PAGE FOUR EDITORIALS * i.... THE WHOLE PICTURE 5, In an editorial some weeks ago the if. NAws and Observer quoted and com mented upon a statement; made by C. C Spaulding in his address at the Y ash jington High School commencement ex ercises: “We are making progress. The State oi North Carolina spends more on Negro education than it spent on all of its Schools, .both white and Negro, thirty five years ago,” .The editorialist, went on, very sensibly, sav. and incidentally to pay a real and rare type of tribute to Mr. Spauld ing : “As a ' err successful Negro Carolina / and one of the most successful business men of his race anywhere. Mr. Spuald mtf has no felling that his race has teached any point where discrimination in schools and other matters does not exist,There is nothing subservient in his . nature, He can, however, see the clear facts of advancing fairness in all racial dealings in North 1 arolina. Tie believes it is important that his people reognize toe fact of the advance which benefits them.” In all this w p believe that the News * anc * Observer is right. It is important to recognize tlm progress that has been and is being made-progress that in retro fpeef is often little -short of amazing If is important for the morale and spirit , health of our people, and for the a •vcidance of undue pessimism and feell ’ngs of fu-stration. that w e b e always a ware 0 the gains that haev been made The sort comings arc H ]} f OO ob'ious and omnipresent. Men like Dr. Spaulding and the late ¥ Dr. Shepard have owed their popularity, which is based on genuine respect, part ly to their ability to sea and interpret I the whole picture, neat!" balancing the ' emphasis on the brighter and darker phases of that picture, and always find ing more reason to hope than despair from what thev see and interpret. The CAROTIN AN has consistently W searched for the good an 'ace relation ships in North Carolina and all over, al ways happy to find and publicize in both its news and editorial columns the good.the hopeful’ the commendable in * our white neighbors and on the inter racial scene. We believe that whatever is inspiring and productive of a sound sense icf gratification and eptimism should be publicized at least as much as those /things w hich are bound to produce indip nation, discouragement, self-pity and a sense of frustration. Ihe C AROLINIAN comments on the good in order to inspire, and encourage It omments on bad only to further and promote the elimination of the bad. by calling attention to it so that a sane and sensible program for attacking it may bfc formulate!; so that those who can do something about it may b e aroused to action. Every word is weighed with always to avoid foaming at the mouth or •those ends in veiwy and the purpose is starring feelings which could only pro mote hate, despair or frustration. The News and Observer editorial goes on to say, . Too much is heard from the very impatient in all racial matters.” To THE CAROLINIAN (Published by the Carolina Publishing Company, 118 East Hargett Street, Raleigh. North Carolina Telephone: 9474) OUR PLATFORM : We Stand for Full and Equal Constitutional Rights and Privileges and Civil Liberties of All People, Regard less of Rsice, Creed, or Color. Entered as Second Class Matter, April fi. 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under lira Act of March. IR7K SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $.2.00 .On* Year $3.50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ADDRESS ALL COM MFNICATiONS AND MAKE ALL CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO THE CAROLINIAN Interstate Vnited Vetespaperg. Inc.. 542 Fifth Avenue y, Y. 17 N. T., National Advertising Representative. Thf* newspaper is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy, unless, necessary postage accompanies the copy. LUCIUS T- JONES. Editor-Gen. Manager LYNN' HOLLOW AY, Managing Editor PAUL R, JERVAY, Publisher this we say only that criticism of im patience does not com? with good grace from those who already have what others whom they call impatient are striving for. The counsel of patience, if lit is to be given-and it sometimes need ed-comes properly only from inside th? group which is being deprived of what who has, to advise patience for the man is justly due It is too easy for the man who has not, and it is relatively wasted counsel- Let the white man of good will urge upon his fellows to move faster toward justice. Let the counsel of pa s ience, "hen needed by Negroes, come from Negroes, 1 McCarthy outdoes himself Senator McCarthy, who has already established a similarly unsavory repu tation for mudslinging and smearing, may have reached the height, of his per formance in these respects when in a long speech on the Senate floor he ac cused not onlv Dean Acheson but Secretary Marshall of dislovaltv to the United States. His accusations if true would make these two patriots practi cally traitors to their own country. The absurdi-v of such irresponsible charges is so obvious that they connot harm the tvo men at w hom they were aimed. If anything their position has 'been strelightened by these latest ful s mi nation? of McCarthy Long before he finished his speech h e was almost alone in the S -nafe cham ber. which shows how hD senatorial colleagues felt about him and what he was saying, there was a time when the Republican leadership was egging Sena ade against the State Department and tor McCarthy on and supporting his tir iother agencis as being politically good for the Republican arty. Well, they got him started and helled him along, open ly or behind the scenes. Now they can’t hut him up. tie has become a liability to the party. No one wil now give any heed to a man whose statements are so wild as to make it painfully evident that there is no self-imposed limit to what he wil say about any member of the De moratic administration. He V-a over reached himself to the point where his sayings are either openly or secretly deployed by all sensible people, and only te most confirmed crakpots will lend an ear to him. . . . . .'. i NO DIME UNIVERSITY POSSIBLE Dr. Alfonso Elder, president of North Carolina College at Durham, did himself proud in resenting an unequival ase a gainst the proposal that N. C College at Durham attempt to offer "ork leading to the Ph. D. degree. Both be and the members of the board of trustee of North Carolina College who supported him should be congratulated for their forthright scotching of the desperate scheme to keep qualified Negroes out of the University of North Carolina by setting up what wo'dd have been a farci cal situation in Durham By pointing out that it would take two milion dollars to Wing North Caro lina Colege up to the level it should he for undergraduate work and the grad uate work it is now offering, Dr. Eider exposed most effectively the absurdity of tring to add the highest graduate de gree to the offerings of the college. It is time for the University author stop kicking against the pricks; to step ities and the State of North Carolina to trying to fool themselves They are not by the remotest hance fooling anybody else. The sooner they accept what is Light, just and inevitable, the sooner they will get the problem solved in the hop? that with less than a qua ter of a /only way that is left open There is something pathetic in their million dollars they could mae a Fh. D. granting institution out of one which needs $2 millinn more to do properly what it is supose to be doing already. Dr. Shepard told them years ago that segregation homes high- They ougt to Be finding out by now that it comes very high—so high that it is out of the question on certain levels and for cen to types of education. It is bad that it is lain taking so long and costing so much aif DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE^ ... 1, ; ! , fi-ag, . CB-MaiiußwitSnZu-T, ■ rsecono THOUGHTS Robert S. Allen. the well known Washington svndicated correspondent who used to be a partner of Drew Pearson m producing Washington Merry- Go-Round.'’ has recently given in his column chat may be an interesting sidelight on Presi dent Truman's present attitude on civil rights legislation. This legislation has definitely been in abeyance since the beginning of the Korean War. but so have most of the President's ‘‘Fair Deal’ measures and proposals. For instance quite recently the president of the American Medi cal Association told the member ship of that body in effect that it might relax a little in its an xiety concerning compulsory health insurance or “socialized medicine. ' since legislation on that subject has little chance for a while. But back to the subject Mr. Allen was telling about confer ences President Truman has had lately pight of them—-with con gTestonal leaders of bis party, in »n attempt to bring about, unity within the Democratic family In these conferences, says Allen, “president Truman is giving no ground on either tire civil r ights •program or- Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Concerning tha former, Mr Allen reports The civil rights issue tv so raised tin one of the confer clues 1 by Senator Rirhcard Russel, chairman of (be Sen ate Armed Services comnjtt t*ee and the MacArthur in vestigation- Rated r>ne el th» ablest me” in Congress, Rus ocit Bounded out the Press dent on the dynamic-loaded issue.” Senator Russell agreed, gavs Alien, that tin'ly is a vital necssity. “However. Vm sure von are aware that of the ma tor factors leading to disunity within the Item.ocraitc psrfy is your Insistence on an extreme progi-am of so-called civil rights.” the columnist quote's Mr. Russell. The Georgia senator then pro posed the idea that a comp.ro yv,ic,~. o n f'RPG might be sccenh fKV to the South—a compromise rhos would create, in line with the crooosa! a few years aeu of Bepresnetative Hays of Arkart IN THIS OUR DAY IN THIS OUR DAY by C. A. CHICK, Sr THE HAND WRITING ON THE WALL Without any doubt the upper ■most, public question in the minds of the people in the South is the question of segregation or nonsegregated schools. And es pecially is the question a “hot potato'' so far as it pertains to the public elementary and se condary schools This writer does not regard himself enough of a prophet to dare attempt to state just how or when the foregoing questions will be setted. However, he does believe that the practice of se parating people solely on the basis of race is an inherient violation of the laws of God as well as an inherient violation of the principles and spirit of de. rnoci'Rcy. Then. it. follows that if the practice has its it certain In herient evils and is fundamen tally wrong, it centalny some day will be discontinued. It either seems to this writer THE CAROLINIAN i&t an advisory FEFC comreis • mission without enforcement powers, which would propose methods of bringing about fair er errplovment practices and use persuasion instead es penalties. But as long as you insist on a coropuls •: v FEPC you will not get any v'--eve as far as the South is combined Disunity will con tinue I tealize CERTAIN PO LITIC. A L CON S IDE R A TION S JNVOVLED (Capitals ours) but in these days there are other eon s.'deratvns such as unity, which T deem mve important.' So Mr Alien quotes Senator Bussell. n>o President's reply, as the Washington correspondent has it. wav show that Mr. Truman has not changed his views, and that he still has the broad out look foj which his critics inside the paitv have never given him credit in c> iticizin? his civil rights stand Allen has President Truman’s reply to Senator Rus sell ■■ follows: “Yes tbci- are political considerations, but not the kind you are talking about —domestic- The political considerations I’m thinking about -ue worldwide. Have you given any thought to thr cimnle f it t that globally the white race is a minor ity | don't have to tell you what the Russians are do ing with their propaganda on racial discrimination in America . No, Dick, I am not going ♦*» back up on rov civil rights program, can r. because it's right and just. ? res lire that there are many- Piwplc, tike yourself, who believe that now is not the time to insist on compulsory FETC that it should be done some other wav. I respect that opinion when il comes from people tike you who believe it honestly. But f disagree wth that opnion and | am standing pat.” ir Mr Allen’s report is accur ate. it’s the same o'd Truman; maybe- not the smartest presi dent we ev°r bad but one pos sessing strong convictions and the persistence and courage to Mir 1 -- to them once the • have t'Bc-n tovpudsted and tested to his satisfaction that when the South does dis continue its dual school system, it certainly will need fewer (teacher* (Negroes and whites) thah i* needs under a d.ual sy fitem of. shools The purpose of this article is to ask. ourselves (Negroes) “what are we doing individually and oolletively that we may be ready for the change when it does come?". "Whet are aur schools, churches, lodges, any and all institutions touching jUre lives of lore numbers oi Ne tt 01 es. doing to et us ready for the change? “Are we still put 'ting the larger part of oar em phasis and time on preparing our people to become teachers, preachers, doctors, social work ers. and lawyers?” It is not my purpose- to reflect disparagingly on the foregoing professions. However, worthy professions tough though they may be. they cannot furnish employment to fill of us who (in- now- securing higher education. And in that connection, it should be pointed out that under a dual system NAACP See New Voters ATLANTA (SPECIAL) A leader predicted this week that by 1956 there would be 2,000,000 Ne gro voters in the South, The prediction came from Roy Wilkins administrator for the Na tional Association fo> the Advance ment of Colored People. Wilkins' address keynoted the opening of the 42nd annual eon vention of the NAACP being held in the local Municipal Auditorium on 9. non segregated, basis. “Armed with the ballot." Wil kins said, “the Southern Negro will be in a position to solve many of Ins local and ?tat» problems and without a doubt his activity at the polling place will altei the temper and art!’ ity of Congressmen and Senators. The NA.ACP official that n6xt ' th6 nutubfr of Nc grees voting was expected to hit the one million mark He added: “While it is no longer accurate to lump all white Southerners to gether in discussing the race iprob lem it is still true that as yet the dominant opinion in the South is .Tim Crow. “Som- r, f this” lie said, us apol ogetic and some shameless and ar rogant. The apologists say they be hove in gradualism “How can anyone give to a group gradual!'’ those rights which be long to it bv the- very nature of its tv-tog human. These rights are not f"r the gradualists or others to hold m dispense, of schools, there is a ever sup ply of Negro teachers. Thus it would seem to me that it is high time our best’ring ourselves towards preparing for fields of economic activity oihei than those mentioned a bove Our schools need to con duit some workshops pertaining to something other than teacher education Not only do need the know-how in other fields of economic activities than those Hated above, but we also need to buld up attidue* on our part, to venture into those fields. For example, quiet often as 1 rida along (Im highways, I see people on side of the roads with la re quanities of such things as a watermelons, fruits and vega tables for sale Very, tpeldem do T see Negroes en gagsd in such activities Yet a large rnmhoof Negroes are en. gaged in fanning That is, they ere living on farms. 1 am posi tive that ni'' venders will come y ith me.that If does not ,-eninre a degree in business adroini efrat’on or a-great deal of can ffat for a farmer to place on the side of th c roads such things as listed above for sale If !s fluirW a matter of not haring an a*ti* 11 de for such -eoimmle endeavors Tn the c’tv in which t now reside T rerv «cli|oro tap Negroes Swing (bluer to *(■»? yn ft rVet other t hi> 0 notion P n <\ tobacco a noarenflv nisv.-- Na pi-re, thipP f'l«f eijch things ee chickens, ftrkevs cows hogs etc. arc to ho raised dor mark eting hy -,rhf+ f - neopio mily. t*■ would teotp Jo It is writer >h»t It would be ‘--- tr,i ’ .' fff_ fi • o for our ru-i-nis- srbcols a”d noUeges to toko for the** snerio* t-.cl’2 the protect Os preparing V ’.o-, n.; (a oofs- in o f.ro-ftor fluids of economic activities then the-- are rjov etia--,so - f’Jvr nriTqfe schools ecu’ colleges ore* freer to pioneer into r.o-.v fields’ then are our noMlelv supported -choo’s fl-pd , oileeOS Arjd ’f should Ttc- Pointed out that there arc many other em-ernment nosifinna othev therf teaching school end doing Sor ia! work- ffovornments on all jc-els; local sfete and national. ore enlwre ino- their eoope rs ser vices to Mm peiirle flnveirnwnlsl f'A l--s the,-- TU-i'-afc insl’f >it»or s renrtof vender ser-t-h-cs vit bout *■ y>iT'lovo-es - people to do the work. E. C. Lawrence's MY OPINION THE MILL* OF THE HODS ORIND .S’ LOWLY;. RUT THEY CRIXD EXCEED TRULY FIXE This old adage is aa true today as when first expressed. As we think of time in. terms of his tory. eight.v-six years represent a comparatively short period. It was exactly eighty-six years ago April 9th just passed, since the close of the War between the States, which still represent America’s greatest tradedy. And yet it is quite Impossible to pro-' tuary ago would have been changes, which even a half cen perl.v count, or aval u ate the Thought impossible. Today, most of them are common-place -Vnd looking backward, we wonder • hey could have bepn thought how less than fifty years ago ko lie altogether impossible. ’ Sclent? and scientific disco' - pries have worked miracle? They have been so numerous and so marelvous as so multi ply the nation’s nroductivit v and wealth many, many times Todav. America boasts, and with measurable iustifieaf lon, over the fart of her ahllitt so pro duce This has put our nation in a class all To itself And hi k ing the skill and materials the eventualities of a third world war tbev would sneak more soft Iv. and move less confident vantage in know-how. and ouan even with a i rnnn*aud’iig ad it And the writer feeh. that titv of material? with which to do. too mm h boasting might no* prove the wisap police Fo*' if history ha? anv one tpssrip so teach, if i? the fact that a? yet no nation ha? ever become m welt prepared . so completely fortified, that, successful «ffs»”ks could not he made from with out or disintegration ijmier mine within Purine- the sth-vne fieri; Os world history pari’ important victories have. h°ef> tc no despite gr c at odd* Fha’tges e finally marvelous end st>e.-ta/ *) j-a 1‘ have ialrarr piano aprl are still 1n ovideqno fp the soeiial and 111 Oral realms of nor world or'lsr Tt'hether rT taot ip r°a’ T ”s fl’r- cha n * A s (lave been equally proeressi re end exciting the n-r|ter will tea -e (tan |,rlrrninit es iris t-oadevs One fret is evident that far* and national tensions are fo heerrrare witO'*t mere rl' s bberit as h i :Mi as i- pe-cihlc for asterorir evplosipno than are tatrinp- place a ( the rrsrv't This is not 1 prenlresr- tira t- Tr'Orse more -errotis di s f r-ri ha rr ns a ar-r rrr Mre offer,”®- t et rrr e eon-a fleCrnitri,, end corra rel- • M Mr® point for tire last rleeada the so.callert prohlein of rae.s re’s t'oii?- fmeaning of course. ZJETSin^ F*v nrANB HANCOCK OfW ANO I TOLD YOU SO: It is difficult to run across a more hackneyed and sickening colloquialism than “I told you so’ People at sundry times make unwarranted predictions that mean ’practically nothing, but when such predictions ar* accidentally ft vi filled they ac claim gloatingly, “I told you so" Os course, psychologically this means a temporary inflation the ego arid nothing els? Thev fail to remember how many times their predictions hitherto had failed But the writer of this column really has a genuine warrant for saying “1 told them so that --as based not upon hunchces but upon a close and serious studv of a serious sit uation. When the Durham confer x-nee through great travail was a reality and was soon allowed by the Atlanta con ference fiuni’o-fd wholly eX white* to answer the Durham Manifesto, a collaboration conference was held iri Rich ttinnii cemoosed of eminent Negroes and whites of th» south, who sought ways and means of mapping out * «•$£ orfM'f'iur?*! 1 * in r&cs relations for the south. The situation was so tense at Durham, with uninvited “guests" who patently were spying on +he southern brethren, the write” was given the difficult task of making the omening statement After this statement failed to elicit the bitter condemnation of the northern brethren, he was fi*«!gred (be further critical task of making the opening statement 4c- *be Richmond collaboration r”c.*ting which he made with pet a lit+le and trembling Strangely enough neither th® Durham statement nor the Pich mcn-i statement drew fire from, the rabid wpDonents of the vMr'ccrnnnt It began to dawn utior* the Negroes of the nation that southern Negroes were not out truckling and trembling hut tn fpr-p up to critical situation end that in an emergency south ern Negroes could acnuiT bt Am like men. An excerpt from she Richmond statement follows. Again (tie N* r M*n leader ship of the smith must he seved! Fo* hefte® nr worse, Kee-fnes >** Fned nn hehtnd Negro leadership and t*'c sacetv et the «wrft* *«d n*- fiep eeelite* tn (he risier* and w-tsdom es this les"f n'« of the r.liver- Mu of V-vtl, fare. !i„p maVec -.11 *’• t the neon? of America have tl* tt! s’er*’’’ phri?* l *” rieutooi’evi- « a *’” ’f'S.S rieu-nvight d-'-eutio” and hvno. -ha” emnt v gesture® vCa x-.Aioe; ?uav tie iutlgrated '”10 ..ram. Tnst hn-r the A mart • ,1”. yf’.e 1 0, n ” Iff- v fuUnarie.ee oitiena the writer doe. -Ct otaim to hate the eu»w«r- ’”'t Vie ia per- I.rt-iiti t’>a* if l„ ,r,l truth e-er ?ei ®U hones* hear*”— ♦'”>* •’•a”-'' w-ill 4nc t?’• 1 - fol’-vt ,l.. ♦ vi-h» • e.u> truth •'-? A- * o ... el V"..-* . ' 1 grotto Os. tbkk r^ mn yr ''i told trouble throughout the south and nation. The pro nounced and i A nmendablo general lack of open conflict between the races is dut far more lo the leadership of the Negroes than to the might of the whites. The Negro leadership of the south that has hitherto counselled patience and loy alty is today being merci lessly maligned and misrep resented and unless it. ts sneedHv strengthened, it it only a matter of time when it will pass forever. The mistakes that the white 'otith has made in weaken ing its Negro leadership must not be repeated if the south is to he spared griev ous tribulations. One of the south’s gra-r --ent mistakes is hert epitom tt in the question of the* equalization of teacher*’ sal sri»*. —While Negroes and infer racialist white* of the «nuth were counselling pa tience and the elusive con solations of social evoiutino, dating Negroes of the North ???fS South took matters in charge and are achieving de