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Congratulations Shrine Research Foundation Gifts totaling more than $200 000 have been niven bv the •Ancient Egyptian Order Nobles of the Mystic Shriner and the Daughters of Isis for medical research, since the founding of its Shriners Tuberculosis and Cancer Research Foundation in 1948. Though the first gift was not made until 1950, a grant was made to the American Cancer Society and Freedman s Hospital in Washington. Both gift’s were for medical research. It has been pointed out that since that early beginning ten years ago the Shriners have continued to expand their support of human welfare in the medical field. It is also pointed out how the Shrine and the Daughters have met the challenge to provide medical care for indigent people in many areas, especially in the south. The Foundation medical panel officers know that research is expensive and continues to sykrocket. T hey insist that goals are more important then costs and urged continued support that eventually shed light on the causes of human illness. These fund's are not prescribed as to race but any organization upon a application will receive consideration for a research project. This protect is and achievement and A E.A 0 N.M.S. justifies its existence. A Son of the South A white Presbyterian minister recently elevated as head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U S A has flung his challenge to the diehards of the South. In a statement to the press in Cleveland after his election to the highe'st office in the gift of his church. Dr. Herman Lee Turner, said desegregation can be achieved by "steady pressure." He said, he believes in obeying the law of the land. "I am not secure until my neighbor is secure, has the same rights as I have." Dr. Turner who has pastored an Atlanta congregation for 30 years, gained wide renoun as the author of the Atlanta Manifesto "that condernr»ed racial hatred and plead for the maintainance of a 'sound public school system. That document was issued in '57 was sinned by 20 minister and rabbis. Dr. Turner has appointed a Negro as his first Vice Moderator and plans many trips with him throughout the country, in the interest of brotherhood. Dr. Turner, in a signed declaration, before his election confirmed his belief in a non-segregated society Thi'3 newspaper believes that a new day is coming to the South end the nation.

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A hung jjury 11-1 for acquittal; $400,000 expended to convict a man accused of somewhat less than $4000 in income tax evasion doe; not add up to a sound case for trying him again.. Add to this the probability of political revenge involved in the sordid affair in the first place and the mathematical equation (to say nothing of the legal aspects involved) becomes more confusing. Such is the farce called the "Adam Gloyton Powell Case." Powell, a minister as well as a congressman, has been on Capital Hill for sometime and as a staunch pleader for civil rights has made a few enemies along the way. He also enjoys a certain amount of seniority. Under this circumstance he stands to head a powerful House committee unless he is sidetracked. Conviction of income tax evasion would tourn this trick. Oh, yes, Powell earned additional enemies by bolting his party (the Democrats) to support President Eisenhower during the latter's last election. In this unsavory light, there appears to be strong political motives in bringing Powell to trial and once failing to get a conviction, to attemot to find a jury that will convict him. We do not attempt here to assay Powell's guilt or innocence, that is what we have courts for. But, as things stand, the oply real sufferer in this judicial comedy is John Q. Taxpayer. There is also the glaring possibility that the case has already been so bungled that it would be further waste of court time to press for a convitction. THE LOS ANGELES SENTINEL

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JUNE 1, 1859 — Henry O. Tanner, famous American Negro painter who achieved his greatest reputation in Europe, born in Pittsburgh, Pa. JUNE 2, 1950 — United States Supreme Court oulaws racial segregation in railroad dining cars in inter-state travel, travel. JUNE 3, 1887 — Roland Hayes, noted tenor concert singer who achieved fame all over the world, now living in retirement, born in Curryville, Ga. * JUNE 4, 1849 — John Mercer Langston, lawyer, Congressman from Virginia, abolitionist, minister to Hati and acting president of Howard University, 1873-75, graduated from Oberlin University.

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No Better Area Of Activity The CCSA, Kansas City's vigorous new civic organization, rould have chosen no better area of activity than that of voter 'egistration. The Community Committee for Social Action has •achieved much during its short period of existence. It waged rhe campaign to open the downtown store eating facilities. It next fought for the employment or Negro bus drivers. Now, the CCSA is launching a campaign to get Negroes registered and ready to vote. If all of the Negroes who are eligible would register and all of these who are registered would vote, many of our problems could be solved in short order. The CCSA is not interested in partisan politics, but is undertaking the job of getting Negroes registered as a civic responsibilitv. It has been estimated that only half of the Negroes qualified to vote are actually registered and that only half of those who are registered take the time and trouble to go to the polls on election day. This is a situation which needs correction and which must be corrected as soon as possible. We congratulate the CCSA on beginning this worthwhile project. THE KANSAS CITY CALL

The Golden Rule By The Union Baptist Alliance REV. J. T. HIGHBAUGH, Editor

(LESSON PRINT: Matt. 7:112. LARGER LESSON: Matt. 7:1-12, Luke 10:25-37. MEMORY VERSE: Matt. 7:12.) We have had a happy and long tour through Jesus’ great sermon. And here we are near the end. Lik^ Gaul, let’s divide it in three parts: (1) Planks and Splinters, Matt. 7:1-6. (2) Prayer Time Again, Matt. 7:7-11. i3> The Golden “rtule, Matt. 7:12, Luke 10:25-37. PLANKS AND SPLINTERS. I really doubt whether Jesus is saying, “Judge not’’ in the pychological vernacular, for thus judging is the natural flow of .the healthy mind. To think and meditate upon human life sends us on a round of discrimination and classification and evaluation which is normal and healthy. To read, observe and evaluate and compare is almost inevitable and unavoidable. Who does not do so? For you know the tree by the fruit it bears. But what Jesus is correcting here is the self righteous tendency which grows from a&?, official position or social status; for an individual to regard himself as a self-appointed judge and criterion over the lives of people and to hastily announce that opinion. Somewhere in Romans Paul asks “Who made you a judge over another man’s servants?" Thus, for us lo assume the right, to arrogate this right to ourselves is to enter the realm of the Divine. God is the only judge of our lives and much of our lives we must wait until the great day to know what God thinks of us. Also the scripture asks us: How considerest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye, and beholdest not the beam in thy own eye? Why make large my little mistakes while you carry great ones? Thou fool, first cast out the large socially growing sin of your life. Then you can well evaluate clearly my small weaknesses. He goes further in the 6th verse and says: We must be careful that we do not throw that which is holy to the dogs nor cast our pearls to the swine. Here he regards the lowliest man’s good name as a holy thing of value to him and of relative value to society. Also, he is saying that he who listens too long to our rant on another’s character and name is no better than a vicious dog who would bite on sight or the hog who waits fyr the slop of the community. This is very necessary in our community and churches today, for we hastily drag down the good name of others without any careful investigation whatsoever. Someone has said that

all the talk we hear for our repetition should be examined as follows — asking ourselves before repeating it: Is it true? Should it be told? Am I the one to tell it? This will delay much of the gutter talk that good people slip into. PRAYER TIME AGaIN. As our Master went into his teaching and serving in the ministry he habitually came back to this inescapable subject of prayer. Just a short while ago he called us back to his great model prayer and then at the home of Mary and Martha he reminded us again that man should always pray and not faint. “Ask,’’ He said, “and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be open.’.’ What a promise is assured us. No promise is too good for them who work and live in trusting faith. Keep asking, keep seeking and keep knocking for the door will be open. Some three or four years ago I stopped over in Memphis and called a friend of mine from the station downtown. My friend. Bob Rhodes, had always assured me of a place to stop and rest while changing trains. This means a lot to one traveling, so I called him on the phone. “Come on out, Highbaugh," he answered. So I went out to his house and I did knock but no one answered. I peeped through the window and no Bob I went back to the station in despair. Suddenly I was called to the phone by the station master. It was Bob. “WTiat happened?” he asked. And I told him of my knocking and my tour around the doors and windows as a Peeping Tom. “Why,’ he told me’ “come on out. You’re just too impatient. I just stepped out the back door to the grocery to get jour brown breiad, but I was careful to leave the door ajar so if you

had only pushed a little the door would have opened.” This is the same assurance Jesus gives us here. Push, for from within the bolt is removed and it’s open for us. His friends This is the Father’s heart he speaks of here. THE GOLDEN RULE. I have heard people comment that they have no particular religion. They say they live by the Golden Rule. Generally mhen people tell us this we can be sure that they have some skeleton behind the door that other parts of the Bible will unveil. Look for a while at this parable and observe the three great ways of life In it. First way: “What’s yours is mine so I’ll take it.” This is the bully’s way. He meets us in our journey. Often he lurks in dark places and waits upon bur journey. He pounces on us, takes our valuables, and leaves us half d<>ad and bleeding. The second way is the way of the conservative. His theme is “What’s mine is mine and I'll keep it.” He lives by the restraining inhibitive “Be careful 1 Watch, don’t get hurt!" Yes —he may be priest for Levite preacher, a deacon or just a careful gentleman Of the cloth. He passes by on the other side leaving us half dead. But, at last, here Is the Christian. Whether he knows it or not. here he is. His theme is “What’s mine is yours so I’ll share it.” He comes prepared with oil and wine for healing. He walks while we ride his beast. He puts us up at an inn, procures us food, tips the host and tells him to take cane of my neighbor and. if it costs anymore, I’ll pay it when I return. He has learned to live. He knows that it is more blessed to give than to receive. He lives in the hoiisb beside the road and- will be a friend to man.

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From Heroes to Heels? Joe Louis and Castro

The fickleness of American public opinion has never been more graphically illustrated than it has been in the cases of Joe Louis Barrow, former heavyweight champion of the fistic world and Cqstro, lea d e r ^ of the latest Cuban revolution.

The headlines of the local opinion sheets the other day screamed o u t; that Joe and Castro had worked out Sbrac sort of nefarious deal

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former champion would profit hansomely by promoting tourism to the former tourist’s paradise of Cuba. One of the sheets carried a picture of the two together in Havana. The shot was taken before Christirias but Only became newsworthy when the daily press finally decided to complete the job of taking Joe apart as it

had with Castro.

Joe, when in his heyday as the world's heavyweight king and when he limited his remarks to “I glad I win”, was considered a credit to boxing add ”to his race”. In those days he conformed rather well to one of the familiar stereoaypes of the naive Negro— ‘‘short on brain but long on

brawn.”

When he began to show an interest in the “problem” many of his erstwhile supporters dropped off the bandwagon and he was pitied as “poor old Joe,” and was suspected of having been brainwashed by the NAACP or some worse agency. With Fidel an even stranger turnabout had characterized the daily press. While he stayed in the mountains and waged guerilla warfare against the Batista government, he was played up as a sort of epic hero by the Ameri-

By Andrew W. Ramsey can press, and when finally Dictator Fulgencio Batista was tumbled from power and Castro made his triumphant entry into Havana the American press wildly praised him. Castro came to the United States and was given the keys to Washington. He was credited with bringing democracy to Cuba. But in the space of a few weeks after his successful tour of the United States Castro had lost the affection of the American press. He was at firrft accused of playing footsie with Cuban Communists. Later the charge was changed to “collaboration with Moscow” and still later he was openly branded ns a Communist stooge and probably a Red or at least a Pinko. When on March 6, Fidel Castro, speaking at the funeral of the men killed in the explosion of the munitions ship La Coubre, launched an attack on the United States the press became violently an-ti-Castro and carried along with it a great portion of the American public, to whom Castro had become as distasteful as Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin. Just what had happened to change Castro from a hero to a heel ? The trouble with Castro is that he insisted on keeping his promises to his people. He promised them freedom and dignity. His predecessors had not given them either, and had heeded the* biddings of Wall Street to such an extent that Cuba was merely a vassal of the United States. The leader of this Cuban revolution sought to end the country’s utter dependence on the United States. Castro began giving American investors their walking papers and started dividing large estates and parcelling out land to the landless peasants. The United States retaliated by refusing to supply arms

to the recognized government of the island, and by looking the other way when anti-Cas-tro Cubans took off from our shores to bomb Cuba. Due to pressure from the United States other countries of the so-called free world stopped the sale of arms to. Cuba and stopped or severely curtailed the buying of Cuban sugar, thus endangering Cuban economy. To make matters worse we branded Castro a Communist when the Soviet Union became the only source from which the government could buy the arms which a sovereign state must have to maintain law and order. By labeling the new government of Cuba communistic we put a psychological block on the American tourist trade. Castro, whose government practices racial equality to a greater extent than any Cuban regime since the SpanishAmerican War, made a special appeal to American Negroes to visit his country. To many Americans, especially those who suspect any friend of “decent treatment for Negroes” of being a communist or fellow-traveller, that was the last straw. The present campaign to discredit Joe Louis and his purported caceraderie with Castro was devised, it seems, in order to kill off the possibility that Negroes might heed the invitation and thus keep the Castro administration in power when officially we have relegated it to an early demise. Besides, if Negroes went to Cuba in large enough numbers, it might result in their being treated like human beings in many of the U.S. vacation spots now open only to white gentiles. So it is that Joe Louis and Castro have been singled out for punishment at the bar of public opinion.

Letters to the Editor Barr Soys Conscience Won't Let Him

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Vote Tox Money for Segregated States

Kditor’s note: A copy of a letter from Congressman Jo-

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only say “I agree ’’ Joseph W. Barr,

seph W. Barr, 11th District, Indiana, to Mr. Clarence MUoheU, Director of the Washington bureau of the

NAACP.

Dear Mr. Mitchell: Thank you for your letter of the 23rd, and I quite agree that I could not with conscience support legislation distributing Federal money to the states without the protection of an anti-segregation clause. In my Congresional district in Indianapolis, we now have between 80 and 90 thousand Negroes. We are far from perfect in our race relations, but our schools are integrated; our public recreational facilities are integrated, and all our institutions of higher education are integrated. i should also like to add that in my Congressional district the Negro population does yote, and it has supplied our city and our country with some of its ablest public officials. We are a long way from being perfect, as I mentioned above, and in some areas, such as job opportunities and

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housing, we have a long way to go However, where public funds are Involved, no person is denied aeeess to any benefits that may be derived from these funds because of his race, creed, or color. I was especially pleased to receive this letter, because I have heard many times that the so-called anti-segregation clause was merely a device to defeat education, housing, and social measures in the Congress. This might be true, but for the life of me I cannot with a clear conscience vote to take the tax money of the Negroes, whom I represent, and send it to states where the money will be used to provide segregated facilities. I cannot imagine how I could explain to a Negro taxpayer in Indianapolis why I voted to send his tax money to Mississippi to help build a segregated school system, a segregated public housing facility, or a segregated recreational facili-

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I feel very deeply on this subject, and I do want to thank you for this explicit

Recorder Cited For Editorial in May 21 Issue an "Justice' To the Editor: May I congratulate you on your timely editorial comments presented in the article entitled "This is Justice?,” which appeared in your May 21 issue. Such a flagrant abuse of justice toward a minority group should not be tolerated by the good citizens of our fair city. G Duke Beasley.

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