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PAGE FOUR The recent conviction of the infamous John Kasper and six of his cohorts of contempt of court in Clinton, Term, does not establish the fact that Negroes’ rights have and would be upheld anywhere in the South when Negroes are the accusers and white men are the ac - cused. The southern bloc of senators has hailed 'die Clinton verdict as unmistakable proof that southern juries can and will convict southern whites in cases involving Negroes. We know that these same senators who are making these statements know they are utterly false They further know that there is no relation and it is not likely that the group which is fighting to keep a trial by jury amendment out of this legislation will be fookd by th. ranting of these demagogues. It. should be remembered first of ail that Clinton, Tenn. is not. in the Deep South. Had this same trial been held in South Carolina. Georgia, Mississippi or any of the Deep South states more than likely there would have been a different verdict. Tennessee is more of a border state than southern. Clinton lies up against the mountains where slavery had strong opposition long before the War of the Rebellion. Another consideration that should be care fully noted is the fact that it was made per fectly clear to the jury that this case had nothing whatever to do with integration. Judge Taylor in his charge to the jury reiterated the fact that the defendents were being tried for conspiracy in flounting an order of the court. Next week the Raleigh School Board wi.ll make the decision of whether or not. Joseph H. Holt, Jr. will be admitted to the Brough ton School. It should be noted that earlier this year, ♦■his board has stated that there would be no changes in the assignment of pupils this year It should also be noted that there is only one person, Atty, F. J, Carnage, on this board, who has expressed a willingness for school integra tion here. However, in compliance with a sta - tute designed especially to prevent integration the Raleigh board must receive and pass on all applications sent to it for pupil transfers or reassignment. We are not attempting to say what the Ra leigh School Board will do with young Holt's application next week. The Raleigh School Board should know bv this time that this business of integration is a 2-way street at no point on which do the directions merge. Those in Raleigh and elsewhere in this stale who have stubbornly and selfishly denounced and opposed the U. S Supreme Court’s edict against school segregation and also the ones who claim to be interested in he forward pro gress of this state, are the ones who led the 'movement in. the past General Assembly for the lowering of taxes on Corporations and in dustry in order to attract these businesses to this state. They are the ones who have voted to spend huge sums to advertise this state’s many and varied advantages. Would it not seem that as a matter of simple reasoning these per - sons could understand that there can be no real progress in business and allied industries that is not based on human progress. And there can never be any sustained progress here in North Carolina until the restraints of seg regation have been removed from the backs of its Negro citizens and they become free to make whatever conribution to the progress of this state that their abilities will allow. It has been pointed out that the only rea son young Holt might be denied admission to tiic Broughton School would be race. Legal rights are the main stay and the bulwark of ovir free society but we like- to think of legal rights only after carefully considering other rights inherent in a democracy. As we understand it. schools exist only for the proper training and education of our young people. For the benefit and protection of these schools where they can best serve the largest possible number of children. Joseph Holt, Jr. was born in a community of which the Brough • ton School became a part. Negroes settled this community, carving out a respectable village from the forest and trees that covered the entire section. The grandparents and some of the parents of the Negro children of high school age now living in Oberlin section once played, hunted and fished on the grounds on which Broughton school now stands. From all of this it would appear that the Broughton school was actually built, in a Ne gro area, an area that white people later came into. So, if Holt is denied admission to this school, the denial will say in effect that sorn peop" ft Raleigh do not respect the rights of THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879. Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. 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It is extremely doubt ful that the jury of Tennessee mountaineers would have brought in a verdict of guilty aggainst their feltowrnen had the issues raised rested on race, black man against white man The majority of the whites in and around Clinton were against school integration. It is, however, a fact that people who are residents of mountainous areas are usually obedient to the law of the land. These people whose lives are constantly endangered by all of the natural • lements are very zealous of law and order and art quick to condemn and convict per sons who engage in and promote violence. Integration had been fought in Clinton and + k,- r,pnn]p there did not ward it However. courts had ordered it, it was unwise and un healthy for any person and especially a “rab ble rouser” from New York to stir up and pro mote violence among those people. We have no dt sire to even attempt to min imize the importance and the significance of the Clinton decision. Good people of all races will rejoice over this enlightening glimpse of respect for law and order. Even though it is an established fact that the issues of race and integrator! were not on trial in Clinton, if is also a fact that the real issue of law and order stemmed from purely racial causes. The jury in Clinton acted, to uphold what •was near and dear to them, but in doing so they alto upheld, if unconsciously the cause of integration in Clinton. For that we are grateful. people who pioneered the settlement and de vekpment of a community. For many years after the founding of Ober lin and an adjacent Negro community called Brooklyn, through which St. Mary’s Street now runs. Negroes were the only racial group living in those areas. Gradually and slowly at first, whites began to infiltrate, taking over all of Brooklyn and. as the infiltraion grew, a large section of Oberlin. All of this was done without any protest from Negroes. Todav. Ne groes and whites live side by side on Oberlin Road and on other streets in Oberlin young Holt has only to come out of his door and look across Oberlin Road to see white homes back to back with Negro homes. From his back door he can see the homes and businesses of Cameron Village. Although Holt’s parents hod established their home on Oberlin Road long before this influx of whites, it never oc curred to Mr. and Mrs. Holt to protest the coming of the whites, to threaten them or to attempt to intimidate them in any manner. It is our belief that these whites had every right to move into this once all-Negro neighborhood if that is what, they wanted to. do. In a democracy, free choice of where one is to live, what one is to do and where one goes to church or school are the basic rights be longing to every individual. So, when the whiter decided they wanted to move to Ober lin and establish homes there they were only exercising one of those rights. Now after ad mitting that right for them we defy them to tell us by what right do they say that Joseph Holt. Jr. or any other Negro child in the Ober lin community cannot attend the Broughton school. Isn’t it rather fantastic for these people to say that they had a right to go to Oberlin, a formerly all-Negro community, establish their homes there and then say that Negro children who had lived there all of their lives could not attend the schools in that community. Rights, democratic rights cannot be based on such a one-sided unrealistic foundation as that There is nothing in the Oberlin community that should be closed to Negroes: churches, theatres, schools, all places located in the O bcrlin section that are open to any race group should welcome Ngroes freely. Rights like everything r-sle wr use and en joy, must be built on a 2-wav street if they are to prosper and really serve their purpose. Unless a person is an outlaw or a Com munist, he must obey and respect the law of his country. The U. S. Supreme Court was established by the framers of the U. S. Consti tution for the sole purpose of interpreting all of the laws, customs and usages springing from that great document. The Supreme Court could not have ruled in 1889 that integration must be accomplished wit h all due speed in the public schools of this country. That would have have been unwise because a people just emerging from toal bondage would have been unable to accept such an order. But this court has always interpreted the constitution in the light of the problems and needs of the times. “His Idea Os A Civil Rights Law Will Destroy Our World Leadership’’ SUTtMCESim^ By REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY For ANF READY FOR ACTION 1. This is a day of automa tion, gearing nearly everything for quick action . . , push but tons and needle eyes, massive inventions and machinery, ir respective of size. 2. All of these should tend to spur the ambitions of the beneficiaries of these blessings, who too should try to offer some worthwhile contributions, be they gifts or some much needed institutions. 3. There are countless in valuable things that mechani cal inventions can’t even start, that spring not from the head, but only from the heart. 4. Jesus' head never would have taken Him on that rigor ous journey to the Cross: He had to listen to His heart if He would be a propitiation for naan’s sins and bear his total loss. 5. You and I too as Chris tians, will by the same token be hurt to the. quick, but will have to exert quick and tender actions from the heart, to lift, the sin-sick and give them a IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK NEW YORK Africa the continent of the future has the full spotlight of global inter est focused upon it, its people and cooperating agents. A. Philip Randolph, who is attending the fifth World La bor Congress of the -Interna tional Labor Confederation of the Free Trade Unions, is bursting with pride with the progress of the black man in the Africas. The Harlem dig nitary and labor lord is being given the red carpet treatment In Kewya, Tunsion, Tangan yika and other points in North and East Africa. Mr. Randolph was in Ghana when the new nation gained its independence. Mr. P. J. Nel, Director of In formation for the Union of South Africa Information Of fice in New York spoke on “South Africa and Apartheid” at the New School for Social Research as a guest in Dr. Mar guerite Cartwright’s course. Catholics are putting up a stiff fight in Johannesburg. Of ficials have indicated they will disregard the government’s seg regation law barring blacks from churches in white areas. The Harlem Committee to Salute Dr. and Mrs. Xio G. Okojie (founders of the 48-bed Zuma Memorial Hospital in Is ban in Benin Province Nigeria) has been formed. The event a fund raising salute to the med icos is being staged August 18 at Hotel Theresa Skylight Room. Eugene Barnett is Pro gram Chairman. The writer has met the Okojie at the home of Mrs, Walter White and in class presentation at the Along The Colonial Front BY A. J. RIGGINS, British Journalist LONDON, England - While Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are trying hard to putty up the widening cracks in what is called the Common wealth but which colourpnooea in fact wish to hold as a white Emu's monopoly another "loud mouthed American general Trttfg emm,TmAK new start. 6. Ordinary people ere not found in this bracket, but bus ily snoop around to support their own racket; Only the. pure in heart stand alert, to hear God’s desire, and then to fulfill it, would leap through fire. 7. Yes, some through the. fire . . . some through the blood . . .. some through deep water, and some through the flood: some through great sor row, but God sendeth light, through the day’s shadows and ail through the night. 8. Thus these able followers are prepared for every task they need no pacifiers and cer tainly no gin flasks, but ever ready to serve humanity and travel down any street when a call comes for service to help one of God s sheep. 9. Life, to them is real . , . they look not to their conven ience as they view’ the harvest field: but ever ready for quick action when things appear so very slow, while the souls of men are perishing and know not which way to go. New School speaking on his worthy projects in the Ishan Division. The Ethiopian World Federa tion Inc. held the Sixty-Fifth Birthday Celebration of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I. of Ethiopia at the Africa House. The guest speaker was the Hon. Woobisket Hazen, Ethiopian Consul General in New York delegate to United Nations. Mayme Richardson, gifted artist who spent some time in Ethiopia and who was the first concert artist to ba presented at the palace of His Majesty is one of the organizers of the WEFI. The Rev, Livingston N. Zim ba, alumnus of Lincoln Univer sity sent his months .salary as a rural pastor in Cape Pro vince, South Africa to the United Negro College Fund, Rose C. Thomas, a Virginia Union graduate sails for An gola, Africa to perform educa tional work for the Methodist Church. She is a former public school teacher, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The artirts are holding their own in all the communicative art mediums. Joseph Eubanks, holder of a Whitney Scholar ship feels that the stage Is next to the pulpit in effectiveness in relating the way of life. The Californian, who with his art ist wife, is studying In New York performs in “Finlans’ Rainbow” at the Northehore Theatre In Beverly, Mass, in the role of Howard Mr. Eu banks who coached under Lo renzo Fuller who did the part on Broadway will sing the "Be gat.” Noret.ad—l* explaining that he is ready to destroy and cause to be destroyed In return (or in advance) most, of the. North ern Hemisphere, Africans can reed and if p? the British Government and President Eisenhower say a clean bomb ear. be produced a majority of Africans would 10. Then these faithful pi* lots well trained for the Mas ter’s work, move in with might and power with no intention to shirk, but push the battle to the very gate, that none :n their charge might end in all fate. 11. For such men in times, there has been a great demand, for MINUTE MEN, all ready for action are not plentiful throughout, the land; for those who must follow’ the author of the GOLDEN RULE, too of ion find that the shoe pinches, and take off to make-believe and the public fool. 12. But stalwart Christians who mean to do right, are al ways conscious of God bein' in sight, and- are definitely ready to go into action to de feat, the works of God being hindered by deceit; they march into battle fearing no threat?; for they are battle scarred sol diers and not Cadets—not to the swift is the Race, but s o the true and the faithful. VIC TORY is promised through Grace.” Meanwhile his sister Rachel Eubanks, composer, p./nx l teacher* is offering four scholar ships’ for study at her Music Studios. Miss Eubanks has her masters degree from Columbia University. Adele Addison, concert sin? er is flying out to Aspen, Col. where she will be on the voice faculty there. A native of Springfield, Mass., Miss Addi son has excelled in the operatic field and she has achieved a number of firsts musically. George T. Walker who holds a Fullbright Fellowship to study in Europe this fall is guest at Tangle wood and South Moun tain Music Center in Pittsfield, Ma,ss. Isabel Powell, the first wife of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., has joined Penny’s Sighting staff which has Quar ters in the heart of Forty-Sec ond Street, the largest biter racial staff service of its kind in the country. Mrs. Powell, a distinguished actress, finds the work exacting and achieves great human relations satis faction in the execution of her duties. Revella Hughes, a product of Northwestern and. Columbia Universities and a native of Huntington, West Virginia has made two trips to Europe for folk song and other material for her new compositions and recordings. The diva organist has left Harlem for the cool breezes of Long Island where she has more solace and time to compose In several new me dium';. be delighted to sea their white lords and masters destroy each other without danger ot fall out. General- Norstad Should be told that lie Is not an instru ment of Mr, Dulles' lunatic for eign policy but «■ servant of NATO and as such he should keep his big mouth closed uttta WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 3. 1957 Gordon B« Hancock 's BETWEEN the LINES Southerners In Saddle Southern Congressmen who are fighting against civil rights legislation look like big lea guers. while the supporters of the legislation look pitiful. ’Ve have to hand it to the south - they are fighter? and little by little they are emascu lating the civil rights bill. “How Far The Promised I,and?” asked by the lat? V,', i ter White in his last book, be comes more and more a bristl ing whose answer is. it is dun cult to determine One da hope is flooding like the tid" and the next, hope wanes li! i* the setting of the sun or even ing. It all goes to show that ".<• must be patient and cautious lest we .become victims of des pair, The fight for civil right'? is not merely a battle, it is a war; and wars sic wen the hard long way. That we shall win there is little room to doubt ft v God Igd Time and Right ir on ova* side; but we are to id that God is never in a hurry! And as to date the Senate has killed that section of Uu-. civil rights bill that would permit federal injunctions to enforce school integration and the southerners, victorious thus far in their every contention, are freely predicting that the trial by jury will go the way of the boards next week. • So it seems that if a civil rights bill is passed it will he the mere shadow of the hill passed on to the Senate by The House, The southerners are jubilant and well may be, for they are winning the congress ional war against civil rights for Negroes. We are rust face to face with the serious question how much does this country want the Ne gro to have civil rights? What more comfort do the Russians want than the spectacle of the destruction of a bill of civil rights. Giving com fori to the enemv has long been held m derision by the patriots of this and oth er countries. What about the comfort that is given by the destruction of a perfectly good civil rights bill? But, the gro must take fresh courage and press on That there was a civil rights bill to be destroyed is more significant than its destruction. The truth will make us free. We must look in various places ordered to open It His stupid threats show that a danger cl nuclear warfare always exists While trigger happy men are in charge of split-second-push button weapons: Maybe there are 250 bases from which the Soviets ccuici be destroyed. ilnc-identaiiy Adenauer recently called upon God to witness that German ? would never allow nuclear wea pons on this soil. Noffitod says such weapons are already m position: one of the two men must be a iiar.) Africa is the only possible base to which NATO could withdraw in case of need. Nor stacks new strategy as pub lished in the Times shows a lamentable, and dangerous i - Iterance on his part- of the fact. He talks glibly about "if an aggression, were identified as deliberate, then the west would have no option but to use' the strategic nuclear deterrent." While he and presumably his advisors were making up their minds as to whether the ag gression was deliberate or not half Europe, North Amatiea and Britain would be destroy ed if the Soviets struck first. Will Norsfad move before the Soviets or await their a egres sion? That, is what, logical peo ple are asking each other and to them it appears that it Nor stad and U. S. generals are al lowed to direct western strate gy at any moment sortie clown will decide that it is time to Could "The Thinker” Really Think? Not Possible, Say Posture Experts | ! JH t Dui Socrates slouch when he sat? Ts our mental view of that Greek philosopher comes from Augur-.s Rodin’s statue of "The Thinker”, we arc apt to think so, since that has come to be our stereotype of the attitude of philosophical specu lation. Rut — chances are we would be wrong. One has only to look at the statue, doomed forever to sit bent forward, chin on hand, to get an acute pain across the shoulders and back —a condition notably destructive to productive tnought. As a model for a posture which stimulates creative thinking, The Thinker is, to put it bluntly, a frost. This is the opinion of the Pos ture Research Foundation, an organization devoted to getting us through "this sedentary cen tury” somehow without losing health, beauty, agility—or the ca pacity for constructive thought. Slouching and cramped posi tions, according to the Founda tion, retard blood circulation, flatten the che f and rib cage, put strain on the back and leg muscles; they make the abdomen protrude and displace vital or gans, and produce fatigue. As if this list ox dire consequences of sitting incorrectly were, not enough, the Foundation centinu ue3,‘‘Poor posture also diminishes the proper intake of oxygen into the lungs and thus makes less oxygen available for the blood stream to transmit to tho brain. This inevitably cuts down on the efficiency of the mental proc !esses.” Errors become more com mon, the Foundation points out; mental fatigue sets in; the back begins to acne—and, aha, Think er, where are you now? The maxima of our early gym teachers hold the key to improved posture, hence to h-ttor work, greater energy, and improved health, according to a booklet issued by Do/More < ••Hr Com pany of Elkhart, i. lien a, the world’s largos*, menu, -ctnrera of ao&ture chairs, and hence,also interested in improving our pos ■iujrs, To achieve proper posture, to set encouragement ir. this tragic hour. This writer finds 't in plenty in one. of Rich mond's daily papers. The Rich - mond News Leader, the even ing paper, in yesterday’s issue had tins lament. "The- days m">. let us face it squarely, is almost unrelievcdly bad for those persons interested m the survival of the South and the preservation of the Constitu tion. in Clinton Team, a jury convicted 7 defendants of con spiring to act in contempt of a federal me auction. In Texas, an appellate Federal court ov erruled Judge Hawley’s decis w an witeeration case and ordered Ne--.ro plaintiffs ad mitted to Dallas school. In Florida, another appellsi* ye dere? court, reversed a dis trict court and ordered race mixing in Miami schools. And u. CrmriiU:..' Gu-ensboro and V- ■■ !-■ TO V C, pup” assignment boards directed the of 1? Niv.ro pupils to previously all-white schools. Each of these events is a blow. Distressing a,- these decisions ..iay us. the news from North Carolina is in some ways a deeper blow. Until today it had been possible to say that, eight Southern states had held the line absolutely. Now there are seven , . . North Carolina has cracked, and of course, there will n > stopping of 12 Ne gro pupik; there they are the v. of thousands whose jv. mon-now that the prin - fin’.-- i.f rpco-mixing has been acei pied—North Carolina can not deny.” Anri so the most, rabid and Ih r most radical of the Ne grophobia weeps, gnashes his teeth after the manner describ ed and bccH’.ie of his deep dis tress Negroes can take the heart for the war for the civil i ■ ! s of Ngroes is far from lost. When a Southerner laments, thus things are not all safe f or those who would eternalize the Negro second class citizenship. ,jr 11 s, as the Ne-.ro must worry about v.h is taking place in Congress so are the Negro ni'M s w,prying about what is taking nUri in the South. This mrer is chnTiy concerned over ■ -v : is * ir.i: coirsfo’-t; to our -mcmies i v r aammuk The South in press buttons. jf ;a - pT the deciding voice a? a z re.- Tea. would com from NA i'..a. If NATO gov, :.v merits arc to decide it will ' too late to do nnythfiM out bury the dead and .succour the wounded The Common wealth Prim-' Miiii.A-r c: Aavwica is -. ing what I anticipated, v:?., that the economic base of the so-called Commonwealth is rot ten. Britain hoped to dominate the Commonweal!h and Em pire by controlling their cur rency. But there is not enough cam in the kit tv for control and all need cash urgently. India. Pakistan. Malaya, Au train Now Zealand, all Africa, West indies uv-d mans’ billions of pounds which cannot be rais ed inside the sterling bloc. If sterling is allowed to be freely converted into gold what is the use of the bloc? If it has j to borrow from dollars it is no longer a sterling bloc, Nigerian leaders are disap pointed because their talks have broken down and the F'-itish Government refuses to commit itself to a definite date for giving federal self-govern ment on dominion status The conference reached agreement for the. constitution of the Western and Eastern regions as self-governing regions forth with and the Northern by 1060. Africans see plainly now that they must safeguard them selves. the Do/More booklet suggests this technique: Stand against .a wall with feet slightly apart, knees relaxed. Keep head, shoul ders, and waist Co* against the wall, and hold this position as ye, 4 walk away, keeping h>s Tim i.inkes Augutlts Rodin . tin .1 down and abdomen pulled ", important: keep chest pulled i, , end drop your shoulders! hi. nug, follow the same nil* of re ping back straight, chest • i *,, ?’•*.» high, shoulders relaxed. Tin re! Feeling better already? •' But DON’T, if you really want * i m think clearly, imitate The . i’ll r. Rodin to the contrary, j he will never get a Phi Beta i Kappa key until he loams to i atraysfyteu that baejt^
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