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®lu> $mmmh fcrihw Established 1875 By J. H. DEVEAUX SOL C. JOHNSON________Editor and Publisher MISS WILLA M. AYERS, A8st. to Pub. & Manager f• H- SUTLER ......--- ----- Asso. Editor Published Every lhuisday 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Telephone, Dial 5333 Subscription Rate in Advance One Year _______________________________$3.00 Six Months ...........................$2.00 Three Months ------------------------$ l i)0 Remitts nee must be made by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered Mail, “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. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post 0{flce at savannah, Ga„ under the Act ol March 3 1879 National Advertising Representative: Associated Publishers 5(J2 pifth Aye New York 19, New York .....— -- 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” iiw^m mm 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^’ ! ~~__ _ _„ HOME EDUCATION ST at. » (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 _ 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