Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-06-12

Great economic and social forces flow with tidal
sweep communities that only half conscious of
that which is Detailing them Wise statesmen those
who foresee what time is thus bringing and endeavor
shape institutions and to mold mems thought purpose
in accordance with the change that is silently surround
ing them. So wrote John, Vscount Morley, the great
nineteenth century British historian and biographer
in the closing paragraph of the life of Richard Golden
The above words, although written by man born
in the 1888 will apply with equal if not greater force
to the present than to any time period during the
life time of the man by whom it written.
More than any other state in the United States the
greatest need for Mississippi at this time is wise states
manship craftsmanship with the knowledge, honesty
and courage to give the people true picture of the
great economic and social forces flowing with
tidal sweep, and of the changes that surrounding
them.
One of the great truths, which wise statesman
ship should tell the people of Mississippi is that the
Statesmen, before the United States became nation
and before the nation became divided the ques
ton of the Negro and slavery invented to raonaize
the British imperial policy and practices and that
world is being born with ideal that must reckon
with the fact that threefourhs of the world population
Stringfeow Barr, the contemporary American
scholar world traveller and writer despite the present
threat power Russia his recent tract entitled
Lets Join the Human Race points to China, with it's
uncounted millions the ultimate leader of the worlds
coored people in the struggle for equality with the White
Man. Regarding China he says that in the next twenty
five years. from the time which he wrote the tract the
industrial output of China would equal that of the Unit
ed States industrial capacity and the military might it
supports being the only basis of claims of superior
ty nation and upon which rest the doctrine and
ideal of White Supremacy
The picture of the future of China is only enlarged
by the mention of India Indo- China, Africa, and the
rest of the colored people of the world
The present attacks the United States Supreme
Court because of it's decision declaring unconstitutional
racial segregation in the public schools, and the
recent decisions declaring racial segregation unconsttu
tona meets the recent charge of the Russian delegate
to the United Nations that the Western Democracies
have written into their constitutions the doctrine of
White Supremacy: How difficult it becomes to belitte
the United States Supreme Court for such acts and at
the same time hold the court up to the rest of the
world including it's great majority of Colored people,
the worlds greatest judicial body.
Considering the relative impotence of the Mis-
ssspp Negro without reference to the long rupudiaed
writings such those of the notorious Count Gobenau,
upon which such conclusions based it perhaps arises
quams to refer to the Mississippi Negro living in
lower moral strata than that of the white people of the
state but listening to such remarks are the uncouned
millions of Asia, pointed out by Adla Stevenson upon
returning from his recent world tour who have yet to
make up their minds to the choice of following Rus
STA the United States is it idle to conclude that an
insult to the Mississippi Negro is of to the
rest of the colored people of the world
Must be written into the final chapter of American
history that the Negro which all but led the nation to
destroy itself led to it's destruction by forces and in
fluences from outside the United States.
Looking at the present and toward the future, the
greatest need for Mississippi at this time is wise
craftsmanship