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THI PirTSIUH couwu My View By Benjamin E. Moyt Horizon By P. I. Pr off is Althea Gibson IK ALTHEA queen of the tennis world. would not exist had (here not been AN Althea Time Ii.kI to he an Althea Gibson with the talent, potential skills, determination, no that there could be an Althea Gib son ho would ram the right receive a golden I from yuwn Elizabeth sym Itolizuig Queen Aiihi'U's sovereignty on the tennis courts.

But an many to knov, here In (itnl' a it more behind Queen Althea than the po Mr. Prattis tt ntlal of lit tl Althea Gibson, born in Sum it. S. C. mine 2'i years ago.

One truly hopes that QuCen Al the.i will have the humility to rii'ount alt these many "persons, while and black, who heliwd ln financially and spiritually say' a praer if lode for them. THE EXISTENCE of Althea Gibson, as the queen of tennis Mitit up .1 valuable lesson. Although born with the natural talent. MissJIjbson would never have tiecotne tennis queen with tit helping hands who believed In her, Through long years, there were people who stu by her because they believed in her. They enabled her to play tennis, to perfect her skills.

Some of them taught her. In this resM'it, she is not unlike others who reach tile fop bt sports, or in ti e. or jn the professions. They must I ae tune. They must have cco I suppoi They must lie Hbir.

to wolk their 'Hade" vnihouf finatu i.i! worries. All the niuves ic ih a i i 'hen patrons. isons who bi i it; them ami sup otr I hem Kil'ti in Althea ha paid off. 1 i wli.it now now that ih.v iI'mii i ox J.n kt I loliiii'iMi Walked thioiih the ilool of I.i yaiu I tscball In thi if it'ls of i th' isi kept tile loots orti Jn, si'uK's of Wlui will (Iiiicm Althea A rii' mli I liie A'iU'i i I Association. Mi i iiti' the le iius t.liejj ts anotiir 'Neim s.

Wr.l Hi i in talent Sl W.I )elje ln rll st, vflC f.O,l M(vSor4 fo Hi.is le I' ll. I le I sir li on wl.rie ati'f j'i 'I if on itor, i I me i i.i tia am! ptf tu iit. ti the i.i v.oul.l tint Mi iiihs.ln to lie a piiiron. he ran Jell t.i!n wlwi sl.e sees ji And fioin bel pies ii it wouLi sj'eiu 'lit she i oulci win I ol f.llell. I'f SMlsos.

If l' ill iTi yi: and ept a pin her new I rM" ist.uily lplla I aill ile in.ilvt;,' m.i only lmd. il li ill some wear la i ti ilic hoy wu 1:1 i.i 11 til' si lkies I f. I Hie 1 .1 Irs tti r. iureTl Al li ra a eilie and r.i.iv slie Ji'i'i ii i mwi m.Jmismii fXH yft'M 4sl rv aw VIRGINIA ARISTOCRAT, OS. SECRETARY OF History Shows B1I.I.Y (Jtaham ha been do.

some R'xxl hv the in rial integration' In his New Voi 'meetings but, (so far as mil li of what he says foes, he as well be with those prophets, ilead tl ti'Misands of yeais, he" quotes so nim li. lfit pred rted Hie o'het' i ul that New York t'ily would I.m? i Cll StlovT'd just as how 1 1 an IPERS EXAMPLE Or i ANQENT NEGRO ART. ONE OF HUNDREDS Of THE FINE BWDNXES UNEARTHED IN THE crry of ifk. Nigeria, WHICH EXISTED BETWEEN 900ANDI300 A ART EXPERTS 5AY THAT NEITHER THE THE ANCIENT GREEKS NOR THE BEST ITALIAN ARTISTS LIKE 6ENYEN UTO CELLINI PROOOCEP ANYTHINta FINER. THOAAAS JEFFERSON, HOWEVER.

INFERRED THAT NEGROES WERE INFERIOR SINCE HE HAD NEVER SEEM EVEN AN ELEMENTARY TRAIT Of FAINTING OR SCULPTURE 'IN ONE OF THEM. AN AUTOMOBILE' HIS INVENTION OF AN AUTOMATIC CONTROL WHICH HE SOLD "TO THE ATWATER KENT CORPORATION ON A RoyALTV BASIS. MECHANIC AND A NEGRO, MADE THE OUTSTANDING CON TRtBUTION TO RADIO IN 1925. BY A negro By am Indian; chief, at a dinner PARTY, R.0VO WHO WAS DARK COMEXiOMEO ano had CRispy, wy hair wishing to MAKE THE CHIEF FEEL AT HOME, TOLD HIM HE, TOO, HAD INDIAN BLOOD AND WAS 0E iCrsaDED PROM POCnHAMTAS.TrlE CHIEF. WAR.

GOVERNOR OF WRQINIA0850) CANDIDATE TAKING A GOOD LOOK AT FLOYD SAID NO, FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE LATER ISa, CONFEDERATE GENERAL, ONCE WAS CALLED GuESTTKAD TROUBLE KEEPING FRO IAUSHING. hlletl kitl to destiny jeru salej.i less New Yolk got ckw its liioe. o. is is a f.ivtitite tlir. at cm Roger of the at'd there's nothing" in it.

Ail lhe treat ei'ies." ooil, had and Jiidifferent. ij the pat. were destroyed. Memphis Luxor. Alexaudi ia.

Palmyra. Athens. lUime, to all of whom. Jei usaleni was nothing nvue than a village, went doin. Andjbeie are of oh I 1 ers in Asia.

Africa and. Central i Amerjca. II the exploiting pow hadn't fouiid it profltable i to take up the Old Testament, we'd have heard! no more about Jerusalem than we hear of Mc rK Zymbabweyl Songhay, Tim bm too and Dhlo Dholo in Afri eo. or Vizyanahar and An 'phor Vat in Asia. IF TIIESK.

Hties had pot down on their knees and even stayed there. they: would even tually perish as the individuals of which tiey were composed. The foree that controls all this is And just as there will be a day when no living New Yorker will be alive, so there wjll come a day when there ill also he no New York, nor United States. Britain, Russia, France land Japan. Perhaps there will come a day though when men will bue their fellowmen enough to prevent war, and thereby give longer life to their! civilizations.

Wars, even wars that are won. are the first step to ruin. Look at all the miphty wars' England has won. and where is she now? When America entered By J. A.

Rogers World War started, to write her finish, too. AMI I CA.vif resist saying that but for oppression of the Negro. America might never have pot into that. Who took us into it? W'oodrow Wilson. And how did he get In? Through the solid South, the disfranchisement of the Negro.

This is history I don't need to read. I was living then, and it burni'd itself deeply Into my memory. Coming lo Washington, he brought with him a host of Southerners, only qualification was how to keep flow Negroes. These were the ones who largely were to direct America in a world crisis utter greenhorns, Including Wilson, himself, with his slogan to "make the world jrsafe for democracy," Wilson. whose first step on arriving in Washington was to set up jim crow in Government offices there.

Sometimes I am tempted to write a book show ing how slavery and oppression of the Negro, past and present, have hurt this nation and could yet prove its ruin. President and Civil Rights I AM STILL expecting the Southerners to filibuster the Civil Rights program to death or to emasculate it In such a way that It will be absolutely useless. As long as the Negro is voteless in the South, he will remain a help. less tool in the hands of political demagogues And seems that Senator Eastland. Senator Russell of Georgia, and others are do mined to keep the Negro helpless by virtue of their fight against the Presi dent's Civil Rights 0 Mr.

program. Some Northern Democrats will play ball with them and may. be a few Republicans. At any rate. I fear that the Southerners are more determined that the Civil Rights program does not become law than the Administration forces! are determined that it shall bo come law.

It will be a test of endurance. And when it comes to the Negro, the Southern Congressmen have an unlimited supply of endurance. It is not their intention to fight 'for the Negro to have the right to vote without intimidation in their own state. In all the talk about civil rights not one has said that the states ought to provide I he guarantee and protection of the Negro's rijiht to vote. Their only point is ta keep it from being done at aX IF THE SOl'TII would learn one lesson, it would help us IL If they could make up their minds that they will treat nil ritizens alike.

Irrespective of race or they could say to the Federal Government, stay out. But this they do not want to do and this they will not do. I I' commend the president in his insisting that his program is a m'xlerain one and in speak ing against the plebiscite which Senator ICtilsell 'proposed. Hut tlicre is one thing the President said which t.ntles me. The press rejiorteil the President as saying that therpweio phrases in the Civil Rights Kill that he did not understand.

It 'is a little disconcerting to me that the President would. make a statement like that when it is the Administration's program and a program that, he is defending. Tho hill has been under discussion for a long time and it has passed the House of Representatives and surely the President of the Ignited Slates should be: familiar with every phrase anil every clause in the Civil Rights Bill and he should understand it. 1 HOPE THIS docs not mean that the President is weakening and that he is ready now to perfect some compromise on the bill. We will wait and see.

The President Is sometime accused of indecisiveness when It comes to problems on the home front. He will pain great strength and great admiration if he continues to stick with the program. He still has more prestige than any one man in the United States. It is time, now, to destroy the Senate gag rule..