The Bermuda Recorder

              page foul tub bermuda recorded wednesday january 18 1956 cotton expert s honour " ll s to defer some : youthtrials african franchise nigerian demand for electoral reform kansas schools test optional segregation £ * ' africa w indies line if hope is held of delegation in londofl rehabilitation proposes to the commission from our own correspondent w « i * 1 in 1 he (. hristian scienct rive others now have com plete integration too these the atchison kansas city lawrence pittsburg and salina negro schools in tht'se cities have been closed or turned over to integrated use ; in kansas city however most proposals for discus sion published er s report london tbv airmail for example the report january 11 — people in the proposes that no person who west indies and in india a has ever taken the mau mtu we \\ as in africa will have in oath should be given the vote tprpst in the knighthood and that qualified voters awa(rtle d to dr joseph burti should have only one vote and hateaiaaoa in the new yeai be allowed to vote only for colonial 0ffiee honours list candidates in the central dr h tchinson m thp m province only women who of g have shown eseepbnd growj corporation's be powers in active jwjg seardl station at namulong against mau mau and who . t - „„,,„ . „. ,, ■ ,? are recommended for inclusion "»,[«» d a ; > te w"3 in the register should ba we " in the j est indies given the vote f , he j * e sta « ° f ! ht the government's proposals cor p rat 1 10 " 8 r^arehj,tatio are that any kikuvu embu " l tn " ldad »> and w or meru who haa passed an voi » *° ur ?<*** 7 r , k at » h < approved lovaltv test should ns < ute ol p «»* industry u be allowed t'o qualify on the 1>«i m order to gam ex tome basis as africans of p"ience of cotton growing ii other tribes the loyalty test »» dia - e h s been a ttietdbel would include proof of having °. f the corporation's staff evei given active support to he sine crown during the emergency he became head of thi to eliminate the possibility of genetics section in trinidad ii personal or tribal influences 1937 and later cotton advisei the government prefers tijat for the west indies when tin the loyalty test should be ap trinidad station was closec plied by districts commission down in 1944 the yea iu whiel ers and assessors and not by he was awarded the cmc native authorities in view of -, he toured the cotton-growin the fact that many who took areas of africa before beinj the mau mau oath did so stationed at shambat in tin under compulsion the govern . sudan ment does not accept the i n 1949 he succeeded mr recommendation in the coutts parnell as director at nainu report to exclude all from the jonge and was elected a fel electoral roll who have taken \ ovf 0 f the royal shwfety t we the oath years later it i 1 - estimated that the government amendments will wide interests increase v 20 per cent the in recent years in additioi number r»f africans to be to bis wovk on cotton he hai placed on the electoral roll been actively interested it compared with the number general educatio nin eas who would have been en africa being chairman of thi franehised had the coutts tmakerere college and a mem report been accepted in its taer of the governing body o entirety — cna the royal technical college o east a7rie-a in his position as director o the corporation's ilotton re search station in uganda am with his wide knowledge of thi cotton cft-op in africa america indian and the west indies dr hutchinson has had a con siderable influence on aottoi gr wing in afrit ■ work in^^p^m from our own correspondeiil alotnto new york paul w wil liams united states attorney for the southern district ol new york has announced that his office has adopted a pro gram of deferring prosecution of youthful offenders whose records indicate they have ex cellent opportunities of becom ing useful citigeiis mr williams said the pur pose was to help youths whu have made mistakes deferred prosecution will be used where a young offender displays qualities which indi cate that he will be of service to the community he said and amen the offence with which he is charged is slight he aliiibuiiced the appoint ment of a youth bureau in his - office composed of three as sistant united states at torneys who will study the various cases submitted and london by airmail jan 11 — a delegation from the northern elements pro gressive union of the northern region of nigeria is return ing home this week aftei pressing for electoral reform in nigeria mas . 1 i *: l«.l u law hence ivan — five of the 11 formerly segregated city school systems in kansas have aelopted ome form oi from our own correspondent london by airmail jan 11 — the colonial office has published in london to 7d ft y new proposals for the of africans to the kenya legislative council the legislative council will debate the proposals next month '. optional racial integration a university of kansas gov ernmeiitai research eentei study shows ot the integration is in theory only for 80 per cent df thi negroes live in one district anel therefore attend the sam schools they did before inte : gration the delegation was led bv mallam amino kano with mr c a •). nua.jei lesral ad viser to the n e p 17 am was received by the tministei of state for colonial affairs last week this optional feature — letting negro children theii parents really decide whether they will go to mixed or all negro schools — is now being attackeet in federal court . one other city fort scott this year discontinued negro classes in the fifth . throitgli eighth grades and assigned the pupils to other schools negro classes still are maintained in the first through fourth grades school authorities say they may integrate when a ih'w building is erected but no definite policy has been adopted yet • - they are contained in a re part by mr w f coutts who was appointed in february 1955 a special commissioner to investigate african fran chise in kenya and in a white paper outlining the kenya government's views on his report at the time of his appoint ment mr coutts was ad ministrator in . the virgin ~ islands but had had many years experience in kenya his appointment follow 1 a statement of policy issued in april 1954 by the newly formed council of ministers th ' kenya declaring that as ' soon as possible an investiga tion would be undertaken to determine the best method of . ejecting africans to the legis lative council at present afri can " representative members nominated by the gov ' ernor ' 7 the main proposals now ar%i that there should be direct , voting hy africans by secret ballot ;.. that universal suffrage should pot be introduced at present tbut should instead be limited to a qualitative fran chise based on education experience public service achievement and standing in the community and that elect ors exceptionally qualified by education character or ser vice should have additional votes . fr r j tt -__ a suit has been brought by a group of topeka citizens with ihe assistance of the national association for ih advanceuient of colore el people to prohibit the option they say it prevents complete integration the delegation made repre sentations concerning the pre fteiit system of election in the northern region to the fed eral house of representatives and the northern house oi assembly freedom of assem bly and various allied matters mi na * • a _!■' »!«*..*_ 1 « i . ihe federal district court has not ruled yet but the de cision will be noted with in terest because the optional provision has been aelopted elsewhere the minister ot state under took that the representations made by the delegation would be conveyed to the secretary of state for the colonies tc the governor-general of the federation of nigeria and ft the governor of the northern region he pointed out that the prope forum for con sidering these matters would be the nigerian constitutional conference due to be held later this vear it rs on the five optional cities that the spotlight now focuses make recommendations in re " * « ... a..c . -»» i gard to deferment member of the bureau are silvio j mollo assistant chief of the criminal division david jaffe and thomas m oe bevoise 2nd « sr sf slst a mm . in lopeaa where the op tional provision is being chaj k'uged in court all schools i i as a a-jjj j ■- i he other ix kansas cities which formerly split up theii children by race now either are completely integrated oi on the way there by stages have been integrated dn 3 choice basis in topeka any child now in school is permitted to finish his elementary educaribn in the school he would have at tended under segregation also a child entering kinder garten may attend the school he would have attended prior to integration mr williams said : the problems of each youth accused of a federal ttimm will b rtudifed bv the united states attorney the probation office and the newly created youth bureau in order to determine whether the vouth is best handled as n juvenile delin quent a youthful offender oi an adult under the federal in southern camp when tlie nation went tc court ia 198&s4 to argue the question of segregation in schools kansas found theii state on the siele of the pro segregation south bl i * - .... 1 _. 1 . a mallam ivano told the loin monwealth news agency thai he believed that as a result of their mission to london the subject would be included in the agenda for the nigerian constitutional conference ilus proved somewhat em barrassing because this was the state where in pre-civil war years northers settlers drove out pro-slavery mis : souii raiders it is a state had always consielereel itseli part of the north not even border these are the provisions that critics say are designed to perpetuate the segregated law t-r the delegation had been favourably received he said by the parliamentary groups of both the conservative aiiei labour parties in britain system he explained that aboul eighty-nine of the 92 white students and 71 of the 386 negro students eligible to exercise these options elected to attend the school they attendeel previously mi - i at 1 1 .. ... thirty cases of youths undei eighteen comes up for prosecu tion each year in his office hi i . . . said many more are reported . but it was the practice wheh possible to turn most of them over to the state courts he added that some 100 cases ol youths between eighteen and twenty-two come up for prose cution the delegation claimed that the northern regional gov ernment in nigeria should in troduce direct elections and abolish nomination in all forms in the tresrion because the n e p u believed that the introduction of direct elet tions in the northern region was vital not only to the ad vancement of democratic gov ernment in the region but also to the unity of nigeria mb . ■*. * t s v 1 * i 1 l3 a t — a so even before the l nited states supreme court in may 1!)54 declared segregation in schools unconstitutional most of kansas had taken steps to ward integration three of the schools are in predominantly negro areas and these three are composed almost entirely of negroes dr azikiwe appeals to british people divergent views the senya government s proposals seek to allow a larger number of africans to have the vote than proposed ii the coutts report realising that the arrange ments ajre unlikely to be com pleted in time for the general election in septe'mber the gov ernment states thai in such an " event the election of new african members will be de ferred the present african njembers continuing to sit until the electoral rolls are completed in any case the statement add it is the government's intention that .• m . • 111 a 1 continued from page 2 t however tlie tate was on the sooth's siele in the supreme court legal battle because topeka the capital city was a defendant in one of the anti segregation suits before the court and the kansas attor ney general filed a brief de fending the principle of state control of education option extended t arnegie the rockefeller and ford founadtions in the u.s.a . these discussions had been ill connection with his plans for the proposed university for which j&,50u,000 had been allo cated it would have six facul ties covering tlie arts en gineering l a w medicine science and theology at tached to the university would be institutes for the teaching ol a wide vapetv of technical skills there was a great need for people with technical and pro fessional qualifications i n nigeria and they have begged such people to go to the coun try with varying success the university anel its institutes would be a centre at which tc train nigerians in technical and professional skills he said a study indicated that most of them could be re habilitated if paroled into the custody of their parents c/t relatives the other cities that lis the option in varying fornli arc coffeyville leavenworth parsons and wichita l r - at the request of the ni gerian government dr hutch inson visited that country with the corporation's senior etoni ologjst in 1947 and to his re port and recommendations are attributed the rapid inereas in cotton growing which has taken plaee iu the country in recent years we regard it as a great in coffeyville the choice extends to any student per mitting him to attend either the school in his district dr another one to be with 3 majority of his own race sj schools are predominantly white in the other 180 out of 182 pupils are negro x j.1 ii i.:,,i n > the n.e.p.u believed that the demand ought to come from northern nigerians anel there was evidence of that de mand by the people of thaf region tribute to i hutchinson and to the work of the empire cotton growing corporation that he should have been hon oured by the award of g knighthood an official of the corporation told the common wealth news agency — cna hutchinson is exception tlie .\ . hi . v . i . maintain that the northern region o nigeria deserves the sam system of democratic election as do the southern regions not only because it believe that illiteracy is not au im pedimeiit to direct elect ioi but also a uniform electora law throughout the countn will bring harmony in tin federal legislature am strengthen the unity of ni geria which has been the pre fessed aim of her majesty government mallam kane told the commonwealth news a.irenc m there was a technical differ ence here but in the public's mind kansas was lumped in the segregation camp leavenworth allows kinder garten and first and second i j a „ 7ll n ., o»-i ivi before the court s decision kansas laws permitted segre gation only in elementary schools of first-class cities anel in high schools of kansas city graders to <*<>- to either an in tegrated school or a negro school this year this option is being extended to higher rades one each year negroes still must attend the negrc school in the other grades there is no plan to close the negro school these elections should take place before the end of march british kefusetoslam tlnm 1957 7 the divergence of viewi between the commissioner and the government on qualifica tions tto 7 v<)ie is illustrated by the substantial modifica tions that the government h ', -■- ' tf hutchinson was the only one of 12 first-class cities which had not practiced some form of segregation london britain's invita tion to the two top soviet union leaders to visit this country next spring still stands the two kremlin chieftains was that they pay a visit in their official capacity liberal and labor lords de clared that while the geneva spirit which prompted the invitation has passed awav with the dead leaves of autumn it nevertheless would be a great mistake to cancel the visit it would lead to misunderstanding and misre presentation they said conservative peers such as lord balfour meanwhile ob jected to entertaining marshal bulganin and mr khrushchev indicating that britons woidd be regarded as people who get pushed around the place then entertain the very people who push thm around cna it stands despite strong comments in the house of lords where conservative peers urged the eden govern ment to consider withdrawing its bid to nikita s khrush chev first secretary pf the qpmmunist party and to marshal nikolai a bulganin soviet premier message expected on civil rights v*^am am ■■ ■ vsv^jsiaaaaai aa^js^^l laa xb yusting ww . a lit a k i i . claims ma kriven the norinal freedom ac corded an opposition partv a any free and direct electioi in the northern region today it would be the governing party in that re^ion7^^f»^j washington ian r the administration is draft ing a special message asking congress to curb racial dis crimination rep hugh scott jr r pa aiel today . •»— c a 1 + 1 4..,4 a — cn-fl and it stands despite strong comments by the kremlin duo upon returning to moscow after the south asian tour both men reiterated their at tacks on british colonialism -» r r«-i . . . task force will not be honored with a ceremonial drive down the mall , under flag-deekee awnings much less irrante'l entry to nearby buckingham palace residence of the queen rep scott made the stite nient following a closed-dooi meeting in his office of seven members of a house civil rights bloc he said he does not know whether the white house or attorney general herbert brownell jr is draft ing the message mr khrushchev repeated that colonial regimes were a mot on mankind marshal bulganin noted that the soviet leaders journey and speeches had brought forth stormy outbursts for indignation from certain statesmen in the west especially in britain t a il ■ 1 m ■ ■ *•— . ■ restraint urged heat but it raises a question o what a non--tate visit eloe.s in clude shall they be treated as special tourists with con ducted tours of the tower ot london parliament etc lord astor suggested re straint and civility but ne gushiness no flags public speeches held to a minimum and a blunt warning that ver bal attacks on british allies would not be welcome especially ior yo^ving chfldrej overoptimism hit if was then that he added they do not like our friend ship with india burma and afghanistan but we like il very much despite such sentiments il was clear that the house of lords in general supported the government position that the visit will go on as sched uled — although it was ncvei intended to be a full-honors state visit involving meeting with the british royal family many britons flunk that would be a waste of time for all concerned moreover the performance of the commun ist team in asia showed talent for making impromptu speeches at unlikely places — so the most innocuous itiner ahry would not ensure silence or lack of controversy not state visit «' \\ hue the british welcome mat remains out it was made clear during debate in the house of lords on dec 21 that the soviet visit will not call for full festivities and honors since it will not be a state visit lne uoucr me weainer me greater is me oram on a puwtnj child's reserves of strength then virol is invaluable fa virol provides all the food essential needed to rcplaa last energy and meat the « y a • - *' ■ a extra demands of growth / m jm-am a gr ■ yiroi ihe lords then sent com rades bulganin and khrush chev festive greetings — with lard hailsham however add ing a hope that the kremlin leaders would let others enioy christmas too despite warnings to the contrary many persons here j.:n i . l . a al - • jl i still expect that their first - sight of a free prosperous de mocracy in action somehow will work a miraculous change ■ . lord reading speaking tot the government emphasized that the invitation from prime minister sir anthony eden to inns the likelihood is that the outspoken soviet two-mei continued on rage o i