National Reports

...The AP explanation read, in part: "We deem it wholly untenable for any staff member to receive anything of value from news sources, irrespective of its char-racter or purpose and also irrespective of whether the individual is in a position to benefit or disadvantage the news source...

...He promises "segregation on all fronts," opposition to toll roads, opposition to "centralization of government in Atlanta," more help to the cities, bonuses for the state's first producing oil wells, and ?no new taxes...

...He supported Eugene Talmadge, the symbol of Southern reaction...

...He also has the dubious distinction of being the only Congressman in Washington who, thanks to the county-unit system, was elected with a minority vote...

...In general, newspaper front offices were relatively quiet or explained that they felt there was no serious infraction of journalistic codes involved...

...I reckon he thought there wasn't no voters that specially wanted the moon...

...The Negro is one-third of the population, and no politician could afford to abuse onethird of the electorate if it exercised its franchise...

...As Adjutant General in 1946, Griffin opposed the formation of a Negro Georgia National Guard unit, and in his current campaign he has declared: "I take my stand with the white people...

...As Lieutenant Governor, he has faithfully served Governor Herman Talmadge, Old Gene's son, and is the only present Gubernatorial candidate to endorse Talmadge's now famous "private-school plan...

...His reaction to the Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling was: "I do not subscribe to the philosophy on mixing the races which says, 'Let's reason this out' or 'Let's approach it calmly' or 'Let's not be hasty.'" True to form, too, Griffin promises old-age pensions for all, protection of the county-unit system, "adequate" education, a free cancer clinic, more agricultural research, benefits for veterans, development of mountain scenery, increased strength for the state patrol to cut down traffic accidents, and—no new taxes...

...2. Twenty-six newspapermen from nine newspapers and two wire services were on the payroll records of New England racetracks...

...It called attention to a statement which the management made to its staff: "Some employes are offered outside employment because of their connection with the newspaper...

...Newspapers seldom report to their own readers the successful news beats of their competitors...

...Davis is known for his half-baked statements on foreign affairs and violent declarations on segregation...

...The Fifth District covers three counties: Fulton, with 6 unit votes and a population of about 500,000...

...But these monied Negroes cannot move up into that group as long as they live in shabby neighborhoods and are deprived of the domestic comforts which make for middle-class living...

...The Journal-Bulletin reported: 1. Ten Boston newspapermen had been paid $60,000 since 1950 for such services as preparing publicity for state governmental agencies or serving as secretaries to state legislative commissions...

...One of the leaders of the Georgia NAACP, which is endorsing him, said to me: "If you take into consideration what his background is and where he comes from—born and raised in South Georgia—it is amazing how he has reached such a point of development...

...The story broke during the latter part of May, when the Rhode Island paper trumpeted its findings in its best we've-got-them-cornered typography...

...henceforth they undoubtedly will go slower before placing themselves under any obligation to news sources...

...Abram, a young man, and son of a Jewish immigrant from Rumania, has served as counsel at the Nuremberg trials and as assistant director of the Stimson Committee, which promoted the adoption of the Marshall Plan...

...and Rockdale, with 2 unit votes and a population of about 10,000—the county that holds the balance...

...The United Press announced that its staffer mentioned in the Journal-Bulletin articles had "voluntarily resigned...

...If he is given a chance, I'm sure a lot will be heard from him...

...Abram is responsible for several housing projects designed to improve the Negro's living conditions in Atlanta, and his feelings about the present-day racial problem are clearly indicated in the following statement: "If the Southern Negro really began to vote in substantial numbers, this would have a great effect upon the Southern viewpoint as expressed in Congress itself...

...San Francisco: Frank Mankiewiez...

...Says Piney Woods Pete, the folksy and witty columnist of the Atlanta Journal: "That's the oldest joke in politics, and one of the worst...

...However wrong newsmen may feel the Journal-Bulletin to be...

...Most city rooms here were aware of practically all the evidence the Journal-Bulletin was assembling, but none showed any inclination to join the pursuit...

...Two Who Campaign in Georgia By Joseph R. Fiszman Atlanta Two men who are now campaigning for the primaries vividly illustrate the difference between the old and the new South...

...But the Negro is not voting as one-third of the population...

...3. Public officials in New England received more than $150,000 a year in salaries from eight major racetracks in the area...

...The reluctance of other New England journalists to cooperate was immediately apparent...

...And this time, with only two exceptions, Boston newspapers were frozen into a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil pose...

...Who Reports on Payoffs to Reporters...

...Where an employe is found to be working without permission for an outside party and expects the product of his work to be printed in these columns, the management will move to protect itself in all possible ways...

...By Courtney Sheldon Boston For several months, New England newspapers have known that the capably and courageously edited Providence (R.I...

...One is Georgia's present Lieutenant Governor and former Adjutant General, Marvin Griffin, who is running for Governor...

...I ain't never thought Marvin was a mental marvel, but up to now I did think he knew how to add and subtract...

...This means that the white-supremacy bloc can always raise a specter of the Negro in politics, with its consequent fears and prejudices...

...There was bitter talk about the Providence paper's "holier than thou" attitude...

...Says Abram: "This committee of fourteen, while appointed by the present Congressman, has a public duty to the 700,000 people of this district...

...The Boston Herald was firmer than most other papers...

...Secondly, we must recognize that the ultimate job of moving in and acting as infantry under the Supreme Court's artillery will have to be done by the Negro, and it will have to be done primarily by the Negro as a voter...

...In the opposite corner stands Morris Abram, a man of the new South who is trying to replace incumbent James C. Davis as Congressman from Georgia's Fifth District (Atlanta and vicinity...

...Many liberals in Atlanta hold high hopes for young Abram...

...and W. E. Thompson, himself a current candidate for Governor...

...Apparently, the findings were not worth mentioning...

...One of our tasks in the South is to recognize that not all the work can be done by the Supreme Court...

...The two candidates for Davis's seat in Congress, Abram and Roy LeCraw (former Mayor of Atlanta), are opposing the county-unit system...

...Louis: William Wyant Jr...

...It fired an AP man who reportedly had been on the payroll of a New Hampshire track...

...Richmond: Lawrence King...

...But it is also true that his increased income has not resulted from getting a far more important job...

...DeKalb, with 6 unit votes and a population of 200,000...

...Some of them, however, had obviously toyed with the idea of using the story in some manner, for they sent their own reporters to dig up parallel information about the Journal-Bulletin...

...He was born in Fitzgerald (population 8,130), in South Georgia ?a settlement originally created in 1895 by Union veterans...

...Ellis Arnall, the liberal...

...Journal-Bulletin was crisscrossing the region on the trail of a new expose...

...He believes, in fact, that financially speaking a large segment of Negroes in the South should logically belong to the middle class...

...A strong candidate because the well-established Talmadge machine is silently backing him, Griffin has a record of opportunism which is matchless even by Southern political standards...

...It is safe to say that all but a very few of Boston's newspapers felt they were being unjustly treated...

...Since the committee adopted the unit system, the present Congressman has been twice defeated by a majority of the people and has taken office against their wishes...

...In fact, Southern liberals feel the task of solving the many complex problems facing the South can best be accomplished by indigenous liberals, such as Abram, rather than by Northerners or other outsiders...

...They are the trustees of the people of this district's right to vote...

...he is voting, I believe, as about one-twelfth of the population where he votes at all...

...The Congressman nominates the District Democratic Executive Committee, which in turn has the right to decide whether the district's elections should be decided by the unit system or by popular vote...

...It is true that the Negro has far more money in the South than he has ever had before...

...On the other hand, the Associated Press showed full awareness of the hazards of accepting any sort of monetary consideration from a news source...

...Abram feels that the problem of race equality is not so much a problem of segregation itself as of economic opportunities and decent housing...