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• • • Laws and institutions must
hand in hand with the progres of the
an mind . . . We might as well require
man to wear a coat that fitted him as
boy, as civilized society to remain ever
der the regime of their ancestors.”
—Thomas Jefferson
NO EXCUSE
Fifty years ago ‘‘the poll tax,
tional requirements, mid the
clause had combined with the fear
violence to keep the Negro at home on
ing day.” Well known subterfuges and
vices are being used to prevent his
tering.
in I!>(>0 the voting strength of'Negroes
in all southern states had dropped to
per cent of what it was before his disfran¬
chisement. Not so long ago a
soldier from World War II, the father of
children, was killed in a county not far
from u- because he insisted on trying to
vote. In Randolph County a few months
ago, 500 ^ Negroes were refused registra¬
tion and had their names taken from the
list. A federal court ordered that they be
] ut back and fined the registrars and
made the county pay court costs.
Rut such things are matters of the past
and we believe Negroes can register and
vote in any county in this state. There are
no unreasonable and discriminatory re¬
strictions to block them. We know there
are none in Chatham County, and why
only little better than 8,000 Negroes were
qualified to vote in the city primary is be-
yoi.d us. We don’t know what’s wrong
with Negroes in Savannah. In most other
similar communities where Negroes claim
to h.t\e political ambition, where they g-o
through the form of appearing interested
m their community’s welfare, every per¬
son who is in a position of leadership
joins in somewhere along the line to as¬
sume a share o*>whwt it takes to make
potential voters intelligent on simple mat-
tei s that have to do with government
In one community, we know of, every
church building is available for holding
citizenship classes with the active
of the preachers who are interested be¬
cause people are concerned. Not so in Sa¬
vannah.
No appeal has been made in Savannah
that, has reached ‘‘the elite.” Nobodv
knems why. We have tried to point out
that it is important that every person who
is worthy o-f citizenship should be a quali¬
fied voter; that this is the last one can do
to show his interest in the kind of govern¬
ment he wants his city and countv to
have; that first-class citizenship is the
promise of democratic society; that it is
withm the- reach of the lowliest as well
he highest; that as
it until none of us can enjoy
all of us do.
7 ' hat we have only 8,000 qualified voters
.
m savannah is a reflection on all The
greater blame attaches to those who ought
be tile leaders. If Negroes are ever to have
representation in government, they will
ge; it on the basis of the number of votes
lo i' < ono non an and P°Ju the That only way 11 umber to get ought 15,000 to be
through organization including is
of society, under all levels
our wise and honest lead¬
ership respected by everybody
ON PIG EARS
I he speaker painted a picture of hard
v°rk from sun-up to sun-down, no pav
frc-quent cruelty scant clothing and crude
food, the cruelty of the auction-block
which separated mother, father, children
from each other. He was describing the
environment in which our fore-fathers
mod and toiled up to 9*0 years ago for
three hundred years, in marked contrast
A BOLT OUT OF A
CLEAR SKY
By Uh-as. 13. Stewart
In my ©pinion the Editorial
in the Sav-aimah Morning Slews
under date June 14th this in¬
stant under the caption, Time
Pot of Gold is Empty Now." was
as a bolt out of a clear sky, a
blew at the race. The Morning
News had this to say: “For
many long years the Negro of
the south has looked to northern,
Metropolises as being fabulous
points at which reposes pots of
gold at the feet of rainbows,
The “enlightened” North has
beckoned to Christopher Co-
lumbus, or the highlands call
back to a Scotsman. There was
the land of equality and big
relief checks of whopping wages
and gay times. There was op- j
portunity unlimited. How that ,
dream has faded! I
For the continued migration
to! the Southern Negroes to;
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to the splendor of plantation life which
their unrequited toil supported. Like lillies
out of the mud, he pointed out that from
the environment he described, from meat
skins, chicken heads and pig ears, came Rob¬
such people as Buriche, Julian, Drew,
inson, Althea Gibson and many others
who have made notable contributions to
American cultural life. And the progress
of which these people are symbols has
been acclaimed throughout the world.
Many people are wont to try to minimize
the fact that this progress was due to the
Negro’s ability to survive handicaps.
There is no doubt in William Faulkner’s
mind for he says;
“. . . That only 90 years ago not one
per cent of the Negro race could own
a deed to land, let alone read that deed;
yet in only ninety years, although his
only contact with a county courthouse is
the window through which he pays the
taxes for which he has no representation,
he can own his land and farm it with in¬
ferior stocks and worn-out tools and gear-
equipment which any wnite would starve
with—and raise children and feed and
clothe them and send them North where
they can have equal scholastic opportun¬
ity, and end his life holding head up be¬
cause he owes no man . . .”
Faulkner says, “he has done so much
with no chance” and our speaker says the
Negro has done so much ‘‘on pig ears.”
We ask too, what would he have done if
ho had equally good schools and colleges
to train him, an opportunity for well pay¬
ing skillful work and representation in the
government under which he lives, to
which he pays taxes’.’ The South ought to
be proud of him.
iVrtUSE BUSINESS?
While youth delinquency has been a
problem of the wo Id ever since youth
came on the scene, there have also been
times when the world, our country, our
city has had reason to wonder if things
are getting better or worse in this respect.
Here in our city youthful crime seems
to come in waves. In one night, “the time
of danger,” the police and detectives are
kept busy rounding up and sending to
the hospital or the jail, offenders or vic¬
tims of switchblade knives or pistols.
A letter in the Forum of the Morning
News written by one of our citizens calls
attention to the evil of the switchblade
and suggested a tighter watch over the
source of this dangerous weapon. The un¬
sophisticated-parents who don’t know
what their children are up to—and others
who look the other way—have only to get
into any crowd of our youth to be dis¬
illusioned. We venture the statement that
almost any dance or football or basket¬
ball game would net a basket full of
switchblades. We do not rule out a few
pistols. This fact is so well known that
most men hesitate to offer advice or make
an attempt to halt a crowd of youth bent
on making trouble. We do not like to make
this statement, but it has to bo made.
Intelligent parents have at hand pow¬
erful assistance in the church and Sunday
School, the YMCA, the public schools, and
Boy and Girl Scout organizations if they
will use them. There are other means of
checking delinquency, but intelligent use
and application of the suggestions given
here will bring good results.
We think parents ought to keep it on
the minds of law enforcement officers
that it is their job to dry up the source of
deadly weapons. We can devote our time
and attention to nothing more important
than youth delinquency with the determ¬
ination to do something about it.
other metropolitan areas has
resulted in a story of misery,
poverty and injustice, which
our Yanke-e neighbors have
never ha-d the courage to tell
ia full. They continue to ex-
cocate “the rope and faggot”
terrotean of Dixie, they make a
great show of collecting “bun¬
dles for the South." and they
stage gigantic and noisy rallies
of the NAACP. Hut they fail to
tell the story of what is hap-
pening under their noses.
Chicago is a classic example,
There has been a long saying
current among Negroes “that if
you can’t make it in Chicago
you can't make it any where."
if this be true it certainly bodes
iU for the future of the race.
For the most Negroes haven't
made it in Chicago—or in any
of the other big cities to which
they have migrated by the
millions. A few have scaled the
pinacles of success just as they
probably would have scaled
NAACP Calls For Legal THREE AWARDED
LASKER FELLOWSHIPS
Move Against Alabama honor NEW graduates YORK, N. of Y.—Three member 1056 col¬
In iu notion leges of the United Negro Col¬
lege Fund have been awarded
NEW YORK. - NAACP attor -1
neys have been instructed by that
organization’s Board of Directors] I
to seek an early court hearing on
an injunction issued on June 1
which bans the NAACP in the
State of Alabama.
This announcement was made by
Dr. ('banning H. Tobias, Board
chairman, following tin? Board’s
regular monthly meeting here on
June It,
The policy-making body’s state¬
ment specifically instructed the
attorneys “to take the necessary
legal steps* to obtain a hearing
on the merits of the Alabama in¬
junction at the earliest possible
time with a view to dissolving
the court’s restraining order.”
Terming the Alabama move an t
attempt "to ban and destroy" the
NAACP in the state, and “a direct)
violation of the American tradi-!
tional and constitutional principle |
of freedom of association,” t h e j
Board declared that “it presents ■
a challenge which we shall meet
in the courts and in the arena of
FIRST NEGRO POLICE
GIVEN COMMAND OF
ST. LOUIS iANPi _ Capt.
Edward S Bolden, the frrit Ne¬
gro in the history of the St.
Louis police department to
hold that rank, chalked up
another “first” here last week
when he was assigned the com¬
mand of a police district.
Bolden, 51, was one of 19 new
assignments announced by Ac¬
ting Police Chief Joseph Casey.
He will command the Deer
Street cjistrict, replacing Capt.
William Pleitner, white, who
was assigned to the chief’s off-
TWO TOP OFFICIALS
BECOME NAACP
LIFE MEMBERS
NEW YORK, June 21. — Two'
NAACP officials are among the
persons who recently have become
life members of the Association.
They are Thurgood Marshall,
NAACP special counsel, and Pro-
feasor S. Ralph Harlow of Oak I
Bluffs, Mass., a member of the
NAACP’s Board of Directors and
life membership committee.
Another recent NAACP life
membership was that taken out by:
Mrs. Richard A. Dobson of New 1
York in memory of her late
band, Dr. Richard A. Dobson. i
Additional NAACP memberships |
have been taken out recently by
the following: |
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it might lift itself up in the
a-ir and seek higher pinacles.
Every one with any knowledge
of the condition of the Negro
in the South can witness that
the type of segregation he had]
to adjust himself to tnot with
any desire for social equality
on bis part) robbed him of
much of his liberty, economic¬
al and political, blocking every
I avenue of success. These con-
! ditions gave birth to the or¬
ganization of the NAACP. that
■ by united efforts we gain |
j strength and obtain help.
them any where. But for
most part they remain an
minority living in squalor, vir¬
tually without hope of
ing the unrealistic goal
had set for themselves,
every train and bus that
es the city brings more dusty
humanity to be crammed
the melting pot.”
In my opinion the
News should realize that it
always been human like
under oppression, to seek
or relief from the
circumstance. Then like
Abraham and Lot of old,
migration is the solution,
grate.
It has been the custom
man from time immemorial
use his better judgment in ad¬
justing his condition, like
bird confined in a cage it
ters and moves about
through every outlet that
to offer liberty to its wings,
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
HIS DAY IS COMING TO AN END. THE COURTS HAVE SPOKEN.
I
opmmn.” „
“The issue is not in the failure j
of the NAACP to register with ]
a state agency,” the Board main-
ta’ned
‘The restraining order itself
provides irrefutable proof that
registration is not the real pur-
pose of the action. The order pro¬
hibits the NAACP from ‘filing-
with the Department of Revenue
and the secretary of state
application, paper or document for
the purpose of qualifying to do
business within the State of Ala-
bama > „
The statement called the Ala¬
bama injunction “more than a
tlmv.t to the NAACP.
“U is an attack upon basic
liberties. It would deny constitu-
tionally guaranteed l ights to or-
ganize, to protest, to assemble
peaceably, to petition for redress
of grievances, and to invoke the
courts in the pursuit of legal ob-
jectives. The danger is not alone
to the NAACP, but also to any
other group in disagreement with
those who control the state.”
CAPTAIN
POLICE DISTRICT
ice as an aide.
The new district head became
a member of the department in
October, 1933. He wa 8 elevated
to the rank of detective ser¬
geant in 1941, was named head
of the revived narcotics squad
in 1951, and promoted to lieu¬
tenant in 1954.
As lieutenant, he was in
charge of a detective squad op¬
erating out of Lucas Avenue
station and covering three mid
town district 8 .
hacco Workers International Un¬
ion, AFL-CIO, Miss Ruth B.
Hawes and Dr. Gregory Shaed,
ail of Richmond, Va.; Sidney M.
-Johnson, in memoriam by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Johnson, Hartford,
Conn -! The Thirteen Aides a,1(1 tbe
La "S ston Univers.ty Club, of Los
An S eles - Callf d Irvln ? Faln -
Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and
Central state College, Wilberforce,
Chio.
Als0 the Wilmington, N. C.,
chapter of The Links, Inc.; the
Detroit (Mich.) Duffers Golf As-
soc iation; the Hon. Louis C. Cram
4on Cabot L. McKinney and
Scipio G.” Murphy, all of Detroit:
Max Delson and F. Byron Lorde.
in mem oriam by his wife, Mrs.
Gertru d e Lorde of New York City;
and a well-known entertainer who
chose not to be identified.
LIBERIA TO SET UP
IRON ORE PLANT
MONROVIA (ANP) Li-
plans to install a $2,000
000 iron ore plant was disclosed
last week by official sources.
The plant, used for treating iron
ore, will be erected at Bomi Hills.
Elsewhere in the little republic.
a newlly-built air terminal with
modern facilities has been com-
pleted at the James Spriggs Payne
here. It is now in opera-
tion.
announced today by W. J. Trent,
Jr Executive ’Sector of the
j,. url( j
The f e b°'vships carry stipends
to help finance the first year of
graduate study at the schools chos¬
en by the winners. This year’s
Fiorina Lasker fellowship recipi-
ents are Miss Maurice Fitts of
° Atlanta, Georgia;
Miss Vivian L. Johnson of Touga-,
oo Southern Christian College,
Tougaloo, Mississippi, and Mbss Uni-1
Annie M. Ogleton, of Fisk
versity, . Nashville, ...... ™ Tenn. |
In previous years, the grants
which range from $1000 to $2000 j
have been made to two women
graduates. It was possible to in-
clude three winners in the total
this year> as Mi „ Ogleton was
given a tuition scholarship by the
University of Chicago, where she
will do graduate work in the field
of Mass Communications. She will
use her share of the Fiorina Lask¬
er Fellowship money for housing
and maintenance.
Miss Vivian L. Johnson, whose
home is in Birmingham, Alabama,
will enter the University of Illi¬
nois where she will continue her
studies in the field of Mathemat-
ics. She is one of four Tougaloo j
students selected to appear in the j
1956 edition of Who’s Who Among
Students in American Colleges and)
Universities.
Miss Maurice Fitts, who lives I
m Bessemer, Alabama will also
study at the University of ( hi-
oago, where she will do graduate
work in the field of Social Science.
She was Secretary of the Student
Government Association at Clark j
College, and Associate Editor of
the College Yearbook, the Panther.
All three 1956 Fiorina Lasker
Fellowship winners were enabled :
to go to college through scholar-1
ship aid, of which a large share j
was made available to their col- (
leges by the annual finanicai as¬
sistance provided by the United
maintained Negro College honor Fund. All tb >'ce |
throughout then-four years of col- ,
lege study. , .
Awarded annually since 1951, ^
the women Fiorina were Lasker initiated Fellowships by the trus- for j |
tees of the late social worker’s
estate who established a $25.0001
trust fund from a special trust j
designated by her will to be used j
for social, civic and educational j
j purposes. The fellowship fund is
administered by the United Negro
College Fund.
Candidates for Fiorina Lasker I
awards are chosen from among j
the women gradluates of the 31 j
private, accredited colleges hold¬
ing membership in the United Ne¬
gro College Fund. Nominations
from each college are made by a
faculty committee. Final selection
is made by a committee of judges
which includes Miss Loula D.
Lasker, Mrs. Chauncey L. Wad-
j UNCF dell, Associate National Chairman Council; Dr. of Con- the
] s tance Warren. President Emeri-
) j lIS 0 j Sarah Lawrence College:
Violet Barbour of the Depart-
men t 0 f History, Vassal*, and Dr.
F _ D p at terson. President of the
t'nited Negro College Fund,
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956
Here And There
By Will*
To BE PUOl'D of learning, is
greatest ignorance. — Jere¬
Taylor.
* * * *
HAPPY those who knowing
are subject to uncertain j
are prepared and
for either fortune; a
principle, and with much
learned in wisdom’s
* * * *
I ATTRIBUTE the little 1
to my not having been
to ask for informa¬
and to my rule of conver¬
with all descriptions of
on those topics that form
own peculiar professions
pursuits.—Locke.
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DR. EDWARD GAREV BRY¬
JR., was married to Miss
Mae Marten of East Chi¬
Indiana, on May 19. Dr.
is the son of Mrs. Nancy
Bryant of East 38 Street, and
the nephew of Dr. M. D. Bry¬
of West 39 Street. The
are at home, 4723
Avenue, East Chicago,
Congratulations!
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'MR. & MRS. WILLIAM HOW-
JR., are residing in Los
California.
NEIoL MOS.ELEY has returned
from Talladega College
he completed the fresh¬
year. He is the son of Mrs.
Moseley of East Wald-
Street.
MRS. STARLING HUNTER of
West 38 Street underwent
appendectomy at Charity
recently. She is im¬
* * * *
MRS. JEAN WILLIAMS of
Virginia, is in the
visiting her mother, Mrs.
Williams of West Victory
Her husband. Sgt. John-
, . __...
- v ““ ’
at Fort Stewart, , Is
in Greenland with the U. :
Army. Mrs. Williams was a
teacher at Riceboio.
THE ED SULLIVAN'S Army
on CBS television last
night deserves the or¬
of the week. Besides dis¬
top Army talent i Negro
white i, the new U. S. Army
was shown. Both were a
MED. GROUPS
INTEGRATE
CHARLOTTE, N. C. — Negro !
and “scientific” surgeons member- will b« j |
to j
to the previously all-white
Carolina Medical Society
the the year year has has passed. passed.
of Dr. _ Don !
This is the opinion *
B. Koonce W.l.mngton, prem-
of the NCMS, received by
Oh! in North j State session Medical here So- at j
jety annua University
c . Smith June I
_ 14 Dr Koonce, in Chicago. at ‘
the annual meeting of the
Medical “technical Association, j
that on]y a ques- j
» was holding up the final
He explained, in a
- 0 interview, that certain
changes in the constitution
the NCMS first had to be clear-
up by a committee charged
the assignment.
The . to .
news came as a surprise
in attendance at the
bad ^oi^d't n^s
the last annual meeting
the whjte group hel(1 in }. ine -
j n eald y May. News sonrees
silent on the passage, this
on gecond reading, of the
decision to admit Negroes
at the 1954 meeting
the group a i s0 a t Pinehurst.
The telephone interview also ic-
that the site of the meet-
of the 1957 convention ^of the
Carolina Medical Society
been switched from Pinehurst
Asheville. Observers stated that
was not too receptive
entertaining conventions which
Negro memberships.
Newly Swift” elected officers are Dr.
R. Durham, president; i j
j
Prior to her death in Septem¬
1949, Fiorina Lasker was ac¬
in many philanthropic and
organizations, including the i
Civil Liberties Union,
National and New York Con-;
Leagues, and the National 1
of Jewish Women. She i
a sponsor of the Greater New ]
York Women's Division of]
United Negro College Fund
its inception in 1944.
treat,
MISS W. BERNITA
will leave on June 28 for
University where
to attend the
/
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MISS RUTH SIMMS of
staff is celebrating
birthday today, June 21st.
s still a teenager. Congratula-
tions!
MISS ROBERTA HENDER¬
SON spent a week end in
ico, recently.
* * * *
THE SERVICE LEAGUE of the
'rirst Congregational Church
rave the tuition and all ex-
tenses' for a child to attend the
conference at Dorches¬
ter Center last week. The
is also giving a Girl
camp scholarship for Ira
Merriweather -of 1116 Lin¬
coln Street this week. Ira Belle,
10 years, is in the sixth
trade at East Broad Street
Mrs. Roberta Spencer is pres¬
cient of the Service League.
The last meeting of the organ-
‘zari.on was held on June 1st at
he home of Misses Julia and
Juzetta Lowe of East 34 Street.
Mrs. Marian Spaulding and
Mrs. Willa Ayers Johnson
■©-hostesses for the May meet¬
MRS. BARBARA IGLEHART,
he former Miss Barbara Mc-
Tlockton, returned to the city
Wednesday after visiting her
parents in Waco,
Texas. She will leave Sunday
o join her husband. A-1C Sam-
tel E. Iglehart, who is stationed
it Ramey Airfield, San Juan,
°uerto Rico.
:j: * * *
MR. k MRS. STEVE ROW¬
LAND of Los Angeles, Califor-
-.‘a, won again Tuesday night
>n the TV show, “Do You Trust
Tour wife?” This is their
welfth week which means they
vill receive $100 a week for the
rext twelve years. This CBS
‘elevision show stars Edgar
3ergern.
MEN WILL WRANGLE for re-
write for it; fight for it;
lie for it; anything but live
'or it.—Colton.
«£' ,fc
W. B. Easley, Whiteville, sec-
vice president, Dr. N. <•
Burlington; recording
Dr. S. J. Cochran,
secretary-treasurer; Dr. W.
Armstrong, Rocky Mount and
of the Journal, Dr.
B Middleton, Raleigh. Nev
ibers placed on the executive
tee, include Dr. Clyde W.
n t Durham; Dr. R. E. Wim-
-i ey> Raleigh and Dr. G.
AU Fayetteville,
officials stated that the largest
dan C e in the history of the
anization was on hand for the
the 60th annual meeting.
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LONE BLIND STUDENT
GETS DIPLOMA
HENDERSON, Ky. — (AND
eyes of 22-year-old Caola
were closed when
graduated from the
for the Blind last
commencement activities
the grandeur of
the college campus” for
student from Henderson,
She received a Braiile
Superintendent Paul
Braille typewriter from an
donor, a Braille cook
class ring from the alumni
and a subscription to
Digest in Braille from
Printing House for
Since most of the students
to schools in their home
they reach their junior
number of graduates have
in recent years.
Miss Warfield was the
student in the school.
Enrolled in the school when
six, Miss Warfield lost
at four, after having
and whooping cough
same time.
She hopes to become a
operator in her hometown.
has done this type of work
the school this year.
Dr. Whitney M. Young, presi¬
of Lincoln Institute, was the
speaker at Miss
graduation.