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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-02-07
The Petal Qapes

THE PETAL PAPER: Printed month
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Box 1896, Hattiesburg, MISS.
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under Act of March 8, 1879.
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munist merely because he dis
agrees with us. This is wrong.
1t is also wrong to close ones
eye to the communist infiltratiOn
into every walk of life in our
country. When we read that Mar
tin Luther King, Jr., has spoken
to some 1900 students at Emory
University, I would say it is past
time for getting concerned. This
troublemaker has some commun-
list front citations according to one
source, and he has seen a COM
munist move to the top admin
istrative post in his Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
according to another source. While
they are the most segregated race
on earth many Jews are strongly
backing the race-mixing philoso-
ply.
Freedom of the pulpit" has be-
come catchy little phrase in re-
cent times. It's counterpart in ed
ucational institutions is "academ-
ic freedom" When carried to their
logical conclusion, both of these
would permit preaching and teach
ing communism. If freedom of
the pulpit" means that laymen
should be forced to pay mans
salary to stand Sunday after Sun
day and shove indignation down
their threats, I do not believe in a
free pulpit" If it means to I'M
compromisingly proclaim the truth
of Gods Holy Word, I do be-
lieve in free pulpit" In my
own little ministry, have preach
ed as hard as / know how. and l
have never encountered any
trouble from an official board.
Having passed the threshold OF
1868, all of us need to say with
st. Paul: For I determined not
to know anything among you, save
Jesus Christ, and Him crucified"
U Corinthians 2:2).
l have had so m experience
with indignation, and cannot see
what it solves. 1t creates a most
unnatural environment that was
not conducive to study. We in
Mississippi need to pray and work
in these trying times.
Thanking you for your time and
attention.
Yours for a Christian and Con-
sentative U.S.A.
Roy Wesley Wolfe (Romans
lilo. pastor
Moselle Methodist Church"
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He believes in segregation as well
as myself. invite some liberal
to take Gods Infallibe Word and
inform me what sin my Negro
friend and I are committing.
NO AMALGAMATlON
Not only do I object to the Soc
ialistic theory of One World Race
through Amalgamation as advo-
Gated by most Methodist publica-
tons today, but also object to
the other two; CD One World
Church through the Ecumenical
Movement and (2) One World
Government through the United
Nations. I would never be part
of uniting with Rome, and the
United Nations is an unscriptural
organization ("Be we not unequal
ly yoked together with unbelievers;
for what fellowship hath right
eousness wit h unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light
with darkness?" Corinthians
(6:14).
Jesus Christ founded the Church
and gave Himself for it (Matt.
1913 II and I say also unto thee,
That thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church; and
the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it, (Ephesians 5:25 Hus-
bands, love your wives. even as
Christ also loved the church, and
gave himelf for iD. All races
need their own church and to-
gether can make this present world
what God wants it to be. To re
fer a man to the church if his own
race is certainly not to refuse him
the Gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. No church has corner
on the Gospel. The Central Juris-
diction may be abolished, but it
will be sad mistake.
The Ole Miss situation is bad
enough. Should the federal gov
eminent continue its dictatOrial
policies, it would be wise to close
our schools. After all, Susannah
Wesley did more than a magnific-
emit job in educating her nineteen
children at home. By the Grace
of God, she gave to the world two
f a m nj evangelists (John and
Charles), and they largely gave
to the world an Evangelical Prot
estant Church. Our school situa-
ton can best be handled at the
polls. Let us do just that!
TROUBLE BREW
We cannot call a man a COM
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letters
Continued from Page p

assume you will print the follow
ing.
To begin with, l want to chal-
lenge your Introductory remark:
I'VE feel they express the con-
victiOn of the vast majority of the
clerical members of the confer
ence" Your reference to I'VE"
has noe puzzled. Who do you mean?
To my knowledge, this social issue
has not been voted on in our con-
ference, and l do not believe that
these twenty-eight ministers are
presenting 1.-THE conviction of the
vast majority of the conference"
If this is the case, I certainly want
to, 60 on record as belonging to
the minority. Also, If this is the
case, conference members who
favor segregation are quite bold in
their stand.
These twenty eight ministers
would have spokenly presented a
fair picture had they stopped with
I'VE speak only for ourselves" but
they continued: though mindful
that many others share these af-
firmations." Who are the others?
Why did they refuse to sign this
historic document? Surely every
conference member is willing to
take his stand for his own convic-
ton in this and other matters.
AN HONOR
Being ordained into the ministry
Is an undeserved honor for which
! am. thankful. One very impor-
tant vow to me is this: DO you
unfeingnedly believe the Scrip
lures of the Old and New Tesla
ments" (from the Ordination of
Deacons)? To this, give you an
emphatic yes.
My answer is the same now as
on the day of ordination, and it
shall always be so by the Grace
of God. Conversion and the call
to preach are the only require
ments which precede this one for
the minister of the Gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The three are indissOluble and
are essential for the God-called
preacher. I did not take a vow
to uphold indignation as inserted
into the 1850 Discipline" Chris
tians, who believe in segregation,
do believe in brotherly love
Though otherwise accused). I do
not believe any person will ever
become a citizen of the New Jeru-
salem with hatred in his heart to-
ward any person (red, yellow,
black, or white). In Marks Cos
pei we read: For even the Son
of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister. and to give
his life a ransom for many"
1O:45).
Luke wrote in the Acts of the
Apostles: "Then Peter opened his
mouth, and said, Of truth I per-
ceive that God is no respector OF
persons: but in every nation he
that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with
him" (1O:34-35). Believing that
indignation, as involves primarily
the white and colored races. will
create more problems than it can
ever solve, I stand firm for segre-
cation. Let me illustrate. Several
months ago, we were building
new parsonage in MOselle.
Ets1O oft
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For EIeonor Roosevelt
SHE STAYS TALL

She stoys toll omong US.
Not just becouse stoture is so slight
But. perhops, becouse ,.
She stood so much
And she good enough ..a
To know whot she believed
While we world in sitting,
Could scorceIy see ..,, -.,
Thot it took brewery
To breothe thot
Rorer DIR obove U.s.
Beside her, we could feel her wormth
And, on occasion,
We would wotch her wonder,
Especially. when logging poee
DBgroced
Whot should be done.
Very much os on O summer doy
We FEEL
And then. only when
A cloud ntrudes,
We SEEK the sun
With the night,
Though,
We know,
Thot the light
Mokes grow.
Eiku (c) 1863.
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We cannot call man a COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

coMPtETE THE PUZZLE AND CUM OUT
ON BROKEN LINE. PASTE IT ON A PIECE
or PAPER AND PRINT YOUR NAME, AGE
AND ADDRESS. THEN Color The PICTURE.
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Those Who Are Honored

The first name on the list Of 81
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
is that of Miss Marian Anderson. 1t is
first for the usual alphabetical reason,
but 1t should also be first for more
substantial reasons.
Together with Ralph ]. Bunche, Miss
Anderson is the first Of her race to
receive the award since 1t was estab-
lished in l945. Miss Anderson also is
one Of three women selected by Pres
ident Kennedy to be the first of their
sex nominated for the honor.
Beyond that, Miss Anderson, in the
eyes Of many, long ago became symbol.
With the splendid instrument Of her
voice but, more especially, the dignity
Of her ways, she rose above prejudice
and set an example worthy of every
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OAS and Cuba

One Of the enduring Illustrations
OF diplomacy in our hemisphere is the
way In which the Organization of
American States divides, more often
than not, on issues that would seem to
merit unanimous support. The latest
case in point is the organizations
wiShy-washy action on its Security
Committees recommendations of meas
ureS designed to curb the spread of
SubverSion from Communist Cuba.
Speakin g-through Ambassador
Morrison, the United States had ap-
pealed strongly and at length to all
members of the GAS Council to vote
unanimously for these measures, in
Guiding a ban on travel to Cuba and
closer hemisphere cooperation against
Subversive activities. But when the final
count came, only IA members were on
the affirmative side; Chile said no;
Bolivia was not present; and four
abStained-Haiti, Mexico, Brazil and
Venezuela, the prime target of Cuban
based Red terrorism.
Chile and the abStainers have ex-
planned their positions with labored
constitutional arguments and references
to the requirements of their domestic
political situation. There may be merit
in some Of the points they have made,
but still their vote stands out in sharp
and sad contrast to their unanimous
endorsement last october of our coun-
try'S quarantine" Of Cuba. That was
a moment of great crisis and danger,
and the GAS rose to the occasion. Now,
however, all too many of its members
seem to feel that the military threat
has receded so much that there is no
need for a concerted program against
the menace in Havana.
In these circumstances, when 1t
comes to dealing with Fidel Castro, the
United States should take whatever
action 1t may deem necessary-with or
without the concurrence of the GAS.
Some of our good neighbors to the
south may resent such a course. But
they cannot, in good conscience, expect
our country to neglect its own interests
and security while they Realistically
hem and haw about what should or
should not be done.
The truth is that the GAS members
will never give us advance approval for
drastic steps that may be needed. This
does not mean, however, that they are
unwilling to follow a bold lead when
the chips are down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
Trading Stamps

At West Orange, N. j., the young
SterS are spending a literary summer.
Camps, swimming, outings are all right
for some, but the budding intelligentsia
OF this community talk books It does
ones heart good to hear Joan say to
Jean, for example, What are you read
ing now? I've just completed something
very while-worth five stamps,
in fact" Yes, the children of West
Orange are reading avidly, for the
public library is giving trading stamps
with each volume borrowed. For "War
and Peace" or the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire" one can almost
fill an entire stamp book.
If it has the kids reading, we are for it.
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Guest on Prejudice

I feel that you could do
our overall community a
service by printing Edgar A.
Guests poem, when You
Get to Know a Fellow" This
has long been a favorite of
many thinking people, and
is peculiarly appropriate to
these times of tension.
I have found in my own
relations with my fellow man
that I tend to lose my preju-
dices toward people when I
get to know them. When I
get to know a person I think
of him by his name, rather
than as that Negro" that
Mexican" that japanese"
And as I have grown to know
people Of other races I have
seen the same reaction on
their part as they begin to
call me by name.
Yes, Edgar Guest has the
answer for our present prob
lens when he says:
But when drawn a little
closer, and your hands
and shoulders touch,
You find the traits you hated
really don't amount to
much"
Stephen o. Edmunds.
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Hopeful Note

The report, brief though it was,
which Belgian Foreign Minister Paul
Henri Spaak brought back from his
conference with Premier Khrushchev
lends much support to the notion that
the winds of change are indeed blowing
throughout the world.
Mr.. Spaak told reporters he had
had very good" talk with the Russian
leader and that II am confident that
relations between East and West will
improve"
This sort of hopeful talk has been
heard before, and generally with diSap-
pointing results. But in this instance
there are at least two differences. One
is that Mr.. Spaak, an able and expert
enced man, is not given to wiShful
thinking. The other is that there are
many forces at work, not the least of
them being the split between Moscow
and Peking, which will tend to improve
relations between East and West.
It is always possible that some fool
iSh act or a stubborn unwillingneSS to
accept any alteration of the status quo
will blight this prospect. But men and
governments generally can be expected
to do those things which serve their own
interests. If the break with Red China
remains unrepaired, then it seems OBJ
vious that it is in Mr. Khrushchev'S
interest to move closer to the West. And,
the prophets of doom to the contrary,
such a development would also serve
the interests of the West.
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Jobs Are the Answer

Last month more than 10 million
people were employed in this country
an alltime high. (They laughed at Hen
ry Wallace when he predicted that one
day there would be jobs for go million
AmericanS.)
But the paradox-the bitter irony
lis that as employment reached a new
high so did unemployment With the
entry of teen-agerS into the job mar
ket unemployment rose by 100000 to
4.8 million-5.7 per cent of the work
force. And while the reopening of
schools should ease this bit, the grim
fact is that this situation promises to
get worse before it gets better. Last
year, for example, IL per cent fewer
motor vehicle workers turned out SIS
per cent more cars than in 1948 This
is the way it will continue to go as auto
nation progresses.
Obviously, in this situation, the
plight of the unSkilled and illiterate or
barely literate job-Seeker is desperate.
And Labor Secretary Writ is urging
Congress to help him do more in this
area.
The Government already has job
training program, but it is inadequate.
Many job-SeekerS cannot read or write.
Before these people can benefit from
neaningful job training they must be
given at least a minimum education.
According to Mr.. Writ, there are more
Than 100000 persons with less than five
years of schooling who are on the streets
seeking, but not finding, work. What
chance have they in the kind Of job
market which prevails today? The eco
1omic facts of life come down especially
nard on the Negro. Negroes under 10
had an unemployment rate of about
"a per cent last year-nearly double
that for whites.
Congress has already authorized
$161 million to train lit 900 workers. Mr..
Writ wants 500 million more for the
youth and literacy programs. He esti-
mates this would permit literacy train
ing for $4,000 jobleSS adults and job
training for $4,000 en-agers-46,0 900
more than present funds permit.
The Secretary says the average cost
Of training a worker is $1,000. Once
trained he or she has chance to get
job. If the training is not forthcoming,
at will cost us $1,000 year for each
of them for the rest of our lives to carry
them on our backs"
This, if nothing else, sounds like
good business proposition and Congress
ought to approve it. Certainly it would
be great pity if an expanded job train
ing program, especially for Negroes,
should go down the drain in a protract-
ed fight over public accommodations. In
the long run, jobs will count most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
Glass Menoqerie

Apropos OF the Keep
America Beautiful, Inc" con-
vention recently at the Shore
ham Hotel, with major atten-
ton to campaigning against
litter" It is beyond my COM
prehension that no consider
alton was given to the dis
graceful and dangerous busi-
ness OF bottle-throwing in
veritable vendettas.
In many of the poorer sec
tons Of the District children
seem to have developed and
pursued q craze for smashing
any "no-return" bottle ION
the sidewalks. And after dark
/ personally have seen bottle
battles" among adults.
No longer can little tots
run bare-footed along our
sidewalks. The obvious REM
edy is the return Of the old
bottle refund" system.
Thomas Lyon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
Congress and Rights

At long last, there are signs
of a determination to pass
meaningful and necessary
civil rights legislation. The
proposals made by President
Kennedy are highly COM
mendable and certainly de-
serve bipartisan support.
There should be no opposi-
ton for the sake of OPPOSE
ton where human rights are
concerned.
Let It be made clear from
the outset that the key vote
on civil rights legislation will
be on whether to end the fill
ibuster by Southern Senators.
The battle will, sadly and un-
necessarily, be difficult. It
takes concurrence by two
thirds Of the Senators pres
ent and voting to end a fill
buster and get on with the
business at hand. With full
participation by the Senate,
81 votes are required. Let it
also be made clear that a vote
against ending the filibuster
is a vote against civil rights
legislation and a vote for
perpetuation of racial bigotry,
hatred, and violence.
Kenneth A. Stevens.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1863

American. So, too, has DR.. Bunche dis
tinguiShed himself in the United Nations
aS-in the words of Mr.. Kennedy-"The
great keeper of the peace"
The other medal winners, each in
his or her own way, has merited the
recognition as outstanding Americans
or, as in the cases of celliSt Pablo Cas-
ais and French Statesman Jean Monnet,
as foreigners with worldwide influence.
A special note of commentator is
reserved for our old friend and col
league, Mark S. Watson, the Baltimore
Suns military affairs reporter, whose
recognition is fully justified by long
and dedicated career in reporting the
truth in sometimes confused area of
the news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10

1t will be difficult for the Senators
baseball Variety to convince anyone
they are not in cahootS with the
schedule makers. Oh, that seven-game
winning streak probably is legitimate
enough, even if slightly incomprehensi-
BILE. What SuspiciouSly SmackS of collu-
sion is the element of timing-one day
before the three-day All-Star Game
break.
For three long days, our seven
game wonders could rear back in I'M
accustomed, Splendiferous fan-adula-
ton, unfretful of what tomorrow might
hatch. When else could they be certain,
for example, that this very eulogy might
be prepared, edited, typeSet and pub
liShed without the danger of interrupt
ton by-do we dare suggest ia shat
tering defeat?
This time last year the spikes we're
on the other foot, so to speak. The
Senators had just lost seven straight
and the All-Star break provided a great
chance to go into hiding. The present
success is being credited largely to a
National League refugee named Don
thinner, which is all right with us. Only
we think it should be remembered that
it takes nine to play ball.
Bask while we may, Senators, mind
full only that pride goeth before destruc-
ton. And as to that, should there be
any trouble about humility Though it
is hard to imagine WHY we might sug-
geSt three antidotes: ~ The memory
of the 1949 Senators who, after winning
nine straight, lost IS in row. (2) The
current fate Of our National League
whipping-boy cousins, the New York
Nets, now enmeshed in 1O-game losing
Skein. And (3) a quick glance at the
standings which show Washington seven
games out of-not first place-but
ninth. But who cares about all that?
Let's go get those Orioles!
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Writes Off GoIdwoter

About the incest thing that
could happen to the Ken
nedys, and the Democratic
Party, would be the assured
nomination Of Senator Barry
Goldwater as the next Re-
publican presidential candi-
date.
During the 1860 campaign,
j. F. X. had to overcome
such obstacles an immatur-
ity, religion, inexperience.
and a seasoned campaigner
in Vice President Nixon. All
this is now behind him. Mr..
Kennedy has since gained
considerably in stature, ex-
perience, popularity, etc. The
chances of the ultra conserv-
alive Arizona Senator's over
coming J. F. K, with his
added wisdom, seem quite
remote.
Herbert SOmmers
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his party in the United States
Senate. That leadership is
ready to go along with much
of the Presidents strong"
civil rights package, but 1t is
resisting forced indignation of
privately owned business.
And that leadership will
to put it at its softest-not
appreciate it that a Repub-
lican Governor with no re-
sponsibility for national leg
islation, no experience in 1t.
and no real knowledge of the
depth of the problem nation
ally has chosen to instruct it
in its legislative duty.
Situation Not Helpful
This circumstance, while
not necessarily fatal to Gov.
Rockefeller at next years
G. o. P. convention, certainly
will be far from helpful to
him there among the party
regulars likely to control the
convention in the end. The
regular Republicans Of Con-
gress-notahly Senate Chief
Everett DirkSen Of Illinois
already have been under saw
age pressure from Demo-
cratic ultra liberals, plus a
handful of Republican ultra
liberals, to abandon their
own convictions and auto
matically vote for every para
graph and line in the Ken
nedy program.
The Governor now joins
this pressure group. In doing
so, he not only complexities
the work of the Republican
leaders and a majority Of the
Republican rank-and-file in
a Senate chamber not really
known to him. He also, in
effect, supports the clamor Of
the ultra liberals that any,
body not prepared instantly
to sign up for all the Ken
nedy package is ready to
make the G. o. P. "a white
party"
This same anybody" is In
fact a majority of the Re-
publicans in both houses Of
Congress. And this excess
sively violent, and totally I'M
fair, accusation of G. o. P.
"racism" could fatally BOOM
erang against the very party
Gov. Rockefeller seeks to
lead. Unwittingly, he is at
the end Of it playing the
game mainly of the ultra
liberal Democrats.
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