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■y J. H. DEVEAUX
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‘•Five thousand years a go the ancestors
of the present highly cultured peoples of
Kir rope were savages roaming the wilds of
Europe ... at a time when the kingdoms
of Africa were at their height.”
Opypral several yeaus vcirs mrn ago, commenting communing on a a sur-
vey of health conditions among Negroes,
The Journal of Negro History noted that the
class ot Negroes who lived in touch with the
most and worst health hazzards, were un-
aware of the simple things at hand that
touid be used to better their health situa-
tion. A similar observation can be made
of Negroes in other matters. One of the
. things, Negroes can do to remedy a eondi-
tion they often have rbason to complain of,
is the organization of a consumer co-oper-
ative. Co-operative organization is a com-
parativelj simple way to teach co-operation
to a people who so sorely need to learn that
lesson. It can be used to very great ad-
vantage to disadvantaged individuals who
need to make a little money go a long
tance. Co-operatives organized to furnish
food, gasoline, clothing, coal and many oth-
er things Negroes must have and want,
have .,atd been tbT verv ’ successful “pro'vSed undertakings 'a
that money and
sense of ownership. The Rochdale plan is
usually followed. It is simple and not d if -
ficult to get into operation once it is un-
derstood. It is thoroughly democratic h,
its processes in which its members share
equally. Several years ago there was a
successful cooperative society (operated in
Savannah, which desolved because it did not
succeed in attracting a sufficiently
number of members to keep the burden of
its management from being too heavy u
on those of the .mernben. who had
TrimaS IV. S^JSS ; m “7
. ,, 1
also received in addition two or three
as much as his original investment. Thi,.
amoiml , did ,., not . inciude • i i ,,atronago , ,l.v,de,,rts
they had rece.ved during the three years
of its operation. An effort is now being mi! 45
made to organize another society.
Tribune commends it to our community as
a worthwhile project to be connected with.
It has great possibilities.
Another agency which would be of un¬
told benefit to any group of people esl
cially to under-privileged groups, is k
Credit Union. We hope some group of per- '
sons will look into organizing a credit union,
Adventuring around in “our " mind.” us
we <lo ,i.. sometimes m the Laurel T , Grove
m ctery, colored ,-j* section, we v J have stumbled L
upon an idea. XT Neither ... ot these are unlike-
sly places to find live ideas. One need 1 not ”
m vpntn-o venture Lit f.,,. in thj ,u cemetery , nor long to
*
* come upon the apparently forgotten last
rc..SI„y pljices of many of tho forgotten rf
„yo»te.-year ]mrwL!,'T : It,, ovidently not the bu 8
K hi' U ( o miT f iissioti t< )
*dmvr) f
„n-h i b p arrangement .: .v T :
„ m u „ t Vhrnmrh „ „ ,U !th° V't .
accessible occessiblfc except excent thiough other lots, this
‘arrangement is the work of
Mistered • Pennine the of those'oho lai.l'out'i.nd
*;that the cemetery. It is almost strange
fathers w ho did such a noteworthy
^ cemetery. I here is little the
jtan do about remedying the condition now,
5 an lslst ! hat lot lines be ob -
seivea, *»nd perhaps n they can regulate the
„
U>pe ot, cnees a lot may have. This would
--•at least d_eter owners from erecting
fferts e ^ c ’ w °1 { ier non-descript 7 oare 1° refrain fences. from It cluttering should be
»* their lots
. up with old benches, broken
* J vases and other- pottery which may have
no unique significance. Time was when.
it appears, people used to take better and
7f 01 m 1HS? C T 7 tbe la st resting
tv,r.- ‘
oi tneir sacred dead than , they do now.
(JVJanv of the relatives of the departed have
Z move< * f7 ay ’ and 717any instances tlie
jlast selves of been the family gathered of the t<» dead their have fathers, them-
so
one is left to care tor the lot. This fact
*mage^rmmd°^ ^fhir'n n W “mir r t ^ninH’ 1 ’ d ? is nC responsible ‘ V t0 n 'n'
lor the idea, the feasibility u • of some agen-
aac\ s making it possible for our citizens who
care, to look forward to providing perpetu-
«al care tor the last resting place of their
jtdepai ted loved ones. Might not a church,
Jpub, •perpetual lodge, society, devise a plan whereby
care may be provided through a
*weekly or monthly fee or contribution,
*rhis would make it possible lor the other-j
7 lm P rov id €n t to have his lot taken care
Jol forever.
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MORE STRATEGY
J Together with other citizens, we have
■M
Georgia State College. We have good rea¬
for asking for it. We have cited in
sons of the reasons which
various issues, some investigation man¬
would seem to make an
datory. There are evidences of injudicious
couduct on the part of members of the
faculty which some one in authority should
question. Apparently, none of the ques¬
tions or issues*discussed a little more than
a year ago were considered serious enough
to warrant more than a “cursory or prelini-
...ary” investigation. Of course, this js a
Negro institution concerning which Negroes
w'ishes are not consulted. Because the
rumors were called “lies” without any proof
that they were, and because those who com¬
plained of certain irregularities were called
“disgruntled,” the administration at the col¬
lege was given permission to “get rid of
the disgruntled” persons. What has been the
effect of this action? It has permitted
possible witnesses to become unavailable;
it has frightened other possible witnesses
into silence; it makes an investigation,
eventually, difficult, expensive and futile.
Thus the evidence is either dissipated, or
muzzled. In the light of things, how unoei
sun can a questionable situation ever be
j aed if those who know about it are
’ if
jj( , muz z i e( p For instance, persons
k f()r a contrac t, does this constitute a
cauge for browbeating or firing? Given
* admin-
r in vvhich to Ret harmony, any
igtration " however weak and vulnerable, can
t a sem blance of it by getting rid of those
wh() know too muc h or ask too many yues-
tions and never touch the real cause of
thp t’r 0U ble This indeed is an interesting
str ategy which may defeat our endeavor
t() have ail investigation, but it cannot hurt
the righteousness of our cause nor help the
j reputation of the college. Are Negro youth
getting a squa re deal?
UNSUNG HEROES
Ihe , Syphilis-1 ukucuosis . case finding
, . ..
surve y ^ abou ovt ‘ r ' e ^ ‘
! partment l and cooperating . agencies are to to
™„ ? ,-atnlated on the m
protecting the health o t * 1 *
, -
vanna h. • he ni 7 l
coercion but rather ot et u a i< ‘ ,• ° r to I
cooperation. , , ,
I he people who coupe qtei ,
participation in the Sumy, <■ e> - ‘ (
,
l )iaise 1,1 iecognizmg s ^ ^
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health ba » f t Gm-s . t ! e ‘ w,ll offer • tr^tment t , to to T Jfl y,,> all
wh< * nml eith £ r at the ! " alth Ce " te ‘
p™* phy— ^ ,
Patient and dodo,- Hlike. Pa-:
tients must go for treatment and doctors
imust make an honest effort to keep these twoj j
|,a u n , * under treatment. These
diseases, diseases, Syphilis oy H .,u.i, tnd Tuberculosis . are pub-1
lie health J problems, problems, effecting effecting the the well-1 weii-1 j
„ f ea< e h h one „„„ of „ us s ‘ Theretore , , vh , m
j patients have qjither disease, it becomes j
11 ' 6 ° f P» b1 ^ hea,th offfcials and
lP 7 at " Phy^mns alike.to see to it that!
patients are treated. It may mean in
some instances, when patients refuse to co-j
operate, enforcing public health laws for j
continued protection of each one of US.
this becomes necessary jt must be
done.
h ave marvelled at the way in which
aaP /^n people participated in the survey,
and low. from all sections of the city, *
7 h t motivating ni ..i iv , nin(r fnn torte ,„ wpp were _ * these hp _ p peo-
pie induced to come in?
This leads ns 11 to U 1he 7 ht storv °7 of 7,7 those unsimir U ‘h f
heroes, , the committee headed by Prof.
Robert Li W Gadsden ’• which for weeks 7; before Y V
h.^ j“ 117^7 jn!™"” , w,S S , LoS ^ bSeS, . “achern'
t com-| men
an d laymen in a planned program of
never before appeared in print, They
worked wontra without wunoui the inc heroes’ neroes medal. meaai. Their! l non-
reward was the realization of a task
, .m 7'• d .
; , • , T c i i „
1 "''',- "f* 'T m 'f t >eroe f ! We
' .A 7! U or 7 stupendous task, well 1 done,
- done the
11 y ’ for Cltlze11 8 ot bavannah ‘
™ K SESPONSIBILmr OF YOUTH
Bv Ruth Taylor
The voung people of today are most de-
finite in their demands for “the rights of
Youth ” Thev know what they want and
they are glib in expressing their desires, j
are terribly sure of what is right and
wrong, and into" they go most thoroughly their!
analvticallv everything—except
obligations to society.
Youth has a responsibility in this life,
The voung people may grouse about the
mistakes and shortcomings of their elders
are they seizing every opportunity
to gain the knowledge that would fit them
to do more than their elders? Are they bet-
ter equipjied for the task of making a new
world out of devastation than were their
father after the last war. Their opportun- j
ities for education have been greater and*
th ^f fore their responsibility is greater.
rhe strain on the coming generation wdl
be great. Those who take up citizenship
in the transition period will require initia- j
tivq, resourcefulness, adaptability and ideal- |
ism. They must have the ability to pro- j
duce something for the good of all, for
there will be no room for parasites.
. Youth has before it now the task of pre-
paring forthe days ahead, and it must pro-
pare by learning how to think things out
and think things through. It will need
initiative in order to plan constructively.
need resourcefulness which must In
gained by practical experience. It will need
adaptability, which means an ability to co-
n
THS BA VANS AH TElBUn
But most of all it will need idealism—-but
it must be a constructive idealism. Youth
could well take for its creed today the Oath
of Citizenship which the Youth of Athens
took upon arriving at their majority.
“To bring no disgrace to this city by a
dishonest act; to fight for the ideals and
sacred things alone and with many; to
desert no faltering comrade; to revere and
obey the city law’s; to incite respect and
reverence in those above us who are prone
to annul or set them at naught. To strive
unceasingly to quicken the public sense of
civic duty. To transmit this city no less
but more beautiful than it was transmit¬
ted to us.”
If the Youth of today would do this,
there would be no need for fear for the fu¬
ture.
Clubs In Germany
Practice Democracy
Mannheim i w™
cim , ay that democracy s' i P ra ? -
in the Red r ,. 0Ss clul)S hich
have visited in the seventh army
When I entered the office of the
Red Cross club in the'Mann
district I found Miss Estelle
of Nashville, who show¬
me around the place.
The first marvel I saw was a
kitchen in which enough cof¬
and doughnuts are made by
DPs—displaced persons to
the daily “income” of the
than (>500 GIs who visit the
clubs located in this city.
Seventeen languages are spoken
the DPs but they all seem to
how to translate the recipes
the coffee arul doughnuts in
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^ initcWADJ SWARZ
* >113 AUMFliirF
Lou Swarz completely pleased
large appreciative audience
Monday evening in a dramatic
woman’ performance at the
African Baptist Church un¬
the sponsorship of the mem¬
of the First Congregational
hurch. This type of performance
seldom seen in Savannah, there-
it was a refreshing diversion
the the usual usual entertainment, entertainment.
Swarz quickly changed cos-
for each impersonation
added to the effectiveness
the presentations. No - one
will ever forget the life of
Wheatley, the noted Negro
nor will he forget the sin-
with which Miss Swarz
scenes of this noble
During the program a beautiful
was presentd .Miss Swarz
the members of Zeta Phi Beta
The program was climaxed by
of specialities in which
. artist com lelelv won her
U(iience . After After the the program program M
graciously autographed the
of her admirers. The
especially requested auto¬
Miss Jane Parker, instructor of
at the Guy lev Junior High
furnished appropriate mus¬
on the Steinway Grand piano
the acts which added
tn he pleasure of t he eve-
Mis. Frances JVf Nichols
in charge of the wardrobe ant
J. Ayers assisted by Eugene
r r i.i
wonderful doughnut and coffee
bav . 8ewin _ and aad _ ’ essi,1R . B se ™ ;
b rb rehop: set of lounges; “P hoto
lab; hobby shop and other prac¬
tical conveniences.
GIs were were playing ping pong,
table tennis, checkers, bingo and
cards.
“Lillie”, herself a beautiful pic¬
ture, was making sketches of' sol¬
diers.
There’s a Latvian trio with
everything from Bach to boogie,
and a German Swing orchestra is
regularly engaged. Dances are
held three times a week.
I found democracy, American
doughnuts and coffee, a get-along-
together attitude among service
men who share the conveniences
and facilities offered to them by
the Red Cross clubs around here.
took care of the properties.
Rev. A. C. Curtright, the pas¬
tor of the First Congregational
Church and his members are to
he congratulated for presenting
this entertainment to the city.
Virginia Gets
First Cops
> "' 1 iolk > N a -’ (ANP)—The first
Xt '" ro !’ ollco of regular rank in
y irginia were sworn in here last
weel< by City manager Charles B.
L rlnnd, director of public safety.
The two men, Horace C. Case, 30.
and Lhoinas D. Weaver, 27. are
both honorably discharged service-
men from the United States
army.
The two men are not only the
first Negro men of this city to re¬
reive regular assignment on the
police force of the city, hut they
are the first Negro police in the
state of Virginia in regular rank.
The other applicants have been
certified for examination, but one.
Lewis Williams, has not been re¬
leased from military service. The
other, Jonh E. Burrell, has not
taken the physical examination
for the appointment.
Agitation and campaigning have
been going on for some time in
Richmond, Petersburg and other
Virginia cities for Negro police,
but litlte progress has been made.
Negro leaders, however. are ex-
favorable action sooner or i !
in other, cities, especially in j
Richmond, where Negroes arc
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By LOUIS LAUTIER
Three colored men have repre¬
sented the first Congressional dis¬
trict of Illinois in the House in
modern times. They are Oscar
De Priest, Arthur Mitchell and
Bill Dawson.
De Priest was the rough-and-
ready bpss type. Mitchell was
techy. Dawson is tactful and, as
a consequence, is accomplishing
more than his two predecessors
j put together.
For example, when De Priest
was first elected to Congress,
there was some question about his
taking the oath of office and a
suggestion was made that when
he presented his credentials, he
might be asked to step aside. A
reporter made an objective analy¬
sis of the situation that might
confront him. De Priest was fu¬
rious and swore vengeance.
Mitchell stayed at odds with
newsmen during the four terms
he served. He broke up cameras
and insulted reporters.
The story concerning the select¬
ion of Jeanetta Welch Brown as
an organizer for the Democratic
national committee would have of¬
fended De Priest or Mitchell, if
either one of them were the as¬
sistant to the chairman of his poli¬
tical party. But not Dawson.
If Dawson w’ere piqued, he nev¬
er showed it. “Well, I know peo¬
ple in an organization will fight,”
he commented after the story had
been read to him. “If they’re not
kept busy,” he said, “they will
fight each other. I think it’s a
healthy sign and shows they’re in¬
terested.”
Moreover, Dawson has a basic
philosophy. He believes in ex¬
pressing his appreciation of his
friends and not advertising his en¬
emies. That is the philosophy he
would have colored people adopt
in the case of people like Mary
Norton of New Jersey and Helen
Gahagan Douglas of California,
on the one hand, and Bilbo, Rankin
on the other. He reasons that
lambasting them simply serves to
keep them in Congress.
On the other side of the politi¬
cal fence, Perry W. Howard, Re¬
publican national committeeman
for Mississippi, is in a dither about
people who beg for eleemosynary
institutions but are partisan in
their politics. He is readying a
blast at them.
Incidentally, the Republican na¬
tional committee meeting in Chi¬
cago on December (>-7 should pro¬
duce some fireworks over the col¬
ored voter. Herbert Brownell,
chairman of the Republican na- j
tional committee, has refused to [
see Bob Church, of Chicago, who
heads the American Republican
Committee. It’s a bet that Church
will make a fight upon Brownell.
Also in the Republican picture is
the National Council of Negro Re¬
publicans, headed by Joe Baker,
Philadelphia. As far as can
be learned, this group is being
by Ernest T. Weir, a steel j
in Pennsylvania, who has j
as chairman of tiic Repub-j
bean finance committee.
This group apparently has the j
of Brownell but does not.
Masonic - Eastern Star Notes
In our anxiety to increase
the membership of our lodge.
we must not forget the princi-
pie of our order. Candidates
must be taught the rudiments
of Masonry. Proficiency must
be shown before a degree is
conferred. This we must
practice. Each worshipful
master must see that it is en¬
forced.
The lodges and Eastern Star
chapters in Southwest Georgia
are on fire Suspended
are requesting the grand
ter for reinstatement. New
ledges and chapters are in the
making.
Prince Hall lodge, 28,
be the first local lodge to hold
its election. It will be held on
Monday night.
The trip of Omar Temple to
Atlanta last week was a mem¬
orable one. There were 39
in the party, and a jolly time
was had going and coming, es¬
pecially the stay in Atlanta.
rneet the demands of colored Re-
publicans for integration into the
work of the Republican
committee.
Appointment of General Dwight ‘
I). Eisenhower as Army Chief of
Staff to succeed General George
C. Marshall brings hosannas from
colored people. He’s straight on j
the ,, color , question. ,. Fleet m Admiral , ■ ,
Chester W. Nimitz, who was ap- !
pointed Chief of Naval Operations j
to succeed Fleet Admiral Ernest j
J. take King, the word also is of ail Lester right, Granger,! if you j
executive secretary of the Na- j
tional Urban League. But Nimitz I
is a Texan and never was known I
as a liberal during his tour of |
duty fore the in the Navy when Department colored be- j |
war a man
?ould enlist only as a messman in
^he Navy. The verdict on him
Should be reserved.
General H. H. Arnold, command¬
ing general of the Army Air
Forces, and General Brehen Som¬
ervell, commanding general of j
the Army Service Forces, also have |
submitted their resignations but :
President TnAian has not yet ac¬ !
cepted them. No tears will be i
shed when they are relieved from j |
their commands. j
Nab Two As j
Train Robbers j
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Washington. (ANP)—Two Ne- |
groes is sought are under by FBI arrest and a third j
men as parti-I j
cipants and instigators of the sen-
when sational south train bound robbery freight last week, train |
just a j
out of Washington was rob-j
bed in approved wild west fash- j
ion and an unidentified amount !
■of bonded whiskey removed from
the car.
James Brown, 36, of Baltimore
and Rufus William, 33, of Alex-
andria, Va., are being held. Brown i
was charged with grand larceny j I
and Williams with violation of the
Virginia Williams Alcoholic released Beverage in law. $3000 j !
was
bond for a hearing Monday in
Fair-fax county, Virginia.
Meanwhile, federal action j
against the pair, charging them
with theft fix)m interstate com-1
merce, appeared likely. The FBI ! |
said it was waiting the action of
the U. S. attorney before lodging '
detainers against the men.
The whiskey was shipped from
Brooklyn and consigned to the Vir- j |
ginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
board The of arrests Richmond. made by Capt. j
were ;
Paul S. Pegelow in a swamp near
the R. F. and P. railroad tracks
near Lorten. Thirteen cases of the
stolen whiskey were recovered.
The Lotton man said he was
cruising the highways in the vicin¬
ity of the train robbery when he
saw a taxicab off the main road
on h pathway that leads into a
swamp.
Blocking the path with the truck
he was driving, Pegelow walked
over to the taxicab, saw it con-
tained some of the stolen whiskey
and placed the man under arrest.
The hijacking occurred shortly
after 1:30 A. M. on a lonely stretch
of track near Lorton, Va., Friday.
Railroad detectives said one or
more of the robbers had evidently
stowed away on the train and serv¬
ed an air hose, causing the brakes
to lock when the freight train
the desired location,
The taxicab and a truck were
on a nearby highway when
train stopped, it was reported, j
A trainman who alighted to find j
tiaj.cauge of the delay noticed one
THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1945 '
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j Files of The Savannah
Tribune
- FIFTY YEARS AGO J *
NOVEMBER 30, 1895 \
Prof. L. B. Palmer of Gcor >
State coh°ge resigned.. Citi¬
zens tendered him a banquet.
Mrs. Sarah Bugg Williams
,p et j i 3S f, Thursday. She was
s j s t e r of Dr. J. II. Bugg.
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Judge W. J. WUippor of
BeaUfort in the city this week,
Game of football at College
Thanksgiving day. Contest¬
ants, College vs Forest City.
The National Afro-American
Press Association was held
in Atlanta November 21. Of
the papers represented only
three survive, The American
Baptist, The New York Age and
Tile Savannah Tribune.
of the bandits carrying a machine
gun, he said, and fled to the- high-
way to summon police. II. L. ffar-
ris, conductor, said when he ap-’
proaehed the -car which was carry-
ing the whisky, three of the men
jumped into the truck they were
leading and fled.
Railroad , officials ... . , refused . to-
free , . the , quantity; . .
of whisky any estimate stolen from on the train.
Va. School
To Get Big
Estate
Philadelphia, (ANP)—St. Em-*
ma's Industrial and Agricultural!
institute, a school for Negro,
near Richmond. Va., is the- of!
chief beneficiary of the estate,
Mrs. Louise Bouvier Drexel Mor- 1
rell, who died Nov. 5 at her homo*
here, it was revealed by her
probated 1 Monday,
Although her estate is tentativc-
ly valued at $60,000 and upward
in personality and $150,000 anil"
upward in personality and $150,-
upward in realty it is believed to
total more than $1,000,000.
Mrs. Morrell, widow ofYGen.)
Edward deVaux Morrell, and jier
sister, Mother Mary Katherine
Drexel, founder and mother su-.
perior of the Order of the Blessed
Sacrament, reportedly devoted
$12,000,000 of their inheritance
from their father, the late Francis'
A. Drexel of the Philadelphia
banking house, to charity,
With her husband, Mrs. Morrell
was co-founder of St. Emmajg In¬
dustrial and Agricultural institute,
is bequeathed her entire
estate. Should it fail
to comply with the charter and
and with a letter from the
dated June 29, 1917,
residuary estate will then go
the Sisters of the Blessed Sae-
for Indian and Colored:
at Cornwell Heights.
The will was dated De«. * 15,
Also included in the will is:
bequest to St. Simon’s nnikioii
of $2,500 for the welfare of!
JACKSON
CONSULTANT
_
Mrs. Rosemary C. Jackson, first:
teacher at West Broad
School was selected as Art
for the recent study.
at the Moultrie High
by the Association of ''Col-
and Secondary Schools for
Youth. W. H. Brown, di¬
of the Secondary School
states that Mrs. Jackson
marked ability in enlisting
interest of groups of teachers
students alike in this suhjeik ,
heretofore had not bee*'
in the curriculum, Mrs.
Bentley of Tallahassee, Florida,
as Reading Consultant in
elementary department and;
Bright of Hampton Institute
as Reading Consultant ft?
High School department.
BOYCE STUDENTS
MEET
All former students of the.
School of Beauty Culture
requested to be present at
meeting December 4 at tha
Broad Street USO. in the
according to an an-;
made by Madame
M. Walker,