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“Nobody grows old merely living a num¬
ber of years; people grow old only by
deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle
the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self¬
distrust, fear and despair . . these are
the long, long years that bow the head
and turn tne growing spirit back to
dust.” —Anonymous
HAS THE MAYOR FORGOTTEN?
Several months ago, in announcing
the plans of the city to construct two
new firestations, Mayor Fulmer suggest¬
ed that one of them might be manned
with Negro firemen. The mayor’s sug¬
gestion was not acted on, perhaps, be¬
cause time had not come for the actual
construction of the stations. Now that
the fire committee of Council has ap¬
pointed some one to supervise the con-
construction. A new station in west Sa¬
vannah, it is timely and proper to re¬
mind the mayor of his suggestion. Money
for the building of the tirestation was
made available through a bond election
in which Negro citizens participated along
with other citizens, and for which they
will have to pay just like other citizens.
This is not an unreasonable expectation.
It is natural for the time we are living
in tor Negro citizens to aspire to parti¬
cipate in municipal employment oppor¬
tunities other than as messengers, por¬
ters, or elevator operators. There is
no just reason why Savannah has not
employed Negro firemen. Other south¬
ern cities have used them. Nashville,
Tenn., and Charleston, S. C., have em¬
ployed them for a long time, anil with¬
out incident. We certainly hope Coun¬
cil will lollow .the mayor’s suggestion
and construct a station to be manned ,by
Negroes.
THE COUNCIL-MANAGER CHARTER
From the very beginning of the move¬
ment by the Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce for replacing the present plan of
municipal government with the council-
manager plan, we have been studying
information from various sources and
we are convinced that the plan will be
just as good for Savannah as it has
been fer other cities that have employed
the traditional form of government ami
have run into the difficulties common to
many of them. From what we have
learned, we are also convinced that a
charter which does not conform to the
spirit and purpose of charters used by
the cities that have had success, as¬
tounding success, is not the kind of
charter Savannah should have. We
feel the citizens of Savannah desire to
have a charter drawn by a commission
of citizens w ho are not identified with
the present political factions, or by a
citizen whose mind is not set against
change. Tne weakness of the plan to
use 12 aldermen and a mayor who will
select a local man preferably, is obvious,
and which offers no promise to accom¬
plishing what the people of this city
seem to desire. Cities using the council-
manager pi n report that oppositon to
the plan comes mostly from politicians,
so it is not surprising to advocates of
the plan here that the possibility exists
that, so far as the legislature is con¬
cerned, the difference between those of¬
fering charters for approval may inter¬
fere with an early adoption of the coun¬
cil-manager plan in Savannah. It
seems to us the important consideration
in selecting a manager is not whether he
is a resident, but whether he has suc¬
For End Cairo Jim Crow
CAIRO. 111.. Jan. 24-Dr. W.
A. Fingal, president of the
Cairo branch of the National
Association for the Ad\ance-
mant of Colored People, an-
nounced here this week tha.,
George N. Leighton, NAACP
attorney of Chicago, will con-
fer with local and national
NAACP officials on the
cations of Negro students for
transfers to schools nearest
their homes. Effective
day, January 28, the
involve nearly sixty
students who will report to * the
• heretofore > • “white" ..... grade, • jun¬
ior and senior high schools.
Negro parents here began
filing applications for trans
fers on January 17. following
a series of conferences held
between Cairo school authori-
ties and NAACP officials. NA-
ACP Assistant Filed Secretaries
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
Office at Savannah, Ga, under the Act of
March 3, 18 76
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cessful experience as a city manager
We should like to see the ideas and
plans of the Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce carried out. We believe the cit¬
izens desire the same thing.
WHY THE SIGN?
We have been informed that separate
rooms have been arranged for receiving
tax returns for white and Negro citi¬
zens. We have seen the sign in the
tax collectors office, land we wonder
why. There are no such arrangements
at the City Hall, nor at the post office,
nor at most of the banks. We have
seen no such signs in the stores. We
wonder why segregation is necessary
at the court house. Such a thing, im¬
posed upon citizens by those whom they
elect and employ, is a slander on de¬
mocracy, is an injustice, and seems de¬
signed to perpetuate the fiction of infe¬
riority. It is more, importantly a
challenge to the Negro’s aspiration to
become a first class citizen in this
county, who doesn’t deserve to have his
feeling so unnecessarily hurt. Some¬
thing else we wonder. Why wouldn’t
such a thing appeal to Negro citizens
in Chatham county as a very good rea¬
son for registering and becoming quali¬
fied to express their resentment when
election time comes? Twenty-five thous¬
and Negro voters in this county at elec-
ion time could correct such a condition
and others like it, with proper leader¬
ship. And our leaders in this county
can not consider that they have discharg¬
ed their duty toward their members, or
lodge brothers, or to themselves and
their self-respect as citizens, until they
have done all they should do to get ev¬
eryone, eighteen years and over, to be¬
come a qualified voter who will make it
his bounden duty to vote whenever the
opportunity to do so presents itself.
THERE IS HOPE
Nearly four years ago policemen
stood at the door of a Negro church in
Birmingham, Ala., to see that the seg¬
regation laws of the state were not brok¬
en at a Progressive party rally. A Unit¬
ed States Senator was roughed-up and
arrested because he insisted on using a
door set aside by the “law” for the use
of Negroes in their own church. Last
week in Miami, Florida, police were on
hand to see that the segregation tradi¬
tion was not observed at a concert giv¬
en by Miss Marian Anderson. This
took place in a city which is still trying
to run down terrorists who a few days
ago threw bombs to give force to their
intention to fight to the bitter end against
change. They even killed a man, be¬
lieving they could kill an idea or a
spirit. 01 her incidents which keep our
hope for better days alive, were report¬
ed recently in the press: one, that the
presiding judge in the case of Miss
Bankhead against her maid was Judge
Harold Stevens, a Negno, a native of
South Carolina; another, that Judge Wen¬
dell Green of Chicago, 111., presided in
1 he trial of Moretti, a Chicago policeman,
charged with the murder of a Mexican
youth. Moretti was suspected of traf¬
ficking with gangsters. These Negro
judges proved that they possess judicial
temperament of the amount and quality
to maintain integrity of the legal pro¬
fession. Negroes who have had the
chance have not failed to prove that
color of skin does not determine skill
or talent . Discouraging as things may
seem a L times, nothing has happened to
keep us from hoping.
j Tune Shagaloff and Lester P
Bailey also appeared before the
Cario City Council, to discuss
the steps taken thus far toward
integration, and to request,
the name of the Cairo
a public statement reaffirming
the legal rights of Negro child-
ren to attend the schools near-
est their homes.
j Mayor Edgar Smith promised
to refer the drawing up of
such a statement to the Corpor-
ation Counsel. NAACP officials
stated that the lTs.
Attorney a * a .... and . the state FBI
office r «. at Springfield had been
informed regarding the initial
step, Jan. 28, in school
gration in Cairo.
____ Mr. _»,._. Leighton, 4WV4t who became
famous in the Cicero riot cases
j i the was Harrisburg, the attornev of record in
ill.,
regation case. wherein
Editor Johnson Improving
Sol C. Johnson, editor and
publisher of the Savannah
Tribune, is convalescing at
1 charity hospital. Mr. Johnson
is chairman of the trustee board
of the hospital and has served
in this capacity for many years,
______—
WALTER WHITE ILL
NEW YORK. Jan. 24— For the
second consecutive week, Wal-
i ^er white, executive secretary
of the National Assoiation for
the Advancement, of Colored
People, has been confined to
his hump under orders of his
“ * ’ Wright,
Pending o diagnosis fc bv a special- .
i S t, Mr. White is remaining at
home though keeping in touch
W ith his office.
; school officials publicly agreed
to admit Negro children to ail
schools prior to action
■ before ' the federal court.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
‘‘NEEDED, IF WE ARE TO LEAD THE WAY
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(By Dean Gordon B. Hancock For ANP)
ANOTHER NEGRO
For many years the Negro athletes have
rejoiced the hearts of a struggling race. Just
what Negroes would have done without the
pride and inspiration that stemmed from
the performances of Negro athletes is diffi¬
cult to imagine.
Gur Jack Johnsons, Joe Louises, Eddie To-
lans, Jesse Owenses; our Jackie Robinsons,
Satchel Paiges, and more recently our flock
of rising baseball stars to say nothing
about our star football players whose ster¬
ling performances have been epitomized in
the great Buddy Young and his kind.
These- Negro athletes have not only done
much In bolstering our at times flagging
pride, but their contribution has been as
great in winning the respect of the white man
Strangely enough, it seems that the stub
born race barriers are going to crumble
fl st. not in the house of Gjpd where Jesus
is preached so faithfully eabh Sabbath, but
in the stadium and boxing ring, the dia¬
mond and on the football gridiron and bas¬
ketball court.
Negroes are received for what they are
in the fields of sports; but when It comes
to the church of God, they are not at the
doors like so many step brothers—"in the
Lord.” ,.
Inis writer still cannot understand why
some Negro college does not give Branch
Rickey an honorary degree in recognition
of the monumental contribution he made
to the cause of better race relations. Rick¬
ey set the ball rolling and now it is only
a matter of time and a matter of the Ne¬
gro’s fuller preparation for full-fledged cit¬
izenship.
Some months ago some wise Negro said
that the fight for full citizenship had been
won. He was right. The remaining task-
is to get the Negro to prepare himself to
take over his larger estate and responsibil¬
ities. One of the more pressing dangers
today is that we spend too much time
fighting the white man and not enough
time preparing the people for their larger
estate. The burden of this preparation ia
not on the Negro masses but on the lead¬
ers whoever they are, irrespective of their
levels.
The Negroes who made the most of seg-
gregation and its handicaps, those who,
fought through the NAACP. and the fel¬
EDITOR ROBERTSON
ADDRESSES THE HUB
1 ing^r A rnusino :~So™ enthusiast!.’ meet
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1 held on Wednesday, Jan. 23rd,
with one of the largest attend
ances in many months. It was
■ one of the Hub’s regular
/ eon meetings held each Wed-
j nesda y but took on added
significance because the
fact that a spe ial effort had
fceen madr to get out a large
attendance with a view' toward
reviving the interest of some
I members whose attendance had
; been somewhat infrequent.
William J. Robertson, editor
of The Morning News, was guest
speaker and musical numbers
were rendered by Hilliary R
Hatchett, Jr.. of Savannah
state college,
was principally a
meeting and the various
Passions nroccinnc seemed capidpH to In indicate inrlipoto a a
detemination rlntominn firm f for ac increased ID nroo corl oni act-
mtl * s and grcater achieve-
ments.
The guest speaker was intro-
duced by the Rev. A C.
right and J. Q Jefferson
spondect for the organization,
The president reviewed
I many accomplishments of the
RISING
low's who just hold down their jobs, all
are victors In the fight. It took them all
to win the fight. It is going to take their
fullest cooperation to prepare the Negroes
for the larger responsioilities of tomorrow.
But back to these Negro stars.
A few days ago a Negro jockey called
"Shorten Bread” Hosea Richardson, arrived
at Tropical Park In Florida where Negro
Jockeys have been noted for their absence.
The records have it that no Negro had ever
ridden in Tropical Park in Florida before,
tut "Shorten Bread” who has been winning
races in the West and Middle West this win¬
ter, turned up at Tropical Park and was
licensed. |
He appeared the other day In his first
race and the crowd was on its toes. At the
break Shorten Bread took his horste in
front and could not be overtaken. When
the other jockeys "made their move,” Short¬
en Bread made a better “move.” He won
by two lengthhs. He not only took the
lead but kept it. J
The newspapers had it that the great
crowd of thousands of race fans stood and )
cheered "Shorten Bread” two minutes. I
am not as much interested in his winning
the race as I am in the two minutes of sus¬
tained and vociferous applause. The heart
of the great throng was with Shorten Bread.
Why? Because he is a first class jockey
and because his expert riding gave the
crow'd an opportunit to yshow how it feels
toward worth while Negroes.
The heart of this country is on the right
side! Whenever a Negro performs the crowd
is ready to admit and reward and applaud
this performance. This fact has been
proved nowhere more conclusively than in
the spectacular rise of Joe Louis and Jack¬
ie Robinson.
In fact whites seem always eager to givq
a Negro a hand. The trouble is with the
w'hite man in power, the politician parad-i
ing as a white supremist. Their days are
numbered. Just as we have watched our
boxing rings, baseball diamonds, football
gridiron and basketball courts for thrills
from our stars we can now turn our atten¬
tion also to the race tracks where more will
be heard from "Shorten Bread,” another
rising star.
Hub and appealed for increased
support for the tasks that lie
ahead. There was a prevailing
s P ;rit of optimism in the ex-
Passions of those who respond-
ed to the appeal and much suc '
cess for the coming year seemed
P° s it' ve ly ' n making.
jbe committee responsible for
excellent results was corn-
posed of R. W. Gadsden, R. C
^rd' Long. gamuef J. R. Jenkins 7* Brown" and mes'i- B. C.
Ford. Ford ' Samuel Samuel J. J - Brown, Brown ' p P resi
dent of the club, presided. I
NEW JERSEY CIO
VOTES AID FOR
JENT0N TWO
NEWARK., Jan. 24—Continued
support of the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of i
Colored People in its defense of'
the remaining two defendants
in the case of the Trenton Six |
has been voted by the New
JCfSCJ' StfttC CIO.
The labor goup endorsed the
case following an appeal from!
the NAACP for continued
nancial and moral support. Four 1
of the six young men were Jic-i
quited in a retrial of their,
case last Spring, including two’
represented by NAACP lawyers.
NAACP is joining with the
American Civil Liberties Union
and the Princeton Committee
i n appealing the conviction of i
the other two.
IF 1 COULD FORGET THE
PAST
By William Henry Huff~"
If I cpuld ’’ust forget the past
Ru'tTne t would so happy be.
But Lng as as memories memories of of it it last la t,
There'll be no harmony.
A rose that blossoms once and
fades
Will blossom not again
Though dew drops come in cav¬
alcade
And daily comes the rain.
if incidents I could forget
That broke my heart in two
And caused my inner soul to
fret.
My whole nfe would be new.
that, , , ,. it cannot , , be
seems,
done
No Nfl matter IT13. t how I try;
There is no power 'neath the
sun
can this knot untie.
Write ^your ^name on the
hearts of suffering people—
Give to ' One Great Hour of
Mar. lb-23. |
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1952
HOME EDUCATION
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th
New York City. The-e articles are appearing weekly in
columns.
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—Froebel
5= -fr--g- —
WATCHA MEAN?
M. Louirj C. Hastings
This expression, ’
we hear on all sides
Children have always
to know the meaning of
Is the today’s way child- they j
learned—but
when they question have
own way of asking for in- ;
The small children i
visit us use the expression;
boy across the street uses
We park beside a curb, and a
passing with his mother is
repeating the same ques-
tlon in the same children way. who bring The j
Iheir turtles and snakes to me [
for identification all use the -
wording. There Is a
charm to this express-
that grows upon one. I’ve;
heard IL-oh, so many, many ;
times—and I like it.
“I tthink the way Shirley in I
terrupts you when you are
reading to her is dreadfully!
rude—and the way she asks,,
again and again, ‘Watcha j
mean?’ is positively uncouth! j
When I was a girl 1 listened i
and never opened my mouth.”
So said a visiting aunt who has
strong opinions and is always
sure that what she thinks Is
right. My aunt is living in the
yestedays; the child of today:
is a now species to her. It does
no good to try to win her over
to modern ways. It just can’t be
done. There is only one way to
her—her way 1
I might have told her that
this was how Shirley learned benefit! j
-that it was really a
to both of us for her to ask me i
questions. Questions and an-
swers bring mother and child
into close association. All sorts
of questions come up from
reading aloud. We do not wish
our children to say, "No, don’t i
let's ask Mother questions like
(hot: let's ask one of the older
girls.”
I knew a mother who read
aloud to her two boys every,
noon, while they ate their
lunch, during their entire pri-
mary and grammar school
What delightful times
must have had, and what
Life Ins. Co.
Hold Annual Meeting
Stockholders
The annual meeting of Stock¬
of Guaranty Life Insur¬
Company will be held at
P- m., February 14, at the
office of the company,
West Broad St., Savannah.
TO TAL-
“YOU’RE A
Arthur Godfev on his Wed¬
nesday night TV show took
another swing at Governor
last week by taking
over where Walter Winchell
left off.
When the time came lor the
last number on the program,
Golfrey introduced the show’s
quartet, composed of two
white singers and two Negroes.
Godfrey said. "This one is ded¬
icated to his excellency, Gov.
Talmadge of Georgia,” The
group joined Godfrey in singing
the old time hit, "You’re a
Nobody.”
NAPA to Meet In Detroit
NNPA TO MEET IN ST. LOUIS
DETROiIT, Michigan — The i
13th annual convention of the |
National Newspaper Publishers!
Association will be held in St. I
Louis on June 19, 20, and 21, at
which time Publisher J. Mitch- will. j
ell of the St. Louis Argus
receive a special citation from
the association, it was an¬
nounced this week.
, fThe announcement followed
the annual Mid-Winter Work-
shop of NNPA which was held 1
at the Gotham Hotel here last j
week-end. Over forty publish-
ers, editors, and newspaper
executives from all over the
country participated in the
workshop sessions.
The opening session last Fri¬
day was highlighted by a sym¬
posium on editorial techniques
which was directed by William
Nunn of the Pittsburgh Couri¬
er, Charles Loeb of the Clever
land Call and Post, Enoc P.
Waters of the Chicago Defender
and ---- William --------- ------ Matney of the
Chonicle. |
A symposium at Saturday’s
happy
cherish. Instead of saying
"Whatcha mean, Mother?’’ they
probably asked. "What does
that mean, Mother?” But, al-
ways, children need to ask
questions.
The important point, how-
ever, is not the wording- of the
Questions but the fact that
Mother answers the questions
willingly and intelligently. It is
a blessed privilege to be able
to explain situations that the
children meet day by day, in
their books as well as in their
lies. None of us wish our boys
and girls to get the wrong out-
look upon life.
It Is unfortunate w'hen
rents turn away from their
children's questions. It is true
that mothers and fathers are
generally busy: yet we never
shuold be too busy to meet the
child’s immediate need. We do
an injustice to both the child-
ren and ourselves when we do
not rise to the occasion. Some-
times questions come at. un-
usual and inopportune mom-
ents, and we are obliged to do
difficult and embarrassing ex-
plaining; nevertheless, it is
wise, if possible, to do she
explaining at the psychological
moment,
, 'Watcha , mean? „„ is . an atti-
^ t udc of m!nd npt hmlled to
fcoys and frirls " Now and then
,he expression itself is used by
ask adults questions; " We mus otherwise } contlmlc growth to
remala at a S: " andstiiL
When WP l0S(> our curoslty re '
yarding history science, or any
phas ' of hfe " ll ls unfortunate,
Berts fathsr called , up to ts "
us that Bert would be late. He
was driving the car for his
grand paernts in the vicinity of
a large fire. "Oh.'Isaid, "he will
probably be detoured and have
t.e go all around Robin Hood's
barn.” Quick as a flash came
back the question. "Whatcha
mean—Robin Hood’s barn?”
"Seen and net heard” is cer-
tainly no fitting description of
the youth, or adult, oo today!
NAACP YOUTH SEC Y
IN BRAZIL FOR
STUDENT MEET
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil.
Jan. 24—Herbert L. Wrieht,
national youth secretary of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
arrived here this week for the
Inter-Amcrican Student Con¬
ference sponsored by the Na¬
tional Students Union of
Brazil.
As a delegate from the Na¬
tional Students Association of
the United States, Mr. Wright
is representing the youth of the
U. S. at this conference of
students from all countries of
the Americas. The purpose of
the confab is to establish
friendly relations and better
working conditions between all
students of the Americas and
to discuss cultural, social and
economic problems affecting
youth.
The conference began on
January 23 and will last until
February.
was presided over by
Stanley of the Louis-
Defender and the discuss-
were led by Arnett Murphy
the Afro-American, Dowdal
of the Kansas City Call,
Williamson of the St.
Argus and John Seng-
of the Chicago Defend-
Special reports were given by
W. Young of the Nor¬
Journal and Guide, How-
Murphy of the Afro-
W. O. Walker of the
' ’ Call ~ " and ' “ Post and
Wesley of the Houston
Les Griner, production man¬
of the Detroit News, was
featured speaker at a din¬
meeting during the work¬
conference.
The newspaper executives
feted by the Booker T.
Trade Association
a luncheon and were en¬
by the Alpha Phi Al¬
fraternity. Host papers
the Detroit Tribune and
Michigan Chronicle.