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Between the Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock
For ANP
Speaking of Sparkman
Shortly after I had organized
the department of economics and
sociology in Virginia Union 30
years ago, field trips for my
classes were inaugurated.
The most interesting was the,
annual trip to the Central State|
hospital, where a clinic was held;
showing the various stages of
amentia and dementia, feeble-,
mindedness and insanity. The
various treatments for the insane
were stressed.
It has been interesting to note
the steady improvement in the
ways and means of treating the
mentally ill. Within recent years
insulin as a therapeutic in certain
types of dementia has been indi- ’
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cated, with reassuring results. The:
writer once inquired of the
clinician what was the particular 1
therapeutic effect of insulin in
those certain cases of dementia? ®
His reply was to the effect that ^
insulin produced a kind of shock 1
to the patient that often left him
improved both mentally and/
physically. Shock therapy is re-'c
ceiving more and more attention *
today. /
The writer was once, an in-/
veterate, and apparently incurable 1
Republican. It took the New Deal *
and the Square Deal of Roosevelt ^
and Truman to shock him out of
Republican psychosis that pos
sessed him. It was not a little
shocking to compare the little
that Negroes gleaned from their
loyalty to Republicanism with the
Widely extended benefits that
jcame to them under the New and
1 Fair Deals.
Today Negroes are again at the
political cross-roads. They may
again rest their hopes on the Re
publican party with its Eisen
hower, seeking the support of the
dixiecratic south, or they may
chaase to stick with the Demo
cratic party which has in a pro
nounced way made valiant at
tempts, at integration.
While far from complete, inte
gration is going apace with even
the dixiecratic south laboring
with the question, not whether,
but when and how?
I This release is addressed rather
to those “incurable” Republicans!
who are trying to find excuses for
biting the hand that has led them
far along the high road of full
fledged citizenship. These in
curables dwell long on vice-presi
dential candidate Sparkman, a
southerner, whose record in his
voting on civil rights legislation is
not impressive from the Negroes’
point of view.
If this writer were asked to give '
in appraisel of Sparkman’s record, j
he would have to admit that it j
lacks much of being satisfactory. .
But this writer also appreciates
the fact that being dependent on
certain elements in Alabama for ,
his election to the congress of the
United States, Sen. Sparkman had
to speak the language of his sup- :
porting constituency who unfor- '
tunately are against civil rights
for Negroes.
But the stubborn fact must ever
be borne in mind that one of the
chief duties of a man in politics is
to get elected, failing this, his in
fluence is decidedly limited.
Roosevelt had to get elected. Tru
man had to get elected. Lincoln
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An election year inevitably
brings forth memories of hot po
litical campaigns of the past, and
in Nebraska such memories sooner
or later focus on the election of
1890, one of the most spirited and
confused in the history of the
state.
Describing it, the late Dr. Addi
son E. Sheldon wrote: “There
never has been such a political
campaign in Nebraska as the cam
paign of 1890 and there never can
be such another. The later presi
dential campaigns of 1892 and
1896 were full of fire and en
thusiasm, but none of them ap
proached the sublime energy of
the human tornado which swept
the prairies from August to No
vember in 1890. As one of the
speakers in that campaign said
from the platform in the hearing
of the writer: ‘We farmers raised
no crops, so we’ll just raise tell.’ ”
The long-endured economic
grievances suffered by the farm
ers of the West erupted in 1890
into a series of third parties whose
vigorous campaigning threatened
—and frequently defeated—par
ties who had been entrenched in
power since the Civil War.
In Nebraska, the People’s Party,
had to get elected. Sparkman had
to get elected, and that by re
specting the wishes of those who
supported him.
One of the strong points in fa
vor of Sparkman is, he is a south-j
;rn Methodist. And this is espe-|
dally significant in view of the
act that Southern Methodists!
lave always led in programs of
nterracial co-operation. They are
he most liberal of all the denomi
lational groups throughout the;
South.
The interracial gestures now be
ng made by the other denomina
ionse were made by the Southern
Methodists years ago. In race re
ations Southern Methodists lead
ind the other denominations fol
low. This is Sparkman’s religious
background, and a great one.
The principle behind Spark
man’s religious training is far
more important than any expedi
ences foisted upon him by his po
litical necessities. The motiva
tions of Sparkman, the devout
Southern Methodist, are far more
important than the maneuvers of
Sparkman the politician.
Sparkman, a southerner, had to
get elected! But it is also one
modern history that once a south
erner sees the light, he becomes
invincible. What about Mr. Jus
tice Black? What about Harry
Truman? What about the Judge
Warings, the moral titans of this
generation?
With Sparkman on the spot,
Negroes have nothing to fear.
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NEGRO MEDICS HONOR HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL COL
LEGE OF SURGEONS—At a special dinner at the Bismarck hotel
in downtown Chicago, a group of 20 of the nation’s greatest Negro
surgeons last week honored Lit. Max Thorek of Chicago, the founder
and permanent secretary-geneial of the International College of
Surgeons.
The 20 Negro surgeons, in Chicago for the 57th annual con
vention of the National Medical association, Aug. 11-15, presented
to Dr. Thorek a bronze plaque for “hie courageous devotion to the
ideals of democracy.”
Shown above left to right are: Dr. Thorek, the honoree; Dr.
Rivers Frederick of New Orleans, and Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey,
recently elected to the bo?.rci cf trustees of the International College
of Surgeons.
Dr. Frederick also is a member of the International College of
Surgeons. (ANP)
organized out of the Farmers’
Alliance at a convention in Lin
coln, July 29, 1890, swept across
the state to win control of the'
legislature, elect a Democratic!
governor, and unseat all three
Republican members of the House
of Representatives.
As Dr. Sheldon wrote, “there,
never has been such a political
campaign in Nebraska.” Crowds
turned out in unprecedented num
bers to listen to Independent ora
tors and to sing Independent
songs, most of which were set to
the tune of well-known gospel
hymns. Indeed, the Independent
campaign took on much the color
of a religious crusadeN
At Wymore on Sept. 23, 1,050
farm wagons were counted in an
Independent parade, and 1,600
wagons paraded at Hastings the
same day. Parades from two to
ten miles long were the order of
the day everywhere. At Cushman
Park near Lincoln, 20,000 people
assembled on Sept. 1. The crowd
was so graet that orators spoke
from different platforms so that
all could hear.
Quoting again from Dr. Shel
don: “It was like one continuous
Fourth of July celebration with
delegations from different alli
ances and precincts headed by,
pioneers driving to come ample'
woodland and spending the entire
day in visiting and oolitics.”
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