Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1961-08-19 J. A. Beauchamp JUST TALKING — These three teacher-students, all enrolled as graduate students during the summer term at North Carolina College at Durham, were caught by the photographer in an animated conversation between classes. They are Mrs. R. M. Little, Tarboro, N.C.; Mrs. V. M. Smith, also of Tarboro; and Mrs. Olivia Howard, a teacher in the Washington Street Elementary School of Cavington, Ga. Insurance Convention At Sheraton In D.C. More than 600 delegates are expected to attend the 41st annual convention of the National Insurance Association at the SHERATON - PARK Hotel in Washington D.C. August 20 through September 1. The N. I. A. is a trade association with a membership of 51 life insurance companies owned and operated by Negroes. The convention will be presided over by Virgil L. Harris, President and has as its general theme, "Expanding Our Services In Today's Economy." Among the prominent speakers scheduled to appear at various sessions are Dr. Robert C. Weaver administrator U. S. Housing and Home Finance Agency; Lester O. Schriver, managing director. National Association of Life Underwriters; and Hickman Price Jr., Assistant Secretary for Domestic Affairs U. S. Department of Commerce. Dr. Weaver is to deliver the fellowship luncheon address on Wednesday August 30, and Mr. Schriver will speak at the awards luncheon, Thursday, August 31. The annual President's Banquet speaker on Thursday evening is Mr. Price. Theodore A. Jones, NIA first vice president and Supreme Life Insurance Company of America vice president - comptroller, Chicago, will deliver the keynote address during the opening general session, Wednesday morning, August 30. A symposium, "The Negro's Contribution to the American Economy," on Thursday, August 31, is to be moderated by W. J. Kennedy III, convention program chairman. Participants and topics to be discussed are: Sherman E. Briscoe, U. S. Department of Agriculture, agriculture; George L. P. Weaver, U. S. Department of Labor, Labor; Leroy W. Jeffries, Johnson Publishing Company, general business;; and Norman O. Houston, life insurance. Highlighting the August 21th morning meeting of the executive section which will be presided over by George A. Beavers, NIA vice president and Golden State Mutual board chairman, Los Angeles, is a panel discussion on the convention theme. Panelists are Bindley C. Cyrus Victory Mutual Life, "The Responsibility of NIA Management. In Expanding Our Services In Today's Economy;" A. G. Gaston Sr., president, Booker T. Washington Life, "Good Employee Relations and Good Public Relations;" Wallace Kirk, assistant to the president, Great Lakes Mutual, "Competition for Business and Manpower;" James H. Browne, president, The Crusader Life Insurance Co., "Improving Persistency;" and James H. Lewis, president, Afro - American Life, "Affect of Tax Laws on Company Operations." Goldberg Pledges Administration Fight Against Discrimination In a speech before the G. I. Forum at Corpus Christ, Texas, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg called for better opportunities for migrant workers, and tied the migrants' problems in with the greater problem of discrimination. "The migrant, unhappily, falls victim to that same lack of opportunity, that same lack of interest in his welfare and the same lack of effective representation in the councils of government that have too long been the plight of minority groups everywhere," the Secre tary said. "In Washington today," he went on, "President Kennedy has directed his Administration to devote itself to the opening of new opportunity for minority group members. He has called for the elimination of discrimination in American life." Declaring that the Administration, under the President's personal leadership, has taken great steps to ensure that there will be an expansion of "the meaning of the democratic creed we live by in order that all the people may benefit by that creed," Secretary Gold berg went on to say: "This Administration does not intend to let up for one moment in our determination to remove from our midst the evil of racial and religious prejudice. "We are determined to ensure that America will become, more and more, an open society not a society closed by tacit agreement or by unconstitutional laws against millions of Americans." POSNERS Skintona¯ CREAM LIGHTENS BRIGHTENS SKIN LIGHTNES BRIGHTENS SKIN Skintona CREAM 65c size $100 size plus tax Manufacturers of Posner's Bergamot, "The Jar with the Star" DR. RAY THOMPSON DURHAM, N. C.— Dr. Ray Thompson, counselor-trainer at North Carolina College at Durham, is the chief consultant at the State Guidance Workshop Conference in Columbia, S. C. this week. The meaning which is open to all public school counselors and guidance personnel in South Carolina, is being sponsored by the State Department of Education on a National Defense Education Act grant. It is being held at the Esso Community Building. Foreign Enrollment At Howard Expected To Reach 900 In '62 Having led the nation in the percentage of foreign students enrolled for the past three years, Howard University will have its largest such enrollment in history next month when an expected 900 from 60 nations register for the 1961-62 school year. The enrollment, which will represent an increase of some 40 students over last year, is expected to retain for Howard its position as America's leading educational center for foreign students, percentage - wise. As in 1960-61, foreign students will comprise 16 percent of the full time enrollment at Howard, an average of one foreigner for every six American students. To accommodate the increased enrollment, as well as provide the special services which students from outside the United States require, Howard has expanded its Foreign Student Servicse staff to four full time workers. The Service is headed by Ernest J. Wilson, adviser to foreign students, and includes an assistant adviser counselor, and secretary. Cuba shows Soviet - built jets at fete. French believe Bourguiba's position hardening. Painful First Aid Jelly Nature's Best Petroleum Jelly 25¢ Post Office Department Attacked, Defended At National Alliance Meet Clarence Mitchell, head of the Washington NAACP Bureau, addressing the convention Monday charged that the Dept. "continues to be a haven for small-minded men who are unwilling to let the merit system operate as it is supposed, to operate under the law." As glaring examples of discrimination, he cited the bureaus in the Department in Washington and the regional offices, which, he said, with one or two exceptions, "are taffed by whiteh only." Mr. Mitchell, however, saved his sharpest barbs for the "naked and shameless attempt" to fire Wesley W. Law, a mail carrier, who led a successful campaign in Chatham County, Ga., to register colored citizens to vote, and to desegregate facilities in downtown stores in Savannah, Ga. Mr. Law is president of the Savannah Brach of the NAACP, president of the Georgia Conference of NAACP Branches, and a member of the national Board of Directors of the NAACP Postal inspectors have riled charges against Mr. Law at the instance of Representative G. Elliot Hagan, Georia Democrat, who promised White Citizens Councils that he would have Mr. Law fired if he, Hagan was elected to Congress. Mr. Mitchell charged the Post Office Department with "joining hands" with segregationists. He said the President should order a sweeping investigation to root out the segregationists who are using their powers and their jobs to intimidate colored employees who seek civil rights. He suggested that a good place to begin with reform is the postal inspection service. There are nearly 1,000 inspectors, he said, and "they are all white." He charged that colored informers are used and given the title of investigative aides which he called "a nice soundin title" for stool pigeons. In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night, Postmaster General J. Edward Day told the Alliance that anti - discrimination policies have been put into effect "in all areas of our postal operations," and that these orders are being followed up "with insistent demands that they be stringently enfored." Mitchell Hits "Attempt" To Fire Savannah's Law Clarence Mitchell, head of the Washington NAACP Bureau, addressing the convention Monday charged that the Dept. 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Elliot Hagan, Georia Democrat, who promised White Citizens Councils that he would have Mr. Law fired if he, Hagan was elected to Congress. Mr. Mitchell charged the Post Office Department with "joining hands" with segregationists. He said the President should order a sweeping investigation to root out the segregationists who are using their powers and their jobs to intimidate colored employees who seek civil rights. He suggested that a good place to begin with reform is the postal inspection service. There are nearly 1,000 inspectors, he said, and "they are all white." He charged that colored informers are used and given the title of investigative aides which he called "a nice soundin title" for stool pigeons. In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night, Postmaster General J. Edward Day told the Alliance that anti - discrimination policies have been put into effect "in all areas of our postal operations," and that these orders are being followed up "with insistent demands that they be stringently enfored." LAW CASE CITED Clarence Mitchell, head of the Washington NAACP Bureau, addressing the convention Monday charged that the Dept. "continues to be a haven for small-minded men who are unwilling to let the merit system operate as it is supposed, to operate under the law." As glaring examples of discrimination, he cited the bureaus in the Department in Washington and the regional offices, which, he said, with one or two exceptions, "are taffed by whiteh only." Mr. Mitchell, however, saved his sharpest barbs for the "naked and shameless attempt" to fire Wesley W. Law, a mail carrier, who led a successful campaign in Chatham County, Ga., to register colored citizens to vote, and to desegregate facilities in downtown stores in Savannah, Ga. Mr. Law is president of the Savannah Brach of the NAACP, president of the Georgia Conference of NAACP Branches, and a member of the national Board of Directors of the NAACP Postal inspectors have riled charges against Mr. Law at the instance of Representative G. Elliot Hagan, Georia Democrat, who promised White Citizens Councils that he would have Mr. Law fired if he, Hagan was elected to Congress. Mr. Mitchell charged the Post Office Department with "joining hands" with segregationists. He said the President should order a sweeping investigation to root out the segregationists who are using their powers and their jobs to intimidate colored employees who seek civil rights. He suggested that a good place to begin with reform is the postal inspection service. There are nearly 1,000 inspectors, he said, and "they are all white." He charged that colored informers are used and given the title of investigative aides which he called "a nice soundin title" for stool pigeons. In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night, Postmaster General J. Edward Day told the Alliance that anti - discrimination policies have been put into effect "in all areas of our postal operations," and that these orders are being followed up "with insistent demands that they be stringently enfored." CITES ANTI - BIAS POLICIES Clarence Mitchell, head of the Washington NAACP Bureau, addressing the convention Monday charged that the Dept. "continues to be a haven for small-minded men who are unwilling to let the merit system operate as it is supposed, to operate under the law." As glaring examples of discrimination, he cited the bureaus in the Department in Washington and the regional offices, which, he said, with one or two exceptions, "are taffed by whiteh only." Mr. Mitchell, however, saved his sharpest barbs for the "naked and shameless attempt" to fire Wesley W. Law, a mail carrier, who led a successful campaign in Chatham County, Ga., to register colored citizens to vote, and to desegregate facilities in downtown stores in Savannah, Ga. Mr. Law is president of the Savannah Brach of the NAACP, president of the Georgia Conference of NAACP Branches, and a member of the national Board of Directors of the NAACP Postal inspectors have riled charges against Mr. Law at the instance of Representative G. Elliot Hagan, Georia Democrat, who promised White Citizens Councils that he would have Mr. Law fired if he, Hagan was elected to Congress. Mr. Mitchell charged the Post Office Department with "joining hands" with segregationists. He said the President should order a sweeping investigation to root out the segregationists who are using their powers and their jobs to intimidate colored employees who seek civil rights. He suggested that a good place to begin with reform is the postal inspection service. There are nearly 1,000 inspectors, he said, and "they are all white." He charged that colored informers are used and given the title of investigative aides which he called "a nice soundin title" for stool pigeons. In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night, Postmaster General J. Edward Day told the Alliance that anti - discrimination policies have been put into effect "in all areas of our postal operations," and that these orders are being followed up "with insistent demands that they be stringently enfored." Special Effort For Handicapped Children Urged Secretary Abraham Ribicoff Sunday urged that a special effort be made in the next few weeks to get handicapped children this fall into the the schools which now have special provisions for their education. There are now about 4,000 public school systems providing special educational opportunity for one or more types of exceptional pupils as compared with but about 1,400 such school systems ten years ago. All States offer some special services. "Now that every State offers some special educational opportuneity to exceptional children," said the head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, "this country should be educating more of them for independent and productive living." The Federal Government offers leadership in this field through the Department's Division of Exceptional Children and Youth of the Office of Education. The latest estimate of this division is that there are about 6 million children of school age in this country regarded as exceptional from the standpoint of requiring a type of education different from, or additional to routine school work. Included in this number are the blind and partially seeing, the deaf and the hard of hearing, those with speech defects, the mentally retarded, the emotionally maladjusted, the severely crippled, and children with special health problems. Weaver Points Out U. S. Role In International Field The challenge of our times, the issue on which we will be judged, is our role in sharing the duty of "feeding the hungry, curing the sick, providing schools for the children" when the need is there, George L-P Weaver, Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, said in a Washington speech. Talking before the 48th Annual President's Banquet of the National Dental Association, Mr. Weaver said that America must "narrow and then bridge the dangerous disparity in the condition of life between human beings." "We are fast approaching the time when science and man's ingenuity at understanding and harnessing the forces of nature will provide food, clothing, and shelter sufficient for all. It is the more difficult problem we are also addressing — that of achieving the broad distribution which will give all men a share of this new abundance." Declaring that industrially ad vanced countries have a "great responsibility" in this, the Assistant Secretary also said that "under the leadership of President Kennedy the United States had assumed its due portion." "It is only in this way that we can continue to grow and prosper," he stated. Speaking of the type of social reforms needed — "land tenure, taxation, housing, health, and wealth distribution" — which he called "the only solid foundation for lasting economic progress," Mr. Weaver said that this progress will "provide a better opportunity for succeeding generations" and will mean a "bet ter standard of living for the many." In such a program, he went on, "the American trade union movement must continue to play a frontline role. With unequaled world esteem, and with a practical sense of the urgency, American trade union leaders perform invaluable services in all parts of the globe." If Itching, Stinging Skin Misery Gives You No Rest ... 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"GEORIA PEACHES" WIN NBCL CONVENTION "ALL-STATES PARADE" CONTEST—Chicago, III.— The Georgia "Peaches" States Beauticians scored in first place as winners in the "All-States Parade Contest" at the National Beauty Culturists League Convention held at Chicago's Hotel Sherman August 6-10, with president, Dr. Katie E. Whickam, presidin and Mrs. Louise Chap man as 1961 Convention chairman. Georgia Peaches made a real hit among the 2,000 Convention delegates and visitors as the Georgia Beauticians tossed peaches from their parade hats into the gala audience of spectators. Hand painted peaches adorned their beautiful white linen dresses of ballerina length. They truly represented the Peach State. Sunday School Lesson In today's lesson we give consideration to the thought: "How can we become more dependable Christians?" Turning to our Scriptural studies for today, we find the answer. At the start we find a bone of contention separating the leaders, with the result that Barnabas took Mark with him and salled to Cyprus, while Paul chose Silas and continued teaching through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. And as a result of their teaching, we find Paul and Silas persecuted and flung into prison. Silas seems to have been a quiet, dedicated man. That, more than secret of his greatness. Silas support must have meant a great deal to Paul during his trials and tribulations teaching the word of God. Silas together with other early Christians, was sustained and driven by the compulsion that he had discovered something precious, had been given something had something to tell. That something he believed was the most important truth man can know — truth that can awaken and release human beings for living in the peace and joy of fellowship in Him whose law is love; truth that is God's personal and loving message to his children. It was for this truth that Silas and others who shared his dedication were witnesses. They spurned comfort and safety, and went everywhere to let their message loose in the world. It was by means of this dedication that the Christian church was born. During the centuries when the glory that had been Greece and the grandeur that had been Rome perished in decay, there was emerging a new and nobler world. These first friends of Jesus Christ spread the gospel that brought life to everyone. Out of their dedcation a new humanity was born, and a new world established. So the truth revealed by Jesus Christ has lived and grown in power throughout nineteen centuries. Empires have risen and fallen; generations of men have come and gone. But God's truth has lived on. It has spanned the continents and traversed the centuries because always there have been valiant hearts whose lips have given it voice, whose feet have given it transport, and whose lives have given it authority. It was by means of such dedication that it came to us. Only by the means of our dedication will it live in the world today and be transmitted to generations yet to come. But is was not because of his great discovery, alone, that Silas was so dedicated to his Cause. It was also because of his sense of debt to Jesus Christ Silas and other early Christians were urged onward in their mission by a sense of urgency that arose from an enormous debt of honor, a debt owed to Jesus Christ for what he had done in their behalf. Every one of us who professes belief in Jesus Christ owes such a debt of honor. Even those who deny belief in him owe such a debt. Unthinking, they accept values and obey standards of community and national living which grow from the wisdom and mission of Jesus Christ. Just to be alive today as a member of twentieth-century mankind means we have been liberated, ennobled, and blessed by the life and influence of Jesus Christ. Even though we may deny and spurn him as Lord and Savior, we are yet in debt to him beyond telling. And those of us who know him as Savior owe him even more. Aa our Lord trusted Silas and Paul and others of the early Christian movement, so He trusts us. Upon us rests an even greater debt of honor. As their obedience to that trust lifted their lives into significance far beyond their compresion, so may we be lifted. And as their dedication was needed by discouraged men in a confused world, so is our dedication needed today. ... (These comments are based on outlines of the International Sunday School Lessons, copyrighted by the International. Council of Religious Sducation, and used by Permission). SILAS; TRUSTWORTHY CO-WORKER In today's lesson we give consideration to the thought: "How can we become more dependable Christians?" Turning to our Scriptural studies for today, we find the answer. At the start we find a bone of contention separating the leaders, with the result that Barnabas took Mark with him and salled to Cyprus, while Paul chose Silas and continued teaching through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. And as a result of their teaching, we find Paul and Silas persecuted and flung into prison. Silas seems to have been a quiet, dedicated man. That, more than secret of his greatness. Silas support must have meant a great deal to Paul during his trials and tribulations teaching the word of God. Silas together with other early Christians, was sustained and driven by the compulsion that he had discovered something precious, had been given something had something to tell. That something he believed was the most important truth man can know — truth that can awaken and release human beings for living in the peace and joy of fellowship in Him whose law is love; truth that is God's personal and loving message to his children. It was for this truth that Silas and others who shared his dedication were witnesses. They spurned comfort and safety, and went everywhere to let their message loose in the world. It was by means of this dedication that the Christian church was born. During the centuries when the glory that had been Greece and the grandeur that had been Rome perished in decay, there was emerging a new and nobler world. These first friends of Jesus Christ spread the gospel that brought life to everyone. Out of their dedcation a new humanity was born, and a new world established. So the truth revealed by Jesus Christ has lived and grown in power throughout nineteen centuries. Empires have risen and fallen; generations of men have come and gone. But God's truth has lived on. It has spanned the continents and traversed the centuries because always there have been valiant hearts whose lips have given it voice, whose feet have given it transport, and whose lives have given it authority. It was by means of such dedication that it came to us. Only by the means of our dedication will it live in the world today and be transmitted to generations yet to come. But is was not because of his great discovery, alone, that Silas was so dedicated to his Cause. It was also because of his sense of debt to Jesus Christ Silas and other early Christians were urged onward in their mission by a sense of urgency that arose from an enormous debt of honor, a debt owed to Jesus Christ for what he had done in their behalf. Every one of us who professes belief in Jesus Christ owes such a debt of honor. Even those who deny belief in him owe such a debt. Unthinking, they accept values and obey standards of community and national living which grow from the wisdom and mission of Jesus Christ. Just to be alive today as a member of twentieth-century mankind means we have been liberated, ennobled, and blessed by the life and influence of Jesus Christ. Even though we may deny and spurn him as Lord and Savior, we are yet in debt to him beyond telling. And those of us who know him as Savior owe him even more. Aa our Lord trusted Silas and Paul and others of the early Christian movement, so He trusts us. Upon us rests an even greater debt of honor. As their obedience to that trust lifted their lives into significance far beyond their compresion, so may we be lifted. And as their dedication was needed by discouraged men in a confused world, so is our dedication needed today. ... (These comments are based on outlines of the International Sunday School Lessons, copyrighted by the International. Council of Religious Sducation, and used by Permission). Pine Bluff NAACP Leader Accidentally Electrocuted Aug. 4 In a telegram of condolence to Mrs. David E. Parker, Jr., NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins extended the Association's sincere sympathy in the death of her husband "who rendered great service as president of the Pine Bluff, Ark., branch in the critical year of the Dollarway School case." Dr. Parker, 37, was president of the Pine Bluff, Ark., branch in 1959-60 when the Association was engaged in an effort to desegregate the public schools in suburban Dollarway. A denitst, he was accidentally electrocuted in his Pine Bluff home on August 4 while working with an electric drill. A former U. S. Army caption, Dr. Parker had practiced dentistry in Pine Bluff for 14 years. He is survived by his widow, two sons, a daughter, mother and two brothers. SIGNS CONTRACT Kaiser Steel Corp., announced it signed a ten year contract for sale of 10 million long tons of iron are to the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd., of Japan. 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