The Bermuda Recorder

              saturday september 18 v page two the bermuda recorder the bermuda recorder a peal of bells for salisbury eisenhower job bias ban called compulsory f.e.p.c pro bono publico l c c a tag day saturday sept 25 1954 please give generously bermudas own charity published by the union printery court street hamilton bermuda every wednesday and saturday anonymous gift from washington sept 7 president eisenhower has is sued an executive order which seeks to do by executive fiat what congress has specifically refused to do by law govern ment contracts each year — it's 30,000,000,000 worth this year — will be awarded not to the lowest bidders but only to those contractors and subcontractors who h a v e agreed in advance to accept the white house regulations on employment practices as they relate to discrimination for race religion color or na tional origin paragraph in its statement ex onleib britain to putting the pull weight of the president behind the action of the eon tracts committee the exee uth l'der speeilieally bars discrimination because of race religion and national origin in upgrading training and ap prenticeship as well as in other aspects of employment while the clause has always been interpreted to cover all formg of discrimination this is the first time they have been specified by action of the chief executive a b place managing editor from ur own correspondent subscription rates london by airmail s(ipt 15.—a wealthy english man has given 6,000 to the salisbury southern rhodesia anglican cathedral building fund for a peal of bells the name of the donor who wishes to remain anonymous is known only to the bishop of mashonaland in his letter offering the gift the benefactor explained that when he visited salisbury oc casionally he missed the sound of church bells chiming out acros s the rooftops calling congregations to sunday ser vices and he decided that he had to end this silence his gift has been gratefully ac cepted a carillon of eight bells will probably be needed for the cathedral tt is not known in salisbury how much the bells will cost but it is assumed that the donor made enquiries before offering his cheque 35 yearly 20 half yearly special rates for contract ads 12/6 quarterly all communications intended for publication should be addressed to the manager the recorder court street city hamilton bermuda wednesday september 22 1954 straight ahead united nations notes although the constitution does not give any power to a president to make laws by himself the opportunity to circumvent the constitution by subterfuge does exist aud both presidents roosevelt and tru man set forth the doctrine — now being followed by presi dent eisenhower — that the end justifies the means the constitution gives con gress the power to regulate interstate commerce but no power at all to regulate com merce within the states with out any authority from con gress the near executive order seeks to regulate not only the employment practices of com panies engaged in government work but indirectly the opera tions of those same companies on contracts that are not in terstate at all once employ ment conditions are fixed for a plant it cannot have two sets of employees by olive a adams bv james r lawson accredited un correspondent xew york global we are grateful for the fact that people now and then take us for an employment agency and seek our help in finding worthy young men and women to fill this position or that it makes us keep in touch with the fast pace at which we are moving toward the inclusion of xeg roes in the general pattern of american life we have tried to track down everything from stenographers to engineers for people promising to keep a weather eye out and some times filling the bill but more often not • united xatioxs x y global the editor of the liberian review in a letter addressed dear uncle sam erniplain.'d this week that liberia i s to receive less than *".? million this year while iran will n ive 40 million and korea 900 million for econ omic development w^ft there is of course nothing more reprehensible than dis crimination in employment agaimt anyone on account of race or creed or color there are moreover lots of ilitlerian discriminations prevalent to day in many cities in connec tion with the admission or re jection of persons otherwise eligible for membership in social clubs and organizations but love for one's fellowman will never be instilled by coereion ativ more than fair i"ss in dealing with the econ omic opportunities of all citi zens in america will ever be accomplished by executive order in defiance of the law making power of congress it will be several years be fore the bells are heard for salisbury has no bell tower the most urgent need at the moment is for accommodation for worship and in the normal course of events the tower would be the last part of the cathedral to be built.t cxa baaed on information that this reporter has received liberia actually needs a half billion dollar s for economic de velopment and military de t'ens over the next five years at the rate of 100 million a year tt has been pointed out that american taxpayers m i g h t complain that this amount would be too much ; however observers of liberian affairs answer this argument by the reminder that if the communists seize malaya and later indonesia america will have no place to get rubber except liberia for all practical purpose's therefore the federal govern ent now i s engaged in a task of massive coercion in direct usurpation of the lawmaking newer of congress for prompt and if the federal government by uieans of the contract power can say who shall or shall not be employed it can some day insist that only those who join a trade union be em ployed or conceivably that only non-union workers be em ployed the fact that a benev olent objective is at the mo ment being sought does not erase the opportunity for po tential abase a government that doesn't steer by law but only by the whims of it s exec put the requests keep com ing at intervals and have been for some time now and it be comes increasingly apparent that doors are opening right and left often in fields we have not yet covered sufficient ly to supply any great num bers for instance the en gineering department at one of the well known xegro col leges is one of the finest in the country and it s graduates are absorbed into industry as fast as they can be turned out there i s a crying need for technical men in this country and as it has been pointed out more than once our produc tion of these highly skilled scientists has diminished while that of russia has increased many times our young xegro technicians face little if any discrimination in this field and while the jobs they get are ad mittedly not yet top level once they get a foot in the door the sky will be the limit but only very small numbers of our young people take ad vantage of this type of train ing is i . li a help your doctor and your health by collecting medicine promptly inspector's report for the month of august 1954 hones political motive seen it has been further pointed lit tliat there is not a single communi-t holding a seat in the liberian parliament and that tin whole liberian gov ernment is anti-communist as are the other independent gov ernments of africa i.e egypt ethiopia and lybia for the examination of horses 8 visits were paid to the dockside and 6 visit s to the race track the white house boasts about what it has done — obvi ously for political campaign purposes in certain districts in the xorth — by the following dz iz the phoeni 2 horses were found at the race track in a neglected con dition but after advice given to the people concerned these 2 horses have improved continued on page 6 " ro til ______: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wwz . 4 jtm^lm ' mm mtwmwmaa mt%smmmmy^i2mwm m^7®w j&y*$m^^^^^r yim mw%a^^^jfvl l n w si v ' - r aw ■ p»"i l^^maam ill i * d&atzd m//&aa ▼ 9h you'll notice the difference there is a strong feeling among those who are active in african affairs that what liberia and the other inde pendent countrie s of africa need is american know-how machines and eapittal 4 other horses were humane ly destroyed at the request of the owners all other horses seen were in a good condition with the new improved cattle all cattle seen appeared to be in good shape higher octahe dogs 104 dogs collected 32 were strays and 72 unwanted homes were found for 2 strays the remaining 102 were humanely destroyed i 4 i l u.k film producer in sudan sso cats and kittens to help visual 73 cats and 89 kitten s col lected ah humanely des troyed education an official of one of new york's , savings banks just last week was bemoaning the fact that he had not yet been able to find a young account ant interested in a future in the banking business to add to his staff hi s institution is growing working in a con stantly expanding market but he says there just don't seem to be enough young men around who think in terms of jobs recpiiring executive abilitv note from our own correspondent will the public please co operate with the inspector up bringing their animals to the refuge when possible and do not wait until puppies or kit tens open their eyes it is impossible for the inspector to cover the colony every day and it costs money to operate the van london by airmail sept 15 — a u.k film pro ducer-director has arrived in khartoum to help the sudan government in its visual edu cation plans gasoline he i s mr alexander shaw whose task will be primarily to cooperate with the ministry of education to work out methods of visual education especially adapted to the coun try and to be used in adult education campaigns which the government is undertaking mr shaw has been working for two years on a united xation s educational scientific and cultural organisation technical assistance mission among arab refugees from palestine in syria the leba non jordan and the gaza area in the refugee camps mr shaw formed a team of young technicians including camera men directors and animation artists which is now producing regularly the films filmstrips and wall panels needed for the education of illiterate children and adults these are only two examples of new territory to be ex plored and should set us im mediately preparing ourselves in allied fields looking in every direction for the means to expand our knowledge and experience and to inspire our young people to train with these larger horizons in mind for many years xegroes were so circumscribed that they could only look forward with any certainty to pursuing careers as teachers ministers doctors lawyers dentists and social workers and they were able to follow these only as the demand wa s created for their services among xegroes it i s understandable therefore that over the years they may have over-trained in these fields ; but it is our responsibi 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