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St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28

friends Of the Entire Nous Club
motored to Itasca State Park July
16, for the clubs annual picnic.
The motorcade left st. Paul at
$50 am, arriving at Itasca four
and one-half hours later. The day
was spent in various activities,
card playing, baseball, exploring,
visit to the source of the Miss
issippi River, leisurely chatting
and enjoying an abundance of food
under shade trees. After a very
delightful day, the return trip was
made and the only mishap was
those suffering from overeating.
There was fun for the whole fam
lily and it was voted the best affair
the club has had since its found
ing. Mrs. Bea Ward is club presi-
dent.
Family Visitors: Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank SChine and family of Wash
ington, D. c., are visiting in the
city and are houseguests of Mrs.
Schine's sister, Mrs. Betty Bailey
of 1922 Carroll Av. The Schines
are sharing their visit with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Howard Law Of 1901 Portland Av.,
Minneapolis. Nine year old Michael
is staying with his grandparents.
VacatiOned In Canada: Mrs. Ann
Robinson, her sister, Mrs. Jane
Miller of 1S9 Edmund Av. and
their houseguest, Mrs. Olive Ward
of Chicago, returned home Tues
day, July 25, from Winnipeg, Can
ada, where they vacationed for
nine days. They enjoyed sightsee-
ing tours, shopping and other
courtesies extended during their
stay. Mrs. Ward will be in the city
for another week.
Correction: At the last meeting
of the Credjafawn Social Club, held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. By
ron Brown, 955 Marshall Av., the
Ransom Coins were hosts and not
the Browns as was incorrectly
stated in this paper.
Out OF Hospital: Mrs. Alene
Mcmillan, All w. Central Av., has
returned home from st. Joseph
hospital where she spent five days
for treatment of head injuries sus-
tanned when she fell down the
stairs on July 10. After examina-
ton, it was found that no bones
were broken. Mrs. Mcmillan is i'm
proving daily.
From Chicago: Visiting in the
city from Chicago, is Miss Mar
garet Williams, who is the house
guest Of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Allen of 973 Iglehart- Av. Miss
Williams is the sister Of Carroll
Williams son-in-law of Mr.. and
Mrs Allen. Miss Williams is en-
joying sightseeing around the
Twin Cities and has been the re-
cipient of many social courtesies.
Visited Aunt: Mrs. Rachel Rus
sell of Memphis, Tenn, left Tues
day night after spending a few
days in the city visiting an aunt,
Mrs. Lucille Robinson and Mrs
Freda Harris of 695 Carroll Av.
She will visit in Chicago and Gary,
Ind, before returning home. The
visitor was a guest at the Cred
jafawn and Camera Club picnic on
Sunday, July %.
Former Resident Is Visitor:
Vacationing in the city is Miss
Betty Ann Johnson Of Birming-
ham, Ala, a former resident. Miss
johnson is a teacher in Birming-
ham and is visiting her cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor and
St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28

lVlLleS bureau at Jne UnlYerSll
cocktails during the early hour
lowing cocktails, the group en-
joyed a full course dinner in the
main dining room. Other guests
were Messrs. and Mines. Donald
Smith, Oscar Newman, Ashby
Gaskins, Rufus Webster and Prof.
and Mrs. James Gibbs, Jr.
Back Home: Mr.. Walter Foster,
1896 Fourth Av. s., returned home
early Saturday morning, July %,
from Scott Air Force Base, Belle
vile, Ill, where he attended the
annual two weeks reserve train
ing program. Mrs. Foster and
their two sons who were guests
of her mother, Mrs. Anna Lee
Johnson, during Mr.. Fosters alb
sence are now back home.
Chicago Visitor: Mrs. Lille Nc
Cullor Of Chicago spent a week
in the city visiting Mrs. Cert
rude Smith of 4O4S Fourth Av. s..
She left Friday morning for her
home.
Visitor Honored With Dinner:
Mr.. and Mrs. George Duncan, 4101
Clinton Av. entertained at a bar
becue dinner party on Sunday
afternoon, July %, in honor Of
their aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Briscoe
of Leavenworth, Kans. A special
cake was made for the guest of
honor. Other guests enjoying the
delightful affair were Messrs. and
Mines. Albert Briscoe and family,
James Brown, Donald Bryant,
John Young, Sylvester Young,
Mrs. Irene Wilson and Loren
Brown.
Family Visitors: Mrs. Marvin
jackson and daughter, Marvelle,
of Los Angeles, Calf, arrived Fri
day for visit with their mother
and grandmother, Mrs. Annie Cole
man of 4537 Portland Av. They
will share their visit with Mrs.
Jackson's sisters and families, Mr..
and Mrs. J. Boyd Crawford, Mr..
and Mrs. Burie Carmichael, Sr.,
and other relatives. Mrs. Jackson
is being kept busy renewing old
friendships and catching up on
news of the twin towns.
Visiting In Missouri: Enjoying
a short visit in Mexico, Mo-, are
Mrs. S. A. Young and brother-in-
law, Fred Young and Miss Virginia
Frye, who left Tuesday, July 25,
to visit Miss Frye's parents and
Mrs. Young's sister.
Kaycee Visitor: Mr.. Leroy How
ard Of Kansas City, Mo-, was the
houseguest of his brother and sis
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Howard Of 1907 Irving Av. N. and
divided his time with. his sister,
Mrs. Sarah Wilburn Of 342S Oak
land Av. Mr.. Howard, formerly OF
Minneapolis, will be remembered
by many Twin Citians when he
operated Howard Steak House on
the northside. He renewed many
cd acquaintances during his stay
Visited In Chicago: Mr.. and Mrs
s. A. Young, 5O54 Irving NJ, ac-
companied by Mrs. Myrtle Banks
TOO Bryant Av. N. and Mrs. Lii
Ian Jackson, $50 Bryant Av., re-
turned home July IA, from a motor
trip to Chicago visiting relatives
and friends. They were recipients
of numerous social courtesies in
cluding breakfast, luncheons, etc
Family Visitors: Rev. and Mrs
Alexander Gregory Of Bluefield W.
Va, were recent guests Of their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. James r. Brown of 4037
Fourth Av. s. The Gregorys were
deeply impressed with the warmth
of the hospitality accorded them
during their visit in the Twin Cit
les. They left by plane for Flint,
Mich, where they will visit anoth-
er son and family and will proceed
from there to visit another daught-
St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28
Social and Personal
( MINNEAPOLIS <

Dinner Hosts: Mr.. and Mrs. Coeridge T. Hendon, 1914
Portland Av entertained beautifully appointed dinner
party Sunday evening July 23 in honor of Prof James H.
Reeves and Mrs Reeves Prof Reeves has been appointed
tant professor of education and director Students Ac
ves Bureau the University Of Minnesota Guests enjoyed
cocktails during the early hour of the deghfu evening Fol
St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28
Social and Personal
< ST. PAUL (

Flower Show: St. Anthony Hill Garden Club members will
be displaying variety of artistry color and originality in their
flower show be held Sunday August 49, Maxed School
ST. Paul. from to pm For those who flower lovers this
will be real treat Mrs Mary Green chairman for the show
with Mrs. William Brayboy and Mrs Edmond Moore
chairmen.
Entire Nous Held Picnic Approximately 100 members and
St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28
CLINTON PROPERTIES
PHONE Is

The telephone of Clinton Prop
critics which is now renting the 20
unit apartment house at 1000 Clin-
ton is Liberty 5-1841.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-28

mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Murphy Of
1854 Thomas Av., and other rela-
tives.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
Letters To Editor Double Check

StOrns in the weather and
storms in the politics are proof
that Spring has sprung but
darling its cold out here. Saw
where Dean Rusk, Gromyko and
Adla Stevenson got together for
five hours and talked, lunched,
and what not. Now Bridges wants
to know why Adlai said some
things he said that's the Re-
publican checker. 1t appears that
there is a whole heap of talking
being done at least this adj
ministration is on speaking terms
with the World.
Here in Virginia there is a
build up of political energy I'M
heard Of in previous set ups :.
even the Boss can't pick EN- this
time. They are Hopping out all
over again. Unless there is an
ace up his sleeve it will be
the most it even shakes the
most important. and they will
definitely have to be some fixing
done 'twixt this and primary.
Keeping some of the candidates
in is getting much attention, we
all have friends. but when we
find them out it may be too late.
It's like the caption .''Yanks
lost to the Byrds.'
One guy said he knowed the
South was bound to win some
day. Benny Goodman swings
again. The weeks TV shows hit
pay dirt just a title but liked
by music lovers.
Gardening is rather uncertain
this year but we must try in or
der that we eat.
Thanks for read ding ~.
Yours,
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

of the communes.
The Communists will not give up
control, however. The children will be
taught in government controlled schools
while the parents work in the fields
Patience is quality for which Chi
neses are noted. Communists have equal
patience. If they can have control of
the children for a generation possibly
Communist patience will wear down
Chinese patience. We wonder?
This is an example of an effort to
change the character, customs and
mores of people by government
orders. It's failure may be taken serious
" in this governments plans to re-
make other nations in our own image.
Evolution is more logical than revolu-
ton.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
Practically Equality
Does Not Exist

Editor Farmville Herald
In the March II, issue of the
Herald, you published a well writ
ten letter by Mr.. J. Guy Ian
caster Of Farmville. Va, on,
Equality False Concept of Life.
Because for many years I
have thought as he does on this
subject, l want to here make it
known that I fully agree with
him.
To me, it has always appear
ed to be absurd for any man or
group Of men to assert that all
men are created equal, when we
all know it to be a fact that ALL
men are NOT created equal in
strength or intelligence, wheth-
er they be white or black men.
Some white men are far su-
pei'!or to other white men and
some Negro men are far super
ior to other Negro men. and too,
there are many instances when
the intelligence of some Negro
men. far surpassed the intelli-
gence Of millions Of white men.
Certainly, no one should
claim that the Pygmies of Afri-
ca or the Bushmen of Australia,
were created equal to many 9TH
er races of men who live or
have lived upon this earth. They
were not only NOT CT ca tie d
equal but they have never be-
come equal to earth's superior
races.
AS I state above, agree with
Mr.. Lancaster and l want him
and your other readers to know
that I do agree with him. and
for this reason, respectfully
request you to publish this let
ter. Would that there were more
Intelligent folks who would ex-
press their views in letters to
the editor.
L. D. Whitaker
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

the only thinking that makes
any sense or can get anywhere
today. Both were for a more or
less active government, but FDR
was for one controlling the lives
and economies of our people,
while Wilson was for one keep
ing our lives and economies free.
IF THE CONSERVATIVE
youth movement on college cam
puses is what it seems to be. it
is the true wave of the future
rather than the dandruffy New
Dealers who deem themselves
paged-and are in part, for a
New Frontier.
Not even the miracles tele-
vision does for the telegenenic
and his determination to exploit
them to the hilt can provide Mr..
Kennedy with two terms.
Indeed, so diSrespectful is psy-
chology, people weary Of even a
handsome young looking resi-
dent if he is on the screen all
the time.
DR.. CLARICE KLINE, presi-
dent of the National Education
Association, told my states
teachers last week that they
touch Immortality: Lives
have touched will still be living
in the year 1000, and pieces of
me will be living on through
them" DR.. Kline and her fellows
and sisters are too modest. They
touch not only eternity but in
finity. The ones they educate in
fluence with their ed NC a tion
others ad infinitum. Like pebbles
cast into pool, the ripples
widen infinitely to infinite shores.
Comes The Chicago Tribune to
the aid of The New York Times
against the libel suits in Ala
bama. Of Judge Grooms ruling
that newspaper is doing bust
ness within a jurisdiction when
it sends a reporter to cover a
news story in that Jurisdiction,
The Tribune complains that it
will discourage newspapers from
reporting and exposing abuses
and corruption in other states"
How can that be in the case of
the great and good New York
Times!
All The Times has to do to
preserve its freedom as the press
in reporting evil in other states
is to tell the truth.
The truth is an answer to any
and all libel suits.
i =
Freedom of the press will be
diScredited indeed if it is inter-
preted as including the right
wantonly to misrepresent Birm-
ingham with such report as Har-
rison Salisbury's climate of
fear induced by 1.-The whip,
the knife. the rope" and what
have they.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
POOR LISTENER

L. D. Whitaker
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
Progress??

! sometimes think Of changes wrought
Since sixty years have sped;
And how, since then, where country wos,
Nov towns and cities spreod.
Our rural scenes have given place
To progress and her tron;
Those peaceful days thot knew then,
Will not return again.
Our cities, like an octopus,
Stretch out their greedy arms
To gother in our country sides
And rob them of their charms
Where cotte grozed, where formers pIouqed,
OFT stores and factories rise;
And sometimes they, with clouds Of smoke,
Obscure Gods azure Skies
No longer lovers take their walks
As in those dogs Of yore;
Now in parked cors they still repeat
Loves endless toIe once more
We then trod on sequested paths
And honored Sabbath doys;
But life has grown more restless now,
Progress has changed our woys
Sometimes think it took from US
Some things of priceless cost
And wonder If, with all our qons,
We have, life's best things lost?
L. D. Whitaker
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
Chinese Return Home

EOODSTuFF pro &c t i o n in Red
China did not materialize, regardless
of the system of communes established
by Mao Tse-tung. Masses of men and
women working in the large scale farm,
or labor gangs have been abandoned.
Why? The plan didn't work. The Chi
nese people, the peasants, couldn't be
forced to make it work.
Chinese are home loving people They
live in villages. Family ties are strong
Parents exert strict control over their
children, Being ordered around in a
master plan of production did not ap-
peal to the individualistic disposition
of the Chinese.
Communist bosses have ordered 50
per cent of the famers back to the vii
lagos, to work as families, and as vii
lagos. Goals of production are set, and
demands made by the Communist boss
es, but the peasants will be happier and
will produce more in their natural
habitat than under strained conditions
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

An irate wife just finished CIV
ing her husband a sharp lecture.
And don't argue with me.
either!" she snapped, at the end
Of the TRADE.
ARGUE" replied the poor man.
why. I haven't said a word. !"
mo. but you were listening in
a most unpleasant way"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
Think ConstructiVely

inspirational story, of heroism, sacri-
flee, unselfishness or love, does it get
the front-page splash some wicked
event rates? Too often it is only a
feature, while a diabolical crime is
front-page news.
All of us are influenced by what we
see and read. If we dwell on the de-
pressive, the depraved, we do not have
the time we otherwise would have to
devote to the optimistic, uplifting and
happy side of life. Every day each Of
us should decide to face the events
of that day with smile, with con-
structive, and with the hope that we
can accomplish some good.
Such crime must be reported. But
let us keep foremost things foremost.
Let us dwell on, and emphasize, the
constructive, the morally uplifting, the
inspirational. Let us all think more
about the wonderful things, the graft
flying things, the satisfying and spirit
unally rewarding things. Let us, in
other words, start out each day think
ing positively. 1t does pay, and the ef-
feet rubs off Oh others around us.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
John Temple Graves
New Deal VS.. New Frontier
rs this where we came in?"

rs this where we came imp"
THE NEW DEAL FKATION
Of the New Frontier persists. Mr..
Kennedy's farm plan takes you
back to Mr.. Roosevelt's first
days, to N.R.A., N.I.RA.A, A.A.A.
and other alphabet soup" COM
plexities when we had the same
sort of self-government by COM
modities and products Mr.. Ken
nedy now proposes. It didn't
work in the worst depression in
history so there isn't much hope
for it in the mild recession now
passing.
LABOR LEADERS who are
blaming automation for these re-
current receSsionS say rightly, it
seems to me. The layoffs in
course of recession are, many of
them, not returned to payrolls
when the recession is over. Theo-;
retically automation creates as
much human labor as it elimi-
mates Clook at what it did to the
horse and buggy business when
it brought in the modern auto
-motiMe >, industry, our greatest
single economic operation). But
whether it always does or not
there is necessarily an interval
of adjustment when many are
out of work. not because times
are bad but because they are
good.
Some of that is the remaining
trouble now we have more
employment and at the same
time, more unemployment, than
ever in history.
NOT ALL OF THOSE whom
middle-aged Mr.. Kennedy has
drawn about him are fixationed
New Dealers. Some, like Secre-
tary Mcnamara, imagine, think
of progress without that refer
ence point. But it speaks sadly
of the passing of youth and
ideals that so many of Mr.. Ken
nedy's associates are dated hold
overs of that long ago-men like
AcheSon, B oWle S, Hartman,
Stevenson, Lands, Schlesinger.
In NewsWeek last week Ray
mond Moley. who was a men,
Der of the original FDR BRAIN
trust. discussed interestingly the
phenomenon so many of us have
been discussing for months now,
the developing conservatism of
undergraduates in spite of the
persisting liberals - men in their
fortieS - on the faculties. The
latter he sees, educationally, as
products of the New Deal that is
dealt and should be done with.
He refers to stages through
which the New Deal went, too.
Initially FDR was not deemed a
statist at all, and when he did
first seem to become one it was
as Woodrow Wilson type, with
measures deemed temporary to
the economic emergency and
others to umpire. not eliminate,
free enterprise. It was when it
began to be seen that the New
Deal was going to be a rule for
normal times. too, that Mr..
Moley got out. So did Donald
Richburg, just as later on. SO did
James F.. Byrnes and Jim Far
ley.
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT is
considerably more dated now
than is Woodrow Wilson. But
EDR :. -fixationed Nj. Kennedy
doubtless thinks of the lone as
theological successor to and mod
ernizer of the other. It isn't so.
They stand at opposite poles OF
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

We are encourage with the progress
of the human race whenever we meet
a person who admits he doesn't know
the answer to something.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24
FRIDAY, MARCH "a, 1861
On This We Agree

PRACTICALLY every citizen in Prince
Edward County will agree with the
statement filed by the NAACP coordi-
nator with the Civil Rights Commits
sion stating: eve are not ready to SUBJ
nit that all Negroes in Prince Edward
County are degenerates." So far as we
know the charge has never been made
by any responsible person of the white
race. We would view it as a STRAW
man" conceived in the mind of the
NAACP leadership to be knocked down
in the name of civil rights or some such
other cliche SO prevalent in the vernac-
ular of the do-gooders and social mind
ed
Certainly this newspaper has never
vaguely conceived Of such a condition.
The fact is, we believe the Negro race
in Prince Edward County is composed
of superior individuals, and we have SO
stated on numerous occasions. If it were
not so much trouble might have been
fomented through the many and various
pressures exerted upon them.
We believe further that the Negro
people of Prince Edward county know
fairly we'll who led the movement which
resulted in the withholding of county
funds for public schools. They know
why it was done. They know their chill
den have lost two years of schooling,
and they know this was not necessary
had they taken advantage of the oppor-
tunities available to them. They know
that after ten years of pressure and
court haranguing, nothing has been
gained and much has been lost in the
cause of education for their children,
and many Inconvenience have been suf-
fered by their white friends.
We believe that the Negro people
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

low many times lately have you
IL picked up the newspaper to see,
splashed prominently across the front
page, news of number of terrible
crimes? And you probably saw some
pretty rugged pictures too.
This has long been common practice
in metropolitan papers and it is justi-
fled as truthful reporting of ALL the
news. A great case can be built for inn
partially reporting all the news. But we
should also remember two things, in
this connection.
First, not all the news is fit to print.
And, secondly, sensational coverage and
everyday of the lurid or debased can
have poor effect in community,
especially a small-town community.
Some will say that this is weak
kneed position or a pollyanna ideal
ism, which is tantamount to not being
ready to face facts. But we should re-
member that there is enough unpleas-
antness in this world. enough tragedy,
and enough sadness, without over en-
phasis of what we encounter.
Often the sordid is played up in pre-
ference to the uplifting. If there is an
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

know who are their real friends. Dur
ing the long era of agitation good ra-
cial relationships have been maintained.
Every person worthy of credit has OBJ
tanned it, community projects have
shown no discrimination, courteous
relationship have continued. Friend
ships, developed over many years of
mutual understanding, remain today.
So far as we can see there have been
no real new-found friends among those
who have come into the community pro-
Tossing friendship.
What we had suspected for some
time comes to light in the statement to
the Civil Rights Commission, namely,
resentment was building up of gigan-
tic proportions in the minds of Negroes
through the years.
The Negro people know who built up
the resentment for how many years.
They know who fostered it and finally
county.
Now we stew in the juice born of re-
sentiment in the minds of few who have
forced the county to seek other means
of educating their children. And let it
be said again that the Negro children
might now be in school, if the opportu-
nifty of education had been embraced
by their parents. For this we do not
blame entirely the parents, for many
have found themselves in an unenvi-
able position.
Granted that mistakes have been made
in meeting the situation as it developed,
but at no time has it been thought by
any responsible white people that "all
Negroes in Prince Edward County are
degenerates." 1t just is not so!
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-24

Bible Material: John Is, 10.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 22:1-
8, 10.