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NOW IS THE TIME
ny Andy RaIaf


Now is the time for dedicated men,
Men, not afraid to both tongue and PEN
To right the wrongs that would destroy our land,
who-when out-numbered- TO make their stand.
Regardless OF the risk It may involve
Gods angry men Of TRUTH AND HIGH RESOLVE.
Unsehsh men OF vision and Of sanity
Not drunk with power, greed or hate vanity
Who are Americans In both words and deeds,
Who strive to serve Country's greatest needs;
Men who forever hold "Old Glory" high
Who would not make DEMOCRACY A LIE.
To root out treason lawlessness and crime;
II will take men like these-Now is THE TIME
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Northern Dailies Race Self Survey

northern daily
ought their problem before crng
the school indignation problem the TIL the White Citizens
Lucy lately doing
searching In their ballwicks
Criticism by southern daines their northern
not intended help north problem
the editorial which northern daes putting
part Of the south which determined Supreme
Court and the the country
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cupitoI Closeup

Mark Clark and the BLACK
Phalanx"

Phalanx"
On April 81, Gen. Mark Clark,
president of THE Citadel" South
Cardinals private West Point,
told the Southern Regional Con-
ference Of State Governments,
then meeting in Charleston, that
he was opposed to the integra-
ton OF white and Negro troops,
from a military point of view.
Gen. Clark, the former Supreme
Commander Of UN Forces in the
Far East, based his opinion, he
said, on his experience with the
5th Army in Italy, during World
War II. Obviously, reviving the
story OF the 92nd Division, COM
manded by Major Gen. Edward
Almond (now retired) which
created much furore at the time
the charges were made, Gen.
Clark, according to press releases,
declared. last week, that Negro
soldiers could not be relied on, and
bolted in the fact of the enemy.
The worst division l had was a
Negro division" said Gen. Clark.
The documented refutstion Of the
results Of troop Indignation, by
Civilian Aide to the Secretary of
Defense, James c. Evans, New
York Post, April 3O), is one of
many which will be forthcoming
Neither Swallow Makes A
Summer
We hope that Gen. Clark will be
able to find, on the shelves Of The
Citaders library The Black Pha-
lanx. a history Of the Negro Sol
diers Of the United States in the
Wars Of 1878. 1912. and 1861 to
1855" by the late Joseph p. Will
son. veteran Of the Second Regi-
ment, Louisiana Native Guard
Volunteers, the saith Massachu-
sets Volunteers. and first Negro
member OF the National Council OF
Administration OF the Grand
Army Of the Republic, whose De-
partment OF Virginia, in 1882, des-
ignated him to write the history.
The volume, entered in the office
Of the Librarian Of Congress in
1887. was published by the Ameri-
can Publishing Co, Of Hartford,
Conn, in 1890.
Camden and Gullford Courthouse
From this volume we comment
on the project to raise Negro
troops, during the Revolution--a
project Eeslously pushed by Col
John Laurens OF South Carolina,
whose services in Rhode Island
had given him an opportunity to
witness the conduct and worth Of
the Negro soldier" Statesmen,
both South and North, rs they
talked about II, became free to
express their appreciation Of the
measure. They had witnessed the
militia from Virginia and North
Carolina, az the battle OF Camden,
throw down their arms before the
/ enemy; they had seen black and
white troops under command OF
British Gen. Provost occupy Sa-
vannah The same chapter
cites Grimshaw's U, s, History TO
the effect that az the battle OF
Guilford Court House, the follow
ing year, the North Carolina
militia fed al the first fire, "
and the Second Maryland Regi-
ment deserted.
As swallows. neither the 5th
Army's e2nd Division in the Ital-
ian Campaign. nor the Virginia,
Carolina and Maryland troops at
Camden and Guilfori Courthouse,
les years earlier, make a summer,
in terms Of the courage Of soldiers
Negro or Southern white.
More Prom The Black PhalanN"
las early at 1882. the militia
law OF Massachusetts, required
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Letters To The Editor
NEW URBAN LEAGUE PRESIDENT WRITES

Editor: very appreciation adequately
very complimentary remarks included in your ed
relative election president Of the Minneapolis
Urban League.
All that say try my best to live up to
Of high standards which you have set for me-
Much Of the success OF organizations agencies
personal activity and the cooperation
Of your newspaper and Of its staff
was also pleased your of the ability and
trbuuons TO he community Of Howard Bennett
The NAACP and League Minneapolis have estab
Hshed cooperative working relationship Each program COM
PIGMENTS achieve fun equality for all our
citizens.
We have fallen Of neglectng to acknowledge
publicly publicity which is afforded US
through your columns programs would suffer
Thank you publicity which have given
me personally publicity to the organiza
tons am trying includes who
perform year around public communications
MINI, May 4, 1885,
KING COLE FINALLY LEARNS LESSON
Editor Well King finally learned lesson He has
finally Joined the NAACP.
The predcament should lesson to all Of
achieved and accepted is
due to the work Of organizations such the NAACP.
They should forget
81 fortunate.
In every those profit After
ALL who great financial gains
Of
doesn't make right
people enjoyed during
ton But that doesn't makes segregation right.
King Perhaps he wasn't too old to learn
Matthew Jenkins Chester, Pa
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Negroes, Scotchmen and Indians
the indentured slaves of Cromwell,
who encountered his army at the
battle Of Dunbar-to train in the
militia. Nor was it an uncommon
occurrence for them to be manu-
mitted for meritorious and cour-
ageous action in defending their
masters families, often in the
absence Of the master, when at
tackled by the red men of the
woods. They fought with a desper-
alton equal to that of the whites,
against the common enemy"
John Cadwater Of Annapolis,
Maryland, in letter to Gen.
Washington, June, 17sD wrote:
I'VE have resolved to raise, i'm
mediately, seven hundred and fifty
Negroes, to be Incorporated with
the other troops, and bill is now
almost completed"
1T does not appear, writes Will
son, that the Negroes were form
ed into separate organizations in
this State, but filled the depleted
ranks of the Continental regi-
ments, where their energy and
daring was not less than that dis
played by their white comrades,
with whom they fought, shoulder
to shoulder. The advocates Of arm
ing the Negroes were not confined
to the Eastern and Middle sec
tions; some Of the best men Of the
South favored and advocated the
enlistment of free Negroes"
Though the Legislature of
Connecticut had taken up the sub
Jet Of arming Negroes generally,
as early as 1777 the advocates
of the measure had been beaten.
Nevertheless Col. David Hum
phreys took charge and organized
company with which he served
until the close of the war. But
this company of fifty odd men
were not all that did service in
the army from Connecticut, for in
many OF her white regiments, Ne
groes, bond and free, stood in the
ranks with the whites"
ITO speak of the gallantry of
the Negro soldiers recalls some of
their daring deeds at Red Bank,
where four hundred met met and
repulsed. after terrible, sanglin-
airy struggle, fifteen hundred Hes
sian troops led by Count Domop."
Rhode Island sent her Ne
gro regiments to the field, whose
/ ganantry during the war more
than met the most ssnguine ex-
pectations OF their warmest
friends, and fully merited the
trust and confidence Of the state
and country. As the struggle pro
ceeded, re-enforcements were
more frequently in demand; but
recruits were scarce, and the
question Of arming Negroes be-
came again prominent in the col
onies and the army"
The Negroes Of Boston and
their abolition friends, rather in
sisted upon the intermingling OF
the races in the army, believing
that this course had a greater
tendency 10 destroy slavery, and
the inequality OF rights among
blacks and whites
The men OF Massachusetts, did
not more firmly adhere 10 their
policy OF mixed troops as against
separate organizations, based on
color. than did the men OF the
South TO their peculiar institution,
and against the arming Of Ne
groeS, free or slave"
All five hundred pages are
must" reading for informed
Americans.
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unless it is founded the
the equality and brotherhood of all
me
What appeal possibly excluded individual if
II teaches anything ?-Afro-American
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-05-11

All five hundred pages are
must" reading for informed
Americans
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The men OF Massachusetts, did
not more firmly adhere to their
policy OF mixed troops as against
separate organizations, based on
color. than did the men OF the
South to their peculiar institution,
and against the srning Of Ne
groes, free or slave"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

that without violating my cOnvic-
tons" Immediately the White
House phone was hung up-and for
thirteen years Senator Byrd neither
heard from nor spoke to MIR
Roosevelt. He was never invited
to the White House either for a
conference or socially, Mr.. Roose-
welt simply never forgave him and
lost no opportunity to belittle him.
But that disturbed Senator Byrd
not at all. Nor did it hurt him in
Virginia, where they continued
three times to re-elect him as Sena-
tor-once without Republican OPP
position. He had no political or
personal favors to ask of the Presi-
dent and no one snubs a Byrd of
Virginia by not asking him to a
dinner or reception. He did not be-
come party bolter like Senator
Wayne Morse, of Oregon, and no
one ever charged that he is not a
Democrat. He is one of those rare
birds-a politician who puts the in
terests of his country above parti-
san politics. The reason this bill
stands so good a chance of passing
is because there is now another
man like him in the White House,
though not of his party. 1t is a
pretty fine thing for the country
to have them working together.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

ton policies. Particularly was this
true of Mr.. Roosevelt 1t was early
i'm the first Roosevelt Administra-
ton that the break came between
him and the President The latter
whom Mr.. Byrd had strongly sup
ported in 1892 revealed in 1888 the
vast New Deal spending program
As the late Senator Carter Glass,
then Senator Byrd's colleague from
Virginia. said: in his first six
months in office MIR Roosevelt re-
pudiated every pledge made in his
1882 platform" The two Virginia
senators lined up against the New
Deal program.
One day while the Agricultural
Administration Act (the so-called
AAA, aftcrward declared uncOnsti-
tutional by the Supreme Court
was about to be voted on in the
Senate, Senator Byrd was called to
the telephone. Harry" said voice,
this is Franklin Roosevelt. l
understand the Senate is about to
vote on the AAA today. l hope you
are going to support us" Senator
Byrd replied MIR. President, | am
very sorry l can't do that but l am
opposed to the principle of that
bill" We'll" said the President
q would like you to vote for it,
Harry, as a personal favor to me-
81 am really very sorry, Mr.. Presi-
dent" again said Senator Byrd,
but it is impossible for me to do
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
BY FRANK r. KENT
Copyright by The Baltimore Sun and 70
printed in The Republican by permissio~
Byrd And His Bill

A few days ago Sena,or Harry f.
Byrd, of Virginia, chairman of the
powerful Senate Finance Commit
tee, introduced a bill proposing a
reduction of $3,000,000.000 in the
ceiling on the national debt, now
at the tremendous and unprece-
dcntcd level of 1921 900, 900, 600. At
the same time he announced that
this proposal is in accord with the
views of the Secretary of the
Treasury, which means of the
White House, too. Also, it means
that debt reduction will come be-
fore tax reduction - which, of
couse, it should.
News items about debt and taxes
make dry reading in the news
papers, but this one is certainly
worth a good deal more public at
tcntion than it got For one thing
it is almost without precedent for
any Administration to put debt re-
duction ahead of tax reduction in
an election year Another reason
is that it is almost equally without
precedent for the chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, Dem
ocrat, to see eye to eye on fiscal
policy with Secretary of the
Treasury and a President, both Re
publicans. This combination makes
it reasonably certain that the Byrd
bill already approved in the
House, will be enacted before this
session ends. 1t will be a more or
less notable event marking, as
Senator Byrd points out, the first
reduction in the public debt for
more than ten years
1t also will be interesting as
marking an unusual achievement
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

Falls: FairView Church of the
Brethren; Corinth. Loeb Lynn
and Underwood. Special music and
singing included the octette and a
mems quartet from Loeb Lynn;
Mrs. Shaffer and group, Aurora, w.
Va; Tom Fraley and group and
Mr., and Mrs. Marshall Sanders, of
Crellin and the Pine Grove youth
Rev. Edsil Bragg was the speaker
for the evening service.
Mrs. NADIA Nethkin and Mrs. Jes-
sic Fulk accompanied Miss Eileen
Lantz and Mrs Virginia Sanders to
Rowlesburg, W. Va, Thursday, to
consult an eye specialist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Waybright
were sight seeing at Blackwater
Falls, Sunday, and visited Mrs.
Washington Fike at the home of
a son, Albert Knots, Davis, W. Va.
Eugene Ludwig, of Oakland who
is spending this week with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Soelters was an overnight guest
on Sunday of Glenn Canaan.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Friend and
, family were Sunday dinner guests
of the Walter Peterson family.
Mrs. NADIA Nethkin and Darlene,
Miss Eileen Lantz, Mrs. Myrtle Fulk
and NADIA Marie spent Tuesday
visiting Mrs Roy Bowman.
Elaine Marie and Mary Catherine
Ludwig, accompanied by their
grandmother, Mrs. Cora Soelters,
spent a day recently with Grandma
Ludwig and Mrs. Nora Snyder.
Mrs. Mabel and Ralph Arnold
were callers on Mrs. Cora Soelters.
Kelvin and Michael Stahl have
been i'll with the humps.
Mr. and Mrs Asa Nethkin and
Darlene we're Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Shilling
burg, near Eglon.
Miss Eileen Lantz, of Crellin,
spent a day recently with Mrs.
Mrs. Myrtle SFulk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Stahl, of
Albright, w Va, we're Wednesday
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan Fulk Sunday dinner guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fulk and
family, of KingwoOd, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Graham
spent the weekend with home
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards
and son Billy, Grantsville, spent
Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs
Clarence Fulk,
Mrs Mandy Ludwig, Mrs. Cora
Soelters and Mrs Nora Snyder
were recent guests of Mrs Geral-
dine Ludwig, Oakland.
Mrs Virginia Sanders is spend
ing the weekend i'm Oakland as a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Fulk
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Soelters
and Eugene Ludwig were in Cor
rigansville over the weekend as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Boice
and family
Grace Myers was a recent over
night guest of Mrs. Effie Stahl.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Canaan, Daisy
Graham and Arzola Bray were in
Buckhannon on Sunday to get the
boys and girls from Underwood
who had spent the week at EvUn-
Breth Acres church camp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Soeltcrs
spent Tuesday visiting Mrs Sa-
villa Sanders. Mrs. Hazel Sanders
and mother, Mrs. Hattie Upole
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

upon the part of Senator Byrd per-
sonally. If there is another like it
in Senate history it cannot now
be recalled. Since 1888 Senator
Byrd has been fighting against de-
ficit financing as practiced by the
Roosevelt New Deal and Truman
Fair Deal" For % years his has
been the most potent voice raised
against irresponsible spending of
public funds. Otter his has been
the only voice in his party raised
against the waste of Federal mon
eys and the padding of the Federal
pay roll Even in the days when
he was relatively alone in the SEN
ate in warning against the dangers
of initiation, inherent in the spend
ing policies OF Democratic admins
trauons, he never once faltered.
He Was-and is-thc most complete
ly consistent man in American pub
lie life And good many people
in the country think one of the
soundest.
The firmncss of Senator Byrd in
fighting for his basic conviction
that it is just as unsound for a ma
ton to live beyond its means as
for family or an individual, and
that the penalty is inevitable in all
cases, has kept him in opposition to
Democratic national administra-
lions for long time. All through
the Roosevelt-Truman regimes he
was out of tune with Administra-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

Sen Symington of Missouri APP
peared to be gathering strength as
dark horse contender for Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
Gen Twining told Soviets the U.
S. is peaceful nation but would not
disarm again until we are sure of
worldwide arms control"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Brown and Hester
Steinley, of Meyersdale, Pa were
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Peterson
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Soldiers and
Mr.. and Mrs Paul Rine, of Keyser,
were Sunday evening supper guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Soelters.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28
UNDERWOOD

The Youth Convention held at
the Underwood church on Sunday
evening was attended by a large
crowd. Theme of the program was
Conventional Youth-Dealing with
Youths Place in the Church and
community, its effects and en-
vironments. Groups represented
and participating were Pine Grove
Church of the Brethren, Swallow
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28
NO LEAD FOULING

Plug firing tips completely free from smoth-
ering lead deposits after 1854 miles of
operation with white unleaded Amoco-Gas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-06-28
LEAD FOULING

Firing tips 'smothered" by lead deposits after
1923 miles of engine operation with well-knOwn
- brand of premium gasoline containing lead.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-11-03

TOWERING FAUM FLANKMAN-This towering flank
is Zeke Burrows, 62" 1875 pound senior end from
Miami Zeke the winner of the Lineman the
Week" award at Florida and M University The honor
bestowed upon him for his saIwartness the Rat
tiers ne Zeke will be key figure in the Rattlers starting
lineup against the North Carolina and Aggies during
the Rattlers Homecoming in Tallahassee Saturday, No
yember 3.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-11-03
Parish Pastor to Attend
Regional Conference

Rev. Dogan w. Williams,
pastor of the Lexington Larg-
er Parish with headquarters
in Lexington, has been in
vited to attend a Regional
Conference, sponsored by the
Board of Missions of the
Methodist Church which will
be held at the Continental
Hotel, November LIST and
End, Washington, d. C. This
meeting is primarily for
Presidents of Conf creme e
Boards of Missions, Confer
ence Missionary Secretaries,
Chairman of Conference Adj
vance Committees and Chair
men of Town and Country
Work in Annual Conferences
OF the Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Richmond
areas of the M t h O d lis t
Church. There will be eight
other Regional Meetings held
in other prime Up a / cities
throughout the United States.
The purpose of these con-
ferences is to face together
the general church's mutual
task for the next four years.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-11-03
Junior League Of
High St. Presents
Fashion Show

A vision of loneliness I'M
folded itself last Tuesday
night to a capacity audience
in Friendship Hall of High
Street Baptist Church. The
show of fashion, styled,
Fashions On Parade" was
presented in it's tenth an
nual showing by the Junior
League of above named
church Of which Rev. F. G..
Sampson is minister.
With an attractively decor
ated stage and ramp, and a
background of very appropri-
ate music the show was off
on a well timed pace, with
Continued on page ~
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Old Dominion
Medical Society
Holds Meeting

DR.. j. H. Roberts, Md,
attended the meeting of the
Executive Committee of the
Old Dominion Medical Society
with the personnel of the So
ciety at Virginia State Col
lege, Petersburg, Virginia.
Plans were formulated for
the annual meeting at the
college on June IS and 20,
1857.
DIR. Roberts is Chairman of
The Executive Committee.
Doctors F. w. Clayton, j.
B. Clayton, Jr., and j. H.
Roberts attended the meeting
of the Virginia State Medical
Society held at the Hotel
Roanoke October AIT, 1856.
Dir. Justin Plummer also
attended the meeting as a
guest, at which time, the
lucky doctor won a ham.
They reported an informa-
tive and successfuls meeting.
X 50 -
The Hospital Family ex-
presses it's deepest sympathy
Continued to page
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-11-03
Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church Crowded to Hea
New Jersey Minister, Choir and Gospel Chorus

The Reverend S. l.. Foote,
pastor, Viewpoint B a p I'd s t
Church, Newark, New Jersey,
and his chorus and choir were
in charge of the morning wor-
ship service at the Greater Mt
Zion Baptist Church on last
Sunday. The church was fill
ed to its capacity as the mem
bers, visitors and friends
listened to a most inspiring
sermon and music that will
be long remembered.
Reverend Foote'S sons-in-
law, the Reverend E. G..
Eural, former Roanoke, and
the Reverend j. G.. Cadell
were pulrit guests. Rev.
Cadell sang 'He's My Light"
backed by the choirs. Mrs.
Eural was pianist for the
morning.
Words of welcome were
given by Mrs. J. Geneva Ford.
Remarks were made by Of
ficers of the Viewpoint Bap-
fist Church, Mrs. Mamie
Webb and Mr.. J. N. Board.
Before returning to New
Jersey, the guests were served
a very tasty turkey dinner
by the Paradise Chorus and
Mems Club of Greater Mt.
Zion Church.
DR.. M. T. Coker, pastor of
Greater Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, was very happy at
the outcome of the service
and is looking forward to re-
turning the visit to Newark
in the near future.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-11-03
FISK UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
DIES WITH HEART ATTACK
Stricken in Union Station
Pronounced Dead on
Arrival at Hospital

Louisville, Ky.-Dr. Charles
S. Johnson, president of Fisk
University, died here of a
heart attack Saturday night.
The internationally known
educator, sociologist and au-
thor was stricken in Union
Station and pronounced dead
on arrival at Louisville's
General Hospital.
DR.. Johnson, who was 63,
had left the train to purchase
a newspaper and was return
ing to his car when he COL
lapsed. He was en- route to
New York City from Nash
vile, Tenn, to attend a meet
ing of the Fisk Trustee Board.
Members of the family said
he was in apparent good
health when he left Nash
vile. He had no previous his
tory of heart trouble.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday in the Fisk Uni
versity Chapel, in Nashville,
with . the. Rev.. William u.
Faulkner of Chicago, former
dean of the chapel at the uni
versity, DR.. Thomas Elsa
Jones, former Fisk president,
DIR. Fred L. Brownlee, former
provost, and DR.. William
Lloyd lines, chapel dean, Of
ficiating.
DR.. Johnson was elected
president of Fisk University
in 1916, the first Negro to
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