1954-05-27 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1954.

★ DON IDDON'S DIARY ★ NINE JUDGES LIGHT

A FREEDOM LAMP

New York, Tuesday.

HERE is

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rejoicing the 15,500,000 coloured people in the United Staten. The Supreme Court's unanimous decision outlaw ing racial segregation In schools is being called the greatest single step forward for the Negro and his children since the abolition of slavery.

Even below the Mason- Dixon Line, in the South. which is chiefly affected by the Supreme Court's ruling. there is qualified enthusiasm among white people.

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Most lenders in the Southern States sold they would try

outlawing carry out the ruling segregation. A few diehards and demagogues threatened defiance,

to ensure

Governor Herbert Talmadge violent ROD of A of Georgia,

his violent father, snapped Acarlet braces and said: "I will map a programine continued and permanent segle

The courts gation of the races. have thrown down the outlet the before Une who believe Constitution means what it suys when I reserves To individual Stutes the right to regulate

Own internal

their

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Georgian accept the challenge,

mixing and will not tolerate the races in schools."

Another Southerner, Leute ani-Guvenir Marvin Grlin, a candidate to succeval Talinadge declared. The races wHE 224HL be mixed, rone hell or high,

wuler."

Down to work

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Uf the majority

its politicians,

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professors

down

effect

to

and teachers,

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to But

the devision

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Males and nn Assistant Prest-

val, hedged. Ken;" a zhocked to learn that the court has reversed itself: but he did not say, as he has sold betw that South Carolina would re- fuse to adhere to any decision to cant segregation,

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At the present Üme segrega- ion in required by law in

und in the District States

where the city of Columbin,

1tunted. About Washington

8.500,000 white children und

sit-

2,500,000 coloured children

segregation lend schools under laves watch in some States date back to the time of the Ameri- ern Civil War.

To marry out

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Court ruling wil take years of time and millions of dollars, In handing down their decision the Dine Judges left until next Orio- ber The decre to implement their ruling. So next autumn there will be more arguments in court on how and when their decision should be carried out.

the

for The sun has risen

Everyone feels coloured mnai, that the United States has in- creased a prestige on the in- ruling ternational front. The has helped to spike Commun- 1st propaganda trent their coloured people like dogs and worse. It is a beacon light

Astaties in Korcs, Indo-China, and the entire For Eust. No one here is arguing about that

that Americans

Doctor Ralph Bunche, A coloured member of the United Nations Secretariat,

anal per- haps the most famous Negro in Americu, sald: "The ruling is

American demonstration that democracy does apply to citizens, irrespective of colour."

Model of clarity

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THE or linary coloured man, the the elevator shoeshine bay. operator, the janitor, and the waiter, du not

to Associate Justice Robert comprehend to the full the in- dedi. Jukten forecast

portance " generathon

of the court's of litigation," <! Senatore sin. I have talke! to a f:w Sparkman and Holland, both of of them, unl most spid it was a the Deep South, said: "It may

bit too big to grasp. be years before school segrega-

on ends in the South,"

Giant step

RIVATE

schools

ile

One colitied toxi-driver said: "Though to be dancing in the streets, but I ain't seen kone Yet,"

The Suprung

visit,

tivej-

Court's while fornwily pbrud, was a model of clarity.

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affected by the new ruling pubile. tax - supported only

'The schools,

plarise "public schools in the United States mans what it wave, unlike the melag it has in England.

But whether it takes jíve years or ten to end school segre- gation the giant step forward in the match to freedom been taken.

In Congress politicians turned. discussion from the

ul Mc- its Carthy Army hearings to juggle go with the political implications zunti segregation

* of the chelston Supreme Court. There was an of the States,

violence in any

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it single demonstration

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There is an election comlag when the 143) In November, whole House of Representa- of the Senate, tives, one-third and several Governors run For In the Blue Gruss States of offee Everyone knows that the

court's action will Lawrence

be an in- Kentucky Governor

portout issues in the campaign, Wetherby spoke for most of the South

"Well Press reaction to the decision when he said work this out as we have work-

In the was favourable.

North Michelle West ! out other problems "

nd in the South The most famous of Southern edustie, Governors,

the Byrnes of self newspopers accepted James South Carolina, one-time Secre- decision with Southern courtesy,

United if not delight.

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and read like sociology by a professor. It said bluntly.

ast read out by Chiet Justice Earl Warren:

IB Aeld of publle eluention the doctrine of separate but equal" has no place. Separate educa- tional facilities are herently unequal.

It went on to declare plainly that is the court's opinion segre- gation of children In public schools solely on the basis of race, even though other facilities deprived equal, night children of equat educational opportunities.

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There was particulary in Britain, a sickly sentimentality about the blackman, Britain could take the lead in developing forms of co-operation in Afnen because of her great possessions there -- said DE MALAN

CHEAP LABOUR

"WELL,CO ON! YOU OWN 'EM,DON'T YOU ?"

A STRICKEN BOY LIVES

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

A KILLER PREPARES TO DIE

Then SUDDENLY Trent had a gun in

IpG3

Ten-year-old TONY ROWE has been found the kidnapped after seeing the murder of his mother-far which his father has been arrested-and for nine days the police have hunted for him to save his life from a dangerous titness. Superintendent STANLEY, of Scotland Yard, sought the help of bookmaker JOE TRENT to find fic-tac man HARRY When Thrake war THRAKE, who knew where Tony was, murdered too his ordow fed the superintendent to Tony. Now Tony's litle friend, o boy coiled JOHNNY MACDONALD, has just sold: There goes the murderer !"

SCOTLAND YARD.

C was genial Joe Trent, His the bookmaker.

face plump

creased

round and booted the bookie st the shin, and, as Joe bellowed with pain, be darted free.

And then I took a band, dived Joe and was struggling with

his hand

1 had ordered them to give them rough the keyhole of me ne nws immediately Tony the clothes closet in which she Rowe

woke up didn't wake had locked him. up after the Injection. But the

nly messag: s came through.

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box at the South-Western Court and, when

George Howe was

"After that, we just had to four the morning, simply get the boy, to save our necks,"

On the sald Joe Trent. said: "Rowe in a ormi.

"We meant ne The decision which becomes

dengar t," history is the result of five

Next maning I took Treat to harm to the kid. He was going

1..m and lodged

at to die anyway, wasn't he?" roses brought by Negro children, or their sponsors, against school

into its usual expres him in the mud. 1 am one of Pentsivilie pending an uppear-

At ten-thirty yesterday morn- in court, Afo: bourds or boards of

which i education sion of good humour as he those unusual policemen who doe which had practised segregation saw me. His hand went out not approve of capital punishe drove to the Yard and presented ing t appeared in the witness against thean.

my report to my superiors. to the raised in greeting. And ment for murder.

Atled in all the detalls, thanks The cases first came High Court in 1052 on appeal then, as he saw Johnny cases, anyway.

to Isabella Thrake.

Diana Rowe had been one of brought up, I made a statement courts. Macdonald beside me from rulings of lower Asguments were heard in De-hand faltered and he went

Harry Thrale's girls, meeting deeluring his innocence.

Cor him, men cember 1952 and the Supreme pale.

They Iel hi free, Edna them getting Court

Macdonald was waiting for him drunk and decision.

rob. Behind me stood Isabel Only after long and patient

bing them, ped. as he came out of the court, and ita Thrake, and could hengs and mouths of

marijuana so WIT her brother Johnny. dling ment and discussion by white hear the hiss of her breath.

elgarettes; but she Tire was a car walling for and coloured lawyers

also the "Joe," she suddenly shout-

gambled Iran Supreme Court's

against

ed, "get away from here-- segregablon handed down.

quick!"

was unable to reach ɔ

was

Ingu-

Not

in must

the

But in the case of Joe Trent,

I was determined to save him

was

The 10-day serial 'FIND THIS BOY'

written

by LEONARD MOSLEY

for the hangman. The end of a rope was made for this man's neck, and I was going to see him dangling

from it.

He fought fierce-

heavily. mostly them, too, and I was the driver. Wo with Joe Trent, ly, but It didn't last long. frog-marched him to the police When Trent asked her to pay car und took him off to the ber gambling debts, she referred station.

Isabeitta Thrake and him to Harry; and when Harry Johnny Macdonald followed in refused to pay, she threatened We moed through the streets made his face red again, "By another car.

to inform the police about his to the Princess Beatrice Hospital, God. Belita, you've shopped

activities.

off the Brompton Road, and we NOME of the principals in theme?" he shouted. "You've lo

all went up to the ward to- gether.

More important

His beady eyes switched from the boy to her, and new

rage

case did not seem 10 be them I küted Diana. Why, you BWATC that they hal made Spanish slut---" history.

"No. Fifteen-year-old Spots-

Joe!" she cried. " wood Thomas Bolting was play wasn't me! I swear it wasn't,”

ing baseball when the news was umounced. Spotswood, 4 thin

one of live

coloured lad, was school children who were plain- tiffs in one of the segregation

cases.

His mother, a widow, works

and

* * *

We were moving in on Jne, but he had begun to back now, a bookbinding factory. When jacket. Suddenly, he made a

fumbling all the time inside his reporters

photographers gathered at the houss Spots grab for Johnny Macdonald with

one hand, There was n gun wood was not around, although

the older. his mother had ordered him to put his blue suit on and for photographers,

Ho pointed it at Johnny. porou had better stand back, or

Joe had got his courage back

I knew

and had begun retracting every- So Thrake and Trent had thing he hud said, but we gone to Earls Court together to formally charged him just the see her, argue... with her; and

It was all right the same--with the murder of Diana when she started rereaining, moment I saw the specialist, Rowe and Harry Thrake. Then Thrake hit her; and hit her and Robinson, smiling as he waited I went to her cell to see Isabelita hit her. Then everything got for us. "We got him just in Thrake,

out of hand, and down came time,” he whispered. the poker, aut came the knife.

"We meant to beat her up She shook her head. "No," just a little," said Genial Jos. sho zuld. "Joe Trent was kind "But we got a little heavy to me. He even lent me money handed." to set up as a fortune-teller. İ can't betray him, no matter what he's done."

"Now will you talk?" i asked.

were

I let the others go before me, and stood behind them, looking down at little Tony Rowe, his big eyes alive once more, a big

emile on his face.

They wiped themselves and

Tony, this is your father,” the weapons clean and climbed Edna Macdonald was saying. out of the back window of the said: "In that

"Hallo, case, Mrs flat. They thought they were

sxmm," said George this kid goes the way of Tony Thrako, I sholl have to treat safe. They

overjoyed Rowe. "How He finally appeared an hou: Rowe to kingdom come! I mean you as an accomplice of Trent, when they

would you like read in the papers Edna here for a mother-and and ten minutes late, and sold: it. There won't be any encore for which means

be that George Rowe had been Johnny for a brother too?" "I've been playing baseball. Ithe hangman, matter how charged with murder, too. You arrested for his wife's murder. figured that Was more Im-many I kill. Now let me clear, can hang for it, you know. Just portant, although I am glad my coppers, or this little geezer gets think it over."

ease has been won."

no

his brains blown out,”

will you

Mrs Bolling sold: "We have But Joe Trent reckoned with- I left her then, but she called to trust God for all Uings blout the tough little Scɔta bay, me back with the hour. She and small, He will righten all Johnny had been wriggling i had thought it over, and she wrongs."

Joc's grasp. Now he jurned talked.

The Tonga Girls Look

London.

PALU, and Veiongo, the

cousins of Queen

By LOUISE REID

They only began

He didn't speak But he kept get on smiling that big smile. And frightened when they heard that for once in a way, tired though there had been a witness at the I was, I felt that being a police- killing-that, while they beat man really was worth while. Diana Rowe to death, her small had been watching ron Tony

THE END

At Englishmen

about Western etiquette and tise knives and forks when eating in public. They find chicken and Salote of Tonga, now holl- Saloto. Palu handles the husbands for the girls, but, in cut their own hair, jet black and roast pork a fair substitute for Queon' correspondence, vlow of her democratic outlook, curling, and cut it well. Their the famed suckling plgs of Tanga. daying in London, put on Velongo serves the Queen's would waive this prerogative, only beauty treatment is to rub their grass skirts. Then

She would, however, have to coconut oll all over themselves They have taken to Western they practised the snaky the royal wardrobe.

food and is in charge of

give her consent, just as with once a day.

dancing. A fortnight ago they When Polynesian dances for Queen

our Royal Family.

heard the samba for the first not at the Palace, Palu looks Elizabeth's homecoming.

Now their English chaperon time. Before the band had after a horde of nephews Engilshmen friendiler than the uro a little cold cream on their mastered the rhythm and the Both Palu and Velongo and is trying to persuade them to played six bars they had While dancing they sang and

their nieces while

young men at home, though not faces at night, Tongan songs and played mothers, mostly typists, are always handrome by Tongan the nose-flute,

out at work. Marriage? The girls are not even thinking of gotting married.

standards. They have a cousin who la married to an English doctor in Bayswater.

steps.

́: BILLY HAD NO TROMBONE

By

LES ARMOUR

London.

THE softly-lighted room

in the big London hotel was quiet. Behind a table at one end sat a well- groomed man in an English- cut sult and a plain grey

tie.

In front of it were

80

newspapermen, looking

expectantly for a brace

of

trombone players and some

gospel singers.

None emerged,

behind

Instead, the man

the table got up and began

to talk, in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

He was Billy Graham, the great envangelist who States shakes the United with the promise of heaven and the fear of holl every week over alr waves churn- ed out by 450 radio stations.

hach

But, unless somebody told you who he was, you prob- ably would never have known.

The Crusade

This Billy Grohom seems to have stood London

In

three months,

on its car.

1,330,860

people have jammed Into Her-

ringay Arena to hear him.

four only

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has And

occasions there been an empty seat.

28,808 of them have come for- ward to be "saved" or, as Billy puts it, to "accept Christ."

In addition, his sermons have been

OVET relayed

telephono wires to 405 halls all the way from Aberdeen to Southamploti. The crusade is over. and Billy is on his way home via the Continent. But it seems to

have taken have taken the "simple farm

from

North boy

Carolina' aback. He says he has never seen anything liko his

Britain. in

flo reception says he has never had congregations which Usten attentively. He says he has never met such generosity, and hospitality. hosp

rather

He made no attempt to dazzle his press

conference with his showmanship Just reelted the facts and ant down.

But there were a lot of ques- tions that couldn't be answered -not because he didn't want to answer, but because there is no way of answering them.

How many people were lured by the blaze of publicity and Just came from curiosity-and perhaps went away laughing or even ashamed to see such dis- plays of emotionalism English Brena?

In

an

No Secret

How many really Join Billy Graham in his repudiation of contemporary learning? He makes no secret of his contempt for "rationalism." He dismisses. evolution with a snort: "We are not descended from a muttering monkey." He thinks theology is dangerous. "All we need is the simple message of the Gospel."

Who is Billy Graham that he is so much wiser than all the great thinkers of the last 3,000 years?

And how many of hla converts are teenage girls captivated by his smile? At Harringay those aling down the aisles to "meet Christ" seemed to contain a high

of young proportion

girls, and Billy middle-aged women Graham officials,

Is he being taken in" by his naivity? A story he tells about Cambridge suggests that he a taken in fairly easily. He says graduate body) turned out at 3,500 (about half the under- one meeting.

When the time came to save souls, he told the students that he would go outside and come back in Mteen minutes. Only those who wanted to "meet Christ" should await his return.. When he came back, all of them were still there.

Few Warnings

He repeated the process with a few warnings about the "ob- Hgations of Christians," Sult nearly all of them stayed.

under-

D Billy Graham convert Imalt of Cambridge at ona swoop? Not very Ilkily, -- Any- body who has been an graduate could have told him that some of the autdents no doubt mayed because they wanted to see what it was like to be saved. A lot more, would got a kick out of pulling his Teg. Another new experiencă. Is

Yet he is convinced that he They had running hot water.

or the "holy spirit"-worked their first European-style baths wondere at Cambridge, "At home," Palu sald, "it in their suite at the Cumberland Palu is alightly more sophisti doem't matter about make-up. Hotel, where

On the other hand, church they dance st. attendances "But," Palu_went on, "fcated than Velongo. She smokes You are smart and beautiful if

have been going up since he arrived, and locas too young," said I did marry, I should want English cigarettes a day and you are plump and stapely and Saturday night's main.

drinks an Occasional glass of

elargymen back up his claims. Veiongo, who la 24. Palu, a nice, handsome husband, light beer. Valongo does not if your hair shines.”

The day they left Tonga, about the converted. The con who is 30, said: "I'm just That first of all. Then I make at all and i fond of milk Like most. Tongans, Palu and Queen Balote, gave them some vertet, it seems, get, very: Litle not interested. I have too should want him to have a bakes. Nelther of them wears Velongo wear European clothes extra pocket moner and told chance to do anything but say

# But I wouldn't mind, real powder.

Although they prefer to eat it on me. Buy yourselves some- thing as soon as they alên thờ ly, what he did."

Shy they have never ued Up-, with their fingers after the thing really nice and lasting, ro card. This le to dihelp Both she and Velongo are Under Tongan tradition, Queen stick, have never been to a hale Tongan fashion, they bear, in that you will always remember, stick to Chele daniakona. ladies-in-waiting to Queen Balote, could fusist on choosing: dresser, and don't want to. They, mind Queen dulota's instructfors England.”

But, still, one wonde

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many other things to think job, perhaps in an office, make-up, apart from a dab of except on ceremonial occasions, them, "Now girls, don't spend

all-on" candles and don't spend A vast "organisation pursues

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