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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Negro Teachers
Career Subject Of
Digest Piece

When a group of Mississippions
met in Jackson in January 1855
to honor Laurence Clifton Jones,
founder of the Piney Woods Coun-
try school and sometimes spoken
of as Mississippi's Booker T. Wash
ington, the speakers platform was
proudly shared by both white and
colored citizens.
mo more fitting tribute could
have. been paid to a man who has
done so much toward easing the
tension and lessening the distance
between the two races" says Beth
Day in the May Readers Digest.
"For Laurence Jones has devoted
his life to providing Chrictian edu-
cation for thousands of backwoods
Negro children; and none in that
extraordinary gathering demurred
when Governor Hugh White called
him 'Mississippi's First Citizen"
The article is condensed from
Miss Days book, "The Little Pro-
fessor of Piney Woods"
When he came to the backward
piney-woods section Of Mississippi
as a youthful idealist, more than
As years ago, Jones started with
three students and a long-deserted
cabin for a schoolhouse.
Today the Piney Woods Country
Life School has 500 students, a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Annual Relay
Carnival AT
Tuskegee Set

Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-Talent
laden Philander Smith College,
Little Rock; and Florida Ann
University, Tallahassee, ira c k
teams, are expected to play domi-
nant roles in the annual relay car
nival at Tuskegee May and s..
'hilander- Smith in recent years q
power in Southern track circles is
specially strong in the relays.
The two-mile and the sprint medley
teams from this Arkansas college
equalled the Prairie View College
two-mile relay records very re-
Gently.
While Florida A&M University,
powerful in everything athletic
wise, including track, will enter a
formidable group Of individuals in
several Of the Tuskegee events.
Another track power, Xavier
University, New Orleans, is expect
ed to challenge Philander-Smith
in the relay competition and make
a strong bid for team honors in
the meet.
Other competitors from more
than 20 colleges include sprinters
from Grabbing College, Texas
Southern University, Tougaloo,
Morehouse, Clark, Alabama State
College, Morris Brown, Fisk Uni
versity, Knoxville, Allen Univers-
ity, South Carolina State College,
Benedict, LeMoyne, Fort Valley,
Bethune-Cookman College, AIM
College, Normal, Alabama.
Although the colleges play the
major role in the relays scores of
high schools in Southern States
send their best talent to compete
in the events for prep schools in
the Tuskegee relays. High schools
from Atlanta, Savannah and Au-
gusta in Georgia are normally
leading competitors in the high
school section.
Thirty-five high schools have re-
turned entry blanks and the indi-
cations are the most brilliant array
of competitors will participate in
the 30th Tuskegee Relays.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Outstanding
Speaker At
Jackson College
All Club Meet

The speakers for the annual
Jackson State College All assem-
bly, recently were James M. Phil
lips, Mississippi Commercial Man.
ager, and J. Tuberance, Division
of Public Informations Manager,
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph Company. Jackson, Missis-
sippi. Mr.. Phillips and Mr.. Tuber-
ance conducted a demonstration
lecture in which they showed new
devices and new ways in commune
cation. Many scientific items deal
ing primarily with electronics were
shown. Among them was tiny,
marvellous gadget known as a
transitor which has many uses.
1t is used a gread deal in over
seas communication, cables, and
many other aspects of local and
long distance services. Another
part of the lecture had to do with
the micro-wave system which can
now be used to transmit telephone
conversation as well as deal with
TV. With one micro-wave circuit
it is possible to superimpose sew
eral thousand conversations at the
same time without interfering with
the other.
Mr.. Phillips, native of Dyer,
Tennessee, was educated in the
public schools of Gipson County
and attended reed-Hardeman Col
lege at Henderson, Tennessee. He
served in World War l, seeing
action on two fronts in France.
He entered the service of South
ern Bell August, 1851, at Somer-
Vile, Tennessee, and has held as
signments in Lexington, Humboldt
and Nashville, Tennessee, and Mi
ami, Florida, in addition to his
Jackson, Mississippi, assignment
which he accepted in 1852. Mr..
Phillips has been active in Boy
Scout work for many years hav-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Negro-white
Students Riot At
X. G. Stadium

Kansas City, Kans., May IA
riot broke loose at the Municipal
Stadium, home of the American
League Kansas City Athletics, be-
tween Negro and white high school
students. 1t was the second Incl
lent this year involving Negroes
at the newest entry in the junior
circuit.
Approximately 500 Negroes and
he same number of whites clashed
after the Detroit Tigers beat the
AS ia. More than 80 ushers and
a score of policemen were called
to stop the brawling.
Earlier in the season Fred Hutch
inson, manager of the St. Louis
Cardinals, blocked an escape at
tempt by two Negro youths after
they had stolen a cash box from
concession stand.
Municipal Stadium is located in
the heart Of the Negro district with
two Negro high schools, Lincoln
and R. T. Coles, not more than
three blocks away from the park.
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strong to Cypress the weak.
l see freedom in the world today
as the great life-giving river Of
which America is the source. It
will be whatever we are, not more,
not less. So if we hope to make
the principles Of freedom meaning
full in the word, we must first make
sure they have mighty meaning
for ourselves. We muslin our
land, in our own communities, and
in our own hearts-live up to the
values of individual freedom and
individual right which are the basis
of our American society.
Yet we must do this not just be-
cause it may exalt our leadership
in the world, but, above all, for
the sake of these values themselves
the values which give life and
power to the great experiment in
self-government to which we as a
people have been so long commit
ted, and to which so many others
in Asia and Africa now urgently
aspire. Our task is all the harder
and the purity of our example all
the more important because these
peoples know little about these
values of individual freedom and
rights which lie at the root of free
society and national independence.
Let me speak first about the
issue of freedom which is today
causing greatest concern among US
the issue of civil rights for our
minorities. The achievement of
equal rights for all American citi-
zens is the great unfinished bust
ness before the United States.
, This would be just as much the
case had there been no Supreme
Court decision on desegregation in
the public schools. That decision
was simply an expression of our
steady movement toward genuine
equality for all before the law; it
expressed in a new field the old
principle that the American heri-
tage of liberty and opportunity is
not to be confined to men, women
and children of single race, a
single religion or a single color.
Yet the Supreme Court decision
requires social change in some
areas of our country, and all social
change creates massive problems
of adjustment. The Supreme Court
wisely left it to the District Courts
to determine the measures Of good
faith progress.
There remains, however, the
abiding responsibility of the Execu-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

tive branch of the Government to
do its part in meeting this most
fateful internal problem and the
rising tensions that have followed
in its train. The present Admins
tration, in my judgment, has failed
to meet this responsibility; it has
contributed nothing to the crea-
ton of an atmosphere in which
this decision could be carried out
in tranquility and order.
The Presidency is, above all, a
place of moral leadership. Yet in
these months of crucial Importance
no leadership has been provided.
The immense prestige and influ-
ence of the office has been with
held from those who honestly seek
to carry out the law in gathering
storm and against rising resist
ance. Refusing to rise to this great
moral and constitutional crisis, the
Administrator has hardly even
acknowledged it's gravity.
1t is the sworn responsibility of
the President of this nation to
carry out the law of the land. And
| would point out that this office
is the one office in the democracy,
apart from the courts, where the
man who fills it represents all
the people. Those in the Congress
bear particular responsibilities to
the citizens of the states they rep
resent, and on what is in some ways
& regional problem their views are
naturally divided. Not so of the
Presidency. And where the ma
ton is divided, there is special de-
mand on him 10 unite and lead the
people toward the common goal.
AS President, if that were my
privilege, l would work ceaseless-
ly and with a sense Of crucial urg-
ency-with public officials, private
groups and educators-to meet this
challange in our life as a nation
and this threat to our national
reputation.
would act in the knowledge
that law and order is the Execu-
tive's responsibility; and l would
and will act, too, ! pray, in the
conviction that to play politics with
the courts decision and the basic
rights of citizens and human be-
ings is wicked.
1t is, for me, another point of
central principle that one of the
most important guarantees of
equality is the right to vote con-
ferred on all citizens by the Fiji
teenth Amendment. Political free
dom underlies all other freedoms.
Wherever any American citizens
have been denied by intimidation
and violence the right to vote,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
La. Governor
Sees 94-Year-OId
State Worker
Off For Rest

DES MONIES, May 1.-When
Douglas Miller, 94-year-old state
house messenger, took off at the
Des Moines airport for St. Louis,
to pay a visit to his son, DR.. Doug
las Miller, Jr., Of St. Louis, he was
seen off at the airport by none
other than Governor Leo A. Hoegh.
Miller has been a state employee
since 1913 and has served as per-
sonal messenger to six Governors.
Born in slavery, he has continued
working by choice, but lately has
begun to complain of difficulty in
breathing and has been urged by
his boss to take time off and rest
up.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

liams, President Of Security Life
Insurance Company and Commits
sion of Officials for the South
central Athletic Conference. In his
usual jovial manner, Mr.. Williams
talked to the group in citing prac-
teal lessons to be learned in the
athletic game competition. He
pointed out that although we al
ways play to win, just to win is
not the ultimate goal. The banquet
tiers also heard President ]. L.
Reddix trace the growth Of the
athletic program in the College
since the beginning of his ad-
ministration in 1910. Inspiration
al messages were also given by
Coach H. B. Wilson, Coach Joe
Gillian, John A. Merritt, and
Chairman of the Athletic Board
Bolton C. Price. The banquet
speaker was introduced by Dean
H. T. Sampson. Guest of honor
was John "Red" Grantham, an
athlete at the College during the
early days of the State of Missis-
sippi's sponsoring of the College.
A coach during the early days Of
the State Of Mississippi's spon-
sorship Of the College. A coach
and instructor now at Lincolyn
Consolidated High School, Mt.
Olive, Mississippi, Mr.. Grantham
was introduced by toastmaster w.
o. Robinson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

ing served as President Of the West
Tennessee Area Council for Jack
son, Tennessee. He is also Presi-
dent of Jackson, Tennessee's Ro-
tary Club and past President of
the Chamber of Commerce of that
city. In 1910, he was selected
"Man of the Year" of Jackson, Ten
nessee. He is presently deacon
of First Baptist Church, Jackson,
Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05
Bill Signed, -.
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NOOASAsAA~A AAVAA = o6S OhVt. .
be set up to make mortgage loans
for the improvement Of blighted
areas. One of the major detectives
of the legislation is to provide as
sistance in sections of Harlem that
have disintegrated to the extent
that ordinary lending sources re-
fuse to provide money for improve
ments.
Gov. Hartman also signed bill
giving the State Commission
Against Discrimination jurisdiction
over reported cases of bias in
federally-insured housing. Such
discrimination was barred by the
legislature last year.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

S75O,0OO plant, a 16OO-acre campus,
handsome brick buildings, modern
dairies, orchards, truck and gen.
eral farms, well-equipped work
shops for teaching many trades,
and staff of 40 capable and de-
voted teachers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05


then the right to vote of all Amer
lean citizens is imperiled.
There are laws on the statute
books giving the Federal Govern
ment authority to protect citizens
voting rights. These laws should
be enforced. And if they are in
adequate they should be strength
ened. And | believe that all re-
scponsible citizens, South and
North, would go along with de-
termination to assure the right to
vote under the law.
But again | say that the re-
sponsibility and the opportunity of
the President in matters such as
these go beyond the execution of
he law. For his office is the
sponsible citizens, South and
we'll as legal, and it is from our
hosen leader that there must come
o our hearts, our heads and our
spirits the common impulse to
honor in our daily lives the prin-
iples we proclaim to all the
world"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09
Catholic Belief
About Sacraments
On We Believe

Father James ] McQuade. Sd.
head of the Religion Department
of John Carroll University. Cleye.
land, Ohio, and "star" of the WE
BELIEVE series currently being
telecast over Station WLW-C ev-
cry Sunday 100 to l:30 pml
will discuss what Catholics be.
lieye about Sacrsments on this
Sundays show March 18th. This
WE BELIEVE series, produced by
the National Council of Catholic
Men, is designed TO present the
beliefs of the Catholic in an OBJ.
Jective and scientific manner.
Father briefly describes the ma.
ture and origin of the seven Sac
rsments with a special commen,
tsry on the Sacrament of the HOLY
Eucharist.
Next Sunday. Father McQuade
will discuss what Catholics be
lieye about the family in the
eleventh program of Station
WLW-Cs WE BELIEVE series.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09
Northern Deanerv
Sets Semi-AnnuaI
Meeting Sunday

The semi-annual meeting of the
Northern Deanery, DCCW, viii be
held in Dennison. Sunday after
noon, March il, in Immaculate
Conception school hall
Benediction of the Most Blessed
Sacrament will be conducted in
Immaculate Conception church at
2:2o pm, preceding the meeting.
Theme of the program will be
THE Peace of Christ Through the
Reign of Christ" Speakers will
include Father Ambrose Freund,
dean of the northern deanery:
Father Hugh Gilbert, pastor of
maculate Conception church,
Dennison, and Father Edwin Nc.
Nulty, pastor of st. Francis de
Sales church, NeWcomerstown;
Mrs Jane Richards. Mrs. Frank
Vogel, president of the DCCW,
and Mrs Charles Bell, deanery
president.
A tea will be held in the school
hall, following the program.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09

The Cloverleaf Clubs of St.
Anthony Hospital will hold
their annual donation day
and open house Sunday, Mar
IL, from 2 to 4:3O pm, ac-
cording to an announcement
by Mrs. Leo Ruisinger, presi-
dent.
During the open house mem
bers will conduct the public on
tours through the hospital 10.
Gated at 1450 Hawthorne Ave.
Canned foods and iellies will be
gratefully accepted, as we'll as
cash donations.
The cloverieaf Clubs were
founded II years ago 10 fur
n'sh needed equipment for 81.
Anthony's. Fruits of their ef.
forts include FURNISHINGS in the
entire nurses station and three
f"oHs IN me new west wing, q
portable x.ray machine and
other technical items.
Life for the old folks in the
hospital has been made more
pleasant through television sets,
monthly treats and other practic-
al gifts provided by the clubs.
Mrs. Earl Fisher is general
chairman of the donation day tea.
and Mrs A L. Condiotti, co-ehair,
man Other ladies assisting are
Mrs, Raymond Highfield. Mrs.
Walter Holden, Mrs. John Witte-
meier, Mrs. Emil Rueckel, Mrs.
Dominic Mattiacci, Mrs. Sam Gal
lione and Mrs. William Matthias
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09
St. John the Evangelist
PTA to Meet Wednesday

st. John the Evangelist PTA
will meet Wednesday, Mar. IA, at
8 p, m. in the school hall. Teach
ers will be in their classroomS at
7:30.
Father Vincent Matthews of the
Pontifical College Josephinum
will be the guest speaker. A So
cial hour will be held after the
meeting.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09
Changing World
Guaranteed Annual Wage

THIS the last of of articles Chief
Economist of the Boston Housing Authority former
economies at Boston College and Boston University
SOCIAL and economic problems confronting changing
and suggests acceptable solutions.
Assurance of continued employment and uninterrupted
Income is integral part of the basic human desire for
security and sought by everyone regardless of earnings
level The term guaranteed annual wage" itself has
deeprooted appeal to the wage 1t implies security
OF status similar to that theoretically enjoyed by saaried
employees that is promise of specified amount of wear
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09

called a experimentation of un-
employment compensation under
which the company's commitment
is limited to the payment into a
guarantee fund of ertain
amount per hour per worker.
Under the plan covered en-
ploye will receive from the com
pany an amount which, together
with his public employment in
surance benefits. will give him
65 per cent of his regular take
home pay for four weeks of un-
employment, and so per cent for
the next % weeks.
Many questions could be dis
cussed, but these are pertinent:
Will the guarantee eliminate, or
sharply reduce, involuntary
short-term lay-offs and level off
the seasonal production pattern?
Should the company, and the
community, bear to a greater ex-
tent the impact of chronological
change which so heavily falls on
the shoulders of the workers?
Does guaranteed wage give a
guaranteed market to the sale
of goods produced? Does a wage
guarantee lead to the loss of i'm
portant management preroga-
tives and lead down the road to
socialism, as claimed by some?
Will it lead to production stag
nation growing out of attempts
to stabilize labor forces?
Unfortunately, employers of
employees most subjected to lay
offs and most in need of guaran-
teed wage plans, are generally
in the poorest position to afford
wage guarantees because of COM
paratively heavy unemployment
insurance taxes.
Only Opinions
1t may be that supplementary
payments above normal unem-
ployment benefits are invalid in
some states and that amounts
paid by the firm would have to
be applied toward reducing the
unemployment fits that
would be received.
There is much reason to be-
lieve tn a t the supplementary
payment plans will be exposed
to many political pressures, with
powerful forces on both sides
of the question. In Michigan,
where the automobile industry
is so strong, the plan may have
smoother sailing than in other
states where extra pressures may
be brought to defeat the growth
of private plans through in
crease in public unemployment
benefits.
Public unemployment compen-
sation may be conceived as a
public guaranteed wage. More
than a few authorities claim that
necessary protection for the un-
employed worker is best obtained
through increase in benefit pay
ments, rather than in growth of
private plans. 1t is claimed that
coverage under the public plan
is much wider than private plans
could hope to achieve. 1t is held
private plans are best secured by
workers least in need of them.
Firms with records of least un-
employment will most readily
yield to union demands for guar
anteed wages, employees of most
unorganized companies will have
to be satisfied with only public
benefits.
Benefit Payments Falling Behind
Without doubt the growth of
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09

Memorial services for Miss
Elizabeth Kumpf and Mrs. Ther-
esa Prison will he held at the
March IA meeting of the mem
bers Of the st. Elizabeth's Auxil-
iary knights of st. John. The
meeting will take place at 581 S.
High st.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09

We have been seeing what has
been called the new look" in
wage guarantee and which will
likely be of great Importance in
future labor relations negotia-
tionS. While the concessions
obtained by the United Auto
Workers Union from the motor
industry received tremendous
publicity and serve as a spark
to the drive of many labor un-
ions, guaranteed annual wage
contracts are not new. While
they are not numerous. some of
them are possibly more benefi-
cial to the workers involved than
is the Unite d Auto Workers
plan.
/. Best known of the older plans
are those of the Proctor and
Gamble, the George A. HORNED,
and the Num- Bush Shoe Com
panies. The Proctor and Gamble
Company plan, which was put in
effect about 30 years ago, guar
antees 48 weeks of work to en-
ployes with more than two years
service. The HORNED plan covers
the entire labor force of the
company and guarantees SO
hours of work for the So weeks
of the year.
The Num- Bush plan does not
provide for a guarantee of any
fixed amount of income. A GER
tain percentage of the sales value
of shoes manufactured during a
particular period is placed in a
wage fund Employees with more
than years service draw regu-
lar checks from the fund when
unemployed.
Stabilizing Production
In spite of the fact these firms
arc in separate industries, their
operations are alike in some inn
portant ways They are all max
ing products in common use for
sale to individual consumers.
This means that their business is
not likely to be as severly af-
fectad by depressions as that of
some other firms. In these in
dustries the most important
cause of unstable incomes has
been seasonal fluctuations during
the year.
While the United Auto Work
ers have been successful in ne
gotiating with firms in an in
dustry greatly affected by de-
preston and prosperity, labor's
greatest success in negotiating
guaranteed wage contracts likely
will be with companies situated
similarly to Proctor and Gamble
and the other firms mentioned
above, which are able to con-
troll somewhat the size of their
labor force.
Any firm whose operations are
heavily subjected 10 the down
swings of the business cycle such
as in the capital goods industries
that is, producers of heavy
goods used in the manufacture
of other goods-may be in very
precarious position in agreeing
to an annual wage guarantee
since stability in the size of their
labor force is so much beyond
company discretion. So, too, are
organizations whose customers
are limited in number, particu-
larly firms whose chief business
is based upon federal govern
ment contracts.
Supplemental Compensation
The United Auto Workers
plan for job security is best
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-03-09
Choir to Sponsor Variety
Show at St. Peter School

The Young Ladies Choir of st.
Peter Church will sponsor a St.
Patrick Day Variety Show Friday
and Saturday, Mar is and II, in
St Peter School Hall beginning
at 8:15 p. m.
The program will include en-
tertainers from st. Peter parish
as well as other sections of the
city.