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“Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
“Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
“Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land;
Ring in the Christ that is to be.”
—Tennyson
INGLORIOUS LEAVE
Twelve months ago, 1951 came in
carrying on its shoulders uneasy hopes
of peace and advances in social, moral
and spiritual concepts and practices in
human relations at local, national and
international levels. There were some
gains in these areas. Much as we were
interested in what happened on the in¬
ternational level, we were much more
concerned with what happened nearer
home at the roots on the local level, in
our own community, in our state, in our
section of the country. We have seen
improvement in the extension of the en¬
joyment of basic human rights. We
have seen what appears to have been an
awakening of' the public conscience, in¬
formed and stimulated by certain fac¬
tors: The Kefaiiver and Fullbright com¬
mittees: the revelations of, fraud in the
Internal Revenue Department; the ex¬
pulsion of students at West Point; the
bribery evil in basketall, and tbhe more
or less defiance of examining committees
by shake-down artists and swindlers. It
is still uncertain if aroused public con¬
science will make itself felt in positive
action to reduce these moral lapses to
the least possible minimum.
What concerns us most is the appar¬
ent tendency of matters in the area of
civil rights to zig-zag up and down. We
have seen improvements in racial atti¬
tudes followed by violent manifestations
of bitter opposition to advances in this,
area. This is true despite the fact ev¬
ery single gain or advance has been
madeWegally. They have not been usur¬
pations or forced intrusions. They have
ccmeiieeauso courts of justice have order¬
ed them as being deserved by American
citizetis. Two instances of determina¬
tion of bitter enders to deny the exer¬
cise bf full American citizenship to our
country’s largest minority are noted in
the terrorist activities in the state of
Florida, and in the less publicized be¬
havior of certain citizens in Clarendon
county, South Carolina. The murder
of a Negro at Mims, Florida, received
national attention, the motive for which
grew out of resentment to the activities
of a man who represented the most mil¬
itant champion of human rights in tho
world. But the case in South Carolina,
while not resulting in tragedy as yet,
was jnst as vicious. A Negro preach¬
er, a long time resident and useful citi¬
zen in his "community, who took the
lead in presenting the petition for im¬
proved schools for Negroes, according
to authentic report, has suffered per¬
secution of the meanest sort. He has
been threatened and made to leave his
home, and placed under bond on a trump¬
ed up charge. Both incidents have ail
the earmarks and purposes of intimida¬
tion to frighten Negroes so that they
will cease resorting to the coifrts for
relief from the devices designed to keep
them second class and disadvantaged,
satisfied with inadequate and unequal
public services. With all of the good
things for which 1951 will be remem¬
bered, we are glad to have witnessed
its leaving, inglorious though it may
have been. We have not mentioned
the acts of Providence which marked
the going out of the Old Year. We
have received them with resignation to
the inscrutable will of our Omniscent
Father.
THE MARCH OF DIMES
Some of the most important accom¬
plishments in our American society are
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
Office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act oi
March 3. 18'.9
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
562 Fifth Ave.
New York 19, New York
not of government origin or sponsorship.
They are not political, nor are they de¬
nominational or racial. The agencies
that bring these accomplishments about
are such as the Community Chest or¬
ganizations, the American Red Cross,
the Cancer Fund, the Heart Fund, the
National Tuberculosis Association, the
National Foundation for Infantile Paral¬
ysis, and many other organizations whose
functions are more or less local in pur¬
pose. They are voluntary in compo¬
sition, made up of business and profes¬
sional men and women, and other persons
whose only business is rendering service
to aid in answering the needs for which
constituted government makes no provi¬
sion. This is one of the significant fea¬
tures of our democratic society, an ex¬
ample of what the collective action of
citizens can accomplish when the needs
of a community are accepted as a com¬
mon bond, without regard to race, or
creed.
The March of Dimes, raises funds to
fight against polio, that dreadful crip-
pler of children mainly. The call and
need for funds are accentuated by the
fact that the onslaught of polio has
piled up a formidable record for the last
four years—132,000 cases larger than
the total for ten previous years. A
tendency for more wide-spread incidence
is indicated, which means that donations
to the March of Dimes must be much
more liberal than in ordinary years. The
National Foundation For Infantile Pa¬
ralysis through the generous gifts of
the public will guarantee: (1 “ a reassur¬
ance of assistance to polio patients in
need of care—regardless of age, race,
creed or color; (2), a continuance of the
profession educational program includ¬
ing scholarships and fellowships for the
training of skilled workers in research
and in the care of poliomyelitis patients;
(11) an uninterrupted search for the
cause and cure of polio by the nation’s
scientists; and (4) a renewed hope that
polio can and will be conquered.” The
fight against polio needs and deserves
the support of all citizens, without re¬
gard to race, class or creed. The Tri¬
bune joins in the plea for generous giv¬
ing to the March of Dimes.
POLITICALLY SPEAKING
It is time right now for our political
leaders to lay plans for increasing the
number of voters in this county, and
in the state. The voting iwtential of
Negroes in Ohaham county is at least
25,000. There were at one time nearly
20,000 qualified Negro voters but sharp
practices at the polls in 1946 discourag¬
ed many of them who did not need a
great deal to become discouraged. This
and the well known indifference of the
average American citizen to his politi¬
cal responsibility have built up a resist¬
ance which the leaders have been unable
to cope with. One thing that has affect¬
ed the size of the vote in Chatham coun¬
ty, as in the rest of the state, has been
the “new registration law.” It affected
white voters also. There was so much
confusion about the new law that the
date of its becoming effective was de¬
ferred, and it is hinted that it may be
further deferred by the next legislature
which convenes this month. This will
not allay the confusion nor will it les¬
sen the tremendous job of getting our*
registration built up. It is not too early
for our leaders to begin rounding out
their plans and getting down to the
actual business of getting Negro citizens
down to the registration office. The
right kind of plans can not be made
with a divided leadership. The first
thing to be done is for the leaders
themselves to get together, and forget
about Eastside, West side, and anything
else which tends to divide. Our inter¬
ests are common, and the goal is a com¬
mon one. The best interest of our com¬
munity should be our common concern.
Truly, the time is short. Let’s all work
toward getting every qualified citizen on
the registration roll.
HAPPY NF.W YEAR.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“A CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, WILL SHOW THE WORLD WE MEAN
WHAT WE SAY.”
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BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP
A CHRISTMAS QUESTION!
“Where Is he that is born King of the
Jews?”
Thus queried the wise men in their quest
for the new-born Jesus. The passing cen¬
turies have not dimmed the lustre of the
Star of the East that rose upon the horizon
of history. Nations have waxed and wan¬
ed, and kingdoms have come and gone, em¬
pires have towered and toppled, but the
story of the coming of the King of the
Jews is as fresh today as when the Wise
men saw the star in the East and went to
worship him.
It is true that today Christmas has been
commercialized in a way that is disheart¬
ening to those who verily would worship
the King; but there is still to Christmas
a hallowed reverence that possesses ' the
human spirit and enraptures the mind
with solemn contemplatins.
Bereft of its commercialized aspects
Christmas is in very trtVth a time of times
and a succor to weary inankind as we plod
onward into the maze of the passing years.
Yesterday we were children prattling and
playing with our toys; today we face the
trim realities of a tough world moe bent
on gain and get than on the eternal verities
by which men live.
In spite of a high-powered optimism of
those who would discount the grim trage¬
dies of the present in favor of a roseate to¬
morrow, we are today living troubled times
with the threat of death and destruction
against everything we love and hold dear.
Our vaunted democracy is struggling for
its life. Our lovely land and our glo¬
rious liberties are poised in the balances
of uncertainty. Our cherished ideals of
Christian brotherhood are being trampled
in the dust by selfish souls who would pros¬
titute the greater opportunities of the pres¬
ent in the name of the ephemeral vaga¬
ries of human ambitions.
We live today in a color struck world.
We live in a world of dollar-mania. Wd
live in a world that is war-ridden—where
the dove of peace finds nowhere to rest,
her feet. We live in a world where man’s
inhumanity to man is still making count¬
less thousands mourn as Bobby Burns so
clearly saw and so convincingly told. And
all this in spite of the fact that he is King
of the Jews has been born in the earth.
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CELEBRITES FEATUR¬
ED AT NAACP
GARDEN SHOW
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 —
more top celebrities have agreed
to participate in the
benefit show for the National
Association . . or the Advance-
! held n "! in . Madison ?. orP Square POp c ' ° e
on Thursday. March 6.
Hammerstein, II, and Lena
Horne, co-chairmen, announced
today
Jimmy Durante, Camilla
hams, Dorothy Sarnoff, Dick
Campbell. Melvyn Douglas,
Maria Tallchief, June Havoc,
Ezio Pinza. Juanita Hall and
Eddie Cantor have added their
names to the parade of stars
who will serve on the commit¬
tee and entertain at the benefit.
Tickets for the benefit will be
priced from $1 to $5. The special
price for a box of eighteen seats
$ 100 .
Newspaper advertising is one
of the most effective
of acquainting the general pub-
lie with your commodities.
The wise men who sought the Christ Child
rightly queried: “Where is he that is born/
King of the Jews?”
They were convinced of his having been
born. They rightly called him “King of
the Jews.” They might have added King
of the Gentiles as well. King of Kings and
Lord of Lords. But the question of who
he was could not answer the quite as im¬
portant question of where he was. Christ¬
mas too clearly sets forth the almost
universal conviction that he was the king
of the Jews; but untoward circumstances
foist upon us the question of where is He
that is born King of the Jews?
We look in vain upon the thrones of the,
nations to find the new-born King. In the
councils of mankind we hear but feebly
the voice of those who would lift Him up
and let Him stand by faith on Heaven’s
table land. The great universities of our
own great nations - were founded on - fifth
in God; but in those great universities thb
teachings of Jesus Christ and the God who
gave him have but a meagre place, if place
at all.
We implore God, in the times of distress
and danger but in times of peace and se¬
curity and success and triumph we forget
him, until trouble knocks again at our
doors. Professedly the church of today
welcomes the new born King, but when
we consider the hypocrisy and meanness'
and hatreds and jealousies and prejudice
which are harbored in the church, we
might profitably ask even as we enter and
depart from the Church the searching
question, “Where is He that is born King
of the Jews?”
The nations are fighting today against
common evils that afflict the fighting na¬
tions. (
Moral values are being made sub¬
servient to racial and financial and finan¬ |
cial powerful cxperiencies. the When we see how j
are appeals of race and how
impotent the appeals of brotherhood we
can feebly sense the moral debacle in which !
the 20th Century finds itself.
Where is He that is born King of the
Jews? Unless he will have a back seat for
race prejudice and human selfishness, he
is standing without knocking. We pray
it may not be ever thus—The Christmas
question.
A Hard Thins: To Be A Negro
By Max Lerner
'
in New York Post, Dec. 27, 1951
The death machine was of nitro-glycerine or some such
| ' materiral, , and the louts planted it under the front bedroom
„ thp man and his wife were asleep . They meant to kill
him, and they did, but they ■ 7 did much more, too. The bomb
tore a *’ a V the ...... whole fron of ... the , house ...... but its effect carried
much farther- Bocausc of the mans death America will be
I condemned in the twelve corners of the earth-
The man’s name was Harry T. Moore. He headed up the
j NAACP activities in Florida. He was killed for only one rea-
He was a black man. and he had dared to fight for his
I right to live in America—even in Florida as other Amerl
j cans live.
He are a people slow to anger, but passionate in our wrath
The government of Hungary has found this out in the case,
of the fliers held for ransom. When will the people of
America turn their gaze homeward to acts when more inhu-^
man than the imprisonment of the airmen? And when will
a wave of wrath sweep away the puny hate movements that
now seem to infest Florida as they infest other states?
Does anyone care to rise and say that this was a casual 02
an isolated killing? Moore was active in the NAACP defense
of the Negro boys accused in the Groveland “Little Scottsboro”
case in Florida. He organized state efforts to help the Negroes
in the South to vote without being terrorized, to send theiri
I children to the same schools as white children, to be convict-1 I
ed of the same guilt and acquitted of the same innocence as!
[ the whites. ■ •
There have been three murders now as a result of tho
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952
^OME EDUCATION !T
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in
our columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY” Froebel
-i- 'j
----DOLLS’ CLOTHES ;
___Q„.,y I
“What art- you going to do
with that rubbish, Aunty?” I,
asked my visitor, •The fire is
the best place for those old
dolls’ clothes.”
“I think I can fix them up,”
responded Aunt Sarah.
She had picked from a jum-
bled toy box a doll’s bonnet, a
bedraggled pink silk dress, and
a coat burst across the back
from being forced around too
big a doll. Another dress had
evidently acted as a blackboard
eraser, and a white nightie had
nerved for wiping paintbrushes.
‘ Rather a waste of time,
don’t you think?” I commented,
smiling.
“I want to do something for
Nancy, and I’ve no spare cash
with which to buy her any¬
thing,” was the answer.
“But Christmas is now long
past,” I said. “She won’t be
expecting anything.” However,
I watched her with indulgence;
a woman without children must
be humored.
The little garments were
washed in warm suds, dried by
the fire, ironed and mended—
a button sewn here and a rib¬
bon there. At the sound of
Nancy’s step, returning from
school, all the things were
quickly pushed into a cup¬
board. “I want to surprise her,”
Aunty explained.
In the evening Aunty’s
scissors and needle were active.
From an old silk blouse and a
voile frock were made two of
the cutest doll dresses—with
real buttons and buttonholes—
that I had ever seen. Two card¬
board boxes, with lids sewn on
so that they would open and
shut but not come off,
used to hold this crisp, fresh
wardrobe. A roll of attractive
“pieces” for making more dress-
es and a bag of sewing materi-
als were added, and all were
laid on a chair 1 by Nancy’s bed.
I thought I knew my own
child pretty well, but I was not
p-epared for the delight that
those reconditioned dolls’
Groveland case. One boy was killed on the spot by a mob., A
second was shot by a county sheriff. Now Moore is the third
victim.
How much longer will we waiit to discover that there is.a
pattern of violence here. Three times on this case the Ne». .
"roes of Florida have found that the badge of color can meatfi
death. How much longer must the procession of deaths stretch
out? iliiW
It is a hard thing to be a Negro in America. I do not go ‘for
William L. Patterson, one of the few remaining Negro spokes-
men for Communism, who says that America is engaged! in.
“gpno: ide”—that is to say, in a planned mass extermination
bf Negroes. The Kremlin would of course like to place this,
brand of Cain on America.
The genocide charge is a lie, but even what is true is bit¬
ter enough. J. Sa'unders Redding’s recent little book “On ‘
irg Negro in America” shows that even an intellectual
Redding finds it a hard thing to be a Negro in America.
When Redding tries to remember about the progress that
America is making, how it is moving along on the long road/
to freedom, suddenly his mind goes back to the scene wherq
a white boy tells Redding's son that he no inoger can plg,y
with him. “Why?” asks the Negro boy. “Because you’re a
Nigger, that’s why,” is the sudden, brutal answer.
It may seem a long jump to make, from a conversation be¬
tween two boys to a man bleeding to death in a Florida hnuseif
because of a nitroglycerine bomb. But the hatred that starts
in childhood festers into manhood, and the words of spite be¬
come engines of death. What children says is what their fa¬
thers teach them to think, and what grown men do is what
they have been preparing to do all their lives.
There is no easy way to give meaning to Moore’s death.
One obvious way is for the Justice Department to act, anti
the action is long overdue on the whole series of outrages' irv
Florida. Just as important is the need for anger by all Amer¬
icans. to shame the fathers and sons alike.
The Jews need little prompting on this score, for the re¬
cent dynamiting in Florida have been directed as much against 1
them as against the Negroes. But the whole of America mUstl
learn that freedom depends on keeping an unbroken web Jr bf
human connection. ,
So many public figures have spoken out against the outrage!
to American fliers. I am waiting to hear them speak about
a dead man in Florida.
LAW MAKES EMANCIPATION
SPEECHES
W. W. Law. local NAACP
official, addressed Emancipation
programs in two middle Geor¬
gia towns on January 1. He
used as his subject ‘ Not All of
the Free Are Free.” He spoke at
1 o’colck in Ocilla where the
program was sponsored by the
Irwin County Civic League and
at 4 o’clock at a meeting of
Dodge county citizens in the
Peabody high school, Eastman.
The man distance between
the Sun and the Earth is over
93.000,000 miles. The Sun,
1,306,000 times bigger than the
Earth, is a star of only average
siz«..
clothes brought. How often her
dolls wore now dressed and un-
dressed, washed, talked1 to W
about! And the enthu.^m
lasted for many, many dayd.
Dolls’ clothes have a wondtpL
ful fascination for most iiltli
girls. Once asked what ; she
wanted for her birthday, a
small girl answered, “Dblt3’
clothes! Just dolls’ cothes/SAt
bazaars the 'dolls’ clothes booth’
usually sells out first—unless
prices are too high. Much in
connection With these clothes
has an educational value, bom
High schools spend large sums
on equipment to teach girls the
best way to dress and care for
young babies and to teach good
taste and economy in dressing
themselves.- We do not live near
such schools, but much can be
learned at home by just dress¬
ing a doll. • ,,
When buying a doll it is ad^
visahle to choose from the
smaller ones. These cost less,
are easier to dress, and are .not
too heavy for even very young
arms. It will be found that the
children generally prefer thpm,
Big dolls appeal to mothers
rather than to their children.
Real pleasure in orderliness
can be realized in caring for .q,
doll. Having a place for th«
doll’s clothes is importaqf.
Boxes are good for this purpqge.
One ought to be for underwear
and another for crushabip
dresses, which should be c.arg-,
fully folded. Better than boxes.
however, is a small chest of
drawers in a corner of the play-
1 room. This will hold many, dif-
ferent Ihings. But the draw¬
ers for doily’s wardrobe should
be kept strictly for that pur-
pose.
The desire to make clothes
for her doll family is often in
a child by helping her start the
! collecting of small pieces, of
pretty cloth. A little girl’s first
effort in sewing may be crudL
perhaps impossibe to use, Hut
if the child is encouraged the
effort will lead to future ac¬
complishments, even. perhajiV,
to making clothes for herself.
Top LcaJers Fly To Cut
A group of outstanding Amei
can Negro leaders is conclus^i
sessions of the Omega Psiq.F
fraternity in Miami with
New Year’s visit to Havar
Ninety-five members of *t
fraternity flew to the CUbi
capital Sunday by Pan Arne;
can World Airways and-
Cuban affiliate, Compania*-C
bana de Aviacion. Kif ty-f i
members of the tour party -it
Miami Sunday at 7:30 p.> II
(Flight 497 j and 40 otVcrs- d
parted an hour later TFlig
437-A).
The two groups Returned. <
flights arriving in Miami Tpc
day at 11 and 11:45 a. m,-~
time to attend the Orange Bo
football game that afternoon