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THE SHAME OF TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
Loyal American citizens who want to see
their country resjjected by other nations
throughout the world should take no com
fort in the fact that a newspaperman has
had to flee a town in Mississippi for no oth
er reason than that he is a “Yankee.” For
When any part of this nation becomes unsafe
for even the humblest citizen no part of it is
safe for any of us,
Tupelo, Mississippi has really done a most
dastardly and shameful act to the country
of which it is a part. No Communist or Fas
cist group can do more to defeat the Demo
cratic way of life than this little town of 15,-
000 population that has aflowed a bunch of
hoodlums to defy its law and order and take
frorri a fellow citizen his God given and con
stitutional right to live and work in any part
of this country he pleases.
The statement issued by Mayor G. F. May
nard of that city in which he states that “It
has mystified all of us ... It is not typical of
our community and we don’t stand for that
sort of prejudice,” is indeed enlightening in
that it shows just how stupid some of our
southern white folks in high places can be.
Certainly the Mayor of Tupelo did not think
that when he stood by and saw his city
saturated and reeking with prejudice against
Negroes that it would not someday break
out against a defenseless person or persons
of his own group. Is he so stupid that he does
not know that perpetrators of prejudice first
strike at the weakest, then the weaker and
finally the strong?
Whether Mayor Maynard knows it or not,
even he is no longer safe in Tupelo unless
he is willing to abide by the laws of the
bunch of gangsters who ran Newell Ander
son from this hate infested city. We dare
liim to speak out against the inferior schools
for Negroes in Tupelo, inferior housing, low
wages, the sharecropper system of his coun
ty, police brutality and the many other
wrongs which Negroes suffer in Mississippi.
(The same hoodlums that took the law in
their own hands in Tupelo will do it again
and run Mayor Maynard out of the city.
Finally who knows but what the Mayor
was not a party to the act or at least stood
by and saw it done. The suspicion points
directly to the law enforcement agency of
Tupelo which like most small cities and
towns gets its orders from the Mayor’s office.
Until that law enforcement agency brings to
justice those responsible for the vile act com
mitted in Tupelo, the Mayor and other city
officials cannot stand before the bar of pub
lic opinion with clean hands.
Mayor Maynard will be sent a marked
copy of the above editorial.
THE MACK INGRAM USE A BLESSING
IN DISGUISE
The six-month suspended sentence, to
gether with the five years on probation, im-
[Hjsed on Mack Ingram for looking at a white
woman 75 feet away in the Caswell County
case, is apparently causing much embarrass
ment among the element of fairminded white
people in North Carolina who desires to see
justice administered without regard to race,
creed or color. Whatever the final outcome.
it is not hard to recognize the good that has
resulted in exposing just what the average
Negro is up against when he stands before
some of the courts in this State, even on the
most frivolous charge involving a white wo
man. The sentence is probably a blessing in
disguise.
There appears to be much evidence that
ed and another segment of whites and Ne
groes all over the country who feel that to
imprison a man for two years for merely
looking at a white woman is not only ridicu-
• lous but a little more than they can swallow.
We think, however, that when a court of
justice attempts to placate and appease, even
to the slightest degree, it becomes a thing
pT^mockery and is sFckening to behold. It
plays its greatest role when it hews to the
line and lets the chips fall where they may.
The five years probation handed Ingram
may turn out in the end to be a more ter
rible punishment than the original two-year
sentence he received in the Recorder’s Court.
It is not hard to imagine just how miserable
the Court attempted
white people of Caswell County who with
usual custom had so wantonly railroaded the
Negro sharecropper to prison and left his
wife and nine children without any visible
means of support. For when a southern jur
ist refuses to apply the full penalty of the
law against a Negro who has been convicted
of even a semblance an assault on a white
woman, you may rest assured that he be
lieves that Negro to be innocent beyond even
the shadow of a doubt.
By imposing a suspended sentence on In
gram and placing him on five years proba
tion, the court apparently was hoping to per
form the miracle of satisfying the whites of
Caswell County who want Ingram imprison-
a condition in the South among antagonistic
whites. Every moment of that five years
he is in danger of being arrested and slapped
in jail on the least provocation. That is prob
ably what the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People had in mind
when its lawyers defending Ingram gave
notice of appeal. Ingram’s life, freedom and
support of his family will probably be safer
outside the confines of Caswell County.
Whatever happens from now on until the
case has been settled to the satisfaction of
those who want to see justice prevail, the
Yanceyville case takes on more and more of
an international aspect with the courts of
North Carohna being weighed in the bal
ances while the eyes of the world look on.
"While The United Nations Debates"
Bellson and Miss Bailey have, respectively.
The most of our white folks who tear their
hair about interracial marriages are only
concerned about marriages of 'Negroes and
whites or the white and Indian marriage of
Captain John Rolfe and Pocohantas would
not be held up before the eyes of their chil
dren in poetry and prose as one of the fam
ous courtships of American history.
Any father or mother ought to know -that
the best way to encourage the marriage of a
son or daughter to a person they do not ap
prove is for them to attempt to discourage
it. All of the old man’s talk about disowning
his son is stupid. Its about like disowning
your leg after it has been cut off. The stump
is always there to remind you and the pub
lic that you once had a leg. Young Bellson
will probably be better off if he is disowned
or cut off financially by his father. He at
least will have the opportunity to make his
own way in the world—a thing that most
parents with a little of the world’s goods will
not permil their children to do.
We commend Bellson Jr., and Miss Bailey
for having the self-respect to climax their
courtship with marriage. God willing their
children will at least be able to respect their
father who was not low enough to beget
childrfen in secrecy that he would not own
in public.
“They found the man sit
ting at the feet of Jesus
clothed in his right mind.”
Lafco g;»5.
Spiritual Insiglil
“ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT”
By Reverend Harold Roland
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
cause us humans to be arrested Let us take some graphic ex
amples ^of stunted personality
growth. Here is a so-called man
WITHIN And
AMONG
Alfred F. Andersen
For centuries the IndiaiTiJep-
ple had been building within.
Oppressed by native and fore
ign rulers, denied the most
common sense - satisfactions
(three square meals, adequate
protection from the weather,
and general healthy feeling)
they sought ’ satisfaction and
compensation in their own
souls. And to a large extent
they found- what they sought.
Through meditation and spir
itual depth they developed
capacity for withstanding the
most extreme physical hard
ship. We all know the stories
of professionals demonstrating
this capacity by lying in a bed
of nails or remaining for long
periods in grotesque positions.
But we need to b^ reminded
that the Indian people have
made the withstanding or phy
sical hardship a part of their
cultural training. So inevitable
did poverty and misery seem
to them that the highest cul
tural goal among them was to
rise above (physical) circum
stances as individuals; and as
an example that other indi
viduals might follow.
But the time had to come
when their souls told them
that they had now suffered
enough, that they were now
individually deeply enough
rooted within ... that the time
had come to develop thii lamf;
spiritual resource among. And
out of this spiritual groping
emerged Gandhi . . . symbol,
leader, savior.
One of the tragedies of the
times is to see so many immature,
childish people in a grown up
world. This is a sign of sunt-
ed or arrested development.
Men do become stunted in
in their physical, mental, moral,
emotional and spiritual growth
and development. Many are phy
sically grown but childish in
other areas. Many things may
in development: fear, anxiety,
cruelty, hate, rejection or above
all a lack of love.
It takes a certain soil or at
mosphere to make a real man.
The scripture gives the embodi
ment of “THE UNCLEAN SPIR
IT” as the cause of the arrested
development of the man in Luke
the eighth chapter. It is an un
deniable scientific and religious
truth that the wrong spirit causes
us-to be stunted in growth and
development.
IN^TON AN0
SMALL BUSINESS
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES
Certain areas of this country appear dis
tressingly disturbed over the announcement
of the approaching marriage of a Negro jazz
singer. Pearl Bailey and Louis Bellson, Jr., a
white drummer in Duke Ellington’s band.
What should disturb all of us is when people
of opposite races are forced to carry on illicit
love affairs because asinine customs and laws
in some sections of this country and the
world will not permit honest love affairs be
tween persons of certain races.
Every Negro in America whose skin is
not black is a hving testimony to the fact
tluit interraciiil love affairs, or should we
r.iv MX affairs, ha\'e been going on ever
since the first crazed white man combed a
helpless black woman in the bottom of a
slave ship on its way to America to sell its
human cargo for th^ highest dollar.
The only time some folks become disturbed
is when persons of the white and Negro races
iiave decency enough to culminate their love
affairs with the respectable institution of
marriage. So long as the Negro is willing to
be the receptacle into which half white off
springs, begotten in illicit love affairs, are
dumped, no howl is heard from across the
railroad track.
The business of marriage is, of all things,
a personal affair and not even parents should
interfere, especially when the two principals
liave reached the ages of 28 and 34, as young
In Washington bureaus the in
terest is not in the presidential
election, but rather in the many
Congressional contests.
* * *
There was more interest In the
nominating: conventions than the
election because there was »
chance that the entire situation
would be
changed by
one, or both
conventions.
* « *
Bureaucrats
who draw their
salaries be>;
cause of for
eign aid pro*
gxams, were]
afraid that one,
or both conven- C. W. Hard«r
tions niiglit follow the recom
mendations of Herbert Hoover.
♦ ♦ ♦
Now the feeling is both tick
ets are headed by men commit*
ted to iRtcrnationalists.
« « «
European leaders also feel
cuntidcnt, U.. S. observers who
attended the World Bank and
Intei’nalional Monetary Confer
ences in Mexico City, report
}ikiropoan delegates were quite
open ab:jut the new plan they
e.\pect to be approved by the
White Huu&e around March, re
gardless of who is living in it.
« « *
This new plan makes even past
and present multi-billion dollar
plans look like small change.
# * *
Huge European industrial
monopolies no. longer want so
many U. S. tax dollars poured
directly into .their countries in
the foi'in of goods. With U. S.
billions, tlioy have hit. all time
record production themselves.
♦ . *
The new plau calls for Ameri
can billions to Latin America,
Asia, oliier uon-Europeau na
tions, to buy goods with,
* * *
Here is the pay-oft for Europe.
Instead of U. S. mads goods,
these areas are to receive U. S.
© Nitfonal Fed.-mtion (if rndppenient BuUneii
By C. WILSON HARDER
cash so that they can buy from
Europe as well as the U. S.
* * f
Everybody wfais but Uncle Sam.
« * *
AstoYiishing as it seems, this
plan is already in effect to some
degree. The MSA is now letting
nations receiving U. S. aid buy
from other sources.
• * *
For example, MSA Bulletin
No. 158 umounces on that day
another fS,694,000 was given
•way. |2 million of the total was
for petroleum products for the
United Kingdom from Latin
American and British Trinidad,
Canada, Germany, Japan, and
France, shared in the truck and
rubber shipments made to Yugo
slavia, and China, accounting
for another |Z million.
« * ^
This plan which European mon
opolies feel confident will be
approved also provides for
world-wide price fixing with the
U. S. supporting prices.
* .
Washington also expects that
to carry out this plan, new con
trols and new taxes will be im
posed on the nation’s small busi
ness and middle class.
♦ • *
Washington now thinls this
world-wide gravy train wiU be
•derailed only by two events. The
first will be the election to Cong
ress of men opposed to U. S.
giveaway programs.
. 4^
The second event will be an
organized, aggressive public
opinion to support the views of
those Congressmen. This public
support will be needed to bolster
tiie stand of these rebelling
Congressmen as they will be
targets of a heavily financed
propaganda barrage. Therefore,
Washington bureaucrats are
painfully sensitive to the reac
tions today In small towns, as
they feel the Issue could be de
cided there. Sentiment in the big
cities can be controlled, they be
lieve.
wno wants orr atid 'leaves his
wife and children. A normal,
real man does not act this way.
Here is a mother who is down
right brutal to an unwanted
child. She wanted a boy and
God gave her a girl. Here is a
father who worships one child
and openly mistreats another
—all blood of his blood and bone
of his bone.
A mature man does not act this
way. An irresponsible mother
walks off and leaves her chil
dren. A teacher holds a grudge
against a child in her class.
These are some cases of what we
mean by arrested development.
Normal grown-up people don’t
act in these ways.
Our deep feelings or emotions
cause us to become arrested in
our development. What are some
feelings we need to watch?
There are two deep and primary
feelings that are a part of our
God-given nature; LOVE AND
HATE. Love builds up! Hate
tears downi One makes for
happiness and the other leads to
unhappiness. Hate blocks and
warps the normal growth of the
human personality with its beau
ties and powers. The shocking
result is arrested development.
Mothers, teachers and preachers
need to ponder this great truth.
We are reminded of the every
day wisdom and common sense
of a great truth of the Gospel:
CULTIVATE LOVE AND SHUN
HATE.
Every human being needs to
become aware of the wisdom of
human and divine love. Hate
stands ready to push mankind off
into the dark abyss of ruin. Love
beckons us to'follow the path of
health, happiness and peace.
Which shall we follow? The hour
is late. We must.decide. It takes
the love of God and man to make
;a man. Leave love out and you
don't have a man—you have a
gave his son. This love revealed
gove his son. This love revealed
in the Son of God can heal and
save a world.
As symbol Gandhi represent
ed a people who had made a
choice, the choice to become
once again a people, a social
organism; praying together,
working together, growing to-
.gather: in deevloping appro
priately their own uniqueness
as a people. It is the step from
individual mysticism to group
mysticism, from individual
salvation to group salvation.
As leader, Gandhi led witb
sacrifice. He gained his place
of first in importance by be
ing last in comfort and con-
veiiience. He led by taking the
first steps forward into con
flict situations, showing con
stantly his willingness to suf
fer not only the consequences
of Indian cowardice but also
of British aggressiveness and
stuffiness. He led with his
soul . . . and kindred souls
took heart!
As savior, Gandhi showed
that the salvation of that
sarredness within rnnslatfri in
putting it to work among. He
was an advocate of individual
communion with God, of
meditation and soul growth in
the mystic tradition. But he
saw that the mystical souls
need one another, that united
they rise while isolated they
stew in their own juice. Un
der his leadership the tradi
tional asHfam gradually be-
came transformed. Whereas
the ashram had been a refuge
for the individual soul seeking
Union with God only, they
are increasingly becoming the
training centers for the Con
structive Program.
In the modern ashram the
endeavor is to work with God
and the spirtiuality in one
another in helping the villages
of India build this same spir
ituality into their everyday
lives . ,, their economics, their
politics, their education. All
this is called the Constructive
Program in contrast to the
program of non-violent re
sistance (to insensitive and
and unjust rule) by which In
dia gained her political free
dom.
As Gandhi saw “Indepen
dence Day” approaching (ye
progressively implemented, for
all practical purposes, even
under England’s nominal rule)
his energy was increasingly
channeled in this direction.
He saw the danger of falling
prey to the kind of rule which
followed the French, the Rus
sian, and (as we have in
dicated) here) even the Amer
ican Revolution. The Indian
Revolution extended over cen
turies. In addition, the Con
gress Party had been operating
(often illegally) for decades.
India didn’t get her entire in
dependence on the official day;
it was merely acknowledged
then. But it was a day to pre
pare for. And the Constructive
Program was Gandhi’s answer
to this need and to the need for
a program for a young nation
to grow one.
The Constructive Program,
says Wilfred Wellock in his
GANDHI AS A SOCIAL RE
VOLUTIONARY,” includes ac
ceptance of communal unity;
the removal of nntouchabillty;
prohibition, sanitation, eco
nomic equality, freedom of
thought and speech, training
in and development of home
and village crafts and indus
tries; village cooperation In
every sphere of life, economic
and artistic; village politics,
the unification of economic
need and spiritual principles,”
But these and all words are
so inadequate to express the
dynamics which is bubbling
out of the centuries-gathered
spiritual resources of the In
dian people. Perhaps the near
est we can come to appreciat
ing this spiritual dynamics in
this column is to present an
account of what might be con
structive Program, its dynamic
in fact! I refer to the previous
ly mentioned Basic Education
program developed simulta
neously with the Constructive
Program. It is in Basic Educa-
cation that Gandhi incorporat
ed the essence of his principle
of new-violent revolution. And
it is lu a closer look at Basic
Education that we shall turn
next week.
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Nominations
Opened For
Teacher, 1953
Orangeburg — Doctor J. Irv
ing E. Scott, Editor, The Negro
Educational Review, has an
nounced that the journal is now
ready to accept nominations for
the Classroom Teacher of (he
Year for 19.'53.
This project which was
launched in 1951 by the journal
has met with Increased interest
since its beginning. In 19151, Mrs.
Ruth L. Douglas of Shreveport,
Louisiana, was selected as the
Teacher of the Year. Among the
awards received by Mrs. Douglas
was a trip to Havana, Cuba. In
1952, Miss Lynnie R. Smith of
Washington, D. C., received the
honor and she selected to go to
Trinidad, British West Indies, as
one of her many awards. Both
winners have been unusually
high in their praise for the ac
tivities of the journal and the
opportunity for participating in
such a venture.
The rules and regulations gov
erning* nominations are simple
and make it pQSsibe for any
teacher who is doing outstanding
work in her school and com
munity to be selected.
The selection is confined to
public school teachers who must
have at least three years of
teaching experience at the be
ginning of the school year for
which they are nominated. Any
individual, a fellow-worker, pa
tron or student, may nominate a
candidate. The only requirement
is that there should be a short
statement of about one hundred
words giving the reasons for the
nomination. These reasons are
expected to show the teaciier’s
outstanding work.
There are several awards that
are given to the individual se
lected each year. Announcement
of the selection will be made la
May 1953.
For further information write;
Classroom Teacher of tlie
Year,—The Negro Educational
Review, — Box H, State A- and
M. College, Orangeburg, Soutb
Carolina.
North Carolina
Rural Youth In
$6,000. Contest
Amherest, Mass. — A North
Carolina boy or girl may be the
nation’s 1952 national junior
vegetable growing champion and
win the top share in a $6,000
scholarship fund.
Officials at National Juniof
Vegetable Growers Association
Headquarters in Amherst, Mass.,
announced today that 162 of th«
state’s farm youth are enrolled
in the 'organization’s 1952 pro
duction-marketing contest.
Entrants in the 46-state com-
petion for boys and girls aged
12-21, vie for a $500 national
championship, four $200 region
al wards and a number of sec
tional and state awards. The
fund is provided by A & P Food
Stores as part of its program of
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