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A THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955 distributed mimeographed leaflets asking And This SO-CALLED Prosperity Tell It To Old Tour name and address must be given on letter But uvon reauest. name vrill often be withheld at the Editor's discretion We reserve the right to shorten let Efje iitonf jgtrnitrn Sllwritetr FakHslMCI We Dm By THE MOtWOOMEHY ADVERTISKS BmabllaOad ISM Kntered tn Foe Of Iloe at kfontcomery. Aisu Bee Kid CIbm Matter Under Art of Conirau a i March 3. K. P.

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to 5 p.m. 4-4907 For other departments after 10:30 P.m. to 8:00 s.st. and all day Benaay. Hews Department Circulation 7748 Colored News Bureaa (all hoars) 3-368 Sports Department Some Observations On The Bus Boycott or tne Montgomery Bus boycott a number of tilings seem clear to The Advertiser It is a proud tradition of this old city In the bend of a yellow river that nowhere else in the country are the relations between 1 different breeds and creeds so easy, and benign.

To be sure there is some animosity and much that cannot be squared with the Christian ethic. But it is the minimum. Therefore is it rash to excite fears that become hostility. Strong measures beget strong measures. I The boycott makes an innocent sufferer of the bus company.

Had the com pany defied city and state laws, its franchise would have been canceled. The quarrel of the Negroes is with the law. a is wrong to noid the company a hostage. tj Segregation sentiment dominates Montgomery, and will for a long time to come. A Negro spokesman, the Rev.

M. L. King of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church, who apparently speaks with no little authority, said yesterday, "We are not asking an end to segregation We don't like the idea of Negroes having to stand when, there are vacant seats. We are demanding justice on that point." If the grievance is confined to that, then attention should be given to it promptly. Any other grievance should be fair ly heard.

Montgomery witnessed the dramatic event of the" boycott with admirable and typical coolness. It Is well. For pro tests of this kind are going to be a commonplace of our state and com munity existence for long time to come, ours being a time of evolution in oldtime custom and usage. The Law On Boycotts In General Learning that there was some ques tion of the "legality of the Negro boycott against the bus company, we checked the state law and found, to our astonishment, that the boycott might (Title 14, section 54) say3: Two or more persons who, without a just cause or legal excuse for so doing, enter into any combination, conspiracy, agreement, arrangement, or understanding for the purpose of hindering, delaying, or preventing any other persons, firms, corporations, or association of persons from carrying on any lawful business, shall fce guilty of a misdemeanor. This may be unconstitutional, as the subsequent section forbidding labor union picketing has been declared to be, but it is still on the books.

The phrase "without a just cause" might be the key to the constitutionality of the law. The Alabama Supreme Court would probably say that the perpetrators had no just cause since bus segregation Is the law of the state. The U.S. Supreme Courfg might hold otherwise. But In any event, it seems that If he section applies to Negro boycotters It would apply with equal force to some of the economic sanctions against Negroes contemplated and accomplished by White Citizens Councils.

It would to work both ways. A section following the above also might apply to the facts in the boycott Any person, firm, corporation or association of persons who prints or cir-; culates any notice of boycott, boy- cott cards, stickers, dodgers, or unfair lists, publishing or declaring that a boycott or banexists or has existed or 3s contemplated against any person, firm, corporation or association of persons doing a lawful business, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The perpetrators of the bus situation get the wrong size and have the happiness of exchanging it for him. Books are appropriate gifts for a man, provided you have some idea of his taste In literature. Don't give him a book because it is just out and a best seller.

In this way there is danger that you might give a mushy romance, on, say, chasing women in New York, when he scorns such stuff, vastly preferring something on hunting lions in Africa. As for children, to whom Christmas rightly belongs, we read that there Is a great Increase in do-it-yourself items. Boys will be able to clutter up the house with such projects as -linoleum-laying kits, girls will be called on to assemble doll furniture with glue. Unless they are a lot more talented than many of their elders, the aftermath of Christmas is destined to see things more of a wreck than ever. We make no suggestions about gifts for children, for the simple reason that it is so hard to tell what will fill the bill.

It is proverbial that children tire of toys quickly, and this is true in many cases. But often they will cling to and cherish a particular toy for an incredible time. Such a favored toy may be something modest, that did not Impress the adult giver, but turned out 'to pack more appeal than a more highly touted article. Ed. was raised to believe that, birds so to hell every Friday." But we went out under the sun and we saw, They can also go on Tuesday.

Matter Of Fact By Joseph And Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON. TN A matter of days, if present plans hold, Adlal Stevenson means to make a bold and aggressive move. The move will be a public announcement of definite plans for entering "four or five" primary contests, thus challenging all comers notably Sen. Estes Kefauver to mortal combat. Right now.

so the more cautious Stevenson advisers have argued, Steven son can count on more than 80 of the delegate votes needed for a first ballot win. Why should Stevenson risk this almost unchallengeable lead if he does not have to? The answer Is that he does have to, according to a second group of Steven son advisers, who have consistently counseled boldness. This group includes Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, Barry Bingtiam, cmel of the Citizens-for- Stevenson organization, and, on most Issues, assistant campaign manager Hy- man Kasiun. Public pressure and the force of cir cumstance, this second group has argued, will force Stevenson to enter a number of primaries otherwise he will be ac cused of ducking a fight. "PAR a reversal, the counsellors of bold ness have apparently won the day with Stevenson.

He has not. apparently. finally decided which primaries he will cnoose in his exnected announcement. But it is not difficult to pick out four or live prooaDie choices. Stevenson is already publicly committed to enter Minnesota, of course.

And he is already privately committed to enter California or so the California Democratic leaders certainly believe. Oregon is not much of a problem either. Oregon National Committeeman Monroe Sweet- land and other Oreeon leaders want Stevenson to enter their primary and Stevenson could be entered anvwav. wimuui, his consent. Pennsylvania is another nrnhahi choice.

Mayor David Lawrence, of Pittsburgh and Mayor Richardson Dillwnrth oi (who was for Kefauver In 1952) are both accounted Stevenson men, and both reportedly favor Steven son entering their primary. New Jersey, wxicic me leaaersnip aiso iavors Eteven-son, is a further possibility. Florida is a toucher problem. the South, both in the convention and the election, is an essential element in bue wnoie Jbtevenson stratesrv. stevenn spent a couple of days recently doing wine cueuuve politicising in Florida, and although he made no commitments, this iuj-iua j-ciinjui tiiiu leaders to as sume, mat ne meant to enter the nr mary.

On the other hand. Kefs 11 VPf ran ttottt strongly in Florida in 1952 against the oouins iavonte son, Sen. Richard Rus- seu oi Georgia. And there is a rfnno-or which, although it is remote. rmi.cp VLSlDie litters in the Stevenson ramn This is that another Southern favorite son, oen.

L-ynaon Johnson, of Texas- might be entered in Florida fwheri sent oi xne candidate is not required). EQUALLY tough is the problem of Wis- tuiiiiu. xne primary tner mmu less than two weeks after the Minnesota primary, which would crowd the Steven son cneduie. And there is the night- inain memory oi tne rate or Wendell Willkie, who also made a second try, and wiiu was sioppea coia in the 1944 Wisconsin primary. ine chances are that Steven win iisjp Wisconsin, ana, lor a variety of reasons, sucn otner primaries as Nebraska, Montana, Ohio, South Dakota and West Virginia.

There are t.ili th in the Stevenson entourage who would like to see Stevenson challenge Kefauver in his own riarf.imilar itimniro ground, New Hampshire, which has the first primary. They argue that Stevenson could knock Kefauver out of the contest then and there, and clinch the nomination once and for all. But Manager Finnegan has been dead set against entering New Hampshire. He that it would be silly for Stevenson to risk a defeat in a state with a small minority of Democrats virtually al! of whom have shaken hands with Kefauver. There is logic in Finnegan's argument.

And even without New Hampshire, the expected announcement by Stevenson will give his campaign the bold and decisive coloration it needs. The odd thing is that the announcement was not made three weeks ago, when It would have got the Stevenson candidacy off to a start. (Copyrigh. 1955, New York Hersld Tribune, IneJ other Negroes not to ride. But If they were guilty of breaking the law which seems to us to be a restriction on free speech the proposal by White Citizens Councils (in Dallas County, for instance) to keep a list of Negroes suspected of advocating race mixing would seem to "violate the next section: Any person, firm, corporation or association of persons who maintains what is commonly called a blacklist or notifies any other person, firm, corporation that any person has been blacklisted or who uses any other similar means to prevent any person from receiving employment from whomsoever he desires to be employed by, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

As a practical matter, we doubt that either the bu3 company or the solicitor will attempt to jail 5,000 Negroes. No. 20 JTOLSOM got his Tuesday. We need not linger over the annihilation of the Goodwyn Income tax. It died before it was born.

The murder of a re troactive tax at Christmas time was not very notable. What was dramatic and surprising was the savage rebuke of Folsom on Amendment 20. 1 No. 20 was a Folsom referendum. The.

Advertiser remarked Nov. 29: No doubt many in Jefferson County and some elsewhere will take this opportunity to register their general opinion of Folsom and his administration. But we had no idea how powerfully the people would grasp this club and swing it. We thought it would get lost in the morass of 30 amendments and the homicidal Impulse towards the Goodwyn tax. We supposed that citi zens wouid pun the No.

1 lever on Amendment No; 1 with such force that the swing would carry through to regis ter No on all amendments. But it was otherwise. Alabamians studiedly and vengefully stalked No. 20 on the ballot and voted Yes. For Folsom had asked the state to vote No.

To him, therefore, belongs the credit for the apparent adoption of this one out of 30 amendments (even If late returns from the rural areas defeat No. 20, the Inference will be the same). This was a remarkable event in mod ern political history. For No. 20 was a lo cal bill, affecting only Jefferson County (it gives the chief justice of the Supreme Court power to appoint Jefferson Judges where the governor refuses).

But the voters seized on it as a means of re buking Folsom. And if that is not the only possible explanation, The Adver tiser has reserved space for letters show ing it to be 'otherwise. The censure Is not unlike that which came to Folsom In 1948 when he ran for delegate and ran last, the first gov ernor ever to be so refused a seat at the Democratic presidential convention. A less headlong governor, one with true confidence instead of bluster, would accept the rebuke and change his way. This one? He issues a jaunty state ment that the schools can now rot, his business is a convention to rewrite the Constitution.

The dullard thinks that a state that has just refused to make 29 limited amendments to the Constitution Is now going to turn around and lay open the belly of the entire Constitution to his patent remedies, quacks and mldwives! Christmas Gift As Christmas draws ever nearer, we venture to offer a few suggestions on Christmas giving. Christmas gifts for women may be divided into two classes the practical and the other sort. We know of one man who gave his wife an electric iron and she was elated A less practical friend asked sarcastically why h.e didn't give her a nice light axe the old one looked a little heavy for a woman's use. As opposed to those who advocate giving her "something for the house," there are husbands and swains who will choose nothing unless it is "personal" and perhaps in the luxury class. At the risk of bringing down wrath, we suggest that if you must err in buying her a Christmas present, let the error be on the side of generous giving rather than austerity.

The chances are that she will rebuke you for extrava gancebut that is strictly for the rec ord, doing her duty as wife or girl friend. The rebuke, having been delivered, will be promptly nullified and naught by incontrovertible evidence of apprecia tion. As for the men, most of them live in dread of receiving a fur-lined shaving mug or something else on the fantastic side. Some women, In buying a present for a man, set out with the obsession that it must be different, which often means freakish. Some deride the eld standbys, ties, socks and shirts, but you could do a lot worse than select these items in fact, a great many women do, every year.

Buying a man something that goes by sizes carries an added thrill you may National Whirligig By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON. JOOSEVELTIAN "economic royalists and Truman's "greedy Wall Street-ers" think that they have managed to slough off their ancient role of whipping boys for Democratic presidential candidates, although Adlal E. Stevenson seems to be the only prominent Democrat to have discovered that fact. The reason for this remarkable change in the politico-economic atmosphere is the amazingly wide distribution of corporate stocks in the postwar years. With millions of ordinary Americans owning billions in shares in the nation's largest industrial, transportation and utility firms, which frequently represent their life savings and promise of old-age security, the ancient prejudice against corporations is disappearing as a ballot-box force.

This development lies behind Stevenson's suggestion that "moderation Is the spirit of the times." Oddly, although Gov. Averell Harriman is a railroad magnate and banker, he seems to believe that at least one more national election can be-won by making Wall Street the scapegoat for existing economic evils. So does Harry S. Truman. SMALL INVESTORS IN THE MILLIONS Investments In mutual companies, which usually fill up their portfolios with "blue chip" holdings, represent billions of dollars and millions of small investors.

Whatever hurts profits in their widely diverslfiixl investments hurts them. Although Keith Funston's sale cf securities to individuals in small amounts on the Installment plan has not been a shining success, the young head of the New York Stock Exchange anticipates that it will expand. The Ford Motor Company's January offer of family stoci to the public will Turther entwine the bread-and-butter interests of the "little man" with the ups and downs cf the corporate economy. STOCKS HELD BY COLLEGES Another shift In politico-economic values and attitudes mav nlacs th Tniman. Harriman extremists at a disadvantage.

This is the recent revelation that 38 colleges and universities now have 56.5 of their endowment funds Invested in common stocks. Time was when they put their money into nothing but preferred, gilt-edged bonds or government issues. Thus, the old-fashioned, spread-eagle tirades against Wall Street, which helped to reelect Truman in 1948, may be construed by the Republican opposition as undermining the system of higher education. But it Is not only the "eggheads" who have become partners of the corporations. Many states have recently passed laws permitting Insurance companies and trusteeships to Invest In common stocks instead of In guaranteed income securities exclusively.

The great labor organizations, whose investments are estimated in the hundreds of millions, own, In part at least, many of the corporations with which they bargain on wages, hours tuid working conditions. This fact may account for the scarcity of major strikes in post war years, ana especially for John L. Lewis' more mellow mood. His United Mine Workers own the fifth largest bank at the capital, which has to Invest in stocks. IRONIC TWIST Ironically, the crushing tax burden imposed on the country by the Roosevelt and Truman regimes is partially responsible for this strange twist.

Philip D. Reed, board chairman of International General Electric recently explained why. The 52 corporation profits tax strips them of funds for expansion and research. Therefore, they must depend upon the public, Including small and large investors, for capital Investment. They must take the voters Into partnership.

And, as Tom, Dick and Harry become partial owners of the nation's great corporations, they may part from demagogic politicians who Jeopardize their investments. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson Mistake. Tn AvniA IF YOU want to Influence peopla and Pet their rrwmerntlnn ha tious of criticism. Apply the Golden Rule of human relations or, better still, go th "second mile" and you will be surprised at the good results in the end.

2. If your father has forked hard and become successful, don't asume that you can suc- PoH YlV Hl-lftiTW nlnn. I --VV -'-1 U5in8 the least effort. j'i'i Success is largely due to imJSlJ individual effort 3. If your husband, or TtMfe nacre vnn Hr- uw-L A verse the habit and think the problem win do soiveo.

Eliminate the cause and relate yourself to your partner in ways which create greater rer.nect fnr nn and the desire to please you more. 4. If you want a happy and congenial marriage, meet requirements first by a good selection. Then live a si nart. ner should.

Good marriages are an art Dasea on science as wen as romantic love. 5. If vou are an a-lnlt rinn't. 1 that all youths are "going to the dogs." See their strong points and imagine yourself in their "shoes." 6. If vou are an artoiesrent.

rlnf sume that all older persons are out-model and foolish. Age does not imply foolishness any more than implies wisdom. you want friends, don't act unfriendly. If vou want nt.hprn t-p Hir don't fail to show your interest in them. 8.

If you want to be a leader, don't forget to be a good follower. SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING The Memphis Commercial Appeal The South, as Sen. Eastland savs. wants the sympathy of other regions, dui more man mat, it must have their understanding of problems created by forced desegregation and the havoc resulting from capricious decisions by a Supreme Court which, In submitting to the cries cf pressure groups and agitators, has mcved from the field of con stitutional law Into that of theoretical sociology. lor "1 ters no poetry, please Repeat: no who wrote it.

Disgraceful Event JpiTOR, THE ADVERTISER I read your guest column for Ray Tucker In The Tampa Daily Times Nov. 24. One gapragraph in your editorial slates, "I received not a single letter to the editor about this singular event." I was corn in Alabama. My mother and sisters and my brother live in Alabama. I go there two or three times a year, and have since I left there in 1925.

I admire you for the courage to write plain and straight out about the governor of Alabama drinking with a Negro. You called it a "singular event." I call it the most disgraceful event that has ever happened in the history of our state. In fact, if you want to know the truth. it nauseates me. As you know a white person in the South is secondary now.

If only the history of the South" was tauerht in the schools, I think the students and the young ones coming on now would understand what we are up against. I think The Tragic Era. by Claude a. Bowers, should be required reading in every puDiic scnooi in the South. Please keep writing, we are bound to win It is my opinion that we need to educate the younger generation what Integration means.

We cannot have a pure white race In this country if we have social mingling of the races. I am now and forever for a pure white race and a pure black race. Thank you again for your column. MRS. W.

P. MURPHY. Brooksville, Fla. Cypriots Seek Freedom Editor, The Advertiser: In two recent Issues of your paper you have written something about Cyprus. The whole article is nothing but mistakes.

i You cautioned the Cypriots to "watch out because you are coins to make the British mad, and may regret it." If you happened to have history in your school, you should know that Greeks never re gretted it when they died for freedom. For 3,000 years our history 'is full of such heroisms. Do not waste your time, my friend, recommending Cypriots "watch out." Your advice will never reach the Cypriots thoughts Next day you continued: "It Is only the last year or so that we besan to Here's By Henry THE news that the Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev had been made Boy Scouts during their trip to India set me to wondering wnetner or not the Rus sians were qualified for membership in such a fine organization. To check, I went to the attic and dug out my faded, dog-eared Boy Scout handbook, and read it for the first time in many a long year.

I must say that if the Indian Boy Scouts are governed by the same rules as our scouts, then Bulganin and Khrushchev should never oe allowed to desecrate the scout uni form by trying one on for size. The Russians should never be allowed to start qualifying for advancement from beginner to first-class scout. If they are and a reading of the requisites ior promotion reveal this quite clearly they will establish a new record for speedy advancement. For example, knot-tying is an im portant part of becoming a tenderfoot scout. Most novices haye a hard time with this, and have to practice hours and hours before becoming proficient.

it would oe aucK soup for Bulganin and Khrushchev. They have been tying knots to place behind the ears of men. condemned to hanging ever since they were boys, and any sheriff will tell you that a hangman's knot Is the toughest of ail. rpO BECOME a second-class scout a boy must become skilled at stalking. He must be -able to slip up on game, such as rabbits and deer.

That would be child's play for Nikolai and Nikita. They have been stalking the biggest game of all man for four decades or more. They could tell of how they stalked Comrade Beria, for one, for years and years. And how they stalked so well that Beria hardly knew what was happening until a bullet crashed into WONDER what Bulganin and Khrushchev were thinking when they re peated that. It could be that it made i letter tew be printed unless.

Editor knows hear of Cyprlot all these years to British mood Why did It take develop the antl- Here again you show how uninformed you are about Cyprus. The Cypriots' love for their freedom began in the first hour of their occupation, regardless of whether the master was the barbarian Turk or the noble British. We say that there is no difference if the chains of slavery are made from iron or gold. When Britain bought Cyprus, the Cypriots saw it as a step to get their freedom. They knew that the British helped mother Greece.

During the first World War, they had the first official promise for the union with Greece. But after the war was over, Britain forgot. During the second World War the promise was repeated and again was forgotten after the war. And now Cypriots discover that the British are nothing but a kind of Nazi and the only way to ask freedom is to, fight again. That's why it did take all these years, my dear friend.

Auburn, Ala. G. PAPAICONOMOU. Kantor Joins Faulkner Editor, The Advertiser: Andetsonville, the novel written by MacKinley Kantor, is being hailed by critics (mostly from the North) as the book of the year. Mr.

Kantor has joined in with a long list of writers, such as William Faulkner, Hodding Carter and whoever it was that wrote Tobacco Road (I never thought enough of him to try to rememrjer his name) in trying to replenish their pocketbooks by picturing tne aoutnem people as lawless, ignorant, lazy and tyrannical. Of course this man Kantor will make a fortune from this book and the movie rights for its filming. And of course it will be very popular with a great mul titude oi movie ians. I am convinced that many of the present day historians depend more on their Imagination than the absolute truth in order to make their writings more popular. My father happened to be one of the guards at Andersonville and from what he told me about it there is Just as much truth in what these modern historians tell as there was in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Montgomery. JAMES H. GREENE. Henry McLemore them feel very sad about the way they the back of his skull in a deep, dark underground passageway. Bulganin and Khrushchev would find part of the test for becoming a first- class scout mighty simple, too.

That would be the part requiring the scout to be able to identify edible herbs, roots, grass and bark. That's pretty tough for most candidates, but the commie leaders wouldn't have to crack a book or make as much as one field trip. They know all about that from watch ing their tragic victims trying to keep alive in the concentration camps. They must have seen enough starved men, women and cnlldren forage for Just such food to have become authorities on the subject. As for their qualifications for scout- hood, a reading of the handbook will show they hardly measure up.

Take the seout slogan, for example. "Do a Good Turn Daily." I have my doubts that they could ever live up to this, unless helping an old lady across- the railroad tracks and Into a freezing boxcar bound for Siberia is classified as a good turn in the land of the Soviets. Then there's the scout oath, part of which reads "To Help Other People At ah Times." treated Malenkov, and what they had planned to do with him a little later on, but I wouldn't bet on it. The scout law sort of lets the Russians out, Among other things, a promises to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind and reverent. Seeing as neither Bulganin nor Khrushchev is any of these things, I am slightly puzzled as to why India chose to saddle the Boy Scouts, of all organizations, with the likes of Nikolai and Nikita.

Next thing you know, Nehru will be asking Lucky Luciano to come to Delhi and become a scoutmaster! (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, IneJ.