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12 THi HTtUMQH COUKIM AM it, ms Editorials iVioys andUovibvs i. etrj. s. stViyUr Collage Fund! end Ycu This newspaper has always bad a personal Interest in the United. Negro College Fund and itiT worthy goal! because it Was a former president of this company, Ira F.

Iewia, who nearly 15 years ago played an Important role in Its organization. i xv" fr It wasWioua then, as it is today, test Uie 33 private Negro colleges should organize their fund solicitation on a modern, up to date business basis, and no longer resort; to hit or mias methods of getting $uLUc srjpcijt, Since 1944, the UNCFs effort Juve year after year that businesslike efforts get', businesslike results; for beginning with a modest million dollar goal, it haa each vear achieved that rml and each venr aimed less capable oi paying the tuition necessary to maintain the Negro colleges they attend. I As a businesslike organization, the United Negro College Fund carries on its campaign each year in 120 cities and towns through alumni of Negro colleges. bual nena corporations and private persons, and it. haav: had remarkable success.

Nevertheless, it is quite dear that $250,000, or $5,000,000 even $10,000,000 is not enough to provide the funds to make these fine private colleges for the education of Negro youth capable of meeting the needs of the thousands, of eager eyed, ambitious Negro youngsters who only need opportunity in order to measure up to the demands of the day. i The Courier fervently believes that a group with an annual income of $17 billion dollars is gutte capable of providing the means for making these 33 colleges ielf tupporting. In our opinion, this Is the greatest charity for our people to support. After the 1954 Supreme Court; decision" decreeing public school desegregation, the moronic Ku Mux Klan re emerged throughout the South, lighting crosses here and there, holding roaas meetings, bombing Negro homes, and otherwise doing its utmost to stir racial conflict. According to the most recent report of the Anti defamation League B'nai B'rith, this effort has shown "little effectiveness socially or politically.

Riddled with rivalries and accordingly fragmented, the KKK still' retains a strong capacity for breedhig" trouble, but has been rendered ridiculous by Us white, aheeta. and demonstrated to the vast majority white Southerners (regardtess of what they think about school desegregation) that it is an organisation that no civilized community can afford in this day and time, After all of its hotpla during the part five years, the KKK has leas than 50,000 members throughout the country; and wherever it tries to become a community force by burning Its crosses, it it immediately slapped down. Thw norms lo us to indicate thnt rear progrer hi tvlni i.iu in intcnRcial relations, t.m in the South. your interest in credit unions intriguing, because 1 find them most promis ing. i "It might ln tercet you to that the Ft Eplsco 1 District Lay.

men's Organi. zation in 1956 set up a de hlo her which haa nAUra it thia' v.3 in vmim tnr pertinent for $2 wsn non i't purpose f. We have written so many editorials urging support of the UNCF that it would seem to labor the point to do it a Wishing Federal Credit Unions. a Ions on 'the continent. She Is a talented writer, and her letters reflect thia gtit No wonder rtiroe baa.

oo 1 jcupled the thoaghts of ri poets and th era so consist ently," she wrt. "It has a way of passing so steal th tlr. Cchaytee again but. at risk of redundancy we would eke to. stress "The first unit; to be estab again'that with one exception these colleges are, 1st 1 Hhed was at Israel.

Memorial South where 73 per cent of all colleze ase Nezroe live.4 5 AME. Churchm Newark. Dor and where the doors of moat state andDrivate: colleges the trst year operation. are still closed to them. If the Negro race tn this country la going to measure up to the national standard and prepare young meniand women to take advantage of the opportunities which are increasingly opening to them, it can only be done by public support of these 3 private colleges NOW.

This newspaper yields to no agency in fighting consistently for educational integration; but we know that this will not come today or tomorrow, even though, it is inevitable. So right here and now, order to tap and train the huge reservoir of Negro talent in this country, we must have colleges in which to train them in the area where moat of them live; and those colleges cannot exist unless you, and and you support them. It is obvious to everyone that Southern TJeero families generally hive only half the income of Southern white fTHK FOLLOWma letter grew to a credit union mem. from Dr. Utysaes Campbell, bershtp of 110, and ear assets DDS, of East Orange, NJ rew to 16,930.

and we loaned should be food for thought and t9 oar members, fliOTX" a stinMiiant lor action; a church membership ot about ecu, only 89 members "joined Uie credit union. During that year our total aiaeta wers A $2,600 we loaned to our' members, 12,600. During our second year Just World Backdrop TBINIDAD MOST exciting letter from our friend. Marguerite Wyke, welUcnown years back in social circles of the Eastern families; sd it Is equaUy obvious that Negro families that much handicapped in providing th educaUon A SndSSrWlJ aa their children which will enable them to measure up tn xcept for occasional excu? the regional and national standard. Since it costs Just as much to educate a Negro student as a white one, and Juat as much to maintain a Negro college as a white one, it is quite clear that Negro colleges suffer a greater handicap because there are more students Dr.

MarguerH CartwrlgM Uy ao oulcUy, and ea. tranglng us from the people we love most making it hard to re establish contact.) It isnt that we haven't thought of you v. She told of the vast changes that are taking place these parts, of their newly elected Chief Monster, Erie WnUama, for whose newspapers she writes. We recall our own visit to Trinidad years ago, and the pleasant period wa spent with 'Marguerite and David in their beautiful home surrounded with orchids and other exotic tropi cat foliage. i AT THAT TIMX they were equaUy enthusiastic about WUV llama, the young American trained political leader who waa then Juat beginning the long, hard climb up.

Of Jttav now she writes: "The movement he (WUllamsIJoundfld marked the coming of age politically for Trinidad, and hoa. since their clean sweep. of the 1956 elec tioAs. won all the main aty Ounctl seats," and In March, 1958,, we nope. In partnershm.

with Manleya and Sir Grant have. ley's parties, to sweep the Fed erai, too. Then comes her most exciting newsr "I am harboring the tiniest intention of going up for the Federal, since the capital at here and it would not mean i leaving home. But there la the uncertainty of whether they ouUl actfpt an American bora DK. CAlfrXSXL conntinueat Trotn the date of our organic aatton we have grown stead2y each, moath.

As matter ei fact, at the end ex our second year of tqwratkm our board of directors was able to decUrs a dividend of. 2H per cent. The 1 ml Scant aspect about this Is that many cTiMQt untona are, la operation more than" two years before they are able to deciara dividends. "Our experience has shown that notwithstanding the apparent simplicity relative to the establishment and tion of. credit constant and repeated educational procedures are necessary to get the message across to the church members.

"yfe. 'conduct a training school for members and non members. Tm enclosing a copy of the schedule which used last. year. Now, I have found that in spite of all this, many church members do not Join woman as the first elected one Giving up my American citizenship haa meant consider able freedom to help Zrtc in every way possible writing, speaking, serving on committees.

Time haa not dimmed her admiration and belief In WllUame. "Both Dave and have thrown our lot in with Eric, and we are working like she says. She told of having been selected to Investigate social and economic effects of the sitting, of the Federal capttol In Trinidad. "Next year. 1838, wlU be a sort ot banner year for ua, what with carnival as usual tn Federal elections, and then the opening ef the Federal Parliament fey Princess Margaret in April.

We have been having meetings with Mrs. Manley and representatives from ail the ULanda to plan the first Caribbean Festival of the Arts to coincide with the opening ot the Parliament She is chairman of the committee which will plan for all the exhibitions of the visual arts (architecture, painting, etc)." LONG A LOVES of music, she described her trip to Puerto Rico to the Casals Music Festival, where she and David were taken about by the famous author. Earl Hanson. They lived with the grandparenta of Caa axs youthful wife. Of particular interest waa the part of Marguerite's letter where she says thatr "We meet all aorta of wonderfully Interesting people, and how 1 wish ardently that Ameri cans could get acquainted with some of our wonderful West Indian leaders.

They are holding their own In conferences ail over the and are an Impressive lot mostly educated' at Oxford, and with the kind ot charm and knowledge that American legislators do not We do hope our friend will not be too chagrined that we have chosen to share her beautiful letter In thia way. It is. of coarse, a very unfair thing to do, but knowing her generosity, forbearance and tolerance, we ted confident of her forgiveness, Rece.itly a thin little volume until they are in need, which la regrettable. AX the earn time, some of thee people make very good credit union mem hers, BS SATSi nv'e have utilized films, tlin strips, printed liters tare, tome of which we order from Credit Union National and some of which we make urseJves. We have offered our' services to churches other, than AMZ tn helping them get cred It unions started.

The director of the AMB credit union department Is Mr. Benjamin Hill, 588 High St Newark, N. J. The president of the First Episcopal District AV1C Lay. men's Organization la Mr.

Ar thur runn. 433 Nortraad Ave, Brooklyn la, N. Y. "1 am vice president of the District Laymen's Organize Hon. "May commend you for your intelligent concern with.

this tremendously significant There, dear readers. Im the direction in which real freedom lies. By Marguerite CerTwrlght with the Impressive titles The Foreign Policy of the United States Liberia came to our attention. It la a good hand, book for those now wishing to dig out the basic Information from wordy documents and uninteresting Government reports. We were disappointed to find no mention of Lester Walton, who was the first U.

8. Negro representative to that country, appointed by FDR after a four year breach in our relations with that As the former newspaperman statesman functioned during a delicate and vital period of relationship between the two governments, ernissiow of any mention et him seamed rather Inappropriate. Proxy baApr3 2S NASmrnXX (ANP) Flak Caftvarstty wUl tnegwret Stephen torse Wright a tn seventh president la eeremowtea the scheors campus Katur day afternoon, Aprfl t. Dr. Wright aiceasii te the 7 pwillisuy faflswtag the death SATVKSAT.

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