Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1966-01-29
J. A. Beauchamp

Could TB Hit A
Georgia School
like In Detroit?
Is it possible for an outbreak of
tuberculosis to occur in a Georgia
school or day nursery similar to
the one in Detroit this week in
Which a nursery worker with active
TH spread the disease to 15 children? 

Entirely so, according to a survey
recently completed by the Georgia
TB Association.
TB associations in the state have
been pressing for several years to
have county school boards require
all school personnel to be annually
tuberculin skin tested or chest x
rayed. A questionaire recently
sent to the state's 156 county
health departments asked the following: 
(1) Do you do tuberculin
skin testing in your schools? If yes,
If yes, in how many schools? (2)
Which grades do you tuberculin
test? (3) Does the county board of
education require all first graders
to have a tuberculin skin test? (4)
Does the board of education require 
all school personnel to have
a tuberculin test and - or a chest
x-ray annually?
Of the 128 responses, only 17
county school boards and 2 city
school systems now require an annual 
TB check - up school personnel. 
One hundred eight counties
do some routine tuberculin testing'
of pupils in the schools. These
range from those entering school
for the first time to an annual survey 
of all students.
Only 28 county school boards and
2 city systems require that every
child entering school for the first
time to be tested for TB along
With required immunizations.
A task force on TB control called 
by the Surgeon General of the
Public Health Service in 1963 recommended 
several steps needed to
significantly reduce TB in the
United States in the next 10 years.
Among these was the identification
of persons at risk from TB through
(1) tuberculin, testing of children
entering school and examination of
reactor's associates (parents, relatives, 
friends) and (2) examination 
of school teachers and employees. 

The Georgia TB Association
urges everyone particularly those
working with children, to get n
tuberculin skin test. This simple
test, available at no cost from
health departments, or which can
be secured from a private physician, 
detects the presence of TB
germs in the body. This does not
mean that a person has or ever will
have active tuberculosis. An annual
chest x-ray thereafter for those
positive to the skin test will determine 
if the body today will be positive 
to a skin test.
In practically every case, these
two simple procedures will prevent
the spread of TB and break the
chain of infection. Only when we
have generation of children who
are free from TB germs, will be
able to eradicate tuberculosis, the
Association stated.
The new family was anxious to
make a good impression in the
neighborhood. But the neighbors
remained aloof.
The mother was overjoyed when
finally her youngest son ran in
and announced happily, "Mommy.
the lady next door asked my name
today!"
"Oh how nice!" his mother exclaimed. 
"And then what did she
do?"
"Then she gave it to the policeman," 
the boy said.
Sign in a cigar-store window
"Prices Reduced on Imperfect Perfectos." 


Desegregation
Of Classrooms
Dr. Henry E. Garreit, Professor
Emeritus of psychology, Columbia
University, and past president of
four national psychological associations, 
recently published a paper
that deals with the most sensitive
area of the race problem, (How
Classroom Desegregation Will
Work; The Patrick Henry Press,
Box 217, Richmond, Va., $1.00), It
is an impressive piece.
As a result of his studies, Dr.
Garrett is now convinced that race
mixing in elementary and secondary 
classrooms harms both races
and benefits neither. He offers two
bases for his conclusion. The first
has to do with the native intelligence 
of White and Negro children
— whit children are born with —
and the second deals with that
intelligence in action.
In 1933, Dr. Garrett discloses,
the Federal government underwrote
an intelligence test of some 1,800
Negro children. The average IQ of
these children proved to be 30.7.
Dr. Garrett opposed these findings
to comparable findings made earlier 
as a result of tests upon White
children. The tests on White children 
had been conducted by Dr. L.
M. Terman, originator of the famed
Stanford-Binet tests that were used
in both instances. Dr. Terman
found the average IQ of White children 
to be 101.8.
Beyond this 20-point difference
in IQ's, certain other facts emerged.
In the category rated Very Superior, 
White children were at a ratio
of 44-to-One over Negro children.
In the Superior bracket, the ratio
was 27-to-One; in High Average,
it was 26-to-One; and so on, in
descending order, until IQ-70 was

reached. IQ-70 is categorized as
Defective. In this area. Negro children 
were Eight-to-One over
White children. Only one per cent
of Negroes were found to have
IQ's. sufficient to allow acceptable
college - level work (IQ-110). Of the
White children, 30 per cent were
in the college-level bracket.
As to what children do with what
they have, Dr. Garrett disclosed
these findings:
In 1962, Dr. R. T. Osborne. Guidance 
Center Director, University of
Georgia, published the results of a
six-year study he had made on 800.
White and Negro children. The
some children were tested four
times. From the beginning, until
the final tests were in, White-Negro 
differences in reading and
arithmetic increased from two years
at the Sixth Grade level, to three
years or more at Grade 10.
In summary. Dr. Garrett found
that Negro children have an average 
IQ some 20 points below the
average IQ of White children, 80
vs. 100. And the ability of Negro
children to read and to do sums
is markedly inferior to that of
White children.
The point Dr. Garrett would
make is obvious: When White and
Negro children are indiscriminately
comingled it becomes impossible
for them to assimilate learning at
their optimum rate. If the level is
reduced to accommodate the 80IQs, 
the 100-IQs are held back. If
the level is maintained at the 100IQ 
standard, the 80-IQ children are
carried at too fast a pace and suffer 
accordingly. If a "compromise"
is reached, both will suffer.
The answer, as Dr. Garrett concludes, 
is classroom segregation
Then, each race could be geared
to its potential.
Dr. Garrett makes a final, noteworthy 
point. More than 50 twin
studies, he says, prove heredity to
be three times as important as environment 
to a child's intellectual
development.
In all, it is a strong argument.

ROUGH SKIN





SPINGARN MEDAL WINNER —
Soprano Leontyne 
Price is presented the 50th NAACP Spingarn 
Medal by the man who was responsible
for her singing with the Metropolitan Opera
Company, Rudolf Bing, Met general manager.

Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood, NAACP Board
chairman, is looking on. The presentation was
made at the Association's annual Fellowship
Dinner, Sunday night, Jan. 2, 1966, at the New
York Hilton.

U. S. Vote Examiners Sent
To 3 More Alabama Cities
Federal voting examiners have been
sent three more cities in Alabama 
to speedup the registration of
eligible voters prior td the State's
next election.
The Justice Department asked
the U. S. Civil Service Commission

last Thursday to assign the examiners, 
after concluding that the registrars 
of Jefferson County were
not doing all they could to comply
fully with the 1965 Voting Rights
Act.
Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
said that unless examiners wereprovided 
Jefferson County's 74,230
unregistered nonwhites — as well
as its 100,000 whites — they would
not have "a reasonable opportunity" 
to registered and vote in the
Statewide primary on May 3.
Jefferson County is the largest
of three metropolitan arras for
which Federal examiners have not
been designated. The others are
Montgomery Count, Ala., which ineludes 
the City of Montgomery —
designated on Oct. 1, and Hinds
County. Miss., which includes the
City of Jackson — designated on
Oct. 29.
The designation of Jefferson
County brought the total number
of examiner counties to 37: 11 in
Alabama, 5 in Louisiana, 19 in Mississippi, 
and 2 in South Carolina.
Jefferson County's voting - age
population of 372,000 includes about
256,000 white and about 116,000
nonwhites. As of Jan. 17, the 197,000 
registered voters included 155,207 
whites and 41,930 nonwhites.
Nonwhites thus constitute about 31
per cent of the voting-age population 
but make up only about 31 per
sent of the voters, even niter intensive 
voter registration drives.
Katzenbach said.
The 74,230 unregistered nonwhites
in, Jefferson County make up the
largest number of unregistered colored 
citizens in any of the more
than 500 counties covered by the
voting Rights Act.
Katzenbach said that while the
Jefferson County Board of Registrars 
had dropped the literacy test
immediately after passage of the
Voting Rights Act, it had not taken
the "affirmative steps" that were
necessary to enroll such a large
number of voters before the next
election.

Shriners Present
Seventh Check
To Hospital
DENVER, Colo. — A check for
$5.000 was presented to the National 
Jewish Hospital at Denver
by the Ancient Egyptian Arabic.
Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
at a luncheon Jan. 16 honoring the
Order and its auxiliary.
The check was the seventh of
the Shrine's annual gifts to the
free-rare, nonsectarian chest disease 
center, raising the total to
$35,000. The money is earmarked
for tuberculosis research.
Roscoe C. Washington of Los
Angeles, imperial potentate, presented 
the Shriners' check to Joseph 
H. Silversmith, Jr.. NJH president, 
during a luncheon at the
hospital attended by more than 100
guests. Silversmith praised the Order 
for its support.
"It is a stirring example of brotherhood 
in action which will live ns
long as man can say, 'I am my
brother's keeper," Silversmith said.

Publisher Of Weekly
May Run For Governor
Dr. Carlton Goodlett, publisher of
the weekly San Francisco Sun- Reporter, 
indicated Wednesday he
probably would seek the Democratic
nomination for Governor of California. 

He told a press conference he
would make his determination on
the basis of a sampling of opinion
in California's metropolitan areas.
Dr. Goodlett, a physician, said
that if he decided to announce his
candidacy, the required $500 filing
fee will be put up by the San
Francisco Baptist Ministers Union.
His decision to make the survey
was prompted by the telephone
calls and letters he said he has received 
from minority groups and
individuals in the State urging him
to enter the gubernatorial race.
Last June, the physician figured
in the news when he was refused
admission to land in London on his
for a world peace conference held
a month later in Finland.

JUDGE PLAYS CUPID
After hearing 
the complaint of a young wife
who had sworn out a warrant
charging her husband with slapping 
her. Police Court Judge T.
Pou Taylor ordered the quarrelling
couple to "kiss and make up," He
then ordered the baliff to take
the couple in the hall and see that
his sentence was carried out.

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Kitchen Enjoying
Revival As A
Social Center
The kitchen, once the social center 
of the home, r. again coming
into its own despite the growing
popularity of the family or tv room.
According to the Plumbling Heating 
- Cooling Information
Bureau, the kitchen is enjoying a
revival as the place for the daily
neighborhood confab or coffee
break of stay - at - home
housewives, while the family or tv
room remains the favorite for evening 
gatherings.
Because of its social uses, homemakers, 
are demanding larger kitchens.. 
May want enough space for
a dinette set, although the combination 
kitchen - dining room
shows no signs of coming back.
Women are upgrading their kitchens 
in other ways. Instant hot
water dispensers for serving hot
and cold drinks are enjoying a
vogue. Women are insisting on
double - bowl sinks, automatic
dishwashers and food waste disposers. 
They're insisting on floor to 
- ceiliing cabinets and generous
counter space. The sink remains
the focal center of the work area,
with everything else built around
it. The sink is also the piece of
equipment around which the
room's decor is planned. Thus the
homemaker's choice of stainless
stell or enamel that comes in gray,
green, sunny yellow, sand tan or
even pink or blue often sets the
tone for the entire room. Wood
cabinets are more popular than
metal, with natural grains far ahead 
of solid colors.
A special treatment was recommended 
for an elderly man. "In a
few weeks," his doctor told him
"you'll look ten years younger."
The elderly man asked cautiously, 
"Will it affect my pension."
Beauty shop ad: "Book Up With
a Good Curl."

Do's And Don'ts
Hardly appropriate for street wear

Religious Get Active
In U. S. War On Poverty
A coalition of Roman Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant leaders has
put the federal government en notice 
that it intends to participate
in and criticize the administration's 
war on poverty nationally.
The National Catholic Welfare
Conference, the Synagoguge Council 
of America and the National
Council of Churches announced
Tuesday in Washington, D. C., the
organization of the "Inter-Religious
Committee Against Poverty," serving 
the millions of Americans in
its memberships.
The Committee's goal is to "rally
the full weight" of the sponsoring
bodies and their constituents behind 
a massive anti-poverty campaign 
including a joint demand for
increased federal appropriations "to
strengthen and broaden the nation's 
programs to eliminate poverty." 

The committee handed its joint
statement with demands for maintenance 
and enlargement of current 
anti-poverty programs to the
President and Congress this week.
The statement was received and
endorsed by Vice President Hubert
H. Humphrey, who praised formation 
of the national religious committee 
and pledged support during 
talks at the capital today.
The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson
Blake, stated Clerk of the United
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.
and a co-chairman of the committee 
said the coalition would
support, coordinate and criticize
governmental and private programs
in behalf of the poor, and called
for increased participation of lower 
income groups in policy-making. 

In reply, Vice President Humphrey, 
speaking for the president,
called the move "a manifestation
of the most fundamental beliefs of
our three good faiths"
"We can pledge to you our support 
and assistance wherever that
is appropriate," the Vice President
said.
He cautioned the committee that
President Johnson has made clear
the administrations "determination 
to do its share," but added "we
must not delude ourselves into believing 
this victory can be won
quickly, easily or cheaply."
"It is not possible to untangle
the complex web of unemployment,
poor education, inadequate housing,
insufficient public, services and prejudice 
and discrimination which
bind millions of our fellow Americans 
in the hopeless cycle of poverty," 
Mr. Humphrey said.
Mr. Humphrey recalled that these
same religious groups were a prime
force in mustering support of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 and much of
the administration's social legislation 
passed during the last term of
Congress.
He said he hoped the same influence 
would be felt in the field
of anti-poverty. "From the beginning 
of the war on poverty, President 
Johnson has realized that this
could not be a war fought only
with weapons supplied by the Federal 
Government."
"The battles in this war would be
waged, in thousands of local communities 
across America and support 
would have to come principally 
from these local communities 
and from the various private
agencies working in local areas."
Sargent Shriver, director of the
Office of Economic Opportunity, also 
participated in the talks. He
cited the church's contributions to
the anti-poverty effort when he
said that to him, "one of the most
interesting developments" was the
creation of women in Community
Service — composed of representatives 
of at least four major women's 
organizations in America. It
includes Protestants, Catholics.
Jewish and Negro women's groups.
Speaking for the committee, Dr
Blake, who is chairman of the National 
Council of Churches' Commission 
on Religion and Race, and
a member of the National Advisory
Council to the Office of Economic
Opportunity, said the government

should continue to emphasize participation 
by the poor in all programs. 

"Hundreds of thousands of the
poor are now participating in governmental 
anti-poverty programs,"
Dr. Blake said. "Their opportunities 
must not be wasted or
thwarted."
Reading from the Committee's
statement, Dr. Blake said: "Our
military commitments in Vietnam
have led some to suggest reduction
or holding the line on the domestic
anti-poverty, health and educational 
programs.
"We reject such proposals as a
major retreat in the war on poverty, 
and a major defeat for Americans," 
he added.
Dr. Blake said the committee
hoped that rank and file clergymen
would preach the anti-poverty message 
in local congregations. "I expect 
them to preach the faith they
profess to hold, It includes this
commitment."
"The new 5-member committee
has as its five other co-chairman
in addition to Dr. Blake: the Most
Rev. Raymond J. Gallagher, Roman 
Catholic Bishop of Lafayette,
Ind.; Rabbi Seymour Cohen, Chicago, 
president, of the Synagogue
Council of America; Louis Stern,
past president of the Council of
Jewish federations and Welfare
funds; the Rev. Dr. Norman
Baugher of Elgin, Ill., general
secretary of the Church of the
Brethren General Brotherhood
board; and the Most Rev. Robert E.
Lucey, Roman Catholic Archbishop
of San Antonio.
Spokesmen for the committee
said it was formed because the
sponsoring bodies "are united in
the conviction that toleration of
persistent poverty amid our national 
affluence is morally indefensible," 
calling for the, joint efforts
of public and private agencies "to
wage total war upon this social
and moral blight."
Formation of the committee came
at an all-day meeting Jan. 18 held
before noon at the Statler Hilton
Hotel in Washington, D.C. Afternoon 
sessions convened in the hearing 
room, of the Senate Appropriations 
Committee, when Vice President 
Humphrey and Sargent Shriver 
welcomed the religious leaders
and participated in discussions.
Portions of the discussions were
televised an dattended by the press
corps accredited to the Senate.

SHRINERS PRESENT CHECK TO NJH —
Roscoe C.
Washington, Los Angeles, imperial potentate,
Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, presents a $5,000 check to the
National Jewish Hospital at Denver. Taking part
In the Jan. 16 presentation are, from left, David
L. Holliman, illustrious potentate, Syrian Court

No. 49; Mrs. Jessie K. Williams, illustrious commandress, 
Syrian Court No. 40; Daughters of
Isis; Washington; Joseph H. Silversmith, Jr.,
NJH president Mrs. Eva Ray Allen, imperial deputy 
of the desert of Colorado, Daughters of
Isis; and Squire Bullock, imperial deputy of
Colorado.

Urban League To Help
Visitors Understand U. S.
The National Urban League, in
cooperation with the Agency for
International Development of the
State Department, launched today
a new service program to provide
training in community development 
to visitors coming to this
country under the auspices of the
Agency. The announcement was
made Jointly by Whitney M. Young
Jr., the League's national executive
director and David E. Bell, AID administrator. 

This service will give the visitors
a better understanding and appreciation 
of life in the United
States. While emphasis is being
placed on helping visitors from Africa 
and Southeast Asia, the service 
will also be available to other
visitors, Young said.
Young also indicated that the
Urban League, as the foremost national 
community service and social 
work agency in the civil rights
field, is uniquely qualified to effect 
the program through the competence 
of a professional staff and
its vast and successful experience
in community organization over the
past 56 years.
"In assuming this responsibility," 
he added, "the league is re
sponding 
to increased demands being 
made on us. Our national headquarters 
and a number of local
Leagues across the country increasingly 
have assumed greater responsibility 
to help orient foreign visitors 
to the American scene.
The new service, officially designated 
as the NUL-AID project, will
stimulate more intensive participation 
in Federal government projects 
and in the new government
community development programs.
It will also demonstrate the successful 
techniques that are bringing
about solutions to vexing current
social and economic problems.
Young said that the Urban
League is in an important position 
to add this new dimension of
service to the nationals of other
countries In providing them with a
better understanding of the Negro
Revolution; and to let them see
the role that both government and
private organizations are playing
In this area. In connection with
this new League program, Young
quoted from a statement which
President Johnson made last Fall:
"Together we must embark on
a new and noble adventure:
"First, to assist the education effort 
of the developing nations and
regions. Second, to help our schools
and universities increase their
knowledge of the world and the
people who inhabit it. Third, to advence 
the exchange of students and
teachers who travel and work outside, 
their native lands. Fourth, to
assemble meetings of men and wo
men 
from every discipline and every 
culture to ponder the common 
problems of mankind."

Support Of Driver
Education Sought
Support of driver education, as
a means of saving lives and dollars, 
as urged Saturday by Atlanta 
Traffic and Safety Council President, 
Louis A. Gerland, Jr.
"There is no argument about the
value of the course," he said. "We
can almost give you a written
money-back guarantee that from 50
to 100 fewer Georgia youngsters
will die each year if Georgia will
join other states in offering driver
education in the schools:"
"To argue that we must choose
between math or history or driver
education is foolishness in the light
of the fact that the best school
systems in the nation, as well a
in Europe and Russia, are able to
find time to teach them all."
Mr. Gerland pointed out that
more teenagers are being killed in
accidents than in all other forms
of death combined.
"Economists and insurance experts 
can point to figures' to prove
that every dollar invested in driver 
education is retuned many times
over in savings from accident loss
and insurance premiums. They can
show that in the long run it will
pour more money Back into the
tax coffers than it takes out," he
said.
"But as a representative of a
chapter of the National Safety
Council, T want to deal strictly with
the real heart of the problem. We
are not just talking about saving
dollars. We are talking about literally 
saving young lives.
"Other states are protecting their
children from history's greatest
threat to their lives and we in
Georgia must demand this same

protection," he said.
"Let me hasten to state that the
most irresponsible act a parent can
commit toward his child is to try
to teach him to drive himself, The
chances of the youngster being
killed or injured are greatly increased 
if the parent teaches the
child.
"This is an educational matter
that can be taught properly, by no
one but regular school, teachers.
This is the only way it is being
done in any state in the nation,"
Mr. Gerland said.
"Georgia is the only 'State in
the Southeast today that does not
give state financial aid to driver
education.
"Let's face the real facts. The
lives of our children should be Just
as dear to us as those of children
in other states are to their parents, 
And our legislators should be
expected to act Just as responsibly
toward the youngsters as those in
the other states," he said.

Paine College
Library Gets
Book Grant
The award of a grant to Paine
College Library Augusta. Georgia
by the Association of College and
Research Libraries, a division of
the American Library Association,
was announced reentry by the
ACRL Grants Committee.
The grant was made to Paine
College Library was one of the 78
from among 373 applicants. The
grants program this year was made
possible by the following companies 
and corporation foundations:
McGraw - Hill Publishing Company, 
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, 
Pitney - Bowes, Inc.: Library 
Bureau of Re Office
Systems, Sperry R Corporation;
Time, Inc., United States Steel
Foundation, Inc. and the H. H.
W. Wilson Foundation, Inc.
The ACRL Grants program was
initiated in 1955 with a grant of
$30,000 from the U. S. Steel Foundation. 
The program, directed to
the general needs of all collgese
and universities, is designed for
improving the quality of library
service to higher education through
fundamental research in librarianship 
and other wise aiding in the
best use of the most modern teaching 
and learning materials.
The Pane Library grant will be
used for acquisition of books, primarily 
periodical indices.

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