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SPEAKING OF AHOIJTIOMSTS
The expose, "chapter and verse" of the
NAACP <iiii some other things: It acquit*
ted the NAACP of icing "subversive,”
except by association: it made the issue
“not oue of race but subversion”: and it
gave credit and standing to the Commun¬
ists (hat most Negroes resent. To them
it is a,desecration to mention them in the
same breath with abolitionists, foi there
are still living many of those who knew
rather intimately what abolitionists did
for thfjp ancestor,s, for them and for the
South, afid the poultry. Besides building
up a sentiment for the destruction of
slavery and the .whole gamut of its
shameless inhumanity, America's great¬
est wrong against humanity, they brought
churches, schools and colleges into the
South after the Civil War that not only
started the freedmen on the road to in¬
telligent citizenship, but also made the
South itself a better place to live in. These
a hoi it i< mists, Congregationalists, Baptists',
Methodists and Presbyterians established
stall colleges as Clark and Atlanta Uni¬
versities, and Spellman College in Atlan¬
ta. Paine in Augusta, Claflin at Orange¬
burg. S. Johnson C. Smith in North
Carolina, and Fisk .University in Nash¬
ville, Trim. The abolitionists should in¬
clude such names as Garrison, Sumner,
Love joy, Douglass. Lundy and Henry
Ward Beecher. It is more than eriinci-
dental that some of'the founders of the
NAACP should have, boon descendants of
abolitionists, who joined with George
Forbes and Monroe Trotter and their col¬
leagues, members of a protest movement,
in organizing the association in almost
spontaneous response to an episode—the
Springfield riot' fn 1908 -1 hat was repre¬
sentative of a spirit abroad in the land to
do violence to Negroes, especially in the
South. Those to- 'whom the Civil War has
never closed resort easily to name calling
and abuse, when reasonable means ‘for
achieving their aim fail. Now they call
everyone radical, fuzzy-minded, Com¬
munists who m-otnii .e the sanctity of
human beings and human rights. Then
they called them, right after the Civil
Mar, carpet-baggers, and scalawags if
they were Southerners. Anybody who
agrees (hat NegHies should become full
citizens under jjihc Constitution of the
United States: who does not agree that
the South ought to have a free hand to
do as it pleases in dealing with Negroes,
is hostile to the 'South. The lament that
there would have been no Civil War and
everything would have come out all right
if it had not been for the abolitionists, is
an unwarranted and obviously useless
assumption. Events over a period of nine¬
ty years, beginning with attempts to nul¬
lity the Emancipation, the amendments
granting citizenship to the freedmen, and
present plans to circumvent Court deci¬
sions, justify the doubt that emancipa¬
tion would have come even by now. The
role played by the,abolitionists in the his¬
tory of the United States is both honor¬
able and unl'orgetable.
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DO WE HAVE A I’KOGKAMV
Many people are asking what are Ne¬
groes doing to counterbalance the aims
of such organizations as the Pat riots, the
White People, fiv the ('it; tons Councils
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and institutions the NAAM^’. Many individuals and
posited throughout the country de¬
several hundred thousand dollars
111 a Dank in Memphis. Temi. for the use
of Negroes in Mi - dssippi. In Orangeburg,
S. C .. we understand, economic pressure
is being met more or Jess successfully, bv
the withdrawal of Negro patronage from
offending business firms. Whatever plan
they use, we hope no Negro groups will
think of organizing to defy the Constitu¬
tion of the Untied States or to break any
state law, eveir otie they think is bad and
unjust.
Our suggestions for doing something
are unfortunately unpopular and unat¬
tractive. They are not new to us. They
have been made often In thoughtful citi¬
zens who are aware of the inertia, indif¬
ference, thriftlessness and illiteracy which
seem to grip the ma.-<cs of Negroes ev¬
erywhere. Our need is not for more or¬
ganizations but it is rather that the or¬
ganizations vn already have to do better
what they purport to do. At >my rate,
Negroes must lie,led to set up or develop
a sense or system of values: they must
learn to regulate, (heir live.- by these val¬
ues. The achievement of these ends is the
inescapable task of those who are the
loaders. While Wary with ; little conijn
tent help from leaders can do much more
for themselves than they are doing, main-
others are eqtjgJtt >, in conditions from
which they are "helpless to escape, for
example, the majority of those who live
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in slum conditions.
The very evident unconcern of Savan-
nahians about things that are vital to
their future, is alarming to those who are
watching the trend of things within the
last two years. It would seem that organ¬
izations for exerting economic pressure or
reprisal upon Negroes who exercise the
right of petition or threatened violence
and intimidation of those who try to reg¬
ister amt vote, it would seem that these
things would be all the urging Negroes
would need to wake them up to do some¬
thing to make them able to withstand the
operations of subversive and undemo¬
cratic intentions of such organizations;
that they would let a common purpose
for the good of all direct their thinking.
We can hardly do more than suggest
in broad outline a course of action that
will greatly help the situation while we
wait for saner thinking to take place in
the South. Our suggestions are for local
application.
In the first place, Negroes must take
better care of the money they earn. There
is nothing new about this. Its urgency is
perhaps new. A report released early in
this year reveals that the “per capita”
buying income in Chatham County is
$1 .‘558,” that is, each person in the coun¬
ty had that much buying power. Assum¬
ing that the Negro population in the
county is about 43,000, we had a buying
income of 858,394,000. Whether these fig-
tires are approximately accurate is unim¬
portant. The important thing is that they
had a lot of mo-ney to buy with, a lot of
money to handle, that should have been
used more wisely: to buy houses and land,
or automobiles and a good time, or edu¬
cation for the children, or other things
that are determined by one’s system of
values.
In the second place, these 13,000 peo¬
ple have a political potential'which they
are making no seriously intelligent at¬
tempt to use. Some of the fault, perhaps
much of it, lies with those who call them¬
selves the leaders who will not get to¬
gether to formulate a plan for register¬
ing and informing 12 or 15 thousand Ne¬
groes who are eligible to vote in this
county. This is an aspect of citizenship
and community life that must be recog¬
nized as of imperative importance.
In the third place, assuming that fig¬
ures dealing with the national picture are
a valid index, around 59 per cent of the
Negroes in this community are non-
church members. This means that more
than half of our population does not avail
itself of the privilege to profit by what
church fellowship has to offer in guid¬
ance, information and encouragement for
achieving satisfaction and the highest
good in a life that cannot live alone. Fail¬
ure in this aspect of our community life
is a. basic failure. Perhaps i\ should have
been given first place among the things
Negroes must do here to begin to make
themselves socially efficient and accept¬
able.
UNWORTHY PROPAGANDA
Announcement lias been made that an¬
other book has been written dealing with
elements of the race question that are as
old as our nation itself is. It is just about
impossible for a reactionary to discuss
any phase of race relations without emot¬
ing on amalgamation, miscegenation or
inter-marriage. Whether he talks about
his objection to equality in politics, in
employment opportunity, equal pay. equal
treatment in the Armed Services, or about
non-discrimination in hotels, restaurants,
theatres, or on trains and buses, he winds
up blasting inter-marriage and disgorges
himself on amalgamation and the purity
of the Anglo-Saxon blood, especially iii
Southerners, in spite of the findings of
science on race, in spite of the record as
to inter-marriage in places where the law
doesn’t forbid it. and in spite of the fact
that there is no record to prove that Ne¬
groes have more interest in inter-mar¬
riage than have white people. The his¬
tory of race relations in our country, ex¬
cept Anglo-Saxon for certain well known lapses in' the
zeal for purity, should dis¬
pel any fear that non-segregation will
have the night - marish consequences
which some Southerners profess to for-
see. There is no indication that non-seg¬
regation will have any effect on the cus¬
toms with which civilization has invested
the methods and practices of contract¬
ing marriage.
It is difficult to find anything new on
the matter of amalgamation. Facts that
we should like to forget, that puritv cru¬
saders cannot ignore, make anv discus¬
sion of it too late to have any purpose
but to incite a lot of ignorant people and
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
“EMBARRASSING MOMENTS, BUT BY DETERMINATION THE GOAL WILL
BE REACHED’'
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Between The Lines
BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK FOR AN I*
THE OLD SOI Ill’S
CIVIL WAR II
The Old South seems determin¬
ed to fight another Civil War. In
spite of the fact it is still asham¬
ed of Civil War I, it refuses to
face the fact that the late Civil
War was a War of Rebellion al¬
though conveniently called The
War Between The Sections, which
better “historically.” When
these internal uprisings succeed,
they are called revolutions; when
they fail they are called rebel¬
lions, hut the Old South will have
of it.
Patently the uprising in the
tid’s was a rebellion against 'the ]
government of the United States;
for it failed, hut the Old South
has got the attempt at
called everything hut a real rev¬
olution. A rebellion by another
name is still a rebellion and a
bolt on the eschutcheon of the
nation.
The Old South is again in re¬
bellion against the United States,
ft has already denounced tile Su¬
preme Court and its mandates; it
is already heaping abuse upon the
duly elected judges of the Su¬
preme Court for its momentous
decision of May 17, 1954. Already
means and measures are being
sought whereby the mandates of
the government may he circum¬
vented and countermanded to the
end that Negroes may not pass.
The Negroes who go to the
front in times of war are mark¬
ed for the rear in times of peace,
if the Old South is to he satis¬
fied. World trends mean nothing
to the Old South which has forth¬
with declared Civil War II. And
this time the war is not directly
against the United States but
against 15 million Negroes who
seek to become full-fledged citi¬
zens of the nation they have help¬
ed to build into greatness. Just
as vengeance against the United
States was taken out on the de¬
fenseless Negroes during Recon¬
struction and since, so the Old
South will take vengeance against
the Supreme Court and the na-
tion because, little by little, Ne-
grot's are being promised full eit-
izenship in this country.
There is the Old South that
would gladly go to war again if
it were not afraid to challenge
the United States to its face. But
it is afraid to challenge the poor,
defenseless Negroes. And so there
is an undeclared war against the
Negro. It is Civil War If. Where-
stampede The them into voting for their | j
“hero.” race issue has always been
of sure-shot value. It paves the way to j I
office. It also builds up to things like
Sumner, Mississippi.
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$2,100 AWARDED WINNERS ANNUAL
MARIAN ANDERSON SCHOLARSHIPS
PHILADELPHIA — (ANP) —
Awards totalling $2100 were
this week to four young singers
by the Marian Anderson Scholar-
ship Fund: The winners were cho-
sen from 104 applicants from 22
states who auditioned last week
in Philadelphia for the 14th an-
nual grants by the Fund.
The recipients of the 1955
as the first Civil War was deelar-
ed openly against the United j
States, the current Civil War is
declared covertly "gainst , ,
being
the Negro This is written to warn
Negroes of such war m order that,
w o '.e ,"" 1 dtunid mio u a mu, .
that there is a Golden Age at j
hand. There will be great tnbu-j
la tion for Negroes before the Old ]
South moral Appomattox. surrenders at some future j
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Where the Old South demands
that membership in mean’s the NAACP of the j
be denounced as a mean s or me
Negro’s getting his daily bread,
have an inkling of what to
expect. Some industries in resist-
ing the advance of labor’s cause]
have offered laborers the “Yellow
Dog” contract in which the labor-1
er pledges not to join a union I
while in the company’s employ.!
Labor has advanced by collective
bargaining and yet those reaction-] I
ary 1 of'' would deny the
ight collective bargaining to
their employees. When a crusade!
is being currently launched to de-
stroy the NAACP because it;
wants the Constitution respected
we have an attempt to force upon
Negroes another “Yellow Dog"
contract.
It is a burning shame and a dis¬
grace to our nation that such
high-minded tactics are being em¬
ployed to negate the decision of
the Supreme Court of these
United States. The fight- Old j
South is fighting mad and
ing back because it is fighting
losing battle'. The states that join-
ed the Confederacy did so bravely
but the few states joining in Civil
War II against the Negroes are
doing so haltingly and with diffi-
dence. The encouraging aspect of
this whole matter resides in the
fact that the Old South is dwind-
y j
The sun of intelligence is shin-
ing too brightly in the South for
a respectable Civil War II. Too
many intelligent Southerners have
j seen the handwriting on the wall:
and they also see the futility of
a Civil War against the Negroes;
in the nation. It is just a matter;
of time and the New South will he
heard from and that will usher in
a better day. 1 he Old South de-
elpres Civil War II against its
poor defenseless Negroes. Just!
j how successfully they prosecute j
the war will determine whether
j communism or democracy will pre
vail in the world of tomorrow. |
awards, announced by A lyse An-
Fund Secretary, are Elmer
Dickey, 27. tenor of Boston, who;
was granted the $1,000 scholar-
ship; Shirley Mae Carter, 20, inez-
zo-soprano of Pacoima. Oalifor-
nia. who received $500 and a spe
rial citation for excellence, am:
William de Valentine, 27 basso i
of Brooklyn, who also received,
Police Baffled Over Slaying
Of Youth by White House¬
wife
NORFOLK, VA. — (ANP) —JustI
what happened when Ralph Green-] j
hill, a Norfolk 19-year-old Negro,
was shot at the home of-a white
couple has all Norfolk excited, J
The youth was fatally shot by
Mrs. Cynthia Whitehurst early;
Saturday morning, Oct. 8 .
The account of what happened
as given to the police housewife] was that |
the 22-year-old white
was awakened by a hand placed;
over her mouth and a male voice!
told her not to scream or
would be killed. j
The woman is reported to have]
reached under her pillow for herl
pistol, cocked it beneath the pil- j
low, pulled the pistol free, and
fired at the intruder at point blank] |
range.
The youth, according to reports I
of officers, fell backward, lunged
through a window and died after-
wards on the street a half a block
away.
The woman told police that
man entered her home through a
bedroom window, which he had
slightly raised. She also claimed
that his light-colored sports shirt
and undershirt had been left
neath the window in a
wide space between the
Here And There
By IV i 1 I a
IB SPONSORS NEEDED
During the past few months, a
concentrated drive has been con¬
ducted to get groups and indi¬
viduals to sponsor patients out at
the local TB Sanatorium. Accord- j
ing to Stantley Whittley, field rep¬
resentative for the TB Associa-
tion, the public is responding beau-
ufully. -The public” he says,
s wiUing to pitch in and con -1
trihute to a pood cause if it ■ is
p| . ol)0r | y informed as to the need.’
Frankly, he further stated, “I
thing that we all are niore or less 1
.
jnnate i y concerned al.out our more j |
unfol . tunate fellow-man. Be the !
m isforunale mental, physical or fi-
;
nancial poverty, |
To bed , , . simply . . to ,
sponsor a is
make a monthly contribution ... ............ that j j
will meet the patient’s incidental ]
needs: _ Tooth ., paste, soap, razor
blades, deodorant, an occasional
pair of house shoes, etc.
The most recent sponsors arc
The Huh, Choice Social (Tub, Pag¬
gedy Anns, Royal Bankers, Zeta
Phi Beta and two,.e|iapters of the
Order oJ Eastern Star,
According to Mr. Whittley,
there are 55 patients at the local I
Sanatorium. Forty-one of them
.
have sponsors. With the further
assistance of the public it is al-
most certain that there will be
sponsors for the remaining 14, in
the very near future. Interested
persons may ctdl Mr. Whittley at
2-2107.
IT. OXLEY APPOINTED
TO BOARD OF
CITIZEN'S GROUP
WASHINGTON (ANP)
Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley of the
S. Department of Labor has
been appointed to the Board of
Directors of the National Confer-
enee on Citizenship, it was an-
mnmeed by the executive hoard
nounced by the Executive Director
Judge ( aid 1>. Hyatt, last week,
The conference was organized
eight years ago for the chief pur-
pose of upholding the American
concept of government and the
democratic philosophy of life,
The idea was initiated by the
Department of Justic and the Na-
tional Education Association. It
w . )s chartered by an act of Con-
jj rcss i n )and now has over
J 200 public and private organize-
tions participating in its activi-
Lt. Oxley,.is a native of Boston
and is iwaring the, completion of
years in the. federal service,
Other members of the hoard of
directors include Mrs. J. Borden
Harrinmn, foyiuer ambassador to
Norway; Royd Campbell, presi-
dent. Chamber of Commerce,
U. S. A.; J f Albert Woll, general
counsel, A. F, of L.; Ralph W.
Ilardy, vice-president of the Co-
lumbia Broadcasting System, and j
Congressman Alvin M. Bentley of;
Michigan. I
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Lee Cass, bass-baritone of New!
York, a winner of the last year’s |
audition, was awarded a second -1
year prize of $100.
Established .by Miss Anderson
in 1941, the scholarship to date
has granted nearly $30,000 to
singers. Past winners include
Mattiwilda Dobbs, who made her,
debut with the San Francisco
Opera last Tuesday, Camilla Wig-
gins. Rosalind Nadell, Genevieve
Warner and Rawn Spearman.
“NOTHING IS REALLY
WORK unless you would rather
be doing something else.”— Sir
Janies M. Barrie. j |
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THE FIRE YOU KINDLE
for your enemy often burns |
yourself more than him.
Chinesc Proverb .
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TIIK SAVANNAH SYMPHONY
SOCIETY invites Tribune read¬
ers to their concerts which
begin on November 7th. Rcser-
vations may be made at 9 East
Bay Street or by telephoning
6-8432. Let’s go.
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MISS Mfss Imsr ROSE >f M JO||NSON
^ ________________was 3 ^^.^ one of
attpndants of „ Miss risk »
during , the homecoming festiv¬
ities at Fisk University on Oct.
21st. Miss Betty Andrews of
San Diego, California, reigned
as “Miss Fisk.”
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SGT. JOHN BRADFORD UIL-
MAMS and his wife, Gene Len-
New York City where they .!™ will
visit, relatives. Set. Williams
who was stationed at Camp
Stewart, was recently mustered
out of the army hut will likelv
re-enlist shortly. He has served
a total of nine years in the
army, several years in the Far
East.
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ROBERT L. STONEV. SR., has
returned to the city after sev¬
eral months employment in
Milford, Delaware.
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MISS GLADYS HOLMES
freshman at SRC, visited the
Tribune office this week to get
information for an English
class assignment. Miss Holmes
found, out what happens to a
newspaper article after it
reaches the editor’s desk. After
the interview and a tour of the
plant, Miss Holmes felt that
she would make an “A” on the
assignment.
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GROVER GOTELI retired,
World War I veteran, spends
much of his time making the
children happy at the Henry
Kindergarten of Mt. Sinai Bap¬
tist church on West Broad St.
Every week he makes it possi¬
ble for the children to have a
party with fruit, cakes and
candy donated by interested
VIRGINIA HAS FIRST
NEGRO TAX COLLECTOR
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP).
Woodrow McClain. 35, will become
the Internal Revenue Service’s!
first Negro tax collector in Vir-
ginia when he finishes a proha- j ]
tionary training program of six
months duration.
McClain, who is a graduate of] j
Armstrong high school here,
served in the Army from 1942 to
1!U,! ’ graduated from Virginia
bnion 1 niversity in ,1952 with a
bachelor of science degree.
Two out of every three pas-
senger cars and three out of
every four trucks produced in
1954 were sold- as replacements
fo rvehicles scrapped.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955
hurst homo and the next house,
The questions ’baffling the puh-
lie have to do with the ctreum-
stances surrounding the youths
death. Many acquaintances of the
youth have told this reporter that
Grocnhill was a regular visitor to
the home, and that he didn’t have
to sneak through a window to c»-
ter the home,
There are reports that Gieen-
hill knew the woman wed and that
they were friends. Winn 'lues-
as to the mentality and
disposition of the youth by a re-
porter two days after lie was shot,
a woman who knew him well said,
“He always treated me all tight,
She said she had heard that the
woman's story to the police was
just a cover up.
Mrs. Whitehurst was booked
on a charge of homicide as a
routine matter, hut the case lias
not yet been satisfactorily set-
tied.
Whether Ralph Grccnhill enter-
the Whitehurst home with the
idea of raping Mrs. Whitehurst is
still a major question. The public
is in a quandry, and wonders what
actually happened before the fatal
shot was fired by the white wo-
business firms. Mr Gotell lives
with his sister, Mrs. Ella West,
at 719 West Waldburg lane.
Prior to a month ago he was a
resident of Petersburg, Virginia.
15. 15. HALL and Mrs. Peart
Sanders of Washington, DC.,
spent a day in ‘the city this
week enroute to Baxley where
they attended the funeral of
Mr. Hall’s brother, Spencer Hall.
While in the city they were
house guests of Mr. Hall’s bro¬
ther, Theodore Hall, who op¬
erates a bicycle shop on West
39th Street.
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MRS. BEATRICE K. ALLEN
was surprised with a party on
her birthday, October 22nd, by
her husband, John Allen, and
her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grcely,
Jr. Among hqr gifts were a TV
console from Mr. Allen and a
table lamp from the Greclcys.
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MR. AND MRS. CLYDE
JOHNSON and children of W A
15th Street are now residing in
Welch. West Virginia.
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RAY CLANTON MOTORS. 43
West Broad Street,, would like
to show the Tribune readers
their beautiful 1956 Mereurys.
Remember your patronage is
appreciated.
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GREEN'S GREATER SHOWS
will be in the city two more
days (Friday and Saturday-) at
Jones and Purse Streets. There
is fun for the entire family and
the proceeds will go to the West
Broad Street Y.M.C.A.
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THE SAVANNAH G\S CO.
reminds our readers that there
is still time to trade in your
OLD GAS STOVE at your fav¬
orite dealer with a special
allowance. Hurry, before it is
too late!
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READ ALL TIIE ADS in the
Tribune. Then shop and save.
“HE WHO HAS NO INCLINA¬
TION to learn more will be very
apt to think that he knows
enough.'—Powell.
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