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ANOTHER DEVICE
When it comes to finding ways to cir¬
cumvent justice, the South has been far
ahead of the advocates of justice and
liberty and civil rights. Everytime a
law is made to secure for Negroes some
benefit of democracy, the right to vote
for instance, the South has come up
with a way of getting around granting
that right to Negroes. The Grandfa¬
ther Clause was one of the notable, it
not infamous, ways of keeping Negroes
from voting. Many and devious ways
of maintaining the inadequacies and
inequalities in educational facilities, in¬
cluding the salaries of teachers, have
been devised by people who declaim
about justice and freedom and democ¬
racy, but who do everything possible
to deny its privileges to Negroes. The
Camden county school suit for equal
educational facilities is at least suggest¬
ing a new pattern. learned to take their
Negroes have
fight to the courts and have met with
some signal successes. This meant to
Georgians that despite the “separate but
equal” doctrine, they had to find a
scheme for getting around compliance
with the Constitution, for salving their
consciences. In order to violate the spir¬
it and letter of the Constitution of the
United States and to forestall the per¬
fectly legal effort of Negroes to get re¬
dress, the following pattern is set up:
Negro pupils or the parents of pupils
must show' the inequalities they com¬
plain of; they must show their needs;
they must appeal to the State Board of
Education; they must exhaust all state
means before attempting to go into the
federal courts. Nobody says what to
do when local boards “take request and
petitions” from Negroes under advise¬
ment, or ignore them entirely. The
requirement to have surveys made be¬
fore plant or other improvements will
be endorsed will create a hardship for
Negroes in some counties, because school
authorities will oppose having surveys
made at this point in the struggle for
equal school facilities; the outlook is*
not bright. Our lawyers will have to
develop a new technique for attacking
this problem. This device will be
copied by other states just as the “seg¬
regation provisos” scheme of the last
Georgia legislature was copied.
ON TWO FRONTS
A recent address of I)r. Howard Odum
in Atlanta suggests that there are two
fronts, at least as regards race rela¬
tions. Dr. Odum represents one of these
fronts together with quite a few other
liberals, including the members of the
Southern Regional Council, the members
of inter-racial committees and still some
others who are not identified with either
of these organizations. These people
represent various degrees of liberal
thinking, ranging from those who feel
that segregation and discrimination
should be done away with to those who
believe in a more or less gradual elim¬
ination of these evils. Even Negroes
divide into these groups. It is well
known that the NAACP belongs to
the former group. Over a lomyieriod of
years of patient waiting for changes to
come voluntarily, the NAACP has come
to the conclusion that since the “equal
but separate” doctrine has become in¬
valid, if there was any intention to im¬
plement it. it should contend for the
abolition of segregation and discrimina¬
tion in all public and semi-public services
based on race and color, or creed and
national origin. Some of these liberals
have insisted on their right to do as
they please about selecting friends and
associates, even if some of them are
Negroes. This group has called down
on their heads bitter denunciation from
the extreme group of that front which
represents the ultra-reactionary point of
view. Those of this view are as well
known, better known than those they
fulminate against. In this group are
such men as Governor Talmadge, Gov.
Wright and Gov. Byrnes. In between
the two extreme views are all shades of
opinion, which date back to antebellum
days, even back to ante revolutionary
days. All signs point to the eventual
end of segregation and its consequent
viciousness.
There is one investigation into con¬
ditions in Korea which may not hit the
headlines of interest or of newspapers.
We refer to the investigation made by
Thurgood Marshall. NAACP attorney,
which looked into the treatment Negro
soldiers have received there, into the
court marshaling of them,
into the punishments administered out
of proportion to the offenses they were
alleged to have committed. Mr. Mar¬
shall concludes that segregation in the
army in Korea was and is responsible
for the type of injustices our Negro sol¬
diers have suffered. The report is not
unlike those that were made in other
wars. We remember too well the ad¬
monition given by top officers during
World War I that Negro soldiers were
not to be acclaimed too much for their
deeds of valor. This sort of thing is a
slander on our democratic pretensions.
Mr. Marshall’s report will reach many
Americans to whom it will appear to
be unbelievable.
THE VALUE OF YOUR VOTE
A test which is beginning to bother
some of our citizens is coming soon, and
we think Negro citizens are faced with
making momentous decisions now;
whether to sign the petition to council
to call an election to name a commission
to draw up a charter; whether to
support the charter that will be
drawn. We can see no reason why Ne¬
gro voters should not sign the petition.
Efforts are being made to confuse them
already. Unfounded fears are being
conveniently placed to divert such of
them as are thought inclined to sign
the petition. It is said some of our
friends may be displaced if and when
the council-manager plan goes into ef¬
fect. Well, we do have some friends in
positions that may be abolished under
the plan. We do not see why this
must follow the inauguration of a form
of government which has the promise
of improving many essential phases of
city administration. The interests of
Negroes have been ignored and neglect¬
ed so flagrantly in the past under the
form of government we have had, we
do not see that the proposed form of
government can be any worse. We be¬
lieve it will be better.
We could mention many ways in
which the needs and interests of our
Negro citizens have been ignored and
neglected, in which their ambitions to
share in the benefits of government
have been considered ridiculous and un¬
thinkable. We have begged year after
year to have something done for our
cemetery. A former mayer would not
even permit a request for the appoint¬
ment of Negro policemen to get before
council. (Everybody knows why we have
them now, even if they are fewer than
we like.) The hope of having a l'ire-
station Negro manned was thrown into
discard when administrations changed.
The one opportunity Negro citizens had
for making known their needs was
brushed aside at the same time. Police
brutality toward Negroes existed with¬
out any hope of redress up to 1946. And
worst of all, we have tried, despite
threats of bodily harm and offers of
“handouts,” to have our incredulous,
poverty-stricken .improvident Negro cit¬
izens (protected against boledo by our
city government, but to this day boledo
can be bought <?n West Broad Street,
either from runners or from certian
spots. This utter disregard for the
welfare of helpless Negroes and for the
pride of Savannah’s good Negro citi¬
zens who want as much as any citi¬
zens to have our city, a city of good
government of which they can be proud
too. The signing of the petition for
an election is a duty which will provide
an opportunity to the citizens of Sa¬
vannah to say whether they want to
make government here efficient and
economical for all the people. The good
citizens will have an opportunity to show
by the use of their ballot that they in¬
tend to make this a city good for any¬
body to live in. HThe ballot is the best
way to make known our wishes. There¬
fore, it is absolutely necessary for every
person with a vote to get ready to use
it for the best interest of all the peo¬
ple in our community.
The University of North Carolina has
notified Edward Diggs that he will be
accepted next fall in the university’s
medical school, and Tennessee has been
ordered to admit four Negroes to its
university. J Georgia will spend the
necessary amount of money to build
equal colleges for Negroes, or so it
seems now. That is the only thing to
do since some prominent Georgians are
determined that it shall not happen in
Georgia. ____jjJ
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
BETWEEN THE LINES
THE DIXIECRATS HAVE THEIR DAY
In the United States we call our high¬
est deliberative body Congress, which means
a coming together. In England they call
It Parliament which means a talking to-*
gether. In Germany they call it the Reich¬
stag, or the day of the Empire. The me-*
thodical Germans had something. They
thought that when their highest delib¬
erative body met, it was the day of the Em¬
pire when the supreme interests of the na¬
tion were under consideration.
We have been wont to say from ancient
times that every dog has his day. So when
MacArthur returns from the far East amid
the acclaim of millions the ordinary obser j
ver sees the return of a long gone hero;
but the more studious observers see the
day of the dixiecrats. The whole stage is
set for the crucifixion of one Harry Truman!
currently President of these United Stated
of America.
Truman made one master blunder when,
he espoused civil riebts for Negroes. What,
is even more significant the nation did in
1918 confirm and approve Truman in his
civil rights stand. In spite of all opposi
tion Harry Truman was returned as Presi-
dent an achievement for ......dir*- which the aixie-
rrnts and their yankee abettors have never
forgiven him.
There has never been in the United
States history a more deliberate plan to
destroy a man than the plan to destroy
Tr man for his naivete in espousing civil;
rights for Negroes. For Germans, fine; fon
communsts, very well, for the pinks and
few-fellow travelers in high place, all to
the good, but for Negroes, never!
The current democrat-republican coali¬
tion in ronnress was cunningly devised to
destroy Truman. How well they have suc¬
ceeded the approaching weeks will tell.
It is well to honor MacArthur who verily
deserves honor for sacrificing the pleasures
and comforts and assurances of his native 1
land these 14 vears. But is not well to de¬
stroy Harry Truman for no reason other
than that he tried to abide in his decisions
by the constitution of these United States.
When Cato arose in the Roman senate
and cried times without number “Carthage
delenda est” (Carthage must be destroyed)
he was re v er moro insistent than our cur-
dixiecrats and their ankee abettorsi
whose secret cry has been “Trumano de-
lp"<-'ns est” (Truman must be destroyed).
The opportunity to heroize Me"Arthun
gives the coalition its supreme chance to
hurn’liate Truman. A^d it must be borne
ip mtod that the great. -clamor for MacAr-'
thur is th° clamour of hate for Truman.
It is not t K at the nation loves MacArthur
much but that it hates Truman more.
Bisr Crowd Attends 8th
Region Students Meet
cn’Tm. Ga.—A
-row* wttnerse* n» annul
Region G. T. & E. A. Student
Meet held at Collins high school
Fridav. April 27. the 1st
Laurens Countv won
plane trnnhv bv having a total
of Cv 1 points. Evans County re-
CP jv e d the 2nd place troohy
u-ith points: Third place.
Tattnall county with 49
points, and 4th place, Jenkins
county with 42 points. The
other narticioating Emanuel,
wore Wff C Bulloch, OUUUWi. vuuvuvi, Candler,
■Treutlen __ and ___ .1 Wheeler. xirv, wo wol r The PU» a
non-comoetive features of the
I meet were music and May
plaiting. eomniled results of
The
competive features are as fol-
lows; Jr. high declamations,
1st place, Freddie Marshall,
Evans County; 2nd place, Rus¬
sel Goins, Treutlen Countv; 3rd
Mattie Byrd, Candler; 4th I.u-
verta Sharpe, Tattnall. Ele¬
mentary Miciltdlj declamations: ui.vmu.uuiu.u-- 1st ---
nlaee. Gloria Jean Belle,
Treutlen; 2nd place, ^iciv-c, Marv mai » Me-
Rne Tattnall: 3rd
Whitaker, Candler; 4th Luther
Pone, Jenkins.
Jr. high speeling: 1st place,
Shirlev T. Council. Laurens;
2nd Diace Nellie Beale. Jenkins;
3rd Mary Ellis, Candler; 4th
(tie) Mary Brooks, Emanuel;
4th Janie L. Palmer, Evans.
Elementary spelling: 1st place,
Lucil" Lundy, Evans; 2nd place.
Martha Johnson, Jenkins: 3rd
Almeta Williams, Tattnall; 4th
Mary. Lee McNeal, Laurens.
(Bovs) Jr. high relay race:
(Team of 4i 1st place. Evans;
2nd place Bulloch; 3rd Jenkins;
4th Laurens.
Girls—Jr. high relay race; 1st
place, Treutlen; 2nd place,
Treutlen; 2nr place, Laurens;
3rd Tattnall; 4th Jenkins.
Girls—Elementary relay race;
1st place, Treutlen: 2nd place.
Jenkins; 3rd Tattnall; 4 th
Memphis Cracks Down on
New Lottery Kins
MEMPHIS. Tenn— (ANP) —
Memphis police officers last
week cracked down on the bud¬
ding polirv racket among Ne¬
groes in the citv. arresting 21
Negroes, but failing to nab the
j while “brains” man of the said setup. to be the
Police Chief Reeves and Asst.
Chief J. C Macdonald said the
Negroes told them they worked
for a white man out of Jack-
son. Tenn.
Here is how the policy racket
operated, according to the off¬
icers: A white man in Jackson
ran drawings just outside the
city limits and utilized Negro
runners and carriers to trans¬
port the policy slips to Mem¬
phis. This organization has
been operating since Nov. 21.
1950
About six of the captured men ■
commuted between Memnhi3
and iJackson. paid All the arrested salary j
persons were a base > !
of >8 60 a dav when they com-
muted (this included bus fare).
And for what? For espousing civil
rights for Negroes, America’s untouchables.
The fact remains that for a large segment,
of Americans, Negro hating and Negro bat-*
ing is a profession highly speciaMed. In
all fairness it should be said that the na¬
tion at heart is becoming more and more
willing to accept the Negro as the citizen,
that he is.
The 1948 election proved this, but our po¬
litical leadership is unwilling to abide by
the mandates of the American people and
are intent upon sacrificing the will of the
many for the whims of the few who are
morally behind in the van of survival.
And so MacArthur returns to bolster the
pride of the dixiecrats and their yankee.
abettors. It will prove a shot in the arm
for a declining cause. This is written to
serve notice that the great hue and cry
is not for the glory of MacArthur but for
the revenge of the dixiecrats and their
yankee abettors. When the mayor of Au¬
gusta, Georgia calls upon his fair city to
sl-nd in minutes silence over MacArthur’s
return, we can get some idea of what the
rlo*v>r>nr is all a^out. The mayor of Au¬
gusta knew that this would give the dix-
ieernts their supreme opportunity to cruci¬
fy Truman and nail him to the cross.
It is well for the Truman haters to re¬
member that they may kill Harry Tru¬
man but they cannot kill the civil rights
issue. This issue will never be settled un¬
til it is settled right and it will never be'
nettled right until Negroes arp full-fledged
citizens of the nation they have lived and
died to make great.
Give glory to MacArthur for glory is.
ri^htlv his: but killing Harry Truman is.
still another matter. There is no cause
of political death found in Truman. Tru-
m-ari has made mistak°s and so has Mac¬
Arthur and so did Roosevelt. I am for
Truman right or wrong. Negroes should not,
be deceived. The dixiecrats and their yan¬
kee abettors have their day.
FOR THE FORGOTTEN
By William Henry Huff For ANP
I lift my voire and wield my pen
For those who are forgotten:
I wish to help them freedom win
From Peonage in the cotton.
t think that God has heard their prayers
That long have been ascending
To His great throne away upstairs,
And now He is defending
His sons and daughters who are black
Down on the big plantation:
To poor whites, too, He’s coming back
From off His long vacation!
Bniiwh.
r , n „ rl j r ,^. 2 nd niare. Flora Peile-
rtad-/d! T^uren*- 3rd Helen
T.anier Hulloch; 4th Irene Mat-
tox Tattnall,
oml*—Elementary (SO yard
dash' 1st pl-me. Sarah Rohin-
son. Emanuel- 2nd place Ber-
ri* P B-oym. Evans; Robert
Mack Fullorh; 4th Clyde Wic-
ke- Tattnall.
Broad iumn Jr.
place Jack Ashlev. Tattnall:
2nd nlaee smith.
lev; 1 o„,4 3 rd tpIGoU Eliiah TTM11 Williams i o e Uvoric’ Evans:
4 th Hubert Bostic. Laurens
Rroad iumn—elementary tst
nlaee. Harvev Outlaw. Treut-
is- 2nd nlaee. Robert Williams:
Fvans; 3rd George Brentlev,
r aimer-; 4th Turner Alston
Ta* f nall.
High lump—Jr high, <6 wav
tie) Harrison Williams. Cand¬
ler; F r cd Baldwin. Emanuel;
Rilo Warren. Evans; H. Bostic,
Laurens; A_. c. .r. Turner - ...... Alston. Tatt-
nail; Franklin McArthur, Treut
| 1C* len ’ Potato 1 . (hnvsi elemen-
racp
tary: 1st place. Walter Stone,
Jr.. Laurens:2nd J. W. Gwens,
Jenkins; 3rd Hamp Williams,
Evan*; 4th Andrew Melvin,
Treutlen. Potato race (girls)
Elem 1st Mvra May. Laurens;
2nd *£I 1 U Marv lviaiv Lee Lire Williams n Evans;
3rd Rosie Owens. Jenkins. 4th
Mae Alice Williams, Bulloch.
Baseball throw—Jr. high bovs,
1st place Geraldine
Laurens: 2nd Tullv Carlton,
Evans; 3rd. R. Thompson. Bull-
och; 4th Willie Smiley, Eman
uel.
The following persons from
Savannah State College served
as judges; Misses L. B. Colvn
and Alethia Sheriff, Mesdames
F. J. Campbell and A. Ellis,
Jesse Conrad, Jr„ and J. H.
Martin. Mrs. Bernice G. Macon
secretary of the 8th Region,
1 was chairman.
They also earned 25 percent
the money they wrote in
tickets.
Each writer is said to have
collected $15 to $20 a day in
bets. Players bet on various
numbers from 10 cents up. If
two numbers appear, players
win.
Police have charged 13 of the
persons arrested with vagrancy,
loitering, being suspicious per¬
sons, possessing gambling para¬ and
phernalia, and aiding
assisting wagering and keeping
the devices for gambling. These
13 were caught with slips in
their possession. charged
The other eight were
with loitering and being sus¬
picious persons.
NEGRO “CELTS" CATHOLIC
LEAGUE WINNERS
LOS ANGELES—The Catholic
Youth Organizntion. Chi RhO
basketball title went last
week to the Holy Name ‘ Celts.”
All of the “Celts” are Negroes.
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly Ui
our columns. j
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY’’—Froebel
TEACHING CHILDREN A LOVE FOR GARDENING
Annie L. Gaetz
“Won’t you stop and see my
flower garden?” urged little
Beth, as she tripped along
beside me on my way home
from town.
“You are a pretty small girl
to have a garden of your own.
but I would love to see it,” I
i assured her.
As we turned in at her gate
to my surprise it was to the
vegetable garden that I followed
her dancing footsteps. Here I
found a wide flower-bordered
path running across the garden.
“The flowers on this side of
the path are all mine,” she
said, “and those on the other
side belong to Keith. Dad and
Mom let us have this for our
gardens, and we can grow any¬
thing we choose. Don’t you like
mv pansies? Mom let me have
some plants from her flower
bed, and she showed me how to
transplant them and care for
them. I was ever so careful, but
some did die. I like them be¬
cause I think they look like
people, and I have every plant
named after someone.”
“Well now, that’s a new idea,”
I answered, “but just the
same, I wouldn’t mind having
a pansy named after me.”
“Now, these are my mari¬
golds.” continued Beth. “Don’t
you think they are happy look¬
ing? I take them to people who
are sick; marigolds help to
make them feel better. Keith
thinks they are uninteresting;
but I like them. These are my
■nixed poppies. They are like a
surprise package—.you nevei
know what color is coming out
next.”
“I’m sure no one could fee!
low-spirited with such cheerful
blossoms for company,” I re¬
marked.
“That’s all of my flowers; you
see we have to grow them and
care for them ourselves, and
Mom thought that was enough
for me.”
“Do you really mean to say
that you planted these flowers
and cared for them ail by your¬
self?” I asked.
“Keith did help me tuSt a
bit,” replied Beth. “Keith’s
N. .1 WOMAN CITED
“PSYCHIATRIC AIDE
OF THE YEAR”
• T, ' rf!PV Mrs. Fo-r-st
***» th “ ***-
Dated as “Psychiatric Aide of
the Year” for 1950 bv the Na¬
tional Association for Mental
Health.
The association will present
its award to Mrs. Adams during
Mental Health Week. Mav 2-8.
at the opening re-emomes. She
is earning, the award, according
to u- O rQ -,n n Root, ruul president, mcaium. of m +he nc
association, for work being
done “by high caliber mental
hospital norcnnrifil personnel nrVin who irp are
going far toward removing the
‘snake nit’ stigma from our
mental institutions.”
Mrs. Adams will receive a I
citation and a nrize. Miss j |
Olivia d° Haviland, movie
aueen who starred in “The
Snake Pit.” a dramatic film
about mental institutions, will
present this award to Mrs.
Adams at ceremonies opening
Mental Health Week.
Also earning awards will be
five aides for “distinguished
performance” and 84 others for
“merito.no*; achievements. 7
The Catherwood - Kirkbride
Fund for Research in Psychi¬
atry in Philadelphia has con¬
tributed the awards.
The 90 aides to be honored
j hail uau from iwni mental incuvai hospitals 11v.op.1u..) with
210,000 persons in 31 states.
. They are helping to raise the
standards of these institutions,
| according to Root.
He noted the need for more
trained psychiatric workers
throughout the nation. The
association, he said, presents
its Psychiatric Aide of the Year
award to “dramatize progress¬
ive trends in our mental hos¬
pital picture ...” The asso¬
ciation coordinates activities
with more than 400 local men¬
tal health associations. It was
formed last year through the
consolidation of the nation’s
t o n three voluntary mental
health associations.
Mrs. Adams, 47-year-old
mother, works as a psychiatric
technician at the New Jersev
state hospital in Greystone
Park. N. J. A former school
teacher, she lives in Summit.
She is scheduled to soon re¬
ceive another award for her
excellent work in her field. A
New Jersey state award will be
presented to her at the com¬
mencement exercises of the
latest! class of psychiatric
technicians at Skiilman Village
for Epileptics, where Mrs.
Adams was graduated in 1948.
Born in Marion County, Ga..
she completed two years of
studv at Atlanta Universitv and
taught kindergarten and classes
for defective children before
she and her husband. Enos,
came to New Jersey. In Sum¬
mit. her husband operates an
auto repair business.
After eaduation as a psychi¬
atric technician, Mrs. Adams
was assigned to a group of 59
severely disturbed patients de¬
scribed as “destructive and
1 homicial.” Soon, the “strait
jackets” disappeared. Then the
i patients began to feed them¬
' selves.
___
good at gardening. Dad says he
has the ‘green thumb,’ whatever
that means.”
“Beth is pretty good herself,”
volunteered Keith, who had
joined us on the garden path.
“Of course, she’s a girl and,
only eight, while I’m eleven, so
I did help her. Beth is picking
you some marigolds; let me
pick you some of my sweet peas
and snapdragons. Here are
some stocks, tco. We’re juSt
learning to garden; next year
we hope to have lots of flow¬
ers.”
As I erpressed my thanks to
my young friends and made my
way to the gate, with my arms
full of blossoms, Mrs. Morris
joined me.
“I’m glad my children have
enticed you in to admire (their
flowers.” she said as she greeted
me. “They are very proud of
their gardens. You see, ,«iey
were from always garden cutting for fq.jers their
our
friends, and there seemed no
reason why they shouldn’t, for
we have so many. Very often,
though, their father was f sav¬
ing some thing sDecial for the
flower show and they were sure
to choose those flowers Besides,
lit'le feet can soon play havoc
in a flower bed. So we thought
of letting them have their owrr
flowers, and you’d be surprised
to know how much pleasure
thev havj taken in caring for
them and ' watching things
grow.”
“Y«r.” T said. “I was just re¬
marking that if Dad and Mom
didn’t watch out, it would be
Beth and Keith who would be
carrying off all the prizes at)
the show!”
Mrs. Morris smiled. “If child¬
ren don’t learn to garden while
they are young,” she said,
“.they are not likely to care
much for it later on, and I do
think that those pepole who
have never known the absorb¬
ing interest of a garden miss
one of the biggest joys of life.”
“Well,” I assured her, “you
don’t need to worry about Beth
and Keith. You've started them
on a hobby which will, never
cease to give them pleasure.”
MID-WESTERNERS MEET —Thirty-eight Negro newspaper
editors and railroad public relations executives from the Mid-
West Great Lakes area were guests of the Association of Ameri¬
can Railroads at a rqund-table meeting in Chicago’s Blackstone
Hotel to discuss mutual problems. Speakers were Dowdal Davis,
NNPA head, and *Col. Robert S. Henry, vice president of Public
Relations for the AAR.
CHICAGO, Illinois—“The Ne¬
gro press must interpret both
forcefully and intelligently the
ideals and ambitions of the
American Negro if present en-
equties in our democratic society
are to be erased.” declared
Dawdal Davis, president of the
National Negro Publishers Asso¬
ciation in a recent address.
Tire publishers association
head addressed 38 Negro news¬
paper editors and public rela¬
tions railroad eexcutives of the
Mid-West Great-Lakes area at
a roundtable session in the
Blackstone Hotel at Chicago,
held under the auspices of the
Association of American Rail¬
roads. The Mid-West Great-
Lakes meeting followed a sim¬
ilar discussion at Philadelphia
last Fall, designed “to devolop
a mutual understanding of the
functioning of the Negro na¬
tional community and the
operations of the railroad in¬
dustry.”
The General Manager of the
Kansas City Call stated that
the present failure to practice
democracy by millions of
Americans is a “major weak¬
ness” of the system. Problems
of democracy will not work
themselves out, he asserted, but
require “cuorgaeous action” out
of which will emarge “a re
definition of American democ
raev.”
Col. Robert S. Henry, Vice-
President in charge of Public
Relations for the Association of
American Railroads and host at
the session, told the assembled
newsmen of the vital role
nlaved bv railroads as th*
“major instrument of transpor¬
tation” in the country. The
veteran rail spokesman traced
the industry’s development of
standardized time schedules,
uniform track and frie<»ht
"nutriment as mator moves
toward the coordinated activity
of the railroads.
Brief remarks were made at
th" session bv Albert R. Beatty,
assistant to Colonel Henry, and
Harold Sims, public relations
head for the Western Associa¬
tion of Railroads. The modera¬
tor was Joseph V Baker, nation¬
ally known public relations
counsellor. Railroads repre-
THURSDAY, MAY, 3, 1951 !
sented included the Illinois
Central; St. Louis Southwest¬
ern; Erie; Chicago and North-
western; Pennsylvania; Mo.-
Kansas-Texas; Union Pacfic;
Atchison. Topeka, and Santa
Fe; Baltimore and Ohio; Chi¬
cago. Milwaukee, St. Paul and
Pacific; Chicago and Eastern
Illinois; and the Pullman Com¬
pany. ,-i k
Newspaper spokesmen Llewe\ in nl
tendance included
Coles, editor. Ohio State News;
Frank L. Stanley, publisher.
Louisville Defender; George
Thompson, business manager,
Indianapolis Recorder: William
O. Walker, editor, Cleveland Call
and Post; Longworth Quinn,
general manager, Michigan
Chronicle; Editor-in-Chief L
E. Martin. Executive Assistant
Charles Browning, Executive
Assistant Charles Browning,
Executive Editor Lucius flarper,
and National News Editor Enoch
Waters, all of the Chicago De¬
fender; Theodore Coleman,
City Editor, Chicago-Pittsburgh
Courier; and Publisher John H.
Johnson, Executive Editor Ben
Burns, and Editorial Assistants
Herbert Nipson, Edward Clav-
ton, Dan Burley. Alfred Duck¬
ett, and Milton Smith of Ebony
Magazine; and Howard B.
Woods, City Editor, St. Louis
Argus.
Miss Harden Completes
Freshman Year
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Mis
Evelvn R. Harden, 18. daughte
of Mr. and Mrs. amuel D. Hard
en of Savannah, is comnletin
her freshman year at, th
National College where she i
a member of the d’ainati
club and the Methodist Stud n n
fellowship. Her home in Sevan
nah is at 707 West Park Ave.
It’s about time for all of v
to know that when awo autc
mobiles, going sixty miles a
hour, meet, the chances ai
that somebody is going to t
hurt.
History shows that thq
has been uniformly on th<
of the common people.