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PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS THE BETTER MAN Former Governor Broughton clearly has a belter claim to the support of Negro Democrats in the primary election than does his opponent, Senator l instead. Mr. Broughton’s record as governor showed him to he a middle-of-the-roader on pub lic questions with which the Negro is pc culiarly concerned, as well as a generally sound and progressive man on genera! issues. His campaign statements as to civil rights and other measures which are regarded hereabouts as “controversial” because they would vpresent real equal ity of citizenship for the Negro, leave much to be desired, and there is reason to believe that in the Senate he would not distinguish, himself as an advocate of first-class citizenship for the Negro. But he may be counted on to bo temperate . and to maintain his equanimity and his dignity. He will never be identiled with ' the nullification bloc of the Deep South. • He will not play to the national grand ■ stand, as has the senior senator, by male ii inir corny and fabulous statement:' about *' the nature of race relations and the fe licitous position of the Negro in North Ca'olina and the South, And his stdte :• ' ... . . . ’ meats on civii rights in tins campaign v vale him definitely ahead of his present , opponent for the nominaton. THE STATE CONVENTION By comparison with some of the antics indulged in by the Democratic conven tions of some other states, ranging from bad humor to downright absurdity and fire-eating -bombast over Truman and civil rights, North Carolina’s convention was a model of common sense and dignity. Granville County’s proposal to instruct the North Carolina delegation to the na tional convention against supporting Tru man received no support whatever, and to its credit the Tarheel convention made no direct attack even on the civil rights proposals. Negro Democrats may not find too much ground for pride in the transaction* of their state convention, hut it is also true that they were not shamed by it. DELAYING ACTION The Board of Trustees of the l adver sity of North Carolina may well have had legal technicality on its side in decid ing that it. was not obligated to rule or the application of Negroes for admission to certain schools of the I’niversity. The Board cited certain statutes of the State of North Carolina concerning th<* estab lishment an d maintenance of graduate departments and schools at North Caro lina College and A. and T. College, and provisions for out-of-state education, to explain its alleged lack of power to net. But the Board of Trustees of the (ni versity cannot set aside the Gaines De cision, nor can the General Assembly. Aii the Board has done so far is to provide for further delay in the settlement of the questions at issue. ’1 he Board has laid the ground for a case to bo taken from North Carolina to the V. S. Supreme Court, The Supreme Court has ruled that equal educational opportunities must be offered by a state to all citizens within its borders. It has not yet been clearly determined that the Supreme Court meant what said. It may decide soon that when THE CAROLINIAN Published by The Carolinian Publishing Co Entered as second-class matter April 6. PM9. at the Post Office at Raleigh. N. C, under the Art of March 3. 1879 P. R. JERVAY. Publisher C. D HALLIBURTON. Editorials Qubscriprior Rates One Year, $2.50; Six Months, $3.75 Address all communications and make all ■neeM payable to The Carolinian rather than to Individuals. Thu Carolinian expressly repudiates responsibility for return of unsolicited pictures, manuscript, etc, unless stamps are sent HS East Haisett SL. Raleigh, N. C, it said equal it meant equal. Should the high court do that, then North Carolina and the other jim-erow -states will be face to face with the ham, cold fact that equality and separation on the gradu ate and professional level are entirely in compatible. VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Negro Democrats in North Carolina (and the great majority of North Caro lina’s colored voters are quite properly registered as Democrats) face a peculiar situation as the primary approaches. The single issue before the Democratic can didates which has the most direct appeal for Negro voters would naturally be their stand on the proposal for national legis lation to improve the status of the Ne gro’s citizenship President Truman’s civil rights program. On this issue, brought to the fore by the head of the national Democratic Par ty, no candidate for the nomination to any important office in North Carolina has to pur knowledge sided with President Tru man. Those who have referred to it dur ing the campaign have stated their op position to the entire program. Since nomination in the Democratic primary is in this state the equivalent of election, the Negro Democrat has the classic choice between tweedledum and tweedledce in so far as the civil rights question is concerned. The Republicans offer nothing in this state. Even if that party had any strength in North Caro lina, for years it has been trying to pr >v ■ its southern “respectability" by pretend ing tot ignore the presence of Xegrot s in the state. The Wallace party offers at best only the opportunity for a futii • protest vote, and oven so. it may have no candidates for state officers in Novem ber. So Negro Democratic voters, since they have no basis for enthusiasm over any of the Democratic candidates for gover nor or senator or any of the lesser offices, should concentrate or.' choosing between or among candidates on the basis of their previous records on national, state and local issues which are of interest, to a’! citizens, whether they belong to the ma jority race or our minority group. Since none have a positive program in favor of national civil rights, the choice must be made among the candidates on the basis of the relative liberalism of the several candidates as a whole. Some have pro' ed themselves in the past more- re - actionary on the question of equal' rights for Negro citizens than have others, just as some are generally more reactionary and less progressive and forward-looking than others. It is the fate of the Negro often to have to choose, not between good and bad, but between bad and not quite as bad. Probably the most important thing to remember as the primary approaches, next to this matter of choosing candidate • on theii over-all record and stand, is that the Negro will receive consideration in proportion to the size of his vote, it is wrong to think that it does not matter, even in this election, whether Negroes vote or not. Politicians and office seekers are all pretty much alike in that then views are subject to modification on the basis of election returns. The Negro i ignored by candidates and officeholders only when and where he does not have or use the ballot. So. even if we find in diffi cult to make a choice, let’s make one. Let’s go to the polls in this primary. Lot us serve notice on all candidates, present and future, that the Negro Democratic vote is a factor to be reckoned with, not only nationally, but right.here in North Caroline In some parts of the state, as recent events have shown, this cannot be done, but where we can vote we must; and it must not be lost sight of that the ballot in the hands of those who can use it is one weapon that can be used to ex tend the suffrage to those now being- il legally deprived of if. Governors appoint state election boards, and state election boards select local election hoards, which in turn select local eection officials. ""''T'.tL-.. ' V 'V V \ ■-mi: cemexturs:-’ fvV! Jeccml Ihcughts f f 8, C. D. HAUUBanTOH Must* Xey, ■ Wti! ' that Senator Mo - hr: the nab* a a service in Lading the oppo sition v. inch . c-uited in 1! <-• temporary Iwicking of i. v bill which would have sanctmea the regional school program lor the* southern .tat-.-. There were m the S against the Scn.ate'G act un, lviu r" urJ y. : - r.rr! : . Sena ti'.r Mrr u a: ; ot ":rs who volt i to sc:: 1 dir bid back " > the eosrii'nabu lir , vrc’c . 3.:-;tig to Cd :i s ,•; •::!■! 1 uists ah:-. SO Ofi a'* voice against the perennial filibuster:. bv southern senators which orv- prevented votes on hulls : ■']rt w.. d d. ha\ ;. pa usel ha ’ they r mva : a vote. Di fmders of the regional I'd’ . u ■for w!i the people- o f Ihe S.'iutu. It is argued that the states of th< South can afford irr bette basis than the states inhiviana'- jv car,, and that the benefits 4 < .. . 0 - u '. O’ jrn p]v that ih>' South is n U inter JO t’K O'!' Y‘\UVl W a measure 1;, maintain sogrega -11 on i n k '-• l! a i *.* ♦-* -■ * > ■* ; ■’’•■ ■ ■ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. M. W. Williams Subject. Dnnit; S-; tT- liv ili C Hiv .ctions • - •• o<vo iX»: 3 ;,-20 Kt y VcL'i : “D.jh: ' iiua-lcu .U J-jicjje ]f \vj ; h ';Oh Os 0)0 kinc’s meat, fur vv* ! ihi* \\ i»c ~.;■ i r l Hp (jr tiik " i ),»■• ri j N . IX'dIGGrU. b;\ libit ill ' i J’.iloiuw ,-ind ivs fi: ’ rl’-'uie ;n . t v oottein .*! J-rat.' . no'vn ■}’. 11- Iwvo-eec m .■ tots d M’icnccs 'wee aJ i: in menu' votMb o£ pi-cinii-.aicc. o' whn-.evf • "Next* Door" b y ted shearer | CondtteiitsK Fafct'aars* { j % 1 //■ , // 1 / / / ' YTj i X -2S' -- .. 1 Ifel i - 'v^T . / Wa s <mo***%t*~**~ ", ' l/L/Sry* “iloy, do7t‘l you wish you ~oi7hl pitch like your 7 •’" THE CAROLINIAN a] education; such a constder;*.- t.rn, saw these brethren, is in cidental, if it is a consideration at aii. But everyone knows that the U. S. Supreme Court in the Gaines decision has had more to do with promoting the regional plan d . j a!! the gov ernors ii:-1 ediua.liOi; olficials and philosophers and planners As ;. s oe.n ri i t 'ln.- space ibefore, \v<> behove the regional The arguments in favor of it are pad n!> valid, t.ip_ to a point. There Is no doubt that the South, lie poorest seel ion cf the country, would benof greatly fn.rn y.i operative action ,5-ja] educational centers. Nmd: Carodm: has :u dr-nt.d ~ . 0 . ; ne. Sim v” 'raps' appear all through dividual dates swffev from. Hm aldu uvi: !h ■ Sooth lead-' its povci-tv It is already mate taknine das a. .tlicst device in of facilities. In favor of the ivedrud svstem it nleads pov edv. wo it maintains the fw -4 ' A;, ... ypp . ~ ~ , j , . . 4 1 >f f fi ni-'H'l liV' ..... rr v. ... i.'ini,-.! tj e r;,, ::i, rosea voiCh ili ,j ’.!a!- co-'. iti. Daniel, our eoiMan.-iJu; chr.racUr in I., day’s ic-r -ii. ■ So he lu.Ut" f . Vi,. ,■■ re; cin I’.ci !'n i: 1 .hs ~.iv .'s i»: ( n\ i vs. : V :m. s, t |,X-’ IV.Nt *•; : c- oci. l!?r k): . di-rrc-’d illal lc. --r ,‘i» shi.o! i cat n and ci.-mX ndc-r'-d this food sivi drink c- !•:•• lnmiiaily io rX-.-.n, ..aid *cjod,-ed Supremo Court's demand of equality of educational opportu nity. \ . s. the r» gional idea is sound - -. in*.? a) the really great, plans lor highei education to be developed in this countr.v in a centj ry. BUT, as proposed, it would simply strengthen and extend she already existing pat tern o' gregation. Wnat is not talked about but what is evident nonetheless is that dup lication of facilities would g > sight on in the regional set up. There would be an undoubted chance, both for economy and to: better graduate schorls, but the economy and improvement W! uni still iic limited by the pattern of duplication. And in addition, on the basis of exper: cnee Negroes have every reason to exjieft that the pattern of inf< nor schools for Negroes w • uid iX' -nst under the regional prui. They have absolutely no basis for doubling it. It *■< i.p these grounds that most Negroes remain highly suspicion* of the regional plan. It is n-t that they doubt it would bring some improvement. i yen presently projected: but it would continue the system of In• quality. Regional schools for a 1 ! th> people, yes. Rceh'ii al schools. some for white and some for cullud. no Good, may be, but no g-..d enough. lie* on pi.il.se and w.cir for a ioti de: trial v\!tich Km lied m c.c sir '.'card's vvjHmgncs:- to ?<;t h.vti < •": i’- *j ' Ihi simple diet ilic rei • f ;hi ::ir 'v re. training prr : fnia’ ihi Hun' v youths i . >i-Ijl i’ ’ - advanced n 1-anmp and vv isdom ovoi tnn-c who level ■ 1 : i e l ' 11.~ i v ?u Sne 1 ln: v s pal,;.: Ir 'akine Sid- stand Daniel ukis*- rd one of the nn*’?.l pox.’crfi;! ternp t.it ■ .re. ceri pi'o.tii.-.ng hie run - iiit ri >i. v\t j \m’i ( r U( THM I HSs*>\ In diseu.-vbsig the tetnperano . ■ •:iii:n of Daie » stand in d •> B.eiy: 'Ulan Einp:-e. rrlattve 1 o she meat and wti.r: he deemed cerfeinnifiily urtelati. which he ard K. Williams gives four rea sons why young men and women nelicvea would ctefue him, H >vv s: o’ jid refrain from the use T A'c-holic liquor which we are pas sint’ or. to our read* r ! 'Liquor defiic.i the body. * 2 "L'quO! defi'et- 'he mind ' ■'l.iquc defiles the spoil." 4 ’Liquo; ,'lefiU; society" As wo pottdet 11,0 above uoi - iLiranon.. it is we; that we nld ’’ P"”l-ii.* think serous:• of out ex ample. For conim.t og he ask "What sort of idea.- ..to we make 1- r ‘ OTJt.ii'- A;e 'vo arid t: 1 ■ ,>*tV A;i our habsl:- v. olesome .n-1 wotsh wh;l<-' It j ;'.h foliowexl ita- they rer.ii' do, what «or‘ of e.cople would they i-’Oe.irnc , lv. ter; I!y- Are v.e alert menlail;' end ae'jvf spirituajh • \VI 're did Daniel gel his ickv about a clean life? From hu father; “Daniel purposed a ids beat: th&i lie would not defile- himself wllh th- portion of the kiry'- in at nor with the vTe wb.ich he drank." Daniel 1-8 dan C. Smith. Prime Minis!-r. r’riioii ;>! South Africa- “So lons the danger of Euro. ■ singing iii'o •eveluticn and chaos exists, there ran be no real peace for the rest oi he world." WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1948 W \i j —:::.betfzeeh:::“” SifHHi THE p:i /Mg| --- -xiMEs:::mz:.T BV dian B HAhtcock ' rm anp A REVOLT IN REVERSE That the south’s political revolt is now in reserve can no longer be doubted or denied. At first the revolt seemed a serious matter with governors from the southern region going into a huddle about President Truman and his civil rights recommendations. But it seems that every meeting sees fewer and fewer southern leaders willing to take the long plunge that the revolt logically demands Bolting the Democratic par ty is not the slight, thing it is “cracked up t. he" and this some of the more bellicose southerners have found to their chagrin and dismay and confusion. The south is gi nving morally in ways few take time to ponder and tin* latest failure of the south to he stampeded on the state rights issue, which is being used as a cloak for Negro phobia, is convincing proof thereof. Gone arc those happy days when south ern politicians could cry “nigger" and the south would go into a •frenzy of excitement and stampede to the- support of the wily politician ; wlu> espoused the anti-Negro causes. The proposed re volt of the rabid southerners just failed to materialize and each succeeding meeting makes them more and more ridiculous. It i.s said that when :> .man keeps butting his head against a stone wall, if the wall doer not give away; his head will t It »s seriously to be pondered whether the anti-Truman Democrats of the south will keep on butting their perfectly good Democratic heads against Truman's perfectly strong stone wall of courageous smanship until their heads give? away. What is more, Truman i... not only defy these would be revellers hut he is growing more defiant daily. Truman's moral ground;: are so strong that it doer, not sem no ea.-y matter to dislodge him from his pinnacle of prominence his courageous statesmanship has foisted upon him. It is equally noteworthy that Truman is so dead sure of his moral advantage that he is beginning to "talk back" to the recalcitrant Democratic : -cv..lters. Aft< r all. the immortal Roosevelt knew what he was doing when he chose Truman as his running mate in the last presidential election. Tin: man is growing in stature and this very growth mak< of the current would be revolt in the south a political freak, a moral Hop and a flat tire. What was threatening to become a politi. al "Bo.rnum and BaiU y" is turning fast into a side-show of unp:eiontious proportions. V.e» the new south speaks in the coming elections, we are going to have some worthwhile revelations. Although many of the old liners do not know it. the current south is not that of Ben Tiiltnan ana Hoke Smith and Ht Shin and Varda man nor even of the biU* Bubo. The slowly infiltrating education is doing its work and : . is just a matter of time when the south's current whispers will become stentorian voices for justice and i ightcousness. Although the Negroes who met at Furh.vn in 1942 sensed the rise of the new smith, they could not make it us plain as it is daily becoming. The element with whom these Negroes sought to coop era;! 1 is definitely there and their numbers are growing. Thai tht south will go solidly against Truman in reprisal for his civil rights program is by no means a foregone conclusion. Os the 13 states of the region only four can be definitely counted as anti- Truman If some truce could be called between the third party and the oth. r major parties. Truman would do a “citation stunt" which would astound the skeptical. The story goes that diming the War of Secession when Grant and the Uni m armies -zero closing for the kill, a wife of one of the wealthy planters of the south would send her Negro slave to :hi p >sU slice .several miles away to bring the mail and to pick up new of what was transpiring’ on the battling fronts. Things ' '.vr going badly for t u Confederates, hut the Negro did not want to (i-miDcn the- an.i >ur of his mist veers: and lie always brought news like this: “Mistus, the Yankees are retreating forward and the sou l hern armies are advancing backward." This illusti ales the joust between Truman and the revolting f-uth. Truman is retreating forward and the revolting south >s advancing backward with the revolt in reverse. Johnston Farm Show Fxhiliih 3,300 Pound* Os Hants At SvaithiicUi SMITHFIELD - Hams wi a.) weighed a total of 3300 pouu:'. valued a! more than -,2,000 wor ■ display in the show window of the Sim hfieid National Fc,.m Loan As social ion here recentc 1■ ■ : ‘tu- demon.- '.ration women M op the following exhibits on disno. made fir-rn .corn and articles made ironi -bucks: Blue ibbon croup Wilson s .Mills Club, muffin - from corn m-.::!: Good Samaritan Club, do nuts from corn meal - East E.v.i Club. India’! coin nv. .1 pudding: Piney Giove Club, yuis, from corn meal; Green Club, chair boitom from shucks: Short Journey fUm. door ’i*.« l l ! ,■ ,'lii'cks; St A mar/’a Club basket from sn ucks: and Cat tail Club, mop from -.bucks. Red ribbon group - Red Hut Club mush from cores meal; 15: n 'onvillc Club, cake fi c.xt corn meal; ■mi Roe's Chapel Club, lye hominy :rom corn Whiu. ribbon group - Raids Pond Club, house shot s from shuck/ and Kenly Club, tab; - mats fi >.v. shucks. Following is the results o£ the judging of the hams: Blue ribbon H. rl Williams. Pitcher Sunders. Thrum,m Mitciwi t r and Nola Archibald of Galil a; Kigr: Smith, and Grad - B. O'Neal of Ciilta.l: Willie Gray Barnes and F L Barnes of Moore's School lious ; Preston Boone and WUM Taylor of Good Samar,t:u: coinm. i:- ity: James If. Sanders, Connie Si n-. Levi Sander: Herhet f Atkina..lt, \V L. McClainb. to-ick Sand-s, John McLean and Chrrlos Petti-.-ay -if Short Journey community. Jf. H. Bryant. Lrstoi Bichart!--an. Geotve Re veils. .! P. Eiows. ML... hew Dublin, A J. Sbi'-cii and i,.ee Williams of Mont*. -mery; P. y. Co! ■ and Offrie Williams of.Ben tonville; William Boyd. Shcp Sand ers end Lee Mitchell of Road’s Pond. John Tbsrringlon of Lev's C: os roads- George .teams, J. f Hoeu?; Bin Cooley Qdie Borne ..rid Sallio Mills of White Oak.-, and Willie William? and T. P, Pao c-oi-K of Piney Grove commun.lv. Pi d Ribbons Lee Sander of Four Oaks. Brutus Hooks, Caver Peacock, Foya Vinson W. L. !«!?- Clamb and Jim Atkin.on of Simu Journey; C. C Gardner. Hubert JR lie and Henry Delaine of Piney Grove: Ella O'Neal and Patty WKii ley of Cattail: RoosowL Knigh* of Mao, e- School House Fima Archi ' old and J W, Mitchca-.-r of Gail" .. H-enrj Re veils, Janiri- Newsome R R. Revolts. George Rcvells. Wil liam Stancil. Dock G dv.in, Jofitc. Revels. E. G. Jones. J mdse K. by ■nd Charles Vinson . { MonlgJtr.- cry; Hattie- Warren, T W. Williams. Charle- McDonald, and Leo «Var ivn of Bentonville; l>. M- Merritte • f Lock Crossroads .mi George Adams of White Oak. White ribbons Brutus Hooks, Floyei Vinton. J. C. Hodges. Je.ss * R- use and Donnie b..ns of Short Journey; Hubert Bell Claud Kar ris Willie Hun'er and Henry De- Tune of .Piney Grow. Rufus Exuui of Red Hill; John Retells. Demp sey Richardson. Louise' Kirby >nd Minnie Robinson of Montgomhi y; Robert Atkinson and T. W. Wil liams of Benton vide: William Sanders of Rands Pond; and Ulysses Bair.es, Mcrßi Hint•••-". C R. Richardson and Sadie MUR of White Oak. Aevv I rial Denied Fo issac Woodard Charleston. W. Va. The N. A. A. C P.’s motion for a new trial in the ease of the Isaac Woodard vs. The Atlantic Grey hound Bus Company was denied in Judge J. F. Bouchelle of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County on May 12. Isaac: Woodard, a Negro vet eran blinded by a police chief in Batesbu S. C. in February, !94G, is attempting to recover SSO 000 in damages, from the At lantic Greyhound Bus Company, operators of the bus from which Woodard was dragged a few minutes before the beating. In November, - 1947, a trial was held in the Circuit Court and a deci sion in favor us the bus company was handed down. NAACP law yers argued a motion for a new" "trial last month, alleging that a jury member had. during the conduct ct the trial, nubhely ex pressed bias, by stating in effect that undei no conditions would he vote to give Woodard dam ages. Backward, turn oackv. ,rvi, O Tune in your fight! Make me a child again, just for (•;- nifh! 1 - Eijaaliclh Akers Allen.
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