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PAGE FOUR U’EEK ENDING SATURDAY. OCT. 13, 194S EDITORIALS NORTH CAROLINA IN GOOD SHAPE Now that the war is over and reconver sion to peactime economy well under way, citizens of North Carolina may find rea son to be jflad that it was never one of the leading war production states, so far as Btnctly wartime >fot>ds are concerned. Our state played an entirely worthy and es sential part in the war effort, and the pro ducts of North Carolina’s farms, fisheries, textile mills and other industries were hijfhly valuable. But it remains true that for the most part the products •( North Carolina are such as will hold their own, or even increase, in peacetime demand and consumption. Some evidence of the fortunate situation in which North Carolina finds itself in this respect is indicated by recent reports from two state offices. The manpower and employment services indicated that there were more unfilled jobs in this slate in September, several weeks afterV-.J Day, than there had been a month or two be fore. Of coui*se the crop harvestintr and tobacco markelinjf sea.son has a lot to do with that: but it is nonetheless still true that no post-war industrial slump ha.s struck North Carolina, or is immediately likely to. The opposite has happened, or will, in many communities in otliei’states, whose swollen payrolls and unprecedent ed prosperity for the past few years have depended largely on the manufacture of fightiuK planes, warships, ^uns, ammuni tion and other goods made to destroy and be destroyed in war, and having no othoi' utility. By contrast our textile mills which were tuming out cloth for army uniforms and tents can begin almost at once to make goods for which civilians have been wait ing. The products of our farms are want ed in large quantities, and there is no im mediate indication of a glut in most of the agricultural staples of this state. As a matter of fact severe shortages still exist here and abroad in pork and pork pro ducts, fats and oils, cotton and other Tar heel specialties. ^Another index of the sound economic ftt4tU8 of North Carolina was revealed byj! the Unemployment Compensation matter of fact severe shortages still exist heire and abroad in pork and pork pro- , fats and oils, cotton and other Tar- ■1 specialties. Another index of the sound economic of North Carolina was revealed the Unemployment Compensation Jnmission in the report that mly ten per |t of the veterans returning to this st#e during the past year have filed for tbir unemployment benefits to which they w^ld have been entitled had they not fojind jobs. It is known also that farmers hdve had to pay as high as $10 a day this season for harvest and other labor. All indications point to the same conclusion. North Carolina is entering the reconver sion period in good shape. FINE EXAMPLE An example of broad vision, public spi rit and intelligent co-operation on the part of,Negroes was revealed not long ago in the daily press. Negro citizens of Cataw ba, Iredell and Lincoln counties have joint ly raised $30,000 toward the building of a hoipital designed to serve all three counti es. The goal is $60,000. According to the news reports, the movement was initiated by Negroes, though citizens of both races have contributed to the fund. The laws of North Carolina make pro vision for the official co-operation of two or more counties in supplying certain wel- are facilities on a joint basis, but little advantage has ever been taken of the provision. Yet here we have a case of the Negro citizens of three counties undertak ing such a task as promoting a common hospital—Negroes, who according even to their own folklore are very short on ability to co-operate. The CAROLINIAN would like to know THE CAROLlNtAN Published by The Carolinian Pu.>li5hinK Co. Altered as second-class matter, April 6.1940, at Ae Post Office at Raleigh. N. C., under pie Act •f March 3. 1879. P. R. JERVAV, Publisher C. D. HALLIBURTON. Editorials CARL EASTERUNG, Circulation Manager Subscription Rates One Year, $2.00; Six Months. SI .25 Address all communications and make all ehttclK payable to The Carolinian rather than to individuals. Hie Carolinian expressly repudiates responsibility for return of unsolicited pictures, manuscript, etc., unless stamps are sent 118 East Hargett St., Raleigh, N. C. «... Telephone 9474 . more about the leadei'.ship among the colored citizens of Catawaba. Iredell aiul Lincoln, for it is evidently of a high character, and worthy of emulation. LIFE’S LITTLE JOKES Senator OUn I). .Johnson, a fine examph' of thatschool of political leadership which champions the common man. as long as only the white common man is concerned, but whose ideas about the Negro arc* on a jiar with those of the lamented “(’otton Ed” Smith, whom Senator .Johnson defeal- ed in the last Senatorial election in South Carolina, got off a howler the other day. In explaining to an interviewer wliy he will not support a permanent FEI’C. “or anything else wliich places the white and colored American on equal terms.” as tin* Associated Negro Dress puts it, he is (|uot- ed as saying, “Your race is a young race. Jt has just come to this country, and yet it wants everything that we have. Kv n if we gave it to you you wouldn’t know what to do with it.” Now there are several interesting ))oints in the statement altriliuted to Senator Johnson; but the one we find mo.si intrigu ing is the one about how young the Negro is in this country. Is it possible* tliat .Mr. Johnson’s schooling, which was admiUcnl- ly limited, was so brief that he did not hear about tiu ship which landed ii^ Jamestown in IblP? Should sonu*one rc*- mind him that in ITlMi the* Negro po|>ubi- tion made up nearly one-third of the lolal population of the slave states? Can it lie- true that he is re‘ally ignorant of the fac t that the Negro race on the average* is old'-r than any gioup on this continent. e*xc*pl- ing only the Indians? 'fhat the Ne*gr'> population has increase'd only negligilily by immigration since the abolition »f llv slave tj'ade? Thai Negroes are by ance>stj v overwhelmingly “old Ameruan sie»ck"? Senator Johnson will have to stay afle*r school today to study his history. HIGH SCHOOL—WHEN AND WHERE ? It is being talked around that the* an- thorilies are planning to dosonmihing con cerning a proper building for Ualeigh's Negro high school. There can be no ejucs- tion of the need for vastly improved facili ties for Washington High School, nor is there room for debate em the desirabilit;. of separating the grade school and tlic high school, now housed in the.same build- cerning a proper building for Raleigh’s Negro high school. There can be no ques tion of the need-for vastly improved facili ties for Washington High School, nor is there room for debate on the desirability of separating the grade school and the high school, now housed in the same build ing. But there is another matter of great im portance which should be watched if and when the change is made. That is a suit able location for the high school. Wash ington High School is in the wrong place. Almost outside the city limits it is not con veniently located for the majority of the high school students. In addition to that the site is relatively undesirable. When the new plant is built it should contain all the facilities of a modern high school suitable for a city the size of Ra leigh. and worthy of the capital of North Carolina. It should make possible in'struc- tion in all the branches of study availabk to other children of Raleigh. It should be centrally and desirably located. And it should be erected as soon as possible. THE NEGRO IN I iecciicl I Eicualits By C. L. HALLlfiURTOM The Nr-nio r*i* -• few week.-, .iU*' a ..lat> iiii-nf to the I'llei-t Mi.r S ii .tnr AitM'n W. Patkliv. >! Kntiifky. inajunlv lead-r in lii' I'.S. Sma’f. li-id \*.-i:ll«n i" ‘hi N.A.AC.I’. av kn')wlr!t«in;j Hi- ixi.st*nro .-.cvrial p.ti!)l( in.' ufferting the Ni-k'o winch coiial he atlarki il by l.-eislalinn, and plcdnmn hi.' . llnii.'. to j)romn;i- such l'«:.'!-itiun. A.' I inU'ipii't. d th- stu'V, .'Senator Barkley on hi.s own m- iiativ, wi'i*. hi-- lejior to the N .\ A (* P aft 1 (tailing certain ..itu'les III an I. .-lie of the Crisis; but It may be that .Mi Whue wrote the Sf-nator about these matters, and Barkley’a letter wjs m reply to a communication from the N.A.A.C P. If the let ter was a spontaneou-s exprcs.^lnn of the St nate loader, it Is all the more inipi't e; bii’ whichever way If wa.' it was a fine thing. Sonaloi B.iikUy i.s fiom Ken- Uirkv, and as a repre.senlativ.- of a .souflierii state hi.s action : iiniasnal and desi ivinc of rerifg- wrote the Senator about these matter-s. and Barkley's letter WdS in reply to a communication from th4 N.A.A.C.P. V thi l»l- tcr was a spontaneous expressi-n of the senate leader, it is all the more impreswive; but whichever way it was it was a fine thing. Senator Barkley i.s from Ken tucky. and as a representative of a southern state hi-s action is unusual and deserving of recog nition. I found myself taking a personal pride in the wholi* thing; for Mr. Barkley Ls from the southwest .section of the j.t;de. the Pmcha.si-.' where t was txirn and re.ared. Before he beeanic senator he wa.s Ifie rc- pre.sentative of the rfmgic.s.sional distnet in which I was born, and I ran r«*member sei mg as a joutn hi.s name and picture on campaign plaeaids when he wa.- tunning for thi* Di-mocratic no minution for the congre.ssional seat. In that particular s*ctinn o.' Kentucky practically all whit- voters are Democi.il.s. and th'' nomination wa.s tantamount to election. But I reeall that in mv little home town at that time n * registration was required by party, or if so, Negroes partici pated freely in the Domocrafa' jutimaries, though many or most Vih«m voted Republican in the final elections. So I am sure my father (who used to say proudly that he would not live in a place in which he couldn't vote), voted for Barkhy for congre.ssman and probably later for .senator also. Senator Barkley ha.s grown iiaTiy, or if »o, Negroes partici pated freely in the Democratic -..^imaries, though many or most voted Republican in tlw mal elections. So I am sure my father (who used to say proudly that he would not live in a place in which he couldn’t vote), voted for Barkley for congressman and probably later for senator al^. Senator Barkley has grown greatly as a statesman and a U- bcral. Roosevelt elevated him from the probably easy-going ran k-a n d-file of Democratic Lest M e Poreet. By W. U UIEEIfB FULL EMPLOYMENT NEARER At this writing the Senate has passeH by a healthy majority of 71 to IB the Full Employment Bill, sixjlepublicans and only four Democrats voting against it. The amendment to the original bill, providing that taxes must be levied to recover what ever money the Federal Government may have to put up to finance full employment through public works and in other ways, is not an objectionable change. It is in tended to put a limit on Government de ficit spending and continued adding to the already huge public debt. The American people ought to be willing to pay for full employment on a cash basis. It is worth that to all of us. Action on the Full Employment Rill in the House will be delayed because of legis- ation already before that body, but it will probably be only a short time before this important part of the presidcntially ap proved reconversion program is law. Many faint with toil. That few may know the cares and wo* of sloth, —Shelley Tht'fc IS niui’h to «o inside fhc American color llnp^ flue 1o our hiil-rioal heritage. The present statt.s of hiiman n tations becan to lake shape in the ."mnesty poli cy of Presiden’l Andrew Johnson following the Civil War when he gave full pardons to Confederate leaders The federal armies stay ed in the South eight years follow ing the surrender of rebel arms buy thi- undoing of the needed refirm in human relations began in the activities of the pardoned leaders of the revolt. They were cnmmittced to a policy of racism and bided their tim-. The withdrawal of the armrs of occupation -siunailed a blood- les-s revolt again.st a tiew .status for colored peiplc. Although the form er slaves could no longer bo held as chattclcs, the Conf-derate lead ers were determined that the- mas ter-slave relationship between col or groups ihoiitd remain. Tr.o sys tem of "Bl ck l.aws" followed cli cumscribing the activities of p«*r- sons defined as without norm.U means -of subsistence, actually meaning the freedman who had not had time to acquire trninjpg and property sufficient to become self determining. The'pattern of legal public seg regation was invented for the purpose of maintaining this mas ter-slave relationship and from the beginning of public education in the South its citizens have been idoctrinated by example in the fine art of •mild hatr^.” The truth is that the admira tion of one person by another sel dom begins with the observance of any other than a physical trait. It is for this reason 'hat health and good grooming stand first on the list of American_pducational ob jectives. Admiration of the mental ahd spiritual characteristic of a periionality c.imes only after as sociation and extended observa tion. When the so.:ial pattern is conditioned by custom and legal suggestion that the most outstand ing physical trait of a person ren ders that persor -omehow objec- ti nable for pur ses of unlimited friendship, the cds of suspicion and hate arc * i and the harvest is inevitable. It is hard to teach that the law is wrong It is easier (o accept the law as right, and blame the be havior which it requires on hu man nature. But we mutt not for get that in true democracy laws are to be obeyed while their re peal by orderly process is sought. It will take both sides of the color line a long time to stop hating mildly long enough to advocate repeal of Jim crow together. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By R«v. M. W. WUliamt Subject. The Home, A Schotil of Chri^tla^ Living. Bcut. 6:4-9; Luke 2:51. S2; Ephisiaii .);22. 25; 6:1-4 Key Verse; "Re ye kind one to .mother, icnrieihearlcri forgiving jno another even as Ood tor Christ's fake hath tugiven you." Ephisian 4:32. As wr follow' up the study of The Christian and His Relation ships, three piis-:iKe;i of scripturej are used wliieh wore iliered at dif ferent times and places. First. «-Mos(S .|J'*aks to the children of Isarci on the plains of Moab about 1460 R. C Hi.*; teaching pl,nce> the res()»nail)ility on the parents to teach clicir children the truth jf God; tiie 1 vc for God; the obligation to witness for Gor in the home and instructions for continually remembering the com mandments of God. 'Deut. 6:4-9»: second. Luke gives a picture of .fesus as a buy of '.wclve at his home in Nazareth, in Galilee. A. D. 7 or 8. Luke's t>‘aching placet emphasis on children's obedience and growth in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. tl.uke 2:51, and the third, Saint Paul wrifbs to the Ephesians on the Christian Home. A. D. 63. St. Paul teaches wives to obey their husbands; husb.indi to love their wives; children to be obed ient to their parents and super vision of fathers over their chil dren F-ph. ft.n-tb. 6;l-4>. These three scriptural passages, properly studied and prayerfully adhered to will make any home for all of its members what God intends the home to be. There is no question about the impressing which can be made upon children in early life. Moses reali/.ed that in telling the Israe- lite.-i to start early with the child while his mind i- plastic, and keep ing it up duri' g his growing per iod. it w^uld be so strong, that the child's faith in God would not be so easily shakened. Count less numbers of men and women LATIN AMERICA HAROLD PREECE .sen,(tors when he .selected him ;.s hi.s choice over Senator Pa*. Ilarri.son as majority leader, and thereby gave him a comanding position among the congression al forces charged with putting over Ri»sc*v«*lt s legislative pro gram. Like many other men fc.milarly elevated to prominence by fate, Mr. Barkley lias arisen to the occa.sion, and has develop ed in liberalism, in leadership and in his grasp of national problerrus. It has been ver.v fortunate for the Negro that a southerner of Senator Barkley’s type has been the majority leader these past few years. He has gone down the line for the New Deal. He lias supported every libera! mea sure. Including the FEPC and anti-poil tax legislation, sponsor ed by the Administration. Ke has done so partly because as niajorilv leader it was his job: but I believe also that his heart * ha.s been in his work; that most ot fhc measures he has backed fhc majority leader these past few years. He has gone down the line for the New Deal. He iias supported every liberal mea sure. Including the FEPC and anti-poll tax legislation, sponsor ed by the Administration. Ke has done so partly because as majority leader it was his job: but I believe also that his heart ’ has been in his work; that most ol the measures he has backed represented his personal convic tions. His correspondence with the N.A.A.C.P would indicate that such is the case. BCNEZUELA OUTLAWS JIM CROW Now. the Negro-Indian people-s of Latin American want a Jot of the things that can be made in the United States. Thc.v wan* locomotives and lingerie, automobiles and aspirin, shoe/. and spark plugs. But here's what they don't want on their list of imports from this country which they're trying to do business with in spite of Dixie's Congressmen: 1. Theodore G. Bilbo and other old whooping turtles like him. 2. Dixie Confederates coming down and telling them how to lun their businesses and their countries. 3. "White supremacy" by any label, whether it comes in tubes like tooth-paste or in buckets like tar. Now, I reckon that Bilbo would bo chased out of the country quicker than the great Venezuelan Negro general. Carlos Em manuel Piar, chased out the Spaniards if Bilbo were a member of the Venezuelan senate at Caracas instead of the United Stab-s Senate in Washington. You’ve heard all about United Stales Senator Bilbo and may be you’ve even received one of his counteous little letters begin ning "My Dear Kike,” "My Dear Dago.” or “My Dear N r” SENATOR VSi SENATOR But you've probably never heard of Senator Manuel Rodriquez Cardenas, a distinguished man of learning who represents the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy in the national congress at Carcas. If Venezuela would give him a little time off. I’d like to take him down to Mississippi and run him for the United States against Bilbo, next year. When Bilbo and his twin from the Mississippi mudholes. Senator James B. Eastland, were slandering Negro soldiers on the floor of our Congress, a few months ago, Senator Cardenas was making the floor of the Venezuelan Congress shake with speeches in favor of his meq.sure to amend the country’s penalcode by making racial discrimination a criminal offense. And Senator Cardenas was raising hell not only on general principles but also because of a specific Instance of discrimination on the part of white Americans Jiving in his country toward a talented Negro American visiting in his country. TODD DUNCAN JIM CROWED The Negro American wa.s Todd Duncan, one of the world's greatest fingers and star of Porgy and Be.S8, then on a concert tour throughout Latin America. Todd Duncan was invited to the best homes in Latin American, but white representatives of the American oil companies in Venezuela caused him to be denied accommodations in each of the three major hotels of Caracas. When the newspapers published the facts. Venezuelans started cussing and started writing hot letters to the editors. Wasn't one of the fathers of Veuezuelan independence the escaped Negro stave, Andresote, they asked? Wasn't General Piar the outstanding mili tary hero of Latin America's long, bitter struggle for freedom for Spain? Hadn't Venezuela had at least four Negro presidents? — Jose Gregoria Mongas, who freed the slaves in his country; Jo.se's brother, General Tadeo Mongas; Dr. Raimundo Andueza Palaciol and General Francisco Linares de Alcantara. Hadn’t Latin America's Washington, Simon Bolivar, been reared by a Negro slave nurse. Mates? Hadn’t he given his niece, Felicia, in marriage, to the heroic Negro general, Laurencio Silva? Now, Bilbo and those Americans living in Caracas got their ears pinned down when Senator Cardenas took the floor to apolo gize on behalf of his countrymen to Todd Duncan. But Senator Cardenas did more than apologize. He introduced his amendment to the national penalcode imposing a prison term of from three to fifteen month.? on any buvsiness prafticing racial or religious dis crimination. Second offenders under the amendment were to be assessed double what they had gotten the first time. Moreover, the trial judge was given the option of ordering the busineas ckxed if he felt it wise. HITS U. S. DISCRIMINA’nON "These .iporadic instances of racial discrimination ere the direct product of an ever-increasing Yankee influence (Yankee in this sense meaning any white American)” Senator Cardenas declSred. TVx'n i^pnator nointoH out that the racial ouestlon in the United fifteen months on any business practicing racial or religious diL crimination. Second offenders under the amendment were to !>• assessed double what they had gotten the first time. Moreover, tlw trial judge was given the option of ordering the bofinMS If he felt it wise. . i HITS U. 8. DmCRIMlNATIOV ' " M. ‘"Iliese sporadic instances of racial discrimlnaUon are the direct product of an ever-increasing Yankee influence (Yankee Ift tht? sense meaning any white American)” Senator Cardenas declare^ Then the Senator pointed out that the racial question in the United States is becoming increasingly grave. With his feHow-8enaW*» sitting in shocked silence, he gave a detailed account of lynching race riots, and discrimination in the United States. When Dr. Cardenas had finished speaking, ottter senators sprang to their feet and urged that the amendment be passed. The measure went through unanimously — and Todd Duncan mUit have felt proud that he had a little to do with outlawing Jim Crow in Venezuela. Next day, the new8pa|>er, El Nacional of Carcaa, printed a favorable editorial commending the Venezuelan senators for what they had said and done. The editorial said in part: “The fact that the United States is the moist modem country in America, while we little countries of Latin America are lt» most direct zone of economic influence, necessarily determines (its) de^ social and spiritual penetration.” “But up to now this penetration has encompassed only th4 worst export material that the United States has to offer. In that country, there are horticulturists who seek to produce the most vitamin-rich grains in the world; artists dedicated to producing the “great American art” and some ■political parties which vigor ously combat discrimination. But we Latin Americana —• and in this concrete instance we Venezuelans — are left with Wrlgley*8 chewing gum. the concentrated culture of Reader’s Digest — and race prejudice!’* Letter To The Editor are doubting the reality of God today. bccBure they bad little or perhaps, no training concerning the truth uf GtKl in early life. 'Then there are those who can be count ed by the millions, whose faith in God. taught them by the parents in early life, has enabled them to whether many storms, overcome many temptations and. are still growing in wisdom and favor with God and man These men and women have and are making a contribution to the world, as a re sult of the schooling in the Chris tian homes out of which they came. LESSONS FOR THE YOUNG Luke's picture of Jesus at twelve years of age is the best ex ample which caA be given to any voting ffirl or boy as to obedience. He was obedient unto His parents The Bible has many scriptural injections “Children obey your parents," 'honor your parents;' long life,' etc. The world has many injections also. "The old folks Dear Editor; This is not intended for to lam- bast officiating in athletic con tests but io help clear up some of the gross irregularities. It Is a fact that sports loving fans who pay for the officials at a game to play fair 4o both teams. In a recent game played In Richmond the public had a chance to witness the rottenness piece of football officiating that 1 have ever witnessed. These ngs serve to take the starch out .f a young player and would have a similar don't know;" "Out of date;" Foggy, etc., which will you follow? LESSONS FOR PARENTS St. Paul's letter to the fathers is worth reading and followrlng today. Parents, prrvoke not you*- children to wrath. ITie age in which the live require so much of the parents to keep giving — there is little time left for tolerance, pa tience teaching and prayer. Tend erness. gentleness, an understand ing of youth problems together with firmness and a forgiving spirit play a large part in living together in a house to make a Christian house. The economic trend — higher wages and better salaries for the masses wilt enable the wives and mothers to stay at home and teach their children the fundamentals of Christian Living. The Church can and should play a great part in keeping the moth ers to fulfill their ereat ambition. To bring their children up in the far artd admonition of G^. reaction on more mature pWper*. It Is a fact we do have fomc good officials who are willing to inter pret the rules as they are seen whether It affects the home team or the visiting team. PersonSl b-iendshlp should never have afly influence upon an official. We can turn back to the qriglA of our athletic program atad flnd that the basis for the orgflntzattM was to teach sportsmanship 8M if we are to leach these -thin84 M the youth we need more alert * fieials. 'The idea Is not on'wlnnihi the game but on clean sports, and the official should do his utmost to develop that idea and he can fU) this by his reaction in regards m the running of the game. It seems hard to find good of ficials in many of our communi ties but a city the size of Rich mond surely should afford better than the trio which had oppor- tnity to represent the city in a game at Hover Field in Richmond Friday. Please allow me to list several of the ways in which the offieiala erred: 1. The refusal of the capUln of the team a measurement when ask. 2. The failure te' forfeit the game when one team walked off the field and stayed for ten min utes. 8. Failure to give any time for substitution unleu a time out was charged to the team. 4. Allowing players to show un sportsman likti conduct on the field without ejecting any of them (Continued on pe«o live)
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