PAGE FOUR
EDITORIALS
1 JR EMPLOYMENT IN FEDERAL
SERVICE
i e desirability of federal fair entploy
nie ■ practice legislation is open to ques
tion, due to the difficulty involved in on
to p. ng such legislation. There ir. all but
unanimous opposition in the South to the
idea, and in other parts of tin- country
many are lukewarm toward it, to state the
situation mildly.
Though there can be no doubt it', the
minds' of fair-minded persons that the
opportunity to work and to prepare for
a job or vocation according to one's tastes
and abilities should be entirely divorced
from race, religion or national origin, it is
doubtful that such opportunities can be
brought about on a nationwide scale by
federal legislation. The idea is too con
trary to the principle of free enterprise
vh;ch is deeply ingrained in the American
system. The law would be relatively un
enforceable.
Certainly discrimination in employment
is unfair, uneconomical and often highly
illogical and inconsistent. Negroes and
whTes have worked side by side in the
South since 1619. Negroes have done
practically every kkind of work and held
pr tic ally every bind of job in the South
T: South and the nation are making ie-...
th. the best use of their resources when
inw . iduals of any group are barred from
the best jobs for which they are capable;
an ’ that is wasteful, quite apart from the
in' .slice done the individual so circurn
s< bed. But would a federal law improve
t- situation? Might it not, because of the
eh unseated resistance to it. produce more
harm than good?
FELL” is working In New York,
V advocates of a federal lawn But New
A -k is not typical of the entire nation.
F.e- one thing, the very large and mflu
enthil Jewish and Catholic element in the
P-- Nation of that state is behind the en
fe .meat of the law, and no such aid
w, lid be available to it in the South. And
tin -e is no question that the traditions of
tin President's right, but also his duty,
w racier -its and Now York and < on
no 'cut ar< far im-re amenable to in ter
ra-.: ml jUsuco than those ot North Ctiro
lir: and Alabama and Mississippi and
Car forma
Put there is one area of employment in
which the Federal Government, may pro
ceed. logically and with complete justifi
cation, to enforce fair employment prac
tice's, and that is in the Federal Govern
ment itself. This can be done without
congressional action.
When John Snyder, secretary of the
treasury, fired the collector of internal
revenue in Birmingham for failure to obey
Pr si dent Truman’s Executive Order 9980
forbidding racial discrimination in the
federal civil service, he established a pa",
tern that can be strictly adhered to in all
federal departments, bureaus and offices
in every part, of the country. It is not only
the Presidents’ right, but also his duty
especially in view of his advocacy of fed
eral legislative action, to insure fair em
ployment practices, to enforce to the lei
tf; his executive order, and to do what
ev r else is necessary to eliminate dis
crimination in federal employment. He
ha the same right and duty as regards
ail holders of government contracts.
The protest "of Senator Lister Hill that
lair employment policies on the part of
rh- United States Government in certain
sections of the country are contrary to
local custom and traditions is entirely be
side the point. Under the Constitution of
ilr United States ail citizens are on equal
fpt ting, and if white persons do not care
to work unde)* conditions in which Ne
groes are dealt with fairly as citizens, then
the white persons should resign. Enough
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Negroes can be found to take over. As h
matter or fact plenty of white persons can
be found who will ■ cept an equitable
federal employment policy in practically
any locality in the South-
One of the ihk.ga that, must go is the
insist enee f hot 'whatever adjustments
must be marie nm-t always be made by
Negroes, and . 1 •o' advantage, in or
der to pro- i ■ wii ' people in their jirej
u dices.
So, vegv rdi«- .- o‘ tin fate of LLPL leg
islation, there i.. ... i" the Fed cal gov
ernment can do, },. .i ;,-.s : 'way.- done to
some extent ev»-n in urn. localitie.-v of the
South in connection with post office em
ployment to be fair to ail it.- citizens, and
to set a good example to other employers
It is free to eliminate discrimination in
employment where it. is the employer.
And the .federal government is the biggest
single employer in the country. by tar.
BETTER THAN ACQUITTAL,
THOUGH
Not long ago a white man was sentenc
ed to eight months cm the roads on a
charge of assault on a Negro woman. It is
a rather cynical commentary on southern
chivalry and southern civilization in gen
eral that this conviction and sentence
should be noteworthy , for noteworthy it is.
The man was miginally charged villi
attempted rape, ami according to the story
told at the time the crime was committed
that is wind he was guilty of. But the. man.
"•'ho w is a p. duet .-alestnan, and hacl
beer: a resident of Roanoke Rapids and
North Carolina for only a matter of
months, was admitted to bail- Further
more, the original bail of $5,000 was re
ductal to £IOOO. Then somewhere along
the line the c harge of attempted rape was
reduced to that of assault on a female.
Finallly we have the sentence of less than
a vear's impri o; went.
The Negro m the Couth has been -.o con
ditioned by the outcome of such cases m
the past that lie perforce regards even a
conviction and an eight, mouths sentence
as. .something pr- tty fim and promising.
But at the same linm hi? cannot out re
flect: Suppose this had boon a Neg v o
salesman, and from Maine a* that, and a
white woman vv : om the Negro assailant.
1 1 '!n {viVd i o r )ii li clown on oi.iO ot tiiv*
pool I'ab'n - in her own establishment. Bud,
Reduced charge? Light months on the
your own answers.
LET’S BUILD A STADIUM
A campaign has been launched by a
group of Raleigh citizen-- and the Alumni
Association of >Si::t\s l niv. rsii.v to con
struct a stadium adequate tor athletic
contests staged ;s and tor Negron- >, Am
one who has attended games in Raleigh
will realize the great need of such a fa
cility, and there is no necessity tor going
into great detail on that subject, here and
now.
In most cities in North Carolina having
,t municipal stadium the stadium is avail
able to responsible Negro parties for the
staging of athletic events. Not so in Ra
leigh. The city authorities have persistent
ly refused to permit Dovereux Meadow
to be engaged by and for Negro events.
They have taken the stand that Chavis
Park v. as constructed for Negroes, and
that Negroes are restricted to the use of
that facility, regardless of circumstances.
That Chavis l ark is distinctly inferior to
Devi reux Meadow does not seem to dis
tuib the city authorities. The field be
comes a quagmire after a heavy fag
There are no field houses. There is no
covered grandstand. I here are not sulTi
cun. seating accommodations. All these
i .wilitios exist at Devereux Meadow.
The city autla rkic.y under the present as well
as previous adnunistmoons, have- taken the po
rtion that the two Raleigh .colleges have no
mhi i-.-n-t ugh; ::rrt- rt . facilities furnished
tat a pace) by t!v .city, though other North
C,;.a .•.a., .- iv-.r L-c:>t municipal facili
tjes avaiiabk-. as well as cities in other states
not 'Jib-.-ra}’* as NGath Carolina. But we no
*v, tb.iu War'.uirgtrjn High Scho-.-1, ’which is
r-cbiic instituti:. n of fee city, hi a., not been
luvur-d '• u:-.- I>:ver-.-u.x. li oukt ’ added
for the enlightiment of trie public that the fe«-
charged the -colleges for the rent*! oi Chavis
Pi rk was increased 50 per cent this year over
hist by the city authorities.
The obvious solution t,» the problem, so far
as private institutions and parties is concerned,
i- an adequate privately owned stadium avail
able to all Responsible parties.
Let's get behind the project to build one, It
v/iil be for the benefit c£ all of us.
THE CAROLINIAN
' 'Lo -JM
nations
«BKte'p| Ypf ‘M* l — —T ■s»a- B9s ,
aj| Jecotid Thoughts j
Ay C, D. lIALLIBOKTO* j
-We take these rights to in
clude cqirdity before the law. and
freedom from any dLa in.mati. n
yt-fi by ki\y ; .1 rij/; t lo vn.u>
freedom •» exprt-'.-.:iuu; an uu
, ni-.n."9 / ,/-I K-*» I■■ V t v }, i'• 1n w
l‘Oi.Lh -dpp'ai Ld U.y i
in.hlic weifruc. «Inand i' -
pH ais not oxceptfu-. c-ujua 1 paj id.
jl' TCQllii'C vlbtlit) ;.-nd lt>
i Os '
Xh»: :.U vv i. ;* G t .1 ft' '-aiiifOStl;
dr-v/n up by ?.nc NaiionA] A'Seo
ci-.tion for the Advancement of
Colored People or any enher N r -
the * 'meed Hu:; ur
“ouUtide interfererscc” us norir.-
Ntalcnici t cn'.ee n ‘u cm uu <'d
P :-Ko<sior»?il iu ■d< ;from sucih-
Lb'- !' V, !UP J= -s-i
drawn up at a meeting held A
*ho University o t Viic. nx-.t unfit i
the auspice;; of the Southern C» n
-2erence Educallcr.al Fm x d.
An analysis ol the declaration,
!>:•' • “f tin., uvw
the reader an effective and tii.-
THE ROAD TO HEALTH
UNDERNOURISHMENT
By MYE HADDOX, M, D.,
Shreveport, La., For ANP
Mv.o. Weaver was shocked and
plainly disbelieving when I told
her she was suffering from lack
ul nourishment. She, had come to
my office, she said, because she ■
felt constantly fired and her di
gestion had been noon too good.
After a thorough physical rxam
instiea.. including, a chest X-ray -
and a blood v :-‘, I discovered that ,
her body was not getting the -
nourishment needed to keep ,
supplied with sufficient good. ! •
blood
When 1 explained this to my
patient, she protested that she
at<- pkntv of food ;.n.i that it was ’
■hard to believe that hot* w.-Mr:;
habits might have something to
do with her lacking enough good
blood. Evoif in tin* last few Wrfcks
when she was not feeling well,
f-hy said, he r husband continued
to joki about, her -‘enonn .up ap
petite.”
Mrs. Weaver went or. to list the
kinds of foods which she mid she
me in great Quantities It was
plain that her favorites wire
either' starchy foods or those with
little nutritional value.
•'Mans’ people eat sufficient
quantities : i food, Mrs, Weaver,
but when they don’t cat the right
kinds, they can actually be slav
ing themselves as fat as budding
blood and tissue-; n concerned.”
I fi tid her. “The body needs pro
tein, vitamin-., and minorn-is to
build i-t and keep it in repair. It
can't opens?<• the wav it -iiou) i
if they are not included m von,
diet in sufficient Quantities.”
These nc*cc-rsav.v food elements.
T tq!d her. can be found in meal,
fish. egg?, fresh fruits arid vogt
tablvs, mdk and milk products,
ib’r'vi and whole grain cereals.
Mrs. Weaver asked niv ab..pi t*■ •
vitamin niVls and preparations
that could be bio-ight at the store*.
bin ami depi-e-.ising effects of lhe
DxitlT.il ... Vi-.a M ./It.’ ! ire
iurctv. at veueti-'in m fru? Soul’-
It. ivc : :'in/-.-a, a’,on.; w.th those
enl; i.ien.d e-.in.i§ii ’o ft-.-: ’he
necessity —for s.-uthern tipolo
gi.-i a.e historic eondittpus th.it
.. ■ C - mn- fnv sent pligm '
but .-.cic,: "However, Viit-x eon
d.t .I.iO ■' -Cli til i'S.I '
lit ire vt'-i-i. tig- UccJlii- . tit -j .
la:-.- -1.0 kin f-. at tin- iv".d -we
al -i i led, 0 ait- —: .ttfs-'il
at e,hat pu-;,rc-..; f.>r. i..c, ■, rr.uae.
Tf* ■ v. , ; I II r. :. ;it;!';ov'cnt< tli:-:
should sa rve ns ar. inccntivx* to
j'rc'jtcr unci tie! or:
ch ,i of ’‘‘rize -u< !i , ..t;?u r,leu’ •
lion -i u lac »>; j-ii 11 if 1 r1 c
.-to li! it -.ri; lira tncvtr i: lit,
■
while people to begin inviting
Xt’aniCr.; to thcii postic-S, oi Vico
versa it declares for v quui ac
-11:0 ■ uforioint-ct ui full oij'tpio;.
J { ■ ,;i prut While i.)C/i
proparations have their place, u
well La lanced diet containing the
nece-rsary food elements ordinur
ib do; sn t need to be supple
mented by vitamin pills.
Mrs. Weaver was interested ; n
just, why her poor blood would
make her feel “all dragged out"
o*vs n after one of her heavy mca’.s
• ilt- . a so .-oil I t. xpiniit • i
that the blood plays an impor
tant part in keeping the body in
f atisfat ter v w o r k condition.
When the bino-i isn't rich and reel
enough, many important body
functions are slowed down and
tlic* vr.t: bodv is weakened.
Tie. .viere. the ‘ biood-huilding"
foods are among the most impor
tant. For Mi's. Weaver’s diet. I
stressed vegetables and fru'ts rich
ADVISORY COLUMN
P.N.C. —1 bought a case here In
this city last spring and I have
done y > s,, ~ >d. For sumo re. ..:i
the iieop.'c here just hoscorn to
like t: ’■ .oid 1 am dissatisfied, i
read yoiv column and you help
-■ ,-:-e he ip UtC SoiT.CUrrK-
I i'c ] like: making a change.
Ans. Make some friends. Bud
dy. Join the business men's chin
and si:.;nt of the ethos organiza
tion* afSi.lmtc with a chur-.-h and
Ihe people will accept you e u ;n
--hcarlodly. You haven’t been vr-.. •>
friendly and you haw not given
the finnuiimite folk; vl.o approach
you any ci i coumgemoni. With w
little conscientious effort to •.vjt
f'-iends you can main a rueci-M oi
vour case business. My tMit tluidei
will help you immensely.
* * *
t
P.C.M, Do vou hear Wedding !
belts for i A. ond rne soon? I'm
f-eri no about this business.
Arts: Sometime din ing the Xrons
Holiday:: if ail but. well. You had!
plan for implementing what it
advocates -a simple one, which
includes legislative action at fed
eral. state end local levels. It ad
vocates the repeal ot "existing
law.-, in violation of these prin
ciples. notably all laws that fore
public distinctions based on col
or. I'e'uei -n and national origin,
and "new legislation on all three
It-vela to " x eve .-luck! let
lie.- civ:) rigiit- '.-I the citizen:
hqualiy important, however.
j! not more x■, is me challenge
of the signers to voluntary action
both individually and by groups,
to apeak out against discrirnira
ii'-ti in particular cases, to guard
. Ji one own ;..v< .mdices, and
to educate others in other
V, re;-- to lake post!:vc action
j idicc, instead of a past.-ivc altir
an t; e wli'ti*' things. except
v, non goaded mt - ta-rativt amt
: ■ xentfi.ii word:: and do. i . by
"OiP :.idr iliterfe: cm ■
the kind ot if‘.iisCi>hi|.
lions ready !■• loli'.-.v. Tile I'-int
mg auti-Negr > forces have al
ready been largely discredited.
The nev torward step is to take
leadership away from the pusry
iuuters the self-seeding poll
owanv and the t ini ore us pubiic
. t- \vh . cannot zet beyond tar*
“more" this and that, and the
.ha. :■i. r this and that, and the
in vitamins and minerals tur
nip grettfis.’ spinach, kale, carrots
and peas. She als. needed u. add
milk and fruits, including citrus
fruits, to her daily foods.
When 1 mentioned that fre.sl
lean meat was a source of neces
sary protein for the body, Mrs.
Weaver interrupted to point out
that, fresh meat is often difficult
io get and is usually very expen
sive. 1 told her then of other foods
that were rich in protein, such as
soy beans, navy and lima beans,
peanuts and pried yeast.
Meals that arc well planned to
include a good supply of protein,
minerals and vitamins mean less
expense, in she long run. and
most important, the building and
pres -rvation oi a family’s gore!
U 0" '• - t m
better go apartment hunting.
H.L. I stay in a strain all of
1 the time. This friend of mine helps
’iiit 1 a little but '.vhen he doesn’t
. 1 ■ '••• he don': He kn ! \vt I_. tn
tiood end won't do anything about
f He's married but he knew he
was married when he started with
tV:'-. He don’t want me to go any
place without him. Hi. wants me
in act like 1 am his in “that' tine
. and I think hi ought to act like 1
' m hi:- in ' money line. He al
, ways ,s r < t.;, up something to get mud
about on p,,y day. He don’t run
i o. o to his wife through th*' week
"> '.'hy • iiuuld tie on guy day''
An . IP cause si a s his wife and
you're only the ’other woman” in
his life .All you will ever get is
what he dribbles out to you a.« he
*ecs lit. The woman who sets her
car tor a married man generally
lhlas the bag You must take the
bitter with the sweet. j
* * »
11 D.C. Will the course in bar- ■;
’tiring I am thinking oi taking as-
WEEi DING SATURDAY, DEC- 11, 19-18
—" KETWEgMII
plb#‘f|gj THE
—r.iurs
BV oiANB Hancock ro/t mnp
THE FORTHCOMING FILIBUSTER. ,
The advocates and friends of civil rights os espoused by P ■
dent Truman, maj us well rc-cont-ito themselves to the i. l th.it
the opposition is bound to resort to the filibuster, so long to
instrument of obe,; ruction of react! jrinry southerners. None but
•the t'a shl.y optimistic has ever imagined that all was over b it.
the shouting, re..peels the- civil right-- ••gram.
The defer,!~j ..outlherneT.x are in a vindictive mood and will
resort to not. -utot-.rfugos and t-x, edienm. before they finally
surci.nnb to the inevitable Nip - es must not 10.,.- heart there
:oiv if <... .il rights r-r> .• i:• runs, into a ;-:nag stud above
;I Truman must net blamed tor the specious tact t"«‘
the die-hard Dixiocrj-t«. art iiound to employ. Dixiecraey i.; not
c« ad by a long -hot. and if it, is. it. does no!, know it,
What w« irate won thus far amounts merely, to the fir:
skirmish in the fray. Nothing tangible can be accomplished unle:--
an effective cloture measure eon be introduced and approved.
Such bill must not only run the gauntlet, of the vindicative demo
crat. of dixiocratic affinities and affiliations, but it must pa./'-
muster before tin.- deceitful and designing republican.-; of southern
sympathies. Trumans great glory and victory was in bringing
it lutz the forefront of the world's atlenum and wherein it fail--'
to advance will redound to the disgrace ol Congress and not our
courageous president.
The greater victory consists in making such gains in this
Jin Id <»f human relations that it will take a filibuster to stop it:
rad when any measure gets to the place that a filibuster must
dclera i l , it. has won a signal victory. Lynching has lost favor in
!; ■ <••.•, intry !.> the extent that it has taken filibuser after fill
ho. ter to savi the lynching pu.rogat.ve of the mob-ridden south
This writer would not be averse to seeing an orthodox south
ern tiiiibust-w such as would hamper congress in the enactment
oi necessorj legislation. Such filibuster would more than anv
uther oin thing call attention to the scotjrge that is race preju
di< e in this country. The filibuster take-? away Die cloak of re
spectability from prejudice and exposes the club foot that make
decent people sick at heart. The cause then is bound to be well
.served vhether we get texture or whether we are treated to a.n
old orthodox rout hern filibuster. The sicker the country ••
wade ;f Dixitcracy the better, and the so or, to the- betw;
There is .me thing of which ivall may be sure and that is,
the south •• getting sicker and sicker of being the target of the
world's accusing linger. The Dixiecrat may blew and bluster, but
at his iifart the average southerner is a sensitive creature; an I
it gives him no pleasure to be singled out as an advocate of lynch
ing and other anti-social practices. The spotlight of public opinion
as playing to - pitilessly upon the south for it ever to be again
on good terms with itself until its greater joy c-omes from other
tilings than ' lording it over" poor and underprivileged Negroes.
The better elements of the white south ar. even now "sick
and tired" of everlastingly apologizing for the depredations of
-their less circumspect fellows. And then too, when a Mississlp
pian begins to talk of ■■compromise'’ on the civil rights program,
we have something really new. It is like the man biting the dog
when a chronic Mississippi shows willingness to
on anything but the utter subjugation and domination of Negroer.
Yet this, s.; the totes' in civil rights discussion*;.
It is f- rvontly to be hoped that the rhonit Negro Republicans
will not chime in with the Dixiecrat.-. and commence a heckling
war on Truman. Os course Truman does not care, but we should!
There u no way t prove that if Df'wov hat won the election we
would not bi face to lace, a: at present, with tire possibilities of
<a filibu-ter such a; may mean postponement of the- long waited
day when civil rights will be the portion of every Negro even
those who fought against us on the bloody field of battle. The
forthcoming lilibu tev need not Gccn.sipr* alarm. It a proof of
defeat!
Sentence Sermons
Giving people the ‘‘hard way to go" simply makes your garden
of life move difficult to
The- thorns and thistles you sow each day ensnare wanderers'
; el and Keep good folks away.
No one can make ;t hard for an innocent, neighbor, without
himself felling into some of his handmade pits lie forgot to cover.
Providence sees to it that men pay up some day for the tricks
they perpetrated to hurt, a brother on his "way,
Life wasn't given to man to trick a single soul, but for every
man to help his brother make his coveted goal.
When individuals give in to their "bent to sinning," then
i wrybodv mud endure their low type of living
The strong and the weak must live together, but the strong
must do the lifting, to help those who are drifting, that the world
niig h t become better.
Men then who are ,-;i•• -ng should thank God for this high as
signment and not nnirmw against Him as on - being placed in soli
tary confinement
For anybody can .-'imply live here from day' to day, but it
takes a real man or woman to warn careless souls to think and pray.
With only 70 years at best to live, a man is mightlv foolish
who doesn’t learn to give, until his time is almost, up, in this world
to live.
Treating people roughly and giving them a hard way to go.
may sometime; hasten victims to them graves, but it is a sequence
almost certain that the end :«f such persons is very hard and slow'.
Life, fur us all has its traps set with attractive bait; it is only
those who can control their human cravings who thoughtfully
choose between success and ill-fate.
Such persons as these would not have the other fellow to know
his thoughts to lie so shallow .thus be comes a bigger hypocrite by
trying to pretend to the other fellow.
There is sill a lot of foolish men and women in the world today
who take up move of life’s precious hour.-- talking about '‘fifths/'
than of lhe Hca ve-nlv Father's eternal mits.
ter the first of the year be a wise
plan 1 am a married lady.
An:-: It surely will. And yon can
get some mighty good practice on
your four little boys. You can drum
up an awful lot of trade as there
aren’t any barber shops convenient
ly located to serve the folks in your
section
it' *■’ A
S.M.C - J am engaged to a man
whom I love dearly but 1 am be
ginning tothink .that our Idea:- art
not similar at all, He seems to have
Id fashioned idea: —a man earn
ing the living and a wife running
the heme. 1 don’t want a man t
set roe down, i want to work, help
earn "he living, share and share
alike in ail things. Is this unreason
able?
Ann It's not a question, of being
reasonable or unreasonable. The is
sue is an existing difference of
opinion and you must reach ait
agreement before getting marred.
It's admirable of him to want to
provide the living and for you to
be a home-maker You'll probably
have to compromise by getting a
part time job. This man you’ve
picked has a healthy appetite and
he’ll want his wife to have a “big
tospreacV’ on his table every evening.