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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY. DECEMBER I*. 1964
Editorial Viewpoint
Who is It that does know not the "golden rule
or the universal moral law? The observance of
this law makes all men brothers, and It is the
panacea for freedom and human dignity The
Churchman, an Episcopal magazine, says there
is. Christianity—" All things whatsoever that ye
would that men should do to you, do ye so to
them; for this is the law and the prophets.” Islam
Humphrey: “Root Out Os Dry Ground”
If one reads the prophecy of the coming of
the Savior of the world, he will be thrilled by
the phases: “and He shall be a Comforter, a
nod of Jeaaie, a Balm in Gilead, and a Root out
•f Dryground, etc." From these words, we get
the impression that the Savior of the world
Will aid individuals in standing up straight un
©n their feet and accepting Ood as their Father
If Ood is our Father, then we are His children
and the commoner is as precious as the king.
This will make us all brothers, free and equal
politically and spiritually, as well as give each
person a sense of personal worth and integrity
each person having certain rights and privi-
President Johnson has made it clear that he
intends for Vice-President Hubert Humphrey
to have an important part and role to play in
the next administration. The job that Mr. John
son has given Mr. Humphrey is "nothing less
than the full assimilation of more than 20 mil
lion Negroes into American life ” This is a
inpn-sizrd job for the new Vice-President, but
tS' Minnesotoan’s super energy and resourer
fulness will label him "the Root out of Diy
Qround" destined to coordinate our varied ad
ministrative programs in such away as to
make them first-class citizens as guaranteed by
law Mississippi to the contrary notwith
standing.
The "Root out of Dry Ground” has high a
bility to persuade other* to his viewpoint, and
this will be a tremendous asset. Also, the high
rhgard in which Humr»hrev «- h»M h».» h<» I-"—-
er colleagues in the Senate will almost guaran
tee him the imperative legislation to carry nut
his plans, and to obtain appropriations suffici
tnt to make his work effective.
Is It The Same Mississippi Image?
The dismissal of preliminary charges against
the 21 men charged in connection with the
■laying of three civil rights workers last sum
mer has evoked considerable outrage and in
comprehensibility from the people of the world.
Moat disappointed in the case are members of
the Negro race, living in the South.
Os the twenty-one men arrested and later
released on bond. 19. are charged with con
spiracy to interfere with the federal rights of
the slain trio, one of which was a Negro The
other two were charged as accessories after the
fact. Only the State can file a murder charge.
Mississippi has made no move to do so.
The dismissal of the men by U. S. Commis
sioner Esther Carter, a ruling totally without
legal precedent, now leaves two courses of ac
tion:
1. The Justice Department can take the
charges directly to a grand jury where, again,
Mlasissippians will be asked to discard their
fears and perform their duty.
2. Charges of murder can still be filed by
Mississippi whenever it decides its legal re
sponsibility.
The Commissioner at Meridian stated th.it
the dismissal was not adjudication of guilt or
Innocence. It was a technical point of law An
FBI agent testified that he had a signed con
fession from one of the defendants The magis
trate declined to receive the document in evi
dence on the legal ground that the man who
allegedly confessed was not available to testi'y
in person as to the truth. Although under ar
rest. this man was not in court.
To allay our fears of miscarriage of justice,
legal minds tell us that this action is no more
No Tax Loopholes For Workingmen
Health is a laborer’s or working man's ma
chinery and. like any machinery it depreciates
with age and use. When his machinery. breaks
down, the workingman gets no depreciation tax
allowanc -s.
'•‘he laborers pay for repairs the b-«»
ran. from whatever savings they might have
salvaged from their heavily taxed income.
Workingmen's equipment, their health, de
mand extTa expenses to stimulate its efforts,
yet the government allows them no tax-free
expense account to encournge this stimulation
Workers are not included among the privi
leged class who rnioy tax loopholes that the
Senate Finance Committee refuses to plug
If laborers are sometimes forced to work at
two jobs or to work overtime in order to sun
Our Drinkers Spend By The Millions
For six years or more in a row. we have not
ed the American public is paying more and
more for its Scotch and other whiskies.
In 1963. there were 158.9 million gallons
501d—1.39 gallons for every person whether
he drinks or not For youths 19 years and over,
the ratio was 2.25 gallons for each individual
For some reason. California pushed out in
front to cam the title: "The State with the
Highest Liquor Consumption." It had been led
by New York since the days of prohibition.
Next in order were Illinois. New Jersey. Flori
da and Massachusetts.
The highest per capita consumption was
7HE NEGRO PRESS — beheeea that Arr~ricm can bmt had the worU
away from racial and national antagonism* when it accords to arary man
regardless of race color or creed hit human and legal rights Hating no man
fearing no man—the Negro Preea strives to help every man on the firm be
lief that all man are h-jrt aa long a* any one in held back.
WORDS OF WORSHIP
—"No one la a believer until he deairea for his
brother that which he desires for himself." Hnn
dubim—“This Is the sum of duty: Do not unto
others that which would cause you pain If done
to you." Judaism—" What Is hateful to you. do not
to your fellow man. That Is the entire law; all the
rest Is commentary " Buddhism “Hurt not others
in ways that yourself wou'd find hurtful.”
The Johnson-Humphrey administration has
the strong support of Negro leaders and citi
zens, to wit: Whitney Young of the National
Urban League; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP,
fraternal and civic organizations, educational
associations.
Through coordination of government agen
cies, Humphrey can reduce wasteful duplica
tion, eliminate crossed lines of responsibilities
and authority which could very easily reduce
the sdministrative efforts to shambles. These
organizations include: the Justice Depart
ment’s civil rights division, the Civil Rights
Commission, the President’s Committee on
Equal Opportunity in Housing, the Commun
ity Relations Service, and the President’s
Equal Employment Opportunity Committee
in Employment.
If we hold that Humphrey is “the Root out
of Dry Ground", we believe he will wage a vig
orus fight against such obstacles as bigotrv,
ignorance, and superstitufion.
There will remain pockets of hardshell resis
tance to the idea of equal citizenship for all
for a long time to come, and their actions may
flood oceans of water over the ground of pro
gress. But Humphrey has the "root” to turn
the wetness into the dry sunlight of freedom.
He will he encouraged by the increasing sup
port of the nation’s citizens who want to march
forward and keep pace with our scientific ad
vancement in the nuclear field. When this be
comes a reality, the residual areas of prejudice
and backwardness will shrivel and wither away
We like to believe that in place of this with
ered weed of bigotry will grow (from the dry
root) the plant of freedom and justice whose
blossoms will fill the air with democratic odor.
the end of the matter than the filing of charges
was proof of guilt. Evidence can now be pre
sented to a grand jury. If it is deemed suffici
ent. indictments will be returned on which tri
als can be held. Knowing Mississippi’s reputa
tion, we have our doubts that much will be
done.
The federal government cannot bring mur
der charges in this case. Grave, then, is the re
sponsibility of the State of Mississippi. Will
they allow these alleged murderers to go free
in spite of the fact that the FBI has obtained
a written confession. If so. Mississippi will be
perpetrating an "awful” crime. They will also
misuse the hypothesis of states’ rights they so
strongly defend.
Those who have read Professor James
Smith's works will infer from a failure to pun
ish such lawlessness that leaders are afraid and
terriorired by what is known as “the closed
society.”
We have no solution to this state of affairs in
Mississippi, but it has been suggested by The
St. Petersburg Time s. Fla., that the nation can
"show its distaste by imposing upon Mississip
pi the greatest demonstration of ostracism ever
directed toward a state in the union.”
In conclusion, we wouldn’t like to take the
attidude of one of the Hebrew prophets who
felt that he was the only one left who worship
ped Jehovah. But. at once. God spoke to the
prophet saying that there were thousands who
had nevrr bowed to Baal. We cannot help but
believe that we have at least one Mississippi
white man of personal integrity who is willing
to stand up for right and justice without fear
and trembling.
plrment their take-home pay. they don’t get
and expansion wirte-off. Instead, they pay a
heavier tax on their enlarged income, while
their machinery is breaking down from the ov
erload.
It is a fact that the largest percentage of the
nation’s income is collected from low-income
taxpayers. And yet it seems that workingmen
don’t have the organisation know-how to seek
legislative relief for the poor working clast.
Depreciation of one’s physical body is just
as important as depreciation on industrial ma
chinery and repairs, if not more. It makes us
wonder often if our government is taking the
proper interest in the welfare of the worker, or
is it directed by the whims of legislative com
mittees and party politics.
found in the District of Columbia, at 6.63 gal
lons. If we take into consideration “gallonage"
sales in the city of Washington, it included
those of adjoining areas and transients but
there is no doubt that the political cocktail cir
cuit increased capitol drinking far above the
national average.
Highest state per capita drinking was found
in Nevada at 4.02 gallons: lowest. Arkansas at
0 6M gallons and Alabama at 070
People in different walks of life have the op
portunity to draw their own conclusions from
these statistics. You have the chance to make
your own. ,
Jnst For Fun
Kt MARI US R HOCLWARR
SOME SCHOOL TEACHER*
A Boston school teacher had
the privilege of spending the
week on a range near Ban An
tonio. Texas. She hized a ear
and driver to show her the city
and surrounding sites. The
driver took the teacher out to
the Alamo and described how a
small group of gallant Texans
fought to the death agaiut
great odds. Then he got carried
away and started some rural
oratory.
Finally the school teacher
managed to get a word in. T
come from Boston.” she an
nounced, "and our history is al
so replete with many berozs.
I'm sure you’ve heard of Paul
Revere. He—”
The driver Interrupted. “Paul
Revere, ma'am?” he scoffed.
"You mean the guy who nad to
ride for helo?”
ARE WOMEN TALKERB?
You and I have always heard
that women are great talkers
and that you can’t get in a
word edgewise. I don’t know a
bout that reputation.
The story goes, and it is true
too, that one of the professors
of foreign language at Florid*
ONLY IN AMERICA
BY HARRY GOLDEN
CLUB FOR THE UNDISTIN
GUISHED
Mensa Is a fraternity whose
membership Is culled only from
the top 2 percent of the world's
Intelligent people. The qualify
ing IQ score Is 184 although
membership dues, testing fees,
and pin probably cost no more
than $lB.
Mensa comes from the Latin
word "table.” And Indeed It Is
a table about which the mem
bership sits. I never thought I'd
live to see It a Round Tab>
of geniuses. The club sponsors
such activities as a literary
magazine, gourmet clubs, and
European vacations.
In fact, the president of
Mensa. a British Inventor with
the Improbable name Victor V.
SerebriakoXf, recently graced
American shores otj/ a recruit -
ing drive. Before World War n.
Mr. Seretriakoff was running a
lii.n.ium‘ iii ft factory ih“ Ar
my discovered his extraordinary
ability and his brain did the
rest.
One of Mensa’s purposes. Its
president explained. Is to res
cue the Intelligent who are lan
guishing amid the mediocre, the
wise who are withering from
lack of stimulation and—well,
for want of u better vert)—Jazz
them up. Why waste human re
sources? a phrase that gains
evermore In popularity. Mensa
I* on a crusade to rescue all
the unsung Miltons. The only
crltctam I have to offer of so
nob> and altruistic a program
Is that Menaa better beware
they do not rescue the unsung
Cromwells.
One thing about this organi
zation that recommends itself
about Mensa Is Its universal
democracy. It has almost 5.000
members In England and the
United States and chapters in
some 47 other countries. If you
are lucky enough to win mem
bership and learn the secret
signals of Its fraternal order,
News and Views
BY. J. B. HARKEN
KINO OrSTAV GREETS KINO
IN SWEDEN, tt was a great
day for the Colored Americans
last week when the Ruling Mon
arch —King Gustav Adolf—per
sonally congratulated America’s
‘man-of-the-hour,’ Dr. Martin
Luther King. Jr., of Alabama
fame—the modern Moses of tha
South and the model apostle of
the non-violent Civil Rights
movement, when he received the
19*4 edition of the "Nobel Peace
Prize.”
This was all the more signlgi
cant because just a week previ
ous. aging J. Edgar Hoover, the
renowned leader of the Federal
Bureau of Inventigation iTBli,
had become riled at the prod-
Letter To The
Editor
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
To The Editor:
At we enter into another
Christmas Season, may we open
our hearts with love and thanks
giving to a Savior, who has
spared us through the years and
blessed us with the abundant
life. Let us enter this season with
a true spirit of Christmas and
let us cast aside otd grievances
and misunderstandings and try
to do unto others as we would
have them do unto us
Let us be ever mindful that
all the worthy accomplishments
» we make are done through the
help of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and that without
His help we could do nothing.
Let us also be reminded that
there is still a multitude of suf
fering. turmoil and strife exist
ing throughout the world. May
our prayers be directed to this
end: that the Christmas spirit
may prevail in these far away
places.
And to all who are sick and
ch-t-tn: May you be blessed and
remembered at Christmas time.
May we be thankful for our
mothers and fathers and our
many friends, who have stood
by us through the year* May
we work toward the end that
peace and goodwill may come
to men everywhere. I would
like to take this opportunity to
wish you and yours a very
"Marry Christmas and a Happy
New Year -
Sincere ly.
WILBERT H SANDERS.
Raleigh. North Carolina
State University boarded •
plane to eee a visiting colleague
off. While waiting for the plane
to leave, they began an ener
getic conversation in a foreign
language.
Before he knew it, the pro
fessor who wasn’t going off
heard the plane's engines whirl
ing and the door closed.
It took some talking—ln Eng
lish this time —to get him off
the plane before it felt lor
Tampa.
THAT’S RIGHT!
Some people have no talent
for counting calorics—and they
have figures to prove it (I can’t
laugh, because if I don’t watch
out eating so much). Oh me!
GOOD ‘OLE’ CONSCIENCE
Oat in Wyoming, near Chev-
Out in Wyoming, near Chev
enee. officials at the local East
High School received a letter
recently. It contained a quarter
and a note that said 'a small
child): “I snook into the East-
Sldney (basketball) game Sat
urday night.
His conscience would not let
him rest, and now he feels
much better about the whole
thing.
you will hobnob with garage
mechanics and draftsmen, un
employed gentlemen and titled
royalty.
Anyone interested In such
fraternity can write American
Mensa Selection Agency, PO.
Box 86, Gravesend Station.
Brooklyn. 23. N. Y.
The existence of an organi
zation devoted to the top two
per cent suggests the bottom 2
per cent to organize, too. Oqe
suspects, however, that the bot
tom percentage might not get
off the ground. I think the
sister organization ought to be
composed of those of us wno
are undistinguished but lucky.
The mind positively gasps at
the possibility of a membership
roll that could run from Dwight
D. Eisenhower to Desi Amez to
the pinch hitters for the New
York Mets.
TV COMMERCIALS AND
KFTCWrP
I haven't joined in the game
of blasting TV comm n rck'.ls.
But a Heinz Ketchup ad Is Just
too much. The company adver
tises its product to the a worn -
palnment of that wonderful
hymn, "Land of Hope and Oio
ry." from "Pomp and Circum
stance." by Elgar.
When I hear Land of Hope
and Olory, I think only of Wiu
ston Churchill and Franklin D.
Roosevelt signing the Atlantic
Charter—wlhtout ketchup.
THE BLACK WATER
In the Lakeland, Fla., City
Hall there stood for many years
the two water fountains,
“white" and “colored." But the
water fountain for the "col
ored" was not refrigerated.
While the “white” water came
out fresh and cold, the water
reserved for the Negroes was
fist and hot.
A few months ago the Lake
land people took off the -segre
gation signs but they left the
two faucets, one cold, one hot,
relying on habit to help main
tain "white supremacy."
ding of Dr. King because of the
‘delayed action' of his men in
solving the notorious Civil
Rights murders and bombings,
especially in Ole 'Sippi. and had
Many have called for Hoover's
scalp (retirement) because of
called King a “notorious liar ”
the affront to the famed Negro
aader.
Dr King showed his magnani
mity by forthwith requesting
and using an Interview with the
top G-man to smooth out the
misunderstanding which was
fast hurting America's image
Prior to this Dr. King was re
ceived by Pope Paul VT ai the
Vatican, where the papal bless
ing was bestowed upon the Civil
Rights work of King
Sometime ago. Roy Wilkins of
NAACP was received by Pope
Paul. These two instances alone
should inspire Colored Ameri
cana to rally whole-heartedly
to ioinlng the NAACP. They
should now realize that they are
not in style if they do not have
membership in NAACP and
bring others into the fold. Its
reached the point now where we
must ask our Southern white
neighbors and friends to Join
NAACP Jus* like they ask us to
join Red Cross. T B Seals sales.
Cripple Children. Cancer Drives
and what-have-they.
Other
Eafiiiors iriiN
a
THE BLOODY CONGO
BT Eaaaaett J. Marshall. Sr.
Shall we weep for the dead
and dying In the Congo? If we
weep must our first tears be for
the eight or twelve million Con
go blacks who suffered and died
by the Belgian sword in the hu
mid jungles of the steamed tor
ture chambers of yeeteryeej' Let
us condemn, forthwith, this hor
rible waste of life on both sides
of the color line, this frightful
exhibition of hate based on me*
and color. Let us condemn it all
with a fervor that would match
the divine wrath of old. Let us
not say without examination
that this black hate and wrath
against our white brothers is in
nate m the .African breast For
sooth. what dees the history of
this forlorn land, the Congo.
t*U’
Sunply and concisely the his
tory of the Congo is one of tor
ture and blood. A picture was
drawn in the Congo of a avilis-
On Trial? A
Gordon B. Hancock’s
BETWEEN THE LINES
(For Associated Negro Press International)
CONGO-OVFR THERE AND OVER HERE
The civliizcd world has been made sick at heart
over the murder of missionaries in the African
Congo. The on'.y mitigating circumstances is that
the sickening atrocities were committed by sav
ages and semi-sag ages. In the Congo as In Ame
rica, the black man is a white men’s creation.
Over there the white man has long ruled Africa
and what is happening is just a glaring example
ot the white man's failure to measure his own
life and the life of the Africans by the Oolden
Rule.
Faithful and consecrated missionaries went in
to Africa in an honest and Christian attempt to
save the souls of the savage Africans. But they
were soon followed by the “Commercial mission
aries'' bent not on saving souls but laying hold on
the riches and wealth that this great continent
held in is bosom. Soon the greed and avarice of
the white man had begotten greed and avarice In
the African, and the wholesome mixture of fin
ancial greed and Christian motive have confused
the Africans. It is out of this confusion that the
horrors of the hour come. The wealth of Africa
being material, the concepts and ways thereof
became easier for the Africans to grasp than to
comprehend the ways of Jesus Christ. Over here,
after 2000 years of preaching. It is sad to have
to admit that we have not yet learned the lesson
that Jesus came to teach.
Our world was lost when Jesus arrived In Beth
lehem and our world Is still lost What has hap
pened and what Is now happening In our own
United States, is vivid proof that our world Is still
lost. When race prejudice and the love of the dol
lar take precedence over the things of the King
dom of God we are awakened to the saddening
fact that while the Congo in Africa is a sadden
ing and sickening thing, the Congo In Mississippi
is no less sickening and saddening. And the end is
not yet. Even our church and its ministry are go
ig slow on race prejudice. The heart of the nation
is being defiled and the venom of race hatred Is
being poured into the fountain of life, even of our
ALTAR CALL
BY EMORY G. DAVIS, D.D. (For Negro Press International)
A CHURCH WITH NO ALTAR
In St. Louis' sprawling low-income Prultt-Igoe
housing project there is a "church" without an
altar or a building, that operates from a small
apartment in one of the high-rise buildings.
From eight in the morning until midnight. fu*tr
ministers—an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, a
Baptist and a Methodist—conduct a parish min
istry to thousands of Negroes, under the sponsor
ship of the Bt. Louis Metropolitan Church Fed
eration. This ministry Is financed by the four de
nominations represented in the ministers.
What do they do? They report doiigt such
things as “driving an arthritic elder person to a
hospital: trying to convince teenage high school
dropouts to return to school; running errands for
disabled and elderly people.” and they plan to
hold worship service and Bible Msstons In rod
dents' apartments.
These ministers have “taken the Church off the
comer" Into a vast area of problems and real
needs. They are carrying out what I've often call
ed a "hortsontal ministry." one that does not con
cern Itself primarily and solelv with “pte-tn-the
sky" religion < vertical) but rather concerns itself
with the soup beans on the table of hungry. Im
poverished and culturally deprived children of
God right here on the Earth.
Their effort# have revel aed to them such
glowering problems as the inability to communi
cate with "aimless and often destructive teen
agers." They have seen "much stark poverty, is
olation from real life and loose morality." One
minister reports seeing “men who drink them
selves into an alcoholic stupor . . . women who
beat their children In animal fury."
Hopefully, all is not a dismal, unpromising pic
ture. They have met parents who work day and
night to put their children through college. They
have been able to convince some that there is a
real world outside the ghetto-project and that the
outside world is really not as hostile So them as
ed. white Christian nation. Bel
gium. doing the devil dance.
When the king of Belgium. Leo
pold. took over this section of
Africa the Congo blacks num
bered 30 million. This colony
was then and the country is now
immensely rich in copper, com
mercial diamonds. gold, rubber,
uranium and numerous other
raw materials badly needed and
outrightly coveted by the west
ern world. Dr. Dußou wrote
~ the Congo Dree state . . .
had an area of about nine hun
dred thousand square miles with
chi , dr o ri To thir fearful Ecv.'ins, sooner cr later
there must be a tearful harvest. . _
So we may weep and gnash the teeth at what is
happening in the Congo in Africa, let us not fall _ .
to weep over what Is happening to the Congo in
our own dear America. The Congo In Africa is
slaughtering its missionaries In a sickening man
ner. but what of the slaughter of missionaries in
Mississippi? Could anything be more atrocious
than to see three young men bent on mercy and
service to their less fortunate fellowmen, to lynch
them and hide their bodies? When the news came
that the 3 young Samaritans were written up as
missing, those of us who know the violent South
and Its ways and wiles were certain the men were
dead. The unsophisticated hoped that the young
men were somewhere alive, but most of us knew
better.
Even as we know that the arrested men charg-..
ed with slaying these three young men will never
be punished for the crime. The old vicious violent
South has away of its own. Out of the hundreds
of Negroes who have been lynched and done to
death individually and by the mobs, this writer
who was born in the South and lived and served
In the South, does not remember one Instance of
any white person ever being punished for the
lynching of a Negro. That is one of the “state
rights" for which the South’s representatives in
Congress and out-—fight so hard—the right s o
lynch, murder and malm Negroes without fear of
punishment.
What is going on in Mississippi today is Exhibit
Number One of how State Rights works. In
searching for the three missing young men who
were found murdered, rivers and creeks were
dragged and lakes and ponds were drained and
Just a little of this revealed that mutilated and
disembered bodies of Negroes were not hard to
find. Only God knows what much dragging of our •
rivers and creeks and the draining ot our lakes
and ponds would reveal! The Congo over there
and the Congo over here. God help the defenseless
Negroes. God help the bestial, brutish white man!
they may think. These ministers affirm "the lives
of many residents are a tribute to the human
spirit."
Several years ago I delivered a sermon, “Movs
The Church Off The Conrer." to a white Inter
denominational audience, with the idea in mind
that most church people are too complacent and
easily satisfied with the idea of going to church
—the church on the comer—and going on about
their business as though there were no problems
In the world around them. It is heartening to me
now. to know that In St. Louis, at least, the or
ganised church (the Church Federation) beg
moved the church off the corner and into the
world of great need.
Fur one year. I pastored a church on the edge
of Pruitt-Igoe project and I know full well the
problems and needs of the thousands ot Negrc
families stacked on top ot one another. Many of
them were willing and eager to do what they could
to foster the rogram ot the church, and. why not?
They are Just like any other people In their desires
and aspirations. My great regret then and now as
I read of what is being done is that my own de
nomination had no funds to contribute to move
the church into their problems and needs.
The Negro church needs to have a sense of
stewartshtp and mission. It needs to have a sense
of responsibility to its own people. It cannot, uni
der Its present financial structure and operation,
support wholly such project mliustertes as the one
In St Louis, but. It can direct its concerns pr.d
contribute something to such worthy and effect's*
mi nis ter! ea.
We need to move the church off the comer arid
Into the Uvea of those who are burdened wit/i
problems, overwhelmed with real needs and os
tracised from the mainstream of urban life. When
we do. we can leave "the Altar" where it is in
the church building. There's an Altar outside the
church upon which people, not animals are beuW
sacrificed, daily!
a population ot about thirty
million . . . The land was con
fiscated by the state add farmed
out to private Belgian corpora
tions . . . The natives were tax
ed with specific amounts of iv
ory and rubber, and scourged
and mutilated if they failed "
Harris, fa) ‘Dawn' in Arica'' de
clares that King Leopold's re
gime meant the death of twelve
million natives
In “Inside Africa* John Gun
ther says. “Leopold's rule cn
the Congo) was mercilessly ex
plosive . . . Belg.ans took the
land . . . natives were simpjj
pushed out into the bush . . . Uh
most heinous and ghastly a trot
■ties ever to accompany th* *
"development" of a prcnutm
area by a presumably civilized
power occurred. The appetite 'trt ;
Leopold's agents for rubber and •
ivory grew steadily more von
cious and insatiable. Afr.cas
worker* were made to fill qtg* ;
tas and if they failed to bray ;
in the required amount of nib- I
ber and ivory they were rnu'i- !
I»ted or shot. Competent author
—THE NEW CRUSADE*