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Editorial of The Week
The following editorial appeared in The
Call (Kansas City, Missouri) on Septem¬
ber 2, 1960:
A Summer Vacation to Remember
What summer vacation does one re¬
member most?
For some it might be the trip to the
mountains, to the seashore or to the na¬
tional park. Still others will remember
the vacation they spent in study or the
redecorating they did on their house. In
the lives of all of us there will probably
be one vacation that stands out over all
the rest—the vacation to remember.
For the 1,000 youths who constitute the
Youth Council of the NAACP, the sum¬
mer vacation of 1960 will probably be
the summer to remember. Through action
initiated by them they were able to break
down racial barriers that had defied the
best efforts of their elders and secured
non-discriminatory access to places that
had formerly barred persons of their race.
On July 10th. Kansas Citians first read
news accounts of an effort by members
of the council to be served in local restau¬
rants and attend local theaters. The “sit-
ins” had come to Kansas City. Tired of
the legal impasse! in which the anti-segre¬
gation city ordinance had become ensnar¬
ed, these youths had resorted to a techni¬
que utilized successfully elsewhere.
Much of the earlier stigma concerning
“sit-ins” had been removed. Whereas four
Editorial Opinion from The Nation’s Press
Compiled (he Associated Press
Compiled by the Associated Negro Press
Here are excerpts from editorials taken
from some of the nation’s leading daily
papers on subjects of current interest to
our readers:
NEGRO COPS IN MEMPHIS
COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis
“The only way to develop responsibility
among citizens is to provide them with an
opportunity to serve in posts where the
exercise of that quality is a prime requi¬
site for continued employment. It is ridi¬
culous for communities to spend vast sums
on education and then deny to its bene¬
ficiaries the jobs and the access to public
facilities which would encourage them to
put knowledge to work.”
BUNCHE S RECALL
DAILY NEWS, Chicago
“Dr. Bunche has earned a rest, and the
gratitude of the world as well, for his work
in The Congo. Others will carry on, but
he will be missed. We can only wish
there were more like him to work against
misu nderst a ml i ng.”
BIAS IN FRATERNITIES
POST DISPATCH, St. Louis
“It seems inevitable that when segrega¬
tion is ending in so many places, it will be
removed where it has least excuse for
existence—in higher education.”
Africa Wants
Economic Help
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo
(ANP) — The tenor of the fact-
finding tour of former New York
A v e r e 11 Harriman throughout
West and Equatorial Africa these
past weeks has been “Africa needs
and wants economic assistance,”
and would prefer it being given
by the West.
This much was ascertained early
this week just before Harriman
left for Brussels, to discuss with
Belgian officials the present situa¬
tion existing in the former Belgian
Congo. .
Notably, Harriman pointed out
that the Republic of Guinea has
no desire to become a satellite of
Russia. Speaking to reporters in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Harriman
said President Sekou Toure of
Guinea assured him that there was
no intention of letting Guinea fall
Into the Soviet camp. He said
that Toure was ready to receive
increased aid from the West.
Later, in Accra, Harriman urg¬
ed a joint economic program to be
underwritten by all African coun¬
tries, as a means of speeding up
U. S. economic aid. He said that
African states would benefit from
such a joint program and added
months earlier ex-President Truman had
been quoted as branding such actions as
“Communist inspired,” his own party had
endorsed “sit-ins” in the party platform.
Yet there were some within the commu¬
nity who opposed such a step for fear of
alienating white friends and prejudicing
public opinion. Others long accustomed to
discrimination in eating and entertain¬
ment pointed to other areas in our com¬
munity where the efforts of the council
might be directed.
It is to the credit of these boys and
girls that they were not deterred from
their goal. Their resolute action in the
face of criticism has brought success. The
idea of first-class citizenship for them
and for persons of their race is a little
nearer because they were willing to sacri¬
fice necessary time and effort.
A significant by-product of this cam¬
paign has been the valuable experience
members of the youth council have receiv¬
ed in leadership and training for action.
Those who have expressed misgivings con¬
cerning the youth of today will certainly
receive some reassurance when they con¬
sider that here are potential leaders of
tomorrow who have proved that they can
and will meet the challenges of democracy.
C ongratulations to the members of the
NAACP Youth Council and their ad¬
visors. Yours has been a summer vaca¬
tion we will all remember.
SCHOOL INTEGRATION
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
“Atlanta and Georgia have the time and
the sense to plan for something better.
The Sibley Commission report recom¬
mends a sensible plan for keeping public
schools open with “as much freedom of
choice to each parent and community as
possible.”
“PUPIL PLACEMENT” IN LOUISIANA
JOURNAL. Winston-Salem, N. C.
Louisiana now has a pupil placement
law and probably will adopt a program
based on it in time. Rut its immediate
problem is that of preventing any out¬
break of violence if and when the public
schools of New Orleans open on schedule
next week. If the extremists force the
closure of the schools there, as in Norfolk
and Little Rock, the event may fore¬
shadow a long series of similar School
closings in the Deep South while that
section learns the iutility of massive re¬
sistance.
ANNIVERSARIES OF FREEDOM
TIMES, New York
“The African nations will have their
anniversaries, too, perhaps recollecting in
tranquility old, unhappy, far-off things,
and battles long ago.”
that a political union is still a
long way off.
“it is important that small coun¬
tries work together,” he said. “This
(joint) program gives the possi¬
bilities for other countries to join.
So far on his trip, Harriman—
who is accompanied by three other
Americans, two of whom are
j Negroes — has he! ’ conferences
with heads of governn ents in Li¬
beria, Ghana, Republic of Congo
(formerly French Congo) Guinea,
Mali Federation, the Congo and
with officials in France and Bel¬
gium. His two Negro associates
lire Ernest Dunbar, senior editor
of Life magazine, and Ulrich
Haynes, economist formerly on the
governor’s staff and currently a
Ford Foundation grantee studying
in Europe.
Receives B. S.
Degree
(Continued from Pa.se One>
achievement.
Her son, L. H. Pratt. Is on the
teaching staff of Sol C. Johnson
High School. » 1 -
] Mrs. Johnson Appointed
Co-Chairman of
Kennedy-Johnson Cluh
| Mrs. Herman A. Johnson of
Kansas City, Mo., has been ap¬
, pointed
Active Co-Chairman of the
Kennedy-Johnson Club of Jackson
County, Mo., it was announced this
week.
Mrs. Johnson is the widow of
Dowdal 11. Davis, former news¬
paper executive and the first
Negro to serve on the Board of
Police Commissioners of Kansas
city. He was appointed to that
post by Governor Blair.
Mrs. Johnson is a member of
the Board of the Kansas Urban
League and formerly worked with
her late husband on the Kansas
City Call. She is employed as a
social worker at the Family and
Children's Service in Kansas City.
Kansas, and formerly worked as
the Executive Director of the
Florence Crittenden Home for
Girls.
Others appointed to the Execu¬
tive Committee of the Kennedy-
Johnson Club of Jackson County
include Hon. Lewis W. Clymev,
Mrs. Frances Haydn and Harold
L. Holliday.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
This Vicious Segregationist Leader Can Be Removed By Enforcement of The Law
Two High School Students
Develop Formula That May
Aid in Cure of Cancer
NEW YORK, (ANP) — When
scientists announce sometime in
the future that they have found
a cure for cancer, they may have
to give some of the credit to two
17 year old New York school stu¬
dents.
They are Patricia E. Bath whose
father is from the West Indies,
am! Arnold Lentnek whose father
is a heart victim.
( The two have been credited with
I suggesting a previously unexplored
avenue in the quest for new types
of chemicals to attack cancer.
They also were credited with
perhaps throwing new and sur¬
prising light on the nature of
cancer—and on how better to give
nourishment to patients wasting
away from malignancy.
Miss Bath, a Negro girl who
grew up on the crowded streets of
Harlem, is a graduate of Charles
Evans High School and is now
attending Hunter college.
Lentnek, of Roekaway Beach,
was graduated from Far Rocka-
way High School last June and
plans to enter Columbia Univer-
1 sity this fall.
The adult scientist who colla-
, borated in the report on the work
I of the two youngsters said their
finds, taken together, may open
the way to this:
“Examining or re-examining
thousands of mold fermentation
products for possible anticancer
action from the standpoint of de¬
sirable growth promotion of cer¬
tain ceils rather than from the
standpoint of killing cells.”
Short Breather Won for
NAACP Minister Jail
TALLAHASSEE —
attorneys secured an
month of freedom here this
for a Negro clergyman facing
months jail and $1,200 fine
refusing to expose fellow
I members to Florida bias.
Lawyers for Father
R. Gibson, president of the
NAACP, revealed the State
preme Court decided
September 6th, to consider his
on merit.
The period of time necessary
check into the validity of the
court’s sentence, insures
Gibson of an estimated 30
freedom.
Father Gibson was
August 30th in the Circuit
of Judge W. May Walker.
comtempt case grew out of
steadfast refusal to turn
NAACP membership list over
the Florida Legislative
ting Committee.
This body, established
ately after the Miami
filed the state's first school
tegration suit in 1956, has
1 “seeking out” alleged
Its first act was to call for
Miami NAACP membership list.
The Committee has been given
appropriation of $182,000.00
is a state appointed agency.
Father Theodore R.
The two were listed as the
“senior” or principal authors of a
report prepared for the fifth In¬
ternational Congress on Nutrition.
Their adult co-author was Dr.
Robert D. Barnard, consultant to
the Cancer Research Division of
the New York City Health De¬
partment, who told of their re¬
, searches.
It was this way, he said . . .
The teenagers, who didn’t, know
one another at first, worked on
separate research projects at Har¬
lem Hospital during a 1959 sum¬
mer science training program con¬
ducted by Yeshiva University
under a grant from the National
Science Foundation.
But ultimately, alert adult
scientists saw a possible relation
between their projects and brought
them together.
I.etnek had been searching for
growth £nd reproduction stimul¬
ants in a one-celled protozoan
animal called “paramecium cauda-
tum.”
By chance, he tried a crude com¬
mercial animal feed supplement
made from dried materia, left over
from the process of producing the
antibiotic drug, strept .mycin. The
results were good
Dr. Moses 1 j. Tendler, director
of Yeshivp's NSF program, re¬
membered that this same strep¬
tomycin residue had been in local
hospital use for 10 years as a
‘ nutritive” for patients with ad¬
vanced cancer. There also had
been reports that the substance
had occasionally slowed the growth
Rector of Christ Episcopal Church,
Miami, is a well respected figure
in his community. He is a veteran
foe of racial bias. lie has led a
series of successful integration
actions.
These include integration of
Miami buses, parks, swimming
pools, and sit-in-demonstrations,
resulting in opening of lunch coun¬
ters. His son, Theodore, Jr., was
a plaintiff in Association's Miami
school integration case.
Florida NAACP leaders assert
that the State is out to wreck the
NAACP’S state organization.
Once NAACP membership lists
were released, members would un¬
doubtedly be exposed to untold
threats, intimidations, economic
reprisals — and in light of the
current racial climate in the state,
physical violence.
Father Gibson, whose home and
own person have been threatened
with violence, told the Committee,
“If people who join our organiza¬
tion discover that we are going to
disclose their identity, that is a
sure way our organization would
be wrecked. For this reason, we
feel we have a legal light that
needs to be cleared”.
Father Gibson also told the Com¬
mittee that “this is a gross Inter¬
ferenc* with freedom of
or temporarily reduced the size
of tumors.
But Lentek’s finding posed a
seeming paradox: that is, on the
one hand, the material stimulated
growth in an animal, while on the
other hand it apparently could
inhibit growth in a tumor.
Patricia had been doing research
into the possibility that human
cancer is a growth “failure”,
rather than a growth speed-up, as
it has been considered.
She came up with evidence in¬
dicating that while a cancer may
appear to represent accelerated
growth of cells, actually there is a
failure of some type in certain
mechanisms going on in the nuclei
of affected eells.
Thus, supervising scientists con¬
cluded, it appears consistent to con¬
sider young Lentek’s material as
a growth promoter — whether
applied to the wiggly patameeium
or to attacking a cancer.
Patricia said she and her as¬
sociates hope their work “will sti¬
mulate research on the idea that
cancer is a systematic disease—
involving the entire body—and
that the tumor itself is merely
the symptom.”
Conceding that the view is quite
radical, she added:
“In fact, we believe that where
certain drugs have worked tern-
porarily in the treatment of can-
cer, their value has not been in
their cell-killing properties, as is
generally believed, but in over¬
coming (cellular) growth failure
in the system generally.”
tiort and freedom of speech”.
There is ample reason for
NAACP fear of persecution of
members. A study entitled “In¬
timidation, Reprisal and Violence
in the South’s Racial Crisis” pub¬
lished early this year, lists 530
such incidents.
It was published jointly by the
Southeastern office, American
Friends Service Committee, De¬
partment of Racial and Cultural
Relations, National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U. S. A.
and the Southern Regional Coun¬
cil.
House of
Prayer
Parade
iContlnued rrom Page One)
public will get its first glimpse
of him in Sunday’s parade.
Elder P. A Lawson is pastor
of the local church and is chair¬
man of the district which in¬
cludes churches in Georgia.
South Carolina and Florida,
There are representatives in the
city from the various churches
in the district.
The General Council meets
daily at 11 a. m. followed by
noon-day services.
The members will participate
in a picnic at Grace Land Park.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, I960
Between The Lines
liv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANF
CONTAINING COMMUNISM
The rivalry between Rome and
Carthage has never beer* keener
nor more bitter than that between
Washington and Moscow. The
ancient rivalry eventuated into the
destruction of Carthage and how
the current rivalry will eventuate
is anybody’s guess.
Tiiis writer is not impressed
with the peaceful co-existence line
which .serves Russia’s purpose very
definitely by lulling the world to
sleep, while she prepares to take
over in cue time. Without open
warfare nation after nation lias
gone over to communism and coup
after coup has brought Russia
nearer to world domination.
There is something radically
wrong with the program and pro¬
cedures of the democracies, which
find themselves on the defensive
the world over, and this is a dis¬
turbing fact for those student-: of
woild affairs who believe sincere¬
ly in t'ne ideals and objectives of
democracy.
The reason that Rome overthrew
Carthage was Rome’s great for¬
tune to have a Cato who iookeu
over the shoulders of his contem¬
poraries and saw that peaceful co¬
existence was impossible.
Oid Cato kept before the Roman
senate and the Roman people the
idea that Carthage had to be de¬
stroyed. Cato would have none of
the idea of peaceful co-existence,
for it was clear to him as it is to
some of us, that two nations can
not dominate the world.
Either Rome had to go or
Carthage had to go, and this ugly
fact Cato the Censor faced cour¬
ageously. It looks front here that
either democracy or communism
will have to go. Unless we can
contain communism, communism
will contain us.
The fight between communism
and democracy is a fight unto
death, however, reluctant we are
to face such ugly fact. With the
world in revolution and with Rus¬
sia, winning revolution aft, r •re¬
volution, she seems to have the ad¬
vantage of the world situation in
a way that alarms the Amei icun
patriot.
.Nor is this writer impressed
with this country's plan of de¬
fense. We make much of the fact
that our counter-attack will be
devastating. But if we only have
what is left after Russia’s attack,
that may be too littie too late.
This article was inspired by a
news item of a few days ago. It
Baptist Official Bays Dr.
Jackson Erred in NBC
PHILADELPHIA, (ANP) A
charge against Dr. J. H. Jackson
involving $33,000 confused
of the delegates to the 80th
' ven f' on the National
Convention USA, Inc. here
week.
From what could be
from those making the charge
from statements made by
Jackson who was defeated in
forts to head up the convention
the eighth time, no question
his honesty was involved.
The basis of the charge
to be that Dr. Jackson took
sum from the retirement fund
pay off the mortgage of the
tist-owned bath house in
Springs without
However, his action was later
proved by the board of
The charge was made in
before the convention opened
by the Rev. Andrew J.
former secretary of the retirement
fund. He admitted that Dr. Jack-
son used the money to pay off the
mortgage of the organization's na¬
tional bath house in Hot
Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m.
Prior to the parade on
day there will be a sunrise
vice, Sunday School at 9 a.
Gospel service at 11 a. m„
baptism at 11:30 a. m. by
op McCullough in the
Pool on West Victory Drive.
Monday night, Sept. 19,
program honoring Bishop
Cullough will be held at
House of Prayer.
Officials of the local
of Prayer besides Elder
son are Mrs. ., r\ Omie ■ „ Bradley,
retary; Mrs. Marjorie Baker,
i |sistant person, secretary; assistant Elder pastor; J.
John Lotson, business
ger.
, made reference to Virginia’s Sena-
j tor Robertson as the watch dog ’
! of the Senate. And as such, what
was he watching foi ? iSot for
the dangers that surround us in
bur life and death fight against
communism; not line ancient Cato
w i he looking beyond the horizon
of his beloved America at some
distant foe.
He was watching for any at¬
tempt of the Senate to bring to
discussion anything that pertained
to civil rights. In other words in
fighting back any attempt at civil
rights legislation, that was his way
of fighting back the struggling
Negroes of this country.
The hopes'of the Negro reside
|‘in civil rights legislation and in
the civil rights feeling which is
more important. And so this coun¬
try can take time out in this criti¬
cal hour to have in Congress a
watch-dog who is not watching for
Russia and its subtle program to
take over the Twentieth-Century
world, but for tiie hapless Negro
who is struggling to be free.
The watch-dog idea just goes to
pin-point the troubles we are en¬
countering v/i t h Russia. With
Russia doing business at our very
doors we have time to have in the
Congicss of th se United States
watch-dogs whose main purpose is
to eternalize the second rate citi¬
zenship of American Negroes.
But unless we have more Watch¬
dogs whose business it is to help
contain communism in its onward
sweep, we as a nation are lost.
It is a dangerous thing for the
watch-dog to watch the wrong
thing.
Negroes do not need watching
but Russia and her communism do.
Nations are saved not by their
Neroes but by their Catoes.
We have too many Neroes and
too few Catoes to dope with Russia.
Men like Senator Robertson, repre¬
sentatives of the Old South and
living in the Nineteenth Century.,
will eventually hand over our na¬
tion to Russia on a platter. ....
The only reason Russia docs not
fight is that it will be unneces¬
sary ; for the watch-dogs of the
Old South will deliver the goods.
Instead of watching Russia they
are watching the Negro, who is
fighting bravely against t h e
efforts of the Oid South to euUM
tain him and eternalize his afflict
tion. uh;
Containing communism is not
the same as containing the strug¬
gling Negro.
Ark.
But Rev. Hargrett pointed out:
“The mortgage was paid and
then the board of directors was
asked to approve the action, which
they did in a May 31 meeting.”
Others who felt the procedure
was wrong were the Reverends
Junius C. Austin, pastor of Pil¬
grim Baptist Church; C. Y. John¬
son El-Bethel Baptist Church and
president of the Baptist State Con¬
vention of Illinois; B. F. Paxton,
pastor of True Light Baptist
Church; the Rev. John Brown,
pastor of Come and See Baptist
Church; and A, H. Reed, pastor
of Antioch Baptist Church.
Here is how Dr. Jackson ex¬
plained the transaction:
Dr. Jackson reported that the
bathhouse is now completely out
of debt. The sum of $33,000 was
raised to pay off the current debt.
The Convention had $40,000 in
its retirement fund, Dr. Jackson
said. That sum was invested in
Government bonds, $10,000 of it in
debenture bonds, he added.
Dr. Jackson said the investment
committee decided to get their
hands on the deeds to the bath
house property. The insurance on
the property was $700,000, which
they considered too much.
The committee. Dr. Jackson said,
decided to invest $33,800 and take
over the mortgage on the bath¬
house. This makes the retirement
fund the owner of the bath house
he said.
Against that investment, he add¬
ed, the Convention has a piece of
property worth $700,000.
“If the Convention decides that
* is not K ° hljr * pay 5t “ elf back ’”
n said “ U could take
i ',00,000 f oi' not paying *. itself $33,-
000 „
Dr. Jackson declared that not
ow dime o{ the rptirement f un d
has been spent. “Somebody is go-
; rL to have to do some pardon-
| begging”.