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truism . . in the value of money instead of
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him.” ,
A HAZARDOUS SITUATION
A letter in the Forum, two Sundays
ago, should have impressed on the
minds of all concerned, that a very dan¬
gerous situation exists every school
day for the nearly 11500 children who at¬
tend the Cuvier Junior High School.
The streets on three sides of this school
are paved. One of them, the Ogeechee
Road leads south of Highway 17. Heavy
vans, buses and trucks using both Hen¬
ry and Anderson streets as two way
routes into and out of the city .fre¬
quently meet, and the starting, stopping
and backing, the noise of their exhausts
and air-brakes produce a din which dis¬
tracts the attention of pupils and teach¬
ers from the business at hand. This,
in addition to the danger to life and
limb of the children, should he all the
reason needed for routing van, bus and
truck travel over other streets. A
check on traffic by this school reveals*
that a bus, van or truck passes by this
school every two minutes during a school
day. This situation has been called to
the attention of two official agencies
ftnd effort has been made to have them
correct it. Three or four months ago,
one promised to have it corrected at once.
The other promised relief when this*
heavy traffic would be routed through
Stiles Avenue. Since nothing has been
done about it and the promise to do
something is so indefinite, we are con¬
vinced that neither of these agenciesi
recognizes the seriousness of a condi¬
tion which could be corrected within 24
hours.
It would be easier for the buses and
trucks themselves to use other streets.
They could hardly find a more difficult
route to travel than that by either Hen¬
ry or Anderson street into West Broad.
We join with the Cuyler P.-T, A. in urg¬
ing the Commissioner of Police, the
Mayor, or w hoever has the authority,
to put an end to the danger and distur¬
bance that these vehicles create for the
children and teachers at the Cuyler
school. 1
IDEALS PROSTITUTED
Actually, America owes its being, its
material wealth and its success as
sponsoring the most satisfying form of
government in the history of the world,
to two ideals or philosophies. The
founding of the country was impelled by
the overpowering d'^ires of men for
freedom of worship and the right to gov¬
ern themselves under rules of their
op.11 choosing. The record of the
landing of the Pilgrims includes the
signing of the Mayflower Compact out
of which grew the ideas that developed
into the Constitution of the United
States and the Declaration of Independ¬
ence. The Christian religion and the
spirit of democracy, however imper¬
fectly followed, have been the guiding
principles of American life. All Amer¬
at least and
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 8, 1951
To the Editor,
Savannah Tribune
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I desire to correct a state¬
ment in the New’ York Amster¬
dam of New York City. C. B
Powell, president and editor.
The article is an editorial,
headed “Georgia's Jury Ruling ”
I do not criticize the entire
editorial, for as a whole I think
the article very commendable,
however, I desire io correct the
gross error pertaining to the
selecting colored men for jury
duty. i
The article said:
‘‘The good bit of information
emanated from Atlanta where
superior Court Judge Frank
Guess last week ordered the
DeKalb County Jury Commiss¬
ion to include names of Negroes
6n Jury lists.
“This ruling will allow Ne¬
groes to sit in Jury boxes for
the first time since the 1860s.”
The editorial Is much in error
when it says thot Negroes have
not been used to serve since
i860.
It may be that Negroes
Entered as Second Class Matter at the
Office at Savannah, Oa, under the Act
March 3. 1879
National Advertising Representative'
Associated Publishers
582 Fifth Ave.
New York 19. New York
resent any implication that they do not.
Many people, including Americans, have
fought and died in many a conflict, on
many a battlefield to secure and main¬
tain these ideals. It is an interesting
record of human erring that almost
from the 'beginning, the people who
braved voyage on an unknown sea. fac¬
ed and fought hostile savages, under¬
went the ravages of disease and the
rigors of New England w i n t e r s to
find religious freedom for themselves—
it is interesting that they were almost
at the same time denying others the
right to worship God freely, and were
soon to engage in a traffic that facili¬
tated the fastening of human bondage
upon the southern states, w hich it took
a bloody civil war to undo. This con¬
flict was inevitable and hitter because,
strangely enough, there were those who
sought to justify slavery and its at¬
tendant and subsequent evils tty appeal¬
ing to the principles of Christianity and
democracy. Nor was this all. These
ideas soon lost their ascendency and
gave way to other values. The people
were concerned less with religion than
they were with shipbuilding, trade and
commerce, in the north, with agricul¬
ture and plantation ari/stcpracy in the
South. People were concerned with mak¬
ing money. The lapse in religious con¬
cern aroused religious leaders, and re¬
vivals were held to rekindle slumbering
spiritual values. Another paradox in
American life was signalized in the fact
that the Indians were despoiled of their
land, and pushed hack from the Atlan¬
tic Seaboard, Negroes were enslaved and
exploited, and Negroes and other dark-
skinned groups, including Asiatics, are
the victims now of prohibitions and dis¬
criminations that are unworthy of the
descendants of those who founded the
country which calls itself "the land of
the free and the homo of the brave.”
And yet change^ in pblicy, practice
and attitude for the better, have taken
place, which hardly anyone would have
predicted 25 years ago. There is no
doubt that these changes have come be¬
cause, after ail, the two ideals which
guided the formation of ths nation are
still potent and for full American citi¬
zenship,” “the overwhelming ambition of
the Negro race in America to use the
power of the sword and the purse of the
Federal Government to force its way in¬
to the inner sanctuary of the white
man’s daily life. Oh, what consistency!
The following item is taken from one
our our daily papers under date of Sep¬
tember 25, 195V: "Private club opera¬
tors drew three lemons from Mayor Ful¬
mer at a meeting yesterday at City
Hall. A close down applying "without
exception,’ was ordered by the mayor on
all slot machines, punch boards, and
parlay cards within the city.” ho re¬
port also said that the mayor’s direc¬
tive was put into effect immediately.
Boledo was not mentioned specifically,
and being insensitive to mere hint, it
assumes that the mayor’s directive doen
not apply to it. So far as we know, no
order has gone, out t<> clamp down on
boledo. We believe when such an or¬
der is issued to the police and detec¬
tives and is published in the newspapers,
boledo will fold up.
how ran we blame some
else?
I grant ft is a burden to
this place or duty, but some
or ones must bear the
and why shirk.
We, therefore, ask Mr.
editor of the New York
sterdam News, to first get
facts before criticising.
Respectfully submitted,
Jesse Brinson
707 West 42 St.
Savannah, Ga.
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METROPOLITAN OPERA HAS
FIRST NEGRO MEMBER
NEW YORK—(ANP) For
first time in the history of
venerable institution, a
star ls a member of the
company at Metropolitan
House But she’s a dancer,
a sinper ^ It took Janet
who starre d as “Night" in.
Cole p ort , e r Show, "Out of
W orld.” on Braodway last sea-
son> t0 crac k the hard core
discrimination at the Met.
sensational young Negro had
muc h on the ball she could
ignred. She was engaged
premier danseuse to
with a Russian dancer.
not been listed in some coun-
ties, but not so in this County;
for I am sure that Negroes
served here in Savannah, Chat¬
ham County, before I served,
and I have been serving for
more than thirty five years
from time to time.
In 1949 I even was selected as
foreman twice in the fall term
of the City Court; and yet Ne¬
groes served before I came to
this city, 1904. and perhaps! fore-!
some of them served as
men before I did j
Any one serving on a jury i
does it at a sacrifice, and speak-
ing for this City and County I
should repeat what I said In t
to 1949; make and the that sacrifice; was, “We for refuse the J
last time I served on the Jury.!
one morning there were five or|
six Colored men put on, along,
with us that were serving, and,
the very next morning theyj
off were and all would absent. not make They the begged sac. J j
rifiee; and of course, this ac- I j
counts for so few of us being
selected for this important
ty. When these we refuse, honorable and will not j
places, j
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“CLEAN AWAY THE SCAR AND ITS SHADOW WON’T REFLECT IN ASIA”
BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
GENERAL EISENHOWER AND THE DIXIECRATS
TThe political plot Is thickening. A few
days ago a southern radio commentator was
heard to say that General Eisenhower would
not be a candidate for the presidency unless
the people demanded it.
“Then,” said the commentator , “10,000
southerners should bombard the General
with letters and pleas to him to lead in
the coming elections."
In other words, the needed command of'
the people would come with the demand
of the South. If the South commanded,
the general, he could regard this as a,
nmdate from the people. There is some;
curious food for thought in this commenta-i radio coih-|
meal. The extent to which the
tor was voicing the sentiments of the pro- 1
Eisenhower segment of our voting popula-'
tion is the extent to which the Negroes
should be careful in their coming political
allegiance.
I know the Dixiecrats better than I know
General Ike; but if he speaks the language
of the Diriecrats he is not the man for thel
presidency.
It is not too early for the country to pon-<
der this uestion. The White House is not;
the place for a dixiecrat, nor a man who(
is the favorite of the dixiecrats, nor for a
man who courts their political support.
Some months ago, this writer expressed
the fear that General Ike was flirting with,
the Dixiecrats. Passing events are cor-j
roborating the conclusion that General Ika
is the dixiecratic candidate and as such
should be rejected. The Dixiecrats are too
anti-Negro and too narrow in their sym-;
pathies to choose a President of the United
States.
The Dixiecrats are bitterly opposed to the|
full integration of the Negro. If General'
Ike is their standard bearer, he, too, must
be opposed to the Negro’s integration. This
must be his overt or covert profession of,
political faith. The elevation of such a
man to the presidency would be a political
blunder of major magnitude.
Negroes hae been, step-citizens of this(
country long enough. The time is at hand
for their full integration. Nothing short'
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DISTRICT
NHA CONFERENCE
| The District NHA conference
j was held at Alfred E. Beach
school Sat., Oct. 6. The
.meeting was opened at 9 30 a.
m. with Miss Warnell Blakely,
' district president, presiding.
Cuyler Jr. high chapters were
in charge of the opening cere-
Miss Dianna Wiggins of
Haven Home Jr. high gave a
, warm welcome to the visiting
i chapters.
Greetings and felicitations
were extended to the chapters
from Arthur Dwight, principal
of Cuyler Jr. high; W. K. Payne,
president of Savannah State
co,,e * e: Mrs ' B W. Payne, coun-
Douglas, Alfred E Beach_ Beach; O. L.
pnncipa o
Mrs - B W. Turner, consultant
of Homemaking Education, Sa¬
vannah; Miss M. B. Lewis, state
supervisor of homemaking ed¬
ucation for District II; Miss
Daisy Lewis, State NHA advis¬
er, and Harry Wiliams, repre¬
senting Haven Home and Wood¬
ville NFA chapters.
During the talent hour there
were many interesting and out¬
standing numbers rendered by
various chapters in Georgia,
among them a selection by Lib-
this can ease the nation’s smitten con¬
Nothing short of this will satis-f
the demands of the sacrifices the Negro
made to make this nation what it is.
Negroes may well be afraid of the propos¬
alliance between the Dixiecrats and thd
the dixiecratic minded Repblicans. N<(
fearful should they be of the proposed
of General Eisenhower. At heart
general is a Dixiecrat.
There are many things the South needs,
Gen. Eisenhower for President is not onq
them. With the South—the better
heroic efforts to strike from
ankles the shackles that slavery wekH
it would be a misfortune to have thi^
South buffeted by the reactionism,
that would result from the accession of a
to the presidency. The South
deserve s a better fate.
It was once a custom in the old South
when a man was very sick and no hope
recovery was held out, the loved one;f
prop the dying man and thus pro¬
the death agony. After their hearts/
sick of seeing their loved one in agon/y,
would slip the pillow from beneath hist
and the end cam* with swift dispatch,
The old South of Ben Tillman and Hoke;
and Cole Blease and Vardanian and
and Bilbo is dying a dreadful death.
elect a Dixiecrat would be propping up
dying man. What we need is someone;
pull the pillow out and let the old South
the death it deserves and one that
and God and Right have decreed.
General Ike will only serve as a prop thatt
in the end be taken away. As Grant
told Lee at the surrender, “Let us have,
peace.” That is what Negroes and whites
this country need most, Interracial peace.
If the whites and Negroes of the South)
were let alone by demagogues and political,
their wounds would soon bq
by the slow but definite processes of
and common sense. Today the
South is ready for an advance that the
would thwart to gratify a hun¬
ger that stems from a desire to be some¬
thing without paying the price.—VOTERS,
BEWARE!
GOVERNOR SAYS
MUST BE
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM
MEMPHIS—(ANP> —
as well as whites must be pro¬
vided a stronger
program, Sid McMath,
nor of Arkansas, told a civic
club here last week.
McMath praised action
southern governors to “get to¬
gether and pool higher educa-
j basis.” ti 0n facilities said: on a
He
i “The greatest source of
I wealth in the south is our peo-
j P* e - And we re going to de-
vel °P this source we ’ re g° in
to have a real educational pro¬
§ ram -
NEGRO BROKER HITS
BROADWAY
NEW YORK —(ANP)— Law-
reilce Lewis, broker and
market expert, a first in
street who came here from Cal¬
ifornia some years ago and was
finally accepted in the firm of
Abrahams has set up his own
firm on lower Broadway. Lewis
expects to handle a large cli-
entele of investors of all races.
Recently he offered courses at
the Harlem YMCA to aid nov-
ices and professionials.
erty County Training school; j
three numbers by Woodville j
high . schoo!t outsta nding of
whKh was he ‘ r
Pantomine” with the talented _
Miss Manigault doing a magnif
irent portrayal; “Trees,” b.v
Miss Eudora Moore ofCuyler Jr.
high: numbers taken from
“Show Boat” by Boggs Academy
of Weinsboro; a skit, “New|
Homemakers Grow Step by
Step.” by Beach high chapters.
The guest speuke rwas Miss
Claudette James, former Na-
tional NHA president. Her sub-
ject was, “NHA on Midcentury
Challenge: A Better Life for!
All.” Miss James, an outstand-
ing young woman, attended the
Midcentury Confeence for Y’outh j I
at the White House.
The Emblem Ceremony was
presented by T. J. Elder high
school of Sandersville. The clos¬
ing ceremony by Swainsboro
high school. The conference
marked another successful and
enjoyable experience for all. The
local chapters: Haven Home,
Cuyler Jr. high. Woodville high 1
and Beach were hosts to the I
conference. /
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1931
HOME EDUCATION I
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association. 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. Tbw articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”— Froebel
.....-1
NEEDLESS
“Did you have a nice Tea this
afternoon?” I asked my friend,
Jane Goddard, who teaches in
! the third grade at Central
school. "A number of mothers
told me they were planning to
attend it.”
Jane had ccme to the library,
where I work in the chldren’s
room, so that we could go
gether to dinner at home of a
mutual friend
Her face clouuded as she
plied, “That’s what most of the
mothers told their children-
that they were coming to the
Tea-and then some of them
failed to appear.”
“I’m sorry you didn’t have a
good attendance after all of you
—teachers and pupils-had done
so much to make the
Day Tea attractive.”
“Wo did have a good-sized
crowd.” Jane acknowledged. “I
think, to the mothers and to
the children of the mothers who
were there, the Tea was worth
all the effort it cost. I’m just
feeling sorry for the children
whose mothers disappointed
them.”
“It means a great deal to a
chidl to have his mother visit
his school, doesn’t it?” I com¬
mented.
“More than most mothers re¬
alize,” Jane agreed. “One look
at some of the disappointed
little faces I saw today would
have told them that. The worst
part of it was that the mothers
had promised to come, and the
children were expecting them.
Perhaps some of the
were unavoidably detained at
home, but it would have been
better had they not given a def¬
inite promise. As it was, their
children waited for them in
vain all the afternoon, while
their more fortunate
welcomed their mothers and
guided them around the
ing.
“The Mothers’ Day Tea
Central school,” Jane
“is intended as a gift from
children to their mothers.
mittees to arrange for it
make an effort to give
child some part . in . the .. „_____ prepara-
[ tions. “The children in room
my
I made invitations in their art
Fisk Gets
$1500 Grant
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—(ANP)
A new teacher of voice has
joined the faculty, and a $1,500
research grant has been award¬
ed to Fisk university, it was
announced last week.
Frderirk Briess, Viena-born
basso, will teach voice and
musical theory at the famed
Vienna State Academy of Music
and Arts, and later studied un-
j der Professor Otto Iro.
He has appeared in operatic
roles in Austria, Germany,
Switzerland, Spain and Egypt.
Since coming to the United
States in 1940, Briess has sung
j j the in operatic engagements with
New Opera company, New
York, and appeared in various
radio and television engage¬
ments. For the past four years,
he has been with the Metropol¬
itan Opera company of New
York.
The research grant was given
to Fisk to enable Dr. Lee Loreh,
professor of mathematics, to
continue his investigations of
the relationships among some
methods of summation, a
branch of theoretical mathe¬
matics.
The grant was made by the
Research corporation, a found¬
ation which distributes its in¬
come to colleges, univer,sites,
and scientific institutions to
promote the advancement of
science and technology through
research.
NEWSMAN NAMED TO EMBAS¬
SY POST IN PAKISTAN
KARACHI, Pakistan— (ANP)
—Herbert Tate, formerly editor
publisher of the New Jersey
Herald, was recently appointed
cultural officer in the U. S. em¬
bassy here. Tate, who arrived
in this country about three
months ago. has become very
popular locally, especially with
newspapermen. He is living here
with his wife, who joined him
recently.
class two weeks ago and took,
them home to their mothers.
Gary Woods had never done
good handwork, but he tried
very hard this time and carried
home a neatly-lettered invita¬
tion. The boy was all smiles
next morning when he came to
school. ‘Mother liked the invi-
tation,’ he told me, and she’s
coming to the Tea.
I “One after another, almost
of the children gave me the
same report—My mother has
promised to come to the Tea?’
The few whose mothers were
forking outside their homes or
wh ° kncw in advance that
•something would prevent their
■•attendance explained this to
1 Those children, naturally
were sorry, but they would not
suffer disappointment, because
they were not expecting their
mothers.
“The first part of the after¬
noon was given to a brief wel¬
coming program in ea°h room;
then the children took their
mothers to the auditorium,
where the tea table was in read¬
iness, and there ail the mothers
and teachers could visit with
each other. Hosts and hostesses
were stationed at the doors of
the rooms and in the auditori¬
um to greet the visitors.
“Gary Woods was at the door
of our third grade room. I
watched him greet each mother
who came, all the while watch¬
ing for his own mother to ap¬
pear. As the moments passed
and there was no sign of Mrs.
Woods, his face grew very sober.
Finally, the program in our
room was over, and Gary’s
mother still had not arrived.
“When the little procession of
mothers and children from our
third grade room started down
the hall, Gary took his place
among those who were going to
the auditorium with me. All of
his joyous enthusiasm was gone.
[ A promise to a child should
never be lightly given,” Jane
concluded. "Gary would have
been spared a needless disap-
1 pomtment if his mother had
told him beforehand that there
was a chance she would not be
table j, to come to the Tea. Keep-
! ing faith with a child is essen-
: | t jal to the deveolpment of his
se nse of honor and responsjbil-
ity.”_
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULA¬
TION REQUIRED BY THE ACT
OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST
24, 1912 as Amended by the Acts
of March 3, 1933 and July 2,
1946 (Title 39 United States
Code, Section 233)
Of The Savannah Tribune*
published weekly (Thursday)
at Savann,ah, Ga., for Octo¬
ber 1, 1951.
1. The names and addresses
of the publisher .editor, man¬
aging editor, and business man¬
agers are:
Publisher, Sol C. Johnson,
Savannah, Georgia.
Editor, Sol C. Johnson, Sa¬
vannah, Georgia.
Associate Editor, J. H. But¬
ler, Savannah, Georgia.
Assistant to Publisher and
Man/ager, Mrs. Willa M. Ayers
Johnson, ySavannaJi, Georgia.
3. The known, bondholders,
mortagees, and other security
holders owning or holding 1
percent or more of total amount!
of bonds, mortgages, or othefl
securities are: None.
5. The average number of
copies of each issue of this
publication sold or distribut-i
ed, through the mails or other-*
wise, to paid subscribers during
the 12 months preceding thq
date shown above was 2,669.
Sol C. Johnson
(Publisher)
Sworn to and subscribed be¬
fore me this 27th day of Sep¬
tember, 1951
SEAL Willa Mae Ayers
My commission ex4
pires March 19, 1955
TWO MORE SPECIALISTS FOR
LIBERIA
Two more Negro agricultural
specialists have left for assign¬
ments in Liberia under the
Point Four program, the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. They
are Amtrose B. Lewis, an agri¬
cultural engineer of A & T col¬
lege, Greensboro, N. C., and
Sandy J. McCorvey, extension
specialist from Tuskegee. .