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*a«* rou* THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE Established 1875 By J. H. DEVEAUX SOL. C. JOHNSON_______Editor and Publisher J. H. BUTLER „ _________________-Asso. Editor MISS WILLA M. AYERS, Asst, to Pub. & Manager Published Every Thursday 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Telephone, Dial 5338 Subscription Rate in Advance One Year ______________ $2.50 Six Months ......... $1.50 Remittance must be made by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered Mail. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Savannah, Ga., under the Act of March 3, 1879 "The South is the largest potential mar¬ ket for American industry,” said Dr. For¬ man, (and the Nation) "Will face an eco¬ nomic collapse greater than the 80’s unless the South’s consumer power is increased.” “If you line up the thirteen Southern states according to the percentage of work¬ ers engaged in farming, Mississippi will be at one end with 59 percent of its work¬ ers on the farms, and Florida at the other end with 20 P. ( . If you then line them up according to per capita average income, all thirteen states will be in exactly the same order—Mississippi having the lowest in¬ come, $205 per person, and Florida with the least farmers, the highest, $472 . . . . The poor farms and poor farmers of the South not only pull down the southern per capita income—they cut directly into the pocketbooks of Southern city dwellers and threaten their democratic rights . . . And the poverty, ignorance and lack of organ¬ ization in rural areas provide fertile soil for Bilbos and Talmadges ” —The Southern Patriot "Ignorant of farm life, city folks usual- rural families almost always eat well, live in roomy homes and enjoy better health than their urban neighbors- None of this is true Malnutrition is the rule on the . . . Southern countryside, especially among the tenant farmers whom the landlord compels to plant every available inch in cash crops. A thorough government study of this problem (poor diet), con¬ cluded : ‘Good died is dependent largely on income available for purchasing food . . Farm operators as a whole in the South¬ east have poorer diets than those in the North and West • . . About one-half the Ne¬ gro farm families of the Southeast have poor diets.’” The Soul hern Patriot The program of large landholders of the South “calls for wiping out the small fam¬ ily-sized farm owner, reducing him to the piteous standard of the agricultural share- cropper of day laborer . . .. Thb large farm¬ ers “want: (1> Cheap, migratory labor, available only when needed once or twice a year, poorly paid and unorganized. (2) Large tenant classes, kept in sub¬ jugation by feudal financial practices and. peonage systems. Here, among the large number of Negro and white farm work¬ ers, is an extension of the old slave econ¬ omy.” SOUTHERN ALARM Judging from the attitude of certain southern newspapers toward the Demo¬ cratic party, under the leadership of Roosevelt and Truman, a large segment of the South would have welcomed a Repub¬ lican victory in November. Indeed, it seemed that they were almost ready to be¬ come Republican. The votas had hardly been counted before these same newspa¬ pers were expressing deep concern lest the Republicans would not only clean house, hut that they would also- atone for some of their derelictions in the 79th Congress. It is well known that if it had not been for the coalitions of Republican and Dem¬ ocratic congressmen, especially reactionary Democrats from the South, anti-poll tax and anti-lvnch hills, and a permanent FEPC bill would have passed both houses * of Congress- These bills are designed to implement the spirit of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of The United States, which the South orates so much about. These hills which will ben¬ efit both the South and the Negro are considered efforts to ram something down the throats of the South. They cry cut loud to be let alone to work out the prob¬ lems these bills seek to solve. Every Southerner knows that most of the South intends to do nothing about them. Geor¬ gia, South Carolina. Mississippi and Ala¬ bama have shown what they mean to do about the Negro’s voting, for instance. Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia have lived up to the South’s tra¬ dition for handling lynchers. Juries in the South seldom indict white men for vi¬ olence agam.-'t Negroes, and when and B they do, they seldom punish them ade¬ quately. Acts of violence in these states aVC —ix_e. Nv -xx-lOsV^- La x. been made in the Walton murders. officer who put out the eyes of a has been acquitted. If these states can not or will not punish such offenders, they should be willing to have such laws as will make it possible for the federal government to assist them in preventing crimes against citizens of which they claim to be so ashamed. The Republicans should do something to make the lives of all cit¬ izens secure even in the South- Negroes do not ask for special favors- They sim¬ ply ask for all of the rights and privileges enjoyed by all American citizens. “COONS” “Coon” is an ugly word to Negroes when it is applied to them ordinarily, but when it is used by a fence-riding politician, shall we say, to describe a group of people who he says have had much to do with his success, it is, to say the least, an un¬ warranted and ungrateful dig and insult. In the first place, the statement that he had all of the "d . . . ,n coons” under hi - control is untrue, and the party to which he makes such a boast will do well to part company with this gentleman for he and his henchmen are a liability to it. If this man is not repudiated by the party to which he seems to be an adviser on mat - tors relating to Negroes, it might as well give up the idea of receiving even a little support from self-respecting Negroes. As a matter of fact, the alliance of this gentle¬ man and company with the party tags it as the party to be let alone. This incident leads us to believe our conclusion is safe and sound, that issues and not men will be the decisive factor in determining the vote of Negroes in the coming city primary. Preserving the right of Negroes to vote is the chief issue- Right thinking, honest self-respecting Negroes are solidly of this opinion, and will not be influenced by new opportunists and previously discredited mercenaries- The extent to which some Negroes will go to gain a little prominence (?) dazes • ‘.ill *i,„ us. Mr. Duke , has , noj lacked do cony in - illations of citizens who love and support the meting out of justice. He knows he is performing his duty in prosecuting hate- preaching groups. Tie is not in danger of being assessed a fine he can not pay. We doubt very much that he will he sentenced to serve a term in jail. We doubt that he could serve by proxy, and we are really in doubt as to what some Negro preachers will not do next. The Chatham-Savannah Tuberculosis Association has launched its Christmas Seal Sale campaign and it deserves tho support of the entire community. Last year the citizens of Chatham County pur¬ chased $28,000 worth of seals. The asso¬ ciation needs $40,000 this year from the sale of seals. We are sure every pepson who is at all familiar with the work association has accomplished in the past will not hesitate to make liberal purchas- es so that it will he able to make the ne- cessary expansion of its program- It takes this amount at least to add to the services it already offers- It wants to inspire the public with its faith that tuberculosis can be prevented, controlled and cured, and eventual^ eradicated. Buy Christman Seals Now. IT’S'FUNNY—BUT IS IT FACT? By Ruth Taylor You know what 1 mean—the jokes that are clever, insidious propaganda. Funny —hut not fact. You have laughed at them—and been half ashamed of yourself for doing it. And sometimes before you realized it, you ve repeated them. The yokes 1 mean are started by mongeis in vanous paits oi the eounti>-. Carefully, thought out and planned >v.l an eye to teal numoi, tney ate picked up and unthinkingly repeated—and then they spread like the ripple caused by a stone thrown in the water. “But who takes a joke seriously?” you say. Unfortunately it is the slur in the story that stays when the laugh has gone. It drops like a speck of poison into the mind ready to germinate under the heat of stress or strain. There are the floods of national jokes which try to establish a racial difference between people of similar bloods by em¬ phasizing so-called characteristics. These are the jokes planned to create disunity. Stop and think—How many jokes do you hear told on a hundred percent Aryan? No, it’s either the Celt, the Gael, the Latin, the Leventine, or the Slav who is the laughing stink. How long has it been since the ’joke” was on one of German stock ? ' ’ i hen there is . the religious joke based on something that will slight or throw on some taith o? on the believers in some creed. How long has it been since you heard a joke which had an atheist as the butt ? It makes you think, doesn’t it? Is it so funny when you realize the fact? There is just one thing that can be*done. one way in which to stop joke propagan¬ da. And that is to follow a simple rule— don’t repeat it! Let the story die with you. Don’t he the mug the hate-monger takes you for! Shut him up by shutting up! And—remember whenever you hear a joke—just say to yourself: "it’s funny— but is it luci. SAVANNAH TRIBUNE “THE CHAMP” HELPS FIGHT HUNGER IN EUROPE TOE 1° I OUIS purchases ! CARE food packages from Lincoln Clark (! . j APV S h n rtcri 50 Broad Street New York. Lou s rent the , a packages destitute put upl>y the non-profit, govermrent-ap contribution ro the - . to children in Europe, as his to i*' J'.'r'n-.r hunger. “Hunger is an opponent that doesn’t fight fair, Cuih b hits eld*people myself, and but helpless if lot children,’’ of other people Louis help, said. too, I $ I :• tn.i.k h 1 win all by a we can win.’* POLL TO SELECT BOWL TEAMS GREENSBORO, N- C— On New Year’s day two of the na¬ tion’s leading Negro football teams will clash in Greens¬ boro’s Memorial Stadium in the second annual Cotton-To- baeco bowl football class.c. A poll is now being conduct- ed among sports fans to select the popular and favorite teams. Cotton-Tobacco Bowl report that to date thousands of votes have J reCe j ved in the poll. t he latest tabulations include Shaw university, A and T. col j ege l ncoln University, Flor¬ ida A and M-, Allen University Lane College, Fisk University Tuskegee. Vagin a State lege, Morehouse College, Va. State College, State College, Soil h Carolina 1 State College, Hampton Insti- tute, Howard University, diet and Johnson C- University. Coiton-Tobacco Bowl head- quarters in Greensboro is a busy place these days count- ing ballots of pigskin enthusi- I asts . I -_____ \JQ DRIVE YELLOW pinq CABS IN i»i IMLWAUliLL iw/i w AJIKFF MILWAUKEE. Wis. (ANP) Negro men and women will soon be driving Yellow Cabs in this city. Yellow Cabs here are operated by the Boynton Cab company of Milwaukee- Denying an .article appearing in a recent Sunday issue of the Milwaukee Journal that Red Top cabs were intended for the purpose of segregation, a Yellow Cab official said: "It has never been a policy nor practice of the to discriminate against race or Wear e J going; to employ J a wome „ „s cat. ^ yers A11 cabs wil j be the cnlor ;md N e- groes be protected by the union on the basis of seniority, which means that the best conditioned cabs will be given to the old drivers. “The union has been inform¬ ed of the Negro drivers,” the official said- The absence of Red Top cabs in the sixth ward is hailed as a victory for Negroes. DODGERS TO GIVE ROBINSON A CHANCE HOLLYWOOD t ANP i A try¬ out for a major league spot in ihe Brooklyn Dodgers infield | will be given Jackie leabing International league hitter and Negro star of the i Montreal Royals, according to j an announcement Saturday by! Leo Durocher, Dodger If Robinson succeeds in ning the infield position, will be ihe first Negro to play in top-noteli organized base¬ ball. Describing Robinson as “a great bunter, a pivot man on the nation’s best third base double plays and one of the men,” said, “I've got Robinson and I've got two or three other good infield possibilities Ii 3 ip as the others, he’ll HAILS CIO WORK [ FOR RACIAL 1 EQUALITY ; NEW YORK. Nov. 21. To the I CIO convention, meeting this week in Atlantic City, N- J-, Walter White, executive secre- tary Qf the NAACP, sent the following telegram, addressed phii p Murray CIO presi- dent . -National Association for Advancement 0l Colored ple ex t ends heartiest greetings; i 0 the convention of the Con- grbss of T„a,.ei..!oi Industrial Industrial Orgamza Oi-puni?!!- tions. Negro Americans and others active in the struggle to secure equality of economic opportunity an,d full citizen¬ ship rights for minority groups hail . the endeavors of ... the GIO „ T „ in this area . Realizing that gQ a j s labor are J cal wjth progress and security j£ 0r a R we have recently added j 0 our s taff a labor secretary, 1 Mr clarence M- Mitchell, Jr-, !n hope that even cooperation will be developed in t Re future in our common 1 f - ght aga inst bigotry, exploita- cion and poverty-’ NAACP PICKETS THEATRE LOUISVILLE, Ky-, Nov. 15.— To protest the policy of segre¬ gation in a municipal auditori- um, the Louisville branch of the NAACP threw a picket line i around the Municipal Auditori- | um tonight where Billy Rose’s i “Carmen Jones” is being pre- - seated- 1 According to Alfred M- Car- j roll, president of policy the branch, while the general of the t auditorium years ago had been ' to segregate at all attractions, j Wyatt, under former policy Mayor had Wilson been a new’ I put into effect of no segrega- I 1 tion when Negro attractions appeared, To ma k e c ] ea r to the citizens of Louisville that there were people and organizations which! resented the present mayor’s policy of segregation. thc NAACP will cominue to de,»on-| strate throughout the run of this popular all-Negro musical —- All World War II veterans may now carry up to $10,000 j hv National Service Life I»ur- ance regardless of the amount they carried while in uniform 1 _ , , Any veteran with active ser¬ vice between October 8. 1940 and September 2, 1945. is eli¬ gible for National Service Life Insurance. SHOPPING DAYS i 1 TO MRISTMAS *** (more used fatT) , ^ JJS Iasksamta , (JSJlD ! PETITION FOR INCORPORATION Pet t on For Incorporation STATE OF GEORGIA CHATHAM COUNTY The petition <l 1,0 1 is RALPH GIBBONS. MlLLtRD WIILILER and CLARENCE ( LAIN, all ol said county, ''V that they desire themselves and their associates (o be incorporated and maae a body polite under the laws of Georg a tor a period of f.ve <35) years with the lege of renewal at the expira- ium of lhat time, under the name of “SPORTSMEN'S PARK, INCORPORATED’ . .. ... _____ ^ 2. THAT the object of -aid propose dcorporation is peeu- n ary gain and profit to its promoters and stockholders, as well as to provide legit.mate, wholesome recreation ior the public- i. ' Tii l n.t -l 'he .tie punt.pal nrinc s nal fgtfice o.ute ol sa d corporation will be in Savannan Chatham Georg .a, but pet.lioners alo desue tl"> light to establish of- Dees in other cities and states conformable with the nances and law- obtaining in such ’ places. 4. Petit oners desire toes- tablish and maintain ment parks, building, and bus- inesses, concessions, cafes, res- (aurant;, and soda To promote shows, carnivals. concerts and dramas of all le nds; To own, operate and maintain all forms of ithletic events, including baseball, bas- ketball, tennis and other teams; To promote boxing, wrestling and shooting contests; To operate and maintain leagues and like and to provide transportation for the same; To promote ” r pic- n -cs, excursions and races all kinds; AND generally to any and a11 acts and th * n S s in - enterprises and related auxiti- ary enterprises - • • all wholly legitimate, legitimate, wholesome and ith , n {lu , laws of Georgia- 5 Petitioners desire to op¬ erate within a capital stock and to issue certificates of stock up to Twenty Thousand ($20,000) Doha's, divided into Two Hundred (200) shares Hundred <sioo> Dollars each , par value- Said stock to common stock and trans- ferablc only upon hooks of the corporation. And desire that sa d stock may be sold cash, lands and any forms of valuable property vv h , l, may be suited to purposes of promoting said ««*■- poration. Petitioners further desire to increase said stock to Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dol¬ lars upon application to this court. 6- Petitioners desire the right to own, buy, sell or en¬ cumber real and personal and mixed property, and to deal in stocks, bonds, mortgages and other forms of debts, and in securities consistent with the purposes of the corporation and cons stent with law. 7- Petitioners desire the right to have and use a com¬ mon seal, to sue and he sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to make and adopt a consti¬ tution and by-laws determin¬ ing the duties and rights of stockholders, and fixing the qualiiica'.ions of its members. 8- Petitioners show that the name of said proposed corpor¬ ation is not the name of any other corporation registered with the Secretary of State of the State of Georgia- W HER E FORE, Petitioners pray for all the rights and privileges allowable and to be ^ . SX aJ .»r°pom t the laws of the State of Gem- a; and pray that they and ‘- r associates and successors prlvlleEa , and corporations; and in the name and for the term set out in their petition. Petitioners’ names and ad- SSwIlj.S. "S; Si i ard wheeler, 630 West 35th and Clarence McClain, RFD, Telfa'r road, all in Chat¬ ham County, Georgia J. G. LEMON. Petitioners' Attorney. STATE OF GEORGIA CHATHAM COUNTY In tile Superior Court of Chat¬ ham County, Georgia. December Term. 1946. RE: Petition for Incorporation of SPORTSMEN’S PARK. INCORPORATED: COURT’S ORDER The petition in the above - matter having been to th\* court, and appearing to the Court that petit on is legitimately within the purview and tion of the laws of Georgia: and that all requirements of law have been fully complied and it having been shown that the name of the proposed corporation is not the name ain other corporation ed with the Secretary of of the State of Georgia.— IT IS THEREFORE. SIDERED, ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that said petition be and the same is hereby grant- ed. and thal petitioners, their associates and successors be and they are hereby incorpor- THURSDAY, NOV- 28, 1948 7uinniiir““““**'“ ** h«m i m Lodges And Chapters Notes MASONIC NOTES 1 Account of the Scottish R te Mystlc Shrllle ceremonial with cut of novices and nobles will be published next week- __ Daughters of Isis, led by Illustr ous Dt Kate Wright, served qifite a repast to one no bles last Sunday- ____ Imper al . „_____- D pi -y , • Irl) . n Wrs ley Dobbs as usual gave his : hearers a cheering address at | |---—--- under the law s of the j 'State ated of Georgia, with i he _____ for the name, for the purposes, term with right of renewal, and with the powers and pi v- 'leges prayed for and eniimc ated in the petit on- This incorporation, nowiv , confers no right to sell ir.t«\i- eating i quors, no right ■<> op gambling S games l<- or nor othcr ,owe. or violate lhe laws of this For eolation of these provisjons the charter will be fo feited . Don e in Open Court this lglh day of November 1949 ! o. s. ATKINSON cm Judge,- -ludic.al Superior Circuit Court.East-| ol otorgia, F-led in Office this Nov 18 , 1946. . JOHN R- FAWCETT Hep- C’lk- Superior Court ^ ^ of f Chatham County, Georgia. P-TA ASKS FOR BLIILR DrTT r D SLHUUL c/’llfiGl FACILITIES The Cha ham County Par-, ent-Teacher Association, in pe- titioning .... the .. board , , of educa¬ tion for better school facilities for Negro children last week, im-J is | continuing its ques; for proved schooling in this ! ty. Last week's petition was as follows: j \To the president, superin- tendent and members of the, Board of Educa’ion. We, the members of the Chatham coun- j ty Council of Parents-Teachers 1 wish to renew our pet t on of last mon h and the following' thereto- j “1. That the drinking water at the Pooler school be | ed to; “2. The great need of a new school at Burroughs; foun-| --3 Additional drinking tains at East Broad street- school: “4. The further peti.ion for a night school at Cuyler. Since the building is, it will afford an opportunity for adult edu¬ cation. “Note: “The Pooler drinking water J pump is situated between two (pit) toilets- “The children have to drink water from pump and the wa¬ ter is used for cooking, also: “May we further emphasize the deplorable conditions exist- ing at Beach-Cuyler. “We beg your sympathy and i action as soon as possible.” j The petition was signed by Mrs- Ruth Haven, S. F- Glover, Galvestus Orr, Earnestine Wil¬ liams and J- A. Brinson, presi¬ dent- BURLEIGH RETIRES AS CHURCH SOLOIST NEW YORK (ANP)—After 52 * years as soloist in one church choir, Harry Thacker Burleigh, one of the outstanding bari¬ tones of the age, retired last week on a “substantial, pen¬ sion” according to church of¬ ficials who reluctantly accept¬ ed ihe 79-year-old singer’s res¬ ignation. Mr. Burleigh, as a young man of 27, was chosen from among 60 applicants for the soloist’s job at St- George’s Episcopal church—the church of the Morgans and other wealthy New Yorkers. Each year for the past half century, Burleigh’s singing of the Easter hymn, “The Palms,” was a feature'of the festive program. This is a recorcl , Later, Mr- Burleigh was also soloist in the Jewish Temple . E1 where h e served for! 0 1 , * ^' J ’ c e 1 d Vllth .... llltI . oduc- . . the ln § service at St. Georges where an entire program is de- voted to Negro spirituals. Mr Burleigh & denied that his . health ,,, caused . his . . retirement.; .. singing to prove the po'nti ^ a few bars of a rich Jewish lament he J s b Emanu-EL w \ Declaring that he wants to< devote his time to writing and 1 composition the famed singer nnt«’! i , t also a eomooser composer nf of note. s pl ans nothing definite for thej immediate future- Loin in ‘ pra. the banquet of Mystic Shrine Past Potentate Crawford did an effective part during the Noble Denny and the m>b\ assisting h in conducted 11' Shrine ceremony as never be fore done here. Illustrious 'Potentate DoniUrL Thomas rushed back in t.nw to make . aD appearance nearanpf> 1 lon„ >n ■ hff be Il¬ - fore the closing Pa, he was educated through mother’s aid- j n par i y ]'fe, Mr. Burle'gh was a c i ose friend of Antonin £ )vora [ j - j writer of the “New World Symphony,” and the Burleigh influence is, felt in the stirring numbers wn ch have been sung and played around the world for years- L1NCOLN-FAMC GRANGE BOWL TEAMS LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Ta. 1 ANP 1 Lincoln university has accepted an "and invitation College’-’for from Florida A M. Negroes to play m the Orange n class.c on December 7 in Fla., it was announced here last Friday. Participation this gridiron classic will be. the first post-grid season con¬ test in which the Pennsylva¬ nia Lions haVe engaged the Florida Rattlers in past years- Demonstration Against South African Annexation New York, Nov. 21.—In pro¬ test against the Smuts govern- ment and its plans to annex Southwest Africa, as announc- at the United Nations Gen- ra l Assembly, a picket line was thrown around the building oc- -upied by the South African consulate today, under the sponsorship of ihe Council of Affairs, one of the pie¬ kets carried a sign with the NAACP s initials reading; ’Negroes in America fight for their rights, Negroes in South Africa have no rights.” i TDAVEI A KHV GUIDE C.LLI\d EDC FOR X A pocket-sized guide book is eing P re P ared for release ear ly in 1947 by the Travelguide company, wh’ch will contain arranged listings selected business enterprises the forty-eight that are essential to those of our group who travel. Hotels, rooming houses, beau- D 1 parlors and summer resoits only a few of the items to covered in each locality- All lis:ed must first been recommended by a of the Travelguide. ad¬ staff (now numbering 500 1 who are reputable ersons residing in various ar t s °f the country. company, headed by Butler, is being assisted W C. Handy, Andy K'rk, Jackman, Mrs- A. P the Urban League many others- Published annually, the first compilation of its should prove to be of tre¬ assistance to botii and interracial business, offices are located at 1650 New York. The Bible is a book all men swear by, but woe be unto who swear at it. Files ot The Savannah Tribune FIFTY YEARS AGO NOVEMBER an. I89G i Officers of the First Battal Infantry, Georgia Volun¬ met at The Tribune of¬ Monday, last, and decided attend the inauguration of dent McKinley, March 4- . - - .Isiah Morant, leader of the irs j Eeg i ment g anc i ' died Fi^ ^ ‘ Qf , v eK .' 5 , Light , infantry. Capt. N- Walten. paid military __ • — preached , e „ ’’ , '*' TT ,llsou ., Callen ,, , F.rst pygregational church Sunday. _ „ J T . member . Jt .. T Law ’ ’ , legislature from Liberty - was in the city this k WH