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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
NATIONS LEADING PROTESTANT
MAGAZINE ASSAILS CONVICTION
MARSHALL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
Cities Danger In Washington
Air Of ''McCarthy Madness"

NEW YORK, May %. - The
Churchman, leading Protestant
magazine, this week editorially as
sailed the conviction of George
Marshall as perhaps the most
dangerous in its effects on the
constitutional rights of the Amer
lean people," The editorial ap-
peared as the Supreme Court de-
MED a re-hearing on the constitu-
tional issues involved. Marshall
faces a three month Jail sentence
within the next few days.
Every student of Christian his
tory knows what such thought
repression means and what it may
lead to" stated The Churchman.
Progressive church m n and
church groups should speak now in
protest against the inquisitorial
methods of Congressional commit
tees, or else considerably larger
number of groups-church organi-
cations included-may soon be fac
ing the shocking treatment Mr..
Marshall and his fellow victims
are now receiving"
During the past twelve years
Marshall has worked for anti-poll
tax, FEPC, and anti-lynch legisla-
ton. He led the fight to Dust Bilbo,
and was actively involved in strug-
giles for the freedom of hundreds of
Negro victims of frame-ups and
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Saints Industrial School Nav
Day Festival Is Gala Affair
DESPITE Recent Disastrous Fire
Festival Ushers
In 18th Annual
Season

LEXINGTON, Miss, May 22-
The Annual May Day Festival of
Saints Industrial School here was
a gala and colorful affair despite
the recent disastrous fire which
completely destroyed the boys DOR
mitory, and $4,000 worth of instru-
ments and uniforms of the band,
around which is produced the May
Day Festival.
The Festival is opened with the
annual May Day Parade through
the towns business section.
The Parade scheduled for last
Saturday but postponed on &C
count of rain, was witnessed by a
crowd which lined the streets of
the town along the entire route of
the parade, estimated at more than
5000 people.
The parade was made up of beau
tifully decorated automobiles and
floats forming pagent of the
Kings and Queens selected for the
parade because of outstanding
scholarship and attachments in va
rious activities of the schools.
The Kings and Queens dressed in
the colorful and exotic costumes
of tn eoriental and royal splendor
and the beautiful and vari-colored
gowns of the ladies in waiting
maids, and other members of the
Royal Court and encourage give a
picture of splendor, or elegance
and above all, the culture and re-
finement that most people would
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Tougaloo College
Play Sat. Night

TOUGALOO, Miss, May % =
The Tougaloo College Dramatic
Society will present the one act
play John Doe" which won special
commentator at the Drama Festi-
val in Kentucky recently here at
1870 Saturday night, May 81 in the
second annual observance of Alum
nj Night.
There will be no admission char
ges and the public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Editor Greene
Canton Speaker

CANTON, Miss, May 22-Percy
Greene, editor of the jackson Adj
vocate, will be guest speaker at a
special meeting Of the Madison
County Negro Democrats to be
held at St. Paul A.M.E. Zion
Church, Sunday May %. A record
breaking attendance is expected to
be present.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
TougaIoo Student
To Visit Is
Foreign Nations

TOUGALOO, Miss, May 23.-
(SpeciaD-A junior at Tougaloo
College, Hubert Wallace of Louise,
Miss, is to have the unusual ex-
perience this summer of touring
by airplane 25 countries in Asia,
Europe and Africa and earning
at the same time college credit
as he goes.
Under the auspices of Virginia
Union University in Richmond,
Va, a group of so Negro students
has been carefully selected for
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27
Marian AndersOn's
Dogs Cause Suit

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, May 22-
A piano tuner has filed suit in
Superior Court against Marion An
derson and her husband for $4,000
He claims that he was attacked by
several of their dogs when he ap-
preached their Danbury home in
December.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-05-27

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Evening star., 1950-02-20
Strange Liberalism

Some of the so-called liberal groups have
opened fire on the Senate-approved Lodge-Gos-
sett amendment, which would divide the electoral
votes of the States in proportion to the division
of the popular vote.
The liberals say, and they may be right, that
the proposed change would increase the relative
political strength of the South. They also say,
and one suspects that this is of much greater
concern to them, that the change would reduce
the POLITICAL influence of minority groups.
This also is true. At present, for instance,
both political parties outdo each other in bidding
for the votes of minority groups in New York.
They do this because the minorities, though rel
atively unimportant in terms of numbers, can
throw the States entire electoral vote one way or
the other. Under the Lodge-Gossett amendment,
they could no longer do this. A Democratic pres
idential candidate, if he received SIS per cent of
the popular vote in the State, would get 55 per
cent of the electoral vote. He would not get the
entire electoral vote, as at present.
The effect of this, obviously, would be to re-
duce the inordinate political influence now en-
joyed by the minorties. Under the amendment,
they could exercise degree of influence proper
tionate to the size of the vote they cast, and no
more. This would seem to be thoroughly con-
sstent with democratic principles. But there are
those who oppose it. And they have the nerve to
proclaim themselves as the true liberals.
Evening star., 1950-02-20

at the job he has done, sure in his soul
that he is doing good deed in an in
creasingly explosive world.
Jays have been known to drop acorns,
one by one, down chimney of a aban-
doned shack.
What could they have done it for, one
asks, except pure sport?
They could not get into the place, since
birds ordinarily do not like to fly down
chimneys.
1t must have been their sense of
humor, and nothing else, that kept them
dropping good food into a place they,
themselves, could not get into.
Crows, related birds. have been said to
set up courts, "try" offenders, and SEN
tence them to death-and carry out the
sentence.
This may not be true story, but is a
good one, since it does tend to show
something of the different minds of these
birds and their cousins, the jays
Any one who watches jays for time
will feel sure that the mind that in jay
is not at all like the mind of a chickadee,
let us say.
If we believe. with the late H. G. Wells,
that the mind of man is about at the
end OF its tether, perhaps we may still
have hope when we think Of the bright
natural intellects of our jaybirds. Put
them to school, and in time we might
have new world, better fitted for jays
and men.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Lift the Lid a Little Hiqher

The Davis subcommittee on local law en-
forcement has pried the lid off the bonding
business just far enough to indicate that fur
ther lifting and exploration might prove of
considerable interest. The subcommittee abrupt
ly turned to other matters after hearing several
bondsmen last week. What some of the bonds
men testified concerning their operations taxes
credulity. 1t is hard to believe for example, that
bondsmen often do not know who pays the
premiums for bonds granted in gambling cases.
Or that they do not know the identity of the
mysterious xxx" listed as putting up some of
the premiums Certainly this would be strange
way of carrying on a legitimate business. Evasive
testimony of the sort heard last week inevitably
tends to create suspicion that the witnesses have
something to hide In fairness to the bonding
industry as whole the subcommittee should
dig into the bonding situation until all the
facts-good or bad-are known.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
This and That
By Charles E. 'TroceweII

since the jay is protected by it, but he
was hurting himself and his neigh
borhood
Other birds depend great deal on
the sharp eyes and loud voice of the
jays to warn them of danger
No hawk gets into the vicinity of a
feeding station without the jay giving
voice.
Cats may creep, but they seldom get
a bird if the jay is around.
Not only will the big fellow sound the
alarm, but he will fly squarely at the Of
fender, and peck him on the head or
in the small of the back.
This is not all the blue jay does for
other and smaller birds
He is great hider of foods. Whether
he believes he will find it again and eat
it himself, or whether he actually wants
to help other birds, is anybody's guess
For ourself, we like to believe the
latter. We have watched jays take away
and hide peanuts in way that leaves
them plainly visible to the sharp eyes
Of squirrels.
It is impossible to believe that crea-
ture as intelligent and knowing, so canny
in all his ways, would merely shuttle
few leaves SO that half the peanut is
sticking out, If he was not quite sure
some other hungry thing would find it.
He knows too much, in his world, to
believe for an instant that he has done
q good job of covering UP. s
It IL almost as II he laughs to himself
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Wet Nam Asks Our Aid

An open bid for larger-scale American aid,
made by the Premier of the Wet Nam govern
ment of Indo-China, brings one step nearer
decision by Washington as to what our policy
should be toward that regime. We and Britain
have already extended diplomatic recognition
Red China and Soviet Russia, on the contrary,
have formally recognized the rival organization
headed by the Communist Ho Chi Mini, and it
is virtually certain that he is already receiving
Chinese assistance. If such aid should assume
large proportions, even without open Chinese
intervention, informed opinion generally agrees
that only substantial American backing of Wet
Nam could avert its defeat by Ho Chi Mimi and
his followers France can do no more than she
is doing, with 10000 of her best troops tied up
In Indo-China.
What Wet Nam wants of us was specifically
Evening star., 1950-02-20
JAYS unusually noisy this year?

Jays unusually noisy this year?
So says E. L., and he may be right.
If any bird might be expected to pop
up crying triumph in the face of dis
aster, It surely is the old blue jay.
He might tell us, with a CLINT in his
eyes, that an entirely new relevancy
has been given to many old words, as
we face Squarely into the horrible posi-
bilities of the age.
I'VE who are about to die, salute you, y
for instance.
The cry of the ancient gladiators, once
heard in the Roman arena. as they killed
each other for the qualification Of
Others now might speak the greeting
of the more than two billion living
humans, as they think of the new bombs.
The old jay, demon in bird form
If there ever was one, might scream out,
too, the message poet once wrote for
his tomb, now given an awful modern
meaning:
Life is joke. and all things show it;
thought so once, and now I know it."
All literature. in fact, might we'll be
examined anew for poignant utterances
that have taken on new meaning in the
light of fission.
The blue jay is popular bird, so that
one is at loss to understand the actions
of one human, who spent an entire
year killing all Of them that came
to his place.
Not only was he violating the law.
Evening star., 1950-02-20

stated by the Premier in press interview. He
wants about $4OO0O,OOO in American arms and
materiel to increase his forces from their present
10000 to 100000. He likewise desires $780,
100000 loan for economic reconstruction and
rehabilitation. With that aid, he promises to
defeat Ho Chi Mini and easily repay the loan,
once Indo-China's former export level is
reganed.
This appears to be somewhat optimistic, espe-
cially if Chinese backing of Ho can be predicated
The situation in Indo-China is strikingly similar
to that in Greece at the time of our intervention
though aid now would be on a larger scale and
with more dangerous possibilities. However fail
ure on our part to extend help to Wet Nam would
be not only body blow to it's chances of sur
vival but would also increase the reluctance of
neighboring countries such as Thailand to take
a firm stand against, the Communist menace
Wet Nam thus emerges as a test case of our
intentions. And if aid is intended, it should
logically be extended quickly. The time for de-
ciSion Is short
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Winter Etching

Like thin n-strained honey the pale and
Datery aoi1,ter sum-
Much more OF siluer in it notD than OF
another seasons gold,
Casts light not ,Darnath along the leafess
silUer bough,
Upon the empty haunted nest trans
fred aDith cold.
And spidery fingers OF ice that close
across the garden pool
Are not dissolUed By this trail freight
OF pallid light;
Afternoon aDill find them locked again in
crystal grip,
Secure and secretiUe beneath the FROST
started night.
Let then the heart obSerue, and quietly,
its fallo11 season,
One 1Dith the dormant root in night
!, time OF the gear,
Preserving into another hour its current
hope, despair;
Whatever it 1oould of stifed laughter or
OF frozen tear.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT. ;
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Cordozo Needs Aid-Whatever 1t Nav Be
BY Colt Hendley, J.

THE furor created by the proposal
4 to transfer Central High School to
colored students should not cloud one
fact on which every one is agreed: Car
dozo High School needs help.
The Board of Education currently is
considering what is the best plan for
providing relief for the occupants of the
overcrowded and ancient building that
now is Cardozo. 1t has been considering
the plight of these colored students for
more than year.
The transfer of Central, now a white
school, is the solution backed by colored
residents of the District as we'll as some
other groups. Many white civic groups
and Central alumni are determined to
block any change at Central
The argument is on the question of
proper solution. No one denies that the
oVercroWding of Cardozo poses a prob
lem which must somehow be solved.
The school is old. 1t was built in 1904
and served as a business high school for
white students until Roosevelt High
School was finished in 1881 Then it
was turned over to the Cardozo students,
who until then had been housed in the
equally ancient building that now is
Terrell Junior High School.
Cardozo was designed to handle 1,O40
students. Present enrolment is more
than 1,700. Since September, 1948, stu
dents at Cardozo have been attending
school on what is known as triple
shift"
The triple shift does not mean Car
dozo students are getting less than the
normal six hours of schooling day.
1t means simply that one group comes
in at 8:15 am, another As minutes
later-and a third As minutes after
that.
But shift or no shift, there is no
question but that the Cardozo setup
leaves much to be desired. When DR..
George D. Strayer of Columbia Uni
versity made his ch-discussed survey
of the schools here, he gave Cardozo
rating of 371 out of possible 1000
points for educational adequacy" The
white high school with the lowest score
was Western, with 606 points. Western,
Evening star., 1950-02-20

however, was judged well above the
satisfactory level" of 500 points.
Cardozo's handicap is not confined to
classWork. 1t extends to all the activi-
ties which go into the making of a COM
plete high school. These activities in
Guiding physical education, are carried
out in the corridors and streets-and in
the auditorium, even while study classes
are there.
This auditorium seats less than 5OO
The cafeteria seats only about $50 The
library can accommodate less than 80
students at time. (This, remember,
against an enrolment of 1,7O0D There
is only one small gymnasium; large
room in the basement is used as make
shift gym for the boys. Four single
shower heads are available for the girls
eight for the boys.
There is absolutely no outdoor space
available for recreation between classes
or at any other time. The playground is
the street.
Last week Judge Henry w. Edgerton
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Other Decisions Also Are Pendinq

The Board of Education should have reached
decision last spring on relieving intolerable
conditions of overcrowding at Cardozo High
School It's repeated delays have accumulated
new pressures, centering on the Central High
School issue, that have added to the boards
difficulties Such pressures are not conducive
to wise decisions.
But now that there has been another delay,
while the substance of new controversy and new
pressures is being made available, there are two
points that should be kept in mind
Cd Whatever the solution for Cardozo's dis
graceful overcrowding it will not become effective
until the school year beginning next September.
The physical construction and renovation in
volved in any of the alternate plans under con-
sderation will not begin until late June or July.
The immediacy of decision now thus loses some
Importance.
co Three-and there may be four-cases are
set down for argument in the Supreme Court
beginning March 20, the disposition OF which
may settle for some years to come the future OF
WaShingtons dual school system. 1t is concelv-
able that by the end of June the Supreme Court
will have decided that the whole doctrine OF
equal but separate" facilities is invalid. Should
that be the outcome, there will remain no issue
over Central as a white or colored school. On
the OC1er mana, Jne supreme CouIG Hldy 1oIlo"
the pattern of previous recent decisions in this
field and find that demonstrated inequalities must
be remedied by provision of equal facilities with
out affecting the principle of a dual system
In other words, if Washington's dual school
system is not outlawed in decisions now pending,
1t will remain until changing sentiment rather
than court decision does away with 1T And in
that case the coored divisions of the ssehool
system would be better off by completion of the
already authorized high school building program
than by inheritng Central, which would dras-
tically modify that program. Moreover the
school system as whole stands to gain by re-
tention of Central for one of the several future
needs suggested in the Strayer report.
In these circumstances the Board of Educa-
ton would do we'll to choose one of the alter
natives for temporary relief of Cardozo's acute
overcrowding until more permanent relief is pro-
vided by completion of the s3,600000 Spingarn
High School, for which bids have now been
accepted. The permanent solution proposed in
transfer of Central at this time would seem to
be premature.
Evening star., 1950-02-20

Of the District Court of Appeals took
judicial note of Cardozo's problem when
he dissented in the courts upholding Of
the dual school system in Washington.
"At least since 1888, Cardozo students
have been badly handicapped by over
croWding," he declared.
Judge Edgerton then quoted from Dr.
Strayer's survey on class sizes of Car
dozo High School as follows:
cat Cardozo, despite the triple shift.
the median-siz class was 36.5. go per
class is considered standard) In ali
eight white high schools there were
only SIS classes larger than 80. At Car
dozo alone there were 90 such classes.
cat Cardozo there were IS classes of
between 40 and A; 20 classes of be-
tween As and 40 and seven of over So"
So every one agrees that Cardozo is
not offering the facilities that should be
given to the colored students What now?
This question the Board of Education
has promised to settle at its next meet
ing on March g..
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Send UPWA On Its Way

1t can hardly be said that the CIO has acted
with unseemly haste in booting out the United
Public workers of America.
The Red coloration of this union became ap
parent to most people when 1t was formed in
194s through merger of the old United Federal
Workers and the State, County and Municipal
Workers Almost Immediately after the merger,
UPWA set its course by the Communist Party
line and since then there has been little if any
deviation from it. UPWA should have been kicked
out of the C1O long ago. but, be that as it may,
1t has been expelled now and this action, if be-
lated, is nonetheless welcome.
At this point, 1t may be profitable to turn
back a few pages. In September, 1946 some
Federal officials were expressing concern at the
efforts of UPWA to organize Federal employees
in such sensitive places as the Panama Canal
Zone and Hawaii. The Star published an edi-
torial in that month suggesting that the Gov
eminent refuse to recognize UPWA, and that it
should forbid Federal workers to join it.
This brought vigorous protest" from
Abram Flaxer, the union president In a letter
to the editor, he accused The Star of STOPPING
to a new low in campaign of slander and vilifi-
cation against UPWA. He insisted that the union
was thoroughly pro-American, and he boaSted of
its good relations with Government officials in
the Canal Zone.
There is no telling what Mr.. Flaxer may say
now But in view of the fact that UPWA has been
expelled by the CIO as faithful follower of the
Communist line he can hardly contend, as he
did in 1946, that his union is the victim of base
less newspaper propaganda. Therefore, this may
be good time to renew an old suggestion. The
Government should tell such of its employees as
still belong to UPWA that they must get out, and
If they refuse to get out they should be fired.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. How did the term "red cap" as
applied to railway porters originated
D. A. B.
A. The term "red cap" as applied to
railroad station. porters, dates from
Labor Day, 1890, when John Williams,
Negro porter in the New York Central
station, tied a piece of red flannel on
his cap so that his patrons could identify
him in the crowd.
@. Has it always been the custom to
place chess board with white square
at the right-hand end?-I. S. R.
A. This custom was not firmly estab-
lished until the latter part Of the 18th
century. Some authorities believe that
it is of great antiquity, arising from the
old Greek idea that white on the right
insured good luck. Others, however.
contend that the custom is neither very
old nor of Greek origin, but is based on
the extended powers of the queen.
O. How does the average cost of medi-
cal care compare with other expenses
S. T.
Z A. In most income classes medical
care amounts roughly to between 40 and
As per cent of expenses. On the average
it does not equal expenditures for auto
mobile purchase and operation or alco-
holic beverages, and it is about the same
as expenditures for tobacco and recrea-
ton combined.
@. What were the dimensions OF the
"Black Hole of Calcutta Pc. M.
A. The Black Hole of Calcutta" was
a room which measured l8x14 feet 10
inches, with only two small windows.
Into it were herded 146 of the defenders
of the British garrison at Fort William,
including women and children during
the wars in India in 1855. Only % were
alive the next morning.