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page rocif Established 1875 BOL C. JOHNSON J. H. DKVEAUX 1889—1954 MllS. WII.LA'A. JOHNSON Editor A. Publisher EZRA JOHNSON_________ Asst. To Publisher i. H. BUTLER ....Asso. Editor -............ Editor R. W. GADSDEN .... _________Contributing GEORGE Ej. JENKINS_______ Advertising Manager PUBLISHED E\ ERY PHI Rf DAY 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Telephone, Dial 5338 Subscription itan-o In Advanct One Year _______ r.----------------------- W 13 Six Months___________________________ $3.09 Remittance must be made by Express, pos» Office Money order or Registered Mail. Entered as Second ‘Class Matter at the Post §ffice at Savannah. Ga. under the Act of March 3, 1919 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. ---------------------------- 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 . 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 National Advertising Representatives Associated Publishers 31 West 46 Street New York 19, New York Robert C Whaley Co. 6513 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, California Robert C. Whaley Co. 55 New Montgomery Street San Francisco 5, California 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’' - *. ... i tin h .-,vC V '->l V " 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. 1 $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 I 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 ' ------ - ------ ■ ---------- j *' i « 5 oo_ 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 | * * * THE FIRE YOU KINDLE for your enemy often burns | yourself more than him. Chinesc Proverb . * * * 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. (1 * * 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.” * * * 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. * * * ROBERT L. STONEV. SR., has returned to the city after sev¬ eral months employment in Milford, Delaware. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * MR. AND MRS. CLYDE JOHNSON and children of W A 15th Street are now residing in Welch. West Virginia. * * RAY CLANTON MOTORS. 43 West Broad Street,, would like to show the Tribune readers their beautiful 1956 Mereurys. Remember your patronage is appreciated. * » * 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. * * * 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! ♦ * * 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. T0f ClltS ” j anc scrapes Simple, safe, soothing ^FIRST-AID KIT'