PAOtTWb
Tm CAROLINA TIMM SATURDAY, JUNK 25, 1955
AMERICANISM AT IIS WORST
In Augusta, Georgia last i»x>bably hate their parents ball ground or gridiron where
week sponsors off the tor teaching them the sorry boys in their innocent desire
nnwiiai Soap Box Derby be- lesson of wnite supremacy. to have a good time have not
cause Negio boys entered the If war does not come tnose taken time out to indulge in
contest, i'rassure to call off same white boys may some the nasty and rotten busmess
the attair from mem- day find themselves on a big of race hatred. Only when
bers of the States Rights league baseball team, or in a ttieir elders step in with'the
Council of Georgia anH par- courtroom with a Negro law- vicious and hellish practice of
ents of white boys who had yer as their opponent. In fact, a master race are they re-
r^istered for the race. Here fate could force them to argue luctantly forced to sever
you have a sad example of a case before a circuit court childhood friendships that
poor sportsmanship to say in which a Negro sits as a are beautiful and enrichi^.
nothing of Christianity and judge, or work in government The Augusta parents mi^t
democracy. service where the color line learn a good lesson in Chris-
It ^ a dark hour in any means nothing. Their parents tianity, democracy, sports-
child’svMe when his parents certai^y have done tbem no mansnip and downright de
resort to the wretched prac- good By starting them off cency if they would come to
tice of tWhing him to look with the belief that only in a Winston-Salem .x>n the night
down on mother person be- white world are they sup- of July 6 and see a Soap Box
cause of pdtrerty, race, creed posed to match skill, brains Derby in which boys, just
or color. Eight or ten years and brawn. These sons are due plain American boys of all
from now, these same boys for a sad awakening when races with all their freckles,
may find themselves in a fox they some day discover to snaggled teeth, pimples and
hole defending their country their dismay, and that of their other characteristics of youth,
with some Negro boy if not parents, that they have beeii will participate. It is here
the same ones who were so taught wrongly and that a they will see Americanism at
rudely treated by their par- white skin is no badge of su- its best and not at its worst
ents. When bombs are rain- periority. as when it descended to the
ing hell on them and they are All over the South, even in lowest pits of hell in Augusta
forced by dint of circum- the county in which Augusta to call off a similar affair sim-
stances to share a foxhole is located, we suspect there ply because two American
with a Negro buddy for the may be found an “ole swim- boys of color entered the con-
saka of d^ocracy, they will ming hole,” a sand lot ba^e- test.
LOCATING FIRE STATIONS ..
This newspaper finds it- would like to know if those in the Fayetteville and Pekoe
self unable to sides with same city officials expect to Street area, who might object
those who would oppose the g*'®b their ^ts and run to * u ♦ ■
location of a fire stati^near anoth« spol, fin^y ending F^e stations at best might
them because of the noise or “P locating tiie fire sta- be looked upon as necessary
for other reasons common to ^ ^oods or a field evils until one suddenly dis-
a project of this kind We do °“tside the city limits where covers that his property or the
not find justiiiable causes for ® ^®^ed one is in dan-
city officials to acquiesce to ^ performance of its ger. It is then that all of us
the demands of tte opposing “ guardians of the Uves would like to have a private
factions and seek othw loca- property of the citizens fire station next door with
tions where the same objec- “ Durham. Then, we suspect all the sirens wide open to
tions might be raised virtth thoughtful citizen would call other citizens to our side
just as much fevor as ex- °PPose such, and rightly so, to help us save them,
hibited by those living in the ^^a^se it takes the fire truck It appears to us that in the
area of Fayetteville and ^ ^ come from its final analysis the city officials
Pekoe Streets It appears to secluded spot in the rural are going to have to decide
us that other citizen would properly perform its who, which or what is going
be just as justifiable in ob- to have to move to tiie rural
iootino tn a uhnni haino In. I* appears to iThe Carolina areas, the fire station or the
cS in MM SVfew ■r™®® ^ official disgruntled citizens who ob-
old cantankerous fossils, with ® *^® J®^* to having one erected in
a few rusty dollars tied to ^ ^® station in any their neighborhood. Or they
thPin, might appear before the *^^®“ “®® ^'^® reached might have to decide which
City Fathers and Ht»innnH that ^ honest conclusion that the is more economical and prac-
the fire truck not pass their selected is for the best tical to have a fire station lo-
homes or open their sirens ^terest of all the citizens of cated on a farm or the people
when on their way to rescue Durham, or the direct inter- who object to it. When we
the homes or their neighbors ®®* concerned, they think of the idea, it dawns on
from a burning should not be moved by the us that the old fanner might
cries of one or two that such come snorting into town about
If and when the city offi- is objectionable to them, such and raise holy terror
cials select another site for Wherever the fire station is about the darn thing frighten-
the location of a fire station located ,there are going to be ing his mules every time it
in the Hayti area, and the found citizens around it who started into town to put out a
same objections are raised by are just as upright and just fire,
persons in and around it, we as forthright as those living
IHE HIGHLY PERSONAL RIGHT OF MARRIAGE
When the court of a state ed in Virginia is ironical if they are always harping a-
or national igovemment in- not digusting in that it was bout was started by their own
yades the private domain of in this particular state that group, though outside of the
ra^^er“n^ ^*’8® Washington, the fa-^law. So when the average
we think it is time for all lov- *^®r ^ countiy, and southerner opposes m o'a-
ers of fre^om and liberty to Thomas Jefferson, the author gr®lization he d^ not mean
beware lest in the ultimate of the Declaration of Indepen-
end every right they possess dence, were bom. Altho^
under a democratic form of it escaped the attention of thi!t
govermnent is taken from, histori^, it is a well-known
tiiem. We think marriage is fact that botii of tiiese dis-
so highly personal that even tinguished gentlemen were shSre Sd
the parents of two people notorious for their escapades
have no right to transgress of love with Negro women. ®"“® ®^® ^ estates.
beyond the threshold of giv- Strung all over Virginia and Every Negro whose skin is
ing advice. in many other states are the not black, is living testimony
Last week th«> Virginia ^egro descendants of both to just how much mongreliz-
uasi weeK me Virginia t>u-
preme Court uf
ing of the lower
maCTiM^^d^^bwaSv d^ surprised to find that some of southerners do not claim that
to abolish a lower court’s some helpless
annulment of his marriaBe to tives^The state is noted for its weak and innocent white man
nSte woiS^Sd t£ interracial love affairs, al- to beget half white children
court in its rulinc- though not within the bounds in the dark that he was
*■ of the law. ashamed to own in the light.
“We’re unable to read in It was such a heritage the The ruling of the Virginia
the 14th Amendment (of Virginia high court was court will probably make
the U. S. Constitution) or doubtless trying to preserve front page stories for Com-
any other provision of that when it had the imgodly munist newspaper in Russia
audaucity to invade the and China where American
sacred domain of two people democracy is looked upon
and annul their marriage, more with contempt than re-
The court probably had in spect. It might even serious-
mind that some of the alert ly affect the efforts now be-
and smart Negro descendants ing made by the United Na-
oj tiie first families of Vir- tions to establish a lasting
la might resort to the fed- peace on the earth. The little
feral courts to legalize their men who constitute its mem-
white relatives and claim bership are probably un-
their part of their estates. aware that they can no longer
. While we are on the sub- do their dirty deeds in a cor-
Here you have racial con- ject, we do not hesitate to call ner, but that they live in a
ceit at its lowest, and eman- the attention of all southern glass house with the eyes of
ating from the highest court white folks to the fact that the world gazing at every
in the state. That it happen- this matter of mongrelization move they make.
Life Is Like That
\ f
By H. ALBERT SMITH
Seeing Beyond The Material
There is an expression in
the book of Revelations which
reads," And I saw an an
gel standing in the sun.” Just
what tlie expression means, no
man living today knows. But
the author had something very
definite in mind and the people
to whom he wrote had the es
sential baclcground to under
stand him.
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE
We might note with profit
that the book of Revelations
was written in language intelli
gible to those for whom it was
intended, but totally uncom-
prehensive to their enemies.
And, when we consider that at
the time the Roman govern
ment was relentlessly persecu
ting the church, we find it easy
to identify those enemies.
The lavuage used was
symbolic. I may best define the
term “symbolic” by pointing to
the meaning of two expressions
the author used. The one was
“The Beast;” the other, “the
False Prophet.’' The first desig
nated Rome itself; the second,
the imperial priesthood. The
church knew what was meant.
Rome did not- And that was the
purpose of the author.
SPIRITUAL REFERENCE
But, if we today do not know
the literal meaning of the
words “and I saw an angel
standing in the sun,” the
meaning they had for a church
1900 years ago, the words have
for u^ the sense of poetry. That
is to say, they have for us a
spiritual ref^nce far trans
cending theif-original literal
meaning.
That is true because we know
that the poet of sensitive soul
and finely attuned spirit catch
es the sweet harmony of
of heavenly music in the eve
ning breezes and the rustling
leaves. He hears angel's voices
in the sounds of running water,
or in the entire medley of
sounds produced both by the
animate and inanimate forces
of nature. And he sees in the
beautiful coloring of the sky
at the break of day or the hour
of sunset, the very gates of
Heaven, ,the resplendence of
Paradise and the glory of the
Lord.
Now, in all of this, there is
no real heavenly music, angels’
voices, gates of paradise,
celestial glory apprehended by
our natural falculties. But there
is something behind and mani
festing itself through such na
tural phenomena to whlflr I
have referred that deposits vi
sion revelation and experience-
un,earthly and divine—^in our
immortal souls.
A PRESENT EXPERIENCE
I experience now something
of what 1 am writing about.
The Sim is far above the
horizon, but the day (an especi
ally beautiful Sunday) is near
ing its end. I look out upon
great document, any wor^
or any intendment which
prohibits the state from
enacting legislation to pre-
urve the racial int^^ty of
its citizens or which denies
the power of the state to
regulate the marriage re
lation so that it shall not
have a mongrelbreed ^
citizens.” ^
SATURDAY
JUNE 2£f, 1955
L. E. AUSTIN Pnbllthar
„ . CLATHAN M. ROSS, Editor
H. ALBERT l^r M. E. JOHNSON, Buiineu Mani«*r
JBBSE COFIELD, Cirei^tiaB Manager
PuMUtMd X**ry SatuMaj bj Om omnD
j’uaUMMmaM. incorporate* *t Bit m. Patttsnw St.
tamnt m mcooO cimam mattar at tha Poal Ottloa
at Oiutum. Mortta CaraUna tndar tba Act af Mareb
>. tm
No (uanutaa of puMiaatlon of "TrrllTltrt owla-
rtaL i«Mari to tta aditor tat pobUaaMra moat ba
•>«aad aa« aonftaad to too woriM.
•iihawlptloa Bataa; lOe par a^jr; Ws
field of barley, oata and
wheat in early growth consti
tuting a vast carpet of green
covering several acres. Birds
are singing in a patch of , woods,
not too far away, composed of
pine, sweetgum, hickory, dog
wood, red oak, white oak, ma
ple and cedar trees. Above the
notes of the various birds is
the voice of the mocking bird.
This panorama of beauty and
symphony of melodious sounds
have meaning for me not mere
ly earthly. There is a heavenly
reference. And this is empha
sized by the spiritual experi
ence of the day. For, suddenly
this morning, I had heavenly
assurance of a more than ordi
nary pulpit experience. 1 told
my wife about it before I left
home. And the assurance was
no illusion.
SAW BEYOND NATURE
The experience of Moses at
the burning bush evidently
was based in part on his spiri
tual sensitivity to the unseen
it revealed itseU through
nature. For forty years he had
been a herdsman in the wilder-
neas of Midian, not too far from
Rocky Mount Horeb upon
whose smoke enwrapped sum
mits he later talked with God
and received the Table of Law.
The Psalmist David had this
same sensitiveness of spirit.
Nature to him was more than
merely physical objects and
forces. He found the glory of
God in the skies and meaning
which only a soul responsive to
something beyond the material
can appreciate.
We catch that in the beauti
ful poem which we call the
19th Psalm.
“The heavens declare the
glory of God, and the firma
ment shows his handiwork. Day
unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night showeth
knowledge.”
For David, there was an an
gel in the sun. He could see
the spiritual in the material.
His imiverse was alive with
God. There was divine glory in
the heavens. The power of God
was there; His presence was
there. Divine intellegence and
^Iritual purpose were there.
“ BROUGHT ASSURANCE
For that reason, the Psalmist
could feel secure and confident
in a universe like this. He was
not a fatherless child forsaken
and abandoned. He could face
life with the fullest assurance
(because God was at its h^art
and In control of Its machinery.
I trust that all who read
these words will see, if they
have not seen already, tha an
gel in the sun, the spiritual in
the material. And may they
know that amid all the contra
dictions, mystery, conflict and
hearteches of life, God stands
within the shadows "keeping
watch above His Own.”
"AN AGE THAI B PASMG"
1
New Hope Per Arthritic Patients
Shmunatoid or arthritic disesM has plagnad man sfan* pre-Ustorie
times. ETidenc* of arthritie damage to bones and Joints has bssn found
in andent Egyptian mununiaa and even in the akelatons of giant
mammals that roamed tha aalrth before tke advent of man.
Today these diseases are the prime source of ehronio illnaii and a
leading eansa of physical disabili-
ty. In tha United State* alone thay
vietimiza more than ten million
ptojiU each yur. According to te>
cent estimate their annual toll
amounts to 160 million working
days lost, with a resulting loss in
inoame exceeding on* bilUondol>
lars annually.
The' most commonly known
form* of rheumatoid dlMss** ar*
arthritis, rheumatiam, goat aad
buraitis. Charact«ri*tie *ympton*
are stiffneu and pain of Jdnts
and muscle*. In laTeT* eases ^
joints appear swollen and inflanMd
and the patient maf be uaabie to
leave his bed. i -
Because the cans** for moat ef
these condition* ar* still anloMnni
a wide variety of treatments hate
been tried. Dramatte results have
been obtained in the treatment of
severe cases with hormpn* drags.
But posslbl* andcsirabl* sid*
effects and other con*id*ratira*
have been found to limit vala*
of hormones for long-term tieat*'
ment of arthrlti*.
The classical treatment for to*
thritic diseas**, th* *alleylat**
(aspirin), in combination with tI>
tamins ar* proving helpfid. Phy
sicians hav* reported that aspirin
in combination with vitamia C
given to rheumatism patients re
lieves qain, increases the fed^
of wellbeing and affords gr*at*r
use of the affeeted joints.
One drug manufactorer is *ow
producing a tablet called Acatycol
which containa th* classical ingr^
dients of aspirin and vitamins
from th* B compl*x group and
C. A drug c^*d colchicine,
a spedfle for gout has been added.
Tb* vitamlna ar* of th*rapeutle
vala* b*eaaa* notritional deflcien-
eia* ar*eoumonly foond in arthrit-
k dls*****, **p*cially in *lderly
patteats, and eolchieine beeaus*
gont, not a rioh man’* dis*a*e aa
one* thoai^t, i* more frequently
pre*ent Uian had b**n suspected.
Thl* eomUnation of agents re-
Uaraa pain in a high proportion of
patient* and p*rmit* a mor* nor
mal and activ* life. Furthermore,
' the indusion of still another com
pound, para-aminob*naoic add or
PABA, mak** it possible to
achiev* *ff*etiv* rdi*f with lower
do*ag«* of a*pirin.
Until th* can*** and mechan
isms of th* rheumatoid diseases
ar* fully understood, and drugs
found which can effect cures, the
medkal profession continnes tc
depend largdy on this claadca)
form of treatment to provide for
th* patient rdief from his crip-
p*iiL
Bjr REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
Paftor, Moant Gileftd Baptist Qmrdt
^Unburdening A Hea^rt”
"My heart is ready to bir«t..;..f
must $peak that I rrtay find re
lief...’' Job 32:9,20.
Our hearts become weary
and exhausted under the grow
ing burdens of life. We can
stand but so much. We all have
our breaking points. There is
that one more straw which
breaks the camel’s back. We
can stand so much and then
there must come an outcry in
the presence of an understand
ing friend. We are all in need of
more understanding and less
condemnation. Many years ago
as a lad I used to hear an old
lady say:..“I must tell it..-” I
could not understand the mean
ing of it twenty-five years ago.
But now I know that it was the
cry of a burdened heart. I have
now experienced enough of this
life to know the cry of a heavy-
ladened soul. Job is stranded
in a dark pit under a heavy
burden. We hear his cry out of
the darkness that the burden
may be lifted!..“My heart is
ready to burst....I must speak
that I may find relief....”
We do need communion and
the understanding ear of sym
pathetic friend when our hearts
are biurdened. Such a person
can help us in the unburden-'
ing of our hearts and souls.
You can feel the feverish
throbbing and see the agony
stamped on the countenance of
a burdened soul. You can see
and feel it in Job...“My heart...
is ready to burst...’’ We have
seen too many of the .burdened
hearts burst forth into tears.
We have seen them stagger and
fall under the crushing weight
of these burdens. The burdened
heart needs relief and comfort.
As an understanding friend you
can be of great help. What can
I doT You can offer yourself as
such in the spirit of the Christ.
Beware of criticism and con
demnation. Offer yourself in
love and imderstending: This
Is The Way You Can Help
Amid The Growing Number Of
That burdened heart needs a
chance to have its burdra lift
ed. You may be used by God
for this purpose. God will use
you for this blessed ministry if
you will let him. There are in
creasing cares, burdens, cross
es, troubles, hurts and sorrows
and under these circumstances
we need an understanding
friend to whom we can unbur
den our hearts. There are so
many burdened hearts and too
few understanding friends. So
many are in such a mad rush
in hot pursuit of our own ends
and aims that we have no time
to be an understanding in the
presence of a burdened heart.
Let God use you in the bless
ed ministry to help lift the bur
dens of troubled hearts. 1 hear
many crying out their burdens..
“My heart...ls ready to burst...!
must Q>eak, that I might find
relief...”
We all have seen peaceful
calm settle upon a burdened
heart in the presence of an un
derstanding friend. Here is a
soul struggling under the
weight of a heavy burden* With
a little of your time God ^pay- .
use you to unburden a heavy-
IcKlened heart. Under a^ stagger
ing burden some are ready to
give up. Why? The burden
seems unbearable! You as an
understanding friend may help
to lift that burden. What a
great blessing to have an tm-
derstanding friend to share our
burden. The understanding
friend to share our burden. The
friend can bring sweet peace
'^and calmness by helping to lift
that heavy burden.
Capital Close-Up
By CONSTANOB DAHBL
Segregation Costs Ctubs
District of Columbia Com
missioners are facing probable
suit by NAACF’s D. C. Branch,
on charges of misusing public
funds to support segregation in
the quasi-public Police Boys
Clubs. Eugene Davidson, presi
dent of the Branch, wired Pre
sident Eisenhower, last weelc,
asking bis intervention to end
the segregated operation of
these clubs in the Capital City,
financed in part by public
fimds, to prevent the necessity
of a suit “against your Board of
Commissioners.”
The Police Boys Clubs were
organized on a segregated basis,
on Washington’s Blrttiday,
1934, with John A. Remon,
now Redevelopment Adminis
trative reorganizations during
the 22 years that the clubs have
been operating, but never one
which included Negro partici
pation at the directive leveL
The usual “advisory com
mittee'’ of Negroes—most of
them reluctant—was finally
organized to work with the
I club “for Negroes,” in the heart
of Washington’s Harlem, and
with no other. Tb^ did not
even meet with the v^ole
Board. One Board member was
"assigned to th«n,” to discuss
the problenos of that particular
area. Period. Many other Negro
and refuMd to serve.
Bver since their organlaa-
tlon, the Clubs have steadily
refused to Integrate in adminis
tration or operation, while us
ing tax-paid uniformed police
men to carry on their annual
house-to-house canvass > for
funds. This practice, during the
1954 drive, cost your District
(Continued on Page NineJ
LHTEIIS ID IHE EDUOK
The Editor
Carolina Times
Dear Sir: ^
The daily papers says that
President Peron, of Argentina,
insists that his “Regime will
force Church to Obey Majori
ty,” in his present feud with
the Catholic Church. I certainly
hold no for Peron in his
apparei)t^lei^lpgs toward Com
munism, but he is certainly to
be admired for the courage dis
played in his conflict with the
church. As a lifelong Catholic,
he is certalnj^acquainted with
the dire consequences attached
to the threatened excommuni
cation by the Church.
The Church claims power to
open or shut the doors of
heaven to any one, and to ab
solve subjects from any. oath of
allegiance to any reigning pow
er. A person under excommuni
cation is (according to the
claims of the Church) denied
any spiritual rights, even burial
in “sacred ground.”
The Church still recognizes
the “divine right -of' IdxigB,"
and is definitely opposed to
any democratic form of govern
ment/'suetflDKfn Argentina and
citizens tumad thumbs dowxi; ,^e 'viuM Stetes.
this discriminatory pattern j oM^llos of Argentina
who are fighting for the sup
posed rights of the Oiurch are
demonstrating irtiat fansticsl
Catholics can be depended up
on to do even in our beloved
county when the Church gets
strong enough. Peron accuses
the Clergy of the Church oi
“working systematically again
st his regime since 1943,” and
points out that the Church hu
not be«n exhorted by any pas
toral letter “reminding them
that Christ’s doctrine prohibits
political action.”
Cardinal Gibbons, in his
“Faith of Our Fathers,” makes
the statement that "a politician
dabbling in religion is as re-
pr^ensible as a clergyman
dabbling in politics,” but such,
a statement must be taken with
a lot of salt, in view of the con
tinued and dogged and feverish
and imrelentlng activities of
the Church alld her clergy all
over the world to gain control
ol all governments, in order
that she might rule both tem
porally as well as spiritually,
as she cUiiibs that she has the
right to do. ,
It is truly refreshing to see
a man, steeped in the super
stitions of the Church, to begin
to see the light of reason, .and
to cease to be brow beaten Into
abject submission to her fulmi-
nations.
Truly yours,
J. J. WaUt