Memphis World
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1960-12-17
Stanley S. Scott

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Picking A Cabinet for All the People
Our country naturally settles down in the American way
after a national election. That is the way it should be. In that
the county settles its election battles by the ballot route and
after the rendition of an electoral decision, all get together and
push forward for the good of the country.
Just the President-elect John Kennedy is busy selecting the
personnel who will surround him in the capacity of advisors;
men whose experience and views in the fields of economics,
defense finance, agriculture, law, education, health and what
have you.
The destiny of the country will be largely determined by
the decisions cleared through the Cabinet Mr. Kennedy is engaged 
in selecting
The country is old now and our civilization is too much of
its mood to overlook the fact that in spite of the forward stride
of the Negro group, no President has as yet appointed one to
Head a top Cabinet post. Such appointments as Undersecretaries
and Attaches to certain posts which Negro fitness would equip
him as a specialist have been made in other administrations.
Strange indeed that there is an insistence upon a policy
of intimating that no Negro as yet fills the bill to head an important 
Cabinet post.
The in-coming administration has an opportunity to do
something tangible in the area of civil justice and well merited
deservedness of top government trust; it has an opportunity of
appointing some Negro to a top responsible Cabinet position.
The selection of Rusk for the State Department and McNamard 
for the Defense Department would constitute good appointments. 
The former, head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and
the latter president of the Ford Motor Company, are good leads
for what might be expected in the building of a strong Cabinet.
The Department of State poses an important field. Just now
Africa is coming into her own. Day by day those unheard of
men and states in Africa are entering the field of relations
through the United Nations. Black officials and diplomats must
do business with the government. Any man in a responsible
Cabinet position might at any time find himself in the act of
doing business with some of these republics governed by Negrees. 

During the campaign Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate 
Lodge made the suggestion that in the event of a Republican 
victory he believed a Negro would be named to the Cabinet.
This statement was repeated after Mr. Lodge had conferred
with Presidetial Candidates Nixon. So we logically assumed that
this suggestion had amounted to a pledge. And since the populor 
vote was practically evenly divided, it appears this appointment 
could be made with popular approval.
Yes we voice the sentiments of millions of voters in this
nation when we express the hope that a Negro will be named
to a Cabinate post.

The Sad Plight of Hulan Jack
It is indeed painful to note the facts surrounding the convictims 
of Hulan Jack, the nation's highest paid elected Negro
officials on charges he conspired to hide the fact that he accepted
a $4,400 apartment remodeling job from a white real estate
man seeking to do business with the city of New York while he
was employed as president of the Burough of Manhattan.
The irony of the whole affair would be that the 52-year-old
many Hall Democrate had come to symbolize the American
dream to many American Negroes who had high ambitions to
serve their city, state and nation, fell short of the stamina and
those high traits of resistance which might have done honor to
himself and those who nourished like ambitions.
While it is stated that Jack will appeal his case after having
been found guilty, it is still a blow against our cause and points
up the need of members of our group exhibiting the highest
traits of trustworthiness, dependability and the living of a life
above suspicion.
One in even the humble places, should be cautious in his
dealings, insisting the highest exhibits of efficiency, while maintaining 
those traits of character which would resist temptations
from any source.

BETWEEN THE LINES

It was a skillfully disguised white
supremacy document ... and had
world wide distribution that set
the world to thinking on the follies
of devastating wars, and it can
scarcely be doubted that it influenced 
the attempt to bring forth
the League of Nations.
Stoddard soon brought forth his
"The Revolt against Civilization"
Which Was a treatise on the phenomenal 
and alarming increase of
crime in the world and especially
in the United States. He termed
this crime increase to an open revolt 
of certain elements of society
against civilization itself.
He made a strong case even as
he made in his Rising Tide of
Color. But even a biased or prejudiced 
man can speak wrods of
wisdom at sundry times. The above
reflection is inspired by the current 
crime wave that threatens to
engulf our nation.
The communist wave is threatening 
us from without and a troublesome 
and disastrous crime wave
threatens us from within. Within
fecent weeks this column, has expressed 
great concern for the crime
wave that is currently threatening 
our land
The youth delinquency of
which we hear much is but the
youthful manifestation of crime of

which adult criminal is the inevitable 
counterpart. When we add
our so-called juvenile delinquency
to adult crime, we have a black
picture that should bestir thoughtful 
men and women everywhere
and especially in the United States
which unfortunately is leading the
world in this unhappy "revolt
against civilization."
In what mood are we to face
the ugly facts that there are three
times as many criminals in our
penal, institutions as we have students 
in our colleges and universities 
that we have the highest
rate of crime and delinquency in
our history: that a minimum of
6.000,000 persons in this country,
or one out of every 23, have criminal 
records according, to the F B. I.
that more pdostitutes unred 18
were arrested last year than in
any previous year.
The foregoing references to
crime in our land amounts to an
alarming situation that calls for
serious consideration.
Matters are not growing better
but rapidly worse and this means
that if we are not destroyed from
the outside by communism, we
shall surely be destroyed from the
inside by crime.
Here is one of our major problems 
receiving but casual atten
tion 
in press and pulpit. We are
not going to get anywhere by merely 
turning our heads and refusing 
to face ugly facts.
Among the "days" we observe
annually we need to "Crime Prevention 
Day". What will it profit
our nation if we are on our toes
politically and race relationally, if
crime is to destroy our fair land
from the inside.
The juvenile delinquency of
which we hear so much is but a
manifestation of a deeper moral
disorder which needs attention
now. The crime situation can no
more be shrugged off than the slow
but sure encroachment of communism. 


And Still Another Revolution

It was a skillfully disguised white
supremacy document ... and had
world wide distribution that set
the world to thinking on the follies
of devastating wars, and it can
scarcely be doubted that it influenced 
the attempt to bring forth
the League of Nations.
Stoddard soon brought forth his
"The Revolt against Civilization"
Which Was a treatise on the phenomenal 
and alarming increase of
crime in the world and especially
in the United States. He termed
this crime increase to an open revolt 
of certain elements of society
against civilization itself.
He made a strong case even as
he made in his Rising Tide of
Color. But even a biased or prejudiced 
man can speak wrods of
wisdom at sundry times. The above
reflection is inspired by the current 
crime wave that threatens to
engulf our nation.
The communist wave is threatening 
us from without and a troublesome 
and disastrous crime wave
threatens us from within. Within
fecent weeks this column, has expressed 
great concern for the crime
wave that is currently threatening 
our land
The youth delinquency of
which we hear much is but the
youthful manifestation of crime of

which adult criminal is the inevitable 
counterpart. When we add
our so-called juvenile delinquency
to adult crime, we have a black
picture that should bestir thoughtful 
men and women everywhere
and especially in the United States
which unfortunately is leading the
world in this unhappy "revolt
against civilization."
In what mood are we to face
the ugly facts that there are three
times as many criminals in our
penal, institutions as we have students 
in our colleges and universities 
that we have the highest
rate of crime and delinquency in
our history: that a minimum of
6.000,000 persons in this country,
or one out of every 23, have criminal 
records according, to the F B. I.
that more pdostitutes unred 18
were arrested last year than in
any previous year.
The foregoing references to
crime in our land amounts to an
alarming situation that calls for
serious consideration.
Matters are not growing better
but rapidly worse and this means
that if we are not destroyed from
the outside by communism, we
shall surely be destroyed from the
inside by crime.
Here is one of our major problems 
receiving but casual atten
tion 
in press and pulpit. We are
not going to get anywhere by merely 
turning our heads and refusing 
to face ugly facts.
Among the "days" we observe
annually we need to "Crime Prevention 
Day". What will it profit
our nation if we are on our toes
politically and race relationally, if
crime is to destroy our fair land
from the inside.
The juvenile delinquency of
which we hear so much is but a
manifestation of a deeper moral
disorder which needs attention
now. The crime situation can no
more be shrugged off than the slow
but sure encroachment of communism. 


THREATS WITHOUT, WITHIN

It was a skillfully disguised white
supremacy document ... and had
world wide distribution that set
the world to thinking on the follies
of devastating wars, and it can
scarcely be doubted that it influenced 
the attempt to bring forth
the League of Nations.
Stoddard soon brought forth his
"The Revolt against Civilization"
Which Was a treatise on the phenomenal 
and alarming increase of
crime in the world and especially
in the United States. He termed
this crime increase to an open revolt 
of certain elements of society
against civilization itself.
He made a strong case even as
he made in his Rising Tide of
Color. But even a biased or prejudiced 
man can speak wrods of
wisdom at sundry times. The above
reflection is inspired by the current 
crime wave that threatens to
engulf our nation.
The communist wave is threatening 
us from without and a troublesome 
and disastrous crime wave
threatens us from within. Within
fecent weeks this column, has expressed 
great concern for the crime
wave that is currently threatening 
our land
The youth delinquency of
which we hear much is but the
youthful manifestation of crime of

which adult criminal is the inevitable 
counterpart. When we add
our so-called juvenile delinquency
to adult crime, we have a black
picture that should bestir thoughtful 
men and women everywhere
and especially in the United States
which unfortunately is leading the
world in this unhappy "revolt
against civilization."
In what mood are we to face
the ugly facts that there are three
times as many criminals in our
penal, institutions as we have students 
in our colleges and universities 
that we have the highest
rate of crime and delinquency in
our history: that a minimum of
6.000,000 persons in this country,
or one out of every 23, have criminal 
records according, to the F B. I.
that more pdostitutes unred 18
were arrested last year than in
any previous year.
The foregoing references to
crime in our land amounts to an
alarming situation that calls for
serious consideration.
Matters are not growing better
but rapidly worse and this means
that if we are not destroyed from
the outside by communism, we
shall surely be destroyed from the
inside by crime.
Here is one of our major problems 
receiving but casual atten
tion 
in press and pulpit. We are
not going to get anywhere by merely 
turning our heads and refusing 
to face ugly facts.
Among the "days" we observe
annually we need to "Crime Prevention 
Day". What will it profit
our nation if we are on our toes
politically and race relationally, if
crime is to destroy our fair land
from the inside.
The juvenile delinquency of
which we hear so much is but a
manifestation of a deeper moral
disorder which needs attention
now. The crime situation can no
more be shrugged off than the slow
but sure encroachment of communism. 


ALABMING SITUATION

It was a skillfully disguised white
supremacy document ... and had
world wide distribution that set
the world to thinking on the follies
of devastating wars, and it can
scarcely be doubted that it influenced 
the attempt to bring forth
the League of Nations.
Stoddard soon brought forth his
"The Revolt against Civilization"
Which Was a treatise on the phenomenal 
and alarming increase of
crime in the world and especially
in the United States. He termed
this crime increase to an open revolt 
of certain elements of society
against civilization itself.
He made a strong case even as
he made in his Rising Tide of
Color. But even a biased or prejudiced 
man can speak wrods of
wisdom at sundry times. The above
reflection is inspired by the current 
crime wave that threatens to
engulf our nation.
The communist wave is threatening 
us from without and a troublesome 
and disastrous crime wave
threatens us from within. Within
fecent weeks this column, has expressed 
great concern for the crime
wave that is currently threatening 
our land
The youth delinquency of
which we hear much is but the
youthful manifestation of crime of

which adult criminal is the inevitable 
counterpart. When we add
our so-called juvenile delinquency
to adult crime, we have a black
picture that should bestir thoughtful 
men and women everywhere
and especially in the United States
which unfortunately is leading the
world in this unhappy "revolt
against civilization."
In what mood are we to face
the ugly facts that there are three
times as many criminals in our
penal, institutions as we have students 
in our colleges and universities 
that we have the highest
rate of crime and delinquency in
our history: that a minimum of
6.000,000 persons in this country,
or one out of every 23, have criminal 
records according, to the F B. I.
that more pdostitutes unred 18
were arrested last year than in
any previous year.
The foregoing references to
crime in our land amounts to an
alarming situation that calls for
serious consideration.
Matters are not growing better
but rapidly worse and this means
that if we are not destroyed from
the outside by communism, we
shall surely be destroyed from the
inside by crime.
Here is one of our major problems 
receiving but casual atten
tion 
in press and pulpit. We are
not going to get anywhere by merely 
turning our heads and refusing 
to face ugly facts.
Among the "days" we observe
annually we need to "Crime Prevention 
Day". What will it profit
our nation if we are on our toes
politically and race relationally, if
crime is to destroy our fair land
from the inside.
The juvenile delinquency of
which we hear so much is but a
manifestation of a deeper moral
disorder which needs attention
now. The crime situation can no
more be shrugged off than the slow
but sure encroachment of communism. 


Final Rites For
Atty, Craig Sunday
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. (SNS)—
Atty. R. H. Craig who passed in
Murfeesboro, Tenn., while en route
to a vetrans hospital in Nashville,
Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 7. Funeral 
was held at Stanley Methodist
Church where he was a member
at 1:15 p. m. Sunday,. December
11, 1960 with Rev. M. J. Jones, pastor, 
delivering the eulogy.
The attorney was admitted to
practice in all the courts of Tennessee 
and was very active in the
civic and political life of Chattanooga. 
The passing of Attorney
Craig, who was the last active Negro 
lawyer who practiced at the
bar in Chattanooga.
Craig made unsuccessful attempts 
for office in Chattanooga.
He ran for Sessions Judge on the
Democratic ticket and for the Legislature. 

Interment was in the National
Cemetery Monday morning, Dec.
12 with the Franklin-Strickland
Morticians in charge.

Philander Smith
Sit-In Student Is
Jailed, Fined $509
Charles Parker, 22-year old student 
from St, Louis, was sentenced
to six months in jail and fined
$509 last week for participating in
a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth 
lunch counter here.
Municipal Judge Quinn, who deferd 
action on six others arrested
in the incident, said he was sentencing 
Parker because he had
taken part in Little Rook's first
demonstration of this kind last
March. Parker's counsel indicated
he would appeal.

Weaver Named On
lnaugural Committee
George L. P. Weaver of the United
Electric Worker, has been named
as chairman of the unauthorized
practices committee of the Inougural 
Committee.
Weaver's group will have the responsibility 
of investigating and
exposing practices which might
seek to take advantage of the
public and business under the guise
of being in the interest of the 1961
Inaugural.
This appointment marksk the
fourth Negro who has been chosen
to serve in top spots on the Inougural 
committee. The others are
Frank D. Reeves who is serving as
general vice chairman; Mrs. Marjorie 
Lawson as co-chairman of
the Volunteers Participation Committee; 
and Louis Martin as ossociate 
director of publicity.

Co-Ettes

are those who go away to boarding
school and J. Latting, a student
at Oakwood Prep school is the only
Associate Member of the Memphis
Chapter. Jean and her sister, Carol
Latting, were the first sister duo
of the Co-Ettes. They are the
daughters of Atty. and Mrs. A. A.
Latting and Mrs. Latting is cosponsor 
of the Memphis Chapter.
Miss E. Laws is the sponsor.
Other members of the Co-Ettes
are: S. Williams, Pres., granddaughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Whittaker; A. Burford vice pres.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. L.
Burford: J. Hargraves, sec., daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hargraves;
G. Gray, Fin. Sec. and Chairman
of the Jr. Board, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Gray; Jana Davis,
corr. etc. and daughter of Mrs. L.
Davis and E. Davis, Jr. J. Broadmax 
treas, and daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. W. T. Broadnax; Yvonne
Jordan, parliamentarian and daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. F. Jordan;
G. Lewers, reporter daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Lewers; P. Brinkley, 
bus mgr., daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Brinkley, Jr.; B. Phillips, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Phillips and sec. of the Junior
Board; A. R. Phillips daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. M. Sexton; E. F.
Williams, daughter of Mrs. B. Williams 
and J. Williams; R. McGraw,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McGraw; 
E. Prudent, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Prudent; C. Brandon, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, O.
L. Brandon; and Y. Owens, daughter 
of Mrs. F. Owens and the late
M. Owens.


A FEVER in the BLOOD
From the novel published by St. Martin's Press, Inc. Copyright 
1959, by William Pearson. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
ELOISE HOFFMAN, threw
open the door of her husband's 
study. Through clouds of
pipe smoke she could see him
hunched over his homemade
work table, sorting through his
coin collection, Looking up absently, 
he took a battered briar
pipe from his mouth and
knocked it over the wastebasket. 

"Sam!" she cried. "Alex Simon 
is dead! He collapsed at
that Bugleville dinner and died
in the ambulance on the way
to the hospital!"
Judge Hoffman's jaw dropped.
He motioned to an old green
armchair under a painting of a
clipper ship. "Sit down, my
dear."
"Aren't you going to say anything 
more than that?" She
touched the bandanna round
net nead. "I was getting ready
to wash my hair. I could hear
the radio in the bedroom. The
moment I heard the hews I
dropped everything and, like a
star reporter, rushed right in
here and you blink at me
like a sleepy owl. And Sam,
why do I keep buying you pipes
at Christmas if you're always
going to smoke the same one?
Someday I really will throw it
out Then what will you do?
Divorce me?"
"I couldn't afford the alimony,
my dear." He reached for his
tobacco pouch. "So Alex is
dead." He shook his head. "It's
too bad. Too bad."
Too bad!"
Deliberately, he filled and lit
his pipe. "Alex Simon," he said,
puffing thoughtfully, "was a
member of a rather remarkable
breed, and I believe that the
breed, like the old western buftalo, 
is passing from the scene.
His formal schooling was never
very much, but somehow he
understood the temper of the
people. Ah, you dispute that?
But you see, he had the sublime,
and I think, enviable self-confidence 
of any truly ignorant
man, and so he was never afraid
to act on his convictions."
"Sam, you're being carried
away by this tradition of hypocritical 
eulogizing with which
we're supposed to honor the
dead. You completely ignore the
fact that he tried to bribe you
and lied about it. Yes, lied! But
I'll leave the personal out of
this. He was an enemy of
progress." Eloise looked at him
sharply. "Just how is the replacement 
chosen? is a new
convention held?"
Three old party pros, making 
up what's known as the Vacancy 
Committee, make the
choice. The pressures to which
they're subjected are enormous.
It's hard for even the best of
men, under such circumstances,
to act wisely. Quite naturally,
then, they'll settle for acting
politically. They'll choose a
candidate they think can win."
"But any Democrat can win.
Especially against Governor
Hasper."
"Yes, you're quite right, my
dear, Democrats nearly always
win the governorship in this
state. Against anyone as colorless 
as Frank Hasper, it should
be a sure thing. So a good many
hopefuls are going to be moving 
mountains to get that nomination." 

"Sam! What if they chose
you!"
Unnerved, he said, "Eloise,
your reserve of teminine optimism 
never ceases to amaze
me, Don't you read the newspaper 
editorials?"
"Not when they're picking on
you. And Sam, there are, some
things you get a feeling about,
I can't help it but I believe the
Bar Association Committee is
going to exonerate you."
"You must have better
sources of information than I
do," he said drily. "This afternoon 
I heard through the grapevine 
that opinion there is
strongly against me. Someone's
even put the matter of the silver 
flask into the record."
Eloise winced as it to ward
off the thought "Why do they
do such things to a man?"
He stared at the painting of
the old clipper ship. "I suppose
it's public life, my dear."
"It isn't public life," she said,
fiercely. "It's two men to public 
life. Alex Simon has gone to
his reward—and let's hope it's
the one he deserves. But Dan
Callahan is still around. Nobody's 
driven a stake through
his heart yet."
Just what do you mean,
Eloise?"
I mean that he might get
chosen by the Vacancy Committee." 

"They wouldn't choose him.
He lost the primary. There's a
lot of superstition about a
loser."
"What does that matter? You
agreed that any Democrat could
win against Governor Hasper.
Besides... " The phone rang
and Eloise waited while he, answered 
it.
"Judge," his caller said, "this
is Itchy Forst. I'm calling from
Bugleville. You know about
Alex's death?"
Judge Hoffman, recovering
from his surprise that this
pudgy little road contractor who
had been the Senator's faithful
shadow through so many political 
campaigns should now be
phoning him, said, "We've just
heard, Itchy."
Forst coughed uneasily.
"What I'm calling about Judge,
is kind of delicate. You see
when we was riding in the ambulance 
with him, his Bertha
and me, Alex regained consciousness. 
Oh, he knew he was
on the downhill side this time,
all right. He wanted to make
his peace, Judge. Know what I
mean?"
Perplexed, Judge Hoffman
said, "Not exactly, Itchy."
"Well, he said to Bertha,
'Bertha, make things right with
Sam. After I'm gone, tell the
reporters — Itchy, you see that
she does—tell the reporters that
what Sam said about me and
the mistrial motion in that Hart
case was true.'"
Taken aback by the dying
confession, Judge Hoffman
found himself at a loss for
words. The silence lengthened,
and Forst said nervously yet
proudly, "Alex really died with
his boots on, Judge. Oh, he was
a great man. I'll tell you something 
else, Judge. He Kind of
wanted to make his peace with
Dan, too. Because he said he
hoped the Vacancy Committee
would give Dan another crack
at the title. What he meant was,
I guess, that if the public had
really known your story about
the Federal judgeship was true,
Dan probably would have won
the primary."
Protesting by reflex, Judge
Hoffman said, "He endorsed
Dan as his replacement?"
"Yeah. So them being Alex's
last orders, I guess I got to get
used to being a Callahan man."
Forst sighed stoically. "Politics
is funny."
Replacing the phone, Judge
Hoffman said to Eloise, "Incredible! 
Alex confirmed the
truth of my story about the
Federal judgeship just before
he died."
"Oh, Sam! This will clear
your name!"
"It will show that I was telling 
the truth, yes, but it also
confirms the proposition that I
waited seven months to report
the matter." Judge Hoffman
frowned. "Another thing. It appears 
that Alex left a political
testament ot sorts. He asked
that the Vacancy Committee
give preference to Callahan as
his replacement on the Democratic 
gubernatorial ticket."
Sternly Eloise leaned toward.
"Sam, you'd better get on the
phone and talk to some people
who can influence that Vacancy
Committee not to do any such
thing. After all, you're still one
of the leaders of the Democratic
party."
"I'm afraid that, in view of
my current personal difficulties
with the Bar Association my
opinion won't carry much
weight,"
"You don't want them to
choose Callahan, do you?"
"No," he said tightly, "they
mustn't choose Callahan. That
would be ... intolerable."
"Well then?"
He hesitated, "All right Pass
me that phone book, my dear
I'll start with a few old wheel
horses in Rowton."


CHAPTER 24
From the novel published by St. Martin's Press, Inc. Copyright 
1959, by William Pearson. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
ELOISE HOFFMAN, threw
open the door of her husband's 
study. Through clouds of
pipe smoke she could see him
hunched over his homemade
work table, sorting through his
coin collection, Looking up absently, 
he took a battered briar
pipe from his mouth and
knocked it over the wastebasket. 

"Sam!" she cried. "Alex Simon 
is dead! He collapsed at
that Bugleville dinner and died
in the ambulance on the way
to the hospital!"
Judge Hoffman's jaw dropped.
He motioned to an old green
armchair under a painting of a
clipper ship. "Sit down, my
dear."
"Aren't you going to say anything 
more than that?" She
touched the bandanna round
net nead. "I was getting ready
to wash my hair. I could hear
the radio in the bedroom. The
moment I heard the hews I
dropped everything and, like a
star reporter, rushed right in
here and you blink at me
like a sleepy owl. And Sam,
why do I keep buying you pipes
at Christmas if you're always
going to smoke the same one?
Someday I really will throw it
out Then what will you do?
Divorce me?"
"I couldn't afford the alimony,
my dear." He reached for his
tobacco pouch. "So Alex is
dead." He shook his head. "It's
too bad. Too bad."
Too bad!"
Deliberately, he filled and lit
his pipe. "Alex Simon," he said,
puffing thoughtfully, "was a
member of a rather remarkable
breed, and I believe that the
breed, like the old western buftalo, 
is passing from the scene.
His formal schooling was never
very much, but somehow he
understood the temper of the
people. Ah, you dispute that?
But you see, he had the sublime,
and I think, enviable self-confidence 
of any truly ignorant
man, and so he was never afraid
to act on his convictions."
"Sam, you're being carried
away by this tradition of hypocritical 
eulogizing with which
we're supposed to honor the
dead. You completely ignore the
fact that he tried to bribe you
and lied about it. Yes, lied! But
I'll leave the personal out of
this. He was an enemy of
progress." Eloise looked at him
sharply. "Just how is the replacement 
chosen? is a new
convention held?"
Three old party pros, making 
up what's known as the Vacancy 
Committee, make the
choice. The pressures to which
they're subjected are enormous.
It's hard for even the best of
men, under such circumstances,
to act wisely. Quite naturally,
then, they'll settle for acting
politically. They'll choose a
candidate they think can win."
"But any Democrat can win.
Especially against Governor
Hasper."
"Yes, you're quite right, my
dear, Democrats nearly always
win the governorship in this
state. Against anyone as colorless 
as Frank Hasper, it should
be a sure thing. So a good many
hopefuls are going to be moving 
mountains to get that nomination." 

"Sam! What if they chose
you!"
Unnerved, he said, "Eloise,
your reserve of teminine optimism 
never ceases to amaze
me, Don't you read the newspaper 
editorials?"
"Not when they're picking on
you. And Sam, there are, some
things you get a feeling about,
I can't help it but I believe the
Bar Association Committee is
going to exonerate you."
"You must have better
sources of information than I
do," he said drily. "This afternoon 
I heard through the grapevine 
that opinion there is
strongly against me. Someone's
even put the matter of the silver 
flask into the record."
Eloise winced as it to ward
off the thought "Why do they
do such things to a man?"
He stared at the painting of
the old clipper ship. "I suppose
it's public life, my dear."
"It isn't public life," she said,
fiercely. "It's two men to public 
life. Alex Simon has gone to
his reward—and let's hope it's
the one he deserves. But Dan
Callahan is still around. Nobody's 
driven a stake through
his heart yet."
Just what do you mean,
Eloise?"
I mean that he might get
chosen by the Vacancy Committee." 

"They wouldn't choose him.
He lost the primary. There's a
lot of superstition about a
loser."
"What does that matter? You
agreed that any Democrat could
win against Governor Hasper.
Besides... " The phone rang
and Eloise waited while he, answered 
it.
"Judge," his caller said, "this
is Itchy Forst. I'm calling from
Bugleville. You know about
Alex's death?"
Judge Hoffman, recovering
from his surprise that this
pudgy little road contractor who
had been the Senator's faithful
shadow through so many political 
campaigns should now be
phoning him, said, "We've just
heard, Itchy."
Forst coughed uneasily.
"What I'm calling about Judge,
is kind of delicate. You see
when we was riding in the ambulance 
with him, his Bertha
and me, Alex regained consciousness. 
Oh, he knew he was
on the downhill side this time,
all right. He wanted to make
his peace, Judge. Know what I
mean?"
Perplexed, Judge Hoffman
said, "Not exactly, Itchy."
"Well, he said to Bertha,
'Bertha, make things right with
Sam. After I'm gone, tell the
reporters — Itchy, you see that
she does—tell the reporters that
what Sam said about me and
the mistrial motion in that Hart
case was true.'"
Taken aback by the dying
confession, Judge Hoffman
found himself at a loss for
words. The silence lengthened,
and Forst said nervously yet
proudly, "Alex really died with
his boots on, Judge. Oh, he was
a great man. I'll tell you something 
else, Judge. He Kind of
wanted to make his peace with
Dan, too. Because he said he
hoped the Vacancy Committee
would give Dan another crack
at the title. What he meant was,
I guess, that if the public had
really known your story about
the Federal judgeship was true,
Dan probably would have won
the primary."
Protesting by reflex, Judge
Hoffman said, "He endorsed
Dan as his replacement?"
"Yeah. So them being Alex's
last orders, I guess I got to get
used to being a Callahan man."
Forst sighed stoically. "Politics
is funny."
Replacing the phone, Judge
Hoffman said to Eloise, "Incredible! 
Alex confirmed the
truth of my story about the
Federal judgeship just before
he died."
"Oh, Sam! This will clear
your name!"
"It will show that I was telling 
the truth, yes, but it also
confirms the proposition that I
waited seven months to report
the matter." Judge Hoffman
frowned. "Another thing. It appears 
that Alex left a political
testament ot sorts. He asked
that the Vacancy Committee
give preference to Callahan as
his replacement on the Democratic 
gubernatorial ticket."
Sternly Eloise leaned toward.
"Sam, you'd better get on the
phone and talk to some people
who can influence that Vacancy
Committee not to do any such
thing. After all, you're still one
of the leaders of the Democratic
party."
"I'm afraid that, in view of
my current personal difficulties
with the Bar Association my
opinion won't carry much
weight,"
"You don't want them to
choose Callahan, do you?"
"No," he said tightly, "they
mustn't choose Callahan. That
would be ... intolerable."
"Well then?"
He hesitated, "All right Pass
me that phone book, my dear
I'll start with a few old wheel
horses in Rowton."


85 MAKE MOREHOUSE
COLLEGE HONOR ROLL
According to an announcement
from the Office of the Dean,
eighty-five students at Morehouse
College, have qualified for listing
on te current Honor Roll, or Dean's
list. The current Honor Roll is
based on academic records for the
second semester of the academic
year 1959-60, and it includes 38
juniors, 19 sophomores, and 26
freshmen. To qualify for the Honor
Roll, a student must maintain an
average of B or above, with no
grade below C.
Honors bay at Morehouse was
observed on Friday, December 9, in
a special chapel program in the
Sale Hall Auditorium, with Dr.
James Hope Birnie, author, Phi
Beta Kappa Scholar, professor and
chairman of the Department of
Biology at Morehouse College, as
speaker.
Dr. Birnie spoke on the subject,
"The Education of Our Talented
Youth." He pointed out that there
has been waste of talent and that
it shows up in our shortage of
trained manpower. He denounced
the disdainful attitude many
Americans have towards higher
education and the prevalent idea
that assumes students, are intellectual 
equals and equally talented,
thereby causing gifted students to
do mediocre work. He further stated
that to give specialized education
to gifted students is not undemocratic, 
but rather help us to make
further use of the various talents
that people have. "Education in a
democracy," he concluded, "must
not only, be democratic but educational 
as well."
The following scholarships were
awarded: JUNIOR CLASS — First
Award: Michael Banks; Second
Award: Curtis Gaye; Third Award:
Charles W. Merideth. SOPHOMORE
CLASS— First Award: Charles
Trotman; Second Award: Clark
Everett; Third Award: Nathaniel
E. Griffin. FRESHMAN CLASS—
First Award: Billy J. Evans; Second 
Award: Harold Rutherford;
Third Award: Rudolph Jones. The
First Award carries a cash value
of $150.00, the Second Award, $125.,
the Third Award, $100.
The complete honor roll follows;

Robert L. Allen, Atlanta, Ga.;
*George A., Anderson, Monroe, La.;
*Wendell Anderson, Cleveland,
Ohio; Emmanuel R. Asiedu, Accra,
Ghana; Joseph L. Baker, Hallandale, 
Fla.; *Michael Banks, Cuney,
Texas; Benjamin Berry, Washington, 
D. C. William C. Brooks
Dalton, Ga.; *Luther Brown, Laurinburg, 
N. C.; Johnny Bullock,
Durham, N. C.; Melvin A. Butler,
Monroe, La.; Clarence W. Clark,
Winter Park, Fla.; *Lamay Coffield, 
Fayetteville, Ga.; Julius E.
Coles, Atlanta, Ga.
James W. Cooper, Florence, S. C.;
Edward B. Curry, Bessemer, Ala.;
Chester Davenport, Atlanta, Ga.;
Abraham L Davis, Tuskegee, Ala.;
James A. Davis, Laurens, S. C.;
James N. Davis, Kingsport, Tenn.;
John E. Davis, Montgomery, Ala.;
*Marvin Dunn, Opalaka, Fla.; *Billy
J. Evans, Macon, Ga.; Clark Everett, 
Blakely, Ga.; Joseph Feagan,
Birmingham, Ala.; David Fraction,
Bristol, Va.; Cecil Franklin, Detroit,
Mich; Marcelino Garcia. Tampa,
Fla.; Curtis Gaye, Jackson, Ga.;
*Charles H. Grady, Enterprise, Ala.;
Jesse Greene, Marion Green, Athens, 
Ga
*Willie H. Greene, Miami. Fla,;
*Nathaniel Griffin, Tampa, Fla.;
Calvin B. Grimes, Athens, Ga.;
Earl G. Harris, Danville, Va.; Kenneth 
Harris, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Hamilton Homes, Atlanta, Ga;
*Donald R. Hopkins, Miami, Fla.;
Alton Hornsby, Atlanta, Ga.; Walter 
Hornsby, Augusta, Ga.; Edward;
U. Howard; Baton Rouge, La.;
Lloyd McNeill, Washington, D. C;
*Rudolph Jones Fayetteville, N.
C.; Glover Lee, Atlanta, Ga,;
David N. Leggett, Jacksonville,. Fla.;
*Charles F. Lyles, Atlanta, Ga.
*Homer L. McCall, Montgomery,
Ala.; Henry J. McManus, Moultrie, 
Ga.; Robert H. McMillan,
Monroeville, Ala.; William E. Major,
Atlanta, Ga.; *James Martin, Atlanta, 
Ga.; *Charles W. Meridith,
Atlanta, Ga.; Benjamin Montgomery, 
College Park, Ga.; William E.
Murphy, Fayettevile, N. C.; *Marvin 
Neal Atlanta, Ga.; Elbert
Nelson, Columbus. Ga.; Boaz H.
Ogola, Nairobi Kenya; *Jackson
Otieno, Nairobi, Kenya; *Willie
Richardson; *Edmund Robinson,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; William P.
Robinson, Atlanta, Ga.; *Walter A.
Rolling, Quitman, Ga.
*Ronnie W. Royal, Jacksonville,
Fla.; Harold Rutherford, Quitman,
Ga.; William Rutherford, Columbia, 
S. C.; Castoria Seymore, West
palm Beach Fla.; Chester A. Sims

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; *Melvin D
Smith, Atlanta, Ga.; Tobias Stewart, 
Gray, Ga.; *Troy L. Story,
Montgomery, Ala.; Marvin Thomas,
St. Louis, Mo.; *Leon Thompson,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; *Robert W.
Thrash, Hogansville, Ga,; *Charles
J. Trotman, Dothan, Ala.; Arthur
F. Walker, Birmingham, Ala.; *Hubert 
Watters, Birmingham, Ala.;
Jerome J. Wellborn, Atlanta, Ga.;
*Dezra White, Beaumont, Texas;
James J. Williams, Pensacola, Fla.;
*John B. Williams, Miami, Fla.;
Isaac Willis, Albany, Ga; *Durant
Worthy, Lowrys, S.C. Leonard
Young, Monroe, Ga.; William J.
Watts, Thomasville, Ga.
The fifty-two honor Morehouse
College students with an asterisk
() by their names were listed on
the Hoonr Roll for both semesters
of the school year 1559-1960....

Reset Trial Of

she suspects the two athletes of
robbing her purse Dec. 7, at The
Spat restaurant.
Arnold and Wilson admitted being 
at the restaurant but denied
bothering her purse. The girl said
she did not see them rob her purse
bu an employe. Mrs, Lizzie Morella,
said she heard some boys dividing
money in the men's room, she said
she was next door in the ladies'
room.
The two athletes said five other
students were with them and Judge
Andrew Doyle granted the postponement 
so they could testify.
Halfback Arnold led the A&I
football; team in scoring this season. 
Wilson was the team's starting 
center.

Selassie Loses

American, British and French embassies 
which said the imperial
household guard of 6,000 elite
troops had risen against the emperor. 

Selassie, a Coptic Christian who
claims descent from Solomon and
the queen of Sheba, and whose
title is "king of the kings of Ethiopia, 
lion of Judah, the elect of
God," appeared unperturbed by
the reports as he toured Brazil,
The bead-eyed monarch arrived
in the modern capital city of Brasilia, 
decorated Brazilian President
Juscelino Kubitschek and then
took a helicopter tour of the new
federal capital. He then flew to

Sao Paulo to spend the night as
guest of state Gov. Carvalho Pinto. 

Selassi, a quiet man of regal
on Dec. 18 via Recife and Dakar
but gave no indication he would
change his plans.
Selassie, a quiet man of regal
bearing, won world sympathy in
1935. when he went before the
League of Nations in Geneva to
appeal for aid against Italian Dictator 
Benito Mussolini then mounting 
an invasion of Ethiopia.
He won sympathy but no support 
and the Italians marched in,
capturing his kingdom after a long
and drawn out fight with his illequipped 
troops. He fled to London 
in May, 1936, but returned
when the British drove out the
Italians four years later.
There was no definite indication 
what part the Ethioian army 
had taken in the reported uprising. 
The army is made up of
25,000 British-trained soldiers, of
whom 2,600 have been sent to the
Congo as part of the United Nations 
force there.

SELASSIE, APPEARS
UNPERTURBED

American, British and French embassies 
which said the imperial
household guard of 6,000 elite
troops had risen against the emperor. 

Selassie, a Coptic Christian who
claims descent from Solomon and
the queen of Sheba, and whose
title is "king of the kings of Ethiopia, 
lion of Judah, the elect of
God," appeared unperturbed by
the reports as he toured Brazil,
The bead-eyed monarch arrived
in the modern capital city of Brasilia, 
decorated Brazilian President
Juscelino Kubitschek and then
took a helicopter tour of the new
federal capital. He then flew to

Sao Paulo to spend the night as
guest of state Gov. Carvalho Pinto. 

Selassi, a quiet man of regal
on Dec. 18 via Recife and Dakar
but gave no indication he would
change his plans.
Selassie, a quiet man of regal
bearing, won world sympathy in
1935. when he went before the
League of Nations in Geneva to
appeal for aid against Italian Dictator 
Benito Mussolini then mounting 
an invasion of Ethiopia.
He won sympathy but no support 
and the Italians marched in,
capturing his kingdom after a long
and drawn out fight with his illequipped 
troops. He fled to London 
in May, 1936, but returned
when the British drove out the
Italians four years later.
There was no definite indication 
what part the Ethioian army 
had taken in the reported uprising. 
The army is made up of
25,000 British-trained soldiers, of
whom 2,600 have been sent to the
Congo as part of the United Nations 
force there.


Patterson Named
Fighter Of Year

Largely because of his fifth round 
knockout over Ingemar Johansson 
at the Polo Grounds, June
20, the writers again voted him
the Edward J. Neil Memorial
Plaque — an honor that had gone
twice previously to Carmen Basilio.
Patterson of Rockville Centre,
N. Y., received the Neil fighter-ofthe-year 
award in 1956 for having
won the vacant heavy title by
knocking out Archie Moore in the
fifth round at Chicago. He lost
the championship on June 26, 1959
when knocked out in the third
round by Johansson at Yankee
Stadium.
Facing the explosive Swede in
their return bout on June 20 this
year, 25-year-old Floyd was attempting 
a feat that no other

heavyweight ever had accomplished: 
To prove untrue the heavyweight 
title axiom "they never
come back."
Floyd, weighing 190 pounds to
Ingemar's 194 3-4, staggered Johansson 
in the first round with a
left hook; but had his own knees
buckled in the second by a Johansson 
right to the head. Floyd
again took command in the third
round and floored him twice in
the fifth with left hooks for a
knockout.
Basilio of Chittenango, N. Y.,
the former welterweight and middleweight 
ruler, received the Neil
plaque in 1955 and 1957.
Tuesday's vote for Patterson at
the writers' annual business meeting 
was by unanimous acclaim.

ACHESON OFFERS ADVICE AND COUNSEL—
Former Secretary
of State Dean Acheson and President elect John F. Kennedy
end a meeting at the farmer's home in the Georgetown section
of Washington. An aide said that Kennedy sought "advice and
counsel on some problems." The President-elect also met with
Chester Bowles, believed a possibility for Secretary of State.

ABUNDANT LIFE
by ORAL ROBERTS
In a glass enclosure in our
Abundant Life. Building in Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, is a monument to
the faith of a little boy. Here
are displayed his built-up shoe
and a pair of crutches—no
longer needed because God
healed the little crippled lad.
This ten-year old boy's faith
brought healing from God. Let
me tell you about it.
Willie's hipbone was flat. One
leg was 2-1/2 inches shorter
than the-other. For four years
he walked in a built-up shoe and
with the aid of crutches. He
could not run and play like
other boys and girls. Many
times his little playmates took
Willie's crutches away from
him, leaving him standing at
their mercy.
For four years, during Willie's
school life in the state of Virginia, 
the only way the school
children had ever seen him was
on crutches and wearing that
built-up shoe.
Willie's parents heard about
our crusade in Roanoke. They
told him that if he had faith
when Oral Roberts prayed for
him, God would completely heal
him. Willie believed it. Before
they came to the meeting Willie 
made his parents promise
that if God healed him through
prayer, they would go down the
next day and buy him a new
pair of shoes.
The prayer line was so long
that night that Willie could not
find a place to stand. After I

had finished praying for the
sick, I was on my way out of
the building, tired, exhausted
and wanting to get to my room
for some rest. As I was passing
by the room where little Willie
was standing on his crutches
and built-up shoe, I looked into
it. Why? I don't know.
I saw the little fellow looking
so lost and helpless. Something
got hold of me and I went in.
"Son," I said, "do you want to
be healed?" Little Willie said,
"Yes, sir." I was too tired to
pray a formal prayer, so I just
reached out and touched his
forehead, and asked God to heal
Willie's leg, in the name of Jesus, 
I then left the building.
A year and a half passed. I
had not heard that Willie had
been healed instantly by God
I was amazed as anyone to see
him standing on the platform
at another Roanoke Crusade.
Willie said that when I
touched him, he felt his faith
go, and God healed him. Immediately 
his leg, 2-1/2 inches
shorter than the other, was
lengthened.
He couldn't walk in his builtup 
shoe because it made his leg
too long! His parents had to buy
those new shoes before he could
go to school.
Today Willie is healthy and
normal. His built-up shoe and
pair of crutches, under glass in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, bear mute
testimony, to the power of a little 
boy s faith in God.

MONUMENT TO A LITTLE BOY'S FAITH.
by ORAL ROBERTS
In a glass enclosure in our
Abundant Life. Building in Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, is a monument to
the faith of a little boy. Here
are displayed his built-up shoe
and a pair of crutches—no
longer needed because God
healed the little crippled lad.
This ten-year old boy's faith
brought healing from God. Let
me tell you about it.
Willie's hipbone was flat. One
leg was 2-1/2 inches shorter
than the-other. For four years
he walked in a built-up shoe and
with the aid of crutches. He
could not run and play like
other boys and girls. Many
times his little playmates took
Willie's crutches away from
him, leaving him standing at
their mercy.
For four years, during Willie's
school life in the state of Virginia, 
the only way the school
children had ever seen him was
on crutches and wearing that
built-up shoe.
Willie's parents heard about
our crusade in Roanoke. They
told him that if he had faith
when Oral Roberts prayed for
him, God would completely heal
him. Willie believed it. Before
they came to the meeting Willie 
made his parents promise
that if God healed him through
prayer, they would go down the
next day and buy him a new
pair of shoes.
The prayer line was so long
that night that Willie could not
find a place to stand. After I

had finished praying for the
sick, I was on my way out of
the building, tired, exhausted
and wanting to get to my room
for some rest. As I was passing
by the room where little Willie
was standing on his crutches
and built-up shoe, I looked into
it. Why? I don't know.
I saw the little fellow looking
so lost and helpless. Something
got hold of me and I went in.
"Son," I said, "do you want to
be healed?" Little Willie said,
"Yes, sir." I was too tired to
pray a formal prayer, so I just
reached out and touched his
forehead, and asked God to heal
Willie's leg, in the name of Jesus, 
I then left the building.
A year and a half passed. I
had not heard that Willie had
been healed instantly by God
I was amazed as anyone to see
him standing on the platform
at another Roanoke Crusade.
Willie said that when I
touched him, he felt his faith
go, and God healed him. Immediately 
his leg, 2-1/2 inches
shorter than the other, was
lengthened.
He couldn't walk in his builtup 
shoe because it made his leg
too long! His parents had to buy
those new shoes before he could
go to school.
Today Willie is healthy and
normal. His built-up shoe and
pair of crutches, under glass in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, bear mute
testimony, to the power of a little 
boy s faith in God.

High Court

"goes for beyond what might be

justified in the exercise of the
state's legitimate inquiry into the
fitness and competency of its
teachers."
Dissenters were Justices John
M. Harlan. Felix Frankfurter, Tom
C. Clark and Charles E. Whittaker. 


Yankee' Scrawled
On Capitol Dome,
Human F|y Busy?
Early arrivals at the State Capitol
Building Monday found the word
"Yankee" scrawled in bright red
paint on the Capitol dome.
Secretary of State R. A. Gray,
building custodian, put his workmen
on the job quickly to paint over the
defacement.
There was no clue as to the identity 
of the vandals or how they
managed to work unseen atop the
Capitol building.
The dome can be reached only
by maneuvering over and under
heavy rates and beams and up
narrow wooden stairways from the
second floor hall.