Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1952-08-19
James H. Purdy, Jr.

Bishop Frederick D. Jordan
The recent visit of Dr. Frederick D. Jordan to Atlanta, the
city of his birth, after having been named one of the bishops of
the AME Church at its last session in Chicago, created unusual
interest.
Bishop Jordan's career and rise have been unique and of
interest to Georgians because his maternal grandfather, the late
Rev. Lowry Thomas was one of the founders of Big Bethel Church
on Auburn. His paternal grandfather, the late Rev. Giles D. Jordan 
was a rural Georgia circuit rider of another era. He was
one of the horse back riders who established bush arbors and
log churches in the rurals.
His father, the late D. J. Jordan taught at both Morris Brown
College and Gray Street Public schools.
The son, having been elected to the bishopric in the AME
Church, goes to take up the work in South Africa with headquarters 
at Johannesburg.
Bishop Jordan is one of the scholars to go to the African
field. He is in addition to being one of the strongest pastors in
the connection, a former president of Western University.
His seasoned experience gained in pastorates in Chicago
and Los Angeles, coupled with his ripe scholarship should render
him one of the foremost contributions of his great church.
We congratulate him and wish for him a prolific field of
venture in his South African endeavor.

CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT
For the NNPA News Service
The fifty-third annual convention 
of the Improved Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks of
the World, which convenes here
August 23 to 29, will be confronted 
with questions of reform in the
order after thirty years of oneman 
rule.
The only fight for office that
looms is that between Robert H.
Johnson of Philadelphia, who became 
the acting grand exalted
ruler upon the death of J. Finley
Wilson, and Herbert E. Jones of
Washington, grand organizer.
According to William C. Hueston,
grand secretary, four top ranking
officers, holding positions which
were formerly appointive, must
come before the grand lodge for
election. They are Perry W. Howard, 
grand legal adviser; Hobson
Reynolds, grand director of civil
liberties; Charles McClane, grand
director of public relations, and
Mr. Jones, the grand organizer.
Mr. Hueston pointed out that
the grand lodge at Buffalo, New
York, last year amended its laws
to provide that all officers receiving 
salaries of more than $2,000 a
year must be elected. He said the
grand legal adviser, the grand director 
of civil liberties, the grand
public relations director and the
grand organizer come within the
salary bracket above $2,000.
All other grand lodge officers.
Including the grand secretary and
the commissioner of education, also 
will come before the grand lodge
for election. Upon the death of J.
E. Kelly, who was the grand secretary, 
Mr. Hueston was chosen to
fill that office, and George W. Lee
of Memphis, Tennessee, succeeded
him as commissioner of education.
As far as could be learned, none
of the grand lodge officers faces
any opposition, except Mr. Johnson. 
A third candidate for grand
exalted ruler is Leroy Jordan, who
was endorsed for the office by the
New Jersey State Association of
Elks.
The chief fight at the grand lodge
session will probably come over propositions 
adopted by various lodges, 
calling for reforms designed to
turn control of the order back to
the subordinate lodges and the
membership.
One of the two main propositions
aims at accomplishing this Calls
for limiting the term of office of
the grand exalted ruler to two
terms of two years each, or four
years in all. Before Mr. Wilson's
election at Newark, New Jersey, in
1922, the Elks had a limitation on
the grand exalted ruler to two
terms of one year each.
The other proposition calls for
the establishment of a Committee
to revise the constitution and bylaws 
of the order to give the control 
of the order back to subordinate 
lodges and the membership.
In the thirty years he served as
grand exalted ruler the constitution 
and by-laws were so amended 
as to place almost unlimited
power in the hands of Mr. Wilson.
Between sessions of the grand
lodge, Mr. Wilson often boasted,
he was the grand lodge.
Another problem which may
cause a bitter floor fight centers
around the number of members of
the order who have the right to
vote in the grand lodge but are
not cent there as delegates.
In addition to the delegates,
grand lodge officers, past grand
exalted rulers, representatives of
107 past exalted rulers' councils,
and district deputies, appointed by
the grand exalted ruler, have the
right to cast votes in the grand
lodge.
The report of the credentials
committee at the last grand lodge
session showed that of 1,105 Elks
constituting the grand lodge, only
825 were delegates, leaving 280
comprising mostly grand lodge of
ficers 
and district deputies, who, in
a tight situation, could constitute
the balance of power in the grand
lodge.
State and district deputies last
year totaled seventy-six. According
to informed sources, there is a
larger number this year.
The same sources also charge
that a number of Elks now hold
themselves out as grand lodge officers, 
although the offices which
they claim to hold were not created 
by the grand lodge. In this
category come such officers as
grand assistant esquire.
The degree of past grand exalted 
ruler, which entitles an Elk to
vote in the grand lodge, is conferred
upon members of the order for
meritorious service.
A fight also is expected to be
made upon the report of the mileage 
and per diem committee. This
report constitutes the "payroll" of
the grand lodge.
Every member appointed to serve
upon a grand lodge committee receives 
an amount varying from $10
to about $500. Appointments to
committees are made by the grand
exalted ruler, and this power of
appointment gives him a powerful 
weapon in the control of grand
lodge sessions.
Apparently the fight is not to
be directed toward cutting out the
practice, but to make uniform the
bounty bestowed upon nearly half
of the grand lodge.
The program of the grand lodge
follows:
August 23, 4 p. m. Annual educational 
meeting, National Guard
Armory, Absecond Boulevard and
New York Avenue.
Aug. 24, 11 a. m., baccalaureate
service. Senior High School, Albany 
and Atlantic Avenues; 1:30
p. m., Elks golf tournament, Apex
Golf Course; 2 p. m., annual health
program. All Wars West Side Memorial 
Home, Adriatic and Kentucky 
Avenues; 3 p. m., shrine
program, Recreation Hall, Stanley
Holmes Village, Adriatic and Kentucky 
Avenues: 3 p. m., Junior
Herd meeting, All Wars West Side
Memorial Home (second floor) 4
p. m., Grand Daughter Rulers'
hour; 8 p. m., joint annual sermon
and memorial service, Senior High
School.
August 25, 7:30 a. m., annual Cap
and Gown breakfast, National
Guard Armory, 9 a. m., Civil Liberties 
breakfast, at which Branch
Rickey, president of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, will be guest of honor, Copacabana 
Club, the Boardwalk at
Virginia Avenue; 11 a. m., annual
educational meeting. National
Guard Armory; 2 p. m., civil liberties 
and public meeting, National
Guard Armory; 5-8 p. m., delegates' 
cocktail party (free), sponsored 
by Citizens' Committee. All
Wars West Side Memorial Home;
8 p. m., final oratorical contest.
August 26-29, inclusive, 9 a. m.
grand lodge sessions, National
Guard Armory, and grand temple
sessions, Senior High School.
August 26, 2:30 p. m., grand
lodge parade, units to form at the
Armory; 9 p. m., grand lodge ball
Convention Hall.
Aug. 27, Afternoon open house
at Lighthouse Lodge No. 9 and the
Armory; 8 p. m., grand temple pageant. 
Senior High School; 9 p. m.
moonlight boatride.
Aug. 28, 1:30 p. m., golf tournament. 
Apex Colf Course; 10 p.
m.; Antlered Guard Cabaret Ball.
All Wars West Side Memorial
Home.
August 29, Farewell party, Lighthouse 
Lodge No. 9.

LOYALTY CHECKS
President Truman has directed
the Civil Service Commission to
plan a merger of all existing programs 
dealing with the loyalty and
competence of government employees. 


REVIEWING
THE
NEWS
By WILLIAM GORDON
Managing Editor Atlanta Daily World
That the deep South still lags behind in per capita income is
no news to those familiar with its economy and the rate industrialization 
is shaping up in this area. There are still many patterns, 
habits and traditions to be changed before this area of the
United States place itself alongside other sections of the country
on equal economic status.
First of all, the South was founded and built on a semi-feudilistic 
economy in the beginning, lacking in foresight and vision,
slow to move forward like the rest of the nation because of these
shackles which hold it back.
The average income for every man, woman and child in the
South last year was only $1,075. This ran more than $500 below
the average income for the rest of the nation. This makes it impossible 
for the average citizen in the South to enjoy the many
goods and services necessary for good wholesome living.
As a result of this, we must continue to face problems of bad
housing, inadequate education facilities, the lack of proper hospital 
and medical care and a continuous wave of crime flowing
from blighted areas. These conditions will continue to prevail as
long as the South remains in this status. Southern citizens will also
continue to bear the burden of paying twice for what we produce.
When a complete inventory is made of the total picture of
things, students or economics would say that things are not as
bad as they seem. The South has come a long way during the past
twenty years and is destined to go much further within the next
decade.
It is true however, that the migration of young people from
the South to "greener pastures" in the North has caused considerable 
setback to the area. But with the influx of industry during recent 
years and the constant wave of national and international
changes, the South is being swept along in the wake of these
changes. Even though there is still a feeling on the part of some
Southerin leadership, which clings to the dying belief that the
South will stick to its traditions and patterns, there is a strong undercurrent 
of feeling that the old system has just about come to
the end of its rope.
We should not be too discouraged over the relative income
of the Deep South at its present level. We will find it to be moving 
forward at a very rapid rate. The economics of the nation's
economy will determine the final outcome of this situation. A new
South is definitely in the making and with all the changes that
must come will be included an increase in the income of the
average man, woman and child. The nation itself cannot move
forward without this change.

Income And The Deep South
By WILLIAM GORDON
Managing Editor Atlanta Daily World
That the deep South still lags behind in per capita income is
no news to those familiar with its economy and the rate industrialization 
is shaping up in this area. There are still many patterns, 
habits and traditions to be changed before this area of the
United States place itself alongside other sections of the country
on equal economic status.
First of all, the South was founded and built on a semi-feudilistic 
economy in the beginning, lacking in foresight and vision,
slow to move forward like the rest of the nation because of these
shackles which hold it back.
The average income for every man, woman and child in the
South last year was only $1,075. This ran more than $500 below
the average income for the rest of the nation. This makes it impossible 
for the average citizen in the South to enjoy the many
goods and services necessary for good wholesome living.
As a result of this, we must continue to face problems of bad
housing, inadequate education facilities, the lack of proper hospital 
and medical care and a continuous wave of crime flowing
from blighted areas. These conditions will continue to prevail as
long as the South remains in this status. Southern citizens will also
continue to bear the burden of paying twice for what we produce.
When a complete inventory is made of the total picture of
things, students or economics would say that things are not as
bad as they seem. The South has come a long way during the past
twenty years and is destined to go much further within the next
decade.
It is true however, that the migration of young people from
the South to "greener pastures" in the North has caused considerable 
setback to the area. But with the influx of industry during recent 
years and the constant wave of national and international
changes, the South is being swept along in the wake of these
changes. Even though there is still a feeling on the part of some
Southerin leadership, which clings to the dying belief that the
South will stick to its traditions and patterns, there is a strong undercurrent 
of feeling that the old system has just about come to
the end of its rope.
We should not be too discouraged over the relative income
of the Deep South at its present level. We will find it to be moving 
forward at a very rapid rate. The economics of the nation's
economy will determine the final outcome of this situation. A new
South is definitely in the making and with all the changes that
must come will be included an increase in the income of the
average man, woman and child. The nation itself cannot move
forward without this change.

Master Degrees
Conferred On 4
City Teachers
Sunday past in Nashville, Tennessee 
at the A. and I. State University, 
there were four of Memphis
residents teachers who marched
across the rostrum and changed
their tossels with dignity and grace
that has never before been understood 
by undergraduates of any
school. Dr. Mays of the Morehouse
College delivered the closing words
to the graduates as he told them
that "you may know-more science,
psychology or education than me.,
but there is yet some one who know
more about it than you."
Among those receiving their degrees 
was Prof. W. M. Lowe, who
for a long time has taught many of
your sons and daughters, and even
you, yourself in the Great Booker T.
Washington High School, all of the
Basic Science and fundamentals
that you have ever learned, received
his masters in science which was no
small task. For it took many years
of-hard work to earn a degree of
masters in this field with all of the
sustaining problems confronting the
atomic work and this man in a
scientific field has to know and be
able to work the most abstract
scientific problem.
Mrs. Lucille Rhine, as many of
us know her, and to some and most
qt us today she is Mrs. Lucille
Rhine Woods, who has taught music
to most of the Memphis residents
and their families. And also one
of the best music Instructors in the
west Tennessee Educational facilities. 
Mrs. Woods, who is a model
house wife and ardent church worker 
has made most of her admirers
proud of her, and will continue 
to hold in tact the most
ever loving smile that she wears at
all times with the soft voice that
says I am here to serve you for the
sake of humanity. Mrs. Woods received 
her master of science degree
with a major in education at Tennessee 
A. & I. Industrial State University. 
She is employed by the City
Board of Education as music instructor. 

Mrs. Georgia V. Harvey, an English 
instructor at the Manassas
Hig School was very proud and
dignified as she plodded across the
rostrum to change her tossel and
shake hands with President Davis
of the University for the letters to
follow her name. In the institution
where Mrs. Harvey is employed, she
is also a dance instructor, overseerer 
of the band and trainer of the
winning majorettes of her school.
Mrs. Harvey is quite popular in one
of the local Methodist Zion churches 
having a directorship of Young
People. She is quite liked by all
of her students, and very much liked 
and wished well by all of her
co-workers and schoolmates.
Mrs. Harvey in the mean time
explores adventure about her lovely 
home on Lewis Street, where she
is residing.
Mrs. Mary Horne Porter, mother
of Little Kenneth Horne Porter and
a teacher, and lecturer recieved her
degree from the Tenn. State University 
in the field of Educational
Psychology of the Science Department. 

Mrs. Porter is a teacher at the
Porter School, where she is prepar
ing 
the young minds for the world
of tomorrow and has proved herself 
interested in human justification 
that little minds are easy to be
exploited, but you as an educator
must know the right and know how
to approach them and make them
firmer to standards and morals for
the world to come. Mrs. Porter is
a graduate or Lane College, and
prior to attending Lane College, she
was a student of LeMoyne College,
is one of attractive members of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
The Memphis World and the
News Staff wishes to congratulate
these people for their efforts to
make the training of young minds
more exposed to material and equipped 
with terms and methods of the
world of tomorrow.

Lame Woman
Rescued By
Neighbors
The horoic efforts on the part
of neighbors probably saved the life
of Christine President, 65 of 2133
Curry Street - late Friday afternoon 
when the one-story frame
building in which she resided
caught fire.
Christine who has a broken hip
and cannot walk, was rescued from
her home when a fire broke out
in the kitchen late Friday evening
by her alert neighbors. The build
ing was completely destroyed before 
the firemen could put out the
devastating blaze.
Christine resided with her
daughter, Elibzabeth Harris, received 
a broken hip in a recent fall
was bedridden. Some of the furniure 
was saved but firemen were
unable to establish the cause of the
one -alarm blaze.

United
Nations
Notes
Un Moroccan Debate
Requested by Iraqu — Iraqu called
on the United Nations General Assembly 
to hold a full debate on the
French rule in Morocco. Awni
Khalidi, the Iraqu delegate, sent
note to the office of Secretary General 
Trygve Lie asking that the
"question of Morocco" be added to
th agenda of the seventh session of
the General Assembly which opens
here October 14.
The Iraqi depresentative recalled
that and effort to put the casein
the agenda of the sixth session of
the Assembly which was held in
Paris last winter, failed to get the
necessary majority support, "much
to the aggravation of the rights of
of the peopel of Morocco." He charged 
that Moroccos Nationalist
Movement has been subject to "restrictions 
and oppression," The
French Administration has been
fomenting "strife and dissensions
among the inhabitants of Morocco,"
by armning French civilian residents;" 
according to Mr Khalidi.
The Assembly thus win be faced
with two requests for debate on
Frances administration of her
North African territories. Last
week thirteen Asians, Arab and Af
rican 
countries called for debate on
the dispute between France and the
Tunisian Nationalists.
TUNISIAN FIGHT GOES ON ...
The Iraqi Minister to Washington
Abdullah Bakr in a speech at Ann
Arbor before the Arab Students
Conference, said Arabs lack confidence 
in the West. He said the disprepancy 
between the principles advocated 
and their practices by the
Western powers is no doubt one of
the main reasons that renders
Arabs suspicious of the sincerity of
the West. This lack of confidence
in the world that surrounds them
contributes greatly to their restlessness. 

The Iraqi Minister said further
that the main principles of the
democratic rule freedom and selfdetermination, 
are widely recommended 
by the Western powers, but
in practice those rights are denied
to the inhabitants of Palestine and
are now being denied to the peoples 
of North Africa.
REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY. 
John Foster Dulles said after 
a meeting with General Eisenhower 
that the General's foreign
policy differs from that of the Administration 
in three major ways.
First, he said, the Republicans
advocate a global balanced policy
which will treat the peoples of the
Far East, Middle East and Africa
as equal and first-class members of
the free world, not as second-class
expendable which he said is Administration 
policy.
Second he said, "we will abandon
the policy of mere containment and
will act to develop hope and resistance 
of spirit within the captive
peoples which in my opinion is the
only alternative to a general war,
because I believe this type of aggressive 
despotism, unless it is stopped 
from within, will keep on going
until it has to be stopped from
without."
Third, he said "as you know,
policies and platforms are words
nesian newspaper, editorially commenting 
on Tunisia in its issue of
July 26, wrote that the Security
Council's rejection had degraded
the UN in the eyes of the world
The rejection of the General Assembly 
has not only caused strained 
relations between North African 
and Asians countries on one
side and the Anglo-Saxon on the
other, but also decreased the people's 
trust in the UN Charter. The
paper declared that these rejections
are temporary; ultimately Tunisia
will obtain indepenednce.

The Tip-Off
By EMORY O. JACKSON
Some Alabama backers of Senator 
John Jackson Sparkman, the
Democratic vice-presidential candidate 
are trying to elevate him
without eliminating the ugly record
surrounding his native state.

The Birmingham 
News on
May 22 in a story
reporting, that the
"FEPC chapter
rapped" in "Challenge 
of Democracy" 
a note
worthy textbook,
said: Gov. Persons 
said, among
other things, he
agreed with the
Birmingham Real
Estate Board but
he was 'amazed' to find that no objection 
had been raised to Chapter
28" (entitled Minorities Should
Share American Way of Life.")

Hence the textbook issue, like the
housing issue, is used as a vehicle
to raise the issue and to further
cruel bigotry and irrational myths.
The textbook issue corns to plague
human relations in 1952 just as the
racial zoning question spotlighted
the Dixiecrat upheaval in 1948.

This week the textbook issue was
due to be aired in court just as
plans were being made for a giant
homecoming celebration for Senator
Sparkman. Gov. Persons is expected 
to play a leading part in that
homecoming.

Minorities include racial, religious
and national groups other than the
Negro segment. Unless people know
about each other they can't understand 
and appreciate one another
Understanding is the mother of
peace and the father of desirable
human relations.

You simply can't any longer climb
to national heights by crushing the
politically weak and the economically 
impotent.

Outside of the South liberalminded 
voters want to know whether 
Senator Sparkman ever spoke out
on any of these issues. He has both
spoken and voted against civil
rights. Against the by-products of
the denial of civil rights he has
kept quiet. No man is a full liberal
who is defective on human rights.


Phone Co.
Seeks Higher
Rate Increase
The Southern Bell Telephone
Company filed an application with
the Tennessee Railroad and Public
Utilities. Commission asking increased 
rates to offset higher wage
costs and other advanced costs. The
filing had been anticipated since
the granting of a geenral wage increase 
for telephone workers by the
Wage Stabilization Board last
month.
The present telephone rates in
Tennessee were established on January 
31, 1952, when the Commission
authorized rate increases amounting 
to considerably less than the
company had requested previously.
This schedule was placed in operation 
but has been considered inadequated 
by the Southern Bell
Company. The company's petition
states that the total increases in
creases 
in Tennessee's telephone
rate falls short by about five million
dollars of the necessary amounts to
offset wage and other, costs increases. 


Son Injured By
Fall; Parents
Seek Damages
W D. Pipes of 2881 Summer Ave.
filed suit in Circuit Court, Friday,
August 15, 1952 for his son, Darrington 
Pipes, age 3 who was alleged 
to have been injured by a
falling monument.
The suit alleges that young
Pipes rceived a fracture dislocation 
of the cervical vetebrae when
the top section of an upright mon"invitee" 
on the premises of the
company, September 16, 1951.
The suit that asks $1500 damages
for the injuries from Agnes M.
White, owner of the White Monument 
Company, 1675 Mississippi
Boulevard. It states that the child
suffered "serious, painful and permanent" 
in juries and was hospital
ized for some time.
The child is represented by the
Law Firm of Burch, Porter and
Johnson.

Sermonette By
Rev. B. J. Hunt

A friend said to me "wish I was
in heaven, sitting down, flying
around with the angels." His statement 
set me a-thinking. What a
pardox, what a statement contradictory 
to common sense, "sitting
down, flying around.' How can one
sit and yet at the same time fly?
Yet sometimes we are wearied,
wearied chasing a common meal
ticket, chasing efforts to make both
ends meet; wearied running from
things that oppose us, running from
injustices and insults. We do want
to do both: Fly away and be at
rest.
Sidney Lanier in his great poem
"The Marshes of Glynn" expressed a
similar paradoxical thought when
he penned:
"As the marsh hen secretly builds
on the watery sod.
Behold I wil build me at nest on
the greatness of God:
I will fly in the greatness of God
as the marsh hen flies
In the freedom that fills all the
space twixt the marsh and the
skies."
Here we have resting in a nest
and flying in the greatness of God
two opposites.
Our infinite God is around about
us. With this knowledge, we can
relax our bodies, quiet our hearts
and rest our souls in God's boundlessness. 
Maybe you have heard the
prayer of the Norwegian fisherman:
"O God, help me. My boat is so
little, your sea is so big." But on
God's sea the boat can rest, and a
million others too. On the bosom
of God every tired and troubled
soul in this weary old world can
rest. Remember the words of Jesus:
"Come unto me....And I will give
you rest."
Yes somtimes we want to take
wings like a dove and fly away.
The old jubilee melody: "I got
wings, you got wings, all God's chil
lun 
got wings" is figuratively true.
For all of us have wings, some of
our wings are brown, some black,
some white, some yellow, some red.
Yes, we've all got wings, some are
soiled, some singed, some broken
because of circumstances over which
we have no control. Yet we can
all fly into the realm where God's
children belong. We can mount up
with wings as an eagle.
An eagle perched on a mountain
side glimpsed a coming storm cloud.
He saw the forked, tongues of lighting. 
He knew a terrible storm was
approaching. He got ready to fly
away and be safely at rest. With
his beak he plucked from his wings
all dead feathers, his beak reached
to his oil bag, he oiled his pinions.
Now the sombre storm clouds like
a monstrous black umbrella were
near him, now the zizzag lighting
was writing figures and letters on
the black canvas of heaven, now tha
eagle spread his wings and with a
wild scream he flew above the
storm. He found a resting place
on the mountian peak above the
raging storm.
We, too, wearied and worn, in the
midst of the vexing storms of life
if we would fly above the storm
must pluck from our wings our dead
feathers, feathers that weigh us
down, that hinder us from flying,
the feathers of hate, fear, malice;
jealously; yes all feathers of besetting 
sin. Then reach to our reservoir 
of faith (which is none other
than Jesus) for the oil of faith and
fly away and be at test.
"Yes, I wish I was in heaven sitting 
down and flying around."

BETWEEN THE LINES
It is decidely disquieting to note
the 'feelings" now manifest between
our only two Negro congressmen,
Adam Clayton Powell and William
L. Dawson. The current name calling 
is not only very unfortunate but
very much but of place.
It would be fine if our Negro
Congressmen could take a leaf from
the book of their white political
contemporaries who have learned
to disagree without becoming disagreeable. 

There have in the past few weeks
been some sharp disagreements
among Democrats and Republicans
but there has been on name calling. 
When therefore Congressman
Powell dubs. Dawson an "Uncle
Tom" because the latter does not
see eye to eye with him, he does
the cause a disservice.
It has come about in this country 
that whenever our enemies want
to get even with us they call us
names. When white enemy wants
to get even with white or Negro
enemies they call them Uncle Toms.
Whites can afford to use such
misrepresentations to carry their
point, but Negroes cannot. To attempt 
to kill off and utterly disquallty 
any Negro who does not
agree with us is suicidal.
It harks back to the old habit of
internocine murderousness which is
so characteristic of some Negroes
who aspire to fame and fortune
at the expense of some other Negro
It is a tragic thing to try to kill
off any Negro and especially if
that Negro has risen to great
heights in spite of many disadvantages. 

We do not want to see Congressman 
Dawson slain any more than
we want to see Congressman Powell 
slaughtered. We need them both.
The utter disqualification of

either will leave the Negro race
politically impoverished, a thing
we cannot afford. Congressman
Powell needs the help and support
of Mr. Dawson even as Congress
man needs the help and support of
Mr. Powell. There is a species of
moral murder tactics suggested by
name calling.
Intelligent Negroes know that no
Negro has a monopoly on Negro
manhood. No Negro can carry the
whole weight of the Negro's political 
advance by himself. The history 
of the DuBois-Washington
feud offers unassailable proof the
Negro race needed both DuBois
and a Washington. Instead of being 
antagonistic as so many Negroes 
erroneously supposed, they
proved to be mutually complementary. 

It is even so with a Dawson and
a Powell. It would be unfortunate
if a Powell-and a Dawson saw eye
to eye on every issue. It is safe to
say that whatever side each may
take, he is doing in his way what
he believes will advance the common 
cause of the race.
This writer does not make as
many pretensions and does not 
Negroes but the most radical Ne 
much smart talk a some other
gro does not want full integration
any more earnestly nor any sooner
than he does. This writer is doing
the same thing the so-called radical 
Negro is doing and that is biding 
his time.
So let's have done with the name
calling and the subtle murder mania 
by which we try to disqualify
every other Negro besides ourselves. 
About all Negroes want the
same thing and want it equally as
badly. Only circumstances determine 
the differences in our way of
acting and speaking.

OUR MURDER HABIT
It is decidely disquieting to note
the 'feelings" now manifest between
our only two Negro congressmen,
Adam Clayton Powell and William
L. Dawson. The current name calling 
is not only very unfortunate but
very much but of place.
It would be fine if our Negro
Congressmen could take a leaf from
the book of their white political
contemporaries who have learned
to disagree without becoming disagreeable. 

There have in the past few weeks
been some sharp disagreements
among Democrats and Republicans
but there has been on name calling. 
When therefore Congressman
Powell dubs. Dawson an "Uncle
Tom" because the latter does not
see eye to eye with him, he does
the cause a disservice.
It has come about in this country 
that whenever our enemies want
to get even with us they call us
names. When white enemy wants
to get even with white or Negro
enemies they call them Uncle Toms.
Whites can afford to use such
misrepresentations to carry their
point, but Negroes cannot. To attempt 
to kill off and utterly disquallty 
any Negro who does not
agree with us is suicidal.
It harks back to the old habit of
internocine murderousness which is
so characteristic of some Negroes
who aspire to fame and fortune
at the expense of some other Negro
It is a tragic thing to try to kill
off any Negro and especially if
that Negro has risen to great
heights in spite of many disadvantages. 

We do not want to see Congressman 
Dawson slain any more than
we want to see Congressman Powell 
slaughtered. We need them both.
The utter disqualification of

either will leave the Negro race
politically impoverished, a thing
we cannot afford. Congressman
Powell needs the help and support
of Mr. Dawson even as Congress
man needs the help and support of
Mr. Powell. There is a species of
moral murder tactics suggested by
name calling.
Intelligent Negroes know that no
Negro has a monopoly on Negro
manhood. No Negro can carry the
whole weight of the Negro's political 
advance by himself. The history 
of the DuBois-Washington
feud offers unassailable proof the
Negro race needed both DuBois
and a Washington. Instead of being 
antagonistic as so many Negroes 
erroneously supposed, they
proved to be mutually complementary. 

It is even so with a Dawson and
a Powell. It would be unfortunate
if a Powell-and a Dawson saw eye
to eye on every issue. It is safe to
say that whatever side each may
take, he is doing in his way what
he believes will advance the common 
cause of the race.
This writer does not make as
many pretensions and does not 
Negroes but the most radical Ne 
much smart talk a some other
gro does not want full integration
any more earnestly nor any sooner
than he does. This writer is doing
the same thing the so-called radical 
Negro is doing and that is biding 
his time.
So let's have done with the name
calling and the subtle murder mania 
by which we try to disqualify
every other Negro besides ourselves. 
About all Negroes want the
same thing and want it equally as
badly. Only circumstances determine 
the differences in our way of
acting and speaking.

Loyalty To Kefauver Costs
Browning His Governorship
The fight to
keep South Carolina, Virginia and
Louisiana delegates from their seats
in the Democratic National Convention 
in July claimed a major victory 
in the defeat of Governor Gordon 
Browning of Tennessee this
month.
As chairman of the Tennessee
delegation, Browning cast his state's
twenty-eight votes solidly against
seating the Dixie delegates who
would not sign a "loyalty pledge" to
place the names of the convention
nominees on the ballot of their
states in the November election.
Browning thus took a stand diametrically 
opposed to all the other
Southern states, and even some
Northern states, such as Illinois and
Pennyslvania, which voted to let
Virginia be seated. The Tennessee
Governor acted in the interests of
Tennessee, who was working handin-glove 
with literals from other
sections on the "loyalty" issue in
hopes that they would back him for
President.
Kefauver's strategy failed. Most

of the young liberals, such as Senator 
Blair Moody and Governor
Mennen Williams of Michigan, and
the New Yorkers backing Averell
Harriman for President, swung over
on the last ballot to Governor Adlai
Stevenson of Illinois when they discovered 
that he was going to win,
anyhow.
Then Browning had to pay the
price of his loyalty to Kefauver. His
opponents, in his race for a third
consecutive term as governor, charged 
he had "betrayed" the South
by voting against Virginia. Telegrams 
by the hundreds had poured 
into Chicago denouncing him.
When he went home to wind up
his campaign, the denunciations
were aired from one end of the
state to the other. In the end, the
Governor lost to 32-year-old Frank
Clement, a former G-man, and
most political observers agreed that
the Chicago votes hurt Browning
considerably.
Browning himself was quoted as
saying he never should have gone
to Chicago.

THE VETERANS WHIRL
Veterans taking apprentice or
other training on the job, under the
new Korean GI Bill, will get $70 a
month if they have one dependent,
and $105 a month if they have more
than one dependent.
The law requires that trainingon-the-job 
rates be reduced at fourmonth 
intervals as the training
progresses and the veteran's own
earnings increase.
With respect to apprentice and
other on job training the law provides 
monetary ceiling on the
monthly amounts of training allowances, 
plus wages received as a
trainee, which are similar though
not identical in amounts to the
monetary limitations provided by
the GI Bill for World War II veterans. 

The new GI Bill ceiling is $310 a
month, regardless of dependency
status. If a veteran's training allowance, 
plus his earnings as a
trainee, exceed this amount, the
Veterans' Administration will reduce 
the allowance accordingly. But
there is no ceiling on the amount a

veteran may earn.
This ceiling does not apply to
those taking institutional training
as do the ceiling under the GI Bill
for World War II veterans, because
no education or training allowances 
are payable for institution training 
taken on less than a one-half
time basis, except in limited
amounts representing the cost of
tuition and other school charges.
The monetary ceiling fixed is not
a test of need for readjustment, but,
taken together with the four-month
reduction rule, it is designed to prevent 
effectively the kind of abuses
which brought about the ceiling prescribed 
in the GI Bill for World
War II veterans.
In the case of a veteran who desires 
to take an education or training 
program in an educational 
stitution on a less than half-time
basis, no allowance for subsistence
is provided, but provision is made
that the veteran may have paid
to him an amount based upon the
rate of the established charges for
tuition and fees which is required
of similarly circumstances nonveterans 
enrolled in the same course, or
at the rate of $110 a month for a
ful-time course, whichever is the
lesser.
For example, if a man is pursuing
a course on a one-fourth time basis,
the ceiling would be $27.50 a month.
This provision will afford some assistance 
to those who are employed
but desire to take spare-tune courses, 
including refresher courses,
where needed.
The new Korean GI bill also provides 
allowances for flight training.
Such allowance is computed at the
rate of 75 per sent of the char
required to be paid by similarly 
cumstanced nonveterans enrolled in
the same flight course.
A veteran whose program of education 
or training consists of flight
training and other education or
training may, in addition to the allowance 
for flight training, receive
the allowance fixed for the other
education or training.
If the veteran's program consists
execlusively of flight training, he
will not receive an allowance for
any other type of education or
training.
The period for which every veteran 
pursuing flight training is entitled 
to such training will be reduced 
by one day for each $1.25
which is paid to the veteran as an
education and training allowance
for his flight-training course. This
reduction will be in addition to any
charge against the period of education 
and training made on account 
of other education and training 
taken by the veteran.
veteran to pursue a full-time cou