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THE CAROLINA TIMES mUtVI UNBRIDLECr SAT., AUGUST M, l9Sf But Who Would Thi«k, Such l^iacard Could Be On Civil Kishts Only Negroes Serve State Without Pjy We don't know whether or not it has ever dawned on nwil Nig:roe!i living in North Car olina that when it lomes to salaries paid to mcrabers of policy-making state boards the more thtn one million Xegriies o( North Car olina are for the most part siiujily on the out side looking in. In fact there is not a single Negro on any jwlicy-niaking board in Xorth Carolina who can be said to draw a salary for his services. Of the five Negroes now serving on policy-making boards of the state none of them gets paids inurr tiian expenses for trav el and living whenever they attend a meeting. Apparently, state officials have been care ful to see t6 it that no Negro, however quali fied lie nia5' be, draws any of the fat salaries paid others on such boards as the State Board of Parole*, the State Utilities Commission, the Industrial Comniissiun and several other state boards. Thuse mentioned above touch the lives of practically every individual of the state and certainly the time has come when the more than one million Negro population of North Carolina should be recognized by having reprcsentati*D; especially on the boards we have referred to. In the area of Vocational Rehabilitation the federal government is spending millions of dollars, yet North Carolina does not employ a single Negro in this program of the state. The jK)licy appears to be that of recognizing Negroes only in areas where there is no pay to be had for their services. With gubernatorial candidates beginning to line up for next year’s election, we think the time has come when Negro leaders in North Carolina should have a definite understanding about the type of candidate they will recom mend to Negro voters in 1960. Candidates run ning for gtate offices should bt questi9ned carefully, even if confidentially as to where they stand on the matter of appointing Neg roes to boards oth'er than those where there is no salary attached. v Negro leaders should not settle for less than a promise of at least one representative on the N. C. Board of Paroles; N. C. Utilitiee Commission and the State Industrial Coramiss- Butler's Appointment As U. S. Judge Either Algernon Butler should make an un equivocal denial of the ciiarges brought against him by Alexander Barnes in his ap pearance ISefore the Senate Judiciary Com mittee on August 18 or the Senate should flatly refuse to confirm his appointment to the high and most responsible office of Judge of the Eastern Distpct of the United States Court. If Ikjr. Butler itiakes no such denial of the charges and the Senate confirms his ap pointment, a dark shalow will hang over the office as long as it is held by him. We know that there are those who have the tendency' to excuse the actions of candi dates for political office and aspirants for political appointment on the grounds that ex pediency often dictates one’s saying and doing things in a political campaign that he otherwise would not say or do. We take the position, however, thrit there are certain depths to which no man should stoop, how ever dear and precious the political prize he wishes to obtain. Certainly one who aspires to the high and powerful office of a federal judge should be like Caesar’s wife—“above’, suspicion.” Mr. Bames charges that in the 1948 politi cal campaign ^Ir. Butler informed him “that the Negro should be contented with the way he has fceen treated in North Carolina, and that equality for him did not mean equality to live and have his being on the same level with the white man.” Such a statement, if true, we hold, renders Mr. Butler unfit for the high office to which he has been appointed by President Eisenhower. In the office of judge of the Eastern District he will again and again be called on to sit in judgement on Negroes who a,re seeking their rights to equality as 6ther American citizens. If his philosophy of life is already such as to make him feel they have no right to equality with others then we hold it is in direct conflict with the oath of ofifice he must take as well as in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States. Ih spite of this we predict that Mr. Butler’s appointment will be confirmed. The fact that he is a republican and had the nod from all of the democratic members of Congress from North Carolina is further evidence that he is considered “safe” so far as the questioii of .civil rights for Negroes is concerned. The position of Alexander Barnes appears to us to be that of “truth forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne.” SOUNDS AWFUL t w.,- Ffom N«wt»>rypo^. Miygs.- Letter To The Editor; Someoae hM .Mlid that history reminds one of the bustles which our great, gnndnothers wore because it is a tietitious tale based «n a stera reality. That descr^on may ap|ieal to our sense of hiimor, but actually history is simply a true advan* ture story in which we live, day- to-day. In aljnMt every community across the country, one can fiid the stories of people who built our country ^ men, women like you me with the same sort of ideftls and ambitions, tke same temptetioM, the same trou bles and joys. Not always have their stories persisted, but in some citiei imd towns of thi« country, liel« ai^e tales men add deeds that have endured for ceo- turies. It is a itory of Mtutute men and good woric; yesterday a ^slave, today a banker, lawyer, a president of a university — teficher, an iosur»nce executive, Just to mention a few. Tltrough more than five generations, tl^ii^h one tauD«b«d and fifty years of hard times and good, through d»ys of fim und long nights of worry, we hfiv* cOnie to a place of leadership. But the eoinmand' is still fMr- ward. There must he a long- nmge program Mt up at once, financed by every good-thinking ** mau^ ia- our race to meet the tlir^ts that are being hurled at us from^every side. We must lay the groundwork for manufactur ing; we must enter into that field . so as to create jobs, even though it be on a small scale. While we , are thinking of what we have done, let’s also think 6f the things that we have not done. We have the power, the spirit and what it takes; and don’t for get that everyone was given re serve power that he doesn’t or dinarily use. So let’s > call on that power and go forward with a program to put our people to work in our own factories, own ed, financed and controlled by our people. To become indepen dent is to become free. The challenge is up to us. Will we meet it head on, or not. We can if everyone will put money into a sound business venture. Under the right and able leader- riiip, it is encouraging to know that good' technical advice can be had for the asking from the state and the U. S. , in the form of financial assistance from the small business loan agency of the federal government. Carl Williams Newburyport, Mass. WATCH ON THE POTOMAC 3y ROBERT SPIVACK New Deal Was Breeding Ground for Reds-Theme Of Drury Book Freedom And Equality-Nixon People Of World Seek I Solution To The State's Teacher Shortage It is interesting to o^erve the great con- ers. zens of North Carolina are expressing over the almost critical shortage of white elementary teachers in this state. Sometimes we think, after all is said and done, that on the matter of getting an education that Negroes are gen erally’ smarter than white folks or white folks are generally dumber than Negroes. One cannot imagine Negro parents would be so stupid as to worry about the color of i, teacher’s skin or racial identity. The one thing important to Negro parents is that a child ntceive training at the hands pf t|ie Very besC^^acher avaiUbl^ be that ttachef ^Tiite ■ orbla'ck., ^ ‘ ' ’ *: ' ^ With hundreds of competent Negro elemen tary teachers, many of whom hold advanced degrees from some of the best universities in the nation, just crying for jobs, state educa tion officials are now screaming to high heaven about a shortage of elementary teach- ft is alTight for -g Negro woman to act wet nurse for a white child, bathe and feed it and watch over it from the time it is born un til it is ready to go to school but to teach one “reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic.” Holy horrors No! As a result one must reach the conclusion that there are white people in the South who would prefer that their children be taught by an inefficient white teat:her than a competent Negro teacher or that their children grow up in stark ignorance than receive their training at the hands of a well trained Negro teacher. ■ The shortage of white teachers that exists in ^a^itnan- junior high and h^h schools could also be kk easily filled by competent Ne gro teachers if only our state officials in the field of education had the cojirage to break away from the ancient custom of employing teachers according to their racial idenity ra ther than according to their training and abil ity. Begging In The Name Of The Church Durham, Greensboro, Cliarlotte, Winston- Salem and other major cities of North Caro lina are infested with far too many street beggars who, in the name of Christianity, are making a racket out of soliciting funds for the church. Each city should have an ordi* nance requiring a license to beg money on its streets for the church or any other reli gious organizaticm. To have the right to beg on their streets PwfcHltxl cwir Satnrdar at Duzfeam, N. C by United Publishers, Ine. L. E. AU6TIN, President AUBBT E. HART, Assistant to the PubUsiMr M. E. Controller Pviac^ Otticn located at 436 E. Pettifcwr St Durham, North Carolina ai Meottd, dui matter at the Ppft Offlct at IMmim, inrif Offolina, under tke'Aet el Much S. U7B. rs^- tS- nt MMoo C. mmn, Manamr 'each city should require that a person secure first a written request, signed by- the pastor of duly recognized church. The request should then be presented to a city official such as the head of the welfare department or chief of police whereupon a card would be issued giving the person the right to solicit funds on the public streets. In Durham we happen to know of one man and his wife who actually earn their living under the guise of begging for a church when neither of them would be able to truthfully give the name of the church he or she is beg ging for if closely questioned. Each week end the husband takes his place on thtfj city’s main thoroughfare near one of our leading stores to beg, not for a church, as he claims, but for himself. \Ye think the time has come for our cities to close in on these public leeches. The police department ought to be given instructions to arrest any beggars for churches on the streets of our cities who cannot give bona fide evi dence that they are actually soliciting funds for a church. If such persons cannot do so ”tTBey^u^h£~to ient ti> the road where they #t IfMt 30 day# w mprc of boneit labor for their livelihood. , "ADVISE AND CONSENT" WASHINGTON— Allen Drury covers Congress for The New York Times. His newspaper cov erage has been detaehed, serious and full of the detail that one ex pects in a Times story. Now he has written a novel (“Advise and Consent,” Doubleday, 616 pp., $5.75) and from it we discover that Allen Drury is not^ just a re porter but also a' man of strong, deep feelings with- a -capacity for vivid expression that those who have read his daily 'copy might never have suspected.' ' This is one of the most power ful novels about politics I have ever read, certainly !the best to come out of Washington in dec ades. You will heari'a lot about it. It is a Book-of-the‘Month club selection. TF win be' digesteol'in ’ Readers’ Digest, made into a movie and probably ialso into a play. ill'll Y*t th« reviews I havf read up to now seem to me^^^p miss—or purposedly do not tfjl Drury's central theme, which |s that the New Deal was a natural breeding ground for an Alger Hiss, as well as fuiiy if not actually soft, in its attitude toward Soviet Russia. The book’s emotional impact is bound to be felt ^pst keenly about those who admired and supported Franklin p. Roosevelt diju-ing his 12 years I9 The White House. , * * * The story centers! about the efforts of the incumbent Presi dent (clearly Roosevrtt) to name Robert Leffingwell as Secretary of State. A group of strong-mind ed Senators led by one Sea}) Cool ey of South Caroliiia (probably Jimmy Byrnes) oppow the desig nation on the grounds that Lef- fingwell is not firm enough in his attitude towards the Soviet Union. There are hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations committee and one of its subcom mittees, headed by a promising young Western senator named Brigham Anderson. Slowly It develops that Lef fingwell Is not only a man with a strong tolerance for Soviet be havior, but that In his younger days he was a member of a' Com munist cell at a mid-western ulf- versity. The Administration tries to keep the story from coming out and In its fear of defeat re sorts tp flerc^ underhanded tac tics te stop Sen. Andersen. A nosy Supreme Court Justice named Tommy J)avis discovers that Anderson had once engaged in an immoral act after the war. He passes the information on to the President, who sends it along to a well-known Wash ington columnist and to a dema- ‘ gogic isconsin ~ senator * named ~ Frederick Van Ackerman. They use it against Anderson, who commits suicide. But the assault on Anderson boomerangs. The small willful group of Senators opposed to Lef fingwell grows to a majority, who reject him for Secretary of State. This, in turn, helps to kill the President, who is succeeded by a nice, bewildered, former Sena tor named Harly Hudson (clearly Harry S. Truman), who does not play footsi’e with the Russians. The Big Names To those familiar with the ins and outs of Washington life it becomes evident after reading a hundred pages or so about whom Drury is writing. While he de liberately mixes up his charact ers and their characteristics, it seems fairly clear that the peo ple he does not liEe'include: Fe lix Frankfurter, Drew Pearson, Wajme Morse, and even Herb- lock, the eminent cartoonist, Norte have exactly done what he has his mythical characters do, yet the picture he draws and the impression he leaves are that these men are basically unkind, heartless and ruthless. When “The President” dies, Drury writes: “The Senior' Senator from South Carolina, author of the severest and perhaps the only truly honest expression of opin ion the press had received on that hectic midnight—‘He was tin evil man, and the Lord has rend ered judgment upon him’—sat silent, bland and unblinking as they rode along . . . Later he adds: ^ ". . . . In their car following, the Majority Leader of the Sen ate caught from time t» time the eye of the Minority Leader of the Senate, and between them there passed on several occaflens a look of mingled regret, relief and concern, regret as one re* grets the passing of any major of netwe terrible end meg* nlficent in its ability for good and its capacities for evil, relief that they no longer had to deal with him, concern for the pleat- antly undistinguished man who had taken his place and now bore all their hopes." * ' * * When Drury becomes a report er, rather than a 1 philosopher, the novel sings. He knows and understands the workings of the Senate’s “inner circle” as few newspapermen do.‘ His descrip tion of the hidden conflicts, the driving ambitions and the petty rivalries are perceptive. The hearings on Leffiinfwell reflect what actualy goes on. The closed- door conferences, when Senators let down their hair and talk straight to each other, seem real. When he describes how rough politics can become in Washing ton he is also on sound ground. Where he goes off, though, is in his failure to recognize the cir cumstances under which Roose velt came to office and the press ures (personal and political) he faced all the time he was Presi dent. Roosevelt was no saint, of course; neither was he the Dev il’s brother. Vice President Richard M. Nix on told the delegates to the 12th Annual Regional 4-9 Club Camp last week that the disadvantaged peoples of the world are seeking freedom and quality and are look ing to the United States for lead ership. He was speaking on the steps of the Capito^ surrounded by 126 top rural Negro boys and girls and 32 State E^tensidn leaders who met here last week at Howard Uni versity. The youths represented 348,(X)0 fellow 4-H’ers jn the 17 States of the Southern Region. Continuing, the Vice President said we in the United States are trying to help establish freedom and equality all over' the world. And he added that wHH“ fine 4- H’ers like these growing up in America, he felt assMred the work of our democracy would continue Referring to his recent trip to RussiS, Mr. Nixon pointed out that although the boys and ghrls there live under repressive rules, they are anxious to get an educa tion and pu^ >head. He prewnt- ed this as ‘ a challenge to Ameri can youth to work harder to con tinue their own advancement. Other speakers ofi the week’s program were; . Assistant Secre tary of Agriculture Ervin L. Peter son, President'wiUa B, Player of Bennett College,, Greensboro, N.C.; Federal Extension Administrator C; M. Ferguson, Pivsident Morde- cai W. Johnson of Howard, Na- ti(^nal 4-fl Director Edward W. Al ton, dklahdma Extension Director L. H, B^anhon, chainnan of the cam|i eommittee.’f * t ■ >■ ' Miss Roberta Church imd Sam uel B. Danley of th0 pepartment of Labor, l^rllng IHickw of the Washington Urban, tfiBague, Miss Dorothy EmerS^, State 4-1} agent of Maj^ah^; V. C. J^icdl of Health^Educiition tn^ Welfare De partment. ,, Dr. nayer, who addressed the banquet session, , warned against overemphasis of programs for gifted childien and the consequent failure to concentrate on ways of discovering and developing the talents of all young people. The closing feature of the pro gram was the address by Assist ant Secretary Peterson followed by the presentation of citizenship and honor awards. Copies of the Charter of Freedom were pre sented to 22 club delegates who have reached, or are approaching voting age. Citation plaques were awarded to four outstanding business and educational leaders for their con tribution to 4-H. Those who .were honored, are: Dr. M, Lafayette Har ris, prMident, Philander Smith College, Little Rock; Dr. F, D. Pat terson, president of the Phelps- Stokes Fund and former head of Tuskegee Institute; Walter S. Scott, president, Guaranty Life and Health Insurance Company, Savannah, Ga.; and John H. Wheel er, president, Mechanics and Farm-> ers Ban)c, Dijriiam^ N, C. Dr. Pat-*' terson is in Africa and could not he present. During the week’s encampment the • 4 H delegates discussed a number of subjects, including i^on- farm career opportunities; placed wreaths at the tomb of George and Martha Washington and at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arling- ton, performed in a talent pro- gram, heard Harry Belafonte at the Carter Barron amphitheater, appeared on radio and television and in press interviews, and went sightseeing. The 4-H discussion sessions were conducted by Dr. Ward F. Porter of the Federal Extension office, and Mrs. Ezelle M. Hawkins, Mary land district home agent.'' While the 4-H’ers were holding their discussions and sightseeing, the Extension leaders were con ferring on State and regional problems in 4-H administration. Their speakers were P. H. Stone, retired Extension leader who serv ed iln the Washington office; Miss Emmie Nelson of the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work; and Miss'Dorothy Emerson of Maryland Extension Service. The camp was diretted by A. S. Bacon on the administrative i^aff of Federal Extension, Lloyd Rut ledge, 4-H leader for the Southern region, and Waymon Johnson, 4- H leader of South Carolina. States represented at the en campment are: Alabama, Arkan sas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Caro- (See NIXON, Page 8) SPIRITUAL INSIGHT Hy REV. HAROLD ROLAND Christians Must React Creatively To Hostility in The Spirit Of Love "The unbelieving poisoned their mind* against the breth ren . . Act* 14:2. Many human beinf^ Relight in poisoning the minds of people with hostility. Who but the mis erably unhappy woi^d do such acts? Can any one but a miser able, person-do such a tbing?-!- am unhappy so I would have oth^ join my usinj^tm com pany. Iliuf I go aboUflMng th« minds of others with the poison of hostility. Such persons become holy terrors. Such persons spread the blight of misery and unhap- fness. In the struggle in the early church they found such people. And unfortunately some are still with us. There still are those «rhe “poisoned their minds jU(ainst the brethren . . J«t Hs n4 be guUty of thig sin ol peitoning the mindi of othen with hostility. Do you want to spread this kind of thing. ^ Deep down in your heart and soul you do hot want to do this kind of thing. It is uhbecomli^ to a decent, honorable person. But the Devil may deceive yon, under certain circumstances to '' do just this. It is an evw> preeent temptation for aU of us. In eur natures we have tte ftuf-Hlir raw stuff—out ol which tU* kind of thing qan be so easily manu factured. Let us, then, be honest and realize that we all have the power to do just this kind of thing. Watch your own inner thoughts which may lead you to poison other minds with hostility. And further watch those human beings who will lead you into this kind of thing- How do you face your hostile situations? You have some dmi’t you? We all are the objects of hostility at times. People .becdme hostile towaMs us, seemingly, on gen^^ principles. Tou do noth ing to deserve hostility. People show hostile reactions without cause. They may be hostile on account ef the clothes you wear, tlie house you live in, the Job yoM have or ^ oi|ce you hold ill Ae«Awek «rlbe-^bor vnion. Jbf eaiiir CWiWiW st« into hostility m tbur rfiifllMii thi Goipel and ptimtM/toetourela. They acted and reacted creative ly in the midst of furious. Vio lent hostility. i Then how do you react to vio lent hostility? Do you get angry? Are you embittered and ready for revenge? Do you develop hat red towards the hostile forces or persons? Do you develop an un forgiving spirit in the midst of hostility? These are ways of re acting, but they are not Chris tian. The Christian must use th^ spiritual resources of the Gos pel in the midst of hostility— love, forgiveness, patient endur ance. The Christian is to o'ver-. ^ come evil with good. Tbe Christian, then, in the midst of hostility must react creatively in tbe spirit of |ove to win the victory over hostility. Jtaw human nature nMy meet hostility with hostility; but Miis is not the way of grace.
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