Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1957-06-22 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICA'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE — Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mall under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 THADDEUS T.STOKES Managing Editor MRS. ROSA BROWN BRACY Public Relation and Advertising ALYSON E. WISE Circulation Promotion SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $2.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an Independent newspaper — non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to his readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Another Milestone For Fuller Americanism The passage of the Civil Rights Bill by the House of Representatives Tuesday marks another milestone in the progressive thinking of this country and its bent upon making this really the America that it was so designed by the Constitution of the United States. Honestly there is nothing new in the bill when the entire sentiment and policy of the party in power are taken into consideration. It will be recalled that the bill's parent, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States embodied this same sentiment. It was called into service for the making of certain emancipated subjects bonifide citizens and fortifying the right to vote and giving to the country its "due process of law" clause. Of the many things brought out, from the first hearing on the measure until its passage in the House, certain allegations and counter threats made by some of our fellow Georgions, will prove most unpalatable to history. Possibly Rep. James J. Flynt, Jr., who quoted Churchill's wartime pronouncement "of fighting in the street" if the bill passed and those of his colleague, Rep. E. L. Forrester's officiating at the funeral of stales rights" contributed to a regretable disservice to our section from whence they came. Their fruitless rambling possibly revived a reference to our state we have striven through the years to outlive. The-President of the United Stales is in for another citation of praise; he has helped bring to pass by his skill and determined effort what has not happened since the passage of the 15th Amendment. His insistence of legislation bypassing not only entangling committees, but slate courts, with non-jury trials in contempt cases will knock many a prop from beneath sundry evasions and circumventions. The long-talked-about Civil Rights Bill is now before the Senate and we believe that in the light of the united support by both Vice President Nixon and Senator Knowland, two of the other principal leaders of the President's party, there is reasonable expectation that it will pass that body also and thereby becoming law." The Film, "Segregation And The South" Makes Its Debut Those thousands who watched "Segregation and the South," a one hour filmed documentary report on TV last Sunday came upon an innovation at least. The film, according to information was made by the Fund for the Republic which included a three-year period of tho most interesting history in the life of this nation. While the film was highly interesting and an educational feature as well, it must be cited as a feature fraught with mixed emotions, with periods, in which the hair curls and the blood curdles. The older TV fans who recall "Senator" Cleghorn of Southern burlesque proportions, must have already had an introduction to much of the matter seen in "Segregation in the South." A show of its nature would have been woefully incomplete had there not been appearances of Senator Herman Talmadge, high priest of segregation, with the other end featuring Dr. M.L. King, Jr., Roy Wilkins and other high stars figuring in the Montgomery," Alabama bus crusade. One thing the film did afford, and impressively so, was a pattern picture of this "separate but equal" school monstrosity, so long and still the shrine around which the segregation diehards choose to worship. The school at Clarksdale, Mississippi was held out as an example. It must be said that TV is making a meritorious contribution in the field of education through Exposure. Hardly any one witnessed the show Sunday failed to gain modified emotions and as John Secondire, who introduced the program said - it does show truly how far we have come as well as the distance we still have to go. Jury Trial The silent filibuster that has been going on oil winter and spring against the Administration's mild civil rights bill has now ended in the House, and formal debate on the measure has begun at last. The bill has a good chance of passing there; but even if it does it will come up against much tougher — and longer-winded — opposition in the Senate. Very different from the filibuster threat, and in some ways even more serious, is the jury-trial amendment that will be proposed as an addition to the bill in the House and that has already been added to it in the Sends version, which is still in committee. This amendment is the brain-child of the astute Senator Ervin of North Carolina; and there is no doubt that it has a specious appeal. But it is really a device to undermine one of the most important provisions of the pending bill. As introduced by the Administration, the bill permits the Attorney General to seek injunctions in Federal court to prevent local officials from denying voting or other civil rights to anyone. The Ervin amendment provides jury trial for persons cited for contempt for violating injunctions so issued. Since trial by jury is one of the great guarantees of the individual against the power of the-state, it may seem at first glance that this is only a reasonable effort to insure that justice is done. But actually it is a means to block enforcement of the court decree either until it is too late to do any good or indefinitely — inasmuch as few if any Southern juries would be likely to approve Federal action in such cases. Jury trial for contempt citations under the circumstances envisaged in the civil rights bill is not and never has been a normal legal procedure. As Senator Case of New Jersey pointed out recently, none of the Southern states in the forefront of the effort to defeat the right-to-vote legislation "has a provision for jury trial in contempt cases of the kind here involved." The procedure envisaged in this bill is designed primarily not to punish an official for committing a crime but to prevent him from committing a crime. The court's right to punish him for ignoring that kind of restraint is an expression of the authority which, in Chief Justice Taft's words alluded to by President Eisenhower, "is essential unless we are prepared to embrace anarchy." Nearly two months ago Senator Douglas of Illinois entered in the Congressional Record a detailed and interesting brief on this, whole subject, pointing out that the jury-trial amendment is not only meant to hamstring enforcement of the law but may well be unconstitutional itself, it would "deny to the Government of the United States its duty and its power to give the citizen effective protection in his right to vote and in his fundamental rights to equal protection and liberty and security under law" THE TIP OFF EMORY O. JACKSON ATLANTA, Ga.—(SNS) —The struggle for bus-riding freedom began in june of 1953 in Baton Rouge, La. Since 1953 the ride-with-pride sruggle has moved to South Caroina, Montgomery. Tallahassee, Birningham, and Atlanta with dramatic emphasis. In a number of other Southern cities old signs have come down without contest and bus scating yield to riders on solely a laying basis. Bulwarked by the Bible, sustained ly decent public opinion, armed wiith faith and shielded by the United States Constitution, the minisers of the gospel are providing the spiritual and testing leadership in the new surge for freedom in the south. Here a college professor of Philosophy and a seminary student, both ministers of the gospel, filed the bus-seat test suit. Here is leadership akin to the kind Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet-philosopher believed should be supplied by the scholar. The scholar-preacher in Atlanta, the same as in Montgomery. Baton Rouge and Tallahassee is taking the risk and shouldering the responsibility. For too long the constitution has been ignored, the Supreme Court flouted, and now Congress threatened, by a fanatical few in a certain section. For some of them scream that if the Concress enacts President Eisenhower's mild civil rights program there will be defiance. That's the tip off why the South wants the irrevelant jury-trial feature written into the proposal so that defiance of Congress can be made easier and respectable. The Supreme Court is already being defied, disobeyed and disregarded in the field of-public continued. Certain emotional leaders in the South openly threaten to extend the defiance to Congress. In way the President has been threatened with defiance if he sees fit to do his constitutional duty of enforcing compliance to the decisions of the federal courts, especially the Supreme Can irrational leaders defy the three branches of the national government and get away with it? "Orangeburg is quiet now and State College has been purged. The Negroes, are "in their place" again. Buisiness is good. It is almost like the "good old times" before the Supreme Court decision." "Only the question, What's the use? — is more poignant for Negroes than it was before. Most of them seek consolation and self-expression in religion. Behind the walls of churches like McCollom's they are able to rise to full human stature. No white man stands between their and God. A weaker few take the road of alcohol and vice — and swell the Negro crime, and immorality figures in the segregationists file of arguments." N. C. Pupils Apply For Mixed Schools Parents of school children in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are taking steps to bring about school desegregation this September. To date 41 students in the area have applied for reassignment to non-segregated schools. The effort is under the leadership of the Charlotte NAACP branch and the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Parents Committee on Education. The two groups said this week that all efforts to get the city and county school boards to present a comprehensive plan to implement the U. S. Supreme Court decisions banning segregated schools have been unsuccessful. It is the opinion of the two groups that action taken by the students in applying for non-segregated public education places the school boards "face to face with the desegregation of public schools." Sunday School Lesson In our lesson for last week, we saw how Joseph's brothers, intensely irritated with him, determined to put him out of the way, and seized upon the first opportunity to do this. Sent by his father to visit his brothers while they tended their flocks far from home, the brother plotted to throw him into a dry well, and leave him there to die. Reuben more humane, suggested, rather, that they sell him to some traders passing by, and thus happened that Joseph was taken to Egypt and sold as a slave to Potiphar an officer of Pharoah. So faithful and brilliant was Joseph as a slave that he soon advanced by his master. Potiphar, to a position as overseers of his household. A false accusatior., brought by Potiphar's wife, who had become enamoured with the young Jewish lad, caused him to be thrown into prison. While there Joseph interpretert the dream of Pharoah's chief butler and chief baker. When Pharoah had a dream which his wise men could not interpret the butter remembered Joseph, and Pharoah had Joseph brought before him to explain the dream. So impressed was Pharoah with Joseph's interpretation, that he selected him as the Wisest man. "one in whom the spirit of God was" and placed him as Grand Vizier, second in authority only to himself in Eiypt. Joseph was to put into execution a constructive plan of preparation against the approaching famine of which God had warned Pharoah in his dream. So for seven years, the River Nile overlowed and the harvests were unusually good Joseph rode through out the country seeing that the grain was properly harvested and the surplus safely stored against the time when the predicted famine should come. Then the famine came, and the crops mailed and shortly, all Egypt was in distress and need From the royal granaries Joseph sold the life preserving grain, first takim gold, then livestock and finally the land itself in payment. Thus Pharoah became the owner of practically everything in Egypt. "Joseph's thirteen years of trial crowned with sudden prosperity, may read all of us a lesson of patience," says Alexander Maclaren. "Hinderances are helps. If one of Joseph's misfortunes had been omitted, his good fortune would never have come. If his brethren had not hated him, if he had not been sold. If he had not been impressed, he would never have ruled Egypt. "Not one thread in the tapestry could have been withdrawn without spoiling the pattern. We cannot afford to lose one of our sorrow's or trials. There would be no summer unless winter had gone before. There is a bud or fruit for every snowflake." God also blessed, Joseph in giving him a family He married Asenath, the daughter of a priest of the cult of On who was one of the commanding fighures of the realm, and she was the perfect mate for Joseph the Vizier. Two sons were born of this union. Manasseh, whose name "making to forget," and Sphraim, whose name means "fruitfulness." God had given Joseph the grace to forget the persecution he had suffered among his own people and among the Egyptians. And God had made him fruitful in Egypt. Every time he looked at his sons, he remembered God. Joseph was a real leader but men offen ask, "Is there a gift of leadership?" People who step forward in an emergency are said to have a "gift of leadership" but the gift of leadership is only a willingness to do the things that must be done. Each one who says to another in a hearty and honest way, "Lend me a hand and we will get the job done." trusting to mutual help and suggestion to carry it out may be a leader, and his success when the thing is done argues no special gift above the others, who have silently helped him. It is in the thought that leadership lies; and it is by doing things ourselves, and not in waiting for others to do the perfectly obvious thing to be done that we may become leaders of men. Edward S. Zelley, Jr., in Faith Today, declares: "No one needs to be defeated by suffering. Turn it into something good and beautiful by doing helpful things for others. Even though the pain remains in your heart, the tragedy will be wiped out by the sight of joy in those you have helped." These commentaries are based on International Uniform. Sunday International outlines copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education. U. S. A. and used by permission. GOO'S STEADFAST LOVE In our lesson for last week, we saw how Joseph's brothers, intensely irritated with him, determined to put him out of the way, and seized upon the first opportunity to do this. Sent by his father to visit his brothers while they tended their flocks far from home, the brother plotted to throw him into a dry well, and leave him there to die. Reuben more humane, suggested, rather, that they sell him to some traders passing by, and thus happened that Joseph was taken to Egypt and sold as a slave to Potiphar an officer of Pharoah. So faithful and brilliant was Joseph as a slave that he soon advanced by his master. Potiphar, to a position as overseers of his household. A false accusatior., brought by Potiphar's wife, who had become enamoured with the young Jewish lad, caused him to be thrown into prison. While there Joseph interpretert the dream of Pharoah's chief butler and chief baker. When Pharoah had a dream which his wise men could not interpret the butter remembered Joseph, and Pharoah had Joseph brought before him to explain the dream. So impressed was Pharoah with Joseph's interpretation, that he selected him as the Wisest man. "one in whom the spirit of God was" and placed him as Grand Vizier, second in authority only to himself in Eiypt. Joseph was to put into execution a constructive plan of preparation against the approaching famine of which God had warned Pharoah in his dream. So for seven years, the River Nile overlowed and the harvests were unusually good Joseph rode through out the country seeing that the grain was properly harvested and the surplus safely stored against the time when the predicted famine should come. Then the famine came, and the crops mailed and shortly, all Egypt was in distress and need From the royal granaries Joseph sold the life preserving grain, first takim gold, then livestock and finally the land itself in payment. Thus Pharoah became the owner of practically everything in Egypt. "Joseph's thirteen years of trial crowned with sudden prosperity, may read all of us a lesson of patience," says Alexander Maclaren. "Hinderances are helps. If one of Joseph's misfortunes had been omitted, his good fortune would never have come. If his brethren had not hated him, if he had not been sold. If he had not been impressed, he would never have ruled Egypt. "Not one thread in the tapestry could have been withdrawn without spoiling the pattern. We cannot afford to lose one of our sorrow's or trials. There would be no summer unless winter had gone before. There is a bud or fruit for every snowflake." God also blessed, Joseph in giving him a family He married Asenath, the daughter of a priest of the cult of On who was one of the commanding fighures of the realm, and she was the perfect mate for Joseph the Vizier. Two sons were born of this union. Manasseh, whose name "making to forget," and Sphraim, whose name means "fruitfulness." God had given Joseph the grace to forget the persecution he had suffered among his own people and among the Egyptians. And God had made him fruitful in Egypt. Every time he looked at his sons, he remembered God. Joseph was a real leader but men offen ask, "Is there a gift of leadership?" People who step forward in an emergency are said to have a "gift of leadership" but the gift of leadership is only a willingness to do the things that must be done. Each one who says to another in a hearty and honest way, "Lend me a hand and we will get the job done." trusting to mutual help and suggestion to carry it out may be a leader, and his success when the thing is done argues no special gift above the others, who have silently helped him. It is in the thought that leadership lies; and it is by doing things ourselves, and not in waiting for others to do the perfectly obvious thing to be done that we may become leaders of men. Edward S. Zelley, Jr., in Faith Today, declares: "No one needs to be defeated by suffering. Turn it into something good and beautiful by doing helpful things for others. Even though the pain remains in your heart, the tragedy will be wiped out by the sight of joy in those you have helped." These commentaries are based on International Uniform. Sunday International outlines copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education. U. S. A. and used by permission. A civil district court in New Orleans ruled this week the membership on the board of rectors of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. Inc. and association with the Fund's officers does not deprive one of the right to statc unemployment compensation. The decision was banded down by Judge Louis U Yarrupt in a suit brought by Robert D. Barnes, former editor of the "News Bulletin" of the Chamber of Commerce of the New Orleans Area, against the Chamber of Commerce and the administrators of the division of unemployment security of the state department of labor. The Board of review of the division of unemployment security uphold the action on the administration in denying Barnes componsation on the grounds that he had been qualify of "misconduct." The misconduct charges against Barnes consisted of his activities and associations in behalf of integration. Barnes had been warned by the Chamber of commerce in March, 1956 that his continued employment would depend upon (a.) giving up his activities in behalf of integration; (b.) resigning from the SCEF board; (c.) ceasing to asso ciate with officers of the Fund namely Aubrey W. Williams, president, and Dr. James A. Dombrowski executive director When Barnes refused, he was dismissed. In his ruling, Judge Yarrul stated: "Neither organization (SCEF and SCHW), nor Dr. Dombrowski, has been judicially charged or proved to be Communist though hearings recently conducted by the United States Senate Internal security Commision in New Orleans established that Dr. Dombrowski was connected with many organizations espousing causes lauded by the Communist. The record indicated that the SCHW and its successor, the SCEF. Inc., were organized to improve the economic, social, political, cultural, and spiritual conditions of the people of the South without regard to race, creed, color or national citizen and memberships limited to citizens of 13 Southern states." 'The substance of the evidence against Dr. Dombrowski is that he neither condemned nor excluded Commun its from any or his organizations. The gravamen of the evidence against the fund and its members is that they aggressively ospoused integration of the races. "It must be conceded, that any individual or private association. NEW FAMILY PATTERN The disappearance of the servant class has created an entirely new pattern of family life. The family has moved back to the kitchen-seeking an area attractive to serving as well as preparing food. By hiding appliances under a ceramic tile countertop. Sen. Morse Opposed To Rights By-Pass Of Senate Committee Morse's name had been included in a statement along with the names of 13 other liberal Democrats announcing their intention to cooperate with Republicans to keep the House-approved civil rights bill on the Senate calendar in an effort to get civil rights up in the Senate. Knowland had suggested the possibility of using Senate Rule 14 which provides that after a first and second ready of a House-approved bill, if objection is made to further proceedings on it, it shall be placed on the Senate calendar. An objection by knowland is intended to get a ruling from Vice President Nixon sustaining the proposed procedure. This would compel southern Democrats to appeal from the ruling of the Vice President. Knowland would then be in command of the situation because he could shut off debate, by simply moving to table the appeal. At the meeting of liberal Democrats on June 14 when the statement was approved Morse was represented by one of his assistants. Although he is for civil rights legislation, Morse told the Senate Monday, "It would be wrong for us as liberals, to take any advan tage of the rules which we might have procedurally or parliamentarywise under Rule 14. He added that if the interpretions being given to Rule 14 by liberal Democrats is correct, he thinks it would be "a mistake to take advantage of it." He said he would resolve all doubts in favor of letting the House bill go to the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Senator James O. Eastland, of Mississippi, is the chairman and which has been the graveyard of civil rights legislation. The Judiciary Committee has delayed too long in reporting a civil rights bill, Morse said, "If the House bill is sent to the Judiciary Committee, that committee does not consider it "within a reasonable length of time,'' Morse said, "I myself will make a motion to discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill." Later Monday afternoon, the original signers of the statement met and decided unanimously thatwithout Morse, they would stand on their announcement of June 14. Senator Paul Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois, who is fast becoming the leading champion of civil rights in the Senate told the Senate of the group's decision to abide by their statement of June 14. One of their number, he said, will seek recognition after the second reading of the House approved bill. But If another Senator is recognized and the presiding officer rules and an appeal is taken, from the ruling, "we will support any group which believes that the House bill should be placed upon the calendar." Knowland told reporters that he will seek recognition to keep the House bill on the Senate calendar He assumed the southern bloc will delay the second reading for a legislative day. With respect to Rule 14, Knowland agreed that there would be chaos in the Senate if it were used every day to bypass Senate committee. For that reason, he said, perhaps the Senate Rules Committee should do something about it, "but right now the rule is there. Its use is justified when six months have passed without any action by the Judiciary Committee to bring the bill out. Knowland thinks the bill will be brought up on the Senate floor for debate about the first of July. He does not believe that civil, rights supporters should wait until all appropriations bills and important legislation is out of the way before moving to bring up civil rights. After the appropriations and other important bills are passed, he seld Senators will begin to leave Washington. "I am in favor of civil rights," Morse declared. "I am going to fight for civil-rights legislation. But I am going to carry the fight to the opposition within the longestablished historic practice. Feed your baby CARNATION America's "healthy baby" milk! " It's the safest, most nourishing and digestible form of milk for your baby's formula. More mothers feed Carnation to their babies than any other barand. And more Carmation is used in hospital formula rooms throughout the world than Ready made formulas that calm to be complete cost almost twice as much as Carnation - the milk for infant feeling - the milk every doctor knows. BEST BRAND FOR YOUR COFFEE, TOO! Creamy-smooth Carnation makes a good cup of coffee taste even better! Richer and more flavorful, the way you like it! Dr. Gardiner said the city has received a limited amount of the Vaceine from the National Foundation for intantile Paralysis, Inc. BUS EXCURSION To Little Rock, Ark. Sponsored by Buses leave Avery and Calhoun Sts. At 8 a.m. Return at 12 midnight NEW AMERICAN TOBACCO REPRESENTATIVE — A. L. Miles, sales supervisor for The American Tobacco Company, has established his headquarters in Atlanta, it was disclosed Thursday. He will supervise his company's solesmcn stationed in Georgia, Virginia. Florida. Alabama. Tennessee North Carolina and South Carolina, He succeeds C. A. Bing, supervision for the past two years, who is now working for the company in Washington. D. C. Miles started working with The American Tobacco Company upon completion of studies at West Virginia State College where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1952. He is a veteran, having served with the Army Transportation Corps from 1946 to 1948 as a sergeani in Alaska and he is a member of Omega Psi Phi. Fraternity. A native of Petersburg. Va., Miles is married to the former Miss Jarquolyne Ingrain of Newport News, Va. and they have one child two years old Terry.