Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1952-08-12 James H. Purdy, Jr. MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE—Phone 8-4030 Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-Class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager JAMES H. PURDY, JR. Editor Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracey Advertising Manager The is an independent newspaper—non sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to the interest of its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) Jimmie Cooper, 119 E. Utah .............. Phone 9-3700 Mrs. Sadie Gray ...... 1355 Kennedy St., Phone: 9-2824 Lucius Vessell, 1001 Thomas . . . 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It is apparent, that from the platforms adopted at the two conventions, the Negro in general has very little to look forward to in the 1952 election. However, because of their, balloting power, the campaign managers of the two candidates will endeavor to employ all types of maneuvering to win them over to the side of their respective candidate. And these techniques will cover a multitude of sins. In the days to come Negroes can expect back-biting, namecalling, double talk, and all other devices used by campaign managers in politics, to win their vote. The most serious of these techniques will be the selling of Negro vote short by some of the so-called political leaders of the race and luke warm white liberals. It is hoped that this, will not come to pass, but careful checks should be made on those leaders who have selfish tendencies. Regardless to the various methods used to obtain their vote, It is hoped that the majority Negro votes will go to the candidate Whose personality appears to be sincere in regard to the welfare of All People of these United States. United Nations Notes Ford Fund Endows, UN Refugee Work . . . . Paul G. Hoffman, director of the Ford Foundation announced this week a grant of $2,900,000 by the foundation to the United Nations Refugee Emergency Fund. The money is to be expended in an attempt to find a permanent solution to the problem of more than 10,000,000 expelled persons and political exiles in Western Europe. Direct material relief is not one of the objective he said. Mr. Heman explained that the lized that the of the refugees were but arded it as the responsibility of governments of the free world to provide them with something to eat and a place to live. "These funds will be administered by Dr. G. J. van Heuven Goedhart, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees," Mr. Hoffman said. "The work will be Carried out by private agencies selected by Dr. van Heuven Goedhart." POINT FOUR AIDING IRAN LAND REFORM . . . The United States technical aid mission has Worked out with the management of the Imperial estates, a twentyyear schedule for implementation of the Shah of Iran's vast land reform. The Imperial properties, a considerable part of the nation's arable land, will be distributed to the peasants who work the land. The Point Tour program of technical assistance, promised $500,000 from this year's budget as a contribution to the capital of a bank that Shah Mohammed Riza Dahlevi is setting up to protect the peasants from professional moneylenders and crop contractors, who demand 20 to 30 per cent interest from the poverty-stricken tenant peasantry, or contract in the early season when the peasants have nothing to live on, to take the crops at one-third to one-half of their eventual value. EAST AFRICANS RAID ITALIAN OFFICE Two Italians, and an African were killed and twelve. Italians wounded when a na mob attacked an Italian Government office in East Africa "recently" it was announced. The Foreign Office said several natives had been arrested in connection with the riot in Chisiamalo, Italian Somaliland. NEW PARTY FORMED IN MOROCCO A new political party with a nationalistic aim was formed hers last week, known as the Moroccan People's Party. It is headed by Si-Abdel Kader Zemra son of Caid Si Bachir Zemrani, who fought against the Riffs. The party's' platform calls for "peace and honour with a view to acquiring progressively the independence of Morocco." DAKAR, WEST AFRICA Some 150 delegates from twenty-two nonCommunist countries, including the United States and Canada, attended the opening of the third congress of the World Assembly of Youth. The Assembly, founded in Brussels in 1949, aims at establishing a world-wide federation of youth striving for peace through international gatherings and free travel across national frontiers. The last congress was held in Ithaca. New York in 1950. The Ithaca congress decided to meet at Dakar this year despite the sweltering mid-summer heat, because this important naval and air base in Senegal provides "the best example of youthful cooperation and enterprise in Africa." Maurice Sauve of Montreal presided at the formal opening ceremonies in the Chamber of Commerce Building. Frank Murray of New York, head of the United States delegation, told the Assembly he hoped that affiliated youth organizations would develop where at present they do not exist. "Stop the filibuster" rather than a "Compulsory FEPC" should be the IMMEDIATE objective of Negro and other civil rights leaders. No matter what Stevenson or Eisenhower or any other politician agrees to do on this turbulent issue, Congress can pass no rights legislation as long as members, of the United States Senate retain their right to "talk a bill to death." The filibuster or "talkathon" was not invented by Southerners, but it has been used by them predominately since the turn of the century. Thus, when a small group of senators oppose a bill which is about to come up or consideration, they will talk for 8 hours, then yield to Senator B and so on until the hated bill is withdrawn from consideration. In the winter of 1890-1891, a fillbuster lasted for two months. EVERY POLL TAX, ANTILYNCHING AND FEPC LAW COMING BEFORE THE SENATE IN 50 YEARS HAS BEEN KILLED BY THE FILIBUSTER. In 1917, the Senate adopted rule no. XXII (amended in 1949) designed to stop a filibuster This rule requires that debate must be limited upon any measure under consideration when two-thirds (64) senators so agree. However, it has pren impossible to obtain the necessary two-thirds when civil rights is the question before the house. Senators coming from Northern and eastern states will vote for limitation. But the Southerners who begin with twenty or more senators have consistently been able to form coalitions with the western states which have no Negro population and who therefore, do not fear reprisals at election time. This is the situation that any civil rights legislation will face in the coming 83rd Congress or in any future Congress until the filibuster is rendered Entirely harmless. The Tip-Off The South is moving solidly back into the Democratic Party fold. Happily most voters are able to read the platforms of the two major parties for themselves. Dawson was only one member of the ing committee Strong Southerners in number greater than one were on the same committee. No one has ever accused Congressman Powell of selling out because he could not wring from a congressional committee on which he was a member everything that his constitutents may have wanted. On still another front, Bishop D Ward Nichols of the "Mother District" of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was member of a delegation that visited Republican Presidential Nominee Eisenhower He was a plumper for Eisenhower before the Republican National Nominating Convention. He seemed to have excused the General for his states' rights approach to fair employment practices the real test of civil rights sincerity. To me who is not for compulsory FEPC is no friend of the cause of equality of opportunity. Compulsory FEPC advocacy, so far as I am concerned, is the basic, the fundamental, the conclusive measuring rod in this campaign. Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution has called voting the most vital of the civil rights. Today in Alabama there are approximately 800,000 Ner citizens of voting age with only 25,000 to 50,0000 of them on the qualified voters list. In Birmingham, there are around 18,000 Negro citizens of voting age with less than 5,000 of them qualified to vote. It is perhap easier to talk in New York than to toil in Alabama. A number of influential Southern newspapers for the first time are supporting Eisenhower, not necessarily the Republican Party. It is doubtful whether by this method a real two-party system can be development in the south. The whole scheme, it seems to me, is to hamper, sidetrack, weaken or destroy, the civil rights porgram which was expoused by President Truman, Is the Republican Party going to be hoodwinked by such tactics? Job Shortage For College Grads In Teaching In N. C. There is no teacher shortage in North Carolina Negro schools at present. In fact the state schools turned out this year, twice as many teachers as there are jobs in the state, it was disclosed last week. Many of the women graduates will be forced to accept office jobs and other positions instead, of teaching In year's past, North Carolina receiver a number of teachers from Virginia because the Tarheal state paid a higher salary than Virginia. A local newspaper made a survey which ed that the state's 11 Negro college graduated 1,124 teacher this The estimate is that there are john for only 600 new teachers for the 195 Broken down, it means 250 secondary school and 350 elementary school teachers will be needed. School officials feel that as far as Negro college students are concerned, teaching is a position for which they can secure the necessary education and college degree inespensively near home. Moreover they say teaching gives the Negro college graduate a stable income, prestige and a miximum of security in a white collar position. The Negro college graduate is seriously limited in vocational opportunities Gains have been made in recent years as a result of the work of the campaigns of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Fair Employment. Practices Commissions in several states, but the problem is still far from solved. And as for other professions open to Negroes, the cost of education three or four years beyond the undergraduate level is wall nigh prohibitive to a large majority of students Experience shows that teaching is frequently a Negro student's second choice or a stop-gap between college and professional school. Statistics show that the 1,473 graduates of North Carolina Negro colleges this year, 1,124 prepared to teach Of the 1,479 who were graduated last year, 1,070 prepared for teaching careers. Naturally, many were forced into other fields. It is likely that a similar survey in Virginia or South Carolina would reveal that jobs are lacking for the number of Negroes who prepare yearly for teaching positions in these states. Usually there is a surplus of Negro teachers in all southern states from year to year. Sudduth Tells Of NNBL Hor ace S. Sudduth, president of the National Negro Business League, was in Washington over the weekend making plans for the annual convention to be held, at the Masonic Temple on October 29-30. While in the city, he called upon professional, and business men to take out sustaining memberships in the organization to assist it in carrying out the proposed business, educational and service, program. Sudduth foresees a bright future for this organization which he says will be a great asset to Negro, businesses. The 1952 convention, he said, will be an outstanding session in the organization's history. Local and state leagues and trade associations in all sections of the nation are expected to send representatives to the convention. Since the 1948 convention meeting in Atlantic City, the League has established a national office in Washington, D. C., with a full time executive secretary. Three regional secretaries also are employed. Since that time the League has carried on an educational program to alert the minds of Negroes regarding the weakness of their business background and to offer solutions for their problems. The board of directors at its last mid-year meeting agreed upon a permanent plan for financing this program by soliciting the support of business people through a sustaining membership. This program is being carried out by extending invitations to business men in every state of the union to join the organization for the purpose of sustaining this program. British Imperialists Angry Nigerains arrived, here last week to protest to the British government the trickery that prevails in the electoral system of Northern Nigeria and to let the world know that even Britain has granted them self-government with free elections, that their elections are-yet far from free. These Northern Nigerian spokesmen believe that the Electoral system has been deliberately designed to keep out "genuine" representatives of the people and put into power those who would act under orders of white imperialists. There is a clear case, here, of workers buying other workers to sell out their friends and relatives. The memorandum presented to the British. Colonial secretary by the Nigerian delegation will attempt to show that all the people want is proportional representation and free elections. And not representation and election by graft and closed elections. It is this free election and equal representation according to population that has the whole of Africa in uproar. In South Africa, 8,500,000 Africans, and thousands of Asians and colored are dominanted by 2,500,000 whites. In Central Africa, Britain is trying to impose a minority rule by 150,000 whites on nearly 7,000,000 Africans and 150,000 Asians. The delegation here stated that their present election, procedure which employs the use of electoral college, is deliberately designed to keep out the genuine representatives of the people in favor of those only connected with the native ad ministrations in whom the members of the public have no confidence. This proven by the fact that all of the present members of the House Assembly with the exception of two, are Native Administration officials, all of whom were either rejected by the people or did not even stand for election at all. Yet, to everybody's dismay, these people were decalred elected, the Nigerians claim. In The Nation's Capital There's more to the statements of resentative Adam C. Powell of New York, than meets the naked eye. He's not attacking Representative Bill Dawson, of Chicago, and Senator John J. Sparkman, of Alabama, just to purify Democratic politics. That's not the way Powell operate. There's method in his madness. When he achieves his ends, which aren't the terms he has stated publicly, he'll stop fighting. If he doesn't get what he wants, he won't play ball. There's a differnce in his and Dawson's methods. Dawson, in the days when he was a lieutenant in Republican ranks on Chicago's South Side, saw what happened to Ed Wright, Louis Anderson and other top politicos. They got where they were because "Big Bill" Thompson and other bosses handicapped 'em. But not Dawson When he went over to Ed Kelly's political machine he, did so on his own terms. He then set out to make his position secure. He did it by building his own political organization. The result is — neither Mayor Martin Kennelly nor anyone else can tell Dawson to step aside: on the voters on the South Side can do that. Dawson's organization is represented on the city, county, district and state Democratic Organizations. Dawson is chairman of the powerful House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments and a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dawson is a party man. He lays his cards on the table. When he wants something done, he asks the party bosses to do it. He never bludgeons his way to objectives. In Democratic politics on the South Side, his word is law. In the city, county, state and nation, his voice is strong enough to be heard. Powell is an individualist. He is not dependent upon Tammy Hall for his election to Congress. He has the support of his flock—the members of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, one of the oldest and largest colored churches in America. The White House, to which Dawson has access by the front or back door, has been closed to Powell ever since he called Mrs. Truman "the last lady of the land." Powell's method of operating is best illustrated by the way he got his FEPP bill brought up in the House after he had served as chairman of a special House Labor and Education subcommittee which held hearings on FEPC in 1949. The Senate-passd Federal-aid-to education bill engendered a bitter religious fight in th House. The House Education and Labor Committee reached an impasse over the issue of whether provision should be made in the bill for furnishing parochial schools certain auxiliary services, such as nonreligious textbooks, transportation, supplies, and health and welfare services. A majority of the committee, over the protest of the chairman, the late representative John Lesinski of Michigan, scheduled a meeting to report out a bill which would deny any aid to parochial schools. Powell was one of the thirteen members of the 25-member committee who signed the Petition for the meeting in August, 1949. At the hour of the scheduled meeting, the members, who proposed to act over the objections of the chairman, gathered in the committee room. Powell was, needed to make a quorum, but he was conspicuously absent. Clerks vainly tried to reach him. When the House convened at noon, Lesinski walked into the committee room and adjourned the meeting, it being a violation of rules for a committee to sit without permission while the House was in session. Powell showed up at his office immediately after the meeting was adjourned. He had come to town the night before, gone to a downtown hotel where only his secretary knew he was, and remained there until he got word the meeting was adjourned. Several, days after this aborted meeting Powell met with Speaker Sam Rayburn (whom he also denounced after the Chicago convene tion) and Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, the Democratic floor leader (who served as chairman of the platform committee at Chicago) and an understanding was that the FEPC bill would Be called up early in the session. Rayburn and McCormack kept their word. The Powell bill was brought up, but a Republican and Democratic coalition substituted a voluntary measure, which died in Senate. Trivia: Washington hears that Ella Fitzgrald, the song stylist, played five bucks on 341 while she was playing the Blue Mirror here But the writer to whom she gave the bet swung with her dough and she didn't get paid ... The Internal Revenue Bureau has filed a lien for $1,090 against the Curtis Mitchells (Margaret) — he's the lawyer, for 1950 income taxes. PLAN APPEAL TO HIGH COURT IN GUAM CASE The United States Supreme Court will be asked to review the case of two Negro service men now under sentene of death by a general court-martial for the rape-murder of a civilian worker on the Island of Guam in 1948. Following dismissal of the case by the U. S. Court of, Appeals for the District of Columbia in a twoto-one decision handed down on July 31, Robert L. Carter, assistant counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced today that the case would be appealed to the Supreme Court. Although dismissing the appeal from the district court decision, the court of appeals established a precedent by ruling that civil courts have the right to inquire into the nature of military procedings. The lower court had held that it lackjurisdiction. In dismissing the case the appeals court held that all the alegations had been presented to and considered by the military tribunal and, accordingly, refused to interfere. The two servicemen, Robert W. Burns an Herman P. Dennis, Jr., were convicted following trial by a general courts-martial on the basis of "confessions" submitted. The NAACP, through Mr. Carter and Frank D. Reeves, Washington attorney, sought trial in a civil court for the accused men on the grounds tha their confessions were involuntary; that they had been threatened, beaten and held incommunicado; that witnesses who might have testified in their favor were threatened and intimidated; and that witnesses procured for the prosecution admitted perjury. The effort to obtain review of the case by a civil court followed failure to secure further consideration from the military establishment. Lincoln Univ. Sammer School Commencement Following a stirring address by Dr. I. B. Bryant, Director of Workshops, Texas Southern University, fortyfive candidates were conferred with Bachelor degrees by Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, president, Lincoln University, here last week. The occasion closed the 1952 Summer Session, under the direction of Director of Summer Sessions U. S. Marshall. Three of the degrees were granted in Journalism, while the remainder were from ten areas of concentration in the College of Arts And Sciences. Twenty-two of these were Bachelor of Science in Education degrees. Music for the program, presented on the University quadrangle, was furnished by the Summer Session Band and Choir under the direction of Lawrence Stowe and Dr. O. A. Fuller Professor Wilson Q. Welch, Summer Session visiting instructor from Fisk, gave the invocation and benediction. Bachelor of Arts: Thomas Coward, Frank Andrew Evans, Jr., Richard Redwine Gorham Nathan Nile Richmond; Bachelor of Science: Gerald Andrews, Mary Louise Calhoun, Deloise Chandler Harper, Herman Alan Hendricks Conway Conley Newton. Bachelor of Science in Education: Lillian Buckley, Naomi Lewis Clark, Dorothy Curtis, Houston Ellis, Mary Elizabeth Hawkins Bobby Jean Haynes, Kathryn Mitchell Hollingsworth, Delores Elizabeth Jackson, Melvon Byrd Jones, Warden Etta Jones, Cecil DeBaptiste King, Bess Marie Lawrence, Clara Frances Lemon, Betty Lou Madison, Mable Lucille Madison; Zenobia Perkins Posey, Betty Jeanne Taylor, Lillian Weaver Taylor, Bernice Maul Thompson, Cardell Gloria Turner, Lorraine keet Washington, Celma Fry Whittler. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES: Following a stirring address by Dr. I. B. Bryant, Director of Workshops, Texas Southern University, fortyfive candidates were conferred with Bachelor degrees by Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, president, Lincoln University, here last week. The occasion closed the 1952 Summer Session, under the direction of Director of Summer Sessions U. S. Marshall. Three of the degrees were granted in Journalism, while the remainder were from ten areas of concentration in the College of Arts And Sciences. Twenty-two of these were Bachelor of Science in Education degrees. Music for the program, presented on the University quadrangle, was furnished by the Summer Session Band and Choir under the direction of Lawrence Stowe and Dr. O. A. Fuller Professor Wilson Q. Welch, Summer Session visiting instructor from Fisk, gave the invocation and benediction. Bachelor of Arts: Thomas Coward, Frank Andrew Evans, Jr., Richard Redwine Gorham Nathan Nile Richmond; Bachelor of Science: Gerald Andrews, Mary Louise Calhoun, Deloise Chandler Harper, Herman Alan Hendricks Conway Conley Newton. Bachelor of Science in Education: Lillian Buckley, Naomi Lewis Clark, Dorothy Curtis, Houston Ellis, Mary Elizabeth Hawkins Bobby Jean Haynes, Kathryn Mitchell Hollingsworth, Delores Elizabeth Jackson, Melvon Byrd Jones, Warden Etta Jones, Cecil DeBaptiste King, Bess Marie Lawrence, Clara Frances Lemon, Betty Lou Madison, Mable Lucille Madison; Zenobia Perkins Posey, Betty Jeanne Taylor, Lillian Weaver Taylor, Bernice Maul Thompson, Cardell Gloria Turner, Lorraine keet Washington, Celma Fry Whittler. $150 Thousand Completion Job On Manassas Hi Manassas High School at Manassas and Fireston Streets is undergoing the final phases of a $150,000 completion job. This project will result in an addition to the present building of a three, story structure housing facilities for a new cafeteria, a library, two home economics rooms, a general science room and a science laboratory. The work is being done by the Sam P. Maury Construction Co. and is the fourth addition to the school since 1935. The hew addition was designed by Estes Mann and William Mann. According to a Board of Education spokesman, the completed building will be "adequate for Negro educational needs of the area." MY WEEKLY SERMON By REV. BLAIR T. BUNT (Pastor Mississippi Boulevard, Christian Church) Text: "Forsaking not the assembling of yourselves together." Hebrew 10:25 Have you ever seen a dream awalking? Have you ever heard church pews a-talking? Well I heard the latter. Go into your church house on Monday morning .... Go alone. A clamness and peacefulness fills every nook and corner of God's trysting place with man .... The church house. If you will go alone into your church house on Monday morning .... And no one but you be present, and if you listen patiently and attentively it seems you can hear voices. The pews are talking one to the other. They seem to be relating the doings of the Sunday's worship, the happenings of yesterday. Monday I went alone into any church house. The pews in the middle of the church were most talkative. One pew was happily telling of the joy that had come to it because a joy had come to the one occupying that pew the days before. This was a poor widow who had come with a heavy cross upon her shoulder but as the witchery of preaching and the sweet music proceeded, the cross seemed to grow lighter and lighter. A pew on the other side of the aisle said "Sunday was a good day to me, too. The person who sat here had truly entered into the presence of God, that person joined in singing God's praises and when. The collection plate reached him during the offertory he gave as God had prospered him." So many of the pews were anxious to tell of the people who had sat there-on. "Seemingly those persons spirit merged with God's spirit," said the pews. One pew was sad, chewing gum was-stuck thereon, and littered bits of a scribbled note beneath this pew, too, told the story of its occupants, a gum chewing, note writing occupant had been there. One pew was very unhappy; its regular occupant was absent. This pew had, heard the minister announcing the illness of its regular occupant. Another pew spoke up and said "the one who sat here whispered and giggled the entire service thru." It was a lost day for that pew. One pew was very troubled, h said: "The one who sat here had in her heart deep hatred she didn't hear the sweet music; she didn't hear the message of love as it poured itself from the lips of the minister. Nothing good had penetrated her heart during the services." There was one pew in the rear that spoke in cheerful tones telling of three little tots who eat thereon. This pew's closing statement was, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom, of heaven" There were several pews in the front and even more in the rear that for a while said not a mumbling word. You could read their silence. They were the vacants pews - they had nothing to say, for they were empty the entire Sunday. They were very sad for they knew of so many people who could have filled those pews but they were at home, some sleeping, some reading the funnies, some playing cards, some doing those things they had no business to do on Sunday or any other day. As I turned to leave seemingly they said to me "Tell the people, forsake not the assembling of themselves together on Sunday, come unto me and rest and find comfort and eternal joy." CHURCH PEWS A-TALKING By REV. BLAIR T. BUNT (Pastor Mississippi Boulevard, Christian Church) Text: "Forsaking not the assembling of yourselves together." Hebrew 10:25 Have you ever seen a dream awalking? Have you ever heard church pews a-talking? Well I heard the latter. Go into your church house on Monday morning .... Go alone. A clamness and peacefulness fills every nook and corner of God's trysting place with man .... The church house. If you will go alone into your church house on Monday morning .... And no one but you be present, and if you listen patiently and attentively it seems you can hear voices. The pews are talking one to the other. They seem to be relating the doings of the Sunday's worship, the happenings of yesterday. Monday I went alone into any church house. The pews in the middle of the church were most talkative. One pew was happily telling of the joy that had come to it because a joy had come to the one occupying that pew the days before. This was a poor widow who had come with a heavy cross upon her shoulder but as the witchery of preaching and the sweet music proceeded, the cross seemed to grow lighter and lighter. A pew on the other side of the aisle said "Sunday was a good day to me, too. The person who sat here had truly entered into the presence of God, that person joined in singing God's praises and when. The collection plate reached him during the offertory he gave as God had prospered him." So many of the pews were anxious to tell of the people who had sat there-on. "Seemingly those persons spirit merged with God's spirit," said the pews. One pew was sad, chewing gum was-stuck thereon, and littered bits of a scribbled note beneath this pew, too, told the story of its occupants, a gum chewing, note writing occupant had been there. One pew was very unhappy; its regular occupant was absent. This pew had, heard the minister announcing the illness of its regular occupant. Another pew spoke up and said "the one who sat here whispered and giggled the entire service thru." It was a lost day for that pew. One pew was very troubled, h said: "The one who sat here had in her heart deep hatred she didn't hear the sweet music; she didn't hear the message of love as it poured itself from the lips of the minister. Nothing good had penetrated her heart during the services." There was one pew in the rear that spoke in cheerful tones telling of three little tots who eat thereon. This pew's closing statement was, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom, of heaven" There were several pews in the front and even more in the rear that for a while said not a mumbling word. You could read their silence. They were the vacants pews - they had nothing to say, for they were empty the entire Sunday. They were very sad for they knew of so many people who could have filled those pews but they were at home, some sleeping, some reading the funnies, some playing cards, some doing those things they had no business to do on Sunday or any other day. As I turned to leave seemingly they said to me "Tell the people, forsake not the assembling of themselves together on Sunday, come unto me and rest and find comfort and eternal joy." FOREIGN SPECIALIST APPOINTED TO IRAN Ernest Diggs, 37 of Westminister, Md., has been appointed to the State Depart ment's Foreign Service staff in the Middle East. He will work as an administrative assistant in Tohran, Iran. The work is with the Point Four program which aims to develop backward areas throughout the world. The Foreign Specialist is a graduate of Robert Moton high schoolin Westminister. After being discharged from service in 1945, Diggs took a civil service job in Washing ton with the Navy department. In 1946 he received a civilian overseas appointment as clerk with the American Graves Registration Command of the. Army in France, Belgium and Holland. He was appointed to the War Crimes Commission of the War Department in 1948 and worked as assistant chief of transportation and in the Chief Records and Cable Departments during the historic Nuremberg trials. In 1950, he was resettlement officer of the U. S. Committee for Care of European Children, located in Munich. Diggs has also served as a case analyst and liaison officer with the Internal Refugee Organization and its 24 attached voluntary agencies. Link Vote To Take Out NAACP Life Membership A two-year project providing for life memberships in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by each of the 53 chapters of Links, Inc., has been announced by Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, chairman of the Links' national project committee. The project was unanimously, adopted at the fourth annual meet of the organization in San Francisco, upon rcoemmendation of the project committee composed of the president of the local chapters. The Links is national organization of women prominent in the social civic life of their respective communities. The 53 chapters are located in cities throughout the counrty. While other organizations have taken out life memberships in the NAACP, this is the first time that a national organization has undertaken to have each of its local units take out such memberships At $500 each, this means a sum in excess of $25,000 from the Link for the NAACP. Over 100 Millions Dollars Reserved For Schools More than 100 million dollars in Federal funds have been reserved for school construction in "federally-affected" defense areas since July 15. The office of Education of the Federal Security Agency announced recently This is approximately half of the total of 195 million dollars appropriated for this purpose by the recently adjourned Congress. A fourth listing of reservations under this program released today by the Office of Education totals more than 8 1-2 million dollars. These funds are reserved in accordance with provisions of Public Law 815 for construction of minimum school facilities to provide education for children in highly crowded communities adjacent to defense or military activities. "Fluids in today's listing or seresvatios are scheduled to go to local school, districts in 13 states," Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, said today. "These States are Alabama, Arkankanass California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington." Attached is a list of the names and locations of the additional local school districts for which Federal funds have been reservedd and the amount reserved. Bankers To Meet Here Next Month The National Bankers Association will meet in Memphis on Friday and Saturday, September 12 and 13. J. H. Wheeeler, the Association president, is Executive Vice President; of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Durham. Fourteen Negro banks will be represented. On September 12 at eight p. m. the convention will feature and address by John Wesley Dobbs of Atlanta. The public is invited to this address according to Jesse H. Turner social chairman. James H. Purdy, Jr. American Newspapers, Inc. the Amsterdam News, New York Age, and the now defunct Memphis Sentinel. Mr. Purdy has had wide experience as a Journalist and photographer. He has traveled extensively throughout the country, and is well known in newspaper circles. The new editor is a native Memphian and is known througout the Tri-State area. He formerly wrote a column for the Memphis World, called "Here and There." Kennedy Named his understudies, and we are confident that we are in position to manage the institution and further develop it, and that there should be no break in its program and no decrease in its service." And out of this tremendous array of talent, the Argo express, Johnny Karras will ride. In three seasons, for the Illinios the famed back' sprints gained 2,069 yards in spite of injuries which sidelined him in crucial contests. They are coming from Hometown, Argo, Ill., to see their boy on his last college jaunt. And the ghost of the man he was compared with— Red Grange, the Illinois whirlwind—will be there, too. The Rams were the National League runners-up on pass defense last year and grew stronger on ground defense, employing a basic 5-4-2 alignment. As usual, this year's All Star squad will present a glittering array of backfield stars. In addition to those already mentioned, there ate Ollie Matson of San Francisco, Hugh McElhenny bf Washington, Bill Reichardt of Iowa, John Pettibon of Notre Dame and Bill Tidwell of Texas A and M. Impressively strong at the ends, the Stars have Hal Faverty and Pat O'Donahue of Wisconsin, Leo Sugar and Darrell Brewster of Purdue, Bob Carey of Michigan State, Bill McColl of Stanford and Bill Howton of Rice. There will be others and there will be many. But in the words of the football fraternity. "The Los Angeles Rams—They're still the Champs!"