THE CABOLOIIAN RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAT, AUGUST 11. IHC 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP “He saw Matthew sitting at the receipt* of custom and said, ‘Follow me.’ " Matthew ran a but prosperous tax collection agency, and a lesser man that Jesus would have had to con vince Matthew to close up shop and Join a Chris tian movement. If there had been any doubt It is heartening to feel the tingle of courage reverberated in John W. Winter's (member of the Raleigh City Council) thinking and itand on the closing of the Raleigh public swimming pools here last week. Joined by Councilman J W Coffey (whom we salute, along with Mr. Winters). Mr. Win ters voted no to the closing of the poola against Mayor F.nloe. Councilmen Tomlinson. Mc- Laurin, Reed and Hoover, who voted to cloae the pools because Negro and white youth gamed entry to the swimming pool at Pullen Park (In the past used only by white). No matter what The immediate results may he vour councilman has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what representation through registration and voting means. It rame at an opportune time, to also in a meaa ure sav thank you hv performance to the great effort put forth by the student workers :n ’hr registration drive We salute Mr Winters for his forthright iess m obeying the mandate of h‘s oath of of i. , represent the best interest of *ll the nen pV n f R drigh. His voice used for his < > n( . rs the great reasons for his being on the C • Council He demonstra‘ed his awareness Some 1,600 Register To Vote --. Kt'.'S" voter registration campaign _-, r i -e.-er.t'.v w.th over 1.600 new Negro .. j-~- _r dur.ng a two-month period. - Dorothy Dawson, of the \• -,-,i : A«*>.-.s?:on with headquar .. i « w. -‘ th.e resul's of the drive v ,„ . ‘ *■ ‘•- S. —r 1' students who :r ttif =-vr got 1 *>4l local resi :i-v.t> tr --ciirrm ~nti v/m i nTiteti'lir wtek toe r-art of the r’utt'rtTi vrtu tri>>"-i-r t'.- 1 Nef'c precincts •mnlnmnu TepnTrnti >i nnt vnt.-.g p"vedures ~-nv r-nrsmr- vr * »t*-et ave-rriru it tic v it-": - “i st-der’s '» rtur* tnr s- :i«nT: ~«'“f •' p fr- the T'.itp—r Ans 1*1:0 voi p_* the W» -i- v- - that the Federal g-\> —T-—• a-eys and means of re ducing *-.e that poor and labor ing pec p’.e could get some relief Now it seems that the tax rut is off until next vrar or mavbe later. This conclusion is based upon some facts gathered by U S A#w* and Wor/rf Reporf from the most influential members of the House and Senate Here are some of the facts 1. Sentiment against a tax cut if anything is hardening rather than softening as the tax debate develops in and out of Congress 2 The nrrd for a tax cut as an emergency measure to stimulate business has not been demonstrated to the sntisfacton of the House Ways and Means committee and the Senate Finance committee .3 Members of the tax writing committees of Congress are disturbed bv the eff-ct that re duced taxes would have on the Federal govern ment's budget, even if some of the President's •dvisors are not disturbed 6 President Kennedy wall not propose a tax cut unless he feels certain in advance that Con- We Need Federal Tax Amendment Oftmies the Federal government lacks hu manity when dealing with individual citizen*. The government gets its "pound of flesh" or else This is what happened recently to a 31-veer old man in Indianapolis Indiana. He was hailed into court for failure to make support payments to his former wife and four children At the trial the defendant testified that his entire weekly wages hsd been taken by the Federal government as payment for hack Income tuxee. Garret was charged with being e total of $295 behind In his payments set by the court at S2O a week for support of his family. His children range from 10 to 4 veers old. He had carried the children as Income tax ex emptions since their hirth and his estranged wife also had clamed them for exemption for the last two years Garrett said he was notified by the district Internal Revenue office that he owed the gov ernment approximately SSOO because he was no longer entitled to dependent deductions and would have to repay that amoutn. It aeema to us that the estranged wife should have been made to repay the money, since she knew tile husband had alwavt been claiming them as dependents This it an instance of the THE NEGRO PRESS—that America can toss hod the wOrio away from racial and national antagonisms whan h accord* to avaty Otar ragardlaea of raca, color or eraad. hi* human and lagal right* Hating no mac taarmg no man—tha Nagro Praaa arrive* to halp every man an tha tfrm be P*d that all man an h jrt aa long aa anyone i* held hack. < A Well-Earned Salute NC Tax-Cut In Sight shown In Jesus' ton« of voice. Matthew would have said, "Lord, give me time to think It over.” Because of this experience on th« part of . ihe world will never forget the man who wrote one of the gospels. Matthew made hts name immortal by accepting the call to aervlce. of the trust Raleigh Negroes in particular placed in him. However, we feel certain that his consideration of all of Raleigh is as strong ly felt as his declaration on his stand for con tinued operation of Raleigh's swimming pool*. But should the swimming pools remain clos ed we are certain the great stride made here through support of a Negro representative by a white collegue on a major policymaking body is worth any sacrifice we may suffer in not being able to use a water sport for a short period Men like Winters and Coffey, who are unafraid to take a stand according to the dic tates of their conscience need never worry a bout their niche before the great public audi ence who judge and applaud courage as shown by their actions of representing all the people and not a choaen group or special interests. May Raleigh continue to grow and fashion its future upon the pillars of right and justice to all of it* citizens irre»pective of their position in the community, race or religion thron eh the vision and courage of the Coffeys and Winters. Again we salute two Os our city fathers who whether said or thought have earned the goodwill and plaudits of a goodly number of our 100.000 inhabitants group in touch with local leaders who laid the ground work. We have no complaint against the students who did an excellent job in a short period of time. But community laaders must complete the work which the students have started. We are not satisfied with the Negro citizens of Raleigh—thoae who failed to register after being asked. If every citizen had assumed his responsibility, we would have had 5,000 new registrants. Getting nonchalant citizens to register and vote is a never-ending task, and we don’t know how much longer it will take leaders to teach Negroes that their community salvation rests upon the power of their ballot. gress will approve his profrosals. Such issuranee does not seem possible at this timf in view 6f the opposition of key members of the tdx-writ ing committees of Congress. 7 The weight of opinion in Congress is that no political advantage is to be gained bv votin| a tax reduction before the elections in Novem ber. On the contrary, many members of Con gress feel that they might be damaged politi cally by voting to lower taxes now. There is no inclination at the White House to put members on the spot by asking them to vote on ax cut before the 1962 election It seems, therefore, that the Congress mem bers consider political disadvantages more im portant at this time than stimulaton of busi ness activity out of its so-eal’ed slump. When we come to think of it. a govern ment reduces its income it must at the same time curtail its spending domestic and foreign As yet we haven’t heard too much about redue ing the national debt through well-planned economy. As for now. let's forget about an income tax cut this year or ever law which “favor* the woman no matter what The judge heard the man's case and set him free to attempt whatever arrangements he could make to meet his support obligations. And the judge added. "Everybody else (private creditors and other agencies) is restricted to take only 10 per cent of the weekly earning above sls from a debtor's wages, but I gueaa the Federal gov ernment needs the money badly ao it can send it to India. Siam and Yugoaolovia and places like that" We should urge our Congressmen to press for legislation amending this kind of law. because no matter what a man owes he should have enough left out of his salary or wage to live. The law as it stands can work a severe hardship on poor, laboring people Surely our government doesn't need to force the laboring man in jail just to collect alleged back taxes. Even if it can by law take every cent a man earns, it could be sensible about the matter and prorate payment* on the basis ®f the man’s family-support commitments and what he can afford to pay the government while at the tame time having to purchase food and pay Uving expenses. The Federal government isn’t so poOr that it must exact Shylock’s “pound of flesh." JUST FOR FUN Bf aaARCVI B. SOLLWAJta ■OLE IN DOUOHMUTS In Indianapolis, Indiana, a grocar is looking tor sAmeOne who can build a batter trip to catch a thief wha kedpa basting a path to his door. Tha grocer who owns a market across the street from his home explained It this way: A deliveryman used to leave five dozen doughnuts on the sidewalk outside the store early each morning until frequent thefts prompted s change in the delivery system. At the grocer’s order, the doughnut deliveryman began leaving the doughnuts on the from porch of the grocer’s home. The thief soon changed his route accord i'gl.v. One night the grocer arranged to have the next day’s doughnuts left on his rear porch. On the front porch be stacked four empty doughnut boxes with a fine wire attached. The other end of the wi-e was hook ed to a garbage can lid on the edge of a stand on the porch to set up i thief-catching eUtter. On Saturday the frustrated grocer found not only the doughnuts missing from his rear porch, but the trap lid, boxes and all one from his porch on the front porch. “I'm open for suggestion*.’’ the rrocer told a news reporter. to specialise In bobtail reporting of Negro news. A recent case in point was the treatment given by the white prcee her* of the crista in race relations in Albany. Georgia, and President Kennedv'. pointed ference. Deapite the obvious im allusion to it at his news (-im portance of th# incident, th# Chi cago papers devoted only two skimpy paragraphs to it and re legated it to th* bottom of an inside page In contrast, both of the major New York newspapers N»«- York Ttmef and New York He rald Tribune—gave front page coverage and in depth to the tame item. The Albany Movement as it is celled, is of deepening cons# queue# not alone to the Negro people there, but to Negroe* ev erywhere It symhollies th* mo set: es that heroic struggle for human equality and social Jus- Um. for a long time to com*. Ne gro** who ar* sensitive te th* unfinished business of democra cy, will have te leoh te th* N* gro proas for Rtorough presen tation of th* news as it affects their dally Uvea The Negro pree* has not veer ed flora th* historic role Into which ft was cast during the time of Frederick Douglas* when Rie kettle for emancipation es lh* dove* erne at Its height There'll be a piece for this press se long a* Amertdan democracy renulnt in th* realm of theory, and se long as the Negro 1* push 'd around as an unwanted see -1*" —DAILY DEFENDER Civil Rights Action Will Assure Them Ot The True American Way Morgan Says: Beneath the Surface, Changes Are Being Made In Mississippi By Edward P. Morgan 1 This column Is excerpted from the nightly broadcasts of Edward P. Morgan, ABC com mentator sponsored by the AFL-CIO. Listen to Morgan over the ABC network Monday through Friday at 7 p. m., EDT.) SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY but undeniably, the state of Mississippi Is being forced to face the facts of life. At first glance this might not seem to be so. After all only recently one of the state's rare contributions to civilised politics, Rep. Frank Smith, was beaten by a Dlxiecrat. And Mississippi remains outwardly and loudly committed to the dark ages of racism and reaction, refusing emo tionally to belong to a union of 00 states, let alone admitting that the United States belongs to the family of nations. But beneath the surface, changes are taking place. They do not come easily and before they are accepted they may produce the pain and shame of violence. After 17 months of litigation, the eourta have ordered the University of Missis sippi to admit its first Negro undergraduate in the fall. There may be delays, there may be ugli ness but desegregation will surely come to Mis sissippi too just as it has to that proud aristocrat the Confederacy, the Old Dominion of Virginia. Another Mississippi moderate, ex-Oov. J. P. Coleman, is going to run again for the governor ship In 1903 and it is not likely he would make this choice If the extremist foroes of massive re sistance were In the ascendancy. One of the rea sons they aren't is a woman, though she herself could become a casualty of their death throes For 30 years a native Southerner, Hasel Brannon Sm'th (no relation te the congress man whom she backed), has fought bigotry, backwardness and corruption as a weekly newspaper publisher in rural Mississippi, 69 miles frem the state eapiUl. Jackson. But to day she Is fighting for her Use, professionally speaking, and in a very real sense the validity of Mississippi's social evolution, whleh she has done so much to push, depends In part in her survival. Eight years ago. on the Fourth of July week end In 1964. Holme* County Shsriff Richard F. Byrd utterly without provocation shot a Negro. In her weekly Lexington Advertiser Mrs. Smith reputed the brutality, followed with an editorial branding Byrd as unfit for office in a land where th* laws of America—she wrote—"are for every one—rich and poor, strong and weak, black and white.” Byrd won a 010.000 Judgment for libel but in November 1950 the State Supreate Court unani mously reversed the Judgment and dlsmlaeed the Focus On Africa By EDDIE L. MADISON. JR-. for ANF THE ATTEMPT on the life of Ghana's Presi dent Kwame Nkrumah was followed by a police round-up for some 25 person* for questioning in an apparent effort to determine whether the ac tion was politically inspired. President Nkrumah. 52 escaped Injury when a bomb or hand grenade exploded near his car In the village of Kullngugu. about 500 mile* north of Accra, the Ghanaian capital The blast killed four persons. Including s schoolboy and two policemen, and Injured 60 peo ple tn the crowd that gathered to greet Dr. Nkru mah. The assassination attempt came while the President was returning to Accra from a visit to neighboring Upper Volt*. THE BOMB exploded as President Nkrumah stepped out of his car to greet some school chil dren and a large crowd. Hi* life was saved by the quick action of one of his bodyguards, witnesses to the incident reported. Just as Nkrumah step ped from his car. Captain S A. Buckman. the bodyguard who accompanied him. heard a thud and quickly gathered the members of the Presi dent's party into s circle around Dr. Nkrumah. forming a human rampart. Then the blast oc curred. Captain Buckman. a 34-year-old Ghana ian. was struck In the back by Shrapnel and was one of the 50 injured, many of them seriously Regional Commissioner A. Asumda. who was tr the official party, suffered minor Injuries. The President was rushed to a hospital at nearby Bawku but aui examination disc lowed be was not hurt- THIS WAS the first officially reported at tempt ob the Use of the Ghanaian President, whe has curbed most political opposition la the coun try. The government reported crushing a plot tc km Dr Nkrumah tn 1960 and since then be has tightened his control ever the country Before Ghana achieved independence. Nkrumah'* OolC Coast home was damaged by a dynamite blast tr 1955. but be was not there at the time. Just before Britton’• Queen Elisabeth came la Ghana 00 a royal xtatt last October, a aerie* of bomb attempt! were made tn Accra, damaging Nkrumah * statu* outside parliament house. President Nkrumah with the approval es many of his staunch ad sheriff’s suit. He died later, a discredited man. But the Citizens Council, formed in the wak« of the Supreme Court’s school deaagregation de cision. vowed vengeance and for six years the Smiths have been the targets of a campaign cl intimidation and boycott. First the editor's hus band, Walter Dyer Smith, was fired as adminis trator of the county hospital despite the unani mous pleas of the staff. Then advertisers cancell ed and her Job printing business dropped off. But Mrs. Smith kept publishing. THREE YEARS AGO, however, an opposition paper, the Holmes County Herald, suddenly ap peared In Lexington, owned, apparently exclu sively. by Citizens Council members with State Rep. Wilburn Hooker as the principal stockholder. This year Hooker and others tried to ram a bill through the legislature to deny one of Mrs Smith’s weeklies local government printing con tracts. but it was so patently punitive and Mis sissippi editors rose so strongly to denounce it that it died in committee. Still the attrition goes on. The Smiths have mortgaged their home and their 500-acres farm to raise money to keep the Lexington paper going but they need more. Last winter Mississippi’* Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspaperman. Hod ding Carter, wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that if Hazel Brannon Smith should lose her fight, "another light will have gone out in a shadowed state ’ 1 Another light did go out Just the othei day with the death of William Faulkner.) But Mrs. Smith simply refuses to be extin guished. She is neither s radical nor an ideal ist. She is not even a crusading integratlonlst. She describes herself as a practical woman with a stubborn belief that “every citisen is equal under the law” and should be Judged on individual merit, or lack of it, not on the color of his skin. Her views on racial issues? “To me,” she says. “Negroes sre people.” Which speaks eloquent and courageous volumes in Mississ'ppi. Os Holmes County’s 27.000 populatloon 75 percent are Negroes She has the support of many of them even though the racists are now trying to get her readers, white and black, to cancel their subscriptions. Recently Hazey Brannon received In Ban Antonio the latest in a long line of distinctions, the Headliner Award of Theta 81gma Phi. wom en's national journalistic fraternity. What an empty award It would be If the benighted but powerful forces of Holmes County were allowed to triumph over her in the end. —AFL-CIO NEWS mlrers. has ruled Ghana with a firm hand since leading the rich Gold Coast colony to indepen dence from Bntain in 1957. These admirers point out that firm leadership is essential in a new country where tribal and other differences pre rail. MEANWHILE, in MALI. Ghana’s partner ir the "Union of African Btate" and Casablanca Charter Group, an . fficial communique announc ed the rest of 252 persons in connection with an alleged plot supported by an unidentified foreign embassy to overthrow the government of Presi dent Modibo Keita. The communique said more arrests were expected and warned the govern ment would crack down on those responsible for the conspiracy to seize power in the West Afri can republic. Keita said he received warning; from Europe and particularly Britain of subver sire movements and an attempted coup d'etat. H* said these warnings, from “natural a’lias” of Mali indicated there would be attempts at subrersior and a coup d'etat in the country between July II and August 15 PRESIDENT KEITA. speaking at a meetin: called to probe the history of anti-govemmen* demonstrations in Bamako, the capital, by a group of merchants on July 20. He said the dem onstrations were part, of a plot prepared a km* time back, with foreign support. The object of the conspiracy Keita said, was to overthrow the gov ernment. liquidate its leaders and replaoe the government with a new one. “more docile towards directives received from outside Mall.” He reveal ed that three people, now under arrest, were to have played a part in the coup d'etat. The three were identified as Pily Dabo Sissoko. Hamdoun Dicko and K&saoum Toure. Sissoko Dieko were former members of the French Parliament for the Sudan and leaders of the former Sudan Party, the “Parti Soudanais Programme” ‘PSP 1 which wa# allied to the French section of the So cialist International SFIO' The SPTO was de feated by the “Union Soudonoiae.” a branch of the .African Democratic Rally 'IIDA'. and now the only party in Mali Toure was described aa a former member of the "Union Soudanam." who was discontented because his personal ambitions had been frustrated-