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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
|Goyernor Asked
10 Name Negroes
On State Boards

RICHMOND, Va.-A grouI
of Ii Negro leaders in Vir
ginia asked Governor Bat.
tie last week to appoint Ne.
gro members to the various
s t a tie commissions an d
boards as a means of &C.
comprising something pos
tive in the field of race re-
latjons.'
The committee, with Wi
ley A. Hall, of Richmond,
as spokesman, pointed out
Ito the Governor that there
are only six Negro mem
bers on Al of the States
commissions and b ard s.
Three Of that number, it
was also noted, are mem
bers of the Negro Memoir
al Commission.
The group also urged that
Governor Battle make pos
tive steps in the advance
ment of improved race re-
iations to assure Virginia
and the South of the States
enlightened attitude
Governor Battle declined
later to comment on til e
meeting.
DIR. j. Rupert Picott, of
Richmond, executive secre-
tary Of the Virginia Teach
ers Association, said after
the meeting t h a t he had
sailed the committee togeth-
er to implement the VITA
program for greater partici-
patton of Negroes in State
zagencies. He. had no COM
nent on the results Of the
committees conference with
the Governor.
In addition to Hall and
DIR. Picott, members of the
delegation were DIR. j. M.
Tinsley, Richmond; T. J..
Sellers, Charlottesville; M.
G.. Martin, Danville: James
P. Spencer, Richmond; Mrs.
Louella Golf, Covington; B.
T. Bradshaw, r c h mond !;
DR.. Lyman B. Brooks, Nor
folk; Mrs. Irma B. Black
well. Chase City: Mrs. Thel-
ma S. Pegram, Covington;
DIR. T. II. Henderson, Rich
mond, a n d Oliver T. Hill,
Richmond. - T m e s-Dis-
patch.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
Albert Trent Passes

Albert Trent, Of eli Mad
ison Ave, NE, passed at
Burrell Memorial Hospital
Wednesday, Dec. 19, after
a short illness. His funeral
was held at Clark's Funeral
Home, Sunday, Dec % at
200 pm, with Rev. R. j.
Continued to page four)
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
Ministers Wives News
Mrs. M. E. Dunnaville, Reparter

The Ministers Wives Alliance of Roa-
noke and Vicinity held it's annual Christ
mas party at the home of Rev and Mrs
w. N. Hunter, 1912 Norfolk Ave, S. w.
Thursday. evening, December 90. Carols
were sung and everyone had lots of fun
during the interesting games. Several priz-
es were awarded. Delicious and lovely
refreshments were served by the commit
tee on arrangements which consisted of
Mrs. w. N. Hunter, Mrs. w. J. Simmons.
Mrs. R. G. Paisley and Mrs. M e. Dunna-
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of my dear husband
Charles B. Holt, who passed away one
year ago, December 90, 1850
One year has passed and gone
Since we were forced to part.
But time and space cannot erase
Your memory from my heart.
IA ~ MRS. MARY HOLT
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
TRIBUNE INTER-CITY CONTEST
CLOSED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER:

The Christiansburg baby, who report
ed $186.8O, received cash prize of S1OO.
The second prize Of $50 was awarded
Ecbert Boyden, Jr., of Salem, who report
ed $172. The third prize of $25 went to
the Ford baby of Roanoke, who reported
S98. The johnson baby of HolIins report
ed $55 and was awarded a cash appre-
ciat;cn sum for work done
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05

educated wAite Southe,mer oftodoy.
Dear White Southerner: If the South is
growing more liberal, as you said a few
weeks ago, how do YOU explain the flaunt-
ing Of the flag of slavery?
Indignant
ANSWER: Incredible as it NAV seem.
the average Scutherner doesn't regard the
Confederate flag as the symbol of slavery.
We regard it simply as the symbol of the
South--the region in which we live--our
hcme. And we don't think first of white
supremacy. as you naturally do, when we
think of the South. To us the Confederate
flag stands for gracious living, for hospi-
tatity, culture and beauty and for the
many distinguished personalities w hi N
lowered on the compost pile of an evil
system.
We think of the evil system no more
when we remember the old South than
you think of manure when you look at
your flowers. When some one reminds us
that our past glory could not have existed
without the exploitation of other human
beings, we say hastily, Yes, yes, that was
an awful side of it, wasn'tsit?" and quick
change the subject to our flower bed
without mentioning the manure
Surely you will concede that this sort
of thinking is human nature and not mere
ly Southern nature.
don't deny that the Disiecrats are try
ing to ride into power byt confusing their
present political objectives with the sem
rimental patriotism which h average
Co. IL e
iecrats may even have started the whole
flag fad, for all anybody knows. But it is
definitely mistake to believe that every
Southerner who waves Confederate flag
is an advocate of white supremacy. II own
one myself, and both of my little boys
wear Confederate hats. But / would burn
them all pronto if [ thought of them as
symbols of oppression. So would lot of
the other people. Most of us don't associ-
ate them with the issue of civil rights.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05

Vile Those enjoying the affair We're Rev.
and Mrs. w. Heath, Rev and Mrs: w.
~ Scott Rev. and Mrs r. ]. Smith. Rev
end Mrs. VIM. j. Simmons, Rev. and Mrs.
Il. c. Paisley, Rev. and Mrs w N. Hun
ter, Mrs. 0. N. Carter, Mrs M. F.. Dunna-
vile, Estella and Everett Smith, Billy and
Roxanne Simmons, Glen Hunter and Ro-
mel Dunnavlle.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1952-01-05
Notes
on
The
News
The Old Year Ends
By T. J. Sellers

= LIZ VAu NGkl AIXuO
Our little girl has just made the final
blasts on her tin horn and told her family
ana the new year good night. Cuban
dance band makes merry down at Miami
Beach while the radio announcer hides
his occasional mispronunciation of t h e
Spanish song titles in a spirit of festive
merriment
Up and down Anderson street a custom
bound citizen honks an auto horn or toss
es fire cracker out in the backyard to
YEARLY blow out the old year or feebly
salute the new one. The year 1852 has
come upon us and 1851 is no more
Looking back over the So weeks in the
old year should not be too unpleasant for
most Of U.S. In Charlottesville, our econ-
omy was not paralyzed by any of the ma
jor strikes and most of the people who
wanted to work did manage to find some
sort of gainful employment.
No devastating epidemics swept through
: our community closing the schools and
slowing up commerce as was The case in
several cites during 1861
In Charlottesville, we did not have to
dig OUT of snow billiards Or bale out
of floods or clean UP latter tornados as
citizens were forced ito do In. scores of
American cities last year.
We had our share of petty crime bur
by and large, ours was an orderly. city
and nur officials sveSe clean and decent
men. All of these blessings should cause
to be thankful and give us just reasons
to be proud to call the city of Charlottes-
vile home.
In the wide and important field of race
relations the record in Charlottesville for
1851 left much to be desired
Our City Council refused to consider a
Negro member for our School Board, de-
. spite the fact that fully rs per cent of
the local school population is made up of
Negro pupils.
Our City Council knocked out propos-
al that was designed to do something
about slum clearance in Charlottesville.
Our only daily paper insisted on cling
ing TIC the policy of insulting Negro wom-
on in it's news columns by consistently re-
5using to use the courtesy title while Civ
ing the courtesy title to all white women,
including convicted criminals.
But some gains were made in race re-
lat ons despite our City Council and a
strong press with Reconstruction Period
leanings.
T h University of Virginia Hospital
started using courtesy titles for ALL pa
tents in the various records and ward
fac lities for Negro patients were expand
ed.
The local University newspaper came
out editorially for a more objective ap-
proach to race relat ions and President Col
gate d e n reminded an audience in
South Carolina that the race problem was
no longer taboo subject in the South
A mixed audience packed Cabell Hall
to hear DR.. Ralph Bunche and not a single
rafter caved in during that meeting.
Yes, even in the field Of race relations
there were some signs of progress. May
1862 see mere honest effort ON the part
of all of our leaders and citizens to bring
about real democracy and true brother
hood. Sort of naive hope, maybe, but what
can be lost by hoping?
Evening star., 1952-10-22
War Does Not Provide
Answers to Problems

War provides no answer, even
though we must be eternally
ready to meet force with force.
We must insist on our principles
and we must never compromise
those. We must negotiate when
negotiation is possible, break of
when negotiation fails, resume
when resumption is open to us.
and with patience, good will and
firmness struggle to obtain peace
with justice.
What We face, my friends. is
revolution, and you cannot stop
rebellious ideas with bayonets.
You can only stop ideas with
better ideas.
I suggest therefore that we
throw back the challenge of
communism, challenge to
prove the worth Of our system.
What the world needs is an
example, and by this do not
mean an example of just ma
ter1al prosperity, or arrogant
consent, nor of self-righteous-
ness. I mean an example of
moral. Of intellectual, of spirit
ual elevation, of justice. Of
mercy, Of humility. of good will.
The twin ideals that we have
pursued to make our civilization
are justice and freedom. JUS
tice is the cement that holds
the state together. Freedom is
something more than freedom
from government. It is free
dom to become and to remain
politically and economically in
dependent.
We have shown during the
past two decades, the past gen.
Grafton, how the pursuit of these
ideals can refresh and renew
America. We have already come
so far that we can never return
to the time when in the presence
of mountains of wheat there was
Evening star., 1952-10-22
p. Basic Roots of War:
Poverty and Ignorance

We know that we must strike
first in this question. for peace,
at the basic roots of war. That
is at poverty. at ignorance and
at political instability. The solu-
ton to the problem of poverty
Is not to be found in an inter-
national give-away problem. A
great part of the answer is
trade. and trade has to be q
two-way street.
We must lead the way.
Then in progressive reduc-
ton of the barriers to trade, in
our economic interest Of course,
and also in our interest as the
leader of the free world, and as
a practical matter. we would
have to do that anyway, because
we cannot go on indefinitely ex-
porting dollars abroad.
A second phase of the war
against poverty is the undertake
ing by those who know how to
produce. to teach those who do
not. This is the aim of many
of the principal programs of the
United Nations. and a point Of
what we call point-four. one
of President Truman's most far
sighted proposals.
II we can counteract the
Evening star., 1952-10-22

little bread: when warehouses
burst with cotton. but there
were few sheets, towels, shirts
and dresses; when we had
architects, carpenters and the
materials to build houses, de-
cent houses, but millions lived
in novels; when the splendid
American dream seemed at a
shabby end, and the splendid
promises of American life were
ashes in the mouths of the
people.
II you had read about such q
country in novel, you would
have said that its inhabitants
were crazy. Yet that was our
way, not so long ago. A miracle
has been wrought in America.
We have made a humane revo-
luton. 1t has been done without
hatred or bloodshed. No man
has been deprived of his lib
critics. The many have been
benefited. The few have not
been hurt. The many have more
bread. The few do not have
less cake.
Evening star., 1952-10-22
; Gov. Stevenson's Radio 7 7eIevision Address

Russian imperialism has come
to the scene.
It is the old would-be con-
queror using the new and addi-
tional weapons of an idea
communism. 1t overran many
countries during World War II.
1t has won millions of converts
throughout the world. It works
by force and by guile. 1t has
found opportunities for decep-
ton because the West has not
always been true to its own
greatness.
Some people have felt their
plight was so bad that any
change would be an improve
ment. Too late many of them
have discovered that new
tyrant is subjecting them to a
slavery worse than any they
have known.
Our world then is world
transformed by science and
technology. ravaged by war,
torn by theological struggle,
world in convulsion. but a world
OF hope in a time for greatness.
It is in this situation that we
as Americans find ourselves
today. We cannot hide. We
could not. if we would. Modern
weapons leap any wall. pene-
trate any cave. Events and our
own power have determined
that we shall be the leaders of
the free world.
The one over riding obliga-
tions of this leadership today is
peace. For ourselves. Yes. But
this means today for the world.
A position OF leadership is not
always comfortable. The most
distressing aspect of it is that a
leader has to think. He can
not fulfill his responsibilities If
he merely says as one of the
men of the French Revolution
did The mob is in the street. I
must see where they are going,
for I am their leader"
The responsibilities of leader
ship require us solemnly to as
sist the obligations that provi-
dence has laid upon us and
prayerfully to chart the course
by which we may discharge
those obligations.
Evening star., 1952-10-22

affects of poverty, counteract
the effects of ignorance, we
shall have made long strides
toward eliminating the threats
OF both war and Of Communist
expansion.
I have often thought that one
OF the principal sources of Rus
sian Communist power is that
1t has made the miserable of the
world more conscious of their
misery.
But we must lead the way too
Of the establishment of polit-
ical stability among the nations
OF the world, stability based
on those understandings be-
tween nations which will dimin-
ish their fears.
We set our feet on that road
when we joined in establishing
the United Nations. The United
Nations is. of course, far from
perfect. We sometimes hear
that it is just debating soci-
ETY., but at least no man ever
got shot by words, and it is
through debates in the United
Nations and all Of its specialized
agencies and it is through action
by those agencies that we are
today promoting an ever wir3nr
world understanding.
But what about the Russians.
you say. They have frustrated
all too many efforts of the
United Nations. We cannot cry
peace. peace" when there is no
peace.
No. we cannot. But we can
keep our heads and our tempers
and we can calmly consider
what courses are open to us.
Evening star., 1952-10-22
The United Stotes
Is the American PEOPLE

Behind the miracle that has
been wrought with your Coop
Grafton lay several concepts. It
seems to me they were these:
The United States is not a dry
as-dust theory in a musty book,
1t is not our farms, four fac
tories or money. 1t is our people.
They are not the masses. They
are the millions of Individuals
tic men and women. pulsing, do
ing, aspiring persons, persons of
flesh and blood. Each has a
soul. Each a mind, and each
a purpose in life.
Each is sometimes uplifted.
and sometimes cast down. AS I
see it, our Federal Government
Is not a mere piece of machinery.
I would not give you a dime for
q man or a political party that
had two brains and no heart.
Nor Is government hody Of
thin-blooded men, remote from
the daily lives of the people, Of
those whom they govern. Most
OF us believe that our kind of
government is a living thing,
Continued on Page AS, Col. /.
Evening star., 1952-10-22
BY the Associofed Press


CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-FolloaD-
ing is stenographic report of
adio-teleDiSion address last
night by Gou. AdlGi E. Stepe tSon
from Chicago:
Good evening.
I am speaking tonight from a
studio in Chicago, just two weeks
before the election. and on the
eve of my departure early to-
morrow morning for a final cam
paign trip through the Middle
West and the Northeast.
This campaign has been long
and it has been tiring. I some
times feel like the man who,r
when asked how his invalid
mother-in-law was getting along,
said. We'll she is still sick, and
sure wish she would get well
or something"
It has been q moving and ex-.
hilirating experience for me to
meet my fellow countrymen all
across the Nation.
I have tried to talk sense. I
have tried to talk sensibly. We
Americans believe that the old
counsel. come and let us reason
together, is almost divinely in
spired.
For when men talk commonly
about their common problems,
they arrive at the noble estate
to which we have given the name
neighbor.
Now, as We approach the
end of the campaign, I would
like to talk to you in the quiet
Of your home about something
very near and dear to both of
us: The peace of the. world,
your sons and mine. have
three.
AS a father, I am deeply con-
cerned about their future in the
perilous world that we inhabit.
Yet even as I tell you this, I know
that no father can feel quite the
same about children as mothers
feel about them.
know that war is harder upon
women than upon men, that it
outrages their profoundest feel
ings about life. the home, the
heart.
Who then would not be ami
mated by a passion for peace?
Who would not want to 50 order
1t that mothers shall have their
children, wives their husbands,
and girls their sweethearts, In
stead of surrendering them to
war?
Peace is the end toward which
I. like you. would move with all
Of the strength Of mind and
body. But peace, in a savagely
hostile world is not to be had
Just for the asking.
Evening star., 1952-10-22
Worldwide Revolution
Has q New WEAPON

Let us, therefore, raise our
eyes above the current contro-
versy. Let us ask ourselves,
where we are, where we want to
go. and how we can get there.
The central fact. suppose.
Of our time Is that revolution
is worldwide. It is technology
cal, it is economic and it is
political. And therefore, it is
also moral.
Scientific Inventions of recent
years are sufficient to blow the
old relationships OF nations to
bits. The airplane and the
atomic bomb have made isola-
tionism impossible for any ma
ton, even a nation which like
ours is seemingly sheltered by
the great oceans. And now
Evening star., 1952-10-22

Continued on Page AS, Col. ~
Evening star., 1952-10-22

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Follo,D-
ing is a stenographic report ot
radio-teleDiSion address last
night by GoU. Adlai E. Stepe ,Son
from Chicago:
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-08
WANCHESE PERSONALS

The Home Workers Society
met Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Edith Baum with IA
members present. Mrs. Edward
Davis had the program opening
with the hymn Look for the
Beautiful" She also read the first
chapter of John, then prayer. Mrs.
Sallie Daniels sang a solo Some
body Cares" We planned to buy
new drapes for our parsonage. The
hostess served homemade cake
and ice cream for refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Sobel from
Marietta, Pa, spent last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Saunders. Mrs
Saunders has gone home with
them for few days.
Mrs. Lucetta Montague is spend
ing a week with her granddaugh.
ter, Mrs. Hilda Seymore at Cam
den, N. c.
Bate Williams is very i'll at his
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Greet anG
baby spent the weekend with Mrs
Creef's mother, Mrs. Lucy Mid
gette.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-08
FARMERS AID
HYDE MEETING
NEXT FRIDAY

A meeting will be called by the
Agricultural Mobilization Com
mittee on Feb. Is to discuss the
program to be worked out in Hyde
County for obtaining this increas-
ed production. This meeting will be
attended by bankers, fertilizer,
seed and feed dealers, prominent
farmers and all agricultural work.
ers.
The meeting will be held at the
Agricultural Building, and further
information may be obtained from
J. C. Williams, Jr.
A goal of 10 per cent of the
1851 acreage of (corn, cotton, or
soybeans) for harvest next fall has
been set for Hyde county as its
part of the increasing national re-
quirements for the feed and fiber
crops, according to T. A. Jennette,
chairman of the County Agricul-
tural Mobilization Committee.
Other 1852 acreage goals for
Hyde County are: Cotton-same as
1851 and soybeans los percent.
Because of increasing demands
for feed crops and cotton due to
the defense effort and our increas-
ing population, and also the need
to stabilize prices through abun-
dant production, it is absolutely
necessary for the farmers in Hyde
County to increase their production
of these crops. Farmers throughout
the state are also asked to produce
in 1862 increased yields of corn,
cotton, soybeans, sweet potatoes,
Irish potatoes, sorghum for grain,
oats, and hay.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-08
SLADESVILLE LEADER
GOES TO REST SUNDAY

William Henry Berry, 76, prom
inent merchant and leader of the
Fortescue Creek section near
Sladesville, Hyde County, died Fri
day at his home after long ILL
ness. He was buried Sunday in the
Beulah Church Cemetery nearby,
services having been conducted
from the home at 2 p. m. by Mark
Alligood, minister of the Christian
church. Despite bad weather, a
large crowd attended. He was the
son of the late VIM. w. and Mary
Boomer Berry of Hyde County.
He is survived by an adopted
son, Oscar Berry of Scranton; a
brother, John Berry of Washing
ton, N. c.; a daughter, Mrs. Fred
Hooten of Washington; a sister,
Mrs. Maggie Silverthorn of Nor
folk.
Pail bearers were Odia Williams,
Harold Spencer, Archie Caravan
Kenneth Gray, Lloyd Williams and
Harry Sawyer. The Berry Com
pany funeral directors.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-08
II. D. CLUBS PLAN
COMMUNITY SINGSPIRATION

The Home Demonstration Clubs
in North Carolina are taking as
one of their detectives in 1852
"the Improvement of music in the
rural churches"
To start this much needed prof.
ect the Hyde County Home Demon
stration Clubs are sponsoring a
singspiration or community sing
Sunday, February 10, at 800 p. m.
in the Agricultural Building in
Swan Quarter. Everyone is invited
to come and bring the family,
come and take a part, lend your
voices toward the realization of a
county choir"
Carlyle Jones of Fairfield is
chairman; Mrs. j. L. Simmons OF
airfield and p. d. Midget, III, of
Engelhard compose the music
committee. Miss Sue Harris of
Pioneer will play for the group
singing, but each special group
much furnish its own accompanist
Any person or group of persons
is invited to participate by render.
ing special religious selections. If
you are interested. please contact
! a member of the music committee
or the Home Agent.