PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS FISHY The Associated Press noted recently that “publicly reported dividends of cor porations totaled $1,183,000,000 for the third quarter of this year, an increase of 17 per cent over the same quarter of last yea}'.” And last year was a very good year for business. Dividend payments hr manufacturing showed a 25. per cent in crease, and automobile producers regis tered a 50 per cent gain in dividend pay ments. in evaluating these figures as an index of the current prosperity of business it should not be overlooked that cash divi dends form a relatively small proportion of the year’s profits of most well con ducted corporations- The bulk of the pro fits goes into surplus, various “reserves." and other funds kept in the business. And then some dividends are made in stock rather than cash. Also remember that di vidends are paid front revenue left afiei deductions for taxes. All this is byway of saying that the allegations of big business that the ex treme I.v high prices which have prevailed since the removal of price controls haw been necessary in order to meet wage demands and other operating costs are a bit fishy, it is obvious that a big sham of the greatly increased income of big business is going into big profits; that these big profits are derived from high prices, and that costs of operation do not justify the high and mounting price level to anything like the extent claimed by the spokesmen of big business. WELL EARNED The tribute paid Dr. il. L- Mc.Crorev. retiring president ol Johnson ('. Smith University, a short time ago was a splen did acknowledgment of his worth and his service, and one richly deserved. It is not often vouchsafed to a man that he spend 61 years within the gates of one institu tion- It is more than the entire span of many a useful and illustrious life. Dr, McCrorey has earned an eminently honorable retirement. If there were eve r a man who had the right to look forward tO a peaceful and happy vacation it is this dean of North Carolina educators. ■JSkrlf MORE THAN HUMANE t .The Raleigh Times in a news report on the Baptist Convention in its issue of No vember 12 stated that the white Baptists bad adopted a resolution calling for “hu mane treatment” of the Negro. The phrasi “humane treatment'' is definitely an un dersfeat-emen-t. Whereas the Baptist con mention of this year did not go so far as to condemn exclusiveness in places derii dated to the worship of Cod the Father of all, as it did last, year fat first), it did r«e4 forth a praiseworthy 8-point program of race relations which went far beyond THE CAROLINIAN v A JPub]ns«ed by The Carolinian Publishing Co. 'TSSfitered as second-class matter, April S. 3049. at ihg Pest Office at Releigh. N. C.. under the Act df lf«reh 3, 1879 P. R JERVa V, Publisher C. D HALLIBURTON. Editorials E Subscription itateo \ One Year, $2.59; Six Months, $1.75 Address all communications and make ait specks payable to The Carolinian rather than to SlOTwiduals. The Carolinian expressly repudiates gafeponriblSty for return of unsolicited pictures aßapmuscript, etc., unless stamps are sent. \ 111 Xtot ti&rgett Si,. BriMsfe, If. C, - . - mere humaneness, a concept often asso ciated with the proper treatment- of crea tures blow the human level, and an ex pression frequently used in connection with slaves. The resolution offered and accepted in the «onvention recognized certain very fundamental obligations to the Negro as a fellow-citizen and a fed low-C'hiistian, and the convention should receive full credit for the same. That is why this paragraph as written, and in writing it, we realize that the Times cor respondent or leporter was simply using journalistic shorthand when he employed the inadequate term “humane treatment. WILL CRITICS BE CONFOUNDED? It is being charged by many white and some Negro commentators that the re port of the President’s Civil Rights Com mittee is a play to the grandstand on the part of President Truman and the Demo cratic Party; that it is a well-timed man cuver whose real purpose is to corrai Ne gro votes into the Democratic fold next year. It is our own belief that the Commit tee was entirely sincere in its motives, and we are inclined to feel the same about the* President's sincerity. But it is up to the executive branch of the Government, as headed by the President, to prove that his critics are w rong. President Truman cannot guarantee the support of the Con gress fur that part of the program pro posed by the committee which requires congressional action- But there are cer tain recommendations which can be car ried out by the executive arm of the Gov eminent itself. For instance It has been reported in the press that there an at present only mi Negro officers on active duty in the T. S. Army- i nfortunatoly we have no comparable figures on the Navy; but wo know there use no Negro officers at all in tin Marine Corps with active status By the terms of the t . S. Constitution the President of the United States is com mander-in-chief ot the Army and Navy Mr. Truman's work is cm out for him in this area- He can take steps, if he will, to remedy this situation. It is not neces sary to wait for any action on the part of Congress. Should he fail to act on this matter, and on other matters over which the executive branch has power and can take the initiative. President Truman's critics will ha v e the better of the argu merit, lie will lie putting political expedi ency ahead of precedent, and it will ap peal that his critics are right: that th-- * 'ommittee’s report and Hr comment on it are indeed only words for effect. IT’S THE JURY THAT COUNTS A federal court jury acquitted after eight minutes of deliberation the (Toorgbt prison warden and guards who shot ro death eight convicts in (Teorgia last sum mer. It took the jury only eight minutes to reach a verdict in a cast’ which re quired six days for the hearing of the e\ idence. Here again was demonstrated tier dis couraging aspect of federal court action in civil rights cases unde, the very leni ent statutes now on the books. Unfor tunately federal juries in such cases, a in all others, must be drawn from the area in which the alleged violation oc curred, and rm.tghy the same kind of ju rors will handle the federal cases as would have sat on the case had it been tried in a state court. In the ab,sense of such a conclusive case that the judge can ordm a directed verdict the decision as to whe ther or not there shall be a conviction rests upon 12 men who likely as not are full of the bias and prejudice prevailing m the local community, or afraid to go against prevailing local sentiment backed by tradition and the white supremacy complex. The outcome of this case and similar ones, including that of the South Caro lina officer who blinded the Negro ex soldier on the day the veteran was dis charged, suggests that stronger civil rights laws as recommended by the Presi dent’s Committee and the Attorney Gen eral may be relatively valueless unless the federal court procedure is also amended. And this would call for a con stitutional anien dnt e i it. . | ? ' I | : A : % V- f ■ S A- ■ * f * -5 rr■ :• . * ! ■ ” *:# y . * ’ ! . * , . . .i • ; , - ; v . jj "THE MINORITIES HELPED TO BUILD ONE WORLD*” WX iecoiid l licugiits j fl - c - O- HAIAJJ9UIITOJI Tiie i.-xpeeled reaction m the Southern Region to the report ol tiu Civil Rights Committee in full swing. Appropriate !\ enough, (lie first publish'-;! comment t. .a the new.spnpe: emanted from Mississippi, and in! the Dublic print.-, days before la a n tin' Ran k m got hi s eom <. - upoancc in the- Senate race. It was no less a pcrsonagi than Acting Govern-.';' Osm: Wolfe who spoke for Mississip pi, so the state;nont cmuies * definitely ofxieial flavor. Tic ciiief executive ot Mississippi “History shows that when any nation has not practiced segregation of the races, but al lowed miscegenation and amal gamation of races, the custom has always resulted in the d s!ruction of the nation that per mitted this crime against no t urc. •‘We of the South know this and ask the aid of all decent white people of this country to help stent this concerted effort on the part of misguided people to foster a scheme advocated t,y LETTER TO THE EDITOR Wt'OCKJ \N POMTIt S VV TV:' >5 GKO Rdil'ir. CAROI-TNIAN- The Ediloi -it the News and uh aces. In .id;': 1 i. Govori.or Aycocr ir.us'. ‘ e )i.cld r. sponsible for tile political ideology ot th; ruin'. . -. it rnei.t in N rth Carolur.i. H« "stun:’,, ecf ’the Siait at the uu ■- of the ecu 1 ury p> preach the doctrtiu -•> white supremat-y :<> hr- pe-opie *nd n his as'.- Pi; m - - g the ft.;;.) • lr >■ and tinliu: suffrage in th« State. In roer :o Keep this door cl use', i he •aiuseti “• he eoacU r! > c .-nstitutional amendment. The pur. pose tho law is io k-. <-.*•» the •ii-j.orant Negro" from . 'ting and SUNDA Y SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. M, W. Wilßams Subject The Way of Love. —1 ,1 hn 2:7-17. 3:13-18; John 21:17-22. Key Verse: ''Follow after lov* 1 Cor 1-4.1. John, tin beloved discipics whose epistle w- study ioUii.. written, perhaps from Ephesus towards the close ul the first e<>u tuiy. t-> t<:«. believing Gentiles and residents in Asia Minor, was endeavoring to correct or counter* net certain pro. alenl err. os Some que-tioned the Divtfte dignity of the Lord denied Hint to be the Son of God. John railed these deceivers and anii-rhi G; t 2:22: 1:15; "cl . Ch.ie-; denied His human it; a coni:' idiction oi real fellowship with men (Hob. 2:16; 1:15) - and the reality ot Jlis (lead: John terms this a de hisi-m and declare* that he had himself felt with his hand the body of his Lord 1:1). Then there were those who held that it was enough to worship God with the spirit, and that the body might have a!! possible indul gence. This.-die Apostle refutes by .showing that every sir: fe re» THE CAROLINIAN outside interference and medci i rs to destroy the nation.’’ The acting governor :s to V; complimented on this remark - ..hie manifesto It is a master piece of misstatement, non se- Ciuitur. rewriting of world hr. t -ry and foaming at the mouth worthy of his late great fellow citizen Bilbo, and except that ii did not cull anyone a Com munist. might equal the best efforts ol Congiessman Rankin hunself. Without pausing to ask what null ms history shows to have been destroyed by miscegena tion. or even to state that what world history really does show, ;including emphatically the his tory of the United States) is lhaf miscegenation has beet widely praeuetd. though not ns philo.«>• T’h.v of " - ’ s i- .• • rnp>».- tho :,i >l S : i-t t; -ed to ha re ....( . n . ■ •; .-- • •; ,r<'''n . :;. St; - :. ... . ~ Assemol.e. . rise ' -ul i be mv tod the St Ca-rtol to through .- ; • i • i:r(. f p.iaku mythical ■ - Si r tn-- Slate. In another ea.-. tea- i!' in Wcrreii O ri). C. ■ s .dv:.-..'to t«.p having the ' ro-.\merie;.n conte to Wis. . bc . ti.-e lh paper \vr ;. ;U:eui \t
  • f Chari-tian students of ood -• -.-s w.r driven ut -1 town, pc : s-. the.' - 'A .re iivli..' and , erK togethei In fo.-cnq the oup ; V-:\’e tlu leader ot ite pos?t au ■.•. 1 1< "' ’iirt ti er was no law I->". 'he action ot ih: m-.-b. out "it is ius< transgtfessibh <3:4 1; ’’’hat fellow ship with God purities the Cl ms lian riid only thti. car we hr iv ogni/c-.i as Hus 3:8-io. -,. HEKKKIKS IN T!IF FARI.Y ninu'H Why pi opie will take on ano group taise ic ichin;.' in pre sci . ncc i'. the true will nlway.- be a question. False urnc-hc-rs durum the early cburcl; took several an gles Grostii ism a kind .a religuji; which appeal to tbs i. telligensia - knew*.:e.gf- wn- aU that mattered D. chirm, a belief that Jesus' suff< ,-ing and dealt > were a myrth. a kind >3' jnr-.gin alien the treatment >f inch other. Christians holding bitterness to wards one anolhei and Christian'.- o.Htiirif toward those outside if. church and of other races. With all of these heresW doubts and questions, John ir» his desire to set mc-n straight and leave no doubt in 'heir mind« about Christ and the Christian way he used four ids - Light. Darkness. I .ore and oin. You ■ thpi ip the jjjfht t>. ■ committee would hazard such a re*-oiri wtenda t ion and it is d«. übtfui that anv member ..r that body even thought about But Acting Governor Woke did. for tnat is the classic re action of the southern dema gogue to any plea for equal civil : c;!rts; as automatic as it is il logical. We do share with Governor V* )I£e the hope that our nation will not be destroyed. We low u It is our native land, as it is Wolfe's, and Rankin's, and as it was Bilbo's. We want our chil dren to live in a better America, as no doubt docs Mr. Wolfe his, :f he is a father. But our Up prehensions have very different roots I am worried about things that actually are: about condi 1 ions which really exist To u«•ve; nnrV fears, if he is sincere n what he says, are mythical H- is fighting windmills. The Civil Rights Committee recom mends a plan of attack against some things which war against the very soul of America. against the custom 1 ' for . hrisU&Ps to bi abiding by the principles of Jesus in the \v-.y they were doing As !«> voting, it is needles i.. sinn >.vhai Aycork did, but so» •h- record tc ichcrs holding 'A' Cc- •di cates from the St ate Depart <>f Education arc denied the . ; to vote, because they cannot and write and interpret flu '"oust itution. Con eijuentlv, the creed of p o atessivi-m talked by the foil >wer-. of Aycock is to all inlents arid pur se- a psuedo-phiiosophy. They . o. , split per=-onr. ; ily. Part -f ti'tei. sear! belong* to the American creed Thai is on ore:, hand i bey preach democracy and on the other they circumvent the donstituti-on and the laws of the land by not giving the Negroes the rights of first etas- - citizenship. To put th;ir thoughts Bibicaliy it wots Id be - “The voice t .lac b’s voice, but the hands .me -h hands of Essau T. L. Spraggins. Executive Secretary Raleigh Branch ~i :V A ACP You either have the low of 0 ~i points the way ol life or you have sin whk-n points the ivay of ■ -i: n ss. There is no twilight: you art right or wrong. All heresies are contrary to the will of God mid ■ therefore in the category of sin mid the only remedy for sin TFvr or i.ove in our lesson John mentions three things which K cautioner* believers against the lust of the flcrh the lust of (he eye and pride. ' v we .guilty of any of theft or all of them? In another place, he say.-- the test of love is “a love for the .brethren. ' De we measure- up to the test here? He closes in the later part of the 3rd chapter by saying. "Let us not love tin word, neiti* £•> in tongue, but in deed and m truth " Do we strive to minister to our brother? in the symbolism of hcratdy, ur gent - white or ,-liver is the ; c-lor nf f ;th and purity, r faEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947 i;f ’'■%! ZIBEIWEEKZr ' sKmNHI the K%ij| II==IZiaHESZI===ZZ BY DEANS HANCOCK fO# AN* MISSISSIPPI HEARD FROM The seething south where cvtlo lines, are drawn so tightly get? jus full measure of criticism. This criticism which has been so vig orously opposed by rabid southerner.* has been the south’s salva tion. When h section will not to du -i.v. uit needs, ai* the mote, criticism from the outside world. One r.f the marks of promise' that there is being born, a new south is the growing knowledge m the south that outside criticism j S -|K)t ){| inimical. Those who criticize our faults may be rendering nub- u nw'c.-sHrv .service, the seething south '■ stilling in un believable ways. Things art- daily transpiring helote the eyes of oid southerner.', that stir the imagination, ! lungs unci* canted 0.. 50 years ago are becoming common place. When I was a boy I read a book written by a southerner quest turning whether or no! the Negro was a man. Today the question is, what manner of man he is. The doors of full citizenship for Negroes in tie south are at least . landing ajar and it is just a inattter of tune before they will b*. flung wide, Some divinity has so decreed it. God and Time and Right are un the side of human brotherhood and justice. CURSED WITH DEMAGOGUES The tor*‘going wo;.- provoked by the turn **. -ol CLASS AT SOMcRViLLE, MASS-' P I-:#®? 0S&. F SHE WENT TO PITTSBUR6H f WHERE SUK TAUGHT PRIMARY V* f 3CHOOL-LATER SHE MOVED v ‘"fl* H TO WASMJWSTOS.ac-WHERE « ..-..L - U SHE HEADED THE THADDEUS £££'"* STEVENS SCHOOL* i FROM THERE MRS. VASHON J - V PROCEEDED ESN TD SAINT rfrilhii Jfr- tows. mo. to engage: in A Jm- COMMUNITY WORK-DURING vt ' THE CIVIL WAR SHF WAS X < ' PARTICULARLY ACTIVE IK ‘ ®&T "‘KIP ‘ HELPING CARE FOR THE w > ' WOUNDED AS WEU AS THE - MA H V RE wee KEG-ROE'S /' ju THE POST-WAR I EDUCATOR jW» S:'«.!AL WORKER i Lmtivmtkl T&fc--' *; ... ———’’S-w- ’-'—-'l* t diced. Hein. w<* pray, those who c, m seeds of discord, hatred and death in America and the world Help Negroes, and Jews, and Catholics, and Protestants, A , mencan born and foreign-born in riur midst to make love of liberty, justice and peace the basis of I heir righteous fight for a better v,oild. not selfishiv for them selves, individually for all the races, nations, creeds and minor tier, all over the world. Help all of us to understand that no group can achieve or guarantee justice, liberty, securi ty and peace through anv kind o' force, excop! love. May the u-h and haughty races and na trons realize that domination by s rute force and money cannot last. Amen Colombia's mountains were iong the only known source ->f platinum, then disco.-'tic- in the Urals made Russia she supplier of nine-tenths nf the world's platinum and later t; . -u,, , .vo- extracted from Can adian ores The atmosphere of the earth weights ri.kJS.OOO.OOO.iMW.GOO tons.