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VyC ARE gratified to note that Senator vf Irving M. Ives of, New York, a most axdat and consistent proponent of FEPC, has finally come around to our way of thinking with regard to combatting racial discrimination in employment. It has been our contention that a Federal Fair Employment Practices law has practically no chance of passage in this or any other Congress and that therefore the champions of this legislation should con centrate on getting, state laws passed outlawing job discrimination or strengthen the Taft Hartley Law to include specific pro r'ons to that effect. Many organizations working in this field, both Jewish and Negro, have recently come to same view and are conducting campaigns in several states to have FEP laws enacted, notably the NAACP. Now, Senator Ives comes forward with suggested legislation to amend and strengthen the Taft Hartley Law (much maligned by, organized labor leaders) to make racial discrimination, in employment an unfair labor practice whether the of fender be a union or an employer.

Inner orirMa TT NTf.n 1 0CT in which.with its: usual loudfanfai it dis covered what every informed) person knows, to wit: the Negro in the past decade has been making tremendous progress socially, educationally, legally and economically. It has lately become quite fashionable to say this, although those who said it some years back were denounced as "Uncle Toms" for telling the obvious truth. What struck 1 us forcibly in the Time article, however, was the rehashing of two old canards that we foolishly thought had been buried long ago but which we find still alive and lacking. 1 1 One is that "the streets of Harlem are still largely slum streets a lie which we took great pains to expose in our series of four years ago, "The Tiuth About Har lem," but which the highly touted Time researchers evidently did The other is the old! Book of iTNE of the most stirring forceful novels to come not consult. fable about the "cowardice" of Negro military units, con cerning Time says, "despite individual bravery, their morale and performance are generally low." Now, while we have never held any brief for separate racial units and, indeed, have fought consistently through the years for integration of racial elements in military units long before Time was bom1, we resent this plain lying.

From the time they were organized shortly after the end of the Civil War, the four Negro regiments of the Regular Army" nerved with distinction in the various Indian wars, protecting wagon trains and guarding white settlements throughout the West; and no charge of cowardice was launched against them. During the Civil War itself nearly 200 Negro regiments! fought with conspicuous ravery, and; Lincoln said that without them1 the Union could not have won. The exploits of Negro units inth Spanish American War and in theo Philippine Insurrection are so well known as to require no retelling here. I. Some Negro units in draft regiments during World War I broke in the Axgonno Forest, but it was revealed afterwards that they had been ordered to advance through barbed wire entanglements under wither ing fire, although they had not been equipped with wire cutters.

I Many white units in the American," Dir. Wbkltainni TR. FREDRIC WERTHAM of the La argue Clinic in New York City whose study of the harmful effect of segregated schools on Delaware children was 'discussed in a recent editorial. "An Illuminating Report," has written to deny our inference that Negro children in! auch schools are "subnormal and anti social." He contends ine nann is done to children of both groups ahcrthat he "specifically stressed. tenuai norm or segregation to ail School segregation, he says, "is health uroblem." Drj Wertham cbni thai.

av and out of South Africa Is "Blanket Boy" (Crowell, 309 pages the collaboration of a man, Peter Lanham. and a black man. A. S. Mopeli Paul us, a chief tain of Basutoland, the first work with such authorship.

This is at once an indictment cf white prejudice and discrimination and also of tribal cruel, ty and backwardness. It Is a tale skillfully contrived, written in the native idiom and replete svitb apt sayings and pertinent proverbs. In addition, it is rich la plot, ljumor, 1 pathos and interspersed I heart clutching adventure and hair breadth escapes. Csre we see South Africa in 5ssr with Its clashes of ufttd cul. cnu po dren." public stated that there are more disturbing incidents in the average segregated school than in' the Integrated one.

His group predicted there would be no incidents between Negro and white children after the change over, and there were none. i Reiterating "that all the children who had been in segregated schools before made better academic progress, inj integrated school he denies the inference that'Ne ft Lplb? Etas The Taft Hartley Law already has some provision of the sort which works to the advantage of Negro workers formerly discriminated against by certain labor unions (often in collusion with employers) but the "Truman Adniinistration made, little or no" effort to enforce it. What Senator Ives proposes is much more powerful and, if the law is so amended, it will become as effective as any fair employment legislation so far introduced in either branch of Congress. Moreover, he has behind him a bi partisan group of Senators committed to the of this change, as well as the NAACP, and it is believed that many legislators who oppose FEP laws will go along with the proposed amendment: i It seems to be fairly certain that the Senate! Labor Committee will back the amendment, which means that it has a good chance of passage. To those who suffer from racial or religious I discrimination in employment, it really does not matter how this practice is stopped, as long as it is stopped.

Tiiinniei Rehashes 0d Cajraaird AST week Time magazine published a K.epJI the Week tures, with its exploitation and of the native people complicated by their own divisions. I It is the story of Monare, a blanket boy from Basutoland, who. goes to Johannesburg, the City of Gold, to seek his for tune; his exploitation and success; his return home and involvement In ritual murder; his flight back to the metropolis where he succumbs to drunk, ennes. drugs and homosexuality as his conscience Hays him, and the police pursue him. 'Finally rescued by his son and a friend when on the brink of destruction, he reaches the freedom of Lourenco Marques, the Portugese.

African by way of Durban, the City of only to return to Johannesburg when his son's life is endangered in a mine disaster. oes 5 French 'and British Armies broke and ran, too, on occasion but no aspersions were cast upon the Caucasian as a soldier for that reason. On the other hand the regiment serving longest under fire (191 days), having the most decorations and leading the march across the Rhine in 1918 was the 369th Infantry of New York, a Negro unit Much was made of the fact that some poorly screened and inadequately Negro infantry units showed poor morale on the Italian front; but prior to that the whole French Army had run at the first clash with the Germans, and the Italians were notorious for surrendering at the slightest provocation. I Singularly, these traduce rs of" the Negro refrain from mentioning the brilliant performance of the Negro pursuit squadrons and the galantry of the black tank units in the campaign in Northern France and in Germany itself. In President Truman's "police action" in Korea, troops of Negro and white units ran or surrendered in the face of overwhelming force just as outnumbered and outgunned) troops always have; but why do we never hear that the first U.

S. victory in Korea was won by the Twenty fourth Infantry Regiment (Negro) The. morale of well trained Negro units way always high and they were just as brave and resourceful as white units; but the argument against separate, Negro units has always been that such were easily victims of color discrimination in every way prejudiced white officers could devise. 1 We! are getting sick and tired of this lying propaganda about low Negro morale, cowardice and inefficiency which allegedly, only association with whites can remedy. (Do whites need Negroes beside them to be brave?) First, we were told that Negro troops would only fight well under white officers; so Negro officers were kept to a handful.

Now we are told that in order to have high morale it is necessary for a black soldier to nave a white one beside him. We; favor Negroes and whites serving together in military and naval units and attending schools and colleges together without any racial discrimination, but we think some of the propaganda being used to bring about this desirable end is most harmful to Negroes because it is a lie. It is depressing that a publication like Time would lend itself to that sort of groes must be in the company of white people in order to make progress. With all due respect to: Dr. Wertham and his colleagues, we remain dubious' about this line cf reasoning and we do not think it is necessary in order to contend for the abolition of racially segregated schools.

Indeed, if this 'reasoning is pursued too far, a case might be made out by another group of psychiatrists for continuing segregated schools on the old ground of homogeneity: that people are "happiest" among their own kind. By asserting that segregation is a public health problem, Dr. Wertham cannot halt the inference that children subjected to it are subnormal since they are harmed by.it! harms children in segregated schools is the discrimination which inevitably accompanies such separation, and Which is unavoidable so long as a dual systenv obtains. Let's fight it out on that basis, There the police nab him, he is carried back to Basutoland where he is tried, convicted and executed for his crime. In this work there is a wealth of sociological and ethnological material which lends color and authenticity to the stark drama.

It is a story with a moral and a message, a most entertaining, unusual and gripping tale. S. SCIIUYLEB OPINIONS The signed columns of some of America's leading writers and commentators appearing on this and other pages of the Courier are presented so that our readers may have the benefit of a wide variety of viewpoints on Important Issues of the day. These viewpoint often contradict one another. They have n6 connection with the editorial policy of this newspiper and sometimes.

In fact, may represent exactly an opposite opinion. The opinions and views expressed belong solely the writers. li ill 111 3 Pursuit A. A. nnnnl.

ViJ if a inuji aerv about cour ox tne new. in vlgorat United I Part over the st nine victory the Nation; lsts in the South African elections, I am OF Sliss McKenzie reminded of Dr. Rayford Logan's premise regarding the meaning of these matters for us as Negro Americans. For Dr. Logan, who is a professor of history at Howard University and an expert on has said that the liberation of the black man in America and In Africa is a single issue, having an identical schedule.

AS LIFE points out. the ig norance of Americans on the subject of Africa is appalling. Negro Americans for the most part share this ignorance, not entirely without some pride that we Identify culturally rather than racially. The moving1 contributions to Life's African story by such talented white African authors as Stuart Cloete and Alan Paton will convince us, that, if Dr. Logan is right we are farther from freedom than we thought.

We have believed that we are Just beginning to understand and to ipgnlfcty 9 UDoMir Mmiirit Mfiinm! i. i ONLY A FIEND would INTENTIONALLY injure this child, for it is NORMAL human instinct to love, nourish and protect the next generation at the time when it is LEAST able to protect itself. There is1 no living society whether mammal, reptile, fish, bird, insect or human that does not make a SACRIFICE for its! offspring. And yet sometimes one wonders about parents who are so SELFISH that they hurt their children by depriv ing them of jNORMAL love and protection, i Robert Browning sang: Lovers grow cold, men learn to hate their wives, And only PARENTS' love can last our lives. There are far too MANY parents in his country who finding themselves incompatible are ready to fly apart in either separation or DIVORCE and deprive their child or children of the home that all children need, and the LOVE ahd attention they must have.

The United States has the HIGHEST divorce rate in the world (over 400,000 in 1952) three times bigger than England; five times greater than Canada, and THAT represents that many or MORE children who have been HURT. By the same token the United States has a higher percentage of SEPARATIONS and desertions than any other country, and in EACH case it means a child or children who are hurt. Let it be remembered that a house is NOT necessarily a home, and that merely arranging for a child or children to be FED and clothed and schooled is not enough for NORMAL upbringing. A home! is wherever parents and 'children are TOGETHER not where merely ONE parent is with the child or children while the OTHER is away in some known or unknown place, or married to or living with somebody else. i William Graham Sumner once observed that: "It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him.

In a truer view of the matter, we are coming! to see that Democracy By MARJORIE McKENZIE; LIFE magazine's poetic and informative special Isue on Africa Is a fine primer for Americana trvinz to srr through the 1 latest Mau Mau news release Each time I read about the counter terrorUm of Kenya's security police agement forces at work In the American South, But such a belief Is a snare and a delusion if in fact, for example, the end to segregation in education in the South is but a part of Africa's myriad, mystifying patterns of education and lack of it. Between the while terrorism of the Afrikaaner and the black terrorism of the Mau Mau, we are i old by life's editors, there is no foreseeable solution but a greater violence. OUT OF' the white minority of five million, few but the British have any ideas of a graceful givlng away to the rising nationalist demands of 173 million black and brown Africans. There is uniform agreement the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent." There is a very popular and very SPECIOUS contention (often used by parents who are about to separate or divorce) that they have a RIGHT to a little personal happiness. Granted that this MAY be true (and everybody HAS that abstract right), it is EQUALLY true that each person and every PARENT have duties and obligations which are equally as important as rights.

The FIRST duty and obligation of an adult to the society of which he forms a part (and without which he could not EXIST), is to enter marriage with care and only after MATURE deliberation in order to determine as nearly as possible whether the person about to be chosen as life mate is compatible and companionable and will so remain AFTER the flames of romantic love have There CAN be and often IS romance in marriage; but the two are NOT synonymous, and the all societies have known this. among the spokesmen for Life that the black man's violence will be surpressed and that violence will not solve any of the problems. Even such brief enlightenment as is provided by one magazine or one book, how ever good, suggests that the outcome of the African dilemma Is Inscrutable, Is as yet committed to the future. Such a conclusion does not rest comfortably with the knowledge that about 57 per cent of all of Africa's people are the direct or indirect concern of the UN. Mrs.

Lorena B. Hahn, the U. SJ Representative on the Status of Women Commission of the! UN. speaking recently to a national conference of Republican women in Washington, had this to say about the other SATURDAY, BIAY 16, 1953 Publish by Th Pituburfh Cotirltr'publlihing ine. Main Offte: 2MS Contrt Artnue.

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Ttispnoiia Muxray om not guarantaa either tha use or taitura wise men of The NEXT duty and obligation of the individual as parent is to have and rear children for the PERPETUATION of the group and for its continued improvement, and to do it SELFLESSLY, intelligently and affectionately. Those who do NOT have this in mind when they marry, ought to remain single; but once married they should look upon it as a LIFETIME contract to be executed in good faith or else NEVER have children. The wisdom of Oscar Wilde, that brilliant wit, ought to be a warning to parents: "Children begin by LOVING their parents; as they grow older they JUDGE them; sometimes they FORGIVE them." There ARE instances where divorce or separation is desirable or necessary or harmful only to the principals, but the picture changes entirely when there are CHILDREN involved. Happy or not, parents are obligated before God and society NOT to hurt their children because they hate each other. I Recalls Rayford Logan's Linking of U.

S. Blacks With Africa's Liberation, representatives with whom she serves: They made clear that they represent the greatest illiteracy in the But they don't Intend to stay that way. Neither do they intend to stay I cold nor hungry nor disease ridden. "We must listen for they are going to move forward in Asia and Africa, either orderly or disorderly. It behooves us to help them move orderly, And when you consider that we, the Caucasian race, only form 16 per cent of the population of the world, we are indeed the minority." Mrs.

Hahn and Dr. Logan have struck agreement that human freedom is indivisible the world around. But who in America, who acknowledges the civil rights gains of the past decade, will adopt the timetable of black! Africa's march from the dark into the light? JUST LAST week Myles Horton, the director of Highlander Folk School In Tennessee, was in Washington telling about a summer conference being planned for this July at Highlander, where community and labor leaders, white and Negro, will discuss how segregated schools are to be abolished. Five years ago such a con ference would have been visionary, if not dangerous; this July, perhaps in the wake of a Supreme Court decision, it will represent responsible community organization. Life editorializes that it is America's duty to offer Africa a leadership that is true to our own best lights.

Such an attitude, based on political and religious Ideologies, whether American. European or indigenous to Africa, would appear to be the only answer to the stormy predictions. And the lack of such an at titude supplies an explanation for black America's reluctance to tie its star to the faltering Mays He Gives Rowers 'To the The J. W. Dobbses Are 'Exceptional' td HATS i tfie administra tion of Miss Read.

Air. uvaom was born near Marietta, Gw and was reared on his grand father's farm untn he was nine years old, at which time 0 LET US give flowers to the living. Right here in Georgia an unusual family has been reared. Mr. and Mrs.

John Wesley Dobbs are the parents of six girls and all six have graduated from Spelman College. All six girls graduated from Spel man during I I Dr. Mays his widowed mother took hira to Savannah. He was graduated from Morehouse College in 1901. In 1905 he entered the railway mall service and served in that capacity for thirty years.

Since 1932, he has served as Grand Master of ihe Prince Hall Masonic Lode of Georeia. He Is fluent and eloquent in speech. He is a tower of strength in the community. In 1906 Mr. Dobbs 'married Irene Thompson of Columbus, Miss.

Mrs. Dobbs was graduated from a private Methodist Academy in Columbus. IT ISN'T often that six people in one family go through college. Some usually drop by the way. But not so with the Dobbs sisters.

And make no mistake, this all happened because Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Dobbs were Instilling in their children from birth high Ideals and noble principles, Irene Dobbs was graduated from Spelman In 1929. She is. Mrs.

Maynard Jackson, the wife of the Rev. Maynard Jackson of the Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta. Mrs. Jackson has studied at Middlebury College, the University of Chicago, Grenoble University lnFrance, and holds the Certificate d'etudes Superieur es, Toulouse, France, and Di plome de Professeur de Francois a l'etranger, 1' Unlversite de Toulouse. She has taught at Clark College and is now teacher of French at Spelman.

She is the, mother of six children. I WILLIE JULIET Dobbs wj graduated from Spelman. in 193L She is Mrs. Benjamin A. Blackburn.

She studied at the University of Chicago and holds; an A. M. degree in literature from Atlanta University. She has taught at the State College in Pine Bluff and Is at present a teacher of college English and chairman of the language arts area at Jackson College. Jackson, Miss.

Mrs. Blackburn has two children. Millie Doris Dobbs was graduated from Spelman in 1933. She is Mrs. Robert H.

Jordan. She holds an A. M. degree from Teacher's College, Columbia University. Mrs.

Jordan has taught at Booker Washington High School in Atlanta. Morris Brown College, A. and M. College, Pine Bluff; Spelman College and at. present is teaching at Tennessee State University.

She; is the mother of three children. Josephine Ophelia Dobbs graduated from Spelman in 1937. is Mrs. William A. Clement She received the M.

A. degree In Home Economics from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught at Morris Brown College, Savannah State College and now she is a teacher in the home economics department of the North Carolina State College, Durham. She has four children. Matttwilda Dobbs was graduated from Spelman In 1946.

She is now Donna Luis Rodriguez Garcia de La Piedra. She earned the M. A. degree in Spanish from Teacher's College, Columbia University, In 1948. She Is a renowned artist In 1947 1 she won the Marian Anderson Award, in 1949 she won a scholarship to study opera at the Berkshire Music Center in Lenox, she is a student of Madam Lotte Leonard of New York, received scholarship to the opera department the 'Marines School of Music, New York; took a principal part in The Barrier" in 1950, awarced one of th? OpportunlFellowshlps by the John Hay Whitney Foundation to study ra New York, anr! Paris, won first prize in singing contest in Switzerland, made her debut as an opera singer in 1933 and has toured Europe and America, i' JUNE CCLENA Dobbs was graduated from Spelman in 1943 and holds an A.

M. degree from Teacher'SfCollege, Columbia University. She has been research assistant at Fisk and teaches in the (Tennessee State College. 4 She has traveled with her sis ter. in Only two exceptional people could produce Iso many outstanding children.

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