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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
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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
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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.<? considered
that vandalism is a symptom
manifested in ail parts of she
country, it gives food far sen
ous thought. The predisposi
tion to vandalism knows no ra
cial bounds end it knows: no
racial immunities. II is one of
the tragic symptoms of dis
respect. tor the law in this
country.
It represents a revolt against
law* and order and as such it
holds dangers that beggar com
putation, Some yea>*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 . . .’•
<Sk : -In-don’t, tell an:.-
body i ■: ~f to hum softly so
tv- on • iii n.'.tr. Have vou
ever talked to yourself and you
were caught doing it*' Well, I
havp-~bf.it don't get me wrong,
I'm not crazy yet! >
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,