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"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
'■ are endowed by their Creator with cer-
’ tain unalienable Rights, that among these
afe Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap-
' ’piness: That to secure these rights, Gov-
* erivments are instituted among men, de¬
riving their just powers from the consent
off the governed.”
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o' THE RAW NERVE END
Commenting on the edict issued by
Bishop Waters banning segregation in all
' .Boman Catholic churches in North Caro-
r jina, Ralph McGill makes use of two clo¬
'■■Smi ‘qftenily descriptive pH pebble-becomes expressions: rock-in the deci- the
ip on I* a M “a all Christians” and a the decision
f sQpc f»T an onrisuans end aim in the Christian
tonchpd eftlm-h.” 8 raw nerve shoe and the
The pebble in the
X raw nerve end are agonizing experiences
common enough to suggest to the avor-
tge person something of what the Chris¬
tian, church faces. What to do about the
pebble or the raw nerve end—banning
segregation—poses a real test for Chris¬
tian churches, places them squarely on
kdriis of a dilemma, presents them
wit* h tjie necessity of making a crucial de¬
cision. The edict of the Catholic bishop
■ ^hro merely brings the necessity of decision
sharpe focus and emphasizes its in-
’ eVftafbiHty,* The decision the church must
> make can'nnt be deferred much longer,
j ahd ;the tragic thing about it for many
Afplfofettfiipg Christians is that the decision
f- ( :wwjat ‘follow in substance the decree of
X t$e ...Catholic is, bishop of North Carolina,
t- that jf “the basic tenets of the Chris-
tibl) faith” influence it. We do not know
T the Ultimate reaction will be, but re-
‘gorts,indicate that the bishop’s order has
tfi^t With majority approval. There has
'fitfair# CC bffh 1 * ! sh»rp dissent” from a few, but
has been no bloodshed and none is
iHnfe [tect«d> This instance adds to the snow-
evidence that bitter-enders and
phftts of doom have so far misinter¬
if lit preted this the'attitude of a great many people
' ijj.The new day.
£ T w l challenge presented to the Christi-
4xi^hureh L . by l the edict . ol . Bishop . Waters
i$ypot ■“‘“’ii a new one.^ More than a hundred
ago the Christian church faced this
( 4"&ys, e challenge and answered it in varj-
and with one or two exceptions,
te answer resulted in the conditions
ivefybody knows so well. The challenge
v is Critical and looms large and sharp now
• bedtu.se the impact of western civilization
, on the rest of the world rivets on the
church the attention of millions of colored
people whose salvation has been the eon-
eefn of the Christian church. The nerve
And is raw. The agony of the i>ebble in
the Christian shoe can not be ignored.
ANOTHER PEBBLE
There is another shoe with a pebble in
it. The extent to which a pebble repre¬
sents a persistent problem, the trend to¬
ward equality in our democratic country
presents a challenge no less demanding
and imperative than that which confronts
the Christian church and troubles “all hut
the most thoughtless.” The Declaration
,. Of Independence . , _ contains the
basic tenets
UnftS°sS2i Lnlted States ^ elaborates l the Constitution m more detail, of the
The Constitution has been called the
Kovernmental document ever con-
ceuied by the mind of man hut in spite
Presents Roundtable
Narcotics Ed. Workshop
Discussion
Tbe members of the Narcot¬
ic? Education Workshop, under
the direction of Prof. A Vann
Fraxier, presented a round-
table discussion on the effects
of Alcohol upon the various
systems of the body.
The discussion which was
held In Meldrim Audtitorium
during the regular weekly chap¬
el program on Wednesday, July
1, explained the relationship of
of which, to quote Miss Lucy Randolph
Mason: salvation
“Many people thought the
of southern society lay in keeping out
democracy. Constitutions were drawn,
harsh laws passed in Virginia and other
states for the express purpose of deny¬
ing the rights of Negroes, leaving them
with no Bill of Rights—no iota of dem¬
ocracy. The result was that the south¬
ern states impoverished themselves—
all of their citizens — by walking off
from the benefits of American life a
third of their people.” toward equal¬
Just the same the trend
ity is steady and is signalized by liberal
legislation in several cities and states,
court decisions in politics, education and
transportation. The reaction has been
varied as to location and tempo, that is,
it has ranged from violence to legal and
extra-legal devices for circumventing the
law, to prediction of bloodshed, to fiery
words, do acceptance that is sometimes
reluctant. Democracy has a challenge too
that is difficult for some of its propon¬
ents to face. Domestic and world condi¬
tions make it more difficult, especially for
those who want a diluted form of demo¬
cracy for those whose creed and race and
color differ from their own. But here
again the decision is crucial and will have
to be made sooner or later . We suspect
it will be sooner than the rear guard
thinks it will be.
TRIM YOUR LAMPS
We apologize for the title suggested by
the familiar parable of the virgins, but it
does seem so appropriate. More than one
half of the colored people who were quali¬
fied to vote in 1946 dropped off the reg¬
istration list because they did not have
even a rudimentary knowledge of the do¬
ings of ixditics. Their ignorance permit¬
ted them to become impatient quickly.
They resented standing in line a long
time and some of them disliked answer¬
ing some of the questions they were ask¬
ed. They did not remember or did not
know diiwvv what * * uni the tut: early cm ij> battlers for political
rights had to undergo to make it pos-
sible for them to enjoy as much citizen-
ship as they now enjoy. We believe still
that the leaders in our county do not real¬
ize what it takes to make an effective
group of voters, a group that can get con¬
sideration of their needs from govern¬
ment officials, a group that can elect, or
effectively influence the election of offi¬
cials who are willing to talk with them,
at least. It is a fine thing that Negroes
are showing themselves aware of what
they should have, but laudable as aware¬
ness may be, it takes votes and sound
leadership and some money too to share
in the benefits of government. For in¬
stance, it is all right to show that we are
interested in having Negroes named
to various boards, but a roll of 16,000 or
20,000 properly informed voters, and a
little money—enough to pay the requir¬
ed qualifying fees—will get the things
done we want done. Negroes in places
where they have succeeded in getting
council men and members of administra¬
tive boards elected or appointed, have done
so on ...... the . basis „„ OIO of large c vote VULe strength „ Lrenirin and anu
ability to qualify otherwise. It is not too
early to begin to prepare for those things.
It is time now to trim the lamps It is
wise to get ready now so as not to be fool-
ish later on. Let’s he wise
alcohol upon history and lit¬
erature. Among the specific
things discussed were: Wine
and the Bible; methods of pre-
senting narcotics information
to students of all grade
and ways of integrating it with
other subject matter. During
the discussion it was brought
out that narcotics education
in our schools is justified if the
school is to meet the needs of
all the children.
Miss Fairy Peyton of Mem¬
phis, Tennessee, served as
chairman of the group. She is
a teacher in the city schools of
Memphis and plans to conduct
a similar workshop for the
teachers there in the fall. Dr.
William K. Payne, president of
Savannah State college, em¬
phasized the importance of
such a program in our schools.
The following persons parti¬
cipated on the program: Miss
Mary Maude Hill, Manchester:
Mrs. Dytha Dotson. Warrenton;
Timothy Ryals, Townsend;
Miss Marie Barnwell, Savannah;
Miss Irene Mikell, Statesboro: j
Mrs. Idonia Darby, Savannah; |
Miss Miss Alfreda Johnnie Adams. Moye, Savannah; Savannah; j |
I--——*• • .,
Miss Fairy Peyton, Memphis,
Tennessee, and Miss Catherine
i Renfroe Milledgeville. j
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JOHNSON LODGE, NO. 11 i
Johnson Lodge. No. 11. will [
celebrate their first anniversary j
at the Bethlehem Bapt. church,
on July 29. at 8 00 o’clock. All
Lodges arp cordially invited to
attend Pres., Mrs. M. G. John¬
son. and Sect., Mrs. Vivian Stev-
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
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When the writer was a student in northern
universities, he sought out and elected all courses
which pertained directly to the color question
in the south. The university offerings were few
indeed. When Harvard offered a course entitled
“immigration and the Negro’ ’we seized upon it
with great enthusiasm, hoping to find in it our
cherished ambition to pursue a course having
directly to do with one of the knottiest prob¬
lems of the Twentieth Century world.
To my great chagrin and disappointment, the
entire semester, with the exception of one week,
was given to immigration and only one week
given to the study of the color question as it
relates to the Negro. So disappointed was I
that 1 thereupon decided that as soon as l entered
upon my work at Virginia Union, I was going
to organize and teach such a course after a
manner that would give my students an insight
into the problem that so closely involved them.
So accordingly, in the fall of 1921 there was
organized in Virginia Union what was probably
the first course in race relations as such ever
offered by any college in the United States and
certainly the first in the Negro colleges.
From the beginning I exposed the students to
the most rabid writings of the most rabid Negro-
phobes to be found in our library. Chamberlain
and Gobineau Stoddard and Cox and all the rest,
were assigned for collateral readings. The
students were furious at being assigned such
works, when there were so many other works
to be had by writers who were more friendly
on the color question.
Upon being asked why these assignments by
Negrophobes, my reply invariably was, “These
Negrophobes are your problem and unless you
know what they are thinking and saying, you
are not prepared to meet the issue they raise.”
In other words, it has become clear to everybody
now as it was clear to me then that unless you
know what your enemies are doing and saying,
you are not prepared to meet the issue they
raise.” In other words, it has become clear to
everybody now as it was clear to me then that
unless you know what your enemies are doing
and saying, you are not prepared to meet them
in mortal combat.
It is not always those who make us feel com¬
fortable and at ease who are our friends; nor
are all those who make us feel ill at ease our
enemies. So often those who put us at ease
in our zions are our real enemies, and ihe
prophets whom Jerusalem stoned were indeed
AMEZ Bish¬
ops To Meet at
Cleveland
CLEVELAND, O. (ANP) —
Some 12 A ME /ion Church bish¬
ops and hundreds of church lead¬
ers will attend the Connectional
Council and Bishops Meeting at St.
Paul’s AME Zion church here,
July 28 to Aug. 2.
Besides the bishops, general of¬
ficers, college presidents, denom¬
inational editors, presiding elders,
pastors, missionary leaders and
laymen will participate in the
meeting.
Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood,
chairman of the v,,v board ui of bishops, UlOlIUUb. I
and Bishop James Clair Taylor,!
secretary of the board of bishops.
will preside over sessions of the
confab.
In connection with the t'onnec-
tional Council *nd Board of Bish-1
0 ps meeting, the executive hoard
of the General Missionary Society
and the Ministers and Laymen As-
sociation will convene.
Mrs. Rosa Weller. Waterbury,
Conn., is president of the exeeu-
the friends of Jerusalem.
So it was found profitable to bring my stu¬
dents face to face with the thinking of the men
who would eternalize their second class citizen¬
ship. And so in the later years when I took to
the platform and press in my endeavors to be
of greater service to my people in their struggles
for liberation, I did not follow the then current
line of keepirfg before my audiences of whites,
the problems that hindered the Negro.
Instead of telling the wonderful things Ne¬
groes were accomplishing I kept hammering
aw'ay on the handicaps and hindrances that im¬
peded the Negro’s forwar dmovement. nstead of
chiming in with the rest and tell the world that
Negroes were taking full-fledged citizenship by
storm, I rather elected to tell Negroes and the
world that the economic devil was about to catch
the Negro in his struggles.
I pleaded for dollar consciousness and for vote-
consciousness and for job-consciousness. Ne¬
groes who were not thinking' seriously called me
in derision the “gloomy dean.” Today nearly
all the Negro deans are gloomy when they look
out upon the situation and see what obstacles
impede the Negro in his upward aspirations.
It took a Dr. DuBois to set the Negroes right
on this point when he came out boldly in one
of his superb deliverances and said that the
Negro who was an optimist was patently a fool.
I did not make it so strong, but 1 have always
felt happy that I took the line that was more
in keeping with the fight the Negro is being
called upon to make. It was not underestimated
the difficult task we had to face.
One of the most dangerous symptoms of the
current communist-democracy situation resides
in this same predisposition of underestimating
communism and communists. Our writers and
legislators dwell at gloat length on what the
communists cannot do and what the communists
are not.
We are underestimating our task of combat¬
ting communism if we think that burning com¬
munist books and executing communist traitors
are going to stem the tide of communism. Only
a revitalized democracy can save the world from
communism. Our respectable pile of atom bombs
does not offer any satisfactory answer to the
question that communism raises. Democracy as
set forth in the Constitution and Christianity as
set forth in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
do offer satisfactory answers.
tive board of the Woman’s Home
and Foreign Missionary Society,
and the Rev. E. Franklin Jackson,,
pastor of John Wesley church,
Washington, is the current chair¬
man of the ministers and laymen
association.
Meanwhile, the executive board
of the department of Christian
Education of the church announc¬
ed that the 1954 General Conven¬
tion on Christian Education will
meet in Louisville, Ky., July 31 to
Aug. t>.
A Negro was among the 35
New York city firemen to be
honored last week for heroism
during 1952.
Lew Olive has become the
first Negro athlete to win im¬
portant recognition at the
ancient ciatdel of military sei-
ence. West Point Military Acad-
emy. A 22-year-old transfer
student from the University of
California. Olive got into ’he
military academy as an alter-
nate appointee of Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon, then Cab-
fornia senator.
I. (JEOBE TROTTERS
UN D EFEATED
OVERSEA
DORTMUND, Germany, (ANP)
—The fabulous Harlem Globetrot¬
ters, somewhat handicapped dur¬
ing the past two or three years
because of lack of height, expect
to field a tall team next fall.
Coach Abe Saperstein is inte¬
grating his three tall men — the
famed Walter Dukes (i feet 11
inches; Lee Garner, 6 feet 9 inches,
and J. C. Gipson, 6 feet 8 inches
—into the Globetrotter style of
play.
As the Globetrotters and their
tall men arc getting better ac¬
quainted. the famed court magici¬
ans have remained undefeated dur¬
ing current overseas .jaunt to Eu¬
rope.
Large crowds have watched the
Trotters defeat the U. S. Stars]
comprised of pro cage aces in
England. France, Belgium and
Germany. They have yet to cover ,
Switzerland. Italy, North Africa:
and Spain.
In Liege, Belgium members of.!
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SAID COUNTY
The petition of E. S. UP¬
CHURCH, T. J. DILLON, and
J. M. BRENNAN, respectfully
shows to the Court:
1. PETITIONERS desire to
be incorporated and made a
body corporate under the laws
of this State and under the
name and style “BEST VALUE
MOTELS. INC.” for a period of
thirty-five (35) years, with full
right of renewal as may be
provided by law. with its prir.ci-
pal office in Chatham County,
Georgia and such other places
as may later be determined.
2. The general nature, object
and purpose of the corporat-
ion shall be:
(a) The promotion,
tisement and solicitation of
business for Motels, Tourist
Courts, and other establish-
ments offering sleeping and-or
dining accomodations -to the
traveling public; arranging and
providing for an exclusive
group to compose a member¬
ship entitled to the benefits of
such advertisement and solicit¬
ation, and to further than end,
to publish, print, copy and
issue such printed matter as
may be advisable, erect signs,
bill boards and the like on
Highways and such other places
as may be deemed advisable
and otherwise promote the
welfare of said businesses con¬
I cerned.
<b» By engaging in any act¬
ivity permitted by law main¬
tained to further and protect
the interest of Motels, Tourist
Courts and the like and by
performing any and all acts of
things incidental, necessary or
convenient to the accomplish¬
ment of these objects and pur
poses; and to provide pecuniary
gain and profit to the stock-
holders.
3. PETITIONERS ASK that
said corporation be granted full
| powers to conduct and to carry
j on and said to exercise business and or businesses enjoy all
i powers and privileges granted
to corporations under the law
I of Georgia, and especially con-
tained in the Corporation Act
of 1938, Section 22-13 of the
Code of Georgia. Petitioners
ask that said corporation be
granted authority to issue
reissue any part of its capital
stock and change its capital I j
stock jnto non-par, common or
preferred, with such rights,
values and limitations as may I
be fixed by the stockholders,
including the right to increase | .
or decrease the number of '
shares of the outstanding cap¬
ital stock. '
4. The amount of total au-
thorized capital stock of this I
corporation shall u be: uc .
5f0 shares of Common Stock 1
of the par value of $100.00 per
share, |
500 shares of Preferred Stock |
of the par value of $100.00 per
share. j
The minimum amount of can-
ital with which the corporation I
shall commence business is
Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dol- j I
lars. which shall be Common
Stock and may be paid for in
money, services or property,
real or personal at its fair
market value. Petitioners re¬
quest right to issue 'additional
stock up to One Hundred
Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars,
of which amount Fifty Thous¬
and ($50,000.00) Dollars shall
be Preferred Stock and Com¬
mon Stock un to Fifty Thous¬
and ($50,000.00) Dollars.
The holders of aforement¬
ioned Stock shall have the
following rights, privileges and
preferences: assets the
(a) Out of the of
corporation available for divi¬
dends, the holders of the Pre-
forred Stock shall be entitled •(
to receive, if and when declared
payable by the Board of Direct
ors, dividends equal to dividends
declared for the Common
Stock, payable each year before
anv dividend shall be paid
upon or set apart for the Com¬
mon Stock.
<b) Preference on Liquidat¬
ion, Etc. In the event of any
liquidation, dissolution or
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THURSDAY*,jtftYirW ^
winding the up of the corporation,
holders of the Preferred
Stock shall be entitled to re¬
ceive for each share thereof,
the sum of One Hundred
($100.00 > Dollars per share,
[accrued together with all dividends
thereon before any dis-
' tribution of the assets shall be
made to the holders of the
Common Stock. The holders of
, Common Stock shall then be
j 'share entitled thereof, to receive, the for of each One
sum
\ Hundred ($100.00) Dollars per
j of share. Common Thereafter, and the Preferred holders
,
Stock shall participate equally
upon a share basis to ail
remaining assets.
Redemption „ , and . _ Repur-
,c)
chase: The corporation may, at
S option, expressed by the
Board of Directors, at any time
(redeem of the Preferred the whole Slock or any at part the
; redemption price of One Hund-
re d < $100.00 1 Dollars per
I share plus any dividends that
j may have accrued thereon.
Notice of any proposed redemp¬
tion thereof, shall be given by
the corporation by mailing a
copy of such notice, at least
sixty (60) days prior to the
day fixed for such reremption,
to the holders of record
of said Preferred Stock in the
manner and method to be de¬
termined by the Board of Di¬
rectors.
(d» Voting Rights: The hold¬
ers of the Preferred Stock
shall not be entitled to vote,
the holders of the Common
Stock alone being entitled to
vote. In the event Preferred
Stockholders shall not receive i
dividends for a period of five I I
years, then they shall be en- 1
titled to vote, which right they
shall retain until they receive a
6. The name and post office
address of each of the appli¬
cants is as follows:
E. S'. UPCHURCH, Commer¬
cial Building, Savannah, Geor¬
gia Commercial
T. J. DILLON,
Building, savannah, Georgia
J- M. BRENNAN, Commercial
Building, Savannah, Georgia
WHEREFORE, PETITIONERS
PRAY to be incorporated under
the name and style aforesaid,
pursuant to law and that they
have all the rights, privileges
and powers permitted by law.
(Signed) John M. Brennan
Attorney for Petitioners
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA
IN RE
BEST VALUE MOTELS. INC.
PETITION FOR CHARTER
The foregoing petition having
been read and considered and
it appearing to the Court that
said apolication for charter intent- is
the purview and
ion of th<‘ statute in such cases
made and provided, and it fur-
ther appearing by a certifi- of
cate from the Secretary
State of Georgia that the name
of the proposed corporation is
the name of anv other ex-
corporation registered in
the records of the Secretary of
State.
IT IS CONSIDERED, ORD-
ERED AND ADJUDGED that the
prayers of of the the petition petition ho be
granted, and that E. S. UP¬
CHURCH, T. J. DILLON, and
J. M. BRENNAN, and their suc¬
cessors be. and they are hereby
incorporated under the name
of BEST VALUE MOTELS, INC.,
for and during the period of
Thirty-five (35» years with all
the rights, privileges and pow¬
ers set forth in said petition
and those incidental to corpor¬
ations created under the laws
Georgia.
In Open Court this 7 day of
July. 1953.
A TRUE COPY
R. Fawcett
Clerk, S. C. C. C., Ga.
(Signed i TX S. Atkinson
JUDGE. SUPERIOR COURT,
CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA
petition for incorpor-
ition and the Order of Court
filed in office July 7,
(Signed) John R. Fawcett
>EPUTY CLERK, SUPERIOR
CHATHAM COUNTY,