Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1956-02-07
Raymond F. Tisby

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 of congress, March 1, 1870
Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE
W. A. Scott, II. Founder, C. A. Scott, General Manager
Raymond F. Tisby Managing Editor
Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy Public Relations and Advertising
William C. Weathers Circulation Promotion
The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian
and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things
it believes to the interest of its readers and opposing those things against
the interest of its readers.
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One By One The Firsts Come
In the struggle of our group to retrieve its lost prestige and
that patronage — hold it once enjoyed some decades ago when
Republicanism was in flower, we are daily coming into the
realization of many a first in the selection of men and women to
fill important government posts.
Upon the appointment of a Negro Federal Marshall in the
Virgin Islands, there comes another important first.
If taken politically, the record in less than fifteen months of
the GOP Administration must be very distressing to the Democrats,
because the Republicans hove not only filled the jobs that Negroes
previously held, but have given nineteen more than they had
ever held before.
In other words, we see a change-over from just giving them
such jobs as have been held out as traditional Negro jobs. No
"block cabinet" is held together in a conspicious corner designed
for it.
In a survey around Washington, Negroes may be seen holding 
such jobs as Adviser to the War Claims Commission, member
of the Federal Parole Board, member of the Battle Monument
Commission, secretary in the White House, Assistant Secretary of
Labor and head of the U. S. Educational Mission in Afghanistan.
Thusly, the Federal government is laying an excellent example 
for those states that need most of oil economy in government
through the selection of competent officials, without having to
observe the possible color barrier.
In many fields of specialization and scientific research where
the members are not so conspicious, many persons of color are
carrying on in key positions. With somewhat of a division of the
Negro vote in both major parties there are no reason why other
firsts should not be forthcoming.
While political strength cannot be built on patronage alone
there needs to be patronage as those stabilizers and evidences of
recognition.
So, the race and those friends who place fitness first are
elated over the coming of still another first into the government
family.

Sometimes Men Burn Grosses
Of the many images and symbols all over the world regard
less of faith or political dominance, none exceeds in its claim on
homage and prestige, the cross — the symbol of suffering and
victory of Jesus. All through the ages, the cross meant something 
and wherever it was lifted it said something to men that no
other agency could imitate.
Hardly does one pass through a muddy dilapidated village
but when he sees a cross sometimes leaning from a beaten church
steeple. Upon tombstones, no part of cemetery decorations can
supplant the cross.
Sometimes one wonders about the history of cross-burnings,
where it started and what revenge is assuaged when one corks
up his grievances, his prejudices and his cowardice and sneaks
across a field and burns a cross.
If primitive people who corned on all sorts of superstitious
practices and even rejected the Christ, indulged in such a practice
it is not given the prominence of history.
It is apparent that some other fashion or form of intolerant
expression might be employed in preference to burning the very
dying presence of Jesus as he purchased with his blood a ransom
for the world.
The flag of our country is loved and respected everywhere
our possessions lie. Even in foreign lands the flag is adored and
respected. It symbolizes the precious doctrine of free people, free
expression and free enterprise.
To use a flag for even such tasks as other cloth-like substances
are used would constitute an unpardonable crime. Flags cannot
be used as substitutes for anything.
No one would think of burning a flag; its uses are restricted
and everywhere it flies men feel the presence of power and the
rigid demand for honor.
By this same token what passion or plea is satiated by the
burning of a cross?
We sometimes wander if cross-burners on peaceful residential 
lawns, on school property or before the door of a citizen who
dares run for office could intelligently relate the history of crossburning. 

Certainly one would not burn a flag, than why burn a cross?
One day the church will happen upon this challenge and
insist some other media of hate expression and vows of iniquity
than an indirect attack on Jesus himself.

MAN A SOCIAL BEING
God never intended for man to
exist alone, even from creation
He said it isn't good that man
should live alone, I will make him
a help mate for him Read Gen.
2-18.
After God tad formed all the
beauty in nature, the wholewide
world was filled with living creatures, 
beautiful trees, seed, bearing
herbs, we now use as vegetables,
the lakes, the rivers, the mountains, 
and sea. The animals, the
birds filled the air with songs, the
fishes in the sea. The sun, moon
and stars. This is indeed a beautiful 
world. And God said. It is
good." So God was pleased. He said,
"Let us make man in our image after 
our likeness. Read Gen. 1-25. He
made man to have dominion over
all the cattle or the earth, the fowls
of the air, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Man had his first operation performed 
by the Great Physician
God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon man, and from him a rib,
and he made a woman Read Gen.
2-21.
Maybe that could be the reason
women are stronger than men today. 
They endure more suffering,
their life span is longer. It seems
like some men haven't gotten over
their operation. As we travel on
crowded buses there is very seldom, 
you see a man offering a
lady a seat Women have gotten
use to men's physical weekness.
It has been once said that woman
was the walker sex. Now we know
man has displayed the weakest

sex. In the spiritual world some of
our Strong and great men were
trapped by Satan. Read the story
Sampson and Delilah. David Solomon 
all of our weakness. All have
tinned and fallen short of the
glory of God.
He made a remedy for the curse
of sin by sending His Son Jesus
Christ to redeem us from sin and
the grave. So no excuse for man
or woman to be weak. All can be
pure gold.
Satan wants man to be selfish.
Have dominion over man like God.
Man can not be God. God is the
only Supreme Being. He only wants
us to Love and obey Him. God is
interested in all people, every race,
creed and color, coming together
in Love. Pear and Good-will to
each other. Not as selfish children,
say my Father, or My Mother, my
Nation or my Wealth or money
etc. All being to God.
"When I wan a child, I spoke as
a child. I understood as a child: I
thought as a child, but when I became 
a man I put away childish
things. Read Corinthians 13-11. Let
us pray to God to grow-up and be
strong men and women, doing
great things collectively.

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The Tip-Off
BY EMORY O. JACKSON
For a quarter-century Periclean
Club has tried to tie in a portion
of its program with the celebration
of Negro History Week During that
time it hat brought to the city 22
speakers who are contemporary history-makers 
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark
of New York City will become the
23rd speaker over the period of 25
years this club has given emphasis
and impetus to the significance of
a groups history.

Arnold Toynbee, the famous English 
historian, has pointed out that
with the new weapons of human
destruction humankind must understand 
how to live together as a
single family in order to survive
"Mankind is going to destroy itself," 
he rays, "if it cannot learn to
live as a single family on the rapidly 
shrinking surface of this planet."

"Whatever our present day goveroments 
may do or say." writes
Toynbee, "the tide that is now making 
for the unification of the world
will. I believes go rolling on irresistibly. 
I do not believe that it can
be stopped before it has brought
upon mankind our of the other of
the two prospects that now face us
— either union or self-destruction."

Some obstinate minds of unworthy
use have been twins to belittle the
new role of the social scientists.
This came to Until with furious and
emotional extremeism after the May
17, 1954 ruling of the U. S. Supreme
Court in the school cases. The social
scientists played an important role
in the cases as expert witnesses.
This taunted some of those opposed
to social chance that will benefit
the downtrodden. Prejudiced minds
are usually unreliable in the search
for progress and improvement.

Dr. Stuart W. Cook, retiring president 
of the New York State Psy
chological 
Association and head of
the department of psychology at
New York University's Graduate
School of Arts and Science, said in
a talk on "Desegregation: A Psychological 
Analysis", suggested that
close contact modifies attitudes.

It is in the findings of the social
scientists blended with the ethical
teachings common to all religions
together with the American concept 
of fair-play that hope lies for
decent relations arming all population 
groups in this country, it seems
to me.

Letters To
The Editor
Dear Mr. Tisby:
The Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee 
was organized 1935. It was
organized to meet a need for expression 
of a minority croup and
to help solve some of the problems.
To advertise the South's greatest
agricultural staple, cotton; To present 
and represent Memphis and the
mid-South at places of good abode;
and to create a better understanding
and relationship between the races.
The Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee 
is the only organization sponsored 
by a Negro group which advertises 
and publicizes "Cotton and
the South" both inside and outside
of the nation Further it is the only
celebation of its kind in America
among Negroes. It has been a goodwill 
media creating a better understanding 
of the South and this staple 
"Cotton' than any other organization 
created by Negroes anywhere. 
It has broadened the intercultural 
perspectives in other countries. 
It has attracts State epartment 
endorsement. It is a definite
part of the community life of Memphis 
and the nation.
The 1956 Jubilee celebration will
be held May 14th through May 19
The theme: King Cotton Moves Forward. 

Your paper has rendered an invaluable 
service to this program thruout 
the year. For this we are grateful 
and are soliciting your full cooperation 
through pictures and news
stories in your, paper for the 1985
celebration.
Thanking you in advance for your
many kindnesses to us.
Respectfully yours,
DR. R. Q. Venson.
General Chairman.

TELLS REASON FOR
STRTING JUBILEE
Dear Mr. Tisby:
The Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee 
was organized 1935. It was
organized to meet a need for expression 
of a minority croup and
to help solve some of the problems.
To advertise the South's greatest
agricultural staple, cotton; To present 
and represent Memphis and the
mid-South at places of good abode;
and to create a better understanding
and relationship between the races.
The Memphis Cotton Makers' Jubilee 
is the only organization sponsored 
by a Negro group which advertises 
and publicizes "Cotton and
the South" both inside and outside
of the nation Further it is the only
celebation of its kind in America
among Negroes. It has been a goodwill 
media creating a better understanding 
of the South and this staple 
"Cotton' than any other organization 
created by Negroes anywhere. 
It has broadened the intercultural 
perspectives in other countries. 
It has attracts State epartment 
endorsement. It is a definite
part of the community life of Memphis 
and the nation.
The 1956 Jubilee celebration will
be held May 14th through May 19
The theme: King Cotton Moves Forward. 

Your paper has rendered an invaluable 
service to this program thruout 
the year. For this we are grateful 
and are soliciting your full cooperation 
through pictures and news
stories in your, paper for the 1985
celebration.
Thanking you in advance for your
many kindnesses to us.
Respectfully yours,
DR. R. Q. Venson.
General Chairman.

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televised swatfest at Madison
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Jackson who writhed 194-1-2
yielded almost 20 pounds to Hip suetLaden 
Baker who tipped 214-1-4.
The Hurricane, who had been rat
ed 
third prior to the fight, never
stopped tossing leather over the entire 
distance and rarely. If ever, let
the slow moving. Baker get set for
a punch.

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Funeral Rites Wednesday
Mrs. Arneta Barbee Dies;
Many Memphians were shocked
and grieved to hear on Friday evening 
that Mrs. Arneta Walton Barbee, 
prominent citizen and retired
city school teacher who always
greeted all of her friends and coworkers 
with a smile, had passed
away at John Gaston Hospital.
Mrs. Barbee had been in failing
health for a number of years having 
made several Hips to the Mayo
Clinic.
The body will lie in state at the
Barbee home, 1371 Gaither—Parkway
until Wednesday when the funeral
services will be conducted by the
Reverend H. C. Buntyn at Mount
Olive Cathedral at 3 P. M. The Rev.
D. S. Cunningham will assist the
pastor . . . Wake Tuesday night
at the above residence. Burial will
be in Elmwood Cemetery.
The deceased was a native of
Collierville, Tenn. Her early education 
was received at Collierville
after which she later moved to
Memphis where she attended and
was graduated from LeMoyne Normal 
. . . and in later years was
graduated from the LeMoyne College 
. . . During these years she
made her home with an uncle and
aunt. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Branch
on Polk Street and with the Freeman 
family on Peach Street. Mrs.
Barbee taught school for 35 years
before she was reined in 1951. Her
first years of teaching were in the
county, but 25 or more years of

those 35 were spent at Manassas
High School where she was instruetor 
in Home Economics.
Mrs. Walton—Barbee was a member 
of Mt. Olive Cathedral. She was
active in civic, social and business
circles, having been the only woman
to serve as a member of the Board
of Directors at the Tri—State Bank
. . . She was a member of the Hiawatha 
Club, the Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, the Dental Auxiliary and
the Gray Ladies of Kennedy General 
Hospital.
In recent years Mrs. Barbee turned 
her interest to her husband's
Casket Company and to a Gas-Station 
run by her son . . . She was
the widow of Dr. U. S. Walton, prominent 
Dentist, to whom she was
married to at an early age . . .
She has enjoyed rich associations
in her own rights and with both of
her husbands mowing tributes can
be paid rightfully to the fine lady
for her quiet and useful life.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. Hudson Barbee; a son, Mr. Albert 
Walton; a daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Albert Walton; a step-daughter, 
Mrs. Emma Barbee Henning
of Chicago; two grand-sons, Albert.
Jr. and Mickie; an uncle, Mr. L. F.
Branch; four aunts; Mrs. Millissa
Johnson, Mrs. Josephine Williams
of Memphis; Mrs. Bessie Johnson
of Collierville and Mrs. Cora Gatewood 
of Crumrod, Ark. . . and
several close cousins, Mrs. Willie
Mae Johnson of Memphis; Mrs.
Neely Ward, Mrs. Eddie Pickett and
Mrs. Annie L. Davy of Chicago;
Mrs. Mabel Lee and Mr. Aaron
Johnson of Detroit: Mrs. Willie
Barrow and Mrs. Lucille Gipson
both of Crumrod, Ark.

MY WEEKLY
SERMON
REV. BLAIR T. HURT,
PASTOR
MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN
CHURCH, MEMPHIS
TEXT: "Unto him be glory in the
Church by Christ Jesus throughout
all ages, world without end."—Eph.
3:21.
The church is the mother of heroes 
crowned and uncrowned.
The church makes weak men
strong, strong holy. The church
brings good news.
Take the church out of any city
and the laws of the city would become 
the laws of the jungles.
We are talking about the greatest 
business, the greatest Enterprise 
in the world Are you a stockholder, 
have you any business in
this enterprise?
There is an advertising slogan.
"We are advertised by our loving
friends." Let the church be advertised 
by its loving friends Talk up
the church, the choir, the Sunday
School, the Bible Band Don't talk
them down. If there is something
about the church that will not stand
advertising, try to change it.
There is glory in the House of
God where mortals commune with
God. Every church house is a holy
place. Come to the midweek prayer
meeting, to the Bible school for
there is glory and beauty in the
House of God.
There is a sacredness, in every
House of God because it is the place
of hallowed memories. It finks man

with God and it also links man with
all that is worthwhile in the past.
It is the church that makes the
bonds of matrimony sacred. Here
are memories of old hymns we
learned to sing in the days of our
childhood; memories of the day
when we gave our life into the keeping 
of Jesus Christ The church is
the place of hallowed associations.
The church not only links men
with God, with the hallowed past—
but the church links man with
eternity.
Every church testifies to the hope
which the Christian has in an eteral 
life with his Master Jesus Christ
as Paul wrote to Titus . . . "A hope
of eternal life which God that cannot 
he promised - before the world
began."
Every church testifies to the fact
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God and every church carries upon
its heart the atoning cross of Christ,
rooted and grounded in the heart
of God and whose out-stretching
arms cover Hip ends of the earth
and reach unto the end of agess.
No church means no worship
no worship means no religion; no
religion means no society; no society
means no government: no grovernments 
means anarchy, chaos.
Christ loved the church and gave
His life for the church.—Eph. 5:25.

THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH
REV. BLAIR T. HURT,
PASTOR
MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN
CHURCH, MEMPHIS
TEXT: "Unto him be glory in the
Church by Christ Jesus throughout
all ages, world without end."—Eph.
3:21.
The church is the mother of heroes 
crowned and uncrowned.
The church makes weak men
strong, strong holy. The church
brings good news.
Take the church out of any city
and the laws of the city would become 
the laws of the jungles.
We are talking about the greatest 
business, the greatest Enterprise 
in the world Are you a stockholder, 
have you any business in
this enterprise?
There is an advertising slogan.
"We are advertised by our loving
friends." Let the church be advertised 
by its loving friends Talk up
the church, the choir, the Sunday
School, the Bible Band Don't talk
them down. If there is something
about the church that will not stand
advertising, try to change it.
There is glory in the House of
God where mortals commune with
God. Every church house is a holy
place. Come to the midweek prayer
meeting, to the Bible school for
there is glory and beauty in the
House of God.
There is a sacredness, in every
House of God because it is the place
of hallowed memories. It finks man

with God and it also links man with
all that is worthwhile in the past.
It is the church that makes the
bonds of matrimony sacred. Here
are memories of old hymns we
learned to sing in the days of our
childhood; memories of the day
when we gave our life into the keeping 
of Jesus Christ The church is
the place of hallowed associations.
The church not only links men
with God, with the hallowed past—
but the church links man with
eternity.
Every church testifies to the hope
which the Christian has in an eteral 
life with his Master Jesus Christ
as Paul wrote to Titus . . . "A hope
of eternal life which God that cannot 
he promised - before the world
began."
Every church testifies to the fact
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God and every church carries upon
its heart the atoning cross of Christ,
rooted and grounded in the heart
of God and whose out-stretching
arms cover Hip ends of the earth
and reach unto the end of agess.
No church means no worship
no worship means no religion; no
religion means no society; no society
means no government: no grovernments 
means anarchy, chaos.
Christ loved the church and gave
His life for the church.—Eph. 5:25.
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Bunn, the crack Clark Col-
VITAMIN A-D LOTION —a flowing 
pink cream fortified with lanolin, 
slightly less concentrated than
Vitamin A-D Complex Cream, but
works the same way in regitalizing
skin cells. Recommended for use on
the whole body after a bath, especially 
helpful to areas such as hands,
elbows and heels.
EYE CONCENTREE—a special
concentrated cream to use for conditioning 
the very sensitive skin of
the lids and eye area. Helps prevent
the development of wrinkles around
the eyes.

'MOST COOPERATIVE'—
Honored last week by the New York Press Photographers association as
the "Most Cooperative Sports Figures" were (left to right): Yankee first baseman Joe Collins; Columbia
grid coach Lou Little; and Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanells, shown here with their plaques.

Jack Dittmer Refuses
Milwaukee Contract
Jack
Dittmer. Milwaukee Braves' utility
infielder, said Thursday he has refused 
to accept a salary cut in his
1956 contract with the National
eague Club.
Dittmer has been working for
his father in an auto agency in
Elykader, Ia. and has considered
leaving baseball to devote full time
to the business He said he sold a
new car yesterday and a used one
today.
A 1956 contract offered by the
Braves was returned unsigned but
Dittmer said he planned to discuss 
the matter with Braves officials 
in Milwaukee "before spring
training begins."
He declined to state what offer
was made or what he would demand 
in the way of salary to accept 
a 1956 contract.

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