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GO TO SCHOOL
Schools will o|K'ti in a few days. Ev¬
ery chil l of school age should enroll and
begin school the first day, and attend
regularly, everyday, thereafter. Going
to school is the most important business
for a child between the ages of six and
eighteen which is the stopping place only
for those who are unable to absorb more
schooling or who arc unable for finan¬
cial reasons to go on to further study.
Even lac-k of money need not be an ob¬
stacle 'to anyone who has the ability
and the desire to continue in school.
There are classes for adults at night
for those who must work during the
day. One’s standard of living is deter¬
mined by what he earns and oy what he
wants. What he wants is determined
by the amount of his education; what
he earns is also determined by the
amount of his schooling.
Studies reveal that the average adult
who has had 11 to 12 years of schooling,
buys more of what the merchant has
to sell than does one who has from
8 to 9 years of schooling. This is the
same as saying the more schooling, the
more wants people have; the more school¬
ing, the more they earn. The more ed¬
ucation, the better standard of living
people want and enjoy, the more sales
the merchant makes. “Education is
good business;” it pays. Could we say,
people who do not appreciate the valu"
of schooling do not know enough to
know what they are missing? They are
those who stay, who stop, out of school.
We are trying to advise boys and girls
to go on to school. We are trying up
tell them that the more schooling they
have, the better the jobs they will be
able to get and hold. Parents, too, need
to realjze this. The little money a child
of school ag“, out of school can bring in,
is too big a price to pay for cutting off
his schooling. Let everybody encourage
our young people (<» go to school.
citizenship
Citizenship is the status of one who
is a citizen. A citizen is one who is
either iborn in the country or one who
was born in another country but who
upon compl i a n c e with certain re¬
quirements becomes a naturalized cit¬
izen. Unfortunately, many citizens nev¬
er progress beyond the mere qualifica¬
tions of being native born or natural¬
ized. These are minimum require¬
ments. Such citizens abide by the
laws, pay indirect taxes, may vote and
pay income taxes if their earnings
warrant it. They enjoy all the services,
liberties, immunities and protections en¬
joyed by other citizens at other levels,
for there are other levels of citizenship.
They enjoy citizenship at the minimum
cost. A citizen may pay his taxes, vote
and otherwise participate in the govern¬
ment of his city, but there remains oth¬
er important concerns that are beyond
the purview and ability of the govern¬
ment to care for. Organizations, ac¬
tivities and movements like the Boy and
Girl Scouts. Boys Clubs, YMCA, YWCA,
Red ( ross. Infantile Paralysis Drives,
Community Chests, etc., are volunteer
activities of citizens who go beyond the
call ot duty of citizenship as the mere
citizen sees it. It is the performance
ol such duties which causes citizens to
rate as outstanding in a community, a
circumstance that leads to honors which
the public ungrudgingly bestows on such
ASC Prrf. To
Study At Harvard
ALBANY. Ga.. August 18—Dr.
William E Johnston. Jr. pro¬
fessor of social science and
former dean of students
Albany State college .will, be-
ginning in September, matric¬
ulate at Harvard university for
a years study.
During his stay at Harvard
Dr Johnston, who will be or
leave from Albany State, will
work toward a craduate cer¬
tificate in Guidance and Coun¬
seling Psychology; T p m
pletion ot this study. Dr. Johns-
ton will have upped his minor
held os specialization. Guidance
and Personnel Administration,
to that of a nia’ -r field.
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citizens, a fact quite beyond the under¬
standing of the mere citizen Such hon¬
or comes, as it were, to* those “who
while their companions slept, were toil¬
ing upwards in the night.” Such per¬
formance requires exacting cost and sac¬
rifice of time, mental and physical en¬
ergy, and infrequently money and haz¬
ard to health, and represents a type
of service that money cannot buy. It
calls for a high sense of civic and so¬
cial responsibility laoking in many of
our citizens who by every token should
be among those who give themselves
without stint to making our community
the kind it should be in a country that
is the chief exponent of the democratic
way of life and government.
VOTERS UNnrOD rr )
Reports seem to indicate that the
leading candidates in the gubernatorial
race are themselves worried because the
state’s voters are in a state of indeci¬
sion about whom they will choose as
the next governor of Georgia. There
is nothing so surprising about this after
all. The candidates are responsible for
some of the lack of enthusiasm. For
one thing, they seem not to have learn¬
ed that the race issue has lost much o 1 '
its appeal to the voters. Each of the
eight candidates have been laboring with
indifferent success to state something
different about school segregation. They
are sounding off about the same things.
Each of them is for and against the
same things. When you have heard one
of them, you have heard all of them.
They have been lambasting each other
with equal fury and raucus eloquence
so that they are about to convince the
people that no one of them is fit to be¬
come governor of the state Negro vot¬
ers are in a worse fix. All of the se¬
rious candidates have solemnly promis¬
ed (one expecting God to help him) to
use all means at their disposal to defy
the Supreme Court’s decision on school
segregation. One has pledged himself
to run the governor’s office from jail
if his refusal to obey the Court lends to
that. Another promises to disobey the
decision as long as there is breath in
his body. Negroes, therefore, if they
vote, will be compelled to vote for the
the candidate who has been the least
violent in pronouncing his intention to
ignore the Court’s ruling. If press re¬
ports are unconvincing about the lack
of interest in and enthusiasm for the
candidates, the sad and hollow effort of
the stentorian claque at the sectional
rallies of the candidates is. A tremen¬
dously vital question which the candi¬
dates almost unanimously say they op¬
pose, is the amendment to abandon the
state’s public school system, that is
sponsored by our present governor. This
question is not receiving the attention
we think it deserves. If this amend¬
ment receives a favorable vote on Sep¬
tember 8. public education in Georgia
will receive a staggering blow from
which the state will require a long time
to \recover. The education of Negroes
will be very greatly damaged. There
was a time when funds for Negro schools
were diverted wiln immunity from Ne¬
gro schools. What will 'happen under
private management can hardly be
guessed. It is of paramount importance
that Negro voters do their utmost to
help defeat this amendment. We can
not
JOE COCHRAN VOTING
MACHINE CHAIRMAN
Joseph V Cochran. well
known contractor, has been se- :
'eded as chairman of the (
special committee created byi
• the Savannah Branch of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
to cooperate with the local
Voting Machine Educational I
Committee. W. W Law. branch !
nresident, announced. j
A g’-'vin of s AACP volunteers, j
-nder Mr Cochran's leadership. I
will assist bv serving as in¬
structors on the operation of
♦he voting machines and bv
encouraging Negro citizens to
avail themselves of the instruct¬
ions being offered.
Mr. Cochran is a deacon of
the First Bryan Baptist church
has long been active in
civic and political organiza-
tions. He was a member of the
NAA CP Czzie Jones Defense
Committee and figured prom-
Diently as an eastside leader in
the Citizens Democratic Club.
______
' EAVES HOME TO
^UDf IN AMERICA — Jacob
Othiene, an African welfare
assistant of East African Rail-
wavs, is saying goodbye to his
wife at Nairobi, Kenya, before
boarding an airplane for the
United States where he will
study social'work at Iowa State
college, Amos, la., on an Ameri¬
can government grant. Prior
to starting his course of study,
Othiene will spend six weeks at
an orientation center at Ben¬
nington college. Vermont.
t ANP’
the savannah TRiBtrm
“LET JUSTICE BEGIN AT HOME, BY REMOVING HIM FROM ALL TRAINS”
BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock
For ANP
COMFORTING THE KREMLIN
Givin comfort to the enemy has been
lon • disdained by the nations. Severe
penalties are often meted out to those guil-
ty of such despicable doings. It matters
little whether the comfort is given direct-
lv nr indirectly, it. serves the same purpose
and tliat is, it gives the enemy an advan-
p lK e.
The knave who >r mains at home and
weakens morale is just as dangerous as he
who.would go through the darkness to de-
liver his nation's secrets. Then too, it must
be observed, that it, makes little difference
who comfo-ts the enem/. Whether he be
one of low or high degree, in the last anal-
ysis makes little difference in the final out-’
come. It has always been a source of
amazement to this writer how the Confeder-
acy could stab at the Vitals of this nation
and come through it all with "flying col-
ors ->
In spite of the fact that efforts to de-
stroy the ration were made with mortal
reriorrrrss. the rebellious South emerged
"glorious” if not victorious. How Jefferson
Davis could conic through the Civil Wiar
as a hero and John Brown emerge as a
felon is at once a question and a, mystery,
and certainly one of those vagaries of sec j
(ional pride and prejudice. The safety
that resides in • numbers has been the sal-
vation of the Lost Cause and its devotees,
and it was only the impressive numbers
that, supported the War of Rebellion that
saved in part the face of 'the rebellious
South.
Unfortunatelv the spirit of the rebellion
is not dead The recent resurgence of th°
Confederate spirit •evidenced by the reap-
pearance of the confederate flag, is a straw
which shows the way the sectional winds
are blowing in the South. Happily the Con-
federate flag fad is rapidly passing, which
shows that the South of Jefferson Davis Is
gone to come no more; and a new South
is emerging. The Old South gloried in re-
hnittmv the new south is glorying in be-
'
longing.
Ah hour'll tilings are currently quiet pn
thr Southern scene p is safe to sav the
rebels of the South can be counted on
I oral Y To ScnJ
R'-premia!ivc* Jo
Area Cn’incil Meet
The Southern Area Council
YMCA will sponsor a Lay
Leader workshop for Laymen
of \MCA Branches primarily
serving Negroes in St. Augus¬
tine. Florida. October 8,9.10.
The ____ West _____ Broad _____ Street ,_____
I Branch YMCA is expected to
! send five laymen who are mem-
bers of the Committee of Man-
agement, including chairman,
Dr. J. W. Wilson. The leader-
ship of this workshop will be
Dr. M. C. Hill, of Atlanta uni-
IL. I versity, Dunbar Reed and Chas,
Wharton of the YMCA staff
of the Southern Area Council. „ ..
Toe program items will in- .
elude, , , “The _. Social _ . . climate . .
which we live and work." "The
Structure _. and Role of the .... YM-
C A” "YMCA Branch js:
sis m the YMCADr
Wilson, „ Uil v U , v**»i»**»»ii chairman ot u- the com — -
mittee of management of the
•Yt" will appoint the delegates
to come up with ways and means of nulli-
fying the recent Supreme Court decision. When
the Old South in its die-hardism gets quiet,
you (are safe in assuming that they uro
thinking hard and in due time will come up
with devised ways and means of eircumvent-
ing the laws of the land
The New South is strong and promising.
Jit irct iiile rtle to match ways anrl
means with the old Die-hard South of Till-
man and Vardaman and Tom Watson and
Blease and Bilbo and Talmadge and Byrnes,
What we are saying here is it is expecting
too much to expect the rebellious South
to accept with good grace the logical man-
dates of the land. The Ol dSout.h will
insist on ‘'going through its sweat” before
it rs resry to keep step /with God and
Time and Right!
The current veiled attempts to discard
the public school systems in favor of some
type of private school plan is just another
display of desperation that characterizes
the Old South. One need not be stopped
,n legal lore to remember how futile was
the indirect attempt to turn the democrat-
ic party into a series of "social clubs" ti
an attempt to stem the tide of Negro suf-
frage. The social club plan failed; for 1
as one iurist said in resolving another case,
“Tt is illegal to do, indirectly what it is 11-
legal to do directly.” This is a legal threo-
rem what will hold good in' all and every
situation. If the social club idea was ille-
gal, the private school idea is illegal, for
it is an attempt to do indirectly what it is
illegal to do directly. IT IS ILLEGAL TO
DO INDIRECTLY WHAT CANNOT BE LE-
OALLY DONE DIRECTLY. This is the Ie-
gal theorem that will stymie any attempt,
to set up a system ..of private schools,
The tragedy of this feverish and at
times fanatical attempt to eternalize segre-
gation, stems not so much from the moral
obtuseness observed, but from the disastrous
effects upon our prestige in the world. Ev-
pry attempt at evasion is a comfort to the
Kremlin. It is true that this country has
many who would rather comfort, the Krem-
lin than to let the Negro go, but their
days and doings are numbered.
for this meeting at the regular
September 8th meeting of the
"ommittee
Fifty dollars has been don-
at-ed bv Alpha Mu Tan chapter
if Alpha Chi Pi omega sorority
to buy two folding banquet
tables for the banouet room at
the “Y.” The sorority has taken
as a project the buying of ten
such tables, which will accom-
, piodate 100 people at one sit-
| Mng. These tables can be fold-
j ed and stored in a very small
I space Mrs. R. L. Harden is
j j basileus of the sorority, Mrs.
Carlovn Gates, treasurer, and
Mrs. Esther R. Stokes is chair-
j J man of the scholarship and
special donations committee.
A of from .. Scott- „ ..
group women
dale, , , Georgia, _ . will ... be.the . guests
*
of . the .. „ Y Saturday _ . . and Sun- _
' ' ^ h been
made . through Mrs. .. Janie , .
to Y volunteer worker
m - nager of the group.
■Youth Speaks" radio
j gram will be heard Saturday at
100 pm. direct from the Y.
John H. Law. Jr., coordinator
of the program, will be in
] "barge
The weekly USO party for
all servicemen in this area will
be held at the “Y” Saturday
night at 8 30 p.m. All service¬
men and hostesses are invited
to attend. Mrs. Francis Ashe.
USO Staff Aide, will be in
charge.
The Y is a Red Feather
Agency.
Butler Home Christian
Workers
j The Butler Home Christian
Workers Lodge met at the usual
hour Wednesday, August 18, at
the VFW with the president in
charge. Five members were ad-
~
I ded t0 the lod , S e _ Butler Home
1 Christian Workers will render
chu ^ at D .
:=rs a P r( * am
1 "---- w "—* s-triT —” u c .
members. Rev. John Miller is
still in the hospital. Mabel But-
ler, president; Harrison Butler,
I acting reporter.
THrUSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1951
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HOME EDUCATION
weekly in our columns.
THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FAMILY"—Froebel
THE DANCING LESSON
Laura Gray
In the small dressing; room
several mothers were preparing
‘heir four or five year old
laughters for the dancing less¬
on, when screams came from
the adjoining washroom. A
young child was crying out, “I
won't go to my lesson! I won't!
t won’t!”
“Indeed you will,” came the
inswer, “or be punished!
'No! No! I feel sick! I don’t
'.want to dance! Please, please
don't make me!” More loud
•rving was heard.
The noise could not but hori-
fy those who were in the
dressing room. One woman
leaned toward me and said,
They are neighbors of mine.
Lite mother’s determined to
make a ballet dancer of her
child—says she always wanted
to be one herself.”
Another spoke up. “Can’t see
the use of it all. Seems to me if
a youngster doesn't want to
dance it would be best to let
her go without lessons.”
Some minutes later a small
i woman with a miserable-looking
wee girl, face swollen and
j tear-stained, came from the
(washroom, passed through the
dressing room and into the
hall.
“Huh! The youngster won
out!” laughed one of the wom¬
en. "Well, if she’d been my girl
she’d have danced. I don't be¬
lieve in letting them have their
own wav with things like that.”
This true story happened the
other dav, and most of us could
•’ll similar ones. A six-year-old
child took such a violent dis-
bke to music lessons, which
deprived her of almost an hour
of her cherished playtime after
school, that she devised ways
of escaping them, even to run¬
ning away.
Two parents, when their son
and daughter were still infants,
decided these precious, wonder-
ill babies should one day have
university educations. ?o. with
Wing sacrifices through the
wears, money was set aside for
this purpose, and they looked
>>rward to their offspring re¬
ceiving degrees and filling im¬
portant posts. But they were
doomed to disappointment. The
children were not students and
had never even managed to be
graduated from high school.
There was the money and
there was the opportunity, but
the youngsters were unwilling,
or unable, to take advantage of
them.
Why should this be? Parent¬
hood usually means self-sacri¬
fice. Most fathers and mothers
are willing to do anything to
provide the best opportunity for
their loved ones. Then very
often comes disappointment.
The fault lies chiefly in not
knowing their child. It Is as
natural for a little one to dance
as for the sun to shine; a heal¬
thy. happy child wants to dance.
A child forced to dance is a piti¬
ful sight. Again, If lessons are
not a delight something is
wrong. Either the teaching is
poor or there is something the
matter with the child. One
should find out.
Music lessons which encroach
FAMCEE PROF WINS PHD
LEXINGTON, Ky._ (ANP* —
Prof. Leander J. Shaw, Florida
A and M university and a native
of this city, was awarded a Ph.
D. degree in education at sum¬
mer convocation exercises at
Pennsylvania university last
week.
St. John B. T. U.
The BTU of St. John Baptist
church is sponsoring youth day
on Sunday morning and even¬
ing. An interesting program has
been arranged by the commit¬
tee with Mrs. Pearl Coxon act¬
ing as chairman. Norman
Johnson will be the morning
speaker. Miss Lorraine Brown,
a graduate of Beach high and
a sophomore at Tennessee
State, will be the evening
speaker. You will miss a treat
if you fail to hear either of these
. young people. Some of the city’s
tinest talent among the youth
will also appear on the pro¬
gram. Rev. E. O. S. Cleveland is
pastor.
on trda^ured playtime are
enough to stifle musical talent.
Education is a gradual, life¬
long business. If we wish our
Children to become university
graduates we must foster the
desire to learn—by encourage¬
ment, by reading and talking
with them about events hap¬
pening daily. The parents men¬
did not do this. They
not read or talk to their
There were few
in the house, and they
had always loved to
be busy with their hands. It
was natural that their son and
daughter also found pleasure in
handwork. One became a eleven
mechanic, the other a smartl
dressmaker. ‘
To do our best for oiir child¬
ren we must live close to them.
We must try to find tout what
goes on in their minds and
hearts—when they are unable
to tell us. Childhood should be
filled with delightful growth.
Parents can often develop in
tlje children a love for music
by singing to them when they
are babies. Later, they can
teach them to hear music in
the trees, the street, every¬
where. It is well, also, to teach
them to use those busy hands
of theirs to make things, and,
meanwhile, to talk to them
about the life around them.
How they will love it! Then
will come lessons, and tuition
should be good. Sometimes it
is not; and then rebellion on
the part of the child is natural
and right.
Inclination, desire anil ability,
aided by various chances to
contact and to understand to
some degree the various step
in the world’s work, tell a boy
or girl what to do for a living.
Parents cannot wisely make
such decisions for them. It is
theirs only to enrich their
children’s lives and to open
opportunities.
Do's and don'ts
atat BURNS
MHT “butter” a burn. Butter be¬
comes rancid, breeds bacteria and
burned tissues can absorb germs.
ftd apply a mild, soothing film of 1*.
‘Vaseline’Petroleum Jelly—con- Y
tains no toxic substances.
MRT puncture blisters—punc¬
turing invites infection.
M apply ‘Vaseline’ Petroleum Jelly
to block out airborne bacteria, after
cleansing with mild soap and water
or a mild antiseptic. If burn is deep
SEE A DOCTOR.
PONT use a tight bandage on even
simple burns.
PO use a loose bandage of sterile
gauze smeared with soothing
‘Vaseline’ Petroleum Jelly. If hands
are burned, remove rings or watch
bands which might restrict circu¬
lation.
PONT ever be without ‘Vaseline’
Petroleum Jelly! Used in hospitals
and clinics, it’s the modern, medi-
oally-approved first-aid for minor
burns.
put a jar or tube of ‘Vaseline’
Petroleum Jelly in your medicine
cheat. And another in the kitchen
where most bums occur. Only 15f.
Simple, safe, soothing
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