Vol. 5, No. 8 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, December 14, 1950
America’s End to Discrimination
Would Set Example for Nations
WASHINGTON —(ANP) —If
America should put an end to*
discrimination ‘ based on race,
color or creed in our generation,
it would set an example for the
rest of the world declared Sena
tor Wayne Morse (R. Oreg.).
Speaking at the opening meet
ing of a two-day community
conference on intercultural edu
cation held at the Interior De
partment Auditorium last Wed
nesday night, the Oregon Sena
tor recommended the teaching
of “democratic values so that
they will be put into practice
and not shelved as empty ab
straction.”
“The solution of the problems
of intercultural education will
determine in the last analysis
whether we have peace or war,”
he said.
The conference was called by a
group of civic leaders and school
officials for the purpose of pro
moting a program to teach school
children tolerance and belief in
equality.
Lester Granger, executive direc
tor of the National urban league
described the conference as a start
toward intercultural understand
ing, but added that he did not
think that Washington was look
ing at or to intercultural educa
tion.
Pointing out that Washington is
“still steep in ignorance, bigotry
and fear” in matters of race re
lations, the league executive de
clared that the people of this city
would vote down a proposition of
intercultural education if it was
put before them today.
He described this nation as be
ing a striving, blundering, group
ing people, stumbling toward de
mocracy which does not even ex
ist in the National Capitol which
is naturally a reflection of the
whole country.
“We need more intercultural,
international, inter-people under
standing. He stated that the dis
trust of Americans elsewhere in
the world resulted from our in
ability to get along together in
this country.
District School Superintendent
1 Hobart M. Corning told the group
on Thursday afternoon that the
schools of Washington were mak
ing strides toward intercultural
education while still working
within the framework of segrega
tion.
Superintendent Corning, who is an
advocator of separate schools
boasted that bi-racial meetings of
school officers and teachers were
some times held in Washington.
N. Carolina Sheriff
Names Negro Deputy
GREENSBORO, N. C.—(ANP)
—Sheriff John E. Walters last
week announced that he had ap
pointed a Negro deputy sheriff for
Guilford county. The new deputy
is Johnnie D. Marable.
He will work in Negro sections
of the country. He will serve civil
process action on Negroes, and
also will help in criminal work
in colored communities in other I
parts of the county outside
Greensboro.
Marable is the first member of
his race to be appointed a deputy
in any part of the state of North
Carolina. He formerly worked as
chauffeur and butler of Mayor
Ben Cone of Greensboro.
___J, The appointment of Marable to
his new position is an indirect re
sult of several years of successful
Use of Negro police officers in the
city of Greensboro.
He said a committee had been
formed to introduce materials into
the curriculum designed to ease
tension caused by racial, religious
and cultural differences.
The two-day conference was
called for the purpose of promot
ing through the schools and other
organizations a recognition and
acceptance of diverse groups that
make up the community.
John J. O’Connor, secretary of
the Catholic Interracial Council
said the Catholic education is rap
idly becoming integrated. Negro
students are now admitted to all
parochial schools, Catholic high
schools and universities.
Miss Laurentine B. Collins, di
rector of school-community rela
tions for Detroit schools, claimed
that the lack of the vote in the
District is responsible for the race
tensions in the city.
AME Supervisors
Selected for Year
Area Supervisors for the Ne
braska Conference Missionary So
ciety of the A.M.E. church were
announced recently by Conference
branch president, Mrs. Helen K.
Newton, Kansas City, Kas. They
are Florence Birch, Kansas City,
Kas., Kansas City Area; Mrs.
Blanche Moore, Omaha, Neb.,
Omaha Area; and Mrs. Ada Smith,
Atchison, Kas., Atchison Area.
Slogan for the year is Member
ship, Etficiency, Finance and En
thusiasm. Missionary study book
to be used is “The Near East
Ponarama”—Wisner.
First Inspirational meeting for
the Omaha area will be held at
Allen Chapel, Omaha, Friday De
cember 15, according to a state
ment by Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Char
lotte Jackson and Mrs. Golden
Brooks will be delegates.
Application Taken
Any Time Under
New Merit System
Shortages of skilled clerical,
professional, and technical help
continue to plague the Merit Sys
tem Agencies and a continuous
recruitment program for all po
sitions has been instituted to fa
cilitate meeting personal needs.
Qualified persons may apply at
any time for positions in the
Agencies, whether or not such
positions have been announced in
separate posters. Consideration
will be given to applicants as va
cancies occur or as examinations
are scheduled. It is hoped that
through this process, there will
be less delay in filling the va
cancies that arise due to increased
army activity or other reasons.
Persons who are drafted or who
enlist in the Armed Services have
reinstatement rights under the
Merit System, but it is also nec
essary to fill these jobs in order
to provide health, employment
and welfare services in the in
terim. Vacancies seem to be most
frequently developing now in the
local health programs and in the
county assistance offices. Specific
information can be obtained from
the Merit System.
Calendar of Events
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Dec. 15—Chitterling supper and
bazaar.
Urban League
Dec. 21 —Christmas party.
Dec. 27—Masons, St. John ban
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Ho "T. ^aident Magloire
Works ImproveConditions
Five Refused
By Trustees of
IJniv. of Tenn.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—(ANP)
—Because the state of Tennessee
has jimcrow laws preventing Ne
groes and whites from attending
schools together, no Negroes will
be admitted to the University of
Tennessee.
This ruling was announced
this week by the University of
Tennessee board of trustees at
its meeting.
Negro attorneys promised court
action to gain for their clients
admittance to various graduate
and professional schools at the
all-white state university. The
Negro Tennessee A&I State col
lege does not provide courses
they are seeking.
No specific announcement as to
what kind of action they will take
was revealed by the attorneys.
Denied entrance into the uni
versity because of their race
were:
McKinley Exum of Memphis
and Gene Mitchell Gray, Lincoln
A. Blakeney, James H. Patterson
and Jack Alexander of Knox
ville.
Blakeney and Patterson want
to attend the university law
school; Gray and Alexander, the
graduate school, and Exum, the
school of dentistry.
The decision by the board of
trustees directly opposed a recent
ruling by State Atty. Gen. Roy
H. Beeler. Beeler said the uni
versity would have to admit the
Negro students on the basis of
recent U. S. Supreme court de
cisions.
The board of trustees relied
solely on the state’s segregation
law in which the state constitu
tion under article XI, section 12
says in part:
“No school estiblished or aided
white and Negro children to be
received as scholars together in
the same school.”
Negroes base their case under
a clause in the state constitution
which saws appropriations “shall
be inviolably appropriated to the
support and encouragement of
common schools thruout the state,
and for the equal benefit of all
the people thereof.”
In announcing their decision,
the trustees issued the following
statement: ,
“Whereas the constitution and
statutes of the state of Tennessee
expressly provide that there shall
be segregation in the education
of the races in schools and col
leges in the state and chat a vio
lation of the laws of the states
in this regard subjects the vio
lator to prosecution, conviction
and punishment as therein pro
vided;
“And whereas this board is
bound by the constitutional pro
vision and acts referrred to
“Be it therefore resolved that
the applications by members of
the Negro race for admbission as
students into the University of
Tennessee be and the same are
hereby denied.”
NOTES OF INTEREST
Mrs. Anna Hayden Williams of
Omaha, guest soloist for “The
Messiah,” was house guest of Mr.
ana Mrs. J. H. Dean on Sunday.
By Claude A. Barnett
PORT-au-PRINCE, Haiti. (ANP). Col. Paul E. Magloire
was inaugurated Dec. 6 as president of the new Haitian
government.
In a simple but impressive address, the new president
declared that he would work for the advancement of peas
ants whom he called the backbone of Haiti. With them, he
said he would work out a program for the improvement
of agriculture, Haiti’s basic industry.
Soloist in Messiah
—Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
ANNA WILLIAMS
The University Choral Union
^ave a superb performance Sun
day afternoon at the University
coliseum in the production of the
well-known Messiah. There were
approximately 600 voices, 65
piece university orchestra and
four soloists accompanied by
piano and organ. They were
under the direction of Prof. David
Foltz.
An Omaha singer, Mrs. Anna
Hayden Williams, was soprano
soloist and was at her best in “I
Know That My Redeemer Liveth/’
Mrs. Williams, who gave a recital
at the Lincoln Urban League last
December 16, has made numer
ous appearances all over the
country. She was the 1947 and
1948 second place winner of the
Voice of Tomorrow contest.
If War Comes . . .
‘Only Survivors’
Says Dr. Bunche
BERLIN, Germany — (ANP) —
Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN trusteeship
division director, enroute to Oslo,
Norway, to receive the 1950 Nobel
Peace prize, said here last week
that “if there is a war, it will be
hard to speak of victory.
“With the weapons that now
exist, I think there would be no
winner—only survivors.”
Speaking of the current state of
affairs in Korea, he said there was
a good chance of avoiding a war
with China and world conflict,
although it was a “touch and go”
situation.
St. Louis Alderman
Killed In Auto Wreck
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). The Rev.
Jasper C. Caston, 51, the first
Negro to become an alderman in
St. Louis, died here recently as
the result of a fatal automobile
crash on Highway 6 about 15
miles from Hannibal, Mo.
Two passengers, riding with the
alderman, Ben Love, 54, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Howard, 40, were in
jured.
The lavish inaugural ceremo
nies here, although more colorful
and pompous that American in
augurations, were very dignified.
An aristocratic, who is popular
with all classes, the black, hand
some colonel well matched the
stately occasion.
Activities began at 8 a.m. with
a 21 gun salute. At 9 a.m. Col.
Magloire appeared before the na
tional assembly and assembled
guests and government officials at
the government palace. After be
ing sworn in he delivered his
address.
Declaring that he was not go
ing to make any lavish demagogic
promises, President Magloire said
his aim was to utilize the na
tion’s possibilities and cooperate
with peasant to work with blood
and sweat to produce coffee, be
nanas, cocoa, and other food crops.
He also denounced Communism
and class or color hate and dif
ferences. The latter, he said, had
been “cleverly and and wickedly
kindled during the last election.”
He added that he would like to
see the United States send more
Negroes with the diplomatic corps
in Haiti.
“Improvement and extension of
agricultural possibilities will be
a key point in my administra
tion,” he declared. “Haiti is an
agricultural country. The legisla
ture and I will support any sound
program which will permit an in
crease in agricultural output, in
crease the financial income of the
country, and improve the living
and health standards of the peas
ants.
“After all the peasants are the
basis of the country’s life and
being. In the past the neglect of
our peasants has been the main
obstacle blocking our economic
evolution.
“The starting point of all our
possibilities, of all our plans is
the small plot of land which our
peasant tolls with blood and sweat
so that he can give us coffee,
bananas, cocoa and other food
crops.”
Concluding his address with a
statement that every action of
the government would be open
to the inspection and examination
by the people, he remarked:
“Many obstacles and tasks lay
ahead for this government, but
I intend to tackle them with
courage. At the end of my term
I will hold my head high in ren
dering my final accounts to the
people.”
Ethiopia Gets
$7,000,000 Loan
WASHINGTON—(ANP) —Ethi
opia became the first African na
tion to secure a loan from the
World Bank here last week when
it was awarded the sum >f
$7,000,000. The loan is for 20 years
at 3 percent interest rate with
payments to begin in 1956. Ethi
opia will use $5,000,000 to rebuild
tits road system.