North Carolina Newspapers

rAQSftn^ THE CABOLINA TllBSS SATUBDAY, JULY 88. 1M5 The Case Of The Governor And The NAACP If Hie only people surprised (X being fooled in the discus- , sion now going on between Governor Luther Hodges and the North Carolina branch of the National A^ociation for the Advancement of Colored People about Assistant Attor ney General I. Beverly Lake- are the mass of white people in this state and the south who for nearly 300 years have tried to make themselves believe that they have dis covered in Negroes a seg ment of the human race so inferior to them that ttiey are unworthy of equal treat ment in govenmient, religion, education, industry and ev ery other phase of endeavor in this country. The idea was born and has been nurtured in the warped minds of cer tain white leaders of the South who for 300 years have hammered home the philo sophy in a brain-washing feat on both Negron and ignorant whites in a manner that would make the most rabid communist in Russia or China a mere piker. But for the Negro church, aided in more recent years by the NAACP, the job would liave long since been accom plished and with it every vestige of manhood tom from the breast of American Ne groes. When the white lead ers of the South, in their haste to create for themselves a peasant class whom they might exploit and rape eco nomically at their pleasure, failed to invade the Negro church with their ~pemicious scheme, they missed tiie boat and made it possible for the Negro masses to jrecover on Sunday from the brainwash ing they had received during the other six days of the week. So when the Negro preach er, more often unlettered than lettered, invited mem bers of his flo^ under a brush arbor or to a dilapidated house of worship to get tiieir “SPIRITUAL STRENGTH RENEWED” he was doing more than be knew. It was by this means the Negro has been ■able to withstand the most merciless inferiority doctrine onslaught ever hurled at a people. Through his church he kept the faith — faith in his God and faith in hiiqself. That is why there is to be found more emotionalism or shouting in Negro churches -among the suppressed or ser vant element oi the race than among the element that is fortunate enough not to have to endure the more rabid humiliations, insults and a- buses which the Negro re ceives in the factories, cook kitchens, farms and other places where he is used for the purpose of inflating south ern white people’s ego. Officials of the NAACP in North Carolina are alert and smart. They have a distinct advantage over their adver saries in that they come from a people who, in the very na ture of the^ case, ^ have been forced, as a technique of sur vival, to study southern white folks in their homes, busi nesses, farms and elsewhere, They know their weaknesses, they know what constitutes a ‘red flag and how and when to wave it in the face of south ern white folks. Governor Hodges, Assist ant Attorney-General Lake, and other misguided whites are reacting exactly as NAACP officials in North Carolina expected and as the Negro with the most meagre intelligence knew they would on the matter of integration. Their antics during the past five or six days will probably be worth 25,000 new mem'- berships for the North Caro lina branch of the NAACP to say nothing of the increased financial support, love and admiration they have en gendered for the organization. Governor Hodges, Assistant Atorney-General Lake and other state officials can as sume an ostrich like attitude toward the more than a mil lion Negroes in this state and bury their heads in the sand if they wish. If they find com fort in trying to make them selves believe sensible Ne groes of the state prefer liie humiliation of segregation in schools, buses, hoti^ and elsewhere in Uiis country, let them go ahead aiul do so. The fact remains that tihe NAACP in North Carolina and the na tion is steadily growing in membership and financial strength and that at the hands of many to whom white peo ple like to refer as “safe Ne groes.” So when the governor gives 9ut a statement that he does not believe Negroes in North Carolina want integra tion, when he accuses the NAACP of attempting to split North Carolina citizens into racial camps, while even the most wretched simpleton knows that the NAACP is working night and day to abolish racM camps, he is puttmg on an exhibition of stupidi^ that is startUng. The unfaltering record of the NAACP for obtaining Ne gro civil ri^ts in this coim- try speaks for itself. Negroes in North Carolina are aware of this fact and they know it has achieved for them dining and pullman car service, equal teacher’s salaries, the right to vote in democratic primaries, the right to attend southern universities, and many other rights they did not have be fore. They are aware that southern whites have never voluntarily yielded one inch of ground in their determina tion to keep the Negro for ever a second-class citizen in this country. Negro leaders know'what they are about and nothing Governor Hodges says orno at tack he makes on the NAACP will prevent them from join ing and supporting it even if they have to resort to secret methods to do so as has been done in mai\y other southern states. They are satisfied tlat right is on their side and that in the end the South must yitid, not to the Supr^e Court, the Negroes as a group, the NAACP or any other hu man agency but the divine hand of God who has admon ished mankind since his be ginning that wrong cannot forever endure. Life Is Like That Bj a ALBERT SBOTH Segregation On Way Out Three Nonker" Negroes And "Uncle Toin" (Continued from Page One) North Carolina discover- “Uncle Toms” in the state it unholy alliance with them to lost week that all of its^ is^hard to determine which is defy the U. S. SupremefJonrt “three monkey” Negroes who the greater menace to the and. the Constitution of the see nothing, hear nothing, and race. While the former sees United States. “Three mon- say nothing, are not yet dead, nothing, says nothing, and key” Negroes and “Uncle For the past several days this hears nothing, the latt^ after Toms” may agree to such but newspaper has watched with seeing and hearing usually is they are sure to run out on more amusement than con- a pastmaster at saying the them when the going gets tempt the reacion of certain the things he feels will tickle tough and they are called up- so-called Negro leaders in this the ears of- the white folks on to face contempt charges state as to the matter of inte- whether it hurts tiie cause of in the federal courts, gration in the public schools, his own race or npti The United States Supreme Instead of being aU dead sev- Every commimity ou^t to Court says tiiat segregated eral “three monkey” Ne- repudiate such Negroes, es- public schools are unlawful, groes have suddenly come into pecially when they are nam- In defiance of that ruling the great promtoence here-of-late ed to important pcKsts by white governor of the state, and by receiving appointments persons whose known motive assistant attorney-general and from Governor Hodges to cer- is to prevent the race from other state officifds have in- tain conunittees where they obtaining its full rights. Only dicated that they will fight are exp^ted to continue to when Negro representatives the ruling county by coun- see nothing, hear nothing, and are selected by Negroes ty, school building by school say nothing as all good “three should they be permitted to building and classroom by monkey” Negroes do. speak for Negroes. The cus- classroom. In this program of In several instances this tom of white people hand- disrespect for law and order newspaper has discovered picking Negroes who are they have called upon law that the “three monkey” Ne- known members of the “three abiding Negro citizens of the groes are running ^e to monkey” clan or “Unde state to support them. Not form and although receiving Toms” must be abolished only that but every organi- the appointments they have wherever the custom rears its zation or individual who op- seen nothing, heard not])ii^, ugly head. ' poses them in their disloyal and said nothing that woim The time has come for effort is looked upon and be of value in revealing a true courageous, honest and forth- branded by the governor as picture of the Negro’s side right leadership on the part attempting to divide the state of ttie public school Integra- of both Negro and wUte per- into race’camps, tion program. Not only have sons. Only that kind can ar- Thus Negro lead»ship has ttey seen nothing, said noth- rest the confusion, misunder- reached the point where it mg and he^d nothing but standing and unrest that are must decide between disloy- ttey have discouraged other now abroad in this state on alty to the U. S. government Negroes appointed to the the matter of integration in or disloyally- to a ^isloyal various committees from see- the public schools. WWte peo- group of white citizens oi mg, hearing and speaking out pie must be willing to face the North Carolina. The program against the evils of segrega- truth from Negroes rather calls for prayerful thought 1 than cfucify them for speak- and courage not to be found When “three monkey” Ne- ing it. Th®y must not demand among “three monkey” Ne groes are placed beside the that Negroes enter into an groes or “Unde Toms. Megro boys ana girls of to day, and even their elders, may rest in the assurance that segregation based on race and color is on the way out. For the older generations, the death ei this ugly monster that • has so long haunted the American scene, will mean little in the way of opportu nity to live as free men and enjoy the economic and social benefits for which they have longed and prayed, even as did their fathers. But these will rejoice in the knowledge that their children will have that privilege and that they have lived long enough to see the dawn of a new day of free dom although they will not be here to witness the dawn’s breaking into the resplen dence of full sunrise. Racial segregation is on the way out, although the battle to eliminate it from our land is far from over. But the evi dence is- here and -it is accumu lating every day even faster than the most hopeful and sanguine among us had. anti cipated. Treatment Bad Thirty years ago, we found thi^ a most detestable land as far as the treatment of Ne groes is concerned. A Negro couldn’t ride from here to Ra leigh on a bus. When he did ride on inter-urban buses, be was subject to insult and. gruffness on the part of dri vers, and even paa^ngers, at times, that left him often in bitter dispair as he realized his helplessness to get rid of a thing that bit into his pride with leonine savagery and was a crushing burden upon his soul. He stood at ticket windows and watched the agent at an opposite window sell tickets to white folk as long as there was one to be waited on be fore he ‘ (the Negro) could make his purchase. And, then, sometimes, the delay caused the missing of a bus and en tailed waiting hours for an other one. ^ In some places, there were no bus station provisions for Negroes. He either waited on the sidewalk after purchasing a ticket or under a shed pro vided for buses, as in one eas tern city we know, and sat on a bench-a board With, ho back at all. Stories of- Crime Newspapers carried lurid stories of Negro crime. Sel dom did a Negro get his pic ture in the i>aper unless he had committed a crime. A white newspaper would have a Bible quotation on its edi torial page and typical Negro jokes about “Rufus’’ and ‘‘Ras- tus,” . watermelon eating and chicken stealing. Every Ne gro was a “boy” to a white cop; and all past thirty, Isome even younger, were “Uncle” and “Aunt,” while in the courts, lawyers used the term “nigger” with no qualms at all.” In many places, if a Negro had even mentioned the words integration and desegregation, he would have been forced to leave town without baggage. And if in a Klan-infested re gion, he might have-left but either , after being beaten within an inch of his life or as a disembodied spirit. SATURDAY JULY 23, 1955 L. E. AUSTIN Pabllahw CLATHAN M. BOSS, Editm U. AUIEBT SBUTH, Managfaig Editor M. E. JOHNSON, BoiIiims JESSE COFIELD, Circulation Brarj aatardajr Iqr lb» OMITU) Mo fnmnta* of puUieMloii of omoilaUid matt PUBUSHIM, laHxuTMnted at 8M X. PatUcraw St rj*i. lettiri to tha odttar tor poldlaittan muat bo ■■ mteoA tUm nattar at tba Post Offio* ricnad aad Ofmftnxl to 600 wavda. •t Ogikaa. Hortk Car^lna oMar Oa Act of MarA a. im. ■oliKclvttaa Batoa: lOo pat tapr, nMs Oaa Taar, WM (Vpialga CooaMaii HjM p«r A Change Has Come Those were dark days—ra ther a dreary night of dark ness, but with a few stars of hope. But now the day breaks and the shining glory of bet ter things is dawning upon us. We have non-segregated inter state bus traveling, equal din ing car prlvilegea, the equali zation of teacher’s salaries in some places and Negro police men. Stories of Negro merit, with pictures, and titles of re spect are appearing in the newspapers and heard over the air. Since Court Decree Since the U. S. Supreme Court declared more than a year ago that segregated pub lic schools are unconstitution al, violative of the rights of citizens, and therefore must be abolished, the movement for full equality and first class citizenship for Negroes has been accelerated. Voices of defiance that first shouted so noisely in angry protest and declared there would never be any conformity are not yelling so loudly now. And, in many hitherto segregated areas, de segregation proceedes quietly, with no friction or a minimum thereof with no fanfare or dramatics. Sentiment For Justice In fact, anti-segregation sentiment is growing in the land, even in the white chur ch where it should have be gun. It is still w^ak in that supposed-to-be holy body, but it is there and that is some thing. The fact that its minis ters and delegates to various church assemblies' and confer ences have been and are furi ously debating the advisa bility of admitting Negroes to membership and services of public worship is an evidence although it doesn’t spe^k any too well for the church or en hance its prestige as a divine institution any. Will Hang Heads In years to come, when a smoothly working integrated society will have come to pass in our country, tens of thous ands of white ministers and high churchmen are going to hang their heads in shame be cause they, who^ should have begun and led the battle for equal rights and a desegre gated society, had little or no part in bringing about the change, even fought against it, or belatedly jumped on the bandwagon when they saw that their opposition was fu tile. Cause of Change For this changing status of the Negro in America, there are causes upon which we can lay our bands. Some of these are th^ work of the NAACP; sectional intermingling; world travel; World War contacts; Negro resentment and i;Hro- gress; international tensions^ the threat of racism to white America’s prestige and its mo ral and political leadership and the white -man’s consci ence. Some of my friends would throw out the white man’s conscience. They say he has neither conscience nor ^ ligion. But that’s so much hog- wash and tommyrot so far as 1 am concerned. I don’t be lieve that the gains of the pre- (Please turn to Page Five) SumtiMr ItMM Is a period of slapping and ierateUng. pollens tickla the legs and nose, blaek flias, mosonitoaa i , exMperato the skin. The pain of even a bee stiiw, for many, to n i easOy endured than the agonizing itching that freqaent^ foUonk A dMde ago some optimists bought that inseets wun oa tte KtM to extinction. DDT -was eliminat ing insects from bams and homes with the same efficiency it had dis- : played in the jungle areas hi -which our World War II troops fought. ' Today, although DDT and ouier newer ehentiicala. ara still doing their job wall, any camper knows ; that woods, meadows and hrook- sides ara not yet free troru Uting bun or other sources of irritation, j Entomologists, the scientists I who study bugs, ara inclined to , feel that iq^ect immnnity to pot> • sons is fortunate. They have warned that man cMinot destroy I insect life throughout large araas I without chan^g nature’s balance j in ways which could result in sari- (ously reduding. food supplies for {other wild life or otharwisa thraat- ' ening surrlTal, aren of man him- , self. Doctors: have pointed out, tor I example, that hidiscrimlnata use i of DDT ..could fatally poison peat and dairy products and, thnkigh ' them, humans. Fortunately, there has de veloped anouer approach to the inee^ problem, one whieh does not aim at eliminatiw of the pests tnit which offers relief to many of their victims. Tha antihistamine drugs. So called because they counteract .i!itamine, tfechemica^ l4lBlliia the tlasnas as a laactiMi t» an ia- *M0t sting, eaa aov ba Neom- mandad as s^a aad sffactiv* Mne> dies tor loiaet Utas. la » Meant study the antihistaaina Briatasia, was given by moutt t^ mon Omn 2,000 persona of whom oidy ttitaa reported aby side affects tncaabto to tba drug. Thw MtwMiAat drowsy after taUic it Aatihlst** mlnsa like Bristamn can ba taken internally aad also applied ia lo tion fora d^TMtty te nit ttddag area. Moreover, taken .iat«maUy, they can be naad t* treat Meh at fllicttoas aa hay fevar, asthma, ata. which arrcansad by MW^stiesB- trations at Mstmiaa 'Intergration Will Eliminate Vm Evir I Spiritual Insight f By Reverend Harcld Roland J PASTOR, MOUNT GiLEAD BAPTIST CHURCH “Is There Any Real Security?” "Trust in the Lord^.do good., and enjoy security..” Psa. 37:3 We live in a security con scious age. Millions are caught up in a restless grind to get fixed. We are working our fingers off to get fixed. We have our noses to the grinding stone to get fixed. Just look at Us running helterskelter-here there and everywhere trying to get fixed. Listen to us—1 just gotta get fixed against the hazards of this life. Had you ever pondered the fact that there may be no security in ^ life. What about this lifel What is this life? This life it like a breath. This life is like a flower that groweth in the morning and fades by sunset. This Ife is nothing but a house of clay with a dusty founda tion. In this life -there is but one breath or one step from death. My friends, these are something we might think of in this restless security- conscious age of ours. The Psalmist here gives a beautiful pictiure of the one source or foundation of real security; God. He sees the eternal spiritual, moral and ethical values embodied in Christ our Savior as the only real ground for security... “irust in the Lord..J3o Good... And Enjoy Security...” Wis dom suggests that we ponder this truth. Real security does not rest upon the fading glory of ma terial things. Wealth does not mean security. It corrodes and cankers! Power offers no se curity. With the oncoming years and centuries Power flees her possessors. Are the instruments of war a sure de fense of security? Jesus ex pressed the perishable nature of such tilings when ,he said... “He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword...” What are you saying preach er? 1 am just stating an unde niable truth of God’s word and human history: No Se curity In 'Riis Perishable Scene. As the children of God we have these fading play toys between the cradle and the grave. We are here for ^uBt a Iretfnl, frightful mo ment. Then the call comes. And we all must pass on. There is no real fixing for you unless your soul is anchored, fixed in God. There Is The Sternal And Unchangeable Above This Changeable And Fading Hu man Scene. In this fading scene we must find God real security. Nothing else can give security. Everything else is in the process of change tnd decay. Paul speaking of the perishable scene and the Eternal God said..."They will perish but thou remainest...” Paul tells us there is no real security in the fading glories of this passing scene...“Like a mantle thou wilt roll them up... Ahd They WiU Be Changed...” ’Truly the grass of worldly glory fades. The flow er of human material achieve ment will wither and be 110' more. Thus in God alone can we find real security. We havf a right to our share of God’s rich material abun dance as we tarry here our brief and fleeting moment. Let us not fool ourselves into thinking these things can give us security. This fading scene offers no real securty. The Holy writer is right our only source of real security is when we are anchored in God through faith in Christ .“Trust in the Lord...do good...and en joy security...” Capital Close-Up By CONSTANCE DANIELS Morrow to White House Staff The AME Women For many years it has been evident that an official ap pointment to the Wliite House was overdue, and just as evi dent that whoever was named in whatever capacity, should be a person of recognized competence and integrity—de finitely not chosen from the ranks of the claimers, climb ers and attention-seekers. In this column for the week ending March 26, we said, “Urgently needed hereabouts, are solid, unscared citizens, whose names command nation wide respert—^who are neither fire-eaters nor quibUeTs, who derstand politics from the word ‘go,’ but are not profes-, sional politicians, thinking and planning within the limits of political expediency. Com promise there may have to be, but it should be based on clear and undlssimulated fact. “A Channing Tobias of New York, or a Bennie Mays of At lanta, on the Pennsylvania Avenue-White Housa-to-Capt- tol circlet-(fuU-tlme-no mora now-you-«ee-‘em now you don’t consultants) would not be wishing for the moon...” Much will be said, else where, about the choice of lEverett t Frederic Morrow, former Business Adviser at Commerce, CBS analyst and NAACP Field Secretary, as Coordinator of Internal Man agement Affairs In the Special Projects Group at the. White House. We simply want to say that the Morrow appointment fits our specifications perfect ly. We applaude it without re servation. Grew Up with the Republic ^ciiard Allen of Philadel phia began his missionary ca reer by converting the master to whom he had been sold, in Delaware, bought his freedom during the American Revolu tion, and returned to Spread the Gospel in the of Brotherly Love, where he was bom. In 1780, while In prayer, with friends, at St. George’s Church, where he bad been preaching, he was pulled from his knees by church officials. From this curious beginning in contradictions came the powerful African Methodist Episcopal Church. Forty years after her husband was forcibly stopped from prayer, the founder's wife, Mrs. Richard Allen, organized in Philadel phia, in 1827, the Women’s Missionary ^ciety of the AME Church. Here at the Capital, last week. President Anne E. Heat^ of New York, urged the delegates to the Third Quad rennial Convention of th« oldest organization of Negro women, which has grown up with the Republic, to work for the complete eradication of segregation and discrimina tion, whether imposed by law or social custom, and to fight whatever implied ghetto pat terns of living, for any group. What Makes a Jud0«? Last week the Appel Court for the IMstrict of lumbia reversed the colorllne decision of District Judge Alexander Holtzoff, refusing application of a Megre stai^ father to adopt his white step son. The reversal sharply un derscored Judge Holtzoffs ap parent Incapacity for true judicial action. Judge Holtzoff also appears to be suffering from an acute inferiority complex, which fills him with apprehensions, and has caused much misgiv ing among liberals of all ori gins, who are concerned alwut the effect of his bluAderings, here in the Capital. His refusal, as a Judge, to approve adoption papers be cause the child would “lose the social status of a white penon,” was on a par with Us warning, some years ago, to non-white members of an Americanization (dass, that they should not expect to re ceive all the benefits of American democracy. It is a pity that Judge Holt zoff must remain on the bench, but, as we said, else where, it is fortunate that his self conscious pronoimcements are thrown into relief against a backdrop of Jurists like the late -Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Brandels ■' and Cardoso—like Justice Frank furter—whose names are sy nonymous with the finest tra ditions of our ■' American courts. . mil live