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THE BOSWELL AMENDMENT
The Boswell Amendment of Alabama
is the latest word in the devices to keep
Negroes from the polls, unless Georgia
can go Alabama one better in the hon¬
orable (?) pastime of repudiating de¬
mocracy. It requires a lot of ingenuity
to find a just way of denying to citi¬
zens the rights they are entitled to un¬
der the law of the land and in accord¬
ance with the genius of democracy.
The governor of Georgia says the de¬
cision of a Federal Court against the
Boswell Amendment will not aflcct
Georgia’s plan to “curb the vote of Ne¬
groes.” Those who are charged with
the job of writing the Georgia law say
they will omit any mention of race or
color, and thus avoid conflict with the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Of course, it is obvious to everybody,
- and certainly will be to a Federal Court,
that the desire to keep Negroes from
voting is the sole reason for passing
such a law. Who else would be affect¬
ed by the “grandfather” provision of
the proposed legislation? called attention to
We have previously proposed legislation in¬
reasons why the
cludes features which promise to restrict
the liberties of others as well as of Ne¬
groes. Court in speaking of the
The Federal understand
requirement, to “be able to
and explain the federal (onstitution to
the satisfaction of count/ registrars,”
said that the Boswell Amendment failed
to “call for a simple, fair and reasonable
understanding. It does not give any
rule, guide or test as to the nature of
the understanding or explanation that is
required.” It does not take Federal
Court Judges to point out this weakness
in a prospective law which tries to evade
justice. that Georgia legislators are
The fact educa¬
divided as to just how rigid the
tional qualifications they intend to pro¬
pose, should be', and the fact that there
is no little sentiment in favor of quali¬
fications that will be equally and im¬
partially applied to all, encourage us to
feel that our law makers will pass a
registration law that will be just and
fair to all people, without regard to
race, creed, in 1 color.
THE EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS
The eightieth Congress, Republican
controlled, has gone into history wearing
the unenviable label placed upon it by
President Harry S. Truman, and the
eighty-first congress has taken over and
has about completed its organization.
Committees have been set up and aline-
ments as to certain important issues are
more or less predictable. Most of the
items in the administration’s program
stand a better than fair chance of being
passed. There is apt to be some logroll¬
ing which will affect the fate of the
civil rights legislation. Southern mem¬
bers of congress, who are opposed to
civil rights legislation will doubtless
seek to bargain with members of con¬
gress from other sections to defeat such
legislation. This will e s p e c i a 1 1 y be
true if the filibuster is knocked out.
The success of the administration in lim¬
iting the powers of the Rules ( ommit-
tee. and in increasing, the democratic
majority on the Foreign Relations Com¬
mittee, may be significant as to the
strength it may be able to command.
The attempt to outlaw the filibuster, or
apply the cloture rule in the Senate, will
be a real test of the administration’s
strength. If the filibuster is not out¬
lawed, there is little chance that civil
rights bills will be passed. tie-
If the Republicans are smart and
sire to atone for their derelictions of the
past, they will vote with loyal adminis¬
tration Democrats. This will be a
means of proving their sincerity in their
civil rights platform adopted at Phila¬
delphia. They w ill be joining in with
what appears to be gradually rising
SCHOOL CARRIES
NON-QUOTA POLICY
NEW YORK (ANP i —
policy of
which has been firmly
ed by Brandeis university,
new Jewista-sponsored
sectarian. institution at
ham, Mass., is hailed in
current issue of Look
out today.
Application forms will
tain no questions as to race
religion, no photographs
be required. The university
pledged never to adopt
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ident’s civil rights program, which will
have its effect on congress.
It will be recalled that in 1946 when
the Republicans took over, they talked
a great deal about adopting a cloture
rule, but they did nothing more. Their
failure to do anything about cloture is
of a piece with the sort of thinking
which has kept the party out of office
for the past sixteen years; which con¬
tributed to its rout in November. The
young Turks, the group of liberal Re¬
publicans who undertook unsuccessfully
to replace Mr. Taft as party leader in
the senate, may hold .the difference be¬
tween success and failure of the admin¬
istration to pass a cloture rule.
A GOOD CITY
Savannah received national notice
when her first Negro policemen were
appointed, not because she was the? first
southern city to do so, but because of
the events which led to the appointment.
Savannah was the first city in Georgia
to appoint Negro policemen which gave
us, Bavanriahlans, fin opportunity 'to
boast of another first.
While the appointment of Negro po¬
licemen was the most spectacular of the
achievements which add to the reasons
why we are proud of our city, it was
hardly more significant of the trend to¬
ward progress in an important social
area than the expansion in health fa¬
cilities for the protection of the citizens
of Savannah and Chatham county. We
have been so much taken up with poli¬
tics and its attendant distractions that
comparatively fwv< Savannahians havp
been aware that our Health Department
has achieved such national banking as
to make our city an accredited place to
which students in public health have
been assigned to do their field work;
that a public health worker has been
employed as a consultant for Savan¬
nah and Chatham county; that two
health inspectors have been added to the
Health Department, one in sanitation,
and the other in V. D. control: that a
dental clinic for school children has been
set up and is operated daily under thc.
management of a specially prepared den¬
tist and dental technician; and that an
additional baliff has been employed at
the Chatham County court house, and
two matrons have been appointed at the
city police barracks for the benefit of
women prisoners; and that the recrea¬
tion program for Negroes was expanded
and two Negro supervisors were appoint¬
ed to direct activities at a large com¬
munity center.
This record of achievement, may not
be unique in view of the rapid and gen¬
eral expansion in health services, and of
political innovations, but the spirit which
accompanied the introduction and main¬
tenance of these services is unique be¬
cause it is the legacy of the past from
a fine group of citizens, both white and
black.
To this record must be added the fine
accomplishments of Tuberculosis Asso¬
ciation, The Savannah Children’s Coun¬
cil, The Citizens Committee For Negro
Social Service, The Mental Hygiene So¬
ciety, The West Broad Street YMt A,
and Greenbriar Children’s Home, Inc.,
all of which are cooperative enterprises.
They are among the reasons why we,
Savannahians, are “crazy” about our
city. perfect
Oh no, it is by no means a
city. There are many things wrong
with it; lots of things we don’t like.
There is some reactionary sentiment
here. There are some “unregenerate re¬
actionaries” here, but there has never
been enough of it or them here to tol¬
erate a lynching. is definite trend
We believe there a
towards improvement in all the things
that make for better understanding
among the people in our community.
Our belief is sustained by our faith in
the ultimate triumph of right and jus¬
tice.
•‘queto” system limiting
enrollment of members of cer¬
tain racial or religious group-'
according to Look.
Not only Negro students,
also teachers will find
tunities at Brandeis, which
ready lists one
Daniel T- Skinner, among
taculty members, Mr.
a native of Boston and a
vard graduate, is a lecturer
Romance langugaes at the
university. His academic
ors include Phi Beta
and a Julius Rosenwald
lowship.
Before coming to Brandeis,
he taught at Virginia Stale
college hi Petersburg and Dil¬
lard university in New Or¬
leans. He served as a commis¬
sioned officer in the army in
World War U, rising from the
rank of private to second lieu¬
tenant.
Nomination for one of the
smartest operators in federal
service: good looking George
Holland, liaison representative
of the VA Holland is highly
respected by all of his
leagues, arid he really
VA law and stuff. a jm.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNB
SI hat IMo Odd merit
By George Matthew Adams
Many a great and useful idea has been
hatched in an odd moment—jotted down,
perhaps, and then fed and brought to
maturity. Robert Ixiuis Stevenson car-
ried a note-book with him everywhere
during his early years, and made note
of everything interesting. He later
wrote that he developed his style in this
manner as well.
Every one of our days has its odd mo¬
’ waiting in railroad sta¬
ments. While
tions, resting in a park, on trains, at
home when the serious work of the day
is over.
For years I have marked striking and
interesting lines in my books. At these
odd moments I pick them up and re¬
read these marked lines, and so am
helped to live a little anew from that
book. How many ideas and thoughts
come to us, from time to time, that we
just let float away—forgotten. But a
notebook in the l>ocket will help to pre¬
serve them, or enable us to develop them
into useful acts.
Even while walking on the street, or
when taking a stroll, thoughts come to
us that v.e may w r e!l write into a note¬
book. Usually these odd moments are
the most productive.
BETWEEN THE LINES.
By Dean Gordon li. Hancock lo r ANP
THE ANGLO-SAXON
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
li must be plain to even the casual ob¬
served that the Negro’s fortunes and fu¬
ture are inextricably Led In with the for¬
tunes and future of the nation arid world.
The Negro will go up or down with the na¬
tion and the nation will go up or down
with the world. Many of the solutions we
are straining to achieve for the race, are
bound up with world matters, which con¬
dition even personal matters in many in¬
stances. beyonp
It is just as well that we look
racial horizon and see the ominous
our apparently seem
meanings in events which
far removed from present and immediate
concern. Reference is made here to the pro-
po.;d Anglo-Saxon bloc which is tacitly de¬
termining world policy. Of course, Winston
Churchill in his Russo-phobia has .come
nearest to exposing the serious inten
Anglo-Saxon peoples to compose an
the would supplant
Anglo-Saxon bloc, which
the flagrant imperialism which has actuat¬
ed and motivated nation* since the historic
ages began. tacit Ang
The sooner the intent of this
lo-Saxon bloc is exposed, the better The
ties that bind this country and England are
not political and economic ties, but Anglo-
Saxon ties. These considerations largely
explain England's and Americas proposal to
up” on the Germans. They did it at
-case I to the undo¬
the conclusion of World War
ing of France, their gallant ally- Frencn
statesmen were stubborn in their opposition
“go-easbi-with-the-Germans” plans, and
to events have prov¬
what is more, subsequent repetition
ed them right and wise. But a
of the same betrayal is in the offmg.
Already the U. S. and England are try-
iir to “patch up” matters with Germany
in such fashion that Germany may stage a
hasty come-back. Russia, of course, stones
in the. way of such unhappy consummation,
but unless signs miscarry badly, England
and the U. S. are about to “forgive and
forget” the horrows and sorrows that Nazi
Germany loosed upon a hapless world. It
is difficult to understand how gallapt
France could be so wantonly sacrificed by
her wartime alies. But France is not an
integral part of the proposed Anglo-Saxon
bloc' In the final analysis, the impending
alignment of nations will include the U. S.,
fjagland, Germany, Scandinavia and The
Netherlands.
Political considerations may override
racial considerations immediately and tem¬
porarily, but the long-time plan involves an
AiT,lo-Saxon bloc which in its final ful¬
fillment means the more complete subju¬
gation of the non-Anglo-Saxon peoples, an
example of v.hich is vividly shown in the
Dutch designs and doings in Indonesia. This
flagrant imperialism is a pattern of the im¬
perialism that has characterized British co¬
lonial policy for centuries. United Nations
or no U. N., in the final analysis the Dutch
Emily wrote most
“Wuthering Heights” from notes that
she made at odd moments, and Elihu
Burritt, known as “the learned black¬
smith,” learned to write and to speak
a dozen and more languages as he pump¬
ed away at his forge. Those odd mo¬
ments became historic. Those were odd
moments that ole Walt Whitman took
over as he rode the Fifth Avenue buses
in New York and sat and talked with
people who rested with him in Central
Park. How much the world owes to
him for the thoughts that came to him
at such times!
One of these talks was written on
my first plane ride, out of Miami Flor¬
ida. For the first time I saw the sea
and the earth in a new light. It \nis
inspiring. And when 1 do not have my
notebook with me, i jot down every in¬
teresting thought or incident on papers
or letters that I am always carrying,
and later copy them for future use. In
so many ways we can take advantage of
our odd moments and make ttiem serve
our happiness and enrichment of mind.
1 believe it was during one of those
odd moments that Sir Isaac Newton dis¬
covered the law of gravitation as he
took a rest or nap under that apple tree!
BLOC
will get what they are a,ter in' the Pacific,
for it is an integral part of the policy of
the proposed Anglo-Saxon bloc.
Should this iniquitous organization be¬
come definitely fastened upon civilization,
the darker peoples of the earth are in for
some bitter experiences. With the atomic
bomb accessible, the bloc could easily com¬
pletely dominate the world for indefinite
centuries.
Today the greatest world stumbling
block is the facit Anglo-Saxon bloc! It
stands astride the path that leads to peace
and universal brotherhood, like an angel
with a flaming sword at the gates of the
(paradise of humanity'* ancient cU'eam of
peace one. earth and goodwill among men.
Just as England has for many centuries
justified her imperialism by rationalizing
her exploitations as being in the interest
of the lowly peoples, so could an Anglo-
Saxon bloc with equal facility justify its
practices and polioies, even though these
may make subject peoples creatures of ad¬
verse circumstances rather than citizens
with concurrent privileges and responsibili¬
ties.
It was the consciousness of the Anglo-
Saxon bloc possibilities that destroyed the
League of Nations. It is this same con¬
sciousness that is devitalizing our impera¬
tive and frantic efforts for peace! The ten¬
tative Anglo-Saxon bicc is the greatest
stumbling bloc to permanent peace in the
world.
THE BOAT ON WHICH WE LANDED
The old Mayflower was crowded,
I did not ride on it;
The ship I rode on was shrouded
With slaves down in the pit.
My ship was eften stranded
By slaves who jumped to drown,
And when at last it landed,
Nineteen it brought to town.
Its name was not “Mayflower”—
It was “Dutch Man of War”
Which ushered in the power
All honest folk abhor.
“NO TEARS”
By John Henrik Clarke for ANP
Shed no tears for the strong nations
Now crumbling . . .
Shout gleefully as they fall!
The next great glory will belong to the
people
Who have lived so long
Without any glory at all.
If men could only sense the Master’s wis¬
dom in His admonition of “prefering one
another” there would always be plenty of
everything good to go around to every man
and is brother.
But so few men learn to use horse-
sense and develop an honest heart, is the
’’asou why nations are so far apart.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949
HOME EDUCATION
PKEVENX.no
Mary Starck Kerr j
“The Child’s First School is ■
the Family”—Froebel | ‘
(Issued by the National Kin-
; dengarten Association, 8 West
140th street, New York city.
; These articles are appearing
j weekly in our columns.
“Did you see in the paper
chat hereafter judges are like¬
ly to 4iold parents, and even
outsiders, responsible for con¬
tributing to the delinquency of
minors?” asked Mr. Penman of
his wife.
“Yes,” she answered, "and I
think it is a step that should
have been taken long ago. Did
you notice, also, that they are
sending the parents of the de¬
linquent boys and girls to a
home-making school to learn
how to help their children?
That is a procedure that our I
club has been advocating for
some time.”
“Here is another suggestion,”
continued Mr. Penman, “It is
urged that child guidance les¬
sons be given to everyone.”
“That’s another prevision we
have often said should bo
made,” answered his wife
‘Very many of the mistakes
parents make come from lack |
of knowledge, and some come!
from an undeveloped sense of 1
responsibility. If all ycung
people had the benefit of a
wisely-conducted course n
child study, much would bo
gained.”
A few days later Mrs. Pen¬
man called her husband’s at¬
tention to a letter to the edi¬
tor in which a woman strongly
recommended that spanking
should be “frequently anil
powerfully” administered if
juvenile delinquency jvas to be
prevented.
“Now I know you will not
agree to that,” said Mr. Pen¬
man, after reading it. “She says
‘Spank them till they are fif¬
teen,” and she seems to think
that as a result, they will be
free from any thought toward
jtivenile delinquency forever
after.”
“It has always seemed to
me,” answered ' Mrs. Penman,
“that when spanking is re¬
sorted to there has been evi¬
dent failure on the part of the
LABOR VIEWS
By George F. McCray for ANP
Negro Labor Faces the New Year
The importance of the hap-
pening to Negro people all over
the world becomes clearer
when seen\ from the pcint of
view of the Negro worker. The
reason for this fact is the in¬
creasing dependence of white
capital upon Negro labor.
Nowhere in the U- S. is com¬
petition between Negro busi¬
ness and white business con¬
siderable. In Africa, white
business for over a generation
has been trying to destroy the
native African economic order
to force Negroes to work in the
mines, in the homes and on
the plantation of white set¬
tlers. The exploitation of Ne¬
gro labor is thus the key to an
understanding repressive meas¬
ures being adopted by the Na¬
tionalist government in the
Union of South Africa.
This same problem of how
to make the most profit out of
(Negro labor and extract the
maximum quantity of products
from African forests, soils, and
mines is the main idea behind
much of the so-called progres¬
sive reforms which Britain,
France and Belgium are put¬
ting into operation in the vast
area of West Africa.
Thus far the first time in
history vast sums of capital arc
being poured into the so-called
dark continent to build rail¬
roads, harbors, docks, power
dams, steel plants, irrigation
projects, plantations, new rail¬
roads aifd other communica¬
tion systems.
Last week it was announceu
that the British had discovered
a cure for sleeping sickness in
animals. This one deveop-
ment alone will change the en¬
tire future of Africa.
These deveopmertts need not be
looked upon as evil in them-
selves. Indeed they could aid
ihe rapid advance of Negro peo
pies to our rightful position be-
sides the other races of man-
kind. But we should not
lude ourselves. These things
o»»a.. a chUK
way to do a certain thii.fc.
j s true even when the
mid is so young that not all
the speaker’s words arc un-
Tiny children, I have
found will usually respond
when they are told what is
if the tone of voice is
but firm.”
“Can you give me an ex¬
said her husband. “I
t quite see how it can be
done.”
“You know hew little ones,
when beginning to use th,cir
hands, will commence patting
person’s face—softly—and
the pats get stronger, un¬
they become slaps and are
enough to hurt. If you
say to the child, ‘Pat
gently, darling—not too hatrd,
dear,’ and illustrate it bv pal-
the childs face, it brings
.. „
quick response. But the les-
may times have before to Is the repea child tjd
have grasped it.
“In many instances children,
punished because the par¬
ents do not understand them.
Do you remember when my
little nephew. Charlie, hcldiiC/ pull* s
hair while I was
him and telling his mothe her
a cute little boy I had
1
“Yes. I remember you '.old
about it a-terward, and the
reason for the hair-pulling
was, we decided, that Charlie
was jealous.”
“That’s right, and when I
to him that Auntie
could ieve another little boy
and still love her own little
nephew the best of all, there
ro more trouble. And he
was only eighteen months old
then. Watchfulness, Jove and
understanding are what a lit¬
tle child needs above all
things.”
“And when they are older,,
do you contend that they will
to that, kind of treat-
men 1 ?” probed Mr. Penman.
“Yes, provided the parents
grow up with the child.
Through the- years both will
have needed heavenly guid¬
ance. If this has been; realiz¬
ed, confidence will gradually
taken the place of close
watchfulness, until, in adoles-
cense, the confidence is com¬
plete.”
are not being done primarily
for our benefit ai%d only
through alertness and intelli¬
gent understanding of the sit-
nation and its dangers would
we be able to make the most of
errent efforts to “develop” Ne¬
gro labor and land resources.
These efforts to develop
such Negro lands as Africa, the
West Indies, and certain parts
of Central and South America
can proceed on two ideas con¬
cerning the Negro worker and
hence the Negro people gener¬
ally.
The idea prevailing in the
West Indies and in West Africa,
particularly In British West Af¬
rica, ,is that Negro peoples are
capable of assuming eventual!*''
full responsibility for both the*
political and economic manage
ment of the new life develop¬
ing under the new imperial¬
ism. From many points of
view this is indeed a break for
Negro peoples.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
Files of The Savannah
Tribune
fifty years ago )
Article on President Benj.
F. Allen of Lincoln Institute of
Jefferson City, Mo., inserted.
He_was a Savannah boy.
Abe Small was hung early
Friday morning. Be buried
Sunday morning from Rev.
Wilson’s church, Arnold St.
Annual meeting of trustees
of McKane Women and Chil¬
,
drens anil Training School for
Nurses takes place Monday af¬
ternoon.
The 111th anniversary of
the First Bryan Baptist church
begins Monday next
\ Annual meeting of the First
'Congregational ‘ church took
place Wednesday night Of the
only one survives