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THE CASOLINIAH WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. AUGUST 2. 195a 4 Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN'S WORDS OF WORSHIP 17 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the peoplft; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch. IS. And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. 19. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. 20. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 21. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing Old Problem And The New Look Because the white South was negligent in ' carrying out its duty under the doctrine of separate but equal, the Supreme Court decis ion of May 17, 1954, was inevitable. And when tfi* High Court did make the ruling, it: rose up In strong protest. All sort of devices were employed to avoid tarrying out the Supreme Court order, until tn Little Rock came the supreme, test—a de fiance. Federal troops had to be rushed to the scene to save Uncle Sam’s face. The battle cry of an outraged South was raised against the use of armed force by the Federal government. Fighting back the. South seemed to say that “you can’t cram integration down our throats.’" The South is intelligent enough, but it says, "‘Give us time.” The trouble is that the South has had too much time to do what it should have been doing 150 years ago. To resist, the South cannot bomb every school, close every busline, sell every swim ming pool and golf course, and fire every teacher for being a member of the NAACP To solve the problem, the South must get in step wth “the new look” at the racial prob- The Small Business Mirage Recently the United States House of Repre sentatives approved a $260,000,000 tax relief for small business despite scattered charges that the bill was inadequate and a mirage, It is interesting to note that President Eisen hower favors the bill, in spite of the fact that he has heretofore shut the door on general tax relief this year. A Senate passage of the bill is expected, The bill, in its chief provisions, permits small business to reduce taxable income by deducting an increased percentage of machin ery costs for depreciation in the first three years after purchase. The reduction would be available to any taxpayer investing in in-come producing equip ment or machinery. The allowance would ap ply to the first SIO,OOO worth of invested out lays each year. This could include manufac turers. merchants and farmers. .Th» might sound encouraging at first but The Venerable Dr. Bullock **T hew fought a good fight and kept the faith'' eouid well be the words of Dr. O. S. Bullock who formally ended 37 years as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Raleigh. Ap propriate services were held Sunday to mark this occasion. The history of Dr. Bullock’s ministry extend beyond the 37- year-old period he spent as lead er of the Christian flock at the historic Raleigh church. Rev. Bullock was called to the pasto rate st Raleigh from the First Baptist Church of High Point. N. C,, where he had been min ister for fifteen years. Thus, his entire minis terial career embraced 52 years in the Master’s vineyard, A native of Vance County. Dr. Bullock Is the son of Horace and Emma Bullock, He was educated at Henderson Normal School. At Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), he receiv ed his collegiate and theological training and earned the A.8., AM., 5.T.8., and D.D. de grees. Under Dr. Bullock’s pastorate, the First Baptist Church purchased the Matthews Me morial Parsonage on East Davie Street. ’When this building was sold, the church acquired e, new and modern parsonage on Blood worth and Cabarru* Street* where Dr. Bullock now re- Bctween Marcn Ist and now, the Carolinian made a study of the number of people who died from heart attacks. A close check of the leading newspapers showed that during the period, 259 men in this area and State died from heart attacks. They ranged from 36 to 86 years of age. At the same time, the survey revealed that 110 women in North Carolina died from heart attacks. They were between 39 and 83 years of age. You may wonder why there were so many people who met death from heart attack. A heart expert, Dr. William Dock, of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently gave an off-beat explanation t>f the reason why men die of heart attacks twice as often as women. Dock told the American Medical Assoeia lion that it is not a sex difference at all that’s to blame. He added, '‘lt’s the masculine love for rich food, alcohol and tobacco. “Heart attacks are the nemesis through vhich nature extracts retributive justice for the Weakening The Ticker sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits; and they were healed every one. 22. Then the high priest rose up and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducces.) and were filled with indignation. 23. And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. 24. But the angel of the Lord by night open ed the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 25. Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of (his life. ("The Act* 5:17-25) lem No one else can do this, but the South itself. The South must stop thinking of the prob lem as being social—that is, being blinded by the idea of intermarriage. Basically the problem is not educational and recreational. It is economic. The masses of Negroes want bread and the right to earn it at a reasonable wage. A decent wage will enable them to provide good homes in which to rcHi their families. They want enough money to give their children a good education, because only the educated man is free, Negroes do not want to take the white man's jobs, but they do want to have some of their own to keep as long as they render effic ient service. We believe that there is in the South a few men of high calling These are the men who must teach the South the gospel of fair play. These are the men who must take a stand for what is right no matter how great the cost. These are men who must bring joy to the withering experiences of men who are fighting for a lost cause. only a small percentage of Negro merchants and farmers would benefit from the enactment of this bill. Its benefits would go largely to manufacturers, or farmers with sufficient cap ital to buy tractors, reapers and binders, and so on. In. general Negroes are not manufac turers. or large-scale farmers. Probably 75 per cent of all Negro business would get little benefit from the passage of this bill, because the race is engaged mainly in trades and services involving little investment in depreciable assets. The thing that would help Negroes most would be a significant across-the-board tax cut for low income families who are having to pay too much tax for their own economic good. Perhaps we have in our Congress s person with the know-how and pull to get such a bill en acted. The appearance of a man of this ealibef at this time would be “the root out of dry ground.” sides, The church moved ahead in great strides, ft made a series of improvements and renova tions and meanwhile a new modem education department was developed and departmenta lized, The church has owned several buses for transporting children to Sunday School as well as the Vacation Bibls School. As a protection from exposure to heat, cold and rain, in 1930 a foyer was built on tb« north side of the church replacing the porch. During the 37 years of pastorate and under Dr. Bullock’s leadership, the church has en tertained many conventions. Among them were the State Sunday School Convention, 8.Y.P.- U., Woman’s Home and Foreign Missions; General Baptist Ministerial Interdenomina tional Alliance; State Ushers Convention, Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention, and the National Baptist Sunday School Congress. * Although there is no accurate yardstick by which we can measure the work of Dr, Bul lock in terms of the spiritual growth of the church, we Jo know that his words and coun sel have been a balm in Gilead to soothe the weary soul. May God add his blessing on Dr, Bullock’s remaining years. transgression of Her laws.” The alarming thing is brought out when Doctor Dock says men start living “hard" early, stuffing themselves like pigs while in their teens, adding cigarettes and alcohol, plus other things soon after. Medical experts have studied the problem for many years and have reached this conclusion : “Live on a low-cholesterol low fat diet and keep your weight down.” This report should serve as a warning to those of us who continually stuff ourselves un til we can’t sleep at night. If we would eat less, it would benefit us in more ways than one. To be sure, the practice of eating less would cause us to live longer as well as fattened our pocketbooks. A low-fat diet would do wonders for mo3t of us. It would trim our bodies down to stream lined figures. Fewer husbands would manifest interest in the sweet young females because their wives let themselves get too fat. Permitting ourselves to pass the 200-pound mark is the tiling we’ve got to watch. Efforts For Straightening Amendments Are Proving Embarrassing sdfsaf SENTENCE SERMONS BY REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANF HEALING POWER There is mors in the hem of Christ’s; garment than in all the medicine in this world. 1. The matchless thing about the Master's healing garment, was that it was not the finished product of an expensive rain ment. 2. But of the ordinary line worn by the common people, for whom He came in great hu mility to be their fair example. 3. This was the challenge too great for the curious men who. on prestige and honor, had learned to depend; these how ever were in His audience from day-to-day, and doubtless mar velled with great concern at ins lack of display. 4. For them He came as the lost sheep of Israel. . . every doubt and fear to relieve, and warned against wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, that they too in this manner be not deceived. 3. Thus He had to walk in What Otbr Editors Say X&ACF RECESSION At tha recent convention of the Nations! Association for the Advancement of Colored People Jt was reported that the associa tion had lost both membership «nd income during the four-year fight for desegregation since 1954. This slight recession was ex pected and inevitable, and no body should infer from the pub lished figures that the associa tion is in the doldrums and about, to disappear. It has a hard core of 312,177 members, which st-11l make it the largest organisation of its iknd in the world, and these constitute the cream of the Ne gro intelligentsia. When, one is fighting a war, it is obvious that there must be casualties; so no one need be moan the fart that many previ ous members have grown scary and former contributors have ceased contributing ft seems to us that what the association must do now is to make an all-out drive to enlist mass membership, so that 312. 177 people will not be fared to carry the burden of the fight for 17,000,000 Negroes. In order to enlist a larger membership, the NAACP must patiently work out a new prog ram of solicitation which will appeal to a larger number of Negroes. Past experience has shown that the type of appeal used to recruit new members is anti quated; for very clearly there are a lot more Negroes than the current membership who are in terested in the association s pro gram and prepared to do some thing to aid it. The situation is a challenge to the NAACP to find new means and methods to interest a much larger number of members, and it is to be hoped that every ef fort will be made from now on to do so. Certainly the possibilities are far from exhausted. PITTS BURGH COURIER. DOUBLE STANDARD Two major rape cases were disposed of in Carolina courts Thursday. Tn Raleigh, a Negro janitor, Matthew Phillip Bass, was convicted on the charge of raping a white woman and was senteneced to death in the State gas chamber. In York, S. C. three white men submitted pleas of guilty in a rape case involv ing a 15-year-olrl Negro girl vic tim. One defendant pleaded pathways clean, and never to (he left be found to lean; for this world He came to carry in His hands, and take no part in Satanic cliques and clans. 8. With the spirit of His Fa ther possessing Him every wit, He did not have to carry a medicine kit. . . for He was the embodiment of every restora tive and blessed elixir, nor lack ed an ointment for every wound a cordial for every faintness, a remedy for every disease. 7. Ask the woman at. the Well, if he could not relate the past, and the future foretell; she also could tell about a mysterious water from another well, that any mother to a daughter or son would do well to tell. 3. This great man wearing sandals, could reveal and heal the worst scandals; hut greater by far was his power when sickness and death sought to devour. 8. Television was not known in Hi, day, but like magic .He -nilty to the rape charge and ■ sonteneced to six years in son. The other two pleaded * tty to assault and battery of a hi iy aggravated nature. They drew five years each in prison. Evidence in both cases indi cated that the capital crime ac tually was committed in each in stance. Both victims apparently wen blameless. The Raleigh whit woman, a clerical work er, was attacked by the janitor as she worked at her desk, and was forced into an equipment room where she was sexually a sea rd. The young York Ne gro girl was walking to work ' when 4 he three white men, two of w i she knew, came along in a and offered her a ride. When she got in the car they turned it around, however, and drove off in anothei direction. Pulling off the road later, they attacked her. The«e two cases raise again the question of whether the re quirements of justice were fair ly met in each. The crime, a capital on-:', was the same. But in the case involving a Negro offender and a white victim the offender drew the death penalty. In the case involving a Negro girl victim and white offenders the latter have drawn a few years in prison. Is this equal justice? Does it constitute "equal protection of the laws?" It .is a deplorable fact that we tend to regard criminal offenses against Negroes too complacent ly in the South. In many all-Ne gro murder cases the slayer of ten escapes with u comparative ly light penalty. It is much light er when the offender is white, the victim a Negro, This double standard attitude is unfair and injurious to both races. It en courages the spirit of. lawless ness, and undermines respect for the court as ’ the dispenser of evenhanded justice in a demo cratic society. WINSTON-SA LEM JOURNAL. A NATIONAL PROBLEM The Department of Justice should stop dragging its feet and enter the Little Rock school case immediately. Hearing on the pe tition to review Judge Lernley’s decision suspending integration in Central High School is set for August 4 and it is important that his decision be reversed. The NAACF can bt depended upon to protect the rights of the school children involved but there is a larger issue at stake. Judge Lemley set aside the present order because, in his could wipe tears away. « . and in the sad march of the widow of Nain, He brought back her only support, her son, again, 10. One day in a crowd with many distressed, He turned to ask “WHO TOUCHED ME' in the midst of the press, . . then stood the once sick woman who had spent all she had, and now restored to perfect, health and her heart made glad. 11. Only THE GREAT PHYSI CIAN who controls the land and sea can speak into existence the things He wants to be. and can arise in a shipamMst a raging storm, and His "Peace Be Still - ’ allays ail harm. 12. Ddh't you want Him al ways to be around so that you can touch the hem of His gar ment? and sickness, heartaches and even eternal death, in Hi? presence cannot be found" It is both your privilege and pleas ure. He is here now. , . give Him his furl measure. opinion, further attendance by the Negro children might arouse further violence. The issue at, stake for a)) of the people of the United States is that of whether or not hoodlums can set their will above the Constitution, If the Negro children are denied their constitutional right; to at tend the high school the nation •will have given way before vio lence and the threats of vio lence At the moment nobody Is in volved but Negroes but tomor row other hoodlums somewhere in the country may decide that they don’t like some other lav.- and will be bolstered in then attitude by the precedent pro posed to be set by Judge Lem ley. Ours, we like to say, is a gov ernment of Jaws and not of men Attorney General Rogers should step in to see that the laws of the land ate enforced. That’s what he swore to do when he was appointed That is what he should do in the Little Rock case. CALIFORNIA EAGLE. Along The Colonial Front By A. J. SIGGINS LEBANON—WHOM DOES PROFIT LONDON (ANP) - IV. have road President Eisenhow ers explanation for the U. S. intervening into ihe domestics struggle in Lebanon, but nobody outside the U. S. believe it. It is a grave blunder to destroy faith in the morality of any nation, and when that nation claims to be the leader of western Chris tian civiliaztion, it is sheer lu nacy to destroy the moral coal escing factor in pursuit of an elusive goal of material gain. Great leaders have never sac rificed principle for expediency as Britain, did at Suez and now the U. S imitates by landing marines at Lebanon. The whole world believes that the U. S. was panicked into this folly by screams from the big oil inter ests, Israel and—in a minor key but used as the major reason — by President Cham cun, Chris banese Christian industrialists, tian pro-western leader of Le bankers and rich men. It will be construed as a Christian attack on defenseless Iciamic peoples. JUST FOR FUN AUGUSTA, Gs. While en route from Mississippi to Ra leigh mi Sunday, July 33, Corn yard and I stopped at the bus station case in Augusta. Georgia. We had an experience we never had before. I asked the waitress for a ham sandwich and iced tea, and she stood looking at me with out moving. So I repeated my order for fear that she didn’t understand. As she stood look ing. I said: “What’s the matter’’" She replied, “You pay in ad vance ” ‘Pay in advance?” said I. So I did. and when she brought out the “viddles” it was highway robbery, because T nev er ate such tasteless and un adorned ham sandwich -in all my life. Cornyard said. “DOC. no won der people have to pay in ad vance!” He was indignant and loft his cheeseburger on the counter without eating it—yes.* he bad his nride. BETWEEN MERIDAN, Miss issippi. and Augusta, Georgia, around 2:30 in the morning our bus, passed by a burning house on the highway and we stopped for a minute. Two automobiles were parked nearby, and we didn’t see a soul stirring. Wc have reason to be lieve that the occupants were burned in the fire, since the house- was almost, level with the ground when we saw it. When we rolled Into the next little town, the bus driver stop ped nr,d reported the incident, to the polic* patrolmen who rushed in the direction of the fire. But T fear they were too late. Pf/!!>.*«!£ TKT.r. ME V'HY 1." dies -wait until they get on the bus to wade, through their poc ket books to find a ticket or 13 cents. Nine out of ton will do it every time. Cornyard save this, however. "DOC, but usually the ladies who are on their way to work early in the morning, have their money ready when they aboard the bus. Why is that?' “I don't know, Cornyard,’ I shot. back. TOOT, ROOM DATE: Upon being urged by Cornyard, I a greed to meet him at a v/ell known pool room so that he could teach me the game. Go rdon B,' Hancock *$ sfsfa THE GREATER TRAGEDY The Latin historian tells us that Virgil was pensive when hr beheld the mournful fields of Philippi: and so was the immor tal Lincoln when he looked up on the battlefield at Gettysburg and remembered the tragic Struggle that took place there, when the tide of the Confeder acy fell to rise no more. So must the serious observer be pensive and apprehensive as he observes the state of race relations in this country. Just as the Old South struggled at Get tysburg to perpetuate the slav ery that cursed Negroes of that day, so the Old South is strug - gling bitterly today to perpetr ate the spiritual bondage of the Negro race symboloizcd by seg regation. The Old South lost, the battle o {Gettysburg not because of Insincerity or a lack of val our and zeal, but because it was fighting against God and Time and Right. Even so today the Old South may win battles a gainst God and Time and Right, but the war is bound to be lost. The odds against the Old South of today are more form idafcle than were the odds a gainst the Old South that fought so bitterly at Gettysburg, The The history of this epoch will be witten by Asians as well as and Americans, by col*c-d an welt as white histo rians. Since four-fifths of man kind in colored, the histones written by colored men will be regarded as authentic, and these by whites, as biased. This Presi dent Eisenhower, will be charg ed colored his Brians as being the leader of a very powerful Christian white nation excusing aggression behind a screen of words intended to deceive these ignorant of the facts. Tt is well to realize the color ed rations’ point of view' and no one valuing the future security of the minority white race and world harmony, should attempt to minimize the results of the verdict of history on present ac tions. The If. S. forces were sent in to Lebanon ostensibly to pro tect the government. The real reason is to protect Israel, oil the reactionary governments of interests and a desire to save Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, These governments have prove 1 docile stooges in grant ing concessions and signing post. There is another, perhaps moreroore important., issue rais ed by the landing: Color. Are all Arabs regarded in the U. S. as whites or coloreds? The present war is both eco nomic and psychological. Economically, the landing was a blunder of the first magnitude. The IT. S. Britain and France have the very heavy expenses of stock and share values and of military actions to bear, less incomes. Western oil Interests will pay more for their oil and even if the extar cost is passed on to the consumers—as it has been their oil and even if the extra cost is passed on to the consumers—as It has been -- that means <jt certain rise in the cost of production and distribu tion. By MARCUS H. BOIJLWARE The following sign stood out in my friend’s eyes: “KEEP COOL FOOL, SHOOT POOL:'' I chucked and Cornyard was offended. “Let’s get out of here, DOC' he uttered. CORNYARD HAD TO GO to the drug store the other day to get his prescription filled, and he said to me that he just dis covered what that scribbling in Latin on the blank meant. He said that it was a message for the druggist: “I got my $5. now he is all yours.” I WAS READING the Catho lic Digest a few weeks ago and carne across this story: One rat, reecntly returned to his cage, ran to a fellow rat ex • claiming, “You know, I’ve got Dr Zilch conditioned!” “How so?" asked his collea gue "Well,” replied the first rat, "evorytime I press the bar, he gives me food!” INDIANAPOLIS: Emily M. Fore, 47. said her husband, Merle, 47, paid more attention to his hogs than to his family, so Circuit Judge John L Niblaek gave her a divorce, with custo dy of a 13-year-old daughter. Fore gets to keep his hogs. “For crying out loud,” said Cornyard. T guffawed. MULE TRAIN: A manned woman who calls herself “Mule Train" because she has to pick up behind her husband, says this- Wherever he takes off a coat, shirt, socks, shoes, that’s where ihey stay until I come along and pick them up. I have to run :#misd hirn lilcc & C3.r£~ taker,’ the woman remarked. ‘lt’s the same with food. If he makes a sandwich, out comes catsup, mayonnaise. lettuce, cold cuts—and guess where they are an hour later when 1 go to the kitchen? Right where he loft, them— on the cabinet, of course,'’ the poor lady added with disgust. Whst do I recommend, dear woman? “Patience and forebear ance. and may Gcd cause, his face to shine upon you.” Ladies. I'm the opposite from this man I believe in hanging up my clothes and putting every piece in order. 13 state' of the Old South have shrank io seevn and even the seven hard-core Old South states are divided because the light of brotherhood is dawn ing. The Old South threatens id be swept on by the tide of bro therhood and righteousness that is eventually to sweep the **? world. The handwriting is already on the wall and Right's mortagge on the world is in the process of being foreclosed. The Old South is not to be despised in its current attempt to eternalize the second-class citizenship of its Negro citizens; it is to be pitied! There are cer tain unfortunate things happen ing to the oppressed Negroes of the South. There are more un fortunate things happening to Negro hut what is happening to the South. This writer, on many occas ions. has stressed the point that hatreds, deceptions, injus tices, chicaneries, trickeries, hy pocrysh: bitterness and moral corruption it will take to perpe tuate segregation and oppress ion of the Negro will destroy the South and . possibly the nation itself. The current massive resis tance being preached and prac ticed in the seven Old South states is easily one of the most dangerous things happening in Ihe world today. It is an open revolt, against law and order and what is so dangerous is that it will manifest itself in ways now unknown. What an horrible her- ) tage to be handled down to the younger generation of whites of the Old South! Fortunately for the South and the nation, the younger genera tion of whites see the danger and the futility of the fight to keep toe Negro down. They know that the Old South is sew ing seeds that will bring a har vest. ot woe and disaster. But they are being led on into a greater tragedy of moral cor ruption that will befall, the South and the nation by and by, The glorification of race preju dice is a dangerous thing. The placing of race prejudice above the life and teachings of Jesus Christ is a dangerous thing. When God is given second pri ority, with race prejudice the first, somebody is heading for a fall. No nation that set itself a* cross-purposes with God and Time and right has long surviv ed. And so the greater tragedy of the current tragic interracial situation is not what is happen- t ing, or will happen, to the Ne- r groes of the South and nation, but what will happen to the South and nation through moral corruption, stemming from the doomed attempt to place race prejudice above Jesus Christ, God and the Bible. If the Negro in the future can do just as he has done in the past—trust God and do the right and refuse to be embittered with racial hatreds—he will win hi.’ fight. There is something brut ish about degrading a human be ing and despising him in his de gradation as the devnteas of th« Old South are attempting to dt in the current crisis. The jreatei -tragedy is the moral corruption W being engendered by the ramp-. 3 ant race prejudice of today.
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