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Page 4 THE ARIZONA SUN The People's Newspaper Published weekly on Thursday by the Arizona Sun Publishing Co. 1151 East Jefferson Street (P. O. Box 989), Phoenix, Arizona Phone AL 4-9464 Subscription Rates: 1 year—s3.oo, 6 months—sl.7s, 10c per copy. Publisher Doc F. Benson Managing Editor Alton Thomas Associate Editor Richard E. Harris Advertising Bill Murphy Art-Layout Vera Nash Photography Jim Woods Subscription and O'rculation Rev. W. B. Smith "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6) Vacations... Fun With A Purpose This summer most Arizonans will go somewhere, or make some change and call it a vacation. This is good. All will return to the normal routine with new vigor. This is the fun of vacations. Come September there will be a wealth of information and ex perience coming back into Arizona from all parts of the world. This information will relate to nearly every aspect of life. No doubt this happens every year and each person feels that perhaps there is no outlet for his newly-acquired information. The great centers of civilization throughout the globe's history became centers because they were great crossroads. They were geographical points where people of every kind of thought and experience exchanged ideas and views. What melting pots of peo ple and ideas were Babylon, Athens, Alexandria, Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, colonial Boston and New York. In these great centers were clash and and mingling of strange ideas and activity, out of which came new, dynamic, progressive movements. It would be a waste of valuable experience if centers like Phoe nix and Tucson should miss the golden opportunity of harnessing the new thoughts of vacationers. If some organization were to undertake a project of providing a setting wherein these new ideas could meet each other, it is certain that fresh, dynamic, progressive plans would appear in Arizona—especially in race relations. We are a young, inexperienced state and Ave need desperately to learn from others. The Future Os American Negroes In Cities (Continued from Last Week) If there is any phase of the American race problem in which hypocrisy and double-talk, timidity and evasion have been char acteristic of our national record, it has been in our manner of deal ing with the brown youth of America. In this respect social wtork itself can be gravely charged for sins of omission and commission. Cowardly and callously-indifferent policies of hundreds of child welfare agencies throughout the country during most of this past half-century have denied colored children the services of casework, institutional and foster home care that could have spelled the difference between their destruction and their salvation as normal, poised individuals able to make their required contribution to their communities. So, there is my answer to the question, what is the future of Negrpes in cities. We are shaping that history—ourselves, today, in this room, and in our agencies and in our activities throughout the country. But other forces—ill-intentioned ignorant—are also help ing to shape the future of Negroes in cities. We must strive to counteract ignorance with intelligence to offset ill-intentions with constructive planning. And we must find ways to build into the Negro community that feeling of hope and that conviction that success is worthwhile upon which all social progress is based. And we must remember that this is not a do-it-yourself opera tion for Negroes. It would be fatal for white leadership to consider this a "missionary" effort to be carried on without respect to the opinions and objectives of "the heathen." It would be equally fatal for Negro leadership to take the position that lifting the economic level and expanding the social horizon of life within the Negro community is the responsibility of Negroes themselves. For just as America lives in a changing world of which all parts are im portant to the welfare of the whole, so do Negro Americans live in a changing United States in which the successes and failures of each of the population segments are governed by the people as a whole and affect the future of all the people. This is what we try to say in the Urban League when we talk about American teamwork and declare flatly that "American team work works." We are trying to remind the American people of both races that when enough Americons look past their racial back yards and begin to work together for the improvement of an inter racial community, a kind of team work is developed that is intelli gent and forward-looking and realistic—and that that kind of team work and only that kind of teamwork works. f * Stive $2.20 a Year ... Subscribe To The SUN Subscriber's Name Street City State □ 1 year $3.00 □ 6 months $1.75 Fill in and mail to: THE ARIZONA SUN P. O. Box 989 Phoenix, Arizona Phone: ALpine 4-9464 Checks or Money Order to: THE ARIZONA SUN THE ARIZONA SUN SEE OUR BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA The call of the wild country is heeded by two youngsters swimming in Sabino Canyon, in the beautiful area of the Catalinas, Tucson. (Courtesy Esther Henderson Through Arizona Highways Magazine) NAACP Aids Negro Farmers Penalized For Registering NEW YORK—The National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People this week continued its two-front aid to the beleaguered Negro farmers and merchants of Fay ette and Haywood Counties, Tenn., who, because they dared to register to vote, have aroused the fury of the counties’ white supremacists. The NAACP program embraces, first, direct relief to needy families victimized by the economic squeeze and, secondly, sponsorship of a na tionwide withholding of patronage campaign from major oil companies whose local dealers have refused to sell oil and gasoline to Negroes who register to vote. W. C. Patton, the Association’s special field secretary, has been as signed to the area to supervise the relief program in cooperation with the NAACP branch in nearby Memphis. Systematic distribution of bags of food was begun at Somerville, seat of Fayette County, on July 5. A team of workers headed by Jesse Turner, chairman of the executive committee of the Memphis branch, brought in a truckload of food for distribution to families to whom local merchants re fused to sell needed supplies. Mr. Patton’s survey of the area indicates that between 350 and 400 families are in need of such assis tance. These include not only those who have registered but also relatives of registered voters. Economic pressures are being exert ed against Negro registered voters through discharge from jobs, denial of credit, refusal of supplies to mer chants, and withholding of consumer goods from customers. Among chief offenders are some of the nation’s largest oil companies whose dealers participate in the blacklisting of Ne gro voters many of whom are farmers and who need gasoline and oil to run their tractors. 4 In response to a memorandum issued by Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins on July 6, state and local NAACP units throughout the country have initiated campaigns to get their members and friends to refuse to buy gas and oil from companies whose dealers in Fayette and Haywood coun ties refuse to sell to Negro citizens. Reports received here indicate that the movement is spreading through out the country with many steady customers returning their credit cards to the offending oil companies. o Bargain In Education BOGOTA, Colombia lt would cost $25.63 here to buy the pencils, paper and other items in the CARE classroom kit delivered to needy schools as gifts from Americans who donate sl2 per package. The kit is a real boon to education in this country, where 600,000 pri mary-age children cannot attend school for lack of facilities and sup plies. Each package is delivered in the name of U.S. donors who contribute through CARE, New York 16, N. Y. o “Everything costs something and if you get anything for nothing some one else paid for it.”—Anon. Clearance ! ... | SPORTSWEAR j Girls' - Men's - Ladies' - Boys' | s|oo j Hundreds of Items LIUS smart... modern ... thrifty stores] | 22 WEST WASHINGTON STREET Downtown Phoenix | 3 plllllilll /nationwide? WRITTEN GUARANTEE QSEpEQB UP TO 30,000 MILES I BRAKES I I RELINED I I 14.95 MBM 3 I MJk *B* aSi.i | MOST OTHER CARS $16.95 60 DAY IB • RELINE IN ONE HOUR - while 11 = you wait in air-conditioned TV TRIAL » = LOUNGE. • USE YOUR CREDIT .. . Charge it! AB corbeßS $495 NO MONEY DOWN 057 .95v01». Tea. International Charge accepted H! I 1 | WHEEL FRONT END ALIGNMENT X ALIGNMENT 1 W Done on our Electronic Visualiz- ,1, t === er. 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