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PAGE FOUR « The Carolinian SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $2.00 One Year $3.50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ADDRESS ALL COM. MUNI CAT IONS AND MAKE ALL CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO THE CAROLINIAN Interstate United Newspapers, 7«c„ 642 Fifth Avenue N. V. 17, If. V., National Advertising Representative. This newspaper Is not responsible tor the return ot unsolicited news, pictures, or ndrertlf lng copy, unless, necessary postage HCeompanleg the copy. (Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 118 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, North Carolina——Telephone: 9474) v>UR PLATFORM W e Stand for Fuji and Equal Constitutional Rights and Privileges and Civil Liberties of .All People, Regard less of Race, Creed, or Color, Entered as Second Claes Matter, April #, 1940. at the Pob! Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the March 1879. PAUL R. JERVAY, Publish a UN HOLLOWAY, Managing Editor TD)romr&. viewpoint ®V-CJ m&t NOT OVER YET THOUGH the campaign for the Demo cratic nomination for the governorship did not degenerate to the level of the senatorial campaign of two years ago, toward its end, according to a news item in the CAROLINIAN of June 7, the “race issue’’ was finally dragged •'in by the ears. How much “race” whis pering was done during earlier phases of the campaign is an op°n question. But it seems that handbills were ■circulated in some areas on the eve _oL .the voting showing the Buncombe Coun ty campaign committee of candidate Hubert E. Olive, and “one of the men in the photograph was identified as n Negro.” Whether or not a Negro was on Mr. Olive',- Buncombe committee we do not know. What w e do know is that there would have been nothing improper in having a Negro citizen on the commit tee. The governor of North Carolina is the governor of all the people, and all the people are interested in who will hold office. Between a quarter and a third of these people are Negroes. Vari ous differences are made by both law and custom in the status oi whites and Negroes as citizens of North Carolina, consequently Negroes have a vital in terest in which candidate is the success ful one in all elections. In addition to th picture, the hand bill contained, according to the CARO LINIAN the following statement: “Kerr Scott, who seeks the- Negro vote for his hand-picked choice for Gover nor, has appointed Negroes to the Stole Board of Education and other commis sions. Hubert Olive has promised the Negroes he will continue Scot IN pro gram. “Hubert Olive has declared his first official act, if elected, will he to fire the Commissioner of Paroles, and his Negro leaders are passing the word along that his Negro manager will be named paroles officer as a pay-off to the Negro bloc voters. Is this kow-towing to the Negro vote merely a desperate effort by Candidate Olive or is it a deliberate attempt to end segregation? Before you vote May 31 ask yourself two questions? “Do you want a Negro paroles com misioner? “Do you want your children to go to pchoo! with Negroes? It would certainly be stretching the imagination to envision at this stage of development Mr. Olive or anyone else appending a Negro paroles commission er in North Carolina It is further well known that both Governor Scott and Mr.! Olive have the same views as to segregation as are common among the white people of the State, and that the governor’s having appointed a Negro fto the State Board of Education is en tirely irrelevant in that connection. The appeal of the handbill was of course an appeal to race prejudice, fto more and no less, and on a very low level as to veracity. As is usual with such appeals, innuendo predominated. The CAROLINIAN hopes the time will soon come when a statewide politi cal campaign can be conducted with out the supporters of any of the candi dates descending to the level of an ap peal to race prejudice; when real arid not false issues will be the ha. e. of the contests. PRESIDENT REBUKED T*HE SIX TO three decision by which the United Supreme Court, ruled that President Truman exceeded his consti tutional powers in his seizure of the steel companies was a historic one. The fact that the majority opinion was written by Justice Black, one of the consistent liberals of the Court., and the language he used in writing his opinion, are evidences that, the decision was not a “reactionary” one. There U a limit to them. We live under a system of I i opted government, in which both the execu tive and legislative branches have metes and bounds set to their authority- It is all to the good that the rights of citizens and persons, whether personal or property rights, whether poor and friendless individuals or rich and power ful corporations be involved, should be protected from the encroachment of government officials. For unless there a. re limits set, no one knows where the arbitrary exercise- of powers- would stop. it is quite probable that President Truman sincerely believed that the method he used was the most effective method of handling the steel crisis, and as was observed in these columns not long ago, he showed his willingness to undergo severe criticism. But his method however “effective,” was unconstitu tional, according to tile Court, and ! therefore his act was illegal. The Supreme Lour! acted in the in- Lresl of a “government, of laws .md not of men.” YVe hope the lesson will be vco! taken, not only by Air. Truman, but by many others who are inclined to •ignore certain part- of the Constitution of the United States when they do not , . * fit their plans or wishes. SHOULD BE DEFEATED ITOR THE first time since Jackie Robinson broke the ice in profes sional baseball there has been a formal effort to stop by law the growing use of colored players. Associated Press ports that there has been introduced 'into the state senate of Louisiana a bill to prohibit whites and Negroes from participating together in com petitive sports The news item explains that Shreve port, Louisiana, is a member of the Texas League, which league lias “lifted 'its ban, allowing Negroes to play.” It is well known that wherever Ne gro players have been giver: a chance to become members of league teams their use has met with general approval. They have proven to be assets in -every respect, gate receipts included. It is certainly to be hoped that the Louisiana bill will be defeated; that such an uncalled for concession to color prejudice will be denied. DAMAGES J*HE UNIQUE feature of the Martin County school inequality suit, so far a.s we can make out, is the demand fm actual and punitive damages registered by the complainants. What effect this new approach will have remains to be peon, but certainly it will cause the par lies on the other side to sit up and take notice. The counsel for the plaintiffs also present an interesting and toiling bid of particulars: accredited schools for whites, non-accredited for Negroes: $959,000 valuation for the county's white schools, $304,000 for Negro schools, although 53 per cent of the ’county’s school population is colored, MAN IN A HURRY V ~V ... twenty more teachers in the white than in 1 Ite colored schools; only 11 ot .11 buses in the service of Negro school children; gross differences between the two set. of school:, g,\ nilia.-.niiii, sliOp and cafeteria facilities. Evidently a lot of “damage'' has been . • xv ||l|. M*, * C. D. H llib rt m's JpiJ, SECOND THOU GHTS ” .My experience in these organization* led me .is earls as 1947 to the con viction that the l onißiun t-Us as such are not inter ested really in improving BETWEEH THE mars —~ BY DFAN B HANCOCK fQft ANF> TRF NIC HO VOTER AND POUT HAL. OIM’OR IT N ISM Tilt- emphasis in philosophy ha- 'hlftt d considerably within the last ,>0 year;-. Whereas Uv earlier schools of philosophy were absolutist in their ap proaches, the later schools are relativist Whereas the earlier philoso phers declared that things are either one thing or another, the wore modern philosophers are a little hesitant to express the absolutism which say- a thing is right or wrong. As a matter of fact u Using nsav have a mixture of both right and wrong. Once upon a time it was thought that things, were separated by tines, but we know today they art- rattier separated by tones. Youth is the gone between child hood and maturity; dawn separates the night from the day uteri as dusk sepa rates the day trom the night. Our seasons in the main are summer and is in ter which are separated by sirring and autumn. As Elia Wheeler Wilcox once ex pressed it: "l know as my years grow Older and mine eyes have dearei light; that in each rank wrong somewhere there lurks the seed of right." The foregoing reflection was suggested by the- current vot ing responsibilities which are imposed upon Negroes through out the country. It is serious ly to be doubted if a more cri tical suffrage situation ever be fore confronted the Negroes whose fortunes are poised in tht political balances of the political balances of the cur rent ('lections. With a coalition between de ceitful norther opportunists and the dyed-in-the-wool dixiecrats, the Negro's political future lies uphill and In the dark. It is therefore incumbent upon the Negroes to choose carefully whom they will support in the e o m i n a critical elections throughout the country. The Repubhran -!»>>- to date is of dubious distinc tion. The choice between Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Sets. Robert Taft is a choice between the devil and the witch, politically speaking. Both are at heart dixiecrats, and being espe cial favorites of the dbOe crate, both are dangerous) THE CAROLINIAN the conditions of Negroes of an- other minorities. They re not interested in ex pioiting their grievances, stirring up strife, and real ly preventing a solution of sons of Ham. political bets ft)- <h*> dusky Like a guest of dinner, who g* ts hi-- «-ue from the hostess, the Negro mu t look in some safe direction for a 'political cur. it seriously to be doubt ed whether the average Negro voter has pondered serioiuly the confused political issues of the hour. The southern, white •nan of anti-Negro persuasion i. : an astute -indent of politics in that nf can sense a long v. ay off is.-dies with interracial impliesfMons. .kiiy political issue- that pro mises the Negroc: relief from ihi-lr current discriminations and segregations is quick to get thf ati uni ion of cerate ele ments of lowly whit.*.: who en joy prejudice as a luxury without which life would hard ly be worth living. Tic Negro is not so adept in his poliuoai impulses. Our period of training has been too short for . tp have become skilled in things poli tical. We are till political tod dlers as compared with the Jews. It would be a fine tiling if Negroes would watch the Jews in their political expres sions. The Jews know men and measures and even today could spot the man or candidate who might offer some further hope; of advancing the integration contrived by the immortal Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who according to Gunner Myr dal, made the first attempt on the part of the government to integrate the Negroes. Unfortunately President Tin man had the heart but he lack ed the head, to advance Roose velt's progressive policies. What is even as important is Tru- Buch a towering giant beside man", misfortune in following whom he always suffered in comparison. Truman is a much more powerful character than rated, simply becausi he has had to sU.'utl in the stead of one of this *-ouutry's truly great men, in fact one- of the great men of history, despite what Westbrook Peg! or says. „ Feglers dyspeptic attacks on the Roosevelt name is like a puppy barking at the moon. Hr is like a pygmy contesting with a giant collossus. The Jews can be counted on to pick the winner in ‘the coin ing election. This writer’s eyes ere turning seriously to the Jewish minority to point out the man who above others will,. and is being don-:. 'The Uonstitution of North Carolina, just to remind the reader, calls for separate but equ ed ucational facilities,, and the State is committed io bringing about the equali ty. So lar it has completely taken t ~r-oi oi the .separatum. pt'ObifDii *tiGii.£ dftfQtHil' &i lira's, Aii - (nit Ii „ idols to the CommuaLsA for moral leadership or wise political guidance looks in vain.” SO SAID MAX YEARGAN in bi» K-: umony before the in* tern a I Security Sub-committee of ute S* hair Judiciary Corn oiiilee, us reported by i>ouu l.a.itier for the National Negro Pre : Association. Yergan ax>* pewicd \ ..oUft, an}y LcEfc; the commiUtc, a. ’ the statement quoted above was in reply to que.tion asked by Senator Horn*'! Ferguson, chairman of the* cominititt-, a? to whether in Yitroan had found the appa rent interest of the Communists to. Negro and colonial ana-r genuine. lir. Yergans revehtiiiiu uhi occasion no surprise. It has long been recognised that Comimmiste have tried io get iuto Negro organiza tions so that they might use them lor their oven ends, 1 ergan admitted in his testimony that the Na tional Net r o Congress**, which he headed, was Com munist controlled, and that he was not entirely ignor ant of the lied cormeciions oi the organisation. HOW COULD A MAN LIKE -MAX YERGAN BE DUPED by the Communists? Weil, the came kind of thing happened to hirr, as happened to Whittle iters Chamber-. Dr. Yergan was vitally interested in the im provement of the condition of Negroes, not only in this, coun try, but in Africa. It seemed to him that the only white peo ple, or the only organization of while people, who had. a Live and sympathetic interest in the same problems, were the Com an uniats. It is doubtless true that Individual Common iste were interested ixt the problems Dr. Yergan was so vitally interested in, but the Red high command ran tilings, and Negro iiiterevts were of concern to the t om.nunist big shots, only t olhe extent that zealous Negroes, uncritical. in their seal, could be sucked into the Red set-up and exploit ed lor the real Communist objectives. Naturally they went after well-known Ne groes, and those they knew to be energetic, deeply con cerned and well-lftformeti about Negro problems throughout .lie world. I AM REMIX'D OF I.hc old Scott sboro case and the Inter national Itobor Defense. We used to discuss the case, arid lend some assurance that Ne groes aii welt us other mino rity groups will not he left out of the nation’s great scheme of things. Political oportion ism is political relativism. Trying to be absolute Democrat or absolute Republican i* sheerest folly, WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JUNE 14, 195e TJAMES a. SHEPARD’S HIS and THA | From time to time you Lear ! the- praises ’Halt igh is a pretty good town,’ or 'Raleigh Is cer tainly a fine place to live m.’ or maybe, 'Raleigh is all ri.-;Lt.‘ Perhaps you have made such or similar 1 inti-imiils or w ued with •ch stall moms v*. ;n-u made by others-. V/c have hoard --omi. fame brained individual a- fat to spy Raleigh i tin- Garden Spot of the World' and of course .for such inert. idtial- it is garden -sjot of the world beca'ts*’ their world i Raleigh. However, \ < art not In m v 1 discuss - :n< <u>u'!i nor the breadth of the mentality of the good people who : v.car by Raleigh, 1 ‘•cause we- want them along with us-- -to s- ■ busy r.ow and help make Raleigh g what u ought to can be |* To do that, we ought to 1 begin by looking into some I of the peculiar xitualhiiib uow existing here and it happens that these situa tion are or sttould be of grave concern to ail of us. tVr repeat, they should be Os grave concern to all of Us because those of which we shall -peak here briefly are .situations maintain* si, operated and in some In - stances initiated with and by public tax money—mon ey paid info the public j treasury by all of u.s, " Suppose, to begin, let’.-, lake a peep at the 1,,- pitai .-'itnil*ion. We vdd lot’.-, t.ikt . p.v-p hut it might be hotter for u.-, in stead ing oj pooping, to open OUr ey r c:-. wide -he!.' r begiq to look for a ho.spual for Ne groes in Raleigh or Wake County The truth L. there jlist. i-r.'t any. And to dale, o far u> vc know, no attempt is Lem.? made to provide such a badly needed facility in •*■ for our group. Wai t to look on tils ottu-i side of di* ‘lron (’urtairtT Ok-’ii, l/!‘ 'Ot'4; tiild iook v. < . oil h-t. Mary >•: Sir. ♦ litre, a largt and common Lis, perf* , i y equipped ,itid isl ! > quaicly staffed hospital built with public funds, ran Just, money horn Raieigh ami \\ . a County but Federal Thin ~i' money fron. everybody ail or- r the country. Os course they toll ... t Rc.s i.-> a private iii.--:tiUition ard those of u- who are prone to twallov. anything the 'good V. hi *■ ffekk' toll U • ,readily assume that since Rex i.; a •privau ' r.titution and a cl one at that, that and of coursa V, e have no b I r.>. . tV-it thinking of applying for ad mi.- ion there. Now what v, e want to l.x»r.w is, w hen a..*J t:-.> who e .. 0;..- rlty did the Federal govern ment be,dli passing out public funds for the use oi private u» stitution,? instito-ion.- that ex clude i-x 1 eh.'.-e:. to - •* of fheir rr.ee': Can it be posh hi* that wtr have grbu a so complacent here ill ill! light Raleigh’ that we are not even con cerned with tile davaua hl« hospital sifuitioti here. * situation so rotten that a patient can. die or suffer untold misery while watte ing outside in the damp corridors of pitiful St, Agnes Hospital ,vt bile in tide a coldly mdiUereiH clerk holds up everything until she finds where tUe inoney for the wounded, kick or dying patient is coming from. Before you back shippers pat Raleigh on tin back again, wouldn't it be well from just a humane .tandpoint r> begin making some inquiries of your County Commissions, >our City Councilmen, y o it r l-to.-.pital Care Official:- m to why we art- not given any considera tion at ail in tin- way of hos pital care, while the other group has a nice hospital built with public funds. Os cours! now. v e dio not say ya.i could nm a to Rex Hospital, v. ..-aid you v. eye told it is a private institution. What, w i do ;ay i that it would profit ■us fm mure if instead of pratying Ralcijgh land it must be praised for what it hasn't done for its Ne gro Citiajt’n-:; lei s b*6k into this private institution 'lron Curtain’ and find out why or ho.v can Federal money bv used against us The time to do thi.- is NOW For 0.. vious i< a -on . put the way thr defense was be ing conducted, in one of my elaset» At we watched the i'J.D tactic- we became convin ced that tin defense war, being conducted purely in the inter est.. of Communist propaganda, tmd that tn» saving of the lives of Uie defendants was strictly a secondary concern. It was a grand stand play for Negro support of the Communist line. Had it served the it purpose, the TED would have been ready to let tin boys go to Utoir deaths. It will be recalled by older readers that the NiAACP with drew from the case. Its lead er. recognized what the Com munist game was, and refused to have anything to do with it ’•Negroes to this country’ arc interested in achieving the largest amount of de mocracy for themselves and their country. ComnnmiJU# arc not interested to that,"' said Dr. Yergan In the course of his testimony. The great majority of Negroes have known or sensed that for a loug time, hospital# oi hottid wc s;ty Ihe lack of h.. -.pita i facilities, at the head vt the be i of thing:, which would k< op Raieigh from gottin; 01,1 An- of Cun fin once • another lax mudiori. Re i tmi oi; of Raleigh Voted S26O,<XK) 111 bond.- W *' US', d for m p’.irpi | J Jure Cf O'Ui'.'c v.'i- assumed and \i.i* eytij ns , roira a d that ’ll-- rimni v would be spent on an equitable basis to improve tnc recreational facili tic. her*, foi Aid. tbi cilizt'iw of tin city in.i: then is now si wide spread 'belie!: :b. t ju venile delinquency at well as l < ontlnuei! oti page tt) »iaaßiMiiiMifr' i r , '‘^r^^ WKJWjsWHfr;., -- ■ —i - -| i i m &c ViK>lOßi\l. DAY MAY 3c i. icri'- 1 i* ii. Memo t;al or Decoration Day. 'file day was institute,’; in !8B» by the Grand Army oi' the Re public. Originally the purpo.se of th* day wa- to cotnniemorato the dead soldier and sailors who served in the Civil War But the ertginai purpo.-a of the day ha> widened v 1 1, tie- pass ing oi the years and now it i- one in which Uu- bu:-Hies-i of the countr* patiM in order that we the living may pay tribut* t..• Hu- memory »f tno:-.i who .have journeyed *»a to that Great Beyond, and most tspecially thos* ■ lie gi.e their lives in any war for the defense of tieur country, by vi ,;img tin ir :e.sti;,;: pt "• ■■ arid leaving there eviti<-iie>'- of lovo and affceSion It is altogether fitting that we pause in our busy Ikes to remember and pay tribute to our love ones, most especially those who n ere In an\ of our armed fortes. who have gone to their Reward. And event though in a sense, the day brings with it a certain * mount of sadness and ie morse i'i ou• ui»'liii>* li t 1, for one. wimhl uui iia** the ■Jay a ini ill the ceremonies connect'd with it discontin ued Well said Washington Irving when lie wrote’, •There is a remembrance of th< dead, to bleb w e turn even from the china* of ttie Jiving. These we would nut exchange for Uie song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry.” BUT EVEN IF WE I'IUED to forget those who h.-ive depart ed from ibE life. . could not do it Go where wo wiil, the dcfiartcd ;>ie vvill; it-. Tiy our Lot r in -*, ill? i ini -i- bvr and ronver-t v. ith m Their \VT'l]-r< Hi* "Hi to no fDttitiU.s with ihe whisper in# bi£c/C\ with Hi,- ‘i.ind of fail ire leaf. ivith tie olftly calling Voices of ?nr, . Tin r.irtii i filled •wi‘h !•,.■•- us the departed. Almo i ah tie literature of the ■world. the tli-cove ties of science, the glories cf art, th* ever * endurihg temples .the d '.’. ell 1 11 . places of- ru-raiion th* maximand re ani o?' of the livinff, the very framework of hoc jet y the in iit.it iuns of na tions. the fabric of empires pi: a,-i th.- work of the depart ed. Th’ world 1 filled with bn voices of the departed. They -peak no: from the nubile •a-cords of the r;rrat world on ly but from the private his t of rs;:r own expcrlercce. They :nc ak to us not only from the silent real i:u: places but from the busy throne of life. Thoxsifh thru art invisible, yet life is filled with their pres ence. They nrt* with ni by th* silent fireside and in seclud ed chamfec / Thev are with us in ’be path? of : .octet v, and in the crowded assemblies of men. They speak to its from tin lonely v'a-side, and they monk to r$ from th- venerable walls that echo to the voices of prayer. In the words of the Apostle Paul: and by it bein’' dead vet speaketh.” It Is a noble snirit on *bc ■nart of the rencral public in i(iiiuViC*s<*) f a:our dtvi heroes, arid heroines, with fkiU’i’rs ,w*th sotlg' .ifld pa t’lotlc sn»e.ehes. But it is me considered o»3n 1« n . tbat the finest and greatest memorial we ran «ix r e our sullen dead would he to continue to d-dii irtr our lives our efforts, and our resources to a world at j>. tee. If Is no’ the pro vi»«c« of this article to r» loin sh. delaMs of Hi;** sUfb kuv he realized Suffice it, hoo-ecer io noint out that p World of peace is not the isvti on!« e< idgb - r'mktw Ei.veKiipenitl and military ofi!c»iiK P*<« It n the la-fe of every living liclnr. And. niueeo'uer, one fund u»»e«!at princioaJ must be oboefWbd before «*e *••»« have world peace, immelv ,eocb Iridlvi diiat must be willing to tread a'l other burn’o fee tugs with respect. Without that verv slrni.l" and ele nmitary t>ritteis»aJ there amt be no warM |w.sce s
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