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CITE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
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POLITICAL enemies agree
“Both were of the same mind on the
■ I Southern regional grad-
1 establishment of a
uate and professional school for Negroes as
11 a the ., means most ______i. likely tn to maintain muiYilfcin racial racial
i 1 segregation in colleges with and educational at the same op-
I ? time provide Negroes available to white
I portunities equal to those
students.” This reference is to Thompson
J ■and Talmadge. Southern regional uni- .
The plan for a makeshift which
1 $ versitv for Negroes is a confer-
was proposed some time ago by a
cnce of Southern governors. It received the
I tentative approval of certain Negro educa-
tors, and now the governors meeting at
f Asheville, recently, reaffirmed their beliel
J .i j§ that the regional college plan on is the part to
of the several Southern states a way
If get around providing “Negroes with educa-
1 tional opportunities equal to those available
J to white student by: (1)
This agreement is stimulated
flj i paved the cheapness the dual of practice the regional in educational plan as com- pro-
to necessity
1 visions: and 2) the hysterical The
J maintaining segregating in colleges.
1 Texas situation also played its part. Texas
I has gone to the point of establishing a uni
f versitv for Negroes at considerable cost and
, |f! 1 other states will have to find a way out, or
face the necessity of having to do the same
, | thing. Already Mr. Thurgood Marshall an-
nounces that the policy of the legal depart-
1 1 ment of the NAACP is that “all cases cm
it | the pi ofessional, graduate and college levels
| shall be carried through university on the basis by of the
Texas and other cases means
of mandamus or injunctive actions seeking
the admission of the Negro to the existing
facilities.”
Georgia like most other Southern states,
will have an awful job equalizing education¬
al opportunity for Negroes. Georgia has 15
or more educational institutions for white
students, and 3 for Negro students: The
Georgia State College at Savannah; the Al¬
bany State College at Albany; and the Fort
Valiey State College, at Fort Valley. Of
the $4,985,000 for educational units under
the supervision of the Board of Regents,
only $650,000 is asked for improvements at
two of the Negro colleges.
This gross inequality has existed for a
long time and is responsible for most of the
weaknesses of the masses of Negroes and
for their failure to measure up to many of
the requirements of good citizenship. One
of the tragedies of the thing is, white peo¬
ple, to whom the blame attaches for these
weaknesses and failures, blame Negroes for
lacking a !-ense of social and political respon¬
sibility; for lacking in the social graces
which would make them acceptable as guests
in the same hotels, as passengers on the
same coach, or as patrons of the same the¬
ater.
We have a standing objection to separ¬
hy ate professional and graduate schools, main-
for the reason that the separate-but-equai
Jracial ittbooed segregation
Contlnrffd frum page one
[i rent or lease certain proper-
ities.
It recommended that Con-
[gress and segregation the state legislatures and dis-
[outlaw
tel?, restaurants, the armed ser-
viees ^ and j private employment.
The renort says’ “We need
» to guarantee . the same right,
to every person regardless 01
who he is. where he lives, 01
?hat his racial, religious or na-
ional origins are ”
In regard to segregation the
point is brought out that the
“separate but equal” idea when
applied to accommodations for
Negroes and whites, “is one of
the outstanding myths of
American 'history” and “it if
almost always true that while
indeed separate, these facility
are far from equal”
Much of the report deal;
Fwith the South and with th<
INegroes of America. But tl>
situation it unattainable. As is well known,
separation, segregation, means inequality
and discrimination. Of course, no one ex¬
pects ihe South to abandon this pattern in
the foreseeable (?) future. It has follower
it so long, it is so wedded to maintaining its
traditions, one of which is keeping the Ne¬
gro in his place, that it has overlooked and
continues to overlook the Negro as a poten-
tial economic asset. Its determination to
[maintain ; the Negro its poor traditions, and ignorant, led the South the better to keep to
icxploit him. It did to him what it has done
to the soil and other natural resources. The
I low level of education the South has imposed
upon Negroes, has not only placed a severe
burden upon Negroes themselves, “but upon
all who have employed them or had to deal
with them.’'
We hope that the agreement of the two
sign that other people in Georgia have de¬
veloped enough business foresight to have
learned lhat the more education one gets,
the more intelligent he becomes; the more
intelligent he becomes, the larger his wants
j I become, the greater his appreciation for
better t hings become.
“Nine to eleven million Negroes in the
|South given education only on the “would 6th grade
level, ’’said a noted educator, very
greatly improve the economic condition of
the South.” The South can not continue to
tolerate conditions under which many of its
citizens of tomorrow receive inadequate
preparation for effective living.
One way of providing Negroes with “ed¬
ucational opportunities equal to those avail¬
able to white students,” is to accept Federal
aid. Of course, another of the South’s bar-
r j ctd stands in the way of accepting Federal
B j ( ] • jj.s resentment of outside (interfer-
help, particularly when that help is
with an inter-racial question. So
far Federal aid for education has had rough
because the South has objected to
the funds. For instance, the
Advisory Committee On Education, appoint-
ed by the late President Roosevelt, recon■
mended tnai, in states which maintain sep-
arate systems of white and Negro schools,
‘the responsible officials he directed by lav
to provide for an equitable distribution o i
tee Federal funds between white and Negro
schools, without reduction of the proportion
of State and local funds already being spent
for Negro schools.” Because the inequality
in allocating funds and providing curriculum
offerings, to Negroes is so notorious such a
is just and natural for ag-
oncies having to do with distributing educa-
tional funds and services to the South.
Our hope is that a spirit of justice will
be developed so that it will be less difficult
.to use a way to equalize educational oppor-
tunity for Negroes, when one is found.
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The October issue of The New South,
just released, shows that 41 cities in 10
| Southern States have employed Negro po-
licemen. These cities employ a total of 196
, uniformed, 25 plainclothesmen, and 7 po-
licewomen. The states having Negro police¬
men are topped by Florida with 45, follow¬
ed by these states in order: Texas, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Kentucky,
Georgia (Savannah, 9), Tennessee, and
South Carolina. In nearly all of these
cities, the stereotyped objectives were rais¬
ed against employing Negro policemen, but
every city employing them has given the
highest testimony as to their efficiency.
The Mayor in an address before one of the
civic clubs of the city, stated that his ad¬
ministration had made substantial appro¬
priations to Armstrong Junior College. The
president of the college some days ago pro-
nosed a program of expansion for the col¬
lege, which would call for a large outlay of
money. The development of this co'lege
has undoubtedly meant a great deal for Sa¬
vannah and the educational progress of
white youth. We would not have it other
than the fine institution it is; we would not
have its appropriation cut by a single
lar. We wonder if it has ever occurred
the citv fathers that the CITY OF
VANNA11 is not contributing a single d 1-
lar for the education of Negro youth? Now.
Polities makes strange bed-fellows, and
it is not choosey as to whom it inspires or
flatters with notions of leadership.
committee said the other re¬
gions also have their “inter¬
ferences” with the rights of in¬
dividuals.
The recommendations were
fifteen entirely JcopcunJed in by the
members except the
one proposing that the fed-
eral government refuse to
and another recommending s
that the states enact , laws
banning discrimination in ad
mU students to the bhc
and prlvate schoo l s , church
EUpported sehools would be ex _
empU , d A “substantial” mi -
nority of the committee was
opposed to such laws. "
A minority of the commit-
tee. while favoring an end of
segregation as an “ultimate
goal,” opposed making this a
requirement for the giving of
funds.
recommendations ™ Jhat Amerka'
pnasizea ha<i?ed tne h tu t .hat America
cannot expect to be a leader in
world democracy until she sets
; her own house in order.
The committee which was
TUT. SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
India, whose record goes back into th«;
dim era at the dawn of history, is one ul
0 the Created world’s from newest the predominantly independent nations. Hindu
pa . . of what was British India, the new
co shares the Indian “subcontinent"
v/itii ely Moslem Pakistan, also cre>
ated from British India. O h- o C ; i densely peopled countries
in Ihe world, India’s 390,00* " 1 > “’ids live in some 1,200,000
square miles. Agriculture ; ■ »! industry, although manu¬
facturing is making isnpo n permanent representative
at United Nations Hear a - P. Pillai. Iiiaia’s flag has
saffron, white a*”? - '■ ih a 21-snoke wheel.
HEADING SPECIAL DIVISIONS IN
T-B XMAS SEALS SALES
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Mrs. Rebecca C. Alexander,
is chairman of committee in
charge of personal solicitation
of all personnel connected with
social agencies. Mrs. Alexan¬
der is a case worker with the
Board of Public Welfare and is
very familiar with the great
need of an expanded tubercu¬
LARGE CROWD TO HEAR
LOU SWARZ
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week.
Miss Swarz is the first Negro
woman to grace the stage, pre¬
senting in costume the solo or
mono drama—which teaches
Negro history. Critics have re¬
ferred to her as the Sepia Cor¬
nelia Otis Skinner and also the
“One Woman Show.” She
holds a master of fine arts de¬
gree with advanced study at
Douglas university, Columbia
university, Iowa University The¬
atre and Chicago Musical col¬
lege-department of Music and
Speech. For several years she
was a teacher in the public
schools of St- Louis, Mo.
Miss Swarz enjoys several
hobbies, such as sports, visiting
hospitals regularly, entertaining
for orphans, writing a syndi¬
cated column, and helping oth¬
ers through prayer, service and
cheer. She constantly says, “It
is not I, but God who directs
and expresses Himself thru me.”
j The public is invited to hear
this talented artist. The gen¬
eral admission Is 75 cents; pa¬
trons, $1.00; children, 40c. The
proceeds will go into the Sol. C.
j Johnson Scholarship Fund,
j which provides educational op¬
j portunities for worthy high
1 school students throughout the
State of Georgia.
1 The local sponsoring commit¬
j tee consists of Mrs. Olivia Rob¬
inson, chairman; Mrs. Mary H
Jones. Mrs. Lilia Shuler, Mrs
Catherine Saulters. Mrs. Edna
Bene ield, Mrs. Mary L. Ayers.,
grand worthy matron; and Sol.
C Johnson, grand worthy pa-
tron.
relations, Woian’s Society cf
Christian Service, Methodist
church.
Channing H. Tobias, of New
York, director of the Phelps-
j Stokes Fund.
FILM STAR MAPS
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CHICAGO - John Garfield.
one of Hollywood’s biggest box
<ffiee names, outlines in the
November Negro Digest the
plan which his committee of
the Screen Actors Guild is now j
presenting to the producers
and casting directors in film-
land for immediate adoption
to improve the roles of Negroes
appointed by President Truman
last December was made up of:
Chairman, Charles E. Wilson,
president of General Electric.
Mrs. Sadie T. Alexander, as-
sistant city solicitor of Phila-
delphia.
James B. Carey, secretary-
treasurer of the CIO.
‘s* * <>»»*.
of Rockville Center, . Long T Is- _
land . ’
Frank P. Graham,
llf the UniV ersity of North Car-
olina. *-*»
The Most Rev. Francis 3.
Haas, bishop of Grand Rap*ds,
Michigan.
Charles Luckman of Cam-
bridge, president of Lever Bros
Francis P. Matthews, O maha
attorney.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
N):W YorJ; attorney.
The Right Rev. Henry Knox
SherriU ° f * Boston ‘ P residin ^
° f th? Episcopal church
Boris Boris Shishkin Shishkin, AFL apt. wnnn. econo-
m<st
Mrs. M. E Tilly of Atlanta.
secretary, department of social
‘H
Charlotte Williams,
chairman committee in
charge of personal solicitation
of filling statiins, night club:
and taxi stands for the Christ¬
mas Seal Sale. Miss Williams
ip child wdlfare worker with
the Chatham County Board ot
Pubic Welfare.
ROBERT C. LONG, associate
professor of business adminis¬
tration at Georgia State Col¬
lege and vocalist extraordinary
Holder of the B. S. degree from
Hampton Institute, and M. A.
from New York University, Mr.
Long, although a newcomer to
Savannah, is already making a
great impression among music
lovers of the Coastal Empire
because of his vocal ability. At
chapel exercises Monday at the
local college the singing of Mr I
Long was said to have been
masterful. He is a former stu-
dent of the Julliard School of
Music.
in (J. S. movies.
which was written by horror
man Boris Karloff, and to be
followed by an article by Bar-
bara Bel Goddes, white cinema
actress who starred in the stage
version of “Deep Are the
Roots,’’ Garfield’s Garfield’s plan plan Is the;
one winch Itea actually been
adopted for presentation.
Mr. Garfield outlines the
main points of his platform as:
1. Negro parts in all scripts
will be played by Negroes and
the racial character will not be
changed.
2 - The Negro w111 bc Portrayed
the screen not as a carica-
(ure. but as a simple human be-
a “° rmal member of the
COmmunity '
3 . Negroes will be cast in the
routine, unnamed bitts in the
script as mechanics, secretaries,
nurses, etc.
“This program is not per-
feet.” Garfield concludes, “but
it is good. All of us who are
to have such a forward step.”
L. TO FEATURE
GAINES AND SAV’H
DEGREE TEAM
In Week of Masonic
Initiation
J. W. DOBBS
Grand Master of Ga Masons
By L. R. Bolden
The eyes and ears of Masonic
Savannah wiil turn toward oilr
capitol rity for the week of No¬
vember 10-15, when Right Wor-
shipful Homer Gaines, 33 de¬
gree, grand lecturer of the ju¬
risdiction of Michigan, and the
Masonic Degree Team of Sa¬
vannah will be featured by
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of
Masons and Grand Master .lohn
Wesley Dobbs in an entire week
of initiation in the three sym¬
bolic Degrees of Masonry
Brother Gaines is, according
to Grand Master Dobbs, “one
of the best informed men in
Masonry today;” and those Ma¬
sons who are fortunate to make
the trip can expect to receive
much further light in Masonry
because of his presence-
Savannah’s Degree Team the
only organized group of its
kind in the jurisdiction, is prim-
ing itself for the occasion and
promises to be in fine form gt
this time. They will exemplify
he degrees on the nights of
November 10, 11 and 12, after
which the Grand Master, Bro¬
ther Gaines and a group of At¬
lanta’s best informed past
masters will re-exemplify these
degrees on the concluding
"T 8 recent
from Atlanta brought the in¬
formation that the brothers
there are planning to make this
event one which will long be
remembered , , in * Masonic circles , .
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do IS l^e XU I A OfJUIl
sor Thrift Sale
The Junior League of Savan¬
nah is sponsoring a thrift sale
on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, November 5, 6 , and 7.
The sale will be held at St.
Paul’s Episcoual church parish
house, 34th and Abercorn Sts;
and will feature clothing and
shoes for men, women, children
and babies; and small house-
hold articles and toys. The ar-
tides are all in excellent con-
dition, and the prices are ex-
tremely low. Hats and shoe
are priced at 50c, dresses $150
to $2.00; suits, $5.00 and
sio.00. Pocketbooks 25c and
50 c; baby sweaters, 35 c, and
evening dresses $3.00.
The hours of the sale are as
follows: Wednesday, November
5 , 9 a . m. to 9 p. m.; Thursday,
November 6 , 9 a. m. to 9 p. m,
and Friday, November 7 , 9 a.
to C p- m.
The proceeds from this sale
^hild welfare work.
Everything is priced
10c and $10. Mrs. Harben
iel is general chairman of the
« ale and the committees for the
® al e aa e:
Co;!ocUonSi Mrs . Thomas
and Mrs Joseph 0iiver
Pacing, Mrs. Robert
chairman; Mrs. W. M. Capps lapps,
Mrs. Robert Saussy, Mrs. A. H.
Eller, Jr., Mrs. John C. Wvlly
and Mrs. Philip Ballinger, Jr,
Publicity, Miss Katherine
Morgan, chairman; Mrs. Lamar
Cunningham, Mrs. Augustus
Arnold, Jr., Miss Flora Eve,
Mrs. George D. Cope, Mrs. Phil-
ip Beckwith, Miss Sally Garling-
ton and Miss Joy Howden.
IT PAYS TO
ADVERTISE IN
THE TRIBUNE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947
Lodges And Chapters Notes
Grand Master Dobbs, accom-
panied by Mrs. Dobbs visited
New Orleans, Texas, Denver,
Col., Salt Lake City, San Fran-
cisco and finally Los Angeles
on a return trip for home,
reaching home the latter
of next week
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The 31st anniversary of
Prince Hall Chapter No. 258
was celebrated Wednesday
night.
The chapter at EUaville was
reinstated last week by Bro. E-
J. Hill, assisted by the matron
of Americus Chapter
Ezra Consistory met Sunday.
Tim Consistory will have a spe-
cial meeting the second Sunday
Cancer Control in Georgia
To Be Enlarged
! Atlanta A comprehensive
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effort on a sc elaenveb, teh
effort on a scale never before
attempted to bring cancer un¬
der control in Georgia will be
set in motion at the annual
meetitng of the Georgia Divis¬
ion, American Cancer Society,
in Atlanta, November 12 and
13, Mrs. Stewart Colley of
Grantvilie, state commander of
th Society’s Field Army, an¬
nounced here today.
“This is one of the first
steps in a move designed to
save the lives of at least 800 of
the mo-e than 2,400 men, worn
en and children cancer is kill¬
ing in Georgia every year,”
Mrs. Colley said.
MASONIC DEGREE TEAM
| The past month has been one
of much activity for the mem¬
bers of Savannah’s Masonic de¬
gree Team. On Sunday, Octo¬
ber 19, they were the guests of
the Mount Herman Baptist
church and Brother J. H. Jones,
Jr., a member of the team. At
this time a very timely and
thought-provoking address was
j made by
i of Bryan Baptist church;, as
program. Bro. thcJUen’s S. D. Bisard, day
vice chairman of the team,
voiced the sentiment of the
group in his words of appreci-
, 1 ation for the very * cordial wel
j come extended . , , the group. Pas-
j tor J. H. Jones, Sr., a Mason and
noble of the Mystic Shrine, was
at all times conscious of the
1 presence of the members of
the craft.
On Sunday night, October
26, a number of the brothers
joined by other master Masons
visited the Church of God and
Saints of Christ on West' Vic¬
tory Drive. The invitation for
tbis visit was extended by Bro.
Caleb Bias, one of the team’s
stalwarts, and Evangelist Z. V.
Deans extended a hearty wel-
come to both the team and the
' lnd ividual members. Among the
\ to man y renditions which served
make this an evening of real
P iea sure were an address by El-
der Butler of Harrisburg, Pa.
and :
selections from the Dixie
dUartet , the Six Sharps and the
j “CAGOSOC chorus (the name
| made of U P of the initial letters
the words “Church of God
aud Saints of Christ.”)
Among those present were
Brothers Caleb Bias, Cornelius
Zeeman, Freddie Simmons, W
| L- Cannady, William Dobbins,
^ Iaxie R- V als, A. Kenner, Leon
} See n Amon^ MasterVc ,,
Past Biac * she ar
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doing a fine . a ^ mcee at
the gt Philip , s M , ay P ro
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| was was present Drespm at t the invitation
. ter_Donald Brother Thomas.
Corne.ius Freeman
fecturer of the team, returning
from the West Coast and bacx
at work helping to make M M i"
( £0n s.
Perry Jones out of the serv c v
ice and niorfo ., . . early
turn tn re-
i ‘^ e ’ Hilton-
ans hav a , ° ! .f° t6n Bro
ther Jones’ r' ■ 1 e cause
Freemawn™ ot
'' k e ° r£ . lis . de
ture P ar ~
of Mt. „ Moriah’s able
I brothers and nob’es of the Mys-
| tic Shrine uniting with the
team, viz., Brothers Orell Webb
i and Herbert Quinn.
: Brothers a t d.,™.
PS °M T L t° n
Rogers ogers and and Ther Theodore ior Mackey
devoting much time and
in November, when a number
of candidates will be balloted
for.
-.. to note that .
It is encouraging
number of novices will apply
membership in Omar Tem-
Mystic Shrine. Applicants
opportunity to apply. Out-
of-town brothers can especially
do this,
Installation committees should
plan for meetings.
No douot, it may be well to
have different nights for the
installation of the officers of
the lodges and chapters.
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Only a few more weeks before
the y ear terminates.
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The two-day session, to be
held at the Henry Grady hotel,
is expected to be the largest in
the history of the Georgia Di¬
vision.
Cancer control projects are
already under way in the state,
Mrs. Colley pointed out, and,
due to the unprecedented fi¬
nancial support given by the
people of Georgia in last year’s
campaign, plans for additional
projects are under way.
Members of the Field Army
from practically every county
’n Georgia, along with nation¬
ally known leaders in the fight
.gainst cancer, are expected to
attend the session, Mrs. Colley
;.aid.
to the “secrets of our art” and
showing much proficiency there
in.
William Dobbins is chairman
of the team and Leroy R. Bol¬
den, secretary.
ST. MATTHEW’S MEN
HAVE CORPORATE
COMMUNION .
j of St^ Matthews
a^owateTomnTun!
ion of the men of the church,
to be held Sunday, November
30. The committee in charge
of this affair is headed by J. B.
Pinckney, with Dr. J. W- Jamer-
son, Jr., an-d Henry Solomon as
co-workers,.
Another noteworthy event of
this meeting was the presenta¬
tion of the revived charter to
the organization by Attorney L.
IL. Scott.
Announcement of the com¬
ing visit of the presiding bishop
of the church was received with
enthusiasm.
AWARDED
$2,200 PLANE
LOS ANGELES, Calif (ANP)
-Frank Cummings, j r was the
surprise „
winner of the annual
National Airplane champion¬
ship contest held at Minneap¬
olis, Minn., receutly. He was
presented with a three-foot
silver trophy f.nd a Piper cub
plane valued at $ 2 200 for his
piize , ,
winning “rubber-power¬
ed model on which he had
worked for a month during his
spare time. Although Cum¬
mings can- fjy, he has no li¬
cense. The plane was flown
here by George Priolleu, a local
former member of the air for-
:es.
flETT YEARS ACOt
Wle* of The Savannah
Tribune
OCTOBER 30, 1897
Musical event under auspices
1 ^ Mlsses clot i ld e Robinson and
Carrie Barker took place Tues¬
day night at Sacred Heart hall.
° nl ! ° ne ° f the local P art ici-
! s “ rvive Mr N A. Cuyler.
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aoard Lad y Managers of Mc-
i K P , n<? HosDital organized at the
hospital Tuesday afternoon.
The ~ ~ -----*“““ Adelphia Club wu U will wm at- ai-
tend services at First Congre-
e r tional church Sunday night
at 6 °’ cl <k k in regular regalia,
dark Housers, Prince Albert
j ^ Pats - high hat, black kid
doves. Sermon by Rev. L. B.
Maxwell.
1
Cos - A - B., and E. of the
: F ’ rst Battalion inspected by
! Co1 Drveaux during the week.
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1 H ’ L o f t i n petitionea
' r<?ain ' t as P° s tmaster at Ho-
gansville, Ga.
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