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THANKSGIVING
It is hardly conceivable that any
people could ,, , have sincere
a more reason
for establishing a season, a day for
thanksgiving than the Pilgrims. The
journey across an uncharted sea, the
perils of savage infested forests, confront¬
ed with the necessity of learning how to
get food out ot the soil and shelter from
the woods, and the survival through the
first year made it requisite for them to
give to the world an observance that has
become an institution. The following
verses from a thanksgiving hymn ex¬
presses fittingly some of the reasons we
nave for giving thanks:
Not for battleships and fortress,
Not for conquests of the sword,
But for conquests of the spirit
Give we thanks to thee, O Lord;
For the heritage of freedom,
For the home, the church, the school,
For the open door to manhood,
In a land the people rule.
God of Justice, save the people
From the war of race and creed,
From the strife of class and faction—
Make our nation free indeed;
Keep her faith in simple manhood
Strong as when her life began,
Till it finds its full fruition
In the Brotherhood of man! 1
EDUCATION A BUSINESS
One index of the high correlation be¬
tween education and business is the
number of magazine subscriptions per
thousand population. It is easy to see the
implication of education in this respect.
Mazagines have no appeal for people who
can not read. It is to be expected that
subscriptions are more numerous in reg¬
ions where the education level is highest.
The same conclusion can be drawn as to
newspapers, books, retail sales, and per¬
haps bathtubs. The range for magazine
subscriptions in the South, excepting
Florida, is 67 to 141. Georgia ranks a
little above the middle with 96 subscrip¬
tions per thousand. The median years of
school completed for the same region,
again excepting Florida, ranges from 7.6
to 8.5, Georgia showing a median of 7.8,
Second from the bottom.
The Educational Committee of the
Georgia State Chamber of Commerce
made a study of the cost of public schools
in Georgia for the year 1952, including all
of the educational services provided by
the state: There are 205 different school
systems, 806,243 children, 26,158 teach¬
ers in 3,290 schools. The information in¬
cluded in addition, buses, handicapped
men and women, janitors, repairmen, hot
lunches and veteran education. The totals
therefore are 28,000 people were em¬
ployed to provide educational opportunity
to more than eight hundred thousand
students at a total cost ot $212,306,799
which includes $173, 329, 315, the valua¬
tion of 5,979 school buildings. These fig¬
ures show what a big business education
is in Georgia, But big as it is, the figures
CHICAGO CARDINAL
SCORES RACIAL
PREJUDICE
CHICAGO—(ANPi Samuel
Cardinal Stricth, Roman
lie archbishop of Chicago, told
more than 1,000 students at-
tending a recent one-day race
relations workshop here that
Catholics who practice racial
prejudice tear anart the "mys-
tical body of Christ."
Thin is done, said His
ence in many neighborhoods
populated by Catholics.
He told the audience, which
included student delegates from
85 denominational high schools,
that "if we are are all one » n
Christ, then our attitudes to
ward others not of oiir own
blood. ... ,
color, lineage or M •
Christ-like."
Another Catholic spokesman.
Rev. Father Dennis Geam >.
OS A oi St. Tin mas high high
school. Rockford, 111 called
demonstrations at. ( hie ago s
publicly-owned Ti '■ml! Park
Homes housing pri an af-
front of Chnstiar 'Many
racial fracases he have oc-
curred in Catholic areas'.
In another statement, Cardi-
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
31 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, Caliiornia
cited above reveal that Georgia should be
investing a great deal more to receive
greater dividends in the nature of eco¬
nomic returns for goods and services that
a high standard of living requires. Edu¬
cation is good business.
THE BACKWASH BEGINS
Along with those who predicted dire
happenings to follow the Supreme Court’s
decision in the school segregation cases,
were other persons who recognized the
justice of the decision; who recognized
the viciousness of segregation but who
also recognized that the implementation
of the decision would not be so simple
and would be attended with sacrifices,
inconveniences and hurts. Many of them
foresaw, that upon the urging of politi¬
cians who are putting up a last ditch fight
to retain an appeal to the ignorance of
the “wool hat boys,” the resurgence of
kleagles, klaverns and dragons with new
labels but with the same old spirit and
objectives of the Ku Klux Klan. To the
advocates and adherents of the klan pur¬
poses, any law, person or group pf persons
who propose any benefit to Negroes are
“carpet baggers,” “scalawags,” agitators,
or communist inspired and are taboo. Two
of these organizations, the Citizen
Councils of Mississippi, and the Ameri¬
can States Rights Association of Alabama,
are foremost among the organizations
that have been set-up “for ‘the preserva¬
tion of our southern heritage.’ ” They
propose to put economic pressure on
“ ‘trublemakers’ who would upset ‘our
southern way of life.’ ” And who is a
troublemaker? “Any one who advoctaes
compliance with the Supreme Court de¬
cision.” A lady member of the Mississippi
Assembly asserts that “the councils are
a widespread group composed of reliable
white male citizens who believe that
segregation is not discrimination and are
organized for the sole purpose of main¬
taining segregation.” In some respects
the method adopted by these “latter day”
kluxers is far more vicious than that of
the original kluxers, and plays havoc
with the American heritage. It is a reflec¬
tion upon the white people of Mississippi
and Alabama that they have resorted to
this sort of thing to nullify the decision
of the highest (jourt in the nation to se¬
cure fuller enjoyment of citizenship to a
minority, qualified by every reasonable
standard to possess it. These movements
spot light two tragedies: 1) the leaders,
and followers too, do not care if by their
actions they give democracy a black eye;
if they make America’s position on de¬
mocracy untenable among the free nations
of the world; 2) the tough time ahead for
Negroes in Mississippi and Alabama, at
present, especially for those who may
recant, will probably fail to teach Negroes
elsewhere through-out the country a
vitally important lesson. The backwash is
on.
I nal Stricth told students that
in the call to the Kingdom of
Christ, "There can be no dis¬
tinction as to color or race.”
j cardinal went on to out-
line for students a pattern of
fundamental principles to gov-
ern their study of race relations,
He urged delegates to love their
| brot hers in Christ," not pity
Jthem," '
| Commending students for
I their part in the conference, he
said:
!
j "Tom presence here today
j demonstrates that our youth
i are no t a ] OS t generation, but in
j m y opinion, are the most seri-
l ous generation of young people
[we have had. The fact
here t0 think and plan
, as a result of what you see and
hear at this study day is one of
the finest things we can find
|*" the archdiocese."
also a^k"d them to aid in
j ! the the work of eradicating racial
' pi^’judice.
in addition to the students,
150 faculty members attended
workshop, concerned with
the study of principles of in-
terracial justice and charity and
their applications to
problems.
LANGSTON ALUMNI HEAD
lone CITES VALUE OF GROUP —
of w* the most important
1 gr0U ps working with institutions
of higher learning throughout
the country are the alumni
.associations. Most people think
i 0 f the a i U mni organization as a
f orce for recruiting athletes
■ for the football team. This,
however, is only a small part of
the work of alumni groups. A
strong believer in the contri¬
butions of alumni associations
'to one’s alma mater is E. D
Brown, president of the Langs-
| ton University Alumni Associa¬
tion Brown currently is ap¬
pealing to graduates of Langs-
j ton to become active members
0 f the alumni association.—
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM
RH0MANIA
(Continued from Page One)
odosia Braxton. Standing:
Shelia Woods, Julia Johnson
i Miss Rhomania 1953-54) and
Janice Martin.
(3 1 The cast from the play.
Ask for Me Tomorrow." From
left to right: Carolyn Lewis.
Christine Wright, Susan Waters,
Doris Singleton, Catherine
Hunt, Margie Caution, and Julia
Jones
(4) The Junior Yads, in the
dance number, "April in Paris.”
(5) A scene from the play,
showing Catherine Hunt, Chris¬
tine Wright, Doris Singleton,
and Susan Waters.
JEWISH GROUP
WANTS ACT ON
CIVIL RIGHTS
WASHINGTON — (ANPi —
Henry Edward Schultz, national
chairman, • Anti - Defamation
league, B’nai B'rith, has called
upon the incoming 84th cong¬
ress to establish a better record
than the previous congress did
on civil rights legislation.
The appeal was made before
the board of governors of the
organization last week during
its annual meeting. ,
The national chairman point¬
ed out that not only did the out¬
going congress “fail to pass any
civil rights legislation,” but
it failed to exercise "self re¬
straint” in some of its investi¬
gating committees.
Schultz expressed his belief
in “gradualism” in public school
desegregation but he favored
“gradualism as distinguished
from reluctance.”
He suggested that well con¬
structed programs should be
established in communities to
educate citizens to the advan¬
tage of integration and to re¬
olace the unreasonable preju-
dices of imbedded mores mores with
a spirit of enlightenment and
understanding.
The annual meeting of the
league, held at Mayflower hotel,
was climaxed by a dinner at
which chief justice Earl War-
ren, U.S. Supreme court, was
principal speaker.
B’nai B'rith. the oldest Jew¬
ish service organization, has
350,000 JJUUl members in 33 coun-
tries,
PATTERSON GETS FIRST
NEGRO ALDERMAN I
PATERSON. N. J. (ANP' —
For the first time in the his¬
tory of the city, a Negro aider-
man will sit in the city council.
Democrat Virgil Reed defeat¬
ed his republican Negro oppon¬
ent Theodore Kyles in the 4th
ward by a vote of 3.227 to 2.957
1,170 vote margin.
Reed, a former construction,
worker and justice of the peace,
is well known in fraternal cir¬
cles. He belongs to both the
Masons and the Elks.
Minister Plead For
More Negro Doctors
LAWTON, Okla. (ANPi—This
city of 60,000, with only one
Negro doctor, has sent out an
SOS for more colored medical
men.
This was the story given to
ANP by Lawton’s Negro Inter¬
denominational Ministerial Al-
llance.
J „ eaid . , f s - a , arge Negro popu-
lation lation , to to take take care of, tha
town’s lone Negro doctor is of¬
ten called upon to serve thei
more than 6,000 to 7,000 colored
people who live at nearby Fort
Sill, the largest military fort in
the world.
And because there is a short¬
age of white doctors, the Ne¬
gro M. D. also must serve many
whites, Mexicans and Indians.
Because of the lack of doc-
tors, many of the town’s min-
isters are forced to take ailing
Negroes to nearby towns to get;
medical attention, in an effort)
to offset the situation, tha
town’s Negro ministers, through
the alliance, have made an of¬
fer to aid any interested Negro
doctor in getting settled in the
town.
According to Rev. H. P. Par¬
ris, alliance president, “Lawton
has one of the best payrolls in
Oklahoma. It offers a good op¬
portunity for a progressive doc L ,
tor to grow with the city. It
is in the southern part of Okla¬
homa, some 50 miles from the
Texas line.
“It has two large Negro
schools, 16 Negro churches and
thriving colored businesses.
“Any doctor interested should
contact the alliance at 1606
Garfield.”
L. Gibson, J, Ben-
College _ „ PR Director
Greensboro, N. C. Appoint¬
ment of William I. Gibson as
director ,of public relations at 1
Bennett College was announc- 1
ed this week by Dr. David D.
Jones, president.
paperman, has served as editor
Mr. Gibson, a veteran news-
of theAFRO'-AMERICAN News¬
paper group of Baltimore and ■
as an associate editor of Ebony I
Magazine of Chicago. He also
professor of journalism and
relations director at Mor-
State College. Baltimore,
professor of English and
relations director at
State College, Haiti- '
and professor of English !
University in Ohio. I
public relations director at |
He holds the B. S. and M. A.
from Ohio State Uni¬
and has done further
work a! that institu¬
A Methodist, he is a
of the Frontiers of
and of th5 Alpha Phi
Fraternity.
Extradition
Of Prisoner
(Continued Trom Page One)
Main Line Reform Temple;
Rev. Dn Marshall Shepard,
pastor of Mt. Olive
Church and Recorder of Deeds
of the City of Philadelphia,
and Dr. Benjamin P.
Moderator of the Presbytery
’Philadelphia.
(The crime for which Brown
was convicted was termed "un¬
intentional and an accident.”
On April 24, 1937, at Macon,
Ga., Brown, having a
cut finger, hailed a taxicab to
take him to the hospital. A
woman, under the influence of
liquor, hailed the same cab and
insisted that' she wanted it.
Her husband, Julius Kemp,
drew a switch-blade knife a$d
attempted to cut Brown. Brown
pushed Kemp away, but as he
did so, Kemp was cut in the
neck while still holding the
knife.
The cab driver then drove
both men to the hospital, but
they were ignored by the atend-
ants for two hours. While’
waiting Kemp bled profusely
and evidently died from the
loss of blood.
The authorities arrested
Brown and charged him with
murder despite his plea of in¬
nocence and self-defense in the
accident.
A lawyer was obtained and
received from Brown’s family
between $150 to $200. He com¬
plained that this sum was not
enough and advised Brown to
change his plea of not guilty
to guilty with the assurance
that he would get off with a,
light sentence. Brown follow¬
ed his lawyer’s advice and was
convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment on the chain
gang.
Shortly after his imprison¬
ment, Brown testified that
double shackles were placed
his feet, his legs were chain¬
ed together with a twenty foot
chain and a fifteen pound ball
at the end of it. Also, picks
were placed on his legs which,
impeded his walking and which
w °uld hit him on the buttocks
whenever he walked. He was
beaten constantly with
jacks and rubber hose; lini-
ment was poured into his rec-
tum, and he was placed in a
sweat box, a small structure
too small for anyone to stand
or lie down in and which was
ex P° se d to the heat of the - sun
n0 ventilation, except a
opening leading to
tin roof.
His job was to dig ditches
were waist-high in water
in swamps infested with
snakes without any
Brown escaped on December
1937, but was captured
TMUTRS., NOVEMBER 2 ^,‘ i 95 il
Here And There
By Willa
“Thankful For What” was the
subject of the radio address
delivered by the Rev. A. C.
Curtright last Sunday during
the Holsum Hopr (5-5:30 p.m.)
over station WDAR. Music was
furnished by Private Arthur
Mack of Camp Stewart who was
accompanied by the organist of
the First Congregational Church.
Robert Spencer is producer of
this program for the Derst
Baking Co.
Miss Mercedes Mitchell, senior
at Savannah State College, was
heard over station WDAR last
Sunday at 6 p.m. giving the SSC
Society Notes. This is a regu¬
lar program of the college. Miss
Mary Daniels, a junior, will be
heard next Sunday. These
young ladies along with Thomas
Evans and Curtis Cooper com¬
prise the Student Radio Staff
of SSC.
December 15 is S-D Day —
“Safe-Driving Day.” Let’s co¬
operate.
The Clark Hill Dam and Pow¬
erhouse which are located 22
miles above Augusta on the
Savannah River are open to the
public daily between the hours
of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The'
public is invited to enjoy one of
the guided tours during these
hours.
Imagine our thrill to have the
developers of Liberty City say
that the advertisement of their
Model Home which was pub¬
lished in the Tribune last week
brought a tremendous response
from our readers. It prpved our
statement that "It pays to ad¬
vertise in the Savannah Trib¬
une” Again “thanks” to our
readers. Please keep reading all
the ads in the Tribune and give
our advertisers a trial. They
appreciate your dollar enough
to tell you about their mer¬
chandise in your own news¬
June 21, 1940. He did not
contest the extradition then
because he was assured by the
authorities that the entire
Georgia penal system had been 1
modernized. But the moment
he taken back to Georgia !
was
he was mercilessly beaten,
shackled again and placed in a
sweat box with picks, ball and
chain.
On September 22, 1940, Brown
again escaped and remained at
Liberty until 1947, when he was
recaptured. He escaped again
in 1950. This time he made
his way to Philadelphia. He
was arrested on March 31, 1952,
upon the request of the author¬
ities of Georgia. On April 23,
upon requisition of Gov. Tal-
madge, a warrant for Brown’s,
arrest and extradition to Geor¬
gia wag issued by Gov. John S.
Fine of Pennsylvania.
Acting for Brown, Philadel¬
phia attorneys David Levinson,
and Theodore O. Spaulding
(Spaulding is now judge of Mu¬
nicipal Court of Philadelphia),
without fee, applied for a writ
of habeas corpus and hearings'
were held in the Court of Com'-
mon Pleas of Philadelphia be¬
fore Judge Louis E. Levinthal.
At the conclusion of the hear¬
ings Judge Levinthal made the
following findings: . . this re¬
lator, while confined in the
work-camps at Cochran and
Blackshear, Georgia, was sub-i
jected to cruel and unusual ■
punishment and when return- j
ed to the custody of Georgia he '
'
is likely again to be subjected
to such punishment.” J
But, despite his findings and
feelings, Judge Levinthal waa
obliged to order the return of
Brown to Georgia in view of,
an earlier United States Su-j)
preme Court decision.
Attorneys L e v i n s on and
Spaulding then appealed the or¬
der to the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania which on June 4,
1954, affirmed the lower court’s
decision ordering Brown’s re¬
j turn to Georgia, Associate Judge
^manno dissenting, and stat-
ing uncler the facts of
case ^ 10W,n was clearly en-
^ tled to his freedom and should
be released from prison.
Following the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court decision, attor¬
ney Levinson petitioned Gov. I
John S. Fine of Pennsylvania to
recall the warrant of arrest and
extradition.
NAACP Legal Defense attor-j j
neys wi n pick up the case from
the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-, i
vania and carry it to the Unit- I
ed States Supreme Court, A I
paper.
Mrs. Etta M. Judkins, former
Savannahian now living ia
Washington, D.C., renewed her
subscription to the Tribune this
j week. She is the daughter qf
the late Principal John Mc¬
Intosh, Sr., of Maple Street
School, and the sister of John
McIntosh, well known local
postman and civic worker.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Edwards of
Washington, D.C., is spending
her annual two weeks vacation
at home with her mother, sis¬
ters and other relatives of West
Victory Drive. As usual, her
friends are extending her many
courtesies. She is still employed
in the Pentagon building in
Washington. . .
The Omega Psi Phi Frater¬
nity, Inc., will hold its 41st
Grand Conclave, December 27-
30, in Atlanta. The conclave
theme is “America’s Challenge:
To Implement School Integra¬
tion by Understanding and
Treating Prejudice.”
The Business Law Class of
Savannah State College with
Prof. Robert Charles Long, in¬
structor, visited the Chatham
County Courthouse last Thurs¬
day. After touring the building
the class witnessed an actual
case In Superior Court.
The following “Printer’s
Praver’’ was found written on
the flyleaf of the late Publisher
Sol C. Johnsop’s dictionary:
“O, Master of printers, help
me avoid the disgrace of making
pi out of my life.”- -Wilfred A
Peterson. For those of you who
arc not familiar with the word
‘ pi,” the dictionary gives the
following definition: “Type that
has been thrown into disorder.”
"HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO
ALL!”
SIGNS CONTRACT
(Continued from Page One)
Ha nan p to a long-term contract.
He will serve not only as an
arranger and guitarist but also
as Billy’s conductor.
Hall, for the past 20 years,
has been one of the nation's top
arrangers. He has written
scores for several Broadway
productions and served as di¬
rector during recording sessions
for Victor, Decca, Columbia and
scores of lesser labels.
CIRCULATION
MANAGER
(Continued from Page One)
manager of the Savannah
Rev. Hargrett is college minis¬
ter at Savannah State college.
has had wide experience in
newspaper field, having
for three years on the
of the Atlanta Daily
several years on the staff
the college newspaper at
A. ,Vc M. university, and
college publications.
petition will be filed with the
court within the next few
Legal Defensc attorneys will
Thurgood Marshall and Jack
_ ; nber h g' Mr. , Levinson will
e to represent Brown in
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