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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY __ __
Vol. 30 No. 29_Friday, September 21, 1956_ _10c Per Copy
Gov. Clement Acts In
Anti-Negro Rioting
Before delivering a sermon on Sunday to the 15,000 delegates
attending the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., President
J. H. Jackson read a telegram that he had sent to Governor Frank
Clement of Tennessee commending him on his action in calling out
national guard troops to quiet anti-Negro rioting stirred up when
Negro students registered in previously all-white schools. •
In the telegram to the Tennessee Governor, Dr. Jackson declared:
“Congratulations on your firm stand to uphold the law
and order in Tennessee in particular and in the nation in
general.
“This is the only way to preserve the American way of
life and to secure and guarantee the continuity of American
democracy with honor.
“While in Europe last month, I read with keen apprecia
tion your great address before the Democratic Convention in
Chicago. But your act at Clinton, Tennessee, adds new
weight to your words, and is an even greater contribution to
your party’s future.”
Governor Clement’s letter in reply to the President’s telegram
•aid.
“Please accept my apologies for not having replied to
your kind telegram of September 3rd prior to this date. I
was away from the office when it was received and have just
returned.
“Prior to our intervention in the Clinton, Tennessee,
situation, we kept in close contact with developments and
did our best to give sincere, thoughtful and prayerful consid
eration to the situation. It was never my desire to intervene
in the processes of local government in Clinton ahd this was
the first time in more than three and one-half years as Gov
ernor that I have found it necessary to send the Highway
Patrol or the Tennessee National Guard to restore law and
order to a local community.
"When, however, I received requests from the Mayor,
city council, chief of police, sheriff, and others and they
certified that the law and order had completely broken down,
there was an unescapable duty to perform.
"We went to Clinton, not for the purpose of promoting
integration nor for the purpose of continuing segregation,
but to protect life and property and to restore law and order
which any citizen has a right to expect.
“If this deplorable situation had been permitted to con- /
tinue, every county in Tennessee could become a potential
target for similar occurrences. A principle was at stake, not
just an issue. If a county could be taken over in this in
stance, then it could be taken over in the future on any issue
and our principles of law enforcement and everything we be
lieve in could indeed become a mockery,
"May I request yojir prayers for guidance that we may
be granted the wisdom to make the right decisions . . . . de-.
cisiong pleasing to God and in accordance with His teach
ings.
“With kindest regards, I am” ,
/ Sincerely,
FRED G. CLEMENT. Governor
'A Change in the Political
Climate'
An Intimate Message From the Southwest
By Bicknell Eubanks
• DALLAS
Political moods are dangerous traps for the analyst. Even while
a conclusion is being reached, everything can change. The wrong
word from a candidate, an unintentional rebuff of a political leader,
even a careless misquotation, can change a region's attitude over
night—especially in the volatile South.
But, if anything is certain right now in southern politics, it is
that the Democratic leaders from El Paso to the Potomac sense a
change in the climate. And if this political perception proves correct,
the Solid South may have filled in the chinks and patched up the
cracks which President Eisenhower put there in 1952.
The mood and desire are for unity. So strong is the feeling for
a common cause with other regional elements of the Democratic
Party, that the word has gone out from state party leaders down to
the precinct levels to emphasize that the civil rights plank in the
Democratic Party's platform*is "something we can live with.” Pre
cinct leaders are being told that voters must be assured that the
Republican plank on civil rights is the more objectionable. Local
leeders themselves will be left the job of figuring out the best way
to get this across to the home folks. After all, they know their neigh
bors best.
* * * m *
In this region of “practical politics,” the local leadership will
pay little attention, if any at all, to what Adlai E. Stevenson has to
say about civil rights when he speaks, for instance, in the East or
on the Pacific Coast, where an entirely opposite viewpoint prevails.
Southern leaders figure that there are enough other issues which
can occupy the attention of Dixie vt ters while Mr. Stevenson dis
cusses the tough civil rights issue elsewhere. Cotton, TVA, and in
dustrialization can fill in an evening of political talks, and the speak
er could still find plenty of other things to discuss.
The sentiment for a return to party regularity appears far,'
stronger this year than at any time since 1944. It is true that some I
disgruntled Democrats in South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Alabama have been “talking about” a splinter movement in a re
vival of the perennial effort to throw the election into the House of
Representatives So far, about the only visible evidence of this
movement has been a somewhat desultory meeting at which a few
stereotyped speeches were made, but little support attracted.
• • • *
"The South (from the Democrats’ point of view) looks much
better than in 1952,” observes Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution. “Question marks hang over Virginia and Florida."
But Mr McGill notes that recently Virginia’s most famous apple
grower, who also is the state’s Democratic political director, Senator
Harry Byrd, "delivered a blast at President Eisenhower and the Re
publican Party. He has not yet made a statement of support of the
Democratic nominees. But four years ago he was one of the darlings
of the GOP.
“It was largely due to his pro-Eisenhower sentiments the Old
Dominion went into the Republican column. Now, in 1956. Senator
Byrd haa come down out of his apple tree and it shooting at all Re
publicans in the orchard. Virginia congressmen and other leader*
believe the Byrd mood will continue. If ao, Virginia will return to
Stcvenaon and Kefauver.
"Nothing, of course, ia sure Hut while none la entirely content
ed, the mood is for unity—and for election of a Democratic White
House and Congress **
The Constitution also observe* editorially:
-While there are things about the Democratic Party which some
southern Democrats of other sections have to compromise, too. This
will be true always at both Democrats and Kcputdleans as nstionsl
parties Bolter* in the past eventually have paid the price of defeat
"Governor Timmerman of South Carolina. Senator Johnston of
South Carolina, Governor Griffin at Ueorgu. and other responsible
southern leader* realize that the South haa more to gain by fighting
It* bailies within the party.”
Frontiersman Is Cited
FRONTIERSMAN CITED— Paul
E. X, Brown, a member of the At
lanta Chapter, Frontiers of Amer
ica, receives a human relations
citation for “exceptionally meri
torious service,” awarded to him
by the Atlanta Chapter during the
Shriners’ Convention in Washing
ton, August 19-24. From left to
right: Dr. Robert J. Hill, a mem
ber of the Baltimore Frontiers;
Moss H. Kendrix, D. C. public re
lations man who presented the
Citation; Jesse O. Thomas, presi
dent of the Atlanta Chapter, and
Brown,
Dr. Peale
Says Heaven
Unsegregated
New York — Heaven is com
pletely unsegregated, Dr. Nor
man Vincent Peale, pastor of
the Marble Collegiate Church,
said today.
Dr. Peale made the comment
in response to a letter in the
new issue of Look magazine.
The letter said: “I am' a
colored man living in the South,
with my wife and four children.
We are all devout church mem
| bers and expect to go to Heaven
when we die. I was just won
dering if, when we climb the
golden stairs, there will be white
people beside us there, or will
there be two stairs, one for color
ed and one for white? When we
drink from the Fountain of God,
will there be two, one for us
and one for whites? Is God of
, fering us a place in Heaveh so
we can be servants to the
whites? I guess there will be
religious meetings of all kinds.
Will these also be segregated?
If we are allowed to associate
with the white people there, will
the ones who are so strongly op
posed to us be there too. These
are questions I keep asking my
self and I cannot find the an
swers. Will you help me."
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William Perkins
William Mose Perkins, age 54
years, of Laramie, Wyoming, ex
pired Monday September 17, 1956.
at a local Omaha hospital.
He was an employee of the
V. P. ailroad Co. for the past 14
years.
Mr. Perkins is survived by 2
daughters, Mrs. Mary f,ouige
Stuart and Mrs. Mozctta Moore
both of Omaha; 2 step-sons, Mel
vin Essex and James Mansfield,
Jr. both of Omaha; 2 brothers,
Lawrence Lee Robinson and Cecil
Perkins both of Omaha; and a
very dear friend, Mrs. Janie
Smith of Laramie, Wyoming.
Funeral services tentatively
arranged for Friday September
21, 1956 at 2:00 p.m. from th;
Myers Brothers Funeral Home.
Judge: Mike, do you realize
that by leaving your wife you are
a deserter?
Mike: Judge, if you knew that
woman like I do, you wouldn’t
call me a deserter. I’m a refugee!
Dr. Peale answered: “I am
quite sure Heaven is completely
unsegregated. The only division
indicated seems to be that of the
sheep from the goats, the good
from the bad, and good and evil
are no respecters of race. Don’t
allow yourself to be bitter. An
cient prejudice is rapidly crumb
ling.’’
Jackson Re-elected To High Office
Of Baptist
Dr. J. H. Jackson was unanimously reelected as president of the
National Baptist Convention, U S A., Inc. After his annual addresa
in which he urged both major parties of the nation to “give the Neg
roes of the south their ballot now."
The prominent Church leader continued “Take away intimida
tions, veiled threats and subterfuges. Tie not our legal future to
the grim ghost of the dead past, and bury not our most sacred right
in the somber shadows of our grandfathers' tombs.
“If you give us our ballot, we won’t bother the federal govern
ment about our rights as citizens. We’ll write laws in the statute
books of the south guaranteeing our rights if we get our ballot.
“Fill your statute books, if you will, with discriminatory laws,
hang your Jim Crow signs in every railroad station, every public
carrier, every hotel and every restaurant; but we will not believe
you. Write the symbols of this unscientific dogma (white suprem
acy) on the doorpost of every college and university, paint it on
every street corner, and preach it from your sacred pulpits.. But be
always aware we'll never believe it.”
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Richard A. Wright
Mr. Richard A. Wright, 50
years, 1559 North 19th Street,
passed away Wednesday morning
September 19th at a local hospit
*1.
Mr. Wright was an employee of
Cudahy Packing Plant and had
been a resident of Omaha nine
years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Arzella Wr:«ht, two step daugh
ters, Mrs. Geraldine Gilmer, of
I Omaha, Mrs. Esther Mays, Kansas i
City, Missouri, step son, Mr. Leon j
ard Henson, U.S.A. Armed Forces'
;n Japan, sister, Mrs. Ruth Car !
michel, Kansas City, Missouri and!
other relatives. The body is at
Thomas Funeral Home.
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Docia Davis
Mrs. Docia Davis, age 58 years,
of 2627 Patrick Ave., expired Mon
day, September 17, 1956 at her
home. r
She was an Omaha resident eight
years.
She is survived by her sister,
Mrs. Lucille Rochell of Minifee,
Arkansas; three brothers, P. D.
Williamson of Minifee, Arkansas,
Walter Williamson of Blackwell,
Arkansas and Garfield Williamson
j of Kansas City, Kansas; niece, Mrs.
i Bessie Brookshire of Omaha; nep
hew, Milton Rich of Omaha.
Mrs. Davis was a member of
| Cherokee Temple No. 223, I.B.P.
, O.E. of W., Mrs. Blanche Davis,
! Daughter Ruler.
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All Is
Calm In
Tennessee
Here in Clinton, Tennessee,
there is the manifestation of "a
strange calm”; after the turbu
, lent storm . . . following the ad
mittance of Negro pupils to
Clinton High School.
The National Guard has been
withdrawn, and extra policemen
and sheriff’s deputies provides
a force that officials believe could
handle almost any situation. Ac
tivities in the town are resuming
their normal trend.
However in a move to curb
further outbreaks of violence in
Clinton, the Board of Mayor and
A 1 d e r m en passed ordinances
placing a 7 p.m. curfew on all un
der twenty-one’s, prohibiting use
of loud-speakers without a permit;
and banning outdoor public as
sembly in the town.. It was em
phasized that these ordinances
are emergency measures and will
be repealed or modified as soon
ns the Board decides that the
present emergency has passed.
In detail - the curfew ordinance
prohibits “persons under twenty
one years of age to be on the
streets, roads, sidewalks and pub
lic thoroughfares of the Town of
Clinton, Tennessee, or on any
other premises .... other than
where they reside, between 7 p.m.
and 4 p.m. . . . However, it
makes exceptions “in case of ill
ness, injury, going to and from
work, stores, friends’ homes, the
movies, church services, school
programmes and athletic events,
or because of some special emer
gency.” The ordinance stipulates
that the burden of proof shall be
upon the person accused of the
violation. Each of the ordinances
carries a $5 to $50 fine for each
violation.
The loudspeaker ordinance and
the outdoor meeting ordinance
are similar in that both require
the issuance of a permit by the
City Recorder, with approval of
the Board, forty-eight hours in ad
vance. The outdoor meeting or
dinance describes such a meeting
as “any group of people, consis
ting of ten or more persons.”
Exceptions to the provisions of
both ordinances are "regular
school meetings, programmes and
athletic events; or regular church,
lodge or civic club picnics, fairs
i nd social gatherings. The public
gathering further excepts “social
leatherings held in the yard of a
private home.”
Further legal action has been
instituted by the Tennessee Fed
eration for Constitutional Govern
ment in an effort to halt Integra
lion of Clinton High School. The
Federation asked the Tennessee
Supreme Court to re-hear Its re
quest for an injunction to halt the
use of state funds in the operation
of the sehool. The suit originally
filed was denied on the Grounds
that Che very action it was re
quested to stop, were ordered by
Federal Court Judge Robert L.
Taylor of Knoxville.
John Williams
John Williams, age 65 years, of
3015 Pinkney St., expired Satur
day, September 15, 1956 at a lo
cal hospital.
He was an Omaha resident 15
years and was a member of Nat
Hunter Lodge No. 12, F. & A.M.
Mr. Williams is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Martha Williams of 0
maha; daughter, Johnnie Mae of
Omaha; two brothers, Joe Woods
of Creston, Oklahoma and B. E.
Woods of St. Louis, Missouri.
Funeral services tentatively ar
ranged for Wednesday, September
19, 1956 at 2:00 p.m. from the
Salem Baptist Church under aus
pices of Nat Hunter Lodge No. 12,
B. A. Austin, W.M.
Myers Brothers Funeral Service.
Negroes have
Courage in
Segregation
Cleveland, Ohio, September 16
—The example of Negro children
who went to school in spite of
mob threats in Tenncosee and
Kentucky "should answer once
■md for all the false contention
that Negro parents and their chil
dren are satisfied with the edu
cation they are getting and do not
want to take advantage of the
Supreme Court school opinion,”
it was asserted here today by Roy
W Ikins, NAACP executive sec
rtary.
Mr. Wilkins spoke at a meeting
opening the fall membership cam
paign of the Cleveland NAACP
branch.
"Whenever children enroll in
school in front of a mob, they
surely want desegration,” he de
clared.
“These people exercised their
rights in the teeth of mobs and
under the escort of ^uns.” the
NAACP official points?! out “The
children dared to go to school in
the face of threats of violence to
their persons. They turned a deaf
ear to insults ljurled at them, not
only by those of their own age
group, but by white adults.
“They are the dignified heroes
and heroines of this disgraceful
business. Their white opponents
wear the badge of shame before
the world.”
Mr. Wilkins extended praise al
so to Tennessee 'and Kentucky
governors, troop commanders, and
white citizens and officials “for
the maintenance of law and or
der."
“But it seems to me, he added,
“that all hats should be off to the
Negro parents and their children
who had the courage and deter-1
mination ta enjoy their rights'
under the law.”
Joseph Musgrove
—
Joseph Musgrove, 55 years,
5119 South 26lh St. passed away
Monday September 17th at a local
hospital. The body is at the1
Thomas Funeral Home.
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Fill several galvanized steel |
bails to make them easy to carry,
pails with sand and scatter them j
about the yard as ash trays for
those informal yard parties.
Guests will douse their cigarettes
and cigars in the pails instead of
littering the lawn with them.
Law Expert Hails School
Bias Ruling as 'Happy Lesson
In Constitutional Dem'racy'
“Maybe the country is in good
shape, after all—a lot of people
want to be president.”
Chm. Hall
Outlines GOP
Campaign
Chairman Leonard W. Hall has
announced that the Republicans
opened their campaign Wednesday
evening, September 19th, with the
first major television appearance
of the President. Speaking from
Washington at 9:30 p.m. (EDT),
over a CBS network of 193 sta
tions, the President will discuss
the major issues of the campaign,
and set the pace and policies for
the intensive seven weeks to fol
low.
The President will follow this
address with a second one on
September 25th over the same
network at 9:30 p.m. (EDT) from
Peoria, Illinois. This address will j
be on the administration’s ef
forts in the farm program and
its plans for the future.
During this period, Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon will bo
criss-crossing the country on his
15,000 airplane campaign, making j
30 appearances between the first
one on September 18th at Wash
ington, D. C. and the last one on
October 3rd at Philadelphia, Pen
nsylvania. On the next day, Octo
ber 4th at 8:30 p.m. (EDT), over
an NBC network of 191 stations
Mr. Nixon will report to the na
tion his findings throughout the
country.
Between the address by the
President on September 25th ana
Mr. Nixon’s report on October 4th, J
another half-hour program has
been scheduled over CBS on Octo- j
ber 1st, the subject of which will |
be announced.
During the campaign, the Pres
ident will make five or, six major
television appearances, and the
Vice President will appear on;
several others.
On October 15th at 9:25 p.m.
(EDT) over NBC, President Eisen
hower will introduce the first of
a series of 5-minute telecasts by
cabinet members and others, re- J
viewing briefly the accomplish-'
ments of the administration dur- j
ing the past 3V£ years.
Supporting the telecasts, ex-|
tensive radio broadcasts will be
used.
Summing up, Mr. Hall said:
"We hope in these half hour and
five-minute appearances by re
sponsible administration person
alities and other notable citizens,
to show the country just what the
Republican administration has ac
complished, and what it hopes to
accomplish during the next four
years. We hope all citizens—
Republicans, Democrats, Indepen
dents and especially the new vo
ters will listen to these programs
and make their voting choices.
Whether they vote Republican or
not, we are urging them to exer
cise their rights as citizens to reg
ister and vote.”
How Maine Goes?
By Richard L. Strout
Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Washington
Two great contradictory forces are sweeping into the 1956 presi
dential election making the possibility of an unexpectedly exciting
race.
On the one hand there is the extraordinary record of Democratic ;
local, state, and congressional victories since 1952—an election itself
incidentally which, while it gave President Eisenhower a big victory,
actually gave Republican congressmen fewer votes than the total of
all votes cast for Democratic congressmen.
On the other hand, and counterbalancing this, there is President1
Eisenhower’s personal and unparalleled popularity. Polls show that
it has hardly diminished in his four years in office.
A political observer studying either of these two factors separate- '
ly and without connection with the other would come to the firm 1
conclusion (a) that the Democrats must win; and (b) that the Repub-1
licans must win!
Now the conflict is raised to a higher point of interest and un j
certainty by the Maine election.
When all interpretations, modifications and qualifications are
entered, the Maine election is calculated to give the Democrats en
couragement.
It also may be a blessing in disguise for the Republicans in dis
pelling a mood of complacency and self-confidence which now ap
pears to be uncertainly based.
With all local qualifications noted, the fact remains that the re
sult in Maine went far beyond what the Democrats hoped to get. It
raises bigger and broader national political questions. Granted that
President Eisenhower still retains his popularity as a hero-President,
does this mean that he is not able to rub off his popularity upon
members of his party? This is the question the Republican strate
gists must face.
•
Yale Professor Tells Negro
Bar Group Decision is Not
Invasion of States’ Rights
The Supreme Court decision
on desegregation was called “a
great and happy lesson in con
stitutional democracy” yesterday
J>y Louis H. Poliak, Professor
of Law at Yale University.
Professor Poliak told 200 dele
gates to the National Bar Asso
ciation convention that although
the decision had come late it
proposed to “correct our mis
takes under the law.” The ass*"
ciation, a society of Negro la\
yers, is holding its thirty-fin
annual convention at the New
Yorker Hotel. The meeting ends
today.
Professor Poliak said that
! criticism of the school desegre
! gation decision as an invasion of
: states’ rights was the “least rele
vant, most dangerous and most
fraudulent attack” of the three
major arguments raised against
it.
“Every law must operate on
all alike,” he declared. “These
rights were not states’ rights;
they were states’ wrongs.”
The two other principal criti
cisms, he said, were that the
i court was performing an act of
usurpation by making a socio
logical determination, and that
it had abandoned the doctrine of
stare decisis, that is, that it had
gone counter to previous Su
preme Court rulings.
I' On the first point he said the
! decision was based on the find
; ing that "segregation itself was
! damaging to education and af
fected the motivation to learn”
As for the doctrine of change
Professor Poliak said that earlier
decisions did not have the broad
base in public education used in
the current one and that the
j Constitution was subject to
adaptation and improvement by
the Supreme Court.
He urged lawyers to “strength
en the hand” of the local Federal
District Court judges and the
Supreme Court by emphasizing
at every opportunity the validity
and propriety of the Supreme
Court’s decision.
U. S. Judge Supports Stand
Much the same position was
taken last night at a dinner of
the association by Charles E.
Clark,Chief Judge of the United
States Court of Appeals, Second
District. He told the diners in
the Terrace Room of the hotel
that his duty, in an intermediate
court, was to “administer the
law as determined by the Su
preme Court.”
“I am indeed surprised that so
usual, so ancient, co completely
supported a principle is challeng
ed,” he said in what he termed
“informal remarks to brother law
yers and associates representing
the Federal bar.”
The segregation decision, he
added, has “no more legal signifi
cance today than it had 100
years ago.”
He said: “In spite of many
problems and difficulties the
‘state of liberty’ is much better
than it has been and shows
steady improvement. At the
time of the Brown decision (the
Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling a
gainst segregation in public
schools) there were twenty-two
states that recognized segrega
tion. There are now only eight
that do so officially."
Judge Clark is former dean of
the Yale University Law SchooL
Presiding at the dinner was
Judge Irvin C. Mollison of the
United States Customs Court.
Also included in the day ses
sion was a discussion of the re
ciprocal obligations of the com
munity and the lawyer by Mrs.
Ruth Whitehead Whaley, secre
tary to the New York City Board
of Estimate.
Many of us arc slow on posting
up on Einstein’s new theory be
cause we haven’t got a clear idea
of his first one.
A western professor can help
us in this respect.
“When a man holds a pretty
girl on his lap for an hour It
seems like a minute. But when
he sits on a hot stove for a min
ute it seems like a hour . That’s
relativity.”
Clerk: "Could you raise my
salary next week, sir?”
Boss: “Well I've managed to do
it for the past three years, so I
think it will be possible next
week."