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PAOB TWO m cAsouNA imu SATVRDAT, DtC. S«, 1952 CbCa Published Every Saturday By THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBLISHING CO. 518 East Pettigrew Street Durham, N. C. Phonea: 5-9873 — 5-0671 — 3-7871 Member National Negro Prest Anociation VOLUME 30—NUMBER 48 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952 It ia absolutely impossible for the CAROLINA TIMES to guarantee the exact time of publication or location in the paper of unsolicited articles, but will strive to conform with the withes of its reading public as near as is humanly possible. Batered aa Seerad Claas mattar at the Post Offices at Durham, North Carolina nnder the act of Mareh S. 1S7V. National Advertialiic Repreaentative Interstate United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New Tark. Braneh Offlce; 5 East Jaeluon Boulevard, Chlcafo, Illinois. . Editor and PubUsher | M. B. HUDSON L. E. AUSTIN ALEXANDER BARNIS - Managing Editor ) D. W. STITH ADA HANNAH . Business Manager Circulation Manager City Editor 8 MONTHS, 1 TEAS SUBSCRIPTION BATES: It.OO FOREIGN COUNTRIES Per Year |4.«0 fS.OO 3 TEARS $9.00 NEGRO SUPPORT FOR BOND ISSUES This editorial is being written Monday, December 15 for the Saturday, December 20 issue of the CAROLINA TIMES which will not be off press until Wednesday, De cember 17, too late to influence in one way or other, the voting in a bond issue to be held in Greensboro, Tuesday, December 16, for the purpose of providing funds for the erection of a War Memorial Auditorium- Arena in that city. We, therefore, cannot justly be accused of furnishing outside inter ference in a matter that is solely one belong ing to Greensboro. According to an account published in the December 12 issue of the Greensboro Daily News, a group of Negro leaders, composed of members of the Greensboro Men’s Club, presented a petition to the War Memorial Fund Commission inquiring into the seating policy fo be followed by the proposed pro ject. In short, the Negroes wanted to know before they voted on the bond issue if they were going to be required to sit in balconies or suffer other discriminations and humilia tion as is the usual custom. The lone Negro member of the Greens boro City CouncU, and president of the Greensboro Men’s Club, declares that, “it is regretable that the petition was composed at this time. I am in favor and endorse all the things in the petition, but I feel that it did not have to be introduced at this time—I will use my influence to carry the bond is sue.” Try as we may we cannot quite agree with Dr. Hampton that the petition was presented at the wrong time, nor that he should sup port the bond issue on his own. Being presi dent of the Men’s Club, its presentation to the Memorial Fund Commission just before the election might have been somewhat em- barassing to Dr. Hampton as a member of the City Council. Had Negro voters resort ed to any other course it might in the end prove more embarrassing to every Negro in Gireensboro who has felt the sting of being ordered to the balcony, the backdoor or else where that carries the stigma of segregation. That they should wait until after the bond issue is carried to obtain a definite under standing as to whether or not their race will share equally in the benefits from the auditoriiun-arena appears to us to be a magnanimous suggestion but to possess the lack of political wisdom. The only justifiable reason for the ballot is its use in the support of beneficial mea sures or legislation and its further use in the defeat of harmful ones. Certainly a bond issue involving the expenditure of $1,500,- 000 for the erection of a municipal project of feny kind is sufficient to warrant a com mittment on the part of city officials as to the policy on discrimination that will be pur sued in its operation. The record discloses that Negroes have in most instances been forced to accept equal taxation in projects of this kind, but are de nied equal benefits. Such a pattern must, at some point in the course of events, be opposed. That it had to begin with the War Memorial Auditorium-Arena may in my judgement of Dr. Hampton be unfortunate, but as we see it, it was the only course for the Men’s Club to pursue. As leaders of their group they were resorting to the only weap on of defense left to them and that was the ballot. The Carolina Times admits that it is not familiar with Dr. Hampton's attitude as a whole on racial matters. It might not be out of place here, however, to advise all Ne gro aspirants for public office that the will of their constituency should determine their course of action rather than that their own will should determine that of their con stituency. The contention of some Negro candidates, running for public office in the South, that if elected they intend to represent all the people in highly idealistic but equally un realistic. For in the end, it might not be hard to prove that even the white voters who cast their ballots for a Negro cabdidate are moved by a single noble thought and that is to give Negro people representation in government and that it can best be done by one of their own number. The war against segregation must be fought on all fronts. The one eternal goal of every self-respecting Negro in this country is EQUALITY. That they intend to obtain that goal within tlie framework of demo cracy, one of the cardinal principles of which is the wise and definite use of the ballot, must be interpreted only as good citizenship. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN Last week a new million dollar gym nasium was dedicated at North Carolina Col lege with four of the nation’s outstanding basketball teams being featured in double- header games on Monday and Tuesday nights. .Outstanding athletic teams are most always produced by outstanding coaches. The one appears to be greatly dependent up on the other. However, if the edge goes to either it will in our hiunble judgment have to be handed to the coaches as the record will discloK that great coaches more often produce great teams than great teams pro duce great coaches. Consequently the fea turing of four great basketball teams at N. C. College during the dedication exercises necessarily broug]^ together four of the na tion’s outstanding coaches. Fans who witnessed the performance of the teanos, as far as we have been able to determine, are all agreed that they lived up to expectation and contributed much to the dedication event. However, two incidents entered the picture that in our judgment somewha^ marred what might have been even a more historic occasion at N. C. Col lege. One of them was the failure of Gov ernor Kerr Scott to put in his appearance on the program and the other was the almost complete omission of former N. C. College Coach J. B. McLendon from the printed pro gram. Negro audiences, since Governor Scott’s administration, have about become ac customed to not seeing the State’s governor at momentous events of their group. Gover nor Scott, during his entire four years in office, has done little or nothing in the way of appearing on programs of Negroes. His failure to show up at the N. C. College gym nasium dedication rites was therefore no surprise to the most of those present. Negro Durham, however, was not pre pared to witness the omission of Coach Mc Lendon’s name from the program in view of the great contribution he had made to N. C. College and Durham. In fact many of the fans wondered just how under the name of high heaven those who had to do with the arrangement of the dedication exercise could do so without giving McLendon a prominent place in it. For it was the great teams pro duced by McLendon again and again at N. C. College that made the new gymnasium a necessity and catapulted N. C. College, a heretofore practically unknown in the basketball world, into the limelight of college sports. Not only did McLendon produce great teams at N. C. College, but it was his rough sket(;h of the new gymnasium that gave the architect some idea of what the new gym nasium would look like and should be. Add to this the hundreds of young men who have received inspiration and guidance under this dynamic coach and it is impossible to eati- Why Our Right To World Leadership Is Ouestioned" % CL^I r WHY YOU THAT IN YO YARD V/tOptYj V ^ 1 D/M mate his worth to the college, the city, state and nation. We would like to inform those who either deliberately or for lack of knowledge did this unkind deed to a great coach and a great man that when McLendon first came to N. C. College back in 1937 there were no funds available to pay him a respectable salary. But he had' vision of the future and faith in the college, its president, the late Dr. James E. Shepard and faith in himself. He came to N. C. College at the astoundingly low salary of $60 per month. The following year his salary was raised to $75 per month. In 1940 to $100 when another school offered to double whatever salary he was being paid at N. C. College if it could secure his service as basketball coach. McLendon stayed on at N. C. Col lege because he loved the school and because he put that love above money. Under his administration as Director of Physical Education at,N. C. College, more of its graduates were placed in phy sical education jobs than all of the other schools in the State combined. Even the pres ent basketball coach at N. C. College got his training under McLendon. Perhaps those who had to do with arrang ing the program for the dedication exerciae did not know all of these things. Perhaps they did not know that McLendon and oth ers like James T. Taylor, Asa T. I^[>aulding, H. M. Michaux, the late Chas. Ingram, the late R. L. McDougald and many others have endorsed notes, hocked their household furniture and other valuables that N. C. Col lege might have its present place in the world of college sports. Was the omission of McLendon and them from the program an oversight or was it just another case of man’s inhumanity to man? That is the question friends and fans of N. C. College athletics would like to have answer ed. ' Spiritual Insigiil "Prayer Releases Healing" By Reverend Harold Roland Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church . . The prayer of faith will restore the sick . . .Pray for one another that ye may be heal ed. . . .” James 5:15-16, . . There is great healing in the Divine scheme of things. We thank God for the wonders of the blessed art of the ministries of healing through Doctors, Med icine and Nurses. The Doctor works in harmony with God’s laws of healing. There are phy- WASIilNOlON AND SMALL BUSINESS” The appointment of Harpld Stassen as Mutual Security Ad ministrator by Presid«at-eleet Eisenhower, causes speculation. * • • MSA, inoceasor to the Hankail Plan, ii the acency la oharte of ftvta* away bHUona of tax doV lara, and prob-| ably represents the b i r c e a t (inBle drain on V. S. tax ra«n- ey. It bad lieen expected tliat this sttnatlon vr o a 1 d be chanced I view of the avowed plans to cot taxes, C. W. Hard*r However, now there Is wonder, * « • It Is not believed that Stassen would leave the U. of Penn, pres idency without concrete assnr- ances that the acenoy will con* tinue, and possibly be ezysnded. « « * Neither is it believed an over whelming partisan loyalty woidd cause him to accept. * * * In the IMS OOP nsminatinc ooBventlon, a stronc, popular Stassen drive by liberal Bepnb- Itcana was stopped by Dewey forces. So observers believe, it took very strons oomniitinents to petsnade him to asain enter Ue areas of pnbUo life. • • • The new Congress wlU debate continuance of the giveawa; plans. Adherents will argue that in view of the fact that there ha.° been no opportunity tor amall and independent business to ex pand and create new lob oppor tunities, the cessation ot the ^ve- away programs would leave a great gap in the U. S. economy leading to a depression. This ar gument will be pegged on the as- serUon that a great deal of the giveaway items are manufac^ tured goods that supply employ- e HMlimil moMlMi aaibji By C. WILSON HARDER ment to U. S. workers. ' * * * However, cold facts show this is an erroneoBS picture. More than • year ago the huge cartel industries at Europe protested the great flood of 17. 8. manu- faetured geods. With their own prodaotion 40 per cent ahead of prewar reoords, and their own system of holding down pro duction to hold up prices, Euro pean bosiness was alarmed. * * « The result has been that for the past year, more and more of the MSA grants are in the form or raw materials, of which a large share is bought from Brit ish possessims. • * « IB tlie raestime, Britala is now exportlBg more antomobiles' to the V. 8. than the American auto Industry Is exporting to all the world. A large share ot farm ms- ohiaery skipped overseas Iqr H8A is lieaght from the Csna- dian affiliates of C. 8. firms. • « • Here is another case in point. On a racent day MSA snnounced another |8S million for France and tiis French possessions in Nortli Alriea. Less than a quar ter million of this total was in manufactured goods that could l>e presumad to have furnished U. S. employment to any marked degree. The iMdance was in pet- .'oleum and raw eotton. • « • Although steel Is still on allo- 'atin to D. 8. users because at lefSMs needs, kuga tn—ages ot J. S.'steel ais sldyped to Eur- ipa i>y MSA. And now comes the inoeancement that the .IT. S. Vtmy has plaoed • muitl-mil- ioa doBar coatraot ter 8M Brit- '.lih tanks. • « • Some pertinent questions will be asked about MSA activity. • * • Is MBA really lieiping Europe? U MSA helfl^ aU V. B. bui- nessT Or is MSA msrdy s^ porting werldwlda cartelsT sical and spiritual laws of heal ing. Here we are concerned about the spiritual means of re leasing God’s healing powers in the bodies, minds and souls of human beings. I believe in pray er as a means of releasing God’s great healing powers for soul as well as body healing. Prayer is a source dt spiritual power. Thus prayer releases God’s healing powers in the bodies and minds ot men. Healing wa.' one of the three fold emphasis in the blessed ministry of Jesus the Son of God. Jesus taught the practical value of personal and intercessory prayer in the healing process. He healed the mind of the man among the Gadarenes; healed the body of the woman with the is sue %f blood and he healed the soul of the woman afr the well. I have no faith in prayer as a magical ritual. I believe In pray er as rooted in the reality of Di vine spiritual laws. I believe In dod as a source of healing. Thus true prayer is grounded and rooted in the vast source of spiri tual power whose source Is God. This spiritual energy can be tapped through prayer for heal ing bodies and minds of sick people. James was setting forth the spiritual laws of prayer; . . . “Prayer of faith will restore the sick . . . Pray for one another that ye may be healed . . . .” James says prayer Is real. Prayer is rooted in spiritual reality. Prayer rests upon Di vine Law. I know prayer is real for it is real in -my life. I am a personal witness as to the heal ing power of prayer. Prayer will release healing power in you and me. Our healing powers are > often dammed up in us through fear anxiety, hate and remorse. Prayer can help to brealc the log-]am and start God’s healing power flowing in us. Prayer helps create an atmo sphere of healing. The best doc tors and drugs can do little with out the atmosDhere of healing. WITHIN And o AMONG Aifred F, Andersen ra.'.'g.'aag Dear feUow seek«rs.... We have been probing pretty deep in this column; and we have gotten pretty involved. We have attempted to picture a' ne bulous and subtle extra-racial, extra-credal, extra-n a ti o n a 1 movdnent, lo not here, not there, Init wHthin and (fciarely evident )amon0. The realixation that a new level of order is need- ed among men is widespread. In fact, the would-be answer in terms of ideologies of various kinds are widespread also. The most explicit and messive of these is communism. There has been no direct answer to com munism on its own terms apart from a liind of defensive totali tarianism sparked by the major non-communist nations. By "its own terms" I mean that there has been no clear proposal as to how the "have-not” nations of the world can Join the ranks of the “have" nations witlxMit cast ing their souls into the conunun- ist scrap heaps. Theoretically, free enterprise capitalism is an alternative to communism, for free-enterprise capitalism says to-the under]>rivileged, “If you want our higher standard of living, go out and get it as best you can, but don’t disturb the status quo rules ttiat we have laid down." Certainly tiiis is as non-spiritual, atheistic a posi tion as communism, without “the guts" to admit its material istic premises nor the social re sponsibility of a sort wiilch com munism has displayed. Actually there never has nor will be pure communism or pure capitalism. For, more assuredly and more inevitably tiian com munism or any otiier materialis tic ideology, the Soul of LJle and the soul of man infiltrates every act and every gesture of activity, lending its redeeming flavor and saving grace to the most extreme of man’s follies. And If we lurve tlte patience we siiall one day smile to our selves to see how this “spirituali ty” iss gradually and pragmati cally incorporated into both of these otiese ideologies and ul timately claimed as part of the original foundation. Thus I pre dict an ultimate reconciliation, not of theoretical capitalism and communism, but of their modi fied practical neo-types. Yet it will not be a creative reconcili ation, only a face-saving pact for the purpose of fulfilling their one neflative responsibility: to refrain from the suicide pact which would carry with it a burden of shame which even they could not bear; the point at which their souls conscientious ly object to logical extension of their premises. The big responsibility of the modern state, then, is restraint. Its next responsibility will be more difficult; to -die grace fully while another social form with healthier foundations grad ually enlists the dedication and loyalty of the earth’s populace. The Indian Government is al ready working hard to bring about (he first; that is, to recon cile the major military states at the level of non-overt war, ttiat their differences might be fought out appropriately inde pendent of innocent bystanders. It vrill take many years yet to bring this about, and every re- sponsibile person can play a part by applying restraint in his own life. But we can all note that much restraint has already been employed by "both sides”. Witness the increasing propor tion of negotiation as compared to open warfare, both in the U- nited Nations and elsewhere. We must acknowledge this as genuinely laudable and encour age the trend. I believe that a definite level of restraint has been reached, the level of limit ed war. Call it police action if you will, but the important tiling is the obvious soul-searching which is laying the foundation for ultimate reconciliation. Some of you will recognise this as the general theme of the official Quaker Peace Proposal called STEPS TO PEACE and popularised in the film A TIME FOR GREATNESS. This film can be obtained from the Ameri can Friends Service Committee, 20 S. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. for §te small charge of $3. It ought to get widespread show ing. But it only presents thefirst step to the Good Life, that of preventing total catastrophy. We have been trying here to present the positive job of building on totally new foundations. We have been saying that our real job is to discover the seed of within ourselves, individually sacredness and spiritual hope and otherwise. And it is the more explicit implementation of this for we in this country to which we shall turn next week... God willing! North Carolina Orphans To Be Blessed Wlh Christmas Tiding And Mutual Coirunentator's Help Pope Air Fore, Base, N. C.— "Operation Christmas” at Pope Air Force Base, Headquarters for the Ninth Air Force, is rapid ly reaching a climax as hun dreds of volunteer workers busy tiiamselves night alter night wrapping and tagging more than 4,000 'individual gifts for dis tribution to the orpiians of North Carolina. Each gift, purchased at the request of the child is being care fully wrapped and tagged with the child’s name. The gifts are then separated by orphanage and stored for delivery by lieUcap- ter. Frank Id ward*, Mutual com- metator, will arricc at P«pe Air Force Base Snnday, prepMd to spend an entire week, flying eight to ten iioiirs a day MHver- ing Christmas presents to the cliiidren. According t o "Opefatlons Christnuw” purcliaaiiig eommlt- tee, Santa's paek wttl Inchtde 436 dolls, ranging from the Prayer creates the atmosidiwe of healing and releases Ck>d’s heal ing powers in us. Yes. . .'THE PRAYER pF FAITH” helps to create the atmosphere. Prayer is a means of “RESTORING THE SICK . . ." Prayer creates the healing atmesphare through the confidence, trust, assurance and calmness amid the storms of sickness. Many times have I seen faith transform anxious fears into calmness befors^an opera tion. Prayer by creating an atmo- spiiere of healing releases God’s greet health-giving pewers in tlte bodies and minds of men and women. Prayer is power. Prayer is iwaliiig power. It helps to start flowing O0ain God’s healing in our minds, tx>dies and souls. Prayw sets in metion Ged’s heal ing powers. PRAYER IS POW ER: USE IT! ! . simplest doll to the most expen sive walking and talking doll, each purchased according to the child’s individual desire. For young “hombres" there are 287 one and two-gun cowljoy sets with preference divided about evenly and no particular horse opera hero leading in popularity. Skates, cosmetics and costume jewelry are about tied for third in popularity with several hun dred girls indicating that gift as their desire. The boys hsve gone in heavily for athletic equipment of all liinds and model airplane kits. Twenty-four individual desires for wind up trains were met. One orphanage is receiving a special ly constructed model railway on a large table donated by Major General Edward J. Timberlake, Commanding General of the Ninth Air Force. Clothing is a popular item among the older children. TOe purchasing committee worked many long hours picking out nearly 1500 separate items rang ing from shoes to hats. Each was DPrchased in the correct size and color desired. Fifteen children indicated they wanted Bibles for their Christ mas presents. The "Operation Christmas” committee received a fifty dollar check from the Pope Air Force Base Chaplain’s office covering this expenditure. For the kiddles a total of 236 Teddy Bears, toy cars and pull toys have been purchased. Other hundreds of distinctly individual purchases ■‘have been made. Doctor and nurse sets, flaslilights, water colors, and towels are among those gifts. Wrist watches were among the mere expensive purchases. Fif ty-seven have been purchased ranging from Mickey Mouse type to ladies watches. Purchase was made according to the age of the individual reqttesting the (Continued on Page Nine)
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