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IN LOCO PARENTIS
Some years ago, in the educational itera-
ture, the phrase “in loco parentis” was
AChools° anTcolleges to'" giu^assur/ulce to
parents that their children would b ■ treat-
mea^t i ’‘instrul’tors 1 ' wire" not onlv !,Z™
ified to give the necessary were' training in
school subjects, but also qualified to
serve as substitute parents, supplying un-
derstanding, sympathy, and affection to
make the school environment as much
like home as possible. This was especial-
ly true in preparatory schools. Since many
such schools were connected with colleges
“in loco parentis” policy was continued
through the second year of college. Many
rules and regulations thought necessary
to the maintenance of such control would
be considered now as encroaching on per-
sonal liberty, and calculated to keep chil-
dren tied to parental apron strings. Such
rules as the following were common: spe-
cial .permission from parents for girls to
visit off the campus, permission to leave
the campus at any time, or to lx* off the
campus during the evening, and compul-
gory attendance at chapel assemblies; danc-
ing and card plaving were forbidden; and-
smoking, drinking on or off the campus,
and leaving the campus at night without
permission meant suspension from school-
Social intercourse in co-educational schools
was limited and carefully supervised.
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Under the influence of social change
schools and c o lieges c h a n g e d
their administrative policy particularly as
it related to the management of students,
The separation of high schools from coL
leges, and it is evidence that the transi-
tion was not smoothly and efficiently made.
Recent student strikes, and Irequent turn
over in faculty personnel are a part oi Hut
evidence. of change In some all instances the the from pendulunj impose.'}
swung way
control to no control at all.
The philosophy which replaced “in loco
parentis” was misunderstood and misin-
terpreted in enough cases to divide educa-
tors into two opposing camps. What con-
cerns us most, however, is the effect thi'
change has had on instructors, that is, we
believe what has happened to scfhie teach-
ers is an effect of the change. At any,
rate, some Instructors seem to think that
they are no longer responsible for the
example they set before students; that
they can take part with impunity in the
activities reserved for lesser individuals
who too feel that they have no obligations
to any one or any cause. The passing out
of “in loco parentis” as a school policy did
not lessen the need for specially qualified,
and consecrated persons to serve as in-
, Structors and counsellors of young people,
Indeed, there would seem to be greater
need for such individuals to give guidance
to our youth in this age of conflicting
needs, and ideas, and designs, and stand-
ards, and ways of life to which adj ist-
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER—Dr W R Banks, president
ementus of Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical college
Prairie View Texas, shown above delivering the commencement
address at Jackson college. Jackson Miss. Seated left of speak-
er's chair. Jacob L. Reddix, president of Jackson college; right
of chair. Rev. A. Buxton Keeliqfg, pastor of St Marks Episcopal
churclj, Jackson (ANP) - r ,-
merits must be made
Right thinking people are still anxious
that it shall become more generally
ni/eri that just anybody who passes courses,
even in a teachers’ college, is not qualified
to instruct the youth.
Our thinking is not merely the result
of musing,in the ivory tower. It is
result of inferences drawn from conversa¬
tion v ith students from schools and col¬
leges, here and there. And yet we wish to
acknowledge that our schools are doing a
good job; that there ate many well
pared instructors in all of our schools, and
may their tribe increase.
) MIL <»■ O. 1. lit K it I
I We are happy also that the GOP conven¬
tion nominated Governor Dewey of New
York and Governor Warren of California to
head the Republican ticket in the
| presidential campaign. Everybody con
mles thal the ticket is the strongest
could have been named from among the
| foremost aspirants at the convention.
| believed from the start that Mr- Dewey
would receive the nomination. We do not
like Mir. Taft’s attitude toward civil
eights legislation. We believe he was
largely responsible for the
it policy of Congress in this regard. We
did not like his wooing of the South,
we are sure it was not calculated to win
the t sll mninm’l I ?P 01t ,,f ot the t he Megro Neirm vote vet,, nm that th-.f ot
their . . . liberal . white . . friends It did ] e
encouragement to those who have hopes
iTthe South'* hat' nvill''Mviu'st'as 'reaction-
p no * more so > than the majority of
wa» hai ’ (ll v a ”>'
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Nu Republican administration since that
ot Theodore Roosevelt has meant very
to 15,000,000 Negro citizens. 1 he
P r,, sent Republican controlled C ongress has
continued to re nder lip service with re¬
spert to the < lvil rights of Negroes, even
wpen a Democratic president has recom-.
mended the enactment of civil rights leg-
! slatlon - If it had possessed the courage
R could have in a measure discharged its
obligation to its Negro supporters who
Dave, through all the years, unfortunately.
<lu ng to it °"t of loyalty to the founder
the^party. 111 1 ongress Ineptly were apparently enough, hoping Republicans to
k'ain strength in the South by soft-pedal-
nl f- llvP rights legislation. They
*entirely to recognize that
a ,e 110 longer to be counted as in the
pra11 . Dag. I hey are as equally naive if
*Dey think any considerable portion of
F °uth will swallow their civil rights pro
IH’ara while, gagging at the civil rights
program of their own party. Is it to
expected that the Democrats, who have
lodged to walk out of their convention it
Afr. Pruman, or any one like is named, will
accept a Republican with the same civil
rights program? We don’t believe they
will even if certain reactionary newspapers
a i ( > urging that it is more important to
the South to throw off the yoke of the
national Democratic legislation. party, than it is to
defeat civil rights Mr. Dcw-
( .y\s record as an executive and an admin-
Jstrator holds out a promise of a brighter
day ahead for Negroes as well as to the na-
tion. We believe ho will be elected.
The nominating of Mr- Henry Wallace
to a P Iat ol ;° his »P-the comments South’s Hall Mr. of Infamy 1 In¬
cause on ruman s
worst congress pronouncement, suggests
that it will be worthwhile to look upon the
record of the Congress of which Thaddeus
Stevens was a leading member.
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Why do people curse? Is it because
they have so few words at their command?
Do they curse because they think it gives
them status, or because it makes them ap-
pear smart or grown up, or dangerous?
Which is it? It has been said that the
language of savages, and that of some
other tongues, possesses no curse words,
We do not know, but apparently the Eng-
lish language has made up for the lack of
other languages. Believe it or not, we have
some experts that can make the proverbial
sailor look like two cents. A
and disgusting use to which to put so noble
a thing as language-
WITH THE ARMY
IN JAPAN
Pfc. John W Farley and Pvt
Willie R. Seaborough, two Sa-
vannahiane, ure serving with
the U. S armed forces in Ja¬
pan. Both soldiers are with the
24th Infantry in Kobe, and are
serving as security guards. Pfc
Farley is the son of Mr. and
Mrs Farley of Ogeechee ave¬
nue and Pvt. Seaborough is the
sen of Mr. and Mrs G W. Sea-
borough. of 168 Randolph St
Both young men are former
Beach high school students.
Staff Sgt. Prince Johnsor
anl Pfc. Marion C Ralph, twe
Savannahians, are with the
army at Camp Gifu, Japan
They are serving with the 24th
Infantry, a part of the 25th In¬
fantry (Tropic Lightning) Di¬
vision.
Sgt. Johnson is the son of
Henry' Johnson of 449 Wilsor
street, and before entering the
army he attended St.
high school Pfc Ralph is the
son of Mrs. Ellen Ralph of 723
w. 42nd street. He is a grad-
uate of Suvler high school
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LTw** a I vALlxiy AFxti-
CA—Modern medicine is rapidly
replacing the witch doctor in
Siting the healtli standards oi
Allica - At lh c Medcal Research
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institute, Yaba, Nigeria, spec-
|ialists turn out vaccines against
smallpox ’ rab:es and yOlow fe-
ver > the three main epidemic
1 are pictures show,c * something
of the health program being
Top row, left: Public vacci
water inoculates baby at Lagos
Town council health
To End School Segregation
j ELKHART, Ind. (ANP)
in gat on in the grammar schools
'of Elkhart has been ended, tin
Elkhart city school , , , board , an-
this week. Negroes and
w hites will attend the same
| e ie men tax-y schools in Sept.m
ber.
The Jim crow South
school for Negro children
closed, the board said, and
the colored children will go tc
the Hawthorne grade school,
This action climaxed a drive
i
SECRET ARY REBUKES
CFFICERS FOR BIAS
i NEW YORK, June 17 —In
answer to the complaint lodg¬
ed by the National Association
for the Advancement of Color¬
ed People concerning discrimi¬
natory treatment of Negro of¬
ficers at Camp Campbell, Ky.,
Secretary of Lie Army Kenneth
C. Royall notified NAACP sec¬
retary Walter White this week
that the officers responsible
for the discrimination were in¬
formed of their violation of
Army regulations.
The NAACP complaint alleges
that Negro officers participat¬
ing in military maneuvers at
Camp Campbell were excluded
from the officers’ club An in¬
vestigation cf the treatment of
Negro officers at the camp
made by the Inspector General
j the reveeled that policies Department of
1 Army regarding the
non-discriminatory use of rec-
j rsational facilities on a post
did not receive the full com-
pliance of the commanding
general cf Camp Campbell or
the commanding general of
Task Force “Lucky.” These of
j ficers were clii/ected by the
Secretary of the Army to take
necessary action to assure full
compliance with army regula
! tiens which authorize the use
of any facility in any public
building by all military person-
nel on the post.
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HONORING MRS.
THO.MAS—The Home Demon-
stration Agents and officials of
the South Carolina Extension
Service. United State Depart-
ment Of Agriculture, honored
Mrs. Frances Thomas with a
testimonial luncheon for twen-
ty-eight years of successful
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
•<.»!<-, -nior tecunical ass.so-
ant supervises tubing of small-
pox vaccine beiore use; right
Physician opens sheep’s skull
in which the living v.ius of ra-
bies had been injected severa.
i days be.ore. the virus has
multiplied enormously within
j, hat time.
Middle row, left, smallpox on
m unvaccinated girl; right
successful vaccina ticn a
child.
Bottom row, left policeman
being inncculated against yel-
fever; middle, to
by the Leal NAACP branch tc
end the segregation. In a mass
m ? etin ? hpld ^ere recentl y
Miss Marian Wynn Perry ot
New York special counsel for
lhe NAACP, said that
was clinging to “just one effi-
cial shred of segregation, the
£ mth Sid- school.’’
she said that she heped the
situat'on would be worked
outside of court, but the
was prepared tc go to court if
the school board “was unable
I to find a solution.’’
BOY SCOUT NEWS
A representative number oi
Scorns was on hand to
their service at the dedication
of Carver Village Sunday
Scouts oi lrocp 47, S. L.
scoutmaster; 48, Will.am E
Wallace, scoutmaster, and 170
J. H. Vinson, scoutmaster-
Because cf the small percen¬
tage of scouts registered lor
summer camp at Camp O’Hara
it was announced that there
would be only one week cf
camp season, June 28-July 4.
Troop 43 will do its part a,
the eighth pastcial anniver-
ary of First African
church, July 12-18. Tuesday
July y3, Carl E. White, a
rank Scout, a patrol leader, and
a junior assistant scoutmastei
ol the troop, win bring greet¬
ings n behalf of the scouts of
Troop 48. J- S. Delaware, one
time scoutmaster of the troop
will preset the troop committee
and troop to the church, which
will in turn render a short pro¬
gram- Joseph B. Bowman, as¬
sistant scoutmaster, is expect¬
ed to present the troop’s dona¬
tion to Pastor R. M. Gilbert
Trcop 48 is sponsored by
church.
The July Court of Review
will take place Thursday, July
15, at 8 p. m at the West Broad
Street YMCA.
service as Home Demonstration
Agent of Richland
South Carolina.
J. - E. - Dickson. — Richland —......“
County Agricultural Agent
had worked with Mrs. Thomas
for 27 years, presented
with an orchid and spoke of
the cooperative spirit
uie rab.'is v , one, ocientfstt
inoculate the rabies virus intc
, the braln Qf sh whicb
a
animal emulsion’ is k-lled it."
nrovldp- p ° an an 11 fo
the inoculat.on. , The anima
under anesthetic, received th
virus directly into tills brad
through a small hole bored i
the skull. Right, fleck oi shee;
arriving af laboratory for us
in development of vacc'ne. Th
serum is made frem shee
lymph mixed with glycerine an
lanoline —(ANP).
ASM PROBE OF
MASKED MENS
INVASION
NEW YORK—An investigation
j into a recent mvas.on of a Girl _ ,
Scout national training ramr
in Alabama by masked mer
j vas requested this week by of¬
ficials of the Girl Scouts of the
United State-.
In a letter to Attorney ’en-
eral Tom C- Clark, Mrs. Paul
R-ttenhouse, national director
asked that the investtgation b
made on the gicunds of unlaw-
lul entry and search and th»t
if possible, members of the
masked and white robed grouy
be identified and brought tc
justice,
She added that the Girl Scout
! organization “believes that iU
program should be open to all
r i s an d, with the full support
j ar( ^ cooperation ot Southern
! members, is endeavoring to ex-
tend membership to the
race.”
The communication followed
invasion of Camp Pauline Bray
Fletcher in Bessemer, Ala., re¬
cently, when 12 masked white-
robed men searched white staft
members, Miss Elizabeth I jam;
and Miss Katrine Nickel, xt and ""
lheir per3ona i belor.girjis and
■ quarters. The men said they
were searching for ,‘hammer
j and sickle” cards and demand-
ed that the camp be closed in
i 24 . hours, because “folks
here don’t like Negroes and I j
whites living together.”
!
While the 12 hooded mer
searched, approximately 10P
other men waited on the camp
site-
The- course was closed next
day on the decision of the stu¬
dents.
Mrs. Rittenhouse’s lettei
pointed out that this action |
was taken after it was found
that the Jefferson county sher-
could supply only two dep-
uties for protection.
The national director pointed
out the training "camp courSe which
for Negro directors
and counselors was being con-
existed between them.
Complimentary remarks were
made by five agents who have
worked with her for twenty
years. T-ne agricultural agents 1
g j ve ^ Thomas a large tray
and the Home Demonstration
presented her a silver
pitcher - and tray. Miss ----------- Helen
Walker acted as toast-mistress.
! ducted according to Alabama
statutes, with the wh tc in¬
structors housed in the mair
led-ge, and the Negro executives
and students quartered in bar-
j racks some lGl yards away.
She asked the federal inves¬
tigation also on behalf of Mrs
C. Vaughn Ferguson, nationa
president, and Dr. Mary H. S
Hayes, chairman cf the nation¬
al executive committee.
Tabs To Present
City-Wide Tea
A city-wide silver tea will be
given by the Junior Advisory-
Board of the Recreation Center
37 th street and the C-geechee
road, Sundav, Julv 4. at 4 p. m
Mrs. R M. Gilbert, who har
lust finished a nation-wide
our, will be the speaker for
h" occasion, rnd a celecticr
'•11 rendered bv tbe S. D
'dvent.lgt choir. The following
■oune nooni" will nnpenr on the
vorram: M'ssor Alic° Freeman
■’•Vcca E iwards, Doris and
Worv Hn’sev, Irene Pe-lfieW
’uanita Moon and Barbara
Robeson: Messrs. John Bia~k-
henr, Harold Staley, Jonathan
' T ack, Samuel Dilwcrth James
7'Ly and sextette.
The publ’c is cordially in v it
°d. Clifford Hardwick, FI, Dres-
dont; Harold Staley, chairman
-f program, and Miss
’•Iclver, secretary.
yiRS. BURNEY BURIED
AT RIDGELAND
Friends of Mrs. Willie Grant
B irney were shocked to learn
f her death which occurred
suddenly last Friday about 6
>. m. at her residence, 928 W
37th street. Her funeral was
held Monday afternoon from St
Matthew’s Episcopal church '
Father Gustave H. Caution con¬
ducting the services. Interment
was at Ridgeland, S. C. Mrs.
Burney is survived by her hus¬
band, J B Burney ; her mother,
Mrs. Charlotte M. Grant; a sis¬
ter, Mrs. Emily Sawyer; a bro¬
ther, Albert Grant, of New York;
a nephew, Leon Grant, and oth¬
er relatives- The funeral was
;n charge of Monroe, Funeral
Directors-
u/ ALI i f Tirp LK U/EJtTi* till L
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SCORES CONGRESS
Kansas City, Mo- June 27—
The 80th Congress was today
r-rnseb bv Walter White, N. A.
A- C. P. Secretary, of “playing
cheap and partisan politics with
almost total contempt for the
welfare either of America or
the world.” Mr. White
this charge in the closing ad¬
dress of the Association’s
annual conference here.
The NIAAC’P; secretary re¬
viewed the failure of Congress
item by item and concluded that
iV ^'' American people themselves
had to share the blame o
this record because of their
failure to go to the polls in 1946
irf sufficient numbers to as¬
sure the election of a progres¬
sive Congress.
“•he major job ahead for
intelligent Americans is the
wise, critical and non-partisan
use of the ballot to stop the
paralyzing trend toward reac-
tion in the United States to¬
day.! In 1946 many of you in
this audience did not take the
trouble to register and vote. In
this apathy, you were joined by
many others in organized labor
the church and other groups.
was the result? The
election of the most ineffective,
Congress. ’ particularly with
re-
spect to human rights, in the;
history of America.”
The ineffectiveness 'Of Con-
gress, he said, was demonstrat-
ed not alone its failure to
pass civil rights legislation but
also by its neglect of the press-
ing country’s housing needs,
! the failure to curb inflation.
its denial of opportunity to
the dispossessed to Europe and
its thwarted attack upon basic
civil liberties.
The failure of Congress and
the administration to take ef¬
fective measures against the
racial disaj'xilities confronting
the Negro in, America today has
stimulated, among certain Ne¬
gro citizens, an enthusiasm
for the Third Party. “The
support of Henry Wallace, par¬
ticularly among Negroes, is sig¬
nificant chiefly in its reflection
of despair and disgust with the
two major parties- This, de
spite the fact that Henry Wal¬
lace's brave words against dis.
crimination tend to obscure his
almost total failure and even
rehisa' to do anythin- about
segregation m* and discrimination
the nation's capital reveals
that the departments he head-
VU e d are Ol V among the worst in
Washington.” ill L* . ftS •
THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1948
RETIRE D—Mrs Zelia N.
Breaux, who for 50 years has
been, actively engaged in music
instruction in the G dahotna
ichcol system, was recently re-
ired from her 30 year post as
dre;tor ol music in Oklahoma
City schools. The daughter
of tbe late Dr. Inme.i E Page,
for many year.i presiJpnt of
Langston university and still
later principal of Douglgs Hi;h
school- Oklahoma City, Mrs.
Breaux began hen teaching
ateer as an assistant instruc¬
tor at tingsto-* University,
when she was 18 years of age.
Last year she was named out-
woman by the Osla-
homa City Negro Chamber of
•ommerce, and won the Zola
Phi Beta sorority “Finer Wo¬
manhood” award in 1941 (ANP)
Co n > stone laid for §300,000
Payne Seminary Building
WILBERP GxlCE, CHIO— Bish¬
op John A Gregg, chairman of
the Payne Theological Seminary
bca/d and presiding bishop of
the AME Florida district, gave
recently the principal address
at cornerstone lading ceremo-
nies for the sem 5 nary’s new ad-
miniatration building at Wil-
berforce university.
CLner speakers were Bishop
A. J. Alien cf Cleveland, chair¬
man of the university board of
trustees; B’shop R- C. Ransom,
Wilberforce, recently resigned
board chairman; Bshops S- L.
Greene and D. Ward Nichols.
Construction of the new
building was begun recently in
connection with the buildi/^pro- seminary’s
proposed $300,000
gram.
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O. K.'tl FOR LIBERIAN
STUDY -Dr. Jacob L. Reddix,
president of Jackson lege,
recently won
’' ae a PProval of the state board
of trustees of institu of
higher learning for a of
absence to take up a pfielps-
Stokes fund invitation to s’udv
possibilities of developing an
effective program of rural cd-
ucation and teacher training
in the Republic of Liberia-
Scheduled to leave the U. S
about Nov. l with his fan ily.
Dr. Reddix will make his head¬
quarters at Booker Washing-
ton Institute- Kakata, Liberia.
where he will remain until
about the first of May, 1949.
He will also act as consultant
to the institution an dinvesti-
gate possibilities of developing
a program of farm anti eoin-
munity cooperative societies.
(ANP)
CDG HOLD MASS
MEETING ON
WEDNESDAY >
The Citizens Democratic!club
w ni have a mi ,s meeting on
Wednesday night, July 7, at 8
o’clock at Second Evergreen
Baptist church, East Duffy St
There will be a number of
- , l speakers. The gen-
eraI pubIiC 16 invited. John W
McGlockton is president and
Dea. John Mines chairman of
program committee.