Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1955-10-18
Raymond F. Tisby

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We Look To The Courts
The courts continue to throw out many of the elements that
hamper the workings of the true American ideal. Action by the
State Supreme Court of Texas a few days ago regarding the
segregation laws of that state, is a case in point. The encouraging
fact is, the judges went down the line in pledging their support to
the U. S. Supreme Court's decision declaring segregation in the
schools unconstitutional.
The judges used good judgment and acted in good faith.
One thing to be sure,, the court struck back at elements in
that state designed to resist the High Court's original order. Such
elements have been at work all along wherever social change
begins to take place. These elements do not of course, always
represent the thinking of the population, the more genuine leadership, 
or those who look to the future and not the past. Moreover,
such elements hamper progress, stagnate race relations, confuse
and distort that which stands for progress.
The Courts have been called our freest and most indepehdent 
branch of government. This being true, judges hove played a
great role in helping to set the climate of thinking on issues complex 
and controversial. This branch of government has been foremost 
in making a thorough analysis of issues and ruling on them,
not on the basis of special interest, but how such results will affect 
the total need of the population.
In the future, we will look more to the Courts. For as our
country grows, and our contract with, other Nations of the world
becomes more widespread, we are going to be forced to live more
closely to the fundamentals of our ideals. No longer will we be
in the position to cover up and exploit the weaker segments. We
must proceed more and more toward a more genuine Christian
democracy. For, behind the teachings of a democratic social order, 
lie the ethics of brotherhood, decency without regard to
race, religion and pigmentation. We must move into a new era of
enlightenment. It seems that the Courts of our country have such
a concept clearly in mind.

Speech Cancelled
Birmingham law and sensitive custom have served as the
basis for the cancellation of a speech by Michigan Governor G.
Mennen (Soapy) Williams scheduled-for a Jefferson-Jackson Day
fund raising dinner to be sponsored by the Alabama Democratic
Party at the Dinkier-Tutwiler Hotel on Wednesday night, October
5. It is unfortunate that at this point in history and that at this
period of our democratic development that any legal barriers, traditions, 
and hateful emblems would be allowed to stand in the
way of party fellowship because of emotional factors.
According to Governor Williams, as reported in the press,
when he "accepted the invitation to be the principal speaker ...
(he) .... did not know there was a city law (in Birmingham, Alabama) 
banning Negroes." Yet the story of this city's notorious
racial laws has been told in books, feature stories, magazine articles, 
on radio, television and by word of mouth almost everywhere
human beings communicate.
His pulling out will hardly make much difference from the
stand point of funds. But his actions would seem to have placed
National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler of Washington, D. C.
in a tough spot. Mr. Butler likely will have the opportunity to
show his political astuteness when he seeks to harvest votes for
his party in those pivotal states.
E. D. Nixon, president of the Montgomery County Democratic
Association, has, in our opinion, made a useful contribution. He has
brought out into the open, even the national spotlight, how certain 
obsolete and bad local laws tend to unfairly divide and hamper 
human beings of goodwill, of enlightened purpose, and of
high democratic ideals.

News From Washington
The President
has passed the first stage of crisis
following his heart attack and now
chancer are very good that he will
make a complete recovery. This
prospect, which materialized after
M. Eisenhower survived a twoweeks 
period, after his initial attack, 
without setback, has some G.
O. P. leaders hopeful Dee will run
again.
The plan this group is working
on is one in which Ike could be
persuaded to head the ticket next
year as a sort of nominal leader
He would be assured that most
of the highly perplexing duties of
the presidency would be taken off
his shoulders during any second
term.
In other words, Ike would have
a group of close advisers who
would do the detailed planning under 
his general direction and who
would make the lesser decisions,
carrying out his broad philosophy. 
If the President could delegate 
most of the heavy work load
that goes with the office, he might
be willing, to continue as President, 
these Republican hopefuls
suggest.
-Whether this group will succeed 
in getting Mr. Eisenhower in
the political campaign next year—
as a candidate for re-election—is
a good Question, although the odds
may be against them right now,
when the time for a final choice
comes, however, early next year,
conditions may be different or the
President may feel more hardy
His followers can hope anyhow.
Meanwhile, over in the Democratic 
party, there is growing talk
that Averell Hariman might be
the man to head a stop Kefauver 
movement, if Adlai, Stevenson
takes himself out of the presidential 
nomination picture. Odds are
that Adlai will not take himself
out of the picture.
Even if the 1952 Democratic
nominee is a candidate, Harriman 
might still be needed to stop
Kefauver—in the opinion of some
Democrats. They say Stevenson is
no cinch to get the nomination
again this year and that if and
when his effort at Chicago fails.
someone must be in position

head off Kefauver—lest the Tennessean 
grab the nomination of a
popular surge of popularity it the
convention.
kefauver has always been popJar 
with the delegates and with
the voters. He is not popular with
the political bosses in the Democratic 
party Harriman may have
the city leaders lined up pretty
well by convention time — in the
astern metropolitan areas anyhow. 

Although Harriman recently said
he was supporting Stevenson, he
more recently said he was "for
Adali" but would not necessarily
support him at Chicago. Such a
measure of backing is something
of a record in the way of minimum 
support, it would sem.
But despite all the talk about
Harriman and Kefauver at this
stage of the game Adlai Stevenson
remains the favorite and he will
get a large bloc of Midwestern
and Southern votes in the Chicago
convention, and some from other
sections, almost certainly, if he
does not step aside next month
when he announces his decision
about running in 1955.
Because Vice President Richard
Nixon is the most active Vice
President the country has had
in some time the incapacitation
of President Eisenhower has
pushed the Veep into the national
spotlight more than might have
teen expected.
The actual "acting President"
of the country, Sherman Adams,
is doing more of the President's
former job than is Nixon, but Adams 
is an appointive off leer and
Nixon is an elected one.

BUDGET BALANCING
Secretary of Defense Charles E.
Wilson has ruled out the possibilities 
of enough cuts in military
spending to balance the budget in
the next fiscal year. He declared
that $34,000,000,000,000 would be a
rock bottom figure on military
spending. Both he and Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey agreed
that higher Federal tax receipt
still might bring the dudget into
balance.

REVIEWING
THE NEWS


One can imagine the attention this ebony-colored woman
got when she walked gently down the aisle of the church. There
were eyes, some sharply focused taking in every stride of her
rhythmic walk as she neared the altar.
"There was not a church of my faith in the community. So
went to this rather inclusive place of worship, all-white of course.
I was hesitant at first, but remembering the teachings of the
Saviour, which ignored the bounds of race and color, I went to
take part in the services."
Those familiar with the woman's background, family life and
education, knew she Would do just what she said. Her temperment 
and upbringing shared greatly in her actions. Aside from
being aggressive, she was quite capable to come grips with any
situation. So she went to the church of her choice, overlooking
all traditions, habits and customs, only adhering to the theme
of the basic teachings of Christ.
"I went to altar and sipped from the sacred cup," she said.
"When services were over, the Women of the church came and
shook hands with me. Some of them asked me to come back and
bring my husband and children."
She apparently went away with the feeling of welcome. She
had a right to be, for here were people, out of their own willingness, 
and Christian Spirit had welcomed her, not just as a Negro,
but simply as another member of the human family, one seeking
religious instruction. For the woman, this was a new experience,
but there ore many such experiences which should be shared by
a larger segment of the human family.
Sometimes, one has to cut down deep into the human core
of things. Doing so, you may come up with what is basic in human 
thinking and reasoning.
The North Carolina Catholic priest had a point it seems when
he said:
"The big job is not getting Christianity into the church, but'
getting Christianity into the people."
Referring to his own Church, the priest said, "we don't get
good Catholics until we get good Christians." He went on to point
out that real members of the Christian family are not concerned
with pigmentation. They come to church with the idea of worship. 
The idea is to help save souls and at the same time save
their own souls.
The woman who visited this church of her faith, went expecting 
the worst. She had the right to expect this in light of the
kind of leadership back of the Protestant faith which had been
completely but of line with Christian ethics. But the more We have
situations like the woman's experience above, we can see ourselves 
becoming more and more a Christian country. This, will be
more of a reality when more of us are able to sip together from
the sacred cup.

She Sipped From The Sacred Cup


One can imagine the attention this ebony-colored woman
got when she walked gently down the aisle of the church. There
were eyes, some sharply focused taking in every stride of her
rhythmic walk as she neared the altar.
"There was not a church of my faith in the community. So
went to this rather inclusive place of worship, all-white of course.
I was hesitant at first, but remembering the teachings of the
Saviour, which ignored the bounds of race and color, I went to
take part in the services."
Those familiar with the woman's background, family life and
education, knew she Would do just what she said. Her temperment 
and upbringing shared greatly in her actions. Aside from
being aggressive, she was quite capable to come grips with any
situation. So she went to the church of her choice, overlooking
all traditions, habits and customs, only adhering to the theme
of the basic teachings of Christ.
"I went to altar and sipped from the sacred cup," she said.
"When services were over, the Women of the church came and
shook hands with me. Some of them asked me to come back and
bring my husband and children."
She apparently went away with the feeling of welcome. She
had a right to be, for here were people, out of their own willingness, 
and Christian Spirit had welcomed her, not just as a Negro,
but simply as another member of the human family, one seeking
religious instruction. For the woman, this was a new experience,
but there ore many such experiences which should be shared by
a larger segment of the human family.
Sometimes, one has to cut down deep into the human core
of things. Doing so, you may come up with what is basic in human 
thinking and reasoning.
The North Carolina Catholic priest had a point it seems when
he said:
"The big job is not getting Christianity into the church, but'
getting Christianity into the people."
Referring to his own Church, the priest said, "we don't get
good Catholics until we get good Christians." He went on to point
out that real members of the Christian family are not concerned
with pigmentation. They come to church with the idea of worship. 
The idea is to help save souls and at the same time save
their own souls.
The woman who visited this church of her faith, went expecting 
the worst. She had the right to expect this in light of the
kind of leadership back of the Protestant faith which had been
completely but of line with Christian ethics. But the more We have
situations like the woman's experience above, we can see ourselves 
becoming more and more a Christian country. This, will be
more of a reality when more of us are able to sip together from
the sacred cup.

THE NATIONS CAPITAL

Ample pounds exist for a congressional 
investigation of disenfranchisement 
of colored voters in
Mississippi and other state as the
basis, for reducing representation in
Congress in proportion to the number 
of citizens denied the right to
vote.
The United States Constitution
provides that "Each House shall, be
the judge of the elections, returns
and qualifications of its own members. 

This provision unquestionably
gives each House the power to determine 
whether a person, who
claims to have been elected to either
the House or Senate, was in fact
elected.
On the basis of newspaper reports
from Mississippi during the Democratic 
primary campaign last August, 
facts can be established proving 
the illegality of the election.
In Mississippi, the Democratic
primary is the election, and a person 
denied the right to vote in the
primary is actually denied the right
to participate to the election of
the persons who shall represent him
in the Congress.
Two cases, Classic v. United States
and Smith v. Allwright, made the
right to vote real and meaningful
for colored people in particular.
In the Classic case, the Supreme
Court held:
1. That interference with the
right to vote in a congressional
primary in Louisiana for the choice
of Democratic candidate for Congress 
was "as a matter of law and
in fact an interference with the effective 
choice of the voters at the
only stage of the election procedure
when their choice is a significance."
2. That the right of qualified
voters to vote in the Louisiana primary 
and to have them counted is a
eight secured by the Constitution.
In Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme 
Court held that refusal of
election Judges to give Lonnie E.
Smith a ballot or to permit him to
cast a ballot in a primary election
for the nomination of Democratic
candidates for the United States
Senate and House of Representatives 
constitute state action in violation 
of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth 
Amendments.
The Fourteenth Amendment forbids 
a state from making or enforcing 
any law which abridges the
privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States, and the Fifteenth 
Amendment specifically forbids 
any denial pig abridgement by
a state of the right of citizens to
vote on account of color.
Widespread systematic activities
were carried on in Mississippi to
keep colored persons from registering 
and voting in the Democratic
primaries of last August.
1. The Mississippi Legislature
last year passed a law requiring voters 
to read, write and interpret the
Constitution. The literacy test has
been administered in a discriminatory 
manner to disqualify colored
voters.
2. Votes cast in the all-colored
town of Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County for the two-run-off candidates 
in the gubernatorial contest
were not counted.
It appears that qualified voters
in Mound Bayou regularly go thru
the process of casting their ballots

which are never counted by election
officials in Cleveland, the county
seat.
if this is true, it follows that
votes cast in Mound Bayou for candidates 
for Congress were not count
ed.
It may be fairly assumed that this
practice is followed generally
throughout the third congressional
district and in other districts where
colored persons have succeeded in
registering.
3. Tom J. Tubb, chairman of the
Mississippi, Democratic executive
committee, sent out orders to all
county committees to challenge colored 
voters on the ground that they
were not qualified members of the
Democratic party.
4. At some polling places in Mississippi, 
election officials asked colored 
voters such questions as:
"What's the difference between
a majority and la minority?" and
"How long have you been a member 
of the Democratic party?" and
"What does the Democratic party
mean to you?"
The purpose obviously was to use
the answers as grounds for disqualifying 
otherwise qualified voters. 

5. During the Democratic primary 
campaign all live of the candidates 
for Governor threatened
and sought to intimidate colored
voters to keep them away from the
polls and pressures were exerted to
force colored persons to take their
names off the voting lists.
According to the NAACP, thousands 
of colored persons, fearing for
their lives, did so, and in one county 
alone, colored registration dropped 
from 400 to about 50.
6. In Lowndes County death
threats were sent through the malls
to three registered colored voters.
7. On May 7, the Rev. George
W Lee was murdered in Belzoni
Mississippi, allegedly because he refused 
to remove his name from the
list of registered voters when ordered 
to do so by local whites. No one
has been arrested for his murder.
8. On August 13, Lamar Smith, a
registered voter, was called from his
home to the courthouse in Lincoln
County and shot to death in the
8 courthouse yard. A grand jury refused 
to indict three farmers who
were arrested for his murder.
This record, it appears, shows
conclusively that existing Federal
statues have been violated in connection 
with the Mississippi Democratic 
primary of last summer and
that there are sufficient grounds
for a congressional investigation
and a reduction of Representatives
in Congress in proportion to the
number of citizens denied the right
to vote.

CHURCH GROUP EXPRESSES
CONCERN OVER MISS. EVENTS
The general board
of the National Council of Churches
expressed "deep grief" Thursday
over what it called the recent "tragic 
events in Mississippi."
The board voted down a proposal 
to single out the slaying if 14year-old 
Emmett of Chicago.


OH, MY GRACIOUSYOU'RE 
RUNNING
THE WRONG WAY!
GLOOMAND-DOOM
BOYS 

NOT BY A
DERNED SIGHT,
I AIN'T! I'M GOING
FOR ANOTHER
TOUCHDOWN
MOST
OF US
PROSPERITY DEPRESSION


BETWEEN THE LINES

The recent lynching of 14-yearold 
Emmett Till of Chicago, while
vacationing in Mississippi was a
sordid, sickening and saddening affair. 
But even more sordid and sickening 
and saddening was the farcial 
trial given the lynchers by the
State of Mississippi. The greater
tragedy was not the doing to death
of a juvenile, but the exoneration
of the accused perpetrators of the
crime.

The most important fact about
the whole sordid and sickening and
saddening affair is Mississippi's
willingness totake the defensive and
raise a subtle voice of apology for
the flagrant flaunting of justice.
The bottom elements in Mississippi
still merit the sympathy and understanding 
of civilized, intelligent
men everywhere. It will not always
be thus even in Mississippi.
Thanks be even as bad as it is,
it is not as bad as it once was. As
this writer has said before "the Old
South dieth hard" and the lynching
of 14-year-old Emmett Till is just
an incident in the death of the Old
South. It is just one more of the
vagaries of fate that a more child
must pay a part of the extortions
price of freedom. Emmett Till's
death has done something to the
consciousness of the nation. It has
stirred us into a realization that the
Promised Land is yet in the distance 
and riot just around the corner. 
Negroes must steel themselves
for a grim struggle!

It is quite conceivable that young
Till's death could have a salutary
effect on the Cause of Negro advance. 
Every Negro to these United

States must see in Emmett Till's
death a threat to his own life. This
vengeance death is a threat to every
Negro who aspires to his rights as
a citizen. Negroes have rightly gathered 
in large crowds in protest in
our large Northern centers and at
sundry centers of the South. Negroes 
rightly have dramatized, the
situation by their vociferous resentment 
at young Till's lynching. The
danger is that when the excitement
of the hour dies down, Negroes may
be inclined just to casually remember 
Emmett Till.

Excited talk and resentment will
not achieve the desired ends: Neither 
will great protest meetings
achieve those ends. Votes will do it.
The rebellious South abetted by a
weak-kneed North can be cured
only at the ballot box. The burden
of quickening the vote-consciousness 
of the Negro masses is on the
educated and privileged Negroes everywhere. 
The Negro masses are
ready to follow conscientious Negro
leadership as is shown by the
growth of churches or divers description. 
Negroes have been successfuly 
organized church-wise, now
it remains, for Negro leaders to organize 
them ballot-wise.
It can be done. It must be done.
It will be done if Emmett Till tragedies 
are to be avenged and averted. 
Something can be done about the
sordid, sickening and saddening
lynching of Emmett Till if Negroes
Will have the courage and determination 
to avenge Emmett Till at
the ballot box!

Nigerian Named
London
Commissioner
Nigerian sources have stated that
Alhaji Abdulmaliki, 42, has been
named the first Commissioner in
the United Kingdom for the Northern 
Region of Nigeria

MY WEEKLY
SERMON
REV. BLAIR T HUNT,

TEXT: "And all men did marvel."
—Mark 5:30.
Jesus was a marvelous Man. He
furnished a succession of surprises
for the people.
This is no way of accounting for
Him if we do not accept Him as
the Christ, the only begotten of
God. Born in obscurity, cradled in
a manger, reared in the quiet town
of Nazareth. He grew to manhood
subject to His parents a child of
toil, who with hard and horny
hands, merged from the carpenter's
shop and began the ministry that
has been the marvel of the ages.
In Luke 2:23, we read, "And His
Father and His mother were marveling 
at the things which were
spoken concerning Him."
In Mark 5:20 we read, "And all
men marveled." And Jesus still
does marvellous things through the
power of the gospel, as attested by
the thousands of hospitals in this
and every land, the asylums for the
Unfortunate and the christian homes
of the world.
Jesus came wearing ho degrees.
He bore ho stemp of college. His
knowledge of the certainties in the
land of the unseen was a marvel to
the people. The keenness of His
intellect astounded them His ability 
in speaking compelled them to
say, "Never man so spake."
"He stands like some tall Mountain 
peak even today. In Matthews

7:28-29 we read, "The multitudes
were astonished at His teaching, for
He taught them as one having authority 
and not as their scribes."
Never before had such utterances
fallen from the lips of any man,
without notes or a written page, this
young Galilean Teacher stood on
the countain and set forth doctrines
that have occupied the mountain
top of men's thinking ever since.
Jesus never spoke the wrong word
nor did the wrong thing. He stepped
over traps laid for Him, and came
away unscathed.
His claims, His deeds, His entire
life astonished the people. And they
still astonish people. Jesus never
lost His composure. He was undisturbed, 
although wolves howled at
His door.
Never has the life of Jesus been
approached by any other man. And
yet He is the warm friend of every
man who seeks Him. The procession
of the great passes by ... The
scholars, the orators, the generals,
and the good. They are all there.
And to Him each in his turn lift
His head and shout, "Hall Master."
He is not only King of the jews,
but King of all men. "Ecee Homo!
... Behold the Man"
This Man, Jesus, is God available
and approachable. In the words of
E. Stanley Jones, He is God's latchstring 
hung so low that even a child
may reach it .. . and enter in ...
to all things.

JESUS—THE MARVELOUS MAN
REV. BLAIR T HUNT,

TEXT: "And all men did marvel."
—Mark 5:30.
Jesus was a marvelous Man. He
furnished a succession of surprises
for the people.
This is no way of accounting for
Him if we do not accept Him as
the Christ, the only begotten of
God. Born in obscurity, cradled in
a manger, reared in the quiet town
of Nazareth. He grew to manhood
subject to His parents a child of
toil, who with hard and horny
hands, merged from the carpenter's
shop and began the ministry that
has been the marvel of the ages.
In Luke 2:23, we read, "And His
Father and His mother were marveling 
at the things which were
spoken concerning Him."
In Mark 5:20 we read, "And all
men marveled." And Jesus still
does marvellous things through the
power of the gospel, as attested by
the thousands of hospitals in this
and every land, the asylums for the
Unfortunate and the christian homes
of the world.
Jesus came wearing ho degrees.
He bore ho stemp of college. His
knowledge of the certainties in the
land of the unseen was a marvel to
the people. The keenness of His
intellect astounded them His ability 
in speaking compelled them to
say, "Never man so spake."
"He stands like some tall Mountain 
peak even today. In Matthews

7:28-29 we read, "The multitudes
were astonished at His teaching, for
He taught them as one having authority 
and not as their scribes."
Never before had such utterances
fallen from the lips of any man,
without notes or a written page, this
young Galilean Teacher stood on
the countain and set forth doctrines
that have occupied the mountain
top of men's thinking ever since.
Jesus never spoke the wrong word
nor did the wrong thing. He stepped
over traps laid for Him, and came
away unscathed.
His claims, His deeds, His entire
life astonished the people. And they
still astonish people. Jesus never
lost His composure. He was undisturbed, 
although wolves howled at
His door.
Never has the life of Jesus been
approached by any other man. And
yet He is the warm friend of every
man who seeks Him. The procession
of the great passes by ... The
scholars, the orators, the generals,
and the good. They are all there.
And to Him each in his turn lift
His head and shout, "Hall Master."
He is not only King of the jews,
but King of all men. "Ecee Homo!
... Behold the Man"
This Man, Jesus, is God available
and approachable. In the words of
E. Stanley Jones, He is God's latchstring 
hung so low that even a child
may reach it .. . and enter in ...
to all things.

ON THE REEL
By Rev. Taschereau Arnold

While we were reading our Life
magazine last week we came across
an In Memoriam, hi the form of
an editorial in that world famed
piece of reading material that we
term a masterpiece and would that
everyone in the nation especially
Mississippians would read. It was
faithfully dedicated to a 14-yearold 
Negro boy who was allegedly
killed by some whites in Mississippi,
who reported some 'yes' talk, instead 
of some 'yes' mam talk to a
white woman in the semi-civilized
state beginning with a capital 'M'
in the lower part of the United
States of America.
We need not to say more. The
printed words will speak for us.
We are very pleased to reproduce
this masterpiece from the mighty
Life magazine. It follows herewith:
In Mississippi the murder of 14year-old 
Emmett Till still goes unpunished. 
It will be punished, never
the less, for there is a higher law
than Mississippi's.
Emmett Till was a child One of
the South's traditions is the religion 
or Jesus, who said: "But whose 
shall offend one of these little
ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth
of the sea."
Man can be forgiven for prejudice,
as a sign of ignorance or imperfect 
understanding of their religion;
no righteous man can condone a
brutal murder. Those in Sumner,
and elsewhere, who do condone it,
are in far worse danger than Emmett 
Till ever was. He had only
his life to lose, and many others
have done that, including his soldier-father 
who was killed in France
fighting for the American, proposition 
that all men are equal. Those
who condone a deed so foul as this
are in danger of losing their souls.
The soul of Emmett Till himself
was known but to a few but it was
a thing of value. It was fashioned
on July 25, 1941 by the Lord God
Almighty who placed on it this
distinctive seal:

He went, and was slain. In the
dark night of this deed his childish
cries for mercy fell on deaf ears.
But they were heard, nonetheless,
and the Hearer made an entry,
that night, beneath certain names
writing once more: "It must needs
be that offenses come, but woe to
that man by whom the offense
cometh".
Sleep well, Emmett Till; you will
be avenged. You will also be remembered, 
as long as men have
tongues to cry against evil. It Is
true how as it was when Christ
said it almost 2,000 years ago: "For
there is nothing covered that shall
not revealed; neither hid that
shall not be known . . . Whatsoever 
ye have spoken in darkness
shall be heard in the light. ...
Be not afraid of them that kill the
body. ... Fear him, which after
he hath killed hath power to cast
into hell. Are not five sparrows
sold for two farthings and not one
of them is forgotten before, God?
... Fear not, therefore, ye are of
more value than many sparrows."
Herewith we also print this week
another timely treatment of the Till
lynching. This murder must be
avenged. Maybe the children of the
lynchers, will pay dearly for the
ungodliness of their wicked parents.
By The Rev. Charles E. Stewart DD
Pastor, Israel AME Church
Albany, Y. Y.





Norfolk Journal and Guide. And
that's that.

IN MEMORIAM, EMMETT TILL
By Rev. Taschereau Arnold

While we were reading our Life
magazine last week we came across
an In Memoriam, hi the form of
an editorial in that world famed
piece of reading material that we
term a masterpiece and would that
everyone in the nation especially
Mississippians would read. It was
faithfully dedicated to a 14-yearold 
Negro boy who was allegedly
killed by some whites in Mississippi,
who reported some 'yes' talk, instead 
of some 'yes' mam talk to a
white woman in the semi-civilized
state beginning with a capital 'M'
in the lower part of the United
States of America.
We need not to say more. The
printed words will speak for us.
We are very pleased to reproduce
this masterpiece from the mighty
Life magazine. It follows herewith:
In Mississippi the murder of 14year-old 
Emmett Till still goes unpunished. 
It will be punished, never
the less, for there is a higher law
than Mississippi's.
Emmett Till was a child One of
the South's traditions is the religion 
or Jesus, who said: "But whose 
shall offend one of these little
ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth
of the sea."
Man can be forgiven for prejudice,
as a sign of ignorance or imperfect 
understanding of their religion;
no righteous man can condone a
brutal murder. Those in Sumner,
and elsewhere, who do condone it,
are in far worse danger than Emmett 
Till ever was. He had only
his life to lose, and many others
have done that, including his soldier-father 
who was killed in France
fighting for the American, proposition 
that all men are equal. Those
who condone a deed so foul as this
are in danger of losing their souls.
The soul of Emmett Till himself
was known but to a few but it was
a thing of value. It was fashioned
on July 25, 1941 by the Lord God
Almighty who placed on it this
distinctive seal:

He went, and was slain. In the
dark night of this deed his childish
cries for mercy fell on deaf ears.
But they were heard, nonetheless,
and the Hearer made an entry,
that night, beneath certain names
writing once more: "It must needs
be that offenses come, but woe to
that man by whom the offense
cometh".
Sleep well, Emmett Till; you will
be avenged. You will also be remembered, 
as long as men have
tongues to cry against evil. It Is
true how as it was when Christ
said it almost 2,000 years ago: "For
there is nothing covered that shall
not revealed; neither hid that
shall not be known . . . Whatsoever 
ye have spoken in darkness
shall be heard in the light. ...
Be not afraid of them that kill the
body. ... Fear him, which after
he hath killed hath power to cast
into hell. Are not five sparrows
sold for two farthings and not one
of them is forgotten before, God?
... Fear not, therefore, ye are of
more value than many sparrows."
Herewith we also print this week
another timely treatment of the Till
lynching. This murder must be
avenged. Maybe the children of the
lynchers, will pay dearly for the
ungodliness of their wicked parents.
By The Rev. Charles E. Stewart DD
Pastor, Israel AME Church
Albany, Y. Y.





Norfolk Journal and Guide. And
that's that.

PRAYER FOR MISSISSIPPI
By Rev. Taschereau Arnold

While we were reading our Life
magazine last week we came across
an In Memoriam, hi the form of
an editorial in that world famed
piece of reading material that we
term a masterpiece and would that
everyone in the nation especially
Mississippians would read. It was
faithfully dedicated to a 14-yearold 
Negro boy who was allegedly
killed by some whites in Mississippi,
who reported some 'yes' talk, instead 
of some 'yes' mam talk to a
white woman in the semi-civilized
state beginning with a capital 'M'
in the lower part of the United
States of America.
We need not to say more. The
printed words will speak for us.
We are very pleased to reproduce
this masterpiece from the mighty
Life magazine. It follows herewith:
In Mississippi the murder of 14year-old 
Emmett Till still goes unpunished. 
It will be punished, never
the less, for there is a higher law
than Mississippi's.
Emmett Till was a child One of
the South's traditions is the religion 
or Jesus, who said: "But whose 
shall offend one of these little
ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth
of the sea."
Man can be forgiven for prejudice,
as a sign of ignorance or imperfect 
understanding of their religion;
no righteous man can condone a
brutal murder. Those in Sumner,
and elsewhere, who do condone it,
are in far worse danger than Emmett 
Till ever was. He had only
his life to lose, and many others
have done that, including his soldier-father 
who was killed in France
fighting for the American, proposition 
that all men are equal. Those
who condone a deed so foul as this
are in danger of losing their souls.
The soul of Emmett Till himself
was known but to a few but it was
a thing of value. It was fashioned
on July 25, 1941 by the Lord God
Almighty who placed on it this
distinctive seal:

He went, and was slain. In the
dark night of this deed his childish
cries for mercy fell on deaf ears.
But they were heard, nonetheless,
and the Hearer made an entry,
that night, beneath certain names
writing once more: "It must needs
be that offenses come, but woe to
that man by whom the offense
cometh".
Sleep well, Emmett Till; you will
be avenged. You will also be remembered, 
as long as men have
tongues to cry against evil. It Is
true how as it was when Christ
said it almost 2,000 years ago: "For
there is nothing covered that shall
not revealed; neither hid that
shall not be known . . . Whatsoever 
ye have spoken in darkness
shall be heard in the light. ...
Be not afraid of them that kill the
body. ... Fear him, which after
he hath killed hath power to cast
into hell. Are not five sparrows
sold for two farthings and not one
of them is forgotten before, God?
... Fear not, therefore, ye are of
more value than many sparrows."
Herewith we also print this week
another timely treatment of the Till
lynching. This murder must be
avenged. Maybe the children of the
lynchers, will pay dearly for the
ungodliness of their wicked parents.
By The Rev. Charles E. Stewart DD
Pastor, Israel AME Church
Albany, Y. Y.





Norfolk Journal and Guide. And
that's that.

Professor Named
To Exchange Group
BALTIMORE, Md. Dr. Virgil A.
Clift, professor arid head of the department 
of education at Morgan
State College, has been named to
the Advisory Selection Committee
for the Committee on International
Exchange of Persons.
The 11-member committee is to
review applications of candidates
for university lecturing and postdoctoral 
research awards under the
Fulbright Act.
Dr. Clift has just returned to the
college from a year's cleave of absence 
during which he lectured and
served as a consultant on teacher
education in Pakistan under a Fulbright 
Grant. A member of the Morgan 
faculty since 1948, Dr. Clift is
a graduate of Indiana University
and hold the M. A. degree from
Indian State Teachers College and
the Ph. D. degree from Ohio State
University.