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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
Dixie's Negro: A Wasted Resource?
From The Charlotte News


Breach the Negro problem to any group of South
today and tempers likely to sZze like atback
dropped in hot skillet But out of the emotional atmos
phere surrounding this aged-n-anguish dilemma
SOLDERING fact energies: The Negro is part both
tor and creature of Southern culture for whom the
gion is responsible for all other groups.
Even those who despise the Negro will admit if re-
ucantly that he is important factor in Dxies
omy. What is not always admitted is the fact that he
will contribute to the economic we-being of the
region he receives better education better POLITICAL
economic and social opportunities
The South, for better for worse is inhabited by
roughly 10l million Negroes. This figure represents
gigantic manpower potential But it is fairly obvious
throughout the Southern states that Negroes not
contributing what they should to Dixie They not
contributing because full is simply not being made
of all this human wealth.
The most regrettabe aspect of the situation is the
difficulty many intelligent Negroes have in securing
higher education
At the very time great deal of public attention has
been to the pros and of racial segregation
Dixes public schools private philanthropc organiza
ton has conferred its attention ways to help talented
young Negroes to get college education The National
Scholarship Service and the Fund for Negro Students
sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Educa
ton has undertaken the task effort to make fuller
use of this important manpower potential Its principal
aims: To discover coege-quafed Negro students
in the South to encourage these students to develop
their abities provide them with information and
assistance in obtaining college scholarships and to furnish
financial aid when needed 1t is known the Southern
Project.
According to Benjamin Fine, of the nations leading
education writer's, the organZatOnS talent search IN
Dixie has uncovered surprising number of Negro stu
dents of college ability In two 500 students
have been aided.
During this relatively short PERIOD the project has
greatly increased the number of southern Negroes
rolled in colleges increased the number of information
and testing facilities for future Negro college students
and, more important perhaps increased professional
and public awareness of important slice of the
tons hidden manpower
Trained manpc2ver is needed in the South and in
the nation as whole. With sufficient educaton Ne
groes can help meet this need Not only they
their race better but they benefit the nations
entire economic community. The aims of the Southern
Project rise above prejudice They are, in fact akin
to national and regional selfnterest.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14

ing voiced by Walter Gates, Geor-
gia Chamber of Commerce wee
president, and by E. A. Yates, Jr.,
Mr.. Green's counterpart in the
Georgia Power Company. "Propa-
ganda-a bunch of hog-wash," Mr..
Yates labeled reports that north
ern industry was reversing the
southern migration trend because
of racial tension.
In Nashville, George Whitlatch,
executive director of the Tennessee
Industrial Development Commits
sion, said that he had only one
query from a northern businessman
asking about racial matters. he
said he had explained the "mod-
crate" attitude being taken by
the Tennessee State Government,
and that the executive seemed
completely satisfied.
1t is evident here, Of course, that
should similar query be received
by an Alabama industrial develop
ment agency, that agency could
hardly explain that the Alabama
State Government was moderate"
on the issue of segregation. Nor
could Georgia development agen-
cy.
Tennessee's approach to the Su-
preme Court decision has not fol-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
BrowneII Says
Miss. Negro Voter
Disqualified By
Soap Bubble Quiz

Washington, ID. g., April IL
U. S. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
Jr., testified that some Negro vot-
ers were disqualified in Missis-
sippi election because they failed
to answer such questions as show
many bubbles in bar of soap?"
Putting a stop to that kind of
poll test, he told the House Judici-
airy Committee, is one of the OBJ
jectives of the administrations
four-point civil rights legislative
program submitted to Congress
yesterday.
One administration bill would
permit civil suits against individ-
uals or groups that seek to bar
a citizens voting rights. 1t would
permit the attorney general to file
civil actions in such cases without
an individual complaint. Brownell
said this would be more flexible
and often more effective" than
criminal prosecution which is al
ready authorized.
Criminal prosecution can never
begin until after the harm is done
and it can never be invoked to fore
stall a violation of civil rights no
matter how obvious the threat OF
violation may be-" Brownell said.
He also urged creation of six
member, bipartisan commission to
study the civil rights field.
He said a need for greater
knowledge on the subject OF civil
rights is manifest"
Brownell said present statutes
guaranteeing the right to vote at
all state or federal elections with
out regard for race or color are
inadequate.
1.-THE most obvious defect in the
law is that it does not protect the
voters in federal election from un-
lawful interference with their vot-
ing rights by private persons" ne
said. 1.-THE statute fails, therefore,
to afford voters the full protection
from discrimination contemplated
and guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton"
Brownell said in 1862 number
of Negro citizens in Mississippi,
many of them well-educated, were
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Church Has,.
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The Rev. John H. Tredrea, pas
tor of the Episcopal Church of the
Holy Communion in suburban May
wood said he was surprised at the
big turnout.
81 am very pleased and happy
with the response. | am firmly
convinced that the representation
this morning indicates that the
membership is with u.s." he, COM
mented.
Many of the white members of
Holy Communion personally wei
coined the newcomers from the
former St. Simon the Cyrenian
Episcopal Church, a Negro mission
All pews were crowded and port
able chairs were set up near the
doorway to accommodate the large
congregation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
See Southern
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ter how irksome it may be-for
an unknown kind of tension"
CARRIED Stories Hit
Mr.. Campbell is a Mississippian
by birth, and is Jackson business
man.
Inquiries to leading southern in
dustrial development agencies soon
after Mr.. Campbell's views were
expressed, however, brought no in
dication that any such effect of
racial tension had yet been felt.
Paul A. Sieverling, director of
the Birmingham Committee of 100,
an industrial acquisition corps of
leading businessmen, denied that
his office had experienced any ad-
verse effect from the tensions
which have developed, especially
in the Autherine Lucy and Mont
gomery boycott cases.
"The type of industry coming to
the South" he said, as intelligent
enough not to be bothered by
stories of tension coming out Of
the South and being garbled, often,
in the North"
Mr.. Sieverling said that he had
not even been asked by business
men inquiring as to industrial re-
location about the racial matter.
And he said that there had been
no reduction in the number of in
quiries usually received over a CIV
en- period.
New Branch Plants
In Montgomery, Pleas Looney,
an official in the State Industrial
Development Commission, said that
agency was shocked" by Mr..
Campbell's statement, that it
hadn't seen any evidence that
northern industry interested in the
South was holding back because
Of the racial situation. Mr.. Looney
said that Gen. Lewis Pick, head
of the commission and former
chief of the United States Corps
Of Engineers, had been sufficient
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14

PRAY FOR ME- TO KEEP ON
LIFTING UP CHRIST
l want all of my friends to know
today
The mistake in the paper is not
mine
The Lord he gave me gift to write
Getting old, but yet l am not
behind.
They called me Rev. J. R. Jenkins
And Rev. J. R. Perkins is my name
When the press make mistake
Do not think that | am the blame.
The Lord gave me this gift to write
And words to open your eyes
| want all my friends to know
In the Lord | shall abide.
| like to hear from my friends
How do you enjoy the words
| expect to lift up Jesus Christ
He is redeeming Christ we all
know.
l have been lifting up Jesus Christ
For 81 years or more
He tells me that, IL am the way
and
The keeper of Heavens door"
No other one was fit to die for our
sins
Except Jesus on Calvary Hill
He hung on that Rugged Cross
With his blood he paid the bill.
The father sent Jesus to fulfill
With his blood he shed on Calvary
Hill
He took us from under the law
And adopted US in his fathers
will.
Christ stands at the door of life
and death
To separate right from wrong
If YOU haven't been born of the
spirit of God
The place they call He'll is where
you belong.
Rev. J. R. Perkins
2611 Lilly st.
Jackson, Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14

ly disturbed, however, to write to
Mr.. Campbell to determine wheth-
er the United States Chamber Of
ficer had any evidence of northern
industrial reluctance.
w. Cooper Green, Alabama Pow
er Company vice-president and
chief of industrial development for
that company, and an outspoken
former Mayor of Birmingham, said
that on a recent trip to New York,
he had heard one kidding" refer
ence to the situation from bust
nessman. But he emphasized that
it was not seriously commented on,
and he felt no alarm.
Mr.. Green raised the interesting
point that even if a northern in
dustry should decide not to move
South, it is hardly likely that it
would give the racial situation as
a reason for not going through
with any planned relocation.
He said that most northern in
dustry moving to Dixie was not
uprooting itself from the North or
East entirely-except textile cases
but was simply establishing new
branch plants in the South.
They're after the expanding
southern Market" he said, and
added that northern industry could
hardly afford to tell the consum-
ing South that it was refusing 70
enter the region, build factories,
and so on, without risking losing
the market. Mr.. Green noted that
boycotting already had become evil
dent in the area.
The utility executive offered a
plausible projection of the way
in which tension might affect
industrial relocation, if it should
affect it at all. He said that COM
munities where tension was un-
usually evident might be "clulled'
by a northern concern, in favor
of some other southern commun-
ity where racial disturbances were
not prevalent.
State Attitudes
In Georgia, at the same time.
similar negative reaction was be-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14

lowed the pattern of Alabama or
Georgia, where firm resistance to
Indignation has resulted in addi-
tional segregation legislation.
Although investigation thus far
does not bear out warnings of Mr..
Campbell, it is evident from re-
sponses of southern businessmen
involved in industrial development
that they will be closely watching
the situation. Since the race issue
is certain to be alive and touchy
the remainder of the year, there
will be ample opportunity to test
northern industrial attitudes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
Sumner Hill 49,.
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ern school buildings in the state.
ITO the cultivation of response
bility, honor, industry and self-im-
provement, we dedicate this school.
THAT this building be a gate
way to lead both teacher and stu
dent into a new realization of the
supreme work of developing good
human relations in their every day
life we dedicate this school,"
These lines from the responsive
reading led by J. d. Boyd, presi-
dent of Utica Institute in opening
the dedication program.
DR.. G. w. McClendon, president
of Kinds Junior College, delivered
the principal address.
Presented by Prof. Walter Wash
ington, principal of the school,
President McClendon who, stress
ing the thought, "Now we have it
what are we going to do with
it," told his large audience that
just building fine building wasn't
going to get the job done; that
there has to be continual effort,
cooperation. Stating that too
large a percentage of students did
not attend some of the county
schools-white and Negro-Presi-
dent McClendon told the parents
it was up to them to see that the
best use was made of this new
facility and that Sumner Hill was
just one of the modern new school
buildings being built all over Mis-
sissippi. Said he, "this procession
NEW schools) is not going to stop
until every boy and girl in Kinds
County has an education available
to him and her"
Other speakers included DR.. A.
E. Hood, Mayor of Clinton; DR.. P.
H. Easom, State Supervisor of Ne
gro Education; Mr.. ]. E. Aldridge,
Kinds County Superintendent of
Education; DIR. Heblen Griffith, Mr..
Raymond Buchett, architect of the
school; Mr.. J. w. Comb, chairman
Board of Education, and Mrs. G.
w. Williams.
Speaking for Mrs. T. j. Barnes,
president Federated Women's Club,
who could not attend, Mrs. G. w.
Williams, wife of the recently re-
tired president of Oakley Training
School, presented the easement for
a road north of the school buildings
from the Women's club who many
years ago gave the land-10 acres
for an 9Th grade school. During
the ensuing years, said Mrs. Will
liams, the club has given the use
of rs acres to the Boy Scouts
, camp, has made available to the
school and the community the use
f, of it's $4,000 club house.
Special music was presented by
the Utica Institute Band and the
Sumner Hill choir. Carolyn Wash
ington, wife of the school principal,
sang "Bless This House" and dis
played a voice Of beautiful quality.
Members of the Clinton Negro
Boy Scouts presented the colors
and the Rev. A. NJ. Peterson, pas
tor of Pleasant Green Baptist
church, Clinton, gave deep NOV
ing dedicatory prayer. Rev. John
White, president Kinds County
Baptist Association, pronounced
the benediction.
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disqualified under a statute h t
required an applicant to be able
to read and write the Constitution.
Brownell said Negroes were test
ed" with such questions as what
is due process of law" and chow
many bubbles in bar of soap?"
If the attorney general had
possessed injunction powers in
these cases, Brownell said, the vot-
ing registrar could have been or
dered to stop these discriminatory
practices.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
West Virginia..
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Continued from I'age UneJ
of the National Baptist Youth Fell
lowship worshipped, ate and held
business sessions with white youths
from the West Virginia Baptist
Youth Fellowship. They resolved
at the end of the three-day con-
vention to continue meeting togeth-
er in the future.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14

proes still are ineffective, whether
they come from Governors or the
President, and indeed that even
some established, limited inter-
racial groups are under attack.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-14
Jackson College

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leqe Alumni Association. Tickets
for the program may be secured
from any member of the sponsor
ing group and from the College
Bookstore.
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Tuskegee -.
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of Trustees, George Washington
Carver Foundation, Inc, India
Government Committee for Study
of Rural Education in India, 1855;
Board of Trustees, The American
Church Institute for Negroes;
Presidents Committee for Physi-
caIly Handicapped; American Acad-
envy of Political and Social Sci
ences; Committee on Insurance and
Annuities (of Association of AM
erican Colleges); Biracial Commits
sion Episcopal Church.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-18

tentiouS delicateSSen. An omelet with
knackwurSt before retiring may not
be just the thing for the digestion.
and paStrami and dill pickles I'M
doubleday cause some pretty weird
dreams in the small hours of the
night, but to a performer who has
been giving his all before the foot
lights, they seem TO be as soothing as
a mothers lullaby.
Iindy'S, New York institution,
is equally famed for its wonderful
food and its star-spangled clientele.
Here Damon Runyon fingered by the
hour to engage flavorSome Broadway
characters in rewarding conversation
(the end result being Guys And
DollS').
Here, at a single table, you can
see half dozen televiSion stars =
Gleason, Berle or Durante, perchance
- swapping quipS and insults.
Here it was, too, that Jack Pearl
c'VaS you dere, Sharlie?'') played
reprehensible trick on the manage
ment. He bought a pound Of prime
corned beef at a butcher shop. and
had it concealed on his person when
he ordered a corned beef sandwich at
Lindy'S. When his sandwich was put
before him, he Surreptitiously inserted
the extra beef he had bought pre-
viousIy. Summoning the headwaiter,
he inquired blandly, How can you
afford to put SO much beef in single
sandwich
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-18

The headWaiter took one look at
the OVerStuffed sandwich, did bit of
rapid mental calculation on the net
cost of the meat therein, and headed
for the kitchen with murder in his
eyes.
At another deluxe delicatesSen
in the white-light district a waiter
planked down an apple pancake in
front of Miss Merle Oberon and
announced, That's the last one of
those things I'll serve today. What's
the matter?" asked Miss Oberon in
diligently. Have you run out of
appIes?''
mo-" explained the waiter, ''but
the Kitchens on fire."
In front of this establishment, a
famous star one evening met an old
acquaintance who had fallen upon
evil times, and impulsively invited
him in.
The famished acquaintance pro-
ceeded to order everything on the
menu, from borsch soup through
imported sturgeon, Sirloin steak,
strudel and Napoleon brandy. The
star finally groaned to waiter, Bring
me the check and a fright wig!'
The last straw. 1t was Boston
citizen who told this story to Editor
Fon Boardman, so | hope it won't
rile any Cerfboard readers in that
city.
A BoStonian visited a famous New
York restaurant and passed up all its
other delicacieS in favor of double
order of snailS.
Don't you have snails in Boston?"
chided the New Yorker.
''YeS," said the BOStOnian, ''but
up there we can't catch them"
BENNETT CERT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-18
LauQhter Ala Carte

One thing most
people of the theat-
rical and televiSion
worlds have in COM
mon, regardless of
their nationality, is a
fondneSS for a late
evening snack at a
friendly and unpre-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-02
Final SeUer
LineCOnHnct
Signed Here

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission signed the
final agreement Tuesday for the
construction of the Cabin John
trunk sewer line which will open
up the expansion of the com
mercial and industrial area along
the Rockville Pike and the de-
velopment of the Cabin John val
ley,
The agreement was returned to
the Rockville Mayor and Council
with an addenda defining terms
which the city official approved
at the Tuesday night meeting
thus making the pact final.
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian, in
commencing city attorney David
Cahoon and city manager John
MARYLAND for their patience and
hard work during the period of
negotiation, said that a savings
in estimated future costs to the
city of between 100000 and
100000 had been effected in the
final agreement as compared to
the original draft of last June.
Construction of the trunk line,
in which Rockville's share is esti-
mated at 100000, already avail
able through a 1854 bond issue,
is now awaiting final approval
by the State Health Department.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-02
Careening Car
Strikes Youth
In Gas Station

Suburban Hospital reports John
Robert Clay, 10, of Derwood, is
beginning to respond to treat
ment." Clay, father of one, was
SerVicing car at Kennedy's
ESQ where he works, Rockville
Pike near Wall Lane, Saturday
evening when a car careened off
the road, struck him, and dragged
him 20 feet.
Though a complete examipa-
ton is still impossible, the youth
is believed to have suffered two
broken legs, broken hip, a frac-
tured skull, and possibly other
injuries.
Police report Joseph Frank
Knoll, 33-year.old Washington tree
trimmer, was driving north on the
Pike when his car left the road
and struck Clay. The driver, po-
lice say, was under the influence
of alcohol"
After striking the youth Knoll
drove on for about two blocks,
then returned to the scene of the
accident. He says he heard
"thump" when passing the gas
station"
Knoll will be tried today for
drunken driving, reckless driving,
and failing to stop at the scene of
an accident.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-02
Good Start on Integration'
Here, Voters League Says

In fact sheet on desegrega-
ton in schools and recreation ia
cilities published this week, the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters declared that "al-
though in Montgomery County
we have made a good start to-
ward compliance with the Su-
preme Court decision, it is ap.
parent that much still remains
to be done before the program
of desegregation is completed"
The league pointed out that Of
the more than $1,000 children en-.
rolled in County schools, 3,0t1
are Negroes. At present, 400 Ne.
gro children are enrolled in de.
segregated schools, or 16.1 per-
cent. OF this number, $50 are in
elementary schools and 100 in
secondary schools.
Although all Of the Negro chill
dren in desegregated schools live
in the down-County area, there
are still considerable number
living in downCounty areas such
as Glenhaven, North Chevy
Chase and Scotland who are be.
ing transported as much as II
miles 10 Negro elementary
schools, the fact sheet says.
Detailing the Indignation pro-