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Patrolling The
Main Stem
By BRICK MASON
GUILTY: The old saying “a
guilty conscience needs no accuses”
is one of the strong motivations
for the payment of income taxes:
In principal revenue district of
fices nearly a half million tax
payers are delinquent in tax pay
ments. The many people who cheat
on their tax return often find
themselves making conscience pay
ments running into many thou
sands of dollars each year. The
department reports that each year
anonymous persons send from a
dollar into several thousands in
conscience funds. The action of
such donors may bring a visit
from Treasury agents if the Bur
eau can dig up sufficient leads.
While many are from taxes act
ually owed, there are equally as
many who do not owe taxes, but
out of suspicion, fear or even grati
tude send funds to enrich uncle’s
already heavily filled coffers.
Overpayments, when traced are re
funded and just as often underpay
ments are sought out and proper
payments assessed.
THE STEMWINDER SAYS:
“Husbands like the same things
their wives like. They like to
save it, wives like to spend it.”
POLITICS: The influence of
labor in politics is being heavily
felt in many areas where strong
union membership exists. One
large metropolis is reported ready
to investigate the hiring bias in
labor unions based on politics, race
and religion. The idea is to mus
ter public opinion against unions
that practice such discrimination.
The idea is not to direct the at
tack to the business but directly
on the unions themselves as many
employees are not solicited by the
employer but is sent by the union,
the claim is that the unions are
setting the standards. The other
influence that has been claimed
by those critical of labor’s political
tickets composed in order of im
portance of Negro, Catholic and
Jewish religious or racial origin.
Claims are that such selections are
being made without regard to the
ability of the candidate, but large-
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Miss Julia Antionette Walker was crowned “Miss Blue Revue”
1362 by the Gamma lota Zeta Chapter of the Zeta Phi Sorority at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 9, 1962. She is the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. George D. Walker, formerly of this city.
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BROTHERS— President Ahmadou Ahidjo of the Republic of Cameroon was greeted by top NAACP
leadership, and others, at a State Department conference in New York City recently. From left are
Guichard Parris, Urban League aide; Earl Brown, member, New York City Housing and Redevelopment
Board; Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary; Jean Faustin Betayene, Federal Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Cameroon; Arthur B. Spingarn, NAACP president; President; Ahidjo; Bishop Stephen G.
Spottswood, chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors; and Dr. John A. Morsell, assistant to Mr.
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Pulitzer Prize Poet National Library
Week Speaker at Savannah State
Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer
Prize Poet and author, will inau
gurate the National Library Week
activities at Savannah State Col
lege, Savannah, Georgia. Misj
Brooks will be presented in a lec
turer in the College Library on
Sunday, April 8, at 5 o’clock p.m.
Miss Brooks is the author of A
STREET IN BRONZEVILLE
(Book of poetry), a recent book
of poems, THE BEAN EATERS
and a novel, MAUD MARTHA. For
ANNE ALLEN, her second book
of poems, she received the Pulitzer
Prize in 1950. Miss Brooks is the
only Negro to receive this coveted
award. Her other awards include:
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1962
four Poetry Workshop Awards
given by the Midwestern Writers’
Conference; the Mademoiselle
Merit Award; an award by the
Academy of Arts and Letters; two
Guggenheim Fellowships and the
Eunice Tietjiens Memorial Award
given by Poetry magazine. Miss
Brooks, who is Mrs. Henry L.
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARTISTS
TO MEET AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
The National Conference of Art
ists composed largely of Negro
artists will convene at Lincoln Uni
versity in Jefferson City, Missouri
on April 20, 21, and 22nd.
Among the featured speakers
will be Kenneth Hudson, Dean of
the School of Fine Arts at Wash
ington University in St. Louis and
Osmond S. Guy, instructor in de
sign at the University of Illinois.
Lectures, work-shops and discus
sion groups are scheduled for the
three day conference. Some of
the features will be an art show
by members of the conference in
the University art gallery, a ban
quet, a conference party and a bus
tour of cultural spots in Jefferson
City. 150 artists and art teachers
from all sections of the country
are expected to attend.
The Youth section of the confer-
ence will attract college art stu
dents from Claflin, Grambling
Lincoln, Savannah State and num
erous other colleges. Mrs. Vir
ginia Kiah of Savannah State Col
lege is the director of the Youth
division.
James D. Parks, head of the art
department at Lincoln University
and national chairman of the or
ganization is in charge of local
arrangements. Lincoln University
will serve as host and sessions will
be held in the new $1,500,000 fine
arts center at Lincoln. The or
ganization is open to all persons
interested in art.
Watch The HERALD for Easter
Specials and Bargains
Deltas To Present
Annual Jabberwock
The Savannah Alumnae Chapter
of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Inc. will present its twentieth an
nual Jabberwock program at the
City Auditorium on April 27. Miss
W. Bernita Darby is president of
the chapter.
The Jabberwock is a national
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JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, JUNIORS JOlN— Mississippi’s first NAACP
Junior Llixe Members are enrolled at the Southeastern Regional Con
ference by Jackie Robinson, Vice Chairman, National Life Member
ship Committee and Archie Moore, Committee Member. The young
civil righters handing out the dough (forfeiting cookies and candy for
a spell) are Thirkeild, 111 and mother Mrs. Ellen Craven (1) and
Shelia and mother, Mrs. A. K. Smith, (r) all of Jackson, Miss. All
youngsters under 12 years of age are eligible for NAACP Jr. Life
Membership.
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YWCA Launches
Membership Drive
The local YWCA membership
drive was launched this week with
a goal of 600 new members by
April 22.
The YWCA is one of the oldest
and largest organizations in the
world devoted to the welfare of
women and girls. It was founded
by women and has served women
and girls of all races for 106 years.
The purpose of the Young Wom
en’s Christian Association is—“To
build a fellowship of women and
girls devoted to the task of realiz
ing in our common life those ideals
of persona! and social living to
which we are committed by our
faith as Christians. In this en
deavor we seek to understand
Jesus, to share his love for all peo
ple, and to grow in the knowledge
of love of God.”
I For several years a few local
Negro women have struggled to
get adequate facilities to meet the
needs of YWCA women and girls
in this community. At one time
1 classes were conducted in the audi
| toriums of various housing pro
jects. This proved unfavorable.
During September 1961, the
YWCA Board of Directors with
headquarters at 105 West Ogle
thorpe Street leased the upstairs
floor of the building at 1009 West
Broad Street to be used for ac
tivities of Negro YWCA members.
The facility was named the
“YWCA Center.”
Open house at the YWCA Cen-
ter was held Sunday, October 1,
1961. Mrs. Sara D. Herring is
program director and Mrs. Helen
D. Weathers is chairman of the
Center Committee which consists
of twenty contributing members.
The YWCA Center has a com
bination assembly room and lounge;
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