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The demonstration at the Ogeechee
swimming ptool last Friday night was
both interesting and instructive to such
of the audience as could see and hear.
Its effectiveness, however, was lessened
by the fact that the lighting at the pool
was inadequate. The darkness also pre¬
sented a hazzard because only a small
portion of the pool was lighted. Just
why the flood lights, which would have
given sufficient light, were not used, we
do not understand. We think night
demonstrations should he discontinu if
theyTnust be held in comparative d irk-
ness. If lights are provided for tennis
courts, they certainly should be provided
for the swimming pool.
We are informed that some of the fa¬
cilities at the swimming pool center repair are
in need of repair. The needed
should be made and other facilities
should be added. Money spent for im¬
proving recreation facilities for our youth
is money well spent. If our boys and
girls are to learn to make use of their
leisure time in wholesome ways, proper
and adequate provision must be made
for them. A drowning smacks us right
between the eyes at once, but delinquen¬
cy takes time to make itself felt, and in
the long run more than doubles the trag¬
ic consequences of one drowning.
TWO IMPERATIVES
It is easy to sit in an ivory tower, or
stand on the side line, and plan things
or make suggestions about what ought
te be done. It eems that there are lots
of people doin. just that. Such indi¬
viduals can be classed among those “who
never said a foolish thing nor did a wise
one.” It is altogether more difficult to
do some of these things and to get them
done. When one thinks of the great
number of things to be done and ot
the indifference of those to be most ben¬
efited by the doing of them, he has to
fight against becoming impatient, dis¬
gusted, or discouraged. abid¬
We believe there is a great imd
ing need for a rededication of people
generally, to the cultivation of deep tc-
Jigious conviction that will express itself
in the day-by-day living together. A
scriptual text pronounces the soundness
of this assertion. In view of the things
which are absorbing our attention now,
we think of two things that seem to us
to be musts: support of the NAACP,
and the United College Fund. We are
aware that the drive for the UNC is over,
that is, if it is ever over, and the drive
for NAACP membership for this year is
yet to come. The reasons why these
movements need and deserve the support
of every Negro in America are not far
to scok.
The United College Fund is a movement
to keep at least thirty-one Negro private
colleges and universities alive and oper¬
ating with an efficiency, certainly not
below their present level. The cost of
education, like everything else, has risen,
the pool of funds from philanthropic
source* is not as flush as it used to be,
and reactionary trends in some states as
to the education of Negroes, are among
the very important reasons why our
private institutions must be supported.
These reactionary trends are, unfortun¬
ately. influenced by one or two Negroes
who have forgotten that they are what
they are because of these private insti¬
tutions; that many, if not most, of the
heads and instructors in our state schools,
received their education in these private
institutions, or were compelled to attend
schools and colleges in the North. We
venture the statement that most of those
who have contributed to the education of
Negroes in the South, received their
training either directly or indireclty from
these private institutions. We must not
forget that our private schools have been
the salvation of Negroes, and the South
too. It is imperative that Negroes, the
country over, rally to their support.
The NAACP’s work is not more im¬
portant; but is more immediate, is near-
«• to us in a way, is more spectacular. A
ht’pless Negro saved from undeserved
puiishment, or from imprisonment or
the electric chair, the right to vote se-
eureJ, equal salaries for Negro teachers
or eq al facilities for Negro children, grip
the at etition more easily and more quick¬
ly tha the awarding of a doctor’s de¬
gree, or even the graduating of hundreds
of boys and r rls. The NAACP has
gone in is an voeat-e wherever human
rights arc thi ened or violated.
It is a reftei <on upon 15 million Ne¬
groes that such an organization reports
that its activities stand in danger of cur¬
tailment beca'tsaVof lack of support. Roth
the United Cc?legv Fund and the NAACP
could be projn.sed unharried support and
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March 3. 1879
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security, if only one-third of the Negroes
in America could be urged or coaxed into
giving one dollar each yer year to these
two causes. They are two imperatives.
EQUAL EDUCATION
The filing of suit in Valdosta for equal
educational facilities for Negro children
has set off a lot of thinking in Georgia,
and .perhaps some worry too. The suit
is filed against the Irwin county School
Board and the School Superintendent. The
specific charges brought in the suit
could be brought against most counties
in the state. County authorities have
gone along all these years, either forget¬
ting the school needs of Negroes, or de¬
liberately ignoring them. Negroes have
been thought helpless do anything about
it. They knew little about the law' con
eerning provisions for schools. It they
knew about the law, there was no Negro
lawyer at hand, and no white lawyer
would jeopardize his practice by taking
such a case. Besides, Negroes had no
vote through which to put into office
school officials who were disposed to do
right by them. Now, Negroes have
learned to take their case to the courts.
They have well prepared lawyers, and
they manage to get enough money to¬
gether to finance a suit..
The press has speculated upon the
probable cost to Georgia counties to
provide equal education for Negroes. The
Southern Regional Council places the
figure around $45 million. Others
have placed it at about $100 million.
Several years ago, competent authori¬
ty estimated that it would take 85
years to achieve equality at a cost of
approximately $240 million. There is
one opinion that equality will never be
achieved. This opinion is based on the
fact that educational provision for
whites has been so far ahead of that
for Negroes for such a long time, that
it will take a staggering amount of
money and a slowing down of provision
for whites to approach equality. This
huge cost, piled up by years of refusing
to provide equally for Negro children, is
an eloquent indictment against the
South. “The out
Mr, Ralph McGill says, way
is to obey the law . Meanwhile, each
. .
County Board will do well to call in the
Negro' school leaders and together initi¬
ate plans to equalize facilities and sala¬
ries. Time is what we need, and such
a start, honestly made, will gain time.
It all goes to show it is cheaper to do the
right thing. Had we done so from the
start—as we should have—there would
now be no issue or great cost.”
If our reasoning is correct, we believe
Negroes will soon have to bring suit to
equalize higher education. Certain in¬
fluences are at vvbrk to lessen the qual¬
ity and quantity of education the state
provides for the higher education of Ne¬
groes. The facilities and offerings are
poor enough—only three colleges for Ne¬
groes, and no graduate schooling in any
area—but the threat to inject politics
and vindicate interference into them,
leaves nothing for Negroes to do but to
go into court. is
If the ruling in the Virginia case
followed in the Irwin county suit, we
may hope for early improvement in our
school systems.
STRAINING AT GNATS
Some months ago Grant Reynolds
stopped over in Savannah on his way to
a vacation in Florida, and visited the
Georgia State College. The visit was
pure incidental. He spoke to the stu¬
dents. This incident w-as blown up in¬
to the accusation that the president was
encouraging communism.
A student of the college, a member of
the Youth Council of NAACP, wrote a
letter to one of the Negro consultants to
the Board of Regents, protesting against
his speech before a club in Albany. It
is allaged a charge was made that the
president was encouraging membership in
the NAACP and endorsing its program.
The student body, out of their own
funds, sent a delegate to the Washington
meeting of the Students’ Conference. It
is reported that the charge was made
that state funds were used to send this
delegate to the meeting.
The significance of these incidents lies
in the fact that someone was magnify¬
ing half-truths out of all proportion to
any possible harm they could be to the
college or to the students. It is a great
pity that such things have been used to
attempt to divert attention from the re¬
markable improvement that has been
made at the college in the short space of
two years. It has been gratifying to
note the progress which has been made
rm SAT ANWAR 7HI6UMR
THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL WON,
WITHOUT THE AID OF EITHER.
in correcting some of the things
which the Tribune crusaded two years
ago. The improvements in
nity relationship and the things which
go to rounding out the cultural life of
the campus have been overlooked.
We have attempted to point out the
type of thing upon which recently al¬
leged accusations were built. We be¬
BETWEEN THE LINES.
I5> Dear. Gordon B Iancock for ANP
FOREBODINGS THESE
When Cardinal Spellman uallmbercd
his polito-religious batteries against Mrs.
Kooseveu tie was cl nng a desperate and
dangerous tiling. Far unite important than
what he sa.d was the spirit m which ue
said it; and Mrs. Roosevelt’s calm and stu¬
died reply put the cardinal to flight. Just
as little David with Ids sling and smooth
stone felled the giant GdJjaiu, so Mrs. Roo¬
sevelt v.i wyfds that breathed strongly with
the spii’.t of Jestls Slew the giant cardinal
that in the final analysis God was the only
judge of numan worth sne uttered a rebuke
that was justly deserved. Which the car¬
dinal’s contended that he did not want sup¬
port for Catholic education, but merely lor
“auxil.ary” support, he threw nis case to the
winds and became a penitent crying for mer¬
cy ui the hands of the American reading
public. , -v adverse things about
I have heard many
the Roosevelts, but 1 have never, before
the cardinal’s ind ctmcnt, heard anyone
call them intolerant. But the Cardinal
found out to his utter dismay that Roose¬
velts cannot be pushed around. Personally
this writer believes that it would have been
a far wiser move on the Cardinal’s part had
lie retracted his statement outright, instead
of the specious explanation that it was not
support for Catholic education, but auxiliary
support that he was demanding. There is
precious little difference in paying for a
child’s education and feeding him while he
gets it. It is true, In the crowd t'nat stoned
bieplien there were some who did not hurl
stones, but they held the cloaks of those who
d d; and they thereby became parttceps
crimlnis to the tragic affair.
1 am a Baptist but I do not want the
U. S. government to finance Baptist educa¬
tion lent the U. S. government regiment
Baptist thought and thinking. Denomina¬
tional choice is a spiritual luxury that the
individual and his denomination should fi¬
nance.
The most omnious thing about the con¬
troversy that Cardinal Spellman’s ill-advised
pronouncement has kindled is conv.ction
forced upon many that federal aid to edu¬
cation is a lost cause in the current Congress
and that the demise of the bill was designed
in the Cardinal’s attack on Mrs. Roosevelt.
If one Roman Catholic card nal can thwart
in such fashion the will of the people, it is
high time that we take stock of our politi¬
cal and social heritage in this country.
Could the anti-Catholic forces wish for bet¬
ter ammunition in their fight against the
Catholic church?
Th s writer is a Baptist and bitterly and
stubbornly opposed to Baptists running this
government or even aspiring to do so; but
he is just as stubbornly and bitterly oppos¬
ed to government bv Catholics. So far as
power in us lies, this must forever remain
a government of the people, by the people
and for the people rather than a govern¬
ment of Baptists by Baptists and for Cath¬ Bap¬
tists, or a government of Catholics by
olics and tor Catholics. Tolerance in relig¬
ion, politics and race happens to be one of
the fundamentals of my life’s philosophy. sects
I have the highest regard for all
I the Holy
DETROIT PHYSICIAN’S SWEETHEART
COMMITS SUICIDE
month romance between
prominent Detroit
and his office assistant
in tragedy early last
morn'ng when the
ended her life in the
home by taking an
amount of Nembutal tablets.
The victim of the suicide
her own hands is Miss Gloria
Kennedv. 24. She was
to the Receiving hospital in an
ambulance from the home
Dr. Joseph Jones. 44. at 5 20 a.
m . and pronounced dead
admittance by Dr. R. B. Young
lieve what is happening here is a token
of what may be expected by the other
colleges. We have not attempted to
make an apology or defense for the pres¬
ident of the college. Mr. Colston does
not need either. The evidence of hard
and tireless work to start the building
of a first class college at Georgia State, is
patent and speaks for itself.
Roller for h.s religious convictions just as
much as I no Baptists and Catholics. It so
happens that I know just how the Holy Rol-
let got tnat way and so of the Baptists
and Catholics. I bow in humble reverence
and respect. to any religious devotee who
claims that his religion is as good as mine;
but I utterly abhor and pity ihe one who
says his religion or belief or creed is better
thati mine! Rel giously there is no differ¬
ence between Catholics and Baptists and
Holy Rollers; individually there is. I be¬
lieve in Lie brotherhood of man and the fa¬
therhood of God and not in credal or denom¬
inational or sectarian superiorities. Bishop
Oxnam’s recent indictment of the Catholic
church is a serious one. He points out the
parallels between Communism and Catholi-
cims; -and Cardinal, Spellman’s bitter attack
on Mrs. Roosevelt makes even the most
tolerant ask what truth is there in Bishop
Oxnam’s indictment?
Cardinal Spellman’s attack and the spirit
in which it was made makes it extremely
unwise to dismiss without gravest consider¬
ation—Bfshop Oxnam’s grave charge. Lot¬
us hope that the controversy has been cli¬
maxed and that tolerance and the spirit of
Jesus Christ may be the ultimate criterion
of life for the individual, for the religionist,
and for the state. Cardinal Spellman’s bit¬
ter and intolerant attack on Mrs. Roosevelt
and Bishop Oxnam's grave indictment
against Catholicism could easily be solemn
warnings of unhappy forebodings. God for¬
bid.
I’M A MAN
by William Henry Huff for ANP
I’m a man like other men.
Why should I be segregated
L ke the beast in yonder den?
I’m a man, a gentleman.
Who must not be underrated.
I’m a man. I’m civilized,
I can read and write and reason,
And I’m also Christianized.
I have felled your mighty trees brushes
And have stacked and burned the
While you sat in idle ease
Listening to the song of thrushes.
“PAGAN AS I AM”
by Jof'in Henry Clarke for ANP
Pagan as I am, I understand
There's something vitally wrong
With the present order of things.
Treaties are but mere scraps of paper
And trust has lost its meaning.
Pagan as I am, I often say.
We cannot go on this way
THE OLD PLANTATION
By William Henry Huff for ANP
A mighty host of people stayed
Down on the old plantation.
By ignorance they all were swayed—
Their very conversation
Bespoke this truth in thunder tones
Both jarring and amazing.
Tlmse days are buried in bygones
And they deserve no praising.
of the hospital staff.
Homicide detectives said Dr.
Jones informed them that he
had been keeping company
with Miss Kennedy for the past
six or eight months and that
she was employed by him in
his offee as his assistant.
Sr. “Vf ""m’e
j “rireSei Mondav night About J 9 30 tele* p
phone call from another worn-
an whose name is unknown.
and Miss Kennedy became en-
raged and went to the second
floor apartment of the doctor’s
home and slashed her wrist,
inflating a minor cut.
Dr. Jones dressed the wound
inflicted by his sweetheart
himself, homicide detectives
said.
About II p. m.. Miss Kennedy
informed Dr. Jones that she
had taken the tablets and be¬
came ill.
Police said Dr. Jones admin-
I TmetmL , stprpd first ai TbS d to his She strick- ‘St
j 4o res P° n{ J to the treatments,
*t Which time he called the
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• est month in Rio de Janeiro.
THURSADY, AUGUST 18, 1949
HOME EDUCATION
WHEN SMALL VISITORS ARE
COMING
Lucia Mallory
‘The Child's First School
the Family”—Froeb 1
Issued by the National Kin¬
dergarten Assoc.ation, 8 West
40th street, New York city.
These articles are appearing
weekly in our columns.
“You seem always to have
plenty of delightful books tor
children, Miss Mallory, ’ com¬
mented a fri.nd who had been
making a survey of the shelves
and tables in Ere reading room
where I work as the children’s
l.bratian. “I shall be so glad
to bring my grandchildren in
when they come to visit us
next month. Surely, they will
be able to find something here
t'nat will hold their inter st. I
don't want them to be as home
s'.ck as they were the last
time.”
“I'll be pleased to help the
children find books they will
like, when you bring t'.rem in,”
I promised, wondering how
anyone, child or adult, could be
at a loss for pleasant code’s occupa- lovely
tion in Mrs.
uome.
“Thank you,” my friend re¬
plied. “I’m sure your undev-
.•ua ding of children and your
knowledge of these books will
be a great help. Diane and
Patty are dear little girls, but
I've never been able to make
th:m feci at home—though
they are aUays weUomc to
wander about our big house as
much as they please. It seem-;
very strange to me, b cause
some of the happiest memories
of my own ch idhood center
around visits to the home of
my grandparents. T n some
way I must hav: failed as a
grandmother.” in friend’s
Something my
troubled face checked a cas¬
ual reply and made me give
her problem hous\” serious had thought. said.
Our big she
It was spacious—an old-fash¬
ioned home—very d fferent
from the compact apartments
of modern cities to which her
grandchildren were probably
accustomed. Suddenly, I re¬
membered an hour I had re¬
cently spoilt in a home in our
town where small guests had
already arrived to sp nd the
summer with their grandpar¬
ents.
“Do you know Mrs. Chester
who lives on vVarrcn strep'?’’
“Yes, I know her quite well, ’
Mrs Code answered.
“I’m sure Mrs. Chester would
be glad to show you how she
and her husband prepared. coming,” for
their grandchildr believe n’s you’ll
I told her. “I
find there a solution to your
problem.” weeks later Mrs. Code
A few
came back to the library,
THEY’LL NEVER DIE s, 7**
mmm CHARLES HENRY TURNER,
BORN 80 YEARS AGO IN
CINCINNATI,OHIO, EDUCATION THE RECEIVED HIS
AT UNIVERSITY
OF CINCINNATI AND THE 0 ■ OF
CHICASO-FORATIME HE
SERVED AS ASSISTANT INSTRUC¬
TOR AT BOTH INSTITUTIONS/
HE LATER TAUGHT AT CLARK
UNIVERSITY AND HAVNES
NORMAL & INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL- BOTH IN GEORGIA-
DR.TORNER SETTLED AT SUMNER
HIGH SCHOOL IN ST- LOUIS, M0-
AS A BIOLOGIST AND CHEMIST
DR.TURNER RANKS WITH THE
FINEST OF THE WORLD )
HIS SPECIAL FINDINGS IN
THE FIELD OF ANIMAL. .«
BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR »
HAVE EVOKED THE HIGH
PRAISE OF INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC BODIE5/
SgjT sffc
■ WOLO&ST B/nLOtUi
AND CHEMIST OF RARE ABILITY
Cr .itir ratal Feature*
Juanita Griffin Wins
Tennis Title
In Hartford
HARTFORD, Conn. (ANP)—
For the first time in its long
history the city of Hartford
had a Negro tenn’s champion
here recently when Miss Jua¬
nita Griffin, 26, won the wom¬
en’s title.
A worker in the city health
department, Miss Griffin was
seeded fourth in the meet,
sponsored by the Hartford
Gourant and the Recreation
division of the park depart¬
ment.
The turning point in the
j meet and ner career came In
the semi-finals when she won
a match she was supposed to
lose. She defeated Mrs. Phtl-
amena Coates. 8-6, 0-6, 6-4. In
a match considered to be the
toughest in her career. After
this victory, she said:
“It wasn’t supposed to be
that way. I still don’t know r
what happened in that second
set”
In the finals she defeated
Mrs. Mary Lawrence. 6-4. 6-3.
Miss Griffin has played ten¬
nis ever since she was in high
school She is known as Nita
to all her friends.
bringing with her two smiling
little girls to meet me. While
the children were absorbed in
some pictures at on: of the
display tables, sine thanked me
for the suggestion I had made
to her.
“I hope you'll find t me, Miss
Mallory, to come cut to our
house and s.e what we have
done to make Diane and Patty
welcome,” she said. “Just as I
saw the Chesters had done,
we. too, put hooks low in the
closets and emptied the low¬
est dresser drawers, so that the
children’s clothes could be
i placed within their easy reach.
We brought down from th: at¬
tic some small chairs and a
table that their mother had
used when sh n was a ch:ld. On
the back porch their grandfa¬
ther fixed a large wooden box
for th ir toys. Also, he fas¬
tened a strong rope swing to
the limb of a big maple, tree
in the back cookie yard. J invested
in some cutters that
wer > thaped like animals and
1 ttle men. The girls had a
whndbrfif time helping me
make cookies and an equally
| I good time helping a' their grand
1 fathjfr ma'ke garden—de¬
lighting in the small tools he
provided for thank them.
“I can’t you a id Mrs.
Chesicr enough,” Mrs. Code
concluded, “for leading me do
understand that children cafc-
not adjust qu'cklv to vv 1*!
("ii stoned envirc im nts,
that household appointment sj
suited to their stage of devel¬
opment, do much to reassure
them and to mak' them happy.
I know now that it is hard for
(hem to feel at home in a
house that is planned for
adults only- however loving
the grown-up < eevjoants mav
be. We shall continue to keep
the diminut ve furniture avail¬
able and a few toys on hand
to entertain other small visit¬
ors who may come into our
home.”
EVANS TO STUDY
TREATMENT OF
TROOPS IN EUROPE
WASHINGTON V ANP i —Jas.
C. Evans, civilian assistant, to
the secretary of defense, left
from Norfolk last week aboard
the USS Missouri with a spe¬
cial group of newsmen and
armed forces officials for Eu¬
rope.
In Europe Evans will in¬
clude a study of N groes in the
armed services along the lines
of utilization and morale.
Among the newsmen making
the trip ar: two Negro jour¬
nalists. One of them is Lucius
C. Harper, production editor of
I the Chicago Delender.
IT’S YOUR
VOTE!
WANT IT?
Unless you re-register the
elections of next year will lind
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!