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J* JUSTICE TO THE TEACHERS
Jackson, Tennessee ,has added to the
growing list of communities which differen¬ have
agreed to abandon discriminatory
cials in the salary schedules of teachers.
JThe agreement came as a result of a court
contest. Some communities have agreed
, without court contests. It would be a great
saving to all concerned in such cases if 1
i agreement could be reached out of court.
JAlany cases have dragged along over more
ior less long periods of time, but no case
!has been lost. The record speaks eloquent-
•ly of the justice of Negro teachers’ claim
log equalization as well as of the legal abil-
ily of the N. A. A. C. P.’s lawyers, especial-
iy of Mr. Thurgood Marshall who has be¬
come expert in handling Jhese cases..
; THE INGENUITY OF TIIE PRESENT
In these times, certainly within the last
twenty-five years, people loath the idea
that wars can be justified or excused. This
is true particularly in nations that sub¬
scribe to the democrtitic ideology. In na¬
tions like Italy under Mussolini, Germany
under Hitler and Japan under Tojo, people
were so indoctrinated as to glorify war. In¬
deed, from ancient Rome, Greece and Car-
; thdke down to this day have come the epic
gtories of heroic soldiers and great generals
which did glorify war.* No cause for which
could give his all stood higher in the
esteem than defense of the honor,
4n4- territory of one’s country. The soul of
‘Tjfcidiers ascended directly to the companion¬
ship of the Gods. But the increasing cost,
|atte, devastation and horror of ever re¬
eurring wars appear to have taught man-
Kind the fruitlessness of such an instru-
mentality for settling disputes or defending
#ie honor of nations. Borne good things
tfnierge fiuman despite the evils of war: the cosi
lives, in the producing munitions of
*frar in the slaughter of innocent combat¬
ants, men, woman and children, in the de¬
struction of the creature needs of living, in
the Luries le wrecking wrecking of of works works of of construction construction cen- cell-
irics old old and and irreplaceable irreplaceable during during the the lile- life-
jme of many now living, On the other
•and, thq industry, ingenuity and efficien¬
tly distribution which has gone into the production and
of the goods and services, and
••ngines of war designed to create the ut-
Tjiost success, will be turned to peace time
• uses. Transportation has developed to the
*$“int which has so contracted the earth
that no place is more than sixty hours away
from any other place; communication has
tjeen extended so that a message can go
•naif way around the world in a matter of
& minute or so; the care of the sick and
wounded has kept pace with other sciences,
with its administration of blood plasma,
rfcencilin sencilin and and the the various various rehabilitation rehabilitation
therapies. tierapies. These These are are concomitants concomitants nf of war, war.
tjiis war. They are good, at least, until
some of them become the tools of the next
war. i
POWER OF THE PRESS
International recognition of the newspa¬
per as a factor in the plans of the peace¬
makers is significant. Its power in helping
to secure an enduring peace depends upon
fhe k extent to which it is free, not only
ft'o’m government control or interference,
free from vested interests. A paper
W bE’h is under pressure to say what the
'government wants it to say, or what its
NEGRO STRIKES MAKE LONDON PAPER
PESSIMISTIC AT U. S. POSTWAR RELATIONS
LONDON, Oct. I iANP)—A f-
commenting upon the anti-
IStefero transit strike in Philadel-
pt^a, and similar strikes in oth-
•r,parts of America, the Tri-
BuLe. a local newspaper, recent-
iy) made a pessimistic forec-'st
of! post war relations in
USitod States.
! '‘Iif contemplating the
war period, this incident by
seM should be enough to send
cold shudders up any Socialist
“j^bor spine,” the paper declared.
i s m short supply. Even
granting evitatPe medium existence of of the
prf judice, the Negroes
ediar" in no way competing
tftfe white workers. But
Where the elermnt of
tion does not exist,
feeing proportions has assumed that such white
stumis
proletarians refuse to work by
the side of black proletarians.
JWhen southern legislatures
in ‘America pass resolutions pro¬
testing against the interference
of *Hffmn northern agitators,’
who advocate the abolition of
f u ?“toVhtt d T k
public welfare, will be powerless to perform
its real and proper function. The power of
newspapers to arouse good or ill senti¬
ment is well known. They can make or
break men, they can help or hinder causes,
they can perpetuate or break down preju¬
dices. .Some of the things they accom¬
plish through silence. Recently a high
ranking general in the American army ov-
because of an unfortunate incident
which was well publicized at first, then
later his name was so effectively kept out
of the news that for many months it was
as though there was no such individual. He
was completely blacked out. Except for very
few instances, one would hardly know that
there were any Negro soldiers in the arm¬
ed forces. The omission seems to be the de¬
liberate.
According to reixirts of persons on the
correspondents in the first World
War were told not to report deeds of Ne¬
gro soldiers because it would make them
“too biggity.” At times persons and events
of doubtful worth manage, through high-
powered press-agenting, lbaves“them to get “flat, a build-up
hat eventually In the
main the newspaper is a power and when it is
free from unreasonable government regula¬
tion, and pressure of vested interest, its in¬
fluence for the public good is incalculable.
Jn view of the necessity for keeping the
t people ___ _ _____ of the ____ world informed as to v „ the w .^ pro-
j>ut forward for making the peace,
the plans for dealing with the defpat-
ed and liberated nations, this recognition is
timely. The global nature of this most
destructive war gives newi significance to the
press as a factor in the making of the peace
and the prevention of the next war.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE YOURSELF?
By Ruth Taylor
Feeling low? Discouraged? No one
ciates you? You’re misunderstood?
Stop looking from within. Get
and examine yourself from a distance.
vantage point—how would you
yourseli !
You want others to treat you
Then why not be different!
No one is glad to see you? Well, why
be so pleasant that everyone who knows you
happier with you than away from you.
Happiness is contagious and a person who
enjoys life always has friends.
You never get a chance to show what
you can do? But do you do your bit in the
little jobs that come your way? Are
in small things? Is our work al-
ways good? Can your family and friends
rely on you?
People treat you badly? Dkl you
stop to think how difficult it is to be rude
to a polite person who isn’t looking
trouble. Take that chip off your shoulder!
No one has confidence in you? Have
yeu faith in yourself? Learn how to do
what you do and be sure of your own abil¬
ity. Respect yourself and you will find
other people will take you on your own val¬
uation. But don’t forget you’ll have to
make good on that self-estimation.
If you want a different place in the
world, then make yourself different today.
It is up to you. No one can make you like¬
able but yourself. If yyu want considera¬
tion, be considerate. If you want friendli¬
ness, be friendly.
I* ace the fact of how you’d appear to
yourself if you were a stranger—and then
k° to it!
H isn’t , so hard—because it doesn’t have
tc be done all at once. And, no matter how
many times you fail, there is always to¬
morrow on which to begin again.
I’ll give you a present which may help
•you. Once when things were very dark for
me and I couldn’t see a step ahead, 1 found
this little paragraph and copied it on a
card which I stHl carry in my purse. Trv
it—it works!
heavy, • can carr y his burden, however
till nightfall. Any one can do his
work, however hard, for one day. Any one
live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely,
ill the sun goes down. And this is all that
life ever really means.
the poll t<*x, it is one thing,
the Tribune .. pointed .......... out. “It _ is
an an altogether altogether different different and and
more serious thing when
trade unionists whose very
t'rests should compel them to
1 understand the need for unity
rBce in llie vitaily
tr ‘ n l i P a,rt industry I because
Ngroes have been elvated
1 from the rank of porter
sweeper to the status of motor-
man or conductor.”
This is not the first incident of
the kind, the newspaper re-
minded its readers, adding that
similar stoppages have occurred
in the Packard Motor pFnt, th"
Goodyear Rubber plant and
"several other major factories
the United States.”
Conceding that in certain u-
jnions, bDck whit" proletarians and
' proletarians do work side
by side in harmony at this time,
The Tribune said, "most of the
leaders of the trade union
movement*.' aware of the terri¬
ble danger that white worker
* m*
U01ker b y post war reaction,
have done their utmost to incul
cat" a more tolerant attitude in
their following. Trade union
b ° dJes ’ large and small have
>
e “ 1 reCord „ „ . agam . f . « .. le po '1
, nd agamst lacial discnmi-
natl0n „ But even in the of
’
f?’ !. UCh harmony a ° does
CXiSt between black worker
- —* -
The paper point'd out that so
long as the Negro is not a corn-
the white trade unionist
accepts him but asked, “Will he
the right of the Negro to
?. in mp all '/ ym jobs, ? nt on when , a pr0 jobs . rala basis in
are
short supp'y and millons of
workers are relegated to the
scr'plirap of unemployment?
“The forces of reaction in A-
merea can be counted on
make the most of the post
situation by stirring up
nvnt between white
and the Negro
Unless the unions can cope
qu'itely with this problem,
Century of th" Common
may turn out to be
of the Common Man’s
ment.”
Tin- SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
'SIVPACCIDENTS—SAVE
AFRICAN NATIVES EXPLOITED- SOME DIE
OF STARVATION AS WHITES GRAB
KENYA, EAST AFRICA, Oct
1 (ANP* Exploitation of
natives here has resulted in
deaths of many from
Which follows the ruthless
,cy o, land grabbing » »hlt
European farmerss,
a recent report from visitors
“away *
t»he Africans 16,700 square
leaving <10,000 square miles
y Kauinmrin ‘ 1
men.
“Those of us who have served
in East Africa during the course
of this war have seen the
ploitation of the Kenya
at its worst,” wrote Lee
recently for the London
bune, a popular newspaper.
“The European has found him-
self able to make unprecedent-
ed profits; sisal, flax and wat-
]t ! e are all in demand. The
ly limitation on the
profits was the labor supply.”
This, Abso revealed, was
ingly solved by the Kenya gov-
ernment, acting under the pres-
sure from whit" colonists, who
sententious'y expressed a con-
cern to aid the war effort,
mainded governm"nt conscrip-
tion of Africans into civilian
employment. At least 250,000
Africans responded, 43,000 a s
spuatters, while an unknown
s"cret number went into
armed forces.
During a famine, caused by
the natives’ pre-occupation with
planting sisal for white sisa 1
planting companies r>‘ther than
maize, their stapl" food, they
35 OUTSTANDING NEGRO LEADERS
COME OUT FOR ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK— In a
worded statement issued here
Tuesday, thirty thirty five live national
Negro leaders announced the
formation of the National Non-
Partisan committee im* the
Re-election of Roosevelt, and
applied upon Negro voters
use every resource our nation
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Acme News Pictures, Inc.
Governor Thomas E. Dcwcv, Republican nominee for President of the United States, is being con.
sat s sr
Deue-. Governor Earl Warren of California is shown at left of Gmeraor Dewev. Others in the picture
left to right: James L. White of Oakland. Mrs. Bessie Osborne of Berkeley Mrs. Emma J. Lewis,
lr , 2S£ isEfis?£2£sr£ S fcatfoS,
St:
3rooks and Mrs. Mabel Ritchcrson.
.were sent . home u to starve wher
white employers lound
could not f«'ed them.
Even the lively and
ioyal hoys which we
| were emplo^Jo^o ordered back,” Abso ^
“We did not need to wait
j Inquiry died of ^o^know stavation.
i
j Characterizing the
contradiction between
^Abso .and black interests as a sham,
said, “the African has
great wants which present poli-
K»y is denying him, w‘mely,(
sufficient and balanc'd
supply and a(n adequate
income to provide for his
lie eds. A recent survey by th*
1 officer of health of
medical
ya found that 88 per cent of
1 Natrobi
African boys of are un-
j der-nourished and that con-
ditions in the Kibuyu
wer" even worse.”
j This wil 1 remain so unless the
African! is provided with the
acreage and necessary educa-
tion to go in for mix"d farming.
Abso pointed out, addinig that
he must h"ve cultivated and
and pasture land, and that he
needs meat and milk for his
1 stomach; manur" for his soil,
Since land is- available, a nd set-
t’ers have not observed the reg
illations of the crown land
nanc" dealing with develop-
| merftal conditions 1 governing
i the farms they have so doubt-
fully obtained. Abeo recommend
ed tlvt tli" law shou'd be
ed and the unused land return-
ed to the natives.
by these progressive foreign
and domestic policies ior which
the Ro° sevelt administration is
justly renowned.”
Mrs. Mary McLeod
chairman, in announcing the
committee’s formation,
sized its non-partisan charact-
iter. Quoting the
statement, she declared: “While
retaining whatever party at-
filiations we may have, we be-
I heve that partisan ' * J considera-
tions should , not . determine . our
vo j. g ^ ese crucial for" elections,
We will work and vote those
men and and those those m measures. M5 nr«
; beta, wiiitest^v.hce ''/“f tte
of our people. We
this same non-partisan ap
j TeZvJteenT*
j In addition officers to of Mrs. the Bethune. commit-
national
pie’s Voice, vice chairman; Rosa
Gregg, Detroit civic leader, sec-
retary, and William P.
son, the Mid-West People’s as
sembly, Chicago, treasurer.
I Regional vice chairmen in-
Mrs. Charlotte Bess, Cal-
ifornia; Roscoe Dunjee,
homa; Arthur Huff Faucet,
nsylvania; William Harrison,
Massachusetts; Rev. Charles
Hill, Michigan; Carl Johnson,
! Missouri; Osceola McKaine, So.
Capt. Hugh Mulzac,
'New , York; Carter Wesley, Tex-
as; Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr.,
Ohio, and P. B. Young, Virgin-
ia.
I The committee states: “It is
our conviction that the best in-
terests of the Negro people
of all America—both in the war ^
and in the peace—can best be
advanced by the reelection of
Franklin D. Roosevelt as presi-
dent, and by the election of
Harry S. Truman as vice presi¬
dent.”
In addition to the officers
listed, members of the National
j Non-Partisan committee for the
Re-election of President Roose-
velt, include Dr. Charlotte
kins Brown, North Carolina;
Louis Martin, Shelton Tappes.
Beulah Whitby, Michigan; Anne
Mason, Ohio; Willard Towns-'
end, Illinois; Julian Steele,
sachusetts; Lenerto
Pennsylvania; and Wilhelmina
Adams, Mrs. Jeanette
j jles Brown, Collins, Mayme Thelma Brown, M. Char-
A.
J. Davis, Jr.,
] W. Ford. George Goodman, Beu-
Green, Mae C. Hawes,
Louise phaus Hunton, J. McDonald, Hulen J3. Hen] T L
THURSDAY, OCT. *, 1914
UNCOVERING
WASHINGTON
White House Correspondent Released
through the Atlanta Daily World
by the NNPA
By Harry S. McAlpin
Maybe Westbrook Pegler set
the pace for retractions and re-
evaluating one’s opinions when
he acknowledged in one of his
columns last week, speaking of
Negroes, that ‘ft all seems rea-
sonable and feasible when you
sit down and meet as men and
colleagues in a business and be -
to understand each other,
instead of beating one another
over the head with meat-ax
itorials as total strangers on op
posite sides of town.”
I’m in that mood this
I have witnessed two perfor-
mances by a man of whom I.
along with many other Negroes
have been very critical. What
he did has warmed my heart,
caused me to cast aside an emo¬
tional antagonism and make an
objective evaluation of his
worth and the handicaps under
which he must operate.
Perhaps I should wait to write
this column until events and
circumstances make it possible
or me to call that man’s name
and give a blow by blow de-
scription of the fight he put up
for Negroes in these two per¬
formance. To do so now, how¬
ever, probably would do him
more harm than S oocL His °P'
ponents in these fights would
JomUI/ let out
stOTy _ w)llcll he dldn ,.
Another reason for this vag-
Moon, Rev. Adam Clayton Pow-
ell, Jr., Estelle Massey Riddle,
Alma Vessels, M. Moran Weston,
memberships on the committee
are being solicited in order to
carry through plans for mass
distribution of a pamphlet and
a nation wide radio broadcast.
The committees offiqes are
fisted at 210 W. 125th street,
York city, and 418 E. 47th
suit 2, Chicago, Illinois,
REFUSAL TO HONOR
TICKET ON “ROCKET”
Results In Law Suit
Against Railroad
AMARILLI, TEX.— Hearing in
North D. Hayes case against
the Chicago Roflk Island and
Pacific Railway company l has *~"
been set for Nov. 10th by the
ICC before Examiner F. C.
MASONIC-EASTERN STAR NOTES
, 1' ** 4 I
Past Grand Matron M. L.
made an extensive trip
through southwest and west
Georgia during the week in the
interest of the Eastern Star]
chapters. She had an inter¬
meeting at Cairo; met
at Bainbridge. At
Blakely, especially the near-by
a large gathering was
held, then at Columbus, Plains
Americus. Much good will
the result.
At the j ast communication of
lodge more than a
dozen candidates were initiat-
ed A
Monday afternoon Electa
chapter conferred the Eastern
Star degree on two candidates.
At tin next m eeting the mem
bers are requested to be out in
large numbers.
In the Eastern Star “How
beautiously shown, on a happy
lace, the smiling of innocence,
truth of grace.
The fall is here. Every lodge
and chapter should begin to be-
stir themselves and plan ont on-
ly to increase membership but
drill the members in the work-,
ings of the order and deeply in-
still the principle.
* * *
The Masonic school on the
| third Sunday afternoon at 5
i :o'clock should attract every!
ambitious member. ,
• • •
The lodges and chapters are
in need of faithful and loyal
members. Those who are not
of that type should be dropped
and their places properly sup-
ueness is that a lot of people
who would prefer to see a dif-
ferent winner than I in that
American event which climaxes
on November 7, would accuse
me of playing politics through
this column. r,
I could not give that blow by
blow account without in one
case seeming to throw bou-
quets at one of the president-,
candidates for his forth-
right stand on an economic
matter in which the principle
involved touched the heart-
string and pocketbook of every
Negro in America where the
might of the United States
army was used to back up the.
back up that principle. .< t
And in the other case, too.
it would sound like political
slumping because to describe
the performance would necessi¬
tate divulging how one of the
presidential Candidates stood
four square and insisted upon
the elimination of segregation
in a phase of operation in an:
institution where jimerow has
been one of the Negro’s pet
peeves. i>
But the events have so im¬
pressed me that I could not re-
Mst the urge to say that I have’
had to re-valuate my opfefpp
of this unnamed man.
I regret I cannot do more at
this time than pin a nebulous!
medal on an anonymous hero, ij
Weems at the Capital hotel,j
Amirilla, Texas. A member of.;
the NAACP legal staff will rep¬
resent the plaintiff.
Hayes filed a complaint with
the ICC, "claiming that on Jan¬
uary, 14, 1944, he purchased a
round trip first class ticket to;
Memphis, Tenn., and that upon
arrival at Amarilla, Texas, on
red January at the 23, Chicago, 1944, he Rock transfer-| Island
and Pacific railway station ca^pi Jn
order to board the train
the ‘‘Rocket” that fyr he Memphis, and six j
Hayes stated
other Negroes were prevented?
by the conductor from boarding:
the train though many vacant
seats were available. It is fur¬
ther alleged that as a result Qt.
the conductor’s refusal to pjft-
mit Negroes to ride first class
even though they had reserved
tickets, the plaintiff was forced
to take a later train which'Wfts
a local with inadequate f,
ties, in order to reach hsi desti¬
nation at Memphis.
* . .
It should be the ride of eVefy
to be conversant wi:
duty of office and be real
explain the same when ca J
upon. n
A tribute should be paid the
officers of both lodges
chapters.
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Files of The Savannah J
Tribune
FIFTY YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 6. 18M , j •
Past Grand Master John H.
conducted the corner¬
laying at Bethel afternoon) A^E
h h last Monday J
Master Terry unable td
present. Bishop A. Grantj
present, also Presiding EM
R. R. Downs. Rev. D. H.
pastor.
Ground will be broken Mon-’
for the erection of the new*
of the First Congrega-
church on Whitfield
Service will be h«ld
the chapel of Beach during
erection. •fg
The old last edifice and church of best the will program First' be jSun- Con i: t -4
The Tribune editorially, *com-i
the address of ^Bishop
at the Masonic 1 cornet
laying last greatest Mondayt as be-
one of the bursts
eloquence that was ever giv J