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WORLD BACKDROP All too soon time came for departure from Yugoslavia. We were off with the solem nest vows to return and soon. Our next, and next to last, stop was to be London, which, as always, I eagerly antici pated. It is a city the charm of which is all flcult to describe to those who have not been on "the other 8 1 Unmistak ably an urban metropolis, it also Is, seem ingly, endless Dr Cartwright impression is firmly established from the time one arrives in its large, indifferent, airport to the point where I generally make my destination Marble Arch and the Cumberland Hotel. (The foregoing certainly should not be regarded as a "commercial," for I imagine that there are many better, more convenient and less expensive hostelries, but in traveling I have become accustomed to following the line of least resistance).

This huge impersonal hotel has for the past 12 years been home to me in London. On arrival this time, there were specific things to do attend an alumni reception at the London based branch of OPC (Overseas Press Club), keep appointments with the delightful Nigerian UN ambassador and family, drop in at the Cypriot High Commissioner's office (embassy), and accept a greatly prized invita tion to Richmond, one of Lon don's loveliest suburbs. To take these activities in order: The OPC reception (courtesy of the posh London Hilton Hotel) was delightful, mostly perhaps due to my FREEDOM'S MODERN MARTYRS Medgar G. Evers John F. Kennedy William Moore Chaney Andrew Goodman Michael Schuernet Rev.Bruee W.Klunclei Mr.

Harry T. Moote Mrs. Harry T. Moor. Rev.

George W. Lee Roman Duckworth Louis Allen Herbert Lee great enjoyment at being enabled to see once again away from home members of the profession. One of the first I encountered was Hope Spin garn (Malik), who had long since left India (where she was in poor health) and now resides in London. She seems to be OK, and her jaunty, ageless "Hitti" appears to have changed not at all. The next day we were off to the furnished flat of the Nigerian Ambassador, Chief Adebo, where we were guests for breakfast, prepared by his adorable Bola, and served by their charming, willowy daughter, who is a law student there in London.

We were especially impressed by Lilo, an attractive, outgoing young person in every way mod ern Nigeria at its best. The next day we all went book hunting. I managed to pick up a couple of overpriced, sec ondhand, so called a books: "The Tailed (sic) Headhunters of Nigeria" and "Up Against It in Nigeria." We were surprised and disap pointed that this source of hard to find material on Africa has all but dried up. In my wandering about, discovered that the Cypriot High Commissioner's office was a mere walking distance from the hotel. I had decided to go there because during my period in Cyprus I had read a number of tracts that clarified, for me at least, their side of their difficulties with Turkey.

I had shipped this maternal home, and since Ni geria's ambassador, an om niverous reader, was on vaca tion returning to New York by ship I decided to secure some of the pro Cypriot prog aganda for him. On arrival, the guard at the door eyed me suspiciously as he directed me to an upper floor. An attractive young Cypriot woman indicated that A GREAT WHAT? A new kind of Congress has gathered at Washington, to meet a new kind of President, with a mixture of elements in him quite unlike any we have seen before. Both of these join an extraordinary and militant Supreme Court which has been there for a decade, but has been growing more so. Put the three old branches of the Federal government together, in their new forms, and you get something that I Mr.

Lerner ought to be the most impressive revolution by consent in American history. But is it? We speak quite naturally of the Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, Wilsonian and Rooseveltian (New Deal) Revolutions. Will we be adding the Johnsonian Revolution to the roster? Perhaps. But a succession of legislative achievements does not add up to a revolution. A revolution is a mood and a climate; it is against power abused and in justice encrusted, against par ticular group of people before it can be for all the people; it is a sense of resistance over come, and triumph achieved; it is a heady madness of win ning through.

Study the mood of Jefferson and Madison in 1800, and of their partisans and opponents to get the inwardness of a democratic One feels that Johnson, by his innermost nature, is incapable of generating such a revolutionary climate and leading such a mood. He is a hurrier, not a warrior. He may be the hurryingest man in a nation of hurriers. But for him, there must be ripeness before there can be hurry. Ripeness is all.

His electoral majority is there an overwhelming one. His Congressional majority is there an unparalleled one, since Roosevelt The consensus is there. The will is there. What is there to stop him? But that exactly the troub le. Quite naturally one puts the question in terms of stop ping him, not of stopping us.

Somehow (how in the world did it Johnson has been cast perhaps, has cast himself in the role of the Great Prestidigitator, the Mir acle Worker. Step up and watch him, Ladies and Gentle men. See how nimble, see how quick. Watch the incredible performance of this mas ter and because it is a per formance we watch, with fas cination, with admiration, in the end, perhaps, with accept ance, tinged with boredom. We admire him, but he doesn't touch us because he doesn't really involve us.

Jefferson did involve the people master fully. Jackson did. Wilson did. Roosevelt did supremely. Johnson dosen'L Period.

Partly, it is because, with An African Priest Returns "Man In Ebony" by Dennis Craig Stoll (Gollancz, London, $2) is an exquisite novel about the psychological readjustment of an African priest to the realities of Alrica today. Father N'Gante, the sensitive and scholarly Catholic priest, has passed 15 happy years being educated in France and Italy. He has become thoroughly Westernized, and no longer thinks as an African. He has forgotten his racial heritage. When he returns to his native village in a remote region of former French West Africa, he must run the gauntlet of acceptance and critisism from his childhood companions who have not forgotten their negritude but who rejoice in it.

He has become a refined and abstract ascetic who fears the rich fecundity of the African Soul. Father N'Gante anguish as he is torn between his European mind and his African heart Is splendidly portrayed by the author, and the priest's ago nized moral crisis is conveyed with compassion and sympathy. The reader becomes one with Father N'Gante in his lonely pilgrimage Into the path of understanding. The priest's spirit is crucified, and then achieves a resurrection into a more amplified humanity. There are also humorous incidents in this artistic and poetic work.

The first banquet after his homecoming, at By Marguerite CARTWRIGHT she was the ambassador's sec fTT'f reiary. i expiainea in nun nutest detail the purpose of my visit, indicating that I'd been In Cypress the week before, where I'd been impressed by the justice of their cause, etc. Never again, I felt, would they have a better op portunity to present their case to an Influential African. Well, was told, the Cypriot am bassador was "too busy." (I had not requested to see him, but had offered to return the next day if he wished to see me). She knew the pamphlets I had referred to, but did not know where they were If I wished to return.

My time is London was com ing to, an end, but I agreed to do so. However, before leav ing, I wrote a note to the am bassador, repeating the major points I had tried to make with the secretary. I also sug gested that if the material could be secured, It could be sent by messenger directly, providing tie Nigerian's Lon don address and departure date. Precious time was ex tracted from the London sojourn to enable me to keep the appointment, but this time neither the secretary nor the ambassador were available. For my trouble I received only shrugged shoulders from the guard.

I later learned that the pamphlets were never sent to Ambassador Adehp, nor was there any attempt made to contact either of us. Now to return to the final and more pleasant phase of the London stay. The greater part of a day had been set aside for the visit with our friends the David Williams in Richmond. Feeling especially adventurous and giving ourselves plenty of time, we decided upon public transportation via the underground that was directly under the hotel and the much used renowned Waterloo Station. By MAX LERNER out using a computing ma chine, he can find the formu la which will bring about the greater assent of the greatest number.

In place of Benth am's "felicific calculus," which never worked anyway, John son is the greatest master of the consensus calculus in our history. Such a man can car ry votes with him; he cannot lift our hearts nor stir our brain. The State of the Union ad dress won our assent because we were wholly ripe for it and Johnson had helped make us ripe. But it was full of worn and weary phrases. Its key concept of the "Great Society" never has been thought through, either by Johnson or (as far as we know) by any one around him.

The conclud ing bit of boyhood reminisc ence was human and warm but warm in a cooked up rhe torical way. Nothing in the speech, in word or Idea, left a scar. Certain things come (or look) easy for Johnson. These are the things he docs well: the medicare bill, the program for new health centers, the formula for an education com promise. Better than anyone else, he can take the resourc es of an expanding Grand Na tlonal Product and an expand ing national income, and reallocate part of them to new welfare uses.

That is wliat he is good at His election vic tory helps him, the composi tion of the new Congress helps, the disarray among the Republicans helps, the wide spread sense that he has mandate helps. And of course, the nation's wealth. Courier Book Shelf which the priest is expected to eat caterpiller souce, a local delicacy which he had ceased to appreciate, is delineated with irony and wit A village belle tries to lure the priest to her bed, but he manages to resist her unsubtle attempts at seduction. A crisis occurs when Father N'Gante unwit tingly offends the polygamou chief. A faux pas which would have been tolerated in his white predecessor is not per mitted in the black priest Sad der and wiser, poor Father Gante leaves his native village, realizing that "the return of the native is always a dif ficult project and not usually a successful one.

But the priest has grown In psychological understanding of his fellow man, and has achieved an important victory over himself. Illuminated by a greater wisdom, he returns to the world. This extraordinary story by a famous British mu sician will touch the hearts of its readers and give them marvelous insight into the nobility of the African soul. Philippa Schuyler "Seeds of Destruction" by Thomas Farrar, Straus, the celebrated Trappist monk, concerns itself with many current events such as the so called black revolution and comments on the problems facing Christianity Included are many trenchant letters to various celebrities hi the intellectual world. Un fortunately, there is the usual hberalistic nonsense about Dr The Man Who Knows All Some people have a way of speaking and writing that TRIES to make others believe that they know EVERYTHING.

On virtually EVERY subject under the sun, they are prepared to give an OPINION and advice; and many gullible persons BELIEVE such omniscience is possible, so they let these CHARLATANS get away with it Many of these WISEACRES become Impatient with family and friends because THEY do not profess to know EVERYTHING and admit that they are ignorant and make MISTAKES. They are quick to CRITICIZE and berate others for LACK of knowledge and experience they could not POSSIBLY have if they lived a million years. Some wit has said that: "The man who knows ALL there is to be known about a subject goes into RESEARCH. The man who knows SOMETHING about it goes into TEACHING. And the man who doesn't know ANYTHING about it he COORDINATES the work of the others.

rghts, working through schools, social agencies and churches. The boys keep stealing Schuyler's stuff, advocated for 40 years! While some are trying to kill the NAACP, you can help by taking out a $5 membership NOW, joining 465,000 others! EOSS E. EAKNETT, former Mississippi governor, and the present occupant Paul Johnson may get off the contempt hook for trying to bar James Merediths enroll ment in "Ole Miss," with Acting U. S. Attorney General, asking for dismissal of two of the four charges.

That is the beginning of the end of the case! MALCOLM says he con vinced African heads of state to attack U. S. racism in UN debates, to give them more leverage in dealing with the USA and, thus, international ize American Negro problems. If African leaders bought that they purchased a "pig in sack, and made the future tougher for themselves. Imag ine listening to Malcolm.

CATHOLICS scored another bell's eye in Michigan, when ruling went into effect of equal opportunity in employ ment must obtain in all repair and construction of church M. L. King, James Farmer, et which adds little to the book. "Krakatoa" by Robert Fur neaux (Prentice Hall, $4.95) tells the dramatic story of the catastrophic explosion of the volcano on Krakatoa Island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, the tremendous resulting tidal wave that went over the world when the sea water mixed with the molten lava, and the clouds of vol canic ashes covered 3,000 miles, It is a very detailed account which includes many Individ ual stories of suffering and bravery. The book has a bibliography, an index, and many photographs and charts.

"Howard Thurman: Por trait of a Practical Dreamer" by Elizabeth Yates (John Day, $4.95) is the life story of the great Negro religionist who for 11 years was dean of Marsh Chapel, Boston Univer sity. Rev. Thurman has preached and taught in Asia Africa and all over the United States. "A Right to by Rex btout (Viking. 53.5(.

is anoth er Nero Wolfe novel, dealing this time with the civil right movements, two murders and miscegenation. It keeps you on edge. It is commendable when a person WANTS to know everything because the DESIRE for knowledge is the beginning of WISDOM; but only a cursory investigation leaves them stunned by the sheer VASTNESS of human knowledge. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 1963, had 12,752,800 books containing MOST of the world's knowledge, on 270 miles of shelves; so if a limn read a book EACH day for GO years, he would DIE in the first alcove, with only 24,000 of the books read. Even a SINGLE subject like the Negro would consume all of a man's waking hours for a LIFETIME, and then he would be FAR from finished.

However, it is possible to know a GREAT deal about MANY things by going to forums and lectures, and LISTENING to many speakers digest what they know. The MORE one knows, the more one knows how LITTLE one knows. Dictionaries and encyclopedias can HELP you acquire knowledge; but even with THEM, you can't learn everything. The World Today By george s. schuyler STRANGE FRUIT of over whelming Democrat victory is fight of Sen.

Russell B. Long, Louisiana, against easing Sen ate rules change to cut off filibusters. He's lining up with other Southern senators against long NAACP fight to ease cloture. Ironically, the NAACP and other Negroes helped elect this NAACP's Roy Wilkins wise ly announcing program to strengthen the Negro community from within, by program of "citizenship clinics," nation ally, with broad goals of assumption of full citizenship responsibiliteis, along with utilization of full citizenshp related institutions. Discrimi nation by an employer will breach a contract.

What about discrimination by a labor union? NIGERIANS showed their political maturity by composing their sectional differences in favor of unity and democra cy, other African states please follow suit For instance, why not Ghana sus pend its detention law as South Africa has done? CONGOLESE adherents of the former premier, Adoula, in Stanleyville, were slaughtered to the number of 10,000, be fore the air lift of Belgian paratroopers and Tshombe's white mercenaries halted the massacre, while rescuing a few hundred white hostages, African nationalists have not denounced that genocide! INDONESIA'S quitting of the United Nations is setting the stage not only for a rival (Communist) organization but for a stepped up war in Asia. with Australia deeply concern ed. We are not far from World War UL SUDAN'S southern black folk refusing to confer with government politicians i Khartoum. They want com plete autonomy, they determined at a conference in Kam pala, Uganda, just as Tshom be asked for Katanga, and for similar reasons. Dr.

W. A. Reed Sr. Dies After Lingering Illness NASHVILLE, Tenn. Final services have been held here for Dr.

W. A. Reed 93, well known area physician and former professor of medicine at Meharry Medical College. He was the father of W. A.

Reed a Fisk University graduate, former correspondent for the Afro American Newspaper and presently a staff writer of the Nashville Tennessean. Dr. Reed, who had been con fined to his home for eight years following 54 years of practicing and teaching medicine, died on route to a local hospital The Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church, Eighth officiated. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetary.

A native of Lumpkin, Dr. Reed, first son of the late Willard and Polly Reed, attended Atlanta University, and was graduated from' Roger Williams University in 1899 and Meharry in 1901. He was married to the for mer Lillie H. Martin of Clarks ville, in 1905. She survives.

Dr. Reed was a founder of the Agro Assembly and he was an organizer of the Rock City Academy of Medicine, now the R. F. Boyd Medical Society. At other times he was secretary of the State Medical Association and a member of 700 times a day a defective child is born to 'bitter disappointment and a woman's tears.

li is the tragic truth that one in every ten American families experiences the suffering caused by the birth of a defeo live child. 'Working together through the the National Medical Associa tion. Dr. Reed served as school physician for Roger Williams University and Amer ican Baptist Theological Semi nary. A leader in civic and fra ternal aiiairs, he was associated with the now closed Peoples Savings Bank as vice president; treasurer of the Knights of Pythias and the Meharry Alumni Association, and a member of the Odd Fel lows Lodge.

Dr. Reed was a trustee and treasurer of Spruce Street Baptist Church between 1901 and 1924. He later held the same positions with First Baptist Church and at the time of his death he was trustee emeritus. Survivors are his widow son, W. A.

Reed daughter in law, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Reed, Nashville, and a grandson, Waymon L. Reed of Miami. Kaunda Names College for Last White Governor LUSAKA, Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda's new nation of Zambia, where the former ruling minority of whites have been made equals to the overwhelming majority of African blacks who now rule, is doing its utmost to make the nation's whites feel that they are fully citizens and their contributions of past years are appreciated.

The College of Further Education in Luska was recently named Evelyn Hone College in honor of Sir Evelyn Hone, the last colonial governor of Northern Rhodesia before March of Dimes we can do so Kaunda was elected. In mak much to stop this heartbreak ing announcement of his and anguish. V' can help, (choice of a name for the FIGHT BIRTH DEFECTS fu MARCH OF D4MES Un. 23, ms THE COURIER Blind No More For whites who are interested, a new film, entitled "Nothing But a Man," can tell them a good deal about Negroes and some of the problems faced by the minority Negro subculture in "white America." The movie depicts the story of Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon), a Negro laboring man who lives in Ala a a. He wants to make a life but the odds seem all against him.

He works on an all Negro gang and makes good railroad gang Rev. Mr. Boyd and makes good money, but the life leads nowhere. It can provide roots or supply answers to hu man question. Anderson meets a girl, Josie Dawson (Abbey Lincoln), who is a schoolteacher and the daughter of a prominent Negro clergyman.

Her life has been restricted and has given her the good material things. Anderson will later hurl at her the accusa tion: "You've never been a nigger. You don know wnat it is to be a nigger." Their backgrounds and ex periences stand as a gulf be tween them. Her father is almost a stereotype of an "Uncle Tom." In fact Ander son tells her father he must have a hard time standing up straight because he has been bending over in front of white men for so long. Anderson's father (Julius Harris) is a broken man, an alcoholic, who has cut his son out' of his life and does net even want to see him.

He lives with a young woman (Gloria Foster), who is tired to death of his rages and moods, and cradles his body in her arms when he dies, It is his father's death, in all its stark ugliness and unredeemed tragedy, that awakens Anderson He has been mar ried before and has deserted his young son, who is being cared for by an Indifferent woman with a large family of her own. Anderson realizes, after his father's death, how he is, in his own life and relationship with his small son, perpetuating the tragedy which should be permitted to die with his father. Against all the odds against them, Anderson and Josie get married. This means, at the outset, that he has to give up his Job on the railroad gang and take a much poorer job in a mill in the provincial Southern In no time, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Sex education starting at age 9 was proposed here recently as a solution of the related problems of junior high pregnancy, teen age marriage, and the divorces that end half of these marriages.

This solution was offered by Robert N. Rutherford, M.D., of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, before a symposium entitled Population Growth: A Medical Responsibility. The symposium was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Fertility Society, the Journal, Pacific Medicine and Surgery, and Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Raritan, N.J. Dr. Rutherford recommended, from experience extending back to 1950, that parents, and especially fathers, attend the sex education classes with their children.

The purpose is to give both generations common Information and vocab ulary simultaneously and so promote child parent talk about Give to the March of Dimes oi. riiuL nui.ua ways io aeien some suoue ae I wish to commemorate Sir fects which have not very sub (nr rc9rrh and treatment. I ways to detect some subtle de Evelyn Hone's name, as a results. One of these ad Rt. Malcolm BOYD Anderson has knocked his head against the stone wall of whiM supremacy, segregation and bigotry, and has been dismissed.

Each time he tries anothei opportunity or job, the sam question arises again: will hi play the game and act like i "good nigger" or be fired foi his independence and dignity, and maybe even be seriously hurt or killed by angry white men? Anderson will not buckla under to the system. His marriage is almost on the rocks and he has fled both his bride and the provincial Southern town, when the crisis of his father's death After this, he takes his young son from the home in which he was being boarded and returns to Josie and the town. He tells Josie he knows the future will be hard for them because he will continue to fight against the town's racial system and will also refuse to be driven away. But now I feel free inside, he says. "Nothing But a Man" Is an important film.

It portrays Negro class differences and examines some of their mean ings. It brings together the well educated, middle class Josie with Anderson, a labor ing man. The movie permits him to retain, and assert, his masculinity instead of buckling (Under either to a matriarchy at home or the threatening so cm structure outside. The film shows us the fllct between a restless, strong ly individualistic "militant" gro (Anderson) and a "Tom" who has made his unpeaceful peace with the white status, quo (Josie's father, "successful" middle class preacher whf. has paid his dues to the white power structure)." The movie depicts, too, the vicious circle of rootless family destruction (Anderson's tragic father) and how one man determines to halt this kind of destruction in his own life; Anderson makes up his mind to be a real father to his despite the fact that he was betrayed as a son by his own.

father. A double prize winner at the International Venice Film Festival Mf1 Vilr, Un A Jl.n" will continue to be honored in the U.S. Michael Roemer has directed it with distinction. The performances, especially those of Misa Lincoln and Mr. Dixon, are among the year's finest.

It is hoped they will: be honored when the "Oscars" are handed out next spring by the Academy of Motion Pic ture Arts and Sciences, in. Hollywood. Professor Proposes Nine As Starting Age For Teaching Sex Education sex. Presence of fathers helps impress on the children that' una is ins uiuuiaiy uasa, "Many times we have seen children look at their parents with dawning appreciation as tr.ey never naa on their parents in this happy role before, he said. ducts two classes for chil to 16.

Beyond age 16, he children usually preferred in dividual counseling. is made imperative, he said, by the opportunities for sexual experimentation in our culture where reproductive maturity is reached in the early teens but emotional maturity comes late. Of those married under age 18, half obtain divorces and in many cases a baby is involved. Of those married after 20, a quarter get divorces. Dr.

Rutherford suggested that these failures in marriage are the result of educational 'failure in the home. Physician Cites Need For More Birth Defects Centers By DR. DANIEL BERGSL NEW YORK CITY Little by little, the attitude toward birth defects is changing from one of complete hopelessness and frustration to one of hope and encouragement. There is good reason for the change. Today much can be done to help, victims of many birth defects, and we are cretain that much more will be possible in the future.

In the past few years, more than ever before, research scientists have focused their attention and energies on the study of birth defects which each year afflict some 250,000 babies born in this country. The scientists have already made notable advances. For example, they have given us mark of appreciation for thejvances is a faster, better way way in which he discharged of detecting PKU phenylke his duties as the last Gover tonuria a condition which nor of Northern Rhodesia and leads to mental retardation if for the understanding he had i left unchecked. By changing shown in preparing the way for independence," the infant's diet a fairly simple preventive for so seri ous a disability the infant is protected from brain damage. But both the diagnosis of PKU and the treatment must come early if damage is to be avoided.

Much of the knowledge ganied by science is already in use in 53 March of Dimes supported Birth Centers which treat thousands of deformed, disfigured or disabled babies. Each of these centers brings together teams of ex rwrts rlfwtnrs. nnrsps thpra. pists, medical social workers and other specialists to deal with the medical, economic and social problems caused by birth defects. Block "Block Busters" DETROIT Some 100 white families are notarizing a statement that they do not want to sell their homes just because a few Negroes have integrated their neighborhood and have mailed it to 16 real estate brokers they accuse of attempting to panic Hip white home owners into selling via blocking tactics..

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