4 I EDITORIALS I TAKING A STAND . Onn of the devices hv which mßsemrers 1 who ride the New Bern Avenue and Mar i tin Street buses while away the weary hiimites waiting for a bus downtown is to count the buses on other lines which I pass on their way to outlying sections bf the city in .other directions. We say Vdevice” instead of pastime advisedly, for h pastime is usually thought of as some thing which gives pleasure, or at least does not give pain. The weary waiters Certainly'do not get any pleasure out of this device. Instead their choier tends to rise with each passing moment, because They count so many before they have to give up their occupation to hoard the s>us they have been waiting for. This feeling of impotent indignation gets a further boost when after 15 or 20 minutes of standing on the corner they must board a bus already full because of the crowds that accumulate at every stop Over so .long a wait. One may go fov days without the experience of occupying a Seat, for the buses have 40 or more pas sengers by the time they leave the corner bf Blount and Hargett, and often before leaving the Fayetteville Street stop. This |s happening, not during rush hours, but at mid-day and early afternoon. Meanwhile buses are whizzing up Hillsboro Street dn the several lines that go out that way at the rate of one every three or four min stes, new big buses, with ten or twelve passengers, and sometimes less. P ■ -m 9:do in the morning until nearly 1 P. M. a bus is scheduled to run only every 40 rmnuie.x over the Marlin Street | : nc, and one every 10 minutes over the New Bern A-venue line. The§e runs are scheduled to mesh so that there is a bus every 20 minutes during these seven hours over one or the other of these lines. Before the great traffic improvement worked out by the gracious co-operation of the /Raleigh city administration and the Caro lina Power a n d Light Company there ifsed to be a bus every ten minutes. ! Raleigh progresses. The traffic situa tion could be further improved however, by keeping the New Bern-Marlin buses off the streets except once every hour, instead of once every third of an hour. That is, of course, after the people in the eastern part of the city who work for those in the northern and western sec tion- have been delivered to their jobs, and until it is time for them to get back home. t WISE MOVE The decision of the Army officials to keep to a minimum the number of Negro draftees to he trained in the southern states is a wise one. It should boost the morale of the inductees and Negro civil ians alike, and at. the same time .should cause no resentment in the South. Soldiers in the mass are not likely to ix> welcmed enthusiastically by any com munity, because of the problems they create Proximity to a training camp spells financial gain to a community, but except for the business men who benefit directly hv the presence of a concentra tion of trainees, the community is likely to look at the camp as somewhat of a burden, however necessary. Southern communities located near training camps have in general been more hostile to Negro troops than have com munities in other parts of the country. The determination to enforce jim-crow has usually been stimuated rather than oaheraise by the presence of the colored troops in southern localities,'-and in many cases the army officers have joined with I 1 , THE CAROLINIAN Published by The Carolinian Publish big Co, tiR Tr.a.-n Hare'ett St.. RftTeltfK V Sintered as second-class mattec, April 6. 1940. at the Post Office at Raleigh, N. €., under the Act o t March 3. 1879. P. R. JERVAY. Publisher C. D. HALLIBURTON. Editorial* Subscription Rates ! One Year,-$3.50; Six Months, $2.00 Address ail communications 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 the community in making life in to#vn, miserable and even hazardous for Negro trainees. This is not to say either that there has been no prejudice against Negroes in communities outside the South near train ing camps, nor that there has been no coolness or resentment toward while trainees, Nor is it implied that troops, black or white, do not ofton create diffi cult and irksome problems. What is be ing said here is that there are more tough breaks in the South for Negro trainees than in other sections of t1) < country, dim-crow laws in themselves establish a major hazard to the safety, contentment and morale of the colored soldiers. The Army will therefore be acting wisely in avoiding those hazards just as far as it can. All concerned will benefit, and no one* will he harmed. The Army owes its draftees, especially in peacetime, as good a life as it can af ford to give them. It certainly then owes itvS Negro personnel as much security and as much freedom as can be gained by carefully selecting the localities in which they must live while in training, THE GATES COUNTY AFFAIR Relatively little publicity has been giv en by North Carolina dailies to the Oates County school controversy, and it is un fortunate that this is so. It would seem that these are the facts; The school authorities of the county had made plans for consolidating certain white schools in Gates County. Such a move would have released two school buildings previously used for whites, and Hic.se were to be used as Negro seboos. When certain patrons of these schools, which had fine plants, learned of the pj a ns, they began to protest loudly and violently, some even threatening to dy namite the schools should the plans for re-allocation be carried through. After much local strife it seems that the patrons appealed to the State Board i,f Education, which reversed the local authorities and ruled that the school situ ation would remain as before, the school buildings 'involved in the controleis\ to be retained as white schools. Now there are often strong local ob jections to consolidation, involving t h abandonment of neighborhood sc novs and the transportation of children to a consolidated school, with attendant prac tical losses as well as sentimental luuws. It. would seem that those were t-he types of objections aired by the Gates ountv whites at the State Board hearing. * : Negro press, however, and an apparently white person who wrote a letter on tue subject to the News and Observer, rc-eui to believe that the main issue was not consolidation, but the turning over of good school buildings to Negroes. The local objectors are said to have declared (not hi Raleigh but at home) that the budd ings were “too good for Negroes. Ihe implication drawn here is that me ob ject ion was not so much to the now ar rangements for whites as to the great benefits which would be incidentally reaped by Negroes through the change. If this latter analysis of the situation is the truer one, then it is a shame and a pity. Wo do not know that this is the true situation, because of the lack of in formation furnished by the press on the whole tiling. But there seems to be evi dence that there is a lot in this racial diagnosis of the Gates County affair, though race may not be the only element. To the extent, that the racial situation does enter, we have one more example, of how hypocritical is the “separate but eqau!” theory when it comes to the “equal*’ end of the proposition. We may be sure that; the Gates County authorities were not. consciously doing anything to favor Negroes as against the interests of whites; that thev were act ing in good faith in whatever changes they planned. If their plans were side tracked primarily because the white parents were convinced that those build ing were “too good" for Negroes, the Gates Countv affar- was truly a discred itable one, and there is no wonder that so little has been heard of the "inside” of it through the daiiy papers. THECA RO LI NIA N ‘DO IT TODAY" | 81 Jeccnd Thctishts | flj a D. MAUULBUftTOiii d» J. f ill!' fit: I" II >lo ih.it the [-■'■■ u tin- . t.ite end of the South, insi/Ar us w<: have iitv-v able !o :■ >iit. has in genera! i ■■:v. •>< -d editorial 1 ;,- tin disgraceful n-ception aeeord <,i Henry Wall ace :n this slate, or jjj certain chics and towns in which he .stopped while tour ing North Carolina on his cam - leigh New.- ana Observer weie paign through the South. Many letter t- th.' edi'n: ot the Ka olso emphatic nr tivir con demnation of 11.> hooligan an: Nmlh C-m-oiinKns who held the state up l : ensure by very nr* spuHs.bic and despicable be havior. North (,';roiinn has tern ma-jo to ioM: the b, con t v. ub ' f.i :hc S.-iit'. 1 It wms that the fruit SjV.s. '-aa’c epsr harnid' ail but .•ea-txi when Mv Wallace ero-.w ~ j ;)•>,. ~;th I' O', i.Vi- UltO A la Hama A ■ ,r. bli m of the even!; ,4; 'o Mr Wallace s t "he . , that iht; nei a- rumple as R i nig lit ':*■ v. appeared U< i- ' at fj. -•* rlun*. i. Withcc.it dehuiduig with ;,:.y s-a. arguments 1 GX’ vrtiitO V. iI ; r . ! 3. V.l'uPd like in cal! attention to tile fa. * Ilia! humMo vV.4 lari did k h. un^gr«gated w.dienn a. Mempiiis and so.jm other ■ 1 pi > muineeub Deep ARID' WAIT.V v -' Y.C -• I have ta.• gams wno Ibis trtead for nearly « year. La .a week he gave me a bt-ai;' - »ui la ctto-phono£;ia?»n consult !o.<• ‘ ./,.-jt tit;v. iiUiuh :i ! 'avra. I ie- ■ that lie -. .--re xV me but -vh;'* l want to kii-.r-.v :/- whv won’t be dp t'-e !huw that 1 want '-‘in t-., ..- • always? Ansa You expect too much c.f your friend. He- loves you and pproves b. B if - bob r.of the R b : ‘ to la c.nv woman "her. peek ’ him to the extern of dancing to then tunc about , vei'v lit to. tame. is going tv exorcise his own judg jr.cnt at time.* c.vi vou rnro ..s well appreciate this .act. * He nCily of the old North State I am, even as yet. unprepared to accept as true- that those ugly demonstrations directed towards Mr. Wallace anti party, by a few misguided docs, tire wjphosentativc of the average North Carolinian. Leaving N, C. for a deeper pen ctaU.on of the south, and a more tr-.lrraiit. attitude assumed there:, serves but tH bipng the Ugly recep tion of ijirn in N. C. into sharper focus, and certainly nothing to be peered cf Tiiv Progreslsvc Pet ty’s presiden Sou'h type iitif;-, he avoided clastic.- wit!, the nui-vilc-hurling element, ui ececnil ntiieia pc - haps only 'I- cause he •efured to speak before a segregated audic-nee, and ihcr< • ic < not appear at ail. And there I-. the point. Sev - eral writers have ecxpr<-sst*d too viwc tiiat .vh.:t i .a.'a the No: l:i Carolinians nw-l what Mv. WalsK e ’■ i iieiv lh far as \v> have heard there was no attrnnt to bar Mr. Walla.-- fro.m fi lie tiring bd * <->n w gcfiregiiit’ • andionce ariy whcv»’ in N - fi C o O ').-* n ■■>:-. im p ■■■■■; n i :: ■ t: •.'. t : i.. • ’i -' lodged with Netgroes m Dur ham, his itrsi Tarheel stop. W<- uk then bed it was uni r> L-. ;■ !-• Wsi lav : the * urged fclk'.vv-nct vr-i.-r who was the target for Tar bee! re;: . and tom.dm-, as it was Wallace' the con-u-.rtet ...m, ~vui-.-j .u G. black folk. Ties is not my r. n idea; it .. ■ d>-rived parti ,- ft vh t.tln - the R- ; - tire.nr. Sim ’o edtlcrinl tmpli •- v. m lit" 1 , r ipv -S put*! A*, -i V* ] 1 'A. J * !)( jF Irt IG 1 v'll' : wi l • ten to editors bv Tariice-! cih- VtV hnJd - iod >f hr-es for the rcffiai.- wno physically ;,t --f d YA.liace . ■ Not jo <' ■ Hna. hut wo contend !!i;t in a ADVISORY COLUMN . investigate th“ title and avoid costly cr,mp!i---»ti:-»;is. I .hall he giad to go into yi.i.;r second prob lem if vou will write me privatc- CH —I beet been sic k fur the : pi-,t vi , «r arid the doctors here * do lv-t : ora; To know my tionble. •My husband is urging me to make i the trip Jo Baltimore and go to - J tin Hopkins foi a diagnosis. Do you think it w -uM he wast- of money? An... : Alwolutdy not. It is pre cisely w! at you should do since have not i- en vhle t > g--t i’ relief from the tieatmen; you hoc.' received. Your husband considers your health far more important than the money hr- has ! saved and is read? and willing : to spend every rent of it if ncc : c-ssarv in order for you to enjoy ; better beulth. G.H.C. —Last November I met .Toe for the first, time He was in . colic gt- and therefore did not . have much m. ney. I felt sorry ■ for him and helped him our. fs rancaJiy and did without to give .him nice ’Kings for school. Ho Letter To The Editor tial candidate, closed bis. southern tour in Knoxv ; i!e, at Mt Olive iNegro> Baptiri Church, where a packed house of both racial groups sat indiscriminately, and cheered wildly his pronouncement. ‘•■se t 'r<> gation and Jim Crowjsm have no place in any section of our com mon countrv loday." Stern-fac<*d officers by the score, led by Chief Joe Kimsey. stood with-in and outside the church, during the Wallace speech, as Ne gro high school youth picketed the white students picketers; the latter csrryinc banner.-. “Back to Mos cow. Henry Jim Crow must stay ” “We want Wallace -- Jim Crow must go" read the Negro's banner, who arrived on the scene a little late, causing a tense mo ment. as they boldly muscled them would not have been permitled b> domicile with publit an:, and sinners, that is, Negro* r. I think , that not only do colored pen pie of North Carolina take a kind of (vn.solation and even wry pride in the fact that Wal lace did put un with Negro hosts in Durham, but that a lot v. into people who wouldn’t admit it publicly for love or nmm-.v are also proud of the fact, in a siiamefaced way. that ;! could happen hero, though !i -v wouid all agree foi tri • i<-. jrd it was h. foolish thing for Wallace to do. Those people shake their head.- ovt i whn.t they variousty c 'miracte 'i?c as Wallace’s play In jin gi-and.si.-ind for N-. hb: misplaced idealism, or hi.- audaemu-' anri reprehen u»--- ms,- :i foi southern }>ir-;i:-icty and convention. But ;d .son-;--- >4 the m admire iy. coTiiisfer. :v and hi:; courage, a.'beeii in -:eciT-f. and some of Ih.-rn arc seu>'tly piea.---ci that -, -' b Ca: 'i: -'A I i J,«1.-rance tit at the sputtered r-j: t and the crushed tomato can not oh; ccure. Ami tbu in spite ;.f t! , fact that they would not hi < ..aght dead doing the tb.-m 1:-.:' Wallace did. Frankly, in t!-,.; same position 1 wouldn f , ithc r. And that's one of the reason whv T—and they—have : . admire him, even if we can’t vote for Him. never .c.-mtd to appreciate it 'isv bo. In fact, ho was always want ing icorc. When he went home th- sun inter he said he would be :,mi hr Si write and arered re.- i not i > bother about it either. Now It ivturns this month and I want to knew how to treat hint? A’ As a stranger. He dor: urn hold the same affection for , you as you think you have tor him. Also —he's much too vexing for you to lose you head about. 1 You Won’t gam Ms favor by dbi- j mg out your hard earned dollars Search for companionship with . men around your own age. I’.T. —I bought a grocery store 3 business the first of April. I can i see-, when I am making any moo- f ;v at all In fact, my finances err not as good as they were before 1 I started with this store. A frien ! of mine has offered to buy me ] out r.t a good margin of profit. } Should I sell or hold on as 1 ans not happy about it at at!? Are-.: Let it go—it’s not good ; ■business to hold on to an incest- 1 I! would pay you to concent! at f merit that does not net a profit all your efforts on your case as , it docs net you a nice profit 1 i selves in between the white pick ' eters. Drastic, but timely orders ■ ' barked by the cops to. 'keep mov- , l ing every one of you' probably j . averted a serious physical clash j •Any one with eyes that see, may ■ know that the south is in process of rebirth, there is obviously much 1 . to support this claim If. therefore. v i both Negro and white can be a v , bit. patient with what both may -j honestly and justifiably feel is a , • short-coining hi the other, until a ' • bet*br understanding? is had, a new shouth is certainly on the way h in, thanks to a younger and, rising . gc-neretinn. and it will arrive too, ~ - make no mistake about that. Sincerely yours, O B. TAYLOR, M. D. n Knoxville. Tcruj.&y ~ I WEEK ENDING SAT DR DAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948 by DEANB HANCOCK fm A A/P m&mhm.mam,. V* THE APPROACHING ELECTION AN INTERRACIAL POLL I he* pros and cons of interracial progress can be debated in* cklmitely. There are those who assert that race rolaions are in a suiie of’ deterioration. These view with alarm the resurgence of Negrophobia throughout the south and in a lesser degree through* «mM toe country. The southern demagogues are reverting to the Ren J dhnuri-Hone; Smith-Vardarnan-Hefiin tvpo of campaign tic* late Gene Talmadge of Georgia was the prophet or the ncu ci,a of racial hatred. The appeal of these demagogues to the baccr passions of the people has dangerous implications. This hu I must never he minimized or discounted. The Negroes of the country have chosen to make a frontal attack nn southern tra ditions and it iy not surprising if these ‘Matter day” Nogrophobes do no elect to counter in kind, that is by frontal attacks. The : isc of the Dixiecrats with them* state rights campaign is no more than a polite way of saying with the l demagogues of the past, “keep the Negro fJown.” The current campaign of South Cni ohna s Gov. Strom Thurmond is hardly more than a revamped Fi 1 imanimiy Rrlboisrn. Aar,Turnsm Talrnacgism and ail the other ant: Negro isms that flourish in the south. Beeau.se the issues are re tightly drawn on state rights and the implications thereof, the coming election is going to be .largely in the nature of an inter lacial poll telling when? the Negro stands in the hearts and minds ul the people of the nation, The Dixiecrats will serve' that one good purpose of letting the world and the Negro know how stands the case ot race relations in this Country The strength of Dixicocracy is the strength of the opposition to the Negro’s full citizenship. The weakness of Dixiocraey will indicate now tar toe Negro has gone in winning the war for demo cracy tor Nog foes. There are those of us interraciali.sts who at times grow hopeful at some display of this nation's more favor able attitude, while at other times despairing because of what amounts to a national “gang up” on the Negro in his thrive for his rights. But the story will be toid in November in. terms that cannot be mistaken. A more momentous election, as it concerns the Negro, has never been held in this country and it all stems from the civil rights stand of President Truman which set off a species of resent ment among the Nogrophobes that is shaking this nation to its very foundations, November will tell the story’ However the elec tions may go, Truman must be credited with having focused the attention of the nation and world om the step-citizenship of the Negro. A large part of the nation is ashamed and the others will vote with the Dixiecrats. A POLITICAL FEAST FOR NEGROES The approaching elections will not only ho the most illum inating interracial poll ever held in this country or in history. Put it will give the Negro one of the finest political feasts over offered a minority group. There is our good friend Henry Wallace, v. ho is without doubt one of the best men in the country, in fact too good for the presidency. It is unfortunate that his Progressive party is threatening to become an all-Negro parly. For demonstrational purposes and for dramatic display of -sure-enough democracy, the Progressive under the leadership of Wallace will serve a good purpose. Bui even the most intoxicated optimist*>f the Wallacoites does not even faintly envision Wallace's election. But for the Negro and while idealists Wallace and his platform offer a happy political di