Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOVR
ilir $ awmnali Wihm
Established 1*75 OOL C. JOHNSON
By J. H. DEVEAU* 1889 - 1954
JOHNSON..Editor & Publisher . National Advertising Representatives
WILLA A. Publisher Associated PlIhli I ublishers , hpr ,
JOHNSON............ Asst, to
H BUTLER -______Asso. Editor 31 West 46 Street
GADSDEN.""”____Contributing -
W Editor New York 36. New York
E. JENKINS Advertising Manager J66 W. Washington St.
_____ ________ Chicago 2, 111.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY WhaIe.v-Sirnp.son S!mn<™ Co. c„
1009 WEST BROAD STREET Hollywood
Dial ADams 4-3432 — ADams 4-3433 6513 Boulevard
s=======z=== Advance =.= z =^. —s =s San Francisco 5, California
Subscription Rates In .— — - — _____
Year --------------------------------- "I:::::::::::;::::::::::::::::* loin ™ Whale'-Simpson Co.
63 npw Montgomery street
— - ——-— ■ ——...... . i.os Angeles, California
Remittance must be made by Express, Post
Money Order or Registered Mail,
Second Class Matter at the Post (Rum
ffice at Savannah, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1919.
"We are on trial ... to see if we shall
continue to put convenience above justice,
comfort above right, preference above
law. pride above duty. Strangely, we know
we sh^llono day cease to do these things
—if not soon on the level of willingness,
then later, out of compulsion. Whatever
guilt is confessed or denied, whatever
wrongs are righted or repeated, whatever
sentences are imposed or whatever fines
assessed, we shall in the end pay all in¬
demnities, serve all sentences, suffer all
the injustices—we, the people.”
—R. Orin Cornett
I At INC THIS FACTS
However discomforting it may he to
read the headline, “Negro Teachers In¬
ferior In Louisville,” to David Lawrence’s
Today In Washington, we must be objec¬
tive in our reaction to what Dr. Carmi¬
chael says about integration in Louis¬
ville. We must consider the background
and heritage behind the situation he re¬
ports. He cites that culture is a factor
that has a great deal to do with determ¬
ining a teacher's qualifications. He says
when asked why is culture a factor:
“ ‘It's just—it's culture. It’s social,
economic, environmental. How can a
person come out of a slummy, erime-
ridden area of the city, with poor
churches and few of the things that
-go to enrich life—how can a person
come cut of such a background be
the equal of one who comes out of a
more cultured home in a more cul¬
tured fcomrp unity?' ”
,
Dr. Carmichael goes on to cite certain
inadequacies in the educational back¬
ground of Negro teachers, in the schools
and colleges they attended, which must
have been all too obvious to the question¬
er. He recited the facts as they are with¬
out placing the responsibility for them.
It may not have served a useful purpose
to have done so. However, we feel that
people.••especially those who are disposed
to gloat over the fact, ought to realize that
the conditions of which Dr. Carmichael
speaks were not created by Negroes. They
were imposetj on them with calculated de¬
liberation. The wonder is not that only
5 per cent of the Negro teachers have
reached the median for white teachers,
but rather that any of them have reached
it. It would be nothing short of the mir-
equal aculoijpLf The the average of white of Negro teachers teachers in
average
training and proficiency. If they do, it
would iSId .out only disprove and reverse the
long vironment concept of the influence of en¬
on individual achievement and
social ! progress, but it would also make
more untenable the claim of white supe¬
riority, if it would not indeed prove white
inferiority. Nearly all of what was re¬
vealed in the pseudo-investigation in
Washington and the report on the com¬
parative standing of teachers in Louis¬
ville schools, is documented evidence of
what white people have done to Negroes;
it is an inadvertent confession of guilt
of a great wrong they have perpetrated
against Negroes over a period of 90 years;
it admits the existence of what was the
ba -is of the protests and suits the NAACP
and Negroes have waged, for which they
are now being condemned and persecuted.
The what-you-may-call-it in Washing¬
ton and the Louisville report have a deep
significance for Negroes and are a chal¬
lenge to them: parents, teachers, children
and all who are in positions of leadership.
The ri'ivirt from laiuisville and Washing¬
ton might well be true of other communi¬
ties. but it doesn’t have to remain true.
From this day on Negroes can begin to
do something about it. They may not be
able to do much about getting more and
better schools and colleges but they can
do a whale of a lot about better school
attendance, better social behavior, better
study habits, better use of leisure time,
better scholarship and greater and deeper
consecration to the business of educating
boys and girls, and men and women, by
the precept and example. Argument about
whether the things reported are true is
wasteful because it is futile. Action to
correct the weaknesses must be the order
of the day.
HOW SHOULD YOU VOTE?
There is considerable speculation cur¬
rent about how the Negro will or should
vote. Newspapers are sounding out im¬
portant persons to got their views on this
all important question. Whether the Ne¬
gro vote will remain largely with the Dem¬
in rats, or whether it will revert to the
Republican party is not an easy question
to answer. Prior to the New Deal admin¬
istration of President Franklin Roosevelt.
Negro adherents of the Democratic Party
were few and were regarded with some-
TIE THISTLES AND THORNS MUST NOT
; r - 'ZSg: nrr^n
i r \x,: , 'ir -i * ; • #r ' ■' -- I /«L ;
*.(r r.- ..
.
mm, - •» ... -T'Z*. V- „ , 4
U- -
* f-.
.
* t i
PAULSEN PTA INSTALLS OFFICERS
(Continued- from Page One)
Mrs. L. Blake; Principal, Miss M. W. Maree, Mrs. M. Hutchins, W, Perry, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Harris, Consultant Mrs. C. West, Mfs. E. E. May and Mrs. CL L. Gulden. Not shown on picture is
the chaplain, A. Foye.
thing akin to disdain by other Negroes
who were Republicans because their fath¬
ers were and because Abraham Lincoln
who freed them was one of the founders
of the Republican Party. The party was
called by members of other parties, Blafck
Republican Party. We recall that C. II. J.
Taylor, whose mother, by the way, was a
Savannahian, was a prominent Negro
Democrat who had held federal office un¬
der a Democratic administration. He was
held in offish regard by Negroes as were
other Negro Democrats among whom were
some bishops of the Methodist Church.
In the main, Negroes were Republican and
considered it treason to be anything else.
Several things happened during the years
that tended to cause them to fall away
from the party: Hayes’ act of withdraw¬
ing Union soldiers from the S'buth in a
bargain to win votes in Ihe electoral col¬
lege from the South, the treatment of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment by Theodore
Roosevelt and the encouragement given
to the “Lily White” movement by Taft
and Hoover. What these things lacked
in cooling off their adherence to the Re¬
publicans, the Depression and the New
Deal policies of Roosevelt added. For a
time a Negro Republican was as rare as
a Negro Democrat had been before. It is
thought by many well placed Negro Dem¬
ocrats that Negroes generally will not
turn away from the party which they
thought had been their special benefactor.
On the other hand, the Republicans un¬
der President Kisenhower, and b.\ his di¬
rection, have outdone the Democrats in
the matter of giving Negroes representa¬
tion in government appointments. The list
of Negroes holding positions of impor¬
tance in the government is long, including
en to Negro political big-wigs, and the
the one or two appointments usually giv-
positions of the Black Cabinet operating
during the New Deal and the Fair Deal
administrations. The present administra¬
tion’s recognition of the justice of giving
Negroes opportunities equal to their abil¬
ity in the government, in the Armed
Forces and opportunity to work on equal
terms with white workers in government
controlled work, speaks eloquently in lie-
half of President Eisenhower and the Re¬
publican Party. Add to these things the
great importance of civil rights to Ne¬
groes and the Republicans’ pledge to do
a reasonable job in bringing them into
first class citizenship with as little delay
as possible should make a stentorian ap¬
peal to the Negro voters. It is the respon¬
sibility of Negro leaders in the pivotal
states of the Fast, West and Mid-West to
guide the voters in these states so that
they w'ill see the wisdom of voting for
a Republican Congress, whatever their
local interests may be. One thing is cer¬
tain: a Democratic Congress will mean
the continuance of reactionary committee
chairmen in office in Congress, and this
in turn will mean the blocking of civil
rights legislation which is must legisla¬
tion if Negroes are to become first class
citizens. Whether leaders in these states
can rise high enough in self-lessness to
hdvi.se this sort of thing will be a ques¬
tion which the election will answer. Until
the civil rights issue is settled, the advice
to Negroes to split their votes in national
or any other elections is stupid.
It is pathetic in a way that any literate
Negro should not know something of the
contribution Negroes have made to Amer¬
ican culture—to world culture. Someone
wrote to a national magazine asking for
information on what the Negro had done
to advance civilization, in order to he able
to answer a disputant who charged that
Negroes had done nothing.
The ignorance confessed in the ease in
point is inexcusable in view of the fact
that most Negro newspapers carry from
time to time notes and accounts of what
Negroes have done and what they are
doing. Also, most public libraries under
Negro supervision are pretty well stocked
in books and magazines by Negroes and
about Negro achievements, -past and cur¬
rent, sufficient to supply the desires and
needs of anybody. Nearly all schools and
colleges, beginning w i t h elementary
schools, have well equipped libraries which
should contain material enough to give
their pupils and students enough informa¬
tion about what Negroes have done to
influence American culture. This was not
true sometime ago, because in this state
a former governor issued an order for all
schools and colleges under state support
to throw out certain books about Negroes.
Very few books on social science and his
tory, science and literature made only
slight mention if am at all. of the race
question, of Negro scientists or of Negro
poets and writers. And you do not need
T h e Paulsen Junior High ,
Parent Teacher Association lea-
til re,’ Mrs. Clara West, consul-
tant of Savannah Chatham
Publtc Schools, as guest speaker ;
at Its initial meeting of the
new school year. Mrs. West de- i
livered an impressive address to |
ille parents concerning the j
welfare of their children. Mrs. , I
West conducted the Installation
■ f the newly elected officers. |
NAME CONN. L A WYER
WASHINGTON (ANP) — At¬
torney General Herbert Brownell,
Jr., has announced the appoint¬
ment of John Woodward Newman
of Hartford, Conn,, as assistant
United States Attorney for the
Virgin Islands.
Newman, who was born August
25, 1914, at Palatka, Fla., re¬
ceived a R.S. degree in Business
tdmini: tration from Ohio State
University in 1935 and an LL.B
from Columbia University Law
School in 1916. He was admit¬
SITE f.IVFN FOR
GARDEN CLUR CENTER
The executive session <'f the
Georgia Association of Garden
('bibs, Ihe., met Saturday, Octo¬
ber 13, at the home of the presi¬
dent, Mrsj Mary K. Flournoy.'
The get a ipiainted period planned
by Mis. Esther S. Warrick was
uniquely carried out. She made
round badges tied with red rib¬
bon on which was inscribed “My
name is John Dor. What’s yours’.”
One of these badges was pinned
on each member who proceeded
to walk around and get acquaint¬
ed by showing her badge.
This being the first meeting of
the season, much business was
transacted ami a tentative pro¬
gram formulated for the term.
A letter was read from the
City Recreation Commission grant¬
ing the use of a room at the
Recreation Center, Thirty-seventh
street at Ogeeehee road, to the
association for a garden center,
which will be our first center
in the state.
The treasurer, Mrs. E. S. War¬
rick, gave an itemized report
which was graciously received.
We were happy to welcome the
Home and Garden Guild of Macon
into the association.
At the close of the business ses¬
sion a workshop was held, with
demonstrations in corsage assem¬
bly by Mrs. Margaret Priester;
fall arrangement, by Mrs. Mary
K. Flournoy, and horticulture tips
by Mr. E. H. Harmond.
The out-of-town members prc«-
cut were Mrs. Dora Armstrong,
Dahlia Garden Club. Brunswick;
Airs. Albertha Moore, Rose Bud
Club, Claxton, and Mrs. Essie M.
a textbook to know of the Negro's con¬
tribution to the field of entertainment,
sports and music. There are “swing,”
“jazz,” “boogie-woogie,” “blues," and last
but by no means the least, “rock and roll,”
which Asa Carter says should be outlawed
over the protest of millions of young
Americans who, by the way, will fight if
anybody tries to keep them from rockin’
and rollin’.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
The gavel was presented to,
the new president, Mrs. J. W
Jamerson, Jr., by Mrs. E. E. May.
The secretary’s book was pre-
>cntcd to Mrs. J M. Maddox by
Mrs. U. B. Huff. Mrs. M. L.
Miller presented to the princi-
pal, Mi x M. W. Maree, an Gr¬
:hid as an honor gesture from
the faculty.
Special musical numbers were •
provided by Harriet Bias in her
ted to the bar in Conner!lent in
* !, 4”. Ho served iii the Army
in World War II.
From the time he irraduated
from P Ohm state . until . , UM5 «, he
was employed as an .auditor and
fiefd inspector by the Atlanta Life
Insurance Company, Atlanta, Ga.
He was a law clerk to Carson
D. Baker in New Vork City from
February to September in 1916,
when he became an invc-tigalor
for the Office of Price Adminis-
tration in Hartford.
Stafford, Azalea Garden Club, \ i-
dalia.
The meeting was held on the
paeiou l uvn under the loaded
pecan trees. Beautiful flowers be-
deH.ed a Hewer h ue m, . ml. .do
with a background of flower
vegetable and liruhhery, which
was a perfect setting for the
barbecue pit, from which an ap-
petizing barbecue dinner (with all
the trimmings) was served by our
hospitable president. Ice cream,
home-baked pound cake and rolls
and soft drinks of all kinds topped
off this delicious fea t.
Mrs. C. W. Flournoy, president.
G.A.G.C.
Mrs. Henry Perrin,
chairman.
Mr. E. H. Harmond, advisor,
G.A.G.C.
RECENT LIFE MEMBERS
ANNOUNCED
NEW YORK, Oct. 11
life insurance companies, a
club and a fraternity chapter,
among the organizations and
dividuals who have
N A ACP life members in recent
weeks it was announced here
day by Miss Marion Stewart.
Miss Stewart, who is in
of the association's life
ship campaign, identifier!
new NAACP life members as
lows :
People’s Life Insurance
pany of Louisiana, New
La. ; Universal Life
Company, Memphis, Ten.;
j Club, of Valhalla Berkeley, Civic Calif.; and and
i Omieron chapter of Omega
Phi fraternity, Jamacia, X. A".
Also: Clarence Mitchell, dirot
! tor of the NAACP's
rendition of "Summer
and the Paulsen N.H.A. octet
under the direction of Mrs. G.
L Golden. Greetings were given '
by Mrs. M. Hutchins, president
of District XI and Mrs. M. V.
Hanr.ar, chairman of the pro-
;tuiu c unmittco of C.C.C. After
a short business session it was
evealed that Mrs. T. Stiles had
he largest number of parents
present.
j In 1947, Mr. Newman entered i
j I employment with the post office j
' j„ Hartford but later transferred J
to the , Veterans , Bonus ,, Division ot i
j*he State ol Connecticut as a *»cn-
j For claims examiner. He
! assistant clerk in the Police Court
at Hartford in 1951 and in 1952
tie anie traffic attorney in the
I city and police court th< re. Since i
j July 1, 1955. he has been en- j
I gaged in private law practice in J
Hartford. j
bureau; Carl Wesehcke. St. Paul,
Minn.; Fred Hampton, Cleveland,
Ohio; and Robert Royall, Kich-
mond, \ a.
-------
/VrUDUn AtlOlTlCy
„
I j * IT * 0< flCPy
WASHINGTON — (ANP) A
prcininert Washington lawyer
I who allegedly forged two checks
.Mailing $1,000 in connection
wit-li an estate he was handling
| was arraigned here last week
before U. S. Commissioner Jas.
F. Splain for a hearing into the
allegation.
Attorney Leonard S. Hayes
1 .sited $7,500 bond and the
hearing was continued to Oc¬
tober 16.
Asst. U. S. Attorney Robert J.
A rnan said the arraignment
dealt with only part of the
harges against Hayes. He said j
the amount missing from the
estate totals between $9,500 and
$ 10 , 000 .
Police said that the estate in¬
volved. was that of the late
I Charles L. Marshall, Jr.
The 42-year-o!d attorney for¬
merly was associated with the
Negro law firm of Cobb, How¬
ard and Hayes, which took
racial integration eases here to
the Supreme Court, The firm
severed its relations with him
last week.
'
| JqJj Opportunity BettPT
president’s Committee
()n Government Contracts has
1 found that the Nation’s busi¬
ness and industrial leaders are
I I responding in encouraging nura-
to the philosophy that
Equal Job Opportunity is both
good business and good citi¬
zenship.
The committee’s progress
i demonstrates the value of co-
! operation, negotiation, persua-
i sion and education as effective
methods of obtaining economic
i equality for all of America's
people.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1358
ALLOWED TO SPOIL l' 111V. THE DcfilteS
in
NEW YORK. Oct. U--Colum¬ . .
University never participates
any sporting event ill which
r ejno imMuin r* of it ^ teams arc
Kui. against Colun,: in any man
a dir*-
of intercollegiate athletics, .iii. - . an¬ ....
on October 5.
His announcement followed a
with representatives of
Columbia University NA.VCl’
requested by the kilter.
“Cotqnibia never has and never
participate in any sporting
where a member of the
is not accorded all of the
whether on the play¬
field, or in eating, sleeping,
or social facilities, grant¬
his teammates,” Mr. Furey as¬
in spelling out the univer¬
policy.
The NAACP chapter had sought
meeting with the athletic direc¬
to define the university's
on racial discrimination in
Names Arlington 11
White Woman To Ex. Post
ARLINGTON, Va. (AN1‘)—|
Mi . Barbara Marx accept-
an executive position on the |
N V A ('. PV executive
last week, marking the first
mt - in this state’s history that
civil right ha elected and ;
a white member on its board, i
Mrs. Marx was named to the •
16-member board during an an-,
conference of the Virginia
at Petersburg in a move
appreciation for the stand she
in recent school integra- 1
a
case.
Mrs. Marx was one of three
people who signed an Ar- j
desegregating suit. The
brought floods of telephone!
alls and abusive letters from irate ;
segregation:<■ <. j
IPs a bit of a nuisance for the >
MYLES TO TEACH
CLASS AT ‘Y’ I
John II. Myles, instructor ii
meHicmaUcs, science anc 1 p.ljs-
-
ieai education at Haven Home
junior high school, graduate o!
Savannah State college, cur¬
rently serving as backfield
coach at Savannah State col¬
lege; M.A. New York university,
with work toward a doctorate
in physical education. New Yorl.
university, has volunteered his
services in out mixing square
and folk dancing classes at the
West Broad Street Branch YM
CA. beginning Friday, Cetcbei
19, 7:30 p. tn. Classes will be
arranged for vour.;' adults a‘
well as for teachers who wish
fo introduce this type of activ¬
ity in the schools of Chatham
county. A "Y” membership
card will be the admission fee
for these dance instructions or
active participation. Ballroom
and social dancing will be given
to those who wish to improve
(Great A mer ica ^
yibjfii tm a
43/309
fORElSB
cmrEH5 apt
now 6TeoVm<3
IN THE U-«.
UPPER THE
STUPEWT
EXCHANGE
PROGRAM
WIU3 OUCk
LOST IN A
•STORM CAME
POWKl .A
CHlMNEg AT
THE HOME OP
j.j.ouieite
—
16 THE NEWEST
MEMBER OP THE
INPUSTRy-OPERATE O yeww cit /
AMERICAN TREE HAS
FARM SySTEM OF ALMOST
CSPOW.NiS TiMEEFg 5.000
A£ A CROP MUFS Of
5 TREBTS
«• light i . of . e an ...» announcement nnrioiincam that
Harvard University was cancel-, ^
j n g scheduled Southern tour by | It )
its basket ball team. The Har-,« ,
void move was taken because of* f
legislation recently passed in Lou-
,-iana liino and and Georgia (t H banning IlHIinil inter¬
racial sports, although Harvard
now lias no Negroes on its 'bas¬
ketball team.
Mr. Furey emphasized that his
tatiment was not to tie inter¬
preted as a change of policy by
Columbia.
"In the past,” he related, ‘‘when- . , .
ever there seemed any indication ^
of a possible problem, we' would
explore the situation immediately,
informing the other school of our
position on the matter.”
Columbia refused invitations if>
its conditions were not met, and
as a result its policy never has
received publicity 'because “we
have never had any incidents,” Mr.
Furey added.
of the
rare,” said Mrs. Marx at
time.
The two other white residents
joined the 50-year-old Mrs.
in signing the desegvega-
suit withdrew their names
experimenting similar liar-
Mrs. Marx moved to Arlington
years ago from New York
and has been active in
P work ,for about nine
She said she had become
in this work because
conditions at Arlington’s Hoff-
High School for Ne-
The housewife, who has an 8-
daughter, said that “It
ust doe-nt seem lair to keep
hPir skil - s * n tiu f arcas -
Two schools had , one hundred , ,
representation cf ad¬
at the recent workshop
With Youth” spoil- •
by the Wert Frond Street
YMCA at Savannah
college: West Savannah
d’.iool, Mrs. Ayle" Mae Lovett,
and Fast Broad St/ >■ t
chnl, Mrs. Esther H. Warrick,
The advisers were / ">"
L’lre’ha Prince, Mrs. B-sm b c
Warrick, Mrs. GwendolyraU n>
Mrs. Carolyn Kirkland
md M"s. Omega RyaR In con¬
nection with this workshop, new* :>•'
and Tri-Gra-Y manuals
>ve being distributed under the •
U'pervlsion of MLs Frankie;,! ..
chairman of the yowbh ne
vegram committee. t i ml no
Over three hundred young
lciults will take part in the Y
public opinion poll,'
vith Dr. H. - M. Collier, Jr.,
erving as chairman of the
'ruing adult round table for
"Weber. The result of this poll
vill be tabulated by the adult
v.Tgvp.m committee of the Y
Mid made into a report to the
board of managers.
Thomas Johnson, Savannah
: ‘ate college senior, will head
’O a radio program entitled
‘Youth. Religion and Life” over
adio station WJIV direct from
h° West Broad Street Branch
Saturday. October 20. at
(") p.m The speaker will be
he Reverend. A. J. Hargrett,
lean of the chapel, Savannah
Mate college.
The weekly USO party will be
at the Y for all servicemen
beginning at 8:30 p.m.
The Negro newspaper is
julwark of Democracy.