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PAGE FOUR There is something about “small town ways” that is appealing to us on Christmas morning. In a small town, one expects his friends and neighbors to greet him with the expression: 'CHRISTMAS GIVE.’ He ex pects to give a small token, and his friends expect tire same of him. But likely as not, both he arid his neighbor will ignore the re quest or pass it off with a grin. “Christmas Give” is an expression that itself shows the Christmas spirit. The exchange of gifts is not necessary, however, because “Christmas Give” is in itself sufficient. “Christmas Give” is to December 25, as “trick or treat” is to Halloween. It can mean “a world of difference” to children in the com munity. They don't expect something big: often an orange, apple, or a stick of candy will bring a smile on a child’s face. Any adult who has given children an apple on Christmas morning is richly rewarded from knowing that he has made dozens of little hearts glad. Be - sides, the cost to the giver never runs more than a few nickels or dimes. It is pleasant to hear “Christmas Give” in the morning when children rally around the Christmas tree to see what Santa Claus has brought them. The expression goes well with toys old and new. This year toy people have given the “gift:-opening occasion” a new note of Christmas cheer. Around the tree one sees in addition to the standbys many new’ toys, such as, toy planetarium:?, “moonscopes,” and telescopes. Standing, however, in the limelight and roost likely the favorite—is the toy “Sputnik.” an item consisting of a half-globe with two rails along which a miniature satellite runs. It was rushed to the market the second week of this month. ITS EVEN GOT A TINY DOG INSIDE! Yes. the utterance of “Christmas Give” is soothing to parents and grandparents who are glad it is all over,—for a year at least. Well do they remember that in order “to come out ahead” in the last minute mad rush, they had to become “desperadoes.” A football scrim- We hardly expected such a condition to exist in North Carolina, until we read in the Durham Sun (December 14 issue) an editorial which commented on the pot-bellied tand privy High Plains School for Indians in Per son County up near the Virginia line. The edi torial went on to say that Person County in tends to remedy this condition by providing sanitary toilets for this Indian school. Such discrimination on the part of school authorities to provide sanitary toilets for this school before now is one example of proof that the American Indian is “the forgotten man in this country. He is somewhat like the sec ond-class citizen.” the American Negro. In Arizona, for example, the Indian is pro hibited by law from buying intoxicating li quors. Persons convicted for selling whiskey to Indians in that state are punishable by le gal and judicial means. We are not condon ing the sale of liquor, but if whiskey can be sold legally to whites and .Negroes—then why not to Indians? Upon what grounds can we justify this practice of discrimination? Tn North Carolina and elsewhere in the United States discrimination is practiced not only against Negroes but against Indians as wrfl. At many places the separate facilities for Negro Crime The Know Why Last week we asked our readers to examine objectively statistical studies which empha sise that Negro killings have made the crime rate in the South considerably higher than, what it would be otherwise. This week we want to discuss why there is such a predomi nance of Negro crime.—as actually exists. The predominance of Negro crime goes back to the days of slavery and the traditions built Up then that have been handed down from one generation to the next, especially in the rural South where the Negroes are isolatd from contacts with white culture. Slavery de stroyed the Negro'* native culture and methods of social control but did not develop a substitute system. Family life under slavery was a haphazard affair, a face reflected still In the high rates of desertions and divorces among Negroes. Schools were not established during slave ry, and those since established (until very re cently) arc far inferior to schools for whites. Work habits were poorly developed and en trance into business and the professions was (and to a large extent is still) prohibited. Thrift was unnecessary under a system of slavery, and it benefits the rural southern Ne gro slightly under the prevailing semipeon age system. THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered ns 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 Bates: Six Months $2,75 One Year 54.58 Payable in Advance—Address all communications arid ma 1 --. u •• rend money or , ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN, Interstate United Newspapers, Inc,, 544 Fifth Avenue, N, Y. 17, N. X. National Advertising Rejire sentative. ; This newspaper Is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy I, unless necessary postage accompanies the copy. P. R JEBVAY, Publisher Alexander Barnes Advertising & Promotion p as. Jones * . News & Circulation t r* , . • Plant Superintendent »ir * a » * n 9* on Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M. Hinton .. .Office Manager UcaUo ”* e * prea *°* N r, **k*« pnfeMsheti in this newspaper are not necessarily those of the pefc » -j -y : ■ | VIEWPOINT <PMflßga# Christmas Give’ The Forgotten Man mage cannot be compared to it. What comfort it is to know that tor a long time at least you won’t have to rub shoulders with set thing, last-minute shoppers- • necktie buyers, perfume sniffers, searchers for toys, and the great, mass of undeciders. But let us. turn to another side of the pic ture. Great was the joy experienced in erect ing and trimming Christmas trees in private homes. Magnificent was the feeling you had when you worked on the committee that planned to bring Yule cheer to the unfortu nates. How happy you were to know that the ill, the poor and the friendless were served. We arc happy that the Christmas spirit in our country is evident by a spirit of giving and exchange of gifts. There are thousands of small and large factories which work all year round to produce toys and dolls for Christinas—toys that will make thousands of little girls happy. Billions of dollars flow each year into business enterprises because of our Christmas custom of exchanging greetings and gifts. Some people are like a sponge—soft and good-natured. To get water out of a sponge, you have to squeeze it.. The harder you squeeze, the more you get. People like this enter with reluctance in the true spirit of Christmas. We are glad that we don’t have many people of this kind. Then we have the honeycomb. The honey comb does not have to be pressed It, just over - flows with its own sweetness. It represents the true spirit of giving without thought of re turn. It is a completely unselfish spirit. We can make life better for those around us through the Christmas custom of exchang ing greetings and gifts of happiness with each other. It is well that we have one season of a year when we can concentrate on such friend ly interest and perhaps the spirit will stick around months after Christmas comes and goes. Show us a man who isn't: glad to hear and say, “CHRISTMAS GIVE.” whites and Negroes, traditional in the South, are joined by a third—for Indians. Not ac cepted by the whites, for example, the Croa tans (Robeson County, Lumbee Indians) are also rejected by other Indian tribes because of the predominantly Caucasian features. Thus, tlie.se people must live cut off from surround ing society as well as their own racial group. The Indians in Person County have been using up through 1957 out-door privies, and their school has been heated by the old pot bellied stove. That this condition exists in Person County, North Carolina, is almost un believable. If an impartial survey were taken at this time, we wonder how many more schools there are in North Carolina and the Southern States without sanitary toilets and running water. The answer might cause the United States to bow its head in shame before the eyes of the world. We have isolated the American Indian and placed him on reservations to “rust away” in ignorance, poverty, economic and political in activity. We have relegated him into a posi tion of third-class citizenship. This does not speak well for the United Stales. Something constructive and humane must soon be done for “this forgotten man.” These experiences have resulted in a failure on the part of the: Negro to devlop a high de gree of self-respect and personal pride or of self-discipline and ability to work. He is in clined to feel dependent uppn whites and often rationalizes thefts with the statement that the whites owe him a living. Thus petty thefts, vagrancy, and abandonment of wives and children are to be expected. When southern Negroes go North to indus trial cities, many of them are bewildered and unable to adjust to urban life. Stealing may seem to be the way out. Others may react to the release from white restraints found in the South by rowdinr ss and vandalism. More aggressive Negroes may restrain them selves for a long period of time but eventually rebel against unjust discrimination, and their hatred and frustration may find expression in criminal acts directed against whites. That not all Negroes thus react is evident in the relatively low rates of delinquency (and it may be assumed of adult crime) in well-or ganized Negro areas. However, the tendency of well-adjusted and educated Negroes to withdraw from the less well-endowed mem bers of their race contributes to increased crime in that It leaves the lower class Negroes leaderless. THE Caroliwiatj He Must Be Destroyed If Peace And Democracy Are To Win In America What Outer Eillsrs Say MISSISSIPPI’S GOVERNOR FOR INTEGRATION! Be lieve it or not, Gov. ,J. P. Cole man of Mississippi, headquar ters of Dixie’s rampant racism, has come out in favor of a new veterans hospital at Jack son, the state capital, even though it would be racially in tegrated ! Mississippi would have to do nate the land for this Federal installation, so a bill is in the current, legislature to cancel the state’s authority to do this in order to prevent the erec tion of the hospital. Warning over television that “it would be an easy thing for Orem to switch the hospital to Memphis if we made what they considered unreasonable re strictions,” tne Governor told his listeners, “I don’t think JO acres is too much for Mississ ippi to give for an $11,000,000 hospital and I am personally in favor of it." Here is another instance of the nickel under the foot, so when Mississippi gets a chance to get an $11,000,000 Federal handout it conveniently for gets all about State’s Rights and grabs for the stake. Os course the legislative special session may kill the whole proposition out of dii trenco to the white supremacy and racial segregation it has traditionally preached, but \\ ■ suspect that like Omar Khay yam they will “take the cash and let the credit go.” May we inquire what is the difference between an integral ed Federal hospital and an in tegrated public school? —Pittsburg Currier, Dec. 14. ItY GLADYS V. GRAHAM Vice President Nixon Takes New Turk Honors Honors galore are being showered on Vice President Nixon the nation's fairheaded assistant chief. Sunday was a busy day for him in Manhat tan. The Irving M, Ives Award Committee of Task Force '57 'a division of the N. Y. Republican State Com mittee) presented the Irving M. Ives Award to Mr. Nixon at. a breakfast at the Waldorf- Astoria in the Grand Bail Room. The same evening Yeshiva University honored Vice Presi dent Nixon with a Honorary Dociory of Laws degree at a special convocation at the Roosevelt Hotel. He spoke lat er at the Founders Day Fund Dinner. Kart ha Kitt Sparks Salute Dynamic Eartha Kitt was among the many stars who do nated their talents to the Cha nukah Festival for Israel In salute to that country for the loth year. The mammoth event which was held on two days was sponsored by the Greater New York Committee State of Israel Bonds. It was held at Mad iso Square Gard en. The First Annual Interna tional Festival of Dance on be half of the Federation of Jew ish Philanthropies was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Participating on the spec taclar all male cast show were tan stars Avon Long. Percival Borde. male leading dancer of Pearl Primus Company, Bha.-»- kar Hindu exponent of the ori ental tradition, Mattee, cele brated Spanish artist and TEMPORARY RELIEF FOR TAXPAYERS Those of the F t-spending fraternity who have been on tenterhooks be cause of Uncle Sam's insis tence that they tell all about their expense accounts are now feeling a bit more relaxed. Uncle Sam has relented. No one will be called to account for expense account transac tions during 1957. Good news through this re versal may be to those who spend their employers’ money with such a will, the garden is not without weeds. Internal Revenue has let it be known that taxpayers with expense accounts had better start keep ing accurate tabs on such spending in 1958, so that “they will be in a position to supply expense account informa tion ...” Tills whole subject seems to lend itself to frivolous treat ment. The howls of outrage that prompted Uncle Sam to change his mind about being tough this year have a comic element, though those who ut tered them would not appreci ate it. All the same, the idea cf faithfully reporting expense account dealings in income tax returns has its serious side. Expense accounts often sup plement earned income in very .substantial amounts, and there is no logical reason why the government should not have its share of such income just as it puts the bite on regular earnings. The earlier Internal Reve nue Service announcement, that a complete report on re Geoffrey Holder, assisted by Charles Blackwell (of Fanny) and Albert Popwell currently appearing in "Body Beautiful." Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman is luncheon chairman of the Dance Festival Program. Busy Geoffrey Holder with his beautiful wife Carmen de La vallade is giving two shows at the YM-YWCA which is a con stituent society of the Federa tion of Jewish Philanthropies. Holder and Carmen also have a busy season at the Metropol itan Opera. Waiter Roark Passes. Gallant Walter H. Roark, former director of the Salva tion Army Red Shield Club lost, a two and a half year fig!it with life when he passed away in the hospital after a linger ing illness. The goal which he attempt ed to attain was achieved in full measure when the Salva tion Army dedicated its new five story bhidling at. 124th Street and a spanking new chapel in the Harlem Corn, building. Major and Mrs. Bar ton Mclntyre direct tire Har lem Cory, and the neighbor hood center, assisted by a stall of 17 full and part time work- The citation of the Saiva ers. lion Army Association of Now York, presented annually to an outstanding citizen was given this year to Cecil B. de Miile. Mr. de Miile was cited for Ids lifelong devotion to religious principles, for the gift of his inventive genius and master craftsmanship for the benefit and education of others, and for giving dramatic interpretations to and creating renewed inter imbuvsed expense account,s in 1657 would be demenckd, threw the ranks; into confusion A> matter of fairness, it is well "that the demand is being post poned until next year. But the idea of just forgetting about the whole tiling is nor. a good one. r liie expense account;-; loophole ought to be closed. —Journal and Guide, Dec. 14. FROG RE SB SOM E'FIMES LAGS Person County is out to eliminate one gap in school progress. There is one school left in the county at which toi let accommodations are limit ed to outdoor facilities. It in tends to remedy that condition. One difficulty i.s that it is a joint North Carolina-Yi: Thu a undertaking. Located near the Virginia, line, it is supported by both states. *t serves pun.w from that section of North Carolina and Vircinta. Action to provide sanitary toilets seems imminent but no plans have yet been launched to do any tiling about a mode n heating plant. It Is a school for Indians—and the only one in that section of North Carolia; but its plumbing and heating, now, amount only to privies and a pot-bellied stove. Obviously, interest has been lacking in Balcdgh as well as elsewhere. There have been, it seems, some oversights in the State’s alertness to school needs. How many other pot bellied stoves and privies schools, one wonders, are left in North Carolina? Commen dations to Person County for leading a movement to do something about High Plains School. —Durham Sun, Dee, 14. est in t!i<‘ great truths of The Bible. Revella Hughes Installs New Organ Revella Hughes, dynamic lady of song and organ has replaced 'her Hammond, for a newer organ which she has had installed in her Garden City Mansion Music Room. A graduate of Howard * and Northwestern Universities and a noted member of Alpha Kap pa Alpha Sorority, Revella is a world recitalist and a native of Huntington, W. Va., where she taught for many years prior to coming east. Hall Johnson, composer and currently director and arrang er for the Harry Beiafonte Folk Chorus informed this writer that he was working on addi tional compositions which would soon be ready for pub lication. He said he would lie with Beiafonte and his group indefinitely and would bo trav eling with them, to Las Vegas their nest point of presenta tion. Harry Beiafonte and his singers are receiving rave no tices at the Waldorf-Astoria where they play to an S R O audience. In Our Mailbag The mailbag was stuffed with greetings from tifends abroad and at home. Sergeant Conrad Clark tANP Corre spondent) sent a copy of The Stars and Stripes from Ger many and his yuletidc greet ings. Navy Journalist First Class Richard Graddick writes from Philadelphia that he will be stationed in Connecticut. Graddick has distinguished himself in the field of service journalism and has achieved WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2S. 1957 JUST FOR FUN BY MARCUS II BOIL WARE Christmas At Frogle Bottom Comyartf reminded me that I hacl promised to attend the annual Christmas patty held eacn year at pro.-.te Bottom vu Chi-istmas night, Who else was there? Weil, A.nr.ie Belle, for one. nils par ty was her style for it. was a grass-root affair. And may I add, she was more than a match for the local boys up n noodle Bug County. Annie Belle ‘Took a liking for” one of those smart, glib, and game talking gents who was just, her speed. When 1 looked at her from a .short; distance, she -shook her finger at Rig Honey and laughed. Aha knew not why. but neverthe less the fun and merriment flowed on. Corny tird didn’t see Annie Belie, smc. hr ! \d his eyes oil That rustic table of ‘T «*ri cut in's,” Just, let are toll you all about it. THE TABLE WAS spread in Uncle Hobejr. John's ivaivlviu. n and was loaded with tut ? and other varieties of m.- , as well as piles of vegetables generally available at "chitfri - ling struts.” X learned that i hole was dug in the ground ui the afternoon and wood was laid in and burned until it filled with glowing coals—over which chickens, ducks, tur keys, pips, and the ctil'.ve body 'of art OX were roasted. There wore biscuit-, served with peach nr.d otaei pn * wives, with tarts, and every manner and description ot pi, It ivas an occasion of high r >s* tronomical enjoyments. Follow ins the feast, the young people were ready tor the dance. Only the old time ‘‘cuke walk”, “the Diddy-Wha- Diddy" stomp, atv.l the Mon day German Waltz, were tra ditional. WE ARE A MUSIC-LOVING race, proverbially': and present were many piano plunkcrs and horn “looters** VnosO organs of time were strikingly developed IE m FIT VOICE By HAMILTON T. ROSWLIL A Christmas , , Tien That was a tragic event, in the Chris! ;. . \ . it vc ; written, “She hrougnt forth her first bom .son . . . end bud him in a man. , v. b .cas; o tic ct was no room for them in i. inn.” The town of Bethlehem, it appears was so bury ttuuun.; ready for the canons enk i,.! by Ovnxar Augusta'-, until they bad little time for a. yJta:,: t They were excis'd :v, .he piv > pect of such a busy vv -k er.J. All of the old home towners would be the!C. F.Clig thus p •(- occupied with such an occa sion.. it never not ev en to one, the t God mi rht use that week end as the back ground for his mightiest act among men. The proprietor of the local hotel certainly typita anxious Bethlehem;!es. He was busy. Evidently he mused to himself as he made ready his inn for an unprccede»*-<«d busi ness, “ I’m going to main, mine now or never.” The census for business in Bethlehem was ; god send, and the local cham ber of Commerce was active as never before. Such v.,-, the at mosphere of the hotel in Beth lehem that night when a w my couple, ladeusd with dust fsom the long road, Altered and ask ed for accommoda Hons for tlx; night Th ei r p » tr on age, ho we ver, was not the kind for which ike inkeeper had planned. He ex a number of firsts at home and abroad. The Langston Hughes drama of racial conflict In the South, “Mulatto,” opened at the Ca; a del Teatro is Buenos Aims. Ar gentina, where it is playing to large audiences. Presented by the La Farsa Company, £lso Greco plays the role which the late Rose McClendon acted on Broadway during ins year's run in New York. Hughes’ play s being compared by various critics to the situation in Little tie Rock today. Mrs. Fairfax Jennings of St. Louis who recent iv visited New York and her mater, Lou Lu Tour has returned to Missouri to clear up business matter . Africa In (he News The Ashante King by Spree Khinh presented by tie* Afri can Academy of Arts and };: ■ search was unveiled at Ohoun cey Northerns : tuclias in e r n- To Hall. Mr;-;. Alla Kali bala invited this writer to lira program. The Annual &.■■■> il Party of the Ghana Student .’ Association of U. s. A. and Canada, was held at Carnegie Endowment jwematloiud O • ter Saturday. The film on Ghana’s Intapendenc; Dr y Celebration was shown for the first time publicly in l-l. ./ York. The Rev. M. A. Warren has written a splendid article Un Forth Magnamc ■ AFI'Ffl MA 'J MAI7 WHAT? The work car ries excellent photo graphs in < spread on what is happening in Kenya. Lucerne Montague tails of Alice In Lib ria 'YWCA Lo shelf Mag* in ibis n;o:i' a’s is sue on the excellent ; c a ap lishments of Afire ti. emu.?, president of the Y-T • club u: Liberia. Happy Holiday to ill. - and who could thump the piano with dexterity. lfut. at the expense of being egotistical. .1 must nevertheless declare, that I way cohsfatet ed the one and only “GliiMr Slim” back down in Fairfield County, S. C. Many a times I came home with my pockets •'btilgiii ■ at the seams” with valuable corns. It wax my friend. CORN YARD, who told the boys and girls about ray talent. With “Fellow” Gove at the piano, I borrow ; J a guitar and cut loose with that “Elvis Pressly Reck." (This was against the muriciU traditions of the Frog - ie Bottom Christmas party and dunce, but I like to break tra ditions.! YEA SIR—REE, the roof raised up and set down ; uin. HOY! I never had so much fun in all my life. Did I "ft an ENCORE? You bn I did and to satisfy the enthusiastic curtain call, a an te uncect that I would plav •’C.ivoiii.a Moon ” This was sweet and low-like, giving the F’ .jgie Bottom Hop an atmos phere of dignity. What is more, it \\v.:- in keeping with expected ions from a DOC. I was mighty proud of myself, tao. , NOW R.f.ADERS. don’t get wi y virona ideas! This i.s not a plug for the future engage rs up, but a handsome fee on. i.t persuade me to appear v 'tii Hu Fu-do Bottom Reve lers at one of your affairs. «.S --GH-’-iH-Sir. don't talk too loud, 1 ..i “riesc arc off-the re cord <1 re;.; ' for a PROF. But I taink we can manage ltd WELL. IT’S TIME FOR US to go; C >:-d Annie Belle, and I an ived irony in good spirits. You say you “wanna” go next 5 1 ■ Well, just notify Corn y.ed si.- vvi-cks b fore Christ mas and ho will get you one of rh; e Erode Bottom Christmas t,inner and party invites for $2,50. . ' UKY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY! n-d the rich. She great i i ■y s. Inc big sponc ■ • fhunnecl thorn as u w. wd the n t!ie s seltsr c* i stable. God had vnt i -• i his hotel, but he sent the 1 a static. The result ct i. blindness was that he i «>’,;iy tii? must popular c. . to he. of Bethlehem ..... V.'xce.uxe h-3 tvus ju . tc;> * to see other than what he • peeled. From the mistake of ; p;v. siy '. , ... r. VV >-.0 mi! • » groniness. and a- place in h - loi-y, our nr.s cun Irani au i.; - portant lesson. Sometimes ta seems that v.e are so busy get ting ahead until we are blind to vriwt God is doing, and fre ijuontly it is. we arc pairing up success seeking success. We strain, push and shove and reach for a goal of sell satis i icr.ion svdiicii ioo often is but a vain iiiustration. The' e wore others, however, who thoir.-'h they too were b'u.>y with the tasks of life, neve;- theics? were not that busy that they could not. catch the sta re or respond to the intima uons of God of on impending a. ;., of greutness. The blessed : us are those whose lives (hoi!' ; k: pt. busy, are not that I- s-.- tint they are blind to the i! u d , nritivities of life. Os , ■ i v the wise men, the i ,i r. ustiologers. They were ! : , y with the concerns of their Yet. a new star, a dif i : i i .star was to them a c-h.M .e and they left their churls and y ipiis and follow ed n star before them. j;i ■ reward -of their quest vms the privilege of being a part of a new age, as God had cmi ed to come in Jesus Christ. Aim. busy, but not sel i : Ely preoccupied with their own ends, that they were blind, wt re the shepherds. They v orked extra during the long •raring nights, guarding the ! locks a ain-st- marauding wolves. Yet they heard intima tions from the skies of voices of angels, singing “Peace on earth, goodwill io men.” L it not. litting these many years hence, that we who are iuvored to be alive here and now. should a« Christmas is upon us, re-evaluate our lives, our goals, our values and the means and methods of ful filling? Some are just trying t io herd, and the r suit is that this preoccupation makes us b’dnd *to the realization to know that we walk not alone, and breams of this we keep an i vs? imiHi and an ear always u;tuned for Him who i.s always then ! And we can live best tt t.ca we walk by His tempo arid cal!, and never our own. ov, n. 15:.ir the shepherds, the wise men., and unnamed others who had in ear to the ground and Sue-w m faith something of v, .'.il God was about. These are (bey who found a treasure deor.T than all else. And from ti . truth Christmas will nevet cimil:' R is thote eternallj <who keep Christ in Christ m;;:;, who rejoice in this sea i n in consciousness of what God is doing, who even in thi y" ii 3957. wtU know the joy oi wtvit Christinas really is, the bi v i ’. *xv of Christ, the comins of In- e, our salvation from all darkness which assails us. Tiill iv cbvinmas forever, mads known 1
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