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The savannah tribune
Established 1875
*** By J. H. DEVEAUX
BCNU C. JOHNSON........ Sditor and Publisher
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THE WRECKING CREW
Columnist Stokes gives a new
the Wrecking Crew—to the Southern bloc
“which represents a minority of the Na¬
tion, and even a minority of the people
they are supposed to represent.” The
Southern bloc opposes these parts of the
president's program: the $25.00-a-week
unemployment compensation bill, the * El <
and the anti-poll tax bill. I he Southern
bloc's opposition to the latter two items
coiieern us greatly because they touch us at
A point which has so much to do with our
very existence.
, We find it increasingly difficult to un-
derstand the reason which the Southern
bloc gives for opposing so persistently the
FEl’C and the anti-poll tax bill in view of
the faC that our country’s representatives
have so recently committed it anew' to
“faith in fundamental human rights, in the
dignity and worth of the human person,
in the equal rights of men and women "
... .
This is jut a reaffirmation of the
of the founding fathers of this country. It
ie repeating again the expression of the
spirit which carried American soldiers
:hitherto unheard of heights of heroism
•and courage in order to crush for all time
!( ?) those whose aim was to deny human
•rights to all except a “master race.”
'purely narrow willing selfish reasons, these hamstring politi-
Jcians are to continue to
• the South’s progress- For every social
[uml 'economic reason, there should be a per-
jmanent FEPC.
I The poll tax a a prerequisite for
ds in conflict with the amendments which
•were expiv - !y passed to give Negroes the
Jright to vote, and yet the Southern block
•calls a bill to remedy this error unconstitu*
jtional. •might Moreover, conflict any with act to essential abridge ‘idfeal this
is in that
Jef democracy: government gets its right to
[govesan from the consent of the governed,
at is an obvious wrong to deprive any group
•of citizens of the right to have a voice in
their ... government. , Any group which , . ,
jiullifv an aim of democracy is indeed w r ell
burned, a WRECKING CREW
“THE STRATEGY OF DIVERSION
,,„Xhe most casual reader of “Negroes
Succeed in Georgia" has looked upon it as
a sort of smoke screen, or as diversion
palliate, strategy, or.at least as serving to soothe or
or to suggest to Negroes that
things should are not so bad in Georgia; that they
be contented. • It serves, too, to
divert attention from tjhe unsatisfactory
conditions at the State College.
telling white readers something of Negroes
t hey perhaps, would not otherwise know,
•'•(ipears often to l>e a sort of autobio¬
graphy, that also seems calculated to divert,
attention from other things. The
ficular persons who have been subjects of
Biis article may be pleased or appeased,
•ut Jpegro they do not constitute news to most
readers- No sensible persons wish
deny that some colored people have made
Commendable success in their chosen
flf endeavor. No intelligent persons are
•naware of what soil erosion, soil conser-
Jutkm, and community cooperation
%> people, white as well as colored, but
•isist that erosion which affects the
Ilt cation of Negro boys and girls, is a
of very grave concern to us, and no
Smoke screen is thick enough, no diversion
Arategy is clever enough to turn us from
•nr conviction that a thorough
flon of the college is necessary, and the
•miner the better- We do not intend
Save our request for it ignored. We shall
the line of authority. If the
•f»t will not ask for it. we shall take the
An do
*obrt L. Ailord, mailman,
nliygrt clasv 37 U IV O L "l * * 1 * 1
Birmiaghai n. Ala., is
•vfc*w n at he took tl io tea which
eaj- ’-Lai oflicers ra-
tift he :•>. hold., .«• a Navy-
the Maaa Barracks m
PeahrHarbur. He l a gradu.
of two things: it will prove the rumors false
and give the college a clean bill of health,
or it will confirm their truthfulness and
apply the needed remedy.
A NEW DAY
A new day is about to come for thousands
of Negroes. This is ordinarily true for
those who become of age every year, and
who have their first experience at casting
a ballot, but it is true also for those who
[though well past their first voting age. will
j ___ ____ _____ r _......... JJjJJ
become voters without
tax. It is the duty of every person who
has reached the age of eighteen, and of
every person beyond that age, to register
and be prepared to vote when the way is
clear to do so. It will be the accomplish¬
ment of a fine job—a big job—to get ten
thousand colored people to register, but it
| w jjj a bigger job to get them to remain
Registered. Ten thousand new Voters on
the lists will represent an awakening on
the part of Negroes filled with potential
promise for them, but they will at the
same time confront our leaders with a huge
J^ one that will challenge the best
re is in them> The problem of control
of these new voter s so that the arguments
()f those who have been, and are, opposed
^ granting them the right to vote to Ne-
| | ea wJ .,j be prove( j without first foundation. will be
.\ mong the necessary steps
j that of educating them as to the elemental
things voters must know. The immense
i m o u n t of work this sort ot thing
e n t a i 1 s should be in the mmos and
planning of the leaders- Ten thousand un-
j informed and politically illiterate voters
be a menace to good government, ihe
zeal for getting a large number of voters
is only the beginning. They will have to
be taught the machinery that is necessary
effective participation in government,
district, ward or 1 precinct, and county or-
'ganizttion; the intelligent tollowship an<
leadership in them etc- It will take time.
! energy and patience, and unquestioned
j dependability on the part of leaders o
make these new voters the kind good citi-
needs. The rewards aie worth a
the time, labor and sacrifice that is pu
into it.
1
It is the popular beliefs, and they only,
j which ener directly into delations the casual .the me- be¬
ehanism 0 f interracial .
held by white people rather than
t y, ose held by Negroes are of primary im-
portance. —Gunnar Myrdal
>n a r ill
nr art qnr it.;.
.FREE SPEECH
el. ‘|}jy Ruth Taylor
Free speech is the life blood of the Re¬
.public of the United States. From the Bill
of Ri ^ to the Four Freedoms, it has
.
been araymbol of democracy, so completely
accepted as ia! right, that we haVe come to
takeoit fon griinff'd. Without ffeo speech
ijo man knows the ambitions ot Ideals mo¬
tivating his i ivdighbot. The abolition of
free speech precedes by ditty a moment the
enslavement of man.
But how may we preserve free speech?
If free speech is to be desired enough to
fight for it and if its loss is one of the
greatest a nation can suffer, we must cher¬
ish it and use it wisely—for free speech is
a responsibility as w’ell as a right.
Free speech must be true speech. Free
speech must be fair speech. the
Free speech means right to disagree
and to state the reason for dissent without
recourse to slanderous abuse.
While we fight to protect freedom of
speech, we should not employ that freedom
and state the reason for dissent without re-
No one group, whether it be of class, em¬
ployment, race, national origin or religion,
should carry free speech to extremes.
If one side abuses the right of free
speech, the other side is not justified in
following suit.
Liberty must never degenerate into li¬
cense; freedom of assembly must never end
in mob rule; and free speech must never
lower itself to vituperative slander of those
with whom we are not in accord or against
any group of our population.
Free speech can only be exercised by _a
free people—free to study the facts, to
weigh the source and to state its own po¬
sition clearly and calmly. Free men must
be ready to listen as well as to speak, and
to be tolerant of every argument, every
point of view—except the arguments and
point of view of intolerance.
uate of Payne college and has
been in the navy 21 months and
overseas seven. His wife, Mrs.
C a N. Alird and tavo children
ine at 25P ’bci sd.cs- Hir.
tSsile, Ala.—(Navy photogaph)
?d trgraph'
Joseph B. Semper, seaman
class, 4945 Vincennes Ave.,
Chicago, is shown (standing)
a quettion >n an ex
animation being tak n by a
to discover his pro¬
gress in the navy’s educational
program at Pearl Har
Dear Reader:
M A N U S C R IPT proudly an¬
nounces that one of its editors,
Harry McAlpin, is now touring the
Pacific Naval bases. For the
six weeks he will poke his inquisi¬
tive nose into Pearl Harbor, the
Phjlippnes, New Hebrides, the
Admiralty Islands, Guam, the
Mariannas, two Jima, Okinawa,
even into the homeland of Jap¬
an itself.
He is chock-full of antitoxins
for everything from jungle fever
to cow pox. But as the only Ne¬
gro accredited by Navy as a .war
correspondent in a uniform ’^dec¬
orated with a Lt. Commander’s
Collar insignia. And incidentally,
this Vnsignia, the highest worn by
any Negro in the Navy, has been
the object of some curiosity land
even consternation on the pact of
naval officers and enlisted ber-
sonnel on Washingtoh streets!
Upon his return, and even soon¬
er, you will have the benefit of : his
incomparable experiences. Until
then, bear with us. ) t
National Council for
FEPC is concerned over the latest
legislative maneuvers. It is con¬
vinced that the proposal of Rep.
Vito Marcantonio, staunch friend
of FEPC, to tie the FEPC bill on
to the Full Employment Bill as an
amendment, is a sincere effort to
force consideration for a perman¬
ent FEPC.
On the other hand, it is equal¬
ly convinced that a similar pro¬
posal by Senator Robert Taft, Re¬
publican of Ohio, is a sincere ef¬
fort to discredit FEPC, and pos¬
sibly force its eventual defeat. It
could also hamper passage of the
Full Employment Blil. It is re¬
called that Sen. Taft was able to
muster sufficient strength to de¬
feat a Federal Aid to Education
Bill by tacking op a state-adminis¬
tration amendment.
Meanwhile the National
cil knowing as House
Leader Joe Martin says, that a lot
of business men oppose FEPC
REGISTER AND
QUALIFY TO VOTE
Get every member of your
family 18 years and older to
regi.ftr. Get every member
of your organization to regis¬
ter at mice No back taxes re¬
quired. ■.
THE SAVANNAH TWBB 1 B
cause of a distorted version of the
intent and scope, is hiring a pub¬
lic relations director. He is Nathan
Zotkin, the man who further pop¬
ularized the lowly hot dog by wide
distribution of a photograph show¬
ing Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt serv¬
ing them to Queen Marie of Ru¬
mania.
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Railroads are faced with un-.
precedented competition from the
air lines in the post war. They
are accepting the challenge and
preparing to meet it. They cannot
compete with air travel speed, and
they are not too optimistic tljat
they can win in a pfree WaY. Th'gy
pl'an to fight on ^dunci* of
The rm.- present _________ ,______ lounge and parlor
pullman cars will be supplanted
by a post war counterpart sport¬
ing such attractive features as
dance floors, modernistic cocktail
lounges, children’s nursery cars
and movie theaters.
This raises the interest^ 'AilfoadfS dhrii 1
jefture of just whaft the 1
intend to do about' “stpatafF btrtJ
equal” accommodations lb’ H'At'eY
where the laws so require. Will
Negro passengers be allowed to
share the dance floors, barber
shops, and nursery cars, or will
minature replicas be provided for
them? This is ■ a race problem
with federal implications.
Now, added to the legal milit¬
ancy of Negro passengers who
have forced southern railroads to
allow them in Pullman sleeper
cars and diners, is a new head¬
ache for the railroads. President
Gordon Persons of the Alabama
Public Service Commission has
opened inquiry dPto complaints
charging tailrcfcldfc in Alabama
with failure to'separate white and
Negro passengers. Chief com¬
plaint isArom a"white Mobile busi¬
ness man, W. H. Jernigan. who
says he witnessed Negroes allow¬
ed to ride in a pullman car
“which was occupied primarily by
Penning his first letter, this
(seated) who has learn¬
to read and write in classes
of ti*’ special framing unit of
ths Navy'- educational pro¬
at Pearl Harbor, gets a
help from Maurice East-
Forrrtrr sihool teachers and
lollege men teach sailors who
have had les^ than a fourth
Si‘ ade education. Before enlist
ir.g in the Navy. Semper was a
field representative for the
War Manpower Commission.—
(Offocial U. S. Navy photo¬
graph).
land, motor mach'nisCs mate,
first class, 58? Jefferson avenue,
Briioklyn, N. Y Eastland is
one of the former teachers
i?no* or. duty il the training
uiut.—Official U. S. Navy photo
graph.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY:
T« the Superior Court of Chatham
Count? and To
HON. DAVID S. ATKINSON,
Judge thereof:
The petition of the Grand Chapter
of the Order of the Eastern Star for
the Sta/le of Georgia and Jurisdiction
respectfully sbowa:
1. That your petitioner was in¬
corporated under wal’d name as
body corporate on August tilth. V.HH
•J. That oaud churter was
by this Court for a period of twen-
ty ypars from «ui<l date on Septem¬
ber let fa 1824.
3. That Maid renewal expired on
August It* fa 1844.
4. i'bat on June 27th 1844 at a
regular meeting of the members
•mid corporation a resolution was was
adopted authorizing the hereinafter
for *he renewal of petitioners char-
o7 B °tfa. tto ".^°o au ^mo^
the change change of the name of £ petition¬
er to “The l’rince Ilall Grand Chap¬
ter of the Order of 'the Eastern fitar
for the State of Georgia and Juris¬
diction,*' a copy of said resolution
certfc&d by the Secretary of the
Ut loner b»<ii»g hereto attached at)
:Kxhiidt A“ and made a part hereof.
5. That said committee is compos
ed of Sol. Johnson, Mary L. Ayers,
Minnie I)eVaughn of Chatham Fulton Coun¬
ty, John Wesley Dobbs of Fulton
'.mmy " na ( “‘" rK, ‘ " • 81,1 * 11 l,f ,il - vl “ 1
<
WHBKEFOKB, petitioner prays
I hat cnarier of wiiii corporation be
amended aa hereinabove set
and that the name be revived and
renewed for a period of thirty-five
(35) years from August 1(5, 1U44, with
all of the powers, rights and priv-
lieges as the said corporatiou now
enjoys.
Sol C. Johnson
Mary L. Ayers
■Minnie DeVaughn
a. W. liohhhs
Geo. W. Smith
Committee
WILLIAM S. JACKSON
Attorney for Petitioner
UK IT ItHSOLVED by The Grand
Chapter of tho Order of the Eastern
Svar for the State of Georgia and
Jutttsdictioa fn regular session
assembled at Macon, Georgia on
the 27th day of June, 1U44, that ihe
Charter of tails corporation which will
ex Id re on Augugt 10, 1844 lie renew¬
ed and that a petition for such re¬
newal should be mod in the .tupe-
rior Court of Chatham County, Geor¬
gia by the committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVE!' that
• he Millie of this corporation shall he
changed from Its present name to
The Prince iiau Grand chapter of
the Order of the Eastern Star
the Stute of Georgia anil Jurisdiction.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that
a committee composed of Sol C. John-
son, Mary L. Ayers, Minnie De-
Vaughn, of Chatham county, John
ft w* 6 ‘smith may
is hereby authorized and directed to
take the necessary steps to renew
the charter and change the name
the corporation as aforesaid.
I the undersigned Secretary of The
Grand Chapter of the Order of (he
iwld‘ e Jurisdiction ‘do ^‘hereby G certlfv
that ait a regular iueetng ot this
poratfcon held in Macon, Georgia on
June 27th 15)44 the foregoing resold
ti0 "ivT u“er m ^ y ed ifgnature
Given under my omcW official signature
nnj id iijie seal of the corporation tW»
«t xri ’tfiiy (tdSepteiubber, lilfu.
1'HOEBE C. SIMMONS
Secretary
Corporate SBOtJ ' ' ------ —
•EXHIBIT A”
The Gram] : v. Chapter ot the oojjy
the Etuftem Rtar for the
Georgia and Jurisdiction.
Application ito revive, renew and
amend charter.
The foregoing petition of The Grand
chapter of fthe Order of the
Star for the State uf Georgia ami J,iri
isdiciou to revival renew and apieipi
if* charter' In the particulars there-
lwSftitoii hw'tleen ifiadc fit accrtriiimce
glu. h amf* (ttVihe reqn<rmn*eut rof*
WCHucb oa*«w prarifdfed have been
It is hereiiy considered, ordered,
judged and decreed that all of the
I»ruyerg of said petition are
granted, the said charter is hereby
revived and renewed for a peritod or
thirty-five (35) years trom August
1944, and that the charter of
corporation is hereby amended to
change its name to “The Prince Hall
Grand Chapter of itbe Order of the
Eastern Star for the State of Geor :
gia and Jurisdiction.”
In open Court this li)th day of Sep¬
tember, 1945.
DAVID S. ATKINSON
Judge of Superior Court of Chatham
County, Ga.
WILLIAM B. SCOTT
Clerk S. C., C. C. Ga.
Petition and Order thereon filed in
office September 19th, 1945
William B. Scott, Clerk, S. C. C. C. Ga
set up for playing cards, had ice
brought for drinks, and used the
same toilet facilities' as white pas¬
sengers.
This is in effect a stab from the
rear, because Commissioner Per¬
sons has asked the railroads for
a statement of policy and has cited
the state laws compelling “separ¬
ate but equal” accommodations. It
apparently points to separate pull¬
man cars for white and Negro
passengers or construction of spe¬
cially partitioned ones. The rail¬
roads appear to be caught square¬
ly between the legal efforts of
Negroes for “equal” facilities and
pressure from white southerners
for “separate” ones. A third al¬
ternative if, of course, abolition
of Jim Crow laws.
Note: The W. H. Jernigan men¬
tioned above is not Rex’. W. H.
Jernagin, Director of the Fra¬
ternal Council of Negro Churches,
who is a Negro, ahd whp strange¬
ly enough is suing a southern rail¬
road for ousting him from his first
class accommodations.
* * « *
The anti-fedeml housing ban in
Birmingham, Ala., also has federal
implications.
Last Spring the Jefferson Coun¬
ty (Birmingham) delegation slip¬
ped the anti-federal housing ban
through the biennial Legislature.
This delegation was influenced by
State Senator Janies Simpson, who
opposed U. S. Senator Lister Hill
in the 1944 senatorial elections.
The avowed purpose of this ban
was to remote the federal govern-
ment from the field of competi-
tive housing, and to encourage pri-
housing enterprise. Imrnedi-
MIMUI »»• » • » < lll l **** * * I
Masonic - Eastern Star Notes
The invitations and tickets
are out for the Shriner’s
Cabaret cabaret , , on On Thanksgiving ThanksglVin^,
eve in the ‘ Sky Room” of the
Atlanta City Auditorium. There
will be attendants from all
parts. Savannah will be well
represented. Noble Geo. I!
Smith is arranging for the local
j _ r"7! __
d From
' reports number of ladies will
3.
be in the party. For ample
accommodation, names should
be given at once.
•
I District meeting was held
__________ _____ w "
! . T I-#drane olinudy. There was
a large attendance of
1 brothers in that section. The
. Grand Master was present
i * ” *
I lne Scottish &colll sn ±ute Ritp SuDTeme ^upie
*
Council Will meet in
don, W. Va., October 14.
Let us do everything possible
to encourage the young mem¬
bers. Teach them the way so
that they can take our places
when we are gone.
The older brothers must not
Stand in the Way of the yOUP.g-
er ones. The latter must make
themselves proficient so as to
fill in. Failing to do so the
older ones will have to fill the
breach.
Mrs. Mary L- Ayers was thor¬
oughly surprised when she re-
turned home last Monday even
ing and found about twenty
members of Prince Hall Chap-
n lCer „ r Nn JN0 ' n U e, h b o at w “ €r
‘ • - '
home. These ladies greeted
*er by singing “Hail, Hail, the
Gang’s All Here ” and “It Isn’t
. m TrOllblg , , «JllSt T To Coop^T” „
| ate.” When the honoree be-
came sufficiently composed,
^ he WES P resented a beautiful
j Crystal perfume Set from the
— 1
wh ' te P e0 P le '” He objected par-
singers, six in number had tables
ticularly because the colored pas-
ate protest followed passing of the
|l?>n, and it proved justified. Pri-
1 f«jr.ihpproximately $29,000,000 in
Federal '’ederal housing funds made by
| county and city governments have
i^een v , held , , due , to the . ban.
up
j Birmingham’s legal lights, after
9^6 j,,-, study _____ now characterize , . . the
hit' as “unconstitutional.” State
Mark Hodo, himself a big
| real estate man, has noted the
g^thiring wave of protests and
'now calls it a “political blunder.”
Commissioner Henry
Sweet says now the ban is head-
A a court test . by the . corn-
bined municipal governments and
tne county,
The Navy is suffering the grow¬
ing pains to be expected in one so
recently come of age in good race
relations. It is full of little back¬
washes and eddies.
When a lot of the segregation
by race was ordered abandoned at
the Great Lakes Naval station, the
white officer in charge -of the “Ne¬
gro Classification Unit,” became
jittery over prospect of those col¬
ored lads, all of them college men,
interviewing white illiterates. At
his instigation, the unit was trans¬
ferred to Camp Peary in Williams¬
burg, Virginia. But now the boys
report in their own words: “We
have been here since the 19th of
July and have yet to interview the
first Negro. All the men we have
interviewed have been white, Mexi-
can, Central and South Americans
and Chinese.”
Similarly, in Pensacola, Florida,
in spite of dire predictions con¬
cerning the consequences of white
and colored men using the same
swimming pool, Spc. 2-c Horace E.
Belmear, a colored swimming ex¬
pert from Washington, D. C.,
teaches white gobs how to swim
and otherwise survive when the
nearest land is straight down.
naval M_ an _y officers. °« ; h,s __ students are w h • t e
Appointment of Republican Sen-
ator Harold Burton of Ohio to
Supreme Court, by President
man, caught colored citizens un-
prepared. Opinion as to his lib-
era! or conservative tendencies
seems somewhat divided, due no
doubt to a Senate voting record
which shows spotty liberalism
where domestic issues are con-
cerned.
Consultation of the N A A C P
“Congress Voting Record on Maj¬
or Legislation” (something, inci¬
dentally, without which you can ill afford
to be discloses that Bur¬
ton voted against the confirma¬
tion of Henry A. Wallace, against
the confirmation of Aubrey Wil¬
liams, against efforts to kill the
vicious “work or jail” bill, and
THURSDAY, CCT. 1. IMS
chapter by the matron, Mrs*
Matilda Washington who was
the instigator of the affair,
Indivdual gifts were also given
and refreshments served. Prince
Hall Chapter honored itself by
showing appreciation to oae
order w ho has all done over so Georgia. much for It tjp.
is
regretted that the hundreds of
admirers ot r*ast vjrana Matron
Ayers were not aware of it so
that they could join In the oc-
casion and extend their appreci
ation. We can not do too much
in giving honor to this noble
character.
Files of The Savannah
Tribune
FIFTY YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 5, 1895
John B. Savage, old and re¬
spected citizen died Wednesday.
Buried from St. Benedict’s
church.
Rev. James Porter died in
New York last week. He was
the first principal of the West
Broad Street School. It is un¬
derstood that the remains will
be brought to Savannah for
burial next month.
Mr. F. A. Curtright paid us
a visit on Monday.
Rev. L. B. Maxwell visited
Darien this week on account of
the illness of his mother.
The three Baptist National
Conventions have been united
with Rev. E. C. Morris as pres-
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1 — •
against efforts to hold prices down
regardless of profits. But he did
vote for the anti-poll tax bill, the
FEPC appropriations and Federal
Aid to Education.
■
Incidentally, just the day
he was appointed to the ~ Benc^he
was about to prepare a constmP
tional amendment for the
tax, which would have been
monkey-wrench in machine Fy
working to pass the bill. It ap¬
pears therefore, that his appoint¬
ment has already benefited the
underprivileged in the poll tax
states. Si
Truman K. Gibson, Jr.’s citation
by the President and award ,of the
Medal for Merit for Civilians, de¬
serve applause. In what was one
of the war’s most difficult civili-
an roles, as Civilian Aide to the
Secretary of War, he was actual
adviser on Army’s most ticklish
problem, the Negro soldier. He
was also on the spot—he couldn’t
win. Frequently he squirmed as
the Press screamed some partial-
fact or half-truth headline, while
ponderous “military seer e c y”
would not permit an acceptably ex¬
planation. He just had to take it.
The percentage of error and bkd
judgment in his excellent record of
accomplishment, is far smaller
than that of most of Army’s top
civilian and military personnel.
The War Department is fully
aware of this.
Assistant Secretary of War,
John J. McCloy, has been the force
ehind _
P Gibson. More than once
ae ^ as su PPorted him in the face
of determined and outspoken op¬
position from army brass hats. Mc¬
Cloy has won the esteem of the
lowly and those who cherish tol¬
erance and liberality.
Gibson knows McCloy plans to
resign as soon as he can do so
gracefully. Gibson'also On the plans’to“re- day he does
sign and to return t0 private laW
in Chicago, where he is a
Director of the Supreme Liberty
Life Insurance Company, the Su¬
preme Service Company, an3
member of the Cook County Bar
Association . incidentally, Gibson’s
res j gnation wag ret urned to him
by the then Under Secretary o£
War Robert p p attersonj when
some months ago he desired to
leave to accept a position .yc^h
FEPC.
For Patterson as the new Sec-
retary, Gibson has high praise, and
expresses a belief that he will con*
tinue the office of Civilian Aide.
As to a successor for himself io
the job first held by Judge Wil¬
liam Hastie, he predicts that Pat¬
terson will insist on a Negro Army
officer with field experience. “Civi¬
lian Aide” will become merely
“Aide.” .