Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1956-11-28 Raymond F. Tisby MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICAN'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE — Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mail under the Art of Congress, March 1, 1870 RAYMOND F. TISBY Managing Editor MRS. ROSA BROWN BRACY Public Relations and Advertising ALYSON E. WISE Circulation Promotion SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper — non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Brownell's Move Is Practical The United States Attorney General has made a logical and practical move, in calling a conference of U. S. Attorneys to get at the bus issue. The fact that the United States Supreme Court has ruled segregation on intrastate buses and public carriers is unconstitutional, still fails to convince some officials of its legality. The fact is, persons, corporations or local government that abet bus segregation in any way are "equally guilty" with their actions constituteing "a crime against the United States." While some public officials contend that the ruling on Monday, November was restricted to Montgomery, Ala., it was clear that it complied to all states where segregation is still in practice. Consequently, Attorney General Herbert Brownell is calling a conference of U. S. Attorneys from 14 states to consider ways to bring an end to segregation on all public carriers. He said laws in these 14 states, upholding segregation, "must be regarded as a dead letter" and their purpose of meeting is to find ways to secure observance of the United States Constitution. Segregation signs on buses are now the ignomious symbols of dead law. The United States Supreme Court last Tuesday made another corpse of racial laws in upholding a special court decision which outlawed segregation laws in Montgomery and Alabama in the area of human transportation. This newspaper believes that as good citizens and responsible leaders our public officials will respect and uphold the new interpretation of the low despite their personal feelings. Society has been steadily moving away from old patterns and stagnant customs. A new flow of goodwill and understanding has been showing itself throughout the United States. Wasteful practices in human transportation violate the free enterprise system. Such practices shocked the morality of decent men and sucked away the vitality of 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. American democracy is bolstered through the weeding out of these nuisance laws. Certainly common sense must be used by all in adjusting to the new situation. But all should recognize the revamped law and respect everyone's right to enjoy it. This is the kind of sense good citizens will use, we believe. We take it as bad counsel for anyone to suggest that the citizen array his personal attitude about the law above the written opinion of those authorized to interpret the law. Mr, Brownell's action is practical, he is moving to protect a priceless heritage "in a democracy such as ours," men must respect and obey what is the law of the land. Inconsistency In Discipline The Democratic party is again in the throes of pulling another political boner, which it can ill afford. This blunder could only serve to further weaken its already dwindling national appeal. The blunder is the threat to strip Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D. N. Y.) of his seniority and committee assignments because he actively campaigned for President Eisenhower's re-election. If it were an established rule or regulation of the Democratic party and if it were actually enforced to mete such punishment upon members of its political family for straying into the opposition's camp during national elections, then we would be among the first to support this. But Mr. Powell is not the first Democrat to wonder into the Republican camp during a national election, and still classify himself as a Democrat. He made this very clear after he was snubbed on his own territory by visiting Presidential hopeful Stevenson. Should the Democratic "puritans" live so long until they forget that in 1948 many Democrats, including, members of the House and Senate bolted their party and its nominee and supported the so-called State Rights party and its nominees? Did any of these party members receive disciplinary treatment in the succeeding Congress? No, is the answer. It was not even mentioned after the election. Then if Mr. Powell is made on example of, it can only lead to irreparable damage against the party, which will be evidenced in loss of party members. Already, two of Mr. Powell s patronage appointees have been dropped from their $5,000-a-year jobs in Washington, D. C. One was a postal employe at the Capitol and the other was a member of the Capitol police force. If this action against Rep. Powell is not stopped at once, then it will be no doubt in anyone's mind that the discipline was directed at him because of his racial identity, and his ardent effort to obtain passage of civil rights legislation. And the whole Democratic camp will have to bear the name of being the party with Inconsistency in Discipline. WILKINS RAPS DEMOS FOR ACTION AGAINST POWELL NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins has warned Democrats that disciplinary action against Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D. N. Y.) may lead to irreparable damage against the party. In a letter to Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.), speaker of the House, Wilkins declared that to single out Powell for party discipline while taking no action against other Democratic dissidents would lead to the "inescapable" conclusion "that the Democratic party is taking the punitive action became of Mr. Powell's race, and also because of his efforts to secure passage of civil rights legislation." Wilkins wrote Rayburn following proposals by Democratic members of the House to deprive Powell of his seniority and committee assignments because the New York legislator actively campaigned for President Eisenhower's reelection. Already two patronage appointees of Powell have been dropped from their $5,000-a-year jobs in Washington. Robert Fleming, a postal employee at the Capitol and Theodore Richardson, a member of the Capitol police force, were ousted Friday night by Rep. Sheppard (D. Calif.) a member of the House Democratic patronage committee "The patronage committee is responsible for taking care of Democrats," Sheppard said. Ruth Miskell, secretary to Rep. Walter (D. Pa.), chairman of the patronage committee, said the two were dropped because their services were no longer required. In his letter to Rayburn, Powell said: "It is a matter of common knowledge that in 1948 many Democrats, including members of the House and Senate bolted their party and its nominee and supported the so-called States Rights party and its nominees. Not one of those party members was disciplined in the succeeding Congress." REVIEWING THE NEWS BY WILLIAM GORDON It was easier," he said. Being a missionary in India was much better than facing the problems of race in the United States. This has often been a question in the minds of Negroes in America. Why is it that many white people, genuine and wellmeaning, often go out of the country to do a service while a great domestic problem still exists? The problem of the people of Hungary hat brought clearer meaning to this whole matter it seems. "It is not that I hate to see people helped," said a laborer, recently, "but these people can come here, even without the ability to speak English and obtain the best jobs, in the factories and elsewhere. I have been here all my life. More than this, I'm an American citizen. I must still accept the left-over jobs, make my way to the back doors in request of a livelihood. This teems out of line with our basic concepts of equality." It is not the feeling of many Americans, white and otherwise to overlook the sufferings, the humiliations of other fellow human beings. Therefore, we try to do what we can to help people in difficulty. That seems to be o basic human desire. But what has puzzled the Negro in America is the hardcore altitude on the part of some Americans to push him about, to discriminate against him, to build up walls and concepts that stand against him as another fellow human being. After all, he has fought and died for his country. No sacrifice has been too great, and no calling too difficult for him to pledge his backing. It is natural for the Negro in America to wonder why he is constantly denied the best jobs, even though he may have the skills. He wonders about the future of his children when those in political power continue to tell him that he is inferior, and can't be accepted into the best institutions of learning. He wonders why he can be a servant in the most fashionable homes, take charge of the most personal tasks and yet can't occupy a table in the downtown restaurant, or take a seal in the theatre. He takes on greater concern, when people, who have been our enemies, can come to America and enjoy the kind of hospitality he has never dreamed of. The Negro seriously questions this philosophy of goodwill, equality and respect for all. Today more than at any other time, he is concerned With the fundamentals of our basic heritage, no matter how complicated. And more than this, he wonders why we still send missionaries to India. Missionaries To India" BY WILLIAM GORDON It was easier," he said. Being a missionary in India was much better than facing the problems of race in the United States. This has often been a question in the minds of Negroes in America. Why is it that many white people, genuine and wellmeaning, often go out of the country to do a service while a great domestic problem still exists? The problem of the people of Hungary hat brought clearer meaning to this whole matter it seems. "It is not that I hate to see people helped," said a laborer, recently, "but these people can come here, even without the ability to speak English and obtain the best jobs, in the factories and elsewhere. I have been here all my life. More than this, I'm an American citizen. I must still accept the left-over jobs, make my way to the back doors in request of a livelihood. This teems out of line with our basic concepts of equality." It is not the feeling of many Americans, white and otherwise to overlook the sufferings, the humiliations of other fellow human beings. Therefore, we try to do what we can to help people in difficulty. That seems to be o basic human desire. But what has puzzled the Negro in America is the hardcore altitude on the part of some Americans to push him about, to discriminate against him, to build up walls and concepts that stand against him as another fellow human being. After all, he has fought and died for his country. No sacrifice has been too great, and no calling too difficult for him to pledge his backing. It is natural for the Negro in America to wonder why he is constantly denied the best jobs, even though he may have the skills. He wonders about the future of his children when those in political power continue to tell him that he is inferior, and can't be accepted into the best institutions of learning. He wonders why he can be a servant in the most fashionable homes, take charge of the most personal tasks and yet can't occupy a table in the downtown restaurant, or take a seal in the theatre. He takes on greater concern, when people, who have been our enemies, can come to America and enjoy the kind of hospitality he has never dreamed of. The Negro seriously questions this philosophy of goodwill, equality and respect for all. Today more than at any other time, he is concerned With the fundamentals of our basic heritage, no matter how complicated. And more than this, he wonders why we still send missionaries to India. BETWEEN THE LINES International affairs are badly muddled and international relations are in a sad state or disrepair. The troubles brewing are intra-national as well as international. All of the major powers are having internal troubles as well as external ones. Great Britain France the United States and Russia are all having their internal troubles; and these troubles them from man's inhumanity to man, which Robert Burns said makes countless thousands mourn. Britain is having its troubles in and about Cyprus; France is having its troubles in North Africa; Russia is having its troubles in Poland and Hungary; and the United States is having its integration troubles. These however are internal troubles. But looming larger are the troubles the nations are having among themselves and with one another. Truly one cannot tell what a day may bring forth. The signs are not propitious for peace among the nations Democracy is threatened; Christianity is threatened; world peace is threatened and strangely enough the nations seem not inclined to think in terms of human brotherhood but in terms of the atom bomb and that line of thinking can have dire results. The word is being passed along that Russia is bulffing when she threatens to send volunteers into Egypt. If she really is bluffing, so far so good. But if she is not bluffing it makes all the difference in the world. There is a sense of desperatetion among the nations as they strive for the mastery of the world. The situation is much like unto careless men pranking with deadly weapons. Unless the pranking ceases, somebody is going to get shot ultimately. Unless some way can be found to outlaw the use of the atom bomb mankind is in a bad way Peerless leadership is the need of the hour. Strangely enough everybody is afraid of atom warfare but everybody is committed to its use in a crisis and herein lies the case for Christian leadership. There can be no little doubt that the hope that we may ultimately win world peace is a Christian guide men through these troubled times is Christian leadership. Scientific and political leadership will not do it. Expansion of economic horizons will not do it Raising living standards throughout the world will not do it for there is not in all history to be found any correlation between economic well being and righteousness among the nations. We hear about America's high standards of righteousness that counts in the matter of attaining to world peace among the nations. Fortunately for the world Jesus Christ laid down the formula for the peace we so sincerely covet. Brotherhood is the sine qua non of that peace. Some years ago when the writer spoke before the Baptist World Alliance he made the observation that Men must be brotherized or they will be brutalized." The observation is doubly compelling in this day of the dangerous threat to world peace. It is therefore encouraging to note the growing effectiveness of Christian leadership as illustrated by what is taking place in Montgomery, Ala., and Tallahassee, Fla. There was always in the fore-front of the leadership the faith that the Christian formula was sufficient and the whole procedure was designed to prove the power of the Christian spirit. It is true there must be courts and decisions to mark out the way, but there must be Christian leadership to follow in the way, Unless court decisions are paralled by Christian leadership decisions, our entrance into the Promised Land will be accordingly postponed. The opportunities of Christian leadership are limitless in these times of strain and stress over intergration and the problems there of. It is not wise to trust too completely in legal solutions. In the final analysis there must prevail the Christian point of vice of Christian leadership Right is right. THE CASE FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP International affairs are badly muddled and international relations are in a sad state or disrepair. The troubles brewing are intra-national as well as international. All of the major powers are having internal troubles as well as external ones. Great Britain France the United States and Russia are all having their internal troubles; and these troubles them from man's inhumanity to man, which Robert Burns said makes countless thousands mourn. Britain is having its troubles in and about Cyprus; France is having its troubles in North Africa; Russia is having its troubles in Poland and Hungary; and the United States is having its integration troubles. These however are internal troubles. But looming larger are the troubles the nations are having among themselves and with one another. Truly one cannot tell what a day may bring forth. The signs are not propitious for peace among the nations Democracy is threatened; Christianity is threatened; world peace is threatened and strangely enough the nations seem not inclined to think in terms of human brotherhood but in terms of the atom bomb and that line of thinking can have dire results. The word is being passed along that Russia is bulffing when she threatens to send volunteers into Egypt. If she really is bluffing, so far so good. But if she is not bluffing it makes all the difference in the world. There is a sense of desperatetion among the nations as they strive for the mastery of the world. The situation is much like unto careless men pranking with deadly weapons. Unless the pranking ceases, somebody is going to get shot ultimately. Unless some way can be found to outlaw the use of the atom bomb mankind is in a bad way Peerless leadership is the need of the hour. Strangely enough everybody is afraid of atom warfare but everybody is committed to its use in a crisis and herein lies the case for Christian leadership. There can be no little doubt that the hope that we may ultimately win world peace is a Christian guide men through these troubled times is Christian leadership. Scientific and political leadership will not do it. Expansion of economic horizons will not do it Raising living standards throughout the world will not do it for there is not in all history to be found any correlation between economic well being and righteousness among the nations. We hear about America's high standards of righteousness that counts in the matter of attaining to world peace among the nations. Fortunately for the world Jesus Christ laid down the formula for the peace we so sincerely covet. Brotherhood is the sine qua non of that peace. Some years ago when the writer spoke before the Baptist World Alliance he made the observation that Men must be brotherized or they will be brutalized." The observation is doubly compelling in this day of the dangerous threat to world peace. It is therefore encouraging to note the growing effectiveness of Christian leadership as illustrated by what is taking place in Montgomery, Ala., and Tallahassee, Fla. There was always in the fore-front of the leadership the faith that the Christian formula was sufficient and the whole procedure was designed to prove the power of the Christian spirit. It is true there must be courts and decisions to mark out the way, but there must be Christian leadership to follow in the way, Unless court decisions are paralled by Christian leadership decisions, our entrance into the Promised Land will be accordingly postponed. The opportunities of Christian leadership are limitless in these times of strain and stress over intergration and the problems there of. It is not wise to trust too completely in legal solutions. In the final analysis there must prevail the Christian point of vice of Christian leadership Right is right. Asks Fla. arrest on a morals charge involve benefit of council following her ing a Negro Airman. In the message, Richard B. Rouce chairman of the Miami ACLU, said that Sheriff McCall "had committed indignities against the public welfare" by permitting the circulation of "inflammatory" (nude) pho tographs of the two principals in the case. Royce added; "McCall, by his advocacy of racial strife and incitement, is fast making Florida world renown in its disregard of the rights of its citizens." The ACLU chairman concluded. "It is, therefore, necessary that you suspend him pending the current FBI investigation that we have requested." Mrs. Spraggs, Political Figure Dies In Washington Mrs. Spraggs, 51, assistant to Rep. William L. Dawson (D Ill) vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, died in a Washington hospital Wednesday night of a cerebral hemorrhage. Services were held in Washington before the body was shipped to Birmingham for burial. Before joining the Democratic National Committee in January 1953, she had been chief of the Chicago Defender's Washington Bureau for ten years and administrative assistant to Rep. Dawson. A native of Birmingham, Mrs. Spraggs attended Spciman College in Atlanta and first gained prominence when the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her a supervisor of the National Youth Administration in 1935. While working at the post she was upgraded to Alabama State Advisor on Negro Affairs in 1939. Mrs. Spraggs later heeded the call of the late Dr. Mary McLood Bethune, then director of NYA sctivities, to come to Washington as Senior Youth Personnel Assistant with the bureau, She served in this post until July 1943, when Con gress terminated the agency. Mrs. Spraggs was the recipient of many awards and high honors in line with her profession and community activities. In 1946 she was elected to Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary and professional fraternity for Women in Journalism, to become the organization's first Negro member in its 47-year-history. She was named to the National Council of Negro Women's Honor Roll of "superior work" in journalism in 1947, and received the National Urban League's Certificate of Recognition for "outstanding achievement" in journalism in 1948. Mrs. Spraggs leadership in promoting the spread of political activities among Negro women in Women's Civic Clubs Award in Alexandria. Va., won for her the Women's Clubs Award in 1948. Her political activity and leadership was recognized in June, 1950, when the National Alumnae Association of her alma mater, Spelman College, awarded her a Certificate of Merit for outstanding contribution to the community is which she lived. An Analysis Of Current Legal Developments By S. A. WILBURN Recently, it was revealed that a local citizen had been outwitted and fleeced by a local unscrupulous easy-credit concern with which he dealt because he feared his credit standing prevented an account elsewhere. He received no merchandise but paid out a substantial amount of cash to the dealer. He must resort to legal proceedings for redress. About this time cash year, when the Christmas season approaches, it is customary of many persons to go on a buying spree. Tradition coupled with intense commercial activity leave few unaffected. Credit purchases are freely made. Often, too much effort is put into the acquisition of the desired merchandise with too little thought given to the amount, terms and the general nature of the contract under which the purchaser will be bound. Since this writer has seen too many contracts which were extortionate and palpably inequitable, a few observations about credit purchases may be in order: (1) beware of easy credit. (2) seek an itemized breakdown of the total contract amount. (3) read and understand every word of any contract before It is signed. (4) patronize only reputable concerns with the proper affiliations. Although most concerns are operated above board, we must be ever alert against the possibility of a few operating otherwise, especially, since the persons who are hardest hit from such practices usually are colored. CREDIT PURCHASES AND UNSAVORY PRACTICES By S. A. WILBURN Recently, it was revealed that a local citizen had been outwitted and fleeced by a local unscrupulous easy-credit concern with which he dealt because he feared his credit standing prevented an account elsewhere. He received no merchandise but paid out a substantial amount of cash to the dealer. He must resort to legal proceedings for redress. About this time cash year, when the Christmas season approaches, it is customary of many persons to go on a buying spree. Tradition coupled with intense commercial activity leave few unaffected. Credit purchases are freely made. Often, too much effort is put into the acquisition of the desired merchandise with too little thought given to the amount, terms and the general nature of the contract under which the purchaser will be bound. Since this writer has seen too many contracts which were extortionate and palpably inequitable, a few observations about credit purchases may be in order: (1) beware of easy credit. (2) seek an itemized breakdown of the total contract amount. (3) read and understand every word of any contract before It is signed. (4) patronize only reputable concerns with the proper affiliations. Although most concerns are operated above board, we must be ever alert against the possibility of a few operating otherwise, especially, since the persons who are hardest hit from such practices usually are colored. Bishop Allen Of AME Church Dies A native of Columbus, Ga., Bishop Allen was educated in the public schools of Girard, Ala.: Clark University, Atlanta, and Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. Converted when twelve years of age and elected superintendent of his Sunday School when 16, he was licensed to preach at St. James AME Church, Columbus, Ga., June 9, 1911. Prior to entering the ministry Bisho0p Allen served for two years as executive secretary of the Ninth Street YMCA in Columbus, Ga., and also for two years held the same position at the Goffe Street YMCE New Haven, Conn. After serving as pastor of churches in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Ohio, he was elected Division Secretary of the American Bible Society in 1931, with headquarters in Cleveland. Then after nine years in the work of the American Bible Society, he was elected to the bishopric at the General Conference at Detroit, Mich., in 1940. Bishop and Mrs. Allen, who were married in 1915, are the parents of four sons. NATIVE GEORGIAN A native of Columbus, Ga., Bishop Allen was educated in the public schools of Girard, Ala.: Clark University, Atlanta, and Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. Converted when twelve years of age and elected superintendent of his Sunday School when 16, he was licensed to preach at St. James AME Church, Columbus, Ga., June 9, 1911. Prior to entering the ministry Bisho0p Allen served for two years as executive secretary of the Ninth Street YMCA in Columbus, Ga., and also for two years held the same position at the Goffe Street YMCE New Haven, Conn. After serving as pastor of churches in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Ohio, he was elected Division Secretary of the American Bible Society in 1931, with headquarters in Cleveland. Then after nine years in the work of the American Bible Society, he was elected to the bishopric at the General Conference at Detroit, Mich., in 1940. Bishop and Mrs. Allen, who were married in 1915, are the parents of four sons. SHIPBUILDING The world's shipbuilding this year reached is highest since the World War II construction boom, according to the American Merchant Marine Institute. In a study of the world's merchant fleets, the institute said that on completion of present construction, the total ocean-going merchant fleet will be 80 per cent larger than it was in 1939 and 27.8 per cent larger than it is now. Great Britain leads as the world's leading shipbuilder, with Japan and Germany in second and third places. Bishop Works To Help Solve Race Problems Bishop Edgar A. Love, head of the Baltimore Area of The Methodist Church, is lending his support to an effort to solve some of the problems of race relations in the Baltimore and Washington Areas of the denomination. Together with Bishop G. Bromlcy Oxnam of the Washington Area, Bishop Love has invited outstanding sociologists, educators, clergymen and laymen to a meeting to deal specifically with local interracial problems. The conference will be held December 3 and 4 at the Walbrook Methodist Church, Baltimore. Six study areas will be held on the following subjects: (1) Social Relations Involving Race in Church and Community: (2) Housing: (3) Employment: (4) Strategy on the Denominational Level; (5) Techni ques for Social Action in the Local Church, and (6) Public Education. Each study group will explore (1) the situation in this area; (2) what are our Christian concerns about these problems and (3) what can be done about it? The denomination's Board of Social and Economic Relations the Rev. A. Dudley Ward, executive director, will co-sponsor the conference. Among the outstanding speakers will be Dr. Percy Julian, world famous Negro scientist of Chicago. In the last two years a total of 1,125 Air Force pilots were killed and 1,600 planes destroyed through. accident according to Brig Gen. Joseph D. Caldara, director of flight safety research. Even so, the accident rate of the Air Force has been cut from 506 per 100.000 flying hours in 1921 to 15 per 100,000 flying hurs today. AIR FORCE LOSS Bishop Edgar A. Love, head of the Baltimore Area of The Methodist Church, is lending his support to an effort to solve some of the problems of race relations in the Baltimore and Washington Areas of the denomination. Together with Bishop G. Bromlcy Oxnam of the Washington Area, Bishop Love has invited outstanding sociologists, educators, clergymen and laymen to a meeting to deal specifically with local interracial problems. The conference will be held December 3 and 4 at the Walbrook Methodist Church, Baltimore. Six study areas will be held on the following subjects: (1) Social Relations Involving Race in Church and Community: (2) Housing: (3) Employment: (4) Strategy on the Denominational Level; (5) Techni ques for Social Action in the Local Church, and (6) Public Education. Each study group will explore (1) the situation in this area; (2) what are our Christian concerns about these problems and (3) what can be done about it? The denomination's Board of Social and Economic Relations the Rev. A. Dudley Ward, executive director, will co-sponsor the conference. Among the outstanding speakers will be Dr. Percy Julian, world famous Negro scientist of Chicago. In the last two years a total of 1,125 Air Force pilots were killed and 1,600 planes destroyed through. accident according to Brig Gen. Joseph D. Caldara, director of flight safety research. Even so, the accident rate of the Air Force has been cut from 506 per 100.000 flying hours in 1921 to 15 per 100,000 flying hurs today. Woman Killed after released. The driver of the other truck involved in the accident 29-year-old William Parket of Dallas, was not injured. Houston's "Wall" Segregation Arouses FHA The proposed construction of a brick wall splitting in half for segregation purposes a low cost housing project occupied by Negroes and whites, aroused the Public Housing Authority here last week. The "wall" has been proposed by the Houston (Tex.) Housing Authority to divide the San Felip Courts projects in half keeping the Negroes in the eastern portion and whites in the western part. The construction is planed to separate the races "psychologically and physically" within the next 90 days should an effort to increase white tenancy in the project fails. A PHA spokesman, acknowledging that official notification of the proposed construction had been given by the Housing Authority said that the "wall" not be permitted. MY WEEKLY SERMON This season of the year stirs within us the spirit of Thanksgiving. The harvest season is over. The crops have gathered. The barns are filled with plenty. It is the human thing to do.....Pause and give thanks. It is the divine thing to do....To pause in the spirit of Thanksgiving, and "give thanks to God for his gifts." Thanks be to God for a million big things. Thanks be to God for a multimillion little things. Thanks be to God for life, a chance to live, to breathe God's air, to walk this earthen sod. "Thanks be to God for matches, said an old woman once in prayer meeting. She was old enough to remember the time when such conveniences were lacking. There is a long list of forgotten benefits, such as windowpanes, postage stamps, at cetera. Thanks be to God for the telegraph and the telephone. When things grow old and commonplace they become unnoticed blessings. Thanks be to God for unnoticed blessings. Thanks be to God for the modern inventions, the radio, the television, the dishwasher, the frigidaire, et cetera. Thanks be to God for the miracle drugs, like Penicillin, et cetera. Thanks be to God for troubles that have not come to us. Thanks be to God for the things we can do without. Thanks be to God for friends: even for enemies that keep us ever alert and make us walk circumspectly. Thanks be to God for the liberty and the freedom of America, brought at a terrific sacrifice. Thanks be to God for the privilege of being a Negro in America feeling and seeing the evils of pr judice.....Thus enabling us to rise to heights sublime and sympathizing with and comforting the despised and rejected. Thanks be to God for the men and women who dream great dreams and work for their fulfillment. Thanks be to God for the press and for freedom of speech. Thanks be to God for the brotherhood of man under the cross of Jesus Christ. In everything give thanks For all things work together for good to those who love God. First and most, thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. When I think of God's countless material gifts to his children, I am filled with awe, amazement, and love. But when I think of the Almighty God laying under tribute the boundless resources of his infinite love, wisdom, and power to reveal himself through Jesus Christ for man's salvation that we might be redeemed, I can only cry out, "Thanks be to God for the unspeakable gift Jesus the Christ!!!" "In everything give thanks." TEACHERS WITH NAACP MEMBERSHIP 'FIRED' The teachers, described by Eloree School, former principal E. C. Davis as competent attacked the state law which permitted their firing. The law, however, was upheld by pro-segregationists who defended their actions as a right of the state to administer its own internal affairs. The argument was advanced in a hearing before a three judge federal court in which seventeen Negro school teachers charge the state law is unconstitutional. The Federal court panel withheld a decision in the case Thursday and asked opposing attorneys to file briefs on the arguments. The 17 teachers contend their contracts were not renewed because they refused to sign a questionaire views concerning activities of the NAACP. NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg charged the state law violates rights guaranteed under the First and 14th Amendment to the Federal Consti tution and specifically the freedom of speech and association guarantees. Greenberg argued the law also violates the equal protection clause of the Federal Constitution because it singles out a specific organization, the NAACP. South Carolina Attorney General T.C. Callison told the court the is sue involved in the case is not one for federal determination. He said the real question involved is "who operates the school system — federal authority or the state." "It is the right of the South Carolina Legislation to prescribe methods or restrictions in its own schools." Asst. Atty. Gen. James Verner argued. He added: "The NAACP has reached a point of no return as far as South Carolina is concerned." The South Carolina law declared the NAACP a "trouble making" organization, and declared it in the public interest to forbid state jobs to NAACP members. Former principal of the Eloree School, E. C. Davis, told the threejudge court he would have rehired all 17 teachers, and that all of them were competent. NOT FEDERAL The teachers, described by Eloree School, former principal E. C. Davis as competent attacked the state law which permitted their firing. The law, however, was upheld by pro-segregationists who defended their actions as a right of the state to administer its own internal affairs. The argument was advanced in a hearing before a three judge federal court in which seventeen Negro school teachers charge the state law is unconstitutional. The Federal court panel withheld a decision in the case Thursday and asked opposing attorneys to file briefs on the arguments. The 17 teachers contend their contracts were not renewed because they refused to sign a questionaire views concerning activities of the NAACP. NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg charged the state law violates rights guaranteed under the First and 14th Amendment to the Federal Consti tution and specifically the freedom of speech and association guarantees. Greenberg argued the law also violates the equal protection clause of the Federal Constitution because it singles out a specific organization, the NAACP. South Carolina Attorney General T.C. Callison told the court the is sue involved in the case is not one for federal determination. He said the real question involved is "who operates the school system — federal authority or the state." "It is the right of the South Carolina Legislation to prescribe methods or restrictions in its own schools." Asst. Atty. Gen. James Verner argued. He added: "The NAACP has reached a point of no return as far as South Carolina is concerned." 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