1955-10-06 — Page 4

THE CHINA_MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1955.

THAT OL' MAN RIVER and JIM CROW are PALS

WHEN THE BIG CHANGE COMES IN RACE RELATIONS, MISSISSIPPI WILL BE THE LAST STATE TO ACCEPT IT

Clarksdale, Mississippi.

by

WAS ɑwakened the sound of Negroes singing spirituals and

then the slow, soft song Street changed into Basin Blues.

When the coloured waiter brought my breakfast, I Baid: "Where's the early he moraing concert?" and

said: "Right here, sah, in this heah hotel Station WROX, the radio station in Clarksdale."

I felt like saying that 171 view of the Wolf Whistle inur- der tril the coloured had not much to say about, but wok my breakfast and said nothing, Mississipp is full of mysteries

An paradoxes,

01

Sunwer, where

triat took place,

Here in Clarksdale, a thriv

town (20.000 ing Southern citizens welcome you"), only half

hour's

drive front the murder #bbard to has walked near by, that "brutal

coloured

boy took place in The night, and that his accusedi white abductors self-confessed abductors are free.

believe 17:01

[

he terla

The white Southerner takes cere of his coloured in his own way.

When the Negro is sick when he Is hungry he feeds him, when he is out of weak he Bnds INTA- ployment for him.

I looked through

the thick

white

glass window of Radio Station WROX and

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

one's going to tell us whims de in this State.

for

Mississippi and the Yazoo rivers there are people who netually hail the nequitted white man ne horoca

the and

murdered coloured boy as "blackt scum."

The more restrained and in- that telligent groups prefer nothing more should be sald

The Jackson Clarion Ledger saya: "It is best for all con- cerned that the Bryant-Milam case be forgotten as quickly as possible. It

has received far publicity ་ལས་

than should have been given." And readers, its white readers least say, "Amen."

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its

Aut

Some Mississippi voices, how- ever, are being raised against this "trie. William Faulkner, to Miadasippi's most gifted don, has condemned it and is being "The Supreme Court is just abused for speaking out, playing politics-playing 13,000,000 niggers in the South

Passionate and throwing down the South. PAULKNER, who loves his

Mississippi ignoring

merely

native State with passion, the Supreme Court's writing in the third person, has ruling that the exclusion

of this to 60y: "But most of all he Negroes from white schools is hated the intolerance and unconstitutional-it is aighting lynching of Negroes not for the 1. Secres of organisations have crimes they commitled but be-

not

the

nung up to battle for white cotise their skin were black

supremacy.

Proud State

LIVERY candidate

the inequality.

the poor schools they had then when they had any, the hovels they unless they who

Ente-very single pede hated to live outdoors.

for publle to live in

-

tthue

this State-has danned the old worship the white man's Supreme Court's ruling, Many God hus not in the wille man o the politicians have said. church, pay taxes in the 'white This is not the United States, man's courthouse but couldn'l This is the State of Mississippi vole in it or for it, working hy and we will have no mong ells the while man's clock but hov-

here."

by the white ing to take his You can take it as quite de-

man's counting." Baite that Mississippi will con- And I see a Mr George defy any Integration Hinant, of St. Louis, has 42T- nounce at the interophone in-

with all the violate and anger nounced: "I am ashamed of the troducing H group of coloured of the South. And with all the South. It was evident that the youths

began who

sing prite too. to

For this is a proud entire set-up in the Wolf sweelly and I seemed to me,

State and ty people a proud Whistle triti) WHS cut and happily.

people.

They cannot and will dried before ic

went to court. Text yet understand

the march I was

was once proud to be from the South. I was proud enough Several people have said to thist 1 carried a Confederate

Dog me, "It's Northern agitation

into combat against the doma Yankees again inter- Germans, ter.ng.

coloured don't want

"I've destroyed my beloved any part of it,"

battle flag .in rejecting the On the surface there is no South.

As long as there is no terror. 1 walked in the heat Bruth in the old idea 'with through this pleasant town of liberty and justice for all I've Clarksdale.

suw coloured destroyed my flog."

Different doors

events,

TILLF

E mun with me, * white Southerner, born and bred, suld, "That dont look like any terror, does it? Those boys are happy. Just don't stj- them up, that's what I say. Leave us to work this out our own way."

La:er

I saw groups of coloured entering and leaving by the buck doors of the hotel, They people driving new cars, well are not allowed to use the front dressed, oby,ously a ell fed, and loor even If they stau on apparently happy. Clarksdale's Radio WROX. Here

with me said, and ʼn all Mississippi the strict- est segregation

is

dear editor,

i expect you are

because hes a bit handy with his

of cigarettes or also theyre all at

the pictures with his pretty nurses, he

lot of km, he thinks her mich betternew

vad me

a little joke about mer

gilas

spazialist

he hopes nurse dracuk, catches the make any Jokes about specik'its

quit, tî you ask me he looks as better as day as he might get his own

it was ever so funny yesterday whenkor old what 0.

next week so he told me not to gifes has to go and see him

strap and doesnt like us pútting demind!" day old chik thats not very well. in his slippers or playing "decaii) i thangé bad start some work and helped the

with him or hitting him with our

Vorry, and one wouldnt go in and

nearly sat on me gile, and if

back and give mr giles the

the only

little mallets to put him out because/men lode some moo cows into the likes to flush our spaniel

he says he cant stand

we havent got any anesthetic.

grandana and aunty vera yakoriy mummy had heard what he ailments to grandma has to have her sad think he would have

for oppfy wondering why Fam writing to you again this week well it's harif on icone of my giles whe got out of toptoy this week but stil cast draw fors who and half on ccount of

yokenting all day long about

been put to bed without any all the men farfed Ever so much so i expect we

the twins got another Bhall have a new lot of men)

pert week.

Stout in the bathrooms and aunty bathroom when grandma comes outs ith my stuff botter then his so yard has to eat her asprins in pupper.

playing home sweet home. i oprostion thik ear each for playing the it wasnt very nice as wasnt playing. Planer as one of them likes playing the ded manch wille the other is he come out with more holes in him I my hims on the low notes withhol he is quer se miurable siner (them. nome of his freinds come tol he canto out and we thinks hech sae him now and or glos says it!

have one more

can they glirs thinks theyve got fumy way of curing you up at that b

•he reckons hospital because be pricked his finger and mada a holt, and caught blud payton and nurse The was there i dracute pichand him Vandrets of times with her gu

than he went in with.

Kast his sence of humor!

Is berish bris LMG QUE

day

chick

ive crossed

that bit out because it was

one me

giles

because rush doesn't keep asking him how he is.

yours truly,

xx.

Ipe. & lord beaverbrooks 9eme across the sect and nur giles says good job hos TCBUSE! 114 he was hear he meuchts got willd ns. ilme giles haut done any work fouit weeks. the reason we got all the spelling stipglo

right this work is because uncle george helped me

A CANDID VIEW

BIRDMEN

London.

T is a very special thing, that smile on the face of a British European Airways stewardess. The handbook says it must be lighthearted, respectful, reassuring, comforting.

a seven-week course to learn.

And it takes

I must report that that smile is being overworked just now, With the coming of hire-purchase air fares and cheaper travel thousands and thousands of Britons who have never stood in an airport before are flying on holiday this year.

I have been flying with them to watch the impact of that well- groomed smile on the Great British Tourist, for it is a cliche among

airline operators that,

while every Briton cherishes

a dream that at heart he is a lantern-jawed sailor, he with the does not share French, the Dutch, the Americans, and the Ethio- plans that Walter Mitty hallucination that he is everything

intrepid birdman with faded blue eyes.

practisedyre noi deing so bad,

110

The reporter

They are not-they al separate restaurants, wash-frost reem to have rooms, cinemas, churches, and but freedom. compartments in the trains and buses.

Prosperity has come to Curis dale and to many sections

though I've

seen Jim Crow is the way of life, the South,

some grey and tottering shecks The white Southerners want it that way, and most Of the on the outskirts of the cotton Пelds only a short drive from ecloured accept it. Mississipp

the new fancy the State

motels, which of the great river, Ol' Man River-is the deepest

air-conditioned and are

have

Robert Glenton

GOES FLYING WITH THE FEARLESS 44

London Express Service

OF

BRITONS

The door was locked. The

re-

old idea that the most pre- the Continent back home un

cious element is the family. to Malvern seemed a long, passengers regarded their

Flying for the first time long way away.

safety-belts with suspicions. and

certainly ranks us a crisis.

They were

not at all and

At the doorway stood a It was 7 a.m. when we I watched father, mother;

assured by that polite not

the and the small boy.

stewardess. In passengers gathered in

She was com- evasion of the airline which They thickly carpeted lounge at hud London Airport.

from Malvern. plete with her smile and 44 insists on calling them seat- come

"Good mornings." Asked the small boy, look- It was the moment

On the rack THESE

are emotional words wrung from the heart. The whole South, and particularly Missioolpi, is rent with feeling. it is the rack, though not to be. As a stranger might, because of pride, pretend

one who loves the South Southerners I see hope, bright yet but glimmering. this terrible murder trial just conchaded it should not be for- gotten that four coloured people were bold and brave enough to give evidence against two white JTON, That would have been unthinkable a few years ago,

the the world heightens once the foreigner knows whatever And

the result,

"Yes, dear," said mummy 8.15 to work, they paused aircraft is airborne. The have splendid food, but there trast hits you in the eye." here was the State of Missis-

absently. She was looking in astonishment. Hugh White, regarded here

trying to berts told, "The poor sippi

convict two "liberal and

progressive," says whites often live worse than the white men on the word of four

plate-glass longingly out at the That and there ain't coloured people.

too, windows the aircraft were West Road the quickest would have been unthinkable lined up in the bright July route back home. many of either jus now."

And lastly sunshine.

He Daddy didn't answer.

of

the deep South, and when the swimming-pools. big change conies in race reta-

tions

Mississippi will be the last

to accept .

Fanatical

WHEN I've said, "The

23.9 I've

The Governor of the State,

"we are doing all right by the poor niggers," Niggers-that's the word the Governor uses.

"Regardless of the Supreme perate Court of the United States, we are going to maintain segrega tten. We got just as good nigge: schools

white schools.

D5

See sensational

No

alter,

con.

The poor whites, In a ches- Rght for survival, arc the most fanatical against the coloured. And the poor whites even more violent. In the delta lying between the

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A Crisis

Outside the

of ing from aircraft recognition. The British reacted vio-

The 44 passen-

even

belta.

The distinction between

to runway: "Daddy, lently. Brought up to the the British and the rest of

book

is that a Viscount?"

Great

a few years ago.

the all-white among though they capitulated later gers stared at them som- toyed with threadbare non- against the verdict of acquittal. there were three who were broly. Some

dis- chalance at the morning I believe there is hope

tastefully.

paper. and ultimately it will conquer the despair.

DA

here

I

you were

brutal churlishness of

A Pattern

you

Gan

British sit

The are limitacions—not so the tight. foreigners wander up and British.

We were served with turkey down peering through the

and two veg., cream and fruit; windows

The stewardess smiled and

feather

There was consternation. The

I sat and watched, Onco served the woman in the white

hat with her meal. Few answered, Only the aircraft seems to have

The woman

nan said, "Oh no. I those

travellers settled down the British don't want a meal like that. All seasoned who saluted the stewardess first-timers split into two I need is a lightly, boiled org." that here" picture postcards from and the earliness of the day groups: those who carefully official BEA. anile faded.

go through all the maps, A modern turbo-jet can fly at. sick baga, tariff cards, and thousands of feet at hundreds of

miles an hour, but It can't boll, an egg.

It takes a crisis to make Those "wish the British abandon

IT'S A' VERRA CONFUSIN'

AT GRETNA

By Mary Hewat

Gretna Green. whore such people as John Peel

houso."

blacksmith's shop."

The "old anvil"-but not the

TOO BUSY

with a grunt.

I can report that there is time-tables in the seat a well-marked pattern of pockets. behaviour of Britons flying

for the first time.

Foreigners go aboard and

sit down. Britons atand in

the aircraft aisle. They

ask where they should sit.

A Slip

And there are those who

So said the stewardess, She told how meals come aboard already prepared. How they are kept hot....and how there wasn't a saucepan in the place. The woman in the feathery

look sadly at the crew and look round at B.E.A.'s idea, but smiled with resignation. Rivalry over the black-

of splendour and decide Moments later we were taxi- AVIE, the landlord at and Sheridan's grandson were Emith's chops took the Mackies

Say the crew with that everything they touch is ing into a foreign airport in the the Queen's Head, marred but not the "old toll- and Macintoshes to the lay

"There Is more going to cost a lot more stark white heat. spoke for the villagers.

coutns to set a ruling from Lord smile: Russelt that there

money. WETE too stability in the centre "It's a' verra confusin'," he The Gretria Hall blacksmith's

blacksmith's shops for there is a better view from

A Smile many said, "it'a nae wonder folk shop-but not the famous old any to be called "original"

The Britons who read the the tail." are puzzled."

tariff card smiled broadly. And the British then They nudged each other,

The stewardess wha to halled the joys of duty free doorway with 44 smiles and 44 promptly endeavour squash into the front end. cigarettes and liquor.

"Good-byes." The Great Bri- The only view is of the en- served with THAT smile a revolvers There it is not

ao stable. With our first cups of tea tiah Tourist took one look at the 11tilo palletroen with revolvers fagging from gines.

few adventurous Britons hips, at the bereta and were demanding Inrge duty unbel free scotches, although down A Parachute

below people were still at looked like home, their bacon and eggs.

"original.anvil,"

For a Gretna Green black. smith's shop is up for sale The "famous old blacksmith's As for the original black with an inn made famous by which the will not buy, belongs tell you that it wasn't a man at shop," and the other property smith-the villagers rugh and runaway marringes and an to landowner George Macklo all, but anvil used as an altar for and his family, inherited from the Blacksmith's Arms.

a public house called the wedding ceremony.

"the anvil priest," Hugh Mackle, who turned that blacksmith's Plump, brusque Mias shop into a museum in 1907. Richardson, now in her mid- fifties, has been helping to run CLAIMS MEAN CASH

Greina Hall for nearly 20 years.

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And the question which has even the locals confused Is: Which smithy? Which inn? Which anvil?

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The trouble goes back more

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She was too busy cooking

wore.

They were becoming

...

at the

their the

For the first time the aircraft

smile The airline

became suddenly precious. Everyone bid the stewardes a fervent good- It was then that the Bri- bye. There was an atmosphere Carton In the air as 44 piesen- gers walked off into the heat.

One passenger was miss- genial.. 85.00 The place for 'salo, at a price than two centuries, whee run- lunches for trippery to documing. I could see her being

7.50 between £15,000 and £20,000, away couples dashing

is Gretna Hall. The owners, Miss the border could be married in. either sale or foud,

along For the ushered

by two ton's slip, showed. It hap- of Captain Dales and Sydney 7.50

Richardson and her sister a minute and a half by declar holiday season brings up to 800 officials. They

pened on my aircraft. Mrs Winale Sweetenhamn, ining their intentiods before two people a day to visit the old different kind of smile as happens very often, sir," 5.00 frited the 245-year-old in two witnesses.

anvil and original marringo they helped her aboard. said the steward. 5.00 years ago from 4.00 whose husband, David Macin- Anyone could be a macrime was £7,000, and tourist bus the patient smile of a well-

home, toth, was one of the last Gretna priest, Any shop, or new in the village has nearly trained nanny. 1.00 marriage priests,"

public-house could bo the tripled since then.

What was wrong? chapel

"Well," said the steward, Miss Richardson has bought a it doesn't happen very often Since, this went on till the house in Grotza and, plans a

their slater,

NOT, NOT, NOT

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house. In 1951 the

nntivo-born rotire,

turnover

A Meal

Everyone had heavily labelled lugmigo. Every sticker from the alreraft had been put into use. There were labols on hats, coats'

..even on a teddy bear.

Back In the aircraft the slöwardens idoked out, at the

law changed in 1940, there in holiday in Italy. When she but we come across it from A portly character with blistered faces of more Britons

· 3.00

But the man, who "puts up hardly building in the finds a purchasET she will time to time. The lady his tie loosely round his neck she would be taking back in an -15.00

the money will buy more than village,

wanted a parachute. Of asked: "Will you please open:

hour's time. Groton Hall, with its three clilzen without some genuine But any prospective buyer course we don't supply them my window, "de 1.50 cottagest, binimith's shop, cisim to romantic history.

"They will ask for ten all the 1.50 souvenir shop and the 20 arres

should noto the motto over the ...only lifebolts."

There was five-minuten way home," she said. shown in the bill of sale.

claime mean cash, Gretna Hall front door. It is It is situations like this of explanation before he was 16 is an odd thing," she said, He will buy a large place of

ebach-loads of tourists, "cave paratus, which roughly that make the British the convinced of the Impossibl- "but British passengers always

take everything that's going

Botivelespecially the alek" Even the most backward on And they conf t

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