2,000 EXPECTED AT MUSIC FESTIVAL
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Hastie Warns Negroes Against
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VOLUME 31—NCMBEB 11
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1954
PSIOB !• WtMTf
Although Unable To Write
Negro Convicted of Forgery
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Court history an unusual
type was made here last Fri
day when a 31-year-old man
who can’t write was convicted
of forgery.
According to the District
Attorney’s office, John D.
Daniel of Port Huron, Michi
gan made an “X’ on a govern
ment* check belonging to some
one else to the amount of $97.50
and cashed It. Therefore the dis
trict attorney said he Is guilty
of forgery.
Daniel was sentenced to 11
months and 29 days in jail for
the offense and has already
started serving his term.
llie Court reasonwl that if a
man’s “X" mark is acceptable in
cashing a check that does be
long to him it must also be recog
nized for cashing a check that
does not belong to him. He
therefore must be held responsi
ble the same as if he could read
and write.
The Army's new M-59 ar- atomic defense maneuver that is
moured personnel carrier which
travels on land or through
water it being used on Exercise
FLASH BURN, the 60,000 man
now underway in the Fort
Bragg-Camp Mackall area of
North Carolina. The large scale
maneuver is being directed by
Lt. General A. R. Bolling, com
manding general of the Third
Army.
NOT FOR PUBLICMION
It didn’t get in the papers at
the time but following the dance
that was given in Raleigh recent
ly by the Deltas, a young profes
sional man of Durham was near
ly frantic when he is said to have
caught his wife in a compromiS'
ing position with another “wo-
’ man.” Said be in desperation
"I have been suspecting it all
along, so 1 caught her tonight.”
He grabbed a cab and ordered
the driver to overtake some
friends who had just left for
Durham. The cou^e have not
been seen together lately and
the two who have never appear
ed too closely yoked together
anyway, may be heading for the
divorce courts soon.
It probably will n«ver be
published but the Negro press
was most unusually kind to'the
N. C. College psofessor who
barely escaped with his hide re
cently when it Was whiq>ered
around the campus that he was
about to become a fattier, out
side the bonds of matrimony and
with one of his students as the
other party to his much discuss
ed clandestine love affair. The
young woman in question is said
to have finally denied the ru
mor before NCC officials and
placed the blame of her condi
tion on a student. Students at
NCC are winking their eyes at
thexnrclves. They believe the
whole outcome of the hearing
was fixed.
The very, very prominent
businessman who wa« mentioned
in this column last week as hav
ing an occasional bout with his
"missus,” is not the young profes
sional man who brought un
timely sorrow to |iis lather’s
home on account of ^eating his
wife. That story was so tragic
at the time, we put it in deep
freeze to keep it from being
published. _
It is not for publication but
there is much dissatisfaction
over the manner in which the
Negro Candidate -for County
Commissioner was selected.
There appears to be non BgitnBt
the candidate per se who will
be one of the fmr, If net th* fint
to get the blessings of the t)ur'
ham Committee on Negro Af'
fairs without coming through
the front door. Heretofore pro
spective candidates have been
warned to present themselves
before the Committee for ap
proval before jumping into a
campaign. This time the candi
date is said to have been will
ingly pushed into the race by
one or two men who themselves
would resent the same method
being used for any of the un
favored.
Some men are good at pulling
teeth, some are good at pulling
fodder and others are good at
pulling boners. Then there are
those who get pulled for speed
ing and still others who have
pull. If you have that pull and
don’t pull a boner it may be
possible, in spite of it aU to pull
enough folks out on election day
to pull you into office.
Althoui^ it diln’t appear in
releases sent out from North
Carolina College nor in the col
lege paper. The Campus Echo,
scheming biggies have moved
the dance from the Fine Arts
department to the Physical Edu
cation department where it used
to be years ago and where the
white. folks wanted it. They
used to say all n....can dance and
sing. Why teach them the kind
of dancing that will develop
their cultural side? So, narry a
penny was appropriated for the
work. Miss Alaveta Hutson,
talented and hard working
dance Instructor at N.C.C. may
get the last laugh yet. She has
won a Fulbright fellowship to
study abroad.
A and Ts Coach, Big Bill
Bell, has bought himseU a farm
and is now raising pigs. Bill
might leam ere it is too long
that there is more to tiie kind of
pigskin thfat has chitterlings on
the inside of it than one Inflated
with air that starts escaping the
minute you start losing too many
games.
Before school cIoms we will
recap the record of those in
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Last Ritcis Held
For Mrs. Stella
Harris Tuesday
The last rites for Mrs. Stela
Small Harris, widow of the late
James C. Harris of Fayetteville
Road, were held at the grave
side, here Tuesday, April 20 at
11:00 A. M. with Reverend Fred
J. Hunter, Rector of St. Titus
Episcopal Church, officiating.
Mrs. Harris was born in
Nansemond County, near Hol
land, Virginia June 8, 1874,~the
s^ond daughter of Joseph and
Rebecca Small. Until about 10
ygars ago, when she moved to
Durham with her husband, she
lived in Portsmouth, Virginia.
For a long niunber of years
she was a member of St. James
P. E. Church of Portsmouth and
at the time of her passing was a
communicant of St. Ttius P. E.
Church here in Durham.
Surviving are five children as
follows: James Harris, Cleve
land, Ohio; Rencher Harris, Mrs.
Stella Cleland and Miss Mary
Jane Harris, Durham. Several,
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
Uurinburg Inst.
Suspended From
NCNHSA Assn.
ROCKY MOUNT
The Commissioner of Athle
tics, Dr. W. T. Armstrong an
nounced today that Laurinbiurg
Institute, Laurinburg, N. C., a
member of the North Carolina
High School Athletic Associa
tion, had been placed under in
definite suspension from its
rolls as a result of a wilful vio
lation of the athletic code. In
making the announcement the
Commissioner stated that this
suspension had come as result
of this school’s participation in
an out-of-state tournament with
out express permission from this
office. At the same time it was
stated that all member schools
had been advised of this sus
pension and that no school could
engage in athletic activity with
the suspended member until
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Asa T. Spanlding, prominent
business man of Darham, who
annonneed his candldaejr last
Saturday for a seat on the
Durham Board of County
Commlsaloners. The Prtanary
will be held Saturday, May
29. Mr. Spaulding Js well-
known In boBlnesa, church,
civlG and social circles of Dur
ham and he te expected to
make a formidable
WASHINGTON. D.C
Federal'”Judge ~William“ H.
Hastie predicted a rather ex
tensive integration of one seg
ment of the Negro population in
to community life in an address
at Howard University Monday
night (April 12), but at the same
time, the noted jurist warned
this group against any compla
cency which would cause it to
lose concern for other Negroes
and Americans generally.
Judge Hastie, a member of the
V- S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pa.,
was the principal speaker at
•eremonies honoring 16 new
members of the Howard Chapter
ef Phi Beta Kappa, national
honorary scholastic society.
Declaring that it is a “common
disease of the democratic spirit”
to accept American society as a
self-winding mechamism or a
self-perpetuating scheme. Judge
Hastie said, "The high suscepta-
bihty of persons relatively com
fortable and secure in their
family lives associations points
up a very special danger of our
jt^es which seems bound to
a|fect more and more Negroes
in the years ahead.
‘‘In the past, the well-educat
ed Negro,,even if relatively se
cure, no less than his less-edu-
cated or less-secure brother was
actually treated like an alien and
a.pariah in his own country. If
•nly to retain personal pride and
human dignity he had to stay
in the struggles to make a more
decent society,” he said, “but I
see ahead a rather extensive in
tegration of what was once call
ed the “talented tenth” of the
Negro population into the gene
ral life of the community. The
(i^nger ia that this process be at*
tended by loss of primary con-
cei;^ for the defects and injus
tices of our society as they af
fect other Negroes and other
people genneraUy.”
Judge Hastie, who was for
merly dean of the School of Law
at Howard and, at one time.
Governor of the Virgin Islands,
listed the beginning of effective
mobilization and action against
slum living, and the reordering
of living to eliminate artificial
barriers of origin, face, and re
ligion as ways in wiiich com
munity services can be render
ed. “The field is broad,” he said,
“and each of us can find some
thing to do, something as in
teresting to the door as it iff
valuable to his fellowmen.”
Declaring that people who are
now strangers because oi the
present caste and class struct
ures can be brought together by
a common interest. Judge Has
tie said, “ I think it is very im
portant that we seize every such
opportunity to make common
cause with other Americans. For
until we have close hmnan as
sociation with people who have
problems different from our
own and whose outlook on life
is colored by a different body
of experiences, we don’t know
the American scene.”
Judge Hastie paid tribute to
the Howard Phi Beta Kappa
chapter, saying that it is a sym
bol of the reality of first-class
education in a scholarly commu
nity where the majority of the
faculty and the majority of the
students are Negroes.
He referred to Ralph Bunche,
Percy Julian, and Charles
Houston — all former faculty
members at Howard — as in
tellectual trailblazers during the
first half-century, saying that
their t^e of leadership was
based on genuine scholarship.
“With the trail thus blazed,”
he stated, “the second half of the
Twentieth Century should be the
period during which superior
scholarship and achievement
based upon it become for the
first time really widespread
among American Negroes.
“Every scholarly and well-
trained Negro will not have the
opportunity, even if he should
have the genius, to be a Bunche,
or a Houston, or a Julian, to
mention three Phi Beta Kappans,
but he will have the fundamental
ejiuipment both to make some
area of American life better and
the status of his race, by so
much, higher and more secvu-e,”
Judge Hastie concjhided.
Judge Hastie was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst Col
lege in 1924.
Pictured abj^ve are scenes of the Moore Bible Class of White Bock Baptist Chnreh of Darham,
the Reverend Miles Mark Fisher, pastor. The t op photo is that ot the class assembled ia front pt
the church last Sunday morning. W. J. Kennedy, Jr., is teacher. The center and bottom ph«t«a
are scenes of a dinner, given by the teacher and hi s family last Friday night at the Algonqnin Gink,
honoring: the members. During the dinner a program was rendered with Mrs. Kouedy extending
a word of welcome. Responses were given by M rs. Crusoe Geer and E. W. Midgette. A duet waa
rendered by Sylvia and Kenny Sloan. J. W. Goodloe gave the history of the class. A solo was
rendered by Mrs. Margaret Kennedy Goodwin. Final remarks were by J. M. Schooler, snperiaten-
dent and J. C. Hubbard, assistant teacher. N. B. White, class president, served as toastmaster.
Mammoth Concert Features Annual
Music Confob Here Fridoy, April 30
DR. HELEN G. EDMONDS
DR. J. S. HIMES
Three North Carolina College
Professors Get Postgraduate
Fellowships From Fullbright Group
Three Nprth Carolina College
professors have been granted
postgraduate fellowships.
To study in Europe are Miss
Alaveta Hutson, c^irman of
the department of dance and Dr.
Helen G. Edmonds, professor of
history.
Dr. Joseph Sfndy Himes, Jr.,
professor of sociology, will use
his award from the Fund for the
Advancement of Education to
pursue a self-directed course of
study at the University of Cali
fornia, Berkeley, California.
Also included among the institu
tions at which he will study are
the University of Washington,
Stanford University, and the
University of Southern Cali
fornia.
Miss Hutson, a former perfor
mer with the Katherine Dun
ham dancers, will use her Tul-
bright Scholarship for one year’s
study at the University of Paris.
Dr. Edmonds, author of “Fu
sion Politics in North Carolina”,
will study at Heidelberg Univer
sity in Germany. Her project
wiU study the impact of the his
torian Von Ranke’s ideas of his
tory on world conflict as ap
plied to the German people dur
ing the past 10 years.
Miss Hutson, a native of Wil-
mli^on, Del, received an A.B.
at Howard, and an A.M. at New
York University, and she has
done postgraduate and special
stu^y at Connecticut College and
NYU. She was in (California and
Mexico in the summer oif 1952
'attending international dance
conferences.
Dr. Himes is a Pfil Beta Kapp*
t graduate of Oberlin College who
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Some two thousand North
Carolina high school students
and teachers of music are ex
pected in Durham on Friday,
April 30, tor the aiuiual Music
Association Festival.
The North Carolina College
at Durham will serve as host
to the group.
Hillside High School's cafeteria
will provide meals. 'v-
The highlight of the day’s
program will be a i
concert in North Carolina Col
lege’s Men’s Gymnasium at 7.45
p. m. Friday.
Samuel W. Hill, director of
North Carolina College’s 85
voice mixed choriis. Is coordina-'
tor of the program.
The day’s program is qwn-
sored by the North Carolina
Music Teachers Association.
Mrs. Elmma KeUy of Ligon Hi^
School, Raleigh, is the organisa
tion’s president.
High school choruses, includ
ing mixed groups and special
mens and womens groups, solo
ists, and pianists are aU pro
grammed.
Registration for the day’s {tfo-
B. N. Duke Auditorium,
gram begins at 9:30 a.m. in the
Rehearsals of mixed choruses
from "A” (larger high schools)
and “B” (smaller high schools)
will be held between 10:30 and
12 noon.
A piano contest is scheduled
between 12:00 noon and 1:00
p.m.
Rehearsal of “A” and
Gle«^ Clubs will be held
twera 2: 00 and 4:00 pjn.
Massed rehearsals are
between 4:00 and 5:00
with a social hour betwseu li'M
and 6:00 p.m.
At the 7:4S concert, all q( ttai
musicians will be prrssated la
special productions that hm«
been rehearsed during the day.