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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. 1»5«
Taking A Lot For Granted
If we war. advising th. Democratic party high command we
would suggest that It not depend too much on the recent Gallup Poll
which practically assured the nation that the Negro vote would re
main Democratic In IBM.
It should also not taka too seriously the Gallup deduction, that
Northern Negroes are not too much Intereated In a atrong civil right,
position. Gallup pollsters must not have questioned Negroea we've
been talking to in New York. Chicago or Kansas City to have come up
with that deduction.
Anyhoo, aa our Scandinavian friend My., we have never met a
Negro anywhere In the country who has ever been questioned by a
Gallup poll interviewer!
Democrats who are out to appease the reactionary elements In
the party with a soft ''moderate” approach to the civil rights question
may receive some consolation from the Gallup report, but If we were
party chieftana, we’d want more evidence than the Gallup Poll gives
Taking the report at face value la taking a lot for granted!
Good Work
The two flower and garden cluba In the Twin Cities ure doing
a splendid Job In encouraging nelghborhtxxi upkeep Moat people
who take the time to maintain well cared for lawns; those who spend
hours cultivating flowers and gardens are apt to be Just aa Intereated
In keeping paint on their hornea both Inside and out.
Don’t Confuse School Issues
The suggestion that the recent squabble over Minnesota school
board member selections by the city council would hurt the campaign
for the school referendum la sad but true, but need not be fatal.
It la not necessarily so, unless the real friends of the public
schools allow the Issum to be obscured by the controversy over who
should be on the school board In the final analysis the Minneapolis
voting public will decide who serves on the school board as well as
whether the school amendment should be passed.
If friends <>( the schools think clearly they will see that victory
for the school amendment Is far more Important at this time than who
la serving on the school board.
Those who oppose adequate money for the schools are chortling
over the laaue developed, over the selection of a couple of school
board members, and the rMlgnatlon of another, because they would
like to confuse the situation so as to make Minneapolis voters be
lieve that some Intolerable situation exists , and therefore the schixil
amendment should be defeated.
This newspaper hopes the voters will consider the school amend
ment on Its merits and vote for it. The matter of the election of
school board members Is important, but comes later and should not be
allowed to obscure the fact that our schools need the school referen
dum approval to continue to do the proper Job for our children
Max Karl and Extremists
A St Paul daily paper writer in a recent story quoted Max Karl
retiring director of the local unit of the National Conference of
Christiana and Jews aa characterising the NAACP along with the
White Cltlsena Councils aa opposite "extremea” In the present con
troversy over the It 8 Supreme Court ruling on school segregation
and related matters Mr Karl la going to Miami, Florida to take over
the direction of the NCCJ work there
If Mr Karl made the statement attributed to him, and to date
he has not denied he made It we can see why his admlniatratlon of
the Minnesota NCCJ has lacked vitality tn Its direction.
While this paper is an admirer of many cltlsena who serve on the
NCCJ board, it has never warmed up to the administration of the pro
gram in thia area The NCCJ has appeared to duck, and dodge, when
It came to realistic discussion of the race question. Often It would re
treat behind th. premise that the organisation's program was pri
marily concerned with creating understanding between the different
faiths, rather than racM.
No human relations organisation which really means to do an
effective job In creating good will, understanding between different
tienominations, and creeds, can dodge the race question In America
without appearing to be both Inconsistent and cowardly.
Certainly If Max Karl's suggestion that the NAACP la an extreme
organisation la symptomatic of the attitude of those at the top ot
the organlMtion's administrative staff, it Justifies the decision, two
years ago. of the ClO's James Carey to withdraw from the national
board of the group, because it refused to take a firm stand on the race
Issue
Mr. Karl's definition of the NAACP aa an extreme organisation
places him In the ranks of those pseudo human relations workers who
tip about quietly from rostrum to rostrum, apologising for working
for human decency, and who throw up their hands In mock horror at
positive groups like the NAACP and the Urban I-eague who seek to
do something NOW for the Negro people and thereby benefit the
nation as a whole
Does Mr. Karl take the position that an organisation which seek)
obedience to the U. 8 Constitution ahd the laws of the land Is ex
tremlst’ By placing the NAACP In the same category of the Whitt
Cltlsena Councils, which seek to defeat the law ns interpreted by th<
nation’s highest Judicial body. Mr Karl exhibits some strange res
soning and logic.
If his true opinion was given in the newspaper Interview we are
glad he's going to Florida, and wi wish him farewell We hope the
Florida NAACP people beware of Brother Karl because If, from way
up here in Minnesota, he thinks they are "extrvmeists.” they need
not expect any cooperation from him in really trying to improve
human relations
Editorial Notes
The responsible Negro press does not seek special consideration
tor American Negroes just the same consideration given other
Americans.
Our congratulations to L. Howard Bennett the Minneapolis at
torney for his emergence as a national force among the Negro
Democratic leaders at Chicago recently. Mr Bennett la a useful eitl
sen In Minnesota and we are proud that his ability has received na
tional recognition.
Thia newspaper appreciates the letters it has received regarding
material on the problems of Juveniles In a column tn thia paper Th.
lettara indicated some parents are aware of the situation and are anx
ious that something be done about It.
SEPARATE BUT KUAL W 6 NOT iACOfEP
The favorite technique of a bigot is to call the other fellow one
see
Check the background of the community bully and blusterer and
you are almost sure to find a history of Insecurity.
e e e
It la nice to know that the last private hospital practicing dis
crimination against Negro and minority group patients seeking mul
tiple accommodations has abandoned the dubious system. A favorite
hospital of many Negroes because of the presence on Its staff of a
certain physician has now removed the last vestige of unfair, un-
Christian treatment from its escutcheon Hurrah and bravo!
Even our disdain for the Communist ruling clique ip Russia does
not permit us to forget that under the Russian czar the standard of
living did not approach by miles and miles the present standards No
body seems to remember that fact.
Det's be happy that we live in the U.S.A, with all its plenty and
opportunity, but not too boast Rd or prideful, to the extent that
we must make comparisons with other nations who were not aa
lucky as we have been in physical and human resources.
Campaign For Courage First Award
"Campaign For Courage”, a voluntary group of Twin Citlans has
decided to award Its first citation of *SOO to the 21 teachers in South
Carolina who refused to remove their names from the membership
rolls of the NAACP as a condition of receiving teaching contracts
for the next school year.
It is understood that the courageous teachers have decided to
accept the award and then present it to the NAACP. This is a noble
gesture and measures up to what to expect of cltixens who are willing
to make sacrifices for freedom.
The "Campaign For Courage" movement which la expected to
grow nationwide, provides northern Negroes with a method of en
couraging southern Negroea in their fight for justice.
The group plana to periodically present cash awards to Individuals
or organizations in the South without regard to race, who brave the
fury of anti-Negro elements, to stand up for human rights and
decency.
The first presentation Is scheduled for a banquet at the Hotel
Nicollet in Minneapolis on Tuesday, August 28. to which the general
public ia invited.
Letters To The Editor
WATCHES FOR PAPER'S ADVICE ON VOTING
Editor: Just a note to you. I was glad to read your editorial in
enswer to the MONITOR. I wish It could be printed in all papers.
The story of the NAACP was very informative, something I am
glad to know. Will be looking forward to read the rest of it.
I watch for you advice aa to who are our friends to vote for
Kllxaheth Rodgers, St Oil Cedar Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
RIPUBLICANS FOR HUMPHREY FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Editor: I was happy to see in the Minneapolis TRIBUNE that
you are for Humphrey for Vice-President. Senator Humphrey is a
great man. I was disappointed that he did not lead the right during
the final days of Congress to bring out the civil rights bills and 1
have written to tell him so. However. I'm sure he had good and def
inite reasons and since he ia human he has a right to make mistakes
Then too, I imagine he felt that he could not win a battle with
the entrenched southern interests in the Senate and since he is being
favorably considered for the Vice-Presidential nomination by the
Democrats he probably had to take a practical viewpoint. Nobody is
ever going to be able to convince me that Humphrey's basic position
on the rights of minorities has changed. His approach and tactics,
yea. but not his basic philosophy that the American people muat
face up to the fact that the nation cannot exist half free and half
slave.
I admire the courage, wisdom and independence you have always
displayed in politics and civic activity You have some critics among
your own people but the bulk of them that I have contact with on the
railroad where I work believe in you and do not fear that you will ever
"sell them out” to the highest bidder My wife and myself are Hum
phrey-Republicans. We think he is a great public servant. — G. Carl
sen, Duluth. Minnesota.
STEVENSON SAID IT WILL TAKf SOUTH 50 YEARSI
Editor: Some of us will be going to Chicago in less than a fort
night to attend the Democratic National Convention. The biggest
tasks the delegates will face are the adoption of a strong civil rights
plank and the nomination of a candidate who will not equivocate in
" Sure x remember you/ rri been years
... 1 NEVER FOR&rr A PRESS/ *
hi. position .bout it. ’• RECORDER Friday, August 10. 1»M
In recent months. I have traveled around the country and talke*! .
to hundreds of citlxens in all walks of life about the Presidential candi- ;
date who would best meet our requirements and the nation's needs as j
a fighter for civil rights. In every instance I was told that Averell
Harriman. Governor of New York State, is the beat man
That's why I'm for him. and that's whay literally every Negro
voter deep down in his heart is for him. I know Averell Harriman very
well, and I know he’s no phony. Sometimes little things will tell you
more about a man that the big ones. When Hamman was Secretary
of Commerce in the Truman cabinet, he issued an order abolishing
racial discrimination in the dining room of the Washington Airport.
Later, when It was suggested to him that he trade politically upon
this fact for the Negro vote, he declined, stating that no man should
make political capital of a purely moral question.
Averell Hamman has given the Negro more recognition as in
dividuals and as citizens in less than two years as Governor of New
York State than all preceding Governors He appointed the first Ne
gro to the Governor's cabinet; the first Negro Supreme Court justice;
the first Negro General Sessions judge, and the first Negro counsel
to his staff. Governor Harriman is also the only candidate who came
out for the Powell Amendment.
He fought for and got through a Republican State Legislature a
law that prohibits discrimination by banks and mortgage companies,
a law that prohibits discrimination in any kind of publicly-aided
housing in New York State, and he has greatly enlarged the powers
of the State Commission Against Discrimination (FEPC) through
Executive Orders.
I could tell you about many other things Averell Harriman has
done to bring true equality to all 17 million citizens of his State
What he had done for New York he would do for the country. This is
the reason why the southerners are fighting him so bitterly. This is the
reason why we should fight for him more bitterly.
Nobody who has read the papers and listened to his speeches
in the last two years could deny that Adlal Stevenson, Governor
Harriman's chief opponent for the nomination, has compromised the
civil rights Issue to gain the support of the Dixiecrats. This is the
reason why such southerners as former Governor Herman Talmadge
of Georgia and Governor George Bell Timmerman of South Carolina,
are supporting him. This is the reason why all southerners are for him
In November. 1955 as a reporter for Life, 1 had a private inter
view with Mr. Stevenson in Chicago. He had just announced that he
was a candidate for President. He walked into the room where I
was sitting and without even greeting me he said: "I can’t do any
thing about segregation In the South. You can't change people's ways
of living overnight. It'll take fifty years before they’ll change down
there.”
I was shocked. I told him that segregation was not the only
problem in the South, but the recent brutal murders there of a Negro
boy and two colored men as well a s economic intimidation had made
personal security a critical issue. Mr. Stevenson looked at me
quizzically and asked: "Is that so?" as if he had never heard of the
Emmett Till, the Rev, George Lee and the Lamarr Smith murders in
Mississippi. He completely and purposefully ducked the issue. Later,
his statements In California at the time Autherine Lucy was being
expelled from the University of Alabama, because of her color, cor
roborated what he had said to me a few months before.
Truth is. Mr Stevenson could not win the election, if nominated,
primarily because he has compromised the civil rights question and
thereby sold the Negro and his country down the river.. Moreover, if
he were nominated it would mean that the southern wing of the party
would gain complete control of it. You know what would happen to
civil rights then.
Politically, our gains as American citizens have been made only
through the Supreme Court and the Chief Executive. Roosevelt's
FEPC and Truman's abolition of segregation in the armed forces
are examples of what the Chief Executive has done and can do.
Governor Harriman would follow in the Roosevelt-Truman tra
dition as President. He has said this many times, and his stewardship
of New York State has proved it.
We cannot afford to take chances at Chicago. We must back the
best man for us and for the country. We must back Averell Harriman.
—Sincerely, Earl Brown, New York City Councilman. 21st Diet..
City Hall, August 2, 1956.
Capital Close-Up
By Constance Daniel |
Washington, D. C The big
gest problem, now. is to get over
the river between the two races so
that there can be better under
standing." - Thurgood Marshall
**. hate is hardly a solution for
any problem Even in Washing
ton where desegregation has pro
ceeded more smoothly that it has
in some parts of the nation, some
persons are saying . . 'This is no
time for reasonableness.’ I would
reply that, perhaps at no time in
our recent history, is there greater
need for reasonableness. But I
would not venture to say what is
reasonable in any particular local
ity at any given time."—Rayford
Logan.
Liberia's lO9lh 'Declaration'
Year
On July 28. the Embassy of Li
beria marked the 109th anniver
sary of Liberia's official request.
(July 28. 1846) to the nations of
the world for recognition as a free
and independent sovereign State,
with all the rights and privileges
of such a state.
This request Liberia's Declara
tion of Independence, unlike that
of former subject nations, includ
ing the United States, is not a de
claration of political independence,
since Liberia has been “free, sov
erign and independent," since the
first American Negro immigrants
landed near Cape Mesurado and
took possession of territory ceded
to them on December 15. 1821. by
six native West African kings.
The Anniversary of the Declara
tions of 1846 Liberia's manifesto
of membership nghts in the Fam
ily of Nations, was the occasion of
the Embassy's recent observance,
the first observance of the Declar
ation since Ambassador George
Padmore took office, here, as his
country's envoy to the United
States.
Secretary Mitchell to Address
36th Insurance Confab
Secretary of Labor James P
Mitchell will address the 36th An
nual Convention of National In
surance Associations, at the Stat
ler Hotel, here, on August 30.
when the Presidents' Banquet,
hononng the presidents of 58
member companies an associations
is held in the hotel's Presidential
Ballroom
Some 600 or more delegatee and
guests from 30 States and the Dis
trict of Columbia are scheduled to
attend the convention of the In
surance Associations, which were
incorporated here in 1921 but
have not met here, since.
Everyone's Victory
The Arlington. Virginia school
decision, which was everyone's vic
tory and no one's victory, was sig
nificant to us as It quite precisely
reflected the analysis of integra-
I tioa situations as discussed by the
I Negro educational hierarchy (as
I close as we re getting to names!
several years back, 1.e., that area
conditions are the controlling fac
tor in how and how fast. Federal
Judge Albert Ryan's ruling to end
racial segregation in the schools
of Arlington, a few minutes drive
from Washington, was underscor
ed by the Judge's statement that
in granting an injunction ending
racial bars as of January 31, 1957,
he had taken into consideration
the fact that only 7 per cent of
Arlington County's pupils—about
60 boys and girls, all told, are Ne
gro. But the judge also maintained
that his ruling did not nullify any
state or local rules for assignment
of pupils to schools so long as the
assignment were not based on
color.
The case was about as untypical
as any case South of the "Line"
could be. But it should be helpful
for purposes of evaluation.
Merit Employment and the
Quakers
'Merit Employment. Why and
How" is the title of a 16-page il
lustrated pamphlet recently re
leased by the American Friends
Service Committee, which is cal
culated to quicken the interest of
the average American in the man
nef in which employment of their
fellow-Americans of minority ori
gin affects the Nation and them
selves as well as the minorities in
volved.
The ten pages of thought-pro
voking findings modestly, but at
tractively and effectively offered,
are a question and narrative- an
swered synopsis of the Service
Committees ten-year experience
in the promotion of merit employ
ment in key industrial centers
throughout the country.
At the conclusion of its brief in
troduction the pamphleteers state
that visits by Committee repre
sentatives with a wide variety of
employers and employers repre
sentatives in all sections of the
country, lead to the conclusion
that "the majority of employers
believe in merit employment
but need help in implementing a
policy they know is right.—”
Interviewers report that "many
employers have asked the Com
mittee's job opportunity staff for
how-to-do-it suggestions ' The
pamphlet is offered to outline
"some successful techniques and
procedures" for employers seeking
"to implement their convictions."
but cautions that "there is no de
tailed outline applicable to every
situation involving minority em
ployment." simply a broad
framework within which each em
ployer "may tailor the complete
plan to fit his needs "
The pocket sued publication
wise and unpedantlc is much
needed in these times when the
all-important matter of minority
employment has become a con
trolling factor in the health, hous
ing and education of the Negro
and. Ims urgently—of other min
or! ties in America
PUBLISH!® CORNER
The editor s vaunted ability to mold public opinion was recently
the subject of an Arkansas paper. A famous editor, the paper reports
was being questioned by a young lady with pournalistic aspirations
She asked: "Do you feel you have influenced public opinion?"
After pondering a moment, the editor replied, "No, public opinion
is something like a mule I used to drive. In order to drive him suc
cessfully. I always had to watch the way he was going and then
follow him closely."
The Lund Press "Topics In 10 Point ”, house organ has an inter
esting piece in its current issue titled, "28 Tools To Work With.” It
is worth reading It said:
"There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. They are
all the tools we have—all that anyone of us has to express himself, to
influence people and to make friends and help others.
"Abraham Lincoln used them and produced the Gettysburg ad
dress. the second inaugural address, the Emancipation Proclamation,
and other timeless works.
"An experienced copywriter, with facts in his mind and goodwill
in his heart, can take these same twenty-six little tools and help to
build a prosperous, enduring business that produces goods for the en
joyment of many people and gives gainful employment to his neigh
bors.”
We thought Roy Wilkins handled himself very well on "Meet The
Press." last Sunday afternoon. After the broadcast we had a dis
cussion at home with the Missus taking a dim view of Wilkins
technique and Henry Thomas, our dinner guest, and the writer prais
ing what we considered Wilkin's consumate control, under the pitiless
questioning of experienced reporters.
Dr. W. D. Brown, by telephone, joined our wife in criticism of the
manner in which Wilkins replied to the reporters' questions He,
along with the Missus, did not think Wilkins was positive enough
Henry Thomas and the writer viewed Wilkins replies, well thought
out and remarkably free of the emotional overtones with which al
most every member of a oppressed minority group is apt to exhibit
when discussing the unfair conditions under which his people have to
live in' their own country.
Wilkins, adept at public attitudes did not breathe fire, but an
swered the questions in a quiet, but positive manner, a method, no
doubt, designed to win TV listeners to his point of view. If he had be
come emotional, he would have lost a part of his audience.
As It was the reporters were “the villains” for the Southern
viewpoint and they enabled Wilkins to make a reasonable, decent ex
position of what he considered the position of the NAACP is on the
present racial crisis in this nation.
In evaluating what a speaker should say on a half-hour program
such as "Meet The Press" viewers should understand that one "can't
cover the entire water-front" in such a short space of time and do
an effective job.
Henry Thomas suggested that if he had been Wilkins he would
have probably become so emotional that he would have begun to
"swing wild" in all directions.
Thomas Waring, the southern editor tried to tie the NAACP
and Wilkins up with the Communist party. This is now the favorite
tactic of some of the highly placed southerners who. finding no other
answer to the crime of segregation which they have been practicing,
resort to labeling even the U. S. Supreme Court an accessory of the
Communist party line.
We would have liked to have heard Thomas Waring ask some
legitimate questions from the standpoint of the white south but he
chose instead to dishonestly tie up the move for basic equality of all
American citizens and the NAACP civil rights campaign with Com
munism. *
William Faulkner, the Nobel prize winner from Mississippi who
blows hot, and sometimes cold on the race issue, advises Negroes in
the current edition of EBONY, to be "flexible" in the fight for equal
ity.
Such advice is superfluous because American Negroes are the
most flexible group in the U. S. If they had not been they would
have never endured the pressure put on them by the dominant group
since their arrival on the shores in 1619.
We fear that too much of the advice which some white friends of
Negro advancement offer scarcely hides their subconscious urge to
advise the Negro not to insist on action now. leaving things go until
some distant, undetermined date.
Somebody ought to tell both Dwight Eisenhower and Stevenson
also that "moderation" to the American Negro is just another way of
saying "gradualism.”
American Negroes are astute enough to favor "moderation.” but
the "moderation” that too many whites are thinking about when
they use the term is not the “moderation” acceptable to people
who have been painfully patient in waiting for their own country to
extend them the full privileges of citizenship.
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