PAGE FOUR
EDITORIALS
WE HOPE IT’S SETTLED
In view oi ail the devices so i’nr use 1
to interfere with the development of the
Washington Terrace housing project the
(CAROLINIAN is afraid to start cheer
; ing yet. The opponents may yet develop
another counterattack, though at this
point the prospect of a successful one
seems dim, and at the least it is true
■. that the 30-acre site, one of the best md
most logical (and one of the few) left
1 for the erection of Negro housing in Ra
leigh, is not lost to the use of Negroes.
The CAROLINIAN has consistently
maintained the position throughout the
controversy that saving the plot for Ne
gro housing was the paramount point.
"There was ground for different of
opinion as to whether rental apartments
; or houses for sale would be the more
desirable use to which to put it. Rut
: this writer felt that the tesidents of
Longview Park were not the ones to or
oide that point, being naturally biased
• (and not necessarily with a racial bias)
’ tn favor of what they considered their
own interests The primary considers
tion was and is not the iterests of Long
view, but of the city as a whole., and
especially of that, part of the city’s popu
lation most sorely and acutely in need
of housing. The type ol' housing to be
erected was a question to be decided
on the basis of two considerations: the
{relative need for the two types, both ab
Mutely and in relation to the ability of
the Negroes who want housing to take
; advantage of each type, and the relative
ability and willingness of the promoter
in question to provide either type of
•housing. L was not until late in the de
bate that much dependable evidence
was available on either of those points.
Meanwhile the desirability of maintain
ing tire site for Negro housing of some
• sort was evident throughout, and eve»y
delay and obstacle threatened that out
come.
Some of the arguments for detached
homes were palpably weak. Obvious: y
the distance to churches and schools
- and the traffic problems would be the
panto whether the residents of Washing
ton Terrace were owners or renters
•; j< now thret* different bodies of city
authorities have decided in favor of or
approved the rental housing develop
ment It is time now to concentrate on
that, since that use has won the debate,
apparently on its merits from tli <
standpoint of priority of need and prior
ity of practicability. Construction work
should be started soon. M e hope it woi
he, '
WHAT’S WRONG
i WITH THIS PICTURE?
An old man who beat a male when
he was down has been convicted in city
• court because of his cruelty to the ani
mal. All the evidence presented seems
to indicate that the eighty-two year old
man did treat the animal cruelly. There
was evidence also that it w as not the first
time that he had been guilty of abusing
animals. For this the CAROLINIAN does
not excuse him. Cruelty to animals is
indefensible.
But someone else beside this old man
should be brought to some bar of justice,
5 and convicted, and sentenced. Fr Old
Man Dennis Vincent, aged 82, was try
• ing to make a living by hauling. To do
this he had to have some kind, of rig
and some kind of draft animal. He had
ho work and earn his living, because the
sovereign State of North Carolina, with
• (the aid of the United States of America,
supplied Mr Vincent with only sl9 a
month old age assistance. So, with prices
( of fatback and flour and other things
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Address ail coiMpimkatisma and matte ail
necessary .for sustaining life even for the
aged being what, they are, Mr. Vincent,
not surprisingly, found sl9 a month
not quite sufficient. So lie tried to keep
a mule and wagon, and contribute to
his ov/ti upkeep by hauling things for
people.
He didn't get too much business,
though, and hud a hard time feeding
both hirnself and his mule. Organized so
ciety was not too much concerned with
all this. )i provided him sl9 a month
“old age asistanceT But when he mis
treated a mule, organized society began
to function, in the interest of the mule.
Maybe we need a Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Old Men, Old
men who believe in the American philo
sophy of individualism; who don’t want
to go to the County Home because they
believe that a man ought to supper him
self as long as and to the extent that
he is able. Old nn-n who don't succumb
to the newfangled idea of the “welfare
state” any more than they have to. Old
men with the habit of working, with
the desire to be set-supporting and in
dependent as long as and as much as
they can. Old men who have too much
spirit to surrender to the poorhouse,
but who get only sl9 a month old age
assistance, more than halt of that sum
generally and on the average coming
from Federal funds. (It is possible that
this sl9 a month ’’pension ' represents
less than SH contributed by either tin
state or the county.)
It is not the fault, of any individual
hut the situation which vieimized old
Mr. Vincent exists. It is the business of
tii* desire to be self-supporting and in
to Animals to function for the protec
tion of creatures which are powerless to
protect themselves. It is the duty of po
lice officers and judges to enforce tl
Low. But obviously if is also an obliga
tion on society to take care of old men
by some means mere efficient an t hu
mane than furnishing them less than $
a v%eek for .subsistence,
tt is public apathy end p ihhc igiior
-1 h;>t the situation which victimized old
fur cases like Mr. Vincent’s Maybe L:
belongs in the Count} Home. Certainly
he should not be left to his own dev ices
lo try to squeeze a hi mg out of $39 a
month. A man can be punished lor un
derfeeding an animal. \\ ho is to be pun
isbed when an old man is underfed?
North Caroiia can do better Ly it
aged. We North Carolinians ought to be
.shamed id ourselves for permitting -•.
situation to exist sin h as was revealed
by an rid man’s trouble with mis mule.
HARRY T. BURLEIGH
Harry T. Burleigh lived lo a ripe old
age, consequently then art .many of his
•race who knew little about him when
news of his death brought his name to
the front pages again Yet Hairy i.
Bu rieigh had a distinguished career.
He was a musician. He nevei reached
the heights, of Atanan Anderson or. Flo•
iand Hayes as a concert artist, but he
did have a beautiful baritone voice
which whs heard by thousands from the
concert stage. He was best, known, how
ever, as a composer of songs and as an
arranger and adapter of spirituals and
other Negro melodies. He name has ap
peared on many more concerts than he
ever appeared in as a singer himself,
for his con positions and arrangements
were popular among singers and with
audiences, arid it is probable that, many
of his songs have been rendered by ar
lists and to audiences having no idea that
he was a Negro.
But thousands knew him in another
capacity soloist in a church choir
For practically a lifetime he was a fea
tured soloist in the choir of St. George's
Episcopal Church in New York, and to
hear hi.s rendition of “The Palms” on
Palm Sunday became a tradition with
hundreds of New Yorkers. He was also
soloist at a famous Jew ish synagogue.
Mr. Burleigh w as a great musical ar
tist in a Held more limited than that
of Marian Anderson, for instance; but
within the narrower range in which he
THE CAROLINIAN
“AND WE CALL THEM UNCIVILIZED ‘
rs inis oi h sm
H\ i VI Hit K
Till VA l iOi l Y A \ li
»a i lAßii iI V Ol
lA 111 Ui.lM t il 1.-.
h,.i (al .no education
<•*.':•for l -i- the New Yo: * Tiroes,
.‘/riling >• tlv- ;•;« .-. y.y 1 im«
ur September ±ti p.-n: 1 .- out nat
mo, ,? si .d rr.oi e educators, are
Legintnng t.< -,. • i.-.c validi
ty and reliability of th.. vat iou
types f standardized intelli
gence lexis Tor measuring me
intelligence >,i .u, individual or
a group < f individual-
He v-Un-uu.-s that ben'-eoti
row .. -■ Jur. 20,000.000 chil
dren v. .1! be t,«r>je;-tod to -as
measure inei* itsiedi.viui. A-
Mr. Fine points out in nearly
u-atf-i ,-,i .... p. d<-
U-I man wVug) is rhiiti v,no i!ci !a
- ad. an:,ir«*r
TFjc ijetTLior. l 17. fi- . r iu*i
Vi- \i ti'OiYi J} •». ft,if rt r J % li i I
Moreover, from I’r.r rtrSiiiU Ol
the diriouri; of iim« und jUoti
iiiC‘. at< *:*ru d j- ipii.
UC.utCUT, 3ii. ht' .. i!, L./ i c ti. rt.t
; Idi., Mu} * -- * Ivv v$ i
Fine quotes, an. Harold A • ’
director of the Kdu< a! mu
Guidance Clinic „t <ht ,
Js'g4 , i' - VU y **OLi "
•ciiild's inteJ.ii -iHjc. «• ,;(j
Kri;\\ h •(,-> ;,;
>cho Bvt row \m- *i; , t
ihat ui must foi- .dr; .ut i: U>. --
t *ti ul;(t cJ'rtj t ♦ Llij.,j}
lviutionslop- <A ire chiJd to
society Fir.t* further ooirits
Ol)t t Ij . 'll .1 s’.ifi, ~, ,fi«.
.'aruiiig tin- Dolt* us
jp.- r.' ut ?h«- Usovcrmv < i
Chicago uiadtf the .iiitN-con A
'Or Alii.soi: Davi s . it yjc con
eluded ihai emitting U- .ts {. ,
.i-t,a;. cnildi <!i ;,j ihc ~ av,
c-.-.r-e lroi.’i p\ lonai or hqd*
culture h-. ire: Or lliat .a
otht: - ■•: a- aAs ,'K ,
.as ua ::ati>.- .r.teiligfttre t
infurajati. n piel.*d ap ay the
cnildf -v, ivi then rrspc.i.ve
'ura! envi, .-iiiient
The ullmli\a r. Hi .sms ot in lei-,
l nee le- 1 ; c j relate vt , y
closely v.dli i. . .;tjn,.-!u:.jU'i us
’> Ids l ‘ -A t t
C(,iiiS» ,ji F,-.'tu-: 11> ri " D..,-u;a
a-y ine n. » ■: nt»*!iii»eriee le.ts
t.. Uie jT.'-iaaj Mapeiontv
ul race ovi i anuUv i .',< e.
he :V>»; “ T c C.iliclu. ,ul
whwii ... a ;>,. ,-fc.-,wn lro:r, n„
data (,f thfcT,, .-(>'.•* lira’ll* r
V '<t tr white race 1.. r, ~ h
inv»r<f native intelligence »i. the
avenge, than the N. gro race
Such a curie) usiun however
must ij. 1 c*n.;■. red te u coieij
fiatiou :f 'he )■ -jJ-ji Jit •.
the white race hih much Te’.t ,-r
• nvlromneni-.J eppertunities
than the Negro rac.
It ii very tn-..ilem*ig to i ,mu
such thought provoking eriticl
istns of the intelligence te‘;ls
corning from such prominent
scholars' as those nieuliottetl
above. For. beginning am mu
1917 U became quite a fad with
many so-called educators and
scholars to use, or rather to
iriisuse. various types of imei
ligence u-sts to substantiate the
faixe assumption of the Negro’s
mental inferiority as compared
with that of the white man’s
mental (level'. I ;,merit. And. oi
course. :/ the Negro’s mental in
feriority could be proved, Uu n
the treatment that he receives
in this country, and tsptcialiv*
in certain parts oi it, could oe
readily justified.
Let ua Negroesi thank God
that apparently . intelligence
fans j,'‘t,.,V-.i.f.ih'.t-', Hln VuV
iecond
mSi Thcughts l|
? c , C i/ HAT.I.iBT’HTON
tt
That ’!); Stab Sup: '.mo Court
O! (i-'.il-ln has •..pne-ld t!- Tai
rnedge-sp-.-.. ..red l.i ,v wtiicii
the Associated i’lesr describes us
"fi’iinhlv aimed again-* Negro
voting ’ a not surprising. Tit
'. i •e’ Iv drafted statute which
a’:.-. Guv«rno! Herman T, 1-
, ITliiQtff' ' *??:t B! Lf‘V <U ■<;’ •»]] ljj tjlt*
HM'a *’ CDii v ff*i a
!.(<' fUi LOW it List! Jti.rt: us
v *' . m oil} id OfUi, x r to u*. i’t j , j _ -
!■!.!-. a tlv piO-pecti'.e -... .I
--• 1•« } l f } t _
•i ij • 11' y j ) bill! ibuiliiT’;
DUV M'cUcj) <a thf i Jiimuiiv.* .
*1 rti lo VV; :If 'l* ; •.; ly it; v -. i
li'-.’i Jr »L i ; i ! V to : • ( I, j •
D'k U* (juaiuj' )i 1 i t.E'i .< n .’jU
!•' psi.tv*' ill:; literacy.. *-vori
' ;tl.l V ’ 1j • t ~ i. • * . | ♦ , .| j
;>• ■ J,• J . j r . j i, . . * V ft it* * 1 I •I ' » I.j - .
Ui3t ho km "A ,f ‘ tin tin it? ot* the
Id:!’ Hi-
Th/> whult thing ib «i depifss-
Lr u c« srnn*i Li ij y on tfiu cynicisr.i
~nd hvp-uriiy prevailing within
th** bounds of the . orp.vcr.it t
American nation. Governor Tai
di’c. I'tr-caufu >1 i.hf r u id it
hiy t.ilirt-! ai;d Ins own
0 1 01 1 • ••onldno v e • o x pcc t wit /:
iny ri •. •c1 do t Jugicahty tr»»-
Y'otfT • i any f a/u- and nonfat Nc
P ; i»* .u ol The Vcu'iou- «T*--
».:>i on of the i 3. - ,:j'4preii]<?
C ’ Ut vJlikUij/ GCA';. „>? I t*n; pi • tu
bar N p i;' bvs frr.m riot;t isi-
Out \- I) L d a SUpl’i'Jbf'-) l
fircct method to t *nd v\ hai h a
'‘vt-iy '•cnTibl- and L.fui n.rci
v'Ur Os O’Ui’vß l!a*y vi*l«*d in u
block -9"onM Htvmaii. AJi but a
handful iikv Old Man Holley,
As a malt* i of fad Govt*i •
uoj Herman Tuimarii/t- r-» veai
:l the * uaJ mala v« :tu& objeu-
Ij vc Ithmd hi: program number
ui.x -vhi-.fi he said tiiat if ia
couiu tii;t make tht (jTui ;h3
t>H' ! 1 < 1 ..1C Will! .iC US b;'9IIIF
Tu iJisiKt it JU t as \\ Jlli.f ,i\V)'
J'uimacigc -:n a hi.s suppurtci
in lilt Georgs;; Jcgi.slatuu seei..
to (’> el reasunably certain that
they have succeeded in d ung by
mdireetion what c>;uld nut be
brought about dincUy in the
face of U S Supreme Court
mi cedents They believe that
they can, cynicaliy, bul within
the lelftr of the iaw. disijualUy
Ncg/ue.s who by any objective
standard# would be qualified.
The Georgia Supieiric Court
has given its sanction to thi*
disfranchisement by indirection
in its recent decision in these
words;
’’The mere p-.ssibility that the
board of registrars under this
statute, may act arbitrarily oi
recklessly in administer mg the
law and thereby- violate con
stitulional rigtits is not a gyduttd
for declaring the act as a whole
uncanst.it utfoha).'
But after ad that is not the
..a-fend of the storv. Surm ; ■ m-’i m
v. ; ! lt'r !• gltly by any objective
It-'.. and me ca.se win reach
bii- U. Supreme Court. It will
take seTis time, but it will hap-
P< u Tin n and only then will
the constitutionality of the new
dot c to make the Georgia
eic-et. rate all white meet l't*
d R itue t« ; t The Georgia Sti-
P>vn.« Court had the first w -id,
and it ’i.ir.r.t have done itself
proud n\ dt-eiai ing the act -au*
(• m titutiofikl It did not Rot
the Geoi gci Eiij-rtm.- <' •,i. t doer
not i<.r, r the last word.
SENTENCE
SERMONS
in Ki t iHA NK * r, \KI M t
I uHiiV it).': AM*
■ ' . • . I. ;r. ~e u by
hUf: - <, * ' t.'UifliJtllilCllliftDiS ‘
1 * 1 1 Vr* i > *l’ 1/1 i••Vi V JsOUi
..ufi-r-:. }•;, rj.iiji r.y Satan’s
t-nioiun'i^nts
S.ttarT;. gifbi to upai ently mee
t'Aks hav*.’ n special g lister and
tinkle, but results to them will
i * 111 r -..i: t. as others it with
his company they juviuilj rmn
u!e.
Ye.u !ht y look mighty attrac
tive- trom a a outward appear
at tee i.nit have proved most de
: tractive against righteous per *
&evf ranee.
<rt gismorous wo.rdly hie as
■i!'v :.p.; irum \it light but
•-viincut spiritual eraev it ean
nvT ri.-f.tecl Oocls prismatic
• "■•'-u; • i ; iat nines eienvt tty
bright.
E\tty putt cf i responds
natural I > ! > the physical, and
''Ulv liiUj p.ntliall) touched
can ik reach beyond the na
tural
It is the nold things. begin
lij begin In vanish anti uft' suu
deniy begins .-tie w, heavenly
jc-, tiepin to spread their ii: -
crease, ;u.d worldly desires fade
iiWin' a Hie dew
How it *s diiiif. no scientist
ran discover —• why Christ
loved ui; to - fa, beyond any
human lovet
Alj one e.Jh say after such
at' operation from sin set free
"th.ii, wtHie once I was
blind, now I can see.”
Mar-,':, early recognition of nis
lost and ti';i»*ly state gives nim
longer days to be with Cod,
and his daily protection from
iiii ill-late.
The scon ,-r ungoldly men and
women realise that they are
empty, before a God of plenty,
and make no defense for being
so dense; then will come that
mysterious sight that can see
God's works both day anu
night
God needs plenty high-class
mei humble enough to reach
down and lift that poor forsak
en fellow who lias been cling
ing to the ground
T hesc are the towering
heights sublime toward which
more men ought to strive to
(limb: It would make life sweet
WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, OCTOBER J, 1949
BETWEEN
MSi THE
gjjjg'JJP nr DZAN ts HANCOCK ro// ANP
run: huhkson riots
ltcgardJpss .f our sharp dir
agreement with Tau! Robeson
and his idcuiiiplcul dep:a tli. es
we must no; tori'et :ior re
turn Uco oui democratic Uadi
1 1oi)s it is c;uiti ,/.sy io pas.
li'onj protest to pers^cutioii.
The violence attending the ap
peal ance ot Robeson at }‘etK
skill was a disg: .ici- to our
vaunted democratic traditions.
No serious student of national
and d*a national .dfan- can vi*
•the current scene- without
tveiling deco concern over mat
ter:, that ;oe transpiring befoi<
on! eye: ! lit pattern Oi a in. ii
: tale ai e fine: :• i ,g in way!«;>
lift ill it t- . bf di. (lilted
Klai’isni whether masked or
Until, 'an I- . : viViDt.)- 1 , of Na
ze .: • lie -dit! i- -ta-, - !it i \V i-. -1
tile Ivi.iiii- tn ut heck;!-ill and
that . 1 Atiaiit., i merely one
of ie -alion and m both instan
ce- in. j ut-iiiuU the he dm':'.
* !.■ ! i at.os i- file important
thing I't.e rct'u-. al in .<•< i 111 pii- .1
matin is ,• irini; Hit lnimev. .u'k
oi 'he law .■ a dangerous yinp
ta Ml it a. i:\ia:- ot wllCi t- fOUiiO.
'iiieie w-..s a lynching- in
Peck - Kill just a. sorely as there
a i.- tyiii. kings heie and then
about The ou'a. itiat no life
wcs lost was only an incident
UV L> 1111:aRU ]'K« Ufcr OI C’j.l'CHlTiSt*-* 11
cc: ami c - a-,- d.-wi, to ttie credit
oi tioLody :: particular and
ot every o,,cty In general. The
..w • .-t proton is a .-.acred ont
in die American tradition out
the right of persecution has
never ~ i. eiiablished in cisiy
i.oat. say nothing of America
Tiir lic it troubled angle - f tr.e
ifol'C-: <,:i riots i;e, tn tile tact
that the protest partake- oi the
mil are of a pei . a ultoui Frov.i
J.!P- : iiCCOUlit:; it -.ViHlld up j i.'il
Ik-at thr re c only one (.'uirunuc
ist in tins country and that is
Foul if -beson
It semns to nave been for
c. He n that the I 'unimunist pa:-
tv in New York is a well-de
fined political organization with
cue of its members elected to
one the hied! offices of stab
fmd notion. One begins there
f..oi t i >,.- dc-r why the na
tion’s vial of wtaUi against
t'ominu.'ii-ini ha- 1 .t-eu presort ■
<-i! a. -id- - i > - ;-C" .-ii old •.
iliCoh-: ioi ;o j; VV'iiy be log
a ( c-rnmuihst sc rnuch ivioi <*
• trii: liii-e iii N i -gro.; - :- t r'l til 1 in
iri •it m the hulk >-i t o.:-
cannot iu-.it to an Aitieru an
audience- Are the Robeson
“Remove The Soon WTb Dnuklnur Your Coffee*’
- **gr 't»
k
AB.f\ a"6wea-'^
sot a jL.,uSl
JOS, SARAH K.TANNER C’i Ml
also welpsd OR&AM2E. mamt I WBI
TwE A.M.E. VWSMSN'S . .
v -
*
MAVS AIREAOv
. bkn SARAH EUIABEW
TANNER
| ' ’ * M * f * FOUNDER!
riots being arid methodically
and with malic:- aiou thought
to flighten Hie Negroes into re
juainiiig loyal to democracy.'
Race eiiit -s many situations in
Hu '] a rutieth i '-. nimy world;
iui a o in HA ut! I*, oude- hand
v. Ii rue - ituc-t tniei iritii tiy.it
against Connnunisni
ii is sale to say that the ex
tenl oi which the Commit hist
light is centered on race, is me
extent to .nil'll the fight
against Communism will be
lost Tib- uni.b's .rabie thing
about Cc mmuiiisni is its basic
concept., snU muji.-t' premises
ai-! net tH.< fad that Negtoes
»t(.- ni provocation may embrace
o file Robeson not.- have dan
;-tn -i-i implications in that tidy
oh Hr- . i-d niaoH'i-sU-lian of
Hie Juslifiabl hle.ropiiLiihu 'hi.it
is swt e-plug the ••ountiy The
eni igy lit-;eg ex-peiided to make
an example oi Robt-sun tor 1 1 e*
t ent-;, t of ids rat i could more
Vv.-u;!y 1> e (■ ---s so l In pir-iri :
n... way of life- 11. at h inimi
cal J*.. i otTuiuniiMi; Deinoctacy
in piUetice will .iU (. 'oia'iiiun
i-in i i.ot and tuuu. a out riot
en: • Lass si upon iUta- Wili si'unu
lato tiir- growth ui Communisni
ui something else just as bad
'1 he mots staging the Robe
son ! i ts r.lio ih! see i Hi- dangers
till.. inhere in uvei-killing their
in m A!> .-u-i’v a wave of sym
pathy i: being s.neiated in he
iiaii .1 R.‘be: on it i. not goon
} -he 1 tc -. i!lily :•» man tiut
i: a i.o -hi pi i..g up to
‘i. iec-st lin .sr.K: tactics
fii.'in fc used to defeat Truman in
in, .'.-i:-in presidential dec
ticii tv- u they •vere used iiv
■S'ei to c.cstr-'o. him pehtieduy
m the i.ot campaign.
I Tad tile traducers and fie k
ll i o.- a Wnei'l 111 Stop, ‘I lU
n.•in. we old a* -ii now be dO!Til
' 111 ii ill TllUl j.-t nis lice Mo. But
ti e . i.i.i s alliance of Demo
c; ai. and sh ..üblicntis and their
- -killing tactics boonn-ranged
.s : M?v ti the scales of tee
citation whereby Truman won,
Hid made himself the political
wonder «.*f Hoc Twentieth Cen
v. or id Tile hecklers and
liofer- who are bent on mak
!i,t; nn exampti- of Kobesoii
i.irh i,i■■ -.:i.i! sereoil fear among
. .■ > II- e ICa. e j. (: -
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