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NO NEED OF ANTI-LYNCHING LEGISLATION?
Elsewhere on this page we are re-printing
two editorials of conflicting viewpoints on
the need of anti-lynching legislation in this
country. One of the editorials is from the
Greensboro Daily News and the other is
from the Charlotte Observer.
The falacious reasoning of the Charlotte
Observer’s editorial is typical of its usual
anti-Negro policy and shows a lack of serious
thought on a matter that few persons of
sound reason would agree.
Says the Charlotte Observer in part:
“The year-cnd report of Tuskegee Insti
tute which records only obe lynching in 1951
in the United States Is further evidence that
no sifch Federal legislation as the proposed
antl-Iynchiag law is necessary.”
On this point the conservative and highly
respected Greensboro Daily News says in
part;
“There is satisfaction in noting that deatlis
at the hands of moils dwindled to one dur
ing the year just past. But so long as a
single lynching occurs, and especially when
nothing is done to discover and punish its
perpetrators, there is reason for shame, dis
satisfaction and demand for remedial ac
tion."
• • •
“Again we come back squarely to the
necessity for - federal intervention where
states, which prate of their rights, fail to
meet, their responsibilities.”
Looking at this matter of lynching from
the Observer’s viewpoint, one might assume
such an attitude as to theft, murder, rape and
other heinous crimes and say there is no
need of such in a city, county or state, just
so long as only one occurs during a single
year.
Along the same line of reasoning we
would like to ask the Charlotte Observer
if it would advocate the abolishment of the
North Carolina law against intermarriage
of whites and Negroes. As far as we have
been able to ascertain, there hasn’t been
even one such marriage in this state for over
50 years. Why, then, don’t we abolish the
law and trust persons of both races to marry
whomever they please.
We think the Observer would do a noble
deed if it would ascertain from the families
of some of the Negroes lynched if they feel
anti-lynching legislation is needed in the
South.
It is alright to sit supinely by and say
there is no need of anti-lynching legislation
so long as one has the satisfaction of know
ing that the law protects him or her from
becoming a lynch victim. When one is out
side the law’s protection against lynching
and mob violence and realizes that even
when the perpetrators of such crimes are
caught and confess, that it is impossible to
convict them under State law, it is a horse
of another color.
We agree with the conclusion reached by
the Greensboro Daily News that so long as
even a semblance of the desire to lynch
exists there is serious need for protection
against lynching by the Federal govern
ment where the states will not provide such.
HtWAN lACKASSES IN HIGH PUCES
All of the human jackasses in high places
are by no means dead yet. If you don’t be
lieve this you should read the statement a-
bout interracial television shows made by
Governor Herman Talmadge of Georgia.
Talmadge, writing in his weekly political
newspaper, “T»e Statesmen,” — No, we
didn’t say THE HATESMAN—declares that
having these mixed shows on television is
equivalent to visiting somebody in his
home.”
The rip-snorting defender and advocate of
white supremacy says: “On many of these
shows segregation has been abolished. They
are allowed to come into the homes-of peo
ple whose states have long had firmly enr
trenched laws, the spirit of which is now be
ing flagrantly violated.”
When it comes to stupidity this newspa
per believes that Georgia’s governor about
takes the cake. We wouldn’t be surprised
any day now to hear of Talmadge attempt
ing to attack Divinity for allowing the sun
to shine on Negroes’ homes and farms with
the same intensity as whites.
We would like to suggest to Governor Tal
madge that he take this matter up with the
congressmen from Georgia to find out if
there isn’t some manner in which the ether
waves can be punished for transporting Ne
gro and white performers together across
southern lines or for bringing such programs
info southern homes.
Another solution to the matter is the in
vention of a television set that will only re
produce white persons on its screen. Georgia
might even pass a law making it mandatory
for television dealers to furnish an attend
ant with each set sold a southerner to hold
a cardboard over the Negro ^rformer while
the program is going on. Lastly, we might
even suggest that Mr. Talmadge and his
cohorts simply turn the dial when such pro
grams appear.
All in all, Talmadge’s statement about
television is about the biggest contribution
that has been made to the abolishment of
segregation in many years. As we see it,
even southerners of or^nary intelligence on
the race question are compelled to see how
asinine such an attitude is and refrain from
supporting the Georgia governor’s stand.
CONGRlTUUnONS, LOOK MAGAZINE
One of the most penetratingly frank pre
sentations of the Negro’s lot in the Southland
appears in the January 15 issue of LOOK
magazine. The article is written by one who
should be an authority on the subject — a
Negro bom and reared in the South. The
writer is Carl T. Rowan, who has, since leav
ing ttie naval service after World War II,
left the South for obvious reasons and plied
his fortunes north of the Mason-Dixon line.
The article is liberally illustrated with pic
tures which strikingly tell of an oppressed
people’s condition.
The article, entitled “The South—How
Far From Slavery?” pulls no punches in de-
piciting the sordid, squalid existence which
white supremacy forces on America’s largest
and meet l(^al minority. It points out the
ironies and discrepancies in the whole false
doctrine of white supremacy. It'makes an
indelible impression of the highly restricted
opportunities of a Southern Negro, whose
life is circihgnscribed By one endless array
of “For White Only” signs.
The article does not paint an entirely dark
picture, for certainly the actual picture of
things in Dixie is not all dark. It points to
the gains made by Negroes in the struggle
for full equality of citizenship. It notes the
advance kade in higher education, chiefly
thrqugh the efforts of the NAACP. But, the
article warns that these gains may serve as
illusions of complete victory in the fight for
equality of opportunity when actually they
represent a bare modicum of equality.
Every self-respecting Negro who is in
clined to believe that the.battle for human
rights in the South is nearly done should
read the LOOK magazine article. This news
paper humbly doffs it hat in congratulations
to the editors of LOOK for what we consider
one of the mpst forthright and fearless pre
sentations of the Negro’s plight in Di:de that
we have seen in a such a publication.
Or Does It Only Appear This, In Fioriila....r'
"THfscmisr/ut-r
Spiritual Insight
“DELICATE ART OF HUMAN RELATIONS”
By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
i
“Let your speech be al
ways with grace . . ^ that
ye may know how to an
swer every man . . Col.
4:6.
Armed with the miraculous
weapon of science, mad' has
actually made the barren de
sert to bloom and bring forth
in abundance. The powers of na
ture are released for the use and
welfare of man.
Great strides have been made
in the art of healing through
medical science. And now man
has performed the physical mir
acle of the ages—releasing and
harnessing the energy of the
atom. ^
Man has, to a great extent,
mastered physical matter. Now
we lag dangerously in the most
important thing: The delicate art
of human relations. We don’t
know how to live together in
peace and harmony. The next
urgent, imperative step in hu
man progress must be in ti»
improvement of human rela
tions. We must master and bring
under reasonable discipline and
.c6ntrol the potentials of human
relations. We must master and
bring under reasonable dis
cipline and control the potentials
of human personality: The emo
tional and spiritual forces of
man’s inner nature. We must be-
primary concern of Christ was
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
come skilUul in the very delicate
art of human relations-r-it means
learning to live together as hu
man beings.
LIVING IN HARMONY
The inmost heart of true reli
gion has to do with this business
harmony in living together. T)ie
in producing harmonious htmian
relations. What is life but a ser
ies of interpersonal relations
from the cradle to the grave?
There Is one continuous round
of contact with other human
beings.
The relations of the home—
husband and wife, parent and
child. There are the relations of
industry and the job — labor —
management, the foreman and
the worker and the personnel
manager and his dealings with
the employees of the concern.
There are the important con
tacts of race with one and aU it
may mean for the welfare of the
nation and the ultimate peace of
the world. At this hour the
peace of the world hands in the
balance of the give and take of
human relations of the Tent at
Panmunjom. What about the
pattern of neighborhood himian
relations — children playing In
the street and mothers talking
over the fence in the backyard?
How,.,, many mothers stopped
speaking because their children
fought or had words? What bad
SMALL BUSINESS
By C. WILSON HARDER
From every quarter there
pours into Washington indica
tions that small business is gain
ing increased support in the bat
tle to keep alive free enterprise.
♦ • •
Despite every possible delay,
and every possible obstruction,
the Small De
fense Plants
Administra-I
tlon, an agency |
ordered by
Congress, has
started funo-{
tlonlng, located
in the Old
Washington!
Post Bldg.,1337|
E Street N.W.-
* • • C. W. Harder
The first major action of the
new agency throws into public
view a long exi«ten^,skeleton In
the closet.
• • * I
Telford Taylor, head of the
Small Defease Ftants Atoihita-
tratlon, calls apon an gorera-
ment procnremeBt agenoiea to
prohibit prime defense oenttao-
tors to pot so-called “■at-aS’*
claases In the snboootraota they
in tom award to small firms.
« * 0
The defense program lag rap
idly shapes up into a public scan
dal. Taylor brings into limelight
a major cause of the delay.
e « •
Tlie facta are that In tlwse
timaa aald to bo fraught with
grave natiomd peril, hug* eor*
poratlsaa reoelTing meat of the
prime dataua eaatraota, are
■atng the defcoae ageaolea el
the Vstted States Oerermncait
■a a oemmui oolleotion agenoy.
* • a
These prime contractors have
baan par^tted, in awarding sub
contracts to independent busl-
nasses, to provide that before
any payment is made on ttia
defense contract, the prime con
tractor can deduct any amounts
owed by the small business to
ttM Ug priine contractor on past
aivillaa production relations.
* IliWllll iMlllli
Thus, defense oontracta are
being used by some huge corpor
ations to eitforce oollectlons of
past debts that have no connec
tion wUh defense efforts,
a * e
The delay in defense produc
tion because of these “set^oS''
clauses has been tremendous.
The sinall plant securing a sub
contract usually must get financ
ing to handle the contact.
* • •
And while a sub-contract on
defense work is conaldered ade
quate collateral far a production
loan, banks have nnderstandibly
shied away from loaning produc
tion ftmds on sub-fcontracts that
permit the corporatloa holding
the prime contract to hold up
payments tor amounta claimed
due resulting from past rela-
tiona en non-defense work.
* « a
This practice has long been op
posed by the American Bankers
Association, as contrary to much
purposely "planted” propaganda,
the nation’s independent bankers
are most anxious to finance small
business.
a • a “
The fact that they have net
dene more in this direction dur
ing the past decade is due to
“booby-trapa** that Ug eorpora-
tlons, and Jer^-built emergency
agencies, often headed by “loan-
eea” from these corporationa
have set up fof small bosiaMs.
a * a
Between the newly organized
SmaU Defense Plants Admlnis*
tration, and tlie Senate Small
Business Committee, headed by
Sen. J(dm Sparkman of Alabama,
many facts such as this will be
bro\^t to the public in the near
f^hlre. While much is being
made of mink coats and deep
free^rs, these will become
quite petty by comparison.
* a •
. Disclosares such as Just made
by Taylor involre hilllona, net
relations arise out of pride? One
family or an individual feels it
self to be better than another.
Thus we have tension, enmity,
hostility and hatred arising to
block the free and peaceful in
terchange of humAn relations.
Our manner of speaking is
aU-important in this business of
getting along with people. Thus
Paul In his message to the Colos-
sians touches on a key factor in
the delicate art of human rela
tions. He says in substance to
get the best residts we must
know how to talk to people?
May I ask: Do you know how
to talk to people? Yes, to get the
best results we must speak with
grace. What is it to qpeak with
grace? It is to speak with con
sideration, tolerance, thought
fulness and respectful kindness
kindness to other people. How
much lU-wiU develops because
the foreman or the personnel
manger lacks grace in speech?
How many hnnriM hnvp Vmcn
made unhappy or wrecked be
cause of rudeness in speech?
How many children have been
lost in dellquency because of
vicious abuse rather than grace
in speech? It is clear, therefore,
that if we are to become skill
ful in the Aellcate art of human
relations we must control our
selves and speak with grace.
HUMAN RELATIONS
AN ART
' Many faU in himian relations
because we have not learned
how to respect the feelings of
people. No man delights in his
feelings being hurt or trampled
upon unncessarily. You cw in
sult a man but you can’t make
him like it. The religion of Je
sus demands a thoughtful con
sideration of the feelings of oth
ers. It even demands love for
those who . viciously hurt our
feelings. The command Is to
treat all men with courtesy and
tact. Why did Stanton say of
Lincoln: "Here lies the most
perfect ruler of men”? Lincoln
was one of the masterful artists
in the delicate art of human
relations. Every night we ought
pray at the our^bedside with the
poet: “If I have wounded In soul
today, detur Lord forgive . . .”
Warden Osborne became a
great figure at Auburn Prison
because he was .skilled in the
delicate art of human rations.
Obsome realized that even the
most degenerate and daCHMled
criminal, deep down, had feel
ings and a sense of dignity left.
He spoke with grace and knew
how to answer every nun.
LEHER TO THE
EDITOR
LIKBD THE MAYOR'S
SPEECH
To the Editor:
The progress made by Dur
ham in 1B81, as cited by Mayor
Evans, brings pride, much praise
and a deeper sense of apprecia
tion for the servants of our city.
AU of tite Mayor’s citations
were enco^ging and enlighten
ing. Many 'citizois especially
thankful, while hopefuUy lott
ing forward to completion od the
WHAT OTHER EDnORS SAY
NO II. S. ANTI-LYNCHINO
LAW NEEDED
The year-end report, of Tus
kegee Institute which records on
ly one lynching in 1951 in ,the
United States is ftirther evi
dence that no such Federal
legislation as the proposed anti-
lyncKlng law is necessary. And
yet anti-lynching legislation re
mains a part of President Tru
man’s so-called civU rights pro
gram.
The Tuskegee records for
years past have shown that cases
of lynching have been decreas
ing until they have practically
reached the vanishing point.
Not many years ago there were
half a dozen or more lynchings
annuaUy, all or nearly aU of
them in the South. But in 19B0
the .Institute reported only two
and in the last year only one.
And Tuskegee, while an ac
cepted authority, has counted as
a lynching any murder commit
ted by a group of persons. It has
not adhered to the old general
definition that Ijmching was the
murder of a person already
legaUy accused of crime and
killed before the legal processes
of trial, conviction and p«m-
ishment could l>e completed.
When has Congress ever, in
the history of the Nation, enact
ed a law against a crime of
which only one single Instance
could be recorded in a whole
year in the United States?
The Tuskegee report that
three attempted lynchings were
prevented in 1981—one each in
North Carolina, Alabama and
Virginia—indicates a major rea
son for the decrease in that
crime. State and local authori
ties have been alert and diligent
to prevent such violence when
threatened.
No anti-lynching law passed
by Congress is needed, and Presi
dent Truman as weU as the
the senators and representatives
ought to be able to recognize that
fact. — Charlotte Ofeserver.
THE RESPONSIBILITY
REMAINS
The 1951 lynching report,
lust issued by Tuskegee Institute,
draws mixed reactions.
There is satisfaction in noting
that deaths at the hands of mobs
dwindled to one during the year
just past. But so long as a single
lynching occufs, and especiaUy
when nothing is done to discover
and punish its perpetrators there
is reason for shame, dissatisfac
tion and demand for remedial
action.
It is disturbing to note that the
one recorded lynching occiured
in Florida. Presumably the fatal
blast which took the life of a
Negro leader in the Everglades
State in the closing days of 1951
is not seen as a lynching, but it
resulted from the same spirit,
the same disregard for law and
constitutional guarantees and
the same prejudices and hatreds
which give rise to lynchings.
Another manifestation of Flor
ida violence is mentioned in the
Tuskegee report but is. not
technicaUy considered a-, lynch
ing. This is the fatal shooting of
one prisoner and the serious
wounding of another at the
hands of a Florida sheriff who
was transferring them from a
state prison to a county seat
where they were to be tried on
rape charges.
The one recorded lynching,
these questionable shootings and
the series of blasts and fires,
culminating in last week’s fatal
explosion, serve to point the
finger of condemnation squarely
at Florida and the lawlessness
which prevails there, a lawless
ness which it becomes increasing
ly apparent is not being dealt
with effectively or wholeheart
edly by local or state officials
and thus must have the atten
tion of outside agencies, mean
ing the federal government.
Again we come back squarely to
the necessity for federal inter
vention where states, which
prate of their rights, fail to meet
their rraponsibllities. — Greens
boro Daily News.
STRAIGHT AHEAD
BY JULIUS J. ADAMS
(For Global)
NEW YORK — The Christmas
night fatal bombing in Florida
which took the life of Harry T.
Moore, an NAACP state execu
tive was a most vicious act, and
nothing ought to be left undone
to bring the guilty persons to
trial. It is hard to see how the
Governor of Florida can permit
the case to go unsolved insofar
as competent and thorough in
vestigation can solve it.
The Moore murder is normal
ly state business, but if the State
refuses or fails to act, then some
way must be found for the Gov-
emment to step ia 4md do the
job. It would be tragic for the
State authorities to accept a
whitewash and let the matter go
as “juit one of those things.”
“WHTTEWASHINOS”
POPULAR
This reporter has never been
too much impressed by the re
port of Investigators which too
often writes finis to an inquiry
with a “slain by persons or per-
Pettigrew Street bus line, for
the opening and surfacing of
various streets, and see rapid
future city growth as a result of
the City CouncU’s move, in co
operation with the Sperry Cor-
corpation, to subsidize new In
dustries by helping provide ade-
uate water and sewer service.
Since there can be no ade
quate water service without the
aid of the Fire Department, it
loglcaUy foUows, that a fire
station should be buUt on the
improved Pettigrew Street, a
major thoroughfare of the city,
to insure protection of the al
ready weU established industries
as weU as new industries, and
an ever increasing residential
section with its post office, bank,
churches, schools and stores.
I recaU that one of the big
gest stores or storage houses In
the South went do^ in ashes
on the FayettevlUe Road. A fire
station in the vicinity, or on
Alston Avenue near U. S. Col
lege would likely have prevent
ed that a disaster and the sub
sequent removal of that new
business to Raleigh. Is Raleigh’s
Fire Department better than
ours?
The progress cited by the
Mayor for 1901 will be multi
plied in 1952. I venture to pre
dict that one day the Mayor of
Durham wiU dedicate a Auditor
ium, making It tmnecessary for
Durhamltes to ^ to Raleigh for
big events, with a seating cap
acity of 25,000 or more to the
City of Durham a fitting memor
ial to those who "Short days ago,
felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
loved and were loved, and now
lie between the crosses, row on
row,” that we ml|^ teve life
and freedom and have it more
abundantly.
Prof. Frank Geo. SoweU
DuAam.
sons unknown.”
It does not appear necessary to
argue that the brutal act in
Florida gives aid and comfort to
the Communists. It has always
seemed silly for anyone to use
such an argument in a protest
against discrimination, bigotry
and lynching. For it would seem
that such argument is saying
simply that if there were no
conflict Isetween us and the
Communist world, then it might
be aU right to do these undemo
cratic and unfair things.
U. S. MUST STAND ON
OWN FEET
PersonaUy, I would rather
base the urgumenT oh Ihe la^
—on right and justice for their
own sake. The United States
must not seek to provide equal
justice and opportunity to aU
its citizens because it knows
some is looking crlticaUy over
its shoulder, but it should do so
because it is right that it should.
The Un^d States must stand
on its own feet and live up to
its preachments of peace and
goodwill because it believes in
these virtues. It must not Just put
on a show—a false front simply
to impress the outside world.
The interest in honesty, decency
and brotherhood must be genuine
as a fundamental phUosophy as
weU as basic program for action.
ACnON NOT REGRETS
In Florida last week during
an exchange of hot statements
between Walter White of the
NAACP and Gov. Fuller War
ren, the Florida chief executive
said, “Moore’s death is deplored
by every decent citizen in the
State.” The Governor is prob-
al^ly correct, but deploring an
act is one thing; doing some
thing about it is another. What
do Governor Warren and the de
cent people of Florida intend to
do about Mr. Moore’s murder?
It is a pity that the decent peo
ple of Florida and Governor)
Warren have simply deplored
the death of Harry Moore; we
could only wish they were in
dignant. We wish^^ey were so
indignant that they would want
to see the guUtjr persons seized
and punished.
CRIME OF FLORIDA
The perpetrators of this das
tardly crime, committed at the
time the world was celebrating
the birth date of the Prince of
Peace, could turn out to be per
sons of influence. But no one
ought to be spared. The crime
of these persons is the crime of
the community, for they are a
{Kurt of the whole and the whole
is affected by the part. This was
a terrible case; the NAACP is on
solid ground in its battle.
This is one case that ought to
be fought through to the end, At
least a millioo supporters otight
to send $1 apiece to a Fund to
be raised in ten days. This is a
campaign the entire press might
help organize and press in co
operation with the NAACP.