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The views expressed In these columns
are those of the writer and not
necessarily a reflection of the policy
of The Voice.—Pub.
Here and There
NATION URGED TO
FIGHT RACIALISM DURING
BROTHERHOOD WEEK
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The
third annual Pledge Brotherhood
Campaign, which launches
Brotherhood Month to be observed
during February, got off with a
bang last week.
Sponsored jointly by the Con
gress of Racial Equality and the
Fellowship of Reconciliation, the
campaign calls on all Americans
to boycott any place of business
which does not admit all men on
equal terms. During the last two
years some 50,000 have signed the
pledge.
Some 26 national leaders have
called upon their fellow citizens
to pledge their “belief in brother
hood by at least one new act that
challenges the pattern of segre
gation and discriminatio n.”
Among them were:
Willard S. Townsend, president
of the United Transport Service
Employes; Dr. Harry Emerson
Fosdick, pastor emeritus of River-1
side church, New York; William J.
Faulkner, dean of Fisk university;
Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of j
Howard university; Mrs. Lillian
Smith, white southern author of f
novels wtih a Negro theme, and A. !
Philip Randolph, president of \
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
ters.
Persons who joined the pledge
campaign are encouraged to: j:
“Bring a friend of another
racial group to worship with you,
or accompany him to his church;
find out whether local public
places discriminate; if they do,:
visit the manager and urge him
to change his policy; find out the
employment situation in such field
as department stores, public trans
portation, etc.**
Commenting on the pledge cam
paign and the observance of
Brotherhood Month, two noted
persons praised it.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said:
“The pledge might be hard to
carry out when one does not al
ways have time to find out about
policies. However, I like the gen
eral idea of doing everything pos
sible to eradicate racial prejudice.”
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D Minn.) said: “May I commend
the Tongress of Racial Equality,
which together with the Fellow
ship of Reconciliation sponsored
the campaign, for the good work
that it is doing.
“I am familiar with the activi
ties of >our organizaton in Minne
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Many whites are determined to
I destroy color bias. At Middlo
town, Conn., Dela Upsilon Fra
ternity of Wesleyan University in
itiated a Negro member last week
despite possibilities of being
ousted from the national order.
This revolt of white students all
over the country is one of the
most hopeful signs in America.
Governor Stevenson of Illinois
1 |
blasted bias and bigotry in a Newj
j York speech last week saying “a
democracy qualified by color will
win no hearts in Africa and Asia.”
* * *
With the heaviest police guard
ever given an artist in the South,
Marian Anderson sang in Miami
in the county auditorium on Fri-'
day night before a completely un
segregated audience. Only two
nights before, in Jacksonville, she
had appeared before a non-segre
gated audience, despite a prelim
iny tempest, which was quickly
stopped. Miss Anderson refunded j
money for 250 tickets to persons
who did not care to adhere to
non-segregated seating. About I
2,500 attended the concert without <
segregation. 1
* ■* * .
When Senator Estes Kefauver j
(D. Tenn.) announced his long
shot bid for the Presidential nom
ination in Washington last week,
he said he would support the'
Democratic party’s platform on'
civil rights.
However, Kefauver does not
favor a compulsory FEPC. Instead
he advocates an educational meas
ure which would lack power to
enforce decisions against racial
discrimination.
Mr. Kefauver is an internation
alist in his foreign policy atti
tudes on domestic questions he
said he was “for all the people
foreign born as well as native
i born, black as well as white, city
folks and farmers.”
“I am also against the use of
the filibuster as a weapon to keep
• senators from voting on civil
’ rights bills,” said Kefauver.
r “I believe that we cannot falter
l for one moment in our national
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Samuel G. Daily, the fifth man
,to serve as delegate to Congress
from Nebraska territory, was
closely identified with the organi
zation of the Republican party ir
Nebraska, and deeply involved ir
the bitter partisan battles that
characterized Nebraska’s politics
during the Civil War period.
Mr. Daily was born in Trimble
County, Kentucky, in 1823, the son
of a prosperous farmer. The next
year the Dailys moved to Jeffer
son oCunty, Indiana, where young
Sam received a common school
education, supplemented by a term
at Hanover College. Later he
! studied law and was admitted to
the Indiana bar, practicing in
Madison for about four years,
j Despite his “border state” heri
tage, young Daily was an ardent
and early opponent of slavery.
While practicing law in Madison,
he ran for the Indiana legislature
on the Free Soil ticket. Although
he made an active canvass, pro
| slavery sentiment was so strong
that he received only 130 votes.
Following his failure in Indiana
politics, Daily moved to Indian
apolis where he went into the
cooperage business. In 1857 he
emigrated to Nebraska, settling inj
Peru precinct, Nemaha County. He
brought machinery for a sawmill
with him, establishing the same on
the Missouri River.
His first interest, however, was
politics, and in 1858 he ran for the
territorial legislature and was
elected to the House of Repre
sentatives from Nemaha and John
son counties.
As I mentioned earlier, Daily
took an important part in organiz
ing the Republican party in Ne
braska, and in 1859 was its candi
date for the much sought-after
post of delegate to Congress. After
a heated campaign and a contest
before the House of Representa
tives he replaced Estabrook as Ne
braska’s representative in Wash
ington.
No sooner had he secured his
effort to demonstrate to the
world that a society can be free
and at the same time have eco
nomic and social security for all
its members,” said Kefauver.
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February I5lli
CHARLESTON, S. C. (ANF’)
Federal Judge J. Watics Waring
I of the U.S. District court, the
man who made it possible for
Negroes to vote in South Caro
lina, will retire from the bench
'Feb. 15.
1 j His desertion of the bench will
'.mark the end of ten story years
in his native South Carolina where
members of his own race sharply
criticized him for his decisions
and opinions which have made it
possible for Negro citizens to en
'joy more of their critizenship
rights in the south than they
had ever dared hope for in the
past.
j Judge Waring, 71, was ap
pointed to the federal post Jan.
26, 1942 by the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
j His most momentous decision
in behalf of Negroes came in 1947 i
when he, a native of South Caro
lina, ruled that his state’s “white
primary” laws, used to keep the
Negroes from voting, was un
' constitutional.
This ruling made it possible for
Negroes to vote in the Democra
tic primaries of South Carolina.
South Carolina’s primary law had
been considered foolproof by
most southerners because the
state by-law absolved itself of
all connections with the primar
ies. The Democratic party ran
these elections as it saw fit.
The retiring jurist in his most
seat than hhe was required to
take to the hustings again, this
time as an opponenet of J. Ster
ling Morton, one of the best known
men in the territory. Again the
contest was bitter. There was
tittle question but that Daily had
defeated Estabrook, but the Mor
ton contest left many unanswered
questions. Daily was finally
seated, but there is strong evi
dence to support the contention
that the seat should have gone to
Morton. The contest was not
finally settled until May 7, 1862.
Daily was re-elected in 1862,
and this time he took his seat
without a contest.
In May, 1866, he was appointed
deputy collector of the Customs at
. Vew Orleans, although he served
mly a few weeks. He died in
lugust.
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Lincoln from St. Louis about 30
years ago and whs hh employee
1 of Abel Construction Company for
' more than 25 years. No immedi
ate survivors.
i recent opinion delivered a scorch
ing denunciation ot segregation
as such in the South’s schools.
He gave the dissenting vote in
the famed Clarendon county, S.C.
school case in which Negroes are
suing for the end of jimerow
schools, charging that such schools
!are in themselves unequal.
Judge Waring **as stated his
l>hilosophy in these words:
| “If a man is entiled to civil
rights now, then he shoudn’t
have to wait forever to get them.
Gradualism is a false God. The
Only way to meet the issue is to
meet it head on.
“Force doesn’t mean soldiers
and bayonets. It means orders
[signed by the President and the
(courts. If you throw the races
i together by such force and create
a status that is right, they will
jcome to accept it and be proud
of it.”
What Judge Waring will do
after he retires, he has not re
vealed. If he does quite the bench
by Feb. 15, he may not take part
in the rehearing of the Clarendon
county case recently ordered by
the U.S. Supreme court.
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