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“We believe that discrimination and
segregation based cn religion, race, col¬
or and culture are ethically and morally
indefensible and contrary to the Gospel
of Christ and the principle of freedom
for which the Baptists stand.”
The above words composed the reso¬
lution adopted at the Cleveland meeting
of the World Baptist Alliance. Among
other reasons, it is significant because it
increases the growing conviction of Chris¬
tian people that the matter of human
relations, basin human rights, depends
upon chur«h and Christianity for full re¬
alization. Secular statesmanship has
so far failed. Religious statesmanship
must accept the challenge which the
world situation poses. This is true in
Georgia and America as well.
DEMOCRACY vs WHAT?
The fight for basic human rights and
democracy—freedom of religion, free
speech, the right of trial by jury, the
right of petition and assembly, the right
of tex- people to name their rulers and
to participate in government—makes up
a record of long and bitter but glorious
struggle, highlighted by the St. Barthol¬
omew Massaclf, the securing of the Mag¬
na Carta, the Pilgrim exodus, the Amer¬
ican Revolution, American slavery and
slave insurrections, and the various and
continuing efforts of people all over the
world to secure equality of human
rights. Numerous documents and decla¬
rations attest the spirit, interest and
intention of liberty loving people to se¬
cure and preserve these rights, who still
face the task of trying to put into prac¬
tice the principles these documents an¬
nounce, for which generations of their
ancestors fought and died. Reactiona¬
ries spend much time declaiming out of
one corner of their mouths about the
glory and all-sufficiency of democracy
and at the same time out of the other
sic|e. they denounce those who seek to se-
cufe for themselves the rights and them. priv¬
ileges these same reactionaries deny
The effects of this sort of being are
numerous. One important effect is what
happen* to the soul and miixl of such
reactionaries. Another more important
effect is the reflection it casts upon de¬
mocracy. Anti-democratic people ridi¬
cule our democratic professions and sug¬
gest that democracy needs a new defini¬
tion. The reactionary adopts all sorts
of schemes for trying to keep fairmind-
ed aid right-thinking individuals im¬
potent and afraid. Judge (' 6 n g e r,
Judge Waring, and some judges of the
U. S. Supreme Court have been called
names because they :*peak for justice.
Jack Tafver has offered his comment
on Judge Conger’s charge to a jury:
‘“His example should serve to strengthen
and encourage the great timorous ma¬
jority of us who, while recognizing right
from wrong, are reluctant to speaking
our consciences less smear artists loose
their rotten wrath upon us.’” It is up
to reactionaries to do one of two things:
live up to their democratic profession, or
“junk” democracy. It could he that
is what they are trying to do. What
would they substitute for it?
THE UNIT SYSTEM-PRO AND CON
The argument going on over the coun¬
ty-unit system is giving the opponents
of extending it to the general election
an opportunity to get in some telling
blcws against the system irs it works in
primary elections, as to its real value.
The argument that the county-unit sys¬
tem protects the state from boss rule is
weak and untrue. According to the
view of many observers, the faction now
in power is as fine an example of ma¬
chine rule as could ever be furnished by
urban power, by “the motley group, the
out-of-state-owned newspapers, the Ne¬
gro bloc vote and the Atlanta Daily
World.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitu¬
tion names the “motley crew” <#' ‘car¬
petbaggers and scalawags” that feel that
the unit system should not be extend¬
ed to the general election; who feel that
Novices To Cross Hot | j
Sands, November 26th
All Nobles of Omar Temple.
No. 21 A. E. A N. O. M S. are
looking forward to the fall
ceremonial which takes place
Saturday. November 25th end¬
ing Sunday, November 26th,
and in which a large number
v of novices will make the trek
across a the hot sands, which
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election even, should be abandoned. It i
also reveals the falsity of the reason¬
ing w hich concludes that “Georgia has
only one very large population center,
which could on a purely popular vote
basis overbalance the entire voting will
of every single county in this state, in¬
cluding Richmond, Bibb, Muscogee and
all others. A highly organized poten¬
tial ( f 150,000 bloc votes in Atlanta could
be arrayed against the entire state.’"
The Journal comments on this as fol¬
lows: “‘ a more deceitful bit of poppy¬
cock was never uttered by a person hold¬
ing dignified office.’” And the pape»
goes on to point cut that out of 568,775
votes cast in the last election, the At¬
lanta area only had 63,526 of which 21,-
319 voted for Mr. Talmadge; that only
42,208 votes were left to make up the
bloc to overbalance the vete of the rest
of the state.
None of the exponents of the county-
unit system have shown why it is better
for the 151 rural counties to throttle
the state with a political dynasty than
for the urban counties. Possibly they
can explain why a governor has not been
elected from an urban county since 1917,
thirty-three years ago.
The cheapest and most demagogic ap¬
peal, but the strongest with rural folk,
is the appeal to race hatred and race
prejudice. This has always been a
trump card for the Talmadges, but the
use of it in this instance indicates lack
of merit in the county-unit system and
in the arguments for it. It is too bad
that a matter as important to all the cit¬
izens of Georgia must be beclouded by
appeal to the prejudices of misinformed
people.
WORSE THAN PREDICTION
All the predictions of riot and blood¬
shed, and plans for junking the Minimum
Foundation Program for Education, or
driving Negroes oat of Georgia ema¬
nate from one source, and indicate a be¬
lief that the Supreme Court will or
should render a favorable decision to the
petitioners. Now every man who spark pos¬
sesses a sense of justice and has a
of humanity in his body, knows that
riot, bloodshed and the forceful exodUs
of Negroes from the country, are not
the sole alternatives, or solutions of the
school cases, even if the decision of the
Supreme Court is favorable to the peti¬
tioners; that Negroes will not march the
ne v t day upon the school houses.
These threats and predictions also in¬
dicate that there are people who do not
intend that Negroes shall have equal
facilities; who do not believe that “Ne¬
groes deserve to have and should have
the respect of the white people in the
Smith and that they should be treated
with justice.”
If it is suggested long enough and
loudly enough to the farmers, the move¬
ment to drive Negroes from the country
will gain momentum and eventually
write another ugly page in the record
of race relations in Georgia. Inciting
farmers by suggestion even to such ac¬
tion is worse than a prediction could
possibly be. This is wrong and beneath
the dignity of a lawmaker, to say the
least.
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This is the slogan of the Community
Chest. It t.(lls more than any slogan
the Chest has ever adopted. It tells
how much, to what agencies, and how
to give easily. It explains that there
are twenty-eight agencies that look to
the public for support, every one of l I
which to attempt to exist without the
Chest would have to conduct campaigns I
for funds. It tells that these agencies
can be supported if every contributor ;
gives one hours earning per month for
ten months. If one earns $30 a week, ;
one hour’s pay for ten months would |
mean his gift to the Chest would be
$7.50. This formula suggests a way
by which the privilege of helping to
answer the cultural and physical needs
of certain groups in our community can
will be hot.
Noble James J. Edwards is 1
is in charge ot the
tions and candidates for
at the mosque Sunday. Nov. 12
degree are requested to meet
to receive instructions relative
to the occasion. Following
the termination of the in.tia-
“DO THE JOB AT HOME, DEAR UNCLE’'
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
good news From korea
This writer is glad for Truman’s sake
that the mil tary turn of events in Korea
are being satisfactorily prosecuted. Of ma
jor importance however, is the assurance
that the tide of communism has been
stemmed. There is evidence that the cause
cause of peace is being tremendously
strengthened by our recent victories in Ko-
rea.
Matters were terribly ugly for far too
long a time, and our prestige suffered tre-*
rrendously and even our recent victories are
not calculated to restore our nation to the
confidence of that part of the world that
locks to us to save it rom the onw'ard sweep
of communism.
And iUlU while WilUC UUI our victories YfbtUilW OUWUiU should give ud
heart, they should not in (j the least give us
if the ‘ Korean campaign .
complacency; for
has taught us any one thing, it has taught
us that we are not prepared to wage a bloody
struggle w th Russia for world supremacy.
Only a miracle saved us from being "Pearl-
Harbored” again. It js not a healthy sign
for lor a a little little people people like iiKe North in or in i\orea Korea to u*
stand*up to us and fight us to a standstill
-for even a few weeks.
As an old prize fighter was wont to say,
“never let a weak opponent in the ring stay
there too long before being put away for
keeps; for the longer he stays there thd
more confidence he gains and the more
trouble to f nally dispose of him. It was
even so with the North Korean communists,
they stayed in the ring with UN forces en¬
tirely too lorn, if their confidence is not to
be considerably strengthened.
The Congressional hecklers led by reac¬
tionary Robei’t Taft were in great glee over
what appeared to be a terrible Korean de¬
bacle for our fight ng units. They had
just sat back and were ready with the cry
“we told you so!” But our current victory
has taken the wind out of their sails and
they are left sorely bereaved of campaign
issues aside from that political negativism
that has all but destroyed the once mighty
republican party. | n\%m ______
Developments In j
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Labor Reports)
Visitors to the Virgin , Island., T . ,
will return to
with marked impres-
of two fundamental
that have occurred
during the past year.
change concerns the new
Morris de Castro,
the second deals with
bill recently enacted by the
legislature.
When Gov. Hastie resigned
office last year to accept a
federal judgeship in the Unit-
States. President Truman ap-
Mr de Castro to sue-
ceed him. The appointment
shattered historical precedent
or Morris de Castro is the first
I gander to occu-
the Governor’s Mansion .
At the time of its purchase
from Denmark in 1917, the
States assigned the ad^
ministration of the Islands to
the Navy Department. In 1931,
was transferred to the De->
of the Interior and
replaced m.litary of-
ficers as Governors. Although
the people of the Virgin Islands
had long been American citi-
zens and universal suffrage
had been granted earlier to
who could read and write
-ion. Monday, night, Nov. 27
all Nobles will enjoy the cele-
bration of tire annual Shrin-
es ball to be held at Coconut
Grove. Arrangements for thiq
is in the hands of Noble J. S.
Delaware and his committee.
Geo. L. Smith s Illustrious
Potentate of the Temple. • !
Human beings waste a lot of
time trying to appear impor¬
tant to others who know they !
are not important.
THE SAVANNAH TLIBUNl
This wr ter is glad for Truman’s sake that
there will be no failure in Korea to spark
the warmed over campaign of the political¬
ly bankrupt Republicans and d xiecrats.
Taft is quite a favorite with certain elements
nf ti'ie south who admire him not for his
astute statesmanship but because he is one
of the south’s chief allies in defeating Tru-
man’s civ 1 rights proposals. Whereas most
of the ~ dixiecrats hail fi-Am from + the Gulf 11 If states, SfflteS.
Taft a ~ dixiecrat — at —---> heart, hails ------- from Ohio,
long noted for its part in the fight foi m-
man rights and betterment.
O course, the incurable Negro Republicans
wall stay on the bandwagon, even if a Taft
s in the driver’s seat. Taft is a political
calamity. Taft is a dixiecratic h e r e-
Taft is a refined Negrophobe. Taft is the!
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leader of an issueless party that was lying
in ... ambush _______ 4 to -imnrt pounce upon Truman Truman 0r.fl and
club h m with the Korean disastei, had
there been one.
Good news from Korea is bad news for
the defunct Republican party. But more
important than this the political aspect of
the Korean campaign is the larger issue of
wic d-u: j
world peace which has received a tremen-
dous boost bv what is transpiring in Korea.
The outlook for world peace is to th s writ¬
er brighter than it has been for many years.
Now that Russia knows we will fight and
will not be pushed around, she will be more
careful of her plots and plans. This na¬
tion has paid too dear a price for the lib¬
erties and freedom it enjoys to sacrif co
them without a bitter struggle. Instead of
trying to heckle Truman, the world should
hail him as making one of the mightiest
strikes for peace ever made by man.
Harry Truman has put the peace-loving
world deep in his debt. He s greatly to be
commended for refusing to allow the high-
strung southerners to prod him into hurling
the atom bomb in, this war; for to have
hurled the bemb in the name of the U. N.
would have destroyed every reasonable
hope for peace within the next two or three
generations. Peace prospects are bright¬
er for the good news from Korea.
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it was not until President
Truman’s appointment of Mor-
Castro that a native- i
th the 1
born Islander assumed , j
highest administrative office,
j n the Virgin Islands.
The second change was in-
stituted by the rising local re-
sentment over efforts of some I
new' tourist hotels and private | [
age of native and vsiting Negro
clubs to discourage the patron-
tourists. !
Encouraged by the decisive
tone of the Governor’s inau-
gnral address, the Virgin Is-
lands Assembly enacted the >,
strongest civil rights law
de r the American flag “to demo-1 prex
serve the cultural and ; J
eratic heritage of ....... the Virgin .
island that all men should be
judged according to their in-
dividual merit.” The law pro-
hibits discrimination in an Y |
form based upon race,
color or national directly origin by wheth- sub- j
er practiced or
terfuge In all places of pub- >
he accommodation, resort or j
amusement. It further pro-
vides fVor the Revocation of
licenses of any ofending es-
tablishment, high ines and
terms of imprisonment for of-
enders.
discr mination will not make
headlines in the
press. Nor will the
ment of a native-born Jew
Governor of the virgin
by the President of the Unit-
ed States evoke public utter-
ances by the dictator’s
^ In1jemia ticin a l conferences.
Red propa g an( ji S ts will
tinue tQ ign ° o re American ac-
complishm nt and continue
. pnriless abuse our^foreigri uDon
{ Undoubtedly, the
, n Qur armour are many
s( . be eliminated
corrective measures. But
the Soviet dece p t ; 0 n
promises the millennium
t t slavprv these
swee ping steps taken in
virgin Islands wit h the
pQrt Qf thp America n
ment mpnt wi]1 will further further indicate indicate
colonial peoples
where that American
menta are moving closer
Qur democratic
men t '4M
^ Jjon
Rev. and Mrs. Israel
Lyton wish to announce
birth of a son on Oct. 18,
known as Samuel
The mother will be
as Mrs. Mary E. Williams
Ludowici, Ga.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1930
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 W<wt 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
“TIIE CHILD S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
Very Important Person
George M. Dodson
“ l su PP ose my children will
eventually learn, and anyway
they may be too young for me
to need to worry about it at
.resent,” Mrs. Richman con-
fided to her friend. "Even so I
do wish they would show a little
more respect .or the proper y
of other children, and for their
opinions, too.
Mrs. Stassie looked ... quite .,
pleased as she said, Now my
visit here this « “
ser ’e two purposes. First, I want
to invite your children to Tim s
birthday party. And you have
just reminded me of a game
that can be played at the pa t
which may open the way for
a later talk with the children on
this subject. I can assure you
that we have the same trouble
at our house. So I hope you will
come over duing our party to
see how things turn out.”
At the party each guest was
handed a slip of paper with a
enable of letters written on it.
Mrs. Stassie then told the
players. "I can give you only
one him When put into proper
order, those letters spell the
name of an important person
who will be here during the
party I et us see who will so.ve
the puzzle most quicidy."
Listening from the next room,
Mrs. Richman wondered who
this very important person
mi „ht be Then Mrs. Stassie
came and whispered, “Do you
want to hear a secret? Each
player has been given his or
her own name, but with the
mixed up.
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2 Negroes Nominated in
Hawaii Primaries
HONOLULU (ANP i—Two
o r , candidates, one a Demoe
crat and the other a Republi-] the
can were nom nated in
primary elections Oct. 7 and (
will run in the general election
Nov. 7 for seats in the Terri¬
tory of Hawaii legislature.
Bjth successful primary can¬
didates are from the outer is¬
lands. They are Atty. Wen¬
dell F. Crocket, Rpubl can from
Wailuku, Maui, and William !
Hale Jr., of Kona, Hawaii, Dem- \
ocrat |
Crockett who is understood to
be the only Negro on the island
of Mau ; came here several de-
,
cades ago from Michigan, where j
he finished law school, and \
for many years has been as-
s stant county prosecutor for
Maui county. He has been
county chairman of the Repub-
1 k an party He is seeking
election as territorial senator,
Hale, son of the late presl-
dent cf Tenn. A. & I. State col-
lege, Nashville has lived on th#
"Pig Island” of Hawaii sever- 1
al years where he and his wife
taught school unt 1 the: re-
cently resigned. Their home
is in the area recently devas-
tated by the latest eruption of
| EDITORS OBSERVE MANY HIGH SKILLED
AFRICANS IN JOBS IN SIERRA LEONE
FREETOWN, Sierra
(ANP)—A party of local news¬
paper men made a special tour
of inspection of the Sierra Le¬
I j one railway, at Cline Town last
w'eek. The offices and work¬
shops were visited.
Manager W. Venner, Chief En-
gineer R. G. Whickham,
Works Manager Haresign
showed the journalists
I There they found almost
complete staff composed of
rican workmen. Al! of
engines are repaired and re-
built in these shops.
run every type of
necessary and do all of the
under supervision. They
lathes, milling machines, shap¬
ers and drill presses.
cars and freight cars are
cared fo nearby.
The engineers and firemen
the railroad are African as
are in Gold Coast and
oilier British colonies in
Africa. Here a school for
engine drivers is maintained.
Newspapers represented
the party were: the
News, Afrcan Standard,
Mail, Daily Guardian,
Dispatch and African
guard. The Public
Officer and the Acting
the slip I had made for
Jane Fuller; but she is
her aunt and so could
come t0 the party » Q n the
r ghe handed Mrs _ Rich _
an wag ^ puzzle _ nam3;
j]rnfealreum
Jugt then Qne Qf the child _
ca!led UQt ..j can spell my
from these letters , Look ..
b 0 dy! I am an important
son ,,.
With this hint, the others
made a like discovery .
. e ^ Mrg Richman
cha,ige d s*.
A Iater M rs. Stassie
came in to talk to her
. you want t0 do ex _
/ intend to do." she
- * /’ while the
am f ls stm fre ® h 11 11 “
- 1 a “ . t0 tr ‘
my chlldren Wlta ., R fhe f * a * fc
,
everyone is a very rmpoi A
person deserve whose repsect. property It won’F and|
mlike a •lecture with this
background :or our dis¬
“It is a wonderful party,
Mrs. Richman fer-
"When you were with
and I sat here listening
those children chantm Tm.
very important person,’ I
how American the idea
know-respect for the,
I m going to help
chi.dren to understand
words with regard to
each other, and
friends. They convey such
beautiful lesson in democ-
Oh, this is the most
party my children
ever attended!
the
cano, Mauna Lea, but through
sheer luck the lava flow camo
no closer than 10C feet on bot.i
sides of their house. They
were safely evacuated but had
to wait sveral days until the
mclten rock cooled before
they could return.
Hale was nominated for the
house of representatives on
the Democratic ticket. Ear-
lier th s year he was nominat-
ed in the primaries for the
constitutional convention chos-
en to draft a constitution for
Hawai. if and when the terri-
tory becomes a state, but was
defeated in the run-off.
Because the name. Hale, is al-
so a WHawaiian word, many
native Hawaiians have sup-
ported him at the polls in the
belief that he was pat-Hawai-
ian, although at no time has
he made any effort to conceal
Negro ancestry. There
are perhaps a dozen Negroes
living on Hawaii.
No Negroes ran for office
in the primary cn Oahu where
Honolulu. is located and where
live most of the several hun-
dred Negro civilian residents
in the Hawaiian islands.
ant Public Relations Office:
accompanied the pressmen.
U. S. C. Scottish
Rite Held in Louisville
Georgia Represented
Sunday night last the mem-
or i a i se rmon marked the open-
j ing of the 64th Annual Session
of the United Supreme Council
I of the Scottish Rite ’ which was
^ ilonal eld at ChUrch Ply ™ u LomsVl11 T th . Congrega- "’ Ky
j Rev A PmcKne ’ y a ^mer
I j ^Mnahum. - - ia pastor ; of this
ch urch - Ezra C onsistory of LhlS
! ( 0 f its members.
Others were present. The con¬
sistory represents the thirty-
second and thirty-third degrees
of Freemasonry.
MME. CASLIN. MRS.
JOHNSON ON HAMP-
_ I UN olArr ct A rr
\ HAMPTON, Va.—(Waiter W.
McCaslin has been named sub-
stitute instructor in speech in
Hampton lKsUtlrte Com-
munications Center this fall,
the college has announced, and
Mrs. R. Ileana Johnson has been
appointed assistant in pre¬
school education.