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NEGRO PRESS NEEDED
(From the Cincinnati Herald)
In spite of the daily newspapers, radio,
and television the need for a minority
newspaper is apparent.
With few exceptions it is almost impos¬
sible to get all news of Negro activities in
the daily papers. This is understandable
because of the large amount of world
wide news events, a wealth of local hap¬
penings and the fact that Negroes com¬
prise approximately 10 percent of the
circulation.
Negro newspapers, the majority of
them published on a weekly basis, have
the time and the space to devote to the
affairs of their readers. Also Negro week¬
ly newspapers will go more into details of
a news story. The dailies don't have the
spac£ or the inclination, unless Negroes
commit crimes involving white people-
Then scan* head-lines' become the vogue
and circulation increases.
EDITORIAL OPINION FROM THE NATION’S PRESS
Compiled Associated
Developments on the African continent
continue to command wide editorial ex¬
pression in the American press. Printed
below are editorial excerpts from several
leading American dailies:
COURIER JOURNAL, Louisville, Kv-
“IT WOULD BE A HAPPY DAY for
the,world should the Soviet Union and the
Wests Big I’hree be able to agree on
rationing arms and supplies to Africa’s
new nations, as urged by British Prime
Minister iiuroki Macmillan."
MrtUNL\<; NEWS, Wilmington. Del.
“We hail Togo as it joins the world’s
community freedom!” of nations. Long may it live in
TIMES, New York City
... “The incredible march of these states to
independence does not, of course, mean
that they will simultaneously achieve real
freedom, for real freedom can come only
with far greater political, economic and
cultural development than they have yet
achieved. And this is precisely where our
own country can and must help them: not
only with money but with moral and
spiritual support, given freelv without
ulterior motive am! without political ties.”
THE NEWS. Detroit
“Moral generalities are not the whole
‘AGE OF THE SHODDY '
(From (he American Press)
Our generation may go down in his¬
tory as "the Age of the Shoddy,” if we
don’t watch out.
In Allen Drury’s best-selling novel, “Ad¬
vise and ( onsent," he refers to the time
when the job on the car was half finish¬
ed, the suit vatiU' back Irom the cleaners
half dirty, the bright new gadget broke
down a week after you got it home.”
Obviously, he is referring to what
America is like today — and editors,
preachers, ( ongressmen and even adver¬
tising people are suddenly using his term*
Age of the Shoddy." as a springboard
tor sermons, speeches and editorials
against the half-baked way we do things
these days.
to add our two-cents we would like to
recall the story ot a friend of ours who
bought a second-hand Marmon automobile
thirty years ago. While examining the
engine, he said, he found a little hole with
some words beneath it. He cleaned the
grime away and read: “Oil here everv
100,000 miles.”
We suppose the Marmon people went
out of business because they made an
automobile which lasted too long. They
were unable to get into the “keep the
customer dissatisfied” spirit which is
the basis ot business success today. What
would happen to our economy if cars were
made so that we were as happy with our
“new model' five years from now, as
now? What disasters would occur in the
market place il nylon stockings were
made so they couldn’t run, if tires
Mr. Josey
To Speak
(Continued from Page Ore)
lumbia Univ. Journalism
New York Public Library, and
Free Library of Philadelphia.
Josey has been instructor of
sciences. Savannah State
(tyo l-bo): librarian,
State College (1953-59); and
National Advertising Representative*
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New York 3d. New York
M W. Washington 8t.
Chicago 2, 111.
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L. Whaley-Simpson 1 f r - Robert Whaley Company
6008 Selma Ave
_Los Angeles 28, California
Mr. Gordon Simpson
Whaley-Simpson Company
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A Negro affair has to be outstanding
in order to get more than a line or two in
the daily paper. The weekly newspaper,
reaching this vast, almost untouched, Ne¬
gro market, gives the reader news he just
can’t get anywhere else. The “other" side
of the story is presented. Facts which sel¬
dom appear in the daily papers, are dug
up and presented to the Negro newspaper
public.
is, Important far as the Negro weekly paper
too many Negroes fail to realize
this and often by-pass the opportunity to
get their story across to the people who
support their affairs.
Kven if we weren’t in the field of jour¬
nalism, we would feel the same way . .
The Negro .
press is needed . . . and needed
badly. It is worthy of the support of the
people it serves.
That’s our opinion . . . what’s yours?
answer to political expedient to maintain
control by three million whites of 11 mil¬
lion non whites. It is no more than that
although its theorists have attired them¬
selves in the apparel of divine ahd moral
missionaries shouldering the white man’s
burden.”
THE TRIBUNE, Chicago
“People who recognize their interde¬
pendence cannot forever tolerate deliber¬
ate widening of the legal and cultural gap
between them. In these troubled times,
mole and more South Africans are being
brought to realize that their country is,
to quote the Natal Daily News once more,
“within the conventions irrevocably in¬
tegrated.”
"The frozen rigidity of apartheid has
been shaken; "the old book” (as Mr
Sauer himself has said) is closed."
THE SUN, Baltimore
In answer to a question about plans
for Nvasaland’s economy, should it be¬
come liist, self-governing but I)r. Banda hedged at
as the question was pressed he
said. “Let me do the .thing and make mv
own mess.” This was the new Africa
speaking: it would prefer to be rich and
efficient to being poor and muddled, but
m any case it wants to do the job itself,
come what
made to outlast a car, if our electrical gad¬
gets were built to live for years beyond
their guarantee period?
Maybe we’ll find out.
Ted Repplier, head of The Advertis¬
ing council, says there is building up in
America “a restlessness with present stan¬
dards.” “A good many people,” he says,
“are getting fed up with dishonesty and
phoniness." adver¬
He suggests that the power of
tising might be utilized to overcome our
nation’s “ethical shabbiness.”
We hope he gets the backing he needs
to give this a try. We can picture adver¬
tising which could re-awaken pride in
workmanship, which would help to tough¬
en our moral fiber, which would give
Americans a new kind of “brain-wash¬
ing” — the kind that involves cleansing
instead of poisoning.
And to compliment such a program, we
would like to see individual advertisers
shift away from shouting half-truths
about their products and boast, instead,
about the integrity of their operations —
their desire to serve, rather than fool, the
people. with Mr. Repplier that
We agree peo¬
ple are getting “fed up.” They have
found that soft, easy living isn’t all it was
cracked up to be. A little prodding, and
Mr. Repplier, with the backing of national
advertisers,'might find that he is sudden¬
ly leading a band wagon movement to¬
ward a better America.
been in his present position
July 1, 1959.
While in Delaware, Mr.
was active in professional
zations. He was the first
to edit the Delaware Library
sociation Bulletin. As a
of the Delaware State
ment of Public Instruction.
Librarian Certification
Committee, Mr. Josey was
; to sen e at recorder of that
He is now Chairman of the
Editorial Committee of the Sa¬
vannah State College Research
Committee.
Mr. Josey's professional affilia¬
tions include the American Lib¬
rary Association, American As¬
sociation of University Professors,
Association of College and Re¬
search Libraries and the Georgia
Teachers and Education Associa¬
tion. He is the author of several
articles in professional periodi¬
cals.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Hate Groups and Segregationists Not Be Permitted To Debase Her
. . . -
State-Wide Activities lor
Armed Forces Day will be ob¬
served in 30 towns throughout
Georgia with special displays, open
houses and demonstrations spon¬
sored by local active duty, reserve
and National Guard units of the
Air Force and Army.
The Air Force will sponsor air¬
craft displays at Athens, Bain-
bridge, Moultrie, Macon, Savannah,
Albany and Valdosta. Army unit-
will conduct observances at Alma,
Bnrnesville, Cartersville,
town, Dahlonega, Dalton,
las, Gainesville, Uoganvi]le,
chester, McRae, Millen,
AX ARMY HONEST JOHN
ROCKET, recently fired at Fort
Stewart during Exercise Columbia
Cliff, roars into the sky. Visitors
U. S. Steel Foundation
NEW YORK — The United
States Steel Foundation has an-
nounced a gift-of $43,000 to Negro
colleges for the 1960-01 academic
year. Of this amount, $33,000 has
been earmarked for
schools of the United Negro Col¬
lege Fund. The remainder will go
to ten additional Class-A colleges.
Those schools not members of
the Fund which will receive $1,000
each include: Allen University,
Columbia, S. C.; Claflin College,
Orangeburg, S. C.; Florida Nor¬
mal Institute, St. Augustine, Fla.;
Jarvis Christian, Hawkins, Texas;
Oakwood College, Huntsville, Ala.;
Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Daniel Payne and Miles Colleges,
both in Birmingham; Selma Col¬
lege, Selma, Ala.; and Paul Quinn
College, Waco, Texas.
The 43 Negro schools are among
a total of 71(1 institutions aided by
the Steel Foundation this year. To-
Democratic and Republican
KANASAS CITY. Mo., (ANP)
-National chairmen of the Demo¬
cratic and Republican parties dis¬
agreed last week about the effect
of Negro sitdown demonstrations
in the South.
Paul Butler, the Democrat, de¬
scribed the demonstrations as "a
healthy reaction to an un-Ameri¬
can situation.”
Sen. Thruston Morton, the Ken-
lucky Republican, tailed them “un
fortunate.”
Thomaston, Tifton and Toccoa.
National Guard units at Ameri-
cus, Cordele, Elberton, Forsyth,
Sparta, Sandersville and Thomson
will open their armories to the
public.
In addition, 34 communities will
witness flyovers of Air Force air-
craft during the week, beginning
Sunday, May 15, at Athens and
ending the following Sunday at
Gainesville. J’lanes for the fly¬
overs will come from the 1 IGth Air
National Guard Wing and the
>1 lath Reserve Troop Carrier
VV inn, both stationed at Dobbins.
to the post’s Armed Forces Day
“Open House,” Saturday, May 21,
will see the latest in Army equip¬
ment.
gether with special grants, the
program totals $2,667,000. In an-
nourtcing the gifts, Roger M.
j Blough, chairman of the U. S.
| Steel Foundation’s board of trus-
tees, said;
“The program is directed to¬
ward specific efforts for the im¬
provement of educational quality
and toward encouraging all seg¬
ments of the public to increase
their support of the Nation’s edu¬
cational facilities.”
The grant to the United Negro
College Fund aids that unit’s at¬
tempt to secure upward of $2,000,-
000 this year for the support of 33
colleges all, except one, located in
the South. The 1960 drive of the
UNCF has already been launched
in approximately 50 industrial and
metropolitan areas' under the
chairmanship ternationally of known Bruce advertising! Barton, in-J
i executive and author.
Butler and Morton traded
charges in a regional telecast spon- j
sored by Rockhurst College.
“I think the sit-in maneuvers
are a most healthy and typical
American reaction to an un-Amer¬
ican situation,” Butler said.
Republican the 1 arty should not en- j
ter field of "human rights,” I
but that all citizens should realize '
the lights of others as citizens.”
ties on a ba¬ of racial segrega-
llon.
Direction
By J. REDDICK
Love Seek's The Whole Story
It is not hard to discover
there are no two persons
cal in every detail. Although
identical twins may appear to
a contradiction to this
j most ences anyone between can the discover two by
j observation. 1 his should
| * ds the
i °^ m, " superior
of God. Our differences are
complete and consistent to be
accident. Behind this creation
a noble purpose.
There are those who are
of persons who do not think
they think, who do nut act as
act, or do not look like
Many of us have a pattern
cut out in our minds before
meet people how they should
i act, look as well as have
qualities that we like. When
meet those who do not fit
patterns, we are repellent to
and either refuse their
tions or place them under
scrutiny before we hesitantly
cept them.
I read the story of “The
Men and the ( Elephant” when
was a boy. It throws much
on this subject.
There was a town consisting
blind people. They were
that on a certain day an
was coming through their
A group of the men went to
convenient place in the path of
elephant and waited for him.
purpose was to examine him
report to the rest of the
what the elephant was like.
the elephant came, each man
amined one part of the
body. The one who examined
trunk reported that “He’s like
rope.” The one who examined
cars reported that “lie’s like
fan.” 'The one who examined
side reported, “He’s like a
Other reports were similar.
one had the whole story, but
report was important in the
tal description of the elephant
determining the whole truth of
matter.
Each one of us sees from our
position. We think, look and
from a certain position. No
of us can have the whole
unless we concern ourselves in
of the stories. Other
tions may seem trifle to us
they are important when we
searching for truth or the
story.
A scriptural reference that gives
light to this assertion: I
i ans > 13:4-5.
We must have love for
in order for us to consider
tastes, talents, cultures or
ever qualities that others may
have along with ours and not just
substitute our own for the whole
story or the truth. One person
in a home, one group in a
munity, one club in a church or
one country in a world or
part of anything does not
the whole truth for the rest
the other parts and is a very
substitute for the whole story
the truth. If we have love
others we seek the other parts
t j ie s j, ory f rom them without
udiee.
Love is the only quality that
suivive the test. As Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 states:
Love alter- not with liic
hours and wqeks,
2>o Drops
This column has no illusions that
what it has said about anything
was the last word, the only word
that could be said; that it could
whip up a frenzy that could sum¬
mon people to action, impulsive or
| otherwise. The remote hope has
,
existed that what appeared here
would be like a mustard seed, or
just seed, that might fall some¬
where and start to grow. Actual¬
ly, as it must be known by now,
this column has borne out the con¬
viction that there are many things
within our power to do that we
are not doing, things that would
improve our status socially, polit-
cally and economically. The pan¬
orama of events of a decade or
so have done nothing to alter this
conviction. Rather, it has deep¬
ened the conviction. It is grati¬
fying to know that a few read¬
ers have found the column inter¬
esting.
It may not be amiss to review
what the column has talked about
so far to see if it measured up
to the simple criterion set at the
beginning:
Some of Us make a lot of fuss
about first-class citizenship, how¬
ever we find it exceedingly diffi¬
cult to get Negro citizens (?) to
see the importance of becoming
registered so as to play their part
in the first duties of citizenship.
Nobody or nothing in Chatham
County has, within the last 14
years, been able to get anything
like sustained interest going in this
| ! I Between The Lines
R}’ Dean Gordon I>. Hancock lor ANJ
j
THAT BRITISH ROYALTY
j Thjs wr ; ter is unalterably
I bitterly opposed to the
, i and traditions of a royalty
upon the accident of birth.
crimes and shames have been
mitted in the name of
through many generations, and
sooner the notion of a
based upon birth is banished
the minds of men, the better.
But as royalty goes, that
royalty is tops and royalty in
| British tradition has
fascinating about it. The
marriage of Princess Margaret
Anthony Armstrong Jones, a
moner, for instance. It was a
geous affair, viewed from
angle.
In other words that
loyalty is royalty at its best.
garet deported herself like
1 daughter of a king. If the
generation of Englishmen
compelled to imitate their
Margaret, they will have
| manners. She has set the
world a great example in
great decisions.
When the time came for her
decide whether to live true to
British tradition or forget
thing except her own wishes
lived up a great tradition,
though it meant the
crucifixion of her heart’s desires.
She thought not so much of
self, but her loyalty’s great tra¬
dition. Unlike so many other roy¬
alties who are too well known by
their scandals and escapades, the
British royalty is known for its
sobriety and decency and courtly
living.
The world will wish Margaret
well for she has blessed the world
with one of its finest examples of
stalwart character. She is for¬
tunately not an example of the
Hollywood tradition with its dollar
royalty, where husband and wife
swapping has become disgustingly
nauseating to decent people.
It is thus a great relief to have
British royalty set an example of
exemplary living that is a blessing
to our day and generation.
There is no better example of the
integrity of British royalty than
the casting out of their Duke of
Windsor with his Wallis Simpson.
They simply let him go his way
and today he is one of the world’s
most pitiful creatures. He broke a
British tradition and Britain broke
with him and that is as it should
have been.
But bears it out even to the
edge of doom.”
Our Past
This Week
May 15, 1918—Needham Roberts
and Henry Johnson, outstanding
Negro heroes of World War I,
killed 20 Germans during bloody
hand to hand struggle.
May 16, 1860—Abraham Lincoln
selected by Republicans as their
presidential candidate at national
convention in Chicago.
SATURDAY, MAY, 21, 1300
i all-important matter of registering
| and voting. Even many of those
who register fail to vote when
election time comes. Probably this
failure to vote caused them to
lose the chance of a lifetime to
elect a Negro to city council.
Also, it was pointed out that the
rate of crime committed by Ne¬
groes was all out of proportion
to the ratio of the Negro popula¬
tion to the whole population in the
nation; that here in this country,
for instance, we are not support¬
ing as we should such organiza¬
tions as the Boy Scouts. A year
or so ago there were estimated
to have been 5,000 boys in this
area to whom scouting was denied
because there were not enough
sponsoring institutions and not
enough men willing to give the
needed leadership. A similar lack
is to be noted in certain phases
of our recreational needs.
One week the column was de¬
voted to discussing the importance
of home life as it contributed to
the upbringing and to the devel¬
opment of socially efficient citi¬
zens.
For the last two weeks the col¬
umn talked about two movements
that have proved helpful to people
whose earnings place them in the
low and middle income brackets.
They were the Consumer Coopera¬
tive and the Credit Union. There
will be more about these move¬
ments next week.
When Princess Margaret had to
decide between her own wishes
and those of an empire, she made
the decision as a king’s daughter
should have done. It is safe to say
that when the then King Edward
gave up a throne to marry below
the British royalty level, he proved
himself the sorriest in a long royal
line.
The integrity of the British
royalty is shown by their per¬
sistence in rejecting the navt.lor-
gotten Duke of Windsor. As loyal¬
ty goes we repeat, that British
Royalty is tops.
What the British royalty has
done for Europe and the world by
its stern moral integrity, the Fords
and the Rockefellers are doing for
this country. Money simply does
not make a fool of a Ford of a
Rockefeller.
The Fords and the Rockefellers
handle their money and do not
let their money handle them. But
we must be fair in stating that the
best method of training men to
handle money is by handling it.
It is almost to be expected that
the newly rich will have its head
turned by money. The Fords and
the Rockefellers have been hand¬
ling money a long time and they
have learned the “knack.”
Money is more liable to make
fools of the newly rich. So with
that British royalty, they have
been royal so long, that they have
learned the art of being royal—
the Duke of Windsor excepted.
There is a lesson here for all.
Honors and prosperity must not
turn our heads which are essential
thinking machines. The sooner
mankind gets over the notion of a
royalty based on the accident of
birth the better. But until that
time, long live the British royalty.
When the writer was traveling
in Europe many years ago, he was
impressed with the palace of Fred¬
erick the great at Potsdam with
its 800 rooms. Kaiser the First
went down the hill and built a
palace with 1200 rooms.
Down at Vienna the Hapsburgs
built the Schonebrun castle with its
1500 rooms, while the French
Louis the IV built the palace at
Versailles with its 1800 rooms.
These palaces were for the roy¬
alties and the sight of these
ancient royalties prejudiced me
against all royalty—and forever.
Let’s have a royalty of character.
Down with loyalties of blood;
up with royalties of character!
■ May 17, 1954—Supreme Court
I of the United States ruled that
j racial ported segregation in publicly sup-
1, schools is unconstitutional.
May 18, 1924 — Cornerstone of
Morris Memorial building laid in
Nashville, Tenn.
May 19, 1746 — Toussaint L’-
Overture, Haitian patriot and
statesman, born.
May 20, 1927 — Charles A. Lind¬
bergh left New York in single
engine plane on epic non-stop
flight to Paris.
May 21, 1883 — Oberlin college
announces acceptance of Negroes
as students.