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SPREAD THE BENEFITS
The election last week for bonds has
greater significance for the w’elfare of
the people of both the city and county
than most citizens realize. This is true
because the great majority of them
made no effort to express themselves
one way or another. Out of 40,000
qualified voters in this city and county
only little more than 6,000 cared enough
about what the passage of bonds meant
to go to the polls and vote. A little
thought, however, will reveal that an
efficient use of the money to be provid¬
ed by the bonds will bring benefits to
every citizen in the community. 1 he
benefits will or should mean increased
employment to many people and will
bring civic improvements which will
influence many areas of living in our
community for years to come. The ac”
quisition of additional land for Hunter
Field will represent an expansion with
almost incalculable possibilities. Plann¬
ed drainage, street paving,,and the have op¬
ening of two new fire-stations
important implications for the growth
of our citv and county. VV^e are all in¬
terested in these things, but we are es-
pecially interested in the suggestion to
man one of the new fire-stations with
a Negro crew. Now this is not so
unique or rare as it may sound. There
are other Southern cities where Negroes
man fire-stations with great efficien¬
cy. C harleston, South C arolina and
Nashville, Tennessee have such fire
stations. Negro manned .
The establishing of a
fire-station will go a long way toward
increasing the Negro citizen s feelim?
of oi belonging, oeiongmg, of ui increasing uiAurnr,.,,* his ----- sense -------- of
responsibility, of increasing his
ciation of his citizenship. Negro citi-
zens here and in most Southern cities
have very little representation in
jobs and positions concerned with the
government they are taxed to support
and to which they are expected to be
loyal. There is no good (reason why
there should not be such a fire-station.
The appointment of Negro policemen
and their success have proved that the
public can land will accept Negroes m
positions that have been taken for
granted as belonging only to white citi¬
zens.
THE NEXT STEP
Those who have kept up with the
move to have the council-manager plan
adopted by the people of Savannah re¬
alize that the next step is the adoption
of a charter that will carry out the wish¬
es of those who voted for the plan in
the election. The success of the coun¬
cil-manager form of government de¬
pends on the kind of charter that is
drawn. If the politicians are permit¬
ted to draw the charter, the chances
are heavilv on the side of failure for
the plan. We believe it is true that
wherever wnerever me the plan p.an has n«s been uc... tried v........... and
failed the politician is held responsible
for the failure. We are heartily in favor
of the suggestion made by the League
of Women Voters': that the people se¬
lect a sufficient number of lawyers
from the most honorable men in the
community to draw, up the charter. If
this is not done, the great amount of
work involved in bringing about the
adontion of the plan will be wasted.
Of course, the drawing of a strong
suitable charter is only the next step.
The citizens will have to he shown the
importance of hacking up such a char¬
ter bv getting out a large vote when
the charter is presented to them for
adoption, if such a course will he follow*-
ed. It is not too late for those who
ormosed the council-manager plan to
attempt to thwart the wishes of the
people. One way by which to do this
CAB’S COLUMN
By Cab Calloway
Johnny Hodges’ new crew
looks like a winner. Although
Johnny has done a lot ol
things in the past for differ¬
ent record labels, this is the
first time he has really head¬
ed out to do something on his
own. And he’ll have a flock
of records on the market. He’s
recording for Mercury, and
Mercer records just bought a
bunch of his French masters.
Charlie Barnet has scrapped
his jazz band for a sweet com¬
bo. the Knowing socidty Charlie. band about I’ll]
•give
six weeks before huck switches
bac kto gone’ stuff. . . Ethel
Waters back on the road play*
ine vaudeville dates ndw that
“Member of the Wedding”
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will be to defeat the adoption of a
strong charter. The exponents of the
council-manager plan will have to be
alert to interpret the efforts of its op¬
ponents to make the mayor-council plan
appear able and v illing to reduce the
cost of government. The city employ¬
ees recently dismissed will place their
dismission over against the argu¬
ment offered against the council-mana¬
ger plan that they would lose their jobs
when it takes over city government.
We regard the investigation of the
use of slot machines in chartered pri¬
vate clubs as indicative of a change in
public’s attitude toward the one arm
bandits and other gambling devices and,
we hope, toward boledo, that infamous
scourge and conscienceless leech upon
the most defenceless segment of cur
population. Boledo is the most impu¬
dent and the most persistent of the
evils which threatens our reputation as
“the best run city in the state.”
We hope its days are numbered for
we we do not see how it can escape the
rising tide of resentment which seems
to have been set in motion by the work
of the Senate’s committee to investigate
crime.
THE HUB
We congratulate the Hub on the ob¬
servance of its sixth anniversary. We
are not so sure that the fine work of
this organization is fully appreciated
by those whom it has served most and
best. As we have seen it, it has work¬
ed for results rather than for credit. There
is -----'• no doubt ------- about -------- the value ....... of ...... its ac ~
complishments t:\ the community a»ul
to the Negro citizens here and else-
where. Am on g these are: clearing
the way , for Negroes to register with-
out interference, making a substantial
contribution to the Primus King case,
sponsoring a registration drive and a good
behavior campaign, working effectively
in the interest of improved school fa¬
cilities, taking active part in planning
for a new detention home for children,
contributing to the Citizens Planning
Committee, the committee that sponsor¬
ed the school survey, and sent a com¬
mittee to Atlanta to confer with the
Board of Regents on the Savannah
State College. This does not represent all
this worthy organization has done. It
has not purposed to be a pressure or
faultfinding group. It has, however,
intended to base whatever action it com¬
mitted itself to, on the best available
facts. The Hub deserves the moral
support of everybody in this communi¬
ty. It has been a constructive influ¬
ence. We salute The Hub.
We acknowledge the loss our city
suffers in the departure of Mr. W. 1).
Donnelly to take up work which will
* ive ."'ider range to his ability as an
organizer and his fitness to promote pub-
lie relations. Mr. Donnelly ,K ’ »•«» has done
such a good job of interesting young
people in civic responsibility that it will
not be easy for his successor to keep
up with the pace he has set. We wish
for him unlimited success in a field of
endeavor, in which he has had eminent
success; of which he seems so fond.
“It is hard for one race to appreciate
the customs of another. It is hard for
us to believe that a people can get a
deep satisfaction from any religion but
our own. We cannot think that a
family life different from ours is really
proper: that an economic system can be
‘successful other than the one we prac¬
tice: that any ideal and ambitions can
grip a person except those that are so
full of meaning to us.”—E. R. Embree
has closed on Broadway . And
Josephine Baker, who came
back from retirement, cashed
in at the Strand theatre to
the tune of $12,000 per week.
Cab Calloway (who's hel
booked into the Rustic Cabin
in- New Jersey for an engage¬
ment prior to shoving off for
Havana's smart Montmatre in
mid-April. Despite the won-
derlful time he had in Uru¬
guay, it is wonderful to get
back to town to do a couple of
TV shows with Milton Berle
and on the Kreister Bandstand.
Showbusiness was shocked
at the untimely death of Big
Sid Catlltt, one 6f the back¬
bones of :azz development . .
Democracy moves 6h as six
theatre* in Wilmington. Dela¬
ware, abolished jimerow in
their theatres . . . Billie Holi-
day has signed a new record
i contract with Aladdin.
Tab Smith, the ex-Basie
1 toist, is back in business
j a long time mending from the
automobile accident in which he
was injured three years ago
His small combo is reported
good from the gang in
Louis, and he’ll record
Premium records in Chicago.
See where Billy Stravhom
is joining the Johnny Hodges
combo mentioned above.
Garner doing a flock of tele-
vision shows . . Capitol
planning a mass release
King Cole Trio platters . . Rec¬
ords you'll like! Errol Garner—
“Mv Heart Stood Still”! Nat
cle—“Too Young”; Billy Eck-
etine and Woodv
Left My Hat in Haiti.”
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE *
•WE WON WITH JACKIE”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
Squabbling has its possibilities and its
limitations. Squabbling with the com¬
mon foe is essential, but squabbling with
our comrades may prove fatal. This writ¬
er has taken serious account of squabbling
•on the athldtic fields, through many
years.
There is no surer sign of weakness when
a team begins to squabble among itself.
When a team ‘‘goes to pieces” in tne race
of an opposing attack, it is usually indi¬
cated by squabbling of teams among them¬
selves, Squaobling may be ominous on
the athletic fields but it is more ominous
in the arena of life, where issues must be
fought to a conclusion,'
The Republican party has been on the
outside looking in for lo these many years
because in the critical stages of the political
campaign, squabbling sets in and that'
usually portends their political downfall.
Today the Democrats are beginning to
squabble among thefnseives and this should
bring glee to the hearts of the famishing
Peoiiblicans. When an opponent becomes
rattled and squabblesome well might wt 1
laKe hope and press the issues.
This article is inspired by noting in the
current news that there had been a sha.ke-
up in the AME bishops indicated in their
administrative dispositions. Somehow or
other my heart has always been with the
AME Negroes, because of the integrity of
Richard Alienism which it espouses. As a
Bapt.sit and the son of a Baptist and to the
Baptist manner born, this writer has eulo¬
gized the AME as he has no other religious
sect and this includes the Baptists.
This is no sign of a lack of faith in the
Baptist cause, but because of an overmas-*
tering pride in the accomplishments of
the African Methodist Episcopal Negro who
is todav without doubt in the most strate¬
gic position to lead the Negro into a wider
and larger sphere where self-help is the
major premise.
Baptists like the other denominations
nurtured by whites are still untrained in
the great art of self-help. The AME
Negro has the torch if he would only lead
on and stop his endless squabbling.
It is greatly to be feared that this end¬
less squabbling in the AME ranks will mean
Arkansans File Suit For
Education
EL DORADO, Ark.— (ANF> —
Arkansas Negroes filed suit here
last week demanding eoual
facilities for colored children
to those for white.
The action was filed in the
U. S. District court here before
Judge John E. Miller. Plaintiffs
are Allen Numnev. Elbert Will¬
iams and Jesse Smith, property
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JEANES DELEGATES — Shown
| abov» are some nt the outstand-
ina educational leaders who
] attended the four-dav
of the National Association
Jeanes Workers last week
Tusxegee institute.
workers are teachers who super¬
vise number of schools ” in
a
1 counties throughout the south.
They are 1. Mrs. Addie O.
Williams, cnsultant Of the John
C. Winston Publishing coittpany,
ultimately a weakened if not destroyed
segment of Negro life and achievement
that stands out in boldest relief. Some
squabbling is natural; but too much squab-
bmg can be fatal even to the great branch
of Zion inspired by the peeuess Richard
Allen to whom mankind owes a debt of
gratitude. that the AME church
It has come about
is seldom without its major squabble. With¬
in recent years there was the Bishop Sims
squabble with its defections; then there
was the Wilberforce squabble with its pos->
sible defections, and then there is the Alien
university squabble taking shape gradually.
This endless squabbling will finally wreck
a great church if not curtailed and tiiai
ugiiL speedily. The time for AMEs to
stop their squabbling is NOW. It may be
argued that Baptists have their squab¬
bles too. l'nat is correct but the Baptists
have been conditioned to squabbles in ways
foreign to the AMEs.
Eaptists have been, nurtured by whites
who have in many ways Steeping encouraged squab¬
bling as means df the Negroes ’
a
against themselves. the AMS church
is an organization of Negroes by Negroes
and for Negroes and cap exemplify as Bap¬
tists are not prepared to do, the possibili¬
ties of Negro leadership and genius.
There is a current saying and belief that
the Negro can organize and • administer
great affairs only to a certain point, be-
vend which it is impossible for them to
manipulate. So many Negro enterpriser
grow rapidly and successfully to certain
stages when they collapse and fade out.
It is fervently to be hoped that this will
never be said of the great AME Church
that stems from the genius of Richard Al¬
len of unbounded fame.
But the time is at hand when AMEs
must take stock among themselves and
decide whether they are going back through
much squabbling or whether they are going
on to their God-appointed destiny envis¬
ioned by the sainted Richard Allen. The
AME Church has a great mission and a
great opportunity. It must not fumble
these through these interminable squabbles
which are distressing to their friends who
admire them and wish them well. Jesus
is knocking at the door of AME officers.
owners of the Parker Chanel
community.
The case will not be heard
on the Anril docket ho" - '\"“r.
Judge Miller ordered the plain¬
tiffs to file a substitute and
amended complaint. naming alleg¬ as
plaintiffs the children or th'eir
edly injured persons and '
parents. defendants the
Named as in
Atlanta: 2. Dr. J. C. Dixon, vice
| president and director of the
i Southern Educational founda¬
tion. Atlanta; 3. Mrs. Clara
West, state consultant. Atlanta-
Mrs. Thelma Johnson, regional
vice- president. Prentiss. Miss.;
5. Mrs. Ida N Givens, president
. of the association Baton Rouge;
6. Df. Arenja C Mallory pres¬
j ident schOdl. Of Lexington. the Sainst Miss., Industrial w^est
a
speaker at the meeting; 7. ijrs.
suit were H. p. Barnes J 77
Thomas. W. B. Carelock. J. D
Ainsworth, Jr., and James' W.
Cook, members of the boe-d of
school district 35. and Horace
Williamson, county school sup¬
ervisor.
Negroes charge that the Ne¬
gro school building is more than
5r vears old and that colored
children cannot get schooling
beyond the 10th grade.
The first minting press was
imported into this country in
1.639.
Maggie N. Ringgold, the asso- j
ciation s counselor. Baton Rouge; I
8. Mrs. ineima Morris, asso- I
ciation's recording secretary,
Montgomery; 9. Mrs. R. 'A
Crawford, association's chap-1 j
lain, Caruthersvilie. Mo.; 13.
Mrs. Maeleen Arrant, statp d;-
oartment of education, Little
Rock. Ark. 11. J. H. White.,
president of the Mississippi Vo¬
cational 12. Mrs. college. Itta Bena, Miss, j
• Mayme L. Copeland,
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951
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“THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
WHO TOOK THE TULIP BUDS?
Laura Gray
“Anne, who picked the Duds
off those tulips?” I cried in
dhmay. daughter, al¬
( Where?” My
most four years old, ga2ed
innocently into the sky.
“There by the walk! They
would have been so pretty!”
Oh. just somebody.” She
started off toward t.he garage.
My lovely flowers! What was
I to do! Were we never to have
i garden? Although many
-hiidren plaved here, it was]
nlain to be seen, I thought, who
♦he cuipirt was. No
•hese expensive parrot tu“ps |
would be spoiled, too. Anne
•ertainly must be taught better,
iut how could I teach her?
Immediately after this we
went out together in the oar,
and when we returned Anne
a me into the house with me.
Yet. when we went into >he
arden together next morning.
averv parrot tulip ha lost its,
’-load i !
‘Anne, who takes the buds?”.
>' demanded. It certainly was
not she who was to blame this
time.
‘Oh, just someone.” Again
-•he hastened away.
I checked the urge to follow
and question her., suddenly re¬
sizing that she would be forced
uther to lie or to “tell on” her
Mends. What was I to do?!.My
’xoer.sive bulbs!
Days later we stopped before
i roadside nursery. Po*'ed
•omniums, banging baskets,
and trays of bedding-out plants
'°mped "in npvond bearing.
Um mv husband, and I bought,
■mite a few things. Anne hung
'round a table of gorgeous
pansy plants. beautiful, •
‘A-en’t t h e v
Inne?” I said. Jim admired
'hem. too “Would you like to
have one to put in youf gard-
°n?” he asked Anne.
‘Oh. yes!” She danced with
iellvht.
“Wei!, here's one.” He reached
n and lifted out a sturdy
plant with a single purple
bloom.
‘No. not that one! I want
this yellow one!” She picked mu,
an overblown plant covered "‘ith
, ellow blooms—to her it seemed
much more desirable.
Her choice was wrapped and
laid in her arms and it
cuddled and admired all the
AT 60, $100C0-A-Year
j armer Plans To Expand
Production
At 60, Georgia Elkin of Sun¬
flower County, Miss., has am-
mitious plans for further ex¬
panding his $10,CO3-a-year
farming enterprise, says State
Leader M. M. Hubert of the
Mississippi Stata Extension
Service in a report received
Inst week by the U. S. Depart¬
ment of Agriculture.
Within the next year or two,
the farmer plans to increase
his pig crop from 14 head a
year to 50, and his poultry
flock to 300 New Hampshire
layers to about 1,000, i addi¬
tion to his truck crop and cot¬
ton. says the report.
Mr. and Mrs. Elkin are the
kind of patient farmers who
mr ke plans and then set about
achieving them day by day on
their 88-acre farm near In-
dianola.
They started out as share¬
croppers shortly after they
were married 40 years ago.
Although they came out iA
debt the first year, they had
established a credit rating and
a reputation for hard work.
With their credit standing,
the Elkins bought a sore-back
mule, paying nothing down,
and rented a small farm ort
the ssame basis. Thus they
made their first steu up a 242i
year ladder toward ownership.
They raised most of their
own food that year, as they
ha ve done ever since, and they
cleared enough to pay for the
founder and first president. of
the association; 13. Mrs. Minnie
■ • Fields, state department of
'Vacation, Tallahassee, Fla.: 14
Dr. .
Kara V. Jacxson, executive
"retary and special Jeanes
teacher at Grambling college,
Louisiana; 15. Mrs. Ruth Law¬
rence Woodson, state depart¬
ment of education. Raleigh; and
16. Dr. A. G Richardson, state
department of education, Rich¬
mond, Va.— (ANPj
way home. This puzzled me for
Anne had shown little interest
in the plot we had given her.
although we had provided her
with plentv of seeds. But. of
course, seeds take a long, long
time to come up—when one is
hardly four.
With loving care the plant
was set in the ground e'nd
watered. Friends were invited
in to look and were ordered
not to pick flowers or buds! I
thrilled with hope—perhaps our
garden would be respected. But
day when I went out the
pansy plant was gone — buds,
flowers, and roots. Really,
something must be done! Just
then the "ntp cimkeri and '
in
she ran—plant held clsoe tel hen
chest.
“Whotever are vou doing with
your plant?” I cried.
“I took it down to shew Mrs.
Hurst and Mrs. Wembiy.L Tiiev
going said it to was put it lovelv. back.” NoyWt’m ;p
“But, mv dear, you will “ill
it. Flowers must stnv in their
beds and grow and not be
moved.”
“But we brought it home this
Way.” She almost shed tears.
- “Of course, dear it had to be
out of the ground while we were
bringing it home, but now it
must stay in the earth.”
We rooted it once more and
the brave little plan 7 went on
living and blooming. With equal
delight and interest on the part
of Anne a marigold and, ’added” a Pe¬
tunia plant have been in* to
her garden: each was flower
at the time*of planning. Inter¬
est had not died. Flowers ->re
carefully picked — with lung
stems—and put in water. Smds
previously sown keep (coming
up and are carefully weeded
out. Anne’s treasured garden for-' has we;*<cs, l-jen
loved and
and, best of all, ours h'fts raft¬
ered no harm whatsoever.
But I am still wondering who
took mv tulip buds. C’f one
t/hihg i am certain, however. If
we would try harder t.o under¬
stand just what goes on in our
youngsters’ minds—to get their
point of view — bringing tlmm ”ae
up would be much ea uqr.
pansy plant in full bipbm was
something the four-year-old
could understand. Seedy, and
even green Duds, had as yet no
meaning for her.
mule, nay the rent on the iarin,
buy a* new kitchen stove, and
salt awav $16 toward a farm
of their own. couplO
“By 1915, we had a
of hundred dollars, enough t<*
make a good down-payment
on a farm, but we couldn’t
find one nearby with good
land for sale,” says Mr. Elkin.
So they waited through a
war and a depression for a
good buy. It came in 1936—40
acres right in their communi¬
ty. They bought it at $50
per acre.
Today, the Elkins own the
40 acres and rent an addition¬
al 48 acres. Usually, 40 acre*
are planted to cotton, 2o tc*
corn, one to a year-round gar¬
den trunk patch, and the rest
is devoted to pasture for their
cow and calf, 14 hogs, and 300
layers. Receipts from their
products average close to $10,-
000 a year. They sell eggs,
chickens, butter, and vegetables
in nearbl Indianola.
And the yeat well themselves.
Mrs. Elkins cans about 200 jars
of fruits and vegetables every
year, and MV. Elkin usuallv
nuts a calf and a coupk| of
hogs in the freezer locker,*
They live in a modern home
cold running water, a bathroom
and a ki(tchen sink. They
built their home 12 years ago.
Their two grown children live
elsewhere.
Even at 60, the Elkins are not
contented with their present
production. They want to ex¬
pand their eggs and pork
output. “I’d like to collect
?0 dozen eggs a day,” sayS
Mrs. Elkin. She’s collecting
five dozen now on an average.
And Mr. Elkin is shoosing fofl
50 porkers. He feels that he
has at least 10 more good years
of farming in his syqtem.
WRITES BEST SELLER — This
is Miss Ethel Waters, ^utho.r' of
a new best seder, “His Eye Is
on the Sparrow.’” probably the
most controversial book of .to¬
day. in this book, the farped
stage actress and singer tells a
frank, and to many people,
sordid story of her life. Current-
!v she appears in the television
of “Beulah,” and recent¬
ly on the stage she has starred
in Member of the Wedding