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FIGHTING TOE TO TOE
An nteresting slub-fest, started at the Macon
Democratic Convention, has been going on with
considerable fury. The blast at the Atlanta news¬
papers, The Constiution and The Atlanta Journal,
the Macon News, and the Columbus Ledger-
Enquirer newspapers, has drawn the fire of
the.se newspapers. They have lashed back with
unanswerable logic. The politicians jumped on
these papers because they defend the principles
of democracy and the dignity and justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Of course,
we know, as does everybody else, that any l>' i-
son or agency that favors equal justice to Ne¬
groes and is against bigotry and intolerance,
is tagged with the name, “carpet-bagger.” If
such person or agency conies from outside the
state or is under the control of outside interests,
the term is supposed to be warranted.
One of the alleged “carpet-bagger” newspapers
ha> shown that the charge against it k> false.
The other papers deal with what is far more
important und fundamental than whether a
newspaper is state owned or not. They deal
with the spirit and purpose of the Macon con¬
vention. The Atlanta Journal begins its editorial
of August 11 thus:
“The flamboyant action of the Slate Demo¬
cratic Convention and especially (he inciting
remarks made b\ accredited administration
leaders are severe blows to Georgia’s attempt
to maintain segregation in our pub’ic schools
and colleges . . . Abroad goes the news
from Macon lhat the political leaders of
Georgia and its government have formally
•aid: To hell with the Constitution "f the
United States. What a grievous alienation
of public opinion that news will bring in
quarters where Georgia and the South need
sympathy and understanding in our wrest¬
ling with a perplexing problem.”
The message of The convention, says the
Journal, was a challenge to Negro leaders to
press “for immediate oqiral educational faci'.i-
thv.” And it laments that what “the public
abroad and many here at home can not under¬
stand is that the actions and speeches concerning
segregation at the convention were only a smoke
screen thrown up hy politicians who have other
things in mind. They are trying to solidify a
machine whose parts are incongruous and which
had a close call in the June primary.”
, “To repair their rickety organization and reap
fire fruits of their victory they must divert the
public attention from what will he going on
within their ranks and under the dome of the
Capitol . Hence the cry of “Nigger” at Mac¬
. .
on.”
The newspapers are defending their right to
express their opinion, and their right to charnp-
‘ fon justice. They are punching from their heels.
A NEW DEVICE
Those who have meant to circumvent the
spirit of democracy have always been able to
contrive a way to do it. Skill in doing this is
traditional with them. The Southern railroads
have come up with a way to get around the
Supreme Court decision handed down last June
in the case of Elmer Henderson vs the Southern
Railway System. It has not done away with
the partition separating Negroes from whites
WILL THE NEGRO FIGHT THE REDS
Hy Harry Levette
What do you say now, you who ranted loud
That it would he “unspeakable” to think
Neogres would bear arms against Russia? Vowed
That we’d refuse while at war’s threatening
brink ?
No one has tarried. Men of the brave 24th
As in all wars leaped fiercely to their posts;
They met the Red spawn from Korea’s north.
Battling till death, ’gainst far outnumbering
hosts.
Where go the Stars and Stripes, the Negro
heeds the call
A world, like this, deserves to die!
Poj America with all its faults is best after all.
CHICAGO PREACHER WHO DEFRAUDED
WIDOW ORDERED TO MOVE FROM PROPERTY
CHICAGO- (ANP) — A Widow,
defrauded of her home and much
of her property by hei pastor
recently, regained her home here
last week when the Circuit court
ordered him to move out of it.
Judge Cornelius J. Harrington
ordered the Rev. John S. Holly
and his wife to move out of the
home f Mrs. Ethel Wilson, widow
of the late Sonny Wilson, well-
known Chicago sportsman. Rev.
and Mrs. Holly moved out of the
home this week.
This action ended two years
of court battling betw een Mrs.
Wilijon and Rev. Holly. Still pend-
ing is Mrs. Wilson's suit against
the preacher in Michigan over her
Michigan estate, also taken over
by the minister.
It all began at the time of her
husband’s death in 1943 when she
became ill and was not expected
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Office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act of
March 3, 1879
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in their dining cars. It has, however, issued a
directive which reads in part: “Stewards will
bear in mind white passengers should he
. . .
seated from the buffet or kitchen end of the
dining car and Negroes from the opposite end
No passenger seeking dining car service
. . .
during the meal hour shall be refused service
when there is a vacant scat in the diner.” I his
will be the rule when the partition is removed.
It will still be segregation.
We have not seen or heard of a single un¬
pleasant incident occurring on a diner where
there i- no curtain or partition, where Negroes
and whites eat in the same space, and sometimes
at the same tabic*. As far as we have been aide
to observe, everybody attends the business at
hand that of eating—unconcerned about each
other’s presence. The railroads that persist in
defying the decision of the Supreme Court will
have to be carried back into court and be made
to comply with the court’s ruling.
OI K HOYS IN KOREA
As has be on the case in all previous wars in
which our country has been engaged, Negro boys
have fought, bled an i died along side of their
white comrades. They have carried into this
war also the hope that they will reap the bene¬
fits of the democracy they fight to protect. They
have gone into this war to shed blood in defense
of democracy, while home-bound patriots boast
that they stand ready to filibuster to death
proposals designed to gain for them civil rights,
rights to live like other Americans, with the same
protections, opportunities and considerations;
while home-bound patriots are applauded in their
defiati.-e of Supreme Court decisions, who arc
persistent almost at tlu* moment in their efforts
to perpetuate traditions of hate and prejudice.
Despite some sentiment to the contrary, they are
likely to march back home, many of them brok¬
en in body and mind, to meet the same sort of
biases, even in the Army, our soldiers have re¬
turned to meet from all previous wars, wars wag-
e i to promote and secure democracy for Koreans
in the present ease, but not for themselves, a
shameful inconsistency if ever there was one.
It is a terrible fact that the hope of suppressed
and oppressed peoples for the enjoyment of
basic human rights is encouraged only by the
threat of impending world conflict.
The irony and tragedy of it all is black
American hoys will always answer the call to
fight and bleed and die hy the side of other
boys who readily forget their black buddies dur¬
ing their struggles for democracy in times of
peace. Will it he different this time? Let us hope.
OTHER I’EOI’I.K’S FATIH
By William Henry Huff for AM’
What right have I to interfere
With how another serves his God;
I have my own big cross to bear,
And I possess no measuring rod
By which to judge another’s creed,
'fis mine to daily look within
That I may find out what 1 need
And then with fervent heart begin
To mend the broken fence that’s mine;
That is what everyone should do.
Ah, that should be all men’s design.
THE PENALTY
By Andy Razaf . . . For ANP
Today, the want and misery,
The fear and insecurity,
The hate and clash of selfish wills;
That curse the earth are man-made ills.
God means that there shall be no peace,
That woe, for us, will never cease;
While man pursues the stupid plan
Of inhumanity to man.
March on and pile your victims high
And loose the H-Bomb from the sky,
Make every noble creed a lie;
to recover. At that time Rev.
Ilolly “gave close atention to her
religious needs” including “reg-
ular prayeis during her illnes
Mis. Holly then suggested that
she wanted to give her property
to Rev. Holly’s church, the Apo-
stolic Holiness church of which
she was a member. Legal arrange-
ment for such action was made
for them bv a downtown lawyer,
Frederick M. Turner.
She signed a quit claim deeding
her Chicago real estate to the
minister and also a bill of sale
of her household furniture to Rev.
and Mrs. Holly. She was told
these would not become effective
until her death and would oper-
ate as a will.
Later, the pastor moved into
the home claiming that he
assume all expens*s and take care
of the property. In ly47. how-
ever, the widow recovered from
her illness and learned that he
had taken out a mortgage on the
property without her knowledge.
Not long afterwards she filed
suit against the minister. Judge
Harrington gave his decree two
months ago pending the presenta¬
tion of a $5,000 supersedeas bond
by Rev. Holly. The bond was to
be presented in court this week,
hut the pastor moved out instead.
Attorney for Mrs. Wilson was
Coring B. Moore. Her home was
valued at $25,000 and the furni¬
ture at $7,000. It also was revealed
; ^hat s * 1e had paid tithes of $0.25
a week, $200 of her husband's in-
surance legacy to her. and $500
Loni a $5,000 sale of property
* n Michigan to the church.
Everybody is for nationa! de-
fense if somebody else will pay
the taxes that are necessary,
the savannah tribune
‘A STRONG HAND, MR. PRESIDENT, WILL CAUSE
THEM TO SERVE TOGETHER’
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YOUR HEALTH
APPENDICITIS
The term “appendicitis” is giv¬
ing way *to the more expressive
term “typhilitis” or “peri-typhili-
tis.” In fact, the great Appendec¬
tomy Era may be said to be draw¬
ing to a close. The new term
typhilitis, expresses the correct
idea that inflammation of the
•ecum (the begitiing of the l^n’ge
intestines), not the vermiform ap¬
pendix, is usually the underlying
condition. Surgical removal of the
appendix is now’ recommended by
many physicians only when the
appendix lumen (the space within
the artery) is occluded, or whdre
there is imminent danger of gan¬
grenous necrosis (death of tissue).
This < h:.nge of attitude is due
in part to the frequent failure
to find pathological changes in
appendices removed by surgery,
together with the more frequent
experience that surgical removal
so often fail to improve the symp¬
toms. The reason for the latter is
now becoming apparent; one does
not remove the entire ileocecum!
Long clinical series compiled in
the West Indies, China, and in
India have shown that “appendi¬
citis” is a rare occurence among
these natives—but with the adap¬
tion of a European diet, appondi-
i RUTGERS WORKSHOP HELPS
SEE OWN BIAS
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
(ANP)—Students at the six-week
Rutgers university workshop on
human relations really get an un-
lerstanding of their own personal
prejudices, according to those who
have taken the course.
A group of 51 educators, social
workers, policemen and health de¬
partment officials attended the
Rutgers workshop. They conclud¬
ed that prejudice often starts at
home, and that everybody has
prejudices.
“I’m going back home with defi¬
nite increased encouragement that
human relations problems can be ;
adequately met,” commented Fer-
linand Pilger, Trenton. N. J. po¬
lice lieutenant.
Another student, Miss Fay Stoll-
man, New York sociologist, said:
“We're not going home with all
the answers, but we’ve begun to
think about this whole question of
prejudice. We’ve lived here to¬
gether as a group, examined our-
Auto Is Protection
Against Lightning
WASHINGTON. August
Motorists who get caught is!
heavy summer thunder storms
need have little fear of being
struck by lightning, say mete-
orologists of the Weather Bu-
reau and engineers of the U. S.
Department of
They add that the occupants of
an automobile are practically;
immune from injury by light-
ting.
Based on ’records of rural file,.,
in Iowa from 1930 to 1947. the
investigators point out that
the chances of lightning caus-
ing a fire are only 1 to 12 for ;
buildbuildmgs protected with
lightning rods as compered
' unrodded buildings. The
with
use of metal conductors to pro-
tect buildings from lightning
Dr. GOSHEA
cdtis increases. Reduction of the
cellulose intake ha.-, an undoubted
role in this phenomenon. Further
support to this theory is given
by the observation that appendi-
citig . g a diseage 0 f the upper
elasses—those who habitually take .
a refined diet, low in cellulose,
(plant fiber, roughage). j
In consideration of the there treat- is j |
ment of typhilitis where
no obstruction of the
selves and tiled to find out ways
that we could get more people try¬
ing to work toward a complete
democracy.”
Education, according to Max |
Birnbaun of Newark, is not the |
primary factor in eliminating pie- j
judicc. “There must be an amo- j
tional receptivity,” he said. j
Being aware of one’s prejudices,” j
he continued, “is only half the bat-
tie in fighting prejudice. I he on.
who is most ready to see pre- |
judicc in himself is the one^mos
ready to work with others.
the ,
Probably, the one thing
workshop does best, he said, is
to give the students an aware-
ness of their prejudices and them. helps He j
them work to overcome
former student who ;
then quoted a
wrote him:
“When I returned home from
the workshop 1 wondered what
had happened to my friends and
relatives. They all seemed o pie-.
judiced. Then 1 realized that they
hadn’t changed. I had.”
damage followed Benjamin
Franklin’s kite experiment in
1752.
In a recently revised Farm-
ers’ Bulletin, “Protection of
Buildisgs and Farm Property
from Lightning,” the two
weathermen, Roy N. Covert and
Louis P. Harrison, and agricul-
tural engineer Harry L. Garver
list other advantages of pro- '
tective measures. Lightning
rods, they say, should be vai-
ued not only because they save I
human life and buildings, but
also livestock and family treas-
ures—all the things that are o i
value. Some saftey rules in the
bulletin are:
Do not go out or remain out i
in thunderstorms unless nee-
essary. Stay in the dry. prefer-
ably away from fireplaces and
stoves, if the building isn t rod-
ded. j
I an I no probability of gangrene,
it can be said that conservative
means offer at least as good and
probably the best chance for im¬
provement. While rules for treat-
:.K*n1 must necessarily be left in
the hands of the attending physi¬
cian, it can be said that a com-
plete state of quiescence (rest
i>, th iu media! objective in all
■ Immohilizal ion of the gut
insofar as pu/sil i • is always a
prone’ treatment. This means that
laxatives, purges and similar stim¬
ulations are always contraindicated
(not advisable).
Chiropractor: maintain that
fun tl i in the body is directed
rnd controller! through the nervous
system. In the human economy,
the spine is the key to the nerv¬
ous system because all nerve
trunks branch outward from the
spinal column. It is, therefore,
important that the spine stay in
normal alignment else nerve
channels will be blocked, resistance
lowered, and function impaired.
The ultimate result is disease in
one of its many forms. Chiro-
p rac t ors locate and adjust the
s-ninal subluxation thus releasing
tension from the nerves. When
nature’s forces are free, she be-
gins at once to make repairs and
in due time health returns.
If there is a choice of shelter
in a thunderstorm, choose in
the following order—large met¬
al frame buildings or those
protected from lightning; large
unprotected buildings; small
unprocted buildings. It’s best
to stay away from open doors
and windows.
If you must remain outdoors
during such storms, keep away
from small shelters in the open,
isolated trees, wire fences, hill
tops and large open spaces,
The au jjj 0r g sa y y 0U can f ee j
saier ----------------- in a depression in the
g Tounc ) j n a caV e, in a deep
valley or canyon, at the foot of
a c ijff, j n dense woods or in a
g love 0 j ^rees.
A copy of the bulletin, Farm-
ers Bulletin 1512, may be ob-
tained by writing the Office of
Information, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington 25,
L). C.
jV]{} > COUNTY TO HAVE
JUNIOR COLLEGE
FOR NEGROES
ROCKVILLE, Md. — (ANP)—
Night junior colege classes for
Negroes of Montgomery county
were approved here last week at
a meeting of the board of educa¬
tion. The country appropriated
$6,000 and the state, $4,000.
Under county plans night class¬
es will be taught at the new
George Washington Carver high
school now under construction,
I his school is not expected to be
completed until October or No¬
ventoer.
A out 40 students are expected
to enroll in the junior college di¬
vision.
Dean of the new junior coliegc
will be Parlett L. Moore, now
-rimdpal of Lincoln high in Rock-
ville. Under the new setup Moore
a is.. will he principal of Carver
mgr.. Lincoln high will become a
junior high school,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 84. 1950
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly ia
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
There Are Good Fairies
By Janet T. Van Osdel
Four-year-old Dicky Mason and
his five-year-old brother, Bert,
shared a small room. Once a week
it was thoroughly cleaned. Aside
form this the boys had to keep
it in order. If the bunker-beds
were unmade by noon, or the toys
not stowed away before bedtime,
one cent for each offense was
deducted front the boys’ dime-a-
woek allowance.
There was no stipulation as to
how the work should be apportion¬
ed. Neither of the boys would
submit to being imposed upon,
and each had a fair sense of jus-
tiee. Also, they had a generous
sharing spirit, which their mother
did not wish to limit. Susan, the
seven-year-old sister, even helped
her brothers occasionally when
the mood seized her, but for the
most part it was all she could
do to keep her own crowded nook
neat. The plan worked with little
friction.
At the supper table one sultry
evening the father proposed a drive
to the lake. Joyfully the three
children, wearing only shorts, raced
for the car. Mrs. Mason, recalling
her glimpse of the boys’ room
just before supper, sighed—almost
every toy they possessed was
strewn about, some were even
piled on the beds. To fine them
would dampen their joy!
On the way home they stooped
for ice cream. Excitement, togeth¬
er with the unusually late retiring
hour, had so wearied the boys
they could scarcely drag their
small bodies upstairs. Their moth-
er, anticipating a howl when they
should enter their toy-cluttered
room, followed. To her surprise
the room was in perfect order.
“Surely some good fairy’s been
at work here!” she cried.
“There aren’t not any good
fairies!” pronounced Bert,
Dicky, discarding his red shorts,
retorted, ‘There are too
FVE BEEN THINKING
By Cab Calloway
1 see by the papers that New
York bus drivers are on strike
because the bus windows are so
<iirty they have trouble seeing
where they are going. This comes
to me as something of a surprise.
I thought that there were no
windows in New York buses . . .
at least I’ve never seen out of
one.
Of course I suppose those bus
drivers get used to Looking
through a dirty windshield. Friend
of mine who drives a bus in the
Bronx finally had to get glasses
because he couldn’t see when he
got through work. The glasses
didn't do any good, either, and
the doctor was stumped. Luckily
tne fellow lias a smart wife,
thouggh, and she knew what he
needed. She took his nice new
glasses and smeraed them with
mud and then he could see fine.
He’d been looking through dirty
windshields so long he couldn't
adjust his eyes to clean ones.
Something else about this whole
thing surprises me. I didn’t know
that New York bus drivers both¬
ered to look out of the windows,
except to leer at an occasional
pretty girl in a decolette sunsuit.
I thought the jitney pilots just
held the wheel steady, blasted
courageously on the horn and
tromped on the accelerator. Why,
I’ve even sen New York cabbies
quail at the sight of a crosstown
bus surfboarding through traffic
on a groundswell of dented fend-
ors.
Somehow it was my impression
that Manhattan stagecoach whip-
hands were merely on hand to
snail at people who don't have
eight cents change handy or who
have the unmitigated gall to ask
if this bus goes to thirty-fourth
street.
Ah, but that’s unfair. Many of
New York’s bus skippers are as 1
polite as an Irish traffic cop di¬
recting Mrs. O’Riley across the
street. There’s a driver on the
of Eighth his regular Avenue line who knows all { J
customers by name
and who recites appropriate poetry
on the weather, street scenes, and
general conditions.
There’s another who sings re¬
quest arias to his passengers as
they jod down the street. They
say he has a fine tenor voice,
too.
Rather than to go on strike
perhaps the bus drivers should
have had the poet driver write
an appropriate poem which could
be set to music and sung by the
tenor bus driver. It might go
faries! I saw one!”
Divested of his sole garment,
his yellow hair wispy, his blue
eyes puckish, he looked so like
a pixy that Mrs. Mason smiled.
“There aren’t not—” began Bert
belligerently. Then curiosity got
the better of him, and he qsked,
“Where did you see a fairy,
Dicky?”
“In the garden. It had a fur
coat and was eating a carrot. It
waved to me with its ears.”
“That was a rabbit!”
“Well, a rabbit could be a faity
if a toad was one in our story
book—that toad what spit out dia¬
monds and pearls!”
“Maybe,” admitted Bert, his
brown eyes thoughtful.
“I am the good fairy that did
this room, and Susan’s too!” boom r
ed a voice. Their father was stoop¬
ing to come through the doorwaA
Behind him was Susan.
Dicky’s eyes slowiy measured
his father’s height.
“But fairies are little,” he said.
“Maybe the bigger they are the
better they are!” cried Susan.
Relief struggled with the wist¬
fulness on their mother’s face. She
wanted very much that this trust
in good faries, which so glamour¬
ized their chi'dhood, might not
be taken wholly away; nor need
it be, she knew, if rightly inter¬
preted to them.
"Couldn’t anyone be a good
fairy?” asked Susan, her hazel
eyes sparklimr in anticipation of
possibilities ahead.
“Anyone could have the spirit
->f a good fairy," agreed her moth¬
er. “And how much good faries
are needed in this world!”
“There are good fairies!” de¬
faced Dicky firmly, starting to
climb into his lower bunk; but
with only one foot in, his eyes
dosed and he was asleep.
“I’ll be a good fairy and put
him all the way in,” said Susan,
slipping her arm around his
shoulders.
Me, too!” cried Bert, gripping
i dangling chubby leg.
something like this . . . (sung to
the tune of Pepsi-Cola hits the
spot):
Through this windshiled
l Can’t see . . .
Won’t you please clean
It for me . . .
And won’t you clean the bumper,
too,
It’s cluttered with pedestrians
(and people, too!)
Now that I have settled the
problems of the Comprehensive
Omnibus Corporation ... or is
it another company? I shall with¬
draw into my shell for another
week of concentrated thought.
A Fitting Tribute
Among the correspondence re¬
ceived hy the Goshea Chiropractic
Institute was the heartwarming
letter which indicates the tar-
reaching interest the school is
arousing:
Dear Doctor Goshea:
My practice is very successful.
I have about twenty-four regular
patients, mostly white ones but
the Negroes are coming more
and more.
The M. D.’s. and I get along
just fine. The white Chiropractors
here are nice to me also.
We have only been practicing
for three weeks now. My wife is
my little nurse. We are getting
along just fine. >
How are you and Mrs. Goshea?
Fine I hope. We hope to be able
*‘° v ' s '* y° u sometime.
^ re *d your announcement Con¬
cerning the opening of your school.
I want my brother to enter there
in September so send me all of
the financial obligations, the pos¬
sibility of getting a place to live
" hen he £ ets there and just l]ow
his payments are to be made.'
FOR I KNOW YOU WILL
TAKE CARE OF HIM BECAUSE
Y0U DID THE SAME FOR ME,
^ LET ME KNOW AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE.
Fraternally yours,
Dr. James V. Carter
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COLLEGE ANNOUNCES
~ FALL * REGISTARTI0N
I reBhman orientation week at
Savannah State College will be
observed September 18-23, accord¬
ing to an announcement by T. C.
Meyers, registrar.
The newcomers are slated to
register on Thursday, the 21st
with continuing students register¬
ing on the 22nd. Registration for
Saturday classes on the 23rd, and
for evening classes, the 25th. Late
closes on the 27th.