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Along Freedom’s Road NEWS OF THE NAACP By RUTH PERRY The National , Association for the Advancement of Colored People has urged the House sub committee an general education to incorporate in any federal aid to school construction bill “safe guards that will prevent the ex penditure of federal funds for racially (segregated schools.” Testifying before the sub-com mittee on Feb. 26, Clarence Mitc hell, director of the Association’s Washington bureau, charred that certain southern states are eager to receive federal handout:, while defying rulings of the United States Supreme Court. This con tinuing defiance, he told com mittee members, has precipitated a rash of litigation to secure com pliance with the court’s school de egregation decree, the cost of which had to be borne by Negro parents seeflrin? unregregated school opportunities for their children. Mr. Mitchell estimated that the school cases will cost the victims of discrimination at least a half a million dollars. “Each time the collection plate is passed to gather funds for court cost- on this issue, it is a reproach to the executive and legislative branches of our government,” he aserted. “By what logic,” Mr. Mitchell concleduded, “doer our powerful and rich nation say to its colored citizens, even though you have -won in a fair contest, we shall continue to give your adversaries money with which to build il legal schools? By what code of justice does one explain the spending of federal funds to sup port defiant states in their pro gram of seperation (based on race?” ft From Tame a comes the follow ing news. Recently the Tampa Morning Tribune ha: declared editorially that the NAACP should not be outlawed in Florida. The NAACP in Florida currently is being investigated by a state leg islative committee, and the Tri- Nothing finer S in • Americans know good taste— whether it’s in fine American antique glassware, or fine whiskey. g g • That’s why so many clear-headed Americans I yl Va 11^ N * * b * Cal R i’ vi * /1 «Gk flioH-n Fiojfc, Bristol-Type Candlestick, Nailseo-Type Bowl, In any glass, there’s **nothing finer in American taste" Whiskey Flask 18th Cent., Virginia 1850, New England 1840, New Hampshire than Calvert, a name famous since 1622 1790, New Jersey Clear heads call for Calvett taste CALVERT DISTILLERS COMPANY. N.Y.C. • AMERICAN BLENDED WHISKEY • M PROOF • 15% CRAM NEUTRAL SPIRITS bune editorial points out that “in the aftermath of the first sesrions, we hear talk again of ‘outlawing’ the NAACP. This is a patently repressive proposal of dubious conrtituationality, and the Legis lature should discard any such idea. It does violence to the demo cratic concept that people may band together for any lawful purpose. The NAACP, unlike the Communist Party, is not trying to overthrow the Republic. The organization has a right to exist and speak out for its objectives.” The editorial appeared in the Tribune edition of Feb. 9. Once again the charge has been made against the NAACP that the organization is Red-inspired. Thir. time Rep. A. S. Herlong Jr., Florida Democrat, stated a few days ago in Washington that the NAACP is “Communist-inspired.'’ Herlong accused some backers of civil righti: bills of making “extravagant statements” about conditions in the South. He said ♦hey do not have “the slightest idea” of actual conditions “b u t simply listen to what the Com mit m .t-inspired NAACP tells them are conditions in the South.” The charge of Communist af filiation made against the NAACP is more and more 'becoming a favorite method of politicians and segregationists to try to discredit thin organization. This absurd allegation is completely without foundation in fact, and it is about time that such ridiculous and false charges be known for what they are. It is purely an expedi ent and political red herring thrown out to conftu e the issues at hand, and the thinking of people, mostly in the South. The charge of “Communist controlled.” or “Red-inspired” serves only to confuse further and inflame the thinking of ra cially prejudiced (people. And it is done, I believe, coldly and cyn ically with this purpose in mind, and unually for political reasons. It is hoped that Southerns, both OES Contest To Close All memfoers of Seminole Chapter No. 17, OES, are request ed to be out Friday night, March 22, on regular meeting night to make reports on all tickets for the popularity contest. The con test is between Sis. Bernice Flem ming and Sis. Lillie Delaney. The place is 1742 NW 3rd ave. The time is 8 o’clock. Hattie Nottage, W. M. Admiral Beneby, W. P. Bernice Flemming, reporter NEW DEAN AT FLA. NORMAL Pre ident R. W. Puryear an nounces the appointment of Dr. •T. G. Charm m a:, professor at Florida Normal and Industrial Memorial College. He will serve as head of the division of educa tion and chairman of the profes sional and evaluation committee. His field is history, education and political science and has earned the fallowing degrees: white and Negro, will soon wake up to this fact and start think ing for themselves in a clear, un prejudiced manner. We only wish that conditions In the South were of the ra y hue Rep. Herlong wishes to give the impression. Could be we in the NAACP are overlooking some thing. But we are afraid that Rep. Herlong is the one wearing the rose-colored glasse\ I wonder if he has talked with any of his Negro constituents lately? If not, Rep. Herlong should make it a point to a» k them what they think about the state of affairs regard ing the civil rights of Negroes in Florida. If I’m not mistaken, there are quite a few improve ments still to be made! Watch this paper for new* of the coming Membership Drive. Within a few days we expect the greatest drive ever for members in Dade County to be under way. You can’t be free by ’63 if you don’t start now to throw off the chains of segregation. THE MIAMI TIMES—“The Peoples’ Newspaper SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957 B. A., M. A., M. Ed. His thesis for the M. A. degree was entitled “A Historical Study of the Japa nese-American.” His doctorate dissertation was “The Re-Educa tion of the Japanese People.” Dt. Chapman spent fifteen years in Japan and the Far Eeast and HAVE FUN IN NASSAU AT . . . WrTfffrHr ■ialarailWM? ® 1 SSfC r v * Arnold's Club 47 Next door to Southern Police Station Blue Hill Road • 3 SHOWS EVERY NIGHT FEATURING RUFUS BEACHAM • Native Dancers Native Dishes Phone 4145 for Reservations one year in Europe. He is an or dained Southern Baptist minister with many years experience as a pastor and foreign missionary, served as chaplain in World War II and acted as a special adviser to the War Department on Japa nese affairs. PAGE 9