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Authorised Second Class at Savannah, Mail Privileges Georgia A EDITORIAL OPINION OF THE NATION’S PRESS Compiled Associated Here is editorial reaction to several events of current interest as expressed by leading American newspapers: NEW HAMPTON PRESIDENT MORNING NEWS, Wilmington, Del. “Coming to Dover “on loan” from Cor¬ nell University, Dr. Holland stayed be¬ yond the original two-year period he was expected to serve. During his adminis¬ tration the college has made tremendous strides.” VIRGINIA PILOT, Norfolk, Va. “Dr. Holland may bring to Hampton the desired objective view of the profes¬ sional educator who was educated at uni¬ versities of predominantly white student bodies, yet who is fully aware of the needs and values in Negro education today. Hampton has produced grpat Negro edu¬ cators (Booker T. Washington and Robert R. Morton among them) and greatly in¬ fluenced Negro education. Dr. Holland will have the opportunity to help the in¬ stitution meet the challenges it faces in a time of change for Negro education and Negro life.” SCHOOL DECISION POST DISPATCH, St. Louis “While integration advances slowly in THE NEGRO VOTE RE-EXAMINED (Cleveland Call Post) “We believe that all men tire created by Gtxl as equals in His sight and are called by him to sonship and brotherhood through Christ,” The above pronouncement was jointly authored by a New York Negro and a Georgia white man, and because both of them are practicing Christiana, there may be those who will not place great signifi¬ cance on the pronouncement, taking the position that the equality of men under God is widely accepted tenent among all professed Christians. This does not always hold true. To the contrary, this nation contains far too many so-called Christians who deliberate¬ ly distort the Holy Scriptures to maintain that God has willed that his dark-skinned children occupy a position of inferiority. As a consequence, the number of inte¬ grated Christian churches in the United States are ever fewer than the number of integrated schools, and until recent years the great mass of Protestant membership THE VERDICT IN THE KING CASE NO SURPRISE Prom the Carolina Times The verdict of “not guilty” rendered in the case against Dr. Martin Luther King surprises no one who knows the great Negro leader, although it may be disap¬ pointing to that segment of southerners who resent the type of leadership that Dr. King represents. Members of this parti¬ cular group are still living in the past and cannot seem to realize that there is a new Negro on the scene and that he will not be satisfied with less in America than is accorded other citizens. The charges brought against Dr. King were evidently of a malicious nature and are in line with what any Negro leader in the South will suffer when he assumes an uncompromising attitude on the ques¬ tion of civil rights. The unsuccessful at¬ tempt to smear one of the top Negro lead¬ ers is a slap at a majority of the daily press of the South. The story announcing the verdict in the cast, unlike that which carried the announcement of his arrest on a charge of “falsely, willingly and cor¬ ruptly” listing his 1956 taxable income, was conspicuous by its absence from the front page of a majority of southern Truman Sees End of U. S. Troubles When South Its NEW YORK — Former Presi¬ dent Harry S. Truman declared today that the United States “won’t have any ^trouble” when Southerners come to the conclu¬ sion that “race and creed and color don’t make any difference in what’s in a.man’s keart.” Writing in the current issue of Look ?'.,;gazine, Truman insisted that Southerners are “ju:t as fine six other states between the two groups, it is a fact that more states have acceded than have resisted. Would that much pro¬ gress have been possible without the court decision? The answer impiles a salute to the Supreme Court.” NORTHERN PRESS NEWS AND COURIER, Charleston, S.C. “Additional criticism of The Times for its treatment of Birmingham, Ala., by reporter Harrison Salisbury—was voiced the same week that the newspaper re¬ tracted statements regarding police action in Montgomery. One of the critics was Time magazine, itself a notorious offen¬ der against fair journalistic coverage of the South. This was a case of pot call¬ ing kettle black. Time said The Times was guilty of omisions in reporting racial tension in Birmingham.” RINGGOLD BOMBING CONSTITUTION, Atlanta “The bombing of a Ringgold home, in which a mother of six children was kill¬ ed, is a shameful and shocking act of vio¬ lence in its worst form. “Let it again he said that violence solves nothing. Decent citizens of Georgia must make it clear that atrocities will not be tolerated in this state.” has had little concern about its image of jim-crowism. 1 1 hus the meeting in Cleveland last week ot the halt-million-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., highlighted by the spirited competition between a Negro and a white man for the top post of Modera¬ tor, provides a refreshing and heartening development in the otherwise dismal pic¬ ture presented the world by this nation’s segregated Christian churches. of .To Atlanta, both the the winner, Rev. Herman Lee Turner and the Rev. Elder G. Hawkins of New York, the loser by a scant two votes, go our sincere congratu¬ lations for the challenge their contest pre¬ sented to their widespread constituency, •Did to the sterling example of progressive ( hristianity their joint pronouncement gives the still recalcitrant Protestant clargy of this country whose lack of cour. age still makes 11 o'clock Sunday morn¬ ings America's most segregated hour. newspapers. The jury which freed Dr. King was composed of twelve southern white men of Alabama. It is a known fact that if there had been even an essence of guilt they would have rendered a verdict ac¬ cordingly. Thus the South is once again held up before the eyes of the world as a region in which the way is certain to be made hard and rough for any Negro who takes the lead in demanding equal rights for his race. Dr. King emerges in a stronger position and the South in a much weaker one. Me salute Judge Hubert T. Delaney of New York, a former North Carolinian, who took time out to assist in the de¬ fense of Dr. King. The action of Judge Delaney represents the. kind of coopera¬ tion that should be assumed by all mem¬ bers of the race when one is'so malici¬ ously attacked as was Dr. King. Instead of talking sympathy and cooperation we have got to begin acting it. That is what Judge Delaney did and we feel he has set a fine example for others to follow when similar situations a people as you will find anywhere in the nation” and said there is no doubt in his mind that the South has an important future. “You will recall that I left no doubt where I stood on the im¬ portant issues involving the South in my campaign of 1948,” Tru¬ man wrote, adding: “I took a stand that involved serious political riAs, and soni6 of the Southern states from the Democratic party. But there was no other course that could follow and keep the Bill Rights a living thing. “Despite the recent of stubborn sectionalism and ism on the part of some mists, I bcliev« th» South > ing in the right direction.” THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA A Prophet Honor EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first installment of four articles on Dr. W. E. B. DuBois written by Judge Hubert T. Delaney, noted New York jurist, fighter for civil liberties and civil rights. Judge Delaney is a member of the National Board of NAACP; a member of the National Executive Committee of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, arid at the present time chief defense counsel for Dr. Martin Luther King in Montgomery, Ala. By JUDGE II. T. DELANEY On June 15 at 8 p.m. at the Hotel New Yorker Grand Ball¬ room in New York City, the Emergency Civil Liberties Commit¬ tee will honor Dr. W. E. B. Du¬ Bois with a dramatic review of the highlights of his first 92 years. The review, ‘under the direction of Luther James; will effectively ; Re¬ monstrate that one of the'world’s most eminent scholars, educators, writers and courageous fighters for human rights continues tofbd.a “prophet with honor” among all familiar with his militant role in the advancement of the Negfo people towards first class citizen- ' ship. M itloa This despite the efforts of not, many, including the House Un-American Activities Committee, to discredit his achievements. Outstanding among Dr. DuBois’ many achievements is, of course, his part in the organization of the NAAGP, It was the culmination of years of work with the Nia¬ gara Movement and other efforts by Dr. DuBois for full citizenship as guaranteed by the 14th Amend¬ ment. Large numbers of young people in the south today are continuing the fight which Dr. DuBois a* a lone militant intellectual in the sotith, started sixty years ago. Militancy has always boon the key¬ note of his approach to Negro rights. It .is his militancy which has cost him the “seal of appro- val” of the supporters of the rac¬ ial status quo. Unfortunately it has also cost him the support of the faint hearted among many who should have been his friends. By no means a “prophet with¬ out honor,” it is nonetheless a source of same to the nation that! Dr. DuBois, is not at least as well known in his own country as he is abroad. That this situation exists, how¬ MISSISSIPPI BEACHES CHALLENGED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (From the Birmingham World) The federal government has moved to end segregation on Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches with the Justice Department fil¬ ing suit in federal court at Vicksburg. The suit was filed against Harrison County and the City of Biloxi, where last month a near race riot resulted from groups of Negroes attempting to use the beaches. The government’s suit charges that local authorities had agreed to public use of beaches in return for federal aid to re¬ pair hurricane damage in 194S. Negroes had planned a suit of their own as a follow up of the eai'lier demonstra¬ tions, but we are happy to see the Justice Department intervene with its suit. This takes some of the fire of racial emotion from it. Attorney General Rogers is to be commended for his attitude in these civil rights matters. Through his de¬ partment. the federal government may move to erase many of the injustices Ne¬ groes have suffered by discriminatory leral barrier:. Ths matter is now in the hands of the first steps in the subjugation of one people or group by another is the denial to the repressed of their own history; the denial of examples of their own courage; the evidence of their own man¬ hood and thus, a glimpse of their own future. The current Un-American Acti¬ vities; Cpmmittee is not the first that Dr. DuBois has lived through, nor is it the first to designate his militant .activities as evidence of ,“Un r American ism.” The state of Dr. PuBojs’ health at 92 is far better, (.hap that of the Committee at a qiere 22. Likewise is his re¬ putatipn. This, then, is the first install¬ ment of a four-part biography of Dr. William Edward Burghardt DuBois, born in Great Barrington, Mask, on February 23rd, 1868. Tn-| evitably it will also be an outline I of the struggle for Negro liberty. No more report of dates and places and statistical honors can give more than a hint of the mean¬ ing of this man’s life and work. To graduate from Harvard with honors will never be commonplace, hut in 1890, William DuBois, 22, | received his A. B. from that in-! stitution ‘cum laude.’ A year later he won his M. A.. In 1895 he received his Ph.D, the first granted by Harvard to a Negro He had previously been graduated from Fisk University and before that from the Great Barrington public school system. He was a Slater Fund Fellow¬ ship student in Germany, and up¬ on his .return, became a professor of Latin and Greek at Wilberforce College. In 1896 he was appointed assistant instructor at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and two years later published his “The -----------,----- Philadelphia Negro,” the study which was to establish his repu¬ tation as a sociologist. This was the first scientific study of the family to be made in the United' j courts where it properly belongs, and where legal decisions will determine the right of Negroes to use the public re¬ creation facilities. This is far better than the use of the pressure tactics and demon¬ strations that could set off race riots and get many innocent persons injured or killed. The present national administration has demonstrated many times that it is giving full backing to the civil efforts. Every division of the federal government is en¬ listed in the efforts to make the rights and privileges as spelled out in the reality for all citizens. The President, the Con¬ gress and the courts, are all hacking the cause of equality for America’s greatest minority group. This is a notable development of recent years of the Eisenhower administration. Should we not seek more use of these long respected techniques with demonstrated results, and less use of the emotionally charged demonstrations and pressure me¬ thod: that "enerate more ill will than good results? _ ______ . . real sociologist in this country.) That same year Dr. DuBois pub¬ lished his Ph.D thesis on the su- pression of the African Slave Trade. This became Volume I of the Harvard University Historical Series. From 1897 to 1910 Dr. DuBois was professor of Economics and History at Atlanta University. Writing of that period, Edwin R. Embree said: “During the first decade of this century Burghardt DuBois was probably the most thoroughly educated man, the deepest scholar and the most gift¬ ed writer in the city of Atlanta.” Yet in those years the white peo¬ ple of Atlanta never exchanged views with his scholar in their midst. The penalties of prejudice fall unequally, but fall they do on j both Negro and white, At Atlanta, against a back¬ ground of lynchings to be count¬ ed in the hundreds, Dr. DuBois developed the Atlanta studies which remain landmarks in socio¬ logical literature to this day. In 1903 he wrote the hauntingly beau- lifu1 and reVealinfJ book ab ” ut whipb H ® nry Jame ? Wa .? t0 The American . Scene” in 1907 —“How can everything have so gone that the only Southern book of any distinction published for many a year is ‘The Souls of Black Folk’.” Dr. DuBois’ early years had been ones of study. He had prepared himself carefully and well for the day when he would he ready to say what he had long felt must be said, namely , that the Negro „ could not accept second class citizenship anywhere in the world. As a stu- dent, as an educator, as a social j | scientist and as a literary man, 1 T Dr. , no- DuBois , had , added ,, , to . ,. h,s un- . demanding of the world in which I the Negro people lived. Now he | would begin the long, always un¬ finished task of helping to change Letters to ifieEdiior ••• L. SYKES Editor’s Note ; The editor of the Savannah Tribune, along with many other citizens, was shocked is and deeply moved by the sudden death of Dr. James L. Sykes on Monday morning, June 6, 1060. The true character of this man can be found in the following let¬ ter that he wrote the editor of this newspaper less than two months ago. At the time of his death, Dr. Sykes and other in¬ terested parties had a 30-day sales contract pending for the purchase of the Savannah Tribune. April 12, 1960 Mrs. Willa Ayers Johnson Editor and Publisher Savannah Tribune 1009 W. Broad Street Savannah, Georgia. Dear Mrs. Johnson: I saw an advertisement in the April 9 issue of the Savannah Tribune relative to the placing of the paper for sale. This paper has been the lead¬ ing Negro newspaper in Savan¬ for 85 years. During this period of time it has rendered sterling service to the commu¬ To see it for sale came as a surprise and shock to me. is difficult to imagine Savan¬ to without the Tribune; it is painful to contemplate the of the paper in the to of anyone who is not vi¬ interested in Savannah and problems relative to it. Upon my first trip South in I swore that I would never The Army changed that. was not too long before it be¬ apparent that the future in the American Negro and per¬ the future of America and civilization lay in the of the Negro in the South. in no part of our coun¬ could be free without the free¬ Between The Lines By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP THE STORY IN PART “There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and glory of the stars; for star differeth from another in glory,” thus readeth the verse of the fifteenth of First Corinthians. The Great Apostle must have in comparative mood even as was when he wrote in the verse of the thirteenth of the same epistle thus, abideth faith, hope, charity, three: hut the greatest of is eharity.” The foregoing is suggested by graduation season when thou¬ and thousands are being from the schools and and universities of this other lands. Like a great assembly line, our are producing gradu¬ of diverse description. That is power cannot be de- but power for what? raises serious questions . He who said that the mind is measure of the man could have been farther from the except those who hold that is a measure of prog . amonj , men _ The heart and the mind is the measure of man. The great output of graduates itself is not a guarantee that world is better off by reason these graduates, who fare forth thousands into a hapless world. as there is one glory of the and another glory of the moon another glory of the stars, there is a knowledge of the and another knowledge of heart. The measure of the worth of is not shown by the relates of quality. There is no modern sage who say with definiteness that are better now than they in the ox-cart days. Educa¬ has added quantity to life, just whether it has improved quality of life is another Jet propulsion is no that men of today are better those of ox-cart days. This is in no way written to education; it is written a caution against our assump¬ that quality is an accompani¬ of quantity. Unless we have improvement to go along head Improvement, we have to boast of, but much to SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960 of the Southern Negro. The tremendous potential which confined within the American must needs find some ex¬ other than protest. But gain the basic rights it is evi¬ that protest may be in or¬ for some time to come. The surging awakening of'the to freedom is something than a word, but a dream, a within itself, and an of human dignity, of divine origin of man and can¬ be catalogued as to time, place event. Many, many things went what is apparently a spon¬ movement. But the mo¬ which has been attained be continued. Freedom is which must be fought it lacks real meaning if con¬ The duties and obligations of a must be spelled out. The to vote must be considered integral part of citizenship. The newspaper can and must out these things. It is the important medium of mass Its impact can must be felt. The Negroes Savannah should be able to to the paper as a means of intellectually honest, militant, dedicated that which is right for people a people. This is a plea for this paper remain a Savannah-owned and enterprise. Owned and by black men, standing marching, shoulder to shoul¬ with freedom and dignity for as the ultimate goal. Would you hold in abeyance the of the paper in the hope that a very short time the criteria you desire and we the read¬ of the Tribune desire, can be and the needs of the com¬ served? Sincerely, JAMES L. SYKES, M.D. fear. There is a head knowledge and there is a heart knowledge, but the greater of these is heart knowl¬ edge. Unless somewhere along the line our graduates come upon a heart knowledge, to match their head knowledge, the world is, just so much nearer destruction by rea- son of our large output of gradu¬ ates. Heart knowledge and not head knowledge will determine whether humans will survive upon this earth. The sad and sombre fact remains, the Sword of Damocles was never more threatening than the impending doom of mankind. What does it matter if we have all the earthly knowledge imagina¬ ble, if we are to be wiped from the earth in a warfare of atom bombs? Will head knowledge save man from this fatal disaster? We do not think so. Rather we be¬ lieve that heart knowledge will save the dangerous and critical situation that confronts the mod¬ ern world. The seriousness of the situation cannot be ignored or dismissed. There is the danger that a certain complacency will steal upon man¬ kind by reason of the strides cur¬ rently being made in education— of the head; but it must somehow be driven home to the heart of mankind that unless our hearts are educated in matters of right¬ eousness, we are destined to go the way of Sodom and Gomorroh and Jerusalem and Capernaum. It has been written that right¬ eousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. The hope for human survival upon the earth is not a matter of educa¬ tion but of righteousness. So unless we have an education of the heart to go along with the education of the head, we are lost. The staggering output of graduates with an education of the head, is but a part of the story. Then, too, the happiness of man¬ kind no less than its survival is a matter of the education of the heart. It is true we have had quantity added to life by reason of science which accompanies the education of the head, but he would be rash indeed to conclude that human happiness has kept pace with the advance of science. The most that can he said of '.Continued on rage DglHi