PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS WALLACE NOT THROUGH Whatever the merits on either sidi oi the controversy which resulted in the de parture of Henry A. Wallace from the cabinet his forced resignation is rejrn't table. Millions of Negro eiitzens are at one with the liberal wing of the Demo era tic Party in regarding Mr. Wallace as their champion, and as one of the best men in the cabinet. He won the hearts of the Negroes by his uncompromising •stand, in spib- of the political hazards involved for complete justice and first class citizenship for ail Americans with out any artificial distinctions. To many he represents more than any other man in the public eye today t b e ideal Ameri can statesman—scholarly, sincere, liber al in hi s sympathies, progressive, and uncompromisingly honest and true to his convictions. Whether or not Mr. Truman had ar rived at the point where he had to let Mr. Wallace go in the interest of har mony in rhe* government and consistency in foreign policy, certainly it was partly the [‘resident’s own vacillation and bungling which brought the mess about. Wallace had the President's O. K. on his speech. If it should not hav< been ap proved. and that it is quite possible-, then the blame tor its having been approved must, be shouldered by t h e President Wallace did till that could have been ex pect*? a when he submitted the speech for Mr Truman to pass on it. There may be some debate as to the soundness of the stated views oi Mr. Wallace on foreign policy, but there is no question that Truman has again proven hixuseff a past master oi putting his foot into it. He is a master of the hasty word and act the product of snap judgment. He is always having to take back something he h a s said. 1 his tinu he had to sacrifice one of the best, men in his cabinet, and a tru ly powerful figure of the party in order to try to straighten out a situation of his own creation, Little alarm need be wasted, however over the departure of Wallace, almost the last of the Roosevelt appointees, from the cabinet. His influence will not. be great ly lessened. On the contrary, Mr. Wal lace is now free to speak and act as his own nmui dictates, and his leadership may well be more effective from outside the cabinet than from within. It is quite likely that Truman will have lost more politically than Wallace by what has happened. Wallace remains the leader of his segment of the party, and that seg ment will likely place its loyalty to Wal lace ahead of its loyalty to Truman. NEW PATTERNS IN TRAVEL Another battle in the fight for equal rights for Negroes on public carriers has been won. A U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals has held iilegal the discrimina tion against interstate railway passen gers whose tickets entitle them to spe cific seats on trains moving across state lines. Fhi> incident out of which the case grew involved certain employes of t h e Afm-American who bought tickets in cluding seat reservations for transporta tion from Philadelphia to a southern city, and who were arrested and removed from the train in Virginia when they re fused to take seats other than for which they had paid specifically seats in a jim-crow car. The railway argued that it was not liable, since the arrest was made by 1 a w euorcement officers of Virginia in pursuane of state laws; but the Court ruled that the railroad was at fault in that its agent summoned the officers. THE CAROLINIAN Published by Th* Carolinian Publishing Co. Entered as second-class matter, April 6, 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh. N. C„ under the Act 0 labor Fader, and against the interests i ■>f the consumers, of which working peo- | P*e comprise the majority. •It has been .said that the entitseJv hum orless Lewis aspires to the preside nee 1 1 is unbelievable that he could take him self so seriously. But if he - an. it is cer tainly a foregone concision that a maj ority of the American people never could. A BEGINNING When James Walker ru e t his death »oar Elko, South Carolina, a few weeks ago under circumstances which nr gin be interpreted as a lynching, the Negro press naturally ga\c the news a prominent place. A few days ago a Barnwell County grand jury returned a murder indictment against, the white m a n who fired the shots, or most, of them ; but many Negro newspapers give that news a distincti\ subordinate place. Now an indictment is not a conviction, z and the killer may never be punished; but it would c.eem that even the indict- | rnent by a South Carolina grand jurv in § that case is big news. At least the com- % munity has taken the first step toward | bringing the slayer to justice. What has | been done so far'is therefore commend- able and ought to be recognized as such. * We add the hope that what has begun with the indictment may be carried through to the logical conclusion—a fit ting punishment for the offender. SAME OBJECTIVE—DIFFERENT STAGES While the Negro members of t h <■ American Legion in North Carolina are trying to bring about integration of Leg ion forces and eliminate ! h e jim-crow Legion set-up in this state, their col leagues in Florida are taking a pri o r step. As in several other Southern state, Negroes there thave heretofore been com pletely excluded from membership in the Legion, a charter for a colored post being unobtainable. Recently (possibly to meet the competition of the American Veter ans Committee, which has rejected dis crimination because of race or religion) the Florida department of the Legion has issued charters to chapters of a prev iously entirely independent organization of Negro veterans, bringing them into the Legion fold. North Carolina’s Negro Legionnaires have long had the status just acquired by the Floridians, but they are not satis fied. They rightly aim at the elimination of the distinction of status within the nv ganization as between veterans who dif fer only in color. The North Carolinians and the Floridians have the same objec- T.ive.; they differ only ir, the stage reach ed by each. wi/T'N| «r “World war three will settle ■he w-hmi- mes.-v at fail' By c u A a • , i.. , .<.,a UUServer 111 Its •25 y»MOi Ago column which ooctams item.-. . f'T: from the tile- <".f its issue ol Ji corresponding dale exactly a quvr ter <*f a century before. carried the following ■Dr-"' ir “CR'lntion " North Corel;!... f rut?. 37T yt i v- :r iu 1830 to 30.:' per cent in 1920 raises Ljuttst iOTk in vvhtuhe: ic»c f M ’JitfUTnU-*' C!i:\ippcar; Ev<-r sine, the first decade at.-,r tht Civil Wu statisticians !nv intr;?: ued by th- high der;! rats- of !'■ No arc The quotation from the News and Oh v.rver of twenty-live years-- : ;o presen'.- specula!sr.n .■■■ to the fute of th« N£f?ro in this cnuj'trv which wm-- - re or *>.s.- p'jputar m that ' . and {>r . i ft •*. g ! It i- not he;ri today by ar.v mt: student, oi population) It v. ka raid by ;r.any that ihc Nvj-ro proh tem .j’c: Miive since thv Ne/:r• u•«.? yld rx?c o rtj e c xtinct. or almost yii c* a matte;- of ;j huu dree or so years h juh to r O'y J? how figure*.* cur, be and •2' hov,- roc m-u *a!ii.v raU eharv.r As i ino;irs*i p bu; yintis- u ior. . § i %4/#i S M at****# 11 l-.si, if f, 3 fdl % | m Ity w. S URKKNI ... ~~ ~ - —• m&i We repeat this discussioi f <-r-.ro last iveek because Mi Aus tin’s .'second editorial last week is iinpleraeated so muc:: in Uds dis cussion. fhis discussion continues irooi last week anent the editorial in Uh Carolina Times dealing with the dismissal of teachers in the color ed school-, of North Carolina tvliosv community work was such as to improve the status of the colored people u: economic, political, and social affairs of the community The "baid fact m that the pattern ol organization of the professional Associations enrolling the teacher:; of North Carolina, colored or what have you?, is of the company un ion type. This company union typt of organization is the only type t.rmi i.become available to the teachers of the South. It is a fact that, the general pattern of such or ganizations gives the control to th. bosses who have the power to hire and fire teachers It is also a fact that the South has patterns of political domination of the bosses to the extent that the ethics of the profession count very little in a. controversy between a teach er ..i'd thi b ss whet; the preroga tive- of the local politicians is in volved Very seldom do the bosses themselves dictate the unethical dismissal of a principal or teacher who is doing a commendable com munity job. It nearly always ap pears that the superintendent b the person to blame, because un der our Inws, he is secretary to j the political board *nd must e:te- J cute the decisions of the board. Bui here the superintendent, is only the sounding board of the po litical reprisals visited upon pub lic servants who serve the “peo ple" rather than their exploiters. The greatest factor in the teach er shortage in - some of the schools- - of North Carolina today is not th... the salaries are too low ! though they are much too low) but that the position of the teacher is too .toO..i.CT.V,' Thl i"j;.Ot--:.. .. >[. um status in the community is as challenging to the teacher as it is to.the lawyer, minister, business- THE CAROLINIAN uwwr. 10 note ioiij* Ago tin-; the pioport lOi'i oi NcfcjioLr* lo Liu tuioi i.y popu i atiOJi r. i-*c j ud \ ok . Etc h cun sue b'iricc ITtiO na f - shown the ratio of Ncrroiw to the tot:-ij p-ypulattofi wm:• iower than that of ;h« previous too y<-. ;y • . - - - W* ■■ • • • this Xai * could not oc uxpfained eia ir.f!>. or even laigcly, by tin excL-SFivt uerth rate oi the No *w UGiri-./: Wwel A y li:jpptmVi£. and what eorMinn.y 5 to honour, right un u> i92«* was that cr-cb year the white p putaiion .v-.s be.infi ijnerf-aseci greatly by no* nijgra.tiio i,‘. and by immigrants who were highly prolific, having .j birth rate well in * xcess -if tim* of at least the native urban ;.>opu iat ion rt>‘ thi • ofr:-e* hand f; ok the lime of the ruppieibion t ih\ trrtde *vfj, (her*' on],\ anal! influx >'f N-igroos into 4 c.e Crtm3.trv After emanu'pyi'on. «ev fy&Yyf -? s** the *iTijnion fr'jjyi tne W<>■ h >da> the Nrtgre- popula.f.hs: was increased from hhe utsid hardly a! all, while in some ycu r * bo? ween 1880 and I'a2o as rnscy i\s >■>. mil 1 1 o n '>v hite p■•rr. an $ eniev . \] ir rovm ry from Curop.p liij' Nc-jyo dv' ! h rate fro;r, n ,«• man, os businessivoman Thr hi.-;." ■-I training in psych: logy and no dal sciences required .if 1; aciis i makes ti.un more so i diy smisiUv than the average person allied with other professions. The thwarting o? teachers in their righteous d< sire to be an integral pan of tin life and leadership of the ccir.- munity is the thing that causes so many to seek greater security in other occupations even after preparing themselves to be teach ers through their college and uni versity courses. Toe iault lies it; the LAW governing the tenure oi teachers in the State. Both the North Carolina Educa tiort Association and the North Carolina Teachers Association are loafing on the job of getting a sat isfactory tenure law enacted in the Slate*. This is noi because the leaders of the Associations are un aware of the necessity for such legislation, but because of fear. The FEAR OF POLITICAL REPRIS AL on the part of superintend ents, principals and leading teach ers leads them to compromise tin issue whenever it is raised. The politicians pay very well with promotions, publicity, and person al preferment for this service on the part of the leaders They, at the same time, keep a reserve of ambitious would-be administrators ready to sabotage -ny superin tendent or principal who dares — Sunday School Lesson By Rev M. W. WILLIAMS Subject: Paul's background and early life. —Acts 21:39: 22.3a. 27 28. Acts 22:3b: 26:4. 5; Philippians 3:5. 6. Key Versr “Hear O Israel Je hovah our God with aii thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with -ill thy might." Deut. 6:4-5. ball vines as high as u>-m oi win! population at present, if is ofu r, n,.«i stressed that the Negro s mortality for the country as y wi'iojt today is whore the white 35 yeaiago Out death rate. .air higher than that ol the v ; ey population, is also dec.br .u. ia.su.r, .mb me ditt'eremtai ;s tieii.e -lou jv wbv.d oh It: 1 i Holme-.-, the erninen* . , who iur- devoted years : rtuciv to the question, and is me mtiior .f a .cholariy book. “The .\i:.:t!i:. SfrogaU far Survival,*’ says 'bat thi co:v tit .aional vitali nt tin- Negro is not one wl-.it hpjov.' \'.'i il jf 1 *3'/ of th*.’ ”JO'>U i,ui.>n He jMiitd' a'U Mi;:’ the Ei aro ha; not only i; "ived, bo: tvu-it tinder otupK’X if iiighlv adverse economic <-.nd so > ;•■! i >i..Usualis Given ct.-atiiiueo .:n *.■ I; • .rati',! •• i -js (••.f.aniic lok and r. . xit iasi an of medical .--or u.raliv, and prove! - nv wni.h is stire ‘o conic, thert’ I.; . .no lo vXfHCt that not • •oh wilt t-h<- Negro not die out ut ( w;i! at leas’ hoid tiis a>. i, ;• Use Arnenca.i popitlaUoit ;,i persisietrly (.hat something nr done !■ give the North Caro !;y : fi arhrr a decent tenure >n ■.hr job. Look lor no appreciate tin provement to the situation a ions a: the administrators agree with she politicians that IT' IS NECESSARY SOMETIMES TO BE ABLE TO DISMISS A TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL when i; w uid be very -.-mbarrassing to prove iu She courts that the charges alleged against the person ate true It may be necessary to Is:.vt- such freedom to lynch spirit ually and economically any person who is a teacher but such a policy will drive more and more really honest and conscientious persons to o choice of oth >r professions and occupations un ; il a LAW IS PASSED WHICH WILL GIVE THE TEACHER THE COMMON RIGHTS OF COMMUNITY CIT IZENSHIP along with the job ol earning ?. living by teaching in THAT PARTICULAR COMMUN ITY. Those people who have the intelligence to be good teachers also have the intelligence to want homes and families and a modi cum of human happiness. Home ownership requires being stationed in an occupation in the commun ity where one’s home is built JOB SECURITY IS THE ANS WER AND A TENURE LAW IS THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY for North Carolina 'This lesson opens the door for •*. AuJy of one of the most interest ing and influential characters of some Jews from Asia accused him of teaching things contrary to the Jewish law lie was seized ana might have been killed, but for the rescue by the Roman soldiers Ii was upon this occasion whicn WI3SK ENDING SATURDAY. OC7OBET; 5, 19-15 BETWEEN :” ; “ W&jjSM zzzzzzjS^szzzri:: i WWmM bv or hub hamcock ton amp THOM ISOLATION TO DOMINATION Th*> foreign policy of the United States as mirrored m 'he political maneuvering of Secy, ot State James Ryrn- - is loaded with dynamite. If Russia feels towards this country as this coun* try evidently Jeels towards Russia, then Russia's policy ; pqusllv filled with dynamite. World War 11 was brought about largely because of Amc i' -i's isolauon. It would be tragic if World War 111 were brought about bv our domination. Loyal Americans wanted to see their country icave the old isolation and become cooperationist in world affairs, hut her most devout patriots did not want to see her swing from isolation to domination. There is a place in the international scheme ol things for cooperation but little or none Mt bon, in.it k> The fighting that Britain has had to do these several centuries because of her domination should be a lessors to the United States The inglorious failure of Germany and Italy should also present. j ls y>sson. P( oce cannot be- made in a world where dommatior becomes the national ideal The only future alliance? that promts peace ar those biased upon a cooperation motivated m the h*nß* erhood ot man. If We saw not enmo to the last •.•hern? five* t.ien we may well prepare for war, atomic bomb and all. But this war-weary world is not in the mood for aaofhei war. The men who do the fighting are fed up on war. Thus, of us who are genuino]v interested in man at his best realize that his best cannot be attained through wars and rumors of war? Circumstances have foist' d upon this world an economic domination that cannot fo< denied Thu advantage has come about largely because our land has been too far removed from the fight ing’ scenes of Europe to be devastated by the ravages of war. In World War J and in World Wai II our glorious -and «-i ' un i/-..vh.-! h\ »:ic scourging hand of When wc compere the soldiers of America who made the supreme sacrifice or wno were maimed and wounded, our lot has been happy in comparison with the other fighting nations. These military breaks have done wonders to leave u;. in hi. dominant economic position among the nation? of the world. To ti umanit aria its this should suffice. But if ve arc out foi impel ia> istic ends then the political and diplomatic and military domint»- • i.-jti. which our foreign policy murers is in order. But this hardly com ports with our prole..'-:-ion of non-ijTiperjahstic designs. Be it clear!', understood here feat this writer holds no brief fO! Russia or for Russia's communism. Ido not share the belie shat if this count.i y turns communist a golden era will be ushered ... , ~,■■■ it ik i» had i- ;hi -■>>.. bet vie c .mu democracy a. we have them today, he would without hesita tion choose democracy. And why. jr. the i-;cc oi druiuu -a s many shortcciiiiiitgii My answer is. if wo compart the bos*, elements of communism witn the worst elements of democracy. communism would have it. -:n a large way. Or if we compare the best elements of democracy with t.-»( worst elements in communism democracy would have if in aiJ eqUctii.V W is-y LVIU o ii«±iWs vl iiiC* it lA> 4; I'iIUUM. CitUISWCI «C> we must choose it. bad features and all; and so must we choose communism. Communism a? a mixture of good and bad. offers :cw or no advantages ovei democracy. Tiic ivai U-si erf ihesv 1 "'O «)coiionii r ' not in os sucih. but ir tiic pG’C'pl*- who must administer them.. And here is the critical question. j-< matter* jjtfir. whctliffr arc coirsitsuri.*st.: ■or unless they have undergone that change of heart where their in nate selfishness has been metamorphosed into an altruism akin to brotherhood. In other words what is needed r not merely a change of economic and social systems but a change of heart. Most cer tainly then woulo I refuse to exchange oui democracy for Rus sian communism. With this preliminary statement on record, ! proceed to ask -•vhethei our get “tough policy" is in order? In other words I am questioning as the illustrious Samuel C. AOliobeli of the Univer sity 1 1 f Richmond has done, the wisdom of our turning internation - al bully The nation sporting a ‘get tough" diplomacy while brandishing the atomic bomb, is losing the opportunity to give the world tr.» only leadership that will save it from World War IT? II they li mm m % ?**j ' C / 1 |p we. 4 TWOOD~‘^z§^mk: j Continent#} F«stw<*» I gives us our lesson. Paul defend ing his Christian lilt' his home, his teacher and his city. PA t 'L’S BIRTHPLACfc To write a man’s biography -.ve usually give his parent’s same arid their occupation. In this ease we can only give what Paul says ol himself. He was a Jew; he was b rn at Tarsus, in Cilicia; and he inherited the Roman citizenship. The fact, that he was born a Jew indicates he was reared in a re ligious home. He spooks of himself as circumcizcd the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee : Ph. 3:5). Tarsus beauti fully situated at the foot of the Cilician hills and at the mouth of the Catarrhactes; it was a place ol cosmopolitan trade, a university city. 'No mean mean city (Acts 21:38). PAUL’S! tinurATION Again we qir te Paul’s own words: “But brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, ir.- church history. We shall study how God used Saul of Tarsus to accomplish, perhaps, more for His Kingdom than any one man. In today’s study: Paul’s back gVOiaiu cti'lu tetii7v in it. it SCeiTiS that the home, school, church and the city would corne- in for consid erable discussion. Paul had come t' Jerusalem to attend the Pass over and while in the temple area strutted according to t;v, strict manner of the law of our father,;, being zealous for Go, even as ye til arc this day ' (Acts 22:3b). Dr. Gamaliel, the son of Simon, was one of the seven teachers who re ceived the title Pabbon —a higher f rm of Rabbi. He was a noted Greek scholar and encouraged his students to study Greek along with the Hebrew law, and i‘ is thought trie broad and spiritual interpretation of the Mosaic law by bis teacher had a Lasting tm pressßn upon Paul. As we read Paul’s defensive arguments; his Epistles and his persuave and log ical coallasions, according to F. W. Farror, one concludes that Paul's early training in the Old Testa ment Scriptures were deep and abiding. He was also taught 3 trade tent making, all of whicn serveo as a background to make him (Paul) a profound thinker whom after his miraculous regen eration God used wonderfully Cell! At. IlOt luakt. uui AlOilxvS, schools, church--:; and communi ties places of liberal thought and high aspiration where the young people's background will stand Uicm in good stood tor tx#c nnssicr £ use- for gervice? Why not make all of our communities an asset to the young people?