Newspaper Page Text
®hr % miawtalt SHIrime
Established 1875
By J. H. DEVEAUX
SOL C. JOHNSON________Editor and Publisher
UiSS W1LLA M. AYERS, Asst, to Pub. & Manager
------- AHO. Mltg r
Published Eveiy Thursda y
1009 WEST BROAD STREET
Teleph one, Dial W38___
Subscription Rate in Advance
One Year ____________________________$3.00
Six Months ..........—..............$2.00
Three Months -------------------------$1.50
Remittance must be made by Express, Post
Olfice Money Order or Registered Mail.
YMCA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
The membership drive of the YMCA,
West Broad street, begins in earnest on
Monday, frvlay 15. The goal of the
drive is 1500 members. This is not too
high for a population of approximately
l-fjiiy-five thousand people. It is a
challenge to their sense of social re¬
sponsibility. The goal of $11,000 is a
modest expectation when it is realized
what this amount will mean to increas¬
ing services to the youth of the city.
No civic minded person in our commu¬
nity will feel satisfied to be merely an
onlooker as the membership drive pro¬
ceeds.
It seems hardly necessary to remind
our citizens of the importance of the
type of service such an institution as the
YMCA furnishes for building Christian
character. The activities of a YMCA
embrace physical, cultural, land spirit¬
ual development designed to build well-
rounded citizens in our community.
The West Broad Street YMCA, while
it has offered much of the service oth¬
er YMCA’s offer, has justified its ex¬
istence, and if it is to offer more and
better service, our c i t i z e ns must
place sufficient funds at its disposal. This
is the only way to make it an efficient
agency to do the work expected of it.
We urge our citizens to join the YMCA
and thus contribute to the effective¬
ness of an organization which must go
on.
SUCCESS STORIES
In spite of the contrasts and conflicts
in certain aspects of life in the worlds
most democratic country, the advantages
and disadvantages, the favorable and
unfavorable living conditions of social
levels, America has given to the world
more stories of the lloratio Alger vari-
ety than any other country on earth.
Lowly birth, poverty, lack of educa¬
tion, arid geography of birth place have
not been impassable barriers to posi¬
tions of eminence. Perhaps Abraham
Lincoln is the most conspicuous example
rtfedrded in our history'. There are
numerous eases of individuals who de¬
fied the limitations of birth, station,
and economc status, and arose to posi¬
tions of honor and respectability, but
there is one handicap more vicious and
restricting than any ot those mentioned
above that Abraham Lincoln did not
have, to bar his way to success and prom¬
inence and acclaim. The tact that color
and race prejudice were barriers that Lin¬
coln and other white individuals did
not have to overcome, does not dim the
lustre of their achievements, but they
are barriers that stand between Negroes
and the height of recognition their
achievements receive. Place of birth,
and all the evils that attache to it,
and color conspire to prevent or greatly
limit the success and achievements of
Negroes. Negroes who have
The list is long of
achieved a modicum of success in their
but who have not been permit-
Tennessee Downs ’Skegeefor
Women’s Track Title
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala .
May 5— Sparked by the brill¬
iant performance of Jean Pat¬
ton, Ruth Jenkins and Audrey
Patterson, the Tennessee State
college women of Nashville
Tennessee, dominated the 22nd
annual Women's Sports Day
Program, held Friday afternoor
in Alumni Bowl.
On top at the finish by a slen¬
der margin of one point-36 to 35
the Tennessee cinder stars
snapped a 21-year reign of the
Gold-clad Tuskegee lassies in
the event. The Alabama State
college girls. Montgomery, fin¬
ished third with 7 points.
Senior Women’s Events
50 Meter Run—Jean Patton
(Tennessee State) 1: Gladys
Tally (Tuskegee Institute) 2:
Catherine Johnson (Tuskegee
Institute) 3: Bessie Abernathy
(lAabama State) 4 Time 26 4s
400 Meter Relay- Tuskegee In¬
stitute (Catherine J o hnson.
Gladys Tally. Evelyn Lawler.
Nell Jackson 1 Tennessee State
2. Time 48.2s.
New Record
Discus Throw—Ruth Jenkins
(Tennessee State 1. Anita Wat¬
kins (Tennessee State) 2. Fran¬
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act oi
M arch 3, 1879
_
National Advertising RepresentaHvs••
Associated Publishers
562 Pifth Ave .
New York 19, New York
....
-
ted to come into the status enjoyed by
others who do not have the bar of col¬
or to surmount. By ail signs, their
struggle to near the top is tougher tor
them than lor white climbers, and by
the same token, is more heroic. Percy
Julian, Henry Dawson, Sugar Kay Rob¬
inson, Joe ,Louis, Jackie Robinson and
Ralph Bunche—there are others—have
all had to face the bar of color, or have
had (.he bar of place of birth to con¬
tend with. They have all earned the
applause of the country hut they still
are plagued by discrimination. If the
men who were born in the South had
not left it, their contribution of no
mean sort would have been lost to the
country, a fact that accentuates the ex¬
tent to which lack of opportunity dams
up the possible achievement of Negroes
who have the ability and talent to con-
tribute something to American life and
culture. Color and race prejudice are,
so tar, insurmountable barriers to com¬
plete citizenship in America.
After much jockeying. :he Senate is
about to take up the r’EI’C, a bill to
implement • one of the essentials of de¬
mocracy. The opposition to it calls it
by another name. To the opposition it
is an invasion upon estates’ rights, fed¬
eral interference with the prerogatives
of business, an effort ui the government
to ram the Negro down the throats of
the South, despite the fact that others
than Negroes are concerned by the con¬
ditio.s Hal He passage of an FEFC
bill would correct.
i'he opposition to this bill, as well as
to an anti-poll tax, anti-segregation, and
an anti-lynching bill, compounds a par¬
adox in American democracy. The
country sheds blood, expends huge sums
ol money to set it up as an ideal of life
and government and lights bitterly at
home to prevent the practice of it.
'lucre are men, lawyers, and statesmen,
who are satisfied to be remembered in
history as exponents of justice and de¬
mocracy for some citizens, and who
place the maintenance of a fading tra¬
dition above being consistent with the
principles and spirit of democracy.
We are gratified to note that the fed¬
eral government is beginning to crack
down on gambling rackets. Already
some of the big boys are taking to the
“tall and uncut” so as to be out of the
way when and if they are needed to give
an account of their operations. It is a
curious thing that experience with
rackets has failed to teach government
officials, local and national, certain im¬
portant lessons. It is also curious that
it requires tragic happenings to wake
them up. the Kan¬
The investigation so far in
sas City affair is resulting true to ex¬
perience; It has found that government
officials made success in the rackets pos¬
sible. It is difficult to see how rackets
can thrive without the connivance of
government officials somewhere along
the line.
ces Burns (Tuskegee Institute)
1. Distance 71 ft 7 in.
Broad Jump Evelyn Lawler
(Tuskegee Institute) 1; Mary
Hardaway (Tennessee State 2::
Frances Burns (Tuskegee Insti¬
tute) 3. Distance 16 ft. 2 in.
Baseball Throw— Ruth Jenkins
iTennessee Stale) 1; Betsy Ab¬
ernathy (Alabama State) 2.
Frances Burns (Tuskegee Insti¬
tute) 3; Mary Swanson (Alaba¬
ma State 4 . Distance 187 ft. 7m
Junior Women’s Events
5,3 Meter Run Mary
'David T. Howard) l: Margaret
Davis i Booker T. Washington.
Atlanta) 2: Nettie Foxx (Ken¬
ton high, Millry. Alabama, and
Dorothy Rayford (Booker Wash¬
ington) tie. Time 6 5s
80 Meter Hurdles—Dorothy
Chi holm (Tuskegee high) 1;
Barbara Whitehead (David T
Howard) 2; Bettie Flournoy
Booker T Washington); Lois
Dixon (McIntosh high.' 4 Time.
14.1s.
ICO Meter Run—Mary
(David T. Howard' 2: Margerine
Harrell (Booker T Washington'
3; Carle McDonald
high) 4; Time 12.6s.
200 Meter R u n—Josephine
BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
HOW GRADUAL IS
It is no disgrace to them to be segregat¬
ed upon whom segregation is forced. Tne
worst danger segregation holds lor the seg¬
regated is that they may be therein con-<
tent.
As long as Negroes resent and resist seg¬
regation in their hearts and minds, the dan¬
gers therein are not deadly. There is but
little danger that any Negro will be content
long to be segregated. With all our educan
tional advantages and with all our current
opportunities, it is difficult to conceive of a
modern Negro content to be segregated.
Even in the days of slavery, Negros long¬
ed for a better and brlgnter day. For this
day tncy besought earnestly the help of AH
mighty God. God delivered them. Their
deliverance had some superhuman element
in it. The events that transpired do not
iully explain the Negroes’ emancipation.
Ine tan.I quarrel that set the north and
south at eternal variance stemmed from
the fact that the north was Industrial and
the south was agricultural. This seemmed
frem the fact that, during the Glacial Ages,
the valleys of New England were dammed
by the melting glaciers which resulted in
waterfalls, which resulted In water power.
In ether words, the stage for the war of
secession was set 500,000 years ago and with
a setting of the stage no human had any¬
thing to cic. As a matter of fact there
were no humans.
Of course there is a hostility to the word
“gradualism” among Negroes just as there
i: fc-.st lity among southern whites, to the
term “civil rights.” On matters of civil
rights the average southerner thinks with
his nerves instead of his mind. So
Negroes think on the matter of gradualism.
Even if the white man looks upon gradual¬
ism as meaning never; even if he means
eternally never when he says “not yet, Ne¬
groes do not have to mean the same thing.
It is no mere disgrace for Negroes to ac-
cept -• what they cannot get at
or.ee than to submit to segregation until
they do not longer have to submit. When
me Is aelltes .ntered the Promised Land,
God told them that he would drive the Ca-
naanltes out before them “little by. little”.
However repulsive such promise was to the
Israelites that was the way it was accom¬
plished even as God had ordained.
Thus far. the Negro has come little by
little, .that he is coming cannot be doubted.
It is painfully slow but we are advancing
chell (Koc item high) 4; Agnes
Williams Mobile County Train-
ing school, 5. Distance 203 ft. l
1 y\
Javelin Thro w—Margarine
Harrell (Booker T. Washing) 1;
Lula Bell (BJoker T. Wa hing-
tom 2; Lorraine Chisholm (Tus-
gekee high) 3; Margaret Harrell
iBooker T. Washington) 4. Dis-
rHE Y. M. C. A.
rHIS WEEK
The Executive Committee oi
the West Broad Street YMCA
membership campaign unani¬
mously elected Dr. N. H. Collier
as chairman of the Executive
Committee. The campaign will
be officially launched May 15
and will contiune through May
29.
The program of activities in
the YMCA is not static; it grows
and changes in response to
community need. It follows two
lines of intention and these two
lines overlap at many points.
On one hand, our young people
must be prepared to earn a liv-
ing and on the other hand they
must acquire the spiritual de-
portment, the sensitiveness,
the emotional adjustment
essar y f 0 r full rich lives.
Gilmore (David T. Howard) 1
Nellie Foxx (Koenton high '2, j
Dorothy Rayford (Booker T.
Washington) 4. Time 25. 0s.
400 Meter Relay—David T
Howard (McNabb, Deallfordie,
Gilmore, Matthew-) 1; Bookei
T. Washington “A” Team, 2;
Booker T. Washington B” Team
3 ; Tuskegee high, 4. Time 51.2s.
High Jump—Sylvia Lee
er T. Washington) 1; Dorothy
Chisholm (Tuskegee high 2; Cl-
lie Mitchell (Koenton high) 3:
Lula Bell (Booker T. Washing¬
ton i 4. Height 4 ft. 10 in.
Shot Put—Betty Miles (David T
Howard) 1; Dorothy Chisholm
(Tuskegee Institute) 2: Patsv
Prim (Camden A cademy) 3;
Mildred Cash (David T. Howard)
4; Annie Gordon (David T. How-j
aid) 5 Distance 31 ft. 4 1-4 in.
Discus Throw—Christine
Whittaker (David T. Howardi 1;
Helen Taylor (David T. Howard)
2: HaHrriet Bentley (Tuskegee
high) 3. Distance 75 ft.
Broad Jump—Mary McNabb I
'David T. Howard) 1; Beveryen
Tidwell (ooker T. Washington)'
2 ; Lows Dixon (McIntosh) 3; I
Sylvia Lee i Booker T. Washing- j
ton' 4. Distance 16 ft. 3.4 in.
j Harrell B a s eball (Booker Throw—Margarine Washington'
! T.
1; Lula Dell (Booker T. Wash-
ingtoni 2; Harriett Bentley
(Tuskegee high) 3; Ollie Mit-
Rcse-Meta Shows Paris The Art of Hair Dressing
Rose Morgan, of Harlem, pres¬
ident of the ROse-I.Ieta Beauty
schools, demonstatmg the wav¬
ing of hair through the Ameri¬
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
GRADUALISM?
What is more, the Negroes welcome any
suggestion whereby the process can be ac¬
celerated. The only danger in gradualism
is when Negroes cease to press for every ad¬
vantage with all their might and strength.
This article is inspired by the common sense
attitude taken by .the Journal and Guido
and The Carolinian on the senatorial can-
ddiacy of Frank Graham whose moral sta¬
ture is known from one end of this nation
to the other.
If ever the south had a liberal, Dr.
Graham is that liberal. His opposition is
pressing hm and they are trying in North
Carolina to -crucify him politically on the
cross of the FZPC platform. Dr. Graham
lias had to alter his stand somewhat on the
FEPC platform; but these papers are st 11
stringing along with him. That is as it
shuold be. If Dr. Graham's heart is right,
some lat itude should be given him to com¬
pete with his wily opponents. It would be
to th Negro disadvantage to come out with
a "Whole-hcg-er-none” formula for Dr.,
Graham to sign. It would most certainly
mean his defeat; the defeat of one of the
greatest men of the generation. If Dr.
Graham has to play down on the FEPC in
order to defat his opponents, the Negroes
wisely decide to stay with him. That is
common sense That is good politics.
A few years ago Virginius Dabney came
out in an editorial and advocated the. repeal
of segregation on the common cairieis in
Virginia He was bitterly assailed and ma-
l gned for not going “all out" against all
segregation. Here was a southerner who
went farther than any southerner had ever
igone, but because he did not go "all the way
he was bitterly denounced as a splneiess
mollycoddle of a southerner. Yet during the
last ’ assembly the very Negroes who assail¬
ed him for not going “all the way” loyally
supported Assemblyman Boothe who intro¬
duced a bill that dealt only with segregation
as it pertained to the common earner.
The same crowd that cried “Away with
Dabney” for confining his attack on seg¬
regation to the common carriers crid “ Ho¬
sanna to Boothe” for advocating the same
thing. In other words the Negroes are will¬
ing to take littke by little what they cannot
take all, at once. This is strategy. This
is common sense, in spite of our repulsion
to the term gradualism. How gradual is
gradualism imy way? >
The West Broad Street “Y ’
ope ns its doors to everyone,
A1 ong with other activities
teenagers _____ and _____1 young .... — adults,
they are learning (at a tender
age) how to live. The acquisition
of skills and the broadening oi
interest give them the sense of
security and they participate
daily in the democratic proce s
—in the “give and take” ot
group comradeship.
There are over 35 young men
and women taking an active
part in the creative art group
under the direction of J. P. Wil-
son and Harry Mason. Present
in this group was Clarence
Reynolds, a member of the "Y”
staff in the leading role dancing
to the tune of “Old Man River.”
Make the “Y” your spot of
entertainment every F r i day
night at the youth canteen un¬
der the direction of the Tri-Hi-
Y division of the YMCA.
During the renovation of the
building, all of our activities
have been suspended. Within a
[ few weeks with we are hoping of to
( continue our program
activities In our newly decorated
building. Yell to each other,
I “Let’s Go To The ‘Y.’”
can method in a Parisian beau¬
ty salon cm the Champs-Ely.ees.
French men and women hair
stylists watch Miss Morgan as
HOME EDUCATION f
Issued by tlic National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40Ui
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
"THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
WHILE THEY WAITED
Lucia Mallory
"I worry about my baby all
the time.” So spoke a young
mother, Janet Pearson, who had
recently moved into the apart¬
ment house where I live.
It was a warm spring afteiv
noon, and several of us, who are
neighbors, were . itting together
in our shady back yard. Janet’s
eight-month-old son was near
us in his play pen. .
“Has your baby been ill ” Mrs.
Ferry asked solicitou ly.
‘Oh, no,” Janet continued ii 1
always the same been anxious well. vonce. It’s just “He that has J
there are so many terrible acci-
dents these days. O le can hard y
pick lp a paper without reading)
about some child having !
drowned or been burned or hav¬
ing had a bad fall—I’m so afraid
something like that will happen
to Richard.”
“You don’t seem to be a care¬
less mother,” Mrs. Ferry assured
her.
“Oh, no. I try to be very care-
fill." Janet answered. ‘ I pend
nractically every waking minute
watching over Richard!”
Looking at sturdy, good na-
tured little Richard Pearson
might lead one to dismiss his
mother’s fears lightly. But it
was evident that this woman
needed to gain a different per-
pective regarding the care of
her son—both his mental health
and hers were in jeopardy.
I was glad, therefore, to hear
Mrs. Ferry continue in her
gentle voice, “All those babies
who spend safe and happv davs
and sleep peacefully through
every night do make the head-
lines, Janet. Have you ever
thought about how many people
survive the hazards of child¬
hood?”
For the first time that after¬
noon our new neighbor smiled.
“Millions of them, including
F. L. Collier of Waycross was
elected aistret commander.
Elks To Observe
Mother’s Day
Weldon Lodge of Elks will
serve Mother’s Day at the Rest,
510 Minis St. Sunday at 4 p. m.
All loyal Bills and Daughters
are asked to be present, wearing
regalia. The music Tor the occas¬
ion will be furnished by the
Temple chorus.
The program will be: Opening
son. invocation, selection, intro¬
duction of the mistress of cere¬
monies, Dt. Lula Johnson by
Bill Ed. Greene; duet, Dts.
Christine Anderson and Alma
Goslays; paper. Dt. Henrietta
Harrison; selection, Elite Tem¬
ple chorus; instrumental solo,
Nataie Washington; solo, little
Pancheta Findley; introduction,
of speaker, address, Rev. J. B
Bates; selection, Elite Temple
chorus; collection, dedicated to
mother; remarks,
ments, benediction. J. B. Hard-
rick, exalted ruler, E. E.
chairman of program.
MRS. BOND TO SPEAK
DELTAS
^ local chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta sorority will pre
sent Mrs. Ruth Clement Bond
as their May Week speaker at
Savannah State college, Sunday,
May 21, at 6 p. m.
For the past two years Mrs.
Bond has served as professor ol
Frnch at Morhouse college, At¬
lanta. She is the wife of J. Max
Bond, who is director of the
school of education, Atlanta uni¬
versity. She is also the daughter
of Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement
who was chosen as the Amrican
mother for 1946.
Prior to joining the faculty
at Morehouse, Mrs. Bond accom¬
panied her husband to Haiti
where he served as special assis¬
tant to the governor of the is¬
land. While there she assisted
the Governor’s wife. Mme. Du-
marsais Estime, raise $2,500 for
needy Haitian children.
Mrs. Bond has done outstand¬
ing civic work in Atlanta and is
considered an interesting speak¬
er.
The Communist phobia of 1950
is not yet as intense as the Bol¬
shevist scare of 1918-19.
she transform 3 the hair of a
pretty Martiniquian girl. Miss
Morgan l considering the estab¬
lishment of a Rose-Meta shop in
Paris.
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950
ourselves,” she answered. “I
know I must sound fooli-h, but
how can a mother keep nom
worrying?”
Mrs. Ferry's answer was a
question: “Do you want your son
to meet life with courage anu
fortitude?”
“Yes, of course—every mother
wants that!”
“Growing up in an atmo phere
of worry and fear is not condu¬
cive to serenity of mind,” Mrs.
Ferry declared. “Many a woman
provides good physical care—
wholesome food, sensible cloth-
ing, adequate rest—but fails to
give her children something
equally important — an
unworried mother.
• That doe n’t mean,” she con¬
cluded, .“that a mother should
not furnish safeguards for her
children until they learn to de¬
pend upon themselves, or tight
young children do not ne#«t
much attention; it does m-
that, having provided for til
well-being i i very way possr
she shou'd not burden tnem o
her eif with anxious fears.”
“You’re suggesting that I aeal
with Richard exactly as my
mother dealt with my little bro-
ther!” Janet exclaimed. “He was
never left so that he might eau-
ily roll off a bed or fall out of
his carriage, but, when he was
strong enough and sensible
-nough to take care of him elf
he was allowed to do so. Mother
loved and protected him, but she
did not go around in a state of
constant anxiety. I’m going to
j ' try to stop enjoy worrying him more.” about Uich-
al( j end
‘ That shouldn’t be a hard
plan to carry out,” Mrs. Ferry
asserted, as little Richard re¬
turned her friendly rmile. “I
think it would be a good resolu¬
tion for all mothers to make.”
Savannah Zetas
Soror Anita Stripling will
leave for St. Augustine, Fla ,
this week to attend the region¬
al meeting of Zeta Beta Sorority.
She is the official representa¬
tive for the local chapter. The
d u t es f 0r the meeting are May
12-13.
The chapter’s Blue Revue will
be a Baby Contest which wLl
conclude May 24 at the parish
house of St. Matthew’s Episco¬
pal church. The program will
be of general interest and the
There are any number of
propagandists in the United
States ready to write editorials
for an editor willing to print
them.
MRS. ROSA MAE
JOHNSON DIES
1 SUDDENLY
Mrs. Rosa Mae Johnson, eld-
1 est daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Williams, died Tues-
day morning at her residence,
1509 Montgomery street alter a
briqf illness. Although Mrs.
Johnson had suffered an att^k
the nfglit before, she was se«-
ingly improved and in gWri
spirits Tuesday morning. While
talking with her husband and a
close friend, Mrs. Camilla Wells,
she suddenly collapsed, and was
pronounced dead upon the arri¬
val of a physician. She had suf¬
fered a second heart attack.
Mrs. Johnson was a native
Savannahian. She was a grad¬
uate of Fisk university and be¬
fore her marriage was one of
the first teachers of the First
Congregational Church kinder¬
garten, Taylor -.nu Habersham
streets.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. 4
o'clock at the First Congrega¬
tional church with Rev. A. C.
Curtright officiating and Mon¬
roe Funeral Directors in charge.
The deceased is survived bv
her husband. Ezra Johnson: a
daughter. Miss Rosemary John¬
son; three sisters, Miss Ruth
Williams and Mrs. Lucia W. Har¬
per, both of Anderson. Indiana;
and Mrs. Otis W. Gantt of Ja¬
maica, Long Island, N. Y.; one
nephew and other relatives.
What Savannah needs is
some leaders more interested in
Savannah than in publicity and
profits. j