PAGE FOUR
EDITORIALS
TIME FOR ACTION
hi the same issue of a Raleigh daily
last week appeared news of the indict
m,ent in Federal court of two Brunswick
County registrars charged with illegally
refusing to enroll Negro prospective vot
ers for last May’s primaries, and of a re
solution adopted by the North Carolina
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
calling on North Carolina’s registrars “to
administer the election laws impartially.”
Both items remind us that North Caro
idea that qualified Negroes should be
inn has not yet outgrown everywhere the
barred from voting. The essential qualifi
cation for registration in this state is
ability to read and write. Our law is de
fective in that it permits bigoted regis
trar’s to violate its spirit by deciding that
a prospective registrant cannot read and
write well enough to satisfy him. A num
ber of instances were reported last Ma; ,
in different parts of the state, in which
various measures were employed by re
gistrars to bar the mimes of obviously
qualified Negroes from the books. We
re iterate that what, is referred to here
happened in North C.troima, not Missis
sippi.
It is time for the decent people of North,
Carolina to quit winking at the violation
of election laws by election officials the ru
se ves. High officials of North Carolina
when presented with evidence of the mis
conduct of some North Carolina registrars
reacted only with indifference, or worse,
with hostility toward those making for
complaints. It was these attitudes on the
part of state officers which resulted in
resort to the Federal court* to do some
thing about the illegal behavior of some
North Carolina registrars. The North
Carolina Commission on Interracial Coop
eration is interested in building up a pub
lic sentiment which would inhibit the mis
construction of the election laws by preju
:ced registrars. North Carolina ought to
aip out illegal disfranchisement o<‘
Negroes, and ought to do it quickly and
thoroughy. As long as such conditions ex
ist The boast that North Carolina has the
best race relations in the United States
is a very hollow* one,
19 CENTS A DAY g
Some time ago an announcement thatg
the; prisoners m Wake County jail were|
being fed at an average cost of 19 cents'
per day per person caused considerable
astonishment, if not downright skeptic
ism. After thinking over the situation the
average person probably thought next,
in consideration of present food prices,
“How can it be done?” and wondered if
the prisoners were not going hungry.
A good deal of the doubt ad mystery
was cleared up, however, by a news story
in the September 15 issue of the News
and’. Observer. An examination of t h e
typical menus set forth in that story
shows that the 19-cents-a-day budget is
met by the simple expedient of holding
denvn to a low level the quality and quan
tity of the prisoners* diet.
Tins is in no sense a criticism of Mr.
and Mrs. Cults, the jailer and dietitian of
the local jail. Apparently they are really
doing wonders with the resources allowed
them. But the fact remains that a dinner
consisting of “potted meat sandwiches,
pork and beans, crackers arid jello.”
ought to work out to be pretty inexpen
sive, as well as as slightly unsatisfying
over a period of time. The news article
also'pointed out “the helpings are not lav
ish,” which is probably no exaggeration.
THE CAROLINIAN
Published by The Carolinian Publishing Co.
us East Hargett Sl_. Raleigh K f
Entered as second-class matter, April 6, 1840, at
the Post Office at Raleigh, N. C„ under the Act
of March 3. 1878.
p. H„ JERVA V, Publisher
C D. HALLIBURTON. Editorials
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One Year, $3.50; Six
VdcU'Vss all communications and make all
ecks payable to The Carolinian rather than to
1 *viduals. The Carolinian expressly repudiates
responsibility lor return of unsolicited pictures,
manuscript, etc., unless stamps are (feat.
ft is also ntoed that the prisoners do no
heavy work, which hardly needed to be
added. Nor is there likely to be much
eyebrow-raising over the intelligence that
“some of the prisoners complain about
both quality and quantity.”
Any housewife or householder despair
ing over the size of the food bills at home
can gyt some suggestions fro rnthei nforrn
a lion made public about what Wake's pri
soners eat. Whether they will adopt any
of them is something else again.
Nobody believes that the county's free
boarders have the right to expect S 6 a
day hotel fare furnished by the taxpay
ers. But the real question is, docs Wake
County meet reasonable standards of diet
for its prisoners? if not it is not the fault
of the jailer necessarily. The onus lies on
the people of Wake County, Wake County
saved a lot of money last yea:", accord
ing to the fiscal report of its officials,
CO-OP OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The long-heralded opening of the .su
in'!’ market owned by the Wake County
Mutual Consumer Co-operative has taken
place, and neither curious visitors nor
serious patrons wore disappoinetd in what
they saw on opening day or since. It is
a finely appointed and well stocked food
market. There is every reason to expect
■that this co-operative venture, a proof of
the imagination, business skill and ability
to work together of a large and repre
sentative group of Raleigh's Negro citi
zen,'. will succeed and grow.
The co-operative movement is not an
answer to all economic problems, but it
is one avenue open to those of moderate
means to improve their own status, mak
ing their dollars go farther by buying
from and selling to themselves through
joint action, therefore eliminating the ne
cessity of supplying profits to others, An
other contribution that the co-operative
makes to the Negr community, along with
individually owned Negro enterprises nod
profit-seeking corporations, is the oppor
tunity for employment of a number of
persons in a field ordinarily not opened
by other business concerns of the cum
in u nity.
The consumer co-operative pattern is
more extensive than is apparent at once
Mutual insurance companies, burial so
defies and building and loan associa
tions arc all essentially co-operative in
conception, though because of the apathy
of their members they are usually run
by a very small proportion of the con
cern.
One of the things that will help to
keep the new co-op supermarket success
ful is a growing and functioning mem
bership which buys from its own store
and which takes an intelligent but not
obstructionist interest in its management,
IN THE COURTS AGAIN
Quite apart from the merits on either
side of the controversy many non-Meth
odists as well as millions of members of
the A. M. F. Church regret that another
bishop of that church has been brought,
into the courts by a fellow-member 5 of
the denomination. Bishop Gomez, raised
to the bishopric only a few months ago,
is already not only in hot water, but also
involved in litigation concerning church
matters.
it. is unfortunate that the great. African
Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the
most powerful forces in Negro life, and
a credit to the race throughtout its his
tory. cannot settle its difficulties within
its own confines. An unfavorable impres
s’,, on as to the capabilities of Negroes
leadership is bound to be given by the
constantly recurrent appeal to the civil
courts to straighten out matters which
should be handled within the church
No less an authority than one of the
epistes counsels Christians against re
sort to the courts, When church leaders
cannot follow that admonition even re
garding church affairs, it is indeed unfor
tunate.
THE CAROLINIAN
His Furthers Are Gradually Being Clipped
l ’ _
| ieccnd fii€uglits
ti f c, D, HAjULXJB U ATOJ4
Se i ,j •,* l/ .
rm- rtl, > North Orrti •,
but, cie’nircd a ’few day.- «cu
an erlm • ;n Crtum-bn, SoM'h
Carolina. The speech was pri
me riiy an attack of the State."'
Rights -it'i.'l Progressive parties,
urging the npj« of S.nuh Coo
Jin- to .o.i)ic: Tom, m rrt r •
regula: TV>. pi,- p-p, t :n * ■
Mr. ’ lon-rtiV vc-.. .oid
iudes an verc unp.>it;,ull if
".mJ n: .fanuorv. .
has a great deal t=. do with the
. -i. f Vc- i ;-(h! .
national rii ft arc mi :c on ’i ■ s--»
position of thf N ■
pre.ent. military t atnutt? pro
g! is ■ :ns - o !■■■
they N-yrc. • • :•.••;! 1
pa > •;) on!■ f . • nti’ot ni
(•xp ; v.v,.'C I (>v Si". ■ 1a: v K.Tyii.s
)' !if f> : y., •• „t ' :
South roll tin. t ■>. bom.- M
’hr PC-. ; ’ 1,- f .
dem. He- ...art. w i-mt
m.' •• -'.ttin- u -y y.\ n ac.d uj .
.svmpatiw h .Mth» rn problems
’! ,S, eo* !.. ~•" ■ !':* ’l • t ; . .; ■;
pcUtilar tty columns -A ■■ ■■■
pa pen, including a .-•egmenl
N, I M 1 i mished r i q
school here m tJhic-ago in '46 I
took a comprerr-iat course. Hero
lately mort.w i .-w nre
to take- a c.ivjl stew..:: oatiiino
tion for etsro t. < but tmee ]
haven't rrasb-ol since I , ... re
ochooi, I am afiaid Should 1
tkThe. •'X ",rivin.etj;;n?
Ans: Kntc-r nirt'-t ;vh .-■! and
brush up n \_i iv s/toi't '< ju i atrl
typing. Wlif’i ' feel v.»n <•,
ouaiit ; i'd an . ■ tt skc : !> e
cxani'.t’MiiVt. Vcitr rtnuhtn ir. t.-o
gcr to see y>u makt ;< succcs-.
in tlit- tiw v.»f work f-.»r winch
you weir trained.
T W H -1 tii'no , our aortr?
t(> ‘in','', i" uid'-'i-.! Trti us
who to do Me. busl ,uH .-mcl !
just can't i.< h- h:< u> gi t
ahead. We can’t save r.c »--•. = »n
--cx U cef:; uiulej mv ski.c whin
my husband • uy> I spend too
tic civ and that colons us tr, a:
gut :md 'sac rningr. that hurt.
N(>v vc ho ■ i bk-aiu
Alls You n; < d to gc-i v• ir
brad- ioveU- r and work out .»
svrtemattf plan u.-.-ing. U will
Wij Tbuqhbcu
H> ftii.i I’au son
' k
”T rerkon i nuist be « ’1«,,->! nf Wall
Street.' I own a 1948 -car, we
$4306.08 on wiv fprr.i »!id ri-n'i like
C ommdnists worth a damn!"
SSSIWJM®
the Negro .
’•Tlte.se attacKf. do poi u
mo . . . ! am .!>:oirt bn’.u;
"But I would not. be flank
11 ! did not on tin other hand
;i i you frtlovv-sont.H'rtnv-;
;i,\ feeling that th(
su< wlueh is so 'bseussed down
ir •!. ircre must bo pregrhak
m the (•xererte of pohUcal
rigrtl.s and i;> added eeonorrae
• *r>p< •: I'm Negr- ■< s- pro
:.;i< ■. Inward ;m itnnroyc'd scale
of living to-. i hern. They arc
A-:ru:*i(*ans
“Mk Litivu tutt has pointuJ
T}p wav f.'» llxus.* Qruily Bu? \Vt
N ’- th i ‘;jroluui. ch'U'.vh'"rc,
;h f Mbjrt.iivtv -jn -T\?uh hH'heu
si'J slow* r of -iccf.ohnlishmcN^
; • if 4. I f !|P 1 1 : ;? t J«. in;.
tnf*v 'um<-■ to \:i • ’tuc i .
1 Trie unfairness on one .hido,
'll >CH i it.* 1 . }Io W C Y'rt ’r. c-'XCU Off *
i'rt ffUl »} , ‘ io[PCS pi I t jvP
stop evci\y ni oven 10; it toward a
ADVISORY COLUMN
prevent a tot of shy msoandt
standings that now arise about
finances. The chnei reason vour
husband blames you for not get
ting eh;.ad is the f> i that g.-.!
■■ rrtk all *h- t.v -, . J v H-i
h-e "i-javc veu .C'ju*’ 3 .iohrti
thf 1,-...;, how TO KFH*
v.-VTR MONFV •■•Nil -VITR r
(,OOiD I.UCK. it J,’is some Ijicj
ief'.je ; ip -p you.
a. Help me v,-!»b t pr«b
It ru. ! am r> yoiuig man. liad u
gvi'd ,>i I ..if l quit ; i i yt: "a
.. groiiip <>f singers N co. 1
’’•at 1 wax doing much better on
oiv ioh than T an. tune .<•-• art
1 do riifi-i and what do yoti ad-
V i HP .*
A n.-". f-> ve f i !)1S
plover and ask for v.-.v.ir ..!rt p !>
back )’ if ■ not av-ail-ofiii. .
••*, a•' .ork .-f ot.be. places
• f b’jsunss A day time jor> won id
t.nabk* van f ronf uiue . :ng;-•
wit-i thi group as tr ust of their
engagcmccts ,-in booked for ev
erh rids.
I). (." M !•’- ■ :hr ; e.l
and hal*’ 1 have been going
steadv with a girl who 1 love
SAD CHILD
By JOHN HENRIK CLARKE For ANF
1 am a strange child.
In a strangr land
The WVT • nether my
llorr c nor my haven
My music is. the ‘toin-toiTi*
Net the saxophone,
You may root mi- ii<-> r
J ll this alien .soi!.
But I will not grow
1 may ncvei go back 10
Tin East, where I hi Ion*;
But 1 will forever nurse the Jesire
in the hours when T am Mono.
I’ll turn my pagan face toward
The East and cry.
fuii'-r md fairer participation of
.d! minority grew os in the bene
fits of American life."
S,■ !\ M-. Roysll i„ not in
finding his chief, President Tru
man, iimong those “anti-south
ern agitators who are exploit
ing the racial lines for selfish
reason:-'." It could not be so,
but the statement is interesting
in that such an accusation is
one very often leveled against
Mr. Truman by his enemies.
One wonders v/hn there anti
southern agitators are, and why
s hey are thought of as spit:
southern if they have the same
>vvs and aspirations as to min
<>i i’\ groups as are expressed
by Mr. Royal' in this .same
- ! • 'ii
There arc anna- rood, sound
points in t.hi ■ address made in
bo-i!’) < a f- .egetting the
■op f i the South's morbid at
tnude to-ward “outside xnterfei
- And -■ o- :}f- them ?>. that
»: i -ij -fam eoi outside mtcrfec
f" ■ anno!, be used as an ex
cio v l-j deny the Negro’s rights
wh’ch an his lust due rights
tin: exist . rt i.Twiihoiil re
gar.j i - the views of ‘ northern
v-tv much. Although she has
v<v -aid she did not go with
anvone else, I secretly felt she
c-iiit Be? here lately another
a\iy has horned m and when I
ask her far a date she sometiiifes
has one and I don't like that.
Should l our
An That’s uardly -> fair atti
tude. True, vou have gone with
the girl for quite awhile but you
haw sriid nothing that would lead
'■r-j to believe that you had ser
ious intentions. Naturally, she
WO drj i-nc'iurac : >v, i; ie-R-dshtpS.
Someone else will beat your time,
•t vou continue fn - Mil.
l.o’vymv. Am l right in think
ing mv boy friend’s intentions
never were right and how should
f handle this matter?
Ans: You made it so obvious
to your friend that you were hus
band hunting that hr cooled off
in self-defense He wants no part
of marriage and it is only wish
ful thinking for vou to think that
you can pressure him into the
;r>ii u| a husband
- IVliii.'jhL IN.DINGI SAjl ußCay, OIOTOBEH. 16j XS42 1
SBKZT
ItiSlll tztt. iiNEiS™: :
BV DEAN B HANCOCK FQfi AMP
STONEWALL TRUMAN
We have heard much about. Stonewall Jackson, a majestic
figure in the .far of Secession- The name "tSonewall’’ was given
him because in the thick of one of the great battles someone re
marked that crefi. Jackson was “standing like a stone wall" and
henceforth he was to he called Stonewall Jackson.
May this column present another inajustic figure landing
hke a stone wall? His name is Harry Truman from Missouri! Tru
man has surprised, the nation and has easily become one of the
most majestic moral figures of the times. And it is just as well
.fior us to know that Harry Truman is not going to be anybody’s
pushover in the coming elections. It i.s true the various ‘‘polls’’
are counting him out but. these polls have away of getting over
“ bat certain interests want- It is -ny no means a foregone con
clusion that the doty Republicans will sweep the country.
There are millions of men and women in this country who
admire a iea.l man who will stand up and slug it out, Truman
is such a man and to his everlasting credit be it. said, he abso
lutely refused to play dead when tin- Dixiecrats walked! out on
him! Instead of retracting his stand on civil rights he canto banc
slugging and these self same polls are now whispering that "Tru
man is gaining " It war, noised about who Truma first took his
civil rights stand that certain elements in the south would revolt
and say mean things about him. Truman simply replied that h<
■was eie*'ted to uphold the Constitution of the United States and
that he did not give a damn what they said
To date Mr, Truman still had not given his damn. There are a
let of people m this country with votes to cast who rather like a
m ;, n wno takes a stand fm God and righteousness and who doe?
particularly give a damn what the hecklers say or do. If Tru
man had riot been serious about what he said, the Dixiecrats would
have swung him long ago. But Truman really and honestly w,x;
sincere about the damn-giving business and because of that mil
lions of whites and Negro-s arc going to the polls to let. the world
know what they think of a man nvho takes a stand for righteous
ness not. giving a damn ,-hat the hecklers and Dixiecrats say.
Truman is on safe ground, why should he give a damn? He
has Inc Bible on his side; he has decency and civic righteousness
on hr. side: he has the constitution on his side; he has time and
*’ ight on Ins side he nas God on his side. Why. will someone tei!
os. should he be interested in giving damns? It is true that I can
not. ust the same language but he came -pretty close to expressing
my sentiments.
I kao is another side to this matte; that we are tempted
• forget an I that is, there are millions of whites in th south who
.ns r. : Dixiecratic in their sympathu s. Negroes therefore not
wily uwo. their support to Harry Truman who refuses under pres
sure to give a damn for the Dixiecats, but they owe it to those
southern whites who are resolving ot support him in this no-demn
- giving campaign.
~f the sizeable voting contingent ot toe white south is added
to the sizeable voting contingent of the Negro south here is a pos
sibility that Harry Truman may be swept back into the White
Horn;.' on m, r-f the most miraculous political tides ot history
■Negroes wr- • id.mire Truman and who plan to vote for him must
refuse to he „ ve this hr is already a poliitcal dead bird. Far from
it. h ihe Negro vote solid and the vote of the white south
-si.i.i most decidedly, Truman lias more than the proverbial gamb
ling chance.
Truman has something of the Roosevelt spin* in his national
outio .k and we need just such an outlook todav. Honestly this
writer >.s at raid of the Republican party and therefore afriaid of
Dewey who will be its rubber stamp If he refuses to be this
abhor damp, we shall have another case of President and con
at loggerheads. The Republicans crowd that hope;, to take
over is the same old crowd that politically destroyed Hoover and
fame near destroying th, country. They may have another stand
■vd bearer but it is the same old Republican party that never
forgets anything and never lea;ns anything. This column is sup
p ’rung Harry Truman who refuses to give a damn even under
Dixiecratic pressure!!!
HERE AND THERE
’ n w ’b get you 10 that Dr. Ralph Bunehe dbes not meet
U:e fate of Count Bernadette in Palestine. Could be, too, that the
brilliant American Negro mediator will get a break with the Arabs
<md Jews that the Scandinavian nobleman could not obtain, simply
because he is a member of the darker races. Maybe Nordic inter
national influence is on the decline, no? (Biblical quotation: “And
Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hand, etc ")
IV nen fiat, cavalcade -,f the representatives of vets groups
met Big Joe Albright, VAV popular aide, at the Nashville airport,
.tizens say it was the first time to their knowledge that." a visiting
Negro had been honored with an escort of white policemen.
The Veterans administration official responded to this courtesy
with X .lining address before an /nterracia! vets rally in the Mt.
Olive Baptist church which brought, applause that literally rocked
the historic edifice. (P. S. He was promptly invited back to the
eRv again to deliver an Armistice day address.)
Government agencies are deeply alarmed over increase in
venereal cases. Look for an all-out drive against VD. probably
s;>i.‘amended by the armed forces. Incidentally, Negroes being in*
fee ted at about n 10 to one ratio
In <ase you haven't heard, the NOW (National Council of
Negro Women) will converge on Washington in annual session
on Oct. 10-13. Prediction are that the conclave will ompt in some
spectacular fireworks, bt ing election year and all
That Witbcrforce St a to-Tennessee State football game at the
Notional < lassie in Washington (Oct. 23) i.s looking bettor by the
von-.itc iv-.i.h teams won theii opening games impressivly, and
’"th haw I mad on for each other since that game last year. And
•bve-the-bye. don’t he surprised if they pock Griffith stadium (35,-
001) fans, that is). Be there, chum?
You haven’t heard tne last of that Dußois-White 1c u 4 in
NAACP, just you wait and see
Nomination for the role of a woman who is'both very charm
ing and very smart: Isobel Chisholm. Guild organizer for the Na
tional Unban league.
Advice to veterans: Don't get stuck with the purchase of a
•mmc in an inflated market. You can bet ail the cattle in Montana
that it- won't b long now before these here good times won't bo so
good. It will be awful tough paying on a $15,000 home which will
be worth about $5,000.
Question for the week: How will Larry Doby do in the world
scries? (Answer: bet he does all right.)
Warning to “professional Negroes''; Little Joe and Mary Dashes
are seeing you (and smelling you, too). Better quit trying to SAVE
fhc race; your racket, is running out. What you are really trying
to do is to SAVE yourself, and dfcm't think wo don’t know it, lame
brain,