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PAGE FOUR Let’s Talk About A City Hall I Tn less than two weeks from now. the exact is Tuesday. October 29, the voters of Ra leigh will deride whether or not they want to transfer the seat of their city government from Us long abode on Faycttevilli Street tc a new location on New Bern Avenue In some manner, directly or indicertly. ev ery citizens here does business with the city. .During the past several years, John Citizen has found that doing business with his city government has involved a lot of getting Ground from one location to another. A sim pie transaction like getting a building permit •ould involve his going into three widely sep arately buddings, talking with several differ •fit persons, and then ending up possibly hav ing to wait several hours or even until the next day in order to give the different departments located in different buildings, time to coor dinate their findings. Os course, this hodge podge and dislocated •rrangement not only con sunn s the time ano Eatience of Mr Citizen: but indicates that this irk of coordination imposes a greater f'inrm tia! burden upon John Citizen; because under Ja;ch a system of disarrangement then must be ft great deal of waste and inefficiency. It is so obvious that this city needs a new ftity hall that it is not even debatable. Where Jo put this new structure so it will best serve the interests of all is, however, dvbatabh . Un fortunately, we are not in a position to advw any one on the best location for this badly needed facility. We had much rather have the City Council select several possibk sites and the voters, by a referendum, to seYet tht one of their choice. We have no objection to New Bern Avenue as the location for the new city hall, ft must be apparent to ail who move around in Rs Jtfgb that something new is needed in the area encompassed by the site to be voted on Octo ber 29 to tone up and stabilize that section of town. We believe that putting the city hall in that ares would .undoubtedly accomplish that Whv Not Talk About It? Them is only one position which sensible people must take on the race question, and that is that God hath made of one blood all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. We must stop chafing, temporizing, and endeavor ing to alter this principle and settle down to wholesome interracial living. To effect this re sult whites and Negroes in the South and North must broaden the basis of communication be tween them. Paradoxical as it may seem, with million of whites and blacks living in physical prox imity to each other, interracial understanding can never develop under our prevailing scheme of life in the South, This is true because the psychic and communicative distances are too great. Very little conversation takes place between Negroes and white people. So seldom are ' white men inclined to talk with Negroes excepr. to crack a joke, to make an inquiry, to sell a commodity, or to issue an order. If, however, interracial understanding, sym pathy. cooperation, and good will are to in Is Gradualism The Answer? The Supreme Court implemented its 1954 declaration by permitting, federal district courts to allow local school districts to pre sent plans for desegregation of their schools with “all deliberate speed." It appears that most Southern states accepted this to mean “gradualism,” and indeed the Court may have meant just that. However, it should be re membered that the Court was quite specific in stating the terms under which gradualism must proceed If the phrase “with all deliberate speed” was intended to mean gradualism.” it may be as sumed that the justices made this concession with the belief that a gradual approach to the solution of the problem might he generally acceptable and more likely to minimise rcsis lance However, in so doing, many critics be lieve the Court was apologetic and weak when it departed from its usual custom of render ing concise and straight-forward positive opin ion. Such an opinion only gave the Southern er* time to organize and mobilize their forces in opposition to desegregation, One needs only Mountain Or Mole Hiii “Now days” when we have a headache or a few pains attack us, we conclude we have the flu . . , Asian. Asiatic, etc . . . wherein it many times is not the mountainous flu but the mole hill-grippe, bronchitis, red throat, or just a plain cold. AH of us could learn to get frightened less often and certainly in a smaller degree In the field of human relations there is room for more "chjp-on-the-shoulder” mole hills and a whole lot of room, in fact, mountains of space for a bright good morning, a smiling face, a warm handshake, a pleasant, well-meant remark a bout the other fellow, a keener interest in ehurehes, social, civic, political, fraternal and •* _____ jp^faafWa»WHaww^i>> Ifw mmummmmn -—■*« —-www mmom< "—him 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, Subscription Rotas: Six Months $2.75 ....One Year $4.58 Payable In Advance—Address all communications and oil chocks and money or der* payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Newspapers, line., 644 Fifth Arenne, N. Y. 17, N. Y. National Advertising Repre sentative. Tht* newspaper i» not responsible for the return of unaallcikd news, pictures, or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. R, JEBVAY, Publisher Alexander Barna# Advertising & Promotion Chas. Jone* News; & Circulation R. Swain Plant Superintendent I •. Wa'hington .Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs, A. M. Hinton .Office Manager Helstiom!* wfpr,! * w<i n bjr-eoUsnm* published la thra »» waps per are net necessarily those of the jmte < *"**** tlM * l *~* n,l ' < * l * ni * , * lM,ll * Bßa * >Jll * l *** <B * l%l,ll * " i' i*t— —rmiriiT ti'i irn ■'«i. *wi.iii.[uii.ii in nnu inmn i."im. i nesi _ie or —rm-rait —nn->-wi.i-—n..cnrmiii i.Ta - »i;Tr»T-ui-t-^iMini-cu r r.av^-rTT-ijttrjeinj purpose. Although we must admit that this purpose may not be a sufficient reason for building the new city hail there. Again ft is up to the people to decide where the new seat of government is to be located. It's getting around town, we have heard it expressed, that it doesn’t matter a great deal where a city hall is built. We feel, however, that it does matter a great deal We say build it where the majority of the citizens want it. There is one angle of this bond issue that is a bit confusing to us and it is one that should be further clarified. As we understand the mat ter. the voters will be called upon to decide whether or not they want to approve a $900.- 000 bond issue for the purpose of building a new city hall on New B-mn Avenue. We have been told, however, that should the voters ap prove this huge issue, only $390,000 of it wilt be- used. The- rather unsatisfactory explanation of this tangled statement: is that since the pro posed new City hall will entail an over-all cost of $900,000. the bond issue must cover its en ure cost. City officials explain that should the bend issue pass on October 29. the present city hall will be sold for $400,000 and that they hope to realize another $200,000 from money already in hand plus the sale of other city properties. Through this confusing method of adding and substraeftng, the public is told that only one-third of the $900,000 sought will have to be used for the new city hall. All of this finan cial juggling doesn’t make sense to us. We do not doubt the sincerity or integrity of our city officials but some how this proposition leaves us a bit apprehensive. Where the city hail is to be located is of prime importance and it should be placed where the majority of the citizens want it. How this building is to be financied is of equal im portance, and its details should be clear. Oc tober 29 is not a long way off. Somebody needs to do some detailed explaining to the voters before that dale! crease between the races in the South, white men and black men must talk to each other. They must do this, not in sham and horseplay but in serious man-to-man discussions of the great issues of life, such as unemployment and labor-problems, public welfare and human bet terment, desegregation and integration of schools, morals and religion, life and death. Through discussion we can get ready to love one another in the midst of inevitable changes that are faking place among us. But our churches, school boards PTA’s. and city officials throughout the land apparently have done nothing to get us ready for such prob lems as desegregation and integration of pub lic schools. Yes, it is already late. We should have be gun preparation in the fall of 1954. Oa the other hand, there is no better time to start than now. Since our school boards and city officials have not invited us. why not invite them to a conference to discuss our most crucial school problems! to cite the actions of Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and cities like Little- Rock, Ar kansas as proof that piecemeal integration does not reduce the chances of violent oppo sition. Evidence se- ms to support the feeling that the direct approach to the school desegregation problem is less likely to produce substantial and violent resistance to it. For example, in the cities of Washington, D. C.. Baltimore, and Louisville. Kentucky, where total integration took place at once, tie resistance has been negligible. We believe that a calm look at events that have transpired, following this broad inter pretation of the phrase “with all deliberate speed.” will support all wt have implied and said here. The few Negro children ultimately chosen as fit to mingle with white children had been screened, examined, and had their background checked and okeyed. The tragic incident at Little Rock has made us aware, of the tragic results of this selective, modified and gradual approach to integration. economic organizations. In fact, all about us there are everyday contributions we could make to our fellowmen in little courtesies that don’t cost a dime. And they will make us hap pier. too.. The other fellow (Negro or white) really isn’t so bad. He's really a little better than we of times think. Give yourself a chance with him. Chances are you’ll enjoy knowing him. And the many mountains we create in our minds towards ourselves and our fellowmen are really mole hills of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of each other and things about us. Try it . . , won’t you? With The Nation's Security Imperiled, His Shadow Still Lingers AMERICA SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. 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Therefore, whosoever will accept this '‘Pull Coverage In* retetw WASHINGTON AND I "SMALL BUSINESS’’ I T - By C. WILSON HARDER ■ ■ j Whether or not next session of J Congress makes decision it will cost 4 cents to mail a 3-cent let ter, with other postal rates in creased accordingly, Is still a moot question. Ur * * * f While tljj? House ha* passed l ». bill authorizing such an in , crease, It still has to be acted upon in the Sen*. ■ " vifllji * ate. And there! _ TTN, i 1* a substantial! M ' \ question a* toyHm | I whether It .% if g« through aextiflwpßifciStoa, session, or for, Im&M , i 7 that matter,’ say session ha $ the near fnlnre.^BHg^Hk does not go C.W. Harder through, credit for blocking it should perhaps be given to Hep, Rhodes of Pennsylvania, who really put over a very sound and solid roadblock. * * * Rep. 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The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall be afraid.’ - -When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came up on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.” You too. if a fortunate holder of this gewa Policy have much in common with the writer to tell. PHIL ADELPHIA r mi Bl' N F - ''Where Were the Lillie Rod-. Liberals?” Yos, where were the people of Little Rock? Scared to death! Afraid to open their mouths. Clergymen preached and said, not a mumbling ward about the most important hap pening in Little Rock’s history. It was just as if a Protestant or Catholic pastor preached at Christmas and .said n< tlii; a bom the birth of Christ. W!,\ was the mob of 1,000 allowed to speak lor 99,000 others? The “liberals" in the South arc .sil ent just as the “liberals” in the North would be tn a com parable situation. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do noth insr,” said Edmund Burke. ♦ * * THE WASHINGTON POST —■“lt would be hard to total up the amount of damage done to the United States by the Howard Johnson restaurant m Dover. Delaware, which refus ed on Monday evening to serve K A. Gbedemah. Finance Min ister of Ghana, because of tlv color of his akin. Secretary of State Dulles has expressed dip lomatic regrets; President Ei senhower has invited Mr, Gbe demah to breakfast at the White House; the restaurant, manager has apologized, al though in a lame and awk ward fashion. Perhaps these gestures, together with spon taneous expressions of distress and friendship which will come from, great numbers of Ameri cans, will serve to make Mr. Gbedemah realize that this is not really a nation mired in race prejudice. But the harm done to America’s prestige and influence in the very large por tion of the world Inhabited by colored peoples cannot so easily be undone. “The State Department wor ries about the impact on Anger lean foreign policy of a iew Americans who may go abroad and talk foolishly. But what of Americans here at horns who spit upon American ideals and trample the American pre tensions? Is America really a land where caste is determined by the color of one’s skin where a whole race is doomed to cUsrrhnijmUon ana disad WEEK ENDING oATURUAY, OGiuB&R 19, 1957 BY MARCUS H. ROULWAKE OH, WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Last May I spent four days in Houston, Texas, to cover an integration lawsuit brought against, the local school board by two Negro girIs—DELORES ROSS, 10 years, and BARNET - TA WILLIAMS, 15 years. They were seeking lo enter white schools only two blocks from their homes, and Judge Ben Connolly, a dignified and fair minded individual, was hear ing the suit in order that lie might later hand down a de cision regarding the girts’ charges that they were denied i admission to these schools - solely on the basis of race. I was covering this news Jis ' signment for the Afro-Ameri can newspapers of Baltimore Maryland. Charged as the atmosphere was with eagerness on the part of both white and colored spec hi tors, there voi: indeed some lighter moments. SWK GLANCES SCENE,’: tCourtroom, second .- ■ -■, ■ '>i .rV;dOt«'.-r Du :'vl, r. - Spectators were generally seat ed on a nc»n-segr«gated basis, except In the case of some JO people who segregated theni slves.> A man who sat next to me nudged and said, “There she is!” I answered, “Who?’' “Mrs. Lee Barnett, executive secretary of the Houston White Citizens Council, Inc..’’ he re marked. The Marshall was juat shout, to close the door, but the plump lady managed to squeeze in. Being curious I watched Mrs Barnett frequently because I remembered she had occupied a seat three rows in front of me. during the morning court session. But she caught my at tention during a .short noon recess when she protested to ’be fSn.il iff thru, u Niv.ro man took her seat when she left the room. “Bailiff, you saw him do that deliberately! Everytime '.ve get up, they (Negroes'* come and sit, down. TIB did it dellbera re ly." (Ann she pointed to the man who had taken her seat.'* The Bailiff explained that all seats were being taken on “first come, first lake” baM». So she took a seat In the row between two white women. Gordon B. Hancock *$ BETWEEN tile LIZ RACK PREJUDICE AND \ NA CION’S LMBAItKASSAH NT When the writer cams to Virginia. Union University m 1921 to organize a department of economics and sociology, it was one of the first courses in race relation;;, as such, ever of fered by a college or university • ago offering, there are today hundreds if not thousands of race relations courses offered by the colleges arid universities of the nation. In that very first course we dwelt long on the evils of seg regation and race prejudice and even then it was easy to point out, the casual relation, between the two. There has been for man;, years a friend ly but serious argument be tween pne of my white con temporary writers and me as to which causes the other lace prejudice or segregation? Arguing such a question is much like arguing the ques tion as to which came first the egg or the hen, so close is the relation. But philosophers have long since concluded that the hen came first, inasmuch as thal which is actual must pre cede that which is potential. The hen is actual and the egg is potential, There is some such regulation between race prejudice and segregation, it is this writer’s conclusion that, whereas segregation causes race prejudice and race preju die causes .segregation, seg le gation was caused in the first place by race prejudice. At, the. conclusion of that first course in race relations, the writer wrought out the In tin phrase "Praciucuchim generis dclendum cut" which being interpreted means “Rare prejudice roust be destroyed’'. Cato the old Roman came to the conclusion that the only hope for Rome to survive wr.- to destroy Cartilage; for lie saw van t,age men t? Or is America a place where all men are cre ated equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights? We can but hope that the rest of the world will judge us with generosity--not- wholly m terms of meannesses and failures but. with some regard for our hopes, out strivings and t.he value:, we set before our selves as goal:;." “Parents of a daughter are usually the first to detect a ring in a youii/,; man’* voice." "Ts a Negro t-n-a *o stfc down by nu\ ins's going lo n. on a h.-H pm." Mis Barnett said. Bjowever. no one c"i»rt, "Oouch!” during the remain der of the day's session * * * DELORES ROSS. HI. one of the plaintiffs in the trial stay ed awake and .sat straight dur ing the entire day. Yes, she “twiddled” her thumbs and moved her feet., but I'm quite sure it took will power. She and her mother sat in front of the ropes marking off the audience section from the .judge’s bench. I didn’t see her Tuesday. No doubt she returned to her class room at the Crawford school, IT WAS FUN SEEING how White Citizen's Council mem bers were dodging newspaper photogr-.-.phei s, or concealed their faces with umbrellas while cameras were flashing. m <jc * A WHITE MAN SAT DOWN beside me and started talking. Ho remarked, “ The Sc heel Board hans't got a. chance to win and they know it,” ’■Why'?” said 1 “Well,” he replied, “they had two or three years and haven’t done anything about desegregating schools.” He went on to say that the School Board, liked publicity arid would put off desegregation n< long as the issue would get them before the public, “That Mrs. Dyer (School Board chairman) is a slick one and. she’s smart” he added Just, then a vacant seal was available on the front row. and he rushed for it as he wore a hearing aid. *• * * LET'S FORGET THE TRIAL During our conversation at the breakfast table in Cheshire Building at. St. Augustine’s College, Professor W. H. De laney frequently quotes a pas sage that he emphasizes for his freshman English students. I like it so well that I will pass it Oil to you, "Grammar -and style are Hie logs by which you cross the stream in any language. But if you stumble and fall brfov you reach the shore, the SHARKS OF IGNORArY a win devour von: T-H-E-R-i'.- -u • ; the DANGER ' that Borne had eith’.r in de stroy Cart-luge or be rite l a :’ by Carl hew. There -s somelbing- jus® tea definite a bom race ;!;vus. - and the nation’s .survival. It is becoming, more and more dent Unit uuli.. . uv nations destroy race prejudice thev will one by one be destroyed by it. The late H. G. Wells, one of tn, world’s greatest historian:? ami philosophers was going to the hear! of the matter when he said that race prejudice is the worst thin..' in the life of mankind today. Wells said that he spoke deliberately when lie made such ominous observe - t ifof his times What is going on currently in the South in general and Little Rock, Ark. in particular, moves me to write that unless somehow race prejudice, can be biiiii,bed. it is going to destroy this nation, bought with the price of sweat and tears and blood Race prejudice with a large sector of our people is a re ligion that takes precedence of everything. We bit told in the Bible Thou shall, have no other gods before me”. But even the casual observer can note the fact that racism as today is put above God and above Jesus Christ and His teachings. Race prejudice is not only placed above God and imv teachings of His Bon but above the Supreme Court and the welfare and safety of the na tion, There are today million* m the South that would rather see Die nation destroyed than to obey the command of Je,ve to be brothers with the Ne groes The things that are happen ing m Little Rock are liable to happen anywhere and this makes it, all the more danger out; for qur great country. There awe millions that would rather see the Negro slaughtered a la a full-fledged citizen of the full-fledged citizen of the country Our nation stands to day embarrassed In (he eye; o£ the world. Our vaunted dr- ’ moevaey is bein'. 1 , mocked today in the uttermost parts of rive earth. Why you ask? Because race prejudice, ranine in Little Rock is belittling our great country brfo-r- the peoples of the earth. The United State! has poured its billions here ant there about the globe; ano what does it amount to in th< face of goings on in Little Rock fn-i elsewhere about the na tion. These ugly happenings are a terrible scar upon the fair face of our country’s record before the nations. What Is now tak ing place in Little Rock will take place elsewhere when pre judiced men and women have had their way and in the mean time our nation is undergoing gradual destruction. liner prejudice must be de stroyed by this nation or our nation w!U be destroyed by It. Our enemies need no greater comfort than the cuvrer.t dr ulu- of race prejudice.
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