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PAGE SIX THE tAKOLINIAN WEEK EKDI.'CG SATUuDAY, PnCCMEEK S, 1015 EDITORIALS AMERICAN CYNICISM An eloquent example of the difference between Americanism in principle and Americanism in practice is supplied by the American Legion, that large, active and influential national association of war vet erans, which will be much larger and more powerful as it adds to its membership mil lions of the veterans of World War 11. In its first post-war convention it evaded the question of what to do about the five southern states in which no Negroes can become members of the Leg[on. Despite some pressure the convention look no ac tion whatever on the issue. Though it busied itself with many other vital national problems, and adopted res olutions, and let the nation know how it stood on assorted issues, it left alone a problem concerning its own p ‘icy. Its failure to come to grips with this problem, w’hich in itself is a shameful commentary on the Americanism which the Legion so boldly proclaims and champions in and out of season, gives a picture of the deep- seated cynicism of America wherever col or is inovlved, since the American Legion is a good cross-section of the white male American citizenry of a ceidain age range. The typical American cynicism and sophi.stry are apparent especially from this angle. A majority of the Legion mem bership is undoubtedly oppo.sed to the barring of Negroes from membership In those states where this discrimination is practiced. But the Legion was set up on the "state’s rights” piinciple, each state organization having the pnvilege to de termine certain internal policies. Which means that the “right” to spit in the faces of many thousands of Negro veterans a more sacred right than the right of those veterans to enjoy the privileges of a vet erans' organization. If there is anything more tenderly and deferentially handled in America than the divine right of discrimination and injustice to non-w’hites, what is it? All the nation above the Mason and Dixon’s line has . worked assiduously for sixty years to erase the blot of Sherman’s march and the lie- construction, and is still on the job. The South, suh, won the war, and State’.** Rights take precedence over human rights If we need universal peacetime military training, let's have a law, framed to take into consideration all the needs of the country and the rights of the young men. Until we have such a law, let us be fair and honest, and suspend the draft. FISHBEIN TEARS HIS HAIR Dr. Morris Fi.-tibein, snoke.sman for the Amei’ican Medical Association, has come out agianst Pre.^ident Truman'.s proposed national health program. No one w h o knew Dr. Fishbein or the official attitude of the A.ssociation was in tlio least sur prised. The A.ssociation raises the cry “socialized medicine, regimentation, en slavement of physicians, violation of the .sacred right.s of do'clor and patient.” on the slightest hint of any attempt to modify the present traditional medical .set-up in the intere.st of l>ettcr medical care for the people as a whole. The plan propo.sed by President Tru man meticiously avoids any hint of the dire re.sulls predicted and decried Ity the vociferous and impassioned I")]*. Fishbein: but that has nothing to o with it. He and his friends staii yelling even before they find out what the proposal is. If it would change the .status quo in any way. they ar “ against it. They take the position that not only are the pliysician.s the iiniy ones who know anything about health, liut that they have the (!od-gi\fn right to dict.itc the Operation of exerything coimeet»’d witli it. from soup to mit.s , After all. physicians are not demigods, but men, and the government does not ex ist to operate only for their welfare. Health i.s not simply the conceiai xf the doctor and the patient, it is a public mat ter and as such, comes at some points with in the scope of society itself, as represent ed by government. This country needs more and better medical care, and on some basis more logical than it now ope rates. If the American Medical Association desn’t realize this, it’s about time .some one did. To be sure, we cannot hav*- it without the doctors; but now long mu.st we wait for them to be convinced? Here’.*! hoping that the National Medi cal Association, made up of Negro phy.si- cians, does not f How the lead of the AMA in thif. instance. GOVERNOR ARNALL AND STATE’S to non-whites, what is it? All the nation above the Mason and Dixon’s line has worked assiduously for sixty years to erase the blot of Sherman’s march and the Re construction, and is still on the job. The South, suh, won the war, and State’s Rights lake precedence over human rights and plain decency. we wait for them to be convinced? Here’s hoping-that the National Medi cal Association, made up of Negro physi cians, does not follow the lead of the AMA in this instance. STOP THE DRAFT NOW News from Selective Service headquar ters in Washington last week was great. As a concession to the needs of the nation it was announced that persons pui-suing graduate courses in the sciences or engin eering, and those teaching such subjects, might have their induction deferred by local draft boards! A most remarkable concession, in view of the fact that the war is over. How about .the other boys and young men who must make up the quota of 50,000 draftees • a month to fight the war that is over? How about even the potential chemists and physicists and engineers who have not reached graduate school; who'are so young and so short-sighted as to be of high school and college age right now? The American people are letting the military authorities go right along draft ing boys and young men to finish the war with Germany and Japan. So far there has been no necessity for Congress to de cide whether we want or need compulsory peacetime military training; nor will there ever be any necessity for such a de cision as long as 600,000 men a year can be drafted under the present draft laws, which permit any youth who is eighteen or over and not in his senior year of high school to be drafted, just the same as though we were still fighting a two front war. And with no limit placed on his term of service. THE CAHOLINIAN Published by The Carolinian Publishing Co. Entered as second-class matter. April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh. N. C.. under the Act of March 3. 1879. P. R. JERVAY, Publisher C. D. HALLIBURTON. Editorials CARL EASTERLING. Circulation Manager Subscription Rates One Year. $2.00: Six Months. Sl.25 Address all communication.s and make all checks payable to The Carolinian rather than to individuals. The Carolinian expressly repudiates responsibility for return of unsolicited pictures, manuscript, etc., unless stamps are sent. .. . 118 East Hargett St., Raleigh. N. C. GOVERNOR ARNALL AND STATE’S RIGHTS No truer statement has ever been made by a politician than the one made in this state by Governor Arnall of Georgia when he said, "Most people who talk about State Rights really believe in the status quo.” There is certainly no quarrel in this quarter with Governor Arnall’s statement. But the good governor of Georgia is not consistent. He believes in state’s rights himself, and he believes in the status quo. The only difference between him and those he criticises is that he sees that in certain respects the state’s rights doctrine hurts the white South; but when the state’s rights doctrine is trotted out as an explanation or excuse for perpetuating in equalities between the races, Arnall is with the rest of the boys. A few w’eeks ago it was Governor Arnall who publicly announced that the legal department of the Slate of Georgia had been ordered to fight the U. S, District Court decision that Negroes could not be barred from the Democratic primaries in his state. It is Arnall’s type which is farsighted and intelligent enough to realize that the South needs Federal aid, and is really acting foolishly when it permits its leading politicians to masquerade behind the moss- grown bulwark of state’s rights. What he and certain others are trying to say to the South is: "You fools. If we just handle the thing right we can get all this good old Federal money and spend it the way we want to. Don’t worry about the Negro. We can handle him. We have always found ways to do it. Washington alway.5 goes our way in the end, or lets us do as we please, after a little show of trying to safeguard the Negro’s rights. The whole nation is committed to letting us handle our ‘peculiar problem’ in our peculiar way, though of course it can’t afford to say so officially. Can’t you understand? Of course the Negro will have to get a little of the benefit, but, after all, look how much we will gel,” Between The Lines By DEAN B. HANCOCK FOB ANP HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE ^ /ecend Theuahts Bt C. It. HAiXlBUBTON The b:e war is ovt-r. but nul warfare. It wi.uld appt-ar. ai It-ail in on«-’s moic pessimistic momt-nt, that war never ends on :;.is olanet If war is to be com- paieJ a fir^-. then the fire i . rev:." '>ut. At ti.-m-s it fl.ires up ji.tv. a ituat conflagration, whuli alter tausirig gicat destruction. Lui.'L-i Itself out. apparentlv. Bui ihei. are still live coals glowinii \iliv beneath the ashes of de iiruction. and there is alway; old half - burned fuel which a slight brevz- can set Kuing fui- iuusly again; and the lfLshnes.s and CTUtltv and fear and greed r' .-.ident m human hearts can al- wa.- sunply more- ni.w luel. As of this dav. British soldiers killing Javanese for the Lutcli. If th4-ie is not war going On in Inoonesia it i.-; oiilv be c.jU'M' the Indoiu.^ian>' are too Jack who might get ideas siiould the Hiller-prostrated Butch find it necessary to listen too respectfully to brown de mands or complaints or pleas. Chinese Communists, backed hv Russia, are fighting then- brothers. who in turn are back ed. or will be. bv us. Two hun- oied thousand Reds are on tne march. Is war over? On the con- t.ary tins country mav be lucky to escape being drawn into an Asiatic full dress war. with Rus- .sia on the other side. Russia is imperialistic. Britain is imperi alistic. Little Holland is imperi- ; lislic in mind, if not in body. Nationalist China us under the dictatorship of Chiang and a lit- tk group of his friends and ad- \ uH-rs. Red China is being di rt cted from Moscow. Russian IrooPi- are still in Manchuria. of the rest of the world. It prob ably couldn't be done anyway. We can’t stay out. and we don’t know what to do if we get in We don’t make up o u r minds until they are made up for us by the inevitable trend of events. We have the atomic bomb, and wish to God it had never turn- d up. We begged Russia to join us against Japan, and now we wished we hadn’t, since we did n’t need her. and now she is messing up all over Asia, just as the is doing all over eastern Eur ope. We don’t know whether we want to put our faith in the ma chinery for peace or to get ready for the next and maybe the last World W’ar. We don’t like what’s going on in Argentina and in Spain, hut we don’t know that there is anything we can do about it. The Atlantic Charter. PEACE. IT'S BLUNDERFUL! If the peace of Father Divine is wonderful, that which followed the cessation of world wide war is "blundcrful." It is disheartening to note the interminable blunders of our diplomats and statesmen. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that such diplomacy as our higher- ups are evincing ill surely hurtle us into another world war. When President Truman served notice that the atomic bomb was our private property and would be so utilized, he blundered terribly. When he attempted to make of a universal matter a private concerp, ho was attempting to contravene the principles which give promise of Wilkie’s One World. He was appealing to fear, one of the basest of human instincts, rnd one which has been most instrumental in deluging this world in blood in wars without end. Had President Truman invited all the nations into confidence and conference, the foundation would have been laid for interna tional faith and good will. There can be no peace in a world of distrust and suspicions such as were aroused when we made an abortix’o attempt to monopolize the secrets of the atomic bomb. Once the President’s pronouncement had been publicized, the atomic bomb became a "hot potato’’ and the attempts in a later conference to lay it down after the other nations had been insulted or cha grined at the thought that they were outsiders looking in on the wonder of the incoming atomic age. Our position would not have been so defenseless had not all the nations cooperated in the discovery of the atomic bomb. All races and nationalities were represented in the research. The United States majored in financing the project but the combined help of the other nations was too great a factor for our country to arrogate unto itself sole ownership and management of the atom ic secret. Our position became repulsive toj^ nations. The keen-visioned Englishmen knew we had blundered and they made moves contradictory to our first assumptions. Seeing the error of position. President Truman calls a conference, not of the Big Three but of a Big Two and Half, United States. England and Canada, thus completing the insult to the other nations of the earth. Thixso which were not inrultod — or who appeared not insulted - had eyes on dear Uncle Sam’s never-failmg e*‘^hequei^ The lesser nations have axes to grind and will therefore not play up the insult they feel. ... ik« It is saddening to observe that the three that dLSCus^d t possibilities and powers ut the atomic bo,„b were a Nordic bloc and hereby hang dreadful possibilities. Here is big blunder tlircc. The veiled attempt to employ atomic energy to PorP^riate whUe supremacy is doomed to failure. The most fortunate >''"6 his^ whole unfortunate situation is that here an.- so many Nordits who see the tulillly of the attempt to browbeat the nations in.o submKsion to Nordic supremacy ,s dangerous The biggest of all blunders will be in this veiled attempt to m augu^tc a reigi ot tear, designed to permanently subjugate the darker peoples of the earth. Behind the scenes are operating tSth deadly abandong and our statesmen are - bhndly through their country right or wrong - ‘"f there is an American who is not! The ugly tact remains the great ness and glory ot the British empire Ls apassed or passing. Russia is the ascendant power in Europe and rises like Ger many ot old to challenge British greatness. In two world s^rs the United Stales helped Britain to put to her lar-flung influence and empire. Russia steps into the breach and il is extremely imperative that Rus?’a be pushed back if the BrhKh power is not to be eclipsed. Recently Englishmen have been acknowledging the greatness of the United States and even accepting a subordinate place beside her. When men like Churchill speak forthrightly and say that the United States has taken the lead, he has an eye to the future where in we will be called upon the third time to save the British empire from disintegration and ruin. It will bo a big bloody blunder if this nation assumes responsibility for poTpetuating the British empire and British colonial policy. Peace, it’s blunderful. Slow Up —By Ruth Taylor evilly ooneaui tne asnes ot do- rlruction. and there is always old half - burned fuel which a slight breeze can set going fur iously again; and the .selfLshness and cruelty and fear and greed Ksident in human hearts can ol- wavs supply more new fuel. As of this day. British soldiers are killing Javanese for the Dutch. If there is not war going on in Indonesia it i.s onJv be cause the Indonesians are too weak in the power of modern weapons and methods of war fare to pul up a decent resist ance. The Dutch are too weak loo. but as Kallenborn said the other night, labor-ruled Britain ftels that white domination of all parts of this planet ii; im portant enough to warrant her intervention in favor of the Dutch. There are too manv brown men under the Union uary ims country may De lucxy to escape being drawn into an Asiatic full dress war. with Rus sia on the other side. Russia is imperialistic. Britain is imperi alistic, Little Holland is imperi alistic in mind, if not in body. Nationalist China is under the dictatorship of Chiang and a lit tle group of his friends and ad visers. Red China is being di rected from Moscow. Russian troops arc still in Manchuria. Russia dominaios northern Iran, and the Iranian government can not even police its own country if the Ru.ssian government ob jects — which it doo.s. Although the United States cannot be charged with imperi alism (due probably to the fact that we do not find any neces sity for being imperialistic) wc arc not happy. We don't know how to stay out of the troubles wisnca we naan i, since we aia- n’t need her. and now she i.s messing up all over Asia, just as i he is doing all over eastern Eur ope. We don’t know whether we want to put our faith in the ma chinery for peace or to get ready for the next and maybe the last World War. We don’t like what’.s going on in Argentina and in Spain, but wc don’t know that there is anything we can do about it. The Atlantic Charter, proclaimed in the fervor of cru sading, now embarrasses us. Labor and management fight each other. Race relations are a headache and a reproach. Con gress docs nothing about any thing. except to try to find out why Pearl Harbor was a disas- tei of four years ago. The war is over. The world is at peace. As thev used to say a few years ago, Oh. yeah? Slow Up —By Ruth Taylor metic? You stumbled and puzzled over them for a long time until jou finally learned that you had to allow something for the stretch, stretch. In solvii^ the problem of liv ing in those days of distress and strain, you have to do just that — allow for the stretch. Lest We Forget. By W. L. GREENE The late Franklin D. Roose- \‘lt will occupy a prominent place in th ehistory of govern- pient because he could sec thru the political smoke screens of the status quo politicians. As he taw. he prophesied indirectly bv stating subtle truths in a history ntuking manner. His declaration tliat we have nothing to fear ex cept fear itself is probably his best slogan of action. The appropriateness of F. D R.'s declaration is before us as we digest the best piece of news to be printed this week. The .Sunday papers carri' d the story ( f the ^inth annual session of Uio North Carolina Student As sembly and its greatest enemv'j' defeat. The assembly voted more than one ’ resolution to North Carolina. The usani- mous vote of the joint session to invite ALL colleges and uni versities of the state into tne next session was just what FEARMONGERS would run from. There were forty and eight fearmongers accounted for in the voting but for the first time in North Carolina, thank heav en. there were five and one half score children of light who felt the urge to seek the fourth free- dom. Th big fearmonger who was the keynote speaker, parliamen- tarv advisor, and all-round big brother to the assembly urged the students to eschew their new found freedom. He went on to suggest that they consult the ad ministrators of the colleges from which might come those other students who had in the pad been left out of the assembly be cause of the fears of the political hypocrites of the status quo stripe. Here wc must be remind ed. We must not forget that the presidents, deans, et. al. in the colleges from which the students came to the assembly did not consult with anyone about the actions the students would take. Members of the assembly were free to deliberate and enact their views into appropriate resolu tions. What of the students who may be invited from the collcgt’S hitherto left out? There is rank poison in the suggestion that the administra tive heads of the students assem- hly consult the administrative heads of the colleges to be in vited. The college heads to be consulted are SUPPOSED TO BE AFRAID TO HAVE THEIR STUDENTS ACCEPT THE IN VITATION. This FEAR is all we have to be afraid of. If we can witnes.s the overcoming of this fear, democracy will start our way at last. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rmr. M. W. Williams The tempo of existence is so fast, there is so much to be done, that there is an ever-present dan ger of overcrowding our lives, of taking on too much, of cramming cur hours too full. We make .a fetish of being busy and are so continually haunted by the hands of the clock that we do not do justice to anything wo tackle. Slow up. Plan your time so that there will be enough stretch to your day to take up the delays and u.nforeseon emergencies that will arise. Do what you can. Sec to it that whatever you do. vou do thoroughly, but don’t try to do the things you can’t do. And don’t try to crowd everything into one day. You make haste best by going at an even pace, filling your time to the brim but not to overflow ing. .Make time for yourself by giving up some of the non-essen tials. not by adding to an already full schedule. Leave time for living — for thinking — for recharging the bal- eries of your spirit. You need” to be strong in bc^y, clear in mind, adn courageous in spirit. And you cannot be these three if you run on nerve alone. Coordinate your self and conserve your energies, working hard — but all times for the stretch. Do the best y«u can and trust in the goodness of Divine Provi dence for the rest, remembering the words of the Prophet Isaiah. TQUOTEST OF THE'WEEK '*rm strong and healthy— maybe because I wear two petti coats.”—Mrt. Adelain* Hill, Fort Atkinaon, Wis., eeUbratinff 107th birthday. “I're Rever done anything dif ferent—except being a faithful smoker.”—Georg* Livermore, Ithaca, N. Y., celebrating hie lOlei year. "Political power, not bargain ing, has become the means to labor’s ends.”—Free. IraMoaher, NatU Aaan. of Manufacturera, "Government’s job is to help, not to direct.”—Under Secretary of Commerce Alfred SchindUr, m re. American buainesa. "Stop being veterans. Attack the civilian probl ns.”—Charlea G. Bolte, American Veterana' Comm., to fellow ex-GIa; "I know of no more sincere pacifists than American soldiers and veterans.”—-Gen. Ike Fiaen- hower, urging univeraal troininp. Subject: The Christian's Place In the Life ul Hsi Nation, Mutt. 5:13-16; 43-48; 1 Peter 2:13-17. Key Verse: 'Blessed is the na tion whose Ood is the Lord." Ps. 33:12. None of the beatitudes appear in the printed text of this lesson- Yct they arc regarded as the sub ject of the whole fabric of that ircmorable sermon dealing with ihe djiferent dements of excel lence expected in the Christian to pruprly fulfill his place in the world, while he enjoys the accru- ••1 btesing'^. Very few times the churh leaders get in hot w’ater far shouldering others responsibi lities. but most any time some body is complaining about my rights and privileges; In cities api towq^ you cun often hear — "We must have our rights" which, of course, no one should object. Along with those rights, however, goes responsibiitics which, if not accepted, may cause a good deal of suffering. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, says Chas. W. Cell. In God's Gift to Humanity, is "A Chart, a map, a plan for every human being a''d portrays all the rudiments of his new church prin ciples." And like the sound preacher that He was and is. after telling the Christians about the blessings wtiich cumc to them as a result of their Chrisllike spirit. He changed their thoughts to the salt of the earth. The great' and important place of salt was nev ;r questioned in relation to its pr servation by any one of that day nor this. Many of the farmers ure now killing hogs. They do not enjoy the privilege of cold stor age, but they do know if they would keep their meat from de caying they must use plenty of sat. Hence the Christian in this or that community and the world. What would be the condition of the world today if the Christian church had folded up and not ex erted its influence. From the time of the Mediterranean Civilization until now the Christian influence has served to steady human socie ty, build churches, hospitais 'ind make the communities livable. There is a possibility however that Christians can become so en grossed in worldly affairs that their influence may become simi lar to the salt in a satl-shaker which is so mixed with moisture that it will not come out when it is needed. It’s there, tut not avail able. The Christian life should be so lived that its influence will al ways be available (felt). The Christian's designation as the light of the world is a compliment which every Christian should highlv prize. No one could ques tion Christ on that declaration. In John 8:12, He declares tha: He is the Light of the world — Atid as representatives of Christ, the Christian's presence in whatever sphere found should help some be nighted »ou] TO SEE the real light of Jesu.i. The kind of attitude the Chris tian take toward law and order depends upon his love of 'lod and his knowledge of the original, ri of all laws and order. Rulers are not terrors to good workers. Those accepting a subordinate place oe-sme ner. When men like Churchill speak forthrightly and say that the United States has taken the lead, ho has an eye to the future where in we will 'be called upon the third time to save the British empire from disintegration and ruin. It will be a big bloody blunder If this nation assumes responsibility for perpetuating the British empire and British colonial policy. Peace, it’s blunderful! "He that believeth shall not make Do you remember the carpet haste.’’ laying examples m your old anjh; who make laws and those who ex ecute them should be imbued with the Christian spirit of brotherly love. Can this be possible in a day ylike this? This answer is yeS. If the Christian Church robes it self in righteousness and prasrs for those who serve in public and private places where their acts aC- ' feet the lives of others it will havS an effect on the life of the whole nation for gaod. The prayers which followed the death of a recent 1 President was a good illustration of what should and perhaps was done before his death. Fiankly. t believe the Christian family should be led by the Holy Spirit in all things, and that their in fluence for good would be always in keeping with the principles for which Christ came. • I ^ --' I
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