PAGE TWO |k %/a g w*»£« *bs*f Adjusting Ourselves To The Change There are thousands of Negroes in this country today who have grown impatient waiting for what they rightfully consider a full recognition of their rights as American citizens Doubtless many of them fee! that that dav is; as far away as it ever was. Without getting' too opmistic about the matter, we fed that there are many unmistakable signs of a change m the c!d status quo. We fcr 1 that what oner could be called a solid flock of icy resistance across the river of obstruction has now been broken to the extent that the calm waters or justice can be seen through the crevices Neither by inference or implication would we intimate that our battle for justice and equality has been won In fact the signs now appearing on the horizon indicating the ap pearance of a change should serve to stiffen our resolve to see this tiling through, no mat ter the cost. And we must understand that from now on. the costs will be greater and greater, higher and higher. How we react to the demands that will be made upon us as we .constantly reach out for the fruits and bene fits of full citizenship will determine our right to possess them. The Congress of the United States has just passed a Civil Rights bill, a bill that falls far short of the wishes of those who drafted it. However the important thing to remember about this bill is the fact that for the first time in nearly one hundred years, a bill aimed directly at those who subjected the Negro to abuse, has been enacted into law by Congress, This one act would seem to give the lie to those who say there are no changes being made. Another important thing to remember about this Civil Rights bili is that for the first time m history, no serious attempt was made by the Southern members of Congress to de feat it Not because these Southerners advo rated it or wanted it. We are compelled to be lieve that the lack of any real, organized op position was due to the belief of those South erners th.at the forces behind this bill were too strong for them to overcome The most important provision of this Civil Fights bill is the guarantee by the Federal government that every person will be protect ed m .his right to vote Since every other racial group in this country already has this pro tection. this provision must apply exclusively to Negroes We have tried to point out in previous editorials mst how important this provision can become to us as a lever with which we can pry loose many of the shackles that now enslave us. What we now want to doubly emphasize is this: this newly passed Civil Rights law guarantees us the protection of the Federal government in our right, to vote it does not compel us to vote it does not insure for us any of the advantages naturally enjoyed bv voters unless we ourselves accept these advantages by voting. This bill will not change or help to change in any degree any of the conditions or circumstances hitherto faced by us unless we adequately and effect ively employ the protection of this bill and VOTE Helping Your Children In School Now that the schools are open for another long nine-months grind, thoughtful parents might do well to consider ways by which the.', can help their children to be better students. Children who are entering school for the first time this year need a lot of help from their parents in order to properly prepare for this transition. There is hardly a parent, par ticularly a mother, who would send her child off to school for the first time, without first having tried to give that child some idea of what to expect, how to act, and how to get along with others. All of these things are helpful and needed but the problems that will be confronting the child during his first year in school need at tention and speciaf parental help all during the school year As soon as possible, the parents or the mo thers of these first-year students should have a '■onferenre with their teachers The first conference is a very important affair because during this meeting the teacher can be given some insights about the child that she might not be able to discern for many months. These insights might show some particular weaknesses nr some degree of retardation or other shortcomings that the parents are not aware of, all of which might possibly be over come through a program in which both par ents and teacher assume important roles. Sub sequent conferences, between parent and teach er, could be used for comparing notes to see what gains had been made or to decide if the right approach was being used. First year students need a lot of help from their parents but this help should always be designed and in cooperation, with the teachers of these Children. Coddling of the youngsters by their parents, taking sides with them a- Itainst their teachers, withholding punishment of them for violations of school regulations ' 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 the Act of March 1879. Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. Subscription Rales: Sis* 52.7 i On« Year 54.58 Payable) In Advance——Address all common (rations and rVecks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate. I’nited Newspapers. Inc., 544 Fifth Avenue. N. F. 17, N T. National Advertising Hepre sentative. This newspaper is net responsible for the return of unsolicited nawa, pictures, or adrartiainj copy unless necessary postage accompanies the Copy. P. R. |EBVAY. Publisher Alexander Barnes Advertising & Promotion Chas. Jones . News & Circulation E. R, Swain Plant Superintendent J. C, Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton .Office Manager Opinions expressed in by-columns published in this newspsper «r* not necessarily those *f tbs pub lication. DM Ik— ** It required the prayers and thinking, the united and organized efforts of many groups and forces for good to successfully steer this C.- .01 Rights legislation through Congress. These forces accepted the final compromise on this bill because of their faith in us. Faith that we could and would so adjust our past and present: thinking about the value of the ballot to the extent we would seize upon this important weapon of freedom and use it in telligently and fully. This will be no small ad justment. Because of ignorance, lack of un derstanding. poor leadership and indifference, mans Negroes, the majority in fact, have no interest whatever in voting. There are thous ands of Negroes (many of them in Raleigh) who will tell you flatly that voting and gov ernment are the white man’s business Thc sad fact about that statement is tnat those who make it really believe it to be true. There are others who look upon the ballot as a com modity to be traded for dollars and cents. When this type is asked to vote the question conies, "How much am I going to get out of it?” Many times the accusation is made. “If ! were getting what you are getting I'd be voting too.” Os course all of that is plain, undiluted ignorance but it is this ignorance that must be recognized, understood and over rome The stumbling blocks in our path to freedom are being removed one by one. the road is slowly but surely being made safe for passage but if we refuse to embark upon this road, if we refuse to lend a hand to help clear this path of road blocks and obstructions, who are we going to blame? There is hardly a day that passes that you do not run across a group of Negroes bemoan ing their oppression and citing the wrongs in-’ flirted upon them by the white man They vocally express hope that the day will soon arrive when they are treated like other people There are many reasons whv we just do not be lieve that many of those who make that state ment are ready to receive and use the things they say they want “Crying the blue?,'' talk ing about their wrong, blaming their misfor tunes on their lack of opportunities have be come a habit with too many of us. It is a well known medieval fact that many affected persons do not want to be cured. They have come to enjoy the sympathy and attention their ills receive They have no desire to get well and assume the responsibilities of life. We do not believe that the Negroes who talk the loudest and the longest are necessarily fakers and pretenders about their wrongs The wrongs long inflicted upon Negroes are too real for any one to pre tend they don’t, exist What we are saying is that too many of us are willing to talk about these things but are unwilling to do the smip'v and easy things we can do to help change them. Which means, regardless to our protest? - non* to the contrary, that we are satisfied with them and misconduct, will all prevent these children from getting the type of start in school that will insure them future progress and success. Teachers are not infallable. They arc human and make many mistakes, hut they are train ed in the art of detecting and destroying ignor - ance. This training enables them to put their fingers on things that will handicap the men tal development of their students. Because of this fact, many defects that might remain hidden from parents often come to light through the evolutionary process of education under the ministration of these teachers who have spent many years preparing themselves for this task. If parents who are sending their children to school for the first time this year will only stop and consider these important facts and strive in every possible manner to cooperate with the school and the teachers ihey will find the benefits from these efforts to be in direct proportion to their earnestness and sincerity. Parents can also be of great help to tbdr older children, children who have nkeedy had one or more yean in school. These children need more parental help during the first one or two months of the school year than pos sibly at any other time during the year This is true because during the three month# of the summer recess, the minds of these children are apt to stray a long ways from the conformity, meaning and regulations of school life. Months of freedom, relaxation of mind and body can, or often does, require » lot of time and effort on the pari: of both teacher and student to overcome. During th* summer, parents are apt to re lax their vigilence and allow their children freedoms and privileges they would not allow or would frown upon during the months that school is in session. SMlWo[Sffleßy NEW^ORK rA s EXPERTS TAKE GIANT STEP Tan expert* in their respec tive fields have taken a giant, step professionally and are he me thoroughly recognized on a global scale. The colorful Al thea Gibson, tennis champ made the cover of the famous TIME MAGAZINE in a strife mg portrait. She. follows her mentor Jackie Robinson who it. is believed was the first tan. sportsman to grace the cover of TIME. Another sportsman track star, Lee Calhoun was featured in articles in the weekly. A. Philip Randolph, lahorite who recently completed con ferences in Africa follows Dr. Ralph Bunche and other lead ers to be honored with the famed Elk Lovejoy Award which was. conferred in Phila delphia at the fraternal orders Grand Lodge Convention. Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, General Session judge has an nounced his acceptance of the campaign chairmanship of the Citizens Committee for the re election of Borough President, Hulan E. Jack, Democratic- Libera'! Party candidate. Mr. Jack is the first Negro in the country to hold such a high elective post. Jane White, brilliant actress daughter of the late Walter White of NAACP fame is chair man of the Magazine Sub committee. which revised the format of the Equity Maga zine, official organ of Actor’s Equity Association. Miss White’s article THE NEW EQUITY MAGAZINE is an ex - cellent feature in the first, re vamped edited of Equity. Fred erick O’Neil is 3rd vice presi dent of Equity and he has pi oneered in informational writ ing on the Negro actor and his contribution from time to time in prior issues. Mark Ethridge Jr. and Carl Rowan, Negro staff writer for the Minneapolis Tribunte have collaborated on views in the Deep South “Integration—Now Or Never?" Mr. Rowan ad vised this writer sometime ago that he is doing a series on Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt a.nd Jackie Robinson while In resi dence in New York. Marion F Croson the Na tional Council of Negro Wom en representative In the Unit ed Nations Is serving a# (un official' a laison official of the Stab* Department In sr Along The Colonial Front BV A. J. SIGGINS IjONDOR England ''ANT' While the Prime Minister, Mr. MacMillan was defending Brit ish colonialism in an address to the American Bar Associa tion < naturally introducing himself as “we of the Free World) news came of the ces sation of operation by the R. A. F. against the “rebels'’ in Oman. Some British newspapers claimed that the red flay of the Sultan was fiown over the fort of Izki replacing the white 'one paper said black; flag of the "rebels.” Only an old woman was soon on the aforesaid fort, said a British dispatcN and after she was buzzed olx by the R..A.F. the fort was attacked by roc kets and cannon fire. The Times thinks that this air attack paves the way for lend operations. The United States hopes for a quick settlement. Naturally. Just like the Jordan affair. But not like Suez. British reports gay there were no casualties. The Inman of Oman appeals through his THE CAROLINIAN ranging for foreign rue’- to see and learn of what ls go.ng on in Negro America In human and race relations, Mrs. Cros on is the author of United Na tions Highlights which appears in TELEFACT, the news organ of NCNW. The Harlemite among planners readying for the organization's mammoth conference project of a stu dent United Nations group modeled on regular UN set-up, AFRICA CONTINUES IN THE SPOTLIGHT Africa continues its place !n the sun which is over promi nent. South Africans here are keeping their ears to the ground on the mass treason of some 158 of their coun trymen being held in Johan nesburg. The .state is trying to prove that the accused, as members of groups ’working for non-white liberation advocat ed the establishment of a Com munist. state and revolution. Unionizing of Africa is being pushed by United States labor leaders who are geared to spend some 550,000 to expedite labor union developmnt, in Africa Eyebrows are being lifted over the alleged denial of entry of George Houser into several Af rican areas. Mr. Houser who is on the editorial board of AFRI CA TODAY and executive sec - retary of the American Com mittee on Africa, has launched a protest over the denial of visas to him. The former editor of Africa Today, Keith Irvine, now edits and publishes AFRICA WEEK LY. a newsletter from 336 Ea t 43rd Street. Mr. Irvine has spin, with ACA and is on his oivn. The United Nations Commis sion io Togoland whose Chair man is the Liberian born Am bassador C. T. O. King has re ported the people of French Togoland have attained a wide measure of self-government. The findings of the six-memb* commission which were indi cated in a 160-page report nos ed some restri uons on the Togolanders in the territory administered by France und . the United Nations trusteeship agreement. Ambassador Kmc who was recently inducted in to the Elks flew to Philadel phia this week for their Grand session. The West African plans to organize the Elks in the Republic of Liberia. Katherine Dunham, expert on the African dance and oili er terpeichorean art, took ill deputy iii Ca.ro for lif-ip for the injured and homeless. How reminiscent of Sin. I British reports said there were 100 casualties then and lb • Egyptian claidcm 3,000. Oman has a population of around 600,000, a thousand mile coastline. There is a small fertile strip anti a vast area of desert and mountains. But what is on top does not matter to Britain or USA - it is what is and what might, be underneath that they are worrying about. The Sultan of Muscat, has been recognized as the political head of Oman and the Inun is the spiritual leader. Until oil became the God ot the Wert, and In turn attracted worldly princes and sheiks of Araby hardly an adult much less an; school child outside the coun try had heard of Oman. Today the name appears on newspa per headlines and has been read by scores of millions of people for most the first time in their lives. But. tt may be as pregnant' with fate for Britain as the word Suest if the pi!-happy lads in Kuala Lumpur Malays. a trouper to the core the Chicago dancer - teacher carried on with her company until the performance was complete be fore being flown out of the area for medical care. Miss Dunham was last seen in Am erica at the Broadway Theatre where she was presented under the aegis of S. Hurok who had her for many years,' *N;serian? here are shaking their heads over the disap pointment of home rule recent ly granted by Queen Elizabeth which fails to satisfy their yearnings for independence. IS Os R MAILBAG Dr William Howard. Pro fessor of Political Science at. 1 orida A&M University, ipffio, is attending the Alpha PliPAi pha Convention in Los Angeles will plane back in time to at tend the American Political Science Association Conference at Hotel Henry Hudson. An ex pert on Ethiopia Dr Howard was among twenty-five experts in attendance at the Western Michigan University, Division of Field Services seminar on Rising Influences in Tropica! A tinea. Honorable William H. Jones of Liberia, who was host to this writer on a recent visit to tiie Consulate has indicated he plans a visit to New York with his family. Hon. Jones is a na ture of Liberia. He and this col umnist met in the Republic when Hon. Jones was home af ter forty years absence. He and his wife. Ola (a Chicago hous ing official) were decorated by His Excellency President Tub man and publicly feted by Edi tor C. C. Dennis of Listener during their visit. Conferences galore are in the offing and delegates from the American Psychological Asso ciation will be here en masse for their confab at Hotel Stat in. The 132nd national meet ing of the American Chemical So doty in which some 14.000 chemists and chemical engin eers will participate is slated for Hotel StSatler September 8 through n. Dr. Clarence T. Mason of Tuskegee is expected among other tnn scientists for the meeting. Gibert Hampton and his spouse took separate, roads for vacation Mrs. Hamp ton is visiting her sister, Beers Mann of Cincinnati while Mail man and Legionnaire Chaplain Gilbert. Hampton hopped off to Charleston, West Virginia for a trek, mu Uicir political stooges have their way. Arabs have started to reply to Force with a much stronger weapon- the weapon of inac tion. They have boycotted the Shell and British Petroleum companies In Israd and forced tiicm to close down. A small thing perhaps. iud«- ed by greater events in the world. But the Arab boycott, movement may be, as the Je rusalem Post declares, the start of an Arab war. It, could be a Ichad— a Holy war, iritish rockets and cannons have blasted an ancient Arab fort Izki, But British rockets and cannons and bombs blast ed Port Said without beating Egypt. Now that the Iman and his advisors know what they have to face they will assuredly seek help to meet the threat. And no doubt there aie far more men outside Britain who will b# willing to risk their money end their lives—or the lives ot missionaries —for the same prize that Britain and Ameri ca think worthwhile n.-klng money and lives for, WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1957 BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANF WE OFTEN GIVE 01 R PROBLEMS TO GOD 1. When approaching God about our problems, we at lea-it learn two things well worth re view . . . to turn them over to Him absolutely, or. face the unhappy circumstances of our own making, in choosing the course we prefer to pursue. 2 We are perfectly justified in approaching God for Divine assistance, but certainly in competent to interpose the slightest resistance; for the finite mind cannot fully com prehend the mind of Him who has no end. 3 Man does not seem to un derstand that God super-run all Heaven and Earth. au A have been spiring publics-! ’ tion of many Jikjjf ■. i • - r<- ' .--u-. '-w. odd -V tb UwffjPjtjjK. ' y * court's dect-i Wgg®F sion. Other wris-SAwf ■ , C. W. Harder ers ii-. l ' e v.tu ten along the same lines * * * But fact remains there wa- » big ism? involved here best re viewed with strict objectivity. * * * Perhaps this issue was best expressed by Sen. ©’Mahoney when be said. “A handful of stockholders 115 T major holders of 33 r ! of all GM common stocki are rulers of an economic state with revenues greater than the revenues of ail but five of our political states. Sm h power as this is changin’; our entire r< an omie system; changing our rela tions with one another, our rela tions with government. * » * Another sidelight of the issue was given about a year ago at the time of the now f or hi : "JM dealer revolt " when the inden e dent dealers who actually 1.■ the automobile businer; revolted again, t autocratic powers used against them. * * * Much has been marie of the fact that for a mere S',4 million, DuPont secured J3T of tIM stock which has netted them billions in profits over the years. Yet that Is not the real tsr-uf After all. there is no vice in bigness nor in gro, ’!>. t ar in profits. (?> s»lt’..-al I ■ ■ ' , -_rs ;,.a Do’s And Pon’te "lip ''' LAwOMCMTtM. «£-' V ‘ '; » 1 “Being Cute, To Other Folk, Can Be Offensive, Not Funny.” 7 Thus one must follow most, cautiously his natural reason ing faculties, but at no tine must, fail to listen to the still small voice, for when steppin x aside to satisfy personal long mss too often is forfeit ?i Hraver: s choice. 8. One who has contact with I he God of ail Creation needs no supplement: or substitute . . (or when human problems iv. ••» brought to Hi'- attention His is the final word, and non" can refute. •-! Man's wanton spirit to do things his way. only leads io destruction, ruin and dew and Instead of rccognizms God wiih His all-seeing-eye and power, he allows Satan to con fuse him from hour to hour. lfi. inert with trembling hands and feet. Satan further steps in, God's plans to defeat, find finding a weakne&o LUui, appeals to man's piide. he de ceitfully entices him to mov» further from God's side. U. And this is how tamper ing gets its start, when m n allow Satan, from God to be torn apart, and instead of H '- lowing God simply by faith all Christians should do. (tw succumb to his chicanery and i.ail to go all the way. 13 Yes. men falter, yea th*y tamper with the precious wort;.* of God interfering, with His progress when their feet are not, properly shod render my Christianity less attractive to some soul that might lAve.-r on account of seine week Christlan whom Satan already has dispossessed The real issue ts i.:a rnisnt of | * * fi I A* paint mans j-turers. ’M \ j makers of other materials n*v - rd in making cars and ether i ’- j hides, through this stock r - chase which delivered »v>:‘ is j tantamount to controlling i • cut, ft was desired to sew ij- lh.- | business on all exclusive bash. * * * Thus, when one -orporry *n ran secure an exclusive market for i's products to another c •• porauon which makes about 'J - of ell curs sold. 80 ~ of fill l->r • motives, controls largest taxi t ;"!■■■; in the nr.'.on. srd o until Justice Dept, forced c ; : of 3 consent decree, controlling | the use, sale, and re sale of c- uy- i r. ■ J :■ ■(-d ,i bu: hr, a i bad situation develops. * * * Ihcrp has long been an Am- • - i Scan proverb against patting all the eggs in one basket. Obvious ly, this DuPont-GM empire h 1 1 become so big, and so vital to th- American economy, that in event of a national economic emergen cy, it could be necessary for gov ernment to spend t \ money in keep it from eollap Ing. ♦ Tn addition, ?iwh wptrrj, i wb.cn they control so much, rue i a constant threat to mvirtsnance 1 of free political institutions. * * * In other words, aspiring riirta tors never get to first has”, if 1 eeonomv of a nation is spread among many Independent entrr p;i s. They can only get to po liltca! power when economic pow er is concentrated in a few hands, # * * There is no doubt DuPont. I makes fine automotive finishes. * * * But if rompeting brains and skills are given an equal oppor tunity to bid for the business, I perhaps even finer paints will be developed. Only free and above j board competition keeps prog gress from stagnation. No one has a monopoly on brains.