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Established 1875
By J. H. DEVEAUX
99L C. JOHNSON_______Editor and Publisher
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GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE
Mr. Colston. The way the friends of
education rallied fo retain Mr. Colston
as president of the Georgia State College,
was a tribute to him and, in a large sense,
compensation for relinquishing a post to
which he devoted so much toil and
thought to establish a sure foundation
for education of our youth at the college.
One of the significant things about it
is that it demonstrates that Negroes
can present a united front not only in
the espousal of a worthy person, but al¬
so of a worthy cause. Much as we re¬
gret to lose Mr. Colston, we accept his
view of the matter and consider his Res¬
ignation a closed case. Our very best
washes for success go with him. He has
rendered a fine service at the college
and has been a splendid citizen in this
community.
Mr. Payne. The Board of Regents
follows a custom in elevating Mr. Payne
to the position of acting-president of the
Georgia State College. No more happy
choice as successor to Mr. Colston could
have been made. lie is familiar with
the spirit and purpose of the improve¬
ments which have been achieved in the
last two years. He is familiar with ev¬
erything which went into making the
last two years the most significant two
years in the history of the college. He
inherits a more favorable condition than
any of the three presidents preceding
him. He should not be harrassed with
previous loyalties such as we know were
kept alive by a mastermind from the
outside during the past administration,
it will be stupid and vicious to impede
the progress of the college, or embarrass
the new administration by injecting such
loyalties. There should be only Geor¬
gia State College loyalty, and we count
on the alumni association to be alert to
snuff out anything, designed or unde-
signed, that will tend to retard or hin-
der the forward progress of the college.
The Tribune congratulates Mr. Payne
and the Board upon his selection as act-
ing president of the college, and wishes
him the utmost success in leading the
college to new levels of achievement.
VACATION IS OVER
In a few days, thousands of teachers
and millions of children, young men and
voung women will be trekking back to
schools, colleges, and universities, to
join in the world’s greatest cooperative
2 Farmers Shift to Food Crops
And Increase Their Income
Willie B and Robert Wil-
liams, successful farmers of El-
loree. S. C- ‘have shifted to
food crops and turned over to
tenants must of the cotton
acreage on their 350-acre farm,
reports the South Carolina
State Extension Service.
‘•Until around 15 years ago,
cotton and corn were all we
knew to grow to make money,
but still we didn’t make any,”
Willie B. Williams told an ex¬
tension service representative
recently. He is senior partner
with his nephew, Robert, in
their farming enterprise.
“Then,” added Mr. Williams,
“o»r extension agent explained
to us how truck crops and live¬
stock would increase our in¬
come and make it easier for us
to take better care of our
land."
Today, Mr. Williams and his
nephew are raising 10 crops for
market. They list 30 acres of
sweet potatoes. 20 acres of
string beans, 20 of tweet corn,
20 of cotton, 11 of tobacco, 20
of wheat, three each of peas
and lima beans, and 110 of
corn and oats for Jrticir 28
fiead of beef cattle and 34 head
of . hogs. .
The rest of their land in
cultivation, 85 acres of cotton.
is handled by five tenant fam-
dies. They are encouraged to
grow sideline crops, too. And
some of them are raising sweet
potatoes for market in addi-
tion to their gardens, pigs,
and chickens for home use.
Asked how much the two of
them are earning, the Wil-
liamses thought for a while
and then Willie B. said, “oh.
about $9,000 apiece gross. I
guess.” Their string bean crop
fclone brought them nearly
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enterprise. They will participate in
democracy’s great workshop which is
dedicated to inculcating and perpetuat¬
ing the ideals of democracy. The pub¬
lic school is the laboratory of democrat¬
ic citizenship. In it children will prac¬
tice democratic living.
School bells have rung in no more
crucial times than they will ring in the
next few days. Our country is expound¬
ing, in international councils, the merits
of democracy. Being the leading expo¬
nent of democracy abroad, makes it man¬
datory that it practice democracy at
home; that its citizens be the best edu¬
cated people in the world. Therefore,
adequately equipped schools must be pro¬
vided for all of our children.
From the kindergarten to the univer¬
sity, education, is for democratic citizen¬
ship. From the smallest school in a
rural district to the largest in a metropol¬
itan city, the urgent need and demand
is that children go to school. Accord¬
ingly, we urge the parents of our chil¬
dren to enroll them in school the first
day, and to see to it thereafter, that they
attend every day that school is open.
We salute The Hub and the local
alumni of Georgia State (
chapter of the
College. These organizations sent the a
committee to Atlanta to confer with
Chancellor of the University System on
the resignation of Mr. J. A. Colston.
Such service justifies the existence of
these organizations, and is a sign that
Negroes are becoming more and more
a vsire of the need for making their
wishes known to policy-making and ad¬
ministrative bodies. It will be neces¬
sary to do this sort of thing until they
art' represented on such bodies by Negroes
who have their respect and confidence.
■-
j t ; a no t f a j r to call the ado in a New
York city over Paul Robeson’s concert
{l race r j 0 t. It and the affair in Gary,
I n diamt, were a part of the program of
commun i.stic groups to start trouble. It
is wo j] kn0 vvn that their plans for
world domination call for stirring up
trou t,i e wherever they can. It seems to
Us ^ dragging these incidents a
long way to make them comparable
with what goes on in the south. W e
do not see what segregation has to do
with these happenings^ Race had m»th-
mg to do with the Robeson *
was purely a case of citizens p resenting
him and his followers as >omg pio-
muniats.
> *7,000 this year,
| young Roobert Williams
just getting started in farming.
He is picking up where his late
father left. off. With a high
school education and addi¬
tional training in agriculture
at South Carolina State col¬
lege, he is planning to make it
‘his career.
The elder williams has been^
farming all his adult life. He'
started out with 11 acres given
him by his parents- Little by
little he has added to it, until
his holdings now total 230
acres.
For him farming has been
more than raising crops and
livestock and buying modern
farm equ'pment Also, it has
been a way of life which has
provided a good living for him¬
self and his family They live
in a comfortable brek home
which he and a hr other de¬
signed and built. Tt, is a model
for the community. There are
11 children—five away and six
at home.
i two of
Id 1 ke for one nr
,. them remahl , the .. farm .
i on
^dkeep it going Part of this
I laad has bwn “ tl * fa ’ n ’ 1 *
i - since shortly after the Civil
War,” said Mr. W iliams.
j Continuing, he added, “That
I how did it. Two of
is we us
boys stayed on the farm; the
other three chose other fields
of work ”
Qne of Mr williams’ broth-
e rs is state leader of extension
A >ork. another is a physician in j
j south Carolina, and the third
j s executive secretary of the
Chicago Urban League. |
S^pfnu < to!t HIGH
LOS ANGELES (ANP> — A
young fraternity leader was
recenty appointed administra-
time assistant of the County
hospital, working with Arthur
J. Will, superintendent of char¬
ities.
His work win give him ad¬
ministrative activities in con¬
nection with five hospitals
Robinson received his master's
degree in hospital administra¬
tion from Northwestern uni¬
versity in June, 1948.
He is the son of Dr. Shelby
Robinson of Los Angeles. In
his fraternal work he is presi¬
dent of the Los Angeles grad¬
uate chapter of Alpha Phi Al¬
pha fraternity.
HOUSTON INFORMER
56 YEARS OLD
‘HOUSTON. Tex. (ANPi
This week The Informer and
Texas Freeman published in
Houston is observing its 56th
birthday. This newspaper at 5‘
is one of the nation’s oldest
Negro newspapers.
It is the result ol the merger
of two famous old Texas news¬
papers. The Informer and the
Texas Freeman- The Freeman
was founded in 1893, and the
Informer some years later.
Carter W. Wesley and J. A
Atkins, publishers, first bough!
The Informer in 1927 from C
F. Richardson. In 1930 they
bought the Texas Freeman and
combined the two into what it
popularly known as The In¬
former
Today the Informer enter¬
prises is the largest Negro
business in the Southwest. It
hires more than 70 persons in
its home plant. At the same
time it runs three other news-
papers, the Dallas Express, the!
New Orleans Informer-Sentinel j
and the Shreveport (La ) I
Over $4000 in Calves and Pigs
Sold bv 4-H’ers at Stock Shho
we savannah mnimv
4 IN THE SAME BOAT , LET US WORK TOGETHER'
MADISON, Wis. (ANP)—Two
men cleared by the FBI of
peonage, were ordered to be
placed under arrest last week
by Sheriff Herman Kerl of
Dane county for violation of
State laws oy dece ving south-
ern Negro workers to come to
work for them.
The accused men are two
while brothers, Joseph Racek,
president, and Frank Racek, qf
the Maze Food Products com¬
pany in Mazomanie. Accord-
i rg to warrants sworn out by
tho sheriff, they lured the mi¬
gratory workers to the north to
work by offering them pay
and working conditions they
did not provide. ,n,
The sheriff’s warrant says
they “d ! d unlawfully influence,
induce and persuade workmen
to accept employment in this
state by means of false and
decept.ve representations as to
amount and character of com¬
pensation and other conditions
of said employment.”
In the meantime the Federal
Bureau of Investigation an¬
nounced that its investigation
revealed no <im\catioins of
peonage or violations of work¬
ers’ civil rights. Asst. U. S.
Attorney Carl Runge said, “at
WASHINGTON, D. C,-
tucky colored boys and girls
sold $4,365 worth of calves and
pigs last week at their second
annual livestock show held in
Russellville, Ky.. reports Ben¬
nett K. Brown, agricultural
extension agent of Logan and
Simpson counties and director
of the show.
Owner of the grand champ-
ion calf, an Aberdeen Black
Angus. was Ray J. Young of
the Round Pond Community,
His calf weighed 1015 pounds
and brought $300, including the
prize money. Second place
award went to a Hereford calt
owned by Doris Gaines of the
Olmstead community. Her calf
brought $265.
The champion p’g was owned
BASEBALL SUNDAY
AND MONDAY AT
SPORTSMANS PARK
A three-way doubleheader
will be played at Sportsman’s
Park Sunday between the Sa¬
vannah T.gers. the Savannah
White Socks and the Savannah
Browns and on Labor Day
(Monday) the Savannah Ti-
gers will have as their oppon -1
ents, the Augusta Giants.
,
Special bus service will be
run to the park from Henry
and West Broad streets, both
Sunday and Monday.
Tomorrow (Friday) night a
motorcade will be carried to the
where a ball game will be
played between the Savannah
Red Socks and the Savannah
the moment there appears no
ground for federal charges.”
The case first came to the
attention of local and national
authorities about a month ago
when 40 workers from the food
firm went out on strike against
■ company and distributed
handbills saying, “End slavery
in Wisconsin.”
They complained that the
work farm was unsanitary, the
food was no good, and the pay
was ton low. They were seek¬
ing wages of $1.25 an hour on
a guaranteed 40 hour week.
The r pay had averaged be¬
tween $10 and $20 a week with
$9 80 taken out for board and
more taken out for advances
on clothes. Joseph Racek said
he paid a minimum of 60
cents an hour to men and 50
cents to women.
T.ie season is set to run
from June 10 to October I. It
has been hinted that the state
department of health may
bring charges against the Maze
farm for “what appears to be
several violations of state
health regulations.”
H. Michael Essin of Milwau¬
kee, a Progressive party candi¬
date for state attorney general
last year, ‘helped bring the sit¬
uation to l.ght.
by Virgil Lee Dickerson of
Adairsville community. This
pig we ghed 320 pounds and
brought $90. The second place
pig belonged to Fred D. Sweatt
and hrought $60. Altogether.
17 calves and 22 pigs were sold
for a total of $4,365.68.
Principal speaker at the live¬
stock show was A. H. Fu'Vir, ad¬
ministrative officer from the
Washington office of the Farm
I credit Administration. He d s-
j cussed the importance of co-j
operation between parents and
4-H'ers in carrying out success¬
ful nrojects.
Livestock judges were Grady
SeUards, sw no specialist, of the
University of Kentucky, and
John Grady, agricultural ex¬
tension agent of Hopkins coun¬
ty.
Sgt. Wallace Returning
Japan
GIFU, Japan—Sgt. Woodrow
Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alien Wallace of 715 W. Bol¬
ton street, Savannah. Ga, has
recently left the 24th Infan¬
try. now stationed at Camp
Gifu, Japan, for return to the
United States for reassign¬
ment. The 24th Infantry is a
pa; 25th Infantry
'Tropic L ghtning) Division
commanded by Major General
William B. Kean.
Sgt. Wallace entered the
army in July, 1941. and re¬
ceived his basic training at
Camp Lee, Va. He departed I
for overseas duty in July, 1943.
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The fear of the Lord is the j
beginning of wisdom.—Pro- | j
9.
By Willa
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Now that the GSC contro¬
versy is closed, we will have
time to think about our new
high ecuool and the folks who
will be there when it is open¬
’d Upon inqu ry, it was learn¬
ed that the building will not
be ready until later in the fall
much to the disappo ntment of
Mr. Vick, the new superinten¬
dent of the board of education,
as well as the rest of us. How¬
ever, registration at the other
schools will start Sept. 9 and
school beg.ns Monday, Sept.
12 .
Surely, ail elementary school
teachers who heard the U. S.
Steel program over WSAV last
Sunday evening would lik? to
have a recording of “The Man
Who Invented Music” to be
used during their “Music Ap¬
preciation” periods at school.
The “Children’s Corner” of
this program is always inter¬
esting.
One of the editorials in the
Atlanta Constitution last Sun¬
day raised the question, “Why
Not Discontinue Reregistra¬
tion?” It begins: “The decision
of Cobb County to halt rereg¬
istration the first week in Sep¬
tember brings up the question
of whether all Georgia counties
would not do well to follow
suit ending the outcome of the
court actions challenging the
new vote law.” Other comments
are . . . “Frank Wellons, chair¬
man of the Board of Regis¬
trars, said the number reregis¬
tering ‘does not justify throw¬
ing more tax money into a
vacuum of indifference’......
Voters, understandably, are not
keen on going to the trouble of
qualifying under a law whose
validity tm 1 i r) i t •> nwni<nnl presently Ui in is ♦ the U n subject r. n U i rt/it
of doubt.....From all indi¬
cations court decisions on va-
1 clity of the new law will be
handed down in ample time
for reregistration to be com
pleted by the prescribed date
if the law should be held valid.
Would it not, then, be wise, as
well as more economical, to
discontinue reiuRistration u\n-
til that time? Perhaps it would
be even wiser for the January
session of the Logisla$urb to
abolish the law entirely ”
We quoted from the Consti¬
tution editorial mainly to have
our readers observe the last
sentence in it.
Mrs. P. B. Eichelberger, one
of our readers in Atlanta,
wr.tcs that she and her hus¬
band spent a two weeks vaca¬
tion in California. O. E. S.
members will be interested.
Mrs. Bertha Doyle and
daughter of 509 W. 40th street,
are having a grand time in
Tuskegee visiting friends. They
will be home soon.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. John- ’
son of 820 w. 45 th street, and,
Mrs. Margaret Walker of
street, left Tuesday by mo- |
tor for Los Angeles. Califor- i
nia. The Johnsons will attend)
the National Baptist Conven- ■
The group has planned an |
interesting Mrs. Laura itenirary. N. Parks of New j |
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
HOME EDUCATION
DADS ARE IMPORTANT, TOO!
Helen Gregg Green
“The Chiid’s First School is the
Family”—Fr/jebel
Issued by the National Kin-
1 dergarten Association, 8 West
40th street, New York city
These articles are
weekly in our columns.
In most homes until recently,
the ch of responsibility for the
physical, mental and spiritual
development of the children
rested the * mother, while
upon
providing food, clothing and
shelter has been Dad's prob¬
lem. But attitudes regard ng
parenthood have changed
Presentsday ■ parents realize
that a child’s character growth
is more vigorous under the di¬
rection of what someone has
called the “Unified F,rra of
Dad and Mother, Incorporat¬
ed.” Both parents’ lives, too,
are enriched when together
they share their sons’ and
daughters’ lives from the be¬
ginning.
Fathers, who in the past
usually pa d little attention to
their youngsters—after baby¬
hood—until they were at the
companionable age, missed a
lot of wortnwhile fun. They
discovered too late that they
could not suddenly develop a
happy, satisfying comradeship
with adolescent sons and
daughters. Frequently they
lost out completely, and Dad
was to the children like a
stranger—to the tragic loss of
both Children and father.
Today’s understanding fa¬
ther real zes that there should
occasionally be an opportunity,
free from the restraining pres¬
ence of the rest of the family,
when son or daughter may
discuss with h‘m th ngs close
to childish hearts. Together
they find such occasions and
these prove to be to them, the
means for build ng rewarding
father-child relationships.
One young father in our
neighborhood takes frequent
h‘kcs with h s son. While these
T I&1I, s1nn P a - fhurrh L * 1Urc " dedicates Drrlirales
New $106,000 Building
TAMPA. Fla- (ANP)—'Visit¬
ors of both races jammed the
New Greater Bethel Baptist
church here last week for the
dedication of its new $110,000
modern cdificc thus markin?
the high point in the church's
four-week observance of its
58th anniversary.
Bethel was founded in 1891
as the Ebenezer Bapt'st church,
but its name was later chang¬
ed to Greater Bethel. Its pas¬
tor is Dr. Jacob Wesley Rhodes,
who lias led the church’ since
1936.
Its anniversary celebration
opened July 31 and will close
August 28. Numerous guest
ministers already have spoken
from the pulpit and others are
scheduled to speak Other ae*
tivities include musical pro-
(
grams, radio broadcasts, teas,
'
and various youth activities.
Both Negro and white minis¬
ters have cooperated to help
make Bethel - S annlvcrsary pro _
grams a success. Mayor also" 1 Curtis ^
Hi X on of Tampa sent a
message to the church.
The National cemetery at
Yicksburg, Mf-s., conta ns
119.75 acres-
York city renewed her
subscription this weik and
added a note ,of “thanks” for
prompt delivery.
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Payne
are receiving congratulations
th s week for being honored
with une positions of acting
president and first lady of
Georgia State College. This
young couple has been watch¬
ed with interest during their
six years in the city. They
represent everything to be de¬
sired in persons to hold their
antic.pa'ted positions. Al¬
though both are teachers, they
have not been too busy to at¬
tend and participate in the ac¬
tivities of the church of their
choice. Their children ’ w’ll
always be found with them in
their pews on Sundays when¬
ever they are in the city. May-
be the key to the success
this couple is that they recog-
nize the power of a Supreme
Being.
That reminds us if there are
those who have not been able
, to decide on a church to join,
a good chance to make a
cision tttill will Un be Hiixirin' during tKrt the C/iVtnnl School
of Evangel sm at the First Con¬
gregational church, Sept, Il¬
ls. Top ranking speakers of
the denomination, white and
colored, will be present. Those
who have attended AMA schools
know what to expect.
Thanks for the nice com¬
ments from our readers. Some
weeks, however, we may nave
to disappomt you as our job
includes duties as publisher,
editor, reporter, proof-reader,
book-keeper, real estate agent,
private secretary, etc. In oth¬
er words, we have done some
of everything at the Tribune,
except operate the L ; notype
machine. -We refuse to try to
learn how. There is a limit
even to a “Jack of all trades.”
Remember your seven cents
keeps a 75 year old Negro bus¬
iness in business for your con¬
venience- Send your news to
the Tribune. Read all the ads
in this issue and save money.
Kindergarten
Open Tuesday
The Hill Kindergarten, lo-
cated at Love and Ferrill Sts.,
will open Tuesday, September
6. If you wish to register your
child for school, contact Mrs.
Lillian Hill at 1021 Demmond
street, or call 3-9072.
IT’S YOUR
VOTE!
WANT IT?
Unless you re-register the
elections of next year will find
you voteless.
The rc-rcgistration 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!
seem casual, they were actually-
planned when brown-eyed Jer¬
ry was small, and have been
faithfully continued. “As we
walk, 'Skipper’ asks questions
and we discuss the week’s per¬
sonal happenings as wdt' as
wliat js going on in the world,”
de said. “Gradually we acqu're
new capacities for friendship,
understanding, and learning."
Through the channels of
conversation, young thinkers
may be taught the true values
in life. Fathers, as well as
mothers, ought to learn to be
good listeners. A child need3
to build his experiences into a
meaningful whole. To do this
Dad should play a leading
part, since it is important to
have a masculine as well as a
feminine pattern to follow. He
can do much to stimulate new
interests, for usually he has
outside contacts wider than
Mother’s. And Mother’s ten¬
dency toward over-protective¬
ness is balanced by Dad’s in¬
clination to direct children to¬
ward activities involving some
risk. ill*
A wise father avoids being
the know-it-all type of parent. )
He encourages all progress
both mental and physical, es¬
pecially the right of h‘s child¬
ren to think for themselves. At
all t mes must your child feel
Dad will understand him wh,en
he is in trouble, for then he
needs a friend more than at
any other t‘me.
If Daughter and Son Know
they are approved and appre¬
ciated by the most important
persons in their world, it will
give them confidence and abil¬
ity to bu‘ld other genuine re¬
lationships. If they are un-
not red by a dad who is “too
busy.” they feel a loss of Se¬
curity—a hurt and wonder¬
ment that may leave a scar
throughout the'r lives. On the
other hand, a rewarding rela¬
tionship between father and
children is a stepping, stone
from childhood’s dependence
into happy and independent
adulthood.