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Sewanee Professors Speak Out (From The Atlanta Daily World)

Seven Sewanee theological professors have threat- ened to resign their posts at the famed University ot the South because it refused to admit Negroes. No entrance

applications from Negroes are on file at the college, but the conscience of these men are disturbed by the ethical and religious implications of barring Negroes and have stated that the “Christian Church demands es-

sential human rights for all-”

Trustees of the Episcopal college decided last week not to let down the color bars. They ruled there is no

“practical application of the tenet of racial equality in Sewanee’s case at this time.”

Apparently the protesting professors felt there was.

They noted the Southern synod of the Fourth Episcopal Province of the church voted last fall that Sewanee ad- mit Negroes

It was clear to the theological professors, and they pointed out, that 10 other Episcopal seminaries in the United States had no racial restrictions.

The whole question was whether Sewanee would ac-

cept the dictates of the Episcopal Church and the U. S. Supreme Court—although the latter has ruled on segre- gation laws permitting Negroes and whites to attend churph-sponsored schools. Noting the separation of church and state the teachers felt obligated to question whether the Episcopal connection needed instruction from the courts to do a Christian action.

The federal courts have ordered state universities to accept Negroes in graduate and technical schools.

The seven theological professors have shown rare

acumen and courage. They have stood forthrightly for Christian justice and human dignity. Their position should be applauded by all persons of Christian princi- ples.

It is a rare demonstration when so many right- thinking men stand up for Christian principles. The Sewanee professors have boldly stated that they would resign if the school does not reverse its position on

Negro students but would stay on in any case until the 1953 spring meeting of the trustees.

Noting the frailties of men, who seldom want to stand and be counted when issues of this scope and mag- nitude are involved, we wholeheartedly applaud this stand-

The remarkable thing about the whole religious question regarding Negro students at Sewanee is that the question was raised in the South and by Southern- ers. It reveals with striking clarity that the broad hori- zon of human justice is not limited by real or imagined boundary lines. The plea for human justice and religious dignity knows no climates, zones, sections or geographi- cal setting. It is imbedded deeply in the hearts of all men as the Sewanee professors so dramatically illus- trate.

Nurses Convene In Atlantic City

NEW YORK — Ten thousand graduate nurses, Negro and white, are expected to attend the Seven- teenth Biennial Convention of the three largest nursing organiza- tions in the country at Convention Hall in Atlantic City from June 16 through June 20, it was an-

nounced this week by the Conven- tion Committee, 2 Park Avenue.

Former members of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, who disbanded their or-

ganization in the summer of 1949 to complete integration of Negro nurses into the American Nurses’ Association, will be represented as

full-fledged members of the AM A,

| Mrs. Estelle Massey Osborne of New York City is a member of the board of directors.

Among the topics to be discussed are integration of Negro nurses

into full professional status, wages, working hours and condi- tions, psychiatric nursing service, and creation of new occupational sections within the organization.

The convention will probably be the last joint session -held by the American Nurses’ Association, the National League of Nursing Edu- cation, and the National Organi- zation for Public Health Nursing, which comprise approximately 200,000 members. Delegates wiil vote on a proposed reorganization into two associations — an expand- ed American Nurses’ Association and a new National League for Nursing.

Charles Bynum, center, of New York, Director of Inter-racial Ac- tivities#for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown above accepting on behalf of the Foundation a check for $500.00 from James C. Gilliam of Clarksdale, Grand Master of the Stringer Grand

Lodge of Mississippi. Looking on Left, Dr. Lee M. Owens, Vicksburg.

“It Is The Only Way, If The World Is To Follow Our Leadership.”

/WELL^-WHAT CAN Vm-M^PRESIOENtN i DO FOR YOU,BOYS?J ME AND MY PAL j

itf1^Tlt|HAVE AN IDEA---/

/WE^WE THOUGHT j ^MAYBE, IF WE HAD j A UNITED STATES, j ORGANIZATION i HERE IN OUR

OWN COUNTRY WE'D GET ALONG \ better, too!

Theatrically Yours

By III A I)A II LEY

NEW YORK — (Global) — It’? official — Billy Bowen (formerly known as Butterball of the Ink- spots), who recently signed as an MGM recording artist, and who just recently waxed four sides for that diskery, has now signed with GAC (General Artist Corporation). Bowen signed with GAC, a lead- ers contract. AGVA contract, local 802 contract, television contract and radio contract. He will open next week-end in Connecticut: from there he goes for ten days to Brooklyn’s Town and Country Club; then he invades Florida for

| a four-week stand, and from there goes to Canada for three weeks. Then Billy comes back to New York’s La Vie En Rose, after which he will to a guest shot on “Toast of The Town” and “Songs For Sale”. Also, Bowen is scheduled to appear each week, next Fall on GAC’s new TV package show.

-brank Conmtf of tn^ New York Journal American, sees the return of big bands. He says, “Right now the theatre and cafe impresarios are dipping into six figures for the Eckstines and the Daniels’ and the Rays and the Lames, bat it is as certain as that the sun will rise over Brooklyn tomorrow that the craze cannot last indefinitely. The young people of America are go- ing to start searching for new sounds and diversions and 1 predict that the pendulum is bound to swing back toward the big band.”

This writer feels that Willy Mays’ band and the MGM Record- ing band of Woody Herman will bring big bands back By the way, Woody Herman’s latest MGM platters are, “Brother Fats.” “The Glory of Love,” “Blue Flame” and “New Golden Wedding.”

Mr. “B” (Billy Eckstine) was more than a sensation last week at his Copacabana opening. Folks are saying that Mr. B. sang down to earth, for he delivered well “01’ Man River,” “Kiss of Fire” and others with war mth Ruth Brown clicked onstage at Harlem's Apollo Theatre last week Pearl Bailey knocked them cold the other week at La Vie En Rose Joe Delaney (WJMR-New Orleans) acted as MC for the recent Louis Armstrong concert at the Audi- tonum in New Orleans While Spirituals have gone over well on

juke boxes in many areas, it’s not

too often that gospel numbers clinch a spot on charts out this way. That’s why it’s news that Peacock’s “Let’s Talk About Jesus by the Bells of Joy is finding its way into many locations Lieb- mann Breweries over in Brooklyn picking up the tab on WOV New York for a series of special broad- casts taped at Sugar Ray Robin- son’s training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J.

Did you know that Lionel Hamp- ton’s MGM platter “Flying Home” wasn’t ever rated as a “hit” num-

ber? But, it sold over a million The Blenders clicking on their en-

gagement at Pittsburgh’^ Musical Bar, “Piano Parade” package fea- turing Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete John- son, disbanded until the fall George Shearing of MGM Records and his quintet, also contracted for a one-week engagement at Cleve- land’s Town Casino, along with Stan Kenton. That spot is the big- gest black-and-tannery in Cleve- land.

“Paul Robeson definitely will sing in Minneapolis, probably in the streets if other arrangements can’t be made,” declared James Robertson, chairman of a local

LOU SWARZ JOTTINGS

NEW YORK — (Global) — Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was the honored guest on Sunday, June 15, here in New York City, with the New York Amsterdam News acting as host under the supervision of Mrs. Lillian Sharpe Hunter, who brought together the thousands of friends of Mrs. Bethune at the Gol- den Gate Ballroom.

Los Angeles, Calif., shared in the Sunday program of the Science of Mind Chapter here in New York City, when several received Bach- elor Degrees at the Gotham Hotel Sunday, June 0. The finishing group was tutored by Dr. Paul Martin Brunet. Dr. Ernest Holmes of Los Angeles sent congratulatory messages to the group and its leader.

Nassau is thrilled over the fact that Gorri Major, Soc’etv Editor of New York’s Amsterdam News is among the Carnival crowd this season.

Hotel J heresa missed its genial manager, William II. Brown during ihe last part of May and the first of this month—and guests shared the sorrow of the Browns because of the passing of the mother of Mrs. Gloria Brown.

The Senior People’s Advisory Committee of the Salvation Army Red Shield Club sponsored a very successful affair last Sunday at which those over 65 enjoyed them- selves along with those just over 20. As always, the affair was in the Skyline Ballroom of the Hotel Theresa, ft's an annual affair and everybody looks forward to it.

Pearl Colton, President of the Mary McLeod Bethune Circle Num- ber 6, is busying herself right now

making plans for the re-opening of her school of tots and it seems as if her board will be one to lend a hand in the program as well as in the planning.

Ihe Business and Professional Women of New York had their an- nual luncheon worked out in every detail and Louise Frances gets the credit for having what it takes to get her members to help in the right way.

Ezzard Charles seems still the favorite around New York City, but Jersey Joe Walcott holds on in other places after retaining his Championship Crown out in Philly only a feiv days ago. The only comment here to both is, “keep on

keeping on.” This champ game has to carry some weight other

sponsoring group, after American House in St. Paul cancelled a con- tract for Robeson s appearance there following veteran and civic organizations’ protests arising out of the singer’s leftist activities Slim Gaillard, Oscar Pettiford and Billy Taylor currently at Broad- way’s Downbeat Club Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, whose rec- ords have sold better during the last two years than ever before, has signed a new term contract with Decca ... As the first in a series of new dance albums, MGM will soon release “Dancing at the Copa.” The set features the band which plays at New York’s Copa- cabana under the direction of Mike Durso.

Count Basie and the Ravene ink- ed for the Regal Theatre in Chica- go for a week starting June 20 Teddy Wilson and his all-new group at the Colonial in Toronto

Cleveland’s well-known disc jockey, “Moondog” (Allan Freed) was in New York for a few days to line up talent for his forthcom- ing dance promotions.

Card Of Thanks The family of the late Mr. Henry

S. Jones, wishes to thank their many friends for their kindess and thoughtful expressions during tne

illness and death of their loved one.

Your thoughtfulness helped to make our burden lighter. May God bless each of you.

Mrs. Thelma C. Jones, Wife

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Butler & Thclfred, Children

Mrs. Oleta King & daughter, Sister & Neice.

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spite of widespread aceeotance, this hook should be labeled for what it is: “a cruel and monument- al fraud!” The authors, be con-

tinues, get lost in a web of alter- nate labored prose and lucid state-

ment of fact and wishful thinking, and a vigorous social critcism and naive analytical distortion. A more

accurate title, Collins concludes, would be “What Me and Ovesey, et al, think about 14 million Ne- groes as a result of naively accept- ing a:: true what 25 Negroes say they think about themselves.”

Kardiner and Oversev collate the analyses of 25 Negroes, divided for their purposes into two classes— lower and middle upper—and eight skin colors, and find evidence of a

basic Negro personality which is a “caricature” of the corresponding white personality.

Collins is critical of the authors small sample group and of their lame attempt at justification wherein they state: “Since all the subjects in his volume were urban Negroes, at least during the time they were studied, we are in no po- sition to judge how far the con-

clusions hold for rural Southern Negroes, North and South, ui’ban and rural. We feel it safe to pre- dict that the differences are not in quality, but in quantity.

“It is inexcusable for a social scientist,” concludes Collins, “par- ficularly a psychiatrist, to be un-

aware of the climate of opinion— a qualitative difference!—created by a legally enforced caste sys- tem.”

than that of just wearing an imag- inary crown.

Beta Kapna Beta Sorority will make history in New York City with the building of a camp for the children of New York State, and no one will be happier when the project is completed than Mrs. Maude Gadsen.

Rose Morgan continues to keep i up with the latest developments in ! her field of charm, beauty and fashion. She is now in Switzerland, then she goes to Rome. After that, it may be South America. This time the trip which Miss Morgan is making will include some study in textiles as wrell as in advance beauty (hair) work. Rose Meta businesses will miss the talented Miss Morgan, but Mrs. Olivia Stan- ford will carry on in her usual lovely and efficient way.

This time Global joins with oth- ers in paying tribute to a great man, Wendell P. Dabney, founder of the Cincinnati Union, who an-

swered the “last call” only two weeks ago.

This column is for you and wel- comes your news of national global interest. Just inail it to Lou Swarz, Global News Syndicate, Hotel The- resa, 7th Ave. at 125th Street, New York, N. Y.

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET

BY PERCY GREENE

FARISH STREET SATURDAY NIGHT: I got tangled-up with a

school teacher one time who kept right on arguing and tollin’ me J that I had got my “AUTHORI- | TIES” mixed-up when I was trying to tell her something about what

Benjamin Franklin had rote on

how to educate chillun. What she

kept on saying was that I was

wrong and that Benjamin Franklin hadn't never rote nuffin but was

famous because he “INVENTED”

lightning. When me and her -got through talkin I knowed all I need- ed to know about hew come Aint

Haggar’s Chillun don’t know no

more’n they do when they “com-

plete” their education. It must be that a lotta school teachers git some kinda peculiar affliction in the head from what they git edu- cated about, and what they see and hear going on around them, spec- ially when education is ’spose to

make folks understand better what they see and hear. What made my mind go back to the school teacher Who argued that Benjamin Frank-

Jii; “INVENTED” lightning while I was setting down with my fish and beer was that I had jesthearo somebody telling somebody els*1 about the school teacher out at Jackson College, in the S^ial Sci- ence Class, lambasting President

| Truman, and ’cusing him of being I the cause of Aint Haggar’s Chillun being in the fix that they’s in to-

! day Well, course you know, I aint claiming no lucidity in Social Science, and the way I had it fig- ured may be lack the way I had it figured ’bout Benjamin Franklin

[and what be wrote that I read,

j Likewise what I know bout Aint. Haggar’s Chillun, and the fix- they is in I read it in the History Books, and the way I read it it seems more

! lack to me that history got Aint Haggar’s Chillun in the fix they

I in, and they was in the fix they’s I in long before President Trumar | discovered the meaning of the word j i “equality” in the constitution of I the United States. It jest maybe, lack that Teacher who had “learnt” ; that Benjamin Franklin “INVENT- ED” lightning, that that Teacher

, out at Jackson College is done got SOCIAL SCIENCE and HISTORY all mixed-up and then again, may- be, she maybe jest hitching her lec- tures to the locally prevailing winds

THAT OLD BIRD That car- ; ries in his bill that little- ole heart warming and family cementing bundle, dropped another the other day for young Lieut, and Mrs. Le- roy Lucas. IT WAS TWINS. The mother is the former Miss Vera Smith, the daughter of the late Dr. Leroy A. Smith.

THEY SAY IT’S SO Every- j body is talking about the coming marriage of the well known Par- ish Street businessman, Bob Gaj- rett, and Mrs. Monteil Washington, j They say it’ll come off as soon as j the workmen finish redecorating the Garrett place out on West Pearl Street. Everybody says it’s so.

TO THE LAND OF THE SET- TING SDN: Bill Summers, ace 1‘arish Street businessman, left town this week for California, the land of the setting sun, via Cadil- lac. J

He plans to be gone for about! three or four weeks.

EVERYWHERE BUT HERE: When I was a boy running up and down Farish Street there was an old man who used to “scare” us

boys. His WORD was EVERY- WHERE BUT HERE seem that’s the way about Negro Police- men. It looks like they’re appoint- ing them EVERYWHERE

j BUT HERE —

HE TOLD ME: Bobbie Hicks, the ladies favorite cab driver up at Dotty Cab, told me that he’d al- ready bought the papers and was

gonna get married come this Sun- day If it happens I’ll tell you next week who it was and where it was.

WEEKLY QUOTATION: “God Almighty has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.”—James Otis. -o-

Dr. Bunche... (Continued from Page One)

eleven years of service. Before the Board agreed upon

the former Talladega College president, the selection committee conferred with Dr. Bunche. Dr. David E. Lilienthal was also ap- proached. Both men were unwilling to accept the tentative offers made to them.

Dr. Gallagher, an ordained Con- gregational minister and former pastor of the interracial South- west Berkeley (California) Com- munity Church, is 48 years old.

weekly! POEM

REV. JOHN R. PERKINS

WHO IS IT YOU OR ME

Man of self where stand thou In the house of God today

You can’t lead God’s people right You are leading God’s people

astray.

Richer man that love the price Of false doctrine of this day

How can you stand before my God And leading God’s people astray.

O’ money lover can you preach God’s, word

Knowing it is the root of all evil as well

False doctrine is the thing you preach

And leading God’s people to hell.

0 lazy man can you claim my God With no works, are you in a

dread One meal a month false doctrine

is all I am afraid your works are all

dead.

God has an all seeing everyday He sees everything we do

The man who has failed to feed God’s people

A preacher I say how about you?

Richer man that change God’s plans

One spiritual meal as well Christ said to Peter three times

feed my people as well I am afraid it is a narrow chance

to miss hell.

The Lord had Peter in the days of j old

Now he has Perkin under the same control

Perkin writes the truth warn the people as well

You have to obey God’s program or its hell.

Paul a great Peter well do we

know He fought God’s works before

he came to his own

He was born of God’s spirit To inherit a heaven for his home.

O’ great man if your heart is not

right Be sure to see Jesus today or

tonight. Because the people need the gospel

It will stop so much fight.

Now who is guilty ? Is it you or

me

Our everyday life is proof for it all

If the Lord haven’t called us

Then in hell we bound to fall.

By Rev. John R. Perkins 2611 Lilly Street Jackson, Mississippi -o-

Alumni Ass’n. Fisk University To Raise $25,000

The General Alumni Association of Fisk University at the 71st an-

nual meeting voted a $25,000.00 Alumni Fund raising campaign for the fiscal year.

H. W. Sewing, nationally known banker and insurance executive, was named chairman of the cam-

paign. Mr. Sewing, of the class of 1916,

is president of the Douglas State Bank, Kansas City, Kansas; man-

ager of the ordinary department of the Kansas City District of the At- lanta Life Insurance Company. The Kansas City Department has grown under Mr. Sewing’s guidance to be the largest ordinary agency for the Company, Inc., a fire insurance and real estate business established in 1947 by Mr. Sewing.

In recognition for his outstand- ing service to his community and nation through his ever improving record of singular success, first as a teacher in Austin, Texas pub- lic schools from 1917-1920 then as

head of the mathematics depart- ment of Western University and later in the field of insurance, Mr. Sewing was given the Alumni Award by the General Alumni As- sociation of Fisk in Nashville at the 1952 Fisk University com-

mencement. Named co-chairman of the cam-

paign with Mr. Sewing were Dr. W. J. Zeigler of Chicago. Illinois

“STRAIGHT AHEAD”

NEW YORK— (Global) —With the death last week of Wendell P. Dabney, venerable editor of the Cincinnati Union, attention is once

more called to the fact that the men best prepared to leave a liter- ary legacy that would enlighten and inspire the younger generation, are rapidly passing from the scene.

Last October, an article appeared under “Straight Ahead” which in- ferentially called upon Mr. Dabney to set down for posterity, some of his experiences and observations over the past six decades. We mentioned at the time that the old 'timers were dying very fast. Since the article appeared, several of those we had in mind at the time the article was written have died, taking with them much knowledge and information of valuable histor- ical importance. Any one of them might have told a great story Robert “Bob” Church, veteran GOP political leader; J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks; Lu- cius C. Harper, executive editor of the Chicago Defender, and one of the best-informed newspaper men in the country, and now, Mr. Dab- ney.

Part of the original “Straight Ahead” article read as follows:

“One of the few Old Guard jour- nalists who did so much to advance the cause of the race in the days when the struggle was really

j rough, is the venerable Wendell i Phillips Dabney, sage of Cincinnati j and edtior of the Union of that j city.

“There were others: Nicholas ■ Chiles of the Topeka Plain Dealer; Robert P. Abbott, the Chicago De-

jTender; Fred R. Moore, New York .Age; William Monroe Trotter, Bos- ton Guardain; Robert L. Vann, Pittsburgh Courier; Roscoe C. Sim- mons, A. N. Fields, and a number ,of others.

“All these men, now dead, knew ‘the troubles of the race, shared them and worked to improve the Negro's plight. Moreover, all of them plunged deep into politics, and knew the political history of the Negro first har.d during the early years of this century and knew it from hearsay and books of the Nineteenth.

“Unfortunately, though, not one

of them has left very much in writ- ing that could guide or inspire the youth of today. True enough, a

student trained in research could dig into the files of the newspapers edited by these men or newspapers for which they wrote and come up with some interesting material. But, it is seriously doubtful if the real story any of them could have told could be pieced together quite as they might have told it.

“Nor have we anything from the leading politicians of another day who might have told interesting stories—for example, Edward H. Wright, Oscar DePnest, and Louis B. Anderson of Chicago; Ferdinand Q. Morton, and Charles Anderson of New York; Waiter H. Cohen of Louisiana; Benjamin Davis and Henry Lincoln Johnson of Atlanta; and William H. Lewis the elder, of Boston. Not one of them left a line, although all were urged at one time or another by their friends to tell their story.

“We haven’t heard directly from Mr. Dabney for some time now, but we sincerely hope his health is fine, and that he will remain perched high on his -editorial stool for many years to come dashing off his fascinating Gossip and Re- flections for all of us to enjoy. However, we hope he has given se- rious thought to writing a book about his ‘Life and Times.’ With such a long and colorful career in journalism, in government, and with the Army, as well as in civic* and community affairs, Mr. Dab- ney would be able to tell a power- ful story—and it should be told. Negroes whose lives have been such that they have been provided with the material for good stories that ought to be passed on to fu- ture generations, just refuse to write.”

Let us hope that some of the remaining “old timers” leave us a legacy.

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Budget Cut Hits Schools

HONOLL LU—Budget trimming by the U. S. Congress may force all 145 schools in the 3,000,000- square-mile Pacific Trust Territory to close before the end of the school year.

and Mrs. Theresa Birch Wilkins of Washington, D? C.

Ihe Alumni campaign is to be set up on a matching basis and will bring to Fisk, from the General Education Board, one dollar for every dollar raised by the alumni. At the end of the campaign, if the goal is reached, Fisk University will have $50,000.00 for teacher improvement.

The Alumni campaign is expect- ed to get under way about Sep- tember 1st. -o-

A rubber tree yields only 3 to 5 pounds of rubber each year.