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PAGE FOUR toTroliJA£f m VIIWPOINT PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY WHERE IT’S DUE Total operation and main tenance of Raleigh Recreation and its 'facilities for Negroes should he the responsibility of a Negro director of parks, recreation and concessions In stead of the present status of Gefirge W. Mitchell as super visor. The tragic drowning of Stephens Crews possibly could have been avoided through complete responsibility designat ed to Mr. Mitchell. This re sponsibility of necessity should carry an adequate budget lor personnel, equipment and main tenance. In this way planning and. recreation operation from year to year is tied down The director knows what he has to work with in dollars, per sonnel, facilities and equipment Up knows he is totally re sponsible to the city head of ■• recreation and to the city it !. Mjlf. He knows that the safety I and upkeep of city recreation property are turned over to him to safeguard and protect i He should have the authority ! THE END OF AN ERA * The election of Dr. Arthur D. | Gary to the presidency of Tal * lad eg a College leaves hardly a J well-known Negro college cm ' university with a white presi , dent. Off hand we can think of t only one exception Xavier ' University, an institution op 1 i t * I CHALLENGE TO WAKE FOREST Tver, if the stories as police '• fcf-dtaiity against Negroes in j Wake Forest should prove to be highly exaggerated, and there is no apparent reason for be lieving that thy are, then a alpst deplorable situation exists there, and ones that calls for ■ immediate remedial steps. The ' pbopU. of Wake Forest, which is a college town and has had i a reputation for quietness and 1 culture, should not for a min } i ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF A PROTEST j The prompt withdrawal by * group of Negroes in Omaha of their protest against the. mev | tftg of S white family into their neighborhood was gratifying. In i view of the thousands of pro f tints Negroes have made be : cause of prejudiced attitudes anc actions of whites against Official and unofficial residen } segregation, the unusual f TRAMP, TRAMP. TRAMP i the i&d which recently had * half the. country displaying Con federate flags in some way cr { other and wearing Confederate * caps and other insgmas. of the 1 “Lost Cause" seems to have ! subtidad generally; but one survival came to light the other J day when Associated Press got 1 hold of Mr, William Hendrix. I bt Tallahassee, Fla., until very * recently the big shot of the Ku 1 Klux Klin in the territory out | side North and South Carolina t i SENATOR McKELLAR IS RETIRED 1 i Tennessee's Democratic ! voters showed good judgment | which Will be very generally 1 aPfiltiuded when they retired M-yiar-old Senator McKeilAr i in thfe recent primary in that * state Irascible beyond reason, ' violent, vindicative and self i ■ treking, the old man had few » fr ; ends. Yet he was a power 1 ful fellow, because of his seni j ority in 'the Senate He eras i chairman oi the important Ap- ! A BIG CHANGE IS SEEN DESIRED The Jtiihm 0r.5. Times-Dis * patch this year is for the first time tacking a Republican J nominee for president. There are other southern newspapers i out tor Eisenhower, and it is * well known that anti-Truman * sentiment has been strong in Virginia as well as in many !o --s calities throughout, the South, But we believe the Richmond ! newspaper is unique, or nearly i ao, in Dixie, in its anti-Derrujf * critic attitude; for it has ad -1 vacated editorially not only J electing the Republican candi , dates for president and viee i president, but a Republican * Congress.. An Associated Press news k dispatch quotes the editorial; s “Th» time has come for a » change from +op to bottom in j Washington with a new party : in control, and, if possible. Re nublican majorities In both | branches cf Congress The i Ifcnoerat* have been in power » 5 » The Carolinian $ (Published by the Carolinian Publishing • Company, 118 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, North Carolina -Telephone: 9474) SUBSCRIPTION RATES i Sis: Months $2,00 ........One Year SB-50 PAUL R. JERVAY, PnblUh« ■- UN HOLLOWAY, Managing Editor to requisition the city for im provements 01 repairs to elimi nate the hazards of accidents oi to as cf life While it is regrettable that young Crews loss his life In a filthy city swimming pool, it would be more regrettable if this young life has gecn wasted to no avail in vividly pointing nut to the authorities the need for placing the confidence and. authority of recreation where it, belongs. Another area of indifference in the recreation program is the placing of the train on the only tennis courts in the entire city for Negroes. Certainly sufficient space is *o he found in Chavis Park to locate the train other than on the only two tennis courts in the city However, if this had been the most feasible location thte ten nis courts should have been moved to another location be fore putting the train in opera tion In our opinion, tennis, while not commercial as is the etated, we believe, by a Roman Catholic order which has no Negro members, A quarter of a century ago there was hardly a Negro 'in stitution sponsored or support ed by a predominantly white church or organization that had -a Negro head. The change that ute tolerate such goings on as have been chronicled concern ing their police force, includ ing and apparently applying especially to the chief. These happenings as recorded in the news col ns of the CA LINIAN, are atrocious, and cer tainly away out of harmony with .what ordinarily goes on in Wake County Raleigh the County seat, has. we venture to say, one of the best records of action of the Omaha group was embarrassing. One case of ac tive anti-white prejudice by Negroes received more pub licity than a thousand would have with the rote of the races reversed. Fortunately the pub licity give tithe Omaha groups change of heart seemed te have been as wide as that given the original story Also pressure di Mr Hendrix is quoted by AP i* saying in his interviev. The. Kian’s got too bad a name. All that trouble in North Carolina hurt. People want *o forget all that beating and bloodiness” But Mr Hendrix added that he is planning a new organiza tion The American Con federate Army,” whose mem ber? will wear "confederate caps and ties." He added, with incredible candor, the story re propriatiens Committee arid en joyed using his power to dis comfort his personal enemies and those whom he had come to dislike, often with no reason whatever. Taking advantage of the im munity given by his old age <ne actually took a punch at *om« colleague nearly every session and when not engaged in fisti cuffs he was continually using his sharp tongue in a most ur. engaging way He was a pr<- too long for their own good. We have in General Eisenhower a candidate who has such high i character, such an impressive i record, and such popular ap ; peal that there are grounds for hope that he can redeem the i country.” The news item goes on to say that the distinguished Rich mond newspaper conceded that. Mr Stevenson is the strongest candidate the Democratis had available, and referred to him as “ s man of integrity, gen uine Intellectual stature and extraordinary orotorleal attain ! ments,” hut added that he is. dn a large sense the prisoner i of his party, and it would be impossible for him, as Presi i dent .to do much more than i provide window - dressing let what would be, basically, the same crowd which has dis i graced the republic . . . and caused millions to cry out for a change” train, the decision to place the train on the tennis courts plain ly exemplifies a disregard .for a wholesome noteworthy re#- it anon. We would want no Negro recreation director who would deflate his program by dis carding an active body-build ing activity taking in a large age span for an inactive activi ty for largely the smaller chil d ren. We believe the city fathers are interested in a well-round ed recreation program for all the people of Raleigh, and with Oils in mind we are suggesting that the responsibility of such a program be assigned to a full fledged director with budget, personnel, facilities, equipment and decisions so that we might better curtail delinquency, at tain the dignity of position and salary along with cutting out the hazards and death traps that may lurk where our chil dren are a! play through city controlled and supervised rec reation. has taken place in 25 or 30 years is a tribute to ■ the pro gress of the Negro and to the clearly demonstrated ability of the Negro race'to produce in dividuals with 'he qualification* necessary for good educational administration police conduct toward Negroes, | and others, in the country if the officialdom and the * public sentiment of Wake Forest. I simply react op. The defensive, I >s so often happens when the | treatmc-»n of Negroes is criti cized and protested against, it will be a highly regrettable and tragic circumstance We hope that the town will give a far better account of itself than that in this situation reeled against the group came largely from other Negroes in cluding the NAACP and the Na tional Urban League How often and how promptly have white groups withdrawn ♦ heir protests against a Negro family’s moving into a block" And hew often has the pressure of violent action to prevent the invasion' of Negroes! ports, -Of course well prob ably keep some robe* and torches around for crowd-draw etsAnd later in the inter view in partial explanation of his hopes for the success of the new Confederate army, which win fig!'? against socialized n ■ dicine, communism, social ism and the welfare state, the Associated Press tells us. My -vife,’ he said selemly, is a di rect descendant of Robert E Lee ” feet example of how r.ot to grow old gleefully, and one or the best, arguments extant pre ferment by the seniority rule His disappearance from the Senate will cause few tears from any quarters We hepr that he can acquire some tran quility in his retirement, and that in private life he may ac quire some of ibp graces com roonlv associated with the evening of life We wonder how many south erners tas well as other Demo crats) thing such a house-clean ing is caiied for as the Times- Dispatch advocates We wonder specifically how many would be willing to see the Democratic party lose Its control of Con gress in such a thorough-going process. We wonder if the Times-Dispatch itself would ad vocate seeing Senator Byrd Ipse out to the Republican candi date for the Senate in Virginia in November; or is it the paper's hope and wish that only northern Democratic mem bers of Congress be defeated, provided the Republican ma jority. Is the Tirnes-Dispatch ready to see the important Con gressional chairmanships, most of them held by southern Dem ocrats, lost to the other party? Or a Republican senate -which might change the cloture rule? If so it is really ready for a rhaag*. THE CAROLINIAN LABOR DAY-AND HOWi /c****s £ Z® I A*(SW«o! / 7 /'■■sM-W / tnsmi //• / / \ y\ / \ /» ss JpSKr* 'W> / \ /3L>A •^ T , /zs''Zz\ if/ ZJ-Z-Zj //I \\ \l\ !'L.fdJ \ / 5... < - < j- / _ —, •S'- ~ Jmw'* . •yvrt. / atpu«>.'6*“ / T' — j/ yr - ’ ■ vi *-■ • i k . ■tbbJ't ‘3-xZZy 1 Jhavlni ~~! i : ■ C. D> HclUb rt on a J|A SECOND THOUGHTS 1 have just come across * thoughtful article in the well known non - denominational journal, the CHRISTIAN CEN TURY, on that, intriguing sub ject. the Negro vote in the com-, ing presidential election The article, appealing as the- lead editorial in the Aug. 20 issue of the magazine, declare; that. so far only two important tesuea have developed in the cam paign - party unity and the Nwg.ro vote- Oi course these two issues are closely related, especially so far as the Demo cratic Party u - concerned, and it reminds us that whatevei else true, the Negro vote is certainiv very important The editorial states an unde Biable fact when it points out that both candidates are un der heavy pressure from within their parties to ornrnit them selves to more, in ♦his scramble for Negro votes, then d is plain ♦hey want to promise thus, vs usual, she Negro is of more Im portance as an issue than the benefits he is likely to gam would appear to warrant Here is a new -'age in Arne tican political life." comments t h ; fjß[ nT 1A N CENTU R Y There ir-v still hr some white citizens who do not realize how important the colored vote has become But the politicians do. They know that in several nor them states with large votes in the electoral college, Negro cit izens may held the balance of power ibis fall In 1945. for ex ample, a shift of less than 5 pet cent would have changed the- electoral votes of Nc” York, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio - 119 votes right there in every one of these states politics! observers believe that colored voters may this year decide the outcome There am several other states where, if the presidential race proves close the Negro vote could be decisive.’* The article proceeds to dis cuss how each party's leader" are trying to give the impres sion that their party is offer ing more in the way of in creased attention to civil rights than the other, and more than, either party's platform or the pronouncements of either par ty’s candidates have so far indi cated. ‘We do not know.” the edi torial proceeds, bow Negro voters will respond to party blandishments this year. Gieat numbers of them, ve believe, are reaching a point of politi cal sophistication where they perceive the minor importance of the party platforms. The fact is, of course, that on civil rights as on almost every othesi promise in both platforms there is in prospect in Congress * sufficient, bipartisan opposition to exercise virtual veto powers No platform promise is reliable while party lines are as dim as they now are ill Congress. Hosts of Negro voters, we be iieve. see this.” Then follows *he most signi ficant part, of the article. Much of what has been quoted above has been said many times. What follows consists of good advice and is bored on acute and sym pathetic observation; •‘Negro leaders must find sa tisfaction in the rapidly ap proaching full enfranchisement of colored citizens , , in the south as well as ■elsewhere. It is possible that in this election as large a proportion of poten tial Negro voters as whites will vote. This enfranchisement will offer new opportunities to rmimbcm of the race. It will al so offer greater opportunities for race demagogues, for Ne gro voters will vote on the piiwsis of what they arc* led U> believe is immedeiate self-in terest, as do 'bites For responsible race leaders such a situation calls for Intel ligent disclosure of what the first interests of the race are. Jobs? Surely, the Negro noeds to have the doors of opportun ity to better jobs more widely opened Yet more important than that is it that he shall be ready to measure up to those larger opportunities when they become available That means his FIRST interest should be in has ing acres; to better edura - Letter To The Editor 1M 1-2 W. t r ie Avf Knoxville 24. Tennessee August 33, 1952 Editor The Carolinian Raleigh, N Dr Mr. Editor I have noted with both inter ert and concern, your rather vivid reporting, through the columns of the Carolinian, an Incident of police brutility in nearby Wake Forest. You took to n*-k unreservedly the law enforcement agencies of that Wake County City, and perhaps lightly so But, I’M not too sure that such acts by law enforcement agencies, find their primary origin among that group 1 wrde as a southerner, who lives and expects to die in the south; needless to say 1 rather Hkc the section I have travel ed through all the so-called southern states, and most of the major cities there Thn has provided me with excellent op portunity to observe the actions of such officers to scrutinize them closely and to compare widely 1 find it difficult to escape the conclusion, that as long s? there as two groups of citizen* in the south, one rated first class, and the other of less st s Sentence Sermons *»•§• *>EV.. FRANK CLAB.ENC* LOTOI For ANP COME LETS REASON TOGETHER. If man had not. been so un reasonable, yea from hie v*ry start, perhaps he and God to day would not be so far apart But these inquisitive, selfish and give-me bugs that early got into his bloodstream, seen even now to be far more dead lier than their first appearance did seem If you trace them backward and forward, they are the causes men downward plunging almost from the beginning cf life. No medicine in tablet or liquid form can these hidden regions explore; this malady i» toe deep seated for any chemi cal to effect the slightest cure This is something that only the WILL of man alone must play an honest part only It, and the power of Jesus can change an evil man's heart. God gave this priceless gift rasa that he might choose , joy and peace, but he seems to ignore the goodness of God, and with Satan baa signed « lease. So far from God has he moved sway that oven in this enlightened day. God ha?, to beseach him not to follow his own hard way. But his head is hight and his neck stiff . easy prey for mid Satan to keep constantly on the- drift. He fails to consider how very liberal God it, in oiii.i ~»t , him ♦ ion. *o have his children brought up in better surround ings, to have the lights already supposed to be his under the law more honestly and con stantly safeguarded. There i* no sectional character in these things, they are as frequently denied in the north as in the south,” There is a good deal of ex aggeration in that last sentence, but after all it is simply an ex aggeration And there Is plenty to think about in the CHRIS TIAN CENTURY editorial. tus. the unscrupulous element (and we do have them! among police officers of perhaps any southern city is going to, at some time or other, take ad vantage of the underprivileg ed, be they men women, young or old, to appease his racial »»a;,, assuage his inferiority complex, and possibly too often to vent some pent-up brutality This he may often do, with reasonable assurance that bis skin-color will absolve him of any wrong doing, before f!»e bar of justice; even where there was no provocation on the part of his innocent victim. The bi-racial standards of the south, do no? stop with debas ing the Negro, they also tend to brutalize the other racial group, more or less. I think it is in such standards more than any thing else, lie the causative factor for more police brutality in the south, than is found elsewhere m the. USA. This is no attempt to place a blanket indictment against all southern cities there are ex ceptions. Keep up your fight and cease not to cry out against injustices wherever their ugly head is raised Thank you O B Taylor, M D every chance to recover; plead ing even by saying to him "Come Let Us Reason To gether/* He knows that there is b«J one wav out, and it. is open • o him especially decay.? for him Christ gave Himself as surety and Indemnity But. still to God he will not come, and the one great ques tion reason together; but ar. rogantly pits his poor judig -ment against God's, only to face an cud most hitter. Nevertheless, God never changes His plan, nor allows i His love toward man to cool; but. softly and tenderly calls I to him. ‘Come Now And Let Us Reason Together though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; I though they be red like rrira j urn, they shall be as wool," j bfc J WORDS OF WISDOM MY PRATER 1. O * precious God, O' Heavenly Father, To Thee 1 breathe My earnest prayer, May Thy rich blessings Fall upon me Fall upon me And in your mercies May I share? 2. Take Thou from me All blots of evil Tint taint my smit P ™ JAMES A. SHEPARD’S ~TW\ I HIS and THAI $ mwa ■im—tiDiwiiiw»u mi aithtTnrf"irwmn»wi«iinoaTwaxw'.t'si’wnixe-f r _ rvii .. ffUfo I_ru 1 _ ru For the past several weeks, we have been trying from a background of history, to prove that down through the years the Democratic party has of fered the Negro more than the Republicans have and under Democratic rule he has triads hit greatest advancement M* over the country 1 n the first article 'if this series, wt tried to make It crystal char that although or felt and would attempt to prove, that the interest of the Negro would be better screen by hr- remaining in the Demo cratic fold this year, we did not and would never condone all Os the practices of that, par ty W r pointed to the shameful actions in Chios po last month when the National Convention went out of its wav to appease the Dixiecrat.'; all to no avail because the devil has never been appeased and it is time for both Democrats and Re publican,-- tu learn that dim tin ent fact We said wr could no* work up any great amount of enthu siasm for the Democratic nomi nee, Gov Adlai Stevenson, be cause at one time he was a prodigy of Jimm) 1 Byrnes and as governor of Illinois, he has failed in more than one in stance to protect the constit u tional rights of Negroes How ever, by any yardstick of coro partive measurement, Stevenson is far ahead of Eisenhower. Eis enhower really showed his hand as far ns Negroes urn concerned, when he defied President Truman and refused to order die end of segregation in the army Eisenhower prov ed once and for all that he felt Negroes were not first clas citizens and did not disserve equality of opportunity Now that tic is nominee 'lke' apd would like to make it appear that he is all things to all peo ple, does not change the basic fact that !w still the Tex in born Dixiecrat believing that the Negro i- all right in his place and that place is in tb* rear of the a hite man. W arc not forgetting the -je plorabl > fa ! t that for the past yeai trend of reaction has developed which if unchecked will lead this country right back to the • vils of privilege and favor for the few of the expense of the masses, but. w view that trend n- a last ditch stand of the advocates of mon opoly and the suppression of the Negro. We have been large ly responsible for this resur gence' of evil because by our refusal to vote for candidate;! favorable to us. we arc guilty of giving aid and comfort to our enemies and allowing them to have dominion over us The Dixiecrat, Willis Smith, would not he sitting in Washington a* North Carolina s junior senator, had the Negroes of North Caro lina given Frank Graham the support it could have £,ven him William Uinstead will be next governor of this state be cause an additional 25.000 Ne groes were to. lazy and 1 o ■ • indifferent to 'heir own V--* in terest to register and votf foi Mr Olive .And so if gor The trend toward reaction end the suppression of evil liberies can no more \c charged to the Dcmc-c ratir party than can the upsurge of evil be attributed to the failure of the Christian OU R ‘ DEM OCR A CY— by Mat j eA iajj wl?«n Jlra*:Hcans, wufiase brains an& rnfir ■Miiii ~..,... ...,,, And ric-nte strife, .Please so not let Any darts of Satan Touch my poor heart And mar my life. 3. Bestow upon me Your rich spirit. WEEK ENDING AUGUST 30, 1352 Church. Neither Democratic or Re publican Civil flights platform Plank is satisfactory ’to the Negro Neither platform calls for ail out Federal interven tion to end job discrimination, protect Negroes' voting rights arid give to Negroes their con stitutional privileges. Both Ste venson and Eisenhower are on reeoid bs advocating the prin cipal of nates rights, which is but another way of saying the states have a right to do any thing they see fit to do, whe ther it be to deprive a Negro citizei of his liberty or refuse him protection in hi- quest for ihe privileges and freedoms he is legally entitled to The Democratic Civil Rights planks has a clause to the effect that the Federal government should intervene to protect the rights of its minority groups when it is evident that the states have no intention of doing so and Governor Stevenson has said he favors such act lon The die hard fight now being waged by those who arc determined ♦o hold the line against any ('Hi ther advancement of the forces of liberty should indicate to all that the time for federtl Intervention is now. We feel that the biggest sin gle reason why the NegfO should civ., his vote to the Democratic party this year, outside the fact that the Demo rrats have proven by any yard stick of comparison that they are more in sympathy with the -aims and aspirations of Ne groes, and Negroes have bene fited beyond compare under Democratic rule, the biggest single factor which should "csv the Negro vote this yes** I- the promise in the Demo crat platform to change the rules of Congress in order that a few moss-backed dema gogues, masquerading :i> repre sentatives of the people, can not thwgrt the '"ill of the peo ple and stall the machinery of government by engaging in *ndh hours of senseless • chic music Aftei all is said and done, it is the Congress 6f there United State* that en i acts the laws under the pres. »nt rules of the U S Senate * majority of its membership, <96j not a maioi ity of those * present, must vot> ‘to cut off 1 the wind lagging of any seni . torial humbug, a task which is virtually impossible be cause, it is seldom, if at any time, that a majority of the senate membership is present. It is a foregone conclusion that all of the Civil Rights re commendations of President « Truman would have long since been enacted into law- had it not been for the rule allowing any one senator to talk end lessly. thereby snarling up the entire legislative procedure which, if allowed *o continue would have had the effect of stopping the wheels of govern • ment entirely. The Democrats in Chicago th>? summer faced ti l- is-up head on and voted to dn -Lynching about if ft i* not up to Neeroes even wher* t" .-<••« to it that that pro mise is kept and besides vot ; tor Stevenson to. presi dent. see to i! that Democratic c angres" man whose liberalism i has fc«« n proven arc -ant *$ i Washington tins yeas We can do it if we ‘ i'll. Beneath it ever Let. me hide. Vouchsafe to me Your loving kindness And In your shadow I. will safely hide.
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