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. . unorganized instruction in human
relations occurs in all schools. From the
principal to the janitor, children learn
how to behave in relation to others- not
so mucli from what is said as from what
conscious and unconscious preceptors do.
Example is stronger than precept, and
imitation is the most immediate form of
learning. Words have no meaning other
than the action they produce. And in our
schools words are activated by what the
teachers believe ... It is important that
teachers . . . shall believe in the right
things. For unless they do so, their words
and conduct, no matter how noble the
sentiments they are supposed to express,
will be recognized for the counterfeit coin
they are.”
- Montagu.
GRATUITOUS TREATMENT
Two items - occurring in one of our daily
papers within the last two weeks, and a
recent release l>v the Southern Regional
Council, constrain us b> make comment.
One of the items cited that an operator
of a local hotel was sentenced to a fine
or to servo time for “operating and called main¬
taining a lewd house.” She was
“Mrs.” The other item was that announc¬
ing the principals of t he* colored schools.
The names of three men and several wom¬
en were given No courtesy titles were
used with the names of the women. The
contrast between the treatment of the
news about the persons mentioned in the
items is pointed, and in a measure is in-
exeusable. except thnl the paper feels com¬
pelled to how to the wishes or demands
of its readers. Indeed some Southern pap¬
ers have said that thev could not offend
their readers hv observing the before propriety the
of printing “Mrs/’ or “Miss”
names of Negro women, even if those
who, bv all standards of politeness, mari¬
tal status, and position in the community,
deserve it. We are loath to believe anv
considerable unfavorable reaction would
result from courteous treatment in the
news of Negroes, at least of those who be¬
have in a socially acceptable manner.
Some Southern papers accord such cour¬
teous treatment of Negroes without any
bad effect either upon themselves or on
Negroes. On the contrary, it has increas¬
ed their circulation among Negroes and
has given a lift to their self-respect, a
result which any newspaper should be
proud of.
The Southern Reeinnal Council release
titled. Race Tn The News, remarks in the
Foreword: “Rut it would he unwise for
any editor to assume that the reaction
from his readers would be hostile. Sev¬
eral years ago one Georgia daily started
using courtesy titles for Negro women.
The change either went unnoticed
white readers, or was quietly
as best the editor could tell, there
no reaction at all.”
WAKING UP
suite of the fact that West
Campaign Diredor ifftinyh
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more, Maryland, has set a
record In fund-raising.
ing to Herbert T. Miller,
directed the
Campaign in that city
the past summer for Provideti
of $140,393 on a goal of
sets a new high in giving by
single group.
Hospital, the cash
Over 2 000
worked through the
heat to attain this goal
The campaign was a part
what is hoped may lead to the
ultimate erection of a new hos
pital in the northwest
of Baltimore.
Dr. Dwight O. W.
former president of Morgan
State college, Mrs. Bruce H
Aileyne and Mrs. Courtlanc
Brown served as
the drive.
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
^ilce at ^noah, Qa , uncler the Aot of
March 3. 18,9
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Street, particularly, crawls with boledo
runners, that they go about the city with
a system and regularity employed by in¬
surance agents, that the last Grand Jury
conceded that boledo operated openly, a
much lauded police force has not only
been unable to apprehend any runners
who worked for somebody else, but it tins
been unable to make them run to cov< r,
or to dent their brazen front.
City Beat told what everybody eke
knows but the police. It said in last Sun¬
day’s Morning Nows:
“Here’s a run down on the local gamb¬
ling picture: Boledo is rampant and it’s a
$500,000 a year racket. A gambling casino
for whites on the eastside and a less elab¬
orate game for Negroes on the westsidc
are running unhampered. Baseball and
football parlays are humming out a fancy
tune of $'s. PunchbaArds with prize:; as
high as $25 in cash are on virtually every
store counter.”
This disclosure, somewhat like what we
have made on several occasions, should
be sufficient to start a movement to do
whatever is necessary to clean out this
nglv bsuiness.
The conclusions reached by crime in¬
vestigating committees leave no room for
doubt as to the reason why crime and
rackets get and retain a strangle hold on
a community nr on government. The in¬
vestigations place the responsibility for
this condition squarely win re it. belongs
They reveal that no city, however small
or sacrosanct, can temporize with rackets
and crime, and escape certain bondage to
them. We wonder why the citizens of Sa¬
vannah have tolerated these evils. If they
have ever had any doubt that they exist
ed. Citv Beat has. or should have, dis¬
pelled that doubt. We sincerely hope City
Beat’s revelation is a sign that our citi¬
zens are waking up.
THE CAUSES WE SUPPORT
There is a saying olten used as a spur
or gaff to stimulate us to thinking and
action, too, on matters which require, both
moral and financial support, Tl is a sort
of secret. It is used to attempt to break
down reluctance to giving time and money
to worthy causes like improving human
relations, providing needed services to the
infirm, and to the disadvantaged. The
saying is: Negroes nay for what they want
and beg for what they need.
Naturally, |there come to mind the
agencies, or institutions, or causes that are
near to us spatially and 'spiritually, such
as, the UCS and its member agencies, the
Church, the NAACP, and other worth¬
while and necessary organizations. All
these bring more or less direct, and tang¬
ible benefits. Some of them appear to
bring no direct and tangible returns, ex¬
cept the satisfaction of having done some¬
thing to help others. To support causes
which directly benefit others through
such agencies as we have mentioned mere¬
ly, is a sign of growing up socially. Of
course we endorse the support of those
causes. They represent the things weS*
A survey by the National
Council of the Churches of
Christ In the U. S. A. shows the
; membership of the various or¬
ganizations affiliated with it to
i be as follows, enrollment and
i headquarters of the various de
nominations also being noted:
African Methodist Episcopal,
Philadelphia, New York, Nash¬
ville, 808.735; African M. E. Zion,
Charlotte, Washington, D.
Chicago, 520.175;
Lutheran, Minneapolis, Rock
land, III, 440,244;
Elgin, 111.; 185,088; Colored
thodist Episcopal, Atlanta,
350.000; Congregational
ian. New York, Boston, 1,204,789;
Czech Moravian, Temple,
5,000;
Disciples of Christ,
olis, 1,738,983: Evangelical
Reformed, Philadelphia,
go, St. Louis, 714.583;
lical United Brethren,
711,537: Friends-Five
Meeting,. Richmond, Ind.,
785; Friends - Philadelphia
Vicinity, Philadelphia, 19,008:
Did you know that
fighters redominate in the
s j 0 ^ s j n prize ring,
I live of the seven world's
I pionships?
Be community-minded by tak-
out a membership in the
Broad street YMCA.
Methodist. New York, Chicago,
i Nashville, 8,908,579: Moravian,
Bethlehem, Pa., 46.327;
National Baptist Inc , Phila-
delphia, Nashville,
n. C. 4,385,206; National Bapt.
Convention of America (unin-
corporated) Nashville, 2.580,921;
Danish Evangelical
Des Moines, 34,628; American
Baptist Convention, New
1,561,073; Presbyterian, U. S„
Atlanta. Ga., Richmond, Va.,
Louisville, Kv.. 673,000; U I U,UUU , I'resby- L IVdUJ
terian, U. S. A , New York, Phil
adelphla, 2,391,967; Protestant
Episcopal, New York, 1,373,777;
Reformed Church in Amcri
New York, 133.173: Rcnmian-
ian Orthodox, Grass Lake,
21,000; Russian Orthodox, New
York, 300,000; Seventh Day Bap-
tist, New Enterprise, Pa., 8,100,
Syrian Antioehan. New
75,1.00, l ki aiuauiitl ’
York, 42,041, United Lutheran,
New York. 1,952,569;
Presbyterian, P li i 1 adelphla,
Pittsburgh, 288,390.
JO BAKER'TO UET's 2CI.(U>0 A
NEW’ YORK. N A When Jo-
sehine Baker opens at the Roxy
Theater here Oct. 10 she will be
working under terms of a con¬
tract guaranteeing her one of
I the highest salaries ever paid to
$20,000 a week. Miss Baker's
i engagement at the Roxy is fod
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“WHERE HIS DOCTRINE STILL PREVAILS, WITHOUT PRO¬
TEST FROM THE U. N”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
The llixh Cost of Winking
The sudden resignation of l)r. Pomfret, presi¬
dent of the far-famed College of William and
Mary, startled Virginia and the nation. With¬
in recent weeks both the basketball and football
coaches tendered their resignations.
These resignations have come as a result
of the investigation into certain irregularities
pertaining to the changing of records by the
physical education department. These records
were so “doctored” that certain ineligible
athletes were made eligible for athletic con¬
tests. In short the investigation revealed a
scandal of West Point proportions.
From the very first, the finger of suspicion
was pointing directly at top officials who
patently “winked” at the shady dealings with
the scholastic records. The whole affair is. the
outcrop of the pressure exerted by the alumni
of the college to have a top flight football team.
They got the team. To their credit it must
he said they gave the alumni just what they
wanted and William and Mary vaulted into the
national limelight.
As long as she remained top flight there
was no investigation. But last year William
and Mary did not fare so well at the hands
of her opponents, with the result there arose
certain dissatisfactions. Finally came some in¬
vestigations, and there followed what appeals
to be a tragedy in the resignation of the re¬
nowned president.
Whether the administration winked at the
irregularities has not to date become known
But the assumption favors such view when the
hoard of investigators censured the administra¬
tion indirectly by saying it failed to handle
these matters with “dispatch.”
This whole matter of high pressure by alumni
of the various schools for winning teams is
becoming a matter of first rate importance.
In order to have these top flight teams there
must lie some winking here and there. There
are indications that the cost of winking is ris¬
ing too high, if we judge by what happened
to Dr. Pomfret.
Yet it must not he forgotten that the youth
D AK ADTV I I AI AT « v I » oAlUIV c atITR -
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[)AY NIGHT FOR
wtKVlLtWItn crDVlfFMFN
The “ Y football team wi
begin practicing this week
games to be played duiing the
regular season.
have been made for the boys
I* practice near Carver
every aftenoon beginnig at 3 00
io’clo. k.
Thc Creators of Arts Club
one of the recently organized
clubs in the “Y” program
! group is composed of high
s(.jjyy| students who have or-
gmij-/,od themselves into a club,
advance themselves in crcat-
j Vt< ar ( s especially dancing. The
dub wil , meet at the «y» Mon-
days and Fridays 5.00-1.00 p.
m Joscph Brown is president.
] A cabaret party will be given foi
all servicemen Saturday night
8:30-11 30 p. m. “Y” Junior
hostesses will be on hand
say goodbye to men who will
leaving, and to welcome the
new men who are arriving at
Camp Stewart and Hunter
Groups that will meet at
"Y” this week are “Y”
hostesses, James Wiley’s dance
Ischool, Hub luncheon meeting
Savannah Christian Council,
"Y” Program. Finance and
Building Committees, NAACP
of the land are more important than athletic
victories. It is criminal for officials to wink
at certain athletic peculations and expect the
youth involved to evolve sturdy moral character.
If the ends justify the means in athletics, then
this principle will henceforth motivate the lives
of the students involved. This means a twist¬
ing of moral perspective of innumerable lives.
However regrettable it may be to see a
man like Dr. Pomfret resign from a position
tie lias distinguished, it is far better than his
remaining in his exalted position under a cloud
of suspicion. It is fervently to lie hoped that
Negro college presidents may take stock of
athletic affairs in their respective institutions
and clean house while cleaning is good.
Sight must never be lost of the fact that
questionable practices in athletics lay the
foundations of questionable practices in other
matters that will affect the lives of athletes
to their very end.
The sooner the Negro colleges Hit upon a
program of deemphasis in inter-collegiate
athletics the sooner our educational institutions
will lie free from highpowered sports which
hang like a mill-stone about the necks of our
various educational institutions and threaten to
sink them on the abject sea of financial em¬
barrassment.
The win-at-any-price type of training the
alumni of the so many institutions arc foisting
upon the athletic directors and coaches leads
eventually into the same debacle that has em¬
barrassed West Point and the College of Wil¬
liam and Mary.
The real trouble is not in the various adminis¬
trations and coaching staffs; it lies in the
fanatical attitudes of alumni who were moti¬
vated by a pardonable pride gone awry.
Better like Harvard take a good licking every
Saturday than like William and Mary come
to grief and shame because of administrative
winking at certain irregularities that are bound
to undermine the character of the youths in¬
volved and their admirers who also have learned
to wink.
The cost of winking should he high!
Business League To Meet
In Washington, Oct. 10-12
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
’ the Affiliated
l )er i 4 _With
Business Association headed by
Harry Carter, cooperating,- the
National Negro Business Lear.ue
j Is S et to make its 51st annual
j convention one of the most
cessful ever held
Delegates have bejun t»i
ister in advance of the conven-
tion, and it is expected that
some 500 will attend. The con-
vention will be held October 10,
11, 12. at the U. S. Department
ol Commerce.
Welcoming the delegates on
Wednesday, October lo at the
11 | j opening session will be
w. S. Davis, assistant secretary
commerce; F. Joseph
hue, commissioner of liie
rict of Columbia, and Hurry
Carter of the ABA.
j General headquarters will be
i at the U. S. Department of
Commerce, 14th street and
stitution aveune, N. W.
In a panel discussion on
Thursday morning, October 11,
Art Brown, executive assistant
Meeting, Registered Nurses of
Georgia luncheon meeting,
the Arthur Jackman social club,
j j of the U. S. Chamber of Corn-
mere, will discuss the national
i program and services of the
Chamber, while Colonel William
h. Press, executive secretary of
the Washington Board of Trade,
I will discuss the program and
services of a local Board of
Trade.
one oi the most important
j sessions of the convention will
be held on Thursday afternoon
when W. V. Harper, commiss¬
ioner of education and program
director of the National Negro
[Business League, will present
the “Report on Organizational
| Structure and Program of the
National Negro Business League.”
W. L. Crump, coordinator of
j | business administration and ed-
ucation at Tennessee A & I
state university, will lead the
j discussion on the subject.
The Friday sessions will be
devoted to reports, election of
officers, appointment of staff I
and meeting of the board of di _
The group that will sponsor
vesper hour program will
be announced later.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1951
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40ta
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly i n
our columns.
“THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
"WE ALL ARE POOR IN
ARITHMETIC
Ruth Arnold Nickel
“I am glad to meet Spencer s
teacher,” said Mrs. Thompson to
Miss Gray at the close of the
Farent-Tcacher meeting. “What
you to tell me about my
child?”
“Nothing that isn’t good,”
smiled Miss Gray, “except that
he doesn’t do as well In arith¬
metic as he should.”
“Oh dear—arithmetic!” Mrs-
Thompson rolled her eyes. “I’m
afraid if you knew my side of
the family, you’d find that we
are all poor in arithmetic. I sup¬
pose,” she went on, “you might
°ay we are a bit literary instead.
My father taught English litera¬
ture at the State university for
twenty-five years.” Pride crept
into her voice as she finished.
“And you were good in Eng¬
lish and poor in arithmetic?”
“Yes, and so were both my
sisters. Father simply wasn’t a
good businessman; and as for
mo, it’s no use even to attempt
to count, change, because I just
can’t add ”
“It must bo rather a handi¬
cap” hazarded Miss Grav.
“I suppose it It.” Mrs. Thomp-
berame thoughtful. “I know I
would be a better housekeeper
if I were less stupid about fig¬
ures.”
Perhaps Spencer will outgrow
the family failing,”
Miss Gray.
“Why, I hope so—” replied
Mrs. Thompson, somewhat dis-
concerted. Then after a
ent, she added, “You are right;
it is a faiing All of us in
family have wished from time
time that we had more
ability.”
“Then,” said Miss Gray,
I ask you a personal
“Please do.”
“When you were growing
did you ever hear members
vour family sav, “We are all
in arithmetic?”
“Well, something like
laughed Mrs. Thompson. “I
member hearing my mother
often, ‘You are just like
SUPREME COURT ASKED TO REJECT
JIM CROW OF CAROLINA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—The
| has United been States asked to Supreme deny motions Court
I filed by the school officials
I of
Clarendon County, S. C., seeking
to prevent a review by the high
court of a special federal three-
judge court decision upholding
segregation in public elemen¬
tary and secondary schools In
that county. Judge J. Watles
Waring handed down a dissent¬
ing opinion in that case.
Challenging the contentions
of the South Carolinians, Thur-
good Marshall, special counsel of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
filed on September 11, a brief
in opposition to the prior mo¬
tions of the school officials and
asking the Supreme Court to
deny these motions to dismiss
the appeal and affirm the lower
court’s recision.
Citing the decisions in the
Sweatt and McLaurin cases in¬
volving the University of Tex¬
as and the University of Oklla-
homa, respectively, the NAACP;
brief asks for “a clear-cut de-
cision” in the Clarendon Coun-I
ty case in order to “remove all |
doubts in the field of public ed¬
ucation.”
“Although the Supreme Court
has clarified the issue (segre¬
gation) as to graduate and pro¬
fessional schols,” the brief as-
serts, “the Court has never had
PARLEPY ON WOMEN IN DEFENSE DECADE
NEW YORK—(ANP) —Women
will be the matter for prime
consideration in a new approach
to the national mobilazalion
effort at the Commodore hotel
Sept. 27-28. The event will be a
conference on “Women in the
Defense Decade.” Among the
noted women who will chair the
two days of panel discussions
will be Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, act¬
ing director, University Health
Center, Howard university.
The aims of the conference
will be to discuss “What Wom¬
en’s Attitudes, Philosophy and
Activities Should be for the
Next 10 Years,” according to
Arthur S. Adams, president of
the American Council on
tion, sponsoring organization,
The panels will be on Citi-
zenship, The Home. Health and
Welfare, Armed Forces, Pro-
father,’ when we showed our
poor marks in mathematics. She
didn’t mean it as an adverse
criticism. I think she was rather
proud of the fact that Father
was a scholar rather than a bus¬
inessman. I wonder,” she con¬
tinued, “—do you suppose I took
a kind of pride in my inability
to be good at figures? Perhaps
I thought it was more aesthetic
not to be mathematical. How
silly! But believe it’s true.”
“And Spencer—?” prompted
Miss Gray.
“I believe I have been doing
the same thing with him—giv¬
ing a mind-set against arith¬
metic—from the start. Do you
think I have?”
“ I don’t know,” answered
Miss Gray, “but it sounds poss¬
ible, doesn’t it? Many parents
do. Spencer is a bright boy and
he has reasoning ability.
ought to be as good in mathe¬
matics as he is in everything
else, but he seems to set his
mind to resist that subject in¬
stead of desiring to understand
it.”
“What do you suggest I should
do?” questioned Mrs. Thompson,
seriously. . “This is my problem
now.”
“How about Mr. Thpmuson?”
asked Miss Gray. “He appears
to be a successful businessman.
He must be well-grounded in
arithmetic.”
“Indeed he is,” responded Mrs
j j Thompson enthusically. “He is
just as much interested in artis-
j tic things as I am, but he’s a
good businessman, too.”
i “Then isn’t that your answ-
said Miss Gray. “Perhaps it
would be well if you stopped
(home speaking about arithmetic at
for a while. Let Spencer
forget that he’s supposed to be
poor at mathematics. Now that
I understand his difficulty, I
shall know better how to deal
it. It, will help, also, if you
| will tion, occasionally casually, call his His atten-
to father’s
fine all-around dev lopment.”
“I do hope he will grow up to
be like his father,” replied Mrs.
Thompson.
the opportunity to consider the
question as to elementary and
high schools on the basis of a
{full and complete record with
the issue clearly drawn.”
In contrast with such earlier
segregation cases as Plessy v.
Ferguson and Gong Lum v. Rice,
the record in the Clarendon
case, the NAACP brief points
out, “presents for the first time
competent, uncontradicted ex¬
pert testimony sufficient to en¬
able this Court to make a erti-
ical analysis of the constitu¬
tionality of statutes requiring
racial segregation in elementary
and high schools.”
The brief cites the more re¬
cent decision in the Topeka, i
Kansas, school cases which co
edes that the Supreme Cout
opinions in the McLaurin an ntt
Sweat cases “show a trend away
from the Plessy and Lum cases.”
Associated with Mr. Marshall
in the presentation of the brief
were Robert L. Carter, assistant
NAACP special counsel, New
York; and NAACP attorneys
Harold Boulware, Columbia, S.
C.; S’pottswood W. Robinson, III,
Richmond, Va.; Arthur D.
Shores, Birmingham, and A. T.
Walden, Atlanta. It is expected
that the Supreme Court will
decide whether to review the
case or not early in its fall
term.
duclion for Defense and Peace,
Education, Creative Leisure and
Everyday Economics.
Among the speakers an¬
nounced for the full conference
sessions are Mrs. Anna M. Ros-
enberg, assistant secretary of
defense; Representative Frances
P. Bolton, Republican of Ohio;
Margaret Cuikin Banning, au¬
thor; Oliver C. Carmichael,
president of the Carnegie Foun¬
dation for the Advancement of
Teaching, and Dean Althea Hot-
tel, University of Pennsylvania.
Invitations have been sent to
all sections of the country to
representatives of women’s col-
leges and co-educational insti-
tutions, educational organiza¬
national women’s organi-
labor organizations, sec-
schools and undergrad-
uate students.