PAGE FOUR
EDITORIALS
COMMUNITY CHEST, 1948
'if sometimes happens that those who
talk knnlosl about their rights and priv
ileges are also those who give very little
attention to their duties and respomibiii
lies,, or take them lightiy. each of us
should see that the Negro citizens of Ra
leigh and Wake County do nob fall into
>his category,
lie annua! cainpaign of the Cornrovni
ity Chi - -si (.iffVi - .:; us an opportunity of uu
*xe'clloa kind to demonstrate that we are
as alive to our community obligations and
jos./on.-dniiGes a- to our rightful privil
eye, , Mod ; j; ; ne rn<*ro so when whether
one gives, and how much one gives, is a
voluntary matter When we pay taxes we
help ' ) fiU'ii i?h ouv ; -<:!vc< and others with
ir, i y community services, but
C; t«iri\ or credit, because paying
{•■vv; is eompuksorv. Ihe Comniunity
Chcvt provides services which tax mon
ey does not cover, but which are esaen
<i;.; ii.r the welfare and progress ot the
community, in many cases the services
, rc foi those most needy and least able
to meet their needs as individuals. In
; >,vy,.-.cs firme prominently
pr'cMul of year- Raleigh’s Nc
,j. r, ; '(jj,! t. , ,:e of ihe county have
r,o ■,ncrea:-.in.:‘!;• met their responsibilities
du. mg the Chest campaigns that, last
yo-rthe “Negro division” was abolished,
j..n the Negro ceased • oc a special
tr up for the purposes o’ tqe cmnipciign.
In. cad of taking achantaye of this ra
cer: anonymity every Negro should make
.. yonu that oi pie
vi... ;a years, to tnvasuiv up to n«s .ooliga*
og p % member oi the community,
bo l our be..- for t).< Community Chest;
A GOOD WORK
Tnaqui-Wur orteclive way the NAACP
; be,,; for sevei ai months
. .. . ;: .i ~nU lt i<;-ii os unfair practice?.
j, v x-e • : strars who seek to exclude quaff
■V ,1 colored persons from registering to
, j’ ( S]a’,e’r in. f - taken the lead
... j !,'. officers and
i3l l,l*Jo ' ; *■- 5 v ' * ’
.... ...A.,,; oft: • ■ National Association for
Advancement of ( olored lu opie, anti
{»,- Wallace Progressive pally, the iat~
.. .. ..Aiug- vigorous action not on!;- to in
ev,-,;v:( (| R . rneniluoT. ot that par
, , tj.tali tied to vote, but also interested
in justice for justice’s sake.
.Vi., Sprayryins recently received notice.
jYorn correspondents in Brunswick County
si.owing that some progress is being
mad*-' in the southeastern area of toe
c;.. le , one of the chief otlemiing areas
in breaking down the bamer-.
-In Supply Precinct," writes a cor
respondent, "the situation is greatly in»-
■, ~ .. a ... 1 have talked with several
\e ■" oes who were registered there >'u
tuiday, and it is reported that they were
■th e fjy«t Negroes to be registered tie re
in 50 years. ’
But the resistance dies h a rd. In an
c-: : er precinct in the same country, quaff
f; i applicants cmild find no one to re*
pG or them. Not finding the registrar,
. .meant- w- ut to the chairman ol the
c! ah/ board of elections, who informed
ti.f.j j. i»iat mere was no registrar tor then
"precinct. When asked what could be done
.h-Aii their registering the county official
replied, “There is nothing l can do,” but
p a T j ia t i,,. had comunicafed with the
election board about the situation.
It v ,»u!d seem that the registrar had
resigned rather than accept Negroes for
en ' ;in lent on the books. Such has hap
pc ls ,i in North Carolina. Action has been
st-tied against some registrars in the
1/ s. courts, and that, may be related to
tho existence of the vacancy, and to the
11/,:: CAROLINIAN
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Entered cs second-class matter. April 6. 1940. al
the*Post O/ice at Raleigh. N’. C.. under the Act
oi March 2, J 873.
p. R. JF.RVAY, Publisher
C. D. HALLIBURTON, Editorial*
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Address all communications and make all
checks payable to The Carolinian rather than to
individuals. The Caroliniar. expressly repudiates
responsibility for return ot unsolicited pictures,
aodjriusciipt, etc., unless stamps are sent.
caution being practiced by those having
to do with the election machinery in that
locality.
It is time North Carolina ceased to tol
erate illegal cxcusion of <|unified persons
from ihe poll books. The year 1M /- b; a
good year to bring such violation of- i.re
and federal law- to an end. All loose
persons working toward that you i do
serve the commendation ct c-cv horn .:
citizen.
A FLOP
Governor Thurmond’s campaign is pa
thetic. A throng of 225 persons turned
out to hear him m Raleigh. It is no won
der the audience was small; Mr. Thur
mond had nothing to say. The Dixiocrat
platform is as sterile m- that of the Ve
getarian party. There is only one issue,
and that issue is presented in such away
a:; to reduce the Dixieerat side of it to
an absurdity.
For Governoi Thurmond in his speech
es ha- been saying in effect that the Pro
gressives, the Democrats anti the Repub
licans alike are under Red domination.
"The Democratic Party/ says Mr. Thur
mond, “has been taken over by the for
eign schemers and the pinks an d the
subversives." That this sad plight has
overtaken the Democratic and Republi
ran parties, as well as the already hope
lessly enslaved (according to Thurmond
and many others) Progressives is evi
denced by their support of Fair Employ
ment Practices legislation proposals. Mr.
Thurmond explains his arrival at t h i ■■
conclusion by asserting Thar Joe Stalin
thought up FEPC as a good way to get
spies and saboteurs into American indus
try. If the Dixieerat candidate is sincere
in advanemg this theory he da- one >!
the most fertile imaginations now in ex
istence, But people will not turn out to
hear such fables told with a straight face.
It is obvious that the proposals to make
illegal discrimination against persons be
fcause of race or religion originates in a
desire for equal justice, which is one of
the allegedly basic principles of the
American way. It is possible that equality
of opportunity for jobs cannot at this
time be best promoted bv Federal legis
lation, but certainly such a far-fetched
explanation of the origin of the idea as
Thurmond offers is entirely uncalled for.
The idea was first advanced and imple
mented during the late war, as a measure
to increase production at a time when
open opposition to any reasonable mea
sure to increase production was not likely
to be heard, and it was promulgated by
executive order of the commander-in
chief. Mr Thurmond knows ail this, and
any intelligent audience also knows it.
It is not strange that, as the News and
Observer reported it, “a light wave of
laughter swept across the student audi
ence when Thurmond declared, ‘I have
no race prejudice.’ ” (This happened
when he spoke at the University of North
Carolina.) The only wonder is that the
laughter did not persist throughout, the
address, because nearly everything he
said was as funny as that statement. .
In his Asheville speech Governor Thur
mond held that President Truman’s civil
rights program would be “a stunning
blow to a Southland which has now vir
tually attained its goal of economic equal
in with the rest of the nation.” It is not
e plained how the abolition of the poll
tax as a requirement for the suffrage, the
outlawing of lynching, fair employment
practices, or the forbidding of segrega
tion in interstate travel will stun the
Southland ami hinder its movement tow
ard economic equality with the rest with
the nation.
And is it wrong that Negroes should
aspr- •' to the economic equality which
Mr. i'hurmond rightly thinks should be
a legitimate goal of the Southland?
THE CAROLINIAN
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1 ISMORAWCE BRUtAUTV*
!"r •
second l iiuiilv
a u haijjbouxo*
S'
P; 'JMlJenl I rUHilin ■k
good rpc.-ch m dedicating tii
moaurnent -n Capitol Squar
Not l'avorc-d v.utii the gift <g a:
matic oi at•;’i'3 , itP - Truman ta'*
to thrill h - aucti. rn-vs, out o:W
there is a i ing . i smci-ruy ar
(.■:u-nfstn,-ss vviiiel: to .v.rne
«-.-.>n;>*-n at«. f-n 'iau
eloquence
Without ... on, iso u,. • ;
P; .. ;.t, :t i. a ;<r, :!1 ■Ur !• -1 W
Thrti’l - ' /V »G’U UGiliiJl* pii Ffii J rt.'ii *.<•
tween in- -.itualioii and .hat <
Parti of the Um-e pi ;Ri. j.
rep -i Mt-nled in trie nn.uuiue/g
Jackson PolK and John .. M
'K o is o! the tic im n • .nan
fan,, tit-: f.u.mnl . oil >ll ;iU
jieid tii- ~U nl Pi t nt
tsme trou/io.
‘•Andrew Jackson had tu '. sl
- crisis, whir
v ;i.-: th- first threat o* >*'- ■ ■
cion James K. P-ilk wa:- rti
•iVoi.tcii -.vsth tin- MexkaP Wa
Andrew Joiin.-:or. v.i.-s can:;lit
the i;v —m tolsavnu
wai j)-, \,vhicn *u-.-iv As'■ s ■■■>
bloasi was spilled than m iaat
World Wars of our timt
••Because they lived tin nog
days when reason sva- ■ '■ -■ n
by emotion, then acts won- me
understood and misinterprctei
And because they were rrusu:
deist- ■ i they Wi -e iibe.'-e
vond the lot ot most :' <-
" Like Jackson Truman v.
faced secession, n-.t ,y ,
nation as d; (! .Jackson, o-v ■
nruiv He ha-- m ha
I OK AN Pi
Negro vets organizations in Ten
nessee sponsoring largest Armistice
Day ser ;.••• in ;;•• •: a\ ■l. n
State. Nashville will be the veem
ot ii .cao'.in, and nothing >•■ being
:. ft ftucto!if tv make t ‘>
best t-vt i Big fellowship dii.i t'
will be staged on the evening ot
November 10 os a kick-off to the
super patriotic celebration the next
(I ,\ Sleeker till both : Ik'hv vi!l
;>e Jo <ph Albright, assistant to
’!.< VA rhiif, Gen. Carl Cra> dr.
Invitation war. extended to “Big
Joe” when tV.u- dynoniic veteran:'
fireball ' wow’d ’em in Tennessee
during ivs last visii.
* A *
Incidentally, Tennessee r, run
ning lor ahead of oil southern
Sister in Iho matter <->f oraeanh'.-
iny Negro Vets. < Pst! but keep your
eyes on Mi.v-i>.sippi.J
Battle for Senatorial Togas in
several key states gets nutter by
the minute. Negro vote will be
important factor in final decision
(Vm> . folks -- tbu! i; the nig chanci
don't mu ft ii )
That meeting being held in
■Washington this week on vocation
al opportunities, for Negroes will
be ot profound significance. Con
fab beint* called by the chairman
nf the Commission on Education ot
the National Negro Business lea
gue (Harj'.vr of Tennessee A. and
I Collegei, and will be attended
by biggies of government educa
tion. Urban league and NAACT.
t ■* *
Testimonial to beloved .Ttili <
West Hamilton in the Metropolitan
AME Church In Washington was
one of the most touching gestures
of devotion ever tendered a de
serving leader of the group in the
Capitol. When the revered matri
arch responded to th.:- expr ssiohs.
of fealty and affection from friend-;
every wall; of American life, the
rkl !■: AMUR!* INRvM Will.. UONQUER
us Qict wticKiion, out ol sf.vciiij.
i- No one knows yet how many
d Rigists partv candidates.
Not I -’t a vci.l with one na
y ti..n is ilitcateniiig Truman a.:
Vi ::.s the - , .v;t:. Pulk H. ha
, f i i, , * • i .. , ....
In icu'is Jett by ’lit death ,-f a nu«:*
r.v y f ituipped to iiLUidk* tru n*
• } fioTin/i to his t/Wu expori^nc-'.
> r jPh C Pff]lo'A‘!!rt pto iu'fl)
o hi.s spcocfi y (i v« als tnai in os »
1 death that was tragic not oniy
h for America but Ur all man
“ or, to take up and comph ll’ 1
; work us *-r.c < f th. yn-ate t -th n
*’ that (:\‘(‘Y occupied thi-? v\ bio.
• H mse.
Certainly Truman was in a
f* wi!.' bo fhcP. tio did m cur pi u- o . •
good job. all things ctiivside)« d
n G. a better one possibly than
HERE AND THERE
, Qiii" lion for the wc-' !■; blade
huge audience gave her an ova’;-..
iv. t lucvaliv ! ofkccl ih- r . 11 - . f _t ■ vi? i..i,tri bu t ;oi i t s , the iiEnir.on
odifhe .Gob b!o;.s b'-i'P b> Ch--G yet?
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NATIONAL BIBLE WfciMK
OCTOBER 18-24
, -‘sponsored bv Laymen's National Committed
Vanderbilt Hotel, York S«, N. Y.j *
"I a I way have .said, and always will say, that the studious
pc run u i ~1 he sacred vuiuiu will make better citi/cnt, better CH-h-OK*
»tid btiiier tiusliandg.”—Thomas Jtedvryoa./' , u _ _
Andrew Johnson Like Johnson
K: ha: Pee:' handicapped by a
hostile Congress, though th •
hostility has not been by any
means as bitter as that faced
by the .successor of Lincoln.
Probably the most significant
single statement in the entire
speed: war one in which Presi
dent T; amai! was icfcrring to
an nc.ooji ot Aridi.-.v ,j..< l son
The peak.-: ..aid.
" i hi- brav, cl thiiie that All
brew Jruksoi! ever did war. to
'band up and tell his own pen
ile v. u_ rede,a uig to the un
- que.uC.o stand . •-• iiic-h Jackson
toi ... .. . uinst L..v nulbiieation
moveirent and s«-ec::«ion threat
in South Carolina. Jackson,
himself -i southemei and a be-
States Rigiits, reaii/ed
that Iht-re was u point at which
Stales Rights must end if th*
nation was to survive and reacn
us destiny I believe that Tru
man's championing of civil
rights, which ha:: made him un
popular with so many of his
friends, stems from the same
motaos as .Jackson's actum i.i
the South Carolina crisis. It is
Quito possibli l thst some ooy.
when a monument to tTrumavi
■ iioine dedicatcii. rorra’ spt-al*.
er v. :il quote thetso -words Tru
list d m Raleigh in dede
. a ting i Ia- monument to An
det ’.V Jackson . -pa ir.g tlit-m to
Harry Truman nenseli.
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER SO, 1048
W m %i ZZJZETMEEMZr ~
THE
~ xiragr ~
&v dians ha^c ° fm *****
*~A GOOD MAN IN BAD COMPANY
There is something admirable about Th-mui-s Dewev. the ii* •
publican presidential ( anUnlab- in hi- pfev-oa.-. candidacy he was
not .1 total jus.- and tt-<- vote h.> v.-m hr■■poke the high admiration
ni which he is held lu million
Wl"'n i g< <i! i 'lit : .i 1 ■ it . (tl ijfjt, he mlf.ronstrued
a pet.-unai disparagement of To ima.s l'. Dewey This writer
will go ew. turkv-r and rj that we,< Dewey surrounded by
tonvard-O-ooking advise*-* th«; e is little reason to doubt that he
would make the notion a good President, But therein lies: the
problem. It is- the problem of h;s advisers The GOP is a bad
bet at best. If they put Dewey a they ard going to tell him
how to run he government—a perfectly natural, procedure.
The .vhole Republican outlook is reactionary and ultra-con
servative. One of the major tragedies of the 80th congress wa :
the utter failure ot the Republicans to sense the new day that
is dawning They are looking -back to the halycort days of Boh .-
Penrose nf Pennsylvania. When the Republicans took over the
writer was even hoping that they had learned their lesson and
were ready for something liberal and prop.. s- ive Much to my dr- -
appointment they proved to be the same GOP that sp.-Ci&b/.ed in
looking out for the powers that
The enactment of the Taft-Hartley act w;>.- a ca--e in point.
Capital had abused, labor through the decad*and of tins fact
then :• no question or den.a!. Undei tie- aegis of the immortal
RfOoseve’t labor was given a chance lor its life. The labor gov
ernment y-jr-w and waxed powerful and it is d range- that la not
became intoxicated with its power even as capital had been in
toxicated through tit« generation.- The fight t o labor has been
an uphill . m- and this writer appreciates the gam- that labor hat
i!)ado Furhennore h-- is. -.trenuously opposed u some of lab.u -
tactics tv gain aboiendf this wit ter appreciates tht danget -bat
labor imp, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
So when congress took measures to curtail some of the power
vi.at vjbo: wa misusing -o effectively, there was no partivuia.
übjeci)i<n --n tin part ot those who aio »n the U a-t conversant
t; *• c-sucs involved, But the Tail-Hartley act -va:., designed
core t-v. break the back of labor than to relieve he pressure on
stem or. breaking labor's back and if the Taft -Hartv act is nor
the unpc There were some old line Republican.-, who were
;ovised ;t - going to do that veyy thing. Is is: myi belief that
;-<bor could havi been brought to accountability without the fla
grant attempt to bn.ak labor': back The very fact mat there is
a movement on foot and even a promise by Dewey to rev is.- the
"raw sk.ov,ivaw pernicious its ultimate effects will be
Nobody wants to see industry destroyed. Nobody fonts r
-co business ruined. Nobody wants to sec the employers at the
mercy of designing labor leaders. But industry and the .employers
call b. saved without destroying labor and the Talt-Hartley lav.
designed to do just that.
The open -hop is to label what segregation is to the Negro.
The ultimate implications of the open shop is the disintegration
-'.in in American. Segregation ho.- tin same effect on
the Negro Segregation -. a form of t ilium anon and it not abol
..-!,ed it mean- tin- ultimate extermination of the Negro 1;,- faH b
, :ri, eliminatix. measure. That n acts slowly make- no differ
i noc. The .-am{ • tr-.n of the .-.pen .simp. Its ultimate effect--
... :break t l . . back ■-f labor in this country. It should be possibH
n, sa-ve hoi a indu try and the laboier- and there is no g. >'.d reason
why one must survive upon the death of the other.
Dewey therefore has: a certain kind id company to keep that
will handicap him even if he want:; to be libmai and consWue
...... The writer is not afraid of Dewey but tembiy afraid of
the company that h«- must keep. The willingness of the Repub
-I,can congress to turn over to private interest;-., the coast at oil u*-
rves .-how- what is on his mind. That is a .straw tnat .hows
which way the wind is blowing. Under our very eyes tin
Republicans are playing ball with the Divieerats.. Giw thi > v/ntet
Truman, despised and rejected by the Dixiecrat
Nomination ior a tireless toiler
j;, t|, : | ~i , :k;0 relations; Tc.ro
lin.s in Todd. Pii-sid.-u? of Ut< in
stifute on Race .Relations of Wash*
!).;•!< ': D C
Florida A 'MI M Olloffe will
ho ora of tin inn.-1 schools in the
■cnith when M c-MvipUMes its mu 11 i -
ii.iljic-n <Jolla.' building program
Prexy "Bili" Gray has confounded
siis criFcs with his spendid accom
plishments
No mat lor uho is elected Presi
dent, look l"i' an acceleration of
fair ploy in federal ciriplcymcrd
; oliev , Negro political leadens
(very whore have served warning
upon their respective parties that
this n: a MUST
Farm com. in BBS probably
will be about a.- high .v they are
this y<. ai
Your hemline .s perfect when it's
ban I.v imtii cable A finished hem
can give your outfit cither a cus
tom-tail oi ed look (.■!' a "i■om.'n'iacU'”
eiiec i.
I they’ll Never Dur^is^]
W/ \. Health and j
WMi 0® \\ STORV OFMIFTiJN W,<HBBS,
mm fiK lit BORN IS2S in phua.fa.
Ss!' Em i n while still in His 20%
lH' rSm *f%W I VOUHG' &&BS FOLLOWED
4m\ M j THE GOLD PUSH AND St f
«\ Yrt-* / \ -4’ UP A SUCCESSFUL CLOTH
'/ /y JJJ& JBUSIfffiSS^NgjNNV
PROPPED POULTAX *OR
' LAW A D£&IFF £ AND R sIrTtPD
\W m ZT f *W%Ws# Mv' tN LITTLE BOCK,ARK. ■»
* , *VBBk' YEARS LATeR,IKTHATCITV.
IB HO B* 5 . CAM E T*H F IST HEtfttß
JV'DGB m THfc US. A /
H&N. MIFFLIN W. <iL( *
i GIBBS >jMi:
N&eo T^TjPP;
L ...
Striving to b«- far.*. i< a rrvtty
big job that m* wni* anderiakes
who mefiiis to stoat and rob
Fairness is not hviiv.une to mis -
take, but is; willing to rodr-ero
of the mistakes it makis
FEATHER IN YOUR CAP I
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If you’re out to climb a mountain
From the base to snowy cap, .
Just to rescue freezing parties.
That’s a feather in your cap;
Rut to earn a bright red feathe-
Finer than the rest- # *
Give to your hometown Community
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