North Carolina Newspapers

4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1858 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Nly soul thirsteih for God. for the living God: when -hall ! come and appear before God? My tears ha\ e been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When l remember these things, / pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multr titudc; I went with them to the house of God. with the voice of joy and praise, with a mul titude that kept holy day. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? arid why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou m God; for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. O my God, my soul cast down within me: there wil’ I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Her monies, from the hi!! of Mirer. North Carolina Steps Forward Time and again Northern coaches have brought athletic teams into the State without incident. Often these teams had one or more Negro players. The most recent example of this sort of thing oecured Wednesday night, February 19 when Coach Josh Cody brought his Temple University basketball team to Winston-Salem ancj played Wake Forest Col lege. The Temple outfit with its Negro ace Guy Rodgers defeated Wake Forest 61 to -19. Next month tvhen the. NCAA holds its WiR basketball regional tournament there will be no segregation of fdayers iri hotel arrange ments and no segregation in the seating of spectators. All of the teams participating in the events wil! have exactly the same facil ities. North Carolina deserves credit for the man- This is another of a series of editorials ex ploring the many facets of the problem of children born out of wedlock. This week we wish to take a look at one of the cause? of this community problem. The present demoralization of the Negro family and his marital life took root during the days of slavery in the South where, as Dußois says, “The great body of field hands were raped of their own sex customs and pro vided with no binding new ones.” Slavery debased both men and women by making marriage impossible, and in doing this it tempted both sexes to revert to the natural relations of mere temporary impulse and convenience. Continence and chasity could not well be fostered and ‘encouraged under it. since it was opposed, in its first principles, to wholesome sentiment in the family and even to the existence of the home itself, which is the only fortification against promiscuous in tercourse. However, faithfully both members of the couple might observe the marital obligations, their union could amount only to a passing arrangement: as long as the owner had the power to sell the man or woman at any mo ment his interests moved him to do so. The possibility of such rupture, followed by final separation, was enough in itself to weaken, or least io embitter, the relation however Big Three Treetop Toilers } The basketball story of Elgin Baylor, Wilt I Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson reads like * fairy tale, but it is true. These three Negro youths have "hoped” ' themselves into the rank of the three-top in dividual scorers in national basketball circles; while, at the same time, they have skyrocketed Into the basketball halls of fame. When we last read this story. Elgin Baylor, the high-scoring star from Seattle University' had edged Wilt (the Stilt) Chamberlain, sev- Kansas University magician, by one- Liiundreth of a point for first place m the ex isting national collegiate basketball scoring { ract f Baylor, six-feet six. with a recent scoring spree of 103, three points in two games, boasts *M average of 32.43 to Chamberlain’s 32.42, Oscar Robertson, the tall, highly-touted sophomore from Cincinnati University, was third with a 32.35 average i* The City Council of Burlington recently passed an ordinance, which in effect will pro ! fcibit ministers from holding services on city streets during business hours, as well as de terring soap box orators from haranguing the crowds at will. Features of the new law (1) prohibits any person, firm or corporation from obstructing any street or sidewalk in the city without writ ten permit from the city manager or his re presentative, and (2) no person will be allowed to bold public meetings or deliver an ad dress on the streets or sidewalk* without first obtaining a permit from the City Council. When a permit is obtained, it will allow the person to hold only one meeting, and that meeting between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The reason given for this action is, that preachers have frequently conducted services on city sidewalks during business hours. The spirit of this law is perhaps noble in WORDS OF WORSHIP Deep Are The Roots Neccessary? Deep called unto deep at the noise of the waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord will command HIS loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, AND MY PRAYER UNTO THE GOD OF MV LIFE. I will say unto God my rock, Why East thou forgotten me? Why go / mourning because ct the oppression of the eriemv? As with a sword in my hones. mine pnemfe* reproach me; while they say daily unto me, IV here is thy God? Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and whv art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Our Weekly Words Our thought, The Psalmist, Prayer For Guidance. Psalms 42 Chapter 1 through 11 verses. ner in which it has treated teams with Negro players. If they have been insulted, it has not been noted by “athletic officials in the know.' 1 ’ At this tournament, patrons can maintain their values placed upon human dignity and the worth of the individual. Here all men will be brothers in an arena filled with a great cloud of witnesses who will be applauding a basketball player not for his race, but for the ability and skill he exhibits. To the officials in charge of this basketball classic, you have made a step forward in the matter of good racial relations. In the years ahead. God grant that you will have the cou rage to follow a policy that will enable all persons in attendance to hold themselves in high esteem and feel a sense of human dignity. firmly cemented apparently by affection and the birth of children. Marriage under the slavery regime was verv like unlawful cohabitation under the new, only that the master, by the power he had, compelled the nominal husband and wife to live together permanently. But usually the practice of selling slaves discouraged any form of permanency. Many masters actually discouraged mar riage and perferred the breeding of Negro ba bies by providing a healthy black male to satisfy the erotic desires of attached and un attached slave females. Through this arrange ment, the master could depend upon an ample supply of healthy bondmen for the slave mart. Slavery demoralized Negro family life, and actually encouraged the birth of offsprings out of wedlock. But we are thankful that through education and Christian teachings, Negroes are gaining a new concept toward the sanctity of the home and marriage. This may not seem apparent at first to those who rely solely upon statistical findings gathered from low socio-economic groups who live in the areas “across the tracks.” 1 f we are wrong in the belief that Negro family relationships are slowly but steadily improving, then let us hope that God will give us men who will set about removing this blight from among us. By the time you read this editorial,"the pic ture may be changed with regards to first, sec ond. and third place; but we are confident that these three spots will only be held by these three young men unless something unforeseen happens. They have brought glory to their alma ma ters. white at the same time causing the money bag of the athletic departments to bulge at the seams. Their names in themselves are suffici ent to "cause a sell out” of tickets well in ad vance of the games. We would not be surprised, if the truth were known, that some coach of a white state uni versity in the South would "give his right arm’’ to have Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson in their line-up at the mmr time. This indeed would be an unheard-of phenomena in basketball. Baylor, Chamberlain, and Robertson, w# salute you I W e Doubt It purpose, but we doubt seriously ?f it was ab solutely necessary since the day of street preaching is almost “unhenrd of.” For example, in Raleigh, we haven’t heard the "street preacher” in many moons. To require a minister to secure a new permit for each service, even after business hours, is a roadblock to "spreading the gospel to the utmost ends of the earth.” Like Jesus did on one occasion, the itinerant preacher might find it best to walk on to the next town. We believe that the Burlington City Coun cil could have devised other means of dealing with this problem. No city or town must let it be said that it put a stumbling block in the way of the Christian message. We have left m few preachers who will brave the challenge of a Christmas or Easter shopping public, to preach one God, a good God, and a just God. The Bible admonished the early Christians to go into the hyways and byways and com pel them to come. The street preacher cannot afford to ignore the call. A Need For World Leadership sfďs What Other Editors Say NEGROES' PROGRESS The story of the mistreat ment of the Negro people la well known throughout the world, but the phenomenal im provement of recent years is hardly noticed. Some of tire examples: Illiteracy was reduced from over 97 per cent in 1860 to less than 10 per cent in 1952. There are more Negroes (128, 000) m college In the United States than ail the Germans in German universities. More Negroes own automo biles in the United States than all 216,000,000 Russians and ail the 193,000,000 Negroes in Africa. Full integration has taken place in the armed forces. Since 1940 Negro wages have risen 400 per cent as against 250 per cent for whites. Since 1930 there has been a 2,500 per cent increase in en rollment of Negroes in colleges. Since 1900 the rate has in creased six times faster than that of white students, .About 200,000 Negroes own farms averaging 78 acres in size. In 1900 only 1 per cent of Negro workers were Industry: Now the figure is over 30 per cent. About 1,250,000 of the nation’s 16,000.000 union mem bers are Negroes. Negroes have been elected with the help of white votes to places on city councils in the South. They sit in legislatures and In Congress. One of the most important factors in race relations is the appearance of an upper middle class Negro group—an educat ed, well-to-do people whose very presence will break down the old stereotype of the Ne gro as Ignorant and unambit ious, and who can give intelli gent leadership to the contin uing struggle for equal rights. From “Why We Behave Like Americans” by Bradford Smith GOVERNOR GRIFFIN WRITES A LETTER In a letter gotten cut by Go vernor Griffin, which he is sending all over the state he laments as follows: “There are 180,000 Negroes registered in Georgia today. The Rev. Mar tin Luther King. Negro preach er of Montgomery, Ala., has set up WMMJnuariers for the purpose of putting 500,009 move Negroes on the voters list in Georgia."’ THE PULPIT VOICE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS TOUR MAIL BOX CAN TALK t Absurd isn’t it, to think, that a mail box can talk? It may not be literally true, but your mail box can talk, and most of all it talks about its unsuspect ing owner, who trusts it each day with letters and cards from far and near. You have heard people say jokingly to others who surpris ingly described some problem or situation similar to theirs, to read another persons mail "You must of read my mail? No, is a sneak attack worth of no honest person, but your mail box talks about you without reading any content of letters. It talks loudly, the type of mail which comes to your house, and equally the same by mail, which does not come. Your mail box tells whether you pay your bills or not, it tells every year whether you are a registered voter. It blahs loudly whether you read or not and in countless other ways your mail box tells to the world Specifically, he would advo cate before the General Assem bly a law to declare all regis trations cancelled and charge a one dollar fee for registra tions every two years, with al most unlimited powers vested in registrars! The letter also infers that the inconvenience occasioned by white voters on account of this new measure would be off set by a preference between do ing this and “turning the state over to Negro domination.” How could 180,000 people or over 300,000 voters dominate over a million votes? How the governor expects to sell a bill of frustration and tension among nearly a million and half white voters, would appear beyond the pale of sane reasoning. Under that score, who could justify that Negro domination is in the offing While it Is not thought here that any undue anxiety will arise from an apparent alarm to cover up the recent fall of in stock of the governor a i'ound his rural roads program, it is timely that our readers he warned that calmness is the key: that this is a time for the keeping of ones head when others are losing their; this is no time to be swept up in a stampede which listens to be answered by another stampede As said before, we would not welcome this added inconven ience; we would regret to see an old practice return that has been more than once thrown off because of its own weight, but let it be said that our peo ple have made up their minds to vote, poll tax or no poll tax The ballot is the most effective instrument, with which to solve our problems. Free men love freedom and often in the quest for it the price and the cost are forgot ten. This is the spirit we must show toward exercises of the right, of the franchise The Atlanta Daily World. THE CHALLENGE OF Now that Mecklenburg Coun ty police, in an excellent piece of investigative work, have caught several Kiansmen red handed in an attempted school bombing Saturday night, the State of North Carolina must • turn its full attention to thr job of wiping out this despica ble terrorism. Obviously the state is deal ing herd with diseased and BY REV, HAMILTON T, BOSWELL just what kind of person you are. Its a wonder that some body has not had congress declare a “be kind to Postman week,” and this, because the first per son your mailbox blabs to n boufc you Is your daily post man. Maybe he has never seen you, only knows you by a num berber on a box but every time he lifts the lid your mailbox tells him something about you. Sometimes people can get disturbed when ? postman is transferred to another route, but actually for many people they should be glad, because your mailbox has lost another eagle eye and ear who knows all about your business. Yet as this one goes it gains another so there’s not much we can do but become the kind of person we should be, because as long as we receive mail, that mail box will keep on talking. It is an accepted practise a rnong politicians, magazine publishers, and advertisers to keep a trained eye on the mail. Tips Is the best listening post perverted minds, And just as obviously these individuals are part and parcel of a terroristic organization which is intoler able to all decent citizens. Fortunately the Governor himself and the states law en forcement authorities have been alerted to the widespread threat of this terrorism. But there is some doubt wheathor the state.s citizenry generally understands the full meaning of these bombing attempts on schools and synagogues accom panied by vicious attacks on private homes. This same kind of lawless ness erupted in Germany dur ing the Hitlerian regime. In its early phases it was soft-pedai ed and. explained away by the very sel Righteous forces who helped Hitler climb to power only to discover later that they were trapped in their own sehen e. Governor Hodges’ forthright statement directed against the K. K K. severs! weeks ago indicated his under standing of the full import of these activities. And the concern of the state government is reflected in the Governor’s resolve to see that the incitement, to riot charm s against Klan leaders at Mux ton are pressed to the limit as an example to other members of this organization and as a means of alerting the stale generally to these massive threats. North Carolina will have no part of these vicious efforts to put the law in Hie hands of in dividuals. to intimidate persons of differing views and actually destroy public and personal property and threaten lives of individual citizens. The State of North Carolina and individual communities merit support of law-abiding i tizens In all walks of life. For the threat is not alone to spe cific institutions or individuals; it is to ail citizens who price orderly government n a dem ocracy. Let the.se arrests and the vi gor of the prosecutions serve a.; a. stern warning to the crack pots and demagogues who seek to feed on the notoriety of their cowardice. Law enforcement authorities of the Oid North State are rueiled to your acti vities and will leave no efforts unmade to track you down The Greensboro Daily News to know any neighborhood cr section of the country, because your mail box is a ready talker. And it is amazing how embar rassing it can be when your mailbox, like a little child, blurts out all the family secrets, A certain citizen one day went calling at City Hall. He wa,. going to impress these fel 'lows, so he told a public offi cial who was seeking rejection that he represented 18.000 votes from his neighborhood The public official smiled and lis tened to the pompous ward heeler, but he knew all along how many registered voters there were in that neighbor hood. How did he know? It was very simple, the ntailboxes in that neighborhood blabed it when the Registrar of voters sent out the sample ballots, he only sent 6,000 to that neigh borhood, and it. was the mail boxes which didn't get any which really yelled. As postman in that neighborhood came to w'ork that morning the sample ballots were in the mail. Post- JUST FOR FUN OMEGA TALENT HUNT Tua some season, 1 found my self sitting with Cornyard at the Omega Fsl Phi Fraternity Talent Hunt Program which was held In the Greenleaf Au ditorium last Friday evening. Perhaps, if Loretta had con sented, I would have gone to hear the concert artist at Lig on High School He US it fijw COTTlvnrrt insisted upon seals near the front. “Cornyard,” said I, sup pose we sit ten rows back less we give, the impression of being uncultured.” Cornyard said it was "no go." Somehow Cornyard was more restrained than he was at the City Auditorium when he saw the Carnbenn singers. Perhaps U was because I fold him to remember he was at Shaw Uni versity. He did cause me some con cern when it was announced that "Miss Annie Belle” Lee, local model and charm evno nent, would do a hot Cha-Cha. as a guest artist. Well, what do you know' Who would’ve thought we d 'see our oW<j Annie Belie? Fellow Gore slid on the pi ano stool and began planking out some Calypso jive that put Anne Belle” in the groove.” She swung high and wide, twisted a series of reverses, ending up with her skirt mak ing a perfect umbrella, —bowed invitingly and. strode off Ur* stage. Cornyard yelled, in Elvis Pressely style: "Y-E-A H MAN! “Come hack here, pretty mama ” This made me yank his sleeve, and I said. "You idi ot, cut out that foolishness out!” No Sir—Ree. Cornyard was not going to embarass me befor my students, the Profs., Revs, and social elites. Upon my urging, Cornyard and I quietly tipped out of the auditorium because if we stay ed- the "Deuce was sure to run wild." (Scene: Corner Blount and Fast Martini Cornyard. in his fir-shy Curvet, roared up to the curb where a cute young Miss stood waiting for a bus. Gordon B. Hancock's BETWEEN the LINES THE NEGRO'S POINT OF VIEW The Old South is spavin* neither time nor money in Ber lins its point of view across to the nation and the world. This point of view of course is that segregation is best far the South, the Negro and the ra tion. What cannot, ho achieved by fair means will be achieved anyhow. If the end of the segregation ists can be served by non-vio lent means so well arid good; but violence is the trump ca.d that the old South has up its sleeve. The one great objective of a large see to" of the Sou thern press is to defame ii .e Negro in the eyes of the world The play upon Negro crime is once more the burden of a large sector of the white press and everything bad is made out to be tiie result of integration nr proposed integration. Every Ugly Using that happens is be - ing currently traced to either Integration to the Supreme Court’s decision on segregation in the public schools of the South. The segregationist extremist are in the saddle ol the South and they are riding roughly, lb is all the more startling that there ate about the South whites who dare to speak up for the cause of desegregation. Few' there are who are.willing to stand up and oe counted in the current crisis. This article was designed to be commendatory of sift artiCF written by a white woman m New York to a Richotnnd cue y in attempt to show that the terrible school situation is not attributable to integration, Tar Southern newspaper arc over playing the crime-ridden situ ations in the schools of New York City and u<ung these ug ly incidents w> substantiate the "South’s point of view”. But happily a white woman born in Virginia seeks to Counter these unfounded and prejudiced al legations. She writes: “The juvenile delinquency problem is not peculiar to New York City nor to Negroes. The .seme papers that carried ac counts of crime;; in one of our schools also carried stories on the ten cold-blooded murders committeed by a* 19-yc*r-old white boy in Nebraska, accom panied by his 1.4-year-old sweet heart! The murderer and the rapist arc ill, and the fact that men in other neighborhoods were loaded down, but not post men in that neighborhood. How those mailboxes can be heard afar off, way down to the Ci*y Hall! John Doe took bitter excep tion to a statement which a speaker at his club had said about his people. The speaker had said, "How can Negroes af ford to be so superstitious, and indulge in magic and voodo ism?” The speaker meant well, he was concerned, but John Doe wanted the man to apologize. Finally iri defense of his Ques tion the man reported the hun dreds of large bundles of mail which go into the Negro com munity every.year from so-call ed lucky charm businesses a cross the country. BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE “Hi,” said Cornyard at ihs wheel. “I am going South.” “How wonderful,” came the cool reply. ‘ Bring me back art orange.” You don’t believe it, eh? Well its true, because I was stand ing there waiting for the hue, too, you know. “Well, what are you grinning at, DOC?” said Cornyard. “Hep in 1 Afi rnf* you hOITIC.’’ Mounting the chair, Cornyard instructed the barber to give him a shave and haircut. “Okay. Say, by the way, I un derstand you've been running around with my girl friend,” replied the barber. “Just make that a haircut, friend." said Cornyard. I taught general science dur ing my early teaching career as a high school instructor in Ala bama. On one occasion, I called up on h female pupil to define “nuts and bolt*.” She said, ”A bolt is a thing like a, stick of hard metal such as iron with a .square bunch on one end and a lot of scratches wound »- round the other end. A nut is similar to the bolt only just the opposite, being a little hunk of iron sawed off short, with wrinkles around the inside of the hole.” “What did she make? ’ said Cornyard. “She got an “A”, said I (SCENE, GREYHOUND BUS STATION). Overheard fr m Use seat behind me: One girl to another, “Here I was all readv to refuse him and he didn’t even ask me!" You think I'm lying? Os eouse not, X have a conscience you know. One lady writes, “Don’t you think you should carry Corn yard to church on Sunday? He needs God's guidance so muen. ’ And she added, “Come to think of it, I haven’t seen you at church either. Perhaps a little gospel would do you some good, too." Lady, I attend church al most every Sunday. Just ask Father Samuel Rudder, and he will toil you I’m not a Devil'* Advocate. the one commuted ms crime in a school with a mixed student community, only points up to body and one in an all-whit u the basic illness. Illness has no racial bias But to ascribe the crimes to intf g. stson of students is stretching things all out of pro- ' portion. New York City has had integrated schools for many years. What of all the years when there were no events like those of recent months? What of the white students who recently murdered a 14-year-old whit# purl? What about the white rerb, molested three weeks ago by a gang of white youths in Brooklyn? What of fights be tween all white gangs?” That is a pungent para graph written to one of our local dailies by a white women born in Virginia but who lives at present in New York City! The current campaign to de laine the Negro is not altogeth er successful. Sentence GOB CAN USE? 1. Os course He can, but not until your heart and hand are made secure, so that .vou can deal alike with the Rich, as with the Poor. 2. Prestige and Race won’t at all count when drinking humbly from the Saviors Fount: for all He had was giv en for Peace, that Strife a mong men might forever cease. 3. What then of this is still here on earth, gives evidence of falling short of His New Birth, and instead of man giv ing trod the right-of-way, his avarice and liate are ever on display. 4. His brains are used tc haunt his brother and keep him jittery by doing things under cover; He would rather spend fortunes and, all Nations ex ploit. than humbly live and prosper within God’s Holy Court. !>. What foes wc* are to for feit a Throne for something in appearance like marble, but just a clone; while the Master pleads to take us in, to save us from the valley of Sin. fi. Here everything in plas tic arrangement is viewed through eyes of Satanic dis cernment. . .. and to get hearts and minds properly adjusted, men must in God’s Kingdom be highly invested. 7. Yes, "God Can Use You" and He can use me, but well must we understand that, for such a purpose He died on that Tree, and that only through Grace, Mercy and Truth can He set our souls free. 8. The world will change when we get right and all pre judice and hate are banished from sight: there must, be no mental reservation in this, and for God and righteousness, our lives risk.