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PAGE FOUR ■&*>■ i. • • * •.* ■ **' \ * r» EDITORIALS HAVE A HEART! Some (critics both inside and outside ■of Congress have brwn sniping at Presi dent Truman because he has taken time (out for a little vacation in Florida, Some times one wonders how captious politi cians and other people can get. '1 IME magazifie, certainly no rabid partisan of President Truman, says that it is the first vacation Mr. Truman has had for ’ Almost a year. Everyone indulging in this petty snip ing at the President kmVws ,or should, that when lie is away from Washington like this he is in (constant touch with the affairs of his office; t h at indeed he simply moves his office and takes it with him. Nearly all of these carping critics also know that he is always ready to hurry back to Washington in a matter of hours in case of emergency. It seems that lots of people think that all is fair, not only in love'and war, but also in politics. Every well informed person, whether a political friend or ■political foe of President Tru man, knows that the presidency of the United State- is a terrific job in ordin ary times; that in times like these it is literally a mankiller. No fairmmded and intelligent person could really be • grudge the President a little breather away from the Washington scene. Any one who carps about Mr. Truman’s va (cation in Florida is either ignorant or . pretty spiteful. AMAZEMENT IN ORDER “The chairman of the Hertford Coun ty Selective Board expressed amaze ment today when lie was informed that only T six of 50 Hertford men had passed mental examinations for Army duty/' So read an AP item in the NEWS and OBSERVER recently. Nearly everybody else will surely share the board chair man’s amazement, especially those who ’read a little further and learned that mast of the 50 repeweys were in the “19 and 20-year groups,” The chairman ob served that the ratio of rejections in Hertford Countv had been running bet ter than 50 per cent, but the 88 per cent ratio of the last. 50 knocked him out. > Obviously something is wrong. People from Hertford County certainly are not mentally inferior inherently to the gen eral population. There is no reason to think that Hertford County schools are inferior to those of the typical rural North Carolina county. On the fare of it. it would appear that either the schoPi attendance practices in Hertford must be worse than the generally bad prac tices throughout the state, or else there, are more Hertford boys, playing dumb at the induction center examinations |than from other parts of the state. Or Possibly, as some argue, the examina tions are too stiff. In any case it is shameful that only six out oi 50 men, most of them youths, who are supposed to have had school ing opportunities in the most progres sive state in the South educationally, passed the mental-educational tests for Army service. >t* SOME ANSWER IN THE OFFING Governor Byrnes of South Carolina has followed Governor Talmadge of Georgia in threatening that the public schools of South Carolina will be (closed should a decision of the V. S. courts demand an end of segregation in the schools. Georgia so far has gone farther •than South Carolina in that the legis lature of the former state has backed up the governor by tying up the ap propriations for public schools with the THE CAROLINIAN Psbltabed by The. Carolinian Publishing Co. US Ea-iU Hargett St., itaieSgh, N. C. En-tared, as second-class waiter, April S, J. 940, at tbs Post Offics at Raliegh, N. C., under the Act M&s-eiv m* P. R, JBRVAY. Publish*’?- Subscript ion Kate* One s£.so; Six Months, $2.00 Address all communications and nsaV« all efoecfcs payable to The Carolinian rather than to IMirtduais. The Carolinian expressly repudiates responsibility for return of unsolicited pictures, jßA&uscript, etc., unless stamps are sent, (commitment to close them if “neces sary.” But Hie South Carolina legisla ture is still in session and it is not im possible that it will pass legislation similar to that passed in Georgia. The basis of Governor Byrnes’ state ment is a suit pending in a South Caro lina county which is aimed ostensibly at the abolition of segregation in Hie schools rather than the inequality of facilities ns between the two races. Gov ernor Byrnes is publicly committed to 1 .the principle of “substantial equality” !hi school facilities, and lias recommend ed a $75,000,000 bond issue for school building purposes, a good part of tin? proceeds of which would go toward this equalization. He advocates “substantial equality” not only as a matter of ex pediency under the pressure of the U. S. Court decisions, and as a measure to head off any possible abolition of segregation because of continued gross inequalities in public school facilities between the races, but also as a matter of right. In other words Governor Byrnes’ po sition is that the time has come to re cognize the “equal” part in the separate but equal doctrine wh\h has long been incorporated in the state laws in those states maintaining separate school facil ities but that the “separate” part, of the equation must be maintained at all costs, to the extent of abolishing public /..•bools, if “necessary.” It is unfortunate that a man of Gov ernor Bycm-./- prestige should give the weight of his influence to the doctrine (that public schools are a lesser value than segregation. As a former member of the Supreme Court, not considering the other high offices he has held, his stand becomes very influential. That doubtless helps to explain why he made (the public pronouncement he did. For we do no-t believe Governor Byrnes seriously thinks the Federal courts are going to insist on the aboli tion of segregation in. the public schools. Nor do we think he believes that those UrV- fi ipnt \i m i :» f). • ,& ?=* ! *- liO vl i OUli c ARC v L *' ( -** t y **M decision. We believe that the pattern of discrimination has btVome so fixed in the South that some strategists felt that the quickest (if not the best) way to attack it. in public education was a frontal attack on segregation, the basis of the discrimination. At leasLthe prob lem is thereby dramatized, and the re sult has been that Complacency over the discrimination has been rendered impossible. It is obvious that, whatever the an swer is to the question as to whether equality is possible with separation, the answer mut be ought by trying to attain The equally, or eparaion must be given pp, or, as Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Talmadge say the public schools must cease to be.. NO IMMUNITY Regular readers of the column, “In cidentally,” in the Sunday NEWS and OBSERVER know that Miss Nell Bat ftle Lewis, its writer, is an ardent advo cate of World Federation. They also know that she has been pretty tough on a lot of people she has regarded as too easy on persons alleged to be Commun ists, Communist sympathizers and dupes oi Communists. We have admired the vigor with whifc h he has cracked down on professed and known Reds, but be lieve that at times she has jumped the gun in getting after good Americans who did not deserve association with the Red cause at ail. Well, recently some irresponsible par ty or parties let iotose the insinuation that the World Federationist organiza tion somehow is promoting Stalin’s in terests. No thinking person would have any good reason for believing there is any truth behind that insinuation. All indications point to the conclusion that the World Federationists are about as far from Communist sympathies as any one (could be. It just goes to show that Tn these days anyone may find himseif living in a glass house without knowing when or how he moved in, - .... *A..- TTIE GABOON! AN ■‘STRUGGLING AGAINST EVIL FORCES FOR A BET TER BALANCE.” IN THIS OUR m iiV < . A t Mint. SI! Till SIGMf II ANCE OI I '.ASTER Al On- v, Filin, ■' M yeern that Melik-:- Nature will provide the Iv sti r l*-irnd«‘."s splendid v.-eath ■ i ijj hiL'li to yaiude ill tie t! £ s£cono Jv/ THOUGHTS ™ kfijS i A ' ssawsasiMß«Sßw*»i Hr. Robert \f Madver. long lint professor Os oi ftf C-:!vn.ii! i I'i e , ] ~ < her Os : bool, published tii "The Aiun 1 Vri'oei Tn ion.’’ It is a study of imer-group Misei’imin.e ion in the 1 nr-. States, Although I’rofessu;- via.. of theoretical Soi iulogy Thi-, Ivet i- ill- author of a. guodly , number of books nearly till of Jlicm have been within li- fit-lit book is certainly the only ex tensive tr casuist- he has produc-. d on the subject of race and group discriifliuution. But it is om the best available, and tiiar ;s mainly because lie keeps bis treatment of the subject dis passionate and objectivi. and be cause he offers the book as ’"A program for tie control of hit er croup discrimination in the Tinted States" —the sub-title i ! tlie work, ii is an extremely practical approach which Dr. Madver takes, lie not only tali,- about conditions but about methods and measures to attack the same conditions. Following this Ine the closing chapter of the book offers “fomr Conclusions.” On e of these has to do with strategy. The first strategical point T)r. Madver makes is. ■'The primar;-. aitack on dis crimination should rails to the caus, of Xotmuul welfare and nationni unity.” 'That point : in eompide har mony with tin* title of tin- book. His thesis is that discrimin i tiot, and its results are bad. fir d of al! because of their effect not on the discrimination against, but on (he people of our couti- X. TiGUSES in AW OLD llftESTossE -me famous ; s ° n ,'t A^ BfcVAN PUCK AI-TAftPiece JjE&km • r,. <****7- AOi>oiel> mK\U £? SAVON'S A A CA&3Y Fw ft ™EPflAi.j-1 u* sr 1 & the Us \ spr.pcrs and tilt radio cor.nii er!;: .u>: there will be a ■!< i;t■ cf .a v. .wits in v inch to i> \:e;ebanH ai, reporting t:u:t K.cte. .its- ale l a highest ca■ i i.i e kin >V. 1: Ii Ola iI.V ■ ■ i.ry. On tin i: oi e eriou: s>dc of life I. ai co.at a very .‘.ppro- J. .ate till,* *.t the yea: i'ne sea." •"ii <>l ‘he .Scar L-. very filtitlf' tl.i ■ ac-aoii which we *'rdt l r.> ar a whole—the nation, lie t .r s' "The rpujon :t! of inter : roup dis* rlnunation have not iee, Had adequate attention. Tile di tinetive!;. ititer-protij) culture tha: lias dcvelofied in the Tnited St.:•••!- a in! that i> refle, led in n. national tradition and it: jioiitteai s: ■•uotun* i: tlireaieiiitd • by lie- crowth of i.utC-l'-grOUp lei,,-.ion-, and-by tint prcvalenca of lOter-group or w iniinanon. The (t.iusiMineuees to national uni.; i<> ilie strength and intog jii v of Ainericau nationhood: are ignored or disregarded.'’ What Dr. Madver says hero is receiving growing recognition as a truth and a very important one Many people, have s; id ,u. :t> much the same tiling, but i doubt that anyone i-!k has expressed the idea more ciearii and directly. Now is an esjji hilly good tirno for the nation to think on i'ro f> .ror Maeiver’s words-, and to act on them, for certain by unity Is a prime need at thi-* point in o'tr national history. Practically everyone will a free as to t'n .“•■ed for.unitv. Tin- unfortunate thing is that the old pattern cal Is for the Negro to promote this unity bv making al! (he ad iud mem* and eoncest-lons to bring, if about, instead the N - gro and hi friends must show fhaf -the r-uu- • of nntionai vcl far. and national unity" sew. e*i Ir.evttabh be't,-: hv lei'-ening d'scirr'iina’ion t** f* u bv a poll of “ri‘serinniit‘l ion :■« usual th- Negro be! tie- told in the meantime that 'ibis 1« no time" for pressing the struggle against it. \M. brute -- the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. Mother Nature v.-hith has been -asleep for Sev ern I months is now awakening; bird- are singing their harmon ious M.nys; trees and flowers are putting on then Nader rloth in:’. :th. dead plants, as it were, corin' to die again a; this sc-s-son of th< .year All of which are vv.y fitting aimOxpher.s in which to navy i. spiritual celebration. Moreover t h t- incidents around the Keister tory are so us to life: Today vv«- are sad. Let us so hack a few days be fo.-u timt fiist Kaster morning. Jesus had proclaimed tha* the kiiigciou; of God was at anni! Hie disciples had been sure that He was the one to redeem Israel. Then they saw Him betrayed. s< i/.cd by His foes, treated with the worst indignities executed : a common cr.minal with the i i:io::t shameful and terrible . death. But now on another day, in this same city of Jerusalem, we watch -mother scene. Sorrow has given way to joy, despair to hope. The scattered discip ;es of yesterday are together in ou“ company joined in a common faith and love and loyalty, fitted v ith a new eput. And they have a nev. courage: they are ready in jo o'" rmd ff.ee the world v.hicii put tiled- Lord to death. Tli. y nov. hav« a confident, hope for the future. We know what caused this tniraculoi-s change - fur it. was indeed a miracle; Jesus had ap peared to them Earth's gladest day had followed earth's saddest da. jus; three days apart! Always when we thml: of Eas ter. we think of joy and rejoic ing of music, of flowers and symbols of the new life that conn- earn spring after thy death of winter. But we mi’st not forget that the cross cam t f«i*:‘.. Obedience, devotion, self, sacrifice. stiffen S death; v. ithoui these no Easter, And 'tiles must go with Easter today. Easter will have a meaning to > ueh of us in proportion a? ‘he spirit of Jesus is re.gtrrected m our souls ano in proportion as vi rededicate our lives to the prineiplse of which He died; SENTENCE SERMON 1. Even in the expressions on little children’s faces is reflect ed the peculiar spirit of Easier with iis multiplicity of charm:') and hidden Graces. The eggs, the bunnies and trimmings, all harmonize and magnificently blend; all life it renewed and Quickened, for a God has come to defend. ft. Even the air though some times chilly seems to whisper with an enchanting sound He is risen to bring salvation-- yea, wherever sin is found. 4. The birds as they glide |hro ug h nature’s trackless ether, seem to know and instlne /tively chirp "Ji in Easter, it is Easier”. f>. Unsaved man gropes on this earth amidst this atmos phere of sacred glory and falls to sense the wondrous love of Him who came from Glory, i 6. The saddest spectacle one can behold or the human heart, conceive, is that of a man sur rounded with everything fine, yet his own Inward misery can „nor relieve. 7. The little chick is a happy token of what Easter means to man, portraying Christ break ing His nrlson cell, making it possible for any mart to sfen out of darkness arid his snir ; - too! and physical bode expand R 'nd now that Christ has mid the nrlee and broken man’* hands 14 under —for Christ <o expect man to accent. Him, now there should He nr, won der? 9 Thun every rnan and wom an should have no cause for o ’ . eoriaiof’- and dooM, sleep |b • God of TTeavep and earth rv> id so dearly- to bring their free cmr-f'ocstfyrt t *rr t Y' L 3 hr » x r yrnics' f,,j- f*h TT rv» nc* ■n-nr’*'* prrt_ rfh'rfflf ffvnf) r» nh\ n «***■« aIJ mep throughout the endless days. WEEK izxnmc, SATURDAY, MARCH gi, J 951 i E. C\ La wrence*g MY OPINION I _ THE DANGER OF BEING AT EASE In an article a. week or two ago, the writer briefly referred to the thought, that too many people are 100 easily satisfied. Under the caption, ‘ My opinion' we wish to discuss this thought more at lenghth. if there is any one besetting sin that is more undermining than another, It seems to the writer, that it. is /the awful mistake of becoming complacent, satisfied with what one knows, po-sicsses, or can do. Many individuals, families and social groups, mover come to, nr contribute their best to a wolrri order which offers so much, and Jin turn, demadns so much. Ob viously, tn many cases, not foe lack of opportunity, hut rather for lack of vision, thoughtfnl iness and purpose. While Inclined to concur with the old adage, "There are ex ception. to all rules." the wil der is stiil strongly inclined to believe, that, more often than failures arc the result of a lack of vision, initiative, and persistency. Almost daily ope may observe cases In which the is v well educated, and other wise, less talented, succeed where the more talented seem ito fail, or at herd., are less suc cessful. One or two reasons may account for these apa rent tipfib In the every, day druggies of Ilf';. First, there j- (he danger that the man of talent, natural, or acQuircd. may re!v too much persistent hard work will in most lease- bring success, An other pos'-IMo reason wbv the talented individual is pot more sticce sfiil, Is the fact that bo sometime,- mi-Jnternret talent a- success Within Itself, re'Mr Permit the writer to refer it! rain to the three eh a met,-.-, whose name- rnnoyroJ |n 11.,. .article or im.t we,!-. Or.i"- ien.” The i were r-ont-er '( w.acipnrtoM flrnrro \v. < a ever and \hrnham | tn.-oin Tt -re was Uni. Jp Hi it,*,-. ejiiier mm that ipdi-’etj«-.\ of any surplus t Jenr. But ir Between the Lines ■ BY CORDON HANCOCK for ANP the high COST OF OtTCU-iiOLDfNG Ever and auoa even, the ca,-,- -ai observers of passing event:, aie reminded of some of Book *[,, T - Washington’s homeJv Philosophy. He was going J. ’ -■ %jC XUutiers V^hfeU lyui the southern white iu-h that you cannot hold a idm-. la Hie ditch unless you uiv i here too. Seiious and studied attempts have been made to nt-liul. ts .,. meaning oi Washington A pun tyni. reicrence to a .serious situ ation where whiter are conitnit ting themselves to eternalizing o situation that ultimately means their own as well as the Negro's undoing. Washington's -’taiement was just another way oi saying that America cannot survive half slave and half free. The hope of the interracial situation in the south lies in iho fact that more and morn /southerners are alive to the seriousness of the situation, and are willing to do something about it. At heart the south fs forging ahead daily, threaten ing to forsake traditionalism tor moral heroism, such as these critical times demand, I There is no advanced program in any sphere where we do not find broad-gauged southerners ready to iead (be way. It may truly he said rha ( the bark of the south is much worse than its bite. Just. a. few days ago this writer was riding some of the best train through the South and the dining car ser vice war, entirely devoid of dis crimination. No curtains no particular tuhles, no attempts at herding all Neemes to one table. Just plain fir<t. class service and n good time was had bv all. Thu happened in \lahama tirid Talmadge's Georgia where young Tnlmadge promised to stop the irain* at GenrgMV hoc. dors and hurl every Negro from ; hi<- pullman seat. The motivation of r.hl° ortlrb unml! from rt recent editorial in the Raleigh Times; the pHprtr nl was cautioned “The kfcje-. linn of Southern Drafrees", ft was enough to make the snn;h sick at heart -for It. was noinf. ed out in rather convincing fi hhinn that the current, effort at V-ecruifmerit is serio"?’” hand!, canned by the M iocld .r.fo rMeetion of draftees through out the South H \n= npinted out that 40/percent, of the draf tees pf the Sooth wpro p t ■ rp-ip-iod with ftS.T hefnc- Jis onalifled for mental deficien cies, whereas the national m-er ago for the nation r~ n n-h-d - on aeonnt of mental deficiencies we- tc. 5 . The blgbotd percentage of those retect hie.. were fo>’nd !" SmHh Enrol in a r , u-v r.<-.r. perl e-rvi son n d ijn r p r- f.r,rv 1 wtfh RO ncrc,-..i< V ?Ii nfC the JtlCh tn .' forte , V ,o,i) Is n corn r.e rfi,-( wife fit ncreen# of !:r oo.a fsHlnn ’-, moo- :,ro im mhoretis r V tncidr.V)oo O.r y-o ’noi f nr,- MoWe.er if) rVvijh GaroHre* end f 'dliloroi IW.-iro oirr a oeroro phte r f ,te r,r ro'npHery . We- yjtrN. r*,i (ho eolith n-bgro bolding Ibo Negro rinwn is s k*nd nf ret!,, yrfnry thisl CUriCi-oodon if'O— r.r ; A'.IW Ghvfst. ’T,, pot t- (Jo- tbor o-rooto— fro j •—■An T Holdltl-r IVr V’rttrrp T—l ifbo Alfob fbo n no, bss bed to stay in the ditch with him. each case there were inescapable f videnet of perstatent hard W work. Neither ever gave evi dence of being at case, or com placent. 'ft. Hie contrary, each was known for the dogged, per sistent application of the ut most. energy he possessed. Inva rlahlv hack of =ueb singular ruccc,,:.. the .• Qualities stand out Certainly, In the on-rush of modern life, complacency has kio legitimate place. Today, life E fuller, and therefore, more demanding than during anv pro vimp period of world history. This mean-, that the individual or sneal group that lacks the vision, Inltiatv and Quality of persistency, must continue to bring up the rear, or worse, fall out of the ire of march alto gether. As today, ominous signs of disintegration excite, confuse, and therefore disturb the other wise peaceful relations between men and nation:, who can dare Inflow himself to become eom nlacent. or feel that, anything less than his fullest and best, Is enough? \nd ibis, not for one day. but rather lor every day. Tt is important that minority social croup’, keep ever alert, for while they are in every lia slon and we think, particularly so tn \merles. those who are. liberal-miruled arid want to see Individual-’ ’-'lf of r v. o coior. "et to their f< et. and get on with Ho- business of living, m Xhcrc n’-c noipv more, who per- M salt in blocking tto- way of nth- H ers whom they fear might be- ■ come their competitors and A mate it difficult for them ■ to rise arid go forward as self., fl t-'h manetiverlng ran make .- itiie. To ot r-rcomc s'e-h arh*. V trarv handfeap ruinoi-Bv po'ial ■ r-o arid < neciil!' tne';- leader- o|dio- evepHo, m. p. 'ranee oi , li'i'h opportunism % ilh nali.-pc. tiid e.-r •(•.'i.enc'i iM.ior .1, •' ~,,1 He ; ’i"'his ot' Hint~ less fortue' i fnl'.ins ... Hv'ii-" 1,.,..., th'.Tl M|tr n, e, leadership noth short-righted and danger ous. ouch condition is the inevitable •>( nghtlsm ' ln, h . j'” for iho. most part Hie rtghi hold the Negro ir r^ d "; h <,ni ' of the direct ,>• o-.ii,:ot iho current demo ' repuhlfc.-m eongressloaal niiiei. i threatening to v l,!(J will of advancing America. >ilo aliiaur, j<; becoming a. at uni'll ing blo< !; In congress, )U! iT is *'ldo becoming a mat-' 'n; of pegi pride to tim a iH ed po.ttleol parties. Jt u-sures tra diiionnl white domination in iio- south and :t guarantees the defunct republican party a sem blance of political power which iha> almost bivonit extinct un #|..r ihe impact of moral forces that arc undermining the obso i' p torces of react ionism. The rejection of southern draftee is a revealing pheno menon and should drive home with devastatin p convi c tion the 'ruth tlini a man cannot be held In the ditch unlew the holder si.tvr there with him. If. must however he borne in mind that it. is not alrm,- in. the matter »? relented draftees that the hold - the - Negro - down policies are handicapping the south: but it is rather in the curtailed prodnetiop of so large a part of its eltizens that these out worn policies are proving such a so large a nan of its citizens that these out-worn policies are proving such a handicap; to ray frothing about the moral deter-, (oration that re ■-■nits. If some rnenre" rould be found for rnc'o liripo this morn I de (eriorat ion > • ;ui's would ho even more nlarmin? than the rceerni. s among the son thy draftee's. * * SUCCESSFUL 6 PARENTHOOD J ' Priictic&i lastmctica 1 k ! Child Training | In This Newspaper | i^~^rzzz| jt*# '
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