Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1951-07-31 Lewis O. Swingler MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE — Phone 8-4030 Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn. as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager LEWIS O. SWINGLER Editor A.G. SHIELDS, Jr. Advertising Manager 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 its readers and opposing those thing against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.25 (In Advance) SOUTHWEST: Jimmie Cooper, 119 E. Utah.... Phone 9-3700 N. EASTERN. Lucius Vessell, 1001 Thomas.. 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"A hundred politicians," he says, "should be able to agree on what goes and what doesn't go in an electron campaign." There is, in our opinion, no lack of ethical standards in the country but the American tendency to magnify success regardless of how it is achieved, leads men to do anything to get rich, get elected or get whatever else they want. No code, however intelligently drawn, can change the morals of individuals or the apathy with which the public views conduct that everybody knows is unethical. Obviously, it is impossible to suddenly improve the average morality of any given population, including that of the United States. It is not too much to hope, however, that a vast majority of the people of the United States, once alerted to the danger that stems from unethical standards, will be smart enough to rebuke such tactice at the polls, in business or in other forms of life. KENDRIX OMMENTS By MOSS H. KENDRIX The Shriners (AEAO Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America and Its Jurisdictions, Inc.) are to be commended for the excellent job that they are doing to promote the glorification of a segment of American womanhood. I have reference to that organization's Talent and Beauty Pageant which will have its fifth annual running when the Smart Shriners take themselves to New York City, August 19-25, for their 52nd convention stand. This corner has witnessed two of the previous talentbeauty contests. He has Also had a look-in on the fabulous Atlantic City staging of toe Miss America finals. Minus the big time promotions and the nothingrshort - of - Broadway dressings attached to the Atlantic City show, I can say that the Shriners are nothing short in their promotion that big money, of the Atlantic City sort, could buy. After four years or operation, actually the Shrine pageant, in our humble opinion, compares quite favorable with Miss America, the biggest beauty show on earth. Then it must be remembered in Miss America contest had its inception in the Bagdad-by-the-Sea way back in 1821. Now, it is a grown-up girl. At Detroit; in 1949, I had only a passing glance at the "Miss Shrine event. Then came Boston, 1850, where I was dealt my first real appreciation for the purpose back of this Shriner endeavor. I feel this purpose to be that of giving a sort of shot-of-pride to our girls, who would otherwise not have an opportunity to display their talent and beauty under such wholesome circumstances. The institution of the Shriner Talent and Beauty Pageant marks another forward move in the progressive program of Dr. Raymond E. Jackson, Buffalo, who became Imperial Potentate of the Order at Detroit in 1939, when the now dy namic and magnificent organization, it is said, had but 1600 active members and a circus tent full of debts. I still see before me those twenty-two beautiful and talented young ladies who participated in the 1950Boston event. However, I know that Ray Jackson and Booker T. Alexander, Shriner Imperial Promotional Director, all of Shrinedom for that matter, would want me to remember that the five top winners received scholarship awards for their participation. Here is the list: Miss Essie Lee Brown, Morgan State College junior from Jersey City — $1500: Miss Margee Lee McGlory. Chicago, Ill. — $1050; Miss Edna Joy Goins, Philadelphia — $500; Miss Audrey O'Neil Diggs, Huntington High School graduate.' Newport News, Va, — $300; Miss Luella Mae Bender, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi — $200, plus ten other $50 awards, thus covering the first fifteen placers. Still we haven't covered the major emphasis which the Shriners place on their annual pageant. It is fostered as a feeder for the Order's Tuberculosis and Cancer Research Foundation. Boston saw the first action of this Foundation when a check in the amount of $35,000 was drawn upon its resources for contributions towards the prevention of TB and cancer. Fifteen thousand dollars were con tributed to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, while a S20,000 grant was made to Freedmen's Hospital in Washington. D. C. for the establishment of a research clinic on tuberculous. In accepting the ASCC grant, that society's president announced that his agency would use the money in part nity to give young Negroes an opportunity to battle canter. I hope to be in town when the Shriners bring their fancy wear and beautiful girls to town. The parades and lighter activities can always afford one plenty good fun — that's part of the convention. On the serious side, those shriners can also put on the steam. The fore cast has it that there will be action on such vital matters as education, health and housing. These things. I shall watch while looking for the Shriner girl who may be another Joe Baker, Lena Horne or just Mary Jane, who will make her own name. Incidentally the mothers do not have to worryBay Jackson's "daughters" will havetheir daughters as well chaperoned as the Philadelphia mint. SHRINERS SPONSOR TALENT AND BEAUTY By MOSS H. KENDRIX The Shriners (AEAO Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America and Its Jurisdictions, Inc.) are to be commended for the excellent job that they are doing to promote the glorification of a segment of American womanhood. I have reference to that organization's Talent and Beauty Pageant which will have its fifth annual running when the Smart Shriners take themselves to New York City, August 19-25, for their 52nd convention stand. This corner has witnessed two of the previous talentbeauty contests. He has Also had a look-in on the fabulous Atlantic City staging of toe Miss America finals. Minus the big time promotions and the nothingrshort - of - Broadway dressings attached to the Atlantic City show, I can say that the Shriners are nothing short in their promotion that big money, of the Atlantic City sort, could buy. After four years or operation, actually the Shrine pageant, in our humble opinion, compares quite favorable with Miss America, the biggest beauty show on earth. Then it must be remembered in Miss America contest had its inception in the Bagdad-by-the-Sea way back in 1821. Now, it is a grown-up girl. At Detroit; in 1949, I had only a passing glance at the "Miss Shrine event. Then came Boston, 1850, where I was dealt my first real appreciation for the purpose back of this Shriner endeavor. I feel this purpose to be that of giving a sort of shot-of-pride to our girls, who would otherwise not have an opportunity to display their talent and beauty under such wholesome circumstances. The institution of the Shriner Talent and Beauty Pageant marks another forward move in the progressive program of Dr. Raymond E. Jackson, Buffalo, who became Imperial Potentate of the Order at Detroit in 1939, when the now dy namic and magnificent organization, it is said, had but 1600 active members and a circus tent full of debts. I still see before me those twenty-two beautiful and talented young ladies who participated in the 1950Boston event. However, I know that Ray Jackson and Booker T. Alexander, Shriner Imperial Promotional Director, all of Shrinedom for that matter, would want me to remember that the five top winners received scholarship awards for their participation. Here is the list: Miss Essie Lee Brown, Morgan State College junior from Jersey City — $1500: Miss Margee Lee McGlory. Chicago, Ill. — $1050; Miss Edna Joy Goins, Philadelphia — $500; Miss Audrey O'Neil Diggs, Huntington High School graduate.' Newport News, Va, — $300; Miss Luella Mae Bender, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi — $200, plus ten other $50 awards, thus covering the first fifteen placers. Still we haven't covered the major emphasis which the Shriners place on their annual pageant. It is fostered as a feeder for the Order's Tuberculosis and Cancer Research Foundation. Boston saw the first action of this Foundation when a check in the amount of $35,000 was drawn upon its resources for contributions towards the prevention of TB and cancer. Fifteen thousand dollars were con tributed to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, while a S20,000 grant was made to Freedmen's Hospital in Washington. D. C. for the establishment of a research clinic on tuberculous. In accepting the ASCC grant, that society's president announced that his agency would use the money in part nity to give young Negroes an opportunity to battle canter. I hope to be in town when the Shriners bring their fancy wear and beautiful girls to town. The parades and lighter activities can always afford one plenty good fun — that's part of the convention. On the serious side, those shriners can also put on the steam. The fore cast has it that there will be action on such vital matters as education, health and housing. These things. I shall watch while looking for the Shriner girl who may be another Joe Baker, Lena Horne or just Mary Jane, who will make her own name. Incidentally the mothers do not have to worryBay Jackson's "daughters" will havetheir daughters as well chaperoned as the Philadelphia mint. Straight and True From OI' Kaintuck CABIN STILL OLD CABIN STILL BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, EST, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 1849 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY • 91 PROOF Castalia Heights the lucky gate stub. Prof. J. A. Hayes, principal of Manassas High School, Chairman of the. Celebration Committee, welcomed officials and told of the progress in the paving of the streets in the Castalia. Heights area. Already, over half of the 426 family units are rented. Typical apartment rents for $41 a month. Each unit has a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. Senators Laud McKavitt, Texas, November 1, 1869. During its early years the regiment's principal duty was maintaining order, among settlers and the Indians in the West. In the Spanish-American War, the regiment won honor arid glory when it took part in combat and participated in the victory of the Battle of San Juan Hill. It was the regiment's storming of the blockhouse at San Juan Hill in Santiago, Cuba, that inspired the design of the regimental insignia—a blue disc edged with gold, in which there is embedded a blockhouse of masonry with a tower typical of the old fort that was situated on San Juan Hill. The regimental motto is "Semper Paratus," Always Ready. After hostilities were ended, the 24th played a heroic part in the fight against yellow fever at Siboney, Cuba. During the period from 1899 to 1913, the 24th was sent to the Phillipines three times to help quell insurrections. From 1916 to 1919, the regiment participated in the Mexican Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa and his bandits. For twenty years—from 1922 to 1942, the regiment was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, as demonstration troops for the Infantry School. In April, 1942, the 24th sailed from the States to the New Hebrides to become the first colored combat troops in the Pacific theater. They fought their way up through the Solomons, the Russells, the Marianas and were on Okinawa when the war ended. The gree-crossed Japanese surrender plane that Sanded on Okinawa, with its, peace emissaries, was guarded by men of the 24th Infantry. The first unit of the regiment joined the 25th Infantry (Tropic Lightning) Division in Japan in October, 1946, and the main body was transferred from Ie Shima to the division in February, 1947. The regiment performed occupational duties in a zone of responsibility until it was sent to Korea shortly after fighting broke out there on July 27, 1950. During the 24th Regiment's eightieth birthday celebration in Japan in 1949, Genarel Douglas MacArthur paid the unit this tribute: "During this long period it has maintained a standard of service and built a tradition of devotion to the American cause to which all Americans may point with pride and and satisfaction—a record which involves complete confident that, despite the hazards of time and events, the 24th may be relied upon invincibly to do its duty." The text of Senator Lehman's statement follows: Kappa Alpha Psi Buy Mansion The Los Angeles chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity purchased the palatial home of Dr. and Mrs. John Somerville in one of the exclusive sections of the city last week. The Kappas will transform it into s fraternity house with dormitory space for 25 college students. It also will serve as a business and social headquarters for the organization. A gala opening of the new home wa held last Sunday. More than 1,000 guests were invited. Robert Groon is the polemarch of the graduate chapter. The new home is said to have cost $40,000. Ex-Haitian Envoy To U. S. Dies At Age Of 45 Andre Liautaud. 45-year-oid former Haitian ambassador to the United States, died here Thursday of a heart ailment, Liautaud served as minister to the U. S. in November, 1945, and ambassador from 1943 to 1945. Born in 1906 at Port-au-Prince. Liautaud attended St Louis de Gonzague institute and graduated fram the Haitian school of agriculture and Columbia university Prom 1920 to 5928, he war, director of rural education, and was named commissioner general of the land settlement project in 1938. He became director of rural education in 1P41; undersecretary of state for commerce, finance and industry in 1942. He was a member of the Haitian-American society for agricultural development and in 1945, represented Haiti at the Inter-American Conference on problems of war and peace, which was held in Mexico. In addition, he wrote several books on agriculture colonization and geography. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ATTENTION COLORED BUSINESSMEN REVIEWING THE NEWS BY WILLIAM GORDON "Democracy," said Herodotus, "is a form of government in which the people rule." This definition of course, is perhaps, one of the earliest and perhaps the simplest produced. Yet, many, of us, even today, with additional privileges, fail to exercise this right to the best of our advantage. Consequently, we continue to fall beneath the yoke of brutality, mob violence and other injustices which should be removed from all phases of civilized institutions. The effective use of the ballot by minorities, and especially the Negro, in America, is a most logical approach to obtaining civil rights. These rights, long denied us by various racial, political and economic interests, could be obtained most effectively, if we would learn the importance of voting. By helping to place the right kind of administration in political office, we would be in position to demand those services granted all of us by the Constitution of the United States. Social and economic discrimination would soon crumble beneath the impact of the ballot if each of us would take the initiative to vote whenever the opportunity is available. We can no longer hide behind the excuse of not being given the opportunity. Supreme Court rulings have eliminated this barrier. Even in states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, the shackles of bigotry are beginning to fall apart in every political nook and corner. The voice in the wilderness has been heard and today we have millions of white people who are beginning to appreciate the real worth of democracy. There is something of course, left for the Negro, to do. He has got to get up and start walking along the pathway of logical reasoning and begin fighting for those things which are justly due all tax paying citizens of city, state and nation. So many of us have made this statement: "I want my boy or girl to have a better chance for obtaining a livelihood than I did." So many of us make that statement, but so few of us do anything about it. William Bennett Munro records in his book "The Government of the United States" that; "consent of the governed and universal sufferage now have become so closely associated in the American public mind that we wonder how men who were filled with the spirit of. 1776 could hold the ballot from three quarters of the adult population and yet believe that their government was soundly based upon the voice of the people." Those of us who follow our American history closely, know that voting, even during the early days, carried with it a special privilege or right. In the beginning these rights were restricted to properly owners, white men, and those maintaining a special privilege in the community. Through constant progress and education, many of these barriers have been broken down. Even the poll tax, a long existing barrier to democratic freedom, is becoming ineffectual. Another decade we believe, will find American hate groups just a thing for the record books. Negroes, voting for the first time in many Southern states, proved to the world that the balance of political power in America is found among fifteen million strong. They also proved by voting that if such power is properly channeled, the walls of political, social and economic barriers will crumble and a new day would dawn for millions living beneath economic bondage. The Negroes in Georgia and all other Southern states should see the importance of this power and vote in every election. They should register and vote if they want to make this a better place for the future, or if they want to contribute to a way of life, not enjoyed by races or groups anywhere else in the world. Civil Rights Though Use Of The Ballot BY WILLIAM GORDON "Democracy," said Herodotus, "is a form of government in which the people rule." This definition of course, is perhaps, one of the earliest and perhaps the simplest produced. Yet, many, of us, even today, with additional privileges, fail to exercise this right to the best of our advantage. Consequently, we continue to fall beneath the yoke of brutality, mob violence and other injustices which should be removed from all phases of civilized institutions. The effective use of the ballot by minorities, and especially the Negro, in America, is a most logical approach to obtaining civil rights. These rights, long denied us by various racial, political and economic interests, could be obtained most effectively, if we would learn the importance of voting. By helping to place the right kind of administration in political office, we would be in position to demand those services granted all of us by the Constitution of the United States. Social and economic discrimination would soon crumble beneath the impact of the ballot if each of us would take the initiative to vote whenever the opportunity is available. We can no longer hide behind the excuse of not being given the opportunity. Supreme Court rulings have eliminated this barrier. Even in states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, the shackles of bigotry are beginning to fall apart in every political nook and corner. The voice in the wilderness has been heard and today we have millions of white people who are beginning to appreciate the real worth of democracy. There is something of course, left for the Negro, to do. He has got to get up and start walking along the pathway of logical reasoning and begin fighting for those things which are justly due all tax paying citizens of city, state and nation. So many of us have made this statement: "I want my boy or girl to have a better chance for obtaining a livelihood than I did." So many of us make that statement, but so few of us do anything about it. William Bennett Munro records in his book "The Government of the United States" that; "consent of the governed and universal sufferage now have become so closely associated in the American public mind that we wonder how men who were filled with the spirit of. 1776 could hold the ballot from three quarters of the adult population and yet believe that their government was soundly based upon the voice of the people." Those of us who follow our American history closely, know that voting, even during the early days, carried with it a special privilege or right. In the beginning these rights were restricted to properly owners, white men, and those maintaining a special privilege in the community. Through constant progress and education, many of these barriers have been broken down. Even the poll tax, a long existing barrier to democratic freedom, is becoming ineffectual. Another decade we believe, will find American hate groups just a thing for the record books. Negroes, voting for the first time in many Southern states, proved to the world that the balance of political power in America is found among fifteen million strong. They also proved by voting that if such power is properly channeled, the walls of political, social and economic barriers will crumble and a new day would dawn for millions living beneath economic bondage. The Negroes in Georgia and all other Southern states should see the importance of this power and vote in every election. They should register and vote if they want to make this a better place for the future, or if they want to contribute to a way of life, not enjoyed by races or groups anywhere else in the world. Memphis Negro Junior Chamber Of Commerce Holds Vital Meeting The Junior Negro Chamber of Commerce held a meeting Monday night, July 30, at the Key Club in the Del Morroco Building, 234 Hernando Street. Plans for the meeting included the nomination of officers for the year. W. C. Weathers. 271 N. Dunlap, served as chairman at the meeting. Nominated Committee (Blue Ticket) John R. Arnold, Chairman, as follows. G. P. Mims. president L. H. Cross, vice-president S. D. Jones, second vice-president Mertis C. Hayes, third vice-president J. E. Baker, secretary A. J. Gillis, assistant secretary Elmer Henderson, financial secretary Atty. H. T. Lockard, parliamentarian Howard Sims, corresponding sec retary John Ingram, treasurer Rev. N. L. Threats, chaplain Nominated Committee (White Ticket) Atty. H. T. Lockard, chairman, as follows: Dedrick Brittenum, president Jessie Sturghill, vice-president Floyd Bass, second vice-president E. B. Cotton, third vice-president Elmer Henderson, secretary Leonard small, assistant secretary Atty. B. F. Jones, financial secretary Atty. B. L. Hooks, parliamentarian Donald Jackson, corresponding secretary A. J. Gillis, treasurer Howard Chandler, chaplain Emmett McChristian, sergeantat-Arms. Nigerian Labor Agrees With U. S. Better Living Standards Nigerian labor stands together with American and all other free labor in the dedication of its forces to the betterment of-living and working conditions throughout the world, Afolabi Adeneken Adio-Moses, Nigerian union labor lead, said here last week. Dressed in the loosely-hanging colorful woven cotton attire he wears at home, he found the nation's capital no cooler than his native Lagos, on the Atlantic Ocean only a few hundred miles north of the equator. But he said he is at least comfortable. Adio-Moses, secretary and organizer of his country's Amalgamated Union of Clerical and Allied Workers, is in the United states on a four-month tour as a guest of the State and Labor Departments under a Smith-Mundt grant. The Smith-Mundt Act provides for visits to the United States of leaders from other countries. The Labor Department's Office of International Labor Affairs, which is sponsoring his tour, is arranging his program in cooperation with labor and government, organizations. In addition to trade, unions and social welfare work, his interests include adult education, city planning, slum clearance, and regional dovelopment programs. After a stay of two weeks in Washington, he will visit union locals and social service centers throughout the country. Besides conferring with labor leaders and Government officials in the labor field. Adio-Moses will observe and study labor-manage ment relations, especially in the mining, railway, tobacco industries, and in the Tennessee Valley Authority. But for a delay in securing his passport he might never have arrived at all. It made him miss, the weekly plane out of Lagos on which he hail intended to start for this country — the transport plane that crashed last month in the jungle of Liberia, killing all aboard. Adio-Moses set up his union in 1947. It has 3,000 members out of a potential of 30,000, he said. It is affiliated with the Nigerian Labor Congress, which was organized last year. Organized labor in Nigeria, on the west central coast of Africa, is weak, Adio-Moses conceded. Only about 50.000 of the 300,000 to 400,000 workers are union members, hut they constitute a nucleus which is determined to, grow and to fight for better living and working conditions. "The clerical workers in my union," he said, "are employed by private firms. They work six days a week for wages of four British pounds a month (a pound is worth about $2.80 a month in United States money). "Laborers earn about three shillings a day in the cities (one shilling equals 14 cents), and a shilling eleven pence (about 25 cents) in the provinces. "The standard of living is low because it takes about twelve pounds a month to support an average family of four persons recently, and eight or nine pounds for a single man." The labor movement in Nigeria got off to a start in 1938 with the passage by the Nigerian Legislature of the Trade Union Ordinance, giving unions the right to organize. Adio-Moses got started in 1940 with the African Workers Union while he was employed by the United Africa Company in Lagos. As an organized, his first job was to lead a drive for cost of living wage allowances when prices soared during the war. Most of the workers are engaged in agriculture, with cocoa the most important crop. There also are rubber works, coal and the mines, and considerable lumbering, and recently a start has been made in food canning, he said. Most of the firms are British. Adio-Moses speaks perfect Engllsh. He attended St. Gregory's College in Lagos, and in 1947-48 was a student at Ruskin College, the trade, union school at Oxford University in England. He became secretary-general of the Nigerian Trades Union Congress to 1943, the year after its founding. He is a member of the Lagos Bxecutive Development Board, Labor Advisory Board, and a lecturer in the Lagos and Mainland Trade Union Education Scheme. He has written extensively, on trade unionism, and on social, economic and political problems in Nigeria. Students Walkout Delta Trade School Stiff government rules and regulations concerning VA Schools was the cause of a recent walkoutat the Delta Trade Schools, Inc., at 635 Hernando. Five were dismissed for instigating the walkout among some 140 students studying under the GI Bill, at the tractor mechanics school. More than 80 returned to classes after police had dispersed the group in front of the school. The walkout came after students insisted they should be given certain privileges which included: the right to be absent from school with out a statement; permission to sit down in the shops while working; less rigid school rules and making the work and study easier for them. According to T. T. Bolin, president of the school, operation of the school will discontinue unlessthe students comply with the rules and regulations as laid down by the Veterans Administration, the State Board of Education and the school, itself. VA rules provide that no one can be excused from school without a valid excuse, such as sickness, death in the family or accident. These must be attested to by the student returning after an absence with a statement from a doctor. Suspended students are: Robert L. Wells, 417 Humphreys Road; William Davis, 726 Pearce (rear); Elbert Harris, 955 Knight; Willie B. Hayes, Love, Miss; and Walter Grady, Jr., 246 Gracewood. THE NATIONS CAPITAL The Defense Establishment apparently has clamped the lid down on information regarding its policies and practices respecting racial segregation in the Army. This conclusion is based on two sets of questions submitted to the Public Information Office of the Defense Establishment — the first dealing with racial segregation at Port Bragg, North Carolina, and the second set with the construction of a Jim. Crow officers' club at Fort Lee, Virginia. In May, James L. Hicks, a newspaper reporter touring military installations for the NNPA, reported that racial segregation and discrimination were rampant at Fort Bragg He charged: 1. That colored soldiers at Bragg were barred from living in the post's pemanent housing units but were compelled to live with their families without privacy in Army barracks. 2. That colored children were forced to attend a segregated kindergarten operated on the post with Federal funds. 3. That, although colored paratroopers were thoroughly integrated at Fort Benning, Georgia, they were immediately segregated upon assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division at Bragg — no matter what their military specialists were — and that colored units were over strength while white units were understrength. 4. That colored troops at Bragg were segregated in an area set aside specifically for them — known as the "Spring Lake area" — while their white commanding officers lived in the division area. 5. That colored soldiers having bank accounts in the post bank were not allowed to withdraw funds against their accounts unless accompanied by white officers. These charges were submitted to the Defense Establishment with the simple question whether such segregation and discrimination at Bragg is in accord with Army policy and, if not, what steps were, being taken to remedy conditions? This question has been completely ignored. Last week Mr. Hicks reported that, although there is a swanky $500,000 officers' recreational center at Fort Lee, a Jim Crow officers' club was being built at a cost of $60,000 to taxpayers and that colored officers who had insisted on using the recreational center had been shipped to Korea. On the basis of Mr. Hicks' report, the Defense Establishment was asked what Is Army policy regarding use of officers' clubs by colored officers on a post and whether the Army was cognizant of the fact that a segregated club for colored officers was being built at Lee. The Defense Establishment has not yet answered these questions. A statement, however, was obtained by a public relations officer at the Pentagon from a public relations officer at Lee. There apparently is no set policy controlling the matters involved in the questions concerning Bragg or the officer-club situation at Lee. Present policy designed to achieve President Truman's objective of "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the armed services covers none of the questions raised. It only calls, for 1. Opening up all Army jobs and Army schools to qualified personnel without regard to race or color. 2. Rescinding policy restricting assignment of colored personnel to colored units and overhead installations, and assigning all Army personnel according to individual ability and Army need. 3. Abolition of racial quotas. Questions of assignment of housing, integration of children of colored personnel in schools maintained for children of military personnel With Federal funds, on or off posts, and non-segregated use of recreational facilities appear to be left wholly to the decision of post commanders. The Army is definitely moving toward racial integration in the organization of troops. Indicative of that is the decision to deactivate the 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea and assign its personnel as replacements in mixed units. This is expected to have its impact throughout the Army, resulting in all Army units having mixed personnel. The Army may cling to its notion that it is not an organ of social reform, but sooner or late it will have to grapple, with questions of racial segregation in housing, education and recreational facilities. It appears that sound procedure dictates the creation of a select group of Army General Staff officers and high-level civilians within the Department of the Army to devote time to problems arising out of integration and to implementation of the policy of "equality of treatment and opportunity," which Mr. Truman said ultimately envisaged the end of segregation in the armed services. GULFSIDE ASSEMBLY IS BEEHIVE OF ACTIVITY Gulfside Assembly grounds, Methodist conference center for this area, have been the scene of jurisdictional, area, and conference meetings the past month, and have scheduledsimilar activities throughout the summer months. 100 delegates from a large section of the country attended the Central Jurisdictional School of Missions June 25-30. Mrs. George W. Carter, president of the Central Jurisdiction Woman's Society of Christian Service, presided over the. sessions, which, were followed by a week-end meeting of the Wesleyan Service Guild in charge of Miss Lillie Florence Arnold, of Atlanta, who is jurisdictional secretary of the Guild: The School of Practical Methods, a project of the Department of Negro Work, of the Methodist Board of Missions and Church Extension, New York, was held for one week concurrently with the New Orleans Area School of Ministerial Training. The Rev. Charles H. Dubra, of Gulfport, Miss., was dean of the schools. Faculty members were, the Revs. J. G. Owens, Austin, Tex,; Robert D. Hill, New Orleans; Robert E. Hayes, Houston, Tex.; J. F. Melvin, Blooming ton, Ill.; Charles H. Copher, Gammon Seminary, Atlanta; N. A. Dickson, Meridian, Miss.; Charles G. Golden, New York, and Dr. Edgar A. Love, superintendent of the Department of Negro Work of the Board of Misssions, New York, Special lecturer were Miss Isabelle Carter and W. H. Mitchell, of the Hew Orleans YW and YMCA respectively. Future conferences listed at the Assembly are, Ministers Wives Retreat, August 7-14, under the leadership of Mrs. Robert N. Brooks, wife of the resident bishop of the area: Young Adult Assembly, Aug. 15-19. under managership of the Rev. Nathaniel Perry, and a meeting of the "Methodist Men" of the 1200 churches of the New Orleans Area, August 21-23, under direction of Bishop Robert N. Brooks. Lincoln Dental Society Honors Walton, Springer The lounge of the new Washington Park YMCA was the scene of a banquet recently given by the Lincoln Dental Society honoring Dr. M. L. Walton and Dr. William Springer, Dr. Charles E. Williams, chairman of the National Dental Association, was toastmaster. Dr. Walton, of Thomasville, Ga., is president and Dr. Springer is president elect of the NDA. They were honored along with two past presidents of the NDA, Dr. S. C. Hamilton and Dr. William D. Giles, both members of the Lincoln Dental Society. Dr. Claudius Jones is president of the Chicago group. Plaques were presented to Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Giles by the Lincoln Dental Society for, their work in building the National Dental Association. Dr. S. O. Small ana Dr. M. R. Hebert made the presentations. Dr. Walton was principal speaker at other meetings Before coming Chicago. These included the Gulf State Dental Society, Port Worth Texas; The Georgia Dental Society Augusta, Ga.; The Florida Dental Society, Tallahassee, and the Old North State Dental Society, Wilson, N. C. At the Washington Park "Y" banquet Dr. Walton stressed the need for practicing dentist to take keen interest in organized dentistry both on the integrated and on the ethnic levels. He emphasized the need for better understanding among the people cf the world and for greater respect for the different cultures of the world. In this connection, Dr. Walton referred to the NDA's trip to the Caribbean area, scheduled for Aug. 18. The trip is under the direction of Dr. Charles M. Thompson, director or public relations and international affairs. Ex-Sailor Saves One Of Two From Drowning Two of three brothers felt into the East River from an abandoned dock at Queens last week. One was rescued by a World War I Navy veteran, but the other went down before he could reach him. The veteran, Joseph Haggerty, 51, of Astoria, was sitting with his wife nearby in Rainey park when he heard the cries of Isaac Hankerson, 5. He vaulted a fence and saw the boy's brothers, Charles 7, and William, 10, struggling in the water. Removing only his shoes Haggerty and quickly fished out Charles Who hysterically begged him to go back after William. The ex-sailor tried in vain. "Haggerty is employed as a postman. Soviet is concerned by increased arms in West Germany. New superliner expected to vi for Atlantic speed trophy.