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March 3, 1919
A CRUCIAL MATTER
Several times since 1P46 the people
,of the state of Georgia have been called
- iRHin to make momentous decisions tit the
ballot box. It isn’t amiss to say that every
selection is more or less important, but it
is also true that some elections are much
more important than others. Sometimes
unusual men are (imposed for office and
need the support of the |>eople who think
seriously about the kind of man the best
interest of the state needs. Sometimes
issues are tremendously important be¬
cause they mean changes in law or cus¬
tom. Such an issue will be presented to
the voters of Georgia in tile coming elect¬
ion. An amendment will be offered to the
voters, which will make it possible for
the state to abolish its public school
system, to circumvent the recent decision
of the U. S. Supreme Court. 'The Augusta
Courier, edited, it is believed, by Mr, Hoy
Harris prints the following as the provis¬
ion of the proposed amendment:
“ ‘Section I. That Article VII of
the ( (institution ot Georgia lie amend¬
ed by adding' thereto a new section,
to be numbered Section XIII. as fol¬
lows :
'Section MU Paragraph I. Grants
tor Kducation: Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Constitution,
. the General Assembly may by law
provide for grants of state, county or
municipal funds to citizens of the
.v fttate for educational purposes, and
in discharge of all obligation of the
State to provide adequate education
for its citizens.’ ”
It might as well be admitted Unit
Ml's amendment with its aims sets a
dangerous pattern lor our country. If all
the states feci called upon to run into
their legislatures and propose amend-
itients to their constitutions every time
the Supreme Court renders a just decision
that seeks to make democracy what is
claimed Imi it, thep our country would lie
lii’AlfMl' 7oi' froirme of the gravest sort.
The stated intention of the amendment
,i» tous 10 and pi'e#tf*‘YP unmistakably segregation obsolescent. which is iniqui¬
Georgians Many
believe this amendment should
lie defeated,and will work toward that
end. I his is,the time we need every single
eligible voter, Urns I up against the amend-
jneut. 1 lie 'obligation ot our leadership is
plain, rini task is to inform voters as tu
the importance of defeating the amend
fnent and to lay plans now for getting
t he entire vote out to the polls for liotli
the primary and general elections.
THE HIGH COURT RULES AGAIN
division Following ip the wake of its historic
last week outlawing segregation
in-publie schools, tile I'nited States Sup-
l time ( oui*t unleashed another blast at
s#regation when it ruled on Monday
thin Negroes nnist not be refused ac¬
ceptance in public housing, public recre¬
ational lacilities and state supported
ctffleges merely because of their racial
umtity. |P
Six civil rights cases were involved
ill-,Monday s court action, three of them
hSUtg returned to lower courts for re-
ciuisidoration with the suggestion that
“We judgments are vacated and the
I'lges remanded for consideration in the
liftt V® of the segregation cases decided
17. 1PM," which intimates that the
<<Ph t. if a decision were made by it.
van bold i rule against segregation.
T*he cases not acted upon involved
tlife, admission ot Negroes to the l niver-
. ifv of Florida and Louisiana State Uni-
versity and to the city of Louisville, Ky.,
aittphitheatre.
in the cases acted iiimhi the high
tribunal banned segregation in San Fran-
■ isco housing projects, banned segrega¬
tion at Midwestern University, Wichita
Falls, Texas, and ordered the city of
Houston. 1 exas, to allow Xegr<*es to usi*
the Municipal golt course.
’-The decisions rendered in these cases
by; the learned justices were not surpris¬
ing to the great bulk of the country’s
right-thinking citizens and. we Itelieve,
foretell consistent action by the court in
other civil rights cas< s whi h will come
before it.
These cases have been spear-bended
by the NAAFI’ array of eompetent
lawyers "-’hose et’forts i>:w> nv an’ o
much to the Negro since the A<s<H*iation’s
fight for civil rights began years ago.
We shudder to think what tile status
of the Negro would be today if the Asst
ciation had not gone to the forefront in
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these battles for civil and political rights.
The recent victories should be a
great stimulus to thousands more Ne¬
groes to join the organization who have
not heretofore thought it worthwhile to
do so.
(Guest KdituriaJ)
THE TWILIGHT OF SEGREGATION
IN SOUTHERN EDUCATION
Ity l)r. A. II. Gordon
Thunderbolt
It is a sad thought to us Southerners
that, in the evolution of democracy in the
United States, our native South has
always been something of a disadvantage.
Georgia, the writer’s native home, has
always been among the leaders of those
states working against the enlargement
of democracy. Our great country has
always been compelled to coerce Georgia
and the other states of the South to fall
in step With advancing democracy. Geor¬
gia was opposed to the abolition of slav¬
ery. Georgia was one of the leaders in the
eighty-year struggle to circumvent the
Fifteenth and Fourteenth amendments
to the Federal Constitution. In each of
t hese cases Georgia and the South have
tried to defend ‘ lost causes,”
Southern history will repeat itself
in opposing the advance of democracy
in the United States, represented by the
recent unanimous decision of the Sup¬
reme Court outlawing the outlandish
and evil dual system of education prac¬
ticed in the South since Reconstruction.
It is this writer's firm belief that it
the South had conscientiously carried out
its promise made to the Negroes during
Reconstruction; that if they would agree
to separate schools, the white leaders of
the South would see to it that those
schools were equal for both races, this
latest coercion represented by the afore¬
mentioned decision would have never
been. As we all know the South has dis¬
gracefully failed to keep the promise of
‘‘separate but equal schools.”
Now we are being told by the white
citizens, or rather a minority of them,
that if we do not cooperate with them in
trying to circumvent the latest attempt
of the Supreme court to democratize the
South, we run the risk of destroying the
public school system of the South, which
these so-called friends of the Negro con¬
tend would t>e a great calamity to the
Negroes, a greater disaster to the Negroes
than to the whites. The fact is just the
opposite. The destruction of the public
school system in the state of Georgia,
for instance, would be a much greater
calamity to the white citizens than the
colored, especially the poor whites. This
is true simply because the whites have so
much more to lose. The public school
system of Georgia for Negroes ^is a poor,
makeshift affair. We admit that if Ne¬
groes vote to abandon the public, school
system of Georgia rather than tolerate
discrimination of the rankest kind that
now exists, it would be a ease of “cutting
off the nose to spite the face,” but iM
the case of the white people it would be
a case of cutting off the face to spile the
nose. Wo believe the whites and Negroes
both have sense enough to see that, and
so the abolition of the public school sys¬
tem of Georgia has about as much
chance of accomplishment as the prov¬
erbial snow ball has of long existence in
the lower regions. For example, if the
public sup]>ort of Armstrong Junior Col¬
lege is discontinued Negroes will lose
absolutely nothing, but the white people
of Savannah will lose a complete Junior
College which through all these years has
been supported by Negroes' money.
These Negroes win* have supported the
Junior College through taxes collected
from them have not Iteen allowed to on-
ioy any of the opportunities it afforded.
This is a rank injustice!
We have a constructive suggestion
to make: Here in Sjfvaimah the school
authorities should immediately “step lip*'
the building of better elementary and
high schools for Negroes and the elim¬
ination of double sessions. Immediate
plans should be made to establish a .Jun¬
ior College for Negroes supported by the
City. This is not offered as a final and
vdhiiion but something to serve
while we are getting up the ’ intestinal
fortitude" to do what the Supreme Court
says we should do and which we South¬
erners. white and colored, know is the
only right thing to do.
t nr. savannah tnmrmn
"ASIA AND AFRICA WANT NO DEMOCRACY. THAT BRINGS SUCH
EVILS.”
V<w
'U . A'.'*
By Dean Gordon Hancock
Die-Hardism 'is a form of intolerance
and an affliction that sooner or later smites
us all in a greater or less degree. The col-
orphobes of the Old South are currently
suffering from an aggravated case of die-
hardism, superinduced by the sudden and
brusque way the question of integration has
been thrust into the forefront of the na¬
tion's thinking.
And like Banquo’s ghost, the sins of seg¬
regation are haunting the Old South in
particular and the world 1n general. The
uneasiness and remorse begotten by reflect¬
ing on segregation and by contemplating
integration transcend the confines of the
southland and penetrate the uttermett
parts of the earth, wherever and whenever
men of different races have social and
economic intercourse.
In other words the question of integra¬
tion Is world-wide and cannqt be localized.
And this very fact should inspirit the Ne¬
gro in his fight for full-fleged citi¬
zenship, for the question of integration in¬
volves not only the righteous aspirations df
the darker peoples but the safety and peace
of the world.
The basic threats of segregation is the
threat to human survival. And this goes
back to a moral theorem enunciated in
this column many years age that the
world must save its darker peoples or itself
be lost. As was said in this column some
weeks ago, when the southern Negrophobes
shift their question . from “whether” to
“when,” and when filibusters must save
the segregated situation, their cause is al¬
ready lost and such prospect is just as heart¬
ening to the friends of segregation.
To recount those circumstances resurrects
memories of the immortal Franklin Delano
Roosevelt who by his New Deal conceptions,
according to Gunnar Myrdal made the first
attempt to integrate the Negroes into i,hq
American life and economy. AH that went;
before Roosevelt was piece-meal and pal¬
liative. — • But Roosevelt's Hwacvfiis suuue subtle but dux serious serious
attempts at integration, inspired Truman
and Eisenhower and showed them what
could could be be done. done
It was Roosevelt's pioneering in this field
of integration that makes' our* current orn-
grams and p ractices possible and produc-
Home Demonstration :
Review At Dorchester I
» Center
I be co unty-wide , dress review
| I 1 ' ’ \ e ” 0me Demonstration
4-H and
clubs was held Wednesday
■ mBhl " the ,h * U:
operative Center. Forty-two
Home Demonstration Club
e.uieis, their husbands and
sinall children modeled dresses,
hats, slacks and shirts that
j:i^T eby v * rl ™
Each article was beautifully
made Especially the very simple
i but beautiful dresses modeled
S by Mesdmes Emma Horne,
i Council Clothing Chairman,
j Stilla Baker. Clara and Inez
I Hai grove. The straw hats
looked like those seen in
better stores. Mrs. Lola Dixon,
(Council Home Industries
/man. made a very pretty green
’ bat- bonne ' style. Mrs. Barbara
Frazier made a green straw
l hat which Wils mast becoming
! Mrs . Emma Horne
selected a
i hat styled with shallow crown
jnnd clothing wide leaders brim. were Four-H gay club and
i rretiv Htwy in tiicir UM5ir lovclv aresbeb
tive. And now comes the Ford Foundation
financing a factual study of the situation
as it pertains to the educational set up in
the South. The substance of the Ford
Foundation findings was turned over to
Harry S. Ashmore of the Arkansas Gazette
who concludes:
“In the long sweep of history, the pub¬
lic school cases may jpe written down as
the point at which the South cleared the
last turning in the road to reunion the
point at which, finally and under protest,
the region gave up its peculiar institutions
and accepted the prevailing standards of
the nation at large as the legal basis for
its relationship with its minority race,
This w'ould not in itself bring about any |
great shift in Southern attitudes, nor even
any far-reaching immediate changes in the
pattern bi-racial education. But it would
redefine the goal of the Southern people,
white and Negro, are committed to seek in
the v/ay of democracy.”
The foregoing statement reduced to its
last analysis simply means that the pres¬
sure has been so ex ted on the South chat
reluctantly it will conform in practice even
while rebelling in feeling to what is most
conducive to the naton’s advance. This
is not all that could be desired, but it
represents a. beginning in the right direc¬
tion.
It should be made crystal clear that the
South, I’ve humankind throuhgout his¬
tory, has found out that the matter of sur¬
vival is not a matter of what we like or dis¬
like, out a matter of what we must do to
be saved! What would it profit the South
and nation to gain the whole world of
segregation and the ends thereof jind lose
their soul and the battle for survival?
There is another observation worth con¬
sidering. With larger and larger outlays
for education for both whites and Negroes
of the South, the Negroes will be less in¬
clined to submit to segregation • and the
evils thereof and 1 the “ whites wuuq will wui oe be less less
11K ' !inccl to im Pose it. Segregation will more
and more become repulsive to intelligent
people.
WlU cventuully die and
But it need not be a falal 1 tr ° Uble '
L “ b bm have re aHy shown |
hat . can be done 111 clothing
sewing equipment and a
few dollars for material. The
clubbers worked very hard to j
get successful completion
This project has gained many j
«»*» •» - -
county.
Mrs. Doris Owens is Home
Demonstration Agent of I.ilacr-
ty County,
To
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0111)1' I *
Waring 1
CHARLESTON. S. C.— 'ANP
Charleston branch NAACP
will honor former federal Judge
j. Waties Waring with a ban-
q U et in his honor in June
branch president A J Clement.
j r announced last week
waring, a native of
Soi ,th Carolina, was ,wtra -i-d
and v , r{ual i v forced to move
from hJs home state because he
„ ave the dissenting opinion in
the c i arendon county case, the
1
flrst sull challenging segrega
M ln
dissenting opinion, n 0 w affirmed
by the u. s. Supreme court he
ruled that jimerow was uncon-
stitutional '
Recent contribute
------ DUiUlil Jj
5unshine Unit. Mrs. Anna E.
bant, chairman, were as fol¬
lows:
Miss Marie Blue. n. n. Sea
View Hospital, <1.00; Mrs. Edna
button, R. N„ New York eity,
1.0(1; Miss Corclce Roberts, R.N.,
5ea View Hospital, 1.00: Mrs.
Clemintine Philips, R N., Sea
View Hospital. 1.00: Cassius C.
ft rant. Jersey City, N. J.. 1.00;
Mrs. Anna E. Grant. R. N.. Sea
View Hospital, 1.00; Mrs. Etta
Williams. 5 prs. of socks, Jersey
City; Mr. ^’rank. Sea View Hos¬
pital, .50: Mrs. Mary Stevens.
1 00: Mrs. Frances Wyche, 1.00:
Mrs. B Madison. R. N., 1.00:
Mrs. LeNora Wright, .50; Mrs,
Margaret Walker. .50: Mrs.
Kenner, i don. eggs. Miss J L.
Grant, 50: Waters' Service
Station, literature and cigar¬
ettes.
Tiic The committuc committee sent sent out out to
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r SHVItSDAT, MAY 87, 1954
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HOME EDUCATION
Issued In the National Kindergarten Association, s West
10th Street, New York City. These articles are appearing
weekly io our columns.
“THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY”—ProeM
ANXIOUS MOTHER
Elsie F. Kartack
I met a newcomer in our
town. My first impression was,
What an. attractive young
woman!" but I soon found that
when not talking she always
seemed to have a worried look.
After a number of meetings,
she confided to me that she was
i failure as a mother. Her
children, she said, were unruly
and disobedient, especially when
there was company. I decided
to call on her to sec what the
situation was.
I had just seated myself when
a lovely two-year old toddled
into the room. She walked over
to me, looked mo over seriously,
and then climbed into my lap.
nestled comfortably in my arms
and in a few minutes was peace¬
fully asleep, a little later a
five-year-old boy came in. He.
loo, looked me over and then
said seriously, “I’d like to kiss
you.' Though surprised, I off¬
ered my check for his voluntary
expression of friendliness, say-
ing, “Thank you, I would like
to have you kiss me."
I wo incidents of the afternoon’s
call were not commented on bv
the mother, for she knew that
thix would not be a wise thing
in do in the presence the
j children.
A few days later I saw her
1 alone and said
wrong in the behavior of your
children; I think they arc very
loving and well-behaved ”
To this she replied “Oh no
they aren't. Their usual greet-
mg to my friends is something
rude or saucy. Occasionally it
is even a kirk or a slap. You
must have had had some some special
charm for them. I couldn't
believe mv eyes when I saw
the way they behaved toward
you. What did you do? My anx-
iety over their actions has grown
so that I dread to see anyone
come in.
Right then and thcre I saw
thc cause of the children’s
MISS SINGLETON WINS
SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP
Miss Emily Singleton, daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Singleton of Fellwood Homes,
was the winner of the $100
scholarship that is offered an¬
nually by Nu Chapcr of the
Iota Phi Lambda Sorority
Since a large number of ’’Figs”
r (Future Iota ---- Girlsi ------ arc S ra
uating this term, the contest
which was held on April 24 was
limited to tins group.
Miss Singleton, a senior at
Wooriviile high school, is very
active in school and church
work: she participates in the
Girl Scouts affairs, thc high
school chorus as well as the
Future lota Girls Club. She is
a member of St. Philips Monu-
mental AME church. On June
8. during the Woodvillc high
school graduation exercise.
Singleton will be presented th C
$100 scholarship certificate.
Because Miss Singleton won
the local scholarship, she
eligible to compete for the $1,000
National Iota Phi Lambda
scholarship. The testing was
.scheduled for May 22: it was to
be conducted on the campus of
Savannah State college.
Mcsdames Elizabeth Gadsden
and Geraldine Zciglcr were co-
chairmen of thc scholarship
committee.
SCHOOL VERDICT
MAILED BY JUDGE
WARING
NEW YORK. May 20 Judge
J. Waties Waring, whose dis¬
senting opinion in the original
Clarendon County S. C., school
segregation case lias been vindi¬
cated by the U. S. Supreme
Court, hailed the new ruling as
a reaffirmation of “our belief
in thc Declaration of Independ¬
ence and the Constitution.”
Judge Waring, who now is
retired from thc bench and re¬
sides here, said the decision
"has finally killed the hypoc¬
risy of those who practiced a
vicious form of racial bias
under the sophistry of the so-
called separate but equal doc¬
trine."
He expressed the view that
the decision will make history
and wil erase the shame of the
Dred Scott and the Plessy vs
Ferguson cases.”
misbeliavior. It was tile mother's
anxiety and fear that they
would do something wrong. I
remembered what Prof. o'Shay,
a onetime teacher of pliycholo-
gy at University of Wisconsin,
had to say about a mother's
anxiety concerning her children's
behavior when company is pres¬
ent. The children sense the
mother's thought and recognize
that something out of the or¬
dinary is expected of them.
Not knowing just what it is,
their actions break out in dis¬
order, to the mother's embar¬
rassment and chagrin. 1 pointed
out to this mother where she
might be at fault and suggested
she release thq. children from
ler own fears and expect then!
to do what is right. fc
My understanding of thjy
- child nature, through many
/ears of experience with young
•hildren as a kindergarten di¬
rector and close observation of
.heir reaction to a calm, poised
1 1 bought and expectancy of or
dcrly action from them, had
brought an entirely different
i reaction from these children
j than that which had been pro-
duced by their mother’s
j thought. The little girl had felt
: a calmness and security, with
the result that she had quietly
fallen asleep. The little boy had
frlt l0V '' Bnd understanding and
had insUncUvciy drawn near to
■
rcsponci in arfe( ‘ Uon
, This mothcr readily saw lhat
1 H Wa ' S shc and not thc children
who was at fault, and she
quickly set about to correct her
own thinking, and within u
short time another call at the
hou , ' sc rcVL>alrd was now
ordci ' not only by ,1>0 children
■
' hHt nlso J IJl< of
' •'MWnrence
Uld h,n,s< " fot thc children
! wcrc doin « ,hrir l ,art in P r °-
; ducln " this order and harmony.
Quietness and serenity pre-
vailrd ’ though nothing of the
i children’s normal, active lift-
had been taken away.
Wfiito J, Ht Oll|-
1 dents May
j Attend Tus¬
kegee
I TUSKEGEE, Ala,— (ANPi
_
S. Supreme court decision
| rendered last week will nnke
j it to Possible attend for white students
, I here. Tuskegee institute
| Dr. L. H . Foster nresi
dent of the institution said
however, '
; that Tuskegee is nnk
j i„ K no plans to admit white
j students .although tlvro have
been applications from them
i D r. Foster and Charles G
oomilliop agreed (hat there will
j ^ m -Fom ent rated effort” on
the 4W t of Negroes to enroll
, n whit , ( , , sf . h(M)ls .. jus( for .
sakf nf ROln whU( . ,, hool . s •• %
, ^ educator said until there
is an attorney general ruling
on how the Supreme court
decision applies in Alabama,
nothing will he done toward
admitting white students to
Tuskegee.
Part of the institution’s funds
comes from the state.
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