PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS PLANN ‘ u G We und ■’rstand that the RaK*igh School Board, with trie aid of a -oup oi rep resentative citizen* from, various civic bodies has drawn up plans for the >m mediate future of Raleigh's school sys tem. It is well known that the Raleigh School Board is all white. It seems that the group of 50 or more citizens which ha had discussions with the Board, leading to the plans as fo.j. dated, was also all white. How the Raleigh School Board could proceed with plans affecting all the peo ple of the city, more liar 20 per cent of whom are colored, without any consul tation with any nmresc'niutives of the Negro segment of citizenry, would be quite a mystery except for certain things which have gone on before in re gard to the m-.inagement of Raleigh’s Negro schools. What explanation the Board may have for railing *d include Ne groes in the discussions at the planning stage is a mystery. Your guess t - food as ours, But we think the whole thing L relat ed to a philosophy t.h- an election to determine whether the u;k rate shall be increased. The Peabody report i-self. insofar as was made -jeerhed to take the rre slant. Ml the basic recommend*- c. r.r to taka iu granted thN the -:tV s«.'tool ... oU*o w:r- for whit--, and that there was a branch 01 the syster 1 also, operated for the uon-wn:«.es. But there win •- ’• time when tne Ne gro citizens will each count one. There will be an election. Maybe the day will come when Ne groes will be regarded as citizens of the cororrmnu, and not a c p< at grou whu n has things conferred upon it if ■ 1 when the power? that be decided that such and-such is proper and ca i be done without too much expenses, or tro üble, or interference with the wclfmc of folks fliai really count. Aiaybe the day will even come when the separate-but-equal myth will be junk. NEGRO 7 STOPY WEEK Dr John Hope Frajiklin . addresses at St. Augustine’s and Shaw were particu larly appropriate to Negro History Week. The emphasis must be, as he ays. on honest history, true history ohiective history. Historians have lent then.- -’*’es far too much in the past to t* « ends of propaganda, to the m istering of myths and prej- ’ '«t and errors grown respect able with age. There is hardly a branch of learning whi _h iia. been m prostituted. The modern Negro scholar, of whom Dr. Franklin himself is an excellent ex tern pfd, is doing much to gti Hie record v- debt. This modem ...gro scholar is j c pted in his field, not merely as a Ne g o, and thr refo-e by implication a coun t... propogandisw but as a real and hon est scholar, interested in the truth, the THE CAROLINIAN .’■uhlssfced by TV Carolinian Publishing Co. Entered as secimd-class matter, April 5. 1940. at the Post Office at Teleigb., N. C.. under the Art Os Mveh 3. 187#. P. R JRRVAK. Publisher C. D. HAIAJBTOTCW*. Editorials Subscription .Bate' One Year, $2.50; Six Months, $1.75 ■idress all ewnmaaicatifflas arid make all •; cks payable to The ~«rollni«n rath-.* than to ir x-viduals. The Carolinian expressly repudiates m-ponsibility lor rete-n of unsolicited picture*, Surtu-iUju-vipl, »te„ unless stamps act- sans. K US E*s» Esteigte. K. C, .whole truth, and nothing but the truth, lie offsets the lies and rnisconcept ’s, not by lies and special pleadings in the other direction but by digging up the facts passed over and discounted by others. In this work he is of course aided by many capable and honest vvhit-t scholars, some ,ot J., ..r in the South or of uthern origin. Dr. Carter G. Woedr.c specially, and his pioneer associates > ors, really started something when they started the movement, for the study of Negro history, .of which movement Nog >A History Week is only one manifestation, -or growing number of capable and co" ms men and women every week h Neg. > History Week. INEPT It is extremely unfortunate that the students in our colleges hit upon such me) ' mid insane ways i f registering their protests against conditions. Even when their complaint? are w-. u-iounded they often damage their ease by the proce dures used in airing them. During the Founders Day ecßbrations at .Hampton it seems that the students de cided to stay away on masse from certain public i • .grams. It apparently did not occur to flu that it. would be discour teous. to express their dissatisfaction at the expense of invited guest speakers, most of whom had nothing to do with then* grievances. Whatever the merits of a cause it is never in older to disregard the matter of proeedur-s and tactics. A good cause can Ik damaged by foolish tactics, and a bad one made to k worse. WHAT 'HE WALLACE MOVEMENT MEANS l ire Wai 1 aee-for-President movement in North Carol,', h can do no harm. Truman will get X tb Carolina’s electoral votes in N, . and the value oi a protest move against both the old-F i parties may justify the Wallace campaign in this stale. In other states, where the ba!bit ing may be close, and where the Wa. ace votes may result in throwing the state to We Republicans, the situation is more serious. At times one finds that one does not have i choice between good and bad, but oniv een the lesser . f two " ils. La bor, Negroes an d othe „i. mrities, in cluding the liberals, se, feel that the Democratic Party u; ' present na tional leadership is a lesser evil than the Republican party, dominated as it is by economic and social con rvatives. Many persons, probably a at » only, in these groups, decry Vs a v< ndidaev though they have a nigh admiration for many of his personal c i; .its and agree wi.'ii his stand op certain issues. They ob ject to his candidacy for the obvious rea son that they do not want to see votes for Wallace place in too presidency a react umar" What the Republic?’ will have to offer depends, of course, on who is nom inated ~t the Convention; but barring unforeseen developmets the nominee is almost certain to be a conservative. Th-' performance of the present Republican dominated Congress is a good indication of what a vLiory for that party in No vember v.ouid mean for the next four years. There are enough real Democrats to maintain some kind of check on the Han kinses, C-oxc. Georges, O’Danielses and so forth • nd with a Democratic president thing- might not be so bad. But how would a Republican president like Taft, with . Republican Congress, be kept from arrying the '*y back to the pre-F. D. Roosevelt era as fast as possible? WILMINGTON MAYOR APPROVES Prominent Negro citizens of Wilming to have pres a ted to the city administra tion « str ;g case for the employment of color-' ’ r e officers, Wilmington is the only major can in the state wThout Ne gro policemen. It is hoped and expected that the comtcilmen of Wilmington will join Mayor E. L. V, hite, who has already expressed himself as in favor of the po licy advocated and so ably set forth by the del gabion which met the city fathers. THE CAROLINIAN .'**" /if;-*. • ' l r V ' •” I 'WNv, HN , •• V'H -jW • .• X Bgv-d-inb " '■ a -•.-«* .••••• e.-pyMAlh . j .-1» ■'-** -eX vtevkS. "THE SOUTHERN MINE FIELDS!" Bfeccnd I hcufihts ®y C D. ATOIk * - Nothing has been said m tni? corner about the new develop ments in the graduate and pu»- onal school situation in the southern states. This was be cause we were waiting tc - what was the real story be hind the ostensible opening • ‘ L.-,;von- tv oi Arkansas to N- yio graduate students W> fcii laat s..Hi.-’, le.or*: Lgnt was certronlv chu- on this apparer.i • ly VI lot Wi I.i-lonking m»v< jjv one of the most Lackwe. h stales of the entire South. Finally the hgni dawned. Examine*ion of the Negro press revealed that Negro students may enter the University of Ar kansa-. law srhi ,i, but only b;> the back dooi. vs it * t) e. They ns ,.. , il l ,. ..*me buildings as other students, and use some ri th : i ■ dries but the' are r*t to be instructed in the ro'i. . ’asses with t;:«- < • *>■ • : -U! ants- They will have the s:u’-e . l.rhers, as there appar ently r-. ill be no special facu! j.v f ( Negroes, but there wd! be Ncgrci classes, prc-sumaiiy even though such classes may SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. M.W. Williams Subject: The Fellowship oi Chr-i: tiun Believer:;. Act- 2:37-47. F.p'r. 4-1-6 Kt” - Vrrsc*: “Thci't* jf ihu* oru i i-pirii. ever-, a: 3' c v* (.-tiled in oinopD of yov c ..j;n A C:.e Lord one taiih, or.'* baptism ■« God -md Fmoci ■ all. who is over all. and through all. and in all." id-6. Living together in that intimate bond, which unites Christian oc iSevers is genuine fellowship. We extend ‘the right hand of fellow -hip" to Church menriDors, but we '■ -,r-.ch. if either those who ex lend it or those who receive i * grasp the s-ignilicar.ee of the rihi ise It is more than the hand shake—its sharing wnat one has jvs any thing A.:- Gelation joint psiticipation ir joys and sorrows richer and povert ' THE BELL TOLLS 1U LEONARD li BELL Wilh a return to tre two-party political system in some states m the South, the first since the dr.".- of reconstruction, the Negro voter now has his chance to strike u defeating blow to tnose of !h South who insist thai 'The Deni net 'tic Party is a White Man’s Party". These were tne word s ', of a white South Carolinian, but it if also the dogma of the Democratic Puily in the South. It is the ex press ion of the "Solid South where -the Garners, the Talmnd r ,es, the Fnsimans ;md of their ilk. strain at the pillars of democ - racy in a futile effort to re-en siave the Negro This the politi cal section c»f the country wheic the spawn of Hitlerism is daily gainirg mo m <• ti ojihties. The Fatherhood of God r.nd th< brotherhood of man maim us one in Christ and as such Ws are slowly moving, forward. Th*- World Alliance - Worlds Feder ation of Churches. Federal Coun i-il of Churches -and many otho.-- are examples, ir. holding on to the above- essentials may expec enlargement, Christian fellowship and a permanent place in the Kingdom of heaven PEACE *N THE CHURCH - ESSENTIALS In the discussion oi a Church program, Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians stresses the need of unity which will make for peace among Christian believers. He be of poverty-ridden masses, white and Negro and then strenuous attempts to keep him in hit, “place" have dimmed their vis ion and befuddled their mental ity They are not aware of the sc Holer:’!cal and ideological changes in the world today. They even failed to comprehend or to fully understand the exigencies that prompted the creation of the New Deal . . . They called it an "alien'' party, despite the fact that it was an off-spring of that same old m dividualistlcally selfish, political revenge hunting Lily white” par ty of Reconstruction day birth It was. and slili is, impossible for them to real!/- th. t youth ha new ideas and constructive thoughts That the old must ch, so that the young may live, five/ would destroy, sc they must b< destroyed. Even in time of war these rncSi carried on this political farce while" party. Ever now they are struggling in the tentacles of a fast changing world a world whose peoples arc. throwing off the yoke of white superiority in an effort to gair equality, justice and security or a true interprets*tion of democ racy. WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY £l, ™* ~~—— r wnr ~" wm "~ nm * ——^ es!vy} A •»«>«».»w ay DEAN B. HANCOCK EQ# ANP IS IT TIME FOR CHANGE? This writer, an incurable Roosevelt enthusiast and devotee, remembers very distinctly how, during the last presidential cam paign Dewey was speaking over the radio, insisting that it was time for a change.” Dewey was really driving home his point in such fashion that I was glad when he went off the aair; because I felt that his speech was doing irreparable damage to Roosevelt’s and my cause Had that campaign gone on a few weeks longer there can be little doubt that Dewey would have convinced the nation that it was in very truth ''time for a change,” If Dewey is renominated, it i.s going to take somebody with a lot of political ingenuity to prove that it is not time for a change! Just as a one-partv system is bad for politics and the people, it. is not gdod for one party to remain too long in power If Roosevelt is gone and with him went my enthusiasm for the Democratic party. I voted lor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Great, four tunes and would have voted for his indefinite occupancy of the White House, not alone because he was a great democrat, but because he was a great President whose sagacity- was equal to every national emergency Any man who could save a country from the mest the Republicans under Hoover had produced, had my undying gratitude and my vote besides. Any man who could buy off a re volution with a few billions that perhaps would have destroyed our civilization, I regarded as a wizard and agreed with him that the bargain was worth the price. My wonder today is. do we hove a man quite as capable for repeating such astounding feats of servic .for the cause of national safety and the larger cause of human betterment and righteous ness? Bui Roossevelts do not come in pairs, nor do they crowd upon each other in a century, and s» today, wc- are left as it were sheep without a political shepherd- When I look over the crop of present day aspirants, my heart sinfe within me. Henry Wallace is the only one of the lot that really knows what it is all about. The opposition that is being flaunted in his way is one oi his highest compliments. Wallace has millions of ‘up-the-sleeves” admirers but without moral cour age to take a stand loi him and cam a vole- These admirers are somewhat of the same kind as the average politician who is able, at the same time, to sit on the fence and keep his ear to the ground. When we put politics above principle, we are playing the age long dangerous game with the same abandon as those before us, who have put our nation in the middle of a “bad fix”. fi ju; t as well for the prospective voters of this country to face the stubborn fact that there is little or no difference be tween the Republican and Democratic parties. They are the same at boast with only in name Laying aside the party label:--, they amount to the same thing and especially for minority groups. There is eric big accomplishment that must be put down to the credit of the Ropubliean-eomplexioned congress and that is, it refused 1 , sent Bilbo! This is easily one of the great political accomplishments- of the century The Democrats would never have contested his scat, but the Republicans stubbornly refused to seal the "highly questionable” representative- of Mississippi po lite.-. and senator from the delta Negroes in rewarding-those who haw rendered favor cannot in reason forget this major accom plisnment of the Republicans that resulted in Bilbo’s dying in semi disgrace, a punitive hate he so surely deserved. But this wzitor lias long since- soon the futility in slavishly supporting parly politics, for as between the parties, it is like swopping he devil for the witch. This writer':- great admiration and devotion t< Rooswehism was a personality matter rather than politif..l. Habitues of th< race-track will tell us that when you do not know the horse, place your money on the jockey. And that .-> ex.- etlj what this writer has been doing since Roosevelt appeared ft; the presidential scene. My unswerving sppport went to the man and hi; polieiC: rather than his party. Is it time for a change? MAHATMA GANDHI By WILLIAM HENRY HUFF Ft* ANP They have killed Mahatma Gandhi And laid his body low. They have sent his soul to heaven Where all such spirits go. But. they’ve failed t<. quench the longing Which in his bosom burned; Ah, that tower which he construe:ed Cannot be overturned. JOB REAL PROBLEM PORTLAND. Ore —L. D. Tipncr. father ol 10-month-oM quadruplets. is having a hard tin. finding work to care it i the quin tet and six other members of lus household. Since last October, he has been searching sot permanent employment which would enable him to provide for his family. Soon after the quad; were born, neighborhood grocei .-••ok to kid ding Tigner about the shopping bags n look to lug farm ly groceries home. Recently he no ticed that the number of bags bad dropped to one. A check-up reveal ed that the Tien or family is bare ly able to keep body and soul to gether. Besides the quads, there are ihree other children Manda Ley 15; Mary Lee, 9; and Robert Let, pmlfii pie >** ?**l ! BOTtHA SkAVE MO»ETHAN /.Au .. IIX YEARS A&ft 3-OMN T SMlife,,.. TEttNtFfflt ESCAPED FROM MD-TO MASS-THERE HS WORKED POPS HIS EDUCATlON etfcavitwr Hi» freacwnc- - v \ UCEH3E !N ItotZ' m->. \ 'WS^ SHORTLY .AFTERWARD A \ Wttfk TRIP TO CALIFORNIA *»»««« ■li *£• jgl ED 1H REV* XENNiwrrfc , ■ * m ©S&HOP ON TUB PACiWC- 'WW '■ " -sjßff&N' Jf : U was w } A MEYSBEROB '* Iqf wwveiwrrfS m«TTH«ou»- fa#* JJ* :* ! tC.AL (MEADOAriNS- OhMS/ \f.c ' !-'.}• -cVId.C | IN HIS CAREER REV.TKIW* tfr ; - ifi. | Effß TRAVELED OVBW &*C, R#/M-- OSO MILES THRU CANADA. Jii<> * jamm BHp- TW US - A*. AND CENTRAL AMERICA. HE - ; OVETI 6CCD EffRMONS, AND PSjgnffiSr ! TOOK IN MORE THAW A SftfKPT* | Or A MILLION DOLLAR*/ F* -r A . %gS«* I ; T t u amor* ! OFMAKViMtD * Cowwwrt*! | j L rr- nr* a ru 3. There are Tigner and hi*> wife, r'd a nurse who lives with then . Home payments come cut of tht- oauds' trust fund. There is also an allotment of about ?*0 a month for their fare —a sum which is overshadowed by the S? 5 a week paid the nurse. The rest of the family exists on whatever odd job Tigner can get But there' is nothing left Sg buy necessities for any of The uauds need shoes, eovfrlls, but tour sets of everything are net cheap. There are fuel oil, light and food bills to be met. Recently. Tigner has worked ir. restaurants and as a laborer and janitor but what he wants is “something that 1 can count on, week after week, month after month. Being a Negro has made the buntir: g*a little harder."