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“The needs of the country today can¬
not be met by schools adequate only for,
the demands of yesterday. The quali¬
ty of teachers and buildings must be con-
mensurate with education’s heightened
responsibility . . . Building a stronger
educational system calls for wide spread
citizen support. . —Warren R. Austin
“The American public school is the
principal training ground of informed
American citizenship; what is taught
in the classroom today shapes the sort
of country we shall hqve decades hence.
To neglect our school system would be
a crime against the future. Such ne¬
glect could well be more disastrous to
all our freedoms than the most formid¬
able armed assault on our physical de¬
fenses. . . ” Dwight Eisenhower
THE SCHOOL ELECTION
Next Tuesday, the people of this
county will be given an opportunity by
the Board of Education to vote for pro¬
viding the means for the kind of schools
they need and desire. The conditions
of many of our school buildings, the
proven need for additional buildings and
teachers, the number of children in dou¬
ble sessions, are facts which every in¬
terested citizen in this county knows,
are facts which should haul or drive ev¬
ery qualified voter to the polls to cast
his vote in favor of our schools and our
children.
Our Negro citizens should be under
greater compulsion to get out and vote
favorably, because their school build¬
ings are in worse shape and are in
greater need of new buildings than are
white people. The election will present
them an opportunity to prove their sin¬
cerity in the complaints they have made
or could have made over a period of
more than fifty years, to prove they
are willing to do something (vote the
Board of Education the money) to make
needed improvements in our school sys¬
tem. It is that get out a large
necessary we
fote. Every person who registered by Oc-
bber 23rd can vote. It is the duty of ev¬
ery leader, club or society head, or
preacher to help to get every registered
citizen to vote, to get every qualified
person to register so that he can vote.
To fail to do this will be to betray his
followers and reflect discredit upon our
ability to recognize the duties of citi¬
zenship.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
It is rumored that ihe Carnegie Li¬
brary will receive a smaller appropria¬
tion this year than it received last
year, which was $7065, out of which
the salaries of seven employees, the cost
of light, heat, telephone and incidentals
were met. It goes without saying
that the salaries were inadequate,
that little or nothing was left for ex¬
pansion, the purchase of books and cur¬
rent reading material. A point it is
natural to make is that the miserly
$7065 was about one-ninth as much as
appropriated to the Savannah Library,
despite the fact that the Negro popula¬
I’VE BEEN THINKING
H 4 -H
B.v Cab Calloway
People are downright envious
of me, and I know it. All show-
people know’ that the man on
the street secretly covets their
way of life. The average guv
sees showbusiness as an easy
business with ideal working
hours, little labor and top pay.
Now’, believe this People have
a right to enw me and my cbh-
temporaries their jobs . . al¬
though not for the reasons
listed above. True, we make
darned good money, but we also
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act of
March 3. 1879
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National Advertising Representative:
Associated Publishers
562 Fifth Ave.
New York 19, New York
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lation. How Negroes can ever be ex¬
pected to become intelligent and desir¬
able citizens when those who have con¬
trol of everything, policy, money and
position, ignore, forget or purposely
plan to over-look the greater need of
Negroes for all the services a city should
provide for its citizens? On the basis
of what Negroes are entitled to, it is
unjustifiably wrong to withhold from
them the enjoyment of such services as
recreation and education—libraries come
under those heads. On the basis of
near-equality in the distribution of
funds for library purposes the appropri¬
ation for Negroes should have been
about $29,000. There is no good rea¬
son or argument for giving the trustees
of Carnegie Library only the measly sum
of $7,065 (a sum a little less than the
salary of one city employee) with which
to ojerate a library inefficiently for 43,-
000 people; with which to teach them
the value of reading good books; through
which to build up respect for and faith
in those who are charged with provid¬
ing public servires to our citizens.
We believe Carnegie Library ought to
receive enough money to do a job, to keep
its doors open for the increasing number
of persons who will need or desire to
use up-to-date library facilities. The
Council ought to appropriate the $13,-
000 the trustees of the library have
asked for. It is not too much to ask.
It is not too much to give.
LEND A HAND
This is the bv-word, the slogan for
the 1951 MARCH OF DIMES. The
March of Dimes is the name of the drive
to secure funds for the use of the Na¬
tional Foundation for Infantile Paraly¬
sis. This foundation flies to the relief
of all who are stricken with this crip¬
pling disease—rich and poor, young and
old, white and black. It takes care of
people. Infantile Paralysis does not
respect persons or station nor does the
treatment of it. The Foundation has
made appropriations to Tuskegee, Dillard
University, Meharry Medical College,
Provident Hospital, Chicago, and North
Carolina State College, for treatment or
research or training. One-hundred and
forty-two Negroes have received schol¬
arship awards, totalling more than $196,-
000. Anyone who sees the facilities
at Tuskegee and witnesses the fine spir¬
it and type of service given by the per¬
sonnel to the patients, ranging from ba¬
bies to young adults, will not need urg¬
ing to give to the March of Dimes. And
their giving will be liberal if they think
of the cost of treatment: a single case
may cost $2,000 or more; hospital ser¬
vice may cost $14 a day; surgery may be
- as many as 13 specialists may
be used in the care of one case.
Furthermore, the Foundation must
not only take care of patients now on
hand, but must also prepare for the
possibility of an epidemic. The epi¬
demic of 1949 cost twenty-seven million
dollars. It was the worst epidemic on
record. Nineteen fifty was next.
What 1951 will bring, nobody knows.
We cannot wait till a polio epidemic -
so LEND A HAND NOW. Join
the
are forced to live on a high
scale. Very expensive clothing
is a ‘must’. We live a great deal
of our lives In hotels, and that
doesn’t come cheap. Traveling
expenes are high, and we sup¬
port quite a large number of
people (managers, press agents,
secretaries, agents, etc.)
But we do make good money,
evenso.
As for the hoars, don’t envy
us our lot. Our hours are terri¬
ble. We go to work late, but we
work until ealy a. m. and
sleep most of the day. We have I
few hours to enjoy life.
And don't underestimate the
amount work is of hard labor work. involved It Show |
saps you
of all your energy. Don't get me
w»ong I mav not work as hard !
as a ditch digger, or any labor¬ |
er. physical but there labor is in a great showbusiness, deal of |
just as there is. strangely
enough, in dentistry, legal work,
and other seemingly easv jobs.
But here is why you have a
right to envy showpeople their I
jobs.
Showpeople love their work. I
There is no more interesting
work in the world, to my
knowledge. I don't know of any
other job in the world where
there is so much variety, so I
much competition, so much of
a challenge, so much comerad-
ene is in shc-scbusiness. :
In their idle hours show-
people select showpeople as
their friends: They talk show
over breakfast, lunch and din¬
ner. When they ge; together for
a party you’ll usually find that
they get into a game of char¬
ades. or something similar
which makes use of their show-
business abilities.
Somehow I don't feel that
accountants particularly select
accountants as their friends.
They certainly don't get to¬
gether for parties and work out
income taxes for recreation, do
they? Do salespeople trv to sell
each other at parties. Do
scrubladies scrub each others'
floo-s on their days off?
I may gripe a lot about the
rigors of my business, about
the hours, about the days" 1
spend away from home which
stretch into weeks and months
• • ■ but deep down in my heart,
I know that.I would miss it so
much to bear if I ever had to
leave the business.
Most people look forward to
the day thev can save up
enough to retire from their
jobs Showpeople dread the
day they may no longer be able
to work or mav no longer be in
demand. In fact, this isn't a
business, it's a disease . . e.nd
I've .
got it bad!
Never get the idea that your
section is the only worthwhile
area in the United States.
Mr Stassen seems to he the
letter writing champion among
the political possibilities.
THE SAVANNAH TMBtTNl
“MUST BE DESTROYED BEFORE THERE CAN BE UNITY”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON D. HANCOCK for ANP
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OUR BACK TO THE WALL
is now rather than later, that
we face the grim and ugly fact that this
nation’s back is against the wall, and we
are ubr>"t, to engage in a war for survival.
So quickly was this challenge thrust be-
tore us, Uiat it is most difricult* for us to
realize that the destiny of our great coun¬
try is balanced in the scales of fortune, and
with us, it is do or die!
The state of emergenccy speech of Pres¬
ident Truman was belated. But this is
no reason why we should not give earnest
heed to his pleadings.. The time is at
hand when we may as well realize that we
must pay a great price, ii we would pre¬
serve our national integrity, to be passed
on to posterity. This country has suc¬
ceeded in establishing and maintaining a
high living standard and in preserving its
ideals of keeping the Negro down; but it
has not been so adept in planning a de-
fense against communism.
The time is at hand when we must su¬
bordinate our high living standard; but by
the same token the time is at hand when
the country must let the Negro go. With
this said—and it cannot be said too often
or loo positively—we must pass on to the
matter of austerity that is pressing for
consideration. The call Is going forth that
we must prepare ourselves to live lives oT
austerity if we would foil the enemy at our
gates.
England has shown the world how aus¬
terity if rigorously and generally practiced
can lift a prostrate nation. If austerity
can lift a prostrate nation it can hinder a
nation from falling. Herein lies the chal¬
lenge to the American people. If we ac¬
cept the challenge we shall live—if we can¬
not we shall surely die. It has come about
that a high standard of living has become
in this country an idol, a golden calf.
Americans worship their golden calf of
high living standards. We boast not of
our political integrity; we do not flaunt be-
fore the world our high standards of mor-
alitv or our low incidence of crime and de-
linquency. Our greatest boast is our high
standard of living.
The nations seems to have forgotten that
history has no record of a nation that sur-
vlved a high standard of living. The swan
song of nations has always been sung in
the halls of feastings. It was so with
Rome and Greece and with Babylonia, and
Assyria and ancient Egypt. Most vividly
does history remind us that a thousand
years before Jesus Christ was bom, the
United States of Mesopotamia with Babylon
as its capttol city filled the earth with sound
and splendor but its high living standards
consigned it to oblivion.
Yet we are discinclined to draw the les-
al cue and we are slaves to the notion of
gedies. Somebody has decried the number
of crimes committed in the name of a high
Communicable Disease
Summary For Week
Ended January 6
Measles
For the current week 5,361
new cases of measles were re¬
ported, as compared with 4,101
for the previous week. The 5-
year (1946-5C> median for
fir=t week is 3.044.
Other Diseases
There was an increase in
number of cases of
cough for the current
< 1.573» as compared with
for £■ the , . previous .» week. _ 1 . n Menin¬ r — i..
gococcal meningitis increased
from 78 for the week
December 30 to 96 for the cur¬
rent week. Poliomyelitis cases
decreased in number, 136
reported for the week ended
January 6. The total number of
■T,«nrsK5fe
G astro-enteritis
in separate reports Dr. R. M.
Albrecht. New York State
partment of Health, and Dr.
I C. Hart. Connecticut State
j Department of Health, report
the occurrence of gastro-en-
, teritis in several groups
individuals following the in-
gestion of headcheese our-
chased from a single
! ment in East Port
j Conn. This headcheese
been supplied by a meat
living standard. The imperialism that
enriched at first the coffers of Great Bri¬
tain but at the last hangs like a mill-stone
about her neck, is motivated in this self¬
same notion of a high standard of living.
From Britain we have taken our nation¬
al ccue and we are slaves to the notion of
high living. The days of plain living and
high thinking are to all intents and purpos¬
es gone forever. The ideals residing there¬
in are antiquated or obsolescent. The emer¬
gency that is upon us will serve us well, if
it drives us back to former ideals of plain
thinking..
The current emergency will prove a
blessing if it drives men back to the simpld
faith of yesterday when men had little but
enjoyed it; whereas they have much today
but enjoy nothing. Today we are a nation
of money-makers and neurotics because ouil
lives are motivated by a high standard of
living. High living standards weaken na J
tions and make them effete and fiabby
and irresolute and irresponsible.
History is replete with examples of lean
hungry peoples of northern latitudes con¬
quering their southern neighbors of high
living standards. Let’s have austerity by
all means. Our nation is spoiled and ov¬
er-indulged and effete and opulent and sel¬
fish and decadent.
THE LYNCHERS LAMP
By William Kenry Huff for ANP
I’m told each lyncher has a stool—
A low benighted scamp;
In other words a brutish fool
Who lights the lynchers lamp,
I’m told they let him have his way
As leader of his race
So long as otherwise he’ll stay
In what they call his place,
2
told ’tis he who sets the trap
And points them out the man,
them from their midnight nap
And heips connive and plan,
story comes, I must confess
From on the other side;
them it is no idle guess—
In me they do confide,
3
stool lives in a mansion white
Mid blooming flow’rs and ferns;
wonder if he rests at night
As his poor victim burns!
The thought of him but makes me chafe-
He Is a human rat
Who claims to be a leader safe_
Who thinks of him as that?
4
The stool's a yoke about the neck
Of thousands who would rise
for the envy and the check
He puts forth in
et located in Brooklyn. N. Y.
On December 20, 1950, 6 cases
occurred in Port Chester and
Harrison, Westchester.' County,
N. Y. Three adult females from
Port Chester lunched together
that day, another adult female
in Port Chester, and an adult
couple in Harrison. Eighteen
individuals, residents of Green-
wich, Conn., were affected fol-
lowing a party. The incubation
period varied between 3 and 6
hours.
Samples of the headcheese
were cultured at the Greenwich
Citv Public Health Laboratory
I which reveaed a profuse growth
of _ * staphylococci _ a . _ l i . . • and . •-> B. coli. , • An .
employee of the establishment
from which the headcheese was
purchased is reported to have
had diarrhea 2 to 3 days before
the onset of the outbreak. The
inves f igatioh is being contin-
Jt lssk:
| ported poisoning’ an outbreak December of “food 16.
on
1950, at a dinner party given
by an Industrial firm in a hotel
in Jackson. Miss. A total of 150
people attended the dinner of
I I which 44 were affected with
sudden onset of severe cramr,-
mg. diarrhea, vomiting, muscle
oains. and prostration The
incubation period ranged from
I to 14 hours with a median of
7>- hours. It was impossible to
determine the exact cause or
source of the outbreak. No food
was availbale for bacte.ilogical
i examination. Sanitation of the
j premises and handling of food
; were excellent. Hotel employees
who ate food remaining S from
i t hp dmner riin ,, pr were ,,, pro ot m
~ -
lnt,uen ,„ *a
, I
T he epidemic of mfluenza in
"England is reported to have
originated in Norway in the late
! summer reached of 1950, and to have
j i England in the fall. A
small flurry of respiratory dis-
! ease has been reported in Ger-
! ma ny but the type of infection
j has not yet been identified.
There 1 1 'K were rrn 700 a cases of „ influ-
j enza-like diseases reported in
j j Godthaab, Greenland on Few the fatalities west coast of
j been reported, have
j There is no evidence of epi-
j demic influenza In the Uni ed
!SrirL Production C °n nt of 5L the and infections tha ! the
fluenza-like °L?rV?! f infections e . a - ‘ is , be of n- re- j
; Ported thus
to office promptly.
If-SI Auvnuvf
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HOME EDUCATION
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our columns. j
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT OFF
Mabel-Ruth Jackson
Marcia Clendennon stepped
happily up her front walk, for
| the lovely had chamber been music listening to
which she
this afternoon was still running
essa&'sj'vr -rs;
satisfactorily. . i; c Marcia t\ /r J ~ had V been
invited in advance to pour at
one end of what she had known
would be a beautifully appoint¬
ed, lace-covered tea table. She
had been elated at the honor
and had worn her prettiest
gown and hat.
She looked up now and saw
her little daughter, Barbara, at
the window, her nose pressed
against the pane, and she
waved and smiled at her.
When she opened the front
door Barbara ran to meet her,
I and she stooped and kissed the
j child. ---- “Was Edith, Barbsie - - the - good?” — eirl she •
, asked of young
who had stayed with her.
“Of course. Mis. Clendennon,”
answered Edith, smiling. “We
played games and I read stor¬
ies.”
Marcia paid the girl and
hurried into the bedroom. It
was time to start preparing the
evening meal, so that it would
be ready when George, her hus¬
band, arrived at home. She
must take off the delicate silk
print dress and put on some¬
thing more utilitarian.
Barbara had followed her
and as Marcia took hold of the
I f, daughter irnf 7 f of caught her J™* hold of a U sdk- J* ,e
e-> fold. “Please don’t Mommle.,’ 1
she begged.
‘Please don’t what, darling?’
ake>1 her mother.
“Please don’t take off the
I pretty dress. T like to «ee von in
! ft.’ Her small finger touched a
I any colored flower of the pat- ’
, tern caressingly.
' Marcia’s hands dropped from
the fastening and she looked
down at the flushed, eager face,
Barbara had never made such
a renuest before, and it sur-;
prised her. She would have 1
thought the child too young to j
notice what her mother was
rA HEAD—No II .A l, £ LTA sooner KAPPA was ’l the 27th " '
annual conclave of Phi Delta
Kappa, the national teachers
sorority, over at Tuskegee In¬
stitute when its charming newly
elected supreme basiieus got
down to work on the 1951 pro-
Delighftul Xmas Concert
NASSAU, BWI—At the Church
Hall last night the glee club
of St. John’s College rendered
a delightful Christmas concert
under the direction of Mrs.
Cleveland W. Eneas, a member
-oJ the school staff. The en¬
thusiastic audience of parents
and friende of the school in¬
cluded His Lordship Bishop
Spence Burton, who spoke at
the close of the program.
The choir was well balanced
for the four part arrangements
of most of the renditions, and
in breathing, careful enuncla- ; i
tion, control of volume to get j
just the right -effect, and skill-
ttructres^r Frank’s “Panis An-
gelicus” the melody by Elsa
Ingrham, Philipoa Bethell and !
Marina ___ mi_____a Theophilus _ _ rang sweet;
and clear above the harmonious I
accompaniment of the other
se i ais i3
E sa Ingraham and Marina
Theophiliis sang solo, and the
“Sleep Holv Babe” lullaby i n
which Marina Theophilus bilus sang sang
a soio pait. part. -Jolly Jolly Win Winter toe’’was was .
SSSSS-S ,endered a capella, brought
d t0 an
e ” a m0St enj0yable pro "
° m
The i-ord ■RisUnn
mended Mrs. Eneas’ choral’ capable di-
Of her group,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951
wearing.
Then, after a pause for re¬
flection, it didn’t seem‘so odd
after all. Barbara was u::ad to
seeing her in plain, cotton,
housedresses and it pleaded her
to have the pictu-e changed to
ts^jss^uri- child wanted to enjoy it a while jb
longer.
She might get a spot on it,
Marcia considered. Well, what
if she did. It could be cleaned,
and wasn’t her child’s appre¬
ciation more important to her
than that of the women with
whom she had been at the
party? She realized that she
had wished, more or less con¬
sciously, that when > hey
thought of her. it would be at
her best. Wasn’t it even more
desirable that her child .... should , ,.
have an attractive image cf her
mother in hW memory’
She decided quickly that it
vafi, and smiling at Barbara
she zipped the dress opening
up. pu' on a big anron, and
went about getting dinner.
As she worked, her rhDdl^pd thou«s
flew back to her own
—to a teacher who alwwvs
seemed to wear the same drab
dress, dav after day. It was an
uglv brown, and Marc id' had
grown to despise the sight of
it. If Miss Bemis had onlv worn
a bright ribbon c ■ a gav scarf
once in a while it would have
helped, Marcia thought' mow,
but having to see before her
every school dav that dispirit¬
ing garb, unchanged, bad‘been
verv depressing to her childish
mind.
She saw Barbara’s eyes- (urn
from her plav to look 'at her
admiringly, and she lolju very
glad that «hs had -o*. changed
he- dress. This admiration was,
perhaps, a desire on the. part
of (he child to -ha"e her moth-
er’s pleasure of the affcophoon,
and. also, she was evidently
delighted that her mother ; had
slanted hr request. How little
it hod taken to make the.'child
hanny, and what rind of a
mother would she have been
had she negi . te:: his ojmor-
tunity! ,
g>' am - Above, Supreme Ballous
Marion H. Bluitt points out
some civil rights issues that d$J tl
sorority will campaign for-
ing Thomas, 'the year to Mr. Kathryn’t
Both sirpveme epistoleus. Washing¬
women are from
ton, D. C.—1ANP)
and the b °y s and Kiris who must
have submitted to a great deal
of routine and discipline to get
such results. He then remin¬
isced about the fine musical
reputation of Fisk University
of which Mrs. Eneas is a grad¬
uate and with which a relative
of his- had been connected. He
hoped that St. John’s College
would continue to improve and
advance as time went on—Nas¬
sau Tribune.
Mrs. Eneas is a former' Sa-
vannahian and the daughter of
juu Dr. and £ Mrs. s F. *• S. Frazier of
East Par , ^ avemi -e.
Pope Asks Prayer For
^ CrP ^‘ Can ‘‘ r ’ esis
asXed YORK—Pope Pius XII
fl t.nic a . s mnnfVi mon *L Catho especially :< s to for pfay
------- an
Africa,” ' Ip9 rease ’ of missionaries in
according to the na-
here. Propa8ation «
In the Belgin Congo and Ru¬
anda-Ufundi there are ponulaTion 3 282 000
Catholics out of a
of of 14.000,000 14.000 000 I with with Vf 848,000 8 ’”® under U nd £
instruction instruetkm who are served „ „ by
&S have 5 & 3 S
onlv one native p-iest for
13 hher ’ 500 Catholics One‘ priest
e native or foreign miss-
th ere^’is^ 1 one ' 8 n° C f th ,or „ 0jics and