North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS DOWN TO FUNDAMENTALS ► Commenting on the recently publicized demonstration of the Kiu Klux Klan in Wrightsville. Georgia, at which, the threat was made by a Klan leader that “blood will flow in the streets of the South if the Negro takes a place at the side of white nieri through force of Federal bayonets." the News and Observer said, editorially: “What chance have honest and decent men in the South got of opposing success fully Federal legislation which they be lieve unnecessary and unwise, if fulminat ing and hooded Southern fools seize the center of the Southern stage?" We counter with this question: “How can honest and decent men in the South oppose Federal legislation, and how can they believe it unnneeessary and unwise, while so many things happen in the South to prove that so much of the South is not opposed simply to Federal legislation but to ordinary citizenship and even human rights for the Negro? The editorial continues: “Undoubtedly, if the South were populated only by such people, the Civil Rights measures might well be necessary—and in a hurry. One great need of the South today is dramatic Southern action to reject in the eyes of the country the blusterers and dirty sheet wearers who shame the South and slander it when they petend to defend it.” Fortunately the South is not populated only by such people, but unfortunately those of the other type far more vocal in insisting on states’ rights and southern traditions than they are in calling for ami working for the protection of the rights, privileges and immunities of all citizens regardless of color. They give aid and comfort to the “hooded fools and dirty shirt wearers “and appear to the latter to sanction their Culminations when they, to a man, either oppose, if restramediy nonetheless positively, every item of th< President’s program, o; else maintain a discreet silence about it,. When governors, senators, educators and other prominen! men give out statements < learly indicating that the tradition of inequality and infe rior citizenship for Negroes is more cher ished rind respected by them than are the principles of justice and intellectual and spiritual honesty, what is to be expected of the “fools?” Os course the latter will go much further, and openly proclaim and act on their doctrines of blind preju dice and deep hate. They don't know how to make fine distinctions between states’ rights and keeping the Negro down. May be part of this inability comes from their ignorance, and then again, part of it may derive from the fact that (here isn’t much difference anyway. The great need of tin South for “dra matic Southern action to reject in the eyes of the country” those who shame and slander it will largely go unfilled until the the decent and honorable white people of the South are more concerned with chang ing the ever-present climate and soil which breed the shameful words and acts which emban ass it in the ayes of the coun try than they are with the embarrass ment itself. The dramatic action needed must be based on the forgetting by such South enters that they are southerners and that northerners are northerners, and by ac cepting and practicing the principles tha justice and right and fail* play transcend geographical lines. Why not an endorse ment by a few high-placed southerners of the President’s program on the .basis of its obvious need and the equally ob vious justice of it? THE CAROLINIAN Publisned hy The Carolinian Publishing C.o Entered as second-class matter. April A 194(5, at the Post Office at Raleigh. N. C„ under the Act of March 3. 1879. P K J KIEV A¥, Publisher C. D HALLIBURTON. Editorial# Subscription it ale* One Year, $2.50; Six Months, $1,78 Address all communications and make ail checks payable to The Carolinian rather than to individuals. The Carolinian expressly repudiates responsibility for return of unsolicited pictures. swir.uac.-ipt, etc., unless stamps aw sent Ua East Mm-geU St, Raids**. It C, AGAIN, PLANNING Front all indications the Negro citizens of Raleigh are definitely opposed to the idea of keeping the Negro high school in its present location. It is equally obvious that the Raleigh School Board, in its plans tor changing or developing the plant of the Raleigh system, had planned to establish in the present Washington school building a combined junior-senior high school, housing all the high school facilities to be offered to colored children in the city. Plans for the white high schools call for two junior high schools, to occupy the present high school buildings, and a nev» senior high school building for the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. The present Hugh Morson and Needham Broughton buildings would serve as junior high schools, housing seventh, eighth and ninth grades in both buildings. There is urgent necessity foi the meet ing of minds between the school board and the Negro citizenry, and the time i> now. Whatever is done as to Washington School within the near future is likely t“ be final for at least a generation. [f there is any inclination to follow a democratic policy as to oar schools, cer tainly the thinking of the prospective Negro patrons of a single junior-senior high school, in contrast to a three-plant high school set-up for .• Hites, with the junior branches of the secondary school located in two parts of tin city, should receive serious and caretui attention. The thinking of Negro citizens is at least as important as the recommendations of a group of outside experts, ail white, who tell us where the Negro population, of Ra leigh now is and which way it is moving and what it needs in the way of school plant. Th» Negro children and citizens of Ra leigh certainly should not be saddled with an unsatisfactory situation for the next 2'; or NO years on the say of any such group, without a prayerful and honest considera tion of their sidit of the question. That the Raleigh School Board has agreed to just that, including conferences with represen tatives of Negro citizens, is a fine thing, and a proper one. LEST WE FORGET A small end inconspicuous item recent ly appeared in the local newspapers which deserves more attention than it is likely to get. Since the news item is an editorial in itself it is quoted in full as ii appeared in flu News and Observer: “Mrs, Katherine Ed sail has presented the Richard B. Harrison Public Library t here with two books. “George Washing ton's World” and “Lincoln’s World,” by- Genevieve Foster, in honor of two boys, t'hic Shaheen, who gave his life in the no ble but vain attempt to rescue from drowning Thomas Upchurch. “Mrs. Ed sail said that this incident in which a while youth made an effort to rave the life of a Negro indicated that there can be friendly and wholesome rela tions between the two races The two hoys were drowned June 2. 19 17, j n the Caro . lina Pines lake here. “Mrs. Edsall is circulation librarian a. State College.” Our world is so const doted and oper a ted that we forget too easily such a thing as happened last June 2 and hear too I' - tie of people like Mrs. Edsall. EQUAL SERVICE It is said that an official of the company , operates the Duses in Raleigh recently toid r. , e sonta lives of a Negro organization that the c n par.y made no distinction as to it lines sen -w primarily white patrons and those serving mostly Negro patrons. This may be so, and it should be. But we kn >w loaf quite often would-be passengers on sever! br.es must wait an unconscionably long time bus This may be the case on some lines ct run to and from "white" sections, it certainly is !ho case on the newly reconstituted New T-, m A venue and Martin Street lines both of which •still extend to the other eexiremitv of town as fore the recent change which was'to have be< -i 3 Kreat improvement, vvheras before Raleigh be "ari improve «.> greatly they used to form a ie loop connecting East Rsicigb with torn downtown section, aflmding all d.iv service ;t; intervals almost tu.ee as frequent as now, by schedule, and more than twice as frequent -n actuality. A- tot parity of serv.ee on the several lines it may be added that one can -land a1 the cor' ne.- of Blount and Hargett St cc-ts. and tell . onr ( ’; in see an approaching bus. whethe: :t one which will not continue down Hargett to H.ount. but will turn right on Wilmington, j u is one of the new buses, you may just Know it will take the Wilmington turn. TTTTC CAROT.TKIAN fw ; ,- -l • TTsmrrr mq |i# '-mimmmm fe|U:o : ••■::■'? : r.•'//-:• G Hi ,y : fWjf •V- ' - “Intelligent vVorld Leadership Demands It 1” ||fc iecoiicl Tlicutfhts »f C, nAUJJ.UHTO, jI ! Continuing our discussion of the southern -arguments against tne President's progiam »f civil rights legislation, we recall that last week the states' rights pica was examined. The same line of argument, usually characte rized bv more emotion than logic-, was applied in defense c tne nght of the South to main tain the institution of slavery, and ■ ven to extend it into ■, , ... t<-i litnry. "Outsif.k inter ieicnee" with the South ; "pc (uliar ins! itub.-n" was us ant: resented and . xcoriated tn UMiO and 18131 as it - being ■ • rented and . cndetnnr.j iwcv. the contemporary pecuhni in stitution being second class cit izenship. ,»r lower, rather than chattel’Slav ay, for ail who hap pi n ■•) hi• Negroes. Another element in the situ ation today, however, is that the Di in ■■•• rat- of Sr,iln f.-el that th> y are beuig ’betrayed” by 1 i •••• o ' ) }■>:;> Iy It is plain from many < ..’ lite- stutemenls irui'K by Southern white lead ers that the South regards tii.• Democratic ■•'.arty ns its own property. Hundreds of thou sands of southerners seem ?•> think of it .-•■ a southern pa»dy to which e feVV lino-soul ilcrne: s havt bean extended the privi lege of associate membership as SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Byß ev .m. w. wmia™ •Si.bject; The Won. of Chrj«M..ti C h.u ruler < Teinper <•( ce Lesson * A V JO: 17-88; Eph a:(i-21. ... ■ Veis. 'I pn --t to'« f.d the f.if the prize of tie •> ui call of Cod in in ns! J <•.•»> I 'ui a Jt re '.V,lhi.. Sirui: in his ills'e . ■’iei! i>n Chiistian oh;.'..etc. .-ay-, sher.- .if man;. .1 i, w< i.;:n -u. ■; u.. ! c..p avoid civil;:' my s-.-ent on t«.'r;ai-; questions, mar., if he wishes, n tv avoid vot u'.g. if he is duw.iiigfit lazy h. can avoid working, and Jive as a neg.'.ai or a public f 'arge Be; tu, nr w can avoid making -i cna.uetOi Th> qucsiiun is wha ifi'id ol i-harac’cr iir-. we going :.i hnvr?" To answct hi question, in tt>c sensfr as rvlated to our 0,, w '- would say either good or bar. a roidiiig to il.<- k'liri of .ioctrin.■ 1 aught befoi i and especially attc.- . eaeticr.itit»n. Continued From Front Page \m:\i yum; \KMEt'> WITH UIFLE Armed A-iih a rifle Stratford set out to shout the animals. Ht* ei.- ivornc-ivd Mis. in„• i,iir> and struck he: with the but;, of the firea; ~.i, • infiicti:,cr a deep and bloody wound. She was struggling with him to prcvi'ir him front shooting tier when two of her sons, Samroie Lei.! 14. and Wallace. 17 rushed to her aid Scrcn:io Lee used 'he hammer! '•■•ilh which he war rrpairtiu: the i fence to str'ke the white assails i , ■no s*' ■ his mother's ii*«, The blow i was fatal. Mrs. Ingram md he were i am-ated sad he'd without bail t. inn; for three month.'. In a one.. day trial on Fobt nary 3 with only • conn-appointed counsel to defend: them. th« nn-thet av.d two sons went convicted and sentenced to deaf h . •WBEK NEW TRIAL NAACP lawyers arc- seeking a »***’ trial, for the ingrains. A stay of execution, originally set foi Fehi uary 27. has been granted and. long as they behave tbemselvi s on too "Nig’.) question. Tiny seem either to be unaware it the tael or to be trying !u tor get u, that tbe Democratic party is a naltenai party; tha* the South canrot and should not be able of itscii to control the parly: that the sectional views ip the South me no more bind ing on the pat ty than the viev... ol any other section Fhat many southerners me not ck-ar on the nature ol th«. national Democratic Party is m dicatcci by ‘he waving of the Cnttf - dcrotc Pag at the meet in,; Missi;,'.-M»pi of tne •‘true, wrote J( ffer.-ontan Demociats.“ Th . v infused the Democvta'c Party with the Confederacy. Tin? latter ha.-, existed continu ously from a long time baqk up ti' the present: the former war extinguished in Iftti.V There is :iu such thing a- a white Dem ur; utic Party, true, or untrue, and the parly is under no ebi. gatte;’: e at i;;;tmna!!s tie sectional pi\ indices of acer lair, pari >i itself, even though lhal part -a imittedly in »v • portant segment, numt rica’iy and otherwise. Th.- next most • eten utilized argument aga . n t P:< stderi Truman’s pn.qi am is that it cnr.tiary to smithem tradition. I'.Vl t. s CONCEPTION OF • HRJSTI.W CHARACTER IT.ul the apostle. ■> returning to .lei us:. !• m fruin r.is last mis -ionary loorg.'y-.uors at Milc-iu-; A 1) M» ..ml g:v. • ;i personal ae cot; :! Os his own Jif. -work to i,.c beiie Eldei - ! l.t aceouir. ... Acts ::<> 57-..; • P.-.ul s i.ie -.l' tin ku.i. ol life which a Chrisliae, • nit.-- sinvi f■•!. and the kin.; ... had .-itualiy put into practice, i'hi c: aractrr of I’aul is portray . a in the kind of me- he lived ami All .service rei’Ci.i.e in. character ot trie man shown in .. siotenieiv And 'now i kept b.ii’K uoining that w;-s proutai ie •■'n’.e you. hut have snowed you, ■ •iifi have taught you publicly. from iiousi to hou-e ‘Acts go :fm These is a compelling spirit in the developirig of Christina charac'er ns brougnt out in tfu.- life of Pat; Kut none of these uiings move the attorney have tiied a motion fm a new trial now scheduled fee healing on March 20. The NAACP M" White points out in his ap peal, he- not only undertaken the leg.:l defense of Mrs Ingram an H : her sons but also assumed the re .-po risibility of taking care of tin mo'herless children ra .ging in age from IV months to 14 years. "Unhappily our funds have been depleted toy the heavy costs of tin 'iahts wi made in recent year* ! a ainst restrictive covenants, dis- i v i.nchisement. educational inequal - : y jot.- discrimination end gross c*H injustice." me appeal .-on .•hides "We cat) right for the In-' I "runts and others like ‘.heirs only if vou will hrip us." Qv-cks or mon .cy orders should be n.-ide payable, j*o Allan fC Chalmci s Tn-aMjncr.' [NAACP, and mailed to the NAACT 20 West frOth Street, New York id. Nov York, REGIONAL SCHOOL no one south' rn state could per cntly afford for Negroes. Resolution TS»e student resnlutksa in pail That is certainly true, but it docs not prove anything. Tra dons nut prove anything. La dition has n.< real claim to prec edent ovci the right and the just. The burden of proof is definitely >n the defenders ol -a tradition to justify u. It is nut sound simply because it ex ists. I have lead carefully, and with what i consider a goca aa 1 of objectivity the argu ments in favor of the maint '- naner of vvf: r has been van ously called tne southern way of life, southern ideals and Us ditions and so on as against the adoption ol the PresKterbY program and fart he: reforms hi the direction of implementing the I -ItL and 15th Amendments ■ which ARE parts of the Con stitution) I have yet to find any defense on moral ground' for the traditions which role gate Negroes to second class citizenship in all the verhiag • prixluced bv the President's message Whe tbei he :s nieti vat'-d by p litical consider;, liens or not the President her the right on his side, and no one lias offered a serious dial • lenge to that bet... Many south erners not associated with pol ; •tier will quietly admit this, an; many others would like to. but don I quit*- s ■<’• their way eh a ■ tO fib N(J. rnr neither count I my life tlc.ii- unto m> self’ s.i at> exps'-.s-* -ion deeply rooted in the hie ,«! ■ ■ Hue Christian cn.ii'actcr v.-iv aunts the favor oi God while lie i!><>':•: and waits for eternal life. CHRISTIAN IDEALS A:- iv. study Epliisians j there are three definite .Vais j ■ un-ed out to wric.i a Christ*;. e t should si rive. W&Uing in the * in hi w .itching ou: manlier of ’] living and walling eecording to t the lh>ly Spirit In tne two scrip- . lures h r today's study you might term one practical and the otho’ t theoretical. The writer of Ephe ia«>s a wrote it aoout H ye,.u i at er he gave his personal f. re- ' veil summary ol his life to the Lphe.- inns Elders. }■{, wo- i.> '* position to .-ay that mere can iv; no haracter building in ti •• * tru ■■ stu-'e Without the aid of « the Holy Sprit. protesting the governors meet reads: ‘‘This meeting ran only further hatred and prejudice, and our university will inevitably be stig ma t tied by the meeting of this group.” Student k aders attempted to forestall the adoption of the re solution by the protest group but no avail. The University of Florida body numbers more than 8,500. Gov. Millard F. Caldwell, who had just returned to Florida from Washington is confident that : the rebel students will lend then : support to the regional movement once thev know the facts. Said Gov. Caldwell: "The regional educational t»V*n provides for both white and 'Ne gro schools on an interstate bn sis.’ The proposed Jackson Day din ■ net March 30 elicited the follow ing remarks from Mrs. J. Reid Ramsey, state comilteewoman at a recent meeting in Jacksonville: ‘‘l am in favor of doing every , thing possible to make Truman ' rescind the civil rights bill Wal- WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1948 H"~ BETWEEH bv nr an a Hancock ro/? Am SOMETHING DOING DOWN SOUTH Even the casual observer must be convinced that something serious is doing in the south. The clamorous opposition of certain south'. ) rues too civil rights as they pertain to Negroes is significant. 1 l'*e blatant way in which efforts are being made to toil the im plementation oi those rights would leeaci to the belief that there is see dm- danger that thq old southern pattern is in the process of bring displaced bj a new pattern, that includes Negroes within die ,-uope and purpose of civil rights as prescribed by the Con stitution of tiie United States. So instead oi being alarmed Ne groes everywhere should take fresh courage. The Negro -hating. Negro-baiting south would not be so loud with their outcries against civil rights for Negroes, if there were not pressing indications that tilings are about to take a change ior the better of Negroes Through this period, it is neccessary for the Negro to sit tight, saw wood and say little. There never was, is not now. nor will there ever be, any direct correlation betv.i on talk and action. It would not surprise this writer if the Negro does not. have to endure some suffering to gam the higher ends he seeks. It is hardly probable that the traditional south will relinquish its stn unglehold on the Negro as its economic and social scape -goat hard Is probably that the traditional south will relinquish .its without struggle, and if .Negroes ere hurt w this struggle, it stumhi not 'occasion great aurpi ise. however regrettable it- might be. Wt have chosen our course deliberately, and we must be pre pui eh to follow through even unto the bitter end, if need be. We must not become so optimistic that we fail to observe accu rately the rcsoudcefulness and power of ts the resourcefulness rately the resourcefulness and the wooer oi the opposition. While this opposition cannot stem the tide of liberilitv and democracy that is steadily rising, it is sufficiently strong to make great trouble and l obulation be Negroes. Neger's must be prepared in their spiriis b withstand such suffering as our present course may brim No. is thi write,- ready to admit that the suffering of the houi ;s not worth the gnater eimenship of tomorrow. Tile great hope for the Negro in the present crisis resides in tin- split within the to:cos of the white south. Ts there wore unanimity in the course certibn southei ners an electing to fol low, .he Negro’s road would indeed lead uphill and into the dark But it every turn of events we have a large body of whites fight ing for righteousness and civil sights. These whites are not only the salt of the earth, but they are the saving grace of a grave situation. Tins imi ild give Nog dies great encouragement. When Gov. Tuck in his siu-tied ..flack on President Truman's civil rights bill attempted to -.•..•impede the - >uth into a typi ->l legislation that would have amounted to the south's moral ••.secession' - from toe Union, lie was severely castigated and had t > tetrad his brazen attempt to bind hand ami lboot the democratic torees of the south. What happened tn his effort has been in the nature of a rebuke m :i govcinor. who wouid so far forget dumoc:.ivy's fundamentals m it., attempt to h ,1 one of its incidentals, us it peil&incd to the ruyits of Negroes. It ;s general:y known that civil lights per sc are re d the issue, it is civil rights for Nog: yes. The honorable governor of Kentucky, to bis honor and credit be it said, served nonce on G, ~ Tuck that Tiivkisni would not be welcome in Ken tucky. There were other ipu-i no: •• less abrupt but no less deter mined not to destroy democratic hoot tie- in the attempt to destroy the Negro. Oih oof the redeem mg feu tines of mis fight has been iht higher level chosen for the battleground. Alt,dough the world knows the opposition to the civil lights legislation proposed by Presiden Truman was meant to liberate Negroes in the main, the opponents nave studiously confined themselves to the old ‘‘state rights ngument rathe; than the old ‘ Hoad-Tha-Negro-Therc" abbie rousing, “Do You Want Your Daughter To Many A Negro?” crusade so characteristic* of the south in a formei day. But it is well for us to see that Hitlerism, Talmadgism and Biiboism are iicing ably represented by sonic of the current lead ens of the white south. The great change taking place is bound to have git at repercussions, so there's something doing in the south. I - this the south’s finest hour? is a question suggested by Winston Churchill in one of ins truly inpired moments! lace has already split the party in the south and '■ to not for! that the southern- .'- should se cede ou! that the should make Trunun rescind the parts of the bill that arc objectionable Some one may rise on whom the south could unit' and swing the elec tion. "We would be hopelessiy lost if ao did secede. We can't go to Wallace or to the Republicans." Said Edgar J. Wall, Jackson ville postmaster: “Wi have always known how to treat the Negroes in the south and they have always knov n l mt lEWfr '*Sto*9*rl fcmKi, es u MrtvMeu-,A NATIVE C-r HARTFORD,COHN . WENT TO WORK AS A PRINTER IN BOSTON -IN 5853- ME WA6- 2 H TWEN, AND owrs L THST our- I break or rm avn. war , WORKED OH mt- UXNt> | GARRISON'S -LIBERATOR" jf after rNtwriwfiNT wmt | MAML 95r<i «E©T- HP SERVED AS CANVPRftIOTC* j AS KEU AS A COMBAT FOCfTSOUWER • A PgrSJMAttCSiT IfUURV TOOK HIM OUT Op ACTIVE SERVICE-A RSTtRCO RrrußNw®' to boston, I mr. MmcMSLt was elected i , ”mmf' TO THE CtfOidkATURC ANTS I IreJT’ WASdrJVEN A TOBIN THE f; \ jVaHt CUSTOMS MOUSB •HS t«U> 1 f* * THiS JO® WITH Oi&WiTV § f Ji* „ F ° R YEARS - # I * ! SW * | ~ ■K-iniwiiwliiMM'T how to ti cat u.-. We have always been able to handle this problem down here and always will be.” A circuit iuit judge, M. W. Lewis, said: ‘lt is perfectly apparent to me that Truman end his supporters are willing to destroy southern civilization in order to get the .Negro vote in the north, since he takes that attitude, he is no long 's worthy of our vote and sup port. I have tried to do my duty and I said long ago as a judge of this court that ail persons, re gardless of religion, race or creed look alike to me/’