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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16

We urge and insist Mr., White
told the committee, that the plat
form of the l949 Democratic con-
vention endorse without equivo-
cation the entire program of the
Presidents Committee on Civil
Rights and especially those provi-
sions to suppress lynching and
mob violence, to ban the poll tax
as voting requirement, to afford
equality of job opportunity, and
to abolish discrimination and seq
regation in the armed services,
education and transportation.
Mr.. White reminded the Demo-
Gratis of the support which Negro
voters have given the party and
pointed out that ''in reasonably
close elections, these voters are a
vital factor in some rs congress
sional districts in at least II bord-
err and northern states with tot
al of $50 electoral votes. In 1914,
this vote was essential to the vic
tory of the Democratic party.
In northern and border states,
he said, there is potential of
100000 Negro voters. These are
independent voters tied to the
apron string of no party and in
the bag of no politician. In adj
dition to these three million, there
is very likelihood of another mil
lion Negro voters in the southern
states. For the most part, these
new voters are now misrepresent-
ed in Congress by men who OPP
pose any measures for the devel-
opment of decent human relations
among the people of this country
These voters, perforce, will sup
port the growing liberal element
in the South. Ultimately, this will
mean a replacement Of the present
congressional representation by
men and women more represent
alive of all the people of the
South"
In addition to approval of the
recommendation of the Civil
Rights Committee, Mr., White ask
ed that the platform pledge the
full weight of the Democratic par
ty to the amendment of the Sen
ate rules to invoke cloture by
majority vote in order that fill
busters which have disgraced
America far too long may be stop
ped in the United States Senate"
The committee was presented
with the Declaration of Negro Vot-
ers, formulated at a meeting of
representative of the u organi-
cations in New York City March
n of this year Joining Mr.. White
in presentation of the demands of
Negro voters were DR.. Claiming
H. Tobias. of the CINE Church,
George LIP Weaver, Go Commit
tee to Abolish Racial Diserirnina-
ton; Miss Mabel S. Lewis, Ma
tlonal Association of Negro Mil
liners and Dress Designers; Dr.
w, c. Jason, National Alliance of
Postal Employees; and Theodore
Spaulding, National Bar Associa-
ton.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16

Bishop Fountain had come to the 18th District
when a seasoned, firm, experienced leader is
sorely needed to grapple with the problems Of
the district. Bishop Fountain captivated the
ministers with the far visioned program which
he announced. He announced plans to evangelize
the district and to make Shorter College four
year senior "a rated college. Jackson The
illogical Seminary will be strengthened by plac-
ing strong man as dean at its head and all
appointments within one hundred miles from
the school win be made available to those de-
string seminary training. Response was made
by DR.. Blakely who assured the bishop that he
could count on the unquestioned loyalty Of the
ministers and people of this area in making
his administration here one of the most pleas
ant and successful in his long and illustrious
career Or. Morris, Jr made fitting remarks
expressing the great delight of teachers and
students in having SO able man as Bishop
Fountain serve as chancellor Of the institu-
ton. Press photo.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
Selective Service
Act Requires All
Males 1876 Regis'I

Section | of the Selective Ser
vice Act of 1913 enunciates the
principle that the obligations and
privileges of serving in the armed
forces should be shared generally.
and in accordance with just
system of selection.
The law requires every male
person in the United States. be-
tween the ages of Is and g. to
register Those between the ages
OF 10 and 26 are liable for in
duction for training and service in
the armed forces for period of
Il months. Male persons between
the ages of Is and 10 may volun-
tarily enlist.
Exemptions include persons who
served honorably on active duty
between Sept. Is, 1910, and June
"a, 1913, for period in excess of
80 days in the armed forces of the
United States or one of it's allied
during the war. Persons who
served similar periods in the
Coast Guard or Public Health
Service during actual hostilities
also are exempt
Can Be Deferred
Persons, who served 90 days or
more but less than 10 months since
VJ-day in the armed forces of the
United States or one of its allies
during the war, or in the Coast
Guard or Public Health Service
are required to serve in a Reserve
component of the armed forces in
which he served, and remain there
until he attains age &c.
In case no assignment to an
organized unit is available, the
individual is offered an assignment
requiring a lesser degree of in
active-duty training. In case
neither type of assignment is "a
valuable, he may be deferred until
such time as a vacancy occurs, or
until he attains age 26.
Also exempt from active service
are persons who complete three
of more years of active service.
Persons who on the date Presi-
dent Truman approved the act
were members Of an organized
unit of the Reserve components,
also are exempt.
Ministers Exempted
Members of the Reserve Of
ficerS Training Corps are deferred
until graduation and so long as
they retain their commissioned
status. Those who are selected for
enrolment or continuation in the
senior division, or who since June
"a are appointment midshipmen
and agree in writing to serve two
years of active duty after receipt
of commissions, and certain elect
ed Federal and State officers and
members of legislative bodies also
are exempt
Regular or duly ordained minis
ters Of religion, and certain theo-
logical and Psychological stu
dents are exempt from induction
but not from registration.
The President is empowered TO
defer persons for reasons of
national health safety or interest"
This permits a person to be de-
ferred because of his occupation
or because he is engaged in study
research or other essential endea-
vor.
See DRAFT-page four
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
Khan Times 'k|onvoCation'
With Third Party Confab

c. B. Baldwin, campaign manager for Henry Wallace said
last that he had learned that the Kux Khan had timed
national Klonvokation for July 23-to coincide with the
opening day the national founding convention of the
Party Philadelphia Baldwin said Klans "avoweds
tenon to make its national meeting "a signal for about
against the only political party which really fighting
cial and religious discrimination
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
=: CITY EDITION :
South Africa
Missionary Guest
Speaker at Bethel

The Rev, J. R. Coan, Missionary
to South Africa will be the guest
speaker at Big Bethel AME
Church, 9th and Broadway SITS,
DR.. G, Wayman Blakely, Pastor,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
Alliance With Southernprs
Questioned By The NAACP

NEW YORKn telegram sent to five leading northern
Democrats NAACP secretary Walter White expressed
at the recent coalition of these with such bitter opponents
of civil rights legislation Senator Lister Hill Cd Aa and
the governors of South Carolina Arkansas and Virginia
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
Civil RIGHTS PLANK
URGED ON DEMOCRATS

PIIILADELPHIA-En of the recommendations
of the Presidents Committee Civil Rights by the National
Democratic Convention urged this week by Walter White
NAACP secretary speaking before the conventions platform
committee behalf of q national Negro organizations with
combined membership of more than 100000.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16
Old Mexico Shows
World How to Fight
Americ'n Prejudice
by Leo Fonville

by Leo FOnville
Dallas, Texas-Charging that
Mexicans in Texas faced social.
economic and educational discrim-
nation, the Mexican Government
struck devasting blow at the
See MEXICO SHOWS--page 4
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-07-16

YES IT IS TRUMAN-Despite the rebeous SOUTH
Harry s. Truman with his civil rights program
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Irumans nomination with such a
beious southeners should have Immediately evidenced that
their importance wasn't of any safety
at Saturday nights ball The southeners had opportunity
To take dose OF their medicine experience the
ngs of being pushed around Aben Barley
lucky named by acclamaton Mr. Trumans running
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Evening star., 1948-03-14
Russiu's Captive Wives

Although nothing may come of it, there
is much to commend the idea of organ
izing world appeal to the Krenllin to let
Russian wives leave the Soviet Union to
join their non-Russian husbands in other
lands. Numerous past efforts to that end
have met with complete failure, but they
have been made individually by the differ
ent persons and governments involved. If
collective action were taken through the
United Nations, however, the results might
be better. At any rate, such move-said
to be in discussion stage between the
United States and Chile-certainly would
do no harm.
The problem stems primarily from the
fact that during the war lot of nom
Russian men fell in love with and married
q lot of Russian girls. Then, when the
Hime came for the men to return to their
Evening star., 1948-03-14

native countries-including Greece, France,
Britain, Canada and the. United States
they found they could not take their
brides with them. For the Kremlin raised
legal and other objections. with the result
that scores of these hapless couples now
find their marriages In danger of wither-
Ing away through enforced separation.
Their plight may be a minor matter in
relation to all the great issues troubling
the world. but 1t is poignant enough to
make the official Soviet position seem in
comprehensibly heartless.
According to one report, a man in
Canada asking that his wife be allowed to
Join him has been told by Deputy Foreign
Minister Vishinsky that the request must
be denied because "the duty of Russian
woman is to produce Soviet children, not
children for the Canadian government"
Such an attitude cannot fail to ALLEVIATE
and battle western mind And what is
equally difficult to understand is why the
men OF the Kremlin apparently cannot see
how their public relations would be i'm
proved If only they softened a little in this
instance and raised the bars. Everything
else having failed to move them, the sug-
gested world appeal might be well worth
trying now.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Incident in Vienna

Undoubtedly there will be full investi-
CATION Of the circumstances surrounding
the shooting of an American soldier in
front OF the Soviet headquarters Ia Vienna.
Undoubtedly, too, II the facts warrant, the
United States will protest in the strongest
language and demand that the Russian
authorities take hrm measures to guard
against the repetition of such incidents
in the future.
Meanwhile, pending detailed report on
the matter, natural feelings of indignation
ought to be held in check. Ugly as the
story is, it actually may have no deeper
significance than q number of similar
clashes in the past. On the face of things,
the Russian soldiers who took part seem
to have been singularly insulting, brutal
and cowardly. Despite a Soviet version
to the contrary, General Keyes, United
States commander in Vienna, has reported
that the American involved apparently
was unarmed, and when he refused
command to walk in the gutter where
you belong" he was beaten, shot in the
back with bullet Of the internationally
outlawed "dum dun" type, and then de-
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that reflects dismally on the discipline
and honor of troops in the Red Army.
The American people can take an Incl
dent Of this kind in stride If the blame
for 1t rests merely on few hot-headed
and brawl-seeking Russian soldiers. But
they will want to be sure of that They
will want to know whether or not 1t is
an expression of deliberate Soviet policy
or whether or not it can be blamed on
the Kremlin's vicious propaganda cam
paign to create anti-American feeling
everywhere in Europe. The matter
which has been made the subject of a
preliminary United States protests
serious in that sense, and it needs to
be investigated most carefully.
Relatively speaking, of course, the
Vienna incident, in ITSELF amounts to little
more than pin prick in the "cold var"
now going on. But the "cold war" can
get hot if there is multiplication of such
pin pricks, and Soviet policy and Soviet
certainly are not calculated to
smooth the situation. few more of these
shootings and there may be real trouble
of a kind that the Russians have not been
for. The point should be made
very clear to them.
Evening star., 1948-03-14

else Now, after the unclean spirit had been
elected from the lodgings which 1t had fouled,
the place was cleansed of all signs of the pol
luting presence of its former occupant. The
evil moved out and the apartment was disin-
fected and FURNISHED. So far, SO good. That
housekeeping was tremendously worth while.
In the moral and spiritual realm every empty
house has For Rent" sign nailed to it. Now
the damning thing is that, when the evil
moved out, the good did not move in. The
house was empty. Then the evil spirit, peer
ing into the windows and seeing the rooms
vacant, takes with him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself who enter and dwell
there. And the last chapter in the story Of
that house Is worse than the first.
Here is mirrored one of the deepest spiritual
insights. It touches life at every angle. An
empty house is an opportunity for either good
or evil. This house at which we are looking
remained empty and for rent until terrible
thing happened to it.
The truth here dramatized is the vitality i'm
portant principle that simply to expel evil
is a dangerous procedure, unless it is part Of
progress which goes on to hll the life with
good. The way to be permanently rid of an
evil spirit is not just to drive 1t out, but to re-
place it with good spirit. The process Is not
just elimination; it is also substitution. So
says modern psychology. So said Jesus long,
long ago.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Hanging Together or Alone

For their own protection, If for nothing
else, one might think that the Commis-
sioners would put more emphasis on their
actions and decisions as board and less
on what they do and say as individuals.
The present practice Of assigning Spe-
cific responsibility over certain municipal
departments to one Commissioner is well
established, though unsupported by law.
1t probably goes back beyond May 8, 1897.
But 1t was on that date that new Board
OF Commissioners first took formal action
In such assignments and the practice has
continued ever since.
1t has certain disadvantages As Com
missioner Mason Is charged with supervi-
sorry responsibility for the Health Depart
ment, he Is the one who must take the rap
when Gallinger Hospital comes under fire.
While he Is squirping under punishment
the silence Of his equally responsible
brethren invests them with temporary
sanctity, which Is no doubt Of passing
enjoyment to them.
So 1t is with Commissioner Young and
the Police Department. When the police
excel in their behavior. catch criminals, are
courteous to aging pedestrians, etc, Com
missioner Young basks in this welcome If
reflected glory. But when the Police De-
partment is caught in error, 1t is Commis-
sioner Young who must walk the plank,
while General Young and Mr.. Mason raise
their own eyebrows and look at him
askance.
Occasionally we 'fnd two Commissioners
approaching the same field, though from
different directions. Commissioner Ma
son. for example, is trying to do something
to improve the procedures at Gallinger
Hospitals psychiatric department.. Com
missioner Young keeps hands off. But be-
cause he Is in charge OF the Police Depart
ment Commissioner Young goes into &C
ton when the question comes up of unnec-
essary detainment "for investigation" at
Gallinger Of persons arrested by police.
The division Of responsibilities also leads
to some log-rollins between the Commis-
sioners on matters affecting the municipal
budget. A Commissioner anxious for more
appropriations for "his" department may
find 1t expedient to make deal with one
of his brethren for support, in return for
which he will put broad shoulders behind
another pet project coming from across
the table.
The Commissioners act legally as
board, and not as individuals, in supervis-
ing the local government. The Star be-
heves they have overemphasized, in the
public mind, their own convenient division
of duties and in consequence get them
selves, as individuals, unnecessarily in hot
water on the one hand and, with the other,
evade responsibility in which they right
fully share. If greater attention were given
to actions by the Board of Commissioners
in all matters affecting the welfare of the
District-such as Improvements at Gal
linger Hospital-and less emphasis were
placed on personal responsibility and to
sovereignty of single Commissioner, the
advantages might be shared mutually be-
tween the Commissioners and the public.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Pax Brittunicu

In world deplorably lacking in concord,
Hollywood and Great Britain have made
their peace on the issue of the latter's IS
per cent tax on American films. Neither
party to the year-old dispute, now settled,
Is completely satisfied, but both are more
serene.
The settlement formula is somewhat
complicated. It required concessions which
might even be said to have inspired some
artful trading by Eric Johnston president
of the Motion Picture Association, and
Harold Wilson, president of England's s
Board of Trade.
As result of the negotiations, England
will eliminate the tax AS quickly as the
will withdraw its boycott of the British
market.
However, there are reservations in both
instances. In repeating the rs per cent ad
valorem tax on film imports from America,
England will permit the withdrawal of only
$17,000,0eo yearly by Hollywood producers
The remainder of the latter's earnings in
England-$60, 900 ,000-must be left there
for such other purposes as the production
of United States films in England, the
employment of British actors, the purchase
of British scripts, and the like.
For this concession England extracts
Hollywood's promise that it also will pro-
mote the exhibition of the formers films
in this country. Heretofore the balance
has been enormously in favor of the Holly
wood product, which has been dominant in
the English market.
On the face of it Great Britain might
seem to have got real bargain for its
$17,000,000 actual cash concession. That
is only on the surface Actually the elimi-
nation OF the British Aim tax precludes the
possibility that 1t will serve as precedent
for other importers OF American films.
That really hsf Hollywood terrified.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Churninq Butter Trouble

Purpose of the Federal and State taxes
levied on margarine has been to make it
unpopular The people who wanted to make
1t unpopular have been the butter pro-
ducers, equipped with farmers votes and
lobbyists.
The purpose has failed. The fact that
margarine is cheaper and that improved
manufacturing processes add to its taste
and nutritive value have increased its
popularity And the growing controversy
over the Immoral and uneconomic use Of
the taxing power-which Furnishes the
public rather than the margarine indus
try-has reacted in an unexpected fashion.
1t has tended to increase the popularity
of margarine by giving it more sustained
and favorable publicity than it ever would
have got without the tax
Unless the butter producers are more
careful in their tactics the margarine taxes
will become boomerang and cause them
more grief than they ever wished for the
makers Of margarine. Every time house.
wife avoids the tax by coloring margarine
herself, or pays the tax to save herself that
trouble, the resentment she feels is directed
against butter-which is the cause of 1t
all And when she discovers that some of
the unwise butter interests are threaten
ing now to punish the American Red Cross
for having mentioned margarine, her re-
sentiment may assume serious proportions.
The Red Cross incident is illustrative of
the arrogant attitude of the butter in
terests. It came about by publication in
a Red Gross pamphlet, issued during the
Presidents foodsaving campaign, of the
factual information that fortified mar
garine is a substitute for butter In re-
taliation some of the butter producers are
threatening to withhold their Red Cross
contributions.
If they want to get tangled up in fight
with the Red Cross over such an affair,
they can do SO. But the public is already
becoming exasperated over being punished
by taxation for its use of margarine The
tax is thoroughly discredited now as un-
economic, selfish and discriminatory Tax
payers senFally are becoming more aware