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A Page Of Features Americana Books and Writers Chatter The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN jb* f•fter Speoiti WtH of Seat. •f^it southern notion that are Northerners love te pummel I Dbneland...
...But the life was something most of* them couldn't have stood for very long...
...It the substance of an interview with W. L. Ferrell, until ?«ntly President of the Savannah (Ga.} Trades and Labor ?««mbly (AFL...
...President of BreoHyu niflamii.ajajggj I Hllljttl ftgji JTg*o'«A ItW'JtJM vesicated, smong other 1 ^^^S^fj^ff^ HMF11 o* tiuft aaapnT REPORT ON NORTH AFRICA...
...If * -Hrf this land we really love, it ia the section down toward the E^And, most of all, what we like is to say pleasant thins awaOt Well, today 1 have my chance, and witch nTmake u? .fit This column is about the State of Georgia...
...112 pages...
...The London International Assembly is ah unofficial assembly of people from all the United Nations...
...new study on fpessiahs, incorporating material fxoto-«» ssgfier took, which traces the" attitudes towbt^aW siahs held by Egyptian and Hebrew, and the role of the Messiah in modern times, . Dr...
...lie nst time I was down there, Ellis Arnojl was just starting tjoad to the governorship We were so glad to see him lick Tabnadge that we were all ready to hope for good thing...
...The chapter on education in the enemy countries takes Germany as the typical ouuiilry and has no direct discussion of either Italy or Japan...
...Nefawea are gore* wwjjhsg to leave talmas aa they are, bet their radical leaders- stir them up to levtaUBotatiy frenzy (11 in a cewrtliittoaal democracy, aa argument that a majority of the people want this or that is not a certification of ultimate legitimately deny...
...among the Baltimore NagjOes ft wsaf gsaV W|t they had to offer...
...William Hubbeh was per haps too much on the periphery of the event...
...Published by the American Council on Public Affairs...
...It "was therefore' particularly gratifying- to see a 'competent liberai journalist like Crawford arrive at substantially similar conclusions when He was faced in North Africa with tile task of fitting another batch of the missing parts of the pugsle together...
...tt it were not for fear of the draft," Mr...
...They don't count in Mr...
...Professor Murray notes, "Although the U.S.S.R...
...I twruar owners, naturally, that there wept a Negro man and his wUC 40...
...deep feelings in the hearts' df Negroes, which loads to trouble...
...When Bobby—of course, they called him Bobby, not ft Ball—was taken from the car which brought him to the jail, ¦*' Sheriff and his men fell on him with blackjacks and whips...
...ai Gtttffo Labor ana Politics P* the Atlanta Constitution of October 7th, Ralph McGill runs a «4umn that should take some sort of prize for realism...
...to an intensification of feelings...
...The dajrge had been violation of the civil liberties statutes...
...Readers who have been guided in their thmkhsg about oar Stote Department by the "liberal wedkHea" WW find the detail aa well as the over-all picture very disturbing...
...Soon the jailers reported that the l^iswerwas "in bad shape...
...J jesting to Jim Crowism...
...What da ties Negrosb strive for bat to keep the lifeline of their destiny aneaT frees that ef the other races...
...And, in the meantime, we don't mind being told war and over again that Wiley L. Moote is a successful business¦aa and that there will he no nonsense about his administration...
...la years to acme peopie wiU forgwt the not *f ioas...
...We are WRWRt the doors," says Mr...
...No one would let us in...
...Social Science Books LARGE number of worthwhile and interesting books are published each year that rarely find their way into the regular book channels...
...Pa war workers may belong to the union, but they are jnst Twsters...
...It is to be assumed that their verdict was a just finding in •flight of the evidence and testimony presented...
...from residing in certain zones...
...Men and women interested in post-graduate study in Europe may ponder this conclusion: "It is therefore mainly in Westech and Northern Europe that, any serious research work is Ukety to be possible in Europe far some years...
...Moore is president of the Atlanta Chainber of Commerce and has a in a lot of big business concerns down there...
...The poor chaps who have the leg-irons knocked off will care • • • H« Uov/jfced o Tire fH)lfWCTED by a jury of white neighbors, Sheriff M. Claude ..Screws of Baker County, a deputy and a policeman have been ematnwed to three years' imprisonment and the payment of taoosand dollar fines...
...vesite est en marche...
...The Sry believed the witnesses and returned a verdict of guilty...
...Bpler fornW that only one labor leader, William Green, had ever been offered an honorary degree...
...Needless to add far reader* of the AmiAlraw press during these crucial months: the Kremlin bays did net feel themselves bound by such delicate considerations and during the days when other...
...the jurors were white residents of the juris**«Wi...
...After midnight we finally got to a piss* owned by a Negro, and he accommodated us...
...Incidentally, there are deyaiUaeut1 s%tbssFW Baltimore where s doorman tells them they will not be adiajtfjdj On* night we found ourselves looking for ¦leaping ilssM'tolS on the road near Washington...
...Well, that will be ended...
...flgCdvernor went about this business in a direct and effective jg...
...Rjerexwill be no nonsense about all «. BSciency is to be put into tile business ef running prisons f dealing with prisoners...
...The point is he is being- put over-Hants** milk-and-water reformer—but Ja practical bttsinOSsmaifc...
...Finally, after starving ourselves, getting a headache and an adtttk measure of bitterness, I stopped- in a entail shop on tiie rfcbd} flal some sandwiches prepared, and took them out to my friends, and we tat in the car and ate our bread and eheeaS...
...This is what a constitutional democracy, a Bill of Righto, means The alternative is some species of totalitaManiaav - fSr, ¦ ¦ Admitting then, for the sake of the argument, that a glaWtttf ef our white citizens want segregation fdt the Negro, it is SppSrelft that, within the framework of our political institutibn*, this «pT cannot be given the dignity of an ultimate political truth\ fob t»f qpeaion remains if this wish of the majority if entitled (6 lefgl sanction...
...For two or three hours I ttfti at place after place looking for rooms or outside cabins...
...Even these chapters are of value, because they show the observations of a man who waa primarily a religious seeker and not a political activist...
...njca, too, a radio loud-speaker is to be placed in every cell block, 1g which the prisoners may listen to news broadcasts and keep ifijpri on outside events...
...It all sounds fine...
...American universities' are part of the process- and Dr...
...PgBst don't get me Wrong and don't get the Governor wrong, is probably the best possible way to put over such a change, gid Director of Corrections Moore is going slapbang- into reforms ejtbont calling them that...
...A sheriffs life is not a happy one...
...ss l**y haw* fergonrn the ether riots but they may ->ot tose cbe point of view expressed by Mr Krock...
...In times of insecurity and (Upheaval, people search for leaders -who ofler s#curity...
...There ^s but one feeling such citizens can have about the Afl*«y trial...
...Assuming that flfls w*»h of.fP majority has constitutional sanction, has not the affected ilgjU|0|| the right to agitato freely for 0 change in tifej CdjUfaUlU^r, %j&*VF amendment or decision ? When Lineoln was told of tiW JaWMjl'' of die Supreme Court in the Bred Scott Case, he sags' it ws> KU duty to obey the Court's mandate, but hit right at the same thW to agitate for a change...
...It is full of humor, contains vivid sketches of NogbeV (whose wife ir Jewish...
...Justice Harlan said that Negroes ahssjH aayor laOjal...
...B*% too, all leg-irons are to be immediately removed...
...w n maintain freedom of the pr«as and stiU-.Aoad their own on the propasjanda front, this eNPM* a-ddfcwoF policy problem...
...If Mr...
...In Permjrrfvatua dt went through town after town looking for a place tint wVaU SSgew us lunch, but without success...
...Her* is On example: time and* agMtra a* majbrfty of people in a state or municipality have attempted to curb the activities, of s small, despised sect, the Jehovah's Witaofgja, aad* the people's representative, have adopted legWatibst aSeOstiwgM Th* Bulged efts** Sugar*** Court Had rgfrsatsMr* heW thBt thdfV acts of the majority are unconstitutional...
...Sawe then, I have.followed the record only sketchily...
...It is a teat case...
...All that the three men did ns to kill a Negro...
...Crawford's North Africa Report By HARRY D. GIDEONSE [Dr...
...is represented by observers in the Assembly, we were not able to secure participation of any Soviet representatives in our inquiry...
...Those eager for newt of German, occupied Russia will find that conditions there are summarised, in two pages of excerpts from thdMolotov Notes on German Atrocities...
...but this, too, is not a fgbt of ultimate political value, for th* question remains, should Negroes quietly suffer wrongs and injustices, rather than SwSa vindication of rights ? * • * LET U8 LOOK AT ^SEVERAL PRACTICAL SITTJATIOrrhV...
...And you might see something worse, rht pass on a Sunday and see black and white prisoners together and spending their leisure turning from side to •ase their aches...
...Knack's aJews may be iieiWWU" piay «n important part...
...It*makes very interesting reading to see how thev Social Democratic village teacher joined the Quakers without giving up his basic Social Democratic ideas...
...Today I can apart that Georgia prisons, one of the rottenest spots in the state ge in a fair way to be cleaned up...
...The prisoners are all to be put to work in mills and on state ipsa) bat not just to make or save money for the state...
...Tnat*s something, by cracky, that are all for...
...It stso creates" a personal problem for any reporter who i* atne1U»< to his responsibilities: be most not mislead his readers, yet he must not disclose military secrets o» gum up his nation's paji kulajwel wsnTaieJiiH Ai times- he must bury hie reportorial instincts ufdei' a sense of dtl&rtidh to Dfk aid*, te the United Nations...
...Charles A. Beard »otod in his introduction, a "li ia<taauit jfc the American labor movement that is . . .- Jsadtliil &nd anchored in the social circumstances of its rise and growth...
...Crawford « nbwr*im' Max Lerner's language—a "disilluaiooed liberal" engaged in "political sniping...
...Asd Director Moore promises to hire "plenty of alert...
...The United States Buprerar Court held the ordinance unconstitutional...
...American reporters found Algiers full of Communist-Gaullist intrigue...
...He will get organized labor, too...
...as ordwianee barring Nagroe...
...The Council for Education in World Citizenship is "a council of representatives appointed by each of the British associations of local education authorities and teachers," as the Foreword tells us...
...that you can't depend on them and had better not count on P* for the post-war period of trial...
...That is certainly good business...
...Ferguson, a case before the Bifpliaao CourVK TJlK Mr...
...Philip Newman's study of Laser Legislation in Ne%c Jersey, is...
...More sophisticated liberals—not quite aottt'illasioned"—will recognise a familiar totalitarian pattern with new stage settings and a green batch of innocents...
...Marginal query by this reviewer: is there any special virtue in being an "lilusioned" liberai...
...Perhaps the fact that Mr...
...JFge American Council oa Public Affairs Mat just published Professor Wilson WaEia...
...But—tough wm—that night the man died...
...On a review of the facts, the NAACP concluded that tfn» men wee* inaocent and that race prejudice was not absent frem the pposeeotion...
...Perhaps this case atee SUjfitltswji...
...take on the additional job of fighting the French colonials...
...Before the gm«rlrne-r«tioning- days, for two saaMMV summers I undertook automobile trips with a Negro man and att wife, old friends of mine...
...by the N.E.A...
...Negraas throughout the country will watch the ease, raihaps tlriaMsw will lead to an intensification of feelings Bat shall the aggilawad Negro be blamed for attempting to vindicate his statutory rtgtrT in a legsi forum...
...high-type paids—not the old pot-bellied, tobacco-chewing shot-gun men...
...If a personal note is permissible, I might add that I had to struggle last summer through- a similar haze of misrepresentation and deliberately created confusion, when I sought some clarity regarding the French situation in London...
...Add this note about the poll tax: "You take a lot of our regular ¦embers...
...This Negro...
...Crawford's book is extremely readable...
...and the director kindly took us to s lunchroom operated by Negroes, Among White persons it would be considered a fasttth ar fll rate lunchroom...
...tOR SEVERAL WEEKS ON BACH OCCASION I LIVID AS * . A NEGRO Believe me, it was a harrowing esjpeiiaisgel My reaction Was perhaps especially keen because, as a Jew, MB live through the experiences of the Jews in Nasi Germary BbCbre we even left New Jersey, oar tragic experiences began...
...The three officers of the law who brought about the of the Negro within their keeping should be thankful they •#P*d an indictment and a punishment more in keeping with the Wvlty of the crime...
...Some of these books are PhD theses, books with prosaic titles and narrow scopes...
...f^it southern notion that are Northerners love te pummel I Dbneland about lynching* and chain-gangs end poll-tax laws , aanply cockeyed...
...tB*»»teglat about the N'egro..» o-» of the -facta of nature", aad raoat...
...Ferrell said to Jtalph ***iH", "I'd say that half of this floating group in (all thejvar Jgrts would go home right now...
...bat the waiters ignored us...
...FX B. The Color Line 7A* QsteJ&m % 2??tow- Low . ajjKtftgSih *ati iT«f Mur&roek...
...Here is the most controversial and urgent issue of all...
...Professor Gilbert Murray, Chairman, wrote the Foreword and Professor C. W. Judd, Secretary, drafted the report...
...Ours is a democratic society, but every one seeks honors, whether it be Grand and Benevolent Leader of the ardos* to the stately LLD of Harvard...
...The new Director shows his spirit Ipavying he is going to put in these loud-speakers right now, "wen if I have to buy them out of my own pbeket...
...In passing, we note that the Educational PoRcies Commission, an American body former...
...in an era of mass educatiqff, pagUe leak fjr a unifying idea to which tbey^eatav eng...
...yet often they contain penetrating material on our society and interesting insights...
...Crawford has some very fine pages on the reporting of the war—pages which reflect all the difficulties of a free and democratic people at war with totalitarian enemies, and with totalitarian allies who do not hesitate to use free institutions for their own purposes: "Army censors could not permit correspondents to say, in those first few weeks, that the American and British armies in North Africa were too small for the job at hand and in no condition to...
...In comparison, the libraries and facilities of France, Holland, Denmark, and Norway have been hardly touched...
...It is full of human interest detail and sophisticated in its interpretation—and it suggests that the major difficulty in our North African episode arose because of the predominance of military reporters and the absence of reporters accustomed to find their way in an opaque political atmosphere of intrigue and character assassination...
...Peyroute*, Lemsigre-Dubreuil (who became a GauHlat hlflaeat it (was the beet way to express his artti-American sentiment), Robert Murphy and Gtraud...
...and publish "Report on North Africa",&>smjpn.fife ubMWW|> Wg|.»J» The innocents at home who edit fit nwtslhawe gj^aiwtt RA%'W»MsWk%RAWmtM the wisdom of our strategy aM^ip^ngcy in No«3i Aftrio* ^BPla**** "*!JH ft their chosen correspondent afa^«i^ofead choose be^rmfk J^^^^^S^^^SlLa the Kremlin geysers since it became a major objective to diaCPefit imenna iXmqt on the peace, they made the charaterigtic decision to diacredit the ma» who dared to report the truth...
...Twenty-seven communist deputies and hundreds of their followers had grpvitated toward the city after their release from detention camps and in this synthetic atmosphere only, a politically allergic reporter would have been able to sift democratic wheat from totalitarian chaff...
...let Atlanta-Journal, in its issue of October 10th, publishes an •ftgrial about this series of events that deserves wide circulation tome North...
...Darlan...
...2> Mr, Krock maintains that when Negro leaders cry tor changes, the effect is to stir up...
...and the American Association of School Administrators, has reached conclusions ar.ft yet with so much firmness in principle...
...One attempt to remedy this condition was started several years ago, and is flourishing today...
...Others are books by scholars, which, again, have limited appeal so that they are rarely found in the catalogues of the established publishers...
...The penal*» imposed are the maximum for this crime...
...Roosevelt is nominated, he will get nine-tenths of ** vote...
...Ky>„ wart ted aha Negroes to lev*- in ghettoea...
...generously offered to pay all of the expenses...
...They aren't interested m f* onion as a means to making a life work out of their jobs...
...Physicians testified that Robert Hall had died of concussion •Itho brain and friction burns...
...Delegates from both bodies formed the Joint Commission of fifty-six...
...Should the Negroes have suffered quietly the judicial murder of the defendants ? (b) la Texas, as in some other southern states, only white parsons may vote in primary elections, and in these une pafeSf states nomination in the primary k eqalealeiil to ejection...
...I consider the report on the experiences Of the boy} aad the young teacher a classical documjent on certain features ef Germany's culture...
...Gideonse...
...For the most part, readers will find nothing new in the survey of education in the occupied countries...
...Spier traces the chase for American Honorific* among .politicians and businessmen...
...He returned Jo resign fromixteition on the fNfeejr's gtg& «"* to...
...sgine that about a third or less of the floaters will be able to 5...
...S) There would be batter understanding erf the IvOgve's paaV tiow if people more keenly realised the plight of the Negro m the pattern of exclusion and sag legation...
...Robert Hall, had been accused rf stealing ata automobile tire...
...All highway prison camps are ordered dW at once...
...For the democracies, trying to .-^s...
...North Africa, at the inception of the campaign, was an assignment for experienced reporters, full of wisdom and ulcers...
...as*set furaT^J S ^sWJtt0R^ft^^f^t^4Kr *^e^fc arw^^ J*^(^p^-w^H»W^> Ali^^s^ ferSaVft *Jv|}4r rgrgisgjiib af- jejaek eawiion...
...Most of our reporters were excellent on the military phases' of the war, and they were very poor in their ideological armament The result "was bad, confusing pub^ licity for American officials at home," who could not "openly question deGaulle's motives without exposing themselves to the accusation of traducing an Ally," and who could not explain frankly how slender the resources of the Anglo-American expedition were without endangering vital military interests...
...Seeing half-witted guards ^th gone pointed at a lot of poor devils building a road was enough a-tourist's stomach...
...They are issued at-low prices and in two editions, one cloth bound,.the other in cardboard and usually a dollar cheaper...
...Of course, Negroes throughout the country are watawldg this case with keen interest...
...fJERE is a pamphlet to start one thinking about * * that post-war i^orld...
...This is history...
...Here is a part of it: "The case was tried in a federal *W in Albany...
...They took fbe eaw to the United 9m^^mmmMt Court and won a reversal on the giegnd'ftmt tiar fytagewSegVtBP jurisdictiori...
...Total war is fought with political as well as physical weapons...
...Ferrell's philosophy...
...fjNot being a Negro myself, f wawoM to find out whs* ft ajaVjMto be one...
...It they overdid their job...
...bi 1933, Hubben and his family left Germany for this country, because his conscience made it impossible for him to teach in a Hitler school ThO Hubbens left Germany penniless with a philosophy which is the only reasonable one for a refugee: "It is the future that counts...
...a) Three Negro soldiers were convictBrf of raping a wtVto woman...
...A commission reported the situation, hi called a special jgsjon of the legislature-end got enabling legislation in one-two(|ae order...
...as Dr...
...Moore, "through which those who jrove worthy can return to useful citizenship...
...We carry on a campaig*I to than to register, but many of them would have to pay glB.OU Justin good standing, and ifs like pulling teeth to get them to •"^registered and eligible to vote...
...Completely lacking in humility, tie man talked of getting a lawyer...
...They aren't registered...
...Can any one fairly Mabas 4Br Negroes for taking the case to the Supreme Coortf DMgMrflpr' guilt lie rather with those who have created and are piuierUug this form ef disfranchisement...
...A Report of a Joint Commission of the Council for Education in World Citizenship and the London International Assembly...
...Another example: the City «f Louisville...
...A Negro was d'saasl awch sjfn*Me he* has brought an action under taw Act...
...But many may not realize that the actual school buildings and libraries of Greece and Poland have been almost wholly destroyed, so that the entire educational systems of those countries will have to be built up literally from the devastated earth...
...Now, teas publicity probably contributed to an intensification of ftoetmg...
...Only the fufcjre...
...Without Waiting to draw breath, be appointed Wiley It Moore as Director of Corrections...
...This a>pald make for efficiency...
...The 1 a:.T chapters, dealing with the last years of the, German republic, do not perhaps have the sarte original quality...
...He added that the ilaslliaaa at bsge races are indiaeeiably Hnked, asai that tin interests of betir reajaire that the government shall not permit the seeds of hatred to ** planted under the sanction of law...
...We were the only patrons in the pliet...
...Witnesses asserted that the Sheriff W declared: "That damned nigger has lived long enough...
...Our age is reviving an interest in the myth and the messiah...
...A man in leg-irons is surely worth ass to the State of Georgia than one with free use of his legs...
...Georgia Justice must become a synonym for equal justice to •D, colored or white, humble or mighty...
...The former German village teacher, long since an American citizen, 4s now an outstanding-personality in the educational work of the Quakers in this country...
...They are to be taught trades and so prepared for freedom...
...The Sheriff had him sent to a hospital •§8...
...Negro leaders do not stir up passions the passions are titers In Plessy vs...
...were govciWaf by professional or mattery restrictions, they poured out a flew- et GawlhstCemmunist interpretation which helps- to explain Churchill's remark that of all the crosses he bore, the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest...
...The NAACP has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court to iliaaOat to a consideration of this situation, and the caoC W0J 1» ¦Tfajpfr this fall...
...On that assumpton, The Journal expresses its gratificatidn at the outcome of As ease...
...The shameful tales of the destruction of the Louvain library and of the whole Nazi regime of regimentation and terror are already known...
...The beak contains some wonderful cartoons that effertl<v!y satirise the higher education process...
...Most of these are not "commercial," so that the regular houses rarely publish them...
...This is the American Council on Public Affairs (at 2153 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D. C), which searches out and publishes the more worthwhile of the books described above...
...It is a valuable handbook- that complements the more general, studies* of the tabor movement in America...
...tab city laglstoliVr body adapted...
...ti -a...
...Prisoners will be rhat is called the modern prison plant in Tattnall County...
...It wax as though we had' leprosy...
...Men Who Plan the Future By EDWARD FIESS EDUCATION AND THE UNITED NATIONS...
...So the Sheriff sent his men dtar him...
...Northerners unite in the hope that it will turn out to be as fine at it sounds...
...v One map go oae stop further...
...IStrg i&JfmM) in the store, and all came to the door and windows tit dUselvs 4R9 spectacle of a white man breaking bread with Ne*?roae...
...We sfaaffi for breakfast in a wayside luncheon that esters to truer Rmmmand other transier.u...
...Mr, Knacif, oertrai ti>e«s*i eeaaw.to be this: a raojority- ef White people ceeu-a to Hve apart from the Negro, they want sssanwr a pabHc at* private agencies aad facilities...
...Honorary Degrees: A Survey of Their Use and Abuse, by Stephen Epler, is a perfect example of a "buried" PhD thesis which in its quiet way sheds an important light on the manners and morals of our society...
...This, we believe, is the •PWpn and determination of all good citizens...
...Ferrell is head of W kteal of the Electrical Workers will shed some light on his **»¦ The burden of his thought is that "the floaters" are not **h...
...The ease was featured in the Negro press...
...Those open-air apitehtiaries were always bad publicity...
...vides that no one may be refused sareieo in a sMatt aSMkgjr account ot his religion or cola...
...There is one funny thing frlt this appointment and the advance publicity through which Governor and his friends are putting it over...
...Bp Kim**) Ctw»f«rtL Pqrrar atisf flStWawr KENNETH CRAWFORD went to Nprtjj Af|icajp ^J^ffJ^ WL^k toIS for PME...
...Report on North Africa" is a first class job of reporting and of analysis...
...In Baltimore we spent a great deal of time looifinaj fe% sygMa place that would admit us Finally we Want to the Ntg4i'mK...
...It may be true that legal defense and educational aetrrtries ah the part of the National Association for the Advancement of Comred People and the National Urban League do cerfmbuur to an intensification of feelings and passions...
...You get the idea...
...Any Georgia blonde in Greenwich Village . djing gasp in her voice could tell you that...
...Neither could the censors permit it to be said that Darlan seemed to have the only spike that could be rammed into all French aruns immediately...
...c) The Ohio Civil Righto Act, like the New igOJjL...
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