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PAUL R. JERVAY, Publish-*
UN HOLLOWAY, Managing Editor
DR. SPAULDING LEAVES
A MAGNIFICENT HERITAGE
p C. SPAULDING, personable, warm,
* loveable in fact magnificent in bis
entire person, heart and soul, is dead.
But all of the material and spiritual
contributions so closely associated with
this Hercules of understanding and
goodwill toward a ll men are ours to
cherish and emulate.
His was a full life blessed by the
Almighty to go forth into the world
and create job opportunities in busi
ness for his people. This he did in in
surance, banking, real estate, construc
tion, building and loan, etc. So great is
this physical structure moulded by <■'.
€. Spaulding that young men have grown
in hundreds to now become some of the
country’s leading business, political,
civic, educational and social leaders.
C. C Spaulding was an optimist. His
greatest memorial is the spirit of optim
ism to keep on going forward in the
face of great odds and successfully at
tain your goal, through human under
standing and know-how- in your chosen
endeavor. This spirit will never die in
the hearts and minds of the great corps
of workers who looked to him as their
’“Chief”.
He and his associates bestowed upon
the city of Durham through the North
Carolina Mutual, the Mechanics and
Farmers Bank, Banker’s Fire Insurance
Co., to mention only three, one of the
greatest advertisements any city in the
U. S. has known by Negro business
men.
Those of us who have had the spod
fortune of knowing C. C, Spaulding
will be eternally greatful for the far-
Yeaching tangible and intangible con
tributions he has made to the race.
AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
J’HE DEMOCRATIC national conven
tion held the interest of the public in
■one way not open to the Republican
meeting. Everyone was fairly sure that
the Republican convention would be a
contest between Taft and Eisenhower
for the nomination. Up to the opening
day of the Democratic convention no
one was by any means certain that the
man who was finally selected as the
party’s nominee would have his name
even presented to the convention. Once
It was established that Governor Steven
son was open to the draft it was a fore
gone conclusion that he -would be
nominated. No other candidate had
anything like Stevenson’s degree of po
tential acceptability to as many factions
and elements of the sorely divided
Democratic party as did (and does)
’Governor Stevenson, and except for a
few almost psycopathie malcontents,
the leaders of every faction and element
"> want more than anything else a Demo-
V cratie victory in November.
If Eisenhower can be beat Stevenson
was the only man available who had a
■ reasonably good chance to rally all the
Democratic forces behind him and all
the same time attract the large inde
pendent vote which will be the deciding
factor in the election.
Genera) Eisenhowei undoubtedly has
a wide popular appeal throughout all
sections of the country. The Democratic,
leaders realized that their strongest
possible man must be chosen to offset
Eisenhower's advantage. President Tru
man as well as the others understood
Eisenhower’s potential in the southern
states, and they all knew that the party
could not gamble too far with the pos
sibility or probability of losing u con
siderable bloc of southern electorial
votes. Therefore Harriman never had
any more real chance lor nomination
than did Russell, who conceded ly could
not have carried important northern
states. Kefauver was not too definitely
identified with sectionalism, but was
unacceptable to the big city bosses. So
it was Stevenson from the beginning, if
he would accept the bid, after the short
jived Barkley boom collapsed.
Adlai Stevenson is a good man and
will undoubtedly .make a good president
if elected, we think. We believe much
the same is true of General Eisenhower;
but Stevenson's ability as a civil execu
tive has been established, while Eisen
hower's has not, or at least not to the
same degree or m the same kind oi
setting as Stevenson.
What about the Democratic platform?
It is obviously a compromise, especially
on civil rights, the part which especially
interests CAROLINIAN readers. The
compromise was accepted by the Demo
cratic leaders in the civil rights move
ment, and that fact can be taken for
what it is worth. On its face the 1952
civil rights plank does not compare un
favorably with the 1948 Democratic
plank, which caused such a ruckus, and
lit is certainly no worse than the 1952
Republican plank. I n words the
Democratic plank is more favorable
than the Republican in that it indirect.
]y attacks the filibuster, by which votes
on civil rights measures have been frus
trated time and again. rr e real value
lof the mild anti-filibuster plank is prac
tically nil, however, for as one commen
tator has pointed out, change in the
Senate rules is a function strictly of the
Senate itself, and no party convention
can do much about the matter. The
plain truth is that as long as the south
ern senators maintain their present
point of view, and as long as they con
tinue to get the tacit support of a num
ber of Republican senators through the
existing quid pro quo working agree
ment, nothing is going to happen to end
the filibuster tactic.
Party platforms get entirely too much
attention, anyway, in proportion to
■their practical importance. Both 1948
platforms had good civil rights planks,
yet there was little civil rights legisla
tion by Congress, between 1948 and
19lfe. More important are the views of
the candidates for president, and even
more so, the views of the individual
senators, especially the leaders and
veterans.
As the CAROLINIAN sees it
stage of the game, there is little reason
for those who have voted Democratic
for the past twenty years to change.
Those who think there should be a
change of party in the White House
occupant have about the same grounds
for their opinion as before the Demo
cratic convention; little more or little
less, if any.
As for civil rights legislation, the
realistic view is that it depends on Con
gress, and particularly the Senate, far
more than on the President. Both par
ties have used civil rights, and especial
ly FEPC, as a vote-getting issue, and
.the Democratic leaders have used it
both pro and con, depending on what;
states they were from. In the present
presidential campaign the issue has so
far been practically neutralized by the
compromises in both parties on trie plat
form and on the statements so far made
by both candidates for the presidency.
Which may not be such a bad thing
after all.
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A MATTER OF 111 LULLS
;,'o intelligent pervwn ran <ii *
the fact that a- between
the Republican; and the Demo
crat>. there b. only the differ
ence in degrees. But this if an
important matter, to. the dif
ference bet ween th, ante: aiui
the tropics is only a matter el
decree If tile optimum ■-
grees can be maintained a<--»
has no kicks wnatever.
Tia Republican convention
quibbled over the mattei
\ll lights lOi . out so
quibbled ti.t Democrat... When
ail is said and done, the iw 10
voter must choose be; went d«?-
gre . not kind ol tr> n
me-m hi must expect from tire
L< j; a>C. a!, ; ie ■ • . ■ * ■..
epectivcJy
Luc;' j neithe, .'.id.iwi
the .v'e-gro reivive lb*, ti, .-.t-rate
citizensiiip ht so i.-arTresil ■* ks
and for wiiich ire ha- so abwn
dant.y cjualilicd wnit id.; ;we.u
ana tears and blood.
Tilde are liberal southerners
and conservative northerners,
southeri. Democrats and north
ern dixiecrats. Korneys or Jack
of it, if not ectional any more
But Hit- almost astouridhir tact
is, civil rights a ; an i. ue has
hurtled into tire very forefront
of the mighty weighty matter?
commanding the attention ol
the nation.
The thing that should give
heart to the Negro is not tire
immediate disposition of this
matter of civil rights; but the
fact that it is a matter of de
bate Before the coming of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it
was not even a matter of de
bate. Before the coming of
Harry Truman it was not de
bated seriously.
But today how tilings have
changed. I ht. two ,-o.ite-cii put
ties ;:re at raid to face it square
ly and afraid not to face it at
*l).. Herein lies the great vic
tory that riehteousnei-i has
gamed in the world. Civil
rights for Negroes has become
a burning issue in this country.
Herein must the Negro take
hope and press on to victory.
TTie great question surround
ing the vital matter of civil
right? is not . hether, but
when? Even the dixiecrats ad
mu that the full integration at
the Negro is only a matter of
time. Even they have begun to
discern the signs of the time»
which herald the warning that
that the Negro must be saved
or b;e nation will be lost.
So as ihe Negro gird? himself
politically for the discharge of
his franchise, he must under
stand that the difference be
tween the Democrats and the
Republicans is but one of de
gree? but so is the difference
between life and death, between
Heaven arid Hell, between the
good and the bad
In this mighty matter of de
gress there is something over
whelming in the current poli
tical situation. A few years, ago
the Negro looked religiously to
the Republican party for de
liverance from hr? social and
economic and political woes.
The Republican party failed
him!
Today it has tome about that
the Democratic party that
apurned turn 50 years ago is his
hope of deliverance, Thing*
Change, for it is written in the
prophecy of Daniel, “God chan
ge?: the times and seasons; He
setteth up one End taketh down
another.’’
This writer has been d.cciar-
TI!E CAROLINIAN
Ing for a quarter of a century
through the p:V:a Oi till?. COutl
t; v that -vineidea must save the
Negro or itself be tost. As this
fact dawns more and more up
on the nation, the nation moves
vies*-; and closer to the broad
tuting realization that human
broth* rhoou is tin- only «m
--rr.
And human brotherhood It
will be. This happy era can be
hastened hen the Negro be
come 1 politically m* t as he
certainly is not at present. Tms
writer v. .ached the proceedings
of the Democratic convention
In Chicago and -aw the sullen*
j** s? and tp.;.’ recalcitrance of
Virginia, South Carolina and
l.uitiS'.m;; tne avowed dixle
cratr. -.calking about with their
thr<-a‘ to walk out
i .:.v. Harry Fm-ci Byrd, the
big bo* .with b;g stick drawn
for tin fray It uddcnly dawn
ed upon me that tin- real ex
planation of Harry Flood Byrd
and hit threat to walk out was
to be found in the voteiv iov.s
of Virginia Negroes.
There is not " thing wrong
with th* dixiecrats that vote
wise Negroes could not cure,
per ■ qua re mouth the Negro
looms large; per square vote
th, Negro loom- little if indeed
lit •■looms’’ vt ail' Herein is
the tragedy*
Sentence
Sermons
a wav 01 x
i. Life nas iis perplexing err
eumstancos beyond a doubt; but
to the true and the faithful,
there is always away out.
Life is as changeable as
the weather, with no two days
alike-morning, bearing sun
shine, heavy rain perhaps at
night.
S Thus we can mark the
dart* and bright places in life's
ever changing course; but
when Cod in and life i: ex
cluded, then things in their
own order grow worse.
4. But then is a sure way
out. when even there appears
to be none on tnis highway
no one can go wrong: for it
was planned by the Heavenly
Father and laid by His only be
gotten son.
5. Now if you’ve never met
this Master builder, this clear
ly explains why tilings have
gone wrong; no one can strive
against His wisdom, without
his works finally becoming un
done.
C if only one wants to skip
through down here for just a
few short days and nights, he 11
get just what he is looking for
. , . entrancing thrills from the
passing sights.
7. But this if. sure to end »»
£ merry - go - round side .
the rider whirling around, but
leaving no tracks outside.
g. Life is just that empty and
vague without Christ . . • in
fact, without Him nothing else
will suffice; that soul that can
’find nothing secure on which
to count, will certainly not be
able to find a sure way out.
S. That sure WAY OUT plan
has been established for you
and men. down here . . . and
the commander in chief is Je
sus Christ who never entertains
ti m: for He i the author of
lift whom the winds obey, snh
under His command nothin*
can no astray.
10. This WAY OUT plan
: prang from above before tne
hills in order stood; giving man
a chance to willingly follow
Ills Cod and serve Him as h#
should.
3'. H» then was made un
failing promises if only h#
would devout; and with a pow
er brought down from heaven
a sill r way would be pointed
out.
12. Thank Cod, this way to
you is still open . . don’t Set
Satan's, e inning toss you aboct.
and just as sure as. your storm
cloud; gather. God tor you.
will find A WAY OUT.
k fkc'.Hk Uzz m
RECONSTRUCTION AGAIN
An editorial in the Greens
boro (N. C'.i Daily for July 2d,
18d2 on the subject "Civil
Rights’ and Soutnern history
endeavors to explain the recent
activities of the Southern de
legation at the Democratic Na
tional Convention. Says UiC
editorial:
“ . Why should the South
object to civil rights including
* compulsory FEPC?
"The answer of course Ues
In history. History is easily for
gotten oy those who have not
had it jump on them. The
South’s fears of civil rights fed
eral legislation go back to the
trasyic era of Reconstruction .
The nation may have forgot
ten, hut the South has not, the
orgv of corruption and de
bauchery fastened on if by the
North in that period, under the
guise of "civil rights.'’
The article goes on to cite
example? of corruption in the
South during Reconstruction
andcloses with the statement:
These are mild samples of
what went on under jackal
rule. Tins is why the South
still fears civil rights.”
And there you have- it. The
white .South, by and large, still
thinking and acting in terms
of immediately before, during
the period of, and immediately
after the Civil War. The white
South still explains its politi
cal. economic, social ,and edu
cations! institutions in terms of
die foregoing areas.
With reference to the- graft
that supposedly prevailed in
the South during the period of
Reconstruction, there are sev
eral things which should be
pointed out to the white lead
ers of the South: If one wishes
to believe that dishonesty in
the Southern government was
as bad as it has been pictured,
U must be remembered that
normal State governments had
pot been restored in the South
at that time. During thM time
the South w a largely under
military rule. Or, in some of
the states the majority of the
nolitical offices Was held by
Northern whites who cany*
South following tne War. By
the same token, the South had
not been restored to its proper
and normal relations with the
Federal government. Moreover,
• large segment of the South
ern population (Negroes) did
not have any formal training
cor experience in political and
economic affairs. The foregoing
conditions do not exist in the
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY AUGUST 9, 1952
Wf "jAMES A. SHEPARD'S “ “
HIS and THA I
BY JAMES A. SHEPARD
Wi promised to resume oui
story tins week about th'-
Democratio and Republican
parties' and try to present rea
sons to you why we felt you
should support the Democratic
ticket this fall. However, -incc
last weeks column, one of this
country's greatest citizens has
passed into the Great. Beyond,
and we feel it our duty 'o pay
our respects to this man ■nd
more particularly, the things
lor which he stood.
Ream upon ream has been
and will be writtt about she
accomplishment.- of (.'. C. Spaul
ding and he will b< honored in
death even more than he was
while alive upon this eartn. Ae
heartily concur with all tV\-
good tilings scid about this man
and we feel it to be impossible
u> praise him too much.
Mr Spauldings life history is
too well known for us to touch
•upon that' angle in talking
about that great man. His career
was a reenactment of the Ho
ration Alger talc of rages t*:>
riches. That he was oorn of
slave parents, one of elevS*.
children arid arose to fame ana
fortune ha- been shouted from
the roof tops, preached from
countless pulpits and been niadr
the theme of many newspaper®
and magazine articles
The fact that. Mr. Spaulding
was born of slave parents Is
~i course with in it self of
• mall consequence. The majori
ty of Negroes in this country
whether of high or low de
gree are either the son? or
] : ,v,. or the grandsons of
slaver What is of significance
i; the fact that Mr Spaulding
not only refu-»d to allow that
fact to hold him back, but. put
ting selfish interest behind him
he labored night and day to
improve the condition of iv.ery
Negro under the sun.
W- feel that Mr. Spaulding*
true greatness is tpyifiod by
the rich legacy he left behind
for all of us to enjoy. The work
lie did in helping to establish
maintain and expand those two
great institutions. The North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the Mechanics &
Farmers Bank it without doubt,
the gieatest contribution or?
Negro has ever made toward
th. economic security of hi*
race.
The Negro has produced in
Hus land of trial and tribula
tions, called the United States
of America, a number os out
standing men and women,
recognized leaders in ail the
professions peoplt who through
their various contributions m
the diif- rent area- of life have
helped to shape the destiny of
this nation and added material
ly to its greatness But 11 re
mained for C. C. Spaulding,
with an acutenes- of percep
tion far beyond that of others,
to sense the fact that the
economy of America, is bused
on business and while the other
professions are necessary, it is
business that supplies the life
blood which keep.- America
strong.
Mr. Spaulding, through his
groat gift of vision, was abie
to see that until the Negro was
ante to make his imprint uii
the Held of business, his future
u, this, country was insecure
and would be filled with many
odd: Mr. Spaulding knew that
although the teaching profes
sion is a most honorable oae,
there would never be sufficient
teaching jobs to take care of
all the Negroes qualified to
teach He knew that this same
truth applied to all of the other
professions such as medicine,
la ,v. theology etc, and although
South today. Therefore, a pe
riod of economic and political
corruption could not be thrust
upon the South today either
by the Federal government nor
by “outsiders” migrating into
the South. Furthermore, the
white South continues' to spepk
of tiie corruption of Recon
struction day's as though that
was tiie only time in the history
Ol' the human race that a per
iod of corruption ever existed.
But as a matter of fact the
daily papers are filled with ac
counts of graft, theft, embez
zlement, or whatever you may
desire to call it, in State. Local,
and National governments uz
well as in private business. A
large part of tiie time of Con
gress as well as of the state
legislatures is taking up in in
vestigating graft and corrup
tion in government.
It should be pointed out to
the white leaders of the South
that they have been in full
charge of the economic and po
litical machinery of the South
for the past seventy-five years,
for the least. But that the
South. despite its potential
wealth, is still on the bottom
rung of their nation's ladder of
almos all the worthwhile thing*
of life. On the other hand Ger
many was completely defeated
and her industries almost hope
lessly curtailed during the pe
riod of World War One. But
within a period of twenty-five
years, Germany recovered and
almost defeated the world.
It is my considered opinion
that when those of us who lr«e
in the South forget the Civil
War including th# period of
Reconstruction, and not until
then, the South will take its
proper place in national af
fairs, political, economical, and
educational. Robert D. Calkin
writing in the Greensboro daily
for July 20, 1952 says that when
the South substitutes brains for
brawn, skill for sweat, and
power and muscles the South
will thrive. 1 share very much ’
his opinions in the matter.
those professions could never
absorb the growing number of
qualified Negro men arid
women, these people had to
have jobs and it was the duty
ot Negroes to begin the tasit
of caring for his own
it is very possible that other
Negroes have thought along
those same lines and have
wished they could do some
thing to remedy the need. The
great difference between thos#
wishful thinkers and Mr. Spaui
ding was that. while other#
wi sited thev could do something
H-K DID SOMETHING. Wbtl*
others saw the need, lie sup
plied the need. While cither#
thought the task Impossible. ha
made it possible.
We do not mean to Imply that
the economic problems of our
giuup nave all been solved and
we can now set back and rest
in the contentment of security.
No. tnat is not the thought w*
are trying to convey. Wnat w*
aiv really trying to get acros#
to you is tnat Mr. Spaulding
funished us with the key, tn« *
key, which if used will unlock
the aoor ot opportunity and
usher us into a new era of ra
cial development and progress,
if we will only use the key be
has placed into our hand#.
Mr. Spauldings accomplish
ments are all the more lemarb
height. Back in the days when
able because he laid the founds
racial distrust, suspicion and.
tv, n hatred were at inetr
tion for them at a time when
Mr. Spaulding and his associ
ates were struggling to secure
a footing for the enterprises
which havt the admira
tion and respect of people every
where, Negroe- simply did not
trust, each other and they had
vey little confidence in the in
tegrity, honor and ability of any
..Negro or group of Negroes. Os
course we know this was due,
in part to tne white mans in
fluence, both during and after
slavery. But, whatever the
cause, it dia not make the lot
of those endeavoring, to build a
business among Negroes an
easy one
Knowing these things and
visualizing the persecution Mr.
Spaulding must have endured
and looking today at the rich
rewards which have come to all
of us because Mr. Spaulding
was willing to endure persecu
tion, haired and privation, w©
are remmded 01 another who
was- willing to endure the scorn
and. hatred of those He came to
bless and to . ave.
Whenever you feel hkr pity
ing yourself and wonder why
you can't seem to get ahead,
don’t Dlarne your plight on
either the white man or othex
members of your own race
just remember that you wer/*
never poorer, that you nev*r
occupied a lower station in life
or was never in more need than
C. C. Spaulding had at one time
found himself in. K* knew that
he was not in the condition God
meant for anyone made in His
image to be- in so with His
in-lp, !u did something about
it, not for himself alone but for
the benefit of black me n and
women everywhere
NOTES AUTHOR
IS SUBJECT 0E
NEW ARTICLE
NEW YORK Unknown eight
years ago, Frank Yerby is today
the most popular author in tiie
United States Tne 38-year-old Ne
gro, profiled in the current issue
of People Today, has written se
ven best sellers since 1943, which
have sold 8 million copies, piu#
another 2 million when 3 were
icprinted as 25-cent and 35-eent
books'.
Born in Augusta. Gt., Yerby
attended Haines Institute and
Paine Colege there, got his
Master’s from Fisk IJ. and stu
died at the 1). of Chicago. Lit*
Ue magazines published hi*
first poetry in ’33. He taught
English at Southern U. in Ra
ton Rouge, married in ISH#
and moved to N. Y. where ho
worked for the Tangtr Air
craft Corp. during the war.
His short story, “Health Card,”
won in O. Henry award In ’44
uiul paved the way for hi#
first novel.
Yerby’s historical novels us
ually take the conventional
picture of an era or a plac# s
but they are documented with
material ordinarily left out of
history books. He believes that
both highbrows and lowbrows
can enjoy the same book tor
different reasons. Presumably
highbrows can read his navels
for their history and lowbrows
will lean a little history whll«
following the love stories. .Ac
tually no such division of
readers seems necessary. IV*
doubtful he’d lose any reader#
If he treated the emotional
life of his characters with th®
care and intelligence be de
votes to historical research, or
to nis fast - moving adventur®
narratives.
Yerby. who has four children,
lives quietly in his handsomely
redecorated Jackson Heights home
end continues to work methodic
ally. He puts in up to 6 hours a
clay of library research, and up to
18 writing, Each year he vaca
tions in Mexico, reports PBGPLJS
TODAY,