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WHOSE OX IS GORED
It is all right for the fellow who feels
his liberty is not threatened to advise
calmness and patience to those whose
liberty is endangered. It is easy to show
little or no concern for those who have
lost their liberty. It is not difficult to
look the other way, or cross to the other
•ide of the road. That is what the le-
vites did. Someone in the past describ¬
ed the tendency on the part of people to
show no concern for the injury or suf¬
fering of others by the saying, “it de-
pe»ds on whose ox is gored.”
Through the years people have found
out that such an attitude of' philosophy
is not good to live by; it does not help
to make human relations better; it is es¬
sentially selfish. Paradoxically, it is
not selfish enough from one point of
view. Enlightened selfishness would
seem to dictate that individuals with
common buzzards can better protect
themselves by striking common cause, by
appreciating the fact that they live often
for, with, and among other people, and
that ultimately they share a common
destiny. White people in Alabama and
Georgia, particularly, are finding out
that lawlessness can not he condoned
and encouraged with impunity against
Negroes. They have seen that lawless
bands take the law into their hands to
punish white men and women, also. They
know now what an evil thing Ku Kluxism
is. It has struck against them.
The attorney general, the governor,
grand jury, and the plain citizens of
Jefferson County, Alabama are perform¬
ing a service which requires a tremen¬
dous amount of courage. The mem-
burs of the Alabama state legislature
showed more courage than ours. They
passed an anti-mask law. Ours did not.
1 If the klan continues to terrorize and
intimidate White men and 'women, its
days are numbered even in Georgia.
TERRIBLE TO TELL
The crime of which four young Ne¬
groes in Florida were accused, was bad,
revolting. We commend the sheriff who
would not give them up to a mob which
afterward, according to the custom of
bloodthirsty mobs, proceeded to reek
vengeance upon all the Negroes in the
community, just as if all of them were
guilty of the crime. This was bad too.
The sheriff thought he was doing his
duty (and he was). He had sent the
accused men off to safety from the mob.
But according to a report released by in¬
vestigators, it might have been better for
them, (they would have suffered less),
if he had turned them over to the mob.
In jail in the custody of officers of the
law, the men were subjected to the most
brutal treatment conceivable, at the
hands of these officers. They were
hung by their handcuffs from iron pipes
and were beaten with horsewhips in
order to make them confess to the alleg¬
ed crime. In order to escape further
punishment, two of the young men con¬
fessed, the other, despite the awful beat¬
ing received, never confessed. Af¬
ter two weeks, the stomachs and backs
of the men showed scars and lacerations,
still unattended by a physician.
This sort of thing is revolting to say
the least, and a civilized country should
be ashamed of it. The good people of
Health Education Workshop
At State College
Teachers in the Health Edu¬
cation Workshop at Georgia
State college are experiencing
many interesting activities and
ar* benefiting from many
Wghly trained specialists this
summer. The second session of
*he workshop which slanted on
July 18 and is h Id every day
•or five weeks, is an effort to
bring teachers throughout the
State of Geoigia, come ans¬
wers to th? health problems
whieh they have in ttheir ows
schools.
The workshop experiences
are many and varied. Already
in tii? sessions the 25 teachers
have toured the
Health Department and re¬
ceived chest X-rays and blood
tests. Dr. Claire Henderson,
medical director, and Dr. Ruth
Sunnier, director of health ed¬
ucation. spoke to them briefly
concernin' th e organization
and functions of the various
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Florida ought see to it that these accus¬
ed men are given a fair trial, and they
should see to it that the officers who
beat them be adequately punished, 'for
certainly they are known.
TRAGEDY STALKS AGAIN
It is unfortunate that a community
has to be shocked, now and then, into
recognizing its obligation to its citizens.
Often it seems to take a tragedy to make
a community aware of its negligence in
safeguarding their lives and property.
It took a schoolhouse fire and the loss
of many children to call attention to the
fact that the doors in the building op¬
ened the wrong way, and that fire drills
were not taken seriously. It took a bo¬
nd lire in one city to check up on the
observance of the fire-escape law. Shock¬
ing as it is. we doubt that the drowning
of a young Negro woman at Tybee will
be shock enough to make Negroes stop
going into the surf into the “garbage
disposal area” 'of the beach. Whether
i.l will be sufficient to get more empha¬
sis placed on water safety for Negroes
ren.iains to be seen. The Red Cross
has plans for beginning a water safety
course at the swimming pool on Ogeechee
Road. Of course, this comes too late for
the *ix persons, all Negroes, who make
up the list of drownings for this year.
We doubt that this second drowning
at this point where the current is so
dangerous) will awaken enough interest
in v bite people in Savannah and Savan¬
nah Beach to start a movement to set
aside a portion of the beach for Negroes.
Furthermore, we doubt that Negroes
themselves are shocked enough to stay
away from that “garbage disposal area.”
Savannah Negroes who like the surf,
have been going either to Florida or
South Carolina beaches where their pa¬
tronage has helped to develop excellent
facilities. This is a little expensive,
hut not as expensive as using the “gar¬
bage disposal area” at Savannah Beach.
The article in the Atlanta World with
reference to the Georgia State College, re¬
minds us that two years ago, a predic¬
tion was made that a new administra¬
tion would take over if Mr. Talmadge
was elected; that the author of a book
recently published, ,suggested that po¬
sitions in Negro colleges be used to pay
off political debts. It appears the pre¬
diction may come true and that the
suggestion may bo accepted.
Wo believe the education of Negroes
in -Georgia is facing an unhappy day.
It will become difficult to get good men
to accept positions in our state college
if they are to be crucified at the instance
of unscrupulous Negroes.
During the past two years'the Georgia
State College has shown more signs of
becoming a good college than at any time
jin its history. Leaky buildings have
been repaired and renovated, instruction
has been broadened and made better,
walks and roadways have been improved,
the beauty of the campus has been en¬
hanced, the general atmosphere, and
relations between the college and the
public have never been as good.
We reaffirm oiur confidence in Mr.
Colston, as an honest and upright man,
who has worked hard to make the Geor¬
gia State College the kind of college all
decent people desire it to be.
d.visions of the Health Depart¬
ment.
They have joined with other
courses in elementary educa¬
tion to hear a panel on the
"Use of Public Health Person¬
nel in Georgia.” The panel
consist d of Dr. W. A. Mason,
director, office of pubi c health
education for Negroes, State
Department of Health. Atlan¬
ta: Mrs. Mary McKinney,
health education consultant,
Georgia Tb Association, and J.
W. Emmanuel, field represen-
tative, American cancer Soci¬
al y. A'lanta. Each member of
this panel spoke on the educa-
tional services offered by his
organization to the people of
Georgia in matters of health.
Miss Marjory Buntyn, public
health educator with the Sa-
vannah Health
has worked with thy group on
health education materials —
how to evaluate them, where
to secure them and how to use
them in the classroom.
Mental hygiene in the class¬
room lias been a subject of
much interest and work. Again
outside consultants have worked
with the group on this subject,
Mrs. Alma Small, psychiatric
social worker, and Ross Cum¬
mins, clinical psychologist with
the Community Guidance Cen¬
ter, used the movies, “Feeling
of Hostility,” “Feeling of Re¬
jection and “Meeting the Emo¬
tional Needs in Childhood” in
working with the teachers.
The class is made up of the
following: Mrs. Oreda Baker.
Waynesboro; Mrs. I.ottie crane.
Savannah; Mrs. Freddie M
Dash. Leroy Eason. Mr3. Pearlie
H. Allen, Mrs. Tessie Mitchell.
Mervin P. Jackson and Fred
Bryant, all of Savannah; Mrs.
Ethel J. Harris, Ludowici; Mrs.
Marietta Berry. Glennvilie;
Miss Fannie M. Kelley, Black-
shear: Mrs. Eva Bentley Wat¬
son. Buford: Mrs. Lizzie H
Howard. Siephens; Miss Lula
Hudson. Athens; Mrs. Mildred
M. Butler. McIntosh: Asay A.
Eaddy, Blackshear; Miss Zora
fllE SAVANNAH rtUBUNB
EDITORIAL: STOP THEM, BEFORE THEY WRECK US ALL.
SCHW Makes
Quiet Exit
RICHMOND, Va. (AND—The;
Siut hern Conference for Hu¬
man Welfare which helej its j
first session in Birmingham, j
Ala., was recently disbanded
at a qui t meeting held here
by eight leaders of the
organization. No reason was
given publicly for the action.
The record of the Southern
Conference for Human Wel¬
fare ind cates that it was an
organization to liberalize the ^ j
south on economic and racial
issues. The demise here* of the or- J
ganizaton, leaders say, is
due to the necessity of shield- J
ing organizations of this char¬ J
acter while witch hunting :s
being so widely promoted in.
America.
Cons rvatives also took note i
of the fact that there »s an- 1
other organizat on in the south
which is pushing the CTbgram
of the Southern Conference
for Human Welfare. II is th
Southern Conference Educa¬
tional Fund. This organization
sponsored a meeting on e vil
rights in Charlottesville, Va.,
last fall and made a trip to
Monticello, shrine of Thomas
Jefferson, where its statement
on civil rights was adopted
Virginia Dabney, editor of.
the'Richmond Times Dispatch, •
has been shedding cfccod le ■
tears over both the SCHW and i
the new organization. Once
considered friendly to Negroes ^
and a liberal, Dabniy has op¬
posed every suggestion for the
extension of democracy to
American Negroes in the South
s ne. President Truman an¬
nounced his civil rights pro¬
gram.
Sump leaders here now con¬
sider Dabney the most reac¬
tionary wiiite newspaper edi¬
tor in the south. They say he
is proof of the content on that
a liberal, is no good anyway
excepting when ev.rything is
going on all right. Dabney, for
example, wrote an editorial
fuvor.ng the abolition of j ini
crow travel on city buses, but
when W. H. C. Murray suggest¬
ed Uie same thing for the state
in the 1948 general assembly as
a civil rights measure, Dabney
gave Mr. Murray no support.
( -- (
1st Precinct, CDC
To Meet Friday
The Citizens Democratic club.
Precirict No. 1. will hold its
regular monthly meeting at the
West Savannah Community
hall. Milieu lane and Church
street, Fr day night, August 12.
from 8 until 9 p. m. All mem¬
bers and the public are asked
to please come out. M. J.
Jackson is chairman and L.
‘Hill, secretary.
B. McLendon. Soper ton; Miss
Willie B McLendon, Washing¬
ton; Miss Ruby Houston. West
Point; Miss Vera N. Brown, j
Robinson, and Mrs. Queen Bal¬
lon t.ne, Mrs. Willie B. Wil¬
liams, Mrs. Agnes M. McLeod.
Mrs. Addie Phillips, all of Vi-
dalia.
Mrs. Ida Gadsden, public
health educator syith the Sa¬
vannah Health Department, is
in charge of the course.
tuberculosis; and rest
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B .v Maurice L. Adams, 'VI. I).,
Baltimore, Md., for ANP
Steve Egan kept repeating
that he wasn’t stubborn, he was
merely being practical. He ac¬
cepted my diagnosis that he
had tuberculosis in an early
stage and warned to go to the
nearby sanitorium. I toid him
what to expect :n ihe wav of
sanatorium regulations and he \
seemed to understand — with !
the exception of why comolete
bed rest was basic and neces-
safy to his cure,
.
^ ^ Cl ^ ‘ 1 ;l x-ray ' I
M.rviy of employees seme weeks j
before. cd suspicious His X-ray shadows plates and show- lat- |
tests had conhrmed |
or that he
had tuberculosis. Although his
illness was detected early, in a
stagq when it is easiest to cure,
Steve would have to go to the
sanatorium as soon as arrange¬
ments could be made for a bed
for him. There ire couid ob i
ta n the complete rest under |
medical supervision which is
fundamental victory over
tuberculosis.
I explained to Steve that he
would not be confined to com¬
plete bed rest 24 hours a day
for h s entire sanatorium stay,
5* *5* *5* *-*•***£*'*
THE ROAD TO HEALTH
that he would be permitted
some activity later on when he
became better and sanatorium
officials knew that it was safe
for him. But Steve was still
puzzled a b t over what com¬
plete bed rest wouid have to
do with treatment for his sick
lung.
“Look at it this way, Steve,”
I said: “One of your lungs is
sick, and it needs all the rest
and relaxation it can get if we
want it to heel. The lung is
one organ of the body which
is constantly at work, and it
has to work harder when the
body is more active. By the
same token, the lung gets the
most rest when the body is
at complete rest.”
I showed Steve some simple
med cal charts of the lungs
and pointed out how those or¬
gans work like a pump to get
Oxygen into the body and pu¬
rify the blood stream. With
the body at complete rest, I
nointed out, the strain on the
lung is much less than when a
person is up and about. As its
work is cut down in this way
as far as possible, the da mag-
cc ^ * ua ® ^ as a ^ e ^ tcr c ^ ance 40
Steve was finally convinced.
I have recently heard reports
that Sleve cooperates with the
saunter um officials in all ro
spec t s _their regulations on
rcst included . It wont bo too
long now bcJore he can , t
fop a few hours a day aeve , s
understanding of why com¬
plete rest is necessary for him
has helped him comply cheer¬
fully with all sanitorium regu¬
lations and has been an impor¬
tant factor in starting him on
the road toward the regaining
of hg hoalth
(This article is co-sponsored
by the National Medical Asso¬
ciation and the National Tu¬
berculosis Association in the
interest of better health of the
people.)
THEY’LL NEVER DIE * ?**
30 IV
THE NAME OF MARSHALt-
W- ('MAJOR*) TAYLOR WITH WILL thE
ALWAYS BE LINKED
thrilling- spout cf bicycle
RACING- THIS AMAZING-
\ LITTLE ATHLETE WAS BORN IN
2 INDIANAPOLIS, IND-1878-AT
13, WHILE EMPLOYED AS AN
EXHIBITION RIDER SYALOCAt-
BiCYCLE SHOP OWNER,HE WAS
RUSHED INTO A IOMILE ROAD
RACE AGAINST A GROUP OF
GROWN MEN G-WEN A 15"
MINUTE HANDICAP YOONG-
TAYLOR WON HIS FIRST RACE/
AT;<} HE MADE His PROFESS¬
IONAL DEBUT AT NEW YORK'S
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-
Z YEARS uATER HE WON THE
AMERICAN SPRINT TITLE, AND
AT 21 HE ALSO HAD THE MIDDLE
DISTANCE TITLE-TAYLOR WENT
TO EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA- '
SMASHING RECORDS AND
WINNING MORE TITLES/ |
THE’MIGHTY MA3DR"RACED
FOR 19 YEARS-RETIRING IN i
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Tro cA/reou. C-nntme^tal PwiHitp,
THURSDAY, AUGUST, 11, 1949
HOME EDUCATION
PETER’S GREAT ADVENTURE
Harriet C. Anderson
«iVie Child's First School is
the Family”— Frotebei
(Issued by the National Kin-
dergart n Association, 8 West
40th street, New York city.
These articles are appearing
weekly in our columns.)
Peter was all atingle as he
dressed. This was it, the day
of days—the beginning of the
great adventure to which he
had ben looking forward.
Teeth had to be scrubbed extra
hard, shoe laces tied “just so,
for, when it is the day upon
which you become "a school¬
boy” and are all ready to set
forth as a knight upon a great
adventure which will last six¬
teen years or more, you have
uO look the part.
Curly headed small Peter
with big blue eyes that still
held the quesion ng look of a
baby, was shedding L*s baby
ways painlessly and naturally.
Peter had chores to do, too:
Pinky and Winky had to be
fed. Mommey went along out,
o the pen, just for company,
but it was Peter who carried
the dish of rabbit pellets and a
carrot a piece "cr each pink
eyed bunny. The bunni s were
a lesson in responsibility for
Peter; though, of course, Peter
didn't realize this.
Clothes picked up, breakfast
over, Bible verse repeated
aloud to Mommey, and Pet r
was all set to venture forth as
a #eal “schoolboy.” Thai is,
almost ready; there was still
Skippy to be considered—Skip-
py, who trotted faithfully at
Pjfer’s side every where he
went. Today Skippy would
have to be a “big dog” and
stay at home and take care of
Mommey.
“Look, Skippy, old pal, this
is going to be an adventure for
y° u > too. You won’t be just a
‘little deg” any more; you re
going to be a big dog now and
stay right here and guard Mom-
mey and keep her company.”
Peter stood fir final inspec¬
tion: new whit: blouse tucked
in just the right way, blue tie
straght—and yes, the clean
handkerchief in one small poc¬
ket of Peter’s jacket. Peter’s
chubby arms went about Mom-
mey's neck in a fierce hug,
then came a big loud “smack”
kiss and, with a wave of h s
hand to Mommey and fk'ppy,
Peter started down Elm strict
almost at a trot.
Ah; this was it. This was the
beginning of a long, long road
of adventure. The school play¬
ground was crowded with
laughing, shout ng children,
and, going in at the main door,
were mothers with other small
Pcters and Susans, on this,
their first day of school.
Peter went into the school,
turned down the hall, and walk¬
ed eagerly into the kindergar¬
ten. Miss Doan, the teacher,
who had been talking with a
mother, turned, and Peter
walked up to her, put oat h:s
hand and said, “Good morning,
Miss Dean. I’m so giad I can be
in your class now.”
Th? mothers looked at Peter
in astonishment. Where was his
mother? And wherever did he
get the idea of bang glad to
come to school?
Peter had known just where
to go and what to do becasse
that had been a part of the
preparation for the great ad¬
venture. His mother had help¬
ed him to prepare himself.
Peter and Mommey had visit-
id the school, ai the right t me
—after he was ready for it—
after the proper “build-up” at
' home had been accomplished,
Peter had been introduced to
Miss Dean as a small individ¬
ual meeting a grown-up ncti-
vidual who wanted to be friends
with him, just as he wanted to
be friends with her.
As Pel .r now stood in j(#*I t)fe~ <Ah
kindergarten room and look
about him, he couldn’t IthdW dw-
, I S k arid \u,iy two 1 ttlc girls, wcv vete
crsin5i or why one small boy,
j ; who look „ d a great soobim* deal ilk •
Peter> was opcu ; y and
j bo j d i n g oa to his mother’s
skirt. Bui there small folks in
tears had long ago, without
then- consent, become members
of an organizat on, w irltlwide,
whose slogan is; “You Wait
Until You Go to School, Young
Man, the Teacher Won’t Spare
the Rod.”
Peter's parents, through lov¬
ing companionship and exam¬
ple, had directed the young
mind of their ch id toward ac¬
cepting life ^as a great adven¬
ture. They had explained that
as om encountered each small
hurt or problem, unafraid, he
became bigger and stronger.
This made childish problems
that arose a challenge to be
met and mastered.
Peter Is encased in an armor
so strong, so protective, that
now, as “a schoolboy,” alid in
later years as “a man,” , the
world will not bo able to hurt
him.
Since Peter’s birth, his par¬
ents have been building, this
armor around h m—the armor
of love, of understanding; of
confidence. Pet r understands
love, lie has always experienced
love, he r xoects it, and in re¬
turn gives it to ail. So now,
Peter sets forth on this begin¬
ning of h s s'xt een years of ed¬
ucation, clad in ths confidince
which his wise parents have
helped him to develop.
Yes—this is the day—the b g
red letter day whin Peter be-
gins school and Mommey and
Daddy will now refer to him as
“our schoolboy”
Grad Files Suit Make Univ.
Md. Admit Four
BALTIMORE (ANP) — Don¬
ald Murray, the f rsl Negro to
be admitted to the University
of Maryland, filed suit last
week in Baltimore city court
cla : m ng that four Negroes are
being barred from his alma
mater because of their race.
The students in question are
seeking admittance to the
schools of dentistry, pharmacy,
dentistry and nursing. Murray
and other Negroes who have
attended the university in the
past, have been admitted to
the law school only.
Named as plaintiffs in the
case are;
Esther McCrcady, 18, school
of nursing; Richard Tyson, 20,
Donald Stewart. 19, and Rich¬
ard Williams, 24.
Murray also is counseling
with four other Negroes who
wish to enter the University of
Maryland. He is being aided
in the case by Charles Hous¬
ton of the Howard university
law department.
Commenting on the case, Dr.
H. C. Byrd, president of the
university, said the school had
not received papers in three of
the cases, and in the case of
the pharmacy applicant, no ac-
tion has been taken on any
pharmacy applicants.
Tyson, Williams and Stewart 1
originally gave the school un-
til July 9 to admit them, then
extended the date to July 21.
Recently the
board of regents announced
that persons' wishing admis¬
sion to the school would not >t te
rejected because of race. r
Hari-kari is a method of sui¬
cide practiced in Japan.
IT’S YOUR
VOTE!
WANT IT?
Unless you re-register the
elections of next year will find
you voteless.
The re-registration office is
at the -northwest corner of
Oglethorpe Avenue and Bar¬
nard streets.
Re-registration doesn’t take
much time now- but when the
last minute rush comes it may
take more time than many
people will be willing to give.
Such people will become vote¬
less and have no voice in se¬
lecting governmental officials.
The thing to do is to
REGISTER
and
DO IT NOW!