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AOB TWO THB CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. DEC. 3Qth. 1950 Durham Leods The : ! huhwiii m'lll U('h^!)f ui k’uniiii^; Umt lh. Ni.rtit (’ar.-lin,, Mnttm) I,if;- In-uran-i! t .niijvrny \s uiHiutaiiiin*^ it* t»l«, ^ .if ]. adiTnhiii ill tlh woriil of N't lifi' iuMiratu**' 1.;; * wcok V Ktory. puliliMhtH] in 'riiuiaii*- dis. losod that the lival wiinpany lio^ a liUli Ifvs than unc sixth of all thi- life in'»«ranct- Miiich Si'^ro cnin panifv havt* in the livps of nu-iiib-. iN if tho raci\ In aiMitmn oiu'-fonrth of all tiit* atlinitted Hsst-fs b\ Nottro life iii»ur«ui*t‘ conipanic^ is IHissesst.i by the N .Mutual When it is cmi.sidfivil that its honu' dftice is liH'at'Ml 111 tilt' smsllesf pity ^>f an\ of the major Wjrr!i lift* iiisiiranof’ cimipnnii's, the continued irro«th and leadership of X. (' Mutual is even more ph.'nomenal Sueli vitu s like ‘ hieai^o and Aflnnta two (if tin- othiT laryest companies ■ if the ra« are doniieilfd. have over 100,000 in Wffro iM^pulation, whieh sIhmiUI piny an ini (M.rtant part in funiishint’ h Iihsis of prospeetiytv [•olieyholders. But in s])it.- uf a XegjayTTnnnlH^ tion of less tJian 2Tj,(H)UJ[X forped ahead to the lin!r the iindiAputed lfad rship whieh X. C. Mntn'ftl ha« maintained in the field of life insnranae is a fine teMinionial to the busi ness acumen of the men and \^■llnen who have Way In Negro ! jil'-'itlltlu busllli Business had to do with building the emipany into the ^hot The Should Teach (,i. jiiL-itiitiu busiiir- , t'ntiTprim' iif the race. ■ \:l ot ti'Oiii d'rvc flu* l onfidciicr uf Xt'prroe? I \ « lirr' ftir’«hnt they have done to prove to •lie World tliHt Xci>T«cs eiui lid bip thinprs in bnm- II. II.IN' ill liiiihaiii. Xcirrocs have learned the n.=i’ viily of cdopcratioii to the extent that wlien tliev have pi>rs(iiial differences they do not per mit th.'tii Id int. rfi're with Iheir business insti tutions, There is no sensible or respectable Xe- ^ro in iMirham who is not ]iroud of its various Vci:ro business cnter])rises and who will not po ont (if IiIm or her way to advance their causes. \V,‘ have noted in some cities were Nepro busi- iii s inxtitutions are struBrplinp to lipht the path to econoniie independence, that there exist amonp their most important X>pro citizens petty jealousies, personal ambitions and other faults ^at aiT destructive to the cro\»th and develop- ini-nt of both the businesses and the men who r*ut‘ra1c them. ^ A, r -nf^ronperation, interdepetid- fiie.'. eonfidenee and sacrifiei, of personal ambi- 1i(Hi' which exists here, X. C. Mul'oal, and other Xepro business enterprise's of Durhai. may be ♦■xpeeted to continue to maintain their places of leadersliip. Us I>y is read the most of be history and the dawn of a new year I'ill be facing: ns "What it has in store or what it will brinp forth can only be a speculation be- iiuse^it is beyond jiiortal 'nian to look irito the utnre and forf'ell coniine events. Abotit the only thinp we can do is to .iudire the future by what has hai)}>ei)>'d in the past, whieh if piven carefnl eini*i'1f”^tion will reveal what is neees- sary for iuj»n's jirotection apainst becoming over whelmed in the s,trupele of life. -Man shoiiiil have learned from the jia.st that you can’t f sometliinp for nothinp. and that times chaii::*- anil conditions ehanpe, but the priw of doiiic \\rnnp never chanpes. As far back as histol^ vecori^s men have always paid the sjifirt- foi' diK>beyin" the laAv.s of God and there is no iiVlication that a new era will ever dawn when man will b‘ able to escape this re- sjionsibility. • There is also another preat lesson that conies froni ob'- rviiii.'^ the past, and that is that real sucees.s is ncvi v sold at a barpain counter at re duced jiric's You either pay the full price or yon don't sret it. History will tell you that the men and Mdiin-u who have written .their names indelibly on it« paces did so with their own hliod. eiierpy, sweat the blool, enera e world tada.v .and tniless if is discarded the future of mankind is dark and dismal. The people of (’liina. Korea. Africa Indo- More Highway Safety ^ T^e report of the (iovernor's Committee on Hiphway Safety has made four reeommenda- —^wn1^^tlsjch we think will do as nmeh to stem the tide of human earnape on our hiphways as all the remainder of the recommendations ])ut to- petlier, althouph we endorse the report in its en tirety'. X^> Jh-S^ tiiat strike ii>. as beinp most im- I'oi-tant/}ire thosi' deal.inp with drunken drivinp, enaetnictit of a mechan’ical in.speetion law and driver edueation in our public schools. The.c(jnimittee recoiiim-nds a mandatory sen tence of five da.vs in jail for drunken drivers which we think is a step in the ripht direction. About the only criticism we have of this recom- ifiendation is that the penalty provided is not enonph. It is onr opinion that anyone who en- danpprs his own life and that of others b.v driv inp an automobilf while drunk is just as preat a menanee as a person who promiscuously fires China and India will tell you that they have never potten anythinp from Americans and Ktiropeans that in the end did not result in sorrow and prief. They will tell you that the arropanee of the Americans and Europeans is not in accord with what they tell them about ('hristianity and democracy. They will tell you ihat they want the insults and abuses which they have endured for centuries stopped. The Xepro in America will tell you that he has poured his blood and sweat into the indust rial. apricultnral, religious and educational life of America only to be denied the full benefits ‘hat are to be derived from his efforts. He will Tell .von Ihat he is tired of the status of second- clas.s citizenship that has been alloted him. Kvciv wnsible American citizen knows in his heart that discrimination is wrong and he knows that if his country continues indulging in this wrong that eventually it will be over taken and will have to pay the price. Everj’ .sensible American citizen knows that thei’e is no / \va.\ under Heaven to build permanently a sue ccssful economy by exploiting the blood, sweat ami cnerpy of the underprivileged. He knows that time an«.l eternity are on the side of the victims of such an economy and that eventually then* will come a reckoning day. So, at the beginning of the new year we lift om feeble voice in defense of all oppressed pc(i])les of the earth and siiy to their oppressors that the time is at hand when the only remedy i'or this greatly disturbed world is that express- 1 in the simple words of the carpenter’s son ’tin* Sermqn On The Mount when he said, ■; ye would that men do to you do ye even so i.'" This is the hope of cr\’ilization and of all Jivj^finkind. 'Without its fulfillment we may as well i)'i\nare for another blood bath the like of which has iie^‘1; been seen. Needed ^ a pun in a community where persons li\^pr fre quent. The report discloses that drunken drivers broupht death to 114 persons in 1!)49 and injury to 1,218. We believe a stronger mandatory jail .sentence for drunken drivin^^ will'do much to rc.strain tho.se who tank up on liquor and attempt to drive an automobile, thereby decreasing, if not eliminating entirely the number of deaths from that )ouree. According to the report 'there has been a steady rise in highwaj' accidents since the dis continuance of inspections in February, 1949. We would like to sec the law re-enacted with even a more drastic inspection program insti tuted. We think driver 'education in all our high schools would do much to curtail the deaths on our hiphways in that it would teach safe driv- ur World Leadership Still Embarri A' 'MW. ■ ■'r .'v ■: I ENDRIX OMMENTS By MOSS H. KENDRIX K ing to the very group whose tendency to drive reckles.sly is much more pronounced than older persons. Governor Scott has made a step in the right direction and it is our hope that machinery will be put in* motion as soon as possible to imple ment all of the recommendations made by the committee. Spiritual Insight By REV. HAROLD ROLAND PASTOR, MOUNT GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH ^The Awakening Masses'' CaTOy Clmgfl ,\ Published Every Saturday By 'fhe CAROLINA TIMES Publishing Co. 5^8 East Pettigrew Street — Durham, N, C. I PHONES: 5-9873-5-0671—J-7871 Member National. Negro Press Association VOLUME 28—NUMBER~k\ ~ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1950 Entered u Second Class natter at the Post National Advertising Representative Inter- Officet at Durham, North Carolina under the state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, act of March 3, 1879. New York 17, New York. Branch Office; 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111, It it absolutely impossible for lie CAROLINA TIMES to guarantee the exact of pub lication or location in. the paper of unsolicited articles and pictures, but will strive to conform with tbe wisbM of its reading public as near as is humanly possible. L. E. AUSTIN .... Editor and Publisher M. B. HUDSON Business Manager CLATHAN BOSS . . . Managing Editor V. L. AUSTIN City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RAxi^ . . . $ 2.00 3 Years | 9.00 t 3*00 Foreign CoentrlM Tetr $4.00 . The children of Isreal cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage ...” Exodus 2:23. A real fre«iom movement is rooted in the awakening of the masses' of people. This great truth of the social struggle is revealed in Exodus. Hfere we see the masses being aroused to a true sense of their destiny. Man, with his mark of Divinity, was not made to be a slave. Alan has a passion of discontentment. It may remain dormant for a long time. God has stamped tho spark of freedom in man’s na ture. This inborn desire of God- pive ndipnity cannot be silenced. The Pharaohs in every ag?, race and nation have tried to put it out. Gol is'on the side of the awakening masses. This mass awakening among men is the will of God. Evil and oppressive men ma.v block it for awhile. The truth is that men cannot, defeat the will of God. When this inborn desire and a trno leader meef on the stage of his tory* there is an irresistable a wakening of the innRscs. flame. The awakening masses under Divine leaderahip begin the battle for freedom. God says to them: . . .“I have seen your affliction, and have heard their cry . . . And have come down to deliver them ...” The past century ha^ possibly given us the greatest mass a- wakening in all history. This awakening has not ended. It is brought to a dramatic climax in our own day. It is at the heart of the prpsent world struggle for power. Within the century slavery lost its legal status in America after a bloody strug gle. In Russia, the vicious en slavement of serfdom was a- bolished. In the latter part of the Iftst half century the great drama of the awekening masses Isreal cried unto God. leir cry. God se.jt them The spark burning. ‘/S.TS it into a mighty masses has moved to Africa, the middle East and the far East. For forty years India was the center and inspiration of the awakening ma.sses under the leadership of Gandhi, IThe masses are awaV?ned. This awakening/a fn line''with God’s will. ?The mass awakening had jCild’s aproval several thousands .wars ago. God still supports thf longing of the masses for justice, and decency. ^ Xothing can defeat the right eous indignation of the awaken ing masses. Decrees and legis lative enactments cannot stay the just cause of the awakened masses. The violence and blood sbed of the sword cannot defeat the aroused masses and their just cause. The Son of God has rightfully said that with the sword we can .only cut a path way to defeat and ruin. There is bxTt one sensible thing to do: We must recognize the hopes and aspirations of the swakened ma,«es. Pharaoh did not rec ognize their hopes — and he lost. If we would have peace and salvation, we must recognize the hopes of the awakened masse.s. Any other course is marked disaster! Isreal asked but one thing. shifted. This awakening of the' awakend ma^s of our ntiQGcnc tiQC! A^*nrtn +Via ^^«e ask but 0)16 thing as stated by the Federal Council of Chirches: “. . . . A chance to live "SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER This week before Christmas a new cynicism prevails in Wash ington. * • • The current remark:“No Santa Claus? Haven’t you seen the pres ent government at work?’* No one argues need tor defense money. Crosses on graves in Ko rea overshadowing many Amer ican homes this Yuletide prove that. * * * So far, American “toughness” has been only getting tough with American small 4>u*inessmen and coninmeFs. « * * To many others the gay, feck less Santa Clauses of Washing ton have been very generous In deed. * * « For example, Santa Clan* Stuart Symington, Chairman of the National Security Be«ourc«i Board, just arranged a fine pres* ent for Jones and Laaglilln, a powerful steel corporation. Be cause the corporation agreed to expand Us production » special tax plan Is approved tor It. • • • No provision of similar nature Is made for a small metal fabri cating plant that needs a new shear. * « * And during the five yesri of peace, »ted supply wm ao short that these fabrleaters often had to pay "grmj market" prices for steel to keep operating. » * • Because ot government rastric- tions on tho use of copper and aluminum, many Independent businessmen look into 1B91 with misgivings. * * * Tet, the EGA announces Mar shall Plan dollars have bought in Canada flll.OOO worth ef alumi num for shipment to Austria and Sweden, la addition, Marshall Plan dollar* boaght ®.f•tlcnal Fataattoa H ladwadM* BarioMt copper In Canada, Cuba, Chile and Bolivia for shipment to Ger many, France and Italy. * • « It’s also Merry Christmas in the Republic of Ireland, a coun try al\^by8 nfeutral while Amer ican^ die. * * * Marshall Plan dollars, taken In a large part from the nation’s 4,- 000,000 small business Arms, have sent another $453,000 worth of tobacco to Ireland. * • * In fact, on a recent day, an ECA press release/leemed it out standing news that ho money was given away that day. * • * The ofBeial press release states “No new purchase approvals to Western Europe were announced today 4>y the ECA.” But to avoid any Kbspicion there U laxity In showering: American tax d^ra around, the report further states “The cumulative Ma'rshall Plan figure now Is $10,421,594,000.” « « * The American Santa Claus so aroused the emotions of young sters in Udine, Italy, so the ECA reports, that they have sent as a gift of appreciation to the zoos in the Bronx and Chicago each one donkey. * * '* Observers are wondering what symbolism was attached to send ing Santa dans TTncle Sam the gift of » donkey. There’s room for speculation. * * * But American taxpayers will look in vain on Christmas morn ing for the big gift. * * * Thai would be a sweeping daah in non-essentlat spending of taxes to offset Increased defense costs. Seemingly, politics must go on as nsual, even though It was not possible for life to go on as usual for the thousands of brave Amer icans In Korea who will ^ever again be preiMnt around the ny Christmas tree. OF ICRAN9S WEST (EDITOJ*^ NOTE: “On the mDximg of December 15, 1|49 eleven charred skeltons ^re found huddled around a loakeshift wash-tub stove near flotan, Texas. They “were the iPamily of Mr. and Mrs. Man uel Perez. It had been a bitter ly cold night and the family had tried to keep warm. They had. migrated from the Rio Grande Valley, richest food producing section of the South . . .” —HARRY KOGER report to the President’s Commis sion on Migrant Labor. Oh, here’s another story, It happend in Rotan, One more Texas tragedy Above the Rio Grand . . . "WTiere is opportunity, Where are equal rights When workers in their hovels Are burned up in the nights? • I They were a migrant family— Nine little ones in all— A father and a mother Late in the Texas Fall. They’d been a picking cotton So soft and snowy white. The day was stark and chilly And colder was the night. The night was dark and dreary And ice was on the groupd. Inside the shack in tatters Nine children huddled ’round To warm their aching bodies. Cold and numb to pain. T/ittle did they think that night; They’d never wake again! PKe time was near to Christmas When Christians like to say Christ being bom of Mary Makes this a special day. It bnmed that nigfit to a«h«s. Use The Vote — Cet The Rights Oklahoma City — Two and & half million Negro votes in tho Softth would do more to hasten the day of full citizengliip parti cipation for Negroeij than all of the lip-servic.e that ha.s been giv en the subject in the past quarter of a century. Actually, I would i^not give a dash how these votes are ca.st, as long as they are used to advance representative government, at local, state and national levels. Political determination for the great part is a matter of individual and local concern. And should be. During the period immediately before the November elections. I touched the southern region states from Maryland down to Flor ida, west to Texas, up to Oklahoma, and back to the voteless Di.s- trict of Columbia. In too many instances, the Negro was the guy who did not come to vote. Negroes must have played a big hand in defeatiUi, the poll tax in South Carolina and the attcmpw^d Axt«Biiiwr county system to general elections in Georgia. But in Texas, a try to outlaw the poll tax failed. Now leader ship persons of tlie Lone Star state are asking, “Where was the Negro T” Here in Oklahoma City, where there could be as many as 30,000 Negro votes, not 6,000 Negroes voted. It is good to note that in Missouri, the Negro vote demon strated its disgust over a state of affairs and retire^ GOP Senator Forrest C. Donnel in favor of Democrat Thpmas C. Hennings, Jr. Donnel had fought the appointment of Judge Hastie and civil rights. Regardless, the Negro vote, southwide, was too small on last November 7. Somewhere along the way, Negroes have got to catch I the spirit that will stimulate a desire to exercise the use of the 'ballot. I like facF that Arthuv Clements offered himself for Con gress out of Charleston, S. C.; that Earl J. Amedee tried for the school board in New Orleans, and; that a young vet, Louis Stew art, Paul Quinn student, ran for the City, Council in Waco. These Negro candidates did not earn otLje, but they made trys unknown by Negroes in the South since Reconstruction. It would be hoped that their running for public office pulled some Negroes to the polls, who otherwise vight not have come. So this is more lip-service directed at the “problem.” It says in short, more Negro should seek elected posts in government, lo cal, state and national. The assumption being that more Negroes would qualify to vote and vote. One wonders. Despite the vast inaction of the Negro in the South during the recent elections, the showing of Negro candidates in other areas of the nation should be looked upon with a degree of pride. In these areas, admitted, it is not as difficult for the Negro qm his citizenship right — the ballot. While Kansas was electing a GOP governor and U. S. senator, a Negro Democrat was winning a post as county commissioner in “sure” Republican Wyandotte county. In West Virginia, a Ne gro lady became the first woman of her race to hold public office and go to the West Virginia legislature. Two Negroes won state house seats in Arizona in another first for Negroes in that state. A Negro went from Kansas City to the Kansas state legislature. Three men of color are going to among Missouri’s legislature. And two go to the Colorado,iegi* lature and lower houae membere. Indiana and California each sent two itice candidates to their legislatures. A Negpo retained his post in the legislature of Dela ware. Five Negroes won in Pennsylvania for the legislature, four in New York, one in Massachusettes; three in Michigan, two iii Ohio, and four in Illinois. Two Negroes returned to the U. S. House of Representatives. Several Negro candidates were successful in local contests, paced by H^old Stevens, who won the plum in his election for fourteen years to the post of judge in the General Sessions court of New York City. Judgeships and coroner posts went to Negroes else where. In Maryland, Negroes help to elect a GOP governor and U. S. senator, while nine Negro Republicans failed to enter the state leglsiaLd*^., This time Mrs. Ilortense H. Young, Louisville, Ken tucky, civic worker, made -I’esir-ftf a shbwiii^ui- tii|v^school bo than she did in two previoiis attempts. Back to the Deep Sou^, Negroes there ,«au improve I^jbi Not so long ago Negroes ii4 Atlanta aid in the election of a mayor, who won by only 101 votes. Atlanta could elect some Negro city officials. So could Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Miami and others. Reds Face Libel Suits For Use Of Negro Names Washington, D. G.—The U. S. Communist Party is facing libel suits over its use of the names of prominent Negroes in the new drive for Negro mem bers, according to a Civil Rights Survey released here by the So cial Action Department, Na tional Catholic Welfare Confer ence. In this campaign the com munists represented “promin ent Negroes throughout the country as people indorsing the pwty and its aims,” the survey reported. “As a result at least one and possibly more libel suits have been threatened against it by people so named.” While stating that there has been no major gain politically in the field of civil rights re cently, the survey found that the new racial policy in the armed forces has been very ef fective. In education, the Social Ac tion Department survey said that “schools throughout the country have been admitting Ne gro students as a result of the recent Supreme Court decision. The hut and all within But who can tell th« sorrow, Whose is this mortal sint . f^.'" Eleven skulls next morning Were lying in a heap, The skialls of workers’ children And worker*’ flesh ar« oheapi “In several dioceses the local Ordinary has opened all of the Catholic schools,” it remarked. No Bias At Meet Of Catholic Men In Washington > Washington, D. 0. — Eye-1 brows were raised in some cir- r cles of the conservative capi-; tol when at least one Negro, | George W. Johnson was seat- ^ ed at the head table at the Communion Breakfast during^ the annual convention of the t_ St. Vincent de Paul Society a{ the Statler Hotel. Mr. Johnson ‘is vice-presi dent of the Particular Coun cil of the society, organized by •Catholic men for charitable services to the poor. Smokey Says: EM OOWN-PUT CM OUT, ifS A FlR£ (■MTAUaNG. (!W PkM'lWiH.' 4 .'i TioM out for forest fliBjwfvattoa
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