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M ■ Rights Bill Made No One Happy A Survey of Editorials Indicates NEW YORK—An NAACP sur vey of newspaper comment on the civil rights bill indicates that nc one is really happy about the measure as it emerged from the Senate. Some papers call for a veto of the bill—the southern press because it is too strong, the Negro and northern papers be cause it is too weak. Others, while dissatisfied, express the opinion that it should be enacted because it is the best that can be passed at this time. Following are excerpts from ed itorials published in some of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines. Southern Press JACKSON (MISS.) DAILY NEWS: Even if passed in its pres ent emasculated and watered-down form, the proposed civil rights law means that an army of Federal bureaucrats will descend upon Mississippi and other southern states like a plague of locusts to intimidate the people and demand that all Negroes, regardless of ill iteracy, be allowed to vote. ,.. That is the reason why Senator Eastland says he is unhappy about it and why he does not favor pass age of the bill in its present form. U.S. NEWS tc WORLD REPORT: Legal opinion is that a court could keep registration rolls open or hold ballot boxes until the Negro’s name or vote was included. Re sult of all this could be that many Negroes who have not been voting in the past will vote in 1056. RICHMOND (VA.) TIMES - DIS PATCH: The civil rights bill, as passed by the Senate, is still a bad and dangerous bill_a veto by President Eisenhower of any “civil right” measure on which the House and Senate might manage this year to agree is eminently de sirable. CHARLESTON (S.C.) NEWS & COURIER: Even in the present form, which may not stand, the Civil Rights Bill in fact is a force bill full of dangers to American liberty. WINSTON-SALEM (N.C.) JOUR NAL: Contrary to the token, last-1 ditch argument of some Southern ' ers against any civil rights bill at all, the bill passed by the Senate stops short of an “intolerable I law.” If those who have been de l termined to pass a civil right law! in 1957 will compromise along the I lines of this bill, the South wo .id j be wise to try to carry out its pro-1 visions in good faith. The Negro Pros* NORFOLK (VA.) JOURNAL & GUIDE: We hope that President | Eisenhower will veto the civil i rights bill if the House-Senate! conferees should decide to let it I go to the President as it is. PITTSBURGH (PA.) COURIER: We think the changes sought by the President to preserve the strength of the courts under other statutes are necessary and wise However, if such changes are made, we believe the bill should be signed. We do not accept it as the full order for civil rights. It is a civil rights minus bill. But It is unquestionably a step in the right direction. It is a grudging surrender to the demands of the times. These demands are insis tent and continuing BALTIMORE AFRO - AMERI CAN: With the phony Jury trial amendment extracted in confer ence committee, at we hope it will be, this Mil though limited solely to voting rights, represents a be la ted advance—in fact the first such step taken by the Congress fat S3 long, weary and agonising years. Certainly it is too import ant a step to be thwarted by politi cal stalemate. CALIFORNIA EAGLE < L O S ANGELES): Frankly, we think the present Senate legislation is worse than no legislation at all because its enactment will tend to keep down agitation for another genu ine law. It seems to us that sup porters of civil rights legislation would be well advised to vote a gainst it in its present form, as amended by the Senate, and that the President ought to veto if if the Senate version is sent to him. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS: We therefore call on President Eisenhower to veto the bill in any form which it will be placed before nim. For no one, no matter how sincere, can make civil right out of this mess of bat ter which the Congress has mixed up for his signature. Northern Press CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONI TOR (BOSTON): The more the Senate bill is studied the harder it becomes to oppose it as ineffec tive.Precisely because it would enlist an essential degree of consent we believe the Senate bill is strong—in terms of actual effectiveness. NEW YORK HERALD TRIB UNE: It would be a severe blow to American prestige and distinct failure of Congress to meet its responsibilities if the House of Representatives meekly accepted the civil rights bill as amended by the Senate.. From every stand point including that of its own in tegrity, the House must do its very best to improve the civil rights bill. SEATTLE (WASH.) POST - IN TELLIGENCER: The angry dis appointment voiced by President Eisenhower at the 51-42 Senate vote that killed the heart of the administration’s civil rights bill, was justified .,. While it is true that legal sublteties confused the issue, especially in lay minds like ours, we think the President is right in his position that the jury trial amendment makes right-to vote protection “largely ineffec tive” and that “many Americans will continue to be disenfran chised.” NEW YORK TIMES: Let us see what can be done. If the prospec tive law does not improve an un happy situation, let us study how that law can be strengthened and improved. NEW YORK POST: In any case the situation has deteriorated to a point that preseiits only a choice between lesser evils. In the ab sence of any fighting .Presidential leadership, there is clearly no pros pect of reviving Part III at this juncture; all that remains is the question as to whether a flimsy bill is better than no bill at all. To that question it seems clear that the answer must be yes. THE NATION: Time alone will tell how much the toothless Civil Rights Bill, if President Eisen hower permits it to become law, will help the Negro citizen exer cise his rights. But anyone can see right now that, come 1960, it will painfully hurt the Democratic party whose senators, for a variety of reaaena, extracted the bill's bite. • i : -• *" The person who accepts a favor so graciously that the acceptance makes you wish that you could have done more for him, has really learned to get along in Ibis world and with the people In It Can You Ai Heart Attacks ? If someone in your family bad a heart attack, would you know whit to do? How you can help and the basic facts about heart attacks are ex plained in a free, illustrate'! pamphlet from the Nebraska Heart Association. Write Heart, Omaha 1. To help in case of a heart at tack, briefly the steps are: 1. Call the doctor at once. 2. Help the patient take com fortable position, usually half way between lying and sil ting. 3. Do not attempt to carry or lift the patient 4. Loosen tight clothing such as belts and neckties. 5. See the patient does not become chilled, but do not make him sweat with loo many blankets. 6. Do not give stimulants such as whiskey or brandy. The Heart Association adds that knowing the facts about a sure the patient and handle the heart attack will help you re«s emergency with confidence. Every year heart attacks (coro nary thrombosis) takes 330,000 American lives far more than cancer or auto accidents. However in 83% of the initial aUcks the paient survives and re turns to a fairly normal life. 3 Confer On Highway Matters Three Omaha Chamber of Com merce representatives will fly *o Washington, D. C. this weekend to confer with Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy. Harry Coffee, president of Un ion Stock Yards Company, Fred P. Curtis, vice-president of the Omaha Chamber, and Michael Russillo. manager of the Cham ber’s Highway Development Com mittee on Monday (August 19,) will present the Highway Admin istrator a protest regarding the prosposed establishment of Iowa Interstate Route 6 and the pro posed relocation of Iowa Inter state Route No. 1, The Iowa State Highway Com mission has gone ahead in iu planning the establishment of Route No. 6. to run from a point northeast of Neola, Iowa to Lore land Iowa, just south of Missouri Valley, Mr. Curtis said. The Commission also has plans in the future to build a diagional route from Neola to Southeast Council Bluffs, but the future plana are indefinite as to the time of its construction. The Omaha Chamber delegation will stress the city’s importance as a defense center and its na tional prominence as a leading transportation area, in its argu ments to the Bureau of Public Roads, Mr. Curtis concluded. AK Gives Scholarships Again OMAHA, NEBR — • Ak-Sar-Ben’s vaat scholarship program, which grants aid to enough students to make up the entire student body of the average small college, will be extended during the 1957-58 school year, Scholarship Commit tee Chairman V. J. Skutt announ ced today. “The success of our recent race! meeting has made possible the] largest scholarship program we i have ever sponsored,” Mr. Skutt; reported. “We are happy to be, able to award these grants in addi-, tion to the aid we give the county fairs, the FFA ad 4-H programs,! disaster-stricken areas and com munity builders in the midwest.” j “As in the past, these scholar ships are principally to aid in the study of agriculture, because we at Ak-Sar-Ben believe that any thing that helps the farmer and rancher will help all of us.” This year Ak-Sar-Ben will spon sor 120 scholarships and two fel lowships at the University of Ne braska College of Agriculture, 20 scholarships for post graduate study by county agents, 15 grants to aid vocational agricultural in structors to increase their knowl edge, 20 scholarships at the Cur tis, Nebraska, School of Agricul ture, 36 scholarships at Iowa State College ad 12 scholarships at Ne braska independent colleges. In additon, there are scholar ships for agricultural judging teams and increased loan funda for needy students at Nebraska, Creighton and Omaha Universities I The matter of selections is left by Ak-Sar Ben entirely to the fac ulty committees of fie colleges Of 1996 production of coal and lignite, 75 companies mined J13, 896.031 tons, or 79 per cent, ne rording to Keystone Coal Buyers' *"“L . Lewis C. Anderson Mr. Lewis C. Anderson 63 years, 2867 Maple Street, passed away Thursday evening, August 8th at the Veterans Hospital. Mr. Anderson was a life long resident of Omaha, veteran of World War I, member of St. John AME Church, Excelsior Lodge No. 2 F & A M, Robert K. Hill, W.M., various civic op ganizations. At the time of his passing Mr. Anderson was em ployed by the City of Omaha as a foreman of the Heavy Eqiup ment Mr. Anderson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Tresa Anderson, Omaha, two nieces, Mrs. Rachel Meyers, Omaha, Miss Frances Covington, Chicago Illinois; one nephew, Mr. Jesse Covington, Chicago; two cousins, Mr. Theo dore North, Omaha, Mr. Eugene North, Michigan; uncle, Mr Frank North, Omaha and other relatives. Funeral services were held at two o’clock Tuesday afternoon, August 13th from St. John AME Church with the Rev. McCoy Ransom officiating, assisted by the Rev. W. A. Fowler, Excel sior Lodge No. 2 F t A M