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We ! &re gratified that after all Geor¬
gia Negro children will have represen¬
tatives, at the White House Conference
on Children to present their needs. It
eeems„feasonable to us that the general
committee recognizes that Negroes in¬
terested in child welfare would be able
to contribute more about the needs of our
children than any white group for obvi¬
ous reasons. It would be a serious ov¬
ersight not to ^include them. Georgia
is noti,unlike other southern states ex¬
cept that its governor showed less inter¬
est iir'the welfare of all the children in
the state than governors of other states.
It is unfortunate that the delegation from
Gecrgia will not have the official ap¬
proval of our governor. We regret so
much "that our state continues to earn
such Unfavorable publicity in an action
of this sort. We are sure that those
who will name the Negro section of the
committee from Georgia will exercise
great care in selecting its members.
We,hope that the plans that are mak¬
ing for securing a general hospital for
our community include a concern for
Negrd' citi'zens und for Negro doctors.
The benefits and purposes of such a
hospital as was described in a recent
panel .^discussion will not be fulfilled if
only white people and white doctors will
have access to it. We hope that all the
facilities and benefits of the proposed new'
hospital will be available to Negro pa¬
tients and Negro doctors. We have
not heard that they will not be. We see
no reason in this day and in this city
why they should not be.
IS STRAWS INTHE WIND
Relation from many counties on the
unit Jdmendment indicates that opposi¬
tion it is growing; that many of the
smallLcounties that are supposed to ben¬
efit urginjt tgmi the county-unit vote system are
their readers to against
the amendment. One of the chief rea¬
sons given for extending and maintain¬
ed ing oft tjji county-unit last week, reveals system, that as we its point¬
expo-
nentsJJJlo hand.#* not The come Gainesville into court Daily with Times, clean
accorftig to the Atlanta Journal Consti-
tutiojJJJhas this to say: “‘No, Mr. Tal-
ftiadgS is not trying to save the state
from Machine rule, but just old the politics opposite. to
He is ■‘using a trick as as
strengthen the political foundation of
the Taflmadge machine.’ ” Twenty-one
small county newspapers have spoken very
plainly* as to their position not only to
extemfcig the county-unit system to
the general election, but also to the use
of thelplan in primary elections.
TheiNew's and Farmer, of Louisville,
Jeffer$ (Siticism. n county makes another signifi¬
cant on the county-unit sys¬
tem: “ ‘It requires more than 10 Jef¬
ferson county votes to equal one in
Chattahoochee, and more than five in
Jefferson to equal one cast in Webster,
and more than three in Jefferson to
equal *'bne cast in Webster, and more
than three in Jefferson to equal one cast
in Quiiman. No matter how you look
at it, Jthe county-unit system is unfair.’
November 7 will be a fine time for the
people ,cf Georgia the to stag** kill the for doing amendment away
and tr> prepare
with tpe county unit system.
STATEMENT OF
MANAGIiJlENT, AND CIRCU-
LATION Required by The Act
•f Congress of August 24. 1912,
As Amended by the Acts of
JVtarch 3, 1933, And July 2. 1916
(Title 39,- United States Code,
Section 383)
Of The' Savannah Tribund
published weekly at Savannah,
Georgia, jfor October 1, 1950.
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Savannah, Georgia
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sivannah, Georgia
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Savan*ih. Georg a
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THREE MUSTS
Come November 7, there are three
things the voters of this county must
do: (1) go to the polls and vote; (2) vote
for on the amendment to grant the Board
of Education authority to increase the
millage beyond the present limit of
fifteen, and to issue bonds not to exceed
seven percent for school purposes only;
and (3) to vote against extending the
county-unit system to the general elec¬
tion. Whatever else there may be to
vote for, the three things we mention
are of paramount importance. They
are important enough for all interested
persons to begin now to get out the en¬
tire vote of the county. We think of
three ways tc do this: (1) tell your
friends and neighbors to vote; (2) drop
a postal card to those you can not speak
to in person; and (3) use your telephone
especially, a day or two before the elec¬
tion and on election day. Besides being
a privilege many millions of people in
our world would like to enjoy, it is pre¬
eminently a duty every voting citizen
in this county must not fail to perform.
DIRE PREDICTIONS
No one believes the prediction that At¬
lanta w'ill become a ghost city; that there
w'ill be blood shed and riot; United or that any¬
body will go to jail if the States
Supreme Court rendered a decision in
favor of the petitioners in the Atlanta
School Suit. Who believes that th,e
people of Atlanta, or of any other city,
will move away from the prosperity they
have built up to circumvent a decision
from the highest court in the land. The
prophet is attempting to set up a scare¬
crow', a poor substitute for realism and
justice. Those who control the govern¬
ment and dispense its services have ig¬
nored and run-around the needs and pe¬
titions of Negroes. If Negroes have
bicome impatient and have lost faith in
promises, it is not their fault. South¬
ern statesmen have resisted federal leg¬
islation on civil rights and have always
argued to be let alone to act in their
“own way and time.” But their “own
way and time’” has resulted in a differ¬
ential in education alone, which it will
take, according to some statisticians, 85
years and millions of dollars to resolve.
Negroes want just treatment “for their
children as well as for their grand¬
children.” The old palliative-wait a
while, the time is not ripe—has become
worn out, even though now and then
some Negroes, under pressure of one
kind or another, repeat the old refram.
Legal segregation is vicious; it is wrong;
it means discrimination; it attempts to
place the stigma of inferiority upon its
victims, which for easily observable his¬
torical and scientific reasons they are
unwilling to accept. Honesty and facing
up to the facts demand that the empha¬
sis in the school issue be placed where
it belongs. Dr. Benjamin Mays in a
statement recently released states plain¬
ly what the emphasis is. junk
Dire predictions and threats to
the Minimum Foundation Program will
not settle the question. To think that
they will is unworthy of Georgia states¬
manship.
average
copies of each Issue of this
' publication sold or distributed
j j through, the mails or other-
wise, to pa d subscribers riur-
ing the 12 months preceding
j the date shown above was:
2800.
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^ tember, 1980
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I uary 26. 1951)
Jerusalem Bantist Church
54th Street, West; Rev. E. B.
Boyd, pastor. The revival meet¬
ing which began Oct. will con¬
tinue through this week. Rev.
E. A. Hagins, pastor of St. Paul
Baptist, is in charge of the J
meeting, assisted by the pastor.
The Pulpit Aid club held its,
meeting at the church Sunday j
evening 6:00 p. m. with the!
president, Mrs. Mary Matthews,
presiding. An excellent program
was rendered with Mrs. Mamie
church the principal speaker.
Plans for the financial drive
will begin after the revival
closes. Norman Elmore will be
leader for the men and Mrs.
Viv.an Stevens leader for the
women. "The Bride’s Contest’
sponsored by the Poinsette club
Oct, 2 was largely attended. The
kindergarten teachers associa¬
tion will hold its next meeting
with Jerusalem kindergarten a’l
the church Friday. Nov. 10 at 4
p. m.
Evangelical Ministers
Union
The following committees re¬
ported after the devotions by
Chaplain C. P. Hobbs: currenlt
events, vigilant, civic, sick, hos¬
pitals and the memorial com¬
mittee reported the death of
the late Rev. Vance D. Shelton
of Ohio and the Rev. M. G. Dix¬
on of Alabama, two pioneers of
the A. M. E. church.
Rev. J. S. Bryant and Rev.
W. W. Stephens gave echoes
from the South West Georgia
Conference held last week by
THE SAVANNAH T1.IBCNE
BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN CORDON 11. HANCOCK for ANP
THE SOUTH'S HARVEST OF CRIME
The Richmond News Leader, our far-
famed local da ly, carried an editorial on
October 8, captionea, “Murder In The South
A continuing Disgrace.” The editorial is so
provocative that it is being passed on in
its entirety as food for serious thought:
“The most recent Uniform Report of
Crime by the FBI, cover ng the first six
months of 1950, offers the same disgrace¬
ful story of crime in the deep south that
those of us in this region have come to ex¬
pect. Despite all the advances in the
south’s public education, all improvements
in socia) relationships, all the increases in
standards of living our crime rate remains
deplorably, disgracefully high.
Thirty cities of at least 100,000 population,
reported 10 or more homic des in the first
half of the year; of these 17 were in the
south, Atlanta with a population of 326,--
CC0, reported more than twice as many
murderers as San Francisco, with a popula¬
tion of 760,000. Charlotte, N. C„ had more
murders than Indianapolis or Seattle. Nash¬
ville’s 20 homicides were only two less than
those of vast Los Angeles. Richmond with
17, was barely short of the 1,9 listed from
San Franc sco.
This fair city of the James, for the first
six month of 1950, had more burglaries than
Minneapolis, more grand larcenies than Buf¬
falo, more petit larcenies than Philadelphia,
and more auto thefts than Cincinnati. Nor¬
folk's record was worse than Richmond’s
n every classification save homicide. The
Hampton Roads city ranks fiftieth in popu¬
lation but only 13 American cities had a
greater number of burglaries in the Jan-
uary-June period.
The dismal figures can be explained only
in part by the south’s heavy Negro popula¬
tion. Somewhere along the line there must
be some contributing causes. It may be
that law enforcement in the south is not as
competent as it is in other regions of thd
country. Are the south’s churches as live¬
ly in stimulating respect for life and prop¬
erty? Have we in the south let callouses
grow in our attitude towards the law* Ard
the south’s recreational and educational
facii ties badly at fault? Probably the an¬
swers to this region’s shocking crime rate
lie buried and twisted in any number of
factors, some sociplogical, some racial, some po
litical. but something pretty drastic is wrong
Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., at
Fort Gaines, Ga.
Rev. W. W. Stephens, the !
president, urged loyal support
of the Community Chest drive
and the minimum Foundation,
a special meeting of the Com- i
munity Chest drive, will be
held Friday night at St. Philip
A. M. E. church at 8 o'clock at
which time the ministers were
| urged to bring out a large num- i
' ber of their membe'rs.
Rev. I. J. Johnson. P. E.,!
j j West Savannah district, Pre-Confer¬ invited
the members to the
ence meeting at Mt. Zion AME
; church, Oliver, Friday, Oct. 20.
Rev. R. Richards, the pastor
! at Hinesville charge, reported
! tha the Women’s day meeting
last Sunday netted $15 7 .50.
I Rev. W. W. Stevens, pastor of
St. James, reported a total of
§1,214 in his 80tli anniversary
at St. James which closed Sun-
i day.
The order of the daj’ next
‘ Tuesday will be papers by Rev.
j J. S. Bryan, theme: Should the
department of religious edu¬
cation of the A. M. E. church
be revived.
i Paper by Rev. W. W. Stevens,
when B.rmingham, Alabama turns up with
a murder rate nearly three times that of
gangster-ridden Chicago.”
Even slight reflection on the part of tho
editor would have suggested the real trouble
in the premise. The south for nearly a cen¬
tury has been encouraging lawlessness by
winking at crime when committed against
Negroes. Thousands of lynchers are at
large with the silent sanction of even the
thousands of churches pretend ng to love
and serve Jesus Christ.
For nearly three generations the south
has sown the seeds of lawlessness and a
double standard of justice before the law.
Now the south is reaping a harvest of crime.
It is a mighty fine tiling for the south to
become aroused over this disgraceful situa¬
tion; but it would be better if the south
would resolve to repent of its s ns of law¬
lessness and turn into the paths of right-
teousness. The callousness mentioned is
qu te evident but it only manifests itself
when and where Negroes are concerned.
The Negro press for years has tried to
point out that lawlessness against Negroes
meant eventually lawlessness against the
whites. Wb have cried aloud that brutish-
;ness and sad sm manifest in lynchings
meant brutalization of the whites and their
instincts. Like chickens coming home to
roost these truths give some faint hopei
that tomorrow may be a better day.
When white children grow up noting
their elders contempt for the law, they na¬
turally share this contempt however sub¬
tle. When the white student reads of the
legal mocker es perpetrated to deprive Ne¬
groes of their rights and opportunities, he
must feel way down in his heart a contempt
for law and order. Committed as it is to
the proposition that the end justifies the
means, the South weakens itself morally in
the eyes of its youth and the world. Just
as the white youth are influenced, by thn
erring elders so Negroes are impelled to fol¬
low the lead of the whites in their lawless¬
ness.
If the regnant whites can kill without fear
of conviction why should not Negroes try
the same methods in their social adjust¬
ments? The brutalization that goes along
with oppress on will have its manifestation.
It is more than passing strange that the
greatest urging to throw the atomic bomb
has come from Southern congressmen.
subject, The ordinaton of Wom¬
en to the Christian ministry.
Members present, Revs. W. W.
Stevens, R. Richards, J. S. Bry¬
an. D. T. Babcock, A. D. Powell,
I. J. ohnson, J. W. Maxwell, C.
P. Hobbs, and W. O. P. Sher¬
man.
Several of the members
attend the Americus, Georgia
Conference at Dawson, Ga. this
week, the third conference of
the series held this season by
Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr., the
presiding bishop of the AME
church in the State.
Palen Methodist Church
In the absence of a pastor,
the regular Sunday morning's
message at Palen Methodist
chu'rch was delivered by the
Rev. J. S. Stripling. One person,
Willie Wiggins, joined the
church. Our former pastor, his
wife and delegates iRcv. and
Mrs. J. E. Spears and Mrs. Ethel
Strickland) were attending the
Savannah Annual Conference
of the Methodist church at
Columbus. Reports are that the
conference was one of the most
successful in the history of our
church. We are happy to know
that Rev. and Mrs. Spears have
returned to us for another con¬
ference yea-’.
j School of Church •
Financing Begins Monday
A SCHOOL OF CHURCH FI¬
j NANCING will be cqndueted un¬
der the leadership of the Chatham
County Baptist Council, in cooper-
ation with the Savannah Baptist
City Missions Committee, com-
mencing this Monday evening, Oc-
toher 23rd, and going through
Wednesday night, October 25th.
The sessions will open each night
promptly at 7:30 o’clock and will
be held in the main auditorium
of the First African Baptist
Church.
This Institute Is open to as
many members of any Baptist
Church in Chatham County as
their churches care to send, pro¬
vided the Church sending them
; is a member of the Council. Of
especial interest would naturally
i he, the sending of such members
as are usually depended upon in
church financial efforts. Those
churches that have not enrolled
may still do so. through their
pastors or other qualified repre¬
j sentatives, by mailing the etuu.l-
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 Wr,st 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
STEVE NAMES HIS PETS
Mrs. J. S. Baker
When Stevie Mears, three-
and-a-half years old, received
his first live pet. a beautiful
cocker spaniel, he at once called
him Towser. To him dog and
Towser were synonymous—
Towser being the name of the
dog next door, the only other
dog he really knew.
But Towser was hardly a fit¬
ting name for a cocker spaniel!
Mrs. Mears saw that Stevie
needed education regarding the
naming of animals, and it was
easy to point out, and for Stev¬
ie to see, the confusion that
would result from having two
Towsers living so close togther.
“Where do people find good
names for their pets?” she
adked.
Stevie didn’t know. But he
was eager to have a better name
for his adored pup.
His mother called his atten¬
tion to the names of the ani¬
mals in the stories she had read
to him. "Do you think “Frisky”
a good name for the terrier in
the book?”
“Yes!” Hie laughed; he was
beginning to understand.
“Why?”
YOUR HEALTH
ARE YOU INCURABLE?
Have you been the rounds of
'or tors and hospitals and had the
on fence passed upon you—incur¬
able? Don’t be discouraged. Many
things are considered incurable
from the standpoint of medicine,
yet often these so-called incurable
conditions yield favorably to
Chiropractic.
Chiropractic is based upon quite
a different principle from that of
medicine. To the physician, disease
is a chemical or pathological dis¬
turbance in the body that must be
treated with'medicine or surgery.
When these things fail, naturally
'he case must take the rank of
incurable so far as the physician
and his methods are concerned,
but that does not necessarily say
that the last word has been spok¬
en in the art of healing.
Many things once thought to be
impossible are now quite common¬
place. For instance, it was once
thought necessary to use flint and
steel to produce light, now you
press a button. It was once nec¬
essary to use animal power for
transportation, today you step on
the gas. At one time it was said
that a machine heiver than air
could not fly, such machines now
fly tons of cargo across the ocean.
Once the human voice could be
heard only a few miles at most,
now it may be heard around the
world, and so it goes. To say that
a thing is impossible in modern
times, displays either ignorance
or want of vision. Is it not equally
unwise to say that a diseased
condition in the body is incurable
until every resource has been
iried ?
Chiropractors do not say that
a disease is curable or incurable.
Nature alone is the great healer
which, in the body, acts through
the nervous system. All power to
control function or to heal comes
fiom within. So long as the life
ment to Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert,
President, 23 Montgomery St., Sa¬
vannah, Ga., or this may be turned
in on the opening night of the
School to the Enrollment Commit¬
tee which will he stationed in the
lobby of the Church for this pur¬
pose. There will not be any tuition
fee charged any of the pupils who
will attend, hut a free will offer¬
| ing will be lifted each evening. All
instruction will be in the nature
j of lectures, so that no text books
j j will have to be purchased. How¬
ever, each nupil should have a
note book and pencil.
| After a brief period of devo¬
j tions each evening, the first half
of the night will consist of a lec¬
ture on “THE MECHANICS OF
CHURCH FINANCING,” which
will be led by Dr. J. W. Jones,
pastor of the Arrisley Park Bap¬
j tist Church. Dr. Jones will do this
on Monday and Tuesday nights. On
i Wednesday evening at the same
time, the lecture will be given by
j Dr. W. J. Carswell, Superintendent
of the Savannah Baptist City Mis¬
[ sions Committee, from the sub¬
ject. “KEEPING ACCOUNT OF
THE CHURCH’S MONEY.” Each
night there will be an Inspira¬
tional Service following the period
j of instruction, at v.tiO. time a
He thought at little. “He
jumps around a lot.”
“That’s right,” his mother
answered. “People sometimes
give names that tell how their
pets look, or names that make
them think of them in some
way. Beauty, Spot, Rags, Blue-
Ball are names like—”
“Ink”’ put in Stevie excitedly,
pointing at his pup. “You said
he is as b.'ajk as ink.”
Mrs. Mears’ suggestions had
certainly taken quick effect.
‘ Why not ’Inky?’ ” she coun¬
tered.
“Inky! Sit up, Inky!” He set
the cocker back on his heels.
"You ve got to learn your name.
Inky.”
But a month later it seemed
to Mrs. Mears hat Stevie had
forgoten all he had learned in
connection with the choice of
a name. A friend of tlje fami.y
had given him a snow-white
kitten and he had named it
“Smuts.”
“Why do you call that lovely
white kitten “Smuts,” expost¬
ulated his mother.
“Because,” he answered slow¬
ly, “I want him to grow up a
good cat-like Aunt Mary’s
Smuts. Her Smuts is beau-ti-
ful. And the best cat!”
DR. GOSHEA
in the body can pass freely
the nerves, you may expect
function and health. When
nerves are pinched, the in¬
forces cannot he normally
Chiropractors do not treat dis¬
They are skilled in locating
interference and in making
necessary adjustment to re¬
the nerves. When natures
forces may be sent
needed, normal function
health return.
Do not let anyone convince you
your case is incurable. Have
No one knows the re¬
of nature in making a
Investigate and try a
The science of Chiro¬
is absolutely sound in prin¬
and offers the most reliable
servic#of any mode of heal¬
in the world toady. Try it.
give up while there is life.
Remember that health conies
within. Let a competent
find and adjust the
of your trouble and you
yet live longer than he who
your ease is incurable.
covering some phase of
STEWARDSHIP”
be brought. The first such
will • be brought on Mon¬
night by Dr. James R. Reed,
of the Garden City Baptist
from the subject, “FOUN¬
OF CHRISTIAN
On Tuesday
Rev. G. Claude Tuten, Pas¬
of the Victory Drive Baptist
will speak on “THE
OF ABILITIES.”
final message will be brought
Wednesday night, from the
“STEWARDSHIP AND
by Dr II. E. Gaddy,
of the Immanuel Baptist
Several of the church choirs of
member churches will furnish
music for the week. On Mon¬
night music will he Vanished
the St. Luke, First African
Savannah), and First Pil¬
Raptist Church Choirs. On
night the selections will
from the First African,
Home, Second St. John, and
Love Baptist Church Choirs.
Wednesday night the Beth Eden
Central Baptist Church enuirs
sing, and the Bethlehem bap¬
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