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Authorized Second Class at Savannah, Mail Privileges Georgia A 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”.