North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TEN y» KWPOI WT No Incidents To Be Expected The ( .trollnian is glad to loin Governor Lather Hodges m gratification that there were verv few untoward in r 'dents - n connection *.<•<*.!> the opening of the state’s public school:', this month. But just about there we part company with the govern?'-". His conclusion from the fact just mentioned that his wide ly 'publicized but entirely unpractical voluntary srgro cap.on plan has even for the pVfscnt been accepted by the people of North Carolina is not at all justified. That the majority of the white citizens of North Carolina would like to see the plan accepted and are ready themseivee to ,ac r"pt it is certainly a reason able conclusion : that Negroes are sirniliarly ready is quite another question. And, -r- has been emphasized and reem phasized in these column-. Mr Hodges' plan is doomed to failure even if a small mi nority of Negroes decline to accept it. since keeping the schools all white on one hand and all Negro on the other is emphatically not an issue to be settled by popular vote, either of all the people of North Carolina or of ail the "■Kites alone, nr of all the Negroes alone. The United Sf3?*s Supreme Court has al ready decided the issue, and C* decision did not open the question to a plebescite of any kind !t ruled that ehil d-err have the right to attend public schools without regard *■- 'heir race The governor u of course righ< in has con clusion that Negroes can be Mississippi "he New? end Observer oulri be correct :n taking to task Mr Roy Wilkins for condemning all Mississippi for .the death of the Negro vo-yth for an indirection of the kind which would, if the death penalty were univer sally inflicted on the other ; -side of the color line make an appreciable dent in the Mute male population of the S"Uth, There must be thou sands of Mississippians who wire shocked, grieved and humiliated by the tragedy. sne! it. is true both that the governor of Mississippi sent a strong telegram of the right kmd to the NAACP and that the risen charged -with the cime have been indicted and "hit be tried. But of are inclined to tv have that Mr. Wilkins in- Red Faces The absurdity n f deciding hew to treat human beings KQSciy on the basis of skin color was vividly illustrated ift Texas a few days ago when the smart Mrs. Mary Aliev , rjianager of the restaurant at r.u Houston airport, ‘deftly" inhered Indian Ambassador Gaganvihari Mehta and his *fcretary out of the main ' dining room of the restaurant and into a small private dining room" when she dr (tided that the diplomat and h■* secretary must be Ne groes ?t vrould appear that Mr Mehta did not protest; it seerrmd that hr thought hr tv as being shown a special honor by being assigned to the private dining room But there were those who did know what happened. And it was or, Secretary of State THE CAROLINIAN Published by tfea Cafolinicm Publishing Company, SIS E Martin Street, Raleiah. N C. entered os Second C!a..s Matter, April 6, 13 40, at the Post Office at Raleiah Nor*h Carolina, under the Act of March 187!?. 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Legally that is the only wav. m the long run We have no doubt that Governor Hodges knows that •he real reason why there were such a few incidents— beating of a Negro here, the attempted dynamiting of a white citizens home there by other whites because he expressed an opinion and utilized the ancient Anglo- Saxon right of petitoin—is not because his unworkable scheme has been accepted, but because the Negroes of North Carolina and the rest of the South have sought only to establish by legal means their rights and will utilize only legal means to k their application Thru air not interested in « :r, they do nor seek to engender enmity Th< y know that nothing is gssneri by such methods and ti at Ihcv h -vc the least of ad to gain liui Governor Hodges j<- com pletely wrong if he really thinks that the problem has been solved. We do not think he believe' :h The Ncgncs of North Carolina will ecn 'tinu<? to pursue their peace ful aims, already established sr legitimate and constitu tional. by peaceful and leg-’! means There will be no dr namiting and. no hey tings there will be neither defiance nor evasion of the law There will be no expression of bit terness or enmity. The pre scribed methods will hr em ployed a* the proper bines and places, by Negroes dtgnant statement to which The Newn and Observer took editorial exception intended to incriminate affinal Mis siSSipp;. rethei than the en tire population of the state. If so, t he NAACP seerefarv’-. Is.ngusgc* though yiTTon z. not very iuaccurai *. The or dinary public utterances of all kinds of officials of the state, and those of candidates lor ofnee, do not near s.'.tu tiny ir the light of his as sertion. ho? instance only recto! ly the chairman of the Dem ocratic Executive Committee was quoted by UP as say ing “I'm concerned about Negroes registering to vote. They perhaps played too large a part in the last e'er bon. The same dispatch rc ported that the Committee ha« '•reportedly named a- Dulles sent a telegram of re gret to Mehta and an apol ogy to the Indian govern ment. The mayor of Hous ton offered an apology "m tit half of every citizen of Houston.” (This presumably included the Negro citizens of the great Texas city and also Ivdrx. Alley). The CarniimHtn never saw’ a report on how Ambassador Mehta reacted to the apolo gies. or the Indian govern ment either, for that matter. it ‘s unfortunate that mil lions of "white" people are brown, especially in view of the fart that many Ameri cans think of all brown peo ple as "nigras." and therefore requiring treatment reserved only for Negroes. Mon un fortunate, of course, is the insistence on colot caste, and the unnecessary burden pos ed by those cases in which it Thei will not he deterred by tic entirely unfair appli cation of tin term ''extrem ist,” though •heir patience is tried b ' entirely unjusti fied U: d . ••- term, reserv ed A-. ' (. ■-- - s only, though they •• ti.-, ones who are pence c : g by only legal r-.c-j i- ; to accomplish a lc .. d md legitimate objective, i hedges’ remark s ■ fa; teachers making :p the leadership conference of the North Carolina Teach ers Assoc •ation might well Ha-." a n left out of his statement to the press. Their action stands, They arc on record, and their repudiation of Governor Hodges’ plan cannot logically be ignored or deprecated. The Carolin ian does not like to use un complimentary terms or meaningless ones but we w>l{ sny that the term ‘‘ex tremist’’ might better be ap plied cls? where, and that it does not cook with good grace from officials of the State who have made no re cent clahn that they plan, nmv or in the future, to do anything at all. about begin rung to respect the Supreme rt’s i A’il that has beer done is to propose a voluntary acceptance of com pulsory segregation! Nothing has been accept ed by the Negroes of North Carol'na except the obliga •on to be law-abiding ps bent and gracious, and to proceed by wav of the prop er rh'- rrnels to the realization of their rights as established ueder the Constitution committee to study wavs of cutting down the number of Negm voters’ And this m a --rate where the Negro electo rate is notoriously small One might recall also the murder of 3 Negro in broad dayl’ght m the public square 01 a Mississippi town on a Saturday, with no subsequent arrests, and an earlier mur der with the same kind of sequel or lack of sequel. As to the indictment in the kidnap-murder case it re mains to be seen whether or not there will be a con vie • bon and punishment com mensurate with the crime, both of which are doubtful. We understand that the sher iff involved is ready to dis pute the mother's and the uncle's identification of the body. is unreasonably difficult to categorize certain individuals who do not fit into the ev eryday pattern. Hindus ought to hr re re q aired by law to wear their turbans, so as to make filings easier for the amateur ethnologists who despite their limited experience must make such grave decisions— decisions which may cause international complications and occasion red faces for secretaries of state and may ors. Then again, it is possible that the entire body of Ne stors in the United States rates an apology, from the United States government and that of the City of Hous ton. hor if it is so hard to tell an Indian front a Negro, maybe neither should be barred from dining rooms TI iK CAROLINIAN Responsible For The Lynching O f A Fourteen - Year - Old Boy" mr C. P Halliburton's —- Kwe xdM. i The three Durham youth,* of North Carolina as fresh men this term are making history. Theii psycholocica! situation is not a particular ly happy one. since few peo ple can really enjoy being where they are not wanted, and both the University itself and the State of North Caro lina did about everythin? that could reasonably and decent ly be done to let the boys know that the University and the State officially din not want, them there. It is worth noting, however, that the daily press reported that the other students at Chape! Hill were apparently little disconcerted by the pres un- dergraduate stude n* s. Os course this reaction, or lack of reaction, should come as no surprise, for as lore; as sev eral years ago student polls at the University of North Carolina indicated, just as similar polls on a number of other southern campuses have indicated. that the majority of the students could view the appearance of Negro .students among them with equanimity a cood many with indiffer ence, but relatively few with hostility which official atti tudes and practices would lead the naive to expect. The fact- that the Univer sity sought s st.ay of execu tion of the decision of the CAPITAL CLOSE-UP Bv CONST ANd HAVirr. Starvation and Tourism :Haiti Last week, this column re ported on starvation conditions in Hair;, which have caused considerable comment and eye brow raising directed towai d the United otales. bust-hand checking with the Haitian desks at the State Department and International Cooperation Administration, prior to Sep tember 8, when we went to press, showed that all help re quested had been given- -and in record time -not only in the present emergency, bat during last years' hurricane which created it; that ihe Ai rny's offer to fly in assistance by helicopter had been declin ed: that the situation was be ing closely watched by the American Ambassador to Hai ti Ro.v Tasco Davis. Haitian Run-Around From the Haitian Embassy, where we made three etteinoi to contact, Public Relations Of ficers Pierre-Louis. and also Ambassador Leper, at hours suggested by the embassy, we got absolutely nothing but, run arounds in anrwer to our ques tions No one in the PR office could understand r, thing rx cept. one individual who an nounced h'mseif as “the Am bassador of Haiti"—and was n't ' II Might Hurl the Tourist Tt m\e As ve go to press again. , Oppitai daily reports that the Katian Government, which asked for helo only after re lief agencies had .sounded ihe alarm, had ‘'unofficially con ceded" that it had faded to make known the real situation for fear of hurting its tourist trade—and important, factor tn Haiti's present economy Haiti is an independent, sis ter rennblm. and not, an Amff lean possession like the Virgin three-aide* federal Tou r 1 ■which would if granted have ruled out the possibility of entrance to the University of the three young men this se mester. and probably this y ear, s hows the last- dis c h frame of mind of the Uni versity trustees. It. is demon strated further by their ap parent determine Men; to go on with an appeal from the court > decision which inv have agreed already to t;,Gi to the U. S. Supreme Ceu.il about as empty and futile a uoi ng - down - fight in* 2 c 1 ure as can be imagined. For of course the Supreme Court's decision could hardly by any stretell of the imuunuition be one to reverse the action of tiie lower federal court in view of the fact that tin Su preme Court, has unanimously held that the exclusion of Ne groes from public schools on the basis or' race is unconsU tuiional. The only basis of fered for the appeal is that the Supreme Court Ins not specifically passed on the con stitutionality of exclusion from colleges as such. Surely the trustees o r the University of North Carolina and the personnel of thest tomey general's office of the State of Nort.ii Carolina must be at some pains to nr in tain the pose that, they seriously expect any favorable result from this obviously delaying Islands. We and sll other coun tries must, therefore knock si the door and wait to be bidden, before we can enter ever with critically-needed help! In this instance, if is also report ed that the neighboring Do minican Republic is standing by— also with hands tied. The U. S. is ready to send in bil lions oi dollars worth of excess commodities. An additional $3 million in foodstuffs has been authorized, already, for 1.95« shipment nr, request. What will Haiti do? There is no way of knowing. But com menting on the Virgin Islands, a few weeks back, wo made this comment which we think bears repeating "Tourism and di vorce mills are, to our mind sad excuses for a normal econ omy." Thai extensive tourism distorts and exploits cultures if: evident to all who will set: if they care. The Haitian sit uation points up the extent to which it also blunts sensibili * os and destroys human val ues Which way, Economists > Srntt “Small-Talks' at ft C Rar Popular Judge Arm on d Scott of the D c Municipal Court, who hecamr- eligible lor re tirement on July 17. dined out with the segregating District, of Columbia Bar Association, last week, and, according to newspaper reports in the dai lies. was quite the star of its "Municipal Court Night" at the Mayflower Hotel—speaking ex tensively and expansively, tell ing amusing stories and in dulging in good-natured “digs" about the courts and the mem bers of the bar. According to President Clns B Rhyne of tne Dist'uet B”. Association. In replying to questions b.v this column. Judge Scott's only reierenee to the Association, which, on August « rejected Negro '•memberMi'd action which apparently has not even functioned for that limited objective. One influ ential North Carolina daily newspaper has implies that 'he only result the appeal can bring about is to establish and confirm the "stubborn” nature of the authorities, involved. Whether the three young nren will be entirely comfort able at the University is large i • a personal consideration. It • a fact that they are cxcrcis ma the right which has been iablishcd to ehoo.se for them selves, whether they will go to a codese for Negroes estab lished and operated under the auspices of the state of which they and their parents are citi zens. or to another institution, •also established and maintain ed by the same state, and from which a federal court, has as serted that they cannot con stitutionally be barred because of their race, though it was e -taWished and was maintain - ed until a few days ago on the supposition that it mas for citi zens of only the white race. Arri that is also a personal mid ter. The couit has ruled that these and other young people like them may decide such o nes lions according to < heir own sense of values, and shall not. be required to accept, the opinions of others'. The Su- P:•■•me Court will sustain that r iling, of course. for fh° third time, was to thank the meat hers for sup porting hi? retention in office '-o that he could complete 20 years and so qualify for two thirds retirement pay. Also, according to President Phyne, the only reference to the Association’s exclusion of Negroes, made on that occas ion. was the secretary's report t.b.u the third referendum on the rdmi.vdorj of Negroes to membership “had failed." While we sympathise with Judge Scott’s desire to relax among his fellow-jurists, we cannot help but feel that he would have added greatly to his stature, helped the cause of civil rights and integration and • ivon support to the As sociation's liberal*, who have been contending for the ad mission of Negroes had he de clined to attend a function giv en bv an association which denied him membership be cause of his race. Sometimes, we wondei 1 Nf'HA's Last White Christmas The National Capital Hous ing Authority. Dee Cee’s public housing agency, has designat ed its last four segregated proj ect- for "open oacupancv" as of January 1 This will be the last white Christmas for any part of NCHA. which has been desegregating for two years since June. 1953. Three of the four project? (1 803 units), v. hicb will he desegregated bv normal turnover, after New Year's, are all-Negro. The fourth project. Highland Dwellings, which seems to have made a last-ditch struggle avainst integration, is ail v'bitr. Projects already deseg regated comprise 3,644 unite. V\A T Sues T). f Heads Rf Bovs Club Jim Crow , Fact.?, figures, »gie and im t’ortunjf.tr.- having failed, t-be NAACF Dee Cee Branch, has WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2«, 1935. By REV. MAM 11. TON T BOSWELL for ANP Those Golden School |>a>« No other people in history have believed in schools and in education as have the peo ple of America Ii was m 1674 that the Massachusetts Bay Colony made into a law a sys tem of public education, th p first such experiment in West ern Civilization. Htr.ee tint crude beginning until, now ihe school has been a local point in American life. As the au tumn sm) son begins we are made aware of the importance of the American school as chil dren everywhere are beginning the Irek back to the schools of the nation. Last week therein: ■. mark ed now stage in life for many children who rent to school for the fir si time. Before them in there early days of school, are many new experiences, as they come face to face with learning, strange svmbols and a now society of other children of their own ace and size. As I hero ! a u. t r.:’ me. n of many children who are at tending new schools. They have left home towns, and ate av. w? of the differences in schools. They are strange and before them is the adventure of mak ing new friends and adjust ments. There are the June gradual os of gt amniar Junior high and hr h schools ‘as* year because they were seniors they enjoyed statue but the week in new surroundings (hoy are beginning anev, the snug gle for recognition. in many .see t*nn« of ;hr South and near South. Negro and white children are begin ning the school year together in newly integrated school.-., it is a big day for school admin istrators and teachers, .who have been warned to proceed w-ith precaution but. for most of the children, the fact of race will he lost in just the excitement of the beginning of school In many a school across ihe nation there are neophyte lea - chers They will have their first classes, and it is with much anticipation foi that moment of crisis when they look upon the room of farce for the first time and begin the lessens of the da-. The beginnings of school causes moments ol reflection for those of us whose school days are far behind. We strain to recapture the picture of cor- ny V l HIGGINS. BRITISH .TOUBNAUST now iron n t : \i\s BETWEEN M'SK \ \ND THE WORLD LONDON < ANP’ -My read ers will remember that when writing about, the killing of an African by armed police- ir the Trust Territory ol’ Tangany ika I stated that there rnu-.t be more behind the incident than the British newspapers had reported. It v.hs alleged by the newspapers > The Times and Manchester Guardian'' that the incident arose out of a lecture by the district Oi fleer of Mnrcgf.vrn on agricul ture--on the need for ten - racing when cultivating the hillsides But I pointed out that district • officers m .Briti. h i t ornes do not nonnaliy Su re armed police forces and stocks of tear-gas bombs at their dis posal when addressing tribes men on agricultural matte: s so there must be Hometirns more behind the incident than the authorities admitted. T telephoned the East Afri ca!) Dependencies Office men tioning who 1 was. and asked for moie information for the newspapers to which I con tribute, I was told by a female clerk that they knew nothing. The lady referred me to the Colonial Oflice The official dealing with Tanganyika could tell me nothing -ne .vuggoied that i< was jus! another flare up. Then I wrote to the Trustee ship Council for information, but they had heard nothing about the rioting or the kill ing, add, from the tone oi- the letter 1 received from the un der-secretary. they couldn't care less: indeed, the miriness of the letter in reply to my sev eral inquiries was i:i fact a snub— they were practical!:, telling me to mind my own entered suit against the Dis trict Commissioners and the Metropolitan Police Bovs’ Clubs, in the name of Welker C. Mitchell, son of Curtis Mit chell. local attorney, who has been refused admission to Mo. 6 Club, because he is a Negro. As previously stated here, these clubs, organized in 1922. have been operated from the beginning segregated from administration to membership —on a heavy outlay of taxpay ers' money and through col lections taken up annually on a house-to-house canvass, by uniformed Metropolitan police The 1954 cost to the commu nity was 47.i)n0 police man hours and $122,522 in police salaries, which does not include facilities provided in public property. Many citizens of both races boycotted the 1555 fund-rais ing drive, which, was an esti mated $125,000 short as a con sequence Suit was brought on the ground ilia I the club, as operated is "a. quasi-nublic. in stitution' 1 using District gov ernment facilities and person nel Eugene Davidson is presi dent of the NAACP’s District Branch. selves in (hose earlv days Whatever became of the boy with whom we first fought ci the girl vho sat in front and wiggled ihe desk? Wiry did the teacher nlvvavs blenic. me, and favor the quiet child, who was n't obedient, but just plain scared? Many ? home is quiet thus ni! rmng because the children are back in school and parents are taking a. sigh of relief, it is a strange quiet, empty of children’s voices and cries. The back door the front, doer are not, slamming continuously as when the end lets, parade of back and forth ensued And deep vithin the parent -ays ” I bank God school is open again.” In a human sense such a response is natural. An adult must have refuge from the ceaseless expenditure of energy of which children are capable This sigh of relief in no way reflects any lack of love for the "iittie darlings.." and though they are away, come noon, the cars of parents be come alert for Ihe patter of feet as their children return from school There in however a danger which is an unconscious con ceding, tha' Hr school is s place where children learn and the home i.- the abode where children live Although the sc ion! s central in the life of America. w:> must never for cm that 'he most important school i child will ever attend ' - ! " ’ h in - m which he lives A home may not leach reading and writing and arithmetic but hr home teaches basic at txuric- and emotional respon ses, Tir bo si.; temperament M eve y child is shaped in the home. If is the equipment ob tained at home with which he app: caches life. These are les sons learned in the home, taught not so much from book? but by example and precept Although oiu children ;iat» begun another school year u j? s o keep in mind.’that the •'ey." ions of -chnol:- which the borne affords, is without end or vacation The horn? a? a when) her. s tremendous re sponsihih' y. for if there is »o he selflessness in public dufv and life first of all if will be the product, of the home, re gal diets of how much formal education which may have brer; acouired It is 'he home which is lore. er the .school business So. I thought ‘hi? is ju?t another Iron Curtain; but who l. the -sacred trustee ' qf the Nati v e "wards of the Trust Territory of Tanganyika" Or it that going to be taken over b." Rntian for her new East Afri can Federation and the man d-ite repudiated just like the Dmon of South Africa, has been 7 One remembers that most members of the Tory yovemment and seme of the I„: boi ite« support the idea of an Hast African Federation. Patrick Gordon Walker. Com monwealth minister in the La me government wrote an ar ticle supporting the Federation for the Daily Herald, the lead ins Labor daily. Knowinv h little about Afri ca and having some good grape-vines m that continent I was not deterred by the re buffs from the Colonial Office, 'fast African Dependencies of the Trustee-'mp Council, but continued my investigations. Meanwhile. The Times has shad r little more light or. the matter and at the same time exposed the duplicity of the first report. llllllS Brethren, if a man be over come in b fault, ye which are Kpiritua) restore ouch a one t® the spirit of meekness, con sidering thysaif Jest thou ah** be tempted. Bear ye one an other's burdens, and so fulfil ilie law of Christ, —(Galatians fill, 2.) Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all genera tion,)). Before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from *®er iasting to everlasting, Thou a ti God. — (Psalm 90)1, 2.) Corner AND NOW THLYRK LYNCHING BOY® BY WILLIAM HENRY HUFF for ANP Mothei -. mother*. Oh dear mother* They have aone to lynching hoy* Others, others, countless others May have to don the shoe Let us make » noise, like thunder Let >sn« 'he sleeping mas? W" .dial! not always be under \V»'J| ha on .serosa clars.