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Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15

tell them that that is the way Of life
The high school graduates left h,
twelve years ago, in most instances
mothers little darlings. During this seas
they are leaving high school as moha
pride and JOY. Some have during ID
years become honor students, Others ID
only fair and still others barely got
Whatever their scholastic standing At
end, somebody should tell them those
them who will 60 away TO college, that d
will meet others just as smart. This d
meeting will prove one point concuSVl
and that is, with this new competition
come the real test of scholarship
AS we have often said and have Nd
often heard said, each graduate, or rad
many of them, will expect to go out and
the world on fire with their ideas. Soneol
should tell them that such thoughts VIII 4
bring Illustrations when they get out
find that the world has been burning VI
ideas thousands of years before lhey \
born.
The task of telling them has not been
gated to any particular group or proleSl
nor will ii ever be. 1t is therefore the p'|
everyone to help wherever and wnesI
help is needed. Everybody should teA
graduates that no person knows II al
that there is room for an increase IN 10
ledge in all. They, like the most oil
have used what was learned In scn'@
learn more, must resolve within thenx
to meet competitive world on comFa
basis. ..t..
Yes, someone must tell them, as M
Marvin Griffin told graduates OF Moor
school, it is we'll to learn how to aceF
feat as well as success, and that iauu'
the opportunity to more intelleen~
gin again. They must know that ever ~
undertaken by them will not be sucrn'
but that III is better by far 10 ial
cause that will ultimately succeed ua
succeed in cause that will ultimately
On the morning of the same day VI
lace Wright told graduates OF fau
college that Intelligence and educauVD
a whole lot. but one never gets thiO's"
ing for ignorance.
Therefore somebody should tell me
that they are not the leading c'1ara.u
are only the extras in the great u'n g
life. With this they should also Dc w~
they may become stars of the 'On,g
they will but faithfully, couraeeo@p
intelligently use the tools whlc . ,a
placed in their hands. - waco wv"
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
We Believe He Really Believes That

tied to dealing with pupils in southern
schools, and whose mind is blinded by pref
udee, has no other choice but to disbe-
leve the testimony of the expert wit
nesses whose testimony is based upon Stats
tics.
The witnesses for the school authori-
ties, and defendants, admitted, according to
the Southern Weekly that their conclusions
were based on practical knowledge of local
conditions. But their convictions express
ed in their conclusions strengthened the tes-
timony of the anti-segregationists. They said
"any attempt to revoutionize the school sys-
tenn of South Carolina by mixing the two
races in all classes would be extremely dan
gerous and that it would result in greater
danger for the negro, even if it could be
done successfully"
Despite all the hocus-pocus the editor of
the Southern Weekly brings out, he does
make one commitment, and that is the white
pupils are inferior to Negro pupils. He
states editorially Psychologists could be
found to testify as experts that mixed
schools, in which negro pupils would be
daily Inundated / ncontact and in compe-
titon with white pupils, would have far more
damaging effect on their personalities and
self-esteem than segregated schools have
The only people who can humilate others are
the people who are inferior in conduct and
intelligence.
The editor concludes: lone thing is GER
tain, regardless of such considerations and
regardless also of how the Supreme Court
of the United States finally rules in the
South Carolina case or similar cases pend
ing There will be no mixed public schools
in South Carolina nor in any of the other
Southern states. The Government of the
United States is probably the strongest ever
to exist on earth. But is it not strong enough
to compel the people of the South, ~ fierce
or by other means, to maintain mixed public
schools"
Our only comment is that, We believe he
really believes that.
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
The Cost Of Excessive Speed

High automobile speed has entered the
luxury class said Roy Martin, Fort Smith,
truck operator and chairman of the Traffic
and Transportation Section of the Arkansas
Safety council. Mr.. Martin pointed to the in
creased cost Of automobiles. parts, tires,
gasoline and oil under todays spraling cost
of living as evidence that excessive speed
can no longer be considered an incidental
expense to the car owner.
Even careful, economical driving"
Martin said "has reached the highest cost
in automobile history. Add to these social
ed normal costs the additional wear, tear
and increased gasoline and oil consumption
created by hghspeeds and the cost to the
automobile owner really skyrockets"
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
History In The Making In Dixie =
BY Ray Lawrence

The staid old bulwark of segregation; the
same system that became one of the pillows
of pattern of superiority that built up Cat
fish" rows in American cities, is again the
scene of another one of the crossroads of
history. The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has dipped
into the very heart of jim crow by bringing
the "UnAmerican" educational system in
South Carolina into federal court on charges
that segregation itself amounts to "unlaw-
full inequality" the action, brought on be-
half of CT Negro school children and their
parents or guardians, in seeking the admis-
sion of these children to the white" pub
lie elementary and secondary schools OF
Clarendon county and decree by the court
invalidating article II, section T. of the con-
stitution of South Carolina.
Although, the state has admitted that
Negro schools are not the equal of white
schools in Clarendon county, where the
suite originated, yet it feels strongly tha'
any legal attempt to break segregation
and put the schools on democratic basis is
unwise But despite this defeatSt attitude
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
Our Hat Is Off To The Vega

Thanks to whatever gods may be for the
Veterans of Good Government association.
AT last one Negro dominated organization
has seen the light and faced with the stark
realization that the only way to share IN the
benefits of the city government is to partici-
pate in it. The association has announced
that it will put candidate in the aldermanlc
race during the summer. And for that one
venture alone. our hat Is off to the associa.
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
Somebody Should Tell Them .

This week and the next two or three
weeks graduation exercises will be held all
over the country Graduation exercises are
not new but with each class there is also d
new wave of intelligent ignorance. 1t is this
new wave which causes society much con-
Germ We here call each graduating class
fresh wave of intelligent ignorance because
for the most part each graduate has taken
for granted what has been written by some
one else and has had no time to find out
truths for himself. Somebody should tell
them that the end of learning is not yet
come.
1t seems that each class leaves the ros-
trum with the idea the wide world is theirs
With this idea in their minds many OF them
go out with the thought that it Is but small
period of waiting until the world Is cares,
singly placed in their collective laps. Some
body should tell them that the world is
theirs. it is true, but each mile toward pos
sessing the land will be hard one. Gradu-
ates should know that from now on each
step will be hard one. Graduates should
know that from now on each step will be one
of painstakng effort fashioned from their
OWIl
Many of the graduates have taken into
their thinking the thought that the world is
awaiting them with wide stretched arms, but
someone should tell them that these arms
mean an embrace of death. The graduates
should know that arms of the world have
but one purpose and that is to wiring from
unsuspecting persons all that they possess.
We admit that it is heartwarming to hear
the plaudits of the crowd, it is also pleasant
to view distant vistas. Broad plans beyond
graduation appear to be verdant fields.
Somebody should tell them, however, that
the green appearance is but thistles to prick
the feet of the unsuspecting traveller. They
should also know that the towering noun
tains are not overruning with gold as some
would have them believe. Somebody should
tell them that the gold is there but they
must dig to claim for themselves what is to
be gained.
It follows then that the world is no bed OF
roses and that what one gets must come
from the fruits Of ones labors There are
many adjustments which must be made. a
mong such adjustments will be that of not
expecting holidays at every turn; another
will be that of dispensing with those little
short cuts to lesson assignments, and still an
other will be that of learning TO do under
ones own power. All of these and many
more will appear hard but somebody should
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15

coupled with determination to cling to the
Southern traditional white Supremacy" I'M
written law, Negroes in South Carolina are
standing firm, and are just as determined to
find out why they cannot be recognized as
Americans as the whites are determined 10
see that they are kept as second rate cit-
Zens.
Interesting enough, all three Of the
judges are southern born and educated Two
are natives of South Carolina and the third
North Carolinan. Chief of the court is
Senior Circuit Judge John p. Parker of
Charlotte, N. c., Republican Associated
with him is District Judges j. Waties War
ing Of Charleston and George Bell Thinner
man of Batesburg S. c. both Democrats.
Judge Parker has, for the past two dec
AIDES consistently upheld the rights of Ne
groes in suits brought before him.
History is on the march, and the old
worned idea that might must succeed, and
that tradition is a standard law, to hold and
suppress with fear is losing all importance
in fast moving world, where segregation
Is being fought all over the world.
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
observatory
BY EARL

4, A dead aim at segregation turned the neat
IN in South Carolina recently. battery OF
LAWYERS was heard by three Carolina federal
Judges in their plea declare segregation in
education a violation of the fourteenth
amendment Included on the bench was Judge
Wates Waring. Thurgood Marshall was
chief council for the plaintiffs.
Judging from past events, it must have
been a hot time in the old town with segre-
cation itself on trial. AT this writing the is
sue is under adyisement.
THE GENERAL SPEAKS ON RACE;
Macarthur hasn't quite faded yet, accord
ing to a recent news report. In an interview,
the General voiced his opinion concerning
racial war, stating he breads the thought,
for II would throw us back to the dark ages.
1t is regrettable to say that there is GER
tain portion of our country where the Amer
can flag is meaningless when carrie Ny
certain segment of American people. A clear
demonstration Of such was given in Natchez,
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15
comments
LEE DAVY

Mississippi when an American Legion color
guard was halted by policemen while march
ing down Main street in a parade on Me
mortal day. No explanation was given--The
color guard was colored, but we hope there
might have been other reasons.
Philander Smith will get It's share of the
Rockefeller education fund recently appru-
priated. The purpose Of the program is to in
crease and improve undergraduate facilities
in Negro colleges.
southern Governor broke the silence
last week in his comment on the entry of
four Negroes TO the University of North
Carolina law school and the segregation suit
which is now under advisement in South
Carolina Governor Scott of North Carolina
said he had talked with lot of Negroes in
the state and they weren't eager to stop
segregation No doubt, ther0 is much truth
II h'e fintr~- tv' ',0 tai.----' -'~'r gle
f. human f.g'.- "-d CO Il 1~r1" ...'
for both Negro and white citizens is 90
greatest truth which must become a reality.
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15

Martin said that high speed nO' y, u.
creases the riders chances OF az ~,
and the chances of being killed ~ ~, j,
of an accident--but that the Sns" a
time is infinitesimal In compass, ~,
actual dollars and cents loss ~ eo nis
IF you cruise at speed Of ' ~ osp
hour" he said, you'll use aOoa' ,os
more gasoline than you woulu s ., sbor
40 miles an hour You'll also use US !. s' 40
times as much oil as you wou ,.. off
an hour and will wear your tli' srd N
as fast. For this hard-cash'losS, IllrsIf
ditional risk TO your life you ., w.
a few miles in a days dr ,I,"
gamble by anyone's standards
Arkansas State press., 1951-06-15

ton.
If the association enters candidate as
announced, ii will have achieved more than
any other organization in the city of Little
Rock. The right to enter Negro for public
office in the city election was won last year
in federal court in this city, so enter your
candidate Whether you will elect one or not,
you will win the respect and admiration Of
all decent Americans.
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03

The Army announced last Thurs
day "plans for carrying to compile
ton" the integration of colored
personnel in all combat units of the
Far East Command and to break
up the Oath Infantry Regiment, it's
oldest and largest colored unit.
In congratulating the Army and
the Defense Department, Senator
Lehman noted that after basic
traing colored soldiers are sent to
segregated units and generally re-
main in such units until they are
discharged from the Army.
Senator Lehman is one of a
group of Senators who have been
working with Defense Department
officials and Army officers to
achieve maximum use of all Army
personnel. Others in this group
include Senators Paul H. Douglas
of Illinois, William Benton of Con-
necticut, Warren C. .Magnuson of
Washington, Matthew M. Nicely of
West Virginia, Theodore F. Green
of Rhode Island, James E. Murray
of Montana, all Democrats, and H.
Alexander Smith, Republican, Of
New Jersey.
The Army's announcement con-
firmed a report from Tokyo that
the Oath Infantry Regiment, COM
ponent of the 25th Infantry Divis-
ion, will be broken up and it's per-
sonnel assigned to mixed units as
requirements.
The Oath Infantry Regiment was
one of the four colored regiments
organized after the Civil War in
accordance with an act of Con-
gress. The other three regiments
the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry
and the 25th Infantry have pre-
viously been deactivated.
It's history dates back to July
%, 1866, when the 38th Infantry
Regiment was constituted. The
38th Infantry was consolidated
with the 41st Infantry Regiment
March Is, 1869. These two regi-
ments were activated as the Oath
Infantry at Fort McKavitt, Texas,
November 1, 1869.
During it's early years the regi-
ment's principal duty was MAIN
Continued on page 81
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
Rev. Taylor Dies
After Long Illness

The Rev. H. {. =. Taylor, 73,
died Tuesday night at his home,
1915 w. Watkins Rd., after four
years illness.
The Revered has been up and
down during his four years i'll
ness, though recently he had been
very active going about his work
around the house. The day he died
he had his regular meals, and
had been called to dinner by his
wife. He answered and must have
died Immediately after doing so.
Rev Taylor was a native of
Texas, and brother of the late
Bishop William F. Taylor Of Kan
sas City, who died four years ago.
Alter serving as pastor of the
Light of Truth Spiritualist Church
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for forty
years, Rev. Taylor retired in 1945
and moved to Phoenix.
Surviving are his wife, Nellye
Maye, the Westside Social colum-
mist; two daughters, Mrs. Eloise
Butler of Grand Coulee, Wash;
and Mrs. Lille Mae Washington
of Phoenix. One son, Johnny of
Tulsa; three brothers, Adolphus
and John of Seattle, and General
of Phoenix; one sister, Mrs. Pearl
Montgomery of Detroit, Michigan.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Tuesday, in the Ragsdale
Chapel in the Valley. Burial will
be in Greenwood Memorial Park
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
RESIDENTS WELCOME.
FIRE INSPECTIONS

The Fire Chlef.. reports that
about 200 home fire inspections
are being made each week by
members of the force touring the
neighborhoods in the vicinity of
their fire stations. The Chief re-
ports that in every instance resi-
dents have welcomed the inspec-
tions. Some residents have called
the Fire Department, asking when
inspections were to be made and
indicating desire. to learn as
much as possible about home fire
protection. The Phoenix Associa-
ton of Insurance Agents is join
ing in support Of the drive by
newspaper publicity in which fire
protection is advocated as a year
around program.
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
AII-CoIored Town
Enforces
Gambling Law

Brooklyn, Ill. (NNPA) = The
din of hammer and tacks heralded
the dawn of a new day in the
taverns and pcolrooms of this all
colored Illinois community last
Wednesday as Mayor William
Terry and Chief Of Police Ernest
Hawkins, both colored, began en-
forcing gambling laws by placards.
Placards went up all over the
town as the mayor promised to
carry out orders frof Sheriff Max
L. Hill of st. Clair County to keep
down gambling in the community.
The tour began at the moder-
nistic Harlem Club, a solid fort
ress-like building which has housed
the reputedly $4,000, ,OOO-a-year
Harlem Association policy game
for years.
II checked on some rumors that
policy was running" Mayor Terry
said. "But there wasn't any gambl-
ing there"
AS each placard was tackled into
place by Chief Hawkins, Terry
threatened to revoke city licenses
if it's orders were violated The
placards, accentuated by a heavy
exclamation point at the end, said:
mo kind of gambling or minors
allowed in here. Any 'violator pro-
secuted according to law"
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
Rites Held For
Otho Fisher

Funeral services were held last
Monday for Otha Fisher, 1909 E.
Washington ST., from the First
Institutional Baptist Church, Rev.
L. B. Nelscn,. officiating.
Mr.. Fisher died in a local hos
pital July %, after being i'll since
last April. He came to Phoenix in
1947 from Coffeeville, Kansas.
Survivors are four sisters and
four. brothers. Those attending the
funeral were sisters; Mrs. Thelma
Gadeson, Saltwater, Oklahoma;
Mrs. T. Brown, Dayton, Oklahoma;
Mrs. Anna Perryman, Coffeeville,
Kansas, and one ether sister whose
name was not obtained. Brothers
attending were: Willie and Steve
Of Coffeeville, and Palmer of Los
Angeles
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
Paving Of Sixteenth
Street Underway

The paving and widening Of 18th
Street from Pinchot Avenue to
Villa Street and on Thomas Read
from 18th to 18th Streets w.s
started by contractors last week.
Sixteenth Street will be widened
to sixty feet and Thomas Road to
fifty-five feet In conjunction with
the paving project, new water
mains and fire hydrants will be
in the area from Almeria
Road to Thomas Road. It is ex-
pected the job will be completed
about November first at cost
of approximately $36O,o0O, Of
which $12O,OOO was paid by the
city from gasoline tax revenues.
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
ArmySesregotion
DeIt Death Blow

Washington, D. c. (NNPA) =
The decision Of the army to dis
band the oath Infantry Regiment,
the oldest and largest unit con-
sisting of all-colored enlisted per-
sonnel, is a death blow to segre-
CATION in the armed forces, Sena-
ter Hubert Humphrey, Democrat
of Minnesota, declared last Friday.
- Senator Humphrey, one of a
small group of senators who have
been fighting discrimination and
segregation in the army, congrat-
ulated the Defense Department and
Defense Secretary George c. Mar
shall, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, As
sistant Secretary of Defense, and
Frank Pace, Secretary of the Army
Department.
''The decision cf the army to
disband the Oath Infantry Regi-
ment is a death blow to segrega-
ton in the Armed Forces" Sena-
tor Humphrey said in prepared
statement, adding:
"There is no doubt in my mind
that the pattern of segregation
will completely disappear, not only
in the battle zones but in the
training units as we'll.
Il congratulate Secretary of De-
Tense Marshall, Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense Rosenberg, and
Secretary of the Army, Pace.
This is a most significant and
noteworthy step toward a fuller
concept Of democracy for all
Americans. It is consistent with
the directive of the president and,
III my judgement, carries out he
wishes of majoriy of he Amer
ican people,"
The army is no only inactivating
the oath Infantry Regiment but it
has announced it's intention to end
racial segregation in both combat
and service units in the Far East
Command.
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03

furnished b. the East Lake InStru-
mental Ensemble and chief speak
ers were Mayor Udall and Rev.
Jerry Ford, who made the dedica-
tion speach. After the ceremonies
the lights were turned on and an
activity program throughout the
park, with all facilities in use, was
held until 10:30 PM.
The recreation building houses a
gymnasium which has two shower
rooms and two euipment storage
rooms on the eaStside, a large
stage, a complete kitchen at lower
stage right, two dressing rooms
and a directors office at lower
stage left. The stage has sliding
doors to be used instead of cur
tains. This gym will also be used
for community Plays, banquets and
public gatherings. Its folding
bleachers seat three to five hun
Gred. Basketball equipment is mo-
bile, making the uses of this gym
widespread.
One of the most interesting
parts of the building is the Teenage
Canteen. East Lake boasts the only
one of it's kind in the city. It's fully
equipped with snack bar, radio, and
juke box. Roomy and cheerful
the delight of any teenager. The
canteen is for teenagers exclusive
ly.
Il Crafts Room is opposite the
canteen on the Westsides of the
, building. Here classes will be held
in leather, copper, tin, domestic
craft work and art of all kind.
(ContinueG on page 3
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03

TcgOland progress, the Council
urged that suffrage and secret bal
LOT be extended soon from the
southern to the northern area,
that construction of all-weather
roads be accelerated, and that the
rather small number of doctors
and hospitals" be expanded.
It also urged that the wide
discrepancy between educational
progress in the northern and
southern sections "be oercome,
with possible creation of govern
ment or local authority schools"
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
Negro Teachers
Case TO Go
To Supreme Court

According to release last week
from Globe, the Globe and Miami
School Board will repeal the de-
cision of the lower court, in the
dismissal Of two Negro school
teachers who would be out of
a JOB when school opens this
fall. R. w. Taylor, superintendent
of the Globe school, said the Ari-
zona Supreme Court will be asked
to settle the matter.
The two teachers, Mrs. Daisy
Moore and Mrs. Marietta Bryant,
filed suit last June, in the Gila
County Superior Court. Judge c.
c. Faires ruled that no good and
just cause existed for termina-
ticn of their contracts.
Arizona sun., 1951-08-03
Great Britoin Proposes New
Constitution For Gold Coast Colony

Flushing Meadows, N. Y. (NN-
PA) : Commencing Great Britain
for promulgating new constitu-
ticn for its Gold Coast colony and
Togoland trust territory last De-
cember 20, the United Nations
TruSteeship Council last Thursday
said this gives the peoples "a large
measure of self-government" and
affords adequate "ccnstitutionap
protection to the trust territory in
nabitantS.
Adopting twenty-five resolutions
in it's annual review of British