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NAACP Petitions Jersey Commission To Halt School Segregation TRENTON, N. J. The Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People today filed a petition of appeal with the New Jersey Commissioner of Education calling for elimination of existing school segregation in Bridgeton, N. J. The petition, which was filed Aug 15 on behalf of 29 Negro school children and their parents, speci fically protestes the extension of the present pattern of school seg regation by the construction of an addition to the all-Negro Buck shutem elementary school. It furth er protests the construction of a new elementary school in the pre dominantly Negro Buckshutem school district “upon a physically undesirable and unsafe site.” The Bridgeton Board of Educa tion. the petition alleges, maintains double sessions in two virtually TV We Radio Service H| All Makes p| . and Models Capital Radio & TV 806 E. Jefferson St. , 264-2795 ■ VOTE FOR CARL AUSTIN x DEMOCRAT Representative DISTRICT 7 I CRAMPED?! Add a room with First National home I * m P rov ® nmt oan I NATIONAL bank PAGE 6 A - C _Atrizona THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962 all-Negro - elementary schools. It protests the failure of the Board to eliminate the double sessions by the beginning of the school session. Negro enrollment in the Buckshutem school is 99 per cent, despite the, fact that white children of elementary school age live with in the school district. In April, the NAACP protested to the Bridgeton Board of Educa tion the proposed site for the new elementary school and strongly urged that a new location be se lected that would be accessible to both white and Negro children. The Board was also asked to re draw to eliminate existing segre gation. Two elementary schools are virtually all-Negro and six are predominantly all-white. The NAACP has now requested that the Commissioner of Educa tion for New Jersey grant a hear ing so that the legal and constitu tional issues involved may be de termined. The Commissioner has also been asked to issue an order to the Bridgeton Board of Educa tion “requiring it to take concrete, positiye steps to eliminate all as pects of segregation in the Brid geton public school sytem, effect ive no later than Sept. 1, 1962.’’ NAACP attorneys representing the plaintiffs are Robert Johnson of Camden, N. J., Robert L. Carter of New York and Miss Barbara A. Morris, of New Jersey. / J m j " IAI » * ;^pppr jfjffli l ill jjji jj It POLITICAL TALK—-Discussing his forthcoming campaign with two South Phoenix civic leaders, Africans Do Not Like Schweitzer BY ENOC P. WATERS CHICAGO <ANP> Among the many shocks one gets while travel ing in Africa is the universal dis like of Africans for Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Os the hundreds I talked to in more than a score of countries, not one had a good woid for Dr. Schweitzer. In view of the high veneration in which he is held in the United States, I couldn’t understand the unvarnished contempt with which he is regarded in the land where he is supposed to be performing such a great humanitarian task. Before I got a better explana tion of the reasons back of this attitude. I attributed it to the fact that many with whom I spoke were strong nationalists and that Schweitzer might have been the victim of an anti-white prejudice. It also occurred to me that as | a medical missionary he might | be taking some of the blame for the hypocritical conduct that has made many Africans sour on re ligious missionaries. Os these they j say: “Once we had the land they Jiad the Bible. Now we have the Bible and they have the land.” But after talking with Africans in a number of different countries I became convinced that their dis like of him is based wholly upon his attitude toward them. They say he doesn’t like black men and regards them as a form of animal life inferior to himself. “He things we’re lazy, dirty, dishonest, uneducable and unfit for man-to man associaton with whites;” they claim. 1 Proof that the Africans had ac curately reflected the philosophy of “the great sage of the jungle” came with the confirmation re cently from the best sources —Dr. Schweitzer, himself. A PATERNALIST As quoted by Smith Hemp stone, an American newsman who visited Schweitzer’s lair and inter viewed him, the German expatri ate regards himself as the Afri can’s brother, “but his elder bro ther.” In other wjbrds, he’s a classical paternalist, with all the faults of that type. To him “the African is a child and with children nothing can be done without the use of authori ty.” Africans who have studied the man longer and more intently than a passing journalist dispute the flattering claim that Schweitzer is a genius and humanitarian. They call him a “sloven, incompetent crackpot” and “an inept old man.” Much of what Hempstone quotes him as saying tends to conform this. What type of man would make statements like the following: “Africa would be beautiful with out savages.” "No black man should be allow ed to read and write without be ing apprenticed to some trade.” “One can never rely on the na tives here, not even in things which they understand from long practice.” “One’s servants (Africans) are so unrealiable they must not be exposed to the slightest tempta tion; this means they must never be left alone in the house.” ALSO GUILTY “Inability to exert themselves and adapt themselves to difficult circumstances is typical of the na tives and makes them pitiable cre atures.” Africans charge that Schweitzer is guilty of at least one fault he finds with them. According to Scheweitzer “the American Football League The Game that Separates the Men from the Boys! Houston at Buffalo 11:00 A.M. on Chan. 3 SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 PREMIERE! is E. T. (Eddie) Williams, center. On left is Mamie Gibson and right is Marie Olegtree. (SUN Photo by Cloves Campbell) zeal of my coloured fold to pro vide for those who come after them, better quarters than they have themselves is very small: they do not work for those they do not know.’ Because of his refusal to accept as an apprentice an African who might carry on his work after his death, Schweitzer, according to the Africans, is wasting his time and making poor use of land that might be more profitable to hu manity if left untouched. No sir, there’ll be no mourn ing among the Africans when Schweitzer dies, and he’ll leave behind no monument to his over- We Will Be Closed lapjiyyiwi all day labor day green beans r™” *7js-| Monday. Sept 3 6t $1 Apples f? I TT“ * I _ . . HEN TURKEYS 9Q C PEPPERS *1 B? 4-1 _„ c 1 sa. iqc T-wiitsihk79 c THMATfIFQ 1 Lb. Can Fresh and Lean Fresh and Lean 1 g!!* 2. Lb. Can 97c Ground Chuck Ground Beef O' 1 Breeze Detergent 2i*l 3!99 c Large . , e - ““ QQC ytHslOrl ... ,y. J SIBLOmSTEftK . 63- Lipton’s 48 Ct. Bag Fonda -80 Count OSCAR MAYER j^LUMEAT TEA BAGS 49° Paper Plates 69° WIENERS ■»»«. • u -» 59* BANANAS 7- S 1 Pure*29“ jpnppjrFf““ 3 Franklin Sarival Fresh “+■ BUTTER 59* Milk sujgs MMaM i*‘*an, 53* Assorted Flavor rUKR dAUdMUC 4 b 03 SUGAR 10 89* JELL-0 Reg. Pkg. ea. 5* NORTHERN jm I r | ~4 TOWELS I s 1 on wed | MM a I m 0 j JUMBO rolls ■ MOE S itj LjiH/l Afxee-t ” | I J A STORE HOURS j \J j daily 9to 9 19th Avenue at West Buckeye Road ™ Cape Canaveral Voters Now 1,000 Says NAACP MEDBOURNE, Fla. Negro voters are expected to number 1,000 here by next November, thanks to a NAACP voter regis tration drive in this Cape Canaver city. Jesse Buggs, local NAACP presi dent, said that this will make Negro voters here one-third the total registered voters. SUPPORT NAACP NAACP Expands Life Member Sales Staff NEW YORK Addition of Mor ris M. DeLisser and Bernard Moore to the NAACP’s life membership department staff was announced here this week by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary. Mr. DeLisser was formerly ter ritorial manager of the Lily-Tulip Cup corporation. The NAACP is furthering its efforts to initiate life membership drives within national organiza tions. The Links, Inc., began this trend and has been followed by Jnck and Jill of America, Inc., and Omega Psi Pphi fraternity and others. 'Mr. DeLisser will also serve as a consultant to NAACP regional state and local units in the solici tation of life memberships. He wiill be assisted by Mr. Moore who also comes to the NAACP from a sales. It** ™ RNITUffi I'El Bargains New & Used Modern - Early American Danish “Selling For Less For Over A Decade” 2240 W. BUCKEYE RD. AL 2-2977 - AL 2-1261 “BE SURE OF A WINNER” JAMES E. LINDSAY E||«S Democrat SUPERVISOR 12 Years Experience SUPPORT NAACP MONTGOMERY WARD PRESENTS NEWSCOPE MTE 2 HOURS EACH NIGHT Mon. Thru F ri. BETWEEN 8 P. 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