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PAGE poua the favaromh: tribune. Established 1170 tots. WILLA A. JOHNSON Editor A Publisher EZRA JOHNSON Promotion A Adv. Rep. PUBLISHED EVERY THUR SDAY 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Dial ADams 4-3432 ADams 4-3433 f P* — • — •••--•" 11 1 1 .....■ ""TT- Subscription Rates In Advance One v Year.............................. „ ar $4.12 Blx Months..............................$3.00 Single Copy .10 e^i^s-^==r=:. g ■- .--== =--;r—.....r-— Remittance must be made by Express, Post Office Money Order or Registered Mall. Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Savannah, Georgia NEGRO PRESS NEEDED (From the Cincinnati Herald) In spite of the daily newspapers, radio, and television the need for a minority newspaper is apparent. With few exceptions it is almost impos¬ sible to get all news of Negro activities in the daily papers. This is understandable because of the large amount of world wide news events, a wealth of local hap¬ penings and the fact that Negroes com¬ prise approximately 10 percent of the circulation. Negro newspapers, the majority of them published on a weekly basis, have the time and the space to devote to the affairs of their readers. Also Negro week¬ ly newspapers will go more into details of a news story. The dailies don't have the spac£ or the inclination, unless Negroes commit crimes involving white people- Then scan* head-lines' become the vogue and circulation increases. EDITORIAL OPINION FROM THE NATION’S PRESS Compiled Associated Developments on the African continent continue to command wide editorial ex¬ pression in the American press. Printed below are editorial excerpts from several leading American dailies: COURIER JOURNAL, Louisville, Kv- “IT WOULD BE A HAPPY DAY for the,world should the Soviet Union and the Wests Big I’hree be able to agree on rationing arms and supplies to Africa’s new nations, as urged by British Prime Minister iiuroki Macmillan." MrtUNL\<; NEWS, Wilmington. Del. “We hail Togo as it joins the world’s community freedom!” of nations. Long may it live in TIMES, New York City ... “The incredible march of these states to independence does not, of course, mean that they will simultaneously achieve real freedom, for real freedom can come only with far greater political, economic and cultural development than they have yet achieved. And this is precisely where our own country can and must help them: not only with money but with moral and spiritual support, given freelv without ulterior motive am! without political ties.” THE NEWS. Detroit “Moral generalities are not the whole ‘AGE OF THE SHODDY ' (From (he American Press) Our generation may go down in his¬ tory as "the Age of the Shoddy,” if we don’t watch out. In Allen Drury’s best-selling novel, “Ad¬ vise and ( onsent," he refers to the time when the job on the car was half finish¬ ed, the suit vatiU' back Irom the cleaners half dirty, the bright new gadget broke down a week after you got it home.” Obviously, he is referring to what America is like today — and editors, preachers, ( ongressmen and even adver¬ tising people are suddenly using his term* Age of the Shoddy." as a springboard tor sermons, speeches and editorials against the half-baked way we do things these days. to add our two-cents we would like to recall the story ot a friend of ours who bought a second-hand Marmon automobile thirty years ago. While examining the engine, he said, he found a little hole with some words beneath it. He cleaned the grime away and read: “Oil here everv 100,000 miles.” We suppose the Marmon people went out of business because they made an automobile which lasted too long. They were unable to get into the “keep the customer dissatisfied” spirit which is the basis ot business success today. What would happen to our economy if cars were made so that we were as happy with our “new model' five years from now, as now? What disasters would occur in the market place il nylon stockings were made so they couldn’t run, if tires Mr. Josey To Speak (Continued from Page Ore) lumbia Univ. Journalism New York Public Library, and Free Library of Philadelphia. Josey has been instructor of sciences. Savannah State (tyo l-bo): librarian, State College (1953-59); and National Advertising Representative* ZTsTrZt New York 3d. New York M W. Washington 8t. Chicago 2, 111. **"*"- " ' '! ""i ........— — ------------- --------- L. Whaley-Simpson 1 f r - Robert Whaley Company 6008 Selma Ave _Los Angeles 28, California Mr. Gordon Simpson Whaley-Simpson Company 8a n ■J- 1 — .. — ---- — -- JtfWi Hk A Negro affair has to be outstanding in order to get more than a line or two in the daily paper. The weekly newspaper, reaching this vast, almost untouched, Ne¬ gro market, gives the reader news he just can’t get anywhere else. The “other" side of the story is presented. Facts which sel¬ dom appear in the daily papers, are dug up and presented to the Negro newspaper public. is, Important far as the Negro weekly paper too many Negroes fail to realize this and often by-pass the opportunity to get their story across to the people who support their affairs. Kven if we weren’t in the field of jour¬ nalism, we would feel the same way . . The Negro . press is needed . . . and needed badly. It is worthy of the support of the people it serves. That’s our opinion . . . what’s yours? answer to political expedient to maintain control by three million whites of 11 mil¬ lion non whites. It is no more than that although its theorists have attired them¬ selves in the apparel of divine ahd moral missionaries shouldering the white man’s burden.” THE TRIBUNE, Chicago “People who recognize their interde¬ pendence cannot forever tolerate deliber¬ ate widening of the legal and cultural gap between them. In these troubled times, mole and more South Africans are being brought to realize that their country is, to quote the Natal Daily News once more, “within the conventions irrevocably in¬ tegrated.” "The frozen rigidity of apartheid has been shaken; "the old book” (as Mr Sauer himself has said) is closed." THE SUN, Baltimore In answer to a question about plans for Nvasaland’s economy, should it be¬ come liist, self-governing but I)r. Banda hedged at as the question was pressed he said. “Let me do the .thing and make mv own mess.” This was the new Africa speaking: it would prefer to be rich and efficient to being poor and muddled, but m any case it wants to do the job itself, come what made to outlast a car, if our electrical gad¬ gets were built to live for years beyond their guarantee period? Maybe we’ll find out. Ted Repplier, head of The Advertis¬ ing council, says there is building up in America “a restlessness with present stan¬ dards.” “A good many people,” he says, “are getting fed up with dishonesty and phoniness." adver¬ He suggests that the power of tising might be utilized to overcome our nation’s “ethical shabbiness.” We hope he gets the backing he needs to give this a try. We can picture adver¬ tising which could re-awaken pride in workmanship, which would help to tough¬ en our moral fiber, which would give Americans a new kind of “brain-wash¬ ing” — the kind that involves cleansing instead of poisoning. And to compliment such a program, we would like to see individual advertisers shift away from shouting half-truths about their products and boast, instead, about the integrity of their operations — their desire to serve, rather than fool, the people. with Mr. Repplier that We agree peo¬ ple are getting “fed up.” They have found that soft, easy living isn’t all it was cracked up to be. A little prodding, and Mr. Repplier, with the backing of national advertisers,'might find that he is sudden¬ ly leading a band wagon movement to¬ ward a better America. been in his present position July 1, 1959. While in Delaware, Mr. was active in professional zations. He was the first to edit the Delaware Library sociation Bulletin. As a of the Delaware State ment of Public Instruction. Librarian Certification Committee, Mr. Josey was ; to sen e at recorder of that He is now Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the Sa¬ vannah State College Research Committee. Mr. Josey's professional affilia¬ tions include the American Lib¬ rary Association, American As¬ sociation of University Professors, Association of College and Re¬ search Libraries and the Georgia Teachers and Education Associa¬ tion. He is the author of several articles in professional periodi¬ cals. THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Hate Groups and Segregationists Not Be Permitted To Debase Her . . . - State-Wide Activities lor Armed Forces Day will be ob¬ served in 30 towns throughout Georgia with special displays, open houses and demonstrations spon¬ sored by local active duty, reserve and National Guard units of the Air Force and Army. The Air Force will sponsor air¬ craft displays at Athens, Bain- bridge, Moultrie, Macon, Savannah, Albany and Valdosta. Army unit- will conduct observances at Alma, Bnrnesville, Cartersville, town, Dahlonega, Dalton, las, Gainesville, Uoganvi]le, chester, McRae, Millen, AX ARMY HONEST JOHN ROCKET, recently fired at Fort Stewart during Exercise Columbia Cliff, roars into the sky. Visitors U. S. Steel Foundation NEW YORK — The United States Steel Foundation has an- nounced a gift-of $43,000 to Negro colleges for the 1960-01 academic year. Of this amount, $33,000 has been earmarked for schools of the United Negro Col¬ lege Fund. The remainder will go to ten additional Class-A colleges. Those schools not members of the Fund which will receive $1,000 each include: Allen University, Columbia, S. C.; Claflin College, Orangeburg, S. C.; Florida Nor¬ mal Institute, St. Augustine, Fla.; Jarvis Christian, Hawkins, Texas; Oakwood College, Huntsville, Ala.; Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Daniel Payne and Miles Colleges, both in Birmingham; Selma Col¬ lege, Selma, Ala.; and Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas. The 43 Negro schools are among a total of 71(1 institutions aided by the Steel Foundation this year. To- Democratic and Republican KANASAS CITY. Mo., (ANP) -National chairmen of the Demo¬ cratic and Republican parties dis¬ agreed last week about the effect of Negro sitdown demonstrations in the South. Paul Butler, the Democrat, de¬ scribed the demonstrations as "a healthy reaction to an un-Ameri¬ can situation.” Sen. Thruston Morton, the Ken- lucky Republican, tailed them “un fortunate.” Thomaston, Tifton and Toccoa. National Guard units at Ameri- cus, Cordele, Elberton, Forsyth, Sparta, Sandersville and Thomson will open their armories to the public. In addition, 34 communities will witness flyovers of Air Force air- craft during the week, beginning Sunday, May 15, at Athens and ending the following Sunday at Gainesville. J’lanes for the fly¬ overs will come from the 1 IGth Air National Guard Wing and the >1 lath Reserve Troop Carrier VV inn, both stationed at Dobbins. to the post’s Armed Forces Day “Open House,” Saturday, May 21, will see the latest in Army equip¬ ment. gether with special grants, the program totals $2,667,000. In an- nourtcing the gifts, Roger M. j Blough, chairman of the U. S. | Steel Foundation’s board of trus- tees, said; “The program is directed to¬ ward specific efforts for the im¬ provement of educational quality and toward encouraging all seg¬ ments of the public to increase their support of the Nation’s edu¬ cational facilities.” The grant to the United Negro College Fund aids that unit’s at¬ tempt to secure upward of $2,000,- 000 this year for the support of 33 colleges all, except one, located in the South. The 1960 drive of the UNCF has already been launched in approximately 50 industrial and metropolitan areas' under the chairmanship ternationally of known Bruce advertising! Barton, in-J i executive and author. Butler and Morton traded charges in a regional telecast spon- j sored by Rockhurst College. “I think the sit-in maneuvers are a most healthy and typical American reaction to an un-Amer¬ ican situation,” Butler said. Republican the 1 arty should not en- j ter field of "human rights,” I but that all citizens should realize ' the lights of others as citizens.” ties on a ba¬ of racial segrega- llon. Direction By J. REDDICK Love Seek's The Whole Story It is not hard to discover there are no two persons cal in every detail. Although identical twins may appear to a contradiction to this j most ences anyone between can the discover two by j observation. 1 his should | * ds the i °^ m, " superior of God. Our differences are complete and consistent to be accident. Behind this creation a noble purpose. There are those who are of persons who do not think they think, who do nut act as act, or do not look like Many of us have a pattern cut out in our minds before meet people how they should i act, look as well as have qualities that we like. When meet those who do not fit patterns, we are repellent to and either refuse their tions or place them under scrutiny before we hesitantly cept them. I read the story of “The Men and the ( Elephant” when was a boy. It throws much on this subject. There was a town consisting blind people. They were that on a certain day an was coming through their A group of the men went to convenient place in the path of elephant and waited for him. purpose was to examine him report to the rest of the what the elephant was like. the elephant came, each man amined one part of the body. The one who examined trunk reported that “He’s like rope.” The one who examined cars reported that “lie’s like fan.” 'The one who examined side reported, “He’s like a Other reports were similar. one had the whole story, but report was important in the tal description of the elephant determining the whole truth of matter. Each one of us sees from our position. We think, look and from a certain position. No of us can have the whole unless we concern ourselves in of the stories. Other tions may seem trifle to us they are important when we searching for truth or the story. A scriptural reference that gives light to this assertion: I i ans > 13:4-5. We must have love for in order for us to consider tastes, talents, cultures or ever qualities that others may have along with ours and not just substitute our own for the whole story or the truth. One person in a home, one group in a munity, one club in a church or one country in a world or part of anything does not the whole truth for the rest the other parts and is a very substitute for the whole story the truth. If we have love others we seek the other parts t j ie s j, ory f rom them without udiee. Love is the only quality that suivive the test. As Shakespeare Sonnet 116 states: Love alter- not with liic hours and wqeks, 2>o Drops This column has no illusions that what it has said about anything was the last word, the only word that could be said; that it could whip up a frenzy that could sum¬ mon people to action, impulsive or | otherwise. The remote hope has , existed that what appeared here would be like a mustard seed, or just seed, that might fall some¬ where and start to grow. Actual¬ ly, as it must be known by now, this column has borne out the con¬ viction that there are many things within our power to do that we are not doing, things that would improve our status socially, polit- cally and economically. The pan¬ orama of events of a decade or so have done nothing to alter this conviction. Rather, it has deep¬ ened the conviction. It is grati¬ fying to know that a few read¬ ers have found the column inter¬ esting. It may not be amiss to review what the column has talked about so far to see if it measured up to the simple criterion set at the beginning: Some of Us make a lot of fuss about first-class citizenship, how¬ ever we find it exceedingly diffi¬ cult to get Negro citizens (?) to see the importance of becoming registered so as to play their part in the first duties of citizenship. Nobody or nothing in Chatham County has, within the last 14 years, been able to get anything like sustained interest going in this | ! I Between The Lines R}’ Dean Gordon I>. Hancock lor ANJ j THAT BRITISH ROYALTY j Thjs wr ; ter is unalterably I bitterly opposed to the , i and traditions of a royalty upon the accident of birth. crimes and shames have been mitted in the name of through many generations, and sooner the notion of a based upon birth is banished the minds of men, the better. But as royalty goes, that royalty is tops and royalty in | British tradition has fascinating about it. The marriage of Princess Margaret Anthony Armstrong Jones, a moner, for instance. It was a geous affair, viewed from angle. In other words that loyalty is royalty at its best. garet deported herself like 1 daughter of a king. If the generation of Englishmen compelled to imitate their Margaret, they will have | manners. She has set the world a great example in great decisions. When the time came for her decide whether to live true to British tradition or forget thing except her own wishes lived up a great tradition, though it meant the crucifixion of her heart’s desires. She thought not so much of self, but her loyalty’s great tra¬ dition. Unlike so many other roy¬ alties who are too well known by their scandals and escapades, the British royalty is known for its sobriety and decency and courtly living. The world will wish Margaret well for she has blessed the world with one of its finest examples of stalwart character. She is for¬ tunately not an example of the Hollywood tradition with its dollar royalty, where husband and wife swapping has become disgustingly nauseating to decent people. It is thus a great relief to have British royalty set an example of exemplary living that is a blessing to our day and generation. There is no better example of the integrity of British royalty than the casting out of their Duke of Windsor with his Wallis Simpson. They simply let him go his way and today he is one of the world’s most pitiful creatures. He broke a British tradition and Britain broke with him and that is as it should have been. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” Our Past This Week May 15, 1918—Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, outstanding Negro heroes of World War I, killed 20 Germans during bloody hand to hand struggle. May 16, 1860—Abraham Lincoln selected by Republicans as their presidential candidate at national convention in Chicago. SATURDAY, MAY, 21, 1300 i all-important matter of registering | and voting. Even many of those who register fail to vote when election time comes. Probably this failure to vote caused them to lose the chance of a lifetime to elect a Negro to city council. Also, it was pointed out that the rate of crime committed by Ne¬ groes was all out of proportion to the ratio of the Negro popula¬ tion to the whole population in the nation; that here in this country, for instance, we are not support¬ ing as we should such organiza¬ tions as the Boy Scouts. A year or so ago there were estimated to have been 5,000 boys in this area to whom scouting was denied because there were not enough sponsoring institutions and not enough men willing to give the needed leadership. A similar lack is to be noted in certain phases of our recreational needs. One week the column was de¬ voted to discussing the importance of home life as it contributed to the upbringing and to the devel¬ opment of socially efficient citi¬ zens. For the last two weeks the col¬ umn talked about two movements that have proved helpful to people whose earnings place them in the low and middle income brackets. They were the Consumer Coopera¬ tive and the Credit Union. There will be more about these move¬ ments next week. When Princess Margaret had to decide between her own wishes and those of an empire, she made the decision as a king’s daughter should have done. It is safe to say that when the then King Edward gave up a throne to marry below the British royalty level, he proved himself the sorriest in a long royal line. The integrity of the British royalty is shown by their per¬ sistence in rejecting the navt.lor- gotten Duke of Windsor. As loyal¬ ty goes we repeat, that British Royalty is tops. What the British royalty has done for Europe and the world by its stern moral integrity, the Fords and the Rockefellers are doing for this country. Money simply does not make a fool of a Ford of a Rockefeller. The Fords and the Rockefellers handle their money and do not let their money handle them. But we must be fair in stating that the best method of training men to handle money is by handling it. It is almost to be expected that the newly rich will have its head turned by money. The Fords and the Rockefellers have been hand¬ ling money a long time and they have learned the “knack.” Money is more liable to make fools of the newly rich. So with that British royalty, they have been royal so long, that they have learned the art of being royal— the Duke of Windsor excepted. There is a lesson here for all. Honors and prosperity must not turn our heads which are essential thinking machines. The sooner mankind gets over the notion of a royalty based on the accident of birth the better. But until that time, long live the British royalty. When the writer was traveling in Europe many years ago, he was impressed with the palace of Fred¬ erick the great at Potsdam with its 800 rooms. Kaiser the First went down the hill and built a palace with 1200 rooms. Down at Vienna the Hapsburgs built the Schonebrun castle with its 1500 rooms, while the French Louis the IV built the palace at Versailles with its 1800 rooms. These palaces were for the roy¬ alties and the sight of these ancient royalties prejudiced me against all royalty—and forever. Let’s have a royalty of character. Down with loyalties of blood; up with royalties of character! ■ May 17, 1954—Supreme Court I of the United States ruled that j racial ported segregation in publicly sup- 1, schools is unconstitutional. May 18, 1924 — Cornerstone of Morris Memorial building laid in Nashville, Tenn. May 19, 1746 — Toussaint L’- Overture, Haitian patriot and statesman, born. May 20, 1927 — Charles A. Lind¬ bergh left New York in single engine plane on epic non-stop flight to Paris. May 21, 1883 — Oberlin college announces acceptance of Negroes as students.