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To Vote Is the Sacred Duty of All Citizens
There are many excellent reasons for
voting. But perhaps the greatest of
these is that the voter will feel better
for having cast his ballot- Whatever
excuses he may make for not voting are
unlikely to convince himself. lie may
find it more comfortable to be too lazy,
or more important to be too busy, or more
evasive to be too indifferent.
But when he glances at the clock, and
knows that the hour has passed and the
polls have closed, he cannot escape the
dismal awareness that he left his right
unused.
And a rigkrt that has been left unused
is a duty that has been rejected. The
Negro citizen of Savannah who fails to
Editorial Opinion from The Nation’s Press
by the Associated Negro Press
Here are examples of editorials in the
nation’s leading papers on subjects of cur¬
rent interest:
AFRICA
JOURNAL, Milwaukee
“When the United Nations assembly
convenes Sept. 20 it will confront a secu¬
rity recommendation th:p the Republic
of the Congo be granted UN membership.
“Unless conditions in the Congo im¬
prove radically by that date the assembly
would be inexcusably in error if it ap¬
proved the recommendation.”
POST-I) 1SP ATI I, St. Louis
“The Congo in all probability will be
only the first phase of the United Na¬
tions’ mission in Africa. While Dag Ham-
marskjold was being upheld in his re¬
fusal td intervene in Hie feud between
Lumumba and the Katanga secessionists,
the Mali Federation came apart at the
seams, and another Algerian debate was
put on the U.N. Assembly agenda.
“The trouble is that the new African
states are the successors to colonies ar¬
bitrarily created by the European pow¬
ers. Some do not even approximate tri¬
bal alignments. A handful of educated
natives may be trying to establish order¬
ly governments, but it may be beyond
their power to overcome demagogic ap¬
peals to ancient rivalries, or to moderate
unwarranted expectations as to the first
fruits of freedom.”
ADVERTISER, Montgomery, Ala.
“The vogue in liberal circles is to as¬
cribe all failures of colored peoples, wher¬
ever and whenever they don’t measure up,
to the inadequate tutelage they have re¬
ceived from the white man.
“Joseph E. Evans, writing in The Wall
Street Journal, slashes away at this fool¬
Where The Crusade Should Begin
(From the Oklahoma Eagle)
We have heard by now, that the crusade
to beat down the wall of partition that
keeps the Negro minority divided from
the rest of the nation has turned momen¬
tarily from restaurants of limited services"
to churches that for decades have been
opened to whites only. The report is that
in a few the visiting worshippers were
rejected and forced to stand on the out¬
side, but that in others the preacher and
the congregation managed to muster up
enough courage, to let them in and that in
those instances where the attending wor¬
shippers were admitted the services went
on without incident.
In one case, it is reported that the pas¬
tor was overjoyed that his people acted
so civil and felt that having passed
through this first experience of having
Negroes as a part of his congregation,
feels that this is quite an accomplishment.
And in light of the fact that the churches
Jn “more America, for the most part, in" have tliiTmidst been
pagan than Christians
of this whole movement toward equality
and non-discrimination, perhaps it is quite
an achievement.
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But we take the position that this token
expression of brotherhood in the Chris¬
tian C hurch is not something to be proud
of. butTather ah occasion that heightens
the shame of any church which purports
to operate in the name of Christ and as an
interpreter of the Christian faith.
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Not only should there not have been
any question about the entry of these
visitors into the House of God at this
.
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
65 West 42nd Street
New York 36, New York
166 W. Washington St.
Chicago 2. 111.
Mr. Robert Whaley
Whaiey-Simpson Company
6608 Selma Ave.
Los Angeles 28, California
Mr. Gordon Simpson
Whaley-Slmpson Company
700 Montgomery St.
San P rancisco 1 1, California
A
vote Wednesday, September 14th, has
failed himself and his children’s children.
The Negro citizen who does not care
must live with himself as with the sort
of person on whom it would be unwise to
depend.
All of our efforts for freedom are in
vain unless every Negro citizen votes.
The Negro citizen who neglects to cast
his ballot on next Wednesday votes none¬
theless by his very absence. He elects
himself to his old position of second class
citizenship; and this is not a happy vic¬
tory. If he votes on Wednesday he elects
himself to first class citizenship and a
magnificent victory!
ish premise with the asssitance of a book
about Africa before the Europeans arriv¬
ed to put the continent in “bondage.”
“Today’s nationalist cry of “Africa for
the Africans” (Evans begins), tends to
make the world forget that the Africans
had Africa for centuries upon centuries.
And it seems, by comparison with other
areas of the world during the same mill-
enia, that they did remarkably little with
it. Indeed, if past is prologue, the future of
self-governing Africa doesn’t look so
good.”
CHATTANOOGA BOMB BOMB,
NEWS and COURIER, Charleston, S. C. j
Bombing of a Negros residence at
Chattanooga was a dastardly deed that
cannot be excused. We ague with the
victim’s estimate that whoever did it is
lowlife trash. We are glad that nobody
was injured. Many a sanctimonius citi¬
zen who wouldn’t actually light the fuse
of a bomb has been striking matches in
dangerous places. Such agitators ought
to share the blame for this outrageous
sign of smoldering tension among for¬
merly harmonious Southern people.
WADE-IN HI* NORTH
SUN-TIMES, Chicago
‘Extra police were on hand Sunday
when the National Assn, for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People sent repre¬
sentatives to Rainbow Beach for a wade-
in demonstration.
“It may be regretted that such rights
must be protected by unusual police ac¬
tion but Chicago police officials are set¬
ting a good example for other cities in
putting the blame for trouble where it be¬
longs — on those who try to deny rights
of others, not on those seeking to enjoy
their American rights.”
late hour, but years ago, the so-called
Christian preacher and his people should
have taken the initiative in this matter of
making real in our economy that God is
no respecter of persons.
If the churches in America had not been
so’ long, the promoters and the perpetua-
tors of segregation; if they were not now
the defenders of those who ply the nefar¬
ious trade of discrimination within their
congregations; if they had not condoned
these white sepulchres who sit in their
pews in the promotion of hate and di¬
vision, the sit-ins now in process would
never had to have been. The doors to
industry would now be opened and a bet¬
ter way of life, for a people long benight¬
ed, would since have been effected.
This is where the crusade should begin.
This is the crucial area. This is where
the walls must first be removed. For not
until the Christian Church in the main
sees itself for what it is, will the society
that has grown up around it be cleansed
of its evils and improve in its morals.
■*»
This tells us that more than 60 million
lay claim to Christian membership in
America, but today we ask what of it.
They are like the church Christ talked of
centuries ago. They encompass the world
to make one proselyte and when he is
made he is twofold more the child of hell
than themselves.
1 h. It well that
argues so long as the church
is content to be an industry engaged in
bigots, the business they run cannot be
other than manufacturing and harboring
a society of business bigots.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Must Be Destroyed, If America Is To Hold World Leadership
'V- «N
Letters to
the Editor • ••
(Editor’n Note: Captain Crunk
It . Spencer, general manager ami
treasurer of the Atlantic Towing
Company, has nuked 'J'lte Savannah
'Tribune to reprint his letter of
September 1, 11160 , addressed to
the editor of The Savannah Morn¬
ing News about Congressman
Preston's services to the Poet of
Savannah for the pust 1A gears.
Captain Spence) states, “I trust
that readers of the Tribune wilt
give favorable consideration to
Congressman Preston's reelect ion.
on September lb, 11)60 and east
their votes accordingly.”)
“Preston’s Record of
Cooperation With Port
Development Outlined”
Editor, Morning News:
The port of Savannah has shown
marked progress during the past
several years through improved
channel conditions and in the
acquisition of waterfront plants
as a result of such improvements.
It is my purpose in submitting
a number of pertinent facts per¬
taining to the development of the
Port of Savannah to point out
some of the valuable services ren¬
dered by Kep. Prince Preston in
bringing various waterfront proj¬
ects to a successful conclusion.
llis efforts in behalf of legisla¬
tion were extremely helpful in
providing for construction of an
adequate railroad lift bridge be¬
tween Savannah and Hutchinson
Island serving the Seaboard Air
Line Railroad main line to
Charleston. The old bridge was
a menace to navigation.
new bridge with increased clear¬
ance has safely expedited the pas¬
sage of vessels using the upper
harbor. The bridge was completed
in 1951.
Mr. Preston's efforts in 1950
and thereafter were successful in
having tremendous quantities of
foodstuffs under the foreign aid
program exported through Savan¬
nah by the U. S. government.
Much of these exports were con¬
trolled by government agencies.
Mr. Preston’s assistance to local
shipping interests, railroads and
the Savannah Port Authority were
of prime importance in
Savannah secure a fair share of
such foreign aid shipments.
Mr. Preston succeeded in having
legislation passed transferring
title of Fort Jackson back to
City of Savannah so that this pro¬
perty could be included in the iand
being made available to American
Cyanamid Company. The land
was essential to the Cyanamid
company’s plant In doing
Mr. Preston materially aided the
location of the now $30,000,000
titanium dioxide plant here.
On numerous occasions, Mr.
Preston made appointments for
local port and development offi¬
cials with principal consular offi¬
cers of foreign countries in Wash¬
ington with the purpose of creat¬
ing better relations with
countries and to the end of having
foreign aid traffic move through
the I’m t of Savannah.
In the early fifties, Mr. Preston
followed through on the requ- I
for channel improvements in the
Savannah harbor which consisted
of extending the 3-1 foot mean low
water channel upstream for 1.6
miles and establishing a new (177
by 700 foot turning basin opposite
the State Docks. This work him
been aeeomplished.
Mr. Preston recently introduced
a request for (lie expansion of the
Stite Port turning basin and ■$!,-
000 has been appiopriated by Con¬
gress for the survey work neces¬
sary prior to authorization and
appropriation for this project.
Simultaneously, Mr. Preston in¬
troduced in the House Public
Works Committee a resolution call¬
ing for an over-all review of the
Savannah harbor project with the
purpose of determining the
bility of a 40 foot channel
other major improvements such
as widening and
channels to improve navigation on
the Savannah River. A
appropriation has been
to initiate a survey for this
pose.
Working with the
Special Port Committee, Mr.
ton appeared personally before
Chief of Engineers, U. S.
of Engineers, for expedited
ling of the proposed
of the State Port turning
and through his appeal, the
ise for action was given.
Working also with the
Port Committee, Mr. Preston,
successful in prevailing upon
Corps of Engineers to establish
model study at Vick-burg.
model is a scale reproduction
the Savannah River and the
has an important bearing on
improvements which m a y
recommended as the 40-foot
nel project develops.
Mr. Preston has given
cooperation to Savannah
when requested to do so in
ling the acquisition of
controlled same.' projects or the
tion of Notable
of this are the retention of
U. S. Public Health Hospital
the current effort to have
Navy place a training vessel
Mr. Preston worked
with local interests', in having
first nuclear powered
ship named N. R. Savannah
the famous S. S. Savannah.
has worked closely with the
time Commission in this
and also in the end of
the N. S. Savannah to the port
one of her initial trips.
Mr. Preston has been
ly effective in persistently
the Corps of Engineers to
ly maintain Savannah harbor,
difficult task since the Corps
Engineers receives deficiency
propriations which they have
distribute throughout the
many ports. In one instance
000 additional maintenance
were allocated to Savannah
ly as a result of Mr.
efforts to alleviate a serious
ing condition.
Mr. Preston is a constant re¬
cipient of many letters from pri¬
vate companies and local agencies
requesting support for, or opposi¬
tion to, legislation having a bear¬
ing on the economy of the Savan¬
nah area. The consensus is that
his responses have been prompt,
well informed, and that he has
actively pursued those matters in
which his assistance has been re¬
quested. Unquestionably, because
of his seniority, his intercession
in many matters has been extreme¬
ly valuable.
Mr. Preston took a leading role
in arranging a meeting in Wash¬
ington when Gov. Vandiver, rep-
i < cidatives of Savannah and
Chatham County, Chamber of
Commerce, and the Savannah Dis¬
trict Authority along with the
chairman of the Georgia Public
Service Commission met with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
in the now famous case involving
the fight between the eastern rail¬
roads and Seatram Lines, Inc. It
was Mr. Preston who substantially
pressed upon Gov. Vandiver the
necessity of Georgia taking an in¬
terest in the ease, since it appeared
that what was happening would
cause the loss- of a vital water
transportation service not only to
Savannah but to Georgia and that
contingently there could be a de¬
structive effect on other coastwise
water transportation now and in
the future.
I have been a member of the
Special Port Committee of the
Savannah District Authority since
its inception and in this capacity I
\ have appeared before congres-
sioiial committees with other Sa-
vannahians to secure funds for
the improvement of Savannah har¬
bor. The committees have always
had the fullest cooperation from
Rep. Preston..
Mr. Preston’s position as chair¬ |
man of the Subcommittee on Com¬
merce and Related Agencies, which
is a subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee, is of
tremendous value to the Port of
Savannah q^d Georgia. He has
been cbet,vjvbuit since 1955. It re¬
quires many years of service in
the Confess to acquire a com-
j miltee chairmanship.
1 competition the South
Port on
Atlantic, be#.yp>es more active each
year and at jOked for federal funds
for P°G vW^jopment is constant.
The reeieefroh of Rep Rep. Preston,is
of vital importance not only to
the peqplejttf (Chatham County but
to the Ffrltrcongressional District
and the state as well.
FRANK W. SPENCER
The Waterfront
Savannah
Citizens Urged To Go to
Polls And Vote Their
Convictions Sept. 14
j | The The Editor, Savannah Tribune
I 1009 West Broad Street
Savannah. Ga.
Dear Madam:
i ore can psca P e Die con-
i sequences of the election to
be held in Savannah on Septem-
her 14. 1960, for which reason
- it is of the gravest importance
| that every voter should realize
what is at stake,
! The record of Mayor Mingle-
: dorff up to his retirement a
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1900 -5
Between The Lines
Bv Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
PATRIOTISM THEN AND NOW
In 1893 there was erected
New York City a statue to Na-
than Hale who was a captain
in Washington’s patriot army.
He was sent by General Wash¬
ington to bring intelligence to
the British in New York city
and was captured within the
British lines, and although
Washington made every effort
to save him he was executed as
a spy* by order of Sir William
Howe; '* His' last words were, “I
only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my country.”
Beside this expression of an
overmastering patriotism, place
the open declaration of Fran¬
cis Gary Powers recently tried
as a spy in Moscow that he was
sorry that he went on the ill-
fated mission that resulted in
his capture behind the Russian
lines. It is difficult to imagine
a United States soldier express¬
ing regrets that he had endan¬
gered his life for his country.
Pulling down a salary of
$30,000 per annum for his ser-
vices; but in an hour when his
country’s prestige was at stake
before a critical world, he
comes suddenly humble and to
all intents and purposes apol-
ogizes before the world for hav-
mg gone on a dangerous mis-
sion which resuited in his
prisonment and trial.
What greater comfort could
have come to the Kremlin that
to have a United States soldier
eat humble pie in the sight of
an astounded world. The trial
of Powers was easily one of
the most humiliating moments
in American history-an Ameri¬
can soldier publicly admitting
tiiat he was sorry to have gone
on a dangerous mission for his
country.
Apologizing if you please fir
the Stars and Stripes which
millions have seen by the dawn’s
early light,-and for ,which mil¬
lions have died to defend. So
many studied attempts
have been made to disparage
and discourage and
humiliate the Negro that I am
really’ proud that if the great
nation of ours had to be let
down there was no Negro to do
it.
Nathan Hale of long ago was
sorry that he had only one life
to give for his country. Fran¬
cis Gary Powers of current date
was sorry that he was sent on
a mission for his country that
resulted in a trial for his life.
few weeks ago shows that he
does not allow the people to
decide how to run their own
lives and he has continued Ur¬
ban Renewal destruction of a
thousand homes even though
the people have twice voted
against this. Not only has he
done so, but he has now add¬
ed two more sections and pre¬
dicts even two further ones,
so that no one feels secure
any longer. Ail of this is a
trend towards Socialism and
Federal rule locally.
The poorest people in the
City are forced to return per¬
sonal property for at least
$240,00 although many havte
furniture that would sell for
only $10. If a water bill is not
paid on time then the City cuts
off the water and charges $2.00
to cut it on, and this happens
thousands of times each year
to those who cannot afford to
pay.
He raised taxes and assess-
ments, even though he pledged'
that he would not. and if he gets
control of the County then ad-!
ditional taxes and higher rents
may be expected. Everyone
will pay whether as property
owners, or automobile and fur-
niture owners. I
..... His business . is incorporated: . . ,
- ,
m Atlanta .., where , he does , about , , j
three times as much as in Sa-j
vannah. and yet he is ambitious
to run Chatham County in ad-
dition to the City of Savannah, j
all apparently in his spare time. J
The County is headed by
Judge H. Lee Fulton, who puts!
ai! of his time into this job. j
but does not accept even one |
dollar for h’s services. The -
rest of the Board of Chatham
County Commissioners is com-!
posed -of experienced and high-j the!
ly respected servants of
people, _ , and ... they now stand ... tor
re-elctio.n,. i
By going to the polls all peo- I
However bold the attempt to
‘Smooth over the ttlsgraceful
apology of Francis Gary Pow-
ers, the fact remains when
Powers’ trembling admission is
set over against the last words
of Nathan Hale, we are forced
to the conclusion that’ the mor-
al stature of the American pa-
triot of today has suffered an
awesome humiliation.
And yet charity dictates that
we have pity on Francis Gary
Powers. The young man is
the victim of a frustration that
comes of the Southern mores
where there is only one ma¬
jor crime and that is the
crime of his color and have ac¬
cess to the best in land for no
other reason than that he is
white. He is a scion of the
South that took up arms against
the nation and although the
arm of rebellion was sruck
down, the soldiers of the rebel¬
lion have been glorified.
just a few months ago when
the last rebel died. President
Eisenhower ordered the na-
tion’s, flags to be flown at half
staff. Only recently PresG
dent Eisenhower had ever so
much to-say by way of extoll-
ing the greatness of General
Lee, who led the armies of re -
bellion against his country,
If Die,President has ever eu-
logized Abraham Lincoln and
General Grant alter the man-
ner in which he heaped encom-
iums upon General Lee, this
writer has never heard of it.
Such confusion as may arise
from the laudation of rebels by
our President and others of
like mind could easily beget in
the heart of young Powers a
muddled sense of patriotism.
As a prisoner of war on trial
for his life, he had to make hjs
choice of courses to pursue, but
as a citizen of the conunpn tl oa-
tion we have the right, to .-crit¬
icize what we regard as regret-
: able display of cowardice -be¬
fore the world.
Millions have been sent on
the mission of death for their
country and they had no choice
save to yield up their lives on
the sacred altar of their .coun¬
try. Patriotism then and now.
When the Nathan Hales 11( are
set over against the Francjs
Powers we see a humiliating
contrast. If Powers represents
the patriotism that prevails to¬
day, our country is in for great
humiliation and possible disso¬
lution. . t
can vote their deeply felt
and can blame no
one if they fail to do so.
Yours truly,
E. D. King.
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Student Non-Violent CC
Pretest VP’s Statement
About Sit-in Demonstrat’ns
WASHINGTON, (ANP) Upon
his arrival back in Washington
after hitting a high note on a poli¬
tical harp in the heart of Dixie,
Vice PfSSldent Richard Nixon was
faced with a telegram of protest
sent by the Student Non-Violent
Co-ordinating Committee of Atlan¬
ta. 4
The telegram took issue with the
Presidential Candidate’s statement
issued at a Greensboro, N. C.,
press conference regarding sit-in
demonstrations.
Nixon is reported as having said
that sit-in demonstrations should
he orderly and “not in violation of
local laws.” He said that the
courts should determine whether
these laws are valid.
The students reminded the can-
didate that - an endorsement ^
,,,th , tl,e ; student , , at tl0n and , the ,
local , 1 law is meaningless . , except to
win votes . on both sides,
They called the Vice President’s
speech something aimed “at pleas-
big the power structure of the
sout h and consequently contradict-
' n k his endorsement of the dern-
onstrations.”
The stu dents called Nixon’s at-
tention to the fact that although
their demonstrations are strictly
non-violent and peaceful, still the
demonsrations often run counter
to many loeai laws,
They informed Nixon that the
law in the deep south is
based ^ , on the ., custom . of * prejudice . ,.
and political expediency.”