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Evening star., 1949-04-23
Wards S Stockholders
Give SeweII AveN
Biq Confidence Vote
D. IRE AsssS 5ss-S Pres.

CHICAGO. April - - Mont
gomery Ward & Co. today could
concentrate on its selling Job. Il
had gone through another man
agerlal uproar and Seweil Avery.
the T5-year old chairman. sAS
still on top
Stockholders liked Mr.. Avery's $
speech yesterday and gave him a
humping vote Of approval. re-
electing him a director, Directors
liked IL. TOO. They promptly re-
elected Mr. Avery chairman Of the
board and chief executive officer
OF the Nations second largest
merchandising firm.
II was a great personal triumph
for Avery-not only because he
won reelection after a top man
agement blowup and expressions
OF disapproval by several leading
stockholders. but also because he
received more votes than the other
three nominees for directors. They
were elected. too. They are David
Crawford. Philip Clarke and Dom
aid McLennan. jr.
Wards was still left with the
Evening star., 1949-04-23

Allied position is still unbalanced
The Western powers never have
objected 10 conferring with ths
Russians on the Berlin PROBLEM
after the Russians lift their t,ock-
ade. but there can be no four
power talks until that is done
He said lifting OF the blockade
would have no direct influence"
on the proposed provisional peace
treaty with Western Germany.
Evening star., 1949-04-23
Schumon Declares PorIey
Awoits End of Blockade

PARIS, April % (P.-Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman indi-
Gated yesterday a conference of
Russia and the Western powers
may be in the making, in an ef-
fort to end the cold war in Ger
many. @
He told a news conference,
however, that no such meeting
will be held until the Russians lift
their Berlin blockade. He said
informal discussions already have
been held by the four powers at
Lake Success concerning the
blockade. without producing any
definite Soviet proposals for lift
ing 1t.
At Lake Success informed quar-
tiers said American Ambassador at
Large Philip c. Jessup and Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A.
Malik discussed the Berlin situa-
ton about three weeks ago.
No Talks Now In Progress.
The informant said no talks
are going on at present. The
American delegation refused to
confirm or deny the report.
MIR. Schuman, asked about
various reports Of Russian over
lures to the United States. Britain
and France. answered with q
smile:
Some have been in error,
l.others have been exact"
The Foreign Minister said the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01

OTooles order the mayor is placed in the category
any other dixie mayor who consider the Negro first
class citizen until election time.
When the pools opened order to all citizens and
Negroes attempted to enjoy the privilege the city offered white
hoodums decided and did according to the start trouble
Mayor Dars Immediately counemanded the order That inn
medaey proved that Mayor Darst incapable of protect
ing the citizens cared naugh about the rights the Negroes
There doubt that Darst thought he acting in the
best interest of the people by resembling the order and nvok
ing jim II that is the case, he thinking only of the
whites But feel that if Mr. Dars had been worthy of the
office he elected to by the people, he would have thought
of the people and modified his force maintain order he
afraid of his police force he could have easily closed down
the pools all until the white hoodums themselves of
hate
Police estimated that the crowd the of the trouble
between four and five thousand of whom
y onookers ST. Louis with its population of approximately
million furnishes plenty of doubt to its letting less
than sixteenth of percent dictate its policy If the mayor of
ST. Louis is that easily persuaded st. Louis needs another
mayor.
Mr. OTooe in opening the swimming pool to Negroes did
because St Louis violating the rights of its citizens by
taxing them for recreation they could enjoy We not too
that Little Rock isn't doing the thing but trouble
here is, we don't have any John ]. oTooles.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
st. Louis Or Dixie, 80 Hate Rules

The order by ST. Louis mayor Joseph NJ Darst resembling
order # democratic action by director of Public Welfare
John OToole who ordered all the city operated swimming
pools opened all citizens could easily issued by any
mayor In Little Rock Hgginswch Mississippi was just
that bad
Much credit due Mr. OTooe for opening the ciy.owned
swimming pools to all Of the citizens He reported as saying
that the city could not oppose any lawfully using swimming
pool and pointing out that Negroes citizens taxpayers
Evidently this contrary Mayor Darsts way of seeing
things According Mayor Darss action in resembling Mr.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
College Station

Elghly-siX persons were present
at Sunday school at Pilgrim Rest
Sunday Banner class was No. 3.
Mrs Matte Wade, teacher report
ing s866 Money raised at lls'clock
was Sl3039 Funeral service OF
Sister Annie Gray was held at
Pilgrim Rest Baptist church No
4 Rev Alexander pastor Of Cos
pei Temple, preached for the Pas
tors Aid club June 27th Money
raised was SlGi0 There will be
an excursion TO Luxora Sunday
See Obic Brown for tickets. Bu.
win leave Sunday morning at S
o'clock Womcn's Day will be OBJ
served July oath Wardcll Thomp-
son OF Kansas City Is visiting Mr.
and Mrs L. - Kelley Mr., Ida
Evans has returned from a trip
TO Chicago. Indiana and Michgan
whore She visited relatives and
friends Mrs Essa Flowers re-
turned from Kansas City Mr..
and Mrs Robert williamson visit
ed In Detroit Mrs Lucy Camp
bell Of Los Angeles is on bust
ness trip Ben Johnson is very
sick in a hospital
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
EDIT Al
Our Preachers Have Failed Us


There little wonder that the Negro people still in
the pravery status Since the ministers have established
themselves leaders of the group accepted such by
the rebelous type white man. whose influences weigh
ny in the southland the Negroes chances of becoming first
class citizens today th eighty
years ago.
The preacher leader is dismal failure He is divided
Into ignorant lead
too dishonest These two classes absorb the majority of the
ministry One class be found that wrapped up
ego very detrimental welfare race
class has cunning Of getting the white powers Another
class of Negro preachers is class that possesses ability and
other qualifications lead but has desire the
responsibilities.
This latter class of ministry would go long way ee
waiting the from its status these ministers could
be persuaded exercise the to lead the group
AS for the morals of the group who the leadership
Of the very few would be able escape serious indictment
II they classified
The nations press has carried for crusade with
glazing headlines of nhumanity the Negro The white press
with liberal and enlightened editors has given cooperation
to the Negro exposing uAnecan activities hurled
directly the Negro And recently white Negro
press exposed the abusive leadership of the white
Arkansas in educational seup. The STATE PRESS only
little while used Photographic display in attempt to
the Negro action the Negro kids plight trying
to acquire education and sefsed leaders haven't much
given thought They still preaching from their pull
pits every Sunday night Give Jesus and take all this
world. And that is just what the white is doing.
Our preacherleader is monopolzng the pulpit and uiz-
ing the peoples energy with the doctrine Of hereafter
OF teaching his people accept the responsibility Of citizenship
and going to the white and telling him. 1--WE have accepted
your allegiance we are thereafter" our citizenship
rights"
Until the people rise in and denounce this type of
preachereadershp and demand leadership that will them
to live and be and make contributions the community
instead Of preparing them die and be corpses contributing
to the cemetery the Negro going forever peo
pie found lacking.
II advanced knowledge of that many preacher
leaders will get worked up under the collar this article be-
cause Of their wrote it. Some will go far say
that is "Blasplemy" Our to their ranng u.s. that
what they have been preaching the people all these years
is true the white has basphemed since the Negroes
advent to this country and until the preacher rises up and
establishes The right kind Of leadership for his people
no apology to make The preacher prove first he
. dismal failure
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01

issue is dwndng employment and the fact still remains that
have economic front in nation to flourish and nro
ect and the go about with confidence and do
termination the better many of will feel
Unemployment will become bigger problem nc time ,,ss
es Jobe are likely to exceed 100000 in June and the end
expected to 60 on up the year wears maybe passing the
100000 mark by late this year. according TO conservative
estimates.
The question uppermost in this corner is arc 700 in sr
depression and If the situation is really as bad nc sono ~
the folks on capitol hill would have you believe? True M ono
VIII ueny at unemployment charts are being through
out the nation with great deal of interest these dave 81
even some of the most optimistic economic ANALYSTS ba, INT
eyes glued upon these charts The Congressman have r
See LIFE AT A GLANcE-page eight e''""e
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
Sweet Home

Mrs. Burks and sister from
Chicago are visiting their mother,
Mrs. Gennie Burks, who is very
Ill Mrs Luvenia Smith is i'll at
her home Burniece Cess is re-
coving from her illness in Col
lege Station.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01


in accord with its knowledge
The Rebel" who writes free probably because his express
sons not worth pay cavs against the Declaration Of In
dependence statement Of the equality Of The Declaration
itself borrowed the statement The authors speaking
of the circumstances Of BIRTH environment etc, but of po-
Hcal rights which they proceeded in large part
in the context We invite Rebel read 1t again and also
to read little in history social and political thought
The point of that document and of American democracy that
citizens of democracy share equally in citizenship functions
1t because Of people who share Rebels philosophy that
mocracy is challenged in many places
Unlike Rebel" Ralph McGi editor of the Atlanta Con.
Stuton sounds trumpet call He advocates says the daily
press federal ani-ynch bill, and says that an.maskns
laws are overdue in Alabama Georgia and Florida We would
welcome Mr. McCl in more prominent position than
his present
southerners back L. school aid on basis of need says
daily press headline Wonder If that means that our white
friends have determined to ask that major portion of t.
aid to Negro schools 1t certain that no one will con-
tend that the Negroes need is not greatest.
We regret that best daily seems to be losing its news
sense Front headline states Delay For Negro
Park Now that is If front page carried headline
All Details Notwithstanding Pool Opened To Negroes
Today" then THAT WOULD BE NEWS.
Some people getting excited over a textbook probe
Now that is something Labor leaders probed school
teachers have been pobed Those who advocate orally or
writing anything which resembles communism are subject TO
probe How did anybody get the idea book is more sacred
than man. Freedom Of speech is no halfway thing you
have 1t, or you don't have ii.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01

About educated NigeranS anagonizng missionaries It is
little hard for educated much less educated
understand the civilization which Bible by one
and bomb by another The author is christian and an
ordained elder but be admitted so far the chris.
an nations of the world have shown themselves be gun.
otng bomb-thowng worldwide aSsassins who murder men
with less conjunction than the savage kills animals.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
SCUM mn Hay
BY
FRANCES
SAMPSON

Platform for Pine Bluff Negroes Nneteen-F oty Nine-
IA House andG f send
A a a money o
EOydH or
and
6-AS rOngCi cn r C these
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
LIFE AT A GLANCE
BY David Bethe


There is little in trying to distract from the
real issue at the moment by focusing attention on the Cop
Ion espionage trial the HssChamber fuss and the cken-
ooper witch hunt in the Atomic Energy commission The real
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1949-07-01
Prejudice Versus Principles
BY SAMUEL $. TAYLOR, Associate Editor

The Conway school board denies that Negro children in
Conway couay Disseminated against educational fa
ce the daily press Good for the county school board
knows what right We will be interested find from
the action of the court whether the school boards practice is
in accord with its knowledge
Evening star., 1949-02-28
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. Al


juvenilism. The same thing, in
my mind, holds true for people
who still talk about that war as
if it happened yesterday. There
is nothing more boring than a
Southerner who doesn't have
sense enough to know that 1949
isn't 1868, unless it be a Yankee
who feels the same way.
Illustration of retarded mind:
An elderly Southern woman, on
visiting the park here for the first
time, was taken to q high bluff
just at sunset. The view was
glorious. The Mississippi coiled
and twisted for miles. The dog
wood, aZaleaS and camellias were
in full bloom. The soft colors of
the setting sun gave a gentle glow
to the whole scene.
So what was> the elderly gals
reaction? She saw only the Union
headstones and said:
1--WE got lot of 'em, didn't we?"
No Sympathy.
No thought of the Southern and
Northern men who died only
few years ago so she could wear
her velvet collar and spend an
hour a day practicing slurring her
RS"
Another example of retarded
mind: This time it is a woman
from Illinois. She. took the tour
Of the park and when 1t was over
complained that she had seen no
Evening star., 1949-02-28

party is IN con- Thomas l.. stokes.
troll of Congress now, his COM
plants lie against it. And. in
looking at his party and analyzing
it, he will find what he already
knows too well, which is that his
troubles come from a bloc of
Southerners who still refuse to
follow him on some important
parts of his program.
He recognized his party's di-
lemma publicly when. in referring
to the split in the Republican
Party that has been so widely ad-
vertised since the election, he re-
minded his Jackson Jefferson din
ner audience with a grin that
there is a split in his party, too,
which we all remember was so
widely advertised before the elec-
ton.
The split-off of Southerners on
some issues in Congress, economic
and social as well as civil rights,
Immediately transforms the DEM
ocratic Party there into a mi
nority party, which is an old, old
story told many times in the long
years of Democratic control be-
fore the brief interruption in the
Republican 80th Congress. If
the party were united today it
could move ahead fairly easily on
most of the Presidents program,
as it has a safe majority in
Congress. Republicans welcome
the boiling Southern Democrats
into their own camp, and you
can't blame them if you accept
the facts of politics, for politicians
continue to practice politics des-
pite everything.
Seen as Gracious Gesture.
So President Truman's quarrel
is largely with the Southern
Democratic boilers. His job, then,
is to go. about among the people
of the South and build a back
fire among them, if possible,
against the small but effective
Southern rump party. He would
need to go no further on his trip
if he got results there, and he
would by no means need total
conversion.
A Southern trip would be a
gracious gesture that might pay
dividends. The President should
20 all over the South and talk
Evening star., 1949-02-28
Truman Trip South
Tour Similar to Election Swing Might
Stir More Support for President

with the people. So many Of
them never have seen him. Ir
his frank and friendly manner he
could dispel some impressions
about him in the South which. as
this reporter found on a trip
there just before the election. add
up to create a figure that is as
different from Harry Truman as
day from night. It's not the same
fellow at all.
He would discover great many
people in the South, as he found
on his campaign trips elsewhere.
who are enthusiastic supporters
of his economic and social pro-
gram because of the improvement
that has come to them in so many
ways from the Roosevelt program
which he hopes to continue and
expand. He would find. too. more
people than might be suspected
who will go a good part of the
way with him. on his civil rights
program. There is a quiet revolu-
ton going on in the South, de-
spite the Thurmonds, the Tai
madges, and the Rankins.
Could Talk Plainly.
A frank discussion of the civil
rights program would reveal his
sincerity and. while many would
continue to disagree with him, he
would start a healthy debate on
premises clearly stated by him in
person from which much good
eventually might come.
He could talk in the plain Ian
guage that was so effective in the
campaign. He could let them
know that he knows the difference
between the real aspirations of
the Southern people and what
some of their Representatives
stand for in Congress.
He could let them know that he
knows how those men got here by
virtue of the rotten borough sys-
tenn that still prevails in some
parts Of the South which is per-
petuated through poll taxes, the
white primary" and variations
of it, and all the tricks by which
so many citizens are disfranchised
that machine control by privileged
interests is possible. He could ex-
plain to them that one of the
objectives of his civil rights pro-
gram is to end this system.
He could let them know that he
knows the racial issue is used by
special interests to stir up preju-
dice and bitterness which then
is exploited against social and
economic welfare measures and
those who promote them, the
tactics of confusion that smack
of Communist strategy though
practiced as well by those at the
extreme Right.
Both President Truman and the
South could benefit from meeting
and knowing each other.
Evening star., 1949-02-28
COP. Seeks Funds
Conservative Republicans May Detour
Around Partys National Committee

guard. With Democratic conserv-
atives coalescing with Republicans
in the Senate to stymie his pro-
gram, the President can, of course,
argue that to an unusual degree
he has the responsibility for up
holding the party platform and
campaign promises.
Republican developments con-
centrate that party similarly in
Congress, with its record the work
primarily Of Senator Taft. House
Republicans are not able to do
as much because the Democrats
have a real Truman working ma
jority on that side.
Aware of Strength.
That Senator Taft is aware of
his present commanding position
is plainly evident. With his usual
factual approach, Senator Taft is
giving interviews explaining what
will happen in the Congress, when
various bills come up and what
accomplishments can be expected.
With the Southerners at his back
he can call the signals and he
knows 1t, so he acts 1t.
If the election of President Tru-
man means anything, 1t is hard to
believe that the Taft leadership
signals national victory for the
Republicans. He can lead a vic
torious coalition on the hill; the
report to the people is something
else again.
President Truman has said he
will fight back on the hustings. 1t
could be that that is the only
place Gov. Dewey and like-minded
Republicans can be effective. too,
Evening star., 1949-02-28

n
payers money on things which
only serve to keep an old hate
alive.
Thousands and thousands of
dollars a year are spent to keep
alive the embers which should
long ago have died out.
I got to thinking about this
yesterday when I went on a tour
of the Vicksburg National Military
Park, a vast acreage which serves
as memorial to the siege of this
city by Grant and Sherman and
its capitulation after days and
days of bloody fighting.
What good does it serve? The
Mississippi folk hate it because it
is constant reminder of defeat.
The Northern visitors hate it be-
cause wherever they look there is
a headstone under which a Union
soldier lies a-moldering.
Fought Together.
From the siege of Vicksburg,
the battle Of Gettysburg, Chicka-
mauga and others, q great Ma
ton was born. The greatest Ma
ton on this earth. In World War
I and World War II, Southerners
and Northerners fought side by
side. They fought as brothers, not
as men separated by an engineers
gadget. There was no Mason
Dixon Line when the Stars and
Stripes was threatened.
The upkeep of Civil War parks
is, in my mind, a sign of national
Evening star., 1949-02-28
This Changing World
Thorez, Togliatti Seen Trying to Create
Chaos and Civil War in Their Countries

in 1946 to hold the important
position Of vice premier.
Togliatti, who escaped from
Italy during Mussolinis regime,
was a member of the Cominform
in Moscow under the name Of
Ercole Ercoli. He, too, was sent
from Moscow soon after the anti
Fascist government Of Marshal
Badoglio was organized.
The U. S. s. F. was the first Of
the wartime Allies to recognize
the new Italian regime as full
fedged government and pressed
Badoglio to permit Togliatti to re-
turn to Italy where, within a
short time, he started reorganiz-
ing the shattered Communist
Party.
It's membership increased rapid
ly. All those persons who were
deeply involved in the Fascist
regime rushed to the Communist
standard. where they found i'm
munity from prosecution by either
the new Italian government or the
Allied occupation forces. Like his
colleague Thorez. Togliatti also
became a vice premier when
Alcide de Gasperi formed the
cabinet after the plebiscite which
expelled the monarchy from Italy.
Reds Put in Key Jobs.
Thorez and Togliatti lost their
jobs when the French and Ital-
ian governments became strong
enough to attempt to purge Com
munists from high places. But
during their Is months in Office
they packed the police and ma
tional defense services with their
own subversive agents. Some are
still in positions in which they
could, on orders from Moscow,
harm both the reconstruction and
national security Of those two
countries.
Thorez and Togliatti also helped
to place on a solid foundation the
former Communist underground,
which now has become an unofh-
cial army, strong enough to create
serious trouble for the existing
governments if Moscow DEGREES
that violence is necessary.
The Thorez and Togliatti state
ments last week for the present
comprise only part Of the war of
nerves. Moscow, it is believed by
observers, hopes that drastic
measures in France and Italy can
be used by the Communists to
touch off serious disturbances
which will undermine the govern
ments in those two countries.
Evening star., 1949-02-28

W Tile c1lcCG
that the French and Italian
masses would welcome with open
arms the Soviet army If it is
compelled to pursue capitalist
"aggreSsors" into those countries.
Both Thorez and Togliatti are
experts at such tasks. During
World War II Thorez was Mos
cows principal tool in the sabo-
tage which led to collapse of the
French armies. When the gov
ernment had gathered all the
evidence it needed about his ac-
tivitieS-carried on while he was
reserve officer with the troops
near the front-and decided to
arrest him for high treason, he
escaped to Moscow, where he be-
came an important member of
the Comintern and perfected his
indoctrination as a Communist
political Saboteur.
With the liberation of France
he was sent posthaste by the Rus
slams back to Paris, despite the
reluctance of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, then provisional French
president, who insisted that
Thorez was a deserter from the
army and should first be tried.
Sheltered by Embassy.
ThoreZ arrived unexpectedly in
Paris and was sheltered for a
while by the Soviet Embassy.
Pressure was put on Gen. de
Gaulle, and after a perfunctory
investigation, in which the
heroism of the Red army at
Stalingrad figured more impor-
tantly than the cold facts of
Thorez' desertion, he was cleared
and assumed an important role
in French politics, which led him