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PAGE 10 THE CAROLINIAN (Published by the Carolinian Publbhiog Company, 118 East Hargett Street, R®* lei{h, North Carolina-——Telephone', **474) lahred as Second Class Walter, April ti, 1940 at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Caroline, under the Act of March, l&"9 SUBSCRIPTION RATES t Six Months $2.75. . . One Year $4.50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND MAKE ALL CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspapers, Inc., £42 Fifth Avenue N, i. Vi, N. Y, National Advertising Representa tive. This newspaper is not responsible for the return at unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy nn* less, necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed in by-lined columns published n this newspaper are not necessarily those of the publication.. PAUL R. JERVAY, Publisher - iiill mm ———b—— ■■———»—■—«»«* fSJrwf/A lnik No Federal Sales Tax! -* i Ti The News and Observer in a ringing editorial not long ago sounded a warning that some Republican lead ers, working hand in hand with their big business col leagues and cronies, may; soon launch a campaign to bring about the adoption of a general federal sales tax, under the name of a “manufacturer’s e x cist tax/’ with the purpose of substituting the sales tax to a great extent for the individual and business in - come taxes as a means of financing the federal gov ernment. It is a timely warning, and if and when the campaign is launched, the common people ought to be ready to scotch the movement at once. The Committee for Con stitutional G over timen»,, an organization devoting itself to propagandizing for the economic organiza tion of the days of Wil liam McKinley, has been getting out materia) in fa vor of the so-called “man ufacturer’s excise tax" for some time. It was also a leader in the prior move ment to limit income tax rates to 25 per cent of in come ; but the sales tax looks even better to them. As the News and Ob server editorial pointed out, tlie name “manufac Although the D o cl ./ < r catcher, Roy Campaneila. was the only Negro select ed for the all-star game ley the vote of the fans, be fore i* was over four more, on their respective- squads by selection of the mana gers of the National and American League t ea m a respectively, got into the game. Considering the to tal number of colored play ers in the all-stnr game is a very, very creditable percentage. By going in a? Don’t Beg People To Take Your Money O u r esteemed contem porary, the Carolina Times of Durham, has recently reported a campaign by a Negro citizens’ organiza tion in Asheville for rest room facilities for Negro patrons. It seems that few if any Asheville stores fur nish such facilities, a n d Negroes are not expected to .use those provided for other customers. Com menting edi tori ally the Carolina Times obser ves: “The campaign now be There is no good reason, why Negroes should be surprised or disappointed that Governor Umstead did not name a Negro citi zen to the new three-man parole board. They should remember the racial slurs of tne last senatorial cam paign, and the innuendos of the latest gubenatorial campaign. They should re call the veiled criticisms Governor Scott drew when Ihe appointed Negroes to acme important boards and commissions. No orthodox politician in North Carolina is going ho stick his neck out by appointing a Negro to a job on a three-man com turer’s excise tax” is just a euphemism. Os course the manufacturer would pay the tax in the first in stance, just as the ciga rette manufacturer and the liquor distiller now pay the excise on their products. But the tax ia added in its entirety to the sale price of whoever buys the product in the first in stance, and the tax is pass ed on by every middleman, including the retailer, un til it is finally paid by the consumer. An excise tax on luxur ies and questionable pro duct like liquor and tobac co can be justified. People don’t have to consume those products, and the tax can be completely a voided by any individual simply by not using or buy ing the particular commo dity. But a general sales tax (even with food ex empted) is a bad tax, for the simple and obvious reason that it disregards relative ability to pay, and .inevitably lies more heav ily on those of low income who have to spend all or nearly all they earn on the necessities of life for them selves and their families. Os course a general sales tax us .a great reve nue raiser, for it affects Creditable Percentages a pinch-hitter, Jackie Ro binson kept unbroken his string of all-star game per formances which stretcher over five years. Down in the Sally Lea gue, which has its own all star game between the eastern and western clubs of the loop, a young Negro second baseman named A aron, one of three Negroes playing with the Jackson ville club, received the highest vo t e among the baseball writers who se ing waged in Asheville to force downtown stores . . . to provide adequate rest rooms for Negroes should receive the support of every self-respecting citi zen in the state. In fact the movement should spread to other cities where busi nesses maintained for the ■general public are so heart less as to deny Negroes even this most elementary necessity.” In the absence of rest room designated for Ne groes, it is logical to as Politics A Tough Game mission —a jo b which is important and juicy e nough to pa y $9,000 a year, and there never was any good reason for think ing that it was going to happen this time. It would not have made any dif ference if Negroes compri sed nine-tenths of the pri son population, instead of about one-third. Now if Negroes made up a third of the voters in t h e primaries, maybe something would happen. Politics is a tough, hard headed game. (Look at how Eisenhower is taking Democrats off civil service Status so be can appoint ] evedybodv. Its defenders claim that it affects every body alike, which is a grave error. It is much more burdensome on the poor and the moderately circumstanced, than on the well-to-do and the rich.. That’s why the latter are* for it; it relieves them at the expense of the less prosperous. The day labor er has to pay it on the* shoes for his school kids at the same rate that the rich man has to pay for his debutante daughter’s par ty slippers. Os course it may be relatively painless, since it is paid a few cent* at; a time; but it is paid so often, and by all who buy. Wa may have to come to a general federal sales tax. In case of a big war, with the national debt and th a national spending what they are already, a general sales tax might be the only wav to raise the necessary additional reve nue to save the nation from military or economic ruin. In such circumstan ces nearly everyone would be willing to submit to such a tax. But let us not do so until such an emer gency, if any, arises. Let u s not submit to it in order to reduce the income tax payments of those m o s t able to pay. ioct the teams, of any east division player. This is the first year for Negro play ers in tire Sally League, which is made up of clubs in four cities in Georgia, two in South Carolina, and one each in Florida and Alabama. At the time of a recent check this Aaron was lead ing the league in batting average and in runs bat ted in, had the most hits and the most doubles, and was second in home runs! same that they are free to use those available to other patrons. That is, of course, the way it should be. It is bad enough when separate facilities they are vided; where colored pa trons are barred from the facilities existing and _at the same time are denied separat facilities, they are asking for just what they get when they spend their money in such places. It is past time for Negroes to stop begging people to take their money. good Republicans to the jobs.) Negroes have not to learn that in general you don’t get what is abstract ly proper, logical or ideal in politics. You get what is coming to you on the basis of how the * votes were cast, and how many. More Negroes ought to be voting in North Caro lina—many more, in state wide elections. When they do, they will get more con sideration, for all the can didates will consider their wishes before the election, and the one elected will have more respect for them. Drive Carefully! Wifi The Primary School Case Decision Remove This Ugly Force? STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS ONCE IN A VERY GREAT WHILE I try the patience of my employers by quoting in this space verbatim and without comment something written by someone else. They don’t wish me to do this, because it ap pears I am being lazy and get ting away with murder by just copying someone t-lse’s work. And I don’t do it often. But this week. I am going to quote an editorial by the “nature" editorial writer of the New York Times, famed for his really beautiful little essays in the Times’ columns. It will be appreciated by everyone who loves farming and the life of the tiller of the soil; and there are a great many besides the conductor of this column who do. From now on it will be the Times editorial writer talking: July is hot sun and thun dershowers, com weather in the Midwest, wheat harvest iu the Plains country, hav time in New England. Julv is when a farmer grows his own independence, the farmer and the land and the weather, Maybe it wasn't SEE POLICY CHANGE LIKELY IN LEADERSHIP OF NAACP In 19-19 “The Challenge", a book dealing with Negro lead ership, was published by Wen dell Mai lie t and Company. if was written by Julius J Adams. ejtecytJve dicer tor of iGlobnl News Syndicate and executive editor of the New York Age- Defender Last week, this column quot ed from the book in discussing Dr. Charming H. Tobias’ ca.lt for a campaign fund of a mil lion dollars a year to light segregation and Jim crow ana push tiie Negro ahead toward first-class citizenship. Mr. Ad ams called for just such a fund, in his book Something that is happening right now was also urged by Mr. Adams in his book four years ago, arid I would like to quote it briefly: ‘‘Negro leadership of the past generally has been at tuned to conditions of the past, when the problem was only one of adjustment. Today’s leadership must be geared to new conditions, now that the problem is one of expansion and develop ment. The difficulties of this re-orientation of lead ership must be overcome if the race is to develop suc cessfully.” It appears that this re-orien tation is going on now and has been for some time in the na tion’s top organization fighting, for the Negro's rights the National Association for the Advancement, of Colored People (NAACP). It could hurst wlc'e open at any time, although at present it is peaceful end thu ■ THE CAROLINIAN C. D. — SECOND THOUGHTS r —STRAIGHT AHEAD— VV ith Olive Adaim wholly toincisleiicf* that the Declaration was proclaimed •early in July, for in that day everyone lived much closer to the land. A mail with Ins footing In the soil has, little patience with out side interference in July. He's too busy with natural problems to be very tolerant of man-made ones. Corn has to be. "laid by”, cultivated the last time, cleaned of weeds before it begins to 'taws-el' 1 and shoot up eight feet high. Hu.v has to be cut and baled or stacked, and if rain comes while it's drying there's more trouble than a whole political convention can think up . . . Harvest time for wheat happens to be hail time, thunderstorm time: and even a high wind can level a field of ripe wheat. •Vnd meanwhile there arc oats to be tended and har vested. There are silos to be filled. There are the daily chores. There's the garden lo tend —a farmer can’t leave all the garden ing to iii- wife, m matter change-over may be achieved that way. The principal figures in the play are Thurgood Marshall, special council for the NAACP on the one hand and Walter White and Roy Wilkins on the- other. It represents a significant move in the ultimate shift of the leadership of the Negro from the social workei concept to the legal and eco nomic concept. Plusiwd with its numerous victories in the courts, the legal arm of the NAACP pas begun to feel its importance. A vic tory in the Supreme Court in (he Education cases could prove to be the signal for Marshall’s crowd to demand a larger share of the actual direction of the Association, ultimately its con trol. There was some evidence of this at the St. Louis Conven tion. where the lawyers were more active than ever before This, however, Is not as bad as some might think. The course is normal. The job done by the NAACP, under the leadership of the social philosophers, has been a remarkable one; but it is just a phase of the full task of win (dog com plete freedom for Negroes in America. Perhaps this move may serve the NAACP from eclipse It will be noted that the Urban League, though it calls itself an organization for soeal serv ice among Negroes, places the greatest emphasis today on e conomic service. Tire League has adjusted Its thinking and action to meet the time; the unfortunate thing, however, is that there is still work, to be dene in the field in which' the League originally functioned— how willing. She. too has other things to do, what with young, young chickens and canning and freezing for next winter, and daily cooking and alt the routSo* of the farmhouse. But the garden, too, is a part of ihe independence. The Declaration Is a docu ment well remembered. But there is another declaration, unwritten except on sweatv faces, that is there for any one to see, come July, it says the same thing as the written one, and it says it year alter year, ort farm af ter farm. (End of quota lion). THE MAN WHO WROTE THAT knows and loves fann ing. He lias lived close to tin soil, and he either has gone back to it, or will, or wiaiies to. There are thousands like him: salaried men or wage wage earners, for whom the adventure and the indepen dence of farm operation and farm living have a notalgic appeal from which they will never escape. There is nothing eist like it that of helping people from ru ral and small town communi ties to adjust to large urban centers. J A turner*# point at the Urban .League occurred some years ago when Letter It. Granger was moved into the top spot in the National . Office and Julius A. Thomas was brought in a* director of the Industrial Relations . Department. Both are more economics - minded than their predecessors. The AfAAGP is still dominated by old line social workers, it should not be forgotten by those who would now hike over, that the work done bv the pioneers was necessary. They created the dluate out of which the future progress will be made. Letters To The Editor The Carolinian Dear Sir; As the school year ends, I hasten to thank you for the splendid manner in which your paper has -handled, throughout the school year, releases as to the activities at the Fayetteville State Teachers College. -Fayette ville, North Carolina. To us you have been very kind. We look forward to many more years of fine contacts with you ai-.ct with your publi cation You have my sincere good wishes. Very truly yours, John W. Parker, Director College Publicity WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1953 Gordon B. Hancock Write* BETWEEN ghi THE LINES. HI THE NEXT STEF NEGKO BUSINESS The Negro has won his fight against second-rate citizenship. The nation and the world are about ready to accord him his place in the comity of peoples. Although there will be spasmo dic set-backs and reer-guard action by die-hard Negroplfob es, the question is no longer "whether'', but 'when ' the Nt - gro ".til take his place at free dom's feasting table, even as he has taken his place on free dom's battle lines. Negro has fought valiantly, he lias done but little feasting, The Feasting and fighting are two facts of freedom Although the crumbs from freedom’s ta ole •have been too long his portion and iaward for a super-loyalty that amazes thoughtful men the v. odd over. To be- denied the freedom one has fought for on the bloody fields of battle is indeed a hard lot; and yet this has been the story of the Negro's struggle for full-fledged citizenship. But it must be acknowledged that the Negro is about to set foot on the Promised Land of lull American citizenship When the question is shiift-d from • .vnetner" to "when ana how', we are brought face to face with a great fact that is starling in its implications* World sentiment is in favor of full-fU-clged citizenship for Ne groes, and sooner or later they are going to achieve the gwui of their desires. Tile happy prospects are tiie results of a courageous, and stubborn' fight led bj ike N-AACF, hut ab-sitrd by the omnovtng forces of righteousness such as swept the nation when an invin cible abolitionism born never to die. in fact aboli tionism is again on the inarch, and its tide cannot be stemmed by the dykes of MaUnism and. Xuinudgizin and Burnesi&tn 'lt is not too early to turn uur attention to the departure that must help to save the Ne gro economically. The hold-your job doctrine so zealously preached in this column through so many years has its place; bat holding the job that another has provided does not give the answer the situation demands A make-your-job movement ifc in order today and that is wuv we have been ro persistent In proclaiming the gospel of the Double-Duty-Dollar. James A „ Shepard’s THIS am) THAT II has been said that, “fools rush m where angels fear to tread." From tile press accounts oX North Carolina new Sena tor’s statements, the above quo tation .might serve as a guide and motto for his future action an<i statements. We take for granted thai Mr. Lennon reads the papers, listens to the radio and oilier wise keeps -himself informed as con cern the important events of the day. Having taken that for granted, we will assume that Mr. Lennon knew that the three Democrat senators, Sena taors McClellan, Jackson and Symington had resigned from the investigating subcommittee headed by Senator McCarthy and also that he knew why they had resigned. For Mr. Lennon to make a .statement reflecting upon hit Americanism of three senators, each of them his senior in ex perience and judgment, was not only extremely improper, it was also discomjteous, gaudy and cheap. Mr. Lennonr statement that, I am “an American before I am a Democrat", clearly im plied that the three Democrat senators who resigned from the subcommittee were lacking in Americanism or else they would ■nave stayed on. Every one knows that Mr. Lennon was an American be fore he was a Democrat. He was bom an American, out he does not seem to be reflecting a high grade of Americanism when he expresses a desire to serve on a committee so ridden with intolerance, dictatorship and. bias that three of his senior colleagues fell compel!# d to resign from it. And if as his "American" line seems to in dicate. he cannot be an Ameri can and a Democrat at the same time, he should have the cour age to resign from the Demo crat party and not go around reflecting upon the American ism of others. It has been said that Gov. Umstead appointed Mr. Lennon to the senate post in order to get himself off the hook. Ts that siattstment is true, Gov. Umstead is guilty of disservice to the state of North Carolina and to the nation, The story goes that the gov Since the next departure in. Negro life will be in business, Negroes must necessarily give strictest attention to business principles and practices. Today it must be acknowledged that Negro business is characterized by too many shoddy and slip shod practices. Too often the Negro wants Negro patronage, but he is not willing to give ©f nceiit services. Negro business, at fust tends u, ..weep lie field and make a •real show and fan-fare. Then when a certain a Age is reached, it rapidly declines and finally fades out. The field of business is a virgin field and it is white i nto harvest. The Negro who gets in on the ground floor and applies sound business practices and principles has before him a bonanza. But too often he tries to .print before Vie can crawl. The tendency is to spread too quick ly and lay off hard work too soon. Negroes in a certaiu city went into the laundry business and swept the city. But shortly v verybociy stopped work and acted iu an "administrative" ca pacity at his desk, and soon the business went under. Their driver predicted that the end was in sight because there were "too many bosses.'" This article was inspired by my passing a Jew’s grocery store on my way downtown, i pass the store every da> and l cannot remember over seeing the store* t-Spaed except for Jewish holidays, ‘ike Jew or hi;- wife is always on the Job. Their business is growing rapid ly. Ii mailers not how eayly m tlie morning or haw late at night one wants items in the Jews’ line:,, lie can al.-vay - find ui open soii’ir. People are wont to appear amazed ai the way Jews get a heac! but they need not —for what put the Jews ahgad kill put Negroe.-. ahead and nothing else will. The writer once gave a popu lar lecture on "Lessons From The Jews”. The Negro business man or woman m corporation could well oiudy the methods that have built the Jews into the world’s greatest business group. The Jews does not, ap peal mi rely to race pride; ho osiers —* first-class service. The race appeal has its limits but unless it has a super-proficiency such as Jews bring to their business, it is doomed. The Jew has what it takes, and the Ne :m had belt., get it! ernor did nut want to run the risk of displeasing any of »«*■ groups pressing for the selec tion of their favorites. So, to stay in their good graces Mr. Umstead elected to appoint m virtual unknown to that very important job. Everybody knows that some very able experienced and prov en men were presented to the governor for him to select a senator from. He had the op portunity of appointing a man of demonstrated ability and statesmanship by selecting one of outstanding North Carolini ans presented to him. if it is true that political cowardice caused Lie appointment of Mr. Lennon as U. S. Senator from North Carolina, we repeat, Gov. Umstead is guilty of inflicting upon this state and nation a grave injustice. . HV faii to see why Mr. Len non should be excused for his intemperate remarks and his indication that be favors intol erance and dictatorship on the grounds that, he is new and inexperienced. It would seem that a man possessing even an elementary knowldgo of af fairs arid events, knowing that betaus eof his inexperience and lack of knowledge of the issues involved, would have scruple* ou.sly refrained sis m making any statement at all and would never have tried to boost him self above his seniors. One swallow rioes not make a summer and one sentence does not make a statement but Mr. Lennon has so far failed to show’ any indication that he is the proper person to repre sent this state. We cannot see any reason at anytime for a wholly inex perienced person to be given a position of great responsibili ty when there are well quali fied persons available for that position. With the grave and certain dangers now confront ing this nation and the momen teoYis decisions needing to be made in the senate of the Um .stead States, it seems t.o be a deliberate flirtation with dis aster for the governor of this or any qrher state to appoint an unknown to the United States Senate, more especially would this be true if that ap pointment was made for politi cal expediency.
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