The Bermuda Recorder

              always fresh the for cooking & drif -^^ w^\m — m \ pm jjj s purvis ■ ltd canada's best published bi-weekly price 4d wednesdays saturdays 6d volume xxix hamilton bermuda wednesday march 11 1953 no m ha g hill declares war on i.d.b head cites growth of tourist banker urges bermuda negroes to be reasonable trade during lean months bad ideas ; urges negroes to wake up au indication ot the gnu during the le.wi mouths from < ith of iicruiuilas tourist trade letober to february in the last conference this morning by the i the trade development board in demands uve vears was given at a press hon henry vesey chairman o i luring the hve-inouth period of the 1948-49 season he said a total of j6.034 regular tourists visited the colony as compared with 28,175 in the same period of the 1h52-53 season board in leading their adver tisement together in full page pleads in leading american publications rather than hav ing it scattered all over the bermuda negroes were advised to be reasonable in their demands at a meeting of the women's civic and political asso ciation held on monday night to give candidates seeking par liamentary honours in paget an opportunity to meet the voters and voiceless in the parish and state their platform hamilton parish candidate scores propagandists who minimise colony's problems changed ideas and still fur ther a place where justice was meted out suppress the bad mr \ e+ey described this in crease as a healthy one which is bound to be maintained he attributed it to the concerted and cooperative advertising techmique'adopted by the boaril in pjoo whereby local hotels steamship and airline com panies operating in and out ol the colomy cooperate with the fll tic i u other words mr \ esey said instead of a particular iot l l promoting its own inter ests it coperates with the board and other interests in promot ing the colony as a whole and uof a particular interest mr ilill said he hoped the workmen's club forums would be a place where ideas would be exchanged because every being that is human literate or il tate has thoughts and these thoughts should be ex pressed if they are bad he said thej will be suppressed if they are good they can be developed lhe speakers were the four representatives in the last as sembly for paget who were the hon w w davidson captain ross winter mr h st george butterfield and mrs edna wat son as well as former paget assemblyman mr h j tucker and newcomer lionel barnes l rging a jam-packed audience in the auditorium of hamil ton parish workmen's club to wake up and get smart and to buck the sons who think that because their grandfathers and fathers got away with certain things to maintain the status quo in bermuda thev can too mr hilton gray hill opened the first of a scries ol forums sponsored by the club the joint select committee which studied the white paper they considered the matter and rejected any ex tension of the franchise based on income rent and cduca si , — — s ii it is more economical amd makes a greater impact the chairman said he added that this technique has been adopted by other resorts mr vesey stated the board is already pre paring to place its advertising for the coming october to feb ruary period the currant ads are more attractive than any hitherto used he said mm rv _ a _ - 1-j 1 1 o n a i qualifications mr tucker who served on the committee said they reached the conclusion that no step could be taken which would stop short of universal fran chise a candidate in this months election mr hill lashed out against white propagandists who seek to minimise the colony's economic ami social evils he also declared war on what he called bad ideas and said emphatically that he will fight an illiterate man though unable to read or write can not go through life without experiences and these experi ences might enable him to offer a thought that could solve a problem mr hill said it l.i 1 .'....♦ n m ljs party nears end 01 surveys in pacific draw candidates ont during their ten-minute talks they all touched on such prob lems which they called the most pressing as overpopula tion protection of the tourist trade motorization zoning and the purchase of surplus united kingdom land here but a number of the candidates were drawn out during a brisk ques tioning period on such issues as the restricted franchise racial discrimination etc anyone who possesses them ___{___% _________ m w - k w w hm ■ hilton gray hill papeete tahiti some 31 l'nited states natural scientists who have been intensely sur veying the pacific ocean for the past four months are ex pected to'complete their work in the neit few weeks ideas must be scotched mr urown then wanted to know why the candidate would be opposed to universal suffrage asserting that tradition of ten ooverns thinking in ber muda mr hill said because someone's grandfather and lather thought they could get away with something the grandson is getting away with it it is time we woke up and o the grandson that times have eluinevd and his ideas must be scotched he explained that our thoughts being ideas are af fected by observation by im pact by propaganda the press and the radio mr \ esey also revealed that the board has recently improved on its advertising technique in that it has de cided not to concentrate on the travel sections of sunday papers alone but in the maga zine sections as well the board is working on the theory that a man who is interested in travel is also interested it buying a car a television set and a whole lot of things universal franchise mr tucker said in reply worked fairly well in countries where there was a party system but the individual voter often had nothing to do with the selec tion of the candidate for whom he voted the men using two former american navy rescue ships the spencer f baird amd the horizon have finished their studies in the marshall islands fiji tonga samoa and the tahiti areas atml have moved out to the french-owned mar queasas last on the list the impact of propaganda to illustrate what he meant about the impact of propa ganda mr hill said i to make you feel happy in ber muda they tell yon about the teeming starving millions in india china and japan of people who get one bowl of rice a day ; they tell you about lie prejudice in southern united states of overcrowd ing and poverty in the west indies dr marjorie l bean asked mr tucker what steps he would suggest the new house should take to encourage non discriminatory practices in pub lic places and in employment his reply was that he had no opposition to employing qualified coloured people in the civil service progress had al ready been made in this direc tion he said but the matter will have to move gradually i niiiii.'rw imhi liiircii sr leorge's representative in thi iioilsc of assembly who re ferred to his scholastic recon in bermuda and at boston anc new tork fniversities . mr burch described the speakei as a man of vision and whon he was sun would make a gooc re present a ri %'<•"■ mr i iill was introduced by 1 /• ii _.__ _ 1 t"s l £»_ in bermuda he saw race as the one basis for a party a situation which he called un fortunate he was not in favour of that however mr tucker felt that if the day did come when there was univer sal franchise the man who promised the most would be the one who was elected operating lrom their two float inn laboratories they have probed th ocean's deepest secrets analyzed its content weighed measured and sur veyed its seas cheeked its mag netic influences studied its weather and remapp«d its during the first two months of this year a total of 12.430 persons arrived in the colony as compared with 11,230 dur ing the same period last year of that total 11.268 were bona fide tourists as against 10,163 tourists who came during jan uary and february 1952 mr burch laking note of the fact that he was inaugurating a new series of forums mr hill commenced his address by giving his andience the history of forums but they do not tell you of the advantages these cmiii tries offer to their peoples rather they give you the sort w — efuinot overiook nn praise mr burch continue that is due to mr w b fur bert who realising that i younger and more qualified can didate was in the field with drew with honours it is a very difficult thing for a man to giv up something he has got aecus tomed to and so all the raor praise to mr furbert s«i winds lniversal franchise only worked where the population as a whole was sufficiently edu cated and disciplined to cast a vote properly would oppose it bishop nichols due here next monday dr bean then asked mr tucker if he would be in fav our of instituting a similar act in bermuda to the one passed in several american states making it an offence to re fuse to serve an individual in a public restaurant continued on page zj mm mj *•, . ~ ibr 7 1 - meg wr mz ts p 4**9f h ?$ /____ fc m j fl ___! long before the time ol christ in rome the romans met at their market places or forum for the purpose of ex changing wares then it be came a place where they ex southampton candidates said to personal and social be reluctant to the candidates repiy wai that if such was instituted it bermuda it would be doni against my complete anc utter opposition mr and mrs richard saun ders of richdais pembroke stalin is buried beside lenin with red pomp attend meeting west were hosts at a bon voy age party last night in honor of mrs hattie saunders mrs castle oreer and mrs ella watson who have been here for the past two weeks they have been the house guests of mr and mrs saunders and miss myrtle kennedy they will leave by pa a for the states this afternoon w mr mlcker stateu niai a rfar as bermuda was concern ed all lived by welcoming i some 90,000 american tourist yearly who would come onl when they found the condi tions they wished a meeting of the southamp ton political association which was scheduled for last night did not take place because of the inability of all six candidates tor the parish seeking election to attend malenkov leads bearers as millions pay tribute ouna salute in 24 cities at the american embassy along the line of march the stars and stripes flew at half-staff aii honour guard before the building snapped to rigid at tention as stalin's successor prime minister malenkov led the topmost communists of this and other nations up to the marble steps si lf-1 1 j * * -.»«. ' we can if we like be years ahead of american public opinion because the non-dis criminatory laws in the united states do not reflect american social opinion usuuw jiarcn p — uuu miinism enshrined prime min ister stalin with its immortah today placing him beside v i lenin in the red-and-black marble mausoleum of moscow red square the vast domaii he ruled gave the fallen leadci of russia and of communists everywhere its greatest funera the geiieratiom all official of the association told the recorder this morning that each had been invited but some expressed the opinion that they might not be available tc the association until after the election the rev clarence smitn pastor of wayland baptist temple of philadelphia pa and mrs smith left the colony on monday by colonial airlines after having spent a very en joyable three-week vacation in bermuda they were guests at homeleigh warwick and were entertained for a time by lt and mrs mcintosh tt kindley field and warwick rev smith was a former mem ber of the state legislature in p.mnsylvania a democrat he lost his seat in the last election mr malenkov and his com rades in the new administra tive hierarchy raised the coffin to their shoulders and carried it down the staircase to the waiting gun carriage the other pallbearers were lav the bank manager added it is my strong recommenda tion to the people to the col oured race to be reasonable the american visitors do not expect anything but what they find if we should ever at tempt to precipitate a change ahead of opinion in the united states it would be the surest way to starvation we knew however auiiother meeting has been called for next tues day night when the six will be again invited thev are mr ernest vesey mr e r wil liams mr iayous powell who represented southampton in the last assembly and mr edward benjamin who has beer chosen by the association as its candidate and lady convers a new comer in the political wht wa.s dorae inroiigu im streets on a gun carriagi drawn by six black horses then he was bidden farewel with a salute of artillery ir two dozen great cities of thi soviet union rent beria \ lacheslav ■ ww i t «.- u molotov lazar kaganovich marshal klementi voroshilov anastas mikoyan a a khrus chi'v and nikolai shvernik against extended franchise millions of persona milled in freezing weather on a bright wintry day for the final tri bute to stalin red square was a riot of flowers the rim of the plaza beside the krem lin as well as the walls of buildings along the funeral route was banked wiah roses tulips mimosa narcissus m anthc jn 13 planned ihe procession made its slow awl measured way to red square where crack units of the moscow garrison and mili tary and naval cadets snapped t d ttention before the mauso leum now bearing the inscrip bishop i ward nichols prelate of the first episcopal district of the a.m.e church is due to arrive in the colony by the queen of bermuda next monday for the purpose of conducting the annual conference of the a.m.e church in bermuda the conference will be held at bethel a.m.e church in shelly bay and will convene on weilnesday with a missionary conference , i air ltli'ker who was ques tioned more than any of the other candidates was asked by mr herbert brown if he wa in favour of a broader fran h i a fl arena it » expected however that these six candidates will be at a meeting of the women's civic and political association which will take place somewhere in the parish on friday night of this week nurse elaine williams ot new york arrived in the colony last friday for her sec ond bermuda vacation she ii staying with friends at spanish point vour of the franchise as it now stands he referred t continued on page 6 h__m b why not try these two baking ompanions