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“There is no quick and easy way to
public enlightenment. The baffling
question is how to get people sufficient¬
ly interested in information to pay at¬
tention to it.” —Hadley Cantril
It is unusual to see picketing here.
It is especially ft rare sight to see Ne¬
gro workers picketing, an expression of
their desire for improvement in pay or
working conditions or the right to bar¬
gain or what have you. Rut it is a
sign that Negroes are learning to use
some of the techniques of union labor.
Perhaps the most significant thing
about it is that at the E & VV Laundry
the women are unionized; they are or¬
ganized. They may not get what they
are striking for, but they will inform
the public as to their complaints: that
they receive only 29 cents an hour,
whereas women workers in other laun¬
dries receive nearly twice as much for
the same kind of work: that they are
required to do the work of men. We
have not always been in agreement with
the position and demands of labor. We
think labor has been unreasonable at
times in its demands but if these wo¬
men have stated jtheir case truthfully
we believe they ought to gain what they
are asking for.
SHOESHINE BOYS
There was something of the cute in
the effort of two little Negro boys to
secure licenses to shine shoes on the
streets. Rut there was something
more. It indicated not only the boys’
need and desire to earn a little money,
but it also indicated that they wanted to
do so without fear of being chased by
policemen. They evidently came to
the conclusion that little white hoys were
not chased because they had licenses.
To learn that they would not need li¬
censes to shine shoes on the street may
not make them feel too secure after all,
for the marshal’s office “said it was
all right’ if they could outrun the police.”
We have often wondered too, why i>o-
licemen chased Negro hoys and let the
little white boys go on unmolested. We
still wonder why these boys are chased.
Our observation is that these boys get
along well together if let alone. Po¬
licemen with understanding could do a
fine job of counselling with these shoe-
shine boys. #
THE STATE’S OBLIGATION
Education, recreation, health and so¬
cial service, have become recognized in
almost that order as the obligation of
the state. Gradually the state, organ¬
ized government, is seeing the need of
including other services to its citizens by
virtue of the purposes stated in the
preamble to the Constitution of the
United States. Our state shows
through enactments of the legislature in
the session just closed that it recogniz¬
es its obligation to its citizens. The
huge amount of money appropriated for
education and other public service proves
this. We are not naive enough to be¬
lieve that our state will be able or will¬
ing to discharge at once its entire ob¬
ligation to its Negro citizens in the way
of amply providing medical care, through
'hospitals, training nurses and doctors.
There are 800,000 Negroes in the rural
districts of Georgia who have less than
50 Negro doctors to serve them, for
there are only 75 Negro doctors in this
state, 35 of whom are in Atlanta and
none of whom received their education
in Georgia at the state’s expense. There
is only one medical college in the state,
and Negroes are denied admission to it.
The state’s participation in the regional
plan makes it possible for Negroes to
get state aid to attend a medical school
in some other state, but this arrange¬
ment, according to a court decision, is
no satisfactory substitute for what the
state should do for Negroes who desire
a medical education. Does the state
plan to build a medical college for Ne¬
groes? If it does would it be equal in
equipment and quality of instruction?
Could it be done within a reasonable
time? How much money would it take? By
the same token, what about training in
STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL
FOUND DEAD OF
BULLET WOUND
WASHINGTON (ANPi— Kea-
neth Haves Meeker. 53 year-
cld chief liaso-n official in
charge of the U. S State
partment s work with the eco-
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
Office at Savannah, Ga, jinder the Act of
March 3, 1879
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template providing anything comparable
to Georgia Tech for Negroes? How-
will it discharge its obligation to Ne¬
groes in this field? The same questions
may be asked about facilities for preparing
Negro lawyers. Despite a trend in the
direction of lowering the bars of segre¬
gation in education, even in the South,
Georgia has fixed it so that state in¬
stitutions can not admit Negroes; so that
it must spend huge sums of money to
provide facilities for the education of
Negroes beyond the under-graduate lev¬
el.
LARGE ORDER A
The Hub’s letter to the Board of Ed¬
ucation outlining the needs in Negro
schools proposes a large order to satis¬
fy which could take all of the bond
money. To those who know what has
taken place in the way of providing fa¬
cilities for Negro children during the
last seventy-five yearst, the order is
large but not unreasonable, because the
needs in Negro schools represent an ac¬
cumulation ascribable to the lack of vi¬
sion and intention on the part of suc¬
cessive Boards of Education to do very
much for Negroes. The record is not one
to be proud of. Thirteen schools have
been built for white children while only
three have been built for Negro chil¬
dren. Negro children have had to
endure double sessions for more than
twenty-five years and still must attend
39 double sessions. Because of a long
June ataltilde toward improvements in,
the school picture for Negroes, board
after board has permitted Negro chil¬
dren to use two buildings that were fire
traps from the very beginning. This is
not an exaggeration. The fact is they
have been made more hazardous through
ill-considered attempts to continue their
use; a third story and dangerously steep
steps, and a wooden fire escape over a
roof two stories high at West Broad;
and at Maple, a two room annex and
toilet arrangements which defy efforts
to keep them sanitary. Surely the or¬
der has to be large where there has been
such long time neglect, and if some board
does not have the disposition and cour¬
age enough to begin to cut down the
differential, and what is more important,
catch up with the needs in Negro schools,
there is no telling what the picture will
be in the next fifteen or tv enty years.
Of course, Negroes themselves can not
he absolved of aTl blame for the situation.
They have been too patient, too hesi¬
tant and afraid to ask for better school
provision, and too penny-wise. Their
unswerving slavish faith in the
intention of the hoards to deal fairly in
providing school facilities was main¬
tained until a few years ago when th* 1
board gave not a single dime to them
from the proceeds of three bond elections.
As we have said before, the replace¬
ment of West Broad and Maple schools
and the getting rid of double sessions
should have priority in any plan for im¬
proving schools in our system. These
things represent the worst needs. Two
answers have been customarily given to
requests from Negroes: “Be patient.
We’ll eventually do what you want,” and
“we do not have the money with which
to build new schools.” Both of these
answers are now outmoded by enact¬
ments of the recent state legislature, and
we have reason to expect plans for
greatly improving school conditions to be¬
gin almost at once.
The following is a simple statement
showing how local systems can get
money: “the MFPE gives school sys¬
tems—county or independent—$200 a
year per teacher for capital outlay . . .It
can use that money to pay off bonded
indebtedness or for building improve¬
ments. It can (issue bonds itself or,
if it has reached the legal limit on that,
ask the State School Building Authority
to finance the construction. In that
case, its capital outlay allotment will be
paid directly to the building authority
to discharge the obligation.” The author¬
ity will not get to functioning right away,
hut the MFPE will go into effect July 1,
and there will be “an allotment to each
school system of $300 a year per teach¬
nomic mission in Liberia,
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wound in his head.
Taken to Arlington
Meeker who is white, was
nounced dead on arrival.
had been in ill health for
eral years and police say
. .
| cide. "f.i'h might have been a sui-i
i
A veteran of World War I,
Meeker was appointed branch
chief of the Dffice of Lend
Lease administration in 1942,
and in 1944 became division
chief of the Foreign Economics
administration.
THE SAVANNAH TMBUN1
“THE EQUALIZER”
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Citizenship Club To
Honor The Late
John W. Hubert
John W. Hubert
The John Wesley Hubert Cit¬
Club of Alfred E. Beach
school wul honor the la;e
educator and civic worker
the unveiling of his portrait
Mar. 9, at 9:10 a. m.
the school auditorium. The
will be by Mrs. Beau-
DeCosta Hubert, instructor
South Carolina State College
S. C., an.i daughter
Mr. Huber .
Mr. Hubert was for man
a prominent figure in the
and political life o'
and served for mam
years as principal of Boach-
Cuvler high school.
Mrs. Ophelia Lee Mclver
principal of Haven Home
school, wall deliver the princi¬
pal address. She will be intro-
d u c e d by Principal O. L
Douglas. Mrs. Mclver was ior i
number of years associater
with Mr. Hubert at the Cuyiei
plant and is well prepared" tc
bring the message of the day
Music will .be furnished b;
the school band and chorus a nr
Lewis Scott, president of the
John Wesley Hubert Club, wii
act as master of ceremonies. W
Dickerson Dor.nelly Is club di
rector.
Some people are never hap-
pie 'han when (hey are getting
other people into difficulties.
Employers who regard labor
as a commodity, like raw ma¬
terials, belong to the stone age
because they managed to get a
nisciss PLANS — Officers of
the Mid-West zone < 2 > of the
National Dental Association
discussing plans and suggest¬
ions for the 1951 national dent¬
al program with officers of the
NDA at the zone's recent meet¬
ing in Chicago. The Mid-West
zone, which includes dentists
from Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan and Kentucky, is di-
MAY CARRY MISSISSIPPI
SALARY CASE TO
HIGH COURT
MORGANZA. Md. — St.
ep'n’s Welfare club has
a 115-acre farm as part of
n’an to establish whi + e and
vpprn members of the Oa'holie
narish here in their own home?
on th f ir own nlo f s of land.
Tn 'he initial scopes *--m
•'•qi b" operated as a co-opera¬
tive to build in •> cash re-g-ve.
Blub members will devote even-
ings and days off to clearing
‘he lend end planning
and cp-n. Some trimk gardening
also will be done. When enm.m,
money is accumulated t»mn
-ash cron?, the homes will be
nut up on plots of one to five
acres
Hitherto t v -" club’s effort
have been directed to provid-
;ng housing for Negro parish-
■oners. Fourteen small homes
have been erected on the land
families had nreviouslv ob-
tmned. Now. exniams Fatb-v
iD'hHul H- Kavanagh, S.
oastor. some white families are
interested in obtaining housing
trough the club.
Since a report, wa* nublirheo
'as- Novemhe- in Negro and
'’atholic new'SDaoers more than
'1.500 has been contributed
>om outside the parish, Father
Hnvanagh said.
A nrize gift was a pair of
Belgian work bosses, used in
learine and tilling the new
'arm. Thev were donated bv
Moi. Howard C. Davidson, air
f nrce officer whose Cremona
v arms in sou'hern Maryland
are famous for Angus cattle.
Five hundred dollars
•ent by a woman in New York.
Other donors sent furniture
winding a bedroom set.
ane sent an ice box.
The first project for tire
'arm will be to erect a
tatue of St. Joseph
he highway, with a
•o.ariside park for motorists.
Tell W. Nicolet, a city
rnd architect, is dona’ing
ervices to lay out the new
velopment. It is hoped that
me-story cinder block
10 x 30 feet, wi h
rnd a plot land can be
'd for >1 a week over 20 years
A family head builds his own
hocse with the aid of two
dub members. Later he
’hese two put up their homes.
Material is supplied by the
dub.
Baltimore
I rected by Dr. C. L. Thomas of
| Louisville. Kv.
j From left to rigt/\ seated:
Drs. A. M. Mackel, Natchez,
I Miss., vice president of the
NDA: C L. Thomas, Louisville
A. H StJth. Chicago, vice-pres¬
ident cL the Illinois group D.
L. Claiborn. Chicago executive
board member of the zone.
Standing: Drs. S. P. Jones,
i hriekDve'-s working on Banne-
ker high school near here
pitched in afte" work to help
put up one of the club’s homes
Victor Prince and his brother
and Joe Maroni were among
white construction men who
"om pie ted laying "mder-hlo-k'
for a Nevro’s n°w house in the
record time of fom mchts
i working 0 r.e and one-half hours
a n i ? pt
'
, President of St Joseph’s Wel-
j [ f qrp is William who Scanlan has
Herbert a Negro
I | raised a family of 12 children
j end who owns his 250 acre
1 farm. He has two sisters. Cath-
011- runs at St. Francis’ acad-
I emVj Baltimore,
j TIME STILL
j RIGHT
R „ Fdw ., v u McOIockton
■ EeVPrPl mont Vm am we slime-
i; .
f^ p pow *
I tijr , e to sj(jn a Joh ju". I
; w5]1 snon bp here end there wll I
; a j 0 t s 0 f students °radnat* 1
in „ ^ yo u'np men and yomr
WOI pn looking for iobs. Th<
R -ocery stores and other husi-
nesses that are being ken
' , npr , no „. bv Negro dollar.
[ should give iobs to Negroes sr
Negroes could serve their neo
; p - Je w ho bring their money tr
j support these businesses.
( Another reason this should
be done is because the Norn
bov is very loyal to his com
munity and country, and h-
leaves his family and home. t>
go to fight for peace and recur
i'y for others as well as hi
people.
New iobs are being opener
every day but not many t;
colored boys and girls. Wc
should keep in mind that ir
the near future the boys wii
be coming back from Korea anc
they will be glad to get sonu
of these jobs in the c e busi"”'-
places where doors Negro doll
ars keep open. This has workec
out fine in other Southerr
cities. For example in Virginia
a veteran who finished a Vir¬
ginia school was given a job as
a meter reader in a Negro
■ommunity.
Citizens, think on this as this
week is especially set aside for
us to remember Negro achieve¬
ments. This is one way to make
a better tomorrow and a bright¬
er future for us all.
Chicago, director of exhibits of
the NDA; Frank E. Chowning,
Indianapolis, vice president oi j
the Indiana group; C. L. Jones, j
Chicago, president of the Line-
oln Dental Society. which;
served as host to the zone j
group: and Charles M. Thomp- I
son. Chicago- publicity arid j :
public relations director of the
NDA.— (ANPi
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1951
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly ia
our columns.
“THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
INVESTMENT OF TIME
Lucia Mallory
“Mavis and I have no com¬
panionship any more I wish I
knew how to keen her from
growing away from me.”
friend, Helena Berwyck,
wistfully about her fourteen-
year-old daughter. lib¬
Helena had come to the
rary to walk home with me.
knew she was hoping that, out
of the knowledge of boys and
girls that has come to me as
librarian, I might be able
heln her.
As i was considering how
reply to Helena, there
across my mind the
brance of a long-ago
when I had been a dinner
in her home. Four-year
Mavis was setting the
when her mother came in
stopped her with a
command, “Run along, Mavis!
You aren’t putting the forks
the right places. I’ll set
table today.”
The small girl left the
room with dragging footsteps.
I heard the clink of china and
silver as her mother finished
setting the table. From my
chair by the living-room wind¬
ow I could see Mavis wandering
aimlessly about the yard.
The meal to which we, were
summoned a few minutes later
was faultlessly served, but I
should have enjoyed the occas¬
ion more had the little girl been
permitted to have the jov of
helping her mother. What if
one cr two forks had been
placed slightly awry?
My friend's troubled voice
recalled me to the present. “I’ve
done everything for Mavis.”
Helena was saying. “I
understand why she isn’t hap-
oier with me.”
“Could it be that you have
'one more for Mavis physically
*han mentally—that you have
leprived her of the satisfaction
if doing things for you?” I
ventured to suggest.
“What could Mavis do for
ne?” Helena queried in as¬
tonishment. “Her schoolwork
i t.xi
Vt orney Mifflin T. Gibbs,
nd Reverend Andrew J.
rett, Savannali
INTERRACIAL CATHO¬
LIC CO-OP FOR
MARYLAND
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 — Th(
otional legal committee of tht
National Association for thr
Advancement of Colored People
s studying the dismissal of the
(ion Association's of teacher suit for salaries equalipa- in J
Tackson, whether Mississippi, the to will deter-J be
mne case .
appealed to the United States
Supreme Court.
Last week, the United States
Court of Appeals for the fifth
circuit, sitting in New Orleans,
affirmed a lower court judg¬
ment dismissing the complaint
of Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates, in
which she alleged that the
Tackson School Board was dis-
nmmating against her and |
other Negro teachers a V;
p nncipals. Although the court I
Queens Col.
Drops Offen¬
sive Text
FLUSHING. N. Y., Feb. 21—
The Queens College chapter of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People learned this week that
it had succeeded in persuading
college authorities to ban use
of a history, textbook which
perpetuated objectionable ste¬
reotypes of the Negro and
failed to portray the role of the
Negro in American historical
development.
The NAACP chapter, wfaose
president is Miss Rosalie King
of Jamaica, L. I„ first protested
against the text. •'Growth of
the American Republic.” by
Morrison and Commager, about
a year ago. At that time, college
authorities suggested that a
revised edition"" of the text
might be more suitable for use
during the following term.
When the NAACP chapter
busy. With all the modern,
housekeeping aids we have In
our home, and onlv three of us
in the family, I really don’t need
any help.”
“Wouldn't Mavis like to op¬
erate the dishwasher once in
a while?” I continued. “I think
she might even enjoy taking
over the preparation of a meal
sometimes. She show's great in¬
terest in the cooking sections
of the magazines at the libra¬
ry.” looked
Helena thoughtful as
she replied, ‘ Mavis used to try
to help me when she was
younger, but her little lingers
were so slow and awkward that
I f o u n d it easier to do
things myself than to take
time to show her about them.”
“It’s a good investment of
time to teach a Id tie girl to
share in her mother's work,” I
answered gently.
“But it’s too late for that
now",” Helena responded. “I
should have had more patience
when she wanted to help cooiP- r»V
“Mavis has enjoyed her
ing classes at school,” i assured
her mother. “You could begin
bv suggesting that it might be
nice to have one of the spring
salads she has learned to make
or that maybe her daddy would
like to sample the new kind of
cookies she and her classmates
like so well. ’
A few weeks later Mavis
came into the library to invite
me to dinner at her home. "I’m
going to cook the meal all by
myself,” she confided. “IV’s to
be a surprise for Daddy’s birth¬
day. We’re inviting iust you
and Mr. Finch. I haven’t cooked
long enough to have a big din¬
ner. but Mother thinks I can
do it well enough to have five
people.
“I’m sure you will prepare a
good dinner, Mavis,” I agreed,
and your father will be delight¬
ed with your .skrpri.se.”
As we gathered * around the
table for that birthday cele¬
bration, both of those prophe¬
cies came true, and I rejoiced
to see the happiness oi renewed
companionship in the eyes of
'
C-j.iegc, who wuii speaK at the
Founders Day program at Floret
ida A and M College, Tallahass-
March
found that the school board
had discriminated against the
Negro teachers, it dismissed
:he complaint on (he ground
that Miss Bates had failed Boal:l 'tie
seek relief from the State
0 f Education before she broupHt
court action.
Despite the fact of NAACP
attorneys to show the difference
between this case and a sim-
ilar suit which was dismissed
in Georgia last year, the appel¬
lant court concluded that the
Georgia case was similar
enough for that decision to
guide the decision in the Mis¬
sissippi case.
The appeal was argued in
New Orleans on Januarv 24 by
NAACP Assistant Special Coun-
sel Robert L. Carter and Con-
stance Baker Motley.
Sound no noticeable improve¬
ments in the new text, they re¬
opened the issue and the text
was dropped.
NAACP LAUDS MISS
BAKER
NEW YORK. Feb. 21—Jose¬
phine Baker’s breaching of the
color bar at a Miami Beach.
Fla., night club has been com¬
mended bv the board of di¬
rectors of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People. The board at
its February meeting voted
unanimously to commend Miss
Baker for the “unequivocal
stand” she took in refusing to
aDpear before audiences from
which Negro patrons were ex¬
cluded or in which they were
segregated.
board. Transmitting the vote of the
Walter White, executive
secretary, said in a letter to
.Miss Baker: “Such a stand has
done much already to expose
:he vicious nature of segrega¬
tion based on race and consti¬
tutes a magnificient examole
for your fellow artists and fpj
.he public in generai.” _j