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AMVETS ASSIST CONCERNED MOTHERS
Recently, Amvets Post 616 and its auxiliary contributed over $190.00 worth of
breakfast foods to the Concerned Mothers Club. This contribution is to assist the
chib in its efforts to provide breakfast for needy school children. Amvets and
Auxiliary members shown making the contribution are (left to right) Mrs. Mary
Wilkins, Mrs. Evelyn Daggett of the Concerned Mothers Club; Mr. Charles McCann,
Mr. Allen Brown, Mr. Robert Brinson, Mrs. Frances Wooten, and Mrs. Martha
Franklin. Mrs. Rose Cummings is Auxiliary president, and Mr. George Thomas is
Post Commander.
* DR. PITTS RAPS AT MT. MORIAH *
Paine College president Dr.
Lucius H. Pitts urged the Men’s
Day audience at First Mount
Moriah Baptist Church to get
out of shallow living; get out of
shallow water and launch out
into the deep.
Pitts said that if you deal
with petty things, if you’re
concerned that someone feels
that he is better than you or
when someone talks about
you, you feel that you must
retaliate and tell him off, then
that’s shallow living. “Big ships
don’t come in shallow water,”
Pitts said, “and big people
don’t live shallow’lives.”
Pitts, who believes in power
for Blacks, told the young
people the verbage of Black
power’s not enough. “All right,
rap,” he said, “but when you
get through rapping remember
that rapping ain’t nothing but
shallow water. Anybody can
rap.” The relevant brother is
involved in his community,
involved in drug abuse
programs, etc. Whites love to
know that blacks are rapping,
Pitts said, because “they know
when you get through you’ve
spent all of your energy
rapping.” Then “they expect
you to go somewhere and find
somebody’s pad and get
yourself a tall cool one and be
easy for the rest of the day.
And while we’re rapping,
they’re downtown
w-r-a-p-p-i-n-g wrapping up
new programs, wrapping up
new projects, wrapping up new
ideas, ,and wrapping up deceit,
while we’re out some place
waving our fists and rapping.
Even while I rap now, that’s
what they’re doing. Get out of
shallow water.”
Pitts said that if you follow
God’s Commandment and fish
in deep water that overcoming
normally difficult obstacles
becomes “finger work”.
Tm a witness that when
‘Tm a witness that when
you get out of shallow water
the little minnows that you
used to delight in catching, the
irritating things that used to
keep you unhappy and make
you strike out and slap back at
people, those things become
insignificant. Bulldogs don’t
bark at free. I’m a bulldog,”
Pitts said.
Pitts cautioned his listeners
not to make character
judgments based on surface
impressions. Don’t decide that
I’m pot relevant, that I’m an
Uncle Tom because I wear my
hair kind of close. Don’t decide
that I’m not concerned. He
said, “You aren’t smart
enough, you aren’t old enough,
to know as much as I know
about my people; you haven’t
suffered enough, you haven’t
been slapped like I have been
slapped. You’ve never had to
make a fire when there was no
lighter wood. You don’t know
what it is.”
Black Augustans, Pitts said,
forget something Peter forgot
and that is that we forget
how we got where we are
today. Pitts said that “some old
men and some old women who
didn’t have much and didn’t
know much but who knew
how to sing ‘A Charge to Keep
I Have’ and ‘Be Not Dismayed
What Ere Betide,’ sacrificed
and put up little tents, set up
little institutions, begged for a
place and a book so that today
black men can stand up and be
doctors.”
“Don’t get involved in
shallow living by criticizing
that old man. That’s what the
other man wants you to do. He
wants you to say, “this is an
Uncle Tom”. But I don’t mind
you saying that because you
know what? I have learned
how to swim in deep water.
And I’m a bulldog. I don’t bark
at fice. I don’t need to bark at
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fice. I’ve got my eye on you
though. Get out of shallow
water.”
Pitts said that “if the black
people and white people
decided to get out of shallow
water instead of fooling around
with crayfish and tadpoles and
fussing with each other and
making each other fuss with
each other, if we black people
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
$25,000 THEFT
Last Tuesday, Tom Huggins,
Councilman-elect from the Bth
Ward and attorney in the law
firm of Cumming-Nixon-Yow
-Waller and Capers, admitted to
this reporter his purchase of
several articles, which were
later proven stolen by Donald
Martin and Shannon
Montgomery.
Martin and Montgomery
have recently been charged by
the North Augusta, S.C. Police
Dept, with the possession of
more than $25,000 worth of
stolen goods.
Huggins stated that he had
met Montgomery through a
partner in the law firm in
which he is employed.
Montgomery had been injured
and needed an attorney to
represent him in an insurance
case which was settled for
$6,500. Huggins said that
monies which had been
advanced to Montgomery to
make several trios out of town,
along with medical ($500) and
other expenses were deducted
from the $6/90 which left
Montgomery a net sum of
Dr. Pitts
and white people moved out
into the deep water and let
down our nets for this
community we would catch a
whale of fish.”
Dr. Pitts came to Paine
College this year to become the
first black president in the
history of the 68 year old
institution.
Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555
By Grady Abrams
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Huggins stated that
Montgomery had shown
instability and had extensive
family problems.
His relationship with
Montgomery was more than on
a professional basis. He
admitted having socialized with
Montgomery in one of the
local pool rooms, located on
broad street in Augusta.
Montgomery was said to have
visited Huggins’ home on
several occasions. On one
occasion, Montgomery was
given a cake which was baked
by Huggins’ wife. Visits were
made by Huggins to the
hospital during the time
Montgomery was a patient.
Huggins stated that he had
made several small loans to
Montgomery.
Some time in May, Huggins
went to North Augusta, S.C.
where Montgomery was living
and purchased two boat
motors and an oriental rug for
some S4OO.
Huggins stated he bought
the two boat motors to sell.
One of the Motors was put in
one of the local marine shops
for repairs and possible sale.
Huggins stated that
Montgomery later contacted
him about the balance of
payment on the articles
purchased, but he was unable
to make payment. Huggins said
he told Montgomery he could
go and pick up one of the
motors which was in the shop
because he could not make the
balance payment.
After reading of the arrest of
Martin and Montgomery in the
local newspapers, Huggins said
he immediately got into
contact with the North
Augusta Police Dept, and told
them he suspected he had
purchased some of the stolen
items from Martin and
Montgomery. He returned the
articles he had purchased and
requested a lie-detection test
which was administered. The
test was favorable according to
Huggins. A spokesman for the
North Augusta Police
Department said the result of
the test is not yet known.
Huggins was asked by this
reporter why he thought
Montgomery would implicate
him in the crime since he had
shown to be a close friend.
Huggins replied that the only
reason he could give was the
fact that Montgomery wanted
him to represent him. Huggins
said he had to turn
Montgomery down mainly
because he doesn’t have a
license to practice law in S.C.
But Huggins added that he told
Montgomery not to talk to
anyone until he got himself an
attorney.
As of this writing, the North
Augusta Police Dept, had not
completed its investigation and
no charges have been filed
against Huggins.
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Editorial I
gs WHO IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY? £$
Last Thursday evening, the local daily newspaper carried a story
revealing the contents of a letter that school superintendent Roy E. S;!;
•W: Rollins wrote to U.S. District Judge Alexander Lawrence saying that if *s:
Judge Lawrence would “refuse to enforce the busing orders”
$£ (translation: disobey the law) “the Judge will serve to ‘restore some of
the respect and esteem which our federal courts should enjoy’”.
According to the report Rollins said many white parents “already :-:g
have become emotionally unbalanced in the anticipation of having their
small children on a bus and carried into the heart of a community” (the
black community) “that has murder from gunshots and other killings
almost every week
It is obvious that Rollins has suddenly become concerned about the
high crime rate in the black community because whites may now fall
victim. It’s unfortunate that he has never demonstrated the same
concern for black people.
Nevertheless there is considerable good that could come out of
Rollins’ concern for white children. Maybe additional policemen will be
placed in the black community to protect them. They may protect :■:%
blacks too, even if inadvertently. The presence of additional police in
the black community may serve to curb the flow of drug traffic, it may
reduce the ever increasing burgularies, it may even prevent some of the
killings.
Rollins said that prior to Lawrence’s appointment to the judgeship,
xX- he held Lawrence in high regard. But now he continued, “it is difficult •:$
£x for me to picture you as one of those social extremists who you and I
and most people know are destroying our nation.”
If any of the proposed desegration plans are implemented, Rollins
said, “another small part of our great nation will be destroyed. The
x£: education of 36,000 boys and girls will be sacrificed for a radical social
experiment” :•&
The “radical social experiment” to which Rollins refers happens to
•J;:: be the so-called American dream of equal opportunity for all people
SK including blacks.
Segregationists like Rollins have seemingly devoted their lives to Sx
seeing that that dream never becomes a reality where black people are
concerned. g:!
The tragedy is that America has become morally bankrupt to the ■>s:
extent that it heaps praise upon people who publicly beg judges to
disobey the law, people who never intend to see black people free and
equal, people who are opposed to practically everything America says it
• stands for, and these are the same people who extoll the virtues of law
and order, God and Country.
These people are the real enemies of this country. They are
interested in neither justice, liberty or equality, except where they are igg
concerned. And they will make extremists and/or communists out of
anyone who truly stands for justice and equality. &£
Mack Elected
To Assn. Os Educators
At the recent meeting of the
Tenth District of Georgia
Association of Educators, Mr.
Dave Mack Jr., with
full-backing of the Richmond
County delegation, became
10th District Director. This
district is comprised of
twenty-one counties. Mr. Mack
will begin his term in office at
the state GAE meeting in the
spring of 1972.
A native Augustan, Mr.
Mack is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Mack, Sr. He is married
to the former Miss Inez Ruff
and is the father of two
children, Stephanie and
Dominic Mack.
Mr. Mack received the A.B.
James Brown
Boulevard Rally
An estimated 1,000 persons
attended a rally to support the
changing of Gwinnett Street to
James Brown Boulevard. The
rally was held at the corner of
9th and Gwinnett Streets.
Among the highlights was an
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Dave Mack
Degree from Paine College,
Augusta Georgia and the M.A.
Degree in Supervision and
Administration from New
amplified long aistance call
from Brown (from Oklahoma)
thanking his supporters.
Entertainment was provided by
the volcanoes band.
Portions of the rally were
broadcast live on radio station
W.RJD.W.
York University. He has done
further study at Atlanta
University , Atlanta, Georgia.
His professional career
consists of having served as
teacher and coach at Peter H.
Craig Elementary School, as
counselor and assistant
principal of A.R. Johnson
Junior High School, as
principal of Weed School and
presently as principal of John
M. Tutt Junior High.
He was the recipient of an
N . E . A. p r e s i d ential
appointment to serve on the
Credential Committee from
July 1968 to July 1973.
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