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THE CAROLWIAN
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1946
EDITORIALS
NEW YORK’S FEPC BILL
gof Jesiu.
^ But all tbeae cunaiderationa aaide, ia not
an inquiry into the religioua beliefa of can-
. didate for office in the United Statea Gov-
eruent unconatitutional ? ia not auch an in-
One of the chief argumenta advanced quiry contrary to the written law of land,
by the opponenU of the Ivea Bill now b" not to mention the apirit of our traditiona?
fore the legislature of the alate of N e w Article VI of the ConatituUon clearly
York is that prejudice cannot bo legislated atatca, "No religious teat aliaii ever be re-
out of existence. (The Ivea Bill ia the New quired as a qualilicaUon to any office or
York Stale "hTlPC’' meaaure.)
The answer to the objection cannot be
eliminated by law is, "True, but open and
public discrimination can be." There are
cert.nin practices which continue because of
the prejudices of only a few persona. Often yygj. failure of tlie Gen-
such discriminatory practices are dictated
*WblTC VOUR SERVICEMAN
cSwuVZre/SsuRINO ANO
FREOUEtri’ LiCTTERS. HIS
morale depends on yooR .
letters, to speed
DELIVE^ USE V-MAIL ,
public trust under the United States.”
Ai>S£MBLY NOT READY
Among the large number of interested
citizens ul all races there is genuine dis*
eral Assembly to enact a hospital and med
ical care bill more in line with Ute recom-
by a narrow economic self-interest far more
than by any deep-seated racial animosity.
'Hiey can b« eliminated by a law which ntendations of Uie Uommiasion appointed
has the moral support of the great major- by ex-Governor Broughton. The failure of
Uie Assembiy to make auy substantial ap-
Ther* are discriminaUons in employment propnationa for the implementation of tiie
which are baaed solely on the inertia of Uommiasioiu’ plan would aeem to mean
custom. The slight prodding of a law would that tlie plan remains largely on paper for
eliminate them. There are employers which at least anoUier two yeara.
have no peinonal objection to hiring mem- Governor Cherry's financial conserva-
bers of minority groups, but fear either the tiam, whicli may be on Uie side of wisdom,
reaction of ther employes, or the public, was doubtless an important factor in the
or both. Often such fears are groundless; legislature’s action. The people of Nortii
but in sny caso a law would give such em- Carolina knew when they elected him that
ployers protection, and would eliminate his fiscal views were definitely on the cau-
any advantage which their competitors tious side. It is quite possible, therefore,
might otherwise have, by putting all em- that Uie people of North Carolina are not
ployers in tlie same position. ready to assume tlie dollar costs of a health
A state FEPC law would in itself be ed- program even as moderate as Uie one pro-
ucational. The people of the state would posed by Uie Commission. It may very well
have gone on record as opposed to dis- be, however, that in the long run the dol-
crimination against minority groups in em- lur costs to the people of Uie plan proposed
ploymcut There would certainly be some would be much less than the financial
attempts at evasion; but all laws are brok* waste involved in inadequate medical care,
en by a fraction of the public. We cannot it is worthy of note that the bill finally
wait until every Individual is willing to ac- introduced includes Negroes in the relaUve-
cept a correct principle before enacting ly small appropriations definitely proposed,
the priuiple into law. A part of Uie $50,0UU loan fund for medical
It would be tragic if the legislature of students is specifically to be designated for
liberal and cosmopolitan New York Uie use of Negroes. This would appear to
should fail to pass the bill. Tbe Federal be a good sign that if and when Uie General
measure to establish a permanent BTiJPC Assembly does accept a real medical care
would have little chance of passage, and iiospiial plan, Negroea will share in it.
the enemies of the federal bill would have
powerful argument They could point WHY NOT A NEW POUCY?
out that such a bill was unaccepUble to
(..xlaliuoltf lin>
'SY-J.rRANCIS.PRICE
tMMWU TO THE BATTLEFIELD .
yilRITE OFTEN-WRITE CHEERFULLYr
/ecend Theuahts
By C. D. HAtUBURTOM
The retirement of G. K Lineberry, an-
Without in the least minimizing
the credit due the WillUm and
Mary edtor, her views and her
stand, it is only honest th^ we
face certain facts in connection
with the now
Those facts have to do with the
matter of freedom of the press in
colleges and schools.
As Negroes of course our aym-
pathies in this case were with the
courageous editor, and r"®
students who at first stood behind
her by advocating a free pr^s.
and not with the administration.
But suppose the editorial had
been an anti-Negro editctfUl.
Would we not have applauded ^
administration which cracl^
down? Of course there wouldve
been this difference. An anti-Ne
gro editorial would have been un-
American, undemocratic, wrong.
of course, is the issue of freedom
or control of the press, not the
subject matter of the editorial or
ti,e young woman’s opinions. Wim
the latter Negroes are naturwy
in accord, or at least most of them
are. . . .
Another consideration which
should be faced is this: Does the
average school or college publi*
cation come under the same head
as regards freedom of the press
as does an independent and re
sponsible newspaper? A college
student publication is looked up
on by the general public as re
presenting in some way the insti
tution at which it is published. It
avails little to assert that the insti
tution assumes no responsibility.
The public ordinarily will not ac
cept such an nterpretation, ex
cept possibly in the case of large
;r./ian.>ru4ent1v rU*h univeTsi-
corporation; usually the student
paper is not. It has no legal ex-
istetvee (eneraUy. ^
apart from the school in which
it is published. The college almoet
inevitably then assumes some re
sponsibility for what goes into its
columns.
Nether studnets nor others nave
the ri^t to demand full freedom
except in those situations where
they are willii^. ready and able
to assume full responstthlity, and
where the public understands, or
can be made to understand, that
such is the state of affairs.
In an educational institution as
nowhere else except the home,
democracy must be expressed in
sharing of duties, responsibilities
and privileges, rather than in a
rigid division and separation of
powers. Which means that fim-
clional d«nocracy in a college de-
Two significant deductions may be drawn from a recent news story
saying that women elevator curators, maids, and janitors at the
National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., have been directed
to eat their meals in a lavatory at the institution in which a long
table has been placed lor use as a dinner table.
In the first case the story suggests that crueltv in segregation
and discrimination knows no bounds even w n the result of such
action may affect the health of the perpetrators themselves. This
fact is borne out by the unfortunate experiences which have been
endured when household and restaurant cooks, maids and other
Negro domestics workers have been forced to live in back street
communities with inadequate sewage disposal faciUtes that they
might contract diseases and transmit them to the homes of those
for whxn they worked. The same type ol situation may develop
when there is not proper hospitalizatiMi for Negroes who are
attacked by diseases and who are compelled in spite of their afflic
tions to continue to drag themselves and their ailments to work
■both because they must work in order to live and because there
are not enough hospital beds tor them to lie in. This segregation
evil which produces so much misforVune tor those segregated
against finally bomerangs back to the thrower of the death dealing
weapon.
The news story, which appeared in last week's Washington
Tribune, goes on to say that the tables have been so arranged in
the lavatory as to make it necessary for those who would go
there for the original purpose of the room to wait until the diners
have finiabed their meal. This is said lo be happening al a medical
center, where the very first concern is supposed to be that of
health.
One of the workers says the thirty-four Negro Waves who have
been assigned to Che center do not have to face the discrimination.
“Only those of us who are maids, elevator operators, janitors, and
the like are subjected to mating in the toilet and other discrunina-
tory practices. We are treated like so many cattle”.
As a result of this statement the second point is obvious.
Whereas a very precious fe* of us are permitted some of the privi
leges of living men and women, the rest of us are treated in
many instances like cattle. It seems that mOt token handout has
the purpose of pacifying the rest of us. No disrespect to the Waves
IS intended here. Tbe great horror of the condition is found in
civilian life where some few of us have gotten a little ahead and
t>fk;>au»e we do not happen to be affected by the misfortune of oux
race at a particuar time we take our smooth liands off of matters
that humiliate our leas fortunate brother every day.
It would be a good thing for all of us to remember that we are
all the hodcarriers, the elevator operators, janitors and maids al
though we call ounelves doctors, iawyen, preachers, and teachers.
The ills that beset o^ir brothers will eitheir touch us directly or in
directly by banning the only percons off of whom the professionsals
cam their living.
Once when there was strife in a certam community's educa
tional systam in the State « gentleman involved insisted that he
hia finger in the eyes of the white people and as a result he
couM have no fears. He had earner his right to the patronage of
those in authority by keeping Negroes from making an outcry
^KHit the woeful lack of certain public facilities in the town. But
in the end justice prevailed. The non-professional but solid citizens
in the community male themselves felt. And although the school
man had his filler in the eyes of the so-caleld powers that be. he
dkl not have his in the hand of the people whose children
he w4s teaching. Meanwhile, before he lost his job, his own chil
dren were being handicapped by the slow development of their
nlAvmst^s.
» pow&ful^argan*nL rney coo.wax «u. A .XAW-^utxI Anordin^y 5
out IRat .uch a bill WN. TLo reUxon.cot -yl- G. K Lineberry. an-
the allegedly progreeaive and reUtively un- ^ ^ B„. u we are to independently rich un ^ grSrSal more on the
prejudiced aUt. ol New York, and there- ^ ^ IfwfS . Th,, meana dt.ta ru^,.^^-
,ore would be entirely impractical for the adminialration of MmWSnft
nation aa a wholo.
In spite of the reaiitanco offered by provemenu* have been made, not the least
labor tmioDBp »ome employere, “•“J of whicn was the acquiaitiun of a new aite
agoguea and ©there to the preaent e Negro School. But Uiere
agoguea and ©there to the pr^nt e «a School. But tiiere
FfclPC, there is no doubt ae to have been many complainta about the re-
efita that have reaulted from P jatioua between Mr. A^eberry and the
tion, ita value to the n “ * ^ working ataff of the Negro School. The
been many timee greater turnover of the ataff haa been a concrete
bittemeae it mny have a up iudicatitn that aoemthing waa definitely
there. And the nation aa a whole hae a^
eepted it, no tonly « It in to bo hoped and expected that the
just and proper in principle. The right lo ' ' _ ,
Lest We f oraet.
Bt W. L. aitSBHB
he wAs teaching. Meanwhile, before he Inst his job, his own chil
dren were being handicapped by the slow development of their
playmates.
The situation suggests that in order to remove the evils which
X rampant or those which touch only our brothers we need not
supinely by and ray that we shall not seek actively to get for
«u of us belter aewerage, better transportation, or better hospi
talization since we do not live on tho8«' streets, since we have an
automobile and do not have to ride on these dirty train cars, or
fines we can send members of our families to hospitals .in the North.
The Navy Medical Center affair may not be of immediate con
cern to each of us here. But its like is repeated many times in com
munities Ihrou^out the South, and for that matter, in the North.
The asalAance of all of us everywhere ia necessary to make these
United Statea the fairer land that is to be for our boys to come
home to afteff the war.
Do You Agree?
EDITORIAL SHORTS
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Americanism; Quitting study as soon aa one gets a diploma.
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T'7 ' in Driuciplc The right to it is L) Be BopeO ana expecieu lusi tue inn!^ dSH “aih'“n2*^wlnu“pSSSi iMlition, i( good lor a nation, ought to be good for individual,
wo” k te wbX fit^d for -w superiuteudent will be of a ^ferent ‘n.S^ ^
rdtelto be recognized a. one of the type. Those who must work under hun S
u comi g Knman and democTBt- kbould have aome auggeaUons which would pecially is this ^ m S/SS of AlX^jSne^S to ertia on the part of their adviaon
hte rr^erlf"^ht rhich l. be helpful to Uie Board in aeiecUn* Mr. ««•
wo^w of being im^eanentsTby law. Lineberxy'a aucceaaor. Better atUl would be W^Troo‘S?t i Ut^pro- Ti^ j m d^^conweteti^ ai*?J^U^“ey'S, nofr^'
worUiy o g policy, creating an autonomoua head fusions SShSuUyS^SSce seeker gets in sent what many of^ tolnk Aould
THEY’U. TRY ANYTHING of tbe Negro uuU of Ute Stete Sch»l fur ...
the Biiud and Deaf. There muat be a Negro ‘Screed that they sp^k ters tiviat*tosqu2e^vith* our iixiivid- it takes only average ability to make money in 1945 but watch
The “Unholy AlUanca" in .ehool. Why out a Negro head t rtoi::‘’iJL‘^"S‘dSfy'S S. So'S^ly mgraix^J* f
juuiy ~-.r . noiicv fw the office ae tiviai to aquare wim uur ***!*»»*•
; achool. Why out a Negro headt ‘cS'^L^Tui^rS ToLT It -
confirmauon on grounds of their i^ttem m pu^ ^ better social order
not being "praclkyil enough. that old ouio^now which the masa^ of the people Now is the
wflU&ind Williams reprint gel SmhaveaWghS^sUndardV^v-
. new and needed type ol pohteri P^a^ W te Mr.^^.^ t^ wn‘ ,„,2fJSi«nber th.t the
Not long ago in Bdenton a Negro waa When the g^g gew themirivM PP^ ^ ,d‘ocate, ot progre* m-xit he
THERE ARE OTHER LAWS
Now is the time to rfiow your patriotism by doing scnnelhing for
yorjr country.
Our own idc
Japa from
I is dial tiie Chineae are the soldiers to oust the
ceeded only in clipping the wings of Hen
ry Wallace; but it aasnia that it baa killed
Aubrey Williama’ chancaa to gat the office . new —7; (hehueive. approved end puwiea mg. we mum nnmaaue. wa.. .wv
of Rural ElictriflcaUon Adminirtrater. The Not long ago in Edenten a Negro waa rght- «
Asricuitur. Conunlttaa haa voted an nofav- Dned S60 for violaUng the jim-crow law «.u. convmiion. loudct. fimih seeking peopte
0^,0 report on hi. oomlnation to that Of. ITirn^f SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Bp R«. «• W. WOH.-.
In Uie hearinai aU kin* of charge, were the laws requiring separation of the races nooini..hip .lur me. let him den, hmoeu. mat c.uw th.n for tneir chiidrent WU'- qt. „„ cat. money everyday; «n«quet.tly, you can buy -War
brought out ag.in.tWUUan»,f«m.r head .n ravel, and however punmhment for the _Sub^.:™e^ ot> to cra. and ,o.h,w n». Mali. ....
ol the NaUonal Youth AdmimatraUon, violation of such laws is justified or con- man win for tb. pte;. wh.re_ ma greatoi ^ a.nm-ro... mixture ia compoa«l of one-pmi fact, one-part
Btraugeat of th«te waa that he i. irreligious demned, cej^nly there ^ two ..range i^r’dlS “d.7“p^ imagln.'Srmui one-pmt^.uapicion
Uiat he doe. not believe in the divinity of thing, which may be noted: Do you hear, eoaaideration o, Ut. River. ricn young ruler not te tee bes
even occasionally, of white people being membera of the jf”,. Uw. Y^ndm^ U coming W J..u., calling him Wch- MacArthur may not
. . W .. .... w.e aa -V .ww.e>dAe. In aedt naua we .... . __ .wblmee ea/Kat BiWl UtlOS SbRU 1
No plan to promote a business is worth anything until ‘.t is into
exccutlosi.
MacArthi^ may not be the best generai that the war haa pro-
Ghri«L occasionally, oi wniie people oeing bera of ^ ‘ .VvTr'ce Uw.. i wonder u ^:Z'^ i duci b-^hTgebr^ most publicity
undeiatood that Mr. WUliam. ia a convicted and fined for violaUon of the ^ ub w • • ’
I eve iimwiirow laws? (Thoreticallv thev anolv ♦rLOAth»p that he waa confirmed . . . *«h.v kbu* di«coversd Intrtging and h»eful; but how trsg- rnw, amazuig revelation o« mooe
lUl
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THE cAwniinnfrw
Mt XaiMlt at, BaM^
TNqrifeM* H74
Puhi taked by Tha Carallrtaa PuUM^M Co.
m aMd-ka mtta, Afril d, IM9, at
the Part OlliM ot Bikigh. N. C, tadcr tha Act
i«h I. IWt.
P. R. jaiVAY. PMklttar
C D. HAMdI»UBTOW. Idttockk
te?cS^on-^te
;;‘rV--^i^: toliowmg.mid^ce- er^nt eveo- time ,^y ^
■Xi preier 1« legislatera *nd otnera er, aaauis wumi scaa. Msaaaa .
It la onaemooo uuifc saz. rr _ _ Wsdlace out of jwbbc life al- _ho have to do with human rsla- do, that I may have etsn^ UM is . . j ..wtGv:,,, u i,/kw litits know-
A -- ^Hva member of the jim-crow laws? (Thoretically they apply together, that he waa confirmed ^ today have dlacovwsd Intriging and but how irag- /jt,* amazuig revelation o# modem publicly is
Chnstiao and an acUva member ^ ^ . v e id all wis a peraonal triumph for dlvwcea have increaaed ic the ending? How many of the r^juiraa to become an exgiert
Unitarian Church, to which Preaident Taft to both races.) Or do you ever hear of a ^ from 260.000 in i»4o to m worid’a brightert • • • •
belonTed U1 been pointed out al«> that boa driver being punished for mistreating, extent ate. for PremUent Bo«- - A man may bocome alck heemute he teink. h. la aick Out we do,*.
Juatice Hrandeia, a Jew, would not have manhandling, or violsUng the rights of N^ “1. r;lman“r'Sfu.“S^>.“S « - , ,
been expected to aubaenbe to the divinity Ifi" * ' adiii .dzi^ct a man who immediately Tuswerrt tea.-W. Giving wivice U a habit with human being, but, fortunately,
of the peace, assault and battery, or crimes tee big fin«- ^ completely d ChrM. ignoring te. «tvlc. la l^we mgr.m^, ^
even more aerioua? rntrchf-S^^n'^td' “bf..^ wSte
PARTIAL VICTORY ST* raS % Isiou*^ to mT .1^ ^ akep on raUroad trac
PARTIAL VICTORY fashioned SlSrlagJ vow and the faithfulness wrong with money. ^ * v«y important part of Ibis nation, but
reactionary to control the biUioM y,, putting money, aelf-rl^teouw^ or Women may make up a vai^ im^uu ^ taxiMvere
The forces of liberalism, and the “com- of public money which wiU be * musf be to guiding light any other material it la interesting to observe that T* w « the midst xpay
mon man" throughout the United SUtea ^r. ton"".u to'Io^ Whi. vgj ons of the noblest exl!ibitlo« of our civilizaton is what
will in general rejoice over the final con- fSi^SS «' "SS In olo«d- be crited mi honest bo.in«» imm.
0« »LI« nrmatlon of Henry Wallace, ’me victory gower, o..,. tr.^"« te^ ^^r KhT"i'e'^r“’.rn.* in- Chrte ..ory chsUenge. yeopie of mi rite.
Address all i saiaiantrakeaa and of the liberal forces Is not a complete one; ocewied the office of Secretary Wtat does not herit eternal life- It is ha t^ hath Kinfdomfrnot salvation, and naUons to prove toir
payahk te Tha Carnlkki mthic than te ladhrld- ... .. . of Commerce. Maybe both Con- and motor ^ra^ am ao«^ .uprem. longing and deifre Hfr ^ lincerlty and loyalty by^
Sake Ika CaroBakn snprsy^ le^a*- the lendmg powers associated with the of* ^resa and to President are woiSJ learn- to hSrtwSd wUUng ftSSj me to ISU and work ThU tlve and self sacrificing se^fl
Commerce while Je«te ^ ^ to**Uva"t^*thsr, If lor no other to first place and to foUow Christ strains one
script, etc., i
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