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AMERICAN RED CROSS
The American Red Cross, the Ameri¬
can Mother who ministers to the needs
of ail her children, wdiite, black, when¬
ever or wherever they are in distress of
any sort, whether created by disaster
as acts of Providence, or whether man
made as the results of needs emerging
from wars or those arising from man’s
negligence. The American Red Cross
serves not only civilian needs like giv¬
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and ambulance service, hut it also car¬
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paring supplies for servicemen, includ¬
ing sweaters, kit hags, scarves and other
necessary items. It assumes responsi¬
bility for keeping blood hank ample
to meet the needs of servicemen at home
and abroad.
The Negro Auxiliary takes part in
many of these services, and heads the
drive among Negroes. Upon the basis
of the fine work the Red Cross does for
people in need and distress, without re¬
gard for race.’ creed or color, we ask
the hearty and generous support of Ne¬
gro citizens for the men upon whose
shoulders rests the responsibility for
raising well beyond the quota assigned
for Negroes. Information about the
work and usefulness of the Red Cross
is plentiful and pretty well-known. It
remains onlv for people to act on the in¬
formation thev have. Nor is there any
question about their ability to over sub¬
scribe their quota. We believe they
will do so.
SUSPECTED PRAISE
Experience has taught us to be wary
of any praise certain persons give, and
by the same token we are wary and sus¬
picious of the recipient of such praise.
For instance, a man, the governor,
who refuses to name any Negroes on
his planning committee of the regional
education plan—an exception among
southern states—who refused to name
any Negroes on the state’s delegation to
the White House < onference on Chil¬
dren and Youth and who made the fol¬
lowing statement during his campaign
to extend the county-unit system to the
general election:
“The anti-segregation civil rights
crowd in Atlanta see the scrapping of
the county-unit system as the way to
obtain . . . installation of Negro police,
firemen and patrolmen. . .”
This statement implies that he is op¬
posed to Negroes’ holding such position
or any other similar positions which are
attained through appointment or elec¬
tion. We have misgivings about
praise of Negro progress that comes
from such a source. We know that
progress in many significant areas get
its security through law enforcement
officers, the courts, and officers in
health and social agencies.
We do not know what Davis Lee will
say about Negro progress in Georgia as
compared with progress in New York,
hut we do know that whatever he says
that merits the endorsement of our gov¬
ernor is very apt to he something that
suits his attitude toward Negroes; that
is not in agreement with what best
thinking Negroes know, and would like
to see come to pass. Among the
things we know, in advance of any¬
thing Mr. I.ee may sav. that he prefers
to live in the neighborhood of New
York; that there are many Negro po¬
licemen. some Negro judges, some Ne¬
groes holding position under aopoint-
ment from the governor: that it is pos¬
sible for Negroes in New York to offer
for any position within the gift of elec¬
Louisville Opens Special
Classes For
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — <ANP>
The Louisville board of educa¬
tion is now setting a precedent
for other cities througrout the
South by operating special
classes fog Negro children
Covered in this new program
are deaf or hard of hearing
children and crippled children.
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
Office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act of
March 3. 1879
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torate; that Thomas Dewey is governor
of New York who does not have to apol¬
ogize for being photographed with Ne¬
groes; that white people in New York
who believe in all that American de- |
mocracy should stand for, are not sneer¬
ed at as “nigger lovers,” carpet-baggers,
radicals and crackpots, in New York.
We know something else. We know
that there are some Negroes in Georgia
who have done very well indeed under
the circumstances, who have everything
they need: property in lands and hous¬
es and the products of the soil, who have
security as long as their wants and as¬
pirations do not offend the aims of
white people for them, or until they
want and ask for the same kind of re¬
spect ownership entitles one to, the
same kind of schools, the same kind of
pay, the same kind' of opportunity to
work and to he advanced because the
kind of work they do merits it. One
very prosperous Negro in our state, ex¬
presses it like this: “when a white man
asks to borrow money from me, 1 say,
‘I’ll help you to get your hay cut or
your stuff to market, hut I won’t lend you
money because we are not the same in
the courts.’ ” Every successful Negro
we know has had to develop a technique
of accommodation, and an immunity to
what segregation is intended to teach
him: he buvs fi r cash and carries his
purchases: he uses his automobiles in¬
stead of the bus; hi 1 develops the art
of flattery to the nth degree; and some¬
times he uses the language, distasteful
as it mav be, of the reactionarv to win
consideration. Well, what will Davis
Lee say?
DOUBTFUL REFUGE
There can hardly be any doubt that
that the educational hill with the seg¬
regation provisos was proposed as a
sort of refugfc, conceived in a state of
panic due to the Atlanta suit to admit
Negroes into white schools. There
Mere signs as early as last September
that some such a plan would he forth¬
coming. The proposal to give state
money to private individuals or private
schools may he all right. Evidently the !
NAACP does not think the plan can
stand up in court, and the NAAGP thinks
pretty straight on such matters. We
have doubts about it because we can
not see how the state can give public
funds to private persons or agencies
without giving them at the same time
responsibility to the public. We think
that a person or agency ceases to be pri¬
vate when the state blesses it or hiru
with public money. A person or agen¬
cy under such circumstances would he
no less liable to suit in United States
Courts than the University of Georgia
or any board of education in any coun¬
ty.
It is not saying a great deal more
than any other man as governor could
say that the present governor has done
nit re for education than any other gov¬
ernor in the history of the state. Any
other man as governor at this time, un¬
der the same pressure and with the
same attitude towards Negroes, would
have done substantially the same as Mr.
Tahnadge. It is altogether possible
that Mr. Talmadge is just the right
man for this time. His determination
“to stick to his guns” and the hysteria
the Atlanta suit called forth, are re¬
sponsible for the unprecedented sum of
money provided by the late legislature. ,
Mr. Walter White says, in recognition
of the increased appropriation, "consid¬
erable it not major portion of credit
should go to ‘agitators’ like myself, as
you term it." He was replying to the
governor who had called him an agita¬
tor. We doubt that the segregation
provisos in the education appropriation
hill will he a refuge for keeping Negroes
out of state supported universities*
schools and colleges that offer courses
u hich the state does not provide in state
Negro schools.
Regular day classes are being
held for both groups at the
Douglass school.
Classes for the deaf-oral croup
were begun Feb 5. and classes
for the crippled children opened
Feb. 26.
In the deaf-oral grouo,
children will leam lip reading,
develop speech and language
ability, and learn arithmetic
and reading.
Children of elementary or
.junior high school age mav at¬
tend both special classes. Of
this new program. Miss Marv
May Wyman, city supervisor of
sperial education, said:
“I know that, these are the
first such classes to be offered
to Negroes by a puglic school
system in Kentucky. I'm pretty
sure they are the first south
of the Mason and Dixon line.”
THE SAVANNAH TXIBUN1
“The Civil Rights Law Will Help Make Better Progress”
BUT W£ RE MAKING
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Gy DEAN GORDON G. HANCOCK for ANP
THE BITTERS AND SWEETS
The basketball scandal that is breaking
a rosa Lne nation need not occasion too,
great, a surprise. It is preposterous to im¬
agine that “fixing” is confined to New
York and its immediate environs. Such
e-vns are seitiom localized tor greedy and
unprincipled persons are found everywhere.
me wonder is not that the scandal brbke,
but that it did not break sooner. But it
would be unfair and unwise and uncharit¬
able to believe that large numbers of ath¬
letes are involved in game “fixings.” The
press - of the nation has been rather len¬
ient in its treatment of the deplorable sit¬
uation. This is as it should be. Nor is it/
necessary a .s some teams are aoing to pun
out of Madison Square Garden.
There will always be some “garden” for
the gambler and lor tlie athlete who has
an itchy palm. This writer does not be¬
lieve calamity howling will help matters nor
will wringing holy hands of horror. If
these in authority will deal positively with
the evil when it crops up, it can be held
in control.
It. is extreme folly to even imagine that
athletics can always be manned by honest
mortals. It all goes back to the old gag do
not leave a hungry man in your pie-shop.
These college boys are lean and hungry and
they bring in loads of money for dear
old Alma mater, and they reason that the
old dear will not be worse if they cut in,
here and there and get theirs. The ham¬
mer of correction should hit hardest on
the “fixers” and not the “fixed.”
The real culprits are not the lean and
hungry boys who happen to be gifted in,
their respective spheres, but those gamblers
who would despoil cur gifted youth for a
dollar. The strength of the average mam
consists net so much in resisting temptation,
but in keeping out of temptation’s reach.
And Jesus taught us to pray "Lead us
not into temptation” rather than “Lead us
safely through temptation.” This terriD-
tation business is mighty serious. The
guv who is not tempted can sit back and
moralize; but grappling with temptation is
is still something else.
This is a plea for intercollegiate athlet¬
ics. The masses of our college athletes are
COAST ELECTS ITS
GOVERNMENT—The Gold
under its new constitu¬
which gives natives greater
over their own
than ■any other British
territory, recently vheid
strictly on the square, the recent Scandals’
*o cue contrary noiwiuistanumg. Vina ii
iervcnuy to ue nopea mat the sworu of
juSbi^e wm pierce to me uiviumg Oi uonc
*aiu marrow or me lixers rawer than me
luted. n mere nad nut been trie inter 014
me sidelines mere nau Deen no transgres¬
sor on Lie courts.
The player lias the right to pursue his,
atiuciu way uruiinuereu anu inmamperea
ny gamblers who are vicious m uitur greed
me a aonur. The gamoieis are 01 a, me
utilities uie young. idle gamblers'are me->
'Uiouieai, the auuetes a.e unsopmscicated.
lne garn.iers are-steeped in tneir liaoits;
me amities are iorming litbiis. Yne gam-
biers are strong; me atmeiea are weak, me
glimmers me sophisticates; the athletes are-
iiuuates. Tne gamblers are weh-iea and
sice it; tne atnletes are lean and hungry.
The gilt of these off ending athletes'
must not be mmimizea. l'ney must be
taught now and here that the violation of
a public commence is a serious matter. But
the weight of penalty should fall hardest
on the fixers who would sell the souis of
youtn for a mess of pjttage. On the other
hand, the old eentennarian who attributed
his longevity to the fact that he had never,
spent too much of his energies resisting
temptation said something that needs to be
a warning to the youtli of the land.
Honesty is still the best policy and this
must be driven home at any cost. There¬
fore the offending athletes should pay but
the greater price should be paid by the fix¬
ers. Then let the game proceed and let
the play go on. There is no ned to wring
the hands and gnash, the teeth. Let us
not be stampeded into choking out those
fine athletic activities because here and
there we bump into a weak person. We
all are kin to Adam who set a bad prece¬
dent to begin with.
It was rather disconcerting that after an
honest young Negro athlete had been hail¬
ed for turning up the scandal, other Ne¬
groes were so deeply involved. It all amounts
to schooling the Negro race in taking its
bitters along with its sweets. If we get
the good publicity we merit, we need not
fear the bad. The bitters and siveets.
its first election. The colony is >
now governed by an Executive
Council and a Legislative As¬
sembly, the latter having 75
elected members Voting pro¬
cedures were explained 10 the
663,000 rgistered electors by
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Frocbel
itfg ——r^L
TALK HEALTH, NOT ILLNESS
TO THE CHILD
Ruth Feck McLeod
“Why did you warn me not to
speak of Sam’s former illness
in his hearing? He knows he’s
not been well, so what’s the
difference ” remarked a caller
to the boy’s mother.
“Because the most serious
thing that can happen to a
child who has been ill Is to
keep the memory of it comstant-
ly before him. It As so easv for
a bo” who has been as delicate
as our son was for several years
to feel that he is different from
ihe other youngsters, and vtoen
that happens von have a prob¬
lem rn you- hands. There is a
decided tendency, too. for a
‘one and only’ especially, to ’!'■-
mure such a complex. Sa’-
bc^nnip frail on'” as a. r°s”lt
of his severe attack of sea'-tpt
f°ver. Now that he is "eftine-
alone so nieplv Lip should never
be ’•‘■mtoded rf that Illness.
“Mv hustvand and T lwac ' 1
‘hnt >s is most beneficial to tali'
i-mifh instead of sp'-rmss a"d
to t-^pp ou r sou out, of doom nr
much as no'rible’ nri» win‘o'
in thr> Florida sunshto 0 did
for h'**u T formc*rlv hqr’
the err on eons idea th- + bece’w#*
•’•a tt'o,- |iviue to a eoM rUm-tr.
to.** '-.-cl r tpj U-otpn) b'm
—to Vopo torn indoo—. t-,,1
later T learned that tost
onposito 1 -jrOeoduro helps to oro_
voto ooMs pur] o‘her maladies
All of the touies 'n the dw"
‘■tore "annot create th° appetite
‘y.-*’ ty»o oir rou.
“Don’t think that T am nm
-ytre^plv oareflri of Sam. bu*
T neve- pnrrrrpst jllposs to him
ms dad and i tearupfl the o''"-
i*o 7 rvoo T of handling n rie'-
-hiiH when "we visitpd a famo”'
"h’ld sopejalist in the Wart, T 'e
•,.ovi 1 n ot oo rm ;t fiis'"'ss , oo
of the child's ailments before
him. This wise phvswian asked
our 'on the necessary emestion:;
"xomined him. and then send
'rim i-to the waitinc room to
••end the funnies while he. the
j ,oetn-. obtamed from us the
r ur her de'nils whign he wished
to know. (He cautioned us tha*
'esTibin" symptoms before r
"irk child is most; detrimental
‘0 his well-being. During 'his
interview it was tactfully
12 Leaders Ask Truman To
End Capital Jim Crow
WASHINGTON — A six point
program for executive action
to abolish discrimination and
'esrrega ion was presented to
"resident Harry S. Truman by
a group of 12 Negro leaders who
net with the President at the
White House on February 28.
Sneaking for the delegation,
A Philip Randolph, president of
the Brotherhood of Si»eptoo-
"hr Porters. AFL, asked the
iresident
1. To. use the power and in-
Tuenee of his office to abolish
•■acial segregation immediately
to Washington;
2. To appoint Negroes to
administrative a.nd policy mak-
toe positions in government
service;
3 To integrate Neecnes into
all new agencies established as
\ result of the national emer¬
gency :
4. To annoint Negroes more
widely in the fereign and dto-
tomatie service of the country;
5. To issue an executive or-
ier setting up an FEPC with
•mforcement powers; and
6 . To eradicate racial seg¬
regation from the armed for¬
ces.
During the course of the
conference, Walter White, ex¬
ecutive secretary of the Na¬
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
'd the President of the find¬
ings of Thurgood Marshall,
NAACP special counsel, who has
just returned from five weeks
of intensive investigations, in
Korea and Japan into the cir-
CONTRIBUTORS ASKED TO GIVE
GENEROUSLY TO RED CR0RSS DRIVE
In making an appeal for
rincere support to the American
Red Cross drive this year it is
honed that we as beneficiaries
will give generously. There is
no argument in opposition to
the value of such a system of
inspired community and world
service as is demon s'rated
through the program of the
Red Cross. It is an agency of
the people, supported solely bv
you and me, and serves all
citizens regardless of religious,
racial or national origin.
It is organized and chartered
bv an act of Congress of the
United S:«tes. is composed of
paid and volunteer trained per¬
sonnel in emergency, assistance
in time of disaster, war. re¬
creation, safety, Veterans Coun¬
cil and morale support to the
Armed Forces on the fronr
lines. /
Contributions which are re-
r #ved by your Red Cross are
used solelv .for the division of
its operation. Less than ten per
cent cf all Red Cross workers
are paid workers.
We in Saannah and
the small degree of experience
(one is seen at left) to
who in turn passed
the information to the voters.
cock, a fish and an elephant
the ballot boxes .foreground, ;
away with the using of the
of the competing parties.
ANP)
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951
mm m ^
' brought out that the anxious
mother is apt to talk abotft the
umci s ailments almost con¬
stantly, because that worry is
ever present in her mind, she
does not realize what a destruc¬
tive and embarrasing effect
such discussions have upon the
j-uungsitr, particularly when
they take place in the presence
of his companions.
“Plenty of playmates and
plenty of sunshine mainly con¬
stituted this physician’s pre¬
scription for Sam. He also
stressed that nothing is so
harmful to the frail child as
idleness and loneliness, ior
that gives him the time to in¬
dulge in self-pitv and to develop
a gigantic infoirority complex
This doctor recommends that
every ehild have some respon¬
sibilities. pfis tasks snould be
carefully chosen, so as to be
suited to his condition. Light
work—such as feeding the
chickens, watering t,!m dishell housfc
plants, even drying rho
—carried on in a happy ntmos-
oherp gives the child some aim
in life.
“Thu physician did uot mean
not be sympathetic with the
-bpa- V”I he that,
-bp must be irwrii-wi'irtori m, rdl
M-nrr riot disrv’a.v her emo-
Mnr>s rnder snv, circnmstfp*'*es,
'r,v pirn as c, nn ns g mwther
’oses hep relf-pw*-ol ft. child
’nses He A Pa-cut een.bn
or affe-tinnato. o,'f) sobe’fous
of a cniirl’s comfort witMti;
bohvitw or smnP.ng irim Par-
rtr*xTo»». ^iinfvr, s;f
certain srmato”” ar r , -r.-, inns
and mav lead to .soi-io dreaded
-Ui-pqqr, Tin jJl-inion 1 g.gCS of
nr>v vnoJoi'IiD" '»>>r*rv tV»p c ’ 0 mG'
nrpr»ornl «u T m o*'o T r'. <: ' tlio
nnris shor’/l be left to the dee-
tor. If t,ho parents ff»rt
enumerating all o r ‘ho diseases
the yon nv-.for conl'l h'”'C, ihe
poor child mav vo fi’"'” , "h each
mentally. t'or-, ]HP p f imng-
inatinn and keved-nn copdition.
“It is the doctor’s tob to nr C -
seriho for the iovonP e rwtjent
_It i* each parent’s tarT to
help him main to jn bto morale.
Fear is such a destructive force
that we must take every pre¬
caution to prevent it from
entering the child’s mind.”
cums’tances surrounding the
1 convictions of Negro GIs.
These investigations. Mr. White
told the President, revealed
that the convic'ed GIs,‘ all
members of segregated units,
had been victims of ramal bias.
The NAACP executive ex¬
pressed the displeasure of the
Association and of Negroes
generally a! the. President’s ap¬
pointment of Milliard Caldwell,
former governor of Florida, as
chief of civil defense. Mr. Cold-
well’s anti-Negro bias as re¬
affirmed by the Flodidian at
the Senate committee hearing
on his appointment, made him
unfit for such a position. Mr.
White said.
In addition to Mr. Randolph
and Mr. White, others in the
delegation included: William Y.
Bell, bishon. Colored Me’hodist
Episcopal Church: Mary Mc¬
Leod Bethune, president emeri¬
tus, National Council of Negro
Women: J. Robert Booker,
president. National Negro Bar
Association; Dowdal Davis,
president, Negro Newspaoer
Publishers’ Assomation; Lester
Granger, executive secretary,
National Urban League; Elmer
Henderson, director, American
Council on Human Rights;
Charles S. Johnson, president,
Fisk University; Benjamin E.
Mays, president, Morehouse Col¬
lege; Channing H. Tobias, di¬
director, Phelps-Stokes Founda¬
tion; Willard S. Townsend,
president. United Transport
Service Employees of America,
CIO.
County ran surelv appreciate
we have had in disaster, yet. our
small membership and contri¬
butions help to save lives of our
brothers in such areas as are
freouently afferted.
We are proud in having one
of th" better esuipned and
staffed Blood Banks located in
our midst. This .storehouse of a
life saving file of Blood Types
cannot be valued too highly.
Ask your own family physician
what it means to havp blood
raided to save vonr ijfp. Free
and at you bedside in less
than ten minutes. I can remem¬
ber searching for two clays for
volunteer blood donors to save
a man at death’s door I saw
the Mississippi river flood in
the 192Cs and saw homeless,
foodless. panic stricken wand¬
erers Ask your sons, brothers,
daughters and friends who
served overseas.. They can re¬
mind you with gracious thanks
i for saving their lives.
Support your Red Cross by
sending vour contribution to
Fed Cross Headauarters. 714
West Broad, and when a Red
Cross volunteer contacts you—
give generously. >