PAGE TEN THE CAROLINIAN Published by the Carolinian Publishing Company, 5.18 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6, IS 40, at the Fast Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879. Subscilption Bates: Six Months $2,7 S ........ ••. • - On* Year s4.sß Payable in Advance —-Address all communications and make all checks and money or ders payable to THE CAROLINIAN. Interstate 'United Newspapers, luc, M 3 Fifth Avenue, N, V. It N.Y. National Advertising Represen tative- This newspaper is not responsible for the return of unsolicited news, pictures, or advertising copy unless necessary postage accompanies the ci^y. F. ft. JEBVAY, Publisher Alexander Barnes - - Advertising & Promotion Chau. Tones News & Circulation £ £ Swain Plant Superintendent J C Washington - - .Foreman, 1 ' chanicai Department Mrs' A. ML Hinton’ * - • .Office Manager Opinions expressed in by-columns published in this r.ewspsper are not necessarily those of the imp lication. VSSWS»©IjW The Court Has Spoken The CAROLINIAN be lieves that not too many people were surprised that the United States Supreme Court ruled against the constitutionality oi racial segregation in pu b i c schools and demolished the “separate but equal' fiction which was promul gated in and grew cut of the Court's decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1656. All available indi cations pointed to such a decision, and it was plain that it was more them had expected by those most .bit terly opposed to that out come of the case. What was really remarkable and feticitorus was the com plete clarity of the deci sion leaving no question at all to the intend of the court to rule separation in public education as being in violation of the four teenth Amendment. Almost equally surprisi ing and gratifying was the unanimity of the court. It is not often that, the entire court, with no one dissenting and no one abstaining, can agree on a suestion so controversial, so momentous in the social adjustments required by its decision, and so devas tating to traditions cf long standing. The nine-to-noi fl ing score left the opposi tion limp, with no toehold anywhere in sight from Structure Is Collaps‘d C Eapf.S’y Recent Supreme Court ac tion in several civil rights cases since the school seg regation decision came al most as an anti-climax by contrast, but the cases were all of considerable importance, and added measurably to the Negro's status. Ail the action was announced on ine same day,and there wore impor tant immediate repercus sions growing out of one decision. The Supreme Court upheld a lower fed eral court decision banning Survey In Dublin County The New and Observer lias reported that the Wal lace Enterprise has ’ learn ed through a recent survey that the Negro leaders of Duplin County are unani mously in favor of segrega tion in the public schools.” In order to check the validity of the Enterprise’s conclusion it would be necessary to knew who de- * cided on who the ' Negro leaders” of Duplin Coun ty were, and by what me- More Than Meets The Eye The forced resignation of the principal and the fir ing of 17 teachers of Spaulding High School, Spring Hope, is a highly disturbing occurrence, The CAROLINIAN is in the po sition of not knowing which to launch a plausi ble verbal comeback. There was no ground left for hope, or even for con solation. Only bitter re crimination or unreason able defiance, after the manner of Governor Her man Taimadge, appeared as an alternative to the ac ceptance cf the decision w:db as much delay in its implementation as the cir cumstances made possible. On the other hand, the moderation with which the South as a whole has ex pressed itself in comment on the decision so upset iir.g to the southern tra dition has been, on the whole, somewhat sue Us ing, and definitely admir able. As a matter of fact there are strong medica tions that the South was expecting the demise o? the Plessy vs Ferguson precedent, and some hints that a not incons idercrble body of southerners rath er welcomes the outlawing of school segregation. Many commentators point out that the southern in ter-racial clima f e has b■■■on changing rapidly for some years now, and that rati onal aorwaaches to the living oi the two races !o --c H her are employed fov more and more native southerners 7’h' stagger in a cad in dollars cpd cents of a rooky separate segregation in public bous ing projects in San Fran cisco. Senator, Maybank cf South Carolina, pre viously a staunch support er of federally financed housing, has announced his opposition even to the mod est housing program advo cated by President Eisen hower, because of the seg regation decision. Other cases were con cerned with the rights of Negroes to attend a local junior college in, a Texas city, to use a municipal thed. A much more elusive, but just as important fact that needs checking is what position in the Com munity do there “leaders” hold; what proportion of them are principals and teachers whose income at present is tied to the segre gated school system, and how many others of them * a r o dependent for their com fortable status cn the white community's approval of their expressed attitudes. enough of the background of the upheaval, but it is convinced that the e is something unhealthy in the Spring Hope situation. I! further finds it very hard to bel; ve that what is wrong could bo on the part but-equal system of public education from top to bot tom and ail the way ac ross has played its part in modifying opinion where reason has been permitted to replace emotion to some extent, Again, those who have had the intestinal stamina to face the posi ton America has been placed in before its allies and its enemies alike as chief detender of demo cracy and quality in the struggle between the free and the enslaved halves of the world, have had to ad mit to themselves that en forced separation in educa tion on the basis of color was very damaging. This is no time for Ne groes to waste in gloating and empty hurrahs, and it is little indulgence in such. Rather, we must be ready to work cut with thc-se who are honest and serious and ready in good faith to tac kle the concrete problems of implementing the Court's decision, the prob lems of going ahead on the new basis with the business of I'vfna together and pro viding for the educator of all the youth of the nation There will be as much need ever for tolerance and restraint and understand ing To face the facts, the need, for a time, w'U v, e r e-" t l -an ever, on the part of all. golf course in Houston, and to be admitted to per formances in a municipal ly owned amphitheater in Louisville, Kv. In each case the high court either con firmed action of a lower court upholding the rights o! Negro citizens, -or order ed the lower court to act in con?,-! rity with the most recently established prin ciples of civil rights as promulgated in the public school segregation case. The structure of legally (sanctioned discrimination is rapidly crumbling. The questions posed the Negro leaders by the Enter p~'re were definitely angl- r *’ Further, then* is no in dication as to whether those quizzed were in re plying protected by anon ymity or not The uashot o f it all is that the survey is of high ly doubtful value as a re v'aler of the truth, though admirable in netting the answers desired by the questioners. of ihe faculty to the extent that a mass firing ot 18 people represents a proper solution of the problem. There must be something Ley and inefficiency and unfitnecs of the teaching personnel. “The Snarler Os The Supreme Court” V V , T?i~- ’ ■ C D. Halliburton’, SECOND THOUGHTS M IP i,. Jiff My perennial hero, Dr Frank Graua.ii, former president of the U nv.isity oi Norm Carolina and for a short time U. S. Senator, in a recent address in Chapel Hiil, made some observations on the anti-segregation decision of the Supreme Court. Dr. Graham, now a United Nations mediator, is ‘worth listening to whenever he speaks on the subject of hu man relations. It will be recalled that he was 3 member of the Civil Rights Commission which was appointed by and made a report Vo President Truman; and that he was one of those who en dorsed a minority report which frowned on the legislative-judici al approach to the civil rights is sue. In his recent Chapel Hill speech D' - . Graham reiterated his opin ion in the light of the Supreme Court's decision, -a> ing that be still did not believe tha* the “compulsion of federal power” to be the idea! approach to the seg regation problem, and that he preferred the approach which would utilize and depend on “re ligion and education.’’ Frank Graham is a peaceful and lovable individual, and if the world had enough of his kind, the “comoidsion of federal NEW YORK. (GLOBAL) X.isi words übcommittee in vestigation” have been used so commonly of late in connection with the McCarthy vs Army hearings, that many people seem not to realize that there are other subcommittee investigations ing or, some of which have come up with some pretty startling information. One such committee has just revealed some miscon duct which tops anything that has come out of the McCarthy hearings so far. We refer to a subcommit tee investigation of union racketeering which just this past week held hearings tn Pittsburg. Some of the char acters uncovered in that particular investigation ure as sinister as any we've heard of. They give ail iaboi a ( lack eye, and do a grave disservice to millions of honest and industrious rank and flic workers. One of these characters is a bricklaying “czar” who pocketed a neat $30,1)00 by various ingeni ous methods. He would get “Com missions” from contractors on the rale of building supplies; ho coi fed a nice fee from a building cleaning concern for letting non-union men stay on the job. and he exacted fees from an a p.-ulmc-nt house builder for insur ing a supply of bricklayers. If the builder had not “come a cro s" there would have been a “shortage” of bricklayers, or a slow-down. This, of course, is ■ t a f t h on the oid pro tection racket- Then there was another lovely character, now deceased, who was an AFL Painters local of nc.'ai. Ip* l. >d away of causing work stoppages and slow-downs if building contractors didn't IHE CAROLINIAN power” or any other gover timet 1- ai pressure might well be dis pensed with in bringing about equity He is already educated, and he is intelligent about his religion. But ho is also inu-11 nt enough to know that ideal s-vu tic-ns will not alv ys work this world which is so far from - deal. It can hardly be denied t s..t compulsion is m i the idea! sec tion to any problem of hurt i relations. On the other ham! s a patent fact that social ehu ..vs cannot await the conversion, uy religion and education, of every segment of public opinion. Another fact that Dr Graham surely recognizes is that vc-t a segregated system of education, the very type of education m human relations needed to ore,tit down the psychological tanw vi what Dr. Graham a-.iv >cates ■ ? to a great ex’ent inhibited. We learn by doing and not simply by being told what we ought t*> do. The tru st effective way to at tack segregation «s to stop team ing people in attitudes which sanction and almost require it. Where can this training be modi fied more effectively on a mass - STRAIGHT AHEAD - With Olive Adams come through with his demand? for cash or little gadgets and baubles like Cadillacs and dia mond rings. A Buffalo industrial executive claims that this parti cular official carried his shake down tactics into contracts that his firm held with the Atomic Energy Commission project in Ohio. Then, there were several nice guys who would hop on trucks entering the city, and demand a full day’s pay for unloading the cars in half an hour or so. Some times they didn't even make that much of a pretense. They hopped the trucks and demanded pay for no work at all, threatening vio lence, of course. These stories are similar so o*hers in different parts ot the country, and in nearly every case the contractors Hy RF.V FRANK fLMKMK LOWERY FOR ANP L Grace could well be imagin ed as a hidden {ace, looking in from somewhere through end less space, nowhere could any life be found . but Ihe spirit of God was definitely around. •j. This power that kept hope as an invisible flame burning stead ily to meet the coming demand, needed no other means to inten sify its heavenly beak for all power was at God's command. 3. Steadily down throveh '.be dim vista of the ages it began to unfold its invisible pages, map ping away out for man to be redeemed, though hopeless the nrocess it surely must have seem ed. 4. But wi dom beyond all *ln SENTENCE SERMONS basis th >n in the schools? 2nd how beiicr shore than by having ti'. : .Ui’-en start to school unssepaia tv carry out such train ins: < me has a fen eration. of pa; s v.' I; sea btvn through an imsegrogated school system than ever before. As we look back on history we all agree that the abolition of s; i a very by force or compulsion was amply justified. No one can say for certain, but there is no telling how long slavery as an in stitution might have flourished in tais country had it not been abo lished. partly by presidential fiat end partly by legislative action. It was defended by organized re ligion, and education was making l.ttk* progress Both religion and education went to work more ef fectively AFTER the legal aboli tion than they had done Much the same will very likely happen as regards the acceptance i f the abolition of segregation ".1 public schools. and business men comply with these requests accepting the practices In the interest of ‘Teod labor relations.” They haven't agree am! who are pleased with (he decis ion- But to the best of my k; ~ .v --ledge there has been 510 wild out bursts or uncontrollably denv-u --strations on either sin:. With the exception of a fc.v roll: ; iw. rot statesmen, wii-i get in, and stay in, political office by m ic ing wise cracks and dc-mago ue statements, there have been no harsh words spoken by either side- All of which are stiv-ng evi dences that the oxime:;, tan “1 Process of the Law" i ; r<-aJ meaning to the vast majority ■ the American people. This wi iter has known the lime v, iu-n a prize fight between n Negro and white persons caused race no; : * of Amazing GRACE, rbui made it possible through Christ, for man’s sins to be erua-.-d, 8. This is that a toundin. plan of unmerited favor and unr.e - .v --ed mercy, for lost man; beyond the power to conte-vo or em brace ~ this matchless pianos amazing Grace. 9. This pian did blaze the ""tat white way, down whu.li Chi Ist rune to save man's; day: but when He arrived, night quickly came on, and hellish forces tried io prove the plan unsound. 10 But back before time -la - id not to move, our Savior iiur..- this plan to prove; all hell could not destroy His eterna] a.ms, lor He came to face ignominy, 1 dure cross-bearing . and iinahy the pains 11. Then while hanging on the cross, He saved a thief that was truly lost ... then for other mi ners like you and me, who should have paid their own indemnity, Ke wrote with His blood "theu too art free." 12, Who now would no- join in this song who enjoys full liberty whose fins beta* nailed to the cross, is eternally set free; “Amaz ing Grace, how sweet tin? sound that saved a wretch like m- . f cnee was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now ]. see." fji. Tt. is doubtful if there is any parsou in Arntu'ii.a who could -lave rein a in-:c! aaroad for s x rn-.-f.'- i.s raid eout;>.,u3lly talking, v.-sthou.; h;” r, thrown "the tat ;ut;i ti.c tire" many times. Our : o tars *.'o2id t at the feet of Engiiii: a.- long time learning just waut t-> say and -.vhai eo>. 50 tay. One of o;:r paltry states c-i a go uotsuil for a u. k or tvvi, and within that short blue he lets slip the •a w alia;, ia !.ii;* 11. rung I'.lam.. and the heat is on. No.-re ''.kin -IJV -t: five e>fc Was invoiv cd in the extended , .iiuu-nci of tee queen through irvx-y lands. *: »a? a subtle al-'csopt io r<*st«re tl'c arcs- , tire of the British Empire. A few years ~ ;o, the Empire was ca the ropes, and talk oi ; b Hindu lie;: was prevaieut. Brf [ . Wn . 2 C.iO iJQ t,c Axue- ; ika even as a child in danger ,<,k; close to its molltei- Bui • cay. Low chaug-td: Britain to day i.? striving for a ccixi hack v.vi i.-'t ; he’:;: 1 !, ready to a ... *l sit Hi ;;;? -.Livers scat of i; lewiaticnai uipivatu-.y. The old fee loyalty is i:e:'.;a a.,) edit as a means of doing t; -vie;e. •;:■ limertt what she could TK-t! -Jo v. itir iocee ot ainas. Them Las .aveo Vetnc-s in the last nundrc-.l years when the L h h-a aei'.3’’rh would have sowed in Bue-'- .- •• .;.;:.-ca Pe'uiCe ;. ed, btiltiestups oa a. r.<;• and the world cruists. But the day of Bel: utTs arrsivd j-rcstuess is ;r ae - ::d ;ed v:bat she cannot r?w,- no bv I'war? -'I he-' icrtoid a:ng rr-rami::;. she e- trying to ■ rent. From arm -. . : : !.,.i :eeni i? Ui" current course of Br-f.ain’i? empire. ( v'f hie t re rains: the i ;vs we-n iicsnioris will live in proverb- and support kings and vii-; .:? aco it eiuicd. And such trip.; Queen Elizabeth to,.p reeeritly may prove a xcm pe n v ,:?n. in the arm Fhe fact , ro : us : us the days of kings and oi yeti?! rre about over tiirougb. ut {'he- civ bred world. The diplo mnts of Eni'dacd knew it*; but if s; or :;'hen Br-iatii i-von l-miparari’v by invoking noble - instead of resort ng in .-. , - Ti..T proixewortbjr - bo gainsaid- i ,;:g a-rt fi’osi Ae place of Uie prize fight. Our present attilo.cls! ;s a far cry from such barbaric philosophy, cv a v n up by a : .up oi witits ministers in a Hcrld (; iroKis-i city seems to U'.a writer to summarize the genevui iceUngs of the vast majoidy ui *b At ru-ricßii people. It-, part, ip: dution said: "Wo wish, to au r-.ordsb -j-us people against lubila • (a; the one hand and tic spi) it oi iciielliOß on the otlK i'. .ra- : a.: La-. . and witeout pre judice." . ••‘fbe C'hri -Ran Church u-t a-r print -or t:v tu-Lnis , for Ua new sViituil p.o'pran). '.Scat aw»;4 be wo»k , -i, P ; it!*’ i.. 00l l til in .school »Jiiv: uslration . .it ,n gavenim*' If they its;! jm ,-- aa t s n .a.* principle tic. ev-Ty r-oul is of equal y.t.ue before Gw! and that Hivir primary conceni must ii, the iv, Ware «f ev r.v ini'* tcry race, they wii.l sucueeil-’’ 1: is nnf; -i-'lunate mat , ; . ,a; ia u: - a...-.:]ia tin.- (p? :- : a the Couth seen uigiy ’a a-; ’ u* Soata, As a m.r!cr ,-,l Inert, the South tiu> ce svelirm of this ? .-at nation of ours that needs to r.iaki* :--r.n- improvements in a■. : a-, , peruminn to races. Bm :£ III:: ’vshes to thinK only in t v ...-tns of South regarding ;{:■ • ; -a >n theiv ..-at* cn i air,i ;i :n ? ..: s. Aside from the Gnii’l* recent, decision, there hat:- bi.-ii, within the last few nr.ny improvv-menls in t the racial philosophy of the South. A rcc-.-nt article in the Wall :• tree’ Journal, I leek is good food for thought. A part of the article is quoted herein; “School ruin; • speeds Dixie's revolution, but u did not start it. Slowly * Lilt surely segrcsuition has long I