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SHORT MEMORIES
Not many years ago, all schools in the
University System of Georgia were eith-
er dropped or threatened with su.-'pen-
sion from accrediting agencies, on the
then r Dd adininistiation. .r P " lit ! CS “ as Of interfering couise, no in
one thought that the ban affected Negro
schools, at any rate Negroes did not
complain. They did not need to for
white colleges and white citizens prompt-
ly took care of the matter. They saw
to it that, so far as thev were concern-
ed, there would he no further political
interference with the state’s colleges. We
believe the same thing should hold with
the Negro schools, became politics can
be just as bad for them as for white col-
] e g es
If politics has not already shown its
head, it is not because the set-up is not
prepared to make it possible. Our he-
lief is based upon two facts: one a pre-
diction made at the time of the appoint-
ment of a new president of the Georgia
State College to the effect that Mr. Tal-
. Radge’s election would mean the appoint-
ment of ano'her president; and the
other, this stab nont taken from a book
written by the Negro consultant to the
Board of Regents; -‘I told the Governor
that the only position to which a Gov-
ernor of Georgia could appoint a Negro
was ‘Governor’s porter,’ but if the state
would build a first class university and
put it into the hands of Negroes'there
could be a Chancellor, a number of
deans, and directors, and finally a Ne-
gro Superintendent of Negro schools.”
It has happened that Mr. Talmadge
was elected, and it appears that there
may be a new administration at Georgia
State College. Also, according to prom-
ise, a Negro consultant to the Board of
Regents has been, appointed. It is logi-
cal to expect other things that were
promised to fallow; the setting apart
of the units of the University- System
under a Negro chancellor, and ‘the* nlac-
ing of Negro schools under a Negro su-
perintendent.
In our opinion two things are wrong
with such a plan: (1) We know too well
that segregation means discrimination
as to facilities both as to quantity and
quality. I he splitting of the Negro
units away from the University System
will, in all probability, mean the split-
ting of the state's responsibility to its
, Negro schools. It would make our
subject to change and upset every four
years; (2) Negroes can not agree to
” fbe appointment of a Negro chancellor
or Negro superintendent until they know
that, at least, the same pains and care
will be taken to find good men as are
taken to find white men for similar po-
sltinns. ( ertainly, we should like to
see Negroes in positions of responsibil-
ity in the Department of Education and
the University System, but we want
them to be men who meet the highest
type both as to integrity and profession-
al training, and men who meet the ap-
proval ot the best thinking Negroes in
the state. These colleges are for Ne-
groes who should have the opportunity
to express themselves through repre-
sentatives of their own choosing. We
do not want our colleges to become po-
litical pla.v-things. nor do we want them
continually un-set by persons who have
scores to settle.
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" HAT ARE NEGROES’ NEEDS
M e are told that our education should
be based upon our needs Perhaps we
need to remember that Negroes are cit-
izens of thc United States and the states
in which they reside. They meet all the
requirements of citizenship they are giv-
en adequate opportunity to meet. They
are patriotic, and contrary to what some
people pretend to think, they pay as
much taxes as any other group of Amor-
icans, since taxes are based upon ability
to pay. Therefore they have a right to
expeet that their educational needs should
be met.
Ever.v now a rw i then some opportunist,
or quasi-Moser omes along with a new
idea as to the id of education Negroes
should receive. One says their great-
est need is land and this should deter-
mine the kind of education. Another
says in one breath, Negroes need the
kind of education that would fit them to
earn a living with their hands, and in
the next breath he says they need better
teachers, better high schools, and more
positions for well trained young Negroes,
There are still others who feel that
there is great need for trained leader-
s hip in all areas in which good citizen-
shin expresses itself.
Now. all these views express better
what the Negro’s needs are than any
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one of them. This is another way of
paying that Negroes need the same
kind of education any other group needs,
These needs are more or less common
to all people. hifty years ago ne eie
“oel hasten receiving
^ Jth different emphasis here and there,
about the same sort of education they
are receiving today.
It is appropriate to give the following
figures as suggesting some of the need*
"j Negroes, upon which their education
should be built., In the 1< s a es atu u
^trict of Columbia where separate
«*ools are maintained by law, the situ-
af ' ,in as to graduate and pro < s.siona
education for white and Negro, is as fol-
lows: Master s degree at east one sup-
ported college in all 17 states for whites,
j» « « tate « for Negroes; doctor’s degree
* M 42 states tor whites, none pu > u oi
private . i° r Negroes. In he pro e.-
s * ons: dentistry in 4 states for v\ u .es,
no,H ' for Negroes; Law in 10 states for
whites, in 4 states for Negioes, nv' '*
c,no ]n 15 ; states for whites, none for
Negroes; pharmacy in sta es °i
whites, none lor Negroes, S( x.'ial woi
in 0 state ? for whlt< ‘ 5 ’ TT lo r Nt \ r " es;
library science in 11 states , for whiles,
for Ne K r °e. s L J he result of thl! ? v lde
and appalling difference is seen in the +
following tigures: there is 1 doctoi to
ever v 84:! °f fbe white population, and
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1 doctor to pvery 4 - 409 of t he N «“gro
population; there is 1 dentist A to every
2,705 of the whtie population, and 1 to
c>vcry 12,101 of the Negro population;
1 Pharmacist to every 1,714 of the white
population, and 1 to every ii.blb ot t ie
Negro population; 1 lawyer to every 702
°f the white population, and 1 to every
24 ’? 97 of thc Nt ^ ro popu'atum; one so-
( ' ial worker to every 2,654 of the white
population, and 1 to every 11,53 1 ot the
Nl>trro Population; 1 engineer ami to every 1
664 of th " " hitc popul a tu»n, to
‘ vcry 130 - 700 of the Negro population,
1,1 Louisiana therfi ls only one doctor to
cvery 8 - 0()0 of the Negro population,
Excluding none of the other reasons
for the kind of education Negroes should
receive, and including the number of
certified teachers needed in Negro
schools, the figures given here would
seem to indicate that there is enough
educating to be done to keep all the
schools we have of whatever emphasis
busy for years to come.
Some weeks ago it was hinted that
the City Council and the County C'om-
missioners would be approached on the
matter of appointing a Negro to serve on
the Board of Education. The report
was received with a flurry of comment,
Membership on the Board of Education,
as on other public service agencies, has
been regarded as the sole privilege of
white citizens, and the very thought of
having a Negro on the board would be
considered as impertinent. Negroes are
citizens and are otherwise eligible to
perform sach a duty or enjoy such an
honor.
To appoint a Negro would not be an
entirely new departure in Savannah. It
would not be without precedent in the
South. A Negro has been elected to
the City Council of Richmond, Virginia,
In North Carolina a Negro educator has
been appointed to membership on the
State Board of Education, and in Raleigh
a Negro has been elected to the Board
of Education. Also, Governor Scott of
North Carolina has appointed a Negro
to the Committee on Regional Education,
It would be nothing new here for the
two groups to be working together. We
have had ample proof that the only thing
that happens is the accomplishment of
some worthwhile project to the com¬
munity: Grembriar Children’s Center,
two USO operations during the War,
thc West Broad Street YMCA, Scouting,
the Children’s Detention Home, and an
Advisory Committee to the Mayor dur-
>’’R the previous administration. In
no instance was there the slightest indi-
cation that such relations were harmful
or unacceptable to any of those who par-
ticipsted in these projects. On the
contrary, these associations tended to
increase or promote mutual respect and
confidence.
We believe Savannah is as capable of
leading the way in regard to appointing
a Negro member of the Board of Edu-
cation as she was in the appointment
of Negro policemen; that it will disturb
the course of our life here in Chatham
county no more than the appointing of
the policemen.
It would do no harm for a properly
selected committee of Negro men and
the County Commissioners to discuss
the matter.
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dear. Gordon B lancock for ANF
IMPERIALISM IN RLV1RSE
16 Yr. OLD BOY
LEAVES S. C. PRISON
COLUMBIA. S. C. (ANP) —
Little 10-year-old Robert L
Hamilton, center of a nation¬
wide wave of protest when it
.vas learned he was serving in
Shown above is the archi-
tect's perspective of the new B
B Dansbv hail of expressive
r .fs on winch
will begin August 30, at
IW* SAVANNAH SMIBUIW
Wc hear much today about the finan¬
cial and economic dilH.cui* ids of Great
Britain and there is evidence Alls is but
title beginning of h, r Uorftws. Long has
BritUama ruled the waves a id thc weaker
nat 011 s washed by those waves. Her ships
have sailed the seas and brought back to
England t'.ieir argosies that have drawn to
the hatches with wealtn from many lands.
More important tha 1 any' hing Britain has
dene f r herself Is her notion of imperial-
sri which obs ssed tue nations. Britain
has sown to the winds and now she is
about to reap the whirlwind of an anti-
Br t' h world.
Brita n is in truth fight ng for her life,
and the talk f.iat she must soon be a de¬
pendency of the United Etat s Is not alto¬
gether idle talk; for tne portents of the
Bnl sh Emp'ro are darksome and delusiv'
Br tain is about to walk the ‘ road back”
which is always a via dolorosa for trans¬
gressors, whose ways sooner or later be¬
come hard, and it makes no difierenc'
iwlVs ier these traiSsgn .ssors are men or
nations.
Tioubiy; like Chickens com- home to
roOct to those natiqjis who sin against God
and humanity. Germany d d not escape
nor will England and our own beloved
America. Nations are slowly learning the
hard way, that right is might, and that
might is not right as Nietssche was wont to
declare.
Democracy is a notion so vigorous and
virile that to talk about it is to awaken
longings for its blessed accompaniamsnts.
In spite of the fact that World War I was
not fought to make the world safe for de¬
mocracy as declared, the very talk about
democracy made the lesser nations stir
from their lethargy in s arch of the new
freedom which democracy promised. And
so it has come about that holding weaker
peoples down has become one of thu more
precarious pursuits of stronger and reg¬
nant nations. Imperial England Is dead or
dying. Imperial France is reeling upon its
p.'destal. Imper al Italy has bitten the dust
of disaster. Imperial Germany is kneeling
once more at the mercy seat of internation¬
al comity.
This article was inspired by the r da¬
tive quiet that characterizes India and
Palestine. As long as Britain ruled India
there was discord; there was no end of in¬
ter lecine strife. When Britain held iortli
ia Palest 11 c, Arab and Jew werj at each
other’s throat. When Britain gets oul
there i sa measure of amity and coiicoid
among erstwhile antagonists. It is hard to
avoid the conclusion that for imp rial rea¬
sons Br.tain sows the dragon’s teeth of ani¬
mosities and suspicion and hatreds among
tne people that she rules in older that she
might one more easily perpetuate her rule.
Events transpiring in Palestine and In-
da seem to bear out such conclusion, it
was pred cted that once Britain was out
of India, Mo. lem and Hindu would figli ■
unto the death. They simply have not. It
was ' feared” that once Britain took leave
of Palestine, Arab and Jew would simply
exterminate each other. They have not
Instead things are shap i'g most encour¬
agingly n both these unhappy lands. The
riots in India have about ceased. Arab
and Jew have qui ted down in Palestine in
a way that K is difficult to apprec ate. The
other exploited nations will of course take
due notice and govern thems Ives accord
ingly. Imperialism is at an end in the
Twentieth Century world and what of it
remains is decadent and decaying.
B gregaiicn in the south and the sub¬
jugation of Negroes : s a form of British
imperialism adapted to the sou hern states.
But here as in India and Palestine and
Ireland it is doomed and that the slow-
moving processes of time seem to belie the
assert on, it ls, nevertheless, true that even
segregation and subjugation are on the
way out in ways too obvious to leave room
for doubt. It is only a matt r of time.
America is not going to destroy itself for
the dub'ous luxury of eternally dominat ng
and su ; ugat.ng d’etfenselcps and ignorant
Negroes.
Even in the crav.n ku klux klan region
of the nation, whites are fast learning that
feeling "better than” somebody may have
ceVain psychological satsfactions, but
these are empty and vague and barren.
Just as Britain has exerted a sinister in¬
fluence in her colonies to perpetuate her
dominion, so there are sin ster influences
in this country working to forever rive
apart Negroes and whites to fee end that
poor Negroes and whites can the more easily
be exploited. Even th s is doomed.
a prison with regular convicts,
was freed last week from the
state penitentiary.
Robert will live on the farm
of his uncle, Lucius Ham lton,
near Abbeville. He was sent
to the state prison for stealing
$7 to buy candy because he
son college, Jackson, Miss. The
structure, which will cost S250.-
999, represents the largest sin-
gle investment of the state for
the education of Negroes.
HOME EDUCATION
Whito Mother Who Kiikd
Baby Attempted to Put
Crime on Negro
NAACP OPPOSES DISTRIBUTION OF
NEGRO FILM ON V. D.
NSW YORK, Aug. 18.—The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple today voiced “vigorous pro¬
test” against plans for distrib¬
uting the film. “Feeing All
Right,” a documentary on ven¬
ereal disease with an all-Ne-
gro cast, produced for the Mis-
sissippi State Board of Health
for wide distribution, including
commercial film houses.
“Wc view with the gravest
apprehension the circulation of
a film dealing with venereal
disease which features Negroes
exclusively,” wrote Roy Wilkins,
acting NAACP secretary, to
Banner and Greif, agents for
the distributors of the film.
“No matter how well the story
is told, the inescapable con¬
clusion ... of lay people who
view the film will be that Ne¬
groes as a whole are infected
with venereal disease and
thereby constitute a menace to
the rest of the population.”
Mr. Wilkins expressed con-
cern that the film would re-
suit In Negroes being denied
employment, would stimulate
a. clentand 'fir segregi( od
schools and residential areas,
and would “bolster that school
of thought which would relc-
gate Negro Americans to ex-
elusion, separatism and in-
equality in places of public ar-
commodaticm. in travel, in rec-
reation areas.”
was too young to go to reform
school, and nobody offered
him a home if he were parol¬
ed.
Thc state welfare depart¬
ment later got in touch with
his uncle, who agreed to take
him. Robert is the youngest
ex-convict ever held here.
though designed as a twin to
Johnson hall which was com-
j P leteri in 1944 - Dansb > Hall
• will have a standardized the-
atrical stage a ld an audito rium
that will seat 1,000.—(ANP).
THURSDAY, AUGtST. 25, 194§
TEACHING CHILDREN
TO BE ON TIME
M. Louise C. Hastings
“The Cnilds First School is the
Family” — Froebel
Issued by the National Kin¬
dergarten Association, 8 West
40th strei, New York city.
Tnese a^ticOs are appearing
weeiuy m our columns.
j In “'Yes. m;nute, I'll do ie pretty soon.” These
a Moiher.”
I j w re fanV.iiar expressions to
tire Heath lamixy. Polly was
otten called Little Wait-a-
Mrnute. ’ ‘ Perhaps some day
we li be able ro call you ‘ Miss
Always-on-Tune,” Motner would
ray. Bat just a suggestion w 11
not change a child overnignt.
mere must be some cause lor
reversal in order to change a
behavior pattern.
Tne circus was in town, , „ and ,
narilnf the ^ait’
( Zr>niv ldC he W °„rt d ta i tfc
,.^ lh e y ‘ 44e vin u? Phoned 0 u 8 n rtt”
i t v H d th
u-cn to tne c C rcus 1CUb ' Be'rcadv Be 1 d ' V ’
won’t u.rmu you?
Mother called to Myron and
Polly to change their clotnes
and hurried to finish necessary
work beforj changing her own
dreol. Half an hour passed,
and Myron and Mother were
ready and stand ng on the
porch as Daddy drove up to
the house.
"Where is Polly?” asked
Daddy.
"Mayb; she forgot to get
ready.' laughed Myron.
She couldn’t!” exclaimed
Mother. "I'll run upstairs and
see where she is.”
Polly was silt ng dreaming
at the window. /
‘Arent you going to th- c’r-
cus wnh us?” asked Mother.
"Yes,” answered Polly. ‘ I’ll
? a minute or two.”
Daddy is here and reatfv to
start nowc Im sorry, Polly, but
you 11 have to stay at home
with Rose L e,’ said Mnlher,
and she went back downstairs.
Polly d da t like this at all
had plenty of excuses to
offer, but they did no good;
she was left behind. A num¬
ber of similar experiences made
the child at last wake un to
the fact that she was losing
out constantly because she ig¬
nored rcouiremenls concerning
t me H r parents found t
hard to nunlsh her in th's wav
repeatedly, but they were sure
it was the onlv corrective that
voiiiq bring the desired re¬
sult.
T It , is . not . easy for . devoted , , .
parents to go off on a nleas
lire trip leaving a child at
home; it spoils their enjoy-
ment. But such a man’festa-
tion of stre ngth of purpose Is
CHICAGO (ANP 1 —A young
white mother, Mrs. Dorothy
Skeech, 22, last week confess-
ed that she had killed her six- j
day-old baby daughter, aft :r
first telling police that a
gro prowler” had slain her;
child.
Mrs. Skeech. whose husband,
Thomas, 21, is unemployed,
said she took her ch Id's life
b .cause she did not know how
u.ie and her husband wouid
take care of it.
Her first statement cla'ming
that a Negro murdered the
ba’ov emild have incited a race
riot if she had not told the
truth later on. More than 100
persons had gathered in her
neighboihood shortly after the
“news” had spread. Negroes
r cently begun to move
into the Woodlawn communi-
ty in which she lives,
Chicago’s largest newspaper,
The Tribune, had- headlined
the story in large black print
and had used a long l ad say-
ing the baby had been slain
by a “Negro prowler.” The
Sun-Times gave the story a
good play, but did not use the
word Negro.
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necessary if the child is to
i overcome She fault of never
i be ng on time, uoing things
'for children, arguing and coor-
ing them along, or storming at
them m dlff rent ways seldom
orrng about beneficial results.
It is the hard experience tnat
usually counts. read George
If you nave
( wash agton’s cLari.r, you will
have notccd that one of his
outstanding qualities was pun¬
ctuality. This habit ot always
being on time, and expecting
ethers to do the same, was the
remit of ch ldhood training.
Mary Washington, uis moth.r,
wa* a strict disciplinarian, and
her insistence on punctuality
was one of her notable char-
acterisl-cs.
Eleanor, another proscrina-
| tor, is ten years old. "Today,”
her mother said, "you niu-.t
everything out of your
I bureau drawers and put tne
things back in an orderly 1am-
luU . xhe little girl be,an ins
I * ork about nine o’clock, and
when w called aL the huasc 111
tne aftcinoon sne had not yet
done much about it. Eleanor
needs a jolt ol some k lid, lor
there is no need for this dc-
lay.iig. hue nad started her
task, but had left off to do
something else. Of course,
such work should not be • dena -**
hashly .11 ord.r to go out.
Her mit'ner might have said,
‘Finisn your worn in an hour,’
at the same time secretly plan¬
ning something pleasant to
1 taxe place 11 Eleanor tip shed
| , 0 n time. If, however, the work
gpouid not be completed with-
j in the hour, the child would
m creiy be told of the pleasure
which she had lost as a eohse-
: queuec of her dilatory behav-
1 ior
j Malcolm, fifteen, is told lie
j m ay go out 11 the evening, but
)e must be home by ten-thirty,
1 j-j 0 strolls in at midnight! He
h j s punished for a w ek—-not al-
| owef j to go out in the evening
at all . The next time he is per-
mitted to go out, the same
tfi n g happens. II; punctuality! seems to
have no seme of
What s the answer?
It would lake far too much
space to reply to that proper¬
ly, but th° question suggests
another—what has b en the
matter with thc time schedule
of MaDolm’s parents? Thev
are a decade in arrears, it i3
in 1he early v ars that punc¬
tuality should be tauvht Now
at fifteen—a good wfist
watch and fr endly coopera,-
tion might ho triwl aTld th k
r)r)rPri u s g^ould be sure that
Malcolm’s friends arr made
welcome in his home. These
measures will at least, be mors
effective than punishm nt.
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Happy 2C Girls
Tho Happy 20 Girls Social
club met at the home of Mrs.
Mattie Lee. Much business
was transacted and plans made
for thc motorcade to Spann’s
on August 29. Mrs Sadie
Branc , :i ls prcsldent and Mias
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