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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
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kept out of state schools by
closing the schools. 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.)
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AND NOW THLYRK LYNCHING
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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.