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ion since as was argued In Jan
uary by the House Appropriations
Committee an appropriation was
not made because Il had not re-
ceived a specific request from the
White House"
The White House, on the other
hand, has consistently declined "a
make It's request specific because
permanent head for the civil
Rights Section has not been ap.
proved
with this confused state OF Civil
Rights affairs II is no wonder that
Harry Ashmore asks: Where do
we 20 from here ?"
During the Little Rock crisis
when Ashmore's paper, the Little
Rock Gazette, supported the Sup
RENE Courts May, 1854, decision.
the paper lost approximately 10
percent Of It's circulation.
The advertiser the chief source
OF newspaper revenue evidently
placed the dollar sign above COM
munity mores because the Gazette
did not lost a single advertiser.
This fact led Ashmore 10 conclude
that advertisers can only control
editorial policy 10 the degree that
editors wish TO be controlled
As 10 the outcome Of appeals
against the decision Of Judge Lem
ley, Ashmore was certain without
predicting that a higher court
would upset the decision More
than just the principle Of integra-
ton is involved In this case" said
Ashmore, "the very principles Of
our judicial system are involved
Either the Supreme Court Is the
final authority as 10 the inter-
probation OF our Constitution and
laws or we should do away with
II. II the former case is true then
Judge Lemley's decision will most
certainly e reversed. The latter in
stance leans towards the impossi-
bic since II il unfeasible that our
Court will be the instru-
ment Of It's own doom This also
leads 10 the conclusion that the
Lemley decision will be reversed
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J. E. Johnson 81.
PouI Pioneer Dies:
Plunned Own Rifes

A pioneer 30 year prominent
St. Paul who wrote his own obiti-
airy and planned his own funeral
service died Sunday June 29 at his
home.
He was Joseph Evan Johnson
526 st. Anthony Av., for many
years active in the social civic
fraternal and religious life Of the
community.
Born in 1868, three years after
the end Of the Civil War in Mobile
Ala, Mr., johnson came to St
Paul in 1898. After a short period
of employment with the Pullman
Co, he went with the Great North
ern R.R. where he was employed
for over so years.
The Sterling Club was organ
lied in his home. He was club
president for three years. He serv-
ed as a member of the trustee
board of st. James AME church
for 40 years. Sunday June % a
week before he died he presented
the church a check for $1,000 and
made money gifts to the pastor
and other friends,
Mr.. johnson was one Of the
founders of the st. Paul branch
of the NAACP serving on its board
for many years. He was also
former member of the st. Paul
Urban League board.
Along with his wife Sadie, a
boyhood sweetheart who he re-
turned to Mobile to wed. Johnson
and his wife were two of the best
known people in st. Paul. A son
Peavey also popular died after
reaching manhood.
Mrs. johnson died about five
years ago.
Instructions as what was "a
be done after his demise were lab
oriously written out in long-hand
in February 1853. The instructions
were unchanged except that some
additional requests were added.
He gave instructions as to the
funeral text, the songs and SOLO
lists and other minute details.
He left his written Instruction.
with John NJ. Patton, a friend OF
long standing.
johnson became widely known
in the NV. from the Twin Cities
to Seattle, Wash, general as
chairman of a Great Northern
RR. union which while unaffil-
lated with organized labor was the
only bargaining agent certain EN-
ployes had with the railroad I'M
til the organization Of Local Sic.
Courtly and handsome Mr.. John
son made a fine figure at many
social affairs.
Mr.. johnson attended church the
Sunday morning of his death. He
visited with and had dinner with
the John Pattons and went TO the
site Of a new home being construct
ed by the couple. Later he vas
driven home.
He suffered an heart attack
which had been recurring from
time to time in recent months and
he succumbed.
Funeral services were held at
10 am. Wednesday morning at st.
James AME church which is said
to be the chief beneficiary Of his
will
Mines Cosair and Herndon came
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decision by a higher court will
have answered the question OF
What enforcement policy win the
present administration in Wash
ington adopt?"
1T is apparent, said Ashmore,
that local authorities will not en-
force the Supreme Courts deci-
sion. And there is little doubt that
Faubus will openly obstruct any
efforts TO integrate Arkansas
schools"
To date, according to Ashmore's
view, the administration has in
dicated that Il has no set policy
for enforcing Indignation in the
south's schools.
And its precisely This point
which. in effect. led 10 the con-
troversial decision OF very slow
moderation" rendered by Judge
Lemley. Ashmore did not justify
the decision. He did. however. with
his usual logic pin-point the
grounds from which such a de-
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To Beck Civil Rights:
Senator Paul Douglas
Urges Congress Support
For Stronger Legislation
BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN

Washington (ANP)-Sen. Paul H. Douglas ID, No. last
week. blamed both the Congress and the Chief Executive for
the problem of school desegegaton facing the nation
The most recent Little Rock desegregation decision
minds that the courts also baksde the face of hostile
pressure noted Douglas Ths indication that greater
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Thousand Delegates Expected
Many Old & New
Problems Face NAACP
As Convention NearS

Cleveland July 5-when the National Association for the
Coored People held its tenth annual convention
265 delegates from "a states Attendance
the 49h annual convention which in the Public Audi
orum here Tuesday July 81 is expected to exceed 1000
delegates from 40 states.
The 1919 meeting the first national convention Of the
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IoeaI Govt Won't InfegrGfe;
Local Govt Won't Infegrote;
Arkansas Editor Says
School Desegregation Up
To Federal Government
BY JEAN GU1LMANT

In teevision interview Sunday night Pulitzer pzewn-
ming editor Harry Ashmore of the Little Rock Gazette stated
that he could readily with the recent Lemey Desegrega
decision in that the situation in Little Rock els noer-
able However AshmOre continued point out that neither
Judge Lemeys decision the probable reversal of the
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10 st Paul for the services.
Honorary pail bearers were
Clarence Anderson, David r.
Francis, Harry S. Brown, Clarence
Roper, r. S. Harris, A. v Hail
S. Ed Han. Frank Boyd and vii
ham A. Young
Active pall-bearers: Lester Boyd
Tela b. Burt. John NJ. Patton
Eugene Harris. r. l. Cox and
Nathaniel Smith.
Survivors include cousin,
Francis Banks Of Nashville, Tenn
esee, three nieces Mrs Sadie Cor
sair, Ecorse. Mich, Mrs. Louise
Herndon. Berkeley. Calf, and Mrs.
Julia Brown Of Chicago.
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Blessings Of Sleep

Now, blessings upon him that first in
vented sleep! II covers a man all over.
thoughts and all. like a cloak: II is meat
for the hungry drink for the thirsty heat
for the cold. and cold for the hot It is
me current coin that purchases all Of the
pleasures Of the world cheap; and the
balance that sets the king and the shep-
herd, the fool and the wise man, even.
There is only one thing that dislike In
sleep, there is very little difference between
a man In his first sleep and ''' his last
sleep.-Cervantes.
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Wilkins & Dawson
Urge Congress To
Strengthen c. r. Law

w aShinkton, ~ N q ~,
Americans who are disturbed
about the use of federal troops
~ Little Rock can help pre-
vent situations that make their
use necessary by working
now 10 get Part III written
into the law Of our country"
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy wilkins today told mem
beers of subcommittee of the
House Judiciary Committee. AL
so testifying vigorously in be-
half Of the new legislation was
Congressman William l.. Daw.
son d., M.
Expressing confidence that the
new legislation could be passed,
Mr.. wilkins called "for action
now. In this session Of the Con-
gress. We do not concede that IL
Is too late 10 pass law that win
help to prevent troubles at the
schools in September We believe
that the members OF Congress have
an obligation TO act Just as surely
as the President OF the United
States has a duty 10 uphold the
law with all Of the powers OF his
office"
Part III Stricken In 1857
Part III which would have en-
abled the us. Department Of Jus
tice. ON its own initiative, 10 en-
ter into school degeneration cases
such as Little Rock was stricken
from the civil rights bill OF 1867
after a bitter Senate debate. In
Continued on Page ~
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AeAAAhAG1s
BROWN AMERICAN" a new
quarterly published by the In
stitute of Industrial Relations, 1872
Christian St, Philadelphia is a
smoothe job pushing the free en-
terprise theme.
The first issues featured
piece Is about Durham, NC.
the tabled progressive southern
community which spawned one
Of the largest and most success
full Insurance firms North Caro-
lima Mutual
Public Relations mogul Joseph
V. Baker is listed as editor of the
new publication. The invitation to
subscribe says The American
Negro is making a tremendous
contribution to the Nations Free
Enterprise system. In turn the
Free Enterprise System makes an
almost Unreasonable contribution
to him.
The running story Of how this
is done, together with some Of the
achievements which result win be
the assignment Of BROWN
AMERICAN.
He Didn't Know: In a letter to
members and friends of the Ma
tional Urban League, Leste
Granger commented that at the
White House Conference President
Eisenhower seemed tremendously
concerned about the race situation
in the US. Significantly he also
reported Mr.. Eisenhower seemed
puzzled and not informed on a
number of important areas in
which whites and Negroes are
concerned and which the four
leaders felt every informed person
in the us. was familiar.
The sixteenth annual Upper Mid
west Golf Tournament Jimmie
Slemmons brainchild and project
is receiving entries and a big field
is expected. As usual the tourna-
ment will be held at the Theodore
Wirth Course. Mr.. Slemmons an
nounces $500 in trophies and
awards will be given away. The
dates are Saturday and Sunday
July II and Is.
The affair is the modern SUBJ
stitute for the old Union where
everybody saw everybody in town
once a year. Sunday School pic
mic. Hundreds of people go to the
Bronze tournament yearly not to
follow the play Of the golfers but
to see and be seen.
The ladies who attend the tourn-
ey look their summary best and
there are sights that please the
eye of an old roue as blase as
Bailie. The golfers by the way are
the best dressed to appear in any
Minnesota tournament.
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executive and legislative action is
needed to support the constitu-
tional rights at stake"
These observations were made
in testimony before the House
Judiciary subcommittee in favor
Of stronger civil rights legislation.
Since the Senate subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights has voted
against holding hearings on civil
rights bills, including the Douglas
omnibus measure, the Illinois SEN
ator sought support of a compan-
ion bill introduced in the lower
House by Rep. Crarles c. Diggs
ID, Mich.).
Noting that the Senate killed
Part III, or the heart, of the Civil
Rights Act of 1857 after IT had
been approved by the House,
Douglas told the Celler subcom-
mittee that since the Supreme
Court decision of 1854, there has
been a complete Sinking of re-
sponsibility by both the Congress
and the Executive on this problem
of school desegregation."
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mittee that since the Supreme
Court decision of 1854, there has
been a complete Sinking of re-
sponsibility by both the Congress
and the Executive on this problem
of school desegregation."
Ike Does Nothing
The President of the United
States has not taken a single
step-other than the one to which
he was inevitably forced at Little
Rock due in large measure to his
own previous inaction-to use his
great office in order to promote
the desegregation of public schools
for the benefit of those 10 million
school children now denied their
constitutional rights.
The President has called nc
conference of public officials OF
private leaders clearly directed
toward degeneration.
'He has not used the name
or the power of his office in the
effort to achieve school desegrsga-
ton.
He has allowed his heutenants
to play the role of neutrals in the
struggle for law and order.
He has even refused to endorse
or to stAte his moral approval OF
the Courts school desegregation
decision itself"
Chairman Emanuel Celler d.,
N. " asked Douglas what he
thought of the Presidents state
ment before a Summit conference
of Negro leaders that they must
be patient and forebearing."
Patience is a virtue" replied
Douglas, but persistence is a vir-
tue, too"
INC mas Ntt ~ LhuoHsS huhhk
Recalling that the President had
made no commitments or prom
Uses at more recent conference of
four Negro leaders in the White
House, Celler asked the witness
II he thought reports of murders
and intimidation now taking place
against Negroes in Dawson, Ca,
were impeIling enough for the
President to make some statement.
Pointing out that the President
has never endorsed or made a
fortnight statement on his moral
approval Of the courts school de-
segregation decision, Douglas went
back to a press conference of
September 1855 when Mr.. Eisen-
hover was asked If he endorsed
the Supreme courts findings on
segregation, and he replied: Il
think II makes no difference
whether or not endorse it,"
The following month in another
news conference when he was
asked to amplify on this state
ment, the President said, concern
ing the Constitution, Il am sworn
to uphold IL I know, i don't ask
myself whether every single phase
Of the Constitution. with all its
amendments. are exactly what !
agree with or not"
He was quoted in a national
magazine in October, 1857 as hav-
ing told Southern governors: i
have never said what I thought
about the Supreme court decision
i have never told a soul"
Douglas reminded the commit
tee that the President virtually
dealt the death blow to Part III
Of the Civil Rights bill in July OF
last year. That section Of the bill
would have opened the way to
Federal school desegregation suits
in areas where no private person
can dare TO bring a suit
When the President was asked
by a reporter II he was convinced
that II would be a wise-extension Of
federal power at this stage 70
permit the attorney general to
bring suits on his own motion 10
enforce school Integration In the
CONTINUED on page a.
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workshops Scheduled

A series Of workshops. with ex-
perts as panelists and with dele
gates participating in the discus
aons. win be devoted 10 such top
les as Civil Rights Problems In
Northern Cities; the Negro Work.
er and His job; Voters and Politi-
cal Action: Implementing Desegre-
cation In the South: and Enlisting
Public support for the NAACP.
Youth units OF the Association
viii meet simultaneously under
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The
HIGH
And Low
DOW nj
BY BAuEE THOMAS

Current SATURDAY EVENING
POSTS lead article is by Carl
Rowan and dealt with the method
in which st. Paul social agencies
use a rowing social worker to work
with families which seem to re-
main on relief, and suffer the
problems facing children of such
families.
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Why the DeeIaraflon Of Independence

Why fhs Deelorosioa Of independents
When In the course OF human events II
becomes necessary for one people to dis
solve the political bonds which have con-
nected them with another, and TO assume
among the powers Of the earth the separate
and equal station to which the laws Of
nature and OF natures God entitie them.
decent respect TO the opinions Of man.
kind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separa-
tion-Thomas efferson-DeclaratiOn Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-29
Polio and Common Sense

All Americans under the age Of 40
will be doing the sensible thing II they
promptly heed the advice just offered
them by Surgeon General Leroy E.
Burney of the United States Public
Health Service. If they have not yet
done so, they should act at once to pro-
tect themselves with the three-shot Salk
vaccine against poliomyelitis.
DR.. Burney has offered this counsel
on the basis of reports indicating that
1858, unlike 1855 and 1857, may prove
to be year in which there will be
natural high incidence of the disease.
Warning signs to that effect have al
ready been noted not only in Texas and
Florida, but also in Virginia's Lee and
Wise Counties, where the regional health
director has described the polio outbreak
as an epidemic"
AS DR.. Burney has declared, these
signs, coupled with the fact that the
polio season is just beginning, suggest
that the diseaSe-in paralytic and other
formS-may be considerably more wide
spread this year than In the recent past.
Accordingly, in his opinion, at Is pos
sible that there will be many cases
among the SIS per cent Of the population
under 40 who are not fully vaccinated."
This is a matter that should require
no further elaboration. Any UNDERGO
American who has not had the full Salk
vaccine-and there are all too many
such Americans, apparently-should fol-
low DR.. Burney'S advice forthwith. Not
to do so would be merely to take fool
ish chances doing violence to simple
common sense.
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Not Sporinq the Rod

In the clamor Of many voices raised
these days In and about the Mediter-
ranean region II is refreshing TO hear
one that Is calm and thoughtful, one
that reflects >an intellectual evaluation
OF world events and does not suffer per-
spective TO be blurred by emotionalism.
Habib Bourguiba, president Of Tu-
nisia, has devoted much Of his adult life
to the cause Of Tunisian independence.
He has been described accurately as the
high priest" of Tunisian nationalism,
a role In which he was automatically at
odds with succession Of French gov
ernments. Even so, this native Tunisian
has proved himself in many respects
friendly to France-staunchly provost
In general and pro-AmericaH in partic-
ular. He has, consistently, been anti
Communist-purging his Neo-Destour
Party Of Communists at the end Of
World War II and barring their infiltra-
ton into the nationalist movement In
the years since.
In this background, he is qualified
to speak frankly Of today's big-power
politics and of some Of the irritations
between the Western capitals in par
ticular.
What needs to be said," he reminds
free Europe, 'is that If the United States
gives up all hope in the Middle East
and In Africa and resigns itself to pull
ing back into its tent with its materiel
and its planes, If it gives up its bases
over which so many people complain, If
1t abandons the whole world, including
Great Britain and France, not twenty
four hours will pass before the Russian
armies will have invaded Western Eu-
rope, which has fun playing like a
spoiled child"
Mr.. Bourguiba takes note Of our
weaknesses and our faults, including a
conscience" that sometimes paralyzes.
He takes note, too, Of the fact that we
have never interfered in the internal
affairs Of his country-"a behavior rare
enough to be underlined" And he adds,
finally, that a "just analysis" of our
setbacks in the Middle East could lead
us to "a great victory for liberty and
civilization"
1t has been suggested on numerous
occasions that there are qualities of
much needed craftsmanship to be found
among the smaller nations on the
fringes Of today'S cold war. In a sense,
Mr.. Bourguiba is looking at this global
strife from an advantageous position.
His commentary on it is worth a careful
reading-by us, by our allies and by
some Of those uncommitted nations who
thus far have failed to recognize the
real menace to world peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-29

Alaskan ''Nanook" described by
our observer As globes Of fox dyed pink.
blue. green or natural silver" A third
recently saw pineapple In Cuba-that's
what Eleni says7-so he recommends q
pineapple-shaped Job. This. Of course,
might have two-way stretch--topically
speaking--if Hawaii becomes q State by
the time the Cuban revolution peters out
And then there is another one described
as looking like Greek vase"-and
maybe or maybe not having been
Knocked OF" In Cyprus.
Frankly, ladies' hats always have
been little bit too much for US. So is
the nonhat news these days. But when
they are combined II Just seems like
too much.
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Royal Versatility

Prince Charles, nine-year-o heir
to the throne of Britain and now ON
cially designated Prince of Wales,
sounds like a good, normal sort Of boy.
At school, he is not very good in arith-
metic and he does not like to be called
Fatty" But as BELTS his destiny, he
heads his class in geography and has
demonstrated facility in foreign Ian
guages.
Actually, the shortcoming in arith-
metic does not seem so important. An
instructor points out, for example, that
Charles probably would not make good
accountant, but it seems unlikely that
this will be serious handicap. 1t is
more reaSsuring that, when a school,
mate addressed him as Fatty" Charles
knew how to "bust" him where it
counted. In sense, this is form Of
personal diplomacy" that may some
day stand King Of England in very
good stead. The education Of the Prince
seems be progressing nicely.
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Go Boreheoded, Girls!

The news is bad from all over. Our
Elem, who knows an international crisis
when she sees one, reports from New
York that the new hat fashions for
milady are appallingly "global" in motif.
The designers, it seems, are being topical.
One, for example, obviously has been
reading the Washington file" So he or
she ct is hard to tell by the names) has
created vicuna draped beret, for which
a companion designer (not Bernard
Goldfine) offers a matching vicuna coat.
Another, who may or may not have
favored 6satehood, iAfS produced an