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By J. H. DEVEAUX
SOL C, JOHNSON_________Editor and
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WHICH IS IT?
Governor Talmadge campaigned vig¬
orously for a measure to halt “Negro
bloc voting.” The legislature, after
much planning and amending, came up
with a law' that virtually wiped out the
old registration list of 1,200,000 voters
and set up a new registration procedure
with restrictive limitations to comply
with the governor’s desire to permit as
many white people and as few' Negroes
as possible to register. The legislature
passed the law, and set dates for its be¬
coming effective.
The new law ran into difficulties al¬
most at once. Few counties, the rich¬
er ones, put the machinery for registra¬
tion into operation without much ado,
but many counties failed for various rea¬
sons to carry out the provisions for reg¬
istering their citizens. The people gen¬
erally did not appear very enthusiastic
about the new law, and very few are
registered to date. Despite the fact
that every effort was made to have the
new law court proof, by omitting any
allusions to race or color, weaknesses
have been found in it, and one test case
has been taken to court and another is
oh the way. Aside from the probability
that the law will be declared unconsti¬
tutional in some vital respects, top lieu¬
tenants of the governor are feeling that
the new law is not an unmixed blessing
for the powers-that-be, and they are not
so sure that they want the new law to
replace the old law, that is, they “would
seek an amendment merely to add the
new voting list to the old one-instead of
replacing the old list entirely.” It ap¬
pears that the old list may not “be
scrapped” in favor of the new list.
This sort of uncertainty about the
registration law' leaves the people con¬
fused. The whole thing sums up to this::
legislation is not the way to stop bloc
voting; and it is very difficult to make
a court proof law in a democracy to
deny bona fide citizens of their rights
and liberties. We shall have to wait on
action from the legislature before we
oan know' which registration list will be
accepted for determining who are qual¬
ified voters. The law makers will tell
how to avoid confusion in the use of both
lists.
THE IRWIN COUNTY SCHOOL CASE
The press carried recently an article
telling of Roy Harris’ reaction to the
school suit in Irwin county and to the
attitude of Mr. Cook, the state law
partment, and the State Board of Edu¬
cation to appeal of Irwin county school
officials’ request for financial aid in
fighting the suit brought by 18
citizens. These citizens are asking for
educational facilities, for their children
be made equal to those of white children.
This advice from the Richmond
Dispatch to the counties of Virginia
appropriate for counties in Georgia.
was given at the conclusion of the
against King George county, Virginia:
“Now that precedents have been set
in this county, the other counties of Vir¬
ginia should be canvassing their school
problems and planning to equalize fa¬
cilities as expeditiously as possiblr
The obligation is there and must be
Much better feeling will be
throughout the State if the
move to meet it of their own free will,
instead of waiting for suits to be filed
on behalf of their Negro children.”
Several statements of Mr. Harris in¬
terest us very much, chiefly because
makes them. We have heard of many
objections to giving Negroes equal edu¬
cational facilities and opportunities, but
we have not heard this one: “Georgia’s
public school system will be
if the state did not fight the suit of Ir¬
win county Negroes asking for
educational opportunities. We do not
know that it will lie wrecked, but we do
know that there will be a whoAe lot more
hone for democracy in Georgia if every
child is given equal facility and oppor¬
tunity to benefit from public school ed¬
ucation. This is a new objection.
Furthermore, he says, ‘The suit should
be defended regardless of whether we
have a chance to win or not. It should
be defended as a delaying action if for
nothing else, for the protection of
white children in the state.”
This statement implies a doubt that
the state can win the suit. It also im¬
plies that something will be taken from
white children, or that harm will come
to them by dealing justly with Negro
children. This ideal is not new. It lurks
somewhere in the resentment shown to-
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ward a Negro who has a new automobile,
nice new house, or in some localities who
has a good farm, or who desires good ac¬
commodation in public places. The same
thing obtains as to good jobs, skilled
work, equal pay. action
To defend the suit as a delaying
also means that a large and discouraging
burden will be imposed upon the limited
financial resources of Negroes who are
willing to make the sacrifice to go into
court to fight for the rights which they
should enjoy because they are entitled
to them under the Supreme Law of the
land.
Again, Mjr. Harris says, ‘“any reason¬
able/ federal judge would give the state
a reasonable number of years to provide
equal educational facilities for Negroes,”
and he puts the cost to do this at $150,-
000,000. This is another admission
that the cause of the Irwin county Ne¬
groes is just. Why, then, not save
the state the cost of fighting the suit?
Why not advise the state and counties
to begin now to correct a wrong of long
standing? The fact that it will take
this tremendous sum to equalize facili¬
ties indicates that inequalities have
been allowed to run for a long time. For
instance, the value of school property
per pupil enrolled in Georgia 1945-46 was
$200 for whites and $41 for Negroes.
To equalize in this area alone would re¬
quire $41,198,649. It would be so much
cheaper and pleasanter for competent
persons to sit dow r n and seek just settle¬
ment in the matter of educational fa¬
cility and opportunity.
“CHANGE OF ADDRESS”
“Change of Address” is the title of
the second printed report of the Hous¬
ing Authority of Savannah. The report,
pamphlet in form, is a work of art. Ap¬
propriate pictures, photographs of real
houses and people, give emphasis to the
message which the Housing Authority
gives to all who are interested in Savan¬
nah’s becoming a city which hopes to
provide adequate and comfortable hous¬
ing to thousands of people w'ho have
never lived outside of blighted and con¬
gested areas.
The rejxirt gives in simple but strong
and readable language, the high cost of
poor housing and its effect upon public
order and public health. Samples of the
punch the context of the report contain
are the following: “Third-rate housing
usually produces only second-rate citi¬
zens at best . . . the slums also produce
the greatest share of sickness and crime
. . And in return for these heavy burdens
on the city, Savannah’s slums produce
the smallest yield of taxes.” “Wherever
bad housing is replaced with good hous¬
ing, there is a sharp drop in the disease
rate. But the Health Department can¬
not force people out of bad housing
when there is no place for them to go.
It is our opinion that much of the hous¬
ing in Savannah is beyond repair . . It
has been estimated that nearly 10,000
dwellings have outside toilets.” “Slums
exact a heavy toll from business and
industry . . Every merchant in Savan¬
nah is losing trade because of the slums.
Rents from slum properties often take
too large a share of the tenant’s income
and almost always exceed the true value
of the miserable shelter. Money that
goes to the slum landlord cannot be spent
for shoes and soap, bread and meat . . .
The slum landlord spends less for main¬
tenance than any other property own¬
er . . In short. Savannah’s slums rob the
tenants, the merchants, the employees
and the entire city. They contribute
nothing but evil and they charge an out¬
rageously high price for that.”
“Change of Address” tells how well
the Housing Authority has tried to
achieve the purposes of low-rent and
slum clearance housing. It answers
many questions as to the over-all cost
to those who live in the projects in op¬
eration. as to the permanence of con¬
struction. as to their cost and contribu¬
tion to the city.
Perhaps one of the most important
features of the report is that dealing
with the need for urban redevelopment
and the method of accomplishing it. One
primary need in this connection appears
to be to make the citizens and the city
government aware of the need and im¬
portance of urban redevelopment.
The Housing Authority makes clear
on page 88 of the pamphlet the steps that
must be taken before anything can be
done about redevelopment. We hope
whatever is necessary to taking these
steps will be done.
IBB SAVANNAH WtIBUWW
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon B lancock for ANP
Tin news that Russia has the atomic
bomb need not occasion great surprise'.
Even casual students of human affairs could
not discount the way the Russians 'have
been “talking back” to the western powers.
A defenseless nation would not evince such
doggedness as Russia has evinced without
knowing how to protept itself, in case war
ensued. Instead of our frenzy of jitters,
it is quite probable that Russia’s possession
of the atom bomb will contribute to the
peace of the world.
In fact, the peace of the world may be
appreciably nearer, sii\ce the atomic mo¬
nopoly in which white supremacists irusted
so implicitly is ended. When a man’s op¬
ponent is armed in kind, there is less chance
of a fight to <a finish. Nobody in a given
situation will easily resort tto deadly means
if the opponent also has those same means.
And herein lies the hope of the world; and
what a futile hope it: is, depending upon
the caprice of human nature which is in¬
herently capricious. Down through the ages
nations have dared in the face of such facts
as herein related, to attack other nations
and history is replete with their rude awak¬
ening and their utter destruction.
The tragic mistake was made whdn
atomic fury was “Practiced” against hapless
Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This was the;
tragedy of tragedies. Here we are today
suggesting an atomic race which gets no¬
body anywhere except to national bank¬
ruptcy or swift destruction. Here we are
shaken with jitters all because we first prac¬
ticed human destruction with the atom bomb.
This is a shame and a stain that) can never
bo erased from the pages of history. More¬
over, the fact that the bomb was tried out
on a darker people was double significance.
If the bomb was to be pressed into service
why was it used on the Japanese instead of
the Germans who were in the midst of
slaughtery millions of luckless Jews? Why
was the bomb not dropped on the Germans
who were repeaters in engulfing the nations
in world wars?
In the first place the bomb should never
have been tuitped to human destruction, un¬
less it had been turned upon the world’s
most dangerous nation, which most cer¬
tainly was Germany, the most ruthless and
dabolical ol all the nations of history. The
THE ROAD TO HEALTH
By W. Roderick Brown, >1. D
of Pittsburgh, Pa., for ANP
DIET AND TB
Jim Raymond looked reliev
ed when I told him, iollowing
his physical exam nation ana
chest X-ray, that his pains
meant indigestion. I was cer¬
tain that the correction oi
some eating hab.t that was not
agreeing with him would re¬
lieve his discomfort. But, for
some reason J m seemed to
hold back when I questioned
him about ins diet. *
Finally he told me that he
had been “downing” t'hree or
four raw eggs a day for the
past few weeks and had taken
very little food outside of that.’
In amazement, I asked him
why.
“Well, doctor,’ Jim looked at
the floor as he answered me,
"my grandmother died of tu¬
berculosis and I've always been
afraid I'd .nherit it. When I
got a bad cough recently,that
had me really scared. I once
heard tuat raw £ggs cured TB.
so I startad taking them in
:ase I was getting the disease.”
Jim had good reason to avo d
my eyes. Despite our friend¬
ship. he “just d.dn’t believe in
doctor I had often warned
Jim against his bad hab.t of
"prescribing" for himself when
he felt ill, and neglecting phy-
s.cal examinations. But I felt
now that he was embarrassed
because he was beginning to
suspect he was at fault.
“You were wrong on several
counts. Jim,” I told him. “First
of all. no one inherits tubercu¬
losis The disease is caused by
a germ wh.ch is spread from
person to person. Of course, if
sordid fact remains that the pouring out of
the vial of wrath upon Japanese was a part
of while supremacy picture. Even in met¬
ing out destruction upon mankind whites
were to be “preferred.” But to all intents
and purposes the atomic bomb as an instru¬
ment of human destruction for the eternal-
ization of white supremacy is working in j
reverse and herein lies the hopes of man¬ I
kind, Unless sad brotherhood as it seems. regins the , atomic de- J
struct.on of manakind is a certainty. It
al! harks back to the teachings of Jesus
Chr.st which formed the basis of he question
which formed the basis of the quotation
from the address I made before the Baptist
World Alliance in Atlanta in 1939 when I
observed “Men must be brotherized or they
will be brutalized.” No machlnization of
white .supremacists can make void the truth
implied in t ie brotherhood teachings of the
Son of God. In the final analysis it is
white supremacy or Christ! Fortunately the
socalled 'white nations are divided among
themselves. This was divinely decreed
even as was She ednfusion of tongues of
Babel and human salvation resides in the
brothcrization of mankind, which white su¬
premacy seeks to evade and avoid.
It is hardly probable that the two titans
among the nations will be so heedless and
so rash as to involve the world in a warfare
that easily may mean the extermination of
mankind from the face of the earth. Yet
the deepseated race prejudice of the Twen¬
tieth Century world poses a serious threat,
even a super-threat, to the peace of the
world, with its ldng evinsioned brotherhood
among thq sons of men. It is fervently to
be hoped that the leaders among the nations
will take stock of the deadly implications
inherent in the expressed or implied doc¬
trine of white Supremacy. Neither must
the peoples of the earth be blinded to the
Underlying fact of the dangerous interna¬
tional scenes. The real trouble that com¬
plicates world issues is white supremacy
whose advocates are committed to the hell¬
ish and damnable doctrine that the end
jusificu the means. Such doctrine invites
atomic warfare and human destruction to
the uttermost. The Western bloc is white,
the Russians are white. When vVhite threat¬
ens white maybe Christ and Peace have a
chance.
you had been in close contact
with your grandmother at any
time, you may have taken in
some of her tuberculosis germs.
Fortunately, the tes‘s I gave
you and your chest X-ray sttow
that you did not have tuber¬
culosis.
“In the second place, Jim,
if you had a cough that wor-
r.ed you, you should have come
to me immediately. By delay¬
ing your visit, you might have
let some serious illness get the
better pf you. Your third mis¬
take was your raw-egg d et. No
single food item gives a per¬
son all the nourishment need¬
ed by t'ne human body and it
certainly cannot cure a ser ous
chronic disease."
Jim seemed so uncomfortable
about the raw eggs that I tr.ed
to make him feel easier by
telling him there were others
who had strong notions about
tuberculos s, including the
“cure” with raw eggs or with
other foods. I expla ned that
while raw eggs were certainly
not (harmful, they were satis¬
fying his appetite without)
“leaving room” for other kinds
of foods that were also neces¬
sary to sound health.
I told him* that :f he did
contract tuberculosis, the best
and only way to fight it was
with rest under medical sup -1
ervision in a sanatorium. There
under professional medical j
care and a routine des gned he to j j
help him regain 'his health,
would have the best chance of
cure.
Before Jim left, I wrote him j
out a diet of nourish ng ioods
in the r ght proportion. When
I met him the following week,
his indigestion had cleared up.
Although his illness had not
been too serious, he had taken
a chance in failing to check on
what he thought might be a
ser.ous disease like tuberculo¬
sis.
There are some people, who, |
tacking correct knowledge !
about illness and disease, i be h-
lieve the strange notions or :
outmoded ideas which they
hear. These misconceptions
are the more dangerous when!
they have like to tuberculosis. do w.th a serious j
disease
Tuberculosis still kills close
to 50.000 Amer cans each year.
The toll would not be so high
if more people learned tne
■ facts about tuberculosis and
used them intelligently toward I
the pro'ection of their health
and their lives. Sound inior-j
mat on on the disease can be
obtained at the local health de¬
partment and from your (tu¬
berculosis associat.on.
This article is co-sponsored
by the National Medical Asso-
c.at on and the National Tu¬
berculos s Association in the
interest of better health of the
people.
“PREJUDICE” TO HAVE
ITS FIRST SHOWING
OCTOBER 17
“Prejudice,” the first mot on
picture ever produced in this
country under exclusively relig¬
ious auspices to achieve enm-
merc al theatrical distribution
will be launched with simul¬
taneous premieres in more
than 109 c.ties in the United
States and Canada, as well as
in London, England, on Octo¬
ber 17, it was announced by
Paul F. Heard, executive secre¬
tary, Protestant Film Commis¬
sion- Already tested in thea¬
tres of several major cities in
the east, the October 17 date'
will mark the beginn ng of si¬
multaneous distribution bo to in
35mm for theatres and 16 mm
for churches, schools, factor.es,
civic and fraternal organ za-
tions, labor unions, clubs and
similar groups. City and State
Councils of Churches Will
sponsor the premiere.
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 man y I
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
DOIT NOW!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 194S
HOME EDUCATION
MORE FRIENDS •
Helen Gregg Green
“The Child’* First School is the
Fam ly”—P'roebel
(Issued by the National Kin¬
dergarten Association, 8 West
40th street, New York c.ty.
These articles are appearing
weekly in our columns. )
Some time after Happy, w’ho,
as he rays, is “eight, goin’ on
nine,” had entered a new
school, the third grade held an
eiqct.on for Gass president
Happy was nominated, but fail¬
ed to win the honor his child¬
ish heart craved.
“I guess I’ll just have to
make more fr ends, Mommie,”
Happy confided to his mother.
The making of inends is an
important factor in every
cl* id's 1 fe. Your son or daugh¬
ter and ours should both be
given freedom to know, and to
1 ke, boys and girls having va¬
ried types of backgrounds;
and we should encourage the
appreciation of all natural dif¬
ferences-
School to the child is an ad¬
venture ,n Irving. The must
helpful lessons will parallel ev¬
eryday experiences. Making
friends, learning to adjust to
others, is a v.tal part of char¬
acter-building.
Children 1 ke to feel wanted
in the homes ot their friends.
One tawny-eyed youngster told
a pal’s mother, “I like to come
here! We pi’.ay all over your
hou e. At home Mom doesn’t
let me have the boys anywhere
but in my room.”
Your ch Id’s friends appre¬
ciate genuine, warm hosp tali-
ty. While the living room cer¬
tainly isn't the place for a
game oi tag, there should be
times when every member of
(the /jam 1 y may take friends
to any of the rooms .n the
house.
In books on social rela’ion-
ships unpopular youngsters are
'■■ften called “isolated” or “neg-
lectees” — serious sounding
names. The socially malad¬
justed child needs help and un-
Statement of the Ownership,
Management Circulation etc.
Required by the Act of Con¬
gress of August 24, 1812, as
Amended by thd Acts, of
March 3, 1933, and July 2,
1946.
Of The Savannah Tribune,
published weekly at Savannah.
Georgia, lor October 1, 1949.
County of Chatham:
Before me ,a notary public
in and for te State and coun¬
ty aforesaid, personally appear¬
ed Sol C. Johnson, who, having
been duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he
is tire owner of The Savannah
Tribune and that the following
is, to the best of his knowledge
and belief, a true statement of
The ownership- management
(and if a daily, weekly, semi-
weekly or tri-weekly newspaper
te circulation) etc., of the
aforesaid publication for the
date shown in the above cap¬
tion, required by the act of Au-
gust 24, 1912, amended q by
as
the acts of March 3, 1933, and
July 2, 1946. (section 537 Pos-
tal Laws and Regulations)
printed on the reverse side of
this form, to wit:
L, That the names of the
publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers
are:
Publisher, Sol C.
Savannah. Ga.
Editor, Sol C. Johnson,
vannah, Ga.
Associate Editor, J. H. Butler,
Savannah. Ga.
Assistant to Publisher and
Manager. Willa Mae Ayers, Sa¬
vannah, Ga.
2. That the owner is: (if
ownqi by a corporation, its
name and address must be stat -1
ed and also immediately there-
under the names and addresses
of the stockholders owning or
holding one percent or more not' of
total amount of stock. If
ownevi by a corporation, the j
names and addresses of the in-
dividual owners must be given.!
If owned by a firm, compafciy
or other unincorporated concern
iSs name and address, as well
as those of each individual
member, must be given). Sol
C. Jonsqn, Savannah. Ga.
C. Johnson, Savannah, Ga.
3. That the known bond¬
holders, mortgages, and other
security holders owning or
holding 1 percent or more of i
total amount of bonds, mort-
gages or other securities are 1 :
(If there are none, so state:'
None.
4. That the two paragraphs,
above giving the names of
derstanding If he is to be led
to develop so as to enjoy a nor¬
mal, happy life.
Children should never be
made to feel self-conocious
about their friends. In the ma¬
jority of cases, parents should
set an example in loyalty by
d scuss.ng only the beM char¬
acteristics of the boys and girls
brought to their notice. If,
however, the new chum is nob
the right type of playmate,
careful thought a,nd finess
must be used in d ssolv ng the
friendship. But—should the
problem be yours—don't forget
to give the child you have suc¬
cessfully brought up, thus far,
some credit for good sense. In
other words, don’t jump to
tragic conclusions.
My neighbor, J mmy, startled
his mother by say ng “Mike
wants to teach me thieving!”
Much perturbed, the mother
discussed the situation with a
psycholog st, Who advised her
to afford Jimmy the opportu-
n.ty of voluntarily giving up
any intimacy with Mike. When
she went home she said to her
son, “What was it you told met,
Mike wants to teach you?” j\. 1
“Thieving, Mother.”
“Do you want to learn thiev-
ng?” .he asked?”
“No, of course not,” he ans¬
wered. “I told h : m I liked my
freedom. And I said ‘anyway,
what would I want with a lot
of things that don’t belong to
me?”
“What d d he say?”
“He said there was something
m that- I told him f he was
going to steal, he’d better not
come around became I have
three fr’ends who are grown¬
up policemen.”
“Do you bke Mike?”
“Oh, so-so. I 1 ke John and
Philip better. Bat M ke doesn't
have anybody to tell him any¬
thing, and he’s not very smart.
Think of ivs wanting to teach
me to steal? Wasn’t that tun¬
ny?”
Jimmy’s mother d dn’t think
it was funny, but she was re¬
lieved, and a little ashamed,
too.
the owners, stockholders, and
security holders, if any conthin
not only the list of stockhold¬
ers and security holders as
they appear on the books of
the company, but’ also, in cases
where the stockholders or se¬
curity holder appear upon the
books of the company as trus¬
tees or in any other fiduciary
rotation, the name of the per¬
son or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given;
also that the said two para¬
graphs contain stataments em¬
bracing affiant’s full knowi-
bracing affiant’s full knowledge
and belief as to the circum¬
stances and conditions under
which stockholders and security
holders who do not appear upon
(Jhe books of the company as
trustees, hold stock and securi¬
ties in a capacity other than
that of a bona fide owner; and
tha(( this affiant has no rea¬
son to believe that any other
person, Rvioen, association Mooooiu vion U1 or corpora¬ CUi ]JU.
tion has any interest direct) or
indirect in the said stock, bonds
or other securities than as so,
“ stated by him. ’ 'J
5 . That te average number T
of copies of each issue of this
publication sold or distributed
through the mails or otherwise
to paid subscribers during the
twelve months preceding the
da t e shown above is 3229.
SOL c JOHNSON
Edit or and Publisher,
Sworn to and subscribed to
before me this 29th day of
September. 1949.
WILLA MAE AYERS
Notary Public
(My commission expires Jan.
26, 1951).
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“tlAj 7frT » c KNolALL ivtctai I
OFFICERS
The Alpha Theta Zeta chap-
ter of Zel - a Phi Beta sorority
-ield its first meeting of the
year at the W st Broad Street
YMCA. The following new of-
ficers were elected and install¬
ed in a s.mple but impressive
ceremony. Basil ms, Soror Es¬
ther Warrick, Anti-Basileus,
Soror Anita Stripling; Record¬
ing Secretary, Soror Luretha
Pr.rve; Financial Secretary,
Soror Jessie G.bbs; Treasurer,
Soror Rosamae Pirrn; Report-
er, Soror Madeline G Harrison;
Parliamentarian, Soror Ola B.
Dingle. Plans for the chap-
ters acitvit es have not been
completed yet, but the sorors
hone that this will be one of
their best years.