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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07

worst thing and the best thing
that has happened in the Mack
Charles Parker case is that it has
become political football.
For the family of this young
Mississippi Negro it must be dis
tressing to watch Dixie demago-
CUES and Northern Republican
politicians, with an eye on 1860,
both trying to make political
capital out of his lynching. Yet
for the families of other Negroes
in the South it is, in the long
run, fortunate that politicians
outside Mississippi are forced to
do something about Wanton dis
regard of the law by local mobs.
What prompts me to make
what specifically seems like
contradictory observations is the
way Attorney General Rogers
announced that the Justice Dept.
was coming back into the case.
Unquestionably Rogers has given
it political overtones by his be
lated announcement; yet it is
better that he moves late rather
than never.
When Parker was lynched last
spring the Justice Dept. acted
with complete propriety in send
ing the FBI to investigate. There
seemed to be a possibility that
Parker's body had been carried
across the state line. Technically
the Department was also correct
in saying that no federal law had
been violated, after the FBI had
completed it's findings - because
there is still no federal anti
lynching law after all these years
of civil rights debate.
What is distressing is that the
President and Attorney General
fell silent during all the inter-
vening months, even after Gov.
Coleman refused to impanel a
special grand jury to look into
the case. Such a grand jury,
Coleman argued, would do no.
thing. It was better to wait for
the regular Fall panel.
But it was a foregone conclu-
sion that nothing would happen
in the Fall. Coleman refused
even to speculate on what the
regular grand jury might do. He
was not being naive; he knew
the record of Mississippi juries.
1t was evident to anyone with
the slightest k w d &c Of
slynch law" that nothing ever
happens to the perpetrators un-
less there is terrific public pres
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07

Television humorist Sam Lev
enson, once a school teacher,
turned serious last week long
enough to say, 'Television is
being criminally wasted as an
aid to education because nobody
is willing to put up little
money and treat education as
excitingly, at least, as it treats
a box of cereal."
Levenson said TV should get
the greatest of teachers and the
greatest of techniques lined up
for this cause. Get Leonard
Bernstein to teach music. If
Shakespeare is the subject, get
Laurence Olivier to act in it. If
geography is being studied, it
ought to be treated like a Lowell
Thomas production. ="
Sans ideas are sound, even if
a little stuffy. What he over
looks is how much television
teaching is being done today.
How to ride horses, for IN
stance. It's simple you ride
at . gallop. Through the main
street Of town, fourteen miles
sasress the prairie, sr 1Fo4 -
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07
Asks Mike Berry
Sam Says This Amt Educational?

bank to the Long Branch saloon
- it makes no difference. Horses
always start and finish gallop-
ing. Never is it necessary to stop
and rest these tireless beasts.
The gentle art of persuasion is
another. If there's a fellow who
doesn't agree with your views,
simply get two friends to hold
his arms. Then you hit him as
hard as you can in the pit Of
the stomach, and follow up with
blows to the face until he slumps
unconscious. In no time at all
he'll get around to your way Of
thinking.
The nice part of this deal is
that nobody gets hurt. A half
hour later your victim is walk
ing around looking as refreshed
as though he just had pleasant
nap, and your own knuckles
aren't even bruised after ham,
mering his skull.
We have all been educated
when to laugh. It isn't even rec-
essary to pay any attention to
what's going on - when yea
IS tConAinne1 -. Page Twe>
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07
THEATRE
BY
Cyrus Adler
ONLY IN AMERICA

Bouncy, good natured Harry
Golden's heart of gold contrib
uted to the early demise of this
play about him. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that there are no Williams
in North Carolina.
We sympathize with the poor,
energetic ex-con who comes to
Charlotte, North Carolina for the
unlikely purpose of starting a
journal of his ideas, called THE
CAROLINA ISRAELITE. He
wants to leave his unfortunate
past behind him.
A lawyer asks him why he has
come to the South, Mr.. Golden,
as l recall, says that there is
where the next great story will
happen and that he wants to be
part of that story.
He has new ideas" for tn e
South, such as his proposal to
eliminate school indignation
problems by removing all the
chairs from the schools. But Mr..
Golden prospers. II know I'm q
success" he says at the end OF
Act One, "the klu klux khan
wants to kill me-"
Well, we knew all along that
Harry would succeed. The only
drama left involves his fear that
knowledge of his past will ruin
his success. Every tear is jerked
every emotion is MIXED q am
easily moved) even though we
Confined ~ Page Three}s
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07

This book is not a new book.
1t was first published about
Christmas time of 1858. But so
important is it, so direct and
fortnight its prescription for a
sick world that it is well worth
a second review here.
C. Wright Mills is professor of
sociology at Columbia. He has
conducted research for govern
ment agencies, corporations and
labor unions and has lectured ex-
tensively both in this country
and abroad.
Since publication, events have
swept the world into new
awareness of the true nature of
atomic warfare. A moratorium on
nuclear testing of instruments of
war has been declared in this
country and Russia; France has
determined to join the nuclear
bomb club; China has taken
great steps in the nuclear scien-
tific field. These make the ques-
tons Mills asked in the book
curiously relevant. He asks if
war today is "a matter of blind
drift, of overwhelming events, of
historical destiny? Or is it a mat
ter of men making decisions, and
if so which menu"
We can take heart with Mills
when he says, "But the truth, !
am going to argue, is that it is
the rigidity of those who have
access to the new means of his
tory making that has created and
is creating the sinevitability' OF
World War III. Increasingly now
Continued on Page Two)
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Robert Spivock Comments On :
POLITICS AND PARKER

sure. By putting action off to
the Fall, the Mississippi Cover
nor was trying to make sure that
Congress took no action when
public sentiment was aroused
about the Parker case.
It was no surprise that Sen.
Eastland or Senate Democratic
Leader Johnson should try to
take the heat off. But the Ad-
ministration's silence while this
was going on was battling, if
not actually disgraceful.
Everything Rogers said about
the failure Of the Grand Jury
even to hear the FBI men who
did the investigating being a
''travesty on justice" was abso-
lutely right.
s'You talk about states rights"
Rogers said. ''Thats fine. I be-
lieve in states rights, too. But
there are also state responsible
ties. 1t seems clear to me that if
a state doesn't believe in the adj
ministration of justice, to the
extent of not even calling wit
nesses, in a case like the Poplar
vile case, then the Federal gov
eminent must consider some
thing else
Wasn't all this evident months
ago? Why SO late?
In a way the tip-off on the
Administration unc ert nty
about its position on the Parker
case and similar episodes is that
no one in authority yet has call
ed for enactment of a federal
anti-lynching law. This would
seem to be the minimum need in
any new civil rights legislation.
Yet even Rogers SHE'D away
from recommending it.
The failure to be specific is
bound to make some people
think he is playing politics.
If he is, then civil rights adj
vocates ought to keep on guard.
Among politicians there are
ties that bind. They are stronger
tina opposition to lynching.
After all the administration has
depended on Southern Demo-
Gratis to hold the line on its con-
sentative domestic economic po-
licies. The old Republican-Dixie
Democratic coalition is still a
force to be reckoned with.
Yet the fact that Rogers has
moved even as far as he has,
must be marked down on the
''plus" side of the ledger. But it
should be recognized for what it
is - a minor advance, not a
major gain.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07
IA Book
| Review

THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR
THREE. by C. Wright Mills. ST.
mon and Schuster. liz PIP. $3.50.
cloth. $l.50. paper.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07

Dear Mr.. Simmons
Aweek ago, read in the Biloxi Daily Heard page par
a LIST Of the "a enemies declared by the White Citizens ooun
ci Amonq those organizations the OF the Episcopal
Church and the name Of the Methodist Church.
Of course do not know which organizations make up the bal
ance Of the list Of a. but am writing out Of curiosity to know
the name Of the Evangelical and Reformed Church ned Church
Of Christi has been included the list We certainly feel that we
are every bit good the Epcopaans and the Mehod and
do not wish to be sighted.
please understand therefore, my feeling Of neglect in fact
we are not included on your list of enemies might be that
THROUGH some oversight you left off the Of denominations
perhaps you could add it, thus giving NICE round figure OF
rs enemies.
sion Of our denomination among your list Of enemies would
ues that YOU stop by Sunday at either the 1880 am or the
$50 pm worship services where likely as NOT you will hear
reference made from the pulpit to the White Citizens Councils
assure YOU that pull punches in making clear the anfness
that exists between principles Of Christianity and The pnc
ne Of The White Citizens Councils able to understand
Them from various articles and press releases
hope YOU will find possible to do US the honor OF decar
ina US to be your enemy we part will try earnestly to
follow our Lords advice to love enemies But we shall MOI
make the mistake Of ignoring them
Thankinu YOU for your consideration and hoping to be
waded an appropriate position your list among the Es and
the Air Force, remain
Faithfully yours
Richard EIerbrake
Too bad about v Eebrake; lose preachers that
am not convinced fully Of the saying better late than
nove however on the off chance that has merit will pro-
coed had intended TO the following item in the issue for
Christmas week. but slipped up somewhere along the way liked
i ye much can only hope you DO It entitled ONE SOLITARY
LIFE" and its author is unknown.
Here is young who born an obscure village, The
child Of peasant woman. !.
He Grew Up in another village He worked IN carpenter
sop until he thirty and then tor three years ne was an nm
49,. nre,che He never wrote book He held office
Is maven owned home He never had family He went =
eonace II never PVT his foot inside big city hsvs
- 10 miles from hs pscs where hs IVES born - neseF
- fCont zaed en- Pal
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-01-07

Last week did what considered public service by giving
space TO the citizens councils list Of enemies presumed that all
Msssppans pleased to learn Of those LOST souls who were
enemies Of our southern fried ideals alas such not the
fear Herewith is copy of letter from Rev. Richard Eer
brake Pastor Of The Back Bay Mission Biloxi Miss Deacon Dicks
letter needs no explanation or comment.
Evening star., 1960-12-01

The building and construc-
ton trades department. which
conducts vigorous lobbying &C
tivities. is an organization Of
1e unions with about 81 mii-
lion members. G. J. Haggerty.
president Of the department.
announced that its annual
legislative conference win be
held here next March 20-24.
with more than 5000 delegates
attending. &.
For Revising TIL Act
In addition to It's lO-point
priority program. the depart-
ment said it will press at the
earliest opportunity" for legis-
lation to overhaul the Taft
Hartley Act and to eliminate
Restrictive. anti-union provi-
|siens'' Of the labor reform Law.
The department said revisions
|of the Taft-EIartley Act should
include repeal Of the section al-
lowing States to enact right
to-workp laws. which prohibit
union shop, contracts. ~
Evening star., 1960-12-01
Building Unionsto Seek
Easing Of Picketing Bon

Construction unions intend
Ito push very hard next year
for legislation to relax re-
strictions against picketing Of
building subcontractors.
This legislation "remains our
Number One objective" the
IAFL-cIo building md con-
lstruction trades department
declared yesterday In ANNOUNCE
ing III Iospeint program for
1.-THE ne0f CONGRESS.
The iD-point program -is
8designed to stimulate healthy
economic growth and to In
]crease emp Eoyment tand,
squares With the announced
agoals of the new lKennedr)
Iadministfat !, the oreanika-
IssDe. = ,tss.s !
| Legislative Goals
In addition to the picketmg
Legislation. the construction
junions listed these goals; 4
Federal aid to. edncaeions m
acMding school o6strpctl tlon and
teachers, sAlad housing s1d
lslurn clss alaces ms aimed
5at eonstrl di 81 at least 3
imillion units ANNUALLY for The
mkt 10 years; extension et
8ttinimum wage coyersge, Sud
1 an increase In the minimum
,EfroFn 81 to $1.26 an, hour: Tneai-
Ical care for the aged under lle
social security system.
Also nb6ralikation Of the
Davis Bacon Act, which re-
lquires paylnent Of prevailing
wage rates on projects financed
by the Federal Government:
Federal aid to areas with
chronically high unemploy-
ment: urban renewal; Federal
assistance for construction of
water systems and other COM
munity facilities: acceleration
of airport and highway con-
lstruction programs.
| Purpose Of Bill
The picketing bill would al
low an electrical union. for ex-
ample. to picket an electrical
subcontractor. even If the
picketing stopped work by
plumbers, and others working
for supposedly neutral SUBJ
contractors on the same con-
struction site. Some forms of
such picketing now are out
lawed as secondary boycotts.
Senator Kennedy pledged to
bring the picketing bill-which
has been indorsed by President
Eisenhower-to q Senate vote
this year. but the legislation
was blocked In committee.
Evening star., 1960-12-01
Alumni Speaker

IJE: Laurence M Gould.
president OF Carleton College.
Northtield, Mimi, viii be guest
speaker ct q meeting .of the
colleges Washing tone Baltimore
Alunini Club at $50 O'clock to-
night in the Black Gun Restau-
rant. 72s Thirteenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1960-12-01
ZhuMe lr<t76a/

~ Citizens Bank Of MARYLAND opening ninth office
H 6gomer County Here will find banking
and focifhes which include
pias sS unique willingness
Evening star., 1960-12-01
ROTATING
COLOR WHEELS

Thm.A-Tree Shops
Third Floor. Washington
lower Level, Arlington
Evening star., 1960-09-05
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer

WARRENTON, Sept. s.
Since he has little competition
in sight, a strapping big hunter
named Cold Climate from the
stable of Mrs. j. Deane Rucker
Of Michigan seems destined to
collect a double championship
as the three-day Warrenton
Horse Show comes to a close
here this afternoon.
Gold Climate now holds a
commanding lead with the con-
formation hunter division
1912 points to 10 points col
lected by w. D. Haggard Ills
Bold Minstrel.
Coming in to the last round
of the four-show competition
Cold Climate was five and a
half points behind his stable
mate, Spanish Mint. During
this meeting. Spanish Mint has
barely touched the ribbon
while Cold Climate has won the
John Barton Payne Memorial
Trophy. the model hunter class
the thoroughbred hunter class
and the open conformation
hunter event.
Evening star., 1960-09-05
Area Crews Win
Honors in Regatta
At Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5
(SpeciaD "A record 98 crews,
largest field in the history of
the Middle States Regatta.
competed in the 69th annual
event yesterday on the Schuyl-
kill River, with Washington
area rowing crews capturing
two races and placing in seven
others.
The top performance for a
Washington area representative
was Old Dominion Boat Club of
Alexandria, Va, which won the
intermediate eights in a field
of four and took two seconds,
two thirds and a fourth.
Potomac Boat Club crews
won one race and took fourth
in two others.
The intermediate eight from
| the Old Dominion Boat Club,
coached by Jack Franklin,
nosed out the Undine Barge
Clubs eight with a time of
5:26.6 as against 5:27.4 for
Undine.
Evening star., 1960-09-05
Corsica Comet
Takes Regatta
ST, MICHAELS. Md, S

ST. MICHAELS, Md, Sept.
S CAP).-Bobbie Seger of the
Corsica River Yacht Club won
the Eddie Rickenbacker Comet
class regatta at the Miles River
Yacht Club Yesterday with 2214
points.
John Swaine, Jr., of the Tired
Avon Yacht Club was second
in the two-day event and Jack
Peters of the Miles River Yacht
Club was third.
Peters won the third and
final race yesterday. sailed in
breezes of Is to 18 miles an
hour. but did not gain enough
points to catch Seger or Swaine
who were tied with 1914 points
after Saturdays two races.
Final standings:
/. swizzle, Bobbie segcr, Corsica
River Yacht Club, 1-2-2-22I.; =. We
Two. John Swaine,, Jr.. Tired Avon
ton, Jack Peters, Miles River Yacht
Club. 3-3s1-201.; 4, Puffin, Wally
Nauta, Potomac River Sailing. Associa-
ton; 4-5-4-14; 5, sea Robin, Guy
| 5-4-5-l3: &. Just Three, Bob Roberts
Jr., Miles River Yacht Club. 6-6-7-S
3 :. Ping II. Will Alexander, Atwood
Comet Fleet, Delroy, Ohio, 7-7-6-T
Evening star., 1960-09-05


Naturally it had bar that developed into an attraction
If 1912 "Thorpes oympcs" then 1886 Eleanor
Holm'S."
SHE GOT A BUM RAP" Peter Flick, a point winner
in swimming and former instructor at the Army Navy
Country Club here has testified "A lot of others were
having high time"
En- route the high seas, officials issued a warming
against drinking late hours gambling Eventually the
athletes put their honor to observe training rules
which watered down to permit smoking and beer
drinking Also the curfew hour changed from 10 pm
to midnight.
1t must have been pretty lively picnic like breeze
at easy college At the end the athletes
Mrs. Joanna S. de Tuscan, fencer, the most beautiful
athlete Katherine Rawls the most popular; Glenn
Hardin the handsomes and Glenn Cunningham the most
popular.
But the preOlympicS headliner in '36 Miss Holn
who barred from the team Our No. backStroker
however went out in style Fttngy she caught with
glass of champagne in her hand, according to reports
No stein of beer for La Holm.
UNCLE SAM HAS no monopoly these seemingly
periodic problems Fitting back and forth the years.
there came attention account of the 1924 OympcS
held III Paris The host nation France had the second
biggest squad next to the United Sate and the French
were thinking they'd make
They didn't. The Americans registered 255 points and
France trailing Finland Great Britain and Sweden WELL
totaed only 2612 Before the Games the Paris
daily Liberte editorialzed to wit: "The Americans
following exactly the training regime here
at home You them at any of the amusement
drinking smoking dancing establishments. They will
win because they doing everything possible to win"
There,
Evening star., 1960-09-05
Russian Track Coach Contends
u. S. Stars Are Victims of Fear

ton when, he spoke of Glenn
Davis Of Columbus, Ohio, who
won his second Olympic 400
meter hurdle Gold Medal in
record time.
Davis is the greatest COM
petitor in the world" the Rus
sian coach said. "He has COM
plete control of his nerves. He
knows what he is doing every
moment. He can think fast
enough to change tactics in the
middle of the race"
The Soviet coach thinks 1t
was the pressure caused by
seeing three Russians jump
right with him past the 7-foot
mark that caused favored John
Thomas Of Bostol to fail in the
high jump.
AS for the startling setback
suffered by World Champion
Hal Connolly of Santa Monica
Calf, in the hammer throw
neither Litovev nor Russia s
head track and field coach
Alexey Korobkoav, could find
any explanation.
I'VE are at a loss to explain
the tragedy of Connolly" Koro-
bokov said. "He was a cham
pion, proved to the world. How
this could have happened to
him is one of the mysteries OF
athletics"
Evening star., 1960-09-05
Smith Voted Most Valuable
As FBI Nine Wins Tournev

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. S
(SpeciaD. - Washington area
teams made a clean sweep of
out-of town tournaments as
FBI took the All-American
Amateur Baseball Association
unlimited division by defeating
Buffalo, N. Y, 81.
A towering two-run homer
by Rightfielder Ray Smith
clinched the title for FBI and
avenged an earlier defeat the
G-Men suffered at the hands
of the New Yorker's Saturday
night.
Smith. named the tourna-
ment's most valuable player,
gave Pitcher Greg Morris the
margin he needed. The south
paw struck out IA to win his
second game of the series.
Smith, who scored the FBI's
other run on a double by Perry
Currin, also caught a long line
drive to retire the New Workers.
with the bases loaded in the
seventh.
Evening star., 1960-09-05
OLYMPICS
Continued From Page A-2O

Continued From Page A-2O
Games, stages its finals to-
night with three Americans in
the lineup.
Six Italians, a South Afri-
can and a Ghanian also are in
the finals dominated by Com
munist countries. The Poles
and Russians each have four
finalists. The other comes from
+Czechoslovakia.
Few persons-even the ex-
pefts-are picking favorites.
They argue that there have
been so many controversial and
doubtful decisions that any
thing could happen.
Casius Clay, the 6-foot-2
giant from Louisville, KY, who
weighs lit pounds meets z.
Pietrzykowski from Poland in
the Interchangeable class.
Eddie Crook, an American
Army sergeant from Fort Camp
bell, KY, meets Tadeusz Wa
lasek of Poland in the middle
weight section, and Wilbert Nc
Clure of Toledo. Ohio, tackles
Carmello Bossi of Italy in the
light -middleweight division.
Evening star., 1960-09-05
AFL Season
Opens Friday
In Boston
BY the Associated Press

The millionaire backed Amer
ican Football League directly
bucking the NFL in four cities,
gets operations underway Fri
day night with the Denver
Broncos invading Boston for
the official opening game with
the powerful Patriots.
The Dallas Texans and Los
Angeles Chargers. favorites in
the Western Division, tangle
Saturday night. Sundays two
game set sends the Houston
Oilers against the Oakland
Raiders and matches the Buff
falo Bills and New York Titans.
The Bills and Titans wound
up the AFL exhibition season
yesterday with New York wal
Looping Buffalo, 52-31. for its
first victory in five preseason
tests.
Lions Thumped
In NFL exhibitions-The reg
ular season begins September
23-The Chicago Bears blankec
Washington, ITO, Philadelphis
thumped Detroit 40-10. Cleve.
land edged San Francisco. 26.
"a, and Los Angeles over.
whelmed the Dallas Cowboys
1914, over the week end.
Art Powell caught touchdown
passes of 2, %, 35 and ~ yards
in the Titans rout OF Buffalo
with Dick Jameson Tipping
four scoring strikes and A.
Dorow a pair. Tommy O'Con-
nell'S 54-yard toss to Monte
Crockett for a Bills touchdown
was the games longest scoring
play.
The Bears zeke Bratkowski
completed 18 OF 81 passes one
a 75-yard scoring aerial tt
Rookie John harrington - al
the inept Redskins lost theil
fourth in a row. Eagle Day
handled the quarterbackine
chores in a revamped Washing.
ton offensive and defensive
lineup.
Mcdonald Sparkles
Touchdown heaves of 81 ano
As yards from veteran Norm
Van Brocklin to Mcdonald
highlighted the Eagles rout OF
Detroit at Norman, Okla, the
scene of McDonald's collegiate
capers. Ken Webb scored the
Lions lone touchdown on a 79-
yard run.
Bobby Mitchell ran So yards
for a Browns touchdown, then
took a Milt Plum pitch IS yards
for the clinching score against
the Forty Miners. San Francis
cos Hugh McElhenny led the
ground gamers with lis yards
in II attempts, including a g.
yard touchdown blast.
The Rams Buddy Humphrey
and Billy Wade each passed for
two touchdowns. The Cowboys
also got their two touchdowns
via aerials. one thrown by Don
Heinrich and the other by Don
Meredith.