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SIGNS OF REVERSION
It is no surprise that the Mississippi
legislature has passed a bill to abandon
public schools, which it is expected will
be endorsed by Mississippi voters in 1/ -
f’Pmher cember. Tho The amendment «i moiwlmonf “w/mLI “would autho. .iitH/v
rize the Legislature, to abolish schools in
ivnnairA«imji Mississippi by uy a a two-thirds Lwu-i/iiiius vote; vute, sell. sen.
lease or rent state-owned school property
to private individuals; and pay tuition
for students to attend private schools.”
There seems little doubt that the people people
of the state will vote the authorization,
because already in 82 counties organiza-
tions have been set up to combat im-
plementation of the decision of the Su-
preme Court. The program of these
citizen’s councils includes activities which
indicate that the white people of Mis-
sissippi are willing to revert to practices
of fifty years ago, all to evade and dis-
obey a decision that is lair, moral, and
just by any standards of democracy in
Christianity. The programs call for the
“application of economic pressure to
trouble makers” who will be members of
the NAACP or other persons who mak*
vocal their opposition to segregation
Each council will have two important
committees:
“1. Political and Elections Com-
mitttee. Its ]>urposes are listed as
follows; Screen all candidates in lo¬
cal and state elections against those
who might be seeking the Negro
vote- If necessary, organize a white
private election within the council to
con Dat the Iv gro vote. I ■*.scour-
age Negro registration by every le¬
gal means.
“2. Membership and Finance
Committee—It seeks white patriotic
voters for membership on the ba¬
sis ‘we must mobolize pubiic opinion.” ”
Mississippi is setting a pattern that
may be followed by other deep south
states. While Mississippi is so far the
worst of all. Georgia and Louisiana are
not far behind. Of course, Georgia is
our immediate concern. The governor-
nominate has declared his intention of
campaigning for the passage of a simiku
amendment to that of Mississippi, it is
not altogether strange that no alternative
to circumvention has been proposed in
the majority ot the states affected. Only
seven of the Southern or border states
have asked the Supreme Court for per-
mission to file briefs during the segrega-
tion arguments. They are Arkansas,
Florida, Maryland, Oklahoma, North
Caro'na, Tennessee and Texas The
rest of the states have ignored the op-
portunity to file briefs. t'hix rnav indi
cate that they have no intention of aban
doning their definition and practice of
democracy no matter how much their po-
sition affects the country as a whole,
nor how much it affects the progress of
the South. It makes no difference if
it is writing a chapter of shame and in-
tility for posterity to feel called upon to
explain and blush over, a chapter not un-
like some of those it wrote during Re-
'Construction and the years immediate-
ly following it. It looks like reversion.
FR1VATE SCHOOLS
Some weeks prior to the late guberna
torial campaign, several individuals and
groups expressed their opposition ,o
abandoning our pub ic schools and turn-
ing them over to private interests. They
expressed it to the Georgia Education
Commission, appointed by the governor
to consider ways of defying the Supreme
Court of the I nited States and main-
taming segregation in our schools. On-'
of the powerful groups opposing the plan to
set up private schools for t ile education of
Georgia’s children is the Ga. Educational
Association which plans a campaign of
education to inform the people of the
great damage the Private school plan
promiaes for our children, and to obtain
Hallal At: II
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longin'’ to Negroes.
The couple had beep unpack¬
ing a box of dishes in the back
room and listening to a news
report on a radio when the ex¬
plosion occurred Windows
throughout the house were
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
rr West 46 Street
New York 19, New York
Whaley-Mikkelsen Company
6513 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Whaley-Mikkelsen Company
235 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, Calilornia
support against the am^ent He-
their
signed to seciue 1 H * aI1
public st hoo s. omems
<»ui numerous and
voiced in such a plan a ■ in
m 1 , _
.pose a lot of questions u
FhCfC ~ C& <tlll . v
receive a „ educa-
below that they receive now, as
tion lar - ».*• It is
bad as that is in some oca • •
secret that Negro schools very often
no —------ funds .. , , t jh n)
did not receive a <>ta (
* ,. t -_
under state supervision. fare under
ficult to image how they may
the suggested private si ^ ’",'j 0 1 1 ' un^ler-
mem. M ^
stand how the state can KD1 )U '
to private interests and escape i s > es o
sihility to the public- v\' l “ l ‘ 1 u 1 •
,
for educating a child be sent <|l!<c _ '
his parents’’ How will the sta 1 )L ’ u !(
„ .
the child will receive the m<n > ■
will see to it that the money is um i o
the purpose for w hich it 1S s ' n -• J
the buildings be sold m t
whom will •
Who will pay tor their npi-a -p. in-.ni-
ance? Who will employ teat u i y a
minisrators, administrative assistants,
and bus drivers? What will happen to
the lunch program and teacher retire
ment, and to the state School Superin¬
tendent, if the state can have one? This
list does not exhaust the catalogue of
questions which ought to suggest to every
thoughtful person the importance ot vot¬
ing against the amendment to give the
legislature the power to abolish our
public schools. Now there is grave
danger that voters will be indifferent,
about voting in the general election in
November since state and local oHuiaL
have been virtually elected. Voters
must not become indifferent to voting on
issues that in many respects are far more
important than who were nominated in
the primary, The amendment must be
defeated,
A PARADE
For nearly a life time, we have been
seeing parades, and we have loved them,
-phe circus parade, a pageant of high stem
ping richly caparisoned horses, with
plumes nodding to the tempo of the band
music, camels and elephants that seem-
ed to know what they were doing, arid
gaily costumed equestriennes and their
equestrian companions, sitting d'gnified-
]y upon their conscious mounts, makes a
picture that thrills old and young' alike,
It tells a story of training and discipline.
in which each man, woman and anima"
senses the purpose and the importance
of the part he plays in the parade. Who
can forget the military parade and what
makes it attractive and thrilling to the
thousands who sacrifice almost anything
to listen to the martial music and the
measured tread of marching soldiers ’
M ho can look without admiration at che
precision and promptness and regularity ,
dignity and pride and chestiness of the
men in rank and file, who look neither
to the right nor the Left, but straight
ahead symbolizing the seriousness of the
business in which they are engaged?
The circus parade is a sort of foreword
or ore-view of what will take place under
te BIG TOP. The military parade is a
panorama of the nation’s ability and
readiness to defend itself. Now the pub-
lie, ‘he spectators, pass upon the merits,
of the parade, its faithfulness to the pur-
pose behind it, whether, for instance,
the costumes, the transparent evenin' 1 '
srowns, the incongruous colors and band
'music, the halting and laggard steps of
individuals who should not have been
permitted to parade-; whether these things
:ir > prooer belongings of a religious pa-
>”ide; whether the whole thing, marchers
} st'tute ' n _d spectators and their behavior, eon-
Hbition, a sacrilege: whether it is an >x-
in one short day, along one ]in ■
° march, of all the weaknesses of -i
group of Peonle. that contributes to mak-
ing them social.V unacceptable.
1 w,i s
’mbeddud in the wall of the
,lvtn * i0 ° m near the ceiling
Pla f™ throughout
11 ^ Sl ° ' 10 i!1 terior.
" ' vird w; of Parker.- au-
uncbil" whhh was parked in
he be idc the
were shattered and the
Ineid crocked. The impact
o Strong taat p.eces ot
porch were blown on the lawn
Parker reported the day
‘be blast that 15 minutes
it happened, he heard a pound-
“TALKS LIKE HIM, AMD ACTS LIKE HIM”
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/ BETWEEN THE LINES
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock
For ANP
THE SOUTH’S FINEST HOUl
| n g hammer real lose."
but thought nothing of it at
, hp time
MeanwWle , the Norfolk NA-
McP branch, headed by Robert
0 Robertson, and other organ-
-tions. are pressing for more
police to get Coronado imd°r
nrurol, especially at night.
Gov Thomas B. Stanley, in rr-
v use to a request lor more
-tote police, said that several
buys ago that they they would
be available in case local au-
thonties asked for them.
THE SAVANNAH TRIHTTW1
The casual student of history, if question¬
ed as to Britain’s finest hour, would most
probably have mentioned Waterloo or Tra¬
falgar. But the incomparable Churchill said
that hour struck when Britain was resisting
unto death the chains of slavery that an ego-
manian named Hitler was forging. Britain's
finest hour then was that horn* when she
ook the high road of resistance unto death
rather than the low road of surrender to
bondage.
Today the South is buckling down to the
serious task of integrating its Negro citizens
To be sure the quarrel today is around the
question of the public schools, but the im¬
plications are vastly more comprehensive.
The whole gamut of life is involved. This
is no time for recriminations and inculpa¬
tions. It is time for sober consideration; of
ways and means to rescue the South and the
nation from a • hellish debacle, that wold
the threat of destruction over our lovely land
and our benign institutions.
The South and the nation set out to right
a wrong, to correct a grave n#stake and to
make amends for grave errors of the sordid
past. For nearly a hundred years the South
has flaunted defiance in the face of G<wl
and Time and Right. In the First Com¬
mandment we are commanded to have e o
other God before our God, the father f
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But for nearly
100.years the South has insisted on hav¬
ing the god of white supremacy as the god
to sit upon the throne of its worship. The
Bilbo, Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule
have been subordinated to color prejudice,
which has been the guiding principle of
the lif" of the South and to a great extent
the guiding principles of the nation and
world. l
It is well to pause here and pay a tribute
of respect and admiration to that seamen
of the white South that never bowed the
knee to the Baal of color prejudice. Even in
the dark days of slavery, there werq whites
AN OPEN LETTER
Box 77
Texas College
Tyler Texas
September 1f 1 Ej4 ,_,
Hon Herschel V. Jenkins,
Chairman
Armstrong Collect Commission
davaupah. Georgia
Dear Mr. Jenkins:
It will not surprise you. I am
sure. when I state here frankly
that my recent conference with
you, anent the matter of your
commission making some effort
to provide junior college facil¬
ities for Negro citizens of
Savannah comparable to those
nov provided for white citizens
by Annstorng Junior College,
was less productive of suggest¬
ions from you than I had
hoped In our conference you
brought out the following well
known facts, namely, that op-
era ting a college is a very
expensive project; that on ac-
count of the availability of a
four-year state college less
than five miles outside of Sav-
annah for colored people of the
state, few if any white citizen;
wculd want to contribute either
of their personal funds or of
public funds to establish and
maintain a junior college for
Negroes in the City of Savan¬
nah maintained partly at the
expense of the municipality as
is Armstrong. I am sure you
who freed their slaves; and in the
and bloody civil war that was fought, thne
were southerners who sympathized with t.he
Union Cause.
During the after years or post-war years
this often silent, but significant segment of
the white South always has resisted in ’*
spi: It the oppressions that have been meted
out to the Negro citizens. In their hearts-
thsv have disdained segregation and its evil
concomitants. There has never been a time
when the South was without a friendly voice
to fc e lifted in behalf of t]re hard-pressed
N‘ gro There has always been a South op-
posed to its Tillman and its Talmadges and
its Jimmy Byrneses.
So today there is a better South still
struggling against the inevitable disaster
that segregation is bound to bring sooner or
later if it is allowed to run its course. So
today the South is buckling itself down to
the important task of integr.’.Uoa in its
V re - ram of education. At 'ark has come
tfy c’sy when a serious ai.dmipt is being
n fide to tear from its pedestal the idol god
of white supremacy and place there the
God whose strong arm was' outstretched
in behalf of those who founded this na¬
tion and fought for its freedom.
As those lines are written news accounts
have it that there are demonstrations in
West Virginia against integration. We are
not in the least surprised. There will bo
no demonstrations for it; but it will go for¬
ward according to a plan as old as the ever¬
lasting hills, and as errorless as the rising
iides. There were demonstrations against
the Negro’s emancipation, but it was con¬
summated. We are just entering the final I
phase of that first Emancipation. Even
though it is going 1o take time we are go¬ 1
ing 1o see the forces of righteousness tri¬
umph in the end. Integration is inevitable
and the extent to which the South rises to
meet the new challenge with courage and
decision, it is having its finest hour.
are aware of the obvious fact
that neither of these state-
. m n r.ts "face jjn” honestly to the
I uuestion I posed: is it ir -* or
! democratic the public to funds use ANY PART of
of the muni-
eipality to furnish anv part of
! tRf expense of operating a
| junior college which is open U>
lone part of the tax-pavers and
closed to another part?
; I agreed with you that it is
probably not "practical”
try to cet a majority of
white citizens of our citv to
agree that the best solution of
this problem would be to ad-
mi* all qualified Negro students
to Armstrong Junior College
when and if they apply for ad¬
mission. You apparently do not
agree with me, however, that
the only just alternative is for
the city to cooperate with
Negroes and . it her citizens in
'establishing a segregated col-
lege for Negroes to be operated 1
| until such time a. integration
of students and teachers of
I such an institution ■. r.:'d
! peaceably brovyht above ::: Sav-
annah
! v-v- 1 ! ■; IP'
fours-" c ou:' crn’crcnce that
e**en if such a see ragated col¬
ic"? were established you did
not believe that the writer
would be invited or allowed to
take any part in its conduct.
; This, even if true .is quite ir-
revelant to the issue raised and S
j involved.
If the mayor and council of |
; the city, other elected officials, !
' and other members of
your
I college commission agree with
your position, it seems that we
ore left with only one recourse:
an appeal to the proper courts
for relief from this undemocrat-
ic and unjust situation.
Thanking you for the con-
ference, I am
Respectfully and sincerely
yours,
A. H. Gordon
Dr. A. H. Gordon
Hew Lodge Formed
On Saturday evening. Sep¬ ;
tember 18, at the Masonic i
Temple on West Gwinnett St..
a new lndgo was formed c‘
the American Federation of
Government Employees by
National Vice President (AFGEi
Fr ° : * Loutli< ’ who was also the | ,
P n “ s<: Poak°i. Assistance ua.,
ably "riven by Arthur Gavin,
president of local lodge 1596
< A? TC > U S. A. F. Storage
rro-.cb Rufus Bryant, and
rick Movlan.
Ttg lour" comprises the em¬
ploy- -s W.S.A.F. Storage
Branch 'AMC> and Hunter Air
Fo: e Base. The members anci
temporary officers elected are
THTIiS., SEPTEflfBER 23, 1954
HOME EDUCATION
Issued bv the National Kindergarten Association. S West
i(Hh Street. New York City. These articles are appearing
weekly in our columns. hoi
“THE CHILD’S FIRST SCHOOL IS THE FA Mil A —I roe
LEARNING TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN
Mabel-Ruth Jackson
Carol came running into the
house, breathless with haste I
! and obviously almost bursting
with -something she had to im¬
part.
‘Mummy.” she announced
importantly, holding out sev-
era! slips of cardboard, “our i
school is going to have an en- I
tertalrment and here are four |
tickets. Will you buy them, j
Mummy?” Then, seeing her ,
father .who ha'd happened to !
I return home earlier than usual, j
; “Will you buy them. Daddy?” j
Her father smiled at her.
j “Nc + so fast, young lady,” he -
I said. "What kind of an enter- \
I tairrnent? What is it for?” 1
1 singing “Oh, there’s and all a kinds little of play things. and j '
j We want to make some money
i to give to the people who help -
*he children who get ill with
polio. You know.”
I ‘ Yes, I know,” said her fa¬
ther, looking at the tickets, and
! her mother added, “Why, we’ve
i already given—” j
"Carol,” interrupted her
- father quickly, "will you please
| mn out to the yard and see if
the paper boy has left the
paper? only dont run—walk.
I’ll fce thinking about this.”
When his daughter disap-
oeared, Mr. Davis turned to
hi; wife. "Nan, we can’t let her
down.” he said.
I “No, I don't think we can,”
| she answered fclowly. 1 it was
hist that I was thinking we’d
already given quite a bit to
the polio fund.”
"But this would be Carol’s
mft in a way. We want her to
’’eel a civic sense of duty for 1
herself. Even if we told her i
that we, as a family, had given i '
our share, it wouldn’t have the
~.ame effect.”
Liberty Countv Teachers
The first county wide meet-
ine of the Liberty Countv
tn-irbers was held Sent,. 3 at
Libertv high school. All teach-
ers were present, including the
two new teachers, Mrs. J. A
Lewis at Liberty high and Miss
Betty Shaw at Hineshaw school.
The health nurse. Mrs. Dobb-
w? Ifd her assistant ^e and
Sa
They were presented to the
group by Miss Mildred Turner,
J68.ns Supervisor of Liberty
County. Miss Turner also pro-
sent-ed Mrs. J. M. Bacon, Sup-
erintent of Schools, who made
a brief talk on conditions in
the county as a whole.
°werp 1S ^ year
1954 19a4-5a 55 were elected i as fol-
lows:
Mrs. M. L. Baggs, president; ,
Mrs. Clarence Williams, vice-
president; Mrs. Lillie Belle
as fuilows.
President, Rufus Bryant; Vice
President, W. B. Williams;
Secretary, Spelman McGee;
Treasurer, Carl Terrell; xerxeu; oe Ser r-
geant-at-Arms, John Johnson;
Chaplain, Theodore Mackey;
Chairman, Isaac Blue; Report-
ers, James H. Scott, James
Graham, Grady Jones, Mr.
Dempsey.
7 ne next meeting will be held
on Saturday evening, October 2,
at the Masonic Temple. All
members and government em¬
ployees, interested in becoming
members ,are urged to be pres¬
ent.
Dr. Glover F‘Ies
Serious Charges
(Continued from Page One!
long suffered a series of injus-
t-icer by his superior, Bishop
Walker.
In a formal notarized com¬
plaint, Dr. Glover is named as
the petitioner and Dr. Walker
as the "respondent.” All the
facts in the unexpected rift,
Glover having been an ardent
supporter of the bishop, are to
be heard and acted upon when
the genera! council meets in
February.
Di Glover's growing mem¬
bership body is behind him in
his present complaint against
Bishop Walker, and it is said
that the welfare of St Matthew*
is at stake, and that Dr. Glover
“You’re right, John, said his
wife thoughtful. ■> Wo would
be letting her down. We
mustn’t dampen her enthusi¬
asm in a good cause. I’m glad
you pointed it out.”
-Here’s the paper Daddy,”
called Carol, shuttin; the front
door. ‘Will you buy the tickets,
Daddv, will you'.'”
“Of course, we will honey,”
her father assured her. "Are
you going to talc p: rt in the
entertainment?”
“Oh, yes,” she • replied, her
blue eyes sparkling. “I’m going
to be one of the ushers.”
Well, that was all to the good,
too, her father thought, rc-
pressing a smile. PerJjaps being
an usher would impress upon
her that it wasn’t only the per-
formers, the stars /who were
important. They wouldn’t get
far by themselves. The sup¬
porters, the ticket sellers, the
ushers, she would realize, all
had their part in making the
success of any entertainment,
in connection with any drive.
The organizers .the chairmen,
the leaders got their names in
the paper, but the unpnblicized
workers under them were just
as necessary.
Mr. Davis wanted hi", child
to grow un feeling a sense of
responsibility tewnrd the com¬
munity. its life and its prob¬
lems. From the community the
circle would widen to include
the state, the country, the
world. If feelings of kinship
and good will and concern for
others could be o;.grafted on
*' le m ’ nf ^ °f 1 ^ le children
all the countries, there
would bc no W!:r - There
would, instead, b friendship,
respect, and nrighberiiness.
cniliarri. • Mr;, Verdio
Criss. Asst. See*' j stev-
pns. treasurer: Mr: p. p. Os-
borne, r“rerter. Mrs. J. A.
Lewis and Mrs. A P. McConnell,
assistants; Mrs. Ophelia Futch,
clmolain
The first meeting of the
Riceboro Elementary Parent
and -Teachers Asm. lor the
»' 55 *■** •«"» Mon-
riay and el3c * ecl the following
offl cers:
t ^ f r-a Sr Pr
” °
" , en Mr,s Hn " ■'* Mclver, vice
' '
P reside nt; Mr- Nettie Smiley,
Secty.: Mrs. Ella Way, treasu-
rer; Mrs. N. W. Cooper, chair-
F ro 8 r am committee.
Miss Robinson of Oklahoma,
the new music teacher at Lib-
erty high, arrived last week to
begin her duties for the year.
h a d to take this step as a last I-
resort, _________________' to insure its future
L ° Cal
To Meet Silt! lay
There will fce a meeting of
the Savannah Chapter of Sav¬
annah State College Alumni
Association Sunday at 4 o'clock
at the W. Broad St. YMCA. All
alumni and former students are
asked to be present,
L. D. Law, president of the
local chapter.
Simple, safe, soothing
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