Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1961-09-23 J. A. Beauchamp TWICE HONORED — Miss Beverly Howell, 20year-old Negro girl from Ocala, Fla., not only had the distinction of being the first American to be graduated from the University College of Addis Ababa, but she also received her diploma from Emperor Haile Selassie at Commence ment exercises. Miss Howell, whose father is a trade and industrial education advisor with the U. S. Point Four assistance program in Ethiopia, has enrolled at Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., for graduate study in social work. Experts Say Group Equal To Whites In Intelligence Is the Negro inferior to the white man in basic intellect? A group of noted psychologists meeting here last Week said there is "no direct evidence that supports the view that there is a Innate difference between members of different racial groups." The statement was issued by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), a division of the American Psychological Association, in reply to an article published by Professor Henry Garrett of the University of Virginia. Garrett concludes, on the basis of recent study, "that there is an innate difference, that the Negro is inferior to the white." Dr. Isidor Chein, SPSSI president said his group believed that any differences which might be found to exist between the two races' intellectual capacities are due to outside forces, and will vanish with the attainment of social equality by the Negro. "The evidence, I think, is overwhelmingly against the theory of innate racial inequality," Dr. Chein concluded. Dr. Chein's conclusion is based on extended studies conducted on Negro and white children in New York City. Dr. Chein is a member of New York University Research Center for Human Relations. 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Manufacturers of Posner's Bergamot, "The Jar with the Star" Sunday School Lesson In this, our final lesson for the month of September, we will discuss the meaning of Christian commitment and emphasize the need for earnest and faithful laymen in the church. Third John gives us examples of some of the most valuable men in the Kingdom — loyal Christian laymen. These men have carried the church upon their hearts through the centuries, serving it with brave spirits and loving hands. As laymen, certainly many Christians are tempted, as probably Gaius was, to excuse themselves from the quality of dedication expected of a minister and to assume that less loyalty and sincerity are acceptable in laymen. Therefore, they allow creature comforts to entice them from their posts of loyalty in the church. They let desires for personal gain and the love of money assume more importance in their thinking than support of the church. Thus the pressures of personal interests and love of ease cause them to neglect their spiritual responsibilities. Too often they are tempted to be Christians in name only — to use Christ and the church as a cloak to cover love for and indulgence of self. But the men to whom ministers point with pride and gratitude are like Gaius. They set their faces against such enticements. They give themselves to Christ and the church with the same singleness of purpose and depth of dedication which they expect of their ministers. These are the people by whom the church lives and moves and has its being. Professionally trained personnel who give full-time service to the church are important, to be sure, and without their leadership the church flounders, wastes its energies, and often loses its way. But the best minister is a defeated man unless a goad company of laymen works with him shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart. The same temptations that beset laymen in the time of Gaius likewise besiege laymen today. Now, as then, they are tempted to assume that there is a lofty standard of Christian morality for ministers only, and another, lower one for laymen. They shrug off the promptings of conscience by faying, "Oh well, I'm Just a layman." There is no such thing as "just" a layman! For one thing, laymen work from a position or advantage in approaching nonchurch people. The minister, by reason of his special training and gifts, is more effective in the task of Christian nurture within the church. The layman — for the very reason that he is a layman — can be superior in the task of Christian outreach because laymen are not handicapped by the stigma of professionalism. Too often people outside the church often harden their hearts against the summons of jesus Christ, assuring themselves that only the preachers take Christ seriously, because they're paid to do so. But when a layman gives up a comfortable evening at home to ring the doorbells of his neighbors and visit with them about the claims of Christ, his friends see an expression of love and truth against which they have little defense. So let laymen rejoice in their opportunities to prove to a rather cynical world that Christians do not have to be paid to be good. Laymen have yet another advantage in evangelism. Every day they infiltrate the whole life of a community. They are the salesmen, teachers, bus drivers, lawyers, policemen, parole officers, real estate agents, and merchants. Probably every honest vocation is represented among Christian laymen. Each opportunity gives some layman a chance to relate the gospel to the vital needs of men. From Gaius to the kindly face that welcomed you at church this Sunday, the laymen are the salt of the earth, God's noblemen, and the finest men we know. (). GAIUS: COMMITMENT TO CHRIST'S WORK In this, our final lesson for the month of September, we will discuss the meaning of Christian commitment and emphasize the need for earnest and faithful laymen in the church. Third John gives us examples of some of the most valuable men in the Kingdom — loyal Christian laymen. These men have carried the church upon their hearts through the centuries, serving it with brave spirits and loving hands. As laymen, certainly many Christians are tempted, as probably Gaius was, to excuse themselves from the quality of dedication expected of a minister and to assume that less loyalty and sincerity are acceptable in laymen. Therefore, they allow creature comforts to entice them from their posts of loyalty in the church. They let desires for personal gain and the love of money assume more importance in their thinking than support of the church. Thus the pressures of personal interests and love of ease cause them to neglect their spiritual responsibilities. Too often they are tempted to be Christians in name only — to use Christ and the church as a cloak to cover love for and indulgence of self. But the men to whom ministers point with pride and gratitude are like Gaius. They set their faces against such enticements. They give themselves to Christ and the church with the same singleness of purpose and depth of dedication which they expect of their ministers. These are the people by whom the church lives and moves and has its being. Professionally trained personnel who give full-time service to the church are important, to be sure, and without their leadership the church flounders, wastes its energies, and often loses its way. But the best minister is a defeated man unless a goad company of laymen works with him shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart. The same temptations that beset laymen in the time of Gaius likewise besiege laymen today. Now, as then, they are tempted to assume that there is a lofty standard of Christian morality for ministers only, and another, lower one for laymen. They shrug off the promptings of conscience by faying, "Oh well, I'm Just a layman." There is no such thing as "just" a layman! For one thing, laymen work from a position or advantage in approaching nonchurch people. The minister, by reason of his special training and gifts, is more effective in the task of Christian nurture within the church. The layman — for the very reason that he is a layman — can be superior in the task of Christian outreach because laymen are not handicapped by the stigma of professionalism. Too often people outside the church often harden their hearts against the summons of jesus Christ, assuring themselves that only the preachers take Christ seriously, because they're paid to do so. But when a layman gives up a comfortable evening at home to ring the doorbells of his neighbors and visit with them about the claims of Christ, his friends see an expression of love and truth against which they have little defense. So let laymen rejoice in their opportunities to prove to a rather cynical world that Christians do not have to be paid to be good. Laymen have yet another advantage in evangelism. Every day they infiltrate the whole life of a community. They are the salesmen, teachers, bus drivers, lawyers, policemen, parole officers, real estate agents, and merchants. Probably every honest vocation is represented among Christian laymen. Each opportunity gives some layman a chance to relate the gospel to the vital needs of men. From Gaius to the kindly face that welcomed you at church this Sunday, the laymen are the salt of the earth, God's noblemen, and the finest men we know. (). Teacher Roscoe Lewis Found Dead Roscoe E. Lewis, 57, widely known in the South as a teacher and sociologist, was found dead in his apartment at Hampton Institute, Va., last Thursday, a victim of coronary thrombosis. Mr. Lewis was a native of Washington, D. C. He received his master's degree from Howard University in 1927. He joined the Hampton Institute that year as a chemistry teacher. From 1945 to 1963, he was associate professor and chairman of the social science faculty. He was identified with a number of research projects on the Negro and his past. In 1940 he was director of the Virginia Writers' Project which produced and published "The Negro in Virginia." Last year he was a member of the staff of the Haelth and welfare Council, Washington, D. C. His survivors include three brothers, Prof. Harold Lewis, of Howard University: William Lewis of the United States Information Agency, Washington, and Dr. Charles. Lewis of Lewistown, Pa. It's Too Tough On The Outside!' A California prison escapee, footsouri, stranded here when a bus ed to local police last week, say ing: "Things are too tough on the 'outside" He was Ronald Snider, 28, who told Police Chief A. G. Padgett: "I got tired of begging, couldn't get a Job and didn't want to steal." Business Opportunity President Kennedy Greets Caribbean This message, which was delivered during the meeting of the Caribbean Council by William C. Baggs, the United States Government's observer to the Council, reads as follows: "I greet this first meeting of the Council of the Caribbean Organization deeply conscious of the historic significance of this occason. For more than 15 yews the Caribbean Commission has encouraged cooperation in social and economic development throughout the British, French, Netherlands and United States areas in the Caribbean. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the greatest of my predecessors, was deeply devoted to the objectives of the Commission. He was memorialized by the delegates in the second session of the West Indian Conference for his role 'in promoting the well - being of peoples of the Caribbean area,' a citation which reflects the basic goals of that body. "Today, the transfer of responsibilities from the Caribbean Commission to the Caribbean Organization symbolizes the rapid and significant progress that has been made in pursuit of that goal. "The delegates to this regional Organization represent governments which are responsive to the freelyexpressed wishes of their people. This Organization has been established in response to the needs and aspirations of those people, and I am confident that the Organization will continue to accelerate their mutual cooperation in the fields of education, public health, agriculture, industry, trade and the creative arts. I am gratified that San Juan is the site for the new Caribbean Organization. We in the United States are proud of the achievement of our fellow citizens in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and we are dedicated to a close cooperation with them to assure their continued participation in the progress of the Caribbean area. "You of the Caribbean Organization now face great opportunities for planning and promoting evermore effective self - reliance and mutual cooperation and your success will not only strengthen the welfare and dignity of man in the Caribbean area, but also it will strengthen the cause of freedom throughout the world. "I, and your friends, the people of the United States, extend to you every good wish in the work which lies ahead of you." PROGRESS RECOGNIZED This message, which was delivered during the meeting of the Caribbean Council by William C. Baggs, the United States Government's observer to the Council, reads as follows: "I greet this first meeting of the Council of the Caribbean Organization deeply conscious of the historic significance of this occason. For more than 15 yews the Caribbean Commission has encouraged cooperation in social and economic development throughout the British, French, Netherlands and United States areas in the Caribbean. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the greatest of my predecessors, was deeply devoted to the objectives of the Commission. He was memorialized by the delegates in the second session of the West Indian Conference for his role 'in promoting the well - being of peoples of the Caribbean area,' a citation which reflects the basic goals of that body. "Today, the transfer of responsibilities from the Caribbean Commission to the Caribbean Organization symbolizes the rapid and significant progress that has been made in pursuit of that goal. "The delegates to this regional Organization represent governments which are responsive to the freelyexpressed wishes of their people. This Organization has been established in response to the needs and aspirations of those people, and I am confident that the Organization will continue to accelerate their mutual cooperation in the fields of education, public health, agriculture, industry, trade and the creative arts. I am gratified that San Juan is the site for the new Caribbean Organization. We in the United States are proud of the achievement of our fellow citizens in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and we are dedicated to a close cooperation with them to assure their continued participation in the progress of the Caribbean area. "You of the Caribbean Organization now face great opportunities for planning and promoting evermore effective self - reliance and mutual cooperation and your success will not only strengthen the welfare and dignity of man in the Caribbean area, but also it will strengthen the cause of freedom throughout the world. "I, and your friends, the people of the United States, extend to you every good wish in the work which lies ahead of you." Seventeen Negro parents charged Monday that Chicago public schools are racially segregated end filed suit in federal court to open allegedly all-white schools to their children. The parents charged that the board of education and school superintendent Benjamin C. Willis have gerrymandered elementary school districts to perpetuate segregated classrooms. Willis, office refused comment on the suit. Just last week, however, the superintendent of the huge school system issued a statement denying that public schools in the city were segregated. The suit filed Monday was handled by Paul B. Zither, who earlier this year won a federal decision halting segregation at New Rochelle, N. Y. and James D. Montgomery, a farmer assistant district attorney. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People warned in advance that the suit would be filed. More than 100 Negro children were rebuffed when they sought transfers to schools with predominant or all white enrollments on the opening day of school. "The schools in Chicago have been integrated since the city was incorporated," Willis said last week. He said he had no idea what the percentage of Negroes was in any school because the city keeps no record of pupils by race, color or creed. The NAACP called the Willis statement "evasive." Board of ed ucation member Raymond W. Pasnick said "it's time we started noting race on enrollment figures if only to be able to answer charges of segregation." Zuber said the suit was precipitated by Willis' refusal to permit Negro pupils in overcrowded schools in Negro neighborhoods to transfer to predominantly white schools with vacant seats in other neighborhoods. Easy Home Way Gives Nero before twit been so easy, so fast to regain the beautiful radiance and sparkling allure of natural-like color. Wonderful BLACK STRAND Hair Color brings amazing professional-like, long-lasting results—17 minutes—at home. Dull, streaked, grayish hair vanishes. BLACK STRAND makes hair look young-like and filled with highlights that invite romance. Defies detection. Will not rub or wash off, Will not harm permanents. Money back guarantee. Only 89c at druggists everywhere. Get a package of BLACK STRAND or BROWN STRAND today. Choose from 5 Natural Busty Shades: jet Black — Black — Dark Brown — Medium Brown or Light Brown. NAACP Seek To Curb Va. Pupil Placement Law Attacking the validity of the Virginia State Pupil Placement law, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has asked the United States District Court here to enjoin the Richmond School Board and the State pupil Placement Board "from any and all action that regulates or affects, on the basis of race or color, the initial assignment, placement, transfer, admission, the enrollment or the educatio nor any child in any public school." The complaint filed on Sept. 5 on behalf of 27 Negro school children whose applications for transfers to "white" schools, alleges that local and state school authorities "deliberately and purposefully, and solely because of race continue to require all or virtually all Negro public school children to attend school where none but Negroes are enrolled and to require all white public school children to attend school where few, if any, Negroes are enrolled." Moreover, the NAACP complaint charges, the criteria demanded of Negro children for admission to "white" schools is different and more difficult than those demanded of white children. For instance, it points out, Negro applicants for transfers have to have academic records which "compare favorably with the best record of the children already in attendance at the school," even though many white children attending the school have lower academic records or scores than the Negro applicants. The complaint further asks the court to enjoin the school board and the Pupil Placement Board from denying the 27 plaintiffs the right to attend the schools to which they sought transfers and from using discriminatory criteria in the assignment of pupils to schools. Also the court is asked to require the defendants to submit a desegregation plan on a non-racial basis and to submit periodic progress reports. Representing the Negro school children were NAACP attorneys S. W. Tucker, Henry L. Marsh, III, and Roland B. Haley, all of Richmond. Speculate Nkrumah Role In Appeal To Nikita, JFK Talks Speculation loomed last week over the political significance, if any, of Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah's role in reaching Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev ahead of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, giving the Soviet leader the first direct word from the Belgrade nonaligned summit conference call for peace talks. Observers, aware of Nkrumah's expressed desire to become leader of a United states of Africa, wondered if this action would benefit the Ghana president in his endeavor in Africa. These same observers, knowing that Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic has aspirations similar to Nkrumah's, also wondered how Nassar fitted into the action by the neutralists' bloc. Nehru and Nkrumah made their appeal to Khrushchev last week, urging him to meet with Preside Kennedy in the interest of averting war. The Ghana president then left Moscow for a Black Sea vacation. Nkrumah was ahead of Nehru by 40 minutes on his arrival at Moscow from Belgrade. Meanwhile President Sukarno of Indonesia and President Modibo Keita of Mall were designated by the Belgrade conference to confer with President Kennedy. PARTICIPATING IN US More and more foreign medical graduates are participating in approved U. S. training programs, the American. Medical Association reported Thursday. The report said foreign medical graduates increased by five per cent during 1960-61. Of 37,562 internships and residencies filled during that period, 9,935 or 26 per cent were foreign medical graduates, the AMA said. Guiana leaders urge calm election today. Smith Appointed Manager Of Consolidated Publishers Consolidated Publishers, Inc., announces the appointment of Sydney A. Smith as general manager. Mr. Smith comes to Consolidated Publishers, Inc., from Ebony Magiazine, where he was assistant advertising manager. He has had extensive newspaper and sales promotion experience, having been employed as advertising manager for the Philadelphia Tribune for, three years, and as assistant advertising director for the Pittsburgh Courier for seven years. In addition to his advertising and market research experience, Mr. Smith was a systems and procedures analyst for UABCO, inc., and is well known in insurance and educational, circles. He is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Business Administration, where he majored in advertising-marketing. He is married to the former Laura Lee Richardson and resides in Teaneck, H. J., with his wife and two daughters, Sydne Olivia and Gina Mitchell. Mr. Smith began his duties with Consolidated Publishers, Inc., 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, on September 1, 1961. Senate Confirms D. C. Post For Man On Utilities Commission The Senate has confirmed the nomination of James A. Washington, Jr., 46, of Asheville, N. C., to a threeyear term on the District Public Utilities Commission. An assistant dean and professor of law at Howard University, Washing succeeds to the $16,295 a year post left vacant June 30, when the term of Chairman George E. C. Hayes expired. Hayes has returned to private law practice. Washington, who holds a master's degree in law from Harvard Law School, is regarded by his colleagues as a brilliant scholar who should have no difficulty mastering his duties with the Public Utilities Commission. This is attested, they say, by the fact that his average at Howard Law School, where he received his B.A. and LLB. degrees, was one of the highest ever attained by a student there. Miss. College To Admit White Girls Tougaloo Southern Christian college opened its doors last week to two out of-State white girls. The co-educational college, founded six years after the Civil War, is supported by agencies of the United Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ. Dr. A. D. Beittel, white president of Tougaloo, identified the two as Charlotte Phillips of Roosevelt, N. J., a transfer student from Swarthmore college near Philadelphia, and Joan Turmpower, 19, of Washington, D. C. a convicted freedom rider and a transfer student from Duke university. Beittel said the school — half of whose faculty, is white — had permitted the children of white faculty and staff members to attend classes previously. ASIAN COMMON MARKET With all the talk about England Joining the European common Market, and the possible establishment of an African Common Market, it is appropriate to note that government officials of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya are exploring closer econ omic cooperation between themselves. Offiicals of both governments met reecntly to discuss the problem, and have invited two international experts to advise them on the pros and cons of such an arrangement. Why Mothers Use SPECIAL LAXATIVE FOR BABY 'All He Had Was Confederate Money' A migrant farm worker from Missouri, stranded here when a bus broke down, borrowed some money from a friend and became loud boisterous and indignant when he was abruptly refused after trying to buy drinks in a tavern. Police were called and after he calmed down the migrant worker realized that all he had was confederate money. PASSENGER PAYS FINE A passenger accused of endangering an airliner while drunk has paid a $1,000 fine, the Federal Aviation Agency PAA revealed Thursday. The civil penalty imposed on Raymond Moore of Los Angeles was the maximum- under the -law. Moore was charged with violating civil air regulations by drinking out of his own bottle, harrassing and assaulting passengers and threatening to take over the aircraft. Moore, who originally refused to pay the penalty, was a passenzer on a South Pacific Airlines flight between Tahiti and Honolulu when the incident occurred. 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Following a pre-sentencing examination ordered by the court Upshaw could receive a sentence of up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. Upshaw came into court with one of his attorneys, P. Laurence Anderson of Gary. His other attorney, Jack C Brown of Indianapolis, reportedly could not appear because of illness. The 1958 count to which he pleaded guilty charges that Upshaw reported $72,183 income when it is alleged he actually made $163,907. He paid tares of $33,972, according to the complaint, but should have paid $101,673, He was accused of evading payment of $67,701 income taxes for that year. Upshaw's pleas of innocent still stand to three other charges of income tax evasion for the yeah 1955 through 1957. "With God All Things Are Possible!" FAITH GOD Will Open The TOP GIRLS: Beverly Hooks, Annye Phillips, Bettye Agnes, Celeste McKlnney, Marva Crawford, Helen innard, Juanita Branch, Barbara, Bcwles, Velma Cannon and Helen Coleman. 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