Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1962-09-01 J. A. Beauchamp PLATFORM GUESTS AT ASC SUMMER CONVOCA- TION— Left to right: Rev. Harry Nevels, Dean R. H. Simmons, Dr. William B. Stewart, Dr. William H, Dennis, RPV. O. H. Brown, Mr. Erasmus Dent. Union Policies Said To Restrict Minority Earning The International Ladies Garment Workers Union came in for some strong criticism of its practices involving Negro and Puerto Rican members in testimony here this week before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Herbert Hill, NAACP labor secretary, declared in his statement to the subcommittee: "There are virtually no Negro and Puerto Rican members in the locals that control access to the well paid jobs where there is a high degree of job stability," he said. He said that for all practical purposes, locals such as 10, 60 and 89 are "lily white" while Negro and Puerto Rican workers are "limited to membership in Local 22 and in the unit known as 60A," which he called "the Jim Crow auxiliary of Local 80." The average hourly wage in jobs within Local 60's jurisdiction pressers) is $5.00 an hour, Mr. Hill said. Local 60 has an all white membership, and its jobs are the best in New York City's garment industry. "On the other hand," he added, "there is 60A which is simply a unit of Local 60. This is almost entirely Negro and Puerto Rican. They work as shipping clerks,, push bays and delivery man. They earn in the vicinity of $50.00 per week." ILGWU contracts provide for but a small amount above the bare minimum required by law "in the locals where there is a maor concentration o; non white workers,' Hill's statement declared. Typical jobs in these categories are floor girls, shipping clerks, trimmers and sewing machine operators in the low priced dress field and in the miscellaneous locals. Mr. Kill concluded that the IL GWU leadership has simply refused to adust to the fact that nonwhites make up an increasingly large part of New York's population –with heavy concentration in the lower income categories, the bulk of the union's constituency. BEST IN INDUSTRY The International Ladies Garment Workers Union came in for some strong criticism of its practices involving Negro and Puerto Rican members in testimony here this week before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Herbert Hill, NAACP labor secretary, declared in his statement to the subcommittee: "There are virtually no Negro and Puerto Rican members in the locals that control access to the well paid jobs where there is a high degree of job stability," he said. He said that for all practical purposes, locals such as 10, 60 and 89 are "lily white" while Negro and Puerto Rican workers are "limited to membership in Local 22 and in the unit known as 60A," which he called "the Jim Crow auxiliary of Local 80." The average hourly wage in jobs within Local 60's jurisdiction pressers) is $5.00 an hour, Mr. Hill said. Local 60 has an all white membership, and its jobs are the best in New York City's garment industry. "On the other hand," he added, "there is 60A which is simply a unit of Local 60. This is almost entirely Negro and Puerto Rican. They work as shipping clerks,, push bays and delivery man. They earn in the vicinity of $50.00 per week." ILGWU contracts provide for but a small amount above the bare minimum required by law "in the locals where there is a maor concentration o; non white workers,' Hill's statement declared. Typical jobs in these categories are floor girls, shipping clerks, trimmers and sewing machine operators in the low priced dress field and in the miscellaneous locals. Mr. Kill concluded that the IL GWU leadership has simply refused to adust to the fact that nonwhites make up an increasingly large part of New York's population –with heavy concentration in the lower income categories, the bulk of the union's constituency. SIGHT-SAVING DRIVE ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT September's annual "Sight-Saving Month" campaign of the National Society for the Prevention Blindness"offers all Americans an invaluable opportunity to learn about the care and protection of their precious vision," President Kennedy said today. The thirteenth annual sight-saving drive which runs through Sept. 30th seeks reduction in the more than 30,000 new cases of blindness each year. Comedian Bob Hope is chairman of the national event. "Through Its 1962 theme - Sight For A Lifetime the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness warns that the crusade against blindness must be constant and unyielding," the President stated. The requirement for tight conservation at all age levelt, by early detection of eye problems, protecttion against accidents and correction of vision deficiencies, is beng emphasized by the NSPB in the 1962 campaign. "Disease accident and neglect bring blindness to thousands of young and old alike," Mr. Kennedy continued. "This is a less our nation cannot afford. We need our children strong and fit, our mature citizens healthy and productive, our older people capable of enjoying the rewards of long life." "Sight-Saving Month" figures released by the NEPB in outlining the challenge to 'sight include: 392,000 Americans are legally blind; 1.5 million Americans are blind in one eye; one out of every four school children needs some form of eye care; 1.3 million American adults over 40 have glaucoma and half of them don't know it; 300,000 industrial eye accidents occur each year; and only one of nine pachally-seeing school children is receiving necessary special educational aids. Organized in 1908, the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness is the only national voluntary health agency devoted exclusively to sight conservation through, research, education and preventive services. Working nationally and through state divisions, it has headquarters at 16 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. London rejects Manila's claim to North Borneo. McNamara backs Administratio nsatellite bill. POSNERS Skintona! LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona! LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona! 65c size $100 Size Plus tax School Enrollment Shows Record Hike For Eighteenth Yr. Enrollment in the Nation's public and private schools from kindergarten through college, increasing for the 18th consecutive year, will reach a new all -time high of 513 million in the 50 States and the District of Columbia in the school year 1962-63, the U. S. Office of Education estimated today. This is an increase of 2 million over the enrollment of 49.3 million for the 1961-62 school year. The Office of Education also estimated that 1.744 million classroom teachers will be needed by the public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. This number is 3.6 'percent greater than the 1,684 million employed in 1961-62. Anticipated enrollments in public and nonpublic schools from kindergarten through Grade 8 are estimated at 35 million for the 50 States and the District of Columbia, an increase of 800,000. In Grades 9 through 12, the increase is expected to be 900,000 -from 10.8 million to 11.7 million. In institutions of higher education, both public and prviate, an enrollment increase of 300,000— from 4.3 million to 4.6 million –is anticipated. Rising enrollments in kindergarten and clememtary and secondary schools are due chiefly to increased birthrates in recent year. The birthrate has advanced in most years since 1945. An earliersurge in births in 1940-43 has been reflected to some extent In college enrollments since 1959-1960. Statisticians anticipate, however, that the first really sharp increase in college enrollments will come about the start of the 1965-66 school year. Then high school graduates born in 1946 will apply for admission. Between 1945 and 1947, the annual member of births increased by 1 million. This is expected to will in substantial increases in college enrollments in the three years beginning in 1965 1966. As yet, the office of Education said steadily mounting college enrollments should be credited largely to the fact that there is a growing interest in attending college. rather than to higher birthrates. 800,000 INCREASE Enrollment in the Nation's public and private schools from kindergarten through college, increasing for the 18th consecutive year, will reach a new all -time high of 513 million in the 50 States and the District of Columbia in the school year 1962-63, the U. S. Office of Education estimated today. This is an increase of 2 million over the enrollment of 49.3 million for the 1961-62 school year. The Office of Education also estimated that 1.744 million classroom teachers will be needed by the public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. This number is 3.6 'percent greater than the 1,684 million employed in 1961-62. Anticipated enrollments in public and nonpublic schools from kindergarten through Grade 8 are estimated at 35 million for the 50 States and the District of Columbia, an increase of 800,000. In Grades 9 through 12, the increase is expected to be 900,000 -from 10.8 million to 11.7 million. In institutions of higher education, both public and prviate, an enrollment increase of 300,000— from 4.3 million to 4.6 million –is anticipated. Rising enrollments in kindergarten and clememtary and secondary schools are due chiefly to increased birthrates in recent year. The birthrate has advanced in most years since 1945. An earliersurge in births in 1940-43 has been reflected to some extent In college enrollments since 1959-1960. Statisticians anticipate, however, that the first really sharp increase in college enrollments will come about the start of the 1965-66 school year. Then high school graduates born in 1946 will apply for admission. Between 1945 and 1947, the annual member of births increased by 1 million. This is expected to will in substantial increases in college enrollments in the three years beginning in 1965 1966. As yet, the office of Education said steadily mounting college enrollments should be credited largely to the fact that there is a growing interest in attending college. rather than to higher birthrates. Airman Uses First Aid Knowledge To Save Man's Life Robert W. Spencer, an Air Force reservist on duty with the 9503rd Air Force Recovery Squadron at Robulus Mich., became a hero here last week after he utilized first aid techniques learned only 24 hours earlier to save the life of a man suffering a heart attack. Spencer, who Is a machine operator in civilian life here, was at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport when he noticed Vasil Kalinovik slumped behind the wheel of his parked car. At first he thought the man was sleeping, but after observing him closely Spencer said he knew he has suffered an attack. So he decideed to drive Kalinovik home. However, on the way Kalinovik suffered another attack and Spencer decided to apply the techniques he had learned In a lecture the day before. "I laid the man out on the seat of the car, raised his feel, loosened his collar and cleared his throat, and comforted him in every way," he explained. After that Spencer decided to turn his patient over to more capable persons. He drove him to the nearby veterans Hospital in Dear born, where he was recuperating late last week. When the news reached the base Spencer's commanding officer was elated. In a brief ceremony, Lt. Col. Cletus E. Busen honored the airman for his deeds. Jackson, Mississippi School Desegregation Suit Filed Another attempt to crack Mississippi's massive segregation system was made August 16 when a petition was filed by nine parents, including NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Even, with the Jackson Municipal Separate School District. The petition was filed in behalf of fifteen children in grades two through twelve. Reaction from Jackson officials and citizens was swift and, In many instances, vitriolic in nature. Mississippi stall' law requires segregation. State Attorney General Joe Patterson said his office would cooperate with city officials and attorneys in any way they wished. Chairman of the Jackson School Board, Lester Alvis, said that the law would be followed. The Jackson Dally News, in recording the event, listed not only the names of the parents and children involved but their addresses as well, thereby openly inviting reprisals. Since the petition was filed numerous telephone threats have been received by Field Secretary Evers and others. The News also carried a bombastic editorial praising the Jackson school system and denouncing Mr. Evers as a 'professional racial agitator' who intended "to de Jackson, its school system and create hate and fury if his demands were not met." Mr. Evers stated that the group of parents would not be intimidateed by threats of violence and that they would hold their ground mull a formal answer has been received from the school board. Legal action is planned if necessary to bring the schools in line with the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning public school segregation. Another attempt to crack Mississippi's massive segregation system was made August 16 when a petition was filed by nine parents, including NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Even, with the Jackson Municipal Separate School District. The petition was filed in behalf of fifteen children in grades two through twelve. Reaction from Jackson officials and citizens was swift and, In many instances, vitriolic in nature. Mississippi stall' law requires segregation. State Attorney General Joe Patterson said his office would cooperate with city officials and attorneys in any way they wished. Chairman of the Jackson School Board, Lester Alvis, said that the law would be followed. The Jackson Dally News, in recording the event, listed not only the names of the parents and children involved but their addresses as well, thereby openly inviting reprisals. Since the petition was filed numerous telephone threats have been received by Field Secretary Evers and others. The News also carried a bombastic editorial praising the Jackson school system and denouncing Mr. Evers as a 'professional racial agitator' who intended "to de Jackson, its school system and create hate and fury if his demands were not met." Mr. Evers stated that the group of parents would not be intimidateed by threats of violence and that they would hold their ground mull a formal answer has been received from the school board. Legal action is planned if necessary to bring the schools in line with the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning public school segregation. CONVENTION CALENDAR National urban League, Grand Rapids, Mich. –September 1-6. National Baptist Convention, U. S.A., Inc., Chicago, III.–September 4-9. Woman's Convention, Auxiliary to The National Baptist convention, u. S. A. Inc., Chicago, III.— September 4-9. National Bankers Association, Philadelphia, pa. –September 1315. National Negro Licensed Beverage Association, Washington, D. C. –September 18-21. National Business League, Philadelphia, Pa. –September 27-29. Seek UN Discussion Of S. African Policy Thirty-nine Afro-Asian countries and Yugoslavia have requested in a letter made public on Aug. 20, the inclusion of an item en South Africa's race policies in the agenda of the General Assembly's seventeenth session. In a memorandum accompanying the formal request, they said that the South African Government was implementing segregation policies with increasing ruthlessness and disregard of world opinion and of successive resolutions adopted by the united Nations." The memorandum drew attention to South Africa's recently enacted "sabotage bill" and said that this "further added to existing bitterness and tension between various racial groups in South Africa." Do's And Don'ts EXCUSE ME, BUB –I'VE GOT AN APPOINMENT! WITH PEACE CORPS IN GHANA — "I have been so busy teaching and coaching sports. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it in," reports Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Shea, 23, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, from his secondary school in Kibi, Ghana, in panel at left. In photo at right, there's a trick to boarding a "mammy wagon", Ghana's most popular mode of transportation. Peace Corps Volunteer Carol Waymire, 27, of Santa Rosa,-Calif., is finding this out as she prepares to board one for an outing with her students in Kumasi. With these words, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver a year ago dispatched 51 secondary school teachers for Ghana –the first Peace Corps Volunteers to go abroad. On Friday, August 31, the Ghana Volunteers will celebrate their first anniversary in the field –without festivities. On the same day, a second group of Ghana Volunteers will arrive in Accra to begin their overseas assignments. The first program was born in April of'1961 after a meeting in Accra between President Kwame Nkrumah and Sargent Shriver. Nkrumah called the Peace Corps "a bold and splendid idea," and a request was made through his Minister of Education for 50 to 75 secondary school teachers. On the weekend of July 4, 1961, the men and women selected for Ghana arrived at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley for six weeks of intensive training. The effectiveness of the Berkeley program was more than evident when the Volunteers debarked in Accra —an extremely favorable atmosphere was created when they stepped from the plane and sang a Ghanaian song in Twi, the national language. The Volunteers spent their first two weeks at the University of Ghana at Legon, seven miles from Accra. "The setting and architectture of the University combined into one of the most pleasing and appealing scenes we had observed," wrote Kansas Volunteer Robert M Krisko. "The buildings are beautyful. The school extends for about two miles up the slope of Legon Hill. This was our home for two weeks and It was a pleasant one We had classes and lectures sponsored by the Ghanaian; Ministry of Education adjusted to the climate and the food and spent a lot of time in Accra, looking around." At the end of the Legon training the Volunteers were assigned to schools throughout Ghana. Although most assignments were to the southern half of the nation where the living conditions and the schools were comparatively new and modern, some Volunteers were sent into areas still untouched by modern conveniences. A Volunteer from Illinois, Tom Livingston described his situate in Dodowa: "The school building are just remodeled Ghanaian compounds. The walls are of the traditional white-washed mud and the ceilings are of rusty corrugated steel. We have visitors in the form of chickens and goats wandering into the class-room. "The students, however are an inspiration –they fight with each other over who is to be the lucky one to carry the master's books and they stand to greet me in unison. They try very hard for the most part, but they have quite a bit of difficulty with English and my American accent does not help it." "BOLD SPLENDID IDEA" With these words, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver a year ago dispatched 51 secondary school teachers for Ghana –the first Peace Corps Volunteers to go abroad. On Friday, August 31, the Ghana Volunteers will celebrate their first anniversary in the field –without festivities. On the same day, a second group of Ghana Volunteers will arrive in Accra to begin their overseas assignments. The first program was born in April of'1961 after a meeting in Accra between President Kwame Nkrumah and Sargent Shriver. Nkrumah called the Peace Corps "a bold and splendid idea," and a request was made through his Minister of Education for 50 to 75 secondary school teachers. On the weekend of July 4, 1961, the men and women selected for Ghana arrived at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley for six weeks of intensive training. The effectiveness of the Berkeley program was more than evident when the Volunteers debarked in Accra —an extremely favorable atmosphere was created when they stepped from the plane and sang a Ghanaian song in Twi, the national language. The Volunteers spent their first two weeks at the University of Ghana at Legon, seven miles from Accra. "The setting and architectture of the University combined into one of the most pleasing and appealing scenes we had observed," wrote Kansas Volunteer Robert M Krisko. "The buildings are beautyful. The school extends for about two miles up the slope of Legon Hill. This was our home for two weeks and It was a pleasant one We had classes and lectures sponsored by the Ghanaian; Ministry of Education adjusted to the climate and the food and spent a lot of time in Accra, looking around." At the end of the Legon training the Volunteers were assigned to schools throughout Ghana. Although most assignments were to the southern half of the nation where the living conditions and the schools were comparatively new and modern, some Volunteers were sent into areas still untouched by modern conveniences. A Volunteer from Illinois, Tom Livingston described his situate in Dodowa: "The school building are just remodeled Ghanaian compounds. The walls are of the traditional white-washed mud and the ceilings are of rusty corrugated steel. We have visitors in the form of chickens and goats wandering into the class-room. "The students, however are an inspiration –they fight with each other over who is to be the lucky one to carry the master's books and they stand to greet me in unison. They try very hard for the most part, but they have quite a bit of difficulty with English and my American accent does not help it." FREQUENT VISITORS With these words, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver a year ago dispatched 51 secondary school teachers for Ghana –the first Peace Corps Volunteers to go abroad. On Friday, August 31, the Ghana Volunteers will celebrate their first anniversary in the field –without festivities. On the same day, a second group of Ghana Volunteers will arrive in Accra to begin their overseas assignments. The first program was born in April of'1961 after a meeting in Accra between President Kwame Nkrumah and Sargent Shriver. Nkrumah called the Peace Corps "a bold and splendid idea," and a request was made through his Minister of Education for 50 to 75 secondary school teachers. On the weekend of July 4, 1961, the men and women selected for Ghana arrived at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley for six weeks of intensive training. The effectiveness of the Berkeley program was more than evident when the Volunteers debarked in Accra —an extremely favorable atmosphere was created when they stepped from the plane and sang a Ghanaian song in Twi, the national language. The Volunteers spent their first two weeks at the University of Ghana at Legon, seven miles from Accra. "The setting and architectture of the University combined into one of the most pleasing and appealing scenes we had observed," wrote Kansas Volunteer Robert M Krisko. "The buildings are beautyful. The school extends for about two miles up the slope of Legon Hill. This was our home for two weeks and It was a pleasant one We had classes and lectures sponsored by the Ghanaian; Ministry of Education adjusted to the climate and the food and spent a lot of time in Accra, looking around." At the end of the Legon training the Volunteers were assigned to schools throughout Ghana. Although most assignments were to the southern half of the nation where the living conditions and the schools were comparatively new and modern, some Volunteers were sent into areas still untouched by modern conveniences. A Volunteer from Illinois, Tom Livingston described his situate in Dodowa: "The school building are just remodeled Ghanaian compounds. The walls are of the traditional white-washed mud and the ceilings are of rusty corrugated steel. We have visitors in the form of chickens and goats wandering into the class-room. "The students, however are an inspiration –they fight with each other over who is to be the lucky one to carry the master's books and they stand to greet me in unison. They try very hard for the most part, but they have quite a bit of difficulty with English and my American accent does not help it." ELEANOR "I wish there was some way of dying without dying, said Simple, "of getting rid of the bad things that afflicts mens, keeping the good, and still being alive. For instant, my old aunt Lucy had arthritis, which made her kind of snappy at times, but she had a good soul, one of the best. Now if the arthritis had just died, instead of her, that would have been like it should be. Look at President Roosevelt –if what ailed him could have died, but not him, the world mikht have been different today". "In other words, I said, "you mean if the Ills of the flesh could pass on, but not the good people who have them, it would be a fine thing. Your fallacy there is that not all people are good to begin with. Some are ill, and evil too." "It is the bad in them I wish would die", said Simple. "If I were a judge, I would not put nobody to death. I would just, sentence the bad in them to die." "Unfortunately, mankind has devised no sure-fire way to separate the evil from man, or man from evil. The theory of capital punishment is that if the whole man is put to death, the evil will go with him his particular evil, that is. It is a kind of legal assassination. But the trouble is that the patterns of evil are not individual, they are social. They spread among a great many people. Electrocute one murderer today, but someone else is committing murder some other place at that very moment. Killing a man doesn't kill the form of the crime. It just kills him. What we need to do is to get at the basic roots of evil, just as a physiccian tries to get at the roots of disease." "That Is what I mean," said Simple. "It is the sick root that should go, not the whole green tree." "Of course there are arguments on both sides," I said. "Sometimes the illness has spread from the root to the whole green tree, as you put It. So the leaves are no longer green, but withered and dry as the branches have no sap in them, in which case some say you might as well cut the tree down". "I really started out talking about people being sick, not trees, not murders, not evil. Just plain old backache, headache, stomachache-sick which is what removes more people from this world then an electric chair. I am wishing for instant, that I will never gee nothing that will-make-me sick enough to die." "In that case, you would just die of old age. Everybody dies of something." "I do not want to catch old age either," said Simple. "Old age catches everyone sooner or later. No human Is Immortal on this earth. You were not meant to stay here forever." "I'd like to stay here, said Simple" For what purpose? "To live to see the day when I would not have to hire a lawyer to go to the Supreme Court to eat in a restaurant in Virginia. I would like to live to see the day when I could eat any where in the U. S. A." "That may not be long, "I said. "It will be longer than it takes for some germ to mow me down," said Simple. "If Jim Crow was only human maybe Jim Crow would get sick, catch pneumonia, get knotted up with arthritis, have gallstones, a strain, TB., cancer, else a bad heart and die. I would not mind seeing Jim Crow die. If necessary, put to death. In fact, I would pay for Jim Crow's funeral, even send flowers. If the family requested, I would even rise and preach his funeral. Yes, I would." I would say, "Jim Crow, Jim Crow, the Lord has taken you away I Thank God, Jim Crow, you will never again drink from no white fountain while I go dry. Never again, Jim Crow, will you set up in front of the buses from Washington to New Orleans while I rides back over the wheels. Never again will you, Jim Crow, laying here dead rise up and call me out of my name, n .. r. I got you in my power now, and I will preach you to your grave. "You did not know a Negro was going to preach your funeral, did you Jim Crow? Well, I is! Me. Jessie B. Simple, was made in the image of God from time eternal from the day of the infinite into whom was breathed the breath of life just to preach your funeral, Jim Crow and to consign you to the dust where you may rot in peace until the world stops spinning around in the universe and comes to a halt so all of a sudden hellfire quick that it will fling you, me and everybody through the A, M. and the P. M, of Judgment wham to the foot of the throne of God! God will say Jim Crow! Jim Crow! Get away! Hie yourself hence! Make baste and take your place in hell! "I'm sorry that-is-what God will say, Jim Crow. So I might as well say it first. "It gives me great pleasure, Jim Crow, to dose your funeral with these words as the top is shut on your casket and the hearse pulls up outside the door and all segregationists wipe their weeping eyes and every coach in the Southern railroad is draped in mourning as the Confederate flag Is at half mast and the D. A. R. has fainted, Jim Crow, you go to hell!" JIM CROW'S FUNERAL "I wish there was some way of dying without dying, said Simple, "of getting rid of the bad things that afflicts mens, keeping the good, and still being alive. For instant, my old aunt Lucy had arthritis, which made her kind of snappy at times, but she had a good soul, one of the best. Now if the arthritis had just died, instead of her, that would have been like it should be. Look at President Roosevelt –if what ailed him could have died, but not him, the world mikht have been different today". "In other words, I said, "you mean if the Ills of the flesh could pass on, but not the good people who have them, it would be a fine thing. Your fallacy there is that not all people are good to begin with. Some are ill, and evil too." "It is the bad in them I wish would die", said Simple. "If I were a judge, I would not put nobody to death. I would just, sentence the bad in them to die." "Unfortunately, mankind has devised no sure-fire way to separate the evil from man, or man from evil. The theory of capital punishment is that if the whole man is put to death, the evil will go with him his particular evil, that is. It is a kind of legal assassination. But the trouble is that the patterns of evil are not individual, they are social. They spread among a great many people. Electrocute one murderer today, but someone else is committing murder some other place at that very moment. Killing a man doesn't kill the form of the crime. It just kills him. What we need to do is to get at the basic roots of evil, just as a physiccian tries to get at the roots of disease." "That Is what I mean," said Simple. "It is the sick root that should go, not the whole green tree." "Of course there are arguments on both sides," I said. "Sometimes the illness has spread from the root to the whole green tree, as you put It. So the leaves are no longer green, but withered and dry as the branches have no sap in them, in which case some say you might as well cut the tree down". "I really started out talking about people being sick, not trees, not murders, not evil. Just plain old backache, headache, stomachache-sick which is what removes more people from this world then an electric chair. I am wishing for instant, that I will never gee nothing that will-make-me sick enough to die." "In that case, you would just die of old age. Everybody dies of something." "I do not want to catch old age either," said Simple. "Old age catches everyone sooner or later. No human Is Immortal on this earth. You were not meant to stay here forever." "I'd like to stay here, said Simple" For what purpose? "To live to see the day when I would not have to hire a lawyer to go to the Supreme Court to eat in a restaurant in Virginia. I would like to live to see the day when I could eat any where in the U. S. A." "That may not be long, "I said. "It will be longer than it takes for some germ to mow me down," said Simple. "If Jim Crow was only human maybe Jim Crow would get sick, catch pneumonia, get knotted up with arthritis, have gallstones, a strain, TB., cancer, else a bad heart and die. I would not mind seeing Jim Crow die. If necessary, put to death. In fact, I would pay for Jim Crow's funeral, even send flowers. If the family requested, I would even rise and preach his funeral. Yes, I would." I would say, "Jim Crow, Jim Crow, the Lord has taken you away I Thank God, Jim Crow, you will never again drink from no white fountain while I go dry. Never again, Jim Crow, will you set up in front of the buses from Washington to New Orleans while I rides back over the wheels. Never again will you, Jim Crow, laying here dead rise up and call me out of my name, n .. r. I got you in my power now, and I will preach you to your grave. "You did not know a Negro was going to preach your funeral, did you Jim Crow? Well, I is! Me. Jessie B. Simple, was made in the image of God from time eternal from the day of the infinite into whom was breathed the breath of life just to preach your funeral, Jim Crow and to consign you to the dust where you may rot in peace until the world stops spinning around in the universe and comes to a halt so all of a sudden hellfire quick that it will fling you, me and everybody through the A, M. and the P. M, of Judgment wham to the foot of the throne of God! God will say Jim Crow! Jim Crow! Get away! Hie yourself hence! Make baste and take your place in hell! "I'm sorry that-is-what God will say, Jim Crow. So I might as well say it first. 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Aug. 20, in a fertilizer bin at the plant. Coroner R. B. Davis, Jr., who ruled the death a suicide, said he was uncertain whether man used blasting caps or dynamite. Both were kept in the plant. National Baptist Convention To Convene Sept. 4 The 700 -voice choir for the 82nd annual National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc., convening here Sept. 4-9, will warm up with their first rehearsal tonight at Chicago's Coliseum; Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, convention President, said he expected this year's musical program to be the best In the history of the convention because it will present the broad scope of Negro religious music. He said the program will be divided into three basic segments: Negro religious classics, spirituals and gospels. It will be presented at Tuesday's convention at 8:00 p. m. Chairman of the Musical Committee is Rev. T. L White. Choir Director Is W. C. Myrick assisted by Willa Jones, who will direct the classic portion of the program and Roberta Martin who will dircet the gospel segment. Myrick will direct the spirituals, and Lorenzo Stalling will direct the processional. Myrick said this year's smaller choir will make no audible difference in the program. He said the decrease to 700 from 12,00 voices was made because the larger group presented too many organizational and directing problems. Soloists will be Rattle Miller, Edna Williams, Harold Martin, Marion Kaye, Virginia Marshall, Willie White and Lorenzo Stalling. Guest artist will be MahaliaJackson, the well known Negro spiritualist.