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“1 will nut allow one prejudiced person
or one million or one hundred million
to blight my life. I will not let preju¬
dice or any of its attendant humiliations
and injustices hear me down to spiritual
defeat. My inner life is mine, and I
shall defend and maintain its integrity
against the powers of hell.”
James Weldon Johnson
THOMAS FULLER
Few persona would have any Interest
in calculating the earth's diameter in
yards, to say nothing of working it out
in inches if they had the time and abil¬
ity. To work out the diameter of the
' earth’s orbit at all would be to them a
Useless and unthinkable task, fad
Thomas Fuller, a slave born in Alexan¬
dria, Virginia in 17In, worked out the
earth's orbit in inches, in his head, <le-
spiff' interruptions. He could do calcu¬
lations in his head better and faster
than most educated men could with pen¬
cil and /paper. “In a test to tell the
number of seconds in 70 years, Fuller
worked out the answer in his head in
ninety seconds, beating a white man
who used pen and paper and who ne¬
glected to include leap year in his cal¬
culation. Thomas Fill’ ;r was one of
the world’s mathematical marvels. What
would he have become but for the ne¬
cessity of maintaining a tradition of slav¬
ery. if he hint the benefit Of education?
“Full many a gem of purest ray
serene,
The dark unfathomed eaves of
ocean bears:
Full many a flower in born to blush
unseen.
And waste its sweetness on the des¬
ert air.”
This stanza from Thomas Gray symbo¬
lizes Thomas Fuller and other Negroes
who showed talent even in the times ol
slavery.
SOBER THINKING NEEDED
Well, it is here. We have been ex¬
pecting this day for a long time, hi.x
years to be exact. Negro citizens, Ne¬
gro voters in Chatham County are in a
worse fix than they have been in more
than fifty years. It is almost tragi*,
that, now when all ■ voting restrictions
have been removed, when the level of
literacy has surpassed the expectations
of the most optimistic—-one in ten illiter¬
ate now from one in five in 1S70—
when the time is more propitious for
larger participation in laditics, Negroes
in Savannah and Chatham County are
hopelessly confused, hopelessly in a di¬
lemma. It is little comfort to say, "I
told you so," but we can not resist re¬
calling that week after week we have
urged our political leaders t<» perfect an
organization of our voters, but they ne¬
glected t<> do so. We can only specu¬
late as to the reasons for paying no
heed to our pleadings. One reason,
however, is now evident: some of oni
leaders (?) did not want an organiza¬
tion. What we have suspected all
along has come to pass. Because we
have no organisation, at least two things
have happened: (1) Negro voters do
not know where to look for direction
and are an easy prey for designing and
caHous individuals, who have no con¬
cern for the kind of government we
have, or how the people fare, hut whose
chief concern is their own welfare, their
own interests; (2) political factions that
divide the majority vote and are fight¬
ing lor control in local government have
no reliable organized Negro group with
which to deal and so resort to railing
on individuals some of w hom are more
or less well intentioned and honest, but
with limited influence with the mass of
voters. The situation is not only con¬
fused and hooeless, but bv the same to¬
of the voter is
KY. GOVERNOR’S STAND ON SEGREGATION
GETS SMALL LETTER RESPONSE
1 RANK FORT Kv — ANP* —
Aj; indication of the willing-
ness of most southerners to go
along with integration in
zhuois, was the small volume
ul mail “inch Go La.-reuse V.
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Wetherby of Kentucky
after he announced his in-
tentions of complying the
court ruling. i .
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weak indeed. There is only one rem¬
edy for this situation: the right think¬
ing Negroes in this county must some
how or other take the time and assure ■
the expense of forming an organization
that will speak for and be responsible
to the Negro voters in this city and
county. This is the only way to put
itp end to the machinations of two or
three individuals who themselves must
follow “the master’s voice.” It is most
unfortunate that many of our citizens
are thus placed in a |K>sition where they
mpst choose between personal loyalty and
principles they believe in. Our situa¬
tion should be all we need to drive us to
spare no jinm■ and effort to get our vot¬
ers in Chatham County organized. This
can be accomplished to some extent with¬
in the next three months if enough of
our men and women who see the need
foe it will dedicate themselves to the
job.
HOLD ON. WAIT
The sound and fury of the first re¬
actions to the recent Supreme Court de¬
cision in the segregation cases have
subsided and given place to somewhat
more sober thinking. People are be¬
ginning to accede to the wisdom ot the
Court’s plan to submit suggestions some
time in October, for carrying out its
ndingCof May 17: Some states have al¬
ready announced their plans of conform¬
ance, among rtheni' are Arkansas, Kan¬
sas, Maryland, and the District ot ( o-
lumbin. The Georgia Education Com¬
mission seems willing to sit down with
citizens, including Negroes, to hear sug¬
gestions as to how the decision can or
may be implemented.
Even the governor’s conference at
Richmond did not result in a specific
or concerted plan of action, nor was it
consumed by fire-and-brimstone oratry,
nor did it hear the rattle of sabers. The
effect of the cooling off period is notice¬
able, However, here and there Negro
parents and teachers are showing signs
of panic and impatience, and are sur¬
rendering to their fears that are, in the
main, groundless. Of course, some
newspapers and some reactionary individ¬
uals are Continuing to tell them that'
they will lose their jobs if schools are
“desegregated,” and it is understandable
that the more timid give in and run
with )editions to education boards, in
which they ask that segregated schools
be continued. They do not know, and
jierhups do riot care, that the State of
Georgia will need D00 teachers in Sep¬
tember; that when schools were integral
*•(1 in certain counties in New Jersey 167
more Negro teachers were needed than
before.
Negroes in Columbia, Heard, Glass¬
cock and Richmond counties have filed
smh petitions with their Boards. is
this a fitting outcome of 50 years of
struggle and thousands of dollars spent
to secure equality in education, a corn¬
erstone of democracy? What is the
necessity for such haste? This sort o;
thing could have influenced the de¬
cision of a Supreme Court made up of
men we could name, some of whom have
already said time and time again that
“Negroes are for segregation." Listen
to this paragraph taken from a letter
in the (>eople’s Forum:
“1 believe many Negi'oes are for
segregation because they want
peace, and because, like myself, the*
have thought what would Happen if
in order to sent! their children to
private schools many white people
would have to do their own work,
Cat at home, stop tipping, and save
in every possible way.”
This is something new, and it leads
us to wonder what indeed would hap¬
pen if we extended this line of reason¬
ing to include a lot of possible “it's."
The governor has
only 27 letter-- Of these 1G were
against him, and nine for him.
Fite of the letters came from
outside Kentucky,
The letter) \hrch uuouse luo
stand criticized the chief exe-
cutive for ins regusal to attend
various top-level conferen-
ces suggested oy defiant gover-
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GOT THE1K DIPLOMAS — The Both units will continue their
nors in the South
The letters also urged Gov.
i Wetherby to take the
* n devising som e plkn to circum -
vent the high court’s decision.
Persons writing compiimen-
tary letters stressed the theme
that the desegregation is the
only answer in harmony with
Christian and democratic prut-
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THE SAVANNAH TJUBVIIK
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon Hancock
Washington shows the way
The School Board of Washington, D. C.
has set the nation a node example by its
timely decision to begin Integration in the
schools of that city now. When the Wash¬
ington Board oecided to meet the prob¬
lem head-on instead of looking for loop¬
holes, as they are currently doing in North
Caioiina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Virginia, it showed the possibilities of stal¬
wart leadership and moral courage, the two
essential ingredients demanded by the cur¬
rent situation.
North Carolina and Virginia are pitiful,
when they take refuge in the spacious
clause of the Supreme court decision whicL
does not provide ways and means of imple¬
menting the said decision. The clause
that allowed the South an oportunity to
re< <y:n itself commendably from the curse
grelt oif Segregation, has been turned by two
states into a great excuse for 'postpon¬
ing! the inevitable, and or the refuge of
southern die-hards.
It is to the South’s detriment that these
bitter-enders are today in the political sad¬
dle and they are proposing to do some
“rough-riding,” so it appears. Negroes
must be especially cautious in the lace of
the impending situation, for bitter enders
die-harders are going to have their inning,
which in the end will amount to reprisals
against defenseless Negroes.
It is hardly probable that such social
change as is impending could be efected
without great tribulation for somebody and
chiefest of these tribulations will be visited
Upon the Negroes themselves; for this Ne¬
groes must be preared. A. season of serious
thinking with a minimum of loose talk¬
ing would work wonders for the human
cause.
In the nature of things, Negroes are as
unprepared for the diverse eventualities of
the entirely new situation as the whites.
Attempts at mutual understanding were
never more necessary than now. There is
a sense of urgency in the situation that!
calls for sacrifice and patience and the
Christian points of view, all of which will
be sorely tested in the crucible of the new
situation.
In the first place, the political charlatans
and demagogues will have a field day and
will do their utmost to circumvent the sov¬
ereign laws of a sovereign nation. Thfey
will defy God, the Bible and Jesus Christ
and spit in the face of Decency trying to
turn back the hands on the Clock of Time.
NEVER A DULL MOMENT
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There are so many wonderful new things to learn and do at a 1
Girl Stout camp that it is no wonder that it takes a big book to
list all the possibilities. Even Brownie Scouts go to camp.
GIRL SCOUT CAMP
BEGINS MONDAY
Girl Scout Day will begin its
fifth year of day camping at
the Montgomery Community
Center on Monday, June 21, for
a six day camping period. The
tee is $3.09 a girl, and *3.75 for
non-Girl Scouts. The Day Pro¬
gram is opened to all girls in
the community between the
ages of 7 and 17. The fee covers
transportation to and from the
campsite, which is 12 miles
from the community, milk and
They will employ every hellish design to
pk*.4e Vi.at integration Its Impossible and
then they will shout, “I told you so!” ,
Like the wrath incurred by the outcome
ot the Civil War, the wrath wrought by
the Supreme Court's recent decision will
fall with greatest fury upon Negroes them¬
selves. To the careful student of the sit¬
uation this is not to be unexpected.
In the second place, the matter of inte¬
gration cannot be effected overnight, how¬
ever we may wish that it could. One rea¬
son the Supreme Court delayed so long its
momentous decision was to gradually pre¬
pare the nation for it. Now comes tho
Washington Board with a plan for gradu¬
ally perfecting the ways and means of the
integrative process.
Negroes have become as allergic to the
term “gradual” as the Supreme Megro-
phobes are allergic to such words as “civil
rights” and • FEPC." If one would create
frenzy and fury anlong certain Negrophobes,
one has only to use such terms as civil
rights and FEPC, and one has a fight on
hand. Such terms are the Negrophobes'
fighting .pieces.
But just as full of fight are many Negroes
over the word “gradual.” The social pro¬
cess is a gradual process and all revolutions
are preceded by gradual changes that make
for revolution. The biological process is
gradual.
It all depends upon how we define our
word gradual. When Talmadge says grad¬
ual he means “never:” when the writer says
gradual he means at the earliest possible
moment consistent with common sense and
science. The Kingdom of God cometh not
with observation-gradually, but it is com¬
ing all tne while.
What comes in arithmetic progression
today will come with geometric progression
tomorrow! A thing wisely begun, even if
gradually, will be accelerated soonef- or lat¬
er.
When a Negro church in the deep South,
noted for its phenominal pastoral turn-over
was receiving its pastor's resignation which
was to take effect “three months hence"
a good brother arose in the rear and moved
that the resignation take effect “yat now”
(right nowi.
The “yat now” feeling of tj>c Negro is
not altogether inconsistent, with the grad¬
ual approach approved by the Washington,
D. C. School Board. Washington shows
the way!
program supplies.
Each girl is asked to bring a
nose bag lunch (a camp term
for sandwich, fruit and cookies) !
a drinking cup and a pocket
|< n jf e
A chartered bus will make the
following stops each day: Har- |
moil and Gwinnett streets, 8:45 j
a.m.; Gwinnett and East i
Broad, 8:50; East Broad and :
Gordon, 8 55; West Broad and j
Zubiy, 9 a. m.; West Broad and
Gwinnett, 9:05; West Broad and j
Henry, 9 10 a.m ; West Broad i
summer activities. June , 14-Aug- .
ust 27. with daycare tor child-
ten. 2-12 years old. and special
recreation. crafts study and
worship for children, youth and
and 39th 9:12; West Broad and
Victory Drive. 9:15 a. m„ and
Victdry Drive and Waters Ave..
C:2( a.in. The bus makes the
same stops when it leaves the
camp at 3 o’clock each day.
Mrs Matilda Rivers will serve
as day camp director and Mrs.
Pauline WliiWtJ )first aider.
Other camp counselors will be
Mrs. Margaret Byncs, Mrs.
Anita Stripling. Miss Julia
Jones, Miss Frances Thompson
Mrs. Cassie Densier, Mrs.
Franse Thompson and Mrs.
Doretha Wells. Mrs. Jeanette
Hall, field director, will serve
as camp coordinator.
Any girl who wishes to attend
and has not registered
may bring her camp ice and
meet the bus at the stop closest
to her on Monday.
FATHER DEFENDS SON
IN HOUSING FLAREUP
LOUISVILLE — i ANP) ' — A
faliter last week came to the
, „ of his who had
son
purchased a home in a former
neighborhood here,
In a letter to the editor of
the Courier-Journal, A. E. Wade,
Jr., criticized an editorial in
the publication on the younger
Wade’s moving into the house
Andrew Wade moved into his
newly-purchased home some
two weeks ago. Irate whites
adults.
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, teinber 7. Mrs. J. H. Taggart
j director of the Center
r 1STRSDAT, JUNE 17, 1954
The Eyes of The Countey f
For the first time more <
than fifty years a Negro is
runnnig for public office in
Chatham County, and, strange
as it may seem, he is not run-
ning because of his racial
identity, but in spite of it. ‘
Many people of .our
trying to confuse the minds
the voters with any nurhber
of spurious reasons as to
a Negro has entered this race,
and what kind of race he will
run.
The Negro has grown
mentally and politically, and 1
may offer for any political
for which he may be qualified
to hold. He should be judged
on his fitness and qualifies-
tions.
For eighty years we
heard the saying, "The Time
Is Not Ripe." If it is not now.
when will it be? Are we forget-
j ting that in 1946 the “time was
I not ripe” for Negro policemen.
[ but when they were appointed
most communities in the South
! followed, and found them to
Tigers Lead Y
Leaguers
Beta Delta Sigma Chapter of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority do-
nated a 27-watt Masco loudspeaker
system to the West Broad Street
Branch Y.M.C.A.
A pamphlet entitled “Y" Oamp-
ing is Summer Magic will he te-
leased to hoys anil girls of the
community this week by John .
McKinney. Boys’ Work Secretary.
This year’s plans call for tit) hoys
and 10 girls to go to Day ( amp.
These hoys and gills will he drawn
from the D1 Gra-Y clubs organized
during the past school term. The
period set aside for hoys is July
12-21, Gills August 28-81, and the
cost for each period will be $9.66.
The fee will take care of the fid
lowing: Graft material, insurance,
swimming fees, milk, towels,
T-shirt, and transportation.
This year’s Day Camping sc:'
sions will be held at Camp O'Hara,
local Boy Scout of America’s
Camp located l.'l miles south on
the Ogecvhcc Road.
The regular IT.S.O. party will he
sponsored by the Marine Club
11. .1. Mclvcr. Commander, Satur¬
day night, H:.'!0 P.M. All service¬
men ami hostesses are expected to
he present. Mrs. Francis J. Ashe.
U.S.O. Staff Aide, will he in
charge. *
Members of the “Y” whose mem
j hrrxhips will expire during June or
July at'*' asked to renew immedi¬
ately. The “Y" needs your
to curry on its program foe tie
entire community.
Y.M.C.A. Little League Standing
W I. Pet.
Bolton St. Tigers 4 4 1
Jr. Dodgers 2 1
Southern Yankees 2 t
Boys Club 2 1
Gann Park Indians 2 2
Y.M.C.A. Braves 1 3
Royals Hornets 1 8
Yamacraw Athletics 1 3
objected to his presence and
burned a cross nearby and
threw bricks at the house. A
police guard has been stationed
near the house supposedly to
protect the Wades.
In his letter the father point-
ed out that The Courier-Jour
nal has supported the right
the foreign-born woman
live where she wanted, but had
refused to take a similar stand
with his son. He therefore
asked:
“How could you be so kind
to a foreigner, and yet be so
unkind to my son who is a
native American and also a
veteran of the last war?"
The father took the paper to
task for what he termed it:
condeming of a white friend of
his son who purchased the
home for him. He said:
“You viciously condemn Mr
and Mrs. Braden for aiding
him by purchasing the home .
The honesty and sincerity of
the Braden family is above re¬
proach. When my son located
the home of his choice, he im¬
mediately gave Braden the
money which lie saved, and
Braden, like a true friend that
he is. delivered the deed and
home to him.
| "I wonder just how many of
] you who are all worked up
over his moving into Rone
• Court have friends that yon
could place that kind of faith
i in.
"My son nas violated no law
He is not trying to force him
self on anyone. All he wants is
, a full-fledged membership car*
to the kind of democracy that
America broadcasts to the for •
eisn lads on her great prop
i aganda machiine.”
be as efficient as others be¬
cause they knew that “the time
WAS ripe.”
Opportunity has a peculiar
knack of knocking and when
refused an audience, will go
awaiy for many years. There is
old Jprovcrb that sap* "A
journey ,of a million miles
begins *Vfth a .single step, so
Countians lei's step
out and VOTE for Etlward B.
Law.
The Negro has never been
by any of the local
political parties as jo their
of candidates, <vj)d 1 am
sure they are not beginning
now, but whenever a forward
step is made by any group
are those who say “The
is Not Ripe.’ We, in
Chatham County, are way be-
hind in our politial responsibil-
ity because of that Attitude.
Time Marches On" uifd we
arc NOT going to be 1HI be¬
hind.
John Q. Jefferson
(paid advertisement) i
NEGRO HEADS KC
CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION
KANSAS CITY. Kan.-r-(ANP)
—Tames If. Browne, youthful man¬
ager of -the ordinary department
of Atlanta Life Insurance; com¬
pany, Kansas City, Mo.,^ajid vice
president of Douglass State hank,
last week was named chairman "f
(he Kansas City, Kan. Civil Se ev¬
ice Commission. il.
A member of the board for tnree
years, he is the first Negro to
head this body.
This commission supervises the
employment if mure Ilian JO oily
workers including, police dud fire
department per., mivl. It holds
1 merit examinations for nil while
collar employees and bear charges
filed against police and other city
stuff members.
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Jerusalem Bant. Church
At First Jerusalem Baptist
church, Rev. W. Brown, pastor,
Sunday service was excellent.
Sunday school was held at
10:30 with Dca. Loud holt in
charge and at 11 3( the pastor
delivered an impressive ser¬
mon. He also preached fit com¬
» iunl0 ' 1 and at night, ip
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Do's and don'ts
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burned tissues can absorb gormi.
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tains no toxic substances.
DON’T puncture blisters-i-punc-
turing invites infection.
00 apply ‘Vaseline’ Petroleum Jelly I
to block out airborne bacteria, after
cleansing with mild soap and water
or a mild antiseptic. If burp is deep
1 SEE A DOCTOR.
I DON’T use a tight bandage on even
simple burns.
DO use a loose bandage of sterile
gauze smeared with soothing
‘Vaseline’ Petroleurfi Jelly.‘If hands
are burned, remove rings or watch
bands which might restrict circu¬
lation.
DON’T ever be without ‘-Vaseline’
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and clinics, it’s the modern, medi¬
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bums.
DO put a jar or tube of ‘Vaseline’
Petroleum Jelly in your medicine
chest. And another in the.kitchen
where most burns occur. Oniy 15G
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