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The conference of 150 church women
leaders from twelve Southern States, on
“the spiritual approach to social issues,"
ended with the following pledge: “1 am
convinced that our constitutional free¬
doms are not shared by all'our people; my
religion convinces me they must be and
gives me courage to study, work, and lead
others to the fulfillment of equal justice
under the law. 1 will respond to calls
from the Southern Regional Council to
serve my faith and my community in the
defense of justice.”
GROOMING THU OLD “NAG”
We are not willing to believe that our
governor believes all he has said about the
Irwin county school case and its cons -
quences. It we believed it, we would be
much more depressed than we are, in
spite of the program of the Southern
Church Women whose pledge we have
given above. Of course, it is bad enough,
in the light of the facts at his disposal,
that our governor would give out in the
language attributed to him by the news¬
papers. He knows that the NAACP is
not an iniquitous organization; that the
suit in Irwin county asks only for equal
educational facilities arid opportunities
and not that school buses be taken from
white children; and that such cases are
not borings from within to establish Com¬
munism.” He knows as well that “the suit
is (not) a move . . . to destroy all that
the farseeing white and Negro people
have accomplished in progress in the last
few generations.” On the otherhand, the.
governor should realize that his assertion,
“his administration will fight the suit in
the courts, before public opinion, in Con¬
gress and ‘hand to hand with all our
weapons,’ ” is calculated more to destroy
what “white and Negro people have ac¬
complished in the last few generations.”
We belive the old “nag,” the race issue,
is trotted out as a campaign issue, since
the new registration law is a flop and the
whiskey cases, so far, have failed to qual¬
ify as campaign material. To assume
that the people of Georgia can still be ral¬
lied around the race issue, means that
Georgia politicians do not realize that “the
old gray mare ain’t what she used to be.”
It is understandable that a troubled con¬
science can manufacture the nightmare of
having to correct overnight an injustice
80 or more years old, that, has snowballed
to the tremendous cost of from one-hun¬
dred to two hundred million dollars. But
in all cases where Negroes have won
suits, they have shown a willingness, un¬
expected naturally, to cooperate with edu¬
cational authorities and states in working
out plans for having corrections in in¬
equalities to begin reasonably at once.
We insist that conferences between
I right thinking, competent leaders of both
E races on both the local and state level,
will be effective for reaching satisfactory
adjustments in this and other conditions
winch confront us.
NEGRO POLICEMEN IN THE SOUTH
It is gratifying to note that 62 cities in
12 Southern states are employing Negro
policemen. Figures show that there lias
been an increase of 53 policemen in uni¬
form, and 11 plainclothesmen; that Miami,
Florida, holds the lead with 30, an in¬
crease of 10, and Louisville, Kentucky is
second with 26, an increase of 11, over
last year. Louisville has opened promo¬
tion to its Negro policemen, one having
recently been promoted to lieutenancy.
SAVANNAH I AN TO KEYNOTE
NAACP YOUTH CONFAB
--
DAYTON, O., Oct. 20.—VV. W. and recreation. t
Law, of Savannah, Gn., forniei
president of the Savannah NAACP
Youth Council and member of the !
youth department’s National Plan¬
ning and Advisory Committee, will
deliver the keynote address at the !
Eleventh Annual Youth Confer- j
ence of the National Association!
for the Advancement , f Colored.!
People, to be held here November |
9-10.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, national:
youth secretary of the NAACP. i
announced this week that approxi- 1
mately four hundred delegates are
expected to attend the four-day i
conference as representatives of
youth councils and college chap- j
ters in thirty-eight states. Dele-;
gates will participate in committee
meetings, plenary sessions, and;
public meetings to formulate a;
plan for action for the attainment:
of full civil and citizenship rights
for the elimination of discrimina¬
tion from education, employment 1
FOUR
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March 3. 1879
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In at least one city, the Negro division has
been provided with two squad cars. In
every case, Negro policemen have shown
themselves as efficient officers, perform¬
ing the routine duties of law enforcement
officers. In every case a reduction in the
commission of crime has followed their
appointment.
The use of Negro policemen has passed
the stage of experiment in most cities,
and it is now time to think of them as
just officers, subject to the same orders
and subject to promotion and in-service
training, on the basis of merit, just as are
other members of police departments.
In our own case, we believe certain un¬
necessary restrictions should be removed
from our Negro policemen. Their useful¬
ness is limited as long as they are per¬
mitted to walk mainly on parts of two
streets. We believe squad cars would add
greatly to their efficiency. Our officers
report to a station separate from the
main station, over which a sergeant pre¬
sides. This arrangement prevents pro¬
motion and thus deprives Negro officers
of a necessary incentive. If they m'ust
report out. of a separate station, it should
not be difficult to work out a plan of pro¬
motion for them.
WHAT ABOUT HOUSING
Along with people everywhere in our
country, Savannahians look forward eag¬
erly to the passing of the new Federal
Housing Bill. They had feared that a
powerful lobby would conspire to cause
ihe defeat of the bill. The Housing Au¬
thority of Savannah applied in 1044 for
federal approval of 1,680 new low-rent
dwellings. “Carrying out this building
program will be the Authority’s first ob¬
jective under the Housing Act of 1940.”
954 of which will be for Negroes, and
726 for white people. The Housing Au¬
thority is qualified under a legislative act
to administer the development of housing
projects in this city. We can understand
the reaction of two of Savannah’s citi¬
zens, the chairman of the Authority and
a prominent builder, to the report on
housing recently rendered to the Cham¬
ber of Commerce. We know certain pre¬
liminary steps have to be taken 1 Ffbre
building can start, but we believe it will
be to the best advantage of the city to
do whatever it takes to get new projects
begun by the Housing Authority.
It is plain that it is beyond the ability
of private capital and property owners to
do ing the job/that do is needed, Yamacraw, if they are will¬
to so. Parts of Frog-
town, the area between Roberts and
Thirty-Sixth Streets and between Thirty
Ninth and Forty Third Streets on the
Westside, and almost all of thf area east
of Price Street to Gwinnett Lane, as far
east as Wheaton Street, makeup a strong
argument against the willingness or the
ability of property owners to do very
much toward clearing slums and provid¬
ing better conditions in the existing hous¬
ing. It was unwillingness or inability
that was at the bottom of the opposition
to the recommendations last year of’ a
Council Health Committee for certain im-
nrovements to be made to unsuitable
houses.
We do not understand the attitude of
Savannahians toward making use of the
provisions of the Housing Act of 1949.
Attention has already been called to what
other cities in Georgia, and in other
states, are doing to get going on their
slum clearance and redevelopment pro¬
jects.
Other speakers , at the t _ „
enee w ,!l mdude Rev.Horace
\\h,te of the Plymouth Comrre K
tional Church m Detroit, a
her of the Mayors ton.rn.ttee
Interracial l nity and former
her , of , the ., Detroit Housing Com- ,,
mission, and ... Hon. Hubert ,, , T. Do-
lany, justice ... in the Domestic .. Re- „
lations C ourt. New .. York City, and ,
member of the NAACP national
board , of , directors. ,.
The call to the conference, issued
by Mrs. Hurley, cited progress
made during the past year but
noted that “the enemies of
ress are not yet beaten.” Refer-
ring to “attacks by prejudiced
hoodlums (which) prevented
groes from swimming in public
pools in Youngstown, St. Louis
and Washington,” and to contin-
ued police brutality, the tall
the youth cf the nation “to close.
ranks in preparation of a new-
drive forward.”
CDC TO SPONSOR
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
WEEK
The Citizens Democratic club
^ sponsoi:ing a Good C lUzen-
sW Week> November 5-12-
dui . n? whi „ h an intenslve drive
^ carrled on for a worth -
^ ^ ^ , hp number of
Negro registered voters.
A . , house to . , house canvas will ...
, be made , . by members , of , the ,,
v
club , . . to interest . . . citizens ... in reg-
. ,
made 7 to all civic, religious and
other organization , ... to , , have
thei members join in this drive
for more registered voters. Any
citizen desiring to assist in
this drive should phone 5945,
2-4344, 3-3250 or 3-8634.
The efficient machinery of
the CDC which has already
been responsible for the regis¬
tration of over four thousand
persons is now greased to
gf& 2 tly 'inctease this number
in the conxmg drive,
The committee in charge of
the drive is composed of Joseph '
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dear. Gordon B Tancock for ANP
INTERKACIALISM NOT A TOTAL LOSS
In matters concerning race relations, things
are rapidly changing for the better! Evidences
are multiplying on every side to indicate that a
new day is dawning in race relations. Newell
Dwight Ilillis, a gieat yesteryear, once said that
nothing is so obvious as the slowness of our up¬
ward progress; and even Jesus, the Man of Gab¬
les, said that the “Kingdom of God cometh not
with observation.”
The finiteness of man makes him impatient
and at times despondent over his outlook upon
the world. In spite of the southern reactionar¬
ies and their reactionism the South is gradually
moving towards more amicable race relations.
Negroes are doing things and going places
that 1 ;<>ked impossible two decades ago. The
most staitiing thing about the Negroes’ advance¬
ment in the South is there is no great opposition,
once a beginning is made. The things that we
once thought would cause a moral and social
cataclysm are received in stride, and nobody
seems greatly upset thereby.
The greatest trouble with the South today is
not its unyielding traditions, hut the lack of men
and women with sufficient moral courage to take
the first step. This lack of moral courage is
just as pronounced among Negroes as among
whites; for the Negroes ef this country who see
the changes in the South and dare to depict them
are not Southern Negroes but Negroes from the
North. Negroes of the South are afraid to re¬
count the progress being made in race relations
and it remains for the enlightened Negroes of
the North to set forth the advantaged posi¬
tion of the southern Negroes in many respects
and that the northern Negroes are ready to ad¬
mit that the South too holds fine possibilites
for the future of Negroes is salutary, to say
the least.
Some weeks ago there was raging a contro¬
versy over who was the first Negro to become a
trustee of the community chest of a southern
city. Somebody thought that a recent appoint¬
ment was the first; and somebody else w'ent back
to the thirties; as a matter of fact, Richmond
had a Negro trustee as early as 1924 and every
year since then a Negro has served as trustee.
It was not without significance that Richmond
Timcs-Dispatch, along with the Chattanooga
Times, was heralded as the newspaper which
most fairly treats of race in the news, without
insinuations and disparagements. Almost every¬
V. Cochrah. J. S. Mims, J. H.
Oliver. Richard Heidt, Allie F.
Alston, Ida Hill, Leroy Wilson,
A. Morrell Mose Jackson E. J.
Oliver and Virgil C. Demery.
The Citizens Democratic club
is officered by Ulysses Elleby,
president; J. Mj Gaynor. sec-
retary; Dr. E. J. Smith,
surer, and J. W. McGloc.kton,
<U5trM
CLU ACCLAIMS
“HOMF nUlTlE. Ur OF iTHF I fin
BRAVE”
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—For the
first in its history, the American
.Civil Liberties has officially ac-
claimed a motion picture, with an
award to Stanley Kramer for his
production of “Homo of the
Brave,” it was announced today
by Roger Baldwin, ACLU director.
First Hollywood film ever made
on the theme of Negro prejudice,
“Home of the Brave” was selected
“as a great contribution to effec¬
tive understanding of one of our
major problems; a drama so grip¬
ping that it. should have wide
audience appeal,” said Mr.
win.
A bronze plaque will be
sented to Mr. Kramer, 36-year old
day, race news items are carried with the very
finest kind of references.
It was here in Richmond that “Cannon Ball”
Cooper a former Virginia Union football great
was given a place on the Richmond Rebels, a
white professional Football team with champion¬
ship possibilites. This writer saw him play his
first game and saw him make his football ex¬
ploits. One could not tell from the cheers which
race Cooper belonged to—the Negro or the
white. Richmond more recently had made anoth¬
er worth while gesture in race relations.
Branch Rickey who opened the door for the
Negro professional baseball players to sell their
ware to the big leagues has been invited to be
the speaker on the occasion of the launching
of the community chest drive for a million dol¬
lars. It is difficult to believe but it is true that
with community chest experts abounding in
this great land of oms, Richmond chose Branch
Rickey to shoot the apening gun in this great
community chest drive. Richmond knows too
well that Branch Rickey is to thousands of Ne¬
groes heie abouts an idol; that nothing would
please Negroes more than to see their idol hon¬
ored here in Richmond, Va., ‘ down where the
south begins.”—that Branch Rickey today is
the nation’s finest symbol of democracy in action;
that by featuring such man Richmond is showing
its heart to the nation and the world; that Rick¬
ey represents the spirit of tomorrow, wherein
man to man shall brothers be; that there is day¬
break on the horizon of the times and that
Branch Rickey may serve a moral midwife to
the travaiding South. Richmond knows that Don
Newcombe and Jackie Robinson and Roy Camp-
aneila would be unknowns had it not been for
Branch Rickey, and Richmond by inviting Rickey
is trying to say “well done.” Interracialism in
the South is not a total loss!
THE WORLD’S END
By William Henry Huff for ANP
I dreamed the world was at its end,
But I was not disturbed;
This old world will not crack or bend
’Til strife and hate are curbed, j
If it should crack and fall today
The devil will have won; ,
Then he would have the bigger say.
Now, that must not be done.
producer of the hit film, with the
inscription: “Award to Stanley
Kramer for “Home of the Brave,”
a pioneering film which accom-
plishes with high art the inescap-
able conversion of its audiences
to the equality of men regardless
of race.”
POSTAL CLERK FIRE
HERO; SAVES LIVES
OF OF 17 17
MARYSVILLE, Calif. (ANP)
[!ufl Gibhons, local post office
ployee, was credited last week by
Fire Chief William Reilly with
saving the lives of 17 trapped in
a blazing home for the aged.
Gibbons was working in the
office when fire broke out in
a lumber yard across the alley and
spread to Ebner house. He dash-
ed info the flaming old rooming
house, raced from room to
awakening the inmates. The
pants had barely enough time to
grab a few clothes and escape
the street.
According to Chief Reilly, Bib-
bon’s prompt action undoubtedly
prevented wholesale loss of life in
the historic rooming house. To-
tal damage was estimated to be
$100,000.
IT’S YOUR
VOTE!
WANT IT?
Unless you re-register the
elections of next year will find
voters
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
DOIT NOW!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919
HOME EDUCATION
BUILDING AND PRESERVING
MEMORIES
(By Lduise C. Hastings)
“The Child’s First School is the
Family”—Froebel.
(Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 4 0th
Street, New Yoik City. These ar¬
ticles are appearing weekly in our
columns.)
Before my children were bprn I
had ready for each, in turn, a
blankbook to be used for a first
section of an Autobiography.
Naturally, I myself always had to
make the entries in this first sec¬
tion, hut they followed a form
like this; My name is-. I was
born-.
Everything cf interest that hap¬
pened during the first seven years
i I recorded in an autobiographical
art angement—when the child was
christened, when the first tooth j
rame, sions new used, words pleasing and new amusing! expres- J
or
things done and said, a party giv¬
en or attended, and other events of
importance to the child. To add
realism and attractiveness, I
took innumerable Kodak pictures
which I pasted in, at the proper
places.
My daughters have always lov¬
ed these little first books, and 1,
too, enjoy reading them over and
reliving the many happy exper¬
iences of the children’s very early
years. One daughter started a
later “volume,” called “My Mem¬
ory Book.” In this she pasted
school and Church School records
of different kinds—her first con¬
cert program, party keepsakes, j
graduation pictures and programs,
and all like mementos.
I have a friend, now in the late
sixties, who all through the years
kept such books; these, however,
do not pertain merely to her owr
life and the lives of her children
In these books are wedding an¬
nouncements of friends, birth an¬
nouncements of their children
and accounts of the activities o 1 '
schoolmates. She f'eauent'v looks
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Observations i
I
by Willa |
i
I
Savannah’s number One Citi¬ I
zens are Commander and Mrs. :
Frank W. Sjoeneer, regardless 1
of race, creed, or color. i
I
Mrs. Martha J. Brown form¬
er instructor of religious edu-
catiun. at Shaw University, •
must live by 'a high Christian
standard in order to be able to i
deliver an inspirational message
such as the one she gave the|
women of the First Congrega- She! j
tional Church last Sunday.
challenged the women of all de- j ■
to get together to
find out why only 5.000 SavanT.
nah Negroes out of a total pop-' 1
bation of 45,000 could be
found in the 125 different j
churches of the city ■ on Sun- i
day mornings. This will mean:
a willingness to work with ;
one’s neighbor in the lanes and
slum sections, she advised. Her
well chosen subject was “A
Vision For The Day in Which
We Live.”
Rev. D D. Dickson, age 80,
has never spent a year in school.
However, he can read the Bible,
from Genesis through Revela-
tion. Incidentally, he is a j
regular purchaser of The Tri-
bune. said Upon inquiry, he j
that he wouldn’t buy the
paper if he could not read it. 1
A rather clever answer, we
thought. He was baptized six¬
ty years ago and immediately
afterwards discovered his abil¬
ity to read. He has been
preaching ever since. His
main hobby is helping to raise
funds for Georgia Baptist Col-
lege in Maeon. His memory
is remarkable.
I
John Q. Jefferson should
make a good leader for the
Community Chest Drive. Let’s
help “Jeff” iill that Communi¬
ty Chest. Molly McGee, actor
on the Johnson’s Wax program
over the NEC network, says,
“It takes a big heart to fill a
Comimmitly Chest.”
There are three first grade
teachers at the Haven Home
school with an average of fifty-
four students each. Mrs. Sa¬
die D. Steele is one of these
teachers. Imagine our sur¬
prise to learn that a part of
her leisure time is spent in
writing poetry. She has writ¬
ten a tribute to her iate moth¬
er which will be found on the
memorial page of this issue.
If for no other reason than
race pride, colored Savannah¬
ians should see “Anna Lucasta”
at the City Auditorium on Nov.
1st. We understand that the
play is worth the price of ad-
mission. Strange that the Gil-
bert plays and the Silas Green
Minstrels are the only two at-
tractions which have had ov-
erflow audiences at the Audi-
torium during the past fifteen
years. Let’s add “Anna Lu-
casta” to this list.
With Prof. W. D. Donnelley
as adviser of the January, 1950
Beauh-Cuyler graduating class,
w f can ‘ 3e sure H 13 - 4 this class
wil1 llse some of 'the Tribune’s
ink and type for their numer-
ous printing jobs. Our
Production manager, iij, one of
the best printers in town. He
* s a kly assisted by Charles A.
Simmons, Harold L. Brown,
and Nathaniel Jackson. ( a pro¬
spective high school graduate),
Stafford D. Bisard,'remains the
veteran linotype operator with
Harold Brown pinch-hitting for
E - W. Bellinger.
By now our readers know that
“Willa” has learned that a bus¬
iness concern has to “toot ita
own horn, or nobody else will.”
At least, we try to help the other
fellow, while we are tooting.
That reminds us that Mr. W.
S. Scott, Sr., manager of the. 1
Guaranty Life Insurance Co.
keeps his Tribune subscription
paid also /relieves two years in advance.iHe^ job
the Tribune
department can print anything
from his personal cards to the
most intricate statistical re-
ports. So far, there have been
no (complaints.
The high school column,
“Who Cares,” went over with a
bang last week. Liite “Obser¬
vations.” the make-up men are
not used to it yet. Remember.
teenagers, it your column is
not o)n page five of this issue,
it could be on any one of the
other seven pages. Make it a
treasure—hunt until found.
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'Between Friends,” the
monthly booklet from the Dixd
ie Engraving Co. (see ad in this
issue), arrived on schedule
last week. The editor, Mr.
Homer Twill, begins his inter¬
esting sayings with the fol¬
lowing “Modern Employee; A
person who draws a salary from
another and works entirely lor
himself.” On .page nine he
states. “It takes time for any
good thing to be recognized
and acclaimed as such.” Edi-t
tor Twill closes this little book¬
let with the following word:!
which “Willa” wants to 'ajjply
to her predicament at this
point: “I’ll b° going now, for
no better reason than I have
filled the alloted space.” Thakiks,
Editor Twill.
them over.
C>ne day, I read in the newspaper
of a mother who had started a
“Family Album” for her children.
This told them about their ances¬
try. She had chapters about their
great - grandfathers and great
grandmot h ers> on both sides of the
family. After this came interest¬
ing facts regarding members of
each of the generations that fol¬
lowed.
Recently, we have had given to
us a beautiful,.large leather scrap-
book which we plan to use as a
“Family Book.” The idea is to
paste' in the pictures of members
of our family as far back as they
can be procured; only names and
dates will be included. Pleasing
as such a book will be, one describ¬
ing characteristics of ancestors
and recording episodes in their
for the benefit of the boys
and girls of a family, would be far
more interesting and valuable,
The mother who had written
about her “Family Album” said
that probably the children would
not appreciate this book. This is
most likely true, bat the book will;
recommending to some others, day she be highly a suggested similar prized, that” proie< cfl (i J j
the relatives be invited to he^>
gather the data.
Do you mothers keep diaries? I
have kept a “Line-a-Day Book”
for many years. Just a sentence
revives much that is worth re¬
calling, as well as the funny hap¬
penings. My books contain au-
thenic data on many subjects.
From the time the children come
to us, we should try to build glo-
rious memories Tor them—mem¬
ories of happy home-life and har¬
monious family togetherness! I
overheard two fourteen - year - old
girls conversing. One said, “I
don’t like to recall when, 1 wan
small.” The other leplibd, “Oh,
those were the happiest years of
my life!” To hear such words is
an incentive to any parent to do
one’s best to make (hildhood hap-
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