Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1956-02-28
Raymond F. Tisby

MEMPHIS WORLD
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We Must Not Be Trapped into playing
The opposition's Game
In every controversy whether it be verbal or violent the opposing 
forces try to maneuver the opponent into a position where
he can least defend himself and also try to hit the other in the
most vulnerable spots.
The Negro citizens in Montgomery, Ala., have taken a heavy
economic toll on the transit company which has gotten a 50 per
cent increase in its rate — 10c to 15c — perhaps partly to help
reduce the loss and partly as a reprisal.
obviously, the city officials are in desperation when they
adopt the plan of mass arrests of the leaders and other participants. 
This was a most unfortunate move and misuse of police
power.
However, a problem exists and we hope it will be resolved
as quickly as possible. Gov. Folsom has admitted the situation is
serious for all concerned and has asked the newspaper edifors of
Alabama to help find a solution, He has said he would appoint
on interracial commission to study the racial situation and present
some solution or recommendation for easing the tension that is
developing over the question of segregation.
we hope the action will be taken by the governor as soon
as possible because we are aware that those who are most bitterly
defending segregation would be happy to see racial conflict. They
could then argue that segregation can not be eliminated less there
be violence.
we understand the protest action in Montgomery is not
against segregation itself buy is a mass action of protest against
what is considered unjust regulations and treatment by the bus
drivers. A suit is in court testing the bus segregation issue.
The leaders of the protest have admirably prevented any
acts of violence on the part of the Negroes and we commend
them for this because as we have stated, the extremists who are
against the Negro' s position want it as proof "it can't be done."
Let's not play their game.
Segregation is a legal issue and let us meet it on that ground
when it has to be met.

Alabama's Folsom says A piece
while Governor Folsom might be on debating ground when
he avers that "world-wide attention given the racial demonstration
at the University of Alabama, has "been greatly overplayed,"
nevertheless his comment finds its soundness when he says white
persons as well as Negroes should "approach our problems in the
spirit of calmness, understanding, "debate and deliberation."
It must also be said that in this cool and collected exhortation
in a time injury from leaders can be poured into the wounds
of a delicate situation, there is quite a contrast in the assertions
of former Governor Herman Talmadge when he declared at
Augusta; "what we saw at the University of Alabama in may
opinion was extremely mild if they attempt to integrate schools in
Georgia," The former governor's reference to "they" could not
have meant other the federal government and the Negro
people.
calm collectivism, would go far in the solution of the prolems 
we now find facing our best efforts and good influences,
Those who would play with the fires of passion, the gods of hatred
and the chances of destruction, could in nowise claim to be contributors 
to those fine relations so essential in the preservation
of the basic principles upon which this government was founded
and dedicated.
it is felt that if those leaders on both sides, harboring and
insisting faith in our social and religious institutions, would make
the most of the opportunity extended this trying hour, we will be
able to arrive more quickly and harmoniously at the province of
mutual understanding within the framework of the law.

Montgomery Goes After The Church
one does not have to take sides with either the transit
operators of Montgomery or the complainants who resented the
treatment of a member of their group to discern the irony in steps
directed toward the church in an attempted incarceration of its
heads, the preachers.
while ministers are amenable to the law as any one else
it would naturally be expected that a group having no effective
representation in law making bodies, through which to clear their
grievances, would naturally go to their ministers. These ministers.
could not default their parishioners and their supports by turning
deaf ears to their woes and sorrows. such responses as would
meet their immediate needs were in order when appealed to in the
present bus situation, For a minister to betray less would confine
him to the ranks of the ingrate, the cautious and the otherwise
timid, Most of our reforms were born in the church, the church
has long been a clearing house of grievance and where a people
involved, the church never remains long an outcast.
it just does not sound well for the church to be penalized to
the extent of branding its leaders with technical arraignments
meant to disparage their positions.
it will be seen that more than the "stars on Alabama"
when the preachers are rounded up, finger-printed and indicted
for their portion of a protest claimed to be outside the law which
requires good and just reasons for one to be a party to a mas
protest.

Comment of Southern Editors on segregation
(FROM THE ATLANTA DAILY WORLD)
Ranging all the way from fear of violence to the fantastic fear
of marriage between the races are some of the reasons that white
editors of newspapers covering a cross section of this region, give
in explaining resistance to the supreme court decision on school
segregation. The opinions are expressed in a poll regarding the
question in the current issue of U. s. News and would Report after
questioning editors of 15 newspapers of which two are Negro
publications, including the Atlanta Daily world. The feature appears 
in the Feb, 24 th issue of this national weekly magazine.
Most of the white editors give as other reasons for resistance
to the decision in the south; resentment to outside interference.
unwillingness to change a way of life which has been practiced
a long time. One editor of a Kentucky paper gave as a reason for
some of the resistance is the fact that some of the politicians have
created this reaction. He said, that in Kentucky integration had
already been achieved; in the university of Louisville and before
that, Negroes were integrated in the University of Kentucky. He
also contends that there have been a great many other advances
made from this score.
A Virginia editor said; "Race relations are definitely worse
since the court decision in question." He, however, admits that
there are some Negroes in the university of Virginia and some
in the dormitories. He feels that the net results would be on the]
numbers; that numbers are very crucially important."
In giving our view to U. S. News and would Report on the
subject we stated some things that have appeared of different.

times in these columns, Our editor stated that the decision was
due and could be applied without too much difficulty if there were
a way to stop some of the politicians from stirring up tension and
inciting resistance to it. He also cited the fact that political
had been made of the racial issue for years and as a result this
is a contributing factor to the present reaction expressed to the
decision. it was pointed out that due to the present residential
situation as to the two races there would be no mass mixing to
the races if desegregation were legally put into effect.
Anyway, we recognize the fact that court decision has
been made into an issue for various reasons, of which we believe
political interest is the main one. But, a fact is a fact and it should
be dealt with accordingly.
Most of the editors interviewed felt that race relations have
deteriorated since the decision. Maybe this was inevitable. but let
us hope and work to restore them as quickly as possible. The two
races must learn to live and work together in peace and goodwill
and within the framework of the school and any other decision
given by the highest court in the land.

REVIEWING
THE NEWS
By WILLIAM GORDON
Managing Editor, Atlanta Daily World
it was two years ago when I got to know three young men
from India, each articulate and sharply critical of the theory
of "white supremacy," Each liked to tell this story about Gandhi;
it seemed that one day this thin brown man sat snugly in
one corner of a compartment on a railway coach minding his own
business, when a European man of some note entered the coach,
he questioned Gandhi's presence. There was some resentment.
The man asked Gandhi to leave when he refused, he took
Gandhi's cane and threw into the aisle of the coach. it is into the
Gandhi, out of protest took the man's hat and threw it into the
aisle. when the man asked for his hat, Gandhi is reported to have
said; "I sent your hat to fetch back my cane. "He then quietly walk"l 
sent your hat to fetch back my cane." He then quietly walk
out of the compartment and took a seat elsewhere.
Some writers say this was the beginning of the great passive
resistence movement spearheaded by the great leader of India,
From this point on the great non-violent movement against in
justice in Asia and other parts of the world is part of history
The people of India were perhaps among the first to feel the
stigma of color and all the implications that haunted millions even
to their deaths. No one person can describe the hardships, the
humiliations and the frustrations encountered by a people who
for centuries lived under the iron heel of British imperialism. S
were many Englishmen back in Gandhi's day little about conditions
at that time. The same could be said for the thousands of white
Southerners also who realize the embarrassments and injustices
against Negroes, but are caught in the grips of social restrictions.
So the spirit of resistance, non-violent and non emotional has
Some to our shore in behalf of the Negro. In this respect, we are
only a few years behind India for our fight for freedom.
The epic out of Montgomery, Alabama will testify to the
protest by people who have reached the point of "no return to
submissiveness and servility
Under the leadership of Gandhi, the world faced a new kind
of man from India. Under the variety of leadership today, the
South faces a new kind of Negro — the kind of Negro who
wants no more and naturally no less, than what every other
American citizen is entitled to.
The South is dealing with a Negro who fathoms good race
relations, not in light of paternalistic peace-meal dealings, but in
light of over-all American concepts of equality. He will accept
nothing short of this.
Like the Negro citizens of Montgomery, Negroes want more
courtesy from bus drivers for Negro passengers. They want all
Americans to live up to the principle of "first-come, first-serve"
and not to be set aside to be dealt with in a special category.
Negroes want to be employed on the basis of their skills, character 
and respectability as other Americans. These things, they
know, are moral and religiously just and should be practiced in a
democratic society. They do not especially ask to associate with
white folks, because many whites, they know, are far below their
social and moral levels. Like any other American, they detest being 
pushed around, humiliated, restricted and given rights on the
peace-meal basis.
As it has been made clear to the people of Europe, the people
India, Pakistan, Africa and many other parts of the world,
should be made clear to the people of Montgomery that the Negro
is a human being, entitled to the rights and privileges of all other
human beings — that color is groundless as a criteria on which
to judge the level of society to which people may rise.
There are moral and religious forces, let alone just down
right intelligence, that bear out this argument, it is about time that
the leadership in the south catch up with the rest of the world in
its thinking, and dealings with issues that ate bound to - rise
as each new day dawns. There's a new birth of freedom whose implications 
are part of a world-wide movement. The Negro in America
is included in this movement. Those who think otherwise are being
stupid at their own cost. The epic out of Montgomery should be
sufficient proof.

The Epic out of Montgomery
By WILLIAM GORDON
Managing Editor, Atlanta Daily World
it was two years ago when I got to know three young men
from India, each articulate and sharply critical of the theory
of "white supremacy," Each liked to tell this story about Gandhi;
it seemed that one day this thin brown man sat snugly in
one corner of a compartment on a railway coach minding his own
business, when a European man of some note entered the coach,
he questioned Gandhi's presence. There was some resentment.
The man asked Gandhi to leave when he refused, he took
Gandhi's cane and threw into the aisle of the coach. it is into the
Gandhi, out of protest took the man's hat and threw it into the
aisle. when the man asked for his hat, Gandhi is reported to have
said; "I sent your hat to fetch back my cane. "He then quietly walk"l 
sent your hat to fetch back my cane." He then quietly walk
out of the compartment and took a seat elsewhere.
Some writers say this was the beginning of the great passive
resistence movement spearheaded by the great leader of India,
From this point on the great non-violent movement against in
justice in Asia and other parts of the world is part of history
The people of India were perhaps among the first to feel the
stigma of color and all the implications that haunted millions even
to their deaths. No one person can describe the hardships, the
humiliations and the frustrations encountered by a people who
for centuries lived under the iron heel of British imperialism. S
were many Englishmen back in Gandhi's day little about conditions
at that time. The same could be said for the thousands of white
Southerners also who realize the embarrassments and injustices
against Negroes, but are caught in the grips of social restrictions.
So the spirit of resistance, non-violent and non emotional has
Some to our shore in behalf of the Negro. In this respect, we are
only a few years behind India for our fight for freedom.
The epic out of Montgomery, Alabama will testify to the
protest by people who have reached the point of "no return to
submissiveness and servility
Under the leadership of Gandhi, the world faced a new kind
of man from India. Under the variety of leadership today, the
South faces a new kind of Negro — the kind of Negro who
wants no more and naturally no less, than what every other
American citizen is entitled to.
The South is dealing with a Negro who fathoms good race
relations, not in light of paternalistic peace-meal dealings, but in
light of over-all American concepts of equality. He will accept
nothing short of this.
Like the Negro citizens of Montgomery, Negroes want more
courtesy from bus drivers for Negro passengers. They want all
Americans to live up to the principle of "first-come, first-serve"
and not to be set aside to be dealt with in a special category.
Negroes want to be employed on the basis of their skills, character 
and respectability as other Americans. These things, they
know, are moral and religiously just and should be practiced in a
democratic society. They do not especially ask to associate with
white folks, because many whites, they know, are far below their
social and moral levels. Like any other American, they detest being 
pushed around, humiliated, restricted and given rights on the
peace-meal basis.
As it has been made clear to the people of Europe, the people
India, Pakistan, Africa and many other parts of the world,
should be made clear to the people of Montgomery that the Negro
is a human being, entitled to the rights and privileges of all other
human beings — that color is groundless as a criteria on which
to judge the level of society to which people may rise.
There are moral and religious forces, let alone just down
right intelligence, that bear out this argument, it is about time that
the leadership in the south catch up with the rest of the world in
its thinking, and dealings with issues that ate bound to - rise
as each new day dawns. There's a new birth of freedom whose implications 
are part of a world-wide movement. The Negro in America
is included in this movement. Those who think otherwise are being
stupid at their own cost. The epic out of Montgomery should be
sufficient proof.

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MY WEEKLY
SERMON

May I quote what a good sister
said recently in a prayer — meeting
while discussing racial animosity;
"This ain't no time for scrapping
and fussing This is praying
time; Let us pray."
And indeed it is!
Jesus John - was, murdered to
please a dancing girl. John's disciples 
brought the grisly news to Jesus
at Capernaum. He did not preach a
sermon to them. He did not stir up
hatred and bitterness. He simply
retired to privacy. He said. "Let us
go in a desert place and be alone."
There in privacy and in communion
with God he opened his heart to
the infinite and washed his soul.
Mahatma Gandhi, "the great soul"
probably achieved a greater victory
for humanity than any other man
in the twentieth century. He opened
his heart to the infinite, washed his
soul of all bitterness and hatred
and helped to free more than forty
million untouchables from slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi, like unto Jesus,
fasted and prayed and had God for
his friend. Indeed there is only one
people whom nothing can overwhelm. 
It is the people who has
God for its friend.
Let us pray.
There can be no doubt that there
is today in race relations a hypertension, 
a fancy name for high blood
pressure, which unless treated with
the greatest prayerful care will have
serious and disastrous consequences,
especially in the deep south.
The problem of changing a people' 
s mores and customs, particularly
those with a thick coat of emotion
is not to be taken lightly. It is a
task which demands great forbearance, 
understanding and generosity
honeycombed with utmost
patience. These virtues are the fruits
of prayer Merging our spirits
with the spirit of the infinite when
this takes place, "the greater works"
of which Jesus Christ spoke. will
come to pass, Let us pray without
ceasing,
The church with its leadership,
faces a great challenge. Let our
Bishops, the presidents of our national 
church conventions and other
religious leaders come together, with
out rancor, but with their hearts
open to the infinite and their souls
washed clean of prejudice and declare 
a national week of prayer.
Let every church door be opened
during the seven days of that work
that believers of every denomination 
may enter throughout the day
and kneel in prayer. Let them pray
without ceasing that love may dwell
in all hearts. For, when everything
else fails. love wins Let them pray
that patience, generosity, understanding 
and forbearance may find
lodgment' in the hearts and souls

of blacks and whites alike. Then
God will show us what is required.
"To do justly, and to love
mercy. and to walk humbly with
God."
Let the leaders, our Christian leaders, 
call a week of prayer, and cause
us to turn our faces to God unitedly
in prayer, and racial hypertension
will vanish. The prejudiced, the
bigoted, and the misguided will behold 
millions of knees bent in prayer
and supplication, In the face of this
penetrating power the misunderstandings 
and their accompanying
walls of prejudice and selfishness
will like unto the walls of Jericho.
Let us pray!

REV. BLAIR T. HUNT.
PASTOR
MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN
CHURCH, MEMPHIS

May I quote what a good sister
said recently in a prayer — meeting
while discussing racial animosity;
"This ain't no time for scrapping
and fussing This is praying
time; Let us pray."
And indeed it is!
Jesus John - was, murdered to
please a dancing girl. John's disciples 
brought the grisly news to Jesus
at Capernaum. He did not preach a
sermon to them. He did not stir up
hatred and bitterness. He simply
retired to privacy. He said. "Let us
go in a desert place and be alone."
There in privacy and in communion
with God he opened his heart to
the infinite and washed his soul.
Mahatma Gandhi, "the great soul"
probably achieved a greater victory
for humanity than any other man
in the twentieth century. He opened
his heart to the infinite, washed his
soul of all bitterness and hatred
and helped to free more than forty
million untouchables from slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi, like unto Jesus,
fasted and prayed and had God for
his friend. Indeed there is only one
people whom nothing can overwhelm. 
It is the people who has
God for its friend.
Let us pray.
There can be no doubt that there
is today in race relations a hypertension, 
a fancy name for high blood
pressure, which unless treated with
the greatest prayerful care will have
serious and disastrous consequences,
especially in the deep south.
The problem of changing a people' 
s mores and customs, particularly
those with a thick coat of emotion
is not to be taken lightly. It is a
task which demands great forbearance, 
understanding and generosity
honeycombed with utmost
patience. These virtues are the fruits
of prayer Merging our spirits
with the spirit of the infinite when
this takes place, "the greater works"
of which Jesus Christ spoke. will
come to pass, Let us pray without
ceasing,
The church with its leadership,
faces a great challenge. Let our
Bishops, the presidents of our national 
church conventions and other
religious leaders come together, with
out rancor, but with their hearts
open to the infinite and their souls
washed clean of prejudice and declare 
a national week of prayer.
Let every church door be opened
during the seven days of that work
that believers of every denomination 
may enter throughout the day
and kneel in prayer. Let them pray
without ceasing that love may dwell
in all hearts. For, when everything
else fails. love wins Let them pray
that patience, generosity, understanding 
and forbearance may find
lodgment' in the hearts and souls

of blacks and whites alike. Then
God will show us what is required.
"To do justly, and to love
mercy. and to walk humbly with
God."
Let the leaders, our Christian leaders, 
call a week of prayer, and cause
us to turn our faces to God unitedly
in prayer, and racial hypertension
will vanish. The prejudiced, the
bigoted, and the misguided will behold 
millions of knees bent in prayer
and supplication, In the face of this
penetrating power the misunderstandings 
and their accompanying
walls of prejudice and selfishness
will like unto the walls of Jericho.
Let us pray!

LET US PRAY

May I quote what a good sister
said recently in a prayer — meeting
while discussing racial animosity;
"This ain't no time for scrapping
and fussing This is praying
time; Let us pray."
And indeed it is!
Jesus John - was, murdered to
please a dancing girl. John's disciples 
brought the grisly news to Jesus
at Capernaum. He did not preach a
sermon to them. He did not stir up
hatred and bitterness. He simply
retired to privacy. He said. "Let us
go in a desert place and be alone."
There in privacy and in communion
with God he opened his heart to
the infinite and washed his soul.
Mahatma Gandhi, "the great soul"
probably achieved a greater victory
for humanity than any other man
in the twentieth century. He opened
his heart to the infinite, washed his
soul of all bitterness and hatred
and helped to free more than forty
million untouchables from slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi, like unto Jesus,
fasted and prayed and had God for
his friend. Indeed there is only one
people whom nothing can overwhelm. 
It is the people who has
God for its friend.
Let us pray.
There can be no doubt that there
is today in race relations a hypertension, 
a fancy name for high blood
pressure, which unless treated with
the greatest prayerful care will have
serious and disastrous consequences,
especially in the deep south.
The problem of changing a people' 
s mores and customs, particularly
those with a thick coat of emotion
is not to be taken lightly. It is a
task which demands great forbearance, 
understanding and generosity
honeycombed with utmost
patience. These virtues are the fruits
of prayer Merging our spirits
with the spirit of the infinite when
this takes place, "the greater works"
of which Jesus Christ spoke. will
come to pass, Let us pray without
ceasing,
The church with its leadership,
faces a great challenge. Let our
Bishops, the presidents of our national 
church conventions and other
religious leaders come together, with
out rancor, but with their hearts
open to the infinite and their souls
washed clean of prejudice and declare 
a national week of prayer.
Let every church door be opened
during the seven days of that work
that believers of every denomination 
may enter throughout the day
and kneel in prayer. Let them pray
without ceasing that love may dwell
in all hearts. For, when everything
else fails. love wins Let them pray
that patience, generosity, understanding 
and forbearance may find
lodgment' in the hearts and souls

of blacks and whites alike. Then
God will show us what is required.
"To do justly, and to love
mercy. and to walk humbly with
God."
Let the leaders, our Christian leaders, 
call a week of prayer, and cause
us to turn our faces to God unitedly
in prayer, and racial hypertension
will vanish. The prejudiced, the
bigoted, and the misguided will behold 
millions of knees bent in prayer
and supplication, In the face of this
penetrating power the misunderstandings 
and their accompanying
walls of prejudice and selfishness
will like unto the walls of Jericho.
Let us pray!

Eastland Daughter
won't comment
on Integration
Anne
Eastland, 18-year-old daughter of
Sen, James Eastland (D-Miss), refuses 
to comment last week when
asked her opinion on the forthcoming 
integration program at her
school.
Beginning next fall, Negro children 
will be sitting s de by side
with the sons and daughters of
Washington's political and social
elite at the Sidewall Friends school
Officials at the fashionably
Quaker school, where sen, Eastland
is educating his son and two
daughters, recently announced
plants "to admit a limited number
of qualified Negro students" during
the 1956-57 year.

MARRIAGE for THREE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
PINKY didn't come home from
church with Ann, and that afternoon 
when Adam started out to
the house he went alone — as far as
the hotel, He found pinky in her
newspapers. sure, she'd go out
with him, If he'd wait in the hall
while she got into jeans ...
He stood grinning at her, and
she put her hand on his arm,
turned him around and pushed him
out — both of them laughing,
He went,
Into the hall. But it was three
hours later before they reached
the canyon, and the house. And
bright new station wagon.
Leaving the hotel, pinky had
begun again on the truck.
"why a truck?"
"I m not in a two-car bracket. I
keep my cash tied up in jobs."
"who said anything about two
cars? D'you ever consider a sta-0
tion wagon?"
"I've thought of it."
"The Chrysler Agency has a
keen one in the window. They're
open on Sunday. Let's go look."
The next step was a trial drive
in the handsome car, a drive out to
the "job," with pinky at the
wheel — a delighted, crooningly
happy pinky,
On Monday evening, Adam came
home and handed Ann a set of
keys, and a bill of sale for the
station wagon that stood in their
drive.
she stared from the car to
Adam, her mouth open. Adam put
A dam, her mouth open, Adam put
his finger under her chin. "YOU' ll
catch a fly, " he told her. His blue
eyes blazed."
she went out to the car, touched
the bulging curve of one fender —
and then just stood there.
pinky was watching from the
doorway.
After a long minute, Ann went
slowly around the big car, touching 
it at various places. "what
a bout the truck?" she asked.
"They gave me a good turn-in.
And I figured you'd let me put a
shovel and such in this."
Ann looked down at the paper
in her hand, it was made out in
her name. And then she looked up
and searched A dam's face, her eyelashes 
curled way back from her
brown eyes.
"It's yours, Ann," said Adam.
"At least in name," drawled
pinky, her voice twanging, "I
picked it out for you, Ann." she
went on, "I coaxed Adam into
buying it,"
Ann came to the door, and they
all went" back into the house. she
was tucking the car paper into the
pocket of her blouse. "Didn't you
know he was buying it for me ? "
she asked.
Pinky's smile was as bland as
junket. "I don' t think, at the time,
that A dam know it." she stretched
her arm and hand for a cigarette.
Ann stood looking at her for a
minute, then went with some milk in
a saucer, which she offered to
pinky. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
she said quietly,
pinky, wait," cried Adam.
"I'll drive you".
"Not me," she called, already
down their short walk. "You'd
— and I don't think she'd let you
have em!"
Adam watched her run down
the street, her hair flying. Then
he turned back, took the saucer
from Ann's hand and threw it
crashing into the kitchen sink.
"That just about ties things into
a nice brown package!" he cried.
"A guest in our house!"
Ann had sense enough not to
argue. Men never could recognize
cattiness in women. Adam could
see his wife's fault, not pinky's,
and Ann knew she could not expect 
anything different.
But when his rebuke got around
to telling her to call pinky and
apologize, she refused flatly, tersely, 
firmly,
"you don't want to quarrel with
pinky." he told her, "she's your
friend/"
"I haven't quarreled, and she'll
still be my — friend," said Ann
Don't worry about that."
"I hope you will be polite to her
if she does come back."
Ann said nothing. For one
thing, pinky would not expect
"politeness," she and Ann both
knew what had happened, even if
Adam did not. what really rankled 
with Ann — and pinky doubtless 
knew it — was that, at this
very instant A dam was giving his
wife hell, and defending the other
woman.
The next day she sent A dam off
alone in the new car. No, she
wasn't sore, she meant to do some
sewing. she wanted a dress for
the Fiesta next week.
she was basting rickrack on yellow 
calico when the front door
screen was darkened by a tall man
in a rolled-brim hat. "Yes?" she
asked, getting up from the couch.
The man was sunburned, his eyes
light-seeming. "I'm looking for
A dam Laird," he said,
"I'm Mrs. Laird," she said quietly, 
husband is at work,"
"Where does he work,?"
"At Los Alamos,"
"oh," The man looked down at
the folded paper in his hand, It
was about the size and sort of the

car deed, "For goodness' sake,"
cried Ann in swift panic.
"I've a police court summons for
your husband," he said,
"Are you the sheriff?"
"Deputy. Your husband does
building?"
"Yes, he's a contractor, He has
his license."
"Yes, ma'am."
what's the trouble?"
"Oh, a matter of a gas-furnace
installation, without proper inspecttion," 

"Why," she began, "Adam
wouldn't — "
"A dam did," drawled the man,
Then he smiled, "At least, it looks
that way,"
And he'd scold her! when he left
that morning, he'd told her to behave 
herself! well!
"He'll be home around five, " said'
said Ann nervously, "Unless there's
something I can do ?"
The deputy said he'd be back,
or maybe meet Laird up the road,
And he departed.
Ann went back to the couch and
sat looking at the heap of yellow
calico. she didn't know that Adam
had put in any gas furnace, Should
she try to reach Hermann? she
wished she'd kept the car — she
stiffened. Adam had been so ready
to scold her about the saucer of
milk episode, when all the time ...
The more she thought about it,
the more pleased she was that
Adam the critical, Adam the lofty,
should be in trouble.
She'd just sit back and watch
how he'd get out of  He didn't
tell Ann enough about his business
lately for her to know that a gas
furnace could be involved. she
hoped the "deputy" didn't catch
him up the road.' Ann wanted to
see Adam squirm when he got the
summons. It would be a down.
right pleasure.
She matched up her sewing,
then her hands stilled. She locked
down at them as if seeing those
familiar members for the first
time. What had for into her? if
Adam was in trouble. it would be
her trouble, too—or should" be.
What if he had been operating
without her? And he had! He'd
find out that he still needed her.
She'd always avoided complications 
of this sort for him, remembered 
to call in the building inspecters. 
That, she supposed, was
how this happened—a matter of
neglect Adam was an honest
workman. He did the very best for
his clients, but sometimes he forgot 
little things. And now, working 
up at the Project, the chance
of forgetting was greater. He
needed Ann's help more than ever,
and would have to ask for it.
She would help him. But he'd
have to ask, after the way he'd,
talked to her last night!


District Judge
Assails 14th
Amendment
U. S. District Judge Leslie R. Darr,
who said he was speaking "as a
private citizen" declared that the
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.
S. Constitution violated the sovereignty 
of the states.
Darr told a meeting of the sons
of the American Revolution that
desegregate on of schools has been
legally possible since the enactment
of the civil rights statute in 1871.
However, he declared that it was
passed at a time when the people
of the south did not have representatives 
of their own state legislatures. 


10 YEARS FOR $1.90
Unless he receives 
a parole, charles S. Jackson,

20 will have to spend nearly 20 days
in prison for every penny he took
recently in an armed robbery. He
received a ten-year sentence for
taking $1.90 at knife point from
Ralph Graves.

Warned To Bar
Reds From
Rights Meet
Warning 
that "intensive efforts are bemade 
by left-wing groups and individuals" 
to infiltrate a scheduled
civil rights conference is Washington. 
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins has written to all local
unites of the Association urging
them to be "very careful" in the
selection of delegates.
His letter, sent to the branches
on Feb. 14, was in reference to the
National Delegate Assembly for
Civil Rights, to be held in Washington 
on March 4 to 6. The Assembly
is under sponsorship of the Leadership 
Conference on Civil Rights, of
which Wilkins is chairman.
Local chapters of the organizations 
in the Leadership Conference.
including the NAACP, are selecting!
delegates to the civil rights assembly 
according to congressional districts. 

Wilkins' letter asserted that "intensive 
efforts are being made by
left-wing groups and individuals to
get into the Assembly as delegates."
"Since they know that delegates
are limited to national organizations 
is in the Leadership Conference 
and they know that none of
their organizations is a member."
the letter continued, "they are trying 
to get elected as delegates by
local chapters of organizations already 
in the leadership conference."
"They are making a special effort
to be elected as delegates by local
branches of the NAACP," the message 
said. "You know that the
national policy of the NAACP is
not to cooprate with any Communist-front 
or left-wing group. Of
course, we do not work with Communists." 

Wilkins' letter predicted that if
the Washington rally is "captured"
by left-wing individuals and groups.
it will get very little attention, If
any, by the Congress."

SENTENCES SELF.
A man, charged
with a minor offense, was told by
the magistrate to report at his office 
at a certain time. When the
defendant got there, the magistrate 
was out, so the man left a
note, reading; "Gone to the gang."
The man went to the country road
gang camp and told the supervisor.
I come to make ten days."