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VOTE YES JUNE 7
It is as simple as that. After all is
said, the issue seems to come to this:
if we are to have the kind of schools
our children need to receive, the sort of
education other children receive in oth¬
er cities, if our schools are to have as
good teachers as other cities have, we
must vote for the increased millage ask¬
ed for by the Board of Education. This
must be done. The election must be
overwhelmingly in favor of the 11 mills
increase. Some of those who oppose
the increase base their opposition on
the fact that a millage of 26 makes tax¬
es in the city higher than Jhat of many
other cities of like size and importance.
This argument appears to justify their
opposition until it is revealed that the
schools receive not one cent from the
city. This argument appeals to those
who do not stop to think about this.
Of course, our schools must not be pen¬
alized, we must not take it out on our
children, because we have allowed con¬
ditions to exist which make such a high
rate of taxation possible. Let’s not mix
up the thing. We are interested in
this election in increasing the millage
for schools only. Let’s not be confused
by another misunderstanding: the schools’
problems are not solved by the sales tax,
of which only one cent is to come to
the schools. ' w 4
We feel that Negro voters ought
to give hearty support in favor of in¬
creased millage. We have been asking
for a number of the things, the increas¬
ed millage will make it possible of re¬
ceiving. We stand to gain as much as
anybody else from the increased millage.
In addition to these more or less selfish
reasons, we maintain, as we always
have, that every election gives us the
opportunity to participate in govern¬
ment, to perform one of a citizen’s most
important duties. Let’s perform that duty
Thursday, June 7, Let’s make it a red-
letter day for our children. Let’s get
out and vote for 11 mills ourselves, and
get our neighbors and friends to do so
too.
Two hundred more people could have
heard Thurgood Marshall than did. On
Friday night last, a fairly large audi¬
ence listened with rapt attention as Mr.
Marshall recounted his recent experi¬
ences in the Far East, on a tour of in¬
vestigation into the treatment Negro
GIs were receiving in Japan and Korea.
Frequent reports of mistreatment and
the case of (Lieut. Gilbert, caused the
NAACP to send Mr. Marshall on this
very important mission. The Ameri¬
can Negro soldier has received raw deals
in every war, but for lack of Negro war
correspondents and lack of access to re¬
cords, it has not been easy to get the
real facts or the total picture in connec¬
tion with his participation in the coun¬
try’s conflicts. So instead of waiting
for the end of the present fracas to get
information, the NAACP has moved to
get it first hand and while it is hot., it
is well that such a man as Mr. Marshall
was available for such a mission which
required balance and judicial understand¬
ing. He blames most, if not all, of the
evil treatment Negro soldiers undergo
and have undergone in Korea, as well as
in other wars, on the practice of segre¬
gation. He cited the difference between
the Navy and Air Forces, and the Army
in this regard. Mr. Marshall’s address
consisted of cold, hard truth about what
he saw in Korea. He placed the blame
JUBILEE DAY JUNE 3
REV. R .M. GIIBERT, Speaker
Sunday will be observed as
Jubilee Day by Omar Temple
No 21 A. E. A. O. N. M. S.
Not only will the local temple
but all temples, wherever dis-
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upon whomever it belonged. When it
was appropriate to do so, he blamed Ne¬
groes themselves for their obsequious
complacency in many things. Mr. Mar¬
shall’s visit here with his first hand ac¬
count of the services which the NAACP
has rendered and intends to continue to
render, should be sufficient to arouse
every worthwhile Negro to join the or¬
ganization. t
The interview of Gen. MacArthur by
Stanley Roberts reveals that the Gen¬
eral’s statements as regards Negro sol¬
diers do not agree with Thurgood Mar¬
shall’s observations of the situation in
Korea and Japan. He was particularly
critical of the fact that there no Negroes
were assigned to positions at the disposal
of the General. His statement about ‘white
supremacy’ seems a little short of being
conclusive. It is: “Far from being an
advocate of white supremacy, I know and
understand the needs of the colored peo¬
ples throughout the world . . perhaps
more than any living American. More
about this later.
lRWINTON, CLARENDON ,
OUACHITA
Of the three counties in three differ¬
ent southern states in which suits have
been filed to end segregation in schools
of secondai’y level, Clarendon County,
S. C. gets the call to win a niche in the
history of a long struggle for human
rights. The city, the site of the trial,
is already famous as a city where other
important decisions have been made.
Nearly 90 years ago such a decision was
made there. The main characters tak¬
ing part in the case include two federal
judges who are not strangers to suits
involving the race issue, and a Coterie of
NAACP lawyers led by Thurgood Mar¬
shall, one of the country’s outstanding
lawyers. The case attracts a little
more than the usual interest because of
the international reputation of South
Carolina’s governor. James F. Byrnes,
who hopes to cite that the $75,000,000
construction program (of the state) is
designed to equalize schools for both
races.” The state bases its defense on
the 50 year old doctrine, “separate but
equal” that has never been carried out.
The condition of Negro schools in South
Carolina and Georgia, and in most
other southern states does not bolster
our faith that even with 75 or 180 mil¬
lion dollars much change will occur with¬
out considerable delay and inconven¬
ience. We know this. The frequent¬
ly repeated threat that, for instance,
“School district trustees were authoriz¬
ed to lease or sell school property as
...
a way to let churches or other private
groups banned,” run justifies the^ schools doubt if segregation is
“separate our that the
hut equal” doctrine will be¬
come tangible fact, will become operative
with reasonable promptness in meeting
the needs of Negro children. If the
southern states had kept faith with their
own law and with Negroes, there would
be no necessity for suits to ban seg¬
regation. Everybody knows this. The
decision of the Clarendon County case
will be watched for with a great deal
of interest. Of course it will not be
final. The Supreme Court o$, the Unit¬
ed States will render the final decision
which may not come soon, which may be
softened by a show of sincerity on' the
part ol the states to make the “separate
but equal” doctrine real.
persed over the domain, will
be holding ceremonies, The
local program begins at 4 p.
m.
The principal speaker for the
occasion will be Dr. Ralph M.
Gilbert, pastor of First A B
Church. The affair will fea-
ture a special ceremony con¬
ducted by Illustrious Potentate
Geo. L. Smith and his staff of
officers which will be colorful
in nature.
A large number of nobles,
will be in attendance together 1
with the Daughters of Isis of
Omar Court No. 91. headed by
Mrs. Henrietta Washington,
Other members of the Masonic
family as well as Weldon Lodge!
of Elks and other fraternal
bodies will be guests.
The services will be held at
the Masonic Tem(ple.
NEGRO TRACK STAR GETS
CATHOLIC AWARD
NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. —
j Ted year Holliday, at Iona star College in track here, this
re¬
ceived the tract award at the
annual College Awards Dinner.
The college is conducted under
Catholic auspices by the Christ¬
ian Brothers of Ireland.
BETWEEN THE LINES
ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER FADES:
Oscar DePriest passes on. Well might the
nation mourn. A great moral hero retires
from the lists of life covered with glory.
Whether it is generally admitted or not,
this nation in general and the Negro race
in particular, owe a great debt of gratitude
to Oscar DePriest.
He was the leader in the political renais¬
sance of the Negroes of this country. Since 1
reconstruction days Negroes had not fig-i
ured in any great way in the political fates
and fortunes of the country. Aside from
the fact Negroes were incurably republican
and slavishly devoted their political repub¬ ener-
gi.-s to lurtnering the fortunes of the
lican party, the Negro race had become po¬
litically inoccuous and “harmless.'
istgroes were tolerated by the republi¬
can., and spurned by the democrats and
were consigned to a kind of political or¬
phanage. Their political history was “an¬
cient’’ history; their political present was a
nonenity and their political future was as
chimera in the desert. In fact, the Negro
race had politically settled down to a hum¬
drum ol supporting patronizing white re¬
publicans who offered no more than a sop
ior the support of millions of Negroes.
The coming of Oscar DePriest changed
the political complexion almost completely.
When DePriest went to congress from Illi¬
nois he fired the imagination qf the nation
ana Negroes became vibrant with hope,
and inspiration. His coming to the polit¬
ical front amounted to a political transfu¬
sion which produced a revival of the Ne¬
gro’s political life. There was an upsurge
of political pride and ambition and the Ne¬
gro found himself once more alive to hij
political possibilities.
DePriest was no scholar of great erudi¬
tion and scholastic finesse; he was no
statesmen of swaggering eminence; he
made no pretenses to being a headline seek¬
er. He was just an honest-to-goodness,
hard-hitting; hardheaded politician ana
udovc all a man. He was as honest as the
days were long. He became a living sym¬
bol of the Negro’s political future and the
embodiment of a race's political ambition.
the baccalaureate address
day for the schools of Early
County at the Washington high
school in Blakely, this being the
home of Rev. Powell. On last
Friday night he delivered the
address to the graduates of
Wayne County Training School
in Jesup. The trustee rally
which came off Sunday night
was not completed and will
on Sunday night, June 10. We
are happy to have with us for
a few days Mrs. Annie Lee
James of Moorestown, N. J„ a
former member of Bethel.
Tremont Temple
Tremont Temple Usher Beard
No. 2 held its regular meeting
at the church May 23 with
! Churches
! Bethel AME Church
Sunday school at Bethel
opened at 9:30 a. m. with the
superintendent in charge. The
senior class presented a ouiz
which was very interesting.
Tiie commencement program
for the Sunday school will be
held Sunday, June 10 at the
Jr. church hour. The annual
kmo 1 and queen contest is being
sponsored as usual by the S. S.
The present king is Lawrence
Hutchins, Jr., and the queen is
Minnie Pearl Hobbs. Pastor A.
D. Powell preached two in¬
spiring sermons during the day.
The baby contest was very
successful. Babv Marvin Ward.
Jr., sponsored by Mrs. Cora
Roberts, raised the highest
amount. $75.00- Joan Hodge
second with $50.78;
Harrell. 3rd, $40.(F; Beverlv
Harrington. 4th. *17.00.
Janice Jackson. 5 th. $7.00-
$190.63. Rev. Powell delivered
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
\
DORM COUNCILS
bers 0 f women's and
Dorn ‘ Lr - Councils pose
a i° int meeting. Left to right:
o. Brown, Henry
ham, Helen McCutchen, Henry
He spear-headed the current political re¬
naissance which has brought Negroes to thei
political forefront and promises to sub¬
stantially integrate them into the political
life of the nation.
The Negro s political renaissance has been
a decided benefit to the country as well as!
to the Negro race. The outlook of the
people has been broadened and white Amer¬
ica is fast becoming conscious of the Ne¬
gro’s active citizenship instead of a merely
passive one This is good for the nation.
DePriest was at first a curiosity but he
soon showed congress that he was no
cipher representative He made himself
feit in many ways about Washington The
’■gentlemen” from the deep south could not
frighten Oscar DePriest. When they threat¬
ened to throw him out of the restaurant,
he defied them and got away with it and
proved them to be the cowards they actu¬
ally were. In other words great old Oscar
DePriest was the very kind of man it took
for those times and he was preparing the
way for Dawson and Powell even as they
are preparing a way for others.
DePriest begat in the Negro race a vote-'
consciousness it had not had since recon¬
struction times and this in itself was a rare
contribution to a race’s advancement. Ne¬
groes everywhere should utter a prayer of
thanksgiving to God for Oscar DePriest; for
he verily served his day and generation. In.
very truth he was a pioneer and a trail-
blazer.
It is so e^sy to forget heroes of yester-i
day in the acclaim of those of the hour.
Within recent years we have not heard much
from DePriest but this column has never
failed at sundry times to make mention of
the great old warrier. More than once
have we extolled him as one of the nation’s
truly great characters.
If the current Negro political aspirant
can add to DePriest’s courage the ameni¬
ties of larger learning, there are endless pos¬
sibilities waiting to be explored. DePriest
was a political patriarch and as such has
merited the great inspiration to the hard-
pressed Negroes in their fight for fuller
freedom. An revior to our valiant knight!
i Routine Pres. Ben business Wright was SS transact
j ed. Pres. Albert Jackson of
i Union was guest speaker. Next
meeting June 6 when all mem-
bers are asked to be present,
Ben Wright, president, and
Johnnie B. Taylor, reporter.
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c f TKnmae 1 nomas IJehovc usne " s
The meeting of S’t. Thomas
Usher Board was held at the
home of the president, Sis.
Johnson, 709 W. 52 St. Much
business was aransacted. The
next meeting will be at the
home of Sis. R. Williams, 312
W. 46 St. Pres., E. Johnson,
Sect. A. L. Denbgall, reporter,
I. Holmes.
M. Brown. Henrietta Jones.
Ruth Pelzer (sealed' William
Murphy. John C. Barr. This is
one of the many administrative
agencies found among the stu¬
dents of Clafhn University,
Orangeburg, S. C.
Women’s Day At
Friendship
Woman’s day at Friendship
Baptist church, 611 W. Duffy
St., will be observed Sunday
with an interesting program
arranged by the young people
for Sunday morning beginning
at li a m. Mrs. Mattie Shorter
of St. Luke Baptist church will
be the sneaker. At 8 o’clock
'here wil be a program with
Mrs. Mary R, Heyward of Beth¬
lehem Baptist church as speak¬
er. All members are asked to
be present and pay $1.00 at
®ither of these services. Rev. D
D. Henderson is pastor of the
church.
Central Bant. Church
Cor Hull and McAlister Sts.
R«w. Wm. Dfoiols. pastor. Sun-
4av the services at Centra.'
Rcprist churrh will be dedicated
death and suffering of
CH-ist. iu 10:3a the Sundav
‘"’bool will be directed bv the
suoe r }pt e n,dent. The morning
"”0 evening messages will be
delivered bv Pastor Da-riels
T’he rompa’' o-oeTorn r ende-eO
each 1 st Sunday bv the clmir
will be held at 8 o m. with the
rno Stf' T * of f’PrpniGHjoc; |-*pino
Wir». Brown At this writ-
ine our sick members are much
improved.
C ' thot rrts TO opp;x
AVOTuyg ri\Tii;
pr-riTT "NT"), Or®.—A Catholic
neighborhood recreational and
social center will be opened
hP r e in Job®, it has been an-
Pounced. The renter vd 11 v®® p
hrnn°h of thp FVi^^fi cV iip dopco
movement and will be staffed
by Negro and white Catholics
who work full time without pay.
FriendshiD House has branches
also in New York Citv. Chicago,
and Washington. D. C.
The Army oueht to be able to
use any American who is well
enough to held down a steady
job.
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly l a
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebei
THE CHILDREN’S BIRTHRIGHT
Henry Turner Bailey
All children ought to be fa¬
miliar with the open country.
They should nkow the joy of
plaving in healthful mud, of
paddling in clean water, of
hearing roosters call up the
sun and birds singing praises
to God for the new day.
They should have the vision
of pure skies enriched at dawn
and sunset with unspeakable
glory; of dew-drenched morn¬
ings flashings with priceless
gems; of grain fields and wood¬
lands yielding to the feet of
the wind; of the vast night sky
“all throbbing and panting with
stars.”
Th®v should feel the jov of
seedtime and harvest, of dazz-
i ling summer noons, and of
creaking, glittering winter
nights. They should live with
flowers and butterflies, and
with the wild things that have
made possbile the world of
fable.
They should experience the
thrill of going barefoot, of being
out in the rain without
brellas and rubbercoats and
overshoes, of riding a
birch, of slinding down pine
boughs, of climbing ledges and
tall trees, of diving head first
into a transparent pool.
They ought to know ffni smell
ri wet parth, of i.tw-mown
hay; of the blossoming wild
crane and eglantine; of an
anple orchard in May and of a
pine forest in Julv; of the
crushed leaves of wax mvrtle
sweet fern, mint and fir; of
‘he breath of cattle and of fog
blown inland from the sea.
Thev should hear the an¬
swer the trees make to the rain
and to the wind: the sound of
ripplm® and falling water: the
muffled roar of the sea in a.
-‘■o-m. and its lisping and
laughing and clapping of hands
m a stif fbreeze. Thev should
know the sound of the bees in
a nlum tree i-< May. of frogs in
a bog in April, of grasshoppers
along the roadsides In .Tune' of
crickets out in the dark in Sep¬
tember. Thev should hear a
’enfless ash tree hum. a pine
tree sigh, old trees groan in the
"orest, and the floating ice In
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? Negroes On New York
r ancer Board 1
NEW YORK—For the .first
o-no m Vie history of thp New
Tr ork r'ri Cancer Committee,
’bre® Negroes were elected to
b® board of direo'ors. which
'its the nnlicy and does the
w®r-al1 nlanning for *he Cancer
'ommittpe Anomineement of
"heir election was made this
vnpk'jhv General John Reed
T Hlnarti®, president of the
’®mmjtfe° Tiie New York Citv
"oncer Commute® is a division
"f ‘bo American C°ncer Society
Tbn threo pr® Mrs. Ftnah R
fRo’Ute, oharmarist: Dr John
Mosetpv. ®hi®f radiologist at
^edoohsm hosnital. and Dr.
Roots T Wright.. surtHeal di-
-ertor of Harlem hospital.
Mrs. Foutt® received her
"rpininv j n nharmaev. science
and art at Columbia Ttniversitv
’”4 cturtrip at th® HniversUv
®f Paris. She is a trained meri-
: "a.l worker, having studied at
,v,n Npw Yori< School of Social
Wow - and the Post-Graduate
hospital wherp she was medi-
"al social worker for twelve
•oars. Mrs. BouttP is associated
pharmacist to her husband. Dr
M v. Routte. proprietor of
Routte 4nothecary in New York
City. She was administrative
secretary for the Harlem Divis¬
ion of the New York City Can-
"er Committee f® r four years
and medical soi*al consultant
"o the American Cancer Society
"o- two and one-half vears.
Dr. Moselv is a graduate of
harvard College and the medi¬
al school of the University of
"bicago He is a radiologist on
‘bp staffs of Mt. Sinai and Sv-
-tpnham hospitals and is ' a
sopcialist in cancer prevention
and detection. He is also a
member of the New York State
Tuberculosis CommMJee. Dr.
Moselv is the first and onlv
Negro member of the New York
Roontgcn Society.
Dr. Wright, a praduate of
Harvard Medical School, is a
f ai]ow of the International Col¬
lege of Surgeons, the American
College of Surgeons, and the
American Medimi Assoeation.
He is also chairman of the
board of directors of the Na-
tinal Association fr the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People.
Dr. Wright is also on the ad-
visrv council of the New York
Department of Hospitals.
SECOND NEGRO WINS SEAT
IN NASHVILLE
NASHVILLE—(ANPl— Nash¬
ville has named a second Ne¬
gro to its 21-member city
council.
Robert Lillard, attorney and
retired city fireman, defeated
incumbent Councilman Charles
Castleman. 669 to 450, in a run¬
off election this week.
In municpal elections last
Mav 10 Atty. Z. Alexander
Looby was elected city council-
mar. over Coyness L. Ennis,
another Negro attorney.
Lillard and Looby were elected
from districts predominantly
Negro. _
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951
a brock making its incompara¬
ble music beneath the frozen
crystal roof of some flooded
glade.
They should have a chance
to chase butterflies, to catch
fish, to ride on a load of hay,
to camp ut, to cookover an open
fire, to tramp thrugh new
country, and to sleep under the
open sky. They should have
the fun of driving a horse,
paddling a canoe, and sailing a
boat, and of discovering that
Nature will honor the humblest
seed they plant..
Things that children can do
in cities are not to be com¬
pared with such country activ¬
ities. Out of the country and
its experiences will has come, and
always come, the most
stimulating and healthful art
of the world. One cannot appro*
ciate and enjoy to the full
nature books, novels, histories,
poems, pictures, or even id,
cal compositions, who has
had i-i h>s youth the bie
contact with the world of
ture.
i do not forget what cities
have done for us, and nlwavs
do; but one can eet all
best a citv has to yield by
visiting it, whereas one cannot
rean all the harvests of thte
count.rv except, bv living there
*n chlidhood. And T feel some¬
how' that such a lif® in the
countrv i« tb® birthright of
every child. There is Ib-uth in
Cowper’s statement that God
made the country and man
made the town.
I believe that every child of
God has a right to see the
eountry—the house h>s Heapen-
lv Father mad® for him—unob¬
structed by brick walls, un-
soofled bv citv dirt, and un-
rimmed by smok®. And one of
these davs. in some way, all
children bnrn into the world
will be given a chance to en-
ioy to the full their inspiring
pa'rimony.
Living in the ®ounHy jn
childhood “th® voic® of the
lord God. walking jn th® warden
in the cool of the day” is more
likelv to hp heard; ^”1. being
heard, that Voice will be an-
swered more frequently and
with warmer love.
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Mt. Hermon Bapt. Church
At Mount Hermon Baptist
church, 545 West York street,
Sunday school was held at the
usual hour led by Dea. Shep¬
herd. Night service was in
charge of Rev. J. B. Bates.
Sunday wil lbe rommunion
day. Rev. J. H. Ford is pastor.
Virginia AFL Passes
Anti-Jimcrow Resolution
(VSFL> last week approved a
resolution calling for the end
of segregation in unions.
The VSLP, state affiliate of
the American Federation of
Labor, then assured member
unions that the resolution was
not mandatory as far ks mem¬
ber groups are concerned.
Approved by the VSFL at its
annual meeting was a state¬
ment which declared the group
opposed to “racial and reli¬
gious segregation and discrim¬
ination.” It further declared
the state group would be pledg¬
ed:
"To participate in the sup-:
port the actions of the Ameri¬
can Federation of Labor to the
end that racial, religious and
economic discrimination be
abolished.” announcement «
Following the installll
of this action, newly
President tive of ’ Jack Buckroe s. Smith, Beach, a ifal-
an¬
nounced to his unions:
“It doesn’t necessarily place
a mandate on those locals that
have segregated charters. It
requests cooperation with the
policy of VSFL.
“The federation doesen’t have'
mandatory power over the lo¬
cals affiliated with it. Their
affiliation and participation
are strictly voluntary.”
NEW ORLEANS—La rrv Will¬
iams of this city, a 1956 honor
graduate of Xavier University,
has won a. Fulbright scholar¬
ship for stpdv at the Sorbonne
in France. He will continue
work for his doctoral degree in
French. He will receive a
master’s decree at Fordham
University. New York Citv, in
June. Xavier University is con¬
ducted under Catholic aus¬
pices.
AMERICAN NUNS SAIL FOR
AFRICAN POSTS
NEW YORK — Four voung
Catholic Sisters, all Americans,
sailed for Africa last we®k
where they will receive a year
of riJractival training oicr
going to the mission field. Tlio
Sisters, who will devote their
lives to service of native Afri¬
cans. belong to a congregation
known as the Missionary Sisters
of Our Lady of Africa.
SEE PAUL and ANDY
For Ignition. Starters,
Generators and
Carburetors
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