PAGE FOUR
EDITORIALS
WARREN COUNTY'S SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATION
The administrators of the pubik school
system of Warren County a fe w years
ago won themselves a givaf deal of at
tention when several Negro principals
and teachers in the county weor fired,
apparently because o‘ theiv activtier in
oragniztions seeking t<* get Negroes rug•
isti'red and qualified to vote, Again the
superintendent of schools and the board
of education of Warren County are in the
headlines. J. E. Alien, the superintendent,
is accused of safarie shady manipulation of
! county school funds, involving the dis
appearance of SIO,OOO drawn for teach
er pay in certain certain Negro schools.
According t.-» :.hc wider eso far covered
by investigators no It .tel vrs gd the sld,-
000; indeed it. appears limt the persons
for whom the chucks. w. rv drawr, were
• not employed a> tc . 1 n ■■. cft s said that
a one oiie-teacher school on she payroll was
. not even operating.
The Negro principals who lost thon
position a few years ago were den.lt with
ypretty summarily, though the general im
•;pressiem among Negroes was that their
chief offense amounted to Die instruction
• of the community in American citizenship
sprinciples and practices, Chi the other
.hand tin Warren County Board of Edu
cation has announced that Superintedcnt
“Aden is still the superintendent. Mr. Ad
ieu is ill, ho no one has been abe to find
out anything from, him for publication.
Meanwhile the law enforcement authori
ties seem to !.•<• moving with infinite de
liber at eness and caution and remarkable
respect lor the sensibilities oi Mr. A lien,
who does not feel well enough to answer
the charges, andc ear his name or vice
~ versa. The latest reports are that parents
(while parents, too) are complaining be
cause the school plants are not ready for
the opening, largely because Mr, Alien
has been too ill to do his work recently,
‘ and no one lias over boon named in Ids
place, even temporarily. At least on e
member of the Board has let it be known
ihp.i .Mr. Allen is :still the ■‘-.upo! intundent.
\Yarren County\s soit(>o 1 a«1 ministratio.n
< looked pretty bad a few years ago. It
looks a whole lot worse today. Possibiy
some healthy changes are in the making.
INFORMATION, ’'LEAS F
k\ akr i otimy ... in good it rente ?• ii
'--shape, as nearly as wc with our very iim
b itoff knowledge of high finance ran make
out. It was in the newspapers that tin;
M auditor has reported a balance of $169,-
,1. 821.54 in the county’s general fund, and
one of $.">3,667.57 in the We and eommis
<*
' si on fund. We don't know what the latter
- is, but it sounds as though, the county
were- at least $50,000 ahead there, mak
ing a total of more than $220,0**0 of un
' expended funds.
From other sources we have heard that
the .staic and county allowances for fam
" ilies fortified for relief in North Car*'inn
are pitifully low. We have heard that
theie are certain welfare funds supplied
•••by the state, and supplemented by fed
oral aid, which are distributed through
the county. These funds in some cases
may be added to by counties which can
afford to do so, so as to increase the
amount of benefits received by indigent
children, and maybe other needed cases.
North Carolina hoasts a w hopping
tsurplus, and now Wake County seems to
be saving money also. Meanwhile North
• Carolina ranks among the last 8 stales in
I the amount she puts up to match most, of
• the Federal Aid funds granted to states
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for certain needy elements In the popu
lation. including the aged. Wc wonder
how Wake ranks among the counties of
the United States and of the state. Wo
should like to know, so that we can de
cide whether as citzens of the comity we
should be proud or ashamed of the mon
ey Wake County is raving.
We decided Eng ago that the less w«
boasted about the State government's fat
and growing surplus, what with the high
sales tax' and the low snchl.l welt are ex
penditure rating of North Uaroiina, the
better. Now how about the county V Is ii
the same story ?
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS—
According to a press dispatch a Seen
age-r who threw eggs at a Progressive.
Party rally in Birmingham was about to
be taken into custody by a policeman,
until he assured the officer that he didn’t
know cry - and - tomato throwing was
against the law. Whereupon, considering
the poor lad's ignorance, the kind cop
released him, presumably with the ad
monition that he go in peace and am rib
more, now that he had been onlighteend.
THE LEAVEN
Out of the discussion aroused by the
civ ii rights issue their* emerges now and
then a distinctly encouraging note, .show
ing that the South, in spile of its pecul
iar sensitivena-s to what d cads ‘"outsid-'
inierferciwe” of persons from other suc
tions, variously characterized as fanatics,
reformers, ‘‘holier-than-thou'* critics, vo:
s- ekmg politicians and oilier things not
ow n -o polite, is also thinking.
One such note was sounded by t h c
Franklin (N. *.) Press, as quoted in the
Raleigh News and Observer of sorry
weeks ago. Franklin is a small town in
the western part of the state, and that
the editor of a small town newspaper
rather than of a metropolitan daily is
responsible for the voicing of such .senti
ments as are quoted below is of great
importance. It. shows that straight and
liberal thinking on <hk- of the most vital
state, sectional and national issues is
re,illy widely diffused •—a fact that is
dietineih encouraging.
After taking the customary crack at
v s !,.•!•■ ;v ■' • i ••. s n I ’
said;
“The time has come when, the South
must apply to the Negro two fundamen
tal truth* (.1 :■ Every individual is entitled
In the op pm t unity for the development
of such talents as he possesses. (2) Dis
crimination is wrong, constitutionally and
morally.”
“The .Youth insists that the Negro is
I'ot rt ady to be given the i -allot, m masse
ana overnight.. As n j• : actical proposition
there is plenty of evidence to support that
argument. But there are many whites
who aren't fit to; the ballot, either. And
if the South really wards to do something
an out this situation, it can set up voting
standards far more intelligent than the
poll tax, and then apply those standards
with equal justice to members of bet ft
races. For after ail, nobody objects to an
intelligent Negro’s voting. (He means no
body should objert Our it vision.) Again,
incidentally, a set. of standards designed
to determine the citizen’s actual qualifi*
i at ion for the ballot would result m vast
ly better government—in the the South
and elsewhere,”
In all the hullabaloo about civil rights
ai d sHU:Ms rights, invoving impugning
of motives and bitter recriminations, it is
very refreshing to find those of the South
who are facing the facts in a dispassion
ate and analytical frame of mind. A num
ber of newspaper editors throughout the
South are doing so, men like Clark How
•eii of the Atlanta Constitution and other's
in smaller places. And though they al
most invariably have some reservations,
especially as to the desirability of segre
gation and the undesirability of anyone
outside of Dixie having any ideas about
the Negro in the United Status, they are
nonetheless moving in the right direction
and taking more and more of the people
with them.
THE CAROLINIAN
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corf.ie to an end, as Herman dan
to iho ;;(A'- "in nod tip. H is wel; to
pie oi Geerm;-o that urn Lnc Vn
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by tiie iTignlßr oUcdon machrn
e.F‘-frte the love ina lh* til a tkh 1
nmey reginw;- kvhmh was dne in
Ir> the :; a ill e <. ;' bis in al\ ! y in {*.;•; ■
live .Hi fix e.n i v Tnmvm and
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end F -da-i !! 1 ■ * The *.v:--tcr i-.iivi-sritcndcru <->1 slir-uf ronlv-s
f' i; f nr in thr Virgiruii and A)be’ma v! e Conicre.nc/ in
•' : i -urif \ Me ‘ ■ w 4 > What As. ion January l, >949 to hold the
('■;!'■) la a I'nt ’C i pi ■# -t ;!n;; Is: • t -i.; f, an;J op e; interest -of tfV
H-noro,sintson :o Wo n A (non
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■ :.'■•('■ to :< : ■' (ii ■ .... ; : . run --r-nivs buted lr- a sem;-
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. '• "l give-;; !'i ■■ ■ '.■•„■ iiiO p .-.-11,; ills. wfi: - h . -,n r-.nl hr rp> * A i'.i’n
:h( pi ro . i . i, • r,. ■<i;;,. ;■ ri-ii-.ir.-'d. y.ay:. h»>, "The bnving of i.hal
tcy.visji-.n s'-t r ■ u. nt. goi saving aecount ahead large enoug’;
et so i-Uo.-'-e ■•' tnc S. W;.y »-hain • • several •*• •n.wcul.jvt Salu
Th: mv Ns ;--n Alliance- of Wa. dmgtnn has been picketing one
ok ‘;o- .'•-■ of the Sal's -\V;e.. chain fc-r evrral const'ulive Satin •
o;-.y?j r-." •s. lisoatcd :si d>- fist-r. p -ouiato,-! r'-ction n»-u.-
1-ilh and '/ou Stre< •>. \ W Perhaps w.nc-ty w-.’.-’cent of us businey.
cum* -s front N-savo pockets; yet this chain store com pa ny I'cfuse ■
to fin ploy a s-rg'.c- Negro clerk in any •>! us hundred or more siov -
in greet.-r Washington.
St-r.sihif Negroes feel j'-,a! this :s an unfair employment policy
and bitt.-rly resent it- "Lie new Negro Alliance of which Attorney
Eugene Davidson is a loading spirit liar, led the picketing fighting
in this city for a number of years and as a result but few stores of
any kind are ,»pem-d in or near Negro neighborhoods without ail
or part of its clerks -being Negroes Only the above strong grocery
chain and two or three powerful drug store chains still hold out
against employing Negro clerks. The fight, continuer. As far as pos
sible, but only where you can work.
The political pot boils hotter and hotter as the first Tuesday
in November approaches. While Negroes should be found voting
in all parties, President Truman has made a too long arid con
sistent. tight for the Negro and other minority groups not. to have
the* great majority »>f the Negro vote in November. If the Negro
and other minoritus do not. support he man who makes a hard
fight for their civil rights and well-bung otherwise, what is th<
hope for political leaders to make such a fight for these groups, in
the years ahead. The Negro should help his proven friends in the
November election for whatever office these friends seek. Forget
music known as the gospel song made its appearance in America. It
•about Party Labels, they are not imptutant.
ordcr aaimuuil:on for HiUiinv- •:.
To u-c in his campaign in the
di-!riels v.-hi;:h pvedi nilato in
’
V.'i.’igiu m Georgia eleriions bo
cau;e of the count;, uni* sysicm.
(H .should not be lost sight of.
bov/e-ver. Shat Herniai-. Ta'nvidpe
wen :-i ctenr siute-xvide porsulre
inujoilty over his s-pisonenm But
it should not be foigotten that
Hus.;;: . r.q.hcr wr.v, ■ lured ’■>
a-o. before q.e civil i ;c1v,...
• ..lil., i.v.Uf; *.v:>s projected hi Hu
rt ■-■'* ■• O'- 0 is ;us* . .' '■ o"0 aeufc
til! o p lif n...,, isljn P-,; i V
the j s-1 to nb.fi sruTnihs,
A'j'iit! Us.- ■io.i.o Ciuito of eotft
fort v. liiofi <■:. . bo -:alv. geo jYo.-n
uiu. x.y • ' i’flUH CJCCU'viI b t‘niLL liCl
man(.-Mi! expire m ..bout two
years sir.re he was elected to
serve out, the unexpired term oC
Ins father replacing Thompson,
-vho |xot. tli'' subematonal scat us
result ;■! court decision.
Whether the voters of Georgia
will have learned anything in
two year:-, remains to be seen,
but there is no present ground
Wh.v docs the f'icotion of Tai
nradge mean to the Negro in
Georgia? In the cities, there will
oh7e?i? h!.{> ati : i * >.nr..i. i \y i r•, <■ ivi \
• ha been Bj..u\< B j..u\<
u.o! \v. ;.atn reason, that it has a
•• •' *i* i \ •t. 1 m Ih e cag>itol. In
be coming is in re cost by the mur*
o'er oi . Nog*-, who aitei
to do so. Un-n'iciai fascism with
i.Mrit officiai backing has imdoubt
expeeted us reversed in a sale
n.;nl ■■ uy the governor
i Ip. t hmv ■■■!<
about my victory iiiat. I* dem
on:U: ,-ts... to he people of the
'fit! that Georgia does no* fav
or civil rights, . There read
vertenii.y, Mr Tnidairtdge lias
prat, shiv ■'pokeii fln> truth Hr
(bid not say that it is ih.j civil
vtghis t ■ itsrs’i Mrs erf' President
Tniirtn arxl Mje Democratic Cod
ers.‘ion that the rn ;io?■ it v of vot
ing Go'i disapprove. Ho
said "civil rgh!:'." which, means
civil riphry for Negroes, period
t: i.-, the time honored concept of
tho white .-uprr nineuv in Geor
and the racists ■: very where
That I'iegroes have no inherent
ngh*. . iii.it what they do enjoy
is by sufferance only.
POETS i OKM R
song oi mo nrv
Sti blaring.
That hit,in the sun,
Sc reo t r,m g vs hist i*s;-,
Whon day is done
Noise and tumidi.,
Strife and coil-fusion.
Soarin': hopes,
Sad disillusion.
I .rive and hate.
Scorn and pity,
Birth and death.
The teeming city,
THE STORM
fly E hcl Young'
In torrents, ram beats on my
shack, . .
Within as well as out.
And that t* w : M! continue through
The night., I have no doubt
I've gotten in some kindling wood.
Placed buckets unrftr leaks,
Lowered the whitlows imd shut the
d oorts,
I watch the lightening streaks.
So sharp, previse, and to ‘he
point.
It. spills the heavens wide
Oh God, I thank Thee for this
shack
In which T may abide.
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2S, 1948
■ Trory :zzz
ay DIAN B HANCOCK f'Ofi ANP
DIXIE BARKS DANGEROUSLY
Ti'm, < cor, bo little doubt that urie f the danger spots of the
20th century world u- in Dixie. Truman's civil rights stand has
given a certain element of the south their lon-* desired excuse
for showing how determined they are to keep 1 . rgro perma
nently subjugated The civil right? issue has not created any new
feelings and ulhLirl : ; it ha.-, given thorn already extant a chance
to throw 'iff the veneer .•; democracy and Christianity that, for
several years has unmasked their..
However distressing .may hi: the event? transpiring m the
deeper south, it is far beitei ur have these ugly sentiments in the
open than to have them whitewashed or glossed over. If the south
is threatening to revert to certain types of barbarism then it is
well fort he notion and the world to know it.
How-eve;. it is seriously to be doubted that even the reaction*
;ev south is willing to revor* lo urograms and practices whien
have made of our vaunted demon icy a by-word and mockery in
the eyes of the more civilized peoples of the earth. It rmains to
bo en how look run nation can afford to let certain elements
of the south stigmatize us m the mind of the world- It should be
lo happen in the south m not the nmro brutal oppression of the
remembert :!. and the saunei t o butler, that what is threatening
defenseless Negroes, but rather the defamation of our goodly land
before the judgment seat of history.
Contrary to the common belie', the greatest losers from the
.resurgence oi reactionism in the :->iuh is the nation rather than
the Negro, if the south's bite is going to be as bad as its bark
we are in for some unbapp.'-t developments. But it is seriously
to be doubted whether the more decent elements of the nation
car. afford to let the south run its proposed course of Negro-hating
and Negro-baiting as in the doleful days us reconstruction.
However, it is mv studied belief that when the final chapter
of this ant:-Negro resurgence, is written, st will be found that
the south's bark was worse than it’s bite. Not that there is not
an demonl willing to carry through to the bitter bloody end, but
that, decency in the south and nation will also reassert itself in
behalf of Chnsianity and iem lcracy.
Although we may gam.-ay Christianity and Its teachings as
manv do under stress of .passion and Urn pressures of life, only
the practice of Christianity and the spirit thereof offers hope m
this critical hour. The hope ibi an eventual righting of the snip
of state in the south depends in large measure upon the vitality
of Christianity in the lives of the people. The forces of material
ism offer little or nothing to the solution of our present prob
lems. When we propose l» detach the current issues from the
Christian concept, we are exposing minority groups to great tribu
lation. The hope that the south's nark is worse than its bite is
the hope that there are enough Christians in the south to redeem
the situation, for at present it st mds in the need of a great re
demption.
It is our studied belief that the sweep of Taimadge and Long
into the office upon n strong tide o- demagoguery may not be as
bad. as it seems. Young Taimadge is not going to out-Talfivadge
his father. And Long the Josser is not going to eclipse the Sato
fluey Long It would not surprise this writer in the least if some
of these reaction uy political victors do show a surprising consid
eration for the rights and responsibilities of Negroes and other
minority groups
Th‘: south can not be hut so had, after a’l! The Negroes here
h;,v< marI'’ 1 '’ Ml great progrto writ:- off in tofn the possibility
of great future gains for Negroes. As j mg as the church doors and
school doors remain, open, T am disinclined to despair. The same
thing that has worked hithei to for the Negro's advance is stili
.Vo!.-king. Those same silent for< c,< through which tne Negorcs
have wrought muscles arc still at v-irk.
We. must net be discoui aged by the turn of political events
in the south. l\ is greatly to he hopeii and won believed that the
south's political bark is worse than its bite.
THEN IT HAPPENED
ALLAH, ALLAH BE PRAISED
Big Torn would hit a chick he for- ymi Guild say Jtyk Robin
nn. Next t hanging amund the Red Moon Tot.l liked hanging
chicks best. The iron duke was th- ouiv law women respected, Ip
used to say. Hardly a week passed that news did not circulate down
Chicago's South Parkway and the tributaries —tout Tom. had re
arranged some chickV denial r: partmont.
Torn fell into a jumping party on E. 35th Street one A. M. After
saving "Hi, see." to some of his follow craftsmen,*-he saw this new
col She w.r- from Anderson. Ind.. and hri name was Bea. She was
a bit on the stout side but that was all rigid with Tom.
B-a and T w: hit if off hie: turtk d *vr.- Tor two whole weeks,
tbev were made for moh other. But this rrn.oohvnc-ss was endanger
inE T,-i!As mV B-.. .■ ;iTint ro, ; -on and uuthoui further ado —he
threw a hard. drYgut right at Bea. The fan that be was in from
of ’Dick Jones' place of business at 1?1.h and South Parkway made
no difference, Hr threw the punch-
Bea slid under Tom’s right and stuck, two fingers in his eyes.
He squirm'd and -blinked. This was something new. He struck back
awkwardly, tiring to sec- Bea was out. of range. This was most
vmboiTassmg to Tom Had to get himself together.
Tom shirk'd another right and Bea pronged his eyes again
-nd was out <>f range ns the hard right flew into space. It flew hack
quickly to -over hi. -tinging -yes This w - getting awful Had
(■ think of something. Beside, she was fighting dirty
Suddenly he grabbed for Bra, Sue pulled away, shifted and
planted a crushing loft on Tom’: - , jaw which snapped his head
around- Tom yr--(hi d again. This tinio she —:n him around like a
professions! and rocked him -* ith soother left. Boy. this chick
could hit:: He shook his head to clear his senses.
Again a right was started and again Bea pulled the same trick
!,n Tom: He stood holding his eye? with both his hands. Bea shuf
fled in and threw her iioat :d.t pound? hit,, a '..iiiiderou.s, driving light
into the lover’s holy The force of the blow buried her arm to the
( I bow. She iiftod and repeated with her left. Turn bent, double,
ilia moved in to cut him down.
With terrific left nooks to the jaw, Bea dropped Tom to his
knees. She ended her onslaught by taking one of her, shoes, with
the long, spiked heel, and beating the beads of his head
The next day. Tom appeared at the Red Moon with his head
wrapped in white bandages. He wad wearing dark glasses. The
boys left their favorite stools, knelt on the floor before him and
so id, “Allah, Allah he praised. 1 '
AMERICA
By JOHN HENRIK CL ARNE For ANP
1 love this arrogant young nation.
Who parades her glory
Like a saucy maiden in a now dress,
I am warmed by its bi 6 uvs.>
And strengthened by its zest.
In spite of its short-comings
" W * I V And its over-rated might.
I will not yield one inch of it
Without ;> fight. , A .X.UIIIE