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UlS WORK DESERVES IT
Attention is hpre directed td a signal¬ move-
ment which has been launched to
ly honor the li»e work of one of the na¬
tions foremost chemist-scientists and
by lar the most eminent man in these
fields produced by the Negro race—
George Washington Carver.
The movement to nationalize the merft-
ory of Dr. Carver is irunted by numerous
outstanding Negroes throughout the
nation who are supported in this most
worthwhile effort by- many prominent
leaders of the while race. To perpetuate
the name of this man whose up-from-
s hi very saga reads like a fairy tale it is
proposed to set aside a day to be knbwn
as “George Carver Day.” The date pro¬
posed is January 5.
The idea of a Carver Day has already
gained much momentum and has been
at proved by the governors of twenty
states who have issued proclamations
obeying the day. One of the southern
governors favoring the idea is Gov. Oval
Fan bus of Arkansas who wrote, when
asked to support the movement:
“Your letter of some months ago 1 ably
recently came to my attention. Appar¬
ently it was misplaced during our r<d
cent (school) controversy when we were
receiving tons of mail every day.
“I will he happy to proclaim January
5th as George Washington Carver Day,
i you will send me a sample ProdfWna-
tiofi.’
It is encouraging to tho barkers of ibis
p r fort and all Americans of liberal
thought to know that the id a gives
promise of success.
Dr. Carver, though born in slavery,
became one of America’s outstanding
figures in the field of chemistry and
p'-ience. His boyhood was a rugged one,
for he was born at a time when the
Nt wo had little or no chance to yet. an
education. However, this lad was Mussed
by being the property of a kind and God-
RACE RELATION IN
UNITED STATES
tContinuer? Loin page Out
The new law in New York
was designed to meet this
lem.
Other Important
ments on the positive siue
clude tne successful
p.lgnmage wtucb brought
2 1 ,000 persons to
on May 17 in a
or unity in behalf of
rights; the continuing
rtgaiion of the schools
added another 50,000 to
3.0,000 Negro school children
w:..i were already
classes In desegregated
systems; the mass refusal
Negro citizens in Tuskegee,
bama, to purchase
goods of local merchants after
city officials had redrawn
city lines to exclude all but
ten of the city's 400
Negro voters.
LJcewise of great
was tne declaration by 74
teatant clergymen in
calling lor compliance with
law, preservation oi tne
schools, ireedom ol speecb
tne reopening of
tions between tne races.
action by the city's
ciergjmsn indicated the
emergence oi the long
voice of moderation in
South. Gn tne political front
similar expression of
tion may be found in the
cipal election in Little Rock
Nov. 6. In that election
one of seven
candidates was elected to
city’s new Board of
although the maintenance
segregation was made the
1 issue in the campaign.
“moderates” were elected.
On the debit side,
of the NAACP as an
tion was continued
the passage of new laws
Arkansas and Texas to force
to disclose the names and
dresses of its members.
ever, the Texas law passed
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tearing white family who approved of
fus geuing such learning as he eouid in
tne ivrissuun Community where he was
bom and later encouraged him to go
through high school.
Tne lad took the name of this kind
family which once owned him and con¬
tinued to lurther his education by grad-
gating Irani Simpson College at Kansas
( ity. Later he went to Iowa State Col-
kge where he studied agriculture, going
lrom there to Tuskegee Institute where
he became head of the department of
agriculture, which post he held until his
death in 1043.
It was in nis laboratory at Tuskegee
where he achieved greatness as a chem¬
ist and scientist, making important dis¬
coveries in commercial uses of farm
products and developing several score
methods oi' using the peanut on which
a large and varied industry is now based.
Although known mostly for his de¬
velopment of the uses of the peanut,
there were numerous uses of other ag¬
ricultural products which he developed,
among them being experiments on the
swat t potato from which were made
flour, breakfast foods, coffee, candy,
'dyes, ink, schboFblacking and scores of
other by-products. From the clay of
Alabama he produced paint of valuable
lumiuoim duality* Valuable uses of
other agricultural products were the re
n’t of his. laboratory work.
Dr. Carver was wedded to his work at
Tuskegee and refused to be lured away
by the Edison Laboratory of New Jersey
which once offered him a yearly salary
o; $175,000. The Russian government
once tried to employ his services at a
bibulous salary, but he preferred to con¬
tinue work in his laboratory w-here he
said.he might be of further service to
his race in its struggle for economic in¬
dependence.
only one vote and early in the
year the legislatures of both
Florida art! North Carolina re-
lused to pass such laws.
Aaso o.i the deoit s.de, cer¬
tain buu.neni states, notably
u.orgij, .ussjssippi. an^. Aau„
tniu iu ive announced their
»ute*4>vio‘n to sy^opt more rp-
-,*r.ciiv.e tests lor prospective
i voieis so as. to circumvent the
1 ‘* tw Civa law auc ^ yre "
! vei1 ^ Die registration of Negro
biuzens. m contrast, Negio
- iU sens appear ID be experi-
! LU more than the usual
! d.iiicuuies in the South Caro-
; ia * a ata.e-wide re-registration
^mpaign now in progress.
A ‘ is “>
througnoui the Deep
oOutn states states by by continuing
i>ri,ncunvcments by impoitan,t
political and public personages
counseling deiiance or the Fed-
\ ra i juthciary. the White House,
-t ad tUl dissenters rrom tne
segregation doctrine. Threats
| and violence are thus en-
‘ ^^ef 'is^argc^Vb'onib * ^ J bomb * as
t.p.oditi ^ ort at tin home of a
wmte Sou.h Carolina woman of
an old and respected family
n.p.y because site wrote an
article mildiy advocating a mod-
crate appro^h to the issue.
Despite these and other
manifestations of resistance,
the new year is certain to see
more charges in the old order.
The hard core will probably
remain for some time, but'both
; ts area and influence are
j being reduced. The inescapable
i lact i. s .l)at ,he New South will
i i c'c. be able to realize its P° _
i tential if nine millions of its
citizens „ are , held ,, in . segregated , ,
second-class citizenship. citizenship. The
other inescapable fact is that
at this stage in world history
the United States cannot af¬
ford to perpetuate second-class
citizenship based upon color.
?LANS MADE FOR
MARCH OF DIMES
(Continued from Page One)
Coiored Parents and qeacners, , ,
Mrs. Caia oyner an rs -
Frenchye Bynes.
The local t hairman Reports |
that the 1958 campaign would
be conducted chiefly for the
care and mm rehabilitation k-.«viuwuvu of w j
thousands of post-acute polio
lia ti en ts In the United States
j-qj. whom “survival is dra-1 not
en0U g b she reports that
Ina tic new advances in the
field of rehabilitation n o w
make it posslble f( >r many per-
SQns whose horizons once
, 3 ^ retchcd no fur ther than a
1 Chair ° r an ir0n lung to
return to useful daily living.”
“Rehabilitation is long drawn-
out> cxpensive and is becoming
tnore costly each year. The
3<100 local chapters of the Na-
tional Fou ndation across the
country now are spending 90,
er cent oi their funds for pa-1
Rents stricken before 1957. 1
even though the Sa.k vaccine
'Mb drastkaljv reduced the
n unifier of cases this year,
. <In addition to the costly pa-
tient care program .the 1958
March of Dimes will seek eon-
tinued support for its profes-
sional education program, and
t0 carry out an expanded
search program,” she said.
Persons interested in volun-
leering time and service to
this extremely worthy
may contact Mr. Jack Stiles, by
cOTing Elgin 5-2581 or Mrs.
Mildred Hutchins, at Adams
3-0553 for further information.
Civic organizations. Social clubs
and individual citizens are urg¬
ed to join in the March of
Dimes. Join in the March
now.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
Harriman Warns “There Can Be
No Compromise On Democrats
1950 (.’It Platform”
NEW YORK CITY (ANP>—
Gov. Harriman of New York
warned Democrats Monday
there can be no compromise”
on the party’s civil rights plat
form in the 1960 presidential
campaign.
Even a Southern split from
the Democratic party, Harri-
man declared, ‘‘will have to be
faced in preference to a com-
promise of the party’s basic
orinciples."
The Governor’s remarks an-
peared in an interview publish-
Charge Bahama, British Airline
With Bias Toward Jamaicans
By Vvilbert L. Hemming
1-or AN 4*
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jim
Crow Banana* hotc.s ami Brit-
ish Overseas Airways Corpora-
non, joined hands firmiy re-
centiy to discriminate against
colored Jamaicans who rode
dual's speed-birds in the trek
to Britain.
According to a report carried
in the NASSAU HERALD, 74
Jamaican passengers, six of
infants, were denied food
and adequate hotel aceommo-
dation for a number of hours
while the BGAC-plane on
which they were traveling, was
held up in Nassau.
The passengers said they had
to sit up all night in the air-
port while repairs were being
done to the plane which de-
Negro Tide
Flows North
NEW YORK CITY (ANPl
Three million Negroes have mi-
North since 1940,
cording to Newsweek magazine
which describes the northern
migration of the Negro as one
of the greatest population shift.
in the history a shift as hist jr-
ic as the great trek West. Tn
1900. only 10 percent of the
Negro population lived outside
the South; today, 40 oer cent.
•
do , (and , , an average of ^ 1.400 ’
more „ are arriving . . monthly ...
in
„r New York, 2 000 in Cnicago. . |
1.700 in in t/« Los Angeles, «n»i« And ann no
major slowdown in the migra¬
tion is let in sic-ht
The shift story in charts the big the race northern bal- |
ance
cities and says, “This vast
movement is creating equally
vast changes in the social, cul-
tural 1 .economic, and political
complexicn of the nation . .
creating tensions and prob-
iems that never existed before,
As Negro lea ders themselves
are the first to point out, the
which the migrants i
find haven are quickly beset by
problems deeply rooted in the
relatively low economic and so-
Tlfrn THERE _ \l ILL . BE __ NO TIME TO RELAX ,, IN THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
I
ir t I
a,-:’ ( / jgj **)
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i. *: 'W ».
w-M f S
Al-
ed in the new issue of Look
’Magazine, I
"I have doubt that the ,
no
Democratic party’s 1960 plat-
lorm will contain a strong civ- 1
.1 rights plank, including sup-
port of school integration in
accordance with the Supreme
Court decision and Federal dis-
trict court orders, and that the
national Democratic candidates
will stand unequivocably for
co al rights for all,” he told
look. i
velcped engine trouple. It al-
so had a blown tire.
“Dinner “Dlhn.T was was provided provided for
them al ihe airport restaurant
after they d s.mbarked at 7
0 clock that night, but they did,
not eat again until 10 o’clock
the following morning. The
j x infants had to go without
food,” su'd the newspaper, “un-
were transported to lo
cal hoteh wlth their Parents.”
Moaned Mr. Kenneth Wil-
iJ ams, a Jamaican passenger,
vve never oelore had such an
experience. In Jamaica, we
heard how Negroes were treat-
ed hi Hie (Bahamas, .'tout we
never expected such treatment
from BOAC. ’
Nassau’s EOAC manager, Ben
W.ggett, confirmed the report,
He said: “Efforts were made
cial standaids of their people,
ine Linux lowers scholastic
standards in the schools. . . Un-
doinabiy, too, far more Negroes
man wliites are public charges.
but the migrant leaveshis firm-
est imprint on the housing
projlcm because it is the one
tiiat is already the most acute
m evei y c ^y by time he
gets there ... If white families
were not mov t n g to the suburbs
- n un p rece< j en ted. numbers, the
rac .j a i tensions created by the
hjuslng bottleneck alone would
be f ar W o rs e than they are.”
Newsweek „ , says. ' “A , _ serious re¬
could destioy . , the ..
cession un-
easy peace overnight,
“Same are driven North by
status motivates otliers. By
j a the biggest force however '
ls economic. Nationally, aver-
age family incomes of Negroes
su n run only little more than •
half that of whites. . Negroes
have not yet gone far in U. S.
poetics, but the migration
northward is strengthening
their hand. Although 10 per
cent of the nation’s population
is colored .only three out of 435 i
More Negro 1
congressmen are. .
congressmen from Philadelphia,!
Baltimore, Cleveland, and Saint I
Louis—perhaps a total of ten
within ten years—are a certain-
Harriman, a possible Demo-
cratic candidate In 1930, cau-
Honed the South agains. . 4 u bol.- lt j
from the P arty - P° intin S
0Ut \ajl at P ^ sW ° nt Um f n ™^'
in 1946 with0Ut tb the p electoral t
StateS , , , |
‘I
“And Truman didn’t Piave
such states as New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mi¬
chigan, where our 1960 chances
look pretty good right now in
the light of recent elections,”
Harriman said.
to get the big hotels to accept,
the Jamaicans, but none would |
take them.” He added: ‘‘The,
Jarrf icans were later taken to
hotels in the southern district
- £ he Negro section.”
It was not the first time that
POAC Airways failed to treat
its Negro passengers well. It
had happened before, and the
Jamaica Government howled
about it.
On this occasion .the HER- |
ALD has called upon the Ja-
maica Government to act. “It
is the clear duty of the Gov-j
ernment of Jamaica to inves- j
Overseas Airways Corporation.” j
.
The Jamaica Government in- 1
timated it would go into the
i ssue - 1
!
ty . . The Negro influence will
gain, steadily,” the magazine
predicts.
£ BILL PACED
^nnrorcc AUbKIJJ Ur c
NEGRO IN 1957
CHICAGO (ANPi__The b g-
gest advance of the year for thp
American Negro came from
Congress in 1977 when the first
civil rights bill since Recon-
construction was passed .ac-
cording to the annual
progress report published each ■
wear in the January issue of;
EBONY Magazine.
School Integration preceded 1
without incident in some areas
while in others violence and I
hatred flared. The infamous,
Dittle iernational Rock incident attention, gained and in- j
re-
suited in the stationing of fed-
eral tr oops in the city,
At the year’s end, 751 school
distreits out of 2,985 in south-
ern and border states had de-
segregated. West Virginia be-
came the first state to end
segregation in all of its dis-
tricts. On the college level, in-
tegration was proceeding in
increasingly large numbers.
According to EBONY, the
dominant influence of the year
was the mood of the Negro,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1938
U. S. Starts Survey on Future
Scientists, Mathematicians
X^r?utu« ^rop^of
and mathematicians
be forecast more accurate-
as the result of a nation-
wide survey-the first of Its
d _ now being conducted by
, he u s Office of Education,
.
About 1,1.00 colleges and uni-
versities have been been invited invited to
participate in a tally of college
majoring majoring in science and
mathematics. More than 600
these institutions have as¬
sisted in protesting the survey
quesionnaire, which has been
developed during the past
year
Lawrenc° G. Derthick, U. S.
Cunmissioner of Education,
aid in announcing the study,
will give us a two-year
EEKS 3 PROFESSION-
41 ^ FOR HR STAFF
Philadelphia, Pa—The Com-
mission on Human Relations
--
announced here Thursday that
it is seeking qualified appli¬
cants to fill vacancies on its
professional staff. George
executive director,
two Field Representatives
and a Research Analyist will
added to the staff shortly
the beginning of the new
According to Schermcr,
Lojpniission is enlarging its
'to meet increased de-
for community services,
community and political
leaders met with Mayor Dil-
worth and the commission in
October and urged the Com-
to provide more ser-
vices to ease and control com-
tensions.
At that time, the Commission
the community spokes-
nen with a “10-Point Pro-
for Citizen Action in Hu-
man Relations” that spells out
positive steps individuals and
groups can take to
help promote ,a peaceful and
secure city. The Commission
agreed to give as much assist¬
ance as possible to community
efforts in this'regard and sev¬
eral groups and organizations
already taken advantage
oi this offer.
Salaries tor the position of
Field Representative range
from $5045—$6 j 37 and that lor
Analyst from 15527-
Final crate for making
applications for examinations
for both positions is December
All interested persons j are
urged to seek additional infor¬
mation and application forms
in Room 127, City Hall.
which; was reflected in the
Prayer Pilgrimage, the
ciggest civil rights demonstra-
tion ever staged by American
Negroes.
Other advances in the EBONY
report of Negro progress includ-
ed sports where Althea Gibson
eecame the first Negro to win
major women’s tennis titles,
and Hank Aaron who led the
vlilwaukee Braves to their first
lennant. In politics Archi-
laid Carey Jr., was named
ihairman of the President’s
Committee- on Government Em-
ployment Policy. Several Ne-
jroes were elected to new city
council posts.
For Negro actors and enter¬
tainers 1957 was a banner year,
including starring movie roles,
broadway musicals, and in tel¬
evision, Nat “King” Cole (be¬
came the first Negro to have
a .^ponsoicd half liuor televi.
sion show. >
In the military Brigadier Gen-
Benjamin o. Davis, Jr.,
the fiist and only Negro
eral officer in the u .S. Air
Force became chief of staff of
the 12th Air Force in Gernta-
’
~
oreenbriar 1 hanks i
Christmas Donors
We wish to sincerely thank
the many individuals and or-
garizations who made Christ-
mas a pleasant and happy
experience for the boys and
girls at Greenbriar, through
and projects.
Again our very special thanks
the families who opened
homes and accepted chil¬
for a real “home-like
The Greenbriar Board and
Staff
potential'^supplv of schists
and mathematician.. ouch
knowledge is urgently needed
by educators and others in
planning the nation s education-
ai pregrams.”
The Questionnaire Rovers
physical science, general astron-
chemistry, metallurgy,
-, ge6logy,
meterology, physics,
geophysics, earth oceanography,^ sciences and 'phsi- and
other
cal sciences. ,,
The biological sciences in¬
clude general biology, tidtany,
zoology, anatomy and .histol¬
ogy, bacteriology, 'biochemistry,
biophysics, entomology, genet-
ics, phsiology, plant pathology,
plant physiology, and other bi-
ological sciences. Jr.
MRS. EARLINE S. SMITH
DIES SUDDENLY
N TEXAS
(Continued from Page one)
±<ancy Simmons. She at-
tended the local public elemen¬
tary schools. She was well
xaown for her fetes in para
as a majorette with the
mens Drum Corp. She receiv-
ed the bachelor of arts degree
lege and the Masters degree
rom " l ‘ m '
was an instructor‘ in the fine
, an > ccparnun 1
moved to Marshall, Texas with
her husband, Dr. James A.
Smith, a pharmacist. At the
time of her death she was an
instructor in the Fine Arts De¬
partment at Wiley College in
Marshall, Texas.
Mrs. Smith was a member of
; the First Congregational
! church from childhood. She
< was also a mem,bet of the Al-
pha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
The deceased is surviVted toy
her father, A. b. Simmons; a
sister. Mrs. Essie M. Cohen of
New York City; and a Hfbther-
ir-law. William T. CoH&i of
New York city; two maternal
cunts. Mrs. Annie Thompson of
Wash ; n"tori, p. o.. and Mrs.
] Merv white of Tamna, Fin,;
1 •”-><4 fo«r cousins. Mrs. Ludpil
: FPher of Atlanta: Mrs.
1 of Atlanta;
, mormop wobb of fit. Al-
'’1”' N. V - orr) M r R.wWelen
Zanders of Wvandanchp'N. Y.
r 8
THOUSANDS OF POLIO
(Continued from Page One)
January 2. 1
In the 20-year period.At not
only sponsored the research that
; ; ed to crea tj on of the Salk vac-
I cine bu t a t so fi nan ced the care
| of 325 000 polio patients .
. >The end of the era of epi _
i c i em ij c po lio,” said Basil O’Con-
I nor> preside nt of the National
Foundation, “marks the begin-
n j ng of an even more j mp0 rt-
| ant> broader , more challenging
erg of achieV ement for the
March of Dimes The rehabiI .
itatlon o{ polio patients is the
first step toward the greater
goa j >» 1
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? AnpreciatlOIl * . . ~ I
11 0
USCS Volunteers
December 30, 1957
Dear Division IV Volunteers:
I wish to take this oppor¬
tunity to thank each of you
for the fine cooperation and
loyalty you bestowed upon me
as your chairman during the
recen t United Community Ap-
peal. You did a wonderful
jab and I would like to per¬
| sonally shake each of you by
the hand and say “Well done.”
However, I hope this letter con-
veys to you the pride and grat-
itude I feel for your part as
volunteer in the 1957-58 Appeal.
Last year the accounts we
handled produced $ 4 , 702 . 12 , and
this year we raised $5,231.54,
which exceeded our goal of 10', 0
increase by one per cent,
11 has been an h °nor for me
to serve as Division IV chair-
man and 1 P ray that a11 who
hel P ed in such a grand fashion
will be ready when the bell
sounds next Fall.
Should you have additional
reports which need to be turn¬
ed in, please leave them at the
West Broad Y. M. C. A.
Sincerely yours,
Sadie L. Cartledge
Chairman, Division TV