Atlanta Daily World

from sports, There can be no Negro All-America or white All-America for that matter, but we must strive for one All-America indivisible and united under the same Bill of Rights and Constitution that we all cherish!

I ask these supposedly sincere whites how can they sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing" and limit its pursuit of happiness to one segment of our great melting pot? Most of them cry "Let Freedom Ring," but they want two Liberty Bells ringing out from Independence Hall, with one chiming for whites and another echoing for Negroes. I don't think either democratically or musically this will work.

HAD A GOOD TIME, The Louisiana Weekly, edited by C. C. Dejoie, is a potent and aggressive voice. The newspaper devoted quite a bit of its picture coverage to the major league exhibitions. Jim Hall, sports editor, captured the spirit of the games. He wrote: Seated in the municipal stadium, minus the Jim Crow barrier, Negro and white baseball lovers, young and old, exchanged opinions concerning the game and enjoyed hot dogs and soft drinks the American way.

With tickets sold on a first-come first-served basis, and fans seated wherever they wanted to. Three Negro players saw action in two games, which had been urged to be boycotted by the South Louisiana 'White Citizens' Council two weeks ago....

THE NEW ORLEANS STORY is told as grist for the mill of Atlanta baseball.

If the Atlanta Crackers are to win the wholehearted and unstinted support of the baseball multitude then it will have to do so on an open house basis.

Atlanta has been talking Continental League and American Football League franchises, but backers of the major league teams have not talked in the language of big-time competition.

This reluctance has served to stymie in stadium building plans and it appears that if Branch Rickey gets the CL off and running in 1961, he will do so without Atlanta.

For there has been more talk of holding the line than moving forward and the Chinese proverb of "A Journey of A Thousand Miles is Begun with but a Single Step" is still valid.

To have major league sports we must have big league democracy.

Thus, it is time for Continental League and American Football League backers in Atlanta to begin creating a climate for big league competition. At the moment, everyone is sitting on their hands, and the issue yet remains to be resolved.

It is like fiddlin' while Rome burns.