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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Does Segregation Suit The Negro?
^re the Colored people very enthusiastic over all the hub
bub for non-segregation?
What do you think of this letter which Davis Lee, a
Colored man and publisher, published in his paper, The
Newark Telegram. I find the letter in The Southern Pres
byterian Journal of July 7th.
“The efforts being made by certain paid agitators and
pressure groups against segregated schools in the South
may cause Southern Negroes to lose a lot more than they
will gain.
“The trouble with this group, as with similar ones, is
that the initiators don’t count the overall cost to the race.
The present effort is designed to destroy the wiiole pattern
of segregation and to establish an integrated social order in
which there will be no distinction made in this country on
the basis of race, religion, color or nationality.
“This is a laudable objective, but human nature just has
not changed that much, and the achievement of such an ob
jective could cause repercussions that might set the Negro
back fifty years.
“Integration in the schools in the North and East is not
a howling success. A Negro can attend most of the schools
up here and get an education, but few' of the states that
educate him will hire him as a teacher. The State of Con
necticut doesn’t have twenty-five Negro teachers . . .
“Nowdiere in these integrated states do Negroes get any
where near proportionate representation. Every device is
employed to keep qualified Negroes from being assigned.
Recently a reputable New York labor union made a report
on the employment of Negro teachers in New T York City and
charged that a systematic scheme has been adopted to ex
clude Negroes as teachers.
“This is not true, in the South. The State of Georgia em
ploys 7,313 Negro teachers, and paid them close to $15,000,-
000 in salaries last year. North Carolina paid its Negro
teachers over $22,000,000 last year. Florida is another State
that ranks at top on teacher pay.
(Mississippi paid $7,414,278 in salaries to 6,753 Negro
teachers in the State last year.)
“If these states, that are now pouring millions of dollars
annually into Negro pockets which provides our people with
money that enables them to enjoy the dignity of man, to en
joy the prestige and respectability, to buy homes and the
necessities of life, are forced to abandon the segregated
school, 75 percent of the Negro teachers in the South will
los their jobs. Not only 'that, but approximately 20,000 Negro
principals will lose their jobs as well . . .
“This present movement to end segregation in the schools
is merely the beginning of a well-laid plan to completely
end segregation everything in the South. If this happens,
the Negro wall be thrown into direct competition with the
white race, and our business institutions will crumble.
“No place in the world do Negroes own and control as
much as do those in the South. Atlanta is without question
the Negro capital of the world. It is the center of Negro
culture, education, business and finance. And both Negroes
and Whites live, work and operate business without either
being conscious of the other’s race.
“This movement to integrate the schools of the South is
loaded with more racial dynamite than appears on the sur
face and the Negro will be the one who is blown away.
“During the past two years I have spent more time in the
South than I have in my office, and I have interviewed
thousands of Negroes in all walks of life and I have found
very few who favor mixed schools. They want their own
schools, but equal facilities. This being the situation, one
questions the fairness of forcing these colored citizens to ac
cept what they don’t want. If a little group of paid agitators
succeed in forcing their will upon these people, it appears to
me that^hey should at least be given an opportunity to be
heard. _ _
“Right now the Southern Negro is in a better spot edu
cationally, politically and economically than the Negroes any
place else in the world. Race relations are continually im
proving. Every day more Southerners are recognizing the
Negro as a man and according him the respect that he
merits, but the Southern Negro himself can do more about
improving conditions than can courts, legislation or pres
sure groups ...
“Despite all the hullabaloo about the liberal North and
East, no Negro has been made head of a State College or
University. Down South the woods are full of Negro college
and university presidents. In Texas a Negro college presi
dent of a state school gets $10,000 a year.
“Negroes need to refresh their memories on the fact that
just a few years ago we were raising Cain because colored
kids in the South were being taught by white teachers. We
wanted them taught by Negroes until now Negro teachers
wanted them taught by Negroes until now Negro teacher
have completely taken over.
“A group goes back into the courts declaring that the
He Says He Wants on the 1 earn
Negro is not satisfied with equal facilities, that the separate
but equal law is unconstitutional, that nothing less than
integration will do. That doesn’t seem fair to me.’’
‘Rising Spires’ — Spiritual Growth
A great business journal has an interesting article under
the title “Rising Spires.”
Let’s enjoy this together:
“In an age supposedly dominated by materialism, Ameri
ca’s churches and synagogues are enjoying a remarkable
resurgence. Recent years the total membership in all faith
has outraced even in the headlong growth in U. S> popula
tion, climbing skyward fr6m 64.5 million in 1940 to 92 mil
lion in 1952, when the latest count was taken. And this mem
bership is not just nominal. Donations to the churches, for
their annual budgets and for special needs, are at an all-time
highe—$1.3 billion a year for Protestant sects alone.
"“Important to the nation’s spiritual health, this revived
lay interest in religion is also significant economically, since
it has pushed new construction and rehabilitation of out
moded facilities to record levels. Already the 252 religious
sects in the U.S. boast more than 285,000 houses df worship,
whose worth is high in the billions. And in communities
from coast to coast more are going up, for every major de
nomination. In Yonkers this September Cardinal Spellman
will dedicate the brand new Catholic Church of St. Anthony.
In Philadelphia, Frank Lloyd Wright has drawn up plans for
a synagogue for the Conservative Jews, the first he has
ever designed. In Oakland, California ,towers the new Monti-
clair Methodist Church, notable for its unique architectufe.
And, symbolically, in Washington, D. C., half a dozen new
religious'edifices, representing everyone from the Moham
medans to the Greek Orthodox Church, are going up along
Massachusetts Avenue, the famed ‘street of churches.’
“What this all adds up to is half a billion dollars worth of
religious construction in 1954 and a 10-year total by the
year-end of $3 billion. Compared with total U.S. construction
($35 billion) or even with the outlays for houses, schools,
roads and industrial plants, that is not a large amount. But
it is in many ways an astonishing phenomenon. It outdoes
anything in the past—as witness the $1.3 billion spent for
churches in the previous peak decade, the ‘twenties. It out
runs every recent forecast. As late as 1947, in a sweeping
study of the whole economy, the Twentieth Century Fund
soberly concluded that ‘expenditures for church construction
may range between $55 million and $65 million (annually) in
1950-60.’ How sharply the outlook has changed is revealed by
a more recent estimate made by the National Association of
Manufacturers. Warren J. Taussig, director of church-in
dustry relations for its Eastern Division, sees a need folvthe
U. S. public to spend $7.5 billion before 1975 to build and
equip 105,000 more churches.
“Clearly, then, the boom is just getting under way. Just
last week, as it happens, both the Presbyterian Church,
U.S.A., and the Congregational Christian Churches wound
up nationwide drives, for $12 million and $4.5 million, re
spectively, to finance future building. The Episcopalians re
cently raised more than $4 million, §nd the American Bap
tist Convention is seeking $8.5 million in a similar effort.
What’s more, a mounting volume of inquiries about building
costs and architectural plans is pouring into the headquart
ers of the various sects. To cope with this flood of mail,
the Orthodox Jews, among others, recently brought out a
new architecture manual. The Southern Baptists, who alone
expect to spend $130 million on new churches this year, have
published their own pamphlet on fund-raising.
An impetus behind today’s record construction comes from
the growing concept of the church as a community center,
to be used virtually around the clock, and all week long. No
longer do the massive church doors swing forbiddingly shut
on Sunday afternoon. Instead, motet churches, have taken
on a whole gamut of new functions, for parishioners young
and old.
“So there is a great need, and a growing awareness of it,
among clergy and laymen alike. And the symptoms are con
tagious/for one face-lifting or major addition, in a day of in
creased competition among the churches of one community,
often prompts another down the street. Take, for example,
Stamford, Conn., a fast-growing city of 80,000. A survey
there this spring by the local newspaper revealed that, out
of 57 known religious groups of all denominations, 23 re
cently had built, are building, or plan to build, new structur
es. St. Mary’s Catholic parish led the way with a million-
dollar parochial school, dedicated in 1951. The Salvation
Army moved into a $150,000 building of contemporary style
in 1952.’’
Q—How many women have served as Senators?
A—Eight, including Mrs Eva Kelly Bowring (R Neb.), who was sworn
in April 26 Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who is cur-
. rently the only other woman Member, and former Sen. Hattie W.
Caraway (D Ark.) were the only women elected to a full six-year
term. The others have been appointed at the outset, with the ex
ception of Gladys Pyle (R S.D.), who was elected for a short term
—Nov. 9. 1938. to Jan. 2. 1939. 1
Q—Have there ever been two women Members of the Senate at the
same Ume before?
A—Yes. during the tenure of Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway (D Ark.) from
Nov 13, 1931. to Jan. 2, 1945, three other women served as Senators
for brief periods. Sen. Rose Long (D La.) served from Jan. 31, 1936.
to Jan 2. 1937. Sen. Dixie B. Graves (D Ala.) held office from Aug.
20. 1937. to Jan. 10. 1938. Sen. Gladys Pyle (R S.D.) served from
Nov 9. 1938. to Jan. 2. 1939.
Q—Has Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wts.) supported President
Eisenhower’s legislative program?
A—In the first three months of 1954, McCarthy voted •’with” President
Eisenhower six times, “against” him five times, and didn’t vote I
four times on Senate roll-call votes on issues where the President
made a specific request, according to a preliminary Congressional
Quarterly survey. His “relative support” of the President (count
ing only those times when he voted) was therefore 55 per cent;
but his “effective support” (where failure to vote reduces the
Member’s score) was 40 per cant for the first quarter of 1954. Last
year McCarthy voted for Eisenhower requests 25 times, against
Presidential requests 14 times, out of 49 Eisenhower-issue roll caUs.
His percentages last year were: Relative Support, 64 per cent;
Effective Support, 51 per cent.
(Copyrtfht 1954, Congressional Quarterly!
DaleCariegie
^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START . ”
J AMES T. BROWN, Thomas Road, R.D. 2, Canonsburg. Pennsylvania,
says that he has always been a job worrier and that his anxiety
about getting ahead in his work reached a climax in October, 1945. At
that time he was recouperating from an operation in an army hospital
at Camp Pickett, Virginia. He had been told that he would soon be
released from t£e military service, so his mind was filled with un
certainty about the future. After having been in the
Army for four years, he was anxious to get back
into statistical work which he had been doing before
the war started. He was advised that he would have
thirty days sick leave and another thirty days over
seas leave. Therefore, with two months on his hands,
he decided to look for a statistical job.
He approached a company, in Pittsburgh and
asked’ if he could work for two months without pay
while he was still in uniform and in that manner
they could discover whether or not they wanted to
hire him. Also this period of time would give him an
opportunity to orient himself in the work. The proposition was accepted
and he threw himself into the effort pf doing a good job; he thought
of what he would desire in an employee like himself if he were the
employer, and his work plus, his mental attitude soon paid off. A very
satisfactory job resulted from the relationship.
This experience proved to him that fear and worry can be con
quered by keeping busy and by putting enthusiasm into one’s effort.
CARNEGIE
O RGANIZED LABOR is in the
midst of one of the biggest
get-out-the-vote drives in it’s his
tory, determined through posters,
increasing funds and a core of
politically experienced workers to
elect candidates considered pro
labor.
Officials of both the American
Federation of I^abor and the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
say the stakes are high and the
obstacles great, but they’re out for
success.
Labor’s three - pronged political
action campaign is designed to:
(1) persuade as many as possible
of the nation’s 15 million union
members and their families to reg
ister, (2) inform them concerning
major issues, (3) make sure they
get to the polls on election day.
“Hardly pleasing to labor and
liberals,’’ says labor of the record
of the 81st Congress. They single
out the “millionaires tax bill,” the
effort to scuttle public housing,
drive to make the Taft - Hartley
Labor law stricter, and a social
security program which unionists
feel doesn’t go far enough.
Unionists say their task of get
ting out the vote is made more
difficult because it is a mid-term
election and the turn-out at the
polls is usually relatively light
when the presidency is not bging
contested. They feel they will not
be able to completely match the
money, public-relations work and
advertising . they believe will be
use^ in efforts to $lect some can
didates whom labor considers un
friendly. Yet, there is optimism
among labor spokesmen, who claim
a larger number of politically ac
tive workers than ever and say
labor is setting out to elect a “non
partisan slate of progressive can
didates.”
The Labor League’s Political Di
rection Committee is currently an
alyzing candidates. Its Public Re
lations Committee seeks to keep
workers informed and to get then)
to the polls, through leaflets, radio
broadcasts, publicity, and phono
graph records describing League
objectives and organization meth
ods.
I LLPE’s Finance Committee is
launching nationwide appeals for
“a dollar a member” to build up
a political war chest and hopes
to raise half a million dollars by
November. A new league feature
is a program designed especially
to enlist the aid and get out the
vote of women.
But League officials say the ma
chinery is really powered by the
fuel of local activity, since “elec
tions are won in the precinct.” For
the first time, the League has four
area directors, whose job it is to
travel across the nation sparking i
union interest in voting.
Separate from League political
activity is the stepped-up program
of the CIO's Political Action Com
mittee, which is basing its cam
paign on issues which it describes
as broader than that of LLPE. x
PAC is made up of local and
state groups of CIO members. PAC
is distributing literature and post
ers for political rallies, publishing
“register and vote” reminders in
its newspapers and holding insti
tutes to inform CIO members how
to conduct voting drives.
1. The world’s fastest four-legged animal. Is (a) the grey
hound; (b) deer; (c) cheetah.
t. A golden Is (a) a baby sea gall; (b) a Daftoh coin; (e) m
rooky valley.
3. Jlnrihsha refers to (a) an aleeheUe drink; (V) an oelental
carriage* (c) a Chinese possle.
W«« O
■ecMnitt t
From the Clinton County Repub
lican - News, St. Johns, Michigan:
Mr. Benson inherited a farm for
mula — rigid ninety per cent of
parity for basic crops — designed
to spur tremendous production for
World War II needs. He is trying,
against determined Congressional
opposition, to modify that formula,
the war having ended nine years
ago. Meantime the formula works
magnificently; surpluses have
swollen to scandalous proportions,
the Government is running out of
places to keep them, and the price
of food is kept high.
In the absence of a modified for
mula. the only hope of cutting into
the rapid growth of Government
holdings is by controlling what is
produced. This has been tried, but
up to now the controls have not
been tight enough. This year, for
example, plantings of wheat, colfc
and cotton were limited by Govern
ment decree, but fanners planted
the thirty million acres thus di
verted to such already - abundant
crops as soybeans, flaxseed and
rye. The more Mr. Benson tried
to turn off his farm flood, the
worse it ragAl.
Now Mr. Benson has evolved an
elaborate system of over - lapping
and contingent controls. A farmer
who violates his acreage for one
crop will lose price support not
only! on that but on all other crops
on which he would otherwise be
entitled to price support. If he
has more than ten diverted acres,
he will submit to a new “total
acreage allotment” or lose price
support on everything. And acre
age which may be planted to
wheat will be cut thirteen per cent
to the minimum allowed by law.
Whether these stringent meas
ures will have the desired effect
is debatable; human beings are
surprisingly resourceful in circum
venting controls. But the inevit
ability of the progression is be
yond question. Government largess
leads to Government control, at
first moderate but step by step
hersher until finally the control is
total. Nit is a melancholy progres
sion of which history affords in
numerable instances.
%
What the ninety per cent men
in Congress now have to consider
is whether' they wish to be labeled
the advocates not just of “fair re
turn” to the farmer but also of
absolute regimentation of the
farmer Does the appeal of the
first make up for the curse, of the
latter?
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