Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1958-06-18
Thaddeus T. Stokes

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The Right To Vote
(From The Christian Science Monitor)
When Congress was hammering out the present civil rights
legislation this newspaper pointed out repeatedly that narrowing 
its scope chiefly to voting rights by no means meant devitalizing 
it. People who have the vote and who exercise that
right do not long encounter legal discriminations in other areas.
Does the American Negro understand this? Certainly Negro
leadership does. And it is striving to get Negroes to register
and to vote wherever they succeed in qualifying.
Do those who oppose changes in the old pattern of segregation 
appreciate this power of the ballot? Indeed they do,
Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman wrote members of the state
Legislature last year.

The Southern Regional Council has made a survey, documented 
with news stories from local newspapers, which comes
to the conclusion that at least in Mississippi, Alabama, and
Georgia there are conscious official efforts to curb Negro registration. 

Are these also designed to raise standards for white voters?
The council says no, and quotes a Georgia legislator who opposed 
a new 30-question preregistration test, saying the NAA
CP would "school" the Negroes, "But who is going to school
the poor white people who can't pass the test?" And it cites a
plan drafted by the Georgia Democratic Executive Committee
which would require would-be registrants to subscribe under
oath to the tenet that the 14th Amendment was never legally
adopted, hence is null and void.
Raising the qualifications of a state's whole electorate is
one thing, with good arguments in its favor; administering them
so as to deliberately disqualify those of a certain face is another. 
The right to associate or not to associate is one thing
the exercise of which should be left to voluntary choice at
much as possible; the right to vote is quite another.
The 15th Amendment pledges to "citizens of the United
States" that this right "shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."

A Vacation Hazard
Preparing for vacations takes work. Luggage must be
checked, clothes bought, reservations booked, milk and newspaper 
deliveries stopped, electricity, and telephony shut off,
house plants, gardens, lawns and pets provided for.
If you are going abroad you need passports, visas, guide
books and a whole series of vaccinations. This year there
should be a new vaccine on your required list—the Salk vaccine. 

But even if you are not leaving the country, vacation time
is still a dangerous time for polio infection. One reason lies
in the nature of the virus.
Ther eare actually three types of polio virus that cause
paralysis. They are known as Type 1, or the Brunhilde type,
named after a chimpanzee from whom it was first recovered;
Type 2, or the Lansing type, from Lansing, Mich., where it was
first identified; and Type 3, or the Leon type, named after a
Los Angeles boy who died of it.
In different parts of the country one type may, at any
given time, be more prevalent than the others. If, for instance,
you are going from California, where the Leon type may be
most prevalent, to New York, where the Brunhilde type may be
prevalent, your natural immunity may no longer protect you.
Or, even if you stay home, an influx of vacationers may bring
in other virus types heretofore less prevalent in your area.
The virtue of the Salk vaccine is that it protects you against
all three types. But unless you have been vaccinated yourself,
you cannot be sure of immunity. Play safe and make vaccination 
a part of your vacation preparations.
* * * * * *
"If we nibble on the 'government-can-produce-prosperity'
cheese we deserve the trap it baits.".... Ernestine Adams, in
The Petroleum Engineer.

IF YOU NIBBLE
Preparing for vacations takes work. Luggage must be
checked, clothes bought, reservations booked, milk and newspaper 
deliveries stopped, electricity, and telephony shut off,
house plants, gardens, lawns and pets provided for.
If you are going abroad you need passports, visas, guide
books and a whole series of vaccinations. This year there
should be a new vaccine on your required list—the Salk vaccine. 

But even if you are not leaving the country, vacation time
is still a dangerous time for polio infection. One reason lies
in the nature of the virus.
Ther eare actually three types of polio virus that cause
paralysis. They are known as Type 1, or the Brunhilde type,
named after a chimpanzee from whom it was first recovered;
Type 2, or the Lansing type, from Lansing, Mich., where it was
first identified; and Type 3, or the Leon type, named after a
Los Angeles boy who died of it.
In different parts of the country one type may, at any
given time, be more prevalent than the others. If, for instance,
you are going from California, where the Leon type may be
most prevalent, to New York, where the Brunhilde type may be
prevalent, your natural immunity may no longer protect you.
Or, even if you stay home, an influx of vacationers may bring
in other virus types heretofore less prevalent in your area.
The virtue of the Salk vaccine is that it protects you against
all three types. But unless you have been vaccinated yourself,
you cannot be sure of immunity. Play safe and make vaccination 
a part of your vacation preparations.
* * * * * *
"If we nibble on the 'government-can-produce-prosperity'
cheese we deserve the trap it baits.".... Ernestine Adams, in
The Petroleum Engineer.

Danger In Water Sports
Summer brings vacation days, with most of the people of
the nation spending more time in the water. The surf will appeal 
to many, and a record number of family outings will result. 
Unfortunately, some of these outings, which should bring
pleasure and relaxation to everyone, will result in tragedies
that bring sorrow to happy families.
Many accidents are attributed to carelessness, with inevitable 
drownings as venturesome individuals go out too far. Inland 
lake, ponds and rivers likewise claim their victims, with
non-swimmers occasionally getting into deep water with fatal
consequences.
Accidents take a terrible toll of life in this country every
year. It is well, therefore, to caution everybody about the dangers 
that lurk in water, known as well as unknown. Parents
who read this article permit it to remind them to give a warning 
to their children, with particular emphasis upon the need
of caution in the water.

WISHING WELL
Registered U. S. Patent Office.
H is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every
day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune.
Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or
more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is
your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle 
and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then
read the message the letters under the checked figures give you.

SEEING and SAYIKG
By WILLIAM A. FOWIKES
Managing Editor Atlanta Daily World
REPORTER ROBERT E. LEE BAKER, of the Washington Post
and Times Herald, did quite a story on Dawson, Ga., and its
"terrorism."
I know what he wrote, because it was once my privilege
to cover Dawson—some two years ago—when the authorities
tightened down the curfew, principally arresting Negroes —
teachers, ministers, school kids, workers, or anybody else—who
happened to be out beyond 11 p. m.

—o—
On minister, who got up early Sunday
morning to get ready for his trek to a little
church about 60 miles away, said he was
seized in his driveway as he backed his car
into the street. A Masonic lodge officer, who
had been holding a late hour initiation, was
taken in and fined heavily as he drove home on the other side
of town, he said.

—o—
WITHIN RECENT WEEKS, the fearful situation in Dawson
has paid off in two brutal deaths, reported cuffs and assaults,
and the "standing still of time itself" for thousands of people
in the area.
It is no wonder that Reporter Baker was able to quote
what the Dawson officer said to him:
"You know, cap, there's nothing like fear to keep n.... rs
in line..."
—o—


"Nothing Like Fear..."
By WILLIAM A. FOWIKES
Managing Editor Atlanta Daily World
REPORTER ROBERT E. LEE BAKER, of the Washington Post
and Times Herald, did quite a story on Dawson, Ga., and its
"terrorism."
I know what he wrote, because it was once my privilege
to cover Dawson—some two years ago—when the authorities
tightened down the curfew, principally arresting Negroes —
teachers, ministers, school kids, workers, or anybody else—who
happened to be out beyond 11 p. m.

—o—
On minister, who got up early Sunday
morning to get ready for his trek to a little
church about 60 miles away, said he was
seized in his driveway as he backed his car
into the street. A Masonic lodge officer, who
had been holding a late hour initiation, was
taken in and fined heavily as he drove home on the other side
of town, he said.

—o—
WITHIN RECENT WEEKS, the fearful situation in Dawson
has paid off in two brutal deaths, reported cuffs and assaults,
and the "standing still of time itself" for thousands of people
in the area.
It is no wonder that Reporter Baker was able to quote
what the Dawson officer said to him:
"You know, cap, there's nothing like fear to keep n.... rs
in line..."
—o—


IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

Adams And Powell
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

NIX NOT ASSIGNED
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

YERGER RECOGNIZED
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

SERVICE PROMOTIONS
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

ROCKEFELLER GRANT
WHEN THE STORY broke the other day that Bernard Goldfine, 
a Boston industrialist, having paid hotel bills of Sherman
Adams, the Assistant to the President and his wife, in suites
costing from $37 to $65 a day at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in
Boston, totaling almost $2,000, reporters wanted to know the
whereabouts of Adams.
The Assistant to the President
was way up in New Hampshire
fishing. But James C. Hagerty,
White House press secretary, said
he did not know where Adams
was.
"Is he hiding out in Adam Powell's 
office?" one reporter asked.
This was a take off on the Drew
Pearson report that Representative 
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat, 
of New York, had hidden
out in Adams' office while his colleagues 
were searching high and
low for him to vote in the House
Interior Committee on the Hells
Canyon Dam, a public power project, 
which the committee voted
15-13 not to report.
Representative Robert N. C.
Nix, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
has not yet been given his committee 
assignments.
The State Department has under 
consideration the names of
four colored women for one place
on the next delegation to the United 
Nations General Assembly.
They are Marian Anderson, world
famous contralto; Mrs. Zelma
George, the wife of Claiborne
George, a Cleveland attorney: Dr.
Helen Edmonds of North Carolina
State College, and Mrs. Beulah
Whitby of Detroit.
Martin Bass of Detroit was
sworn in at the Liberian chancery 
Thursday as honorary Liberian 
consul in Detroit.
Bass is the secretary and general 
manager of the LiberianAmerican 
enterpriser an outfit
engaged in the hard wood business. 
He also is a real estate operator 
in Detroit.
After the ceremony at the embassy, 
there was a luncheon, the
Liberian Ambassador to the United 
States, George A. Padmore,
gave a luncheon at his residence
in honor of Thomas E. Buchanan,
Liberian Secretary of Public
Works and Utilities, who is visiting 
in this country.
Also at the luncheon was Liberian 
Assistant Secretary of State
Arthur B. Cassell, who is ending a
two-month tour of the State Department 
and other Government
agencies here.
Ambassador Chapman of Ghana
gave a reception Tuesday evening
for Justice W. B. Van Lare of the
Ghana Supreme Court.
The Republican National Committee 
is recognizing 28-year-old
Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., as chairman
of the Republican party in Mississippi. 
Yerger heads the lilywhite 
faction. S, W. Miller, a
Jackson, Miss., painting contractor,
is the head of the black-and-tan
faction.
Perry W. Howard is still the Republican 
National Committeeman
for Mississippi, but recognition of
Yerger gives the lily-white the advantage 
in the 1960 fight for recognition 
at the Republican national 
convention.
In 1956, the black-and-ten fac
tion, 
headed by Howard, was given 
eight of the 15 seats to which
Mississippi was entitled in the Republican 
national convention. The
lily-whites got the remaining 7.
There was a report that Leonard 
Hall, then the Republican national 
chairman, now candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York State,
made an agreement with the lilywhites 
that if they did not carry
the fight for seating the contesting 
delegations to the convention
floor, the lily-whites would be recognized 
as the regular Republican
organization in Mississippi.
Two Army majors have been
promoted to lieutenant colonel.
They are:
Major Daniel A. Collins, dental
officer at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 
Washington, D. C., and Major 
George A. Roberts, a Quartermaster 
Corps officer, who is now
on duty in the' United States
It is reported that Lieut. Col.
Collins is leaving the service soon
and returning to Los Angeles to
resume his private dental practice. 

Lieut. Col. Roberts is from St.
Louis.
A former Howard University
student Ronald Crockett of Washington, 
D. C., is now a naval ensign 
and aviator. He is stationed
at Patuxent Naval Station in
Maryland. He attended the Howard 
University Engineering School
for two years before he was commissioned 
at Pensacola.
Toward the sum needed by Karamu 
House, Cleveland, to complete 
and equip its new music
building, the Rockefeller Foundation 
has appropriated $30,000, payable 
before Sept. 30, if Karamu
House secures an equal amount
from other sources for the same
purpose.
In 1954 the Foundation made a
similarly matching grant of $100,000 
for the buildin.
For more than 40 years Karamu
House has enjoyed a distinguished 
reputation as one of the United 
States most successful interracial 
cultural and social centers. Its
activities are manifold and diverse, 
but they are coordinated
principally around the production
for public performance of drama,
music, and dance.
Although its performers are amateurs, 
many go on to professional 
careers, and the quality of
their work is reflected in the invitations 
the house has received
to participate in the Edingburgh
Festival and the International Festival 
at Zurich, and to produce
plays, musicals, and dances at the
Old Vic and in a number of African 
countries.
The Foundation also has made
a grant of $8,000 to Atlanta University 
for analysis and criticism
of seven main contemporary athi
cal 
justifications of democracy by
Prof. Samuel DuBois Cook, chairman, 
Department of Political Science. 

Dr. L. J. Charles, a specialist in
malaria, Ministry of Health, Accra, 
Ghana, has received a grant
of $950 from the Foundation to attend 
the annual meeting of the
American Mosquito ControlAssociation 
and to observe developments 
in aerial larvicidal control
at centers in the United States.

Things You Should Know
Carter G.
WOODSON...
... ORGANIZED, IN 1915, IN CHICAGO THE
 FOR THE PAST  THIS
ASSOCIATION HAS DONE WONDROUS AND
WIDESPREAD RESEARCH AND PUBLISHED MANY
BOOKS AND SUCH PERIODICALS AS THE  AND THE 
CONTINENTAL FEATURES

The Tip Off
By EMORY O. JACKSON
In the "Statement of Policies"
issued by the May 12-13 Summit
Conference of Negro Leaders, held
in Washington, D. C. appears this
observation: "We (members of the
Negro group) are hampered unfairly 
in registering to vote or
denied registration completely, intimidated 
in voting or denied the
right to vote.... W seek the
free and unrestricted right to
register and vote, now".

Macon County
has been used as

the hatchery of devices to racially
restrict political suffrage. Abnormal 
rejection of Negro voter-registration 
applicants, resigned board of
registrars, no-qoruming of the registration 
officials, board absenteeism, 
the quota system of vouching,
equipment shortage, gerrymandering, 
are but a few of the obstacles
placed in the path of good Americans 
seeking political expression
and participation.

Despite the new Civil Rights
Commission, the vote commission
of the Alabama State Teachers Association, 
the citizenship committee 
of the Alabama Association of
Women's Clubs, the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference,
and the Alabama State Coordinating 
Association for Registration and
Voting, there are no Negro voters
in Wilcox County, Lowndes County, 
and less than eight in Bullock
County. There has been in effect
in Bullock County a federal court
injunction against discrimination
in voter-registration. Yet in Bullock 
County, the number of Negro
voters has apparently declined. In
Wilcox and Lowndes counties fear
and intimidation reportedly stand
in the way of Negro citizens applying 
for voter-registration.

The TCA's voter franchise committee 
reports that the total number 
of Negro voters in Macon County 
is 1071 as against the 963 Negro
voters carried on the two printed
lists.

It should be emphasized that
when one's name is not on the
published roster of voters that it
becomes difficult for him to utilize
his right to vote on election day.
This means that voters, community 
leaders, and civic organizations
should be on guard to see that the
voters' roster carries fully the number 
of voters entitled to be listed.


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JUSTICE, MY BHOTHER!
&copyright, 1957, by James Keene: reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, Random
House Inc.: distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Until now no woman except their
widowed mother has lived on the
ranch that the three O'Dare brothers
work in wild Oklahoma Territory of
the 1900s. Cord, the eldest, is the
"ladies' man," but Luther, the mildmannered 
second brother, is the first
to take a wife. Cord picked out the
bride. Edna Shore, and Luther courted 
her by mall. Luther and Edna
were married in Ponca City the day
she arrived by train from Chicago.
There's trouble after the wedding
between Cord and Bill Hageman. Cord
accused Bill of being a cattle rustier
and a bitter fight resulted, with Cord
the victor. Bill's sister Julie is one
of the women attracted to Cord, much
to the jealous resentment of Smoke,
the youngest O'Dare brother. Smoke,
the narrator of the story, rides in the
night to see Julie and agrees with
her to patch up things between Cord
and Bill, but....
THE PLACE was as quiet as a
graveyard, when I got home
that night I turned my pony into
his stall and hung up saddle and
bridle before walking to the
house. I was on the porch before
I realized someone was sitting
there and I jumped a foot.
Edna said, "I didn't mean to
scare you, Smoke. A girl?"
"Thought, you'd be in bed," I
said, taking a seat on the porch
railing.
"I'm too happy to sleep," she
said. "I'm afraid that if I did
sleep I'd wake up and find that it
was all a dream." The rocker
creaked slightly as she shifted.
"Have you been across the river?"
"Yes," I said.
"That trouble Cord had in
town, wasn't it with the people
across the river?"
I knew what she was getting
at, and because she was new, I
let her get away with it. "That
was Cord's trouble," I told her.
"They ain't mad at me. And I
guess the trouble will pass in
time."
"Your brother likes to have his
own way, doesn't he?"
"Luther?"
"No. Cord."
"He runs things," I said. "Ever
since Pa died, Cord's been the
boss. We ain't suffered any."
"Yes, I can see that. He's a
strong man, Smoke. I knew that
the first time I ever saw him, in
Chicago." She looked at me; her
face was a vague oval in the
night light. "I liked him, Smoke.
I suppose a lot of girls have liked
Cord O'Dare."
"He's been around the park
once or twice," I said, then added,
"So've you."
That hurt her feelings, and I
hadn't meant to do that. "Does it
show that much?" she asked. She
bent forward in the chair, her
face close to mine. "Smoke, this
is a new life for me. Give me a
chance to live it"
"I wouldn't do anything to hurt

you," I said. "Only Luther's pretty
dumb about a let of things."
"And you're not? That seems
odd, Smoke. He's older than you."
"Age doesn't have anything to
do with it," I said "Edna, when
Luther started to write to you, I
thought he was loco. Seemed an
odd way to court a girl. Well,
he's married you now, and I guess
you got a right to make something 
of it. Luther's been kind of
a homebody; Cord's kept a tight
rein on him. I wouldn't want to
see him taken advantage of just
because he's green."
"I think I understand," Edna
said. "And Smoke, you'll never
have to worry." The talk was at
an end; she got up and stepped
to the door. "Smoke, is your girl
nice?"
"She ain't exactly my girl," I
was sorry to admit.
"But is she nice?" Then Edna
shrugged. "It really doesn't matter, 
Smoke. Good night."
After she went into the house,
I sat alone on the porch and wondered 
if I hadn't shot my mouth
off again when I should have kept
my opinions to myself. My judgment 
of her had been sudden and
unkind, and she deserved better
than that. Finally I got up and
went into the room I had shared
with Luther, only now I had it to
myself; Luther and Edna had
moved into the back room which
was always kept as a spare in
case we had overnight company.
My concern about Edna breaking 
up the O'Dare family was not
as strong as it had once been, and
although she was still a stranger,
I decided that I would do my best
to understand her. Her being a
city girl naturally aroused my
suspicion, and that was wrong;
I had no right to judge her from
my brief observations of Omaha's
night life. Of course Edna would
have a lot to learn, and so would
I, especially about her clothes and
why she liked them so loud. And
I'd have to get used to the powder
she wore on her face. Time, I told
myself; that's what it would take.
The next morning all of us began 
to learn a few more things
about Edna. Nothing from what
she said, and I guess nothing too
important, but when Ma asked
her to help with the breakfast we
soon found but that she'd never
spent much time in a kitchen.
Cord seemed vastly amused and
Luther was apologizing all over
the place which made things
worse. Edna seemed about ready
to burst into tears and I guess
she would have if it hadn't been
for Ma, who could smooth anything 
over. She gave Edna an
easy job, watching the bacon son

that it didn't burn, and even then
some of it did. But Luther
grabbed all those pieces and ate
them as though that was the way
he liked bacon.
"I'm sorry," Edna kept saying.
"I'll do better."
"Well, never you mind," Ma
said. "My lands, didn't your folks
ever teach you to cook?"
"I—I lived a lot with relatives."
"She had things fixed for her,"
Cord said. "Servants and all.
Ain't that right, Edna?"
I knew good and well that she
didn't and wondered why Cord
said such a thing, or put her on
the spot like that Edna looked
at him and tried to make up her
mind whether to dispute him or
not. Ma said, "You never mentioned 
relatives in your letters,
child."
"Well," Cord said, "Edna never
had real relatives, did you, Edna?
Just Aunt Harriet, but she wasn't
Edna's real aunt, was she,
Edna?"
"No," Edna said in a small
voice. "Can't we drop it, please?"
"We're all one family," Cord
said. "We don't keep secrets from
each other."
Edna raised her head and stared
at him for a long moment. Even
Luther's attention sharpened.
Cord waited, his eyes steady on
hers, then Edna put her head
down and began eating.
The meal turned a little stiff;
Cord and Edna ate in silence, and
Luther sat there wondering what
the devil was going on. For myself, 
I could only wonder, and I
really didn't want to do that, for
a man is led into some wrong
conclusions that way.
Since I had things to do, I excused 
myself and went to the
barn to saddle my horse. Before
I could leave. Cord came out. He
had oh his .44 so I figured he
was going to town.
"I could use some help today,"
I said. True enough we didn't
have enough stock to make this
a full-time three-handed ranch,
but I was getting tired of all the
heavy work falling on me.
"Get Luther," he said. "I'll be
back by noon."
"What's to do in town now that
we didn't do yesterday?"
He looked levelly at me and
said, "You' wouldn't pry into a
man's business now, would you,
Smoke?" He got his horse out of
the stall and smoothed on the
saddle blanket. While he saddled,
he said, "I want you to look over
the herd we're going to ship and
see that they haven't busted down
Wade Everett's fence. There's
some grass near his spring that
the critters yearr for."


WHAT IS HAPPENING
&copyright, 1957, by James Keene: reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, Random
House Inc.: distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Until now no woman except their
widowed mother has lived on the
ranch that the three O'Dare brothers
work in wild Oklahoma Territory of
the 1900s. Cord, the eldest, is the
"ladies' man," but Luther, the mildmannered 
second brother, is the first
to take a wife. Cord picked out the
bride. Edna Shore, and Luther courted 
her by mall. Luther and Edna
were married in Ponca City the day
she arrived by train from Chicago.
There's trouble after the wedding
between Cord and Bill Hageman. Cord
accused Bill of being a cattle rustier
and a bitter fight resulted, with Cord
the victor. Bill's sister Julie is one
of the women attracted to Cord, much
to the jealous resentment of Smoke,
the youngest O'Dare brother. Smoke,
the narrator of the story, rides in the
night to see Julie and agrees with
her to patch up things between Cord
and Bill, but....
THE PLACE was as quiet as a
graveyard, when I got home
that night I turned my pony into
his stall and hung up saddle and
bridle before walking to the
house. I was on the porch before
I realized someone was sitting
there and I jumped a foot.
Edna said, "I didn't mean to
scare you, Smoke. A girl?"
"Thought, you'd be in bed," I
said, taking a seat on the porch
railing.
"I'm too happy to sleep," she
said. "I'm afraid that if I did
sleep I'd wake up and find that it
was all a dream." The rocker
creaked slightly as she shifted.
"Have you been across the river?"
"Yes," I said.
"That trouble Cord had in
town, wasn't it with the people
across the river?"
I knew what she was getting
at, and because she was new, I
let her get away with it. "That
was Cord's trouble," I told her.
"They ain't mad at me. And I
guess the trouble will pass in
time."
"Your brother likes to have his
own way, doesn't he?"
"Luther?"
"No. Cord."
"He runs things," I said. "Ever
since Pa died, Cord's been the
boss. We ain't suffered any."
"Yes, I can see that. He's a
strong man, Smoke. I knew that
the first time I ever saw him, in
Chicago." She looked at me; her
face was a vague oval in the
night light. "I liked him, Smoke.
I suppose a lot of girls have liked
Cord O'Dare."
"He's been around the park
once or twice," I said, then added,
"So've you."
That hurt her feelings, and I
hadn't meant to do that. "Does it
show that much?" she asked. She
bent forward in the chair, her
face close to mine. "Smoke, this
is a new life for me. Give me a
chance to live it"
"I wouldn't do anything to hurt

you," I said. "Only Luther's pretty
dumb about a let of things."
"And you're not? That seems
odd, Smoke. He's older than you."
"Age doesn't have anything to
do with it," I said "Edna, when
Luther started to write to you, I
thought he was loco. Seemed an
odd way to court a girl. Well,
he's married you now, and I guess
you got a right to make something 
of it. Luther's been kind of
a homebody; Cord's kept a tight
rein on him. I wouldn't want to
see him taken advantage of just
because he's green."
"I think I understand," Edna
said. "And Smoke, you'll never
have to worry." The talk was at
an end; she got up and stepped
to the door. "Smoke, is your girl
nice?"
"She ain't exactly my girl," I
was sorry to admit.
"But is she nice?" Then Edna
shrugged. "It really doesn't matter, 
Smoke. Good night."
After she went into the house,
I sat alone on the porch and wondered 
if I hadn't shot my mouth
off again when I should have kept
my opinions to myself. My judgment 
of her had been sudden and
unkind, and she deserved better
than that. Finally I got up and
went into the room I had shared
with Luther, only now I had it to
myself; Luther and Edna had
moved into the back room which
was always kept as a spare in
case we had overnight company.
My concern about Edna breaking 
up the O'Dare family was not
as strong as it had once been, and
although she was still a stranger,
I decided that I would do my best
to understand her. Her being a
city girl naturally aroused my
suspicion, and that was wrong;
I had no right to judge her from
my brief observations of Omaha's
night life. Of course Edna would
have a lot to learn, and so would
I, especially about her clothes and
why she liked them so loud. And
I'd have to get used to the powder
she wore on her face. Time, I told
myself; that's what it would take.
The next morning all of us began 
to learn a few more things
about Edna. Nothing from what
she said, and I guess nothing too
important, but when Ma asked
her to help with the breakfast we
soon found but that she'd never
spent much time in a kitchen.
Cord seemed vastly amused and
Luther was apologizing all over
the place which made things
worse. Edna seemed about ready
to burst into tears and I guess
she would have if it hadn't been
for Ma, who could smooth anything 
over. She gave Edna an
easy job, watching the bacon son

that it didn't burn, and even then
some of it did. But Luther
grabbed all those pieces and ate
them as though that was the way
he liked bacon.
"I'm sorry," Edna kept saying.
"I'll do better."
"Well, never you mind," Ma
said. "My lands, didn't your folks
ever teach you to cook?"
"I—I lived a lot with relatives."
"She had things fixed for her,"
Cord said. "Servants and all.
Ain't that right, Edna?"
I knew good and well that she
didn't and wondered why Cord
said such a thing, or put her on
the spot like that Edna looked
at him and tried to make up her
mind whether to dispute him or
not. Ma said, "You never mentioned 
relatives in your letters,
child."
"Well," Cord said, "Edna never
had real relatives, did you, Edna?
Just Aunt Harriet, but she wasn't
Edna's real aunt, was she,
Edna?"
"No," Edna said in a small
voice. "Can't we drop it, please?"
"We're all one family," Cord
said. "We don't keep secrets from
each other."
Edna raised her head and stared
at him for a long moment. Even
Luther's attention sharpened.
Cord waited, his eyes steady on
hers, then Edna put her head
down and began eating.
The meal turned a little stiff;
Cord and Edna ate in silence, and
Luther sat there wondering what
the devil was going on. For myself, 
I could only wonder, and I
really didn't want to do that, for
a man is led into some wrong
conclusions that way.
Since I had things to do, I excused 
myself and went to the
barn to saddle my horse. Before
I could leave. Cord came out. He
had oh his .44 so I figured he
was going to town.
"I could use some help today,"
I said. True enough we didn't
have enough stock to make this
a full-time three-handed ranch,
but I was getting tired of all the
heavy work falling on me.
"Get Luther," he said. "I'll be
back by noon."
"What's to do in town now that
we didn't do yesterday?"
He looked levelly at me and
said, "You' wouldn't pry into a
man's business now, would you,
Smoke?" He got his horse out of
the stall and smoothed on the
saddle blanket. While he saddled,
he said, "I want you to look over
the herd we're going to ship and
see that they haven't busted down
Wade Everett's fence. There's
some grass near his spring that
the critters yearr for."


CHAPTER 10
&copyright, 1957, by James Keene: reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, Random
House Inc.: distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Until now no woman except their
widowed mother has lived on the
ranch that the three O'Dare brothers
work in wild Oklahoma Territory of
the 1900s. Cord, the eldest, is the
"ladies' man," but Luther, the mildmannered 
second brother, is the first
to take a wife. Cord picked out the
bride. Edna Shore, and Luther courted 
her by mall. Luther and Edna
were married in Ponca City the day
she arrived by train from Chicago.
There's trouble after the wedding
between Cord and Bill Hageman. Cord
accused Bill of being a cattle rustier
and a bitter fight resulted, with Cord
the victor. Bill's sister Julie is one
of the women attracted to Cord, much
to the jealous resentment of Smoke,
the youngest O'Dare brother. Smoke,
the narrator of the story, rides in the
night to see Julie and agrees with
her to patch up things between Cord
and Bill, but....
THE PLACE was as quiet as a
graveyard, when I got home
that night I turned my pony into
his stall and hung up saddle and
bridle before walking to the
house. I was on the porch before
I realized someone was sitting
there and I jumped a foot.
Edna said, "I didn't mean to
scare you, Smoke. A girl?"
"Thought, you'd be in bed," I
said, taking a seat on the porch
railing.
"I'm too happy to sleep," she
said. "I'm afraid that if I did
sleep I'd wake up and find that it
was all a dream." The rocker
creaked slightly as she shifted.
"Have you been across the river?"
"Yes," I said.
"That trouble Cord had in
town, wasn't it with the people
across the river?"
I knew what she was getting
at, and because she was new, I
let her get away with it. "That
was Cord's trouble," I told her.
"They ain't mad at me. And I
guess the trouble will pass in
time."
"Your brother likes to have his
own way, doesn't he?"
"Luther?"
"No. Cord."
"He runs things," I said. "Ever
since Pa died, Cord's been the
boss. We ain't suffered any."
"Yes, I can see that. He's a
strong man, Smoke. I knew that
the first time I ever saw him, in
Chicago." She looked at me; her
face was a vague oval in the
night light. "I liked him, Smoke.
I suppose a lot of girls have liked
Cord O'Dare."
"He's been around the park
once or twice," I said, then added,
"So've you."
That hurt her feelings, and I
hadn't meant to do that. "Does it
show that much?" she asked. She
bent forward in the chair, her
face close to mine. "Smoke, this
is a new life for me. Give me a
chance to live it"
"I wouldn't do anything to hurt

you," I said. "Only Luther's pretty
dumb about a let of things."
"And you're not? That seems
odd, Smoke. He's older than you."
"Age doesn't have anything to
do with it," I said "Edna, when
Luther started to write to you, I
thought he was loco. Seemed an
odd way to court a girl. Well,
he's married you now, and I guess
you got a right to make something 
of it. Luther's been kind of
a homebody; Cord's kept a tight
rein on him. I wouldn't want to
see him taken advantage of just
because he's green."
"I think I understand," Edna
said. "And Smoke, you'll never
have to worry." The talk was at
an end; she got up and stepped
to the door. "Smoke, is your girl
nice?"
"She ain't exactly my girl," I
was sorry to admit.
"But is she nice?" Then Edna
shrugged. "It really doesn't matter, 
Smoke. Good night."
After she went into the house,
I sat alone on the porch and wondered 
if I hadn't shot my mouth
off again when I should have kept
my opinions to myself. My judgment 
of her had been sudden and
unkind, and she deserved better
than that. Finally I got up and
went into the room I had shared
with Luther, only now I had it to
myself; Luther and Edna had
moved into the back room which
was always kept as a spare in
case we had overnight company.
My concern about Edna breaking 
up the O'Dare family was not
as strong as it had once been, and
although she was still a stranger,
I decided that I would do my best
to understand her. Her being a
city girl naturally aroused my
suspicion, and that was wrong;
I had no right to judge her from
my brief observations of Omaha's
night life. Of course Edna would
have a lot to learn, and so would
I, especially about her clothes and
why she liked them so loud. And
I'd have to get used to the powder
she wore on her face. Time, I told
myself; that's what it would take.
The next morning all of us began 
to learn a few more things
about Edna. Nothing from what
she said, and I guess nothing too
important, but when Ma asked
her to help with the breakfast we
soon found but that she'd never
spent much time in a kitchen.
Cord seemed vastly amused and
Luther was apologizing all over
the place which made things
worse. Edna seemed about ready
to burst into tears and I guess
she would have if it hadn't been
for Ma, who could smooth anything 
over. She gave Edna an
easy job, watching the bacon son

that it didn't burn, and even then
some of it did. But Luther
grabbed all those pieces and ate
them as though that was the way
he liked bacon.
"I'm sorry," Edna kept saying.
"I'll do better."
"Well, never you mind," Ma
said. "My lands, didn't your folks
ever teach you to cook?"
"I—I lived a lot with relatives."
"She had things fixed for her,"
Cord said. "Servants and all.
Ain't that right, Edna?"
I knew good and well that she
didn't and wondered why Cord
said such a thing, or put her on
the spot like that Edna looked
at him and tried to make up her
mind whether to dispute him or
not. Ma said, "You never mentioned 
relatives in your letters,
child."
"Well," Cord said, "Edna never
had real relatives, did you, Edna?
Just Aunt Harriet, but she wasn't
Edna's real aunt, was she,
Edna?"
"No," Edna said in a small
voice. "Can't we drop it, please?"
"We're all one family," Cord
said. "We don't keep secrets from
each other."
Edna raised her head and stared
at him for a long moment. Even
Luther's attention sharpened.
Cord waited, his eyes steady on
hers, then Edna put her head
down and began eating.
The meal turned a little stiff;
Cord and Edna ate in silence, and
Luther sat there wondering what
the devil was going on. For myself, 
I could only wonder, and I
really didn't want to do that, for
a man is led into some wrong
conclusions that way.
Since I had things to do, I excused 
myself and went to the
barn to saddle my horse. Before
I could leave. Cord came out. He
had oh his .44 so I figured he
was going to town.
"I could use some help today,"
I said. True enough we didn't
have enough stock to make this
a full-time three-handed ranch,
but I was getting tired of all the
heavy work falling on me.
"Get Luther," he said. "I'll be
back by noon."
"What's to do in town now that
we didn't do yesterday?"
He looked levelly at me and
said, "You' wouldn't pry into a
man's business now, would you,
Smoke?" He got his horse out of
the stall and smoothed on the
saddle blanket. While he saddled,
he said, "I want you to look over
the herd we're going to ship and
see that they haven't busted down
Wade Everett's fence. There's
some grass near his spring that
the critters yearr for."


Miami Janitor
Fatally Stabbed
An elderly Negro
janitor was fatally Stabbed Wednesday 
by a Negro youth who apparently 
sneaked into a closed
school building.
The victim was identified as
Emerson Freeman, 65, custodian at
the Booker T. Washington High
School. He died a few minutes after 
he was stabbed by a 16-inch
wood chisel.
The 14-year-old suspect and a
teenage companion were turned
over to juvenile authorities for
questioning. Police said prelmininary 
questioning did not disclose
the events leading up to the slaying. 

School was not in session and
the building was locked at the
time.

1 Minute Sports Quiz
1. What was Babe Ruth's full
name?
2. A record paid attendance for
a baseball game was established
October 10, 1948, in the fifth game
of the World Series at Municipal
Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
Can you give, within 1,000 the
paid attendance at that game?
3. Who were named the most
valuable players of the American
and National Leagues to 1954?
4. Since 1931, the Baseball Writers' 
Association has given the annual 
Most Valuable Player award
to the outstanding player in the
American and National Leagues.
Who gave the award prior to 1931?
5. The Most Valuable Player
award has been given every year
except one, since 1922. What was
the one year in which no such
award was made?
1. George Herman Ruth.
2. 86,288
3. National League, Willie Mays;
American League, Yogi Berra.
4. The Leagues themselves.
5. 1930.

THE ANSWERS
1. What was Babe Ruth's full
name?
2. A record paid attendance for
a baseball game was established
October 10, 1948, in the fifth game
of the World Series at Municipal
Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
Can you give, within 1,000 the
paid attendance at that game?
3. Who were named the most
valuable players of the American
and National Leagues to 1954?
4. Since 1931, the Baseball Writers' 
Association has given the annual 
Most Valuable Player award
to the outstanding player in the
American and National Leagues.
Who gave the award prior to 1931?
5. The Most Valuable Player
award has been given every year
except one, since 1922. What was
the one year in which no such
award was made?
1. George Herman Ruth.
2. 86,288
3. National League, Willie Mays;
American League, Yogi Berra.
4. The Leagues themselves.
5. 1930.