Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1950-12-05
Lewis O. Swingler

Truth May Cause Trouble
The search for truth is the greatest activity of human
beings but it is often shackled by the tendency of individuals
to become wedded to convictions that become dearer than
truth itself.
Let us assume, fur example, that some citizen makes a
great discovery, hitherto unknown to men and women. It is
epochal, we assume, and the thinker announces it to the
world.
One would expect human beings to receive the information 
with open minds, test it by logic and experience and then
embrace it with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, that is not the
way of the world.
Here is what would be likely to happen:
Some people would think that it might interfere with
their business profits. They would denounce the discoverer
as a Communist, immediately.
Others would see in the enunciated principle some challenge 
to their established positions in economics, sociology,
religion, or other fields. They would pounce upon the thinker 
with all the glee of a dog chasing a rabbit.
So the process would go for decades before the truth
would find itself welcome on the globe.
Readers may 'think this is far-fetched. They should
read what happened in earlier ages to the great men who attempted 
to lead the minds of men along new paths of truth,
in the field of science or religion. They should remember
that human nature has not changed very much in the ages
since man began to walk the earth.
Now there is nothing to be gained by denouncing human
beings for being foolish. All that any individual can do, for
himself or herself, is to resolve to be open-minded, to eagerly 
await the revelations that arc yet to come and to stand
ready, upon proper occasion, to discard the fondled half-truth
for the truth that is eventually destined to make men free.

DON'T LET DEATH TAKE
YOUR HOLIDAY
"Don't Let Death take YOUR
Holiday!
George E. Miller, President of
the Tennesee Safety Council, today 
issued this warning to the
motoring and walking public as a
part of the Council's December

traffic safety educational program
'which is being sponsored by the
Tennessee Junior Chamber of Com
merce and 56 local Jaycee chapters 
over the State.
"The natural bad weather hazzards 
of December and the holiday 
rush combine to make this
month more dangerous than another 
in the year," Mr. Miller who

serves as Director of Public Safely
for the city of Oak Ridge, explained 
today.
Contributing in no small part
to this brand of annual highway
murder' Mr. Miller said "is, he
havoc caused by the drinking driver! 
In 1949, for instance, the National 
Safety Council estimates
that about 5.000 fatal traffic accidents 
in the nation involved a
drive who had been drinking!"
"The fact that drinking impairs
driving skill to a dangerous degree, 
the Council President stated
"has, of course, been long known
A recent study of this subject in
Sweden, for example," substantiatesour 
suspicions that the consump
tion of three of four bottles of
beer will lessen the driving skill of
an expert driver by about 25 to 30
per cent. And we don't have to go
to Sweden to find those same results!' 

The best policy for insuring an
enjoyable, safe holiday season the
Council President said, is by driv
ing with one thought firmly in
mind: that the man who has been,
drinking lowers his chances of
survival to ridiculous odds the moment 
he takes a steering wheel in
hand.
Mr. Miller urged all citizens of
Tennessee to cooperate with the
Jaycees and the Tennessee Safety
Council in an all-out effort to
make the roads and streets safer
during December and the holiday 
season. He urged all public
officials and law enforcement officers 
to strive for better enforcement 
of traffic laws for the safety
of all those who must drive or
walk.

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Farm Living

tended its cotton' wastes.
The agriculture department said
that export licenses now are required 
for exports of all types of
cotton wastes An official said the
measure was taken to "prevent expansion" 
of overseas shipments, not
to curtail them.
An export allocation of 15 million
pounds was established for cotton
card strips, comber wastes and all
other soft wastes for the period between 
Dec. 1, 1960 and March 31,
1951.
Export licenses are required for
hard wastes, consisting of yarns
and threads including wiping, but
no specific export quota was Established. 


Phi Beta

December 27, 8:00 p. m. to 10:00
p. m.
A reception for delegates and
visiting brothers to the conclave,
co-sponsored by greek letter fraternities 
and sororities, will be held
immediately at the conclusion of
the public meeting, the place to
be determined at a later date.
The fraternity's closed Sigma
smoker will be held in the Skyline
Room of the Hotel Theresa Thursday, 
December 28 at 10:30 p
m.
The conclave formal will be held
in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan 
Center, 34th and Eighth
Avenue Friday, December 29.
The conclave committees-announces 
that "sight-seeing,"
"theater parties" and other events
to suit the varied tastes and dessires 
of its delegates and visiting
brothers may be arranged for during 
or before the sessions, stated
Joseph A. Bailey, its general chair
man. The committee has had assurance 
of complete cooperation
from the Sigma wives and Zeta
Phi Beta Sorority.

I SAW HATE
In this curious raid of ours
with so many of us confused with
the newspapers, radios, commentators, 
magazines and propaganda being 
disseminated by the various
pressure groups, attempting to mold
public opinion and confuse the
issues, so many lose sight of the
fact that the only ISM that counts
is .
The Negro problem has been exploited 
in the good old USA by
many, many people, particularly
politicians, and in many instances
individuals, who, in trying to win
favor with the coloredd people,
claim to be their friends, and yet,
when not in their presence, talk
out of the side of their mouths, in
an entirely different strain.
As an individual, living here in
the good ole South, in Tennessee,
for many long years. I have always
felt that I have Reclaimed myself
to the southern viewpoint, that in
every respect the Negro is justly
entitled to the Freedom of speech.
Freedom of Religious, and Freedom
of OPPORTUNITY, and let it go at
that without stressing too much,
a collateral issue as to the right or
wrong of segregation, feeling that
perhaps the Negro, in the selpride
of his own race, would in most instances 
prefer to be left alone and
to prefer the association of his own
people, when coming to social matters 
rather than be thrust in the
presence of those who may have
any anti social ideas on the subject, 
and thusly, in the South, not
to make too much of an issue of
same.
However, it had never dawned
upon me, that with the variance in
degree, of the attitudes of different 
persons that there would be
one who were pathologically or
mentally sick to the point, that
they _would have a degree of hated
as to almost amount to a phobia.
In the last several days, I have
had the fortunate or unfortunate
experience to have been drawn into 
a political argument with a man,
who has spoken so forcefully and
with such extreme terms so far as
the colored race is concerned, that
I though it might be enlightening
to bring this to the fore, so that
those intelligent members of your
people, might understand that such
sick mentally people, (who are not
classified legally as crazy but
merely eccentric or opinionated),
have to be dealt with in some reasonable 
manner to offset the prejudicial 
and damaging statements
that they may be spreading.
This man, in substance, in his
warped views, stated that the ultimate 
purpose of the NAACP and
other similar Negro organizations
was, eo create sexual relationships
between the colored and the white
people, so is to break down the
bars of the races, and that all other
matters were merely collateral and
leading up to same.
That all of the various magazines
such as , and others, were
actting as disseminating agents in
the encouraging of this doctrine.
He lauded Westbrook Pegler to

the skies, and fused the most fifthy
language so far as Cleaner Rookvelt 
was concerned, stating that she
was the principal exponent of this
doctrine, publicly being seen and
embracing some of your people, and
that he would devote a great deal
of his time and money, printing
pamphlets against these periodicals 
and others, encouraging segregation. 

In my own simple way, I told him
that it was my opinion that Mrs.
Roosevelt was one of the greatest
women that America had ever produced, 
and that, in her outstanding
position on the United Nations,
that she spoke for the women of
America, and her statements and
actions, of her liberal attitude,
were reflected to the other nations
in the U. N., and helped in the
democratic attitude of the other
many nations of the earth, taking
into consideration that the colored
population of the world is approximately 
60 per cent or better,
and that if we were ever to have a
global war, or a war with Russia,
that good will would be of a limitless 
value to us in gaining their
assistance.
I further attempted to bring out
the fact that with the tremendous
colored population that exists in
America today, her actions and
thoughts, exclusively of being her
own personal views, also affected
the feelings of the colored people
in America in knowing that their
brother Americans of the white
race have a respectful and tolerant 
attitude towards them, in all
matters.
We all know that there are people 
here in this country, some of
them represent foreign interests,
that would take the poor and unfortunate, 
and those who are in
the lower groups of your economic
scale, and try to exploit their feelings 
and thoughts by making derogatory 
remarks about the treatment 
of the Negro in this country
to draw them into their own cause.
This is the same plan that is be.
ing used all over the world by Russia 
and her agents in China, France,
and many other countries to gair.
members to Join their ranks, and
deluce these simple people, into
believing that it is to the race's
best interests, to destroy all that
our people fought so hard for to
create the ideals and principles.
How unfortunate, therefore, that
bigots and crackpots, in their raging 
deluded outbursts, serve the
very interests that they decry,
when they wilfully go out and
create disharmony and hatred
amongst all of our people.
This message is written in the
sincere hope that when any of the
colored people are approached by
questionable characters and the
seeds of dissension may be attempted 
to be sprouted amongst them,
that they have the courage and intelligence 
to tell their pastor, or report 
the matter to the FB1 or tell
their local newspaper about same,
so that they may be discovered and
the proper measures taken to eliminate 
these destructive acts.
The record of the leading members 
of your race, in war or peace,
speaks for itself. Any man who
would spread anti-race propaganda,
whether against the colored or the
white, does a disservice to his country 
and is not truly at heart a

good American.
Men of the character such as
Westbrook Pegler and others like
vulture eating on curios, have
been harping day after day on the
great and honored former president,
Franklin D. Roosevelt (who has
done more to advanvce the spirit of
liberalism to the colored people
than any man except Abraham
Lincoln), and has been attacking
him and everything that he has
built up, knowing in his perverted
mind, that the dead cannot answer
the many charges and outrageous
statements that he has issued, to
sully his name. Only a mental coward, 
who would wish to flaunt his
papers, for the sake of sensationalism 
and getting large sums for his
posionous outpoudings, would have
the termerity to take such steps.
Let, your people take courage and
answer to the newspapers and magazine 
pouring out such filth, and
vocally decry and protest at the defiling 
of this man's good name and
his family.
I sincerely hope that the colored
people will take heart and disregard 
the actions of a few cranks
and earnestly feel, that by and
large, the masses of the people, in
the South as well as the rest of
the country, feel for the betterment
of the colored race, and wish to do
all that can be done to advance
their sanding in their communities
and as a people as an individual,
wherever they may be, and amity
amongst the various groups and
minorities.
Perhaps some expression of your
people, either an answer to this
article and to the other media of
publications would be a good thing,
and of constructive value.
P. S. I forgot to mention when
I get through he called me a communist 
and I laughed at him With
best wishes, I am
Very truly yours,
Abe Roberts
402 M and M Building
Memphis, Tenn.

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Nation To

UN Human Rights Day.
The overall national program for
this day as well as to provide information 
on the declaration
throughout the year is run by the
U. S. national commission for
UNESCO. George D. Stoddard is
chairman of the commission, and
Charles, A. Thomson is executive
secretary.
Information on the activities of
this commission may be obtained
by writing the UNESCO Relational
Staff, Department of State, Washington 
25, D. C.
Local programs are expected to
be run by civic leaders, schools,
clubs, civic, organizations, churches
newspapers, and other community
leaders. They will utilize pamphlets,
radio programs, panels, and mo
tion pictures to make their programs 
more interesting.

Uproar Results In Jamaica
Over Emperor Selassie
Pastor R. C. Lawson, head of the
Ethiopian World Federation in New
York and of a church congregation
there, touched off a freak pandemonium 
in Jamaica's Duke Street
Progressive Hall last week, when he
told a backward bearded cult of
"Rastafarians" that Ethiopia's "Emperor 
Haile Selassie is not God."
Mr. Lawson, who is styled "bishop", 
is visiting in Jamaica to explain 
Ethiopia's needs for craftsmen.
"Rastafarians' who squatted in
shacks and slums on Kingston's
Marcus Garvey avenue, turned out
in large numbers. The cult, similar
to New York's Bums, does not work.

They wear long unbarbered
and flowing unshaved beards.
Members of the cult subject
Bishop Lawson to a rapid fire
questions among them, "Is Haile Selassie, 
emperor of Ethiopia and conquering 
lion of Judah, God?"
"No", replied the pastor. "The
emperor himself prays to Almighty
God, three times daily."
Vainly, the Bishop appealed for
quietude. The brethren became
boisterous. Later when semblance
of order was restored, an attempt
was made to examine some of the
prospective immigrants. But the
cult was still indignant at the reproach 
of their "faith." So the meeting 
was brought to an abrupt end.
As we often comment here in this
space, the lightly referred 'to "black
man's burden" still remain something 
to be erased but good, from
the sports field as well as other
brackets of western hemisphere
life.
Leonard Schecter, forthright
writer of the N. Y. Post, recently
set forth Mr. Lopchick's keen disappointment 
in Sweetwater's play
up to the tussle with the Indianapolis 
Olympians.


All of which has added up to continued 
lost games by the Knicks
and sleepless nights for Lopchick.
Now this in not in the American
tradition.

A retiring Clifton, one virtually
on the "pardon-my-glove" side, a
"paleface" who paradoxically
enough, "rides — hard-upon-him"
turns a $15.000 asset into a team
liability.
It's the same sort of "Negrophobeism" 
Jackie Robinson and other
colored amateurs and professionals
faced, that Sweetwater ponders
over.


BODY CONTACT
GAMES, ROUGH
We think
that Joe Lopchick, coach of the N.
Y. Knirkerbockers feels that way
about the great colored court sensational 
Nathaniel (Sweetwater)
Clifton' soft-spoken ex-Harlem
Globetrotters acquisition.
As we often comment here in this
space, the lightly referred 'to "black
man's burden" still remain something 
to be erased but good, from
the sports field as well as other
brackets of western hemisphere
life.
Leonard Schecter, forthright
writer of the N. Y. Post, recently
set forth Mr. Lopchick's keen disappointment 
in Sweetwater's play
up to the tussle with the Indianapolis 
Olympians.


All of which has added up to continued 
lost games by the Knicks
and sleepless nights for Lopchick.
Now this in not in the American
tradition.

A retiring Clifton, one virtually
on the "pardon-my-glove" side, a
"paleface" who paradoxically
enough, "rides — hard-upon-him"
turns a $15.000 asset into a team
liability.
It's the same sort of "Negrophobeism" 
Jackie Robinson and other
colored amateurs and professionals
faced, that Sweetwater ponders
over.