North Carolina Newspapers

THF CAROLINA TillE£ - THE TRUTH UNBRIOI.ED" SAT, JUME 27, I9*V Ii’» Tii-ie H« Leat A Haiid To Pr«v«nl Th«. Br««i;diwii Ot Lbw Aoi Ordtr A Vicious Law of North Carolina If the ajijwaraiic*? t>f thf Durham Louiniitlee OO N«gro Affairs bt^fure the Adviiiory Coni- mitAion of ihr IS. i ivil Rights Coniinissioii Bern last week did notliiiig hut exjKise Chapter 127, section six of the N, C. Statutes, we diiak its efforts were well worthwhile. The chapter and section, we think, consti- tutec one i>f the ino-'i viciuiis and unfair pieees of legisUtiiin ever designel l>j’ human beings. Here i« what it says: 1W white mmJ colorod raiiitia •bail bt acp- ■nitaly enrolled and shall never be rom- palad to MTve in the same organicatioii. Na orfaniaation of colored troops shall b* parmitted where white troops are ■TaiialTlt. and where permitted to ha or- paaiaad colored troops shall be under the »^T**** of white officers. In view of the fact' that most of the money provided for the maintenance of the state militia comes from the federal government, and therefore should not be discriminatory, we thiok it is high time that \egro citizens of the state take steps to have a()olished such a pernicious piece of legislation. W'hen it is considere^ that the federal gov ernment has long since abolished segregated units in its armed forces the North Carolina statute bewjmes even more viciowp. Certainly, such a piece of legislation needs to be attacked from all sources until it is abolished from the statutes of North Carolina. Frankly we do not believe the law would have a ghost of a chance before a federal court and we urge tliat the state branch of the Na tional .Association for the .Advancement of Colored People give top priority to a program designed to have it stricken from the books. Negroes of North Carolina have helped to create the opinion that this state "is one of liberality when it comes to racial matters. The above-mentioned chapter and section of the N. C. Statutes fully belies such an opinion and plainly discloses this state as being no better than Mississippi, or Georgia or other southern states. The Florida Rape Case Verdict Although there are many who feel that the four white men who were found guilty of raping a Xegro coed in Florida should have been given the gas chamber instead of the life sentence imposed on them we think there is some cpmfort in the fact that at least they were not freed as is so often the result in cases of this kind in the South. The conviction and life sentence is certainly a far cry from many other similar cases that have occurred in this section of the nation. The final outcome of the case at least in dicates that southern courts are beginning to realize that “the strongest pillar of any gov ernment is the equal dispensation of justice,” and that they must begin to give protection to women of all races if America is to retain its place of leadership among other nations of the world. Florida has at least pointed the way to other louthern states, including North Carolina, where seldom if ever a white man is convicted for raj)ing a Negro woman. The Florida ver dict will also create more respect for law and order in an area of the nation where very little has been maintained especially when the rights of a Negro have been at stake. Freedom For All A Must Elsewhere in this issue of the Carolina Times we have published an article about an appeal made to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations by Dr. Mordecai John son for economic aid and a program designed to raise the living standards and bring about individual freedom in undeveloped countries. It is most encouraging that the representa tives of NATO passed a resoldtion calling for the creation of ^n economic aid program, fol-^ lowing Dr. Johnson’s appeal. The distinguished'president of Howard Uni versity warned that the western W'orld must be prepared to meet the economic and ideolog ical offensive of the Soviet bloc to ensnare Vaccination Against Poiic Parents of children entering school this year for the first time should find some comfort in the fact that North Carolina now has a law requiring such children to /be vaccinated against polity. The 1959 North C^roliija Gen eral Assembly passed the law' which will go into effect at the beginning of the new school year in September. We think the law is a fine one so far as it goes. It is our feeling, however, that all chil dren in our public and private schools should be included whether they are entering for the first time Of pot. So dreadful is ^th^ disea£«. of ^Ho thai to‘^haflce-should be ta%en tflil'l strikf^ down some child beyond the first grade who has not been vaccinated. While there are many adults outside of our ‘schools w’ho have not been protected against American People On Side of Underdog During the recently concluded tenth session of the Committee on Information from Non- Self-Governing Territories, the United States made what is probably its most definitive statement ever given in the United Nations by that Government on race relations. The occasion for this welcomed statement w'as the compliance of the United States with the rule that when Territories became independ ent or self-governing, the United Nations should be advised of such a development. In this respect, Mr. Mason Sears; United States Representative in the General Assem bly’s Fourth Committee was providing infor- tw Capita Chigg PwWlihfit CTcrjr Saturday at Durham, N. C. tqr United Publishers. Inc. ft L. E. AUSTIN, President M. E. iOHNSON, ControUtr fgiadfal QfOcc kicaled at 436 B. Pettigrew St Pothaas, Narth Carolioa hkewl m §mmi daw matter at the Pott Offle* it tovfeMi, Hactli Caroiina, under the Aet of Mar* ». im. WATeM: PBR TIAB WBOBO orriot— mattikrtfL TeLSBUIQO mation on the granting of statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. Speaking on the basic strength which the United States has derived from its popiilation of freely associated groups of peo ple, which come from many different racial and national backgrounds, he stated that both Alaska and Hawaii represent a particu larly fitting addition to the United States. Hawaii’s population, as is well known, in cludes many persons of Asian origin. Its ad mission is fitting for another equally com pelling reason. Bearing in mind the rigid im migration quota system that has been applied to nationals of countries in Asia, It is to be hoped that Hawaiian statehood is an indica tion of a possible change of poliyr. Mr. Sears said, “admitting that there still remain a few hmited areas in the United States where varying degrees of racial and social discrimination survive, it is to be hoped that the racially-democratic societies of Alas ka and Hawaii, the latter inhabited by a multi-racial population composed of Eskimos, Indians and persons of European descent, will be a fresh reminder that the United States, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, is “a- nation conceived, in libetfjr aiuj. jiiod to the proposition that all men are created equal." SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Bir kEV. HAI^LD ROLAND Terrible Pain of Isolation from God Removed through Faith in Christ peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin ;^merica during the next 10 years. It is our hope that the action of NATO w-ill not stop with high sounding resolutions but that actual aid and freedom will result. Unless the w'estern" world adopts a policy of extending aid and freedom to such people there is little hope of meeting the Soviet challenge in the countries mentioned. The ^e^tern^world may as well come face,Jo face vvith the /act that no man’s freedom’is safe so long as one man has the heel of another on his neck. Such a philosophy may prevent in time another blood bath for the world or actual extermination of all mankind. the disease w-e feel they too should be urged to take the treatment. Even though the dis ease preys principally upon the young, there are many cases involving adults that are just as horrible as those affecting children. Our churches would do w'ell to devote some time in warning people of their congregations about the necessity of being made immune from the disease. As-it now stands the cost of polio vaccina tion is within the reach of a majority of citi zens. In addition to’ this the law provides free .Vaccination for those unable to pay. We urge fed^lts as vpell as children to take the pre- ^e^tive before it is too late. Onct the disease strikes it niay takev years for even partial re covery. In many instances victims never re cover from its effects. %• "L«t it b« kiiown that^rawflh thU man forgivanat* is proclaimad to you . . irr-. Acts 13:38. Through Jesus Christ we have the blessing of the forgiveness pf our sins. Sin ,— the th^# that causes spiritual isolation»^o(i isep- 1 aratibn from God and man—is forgiven through faith in ChWst. We are estranged or cut «ff from God. Spiritually,' ithearafona, we are displaced persons. And this spiritual and moral displacement causes- an inner restlessness in us. And, in this state by nature, we can never find inner peace or satisfaction. God made us that way and we cannot help ourselves. Thus we have that restless inner satis faction when we are ciirbff from God, the source of life. And,' folks, there is no rest for man until he finds sweet union and communion again with God through forgiveness. THE ESSENTIAL LINK Christ Jesus the Savior is the essential link of reunion between God and man through the for giveness that he brings through our faith in him. Thus, ih him, 1 we find our deepest satisfaction. The wonder of this truth fully dawns in the human soul, when the burden of sin is lifted. We are burdened when we trans gress God’s law or prove un faithful to his loving, holy will. We are restless and disquieted inwardly when we wrong an other human being. It was this unbearable burden that drove Jutas to the self-inflicted hang; man’s noose. This burden brought tears of regret streaming down ' the cheeks of Simon Peter that night of nights of the denial. When Jesus looked at him he could stand it no longer; he broke • down in tears of regret. What a blessing that through Jesus we can have oiu: sins for given and the burden of our sins taken away. We all have known this iso lation from God. We have had to endure the inner agony of estrangement from God. O, how miserable it made us. We ex perience it but none' of us really like this painful feeling. Thank God we do not have to endure it. We do not have to carry this heavy weight. Christ will forgive us and take the burden away. Jesus paid the debt for all of our sins. Yes, even that little sin which troubles your soul at this very hour. Why would you carry that burden any longer? Take it to Jesus and leave it there. It matters > not what your (ini may ba, for the poet is right . . . "Just as I am without one pka but that thy blood was shad for me, b lamb, of God I coma Christ’si forgiveness means healing for the soul. Sin is sick ness, And in turning to Christ for forgiveness, we find healing for the soul. Alcoholics Anonymous is bn the right track when “IF puts healing through forgive ness as one of its 12 steps. They realize the need of laying down the burden of sin and guilt in order to find rehabilitation and healing. If you are estranged from God and man, you can be reunited through the forgiveness we have in Christ our Savior, Once sgain, the anxious ayes of the world have been wafchlag a conference of the forelga Min isters of the gnat powers. It has been a coafetjenee which was viewad with eonsiderable gloooi from the very beginniac. Our Secretary of State, Christian Herter, made H abundantly dear before he departed for Geneva that he expected comparatively little to result and thus, in effect, wamcjl the nation againsft a false optimism. The Secretary’s anticipations have certainly been borne out. At the same time, the 'hope that soma progress will be made, no matter how tortuoi^sly slow, remains. In this connection. Reader’s Digest, in its June issiie, pub- Ushes a piece of unusual inter est. It is taken from a book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet called “What We Must Know About Conununism”, (W. W, Nor ton L Co., New York). The ex cerpt has to do witb tfae Krem lin’s view of whst a conferenee is, and What it should accomplish. The Overstreets Mvite: “To the Communists, tiie delegates to a conference do liot represent nierely their nations. Tfa6y repre sent one or the other party to the class struggle — a struggle which cannot be negotiated.,,, ,Com- munist, do not expect peace or even a lowering of tension to re sult from a conference. To them high tension is the normal state of poUtics, and a conference table -even when called a peace table -is simply one more place where war is carried on,” Chapter and verse, from the highest Marxian authorities, are cited in support of this. In 1B20, Lenin said: “It would be a great mistake to believe that a peace ful agre’ement about concessions is a peaceful agreement with cap italists. It is an agreement con cerning waf.” This means, as the Overstreets phrase it, that “Communists negotiate not to seek a conxnon basis for accord but to learn what they can from the enemy and about the enemy; and in the light of this, to get What they can ii} concessions or favorable agreements.” And that, in turn, explains the Kremlin’s expert use of delaying taetifs in ^ all meeting with the Weistern World’s leaders. Now an (Avious question arises; under these, conditions, should we and the other West- arn powers negotiate with the Soviets at all? The Overstreets have a three-faceted answer to that. First, negotiations have an educational function-t hat is, “only by finding cut what specific limited problems they are will ing to negotiate can we judge the merit of their offers.” Sec ond, the incredibly tedious ef forts to negotiate with the Soviets have shown the free world that we really are at war even though it’s still of the cold variety, and thus serves to unite the West ern nations in a common cause. ’The tliird reason given by the Overstreets could certainly be infinitely the most important in the long and difficult run we are engaged in. Here’s what they say; “Finally, every conference earns for the free world a fur ther margin of time: and time is far kinder to freedom than to totalitarianism. Within the .vast ness of the Communist empire there are the millions of human beings who do not want to be there, who have never wanted to to be tljere. The free world has not established outpost parties behind the Iron Curtain. Yet It has psychological outpost there: conquered ^peoples; minds that resist totalitarianism; minds that ' have been educated to a point where they begin to want stretch ing space, 'hme is not kind to ‘monolithic unity’.” Time, sum, may prove to be the most potent weapon the free world can possess. New Book on Lalror Charges Unions With Barring Negroes from Jobs WATCH ON THE P0T0MA€ i. 8y ROBERT SPIVACK A at Presidential Hopefuls: Nixon Loses Assurance,'LBJ Puzzling PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS WAShAiGTON — Vice Presi dent Nixon has revamped his en tire 1960 campaign strategy. Once he assumed the Republican presidential nomination was all sewed up. Now he assumes he is in for a hot political fight and one that he might lose. The obvious cause for alarm: Nelson Rockefeller’s 1958 elec tion victory in New York. More immediate cause for alarm: Jud- son Morhouse, the New Yprk Re publican chairman, has just ^&d himself “released” from state affairs by designating an assist ant to handle local patronage. Morhouse is getting rtady to travel around the countt^ These are aM part of a Rocke feller campaign which causes nightmares in the Nixon camp. • t *■ The Vice President is awallow- ing hard these days, bu( still ‘keeping quiet about intvi^ dis agreements with other > bv^wigs in the Eisenhower administra tion. He was displeased by the decision to send Dr. Milton |Us-, enhctwer along with him oif trip io only has to share the spotul^t; it is in terpreted as a signal to the Russ ians; if you have anything im portant to say,' better say it to Milton. But the toughest blow of all for the Nixonites were Just a few words uttered by Thomas E, Dewey at a recent gathering of the clan. He introduced Rocke feller to the audience as a “mira cle man”, a superb vote-getter, Dewey did not say this meant he favored RoclMifeller for Presi dent. Ha left that to tfae imagina tion of his listeners. Tha Oafaatlst in Nixon There will be a dew biography of Nixon out in a few days by Earl Mazo, national political cor respondent of The New York Herald ’Tribune (Harper, $3.95). On the whole it is quite friendly and the author forgives Nixon his “sins.” At the end of the book there is an appendix of “off-the-record" remarks Nixon has made in the last two years. Some of these comments are more revealing of the Nixon character than anything -his friends or critics have said about him. The following excerpt givi jrou M>m9. /^W,; worri( Nixon k l^«t Mtaf' tagged “loser”: “While the ‘win’ psychology is very important,” he said, “I al ways have had the feeling that where .the Presidency is con cerned, men who eventually come to the top in both parties are those who best understand the issues and best fit the needs of the times. "I never felt that a lightweight, an individual with only a super ficial understanding'of the great nation and 'international issues, could get the nomination. I don’t think one''Will in either party next time-—but, of course, it could happen.’'!'- The Democratic Dilemma Among the Democrats, the big puzzler still seems' to be Lyndon B. Johnson; the senate majority leader. Is he really serious about running? It seems unbelievable in view of the record the current congress is making—or not mak ing. Democratic National Chair man Paul Butler jays simply that he does not thii0c a Southerner, or even a Southwesterner, is like ly to be nominated t)ecau8e of '‘ithei'tiVil-'iHghtS issue:. '“'®itle* is-h^r no means alHif in voicing' this sentlaMat A Labor uainnSj whiah : are >sup posed to give all members equal rights, still keep Negroes from holding many jobs. This charge is made against labor in a new book, “Labor, U. *S. A.” by Lester Velie, just pub lished by Harper & Brothers. “In the Negro’s long, steep dimb toward an equal ehanee at a job, few American institutions have frustrated him more cruel ly than the unions," says Velie in his book. “As recently as 1944, twenty-two national unions barred Negroes from membership, and from jobs in great industries. All but three of these have now dropped the bars officially. But great areas of job opportunity and training are still closed to Negroes by union practices.” NO VOICE IMany jin^ona that. 4>. accept N^gro' m^^bers r^egate the^ to ' % second^ass ■ un^n citizensh^, dedar«s iVfclie. Ha believes thlit these unions give the Negro no vcice over his pay or working conditions. He s^tates that some unions conspire with employers or turn their backs as the employers pay Negroes less for equal work or bars him from training and promotions open to white work ers. Although “Jinv Crow” isiat ' work in some unions, Vilie be lieves that labor, nevertheless, leads the fight for race relations. In “Labor, U. S. A.” he writes that the men who lead the AFL -CIO recognize that racial bias menaces the union’ future, and so have outlined it. He believes tiwt thia-is the beginning of a good fight for equal opportun ities. RANDOLPH'S BATTLE In the chapter “Black Record” in his book, Velie tells the story of A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who has fought a victorious battle for Negro rights. It was because of Ran dolph and his union, says velie that the Negroes achieved more gains in the last seventeen years than in all the year since the ,gyil War. ; t '“Labor, U. S. A.” tells the com plete story of-labor—how unions ♦ became what' they are today, their men and their practices. It discusses the 17,500,000 men and women inside the unions. The author’s interest in unions be-, gan with curiosity about the mis uses of workers’ medical and pension dollars. For the past five years he has been working and writing in the field of labor. Law Cannot be Halted—McGill ATLANTA, Ga. — Characterizing those who would appropriate large sums to tell the story of the South to the rest of the country as naive gropers in a field of unreality, Ralph McGill said, “We know that the court decision has bean made and that the due prwesaes of law cannot ba ^topiied.” , “Only the. blind can fail to see this,” the editor of the Atlanta Constitution told the Atlanta Uni versity Summer Schqol forum. Ha said that North Carolina has saan this and Is cansa4)uantly haalthlar, waaMiiar aad wisar. Speaking on “The South in Transition,’,’ McGill pointed out that in spite of impressive growth in industry and per capita income, the South is not keeping pace with the rest of the nation in growth, even in Florida, which is ahead of other Southern states. He cited the fact that Georgia teachers were underpaid although the state uses 63 cents of every tax dollar for education. In the face of a growing need, Southern school leaders still are reluctant to ask for federal aid to educa tion because of segregation prob lems. group of 16 Northn-n civic and welfare orgsnizations have vir tually challenged Johnson nbt to stand in the way ^f a strong civil rights bills, or simply con cede that he is too sectional in his viewpoint to ruii for national offiee. J^son, of courts, does not ts i>is crtMcB. 4o«« hf llt«r hit coutsa. H* i| «fU pushing his. federal “racial con ciliation service” proposal. One NAACP representative said re cently, “Conciliation is nice and we’re for it. But when r man has his foot on your throat I want somebody to make him taka- it away so I can stand up and* talk to him. It’s hard to conciliati frtm tiiat position.”