4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 12, IJMM* Editorial Viewpoint The CAROLINIAN’S WORDS OF WORSHIP One factor which causer most of our suffer tng is the delusion oi duty Not bine else causes so much neurosis, insanity and disease It is the curse of curses Yet, like fanatical Hindu devo tees, thousands of men and women still throw themselves under the wheels of this juggernaut's esr as the noblest way to grain admission to Para dise We are not taught t-o live for God, but to die for him. Around us people are rushing about, pushing, crowding, sweating in the name of duty There is no time for beauty, no chance to seek the truth, no opportunity for meditation. We must hurry to fulfill our obligations. We crowd our days with engagements, and if we attend enough committee meetings and conferences we believe we have met our civic obligations. In our homes we take on countless tasks, some self-imposed, many put on tie by others. In a confusion of activities we lose our sense of identity and forget that our mis placed and dislocated selves have no center from which to give Nor have we perspective on the actualities of life. Ibsen showed the loss of values caused by *n overwhelming sense of duty in his play A Doll’s House.” Nora. Helmer. naively innocent of the realities o? business, sees it as a wifely duty to commit- forgery to secure money for her sick husband. The devastating results of this act force her to realize how her childlike absorption in the affairs of the home have stunted her growth as an individual and she decides to fare forth to find her identity In the world of reality In the scene- where Torvald tried to prevent her departure he reminds her of her obligation to him and to their children, charging her with ne glecting her most sacred duties. Then she takes her stand: 'T have other duties Just as sacred duties to myself.' 1 And when her husband replies, “Before all else you are a- wife and mother,’ she declares, “I don’t believe that any longer, I be she American Legion National Commander Martin McKneally announced last Friday that the American Legion has cut links with the 40 and 8 group because of the Society's rule which limit* membership to white people. Very recently the North Carolina American Legion Executive Committee voted unam mously, at its regular meeting to continue af filiation with its funmaking offspring, the 10 and 8 Society. The North .Carolina other state groups may fee! that the National Commando is over stepping his authority in severing the relation ship and ties between the Legion and the 40 and 8, ft is not our purpose to get involved in the question of whether or not the National Com mander has overstepped his authority. However, he has taken a most sensible stand, inasmuch as the rules of the 40 and 8 discrimi nates against one segment of the Legion mem bership Support St. Augustine’s Drive Saint Augustine’!! College officials in No vember launched a drive for $25,000 to estab lish scholarships end make improvements. Re ports will he made at Founder’s Day Banquet on January 16. We should give our strong support to this campaign, since Saint Augustine's is dedicat ed. to Christian higher The institu tion had its beginning in 1867 under the aus pices of the National Protestant Episcopal Church, The institution aims toward educating Christian and socially responsible individuals. It attempts to furnish an environment condu cive to the intellectual development of the ca pacities and abilities of its students in order that they may live useful and purposeful lives. Known throughout North Carolina and the United States as “the Big Family School.” it is depending upon you to help keep it that way. Saint Augustine's realizes that it must Don’t Fall For Flim- Flamming Game Recently a Garner public school teacher fell for “the Flim-Flam Game.” The ride cosi him $l4O and left him all the wiser. If he were an illiterate person, we could see how he might be fooled For this to happen to a teacher is almost unbelievable, because one would assume he- reod the newspapers regular ly—noting frequent accounts of the subtle ways of “con artists.” The “Flim-Flam Game" has flourished for years: end by now, newspapers explanations and accounts of its intricacies should be known by every intelligent reader. An individual should be able to suspect a stranger when he approaches with the statement that he has just found a large sum of money which he wishes to share, if there is any doubt, then the ap pearance of a second stranger should put one on guard. Fireman Applications-Jim Crow? Approximately six months ago, we advocat ed the employment of Negro firemen in Ra leigh and even suggested the building of a fire house in Southeast Raleigh where the men could serve as a unit. Most recently we urged Negroes, to apply for three positions open in the Raleigh Fire Department. Our attention at the moment is focused on the matter again as a result of an announce ment that the Chapel Hill Mayor’s Committee PB Human Relations will investigate possible discrimination against Negroes in hiring local firemen. This committee wishes to determine whether there is any evidence of racial discri mination in the handling of applications report edly filled out by three Negroes who said they never received notification that the applica tions had been approved or disapproved, or Severing The 40 And 8 iip-.-e that before all else I am a, reasonable human being, just, as you are—or. at all events, that I must try and become one 1 ” When people fee! such a dedication to the deep er way of hfe as. did ora, and aqt upon it, wor shipers of duty naturally cal! them cruel and ego tistical Nora believed she was exemplifying a higher selfishness oy leaving Helmer and her home. In this Jesus had not only set, her an ex ample but in ringing words had advocated the very thing that to Helmer and his group seems selfishness personified. The ethics of clinical psychology has often been called a v:-;f-seeking philosophy It is. the teaching of ’ mis and His example in leaving home to do His work were selfish It is not. if dedication of oneself to the truest usefulness one can follow is not selfish a woman who has given up all her persona! interests—music, good books, trips into the coun try goes to a psychologist, for help She fears she fs losing memory. And that is in fact, the dan cer. for she fs dying mentally, and this premature senility is the direct product of her supposed “un selfishness ” She is starving her mind in the wot ship of duty. She is destroying her usefulness by denying herself tire snirtual nourishment she needs, A boy faces a, problem which is common enough His mother is a widow' The dcmond of duty has killed her husband The boy is con fronted wth a grim responsibility. His relatives tell him his mother is his first obligation. They say he should take up his father’s work, and that he should give up the idea of marriage because be cannot support a mother and wife too. How neat he is to persona! extinction, another victim to the, ways of the world. ‘‘Whoever he be of you r.bat forsaketh not. all that he hath ” cried •Jesus Who is right, Jesus or society? Did not all members of the American Legion shed red blood on the battlefields in our most crucial wars? Having fulfilled the enforceable obligations of soldiers should not every Le gionnaire have the right and privilege of be coming affiliated with eveiy organization con nected with the American legion? To have it otherwise would be to engage in hypocrisy. The Legion national convention in Min nespolis last August declared that the 40 and 8 membership restrictions barring non-whites was illegal. Later the National Executive Com mittee authorized McKneally to take any steps he felt necessary to solve the problem. The 40 and 8 Society in the Southern States may feel that it is being unjustly attacked be cause the South’s customs are involved, but the National Commander was morally rigid in severing the links with the 40 and 8. “If thy righthand offends thee:, cut it off'" keep abreast with the times; therefore it is striving ever to shoulder its load in transmit ting knowledge to young men and women who will become the leaders of tomorrow. In attempting to improve and expand its fa cilities and provide scholarships to deserving youth. Saint Augustine’s is turning to you for financial support. The people of North Caro lina will benefit most from an institution of this kind, inasmuch as the college spends most of its money with the enterprises in the State. The annua! cost per student is $1,080.22, but the average amount paid by each student it $541.08. Students pay annually about $257,- 000 out of a total budget of $512,000. This leaves approximately $256,000 to be obtained from other sources. Before January 16. it is your unenforceable obligation to respond in a large way to this campaign. That the Garner strangers would suggest burying all monies in the ground for safety ought to have shocked one into his sensibil ities. The idea of doing such a thing was sim ply ridiculous, Tlip publication of people bring “gypped" by flim-flammere is a typical run-of-the mill story. Every one should be on guard and rc port at once any suspects to the police before he is fleeced. We advise the public: (1) against waist mg any titpe with persons who make claims of finding money which they wish to share; (2) against drawing money out of the bank as a means of demonstrating confidence; and (3) against giving hard-earned cash to total strang ers. Should individuals do this, the results can become disastrous. that they had even received consideration for the vacancies. Whether or not the Chapel Hill Fire De partment is guilty of discrimination against Negroes is a matter for the special committee to discover. But we do know that for years, fire fighting has been a white man's job. How ever, a few cities in the South have Negro fire men. Raleigh does not have any Negro firemen. If no Negroes have applied, the blame rests upon their shoulders. Regardless of what has happened in the past, it would be asking only for fairness in the City of Raleigh to employ Negro firemen A gain 'we are suggesting that a new station be built in Southeast Raleigh and that it be man ned by Negroes. SENTENCE SERMONS RY REV FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP I’ll? m to MUSK" tv I ItK air J Reference is ton-- made to two things that am invisible- - the former can only be hom'd while the latter sei-mr. almost akin to things spiritual. 2. Wlial. ;i world of mystery v. < live in, plying our way through Ihr trackless ether so powerful, y.-t sn very thing always in existence, bill as in tangible as the w ind 2. Nevertheless, though vny si range it may -e. m, some dear untrained eharaeiers of old caught strains of music that flooded the soul, and as soft as zephyrs they could hear swepl melody coming from somewhere. 1. Tto'SP tones they f‘-!t wprf really clod-given and mine floating down from His great, Heaven, and especial'.' in mo ments of despair, this music for them, came do” u through the aii !i II is indeed sad. in say the least, with human intelligence on the increase, to see die spi ritual ride of man bespeaking God’s image, neglected and all things conducive to his highei life rejected What Other Editors Say TV Ql’l7, PROORWIS Congressional iiVvrst i.gat ion.* into fixing of quiz shows throw s E.resf dca! of unwitting light on TV's attitude toward minori ty groups, and their problems. What the quiz investigations really proved is the manner in which tlie television industry, and radio too for that matter, tailors programs to fit the wish es and whims of advertisers The advertiser is a god who can do no wrong. The real reason that the quiz, shows were fixed is that the continued participation of cer tain participants was desired because those participants at tracted an audience, and the larger the audience the greater (lie market for the sponsors products T h e s samp pnnFors deathlv afraid of anything that is “controversial.' They are a* fraid that even the slightest controversy will earn a few enemies whn will refuse to buy their pink Pills for Pale People or their Best Bargains in tried Cars. Any realistic appraisal of A merica’s racial problem is. by definition, controversial and sponsors shun such appraisals like the plague. The net result is that TV. iike the radio and movies, shies 8- way from the civil rights issue on sponsored programs or de mands that, “both sides’’ be pre sented. Viewers get. a watered down version of the issue, care fully fashioned to avoid offense to the most, prejudiced back ward TV owner in the back st r etches of Mississippi or Georgia Truth is a matter of no consequence. There is smail hope for real ism, or the presentation of truth on TV as long as advertisers serve as. censors of what Ame rwans ran. or can't see. on tele vision. -CAUI OKNIA K\Gt.K. * * * * NEGROKS MIT DOWN BV I. A BOR UNIONS AMhough iabor unions are re ceiving sn overwhelming a mount of publicity from news papers and other communica tions media throughout the country, giving the impression the labor movement is all pow erful and influential, the fart-, however, dispute such snap conclusions. In reality, the labor move ment is very weak, since it is doing very little for the Negro s For only those sincere and humble souls possessing deep spiritual insight can bear this "music in the air", both day and night; they are in June with these heavenly air waves, and for such music, their anxious souls crave, 7 This is that spiritual "somewhat' that alerts such souls to prayer, and constantly reminds them that by virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection, this is the high privilege all newborn creatures share, 8 With it, and continuous con ton) with {he Almighty One k hove, comes this wireless music from n hidden fountain of love and all who live in this atmo sphere. there is heavenly music ever near. <1 These dear ones of old though limited their education, could give full proof of their salvation —and while far be yond them were the mysteries of the air. they did humbly ex claim, “There must be a God somewhere,” 111 Old Job without alarm in a i Rich earlier day, and square The future portends, if the unions continue' alone; then present paths, that the move men* will probably be placed under government control The weaknesses of the unions manifest themselves in the in of violence, extra-legal methods to secure contracts, lack of democratic leadership and par ticipation by members, and, not the least of ail, the recent ex posures of racketeering and gangsterism. These are 1h e weaknesses which peril the Ne gro's position in the trade labor unions. Negroes cannot advance, nor secure (he rights?* and privileges in any situation in which he has no voice or Influence. He enters unjust circumstances without the proper means such as exists to some exi*mi in American government -to free himself. in addition, labor unions are capitalistic enterprises, with strong economic powers given io the extent of owning power ful American banks Their members are indoctrinated with the same ideas of discrimina fion as the remainder of the population. Thus, in labor, too, the Negro faces a struggle and prejudices Currently, unions are coming in for tough sledding. Union membership is dropping, do spite campaigns to unionize wo men, white collar workers and laborers in Hie South Unions are meeting powerful opposition from organized busi ness—as is exemplified by the steel strike, even though a crack has appeared In the ar mor of ihe steel owners’ opposi tion. Faced with its weaknesses, the labor movement does not appear to offer any outstanding advantages for the Negro. The lack of democrafiec principles, Ihe discrimination among mem bers. fear of criticism of dis criminatory practices, as web as the- fear of Negro equality all are being used as demoraliz ing weapons by businesses. These drawbacks create a ter rific disadvantage for the Ne* "TO, disadvantages of which he should he constantly aware --TSIF tVKRALtI (Anderson, s. r.i * « » ♦ Birttm IN ATLANTA? HALF A CAKE DEAL Reality had to he faced, de clared D'*, Rufus Clements, only !y faring his critics, his God b» would not betray, for with this hind of music he was bertig bathed in his bed, and putnfy mg sores to him, were no ter rible dread. H Hear him cry, “1 knov my Redeemer liveth, and that. Me shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skim worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall i see God,” —this ts the echo of that, eternal music, bereft o f sorrow and despair, for he who was sure he heard it. also know, "there must be » God some Where.'* t; 1 Yea. the obdurate, head less Sank who once ignored everything that emitted from the God above and Lord of all, when knocked down on the Da mascus road, saw things he nev er saw' before, and listened to music he never heard; it if on ly when man stops talking back to God and repents of his arm gance and fraud, that his spirit ual electronics are in tune with the air, and he definitely knows "there must be a God some where.” Negro member of the Atlanta school board. Dr Clements was explaining why he had voted with the white members of the board in favor of a public school plan intended to keep the federal government off Atlanta’s neck without, absolutely desegrega ting the schools. Dr. Clement said quite frank ly he realized that at the pres ent moment the integration of any school in Atlanta would lead to the closing of every school in town. He indicated that he opposed segregated schools, but indicated just a firmly he would rather h sv" segregated schools than no schools at all. This facing up to reality is something which can be recom mended to everybody concern cn with solving the problems of the world today. —FA VKTTF.VI»M. OBSKRVKK BV OF C. A. THICK. SR A MISSING LINK Recently this writer heard a very well informed person an outstanding educator, make a comparison regarding the areas in which Negroes have made notable achievements He point ed out that in such areas'as lit erature. music, art., athletics and sports and poll lies Negroes' names rank very high and that we are justly proud of our ac eomplishments in the foregoing fields. Further, he pointed o n that we have made good head way in Hie mercantile world, and better yet. in the field of insurance with special refer cnee to personal insurance. But, ala s, the foregoing speaker and scholar Indicated that when you turn to the field of finances, and especially in such as securities markets, Ne gro names are few and far a part. This is another way of saying that we have not a chieved notably in the areas cf finances. And, yet the money market and especially the se- JUST FOR FUN B¥ MARL La B. BOLL WARE BELIEVE II? Last week while visiting up in Green fill's about 31 miles from froggie Bottom, Mr. Coruyard and I bad the oppor tunity tc attend the funeral of Roily Tolly, who was know n for Ins eccentricity According to instructions he had directed that S3OO be spent for booze and canapes on his friends at his funeral. They had oft drink too After the services, an oldtim or in th-jc, par's said he knew of a man who kept a quart of bonded whUktr 1 ' all through the prohibition year- 'o be opened for the benefit of his pallbear ers whom he had listed among his papers His wife carried out bts wishes, but the man out bred all but one. ot his original pallbearer selection Cornyard wants to know whether or not the funera vas held in the church. THE MAIL One Indigant citizen, who blew her lop about the question of slow delivery of the mails, said; "The truth Is that mail de liveries are too fast and too fre quent Furthermore 09 per cent of personal letters are written b-v itchy-fingered gantry driven more by logorrhea than by a compulsion to say something worthwhile. are luxury letters and should be taxed a 5 such. Or, at. the 4-cent, rate, the Congress should allow only one totter a month pe> person, tho same privilege granted jail in mates on good behavior CHITTLING STRUT Received in the mails Corn yard and T. an no. M* to the Blackbottom Annual Chittling Strut to be held on New Year's Day There'!! he no Gordon B. Hancock # BETWEEN THE LINES NE'ER riUNH IHf VICTORY WON! Prom Mu inception. 1 have taken seriously the Old South's prnpagaud campaign to dir credit the IJ S Supreme Court, and I have taken ju st. as seri ously the Negros' apparent in difference to d. So far as Negro* are run corned, this up tnd-cominc movement consititub's one of the great dangers ln the future of the American Negroes, and nothing could be more danger ous than the Negroes,' current unconcern, with Ms ultimate implications Our current pro occupation with tine cars and fine homes, cocktail parties and good times in general is not thi answer to the questions—seri ous questions -which the cur rent propaganda campaign pos es Negroes must not belulled to sleep by the fact that few Ne groes are elbowing their W'ay into higher echelons of econom ic well-being The teaching pro fession ts currently- enjoying a round of higher salaries, but the masses of Negroes are still curdles market is relatatively an easy field into which to get. They arc- probably freer from such racial, political, and religi ous prejudices than many other business fields. When an order goes into a securities market, it is executed regardless of who may ha v e sent if in Ah a matter of fact the broker on the floor of the market is interested in making a commission. He does not know the individual who tnav have sent in the order and is not interested in knowing him In addition to being a rela tively easy field into which to get. the securities market offers a splendid opportunity for one with a small amount of surplus funds to get info hie business with a ivorld-wide market An individual with a few hundred dollars may become pan owner of such giant concerns as Gen eral Motors. Westinghouse F.- lcctric and Radio Corporation of America, and oI h rs. The foregoing is hut a small sample of the large concerns that an individual with a small amount of money mav become part owner. The securities markets are not "secret orders" with a "pass word” understood only by members. To the contrary, in formation pertaining to the se curities markets is open to any one to study Thus, any indi vidual with the equivalent of a high school training may be come well-informed :n matters of trading on the securities markets. The foregoing is no way implying that an individ ual purchasing securities would not need the assistance of a re liable and efficient broker as well as couponing, from other experts in matters of economics and finances b is needless to emphasize that the Negroes' failure to be come well-informed in higher finances and to venture into it, they aro permitting a gold mine to slip through their fingers. Bernard M, Baruch was an of fice boy at nineteen, and a .mil lionaire before he was thirty, „ John Maynard Keynes, a British economist, made a for tune by trading in the internat ioal money market thirty min utes per day. and those thirty minutes before getting out of the bed each morning. Toe foregoing names are simply samples of the legions of other* who have done likewise. dearth of chittlings, and all men who can qualify should be completely satisfied when the evening is over They tell me that there win be just "oodles and oodles” of sweet potatoes too When, at the of Wisconsin, the Oscar Mayer ( u. (where f worked' called chin lermgs “casings.' CAN’T PRONOUNCE IT Just added 9 new word to my vocabulary, ft is "triskaid-' c phobia,” it means s morbid f< tu of the number thirteen. “Ot-. ran you imagine that?, said Sneed Ball’ Eddie. . SOME STAMINA 4 A 99-year -old. doctor, probab ly the oldest practicing physi cian in America, gives bo thought to retiring Who would take care of my patients?” he asks. The man has been practicing for 70 years. Dr. Lindsey S. McNeely live# ui Waynesburg. Pa. “What, about these folks Wh* want to retire at the age of 65? THOSE ACCIDENTS - - Accidents have s strange way of happening. A Florida .woman was killed when a steel blade sailed 50 feet through * win* cow pane and struck her. A veteran of. three World Wap !T invasions was hospitalized when he was wounded bye fly* tng kitchen qpoon In • his front yard. . . . In 1958. an estimated 15 mil lion power mowers were in use. While no national statistics are available, a study in Georgia turned up the following facts: Three out of ten persons in jured in power mishaps were hurt by objects thrown the mower; and toes and feet were pa>-ts of the body most often in jured. marginal and sub-marginal In their economic lives. Os course this writer,.as usu al, is morally and intellectually weeping and gnashing” his teeth; and it might be highly profitable if he were joined by a larger and larger incnevn.ent of Negroes, who sre supposed to be in the know. Some weeks ago, this column attempted to pinpoint an ans wer to the question imposed by the current propaganda cam paign. It was suggested that, "rebuttal clubs” be organised to argue our case in the columns. r>f the white press throujjjlout the nation. Os course, if our plan was re jected, we had hoped ether plans would be forthcoming. To reject even a poor plan without replacing It with another doer not strike us as meeting head on a problem that lies as sn axe at the root of the Negro’s tree of life, The Negro may *s xyell wake tip now, as too late, ,to the fact that the Old South is on its way? The Richmond News Leader of recent, date carried the fol lowing crisp reference to the propaganda campaign “ Distribution of the second in a senes of publications, stress ing stater,’ rights under the Fed ernl Constitution, was bjjjgun this week. Nov. 26, by the- Vir ginia Commission ■on Constitu tional Government. The current pamphlet is entitled ‘A Ques tion of Intent’ and comprises the tpxt of a statement made May 54 by Commission' Chair man David J. Mays before a Senate subcommittee on Con stitutional Amendment. 7 “Mays urged the Congress to initiate an amendment, spelling out in specific language, that the states never have surren dered—and thus retain the right to operate racially sepa rate but equal public schools. . . "There are only two ways qf restoring the original meaning ot the !4fh Amendment, MjjyS said—by the reversal of its po sition by the Supreme Court Mself. or by action of Congress and orderly amendment, "The first seems - out of the question, since the court Was a dopted the policy of committing new justices to the rule laid down in the school cases, as they fake their places or. the bench. Tire remedy therefore, is In the hands'of Congress alone. “The pamphlet was pvd out by the commission’s public re lations committee, headed by News Leader’s editor, James j. Kilpatrick It is being mailed to some 20,000 public officials, schools, libraries and siJU.l'ar interested persons on the com mission’s mailing list.” • The foregoing sat* forth.wfcaJ the state righters are doing amU planning. They are' carrying their fight to Congress and T may add, with the remote pros pects of winning their point, thus contravening the decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court. With southerners in the con gressional saddle, these states’ righters have a fighting chance. There are 13 or 20 millions of us Negroes in this country; What are we proposing to do »« bout the current threat? This column’s suggestion may not have been foolproof, and it may not have answered every question, but it is far better than doing but wishful hoping. The Old South is busy with * . constructive program. The Ne gro had better bestir himself m else he will wake up somswful. iy to the stern feet Con* tress has undone at?, that ths Supreme Court has done, Tt can happen hero—te us!