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PAGE FOUR l Shf $<imiim!i Srilrntr Established 1875 H. «OL 0 JOHNSON Editor and Publisher MRS. WDLLA A. JOHNSON. Asst, to Pub. & Mgr. t. : J U. r BUTLEK .. .........Asso. Editor _ . . - .. . Published Every Thursday 1008 WEST BROAD STREET Telephone. Dial 5338 . ................. ■- — - ------— Subscription Rate In Advance One Year _________________________________ Six Months ---------------------------$2.00 Three Months ------------------------$1 Remittance must be made by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered Mail. . . 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 | | 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 ________ ........ - mmm NaUonal Advertising Representative: Associated Publishers 662 Fifth Ave. New York ^ New york _________ - JS Ifium 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” i ' 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 - * [)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.