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fT K# i^ScKlrilrunc m #wr Divine Publisher Crusader Far The Invincible Triumphant Divine Rights of Man I II £ VOLUME 41—NUMBER 39 THE TWO' WEATHERS: by Andrew F. Fmeheuf, CS +++ Droughts, Hurricanes, Floods: DEVIL'S ADAM-EVE LORD GOD'S! (Gen. 2:7. etc.) EXCESS RAIN. HEAT. COLD OF SATAN BOUND: EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS CRIPPLES I IMPURE: THERAPEUTICS I EDUCATION 1... THE UNIVERSE IS 100% OF THOUGHT 1 God's Christ Scientist- THE REAL: "IN ATMOSPHERE OF LOVE DIVINE, WE LIVE. AND MOVE, AND BREATHE/' AND HAVE OUR BEING! - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HYMN. LUST VOIDED! - "FEAR" P. 586 S&H. HEAVEN AT HAND WITHIN YOU ! EX-C-LU- S-l-V-E R-E-A-L I-T-Y OF GOD'S HEAVEN AND ETERNAL LIFE NO BIRTHS ! DEATHS, SIN, MATTER, HELL AND THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL GIGANTIC ADAM-EVE FRAUDS M-Y-T-H-S ! Gen. 1:27: "MALE & FEMALE" IN O N E AS PER C-H I-L-D-L-E-S-S JESUS ! AND GREAT EST MARY, BAKER EDDY'S 40 PLUS OF 89 YEARS I V. 31: "AND GOD SAW E-V-E-R-Y THING THAT HE ITHE ONE R-E-A-L PARENT) CREATOR HONORED BY THE C-H I-L-D-L-E-S-S CHRIST JESUS)] HAD MADE, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS [ I S ] VERY GOOD" 1 "FREEDOM CARRIES RESPONSIBILITY" SUPERB CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR EDITORIAL, Aug. 9 - JAPANESE-AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TO NEGROES. „ f On another part of this page appears an editorial ar ticle written by a Japanese-American who can sympathize with grievances of the American Negro but who at the same time has some valid advice. Many newspapers have undertaken in recent years to avoid identifying as Negroes, or members of other mi nority races, persons arrested for crime. This is generally in the interests of fairness. But it tends also to erase a measure of group responsibility. A WOMAN WRITES IN A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE STAFF OF THIS NEWSPAPER, "WE SEE PIC TURES OF THE WEEPING WIFE AND MOTHER OF MED GAR EVERS BUT WE DO NOT SEE PICTURES OF THE WEEPING MOTHER OF A 15-YEAR-OLD WHITE GIRL RAPED BY SIX NEGRO TEEN-AGERS, OR THE MOTHERS OF THE WHITE MAN OR THE SOLDIER KILLED BY NEGROES" (See FREEDOM, Page 2) "A NISEI SPEAKS TO NEGROES" [ln An Intelligent, Christian Spirit] The Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 9 We feel it is difficult indeed for us Nisei to really appreciate the suffering and agony of our Negro Amer icans. * + * We have had the pleasure of meeting some outstand ing Negro leaders. * * * Some of our respected Negro leaders, too, often pre sent themselves as being small. They will tell you the reason that there is a large number of crimes being committed by the Negroes is be cause the colored people are not equally treated. They w 'll tell you that the reason why there are more Nbgro dropouts from high schools is because the colored child fen are not given opportunity to follow the kind of wor *Hey want after graduation. (See SPEAKS, Page 2) '"YOU'VE GOT TO BE TAUGHT TO HATE. . N.Y. Trib., Aug. 14 By FRED FERRETI The man was on vacation and he went to Cunning am Park Queens with his three-year-old son. Cunningham Park is a nice park. It has long an w kc P» stretches of grass, some fairly fes* coo [ ' shaded picnic areas, a few softball diamonds A me® Park. * * * He bought an orange drink, dipped in * wo • tra ** it to his son. He bought a cola for himself and they *•* on a bench outside the stand. There were two ome P* r fons there together, a Negro man and a little g r . was a quiet day and business was slow. The remark came with sickening suddenness. e (See HATE, Page 2) SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1963 Wilkins’ Trial Set Little Stock Prospers Following Integration X, 5 '•' - —v-i-' l ' I I- t .. '?*. Attorney Questions Federal Concern For Law And Order ALBANY, Ga. A local Neg ro attorney has questioned the seriousness of the federal govern ment’s concern for law and or der. Albany attorney, C. B. King issued a statement concerning the nine members of the Albany Movement indicted by a federal grand jury in Maccgi, August 9 Six persons were charged with perjury before the grand jury and three were chaged with ob structing justice. The charges were instituted by Justice Department action in con nection with a boycott and pick et against a white grocery store owner in Macon who is also a federal grand juror. King said. ITTA BENA. Mias.—Aug 20 Eleven Negro residents here in dicate white employers are at tempting to force out of the state any Negro who seeks his rights. The eleven men said they have been told they will not be tfiTcn back their Jobs if they partici pate in civil rights work. Four of the rights workers had been working at Mississippi vocational College, an all Negro In Mississippi Case VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON ' MijM''''JitiHilSflMr^ jjEm l' Bjjj^ Wtu 3«-S ~ Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon third from loft) spon sored a recaption last week hon- j orlng Dr. Samuel Westerfield, j Jr. (extreme right), his Senior Economic Advisor, who has just Rights Fighters Lose Jobs SINGLE COPY, TEN CENTS; PER YEAR $4.50 HOUSTON, Texas Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh watched es Vice President Lyn don B. Johnson added his signa ture to a resolution passed un animously by representatives of 13,500 cities in the United States endorsing Detroit's bid for the 1968 Olympic Games. The resolution, assures Detroit the support and cooperation of the U.S. cities. The resolution said, " —that the American Municipal As sociation affirms its intense interest in the selection of the United States end Detroit, Mich, as the site for the 1968 Olym pic Games, and offers its pledge of support end cooperation to the Detroit Olympic Commit tee —" Hundreds of other dele gates in attendance et the AMA Congress added their signa* tures to the resolution. The purpose of the Grand Jury hearing seemed to be dir ected towards establishing that a local boycott of a white groc ery store owner, because of his hiring policies and general mis treatment of Negro customers, was really instituted because of his verdict against a Negro who sued for damages in Federal Court, after having been brutal ized by the Sheriff of Baker County. Other white store own ers with similar policies had also been boycotted, and even today a selective purchasing pol icy is in force. King contrasted inaction in the face of “the incessant indigni ties, the constant violence, and bean namad Deputy Assistant | Secretary of State for Economic ! Affairs. Joining in the convtr- i setion (left to right) ero Mr. Roy Davenport, Special Assir tent to the Under Secretary I school near Itta Bena They were told by the school’s chief ad ministrator, President John H. White, that they would prohab ly be able to get their jobs back if they gave up the movement. White told them, “By your protesting, a cloud has moved between the white and colored in Itta Beoa. If you continue to wear your civil rights buttons and going to mattings, bow can MAYOR CAVANAGH the multiplicity of constitutional deprivations to Negroes.” with its aggressive approach, lead by the Justice Department, in indicting Albany Movement leaders in this case. The Albany attorney was beat en over the head with a wooden can by Dougherty County’s white sheriff. D. C. Campbell in July, 1962. The incident and the sher iff’s statement that he would do it again, wore widely public ized, but no action was taken against the sheriff. King finished his statement with the remark. “As cogently stated by an elderly member of the Albany Negro community, ‘Even the federal government is a white man.’ ” of tha Army (Parsonnel), U S. District Judga Marjorie Lawson, and Mrs. Westerfield Sacratary Dillon oxprassad "graat pridt In tho fact that It was tha Traasury Dapartmant you expect to clear the cloud.” According to Scott Harris, one of the group, all the people who were on the County Work Farm will be “marked men” in Itta Bena. But. Harris said. “I’m not going to give up the freedom fight. Til never go hack begging for a job. If I have to leave town, then I’ll find a job some place else.” The eleven were pert of e 970 GRATIOT, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, 48207 Under the leadership of local women and businessmen, Little Rock, Arkansas, once the sym bol of intolerance, is now pros pering after dealing with its in tegration problems in a way that may provide a blueprint for oth er cities facing similar crises. How this “remarkable moral I and economic comeback’’ was achieved is reported by Joe Al i ex Morris in a September Read j er’s Digest article, “Little Rock I Finds a Better Way.” The city is blooming again ec onomically Building construction doubled from 21 million dollars in 1961 to 43 million in 1962. Department store sales jumped eight per cent in the first half of 1963. Seven new plants are being built or are scheduled for construction in the city’s hand some industrial park. In 1957, recalls Morris, bitter racial prejudice inflamed by am bitious politicians plunged a lead erless Little Rock into fear and mob violence and threatened eco nomic disaster for the eommun ! ity. in 1968. city parks, golf courses, motion picture theaters, buses, baseball park, hospital, li brary the largest downtown store lunch counters and rest rooms, the big hotels, the local medical society and the schools are whol ' ly or partly integrated. Some “white” churches have opened their doors to Negroes. Visiting African officials have been welcomed —and often en tertained without discrimina tion in “notorious” Little Rock. This year the Arkansas Travel ers baseball team became the property of the Philadelphia Phillies organization and ac quired a Negro player. When he won a game with a home run, ho got a standing ovation 'Freedom Now' which brought Dr. Westerfiefd to Washington," and "provided him with high-level experience necessary to fulfill the respon sibilities of his new, top pol icy post." group of 45, ranging in age from 15 to 75 years, who were arrested when they sought po lice protection after the bomb ing of a voter registration meet ing at Hopewell Baptist Church here. The 45 are free on bond raised by the National Council ofl Churches. The Justice Depart ment has appealed the case to iht ruth Circuit Court. JACKSON, Miss. The trial of Roy Wilkins, executive sec retary of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, on charges of interfering with trade has been tenatively set for Sept. 9. Mr. Wilkins was arrested here on June 1 as he led an anti-seg regation demonstration sponsor ed by the NAACP branch in Jackson lie was released under SI,OOO bond. The charge against the NAACP leader is a felony and was in voked for the first time during the demonstrations with his ar rest. Arrested with Mr. Wilkins and charged with the same of fense were Mcdgar W r . Evers, NAACP field secretary for Mis sissippi, and Miss Helen Wilch er. The three were carrying plac ards urging people not to buy from merchants on Capitol St. because of their discriminatory pradices. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of SIO,OOO. considerably stiffer than for the previous charges of trespass and breach of the peace. When the case comes to trial, one of the original defendants will be missing Medgar W. Evers, who was assassinated from ambush on the night of June 12 as he returned to his home after a mass rally in support of the demonstrations. Mr. Wilkyi* and Miss Wilcher will bo represented at the trial by NAACP General Counsel.- Robert L. Carter of New York City and Jack Young, NAACP lawyer in Jackson. INTEGRA TIONISTS FACE DEATH PENALTY IN GA. AMERICUS, Georgia at least four integration workers have been arrested and charged with “attempting to incite insur rection”, a capitol crime. The four. Ralph Allen, John Pcrdew, and Don Harris of SNCC and Zev Aclony of CORE are held without bail. The charge of insurrection was last filed in the ‘3o’s against members of the communist par ty. Drive Wins Jobs In 23 Stores LEXINGTON, Kv Direct ac tion together with a selective buying campaign has gained jobs for Negroes in 23 major down town stores within a month The stores have already hired from one to 12 Negroes each and arc expected tohirc more in the im mediate future. mm ‘ * \ h ' : ‘ ‘-S* _' ‘ v Ki . 'a Sr iMi'-syK I '--' 1 'ill, it Dr. Joseph Harrison Jack son, President of tht National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., issued an official call for its •3rd annual sossion, Septem bar 38th In Cleveland, Ohio. Ovor 20,000 delegates aro ex pected to attond from 50 statos and 7 foreign countries. Dr. Jackson has boon presi dent of the Convention since IW3.