North Carolina Newspapers

m CAEOiOfIAN RALCIOH. N. C.. MttUAT, JULY 11. I*4 4 Editorial Viewpoint Let’s All Be Real Americans During the era in which we thre, w* better* ft will take more courage to be • wgregattoeriat than it does to be an iategrationiat We bate our argument on the premia* that Americans are not going to stand by and allow any element to riae to the heights of the Ru Dux Klan in the twenties or the Hitters and Mussolini* in the Thirties. While there is a great chasm between white and colored Ame* ricians, undoubtedly the past ten years have brought forth a keener awareness by more white people that Negroes are Americana; that we are brothers under the only One who is Al mighty over us all; that it is right to live to gether peacefully and that no man has the right to deny another man his rights; that all people are as capable as other people under the same circumstances: that our Republic is too big and too Christian to be drug into the mire of hate, bigotry and self ishness forever; that we owe our forefathers and our future generations a truer picture of the American image; that our ignorance is be ing dispelled and good judgment is being borne in its place; that the conference tables are growing in numbers and in rise where peo ple of goodwill sit with each other and iron out problems; that our churches and religions are 'more forthright in meeting courageously their responsibilities to the general climate of bro therhood among men. that business and in- Can A College Make Money? Whoever heard of a college making money? We expect the private college* to conduct fund-miring campaign* to *t«v in huainewa. and the state colleges n«k for appropriation* from state leegtslaturr*. However, there is an lowa college which is eming a profit: no wonder it has stirred con troversy and keen interest as well. Thee fart that it is making a profit can he traced to thr genius of the president. Dr Millard Q. Rob erts. Eight year* ago. Dr Roberta. took over thr administration of Parsons College. Fairfield. lowa, which had 211 students, a campus worth $7000,000, and debts of sl2 million. Now the college has 1.700 students, a $7 million camp us. and will show this year a profit of $2 2 mil lion. Thia startling statement adds glamor to a “raga-to-rtrhea” story in which Dr. Roberts is the star—snaking him one of the moat cuased and discuaard educators in the field of higher education. This former New York minister in We forties appeears to have mustered the im possible, because no college ever makes money. Since most administrators who run private and church colleges must do so much begging to keep their schools in “the black”, we can’t help but admire thia man who turned a bank rupt college Into a thriving business, free of dependence on government or private grants and appeals to alumni. How did the president accomplish this? 1. The college requires that One third of en tering freshmen come from each of these fin ancial patterns—wealthy, middle-class income group, and low-income families. They arc ad mitted on the result of their scores on College Entrance Examination Board Tests. 2. By pruning the course offering* from 768 to 160, Roberts was able to increase the en rollment from 212 to 2.200 without adding a single classroom. This reduced the number of professors needed to meet the skyrocketing en rollment. 3. The dormitories and food services were turned into profit-making enterprises When on* dares to do something new * way It has never been done before, he is bound to invite criticism. Certainly Dr. Roberta has had his share. His critics said: 1. No college should even try to make a pro fit. 2 No college can admit students with pone high school grades and trri scores In answer to this question. Roberts says. "It's only a RslcigK can feel justly proud of two accom pliahmenta thia yrar. Shaw University and the Blood worth Street YMCA have both been ral lied to with sufficient dollars to look forward _ |p the future to greater service than ever. Under the capable and spirited leadership of its new president. Dr. James B. Cheek. Shaw University raised sufficient funds to pay . Ha obligations and set a budget of over S2OO - •000 beyond its laet year’s near SBOO,OOO bud get. And for the first time. Raleigh can proudly kxmr at a .million-dollar budgetbusiness in the East Raleigh institution. The support Raleigh and North Carolina gave to Shaw University during her hours of financial Stress presents now a stronger link in the educational and eco nomic world of our local economy. We must at all time be viligiant in the protection of North Carolina’s growing economic status. Every in stitutin and business, large and small, aarea a purpose in a good economy. The dollar value of Shaw University will be made more clear in the years ahead as her income swells and TttE NEGRO PRESS— boifevss that Attmh* San bast food the are rlo sway treat recta/ and nations/ antagonism whan it accords to aware *ißr I*4*4hat of MM. enter nr cread. Ms human and tafkl right*. Haling ft* i*gft Mating ne man—tha Nagro Press strives to hUp every mgn od the firm be - Eat that mU man an hurt aa long as anyone k held back. < Lest We Forget duatry base searched ttnmattv*s and found displeasure in disturbances, injustice and dol lar toasts, due to demands for complete free dom lor everyone , that pohtteiane cannot long endure who will pit race ego in St race. Ameri can against American; and that the American scene is more determined now than ever with whites and Negroes joining hand to protect and expound good end not evil, love and not hate, smiles and not frowns, aM and not des truction. We hail America for theae momentous changes. But at the tame time, we call atten tion to the great job ahead of continuing to see that our bind of the free and brave be comes freer and braver, ts there must be drowns, if there must he hate and should we loathe anything, all America should turn Hs fun strength and character againat segrega tion. Public opinion should make its decision one of resounding finality in the death of this demon institution that has been the ruler of so many American mind*. We ask the public to consider further in the immediate future an even rougher read for segregation so that our America may rise to the heights of which it is capable. Each one of us can be a tool in the unshackling of the chains of unAmericenism we have endured far too long matter of getting excellent teacher*. turning them |o6e* to teach, and giving the students more pcrtnnal attention ’* 3. Sonic critics say that Tarton* College eat en only to the sons and daughters of million aires who want their offspring to get a college edurtaion regardless of whether they lenm anything. Regardless of the criticisms, President Rob erts has done a marvelous face-lifting job. When he became president in ltM, most of the school’s 211 students Heed within SO miles of Fairfield, a pleasant farming community of lesa than 1,000 population. The average faculty salary was $2,800 a year. Besides being'deeply in debt, Parsons was operating on an average annual deficit of $54,000. Today, only $1 per cent of the student body lives within 100 miles of Fairfield. The ave rage faculty salary is sl2.9o6—putting it in upper 2 per rent of all collages and univers ities. Nearly 80 percent of the faculty members have the doctorate. And. despite its tremendous physical growth, the college is in debt only for current construction. Dr. Roberts haa built his faculty with a combination of high salaries, good working condition*, and free time to pursue such activ ists as rate arch, writing and advanced study. The college it operating on the trimester sys tem. with full 16-week terms beginning in June. October, and February. Faculty mem bers teach two trimesters, and have the trird term off at hill pay. "We hire our faculty to do just one job ‘teach’, " Roberta said. "We relieve them of ex tra-curricular activities. We don't expect them to do research or writ* monographs during the two semesters they are supposed to be teach it g. Teaching is a full-time profession here.” With the folding up of so many of our priv ate colleges, as well as their constant efforts at fund raising, we think that the profit-making approach is the only salvation for most private and church collages. We admire Dr. Roberts for hig .uniqueness of educational approach. He rafilMd to l*t his administration ba the ordinary run-of-the-mill operation. With SO much to be done to get the Negro student ready for full integration, our administrators and educators must dare to be different and distinctive in teaching the Negro youth artistic and scientific skills, providing educational information, the making of good citizens for an integrated society, and the like. her staff and student body Increase. Raleigh should he justly proud of the part it played during the past several months and can note look with pride at an even better investment now than it had for near a century. However, we must realize that all assets such as ShaW. have their needs. And while we call attention to the good deeds Os the post, we more strongly urge that there should not be any relaxing of our efforts and support towards all of our in stitutions. We need them sorely . . . Another feather in the Cap of Raleigh's progress it the successful campaign in behalf of the Blood worth Strati YMCA. Sufficient funds have been rtiOed and subscribed to for this most worthy aociil agency to follow through with its piogfOWi of purchase and ex panding its facilities. We salute the management and corps of people who successfully handled this SIIO,OOO campaign. Wo hot! th* fivers of funds to th* YMCA. We shall >be richer by sharing our means for the enrichment of Raleigh by rally ing to such vital campaigns •emmmae a awn’s aotuct enee eon ha very heaafiriai. At »sm Mama in dautson fth. ins a skiat aonsci- A briar anmwsad only to p. contained adrilar Sill and a head prtnsad ante. & eats •amplsr > pmiage > •mna thmasuta Pastel euShniittss in jack senriUe. Mr. ni that they base no record of any con.se i eaoe papmenk over arias made sum, Jr. mot he was unable to amount for tfah payment. <No. Out Ood anno II aauM hare keen a letter, ■egsstno. or parcel marked post as* due. hr some ramson the gretman stay have over looked eollectins the tee. ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY OOLDEN nooMH motion MMCCBATION The ncmmririonsr of Real ■atari in New York City has mods a daring proposal. He suggests it aright be to the rityt Interests to trad* off sev eral areas of open epaoe in Central Park for housing de velopment* with several slum areas la ka reconverted into smaller parks. Houslns. we ell know, is one of the crucial problems In American life particularly low east city housing rierts of out eittes are rest slums, as wild as any unclaimed Jungle. Per haps riving up our parks might be worth It If srs could guar ani** we would clean up our slums The American tdsai has always unfortunately, been progress through desecration. Ws an anrellent on the dese cration, but net to good on the program. Ws hare torn w valuable woodlands and beach property for superhighway* but the truf fle jams still trow worse end more annoying ysar after year. In fast, the traffic problem stops aggravating itself only when there la no more a beauti ful land to be expioprtated. Ws are experts at condemn ing old neighborhoods which arc slums and dispossessing the dsnlasns and building new neighborhoods which are soon to become even bigger slums and even more Inconvenient and uninviting than the neigh borhoods they replaced. California Is tryins to solve an equation harder than any Einstein Invented. It Is how to build s highway through a red wood forest without uprooting all the 4.000-year-old redwoods I will anticipate California a so lution. The State will decide that Instead cf detouring mo torists around the oldest liv ing organism they can replant Here are excerpt* of edi torials. selected by The As soaiatad Negro Press, from scene of the nation's lead ing dolly newspapers. Letter to the Editor a num roa mankind AND Ft ACI TO TUX EDITOR tn times Ilk* these when men seem unable to selva their dif ficulties and because there is as musk discard and hats exist ing M the world today I would like to offer this prayer for Mankind and Pear*. Dear Ood" our heavenly father, as this humble servant bows Ufor* Tkso. to glv* thank* for ths many wonderful blessings thou ha* bestowed upon us. os I sur vey. the turmoil and strife that bosssoeh us, 1 wonder It man has forgotten your existence Dskr God t believe that you asnt your Ron Into the world to die tor the sins of til manklng. 1 also bollov* that You Intended for sll men to be free to enjoy this land which you provided tor us. I resell somewhere in the BiMe that You intended for mao to have jurladlction Over all the land and over all creeping thins* upon the earth. But man ws* net supposed to enslave his fellow man. 1 believe Your rea son for making the hues of men's skins different shades was to differentiate between the different reset of man. not to be used as a yok* upon one's neck to ridicule or Intimidate. 1 believe that man a greed, and eslfishnet*, and disregard for other people, hot brought the world to the tad stato It Is in today. Door God. may wo a* human beings, try to live at Thou boa taught ua te live. No man is responsible for the way ho was horn block, white, yellow or red. but It was Your desire for us all to live as brother*, in Christ Jams. sad to lovo cm# aaatha* as You first loved us. May wo rsolto* that nothing really hslongl to ua In this world. W» art only to uoo it aa long aa lito oalsta. w# bring nothing into the world, wo take nothing out. May are accept thy •an as too one who come to aovo the world, to ehango the hearts of man because only through a change as hearts can mankind hop* to survive. Lot US awaken to the realiza tion that all man ar* human and daitrs ta ba fro* to enjoy itto aa muck aa such stay ho. These and all other blowings we ask In the nano of Jesus Chris' Amen. , V»rr truly jours. Wilbert M Sender* 491 Jnet For Fan It MAftCtW R SMJUMtt Editorial Opinions OR. NO! What about that man who M a name nomrtet ing of gM letters? Wouldn’t tt be awful to spell? However, the man is listed with John Haa* cock Insure nae Company, which had to pnsesm his policy by hand. The aampany used only the first » letters of fata last name. Hubert O. WoUMehlegri steinhausenbergerdorff, a 47- year-oM Philadelphian of Her man descent, took out a pol icy. SILENT ItAUB: In Salem. Va.. recently a woman lock her husband and their five acme to a hospital in Roanoke to get their tonsils removed. "I figured I might as well get it all over with at one time,” the mother said. Well, tt is a sure thing that the woman can apeak out with out fear of being interrupted or talked back to. new redwoods which, of course, subsequent generations tsar down. tt would be nioe to think that New York la so civilised tt son preserve Central Park and add additional parks that it oaa solve the housing shortage and the alums—for after all bousing Is a primary need of mankind and race after race has solved it somehow or other, foil I rather suspect Central Park will go Just as I suspect that the middle class will lire U) the houses that usurp it and * not slum deiuaens. Lewis Mumford once reveal ed the key to this situation. Ha asked a banker. I believe, why so many ugly and impractical buildings were underwritten by the loan department. Over the long perieod Mr Mumford said surely they weren’t worth the money. The banker replied. "Money is only Interested in the next five years.” And money defeats Itself. The Individual so eager to de face the New York skyline will himself turn purple with rase when a low rise apartment in vades his suburb. He knows it will not house school teachers and widows he knows it is a builder after a quick profit and that the Little League team his aon plays on will have to find another location. But he has himself lent this descent ting movement Impetus. He la powerless. The folks kick so much about Federal controls in the nutter of civil rights and taxation that It Is absurb to think they will ever adopt moral and aesthetic controls to help their ordinary living. Oeorgu Orwril remarked we all get bought In this so ciety, but we always get bought with our own money. One way to rid Central Park of the crime that occurs night ly within it. I suppose, la to take the park away. TROUBLE IN THE “NEVER NEVER" LAND THR ARKANSAB OAZITTE. Little Rook The people of Mississippi must realise that the good name of thalr state, and In measure its material well-be ing, depend on the whereabout* of three young eivil rights workers whose burned oar haa been found tn a swamp. With many individuals hold ing to a flxad was of social thinking, and a sort of com pulsion from the popular mind, there has boon default In lead ership. In Mood and pain the lesson must ba learned that Miastasippt ta a port of the na tional Union and that national standards are going to be ob served at toast minimal level ot lm^ It la difficult to convey the atmosphere In Mississippi In IM4 without seeming to de scend to earioature. Mississippi la a state whore many people believe that the Oxford Insur rection of 1902 was deliberately provoked by the Kennedy ad ministration for political gain —and It* government haa sub sidised a movie reinforcing this groleague contention. THE BALTIMORE BUN If Mississippi's with is to be th* moat important state in the Union It haa achieved that goal, briefly and in a dark and dangerous way. Th* events of three past few days have turn ed the nation's rye* on Mis sissippi. apprehensively, fearful of what may happen there next as the more reasonable of MlostaUppi'a citiaens must themselves ba fearful. The eyes that look at Missis sippi look searching ly too. and some of th* facte of Negro vot er registration: one county where one Negro was register ed according to the latest avail able figures U 962 '. as compar ed with 33il whites, another with 79 Negroes registered in 19*3. doom from 1,341 in 1955 • this through a device of de registration everybody, and then automatically registering whites), and so op. They see the practise tn some spots of requiring registrant* to state thalr age* not only tn yean but in days and hour* tn other* of publishing the names and the employers name* ot applicants tor rsfUtration THE TniXß-FICATUNR. Mew Orleans _ suffered Unless And) Ooodmen. Ml ehaai Behwernor sad James Chancy coon ar* found aUv* our neighboring state will have received another serious “Mack eyo." “A Dam Break-Through nv jJty/ jrAJ\/w PPpPSIJJ /jrjT 1 J >/ ' Tm m/OFMctupmoesniL V7 / W V t>v>pgsnrrs^msT^BA^c amujtom 'j f / / m Lm mert* | j|( ' / M Gordon B. Hancock f g BETWEEN THE LINES fWO CIVIL RIGHTS TRAGEDIES It was my great good .ortune to have been taught by some of the cream of the Yankee tea chers who came South as missionaries among the recently emancipated Negroes. They were the flower of Christian knighthood and this country will hardly see their likes again. God bless their memories. My first teacher tn English was one Mias Hun sicker who Impressed it hard upon us that it was poor grammar, poor rhetoric and poor teste if indeed not poor breeding to begin a sentence or paragraph with the first person singular—'“l”. Her teaching has followed me through the years and whatever my literary peculations may have been I seldom or never begin a sentence or paia graph with “I". But so Jubilant am I over the passage of the Civil Rights Bill that I am going to break one of Mias Hunrickcr’s rules and begin a sentence with “l’’. I was wrong when I said the wicked coalition between the South and their northern sympathiz ers would hardly be broken in the life-time of Harry Flood Byrd, arch Negrophobs in a hitherto South ruled Congress. Congress is under the in fluence of the still living John Fltagcrald Ken nedy who was slain In the South that hated him because He threw the weight of the presidency behind the cause of Otvll Rights, and under the mighty influence of our mighty President Lyn don B. Johnson who has gloriously Carried on where the Immortal Kennedy left off. The Old South's stranglehold on Congress was broken and the great Harry Rood Byrd and his faithful NegTOphObe cohorts were flattened be fore the steamroller of a moral order of a new day. The died hard Southerners tn the dying mo ments of their stubborn opposition became piti ful and more and more shameful in their futile efforts to stem the tide of Time that bore upon Its erect harbingers of a brighter day for the Ne groes of this country. The fight of the wicked Old South against the Negro is doubly dangerous because it is covert rather than overt. In all the Old South's fight against the Negro and la all its ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD Th* gallant whites who have volunteered to go to Mlastoalppi this summer rhould take a refresher course in Mississippi "justice ' Ivon the Oermans. who ar* reputed to have murdered six million Jews lacked the brutish cruelty displayed by Mtosisalppians tn disposing of their enemies. The Oermans did try to make thalr murders as pain less as possible. Mlaatoalpian* enjoy making their murder as paints! as possible. Mississippi has bad mors lynch murders than any other state with th* poaatMo exception o* Oeorgia. Any srhtte youngster who is filled with missionary seal should read Ralph Otnabur* • IS# Years as Lpnek (ln*. This will let him know what's waiting for him in the Magnolia state. To help northern white boys and girls under stand. just one of the lynch murders in Mr. Oins burg'a book to herewith described in the Memphis Press under date of January >7. 1931 and under the headline: LOWRY ROAfITED BY INCHES BEFORE WIFE AND CHILDREN "NODENA. Ark.. Jan. 37—Cap. I want to ba buried at Magnolia. Mias.' Three were ths last words spoken by Henry Lowry who was burned at the staka last night three quarters of a mil* from her*. “Th* Negro was chained to a log Members of the mob placed a small pile of dry leaves around his feet Oatoline was Ui*n poured onto the leaves, and the carrying out of the death sentence was under aray. "Inch by inch the ‘ Negro eras fairly cooked to death. Lowry retained oonsciousnree for forty minutes. Not ones did h* whjnpcr or beg for nifty. “As flash began to drop away from his legs and they were reduced to bona*, once or twice he at tempted to ptak up hot ooato and ewe now them tn order to hasten death. Bach time the coals wars Looal pottos at Philadelphia, state troopers, naval personnel and Federal Bureau of tavaetl gatton agents her# formed a vsrltabe army of searchers to look for the missing min. W* better* that a vast majority of in tefim and praying that uwy will be found altvo. If they art found dead, we believe that a vast majority of MteaUatpptans win with tor their slavers fun. proper pun ishment. PHILADELPHIA EVENING congressional filibuster not a word has been spok en against a Negro. It would be a too shameful thing to fight the hapless Negro openly; It would beget a too world-wide sympathy for the under do* Negro and so the Negrophobes throughout th* Old South and in Congress go about the dam nation of the Negro covertly. Instead of fighting openly against the Neg-o they fight against civil rights legislation ro c; 1- culated to advance the Negro toward furi cittz*n ship. All legislation that remotely proniisrv to help Negroes is called “unconstitutional'' a-rJ iv Supreme Court that gives th? Negro r hn>': u soundly abused and heckled It is c’!W; "V ren’s Court’’ although it* 1954 d-Vv-n « v unanimous. Yet the Negrophobcs end »!>■> ■ <:n Negro press call it "Warren's Court' >r n” t .-y fight for states rights for they know (i-- t.' > 11 as surely damn the Negro as the K'u Km-; V i The machinations of the Old fcouth eve c- - j dangerous because they are coiert in-.-wri ot overt. But when the back of the old fi.lb"~t-r '• -& broken it was the death-knell of the OM South, led by Us shrewd and resourceful H?n— r’- d Byrd. That I lived to see that arch Nervirb- -- beaten to his knees will ever be one of the ir a or living to be eighty. Virginia with its vaunted greatness led the right against civil rights legislation and it* rr cordin both the House and Senate is an Inglorlou. one. A state with so many fine people white and colored, deserves better leadership and represen tation. Prejudiced leadership is Virginia's great est misfortune! It to a tragedy in the Inglorious fight against civil rights. great tragedy is the sorry role the BOUthem Baptist played in this whole fight for civil righto legislation. Every denomination took * n stand but the Baptist in general and the Southern Baptist in particular When a whole demonlnatton to so eaten up with race pre juaic* that a great piece of legislation must be passed over it* head or Its subtle imposition we The Played a sorry role in the fight for civil rights Prejudice was stronger ttian its love for the Master. Hypocrtty? BT P. L PRATTIS Par ANT kicked from his grasp by memb-res of the mob. "Words fail to describe the sufferings of tha Negro. Yet only ©nee did he try out. This was shortly before he lost consciousness as flames be gan to lick at his cheat and face. Then gasoline was poured over his head and it was only a few minutes until he had been reduced to ash**.” Mr. Oinsbura has listed some 3.000 lynching*, some more merciful than the foregoing, some less. They reveal a sadistic facet of the Southern "way of life." Although lynching* hare declined Since IMI. the lynching-murder spirit is not dead in Miesissippi. Negroes are still being murdered in Mississippi—as Emmet TUI was and as Medgsr Evers was. There is no punishment in Mississippi for a white man who kills a Negro. But there 1* punishment for a northern white man who tries to help a Nearo. William > , ’'orc.the white post man from Baltimore was fa., .ly shot whUe walk in* a highway in Alabama. He was on his way to Jackson. Miss., to protest against the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Non-violence in Mississippi, as In Bt. Augus tine. Fl*., will only produt" a fair harvest of cracked heads and deaths. White police are not going to shoot to kill, or even shoot, when the white mob attacks Negroes end whites who kneel to prsy The white mob is Impervious to the m»s sage of the freedom songs Mississippi*!!*, white that is, arc not going to be Cowed by demonstra tion*. They would think, two or three times if dogs were unleashed again*; them, if fire has-.* were turned on them, or If electric cattle were bored Into their backs But who’s going to employ such tactics against illiterate whites who are only throwing rocks and bottle* at non-mo lent Negroes and white*, or pummeling them witn clubs? BULLETIN Tha disappearance of three civil righto workers tn Missis sippi. and tha very real reasons for concern over their fate and the safety of others who are to foDow. an tragic in several respects. Thr three, two young whites from New Tort and one Negro CORK UMOtoer Dram Mississip pi. were part of the advance guard of some ljOoo voun* worker* who plan to work for civil rights objective* tn Mto siatippi during the summer. It is tragic that any Ameri can cannot go to any state in the Union for whatever cause without fear for his safety It is tragic that the Missis sippi project presents the John son Administration with the seriour dilemma of trying tc Protect the young worfcen without taking aver the la* enforcement responsibility; which th? Constitution gives U the state*.