Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1962-09-08 J. A. Beauchamp Trinidad-Tobago Sheds Colonial Status For Freedom PORT OF SPAIN (ANP) — Trinidadians and Tobagans everwhere arose at the crack of dawn on August 31, 1962, to begin a new existence as citizens of a free and soverign state—that is, all those who had not waited up to see the birth of the new nation at exactly 12:01 a.m. It was at that time that the island combine of Trindad and Tobago shed its cloak of colonial status and put on a new raiment of independence. The sovereignty of- Trinidad-Tobago came within three weeks of that of Jamaica, its larger Caribbean neighbor to the northeast ending 165 years of foreign rule At the time Trinidad was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1948, its Indian inhabitants were Arawaks and Caribs. These people have long since disappeared, their places being taken by people from many different races: African, Indian. Chinese, Spanish, French, British and other European people. It was linked administratively to the nearby island of Tobago by the British in 1888. Leader of the government is Sir Eric Williams, who- retains his former post as prime minister. He is also leader of the Peoples Natonal Movement, the party in power. Since the new nation elected to be independent within the framework of the British Commonwealth, it has as its direct link to the British throne, Sir Solomon Hochoy as governor-general. Situated some seven miles from the north-eastern coast of South America, Trinidad has a population 799,000. It is slightly larger than Rhode Island. Its partner, Tobago, about 22 miles northeast of Trinidad and much smaller in size, has a population of roughly 33,000. Celebrations for the independence began on the eve of the event and continued on through the next day The official ceremonies began at midnight in Red House, home of the territorial legislature. Flanked by Sir Solomon and Dr. Williams, Mary the Princess Royal, who is the aunt of Queen Elizabeth, occupied the seat of honor. Later in the day she read the Throne Speech to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, and gave a personal message from the Queen. Five major religious bodies — Roman Catholic, Anglican, Hindu, Moslem and Evangelical — participated with prayer at the flag ceremony. Among the foreign delegations present during the ceremonies were representatives from Africa, India, the Netherland and Israel. The U. S. delegation was headed by U. S. Federal Judge William Henry Hastie of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. PRIME MINISTER PORT OF SPAIN (ANP) — Trinidadians and Tobagans everwhere arose at the crack of dawn on August 31, 1962, to begin a new existence as citizens of a free and soverign state—that is, all those who had not waited up to see the birth of the new nation at exactly 12:01 a.m. It was at that time that the island combine of Trindad and Tobago shed its cloak of colonial status and put on a new raiment of independence. The sovereignty of- Trinidad-Tobago came within three weeks of that of Jamaica, its larger Caribbean neighbor to the northeast ending 165 years of foreign rule At the time Trinidad was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1948, its Indian inhabitants were Arawaks and Caribs. These people have long since disappeared, their places being taken by people from many different races: African, Indian. Chinese, Spanish, French, British and other European people. It was linked administratively to the nearby island of Tobago by the British in 1888. Leader of the government is Sir Eric Williams, who- retains his former post as prime minister. He is also leader of the Peoples Natonal Movement, the party in power. Since the new nation elected to be independent within the framework of the British Commonwealth, it has as its direct link to the British throne, Sir Solomon Hochoy as governor-general. Situated some seven miles from the north-eastern coast of South America, Trinidad has a population 799,000. It is slightly larger than Rhode Island. Its partner, Tobago, about 22 miles northeast of Trinidad and much smaller in size, has a population of roughly 33,000. Celebrations for the independence began on the eve of the event and continued on through the next day The official ceremonies began at midnight in Red House, home of the territorial legislature. Flanked by Sir Solomon and Dr. Williams, Mary the Princess Royal, who is the aunt of Queen Elizabeth, occupied the seat of honor. Later in the day she read the Throne Speech to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, and gave a personal message from the Queen. Five major religious bodies — Roman Catholic, Anglican, Hindu, Moslem and Evangelical — participated with prayer at the flag ceremony. Among the foreign delegations present during the ceremonies were representatives from Africa, India, the Netherland and Israel. The U. S. delegation was headed by U. S. Federal Judge William Henry Hastie of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. RED HOUSE EVENTS PORT OF SPAIN (ANP) — Trinidadians and Tobagans everwhere arose at the crack of dawn on August 31, 1962, to begin a new existence as citizens of a free and soverign state—that is, all those who had not waited up to see the birth of the new nation at exactly 12:01 a.m. It was at that time that the island combine of Trindad and Tobago shed its cloak of colonial status and put on a new raiment of independence. The sovereignty of- Trinidad-Tobago came within three weeks of that of Jamaica, its larger Caribbean neighbor to the northeast ending 165 years of foreign rule At the time Trinidad was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1948, its Indian inhabitants were Arawaks and Caribs. These people have long since disappeared, their places being taken by people from many different races: African, Indian. Chinese, Spanish, French, British and other European people. It was linked administratively to the nearby island of Tobago by the British in 1888. Leader of the government is Sir Eric Williams, who- retains his former post as prime minister. He is also leader of the Peoples Natonal Movement, the party in power. Since the new nation elected to be independent within the framework of the British Commonwealth, it has as its direct link to the British throne, Sir Solomon Hochoy as governor-general. Situated some seven miles from the north-eastern coast of South America, Trinidad has a population 799,000. It is slightly larger than Rhode Island. Its partner, Tobago, about 22 miles northeast of Trinidad and much smaller in size, has a population of roughly 33,000. Celebrations for the independence began on the eve of the event and continued on through the next day The official ceremonies began at midnight in Red House, home of the territorial legislature. Flanked by Sir Solomon and Dr. Williams, Mary the Princess Royal, who is the aunt of Queen Elizabeth, occupied the seat of honor. Later in the day she read the Throne Speech to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, and gave a personal message from the Queen. Five major religious bodies — Roman Catholic, Anglican, Hindu, Moslem and Evangelical — participated with prayer at the flag ceremony. Among the foreign delegations present during the ceremonies were representatives from Africa, India, the Netherland and Israel. The U. S. delegation was headed by U. S. Federal Judge William Henry Hastie of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Army Claims It Cannot Stop Fort Lee Children's J'Crow The Army last week told the NA ACP it hid no control over the segregation of children of men stationed at Fort Lee in schools administered by the local school board. Negro parents of the children recently charged the Army with maintaining segregated schools in a complaint filed with Clarence Mitchell head of the NAACP Washington bureau. Mitchell forward the complaint to Army secretary, Cyrus R. Vance. Vance replied that "the local school board.... has responsibility for providing educational facilities for children residing at Fort Lee," He said the county "indicates the specific schools which children from the post will attend." Saying that the Army does not sanction segregation in any situations under its control, Vance stated that "the choice here is to allow its (Army) children to attend schools designated by the (prosegregation) school board or not attend school at all." He said the Army had no control over the Matter at Fort Lee. The Negro families filed the complaint after Army authorities circulated instructions to Fort Lee families, stipulating that Negro children would attend a segregated school. There was no immediate indication as to what would be the NA ACP's next stop. Magazine Tells How Minister Continues Work For Group This nation has come to expect stories of Negroes below the Mason - Dixon Line standing up for their rights. But the current October issue of Pageat magazine reports on a white man who stands up with them. In the article "Rare Hero In The Deep South," the magazine commends the work of Rev. Thomas E. Johnson, a Baptist minister engaged in setting up rural Sunday schools for Negro families in Canton, Mississippi. In Madison Country where Rev. Johnson does most of his Sunday School work, almost 70 percent of the 32,000 residents are Negroes. The Johnsons, his wife Marcella and youngsters started their work in February 1967. "We were appalled by the conditions in which so many of our people lived when we arrived," he recalls in the article. "There were no buildings for Sunday schools, or funds to build them, so we took to holding meetings in the houses of our members." However, in short order, the white citizens of Canton starlet harassing the Johnson family with threatening calls, maligning accusations and raging insults. When threats failed to intimidate the Johnsons, says' Pageant, the pressures were turned on the Negro families with whom he worked: share croppers who allowed meetings in their homes were threatened with eviction, sheds us ed for Sunday school meetings hoc foundations undermined and their windows shot out. But the John son meetings still go on against all odds. Perhaps one reason is to describe what happened when a Negro who owns her own farm was told that she better stop holding the gatherings in her home. "The school is going to get bombed," she was warned. "If I'm going to be bombed," she answered, "there's no better time for it to happen than when I'm in Sunday school studying God's word." Asked whether it's all worth it. Rev. Johnson quietly reflects or the progress of his students, "We've seen kids who might have ended in jail, or worse, becoming decent Christians, going to school and finding respectable jobs. 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(ANP) One Florida Boy Rejects School Change Tenyear-old Alver Nichols, one of 22 Negro students granted admission to previously all-white schools here, was-given permission Tuesday to return to the all-Negro school he attended last year. The boy did not show up at allwhite N. B. Cook Elementary School today or Tuesday. Instead he reported to Spencer Bibbs Negro school. The 21 other Negro pupils broke the school color bar for the first time in the segregation-conscious Florida panhandle. School officials had said Monday Nichols must attend the all-white school until given formal pertnision to return to the Bibbs school. But Escambia Country School Supt. W. J. Woodham. Jr.. temporialy assigned the fifth grader back to Bibbs Tuesday. No reason was given for the joy's return to the Negro school find his family was not available for comment. Meanwhile, the nine other schools affected by the court-ordered desegregation move reported "everything; smooth as silk." The nine boys and 12 girls reported to classes under the watchful eyes of city and county plainclothesmen, but again there were no crowds and no incidents as this industrial city appeared to accept the federal court order. However, Police Chief D. P. Caldwell and Sheriff William E Davis said tight security precautions would remain in effect the rest of the week. They added that the school will be well protected throughout the remainder of the school year. The integrated Negro students said they generally were well treated by their classmates although some of the white students at Pensacola High School refused to talk to the three Negro girls and the Negro boy now attending the school. Some of the whites, on the other hand, made special efforts to make the Negroes feel comfortable. "MY HAND'S FULL OF I WENT HUTING & CAUGHT A BARE-HANDED! Resolutions for parents most likely to be disappointed by grades on the offspring's report card: —Let your "scholar" follow a flexible study schedule every night. Steady-study-periods-interfere-withkilling time, television and telephone trances. —Take a very casual view of PTA activities. If the teacher really wants to talk to you about your childs progress — or lack of same —she knows your phone number. —Don't expect your youngster home after school must before dinner time. Respect his privacy. Curb the urge to ask where he's been killing time. —Keep your dander down when killing time with most nights after school. Surely, you don't place any stock in that saw about — "show me your friends and I'll tell you what you are?" —Be modern in all respects. Neatness, for example, used to count in school attire. Times change, Who are you to try to stop a sloppy fad — say going to class with shirttails out? —Pay little attention to the nook where the offspring study. So what if the light's faulty and the desk wobbles? Remember, You sometimes had to study around the dining room table. —Be busy anytime your youngster wants you to listen to a speech he's practicing for an oratory contest. Ditto for the time la expects you to tune In his sousaphone solo. —Keep the hi-fi at highest pitch when it's study time — especially if that's the only way you can hear from your perch on patio or porch. If that interferes with- the radio on junior's study area, get him a radio with an ear-plug. P. S, — Following these resolutions guarantees that your "children won't do well in school. When the teacher calls to discuss the situation, tell her it's the school's fault. NAACP Aids In Saving Project The New York City Board of Estimate has approved a $3,460,000 public housing project vigorously long urged by the NAACP and other groups. Civic croups in the area opopsed the project on grounds that ."it would lower neighborhood standards, further overcrowd schools. increase crime end bring in new people." They denied any "racial prejudice." Gloster B. Current, NAACP director of branches, and Lovevine Freamon, president of the Far Rockawav branch, where the project will be looted, presented the Association's feelings. Mr. Freamon stated that the "opposition are owners of the very slum buildings we want removed." Oklahoman Who Walked 21 Miles To Take Exam Now Va. State Professor Dr. Huey Battle, who once walked 21 miles to take a school examination, Is resigning after being a professor at Langston University seven years. Dr. Battle, first Negro to receive Ph. D. degree from an Oklahoma decree from an Oklanoma institution of higher learning, will become head of the department of economics at Virginia State University, Petersburg. His wife, kindergarten instructor at Truman School, Oklahoma City, will teach in the department of education at the Virginia university. Dr. Battle received a BS degree from Langston, master's degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 1954. Dr. Battle demonstrated his persistence toward study when he was in the eighth trade, according to Dr. P. D. Moon, veteran educator and principal of Douslass High school, Oklahoma City, until his retirement in 1981. Dr. Moon recalls an incident which occurred when was princip of Douglass High School, Wewoka, a post he held from 1931 to 1940. Silk was once known as "the cloth of kings," reports World Book Encyclopedia, and some rulers even passed laws to prohibit the common people from wearing it. The buttons on men's suit- coat sleeves are strictly for show nowadays, but once they kept a man's long, flowing cuffs out of the way while he worked or fought, according to World Book Encyclopedia. American scientists say U.S. still in space race, An international economist and one of America's leading magazines have both taken stock of the American Negro's progress and have noted the marked change in race relations in the U.S. within the last 10 years. The conclusions of the writers, both while, should be of special interest to the Negro because it provides an opportunity for him to evaluate Ms efforts from a perspective other than that o! a "front line soldier." While both articles, one, "New Look At American Negroes' Progress," a summary of an address by Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, written by Max Freedman for Background Forum, a London publication; and the other, "Where Does the Negro Go From Here," by Glenn White, for September's Ladies' Home Journal, emphasize "Negro Progress," there is no mistaking the obvious corollary, "America's Progress." Mr. Myrdal, renowned author who published in 1944 the most authoritative study on the Negro problem, "An American Dilemma, returned to Howard university on a "sentimental journey" to give an address bringing his 1944 conclusions up to date. Calling the Negro's progress "astonishing," Myrdal noted that most of it had been made within the last 20 years "after six decades of stagnation." Disturbances such as "Little Rock" were natural, said Myrdal, and they have "stirred the consciences of Americans and thus prevented the Negro's inferior position from being fixed. In a manner which was in no way "with tongue in cheek," Myrdal admits it was much easier for an "outsider" to take this lofty philo sophical view and added: "It must be particularly difficult for the young Negro intellectual who bears scars in his soul from all that yet remains of segregation and discrimination in Amercan life. Looking ahead, perhaps, to a future which even Negroes find difficulty in grasping, the economist proclaimed that the society of the future will be one of equality based on free competition. He warned that Negro professional, middle and upper classes will have to surrender economic monopolies which they have held and are still holding on the basis of prejudice. But in order to avoid discouragement, one must see clearly the trend, he continued. Proclaiming his own faith in the Negro's and America's destiny, Myrdal said: "The Negro cause is a winning one" and that the status of the Negro would continue to be improved because of the combined influence of economic and spiritual forces. Glenn White's informative and lengthy article the Journal is a summary and report of his observations and discussions over a period of years. He notes particularly personal experiences of whites and Negroes across the country who have been personally affected by the great social change in this country — "a change that is difficult to recognize because it is so vast and so close," HOWARD SPEAKER An international economist and one of America's leading magazines have both taken stock of the American Negro's progress and have noted the marked change in race relations in the U.S. within the last 10 years. The conclusions of the writers, both while, should be of special interest to the Negro because it provides an opportunity for him to evaluate Ms efforts from a perspective other than that o! a "front line soldier." While both articles, one, "New Look At American Negroes' Progress," a summary of an address by Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, written by Max Freedman for Background Forum, a London publication; and the other, "Where Does the Negro Go From Here," by Glenn White, for September's Ladies' Home Journal, emphasize "Negro Progress," there is no mistaking the obvious corollary, "America's Progress." Mr. Myrdal, renowned author who published in 1944 the most authoritative study on the Negro problem, "An American Dilemma, returned to Howard university on a "sentimental journey" to give an address bringing his 1944 conclusions up to date. Calling the Negro's progress "astonishing," Myrdal noted that most of it had been made within the last 20 years "after six decades of stagnation." Disturbances such as "Little Rock" were natural, said Myrdal, and they have "stirred the consciences of Americans and thus prevented the Negro's inferior position from being fixed. In a manner which was in no way "with tongue in cheek," Myrdal admits it was much easier for an "outsider" to take this lofty philo sophical view and added: "It must be particularly difficult for the young Negro intellectual who bears scars in his soul from all that yet remains of segregation and discrimination in Amercan life. Looking ahead, perhaps, to a future which even Negroes find difficulty in grasping, the economist proclaimed that the society of the future will be one of equality based on free competition. He warned that Negro professional, middle and upper classes will have to surrender economic monopolies which they have held and are still holding on the basis of prejudice. But in order to avoid discouragement, one must see clearly the trend, he continued. Proclaiming his own faith in the Negro's and America's destiny, Myrdal said: "The Negro cause is a winning one" and that the status of the Negro would continue to be improved because of the combined influence of economic and spiritual forces. Glenn White's informative and lengthy article the Journal is a summary and report of his observations and discussions over a period of years. He notes particularly personal experiences of whites and Negroes across the country who have been personally affected by the great social change in this country — "a change that is difficult to recognize because it is so vast and so close," SEES FREE COMPETITION An international economist and one of America's leading magazines have both taken stock of the American Negro's progress and have noted the marked change in race relations in the U.S. within the last 10 years. The conclusions of the writers, both while, should be of special interest to the Negro because it provides an opportunity for him to evaluate Ms efforts from a perspective other than that o! a "front line soldier." While both articles, one, "New Look At American Negroes' Progress," a summary of an address by Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, written by Max Freedman for Background Forum, a London publication; and the other, "Where Does the Negro Go From Here," by Glenn White, for September's Ladies' Home Journal, emphasize "Negro Progress," there is no mistaking the obvious corollary, "America's Progress." Mr. Myrdal, renowned author who published in 1944 the most authoritative study on the Negro problem, "An American Dilemma, returned to Howard university on a "sentimental journey" to give an address bringing his 1944 conclusions up to date. Calling the Negro's progress "astonishing," Myrdal noted that most of it had been made within the last 20 years "after six decades of stagnation." Disturbances such as "Little Rock" were natural, said Myrdal, and they have "stirred the consciences of Americans and thus prevented the Negro's inferior position from being fixed. In a manner which was in no way "with tongue in cheek," Myrdal admits it was much easier for an "outsider" to take this lofty philo sophical view and added: "It must be particularly difficult for the young Negro intellectual who bears scars in his soul from all that yet remains of segregation and discrimination in Amercan life. Looking ahead, perhaps, to a future which even Negroes find difficulty in grasping, the economist proclaimed that the society of the future will be one of equality based on free competition. He warned that Negro professional, middle and upper classes will have to surrender economic monopolies which they have held and are still holding on the basis of prejudice. But in order to avoid discouragement, one must see clearly the trend, he continued. Proclaiming his own faith in the Negro's and America's destiny, Myrdal said: "The Negro cause is a winning one" and that the status of the Negro would continue to be improved because of the combined influence of economic and spiritual forces. Glenn White's informative and lengthy article the Journal is a summary and report of his observations and discussions over a period of years. He notes particularly personal experiences of whites and Negroes across the country who have been personally affected by the great social change in this country — "a change that is difficult to recognize because it is so vast and so close," Attempt To Burn Charleston Cafe Headquarters Told Members of the Charleston Non - violent Movement rented recently that attempts to burn their headquarters had been made over the weekend. On Saturday, August 25, a can of gasoline was thrown against the side of Currins Cafe, headquarters of the movement here. The Cafe, owned by Marshall Currins, President of the Charleston NAACP, was burned only slight on one wall before the Fire Dept. put out the blaze. On Sunday, August 26, about 100 members of Charleston's Negro community marched to the city hall In the afternoon where they sang and prayed and presented a petition to the City Manager. The petition, signed by about 200 persons, read in part: "We, the undersigned, fed that the attempt to burn Currins Cafe was indeed a symbol of the opposition with which the Negro in the South is always faced when he stands up and demands those human and civil rights which are given him by God and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. It is, in fact, a direct threat to each of us in the Negro community." The petition concluded: "We are willing to stand up and fight side "by side as brothers in a non violent movement until freedom comes to Charleston. Small groups of pickets demonstrated on Monday, August 27 in front of all the places where Negro youth have been arrested for he past month: Ellis' Confectionary, McCutchen Theatre, and Watkins Cafe, Don't Let PREGNANCY Leave its Mark At Drug Stores Everywhere MOTHERS FRIENDS A Product of S.S.S. COMPANY- Atlanta, Ga. MF 3(71 lines) 1961 Newspaper C Prepared for The S.S.S. Company Harris & Weinstein Assoc. Atlanta, Georgia ELEANOR (From the Langston Hughes Reader 1958; Langtson Hughes' Early Life) You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the U. S. the word Negro is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive yellow. On my father's side, the white blood In his family came from a Jewish slave trader In Kentucky, Silas Cushenberry, of Clark County, who was his mother's father and Sam Clay, a distiller of Scotch descent, living in Henry County, who was his father's father. Soon my father's side both male great - grandparents were white and Sam Clay was said to be a relative of the great statesman, Henry Clay, his contemporary. On my mother's side, I had a paternal great-grandfather named Quarles—Captain Ralph Quarles— who was white and who lived in Louisa County, Virginia, before the Civil War, and who had several colored children by a colored housekeeper, who was his slave. The Quarles traced their ancestry back to Francis Quarles, famous Jacobean poet, who wrote A Feast For Wormes. On my maternal grandmother's side, there was French and Indian blood. My grandmother looked like an Indian—with very long black hair. She said she could lay claim to Indian land, but-that-she-never wanted the government or anybody, to her anything. She said there had been a French trader who came down the St. Lawrence then on foot to the Carolinas and mated with her grandmother who was a Cherokee—so all her people were free. During slavery, she had free papers in North Carolina, am traveled about free, at will. Her name was Mary Sampson Patter son, and in Oberlin, Ohio, when she went to college, she married a free man named Sheriman Leary She was with child in Oberlin when Sheridan Leary went away and nobody knew where he had gone, except that he had told he he was going on a trip. A few weeks later his shawl came back to he full of bulletholes. He had been killed following John Brown in that historic raid at Harper's Ferry. They did not hang him. He had been Killed that first night in he raid-shot attacking, believing in John Brown. My grandmother said Sheridan Leary always did believe that people should be-free. She married another man who believed the same thing. His name was Charles Langston, my grandfather. And in the 70's the Langstons came out to Kansas where my mother was born on a farm Mar Lawrence. My grandfather never made much money. But he went into politics looking for a bigger freedom than the Emancipation Proclamation had provided. He let his firm and his grocery store in Lawrence run along, and didn't care much about making money. When he died, none of the family had any money. But he left some fine speeches behind him. His brother, John Mercer Langston, left a book of speeches, too, and an autobiography, From a Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol. But he was much better than Charles at making money, to he left a big house as well, and I guess some stocks and bonds. When I was small, we had cousins in "Washington who lived a lot better than we did in Kansas. But my grandmother never wrote them for anything. John 'Mercer Langston had been a Congressman from Virginia, and later, United States Minister to Haiti, and Dean of the First Law School at Howard University. He had held many high positions—very high for a Negro in his day, or any day on this rather difficult country. And his descendents are still in society. (More interesting facts about this great American poet, philosopher, lyric and play-writer will be continued in this column next week). U. S. gets complaints over steel imports. June exports second best on record. NEGRO (From the Langston Hughes Reader 1958; Langtson Hughes' Early Life) You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the U. S. the word Negro is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive yellow. On my father's side, the white blood In his family came from a Jewish slave trader In Kentucky, Silas Cushenberry, of Clark County, who was his mother's father and Sam Clay, a distiller of Scotch descent, living in Henry County, who was his father's father. Soon my father's side both male great - grandparents were white and Sam Clay was said to be a relative of the great statesman, Henry Clay, his contemporary. On my mother's side, I had a paternal great-grandfather named Quarles—Captain Ralph Quarles— who was white and who lived in Louisa County, Virginia, before the Civil War, and who had several colored children by a colored housekeeper, who was his slave. The Quarles traced their ancestry back to Francis Quarles, famous Jacobean poet, who wrote A Feast For Wormes. On my maternal grandmother's side, there was French and Indian blood. My grandmother looked like an Indian—with very long black hair. She said she could lay claim to Indian land, but-that-she-never wanted the government or anybody, to her anything. She said there had been a French trader who came down the St. Lawrence then on foot to the Carolinas and mated with her grandmother who was a Cherokee—so all her people were free. During slavery, she had free papers in North Carolina, am traveled about free, at will. Her name was Mary Sampson Patter son, and in Oberlin, Ohio, when she went to college, she married a free man named Sheriman Leary She was with child in Oberlin when Sheridan Leary went away and nobody knew where he had gone, except that he had told he he was going on a trip. A few weeks later his shawl came back to he full of bulletholes. He had been killed following John Brown in that historic raid at Harper's Ferry. They did not hang him. He had been Killed that first night in he raid-shot attacking, believing in John Brown. My grandmother said Sheridan Leary always did believe that people should be-free. She married another man who believed the same thing. His name was Charles Langston, my grandfather. And in the 70's the Langstons came out to Kansas where my mother was born on a farm Mar Lawrence. My grandfather never made much money. But he went into politics looking for a bigger freedom than the Emancipation Proclamation had provided. He let his firm and his grocery store in Lawrence run along, and didn't care much about making money. When he died, none of the family had any money. But he left some fine speeches behind him. His brother, John Mercer Langston, left a book of speeches, too, and an autobiography, From a Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol. But he was much better than Charles at making money, to he left a big house as well, and I guess some stocks and bonds. When I was small, we had cousins in "Washington who lived a lot better than we did in Kansas. But my grandmother never wrote them for anything. John 'Mercer Langston had been a Congressman from Virginia, and later, United States Minister to Haiti, and Dean of the First Law School at Howard University. He had held many high positions—very high for a Negro in his day, or any day on this rather difficult country. And his descendents are still in society. (More interesting facts about this great American poet, philosopher, lyric and play-writer will be continued in this column next week). U. S. gets complaints over steel imports. June exports second best on record. POSNERS Skintona LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona • lightens dark sopts • perfect powder • base LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona 65 size $100 SIZE Realignment Of' Illinois Parole Board Is Sought Theodore A. Jones, 49, an Insurance executive and the lone Negro member of the five-man Illinois Parole and Pardon Board, last week handed Gov. Otto Kerner a recommendation calling for a re-alignment of the board on a day-by-day working basis under a full-time chairman. Jones, who has resigned from the board, effective Aug. 31, in order to devote more time to his duties as vice president and general manager of Supreme Life Insurance Co., suggested that the board be reorganized 'on a non-partisan basis. He also suggested that a sixth part time member be added to cope with "our growing inmate population." Jones' concern for his duties at Supreme Life is understandable. The company is the largest Negroowned insurance company In the North, while his membership on the board was on a part-time basis. Jones recently figured largely in a last-minute plea to save convicted slayer James Dukes from the electric chair. He held a vigil in Gov. Kerner's downtown office here, until after Dukes was electrocuted a few minutes after midnight, Aug. 24.