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YE EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
ARE THESE LAWS JUST?
Gov. Leßoy Collins did not sign certain laws en
acted by the special session of the legislature, but sent
them to the Secretary of State saying they would be al
lowed to become law without his signature.
These laws were passed to prevent Negroes from
using beach and swimming pool facilities and golf
courses in Sarasota, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
With this law the counties can now sell or lease
such facilities to private interests.
These interests of course would deprive Negroes
of the right they now have to use pulblic facilities.
Whether such laws are right and just to taxpayers is
to our minds, a question that should be tested in the
state and other courts, and we believe they will be tested.
Gov. Collins must have some good reasons for allow
ing the bills to become laws without his consent.
ADLAI STEVENSON NOMINATED
The Democratic Convention, held in Chicago this
week, will be recorded as one of the most outstanding in
history. Northern and Southern Democrats seemed de
termined to unite if possible. The trouble was expected
to come from the party’s platform on Civil Rights. There
were differences of opinion. Some liberal Democrats
wanted a stronger civil rights plank than the committee
reported, but in the final analysis the moderate platform
recommended by the committee was adopted.
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Here are excerpts from the plank. We will discuss
the plank in a later issue:
The Democratic Party is committeed to support and advance
the individual rights and liberties of all Americans. Our country is
founded on the proposition that all men are created equal. This means
that citizens are equal before the law and should enjoy equal
political* rights. They should have equal opportunities for education,
for economic advancement, and for deoent living conditions.
We will continue our efforts to eradicate discrimination based
on race, religion or national origin. We know this task requires
action, not just in one section of the nation, hut in all sections. It
requires the cooperative efforts of individual citizens, and action by
state and local governments. It also requires federal action. The
federal government must live up to the ideals of the Declaration of
Independence and must exercise the powers vested in it by the
Constitution.
We are proud of the record of the Democratic Party in secur
ing equality of treatment and opportunity in the nation’s armed
forces, the civil service, and in all areas under federal jurisdiction.
The Democratic Party pledges itself to continue its efforts to elimi
nate illegal discrimination of all kinds, including full rights to vote
full rights to engage in gainful occupations, full rights to enjoy se
curity of the person, and full rights to education in publicly sup
ported institutions.
Recent Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
relating <to segregation in publicly supported schools and elsewhere
have brought consequences of vast importance to our nation as a
whole and especially to communities directly affected. We reject all
proposals for the use of force to interfere with the orderly determi
nation of these matters by the courts.
The Democratic Party emphatically reaffirms* its support of the
historic principle that ours is a government of laws and not of
men; it recognizes the Supreme Court of the United States as one
of the three constitutional and coordinated branches of the federal
government, superior to and separate from any political party, the
decisions of which are part of the law of the land. We condemn the
efforts of the Republican Party to make it appear that this tribunal
is a part of the Republican Party.
We condemn the Republican administration's violation of the
rights of government employes by a heartless and unjustified con
fusing of “security” and “loyalty” for the sole purpose of political
gain and regardless of consequences to individual victims and of the
good name of the United States. We condemn the Republican admin
istration's misrepresentation of facts and violation of individual rights
in a wicked and unprincipal attempt to degrade and destroy the
Democratic Party, and to make political capital for the Republican
Party.
Former Governor Adlai Stevenson was nominated
on the first ballot with a vote of 905% to 210 for Gover-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18,1956
THINGS.YOUSHOULD.KNOW
g-E OPATRA, m:
The woman who was courted by
JUUUS CAESAR, AND LATER BY MARK
ANTHONY. SHE SPOKE GREEK, LATIty
ETHIOPIAN, HEBREW, ARABIC/SYRIAN,
AFRICAN, AND EGYPTIAN! THROUGH
UNSCRUPULOUS CUNNING SHE USED
CAESAR TO GET HER BROTHER KILL
ED AND SOON BECAME CO-RULER QF;
EGYPT AND THE;ROMAN EMPIRE I
nor Harriman of New York, former President Harry
Truman’s candidate.
Only 686 of the 1,372 votes are necessary for nomi
nation.
The governor of Oklahoma's motion for a unani
mous vote was carried. Adlai Stevenson is the Democratic
nominee for President of the United States.
40-Acre Farmer Gets
(Conservation Award
JUST BROWSIN’
BY PAUL B. HENRY
Illinois State auditor Orville
Hodge, convicted for embezzling
SBOO,OOO of that state’s funds, was
sentenced on Wednesday to serve
10 years in a federal prison.
Hodge’s attorney had entered a
plea of guilty.
William Fiveash, (brother of an
ousted sheriff and an Ashburn,
Ga. police officer have been in
dicted by a federal grand jury on
charges of beating Arthur Scott,
a Negro, who testified against the
ex-sheriff.
Five Negro undergraduates
will register for the fall term at
North Carolina State College says
Dr. Kenneth Raab, admission di
rector. #
Three more members of the
police force (white) were arrest
ed on Wednesday in connection
with the police robbery scandal.
Asst. County Solicitor Angus Ste
phens thinks 20 more will be ar
rested too bad!
Coral Gables police report sto
len property from university class
rooms since July 31, amount to
about SB,OOO. Including 32 add
ing machines, typewriters and cal
culating machines.
Although the New York Giants
is the cellar team with 24 Vz games
behind, this week they whipp
ed the Brooklyn Dodgers two
straights pushing the Bums into
third place. Who’s responsile
Why Willie Mays, with a home
hun in each game.
Miafni Marlins now hold third
place ’ in ' the International
League. Satch Paige did it again
this week with a one hitter in
seven innings against Rochester.
From Puerto Rico comes news
that 30 persons were killed by
Betsy’s visit.
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Hurricane Betsy put us on the
alert early this week. Hotels and
business places took precaution
A forty-acre Alabama colored
farmer, who once lost his small
farm because of low cotton yields,
was awarded first prize at Ala
bama A. & M. College, Normal,
last week in the annual state
wide soil conservation contest.
The winner is Eugene Bettis of
Gosport. By following sound soil
and water conservation practices,
he has converted a rundown
eroded farm into a first rate pro
duction plant on which he tripled
his cotton yield within the past
10 years.
A cash prize of $75 was award
ed him by the Alabama Associa
tion of Soil Conservation District
Supervisors and Alabama A. &
M., sponsors of the contest. A
second place award of $25 went
to Elishia Dukes of Evergreen,
and certificates of merit were pre
sented to 10 other runner-up con
testants.
The presentations were made
by former State Senator Sam
High following an address by Dr.
J. F. Drake, president of the col
lege; and a short talk by Sherman
Briscoe, information specialist of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture.
Dr. Drake stressed conservation
and better living. “You may hold
title to the land,’’ he said, “but
you do not own it. You are the
battening up plate glass windows,
etc. To the delight of everyone,
Betsy passed by us, however we
did get some much needed rain.
Another bus incident, at Perry,
Fla., a Jamaican priest and his
wife were dragged off a bus,
beaten and fined $25 because they
refused to move from their seats
(3 seats back of the driver). They
took those seats when they board
ed the bus in Miami.
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During an electric storm on
Thursday an oak tree on the
grounds of Dunbar school at sth
ct. and 20th st., was uprooted.
Fire on Tuesday night damaged
the home of the Rev. Mr. Brown
at 1533 NW 69th st.
A receiver has been asked for
Hialeah race track. The suit
claims that $4 vOOO,OOO was lost in
the pari -mutual machines at the
track bookmaking. Mismanage
ment by track officials is charged
stewards; you hold the land in
trust, and you should pass it on
to others in better condition than
when you received it.’’
Mr. Briscoe praised the win
ners and told about the achieve
ments of Mr. Bettis and Mr.
Dukes whose farms he had visited
earlier in the week. “Nowhere,”
he declared, “have I seen farms
on which farmers have done more
with so little.”
Those who received certificates
of merit are: Ike Austin of Thom
aston; Phillip Fulness, Coy: J. W.
Greenwood, Clayton; Sam Neely,
Centerville, Nick Fitchard, Hunts
ville; L. G. Orr, Danville; Tillman
Hardy, Jr., Titus; Issac Long,
Aliceville; Charley Me G u ire
Troy; and Ben L. Reynolds, Child
ersburg.
The awards program climaxed
a day of discussion and farm tours
conducted by Dr. R. D. Morrison,
director of the department of ag
riculture of the college. The tours
included the livestock area where
the farmers saw purebred beef
and dairy cattle, swine, and
sheep, and of the orchard, sor
ghum field, experimental corn
plots, and the farm machinery
shed.
During the discussion period,
the conservation winners explain
ed to the group how they had
built terraces and carried out
other practices on their farms, and
how this work had improved their
crop production.
Mr. Bettis, the first prize win
ner, owns a 48-acre hilly farni.
When he first attempted to buy
the place 22 years ago after 17
years of tenant farming, he said
his neighbors told him he would
starve to death on the poor land.
A'nd he says he very nearly did.
After three years, he was forclos
ed, but the owner permitted him
to stay on as a tenant.
Three years later, he tried buy
ing the 48 acres again. He paid
$75 down and paid out the re
maining $405 in four years. Ten
years ago, he went to his Soil
Conservation District and asked
them to help him keep his farm
from eroding away. Service tech
nicians made a land capability
map of his farm and showed him
how to build terraces.
Today, he has eight acres of
cotton growing on land that has
b*en parrs lie 1 terraced, and 34
acres of improved pastures where
21 hea dos grade Hereford cattle
and 26 grade ;nd purebred Hamp
shire and Poland China hogs are
grazing. His cotton yield has risen
from a half bale to the acre to a
bale and a half.
“I am shooting for two bales
per acre next year,” he said, “and
mv land will produce it if the ole
boll weevils aren’t too bad.”
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