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“The spirit . of . the country is . solely the
reflection of individual attitudes.
-
‘‘The measure of democracy is the mea-
mure of freedom of its humblest citizens.
“Their (Americans) sense of equality
and human dignity is limited to men of
white skins. The more I feel American,
the more this situation pains me. I can
escape the feelings of complicity in it only
by speaking out. I believe that whoever
tries to think things through honestly will
soon recognize how unworthy and even fa¬
tal is the traditional bias against Negroes."
This quotation is taken from an article
Dr. Albert Einstein in the January issue
of the magazine, Pageant, the title
.which was, A Message To My Adopted
Country. Dr. Einstein knows what it is to
be the victim of racial prejudice, and being
h scientist it is no wonder that he feels
the necessity of “escaping complicity” “in
an unworthy and fatal traditional
against Negroes.” No scientist, no really
educated person can be a racial bigot. In
some circles, it is not respectable to admit
lacial prejudice.
The Students’ Legislative Assembly is
made up of representatives from every
white institution in the state of North Car¬
olina. The vote in favor of inviting Negro
colleges to attend the meeting next vear
was 110, to 488. This action has caused
somewhat an uproar in North Carolina.
Some one has threatened to cut the
priation for' colleges but this only drew
rather hot reply from one of the student
leaders. Young people nyiy not be willing
to remain forever enslaved by the irra-
tionalities of racial prejudice and by the hy-
pocrisies and inconsistences which charac-
terize and entangle the old folk. It is pro-
bably the job of the young people of both
maces to get together and work out ways of
living together on terms of mutual respect
and good will.
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OUR ERSTWHILE FRIENDS
‘ At no time during the campaign to
cure increased registration have we heard
of any activity on the part of a single
of those who claim leadership of the Repub-
lican voters in this county. Just why they
have remained quiet and inactive in view
• of the increased interest in registration is
a bit curious. It would seem that they
would have been in the forefront in encour¬
aging Negroes particularly, to register.
While those who have been interested in
this matter, have not been interested in
parties, it is true that Negroes lean to the
Republican party. Negro voters
have a score to settle with fairweather Re-
publicans locally as well as nationally.
pared kilr to n? do :i little ,"!r thinking, and these
quadrennial leaders had better begin to do
a little thinking themselves.
’ Precinct and district organizations should
be set up now. It is to the advantage
jiur “erstwhile friends” to wait until the
last minute to attempt to organize and rush
things through. It is important and ne¬
cessary to organize now.
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NATIONAL STIGMAS
The members of the UNO insisted with
a a Diirnose purpose xnat that their men agreements agreements in in ine the oi or-
gamzation did not include m any sense
surrender of state sovereignty. They can
always plead that other nations must not
inter fer o with their internal affairs even
,f those affairs mean mistreatment of heir
nationals. This understanding gives little
hope on the part minorities that exploita-
tion of them will cease or be reduced upon
1he recommendation of anv foreign influ-
ence arising out of any of the charters or
covenants—the Atlantic Charter, the pro-
nouncement of the Four Freedoms, or what
not. The treatment of .American Negroes
follows our representatives wherever they
All that the American white soldiers
emitted to do in spreading American bias
against Negroes .the intelligence agencies
of other countries supplemented.* There-
fore it should not be surprising that Brit-
ish and Russian opinion does not hesitate
In call Americans hypocrites. the
Among the assumptions made by
British about Americans, number one on
WINS FIRST PRIZE
FOR NURSERY SCHOOL
FLAN
Hampton Institute. Ya.—Oscar
D. Peele of Philadelphia. Pa., a
.senior in the department of build
ing construction al Hampton In¬
stitute, liai iiccn awarded first
pf|/i its a • jndu'.'ed
at; the epilegi icicui!; fm- plan
for the postwar nursery school
project of the Hampton Cumraun-
ity Center Board, a civic organi-
the list is the following: “ . .they are
faced in criticising Britain’s treatment
India while they demand Pacific liases and
mistreat Negroes.” The
this sort of thing causes may make
tle difference to Americans not even if
is a sample of the thing which has caused
our country to muff the chance to assume
the moral leadership of the world.
HAPPY NEW YEAH
Nineteen-forty-five has passed into
tory. It has seen the end of the world’s
worst war during which humanity marched
to the very brink of destruction, during
which revolutionary social, economic, and
political change took place; during which
human relationships plumbed the depths of
on the one hand, and on the other
(hand rose to epic heights hitherto unmateh-
ed j n history of the world. During this
period the mind of man outdid itself in de-
Iveloping potentialities that hold in prospect
the earth’s happiest days, or its utter de¬
struction. This is the opinion of the
world’s clearest and most serious thinkers.
Indeed, 1945 saw the end of an era. All of
this and more is its legacy to 1946. What¬
ever of ill and there has been much of
civilization has experienced, is not the
of the benighted savage, or of the
rior” darkskinned racial groups of the
world. It has been the deliberate work of
the most intellectual, the most cultured (?),
the most scientifically advanced people on
earth-in the self-called master race, white
jjieople, Nordics. Nineteen-forty-six begins
the world’s cross-roads. The way ahead
is full of challenges. Decisions will have
(to be made in this year, and as Raymond Fos-
j dick says, “the mistaken decision, the lack
j of decision, the decision carelessly made or
;inadequately supported—these are frequent-
the determining factors of history.” He
i quotes a legend of the Middle West which
tells of a sign at the beginning ot a pranie
j road that reads: “Choose your rut careful-
ly. You will be in it for the next 500
miles.” Nations and individuals must give
up traditional biases, must forego imperial
luxuries gotten from the exploitation of
colonial peoples and must do more than
give lip service to democratic ideals.
August 1945 has defined the imperative
which 1946 or early subsequent years must
answer. Individuals and nations must give
up the old alibi for failing to change their
towards other people and nations:
| the mental processes of people, their tradi-
jtional beliefs and biases cannot be changed
over' night, and must seek the means for
j changing. Atomic all countries, power to is everybody an impend-
jug danger to as
long as people are selfish and actuated by
| unfounded prejudices, Nineteen forty-six
will be an unhappy New Year, for “if science
continues to be the servant of our all of savage us.’
passions, the bell will toll for
! Rut, still we say Happy New Year.
THE PARLIAMENT OF MAN
’ By Ruth Taylor
‘The Parliament of Man is now convened
con ti m ii»g and constant session without
j ’ of order limitations of debate', or
f lho house> and thosew ho refuse
1 ..... of its proceedings «-•-........... wake
to take account • - may
up to find that its proceedings have taken
no account of them.”
These words were written some time ago
by Archibad MacLeish. They are given new
significance by the events of recent weeks.
We are living at a moment in history
^ , ^ n . dui . e of our civilization is un-
J unUHUally capa ble of being
molde in R new direction. All too soon it
take full advantage of «>>*•*»* this opportun
that we world for
ity to assure- the birth of the
which we have hoped and of which we have
dreamed. far-reaching plans and tor
It is time for
hard and constructive work to put those
into effect. It is a time for men
who are willing to lead and to take respon-
sibility, who will put the interests of their
WloWmen before their own personal amta-
n,,ns - u al 1,1 ' j. ‘
any one group—it . is . all men, no tul mat nl ., t
1 " 1 " ,ltU creed or nationality
wcupation. .
r xull ...ui
Neither as individuals or as a nation
->'t <> ^ U'affir’^'V'S^vou!!
ina } U ‘ UI > " nh „ ’ we cannot
affected b> . . , .
being " 'a 1 s
neighbors.
Freedom is responsi u i >. t '
be earned by each man in his ot
No one can shirk his responsibility,. No
one can work by or toi llins ’
I he first task betoie us is o a\ n m „
cial, political and economic ouni a tons 1
peace. That can be done only by each man
and each nation doing his m i s siaii.
a world which has become C m ot i co
iective security is the one possi > t ^ecu
tv—and collective Pro^peii y e on y 1 •
sible prosjierity. And collective nua
that you have a role to peitorm.
The Parliament ot Man is m session.
decisions are your decisions.____
station in Hampton, Va. Peele’s
drawing will be on display in the
Browsing Room of the Collis P.
Iluntington Library at Hampton
Institute throughout the Christ¬
mas holiday.
Second and third places respec¬
tively were awarded to Herman
S. Davis, of Oxford, N. C., and
Jrssi R. Hammons of St. Louis,
Mo . • hile gr-iujr honorable men¬
tion to the drawini! of 1 * ■ * t * -»
It Anderson of Meddle. Ala. \l
fonso W. Knight of Henderson,
N. C., and John C. Littlejohn of
New York City. All of the prizes
were expensive professional luniks
; in the field of architectural cn-
j gineering.
Peele, whose plan won special
praise from the judges for its ex¬
cellent organization of space, is
j the son of Mrs. L. Davis of 2140
Catherine Street. Philadelphia and
a graduate of Laurenburg lnsli-
| tuts- North Carolina. He i. a
i!.* t,(ii*- r of Mi* Omit*ron >’* ! ^
Club at Hampton, where he is ,v
. live in swimming and has served
j as college cheer leader.
TO SAY&HXAB TE HTO11
The 1
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MEDAL AT U. S HOSPITAL
Memphis. (ANP)—The
first Negro winner of the Legion
of Merit is recuperating here at
the Kennedy General hospital. He
is 1st Sgt. Jerry B. Davis, Macon,
Ga., who won the rare honor for
heroism while serving with the
92nd division in Italy.
Since his release from a body
cast, Davis has toured war plants
and has addressed various groups
in eight states. lie may under¬
go another operation at Kennedy
hospital before he receives his
army discharge.
During the battle for Pisa in
August, 1945, he raced across a
shell-swept open *rea to get food
BELGIAN CONGO
BANS ‘AFRICAN’
New York. (ANP)—The Afri¬
can, a journal of African affairs
published here, has been banned
by the office of police in Leopold-
ville, Belgian Congo, the corpora-
tion was advised by its agent
there last week.
The , ban, which ... applies * to the .
entire Belgian ,, , . Congo, „ issued ,
was
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June . „ 9 , last under , Ordinance ,, ,. .. No.
.... 1.1 and . published ,n the Admin- , ,
istrative News.
The native distributor of the
magazine, J. B. George, learned of
the , , ban when, , upon receipt of „ his
gation as -rs.** to why he did not re¬
ceive copies for April, May and
June. Those 150 copies, , were
seized hy the police.
The editors of The African sent
a letter of protest to the Belgian
Ambassador in Washington, D.
C., and has turned the matter
over to their legal
March of Dimes Symbol
millions of Americans. Franklin D Roosevelt, who re- j
For G-. svmbolized the |
■ u.,ed to accept defeat from infantile ■ ■
lation's fight against the Great Crir • "1 >nd directed bv
he National Foundation for Infs* "hich the late
President founded. The above pos* i bv the Nation-
U FountULoa tpr its. 1346 March oi v 14-31,
for his isolated artillery
which had beeen pinned down
their position because of the
tense enemy fire.
After safely completing the
in one direction, he started back
when an 88 mm. enemy shell ex-
| ploded 10 feet away. A piece
shrapnel weighing two
which had “passed through a can
of gasoline and was red hot” shat¬
tered his left arm, cracked
ribs, fractured his spine and
ed internal injuries. He under-
went a four and a half hour oper¬
ation and has been to eight dif¬
ferent army 'hospitals since.
tive.
It is recalled that British
lonial officials in certain parts
Africa and the West Indies, ban¬
ned the old Negro World, offi-
cial organ of the Garvey move-
ment (UNIA) because of its in-
i fluence of native thought in the
; heyday of the UNIA’s success,
j 1920-25. Unlike the Negro World.
(The ! African is informative and
: analytical , . rather militant
Colonial „ , . , and* , imperial . . , practices ,.
i
iand , customs are discussed
| , y by Us chief commentators on
international affairs, George S.
Schuyler of The Pittsburgh
, | er, and Samuel A. Haynes of the
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, in American universities and col¬
leges, also contribute frequently,
j maladministration exposing unknown happenings in the African and
I
j Colonies.
R. T. Brown is editor,
and Haynes are are associate and
contributing editors respectively,
Capital
j J Spotlight
By Louis Lautier
j For the NNPA News Service
.
The accolade for the 1945 all¬
round champ goes to Charley
Houston. His espousal of the
j cause of minority groups through-
| out the year just closed, in court
and at the bar of public opinion,
rates him the No. 1 spot of out¬
standing persons in the 1945
parade.
Whether he could have accom-
plished more by remaining a mem-
^ er Fair Employ¬
ment Practice Commission is pure¬
ly speculative. By resigning, and
... akin pubhc his for
™ * reason s0
| doing, he reinvigorated the fight
ifor a permanent FEPC.
* * *
Anne Arnold Hedgeman also
deserves a niche in the 1945 Hall
1 Eattie. She has so skilfully
I , lobbied for a permanent FEPC
I that , Senator Wayne Morse, Re-
IPubl.can, of Oregon, told the Sen-
J ate Just before Congress reeessed
or the holidays that “ Republiean
1 ena ^ ors are ltady to debate and
upon S. 101” (the bi-par-
bill for a permanent
FEPC).
In bringing the fight for a per¬
i manent FEPC to this stage she
i of difl not fol,ow the usual strategy
| j damning pressure all Republicans groups, cussing and
for stym-
ing the measure. Rather, she cal-
j culated that Republican support is
j necessary for passage and re-
j frained from making generaliza¬
tions about Republican intrigue.
She also credited Republicans and
Democrats who were supporting
the measure.
She has turned in a fine job of
lobbying. The new year may add
j to her laurels—if she can get
j Senator Bob Taft, Republican, of
I Ohio, to offer another cloture
! petition after Senator Dennis
i Chavez. Democrat, of New Mexi-
; eo, moves that the Senate pro-
j eeed to the consideration of S.
101 .
* « *
| One other person stands out in
(the 1945 parade. He is Truman
K. Gibson. Jr., formerly civilian
iiide of the Secretary of War.
| His lost was sight a difficult job. He
never of his objective
utilization of colored
troops in the United States Army
and as a result of his efforts the
1946 may see the Army
adopt a plan of integration,
In performing his duty as he
saw it, he showed rare courage.
His motives impugned, he stuck
to his guns, initiated efforts
which were climaxed by appoint-
nient of the Gillem board to study
the question of the effective utili-
zation of colored troops. The re-
port of that board is now in the
hands of General Dwight I),
Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff,
who may be depended upon to
take neps to implement that re-
Predictions for the New Year:
Nation-Wide Participate
Indicated In 1946 March
Of Dimes Drive
New York Jan. 5—Active
ticipation of Negroes is ' '
indicated as the 1946 March
Dimfis, nation-wide appeal of
National Foundation for
tile Paralysis, gets under
The campaign will be opened of-
ficially on Monday, January 14.
by by Foundation Foundation President Basil
O’Connor.
Dedicated to the memory
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great
war president who founded
National Foundation, the eigh¬
teen-day March of Dimes will
continue through January 31.
Spearheaded enthusiastically by
National Foundation chapters in
nearly all of the 3,070 counties of
the nation, the annual fund-rais¬
ing appeal is supported by men,
women and children of all races
and faiths.
This will be the thirteenth year¬
ly appeal for funds in the war
against infantile paralysis. Ne¬
groes in major cities are volun¬
teering their services in this in¬
tensive and necessary campaign
for funds to aid poliomyelitis vic¬
tims, regardless of age, race,
creed or color. Organizations
with ................. which they VJ are actively af-
filiated have endorsed the Nation-
al Foundation and its determin-
ation that polio shall be conquer-
ed. They will address their
tributions to their home town
chapters.
New York City and Chicago are
setting the pace for the March of
Dimes at noon-day rallies on Jan¬
uary 14. “Here at City Hall,
Mayor O’Dwyer, City Councilman
Joseph T. Sharkey and Russell
Maguire, chairman of the Great¬
er New York Chapter of the Na¬
tional Foundation, will participate
in special March of Dimes cere¬
monies. In Chicago, Mayor Kelly
and Mr. O’Connor will be on hand
for the opening March of Dimes
rally at Madison and State Sts.
The first Mile O’Dimes stand
in this citjds Harlem will be of¬
ficially inaugurated at a noon¬
day rally on Tuesday, January 15,
in front of the Apollo Theatre on
West 125th Street, it was an¬
nounced by Charles H. Bynum,
director of Interracial Activities
for the National Foundation. The
project will be directed by an in¬
terracial committee of which Ed¬
ward J. Bernath, public school
principal, and Mrs. Gertrude
Colonel Campbell C. Johnson, ex¬
ecutive assistant to General Lew¬
is B. Hershey, director of Selec¬
tive Service, will become executive
assistant to General Omar N.
Bradley, administrator of Veter¬
ans’ Affairs.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will sergp their rule
barring colored artists from Con¬
stitution Hall.
President Truman will appoint
additional colored persons to Gov¬
ernment jobs of responsibility.
■r * *
Judge Armond W. Scott of the
Municipal Court has been one of
the outstanding members of that
bench. But the first pickpocket
who comes before him had better
ask Judge Scott to disqualify
himself. The judge had his pock¬
et picked and will be quite free
with the time of the first pick¬
pocket to face him.
Bob Church, of Tennessee, spent
about a week in Washington just
before the Christmas holidays,
One day Senator William L. Lan-
ger. Republican of North Dakota,
took Church to lunch in the Sen-
ate dining room. The head
er came up, Church stood and
shook hands with him.
from Danger and Church
ator Bob Stewart, Democrat, of
Tennessee. To one side was Sen-
Theodore G. (The Man)
bo, Democrat, of Mississippi, with
women guests.
When Bilbo arose in the Sen¬
on the last day of the session
shed tears for the 126,000,000
people of the country, it,
expected he would talk about
taking Church to lunch
the Senate dining room, but he
the incident.
TELLS STORY OF THE
OF NORFOLK ”
Three generations of the
of Norfolk, owners ami
of the Norfolk Journal
Guide, have had journalistic
The family who for 35
have guided the growth of
South’s largest Negro weekly '
featured in the American
..... .. !'> the January is¬
of Headlines and Pictures.
The Negro press has for the
THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1948
Robinson, national president of
j phi DeIta Kappa Sol ' ority ’ * re c 9'
I i. _ : ; — r m „ en. „ The Foundation’s =
Greater New York Chapter, un-
j er w j, ose auS pices the stand will
j be operated, predicted that con-
j tributions from Upper comparable MajJiat-
tanites will be to
,
! those made at other Mile O’Dinun
stands nation. throughout the city aiij
j The National Foundation foi\
i
j Infantile 1938 by the Paralysis, late President founded Roose¬ in
velt to “lead, direct and unify the
fight against infantile paralysis,”
is dedicated to the conquest of
the disease. President Harry S.
Truman endorsed this fight
against disease.”
This year, concert hall will re¬
place the traditionaJ ballroom in
observances of January 30 as
hundreds of cities and towns ral¬
ly the nation in the continuing
war against poliomyelitis, one of
the most dreaded and most' ex¬
pensive diseases known to medical
science. That night President
Truman will be one of the speak¬
ers on the full-hour four-network
show to be broadcast from Wash¬
ington and Hollywood.
More than 13,000 men, women
and children in the United States
were victims of infantile para-
I lysis in 1945, making it the
fourth highest year on record. In
1943 and 1944, the nation had
12,429 and 19,053 cases, respec¬
tively. The three-year total, 1943-
45 inclusive, is greater than has
ever been reported previously for
any five-year period. The peak
reported for arty one year in this
country was in 1916, when more
than 27,000 persons were stricken
by the Great Crippler. i
Outbreaks of infantile paralysis
come without warning. No one
knows what will happen in 1940*
but the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis and its chap¬
ters throughout the- nation are
making preparations now for any
emergency. Since treatment of
infantile paralysis is so expensive,
only the united gifts of all can in¬
sure every aid for the afflicted.
Dimes and dollars contributed
to previous appeals of the Na¬
tional Foundation helped thous*
ands of victims of infantile para{.
lysis by providing them with ade¬
quate care and treatment, ^ -join,
the 1946 March of Dimes, x£nu-
ary 14-31
most part thrived in the North,
The Journal and Guide with a cir¬
culation of over 80,000 is an out¬
standing exception.
An analysis of how this South¬
ern newspaper developed and how"
it has built its influence with]
both white and Negroes of Vir¬
ginia is an interesting one. P.
B. X oun £> Sr., who founded the
Journal and Guide, has received'
numerous honors for his long ca¬
reer of service. He has served- 6s
a member of the President’s Fair.
Employment Practice Corqmitlee
resigning only because of thet
pressure of his newspaper w"ork.
He is president of the board of
trustees at Howard University
and a member of the trustee board
ot numerous other educational in¬
stitutions. He has received four
honorary degrees from various
colleges and serves on many civic
committees in Norfolk.
j BUY
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VICTORY BONDS
files of The Savannah
Tribune
; FIFTY YEARS
AGO
DECEMBER 21, 1895
After an absence of five years,
Dr. James C. Ervin visited Ycl-
a tives and friends. He is sur¬
geon at Howard University.
On Thursday night a large
attended meeting of the Fii
Congregational church w
held to consider the resignati'
as pastor of Rev. L. B. Mar*
who was called to another iqe
Mrs. Martha Simpson
citizen died Friday. '
from First Bryan- 1
Church Sunday.
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