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THE CAROLINIAN
SATURDAY. ITOSUARY 24, 1946
EDITORIALS I
I have to go back and pay $36 to caat her
^■ote and have her say as to what kind of
PLAYING WELL THEIR PART government and nation her boy is fighting
The news week pointed up the fact that^ save.”
•as this war continues Negroes are playing” The first statement implies clearly that
an ever mor important part in it, and are Senator Hili is not interested in repealing
approacliing something like the proper re- the poll tax in Alabama in order to enfran-
eognition of their value to their country chise the several hundred thousand NL-
and their ability and willingness to serve it. GRO men and women who are qualified to
Tiie story of the hard fighting and the vote. The second, even more cynical, as
heavy casualties experienced by the 92nd clearly implies that what is unjust for a
Division in Italy underscores the fact that white service man’s mother is fair enough
Negroes can serve gallantly and efficient- for a Negro service man's mother,
ly in combat duty. Another item told of Ne- It may be that Senator Hill and others
gro service troops who are being converted realize that if l it e y are to persuade the
into combat soldiers. Many have volunteer- soutliern stales to repeal the poll tax as a
ed to m a k e the change and assume the requirement for suffrage they must play up
greater dangers and hardships of front line the effect it will have in increasing the
service, even though it involved giving up white electorate, and play down the
their non-com ratings. "threat” of a larger opportunity for Ne-
Likewise indicating the ti-end was the ar- gro suffrage,
rival in England of the first contingent of Maybe it is just politics Uial makes iSen-
Negro VVacs—677 enlisted women and 24 ator Hill talk Uiat way. But it sounds bad.
officers. According to the news item, these The figlil for Negro suffrage will not be
women will soon be handling Army post- won by tlle mere repeal of the poll lax, and
111 and directory service for an entire thea- not a single southern politician of impor
ter. One may be sure that Ihe job will be tance has given any hint that he thinks
well done. The Army is reasonably certain, the extension of Negiv suffrage by poll tax
or the assignment would never have been repeal is eitlier desirable or inevitable.
made. jHE WILLIAM AND MARY AFFAIR
FTom every front ccme stories of the her- cannot help admire the courage of
oism and devotion to duty of black Ameri- young William aud Mary co-ed. She
cans, whether in combat or equally esaen- realized she was sticking her
tial service uniU. And from many sources Whatever may be said as to her
there are coming also expressions of ac- concede the site spoke
knowledgment—expressions both in word i,„,. c„„cictions. and at a great risk. Having
and deed-that the American Negro mea- ^
sures up to his opportunities for sacrifice intelligent enough to be
and service. Let us hope that when the war ^ ^ ^ editorahip
IS over the nation will not forget. student paper, she knew what it was
HONOR DR. ODUM all about.
Most North Corolinians who know of his For those white Virginians who can calm
work will congratulate Dr. Howard W. themselves sufficiently to think as well as
Odum, recipient of the Bernays award for feel about the thing, there must be an un-
ouUtahding achievement in Negro-white re- voiced respect for the young woman. The
lations, and the committee for its choice. students are to be commended in standing
Anyone who has read Dr. Odum’s first up for the right of free speech, all the more
book on the Negro, written years ago, will so in that many of them obviously must dis-
realize how hia concept of the Negro and agree entirely with what site said,
ius proper place in American life has been To do and say what one regards as right,
broadened and heightened. He is a sterling though unpopular, gets one little in this
example of the ability of a white southern- world. One is called a radical, an agitator,
er, witii an open mind and a thirst for the (jne loses friends and status. One is run*
truth, to outgrow the narrow prejudices uing the risk of being shunned and despis-
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ROAD EOUIPMENT NOW
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USE CAN BE DIVERTED
TO TRANSPORTING
ESSENTIAL WAR MATERIEL.'
Truly th» Light is Swssl and • Plsssant Thing It Is
For th* EyM to fi*hold ths Sun. EcdM. 117
If one is to regard the expression of truth as the light the ob
jecting reaction to a recent editorial written by a William and Mary
College student advocating racial harmony and repudiating the
white supremacy doctrine demonstrates at least one of two things
or both. Either the light hurts awfully bad or faith in the concept
dies when the light emerges in a milien of prejudices, outmoded
traditions, and ill-founded beliefs such as confotmd the Soilhem
community in which we live.
If the much discussed article had confined itself to observa
tions on the anthropological side the cibjectors would have smiled
condescendingly and with a little pity at the immaturity of the
writer. If it had limited itself to the equal-educational opportunity
and even the go-to-the-same school area the truth would not have
struck with such blinding force that it could not have been lightly
dismissed as the imaginings of our irresponsibley '^developed edu
cational crackpot. Reference to pinning the same classmates would
have been allowed to pass as academic. But intermarrying . . . That
was the last straw.
Even the liberal Virginus Dabney of the Richmond Times Dis
patch had to call the editorial “fooli^ and ill-considered."
It is unfortunate that the most intelligent, beat bred, best educa-
ed people of a race must add fuel to the prejudices of the less for
tunate of their own by submitting themselves to a propaganda de
signed to appeal to the emotions.
Meanwhile the young woman has been censured, maligned and
stripped of her avocatiooal honors. Store intimately dte Is peihaps
snubbed by her own classmates as if abe were a pariah.
It o'ight to be understood, however, that the basic aspirations
of Negroes include mainly economics, educatioeal and political op
portunity. Negroes know that the full attainment of the rights nad
privileges may involve social contact. That, however, is incidental
and only a means to removing the bonds of economic, educational
and political slavery. Perhaps others know it too. That may explain
the hue and cry about the social equality red herring.
Negroes too are proud of their good women and their good men.
They do not engross themselves with the idea of intennairying
while they have among their own many of the world’s most beauti
ful, refined, and industrious gentlewomen and many of the most
brilliant of the world's intelligent men. The ambition oi most of us
is to lit ourselves for perpendicular progress to the best of our own
.by learning punctuality, skill in the performanre of our chosen
The decision of the Georgia Su- that they could not. The logical setting the worst possible example propriety in our conduct, and decency in oui* thoughts and in
creme Court in holding that tlie corollary, and one generally ac- for lesser tribunals and officials, fellows. We do not contend for horizontal
county jury commissioners are cepted lor the past eighty y®8rs, As to the use of the peremptory keeps us on a low leveL
not required to include Negros is ^ challenge to keep Negroes drawn ^ ^ speech also came into the “editorial” affair.
lip'Sno‘‘"c"ou?l'-^?S= lo. iu,y du.v "rom aot^U-y scholarly Proaidah^^ E. PonHr.. aa-a «... laoMty au-
prree^a and some o^f the most thereto, musl be accepted by the service, pervisioti over student pubUcationa ia necemary tor "theu-stall mem-
amazmgly specious reasoning slates. They cannot wiUidraw “A'" y^^^™hd^« bers should exhibit an eweeial sense ol re«Kmjibility -^toen ttoalhig
rne-as-tSflustlce writ- f,ulMcrnU?t"‘‘.li^“>' ^ ““
ine the ouinion cited a decision of The Georgia Supreme Court letter of the college serves.”
Se gIot^ Court made before therefore knows very well that.it be arbitranly excli^ed
the Civil
"IS YOUR TRIP ESSENTIAL?
Jecciid Thouffihts
By C. D. HALLIBURTON
>rgia Court made oerore uiereioie auu« s. wv.i uc-•—mI’"i«»ia]ature In other words the erudite gentleman susenbss to the cotoept of
i War, which posited the cannot set aside a d>cis»on of the service. No ^t^n^l^iMjure ignorance of people and letting them team only what
■.?e“i‘rs^r?.i?e‘Su“r".; r? :o';“^Sn^'CTli Son^ CX^dy The SlWm^rn
uit u. o. '.e. . a , .. . . ^ interests of the coltege of William and Mary
Kxx haa
co-equality
al with the U. S. Supreme ...— - ,
The auoremaev of the federal ju- cent case would have such an ef- stJtutionaJ. ^
diciary'^waa aii established prin- tect, and iherclorc is wholly m- Ut' sovereign State at Virginia. u . . a
ciple long belore that time, vaM. An appeal to state r^hte attorney dcfends^^^ai^m ^ strange paradox all ot the students that attend
Ih^GOTTgiacourtaSnS’tobetlml vanl.lnasmuHi as*Si'the Scotts- Negroes from actiml ser/ice on fl,e venerable and venerated Virginia school have ava^le to
^ M Se CVnSuon which boio case the United States Su- the groi^ that . Uiemaelvto in Hie school’s library the luune mformaton which Miss
?Se Negroes luU rights as citt^ pi.eme Court clearly held that ays- Kaemmerie gave. This lact is substantiated by the itatement of i^
zena of Se United States, ^ong Kmal.c exclusion of Negroes from tote of uhvral minded faculty members ot tho school who not only defend
ACIIS 04 UlfC UliikO* ojocaavo, ua.av>..(, • . . • r a U ,
.1 righto ivaifTB/vmmlUv ttpft.cT lurv-Tolte^ i-'7 n violatinp.oLthe j
er witli an open mind and a thirat for Oie one loses friends and status. One is run- of "the Consiiiution which 'f',vjr,‘“^eid’ffi ays- Teloh^ the pitat in social af- gav-■nila fact is suteiantiated by the atatoment of more
ritr o out^ow the narrow prejudices „ing the risk of being shunned a..d despis- Se ?t'pS^rtorl^^faculty members of the to
and ™Lta. s^reotypes in which he has ed. Moral courage Is a highly praised char- Sf MteKaemmer.e’, right to ..y what die told hut afro her right to so
been nurtured. One of the really hopeful acteri.slic, partly because it is so rare. But the laws” Exclusion from jury a„y deep together, “d seiwe toe en^ i, ^markable that educatioBal institution f^«l on
things about the South is that Dr. Odum’s even when praised it is usually in the ah- .h^e^prinemte^ mus’rt'd^SSSSd
type is steadily increasing, numencally atracl. The peron who practices it is fat question of whethc. or f ^reme law o?the land is that Ne- “ ^ faculty or withheld because of the prides and Ptwdlcea of
and in influence. more likely to be caUed a fool, or worse. ;'°^„,»'^fuP?^‘>,^«'tcfrion"'was S X land, anS in’^ao'doing is gro jury aeiviee is a civil right. ..„,v.utqencv toe .progress ol edueaUon cannot be cMled toch a.
Dr. Odum himself has played no small There was once a man who condemned -
part in the increase of his kind. As a pro- the ways of the Scribes and Pharisees. Mil-
fessor at Chapel Hill he haa re-oriented and ijons now pay lip service to his honor. But
inspired many a young white man and highly respectable and right-minded folk
woman, assisting in giving them a new among hU contemporaries called him a
point of view on the Negro, race relations, fool, a crook, a sinner, a devil—and finally
a'nd'Uie South. killed him.
Calm and objective, but warm and hu- MAN BITES DOG
man withal, he has been for many yeara jmigg Burgtvyn in a recent charge to the
lin^r-prine©^ SiS^Sn toSe til^ViS ^eed it h rem.rk.hle to^etote^^^tuto f^J^
toe conaUtueocy the progress of edueaUon caOTOt be cMl^ web at
the schoool al which was founded Phi Beta Kappa, the highly re
apected scholarship honor society, which incidently has n“t y“
tit to permit toe establishment of one of its chapters on a
'*'*Thfr°'cXmr^orsea toe opinion of a Mias Katherine aer-
wood Who encourages boto free speech and ^
such ideals”, (as Miss Kaemmerle expresses) says Mfrs Sh^o^
■•and toe freedom to publish them we might continue
ch^iab toe white supremacy fallacy ... The s;W«uo" ‘Tj
ary action or control over future artielea m toe Willi^ and Mary
plication shows how that fallacy is being nurtured .
DO YOU AGREE?
Lest We Pereet
Bt W. U GREEIfZ
uotonly a great student, teacher and writ- c;u„‘ty made'a Human rela^io^m toe w^d n^__mhah,.cd by toe expioitod mSy'r rhe?:“.S“^"a^ r'lell^'ocT
er, but also a big-hearted crusader agm st q,l,ich is seldom prXfem facing us ^’ihe rca; >'"1;" ‘‘fPISl; without toe means of indep^wi The Holy Spirit still (presence of Moses and Elijah who
ijfuorance. prejudice hlt.e~nd all me end^of toe wm^^^brxpeci^jsr^.^
charitableness m human relatio . indicted than Negroes, '“f >•■“.S dSLirfalizalion aX industrializ- ican destmy “'J, ■ “T^Srfiaur.llon which occur. ..c.pale ... a conte.encc. .caches thal
A CYNICAL NOTE We hope no one is taking comfort from ^ world readjustment buto vd civtotoU^J^^ ?har's“om“M toi^e, h'J^'to Sirica. Thow who help ,1, days after Peer’s eonf^lon hote toe'ke°y. to
The kind of support being given recent- the high crime rate among white citizens have *cind]uX hi and otoci csscnUal «tourc“ are deveij,^ ttw idea to ^ wj. S'.’ s™”*? Gto‘S',
iy by .many white politicians to the move- qf County, least ot all Negroes; Ame^-^tuWuTri^arrto —Sl^SoSSkc iL'’soror«
menl to abolish the poll tax in the southern l,ut it would be too much to expect that Ne- toe wqrW in^which Jep^^^ S-S oMhe Ctomc groita have elusion M.‘ ““j?* ’'.'''.heme’^o^SShuThte w5 ioUndaUcS on which the chutoh u
sUtes sliould put Negroes on gusrd against g^es should not get some satisfaction out status i.np»cd enough m ^iweSrS- ?oTmS^f S people Uving in J'X'n, the idea into toe to h"'“ “hich^hote the
too optimistic a view ot what repeal will of Uie statement of at least one man, in one hy^Euro^an ^van ind North zS^an naiioifr a given . nod It brouzht Your verdict concurtng th« Son of
mean for them. Aa was pointed out here re- place, to thu effect that Negroes f —''f duveo
e-i rn..1.wee.y4x>A /vf nOiYroHfl .L. - I,....! :>v Flvici it>vplziait*aH1a >-oan3
■ . It fr on.y .nciaen... u... u.e Pf nanu rh'e’soSf'the UvfrgVlVhSgh. -rdlc,
3 are not in dependent hfS parreorS S'ltcal*’PtowS'We |e Sid gSSvT^ rtiS^*Ui?S^gaiu- is my Son, hear ye him deiUny.
ceiitly, ex-Governor Talmadge of Georgia jgad in this undesirable respect- wntnrA m m-nods ot the teauiiquc of expioiuu . , ^ ^ urui^r ——
supported repeal on the ground that Ne-
Jie most part, coioiea cnamuai piuvvw:« a..v airecL oerMw w
xj ... peoples Nature, >\ people ing. but the^er. rzfferjng i^er
supported repeal on the grouna uiau i-.«- The Negro citizens of Johnston County ^uiAts of art part and parcel -Jj
groes could be kept from voting just the ,tuve reason for pride, but not for comptoe- ia“to"cwe.. m' b”^«hmc ae^e. der
ency. In the first place, until there 18 no Ne- bleaches m the fricid and near* to the people* ol the depend _ —.x,.,«wx,wTvi«4. th«t thev
.. . ~ . .... friffid an
my beloved son, naar jr® -w.-..,.
Letter To The Editor
jjame. ency. lu toe lust pmec, um-i* 4«^.w -
Now Senator Lister Hill, sometimes g,.o crime st all there will be too much; ..
known as a southern liberal, in lauding re- the second place every citizen should de
peal in Georgia, has this to say, according sire that all men be law-abiding,
to the NEWS AND OBSERVER: The ef- ^ MUST
feet of the poll tax in Alabama is to disen- iqteresting and extremely gratify-
franchise several hundred thousand sub-committee of he
WHITE men and_women who are fit and Appropriations Committee of our
qualified to vote.” ... General Assembly did not whitewash con-
Earlier in the same statement he had ^t our State hospitals for the insane
Skid: . j 4.1 including the Goldsboro institution, after
"In Alabama we have investigation. Even more to the
members of the armed forces m World War Appropriatioiw
1 and in the present World War, but the approved substantial increases S.'i'L-'S.i.rppt'u fr
moUier of a boy on the fighting front may to toe
THE CABOUHIAH The care of the mentally diseased is an '3 “mfm'be'r u''m'tof 1
118 East Hargett SL, Raleigh. N. C. . .
Tetephone M74
Uic ethnic sense, aer me evu uyavau, u u with deep couesm and regret the supposed
toaneariy uniionnpaiMfin W4111.1. ih.. jeoendeni life and encouragement by the It Is wim a«p c convenUon are so bUnded by their
bleaches m toe fr.g.d and nca. - toe PcoP‘>f "* to® v*o comprxnfre that they that I note this headUne in your ^ ^
frigid and dp-ec^ m toe tropical “glonstoan they i.n.„. p.ay latter, at toe expenae to oth- paper, to Saturday, kebruary 10, vgun,, to aacrlhce toe
and near-tropieai. Thfr laclor of nan stock, in.y nav ers who afro suUer what they ea- .n,, splendid record made by our con-
. color fr toe least cause to modern “fv ",ca^ "Lptlat. Elm:t SUte Swuetary.” venUon, through to. torceUenl lead-
dependency in such regions as are er colored peoples except poseioiy pe Th“ the paper goes on to aay, and e„hlp to the ptltl
1 quote. The Rev. Thomas Kilgore, i happen to know that one to toe
pastor of the Friendship Baptist five persona named to that commit-
Church of Winston-Salem, has been tee to make the selection «
elected Executive Secretary of the retary. knew nothing of the selecUon
T hn th« General Baptist ConvenUon ol of a man until he read it m the
S.je. ^us, Die son i Cod. ^ ^ Wto m,y he ah.,^^, -
Key Verse; Whosoever therefore ‘’.V r‘® . .u.._ PTWog u fin® fnr what others say but
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON B,a...M.w.wa,a„ y
.1 . gy/hmtt env .Trkhn tha Gt
im3 Hiller may oe muz® »w ***** —
andwometi who are lit ana Appropriations Committee of our ^f^verU’. whomever toorejore V' toe'^N'^l'SK
“■ , , . U.J General Assembly did not whitewash con- ^ „ p„u,. ev.,, ,i O .Ign ‘fr** been given they no. sausteemtoy Xwe^ed that this
the same sUitement he had „oapitals for the insane, ".which is in heaven. Math i«z.^ ",“^.t^r\^r‘anotoer‘'‘excurito r„'d sarT^IS“.Vto. Chrfrq to. -. to to
hey would have a sign given mem. inai is u..e *04 w.-* ^«g«» ^ inclined to beueve j wonder If the Negro »»P««
111 i coniess aiso oeiore my Falh- Ev-n il a Bign had been given they that this announcement has b«n North Carolina are
Virs Sr'to'S'ntesricJSd rc‘h^£r\^,“”fnre.‘‘'exc„ri:: 3 r'a.^' wXTSi-'e™.^. ^ l"hM..“K ^3.
'y me T'lhir.y'Jtote norto to to' " Th'^Ta waining lo the Cliureh 16:163. Petes Great Confute Wto “1^,"’" Se “ute’'“.v. n'to ?e”pto—telo“ t. a. Sr^»>
S-Sum
if iss H::--
ful places 111 HaiesuiK. ns n i y earth, ance for them. Jesiis. bavmg re meetlna that a committee of would raise a hand In protest to bis
- "rm'h'’er'rrm'.;rf Irllm JiiU ‘toli.ei!' un.o me.’' tone, cciito such an —tee^nd «- -^JSf.he^jilnte to tecto ahtll.y to put toejoh ^j_Bu^«
expensive undertaking; as is witnesed by Peter’s confession than from the 12.i2).
... lrmu)e
ance lor u.e...- -w^. meeUng that a committee or would raise a nano in pruw« »« «*•
ceived such an perstef be appointed to select ability to put the Job h—1 h“'«
•leiepteo. tel, - r™p,: htoU to'Sas'a‘;!Au‘gu“su, .’wo " why, Jesus would ask toe dls- ™teto Pete and stei: rieto^ ^ ‘
the fact that the appropriation forUiehos^ hundeed yearn hetose Chefr. appeae rtote’Whodo,m™ say^to.y,toe X who U Injh^^^
1C F^ml 0^**^^^* ”*^***8**- N. Ca, under the Act pitala for the insane of O ur state total n siiem reason- iMatt, 16:17). Flesh ana mow* _ rtf *>)U tnvxilfll commit- tvirt of Liberty-loving Baptistl of
a/,,.....* ....... K • I h®fiVATT ** COmmltXe€ iniS SaXeCUWVC ^UU441M1V- B \.lir4Bi4®i4 *** ^fr.ai.®*.*^* •
"itoe saddnes. toe -kcp.lcs o, Ihefr Ij.a" y” o„T„'’i, j::.: ‘'HHMsH'nS'S; iTe Mfs'-W
J( March around $6,000,000 for two years. But these day X;|''„“''‘S%tod";iitl’e t tote,.'rcJT’'ilw'':pnd-"(“otoer'a f'"*'>»Vve.?to l^teed^^^ SSd“ lrium“woS»u"’.'S«o‘?h: yn\hem°wttoout “mi'thelr cte
C. D. HA^UBTON. Mtorfrl. unfortunate and helplesa people must be no^llenllon to Je^s up to tols S'o';'" Ci'cLT Movemen.""nd h'aS toco'ugh''jasus Cl^. "T ™ the Gener^B^^^^ s^ak Z aJd’Xfrd
^***tha. 11.25 adequately cared for. To give them Jogg a'dannilc duty lo perform. He had dw” saith toe Ited.^ (Jetos^conlUtutod Uiat It rep- ror. or the tauae of which we
AddzS'toi :^.Stol;.uS^^^ «U check, than the best treatment and protection we - •>-" »' »>“• ■*“'>' *■"*
payable o.The,&i«lto)^toto^ to to^- something which cannot be re-
Addz^atoleonunuale.ttefr^SS’M’ than the best treatment and proteerton we M ^ ^
libUity for return of unzolidied plcttw manj- ^onciled with modem humane stendards. They had seen the l*m« men and taught them - now what Kingdom. (Matt. 18.18 i»). g
lo^ptg etc. unlesi ttempg are mdL .