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“The core of the public! philosophy is the
teaching: that a fundamental law exists
above the 1 will of the sovereign people
which they may deny, but only at the risk
of such disaster as that which found ex¬
pression in the totalitarian dictatorships
of twentieth-century Europe. The decline
of the West has been due to the ignoring
of the public philosophy and the assertion
of the primacy of the uncontrolled will of
the soverign people.”—Walter Lippman.
THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
The chances are that the White House
Conference was held without attracting
the attention of a large number of Ameri¬
cans whose welfare was so intimately con¬
cerned with what went on at the confer¬
ence. The President’s hope was the con¬
ference would he made up of a number of
people who would present to it recommen¬
dations arrived at from studies at the
grass roots. All the states sent represent¬
atives to the conference. Such represent¬
atives composed of whites and Negroes
were sent from Georgia, who arrived at
their recommendations in separately held
meetings in conformity to traditions held
as near-sacred in Georgia, though we be¬
lieve their final recommendations were
arrived at at a joint meeting.
The conference, headed by Mr. Neil 11.
McElroy, -interestingly organized, carried
ou< its work according to plan. Its find¬
ings were encyclopedic and have been
studied and digested by a 34 member
committee, 1h<> White House Committee,
which has rendered its report to the Pres¬
ident. Hotter schools, the organ of the
National Citizens Council For Better
Schools, carries its first installment of the
report of the President’s committeee in
the current issue. We can only give quo¬
tations from the committee's general rec-
onnnedations:
1. Schools now affect the welfare of t he
United States more than ever in history,
and this new importance of education has
been dangerously underestimated for a
long time.
2. Ignorance is a far greater handicap
to an individual than it was a generation
greater ago, aui| handicap an uneducated nation. populace is a
to a
3. Schools have become the chief instru¬
ment for keeping this nation the fabled
land of opportunity it started out to be
... It has been primarily the schools
which have prevented (opportunities from
(frying up in this nation and rigid class
barriers from developing). As long as
good schools are available, a man is not
frozen at any level of our economy, nor
his son! Schools tree men to rise to the
level of their natural abilities. . . . The.
schools stand as the chief expression of
the American tradition of fair play for
everyone, and a fresh start for each gen¬
eration.
4. It is this fundamental conception of
schools designed to give a fresh start to
each generation that has broadened the
ideals of education in America. It is no
longer thought pt%per to restrict educa¬
tional programs to the skills of the mind,
even though these skills remain of funda¬
mental importance.
5. The most practical aspect of this
new concept of education is that it calls
for the most careful mining ami refining
Of all human talents in the land—it is it¬
self a kind of law against waste. This new
educational ideal represents the fullest
flowering of the long western tradition of
emphasizing the dignity of the individual.
6. It is of course obvious that much
progress has been made toward realizing
the new educational ideal in the United
States during the recent past. It is the
belief of the committee, however, that
improvement has been nowhere fast
enough. The onrush of science has out¬
stripped the schools. . . . Many a school
w hich was good enough a generation ago,
now seems a disgrace to the community
where it stands.
7. The schools have fallen far behind
both the aspirations of the American peo¬
ple and their capabilities. In the opinion
of this committee, there is growing re¬
solve throughout the nation to close the
gup between educational ideals and edu¬
cational realities.
The committee makes specific recom¬
mendations that we can uo-t go into here
but these general, recommendations are
sufficiently important to the welfare of
our community and the education of our
children to make us wish chat interested
citizens in this community were big
enough and democratic enough to form a
committee representative of citizens of
“all walks of life" to study our local school
needs and work co-operatively with the
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AMERICA
SOL C. JOHNSON
1888—1954
National Advertising Representatives
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Whaler-Simpson Co.
0513 Hollywood Boulevard
San Francisco 5, California
Whale.v-Simpson Co.
55 New Montgomery Street
Los Angeles, California
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Board of Education to make our schools
what they should be.
The campaign for the United Negro
College Eund lor 1956 has been launched
and the goal is $2,000,000. This campaign
must be waged every year because the to¬
tal endowment for 31 Negro colleges is
only approximately $58,000,000 which is
too small to support adequately today’s a program
of higher education to meet so¬
ciety's demand for professional trained
men aiwl women. This amount as endow¬
ment for thirty-one colleges means that
on the average each of them woukl re¬
ceive little more than $1,500,000 which
vvoukf be too meager to meet the needs
hardly of any college in terms of adequate
salaries for needed faculty members,
building expansion and ever growing li¬
brary sum I laboratory requirements.
Seven of the colleges of Georgia are
members of the UNCF. Others are located
in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ala¬
bama, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and
Mississippi. These institutions have offer¬
ed higher education for nearly one-hun¬
dred years to Negroes and have influenced
every Negro family in these eleven states.
They were founded at a time far in ad¬
vance of any public effort to provide
such education to Negro students, and
the time is far in the distance when, if
ever, these, colleges will not be needed.
Therefore there is every reason why the
Negro community ought to support with¬
out reservation the campaign of UNCF.
Of coure it is natural to expect that the
graduates of these colleges should con¬
tribute to the fund, but there is almost
as good reason why those who never at¬
tended any of these colleges should help
to support them. It should be realized
that very few people have escaped the in¬
fluence of these private colleges which
will never outlive their usefulness, which
will be needed in spite of the trend to¬
ward desegregation, even if publicly sup¬
ported colleges were to open their doors
to Negroes tomorrow. Thus the appeal of
1 he UNCF is to every Negro citizen.
Moreover, we must not forget that
white Northerners still make large con¬
tributions to this fund and otherwise
maintain their interest in Negro educa¬
tion. We most earnestly urge our citizens
of Chatham County to donate their quota.
We are certain they can make a con¬
tribution to no worthier cause.
GET INFORMATION
The passive resistance pattern of pro¬
test which signalizes the Montgomery bus
boycott, which bewilders and therefore
immobilizes the violence mongers of the
most reactionary segments of Citizens
Councils, is without doubt an effective
technique, but it must be supplemented by
other well directed objectives*, The re¬
cent decision of the U. S. Supreme Court
bears directly on the Montgomery situa¬
tion. Of course city officials do not think
so, but the bus company does and has is¬
sued orders to its employes to obey the
decision. This latest decision of the Court
is judicial justification for the stand
Montgomery boycotters h a v e taken
though their protest was not based di¬
rectly on the segregation issue. They
must find encouragement, however, as
must Negroes every where else, also in the
fact that there are a few powerful people
in the Smith. who profess no affection
for them 1 *ut who are courageous advo¬
cates of justice, who can see no eventual
success for those who would evade, defy
or nullify the decisions of the U. S. Su¬
preme Court, to whom integration in all
matters essential to equal civil rights is
only a matter of time, who know many
of the traditions of the South are outmod¬
ed and are honest and courageous enough
to say so.
Notwithstanding the fact that a lot of
sound and fury are being generated by
the demand for wider currency of the
South's argument for the continuance of
segregation and by the meandering antics
of its zealots, there is some light being
generated also. Two sources of light have
come to our attention, which we want to
pass on to our readers who are interested
in keeping up with trustworthy inform-
tion. They are the March issue of The
Annals, published by the American Acad¬
emy of Political and Social Science, which
devotes itself to discussions of segregation
and integration by prominent American
scholars: and an article in the April is¬
sue of The Atlantic Monthly, by Ralph
McGill, titled The Angry South. We can
quote only two statements from it:
"In May. 1954. the trumpets of the nine
black-robed Justices in the Greek temple
weakened walls of political feudalism in
Receives National Boys
Club Award
i James McQueen lia.s been tend¬
ered national recognition for hav¬
ing earned the highest scholarship
of all members of the Boys Club
of America. Young McQueen is a
; member of Hampton Roads Boys
Club of Virginia of which Herman
S. Prescott is Executive Director.
• He and his young friend were
j flown to New York City to receive
j the awards. They were guests at
Hotel New Yorker. An English bi-
I cycle was received presented book to McQueen. scholar
He also the •
ship and was presented a plaque a*
Mac.v’s Department Store. He was
further honored by being allowed
to make presentations to others
participating in the project. He
and his director were honored with
a luncheon at the U.X.
This news is of special interest
to Savannah because Mr. Prescott
is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.
John McIntosh and lias many
friends here.
Youth Council Seeks
More Members
The Savannah NAACP Youth
Council met on Tuesday night,
April 17, at the West Broad
Street Branch YMCA, vQi the
president, Charles Dailey, pre¬
siding. Business of importance
was discussed.
The organization is seeking
a goal of 250 new members. All
Interested persons are asked to
J take out memberships in will the
! organization so that it
| reach its goal by the close of
J the drive, will April "Miss 28. NAACP"?
Who be
I 1 will be known Sunday, April will 29, be
when some young lady
J ! crowned by President Dailey.
There are five young ladies in
! this contest and all of them are
I working very hard. The public
is invited to attend. The place
will be announced later.
The organization has formed
n choral group and is asking ml
persons interested in singing to
join the chorus.
On Monday night, Apr. 16.
our advisor, Mrs. L. S. Stell, was
’■ given asurprise birthday party
by Charles Dailey. anTmembers
of the council were invited,
Florence Bignon is chairman of
publicity. Charles Dailey, pres-
ident und Mrs. L. S. Stell.
advisor.
the South. There long will be, fighting in
the ruins, but it will be guerilla stuli ana
its denouement is sure. \\ hen the walls
crumbled, the Humpty Dumpty of a con¬
venient, oft-invoked regional concept ot
states’ rights fell, too. Even if apostles
of this doctrine which was as malleable
as sculptor’s clay in the hands of its many
interpreters, were to put Humpty Dumpty
back together again, there is no wall on
which to set him. He fell with the walls,
not from them.” And
"In their secret hearts the most ardent
advocates of the status quo knew the Con¬
stitution of the United States could no
longer be interpreted to mean one thing
for one citizen and an opposite thing
for another In 1954 any political de¬
...
vice which could make one man less a
citizen than another, or give one Ameri¬
can child less opportunity than another,
was not merely impotent, but was regard¬
ed by most Americans as politically im¬
moral.”
We believe correct information is a
necessary boon to successful non-violent
protest.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
C ourt Puts I I
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| mission order in November,
1955, banning racial segregation
on interstate trains, buses and
in waiting rooms used by inter¬
state travelers, embraces all
methods of public transporta-
Racial segregation on trains,
buses and in waiting rooms is
in effect in thirteen southern
states, all of which are very
much perturbed over this latest
court ruling.
Several of the states affected
say that they will resist the
ruling and continue the segre¬
gated plan on public carriers
within their borders. Others
have announced that they will
comply with the court's order.
In Montgomery, Ala., where
Negroes have maintained- an
effective boycott against the
city’s transportation system win
since last December, the bus
company there ordered aban¬
donment of separate seats for
whites and Negroes immediately
after Tuesday's court ruling.
The City Commissioners and
the Police authorities in Mont-
gomery threatened to arrest
any bus driver and even pas^
sengers who interfered with
the operation of the buses on
| the usual segregated plan. The
I bus company said it would le-
I gaily prefect its drivers. How¬
ever the undivided bus plan was
! not tried out as the Negroes in
Montgomery had not up to
Wednesday determined when
they would end their boycott.
State authorities in Georgia
and South Carolina said they
would do everything possible
legally to continue the separa-
j tion of the races on public
buses.
In Jackson, Miss,, the matter
took a peculiar turn. There
pressure is being brought on
j net only the transportation
company to continue segregated
buses, but the telephone com-
pany is being asked to adopt a
system of segregation on party
line telephones.
geveral cities in the state of
Here And There
By Will*
RECOMPENSE INJURY with
justice and unkindness with
kindness.—Confucius.
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MOST OF THE LUXURIES
and many of the so-called ;
comforts of life are net only |
not indispensable, but positive
hindrances to the elevation of
mankind.—Thoreau.
* * * *
BY TAKING REVENGE, a
man is but even with his ene¬
my: but in passing over it, he
is superior.—Bacon.
* * * *
JlltS. BEATRICE E. JOHNSON
of West Victory Drive was
apmng the delegates from the
First Congregational Church
who attended the Georgia-
South Carolina convention held
at Midway recently. Her name
was inadvertently omitted from
an article in last week’s issue of
the Tribune.
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ARTHUR GIVENS, popular
business man of East Waldburg
Street, will celebrate his birth¬
day on April 28th. Congratu¬
lations!
T II E UNDERGRADUATE
CHAPTER of the Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc., will pre¬
sent its annual spring formal
tomorrow (Friday) night at
Savannah State College.
Till TODD - GRANT Junior
Class at Darien has already
hid its invitations printed for
the Junior-Senior prom to be
given on May 25th. ‘ Hawaiian
Cruise” is the theme.
MISS JLYUYK E. GORDON
; s Jeanes Supervisor for the
"our modern schools in Screven
County whose buildings were
dedicated on April 18th. The
dedication service was held at
'ho Central High School in
Sylvania. Miss Gordon is the
sister of Mrs. J. W. McGlockton
of this city.
MRS. GEORGIA HAWKINS of
Burroughs Street is a patient
.at Georgia Infirmary.
Funeral Rites for Mrs.
Grant Held Last Week
Mrs. Mary E. Grant, nona¬
genarian, died at the residence
of her son-in-law and daugh-
I ter, Mr. and Mrs. James J.
Edwards, 539 East Henry Street,
on Monday morning, April 16th.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, April 19th, at the
Beth Eden Baptist Church with
the Rsv. B. E. Black officiating.
Burial was in Laurel Grove
cemetery with the Monroe Fun¬
eral Directors in charge of
arrangements.
The deceased, age 94 years,
j ^ 1 10ng be remembered as an
| ln ^ thc f h ™ other e until „ She a few was months active
prior to her death
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs. Willie G. Edwards and
Mrs. Ethel G. Bcone; a gon-
n-law, James J. Edwards; sev¬
eral grandchildren, nieces, and
other relatives. Many out-of-
town relatives and friends at¬
tended the funeral.
SANDFLY
By Frank Jenkins
A series of programs is being
given at the Speedwell Metho-
iist church this week which
will end with the dedication of
.he addition to the church au¬
ditorium Sunday evening. Ed¬
ward Wright, Frank Stewart,
Herbert Kemp, Norman
j tsaac Luten, Jr., Charles Spaul-
q ing and Frank Jenkins,
„ ere among those appointed as
| j unior trustees of the church.
i Rev. James Campbell is pastor
and James Luten, lay leader.
Rev. James Campbell and
Sylvester Kemp observed
36th and 37th birthdays,
spectively, recently.
Texas have signified their in-
tention to comply with the
Supreme Court ruling and in a
number of cities the bus com¬
panies have already abandoned
the separate seating arrange¬
ment on public buses.
In a number of Virginia and
North Carolina cities unse-gre-
gated buses are already in op¬
eration.'
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Dr. Smith To Be Speaker
At Y Father-Son, Mother-
Daughter Banquet
Dr. E. J. Smith, prominent phy¬
sician, and member of the Cen¬
tury Club of the West Broad
Street Branch YMCA, will he the
principal speaker at the first an¬
nual Father-Son, Mother-Daugh¬
ter banquet which will tie held
Friday, May 25, 8:00 p. m. at the
Y. The Youth Service Committee
of which Miss Frankie Golden is
chairman, assisted by Horace T.
Scandrick, and Mrs. Bennie S.
Haygood, Youth Secretaries, will
sponsor this affair. This affair
will afford the parents of the chil-
...... Iren participating r —- -1----- in Y clubs in
the* schools a chance to observe at
close hand the work of the Young
Men’s Christian Association. The
I960 Y membership campaign ends
with a Victory Dinner Monday.
April 30th, 8:00 p. m. Reserva-
tinns by the participants in this
j campaign will have to be made
j through Saturday, April 28th.
This will afford those who will
prepare the meal a chance to pre¬
pare for the right number. Reser¬
vations may be made by calling
(he Y, phones. 3-1951 or 3-0103.
Sidney A. Jones, General Chair-
mr.n of the 1056 Y membership
campaign will preside at the din-
ner, and will thank the workers
for a job well done. Mrs. Ayler
Mae Lovett, The Rev. Peter
Holmes and Samuel A. Jones will
express thanks to the workers
working directly with them. The
work of the campaign will be re¬
viewed and suggestions for 1957
will he entertained.
The Consultation Study has been
I distributed to all members serving
J on committees in the and work others of the who West are
j interested
I Broad Street Branch YMCA. Dr.
H. M. Collier, Jr., has designated
j Mrs. Dorothy Brown Taylor as
the coordinator of this study by
j M’hase committees of Association As a guide study, to every ma-
terial has been acquired from
other Associations, namely: Louis-
ville, Kentucky, Washington. D.C.,
Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colorado.
San Francisco, California, New
5 ork City, Boston, Mass.,
others.
Resource persons from thc
Southern Area Council office in
Atlanta will he called on to help
guide these committees, namely, J.
Ben Duff, Young Adults, J. C.
Ingram, Personnel, Hugh Robin¬
son, World Service and
Emphasis.
Life Member Chairman
(Continued from Page One)
former branch treasurer and is
an active member of the branch s
community co-ordination eommit-
' tee. of which Dr. Clarence Rol-
land Gosha is chairman.
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Atlan-
, ta, ami Kivie Kaplan, Boston, are
j the co-chairmen of the national
life membership committee.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1956
JASPER COUNTY HIGH
in Ridgeland, South
will present a Disc
Ball on May 11 featur-
Jack At the "Yack Shack."
have also ordered their
prom invitations,
* * * *
MRS. CARLOTTA L. SHEP¬
of Atlanta was in the
last week to attend the
of her friend, Mrs.
Luy Grant. Mrs. Shepherd is
i native Savannahian.
* * * *
MRS. HERMAN WILCOX
pansored a special tea and
program at the First Evergreen
Church recently for the
••enefit of the church building
und. Mrs. Wilcox is a Congrc-
gationalist who felt the urge to
help ethers.” The affair was
x success. Congratulations!
.* * * *
MRS. MARTHA HOWARD of
the Ogcechee Road is a patient
it Georgia Infirmary.
* * * *
EVANS COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL at Claxton has unique
link and green invitations for
'ts Junior-Senior prem on May
tth.
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WILLIAM COGSWELL of New
York City was in the city for
’wo weeks recently visiting rel-
|fives and friends. He is a for¬
mer Savannahian.
* * # * .
THANKS to all schi ots. chur-
•hes, clubs, and individuals who
'enember to bring their job
printing to the Savannah Trib-
une. This is one way of showing
mur appreciation i'or free use
of the Tribune’s news columns
weekly. Most of all it helps us
’o keep pointing your news.
Your patronage is greatly ap¬
preciated.
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I HAVE YET to find the man,
however exalted his station,
who did not do better work and
out forth greater effort under
i spirit of approval than under
a spirit of criticism. — Charles
ichwab.
will render selections and the
ushers will servo Sunday at the
union meeting at Mt. Calvary
Baptist church. Miss Maggie
Darden is delegate from the
women’s department and DDL
Clyde M. Boyd from the men’s 1
department.
Dea. Johnnie Riles is home
from Buffalo, N. Y.
TATEMVILLE NEWS
By Robert Richards
St. Peter’s AME Sunday
school was largely attended.
Rev. W. P. Williams of Melvin
AME church in Pooler delivered
the message at the 11 a.m. ser¬
vice and at 8:CO pin. Pastor J.
L. Sibert preached. The Union
Band society held its regular
meeting at the church at 4 pm.
Jerusalem Baptist church will
give a fish supper at the church
Saturday night. Rev. W. Dor-
man is pastor.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas C.
Davis arrived home Friday
morning after spending about
two months visiting their chil¬
dren in New York City.
Mr. and Mi's. John Moore, Jr.,
will celebrate their first wedd¬
ing anniversary Friday, Apr. 27.
Mr. Moore will also celebrate
his birthday.
The Georgia Hi-Steppers club
dance at Ruby’s 2-Spot Friday
night was largely attended.
^j rs _ Clarece Taylor, wife of
Rev R w Taylor, returned
home Friday after a week’s stay
in Kentucky visiting her daugh-
te r.
•
MT. ZION NEWS
By Mrs. Cartene B. Cnmatinfs
Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Boyd of
waycross were the Saturday af-
ternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John O Cummings and family.
Dea. and Mrs. Willie L. Baker.
David Baker and Dea. and Mrs.
j. H. Beamon were the Sunday
dinner guests of the Cummings
family.
Griffin Court met Monday
night. Mrs. Estella Baker is M.
A.M,
Mt. Zion Baptist church choir
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(The Bible
Create in we a dean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away
from Thy holy presence. —
(Psalm 51, 10-11.)
It is only when we have
gained, through devout prayer,
Our Father’s everlasting
mercy, that we can gain also a
clean heart and a right spirit.
Then we will know His pres¬
ence, enveloping and filling us,
and find therein a strength
superhuman, a peace beyond
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