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Tom Clark Seen As Able Justice
The attitude of Attorney Gen
eral Clark becomes of the great
est importance to Negro people.
Since Mr. Clark has occupied the
important position of Attorney
General for more than seven
years, his record in that office
Should offer the best measure
ment of his qualifications.
Attorney General Clark is the
first important Federal Official
to call upon Congress to pass
civil rights legislation.
This he did in a speech early
in 1946 in Indianapolis, long be
fore the Committee on Civil
Rights had been appointed by
President Truman. There is also
evidence to support the belief
that President Truman’s Com
mittee on Civil Rights was ap
pointed partly through his ad
vice.
Mr. Clark is one of the few
Washington officials who is rvflt
afraid to oppose race prejudice
in the Nation’s Capital. There
had been several suits agairtst
the Air Terminal Service, Inc.,
and Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration which controls the Na
tional Airport in Washington,
D. C., because of racial discrimi
nation in the dining room and
coffee shop at the terminal.
Two of these suits had been
lodged against the airport by
Messrs. Nash and Cunningham.
This airport comes under the De
partment of Commerce, but
Henry Wallace, when he was
Secretary of Commerce, and his
predecessors, all claimed that
they did not have the authority
to wipe out segregation at the
terminal.
When Attorney General Clark
heard of this attitude on the part
of the Secretary of Commerce,
he had his department prepare
a formal opinion and sent it to
the Secretary, stating that he
had the authority to wipe out
segregation in the air terminal,
although these concessions were
under lease.
It is well known that the At
torney General does not give an :
opinion to any Government De- j
partment unless it is first asked
for by that department. In this
case to force the issue, he gave
an unsolicited opinion and Sec
retary of Commerce Sawyer was
afraid to ignore the authority set
forth in this opinion and he im
mediately ordered the ending of
segregation at the airport.
Mr. Clark’s attitude on civil
liberties is further shown by the
new standing orders in the At
torney General’s Department.
There is a standing order that all
lynchings must be investigated
by the FBI even though the
Federal Government has no jur
isdiction as a prosecutor.
The attorney general’s office
under Mr. Clark readily orders
an FBI investigation of any case
brought to his attention by let
ter, personal complaint, or even
by newspaper articles, where
civil liberties are involved.
The Attorney General’s office
for the first time in the history
of this country argued that seg
regation in any form amounted
to discrimination.
Negroes have long since dis
carded the idea that every
Southerner selected for public
office is prejudiced and every
Northerner free from this taint.
R. W. S.
William Pitt was prime minister
of England at the age of 24.
I
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h VANCf C. OLSON, Superintendent
ITATB IIITOIICIti SOC1BTT
William H. James, second gov
ernor of the state of Nebraska,
acceded to office upon the im
peachment of Governor David
Butler and served one of the
most turbulent terms ever experi
enced by a chief executive of the
Cornhusker state.
He was born in Marion, Ohio,
October 15, 1831, the seventh child
in a family of eleven. His early
education in th® public schools
was supplemented by two years
at an academy in Marion, after
which he read law, between
stretches of farming, clerking and
learning the saddler’s trade. He
removed to Des Moines, Iowa, in
1853, and six months later was at
Sergeant Bluff, awaiting the open
; ing of Nebraska territory for set
tlement.
One of the first settlers in Da
kota County, James filed his claim
! prior to 1857. He was county at
torney of Dakota County, 1861-63,
and in 1864 President Lincoln ap
pointed him register of the Dakota
Land Office. He was elected Sec
retary of State on the Republican
ticket in 1870, and by virtue of
that office became acting gover
nor when Governor Butler was
removed.
As might be expected from the
circumstances, Governor James
found relations between the exe
cutive and legislative branches of
the state goverement strained to
the breaking point. They did not
improve during his administra
tion.
The times were trying ones for
the young commonwealth. Born in
strife, Nebraska seemed destined
for years to continue in the same
spirit; and until working pro
cedures were developed and the
state government was stabilized,
conditions were ripe for the pro
motion of unrest and uncertainty.
It was the time of the so-called
“adjourned” session of the legisla
ture, in which the state’s lawmak
ers closed one session by providing
a date for re-assembly—contrary
to the provision of the constitu
tion, it was believed in many
quarters.
On one occasion the President
of the. Senate took advantage of
the Acting Governor’s absence in
Washington to convene the legis
lature into special session—an act
which was quickly revoked by Mr.
James upon his hurried return to
Lincoln. On another, the Acting
Governor attempted to discourage
the legislature from meeting by
shutting off the coal supply from
the legislative chambers.
And so it went. It is little
wonder that in his farewell ad
dress, Mr. James expressed the
hope, “that the animosities....
through which we have passed in
the last two years may be buried *
and forgotten, and that all classes
of our fellow citizens may, in the
future, work zealously and in har
mony for the welfare and interest
of our young and growing com
monwealth.”
• In 1877 Governor James was
appointed register of the land of
fice in Colfax, Washington and
removed there. He died in Col
fax, February 1, 1920.
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