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PAGE FOUR VI £'W ypj W T I May Be A Fire Trap? We notice that after the tragic school fire which took the lives of two persons in Mt. Airy several weeks ago, the superintendent of schools here made a s public statement to the effect that all of the Raleigh Public Schools were exempt from fire hazards. It is a certain ty that every person in this city earnestly hopes that he is right in his conclusion about this matter. We are writing this to deny the superintended t’ s st a foment. We arc however, asking him. the fire depart ment, members of the school baord and all other persons competent of making an apprai sal based on all the known determining factors, to examine or reexamine the old structure on Oberlin Road, known as the Obcrlin school. This old building is one of the three storied buildings that safety experts say are always dangerous. In addition to that structural haz ard, that school building dexs not have the steel supports, beams and girders that haw hern used in schools and other buildings dur - ing the past two decades. As evidence of how flimsy this ancient: building is, school children 350 And 337 Years The state of Virginia this week opened a festival to observe the 350th Anniversary of the Jamestown settlement. 350 years ago in 160? the first permanent white settlement in this, their new country, was established in Jamestown. Va, Now that state is calling upon the whole world to help celebrate that occas ion. From that settlement and other pioneer col onies has sprung a great and mighty nation, a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Would it not be en tirely fitting and proper now that the 350th Anniversary of the beginning of America is being observed to take note of the fact that on ly thirteen years after the beginning of the Jamestown, Va. colony, the first Negro slaves were brought into this new country. This of course, means that Negroes have lived here in America practically as long as the white rnan has. Brought here as a slave in 1620, Negroes were compelled to suffer toil, work and contribute for and toward making this country strong and prosperous for over 240 years, without any compensation save their barest needs. Given their physical freedom in 1863 with the promise of full citizenship and Seeing Ourselves Wouldn't it be just grand if we all had the gift of seing ourselves as others see us as the scotish poet prayed. It is just barely possible that if.the senior senator from North Carolina possessed just a wee bit of that great gift he would not continue almost daily to waste the time of the United States Senate in listening to his silly triades against the proposed Civil ■Rights legislation. Mr. Ervin must not be aware of the sorry spectacle he is making of himself. No person wants to be considered sil ly. Even persons in the insane asylums want others to think they are intelligent. Senator Ervin knows as well as he knows his name that no where in the South and that cer tainly includes his own state of North Caro i lina, is the Negro given the full protection of the law. As a former judge of this state, he 1 knows this better than does the average per son. His constant beefing about taking away the rights of those who have violated the rights of others causes us to ask, what rights are you violating when an attempt is made to punish n person for his misdeeds? Unless we are sadly mistaken, the only right held by those who do violence and otherwise mistreat helpless peo ple, chiefly Negroes, is the right to be punished for their misdeeds. In inveighling against this proposed Civil Rights proposal, Mr. Ervin is simply saying that the Federal government has no business An Effective Weapon .. . i j! From Birmingham, Alabama comes the ’ story that the bus company there is in serious ‘ financial trouble. The bus drivers (all white) > in Birmingham are demanding a pay raise that the bus company says it cannot grant. , iThs company says its revenue has been dras tically cut by the refusal of Negroes there to ride on segregated buses and that if it is forced to meet the pay demands of the drivers it will v. have to suspend its operation, v * THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, SIR E, Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under tire Act of March 1879, Additional Entry at Charlotte, N, C. Subscription Rates: Six Months $2,75 ............... One Tf*Ut $4,58 Payable in Advance—Address all communications and make all checks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspapers, In*, 544 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 17, N, Y. National Advertising Re»rs« sentative. This newspaper is not vesponribie tor the return of unsolicited naan, pictures, <w advertising copy wnT«t necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. It JOV/iY, Publisher * -A 1c? stem dux* Bants* & Promotion UhctS- jonos ...«.&•*..«..Nows & Curculution ids, I\. Swain «• t • .Plant Superintendent j J; C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton . Office Manager QKpfoione expressed in by-colons ns published In this newspaper we not necessarily those, of the awb- Jieahon. ■ v ii ''TfyTr^rfir'vTiTlT"• -•■•7^"--v -■ linifiiiiffri'. who were in this building during the visitation of Hurricane '‘Hazel”, a few years ago, say that they were scared stiff when they felt the whole building swaying back and forth as though it would topple over. Tin wooden floors, walls and windows in this building, plus other fire and health haz ards cause us to wonder how can it be con sidered exempt from all fire hazards. We know that wo an not competent enough to pass upon the fitness and safety of the Oberlin school. We an not: attempting to do so. We know, on the other hand that several of the very important factors by which safety experts evaluate safe ty are lacking in this building. It the Oberlin i .'hoo! is a safe place for children, teachers other personnel to spend several hours each day, all well and good. If it is not, we ask in the name of Heaven that, everything necessary to insure the safety of the persons who are daily exposed there be. done at once. An ounce of prevention in a case such as this one might prove to be well worth many thousand pounds of cure, Fact is. there is no cure for a lost life. all of the rights and privileges American citi zenship denotes, it is sad to relate that even now, 94 years after their “emancipation”, no where in America is the Negro a really free per son, Negroes have contributed greatly in help ing to make possible the great show of pro gress that is now being commemorated in this 350th Jamestown exposition. Their contribu tions have equaled that of any other racial group in this country. Their 33? years of dedi cated service to this nation is antidated only by the descendants of those who settled in Jamestown in 1607. Since his corning here 337 years ago, the American Negro has witnessed the coming, the arrival here of many other races and nationalities. He has seen these foreigners welcomed here with the glad hand of fellowship and loaded with every opportunity and gift this country affords. Is it any wonder then that now that the state of Virginia is staging a nine months celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the first permanent settlemnt in this country that the American Negro is seriously contemplating his 337 years of service here and asking when will the day arrive in which he can celebrate after 337 years, his first year of freedom? even attempting to enforce the Federal Con stitution and see to it that all the citizens of this country are fully protected against vio lence and the violation of their freedom. He knows or he most certainly should know that had his state and the other southern states ever attempted to see that their Negro citi zens were justly treated, these Civil Rights proposals would not now be before the Con gress of the United States, He should also know or be told that it is because the majority of the members of this Congress knows the need for this legislation and will pass it, he is making a national laughing stock of himself and the state he represents when he daily raves and rants against its passage. But, as we said we do not believe that Mr. Ervin has had even a glimpse of himself as others see him. He evidently is looking at himself through the mirrors of prejudice and racial intolerance mirrors that are so covered over with the scum of bias and hatred that it is impossible for them to reflect the light of truth. Mr. Ervin is evidently also seeing himself through the reflection of his biased cohorts and supporters here and elsewhere in the South. Fortunately for this country, those dim-vision ed individuals are in the minority, despite all of your futile, empty bellowing Mr, Ervin. Civil Rights laws will be enterd upon the statute books of the Federal government. We have never wished for hard luck to come to anyone. We never will. But if Negroes have learned how to protect themselves against some of the degrading aspects of segregation by withholding their dollars from those who practice this inhuman action and if this with holding results in or causes the segregationists to suffer, all that we can say is, Amen. Let God’s will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. “And Why Doesn’t He Lend The Same ' Helping Hand To Our Southern States”? pfz*- fa. " ®^ill|l|l§ W- / -• w > £ M THIS OUIUIL Wanted: Some Twenty-five and Fifty Cent Tickets Styles, fashions, and fad? change—come and go oftiines with the seasons of the year and most certainly with the whims and whines of the mas ses of the j eople. Thus, it has come to pass that ten, fifteen and twenty-five cent tickets have “Gone With the Wind". I can recall (No, 1 ara not old), when tickets for this or that “worthy cause" sold for a “dime" and to use the termi nology of Wail Street, only the "blue chip” entertainment or SENTENCE SERMONS Things Satan Could Not And Cannot Stop 1. It was the spirit of Satan in King Herod that tried to defeat the purpose of heaven by demanding of the Wise men what place in the earth was appointed for Jesus’ miraculous birth. 2. Not that he wanted to come also and worship Him as he had said, but rather, out rageously meant to destroy His adorable and sacred head. 3. But God had already made a survey, and caused the Wise men to depart to their country another way, while also He ap peared to Joseph in a dream that he might be well equipped, and told him to flee with wife and babe into Egypt. 4. Even Herod’s plan of mass killing of babies in Bethlehem, two year's and under to defeat the Christ Child escaping death proved a most sad and terri ble blunder, 8. When God gets ready His THE PULPIT VOICE Love Is Not Afraid The Rev. L. Roy Bennett,, formerly of Montgomery, Aia., and one of the organizers of the now historic Bus Boycott, tells forcefully how he over came fear as the Bus Boycott preceded, "All of a sudden, I Just wasn’t afraid”. There was something about the philoso phy of this movement which had just that power, tire power of overcoming fear. These leaders announced from the very first, tire prin ciple of Christian love as the foundation of this struggle. And wherever persons have ap proached problems With love which is goodwill, this same miracle has been performed. The kind of fear and dread which defeats our most sincere striving, just cannot exist where the fundamental moti vation is love. Such love is not afraid. The Bible literally yells tills at humanity, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear’’ (I John 4:18), Paul in admonishing Timothy, re bukes Timothy’s fears' with these words, “God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love , . (2 Tim. 1:7). In fact, the basic attitude of scripture, particularly the New Testament lifts up this won derful use of love to overcome man’s fears. And men accept ing this promise have reason ed for them selves this pro found. truth. Others quite by accident have made this dis covery in some experience in which it worked. It is a fundamental and ae v cepted truth , that you can.not really be afraid of what you love, If one can so completely fcueosna aware, "that everything THE CAROLINIAiX program tickets sold for twen ty-five cents. But now-a-days a dollar is the minimum price that tickets are offered to any kind of program. And, it should be pointed out that, even though the price of tickets have gone up, va typical example of inflation), in many cases the programs are not. as good as former twenty-five cent programs were. Many would like to help the cause hut simply do not have the dollar. Moreover, we must always remember, continuously be plans to fulfill, no forces of Satan can defeat His will; be it demons in the open or lions in a den. He can destroy and He can defend. 6. Heat or cold, metal, stone nor water can cause Him ever to faint or falter, but these are elements Satan cannot defy, for they sprang from God’s hands, he cannot deny. 7. Thus God's recreated chil dren should always feel at ease, for no ill can befall them be yond that which the Master sees, and then with a Divine and mysterious hand He leads them gently into Canaan land. 8. Satan cannot defeat any act of God where ere His suc cessive journey runs; God needs no tricks to manipulate His works, and certainly none of man’s grudgingly given funds. 9. God the Omnipotent, Om niscient and Omnipresent One. consults no foreign forces not needs any guns; for what He has and wishes done, are spok- in God’s world is lovable, the chances of fear and dread de- * feating life become negligible. Love casteth out fear. If fear cannot co-exist with love, why is it then that most of ua have such a problem with fear? From what attitude of mind and spirit does fear emit? Os many probable an swers, it appears that most of the fears which haunt us, pro ceed directly from the hatred, hostility and resentments which abound in almost an un bridled way in most of our lives. A loving mother, seeking to rear her child correctly, fre quently can build up in her off spring, a fear and a dislike which will live in the mind of that person until death. “John ny, don’t go out on the porch at night, the boogee man will get you”, and immediately lit tle Johnny develops a resent ment, a hostility against the imaginative foe which mother said lurked in the dark John ny will never see the booge< , man. but he will grow up a fraid of the dark. In this same pattern a Southern white man develops his morbid fear of the Negro. He grows up in a society where resentments of Negroes have been many. This hostility a vainst Negroes has served an economic purpose, but at the same time it is the source of the white man’s unhappiness over the effort of the Negro to rise from bondage. Why is It that the ruthless dictator is so heavily guarded? He knows he has enemies, but more than this having ope rated ruthlessly and with hatr ed and contempt, he also has great fear of reprisal, A life filled with hatred and resent mindful of, and never forget that a large number of tickets sold for twenty-five and or fif ty cents will bring in more cash that a few tickets sold for a dollar. Furthermore, even though the program is for a worthy cause, it is, or should be, a, program of educational value or entertainment, or both. When we place the price to such programs out of reach of the masses of people, we deny them the benefit of the fore going. Let's have more good pro grams for twenty-five and fifty cents! en into existence and new cre ations are begun. 10. This is the God ail men fire privileged to serve . . . who from such an one would even slightly swerve, since Satan has not the power even to lace ’ the Rugged Cross where Christ the Savior did hang to cover man’s eternal loss. 11. Yes, above all things, this act Satan could not stop, for it was for man only He came here lovingly to adopt, and no price He counted great to save him from the Fall, and proved Himself willing to give up hea ven and ail. 12. Won’t we now to Him move up closer so Satan can’t get between, for he certainly is a master' at throwing up a smoke screen?; we owe Him everything , . . let us our hearts most freely yield, for even in His death, bruised and bleed ing, by His stripes we are heal ed. merits at the same time is a ' life iillcd with dread and fear. The concern of most of us now is how can we break this chain of events which finds us afraid of tomorrow, afraid of losing a job, afraid of those with more talents than we, a fraid, just afraid. There is on ly one answer to our desperate need. It is the answer of love. It is the answer inspired with love rather that a. response ot .hatred. It is Jesus demanding, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.” When we can slant the door in the face of all hatr ed, and respond even to hatred with love, then we have sealed off the cause of most ol our fear. Love is not afraid, because love responding to hatred, finds sanction from the very nature of the creative source of the universe, which is love, which is God. To know fundamentally that life is friendly, that ulti mately there is more accep tance than opposition, more love than hostility, this quiets our fears, and as U/ accep tance of universal goodwill in fills us, no longe are we afraid, for neither life nor death shall separate us from this love. ’‘Nowadays the hand that rocks the cradle usually got* a dollar an how,.* 1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957 Gordon B, Hancock’s Doing Something About U Mark Twain, a great writer and humorist of yesterday, had a saying that, gained currency m his generation arid ouro. Said Mark Twain, “Much is said about the weather but no thing is ever done about it" The generations have outlived the truth of this statement, for men have done something done much about the weather. The whole heating phenome non s what men have done a bou he weather. Wuen men heated their horn s in winter that was so much done about the heat ev en as he has done something about the cold. Our heating and cooling systems arc just mai way of doing something aboi the weather. F" n the efforts of men to wai and cool ther buildings we i » a fertile suggestion that something can be done about othcthings which temporarily appear beyond the reach of man’s puny efforts. We speak ni'-'e particularly about the great racial tensions that cha racterize the race relations of today. Whenever we find races liv in' side by side, we find these racial tensions ever more tense. What is going on in South Africa with its MalanLsm and in the Southern part of these United States with its bitter ' °.ht against equality for the Negro, just goes to show how tense these tensions can be come. Believe it or not, the Old South is again raising an in cipient rebellion in its opposi tion to the law of the Land and as we said in this column some weeks ago all the situa tion needs is a Forth Sumter. Senator Byrd recently came to Richmond to promulgate his doctrine ot “massive resist ance.” Although he made it clear that he was advocating a, peaceful resistance, every serious student knows that, it is but a short step from peaceful resistance to violent resistance. It may be peaceful resistance on the Senator Byrd level, but when it reaches the level of the Ku Klux Klan and certain of the White Citizens Councils, it will take on a violent manifes tation . Violence is rampant through "SMALL BUSINESS” | ’ '• By C. WILSON HARDER -.*?•• -. -,A!L . tVfIMRHM&V.'ft* vss ‘ I tv? * v . : - Y IV-’T • Perhaps the shouting and tu mult over State Secretary John Foster Dulles lias accomplished one thing. It. appears to have made public realize with one Stroke of a pen, State Dept, can change entire structure of Amer ican Republic. * ♦ » There aLo appears renewed support for the , Constitutional A&5& am cnitment \ known as Stab | B r i c k e r j-ppl g keep State m’Sj? Bopi. from de straying Amer- ‘f iean liberties M, by treaty. There is the c. W Harder saying “Truman had his Ache son, Eisenhower has his Dulles; what next?” * * * Traditionally, it has beets the sporting thing to do for a presi dent to stand by his State Secre tary. Am! equally traditionally, for a long time public concep tion of State Dept, was group of stripe-trousered people well versed in polite social usage. * ’Jr * For until fairly recently, State Dept played only minor role in policy making largely because America formerly did not step into all th» world's quarrels, * -it * Another factor was that with few exceptions, American presi dents, until recently, had legal i training. Some perhaps were i never shining lights at the bar, I hut at least they had an Insight i into legal prim iples painstaking- I ly developed through centuries, j fofikk frjlgp iji Ijfljjjßiii : 5 1 * THE CHEAPEST SUIT IN THE STORE ? -YOU HAVE IT ON / * out the South and Negroes art being tight-squeezed between Fne vises of economic pressure and the active violence that is abroad in the southland. Times have come to a dangerous im passe when a Senator of the United States defies the nation and openly advocates a course, that followed to its logical con clusion, leads to anarchy. What kind of a nation arc we going to have when men re bel against laws they do not like? When men respect only the laws they like we are face to f ce with a critical sit uation and one that threatens the very foundation of society. Mtui must, be constrained to do sortie things for their good that they do not like. Who likes traffic laws? But what c- ■ u.d we do without them? What Senator Byrd is BETWEEN THE LINES Contd advocating is if you do not like tie while line ill the highway just disregard it and pass any where you v’i'T’f to No there is no such thing as peaceful resistnace. Peaceful resistance will eventuate Into violent re sistance sooner or later. It is one thing to deplore and discuss the current tensions but it is still another thing to do something about them. Just as something has bei n done a bout the weather something can be done about these criti cal tensions Keep calm and keep Christian is Dr. Martin Luther King's formula in the premise. It is in accord with the teach ings of Jesus Christ and His way recommended in the sit uation. If all the Negroes wire, can vote would vote it would change things in a definite way. If the Negroes of Virginia who are eligible to vote would vote. Senator Harry By r d would not think of advocating his “massive resistance” doc trine which he is so lustily .pro claiming in his efforts to rally the South against the law of the land. Negroes must not end up by discussing the situation and deploring the same. Unless the critical situation lands us at the ballot box, we are poor creatures and unprofitable servants. Let’s do somethin about it! Sen, John Bricker {Rep., Ohio), also a legal mind, was perhaps first to see inherent dingers if not controlled. Because. Article 6 of IJ. S, Constitution provid - provisions of any foreign treaty shall supercede not only provi sions of Constitution, but any state or local iaw in conflict with such treaty, he saw the danger. 3* t 'Thus to prevent a UN body, bent on world socialism, or some other ism. from wrecking American constitutional guaran tees, Sen. Bricker lias long fought for an amendment which would invalidate any part of any treaty in cor.tlict with the Con stitution. Dulles, before assum ing power, strongly favored such a protective measure. In power, he has changed his stand. * * * Yet American Bar Association bolds failure to pass Bricker ! amendment, or similar safe | guard, poses greater threat to j American freedom than any j atom bomb Russia ran build. * * * j Yet until such an amendment i is passed, on any day a foreign j agreement could wipe out entire j structure of American indepen | dent business * * * So far this has ru>( happened. ' although State Dept, with what j seems unlimited power to throw | away money in diverse foreign j aid schemes, has tapped rash j registers of every independent I business on every Main Street of the laud. * * * So whether or not Dulles stays | in a position of power greater i than was ever imagined for it, current probe of his activities 1 mav have one result.