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RESTLESS GHOSTS
Some years ago a lawyer when
upon to give a decision to the legality
paying Negro teachers salaries equal
the white teachers, answered that not
was it legal to do so, but according to the
XIVth Amendment, it would be illegal
to. Equal salaries were granted
teachers within three years. That was
that happened. White teachers did
resign and the schools went on, not
only as usual but a little better than usual.
Nothing dire happened. Of course,
worst injury had been done. The
suffered by the Negro teachers over
period of nearly seventy years can not be
remedied. We do not know how it can
be attonerl for. Probably, while they did
not live to ser the day of equal salaries,
they rest because the day did actually
come. There are some regrets, perhaps,
that the sense of justice did not move
those who directed education to do justice.
However the pain of feelings of remorse as
to the past are not to lie compared with the
anxiety and the pressure which live with
those charged with the responsibility
trying to find escape from guilty consci¬
ences and the means of coping with the
educational problems that 57 years of de¬
liberate dereliction now present.
would be amusing, if it were not so seri¬
ous a matter, that some of the southern
states border on panic in their efforts to
build school houses, provide facilities
employ top teachers, in order to live up
the “separate but equal doctrine” of a
court decision of 1896. Our faith in the
ultimate triumph of right and justice
leads us to believe that wrongs in many
other areas, like restless ghosts, will rise
up to plague the apostles of prejudice
injustice and send them scampering to
make amends.
DECISION DEFERRED
The U. S. Supreme Court’s action in de¬
ferring its decision on segregation has
been the signal for a flood of comments
and predictions as to the final decision
that may come in October. We have com¬
mented before on some of the suggested
courses to be pursued when a favorable
decision is rendered, but the court’s action
calls forth a development in our state that
is new and almost unexpected. The com¬
ment of Senator George has added to the
tenseness (and panic) and seems to indi¬
cate that a favorable decision may be ex¬
pected. The governor has made no com¬
ment. The plans he has laid before the
Legislature, which it has approved, re¬
main unchanged, of course. But a legisla¬
tive committee investigating the public
school system received testimony from
Mr. C. L. Harper who told the commit¬
tee “that (any situation that ever arose
between the white and Negro races could
be worked out if the leaders could sit down
and talk together.” This is the new
velopment. It is well known that Mr. Tal-
madge does not believe in Negroes and
whites sitting down talking together in
committees. He has never appointed such
a committee and refused to appoint Ne¬
groes on a deegation to represent the state
at The Children’s White House Confer¬
ence, and would not accept the sugges¬
tion made by one of the state’s legislators,
that a commission of white and Negro
citizens be appointed to consider matters
of concern to both races. As we recall,
he did not agree that there was anything
for such a commission to discuss. Mr.
Harper is right. The responsibility for
ironing out any adverse situation between
the races is on the shoulders of state lead¬
ers. Mr. Harper believes, as do many other
leaders, that blood-shed is not the only
way to nir -'t the court’s decision. He be¬
lieves that “Tne Appeal to Reason” must
be used to supplant violence. This is the
way of democracy.
The NAACP practices the appeal to rea¬
son :
“We urge the people of this country.
PETITION FOR INCORPORAT¬
ION
GEORGIA
CHATHAM COUNTY!
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF CHATHAM COUNTY
The petition of PAUL J.
STEELE. CARL S. OLIVER.
JOHN McINTOSH. DAVID A.
JOHNSON. SAMUEL B HEND¬
RIX and CLIFFORD O. RYALS
respectfully shows:
1. Petitioners desire for
themselves, their associates and
successors -to be incorporated
under the name of VANCE
ALLISON REALTY COMPANY
The principal office and place
of doing business of said cor-
poration shall be in Chatham
County, Georgia,
2. Petitioners are residents
as follows:
Paul J. Steele. 224 Houston
Street, Savannah, Georgia; Carl
both white and Negro, North and South,
to follow the example of the Supreme
Court and to consider the question of
the validity of racial segregation on the
base of the fact, the law, and their mor¬
al responsibility rather than upon the
irrational ranting and raving of die¬
hard white supremacist demagogues . . .
“The NAACT’s historic fight against
segregation must and will be fully vin¬
dicated. We are convinced that racial
segregation is not only illegal, it is
also irhmoral.”
THE NEGRO’S PART
We do not apc»)gjze for dwelling on t>he
contingencies expected in the events hav¬
ing to do with the anticipated decision ot
the U. S. Supreme Court on segregation.
It is important. It is serious. Negroes
who have been the victims of the wrongs
done by unjust and prejudiced people have
a large part to play in any efforts to com-
jH.se situations to result from a favorable
decision, or from an unfavorable decision.
No one, who is just and wants to see the
ideals of democracy survive, wants to see
violence and blood-shed employed; nor
will he encourage its employment by sug¬
gestion. We believe Negro citizens them¬
selves should give a lot of serious study
to eventual situations. As we have said
many times in this column, there are
things for them to do to become prepar¬
ed for things to come, because in any
event changes can not come overnight.
Negro leaders .should do everything they
can to influence persons in authority to
appoint joint committees to study not only
matters concerned with the pending oth¬ Su-
preme Court decision, but to consider
er questions w'hich involve inter-racial re¬
lations. We believe leaders should leave
no stone unturned to get over to their fol¬
lowers the importance of cultivating the
social graces because they determine so¬
cial acceptability. abiding contentment
“Happiness is that
that comes from a complete and abundant
life, even though such a life includes, as
all lives must, both success and failure,
prosperity and adversity, sunshine and
cradle songs and funeral hymns. To be
happy, we must, know the realities of life,
whatever they be. We must be able to un¬
derstand relative values in the midst ot
confusion, to seek the deeper meanings be¬
yond the shallow', to desire worthwhile
achievements in the midst of much that
is trivial.”
A FINE FORWARD STEP
The Chatham County Protestant Min¬
isters’ Association, composed of Negro and
white ministers, is calling upon the min¬
isters of this community to use Sunday,
June 28, to call attention to the meaning
and value of citizenship in a democracy.
It is not insignificant that the ministers
of our city and county recognize the im¬
portance of emphasizing the concern the
church must feel for making the ideals of
Christianity and democracy realities in
the everyday aims and practice of citizen¬
ship. church will accept its respon¬
That the fibre
sibility for strengthening the moral
and spiritual stamina of American citizen¬
ship, is the sober and sincere hope of wise
and thoughtful people everywhere, in the
field of science, in the church and in
state. This indeed was the promise of the
faith and spirit of those who drew up the
first constitutions on this continent.
It is the request of the Chatham t ounty
Ministers’ Association that all ministers
in the city and county discuss in their
sermons or otherwise as they wish, the
reponsibility of citizenship in a democracy.
This request comes at an appropriate time
since Sunday, June 28, precedes, by a few
davs. Independence Day. with the
The Tribune joins heartily in
spirit of the association’s request. The
association is taking a fine forward step.
More power to it.
1. Oliver. 812 East Bolton Street,
Savannah, Georgia: John Mc¬
Intosh, 703 West 45th Street,
Savannah. Georgia; David A
Johnson. 643 1 Kline Street.
Savannah, Georgia; Samuel R
Hendrix, 612 West 30th Street,
Savannah, Georgia: Clifford O.
Rvals, 1205 West 41st Street.
Savannah. Georgia.
i»n stockholders iita or
and the general
nature of the business of said
corporation shall be to buv or
otherwise acquire, own, hold
5Spertv property n of of every description.
including its own stock and
stock in any other comoration.
and to sell
mortgage or otherwise dispose
manner whatsoever, to have the
right to borrow or lend money,
and in so doing to give or take
security of any nature or char¬
acter, and to have all of the
powers and enjoy all of the
privileges enumerated in Chap¬
ter 22-18 and Chapter 22-19 o'
the Code of Georgia.
4. The time for which
will begin js** js« business shall be
nve Thousand ($5000.00) Dol-
lars. divided into five hundred
(500 shares of the par value
SaS° ^poSff shaU
have the right by vote of
rectors or stockholders, to in-
crease the capital stock to an
amount mrt exceeding Fifty
Thousand ($50,000.00)
amount not less than the origi- e
nal .......- capitalization. No stock .
said corporation shall at any
THF SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP WILL AVOID THIS FATAL TRAP”
I
SSssess^,
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE N KGIIO PRESS AND NEGRO RACE PRIDE
As a teacher of sociology for more than 110
years, I have been convinced that pride is a
more effective disciplinary force than fear. Chil¬
dren can be restrained from courses of evil
conduct more by an appeal to their pride than
by an appeal to their fear. Pride will work
when one is out of sight and in the dark, where¬
as. few only works under close observation and
in the light.
One of the vagaries of the international and
interracial situations resides in this ugly fact,
our major appeals are centered around fear in¬
stead of pride. To make onr nation proud of its
vaunted democracy would be a thousand times
more effective than having them fear com¬
munism.
When a nation is young and proud and pur¬
poseful it has a touch of almightiness. It is
even so with men when they are fine and
righteous and resourceful they, too, have this
touch of almightiness. Rut once they are dis¬
solute and degraded and depressed, they be¬
come weak and resistible and prideless and fear¬
ful.
Whatever other weakness the Caucasian may
have, he has the strength that goes with pride,
and in this pride he becomes well nigh irresist¬
ible, and has become the master of the Twentieth
Century world.
The poverty of the Negro as he emerged from
slavery into the citizenship of Emancipation
was not so much a poverty in material things
as a poverty of pride. The greatest achieve¬
ment of the Negro has to do not with material
things but with a growing pride in his race
and his race’s achievement.
Some years ago I was invited by the Omegas
at Virginia Union to deliver the Negro Achieve¬
ment Work oration in Coburn chapel. The bur¬
den of my message was centered around the
Negro’s achievement of a race pride. While race
pride cannot be measured by charts and graphs
and index numbers, it is easily the criterion of
the race’s progress.
No nation or race without pride can be great:
but steeped in well-wrought pride it ran lay
just claim to greatness. Herein lies the glory
of the Negro press. It has built into the fibre
and fabric of Negro life and tradition a whole¬
some pride in the Negro race.
The achievement of our race pride cannot be
attributed to any one great man or woman of
the Negro race—and there are many greats—
or any
person who is not a bona fide
member of Vance Allison Post
Number 21(33, Veterans of For¬
eign Wars. The corporation
shall have the power to include
in its bylaws any regulatory or
restrictive provisions relating
to the sale, transfer or other
disposition of any of its out-
standing stock by any of
stockholders or in the event of
♦he death of any of its stock-
holders.
WHEREFORE. petitioners
pray to be incorporated, as
aforesaid.
LEWIS, WYLLYl AND JAVETZ
BY; Emmanuel Lewis tsigned'
Attorneys for Petitioners
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
CHATHAM COUNTY
The foregoing petition of
PAUL J. STEELE. CARL S
OLIVER. JOHN McINTOSH.
\ is s' within the purview of the
laws applicable thereto, and all
, of said laws have been com-,
j plied with including the
j required by Sec. 22-1803 of the
? Code of Georgia.
it Is hereby ordered and ad-
judged that the granted"andsaid prayers of said 1
petition are
ALLISON REALTY gumtawx
for a period of thirty-five i35i
i years, and said corporation is
but the burden of building Negro race pride has
been carried by the Negro press.
This term should be sufficiently inclusive to
compass the wmrk of Carter G. Woodson and
other works of a kindred nature.
When the white press was only carrying news
of Negro crime and criminals; when the white
press was glorifying our Uncle Tom and Aunt
Jemimas as paragons of Negro virtue; when
the white press was studiously avoiding the
constructive achievements of Negroes and their
history-worthy progress; when it was a sin
against the white supremacy “holy ghost” for
the white press to give titles of respect to our
Negro women, the Negro press appeared on the
scene.
And how well it has played its noble part
in inculcating pride of race probably consti¬
tutes one of the grandest epics of history. It
is true that when the Southern Regional Council
released its monumental study, “The Negro In
The News,” which revamped the attitude of the
nation’s press concerning news about Negroes,
the ground work had been done by a vigorous
and virile Negro press that had alerted the na¬
tion and world to the fact that the Negro race
had arrived.
This column, however, is motivated by a much-
overlooked aspect of the Negro press. Reference
is made here to the beauty of the Negro race.
From week to week this writer devours Negro
newspapers and magazines in search of pictures
of Negroes and what a rewarding and pleas¬
ant task!
No reference is made here to the bathing suit
type of beauty. This is overdone among Negroes
as among whites. But there is a more refined
and restrained type of beauty shown hy Negro
women in their wedding gowns and evening at¬
tire and in their gatherings here and there about
the country.
The current edition of any of our newspapers
or magazines is an extravaganza of Negro fem¬
inine beauty. The white man who worries about
letting a Negro marry his daughter should read
Negro newspapers and magazines and he could
easily he convinced that Negroes also have rea¬
son to worry, if beauty plays any considerable
part in matrimonial adventures.
Not least among the achievements of the Ne¬
gro press is its portrayal of Negro beauty which
is not least among the sources of pride of race.
Long live the Negro press.
hereby granted and vested with
all of the rights and privileges
mentioned in said petition.
This 2 day of June, 1953.
* s* D. S. Atkinson
Judee Superior Court,
Chatham County, Ga.
A True Copy:
(si John E. Corcorman
Deputy Clerk, Superior
Court
Chatham County, Georgia
(Seal)
Atty.
Assisting In
(Continued from Page One)
~——r last
n summer and was con-
demned to die fir the crime
ed before the State Pardon and
Pa ole board in Atlanta,
\ttnmpv evant A.
^diing , NAACP lawyer who is
g Jones’ defense,
At the Atlanta hearing
Friday tre two lawyers re-
quested , , that ^ ’ he pardon b° ard
commute the death sentence of
aeienaea jones. naa
been "grossly negligent and in-
competent*’.
Registration Committee
Needs Financial Aid
The All-Citizens Registration
Committee is urgently in need
of financial assistance and Is
calling on assistance from all
pastors, churches, lodges busi¬
ness enterprises and other or¬
ganizations to give financial
aid to this most worthy cause
in which they are seeking to
to increase the foting strength
of the Negroes in Chatham
c°unty. All organizations are
asked to send a dele?Wa to the
next meeting which will be
held Wednesday night °f next
week at the West Broad Street
Branch of the YMCA.
This request is made by the
E. Shuler
Mrs. Mattie Wolden
Henry Holmes
Macon Chisholm
Leroy Wilson
Henry Franklin. Jr
Treasurer
Mrs. Mazie Davis,
Financial Seeretarv
A. L. Davis,
Chairman
Jerry D. Bryant.
General
HOME EDUCATION
ImohI by tbe Natlonxl Elmlfrtarten Association. * West Otb
Street, New York City. Thee articles are appearln* weakly to
onr columns.
•THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY” Froebrt
jcey had been scuffling with
his neighbor, Tommy, and had
torn his coat. Tommy had
torn his coat, too. The boys
had gone first to Tommy's
mother. She had 1 scolded Tom¬
my sharply. He felt pretty 1
sorry, and so did Joey. How
Joey hoped his mot her
wouldn’t scold’ He'd rather
take a whipping.
Joey’s mother didn’t scold at)
all. ’’Too bad,” she said. “But
it's an old coat, and< I can mend
it. This is i what we will
do. You sweep off the front
porch ancV the walk for me, |
and I’ll mend your coat.”
Joey rushed for the broom
and did a very creditable job.
Then he carefully put tha
brocm in its place.
His mther haci not quite .fin¬
ished his coat, and he snuggled
up to her. “You’re so com¬
fortable,” he sighed, happily.
“You don’t crank a bit.”
It takes time and effort to
be Icomfortable and not) to)
crank, but Joey’s mother
thought it paid. Joey had a?
baby brother, and, how he lov¬
ed that baby. When Mothen
bathed and* dressed him he al¬
ways wanted to help. She let
him. “It slows down the pro¬
cess,” she said, “but his love
fer the baby is a sweet thing,
and worth encouraging- How¬
ever, I always attach a con¬
dition to letting him help. He
must do certain little things,
| such as picking up his own be¬
longings and putting them
, away. I’ m killing two birds
| with one stone—making him
happy and teaching him to
give as well as to receive.”
The Bible is full of messag¬
es of comfort, but neither the
Bible nor the dictionary de¬
fine comfort as mere pity. The
dictionary says that to com -
fort means not only to soothe
but to give courage to, to
strengthen. Real comfort nev¬
er induces self-pity. A really
comforting mother never en¬
courages her child to give up.
Rather, she insists that he try
again.
Joey came home from school
one day much upset. He had
been on the program and had
been so nervous he had for¬
gotten his piece. “They laugh-*
ed jat he sobbed. Jlis
mother let him cry it out, and
then she saicl “The sun will
rise tomorrow, just the same.
LOCALS
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NORFOLK IANS IN CITY
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Young and I
Mr. and Mrs. Chesson of Nor-
folk were in the city today
enroute to Miami, Fla. Mrs.
Chesson, a prominent educator,
is a delegate to the NEA which
will meet in Miami, and Mrs.
Ypung is president of the H. C.
Young Printing Company.
* * *
Miss Leona Bolden of 1016
West 37th street is back in the
city after spending the week
end at Fernandina Beach.
♦ * *
Mrs. Wilma Bowles and Mi-s
Marguerte Harris have return¬
ed to New York city after
spending a week with Mrs.
Addie Underwood. Mrs.
Bowles Is the daughter of Mrs.
Underwood.
* * *
After a two weeks stay in the
city, Mrs. Nettie Ulmer Minor
left Sunday for her home in
New York city. Although her
visit was on business she took
advantage of many co^-tesies
extended by some of her old
friends and former school
J mates. Miss She was the guest of
L. E. Hendrickson and
Mrs. J. B. Horne.
* * *
Mrs. J. G. Graves left Mnn-
for New York where she will vis¬
it datives.
* * *
Mrs. Carolyn Mathis and her
three daughters left Sunday to
spend a month with relatives
in Chicago.
Some 38 Mississippi counties
have been charged with misap-
| signed proaiting a total of $160,000 de¬
for increases in pay to
Negro teachers. An investigat-
ion into the charge now is un-
derway.
THURSDAY, JUNE ft, 1953
all do thngs like that I
once. I felt awful.”
He looked at her in wide-eyed
“You did? Why.
you can stand up and
now better than anybody
She had taken him
her once when she had
a talk before her club,
he had been made im¬
preud of her.
“Thank you, Joey. Do you
how I learned to get ov¬
being afraid? My teacher
me to ‘try again’ I thoughS
never could, but I tried, and
along all right. I was nev
afraid after that.
Joey shook his head “I
t ever try again. They’d
at me.”
“Let's think it over,” she
It took a little while to per¬
him but finally he said,
try again if you’ll sit right)
front and smile at me when
think I’m getting scared.
you?
“Of course I will.”
This time Joey did beautiful¬
It was a happy laddie who
running to his mother
the program was over.
be pretty scared,” he said,,
you’d smile at me, and
would end my being
As Joe grew he continued to
his troubles to his moth¬
sure of her understanding.
one occasion, when a high-
student, he was out of
with a group when a bit
car trouble made them unex¬
late in getting back.
catch it,” said one ■ of
group. “Our mothers will
believe we couldn't help
said another.
“Mine will,” said Joe, con- 1
(
When he went in his moth¬
heard him call, and came
Joe explained why
was so late, and addedl “I
you didn't worry too
■“I was anxious Joey,” she
,'using the old boyhood
“but not worried. I
tried to teach you to be
and I believe you
Joe kissed her. “You’re so
and I believe you
Joe kissed her. “You’re sd
he said. “You
don’t crank a bit.”
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tion Association Representa¬
tive Assembly which will con-
vene from June 28 to Jul y 8 at
Miam i Beach, Florida,
Sunday afternoon the meet-
ing will be addressed by Wal-
ter F. Tunks of Akron, Ohio
and the main feature of Mon¬
day’s session will be a report
by Dr. Carr, NEA executive.
Pres. Hill of Peabody c°llege for
Teachers, and NEA President
Sarah Caldwell are the princi¬
pal speakers for Wednesday's
general session.
W. A. Early superintendent
of the Savannah schoils is
being favorably considered as
the next president of NEA.
Otha L. Douglas’, principal
of Beach high school, will at¬
tend the convention as a del¬
egate from BTEA.
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