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. Harry Golden, humorist, Editor of the Caro- ~ aa Israelite, and author of ONLY IN AMER- ‘TA of current best-seller fame, described to ighlander’s June Workshop participants his SQLDEN RULES” for ending segregation cluding his “vertical plan,” his “white-baby an” and his “out-of-order plan.” Amidst ughter and applause for his wit and satire, he rlivered this serious message: _ “What do they mean when they talk about cial segregation? Do you think they mean a ‘egro child going or not going to a white hool? Nonsense. Nonsense. . . . It means, y friends, death. D-E-A-T-H. That is what means. Nine Negro women die in childbirth . the South to every one white woman who es in childbirth. That is what segregation cans... It means death. These are the au- ‘enuic Ggares: tuberculosis which is Lith as a wuse of death among the whites is second as a wuse of death among the Negroes. That is what means. Racial segregation! Do you know hat an evil that is? It involves death; it in- alves people who die when they shouldn't be _ ying. That is what racial segregation is. Don’t ~t them kid you about the social classes. The ‘egro is not intruding when he moves into a ttter neighborhood. He is escaping; he is caping from death." eft to right; Fulbright Scholar Francis Manis, Chairman of the Panel iscussion; Mr. Alezander Bannerman, Ghana, Miss Violaine Junod, Union South Africa; Miss Sunthone Bilavarn, Laos; Miss Nina Mangravite, “So Many Interesting People in One Place" The United States Department of State sent foreign sitors to Highlander in May to Jearn of the American ay-of-life. Highlander presented in panel! discussion: Mr. lexander Bannerman, Supervieor of Presbyterian Schools, hana: Mise Sunthone Bilavarn, Assistant Welfare Director, aos; and, under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, liss Violaine Junod, Union of South Africa. Later, a siting professor from India spoke to workshop participants. Highlander was happy_to entertain at various times vis- ors from England-and: from Holland who were studying Jucational methods employed in America, the function of calth 2c’ welfare agencies, and the work of community ‘ganizations, including 4-H Clube. From the Netherlands ime a staff member of Volkshogenschool “Allardsoog™ yunded the same year as Highlander Folk School, each” “I, TOO, WILL SAY THAT THIS WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE TO BE AT HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL — SOMETHING I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH AND HOLD DEAR. IT IS A VERY GREAT PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE,” said Harry Golden, shown speaking to a Highlander audience which he held in rapt attention for an hour and 25 minutes. MRS. SEPTIMA CLARK, Highlanders Director of Education, pictured seated, intro- duced Editor Golden. founded independently of the other, but both schools grow- ing out of the needs of the people. In the Netherlands, people sometimes refer to “Allardsoog™ as the “Highlander of Holland” or tc Highlander as the “Allardsoog™ cf America. Writing later chrough her interpreter, one foreign visitor said, “We both enjoyed our visit so much, and neither of us can remember when we've seen so many interesting people in one place!” Other Visitors Amongst the steady flow of visitors to Highlander came the Putney Graduate School students as they studied the @.4.b Diohinn. af interrati = + 1 South. Problems of integration, rural electrification, conser- vation of natural and human resources are concerns of these students, on which Highlander helps to shed light. National Leaders Commend Highlander. .. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Msgr. John O'Grady, Lloyd K. Garri- son, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt issued 2 statement on December 18, 1957, condemning the attempts of Georgia's Governor Grifhn, “to draw from the serious and fruitful deliberations of Highlander’s 25th Anniversary Celebration sustenance for the efforts of the Southern racists to equate desegregation with communism,” and called on Americans, “to join with us in subscribing to the princi: ples of democracy eet forth in Highlander’s official statement of policy.” The Reverend William J]. Faulkner, Minister of The Congre- gational Church of Park Manor, Chicago, Ill., welcomed Mylee Horton and Mrs. Septima Clark to hie pulpic in July where they apoke on “Christianity in Action.” In thanking the Church's Social ction Council for arranging the program, the Church bullecmn said, “These two dedicated, wise and courageous spirits are in them: selves proponents of Christianity in Action in our Southland, where it often costs one’s job, and sometimes bis life to be Christian in race-relations.”