fore the sit-downers, is to keep
the movement non-violent.
The extent to which the
movement takes on a violent
and riotous form is the extent
that it will lose its moral pow¬
er. This being the case the
Negroes must be prepared to
take the unhappy consequences
that flow from following Christ
and the more excellent way.
To their credit be it said the
sit-downers have been most ex-
emplary in their conduct and
certainly restrained in their ap-
proach to the situation.
Happily, rioting has been
held to a minimum and to that
extent the sit-down movement
as a passive resistance mea-
has had a salutary effect
upon the strained situation of
racial tensions.
If the sit-down students can
make of their movement one
which is dominated by the spir¬
it of Jesus Christ it will get
somewhere; but if is turned in-
to riotings and the concomi-
tarots thereof the segregation-
ists in the end will have a field.
It is not enough to follow the
teachings of Jesus Christ, but
we must have his spirit. The
spirit of Jesus it is that makes
the lion and the lamb to
down together. At any
the spectacle of hundreds.of.
young Negro students banding
themselves together in a right-
eous protest has something of
in it.
The dangers of being let
alone in our sins and errors are
We need to be
out of our lethargy of*
and evil. God has always' M
used the prophets to keep the
people stirred. The sit-down
protesters stir the thinking of
the nation.
Suggestion: Keep the sit-down
movement non-violent; and be
prepared spiritually to pay the
p |
offensive efforts. It is Davis’
job to prepare USAFE for its mis¬
sion. No other Negro in Ameri¬
can history, the magazine says,
has been entrusted with such a
heavy responsibility.
EBONY reporters traveled 9,000
miles to background the photo
story. Airmen and officers inter¬
viewed said the program, which
began in 1949, is working well.
But they listed several areas of
tension. Love is one problem.
There are periodic crises over Ger¬
man and French women and Negro
men. Intermarriage is also a sore
thumb.
Most Negro officers said, how¬
ever, that they are treated fairly
by their white colleagues and
commanders. Captain William
King, a chaplain from Talledega,
Alabama, put it this way. “The
battle has been fought and won in
here and noboby thinks of it any¬
more. Before the integration pro¬
gram started, a man who was for
integration had to be pretty shrewd
to keep out of trouble. Now if you
are against it, you have to be
pretty shrewd to stay out of
trouble.”
commu¬
nity service, and other activi¬
ties.
Plans for the Head, Heart,
Hands, and Health organiza¬
tion’s observance will include
speeches and other (presenta¬
tions by 4-H ers and the 4-H
leaders before civic, church,
school social groups, and farm or¬
ganizations as a way of tell¬
ing the 4-H story and reeruit-
ing new members.