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GOVERNMENT PRISONERSThree hundred and fifty convicts have recently been shipped from the 'Atlanta federal prison to Leavenworth.Two hundred Negro prisoners are to leave the same prison in the near future for Chatham county, Ga., it is said, as government prisoners hired out to the Georgia county.Under a contract recently signed between the government and the Chatham county, Georgia commissioners, two hundred Negroes will be removed from the prison and put at work on what is described as an ambitious road program in that state.Arrangements have been made, it is stated, to assign the prisoners to construction camp near* Savannah, where they will be housed.Knowing as we do the terrible conditions as they exist among prisoners in the State of Georgia, we shudder at the thought of prhat has happened. (• Very unfortunate indeed, is the lot of any Negro who happens to fall into the hands of Georgia prison authorities.There seems to be a hellish aversion on th£ part of colored Americans to even enter the state of Georgia a s a free citizen. And they are quite right. Georgia is no place for*colored Americans and especially its prison camps. ' - * * ’. The latter fact is fully demonstrated by the manner in which Negro citizens of that state are leaving it for other parts and staying away.Building the county roads of Georgia with prison help furnished from a federal penitentiary might be a good business idea but we can not say w^th truth that we are very much in favor of the plan especially when it applies to Negro prisoners under Gdorgia supervision.The agreement specifies that the prisoners will be under the joint supervision of the Georgia State prison commission as well as government officials.Whether the latter circumstance will be productive of any results favorable we do not know but we do know that we would think more of the proposition if the Negro prisoners assigned to the task of building roads in Georgia are removed to some other parts of the country.Why not give the job to white prisoners for a change. If Georgia brutality is goodIt is indeed encouraging to note the public interest, far and wide in the candidacy of Mr. Delan-;y of New York for Congerss has stirred up in the hearts of the people everywhere. This interest has aken the form of financial contributions to his campaign funds by Negroes from all over the Untied States as well as the race loving Negroes of New York.The loquacious colored f representative in congress of the First Illinois district has been advising the people not to elect to political offices men of small means. It is an indication of race loyalty and independence as well when a group of New York Negroes not only repudiate this kind of tush by naming their own candidate without having him hand-picked by white machine politicians, but by jiving him their moral and financial support as well, in order that he may remain independent of the spoils of office.War chests are indispensible in political campaigns. If the people themselves contribute to it, they have a real voice in the program of their representative and he feels and is only obligated to the interests that elected him.Last year during a political campaign, a group of colored business men met at a dinner and in less than thirty minutes contributed $1,000.00 to the campaign fund of a candidate. It was something new and elicited wide comment and commendation by the white press of Chicago.If a man is honest, has real ability and the respect of his fellows and has done something for his people except talk, it matters little whether he has little or much; contribute to hts war chest and put him in office. Men of means should not and must not have a monopoly of political offices. It may be a question as to how some of them have come into financial affluence.—THE CHICAGp BEE. -* - _I ; ' -I HOMELY PHILOSOPHYIdSIFting —•— «How uncertain is the goal of those who drift without rudder and without aim, at the mercy of tide and circumstance. Life is, far too precious to be heedlessly drifting while the price less days slip through open fingers.To determine, one’s destination and to steer toward it is sane living and makes life worth while. Like ships, we must have direction. We must captain our owh sailing for we know that ships that depend upon winds of chance seldom make harbor.—GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON.
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Indianapolis Recorder
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Nov 02, 1929
Page 4
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