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PAGB FOUR
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
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,* By J. H. DEVEAUX
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U Second Claas Matter.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
A few weeks ago, a white gentleman, a
lawyer, spoke to The Hub, an organization
of Negro business and professional men.
He proposed several things such an organi¬
zation could do: it could take active interest
in purely civic matters, it could do something
about improving the political status of Ne¬
groes in this community, it could try to im¬
prove their economic welfare, it could do
something about their educational improve¬
ments. He mentioned specifically housing and
its coneomitanls-health, crime and delinquen
4 jyq-employment and the political situation ot
*,Negroes. Then moixMmmediately he posed the question important as to to
'whether it is
!insist upon economic opportunity and equal¬
ity or to woik for political equality whether
• it is more important to work for fair em¬
ployment than to use our energy question, in seeking bince
‘to vote. This is not a new
reconstruction days, this question has con¬
founded Negro leaders, so that roughly
‘speaking, there grew up two groups among
.Negroes; those who believed that the at¬
tainment of full citizenship depended upon
•economic security; and others who believed
that citizenship could be attained through
gaining the right to vote, to participate in
'governmental affairs. But it was soon dis¬
covered that neither of these means worked.
It was not uncommon for persons who had
^secured property in farms, homes and bus¬
iness, to be driven away from them. And
! certainly they were not allowed to vote.
'Negroes were disfranchised in all of the
'Southern states, and were terrorized and
! intimidated wherever it was felt they be¬
lieved their ownership and suffrage gave
them a modicum of citizenship rights. This
whole question of which should be first,
which was more important, influenced the
education of Negroes for a long time. One
v^-eu p of thinkers held that industrial edu¬
cation should be emphasized in order to
Jnake qrtisans, skilled workers who would
•make money, amass projierty and thereby
Jpemand recognition as citizens. Another
«roup held that higher academic training
jhoirid be emphasized in order to train
^hinkers and leaders who would pass on
Sheir training and so guide Negroes into
Snaking a life as well as a living, and there¬
by get recognition as citizens. There are
Itill those who advise Negroes to get money
*‘hi all thy getting.” But this unqualified
advice is misdirection. Present day think¬
ing, Shat in the main, inclines to the political view
both economic freedom and
freedom are so inter-related that they are
tooth firsts. No one can deny the import¬
ance of economic security because it condi¬
tions almost entirely the standard of liv¬
ing*—health, the amount and kind of edu-
|}atton, and provision for old age, but nei¬
ther can the importance of suffrage be de¬
fied. Econdmic security itself, and decent
treatment in the courts and at the hands
«f police officers health protections, ade-
fluately lighted and paved streets, adequate
•ecreation and educational facilities, de-
jafftaged peitd very largely upon whether the disad-
group has voting power. Those
in charge of administering these services
fruitfully aware of this fact. On the one
and, the FEPC is a plain case of the ex-
nt to which voting has to do with econom¬
ic freedom and security. On the other
hand, the brutal and discourteous treat¬
ment r e c e i v e d by Negro applicants
ftr drivers’ licenses, in the shadow
erf the state c a p i t o 1, would never
IJnt; happened if Negroes had the pressure
•1 voting that they could employ. Yes,
IjP h come first, and Negroes should busy
t^omselves persistently intelligently, without respectfully, and im-
arrogance, to get
jfrorement •Well meaning and correction people in both. 1 r
ffiar are expressing the
lest granting the voting privilege to
Jtegroes will bring in a reign of corruption;
tint Negroes not being politically literate,
\^U,be subject to exploitation by unscrupu¬
lous politicians. So far as that is concern¬
ed. the disfranchisement of Negroes did not
casual dg away observance with that in evil this as is well known by
Tfie illiterate very community.
white voter is just as venal
as the illiterate Negro voter. He, too, is
finally a prey of the demagogue. A de¬
asd termined the bribed application would have of law salutary to the briber effect
a
upon the election process. It is not entire¬
ly* the fault of Negroes that they do not
hive the background upon which to build
political literacy. The state must accept a
laarge share of the blame. At any rate
tlfrse of are matters leaders. which claim the atten¬
tion our
«ff this community is to be one in which
citizens may live and rear their children
ii£ decency _________ the citizens themselves must.
cooperate with the law enforcing authori- 1
ti|- to uncover and clean out the element?'
of» evil and unrighteousness in it which
make decent living difficult or impossible
fof the weak and unprotected.
Under the determined leadership of the
late Mayor Thomas Gamble, the housing
situation has been brought into the public
notice and we believe something will be
done to get improvement in it with the co¬
operation of real estate interests. Health
conditions are being relentlessly attacked by
the city’s health agencies. The Grand
jury and law enforcing authority have
gambling, especially the “boledo” game, on
the run. There are other insidious evils
with such long careers that they appear to
have achieved through insinuation an im¬
munity that defies apprehension. These
must be ferreted out and dealt with.
WILL THINGS BE DIFFERENT?
The French people viewing conditioria in
Paris one year after the liberation, ask
the question: “Now that the war is over
things will be different—or will they?”
This question is asked by people all over the
World. We in America are asking the
same question but with a different reason.
We have not felt the pangs of hunger, nor
the bite of bitter cold due to lack of shel¬
ter or clothing. We do not feel the stark
discouragement of the war’s devastation.
We have had to adjust ourselves only to
increased taxation, and limited rationing of
some clothes and food, and principally of
some of the things classed as luxuries. But
we are interested, particularly, in trying to
figure out which of the good things brought
about by the war will remain; whether the
gains in employment and in social areas will
remain and become permanent; whether
the changes as to segregation and discrim¬
ination in governmental agencies and semi¬
public industries will become fixed policies;
whether the basic human rights for which
our country went to war to secure and for
which the material expression of nazism
was beaten into rubble, have really been se¬
cured. There are certain evidences, here
and there, that some of these things were
to be remembered only for the duration,
as witness the conduct of Senators Bilbo
and Eastland in the U. S. Senate. Yet,
there are signs that there are some people
who believe that the United States must keep
its conscience clear and clean, who believe
that it must square its practices with its
war aims, that it must keep faith with the
men who have given their all in the belief
that human rights would be won and re¬
spected for all people without regard “to
race, creed, color, or national origin.” We
shall continue to hope that our soldiers did
not die in vain. /
MAYOR THOMAS GAMBLE
For more than a half century the hon¬
orable Thomas Gamble was a familiar fig¬
ure around the city hall. We have been
knowing him soon after his arrival in the
city from Philadelphia where he was a
youthful reporter on the Philadelphia Press.
He was employed by Editor, Gazaway Har-
tridge of the Daily Times, then with The
Press after the discontinuance of the Times.
He had a flare for politics. This attracted,
him to The Tribune office where he kept in
constant contact with Col. John H. Deveatiy
who was the leader in Republican politics.
His constant visits to the Tribune office
caused us to be attracted to him. He be¬
came prominent during the administration
of Mayor Herman Myers and succeeding ad¬
ministrations. He had the opportunity to
study and become aware of city affairs more
so than any one else, made so because of his
mind for research. It can be truthfully
said that he was better fit for the mayoral¬
ty than any one else. Mr. Gamble gave the
city a mayor that will be very difficult to re¬
place. The progress of the city in recent
years may be traced mainly to him. More
recently he seemed more inclined to favor
our group. This was shown by his desire
to help our cultural side through our library,
and a betterment of our health and housing
condition. He was wedded to better homes
for our more humble people as emphasized
by the last visit paid him some weeks be¬
fore his death. May his successor be such
a man. We believe in the acting mayor,
Mr. Peter Roe Nugent as we did in his fa¬
ther, the lamented Thomas Nugent. May
he be the successor.
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HEART
By Ruth Taylor
Every heart has its own mountains to
cross.
Several years ago on my way back from
the West Coast, I stopped off in Colorado
and one never-to-be-forgotten day I drove
out tp visit a few of the editors of the small
town papers. One place I stopped, was just
a little one street town nestling into the
heart of the mountains. I stood with the
editor at the front door of his office and
looked around at the mountains circling the
town. It was sheer unadulterated beauty
and I said enviously, “How fortunate are
you who live here!”
He smiled a soul-weary smile and said.
“I know what you mean—but our hearts
are always striving to cross the mountains,”
Every heart has its own mountains to
cross. No matter where we live, we feel
that happiness lies on the. other side of the
range, that had our ways been laid in other
places, we would have done so much, we
would have gone so far!
We condemn those who live on the other
side for not making the most of their great
opportunities. We forget that they in turn
condemn us for not realizing how fair our
pathways are. Intolerance breeds on both
sides of the mountain, whether it be a phy¬
sical one or a mountain built of our own
prejudices and ignorance.
Mountains are too often but misunder-
standings. They look impassable to those
u ' ho only see them from afar. But those
who live among them know that there is
TH* BATAMAfi TRIBUH1
WAVES URGENTLY NEEDED-JOIN-!’
always a way through.
The trials of understanding are not easy.
No trail that leads upward is ever an easy
road at the start. Carved out of the living
rock by the explorer, made by his suffer¬
ings and hardships, it requires the footsteps
of many to make it a road. No road can
ever be made alone.
But the reward of effort is great. When
one reaches the summit and sees both sides
of the mountains—then is the way made
clear. Then is the hour of understanding.
Then has the heart truly crossed the moun¬
tains.
Fellwood Nursery In
Need of Funds
The Associate Committee for
Negro Nurseries with B. >C Fond
chairman,' has mailed letters
to citizens appealing for funds
to help keep the Fellwood Day
Nursery open. It is hoped that
the response to these letters
will be adequate to meet the
budget of $225.00 a month- f Jr
operating the center for the
next six months. This - sptall
budget is made possible through
provision of free shelter, fuel
and lights by the jSavannah
Housing Authority in<; the Fell¬
wood Housing Project.
As has been stated in pHfe-
ous news articles,’ the •WtEfc’-
drawal of Lanham Act funds
makes it necessary to obtain
funds from other sources im¬
mediately or else Savannah
will lose the opportunity of
supervised day care for its
children which prior to June
15 was supplied through two
nursery schools, Belser and
FelLwood centers.
Persons interested in making
a contribution toward this con¬
structive and educational pro-
j<nt are asked to make checks
payable to Associate Committee
for Negro Nurseries and mail
to Miss Willa Mae Ayers, treas-
FORMER NEGRO ATHLETE GOES
WASHINGTON, D C—A fam
ous Negro athlete who was
bom in Berlin. educated in Lon
don and captured and held
prisoner by the Germans in
the last war was enroute to
Germany this week for the
third time—as an employe of
the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration _
The UNRA representative is
Harry F. V. Edwards, a track
star of the early twenties, who
now* resides in Princeton. N. J.
Mr. Edwards, three-times win-
of the 100 and 220-yard
urer, 1009 West Broad street.
• Members composing the
mil tee besides the
qnh'treasurer ard Mrs. R. Jack-
Kin, secretary, E. C, BVackshear
Trank Callen, Hr. N. H.
A W Cummin^. Mrs. Ola Din¬
gle. Mrs. Rubye Gadson,
Janette Hayes. Johhn Q.
ferson. Sol. C. Johnson, C. Riv-
era, Walter S Scott, Walter
Scott, Jr., Mrs- Frank
D. Thomas, Mrs, J. L-
Mrs: Nancy Walker-, Mrs. J.
Walker, Mrs. Susan
Mrs. Eunice Williams and
R. M. Gilbert.
PVT. FERGUSON GOES
TO SIOUX CITY
GOES to SIOUX CITY,
Fort Des Moines,
ate Minnie Ferguson,
of Mrs. Ada Fergusson,
West street, Savannah, Ga.,
member of the Women’s Army
Corps recently left First WAC
Training Center, here, for duty
with the Army at Sioux City,
Iowa.
dashes in the British Open
Championship, left by plane for
Germany .his week where he
will direct an assembly c nter
operated by the international
agency to help repatriate peo¬
ple displaced by the war.
A former British subject, Mr.
Edwards was born in Berlin
and educated in London. H
has lived in the United States
I since 1923 and is now an Amer-
' During the last
ican citizen.
war he spent three years and
nine months in Germany in a |
British prisoner of war samp.
RECITAL B
STEPHEN'S GUILD
On Tuesday evening, July
24th at 8:30 o’clock St. Ste¬
phen’s Guild of the St. Mat-
thewls’ Episcopal church will
present Messrs Edward Law,
Leon Grant, Boles Ford, Martin
Graham, Wilson Hubert and Dr
J. W. Jamerson, Jr., in a mid¬
summer musical at the First
African Baptist church. More
than 400 patrons have endors¬
ed this program which prom¬
ises to be the outstanding lo- j
cal talent entertainment of
the season. The admission
fee is 50 cents and the public
is invited.
The program will be as fol-
]ows;
The Star Spangled Banner—
Audience.
1
Come To The Fair
Ave Maria ______________Mr. Law
I The Lord’s Prayer
A Dream -----------Mr. Grant
| Summer Time Graham
Passing By ______Mr.
Song of Hybrias, The Cretan
A Song of Sleep-- Mr. Hubert
J^ueL—Violin Duet
Love’s Greeting Mr. Ford
Dr. jamerson
The Brown Bird Singing-------
Mr. Graham
Ali - Ali_____________Mr. Grant
Time and Tide_________Mr. Hubert
Invictus _______ Mr. Law
America ___________ Audience
God showed His displeasure
at crookedness when He spoke
thru His prophet Isiah saying,
“And a highway shall be there
and a way, and it shall be call¬
ed the way of holiness; the un¬
clean shall not pass over it; but
it shall be for those, the way¬
faring mien, though fools, shall
not err therein.
In an interview at UNRRA
headquarters, Mr. Edwards,
who captained British track
teams to other countries, said
that he had tried to use sports
to help bridge national and
racial barriers Before coming
to UNRRA. he worked in New
York City for the OPA as chief
cilerk of rationing: supervisor
of fuel oil rationing; examiner
of rent control. Mrs. Edward,
a former social worker is on
the Princeton. N. J., board o.
the League of Women Voters.
Last week my sweetheait had
a birthday. She was 70 years
young and still going strong.
Friends ol hejs paid her a
fitting tribute at a birthday
partv in the Howard theatre,
and the home packed to over-
flowing. They pail to have
the privileg of honoring this
woman, and the entire proceeds
were used to swell the coffers
of her organization which is
continuing its drive to raise
$55,000 to catry on its* program
for improving the welfare of
Negroes throughout America
and the world with particular
emphasis on the role of women.
Almost as much as the guest
of honor herself, I felt a par¬
ticular pride in the event.
Fondly, many people call
“Ma". I have always called
her ‘ Darling”— and she seems
to like it. I think of her as
my Washington ‘mother”. She
has been that now, for over
four years-
I can pay her no greater tri¬
bute* than think of her as
“Mother,” for then I put her
in the same class w’ith that
lovely little lady in St. Louis to
whom I owe so much—who
earned the title of mother the
hard way, who prays for my
health and success every day
and night, who taught me
right from wrong, who bled her
fingers to the bone in the kit¬
chen and laundries of more fi-
BIGGEST NEGRO
PAPER ON SALE
INDIANAPOLIS, - . (ANP i —
The Indianapolis Recorder’s
“Victory Progress Edition,” a
mammoth special edition of
192 pages, went on sale in the
city and state last week. The
largest issue or edition ever
published by a Negro Newspa¬
per organization, the paper
consists of six sections, each
section of 32 standarize pages.
The edition portrays some
espects of Negro people in
world history over a period of
more than 2,000 yeasr. The
six sections contain hundreds
of articles by, or about persons
active in all fields of human
endeavor. These are illustrat¬
ed with art and photographs.
The Recorder will observe
its 50th anniversary this fall
and the editor-publisher.' Mar¬
cus C. Stewart, nursing the
idea for more than a decade,
has conceived of a history mak¬
ing edition as one phase of ob¬
servance of this anniversary.
111I HHUHW
MASONIC-EASTERN STAR NOTES
I
The first Eastern Star chap-
ter organized in Georgia was
on July 18, 1898, when more
than fifty ladies were initiat¬
ed by Grand Master W. E
Terry and Sol C. Johnson, who
were deputized by the Grand
Chapter of the District of Co¬
lumbia. Electa chapter was
its name with Mrs. Dorothy
Edwards as worthy matron and
Sol. C. Johnson as worthy pa¬
tron. The chapter observed its
47th anniversary last night.
The members were not un¬
mindful of its natal date, but
did so in a becoming manner.
As the mother chapter, Electa
is always highly respected as
the mother o£ Eastern Stars in
Georgia.
• • •
It did the heart good of ev¬
ery Mason present to note the
earnestness of the brothers
who attended the school at the
lodge room last Sunday after¬
noon. It was in charge of
Past Master C. Smith.
The ceremonial of the Mys¬
tic Shrine takes place next
week. The class will consist
of fifty noviates- The Con¬
sistory of Scottish Rite will
confer the 32d degree on the
28th. All of the candidates
must be present before 6
o'clock in the afternoon.
Omar Temple. 21. Mystic Shrine
will carry a like number
over the hot sand the following
day. A number of Sublime
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945
UNCOVERING
WASHINGTON ...
White House Correspondent Released
through the Atlanta Dally World
by the NNPA
deft il
By Harry 8. McAlpln
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nacially fortunate per sq<0 in
order that I might go to school
and have access to more oppor¬
tunities than she had, whose
unselfish love taught me to
value service to others above
monetary returns.
Rightfully, my Washington i
sweetheart belongs in the same
class with the “little lady’ 1 in
St. Louis, for she too, has
taught me many valuable les¬
sons. For a year and a half I
sat at her feet as one of hen as¬
sistants in the National Office
of the NYA. I learned more
during that time in the way of
practical techniques, spiritual
loftiness, determination and
service than I could have t ob>-
in school, even had i
Stayed to receive a doctorate; ;>■
I have seen her mind work,
her heart beat, her eyes flasil. .
I’ve recorded her smootn flow¬
ing words when she’d get in an
inspirational mood to walk 1
about the room totally oWlvi- i
ous of me and talk to the,-im¬
aginary audience of youths and
grownups whose burdens she
never discarded.
Fortunately, I’m! not jealous.
I know that to millions of peo¬
ple all over this land, she
‘Sweetheart”. But I know too,
that many of them must envy
me the close touch I so fortun¬
ately have had with Mrs Mary
McLeod Bethune.
LISTS WHAT THE NE¬
GRO WANTS AS Hfe
COMMUNISTIC
Jt * r —« /-■
CHICAGO— (ANP)—The Chi
cago Tribune, called the na¬
tion’s leading anti-communis¬
tic newspaper, listed last week
the book, “What The Negro
munistic Wants”, as books one now of in many the qqn^-i Con¬ 1
gressional Library.
The book containing articles
by 14 writers including its
tor, Rayford W. Logan, was m:e
of 38 termed •‘communistic’",
in a total of 55 Evans is alleg¬
ed to hav« recommended for
congressmen to read, according
to The- Tribune.
Twelve of the book’s contri¬
butors, which include America’s
most outstanding Negro lead¬
ers, some of whom have been
denounced in communistic cir¬
cles as anti-Red, are listed as
pro-communist. A Philip Ram
dolph, president of the (Brother
hood of Sleeping Car porters
and heretofore reported to be
closely associated with social¬
ist forces, is among those lited.
Prinops towAr and Nobles present. Irom o^i t of
will be
Date for meeting of the elec¬
tive officers of the Grand
Chapter of the Eastern Star
will be announced after August
1. / i V
* • •
Dispensation will expire with
the last set of applicants be¬
fore the ending of the month.
This is hailed with delight
when real Masonry can be
truly observed. ^ ■*. “S
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Files of The Savannah
Tribune
FIFTY YEARS AGO —
JULY 20, 1885
Bishop M. B. Salter preached
at Gaines Chapel Sunday last-
Zion Baptist convention
held in Brunswick.
The Bibb County Blues of
Macon arrived in the city Wed- I
nesday night, Capt. J. A. Ma- -
son, the guests of the
Blues.
Mt. Olive Baptist Association
presented Dr. E. K. Love a gold
headed stick.
State Baptist Sunday school
convention to meet in Augusta
next week.