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“Race as a clue to character, capacity,
or conduct is a myth-one of Hitler’s vital
]j es ” —Carey McWilliams
“The racial hatreds which I hear preach¬
ed today are coming from the lips of white
men and not colored men, and this is
something which fair and ( hristian people
should well consider . The answer to
.
this whole Negro question . . .is more and
better churches, more and better schools,
more and better efforts to understand him
as a human being.” Barnwell
—Bishop Middleton S.
ENVIRONMENT
We have no intention to go into the old
and hoary discussion as to the compara¬
tive merit and influence of heredity and
environment upon the character and ca¬
pacity of people. Several things have sug¬
gested this subject: the announcement
several riay,s ago of the city’s plan to pave
certain small sections of streets in areas
where Negvoes live, the well known dif¬
ference between the general housing con¬
ditions of Negroes and white people, the
incidence of crime, poor health and de¬
linquency as pointed out in a census tract
compiled in 19:15. The tendency is for
people who live on paved streets in good
houses, to take better care of the property
and the premises, and to have better health.
They keep up lawns, plants and flowers,
s and they are more disposed to keep side-
walks and streets free of trash and paper.
Of course, there are some people who re¬
main uninfluenced by community appeal
for a clean city, or by the pride and zeal
of their neighbors for keeping their plac¬
es clean and attractive. Their indifference
is not only nor entirely due to their lack
of desire for attractive premises, but is due
to lack of landlords to keep their property
in good repair, , v...V. and to the city’s lack ........ of en-
forcing the law requiring paved sidewalks.
This lack of sidewalks is one the worst signs
of the city’s neglect of areas where Negroes
live. In numerous instances, it is difficult
for people in such areas to get into or out
of their houses after heavy rains. But de-
spite of all of these lacks, we wish to urge
them to do the things they can do to
their premises more attractive and to keep
them clean, by planting flowers and shrubs,
and by keeping their places free of litter
and trash. Keeping a place clean, a little
grass, plants and flowers growing about
r,n the stoops and porches, or about, does
something to soul and spirit of the resi¬
dents and makes a good impression upon
transients, and bolsters the self respect of
the whole community. Business places
could do much more in the matter of keep¬
ing in front of their places clean than they
T are now doing.
%IIGNS OF THE DAWN
Many years ago a visiting lecturer used
is his subject. Blessed Be Rattlesnakes,
lis tour was prompted by the Atlanta
dot and events that immediately followed it.
rs j te proposed that the truth, that “it is an
rs i II wind that blows nobody good” is dem-
J -nstrable; that the Atlanta riot was a
* lemonst ration of it. A conference was
' * eld between leaders of both races to find
fays to make such a tragic event impos-
ible of repetition. Out of this conference
rose the movement to organize commit-
»es on inter-racial cooperation. Many
(stances of violence against Negroes, the
•peated declarations of the ideals of de-
Icracv by World leaders, the senseless
scriminations against Negro soldiers dur-
g war. the horrifying results of Nazi racial
lilosophy and the awfully fatal prospects of
e atomic bomb, have brought thoughtful
opje all over the world to the realiza-
>n that understanding, peace and justice
long individuals and nations, can be ae-
■■■ mplished only through acceptance and
ictiee of brotherhood. Costly armament
ge armies, and the monstrous destruc-
_ eness of scientific creation, can not cure
* world’s ills. Scientists, church leaders
1 some statesmen, but not politicians,
*“• lize this, and are saying so. They ad-
, : that the solution of the world’s prob-
| is is in the hands of the people them-
res whose hearts must set the standards
giuman ^onfess relations. People are beginning
that the guiding principles for
it living are those that are contained
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tuna of frozen Georgia container of
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SAVANNAH TROSUIfB
f URGE H AID FOR NEGRO WORKERS |
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The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, New York, formed to
spread knowledge and practice of Christian principles in the Ameri-
'can labor movement, at its recent board meeting passed a resolu¬
tion calling upon labor groups to assist the Negro worker in his
justice by eliminating all discriminations in their organiza¬ ,
fight for
tions.’! Pictured signing the resolution is Roger K. Larkin, executive
secretary (left); with Eugene J. Smith, vice-president, and board
members Mary^V..Berry and John C. Cort (standing), looking on
approvingly. (NC Photos)
in the teachings of the Man of Nazareth.
The movement acknowledging this is
gaining ground. Those individuals and or¬
ganizations, molders of opinion, are break¬
ing away from their traditional reticence
and are proclaiming without reservation
the right of all men to the enjoyment of
basic human rights. These are signs of
the dawn which evil-minded men can not
teeip back.
We understand that Mr. Colston assum¬
ed the presidency of the Georgia State Col¬
lege on Tuesday, July 1st. We congratu¬
late him, the college and the Board of Re¬
gents. To the youth of Georgia this is an
auspicious occasion. There is no reason, we
can see, why the college should not go on
to become the institution it should become
after 57 years of its existence. We hope,
we expect, we invite the college to play the
role a college is expected to play in a com¬
munity, especially in the Savannah com¬
munity that is anxious to use and be used
by the college, to advance our mutual in¬
terests and to build common loyalties. We
shall do everything in our power to pro¬
mote and advance the interests and loy¬
alties of the college and the community
to the end that the educational and spir¬
itual welfare of our youth may be well
served.
We appreciate the fact that many sec¬
tions of the country have given notice to
the appointment of Negro policemen in Sa¬
vannah. We are not over sanguine over
the prospects of an immediately noticeable
decrease in crime among Negroes. We are
not concerned with discussions as to the
kinds of services these policemen will he
permitted to perform . We are concerned,
as we have stated befofre and will state
again, that our policemen be regarded as
just other policemen who have been regu¬
larly appointed to perform a needed ser¬
vice. One of the things yet to he accom¬
plished in American thinking is to cease
to use the word “Negro” as a label. We
speak of “Negro Health,” “Negro educa¬
tion,” “Negro crime,’ just as if there is
any such thing. Robert L. Cooper, exe¬
cutive director of the Wiltwyck School for
Boys, Esopus, N. Y. says, “To he a Negro
in our culture is not only trouble to White
America—it is trouble, suffering and, on
occasions, hysterical bewilderment to Black
America. Because the Negro is born into
a culture which stubbornly refuses to ac¬
cept him as an equal, the fact that he is a
Negro is forced into his consciousness and
kept there . . No Negro in America is
ever completely unaware of the biological
I act that he is a Negro . What the Negro
.
asks and wants is to be regarded as a per¬
son, and not as a social category—the op¬
portunity to live as humanity and to par¬
ticipate in the culture.**
A REAFFIRMATION OF LOYALTY
By Ruth Taylor
On this Fourth of July, the one hundred
and seventy-first anniversary of the sign-
! n ®L b /. the that Declaration of and Independence, take it
we pause stock of
j w 18 cornerstone ot our American way
jP , . ready that
e means, we reaffirm our
, a , v those things in which believe,
i • - we
| , Declaration than of Independerice was
a proclamationi eriiami-
tha tlnrt^n colonies from the
j '^flpdF-edMhtr.t L„ Jft fcftd tnfe'iwfct istMe-
a nevv philosophy of freedoht, k
ra, U=o program by which and through
*° establish a government of the
^ e> P eop k' and for the people.
* bee Declaration of Independence was
the ,, credo through adherence to which we
became the first self-constituted people—
not bound together by race, by national
origin or by any one religious belief but
by an acceptance of the practical ideal of
the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood
of Man which is the basis of all monothe¬
istic faiths, the cornerstone of freedom.
“For the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and
our Sacred Honour.”
The first part of the Declaration of In¬
dependence with its glorious credo of
Americanism is well known to all of us
but how many of us remember that the
Declaration of Independence demands ser-
from us in return for the rights of
“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?”
It is the third part of the pledge that is
our greatest safeguard of our liberties
Doing what we should because it is the
: r ‘ght and honorable thing to do is the
basis of a stable society. There is no se-
^ curity unless men and nations depend
can
u P° n each other’s plelged word,
I the Reliance on our sacred honor has been
bulwark of our defense during all the
trials through which the nation has pass¬
ed. The pledge of not just our lives, or
our fortunes, but our sacred honor as well
—that is what made and will continue to
make the Declaration of Independence work!
The Delcaration of Independence has,
given us more than any other country has
ever possessed in the way of freedom for
all—and it will only continue to do so if.
with firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our
concerted action to protect and defend
with every ounce of power the democratic
way of life for which it stands: if we reaf-
firm by our actions their loyalty to the ideals
which made us a nation.
packed for aouaced.
the new wax- About equal amounts will be
fibre-and-metal shipped by Bateman Frozen
Can Co Foods Company of Macou anti
s^jhi ,
Carnegie Book Notes
BOOK, by Mary Kaciman
This is for a girl with a job j
a future. It is not a book
of job training and training
advice, but sound council on
such matters as wardrobe, the
way to look, how to com-
husband and babies with
career, spending paycheck.
what is good behavior in the
world and what is not
. . . All phases of the career j
life
MRS. MIKE, by Benedict and
Nancy Freedman
Benedict Freedman (27, cbm-
edy writer for Red Skelton ra-j
show) and Nancy Freedman j
(26, Nancy Mars of stage and
, have written many plays ,
and short stories together since
heir marriage in 1941 Then
literary criteria are simplicity
believe, have been applied with j
supreme success in Mrs. Mike,
The level of sheer entertain-
ment is extraordinarily high.
It does not pose any great
questions to the reader, or of-
fer solutions of life. It is first j
foremost a love story of j
Kathy young Irish Bostonian,
and Sergeant Mike, Canadian
Mountie-pnest-doctor - magis.
trate; and their lives, some-
times filled with beauty, some¬
times terror, in the vast Cana¬
dian wilderness.
Florida Preparing For Com¬
ing Teachers Meeting
TALLAHASSEE
cators at
college and other leaders in the
city are making plans ior the
annual convention of the
American Teachers association
whfeh will meet here at the
July 20-22. The sessions
will attract outstanding men
and women in the field of ed-
ucation and related vocations
ail sections of the coun-
try. The association president,
Walter N. Riddle, Virginia
State College, Petersburg, Va„
will preside at most of the
Dicussions and addresses will
largely with the role oi the
and issues plaguing the
statesmen of the world
government officials. The:
reiation of these problems to
advancement of the Negro
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Both companies art
new processing plants
will pack their own brands
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‘No More
Negroes On
This Lot”
CHICAGO—.‘No more clam
niggers will play in pictures on
this lot,” isi 'tine vituperative
rant Robert Jones attributes
in the August issue of Negro
Digest to an unnamed Para¬
mount Pictures vice president.
This burst of racial hatred
was voiced by the executive at
a preview of “The Bells of St.
Marys” in a small studio on
the Paramount lot, the writer
continues, when he spotted a
Negro boy in the midst of a
white chorus.
The V. P. was furious and
wanted the Negro singer cut
from the t;cene- Technicians
explained that this was impos¬
sible since the colored lad was
in the direct 'center of the
scene. The Negro boy stayed
in this picture, but the angry
executive then roared:
'No more damn niggers will
play in pictures on this lot.”
Author Jones credits the
“great god almighty Dixie box
office” with the major resjion-
sibility for this^attitude bjf the
West Coast movie-makers. How-
ever, in his article about race
hate in Hollywood he also re-
counts the statement of a re¬
cent Academy Award winner on
the same lot who said of Ne¬
groes ;
“There’s not one of them
half as good as the worst white
man.”
Asked about singer Paul
Robeson, the same actor shot
back:
“So what? That goes for
him, too.”
MAJOR WRIGHT DIES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Continued from Page 1
UNITED NATIONS PRIMER, by
Segrid Arne
This is the one indispensable
book on the thirteen confer-
encegj between that of the At
‘
’ lipo fvhich th
*® sl ’* what 1 each a conier-
1 ' G was 10 c o > w . ,al u dld aud .
how fits into the world ’s fu '
ture Simple wording, uncolor-
ed by propaganda or personal
°P inion -
THREE CAME HOME, by Agnes
Keith
Mrs. Kelith recorded the hap-
py years of her lile in Borneo
in “Below the Wind” (1939).
Three Came Home is a record
ol the three grim years there
between ;he arrival of the
anc e in 1942 and liberation by
Navy in 1945. It is a very hu-
man document, not without hu-
mor, written by a woman who
knew what she fought for and
realized what war did to cap-
tms and captives, and the qual-
by of writing makes it more
than just another war
She, her husband and
small son. lived in a civilian
prison camp in Borneo, rarely
communicating with each
er, and enduring starvation,
disease and unbelievable hard¬
ships.
lege, and started Philadelphia’s
first Negro bank.
Twice during his long ca-
reer, Maj. Wright turned down
offers to become minister to
Liberia. He was planning to
visit the contennial celebration
of that country . the home of
ancestors, when he died
Major Wright was a cham¬
pion of the cause of his people
and was credited with propos-
the issuance of the Booker
T. Washington postage stamp
in 1939, the frst to honor a Ne-
gro.
A brief summary of Major
Wright’s life is as follows:
Born in 1855, Dalton, Ga.
Graduated from Atlanta
Univers j ty 1876
Married Lydia Elizabeth How-
ard in 1877 . (Father 0 f eight
living sons and daughters,.
First „ child born (Bishop R.
R. Wright, Jr.) in 1878.
Sleeted principal of Ware
high school, Augusta, Ga-, 1380.
Elected president, Georgia
college 1891.
Miscellaneous a c c omplish
ments:
Organized the Georgia f State
Teachers Association n i 879 .
co-organizer and president,
National Association of Teach-
ers in Col0red Schools .
Appointed in 1885, chief dep-
uty marshal of Georgia by Gen.
James Longstreet, who was
General I^ee’s right hand man
at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa-
During his time, Major
Wright has resigned or has de¬
clined a number of political
offices.
Appointed paymaster with ^
| 'appointment During the World war, by
of the Governor of
Georgia and ekeyed by the U '
f SUte DepartmGnt - visited
^ h ^ fr ° nt m FranCe ^
wrote an account of the coior-
1 H troops, especially of the
Geor • troops t whic wmch
S la s, account
was written for the Georgia
i Historical Association.
Elected president, Citizens &
i Southern Bank & Trust com¬
pany in 1S20.
1 Member of the AME church,
Elks, Masons, 33rd degree-
Member of the American
Academy of Political and So-
cial Science, American Hutori-
T* ‘ f. Assoc i atl ° n rrr. aad Na i
^ 1 , Negr ° BankerS AS3JCia ' ‘
____ e , . . e en_
k ; * ’ up M a ’
8aged p , 111 banking and numerous
! civic activities,
Imported and introduced I
Haitian Coffee from the Repub-
i lc in 1933.
Secured the Booker T. Wasn-
■ ingtoa
ZZ
duded on the agenda.
U ) lportant rep ° rts from thc
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education the UnRed States
commission on International
reconstruction, the Institute of
| Education by Radio the Save
the Children Foundation the
National Conference on citizen-
ship and other national bodies
W fn be made during the con-
ference sessions-
The current discussion on
the need for federal aid for
UC ation in the south will prob-
ably be given some attention
at the sessions particularly in
view . of nt the ., proposals . in . X Con
r
also expected to take some ac-
Uon on the newest wave of mob
violence in the south and may
demand the passage of an anti-
lynching bill.
strawberries this .ear m the
i ompo.nte contan *- • hi> n i
said to approach tin economy
of the tin can in ability to be
. .ed at high sp eeds.
THURSDAY, JUDY 3 , 1947
Lodges And Chapters Notes
This is the beginning of a
new year for the Masons in
Georgia. The Grand Lodge and
the Grand Chapter are over. It
means that plans must be
made now for improvement and
increase Last year was a suc¬
cessful one. We must make the
present one far better. While
we are very anxious to have an
increased membership, but it
will be far better to increase
in the knowledge of the work¬
ing of the order
Would that every brother and
sister could have seen the dem¬
onstrations made at Brunswick
last week. The portrayal of
degree work, the opening of the
Chapter, the Chapter of Sor¬
row, the crowning of the Queen
and the presiding of the Grand
Matron were all ideal and im¬
pressive. Those who were pres¬
ent will have a better concep¬
tion of the order, and be proud
that they are members of the
Eastern Star.
Grand Master Dobbs is uw on
the job encouraging the restor¬ %
ing of all lodges. The ones
northeast Georgia are particu .cu-H
larly interested in bei^g J-
stored around Athens, Cr * t-
fordville and other places. lie
will also visit Boston in South
Georgia.
Commander-in-Chief E. C
Blackshear of Ezra Consistory
No. 21, did himself proud in
conferring the consiistory de¬
grees last Saturday. The Su¬
blime Princes were sincere in
commending him. Then, too,
Illustrious Potentate R. W.
Gadsden of Omar Temple No
21, with his degree team, really
had the sand hot for the no¬
vices on the 29th. Noble D-
Thomas had charge of the
class. They were fully instruct¬
ed and caused to be impressed.
Youth Leader Accepts
Challenge
This week, Edward K. Wea¬
ver, president of the Southern
Negro congress, stated, “I am
proud to represent Negro youth
at the World Youth Festival to
be held in Prague, Czechoslova¬
kia, this summer.” It is of the
utmost import that the South¬
ern Negro Youth Congress has
identified the striving of Negro
youth with the aspirations of
democratic youth all over the
world Our organization has
consistently shown this aware¬
ness of the need for interna¬
tional unity through its dele¬
gates to the World Federation
of Democratic Youth, as testi¬
fied by the fact that both Es¬
ther B. Cooper and Dorothy
Burnham have been and re¬
main, members of the Executive
Council from its inception.
The Southern Negro Youth
Congress delegation with Wea¬
ver as leader, will also attend
the World Youth Council meet¬
ing. Miss Rose Marie Ellington
of Birmingham, Ala., talented
young pianist and student at
Oberlin, will take part in the
competition for young pianists
at the festival. Mrs. Larnie
Williams, also of Birmingham
will show documentary films of
the life of Negro youth in the
South, and will make record¬
ings and films of the occur¬
rences at the festival. Mrs. Ge¬
neva Weaver, of the State Tea¬
chers College at Montgomery.
Ala., will participate in the folk
dancing, illustrating the spirit¬
ual and other strivings of thc
Negro people through her in¬
terpretative dances. Mrs. Vera
Scales of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.
C will also participate in the
,
folk singing and dancing. Dr-
Weaver will also lecture on the
economjd. political 'and social
problems of Negro youth in the
educational sessions of the fes¬
tival.
At the beginning of this
month the Southern Negro
Youth Congress sent an art ex- j
hibit to the festival. This ex¬
hibit was collected by Charles
White, outstanding young Ne¬
gro artist, and represents the
best work of young Negro m
tists. This exhibit will be ex¬
hibited in Prague and other
European cities. The group will
leave Venice September l and
return to New York.
4 Negro Girl Scouts
Delegates
NEW YORK — Four Negro
girl scouts from the United
States will be in attendance
as delegates at the girl scout
international encampment at
Camp Barre, Barre, Pa., June
26 to July 166, it was announc¬
ed today at Girl Scout nation¬
al headquarters. The Negro
scout delegates are Constance
Washington, Detroit, Mich.; Ir¬
ma Geddis, Montclair, N. J.;
Dooris Jean Ganges, Westches¬
ter, Pa-, and Charlotte Ann
Meredith, Cleveland, Ohio, se¬
lected as delegates at large.
One hundred Girl Scouts
representing every state in the
nation, Puerto Rico and the
Canal Zone and 20 foreign
countries will be in attend¬
ance at Camp Barre for the
camp conference which is one
of a series of events being held
to celebrate the 35 th anniver¬
sary of the founding of girl
scouting in the United States.
CANCER DRIVE
EXCEEDS GOAL
ATLANTA—Chatham coun¬
ty’s achievement in raising more
than 115 per cent of" its goal
in the drive for funds to fight
cancer brought special com¬
mendation today from Ruther¬
ford Ellis, state campaign
chairman for the American
Cancer Society.
The drive in Chatham coun¬
ty was led by Dr. John Dyer,
campaign chairman.’ and Mrs.
Angus N. Purvis, county com¬
mander of the Society’s Field
Army, both of Savannah.
“The work done by Dr. Dyer
and Mrs. Purvis and those who
helped them has been out-
standing, as has been the re¬
sponse of the citizens of Chat¬
ham county. Their generous
support will pay dividends in
human lives saved,’ Mr. Ellis
declared.
Funds raised in the campaign
will be used in an endeavor to
reduce Georgia’s cancer death
toll by financing education
This will be the First Girl
Scouting world encampment to
be held in the United States
since 1937-
Representing hundreds of
thousands of Girl Scouts and
Girl Guides all over the world,
the delegates will discuss
youth’s part in world affairs-
The theme for the interna¬
tional encampment is “Friend¬
ship Builds A Better World”
based on the fourth Girl Scout
law: “A Girl Scout is a friend
to all and a sister to every oth¬
er Girl Scout.”
The 20 foreign countries to
be represented by delegates in¬
clude; Belgium, Brazil, Cana¬
da, Cuba, Curacao, Denmark,
England, the French West In¬
dies, Greece and Guatemala.
Also Luxembourg, the Nether¬
lands, Sweden, the Philippines,
Switzerland, Norway, Newfound¬
land. Haiti, France and British
Honduras.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Filet of The Sivannsh
Tribune
JULY 3, 1897
The 27th annual communica¬
tion of the Masonic Grand
Lodge was held June 23-26 at
Rome, Grand Master W. E. Ter¬
ry presiding. Large parade on
St. John’s Day. Committee
appointed to select location for
Widows and Orphans home. Of
the grand officers, only one is
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living. -
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The public schools closed
last Wednesday. Among the
graduates irom West Broad
street school was John Wesley
Dobbs, now Grand Master of
Masons.
Rev. Thos. Hazel, who has
been supplying the First Con¬
gregational church the last six
months, will preach his final
sermon Sunday night.