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PAGE FOUR ARIZONA SUN Published Every Thursday by the ARIZONA SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1149 East Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona PHONE AL. 3-3682 Subscription Rates 10c Per Copy 53.00 Per Year Six Months $1.50 Two Cents to Mail Overseas. All Inquiries concerning Advertising Rates and Subscription should be secured at the above address. DOC F. BENSON Publisher and Editor F. A. BOYD, SR Advertising Manager Entered as Second-class matter July 2, 1948, at the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, under the Act of March 3. 1879. What Mississippians Believe The August 25 issue of the newspaper, "BETTER SCHOOLS," published by the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, 2 West 45th Streep New York, gives the following facts about the expressed educational aims of Mississippians: 20,000 replies to a questionnaire by the Bureau of Educa tional Research, School of Education, University of Mississippi in 1951 'showed the people of that state believe 95% in "En couraging pupils to think clearly, logically and independently." Evidently they have succeeded in making them think independ ently of most of the rest of the country but the 5% who have in sisted that school children think as they wish them to think about rdcial matters have utterly defeated the 95% who want them to think clearly and logically. ; Ninety-three per cent of those replying believe in "De veloping in each pupil an understanding of and the ability to meet his responsibility as a citizen. Lynching, bombings, intimi dation of Negro citizens trying to exercise their citizenship re sponsibility to vote are evidently the work of only 7% of the -people of Mississippi. Ninety-two per cent believe in "Develop ing a moral and ethical sense in each pupil and helping him to appreciate his personal worth and that of his fellow man." Either the 92% have not worked very hard toward the goal or there is considerable confusion about right and wrong and who is his fellow man. There are other items on which large numbers of Missippi ans gave affirmative replies. One was that they believe in "making the school program a real part of community life so as to help meet the needs of all citizens; 85% said "yes." Evidently, the trouble is either that they do not consider Ne groes either a part of the community or that Negroes are citi zens. On the other hand, believing in high minded statements but not believing in putting those statements into effect is not the fault only of Mississippians. This paper has met this kind of confused attitude among businessmen, churchmen, fraternal organizations, and in every walk of life. It is easy to say what we believe in and another thing to put our beliefs into action. Whatever the trouble, our Negro brothers in Mississippi are in a sad state despite the high mindedness of their fellow white citizens. PHOENIX LUMBER COMPANY 715 W. Jackson Phones - AL 3-3300 and AL 4-0791 2x4- 8' @ 30c • 2x4-12' @ 48c 2x4-10' @ 40c • 2x4-14' @ 56c 2x4-16' @ 64c No. 3 Sheeting slls M No. 4 Sheeting $95 M No. 5 Sheeting S7O M Same Management for 25 Years E. G. HAMRICK, Owner Bank the easj wiy iMfUe • tjSr. OjjjgHy Self-addressed bank by-mail envelopes | available \ jft* I without charge ffipfl —* at all Valley Bank offices. mmx SIAIEWK LAKI mm. hkm imw mmmm cwmmmm 31MUIEKI OFFICES ARIZONA SUN TIME FOR ACTION AF of L Members Protest Mississippi Lynching A Negro child was lynched in Mississippi—and a jury of 12 white men in Tallahatchie county decided solemnly there was no evidence of a crime because the body of the child was mutilated beyond recog nition. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam walked out of the courtroom free of the charge of murder, and the grieving mother of Emmett Till said what she saw of their trial “was a shame before God and man,” and that “lynching is now in order”. But submission to the ruling of the lily-white jury in Mississppi there cannot be —and defeatism there cannot be. The terror can be stopped in Mississippi. Lynchings can bo stop ped. The lynchers can be brought to justice. Negro children and their mothers and fathers can win the right to live as free human beings in Mississippi and throughout the South. It can be done —despite the fact officials of Mississippi have cloaked the lynching of children with the sanction of the law, despite the fact that behind the lynchers stand the wealthy politicians and busi ness leaders of the White Citizens Councils. It can be done if the bitterness and anger pouring out of protest meetings in Chicago and Detroit and New York and Oakland, light up a national crusade of protest and action. It can be done if the Negro people in our country, 15 million strong, proclaim to the state of Mississippi and to our federal gov ernment that the lynchers must be punished. It can be done if our labor move ment, CIO and AFL, embraces as its own, the demand that Negro parents and their children shall be able to walk free and erect in Mississippi. It can be done if the Eisenhower administration is told the Federal government cannot stand aside *“•***•**•*"' m*ti*'mtm pennyworth? f Jt » u depends on how you look r ® it. These are all American pennies 1787 New York Indian Cent Worth, at face value, only one cent. But to a collector, some of them are worth many times more. To him, their 1861 Confederate Cent J rea J value is high. ' j* The real value of the pennies you Spend for utility service is high, too. \%n>4^3SSr^J^ jpl Think what you get for them in terms of comfort, convenience and easier • 1795 Undated Washington Penny 1786 New Jersey Cent Reddy Kilowatt is always on the • job to help with the housework, the j^splgli cooking, the laundry and dishwashing. >ia||pKr He’ll warm the baby’s bottle late at 1858 flying Eagle Cent 1859 Indian Head Cent ni g ht or hel P Dad shave in the morning. When you count all the things Reddy does for you, don’t you agree '3^ that service from Arizona Public >| Service is the biggest bargain in your 1722 Rosa Ameiicana Penny 1792 Washington Roman Head Cent lk ,, Au . ~~ ARI 4 U N A Service while Negroes are murdered—but must use all the powers of the FBI and Justice Dept, to punish the lynchers and protect the civil rights of the Negro people in the South. It can be done if the Democratic party is forced to recognize that it cannot shrug aside in indiffer ence the horror which is Mississ ippi, that it must recognize its own responsibility to deal with a situa tion brought on by white suprema cist Democrats. Lynchers still go unpunished in Mississippi. But the time of the rope and the faggot is passing. The white supremacists stand with their backs against the wall. The weight of world-wide horror and anger beats on their heads. They are being pressed back by new forces in our country which ae beginning to be felt in the South, by the powerful protests of the Negro People and their white allies. The lynchers can be punished. The Jim Crow terror can be stop ped. Anger and bitterness are needed but also unity is needed. Unity and action—action clear-headed and de termined along lines already urged by Negro leaders and some labor spokesmen. Each of us has the responsibility to help shape that unity and that action by taking this issue into his unions, into churches, into organi- Rank and File Members of Local 383, AF of L. WHAT IS IT? A H S New to Phoenix It’s Terrific! COMING SOON Watch this paper for announcement MAGEE'S BARBER SHOP Everybody Is Welcome 1241 East Washington S+- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1955 : zations, by summoning neighbors, friends, fellow workers to: Demand that Gov. Hugh White of Mississippi guarantee that the new trial of Bryant and Milam on kidnapping charges not be a white wash and guarantee that Negro people be protected under the law. Demand in letters and telegrams and resolutions that Atty Gen. Her bert Brownell act to curb the lynch terror and bring the Mississippi lynchers to justice. Demand a special session of Con gress to enact federal anti-lynching and other civil rights legislation. Demand that the Democratic party*take an unequivocal stand against the Mississippi terror and for anti-lynching legislation. Demand in delegations and let ters Congressmen and Senators pledge their support to anti-lynch ing legislation. Words of the Wise Few people think more than ; two or three times a year. 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