Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / May 31, 1952, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PAGE FOUR //i0 Laroliman SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months $2.00 Out Year $3.50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE- -A DDR MBS ALL COM MTJNICATIONS AND MAKE ALT., CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO THE CAROLINIAN interstate United Hew papers, ln'\, 542 Fifth Avenue N.‘T, 17, N. Y., National Advertising Representative. • Tbte newspaper (a not responsible for the return of unsolicited new?, pictures, or advertising copy, unlepa, necessary postage Accompanies the copy. , (Published by the Carolinian Publishing . Company, 118 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, North Carolina-- —'-Telephone: 9474) ,9UR PLATFORM : W e Stand for Full and Equal Constitutional Rights and Privileges and Civil Liberties of All People, Regard less of Race, Creed, or Color. Etnlared e.a Second Class Matter. April ft, I 'Hit. at the Post Office at Raleigh. North Carolina, under the Act of March, 1879. I PAUL R, JERVAY, Publish t LIN HOLLOWAY, Managing Ed.if.oi «r . TOUGH MAN DRESIDENT Truman will soon ap proaeh the record ol Andrew John son for getting himself "in bad. It seems that if there is a wrong oi controversial way to attack a problem, or a wrong thing to say it, Truman will find, it and use it, No one eon say the man lacks courage. But sometimes this courage seems entirely divorced it >m prudence. The latest example of the President's boldly putting his foot in it is his seizure of the steel companies. For this he is being condemned right and left as, a usurper of authority. He is castigated for going beyond his constitutional powers, for ignoring Congress, and for Rising an extra-constitutional measure Jfvhen he could have invoked the Taft- II art ley law and forestalled a steel •'strike by acting within Hm powers clear ly provided in the Constitution and bv & specific statute There is hardly room Id doubt that Mr. Truman could foresee, at least to some extent, the furore he would ere ate by seizing the steel companies. There is no doubt, either, that it was his duty to head off a steel strike But tjie President has given no adequate re ply to the question as to why lie did not apply the Taft-Hartlev law, which would have halted a strike for 80 days, and which would just as truly have given the opportunity for the owners and the workers to get together for more negotiations, and for the use of other machinery provided by law for the settlement of wage disputes and for price adjustments. In his speech the President said the Taft-Hartley Act wouldn’t do the job, at least without causing a strike of at least a week. But the steel workers have struck anyway, so it seem that his questionable pro cedure has worked. Some commentators are saying that The President, now that he has declared himself out of the race for the nomiria Hon. doesn’t care any more. Others are saying a lot worse than that. One com mentator says that he is not taking ad vice from anybody any more, and is isolating himself, since he regards him self as on the way out of public life. Whatever the true explanation, the President certainly has a capacity for getting into difficulties. He is undoubt edly a tough man, I. !■•*• THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT AN INTERESTING editorial in a re cent issue of the News and Observer 'took note of the fact that the two top candidates for president of the student body in an election at Shaw University a week or two ago were both from north of the Mason-Dixon line. Both these student leaders in th» Ra leigh’ college come, from states where segregation does not exist, in state-sup ported schools and colleges, but both of them come to a Southern Negro Col lege for an education.. (It. might be '.«jadded .that practically all the privately controlled educational institution-', of 'New York and New Jersey, if imt alt jof them, also admit Negroes. ! The News and Observer editorial writer then very wisely observes that the fad that these, two young people from the North came to a southern Ne gro college is no indication whatever that they favor segregation in cduca 'lion. "They may hold, as many mem bers of their race do hold, strong views otherwise,” he says, The fact that Negroes in large mini hers seem to prefer "thru- own schools, churches, etc., and i •Miralty associato with each oilier very happily, has often been used as an argument in favor of enforced segregation. Ibis portico!;!! editorial to which, we refer does not employ that argument, it -Arnold bo noted. Gontrary to the belief, oi alleged be lief, of many, the Negro does not seek association with those who do not want his company It is regarded as perfect ly natural and normal that he associ ate with members of his own race. \\ hat h e objects to and what he regards as wrong is segregation and limitation to his freedom which are enforced by law, and this not because it keeps him trom mingling with whites, but because it abridges his freedom and interferes with his normal enjoyment and uHli/.a lion of facilities and conveniences and privileges which should be open <o all. He objects to being deprived of the freedom of choice exercised by oThcr people, and of having his choices made bv others, either arbitrardv or on the )>resu oiption that that would bp his I preference anyway, which is largely a 1 joke. The students from Northern 'tea who attend southern colleges operated by and for Negroes do so for a variety of reasons, but all of the reasons are comprehended under the single expla - nation that they are there because they choose to be there, and not because they are re required by law to attend ■m institution "for Negroes,” if they rd tend any at all within that geograpld cal area. Segregation t. wrong and distasteful because it arbitrarily limits the freedom of the individual on the one ground of color, and nothing is move irritaf j than to havp one’s freedom restrained j and then having it explained to one j That she choice made by someone else is the choice one would make if one j were free to choose, Iv-peciatlj wiipn there is the knowledge that, whatever the choice one would make he is not, going to be granted the privilege of exercising any choice anyway, WHO IS THE C ANDIDATE J’HE editor of the Monitor, a Catholic weekly, recently asked Senator Russell some questions about his be liefs and principles One of th m was, “Do you believe that men are equal : In what sense? , Candidate Russell's answer was, "Man is equal in the sigh of God, for God is no respecter of persons " Well said. But what we would like to know more about is, how do men stand in the sight of Senator Russell. And to what extent is Senator Russell a respec ter of persons? We are interested in the views of the candidates for presi dent of the United States. RESIGNATION ly! R. F. C. Tarkington. the registrar down at Roper, wants it known that he resigned his office— that he wn not be removed. In a letter to the Now?, and Observer he insists that he resigned. He does not indicate whether or not 'the resignation took place under pres sure, or whether or not he quit rather than be a party to the registration of q ual) ft e d Negroes. : It; the same letter Mr, Tarkington denied that he had ever "shown dis crimination against the colored peo ple,” but he did not deny the allegation that no Negro had been registered at: .Roper for some years, nor did he offer any explanation as to how that came about. SHRINE Os PERPETUAL GRIEF ' y —■ Jlßlr §t& •, c d - iuuh ,i ’»’* %% SECOND THOU GU I S m jp.. mm *irr ■ ■ —— ■ —— - • - ' * This week I arn abusing th? privilege of columnists to write oi ,-i subject that- might be of vitv little interest to the ma jority of their readers It is net fair to the readers, but there is an opportunity to blow oft steam which it is only na tural to indulge So ;f you are not interested in big league baseball, and unless you are wilding to listen to my moans a: -- iit the Detroit Tigers, don't read any farther Alt this comv-s about because I am an inveterate Tiger fan. and have be<i; for more yea , than 1 might to be willing to adrrui over :v> at lea : -t * I began to follow' the organized sport as a very wrung child.) Low the Oet.ioit Tigers are On only team in the big leagues W '’W BETWEEN THE liikJßl tJKJCS. nv r>j AM R UAWOf A to/} ANP rr i s mu rt Tin? southern white Baptists are meeting in Miami, Kla No-,-, account ; h ive u thai the keynote neakers are delivering in grand style A; is the custom of the southern white Baptists they are going to raise their ' nice again;! many things in general but not against segre* gaiion in particular. They are jug !o '’nine r’ut for many lion;:- in ct.ierai hot not foi full integration of their Negro bretiierrn in particular Herein lies the great tragedy. H is pitifui to sec our south ern white breiheren siicnt on one of the most momentous is siw.- of tsi.;. 20th century As the late II G Weils put it. Race r j-oj tee is the worst thing in the life of mankind today" H the church cannot take a Chr.st-like stand against the worst thing then where in the mum of hti'.ii heaven car, they 'sod In the Southern Bap tist fun version we have one of the irrgest Protestant bodies in the world and one of great in fluence and power They are breiheren with the. National Baptist breiheren of Negro con stituency with whom they are on terms of rather 'casual bvothi-rhood " 1: is sate io iv that of all denominations, the while Bap tists are farther from then Ne »:• ' eonj.iitia ncy than any other dime■ i-nnat ion Negro Baptists are Cep-bir Iheren "in Hie Lord" to their white- fellow Bap tists )i is to he observed that in filings interracial all other denominations can come closer to their Negro bu t hern than the southern Baptists. T h e Catholics, Methodists, Presby t< nans and Episcopalians all have closer ties with their Ne rve brethren than the Baptists. t'< ' downright nervousness, it it diffice.lt to see a group more exasperated and nervous than a mo, ,i of white southern Bapti ts whan the question of Interracial gathering is before the house When the question of interracial preaching missions is up for discussion, the first to bolt is the southern Bap tist s Almost ail the attempts to make these "lily white'' preach ing missions interracial on a Jion-segrcgatc’d basis have found their stumbling blocks among the southern white Bap THE CAROLINIAN that ha- never fm idled last, nr n( hoi-.t !h( : only one ill the Xmerican League that has rie \< i w-mud ■■ IJth( .season IP. eighth place !a a \ ear they «< re i dissapointing fifth. Year before that it u-as third I b-’ It. vs. after leading the league for several weeks, uid flopping only in the last four or five weeks of the season. I thought ihey were going n> win the pennant that year The source of my grief is •..St (lie Detroit Tigers at this writing arc in lust place Not only that hot live Lili enmes »parole them from ta< . eventh place team To shea you how hod the;-, really air this year, t, dal.-- they have l“s"! cv - -V THREE TIMES as nwnv games a- ih< y have won tist- J! is true that here and t wc find a fe >. valiant :'"ds among them, h it they are i *.»v < i w in Imiiudy out i i-ereit So these lily white preaching missions go on their way. more determined to pre :or-r white supremacy than to lift up .Jesus Chi ist whom they prose;, ■ to love and serve It is pitiful and pathetic to ■- n the religion of the southern whit.- Baptu :i s in then mte l racial dealings. The southern Methodists are miles and miles ahead of their southern white Baptist breth ren A case in point might clarify this indictment Eight years ago the Southern Re gional Council was organized in Atlanta and has since op erated throughtoi.it the south Nearly a half million dollars have been expended in ad vancing the cause of bttter race relationships during these eight yen rs From time to time a helping hand, financially, comes from Methodists, Catholics. Episco palians arid Presbyterians but never a dime from the Bap tists It is pitiful So down in Miami we are be ing treated t" some powerful messages by powerful apostles of southern Baptism but little or nothing will have been .said when it's over to indicate that, the tradition of segregation and exclusion havT- been subordi nated to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Just as the ante-bellum white ministers preached to Negro slaves in the gallery that slave ry was a part of the divine plan so today the jim-erowed Negroes of the south are seeing the bristliing issues of Chris tian brotherhood by-passed bv high-powered speakers before the Southern Baptist Conven tion. The lily white preaching mission goes on its merry way with invitations to Negroes to he segregated or to be absent altogether. When our northern white Baptist brethern conic south to talk Christianity, they conform to the wishes of the southern brethern and by-pass the color issue which is some how related to the very heart of Christianity. It. is pitiful; It is patheitc' It js dangerous! » Everything hapixuis wio np. with the Tigers. The} have sold . Mr traded three pitchers in the irst two yea is None of them • -.bowed anything n>u.-i- while . thev were wnh Detroit, lurt as soon a ; they got with other , teams thc> began t.« Jv- stars. One of them, now with Chica go. had the host earned run • iver.igc in the lea coo last year After he joined the White Sox another pitched •* one hitter -t!< h- v i.- traded to the Browr.s Ihe Tigers have had some good pitching this year, but when their pitchers click no body on the team hits The lew tunes they have showed ;,n> witting ability this year ihe pit'-!.big eoliap-.i-d if there -I w-ns no -'t 1: : - i < v t- i [(j.-.e, they wifi make enough errors to teiw hv at ic:i ,t one run 1 iieident.allv, ih“v loss m un u oil!' Ini -a" much- t of game - : one V’-in. Tib - is- a sad situation for me f ran -n-a ion the Tigers hi-at.ii-.: then reread lod f;]i ishi.ng in eigh'u place by -a y ide margin, i t *- t e -d to ti ink that they were getting gif la ■ .i bad -tart, like Ihe Giants last ■ •■-ir. •!w lost their fn -it eleven :. ime.s but 'vent on tn win the pennant But as- < ter a month and more, with a record >f 21 ios-e. against sc- i ven wins .it looks vei y bad t The Tigers should cet some new players, and they ought to be look! n, for sons good I Negro ta>enl. M loyalty to ; them is Unquestioned: it i ;: too lair- fpr me to chance. But 1 could be a much hotter fan it they had a fen Negro stars. ; And the chances me very good - that it would be a much be'let < team It couldn’t be worse < IN THIS OIJR OUT by r a. chic k lilt riiOlXEb' ('AKOIOAIE" The masses of the people, the consumers, the farmers, laboi. etc have more friends and are in general more important dur ing periods of political elec tions than at any other time. Every candidate for political office is ‘the peoples candi date Every candidate has the interest and welfare of the peo ple uppermost in his mind, speeches and actions. If he is elected, of -roiirrc. he will use his influence, will legislate, for the interest and welfare of the people And, of course, he ir in favor of such things- as better schools, »h creased salary for teachers, more hospitals and medical care for the people Curlouslj enough ve r y candidate represents him self as being the candidate of 'the people, and by the same token he accuses alt his opponents of being On tools of big business, pres s u r e groups, financial groups, and oppressors of the people, all of whom im pede, social, economic and political progress. It so happens, however, that no sooner then the elections are over, regard less of who wins, than the people, the con sumers .the fanners, the work ing man etc... arc all straight way forgotten From the days of Alexander Hamilton down to the present time the vast. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY MAY SI, 1952 : ■ r.inj- iv'-roCTwaMH 1 ! i_»jMwwr.i Mrrinr ~wrTrnrn—ir-r-|-TiT-nrT*' , “*****~* r "“^‘-'**—" ,l> " n '* l ' l<w * Frff7!rlf ' T -'‘ 1t * g '- !f,lg - w * wr{? Tjyn rra- i n in■ i« woi'wi'fimmsh mm nr' rr rrmn-n— nmmßMaittaiMUaM'lM.ani'a Hi'rilil’linißV ftvtfitfljCr-iHi jik JAMES A. SHEPARD’S Hi 1 HIS and THA I Became the all important Dom -ratic Primary will be held this eke ad. 'THIS AND THAT will r most •That’ this week in an tempt to evaluate its importance i us as a racial group. On Saturday of this week, the r-moiantic Primary will be held Jl over North Carolina. At this rimury. the voter,-, of this state .ill select the men and a few .omen, who will govern them, iako their laws and administer .isf.ice In view of the fact with ic* exception of a few counties in ie Western part of our state, the ominoes of the* Democratic Bri tain. arc as suT-d of election in iuveinber, we feci that we should xamine with more than hike arm interest those ottering Uiem t-!ves for the various offices. North Carolina "ill he se lecting i new governor, lieu tenant governor several Con gressmen, a justice of the Su preme Court, and all the imni hers of the State Legislature, Jn addition to these state anil national officers to he selected there, will bo numerous local contests lor posts affecting us in varying degrees of impor tance. It. has been a bit difficult to mnerate interest among our pro do in the men who repv esent. us n the Congress of the United states It may he that the name Congress has a remote sound to many of -as md we fail to sec just, how we are directly concent res with what goes on in Wash ington, However, in n any inshin t-es, ■ mil goes on in Washington, has a more . direct bearing on our welfare, our economic status and on our future as citizens of this country, than anything which run take plyre in our local and stair government. for instance, down in the Congressional district iio,' represented by Congressman Ke *’i We know for i certainty that Mr Kerr is opposed to all of the measures which are calculated to improve our condition. He is out spoken m his denunciation of the l ;vii Iwghts program and has gone on record as being in violent opposition to FEPC. Now Mr. Ken'.- opponent for this sea! m Congress may also be opposed to Civil Right. for minorities. He may wish to stop the clock of progress or turn it bach jus! as Mr Kerr does, but the important thing to remember here is if by your vote, you return Mr. Kerr to North Carolina, aid in the elect ing of his opponent and he fails to represent you, you will have the power and the opportunity of returning him to private hie Now the important signifi cance of this procedure is that if and when you demonstrate through your vote that you are determined to have men in Washington who will rep resent veil, the d.ii will eome when you have representation in t ongress. Von will find that you will not have (<• turn them out too many times for them to <a!rh on that you mean business. Watch the do trigs of your Congressman, htiidj his record Write and tell him u hat you want. Then when you are satisfied that he is turning a deaf ear to ynui legitimate demands, retire him to (hr -ide lines where he can refleet on the errors *»f Ms war In a!! pro': ability, either Mr Hubert Olive or Mr, William B Urnstead will be the next Gov ernor of this state Both of these worthy gentlemen say they are tunning on their records Both Mr. Olive and Mr. Uinstead wo run ning on -i platform of progress <Southern style), more and bet ter school . roads, telephones, ru ral electrification, higher pay fee teachers and other .state emplo yee;-. etc Now it would be most wonder fu.l. if we as the dominant min ority, could say tba' as citizens of North Carolina, with two -urn outstanding men offering them selves for the Governorship on such utopian platform; we feci Quite secure that all will be well regardless whether Mi Olive or Mr. Urnstead wins That is the way it should be. unfortunately it is not that way at ali major By of our lavs, local, state, and nation il, have been m favor of organized business. Once in every other leap year the masses of the people ac tually come forward and win -i political election and succeed in having laws passed for the people But then the masses go to sleep jvditieall.v and sleep until annul a month until the next election With the excep tion of nrpipj/ed labor, the .so called mass' < have not learned to won; continuously for poli tical victories. And Jet us not deceive ourselves to believe that organized labor is inter ested in the welfare all of the masses. Organized labor is in terested in the masses to the extent that the masses arc members of a labor organiza tion. We 'the masses i must learn that eternal vigilance is the price ol’ good government, and we shall not have good government until then. Wo must, learn to place a higher price on our votes than appa rently many of us are doing We must, once and forever cease to sell our votes or au tomobile rule to and from the polls and a barbecue sandwich and n coca cola on the side. We must learn to sell our votes for better schools, better sail aides for teachers, and other school workers, increased hos- . pita Is and medical care, a full- , er development of our natural ■x a iHKwm«M*«nm ''U-HTwaamun- KvaiMwanraritmesn Neither of these gentlemen has expressed any concern over our lark of economic op port unities over the refusal of the different tax supported governmental bureaus and s gencies to give us employment commenserate with our abili ties and qualifications. Neither his cotnr out against the pre vail inn jury system In North Carolina, whereby Negroes are* placed on juries only after a figlijk Neither hais concerned himself with the brutal treat ment given our people by lavs enforcement officers. Both of them are apparently satisfied with a judicial setup which will allow a white man to mur ili r a Negro in cold blood and then win an acquittal tn the courts or will waste thousands of dollars of Hie lax payers’ money trying a Negro for a*, sanlt upon a white woman hr w asn't dose enough Co know whether she was a man woman. Neither of ihe.se worthy gentle men has fell called upon to de nounce tin- evils of segregation, to plead for and promise justice, equality and fair play for all citi zens. Rut since one of them will be governor, we should exeroise our privilege and vote for one of them trying to choose the lesser of the two evils remembering that when w;- fully realize the influ ence we can exert in changing things through out ballot, candi dates for the Governorship, Kke Congressmen, will learn to re spect our aspirations as well -as our feelings. We suppose that ev cry Negro in North Carolina re members the senatorial, campaign of lifts between Mr, Urnstead and Mr Broughton During that cam paign. Mi IJmstead repeatedly charged 1 Mr. Broughton with be ing m favor of Civil Rights for Negroes and soundly denounced , Mr. Broughton for his supposedly , liberal views on the Negro ques tion Mr I;instead is even report , ed to have aid he would rather not return to the 11. S Senate if he had to go there on Negro votes. We have no reason to feel ' that Mi Urnstead has changed , his mind. , There arc four candidates in the r race for the |*>sition of lieuten ant governor. This is another po . sit ion we as a group have not ! paid too much attrition to, but . v. hen you remember that the lieu tenant governor has the tasks of selecting the chairmen and mem , bers of all senate committees and ’ it is in these committees that all ’ the legislation affecting us must be a proved or disapproved, eve see that if is of ulmo-t importance that we study the record and background of the candidate as signed to this pci Candidate* for this ids are Luther H Hodges, Marshall Kurfevs, Ben J McDon ald and Hoy Rowe We have in North Carolina this \eai i situation without parallel su the tate s history. Six can didates are running for one -eat on the bench of the date supreme court. Four of these candidates are presently superior court judges one i> a Winston-Salem lawyer while the other is tin. junto! memb pi of the Supreme Court whose seat i- bring m hotly contested Next t * the importance of having fair minded men and women in our legislature to v c to it tha'- the legislation enacted is designed to fit the needs of »U the people, the membership of the supte-nw* court is nf vital interest to our group. Here in this court of last appeal within the state, is defer ruined whethei or not the wrongs inflicted by the lower court; will be righted, whether or not un just unci um'onMitutionai law.- will bo repealed nci whether or not the whole judicial pattern will conform to real justice Because four of the aspirants. Judges R Hunt, Parke. J. Donald Phillips. Aden H G-> >0 and W H Bob bitt arc now ior court jud ’ g< s, n should be comparatively 1 for you to judge their fit tics;-. for a seat on the state’s! ! highest tribunal Their records 1 for ur against justice and fairness ; toward our people have already been math' and i! is noi likely that elevation to the supreme court, will change their thinking, The other two candidates. Su preme Court Justice I. T. Valen tine whose fcviit a being fought tor, and Oscar O. Efird have- both made records in their respective fn ids of endeavor. Justice Valeo tine has been a wheel horse for the Democrats for a long time and usually his political alignment has been uith the liberal wing of his party. Mr. Efirds. a Winston-Salem lawyer has held no important elective or appointive office. He ran unsuccessfully lor a seat on the Supreme Court bench in 1350 and is considered a southern type liberal In casting your vote foi a candidate to fill this important post, you will be called upon to exercise care, caution and differe tioo. Who the members of tin* Supreme Court are can affect us greatly. We have been saving our com ments on members of the legis lature until the last not because the membership of the legislature is of least importance to us but because in every county and city who goes to the legislature is for the most part determined by the local electorate and with tha hundreds of candidates in field it is next to impossible to even mention them all. We fuel that young men. preferably veterans, are by and large our best bet a* members of the legislature. We can never hope for any material change in the status quo from the older group. They are not only afraid of progress and time liber alism, they actually do not know what those terms really mean. This does not mean however, that all the younger men offering "themselves for office are our (Continued ««* page 0)
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 31, 1952, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75