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“In a world haunted by violence,
churches do their very best to represent
the spirit. 1 am warmly grateful for
that ... It may be that the democratic
way will not finally overcome the tyran¬
nical way until and unless the democra¬
cies somehow crusade under the banner
of the church. How can we defeat the
destructive dynamics of Communism un¬
less we employ the constructive dynam¬
ics of Communism unless we employ the
constructive dynamics of the spirit?”
—Roger William Riis
A SERMON WE HEARD
■ One Sunday morning a few years ago,
jn a brownstone church of Gothic archi¬
tecture, we heard a sermon which still
lingers in our memory. The interior
of the church, toned and trimmed in
mahogany, and the tall colored windows
harmonized with the aim of the archi¬
tect and the spirit of the congregation.
On the simple mahogany desk, about
two feet from the edge of the platform,
•was a bowl of nasturtiums. The acous¬
tics in this church were perfect, some¬
thing typical of most churches built in
the earlier years of the last century.
Everything in the church, the music of
the choir, the singing and the expectant
attitude of the congregation, conspired
to create an air of reverence, seldom ex¬
perienced in any church before or since
the Sunday morning in this beautiful New
England church. The customary pre¬
liminaries over, the minister stepped in
front of the desk, and announced his'
text: “Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toil not, neither do
they spin: And yet i say unto you,
That even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these."
Several things suggested the mention
of this story: the reported increase in
church attendance/, the article, 1 Am
For The Churches, in the November
Reader’s Digest, by Roger William Riis,
the growing recognition of the import¬
ant role of the church in solvihg the
world’s fears for its future, and most
importantly, the fear inspired reluctance
of many professing C hristians. The
inadequate support of our churches is
an unpleasant commentary on the pro¬
claimed loyalty of their members and
challenges them to re-examine their
faith and covenants, and live by them.
Willingness on the part of church people
to accept the assurance that a little
faith can move mountains, and that “ ill
these things shall be added unto you,"
meaning — talent, creature comforts,
earning ability, security, and what not,
if the injunction, “seek ye first (hi* king¬
dom of God, and His righteousness is
obeyed. The sermon on that Sunday
morning and most of the sermons of all
time, imply that many church people
fail to recognize that what they are,
what they have, what they may attain
unto, are determined by the Almighty
Creator, proved by this question: “Which
of you by taking thought can add one
cubit unto his status?” These considera¬
tions in every day practice will silence
the critics of Christianity and will solve
the problems that vex human relations
in the world.
‘ MIXING ANI) MINGLING’*
The above is the caption of an article
in the Statesman, Governor Talmadge’s
“political newspaper." The mere men¬
tion of this title brings to mind that many
counties right here in Georgia, bear
loathsome and hitter testimony that
one time “mixing and mingling” was a
practice more or less tragic in its effects
upon both white and Negro people, an
effect which not even time itself can
erase. Much as it is inveighed against
RACIAL VIEWS ON TV SHOWS
BUSTED BY GOV. TALMADGE
ATLANTA, Ga—(ANP/--Col¬
ored stars appearing on nation-
al television show reaching
.
the south, gave rise to stormy
protests by Gov Herman Tal-
madge of Georgia last week
who charged that several large
networks are violating “the
spirit of the south's segregation
laws.”
In an editorial column of Wr.!
political newspape; Pin' stnu-
man, Talma dg'- ringR'd out. the
Arthur Godfrey. Ken Murray,
and Clifton Faidman shows as
targets for criticism.
Talmadge said if those shows
were brought south to uppi ,-.i
on stage, they would be pro¬
hibited by law.
These shows Taibadge said,
Entered as Second Class Matter at the
Office at 8avannah, Oa, under the Act
March 3. IH'iS
National Advertising Representative-
Associated Publishers
562 Fifth Ave.
New York 19, New York
of the sort he complains about, will go
on increasingly, judged by what is hap¬
pening now. Bitter-enders, like Mr.
Talmadge will be pushed along by a sure
if slow, tide that is breaking down or
flow'ing over segregation barriers in im¬
portant areas. It would seem that Mr.
Talmadge would have become used to
“mixing and mingling” in sports and in
the entertainment fields. There has
been some of it in science, medicine, pol¬
itics, education and business, and con¬
siderable of it in law, as several Feder¬
al courts can attest. We are a little
sorry that our governor has meddled
into the business of such persons as
Arthur Godfrey, Ken Murray and Clif-
tin Fadiman who as entertainers or
producers are blazing a trail in demo¬
cratic practices some statesmen would
do well to follow. The governor’s blast
against unsegregated TV savors strong¬
ly of an indication that it is not too
early to begin to feed the “wool hat
boys” campaign fodder that will land
a seat in Congress. The suggestion
that southern members of ( ongress be
aroused to do something about intefer-
ing with the inter-state rights of broad¬
casting companies would seem to con¬
firm such a conjecture. The people in
the three shows mentioned seem to have
no objection to the Negroes who perform
v\ ith mem. Finally, the selector knobs
on TV sets are provided for the express
desires purnose of selecting the programs one
to see. So the governor and
those for whom he speaks can just turn
to a program that has no “mixing and
mingling” in it.
From apperanees, Georgia seems dis¬
posed to do as little as possible towards
equalizing school opportunities and fa¬
cilities- There is no question as to the
size of the problem, but however large
and troublesome a problem may be un¬
less a beginning is made, it will not get
solved. There are many times more
schools in Georgia for whites than for
Negroes, and probably the difference in
offerings is just as unequal. We had
high hopes that the parts of the Stray-
er Survey approved by the Board of
Regents would be carried out and ex¬
panded in the Negro colleges, but judg¬
ing by what is reported to have taken
place at the Savannah State College,
our hopes were ill-founded. Among the
portions of the survey approved by the
Regents was major emphasis on physi-
eal education, on vocational implications
tor home economics, and the trades. We
understand m a j o r s in physical
education and home e c o n o in i c s
are uo longer offered, and that little or
nothing is done in providing necessary
equipment in laboratories in courses in
business administration, or buildings. In
a recently released list of proposed build¬
ing improvements in state colleges, noth¬
ing was said about improvements at
the Savannah State College. It is un-
tair not only to Negro citizens, hut it
is unfair to the Savannah community,
white and colored, as well. It would
seem to be timely for local citizens to
look into what is actually going on or
proposed for our college. It is difficult
lor Negroes in Georgia to know in time
what is going on, because, unlike even
Mississippi, there is no inter-racial
group set up in Georgia to advise with
the Board of Regents as to what Ne¬
groes wish or need. We believe, as we
have said many times before, such a
gioup eon Id render valuable service to
the local community and to Negroes
throughout the state. It may be ne¬
cessary for Negroes to appeal to the
courts for relief, even though it may
mean that the governor will carry out
his threat to close Georgia schools. We
arc not presented in the good i
taste and good showmanship;
that should govern productions j
Blasting the three programs'
as “in bad taste,” lie mentioned
the Mariners, a quartet com¬
posed of two Negroes and two
whites featured in Arthur God¬
frey's program. Talmadge add¬
ed that • Negro men frequently j
’’ ' ’ 11 mixed up in the dan-;
ring ensembles in juxtaposition
to scantily clad white females."
Hr wrote that the Ken Mur¬
ray Christmas show presented
white and Negro children to¬
gether in a group dance and a
ladimaii how brought a Ne-
' ro performer into close con¬
versation with a white woman
Members of Kappa Alpha Fsi
stage star and they
badinage on a purely
equal basis.
Talmadge suggested
should be taken to arouse
resentment of (he
members of Congress. He
cluded that “good taste
should prevent such a
ion," but said it the
producers “do not have
good but'said' taste, then the great
if the
own resentment
toward the products
sponsor sucli shows.”
fraternity last week were
monished at its 41st
meet ine of the group in
dianapoiis to “Replace
raising with constructive
f or
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“OR DOES IT ONLY APPEAR THIS WAY, IN FLORIDA----?”
oi
I
10 Persons, 5 Institutions Cited For
Racial Contributions in
CHICAGO-IANP)- Six Ne-
groes were among the 10 per-
sons and five institutions cited
last week for outstanding con
trituitions to the Democratic
i way of life and placed on the
' Chicago Defender’s 1951 Honor
Roll.
j j The colored persons executive are: of
O. O. Morris,
! the Washington Park YMCA
! and the Wabash Avenue YM-
| CA; Pfc. William Thompson,
, victim of the Korean War;
! Crestes Minoso, Chicago White
i Sox Baseball player; Monte Ir
j vin, New York Giant baseball
! j layer; the Rev. Roland T
Heacock. minister of all-white
• church: and Li. George W.
I Memphis, Tenn., civic leader.
The four white persons are
Rudolph Bing, general
of the Metropolitan Opera; Gov.
j Paul Dovers. , Massachusetts;
Henry Ford, II, of Ford Motor
! company, and Gen. M. Ridgway,
USA commander in the Pacific.
The five institutions are the
University of Illinois. Drake un¬
iversity, St. Francis hospital,
Notre Dame university, and
National Conference of Christ¬
ians and Jews.
Morris was named for setting
Mixed Units
NEW YORK, N.
the most important
learned by the Army in
is that mixed units of
i and colored soldiers
( Wronger fipthting teams
segregated units.
j In an analysis of the
record of the Negro soldier
Korea in the current issue
j She Reporter magazine, John
i Spore and Robert F.
I both associated with the
j bat Forces Journal, declare
I “experience taught the
| that is the able average and spirited Negro
( as as
I white counterpart when he
| convinced that his
; have confidence in him and
treating him as an equal.'
; Although the lesson
• have been learned during
■. Second World War the
; was reluctant to act as a
hicle for social reform.”
; pointed to several War
studies made after the
World War which found
Negro combat units
and troublesome” and
' mended that the Army
again form Negro units of
visional size.
Segregation dies hard in
Army despite
as early as 1922 that racial
ficulties could be avoided if
or two Negro soldiers
placed in every white squad.
In 1945 the Gillen
headed by Lt. Gen. A. C.
rm, recommended what in
ual practice would have
/the creation of a “second
consisting entirely of
This P ro P osal was
i by thc President’s
1 an Equality Equality of of Tieatment Treatment
Opportunity in the Armed
v 'ees the Charles Fahy
mittee—which pointed out
the pace in Y work in 1951 and
for leadership in the building
r.f new $1,500,000 Washington
Park YMCA in Chicago,
Ff.. Thompson, winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor,
for sacrificing his life in valor
above and beyond the call of
duty in the .;o,ean war to up¬
hold (he ideals of Democracy;
Minoso for capturing the
; ,u : of the nation’s fans and
being voted American League
Rookie of the Year” ly the i
Sporting News; j
Irvin for helping spark New
York Giants to National League
pennant and seeking a seat in
the New Jersey legislature,
P Hearerk for his work in
promoting interracial under-
itanding and good will;
mm And Lt. m. Lee for iui his u*.. fight nnut; I
again ; illiteracy and for rally-1
ing Negroes to register and vote 1
in Memphis. down' (
Also Bun for breaking
color bar in employment by
hiring Miss Janet Collins as
company's first permanent Ne¬
gro ballerina;
Gov. Dovers for hiring a col-
oreri secretary, Mrs. Ruili Will-
iams, and pressing for better
race relations;
Make Best
' Segregation . . . forced inef-.
Uciency in two ways. By requir-,
ng skilled Negroes to serve in
racial units, the Army lost skills!
which could find no place in 1
N“gro organizations. On the'
other hand, by concentrating
large numbers of unskilled Ne-
roes in combat units it mul-
tiplied inefficiency.”
I
T Pr ud 'lii ; Executive/
0"dn in 1948 finally led to
opening of all jobs and Septem-j school •
r*ovivc.i to Negroes in
ber, 1949. Other parts of the
di i-i live led to further .steps in
th° fight again t segregation. ,
Th° elimination of segrega-j
ticn in the Army is not yet
■ '“nnlete. the Reporter states: i
“Progress has been slow in
f rope and in such established
taUations in the States as
11. overhead units that operate
the Army’s schools, large head-
qur>r:r>\s and depots. It is
almost completely abolished in
the Far East.
Negro noncoms and officers
have had “conspicuous success¬
es’’ in the command and train¬
ing of mixed units of draftees
and, the authors say, “one of i
the earliest bright spots on
non. see rogation map was Fort
’arkson, S'. C.
Results thus far have been
* significant, the Reporter says:
“It has given the Negro sol¬
: dier a sense of intimate mem-
her ship in the Army of the
j United States. It has wiped
from the conscience of white
j soldiers the feeling om moral
guilt that segregation inflicted.
of on the what United is, after States. all. the And Army it; j
has wrested from the enimies
^ of democracy a sharp propa-1 I
ganda weapon.”
HOME EDUCATION
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Street, New York City. Th*~e articles are appearing weekly | B
our columns.
•THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY” Froebel
A CHILD CAN LEARN TO BE FRIENDLY
AND COMPASSIONATE
Helen Green
Bright-cyerl Teddy piped up, j
-I’m glad you’re sitting by me!”
Commenting to the mother on
her child's charming manner,
she replied, “I’m trying to teach
Teddy to feel and to express a
warmth of friendliness for peo¬
ple.” answered.
“Delightful!” I
‘Too many forget the rich div -1
idends such attitudes pay.'
I have a friend who has lived
in many countries. “I was reared
in a small town,” I heard her
say, “and I feel that it was a
great advantage. Where the
community is small people are
apt to be more interested in
each other, I think.”
Certainly she is interested in
everyone kindly disposed and
understanding. She told us of
an eight-year-old boy in a
Children’s Home who answered
the question. “Have you any
money. Bobby?” with, No! I
I haven’t. I had a dollar, but I
gave it our television fund.”
Then she held out her hand to
us ingratiatingly. “I’m helping
with the television set for
Bobby’s Home. Any donations?”
Another friend of mine raised
money for the younger children
j schoolteacher. and wndow of This her family daughter’s lives
.
Ford for using the vast Ford
resources in the fight against !
racism and urging fairplay in j
Gen. Ridgway for his order
banning Jim Crow in the Pa-
eific Command and speeding up
integregation in units of the
Arn1 y j
The University of Illinois for
election of Miss Clarice Davis
_________________ homecoming “Queen” _____ by the
student body and for honoring
a Negro at its traditional “Dad’s
Day” celebration;
Drake university for with-
drawing from the Missouri Va!
lev Conference because 0 f j '
treatment given football star
Bright who was injured
in a game with Oklahoma A \
St. Francis hospital for prae-
t •—..... icing fair employment “v——>....... -...... and in- 1
tegration despite protests and
walkouts;
Notre Dame university for ex-; j
panding ;:ie principle ot Demo-,
cratic education and active;
participation in campus life of
all races and creeds.
And the National Conference
of Christians and Jews for its
distinguished work in promot-|
ing brotherhood and denoun- j
cing intolerance.
i
COUSINS, 15 OTHERS ELECT¬ j
ED TO NAACP BOARD i
)
NEW YORK, Jan. 7—Norman |
Cousins, editor of the Saturday! '
Review of Literature , and , auth¬
or of “Modern Man Is Obsolete j
and other works, is among four'
new members elected to the!
board of directors of the Na-
Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
today at the Association’s an-
nual meeting, held at the
Wiilkie Memorial Building, 20
West 40th Street.
Rev, James M. Hinton, presi-1
dent of the South Carolina
State Conference of NAACP
branches and a leader in the
fight to end segregation in the
public schools of South Caro-
lina, was also elected to the 48-
man board, as were Dr. H.
Claude Hudson, an NAACP life
member from Los Angeles, and
Andrew Weinberger of New
York, a member of the board
of directors of the NAACP Le¬
gal Defense and Educational
Fund. Inc.
Members of the board who
re-elected are Dr. Joseph
Berry, Tuskegee, Ala.; Hon.
T. Delanv, New York;
Lewis S. Ralph Harlow, North¬
ampton, Mass.; Mrs. Daisy
Lampkin, Pittsburgh; Carl
Murphy, Baltimore; Walther
Reuther, Detroit; A Maceo
Smith, Dallas; Arthur B. Spin-:
garn, New York; Dr. Channing 1
H. Tobias, New York, and Dr. U.!
S. Wiggins, Camden, N. J.
The board members were !
elected by ballots sent in by
NAACP branches to be opened
and tabulated at the annual |
meeting.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1952
know canceled a pleasure
engagement in order to take a
acquaintance to dinner
and the theatre, f'he had men¬
tioned <to them. am ;;o lone¬
ly!” “That settled it!" the. wife
told me, eyes gentle with
sympathy. “Wo couldn’t have
enjoyed a gay evening thinking
of that unhappy tub!
These good people are pass¬
ing on their line golden-rule
ideas to their children. When
seven-year-old Carol received
a birthday check from her
Uncle Joe, she cried out excit¬
edly, “Oh, Mommy — a new tew
doll!” I
Mother smiled clown at
coppery curls and twinklinl
eyes. “Mandy’s still your favi
orite doll, isn’t she, darling?
What about the children in
Europe who need food and
clothing?”
“And dolls, too, Mommy--
that’s right, we’li send them
the birthday money.”
Yes, even little ones become
bore dif life is all play. There ■
arc many . thoughtful things
they can do. They can carry a
delicacy to the chum who is
ill, select a gift for Gram, save
for Sunday school. They can
be quiet when Mommy is rest¬
ing; play in another room when
Sister is studying for an exam¬
ination. They can invite the
new, not-yet adjusted fellow
pupil to come to dinner.
At a party an executive of a
large corporation—aYale grad¬
uate—quoted a Chinese proverb
which he had learned, h“ said,
from his lovely grandmother:
A bit of fragrance clings to
j jj and f] ia f gj Ves y OU roses.”
• j he learned better
am usre no
J sentiment a.t Ya.lc!
j j Every child lie {natures
as
| should ove into a responsibility, circle of re¬
| sponsibility —
however, not too large nor too
small for his capacity. Boys and
girls nerd to associate with the
type of persons who will give
them some erm “rehenrion of
what life requires of us. Ace
you, parent reader, teaching
your children to understand?
Do they daily show compassion,
so that “a bit of fragrance”
clings constantly to their small,
loving hands?
a farm. “If Ann had a deep
my friend had con-
“Mary and I would
it stocked.” Now the on"c-
mother has no more
problems,
I heard Dr. and Mrs. Hariy
Overstreet speak on
of A Sound Per-
They declared that
many personalities are built
san< ^’ k°Gi patents and
need to keep m contact
those things which ai e
than themselves. They
the importance of
a child compassion.
When children show a sincere
in the people with
they come in touch, we
they are developing un¬
compassion and
to help. There are
ways, at all age levels,
viirh one one may mav j rcallv assist
a smj|p n l ydjsprl WPari
a small personal sacri-
may bring hope and cour-
^ V cry popular couple whom
REVISITS SOUTH,
SEGREGATION DIES HARD
NEW YORK, Jan. T.
Rowan was a “green, small¬
town youngster” when he left
his native Tennesseee in 1942
to join the U. S. Navy. When
returned, nine years later,
a great deal of water had
under the bridge. He had
earned a degree from Oberlin
college and had become a well-
known writer for a big mid-
west newspaper, the Minneap-
Morning Tribune. Now, a
graduate and journalist,
Ml . Rowan has written the
f 0r y 0 j t r ip “back home
Ihe land of Jim Crow” for
The issue American of Look magazine, j
Negro has
greater strides toward
greedom in the past9 years I
than in any other nine years in j
history, Mr. Rowan declares in
his Look article. But despite
talk of a ‘ New South,” eom-
P lote equality of educational,
social and economic opportun¬
ity is still far away.
Although he knew he would
find the Negro better off in
some big and some small ways,
he found m his home town and
elsewhere the same dismal
ing conditions he had known
as a child, he says. He saw little
SIX NEGRO TECHNICIANS
APPOINTED TO SCS STAFF
Six Negro technicians were
appointed to the field staff of
Soil Conservation Service in the
latter part of 1951, reports the
U. S. Department of Agricul¬
ture. Those appointed are;
Leon F. Blankenship, stationed
at Grambling, La.; Brown L.
Brakens at Marshall, Texas;
Chester S. Durley, Mairon, Ark;
S. L. Hill, Marshall, Texas; Ir¬
vin Musgrove, Linden, Texas;
and W. B. Webster, Marshall,
Texas.
Contracts will be let this
week for the $875,000 men ( s
dormitory at Hampton Insti-
tute. It will house 257 persons.
or no improvement in housing
or employment conditions. In
his home town, he found that
Negro teachers still had to
bring books out of the pub¬
lic library if their pupils want¬
ed them.
Mr. Rowan credits the fed¬
eral Courts and the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People witty
many of the victories again
segregation in the South. Hfl
points to the Universities or
Arkansas and Oklahoma, which
opened their doors to
students, and where the
races now study together in
harmony. He also found many
white Southerners who were
against segregation and who
wanted a "New South,” but
told him they were afraid
to speak out.
“I felt that the fight for
freedom could and would be
won, but it would mean work
and more work,” Mr. Rowan
states at the conclusion of the
in Look, Black or
n , hil . We Dice
a eommon destiny, i hat, to me,
is ttie greatest hope—both for
the Negro and democracy.”
REGISTRATION
GETS UNDERWAY
The campaign of the Pro¬
gressive Citizens League to
stimulate the registration of
voters in Chatham county has
gotten underway. This drive to
increase the number of voters
will be stressed Thursday night
at a special meeting of the or¬
ganization to be held at the
West Broad street YMCA on
the evening of January 24. All
interested organizations and
individuals are requested to at¬
tend the meeting which will
begin at 8 p. m.
Jerry D. Bryant is president
of the Prigressive Citizen's
League.