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FACTS 1 1. if' Jf 5 HENRy LINCOLN JOHNSON 1870 192 NBOFTHB ABltST lawyers AND FOREMOST fighters against racial injustice of all time. as republican national committeeman from georgia, he was am import ant figure at national conventions. I 1 .1 k' 1 1 i fl ESPECIALLY IN IT IS SAID, HE REFUSED A LARGE SUM FOR Zl DECISIVE VOTES. SERVED AS RECORDER OF DEEDS UNDER TAFT.

DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AS ATTORNEY IN THE GARVEY TRIAL WHEN HE WON ACQUITTAL FOR ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS. WAS GRAND LEGAL ADVISOR FOR THE ELKS. tuna Governor Rockefeller of New York has vetoed a bill whose chief purpose was mandatory teaching of Negro history. In the public schools. I would have missed this important item hadn't I heard that on the radio.

Only one New York laily, the World Telegram, had a paragraph on it "but without mentioning the Negro. It said the Governor had given his Mr. Rogers reason for the veto because "the contribution of all races and nationalities to American history and culture" are already covered. Now as one who has open reading popular American history for many, many years this is very far from being true where the Negro is concerned. American history is generally glorification of white people of all nationalities, including those white aliens just landed.

Napoleon said, "History Is a lie agreed on." And John Qulncy Adams, one of the few presidents really worthy of high respect, said "The. public history of all countries is but a sort of mask, richly colored 'thus the Interior working of the machinery must be foul." This Is especially true where the Negro Is concerned. Popular American history Is white history. There are white writers who tell the truth but the public rarely, if ever, hears of them. Take the Revolution.

It was really a clash between England and the American colonies which should get the most out of the plunder of Africa and the enslavement of its people. England had started the trade but the Americans more enterprising were tak ing it away through the use of rum made from molasses bought in the West Indies. Rum. then America's chief manufacture, was used In get ting Africans to hand over their people, gold and ivory. England, to recover the trade, placed a high tax on molasses and American revolt began, John Adams, second president who had seen it all said years later, "I know not why we should blush to con less that molasses was an im portant ingredient in Ameri can That is, it started the war.

As for the Civil War the South revolted against the North for the same reason Americans had against Eng Jand. The North was using slavery to exploit the South. The North had the banks, the ships, the railroads, and was selling Negroes to the South, thereby reaping the chief profits. It also made the chief profit from the $200,000,000 cotton trade. In short, the South was only share cropping mr the North.

Southern lead ADOUT THE WNERS OF THE CONSOLIDATED COLOURED MINSTRELS, WERE THE FIRST KNOWN TO WIN POPULARITY Its! THAT FIELD. BEFORE THEM GREAT MINSTRELS WERE WHITE MEN IN BLACK FACE.THE NEGRO MINSTRELS BECAME SO POPULAR, AUDIENCES BE GAN.TO DEMAND THEM INSTEAD. THE NEGRO TROUPE GAVE ORIGIN" AL NEGRO HUMOR, CLOGGING, DANCING AND HAD A FINE QUARTET. THEY BEGAN IN 1867 AND CONTIN (JED ON FOR MANY YEARS. HISTORY SHOWS By J.

A. Rogers ers argued that if they could be free of Northern robbery they would save $47,000,000 a year (worth ten times that now) and they struck for in dependence. That Is to say, that Washington fought the British and Ice the North for the same underlying motive. Washington had slaves. American history up to the early 20th Century is founded, where the Negro is concerned, on twisted events and even deliberate lies.

Recently one of the foremost men, a Northerner, repeated in the South the oft told lied about Reconstruction; how badly the North had treated the South then. I won't call his name because he is a The Stethoscope By EARL B. A Hazard of Living Alcoholism The acute and chronic aspects of alcoholism constitute a serious medical disease. The intake or consumption of alcoholic beverages for social reasons Is a daily activity in our modern dynamic society. When the person becomes addicted to alcohol, he is unable to control the Inflow and specific anatomical and physiological effects many follow.

These individuals afflicted with this form of mental disease are in need of medical care, guidance, and rehabilitation. This illness may begin with the so called "social drinker." This ailment may start in the early years of life (teen agers) and become worse as the years roll by. Anyone who helps the "brother" in his quest for another drink is an accessory to his brother's misery. The deteriorating effects of alcohol ln addition to a poor intake of foods on the brain, liver, skin, nerves, and gastro intestinal system are of pit mary importance. Some of these effects are reversible and the physician, nurse, so cial worker, and the entire community have a responsibil ity and obligation to help these unfortunate "patients." The dangers of alcohol far outweigh its advantages.

Dis advantages are as touows: (1) Approximately 20 per cent of patients admitted to state hospitals suffer from alcoholic conditions. (2) Approximately 40 per cent or more fatalities due to traffic accidents are related to alcohol. (3) Alcohol is one of the top ranking causes of serious mental disease, (4) Alcohol causes "broken homes" or "disrupted mar riazes." (5) Alcohol is an added and unnecessary luxury or ex Dense. (6 Alcohol is the cause of many "failures." H8 a A. ROGERS llluMtiij by A.

S. MIIAI (1896 1964) KJatiomaust leader of Sierra Africa graduate king's college aaepical school. authority on tropical medicine, founded hospitals. was head of the departments of health and agriculture, knighted for his work in 1950. led the move for independence and was made prime MINISTER.

real friend and I believe him to be a victim of that old lie. What had happened? No sooner was the war over than the slavemasters reduced the freedmen to another form of slavery. They were 'forbidden to do anything else but field labor and could not move from their home town. On top of that secret societies slaughtered those Negroes who resisted and the North was forced to send troops to protect them. Next week I shall tell of facts of Negro history that will be a long time getting into the popular histories and the textbooks because it reflects too great credit on a people so long down rated.

SMITH. M.D. (7) Alcohol causes liver, fail ure, esophageal varices and death. (8) Alcohol causes varices of the stomach and gullet Some of the advantages of aiconoi are as follows: (1) Eases tension. (2) Stimulates appetite (3) Medically, alcohol has several values which are used by the physician.

In our discussion we will neglect the "occasional drink er." "social drinker," and describe the "chronic alco holic." A chronic alcoholic is one who relies on alcohol. This individual is unable to abstain from alcohol and may nnd it impossible to start the next day's work without a drink. Chronic alcoholics fall into two major groups. First, the spree drinker may not drink for days, weeks or months at a time, but who at intervals drives himself to alcohol, usually in large amounts. Second, the steady drinker consumes too much alcohol regu larly and daily.

A typical alcoholic is inse cure, self centered, immature, He may commonly present a family history of alcoholism and often comes from families in which there is an a ceres sive, successful father and a spoiling, indulgent mother. The chronic alcoholic may suffer from tremors, seizures, vitamin deficiency, and per sonality disturbances. All should remember that the condition of chronic alcoholism is a disease which must be treated promptly and cor rectly. Effective treatment may be obtained at specific hospitals and an outstanding social organization, known as Alcoholics Anonymous, pro vides recovery opportunities for all alcoholics who come to them for assistance. Remember, it is never too late and better late than never, EARL BELLE SMITH, M.D.

No Immediate End To War in South Viet Nam It is easy for one to sit back and criticize what our Government is doing in South Viet Nam. There are thoff, who argue that we should get out and not meddle in the affairs of Southeast Asia. If we do that, it is quite clear that the Communists from the North will overrun not only South Viet Nam, but they will continue to invade other non Communist countries in the area. President Johnson has made it clear that he is willing to talk and negotiate. He also has made it clear that the United States would not withdraw as long as the guerillas who are Communists con tinue their invasion.

The Hanoi Government says that they are willing to stop the invasion when the United States withdraws all soldiers from that area. The United States will hardly act under that kind of ultimatum and pressure. It may be true that the Communists are highly irresponsible and even if the United States should withdraw our soldiers, the Communists would not respect any agreement made. This is the predicament in which we find ourselves. We arc dealing with irresponsible people, in which case withdrawal from Southeast Asia would mean that the Communists would soon take over everything in that part of the world except probably India and Pakistan.

Thus and many other things must be taken into consideration before we condemn President Johnson and his Cabinet Dreiser, Again! He was a poor friend and a political idiot He was an egregious liar, and a literary pil ferer, who appropriated whole paragraphs from a fellow writer in a book on Russia. He was egocentric to the point of megalomania, hungry for praies, avid for recognition, convinced that he was a geni AW am US, 1U1 WI1UI1IB none of the or dinary rules of human relationship were relevant. A big, lumbering man, he preened himself, and con Mr. Lerner stantly, was thinking how he could make I himself irresistible to women. He made a mess of marri age, a mess of friendships, a mess of his love affairs.

He was greedy for money and became a Communist He had Jews as friends and mistresses and was more than a little an anti Semite. He had a sim plistic mind that made hash of Marx, couldn't fathom Freud, dallied with Spencer and Nietz che yet he always was prat ing about big ideas. He was constantly in hot water with the press. Everything he touch ed seemed to get messy. Yet he happened to be, also, one of the towering writers of our century, I am speaking of Dreiser, whose biography by W.

A. Swanberg "Dreiser" (Sorlb ners) just has appeared. Tell ing us more about him than we really wanted to know. didn't mean to read the book, Years ago, I had done my share of reading Dreiser, read mg about him, writing about him. I thought I had come, to terms with Dreiseir, and settled what I thought of him.

And, here is Swanberg big. de tailed, sustained biography at once compassionate and austerely just to make me break my resolve, and write, again, about this strange, foolish, (ri diculous, yet somehow, haunt ing man. I never have seen so com' pleta a portrait of Dreiser as Swanberg has given us, partly by talking with those who knew him closely, but mainly from his thousands of letters, most of which, now, are at the University of Pennsylvania. dont envy Swanbergs task. Dreiser had a way of writing letters quarrelsome, whining, nagging, estatic, fulsome, cute (in his Oh I so lost and lone ly without you love letters) that sets all my nerve ends tingling with irritation of en nui.

I never met him. But I gather that if you were not one of the people he fascinated he could be a crashing bore, Yet the book about him is any thing but a bore, and his own books once you get into them carry you along, despite the often wretched style, with an almost mesmeric force. That is the riddle of Dreiser What clue is there to unravel it? I think it is the fact that Dreiser was an all outer, half child and half fanatic, but all of him absorbed in whatever he' encountered and whatever he set his hand to do. Although many of his erotic affairs were pretty funny when you read about them in cold print, he did manage to make a large number of women, young and old, become obsessed with him, He used to call himself sex unlly, a "varietist," yet he had the talent to make each of the women feel that he was deeply involved with her, that a secret chemistry pulled them to each other, and that he saw the world through herr eves The reader of his novels and stories, once he has paid the traditional admission price of the suspension of disbelief, finds himself ilarly pulled into the vorte Whether it be of Sister Carrie's life or Jenny Gerhard's, Eugene Witla's, or Clyde Griffith s. or Frank Cow penvoods's in the Yerkes Tril oey, Abundantly, it is clear from the mass of detail in Swan berg's biography, that Dtreiser never grew, emotionally, be Bid By MAX LERNER yond adolescence, and I am certain that intellectually, he never had advanced much, be yond a college junior, if that Mencken used to be driven half crazy by the paradox that his friend was a liar, a child and a good deal of dope yet also, the major literary figure of his era.

In Dreiser's case, he was a writer who never lost the child's, wonder at the world, and how it was made, and what held it together; nor the child persistent, infuriating torrent of questions about life, Like a child, also, Dreiser, de spite the devastating natural ism of his novels, continued to live in a fantasy world of his own dreams, even while he was throwing big chunks of so cial reality at you. Many writ ers leave the fantasy in their fiction. Dreiser, and several since him, tried acting it out In his own life. The results often was sickmakine in human teams. But since Dreiser al ways wrote about himself and his family, his friends and his mistresses, the intensity of his acting out communicated itself to the novels and stories and still, has us ensnared in its clumsy, but tenacious, wires, Also, Dreiser was a child in his politics, turning to commu nism as to a lost father principle, making of it a religious cult, not with any mystical overtones, but with the flatten ing out effect that he applied to anything that seemed 'grand" to him.

Yet, here, too, our derision is muted: Dreiser bolloxed up the whole affair of the invest! gration of Harlan County, intro ducing one of his mistresses into his hotel exactly when and where this bit of insanity could do devilish harm; yet, he did get the attention of the na tion on Harlan County, and he did show courage. 1 am con vinced that he knew nothing of Marx thinking. His material ism, rather, was that of Jacques Loeb, with the human being caught like a puppet by the chemical tropisms of his instinctual self. Poor Dreiser, always, he borrowed the wrong ideas but somehow, he made something of them. COURIER BOOKSHELF "The Prophets and the Word of God," by Carroll Stuhlmeul ler (Fides, is a four part, 324 page book, dealing with the words of the prophets of the Holy Bible.

What future is in store for humanity! Theodore Gordon, a young engineer who, now, is director of advanced large launch systems, at Douglas Aircraft Company, and has had wide, previous experience, tells us what he thinks in The Future (St. Martins, Mr. Gordon tells us what can happen to man and his world; speculates on where the pres ent technology is taking us, and what will be the political and economic results. This is breath taking speculation, but curiously, Mr. Gordon has nothing to say about the future xt our water supply and the constantly lowering level which is ominous.

All in all, it is a thought provoking book. The mounting list of books about called the civil rights struggle, or the fight against fixed social attitudes and customs, comes An Act of Conscience, by Len Holt (Bea con, which recounts the trials and tribulations attending the "Summer of Protest" in Danville, its "night of infamy," June 10, 1863, and the legal battles which followed. The author believes something was accomplisned by the bloody melees that disturbed the community. "The Kingdom of God" (Fi des, $2.45) is a Short Bible for school use, originally prepared for the German school system and. now, made available in The THF eOUftlf 11 In ancient times each ruler had a personal CLOWN to keep him amused and warned of the danger of FOLLY in the conduct of affairs.

With his jesting IMPERTINENCES, the clown in motley tended to keep thing? on an even keel, so that no one would take themselves TOO seriously, and REASON would prevail. Today the CLOWN has become ruler and QUACKERY is the order of the day. The PSYCHIATRIST has superseded the old fashioned FORTUNE TELLER and witch who used to perform for a PITTANCE what now costs PLENTY, with no better results, and the fortune teller is outlawed. Henry Wheeler Shaw, the American humorist known as Josh Billings, said, "Take the HUMBUG out of this world and you haven't much left to do business with." The average SUBJECT in this modern kingdom of quackery BELIEVES practically anything written on a bottle, on a broadside WORLD BACKDROP Conference (Cont'd) I was neither especially proud nor happy about my Israel speech. In retrospect, I can think of many things I might have said.

In my defense, out of courtesy to my hosts, I felt compelled to confine myself to the topic to which this por tion of the meeting was directed. Judging from the number of questions about our "civil rights struggle," this might have been a more popular subject. Dr cartwright There was, of course, ample time for individual and private discussion, as well as permitting an enviable opportunity to become acquainted with this veritable bonanza of lady block busters. The first two of the participants were encountered before I left New York and Kennedy Airport. One, Mrs.

Dexter Arnold, is past president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. A well known club woman, TV personality and publicist, she now resides in a New York suburb, where her husband is chief of the Education Board. My other travel companion was the delightful Canadian, Mrs. Therese Cas girain, an aristocratic socialist plain English which all can understand. It is illustrated with numerous woodcuts.

"A Matter of Life," by W. Coda Martin (Devin Adair, $3), is a remarkable little book covering many facets of human life: birth, genetics, sterility, contraceptives, nutrition, longevity and old age. Not only is the author medically efficient but understands nutri tion and its relationship to health, disease, childbirth and happiness. The average doc tar, according to this book, is insufficiently trained in mis most important field. Many, therefore, are great hazards to health.

Few will tell patients not to take antiniotics, except in extreme cases. Few will warn against aspirin, advertis ed as havine no harmful er fects. Most of our "wonder drugs should not be sold over the counter. The reason we have so many more filled hos pitals with waiting lines oi sick is because modern medi cine still is in an experimental stage, and people (along with animals) are being used, aauy, as guinea pies. Only yester day, medical men argued that tonsils should be removed because they are useless.

Now, it has been found that they provide an Important bodily function, and removing inem is ill advised! THE GREATEST NEGRO TOE! "Harlem 081," by M. B. Tolson (Twayne, $4), is a won' derful work of art; a long, ecstatic poem, in 24 parts, writ ten in the style of T. Eliot and Exra Pound. The use of words from all languages, and New Ruler or in a book; and the world has never BEFORE seen a time when so many people take so many different CHEMICALS daily to keep in good health, which they never attain.

There never was in the past a time when so many people believed what is NOT true and when so many people PROSPERED by falsehood. The medical clown was well described by Cicero who said, "Quacks pretend to CURE other men's disorders, but FAIL to find the remedy for their own." And it was Paracelsus who declared that when one doctor passes another on the street, they always laugh! The POLITICAL quack now rules the people by humbugging them into believing that he has a cure for every social ill; the RELIGIOUS quack keeps pace with him; while the SCIENTIFIC quack hornswogslos the people into believing he can, like God, remake the, world. This is the new slavery! from Quebec. It was a pleasure to meet this great lady and long time crusader. A sort of female Norman Thomas, she has run unsuccessfully for the local parliamentary seat on the Socialist ticket seven times.

The cultured lady leader is the daughter of a Supreme Court justice, mother of the president of the national bank, and connected by marriage or blood to centuries of French Canadian leadership. She speaks both French and English with equal facility, and turned out to be a valued com panion on the occasions when I wanted, to communicate with the French African lady leaders. Former head of the powerful French Canadian organization: Voix Des Femmes, Mme. Casgrain, of course, spoke on political participation of wom en. From personal experience she explained the difficulties, but also urged that more wom en become active in politics abandoning the idea that poll tics are too dirty.

One unexpected outcome of this trip abroad by Mme. Casgrain was her encounter with deGaulles officials en route An ardent pacifist, her intent was to present a petition op posing military force, especially nuclear weapons. Her group was headed by Mrs. Mary an American whom she had accompanied to the place where she was to make the presentation as an interpreter. The story of her experience Many College Kids Bypassed NEW YORK "There's noth ing wrong with college stu dents demonstrating for good causes," says CBS Radio per sonality Betty Furness, "but there's a quieter group of hard working kids on campus who deserve Just as much publicity.

I know, because I just met hundreds of them personally." of bits of human history splashed about like red paint on a Picasso canvas are fasci nating. There just are enough rhythm and versifying to give it a definite pulse. It makes most other poetry seem dated and stale, unimaginative and routine. This is the distilled essence of a voracious mind. To read it is an exciting Journey through a strangely familiar country, filled with monstrous idols and delicate flowers.

Along the way, you meet such truths as: In the If of things nothing is final But the death rattle. "Between the dead sea Hitherto And the promised land Hence, Looms the wilderness NOW Although his confidence Is often a boar bailed up On a ridge, somehow, The attic salt of man survives the blow Of Attilar Croesus, Iscariot, and the Witches' Sabbath in the Catacombs of Boslo." Mr. Tolson, of Langston UrJ versity, has no peer among our poets. Josephine Schuyler. By Marguerite CARTWRIGHT appeared in the French news paper LE MONDE, in a front page story which sounded all too familiar.

A part of it translation quoted her as saying: "The doorman refused to let me into the conference, saying there were enough interpreters inside. Then a policeman, hearing our conversation, forced us to accompany him to the station house. There we were interrogated I pointed out that they had no right to do this, but the policeman in sisted that it was not an arrest, simply a He searched bur bags and removed all articles he thought dangerous, such as scissors, nail files, mirrors, etc. I wanted to call the Canadian Ambassador, but was refused permission. We were forced into a cold cell where the American and others had been placed for the same reason (l.e., the attempt to deliver the peace petition).

In the ladies room there was no soap, water or tissue. After three hours we were finally released, with a strong warning against the continuance of our efforts to present the petition. If we did, we were told that we would be rearrested and our passports would be seized." That evening, Mme. Las grain met with other pacifists including the famous French scientist Jean Rostand. In commenting on the seriousness of the war threat, he noted that "more than ever it is obvious that we (i.e., pacifists) must work together." Before her departure from France, protests were made to the French Foreign Minister.

Paul Martin, and M. Raymond Bousquet the French Ambas sador to Canada. When she reached Jerusalem, she noted that disagireeable as the ex perience was, she had no re grets, especially since she felt that it "served the cause ol peace." She arrived at the confer ence also to continue her battle for peace with renewed vigor. At its conclusion she was made a member of the presidi um. In reporting the ill treated Canadian pacifist's story, a large photograph of her appeared, in which she was ac companied by another of the more impressive (and, incidentally, more beautiful) dele gates attending the Jerusalem Conference the Togo representative, Mme.

Josephine Cheffi Meatchi. Accompanied by her country woman, Mme. Marie Sivomei, she is the wife of the Vice President and minister of finance and planning of the small African state of Togo. In her address, Mme. Meatchi described the difficul ties experienced byy African women, whose lives were so often bound by tradition.

One of the interesting points made by her companion, Mme. Sivomei, was the fact that, while such conferences were valua ble for many (reasons, a major one was the opportunity they provided for the exchange of views and experiences between vomei, was the fact that, while women "of emancipated and not yet emancipated A QUICK spectroscopic anal asysis system that will enable doctors to analyze a patient's blood for poisonious metal content has been developed..