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rAGITWO lOT CAKOUNA TMM I^TVftDAY. MAftOH 14. im vr dicCa ^iMes iiiTkT!5rriT^5:^m»i Published Every Saturdmn THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBLKSHmG CO. 518 East Pettigrew Street Duiiiam, N. C. Phones: 5-9873 — 5-0671 — 8-7871 Member National Negro Preat AMtoekMon VOLUME 30—NUMBER 8 SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 It is ahtolutely impossible for the CAROLINA TIMES to guarantee the exact time of blication or location in the paper of unsolicited articles, but will strive to conform with the wishes of its reading public as near as is humanly possible. Entered as Seeend CUm nutter at the Peat Office* at Durham, North Carolina nndwr the aet of March 3, 187t. m National AdvertUnx BepreaentatlTe Intaratate Unite^^ewipapers, 545 Fifth ATenne, New York 17, New York. Braneh Offioo: 5 East Jaekaon Boulevard, Ohleago. Dllnoia. L. E. AUSTIN Editor and Publisher ADA HANNAH . ALEXANDER BARNSS Managing Editor M. B. HUDSON City Editor Business Manager C MONTHS I YEAB SDBBCBiniON RATES: fM-M FOREIGN OOCNTSUfi Per Year 94.N |S.N S YEARS 9t.M A LIQUOR REFERENDUM FOR NORTH CAROLINA Some people’s conception of Christianity may be seen in the recent march on Raleigh staged by ministers in an attempt to force a referendum on the question of liquor in this state. These crackpot preachers who would not raise one finger in defense of Negroes on the matter of unequal schools, police brutal ity, unfair wages, legal lynchings and af fairs such as the Mack Ingram trial in Yanceyville, will tear their hair and scream to high heaven about legislation prohibiting the sale of liquor on a legal basis. The whole business appears to be either efforts of some righteously indignant but shallow thinking people whose attempts, though sincere they be, are similar to the fruitless attempts of a man trying to carry water in a sieve; or they are the efforts of organized bootleggers who would stand to profit if prohibition were legislated in the State. The church and its preachers sink to a low ebb when they must go to an agency of the world in an attempt to save men. It is' our opinion that they have the most power ful weapon—the gospel of Jesus Christ—if they could only muster up courage to start preaching it. By their very action they ad mit that their preaching has been uneffective or that they are a total failure as ministers. The next thing we know the same preach ers will be asking the legislature to pass laws forcing all persons to join their churches, sing in their choirs or accept other responsi bilities that are purely those of personal de cisions. As terrible as the drinking habit is, we have never believed that it can be stopped in some people by prohibition. It did not work before, it is not working in counties and cities supposedly dry and will not work in the future. What the church needs is some consecrated ministers who have the courage to preach to the rich and influential deacons, stewards,, trustees and other high church officials the same as they do to the little fellow who is on ly able to put the widow’s mite in the col lection plate. Preachers-of'tiiis kind, rare ihough they m^y be, v«\l us» their pulpits £us their fortresses and the Gospel as their weapons rather than running down to Raleigh to get legislators, many of whom have just had their morning’s “toddy,’ to help them abolish legalized liquor stores in North Carolina. AHERICA'S HNESI, TRUEST PATRIOTS Sunday, March 15, is to be observed throughout the United States as NAACP Sunday. In Durham, NAACP Sunday is being ob served at the Mount Zion Baptist Church here on Fayetteville Street. A program has been planned for this occasion by the local NAACP chapter during which the history of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People will be sketched and possible contributions that the church can make to the program of the association will be listed. Durham, by virtue of the recent, obvious gains made for its minority citizens by the NAACP, should be particularly aware of the value of the association. In the realm of education, in which the association has concentrated its efforts and has made its most obvious gains, the city of Durham is unique as an example of what the associa tion can do with the backing of its local citi zens. One has only to travel as far east as Raleigh and as far west as Greensboro to notice the striking difference between the schools for Negroes in those two cities and in Durham. And this difference is not ac cidental. It was caused by concentrated ef forts on the part of Durham’s militant citizenry, backed by the association. In short, the improvement of Negro schools in Durham can be directly traced to a school suit brought by a group of local citizens who were backed by the NAACP. If for no other reason than this, then, the Mount Zion Baptist Church should be over-, run Sunday afternoon at three o’clock by grateful citizens who should be taking this opportunity of expressing their appreciation for the association’s efforts and for pledging their continued support of it. Although the association has undergone numerous “smear” attacks, as indeed almost any organization which would advocate progress these days, it is yet the strongest organization in the world today fighting, not only for minority rights, but for human rights. The NAACP has been variously call ed a “pressure group,” a “lobby,” a “com munist front,” and it thas been labelled as being chauvinistic in its perspective. In spite of these smear attempts to discredit the as sociation, it has for the past 40 odd years been the only consistent organization fight ing for human decency and dignity, regard less of color. If it has appeared to be chauvinistic, it is because the colored citizens of this country have been subjected to such unspeakable outrages that a seeming chau vinism becomes necessary. If the organi zation has appeared to be “leftist,” (the NAACP, in a recent National Convention, dismissed several leaders because of their known communist leanings, and repudiated the communist influence), it is because the trend of American life has sometimes swerved so far to the nationalist, white supremacist right, that human justice ap peared to be on the left. If it has seemed to be a pressure group or a lobby, it is be cause this nation’s colored citizens, unlike any other group, do not have, for all practical purposes, the channels of representation open to them as other American citiz^s have. The NAACP, contrary to what the reac tionaries would have us think, is not sub versive by any stretch of the imagination, unless the U. S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights can be considered subversive. This newspaper is proud of the record of the as sociation in its struggle to bring more democ racy to this land. We believe its leaders, the men who have conscientiously and with out fear of personal loss or safety, have giv en their best to make the association what it is today, are among this coimtry’s finest and truest patriots. The Mount Zion Baplj^t Church sho|Lild not'be able to house the loyal Durhamites who should be attending NAACP Sunday, this Sunday, March 15. Proving Very Embarrassing To Our Right Of Leadership ... Spiritual Insight "A Teaching Justification" By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church “..Being justified by faith, we have peace with God...through Jesus Christ..“Rom.5:l The soul seeks peace with God. In search for soul peace Justification is a part of the in ward spiritual experience. The Bible teaches that man is a Sin ner. Man, in his sinful state, is cut off from God; MAN IS LOST. Thus man needs a Sa vior to redeem him from Sin. Man- amnoi* save himself. Man’s salvation is from above. This great spiritual truth needs em phasis in our day when all petty human schemes of sal vation have ended in futility and bewilderment. So we are taught by the Bible that JUSTIFICA TION IS A VITAL PART OF GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION AS REVEALED IN CHRIST What is Justification? It is a spiritual act that makes man~the sinner acceptable to God. It is restoring the SINNER TO DI VINE FAVOR. It is to be made righteous or worthy of salva tion. It is the sinner being set in the right relationship to God. The sinner is at odds or cross purposes with God. JUSTIFI CATION, therefore, sets the sinner in the right relationship to God. It heals and restores a broken relationship. How Bo we achieve this step in salvation? Justification is re ceived and appropriated by an act of 'faith in Jesus Christ. It Is achieved by an act of faith in God’s redeeming love as reveal ed in Christ and his death on the cross. We are pardoned, re stored and have peace with God through faith in Christ:...“BE ING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD.” It is a blessed peace to be re stored to lost favor. Through Justification we are restored to Divine favor. Here is a practical illustration. Have you ever of fended a loved one or a close friend? If so, then you ought fication. A loss of favor with a loved one or friend brings in tense agony and pain. You could not rest as long as the relation ship was broken. You longed for acceptance and restoration. There were sleepless nights. There were intensely anxious days for you. In fact there was no peace until the reconciliation WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS” The decision to permit Chiang Kai-shek to invade Chinfke main land, if he wishes, posei econ omic problemi receiving close attention in Washington. • • * The prime pnrpose at tha de- ciaion was to «ncoiira(e action to end (he Korean War, and loaa of American] lives. * * * But in the at tainment of this worthy ob- jective, new probtomi oan and wUl arise. * • • One of them; "Has Chlanrl learned to quit C. W. Hardtr ■uckInK egcs?” When head of China, his in4aws, the fabalona Soonfs, held snch a monopoly oa Chinese Industry and business that It was referred to as the “Soonc Dynasty”. * * The Soongs had closer ties with British interests, because Brit ain has no anti-trust laws such as America, to hinder British monopolies entering into unholy cartel alliances. • • * So Chlanc escaped to Formosa, bat British cartels contlnoe to do bnslness with China even while Americans and Britons die. * * * Today two 64-doilar questions are asked about China, if Ciiiang overthrows Communists. • • • 1. Will Chlanc enooorage free enterprise or restore system that lead to Commnnlsm. 2. If he does try to set up free enterprise, will British monopolists aided by American connecUons permit itT • • • In rubber, petroleum, li^t metals, and chemicals, there Is a great deal of evidence that some American firms have under standing with British firms to control markets: ^ WtUoMl Ptdmtlan Bf bmtnma By C. WIISON HARDER Washlnirt" ^irther in- vestlsationi, -«di of premimed i ween American fi. i mon- opolles. Con... k-China trade, ^ns L protests afainat Administra.iDn’s foreign poUoy, may be aronslng ire. * • * Not the least at this informa tion would be facts on who pressured MacArthur ouster. • * • '.ny hold Us work in Japan In Breaking op ac»old cartels mnJ introdiMlar free enterprise to Japan waa Us greatest aoUevemeat. Since Us removal, Japanese earths again wax strong, and one time Inflnltessl- miU Japanese commnnlst party is becoming a big factor. ^ * On the surface, it appears gov- •nunent becomes more acutely aware of the problem of monop oly business, and anti-trust law enforcement. • • • For example, the Senate and Honae Small Bnslness Commit tees have been reappointed, * * * But on Ibe negative side, the House Judiciary Committee has dropped its special Monopoly Subcommittee. • * • This committee, headed by creator, Emmannei Celler, (D., N. T.) did outstanding work on tlie alumlnom and newsprint sit uation. * * * Many Congressmen report that they are flnding that Independent businessmen are not alone in their alarm with concentration of economic ix>wer into a few mon opoly enterprises, and lax en forcement of anti-trust laws. • • • They report that farming, wUte ooUar, and laboring peo ple are vaioing alarm over the aitnaUon. Some feel it is reach ing crusade proportions; may well beoom* major Issue of 1S54 was made. Nothing could satisfy you but to be restored to the favor of the friend or the loved one. In like manner the sinner cannot find true peace until he 6r she is restored to the Divine favor...“Justified by faith...we have peace with God...” Thus the (ieepest and most abiding peace of the himian soul comes when the soul is justified in the sight of God. What a message we have here for our troubled times! All hu man schemes leave us exhausted and in confusion. We are at our wits endl We have come to dead-end. Education, economic power, and political strategies have left us stranded. We are still lost. We have a little peace and an abundance of choas. We must find God! We must make peace with God. We are lost be cause we have lost God. We are lost because we have not been justified before God. WE MUST BE JUSTIFIED—RE STORED TO THE DIVINE FA VOR! This is a part of the act of getting right with God. There is nothing like right to get us right before God. A lie cannot get you right. The truth can! We have found no synthetic pro duct to take the place of TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS! There is no hope nor salvation until we get in the right relationship with God. A sinful world, nation or individual must get right with God. How is it done? It Is done by detaching yourself from sin and attaching yourself to God...“JUSTIFIED BY FAITH... WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD.” If you are chained, shackled, bound or imprisoned by sin, you can have your fr^dom. How stupid to remain a slave when you can be set free. God’s bless ed plan of Emancipation is re vealed in Christ and his cross. This is God’s plan for healing and restoring a SINFUL RACE... “THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEA’TH.... "THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAt LIFE...” Henderson Shriners Open Beauty Contest HENDERSON Imran Temple No. 168, An cient Egyptain Arabic Order No bles of the Mystic Shrine of Henderson, launched its annual Talent and Beauty Pageant ac tivities recently with a “Kick Off” program. The program was held in the Henderson Institute Cafeteria with Noble R. L. Shepard, Past Potentate and De puty of the Oasis presiding. Noble Arthur R. Dees, Pa geant Director, out lined plans for the pageant and challenged the Temple to give Its full sup- Ky See Shriners, Page Seven WITfflN And AMONG Alfred F. Andersen Dear fellow seekers..^.... Perhaps there are those who would follow our reasoning here to the point of granting the mo ral necessity of and Overall Mo ral necessity of an Overall Mo- requires commitment to the thesis of a personal God. In answer to this 1 rei)ly that order has no meaning apart from its being administered; further that the precise mining of—€tod as here used is as administrator of the Moral Order. Take a simple case of man- made laws. We have on the books of some states laws which _are no longer enforced, laws which were pertinent to a past situation but which today are ridiculous. Do such laws still affect the ordering of the affairs of men? Of course not. Law ond order is only effected as the laws are enforced and made manifest in the activities of those to whom they nominally apply. Order in the family, in the community, in any human institution depends on the eternal vigilance of ad> ministrators who step in to ad minister the appropriate con sequence to every deviation of the law. This is the commonest of knowledge to mature parents but is no less applicable to all levels of human organization. In fact the very meaning of a law exists in the administration of it. Vety few people ever read the written law. They know that the important thing is the way it is administered. To be sure, if they judge the administration to~be unjust, thep they seek every means to change this. Including pointing to the law as written. But all such effort is designed to change the final impo|[tant fact: the law as administered. When we speak of natural law we tend to forget this im portant fact. We tend to forget that mature human Experience indicates that order in the af fairs of men requires eternal vi gilance. Can you imagine the comprehension and sensitivity required to administer the na tural laws to effect the order we call Nature? Just meditate on this a moment, fellow seeker; try to conceive of the order of consciousness which would be required to see to it that every time the idea “move big toe” came into a mind somewhere the another in the manner necessary appropriate electrical and bio logical processes followed one within a split second. I must con fess that such meditation sends me into mystic adventures of wonder and reverence. No won der that for many their God has been the God of nature. But if the natural order re quires such expert alertness and sensitivity what of the Moral Order? What of the sensitivity and the overall Influence re quired to administer the moral laws? Meditate on this, fellow seekers, and then ask yourself whether you can, conceive of a Moral Order apart from a Moral Orderer? And while we are at it, let us try to get a deeper inMght into what the nature of such a Moral Order would have to be to satisfy our most elementary sense of reasonableness. If such a Moral Order, such a God, were required of our thesis can we conceive of God administering the Moral Laws apart from the natimil laws? Don’t the natural laws work hand in hand with the Moral Laws and grow into and out of one another? Good ness and Beauty are kin and their parent is the One God of both natural and moral order! That is, if we are commiting our selves to the thesis: there is a Moral Order....we are logically required to .include the thesis that the Moral Orderer orders the phenomenal world as well and Imds the moral touch to everything within life's experi ence. It means that if we commit ourselves to the God thesis we commit oiu'selves to the included thesis)that Ck>d “speaks” to us through our senses as well as our consciences; It means interpre ting every life experience of every sort as in part a communi cation from God (and in part a communication from some as pect of Nature). It brings God very very close! In many ways uncomfortably close! It makes us weigh this commitment very carefully. We have tried to show that there comes a point in the good life when a Moral Orderer is re quired to nnake sense of our own morality. We have consider ed, therefore, commiting our selves and our lives to this the sis; “'God is”. We have been ex ploring the objections to this thesis and have tried to show that they melt away into irra tionality. In the process we have trie4 to show what the implica tions of the God thesis are and some of the plausibilities of it. Thus we have it. But it is as nothing apart from commitment to live it and test it in going life. Let each one inspect his own conscience and make his own choice; but whatever the choice may be, pray let us make it in action and not just in words. KNOW YOUR HISTORY- Editor’s Note: Dr. W. Sher man Savage, writer of this col umn, is professor of History at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri. One of the persons who dis played an important part in the political history of the state of Kansas was Edward P. McCabe. Who his parents were is not made available to us by the documents. He, however, was bom in the city of Troy, New York, in 1839. McCllbe was carried by his parents after a short stay in Ttoy,' to Fall River, Massachusetts. The parents seemed to be seeking a place to live or at least seeking a place where they could be pro- fitabley employed. Their next move was to Newport, Rhode Island. At Newport, McCabe began his struggle for an education. He was sent by his parents to Bangor, .Maine, to attend the public schools of that city. The family was still on the move and went next to San Francisco. This was a short stay for his father died after over a year in the West. The family, th«i moved back to Newport where he had to assume part of the responsi bility for the family and school was for the time forgotten. He began to work for a com mercial firm in New YoMc, and during his leisure time, he added to his meager education. After some time, he left New Yorhl and went to Chicago and became a part of the Caravan then mov-> ing West. He secured work with a constructioa^ company, the Potter Palmer Construction Company. His next work was that of a clerkship in the trea surer’s office of Cook County, 111. He kept this position and apparently did well for he re mained in it for two years. In 1879; Negroes be^n to movje In large numbers froml Tennessee, Mississippi, Loulsl-' ana, and Georgia to Kansas. This migration was led by Pap Sin-> gleton who went through these states talking of free land in Kansas. This seemed that these Negroes had found what they had been seeking since the se curing of their freedom. Many of those who came to Kansas had not prepared for the change of surrounding. They had to be helped by the many cities through which they happened to pass. Some could go on further and settle in St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, and other cities Most of these Negroes did reach Kan sas and settled in^Grilhemi County and others. Graham got the most of the first migration. This Is the county in which Ni- codemus is located. It was a city which was operated wholly by Negroes. The inhabitants lived first as a community and all used from what was produced, but this was abandoned after two years and each assumed his own reqiransibillty. In this migration to Kansas, McCabe came. He was prosper ous and active in politics. In 1884, he was elected state audi tor and that without the support of Governor St. John, who had done so much to help the Ne groes adjust themselves on this agricultural frontier. He was elected again in 1886 with a ma jority larger than the one in 1884. He still is the only Negro who has been elected to a state financial office in any state in the American Union. His work was of such a natiure that the state , Republican convention passed a resolution commending his work. « Edward McCabe became a candidate for the Registrar of Treasury and was strongly en dorsed by his senators and re presentatives from his state. In spite of this he was not appoint ed but refused the position of immigration inspector ^t Key West, Flojrida. McCabe soon after moved to See History, Page Seven
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