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CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
Having attempted to give a definition
of civic and social responsibility, the ques¬
tion now* should be, who bears or should
bear the responsibility. The tendency is
to feel that the other fellow should bear it.
This is not the feeling of everybody. In
almost every community there are those
who put time, energy and money into civic
and social projects with no thought of re¬
ward, with little hope that those who profit
most by their services will return grate¬
ful appreciation to them.
These civic or social minded individuals
are rewarded if their services promote the
welfare of the city and satisfy the needs
of the segment of the population that will
more or less remain the wards of the pub¬
lic.
The humblest citizen can bear his part
of responsibility for civic welfare in many
small ways: he can keep himself and his
surroundings clean; he can be law-abid¬
ing, he can become a voter, he can send
his children to school, These are samples
of the little things one can do in meeting
his *ivic obligation. If every person who
lives in a house would keep litter from col¬
lecting in front of it, or if he heeded the
urgings of his fellow-citizens to register,
he would be bearing a part of his respons¬
ibility to his city and community. The
humblest citizen can not so easily meet
the requirements of social responsibility.
Individuals who have time, ability to con¬
tribute money, and intelligence must and
do, for the most, part, hold themselves
accountable for carrying on the work of
the community’s social agencies—a work
that is absolutely necessary, but for which
the thinking of organized government
makes no provision. what Savannah,
When we think of or
any other city, would lie without the boy
and girl scout organizations, the Boys Club,
Hodge Memorial, Mills Memorial, the or¬
phanages, milk distributing organizations,
Greenbriar and the rest ot the member
agencies of the Community Chest, we
wonder how many citizens able from the
standpoint of ability to contribute time
and money—w'e wonder how such citizens
can be indifferent to the responsibility
which is so plainly theirs. Even after the
•hest is raised, the need for volunteer ser¬
vice remains. other¬
It is curious that far too many
wise good citizens coufd Tender effective
service, if they could be brought to admit
that their success places them under ob¬
ligation to thw public.
NEW YEAR’S DAY
The first day of January has a differ¬
ent significance to different people. To a
large number of people it is a day for mak¬
ing resolutions to guide their conduct dur¬
ing the year. To many it is just another
day. To' most Negroes it is significant as of
marking the anniversary of the signing
the Emancipation Proclamation bv the
great Abraham Lincoln. To them it is
the day upon which to celebrate the great¬
est event in the history of the American
Negro. Parades are held and programs
are carried out. Floods of oratory deluge
waiting audiences, reviewing for them the
experiences of their fore-parents, and ex¬
tolling the virtues of the Liberator. The
has been to talk too much about
Capt. Taylor Writes j
Editor Twill !
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i The following is a copy of a
letter mailed to the Dixie En¬
graving explanatory: company which is self- j
Oliver Gen Hos.;
Augusta. Ga. j
20 December, 19*.9 1
Homer Twill, Ed.tor
Between Friends j
444 Wnitaker St.
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Mr. Twiii,
In your December 1949 1 -
sue of "Between Friends." the
article titled "Civ 1 Rights"
found on page 5 is not appre-
ciated I do not consider it as
being funny nor do I think tha‘
it is appropriate. considering >
the fact that a good portion of
vour income is derived either
directiy or indirectly from that j
group of people that you have j
tried to r.dicule in your un-
timely remarks.
However, after having read
the last sentence of your 'Ob¬
servations of a North Carolina
Philosopher”, found on page 13 I
of the same issue <see below i.
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the past and not enough about the future,
to think too much of the emancipation as
the end of a destination and too little of it
as a beginning and a challenge into compe¬
tition with their former masters whose in¬
terest in them as property was replaced
by bitterness to them as human beings to
be hampered and kept down and to be ex¬
ploited in every way possible.
The Emancipation Proclamation was ac-j a
far more momentous document that
complished a fact of far more significant j
meaning than we have as yet been unable,
to fully appreciate. Negroes have only |
practically recently begun to realize, mere-1
ly partly, that the emancipation of the
slaves, was mainly freedom from physical
bondage. Negroes are •beginning to real¬
ize that freedom is something to be won.
Their glorious participation in all of the
struggles for the triumph of democracy
and iiberty have taught them that liberty
and freedom are achievements of long and
hard fighting; that human beings in post- j
lions of advantage do not ?is a rule hand j
to other rights human and privileges beings they voluntarily, themselves the j
same ‘
enjoy. made remarkable
While Negroes have
progress within eighty years under the 1
handicaps placed upon them, we are not
so sure they could not have done better.
May be another race in similar circum¬
stances would have developed the same
weaknesses which they are said to possess.
Realism dictates that there are other
emancipations at this time in our history
more important: emancipation from ignor¬
ance and superstition, from economic in¬
security, from the evils of segregations
and discriminations, and from the res*ric- j
tions imposed by unequal opportunities, j
Some of these freedoms depend upon our ;
own efforts, upon our own intention to
meet occuring situations with confidence.
A TEST OF SINCERITY
The outcome of recent decisions in cer¬
tain courts and the expressed intention of
southern statesman, is a sign that the
struggle of Negroes for just treatment is
nowhere near the end. The recent deci¬
sion in a federal court as regards the suit
of Negro teachers in Atlanta, is a case in
point. That suit has been in the courts
for nearly nine years. The resistance ot
the Atlanta Board of Education- shows
plainly that it does not mean to allow equal
salaries to Negro teachers, the dictates ol
conscience, justice and the spirit of democ¬
racy to the contrary notwithstanding.
It is strange that opponents of civil
rights for Negroes and other minorities
will not concede that the very arguments
they use to protect their so-called rights,
are applicable in the fight of Negroes fori
civil rights. If they are sincere in their |
declarations that they object merely to feci- i
eral interference, and that they, let alone,
can deal justly with Negroes whose con¬
tentions are just, southern statesmen could
save the country much • embarrassment,
and could escape the charge of being hy¬
pocritical and inconsistent, if they would
see to it that justice in all areas of citizen¬
ship be meted out to Negro citizens. In¬
stead. we expect to see bitter opposition
to any effort on the part of Congress to
implement the provisions of the Constitu¬
tion by appropriate legislation, t
I could very easily understand
why “Civ 1 Rights” was writ-j |
ten. smallest)
• People with the
minds d scuss people.
With oust wishes for a
^olesome Merry Christmas and a more!
attitude towards;
certain minority groups n the
New Year. I remain.
Very truly yours,
L P. Taylor.
Capt. Cav. (Arm’d) i
P S. Please name newspa- i
per and give date of publica-j
ticn of clipp ng quoted on page j
14 in tue December is tie of
vour publication
The article on "Civ 1
Rights” as published in "Be-
fween Friends” is as follows,
*In the light of current
events, a retelling of the fol-
lowing story fifty years ago
seems timely. A couple fropi
Boston spent a winter in Au-
e lls * a became very fond of
an old colored woman they met
there. They invited her to
visit their home_ in Boston at
their expense. In due course.
after returning home, their vis-
‘or arrived Every courtesy
,-as extended her. and c he even
had her meals with the host
hostess. One day at din-
ner, the host remarked, with a
certain smug of satisfaction in
his own hosp tality:
.. x ; ma gine that during the
time you were a slave, your
master never Invited you
eat at his table.”
’• No, suli, he didn't,’ re¬
plied the old darkey. Mv
master was a genTman. He
never let no nigger set at de ta-
ble 'long side of him’
JAN. 16-31
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THE NATIONAL FOUN0ATION f0« INFANTILE DUUSIS
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“THAT'S BECAUSE WE DON’T PRACTICE WHAT WE SING”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dear Gordon 11 lancock for ANP
A YEAR OF YEAKS-
There are many evidences that 1950 will be
a year of years! Critical decisions are in the
offing; momentous events are being weighed in
the balances of time. Chaptered events of his¬
tory are being delicately poised and the moving
finger that Omar saw writing, having writ,
moves on. The outbound train of times tarries
not at the station of interesting events, but
speeds on into the Great Somewhere and onto
a Great Something far removed from human
ken.
"The past is prologue”! From any angle
1949 was a stirring year whose episodes posed
eternal questions of eternal concern to mortals,
riding the outbound train of Time. Mankind
today is pranking with the deadliest weapons
ever handled by humankind and only the most
careful handling can faintly insure the world
against another dreadful wan that will scourge
the sons of men.
When New York City’s water supply runs
low, New Yorkers are called to prayer; when
stranded flyers are clinging to their rafts tossed
on the bosom of the deep, they invariably unite
in prayer; in every critical moment of human
affairs human faces are turned unto the holy
hills whence cometh our help. By that same
token it is time for mankind to earnestly seek
in prayer the power that is sorely needed to
stave off the destruction of humans from the
face of the earth. We are facing a critical year
and we may as well face the ugly fact. Prank¬
ing with deadly weapons has ever been a dang¬
erous tiling and when these weapons are atomic
and the prankers are nations, we are on the
eve of lire efents. New meaning may at any
time be given to the beatitude which says “The
shall inherit the earth,” for when the war¬
like nations destroy themselves the Africans
and Pacific Islanders may inherit the earth or
that part of it that will be spared the earthly
damnation of atomic warfare.
By every token our own great America should
be the John, The Baptist nation among the na¬
tions crying in this wilderness “prepare the
way of the Lord and make his paths straight.
But the voice of our great country is muffled
March of Dimes Campaign
To January 16
j The 1951 March of D.me^
will open its campaign through-
j ou t th e na t on January 16 and
w. 11 continue until January 31.
Twenty three outstanding
leaders in civic, social,
Inal and business 1 fe have i
(sued an appeal to tue American
people for support of the drive.
The severe polio epidemics of
1949 cost more than s31.000.000
for hospital care alone. Ap-
proixtmatelv 20.000
1 stricken with polio in 1949 will
require treatment in 1950,
The research and educat on
program, patient care for chil¬
dren and adults of prior years,
and the preparedness for epi¬
demic in 1950 require many
m llions of dollars. Recogniz¬
ing the needs of the National
Foundation for infantile paral¬
ysis, the following persons have
. issued personal appeals for
I volunteer campa gn
and for generous contributions
J j to the 1950 March of Dimes:
Dr.Walter G. Alexander, Or-
I ange. N. J-: Charles W. Ander-
| I son, Jr„ asst, commonwealth’. 1
attorney of the 30th Judic a
District of Kentucky. Louisville
Mrs. A1 ce P Allen, nationa.
Pres., lota Fill Lamda sorority.
Birmingham. Ala.; J. B Blaton,
cert fied public accountant, At-
by these who would make the word of God of
none effect and deny before the world the only
truth by which the world may be saved and
that is the brotherhood of man.
The hands of our nation arc tied by the cold¬
blooded and high-handed proponents of a white
supremacy that negates God, the Bible and
Jesus Christ. Race prejudice is a mile-stone
about the neck of our great country and threat¬
ens to sink it upon the abject sea of materialism
and moral perfidy. The fact remains, this na¬
tion has a god before our God atid that god is
white supremacy and all its hellish concomit¬
ants of prejudice and hatred and intolerance,
and hpyocrisy and blood-guiltiness and shame
and remorse and Jeccitfulness and ku kluxism
and a depraved sense of justice.
President Harry Truman today is the man of
destiny. He is in truth the prophet of the age.
He is this nation’s John The Baptist calling our
nation unto repentance before God and the
world. If the nation will hearken and turn
unto God, it will unto God live; but if it stones
Truman as Jerusalem did her prophets we like
Jerusalem will perish and be brought low
among the nations. All of the great nations
that slumber today in the tombs of time were
once mighty and proud as are we.
Babylon was once the capitol of the United
States of Mesopotamia with wails 80 feet high,
thirty feet wide and 40 miles long; but impos¬
ing Babylon with its hanging gardehs, wonders
of the world, passed away when moral canker
and spiritual gangrene set in. Babylon at its
worse did not have a more serious sin than the
race prejudice that is fast sapping the moral
strength of our nation. In modern times Great
Britain, once the gem of the ocean and with
possessions in the uttermost parts of the earth,
is being dismembered before our eyes. Little
Mohandas Gandhi just took one precept from
Jesus Christ and broke the back of Britain’s
mighty empire. Nations, that sin like the soul
that sinneth, shall surely die. It is quite con¬
ceivable that the fate of civil rights legislation
will determine the fate of our nation and of
the civilized world this year of years!
lanta.
f. J. Carnage, attorney, pres-
ident, National Bowling Essn.,
Chicago; ,H. L. D ckson, presi-
ident, National Bowling
Biuefieid, W. Va.; James Flem-
secretary. Race Relations
Committee of American
Service Committee, Philadel-
phia; Dr. George Y. Gore, Jr .
president, Amer can
Association, Nashville; Amos
Hall,, president. Grand
Conference of Prince Hall Ma-
sonry, Tulsa Okla.; Mr;. Anna
Arnold Hedgeman, assistant
the adm.nistrator. Federal Se¬
curity Agency, Washington. D.
C : C. A. Hicks, state supervisor.
Negro Schools, Little Rock.
Ark.; Dr. p. R. Higginbotham,
member. West V rginia State
Board of Health. Bluefield, W.
Va.; Norman O. Houston, presi-
dent. Golden State Mutual Life
insurance company. Los Ange-
les, Cal.; D. R. Martinez, state
supervisor of Negro
Jefferson City. Mo.
Attorney Loren Miller, Los
Angeles. Cal f.; J R Otis,
ident. A and M. College. Alcorn
Mass.; G. U. Porter, president.
Florida Teachers Association,
Tallahassee, Fla ; Bishop
Mad son Reid. AME church,
lumbia, S. C.; Samuel R.
HOME EDUCATION
Observations
by Willa
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Akron, Ohio; A. Maceo Smith,
regional adviser, Federal Hous-
; ing Adm nistration, Dallas,
Texas; Mrs. Ella P. Stewart,
president, National Association
Colored Women, Toledo,
Obio; Irvin E Taylor, pres dent,
° anville Savings Bank and
Trus ! com P ai ^ Danville, Va.;
an< ? Dr A - c ons - Terre Nationa n ce . dir ^ e t ° i -
* l c re a ’ -
j '“ ai Association, . Opelousas,
Loyal Ducks So. Club
j On Thursday evening, Dec.
Mrs - Rosa Newton was hostess
t0 the Loyal Ducks meet ng at
the norne of Mrs. Lula Johnson
in West 38th street. A short
business session was held and
then the members spent the
the remainder of the evening in
in a pre-CJmstma.s party
at which each member was
g.ven a gift from the president.
Mrs. Lillie B Mason. Happy
Birthday was sung to Mrs. Ma-
rt A. Stone whose natal bay ‘
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is on December 25th. She re ~
ceived the club's birthday
i While the members were being
served with the Christmas
! menu, there was a mutual ex-
J change meeting of will gifts. be held The at next the
lome of Mrs. Janie Hearns. W.
47th street, Thursday evening
Jan. 5.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950
WHEN GRANDMOTHER
TAKES OVER
M. Louise C. Hastings
"The Child’s First School is
Family”—Froebel
Issued by the National K nder-
garten Association, 8 West
Street, New York City.
articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
When a grandmother is pre¬
vailed upon to be "baby sitter'
for more than a few hours, con¬
siderable thought shou’d be
given to the situation. She
naturally, will not be in the
‘wentie; or thirties, and while
she may be up to par, it was
never intended for grand-
motuer to care, by herself, for
small children or babies for anj
length of time. A baby undei
one year of age is, of course
eas'er to care for than a t n
tot who is creeping or ruiinin:
around.
*ohn and his w'fe, Susan
needed a vacation. They led
granemoher with the eight-
m on tun old baby, and took the
three year old child wi h them -
th s was good plann ng. In
preparation for the trip, the
washing machine had bee.
keDt very busy—all linen ha
been laundered, ‘grandmot’ier’;
heu'e dresses had been wash
ed, and everything for the bab
had been made fre h and clean
Seme .con ng at nl remained to
be dene, but grandmother har
the option about doing that.
Also, t’.rcy made sure that
th p re was sufficient ca mod
food on the sheives to last ten
days, should it be needed, and
a little nc ghberhood g rl wa
engaged to go to the store and
run other errands. Everything
worked out sat's'actorily, for
the baby was healtuy; and
while grandmother was .some¬
times quite t red, she managed
very well.
She herseif p’anned r o as to
make things as easy as possi¬
ble. She had ail the baby is be¬
longings brougut down from
up lairs, and the two 1 ved on
the lower floor. The baby
heavy, so it would have
difficult for grandmother
care for her up and down the
stairs.
‘ I am go ng to live in one
room as much as I convenient¬
ly can,” grandmother had told
Susan, “and I th nk I shall
choose your attractive, newly
painted kitchen.” Th s
practical, too, it kept the other
rooms in good cond Uon, thus
“Believe it or not,” no babies
were born in our two local
ored hospitals on New
day. The first arrival was a
girl on January 2nd at the Ga.
Infirmary tc« Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Reese- 1112 E. Gwin-
nett street. Oh January 3rd
the first baby for the New
Year at Charity Hospital was
also a girl. Her parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace McLeod,
4.62 Fellwood Homes. Con-
gratulations!
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Wonder how many Savannah-
ians saw the beautiful sunset
on it between New Years 5 and Day?^ 5.30 We P. saw M.
It was the most glorious to be-
hold and Seemed to describe
the words of the poet who
wrote, God s in His heaven,
all’s right with the world.”
We hope our readers will not
spoil cur picture by writing us
about how all wrong the world
is -
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New Year’s day brought us
our first glimpse of the mag-<
azine Herald of Health and
Naturopath, tyie October,
1949 issue- which discusses all
branches of natural Therapeu-
tics. The following cutline
impressed us: “When you are
completely ‘ail in’ the only
sensible remedy is a prolong-
ec j rest in Someday, we
j^gpg ^ g e i around to that
prescription.
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Editor Ralph McGill in the
December 28th issue of the
Atlanta Constitution headed
his column with “It Is Over
New. And Time To Think.'
Wish we were capable of
streamlining this article into
our column. However, a few
saving unnecessary cleaning.
The bathinet and high cha r
were brought into tue kitchen,
and only the basket-bass net
was put n the adjoining room.
(Everything was close at hand
The kitchen was not large, and,
while it took many step; to lpok,
after the baby, work was reduc¬
ed to a min.mum.
One evening grandmother
had company to supper— she
served it in hie pretty k tchen
with its usual baby necess ties.
The gueat noticed grandmother
stooping agam and again to
pick up the toys the bay kept
throwing on the f.oor. She
had a bright dea. She asked
tor a roil of bandage. As what
granemotuar gave her was two
inches wide, tue guest first
cut it in halves Isnghthw-se.
Inen she divided the str.ps in¬
to such lengths that the toys
wuch she tied to each could
reach the floor when the other
ends were fastened to the high
chair and all around the bas¬
ket-bassinet. N ;w, wnen lap
raby turew the toys out, /it
gra ndmother had to do was to-
puil up the bandage strips and
return the toys . Continued
bend ng over is tiri eg at any
age, and sometimes extra hard
for grandmothers. This was a
real help.
The next day grandmother
tied toys onto tue pi ay p o n j n
the same way. She had plan¬
ned carefu’iy here, too. The
play pen and the baby carr age
were on the piazza, close to the
glider seat where she could rest;
and take care of the baby at
the same time.
The baby, like many another
one, cried when grandmother
went oilt of the room. it was
qu te an issue, because there
were telephone calls and door¬
bells to be answered. What
could grandmother do?
She started playing “pecka-
boo” whenever sue left the kit-
chen. Gradually she rema ned
away for increasingly longer
Intervals, before peeping in.
After a while the baby became
use d to the longer periods witli-
ou ^ seeing the familiar fact,
:
she had ma tured this
s tuatlon, instead of peek ng in,
grandmother called out to her.
talking to her from another
room, and then, a'ler a time
played the “peekaboo” game
again.
But grandmother let the baby
entertain herself as mu l ah
possible. She did not talk to her
continually.
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quotations from it may prove
interesting to those w h o
haven’t read it.
“Christmas is over . . . There
are so many problems . . . Only
the trained social pgencies can
handle the social problems . . .
The Christmas basket is not
the answer, although, perhaps,
it has its place,
“It would be better for us
all if the annual Christmas
giving could be. save for chil-
dren’s parties, put into a fund
or an organization which would
use , it across the year It isn > t
as personal as carrying a bas¬
containing a chicken or a
turicey. But it will provide
60U p anc j b rea d, at least, lor|?
a fter the turkey or chicken is
gone And it wiU proV ide. too,,
guidance and inner strength.”
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-gavannah lost one of its top
Public welfare Officials this
week through the death of
Miss Mary Poindexter
who served as director of the
Chatham County Department
of Public Welfare from 1942
un m b er recent death. Miss
Poindexter was deeply interest-
ed in her work Her last
words bo few years ago
we re “When are you going to
stcp ^ foolishness .meaning
our newspaper employment)
ancl come back to work (mean _
our former job as public •
welfare worker at the C. C. D.
P. W..)? To us this meant she
must have been pleased with
the services we had rendered
with the agency. No. Wei
v not se nsitive about the
e . —, Sloe.
Again, we say, "HAPPY New
YEAR to ALL.”