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fiiiS— "THI TKUTH UNHtntMiED" «KT^ MAR^ 7, T«M Leidership D^ds A BeMr DIspMier of Jostice 4 Gtandstand View 4 lite Hemtersoii Strike Thr resort lo vi'tlonrc 1n l!u‘ cotton inill; Mrik/C at Hriuler.Min is to In- rcgrotteii. With out attempting to arj^iie here a« to wlio is to hlaftie for thr homhin^js, gunfire aiiil ntlier violations of ilip law, tliis newspiHifr hopps that Irarter*; of hotli labor nnl inaiiaffrment will realize th* fiitilily of violrni-i- and deriilo lA modiate rtlPir ditYerrnrPs rnthpr than sliiff thrin out with guns, -ticl s, ,lynaiuitr and other weapons. Hotli siies in tlu- llciid4rs>iu sliil;o wmiM do well to take ex.Tinpio froin that provided hv Nopro citij'ens of the state wlm, in spite of the difficulties they farr in the matter of eni- ploynient, housing;, e|\ial sciiool facilities and other disadvantages, have nevT resorted to violence in their eftuMs tu reah a .satisfac- ’iory affreenient on such (jue.-^tions. Though often on the receiving end of violence. Xegro citizens have always refused to he the insti gators. It does appear to us that our fellow white riti/ens who have heen exposed to the best in education, ctdiure, einploynienl ami living coniitions could find a way to settle their dif ferences without resorting to guns, dyiianiile and chihs. In the end, neither management nor labor can win. F.ven though one may shool, dynamite or club the other into submission, the wounds will remain only to become in flamed .igain the very next time negotiations are necessary. \egro citizens of N'orih (arolina will watch with amazement the lack of restraint and the resort to violence exhibited by lep- resentatives on both sides in the Henderson strike. 'I'hls is siriclly “while folks business” and they want no part of it. Their greatest satisfaction comes in knowing that for once they are not oti the receiving end of the dynamite, gun fire and cbibs that are being used in Henderson. .Sonietinies it is nice to have a seat in the grandstand where you can get a good view of the so-called superior peo ple. Should Weigh The Facts Before Moving The officials of the C1..\.A. Hasketball Tournament have indicated that as srton as they can find a larger place than the N'orth Carolina College gymnasium they intend mov ing the annual sports event from Durham. It will be recalled that when the Tournament was first started that it was played in Wash ington, D. C, ofi‘ the campus of one of the C.I.A.A. schools and at an exorbitant price for the use of an auditorium. When the C. College gymnasium was builf a few years later with a seating capacity of approximately 5,000, tournament ofticiais were happy and quickly moved the tournament to N. C. Col lege where it has been played for the past several years at a great financial success and in an atmosphere more befitting a college sports event. Tournament officials feel that because they were compelled to turn away seyeral hundred cash customers when the final game was played this year that the tournament could make even more money if it could be played in a plao toe accommodate more spectators. In o4her words, they now feel the tournament has outgfTown the gymnasium at N. C. College and must be taken to a larger place if it is to become a greater financial success than it is at the present, whether that place is on or off a college camptts. Now we would not be so naive as to ex pect tournament ofticiais to entirely disregard financial considerations. We do think, how ever, that there is a danger of their becoming too sure that the financial success they are now enjoying in Durham at N. ('. ( ollege can be transferred w’ithout a hazard to another college or city and built to such proportions overnight.. There is also the matter of paying such an exorbitant fee for a larger place that tt would offset whatever financial gain might be had at the ticket office. This newspaper has been advised that before the tournament came to Durham that each game played cost in the neighborhofMl f)f ?.Sfl() without any rights of concession privileged. I'niess tour nament officials are able to secure a place on a college campus without the exorbitant prices charged for city auditoriums we feel that moving the event to another place would be a jnistaVe. With thj^ in mind, we trust filli- cfals'will carefully wHgh all of. the wets be fore them before they decide to move the site of the tournament. STAmBACK SISTER-, JUtTlC* smu BBJEVt AKemtlii Mien Love And Nate Is 1^ New Author WATCH ON THE POTOMAC By ROBERT SPIVACK The Big Test Ahead For Texas' Senator Lyndon B. Johnson Tribute To A FJne Citizen The C»«.>lina Times is happy to join with the many friends of J. W. Jeffries in felicitat ing him on his retirement after 36 years o’f faithful and meritorious service with the ag riculture extension program of North Carolina His last {)osition in the program was that of western district farm agent for the state. Jeff, as he is affectionately known to his hundreds of friends all over the state is probably one of the mo$t respected and best loved of all the farm agents and other employees of North Carolina. Because of his affable and friendlv Washington be? Is it going to be Senators from They are .suspicious of him be- THE BIG TKST FOR “bBJ”— states with less than 10 per cent cau.sc ho is suspicious of the The'best thing to do, Lyndon B. of the population of the country “tight money” policy. He is askinR .John.son's worried friends were many of whom are beholden to big too many questions about what it saying, is to pretend it didn’t ha^- oil companies, Wall Street banks may have done to the economy and pen. Act as if there is no Senator and the giant insurance combines? who got rich out of it. William Proxmire from Wisconsin. Or will the, men who come from At all costs don’t get into a name- California, IlTinois, Pennseylvanla, calling contest. New York, Massachusetts, Michi- J”""-'*”" In flie first week after Proxmire gan and other populous areas at brought nut in the open the un- least he given a look-in? _ , dercurrent of resentment against Of the entire Southern senate Sinate Anti trust Commit- the Texan’s leadership that’s the contigent only a handful can l>e "'hen the hig Tennekean seem- course .lohn.son’s friends followed, said not to represent some special fiomg after certain ulUi- There has been only one .serious interest, an.swer to Proxm ire’s demand for * # “more democracy and less autoera- SENIORITY WHEN CONVEN- ey” by the democratic Leader. It lEMT—So far as the Proxmire in- came from Sen. Richard Neuberg- cident was concerned Johnson’s er of Oregon. big mistake was lo employ the They will eon- pnnpi. ....p.inn.u- ^ tinuc to pop up until they are met Editor'l •*- ccrptK of '• roiwit TIWBS ■»r«m 'Vwnwn Ward't tatHt woloiW, and SHrt," w*i r*vi*w*d fcy b«n Wost in the TIMES for Tebriwry 7. His book l« on t»U eurrtinfiy at n- These have been tlifficuit times for us all. We often don’t act ns we feel, because wc don't consider it expedient. Yesterday, for ex ample, In the aifport dt NeW Bern, a Negro service man sot down Tto- side me In the airport wailing room — the first t ime t his has ever happened to me in the South. (Once in Paris I share*! the same room and bed with a IwloveU Ne gro friend for two months — which was all too short a time!) Now my seathiote of .yesterday was a kind and gentle soul^ forceil into uniform, of course. He had looked at me and made sure that I would not mind Itefore he sat down beside me. Withniit a word, I had invited him, t already had my arm nroitnd the hack of his seat before he sflt there; I left it there. At first he sot on the edge of the .seat, nrartiially he leaned hack. lie Was the only Negto In' the entire waiting room, artd there we sat. I asked him what time tlie ’plane from Washington was ex pected. “3:15,” he said. That was all we .said. After a while he was called to the desk. He had received a ’phone call from his friends who were .somewhere in Virginia. How did I feel toward thiii Ne gro? He was young, handsome, neat, polite. Who could have helped loving him? I am 45, bald ing, have .some teeth mi.ssing — not nearly .so attractive or promi.s- ing. After all, with my ideas, I have, like Don West and like a lot of others, suffered quite a bjt —and it h»s left its mark. the Ne^o youth was certainly welcomc to sit bojilde the ff he could stand it. In tiie society of otir surroundings — which has certainly improved in that wc can share the same seat in the same waiting room at all — wc operated under a certain constraint. Bdt wo were quietly breaking the ice, aiul all will come naturally in time. Still, if we hod been alone, I might have clamped my hand around his shoulder anil I am sure wc couhl have talked a lot. » ^ 0 Among the most valued com- mentfi on my hook is a letter from ncv. C. P. nriley, a Negro minis ter of Itdhersonville, who hapin-ns akto to 1m> pastor of the First Uap- tist Church of Belhaven. "I pur chased one of your wonderful hooks . . . some time ago,” he wfites. “I have read many hooks of poems, but 1 can truthfully .say I don't remember reading one with any more profound truth than yours.” We who believe in the eq\iality and brotherhood of man will con tinue to suffer at the hands of the advocates of greed and hale until love overcomes evil andselfish- ne.ss in the heart of each and evtry one of us, until we all con- .sent to he average and nothing more than average, for lo be aver age is lo he equal — and 6ne can not love others as .self without also wanting for others ns for self and getting for others .is for .self. The wages of continued greed is plain l»efore us — namely, death. The wages of fconlinuei; greed is plain bef«rfre us — namely, death. The reward of love is everlasting hap- pine.ss and life eternal. If we don’t make our final choice soon We may lose our last chance even to survive. fiest wishes and cordial regards, Vernon Ward But this i.sn’t the first lime has ignored seniority, when he felt like it. For a while he kepi Esles Kefauver from hcad- ty companies, which arc also said to “keep” some Southern sena tors. « 1 # 'Uhc i.s.sues Proxmire has raised Girl Scouts Prove All Youth Not Part of "Lost Generation rr ' Jeff is the kind of fellow by whom ,one but they need not have been. Neu- when it suited his convenience and wotilH rather be “cussed" than to receive berger has long admired Johnson’s lo ignore it when it suited his How will .Johnson handle Prox- iio ^ politician. It was Neu- conveiience. mire? More important how will praise from some otbei.. ' berger who .set the theme, since He bypassed Proxmire for the he handle the issue posed by Prox- heiart and soul to carry malice in bis heart, repealed by John.son’s political Senate Finance Committee. In- mire? Will he call Democratic sen- and his friends and acquaintances get a kind friends, nahiely, lhal Proxmire is stead of Proxmire, he put two gtors into a caucus more often of satisfaction at “cussing” him and beiNig -*iomething of an ingrate for voic- freshmen senators on the commit- than once a year? Will he allow “5ussel” by him. He is more or less an insti- tec, one from Minne.sota and one them to discuss subjects of nation- \ from Indiana. If John.son had been al, local and parly interest? Will nut is that really the issue? consistent about the seniority cUs- he abide by majority decision on There are those who like Prox- tom he might .still l)e the un- what bills .should be called up and mire and lho.se who i^iiwl. Prox- challenged ptililical bo.ss of the in what order? mire may h( in the judependenl Senate. Or is that loo democratic for the liberal tradition of Wi.sconsin’s But it’s clear to many ob.servers nemorcalic leader? tution in North Carolina. It is altogether fitting and proper that Jeff’s friends have agreed and set aside a time and place to honor a fine citizen, a hard work- disposition, his friends and admirers are stntng j er ,ahd a loveable character. The occasion Bob LaFollelte. Or he may be a hero that Johnson’s fidelity is first By MRS. HARRY MIDDLETON It’s becoming very fashionable these days to complain that Amer ican youth is not as vigorous or hard working as youth behind the Iron Curtain. This week, on the 47th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United St.Ttes, we would like lo point out that many youngsters in Girl Scoutiiig ahd in other youth groups are Icarn- fng to "15TOW tip~^s alert, self- disciplined and useful citizens. Last year, for example, a 17- year old Girl Scout won a na tional sciencl award for her in dividual research work in as tronomy. While not many Girl Scouts are likely to become as tronomers, more than three and one half million Girl Scouts arc likely to become l^lronomers, more than three and one half million Gipl Scouts arc learti- ing how valuable our freedoms and traditions are. Even more , important, they are learning that a democracy depends on citizens who are willing lo serve their communities. ■ ■ The Girl Scouts arc celebrat ing their anniversary this year with the theme, “You Can Count on Her to be Creative.” Spe cial emphasis is being given lo arts, homemaking and service projects bccausc the Girl .Scouts believe- 4h«t 4t—is essential for every youngster lo develop self confidence and initatlve as well as specific talents. This Is a very different kind of youlh program than lho.se hehlncV the Iron Curtain and one thql all of us can be proud of. ' We think the men and ijvom- en who serve as volunteers in the Girl Scouts and in iither yodth groups should be ^con gratulated. They arfc not 'only helping youngsters, they are serving their country as well. from one side of the state to the other. They are happy to know that Jeff is retiring from his job as a state farm agent hut they do not •expcct him to retire from the civic, religious and Social life of the state. > glvi-s all of .us an opportunity to felicitate him who wants lo to conservative business inleresl.s, RFXJOMMENnED READING—If and to iiay’we hope he will live many more ^o you want lo know how big oil men . t • XT 1- J limehghl in a hurry. Too little is the custom of seniority. operated in the nast and ever years to serve his native North Carolina and icmi.u .md ever past and ever still known of the man to he sure The nation’s big banking inter- wonder how they still manage to to continue as one of its most deserving citi- into what category he fils, esls have looked suspiciously al gel what they want, I highly rec- Troubles In Alabama zens. But Proxmire either. isn’t the What Price SapetiorilH issue, Proxmire, even though he did a onimend a new book published by .stint at J. P. Morgan and Co. after The Viking Press. Title: “Teapot The question is who determines leaving Harvard Business School. Dome” by M. It. Werner and .lohn Democratic policy in the Senate They would not be happy with him Star ($5). It’s a fascinaling history and what is that polley going to on the committee. of the Harding era. W'e congratulate Negro citizens of Harlifax County for the orderly manner in w'hich they conducted themselves during the strike for a new sdiool building at Hollister. Striking for improvements is the American way of protesting conditions and focusing the atten tion of Others on the fact that your rights are trampled upon. So long as striking is done h» an orderly and resp^table mantier, no i^sdfi of sound mind can dbject to k. that the Halifax County Board of EdflCfctiOti has definitely j)romised to erect a new efefnentary school building, we trust "both pafettiis ahd students will exhibit a dejrree /— ".r...- of patience and cooperation with the board. By so doing they wilt prove that they are worthy of a new building and will gain fur ther respect of other citizens of the county. Members of the FTalifax County P>oard of Education, whether they admit it or not, must see the stupidity of segregation in that they are forced to maintain three separate schbol systems, all of which, comparatively speak ing, are bound to be btHow standard or decid- etHy expensive to all the citizens of the coun ty. )t thus appears to us that integration in the public schools of the county would not ■only be a solution to k difficult prdblem but .SPIRITUAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND, Helping Others One of Real Experiences In Christianity hand to those in need. And the .shall all men know that ye are Church, too, has continued this my di.sciples that yc love another beautiful spirit of loving and com- . . . .” And we can show our love passionate service amid human by extending a helping hand lo a :,c. MJenoL V y. J0HM80N. eontrofhfif aynrchs. ifn. tdmmMi'tmM mhtss: hm Poi tmut uMQtnoKo omcv “A IIEI.PING HAND” "The disciples determined to send relief to the brethren " Acts 11:29. Have you ever been a helping need. brother in time of need, provide a better educaticin for all the children hand lo someone in great need? A helping hand in time of need Apart from that helping hand tha:n -is now possible urtdier a three-way seg- Most of us have been the objects is evidence of Christian Wve. Mis- many of us would not have made regated systetti. of a helping hands at sometime in fortune had come to a portion of it in life. In fact none of us would our lives. Life is of such a nature the body of Christ. The Body of have made it in life without a As it ndw stands, the Indians, the Negroes that at times we all are in need the redeemed community as found helping hand. Why is this true? and the wilites afll have inferior .schools. This helping hands. in Antioch extends a helping hand The human being is born In de- meatis they rill get an inferior education Ten to the little band that suffered pendence and helple.ssne.ss. And years from now se&r'etration in mir m.htir ^rcat loving concern misforfortune or disaster in Judah, we as human beings remain de- » H u •li tvo c tu T) human need that has been a Thus, the saints in the Cliurch at pendem for a long lime. Thus, c Qo wi ^ ing of the .past. Both the pgrt of the Church’s long and glor- Antioch shared their God-given without ihe helping hand none of meWbers of the Halifax County Board of lulu- ious history. The Church’s great blessings with those in need in us would have made it. cation and the leaders of the Indians, will ihen/hiissionary efforts have been the Judah. In love they extended a Personally, my mind goes back "1boii*5lCk'iiilii>ei^ct at f1ie*tSSi^dous~i)frce~^*^*^‘.‘•.ar.d--1«-^ Uiadr brotfcer; they^id for the luxury of an inferior secre- salvation, healing, and sisters in Christ. the helping hands that were ex- rated school svstvm ' rehabilitation, training and smple A burtfen shwed is a 'burden tended to me along the way. In ™ human helpfulness. Jesus was con- made lighter. You rentemljeir Jesui the past three months, two per- cerned about extending ii helping »ald oli dtte oc(NK|tati . . . “By this ions have passed who were initru- The Alabama State I/egi^dture's action making voting registration data subject to destruction 30 days after filing smacks of precipitate haste. This may actually strength en the hand of the civil rights commission e.stablished ljy Con- gre.ss, though that would presum ably be farthest from the Alabama legislators’ hopes. The civil rights commi.ssion has the right, through the Justice De partment, to subpoena voter re^- tration information. The comiilis- sion must have access to such uata if it is lo do a good job of Investi gating complaints of di^riminaton. Lawir which hamper the \#ork of the commission play fast and loose with the politk;al freedom of American citizens. Such laws are no credit to the State of Alabama. The Constitution gives the slates the right to determine the quali fications of voters, subject to pro visions of the Fifteenth Amend ment. fhich hindrance.-! to democ racy only cause bitterness and promise further racial .strife. The Alabama action is a .step backward in a situation which requires the exercise of tolerance and reason. —Journal and Giiide The eyes of the Lord arc In (every place, beholding th« •▼il and the good. •—(Proverha 16:1.) 'Ever present and envelop ing ua aa the air we breaihe la the Holy Spirit af God. Ha knows th;t good and helpful Ithinec We do for othera, and I we are blessed. He also knbwa every evil thought and dekin ! bide, but In Hla mercy will help tta overcome them. mental in extending to me trying to say here. In the after- mighty helping hands. These help- math of war-induced suffering and ing honda changed the very course human need many in our land of my life. What a Messing it is have been reaching out with a to have a helping hand extended helping hand overseas to help re- to us as we struggle along life’s lieve the suffering of men, women way. and children. We see many beauti- Love, in its v^ry nature,-is ever ful expressions of this helpful ready to extend a helping hand, hand in times of disaster, sickness. Thus, moved by love, the saints fire and misery among the pov- at Anttaahijateb in need over in Vndah. The care- Let us be ever alert in the package idea following the sec- drama of dire human need to ex- ond world 'War has baen a beau- tend a helping hand that sopieone tiful amuaastor wliat mt Ma may taka hop« and Uva ag^.
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