PAGE FOUR VIEWPOINT Sojourner Truth YWCA r Greetings and salutations to Sojourrur Tr Uth Young Women's Christian Association, which held its fifth annual open house wel coming all newcomers to Raleigh on Sunday, October 20. at 2 p.m. Seventeen new citizens-- 44 were invited came to the fellowship hour which took place et the YWCA home located at 310 East Davie Street. Each newcomer received a valuable gift which was donated by a Raleigh mer chant. A program made new-comers feel that and invisible hand was ‘'reaching out” to them Just One Idea The 16,000.000 Negroes in this country need to develop one new idea. The Encyclopaedia Britannioa says, “Man has had only 102 Big Ideas since the begin ning of time.” Every other idea t an be fitte ! into these categories and are subordinate to them. History tells us that the world got along without man for 1,999,000.000 years. It esti mates man has lived one millon years but only the past 7,000 years have been significant Man’s first achievement came when hr learned to record his activities and transfer ideas from one mmd to another—store ideas in libraries for future generations. That’s when civilization began. Thus man’s ability to record his history was one idea. It took one million years for him to get. rid of fuzzy thinking and discover this one idea. The next great achievement came 2.000 years ago when there appeared upon this earth the Man of Galilee who helped man to dis cover the divine in human life. He preached' “One God, a good God. and a just God!” And this idea prevailed. “The vvorthwhileness of man—every man, everywhere’ ha? been a dopted almost universally. Success has been obtained by people who used just one idea. For example. Henry Ford’s Idea was to make a car so cheap that the Sagging Moral Standards Several years ago a worker in one of General Motors" many machine shops noticed that the copper washers he was making were exactly the same size as a dime. In no time at all. lo cal vending machines and pay telephones were full of these counterfeit coins. Before the swin dle was discovered, . nough copper washers had been used in Toledo. Ohio, alone to cheat the vending companies out of $40,000 worth of merchandise. (You may say here, “Gooch for them?” since you have put six cents in soft drink machines and they fail to deliver). How many people were involved in this af fair will never be known, but what they did is symptomatic of a state of mind that is all too prevalent today. It never occured to those who exchanged the copper slugs for free goods that they were doing anything wrong. Getting the best of a vending company, or the tele - phone company, was to them a legitimate “bit of fun.” It wasn’t a sin but a lark. That is the trouble with all too many people nowadays. They have lost all sense of moral Integrity. They have no moral standards so nothing appears wrong—unless it hurts them personally. Even some ministers of the gospel, with their “psychological approach” to re ■ ligion, are so minimizing men’s evil deeds that their congregations are coming to think they can’t do much harm. Men holding responsible positions in Fed eral, state, and local government have been found with their hand sticky with bribes, their 1 lips soiled w’ h perjury. More than two million crimes are committ [ ed annually in the United States. Much wrong doing goes unpunished, because the criminals *ff never caught. But worse, however, than Guarding Our Liberties The greatest danger to out liberties and in stitutions today is the appalling apthy of large number of our citizens to public ques -1 tions as evidenced by the small number of rotes cast in elections. On Tuesday October 29, the citizens of i 'Raleigh were to report to the polls and vote on the NEW CITY HALL BOND ISSUE to i erect a new building on New Bern Avenue. Out of approximately 75,000 to 80,000 popula- J tion. only 5,414 cast their votes, v/ith 3,097 people voting »4«/nsf the measure and 2.317 balloting for it. T Persons living In precincts number 20 and JA, having predominantly Negro citizenry, vot ( erf as follows: No. 20. Lucille Hunter School. FOR 63 The Armistice T radition Smee the end of World War I, this nation i has observed with appropriate cere monies November 11 as Armistice Day in •ommeration of the cessation of hostilities be jjween Germany and the American Allies. It \T. F THE CAROLINIAN T • 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. Sttbacriptlon Hates: Six Months 52.75 One Year 84.50 Payable in Advance—Address all communications and malm oil ehocVs and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. < Interstate United Newspapers, Inc, 544 Fifth Avenue, W. T, 17, N. 7, National AdtHihlni Repre • sentathe. , This newspaper 1* not responsible for the return of unsayciVed newt, picture*, or advertising copy unless neceseary postage accompanies the Copy, *». R. JEBVAY, Publisher Alexander Barn** .Advertising & Promotion Chas. Jones Nows & Circulation E.S'vvain ......... Plant Superintendent ). C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Detxtrtment Mr*. A. M, Hinton ~. .Office Manager Opinions wptummi in hy-eeintniw pnhlisherf in thta newspaper ere net ficceswarUr «hw* of the am*. Xfafcttonu in a gesture of sincere friendship and the serv ing of refreshments enhanced a spirit of com raderie. We hope that the newcomer project will become an annual traditional affair with the YWCA, since this project manifests a con structive interest in the welfare and commun ity adjustment of people who come to Raleigh and establish homes for the first time. This gesture of friendship, we are sure, is cherished highly by new Raleigh citizens. A gain The CAROLINIAN salutes you! common man could afford to buy it. There fore. ia Luc early 1920's lie delivered complete a five-passenger touring car for $450, And w« paid him more than one billion dollars for this idea. Abraham Lincoln is an example of the pow er of one idea. It is proof that a poor boy can rise above his status of birth to a position of high honor, Take the Boy Meets Girl idea, for instance. This idea takes hold of a man and shakes him to the tip of his toes. It twists him inside out and remakes him into the grandest creature on earth. What the Negro needs more than anything else is some leader to sell him a great idea. We need genuine shouting enthusiasm about "lift ing cursive's up by our own bootstraps.” Somebody is going to make millions during the Yule season out of the idea of manufac turing and retailing toy “sputniks." Why can’t it be us? Someone is going to make automobiles that, will run on atomic pills, and he will make him self rich? Why can’t this be a Negro enter prise? Why can’t it be a great idea? The Negro has no time sot fuzzy. “Rock and Roll”, and “jive” thinking. He must realize that one idea clearly understood will fill his race with a powerful purpose. the wrongdoing itself is the change m view point concerning it. Instead of frowning upon crime and sin. too many people make light of it. Several yt ars ago the Saturday Evening Post published an article illustrating this a mazing trend. A Post reporter visited a town where respectable citizens, through their un tiring efforts, had succeeded in having gamb ling joints closed down, and corrupt officials were fined or put in prison. Did he discover a grateful community re joicing in freedom from vicious gangsters? No, indeed. Instead, he learned that those respec table citizens who had exposed the criminals were being cold-shouldered by other towns people and their business boycotted, while a movement was already on foot to put the dis credited officials back in office at the next election! Unbelievable? No One has but to recall what once happened in Boston where the mayor was tried, found guilty, imprisoned--and returned to his office with acclaim. Standards are‘sagging because so few people are seeking to maintain them Most people no longer feel any obligation to obey the Ten Commandments, They couldn't even repeat them. They may go to the church sometimes, but never think they should do what the preacher says. The moral values of many people have be come dim and fuzzy in outline. Can anyth g be done to remedy this situation? Yes, we can do something: but it will depend upon the sin cerity of our personal desire to prop up our sagging moral structure. No. 26, Crosby Garfield School FOR 59 —AGAINST 49. Some Negroes also voted in precinct* numbers 1 and 25’ where a total of 376 bal lots were cast. Certainly a large percentage of this number was colored Hence a conserva tive estimate would set the total Negro vote no higher than 525. When we consider the total Negro popu lation of Raleigh, 525 is a pitiable number of voters. A poor sentinel of liberty indeed is the citizen who fails to march to the polls on an election day. Tuesday, October 29 was a day when all Raleigh citizens were given equal privileges yet thousands declined to exer cises this priceless prerogative of citizenship. was hoped then that, this was a war to end all war. But decades later we were involved in a second World War and the Korean conflict. All men are brothers. Let them live together in perfect peace! The Root Os Housing Segregation Gan Be Removed By Law And Order SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP ARE VO l! IIEIR OF GOO. OR A HEIR OF THE DEVIL? 1. These rather unusual lines bespeak more truth than poetry, for since the day of Adam and Eve’s arrival, evil men have engaged in deeds most despicable,- trying to out wit a fellow man, by following Satan on every hand. 2. These truly are like a dashing hare, running madly to and fro spreading despair , . . fast of foot, but faster of tongue carrying deceit and gos sip all around. 3. Satan could not do such a perfect job if so many per sons with him did not hob nob. by saying one thing and doing another, tryjg to serve two Masters under cover, 4 Some are even boisterous and very’ cold, perpetrating tricks, both new and old, de feating the Divine purpose of a.n all-loving God. influencing weak men to cheat and cie fraud, 5. This is the road the er What Other Editors Say N E W C O M E R S NEED FRIENDS Here is an idea that seems .sound. Coming inu> Philadelphia are hundreds of new citizens fleeing from the whiplash of oppression. They come from rural areas into a highly complex urban city. They gravitate to places which accept them and exploit them. Many of them have no family ties, no friends. Through no fault of their own they have little money and no education. Does it not seem that the so-called good people would, show some constructive inter est in their welfare? Unless they are accepted and aided by dedicated people, they will become the prey of unscrupu lous vultures whose only con cern is to devour and exploit. Why not, on agency of noble women, and men too, whose hearts bum with the desire in help the unfortunate and to whom these people can turn for help In their plight It would seem that the 5250,- 000 which this city plans to .spend on the delinquency prob lems could be put to no bet ter purpose than the ideas pro pounded by Mrs. Craig. But, of course, the experts will per haps frown upon this because it is not all tied up with psy chiatric nonsense. What these people ned Is down-to-earth friendships among people who are sincere. Even the most des titute person can spot- a phony a mile off. It has been established as a fact that all people want to be toward people who appear accepted. They naturally drin friendly. If dive-keepers and Inhabitants of liquor Joints give them tire glad hand, while the so-called good people stand afar off. the migrants will turn to such places. The most effective leader ship comes from among the people who are to be served. It cannot be superimposed from above. The effectiveness of any program depends upon the leaders working with the people, not for them. Phila delphia Tribune. Oct. 29. SHARE THE TREATS ■ Thirty years ago Halloween was a trick —a gate removed, chairs thrown in the street, flowerpots overturned. About 1C years ago Hhllo »een become a treat hordes THE CAROLINIAN ring must travel after Satan pulls them down to his low level . . , they become experts at being unfair', and travel downward with great speed like a romping hare. 6. But the heirs of God move cautiously along, not seeking the crowd, and avoid ing the throng . , , only de sirous of going about doing good and living to make God more clearly understood. 7. Yes, the heirs of God are ever conscious of their rela tion, and strive ever to evalu ate the price of their salvation, letting no task go unimproved how ever burdensome or great and detest making excuses for coming up late. 8. This is their means of trying to repay their Savior’s Kingdom for its great outlay for rehabilitation: the trials before arid the agony upon the Cross, the blood that was shed that man might not, be lost. 9. What an honor even, to thus compensate, as faulty a* we are with our sins so greats of children, brightly dressed, armed with enormous bags and a sing-song plirace, “trick or treat." But today Halloween, vigor ous as ever, is aboht to be come a treatment pennies for UNICEF for the underpriv ileged children of the word, And thus it will be tonight when new thousands of chil* ren, armed this time with UN ICEF’s one-half pint cartons donated by N, C. Milk Federa tion, will ring door bells in Greensboro and across North Carolina. The UNICEF (United Na tions Children’s Emergency Fund) custom is spreading rap idly. In 1952 children in 484 cimmunities in 30 states rais ed $273,000: last year children in 7,500 communities took in $792,000. mostly In pennies. And what does that money buy? It, could provide enough pen icillin, at 5 taints a shot, to cure 12 children in Indonesia of the dreaded tropical disease, yaws. UNICEF has provided more than 16,000,000 such treatments in 26 countries. It could provide enough vac cine to protect 60 children in India against tuberculosis. UN UNICF.F has hepled 62 coun tries test more than 211,000,000 people and vacillate more than 82,000,000. But these good Halloween ghost* have another i unction. They convert nuisance into an opportunity for citizenship, They serve a noble tradition. That's why Hallowe’en the most exciting American holi day of the year, .Is shoring its treats this year. Let the chil dren take bags along to col lect the candy and goodies; but encourage them also to use UNICEF’s cardboard car tons. Greensboro Daily News, October 31. VOLUNTARY GIVING VER BUS ASSESSMENT. The story la told of a man, who tied an animal to a chain, which was fastened, to a stoke, and the prisoner went abound and around until a beaten, cir cular path was formed. Final ly, the man decided to release the animal, perhaps feeling sorry to keep it chained long er. But the freed atnimal had walked around in that circle m long, that oven though now yet Ho who died considered neither nationality or skin, but, gave Himself to expiate for j sin, 10. An HEIR? what in Ml the earth, can with this com pare? have you stopped to make a careful appraisal of the riches now yours that are eternal?; these are joy,, bliss and heavenly peace which throughout all ages will never cease. 12. Who would not then put this world aside with all of its hatred, malic • and false pride, and lean decidedly on God's aide? truly for all men this is the only way out; for soon the Blessed Savior will descend with a shout to gather up His own, never again to come out. 12. Let there be no disap pointment, therefore, in your final arrangements, and be not inveigled by Satan to make any appointments, for a forfeiture of so in valuable an Esime will ■ mean consignment to Hcii mid the close of Heaven’s Gate. free, I.t> just continued to go around in that same circle. The story intends to show the force of habit, whether good or bad, and it fits the idea we have in mind with it- Ear# to voluntary giving to the church, as against assessment,-.. It has been pointed out time and time again that there is no Scriptural authority for as sessments, and it is wholly un-Christian, to make them. All giving to the church should be purely voluntary, for the very good sufficient reason that no one has the right or the authority to decide what any Individual should give; It, is the undisputed right ol the individual to decide that. Biit; what has happened? Our church has operated un der the asessmcnt system ; o long that, even though the people are forever protesting against assessments, when they are asked to contribute volun tarily, they pay little attention to the appeal. Often enough they ask; "Do we have to give for that purpose?" And this means we have gotten into the hatbit of giving only when we are pressured to do so. But some people are gradually be ing emancipated from the slav ery of the assessment system. It if? hoped the time will come when all Zion Methodism will give voluntarily, and accord ingly as each individual has been blessed . . . There is po> - it’vo proof that we are mak ing progress; what v:e need is more instruction and promo tion of stewardship, creative giving, and tithing, for this people have a mind to give and they will do ,so, if they are properly stimulated, and if we assure them that the cause la worthy, The Star of Zion, Oct, 24. “Triumph is just ‘umph j added to ‘try’,” i WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1937 EY MARCUS H. BOULWAKE The Goblins Got Me! A dark cloud hung low a round 6:30 o’clock in the even ing, a threatening storm war imminent, and a, damp pave ment showed signs that a mis ty drizzle of rain had fallen most of the afternoon. This was the kind of wea ther and scene that greeted me hs I stepped from the door of Vic Peebles’ Case lass Hallo we’en. .lust then I remembered it: that anything might hap pen. but as 1 looked around I didn’t see any Hallowe’en r?v tiers anywhere. “Perhaps they are home with tht Asian Flu." I said to myself. A picture flashed in iny mind. There were pajama -clad young sters who had to stay at home with tilt- Asian Flu and a . id pumpkin. “YEP, I wouldn’t be surprised if old Brother Pump kin got the fiu too,” I thournt ONE OF MY THOUGHTS got, i,o “sashaying around’ ’and caught onto the end of & witch's broomstick and went whirling around in the strati sphere of ghost-land where spook: satellites spun around the moon with grinning g!.(--. y eyed faces. But just as I was about to lope my other thoughts, the Martin Street bus rolled up to the comer at the case and. brought me down to earth a sain. But not for long —for when I was settled m my seat yonder skipped out my thoughts again, I knew that when I would alight from the bus near Tuttle Community Center T. could expect any thing to happen. Like parents In every household, one could expect, the appearance of well fed goblins who would " come hoggin* for goodies that their mothers told them not to eat - -at least until they came home. As soon a.-< T departed Lorn the bus ri spook party was get ting ready to raid * house on North Tar boro Road. standing a>'ar off like one o f Clara's disciples, T watched three -,r>h -Ims walk up on the porch and Gordon B, Hancock's • jj( f3W IgW f f S jj n tlWttn lire LENhS THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT By GORDON HANCOCK For t'ANPi The first page of the local morning daily is today cover ed with pictures taken in ore vandals have destroyed p.op of our element-ary shoots whore erty and done damage to cho amount of-$20,000.00 Vandal ism is fast .becoming big busi ness, when such damage* can be wrought over one week-end in one school. But when it i.*s age Lo th rop Stoddard a Harvard so ciologist wrote a book entitled the Rising I toe of Color, in which he depicted that uni* s the while world united to stein the tide of the rising colored peoples of the earth, it- might find itself overwhelmed by the sheer force of numbers. Although the book was a primer of white supremacy, it bad wide circulation and was provocative. Hr wrote another widely read book entitled The Revolt Against. Civilization in, which he pointed out- the crime wave that was taking form at that Ume-some thirty years ago, and concluded that such manifestation of lawlessness was in its nature a revolt of the lower classes against the upper classes in society. Vandalism as we have it to day is but a part of the crime wave that is sweep ins the na tion and statistics will prove that the United States of America is the best ted. the best clothed, the best housed and the best ; :uutomobited” nation in the world, and in spite of it, is the most criminal country in the world. Our prisons and houses of correction are .pit bursting at** the seams and mutters are not getting better but. gradually worse. If such represents a re volt It is a serious matter. The spirit of revolt m *..*,:- fosted in criminal tendencies is just a, part of the general spir it of revolt. Youth Is revolting against the admonitions of the elders and the tldcsT themselv es are revolting against Hie limitation;; imposed by the ad vancing years. The .vpuedeters on the high way arc ni revolt against the traffic laws enacted to protect the lives of those who use- the highways of the nation. Wat is to determination of a cer tain element, of our population to perpetuate segregation and to second class citizenship of the Negro but a icvolt against the rising sentiment of broth erhood in the world? The fcogregatlonisls of the South seem determined to dis credit and disparage the Su preme Court of the United States because it has ruled that , segregation in the schools is illegal. Whet docs all the abuse being heaped upon the Su piwinc Court amount to if -inf. one pressed the belt. When the door yanked open, they yelled. “TRICK OR TREAT" with bags outstretch ed Moving on down North Tar boro. I got “hemmed in" by four little fellows who popped out from nowhere behind hed ges and said. “BOO!” Brother, didn’t I tremble mio a sweat. Then they held out to me their United Nations Children’s E mergency Fund milk cartons. “Trick or Treat, Mister,”, they sang. God bless their little hearts. Immediately, 1 com plied -dropping my last pen nies into the containers. To gether they said. “Shank-you.” Anc! iusl as they had appeared on the scone, they faded into the dreary night. Away 1 went humming softly. His Lyes Is on the Sparrow and I know He Watches Me, - 1 smg because I am happy . . .’• I didn't see any witches on their way to Hallowe’en con vocations where they would later dance, sum. and swan trade stems. YES SIR-REE I stay clear of ’Them creat ure*'-- They send needles up and down my spine. Say. you housewives, next H.iiJov.'t en try this recipe sent ui me by Grand-Ma Witch. Boil one black, cat *But they mo herd to find'*, remove the bone,-. Then while standing in from, of a mirror put the boiv in your mouth one at a time. Om- of them will make you dis appear. “You don't believe me.”-—Eh! 1 FORGOT TO TELL YOU THIS A waitress said to tn« while i v eating “Trick or Treat ’ She caught me off guard, and I grinned sheepish ly—T was embarrassed What :v uid t h :ve done? Please tell n>r! Didn't I tell you—THE GOBLINS GOT ME? land. We h ;v>’ a:: , > up m evil lim- I es in ;L:, country whan we a bu.se and hccsle and d e 1 iii laws that have mad,'’ our • ration great and our civiii/„i tlon spfeiHiid. The only thing wiior.; with the Supreme Com t is that ii- ruled counter to rare • prejudice. The question in this writer’s I mind is why the revolt of the vandals is despised and the revolt of the seyregat.iomsAS 1 exalted? They are parts of the same Lucie story. The pom;, being made here is that the • spirit ot revolt is just as dan gerous on the one hand as t i ‘ the other and unless cured will in the end destroy our great try • With communism striving a gainst us from the outside and with revolt striving against us from the* inside, our plight be comes dangerous and it has «orae to pass that our house must be set in order if we would survive. The revolt against the Jaws • in Little Rock and the revolt against laws and decency man ifested in the ravaging and ruin in the local school to the amount of 120,000.00 over one week-end stem from the same Spirit. We are not going to find an answer to the situation by glo rifying one and disdaining the other, The spirit of revolt is dangerous irrespective of where manifested and threatens th® survival of our country. The j.nira of revolt leads to re bellion. The vandals who work by night, today, will work by light, tomorrow- Poet’s Corner By WILLIAM HLNRV HI Ft' l don't care what you c»i! me. What difference does it mfike, When no harm can befall me If name alone's at stoke? But. If you dure to stone me, J m sure you’ll meet your match. Your gossip eaii’t unnerve me Nor i .in it over swerve mo To me, it can't attach. I 0 l even 1, ant He that blotteih out thy transgressions for mine own wake, end will not remember thy sires.— (Isaiah 43, 25.) It is the still, small voice, of conscience which abides within us all Hie days -and especially the nights—- of our lives that 'romr-ndxov’ our sins. But God, •or mere:.’u! Either, will foi *ive the I'.'ovhiy, truly repent , ant. artu give uh new life in His loving-kindness,