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So They Say
From Mt. Washington Press
It must have started, I think, with long
pants for little boys. Wherever it started,
however it grew, we in this lovely land
are the victims of a vast foolishness of our
own creation.
Of a sudden, a childish childhood is
somehow disgraceful. A tot who can’t do
a reasonable facsimile of Fred Astaire at
eight is socially retarded . . . the pet who
hasn't ‘gone steady’ by the time she
reaches .junior high is tagged and labelled
a wallflower . . . and the lad who hasn’t
Ralph Bunche, The Man of The Hour
From The Birmingham World
Avgust 10, 1960
History will in future years accord to
I)r. Ralph Bunche the credit for having
averted a war thus far in the Belgian
Congo at a time when not only the UN
but civilization could ill afford such.
At least there is light being turned on
conditions in this part of the moral vine¬
yard where people have been exploited
and confined to a primitive way of life
which is not in keeping with human
status.
There is bound to be something done
about a condition, which in the space
age, just around the corner from ns, there
are 1 1 million natives in (his former Bel¬
gian Colony with the alarming score of
seventeen university graduates!
The world is too small now, and civili¬
zation is too much of its mood for such
a condition <>(' affairs to hamper the whole
of our modernized procession.
it might be laws to some that the UN
troops were <lu# Saturday, when UN’s
trouble-shooter Ralph Bunche arrived at
tUHv'atanga capital on an urgent
peace mission, aftned at heading off
Editorial Opinion from The Nation’s Press
(Compiled by Ihe Associated Negro Press)
Hero is editorial reaction from some of
the nation’s leading newspapers to news
developments of current interest to our
readers:
KATANGA PROVINCE
DAILY NEWS, Chicago
“The principle of self-determination is
on Tshombe’s side. If he and his people
want to be independent, their claim to
that right may be just as strong as the
claim ot Premier Lumumba’s government
to independence from Belgium. Who is
to decide where the right to independence
begins and ends?”
NEGRO CRIME
JOURNAL, Winston-Salem, N.C.
“What are the long run costs to South¬
ern white society for its relatively com¬
placent attitude toward the crimes which
Negroes commit against Negroes?
The question is raised by a Charlotte*
Negro woman in the press of that city.
Referring to the slaying of a young white
police officer in Charlotte last Saturday
night by a young Negro with an impres¬
sive court record, she said:
“Much as we all regret the incident —
the shooting of a policeman in the line of
duty, one wonders why this killer was
Negro not previously punished for rape on a
woman.
“Had she been a white woman, Annas
would be alive today.”
“Shriner of The Year”
To Receive Award
At Boston Meeting
DETROIT, Michigan — In rec¬ 1
ognition of work as a Shriner in
the areas of human relations and
devotion to the progress of Shrine-
dom’s objectives, a men her of the
Imperial Council, Ancient Egyp¬
tian Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, will be presented
an award during the 59th Nation¬
al Convention at Boston, Mass.,
August 15th.
Joseph W. Christian, a New
York City Market Consultant, will
make the presentation of a trophy
to the selected, “Shriner of the
Year'’. Booker T. Alexander, Im¬
perial Potentate, will announce the
dec; ja of tut national
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his own car by seventeen is underprivi¬
leged.
And this is bad and sad for it throws
the living of a long and happy life out of
kilter. The peaks are passed while the
children are still in the valley ... the
thrills are gone before they can be proper¬
ly appreciated.
\\ hen all the good ‘firsts’ are crammed
into a tew immature years, what can we
expect but a seeking and searching for
new experiences down the more devious
paths of life?”
threats of an armed clash between natives
and UN troops expected to move in Satur¬
day.
Katanga’s Premier, after declaring his
region independent on last July 11th,
threatened to fight if UN Secretary
Hammarskjold carried out his announced
plans of moving in troops of the inter¬
national council.
So, to l)r. Bunche will go the credit for
the cooling off situation thus far, and if
war is finally averted, he will have done
a job which will well commend him to
the ages tor his quick action and alert
strategy in this troubled theatre.
There is no wonder that all over the
country Dr. Bunches name made first
page headlines for his quick actions. He
will be the subject of editorials and fea¬
tures for many days to come and when
those are accounted for who made the
impressive imprints upon this era for a
lasting peace, his name will be numbered
among thorn.
Thus far, Dr. Ralph Bunche is truly the
num of the hour.
ATLANTA SCHOOL CRISIS
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
“The recommendation to keep public
schools open is one more stride toward a
sensible response to the desegregation
order.”
THE DIGGS PLAN
NEWS, Detroit
“In the U. S. Congressional contest, vot¬
er refusal to support an effort by former
State Senator Charles C. Diggs Sr. to in¬
ject racism into the election was com¬
mendable and healthy. Diggs, using a
civil-righLs-in-reverse technique, called for
the nomination of three Negro candidates
simply because they are Negroes and with¬
out regard to their qualifications for of¬
fice.
The electorate, including many Negroes,
refused to participate in the vote-by-
color plot.”
THAT MAN FAC BUS
VIRGINIAN-PILOT, Norfolk, Va.
“What is sad is that so few Arkansas
voters can see, three years later, that Gov¬
ernor Faubus—and Governor Faubus alone
— made those troops necessary. It is
sad that Governor Faubus can still pro¬
fit from the bitter and unnecessary epi¬
sode he
committee.
The trophy, an annual award,
is tendered by the Vanguard Socie¬
ty, and will be presented during
the Public Welcoming Services
scheduled for the John Hancock
Auditorium.
The Vanguard Society has hon¬
ored seven previous outstanding
Shriners in as many years. It is
expected that several of the Award
Winners will witness the
tion to the “1960 Shriner of
Year.”
According to announced
more than 200 Nobles have been
considered for the coveted
award. ...
Mr. Christian in making
award available to Shriners
commended ------ the — high _ c „ ---- and
purpos* of the men
selected as “Shriners of the Year.”
He has especially praised the de¬
votion to the purpose and goals of
the Order and Mankind.
Previous recipients of the Van¬
guard Award are: 1953, Dr. Ray¬
mond E. Jackson, Buffalo, N. Y.;
1954, Corneal A. Davis, Chicago,
111.; 1955, Robert L. Williams,
Birmingham, Ala.; 1956, Leon S.
Calhoun, Washington, D. C.; 1957,
Harry T. Coleman, Somerville,
Tenn.; 1958, Harry E. Smith,
Toledo, Ohio; and 1959, James C.
Purness, Seattle, Wash.
August 28, 1881 — J. Finley
Wilson, supreme exalted ruler of
the Elks for 30 years, horn, Nash¬
ville, Tenn,
August 21, 1906 — William
“Count” Basic, orchestra leader,
born Led Bank, N, ,1.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Congress Can Break The Chains At Home, Now. Prove Our Right To Leadership
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Future of Congo to Be Shaped by Its Past
History of Belgian Misadministration
By Associated Negro Press
Whatever it is to be, the future j
of the sprawling Congo will be de-
termined by its past for the pres-
ent crisis in the fledgling republic
is a product of its tragic history.
The complications that have tax¬
ed the talents of the world’s ablest
men were not born with the emer¬
gence of an independent govern¬
ment in the former colonial poss¬
ession of Belgum. Rather, they
had their beginnings in the brutal
administration of old King Leo¬
pold and the unenlightened colonial
policy of the Belgians.
And men ............ today, regardless .. in-j of ...
their personal magnetism their
fluenee fluenee over over current current events, events and. and ,
their wisdom, cannot shape the
future of the Congo beyond what
the influence of the past will per¬
mit.
All they can do is to make the |
best of a situation that began
developing when the Congo Free
.State fell to Belgian domination
84 years ago, while the world sat
supinely by and tolerated an al¬
most unmatched period of ruth¬
less exploitation.
The chaos in the Congo is cer¬
tainly no political phenomenon
when it is recalled that only a few
years ago, a nation with much
more experience in self-rule like
France was as much in a state
Doomed Rights Bill Had
No Friend on Either Side
WASHINGTON, (ANP) —
of the ironies of the Senate
bate preceding the burial of
civil rights bill last week was
neither of the chief spokesman
both sides is friendly to such
lation.
Representing the
majority was Richard B.
of Georgia, a staunch
ist who masterminded a
against civil rights
earlier in the session.
Presenting the bill and
ing in its behalf was GOP
Everett Dirksen of Illinois, a
servative who is often found
ing with the Southern
on civil rights issues.
Here is a part of the
between the two men:
Senator Dirksen’s
of the rights bill set off lively
partisan debate. The
began by saying that he did
want the “mild” bill referred
committee, but that he hoped
would he put on the Senate
dar.
With Vice President Nixon
siding, Senator Richard B.
of Georgia, ehief spokesman
the anti-civil rights bloc,
attacked for the Democrats.
He pointed out that during
eight-week fight over the
rights bill passed in April,
tor Dirksen had voted against
measures he was now
and that President Eisenhower
not strongly urged their
Was “the interest of the
dent in these provisions any
er than it was when they
first brought up,” he asked
tor Dirksen.
of confusion as the Congo i~ now.
In no other part of Africa which
has achieved freedom were Afri-
subjugated ,
cans more by sheer I,
physieal domination, racial dis-
criminations and limited education
than in the Congo.
If the Congolese tolerated this 1
abuse and humilation, it was not i
because they were docile by na- '
ture, but because they could not
do anything about it. Lreedom on
June 30, therefore, brought with it
a release from the cruel restraints I
that had held them in virtual lav ,
ery and ignorance.
The smou ldering resentments j
d deshes for avenge and self j
Xpi ' ess,on were manifested in vio- .
lence against . the Belgians and j
other whites. Heavy-handed Bel- j
gians had made a white skin syno- J
nomous with oppression in the eyes ,
of the Congolese. ’■
The trouble today is that with j
their desire for vengeance sat; >
fled, the Congolese do not know j
how to capitalize upon the long- j
sought Patrice freedom Lumumba, they now the have. prime j
minster, would do it one way. The !
president, Joseph Kasavubu, would 1
do it another. Katanga’s deter-
mined Moise Tshombe, has -till
another solution.
’
In each of the vast Congo s sis
provinces—Equator, Oriental, Leo- 1
Why, Senator Russell asked, did
Mr. Dirksen not wish to send his
“pale” bill to committee? The bill,
'7 go -'-mn to the Judiciary continued Committee, wciuld not
headed by Senator James O. East-
’
land of Mississippi. Instead it
would go to the Labor and Public'
Welfare Committee, headed by Lis-
ter Hill of Alabama, whom Sena- 1
tor . Russell described , .. . as a “lib- . ... I ,
era l„ ‘ j
t,, the committee ... , s fifteen mem-
. bers, Mr. ,, Russell ,, ,, noted, , , included . , , , 1 ;
not . only , ,, Mr. _. Dirksen , ‘, but also
Senator „ , John T , T F. - r- Kennedy j and , a
heavy majority of liberals from
both parties.
“No charge has been heard that
this committee is a grave-yard of
so-called civil rights legislation
passed.
“From the ancient scrolls,” he
said, “comes the saying that one j
should not be weary in well doing, j
We became a little weary. j
Neveitheless, he added, “my con- i
victions remained and the convic¬
tions of the President remained.”
The new bill, he said, is “entire¬
ly clear of political considera¬
tions.” As for not sending the
bill to the Hill committee, Senator
Dirksen said he feared a Demo¬
cratic “steamroller” would bury it
in a “graveyard.” i
Senator Russell suggested that
the Republicans might be pushing j
civil rights bills to stall Senate
action the on minimum House-passed legislation secondary ^
on wage,
boycotting, medical care for the
aged, and public works.
I doubt, said Senator Russell, j
that the distinguished Senator
from Illinois is supporting all!
tlio-e bilL all along the line.' j
poidville, Kivu, Kasai and Katan-
r n—there are leaders, many of
them strong-willed men with solu-
tio, < of their owns, and with poli-
t raj p ufios to support them,
And within each province, there
■ o ti lic and factions clamoring
f ir i"covnition and Leadership,
This state of affairs is further
implicated by the inherent ambi-
lion gn 1, selfishness and jeal-
/ that is common to all men
evi rywhere, regardless of color or
ualioi , \v.
’ ’ the din of discord are
"■'J v in fiuenc'-s: the tug of war
between the United States and ■
Ru-.-ia; the earnest desire of the I
Un’m-d Nations to prove itself ca-
liable of handling a delicate crisis;
ike ambitions, of leaders of other
African nations; and finally the
h.dated reluctance of Belgium to
>•<mph-i.-iy surrender its hold on
an economic asset.
The .L; nation is fraught with '
• ■ -m nL. that could plunge the
world into a disastrous and possi-
hly fatal world war, according to
United Nations Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold.
tile Fast, it could lead to
wholesale bloodshed in the Congo,
with every man’s hand pitted |
agu a.a his neighbors. Either
prospect is tragic, differing only
hi degree.
“Some of us here will resort to
means at our command,” he
Mr. Dirksen. “W’e are used
being whipping boys, but we
Fke to be whipped here in
on the eve of a Presidential
ob
fraud Detection
f-f e )p " deeded ’
' “ T" “ “^insurance ^ -T rights
5 o 54 cases during a the past four
”
„ Georgia '•
Commissioner . of
Ben T. Huiet reported here
.t-, Jhe job - , insurance . clai- , .
. involved , had failed to re-
statements , . their ,, . i
concerning i
|
In addition, during this period, |
r
courts have given sentences 1
from time ir. jail to fines
addition to or in place of pro¬
sentences.”
Commissioner Huiet praised
and solicitors for their help
’ deterring fraud and in seeing
it that job insurance is paid
to those who are unemployed,
to work and are genuinely
for employment. Most job
claimants in Georgia are
Cinc.-t, hard-working people who j
far had rather have full-time i
than the stop-gap of job in-
ra nee.
“People working less than full
on account of lack of work
make less than their job in-
amounts report their earn-
nd their job insurance is
accordingly,
“Last week we discovered sev-
ai {arsons in Spalding County
properly repotting their e^rn-
they are being prosecuted in
city courts here,
“The job insurance program is
0 . It imurea <oU ,000 Georgia
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, I960-
Between The Lines
Uv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANR
Somebody Has Blundered Badly
It is distressing to see our
country stand by, while
hands Cuba over to
One is made to wonder if we
not indeed eating humble pie as
communism threatens to take over
the world.
If World War III is to be
ed, there must he mutual desire
for peace on the part of the com¬
munist and the democratic worlds,
the desire for peace, however in¬
tense on our nation s part
save the world from war and
possible annihilation from atom
warfare.
If this world is to be spared
the horrors of the impending war,
Moscow must be just as desirous
of peace as Washington. The late
Ellsworth Ross, eminent sociolo¬
gist of yesteryear, said that when
two persons love each other the
one who loves less will invariably
exploit the ones who loves more.
And in the long run the person
who loves more will suffer more.
It is even so when two nations are
struggling against each other in
quest of world domination.
The more unscrupulous nation
has the more scrupulous nation at
its mercy. And the searching ques¬
tion pressing for an answer today
is are we more desirous of main¬
taining the peace than Russia, and
if we are, we are headed for more
and more humiliation such as we
are facing in Cuba with the con¬
fiscation of our properties.
The confiscation of our proper¬
ties in Cuba is but a prelude to
the confiscation of our property
in the United States and the very
implication is distressing. If we
are being forced to eat humble pie
and stand aside while Castro
hands over Cuba to Khrushchev
and the Kremlin, we must pay
the price of our preoccupation with
1‘ncc prejudice
The American race prejudice
has given our great nation a place
in today's world that is not en¬
viable. What besides our preoccu¬
pation with race prejudice and
the vagaries thereof can explain
our awkward international posi-
tion » in our preaching democracy
for the world and attempting attempting to
eternalize the Negro American’s
second class citizenship?
Men like Eastland and Harry
Flood Byrd and their kind have
been instrumental in crucifying
-
tne democratic and Christian .
* U 0f ’ ! ’ ° f lat ’ e P l ' e j udice
-
just .
IS as true today that
America cannot survive with
US. MAIL’
the ■ f Ed ito
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Last week a letter was writ-
to the Savannah , Morning
concerning the drowning
Monday afternoon of a
lad at the Tompkins Pool.
Editors of the Morning News
deleted portions of the letter,
in Its entirety is written
Dear - Sir: -jji
This letter is directed to the
of the city of Savan¬
who along with the recent¬
resigned mayor, were laud-
ed last » eek a “job well
done.” I wonder if they can
to live with their
after reviewing the
recent drowttiing “overcrowded
boy at the
understaffed Tompkins
on Ogeechee Road.
We feel that something con¬
can be done to prevent
drownings. First of all,
paid, trained life guards
should be on duty at all times
that the pool is open; and sec-
a resuscitator machine
lifeguards trained to oP-
it should be kept at the
or made available imme¬
when needed.
With the hot days of sum¬
we can see why the Tomp¬
pool would be crowded.
is only one pool for the
and involves a trust fund,
over $144 millions.
“We watch these funds as close¬
as men and machines in the
tan. But we need the
of e'ery person who know^
of its citizens enjoying tirst class
citizenship, and hair with second
class eitizensnip, as it was true in
Lincoln s time, when he said the
nation cannot exist halt slave and
nail ftee.
if tnis nation is to endure it
must endure as a free nation and
not in tne morally money condi¬
tions created by race prejudice and
its sordid accompaniments. V\ e
ail must be free or we all shall
be slaves and the remainder of
tnis unhappy alternative is even at
our doors.
Communism is n uch nearer to
Washington than democracy is to
Moscow and it we are to stay iis
OIWald malch our own house nlust
! ue set 111 oroer *
And our house will not be in
order until race prejudice is ban¬
ished or restrained by tne strong
arm of the law. VVluie, Congress
is being readied to wrangle over
civil rights legislation tnat has
little or no chance of passing over
the heads of the Byrds ana East-
lands, Cuba is confiscating our
properties.
it has been said that Nero fid¬
dled wniie Rome burned; it may
currently be said that while our
nation is fiddling- over the cause
of civil rights, our great nation
is being undermined by the design¬
ing communists who are doing
business at our very doors.
What we are trying to get over
is, we are losing ground and the
higher ups ougnt to know why?
it ought to occur to the Negro-
phobes of this country that hold¬
ing the Negro down is poor sub¬
stitute for a nation’s freedom.
Will it take atom warfare to rid
j | j this nation of its preoccupation
with race prejudice? The only
|Jight on thls R erJl0US situation is
I tne certaln whites are P ut *
J Dp save the situation.
, bown in Tennesse Senator Ive-
fauver, a liberal, won a sweeping
victory over a Negrophobe who
showed his colors throughout the
campaign and they were anti-
Negro colors. By announcing that
he was an out and out segrega¬
tionist, Kefauver’s opponent was
bidding for power that race, pre¬
judice generates and the whites
of Tennessee swept him into poli¬
tical oblivion.
On every side we find rays of
hope that there are greater and
eater numbers -------- of — whites "**».%•» who ..uv
see in race prejudice our nation’s
! great liability and blunder.
j They know who has blundered
and is blundering still.
The taxes that we pay as a
group I am sure, would war¬
rant us being given more con¬
sideration. That is if one
would assume that we are due
to our fair share after assuming
our share of the burden of tax¬
es. I am sure that Negroes
pay their fair share of taxes
since a great number own au¬
tomobiles, businesses and homes.
It is our right then to expect
what is rightfully ours. Search
yourselves, I say, and truthful¬
ly say, “We have done a good
job.”
J am sure most of the Negro
mothers of the city went to
their beds M ° nday night with
burdened hearts, asking them¬
selves, “If not now, when?”
When will our children get
the birthright that Is theirs as
American citizens?” An alien
on a visitor’s visa or a recently
naturalized citizen has more
right than our children.
It is time that Savannah
and the south stop this “sep¬
arate, but equal” farce, and
face up to themselves. They
are a step behind the rest of
the nation, and the focus of
attention for the rest of the
world.
Very truly yours,
(Mrs.) Estella Doby Pate
or hears of any false or fraudulent
claim. Everyone who has such
knowledge should let us have the
name, social security number and
any other facts about the case,”
Commissioner Huiet said.