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Separate But Eqial Sewage Systems
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XHE CAROLINA TIMES proposes this
tmk • Ml to Ite pr«MiU*d t» » ipccial
Mm ht Ncrtk Caralina Gcacnd Asawbly
to provids separate sew&gii systems for white
api Hegre peo()fii at Rwth Caroliiu. Hie
ftet that the state h*s a law «gainet Nejr®
and white people eating toeeiher, and a law
a|aiR9t tliem uatng the seme teilcts justific*,
we UUnk, separate sewage systems. Certain-
]§ il it k HalawtuI for white and Negro pco-
1^ l» in food t«gctiicr, unlawful for
Mmm get rW •# food ♦•gHiier, then the
ikc^ which results therefrom shouW not be
allowed to got together in the scwcrsi.
W» opon Um gavernor of the great
wmt lowraign state of North ‘Carolina, its
aaldet aiwJ seitators, its congressmen
aoA Ici^slators, frcra Mantco to Murphy, and
avjl rad Aose aad red blooded Anglo Saxon
ta UmA ap ani ha eauntad in this all-out ef-
firt t» kaap tie iacaa af Negroes from be-
c6tnit>c mixed with that of the white people
thif gpeat ftats. We call upon every last
one of them ta ha^ hoM the line against the
NAaCP ani sitppart the program ®f John
r, the ReT. Jamu Coie and the Rev.
George Dos?ett of the Ku KIux Klan in or-
dar that integrated sewage ■yatema ta North
CaroiiM may be forever aboliahad. Whan
the bill is brought before the lafislatiura of
this gt—t sovereigA ■tate, it shniM pvmridr
that hi eaae any ekiy, toam ar hamlat daras
eentinue integrated sewage the govamor
shaR have the power to yarsowUy ekaa av-
crcry last, stinkiiig om» ei them until a
segregated sjrvteai is pta^ided, and tha pur
ity of Angla Saxon faeaa waintaiitad and
bloodshed prcwantad.
While this bM ia being prepared santimcnt
for its passage cwn be areoaed by clynMniting
or tearing up iatcgrated sewage systeaas al
ready in use. One* pro-integratioiiist white
citizcRs and members af the NAACP
get a whiff at an inteiprated sewage sjra-
tern that boa faeen dynamited or tom up
they wiH be glad to uwrender to the segre
gationists that are trying to pnaerre the
purity of the leeas ol the protUt Anglo
Saxon race. We stand few aq—ra for
separate but eqaal sewaga syateyi and for
pure Anglo SaoKHa facaa.
IVe Lose A St(inflisli But Not Tin Vtdory
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Stanley’s dacisian iti the case of the
startent who had apptted for ad
•iHrien ta the aB-white Needham B.
ttdugtiton Ifigh School will be taken in
bf Negro Waders in the struggle to
eqnnl educational' opportunities for
Ifteir people. We «Kpeet to lose some skirnv
iahta—and even a few battles—but the ulti-
male victory is as certain and as sure as the
aun in tha haavena. Whatever the mistakes,
aMhar i«al or imaginary, they will be cpr-
retted. WE WILl. BE BACK! We Will not
become discouraged, we will not cease our
•f^tirts io Eacura for our children the best
Adocnbon which this .ittaie has to offer its
icKiicnu. Thase ;who hope to discourage us
Inta sorrenderiilg to the segregated school
system Which has crippled our children edu*
cttimaUy in the past are whistling in the
Aprfc ar chasing a pot of gold at the end of a
rithibow.
Qa 6ur sid* ara not oaly God and tha law
of the bad b«t a clear conscianoe which
give us courage and th^ satia|action of
knowing that wa are right. That the op
position has no such secure feelhig can be
seen ia the screaming over the winning of a
akinsush, the dynamiting of churchas, school
houses and homes in an effort to create fear
in hearts that are so calloused from wounds
that fear no longer can enter theaa.
We will not exhilsit pride and hMfghtiness
because “pride goeth before daatraction and
a haughty spirit b^ore a fall.” Wa will not
resort to violence but will fight an within
the framework democracy and in the
corrrts estabtished for the purpaaa ol pro
tecting the rights ot the eitiiena at this conn
try. We wiH be polite, we wiB be patient,
but we will keep a determined eye on the
goal which is absolute freedona and equal
rights for all the people ol thia earth.
Government Respoiisibilily Can Do The Same
in Schools, Mr. Pregident •
Ttie lewi Radet Or KHSting Ilie G(^
have noted wUh a degree pf deep con-
of lata the tendency on the part
MMfltera to stage what they call a
fetlval at their respective churches when in
■ gfclity thie whole afiair is a money raising
^giiettie. Sevcaal nights ago we attended
im» ai these aa-aalled “revivals” and be-
~Sam fetally dSs^sted at the tactics used to
Igdteze money out of the pockets of persons,
&y the pastor to say nothing of the visiting
hUniater, who was a pi^tpaster at hustling
th6 gospel or mancy raising, instead of soul
CAROLINA TIMES has supported
ifaDMIgh the years^rery financial effort of
chutches in this community when they were
th« farm of raOies, suppers, dinners,
^Ut Weddii)^,” “Wedding Of Roses"
•fc.' This newspaper frowns and will con
tinue to frown on administer or church mak
ing a racket out of a reviy^, holding a rally
ani calling it a revival. Both have their
pltiH in a church, but this newspaper does
■at fiael that they have anything in common.
Bther a rally ought to be announced and
held as a rally or it 'should ba kapt out al a
revival. Likewise a revival ought to be kept
out of a rally.
A majority of these so-caUad ravivals and
up with several hundred daflars raiaed, the
most of which is pocketed by the visiting
minister, while the church gets little in the
form of nwney ahdl^ w the form 6T souls
or additions to its membership. Which is
more important needs no argument by this
newspaper, any other human agency or per
son.
The tendmcy on the part (A some mimsters
to judge tiicir success by the arooont of mon^
ey they can raise may be alright when view
ed from a business standpoint but it is not
alright when viewed from a spirifMl stand-
pohit. In spite oA what men may say or do
the principal program of the church is to
point men the way to God. When a church
strays from that long and beaten path its
pipe organ, stained glass^ windows, carpeted
fkx»^ and other i^ysical fcatnres become
things of mockery.
Ibe Rigiit To Spend Vs. Tlie Rigbt To Earn
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3.
We salute the members of the NAACP
Youth Council of Wichita, Kansas and Okla-
(pnmn City for having the courage to stage
a -sit danm atrike against deportment and
ftrug stores of their respective cities that
had refused te serve Negroes at its lunch-
toom caoalen. Without fanfare, ▼ioleace or
noise the young people simply went into the
ttoiiA fmi task seats at the hmeh counters
and Mliaad to rmtc until the aaanagemeMrt
igt—d to abolish all discriminatery prae-
6ea». C«rtainJ|r mo fair-minded parson c»i
coaiaoNi such aMarts to impleanent seme of
(te Amuwiacy is this country that we
0iiA about to foreign nations. Striking for
•SSBSt
f§0Br*ni at DurtiMm, S. C.
ftp ViiiUMPubUthiert, fac.
L. K. Aamof, Pretident
M- K- Joaaraafi, CoatrotUr
tad at 430 £. Pettigrew St.
North Cwolina
199 IV. Cbwtnut Street
matter at the Poat
IRMft ChnMHa Mfler the
the right to spend one’s money wttl^ut dis
crimination is alright but we had much rather
see a sit down strike staged to sfecure the
right to work as ah employee at that same
lunch counter. Of course if Negroes are
already employed in these parttei^ar stares,
withoat discrimination, our «baanratl(»M
along this particular line are entirely out
of place. ^
In Durham, Winston-Salem, Greenaboro,
Charlotte and several other cities of this
state Ni^roes shouU take a ctie from the
NAACP Yoath Council of Wi^tsand CMa-
homa City and do somethin|i aI>out the kck
of employment fiar their people. In spite of
the hondreds of Negro high achool and col
lege graduates that «e being tamed ont
each year in increasing oumbejrs^ practically
nothing is being done to open up new places
of empk^ment for titem. AS 'S rmilt a
ma|ority ef our c^l^ graduntaa end up
teaehing or in some less desirable /ob where
the pay is not quite as lucrative aa H ia in
many ather fields where Negroea have nev-
vh^adaanea;
One in psrttcidaF wliara Ifaigroas
need to mafte a mov« toward jplning: am-
ploymt^ 1a as drivart af el^ buaaa la Dua-
t«ni t# ]M«» n^)
Spiritual Insight
‘'They Stood Speechless”
By REVEREND HAROLD ROLAND
Pastor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church
see the outer physical signs.
Thiey saw a man lying on a
‘-highway. Only the one who is
‘converted can see the light
hear the voice. The con
vert only experiences the into-
macies of the Divine encoun-
_“Tbe men who were travellings
with him stood speechless...”
Acts 9:7.
The travelling' companies of
the passionate Saul of Tarsus .
stood speechless in his hour of
spiritual rebrith. They were
superficial witnesses to an 1 xhe individual alone can
amazing experience: The re- , redeeming influence
generation or Conversion of a jj intimate for
soul. They were speechless outsiders. That rare mo-
with amazement os they saw exajtatiok and
their leader lying prostrate oa^ '“^xstiicy is rowrved for the
the highwajr^ From o»rtwajd.-io-^ui the reileemad. 'dthers
observation they knew som^ ^
thing strange had happened, intimate encoun-
They couW not understand
this mysterious happening on
a highway at high noon. They
Aid not see the light in its daz-
aling flash. They heard not the
Voice of Christ the Lord and
Redeemer. They did know that
fmmuthing strange had tjikpn ,
place there on the highway.
Thus they stood speechless as
Saul was arrested in his wild
career. They stood speechless
in the presence of the lAysteri-
ous conversion of a man’s soul.
The encotnter between God
and a^Man’s soul is very per
sonal. They understand not the
change of his soul. They did
ter is reserved for the soul that
'is bom again. Thus the men...
“Who were travelling seated
gpeectUeas...”
f Wei are unable to enter into
! (bat moment of Holy Glow in
the soul of the redeemed. We
must ever stand in speechless
amazement of what Christ
Jesus can do in the sinful soul
of men. Conversion is the in
ner sanctuary of tbe^Holy of
Holies ol the new blrm or re
generation. It Is a sacred en
counter that others cannot
share except to behold in
speechless amazement some of
the outer signs.
We are left in speechless
manifestation or signs of
what Christ can do in a sinful
soul. Yes, the redemption of
Christ leaves us in speechless
wonder. We must ask with
Nicodemus...“How Can These
Things Be?” Here is a man
mad, furious, bitter and
pronto he is rhysteriosuly
transpired or charted. Here
is a man who has murder in
his heart. Here is one who has
no respect for God nor man.
And then he is converted—^
changed in a moment. Truly
such things call for speechless
wonder and amazement. I sat
in speechless wonder and
amazement the other day as I
' finished reading the story of
H Tnan who hart been changed
and converted by the Christ.
The poet is right “Amazing
Grace that changed a wretch
like me...”
You must experience for
yourself the power of redeem
ing Love in Christ while
others stand by in a kind of
speechless amazement.
By ROBERT SPIVACK
Watch on the
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Potomac
THE BLOW FELT ’ROUND
THE WORLD ^
WASHINGTON
Of all the missed oppor
tunities in the years since
1952, the worst, it seems to
me, was President »Eisen-
hower’$ statement on the
question of school integra
tion.
For many months Washing
ton correspondents have de
bated the question of the
President’s “inher filings”
on this ticklish subject..I^e pre-
ponderence of opinion Mi»s that
ha really did not “l>etieve” in
Intagration and. that- h« could
not understaqiKKWiNi^ t|>e Su
preme Court had orfei^ de
segregation with “all (jeliberate
speed.” r j
The rumors had itgt^ait the
President, who regardi himseH
as the great reconcileir, thought
everybody ought to grt together
on his question and that time
would work things out. But all
this was sheer guessing on the
part of the newspapermen. In
one way or another many tried
to get tiie President to exiwess
hia personal views.
Those who tried, I believe,
tre firmly coavinced that the
President would aay that of
course he favored full equality
for all citiaans—and thalr kida.
But it turned out dffferently.
The flaunting of his authority
by Gov. Faubus, segregEttionist
violence perpetrated by resur
gent Klansmen, and the prod
ding of members of his own
party—none of these apparently
has coBvhKcd him that integra
tion now is desirable.
• • *
De^)ita events in Ltttle Rock,
Montgomery, Ala., and Clinton,
Tlmn. the President has persist
ed in pursuing a passionless pol
icy. He was for "law and or
der.” He would carry out the
“final” decisions of the courts
whether or not he agreed with
them. He would “not comment”
on any Supreme Court’s rulings.
(This, of coMrse, Was not con
sistent with previous posttions
he has taken. Once he favored
natural gaa legislaUon whifh
vauld reverse a court decision;
%;iQth«r time he favored the so-
ealted “Tidelands hitl” which
upset another court decree.
; THE ROLE OV THE
BECONCILER
At his recent press conference
the President finally conceded
that he might have told friends
we ought to ge "slower" in In
tegrating -the public schools.
Prom VWwbua ttiia brought the
immediate responsa, “Pm for
Ika.” From Cohmmist David
Lawrence, who has been in
creasingly critical of the Presi
dent, came the observation that
Ike “reflected accurately the un
easiness of the whole country”
on the integration problem.
Others ot more moderate
views said that the President’s
answer was in line with his
“middle of the road” political
philosophy.
These comments about the
Eisenhower technique may all
be accurate enough. But the
thing that most of us who are
white lose sight of is that it is
the American Negro who has
been practicing the "patience,
tolerance — and eonsideratioa”
which the President believes the
present situation demands.
It’s now more than 90 years
since the Civil War and the
freedom Of the slaves. How long
tnust Negroes wait for equal
rights?
• ♦ ?
Granting that emotions have
ijeen deeply stirred, I would be
more impressed with the Presi
dent’s pleadings if he himself
had done some thing positive in
the four years since Uie high
court handed down its integra
tion decision. But at almost ev
ery phase of the fight for ciual-
ity he has retreated or hesitatad.
He undercut his own party
'Feiisrtess' CokhM
Un-Aaierican Commtttec iU
Congress, or wlMiever has
control over the Uausa Ifa-
American Activities commit
tee, should immediately recall
the ceasmittea from i»hatever
it is doing at present, and send
it back inta the South.
This tin>e to Little Bock,
Ark., where we solemnly sug
gest that Governor Orval Ptu-
bus ak>ng with Oi^vcrnKHr Mar
vin Giiffhi, of Georgia, and
Attorney General Eugene
Cook, of the same state, should
be investigatsd for sedition In
their plotting to resist the Su
preme Court edict to de-segre-
gate the schools, wliich result
ed in President Eisenhower
having to call out tha National
Guard last Fall.
With the 8th U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeal’s highly mor
al decision, handed down
Monday, that integration
should be resumed in Little
Rock’s schools in Septzmber,
and tl)»t United States law
must not be “whittled away,
watered down, or shamefully
withdrawn in the face of vio
lent and unlawful acts,” Oov.
Faubus, the wire services told
us, "met behind closed doors
with his advisors.” The likli-
hood, said the • Associated
Press, wa^ that he would call
a spccial session of the Arkan
sas legislature.
The details of what ttie Go
vernor plans to do are not im
portant, ■ (
iiualtltui uii utWuaig^ to
OTeftki’iiW tt'4 govern-
aiant Itt Arlvitn3:ij aad ia ttie
South, and as sush is seditious
and treasonable.
For the Hcmhs Un-American
Antivities committee to be oc-
ct^led with hounding Com-
nuaaists when there is this
threat to the internal security
o4 the United States, opealy
bchig concocted t>y men in re
sponsible positions ef govern
ment, would be ludicrous if it
were not that the effects of al
lowing Faubus and his cohorts
to go on with their plotting,
are £0 portentous of extrema
danger,
Allowed to fan the flame? of
race hate,, ignorance, and law
lessness, even though the
means might have the sanction
of v/hat pastes for law in Ar
kansas, Faubus may be re
sponsible for plunging this na
tion into a degree of Civil War
in the crisis hour which the
opening of our public sehoeli
has come to be in far too many
parts of the county.
‘Faubusness,’ wl^h consists
•f busily doing un-essentlal
things such as witch-burning
on the brink Of dls.is.ter, may
cause the death of one or more
children as they aUempt to
obey the law and the jdictates
of tlieir conscicnce, and the
higheet instincts to be “men,’
not cittle, next September.
The climate in which Ameri-
.1., : . I , , ; • , can Negr(J si^hooi children
The fact is that this lis| j tllyAijt!'iafJc^th jinust re-
guilty of plotting to overirirdw tuni id school this Septernbar,
the'Ui^ited States ge^vernment, >ivM than two weeks, away, is
and that it i|r{l6i>en^ fo6astc#\t'lthc bosincss con
that he and Griffin and Cook
plotted a ‘holding action’
against tl>e United, States Su
preme Court decrj^ /i year ago
in Uttle Rock.
This action may be as Aaneri-
can as all get out, in that they
certainly aren’t Fiji Islanders
who are doing it, but it cer-
Ironting alii Of the United
States today. ‘
This i.s more important than
Communists in the United
Slates...more important than
Lebanon..more important than
November elections, or the Re
cession, or farm aid,
(Los Angeles) Tribune,
Novel WHh South American
SettiiNi Draws Critics' Praise
• NEW YORK
The South American jungles
where men risk even their lives
for diamonds and gold, is the
setting for A TOUCH OF MI
DAS, a novel by Jan Carew,.]uat.
publiali^ b]^
Inc.
The iiero of the book is Stiark,
a native boy wlw rtms away
from his village to win his for
tune in the diamond mines of
the British Guiana Jungles only
to lose all he gains in the city
which he can neither* understand
nor conquer.
Jan Carew, the author of A
TOUCH OF MIDAS, was born
in British Guiana of mixed Ne
gro, Duteh, South Ameriean In
dian and Portuguese descent.
After high school he came to
the United States and attended
Howard University and Western
Reserve University in Cleveland.
He has traveled throughout
South America, North America
and Europe, has lived in France
and Holland, and has now set
tled in ^gland where he writes
novels, radio pbiys lihd appears
as an actor under the- manage
ment of Sir Laurence Olivier. '
« 'It.
• American ^Udiences have seen
C^lrew ia the CMivier iM'oductions
of “Anthony and Cleopatra.’’' aad
“Caesar and Cleopatri.’’ He is
naarricd tai'.British playwright
Sylvia Wynter.
A TOUCH OF MIDAS is
Carew’s first novel and on its
British publication was hailed
by critics as “A book to stop the
traffic’ (Daniel George) and,
"Mr. Carcw has poUred all his
crowded memories of a small,
noisy little country clanging and
banging with virile life into his
story, In, fa^iti'his sound effects
;»re 80,trn^,,^„9iqlpf_s so brassy
tiiat the whole tiving vibrates.
He knows his people; and he
writes of them proudly, and yet
with infinite love and compas
sion.”
(1116 Manchester Evening News)
last year during the Senate
civil rights debate, by asserting
that lie did not know the con
tents of the Administration-
proposed legislation utrtil Sen.
Russell (D. Oa.) pointed certain
things out to him. He made no
efforts to defend Attmitcy Gen
eral Herbert Brownell when the
segregationists made clear they
out for his scalp.
He refused the pleas of prom
inent Amcrfcans, white and Ne
gro, |of^ a White House Confer
ence on ttvil Ri^ts. For many
nMnths he would not even meet
with Negro leaders, such as the
Rev. Martin Luther King, to
hear their sida of the argument.
Not once, luui he spoken ia the
South for “law and order”—^let
alone for integration.
So is there any wOnder that
many peopMr”leel disappointed
'With the role of reconciler that
the President has chosen for
chosei^ for hlmselfT As it has
worke dout he has not brought
together people of divergent
views. Instead he has decided to
put himself above the battle and
to uttA* ptous sermoi^es that
produce few positive Miul|s:'u J
AKAsAskHte
To Grant All
Equal Rights
WASHINGTON, D. C.
One of the nation’s leading
Negro organizations Saturday.^
called upon President Eisen-
hower to use the full power of
his office to eliminate raeial
segregation and bring about
equal opportunities for all of
America’s minority groups.
The' appeal was contained in
a'series of resolutions passed by
Alpha Kappn Alpha Sorority,
the nation’s oldest and largest
social Greek letter organization
for Negro wotrton, as the group’s
weefc-long '50th anniversary
boule came to an end at the
Sheraton Park Hotel. Nearly
2,000 delegates representing the
Sorority’s 274 chapters attended
the meeting.
The President was commend
ed by the 20,000-member group
for his past efforts at “uphold
ing the law of the land in the
struggle to improve humah
rights;” however, the women
urged him now to emphasize the
moral re.^nsibility of all
Americans in bringing about
equality.
Two speci|j,(j, areas were men
tioned in the 'resolutions. They
were employment and housing.
If
For Tjkoiii art my rock an^ ,
my fortress; thcrcf^e, for
Thy name’s saka, leadtoa and
} gafde me.—(Psalm 3^1)
I Those who devout pray far
and then obey God*a guidanee '
I—^who truly place thiir trust
'■ in Him and surrender tiisir
I will to His, will be led by Him.
They wl)l know such stren^
imd confidence, such ^aes ot
aiiad and soul, that the humaa
•■ind cannot imgine. TOey are
tha bleat: j