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SINCERE MISGIVINGS
Our misgivings as to what may hap-
pen to higher education for Negroes in
Georgia does not stem from a desire to
♦ be contentious. Because of the educa-
f tion.1l philosophy of the newly appointed
consultant to the Board of Regents, the
k outiook for the higher encouraging. education of The Ne-
f groes is anything but
I industrious effort of another ex-presi-
dent of a Negro college to create the
impression that he too will have a de-
termining influence upon the education
uur colleges will offer, does nothing to
l righten the outlook. found
I Both of these gentlemen have
' fault with the University System be-
‘ taken out of
I c ause it has allegedly teachings”
t our colleges “the practical living,
hv whic . h Negroes may make a
Fiind. Rrth have ‘.lust criticized' the thought Rosenwald that
why it is
f they can do a better job as ex-presidents
than they did as presiding heads oi co -
leges, puzzles us.
We could not consistently oppose hav-
t ing Negro consultants, and we would
not have the slightest objection to an
appointee whose ideas as .to the edu-
cation of Negroes and to their civil
r rights aspirations are not at variance
' with the desire and needs of Negroes
to be acceptable American citizens. And
we do not think of these needs as being
met by an unbalanced educational pro-
gram. ‘ We believe that Negroes need
everything any other American citizens
need, and we can not agree with anyone
or any plan that proposes to provide
less. We have reasons for fearing
that the realization of our hopes for
increased and equal educational facili-
ties may suffer a set-back as a result
of the appointment. Howard Odum, native Georgian,
I)r. practical
“distinguished for his calm and
approach to social problems," has pro-
posed a twenty-one point goal that should
challenge the South. We quote live
of the points: abide by the deci-
1. “First, to Supreme
sions of the United States
Court on these matters as on all
, )thers *,
2. “To accelerate the prevailing
Southern processes of improving race
relations and of increasing and equal-
iaing educational facilities for ^all
the people. (
3. provide professional . . and ,
To
higher graduate instruction lor qual-
ltied mdniduals of both tacos m te
„ same institutions.
!! .4. “To help all southerners see
the justice of today s normal wants
;;; of Negro people.” .
5. More specifically, to oon\oit
from segregation to non-segregation
in many practicable areas such as
transportation and other public
services.”
inertia and smugness ol <>tn cut-
. and educational leadeis regaids tu
ic as
what can and may happen to the high-
education of Negroes in Geoigia, maj
permit damaging adulterations to take
place which will require painful and ex-
pensive effort to get rid of. I he re-
guilts should be informed as to what
Negroes are thinking about this appoint-
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OUR NEGRO POLICEMEN
We are gratified that the vacancies
among our Negro policemen have been
filled with good men, we hope. We
realize the important responsibility
deal .more than making arrests. They
include as well ability and disposition
t» prevent disorder, to make peace. He
which rests upon a policeman. The
LABOR VIEWS
By George F. McCray for ANP
TRUMAN’S FOREIGN POLICY Ml) OR MIN¬
OR \NCE TO NEGRO RIGHTS
Persons close to the U. S. State department
Lave passed along the information that the de¬
partment had sound political reasons for exclud¬
ing Liberia and Ethiopia from the Marshall plan.
The Marshall Plan, I am informed, has the
sole purpose of aiding European recovery as
the first step in preventing the spread of Com¬
munism in Europe. The fact that most of the
world’s Negro population is in some way in¬
cluded in the plan results from the fact that
their political and economic affairs are controlled
by various European powers. For this same rea¬
son no independent Negro nation is included.
It should be stated in all fairness, that the
millions of Negroes in Africa and the West
Indies as well as those in the U. S. are under
the Marshall plan only indirectly and not neces¬
sarily for their own good. All of us are in the
plan primarily for the good, the comfort, the c<m-
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duties of a police officer include a great
can be a teacher and a social worker,
This conception of a policeman’s duties
will raise being a policeman to the rank
of a profession so that it will attract
of college training. If we are cor-
rectly informed, the pay of a policeman
in Savannah compares favorably with
that received by college men in some oth-
er employment opportunities. This
view, though somewhat ideal, does not
mean that qualifications other than
height, weight, Unemployment, and a
bully s disposition to exercise authority,
are n,,t desirable and necessary. We
know that applicants for membership
°» the police force are screened With
reasonable care, even if some men unsuit-
ed for the job get through. The fail-
ure of a Negro policeman to comply with
the rules and regulations of the depart-
ment, is made much of by the over-crit-
lca
We expect our policemen to be ex-
amples of good conduct whether on or off
duty. We know policemen need and
aro entitled to relaxation and recreation
.) ust as other people, but a proper sense
of the responsibility attaching to their
place as policemen, make drunkenness,
gambling, and rowdyism definitely off
limits for them. Also, unnecessary
roughness in dealing with offenders by
Negro officers is as reprehensible as
rough dealing on the part of white offi-
cers.
In short, above and beyond compli-
ance with the rules, is the duty of po¬
licemen to establish in the minds of peo-
pie, from the lowliest and youngest cit-
izens to the highest and eldest, that po-
licemen arel their friends and protectors,
and in many cases, their only contacts
w >th their government. Our officers,
especially, must demonstrate to the
community at large that Negroes can
make efficient and indespensablo serv-
ants of the public. The Tribune and all
tight thinking citizens expect . . . well,
urge them to do this.
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SPIRITUAL ARRIVING
T Back , . in . 1871 and 1872, the Fisk Ju-
bilee Singers fetched out of the dark and
almost hopeless days of slavery, the
songs which were the voices from the
souls of our enslaved ancestors. They
we e the prayers for deliverance from
the depths, which expressed their faith
in tl> day of jubilee . These singers
sang their way into the hearts and
pockets of the people of two continents,
antl built Jubilee Hall out of the pro-
ceeds which charmed and thrilled audi-
enees were glad to contribute.
The Jubilee Singers may have forseen
it, hut we doubt if the tested faith of
the composers of these songs could
have led them to believe that their
hearts’ outpouring would ever take place
among the great seasonal songs and
hymns of this dav. We have never ap-
,,, (H . ialed . unti j novv , the beauty and ap-
peal of the now famous, “Were You There
When They Crucified My Lord.” This
simple song had a prominent place on
Faster music programs along with “Ave
Maria” and the various alleluiahs. A
famous orchestra used several ppiritu-
als on its Faster program, “Were You
There" and “Lord I Want To Be A ( hris-
tian" were among them “He Never
Said ,A Mumblin’ Word” is sometimes
used at Faster time, and “Go Tel] It On
The Mountain” is used at Christmas
time, with effective Appropriateness
G. Robert Tipton savs, "These spiritu-
als are now a part of' our country’s her
itage, and will be sung by her' people
white or colored, for as long as they hon-
venience of the peoples of Europe. Responsible
officials in the various Marshall plan govern¬
ments have admitted this.
Does this mean that the Truman administra¬
tion is interested in Negroes and other dark-
skinned persons only to the extent that they can
be used for the benefit of white persons in
Europe? With reference to this (mint attention
is pointed to the fourth point of Mr. Truman’s
inaugural address.
The President stated in the now famous fourth
point that he was in favor of using American
technical knowledge, skills, and other resources
for the “improvement and growth of undeveloped
areas.”
Mr. Truman felt that the economic develop¬
ment of Latin America, the West Indies. Africa,
and vast lands in Asia would not only improve
the conditions of life for these millions of per¬
sons representing the great majority of man-
(Continued on page Six)
tTTE SAVANNAH TRTRITPQ
C l p!
By George Matthew Adams
Leonard Merrick once wrote a most
amusing nc ve{, entitled “Conrad in
Search of His Youth.” And this was
the conclusion: “The immortal truth was
clear to him, he had made his great dis¬
covery—that a man is young as often as
he falls in love!”
I thought about this line when I
contemplated a tribute to youth on its
idolatry of the great American pasttime.
Youth springs eternal in the hearts of
the .one who never gets too old to love
the thrills and glory attached to a good
baseball game. Ratter up—and that
first pitched hall—what a moment! There
are no “old” folks at a baseball game.
They are all youngsters!
Spring is hardly here in its full reign
until the first ball has been pitched in
this National game of ours. Increasing¬
ly does the popularity of this game
grow upon Americans, and each year
finds it appealing to others in many
parts of the world. “Batter up” in the
sand-lot area is quite as significant as
that call in any of our large ball parks.
These professional ball players are
skillful chaps and clean living. They have
to be this if they wish to remain in the
game. And many of our finest char¬
acters—and indeed many of our Ameii-
can heroes—are products of baseball.
1 recall how mv twin sister and myselt
anxiously awaited the arrival in our lit¬
tle Michigan town of “the new Profes¬
sor,” of w horn it was noised about that
he was “a great baseball,player.” Later
he became a United States Senator from
our state. I once visited him in his
office in Washington and we recalled
those early days. forever being test¬
Character itself is
ed and exemplified in this National game
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE DECLINE OF GREAT PREACHING
In August, 1947, 1 released to the National
Baptist Voice, organ of the National Baptist
convention lepresenting more than 4,000,000 Ne¬
gro Baptist communicants, an article entitled
“The Decline of Great Preaching.” The burden of
the article revolved around the possibility that
a too studied attempt was being made to in-
tellectualize the preaching of the gospel. It has
come about that even men of meagro training
are making attempts to he “scholarly” instead of
proclaiming, with all their hearts, the unsearch¬
able riches of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The position was taken that our too great
emphasis on scholarship was making of the
gospel only a tail to fly the kite of scholarship,
instead of making scholarship to tail to fly the
gospel kite. The appeal of the gospel as preached
and taught by Jesus Christ Himself was an
appeal to the heart and not the head. Whosoever
then attempts to “intelleetualize” the preaching
of the gospel to give it a head appeal instead
of a heart appeal for which it was designed from
the beginning, is guilty of prostituting a high
and holy privilege.
Theie is a place for scholarship but the pul¬
pit is not such place; for the simple reason
the masses of those who seek the selace of the
gospel are unlettered and to force upon them
abstract theological dissertations is to eventually
drive them to the eultist such as Father Divine,
Daddy Grace, Holy-Rollers and kindred cults.
In the article aforementioned we took serious
note of the attempts of too many men to preach
and leach at the same time, whereas either of
these callings would engage all of one’s powers.
It was pointed out that when a congregation
has a preacher-teacher for a pastor, it shirks
its duty by passing along to the school the re¬
sponsibility for the minister’s welfare, while
it takes life easy This is ruinous to the church
and the minister involved. Moreover, when a
man divides his energies he cannot do his best
in either field and the cause accordingly suf¬
fers. There is no more subtle handicap today
to the church than the teacher-preacher.
This writer has in preparation a companion
article to he released in the near future, when
issue will he taken with the subtle “Episcopaliani-
zarion” of the educated Negroes throughout the
nation. In our chapel services in all of our
schools, we have the services Episeopalianized to
a marked degree. This is as true of the state
supported schools as of the denominational
schools. I write without malice towards any de-
It is evident in nearly every game played.
Many a time a player risks injury in
order to complete a difficult, and often
dangerous, play. And what a sponta¬
neous roar of applause meets such a
display of courage and skill.
I am glad that we have a Hall of
Fame for these great of the baseball
diamond, at Coopers-town, New York.
It keeps the memory of these fine citi¬
zens green, and is an example to the
youth of the land to inspire them in all
their efforts toward excellence in sport.
There have been comedians among these
famous, as well. Many of us recall the
an^cs .of Hughie Jennings, once ; ’rom
Baltimore, I believe, and later ’with
the Detroit Tigers. He kept great
crowds in laughter—and inspired his
teammates to many a victory.
And there w’as little Johnnie Evers,
the second-base lieutenant of the Chica¬
go Cubs, who opposed all dullness
when he was in the game. He was
even the despair of Umpires, w’hose
judgment he so often contested. There
was also his teammate, rugged Frank
Chance, who generaled many a cham¬
pion team. And who can forget the
fine display of sportsmanship that was
always a part of the beloved Christy
Mathewson? And so long as the game
remains we can never forget the late
“Babe” Ruth, the fleet-footed Ty Cobb—
but why call the roll? Their records and
memory remain in the hearts of mil¬
lions of lovers of this incomparable
game.
Here we are again for another sea¬
son of happy rivalry and hotly contest¬
ed games. Long live this glorious
game! Batter up! The race is on!
nomination, for 1 have found out that it is not
the denomination but the individual that mat¬
ters most. But it is just as well for us to know
what we are doing.
The Negro youths who are being trained in the
institutions of the land are not going hack to the
Baptist and Methodist churches unless they are
drawn there by powerful preaching. In other
words, unless the Baptists in particular em¬
phasize powerful pleaching to over come the
Episcopaliartzation tliat is now going on, the
deterioration of the Baptist church is imminent.
The Baptist who sanctions the ritualistic and
liturgical services now universally prevalent in
our institutions of higher learning, and fails
to emphasize powerful gospel preaching, is un¬
dermining the very foundations upon which he
pretends to build. Unless powerful preaching ac¬
companies our present emphasis on ritualistic
services, Negro Baptists in particular are parties
to their own doing.
This writer has been waging a one-man cam¬
paign for more and more powerful preachers as
the one antidote for the mania everywhere too
prevalent for the learned Negroes to seek the
Episcopal or Presbyterian churches or even the
Catholic church. It is here contended that the
only way to counter this trend is to offer
a gospel menu of powerful preaching. Preach¬
ing will stem the tide that is flowing out of
the Baptist church at present towards other more
ritualistic faiths.
The “Week of Prayer” recently observed at
Virginia Union abundantly vindicates my thesis
that powerful preaching will attract educated
Negroes, Rev. Gardner Taylor, pastor of the
Great ( oncord Baptist church, of Brooklyn liter¬
ally set Virginia Union on gospel fire with a
species of powerful preaching that threw stu¬
dents and teachers into a panic of eagerness to
hear his powerful messages. It is going to
take such preaching to stem the tide* of Episco-
palianization that is rising in our higher in¬
stitutions of learning.
RACIAL PRIDE
By William HeViry Huff For ANP
I sat upon the grass with joy
And gazed into your eyes so blue,
Then wondered if it could be true
That you had strains of Negro blood.
But after all you boldly said
In tones so frank and unafraid
That you were Negroid and it made
You proud to have such noble blood.
THIltSBAY, APRIL 21 1449
HOME EDUCATION
TEACHING
Mabel-Rath Jackson
“The Child’s First Sr tool is the
Famly” — Froebel
(Issued by the National Kin-
dergarten Association, 8 W 40th
istreet, New York city. -These
I articles are appear^ weekly
in our Column*;, i
‘Mother,” gasped small Di¬
lane, coming in trom school,
"what do you think! There's a
new boy in our class, “dhe’s
„ d.fteren,!- «er
nose expressed scorn,
can’t talk toe way we do!”
“Is that so, dear?” Mrs.
Blake smoothed the wir.ri-
blown hair and wiped the
flushed face- “What is his
name?’’
“The teacher calls hurt Rah-
mone. Isn’t tnat a funny
name?”
Ramon, thought Mrs. Blake—
one of our Spanish-Amer.cans
She had heard that a If*
Mexican laborers, w.th their
families had been brought in¬
to town by a local contractor
She could see tne little bewild¬
ered boy, projected into an un¬
familiar environment; under¬
standing sympathy filled her
heart, as she pictured her own
child in a similar situation,
This would be a good time to
plant the seeds of tolerance in
Diane’s mind, she realized.
“It isn’t really funny, dear.
It’s just that you’re not used
to it. I think it’s rather pretty.
Don’t you think it sounds like
music?”
Diane laughed and murmur¬
ed, “Rah-mone, Rah-mone,” in
a sing-song way “It is rather
pretty," she admitted. “Rah-
mone has black hair, Mother,
and he smiles a lot. Some of
lue children made fun of him
and laughed at him.”
"But my little daughter
didn’t.” said Mrs. Blake; nev¬
ertheless. there was a note of
questioning in her tone
“Well—” Diane squirmed. “A
little bit. All of us did.”
“Suppose Daddy and you and
had to move to another coun-
ry and you had to go to school
300 Students Picket N. Y.
City
NEW YORK—(ANP)—The City
College of New York was the ob¬
ject of a mass student demonstra¬
tion, here last week which sought
to secure the ouster of two faculty
members chaigcd with practicing
anti-Semitism and racial discrimi¬
nation. The strike, in which 300
students figured as pickets, went
into an inactive phase last Wed¬
nesday after a three-day stint,
due to Easter and Jewish Holiday
vacation, hut was scheduled to be
resumed Tuesday.
Objects of the demonstration
are Prof. William E Knickerbock¬
er, chaiman of the romance lan¬
guage department, and William
C. Davis, economies instructor.
The students’ case against Knick¬
erbocker holds that he is anti-
Semetic, although the board of
higher, education ruled in 1947
that charges; of anti-Semitksm
against him had not been proved.
Davis, formerly assistant to the
president of the college, quit his
post last year when a faculty
board accused him of
segregation by separating Negro
and white residents in Army hall
He. however, remained, on at the
institution as economics instruc¬
tor.
The first day of striking wa
characterized by a violent clasl
between students and police on thi
campus, in which 17 student picket:
were arrested. Since then activity
has been peaceful. A student dele
gation visited Mayor William
O’Dwyer’s office on the secon
day to ask his aid in forcing the
suspension and public trial of th<
two faculty members. The mayo-
refused to see the delegation an
it left a list of grievances with
his secretary. Later, the mayor
announced that he would not in
tervene in the matter.
While he declined to make any
suggestions to the board of high
eredueation on what course t<
take, he did say, “If I were ot
the hoard, any person chargei
with bigotry would be given :
fair trial and if found guilty
would be kicked out.”
He added that he would ’’insis’
on conducting that system in ai
orderly fashino and any person
or pressure group of students wh(
went out on strike would be barret
from any further admission t>
any class under my control.”
In addition, a non-student dele¬
gation, representing Jewish, laboi
and teacher groups, sought a hear-
in* with Hr. Harry N.
There. You would be different
fr:m the i.mdren in that
courdr y Suppose they made
lun 0 f you Would you. IR-L*
that?
N-no. guess T . rt
t ,
cry.” Dane con.essed
| one J** of "■»«» those children SlU should
come up to you, smile, and try
to teach you how to talk his
way?”
1 Til's had become a story to
Urination fasolnat-
ptayeJ
with me idea. “Oh, yes! I’d
be glad! I’d be very glad! I’d
like to talk a different way.”
• You would feel very strange
and lonely, you know—just as
Ramcn does in your class and
when you're playing ”
Diane's eyes opened wide and
her thoughts turned in the di¬
rection her mother had hoped
tttey would. “I’ll smile when
I’m near aim tomorrow, Moth¬
er,” she declared. “I’ll say,
•Hello.’ I’ll show him how we
play, too.”
“Good!” said her moth h^k
kissing her. “And I know yll y
won’t laugh at him any more iore|
just because he’s different”
D.ane shook her aead vigor¬
ously. “I won’t, Mother. And
I’ll tell the others not to laugh,
too”
And she would, Mrs. Blake
knew; and then' conditions
would be easier for Ramon.
Ghidren are easily influenced
and if they saw Diane being
fr.end.y toward Ramon, one by
one they would be likely to fol¬
low.
That night, after she had
.tucked Diary? into bed, Mrs
Blake sat down by her and
talked about children of other
lands, making her understand
that ail should be good friends
She had realized that it is one
of the duties of mothers to see
that their children do not ac¬
quire prejudices—either ramlal,
rel.gious, or any other. And
she knew DiarK was not too
j young to begin to learn to be
I truly understanding with re-
I gard to the different peoples of
the world.
college president, but were unable
to see him.
The general faculty of the col¬
lege issued a resolution “strongly”
urging the student council to end
the strike and use the noi-mal
means of communication. The res¬
olution held that continuation of
the strike would damage the col¬
lege and life prospects of past,
present and future students.
It said that of 2,790 students
voting in favor of the strike, 1,100
voted for a one-day demonstration
and 1,690 for a sustained strike.
7 he strike had been voted by
the student council following a
student body referendum several
days before. Conflicting reports
were given as to the number of
students' figuring in the walkout.
The strike committee claimed more
.than 75, percent joined the Move¬
ment, but a college 'spokesman
said a preliminary cheek disclosed
45 percent of the 7,230 day stu-y
dents attended classes.
v v v v *H 4 v v v v v v v
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Files of The Savannah
Tribune
April 15, 1894
Col. W G. Orear, insp?ct-
d toe following colored troops
if the First Battalion during
he week: Colqult Blues, Forest
71ty Light Infantry, Savannah
Jght Infantry, Union Lincoln
>uards, Chatham Lig.it Intan-
r.v, Lone Star Cadets, Georgia
Yrtillery and Savannah Hus-
ahs. Each company made
leroic efforts to meet the re¬
quirements oU the \ imipe-ctod-
eneral.
Bishop H. M Turr«er was in
he city last Sunday at the sev-
ral AME churches.
The first students from Sav-
’v->ah to attend Atlanta uni¬
versity in, 1869 were Samuel B
vforse, London H. Waters, Jas.
U- Monroe. A few days after,
fas H. C- Butler, Geo. S-
’>mith and others from Savan¬
nah arrived. They completed
the required term in June.
1876. This information and
other were transmitted by the
ate Prof. S. B Morse.