North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR ibiroifiAiTjL VIEWPOINT J*“ VS^*~- CAN A QUITTER S UR VIVE? It was a sad day in Ra leigh, North Carolina and the Shaw University fami 1 y, relatives and friends when the death bell to football resounded throughout the nation l Football at Shaw Uni versity has been a sick patient for some time Wh i 1 e the patients disease apparently seemed curable right up to near ichonl opening time, the doctors evidently had dis regarded the needed medicine, For with only a reported IS to 17 candi dates for the team the Fall sport, which is ac. eepted the country over as a “must" in the lives of the students, for morale School spirit and an in fluence through which the greatest vehicle of attract ing graduates and former students, friends and well wishers back to the cam pus, had an indifferent d i a g n o s i s- Everybody knows you cannot play football without material. And it is generally known that it takes money to at tract this material through scholarships. There are more peopie and money in the country today than ever in its history It hasn’t been too long ago that the casualty . . football . . ■ won a champ jonship for the University playing some of the best schools in CIAA circles. Then the patient was healthy, strong, and pro ductive, attracting as high as 17,000 admirers to the Shrine Bow! game in Nor folk only a few years ago; only now to succumb to ■the insecure and indiffer ent care of its quacks With a knowledge of the prowess and influence of Its football teamin in the past and also of the hand THF. CASE OF MRS. F.CCI.FS The Winston-Salem Journal, quoted some time ago in the News and Ob server, should be com mented on a situation in North Carolina which should certainly be a con cern of every Negro citi zen. The editorial shows the. kind of spirit and the type of concern for fair ness and equality which earned for North Caro lina its now somewhat tarnished reputation for leadership in southern liberalism And let it be said here that there Is plenty of it left in North Carolina, even if its champions may not be as influential today as they were & few years ago. The Journal editorial is quoted here almost in its entirety as it appeared in the News and Observer, both because of the im portance of the topic and the type of treatment given it. as well as be cause the whole story is necessary in order to grasp the points made. “This has not been a Summer when many per sons complained of the cold. But Mrs. Sally Ec cles, a 65-year-old woman who lives in the city View section, felt the pinch of cold ths summer and she built a fire on the floor of Ker home, and burned it to the ground “Mrs. Eccles felt the cold and to her mind it was real enough tonly in her mind; a mind ' _ ~ THE CAROLINIAN (Published by the Carolinian Company, 118 East Hargett Street, Ra leigh, North Cambria. Telephone: 9474) Hatered as Second Class Matter, April t>, 1940 at tlie Post. Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six Months S2OO One Year $3.50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND MAKE ALL CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate United Xc-wspapers, Inc., 642 Fifth Avenue N, Y. 17, K. V. National Advertising Itepirsenia th-e. Thte newspaper is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy un less, necessary postage accompanies the copy. Opinions expressed in by-lined solwnns published « this newspaper arc not necessarily those of the publication., PAUL R. J.ERVAY, Publisher UN HOLLOWAY, Managing Editor ■illKl—isiiu ~ ■ ■■■ in mir iir irnirnnim in ——niinn mv J ful of candidates expected for the *52 campaign of ficials lead all other schols to believe up to Septem ber 11. that its patient football • would be healthy and ready to meet its commitments by sched uling eight games. This disregard of its fellow members in the CIAA, which it helped to found, will long be re membered This one jolt in confidence the Uni versity once enjoyed is practically an irrepairabie damage in CIAA affairs Schools naturally will have a cloud of doubt about -scheduling teams of Shaw in the future not only in football but other sports as well when rec ords will show such a last minute curtailment of an activity affecting so many ci r e 11. m s tan ce s Apparent ly no attention was given to the fact that students come to Shaw to see foot ball. Fileds r parks had been contracted for, of ficials had planned their time, etc The sick: patient, foot ball, has passe.d on for 1952 But it* doctors who saw him linger long enough to call in special ists, but instead stood by and saw him die are the Indifferent quitters who have shaken to the very roots the possibilities of an institution's survival in a time when Negro priv ate schools are so sorely needed Shaw’s rich tradition and its array of living adn dead stalwarts who s e honest”, integrity, sacri fice find confidence have been let down and disre garded. These thousands have been made happy to the point of joyous tears that has become irrational because hardening arter ies have pinched off the flow of blood to her brain, "Sometimes senility merely brings a fading of mental powers. But some times the loss of reason ing power caused by age is so extensive that the result is a form of insani ty, That was the case with Mrs. Eccles. She was iudged insane and committed to the State’s mental hospital for Ne groes at Goldsboro. "But thev would not ac cept Mrs. Eccles at Golds boro. Instead, thev sent her back to Forsvth County, saving that they could not accept cases of mental illness which are caused hv old age . . . Mrs. Eccles in all proba bility will bo placed in the custody of a relative. "That is a sineuarlv unsound solution to the ca?e. but morp important, it is a iynicil solution where apod Negroes are involved Necrocs alreadv appear to be carrying more than their «haro nf these home cases, Tn 19. *. for example, Forsyth County’s Clerk of Court ■received 142 applications to commit individuals to hospitals because of a mental condition. Os these applications, 115 came from white families and only 27 involved Negroes Last year there were 17 applications to commit over a gridiron cictory by their beloved Bears They have sent their sons and daughters into the Shaw family to be trained not only in the arts* and scien ces. but also in the warm th that burns hot in school spirit as their team ac quits itself like men win or lose, in a game fought with cheers, joy and a soul-stirring feeling for my school, my team, my hero The cry for “Give us a touchdown”, “Give it to 'em Shaw", “Bring it down the field”, U all gone Tlip campus Friday nite preparation when spirit is high for the Saturday clash is gone, the friends on other teams who ..•hi the campus; are gone; the graduates who await the football season’s return wii! not be back and many, many of the school victories that help mould the minds of men and 1 nen into common bond school spirit are chokeo iff Football is a great word i Americans’ lives 9 o quit this great sport admits an inability or lack of desire or courage to roeasur- up to require ments r ded to field a competent team to take its place beside othc in stitutions vho have be come international in fame because their football feats. Such u ■> ecedent begs the question, “can a quit rtr survive in other fields of servic such as English, ma th em. -ti os, etc. ’’ For teachers hike to teach.' in schools that meet chai ienges, who have football teams, sports dramatics, et-.. , because such ar> en vironment is a oart of rounding not a full life tor the student and facul ty alike. alcoholics to State institu tions and IT of them, in volved white men and women. "It is also significant -that here in Forsyth Coun ty w e are able to place aggravated white senility cases in State hospitals. "Because the mental hospital at Goldsboro is overcrowded, the State obviously has been com pelled to say, 'We won’t accept Negro senility cases, but. because, there 5s room at the Butner hospital, can accept white senility cases,' ‘That is the answer they are giving us here in Forsyth County. It is the answer being given today all over North Carolina. It is an answer born in the fact that there are three white mental hos pitals and one training school for white children In North Carolina, while, for th e Negroes, there is only the inadequate, poor ly located hospital at Goldsboro. ’ "It is not an answer in which North Carolina can take any pride.” T h e CAROLINIAN thanks these two dailies for the presentation of this situation and for the way the Journal present ed it. Our own comment, is that there has been presented, bv white news papers, another devastat ing revelation of the "sep arate but equal” mvth. It is a situation which is as Pol and Kellie IPgflPpIGUf iFlSCvp~| wSk /'u VI v mm? \ V"\ vulnerable, legally and socially to attack, as is the public education sit uation In some ot.hei parts of the United States Mrs, Eccles would have been admitted to the nearest state institu tion serving her type of need, but she was ineli gible for Butner solely berm sc of her color. The Stale excludes her from all but one hospital, and then says that one is too full to handle her type of c ar. Th at jg ope of t.h ' ( - .O. Ati rton f ,q|g| SECOND THOUGHTS Genera! enth" 1 - siastic reception during bis lightning trip South has caused a good deal of uneasiness a rnong the Democratic -high com mand, r.d the hint that he may make another invasion of the South before clot:'ion day has not made the Democratic lead ers any more comfortable It 'a, not only tip appear ance and the genuine interest with whic-h the general was re ceived which we iv disturbing, it was as much the vigor of his speeches, and. v.-ewe!!o of his attack on the Truman admin istration in 8 section Whicta does not iike Truman, though reluctant to turn its back on the Democratic rsrfy Truman’s unpopularity in the South grows out of a combina tion of factors hi* champion ing of civil rights for He,, row leads the list Bit the charges of corruption in Washington, being pressed with force by Biscnhowfin his r >c nt speeches, the Hal. mate in the Korean Wat. the charges of Commtifjh-m in government and ineptitude In handling our for eign affcirs- —all these and mti er thing?., operate to F.di the aversion the section has developed to the present Presi dent Os course his identifica tion with civil right:- is the thing which places him in a special category so far as the South is concerned. The other Charges arc just as effective in other parts of the country Be low the Mason-Dixon line it is civil rights PLUS the other things Now it is generally under. stood that. President Truman is not running for re-election If hr were it is almost certain that he would lose a good many southern states. What won it's the Democratic high command, though .is that, there is a strong tendency in some southern quarters to identify Candidate Stevenson with the Truman program, and to regard him as a Truman captive. Eisenhower played consistently on this theme on his southern trip. Meanwhile Stevenson’s state ment of his opposition to the filibuster and his willingness to use his influence against it. plus his more positive recent tproi Vundfement on fair em ployment practices, certainly helped Eisenhower more than Stevenson among the white vot ers of the South. The South as a whole -has never been more than lu? t - warm toward the Democratic candidate anyway. Outside of North Carolina, perhaps, bis support has been pretty reluc tant. The most Stevenson has been really able to count on in THE CAROLINIAN interpretations of states' lights It allows for the provision of facilities ex clusively for one race, the failure to provide similar facilities for another race, and then barring Negroes from the only facilities maintained for the pur pose. on the basis that lam requires the “separation" of the races, it certainly is a situa tion in which North Caro lina cannot “take any pride." But it is more than this section is th£ old ?r'd d6sr v’octcd Dssouaf-:- tradition the aversion oi many to vot ing an;, t.iing but the straight Democratic ticket . the ce.cn laxity of a good many cone?’- - - men and other officeholders and politicians who rate party loyalty very highly because of both political and personal cor sideration.--, and the belief in hit personal abilities and wor thiness Ike" is unde l btcd! 1 popular, and of course, one of the pest known Americans As TT? T r ' ; *evem w % I Gordon B\ Hancock’s | jr* fp'p I.■ ■'v r ■ . --....... i; 1 i nts l ih&S Igp^trl 'iiTdwmrrurtiffßrrirr>viiiirririii~iiwiinnniiii hhhwhiiwiii i,u ' asJMmL' ' ' | » ' FOIST HOC NON IROTPLR HOC. The lamented Dr. Abram C Osborn. great scholar and emi ■ n nt president of Benedict col lege of yesteryear .often used the Latin quotation that serves as ‘he caption of this release b means in translation ‘‘After this but not on account of this." This caption automatically suggests itself after the com mittee of prominent Negroes who interviewed Gov. Adlai Stevenson recently in Ncyc York City After being closet ’ fid wit-h the Democratic candi date. the commute led by Hon orable A. Clayton Powell Jr emerged with the announce ment that Negroes would sup port Stevenson to the limit. This was a fine pronounce ment on the part of the com mittee but if was too long de layed; for Negroes had decid ed to support the Democratic candidate to the limit even be fore the committee emerged. In other words that committee was following the political lead of the Negroes of this country la ther than showing them th*» way. Negroes are going to sup port Stevenson to the limit after the committee’s an • nouneement but not on ac count of the said announce ment, Afi e r Congressman Powell laid admonished ih« Negroes to stay away from 'that H< ide. being unfair it is illegal and unconsti tutional, and, the CARO LINIAN contends, do&s not have to be tolerated. There is no reason why a suit could not be brought seeking admission of Ne groes to the Bittner Hos pital. to the Caswell Training School, Tt would bo interesting to see win * happen Something ccr tl ’r wer,-- press ui vigorous tainlv would, if the mat !y. Lad -eek TUe 1 s- «-on< a# -soon as he entered the South, -ip began to get the kind °f cro-.vd response that his friends had hoped for since his ."•"turn i• • .-n> Europe The South ra*v not contribute any electo ral votes to Eisenhower, but last week it contributed some thing -' h- eh may be more im .i" '‘am. if helped restore E-- - “Rhower’r- stature as one of the <-'c or *-bre- figures whom this -■ ■■ Americans recog nize great " •he polls and the general reaction »o his admonition had been so generally un favorable, he was political ly wise to climb aboard the Democratic hand - wagon with his committee's an nouneement to soppport Stevenson to the limit Negroes in general were colng to do this very thing, vommittiee pronouncement or no committee pronounce ment. So as the Negroes rath to the support of the Democratic ticket It will he after this pronouncement but not on account of it. The committee was recreant to Its higher obligations in that it found out last what it should have found out first: Stevenson as a protege of Truman has his heart nu the right side. This writer decided to string along with anybody who was favorable to the New and Fair Deals. He was not expecting the can didates to say all see want ed to hear because to have said this would have meant political MFeide, for after all, a candidate must gel elected. It is safe to say that Steven son was not pressured into making concessions that he would not have made without the seeming pressure. Regard less of his stand on certain i tilings, the fact that he is com- Hfl “ JAMES A.. *|p There is so much going on in this land of ours of vital concern to us, that we find 0 rataer perplexing at tiiru. ? to deride '"hat issue merits first consideration Wo began this column .ewrai months ago and dur;m: the pe riod we have been a, yiug this space, items of varying de gree? of significance have seen brought to your attention; as vs aw them. Some of the items were in a series, others were single outbursts, they all had one major theme and de sign. to stimulate interest in our position as American citi zens to tiie end that we might become awakened to our short coming.; and feel the urge to do our pa r t in helping to make this a better place to w ork and live in Books, even volumes could oe written mot by ust about racial prejudice segregation, in tolerance and injustice. Book'-- and volumes have already been written concerning those and related subjects Amendments to implement the basic concepts f liberty and justice so clear ly defined in the Constilutfon of this country, have been ad ded to that Constitution, -poll ing out in simple, understand able language, the rights and nvvtleges of all (Americans Now taw;, bot-h state and 'Bed era! are sought to bulwark, as it ■ err the mandate already clearly defined in our national Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States has been railed upon in many in s+ADce>5 + ADce> to interpret the mc?in ing of constitutional phrases or clause as they relate to the fi eedom and liberty of our group. All of this is as it should be Because of these things, ♦he right to protest, the right to disagree, the right to appeal and the supreme, law of the land, p'omising and guarantee ing our freedom, the Negro in America, will always be loyal and obedient to his country, knowing that as tong as 'he above mentioned avenues of es cape from Bit tyranny of the American >, bites are open to him. victory, full and sure, .’ ill ulfirnat; ly be hi; Evil is an ugly thine by whomever mani fest-d. tt cause? damage. It bring.- sorrow and pain and it causes men to act as savages Evil can and frequently, does masquerade as good and even blind men so that they commit terrible crimes believing they ~ r p doing right. But. the con soling fact concerning evil Is that d has no real poverl'vWe are taught t-hat power belongs to God. who is Omnipotent Because of that grand fact, the Negro can knov that over and above the rights and privileges promised him bv tlv» Constitu tion. bevand the decrees of the highest tribunal in the land, la the God. and Father of all man kind. who is not a respecter of c<?v?c ni. but will in His own due time, give equalitv and jus tice *o all ‘of Hi! people We teller e. however ♦ha‘ i.berc ’'• another side to ad of ♦•his We yield firs* place to no individual of earth In the. fight fr,f justice. We believe. v-tb all loyal Americans, that Com monism offers a grave threat; ■s the liberty of people evefy <• hare and we believe that the Communistic threat to the A merican doctrine of democracy mittteri to the course and plan -if hi. immortal Roosevelt is quite enough to warrant, toe Negroes in supporting the Dem ocratic ticket to the limit! Moreover, it must not oe ima gined that any group of Ne groes can deliver' the Negro vote in toto. Negroes are po litically divided as they should * be ami there is no Negro who can deliver the total Negro vote on any- question, just there is no Negro who can speak for the Negro race. Atmost any Negro can speak for a few of his acquaintances and friends but when it comes to speaking for a race he as sumes erroneously if .he »- uijies that he speaks for ail Negroes every wh ere. As the level of education rise? among Negroosand as they are more and more exposed to ‘he American way of life. Ne groes are more and making up their o>vn minds as to their political allegiance? and loyal ties The sharp break with the Re publican party Indicates the po litical behavior of the Negro voters, Stevenson because he is not a Negroes arc going to support favorite of the dixiecrats; be cause he is not. going out of bis way a la Dwight Eisenhower to court their favor and sup port; because their way is not his way nor the way of Roose velt and Truman. Even today Eisenhower is making his swing through the South in search of Dixieerat votes. On general principles Negroes know that the Dixiecrats are not wild about a candidates who gives even the remotest promise of Anything that would advance the cause of the Ne gro This is not to say that there are not whites in the South who would have the Ne» cto advanced; hut it is to say that they am not represented by the Dixiecrats led by the Longs and Strom Thurmonds and Fielding Wrights and Tal madges. Negroes are going to support Stevenson to the limit but not on account the special commit tee's report and pledge. Eisen hower is entirely too popular in Dixie! _ 1 WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 20, 1952 is unsafely present and dan gerously real. But we would shout from the house-tops that the Communistic peril is not Elf! greatest threat to this country freedom. The insidi ous things that are knawing at the vitals of American li berty are intolerance, bigotry and race hatred. This danger is now directed from Moscow or from any other Red country. It is that deadly poison In the life blood of America, which if not cleansed from her veins, will destroy her before Com munism does, because this fiend is at work on the inside he is in the minds and hearts of men and he has been at work a long time and he has done bis work so well that, when he aacks his ' whip his victims perform their evil deeds and make a spectacle of themselves all Over the world Some years ago, when tfte> lynching evil was at Us heights in the South, the NAACF wHh a foresight, far beyond that ct its enemies, tried in vain to awaken this country to the danger of lawlessness. That Kre a t American organization knew that although at ihd* time the vengeance of the mobs was directed solely against tin prote ted and defenseless Ne groes, unless that lawless trend was checked and uerpetuators of mob violence were severely punished, the evil spent behind hie.se unlawful acts would in time cause men to lose respect for law and or dor and white men would become the victims of that evil. Ho-- veil that prediction hat come true can be a Hast Ad to nght here in North Carolina, where the K. u Klux KlAr. bloated with ignorance And. evil and with years of uncheck ed lawlessness behind it, sav no reason -h} if should not cross racial lines and flog whites As ■veil as Negroe r The pwadojc to tjvc tpmvoCary half of thsse fiendish activities is. ‘hat Al though the southern jt.rt.es talk about seceding from the union when threats are made to pass Federal laws in order for the Negro to enjoy the benefits of til.:- -Federal. Constitution, with out the help of the Federal po lice force. iFBlt the Klan out rage;- in southeastern North Ca rolina would not have been ev en temporarily halted. Whit a men in that section and in all jO'dions of the sou to for that matter .had so long condoned and approved mob violence and lawlessness as a means of keep ing the Negro enslaved thJt when this same type of vio lence war- turned on them, they were impotent to cope with s‘ When white men give their aproval to discrimination, seg regation, intolerance and all the long ugly iist of wrongs com ir.ttted -against the Negro, *hev ai ■ helping to destroy the 1 country they say they love be . cause they are giving their ap proval to the destruction of the laws of then country, laws made to keep this country - strong and free. When one. i North Carolina judge will free policemen who have brutally attacked Negroes, "hen. another North Carolina judge will set f ree a white convicted of a - crime- and imprison a Negro i convicted of the sane crime. when a white man can rape a . Negro girl and be acquitted try 1 North Carolina jury and a v.-hite woman can imperil the life of a hard working honest , Negro man by saying he as i saulted her even though he was i so far away from her he edein t know her sex; when a Norte. Carolina U S Senator will «tand before a Sunday Sdhcnl da r 3 and say that God ap i proves segregation and discrim ination; when the majority ri citizens in North Carolina rotes to have a man who has cam ■ - paisned on a platform oi *»-'o hauir-g and racial intolerance. ■'C'pre'wnt them in the L >• Senate, when one Southern governor shouts for- " y nor Id to hear that rather than obey the law and give equa-*-T to all regardless of race. would order every school ml}* benighted state close mu another tells the Negro teacn f,r; of lur- state that it is their job to teach - the ' benefits ; o* segregation to the young wiiim a general of the Army, now running for president, refuses to obey the order of the presi dent of the United States his commander in chief, to enh segregation in tire force;-, una-*~ his command, when we I< sck around us and sec -these an . other glaring un-American ac tivities. ah in direct violation of the laws of the land, can America say that the greatest threat to her freedom is Com munism. America is like un-o a house divided against itself, we are told that useb a house falls- The job of the American N*~ P ro is tc save. America from her enemies at home as wth a? abroad. While fighting fo lds own rights, the Negro will see that he is also fighting to see that "Liberty of the peo ple, for the people and by the people, shall not perish from the earth.’" BRIEFLY STATED At the high point of the Mexi can foot-and-mouth disease out break, 640 inspectors patrolled 1.300 miles of border to keep animals 5 from entering this country. The high death rate of the first Pilgrim children in this country is partially attributed to a lack of cows milk. Later ships to the coolny were required to bring cows.