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The completion of the New Beach
High School is the realization of the
dream of citizens, of frequent occurence,
of a long cherished hope, the partial
satisfaction of a long standing complaint
about the educational provisions for Ne¬
gro children. It represents an obliga¬
tion discharged in regard to high school
education for our children. It is a tine
plant that will furnish an inspiration to
youth, which they have lacked for a
long time.
It is proper to express our gratitude
to the Board and superintendent for this
splendid achievement which, as far as
the building and its appointments responsibility, are
concerned, concludes their
places the faculty and the students un¬
der the obligation to make it serve the
purposes for which it was erected to
serve: the improving of the quality of
citizenship in this community.
The boys and girls are the raw mate¬
rial for which the well appointed build¬
ing and the teaching personnel consti¬
tute the environment in which they are
to live and work together, in which op¬
portunities must be provided for prac¬
tice in citizenship in a democratic soci¬
ety. Though the primary aim and func¬
tion of the high school may he to develop
in the boys and girls a reasonable mas¬
tery of classroom offerings, less a secondary
function, by no means of import¬
ance, is Uhe development of the attitudes
and understandings which result in good
citizenship: respect for the rights, feel¬
ings* and property of others, a concern
for the impression the behavior of boys
and girls make on the public, concern
for the proper use of the buildings, their
fixtures, facilities and appointments,
concern for the formation of desirable
social habits and skills.
The New Beach is the end N of the ex¬
cuse-lack of facility-for indifferent per¬
formance on the part of both pupils and
teachers. The challenge it presents
cannot be evaded. Good tools in the
hands of good workmen must mean good
work.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
We regret to learn that the appropri¬
ations to Carnegie Library have been
successively decreasing to t he point where
the trustees are faced with the prospect
of having to curtail its already limited
services to the Negro community. The
budget for the current year calls for
twice as much as City Council has ap¬
propriated. We understand the trustees
set up a budget of $14,000 and ( ouncil
appropriated $7,000. This is a measly
sum to grant for serving more than
40,000 people. The appropriation to the
Savannah Public Library, we have been
informed, is around $62,000, nearly nine
times as much as that granted to Car¬
negie Library. given
Several years ago, the reason
for the small amount allowed to the
Negro library, was that the per reader
cost did not justify a larger appropria¬
tion. One reason why the reader cost
is high at Carnegie Library is because
the amount allowed the library has al¬
ways been too small to permit any ex¬
tension work through which to make
the Negro community appreciative of
the value of a library services.
While the per reader cost may be a
good way for measuring the amount ap¬
propriated to libraries where all things
are equal, it will be a long time before
it can be justly used for determining
the amount to allow for a Negro li¬
brary. It is an unpleasant truth that
Negroes have suffered handicaps in
most of the important respects which
make people appreciate the services of
libraries. In the field of education
alone, poor school houses, poorly prepar¬
ed teachers, little if any library facility
in the schools, over a period of eighty
years, account in large measure for the
lack of our appreciation of libraries.
Add to this the constant struggle for
economic security, and we meet another
handicap which cuts down opportunity
for leisure time for all except those who
have the physical stamina and disposi¬
tion to find time for reading, or visiting
the library. become
If our Negro citizens are to
better informed, and more desirable citi¬
the for
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'NEW YORK, Jan. 19—The
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Attorney General Nathaniel
Goldstein that he had instituted
proceedings to Dan the
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Carnegie Library to a mere subsistence help
level, is not one of the ways to
them become so. Of course, Negroes
have no one in the Council ready to
throw off his coat in defense of the
needs and interests of Savannah’s Ne¬
gro citizens. However, we believe there
are people in this city who should be in¬
formed about the situation at Carnegie
Library, who would do what they can
keep the doors of Carnegie Library open
as an important influence in the educa¬
tion of Negro citizens.
THE SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE
Upon the recommendation of the
Survey Staff, Georgia State College be¬
comes the Savannah State College. Since
the founding of the other two state col¬
leges for Negroes, Albany State and Ft.
Valley State College, tihe name Georgia
State College led to some confusioft
which will now be avoided. The change
in name may do a little temporary dam¬
age to sentimental attachments but it
need not affect the old loyalties of
friends and alumni of the institution.
It is not amiss to give the names of
the members of the staff that made the
survey of the needs of Georgia in high¬
er education. They were Dr. George
D. Strayer, Arthur J. Klein, F. W. Hart,
Mary DeGarmo Bryan, R. W. Kettler, H.
( Sherer, Frederick M. Hunter, and
.
Thad Hungate, all of whom are experts
in the fields covered by the survey,
which included'instruction, administra¬
tion student living, physical plant, fi¬
nancial administration, and future finan¬
cing. subscribe opinion
We do not to the
that these people were incompetent be¬
cause they had never slept in a Negro
cabin, or ate of the humble fare of a
cabin table. We believe this no more
than we believe that the ability to
tighten a thumb nut on a screw is a
measure of one’s education, or a quali¬
fication for a teacher’s certificate. Ever
so often some “sage” comes forward with
some such a notion. Knowing how to
milk a cow was advanced as a sign that
one was educated. Luckily, a sensible
man debunked this notion by saying, he
wanted his son to learn to do something
a calf couldn’t beat him doing.
Page -'ll) and 31 of the survey report
contain a statement of the functions and
recommendations for the Savannah State
College. We believe they will meet the
approval of all citizens who are really
interested in getting the higher educa¬
tion of Negroes in Georgia to the place
of some sort of certainty, from which
to make progress.
“It is recommended that the Savan¬
nah State College be developed distinc¬
tively as the State college for Negroes
for the industrial and business fields.
This recommendation is intended to im¬
ply continued emphasis upon the pro¬
grams in the trades and greater empha¬
sis than at present on education for
employment in and operation of various
businesses, including home economics
employment other than that of public
school teaching . . The Savannah insti¬
tution should, as a secondary emphasis,
develop elementary teacher education
for grades one through eight at the
Bachelor’s level only; and, as soon as
adequate facilities for observation and
practice teaching are made available, it
should develop professional teacher edu¬
cation in f*ie secondary school academ¬
ic fields, and also special subjects as
majors in industrial arts, fine arts, the
commercial and distributive fields, and,
when occasion arises, in trades, and in¬
dustrial education, and as a minor in
ihealth and physical education; that the
preparation of industrial arts teachers
for secondary school service be confin¬
ed to the institution at Savannah . That
the Savannah State College should pro¬
vide a sound program in arts and
sciences leading to the Bachelor’s
degree with special emphasis physical on
majors in mathematics, the
sciences, economics, and in the graphic
and plastic arts.”
This covers the main functions as
recommended by the survey staff. We
believe a good new day is the promise
of the Savannah State College and the
boys and girls of the state.
i I New York State brought com-
mendation in a wire from the
| National Association for the Ad-
of Colored People, for
this forthright and prompt re¬
sponse to the Association’s reo.uest
for such action.
j Goldstein The NAACP. in a letter to Mr.
on December 6.
documented charges of racial
crimination by the ABC
urged its ouster from New
State.
Beware of those who
proach you, talk in a low
and offer to let you in on
| deal to make some large
easy money.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
BETWEEN THE LINES
B> Dear G or&on B iancoek lor ANP
THE WAY O? TRANSGRESSORS
That is a true and powerful statement which
says the way of the transgressors is hard. An¬
other,* putting the same truth in different lan¬
guage, speaks of "Sin’s ltoad Back." Nations like
individuals find themselves sooner or later at
the judgement seat of history. Some omnifie fin¬
ger sooner or later lifts empires from their
hinge-, and turns the stream of centuries out of
its channel, as better days are ushered in.
Edwaid Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of tnc Hom¬
an Umpire has a striking parallel when sornp
modern Gibbon can be found to write it, for the
voice of literature is crying for a Decline and
Kali of the British Empire, which is taking place
before our astonished gaze. It would perhaps
appear to superficial observers that Britain’s
decline and fall is a great and appalling tragedy;
but a closer inspection would reveal that it is one
of the most propitious sign- of modern history
written and unwritten. Britain’s is the most
powerful and flagrant imperialism of modern
times. But it must be observed that Britain,
mother of modern imperialism, is a very sick
man.
It must not be fo: gotten that today’s pattern
of prejudice and segregation throughout the
modern world was fashioned by Britain and there
could hardly be a better omen for improved race
relations throughout the world than Britain’s tot¬
tering upon its imperialistic pedestal, readying
itself for the fatal crash. With the destruction
of the British Empire this world will have seen
destroyed one of the most pernicious internation¬
al influence of modern times and will have seen
the national and international decks cleared for
constructive actions in the improvement of hu¬
man relations everywhere. Within the last 50
years Britain’s decline has been momentous.
Newfoundland and Labrador renounced their
colonial status to become a vassal to Canada.
Ireland after a fight lasting seven hundred years
has torn herself free from the British Empire
after one of the bloodiest fights ever made for
freedom. Egypt fought for and won the right to
sovereignty. Sudan is about to escape from Brit¬
ain’s imperialistic clutches. The creation of the
Union of South Africa cen: animated in 1910
meant the loosening of Britain’s tentacles of op¬
pression.
The Dominion of Pakistan and the Republic
New Appeal Shifted in
Hempstead School Case
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Charges
that the Hempstead, L. I., boar :
of education nullified the di-
retives of the New York State
Commissioner of Education by
permitting the transfer of white
children cut of a predominantly
Negro school district were made
this week in an appeal filed with
Commissioner Francis T. Spauld¬
ing by NAACP lawyers on behalf
of Negro parents in Hempstead.
Following an appeal last Sep¬
tember the Hempstead board was
ordered by Commissioner Spauld¬
ing in November to redraw the
district school lines in such a way
as to include predominantly white
areas adjoining the Prospect
school, to which practically all
Negro children in the city were
assigned. The lines were accord¬
ingly redrawn. However, the
board immediately granted
mission to white children in the
district to transfer to another
school upon written request of
parents.
The new appeal, submitted on
January 18, by Thurgood Mar¬
shall, NAACP special counsel, and
Assistant Special Counsel Robert
L. Carter and Constance Baker
Motley, asks Commissioner
Spaulding to order the board to
draw new lines and to invalidate
the transfer of pupils outside of
the district.
TRUMAN COMMENDS PRINCE HALL
FIGHT ON COMMUNISM
President Harry S'. Truman, in a
telegram to Amos T. Hall, Presi¬
dent of the Grand Masters Con¬
ference of Prince Hall Masons,
commends the Prince Hall group
for its efforts to alert the Negro
against the infiltration of Com¬
munism through its Americaniza¬
tion Program.
Several weeks ago, thirty-nine
Grand Masters in the Prince Hall
group, members of the Grand
Masters Conference, issued a
statement denouncing Communism
and calling upon its followers to
be on the alert against the in¬
sidious attempts of Communism
to undermine the American concept
of government. January 22nd was
set apart as “Americanism Day”
and programs were held in many
places in the states in which
Prince Hall Masons operate.
President Truman, in his mes¬
sage to Hall, said:
|
of India present the most bristling examples of
Britain’s doc-line. Little Mohandas Gandhi took
a passive resistance notion and broke the em¬
pire imperialistic back. Burma is gone and
Ceylon is going or gone. The Federation of
Malaya organized in 1948 further weakens the
mother of imperialism in the modern world. In
otbir word* the Decline and Fall of the British
Empire is an accomplished fact and only a writer
is needed to mark the parallel between Rome’s
and Britain’s dissolution.
The point in-recounting the aforementioned
facts is to inspire the Negroes of this nation
along, all minority groups with the thought that
the days ol tr.e oppressors are numbered. The
handy,v.ting is already glistening on the walls of
i.eiue.a history. Imperialism has been weighed in
ti.o jauntcS of Time and found wanting. Yester¬
day was the day of servant and master; tomorrow
is.be day of brotherhood. When the great mother
of prejudice and segregation appears sick unto
death, well may the oppressed and exploited peo¬
ples sigh in tne firmament of modern times than
tnc impending demise of the British Empire. It
is sale to say that the most cunning and dia¬
bolical influence in the modern world has been
hatched in the self-same British Empire. The
decline of this once fabulous empire brings as¬
surance to all submerged peoples who struggle
for liberty and freedom. If the nations can per¬
suade themselves not to commit genocide by the
further perfection and use of deadly bombs, the
deck is being cleared for a reign of righteous¬
ness in the world. If the Nordic could only be
persuaded to turn his genius to human better¬
ment instead of human destruction!
THE HATCHET’S BURIED
By WILLIAM HENRY HUFF for ANP
That person -is all right with me;
The hate I thought I had is gone.
We get along like one, two, three,
Our hearts are no more like a stone.
I would not for my own right arm
Far glory, praise or love, or gain
Subject that person to a harm
Or even to the slightest pain.
“It is a pleasure to extend
greetings to the Grand Masters
Conference of the Prnice Ilall
Mas one as they inaugurate their
Americanization Day Program.”
“This effort to emphasize to
members of your organization and
other Negro citizens the blessings
and opportunities afforded by the
American way of life is a worthy
and commendable . undertaking.
This undertaking is the more
significant in view of the threats
in many parts of the world to
the rights and freedoms of free
men. 1 believe that your fellow
citizens everywhere join me in
wishing every success for your
Americanization Program,
Business will be good in
say Are prognosticators,
ially those with something
HOME EDUCATION if PWI
“The Child’s First School is the
Famuy. „ roe > , 1. ,
Issued by the National Kinder¬
garten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These ar¬
ticles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
“While dining at the home of a
friend the other day, a very re¬
freshing incident occurred,” said
my next-door neighbor, who is al¬
ways interested in the younger
generation. Several of us w e r e
knitting in her living room. “After
a delicious dessert,” she continued,
■‘Ned, her grandson, exclaimed,
‘Mom, that’s a yummy pudding!
Will you ask Freda whether there
will be some left for her if you
should let me have another serv¬
ing?’ I said to myself, ‘Ned you’re
a thoughtful lad! This isn’t the
first time I’ve noticed your think¬
ing of others.’ ”
“It’s a joy to see boys and girls
who have been taught unselfish¬
ness,” Mildred Barker responded.
“May I tell a story about a mother
who, thoughtlessly, encourages
lack of consideration? I was a
guest at this home not long ago.
Her son Tom, like Ned, thought the
dessert — only this was a lemon
pie—was ‘something out of this
world.’ ‘May I have another piece
of pie?’ he asked his mother, ‘Cer¬
tainly,’ the mother replied, and
then to the maid she said, ‘Mary,
bring Tom another serving of des¬
sert.’ Mary looked embarrassed
and stammered, ‘I’m sorry, but 1
made only one piece for all of us.'
‘Mary, please bring Tom the pie.’
his mother insisted as if she had
not heard.”
“What a contrast in environ¬
ment!” Marian Collier, a former
teacher and now the mother of
three young children, shook her
head. “That mother forgets that
her most ’serious mistake a parent
can make is in yielding to the
temptation commonly known as
spoiling. Inste ad of educating our
children to life’s requirements, we
truly spoil them when we
them in. every wish. A
THE MASONIC DEGREE
TEAM ELECTS OFFICERS
The Masonic Degree Team
composed of members of the
fj V e lodges met at the Temple f
Tuesday night in its regular
business session at which time
Chairman S. D. Bisard made
report of the team’s activ-
ities for the past year. The
report was received by the mem¬
bers present. After the report
all oiffices wfere declared va¬
cant and the following
officers were elected for the
ensuing year; Bro. Freddie Sim¬
mons, Chairman; Bro. Maxie
Ryals, Vice Chairman; P. M.,
Caleb Bias, Treasurer, Bro. Geo.
White, R. Secretary; P. M. T.
T. Mackey, Fin. Secretary; P.
M. S. D. Bisard, Chr. Publicity.
Chairman Freddie Simmons j
mapped out his plans for the
year and all present pledged
their cooperation. The team
will meet regularly on Tues-<
day nights at 8 o’clock at the
Temple and brdthers who de¬
sire to improve in the ritual¬
istic work are invited to be
present at each and every
meeting. Four new members
were added to the team as fol¬
lows : Bros. Samuel Rivers, Jo¬
seph Addison, Willie Ellison
and James Austin.
The Masonic School of In¬
struction is held every Sunday
afternoon at the Temple from
4 to 5 p. m. All Masons are
invited to attend.
To improve in Masonry it
will be wise to attend these
classes.
On Wednesday night, Eureka
L 0C ig e No. 1 Held its first ini-
tiation for the year. The ob-
lisntion of the entered appren¬
tice degree was done by Bro.
Freddie Simmons.
Senator Taylor To
Ask For Rehearing
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Sen.
Glen Taylor of Idaho, former
Progressive party candidate for
vice president of the United States,
will ask for a rehearing before
the Alabama Court of Appeals,
which recently upheld a disorder¬
ly conduct sentence of 180 days in
jail and a $50 fine.
Sen. Taylor was arrested and
roughed up when he refused to
enter a “for white only” door at
a Negro church in Birmingham
during his campaign.
Steel Workers Contribute
To NAACP
A contribution of $2500 was re¬
cently sent to the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People by the United
Steelworkers of America. CIO,
whose president, Philip Murray,
is a member of the NAACP na¬
tional board of directors.
THE ROAD TO HEALTH
Mrs. Whalen covered her face
with her hands and began to cry
I told her that her husband
influenza. It wasn’t until I
convinced her that her hus¬
had a good chance of being
well in a few weeks
the tears stopped. Then she
explained why she had been
so upset when she heard my di¬
agnosis.
“You see, doctor, I lost my moth¬
er and my older brother during
ti le fj u epidemic in the first World
War,” she said. “I was still a
child then, but I remember it only
too well. The first thing that came
to my mind was that my husband
didn’t have a chance if he caught
that dreadful disease.”
Mrs. Whalen had called me to
her home that morning when her
husband felt too ill to get up for
work. He had. she said “chills and
fever,” severe pains in his back
and legs and what seemed to be
a very bad cold coming on. She
didn’t recognize these as symp¬
toms of influenza, but she knew
something was wrong and she lost
no time phoning me.
I explained to Mrs. Whalen that
her prompt phone call, before the
disease got too great a hold, was
one of the reasons why I could
be quite sure that we had time
to take measures against pneu¬
monia, ofter a serious complica¬
tion of influenza.
But, although the acute stage
of his influenza would last less
than a week, Mr. Whalen would
have to remain in bed for longer
than that because influenza us-
ually leaves its victim weak and
exhausted. In addition to the grave
danger of pneumonia, influenza
can also lead to infeetions of the
ears, sinus trouble or bronchitis,
but this happens most frequently
Penn. Court Bans Swimming
Pool Bias
JANUARY 26, 1950
youngster yearns for habitual
pampering. In this case, 7 om will
be t h e one w ho will be hurt by his
mother’s lack of consideration for
Mary.” family,”
“Also, the boy s future
the wife of a child psychologist an¬
nounced. “A happy marriage ha*
its foundation in childhood. The
characteristics that make a fine
personality — emotional maturity
and stability, sociability, unselfish¬
ness, strength of character, cour¬
age and good sense in meeting life’s
problems, and extrovert habits gen¬
erally—coot rib u te to the securing
of a good husband or a good wife
and preserving a happy, well-ad¬
justed marriage.”
My next-door neighbor, who had
egun the discussion, smiled her
approval. “Surely, teaching ‘ex¬
trovert habits’ is a good founda-
.ion for a child’s future happiness,
md the selfish person is the one
vho hoards his love, talents, ener¬
gies, his material ‘treasures,’ and
.uffers from their excess,” she
philosophized as she knitted. “We
must teach children to share and
here. How much melody there 4
.vould be in life if we were autO|
matically nice to everybody, like-
well—like Henry Jones, down the
treet. No wonder he’s a popular
boy!”
“Being awake to opportunities to
help is a habit, and what a divi-
lend-paying one it is!” remarked
lane Farley.
As she spoke, the pretty mother
of three looked at her watch and
began saying “Good-by” to her
friends, adding, “I’m going home
to concentrate on those extrovert
habits.” Tucking her knitting into
her bag, she smiled over her shoul¬
der when she reached the door and
mid, “I wart three of those “auto- 1
natically nice’ sons-in-law!” We
-ould hear her gay laughter, but
we knew she meant what she said.
Yes, it rather” startles young,
future parents-in-law to realize
that the achievement of a happy
marriage for their small Bob and
curley-haired Mary Sue has its be-
gainings in childhood.
with the influenza patient who
gets up and about before he
should.
In addition to an easily-digest¬
ed diet of nourishing foods for the
patient. I left with Mrs. Whalen
the warning that she take pre¬
cautions against “catching” her
husband’s illness, especially since
she was going to take care of
him. Influenza, I explained, was a
highly infectious disease easily
spread from person to person. The
disease is caused by a virus which
can attack various parts of the
body, but it usually “settles” iri
the nose and throat, as it did
with Mr, Whalen.
Mrs. Whalen wanted to know
if there was any sure means of
preventing influenza. I told her
that medical science was still
searching for a vaccine that woultl
offer complete protection against
influenza. We have, meanwhile,
a vaccine offering temporary pro¬
tection against some types of the
disease, and injections with it
might be advised when there is>
an outbreak of influenza in e
community. »
While there is no permanent
preventive or specific medicine for
influenza, the building of natural
resistance to all disease through
sufficient rest, good food and the
avoidance of chilling and over¬
exposure lessen a person’s chances
of contracting the disease. If in¬
fluenza does attack, however, the
doctor should be called immediate-
Ijy and his advice followed care-
j J fully plications to ward off dangerous com-
that mean serious ill-
i ness and sometimes death,
This article is co-sponsored by
the National Medical Association
and the National Tuberculosis As¬
sociation in the interest of bet-
ter health of the people. > f Fit
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19—A
lower court decision finding
Joseph and James Figari, owners
of the Rocky Springs Park in
Lancaster County $100 for re¬
fusing to permit two Negroes to
swim in the park’s pool, was up¬
held by a decision handed down
recently by Judge Dithrich in the
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
sitting here.
The complainants, Edward A.
Hudson and II. W. Richardson.
Jr., attending a CIO picnic in
the park on Labor Day, 1948.
were denied permission to use the j
pool solely because of race. They
brought suit and won their case i
in the Lancaster County Quarter
Sessions Court in September, 1948.
Claiming that the state civil
rights act did not cover swim¬
ming pools, the Figari’s appealed
from the decision of the lower
court. Opposing this appeal, Hud¬
son and Richardson wore repre¬
sented by NAACP Attorneys
Theodore Spaulding and James
L. Laker. Judge Dithrieh’s opin¬
ion, handed down on January 1°.
was termed a “clear out victory”
by Mr. Spaulding.
The trouble with human be-
ings is not that they lack horse
sense, but that they lack hu-
man intelligence.