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Voting Isn’t Enough
(From Tht Christian Science Monitor)
The experts are predicting a big vote
and a very close election in the United
States this year. We sincerely hope
that Americans of all kinds will prove
in far greater measure than ever before
that they value the precious
right of a free vote. In 1956 only
60.4 per cent of those eligible to vote
did so. This compares sadly with the
records of other nations—including dic¬
tatorships, where no real choice is offer¬
ed.
There is every evidence that both par¬
ties will be beating the bushes as never
before for votes. Happily the American
Heritage Foundation and other organiza¬
tions are also pressing a get-out-the-vote
campaign. In many states dates for
registering are fast approaching. So it
is none too soon for citizens to prepare
for voting.
Striking figures point io the importance
of every vote: Vice President Nixon has
reminded Republicans that they lost the
recent senatorial contest in North Da¬
kota by a margin averaging less than one-
half vote per precinct. In 1916
President Wilson won California—and the
election—by less than one vote per pre¬
cinct. In 1948 President Truman had a
similar margin in the decisive states of
Ohio and California.
We warmly support all these efforts
to awaken Americans to more active par¬
ticipation in their elections. Hut many
a thoughtful citizen must have said to
himself: “Getting out the vote is not
enough. What’s the use of a big vote
if it is ignorant or prejudiced? Wouldn’t
we really be better off with a small vote
if it were informed and unselfish?’’
It is a good question. And it has extra
force when too many politicians are seek¬
ing to lure votes with the bait of federal
Editorial Opinion from The Nation’s Press
Compiled by the Associated Negro Press
Here are significant quotes from edi¬
torials taken from the nation’s leading
papers on subjects of current interest;
SIT-DOWNS
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta
“The sit-ins are symbol. They disrupt
a business only briefly. The moving pres¬
sure on Southern stores has been with¬
drawal of Negro business. The sit-ins
have simply symbolized what the boycotts
are about, and defined the moral issue for
white consciences to ponder. The point is
made. It is now being belabored rather
dangerously. There is a point of diminish¬
ing return. The sit-ins have reached it
and ought, in wisdom, to he ended.”
SCHOOL INTEGRATION
POST, Washington
“The experience of school districts
which have begun desegregation—such as
those in Virginia—has demonstrated that
it does not mean disaster; with intelligent
local leadership it can mean alike better
education and better race relations. Per¬
haps next year affirmative moral leader¬
ship from the White House will encour¬
age more progressive leadership at the
local level.”
“ DAILY NEWS, Chicago
“Sparse though it is, the news of addi¬
tional school districts proceeding with in¬
tegration this fall is good news. It will
be even better news when the simple fact
Baptist
Convention
(Continued from Page One)
roster of the convention.
The injunction filed by the con¬
vention against the “Taylor Team”
was not for the purpose of secur¬
ing the presidency, but was for
the purpose of having the aisles
cleared in order to avoid fire
hazards, requests that had been
repeatedly made to the police but
had not been met, and to have
the Taylor supporters to refrain
from loud, boisterous, and obstrep-
•reus conduct designed to pro¬
aid for various voting blocs. Farmers
are promised higher incomes; veterans,
bigger pensions, labor, increased wages;
the elderly, medical care. Party plat¬
forms have become more and more
frankly compilations of appeals to racial
and special interest groups. Often these
promises are snares. Many of them
Congress will not write into law. And
some concern matters which law cannot
control.
Voters are also asked to choose a
President on the basis of plain prejudice
—partisan, sectional, racial, or religious.
Voting in response to such appeals is not
likely to strengthen America. But
it takes an informed cilizen to see the
fallacies and dangers in such appeals. It
takes an independent and unselfish citi¬
zen to reject them.
Confidence in democratic government
rests on trust that enough voters will lie
informed, independent, and primarily de¬
voted to the general welfare to make
wise, unselfish choices. In that confi¬
dence we support get-out-the-vote efforts.
There are also many citizens who will
seek divine guidance in the grave mat¬
ters now facing the free world.
Plainly voting is not enough. It is a
vital step, hut the last, not the first. Pre¬
paring to vote, prayerfully, and with the
greatest attainable freedom from ignor-
ance, prejudice, and selfishness, is the
first step.
There are hopeful, clear incentives for
so preparing. Many elections are decid¬
ed by the independent vote. Mere par¬
tisanship is often canceled tty mere par¬
tisanship, prejudice by prejudice, selfish
interest hv selfish interest. In such sit¬
uations a relatively small amount of in¬
formed and patriotic voting can be de¬
cisive. mmt
of white and Negro children going to
school together makes no news at, all.”
TENNESSEAN, Nashville
“Closure of all Louisiana schools would
be a tragedy made the deeper by realiza¬
tion that this course leads to nowhere be¬
yond ultimate compliance, it is a tragedy
we sincerely hope can be avoided, for its
futility has-been proven in Virginia and
in Arkansas. Governor Davis has little
to gain and his people have much to lose
by defiance.”
THE CONGO
VIRGINIAN-PILOT, Norfolk
“For the Congo must be united peace¬
fully before any government can begin to
function. And it is apparent that as long
as Premier Lumumba and his shadow con¬
tinue to agitate peaceful unification in the
Congo it is too much to hope for.”
AMERICAN, Chicago
“Kasavubu and Ileo may not be the na¬
tion's saviors, but they come a lot closer
to filling the bill than the hysterical
Lumumba.”
TIMES, New York City
“It is supremely to the interest of the
free and independent states of Africa that
the U. N. stay there for a while with the
full support and active collaboration of the
African states. This is the test of their
responsibility.”
hibit the execution of the program
of the convention, and also to
hinder some members of the local
committee from interfering with
the funds of the convention.
The 1961 session of the National
Baptist Convention will be held
in Kansas City.
The officers elected by the con¬
vention and affirmed and approved
by the board of directors ane as
follows:
Dr. J. H. Jackson, President;
Dr. E. Doyle Billoups, Vice Presi¬
dent at Large; Dr. A. E. Campbell,
Vice President; Dr. T. S. Harten,
Vice President; Dr. J. A. F. Fin-
layson, Vice President; Dr. T. J.
Jemison, Secretary; Dr. L. G.
Carr, Treasurer.
Mr. Young’
Is Now Prin,
(Continued from rage one)
Delaware Trophy from Savannah
State College Alumni Association
in 1949 for outsanding achieve¬
ment; president of Theta Chapter
Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity, Cor¬
nell University in 1952; listed in
Who’s Who in American Educa¬
tion; chairman of Advisory and
Planning Council to Superinten¬
dent of Chatham County Public
Schools; president of Chatham
County Teacher’s Association 1956-
1956, in 1958 was chosen Chatham
County Teacher of the Year and ;
THJB SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
The Government, At Long Last, Decides It Has Responsibility To The Law
The Brewing U. N. Storm
United Nations diplomats
braced for a major battle in
cold war as the 15th Session
the General Assembly of the
ed Nations convened on
ber 20 at United Nations
quarters in New York.
The United Nations came
actual being when the U.N. Char¬
ter, hammered out by 51
in the San Francisco Conference,
signed at San Francisco on
20, 1945.
T h e U.N. Charter includes
the statements of purpose
following—to save succeeding
from the scourge of
to reaffirm faith in the
and worth of the human
to promote social prog¬
and to unite the strength of
member nations to maintain
peace and security.
From the beginning with 51
the U.N. has grown to
a total of 97 members.
Many of the new members are
African nations carved from
colonial empires.
The United States Delegates to
15th Session of the General
are: James J. Wads¬
head of the delegation, Sen¬
Set Your TV Sights On NBC, October 7
World-renowned artists Mahalia
and Nat King Cole will
among stars contributing to
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Dia¬
Jubilee Plus One”— a spec¬
NBC-TV presentation on
October 7, 9-10 p.m., New
Time.
Produced by David Susskind and
by Emmy winner Regi¬
Rose, the TV tribute to the
first lady will be hosted
Bob Hope. Other headliners
the Talent Associates marquee
Lucille Ball, Jack Benny,
Burns, Carol Channing,
Dunne, Jimmy Durante,
Martin, Paul Newman, Rich¬
Rodgers, Simone Signoret and
Woodward.
Prominent figures of the two
political parties have buried
“proverbial hatchet” to sup¬
the show and the cause will
“Eleanor Roosevelt
Foundation” whose nation¬
offices are at 801 Second
Room 503. Stating that
have banded together because
their recognition that the fight
cancer is a top priority
concerning men every¬
to Represent N. A.
A. C.P.at Nigeria Birth
NEW YORK — Arthur B. Spin-
veteran president of the Na-
Association for the Advance¬
of Colored People, will repre¬
the Association at the cere¬
marking the birth of the
African nation, Nigeria, on
1.
The NAACP Board of Directors
its regular monthly meeting
Sept. 12, designated Mr. Spin-
to represent the Association
Lagos, capital of Nigeria, where
ceremonies will be held. With
Region II Teacher of the Year.
Mr. Young is a member of the
ator Geo. D. Aiken (Vt.) and
Senator Wayne Morse (Oreg.),
Francis O. Wilcox, Assistant Sec¬
retary of State; Mrs. Oswald.B.
Lord (N.Y.), Mrs. Zelma Watson
George (Ohio), Aithur F. Lamey
(Mont.), Frederick Blake Payne
(N.Y.), Charles Rosenbaum
(Colo.), and Frances. E. Wiilis.
U. S. Ambassador to Norway.
In the early days with 51 mem¬
bers, 20 Latin-American States
made up the biggest bloc. How¬
ever, bloc voting with the excep¬
tion of the Soviet bloc, has never
been a serious problem since the
other so-called blocs were usually
nothing mote than informal dis¬
cussion groups within the one
great discussion group which is
the IJ.N. itself.
With independence sweeping
over Asia that area came up with
20 members. Now with 16 new
African nations being admitted,
the African membership will reach
at least 25. However, there is
not too much concern being ex¬
pressed that this shift in voting
strength will mean that the U.N.
will he ruled by the new states.
More attention at present is given
to the blustering storm that
where, the following are
the national leaders on record
support of the Foundation ami
aims:
President Dwight D.
hower: “1 am sure the work
the Eleanor Roosevelt
Foundation is contributing a
deal to our growing
of and eventual triumph over
cer. ..... .it
Walter P. Reuther,
United Automobile Workers,
CIO: “Greater numbers of
people must be helped to
that this research frontier is
that needs exploration.
young people can be helped by
. . . Foundation to accept the
ing challenge of medical
. . . research for life . . .
health . . .”
Mrs. Franklin Delano
velt: “Support for this
is a fine way within the
of all of us to help banish
and also help bfiild
among all men. In this sense,
feel strongly that the
aim of world peace through
health will be advanced—-with
help.”
population of 35,000,000 Nigeria
will be the largest nation on the
Continent of Africa and one of
the largest within the British Com¬
monwealth.
A noted civic lights attorney,
bibliophile and world traveler, Mr.
Spingarn has been president of
the NAACP since 1939. He has
long been interested in Africa.
He will leave New York on Sept.
28 and will remain abroad for a
month.
Montgomery Baptist Church and
Chairman of the Trustee Board.
Khrushchev hopes to whip up.
In this great world forum where
world opinion is both formed and
forcefully expressed by the mil¬
lions throughout the world who
earnestly seek freedom and a bet¬
ter way of life, let us welcome
the opportunity to meet Mr. Kh¬
rushchev head-on.
The Soviet head of state says
that his reason for attending the
General Assembly is to take part
in disarmament discussions. This
is extremely hard to believe com¬
ing from the one who wrecked the
Paris summit conference of last
May and says that no further
discussions would be undertaken
with the present United States
A dministration.
it should be clearly understood
that this is a very important ses¬
sion for the U.N. The success
of this session of the General
Assembly and of the U.N. itself
In the continuing search for lea!
peace depends heavily on how
much support comes from the
members when the going gets
tough. Grass-root support is need¬
ed as never before from the people
of the United States and the free
world.
1960 Presidential candidates
Richard Nixon and John Kennedy
will appear in person on the Octo¬
ber 7th show.
According to the national office
of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancel'
Foundation it has two prime ob¬
jectives:
... to establish cancer research
facilities in hospitals and medical
j schools in various parts of the I
1 country;
... to sponsor fellowships for
training young scientists desper¬
ately needed to aid the search for
a cancer cure.
Projects sponsored by the Foun¬
dation are open to all Americans
without regard to race, creed or
color. Among its sponsors are
Roy Wilkins, Langston Hughes
and Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Foundation reminds all
Americans that cancer checkups
are a MUST. And unless a cure
or preventive is found . . . one
out of every four Americans will
get cancer and one out of six will
die of cancer.
To help fight this killer send
your contribution to: Eleanor
Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Box
4, Hyde Park, New York.
NAACP Aids
Louisiana Children
NEW YORK — The National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People has contributed
$200 to the fund being raised to
aid the 23,000 children, mostly
Negro, who have been stricken
from the relief rolls in Louisiana,
The fund is being raised by the
Urban League of Greater New
Orleans.
In a letter addressed to J. Har¬
vey Kerns, executive director of
the New Orleans League, Mr.
Wilkins enclosed the check for f
“the children cruelly deprived of |
needed assistance by action of the j
Governor and the Legislature of
Between The Lines
Bv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
TEN - TENTHS VERSUS NINE - TENTHS
The Olympics of 1960 are
tory, and in Rome as in Melbourne
four years ago, Russia runs away
with the show. Although there
is no special disgrace in being
second in the games, Russia’s over¬
all victory gives the Kreiim just
another talking point, which will
be magnified in every possible way
to show not only a certain physi¬
cal excellence, but, it will be used
to “prove” that communism is
superior to democracy.
Of course it is not reassuring
to have the best fed nation in
the world to come up second, in
physical skill and stamina and this
fact should inspire serious reflec¬
tion. Civilizations, with their lux¬
urious living/ have always pre¬
destined nations to dissolution and
decay. There is something soften¬
ing about high living; for there
are evidences that it weakens the
muscles, it weakens the mind and
it weakens the morals.
We boast of our high standard
of living with a plethora of con¬
veniences that leave the muscles
soft, the mind lethargic and the
morals undermined. We see it
around us every day. The grow¬
ing use of automobiles takes away
from us the fine exercise of walk¬
ing.
Youngsters today want to take
the automobile just to ride around
the block. We would not deny
the people the use of automobiles;
but we are saying automobile rid¬
ing is helping to take away the
toughness and physical stamina
that largely explains our national
greatness.
When 1 was a youth in South
Carolina teaching the rural school
twelve miles from home, 1 would
walk the distance Friday and Sun¬
day afternoons, often refusing a
•buggy ride for the joy of walking
through the open country.
The next year I got a school
near home, five miles away. 1
\yould walk the distance morning
and afternoon. I am not so sure
that much walking did me harm.
I am here suggesting that our
high living standard may be a
part of the explanation of our
falling behind in the Olympics.
Perhaps we are getting soft.
The most probable explanation
of our coming up second in the
ancient games is, our nation is
trying with ninety percent of its
youth while Russia is selecting
her contestants from a hundred
percent of her youth. We may
consistently select from ninety per-
“Committee for a democratic
Democratic
In order to offer an acceptable
ticket to the many voters in the
country who refuse to vote for
either of the major candidates,
and to persuade citizens not to
abstain from voting, the “Commit¬
tee for a democratic Democratic
Party” has been organized in New
York.
The Committee calls upon Amer¬
ican voters throughout the country
to go to the polls in November and
write in their vote for a ticket
composed of Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey for president and Gov¬
ernor I.eRoy Collins of Florida as
vice-president.
The procedure for a write-in
vote varies in the different states
Six N. O. Churches Integrate
Without Sit-in
NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) —
Interacial teams successfully in¬
tegrated 'Six white, churches of
major denominations here Sunday,
and there were indications they
would attend other white churches
next Sunday.
About a dozen Negroes accom¬
panied by whites made the tests.
The movement according to a
white spokesman who asked not
to be named, was the peaceful in¬
tegration of the churches and “not
like sit-ins.”
“We want to find out which
churches are ready and willing
to establish fellowship with all in¬
dividuals, regardless of race.”
He said the Negroes were treat¬
ed “very warmly” by most of the
churches integrated Sunday.
the State of Louisiana.
“This incredibly inhumane and
hate-inspired, act has brought
shame not only upon New Orleans
and Louisiana but also upon the
nation,” and has aroused “the con¬
science of the w r orld,” the NAACP
leader said.
The children, Mr. Wilkins point-
ed out, “are being penalized not
anything tney nave done; they
SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1960
cent but we shall just as consist-
j ently lose to the hundred percent
tations.
When Russia uses ten-tenths of
her potential and we use nine-
tenths of ours, we may have here
the explanation of our playing
the Olympic “second fiddle”. Had
the United States had a few more
Rafer Johnsons and Wilma Ru¬
dolphs, Negro Americans, there
would doubtless be a different
Olympic story to tell for the next
four years and for all time.
Allison Danzig, Olympics report¬
er for the New York Times tame
up with this most significant ob¬
servation, “Perhaps the outstand¬
ing athlete of the games was Wil¬
ma Rudolph of Tennessee State.
She was the only winner of three
gold medals in track, man or wom¬
an. She equalled the world record
in winning the 100 meters. She
set an Olympic mark of 23.2
seconds in winning the 200 meters,
and anchored the 400-meter relay
team that set a world record of
44.4 seconds.”
When we consider the Wilma
Rudolphs and the Rafer Johnsons*
who might have run, we get some,
notion of the difference between
nine-tenths and ten-tenths. Just
as this country missed that one-
tenth at the Olympics, she missed
them all along the line.
Just as she gave Russia the
advantage at Rome she is giving
Russia the advantage all along
the line. How late do the Negro-
phobes think it is? Russia is cur¬
rently too strong to be outdone
by our country’s nine-tenths.
The Olympic games .will not be
without great lesson if our great
nation will wake up the possi¬
bilities of its Negro citizens.
A few weeks ago This Week
Magazine had on its front cover
page a picture of the Syracuse
University football team, champ¬
ions of the 1959 season. They
were eleven of the most formidable
looking fellows we have ever seen
in pictures. Four of them were
Negroes.
College football champions of
the nation with Negroes represent¬
ed four out of eleven. That great
coach Ken Schwartzwalder in as¬
sembling the championship .team
was looking for winners and not
for a lily-white team. When this
country gets Seliwartzwalder’s
point of view lots of its headaches
will be over. The time is at hand
when this nation must stop terms
of nine-tenths versus ten-tenths.
and persons interested in starting,
such a committee will hRverlt?)
study their election laws ami
acquaint the voters with the pro¬
per procedures.
The New 7 York Committee is not
intended to be a national organi¬
zation, but expects to act as a
clearing house for communication
among similar groups in other
states. Individuals or groups de¬
siring information in order to or¬
ganize such a committee in the
local community may write to
“Committee for a democratic Dem¬
ocratic Party”, P.O. Box 3416,
Grand Central Station, New York
17, New York.
The group which sponsored the
action, the spokesman said, has no
affiliation with the National Assn,
for the Advancement of Colored
People nor the Congress of Racial
Equality.
The spokesman for the church
demonstration group said the
churches should not be named “to
prevent embarrassment to them.”
Three of the denominations involv¬
ed were Methodist, Baptist and
Roman Catholic. Most of the chur¬
ches were'tm- St. Charles Ave., one
of the city’s better areas.
The spokesman termed his group
“a loose-knit''’.organRation interest¬
ed in establishing Christian under¬
standing and co-operation between
tiie races.*'
are being punished because Negro
citizens over the country are now
challenging dlsi riminat.ion, segre¬
gation and second-class citizenship
imposed upon them by state autho¬
rity.”
He congratulated Mr. Kearns
“upon efforts of the New 7 Orleans
Urban League to rescue these un¬
fortunate children” and expressed
hope for “every success in this en¬
deavor.”