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I PAS&TWO THK OAJtOUNA TIMES ftATUBDAY. JAN. 1, 1155 LOYALTY WIIHOUTAPKECUIION You read in the columns want to know what manner For people 1^ defiant a^d of tiM Carolina Tiroes lart of citizens are these Negroes respectful of the Constitution, that a House Un-Amer- in the United States that they the Congress and the Su- iciln Activities Committee can withstand such ■ insults preme Court of the United reports that the Com- and abuses and stiU remain States, under the Smith Act, -munists have been unable to loyal to their countoy. Also have been jailed for seeking taifiltnte and control the Ne- you will probably rec»ll that the overthrow of the govem- gro papulation of the United these same peo^€ who' are ment of this country, iitates. The Committee went now so determined to prevent We think Governor Tal on further to say; ‘The fact the Negro from receiving full madge of Georgia, Governor that the Communist Party citizenship in the United Byrnes of South Carolina, has experienced so little sue- States, although not Com- Governor White of Miss- cess in attra^ng the Ameri- mimists, are descendants of issippi. Governor Stanley of can Negro t{>it8 cause can on- the same people who attempt- Virginia and all others who ly r^&et^avorably on the ed to overthrow, with vio- are supporting them should loyalUr and integrity of these lence, the gbvemment of this be arrested and jailed under country. tthe Smith Act for stirring up You read the week before You will then not be sur- ^ overthrow . the columns of the Cait,- Pr«ed to know that flagrant- the Sv^m- lina Times that a sheriff in dehberately and with United States Florida had ousted the chil- malicious intent these same t" tw^nne^the nation dren of a white famUy be- People are now screammg to It l^t show its an- cau^ they posseped N^o ^3"“^ pr«iatlon for the fifteen nul- features. You also read m o”® breath and are Negroes in the that same issue of the Caro- vowing in the ne^ that blood United States who for near- l™ Times tlyt the N.Uon- wlU flow In iSL ^He al Counal of Churches of ^®y will obey the ruung of withstand the insults and ^u^^ of Chmt in the Court of their the South and its Umted Stetes Md the Pro- try. denial to them of first-class testwt Episcopal Churw are you ask us now, who is the citizenship without capitu- calimg for support of the Su- most loyal American citizen lating to the onslaughts of pr^e Court s decision l»n- South, the southern Communism. We think their ning^ Stregation in pubhc man or the southern loyalty is not only to be Negro? ITie question, we praised but that it is a thing After you read these ac- think, has already been an- of beauty to behold, counts you probably will swer^ in no uncertain terms. A NEW 1YPE OF LEADERSHIP FOtnSS an insurrection and deliber- On several occasions dux- sidewalk is imder it. that ought to be zooming to ing 1954 we have written edi- There are also too many torials concerning the lack of Negro leaders in high places interest among^^ citizens here, as there are in ^y of Durham in increasing their other cities of the state, who g^^owing fat and their pockets voting power, their refusal to are playing ball with the op- with filthy Juwe. inq>lement the program to pressors for personal gain and When the p^ple w^t^ to have the unsightly coal jards prestige while the rank and j Baptwt for removed from Pettigrew file, as well as many trained V* v? Street, to secure Negro dep- Negroes, walk the streets in ® Chnst he cri^ uty sh^ffs, their lethargy in quest of jobs. This newspa- ? ’ must mcre^e, bttt se^g more and better em- ^r is in position to put its ^ decrease.” WeU might sloyment in other county and finger on many of these so- eter^ lesson munid^ oifices and the gen- called leaders who keep the eral lethargy that is begin- wires hot and make nufner- stitution to m^e^e is for the ning to creep over them in ous trips into the camp of the ^ j i 5 ^ JLa dedicated to a task that they several other matters of vital high and the mighty merely importance to their general for the sake of raking in a are willing to debase that it fow hi,or thousands increase. When that is welfare. few hundreds or thousands Life Is Like That ' BY H. ALBERT SMpH . , # 1 * * for themselves. It i?/flie same history never fails to It appe^ here of late that g^uff that soUt Hhe race mmortathze their names, wa- we here m ^h^ are los- ^own the river y^s ago. The "»d fertihzing th«n as mg some of the vision, wur- differenced, they have the years come^d go, so that T Pressed by and do things longer we hve the bigger the forefathers w^gwe^ in ^ ^o^e dignified and^!?^yget . suph organizati;jK?^'as the What Durham needs is a new NortliCarcJina' Mutual Life ^ birth of leadership that is InsunHlCC Company, Me- As a result instead of giants more interested in advancing chaidcs and Farmers Bank, like W. G. Pearson, John Mer- the program of the whole Nerth Carolina College, Bank- rick, Dr. A. M..Moore, C. C. than feasting at the fleshpots ers Fire Insurance Company, Spaulding, J. K Shepard, R. of the enemy. Durham needs Southern Fidelity, Mutual L. McDougald and John M. a branch of the National As- Savings and Loan, Union In- Avery, Durham, except is one soclfktion for the Advance- surance and Realty, Dunbar or two places, is becoming in- ment of Colored People with Realty and other organi- fested with a bunch of little a membership of 5,000, it zations that have made Dur- power drunk, overstuffed py- needs 3,000 i^ore Negro jobs, ham the center of Negro pro- gmies whose biggest claim to it needs more participation of gress in America. There are fame is strutting, poking their Negroes in the policy-making very few men or women in chests out and singing a con- bodies of the city and county. Durham today who have the tinuous solo about I, ME and To get these things it must courage 4o put—4oot MYSELF. As a result, several have intelligent, oourageous dewn unless they know the of the instlutions in Durham and unselfish leadership. THE TRUE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD races in reaching a conclus- sion about wnat to do, not on ly about the Supreme Court’s ruling but about all matters pertaining to our fellow- men. The tendency to assume the attitude that God intend ed me and mine to have some special privilege or place in the world or that I and mine are members of a superior race gets us nowhere. Cer tainly if nearly three hundred years of slavery could not drive into a people the im- holy belief that God intended them to be foot mats for oth ers, it is impossible to do so now. The Negro wants to live in peace and love with every body. He does not want to en croach upon the personal ter ritory of anyone nor does he want anyone to encroach up on his. He thinks, however, that when he is required to pay taxes and give his life to maintain and preserve De mocracy, he has a right to enjoy it to the same extent as others who are doing the same thing. God being his maker he does not intend to take his eyes off that goal whatever the lot or how long it will take him to obtain it. He knows that right is on his side and that sooner or later the From the Southern Patriot organ of the Southern Con ference Educational Fund, comes a story of true brother hood, the type we would like to see exhibited here in Dur ham and the rest of North Carolina pn the matter of segregation, not only in schools but in every other phase of endeavor. We reprint “for me to take half of the produce, ia view of the fact that my brother has a wife and children to support while I have none.” > Quietly he arose, went to his granary, took a great deal of his grain and car ried it to his brother’s gran ary. That same night his bro ther could not sleep, either. He also thought it was un- Some of na will fall upon our knee* on the morning of the first day of the N«fw Year and thank God tor havinc blessed na dnrins 1954, and permlttinc u» to bei;in an other year’s Jonmey In our pUKTlmate on earth. And, as well, we shall bOMech the continuance of hia lovlnf care and protection thronch the days Qiat lie ahead. But It Is doubtful if all'of us who make such a prayer rise from our knees to face Tne New Year with radiant confid ence and a lively faith free from fret, worry and anxiety. There will be those who hav ing asked will not have faith enough to trast all to God. And, as they have done in the past, they will face each to morrow of the New Year tor tured with worry and anxiety, facing problems and carrying bnrdens existing only in their feyerish tanaginatlons, and waatlng preclone energies In deailiag with troubles and atfttealtles which may never be (heirs to confront. For those inclined to fret and worry about the future need lessly frittering away and wast ing precious time tuid energy and endangering health of body, mind and spirit, there is a bit of practical New Testament philo sophy they would do well to consider. “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the mor row shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient un to the day la the ^evll there of.” The Standard Revised version of the Bible expresses the idea: “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrpw, for tomorrow will be anxious for Itself. Let the day’s own trouble be suf ficient for the day. 1 gather from those words that their Divine Anther meant the advise us to live one day at a time, to adjust ourselves to present realities and to cease fighting imagin ary foes. _ A noted student of life, John Homer MUler, tells the story of an old errot kept in a cage hung over the door of a hunting club in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. M guests went in and out, the old parrot would say with great dignity and courage, “One at a time, gentlemen, one at a time.” They were the onl words he knew. One day he escaped and wand^ed off into the moan* tains. A searching party tqani him some days later Jun In the nick ef time. He had wan dered Inte a hemests’ nest and they were fiercely stinging him. Standing with his head high and with dignity and courage, the old pareot was shrieking at the top of his voice: “One at a time, gentle men, one at a time.” Mr. Miller emphasized that the words of the old parrot “ex emplifies the mental attitude to ward life which you must have if you would live effectively and peacefully in our modem world.” “If you can take yoor trou bles as they comen>can main tain yeur calm and composure amid your pressing-.dutles and unending engagements, and rise above the distressing and disturbing circumstances In which you are set down, you have discovered a priceless secret of dally living.” Edwin Markham, noted parti cularly for the poems, “The Man With The Hoe” and Lin coln, The Man Of The People,” was asked one day what he would advise the i>erson who desired to live more effectively each day. He responded: “I wonld say that many years _ of discipline and experience have taught me that life is so arranged that It never calls upon os to live more than one day at the time. When I get up in the morning, I take a comprehensive view of the day ahead of me, and settle down to face one problem at a time.” Edward Everett Hale once said, “Never attempt to laear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people Taear three kinds, all they have had, all they have now, and all they ex pect to have.” Now, that Is covering a whole lot of days — the yesterdays, the todays, and ttte tmorrows. The human mind is not con stituted to cover so many days at one and the same time. To attempt it is to invite frustra tion, Ineffectiveness, defeat, disaster. Yet, some ef us spend practically every day trying to accomplish this impossible task. Yesterday’s failures, lost op portunities and disappointments are ever present in our thought. We see that we could have done that, or could have done this. But what a waste of time and energy! It is like trying to re cover youtliful years long since past. Wishing yon hadn’t done it doesn’t help the present situa tion. Neither does wishing you had. Then, there are too many of us who neglect the present to concentrate on tomorrow. “What will be my lot in old age? How will my children turn out? What if I should get siek? What if my eMipanien should die? Suppose a depres sion comes? Such questions are our constant worry. Well, meeting tomorrow’s reali ties is as futile as dealing with those of the i>ast. .Nobody can deal with wiiat is not. You can’t shovel snow before it falls. Neither past nor future can be dragged into the present. (Please turn to Page Seven) COUNTUY Spiritual FAaNC THE FUTURE COURACEOUSCY'^ BY REVE^m HAROLD ROLAND Peutor, MiptuU Gilead Bapdat Church . “1 leave the past behind 1 . . . and with hands out stretched to, whatever lies 1 before . T'.’^hll. 3:14. RING OUT THE OLD! RING IN THE NEW! Another mUes- stone^ in life’s fleeting journey has passed into Eternity. It is locked up. It is gone! Its too late to do anything about it. We have one less year to live. One year nearer the end of life’s little sometimes tearful and heartrending drama. What is life but a smile and a tear. And then the end! All .too soon its time to go! Now we face the New Year, an unknown future! . . . LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND . . Leave the old year behind with its tears, heart aches, sorrows, joy, noble thoughts and lovely deeds, fail ures and sins: Now we all face a New Year! One chapter is closed In the book of life. Now yen face the writing of another clMp- ■ ter in the book of life. Start right! Offer yourself in a high and Holy Consecration made wiser by the mistakes and sins of the past. And now . . . “With ontstretched hands to whatever lies ahead . . .” May I suggest a way to face courageously Uhis unfolding fu ture of the New Year. 'How? There is only one way! Walk with God and you can face the New Year courageouslyv Read the word ef God. Take . time to be hely! Worship at least onee a week in the bless ed fellowdilp of God’s people in God’s house. There is no substitute for, fellowship In the houw of God. A prayerful reading of a chap ter of God's word daily will KEEP- THE DEVIL AWAY! You will have something to uplift and enrich your soul daily. Yes, this is the secret of facing this UNKNOWN FUTURE OF THE NEW YEAR COURAGEOUS LY!' Try it! It will work won ders for you! In doing this you will be able to meet the mo ments, minutes, hours, days and months of the New Year cour ageously. The fruits will be the inner strength of an UNSHAKE- ABLE FAITH! And yon can go forward . . t “With oat- stretched arms to whatever lies before . . .” Thus with the inner power of God’s spirit you can face with a stout heart and brave soul what ever the New Year may bring as your share or allottment of life. We don’t know what’s in store for us. But with God we will be ready for anything. Then you can say to life in the New Y'ear: COME ON I AM READY! Why? You will have power to DO AND TO ENDURE ANYTHINOI Then you will be ready for tears, trouble, sickness, sorrow and death! We all will write an we and a different chapter in the BOO KOF LIFE! Tmly the new year will be a new chap- teVl Hw and what will I write? Bemeinl>er yon ai(e writing for tlme'utS What you write wUl stand in the* book of life for or agtdnst you. So beware what you write!! Let us write in peace and not in conflict, faith not in doubt, and in love and not in hate! Remember tMs could be the last chapter in the book of life. For some it is going to be the last chapter. For some are numbered on God’s roll call for the New Year. You have al ready written the opening chap ter. And thls ccmld be ttie last chater. So let us all write well this chapter of the NEW YEAR IN THE BOOK OP LIFE. Let us all trust God and faee the unfolding future of the New Year courageously. STRAIGHT AHEAD By OLIVE A. ADAMI WASHINGTON ANn SMALL BUSINESS” the story below with the hope that Durham, North Carolina and the rest of the South may - fair for him to take half of learn a lesson on this import- the crop, in view of the fact ant item that is so sorely needed in the hour of decision tx)w facing the South on the matter of abolishing segrega tion in public schools. Once upoii a time, many thousand of years ago, there lived tjfo brothers in the land of Israel to whom their fatlm* beq««ath«^ a field which they tilled to gether in partnership. One of then was nnmair^d, and the other niarricd with children. They lived togetiiar hap pily in brotherhood and shared equally whatever God gave them. At harvest time they divided the pro duce of the field and stored it, each in ids own granary. One night, after storing his com and wheat, the un married brother could not sleep. “It’s nnfair,” he thought. that his brother was un married, had no one to help him in the field, and would have no one to take care of him in his old age. Quietly he arose at night, took some of his grain and secretly brought it to his brother’s granary. The next morning they found to their surprise that each had the same amount of com and wheat despite the fact that he had taken sopie to his brother. The next night they started out to do the same thing but in the full moonlight they met each other and saw what they were doing. They fell upon each other’s neck and cried with joy and pride in each other’s goodness and loyalty. Here we think is a shining time will come when he will example of the type of atti- be accepted as a brother by ] tude that is need^ by both all men and not as a servant. SATURDAY JANUARY 1,1955 L. E. AUSTIN Publisher CLATHAN M. BjOSS, Editor n Af.REKT SMITH Editor M. E. JOHNSON, Business Manager jnBBSE COFIELD, Circnlation Manager No (uarwitM ot publlcattoo of iiinoHcHx) mate rial. Lcttar* to ttia adltor tor pubUcatlon must ba •tsnad and condoad to SOO wocda. ■atardajr br ttia UIOTXD poratad at SU B. Patagiaw >t attar at Ifea Po« Otttim mte tha Act a Manti fSrlT^rf SubMTiirtkm Bataa; 10c par copy; «u »— SXOO; Ooa Taar, S1.00 (Wonita Coimtriaa, HOO Hottest action in new Congreis convening in January is expected to center in House Ways and Means Comsaittee where all tax legiilatioD must origtnsta. • • a . Due t* recaa* daetlaos Bep. Jere Cooper (D., Tena.) la ax- peoted to place daaghty Bep. Daniel Bee( (B., N. Y.) chairmaa However, Oi Bead, >a ag-l gressive, ln-| treptd oham' plon of indlvid- nal freedom wtaa was aftaa a them in ad- minlitrattan’s aide on tax C.W, Harder matters and with bia sacopsalnl battle to postpone opening doors to flood irf chMp tarttt free for eign goods, la expected to renaala on committee. , • • • • But Rep. Dingell (D., Mich.) ranking democrat on committee announces he will Introduce bill on first day of Congress to cut individual income taxes, and re peal tax cut on dividends passed in last session. • « • To be safe, a general tax out for everyme baa^da emotlenal appeal that eeuhfbe releotod In next election. • « • But, far deeper issue is in volved than political aoqiMdiency. a 4 a la several aatlenwlds member. ship polls Natkoal Federatlea of Indepeadeat Bnalaeas voted overwlielmlngly bi faVor ml tax relief en dividends la bdief risk capital mast be encoaraged te provide expanding aivleymesit. It was atoo reaUied that mall, medium aad bage oeiperatlons weald all benefit, bat Independent bnalneaa was opposed to any dia* crImlnaitoB la nuMer. a • a However, by same token Fed eration mtobership also voted By C. WILSON HARDER overwhelmingly for tax relief for millions of individually, or part nership owned enterpriMS which provide substantial employment, so that they, too, could expand. The goose tluit lays the golden eggs of emi^yment should be encouraged whether goose is owned stoclcholders or an In- ffividual. • a • Bat (or seme obsoare reason, perhaps baokgroaada e( cabinet members, administration chose to almost entirely support meas ures applicable to oerporate eo- ftopriM, largely Ignorlag fact same tfbUosoiAy shoald spi^y to aaiMiorporate enterprises, a a • Thtis administration’s "haU-a- loaf’ approach to a basic econ omic concept has made it pos sible for cry poor are being soaked while ri(^ benefit. This is but a half truth, but history’s course has oft been altered Iqr half truths wh.elped by uncor- rected “half-a-loaf’ measures. • a • > Birt la preseat sitaatioa, ad- ailnlatratira has opportanlty rarely oKerad, daring deHbera- tlaiis ef Ways and Means oom- mlttee, te oorreet great iajnstice done e iwa.«orporate basinesaes cemptislag abeat of natloa’a 4,fM,Nt iadependeat eoierpriaea that aapply majority ot Amer- icaa Jsla. Bat Jiart as-lt Is a gaaaa whether this iajastlee agslast smaB baslaess aad the Amallaaa aoeiienty was perpe trated by eiversliM, or bit^, so stand adbilalstiatlen wHI take Is likewise iBsttar ef oeiUeetare. a a a Ot cotirse, in mesntime, events could occur to make' possible sweeping tax cuts for afL a a a That waald be saooess ef Oev. jr. Bracken hm ef Utah la get- Hag declarad Illegal forelga giveaway programs aiiioh have sapped, ooatlnae to sap, Amer* iMa sffsasanin vitality daring this geoeratlea Md fer geaera* OMMe NEW YORK (GLOBAL) — This is the time when every body looks back and reviews the highlights of the year pa^. That’s a good practice, if in the reviewing we resolve to carry over into the new year the beet of the old. Dur ing the past year, we have^ been banded a lot of building material, and it is to be hoped that we will take it and con struct a future for ourselves and our children. Ot course, nobody will ever review 1964 without swne re- ferMioe to the Sui«ame Cewrt decision of May IT which out lawed segregation in the pub lic schools, niere have been many meetings held on how we can help implement that decision. But somehow or oth er, there still exists in the minds of many people the be lief that de-segregation means doing away with Negro schools. This may have grown in the minds of those who live in sections were Negro schools have always been delapidated and inferior. But de-segrega tion is a two-way itreet, and the May 17 decision paves the way for our emphasizing the fact that Negro schools can be pretty good, too. Take Bordentown Manual Training School in Bprden- town, N. J. for instance. It has always enjoyed a good reputa tion as a trade school, but we hear it soon will be no more. If it could exist as a Negro school, it could exist as a mix: ed school, and its program could continue by the mere- acceptance of white students. Again, the new engineering department at Teat^ssee State College in Naslmue, Is one of the finest to be Yound. It Is well equlped and boasts a staff oft experts who have . had long years of experience in industry and in the teach ing profession. Industry has snapped up every Tennessee State engineering graduate before the ink was dry on his diploma. The institution is a credit to its state, and with its record of achievement, young peo ple, Negro and white, would have reason to take pride in having beenr educated there. It might be pointed out, also, that Thurgood Marshall, Spec ial Counsel for the NAACP, who argued the sdiool cases so brilliantly last Spring, is a roduct of two Negro schools. J He took his undergraduate work at Lincoln University, and is a product of Howard University law schooL We ha^e'^he amunition, and we hope, therefore, that dur ing the coming year, we will do a little more to shape o5S^ own destihies. We have been knocking on doors for years —so long that we often don’t realize that perhaps all we need to do is turn the knob and walk in. There are still many areas in which we can operate, and in which-we face little discrimination, but we have not made use of those oportunities. It was our habit to holler discrimination and some peole grew fat on it. It provided material for pam phlets and lecture tours, and it made a Sir Galllhad out of many a “handkerchief head.” But we are more mature than now. The Supreme Court decision coniddered us worthy of equal o{q;>ortunity. And so, with the material at hand, each of us can, in 19B5, build on the hope that was provid ed for us in 1864. Changes Anoounced In Regulations Governing Series E And H Bonds The Treasury Department re cently announced changes in the regulations governing Series E and H ynited States Savings Bonds to permit thair purchase by “personal trust estates.” The change is effective January 1, 11055. ' Formerly, sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds have been lim ited to individuals either as own- |ers, co-owners or beneficiaries. “Personal trust estates” are gen erally trusts created by indi- I yiduals for the benefit of them selves or other individuals, atfd the amended regulations extend to such trusts the same privile^ of purchasing Sries E and H' bonds as was given '^ravicusly only to Individual savers. The annual purchase limits of $20,- 000( maturity value) of eadi ser ies which appUes to individual owners will also apply to a sin gle trust estate, regardless of the number of ben^ciaries. The Treasury eimhasited that the change in the regulations does not incuude under its tenths pension, annuity, profit sharing and other similar trusts. Series J and K Savings Bonds are of course available for all these types of purchasers, with a limit of $200,000 and interest at about 2 S/4 peroant if held to maturity. Exact definitions as to eligibility are contained in ttie amendment (PlMse turn to Page Seven)
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