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A COMMON STORY
Most of us go on from day to day
without knowing how common it is that
improvident and shiftless people show
that “a fool and his money are soon part¬
ed.” Everybody frowns on the old
“confidence game” and feel that swin¬
dlers who take advantage of gullible
people should be jailed. The ‘‘confi¬
dence game” moves quickly and secures
big stakes, larger than boledo takes at
one swoop. That is about the only
difference. Boledo nibbles at one’s
earnings but is no less a game of swin¬
dle. The old “confidence game” has
taken as much as $4,000 from one per¬
son at one time. lloledo has taken as
much: a Negro, a small business man,
not so long ago lost his business, his
home and whatever money he had to
boledo. The most recent story we have
heard is of a woman who received a
thousand dollar check—an insurance
payment probably—and she played $900
away on boledo in a short time. Now
she is in bad physical and financial con¬
dition. There are many stories like
these, and one would think that such
stories would be sufficient to keep peo¬
ple from throwing their money away on
boledo. We have always felt our city
should protect the victims of boledo from
their own folly and from boledo running
swindlers, who ply their trade in the
daytime, at night time, and from auto¬
mobiles and from some confectionery
stores. Yes, boledo is very much alive.
JUST MISSED?
Due to the much heralded independ¬
ence of the present Legislature, Georgia
apparently barely missed entering upon
a state of affairs that would have made
of our state a sort of despotism. Ac¬
cording to Representative Howard, the
inclusion of the county-unit in the gen¬
eral election will fasten a tight machine
in control of the state’s political affairs.
, Such a machine could handpick the state’s
•officers, even on the county level. Such
'power could operate with immunity if
‘the Legislature had passed the bills aim¬
ed at the freedom of the press. These
two efforts have in them a semblance of
the pattern that dictator countries have
followed. The order in which they have
occurred doesn’t make any difference.
Get the power and deprive the people
of the means of information set up the
scheme. Hitler and the Nazis, Lenin
and Stalin and the Communists, were and
are determined to keep the people ignor¬
ant of the internal affairs of their gov¬
ernments and out of touch with the
achievements and aspirations of the peo¬
ple of other countries. The point is, that
power concentrated in the hands of one
group and the ability to suppress criti¬
cism of the group’s use of its power make
the perfect set-up for dictatorship any-
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FIRST SNOW FALLING —
Snow comes to Florida A and M j I
College’s campus, Tallahassee,
SHOWERS OF DOLLARS
Showers of dollars Lorn the
Veterans Administration Reg-
ional office pour down in Geor-1
gia every month. Vaux Owen.!
VA Regional Manager, said
today Trese dollars represent'
benefits paid to veterans and
on behalf of veterans. They go
to veterans all over Georgia,
Owen said.
At the end of January, there
were 44.295 Georgia veterans
receiving pension or compensa¬
tion. These payments for Jan- .
uary alone amounted to nearly i
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March 3. 1879
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New York 19, New York
where, in Georgia, Germany or Russia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution com¬
ments as follows on the proposed mea¬
sures: “The effort to pass punitive mea¬
sures against newspapers in Georgia was
an unhappy reflection of the Talmadge
administration’s unwillingness to brook
public criticism. Members of the House
of Representatives recognized this fact
and refused to tamper with the people’s
right to fuli and ira information.” We
hope these threats to build up a dynasty
in Georgia will be settled by Georgians
in due time. We just missed this time.
THE NEXT ELECTION
An important election is coming some¬
time next month. It. will be the election
in which the people of Savannah will
have an opportunity to say whether they
want to change their form of government
from the mayor-council plan to the coun¬
cil-manager plan. We know how the
present plan operates. We know its weak¬
nesses that are sufficient to justify the
desire of some citizens for a change to
something else, to some other form of gov¬
ernment wMch certainly cun be no worse.
Three essential features of the council-
manager plan are: (1) A short ballot
w ith few elective offices and all of them
important enough to attract full public
scrutiny; (2) a small council which holds
all the city’s powers; and _(3) a single¬
headed administration under a profes¬
sional city manager chosen by the coun¬
cil.”
Cities that have adopted the council-
manager debt, plan lower have found better that service “decreas- for j
ing taxes,
less money, honest civil service systems,
abler mem in office, honest contract
awards and businesslike government are
some of the benefits which follow ..”
But no matter what the advantages of
the plan are unless the voters of this
city are sufficiently informed of them,
and can be led to translate their interest
and this information into a passion for
better government, the effort to secure
the adoption of the council-manager plan
will fail.
The matter is important enough to lure
all who are interested in better govern¬
ment. who are in doubt that we are getting
a dollar’s worth of service for a dollar.
And another good reason for voting in
the coming election is to exercise the
privilege of voting, of taking part in this
apparently simple duty of citizenship. We
urge our citizens to vote every time the
polls are open in order to set the habit,
to stay in practice.
“ ‘An educated people is easy to lead but
hard to drive; easy to govern but impos¬
sible to enslave.’ It is our public schools
Which must bear the main responsibility
of maintaining an educated people here.
It would be tragic indeed if we neglected
them when we need them most.’ ”
Fa . for the first time in forty
years. Shown engaging in a i
snowball battle two lovely I ‘
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ars su bsistence benefits were
pa id during January to Georgia
veterans who are in training
Subsistence payments during
the vear 1950 amounted to over
62 million and pension corn-
pensation payments amounted
te nearly 36 million. During th
year 1950 the VA Regional
office paid educational institu¬
tions in Georgia over $17,600.-
000 to train veterans. Benefi: >
paid to veterans and on behalf
of veterans in Georgia riurin
the year amounted to more than
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“There is never a dry season.” ■ i |
said. “These payments to j j
every month. Just as spring
are beneficial to grow- \
crops, these showers of
from the Veterans Ad- i
are beneficial to |
and their families ’ " all!
Georg •gia” I
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Then there was the man who
an article for fifteen,
and wrote a long letter
the manufacturer telling how
could be hnproed.
THE SAVANNAH TTLIBUNH
AND PUSH THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL TOO, MR. PRESIDENT”
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FOP HE AND NY
ORGANIZATION
HERE IN our
OWN COUNTRY,
WE'D GET ALONG
better, too!
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
VOTES VERSUS VIGILS
The tragic sequel to the Martinsville trag¬
edy has been written. Seven Negroes have
ouiii with their lives for the crime with
which thev were charged. When Negroes
are inolved in crime against whites it is
difficult to know when those Negroes have
received justice in the courts. To say that
Negroes generally receive justice in trials for
crimes against whites is to mock the frail¬
ties of human nature.
To say that a man can be prejudiced
against Negroes all his life and for the du¬
ration of a given trial as juryman such man:
tan be free of prejudice, is to fly into thei
lace of the laws of social psychology. No
man on earth can be prejudiced 51 weeks*
■in a year and suddenly become unprejudic¬
ed for the duration of his duty as juryman.
This means that Negroes who are involv¬
ed in crimes against whites never get jus¬
tice, in that they are never tried by an uni
prejudiced jury. It is almost unthinkable
to imagine that any jury is composed of-
12 white men who are not prejudiced. To
the extent it is unthinkable to assume that
on any given occasion 12 white men can be
found who are prejudiced in their attitudesl
toward Negroes is the extent to which Ne¬
groes fail to get justice in the courts of
the land.
One of the greatest tragedies of moderni
times is this self same situation where Ne*
groes are often tried for their lives by a
jury that is prejudiced. This writer is nob
here debating the guilt or innocence of the
Martinsville Seven. He is merely saying
that thev were not tried by an unprejudic-*,
ed jury, as has been the case a thousand
times before throughout the south and na¬
tion. It is doubtful if any Negro has ever,
been convicted or exonerated by an unpre¬
judiced jury. This legal handicap po-i
ses one of the gravest problems of juris¬
prudence of our times.
When a group of Negroes and whites
went down to the capitol of Virginia lasti
summer to plead for a commutation of the
sentence of the Martinsville Seven the
writer was among them. When the pieacn
ings were ended by the final say a mother
of one of the condemned men, we all re¬
paired to the capitol lawn where we talked
among ourselves. One of the white wo-'
men expressed a doubt as to whether oud
positions had been effective. Said she,
“It looks as if the boys are doomed for their 1
case is now in politics.”
This writer took t to mean that the
Byrd machine had decreed that the beys
must die. They died. It would now ap-j
pear that the white woman knew where-*
of she spoke, and that she saw the gory
sequel of which we write here. The point
of this release is to show how limited are
prayers and vigils when votes are lacking,
The case of the Martinsville Seven stirred
the world.
There were pressures on both side, for a
commutation and for their execution. It
was a matter of pressure against pressure.
Unfortunately for the boys the pressure for
execution was the greater and so they were'
called upon to pay with their lives the pen¬
alty that Virginia laws exacted.
the NAACP able
Foster Homes Needed
For Nesrro Children
NEW YORK—The plight of
homeless Negro children was
‘brought home graphically
Catholics of Harlem. Bronx,
Westchester County, when the
New York Foundling Hospital
opened its nurserv doors for an
inspection tour. The tour was
conducted under the auspices
of Francis Cardinal Spellman’s
Campaign for Foster Homes, as
the first in a series of such
“visiting “visiting Sundays” Sundays” to to emphasize emphasize
fUo the fact tViaE that a a considerable mtitirtorahif,
number of the children living
in child care shelters in New
York are Negro intants.
After the tour of the nurser-
j es - l p d by Sister Marie Cather-
ine. who is director of the
boarding out department of the
the entire
assembled in the hospital au-
ditorium to hear the facts
concerning homeless children
explained bv Sister Catherine
and Father G. Howard Moore,
director of the Catholic Home
Bureau.
Miss Helen Hallinan, super-
attorneys uncovered to the effect that the
death sentence for rape has been reserved
lor Negroes only was never faced by the
legal machinery of the state and nation.
It was a telling point and although it was
over-ruled by the state and federal courts,
it still stands out in bold relief to the dis¬ j
credit of Virginia and the nation, it i.i ’
bound to have its effects. It was a righteous
contention and as such cannot be downed.
On the eve of the multiple execution!
there were vigils and prayers but the ex¬
ecutions went on apace. The reason?
Negroes are relatively voteless in Virginia.
Tne very fact that the execution of thev
Martinsville Seven was in politics is proof
that the course of events might have been
changed had Negroes commanded 250,(jjO
or 30U.000 votes to be cast in a given election.
A lew votes would have won a commu¬
tation for the Martinsilie Seven; but thd
votes were lacking; and so the tragic sequel
to the Martinsville tragedy. It is going to
be a great uav in Virginia and throughout
the nation when Negroes learn that votea
and not vigils are the ultimate determinants!
of Negro destiny.
(Editors Note: Langston Hughes Dedicates
Poem In Tribute To Negro Nurses and The
Dissolution of The Forty-Two Year Nation¬
al Association of Colored Graduates Nurses
Who Have Integrated Into The National
Bodv.)
— (ANP)
WHERE SERVICE IS NEEDED
By Langson Hughes for ANP
For the Negro nurse there’s been no easy way
The bars have been high the day a long day
When the hand that could tend the sick
or the hurt
Must also combat Jim Crow’s dirt.
No caution, no gloves, no antiseptic, no mask
Could protect her from prejudice as she
stuck to her task.
Only devotion, and the will to be what she,
set out to be,
Kept the Negro nurse on her road to today’s
victory.
From America’s garden now
The ugly weeds are being weeded;
Only five states bar their doors to dark
hands
That would serve where service is needed.
In the Army, the Navy, colored nurses at¬
tend.
Her long gallant struggle pertends a good
end
“Negro nurse” is a phrase men no longer
need say,
"American nurse” means all nurses today.
The bars have been high. There is the
magic wand;
Only unity and faith have brought this
new dawn
Where the rights of democracy to all are
ceded:
Her skhled hands may >erve where service
is needed.
visor of adoptions for the Cath-
olic Home Bureau, explained
the qualifications for adoptive
parents and pointed out tjrat
-ip contrast to the scarcity of
white babies, there were many
Negro babies available for
adoption.”
In commenting on this first
tour of the Foundling. Father
Michael F. Dwyer, director of
the Cardinal's Campaign, said
that further invitations would
be extended to other New York
parishes for future ^inspection
tours as part of a special drive
to find Negro foster homes.
"The need is great for these
homes,” he declared, “so great
that we decided to do more
I than bring the appeal of
homeless child to tne people:;
instead, we are bringing the 1
i ! people to the children where ;
they can see for themslves how
j many there are in need of fam-
lily j life. We are hopeful that
foster homes wil result, not only
among our visitors, but from
the apostolic work they can do
THE TEA PARTY
By Bertha Youjik« n
It happened that Bill Sum¬
was at home the after¬
that several ladies from
town's Civic Improvement
met there for tea with
Summers. Bill was nursing
cold in the den off the living
and after vanly trying
concentrate on the my.stery
he was reading he sud¬
stopped to listen to tne
the iadies were making.
‘ You see, Mrs. Summers,
the voice of their neigh¬
Mrs. Long, “these MarDle
are simply running
Their parents arp a dis¬
to this community, ana
feel it is our dutv to do
about V. That old¬
hov was caught robbing a
late last night: the four-
t _ypar-old girl has already
onco bofor^ the Jn-
Judge; the twins get to
onlv about half
time; and that poor dear
There was a sign from every-
Then Bill heard his wye
-r>ea’: slowlv “It certainly i c
had. The ehildren seem
enough in school, and
the baby is clean she is
-weet.”
“We have derided that .some¬
must be done before it is
late.” Mrs. Tons said de¬
“Delinquent child¬
are caused bv delinquent
and we feel sure that
several of us took this case
the judge w could force the
to stay at home with
children—or face a sen¬
As members of the Civil
Society we believe
is our duty to see that the
of this community re-
proper attention—”
' Then why don’t you?” Bill
stood in the doorway,
feet of indignant manhood
Proper attention!” he snort¬
“And you really think they’d
in their own parishes.”
Father Dwyer said that the
“visiting Sunday” at the
Foundling resulted from dis¬
cussions with prominent lead¬
ers who are forming a special
committee to find foster homes
under the sponsorship of the
Cardinal's campaign. He said
that plans were being made to
bring appeals for homes into all
Negro parishes in the New York
Archdiocese, through publicity
and a speakers’ panel.
Mrs. Pinckney To Be
Buried Here Monday
The funeral of Mrs. Florence
Pinckney, former Savannarian
who was fatally injured last
Wednesday night in Washing¬
ton. D. C., when she was
knocked down by an automo¬
bile, will be held here Monday
afternoon three o'clock from
the Bolton Street Baptist
Chhreh.
Her body will be brought tc
Savannah Saturday. The fun¬
eral will be in charge of Mon¬ j
roe Funeral Directors. j
THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1951
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Kinfforrarten Association, Association. 8 8 West 40th
Street. New York City. These articles are appearing weekly la
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebd
get proper attention from Jeff
and Sadie Marble, the two
most Ignorant, shiftless people
intown? Jeff didn’t even finish
the fourth grade, and if he
had his way his youngsters
would never set foot in a school-
house! Sadie Marble hates
children! Sure you could get
them into court, but just what
good would come of it?”
The room was very still, and
Bill went on more calmly, “I
quite agree with you that de-
linsuent partnts cause delin¬
quent children, but I believe
that every person here who
could have held out a help¬
ing hand to those young¬
sters and didn’t has aided that
delinquency. You women feel
von should do something about,
the Marbles. Tell me, has
anyone here ever done one kind
deed for those children?”
Isabel Summers stared at her
hi'sbapd. He looked so, ridicu¬
lous standing there censuring censuring
them—and so right!
“You know.” she said though /
fully, “I believe Bill has >as soitoa
thing there. Mrs. Marble has
bem sick all the week, and I
might have had the baby over
here.”
“My daughter is having a
nartv Friday and we left out
the Marble girl.” another wom¬
an admitted. “It. isn’t too ate!
Aid the minister’s wife said
something about clo'hes for
them. Site could do that tact¬
fully.’”
“I happen to like that hoy,”
declared Bill stoutly. “I’m going
to see he gets a job that will
keep him out of mischief.”
“Well,” sighed Mrs: Long,
‘since I’m room mo her at the
kindergarten I suppose I'd
better see about the twins. I
drive Sandra over to school
every morning and wc go right
past the Marbles. I hadn’t
thought of picking those little
ones up.”
“Then that’s that,” laughed
Mrs. Summers. “Now we’ll
have our tea.”
"Excuse me!” grimed Bill.
For
PHILADELPHIA. —A spirited
War era fight bv the
Philopatrians of this
to uphold Negro rights is
in a history of the
club issued in honor of
100th anniversary.
The 6't-page bound volume,
of Philopatrian
by James T. Gallag¬
recalls that in 1858 there
a general meeting in Phil¬
to combine literary
of the city. The
Philopartian Literary
Who Started Out
ith One Cow Now Biggest
In line with the trend toward
livestock production
the South, Olando Raymond
of Eufaw. Ala., has be¬
one of the largest Negro
raisers in the region
state Extension Leader W
Hill in a report received last
bv the U. S. Depatment of
The 39-year-old farmer, who
as a boy with only one
now operates 7,300 acres
are devoted to beef cattle
timbcrland and cott¬
His four portable sawmills
it; el.so he has trucks for
the timber and his trucks
cattle to marnet.
As a boy of 12 on his father’s
farm near Eutaw, young
bpgan raising a calf.
by little, he increased his
to 11 head; then he bought
old jalopy and began hauling
to market for himself
his neighbors.
By the time he was 20, the
cattleman owned a new
and was making regular
to cattle markets as far
as Birmingham. The next
he married and he and his
scraped together enough
make the down-pavment on
acres. “Sale of the timber off
land brought enough to
paying for it,” says Mr.
They began raising hay for
livestock and a few acres
cotton. "The first year, rain
our crop, but income from
sale of cattle tided us over,”
cattleman recalls. “And we
one important lesson—
count on one crop.”
Today, the Browns own 1.300
and rent an additional
This land is devoted to
woodland, cotton, and
Thev plan to increase
cotton acreage this vear
order to help meet the ur¬
need for this important
Tenants on their place
handle all of the cotton.
The Browns have expanded
beef herd from a few head
the 30’s to fore than 200
cows and eight purebred
Six of these are Here-
one is a Brahman, and
other an Angus. On an av¬
they sell 180 head of
a year. “In 1945. we sold
10,000 worth of calves at one
institute had been denied ad¬
mission of religious .reasons,
and the Bannake Institute, a
Negro organization, had been
barred as a colored group.
When the Philopatrians fin¬
ally were accepted by •'the or¬
ganization, “they imnfediatelv
opened a vigorous campaign to
win fair treatment for the Ne¬
gro club,” the history* notes.
They made their point and the
Bannake Institute was’ admit¬
ted.
time.” Mr. Brown states'.
County Agent F. L. Jackson
'in': heln°d Them to cut down
their production costs by show¬
ing them how to improve their
pastures. Of te 3,600 acres thev
had in pas’ure last year, 600
Were improved. These' werd
seeded to White DuctH clover,
lespedeza, and dallis grass. And
plans are underway for improv¬
ing more of the pasture area
as soon as long-term leasing
arrangements are completed on
part Mr. of Brown the 6.000 points rented with aci^^ iflxle
to his watering pond which the
Production and Marketing Ad-
mnistration of the USDA helped
him to dig.
Aside from raising cattle, rot,
ton and timber, the Browns buy
and cut timber off other farms.
Starting out in 1940 with one
portable sawmill thev found
themselves stuck when the
owner had signed, defaulted for him on at a note the by they k
thev now own four such mills.
“Some months a mill mky cross
as much as $8,000,” the enter¬
prising farmer points out. ei^ht
Also, the Browns oWtn
logging trucks, four ■ lumof.r
trucks, four tractors and two
cattle trucks. “Oh, I guess we
own about $50,000 worth of
trucks and tractors,” figures the
cattleman.
Five years ago, the 'Browns
built and equipped for them¬
selves a modern home. It sits
back from the highway on a
480 acre plot that is devoted
mostly to pastures.
The couple has one son, 17
year old Alphone. He plans to
enter Tuskegee next year where
he will study animal husbandry
and prepare himself lo be a
successful livestock farmer.
"Someday, we hope he will take
over,” says Mr. Brown.
PERSONAL MENTION
friends of James F. Butler
will regret to learn of his illness
at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Brockington, on
Stevens street. He is much im¬
proved at this writing.
Price controls on what some¬
body else sells meets with geq-
era! approval.