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“The most discouraging but at the
same time the most challenging fact is
that few people seem to realize that our
one hope in the present crisis lies in our
speedily bringing our social development
up to the level of our mechanical achieve¬
ments by an intensive effort to increase
and disseminate knowledge about human
> behavior. Even many of the physical
scientists who are alarmed over the
present world crisis do not seem to real¬
ize that the way to resolve the problem
is to go to work on the riddle of human
behavior with the same intensity that
characterized the search tor the secret
of behavior of the atom.”
—Dr. Ina Brown
We are gratified that Mr. Hooding
Carter finds Savannah a good place for
Negroes to live, but we do not like the
tone of finality which his statement
seems to imply. We are proud of out-
city not bcdat(se it offers ^almost all
the Negro wants to attain or can attain
as a citizen of the South,” but because
we believe it offers the possibility for
the Negro to attain morn nearly what he
wants as a citizen than in most cities of
the south. We are proud of certain
changes for the better in race relations
that have taken place hero. We believe
there is a definite trend.toward making
them better, still. We believe Negro
citizens in Savannah are a little more
aware of their part in making race rela¬
tions better, than they are in many oth¬
er Southern cities.
BOLEDO, ROI'QITETS. AND
BRICKBATS
One day after the meeting of the
Grand Jury, at which one of our repre¬
sentatives appeared, undeniable evidence
showed up that boledo agents had adopt¬
ed a new policy: that of holding drawings
at different places. It appears that
word goes around among the runners
where to meet the “man with the box.”
This policy of “squatter drawings” is
obviously designed to keep the police off
balance. ‘ This is a smart trick which
we hope the policemen will soon catch up
with.
This show' of ingenuity on the part of
boledo operators justifies our attempt
of a few weeks ago, to alert the public
about the return of boledo. We hope
the community will not let this thing go
on because the victims are mainly Ne¬
groes, in the false position that the rest
of the community will not be affected.
Such a position is no more sound than
that t/he community need not concern
itself about smallpox among Negroes.
Savannah’s ranking in the scale of pub¬
lic order records will be affected by its
toleration of gambling rackets.
We are encouraged by the telephone
calls indorsing our fight and offering
assistance of whatever nature we need.
We are particularly pleased and assured
by the letter from The Hub. Our faith
in fcho public conscience supports our de¬
termination to continue to expose evils
which prey upon the weak and unsuspect¬
ing citizens of this community.
The only significance we place upon
an anonymous threat is that it indi¬
cates how much some people in our com¬
munity need to be protected from their
own folly and ignorance.
LET SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE
ALONE
Car interest in the Georgia State Col¬
lege, new ly named Savannah State Col¬
lege, is well known throughout the
750
African Race Riot
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ^
—(ANP)—More than 750 natives,
were arrested last week in the '
New Clare suburb during one of.
this country’s biggest race riots, j
Rcsidents of loth races were I
injured following an outbrust of I
native feelings against increased I
racial oppression. A policeman |
ignited the clash when he arrest-
ed an African accused of pos-1
seasing liquor. A huge throng J
gathered and attacked police who I
took to their cars for protection,
The Africans opened fire with:
guns and rained stones and pellets j
on the policemen. Non-European J
motorists, policemen and white
civihans .... injured. The rioting . . j i
were
lasted police late into the night. The the j
opened fire early in
clash and used tear gas.
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state. We have been interested in it
during the sixty years of its existence.
We would not do or say one thing intend¬
ed to obstruct its program in any way.
We know of no period in its history when
it has had an over-all better faculty staff
than it has had within the last two years
and a half, when it commanded more re¬
spect fer the work it is doing and con¬
templates tiding under the recent rec¬
ommendations of the Strayer Committee.
We are watching, with not too much dis¬
turbance, the petty and inconsistent fault
finding of one or two vindictive obstruc¬
tionists who would have the college re¬
turn to its former state of stagnation
and inefficiency.
Jt is safe to say that the leadership
in our state institutions is better pre¬
pared, more unselfish, more cooperative,
and has a better program than our lead¬
ership has ever had. If there was no
good reason for removing the land-grant
status from the college, who was re¬
sponsible for it? Did its removal from
the Savannah State College take away
from Negro boys and girls the oppor¬
tunity to study agriculture, or home
economics, or training in the trades? We
grant that many a teacher in our colleges
can not harness a horse. But how does
toat make him or his students ineffi¬
cient citizens who live in communities
where horses are seldom seen; who had
better spend their time learning to drive an
automobile safdly; who would w aste time
learning to milk a cow. Why shouldn’t
some of our young people seek to become
school teachers, in view of the teacher
shortage and' the increase in the num¬
ber of children expected to apply for
admission in schools even next year?
We betieve our colleges have a defi¬
nite prog; am now for the first time, and
we hope it is the intention of the Board
of Regents to see that it is complied
with, faultfinders to the contrary not¬
withstanding.
According to Dr. E. H. Miller of Claf-
lin University, “The American Negro is
too sensitive about his rights,” and he
asks, “Why is he always agitating?” He
says, “If he is being discriminated
against, that is, not being given an equal
opportunity, he has just cause for com¬
plaint. But being separated from the
white man is another thing. If the
white man does not want the Negro in
close association with him, why should
the Negro not have race pride enough
to remain separate for his own welfare,
security and integrity. lie continues,
“The Negro is- always agitating about
segregation, which is no real issue at all
because the Negro is separated every¬
where, both North and South . . Segrega¬
tion or separation which brings with it
equal opportunity or chance is best for
the Negro, either North or South . . As
1 see it, there are no great or insurmount¬
able problems that confront the Negro
except as the Negroes make the prob¬
lems themselves.”
Every now and then, we are forced to
ask what is wrong w ith some flash Ne¬
gro leader or other, or what is wrong
with us. They seem to get mixed up
with terms. In fairness to those who
take a different view, it would seem a
first duty of a leader who holds a posi¬
tion so at variance with current think¬
ing, to define the terms he uses. We
believe Dr. Miller has left himself open
in this regard. From parts of an ar¬
ticle of his. we quote several sentences
containing terms he should define. The
sentences are typical of the whole ar¬
ticle. Such an article from a Negro
impels us to ask what is he looking for.
Observers here found the riot
no surprise. This is only a sample
<f thin s to come, they assert.
Increased segregation of races is
the order of the day in this coun-
try where black residents out-
number whites by a ratio ap-
proxiniating 0.500,000 to 2.500,000,
Last week, governmental auth-
orities announced that prison life
for Africans would be made un¬
hearable. Minister of Justice C. R.
Swart said he would order jail
officials to frame new regulations
to make life tougher behind bars,
Meanwhile, a prison board official
declared, "It’s not right that
criminals sentenced to hard labor
should , ,, spend ...... their time polishing ....
i
cars and doing other soft jobs and j
fat on three good meal.-
day.” 1
“A Civil Rights Bill Will Stop Him”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
B> Dear Cordon B lancock f«w ANP
THE SOUTH'S
The congressmen from the South are known
as its representatives; but in far too many in¬
stances they could lie truly called its misrapre-
sentatives because n is exceedingly doubtful if
the South is as bad as they would portray it
to the outside world.
During the last presidential election when the
reactionary South wanted a standard bearer for
the Dixiecrats, South Carolina supplied such a
standard bearer in the person of its Gov. Strom
Thurmond and Mississippi gave J. Fielding
VVright as its contribution to another “lost
cause.” Dixiaism suffered a calamitous defeat
in more than or.e way. In the first place Dixie
found that the “solid South”'was a thing of the
past; it further found that democracy in these
United St’aes could survive a strenuous election
without the support of th? southern democrats.
This could easily be construed as the South’s
greatest disillusionment of the century. When
the South is r.o longer indispensable to a demo¬
cratic victory at the polls a strange thing has
happened in the political life of the nation. In
its vain attempts to salvage its seriously wound¬
ed pride, the South became pathetic in its re-
si rt to Dixiecracy that failed in gloriously be¬
fore one of the greatest opportunities it has ever
known. With a four-way split in the voting
strength of the country the South might have
swept things and proved itself the great balance
of power in national politics. But instead the
South flopped tragically and found itself emerg¬
ing from the small end of the political horn.
One of the main reasons it flopped was its
failure to keep step with the moral progress of
the century. Southern leadership was away out
of plumb so far as the moral temper of the
times is concerned. The men elected to repre¬
sent the South misrepresented it instead; and
therein lies a great tragedy. The Thurmonds
and Wrights and Talmadges no longer represent
the better South. They are trying to relieve
the horse and buggy days of the South and it
simply cannot be done. Ben Tillman, Hoke
Smith, Tom Watson, Cole Illease, Ilefflin and
Vardanian, arch Negrophobes of their day, rep¬
resented the white South because they spoke
the language of a frustrated. Negro-fearing
South. But the South of their day is gone for¬
ever! The ku klux klan of reconstruction days
voiced the sentiment of the South of that day;
Neafro Pamphlets Tell
of America
Next week is the 25th annual
observance of Negro History Week,
first introduced in 1920. This is
also the week of Abraham Lin-
coin’s birthday ami the supposed
birthday of Frederick Douglas.
A review, for the occasion, of
a century of Negro pamphlets, in¬
dicates that not only Negro his¬
tory is involved, but American
history, and, therefore, world his¬
tory.
During 1949, The Pamphlet In-
dex listed such pamphlets as: “How
A Southerner Licked
reprinted from Coronet; “Let
j People League: Go,” “What published Should by the We Do
About Ri.ve Segregation?”
lished by Town Hall.
fhese pamphlets are written not
only for scholars. They are writ-
ten for the whole world to read,
The subject is the Negro. The
pamphleteers are interracial. They
I focus on Negro rights specifically
• and democratic rights in general.
I Their scope includes critical ques-
jtions of productivity, politics, in-
jtei national relations. Other listed
titles were: “Negro in Our Eco-
j nomy.” published by the
j Regional Council; "The Negro's
| btake in the Future of American
But the voteless native
tion is not taking the pro-Fascist
plans of the government lying
down. Several days ago, the Afri¬
can National congress and the All-
African convention launched a
■ampaign to organize a nationwide
political strike against Premier
Daniel F. Malan’s segregation
policies.
These African organizations
have agreed that all Negroes who
accept government appointments
or cooperate with the government’s
program will be treated as colla¬
borators and ‘‘quislings.’’
Oyster Roast
An event to which the publ c
is invited is an oyster roast
which will be given by the Dea-
cons , Union and Madam Car- _
8° 3 Beauty school on Friday
n ght, Feb. 10, at- Battiks s at
White Biuff.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
but not today. The South has grown too great¬
ly ever again to back complacently in the searing
sun of whits supremacy. Another South has
risen and is struggling for the light and what
- is more, this new South will not be denied.
The pct.r.tial filibustered awaiting to set up¬
on the civil rights legislation that will be intro¬
duced, do not represent the South, but them¬
selves, and their own bigotry and reactionism.
These are in very truth the South’s misrtpre-
sentatives in Congress. The very fact that they
are resorting to such spacious tactics indicates
what they think of their position. If they were
sure of themselves, they would let the matter
come to a head and vindicate their position.
No, they are afraid to risk their vaunted
southern mettle in a give-and-take exchange that
is the only real proof of strength and strategy.
The South is truggling to be free and these
misrepresentatives hang like mill-stones about its
neck to sink it upon the sea of abject frustra¬
tion. The South’s misrepresentatives are it3
worst enemies. They would destroy it in a futile
attempt to turn back the hands of time. The
real South is sick and tired of violating the com¬
mandments of God and the brotherhood of man.
If the white South had even half a chance it
would repent of its white supremacy sins and
turn to righteousness and live.
There is yet to be found one instance where
an attempt to be Christian and democratic com¬
pletely failed. Wherever there has been moral
courage to try out democracy and Christianity it
has succeeded gloriously. In other words, the
South is not nearly as bad as its congressional
misrepresentatives would have the world believe.
There is a powerful undercurrent flowing
through the soul of the South and it runs coun¬
ter to the machinations of the current crop of
southerners in Congress—the south’s misrepre-
resentatives.
By William Huff For ANP
Let me tell you now in truth,
I salute the Negro youth
Who will be the saving grace
In the odds our group must face.
Hear me hear me, if you please—
Unde Toms with crooked knees
Sold us down the river deep
But, with youth, we’ll upward leap.
Industry,” published by the Inter-
I national I a .ies’ Garment Work-
[ ers’ Union; “Survey of the Negro
Vote in the 19-18 Presidential
Election,” published by the Na¬
tional Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People; “Nobody
Knows ...” published by the Com¬
mittee Against Jim Crow in Mili¬
tary Service and Training.
About a hundred years ago
pamphlets relating to Negroes had
a different focus,Slavery. Their
j scope was as extensive, and
too, were intended for mass civ-
A pro-slavery pamphlet, “The
i Rights of American Slavery,” by
T. W’. Holt of the St. Louis Lit-
1 erary and Philosophical Associa-
tion, went to 500.000 copies in
j two editions in 1860. Some 30
j years earlier, “David Walker’s
Appeal,” an explosive attack
against slavery, had gone to three
j editions, and it was expected by
Walker: “that all colored men,
j women and children, of every
tion, language and tongue under
heaven will try to procure a copy
of this appeal and read it. or get
someone to read it to them, for
it is designed more
for them.”
Scripture was introduced on both
sides. In 1842, the slaveholders
issued a pamphlet, “Slavery De¬
fended by Scripture Against the
Attacks of the Abolitionists.”
Anti-slavery views posed in such
pamphlets as “View of the Sub¬
ject of Slavery Contained in the
Biblical Repertory for April 1836,
in which the Scriptural Argument,
It Is Believed, is Very Clearly
and Justly Exhibited.
Questions of law were raised in
1847 in a pamphlet by Lysander
Spooner titled “The Unconstitu¬
tionality of Slavery.” This was
immediately contested in a pamph-
let by Wendell Phillips insisting
the Constitution itself was
a pro-slavery document.
Economics was posed in such
pamphlets as “Wages or the Whip.
An Essay on the Comparative
Costs and Productiveness of Free
and Slave Labor,” (1833).
Important to both the North
and the South was the attitude
of the European nations. Emis-
j Atlantic. saries and documents there crossed the
In 1847, appeared
' in London “Tract American
a on
I Slavery by the Rev. M. M. Clarke,
a Colored Man Now on a Visit to
| England from the United States.”
In 1852, an Englishman published
j in London the pamphlet "Slavery
the Crime and Curse of America:
An Expostulation with the Chris-
'tians of That Land.”
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 19^’ !
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HOME EDUCATION ST at.
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(Is ued by the National Kin- dergarten Association, 8 West
street, New York City.These articles are appearing
weekly .n our columns)
• The Child’s F rst Scr-aol is the Family”—Froebel
IN THE LIGHT OF TODAY
tiie was one hundrd degioes.
Six year o.d Jona han answer¬
cu: ■ iuj, it -s very refreshing. •
^ ^ * a ««*»“**.' icp.hitj
grandfather. tne uoy t taught
for a long while. “i preier to
have it called "refreshing”, fye
f.nally said. *r>
Today, children are permitted
! to talk at mealtime I.i fact,
the alert mother plans table
talks in which the childre n can
ghare intelli g ent iy. However',
^ does not allow them to m0 _
n0 p 0 iiz e the conversation, she
j teaches them to be good 1 Stcri-
I t00 CertaiI1 ga mes . am
often played at the dinmg to*
1 „ig— an me xamily joining in-id
games that keep the atmssr
pnere above tue level cf tact¬
finding and crit cism.
Wnen ooliged to change iam-
Ly plans, it is needlul to pr©*,
I changes caretul- .
sen. tne more
ly to the children than to Ui£» m
j J "hi
1 grownups. 6 y Children ... who . are 0 1 f
sl “ ng m er m s
dlfflcult y in . ^mediate ,. rpari rea^ ’i
just . plans, espeo-.
J man in new K
lal.y ■' if the reason -or the _
change ° is . beyond J the r under- j
, ;
s in ®‘ :nr
ISusanne expected to go to
her grandmother’s for the af¬
ternoon. £he had dressed bCf;
dolls and packed their clothes)
in her bag and was waiting for
the family to get ready. Moth-
er took ‘- ier daughter on
her la P- We shall have ti>
change our plans, she said.
“Aurny is sick and we can gqj
We must stay at home and take
care of her.” “But I want to
go,” cried Susanne “My dolls'
are all ready to go” ‘ Aunty
ne eds our help,” mother re¬
plied “You love aunty and
you always like to do kind
things for for her. The f.rs.t,
"^g to do s to prepare the
water bag for her” With
an understand ng smile £ u-
sanne at once jumped down
and ran to help; -1
Yes, the children of today
express their own opinions,
quite freely, and is not this de- v
sirable? It gives to their pa¬
rents increased opportunity to
encourage or to correct, wisely.
make the best of the ‘
use
scientific knowledge we new have.
For this reason the American
Heart Association has expanded
its program of public and profes-, .j
siona] education and community*/
service in centers throughout the
nation. The need is still pressing’’
for the organization of local heart ,,
associations in other areas of the
nation so that heart programs will
be generally available to all our .
citizens.”
. »ou
Deacons Union
Commends The Tribune
“ Savannah, Ga.
February 6 1950.
“To the Hon. Sol. C. Johnson,
Editor, Savannah Tribune,
“Savannah, Georgia.
“Dear Sir:
bers “We, of the the Deacons cflicerj Un and on mem¬ have \
watc'ned with appreciable pride
and keen interest the incessant,
courageous and vigilant fight
which The Tr bune has waged
against crime, racketeering and ;
ue monster boledo which are
exploit ng our people and . im- ’
ducing our young folk to com¬
mit crime in securing money
to play the game.
‘ r ealiz ng that the game is
an evil, sinful and unlawful,
therefore, we wish to commend
you for combatting the same
and we comdemn in the bitter¬
est terms any forms of crimes in
our c ty.
“Chatham County Deacons’
Union,
“John Mines, President
“C. B. Burson, Secretary
“L. w Brown, Reporter”.
, A
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The Real Taft
WASHINGTON—(ANP)— Sen.
Robert Taft (R., Ohio) has dis¬
carded his .masked role as a spokes-'"
man for minority groups and the
liberal element in championing for
full civil rights for all American ,
citizens. Thursday, in an weekly
column he writes for all Ohio
newspapers that use it, he an¬
nounced he was not wholly sold
on the FEPC bill.
‘My niece, only eight years
old, is unnaturally opinioniat-
ed,” explained my neighbor,
•Vhe isn't pleased with the
dress I bought her and she
won’t wear it. I don t l.ke that,
tone snomu wear what 1 buy
her”. ’'Let us think about
it,” I replied. “Cur little red¬
head has opinions, too.
said the other day, ‘No, I d-n’t
l.ke that basket to cany my
lunch .n. I’ve seen some m
the ten cents store I like t>et er
they have two ha.id.es.
After we had compared
a : 0 clearer nA.!L hile :“I.“ conception Si ? h !“ of ^ th«
child of today. Time was when
children said little to adults.
No doubt they had idea^, but to
argue about what they thought
or what they wanted to do was,
iLiey knew , ,out , of - the quest 4 on
t just . ,, t done. , ... Moon-
— J wasn
.. the .. decisions. , . .
ers made
Do and pick out the ., dress „ „
you’d prefer to wear to school
today,” \ Brenda’s mother said.
„t> “Ive ironed . several „ , and „ .
are all ,, , liang.ng f * up in your clos- ,
et - -■ for you to choose „ from. -rv. Then on
ma'c.i your socks and we’ll get
you ready for kindergarten.”
How much better this .s than:
"Here are your clothes, Brenda
come and get dressed.”
“No, I don’t like your pic¬
ture!” five year old Freda
“I like it only from the face
down.” None but a modern
child would venture to express
a thought like that.
“No, thank you, I don’t want
to go with you th s morning.
My friend Tiny has come home
from Canada and I’d rather
play with her.” This
knows what she wants—or does
she? Ten minutes later, just
as we are ready to start thei
telephone rings. “I’ve decided
to go with you,” she says
change of plans does not .ndi-
cate indecision on her part—it
shows merely that it has taken
time to think the pres and cons
through to the final issue.
Grandfather and Jonathan
were driv ng together. Grand¬
father said,- “Isn’t that a nice
breeze?” The official tempera
Fifty years ago, Negro
lets were primarily concerned with
the economic betterment of the
race.
Today, as we reach the second
half of the Twentieth Century, the
significance of race relations in
America has been summed up by
President Charles S. Johnson of
Fisk University in his pamphlet,
“Some Changes in Perspectives
and Patterns cf Race Relations,”
published by the American Mis¬
sionary Association, Nashville,
Tennessee, 1949:
“THE ISSUE OF RACE RELA¬
TIONS' IS TODAY AN ORGANIC
PART OF THE INTERNATION¬
AL ISSUE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.”
1950 Heart
Drive Seeks
Six Millions
NEW YORK—The 1956 Heart
Campaign, sponsored by the Am¬
erican Heart Association and its
affiliates, is scheduled for the en¬
tire month of February, it was an¬
nounced this week. The nation¬
wide fund drive to combat heart
diseases, will be under the national
chairmanship of A. W. Robertson,
Chairman of the Board of the
Westinghouse Electric Corpora¬
tion. The campaign has a goal of
$6,COO,000 to support the Associa¬
tion’s attack on heart disease
through research, education and
community service. All racial
groujis are participating in the na¬
tion-wide drive.
Introducing the campaign, Mr.
Robertson declared that, “the out¬
look was never more hopeful for i
control of the heart diseases, our
natipn’s leading cause of death.
Recent developments in medical
science have already contributed
greatly to the alleviation of sev- >
eral types of heart disease. Medical
scientists believe we are on the
threshold of new and even greater
discoveries. Research, to push
through to final solutions, is need¬
ed more than ever. The public’s
support of our medical investiga¬
tors was never more vitally neces¬
sary.
“While researchers continue to
seek new answers,” Mr. Robertson
said, “it is no less important that