Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1964-02-08 J. A. Beauchamp INSPECTION GROUP — National Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress, headed by Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, president of the congress, recently inspected the facilities to be used by the congress in its annual session at Pittsburgh, June 21-28. Seated, left to right: Mrs. O. C. Maxwell, Dr, O. Clay Maxwell, president; Mrs. Bessie S. Estell, secretary, and Dr. Horatio Hill, dean; standing, B.H. Logon, Publicity Director; W. A. Arvin, secretary of local committee and assistant secretary of classification of the congress and Dr. James B. Cayce, Director General of the Congress and chairman of the local committee. HOT SPRINGS, Ark.— Dr. Maxwell leads inspection group in tour of facilities at Pittsburgh. The Executive Board of the National Sunday School and Baptist Training Congress adopts program offered by Dean Horatiou Hill and approves work of local Committee headed by Dr. James B. Cayce, Director General of the Congress. The report of the inspection group was read by Mrs. Bessie S. Estell, General Secretary of the Congress. The inspection group comprising President Maxwell, Dean Hill, Mrs. Estell and Dr. Cayce made a tour of the various facilityies at Pittsburgh on Friday, Jan. 17. The committee reported some 2000 rooms in the leading hotels were available for the delegates besides private homes and the smaller hotels. The plenary sessions will be held in the new spacious Civic Arena which has an adjustable roof which can be so used as to make the arena an open air pavilion. Classes will be held in parochial High Schools, and Duquesne and Pittsburgh Universities. The Pre-Congress Musical will be held at the Arena on Monday, June 21, and the final sessions on Sun day, June 28, at beautiful Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. The Minister's Seminar will be held in Central and Monumental Churches ....... the Young People at Calvary . . . the Pastor's wives at St. Luke . . . the Laboratory School at Sixth Mt. Zion and the Administrative . . Work Shop at Macedonia and al lare Baptist Churches. This arrangement is expected to be carried out as presented here, said the Dean and Director General of the Congress. Dr. O. Clay Maxwell presided over the Board Sessions, assisted by Dr. E. C. Estell, Vice President of the Congress. On to Pittsburgh, the slogan for 1964. Miss. Town Hits Back At Group's No-Buy Drive The white community of this segregationist seat of Madison County has begun to retaliate with acts of intimidation and reprisals against an NAACP-sponsored selective buying campaign by Negro citizens that has become 98 percent effective. City and county police department have been reinforced and police officers have initiated a campaign of their own- one of harassment of Negroes. People have been arrested for burning trash, whereas they were unmolested for doing the same thing two months ago before the no-buy drive was launched. Others have been jailed for obstructing traffic and parading without a license when they walked down the street in groups of threes and fours. One Negro was seized and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when police observed him handing a leaflet urging support of the campaign to a 19-year-old young woman. Also, police cars continually cruise the area when Negroes hold a mass' meeting and with guns drawn they slop automobiles of Negroes' to Inspect the driver's license. After the meetings, police photographers with Polaroid cameras snap pictures of those leaving. Wholesaler are being stopped from making deliveries to Negro businesses. And attempts have been made to bride several Negroes into revealing who the leaders of the no-buy drive are. Trying to appear undisturbed about the effect of the boycott, a local newspaper reported that business is "off some." In the same article, the paper reported that city officials and business people "are taking the boycott threat quite seriously." CARS CRUISE AREA The white community of this segregationist seat of Madison County has begun to retaliate with acts of intimidation and reprisals against an NAACP-sponsored selective buying campaign by Negro citizens that has become 98 percent effective. City and county police department have been reinforced and police officers have initiated a campaign of their own- one of harassment of Negroes. People have been arrested for burning trash, whereas they were unmolested for doing the same thing two months ago before the no-buy drive was launched. Others have been jailed for obstructing traffic and parading without a license when they walked down the street in groups of threes and fours. One Negro was seized and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when police observed him handing a leaflet urging support of the campaign to a 19-year-old young woman. Also, police cars continually cruise the area when Negroes hold a mass' meeting and with guns drawn they slop automobiles of Negroes' to Inspect the driver's license. After the meetings, police photographers with Polaroid cameras snap pictures of those leaving. Wholesaler are being stopped from making deliveries to Negro businesses. And attempts have been made to bride several Negroes into revealing who the leaders of the no-buy drive are. Trying to appear undisturbed about the effect of the boycott, a local newspaper reported that business is "off some." In the same article, the paper reported that city officials and business people "are taking the boycott threat quite seriously." STOP FALLING NOW! HAIR USE "SAVE IT" / 50 West 125th Street New York 27, N. Y. Racial Problems Discussion On CBS-TV Sunday "Race, the Church and Higher Education," a discussion of the racial problem In the United Slates, will be presented on "Lamp Unto My Feet" Sunday, Feb. 9 (10:1010:30 a. m. ETS) on the CBS Television Network. The broadcast marks the annual observance of Race Relations Sunday by the Methodist Church, to focus attention on the general racial problem of all minority groups in this country, with particular emphasis on the problem of such groups in higher education. Guests participating in the discussion will be Dr. Clayton Calhoun, President, Paine College. Au. gusta, Ga.; Dr. James Thomas, Staff member, Methodist Board if Education, Nashville, Tenn.; Miss Katherine Cudlipp, President, Butdent Government Association, Randolph - Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Va., and Miss 'Elnura Kendrix, graduate student, Drew University theological School, Madison, N. J. Dr. George Crothers, program host, will lead the discussion. "Race, the Church and Higher Education" is produced by Ben Flynn and directed by Jack Mur phy. "Lamp Unto My Feet" is a presentation of the Public Affairs Department of CBS News. Simmons Directs State Units On Rights Commission Samuel J. Simmons, 36, Past Office Department, appeals officer, has been appointed Director of State Advisory Committees of:.he U, S. Commission on Civil Rights, the commission and the Department reported recently in a joint announcement. Announced Simultaneously was the appointment of Elmer McLain of Chicago to the post Office position vacated by Simmons Commission Chapman John A. Hannah said that Simmons win direct and coordinate activities of 51 advisory committees to the Commission in every State and the District of Columbia. The committees are composed of interested citizens of standing in their communities who serve without compensation, pusuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Simmons will replace Peter M. Sussman who left the Commission staff in December to live in Denver, Colorado, where he is as, sociated with the American Snowblast Corporation. Assistant Postmaster General Richard J. Murphy, who heads the Post office Department's Bureau of Personnel, termed Simmons' departure "a loss for the Postal Service — but a gain for the very important national programs in the civil rights field administered by the Commission." Simmons has been a member of the Post Office Department's threeman Board of Appeals for two years, and has carried out major assignments connected with the Department's national programs in equal hiring and promotional opportunities, employee grievances and appeals. He held executive posts with the Mionigan Labor Mediation Board and the Michigan Fair Employment practices Commission before coming to Washington. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has done graduate study in public administration. Simmons is married and has two sons, David Clay 13 and Robert Allen 8. CARK FOR HEELS F. B. Ellis, head of an office equipment company has solved the mystery of the sales boom in rubber ringer sheaths, size double O. TERRORISTS RAID TOWN Near naked terrorists rampaging through the western Congo staged n mass attack on the town of Gungu with bow's, arrows and panga knives. The 40man Congolese government garrison defending the town and its population of 5,000 radioed urgent appeals to the United Nations Command in Leopoldville for ammunition. "With God All Things Are Possible" Urges Editors To Help Pass Word Of Self-Help To People Hobart Taylor, Jr., executive vice charman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, said "opportunities are now opening not for one or two or three, but for the masses which have suffered for so many years." He urged the publishers at a luncheon during their mid-winter workshop at the International Inn to help the government get the word to the people. "You have their ear," he said. "They have to be told what they must do to help themselves." Taylor informed the group that 141 major American corporations with more than seven million employes have lined up side-by-side to take "affirmative action" to close the economic gap confronting Negroes. As an example, he added, more than 200 companies, some of whom had to be turned away for lack of staff and space, have been seeking the services, of future Howard University graduates. He said, the program has run up against some baffling problems. One such problem involved a government contractor in a major industrial city In the South who Wanted to hire Negro secretaries and clerical workers. "Tests were given to all the graduates of the commercial course in the local all-Negro high school," he explained. "One girl passed the aptitude test; another passed the performance test; no girl passed them both. "When this happened, the teacher was tested. She failed both exams. This Is not an isolated story about one school system — it is a classic example of what is happening time and time again across the country." Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., president of Howard University, appeapel to the editors and publishers to "work on a specific program, such as school dropouts." He said there should be a closer relationship between the press and the student, and urged the group to keep up the fight for school desegregation and for jobs. "I have a very great faith In the Negro press," he said. Speaking on "The Editorial as a Creative Achievement," Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star, urged the gathering to "needle your readers toward wisdom." He suggested that readers should be sttimulated by telling them something they do not already know. His advice: "Don't bore your readers, hold their attention." "Warren W, Wiggins, Acting Director of the Peace Corps, spoke briefly on the Corps as "A New Design for a New Century." He said the Peace Corps and the Negro press "are natural allies - with similar goals and a common aspiration." Other speakers during the three, day workshop included Alexander A. Klieforth, program director for Voice of America; Dr. Andrew F, Brimmer, Deputy Assistant secretary of Commerce for Economic Policy Review; Keeton Arnett, Executive Vice President of the Champer of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia; and Eugene P. Foley, Administrator of the Small Business Administration. CORPORATIONS LINE UP Hobart Taylor, Jr., executive vice charman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, said "opportunities are now opening not for one or two or three, but for the masses which have suffered for so many years." He urged the publishers at a luncheon during their mid-winter workshop at the International Inn to help the government get the word to the people. "You have their ear," he said. "They have to be told what they must do to help themselves." Taylor informed the group that 141 major American corporations with more than seven million employes have lined up side-by-side to take "affirmative action" to close the economic gap confronting Negroes. As an example, he added, more than 200 companies, some of whom had to be turned away for lack of staff and space, have been seeking the services, of future Howard University graduates. He said, the program has run up against some baffling problems. One such problem involved a government contractor in a major industrial city In the South who Wanted to hire Negro secretaries and clerical workers. "Tests were given to all the graduates of the commercial course in the local all-Negro high school," he explained. "One girl passed the aptitude test; another passed the performance test; no girl passed them both. "When this happened, the teacher was tested. She failed both exams. This Is not an isolated story about one school system — it is a classic example of what is happening time and time again across the country." Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., president of Howard University, appeapel to the editors and publishers to "work on a specific program, such as school dropouts." He said there should be a closer relationship between the press and the student, and urged the group to keep up the fight for school desegregation and for jobs. "I have a very great faith In the Negro press," he said. Speaking on "The Editorial as a Creative Achievement," Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star, urged the gathering to "needle your readers toward wisdom." He suggested that readers should be sttimulated by telling them something they do not already know. His advice: "Don't bore your readers, hold their attention." "Warren W, Wiggins, Acting Director of the Peace Corps, spoke briefly on the Corps as "A New Design for a New Century." He said the Peace Corps and the Negro press "are natural allies - with similar goals and a common aspiration." Other speakers during the three, day workshop included Alexander A. Klieforth, program director for Voice of America; Dr. Andrew F, Brimmer, Deputy Assistant secretary of Commerce for Economic Policy Review; Keeton Arnett, Executive Vice President of the Champer of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia; and Eugene P. Foley, Administrator of the Small Business Administration. DROUPOUT PROGRAM Hobart Taylor, Jr., executive vice charman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, said "opportunities are now opening not for one or two or three, but for the masses which have suffered for so many years." He urged the publishers at a luncheon during their mid-winter workshop at the International Inn to help the government get the word to the people. "You have their ear," he said. "They have to be told what they must do to help themselves." Taylor informed the group that 141 major American corporations with more than seven million employes have lined up side-by-side to take "affirmative action" to close the economic gap confronting Negroes. As an example, he added, more than 200 companies, some of whom had to be turned away for lack of staff and space, have been seeking the services, of future Howard University graduates. He said, the program has run up against some baffling problems. One such problem involved a government contractor in a major industrial city In the South who Wanted to hire Negro secretaries and clerical workers. "Tests were given to all the graduates of the commercial course in the local all-Negro high school," he explained. "One girl passed the aptitude test; another passed the performance test; no girl passed them both. "When this happened, the teacher was tested. She failed both exams. This Is not an isolated story about one school system — it is a classic example of what is happening time and time again across the country." Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., president of Howard University, appeapel to the editors and publishers to "work on a specific program, such as school dropouts." He said there should be a closer relationship between the press and the student, and urged the group to keep up the fight for school desegregation and for jobs. "I have a very great faith In the Negro press," he said. Speaking on "The Editorial as a Creative Achievement," Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star, urged the gathering to "needle your readers toward wisdom." He suggested that readers should be sttimulated by telling them something they do not already know. His advice: "Don't bore your readers, hold their attention." "Warren W, Wiggins, Acting Director of the Peace Corps, spoke briefly on the Corps as "A New Design for a New Century." He said the Peace Corps and the Negro press "are natural allies - with similar goals and a common aspiration." Other speakers during the three, day workshop included Alexander A. Klieforth, program director for Voice of America; Dr. Andrew F, Brimmer, Deputy Assistant secretary of Commerce for Economic Policy Review; Keeton Arnett, Executive Vice President of the Champer of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia; and Eugene P. Foley, Administrator of the Small Business Administration. NEA Guide For Parents Advises On Children's Mental Health The normal child is no angel and we shouldn't expect him to be, says William W. Wallenberg, professor of educational psychology at Wayne State University, Detroit. The tiny tot at age 2 or. 3 resists his parents and seeks to have his own way. At 4 or '5 he's "pretty shaky" about truth. At 7 or 8 he pays little heed to time and "may be sloppy" in appearance. Later, he may run around with a gang and be "sassy" to his elders. For mast children, such antics are par 1'or the course. Dr. Wallenberg express his opinions in A Guide for Parents: Your Child's Mental Health, a 16. page pamphlet published by the National Education Association. The booklet, fifth in a special series of NEA pamphlets for parents, seeks to ease the minds of mothers and fathers who worry too much about capers of the child, whose nets are quite normal. It gives suggestions, too, on how to seek assistance through the school if a child shows really serious signs of mental disorder Wallenberg explains the two types of school youngsters this way: The mentally healthy lad is "usually happy," He may do n wrong, but tries to make up for it. Ho may be moody, but not for long. He's stable and realistic. When misfortune strikes, he's able to recove his balance quickly. He heeds loving guidance and discipline, of course, but he's on his way to being a selfadjusted adult. The mentally sick child, by contrast, may "burst into needless rages," "live in daydreams," be "buried In gloom," have a "low opin ion of himself, make 'Impossible demands" of others. About 1 among every 7 or 8 children suffers such emotional upsets. Parents should seek help quickly, even if It turns but that, they're wrong in thinking that n child is menially ill. A talk with the teacher is a good firs', step, She may have noticed something unusual in the child's actions. Parents should sec the doctor, too, If teacher and doctor agree that the child is normal,, they'll say so. If doubts appear, they'll recommend a specialist. The school may have s psychologist when can assist the child satisfactorily. Or he may surest a private psychiatrist. There may be a community child - guidance Clinie financed by public funds which has modest fees. The important thing is to act Parents may order the pamphlet A Guide for Parents: Your Childs Menial Heath by sending 10 cents and a self addressed slapped envelope to NEA Journal Reprints, National Education Association, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Wash. ington, D. C. 20036 TWO TYPES NOTED The normal child is no angel and we shouldn't expect him to be, says William W. Wallenberg, professor of educational psychology at Wayne State University, Detroit. The tiny tot at age 2 or. 3 resists his parents and seeks to have his own way. At 4 or '5 he's "pretty shaky" about truth. At 7 or 8 he pays little heed to time and "may be sloppy" in appearance. Later, he may run around with a gang and be "sassy" to his elders. For mast children, such antics are par 1'or the course. Dr. Wallenberg express his opinions in A Guide for Parents: Your Child's Mental Health, a 16. page pamphlet published by the National Education Association. The booklet, fifth in a special series of NEA pamphlets for parents, seeks to ease the minds of mothers and fathers who worry too much about capers of the child, whose nets are quite normal. It gives suggestions, too, on how to seek assistance through the school if a child shows really serious signs of mental disorder Wallenberg explains the two types of school youngsters this way: The mentally healthy lad is "usually happy," He may do n wrong, but tries to make up for it. Ho may be moody, but not for long. He's stable and realistic. When misfortune strikes, he's able to recove his balance quickly. He heeds loving guidance and discipline, of course, but he's on his way to being a selfadjusted adult. The mentally sick child, by contrast, may "burst into needless rages," "live in daydreams," be "buried In gloom," have a "low opin ion of himself, make 'Impossible demands" of others. About 1 among every 7 or 8 children suffers such emotional upsets. Parents should seek help quickly, even if It turns but that, they're wrong in thinking that n child is menially ill. A talk with the teacher is a good firs', step, She may have noticed something unusual in the child's actions. Parents should sec the doctor, too, If teacher and doctor agree that the child is normal,, they'll say so. If doubts appear, they'll recommend a specialist. The school may have s psychologist when can assist the child satisfactorily. Or he may surest a private psychiatrist. There may be a community child - guidance Clinie financed by public funds which has modest fees. The important thing is to act Parents may order the pamphlet A Guide for Parents: Your Childs Menial Heath by sending 10 cents and a self addressed slapped envelope to NEA Journal Reprints, National Education Association, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Wash. ington, D. C. 20036 GLORY KEEPS THE SOLEMN ROUND OUT WHERE WE HEAPED THE FLORAL MOUND I II HIS HONOR AND 'HER HONOR' CHAT — Durham Mayor Wense Grabarek, right, chats with District of Columbia Judge Marjorie Lawson, second from right, and North Carolina College President and Mrs. Samuel P. Massie at a luncheon by the Massies honoring the judge. Judge Lawson, who was appointed to the bench by the late President John F. Kennedy in 1962, was principal speaker at the college's Forum assembly recently. This was the theme of an address by Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League who spoke before the Biennial Conference of United Community Funds and Councils of America at the Netherland Hotel this week. The head of the nation's important community service agency, with a network of offices in 65 industrial areas, appealed to fund and council leaders for a larger share of local budgets to deal with the special problems of Negro citizens in the urban slums. He also asked for greater moral support of the Urban League's actions in secureing the civil rights of Negro citizens. Mr. Young spoke with earnest eloquence of the plight of the Negro citizen in this second year of the Negro revolution. "We have an opportunity and an obligation to strike off in new directions. To-consider the Negro's struggle not just as a battle between black and white, but as the" more basic conflict between good and evil; between decent people who care and want to help, and evil people who arc indifferent or want to destroy," he said. Outlining the change in climate that has come about since the great social and legal gains of 1963, Mr. Young reminded his audience that the "new" Negro has undergone a change of heart and spirit. He is impatient with the status quo, and determined to achieve his aspirations for equality, and for better education, better jobs and better housing. Speaking of the poverty of the average Negro family, Mr. Young quoted government statistics showing the sap between white and Negro. The average Negro family income is $3,000 as against $6,000 for whites. The reason for the gap lie declared, is partially explained by the kind of jobs open to Negroes. Seventy-five percent of the entire Negro working force is employed in the lowest paid occupations service workers, semi-skilled or unskilled laborers, and farm workers. And today even these jobs arc threatened by the swing to automation which Is presently eliminating jobs at the rate of 4,000 a week, according to estimates by the U. S. Department of Labor. "If the situation among the employed is close to despair,1; Mr. Young Mid. "The Negro rate of unemployment is twice that of white workers. Estimates for 1970 reach 22-million, and half of them will be concentrated in the big cities, with one in every four on welfare." Preferred first aid dressing because it's superrefined to guaranteed hospital quality! Relives pain and itching of minor burns, chafe and skin injuries. Switch to Moroline, 1000 uses. Only 17¢—or get over twice as much for 277cent; MOROLINE' WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY ELEANOR "I wish there was some way of dying without dying," said Simple, "of getting rid of the bad things that afflict men, keeping the good and still being alive. For instance, my old aunt Lucy had arthritis, which made her kind of snappy at times, but she had a good soul, on; of the best. Now if the arthritis had just died, instead of her, that would have been like It should have been. Look at President Roosevelt —if what ailed him could have died, but not him, the world might have been different today." "In other' words," I said, "you mean if the ills of the flesh could piss 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 anybody 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 oilier place at that very moment. Killing a man doesn't kill the form of the prime. It just kills him. What we need to do is to get at the basic roots of evil, just as a physician 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,", 1 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, stomachachesick which is what removes more people from this world than an electric chair. I am wishing for instance, that, I will never get any. thing, that will make me sick enough to die." "In that case, you would just die of old age/Everybody dies of some, thing." "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 anywhere 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 on ly human, maybe Jim Crow would net sick, catch pneumonia, get knotted up with arthritis, have gallstones, a strain, TB, cancer, or 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 re. quested, I would even rise and preach his funeral. Yes, I would!" "I would say, 'Jim Crow, Jim Crow, the Lord' has taken 'you away!' Thank God, Jim Crow, you will never, again drink from a white fountain while I go dry. Never again, Jim Crow, will you set up n front of the buses from Washington to New Orleans while I ride took over the wheels. Never again will you, Jim Crow, laying here dead, rise up and call me out of my name, Nigger. 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 shall! Me, Jesse B. Simple, who 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, prench your funeral, Jim Crow and to consign you to the dust where you may rot in peace until the world stops spinI'm; around in the universe and comes to a hall so all of a sudden neli-fire quick that it will fling you, lie and everybody through the A. M. and the P. M. of Judgment room to the foot of the throne of God!" "God will say Jim Crow! Jim Crow! Get away! Hide yourself hence! Make haste — 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 close your funeral with these words.- as the top is shut on your casket and the hearse pulls up outside the door — and Talmadge, Eastland, and Byrnes wipe their weeping eyes _ and every coach on 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!" (From the Langston Hughes Reader, 1958) Jim Crow's Funeral "I wish there was some way of dying without dying," said Simple, "of getting rid of the bad things that afflict men, keeping the good and still being alive. For instance, my old aunt Lucy had arthritis, which made her kind of snappy at times, but she had a good soul, on; of the best. Now if the arthritis had just died, instead of her, that would have been like It should have been. Look at President Roosevelt —if what ailed him could have died, but not him, the world might have been different today." "In other' words," I said, "you mean if the ills of the flesh could piss 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 anybody 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 oilier place at that very moment. Killing a man doesn't kill the form of the prime. It just kills him. What we need to do is to get at the basic roots of evil, just as a physician 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,", 1 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, stomachachesick which is what removes more people from this world than an electric chair. I am wishing for instance, that, I will never get any. thing, that will make me sick enough to die." "In that case, you would just die of old age/Everybody dies of some, thing." "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 anywhere 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 on ly human, maybe Jim Crow would net sick, catch pneumonia, get knotted up with arthritis, have gallstones, a strain, TB, cancer, or 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 re. quested, I would even rise and preach his funeral. Yes, I would!" "I would say, 'Jim Crow, Jim Crow, the Lord' has taken 'you away!' Thank God, Jim Crow, you will never, again drink from a white fountain while I go dry. Never again, Jim Crow, will you set up n front of the buses from Washington to New Orleans while I ride took over the wheels. Never again will you, Jim Crow, laying here dead, rise up and call me out of my name, Nigger. 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 shall! Me, Jesse B. Simple, who 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, prench your funeral, Jim Crow and to consign you to the dust where you may rot in peace until the world stops spinI'm; around in the universe and comes to a hall so all of a sudden neli-fire quick that it will fling you, lie and everybody through the A. M. and the P. M. of Judgment room to the foot of the throne of God!" "God will say Jim Crow! Jim Crow! Get away! Hide yourself hence! Make haste — 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 close your funeral with these words.- as the top is shut on your casket and the hearse pulls up outside the door — and Talmadge, Eastland, and Byrnes wipe their weeping eyes _ and every coach on 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!" (From the Langston Hughes Reader, 1958) Jackson The junior and Senior Choirs of zion Baptist Church observed their" 40th anniversary recently. Twenty choirs participated on program. Mrs. A, D. Powell; pianist for 15 years was presented a check for $25.00 by N. E. Walker from the choirs in appreciation of her loyal services. Among the out-of-town choirs were the MeCormick of Ft. Valley, representing Central union Baptist Church choirs. Mrs. Alice Arline is a patient at Sylvan Grove Hospital . . . . Mrs. Odessa Duncan of Atlanta, aunt of Mrs. Arline is spending sometime with the family during her Illness Mrs. C. A. Fambro spent the weekend with her family at McRae, last week Henry wise, Jr., of New York City is visiting his mother. MR L. K. Wise and family. (CORRECTION)... James Henderson and James Bostick from the army attended the funeral of their fathers recently Cole Henderson, Jr. and Joe Bostick.