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A Triumph From Several Angles
The election of Dr. Ru
fus J). Clement, president
of Atlanta University, to
trie school board of the
City of Atlanta, was a
•heartening personal tri
umph for Dr. Clement,
and a signal gain for the
Negroes of Atlanta. But
it was more than that. As
President Clement him
self has observed, it was
sense, and fairness of the
a triumph for the common
voters of Atlanta at large.
Says TIME magazine:
“Some members of At
lanta’s Democratic Party
Executive Committee tie
cideded to make sure that
Clement would not come
close (to election.) The
first tiling thy did was to
write Washington for any
information the House Un-
American Activities Com
mittee might have. Finally
last week, just two days
before the primary elec
lion they bur«t into print:
Clement had been a mem
r Raymond Moley, one
jfcime top New Dealer, but
low a syndicated colum
nist whose writing is not
only very conservative but
Often uncharitable to the
point of bitterness, recent
ly called the term “isola
tionist” a “snide” one.
Now people are too of
jten labeled isolationists to
whom the label does not
properly apply and that
is not fair. But there is
nothing snide about the
term itself. There are iso
lationists who are honest
arid decent, and they are
Joe Walcott And Father Time
Satchel Page may or
may not last out this sea
son. At any rate he is
called on to perform only
as a relief pitcher, and
fluifc not too often. But
Jersey Joe Walcott should
retire forthwith from the
ranks of active pugilists.
His time is up.
Joe was fortunate ever
to have won the cham
pionship at the age he did.
Ff-pv such accornplisments
Senator Robert F. Wagner
The death of former
Senator Robert F, Wag
ner, of New York, reminds
ins again of how soon a
man can disappear from
the horizon once he seeks
I© be active iu public life I
Senator Wagner should
not have been forgotten
so soon by the general pub
lic; but it is a safe assump
: tioii that there were many
among the ranks of organ
ized labor as well as else
where who had not for
gotten him and his solid
contributions to federal
s welfare legislation during
Ms senate career.
tet, A true liberal and feu*
tbif&oA£rjjm
her of the Civil Rights
Congress, the Southern
Confe r e u e e for
H um a n Welfare, and
the Southern Negro. Youth
Conference all three
listed by the House com
mittee as Communist -
front. The anti - Clement
forces figured that would
finish him.
“The same night, the
executive committee hasti
ly called n meeting to
broadcast the charges a
* gainst Clement. To his ene
mies, the fact that he had
resigned from these organ
izations before they were
listed made no difference
neither did the fact that he
never been anything but
a fervent anti-Communist.
‘Once a Communist/ cried
Committeeman W a t s o n
Cary, ‘always a Commun
ist’ and the majority of
his colleagues seemed to
agree. When a motion was
proposed that the charges
be dropped, the commit
Calling Names
usualy quite patriotic. To
call a man an isolationist
is not to “smear” him.
On the other hand there
are columnists and others
who do not hesitate to re
fer to honest, honorable
and patriotic persons who
believe that the world can
be made safe by some kind
of international accord, as
Communists or sympathi
sers, There are those who
go as far in that direction
as to advocate a world
super - government, and
believe that the sacrifice
of some national sover
are in the records, and his
was a deserved tribute to
the excellent care he has
always taken of himself
and the kind of life he
has led. Tt was also pro
bably a pertinent commen
tary on the scarcity of
good young heavyweight
fighters —a condition
which still exists.
The short count song
and dance was not even a
good face - saver. Joe
mamtumn, Wagner was a
'New Deal stalwart and a
leader in the cause of the
“forgottn man”. F, D R.
depended on him, not only
to back the New Deal, but
■ also for ideas, as he did
on few others.
Mr. Wagner was no par
lor liberal, but a self
made man. A poor immi
grant boy, reared in the
slums of New York, he
struggled up the ladder
by his own efforts. And he
never forgot from whence
he came; he aligned him
self with that class all his
life and worked for .their
tee voted 5 to 1 to keep
them. Only at the last
minute did not member
get cold feet. I’m chang
ing my vote, but not my
mind/ said he. The result,
h to 4 for Clement.
“To all intents and pur
poses, the anti - Clement
forces had done their job:
jit. hardly seemed possible
that a Negro could live
down the bad publicity
Clement had received. But
on election day itself the
citizens of Atlanta appar
ently felt, that Clement
had had a raw deal. By
an 8,000 - vote majorty,
they elected him to the
school board.”
, Dr. Clement’s own com
ment as quoted by the
magazine, sums it. up very
nicely:
“Fve been feeling Dm
some time that the people
of the South arc far ahead
<*f wat some think they
are.”
eignity to such a govern
ment would be not only
justifiable, but necessary,
to make it work. Such per
sons are called all kinds
of names, being referred
to as Reds and Communist,
sympathizers and from
those characterizations on
down to that of nut or
crackpot. Almost always
their critics feel that these
people are unpatriotic.
Compared to the names
they get, the characteriz
ati o n . “isolationist,” is
very tame.
should have kept quiet ex
cept for what little noise
would have been made by
his hanging up his glovs.
Walcott got a late start
as a top - ranking fighter,
but he did very well, fin
ancially and otherwise,
for the time he was at the
top. He should have no
(regrets over an honorable
Retirement on the most,
logical of ail grounds,
superannuation.
benefit. Besides his cham
pioning of. direct labor
laws, he helped to draft
and push through Con
gress the Social Security
Act and low-rent housing
legislation.
Senator Wagner whs an
active officer of the N. A.
A. C, P., showing that his
'interests were not circum
scribed by race. A true
champion of the common
man, he retired from the
Seriate in 1349. He had
done a great work. His
name should be had in re
membrance. His type is*
not now in the ascendancy
H u the federal gOYcrameat.
“A Disrupting Factor, In Peace Efforts’'
■■ . **
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SECOND THOUGHTS teak
As commencement time rolls
around again, one almost in
evitably is reminded or the tre
mendous—almost incredible
progress that ha? been made in
the education of the American
Negro. This is true ijf one com
pares today with 50 years ago.
or 20. or even ten years past.
We do not have the mass of
statistics at hand with which
to document this statement, but
there is certainly no doubting
that it is a fact! TIME maga
zine. to cite one figure reported
in its recent feature article,
“The V. S. Negro, 1953,” that
the enrollment of Negroes in
colleges has increased 2,500 per
cent since 1930!
Older readers can readily re
call some pertinent facts, not
exact figures, which are equal
ly eloquent indices of progress:
Until about 1920 there were
not more than three or four
colleges for Negroes which did
not operate a high school de
partment. or academv. and the
enrollment in that department
SUBjUttlg tawas
'Gordon 8. Hancock's
BETWEEN
4 THE LINES
1. Mg”™ l
Tin: BETTER SOI i H
HEARD FROM
There are those who refuse
to sell the South short, in spite
of some distressing happenings
which from time to time mar
the pages of the south’s history.
There are some sordid incidents
which are best forgotten; but
all in all, She South of today
it; a big improvement on the
South of yesterday, just as the
South of tomorrow will be a
bigger improvement on the
South of today.
Great souls do not wait for
great happenings and events to
actually transpire, but can di
vine them and see them afar
The great entrepreneur is not
the one who follows others’ lead,
even as Henry Ford did in mass
but v, ho initiates and originates,
production of automobiles or as
Wooiwortii did when we saw
the advantage of making a pal
try profit on myriad sales. Ford
and Wool worth were economic,
statesmen and business prophets
who blessed thier generation
Booker T. Washington was
such an entrepreneur in race
relations. He inaugurated almost
every departure that, has pro
pelled the Negro race forward
these years since emancipation,
especially in those areas of
economic endeavors. Booker T.
Washington long ago raised the
question of whether the Negro
should seek other climes than
his native southland or wheth
er the Negro should let down
his bucket where he was.
It is true that millions
have sought their fortunes
in other regions than the
South and have been won
derfully rewarded. But the
Negroes who let down iheir
bucket at Washington’s be
hest have also been wooden
fully rewarded.
This writer happened to he
in Atlanta when the city was
yotiog the.other.day for mayor,
THE CAROLINE AN
usually exceeded by many
times the number of students
taking college courses.
Graduates Sos there high
school or academic deportments
bad no trouble in qualifying as
public school teachers
In 19.3! Negro holder.- of a
bona-fide master’s degree were
seldom mu with; a doctor of
philosophy, other than those
who had had the fierce con
ferred as an honor by one of
the Negro colleges, was a
rarity. (Yes. they conferred
honorary Pb. D’s, or some of
them did.)
The CRISIS magazine in
those da had no difficulty in
publishing pictures of the entire
graduating classes of practi
cally all the N.-gvo colleges, a.s
well as individual portraits of
al those the magazine could
contact with receiving any kind
of degree from "unite'' insti
tutions.
In 1920 many of the southern
states war- supporting no de
gree-granting institutions for
Negroes. Such state-support id
The incumbent had been elect
ed four times and was seeking
a fifth teiTii. H«: was opposed
by x candidate who dead-heated
him in his fourth candidacy.
Strangely enough, the incum
bent, Hiutsfield. has been in
variably inclined to be mayor
of ail the people, Negroes in
cluded. His opponent, Brown,
has been rather inclined to
string along with the Talmadge
line which is in essence anti-
Negro.
Since then last contest £»s
so close and the mayor’s mar
gin of victory wits a matter of
hundreds of votes, the South
had its eyes on Atlanta to see
if the ldictionary forces of Tab
madgism wculd prevail. Harts
ficld made no .denial of the fact
that he would welcome the sup
pot t of Negroes, while Brown
feigned an indifference to their
support.
Hartsfield swept the field ;yid
sent Brown down to a crush
ing defeat. Negro-phobism did
not pay off for Brown. An at
tempt at fairness and justice
paid off for Hartsfield.
and white Atlanta combined
their forces and returned to
office a statesman and repudiat
ed s politician who in f his late
day is -till trying to exploit,
race prejudice for political ends.
Blit the glory of the cur
rent Atlanta election stem
med about the election of
Dr. Rufus Clemen, renown
ed in ridden* of Atlanta Uni
versity, as the first Negro to
the Atlanta Board of Edu
cation. When Brown was
conceding the election of
Hartsfield ,he dwelt at
length on the evils of bloc
voting by which he claim
ed the Negroes so effective
ly used to effect his political
downfall.
Bui the fuller analysis c/ the
election returns showed that
not orty did President CUiarot
jT'
institution,? as there were were
large!} normal and industrial
schools. In some eases the nor
mal part might better have
been designated “sub-normal,
and tlie industrial training wit's
often a joke. ;
Commencement time, also al
ways reminds me of Ihe great
confidence our people have in
education as a means of fVn
proving tlie lot of their children
over their own. and of the great
acrii iv e s so many Negro
parents have made and are
■making every year to ttiel.p
their children achieve a higher
educational status than' they
themselves aehieved
These parents show up on
commencement -day. i hav
seen them every year for more
than twenty years. Their pride
and joy at ihe graduation of
their son or daughter from coi
lesie etc always touching and
umpiring. The graduates are
under a heavy moral obligation
to make something of them
selves, if only because of the
debt Mie.v owe their parents.
unseat a white man with a long
term on tin Board of Fduca
' lion, but that Dr. Clement s e
lection was due to an over
whelming support of whites.
Whereas Negroes supported Dr.
Clement to the number of more
than 9,000 votes, whites gave
him 13,000 votes which gave
him a greater total titan the
mayor received.
The point of tills column is
to show what a change is tak
ing place in the South. When
Atlanta votes out a white in
cumbent of many years and
votes in a Negro, we are in
very truth seeing strange tilings
' today.
Sentence
Sermons
DOING GOQjiJ
1. Ukre is but one cuoice a
man must make it tin. best for
him is to be had; he must love
and adore every good and per
fect tiung, and eschew and hate
t-.ie bad.
2. Mis Adamic nature, to op
posed to this, Jeans in an
-ite direction; carelessly he
drifts along, with little thought
and poor discretion.
3. Though a creature of sense,
and his own moral agent, he
seems unable to stand upright;
giving vent to every morbid
feeling as if God were entirely
out, of sight.
4. Just one jcourse is there for
his security . . it is the one his
infallible Savior left for him;
following it arc no signs of ad
verst?. and at its end no cause
for chagrin.
а, Man must learn by Christ's
noble example, this is, the one
and only course anything
tdse. though glittering an d
charming , only leads to final
remorse. *
б. Then will he delight in
practicing how much of good he
can crowd into each passing
day, and give no room to temp
tations that wouid lead his soul
astray,
7.- He will fellow the path of (
his blessed Savior who went
about doing good,, and give light f
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1953
~S FUAffsfff* AHEAD-
With Olive Adams
NET/ YORK < GLOBAL)
There is a saying in politics
that y.o'e.T, “If you can't beat,
'em, jom 'em,’’ Tnc. ■ have been
people, however, who have pa*
rapbrased that saying. They .
"If they wont let yon in i-.teiv,
buy she joint " These people
are members of minority groups
v. no oat i' i s'i’it i! nivi certain
privilegi.- other citizens enjoy.
Tor instance, it is said that cer
tain resorts and hotels that
discriminated against the Jew* I
L-h population, found one hue I
day that the lease bad been 1
taken ever by a mem her of |
that, group. The result was that I
tiiscrirnjnation in other resorts I
*■ J - lessr n-d ■
Ji ■ , j tj.,|.,j.nMn>d n. i>? in I
ioi k, Uaddy.. GTSce* rtiu- I
sci eoo. |. ■;/j, j-, j,-j pt.’bilflr - J
tlie swank Eldorado A n » f
rnw.fc cn Cent rai Park West.
Th. o- -wtfnt ),;>•, ere iled quite
a slit the elite, ixews
ctaud: in that section nave been
b'.ssiged with requests* tor hiv
g!o ia: ;papers, which were. Inc &
nx'.ly uiies io carry a full ac- I
count vi the sale. It would be
MitorestiniA m know what’s mi
ihctr ,1-indr. Perhaps they are
afraid ’bat seme morning they
might wake up and find them
selves living next door to a Ne
gro family. Or, r.aybe they tear
that one day they might be
asked to make room for Negro
tenants,
Prom .vhore we* sit. it looks
as though they tan Page? th-ir
fetuvs Tnere will be no rush foi
there apartment < Rentals run
a round .>3O tor room per m<»n}h,
and b-vddes. it is doubtful u
Dadd} Grace would discrimin
ate against the white tenants
Hr purchased the buildin; us
an investment, nothing more
Rut just the same, it’s' a good
feeling to know that a ?.< pro
can accumulate enough cold
hard cash to make such a pur
chase. In this connection. w<
are reminded that there have
been a number of choice pieces
of property for .-.ale around th>-
town that Negroes might have
bouglh. But when the time
they couldn't organize the capi
tal'
fn u State like New York,
which offers more freedom than
any other to minorities, there
is very little that stands in the
way of group progress. As far
ns Negroes are concerned. their
money could talk. Th*»y do h;"w
momw - more than ever be
fore. Perhaps as a whole, they
are not yet conscious of rerd es
tate investment as being an ef
fective weapon in the fight for
equality. The money is there,
ft simply must bo pooled and
put to work where it will do
the most good.
At any rat**, Daddy Grace
has broken the ice. This proves
we can branch out if we ant*
up with the Cash
Then, there's another tiling:
A young Negro woman recalled
lii it she entered the Eldorado
apartments on Central .Park
West cue day to visit an au
to the weary and downtrodden,
who many times ,iu misunder
stood.
H. His now lease on life will
reflect nobler way ••. rbove the
common order of living . .and
al! who contact such a iife. wi!*
know its secret is God . . and
Giving.
0. Christ's life then, will not
bo in v in; a ■ you and I catch
the vis-son that, doing good, here
on earth, ushers in that much
of heaven.
10. Then that part of th>'
I.,aid's Prayer 'T iy will be done
in earth, as if is in heaven,” will
begin to unfold in human hearts
like wholesome ingredients of
leaven
11. DOING GOOD" in our
world as we pass from day-to
day will wipe many sorrows: aiv!
tears away, and chords that
win; broken almost beyond re
pair, will again with sweeter
tone be heard upon the air.
12. Are you investing in this
Hank of "DOING GOOD”? and
are you offering the kindly i.u
coui v.gemcnt that you should??
. if ;.o, you are rich and
strong opposed to every
wrong, and adhere of God's
eternal Fatherhood.
Oo’sfAncTDon’ts
ppggg- —
■yroH-OHt WON'T
pfjjURX YA" WNAPOyA^;-^?;#'^,
H s©n‘t. Be l«tnpt«i, if you fr'eei You Have Had hnms-gh
!YO Is The Right An«w«r.” ____ _
sedate of hers on. a. civic com
muter, ihe door man had care
fully Quizzed her as to where
she was going, whom she want
ed to sec, and meticulously
“screened" her before allowing
her admittance. <•
The doorman will have to be
careful now. The person he at*
ternpu to '(.mm" m,?bt turn
out to be his buss.
TEACHERS, those c. .’.attires
who r.nvor get fa tinned and who
irou t utt end more con-munitv
meetings than are exacted of
other eftiyons, of course must
d,cnd " local political meet
us,;:.." if they do not attend,
they are accused of not being
interested in the community;
they- arc- accused of "not carry
ing the school to the commu
nity."
■Curious’ v f ,:■ ji. however,
teacher,:; -nr not expected to
have very much to ray it these
meetings they arc so urged to
a Until. Apparently it is thought
that their wry- pr senile gives
a certain amount of dignity to
the meet in; •> via- , in many
instances arc void of such. In
'll to many ca.-es all evidences
; “in tu indicate that the teach
ers are not wanted at the poli
tical meetings because of their
training and therefore, the
guiding influence they could
give to such meetings. No, not
that, it appeorr: that all that is
desired of teacher.-- at political
meetings is simply “to sit
there,”
And. if they sa\ anything,
they must ! <sir-.,-ree with
urn one 01 anythin;; said, not
w, !i “the. least m the meeting."
Or. : i other void--, they- must
agree a ith everything and e*
verybody if tp t .ir':. r,.; dare
to have independent thought
»«d ideas, they are reminded,
and the reminder may be. a
rather rude perron, to say the
least. that they arc the "ser
' -’ini.-" of the public, that is,
the public pays hr; salary. And,
of course, if they disagree too
k i iousiy v. it i tiu “Big Shots’*
•u the meet it:-: they 11 he teach
er:) arc reminded that their
positions arc very “vulnerable.”
Despite all of the foregoing
there :iithose who still won
der why t ache:-, do nut attend
mote civic and political meet
ings than they do. But it is my
considered opinion that it is
such thinv.s as mentioned above
that force a large number of
leadwis npain.-i their will and
desire to follow local civic and
politic;)! meet ings like Peter
followed Christ. • ... far off.” Y-.u
sec it is :so very difficult for
tlie general public to realize
that all people get their livings
ft "'a the public, that down to
the fi>-al anal):!- whether an
individual. “Mr Join Q. pub
lic" pays the bill eventually.
People who are conducting
private busin- . on a profit
making ■basis or people who
farm, or e\cn those who • baby
it", ; J their livings from til 1 ';
Phbhc. Until t ie general pub
lic takes such attitude as ex
pressed above, it will of a tie*
(■<• ,-ity deny itself the presence
of their teachers at their civic
nid political meetings. The pub
lic must learn to look at their
teachers as they look at other
decent people and it must also
permit its teachers to have in
dependent thought and ideas
in public, ami express tJi‘ r >,
just as it does other people.
Let’s coast* art once, denying
ourselves of the very valuable
asset that our teachers would
bo to us ut our local civic and