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JmmmmÌìw A Newspaper WitO 2nd Edition 2® Constructive ANNIVERSAR’ 8TAN O AXS VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY,' JUNE 2», 1951 PRICE SIX C THE YEAR AHEAD \ / f BY MARGARET McCULLOCH EDITOR’S NOTES: Our summarized report of twenty years of news highlights as observed by this publication since its founding on June 28, 1931 would not have its full meaning without the more important sum­ mary of the Negro hopes and reasonable expectations within the immedi­ ate future. The impact of the past score of years has given telling im­ petus to virtually all endeavors pointing toward a higher standard of cit­ izenship for the Negro in Memphis and its vicinity. Miss Margaret McCulloch, author, and educator, who has been keen­ BY ALICE DUNNIGAN pointed to the investigation staff Mrs- Austin is a member of the ly alert in the field of race relation, and a contributor to this publication, BY CHESTER HAMPtON .WASHINGTON —(ANP1— Four of the Philadelphia District Office New York Bar and the New York was requested by the editor to focus attention upon a f.’cld of view in more Negroes have been appointed of Price Stabilization. Bgr Women's Bar Association. She which the Memphis World will have a major interest during tlie next ATLANTA, Ga. — (SNS) to important key posts in the Before this appointment Parris is a graduate of Hunter College twelve months. The writer has touched primarily upon those areas in WDIA Salutes Speaking as “one who knows Office of Price . Stabilization, it served as director of promotion and and Fordham University School of which there are valid reasons for Negroes to expect solid gains to be made rogation and discrimination by ct was'announced Saturday by Di­ publicity. of the ■ National Urban Law, and has been in private, prac­ during The Year Ahead. servatlon rather than by experierici rector Michael V. DiSalle. League. Reared In New .York, Par­ tice with her ■ father Fitzgerald “Phillip Wlllkle, son ol -thèi-ÿ^S New appointees were Guichard ris graduated-with, honors.... from. Phillips, who. is commissioner of The Year Ahead Wendell Willkie, gave an impassion Parris, Mrs.. Doris Inez May Har- Amherst College and Columbia parole of the city of New York. She In its twenty years of life,. The Memphis'World has re­ ed. yet objective, account of Amert University. He also studied at the is also n member of the Harlem WDIA’s great radio listening au­ ca.’s stake in the cause ofj'Wl , ris, Mrs. Joyce Phillips Austin-, and ported many advances in the lives of Negro Memphians. 'As William Arthur Lewis. University of Paris and served as Lawyers’ Association and tile NA- dience in Memphis', nnd its vicinity rights. Wlllkle shared speaking hon­ Parris ’was appointed to a post an instructor' at Livingstone col­ ACP. , it reviews these today it asks also: What lies ahead, not In ocknowledge the salute to the Mem-' ors with'Morehouse Coilege jITrisiri; on the newly organized national lege, Lincoln University and At­ Lewis was former district com­ the distant future, but in the next twelve months? phis World Sunday afternoon of dent Benjamin Mays at the Wëdnés '■ consumer advisory committee for lanta University, modity investigator for OPA, during The world outlook is for the Negro hopeful and chal­ this week in a special thirty-minute day night Mass Meeting of the;42rid / Mrs. Harris is an attorney con­ the last war. Until'recently he was broadcast as one of the finest pro­ NAACP Convention at the Murilclri-; OPS; Mrs. Harris has been named pal Auditorium. to the legal staff of the OPS, Re­ nected with the law firm of Cain, with the Bureau of the Census, lenging. He can look forward to increasing acceptanc e as a grams of.its kind. Script for the Thomas and Harris of Philadel­ and previously was professionally world citizen, free to go to almost any part of the would and narrative, prepared and directed by Willkie, the youthful chief’'coun-'s gion 3, comprising Pennsylvania Miss Frankelle Robinson, World and Delaware. phia. She is a graduate of the active in accounting in Philadel­ to find himself accepted as a man among men. This comics sol of the United States Senate;Sub­ University of Pennsylvania School phia. He graduated in accounting columnist, dramatized the high pur­ committee on Morals and ■■ EtMcSo Mrs. Austin was appointed to the to him through the United Nations, our foreign, policy pose'of the press, and recounted legal staft of Region 2, New York of Law" and a member of the Na­ from Temple University and the and Representative to the Indiana*: and New Jersey and Lewis was ap- tional Council of Negro Women. University of Pennsylvania. “Point Four,” world scientific and cultural associations, The personalities arid events which had Legislature;, discussed the problejni' ir.ade headlines in the columns of as it affects the whole American World Council of Churches, and openings in the United '.his publication during the twenty population rather than the minori­ States in all phases of our American life. years of. its .existenoe. ties only. ’ ' ,-HL® Outstanding tribute of tho day WILLIAMS SEES GREATER But the answer to the particular question: “What may’ Mr. Wlllkle analyzed the.dlsçri^"' we look forward to in Memphis,” Will be written not by this came when Prof. Nat. D Williams, natofy practices from the sti widely known disc jockey, and an­ point of America's relations!) writer, but by the readers. True, there are external circuin- nouncer for the program, presented with the rest of the world- ADVANCE IN FUTURE stances, forces, trends and these are to be reckoned with. to Editor. L. O. Swingler an Award thirds of which is red, yellow. br But granted these the particular things ahead for us' in of Merit “in recognition of d'sti’.i- or black — and from the standpoi HISTORY OF MEMPHIS WORLD alleys were set up for Memphis Ne­ guished and meritorious . perfor- of practical economy; and1' (Continued from Last Week) groes on Beale Street and on Well Memphis depend primarily on how we meet these external . manee of public service in fostering, tlori within the United Stall ington . Sixty Negro officers factors aand what we do about them from day to day. Pro­ promoting, and developing Ameri­ 1 He said: "In a 'hot' war with Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the were placed under arrest in In­ gress in our Memphis life is likely to be along the lines .of can Ideals and for loyal and de­ I Soviet Union in which a blllipn arid War Manpower Commission, said voted service to the community and diana air base for delylng a jlm- these things about which we citizens, Negro and white, care i a half colored people represent thiiSi in a Chicago speech that the “de- crow ban . Dr. R. Q. Venson, the nation through the medium of balance of power, It is ■ nécêstà^® , mobilization of the Negro soldlei outstanding Legionnaire and civic enough, to do something. , / . radio broadcasting” and the press. MAYOR WATKINS OVERTON that these people be on dur •(Am’eriïjï • of World War II would be the leader, delivered an address on GI What are some of these things that are on the minds The Award of Merit was from radio cà's) side." -, testing point of American democ­ Bill at Collins Chapel CME Church Station WDIA and signed by Bert MAYOR WATKINS OVERTON Who "Although the common irian oh,, of our'citizens arid about which they may reasonably hope Ferguson, general manager. Mr. racy ...the second of a series of A war was purchased by Manassas' addressed the insurance men Wed­ the streets of Bombay; Calcuttripf forums were held by the Memphis to achieve something in 1951 and 1952? Ferguson has closely ¿worked with nesday morning during their Ilrst Singapore, Rio . and Hong Kong : High School pupils apd ■ a white this publication shice WDIA be­ Post War Commission headed by Homes 1^-/4 ■< business session at, Clayborn’s Tem­ many not know the record oil ciyli “Mayor of Beale Street,” Matthew Memphian became the first cadet came "The Good Will Station." rights" he continued, “they follow to train in it . Alabama police Reasonably certain: slum clearance, one new public ple, and officially welcomed the Thornton, Sr. With almost perfect timing of delegates to the city. • leadership which does.". .»"■ Lt. G. W. Lee's Lincoln-Douglass brutality began to Increase as vic­ housing project, many more private housing developments; the spoken words and the musical He cited the distrust of foreign tory in Europe seemed certain . colored leaders riotably Nehru -of address in’Memphis was published continuing Memphis’ nationally leading record in supplying scores, the dramatic narrative went m thé Congressional Record . Hunger-striking Negro Seabees in off with precisión. The spoken India, of America’s. good .faith bn ; California received a new comman­ good houses for all its citizens, white and Negro. Presidential aspirant Senàtor Taft's tt . - . f i „ words óetne from Taylor C. D. the basis of their .witnessing ,t li e- moves on the FEPC were viewed is der _as result' of complaints by treatment of the 15 million Atrierili/i NAACP concerning predecessor’s ra­ Uncertain* .outihopeiul ¡¿.opening of new_areas:_to_Negrc_|;Haye.s_jind__s<ins_Eunerai__Hom(L sinister and smacking of a “Double­ residents. Correcting the present overcrowding of over "“dT^^ci^next year win observé^ its can Négroes in this country; cross” . Word: came from New cial attitude, »fiftieth year as a business-in. .Mem— "Obtaining . these friènds,riæÉ®ï LEWIS O. SWINGLER, per cent of our population ¿into less-than'20 per cent "of the’ said, “is riot Important just:for the? York that the people of India were “The nation was shocked with Editor, The Memphis World phis; Mrs.

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