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2 t^kiBOUHk tlins AiiS. !«. liBi .An Appeal To Coimon Vsise The CABOUNA TlMfS appeals to the bisst thef« i* in ti« Ne^ 9o«th8 mt dhaiMl Hill and CatiWro ts 4o vAmit ttey am *o prevent, wther than precifiitaie, racial con flict fea Hieir lOfsactive MtnaranitMB. The rcc«st fWe-apt, *11 rf which have frown out of 41m faeateg oi • Nagnt yautii war S^r- Pad Road in «r near CarrtxirD, amat be halted wfaere they are if more serious tsouUt u to beavoid^ «od we call upon the mip* yomtin «t dnat cooMMuaitiae to tttm Ika taB4 ia fcnnigiiig about a peaecM atWliiitiiirt of ^le distfarbanoes rathen* thcai crMtii\g fartlier trouble. Any cimpietaa, aay weakling or idiot ean a» ooMMCt hilt If tn a aMnilar situation that it will tafee yaws to «ndo what he has doae. A wfaer coarse is for Negro yautbs to iet the law enforcement agencies settle the iMt- ter, cincethc^r appear to be doing aU in Dieir power to bring to justice those responsible far Sparraw’s Pool Road incident. By ab doiag NiBsro yoeih will show atrengdi. sense, courage and leadership in pood citizenship Tlieie eiw maay flee «*»» peapie Ib Cfcep el Hiil and WTongful acts in tlie^ eondone ivaii* Ha^^oiilh. Tm *fll fceip A.W to faaeoai* haUt aMlHMMlBR «f faodwiU and ^ji aawiWT.ef better «f||ic«lwf tics for your gnoR^p If 7«M ooaiuet fowaalwas as gentlemen in the oWa wlitcli iraoU your coaMMMltf naHw hai iMM. Lotewice, raipectaMa citiMC of fwitr own ane depandtgg ^ you tojcsanaae wisdom rather than atwpMMy. The CAROLINA TIIfES joia* with-tlie Chapel Hill NEWS l£ADfiR in ooraaaondtag the police of Chapd Hill and Carrbacto tor the qmick and fiae nuaner in wWch they hanc eDdeavoned to apprehend the person -or penoas responsible for precipitatihg a situation which with less eAcient action on their part could have resulted in a moit re grettable affair. Come In The Back Door As Mcht be eiparted Goremor Hodges iBek offeaae because Prof. James T. Taylor of North CaroKna College released to tite press a copy of hi« letter requeating a change ia the «ackaat ^licy of the st«be. The gover nor seems to feel that had Prof. Taylor act released Iris letter to the press he would have obtained better results in his quest to have the state adapt a more equitable policy in the distribadion at aacheat 6inds. Whether the releasing of tlw letter diaaces the com plexion or lessens the gravity of the situa tion is a question we are satisfied will be taken with a grain of salt by our readers. On one level, the Governor’s «b|ection to the manner in wtiicli Prafeasor Taylar chose to call attention to the inequity in the dis- tributtoa of the eacheat £iind appears to be 4n bac «ith a*al m the apparently popular ^itude goremtnent oflicials that the pub- Ke huaiieBC should not be aoade public. TMt may be ^at the -Gevemor hopes is tliei pnfiLilar interpretation. But Ms objection ati tW root stems fvora the misguided idea tliat whan a Ne^o protests or objects to an iaj«i6- tice, he RMMt oome la the hack door, pi^ of his hat, ^n and bow his head in an Unde Tom manner. Protesting a situation as out-of-date,as the state’s present method of dtstributiog the eacheat fund and giving the press a copy of lAiat prqtest is acting too much like a free American. To the southern way trf thinking it is too "uppity” on the part of a Negro and mast neither be allowed nor anooaraged. To save face, and a dirty one at that, the escheat fund distribution methods may not be changed post iiaste, to say the least, during Governor Hod^’ administration. WiD It jvove to be i1k court of jiKtite natioiial ai^^ratMns? / WHhin Tlieir ConsfifuNonal Rights ^ Hie appatieoi: suxpriae which the daily gKas hat wdiiHtad becauae a croup ^ MefBa gitiaeae took the occaaion to exer- dee Ihehr Covntltutional ^ht to use the fiidlities df a federtf park apj^ts to us to |ie as aiuch out of iplace as the use of the offiee er any other lederal pmperty by lilgran. The aurpriae toomes to as when ao- ^■lled Negro iwtifieetuals will continue to iMSCeipt without protest se^negated facilities jn aaaaioipal and statp parks when thoae iprmjd hy the iade^ government are avail able. / As it dawns updn them that they too are fetaa■d the aanae as other cttiaens Cor Mipner af aiiintaining myoleipal, Ced- mttimd atate facilttses of all kinds, Negroes ipe jpihif to ileniend more and more that 4Hqr be aHowwd thr iwer of tbenL This is only aaliMi and aa it he. Only a moat an- iMnriaiad person' would expect otherwiae aaeh a paraen would want4o with- hUithentt^ w MM COttm The AMbe of Wwfrttfji.'lo.iHle city awiied lml» floarte ii «r it city-owMd eprtwhig fotA in Qcnenflhom er ebewheee Aoalf net he IIm «Miae for jtwHnaliatlr ■liMi bat eafcat tfnH0m\\'r of the tact that tmMUbm paid far by ^the qttaens «annat aia«|i%Mr li«aH|^l9iHpn3v$dadfor one sag- awit Md the iMipaleftflK'while being deni^ aoti^cr segment. , The idim fl. Kan* lleseryoir-—Lord, help ae- to iocget about the name—has been ad is heing maintained out of money from the pockets of all the citizens of; Aooerica and any attempt to prevent all of them from using its faciMea would appear to tis to be out «f keeping with both Chrifc- tian and Dempcratic’pHnc^es. As usual tti^ daily t»^S'k;e{eri Co^a slmilfir recieation area as being “planned lor Ne groes across the lahe at ''Bullockswlle. This, ,we liiink, is some mone of the separate but equal thinking of a certain segment of southern whites who oontimie to hang on to the idea (hat even in thiiiigB iederal Are The Courts In Retreat? , None hat the politicaily naive can view aiiything hut the flarkest iorebodingE the re cent deqisiens handM d«wn 1^ Federal tadges ttifudi tend to mOiiy me United StatM Supreme Court ruling calling for de- tagregatibn of public schools. Sewaai weeks ago the decisian of Judge granting a* poatponement to the iehool hil^d of little Rock nught have been an isolated instance subject to op by the Court of Appeals, ng of Staling Hutcn^on a sev^-y^.dday ^ the authori- V»., aeems to ptttexn wlfii the most ominous undertones. The anticipated decision of the Court pf Appeals sitting in St. Loui* cm the Littlt Sock case, if adverse, wiU'laave no doubt as to the accept^ attitude of the Federal judi-: ciary. ; 'It will prove that they have coanirfatelyj capitulated to the nwb. Such action 4ftiould not have caught us by! surprise. 'President Eisenhower, himseU, wittingly or unwittii^ly^ j;ave the tip-off t« this policy oi abandonment^ when h^ told the recent summit conference sti^eaby the tional Publishers AssociaUoa tbdt^Trai 'cah- not change the hearts of mas by laws." The judiciary has been busy trawAating this pno-J aounoemeot into action. Since World War II the emphuds was! fihifted to the judiciary where the legal gutis, of the NAACP have been trained oo that: branch to attain through laigalistics whftt Was Irapofisible through either the executil^ei or l«gialati»e anas. Now that this appMadi aeeats Ip hwe ls-. geoecated iato the same imp^CeDce til at, marked the other In'anchca the Ug qoeatii is where dm we jo frtm here? i The time to make fUa taaclution mod 4 b- viae • aew «|ipnMch ia Iwia «ai amir. 1 ^a, should not wak until tba luudteaptex of a policy ia eatbUabed beyond «S |to' seek new ro*dar to travd.-^Afre JUunnaMi. Spiritual Insight “COME DOWN” By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND Pastor, Mount Gikad Baptist Church «4«. iiWa milriwii questtoa oomes t* cwtiy aoni laefc^ eom- aHmiaw with God. RMry •oul kit la sin must (Ms ia- etcapafale ijuesttoa. This aues- tioia fa(^s everyone who, in blindness, ight against tru4Ji, iu»tiioe and rijfhteousness. Oni of tite great tragedies of hu^ poaaity pridiQ^ .blijgidnesa( ia bliu^ess we strive and iig^ agaiast God and truth. We know we cannot win, and we go on lighting blindly and stubbornly. We know Mck efforts add to an ab- ;^t failure. And jret in preju dice, prMe and the resultant Men in tbeir blindness strug gle on vainly against God. In blindness they bump their heads against moral stone ■‘walls. How can we succeed in our struggles against the grain of God and the moral law. Our blind efforts are doomed to failure. We wouM keep sla- yery but men are finally lifreed.iWe would maintain the lishackles of rank injustioe, but )tt»eyu eventually fall off. We awould keep nven in ignorance, the ligitt trutti tf> sft them free. A young man r.would stay tfie advance of God's redeeming love in Christ. What happens? His ef forts fail. And finally he ends up fighting f*r rather than against Christ and the Church. Then why do men in their of labor, the oppressed, the disfranchised, slavery, women sufierage, coloniaUsm, and now in the struggle against the gin . of a vicious system of segregation. (jod has asked and he stUl asks us in our moral and atijiiritual blindness: WHY DO you FIGHT AGAINST ME? Man fights against freedom and freedoan's march con tinues. Look at the rulers of Egypt fighting against Israel’s deliverance. They do every thing that evil can devise. And yet they fail. The people are ■et free. We see the people marctung joyously on the path of freedom. Why do men moti vated by selfish gain fight have the right to tmpDse-thnr sepan*e-tot*t^ tnihaness ’•e ftgiit t«|; ^ rtW“dnfi^ light acujiiiit .God? equal philosophy on Negroes. ~ have se^ in the stogies • Respectable Nef^o citizens want no i^pecitl provisions made Cor theni in federal, state or municipal parks or elsewhere. Ihece is no special ptovisaOB made for them ia (he pay- naent of taxes for the maintenance of such places and we see no reason why there ahould he any otherwise. Any Negro aooq|Maixg aach is not only out oi tune with the thnes hut he should be considered «traitor to faotih hia oountry and his raee. He is 4eliherately fciaiTiiig a way of life that fiaeiahea fuel for (he eommunirt pwnw^nda miUs in pro moting their way of life. We would like to oonanmnd the Negroes wtfo went to the John H. Kerr Beaervoir They were absolutely within their >^ts and from all reports they conducted then^- sel'ycs «6 ladies and gentlraaen. Thia is aU that is required and so long as 'they continue ih such maxuw every liberty lovi^ 'Ameri- cen cUiaen will extend to then his best wiahe^. against God and human free dom? Because of their selfish, sinful blindness . Selfishness Never Gives Up Its Unjust Gains Without A Fight. This is one of the tragic, heart rending facts of human his tory. We saw it in Egypt, among the slavriiolders. They in their blindness denied men freedom. Now they are about to lose all. God is still asking men in tbeir blindness, as he asked Saul, .wJj;^ do;'y»u fight against me? The fight against God is a losing fight. Paul lost his fight against Christ. That day on the highway he lay prostrate amid the shattered ruins of a futile fight against God Al mighty. Folks, you just can’t wia against- God and., hjj righteous.cause. You must fail. How can you, a finite, mortal creature, fight and win against God? God’s sovereign power seals your defeat. You will lose in fighting against God. Then let us pitch in to fight the good fight of faith and righteousness which carries A DIVINE GUARAN TEE. Editor’s Note: Ihe f«Hawiqg notes were made by Jiss 0oai' broski during his travels throu^ the South in the course «f his wock for the Soutbern Con ference Edacational Fund. Tie Fand ia «ac • the dew libMal iaiemielal •rganhtatlsas la the South, and dnrlng the receatiy oeachided heartaigi by the Haase Un-Amerloati ActlviM^ Oon- mittee It was threatened with ottaiiMi as a “Coauaaalat Vnaat" crssqi. Ihe SCBV. aamban aassag Hs meaaherB^aeweiid jpva- By ROBERT SPIVACK Watch on the Potoftiac hMladiac the Bev. Itadhi L, Kiag mt MoatgaaMcy. SaaM giadsai N«4aa , July 22: Delta area, lUssis- sippi - Talked with one 0t the militant Hegpo leaden «f this region, active in a movement to increase registration and Y^ting. Two incidents of violetMie ^e last week in June fai this region; A sheriff, for do reason at all, hit Isaac Jackson 5S, fattter of 13, witii a blackjack. Jackson, collapsed and died. Woodrow Wilson Daniels 37, after having been beaten in jaJl by the sheriff, died the rttert day, Jnly 1st, in a Memphis hospital." ,July 22: Jackson, Mississippi- Attended the trial In Federal flourt of a case brought by a courageous Negro minister, .the Rev. H. C. Darby, against the state of Mississippi and Jeff Davis County for denying him the right to vote. In 1®84 there were 1221 Negroes registM«d to vote in this country before the new registration law was passed. Now there are between 40 and 50. Attorney General Patterson consistently addressed Rev. Dar by’s Negro attorney by the lat- ter’s first name. Conferred with SCEF board membo:. Grand Master, James C. Gilliam who was in the unsegregated au dience. Snooping and Tapping, the Case of Frank Wilkinson July 23: Atlanta, Georgia— Frank Wilkerson is secretary of the Citizens Committee to Pre serve American Freedom in Los Angeles. He formerly was assis tant director of Public Housing for the city of Los Angeles, but lost his job because of his etforts forts in behalf of integrated housing. For the past year, Mr. Wilkinson has been engaged ia a national campaign to abolish the House Un-American Activi ties Committee. Because of his experience, I invited him to Hie Atlanta hirings of the HUAC as an observer and as a guest of ttie SCEF. On the 22nd I sent Wilkinson a telegram telling him to meet me at the Atlanta Biltmora Hotel On the 2grd: tfo one except- Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson and my self knew of the telegram; na one, that is, except the tappers. Mr. Wilkinson had not been ia his room for five minutes be fore there was a knock on his door and a marshall handed Mm a subpoena. At the hearings, Richard Arens, staff director of the com mittee, charged that Wilkinson had been sent to Atlanta by the communists. AaU-ScaaUsm Two days before I arrived in flftHVACK tttteNIOWEIU-A STUDY ’ CONT«ASTS The President has rarely so good or so bad as he at his Aug. 6 press con ference. Sometimes it was hard to realise that it was the saaae man talking. When it can^ to the Middle Eaat, Hie President was full of sucgestians. He indicated a deea awareneu that U.S. policy m tha|i^r^ l(M^)?e^ barren. Without mehuohitiS aeera^nt Daites tiie Presideift even seemed to agree witii Watter I Iwaaawa^ wwi other ctttto that our have been aefative aad that the)r ^were going "nowhere. “Tix)ops 4aeyer win the peace,** the admitted. “We’ve got to do something posiyve, and this imist be in the firfd of moral and spiritual and economic and polKical strengthening of all^ese areas.’* He spoke of Irrigation Re jects and hydroelectric de- ▼ehrpment as the sort of thing Hurt could make an Eden 'of the North African desert. Whan It came to the farawatr MhhPa East the President cecM aea the problems IN he laid, “and they are turning to people that ttiey do not trust, tiiat they do not believe are going to be Content In let ting them have their own Only last year the President had to send troops to Little Rock, becausc 'Gov. Faubus openly encouraged the lawless elements. freedom Of action; and I say ^ Yet when asked if he planned "Ths i>eopla ara Impatient," we must make it poisible for them to turn to us to get ef fective help.,.” But when it came to matters closer to home^—tiie protec tion of civil rights for Negro school children—the Presi dent was by his own admission at a loss what to do. A reporter pointed out thsit we are apiNroaching the etart of another sciaool year which is likely to briag as much ten sion in the South as ever, and perhaps, more. Did the Presi dent have “any plans” to head off that tenskm? ; Af he frequently ha« in the : past, the President ^ave a littie sermon on how “we have got to l(jok Inside ourselves*’ and bow “C keep preaching that tlusre must be soasie wis dom” within each of us on meeting this pmblea. THE ABSENCE OF A PLAN It has now he^n four years since the Supreme Court' handed iowin Na iatagrailaa deoiaion. Aad the opaiUng 4 aa^h aahool year haa baan marked by daflanaa of law and sagrefattaoia; -viotcnea. to say something or .issue any special instructions to the Jus tice Dept, the President could only ansewer: “Now, I cannot possibly teU you in what aspect any acute situation may arise, indeed, whether there ever will be (one) of that kind. “ I just say It is something all of us bave to work—and I would—if I could think of anything I thought would be effective in August or in the few weeks before, the two or three weeks brfoj«, the school|8 e^art, why, I certainly slMuldnt hesitate to do it." How sad. With such an absence of fer vor is there little wonder that the Senate Judiciary Commit tee headed by Senator Jamea O. Eastlmd of Mississippi la in no hurry to act on the nomi nation of the man Eisenhower wants to head the Justice De partment’s aaw Civil Rlgha DivMan? **Oar CUai”, as aame Miasilp* plans call the Senator, has held four hearings on Ike's PRESS COMMENT Atlaahi, a grsMp carryiag antj^eiailit _ picketed the Atlailte ConW tlon. On the same day, anoti^ groap with the same sloatl picketed the Louisville CaMle* Jsaraal. On* ai ^ Aattw pickets was Identified by by Carl Braden as one Ma leading racists of Loijisville, ; July 23-26: Mr. Wilkinson I callcd upon a number of op- gtandiiw ministers and lamWta ia Atlanta and «fged ttefk^ attend the bearings as obs?rVa^. A ai'ahiiw etibem did. JtOy Mi; **• w. sad * stt ttK gbeaeeay Baptist ~ Mid weie inspired by the ^ and the service under the p4a- tor, the Rev. Martin Luttier Kiag, Sr. Rev. King siloed opea-ietter to the Hopae 'fl presentatlves: and attaiif' liearings on the SOth. (^ea-Le«ter rUys liafOBtant Bale July 28: Yesterday in | Na tionwide broadcast, chairmdn Walter of HUAC mentlom|d tha open-letter to the House ai Ha* presentatives which now hi* 2TW signatures of Negro leadsis of the South. "; Today, Attorney A'ustin Walden, one of the signers. the open-letter, submitted it an advertisement for the Atlanl^ Constitution, "but the newspapw rejected the Mfo» fear it would becoane involved in a libel su||ij Subsequently, tfae ad was offi ed to tod acc«fed by the Wi ington Post-Tftles Herald. It ap peared on July 31st, The open-letter and the signiji- tures were entered as eviden^ in the hearings. Chairniai^ Willis stated there was “itrong evidence the letter had beeri composed by communists.” Sign ers of the letter were charac terized as dupes who did aot know what they were doing, stnd any signers who wished to have their names stricken could do 119 by writing the committee, ha said. Mr. Braden observed that tfae signers “would appreciate these aspersions.” July 29-31: The Atlanta hear ings, were conducted by a sub committee composed of Rap. WUUs of Louisiana, Rep. Tiwk .of Virginia, and ' Rep. Jackson (R. of Cal.). ’The two Soutb^iti- ers, of course, have bean ooih- aistet^t.opponents,-^ cjyi^.riilhtj for Negroes. Congressman Jai^-. son is the man who on the flsor of the House accused Bishop C. Bromley Oxnam of the Metho dist Church of “serving God on Sunday and the communist frant for the balance of the week.” From the momtent the taaat- Ings got underway by an em brace and a welcome by Govfr- aor Griffin of Georgia, mentor and sponsor of Gov. Faubus, t^ the end when chairman Willlf apofce in laudatory teraas of At torney General Cook of ‘Georgia aitd thanked him for His com plete cooperation, there'' waa no doubt that a piimary purpose of the committee coining South waa to strengthen the hands Of Griffin, Cook, aud other arch segregationists in tbeir efforts tt| silence and destroy indiyidUaU and organizations worlt^ in the South for integoatiem : ^^^— Gullible Norihem Newspapers Results of a well heeled, welt prepared, public relwtiofis cam paign to sell northern daily and weekly editors on the proposi tion that the U.S. Supreme Court “did the South wrrong” by order ing school desegregation can be seen in the comment of sbsae unsuspecting and gullible edi tors on the reelection of Gov. Faul»us. Rural editors have been the special objects of campaigns vilUfying the Supreme Coart, the Negro and school integration spread, widely by letter and bro chure. Hiese editors take the strMga editorial viewpoint that Fadius* winnmg of the Deniecratie pri mary election which Fesnsurea bis reelection is an indio^on that tH%re waa sonething weaag with tfae U.S. Supreme Cowt’s decision against school s^eea- tion and with PresUei|t Eisen hower’s final decision to sead federal troops to Littie Rock to put down a virtual rebelilon. nominee, W. Wilson White, a Philadelphia lawyer. White was the man who researched for the Justice Dept, the legal questions on use of troops In Little Rock and so he has be come a symbol at Integratton for Eastlsnd and coait>i^. n Ike won’t urge\8du]Chsm segregattonisti to bdhnit themselvet when tba ietoMM re-open, rnlgbt jtw pat In a jftng for con- Editors like Frank Uhlif Of the Ceylon (Minn.) Herald, E. jfej. Lehman of the Chatfield Minit^) News and newspapers like ijia Crookston Times all see ue Little Rock and school iiitefM- tion situation as some violaUgti of -citlrenship on the part of t&k federal courts and the feder^ geverniwent as represented. President Eisenhower's use of troops at Little Rock. Even tha big city dailies of the north liitt the daily Rochester, N.Y. Dentil- cratic Chronicle are suffatiiM from “southerh exposure.” ^ These edih>rs and others ^ their type ol thinking seem «d^> pleteiy ‘unaware that neither tA Supreme court nor Presid^ Elsenhower are responsible the Aameful eltuation in ty Sonth by which milHons of gro-Amerlc^ dhiMren watti given suhfltandard edueahon atiS millions of white children waiNi educated to believe iri Mriiite au- Ple»se turn to pa|^ I^ght) : firmatlon? The trouble, I am af not that Eisenhower lac thusiasm ter dvll righta' that he Is playing t»llttc^ the South. I think the dent actnaUy dees not kn^| Ids own, strength—or h«)‘' , mXK^ vower and pprttgg' Qfflea of the PrailtUncy i Ha also doant and prestige wither ten awijr.
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