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“Freedom is everybody’s job, We must
help to save it by becoming informed
voters. .
“There is need in a democracy for ar¬
dent defense of the local government
against the growing sweep tif national
influence. But states rights carries the
responsibility for doing justice accord¬
ing to the democratic dogma. And the
only defense of local government against
federal government is not the Constitu¬
tion. but the capacity and the will¬
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ingness to look after human well being
in a given area in so good a fashion that
no one would dare suggest the need of
outside interference. Civil rights foi>
all men is an American obligation to
mankind . . We can not deny to any
American his basic civil rights and ev¬
ery Southern politician knows that . . .
And it is only a question of a job to be
done. The true believer in states
rights can help his cause more by see¬
ing to it that his state lives up to its
highest obligations to all of its people,
than by all the protest and fear he may
stir in the people.” University
—Avery Craven, Atlanta
Phylon
A MUST JOB
Wc make no apologies for repeating
something we have mentioned several
times before. We can think of nothing
else more important to our political fu¬
ture, and yet we are anxious because it
appears our leaders are either apathetic
about this matter or they do not consid¬
er it important. registration
Two years ago when our
in this county was increased to the sur¬
prising total of 20,000, we called atten¬
tion to the tremendous responsibility
that was thrust upon all who claimed
any part in encouraging Negroes to reg¬
ister ; we called attention to the fact
that so many new voters would be ripe
pickings for venal and designing politi¬
cians; we suspected that many ot them
would need nursing to keep them inter¬
ested enough in the new citizenship
status to maintain it by voting every
time they had the opportunity to do so,
by becoming well informed in the rudi¬
ments of political literacy, by resisting
the influence of self-seeking, opportun¬
istic political novices. hat has
We are not very happy over \\
happened to date. That is to say, so tar
as participating sufficiently in elections
is concerned. At the most, hardly more
than fifty per cent of those entitled to
vote did so. Participation dropped low
as twenty-five per cent. The chief rea¬
son for this lack of participation is lack
of information as to d e m o c r a t i c
ideals, and a lack of appreciation ol the
value of voting as a right, a privilege,
a duty, and a power. THERE IS GRAVE
DANGER THAT MORE TUAN 10.000
OF THE NUMBER WE COUNTED a
year ago MAY RE TAKEN FROM THE
LIST of voters. In this situation, we
believe it is the duty of Negroes to set
up classes for receiving instructions in
the rudiments of citizenship. Every
church, every society, every club, every
P.-T. A. organization should give as much
time to such a movement as its import¬
ance requires. For those who can read,
a first study should be the Constitution
of the United States. In view of the
fact that a new law may require that
one should be able to explain a section
of the Constitution in order to register,
this would seem to be a very much de¬
sired ability to acquire. At any rate,
it seems that anyone who is really in¬
terested in helping their race to achieve
first class citizenship will give unstint¬
edly of his time bo make his fellow cit¬
izens politically literate. As a matter
of fact it is a MUST that Negroes shall
become more literate in order to become
acceptable citizens.
BOLE DO STIRS
Boledo doesn’t “die dead” because the
very people who are the worst suffer¬
ers are its best customers who do their
utmost to conceal it. The Grapevine had
AFL WILL FIGHT
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. — In
reply to a letter from A Philip
Randolph, international presi¬
dent of the Brotherhood of
leeping Car -Porters, which
ur^ed William Green, president
ot the American Federation
of Labor, to support President
Truman's civil rigiits program,
AFI-'s William Green sent the
Entered as Second Class Matter at the
office at Savannah, Ga. under the Act of
March 3 1879
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it over last week end that boledo tickets
are not difficult to get. We are inclin¬
ed to believe the Grapevine since an al¬
leged vender of tickets turned up in Po¬
lice Court last week. It appears that
there were no identifying marks on
the tickets, and the vender (seemed to
have been guilty of nothing more than
having tickets in his possession. odds
It seems strange that the great
against the victims are powerless to make
them turn against the game which they
cannot beat; which leaves them without
bread for their children, without money
for their insurance; which often is the
cause of domestic friction; but which
enriches the man or men at the top who
own the business and who live "like lords
on the fat of the land at the expense
of many barefooted children, and thrift¬
less parents. Boledo should not thrive,
should not exist in Savannah, if decent
citizens mean to keep it from thriving.
The Grapevine says it is stirring on
West Broad Street. It knows.
ONE STEP
No matter how it ends, it appears now
that at least the National Democratic-
Party has eliminated one of the barriers
to progressive and liberal legislation.
The power of the Rules Committee of
Congress has been so restricted that it
will be easy for the committee to re¬
port out bills without having to secure
218 signatures as has been the case lor
the past thirty-seven years. This re¬
stricting of the Rules Committee does
not necessarily mean that all of the
President’s recommendations will pass,
particularly all or most of the provisions
of the Civil Rights program, but it does
mean one hurdle has been negotiated.
It encourages the hope that the people
of the United States, through their rep¬
resentatives in Congress, have realized
that America cannot maintain its posi¬
tion in world leadership, under the aegis
of democracy, without actually showing
the peoples of the world that it prac¬
tices what it preaches—that democracy
works.
We hope fervently that the Adminis-
tiation will have equal success in rel¬
egating to “inocuous desuetude” that
parliamentary infamy, the filibuster,
the redoubt behind which opponents of
human rights have launched their of¬
fensives, and subjected the Congress to
ridicule by other dignified nations.
The Republicans who lined up with
loyal Democrats in limiting the power of
the Rules Committee, deserve the com¬
mendation of the nation. They have
shown that there is a disposition among
politicians to leave party lines when in¬
controvertible issues are at stake: world
peace, human welfare, human rights, the
preservation of the democratic ideal, us
a philosophy of life and government.
DON'T QUIBBLE
Lynching is wrong and so is gangster
murder. It is insincere to split hairs
as to the definition of lynching. Every
honest man knows there is a difference
between lynching in the South and gang¬
ster murder in the North. The motives
are different. The gangster warfare is
an affair between rival groups. It is
usually a fight for control of some line
of illegitimate business, or a fight for il¬
legitimate management of business
Italians, or Sicilians, or other lawless el¬
ements of the population contending for
control, produce the gangster murders.
There is no such line up between South-
thern whites and Negroes; there is no
such conflict. Lynchings have not
grown out of aggressive acts by Negroes.
Available information shows that Ne¬
groes have been beaten or lynched for no
reason at all, or may be for not answer¬
ing, “yes, sir” to a white man. or for at¬
tempting to exercise their citizenship.
Tuskegee Institute is taken to task
for not considering gangster murders
and lynching as of the same category.
A definition is too small a matter to
hide behind when human life is concern¬
ed. The Atlanta Constitution does not
try to. Mr. McGill says, Georgians win
be responsible for it, if an anti-lynching
bill is passed by the Congress.
following letter to Mr. Ran-
dolph:
“I acknowledge receipt of
""our”' kT dated December 17
No arrangements have been
made for the American Feder¬
ation of Labor and CIO coali¬
tion on the Taft-Hartley Act.
The legislative program of the
American Federation of Labor
was outlined at the Cincinnati
Convention, There was includ¬
ed in that program endorse-
of President Truman's
civil rights program and the
opposition of the American
Federation of Labor to race
discrimination of any kind
whatsoever It is our purpose
to support fair employment
practice legislation.
tax. anti-lynch and anti-jim
crow legislation. You may
upon us to support this
without modification
ever.”
THE SAVANNAH TR/BUN1
cJdeep ^That
By George Matthew Adams
Now that we have a New Year to
handle, what better plan than to arrange
to keep that business desk clean from
day to day. By leaving it thus, as the
day is over, there will be a freshness of
effort each morning, and there will be
zest to every plan and action,
lie who accomplishes most, does so by
cleaning up as he goes—leaving noth¬
ing behind that may cause confusion or
worry at a future time. We know that
we have so much time, and by careful
planning we can so divide our work as
to make it a joy and not a hindrance.
With a desk piled high with unfinish¬
ed business, many things are sure to be
neglected—or forgotten. Then worry
enters, and there is confusion. Keep
that desk clean. Every executive has
learned the value of the clean desk, and
adheres to it. Plan and system are ev¬
erything. The worker who keeps his
desk clean accomplishes the most.
And what applies to thhe business
man applies to each one of us in all our
work of life. It does not pay to leave
ragged edges behind. It does not pay
to neglect and put off. Thoroughness
is an art that pays dividends all through
life. The opposite irritates the nurves
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BETWEEN THE LINES
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By IK-an Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
CHRISTMAS A GLIMPSE OF GLORii’
It takes no seer or sage to appreciate the
fact that humans have come far short of
some biessed estate. Mankind in no age
has lived up to its possibilities. We have
lived as humankind rather unfortunately,
and I am becoming mere and more convinc¬
ed that we are what we are in spite of our
efforts rather than by reason, of them-
Brother William Shakespeare was com¬
ing pretty close to the truth when he said
that there is a Divinity that shapes our
ends, rough-hew them how we will. The
guidance of this Divinity explains more
than anything else the life of the living, the
fortunes of the fortunate and the happiness
of the happy. Before God and before na¬
ture, we all have sinned and come short of
some blessed state; and it was some over¬
ruling mercy that bade our golden moments
to roll on.
Someone lias said that economics is a
dismal science, and this could with equal
truth be said of history, whose myriad ton¬
gues tell a sickening story in the rise and
iall of nations and the ups and downs of
mortals with their swift change of fortunes.
The pages of history are darkened by man’s
inhumanity to man as the Bard of Afton
told in plaintive tones. Greed and gain
still possess the hearts of men and the
hearts of nations-
That loud voice we hear in the market
places of the ages, is the voice of mammon
crying for the sordid things that may fill
for the moment, but canj never satisfy the
deeper longings of the human heart. One
of the higher provinces of God’s power,
and wisdom is exemplified in the lack of
Satisfactions which accompany material
pursuits; in the insufficiencies related to
knowledge which stops short of faith in
God; in the decree that nothing is settled
until it is se’tled right; in the hunger and
longing for some Promised Land where the
spirits of men may be made perfect and
where the wicked shall cease from troubling
aild the weary soul shall be at rest.
it was a great blessing of the Divine
plan that decreed earth shall be no resting
place and that the thither calls of the
Thither Lands are ever ringing in the souls
of men. It is a mean and foul design of
worldly mem that they would dismiss as
non-essential the lure of some Great Be¬
yond.
The claim Is most blatantly made by
blatant men that preaching should be cen¬
tered only on the here and not the Here¬
after; and so it has become fashionable to
dismiss from our sermonic discourses allus¬
ions to Heaven and the hereafter. And
this in spite of the fact that the peoples of
the earth who live are but a handful as
compared to Che millions that slumber in
earth’s bosom, as was told by William Cul¬
len Bryant-
The real fact of life is. we live this life
to better advantage when we live it in ref¬
erence to life hereafter. The poor mortal
who concentrates only on this lite fails in-
and brings on worry.
There is no better time than during
the inception of a New Year to put one’s
house in order and make plans for ac¬
complishing more with the least friction.
An organized mind can do wonders!
Self encouragement is the best encour¬
agement—and this comes about every
time that a task is done in an orderly
manner.
The clean desk stimulates incentive.
It makes opportunity look big. Details
scamper from such a desk, swept clean
by .systematic action that makes big
things possible. Big men insist upon
a clean desk so that there may be "room
to handle bigger and bigger things.
I used to know a visited. prominent His man, desk
whose office I often
was piled high with all sorts of things.
Knowing me very well, he used to ask
my advice about certain things, and 1
would write and answer him. Then in
a few weeks he would ask the same
thing, again! He never knew where to
find things. They kept hiding under
a fresh batch of mail or papers.
Keep that office desk clean, and that
mind of yours, as well, and you will go
far. It is a law of nature and of life.
It makes happy New Year’s happier!
gloriously to grasp this life in its fullness.
As Paul said, if in this life only we have
hope, we are of all men most miserable!
Christmas teaches that Jesus came to
earth; and Easter teaches that Jesus left
the earth as mysteriously as he came. We
are tcld that when Jesus arrived in Bethle¬
hem, his arrival was attested oy the angels
and the Heavenly hosts and that there was
great joy. The holy episode hardly does
more than to give unto mortals a glimpse
of the glory that surrounds His advent,
whether into the world or into some lowly
human heart.
It. can hardly be imagined that mortals
can withstaiyl the glory of God in its innef-
fable effulgence- Even as the Israelites who
shrank at the foot of Sinai, unable to be¬
hold the glory of God that lingered upon its
smoking summits, so we poor mortals can¬
not comtain m reality or imagination, the
glory of God or the glory of the God-filled
man. We are treated at Christmas to a
mere glimpse of the blessedness and the
glory of the reign of the Son of God.
Tire Christmas spirit is but a glimpse
of Christ glorified in human life. The out¬
going of human hearts at Christmas time is
a projection of am age that is on the way!
Christmas is not in our conditions, but in
our spirits; it is a glimpse of glory that
comes with the advent of Christ!
“THEN AND NOW”
(By John Henrik Clarke iov ANP)
When I was a little boy,
About half past three,
All the world was a garden to me,
Rain and other things from the sky
Was the grace of God passing by . . .
But now, I bow my head anti sigh,
As bombs fall and babies cry,
In a world wreathed in wild confusion,
I have lost every trace of my beautiful il¬
lusion-
(By William Henry Huff for ANP)
I’d rather with a pleasant voice
From deep within confess
How much it makes me to rejoice
at every one’s success.
The seed of envy never can
Find lodgement in my heart;
And how I wish that every man
W'ould say to it, “Depart.”
SENTENCE SERMONS
Men who know not how to choose will
pass up gold for a brittle of booze.
Sine men are so physically weak they
can hardly move, but can always find a
way to keep up with race horses.
One man won’t let another cheat him,
if he knows it; but too often they cheat
themselves.
If men. lived by the desire only to be
honest and true, then heartaches and trials
in this woi^ri w’ould be light and few.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1049
home education
By George F. McCray or _ A ^____________
Ladies First
Mary Starkey
“The Child’s First School is
the Family"—Froebel”
Issued by the National Kiigf-
dergarten Association, 8 West
40:h street, New York city.
These articles are appearing in
our columns weekly.
Two aunts had arranged to
meet in the Children’s Wear
Department to pick out a suit¬
able present for their latest
niece
Aunt Janet was there first
She was tired of standing
around by the time Aunt Sarah
appeared. “I was beginning to
think you weren’t coming,
dear,’ she complained.
“I’m sorry I’m late; the bus
was held up. Isn’t it warm up
here? Oh, see those children
at the water cooler.”
“Yes- Come over here and
look at the cute bonnets. It’s
easy to be a pretty baby when
there are bonnets Lke these to
wear. Now, which would you
think—the pink or the whjte?”
“Let’s take the pink,” said
Aunt Sarah. “I’m sure Mary
will be pleased. It would be
nice to get her a pretty dress
to go with it, wouldn’t it? But
before we look at dresses, come
on over and get a drink of wa¬
ter.”
A small boy aujd girl with
their mothers were walking to-
wards the water cooler from ei¬
ther side, as the aunts ap¬
proached Each mother had a
cup ready.
“Now, Joan,” said the girl’s
mother, “let the little boy go
first. He is younger than you,
and ycu can easily wait.”
“Gh no,” said the other mo¬
ther, “David knows that little
girls always come first. Thank
you very much.”
David waited politely and
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THE ROAD TO HEALTH
HOLIDAY MISHAPS
By C. L. Hawkins, M. D
Denver, ■ Colo.
The Christmas-New Year
season is apt to be a busy time
for doctors. There are severe
cclds, sore throats, sick stom¬
achs and various accidents with
new Christmas toys-
A few years ago, the Stone
family in the town where I liv¬
ed had onp of the most hap¬
less Christmas holidays they
had ever known—and the sad
part about it was most of their
misfortunes could have been
avoided.
First, Mrs. Stone caught
pneumonia and had to go to
the hospital the week before
Christmas. I discovered later
that she had become complete¬
ly run down from the rush of
Christmas preparations. She
had skipped meals because she
was busy, had sat up late each
night making gifts, had neg¬
lected to dress properly against
the stormy weather when she
shopped and, finally, had fail¬
ed to take care of a bad cold.
Her husband, Paul cut his
foot severely when the handle
of the old axe he was using to
chop wood flew off- When I
got to his home right after the
“ c nSrth« r £Ta/r,„™ ,Le.
UK- handle ol the axe „
but that he didn’t want
take the time out to fix it.
With Mrs. Stone in the hos-
pital and Paul laid up, that left,
Bobby Stone, their oldest
to finish up the Christmas
preparations. Then he, to get
at the Christmas tree decora-
tions on a high shelf, "placed
one chair on top of
climbed to the top of the make-
shift “ladder,” lost his balance :
and fell, breaking his arm.
Mrs. Stone’s sister was sum-
moned from a neighboring
quietly until Joan’s mother had
filled her cup-
“You go now, Boy, said
Aupi Sarah, who had over¬
heard. whispered
“Another chance,’
David’s mother smiling"^t Min¬
in won’t mind waiting an¬
other minute for both of you,”
said David quite sincerely.
Without muyh more ado,
Aunt Sarah reached for two
paper cups, and as she and
Aunt Janet s : pped the .cool, re-
freshirjj water both beamed
kindly cn the boy and- his mo¬
ther.
‘ David and I think that girls
and ladies should always come
first,” the mother explained.
bless your 1 hearts,”
“Well,
said Aunt Sarah warmly-
And Aunt Janet, looking at
■he boy, added, “In a day when
so maiy young people ignore
old ladies, it is nice to meet a
boy like you, David.”
“To have seen kindergartens
operating under the guidance
of excellent teachers is to re¬
move all doubt of their efficacy.
To compare these children who
nave come through kindergar-
en with those who have not,
as they grade start program, on their furll.bP regulajA
first
jstablishes proof of this. These
are their primitive years, and
d may very likely be that much
opportur f ty has been lost even
before these children reach the
I kindergarten age.” — Arthur H.
filing, Supt of schools, Man¬
chester, Conn-
Why allow the children of
your community to be deprived
of the advantages of kinder¬
garten experiences, under a
trained kindergartener/ in the
public school? The National
Kindergarten Association, 8
West 40th street, New .York 13,
N. Y., will be glad tc furnish
adv.ee and free literature on
the subject.
town to take care of the baby,
but it was a sad Christmas icr
the Slone family-
Thousands of accidents, many
of them very serious and some
of them fatal, could be avoid¬
ed if we would remember the
c d maxim, “The mere haste,
the less speed,” People grow
more careless during busy hol¬
iday limes, when they are ex¬
cited or pressed for time.
Certainly no doctor would
advise anyone to be tdo appre¬
hensive about health or avoid¬
ing accidents, especially, around
Christmas and the New Year,
when happiness and good times
are, and should be, ii* the fore¬
ground.
But we can better insure full
enjoyment cf the holidays and
the days following them by
using a little ■ common sense
and taking fewer chances.
(This article is co-sponsored
by the National Medical Asso¬
ciation and the National Tu¬
berculosis Association m the in¬
terest of better health of the
people.
new Officers for
BRICKLAYERS LOCAL
The Bricklayers Local No. 1
met at the Labor Temple \vT/ ilr
Bu.urtesi, cf importance
discussed and new officers for
the com.ng year were appoint¬
ed as follows; J. a Jones, pres¬
ident; Geo. B. Jones, financial
secretary; F- Bivens, corres¬
ponding secretary; Leo Stiles,
treasurer; Frank Barnes, dep¬
uty and business agent; Wm.
Davenport, alternate. r
fifty years ago
files -- - - ' 23
of The Savannah
Tribune
DECEMBER SI, 1898
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nr p", r wT t! Bu SS entertain¬
ed Capt. Floyd of the of Duunl-
less of Cuba fame,
Allen Yancey of Cape Palmas
West Coast, Liberia Africa,
*872 "as in the city. He’ " left in
for that place He was
formerly 0 f Sparta, Ga
celebrated Emancipation Day is being
today,
D.-sVerney c. Robertson died
a - Ardmore. Indian Territory,
27 Formerly of Charies-
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