The Charlotte News
Saturday, February 4, 1956
THREE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page
reports from Tuscaloosa, Ala., that an estimated 1,000 male students
chanting "keep 'Bama white", demonstrated early this date
against enrollment of the first black student at the University of
Alabama. The singing, shouting crowd had marched to the home of the
school president and when told he was out of town, about 500 of the
students marched downtown and then disbanded. Police had described
the disturbance the previous night as a panty raid, but the cries of
members of the group all had been directed against the newly admitted
black woman to the University, Autherine Lucy
In Washington, diplomatic sources said this date that Egypt had received from Communist Czechoslovakia 40 Russian-built bombers, some already in the air. Awareness of that fact had resulted in an urgent call by the President and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the week for new efforts to preserve the peace in the Middle East. In their joint communiqué, the two leaders had proposed discussions with the French, pursuant to a 1950 trilateral agreement, to decide on joint action which would best prevent any violation of the Arab-Israeli truce lines. The communiqué had denounced the Soviet bloc's 80 million dollar sale and barter of arms to Egypt as having "increased the risk of war." The barter portion had been for Egyptian cotton.
The Defense Department said in its monthly draft call, issued the previous day, that 6,000 men would be drafted in April for service in the Army, the same quota as for March. There had been no mention regarding the Navy, which had been allotted 10,000 men under the March call-up.
In London, it was reported that blizzards out of Siberia continued to plague Europe with a deep freeze this date and weather forecasters warned that fresh blasts would keep the Continent icebound for at least another 3 to 4 days. Menacing ice floes were reported to be building in the North Sea, as the death toll over the Continent reached 113 in five days. France remained the hardest hit, with 31 dead, Britain reporting 25 deaths, Italy, 12, Denmark, 11, Germany, the Saar and Turkey, 10 each, as well as others. Near Bristol, England, an 80-year old woman was found suffering from severe frostbite after wandering in a daze for 18 hours across frozen fields. In Glasgow, six seamen had died from fumes after they huddled over a makeshift stove aboard their ship. In parts of London, electricity was cut off to conserve power, and garbage had not been collected for ten days because of icy streets. Damage to the famed flower fields of southern France was estimated to be as high as the equivalent of 2.8 million dollars. The famed "Battle of Flowers" at Nice might have to be postponed as the giant carnation crop, used for tossing over the streets, had been virtually ruined by the frost.
In Plainview, Tex., it was reported that a raging snowstorm continued to hit West Texas this date, paralyzing transportation and piling snowdrifts on rooftops. National Guardsmen had used heavy trucks the previous night to battle the blizzard and rescue marooned motorists south of Plainview, after about 30 cars and a bus had been stalled by drifts up to six feet high. In some places around Plainview, the snowdrifts had piled as high as the eaves of houses. At Dalhart, Amarillo, Lubbock and Abilene, the driving snow continued, with the accumulation measuring between two and eight inches, with far West Texas having accumulation the previous day up to ten inches. At least 16 deaths had been blamed on the blizzard since it had hit the Panhandle during the middle of the week and then spread over most of Texas, most of the deaths having been the result of traffic accidents on slick highways and streets, while others had been from fires and suffocation from faulty stoves, with one man having suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow.
In Leaksville, N.C., Governor Luther Hodges told an audience in his hometown this date that he would campaign for a full four-year term, saying that he would be a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on May 26. He had become Governor upon the death of former Governor William B. Umstead in November, 1954, the first time any Governor had died in office in the state since 1891. Normally, North Carolina Governors at the time could not succeed themselves, but could do so when there was only a partial term served, as long as the successor acceded to the office as either the Lieutenant Governor, as had Governor Hodges, or as the president of the State Senate, second in line of succession. The Governor discussed the low per capita income in the state, the highway construction program and highway safety problem, as well as other subjects. Repeating earlier statements, he said that he did not agree with the May, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision of the Supreme Court, that he thought it had "usurped the rights of the states and the Congress". He said again that his plan of voluntarily continuing segregation was working and could continue to work, that the advisory commission on education which he had appointed had recommended a policy declaring that no child should be forced to attend a school of mixed races against the wishes of the parents, and that he approved of that recommendation. He said that if incidents were to arise challenging that policy, his Administration would propose legislation which would provide tuition grants or transfers, along the same lines of the proposal in Virginia, that later he would present to the citizens and the Legislature the full details of a program embodying those principles. He concluded that the chief concern was the preservation of the public schools.
In Wake Forest, N.C., the report of a probe into the administration of Wake Forest College had been tabled by the Board of Trustees, issuing a statement the previous day stating that the members of the executive committee had come unanimously to the conclusion that nothing had been established by the findings of the investigating committee which would warrant any change in the administrative personnel of the College at the present time. Hearings had been held the prior December in Wake Forest and in Winston-Salem, to which the College would move in the spring, after the previous board had established the investigating committee. The statement by the Board had said that almost ten years had elapsed since it had been decided to move the school to Winston-Salem, and it suggested that they take all possible profit from the investigation and then put the record behind them, close ranks and move forward "unitedly to accomplish the mission of building a stronger and more useful Wake Forest College" in the coming years. Why don't you just make a clean start and call it Reynolda College?
In Kannapolis, N.C., a 15-year old
boy had died the previous night following a fistfight with a 16-year
old boy. The boy had been knocked unconscious during the fight and
was taken to a hospital, where he died about four hours later. The
other boy was being held in the county jail without charge until the
police finished their investigation. The fight had taken place in a
park near the town lake, with a crowd of other youngsters having
surrounded the two boys and egged them on, according to the general
secretary of the nearby YMCA building. The two youths had been
arguing over possession of a piece of paper which had answers to a
high school assignment, according to a preliminary police report.
They had been separated twice during the afternoon by the YMCA
swimming instructor. The YMCA general secretary said that the younger
brothers of the two fighting boys had also been involved in a fight
the previous afternoon, adding that when the two boys had been
separated, it was believed that the fight was over, but then had
started again in the park. A juvenile court hearing for the boy being
held in custody was tentatively scheduled for the following Monday.
If they had just waited a week and watched "Ozzie and Harriet"
Nat C. White, former U.S. commissioner in Charlotte and one of the leading church laymen of the city for many years, had died this date after a long illness at age 79. He had been the commissioner since 1942, maintaining an office at the Post Office Building, where he presided over arraignments of Federal prisoners. He had retired from that position during the current week, succeeded by Robert Scott, a local attorney—no kin to Senator Kerr Scott and his son, Robert, who would later become Governor in 1969.
Harry Shuford of The News advises people not to go to the Post Office Building in search of help on Federal income tax forms during the current year, as the Audit Division of the IRS had moved its office to the Johnston Building. Take note.
Clear skies were predicted for the following night for Charlotte, after three days of wet and foggy weather. A drizzle would continue through most of the following day, according to the forecast, with a predicted high of 42 degrees the following afternoon. The morning low had been 37, with a low of 35 predicted for the following morning. Within the previous 24 hours, Charlotte had .80 of an inch of rain.
In Lexington, Ky., a man was sentenced on January 11 to serve 25 years in prison for a bank robbery the previous November 26, in which he had made away with over $10,000. He had obtained a license to marry a woman, but would have to await the end of his sentence to do so.
In Baltimore, a Federal District
Court judge decided in favor of the plaintiffs, the American
Character Doll Co. of New York, manufacturer of "Tiny Tears"
weeping dolls, finding that their patent for the mechanism which
produced the tears had been infringed by the Ideal Toy Corp. of New
York and its "Betsy Wetsy" weeping doll, that the latter
doll used the same mechanism on which the other company had the
patent. We hope that the little girl in London, who was telling
Father Christmas in December her wish list, on which was a doll which
"wheezes", got the "Tiny Tears", so that some patent enforcement
officer, the post-Christmas Scrooge, would not come along in the
middle of the night and snatch away from her a "Betsy Wetsy"
In Charlotte, instead of violence which had been feared might erupt after the basketball game between Myers Park High School and East High School the previous night at the Myers Park gymnasium, a new standard of conduct had been established. After an earlier game during the season between the two schools, a student had been assaulted and needed several stitches to sew up a gash in his head, and there had been other incidents of violence at local high school games as well. Eight police officers had been on duty the previous night after the police chief had vowed that there would be no repeat of such violence at the game. Firemen allowed to enter only those who could be seated in the gym and many fans were turned away. The student cheering section cheered heartily but did not boo, a new development as the game officials were normally the targets of verbal insult. Myers Park had won the game 82 to 58, ending East's 11-game winning streak, and no flareup of tempers occurred, with the conduct of everyone having been a model of sportsmanship.
On the editorial page, "The Big Stay-Up: Hooray for Hockey" indicates that the Baltimore Clippers hockey team, which had taken up residence in Charlotte because its arena had burned down the prior week, had suddenly captured the imagination of the city's residents, so much so that 3,000 of the 7,000 fans who had purchased tickets for a match at the Coliseum, scheduled to start Thursday night at 8:30, had waited three hours for the start while the opponents, the Johnstown Jets, made their way to Charlotte by taking a plane to Columbia, S.C., because the Charlotte airport was enshrouded in fog, and then traveled by bus to Charlotte.
It indicates that it actually had made no sense to play the game, as the teams were tired by the time of the game's start, but the fans figured that if they were willing to play it, they could stay and watch it. It guesses that sympathy for the misfortune of the teams had prompted the 3,000 people to remain in their seats for the delayed contest, although made easier by the presence of a diligent organist and by the concern of the promoters and Coliseum authorities for the pleasure of the fans. The promoters promised that Charlotte would have its own hockey team the following season, provided the locals turned out for the six games this year. It reckons that the only thing needed after the late night stay-up to 1:30 a.m. for the Thursday night match, was a name for the new club.
They appear not to have even given out free hot dogs to the intrepid few who remained, as the concessions did a record business, according to the front page report of the previous day. What kind of deal was that? The teams should have at least shown their gratitude by throwing in for the hot dogs. It's as bad as that cheapskate guy previously in the White House providing the NCAA football champions in 2019 McDonald's fare to celebrate their status. He did not even appear to realize that the golden arches, while perhaps dovetailing with Wake Forest, had nothing at all to do with the orange and purple Tigers. (Actually, Hardee's would have befit better the Demon Deacons, but that is beside the point.)
"Farm Surplus? Elephants Can
Eat It" tells of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
having come up with a surplus-reducing system
Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, one of the top thinkers at FAO, figured that elephants could eat surplus grain as fast as any other animal, provided there was an excuse to feed them. On the Andaman Islands, 750 miles from the mainland of India, tropical hardwoods grew which could be cut and sawn for foreign markets, and some 200 elephants would be necessary to help cut the roads through the jungle and build the sawmills, a plywood factory and wood-drying plants. Each of the elephants could consume 25 pounds of surplus grain daily, amounting to over 1.8 million pounds per year. There were problems in that the only port of the islands was made up mostly of descendants from a penal colony who, according to the FAO, had some inferiority complexes and required education and social development to make them effective citizens. There were also native tribes who were experts with the bow and arrow and very aggressive and hostile, shooting woodsmen and workers whenever an opportunity arose.
It finds that the FAO also, however, had a buffalo plan which might be even more ingenious, that being that because the six million residents of Calcutta in India drank less than two ounces of milk per person daily, a plan had been proposed whereby huge buffalo dairy farms outside that city would be established, necessitating funding of 14.5 million dollars to excavate lakes for the buffalo watering and wallowing and the construction of housing for buffalo cows, calves and owners, and to organize fodder farms and build a dairy plant. The buffalo milk, however, was too rich in fat to drink, but there was surplus dry skim milk which could be imported from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Holland and Denmark and then added with water to the buffalo milk to make it acceptably potable.
It finds the FAO plans hilarious because they might actually work. While it was silly, the U.S. was spending a million dollars per day to store the food it did not consume, plus the cost of purchasing it from the farmers in the first place, and so the FAO buffalo and elephant schemes were just ridiculous enough to work.
"U.S. Politics: From Bad to Verse" tells of things in the farm belt of the nation, where elements opposed to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson were suddenly fighting political fire with poetical ire. Senators Thomas Hennings of Missouri and John Sparkman of Alabama had contributed the following anent the Secretary: "As he sat upon his chair,/ He knew the bottom wasn't there,/ Nor back, nor legs, but he just sat,/ Ignoring little things like that."
The Lincoln (Neb.) Star made
note of parody lyrics to a song which was popular
It indicates that Vice-President Nixon had said that poets were eggheads and that eggheadism was sinister—a swipe at Adlai Stevenson who had been labeled an "egghead" in 1952.
It suggests that it could be argued that poets needed politicians, as starving in garrets was a bloody bore in current times. Poets did not starve anymore, instead obtained work and sometimes got quite rich, as had T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, three of the 20th Century's most famous poets. Mr. Eliot had become an executive of Faber & Faber, a thriving London publisher. Mr. Stevens was vice-president of a large Hartford insurance company, and Dr. Williams had made a fortune as a pediatrician in Paterson, N.J. Robert Frost had said a couple of years earlier, on his 80th birthday, that "old poets never die; they just go into business." He had stayed out of both business and politics.
It indicates that the heyday of political poetry had been in the 1930's when "social consciousness" was fashionable in literary circles, but even in that era, poetry had been more proletarian than political. Traditionally, poets and politicians did not mix well.
Ogden Nash had said in his epic
poem, "The Politician": "Behold the politician./
Self-preservation is his ambition./ He thrives in the D. of C./ Where
he was sent by you and me./ Whether elected or appointed/ He
considers himself the Lord's anointed,/ And indeed the ointment
lingers on him/ So thick you can't get your fingers on him./ He has
developed a sixth sense/ About living at public expense,/ Because in
private competition/ He would encounter malnutrition…/ When a
politician talks the foolishest,/ And obstructs everything the
mulishest,/ And bellows
It says that the poem went on and recommends that for the rest of it, the reader pick up Mr. Nash's book, I'm a Stranger Here Myself.
It concludes that poets were poets and politicians were politicians and never the twain should meet, just like Rudyard Kipling had said.
A piece from the Florida Times-Union, titled "Never Never Netherlands", tells of a Dutch newspaper having reported that Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin had been burned in "Effigie", which it believed was a suburb of Atlanta.
The piece indicates that the newspaper should have known better, despite the difficulty of translation, because everyone knew that Effigie was not in Georgia, but rather the capital of Cognito, the land in which people were always traveling. One got there by "going between Scylla and Charybdis in a high dudgeon, which is certainly not likely to lead anyone to the state of Ennui."
The Dutch graduate student at the University of Florida who had discovered the error in the newspaper could doubtless correct any misapprehensions when he returned to Holland, which it regards as an illustration of the value of student exchange. It suggests that he also should explain why the Georgia Governor had gotten "in Dutch", to alleviate the concerns of the people of the Netherlands, who did not need to be disturbed about it.
The matter refers to Governor Griffin, the prior December, having sought to get the State University system to prevent any member from participation in a college football bowl game wherein the opponent had a black player on its team, which was designed to prevent Georgia Tech from playing in the Sugar Bowl against the University of Pittsburgh, which had one black player on its team, a request which the University system had declined to accommodate. But in the meantime, the suggestion had caused riots in Atlanta and the burning and hanging in effigy of the Governor.
The piece reminds of an Illinois newspaper, in drafting a headline in September, 1994 regarding criticism of a Smithsonian Institution exhibit of the bomber which dropped the first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima, having printed: "Atomic bombers criticize Enola homosexual exhibit". (We should also, in the process, take the opportunity to apologize, having relied once upon a time herein strictly on memory in relating of this malapropism years afterward, for having double scrambled the eggs by ascribing it to a North Carolina newspaper, which, somehow, seemed at the time only natural, though we did actually get it right in the end—but we digress...
We might note that the obliterated link from ten and a half years ago to the reply of President Truman to the memorandum of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, with the President's corrections of the suggestion by Secretary Stimson that the President's prepared statement on the deployment of the bomb be released not sooner than August 1, changed by the President in his own handwriting to August 2, which produces 1,334 days between the attack on Pearl Harbor and that latter date, inclusive thereof, one short of those provided in Daniel 12:12, 1,335 days, the same, advanced a day, on the other side of the dateline where Japan is, or if including December 7, 1941, is now here. Why the link got obliterated, we leave to your higher discernment. (Recall the "monkey wrench".) Try to avoid messing with history and practical math through your smoky lenses, lest we all are condemned to repeat it. In other words, leave links and their digital identifiers alone, when someone has gone to all the trouble to link to your website for instructional purposes, unless you are simply dedicated to obscurantism through the huckterism offered by some salesperson beseeching you to incorporate some new and incredibly better software to generate more traffic for you and make the illusory graphic appeal of it all so much the better. Caveat emptor. And, for your further edification, it is no longer "Top Secret".
Drew Pearson tells of the Federal Reserve Board determining whether to ease tight credit controls to inject a little more inflation into the economy and keep the present economic boom from deflating. Meanwhile, in his economic message to Congress, the President had said that the boom would continue. The difference highlighted the warning provided to the President by his economic adviser, future Fed chairman Dr. Arthur Burns, that there would be a slump in automobile sales during the current year and a reduction in building construction. It was also believed by Administration economic advisers and large corporation executives that the seven-year bull market had seen its best days, as indicated by European speculators removing their money from Wall Street and by the shifting of investments from automobiles, housing, and farm equipment to utilities and oils. Were the President to decide not to run again, the market would likely drop back to its October low.
Senators were wondering when Attorney General Herbert Brownell would testify before Congress, as he had, thus far, ducked seven different invitations to testify. The latest had come during an executive session of the Senate Judiciary Committee, when the chairman, Senator Harley Kilgore of West Virginia, had read a letter from Deputy Attorney General William Rogers, offering to come, himself, in place of Mr. Brownell, regarding the proposal to hire separate counsel to represent the Government in prosecuting those guilty of conflicts of interest in the Dixon-Yates case.
He next indicates that there was more than the grand jury had been told to the contracts scandal which had resulted in the recent re-indictment of Warren Stephenson, chairman of the Eisenhower inaugural ball committee. The Congressman who had investigated the matter had used it to benefit a constituent. Mr. Stephenson had taken advantage of his inside position to become a five-percenter, that is a person who charged a fee to obtain access and influence within the Administration. He had been hired by several firms, including Century Engineering Co., which had developed a new rocket launcher for the Navy and thus was to receive a contract for its manufacture. They had assigned Mr. Stephenson to use his influence with the Administration to obtain the contract. Meanwhile, a rival firm, the Spray-Con Co., submitted a competitive bid to the Navy, which eventually awarded the contract to Century Engineering, which had deserved it. Mr. Pearson says it was not clear whether anything Mr. Stephenson had done had influenced the award of the contract.
Before it was officially announced, however, Spray-Con became aware of the award to the competitor and started pulling wires of its own. Congressman Bill Hess of Ohio entered the picture, asking the Navy to hold up the contract and order a hearing before his House Armed Services subcommittee, that hearing having resulted in the indictment of Mr. Stephenson for alleged perjury in 1953. The judge in the case had dismissed the charge on the ground that the evidence obtained from a recorded telephone conversation was inadmissible, but the previous month, Mr. Stephenson had been re-indicted. Meanwhile, the courts and the press had paid no attention to the fate of the disputed Navy contract, that Century Engineering had lost out completely, as the Navy had held up the contract at the request of Congressman Hess, inviting new bids, such that in the end, Spray-Con won the contract. The latter company then subcontracted the entire job to one of the constituents of Mr. Hess, the Cincinnati Industrial Finishing Co.
It was a spray job.
Joseph & Stewart Alsop tell of a U.S. project, dubbed "Project Big Brother", to launch a reconnaissance satellite within five years, which would be capable of transmitting to the U.S. images of the entire land area of the earth, including the vast area of the Communist bloc, presently hidden. It was believed that the images would be sufficiently clear to show major military activity as airbase construction or fleet movement, and would provide a fix on existing Communist bases, the locations of which could not presently be determined with certainty.
It would be a difficult and costly project, but was a serious one which had already moved past the research stage and been given high priority and a generous amount of the recent heavy increase in requested appropriations for missile development. RCA, CBS and Lockheed Aircraft had been enlisted for the work.
The aim was to launch a satellite to orbit the earth in an overlapping pattern, more or less indefinitely, constantly transmitting telescopic images of the surface below. The first problem was storage of the images, and clarity of the images. There was also a matter of the power source, requiring that the satellite, in order continually to transmit images, have a built-in and virtually permanent source of power, independent of the earth.
The Soviets had assigned a high-level priority to perfection of a "space platform", as the Russians called a satellite. But beyond that, little was known of their progress. The observation satellite was independent of the project to develop a small satellite to orbit the earth for a relatively short time, as announced the previous summer by the President, set to be developed and launched by the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.
Walter Lippmann discusses the bill to appropriate Federal money to aid in the construction of schools, indicating that it had run into conflict, still unresolved in the South, regarding the intent of Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York to add a rider to the bill to provide that no funding from it would go to school systems still practicing segregation. The amendment was supported by Representative Joe Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican leader in the House, and could, if adopted, bring about the defeat of the bill in the Senate.
Mr. Lippmann disagrees with Mr. Martin's assessment that the rider was necessary to ensure integrated school systems, indicates that the House ought to reject the Powell amendment, as, in fact, rather than supporting the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, it would actually subvert it by preventing aid to school systems most in need of it, to enable those systems to facilitate integration by building more schools. Otherwise, he suggests, under integration, the education of white children would be pulled down toward the level now prevailing for black children.
Even if passed with the rider, because the Supreme Court had left it to the Federal courts in each district to consider and approve or disapprove of plans by local school systems to desegregate, failing to provide them with the Federal funding needed to build and expand schools could afford them an excuse for noncompliance.
A letter writer tells of an experience of several motorists on the Jackson-Vicksburg highway in Mississippi, with one of the survivors of a multi-vehicle accident, a truck driver, having told of trailing a sedan with twin taillights which he had seen suddenly melt into the road, catching a glimpse of a black gap in the pavement just before his truck then went into that gap, with water suddenly rushing into the cab. He had smashed the window and struggled to escape, finding himself carried along in a swollen stream. Clear Creek Bayou, a peaceful Mississippi stream in dry weather, had filled with rain and had washed away the central span of the concrete highway bridge. Once the truck driver realized what had occurred, he hurried through the underbrush back to the highway to warn others of the gap in the roadway. He was just in time to try to flag down an approaching car, but instead of stopping, the motorist had swerved around him and sped into the gap, thereafter, the truck driver having heard some screams and shouts, becoming eventually only silence. Two more vehicles had done the same thing, with the drivers perhaps thinking that the truck driver was a hitchhiker seeking help. All occupants of the three vehicles had drowned. The writer concludes that people, without heeding the warnings, sped along the highways of life to eternity without Christ.
A letter writer tells of having
found the Fred Waring concert at the Coliseum "extravagantly
good", making her forget
Her latter reference is to the fact
that the ice hockey rink had been left in place for the adopted
Baltimore Clippers hockey team, which had their facility burn down
the prior week and were playing their last six home games in
Charlotte, eventually, the following season, to become a permanent
fixture in the city. (We would later witness a few UNC basketball games in that arena, as well in Greensboro, where the Greensboro Generals would, starting in 1959, hold forth, played on the hardwoods set down over the semi-permafrost, during which we swore that the cold air creeping up through the imperceptible interstitial spaces between the maple planking had completely frozen the limbs of the players, either working to the advantage or disadvantage of the team whom we came to see, depending on perspective
A letter writer indicates that in both the morning and evening newspapers, there were reports of break-ins in many sections of the city and that owners had suffered heavy losses of merchandise and money. He says that there were many elderly men who would appreciate a job as a watchman or guard at a small salary, indicates that he was available and would be willing to contact every man who had reached age 65 to see if they would like to hold such a job, providing his phone number in the event they could work out a plan.
A letter writer says that she was 11 years old and wishes to impart her views on segregation. She asserts the belief that all men are created equal, saying that she was opposed to segregation. "I think that anyone who thinks the 'white' is better than the 'black' race should give the matter a little more thought. I also think that it's very cruel to treat any human being the way some people treat the darker race of people." She indicates that some were of the opinion that black people were not as clean as whites, that she does not know where they got such an idea, that some of her closest friends had been black and had certainly been clean, friendly, kind and nice. "I think it's very immature of anyone to be for segregation just because of the color of the skin—it's only 'skin deep.' There is no difference at all between the Negro and white."
An 11-year old girl makes a whole lot more sense than about half the adult writers to the newspaper on this subject since the Brown v. Board of Education decision had been handed down in May, 1954.
A letter writer says that the Bible was the word of God, that "regardless of what the infidels and agnostics say about it, in the Bible there is a remedy for every need of man, if we would do what it says." He cites to the fifth chapter of James for a remedy for every disease and sickness, indicating that the drives to raise tremendous amounts of money to conquer illnesses were the result of society trying to find some other way. He cites II Chronicles, 7:14, also for the same idea, that God had said that if the people would humble themselves and pray, God would hear them and forgive their sins. He says that the world would never be saved through education and training. He indicates that there were enough Christian church members in the country to defeat Satan and all the evils of the world, provided they were united in prayer, that it would never be done any other way.
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