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r’ : - « n €Iif fmimtitak SrUninf Established 1875 By J. H. DEVEAUX BOL C. JOHNSON........Editor and Publisher WILLA M. AYERS, Asst. to Pub. & Manager i. H. BUTLER ______________Asso. Editor Published Every Thursday Jt)09 WEST BROAD STREET . tfl Telephone, Dial 5338 _____________ ___________-----..... Subscription Rate in Advance One Year ............ $3.00 Six Months ..........................$2.00 Three'* Months ------------------------$1.50 Remittance must be rnaae by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered MaiL 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. 1 The, names and addresses of the publisher, editor, man aging editor, and business man- agers are!* Publisher. ' Sol C. Johnson,, Savannah, Georgia Editor. S(tf C. Johnson sivannah, Georgia Assoclat4»editor. J. H. Butler, Asst. T«* Sgvannah, Publisher, Georgia and Man¬ ager. lj£ss Willa Mae Ayers Savan*ih. Georg a 2. Thjt owner is Sol C. John¬ son, Savtnnah, Georgia. ,3. The# known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders *wning or holding 1 percent more of total Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Savannah, Oa, under the Act of March 3, 1879 National Advertising Representative: Associated Publishers 562 Fifth Ave. New York 19, New York 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. (Signed) SOL C. JOHNSON, Sworn to and subscribed be¬ fore me this 29th day of Sep¬ ^ tember, 1980 Willa Mae Ayers j (Notary Public) • My commission expires Jan¬ 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¬ Senioi xiiv ■ ,li 0u .u ^ _ _ JLS*.i JUgJtSSnJ