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72 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
(XXII
REPORT SHOWS N. C. MUTUAL HAS
ASSETS OV $41 MILLION
—
annual meeting of the Board
of Directors of North Carolina
Mutual held Life Insurance Cmpany,
at the home office, Wed¬
nesday, March lu. was attended
»y W. J, Kennedy. Jr., presid¬
ing; A. J. Clement, Sr., of
Charleston. S. C.: D. c. Deans,
Jr., of Richmond, Va.; W. H.
Harvey of Columbia, S. : C.; A.
E. Spears of' Charlotte, N. c„ I
and Clyde Donnell, MD, G. W. i |
Cox, J. W, Goodloe, E. R. Mer-
rick and A. T. Spaulding, all of,
Durham.
Commenting briefly on the, j
growth and development of the
company. President Kennedy i
stated that during 1953 the} j
assets of the compony increased
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OBTAINS AID OF j
STATE CWC
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i
Vttv Frank A Dilworth III
Following an address orom-! by 1
Frank A Dilworth III
incut local attorney, the ex¬ Q
ecutive board of the Georgia
Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs at a meeting in Macon j •
on last Saturday voted to sup¬
port his defense of two teen-
j j
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BAPTISTS LAUNCH $50,000
DRIVE—The National Baptist
Convention, U.S.A., Inc., under j
the leadership of President J. II.
Jackson of Chicago, has
launched a $50,000 financial ’
drive for improvements for the
American Baptist Theological
Seminary in Nashville, Tenn. At
the helm of the campaign is Dr. i
,
:
LINCOLN GRAD HONORED —
Cornelius McDougald, Jr., pres-
.dent of the General
Association of Lincoln
jity, (second from left) is
.shown presenting the first
Centennial Medallion of
university to Andrew Robinson
jf New York City, one of Lin-
coin's oldest living graduates
Mr. Robinson received his de-
jree from the Chester County,
?a., institution in 1891. The
Centennial Medallion is award-
;d all Lincoln alumni who
have contributed a minimum
FAMOUS AMERICANS BECOME
NAACP LIFE MEMBERS
NE WYORK, N. Y A dis-j
tinguished American play-
wright who twice was awarded j
the Pulitzer Prize, and two I
members of w one ** v of America’s!
mosfc famous families in public I
u,e were amon K those who last
made initial payments on
life memberships in the 'Nat-
ional Assocation for the Ad-1
van cement of Colored People. .
Robert E. Sherwod, author of
such noted plays as “There
Shall Be No Night,” "Abe Lin-
coin in Illinois,” and “The!
Ralph W. Riley upper right
hand corneri, president of the
school. The kickoff for the drive
will be April 13. wht n the sem-
mary’s new $115,000 library
building < shown above) will be
dedicated on the 30th anniver-
sary of the school. The drive;
will be climaxed at the annual
session of the Baptiste lnc„!
of $100 towards the Centennial
Fund. The presentation took
at the March meeting of
the New York City chapter of
j the Lincoln alumni association.
j Others in the picture are, on
left, Dr. George Cannon, a
j trustee of the university, and
j on right, Willie H. Roark, pres-
ident of the New York chap-1
ter. Lincoln university, found-
cd in 1894, as the world’s first
institution to offer collegiate
degrees to Negroes, is now in
the midst of its Centennial,
celebration.
Petrified Forest,” and the
historical work, “Roosevelt and
Hopkins,” made his initial
ment to become a ilfe member
of the NAACP. Mr.
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
in 1936 and again in 1949.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and
her son, Representative Frank-
lin D. Rooselevt, Jr., also
initial payments on life mem¬
berships in the NAACP.
A paid-in-full lfe member¬
in the NAACP was taken
out' by Schraders Meat Prod-
i
opens Sept. 12 in St.,
ether personalities spot-;
in the above picture
Jackson (lower left), Miss
H. Burroughs, lower I
head of the Women's |
giving its of the full Baptists, cooperation which to j |
drive.—. ANP) I
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1954
Eisenhower Gives Nod to
NAACP For Freedom
WASHINGTON. March 11 —
The campaign of the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People to win
complete freedom for Negro
Americans by January 1, 1963,
the 100th anniversary of tho
Emancipation Proclamation,
has been formally launched
with Presidential approbation.
Addressing 1,300 delegates
from 36 states at the NAACF-
sponsored Freedom Fulfillment
Conference here on March 10.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow¬
er. extended “good wishes for
the prosecution of their work.”
Presented to the audience by
Dr. Channing H. Tobias, chair¬
man of the NAACP Board of
Directors, and warmly received
by the officers and members of
the Association, the President
reiterated his pledge to do his
"utmost, wherever the federal
authority clearly extends, to
bring into reality the ideal of
equally among al] men who
assume the responsibility."
ucts Company in Rochester. N.
Y„ last week.
Another well known Ameri-
can who contributed last week
to the Association was Jack I.
Straus, president of R. H. Macy
and Company, New York de-
parfcment store. Mr. Straus
donated $100.00 to the NAACP’s
for Freedom campaign,
Two labor unions also sent
in donations to the Fight for
Freedom campaign. A check
for $500 was received from the
International Ladies’ Garment
Workers Union, AFL, in Los
Angeles, and $150.00 « from the
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TO PILGRIMAGE BACK 10 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
Itev. .Mzimba
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. Pa.—
Among the distinguished grad¬
uates making the pilgrimage
PROF. GORDON SAYS MOST NEGRO PRESIDENTS
OF PRIVATE COLLEGES ARE NOT WORTH THEII
WEIGHT IN SALT
Texas Collegi
Tyler, Texas
9 March, 1954
Editor,
The Savannah Tribune
•avannah, Georgia
Dear Editor;
May i. have space in your es¬
teemed publication to com-
nent upon your excellent
editorial, “The Negro Private
College.” which appeared in
your issue of Mach 4, 1954. I
am in complete accord
ar view that the situation of
the Negro in Georgia and the
South as a whole would be
deplorable ( indeed had it
been for the work of the coura-
geous white and colored
cational carpel baggers”
came to U3 ere the smoke
In pursuit of this goal, he
said, “great progress lias been
made" in two areas — the
armed forces and the District
of Columbia. “With respect to
these,” he went on, "I expressed
certain convictions and deter¬
minations. In not all casee have
the full results been achieved,
but we are still trying.”
“I believe most sincerely in
the statement of Lincoln that
this nation was ’dedicated
the proposition that all men
are created equal,' ” the Pres¬
ident affrmed. “I believe with
the authors of the Declaration
of Independence that men are
endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; and
furthermore, I believe that the
vast majority, the great
of Americans, wants to make
those concepts a living reality
in their lives . . They do not
want to make
among peoples based upon in¬
consequential matters of nature
involving color and race.”
Joining the President in
speaking to the conference
were Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, di¬
rector, Trusteeship Division of
the United Nations; Senator
Herbert Lehman of New York;
1
j SHOW ATTRACTS
i j A RECORD ATTENDANCE !
FORT VALLEY, Ga.
minating the Ham Shows
m 21 different sections of
i S ia was the 39th Annual Ham
and Egg Show at Fort Valley
State March 10-12. The show
broke all records both in the
quality of products displayed
j and in the quantlty of disp j ays
.
The setting of the show was a
TV station whose call letters
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oack to Lincoln University mis
month in observance of that
institution’s Centennial oele-
bration will be two South Afri-
can alumni who entered Lincoln
in 1897.
They are Livngstone Mzimba
who was graduated from Lin¬
coln’s Seminary in 1906, and
Thimas C. Katiya who complet-
e<J his seminary training in
1903, Dr. Horace Mann Bond,
Lincoln president, announced.
The trip to America will
mark their first return to tliis
country since graduating from
the Chester County school.
Both are surviving members
of a large group of Zulu tribes-
men who enrolled at Lincoln
in 18C7. They came to the
United States as members of a
Zulu choir that was one of the
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>attle had scarcely cleared
uvay with the famous slogan
Give the People Light and they
viill Find Their Way." With
murage, faith, ability and sac-
■ifice they gave the light
Also i. know Loui personal
experience that you are correct j
(in your implication that the j
< ! real reasons for the recent dis-|
missals of heads of Negro State j
1 colleges in Georgia in the
{decade, including Bond, Drs. Hubert,
Colston
j Biown. weic very different
j {where from the any publicized reasons at all reasons,
were
i given. Unfortunately, it must
be said that most of these
were vulnerable not only at the
[points for which the regents
1 criticized them, but had other
. and the following NAACP offi-
cials, Arthur B. Spingarn, pres-
ident; Dr. Tobias; Kelly Alex¬
ander, president. North Caro¬
lina State NAACP; Walter
White, executive secretary; and
Franklin II. Williams, NAACP
West Coast regional director.
Messages from Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge, Paul Hofl-
j man and the Rev. John Haynes
‘ Holmes Wil¬
were read by Roy
kins, NAACP administrator.
The ia00 Relegates from 36
states made commitments to
raise this year in their respect¬
ive local communities and
states a total of more than
$500,000 in the Association’s
drive to raise a million dollars
annually for its Fight for
Freedom. Reports were made by
the delegates on local plans
and progress in the campaign
to eliminate all racial dis¬
crimination and segregation
before the centennial of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Editor Davis Lee Visits City
Davis Lee, editor of the
Newark, N J., Telegram, was
in the city yesterday, enroute
to Florida.
Y MEMBERSHIP DRIVE GETS GOING
:
The Committee of Manage
ment of the West Broad
j YMCA has set Mar. 30-Apr. 13
j as the membership enrollment
j period. The 1954 membership
j enrollment will center around
the National League versus the
American League.
Dr. W. K. Payne will serve
j as high commissioner, O L.
Douglas, president of ' the
! American League, Arthur
i Dwight, president of the Nat-
! lonai League, wnton c. scott
will serve as general charman
of the membership campaign.
A special committee will work
on big gifts, house to house
canvas and educatinal insti¬
tutions, etc. Wilton C. Scott
states that the goal has been
set at 2,000 members and that
WOMEN’S VOICE
GETS GIFTS FOR
CANCER
The Women’s Voice held its
j ! regular monthly meeting re-
eently at the YMCA with a
j large attendance. In the ab-
1 sence of the president, Mrs.
Ethel Luten served as chair-
man for the meeting.
Mrs. Esther Warrick and Mrs.
Stella J Reeves gave high¬
lights on the work that Ls being
done for the cancer patient.
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major ':>ui‘s in the moral
iuality c their lives and leader-
ship. Not only is it true
these 'Lief executives have
aecn eliminated because their
’oyalty to southern traditions”
was doubted by the white Re-
gents, but the best teachers of
Die system who, like myself,
failed to bow to “Uncle
i sni - have been ruthlessly
eliminated. It is ‘.rue as you
sa j d that the remaining execu-
tives are i e ft “trembling
their boots” and performing
cowardly and inefficient way
; n terms of courageous and
meaningful leadership. The
professors , dre -j Ust teaching
their subjects from the text
books ana not daring wy teach
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
HAITIAN DANCERS TO APPEAR AT
COLLEGE TUESDAY NIGHT
IRAN LEON DESTINE and partners in Mazurka-French Creold
Dance to be seen next Tuesday night at Savannah State Col¬
lege. This Lyceum attraction will begin at 8:15 and will be
open to the public without charge.
Savannah is in for a rare
treat next Tuesday night. Mar.
23, when the Lyceum Committee
of Savannah State college pre¬
sents Jean Leon Destine, uni¬
versally hailed as Haiti's great¬
est dancer-choreographer, and
his company in a program en¬
titled "Fiesta in Haiti." This
long-awaited event is open to
Omegas Offer
SI COO Cash Prizes
The omega Psi Phi fraternity
is offering S',000 in cash prizes
for the three best written state¬
ments on how the Omega Psi
Phi fraternity can cooperate
with the respective colleges
and universities in promoting
their ideals, aspirations and
programs. The contest closes
April 1. It is endorsed by a gal¬
axy oi college presidents.
the basic membership fee is j
$3.00.
! The The Chaham Chaham County Teach¬ I
ers Association will meet to¬ j
night at 8:00 p. m. at. the Y j '
when plans will be made for
entertainment of teachers at
the state convention. Norman
B. Elmore is president of the
local association.
The Swallows social club will
give a dance at the Y March
19. All young people are urged
to attend.
The Emancipation Day or¬
ganization will install officers
tonight. The Rev. C. P. Hobbs
will be in charge.
The Frank Callen Boys Club j
will ... appear on “Youth „„ Speaks (
radio program Saturday at 10
a. m.
ELKS PREPARE FOR
STATE CONVENTION
By E. E. Greene
The semi-monthly meeting
of Weldon Lodgf was held on
Tuesday night, the meeting
being both interesting and in¬
formative. Dr. Sessoms. exalted
ruler, presided. Plans for the
state convention in Valdosta
were laid. A large- delegation
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“New Negro America
W. C. Handy, the famed “Father
•f the Biuee,” introduce* a thrill¬
ing parade of young entertainers
b* “New Face*.” one In a series
•I new Negro America documen¬
tary film*, s
A new series of “Negro i
; America’ films will soon be
released to more than 400 the-
atres across the country. These
1 films, six in all. will document
continuing progress of the
Negro in America j
ihtae six films are tile third
of a series of similar pictures
NUMBER 83
tlie public: without charge and
will begin in Meldrim Auditori¬
um on the college campus at
8:15 p. m.
The star of the evening has
devoted his artistic life to the
voodoo dances or the hinter¬
land of his nauve country, and
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NOW ,\l< — Airman Nathaniel
Jackson, stationed in England
who has recently been promoted
to the rank of Airman First
Class. The son of Mrs. Ethel
Jackson and grandson of Mrs.
Carrie Days of 522 Green street,
he has been overseas for the
past two years. Before entering
the Air Force, he was an em¬
ployee of the Savannah Tribune.
FILM DISCUSSION
ON SEGREGATED
SCHOOLS
Governor Herman Talinudgo
and Aubrey Williams, well-
known Southern liberal, will
debate T~~ "racial segregation in
the public schools at a meet¬
ing of the local NAACP on
Friday night, March 19, at 8
o'clock sharp at Mount Zion
Baptist church, West Broad
street and Waldburg lane, Rev.
J. Q Adams, pastor.
W w. Law, NAACP president,
said that a movie has bam
made of a recent TV debate
between Taimadge and Wil¬
liams on the question of segre¬
gation in public schools and
this film lias been made avail¬
able to the local NAACP through
(he courtesy of the Southern
1 Continued on Page Seven)
Film To He Released
OiCAfml tteid'»r PHdtTntw4i mP-
per column!*! end Dean of Jour-
give* a'behlnd-the-eeene*)
view of Hie oetlviyeo of many Im¬
portant newspaper* Negr* Prtae#^ In th* flint
feature fTb* g
which have played many motion
picture theatres iu this country
,nd deal with the following
subjects The Negro Press,’*
Baseball Today.” “New Stars.”
Churches and Congregations,’*
and “akillect
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