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. u , = o4 or 4 ra ek, ¥ rn J ota sre Dat " wt = fee ~ nee Oy Care woe as ar eee ro a ae \ & i." 1 ee rae na. x Oo baci ate gene + \ ee ape ne : . 4 ie, 5t alate a ¢ tte a woe hs ar re de ee PT ye. rene i ger Oe ’-55) 4 Ay Cf J SLe 7 é: ( Ye \.- Ly soseuel! as or eee? Legalistic View Taken my ial by Courts in Alabama fy? HYDE 5 PARK—I “was formally presented on Tuesday after- noon by Tau Kappa Alpha Na- dional Forensic Honor Society with his “speaker of the year” award. I feel very much honored by this since the society says it is given for “effective, responsible and in- . elligent speaking on significant hubhe uestions during 1955 in the eld of education, scientific and eultural activities.” J certainly is a rewarding thing 1o be told that I have done wel) in one of the activities which take up a@ good part of my time. @ Legalistic View j HEARD yesterday morning that the Alabama Supreme Court x turned down an appeal by the dvgliona! Association. far the. Ad- vancement “of Colored Peonle to suspend "R “E200. “contempt of eourt fine which was set by the circuit court. ; Both of these are state courts end Y suppose i1 is natural for dham tn tal =. i them to take a marrow legalistic point of view and to feel they have a right to know the members of an organization within their slate, Tha NAACP had refused to produce aslist of its Alabama members /The courts roust realize, “how. ever, that fear of reprisals, eco nomic or physical, under present tensions makes the disclosure of such a list utterly impossible fram wre. - ‘es - Ae tion would be reversed, the whole Uf Jt _ occurs to ad ee ee ee ee ee ~ @ mora] standpoint. If the situa- | te could be understood much . or the court judges that this ques- tion will affect net only the state of Alabama. The whole world is watching what happens there. { Citizens of Alabama say they 1 fight for freedom—freedom io do . as they choose—yet they probably | are jeopardizing the freedom of the world. For Asia and Africa are the two continenis where to day the beliefs of a democratic free uw orid are being weighed against the beliefs of the commu- nist world. If the number of com- rmunist states should rise, number of free people in the world would diminish, thereby lessening the chances of keeping other people in the world free. The question before us in the United States ig not what we do in our country but what effect. the things that are done In Ala- bama will have on the future of the world. @ Shocking Story. ~ THAT was a most shocking story in the, Tuesday papers describing be gw eriminals—36 a mates eftock Quarry State on in Geo ro er ee with tepeunt sledgchammers 1 working cond!- Mr. Forrester, the state director of correction, said the -men were working at a rock i) i =a! i 4 prote Trotest yea - quarry and he described them as j ‘among the most hardened . in. Georgia."£ +, "Have you ever seen a’ chain gang in- Georgia working along the road? Have you ever watched | the men in charge of these road camps with their whips and thelr _ pistols in their belts? _ oe Coanell ni Jothe. “ran ~ Fee STORE OTT INDEXED-38 the Aiea NOT RECORDED - J YDERQO-38 face which I saw 20 years ago in Nichols one of these camps. I-wascymure Board afraid of him than I was of the ii iz bad for any man io have complete contro! over another hu- man being, and this whole system in Georgia is & bad system. . Men do not inflict such paln and se rious infury on themselves merely to get out of doing hard work. There must have been un- bearable conditlons, And we call ourselves advanced in our penal ewe Gchiae x. —_———- ae ee woken’ © . a Wosh. News ~ co Wreh Storr - N. Y. Herald ——__-_ Tribune N.Y. Mirror — ; N.Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ___._—- on in = af See <| - ; ioe RH 2 on Di ome air 401456 oe SECTHIS- pO te Bop VAY AV ie emi. Sow. s.r