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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18
Avoid Extremes

The moderates, the people of good WILL have been
the dominant voice in Ashevlle up until now.
But it would be childish to assume that there
white extremists among us. 1t is unreaisc not to
that aggressive pressure will strength to the
tremists, weaken the moderates
The danger from hasty, aggressive action is
real and should be cody reckOned by responsible Ne
gro leaders There is real danger to the public school
system, to the whole fabric of community peace
The moderates of both must and face this
danger. If they don't all making efforts may be
overrun in a rising flood of extremist reaction.
The moderate whites want progress for Negro citi
zens farer share of the good things of life. Many
white Souherners born and bred have worked hard for
these ends, rsked and suffered social penalties. They
want to go workng-but in framework of the pos
sibe.
This is not only legaistic problem, answered
and for all by the Supreme Court This is human prob
em rooted in social patterns hundreds of years DID,
They cannot be made to vanish by legal pronounce
ment Passions both sides involved. Passions
which, needlessy provoked undo the hard gains of
decades =.
Changes have already come in the old ways of life
for the two races in the South and more may come.
Yet whatever the future, the whites and Negroes
of Ashevile must somehow work out together ivabe,
and mutually acceptable way of community life under
changing conditions of law and of rights and duties.
1t is community problem involving vast differ
races.
And therefore, the problem has to be approached
by the leaders of both races with mutual recognition
and respect for feelings and hopes and fears both
sides.
We have edtorally suggested the organization here
of nterracial committee for discussion of mutual
problems We believe there is definite need of such
group which should materially aid this community in
avoiding extreme actions.-Ashevle On. c. Citizen.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18
Sheriff Refuses
Action Against
Killer Of Negro

Wilson, N. c., Aug. Is A
Stantonsburg Constable who shot
to death a 17-year-old Negro boy
is going to be let off without any
charges pressed against him.
Sheriff J. w. Thompson said to
last week that mo action" would
be taken against Constable Wiley
Webb, the man who killed young
Clinton Yelverton Jr., and wounded
two other Negro persons.
According to Webb, a mob OF
some 500 Negroes descended upon
him, welding knives as he attempt
ed to arrest a woman identified as
Mrs. Lucille Strickland in cafe
near Stantonsburg last Saturday
night.
This, said Webb, "set off a riot
resulting in my killing Yelverton
and wounding the woman and an
other Negro"
Sheriff Thompson said his inves-
tigation disclosed that Webb's &C.
tions were fully in the act Of en-
forcing the law"
No Negro witnesses to the fray
were called in.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18

three years, he was foreclosed, but
the owner permitted him to stay
on as a tenant.
Three years later, Mr.. Belts
tried buying the 48 acres again.
He paid $75 down and paid out the
remaining $405 in four years. Ten
years ago, he went to his Soil Con-
servation District and asked them
to help him keep his farm from
eroding away. Service technicians
made a land capability map Of his
farm and showed him how to build
terraces.
Today, he has eight acres Of cot
ton growing on land that has been
parallel terraced, and 81 acres Of
improved pastures where 81 head
Of grade Hereford cattle and 20
grade and purebred Hampshire and
Poland China hogs are grazing.
His cotton yield has risen from a
half to q bale to the acre to q
bale and a half.
II am shooting for two bales
per acre next year." he said, "and
my land will produce it if the ole
boil weevils aren't too bad"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18
Recall Elk History
57th confab Near

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. 10
Founding Of the Independent, Be-
| nevolent Protective Order of Elks
of the Worlt QBPOEW) by a pull
man porter in 1897 is wildly recall
ed by Elk officials as the worlds
largest Negro fraternal organiza-
ton nears its 57th annual conven-
ton.
The order which will convene
here Aug. 1851, was founded by
Arthur Riggs and B. F. Howard at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Riggs, a pullman porter, manag-
ed to get a copy of the fraternal
ritual of the white Elks whose
grand lodge secretary resided in
that city. He was discharged from
his job and forced to leave the city
when it was discovered he had or
ganized Negroes into fraternal
order using the identical ritual as
that of the white Elks.
Irony of the attacks on Riggs is
disclosed in an examination of the
| inception of the white Elks 80 years
earlier under their original name
of the Jolly Corks when they in all
likelihood had large number of
Negro members.
The Jolly Corks was formed
among a group of actors and en-
tertainers who sought recreation,
friendship among those in their
profession.
During that period there were
many Negro professional actors
and one of the earliest membership
lists of an account of the white
Elks includes the name of William
Sheppard, Negro minstrel.
1t was not until 1890 that re-
strictions limiting membership in
the benevolent, protective order
(white Elks) to amy white male
citizen of the United States of
sound mind and body and good rep
utation, over 81 years of age" found
their way into statutory require
ment of membership in the organi-
zation.
Riggs, upon receipt of the ritual
used by the white Elks, dispatched
it to the Register of Copyrights in
Washington, D. c., Sept. %, 1898
where it was filed under his pro
rrietorship and he was awarded
full rights and privileges in use
of it.
During the early stages of the
Negro Elks organization members
were arrested and jailed on charges
of illegally Displaying the emblem
of the BPOE.
In 1918, national leaders from
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18
DR.. <. n. Palmer
Of Hampton Inst.
Succumbs In D. G.

Hampton, Va, ug. 13-Dr. Ed
ward N. Palmer, professor of soci-
ology at Hampton Institute, died
last week at Freedmen's Hospital
in Washington, d. c. He was 80
years old.
DR.. Palmer, an authority on race
problems, was born in Wherefore,
Ohio, and received Bachelor of
Arts degree in sociology from Tai
ledega College in 1886. He was
graduated from the University Of
Michigan in 1887 with Master of
Arts degree and was awarded the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
1915 from the same university.
The eminent sociologist was a
member of Alpha Kappa Delta Ma
tional Honorary Sociological So
ciety; Phi Delta Kappa, Honorary
Educational Fraternity; and Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was q
Julius Rosenwald Fellow from
194O-42 and Research Fellow at
Fisk University in 1937-43.
Palmer contributed articles to
the American Journal Of Sociology,
the American Sociological Review,
Sociology and Social Research, the
Yearbook of American Labor and
the Journal of Negro History.
DR.. Palmer has taught at Fisk
University, Howard University,
and North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical College before COM
ing to Hampton Institute. He was
an exchange professor at William
antic State Teachers College in
1868 and was . visiting lecturer
at several institutions.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Miss Viola B. Coin; his
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18
Another Negro Majority Inspires
One Question

announcement that Mississippi State Hos
pta at Whitfield admitted Sc patients during three days
of the week. far than before admitted during
a like period adds the information that the hospitals
patient population numbered 4414 of which 2548
coored and only 1866 were whites
That interesting report inspires question which
is supported by the fact that whites than Negroes
now live in Mississippi.
The question: Does the fact that big majority
of the patients in the Mississippi State Hospital
coored indicate that proporonatey higher percentage
of Negroes than of whites need treatment for mental
diseases and seniy, does it that comparatively
of colored people than of whites persist
in determined efforts to have elderly and confused"
relatives sent to the hospital instead Of family members
taking of them at home?
That practice may be common among
Negroes than among whites but one thing is
tain; the Negroes have monopoly it. - From the
Clarion Ledger.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18

YOU HAD BETTER SEE CHRIST
IF YOU HAVEN'T YOU NEED 1T
Christ gave his life to free us all
Who would believe on Him and not
in vain
To drive the law out of Gods house
And let the love of His Father
remain.
Jesus was the example for every
And He made heavens way so
plain
He drove the thieves out Of His
Fathers house
And left the love of His Father to
remain.
You have driven out the law
Christ's love fulfilled
You have put mans law back in
Gods house
With your business meetings
Now it is not a spiritual house.
God left His Church in the hands
of Christ
To drive out the law through His
Sons advice
So the world may be saved
By His Fathers love without any
price.
You are filling Gods house with
politics
Secretaries, treasurers and presi-
dents
There is not any place for Gods
love to abide
Do you call that common sense.
A Justice court is not a circuit
court
And the Supreme Court is higher
than all
Mans law that is in the House of
Sooner or later it will fall.
Jesus left no law in His Fathers
house
He ran the thieves out in the lead
He said you are making my Faith
er's house a den of thives
And for His love you won't take
heed.
If we won't follow the precepts of
Christ
He is the door keeper of Heaven
we are told
We have got to take the law out of
Gods house
And allow the Fathers love to
control.
All who are willing to obey Gods
will
Will lift up His son Jesus life
Jesus way is the way for US all
If we are expecting happy eter-
nal life.
Jesus has no secret for any race
He shed His blood to redeem us all
All who would believe on Him
And answer to His call.
BY Rev. John R. Perkins,
2611 Lilly Street
Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18

both groups met together in a
friendly conference which ended
legal repraisals directed at the
Negro Elks.
Over the years, major bulwark
of strength in the Negro Elks has
been it's women's auxiliary organic
ed into temples throughout the
country.
The women have spearheaded
campaigns to raise money for
youth scholarships, health and cul-
tural programs. They have under
taken to renovate the John Brown
farm into national shrine.
In the Golden Jubilee Book of the
Daughter Elks 5Oth anniversary,
published in 1862, the women set
forth their determination to aid in
bringing first-class citizenship to
the Negro community. They state:
MANY organizations are concern
ed with community life such as the
parent-teachers association, work
ing on school problems; working
for political education of it's citi-
zens, voters leagues, foreign policy
groups concerned with problems of
international relations and peace;
civil rights groups such as the Ma
tional Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People and
National Council of Negro Women
which are striving to lift Negroes
from second to first class citizen
ship"
"These are all in need Of sup
port, financial and moral. The
Daughter Elks belong to many of
these organizations and we believe
in effectively cooperating with
them"
Today, the IBPOEW stands as
the most powerful Negro fratern-
al organization in the world, and
as it approaches its 57th Grand
Lodge sessions this year, the lead
ers can well reflect upon heritage
of struggle willed to them by the
founders of the order.
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Continued from Page One)
adapt to time and place and cir
cumstance."
Mr.. Faulkner said II he were a
Negro Il would be q member of
NAACP. since nothing else in our
United States culture has yet held
out to my race that much Of hope. !"
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Nevertheless, coinciding with the
Suez upset and following eontinu-
ing reports of anti-British propa-
ganda beamed by Egyptians at the
African masses, the report Of such
a conference is considerable fam
ming anti-Egyptian feeling among
the British here.
The number of Africans, if any.
meeting in Cairo and the degree of
Importance which might conse-
quently be attached to any such
conference is difficult to assess.
This is mainly because the pub
lished agenda specifically asked ad-
dresses to avoid publicity "to coun-
teract unnecessary sensationalism
and international clamours," ad-
ding, Publicity will follow after
all the delegates have got safely to
Cairo. Notice of the meeting has
been made deliberately short to
avoid possible leakages which may
lead to restriction of various par
Elephants by respective colonial
governments"
The Kenya Weekly News ex-
cerpts cite the agenda as stating.
eve need to cement and mobilize
our people into a solid and militant
national force. We must not give
a chance to the imperialists to use
use to maintain the status quo.
All that is of imperative need is
unity so that when there will be
national risings they must of neces-
sity cover the entire colonial
Africa"
Groups Invited
Stating the conferences object
as being to find united action to
overthrow European imperialism in
Africa" the agenda detailed Aug.
/ for speeches on the freedom
struggle, Aug. 4 for political plan
ming, and Aug. s for cultural af-
fairs conference terminating Aug.
IL.
According to the agenda, rep
resentatives of the following move
ments are invited:
From East Africa-Tanganyika
African Union, National Study
Circle, Uganda African Congress,
Zanzibar's African National Asso-
citation, Madagascar's Parti de
Peuple African.
From South and Central Africa
African National Congresses of
South Africa, the Rhodesias, and
Nyasaland.
From West Africa-Nationalist
and other political parties from the
Gold Coast, Nigeria, the Gamer
oons, Gambia, Togoland, Sierra Lee
one, Senegal, French West Africa,
Mozambique, Angola. Also the
Africa Bupreau of India plus the
Africa League of London.
The agenda mentions planning
of a Pan-African Youth Confer
ence in the future and also says
the Cairo conference is of supreme
significance in light of the United
Nations session in September. The
final injunction is africa rise
the long night is passed"
The Kenya Weekly News article
is composed almost entirely OF
quoted extracts with the brief COM
ment, Nobody should underesti-
mate the significance of Carlo as
the focal point of movement
aimed ultimately at unseating the
metropolitan colonial powers in
Africa. The following facts should
be regarded as warning Of the
existence of external powers which
are attempting to mobilize forces
of subversive nationalism inside
Africa"
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ExpeI| British -.
Continued from Page One

IOONCIHutu ITUW age OHeI
PLANTATION.
Later a Kenya government Off
cial refused to reveal why Dixon
has refused a working permit that
would have enabled him to con-
tine work in a Nairobi bakery.
The official said that the gov
eminent would not necessarily have
refused Dixon the permit on the
grounds of his marriage plans,
however he declined to explain
further.
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Afro Americans . .

sion included the Inspirational Ad-
dress by Rev. Allen Johnson, Pas
tor, St. Stephens Methodist Church,
Greenwood, Mississippi, and the
Grand Lodge address by Rev. W.
H. Bass, Jr. of Little Rock, Ark.
The principal officers of the or
ganization are, T. J. Huddleston,
Yazoo City, Founder & Supreme
Custodian, /. E. Edwards, Mound
Bayou, Supreme President, Mrs.
jamie F. Stringer, Columbia, Su-
preme Secretary.
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Cong. Diggs...
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of 5000 votes; thus Diggs' total
over all opponents was nearly AZ
to l.
Atty. Ward, with Countrywide
support for the nomination in the
18th Congressional District has
promised to make a "hot" cam
paign between now and Novem-
Der.
Congressman Diggs, meanwhile,
has indicated that his large mar
gin of victory will not lead to
"overconfidence" on his part in
campaigning.
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mother, Mrs. Myrtle H. Palmer;
three children, Viola Myrtle, Ann
Marie, and Susan Dorothy; one
brother and one sister.
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WEEKLY QUOTATION: A
politician thinks of the next cleo.
ton; a statesman, Of the next gen
eration.-James Freeman Clarke.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18

ALONG THE OLE AVE: That fel.
low that was greeting everybody
with that wide smile along the
Ole Avenue last week was j. G.
Thames. He is a successful real
estate broker out in Los Angeles
California.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-18

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-17

its first public offering Of stock Go. 200. 900
shares viii be made available tomorrow
should have aroused tremendous buying
interest. The fact remains, however. that
Ford is engaged In fiercely competitive
business and that its growth and profits
may not continue at the same sharp, up
ward pace in the immediate future as
in the past. Mr.. Ford, as well as other
spokesman for the industry, already have
expressed doubts that 1855 will be quite
as good year as 1885, At the same time.
all speak optimistically OF the long-term
future and Mr.. Ford expresses confidence
that his company viii share in these
bright prospects. BY this standard, buy
ing into Ford can be q good investment
without being get-rich-quick scheme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-17

In q, recent letter to your
paper. T. F. Mccarthy (obvi-
ously no kin to the Senator
from Wisconsin, attacked the
recent probe Of communism In
the press and made this out
landish statement: Enforce
ment Of existing laws would
be sufficient. I think, instead
Of Q government by. investiga-
tions." Congressional investi-
cations have led to the passage
Of mary important laws. But
I doubt II Mr.. Mccarthy would
consider that important.
The New York Times would
have come out Of this recent
investigation in better light II
1t had not written the edi-
torial which The Star re-
printed. When Q reporter for
the New York Daily News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-17
MILITARY ROAD.

Dear Sir:
There is q black squirrel
in our yard. and it looks very
ferocious to me.
do you think there Is any
danger In 1t?
Il have always been scared
Of squirrels. but this one looks
very deyilish somehow.
How does he get this color,
and viii it fade back into the
regular gray color?
We have never had a white
one in our neighborhood. but
there was q pale grey one,
sometimes called pearl gray.
SIS the black squirrel a sep
arate kind. or does it come
from the gray tribe?
IF you can relieve my fear.
I will be very grateful as there
are enough things in everyday
life 70 be afraid of, without
this poor little squirrel.
do you think it is safe to
try to feed 1t?
Yours truly. Geraldine D."
Don't get a complex, Ger
aldine.
There is nothing whatever
to fear in a black squirrel ex-
cept those sharp teeth. and
this holds true of all members
Of the family.
The black, or melanistic
specimen, is a product Of the
grays, as is the white, or albino,
form.
These color phases tend to
melt back in time to the gray
colors, with passing phases.
such as the light gray.
There is no need to be In
fear OF any or them, so long as
one respects them.
In other words. do not get
gay with a squirrel.
II the family dog catches
one try to make him let 60,
but do not cuddle the squirrel.
It is not the kind of animal
you can cuddle. no matter how
helpless and forlorn it looks.
If you pick it UP, in its fright
it may bite you. and q squirrel
bite is clear to the bone, In
most cases.
Penicillin injections are In
order, then, along with other
antibiotics, and often q regu-
lar bathing session in hot ep-
som salts water.
Nobody should attempt to
treat a squirrel bite by ones
self. It is work for q good doc
tor.
y
It Is perfectly safe to feed q
black squirrel. II you can get
1t to come to hand, but no
sharp quick motions should be
made.
This holds good with all
squirrels. They are extremely
nervous. as may be seen from
the jerking Of the tail, and
are really wild animals.
Though they can be tanned.
now and then. and made fairly
good pets for q time. they are
just one Jump from the pure
wild state, and u let 60 back
to the wild. they win not know
you in two or three days.
One fall our friend Temple
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-17

used the Fifth Amendment,
the News Immediately fired the
reporter and printed an edi-
toriai In support Of Senator
Eastiand's committee. No
wonder the New York News
has q greater circulation than
any paper In the United
States. Dewitt o. Burke.
The New York Times car
ried extracts from editorials
ali over the United States
supporting It's stand In opposi-
ton to the Democrat-con-
trolled Senate subcommittee
headed hg Senator Eastland Of
Mississippi. East. North, West.
South. to my surprise. the
papers were almost unanimous
In support OF The Times
stand.
Isn't this an example OF just
what Gov. Stevenson and ex-
President Truman have been
charging one-sided or one
party press? Strange that the
press could and so little merit
in the activities Of the
Democrat-controlled commit
tee. Alfred KOhlberg.
New York City.