PAGE FOUR
Tt *mrm that Governor Hodges and' his
friends have said, apparently with a straight
face that the purpose of the proposed consti
tutional changes on which the people will vote
in September is not to evade the U. S. Supreme
Court’s decisions outlawing racial segregation
in public schools. Officeholders and politicians
will say anything it is well known. They do
not hesitate to declare that black is white
and white is black, no matter how transparent
their deviousness may be. It is a cynical old
trick that, no one pays any particular atten
tion to, so accustomed is the American public
to it. And we like it so well that it is not too
easy for a frank and straightforward statement
to come front an officeholder.
Hodges and his friends have declared that
their purpose is to save the schools, though
among the main provisions in the proposed
constitutional changes is one providing for the
closing of the schools. This apparent contra
diction does not worry a politician or an office
holder for double talk is a part of their stock
in trade. Southern politicians have had special
training in this art, since from time to time
they find it necessary to prove, that the federal
Constitution means what it does not say, or
does not mean what it says, as the case may be.
On the other hand there are those who real
ire the threat to the continued existence of
North Carolina’s public schools and are alarm
ed by it. At. the same time they do not want
to consider desegregation, or if they do they
sre afraid to say so. So they claim to believe
in another insincerity ; the one of depending on
the already existing North Carolina statute
which gives local school boards the authority
to assign pupils to specific schools; not, mind
you, on the basis of race, for that is contrary
to toe IJ. S. Constitution; but or. other grounds,
purportedly to be judged by the local school
authorities.
The Hodges-Pearsall plan was brought for
ward evidently out of distrust of the school
assignment law, and rightly so. The assign
ment lav,' was drafted with the idea of evading
the spirit of the Supreme Court decision, if not
the letter, and a second look probably con
The bill introduced by Rep. j A Speight,
of Bertie, in the special session of the General
Assembly proposing to abolish the state’s Ne
gro colleges had some logic behind it. Although
it died in committee, it may be reintroduced
at the regular session in January. But it is not
likely to be passed.
Assemblyman Speight’s point is that since
the University of North Carolina and State
College in Raleigh have both accepted Negro
students, there is no reason for the mainten
ance of the “corresponding’’ colleges designat
ed for Negroes. His measure also envisions the
closing of the three Negro state teachers’ col
leges if the corresponding white institutions
should accept Negro students.
Os course there is little likelihood that any
of the Negro institutions will be closed. The
last thing the white people of North Carolina
want is the abandonment of Negro colleges
operated by the. state, since to close those in
stitutions would obligate the other state cpl-
Je-ges to accept all qualified Negro applicants
who have rights to higher education at state -
operated institutions of higher learning—that
t*. all who might apply and meet the entrance
Things have ec-rtainly changed. Who could
have visualized thirty years ago that poor and
impotent. Egypt would in 1956 defy Britain
and France and grab the Suez Canal for its
own ?
As a matter of fact thirty years ago there
wasn’t any Egypt, that is, as a sovereign and
independent self-determining nation.
W ft think that Egypt is ail wrong in this in
stance Egypt did not build the canal. The
right and just thing is that the canal should
be international. It is no more just and proper
that it should be owned and controlled exclu
ft nould be foreseen far ahead that the Civil
Rights bill mildly sponsored by the Republican
Administration would not become law.
Attorney General Brownell and the Republi
can high command are doubtless hoping and
expecting that the introduction of the bill and
it* passage by the House of Representatives
will prove to be sufficient demonstration of
Republican good faith to serve vote-getting
purposes among the Negroes of New York.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and oth
er such states, especially after President Eisen
hower himself included the legislation on his
list of things h& wished Congress to accom
plish before adjournment.
But the truth is that Brownell and the Re
publican Leadership got the bill to Congress al
most too late to expect its passage, allowing
for the inevitable opposition to it in the Sen
ate, with, the possibility always of a filibuster
if “necessary." Democratic Tom Hennings of
Missouri brought out the fact some time ago
that the Attorney General had not only failed
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All For Nothing
What’s Behind This?
Changing Complexion
Political Football
vinced the powers-that-be that ft might down
the road meet the same fate that the "grand
father clause” met years ago.
Meanwhile Dr. Maggs, the Duke University
constitutional lawyer made it pretty clear to
all who would listen that the paying of public
funds to operate private schools open to some
citizens but not others would almost certainly
prove to be unconstitutional.
The state finds itself moving toward greater
dilemmas. There will in the end be a choice
betwen desegregation and no schools support
ed by the State of Noith Carolina. All the rest
of it is simply sound and fury, backing and
filling, chasing rainbows, and jumping up and
down in the same spot. It is ultimately either
or.
The people of North Carolina might have
gone on and accepted the Court’s dictum of
desegregation, trying to work it out on a grad
ual basis, or according to some scheme to pro
vide the least friction and dislocation. We be
lieve that North Carolina could and would
have embarked on such a scheme had not Mr.
Beverly Lake scared the socks off Governor
Hodges last year, therby setting him and his
appointed brain trust to figuring soma way
to beat right and the Supreme Court.
The example of Virginia had its influence
also, added to the stir that Mr. Lake created.
North Carolina has always been humble in the
fare of aristocratic (and reactionary) Virginia.
But the problem remains. It’s either public
schools and desegregation or no schools. The
legislature cannot help that, neither can a
referendum.
Os course the best thing that could happen,
though with the people bemused it is likely
not to, would be for the people to reject at the
polls the Hodges-Pearsall concoction and re
fuse to alter the public school system. Then
we would be back where we started. The pupil
assignment plan would be given a trial. It
would be dec fared unconstitutional as a subter
fuge to maintain complete racial segregation.
Then North Carolina could clear the deck*
and begin desegregation in its public, school*
It will sooner or later.
requirements.
One wonders just what Mr. Speight's point
really was. Southern legislatures have passed
so many measures out of pique and spite in
the past ye* r 01 so that it is hard to tell what
was in the back of the North Carolina assem
blyman’s mind. He correctly pointed out that
Northern states are not supporting institutions
of higher education especially for Negroes,
and in his public statement implied that there
is no good reason why North Caorlina’s tax
payers should be burdened with a dual higher
education system. Again he had logic on his
side .But our guess is that very few will fake
seriously at this time the idea of eliminating
all of the state’s colleges and institutions of
higher education for Negroes.
It would he strange Indeed to see the Uni
versity at Chapel Hill, State College, Raleigh,
Woman’s College at Greensboro, and the
‘‘white” state teachers colleges facing the ne
cessity of enlargement so as to be able to take
care of an influx of Negro students caused by
the closing of the state's “Negro” institutions
of higher education.
sively by Egypt than by Britain nr Britain and
France in collaboration.
Farther South in Africa there has been an
election, in which N’Krumah has maintained
his power by popular vote and will probably
be the first Premier of the Gold Coast as an
independent: Negro state in the British Com
monwealth as he is now the prime minister.
In a matter of two years or so the Gold Coast
will have that status.
There are changes in the complexion of
world affairs, and we use the word “complex
ion" advisedly.
to exercise vigorous leadership in the matter
of getting civil rights legislation before Con
gress, but might well he accused of dragging
his feet, and specifically of failing to assist
Democrats in the Congress who were interested
in such legislation.
Both parties are guilty of cynical attitudes
and behavior here, though there are individuals
in both parties who are genuinely desirous of
some good and much-needed federal legislation
on civil rights. There is the. callous and bigoted
attitude adopted by most Southern congress
men. that any civil rights legislation is per se
to be. opposed as an insult to the Southern
states and the white South, They are opposed
on “principle" before they even hear the bills.
On the other hand many Republican leaders
care very little whether such legislation is
adopted or not so long as they can show that
they voted for it (or would have had they had
a chance), for the edification of their Negro
constituency.
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“Buried Again, By The Threat Os A
Southern Filibuster”
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SECOND THOUGHTS
The election year IPS may sot
prove to baa particularly try
ing year for the average voter
committed to one party or an
other by loyalty to a party or
an individual figure. I think it
will be somewhat more diffi
cult ior the average independ
ent voter. (They say the inde
pendent voters in general bold
the balance of power in presi
dential elections and indirectly
in determing whether the Cong
ress will he a Republican or a
Democratic one. But it will be
an especially difficult, decision
for the Negro independent vot
ers, of which there are a great
many For since they became e*
mancipated from the Republi
can party under the Franklin
D. Roosevelt regime, and large
numbers of them withdrew
from allegiance to the Demo
cratic Party after F. D R and
helped to elect Ike, the Negro
vote is highly problematical
these davg.
Speaking for my own self. 1
can ray that as of now I do not
know for whom I shall cast mv
vote for president.
Os course the Democrats have
not nominated their candidate,
out as I see it, the decision of
the Convention will have liltle
weight, since there i 8 little to
choose as among the candidates
•CARMEN JONES’* BE
EIGHTS CAPITAL
' Carmen .Tones", which, as
everyone knows, is a 20th Cen
tury musical version of Bizet’s
“Carmen’' BO-year-old opera
favorite arrived in the Na
tional Capital just ahead of
drenching rains and a mad
Congress-closing on Capitol.
Hill.
The Civil Rights bill, was pass
inn: the House on its way to
death in the Senate. D C.
School, probers were hard at
work building a case against
Federal City integration to use
back in the States —■ people
were tired Then the ii!?lrg
show from New York City Cen
ter reached the Carter-Barren
Amphitheater in Rock Creek
Park, where a first fine per
formance overcame several days
of rain-outs, and delighted this
tension-weary Capital, with a
week and a half of fine enter
tainment before Congress ad
journed.
CRITICS VIE IN PRAISE
Critics, here, actually vied
with each other in praise of the
opera-musical, “fairly throbbing
with vitality”, in it* World War
IT setting. Muriel Smith, actress
singer who created the title roie
in the original Broadway pro
duction, in 1943, was variously
bailed as a "lusty, hipswinging,
raucous, smoldering earthy Jez
ebel," and, more discriminating
ly, as "a first-rate artist who
handies her role with ease and
competence”,
Ron Grist, second soprano, as
“Cindy Lou”, won acclaim from
one critic as the show’s “sing
ing star," pointing out that Bi
zet’s best "Carmen" music (used
unchanged in the musical! was
that written for her part.
William DuPree, Howard Mu
sic School-trained and now in
the Air Force who sang “Joe”
the of 'Carmen', was
rated ”** #JI time* a fine, singer
who now seem likely nominees,
except for Hammer), who, I
think, will not get the nomina
tion. (if he does, my problem
is solved >
The Negro who likes the
Democratic philosophy of gov
ernment and the general poli
cies of the national Democratic
Party is likely to be frustrated
by the thought that a Democrat
ic victory is iikcly to continue
the control of Congress in the
hands of southerners. Some of
these southerners are men of
decent instincts, no doubt, as
witness Senator Kefauver. of
Tennessee, At the other ex
treme, though, you have such
worthies as Eastland, a mid
century Bilbo and currently
head of the very powerful and
important judiciary committee
of the Senate. In between arc
men who might be O. K. it they
lived somewhere else, but who
must needs, as they see it. fol
low the typical Dixie party
line whenever the ''race ques> ■
tion” is. involved. Here we are
thinking of men like Smathers,
of Florida, and Sparkman and
Hill, of Alabama.
A Negro who is by tempera
ment a Democrat in his lean
ings must consider the fact that
a Democratic president, is nat
urally under more obligation to
work with and practice give
CAPITAL CLOSE-OP
By CONSTANCE DANIEL
and competent actor.”
EVERETT LEE SPORES
AGAIN
Particular point, of our inter
est this time, was youthful con
ductor Everett Lee, the shows
musical director, trained in vi
olin at, the Clelevand School of
Music and the Juilliard School.
New York. Lee. a former head
of Columbia University's Opera
Department, first became in
terested in conducting when he
was engaged as a violinist to
play on-stage in the original
“Carmen Jones.“ and remained
as an assistant conductor.
Since then he has conducted
Leonard Bernstein's "On the
Town” end other musicals, and
has made an enviable reputa
tion as a symhony conductor,
making his Town Hall debut, as
conductor of his own Cosmo
politan Symphony, in 1947. In
1953, he guest-conducted the
Louisville Philharmonic Or
chestra, and has since toured
South America and guest-con
ducted Spanish symphonies in
Barcelona, Madrid arid else
where. With his wife, the form
er Sylvia Ward Olden, of Wash
ington. Oberlin and private tu
tor trained, he studied in Eu
rope —• both on “Fulbright.-."
He leaves, at the close of '‘Car
men- Jones," here, for a second
South American toui to The
Argentine, Uruguay, Chile and
Brazil.
TO EUROPE AND ISRAEL
In October, the talented l,e«
family which includes stage
minded “Evie”, age 10, a balk t,
pupil and miniature Tallulah
Bankhead, and her brother, Ev
erett, a year older will be
off for a European year, mak
ing their home in Munich The
senior Everett has guest-con
ducting engagements in Ger
many, Spain, Ttely and Israel.
Mrs Lee will teach the fall ses
sion at the Metropolitan Opera
Training School, wiser* she i*
and-take with the congressional
leaders of his own party than
a Republican president would
be. He cannot be independent
of ids own party's leaders, in
side or outside of Congress.
Except where the ' race i -
sue’’ is involved I am much
more in harmony with Hill and
Sparkman than with Eisenhow
er and his Republican support
ers 1 do not believe in the poli
cies of the Republicans as re
gards public power and re
sources or excessive catering to
big business interests. But then.
1 tlunk of Eastland. And St« n
nis. And anticipating next elec
tion. Gene Talmadge.
How can I vote to continue
such people at the head of the
legislative branch of our gov
ernment?
Eisenhower has some fine
qualities, and a good record in
many respects, on first class ci
tizenship for Negroes. He could
have been much more positive
than he has been, and exercised
a more active leadership. Had
he been as positive and force
ful and forthright as Truman
was (and remember, he was not
hobbled to the extent that Tru
man, a Democrat, was, by par
ty complications), he could have
done a lot. more.
(to be continued.)
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a voire coach, and will be on
leave for the spring session,
while the family is abroad.
“RIGHTS” BILL PASSES
Adam Clayton Powell (D,, M,
Y.i was off to "all of Europe
and North Africa” as 3 one-man
subcommittee to inspect troops
and air bases for the House
Committee on Education and
Labor, when the roll was called
on the Civil Eights bill or
which he had pressured Cong
resstnen from Wherever to
stand up and be counted.
The air on “the Hill" is still
obscured by smoke from the
sizzling scions he left behind.
Some pointed out that the New
Yorker similarly, had failed to
appear before the House Rules
Committee, at the June 20 hear
ing on the “Rights” bill where
lie had been .scheduled as a wit
ness, and the Committee had
waited half an hour for hint
Said his New York colleague.
Judiciary Committee Cbairniau
Emmanuel Culler. He should
have been turning handsprings
to get here.” Other Oiler com
ments can be found in (he
Congressional Record for July
20, page 12,.129. Bitter remarks
about “leaving others to do his
dirty work.” were being made
on the record, as the hill moved
on. after a House vote of 271* tc
J2f>.
Last, December, this column
noted Mr. Powell's absence front
the first strategy meeting ,of
“his" civil rights bloc, when he
also stood up his own widely
advertised press conference.
There is much talk of a '‘deal”
with non-supporting Democrats.
Members of both parties, who
have been bearing the heat of
the CR day, mention words to
the effect that “You can't fool
all the people all the time."
Drive Safely!!
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956
Gordon Hancock f s
TRANSPLANTED TROUBLE
Some weeks ago the writer
became interested in the ques
tion of the wealth of the ante
bellum South- the Old South
if you please. The study took,
me to the Virginia State Li
brary where there are various
treatises on the economic
status.of the Old South in. its
halcyon days of slavery.
One volume wan especial! v
glowing in it-, treatment of the
South ot slavery days. The au
thor painted a beautiful pic
ture of the prospe. ity of the
South during slavery.
He was especially glowing in
ihx description of the content
edness of the. slaves. He threw
about brutal slavery an air of
charm and satisfaction. H«
pictured slavery as a happy
lot for ail concerned and es
pecially for the slaves.
The thing that struck me
with greatest force was the
fact the author was a professor
in a great Northern university.
Here was, as .1 thought, a
Northernev attempting to jus
> lily the slavery of the Old
South and then it, occurred to
me to seek out through “Who's
Who" the antecedents of Uv
author; and there was revealed
the illuminating .fact that the
author was born in Georgia
In reality it was not the
opin.on of a Northerner at all;
it was the South’s opinion of
itself. And this led to the con
clusion that whenever the Old
South seeks the approbation of
the North for the justification
of its undemocratic treatment
of its Negro citizens, it can al
ways come up with a statement
of a “Northerner” to justify its
ways with the Negro.
Today there is a studied and
determined effort, of the Old
South to get the approbation
of the North for its state rights
stand and for its current, ef
forts to nullify the Supreme
Court’s decision. Such approba
tion is assured in advance: for
southerners are in the North
and quite ready to support, the
contention of their motherland,
the Old South.
The Negroes, therefore, need
not be too greatly exercised
when there corns from the
North, an agreement with the
South’s determination to eter
nalize the subjugation of the
Negro. Such sentiments as will
be expressed will he only the
sentiments of the Southerners
speaking from the North.
Just as hundreds of thou
Along Ilia Colonial Front
Bj A. J. SIOGINS, BRITISH
JOURNALIST
Nothing more demonstrative
of the depths to which Britain
has sunk than the pomp and
magnificence with, which the
SENTENCE
SERMONS
B1 THE KEY. FRANK
CLARENCE LOWRY, for ANP
s>o you Want To Know Jesus?
1. There are some certain in
dividuals other persons desire
to meet, and hoping some day
to have the chance, they look
with eager delight to that high
moment, far in advance.
2, It h not alone the casual
meeting of such characters
that count, but their sifts of
fine spirit that are sb pronoun
ced that one gains incentive to
do his best and excel in many
ventures above the rest.
M This is why it is most for
tunate to meet and know Jesus
who came especially to give
life with a, new spiritual em
phasis. and. lift man moral!v
to a high peak so that with
power and authority he could
3 4. a 'This P i.s the life He sought
to give the Samaritan woman
at the well, who soon found
that she had more than her
weak heart desired to fell:
but, Jesus dynamic personality
and conversation put her un
der a magic spell,
5. This is the power He has
over all mankind, none arc too
brilliant or spiritually blind,
that His holy unction can’t dis
sipate sins’ terrible gloom, and
in heavy hearts make plenty of
room.
6. Yes. He can break every
fetter and soften every heart.
He is sure of every victory right
from the start; what in this
earth could puzzle Him. when
He made everything and now
rules supreme.
7. Such an acquaintance ev
ery man and women ought to
make, for Jesus has never been
known to deceive or forsake,
never fortuitous, always secure,
Ills love everlasting and eter
nally pure.
8. Youth Is the time to meet
this Master end sit at His feet,
to avert all disaster, and drink
from His fountain of Inexhaus
tible knowledge, no where else
to be found, in university or
college.
9. Who is there that would
deny himself so rich a treasure
as this, with everything at his
disposal, even eternal bliss;
what an unbelievable arrange
ment , . , Jet none fail to enjoy
this.
10. You need not make any
special appointment, God the
Father and Jesus the Bon.
stand, instantly ready with holy
(Continued m pane U
sands of Negroes have gone
North within the last fe* ,
years, more hundred* of thou*
sands of Southerners of th<
Old. South have been scattered
over the face of the earth, the
North included And wherever
we find a Southerner of the
Old South we find a defender
of the. “South’s position" on
race, relations.
Just as the South had in the
author hereinbefore mentioned
a strong defender, such defend
er are scattered throughout
the world and when therefore
anti-Negro sentiments are set;
forth, Negroes nerd not be ton
greatly discouraged: for it i«
the way of the Southerners of
tire Old South. And let it not
be forgotten that there is a
New South that thinks other
wise.
Evert as this is written the
Virginia Legislature is being
called into session to openly
defy the mandates of the Unit
ed States. Yet. there are white
Virginians openly defying Vir »>
ginias position and asking for
integration in .spite of all that
is being done to oppose it.
Tiie old South and the New
South are Battling, with short >
time odds stubbornly in favor
of (lie old South: but long
lime odds, surely with the New
Souih,
God and Time and Right are
with the New South, whose
voice for the time being Is muf
fled sadly.
Just as the Old South has
defenders transplanted in the
North to echo its sentiments,
the Old Sqjith has defenders
who incite riots and interracial
trouble. There is no sweeter
morsel for the press of the Old
South than to headline inter
racial troubles of the North
The effort Is always made to
show that the Old South Is not
by itself in its attitude toward
the Negro,
But when the situation is
reduced to its last, Analysis, it
will be found that the interrac
ial troubles that break out in
the North were conceived in
the South and hatched in the
North. f
When some of our contem
porary research students an
Into the matter it will he foum A
that the bad. rare relation
trouble was transplanted from
the South to the North by Nr
groejv and whites of the O'
South who are settling South
ern issues with the North
the battleground i
boy king of Iraq and his ur -
were received m London h■
been seen since Britons we; ■
led through the streets oi
Rome.
Oil is not, King as far ar
Britain is concmed—-oil is God
And in them anxiety to secure
supplies of that precious liq
uid. the British government
will stoop to almost.any depth *
But what they forget is that
by completely reversing then
attitude, to coloured races b *
cause of their own insecurity,
those white races have Ion!, the
respect they formeriyy' had for
what appeared to be the
strength behind their claim to
be a master race
One can imagine what- Is be
ing said now in the bazaars
of the Middle and Far East-
One could visualize what the
old pukka-sahibs of generals,
admirals and air marshals were
thinking when they were led
like lambs to make obeisance
to the Arab boy whom they
would have sent their subal
terns to receive had he not
represented a stall? which pot
sussed huge supplies of oil
What I wrota about the im
morality of the oil stategy and
also about Cyrus, Israel, the
Baghdad Pact and NT A is now
confirmed: there has never
been any other policy but the
protection of oil supplies and
the mainteneance of colonial
ism as far as Brltaift. USA.
and France were concerned.
Now Marshall Jum has re
signed. he hopes to he given J
command of an Eastern Med
iterranean and African forcM
to protect the twin Gods of Oil
and Colonialism to which
Wesern nations have pledget
themselves.
Admiral Radford, who want -
ed to bomb China, a short time
ago, now realizes that the last
citadel has to be in IT. 8. A.
JUST AS T SAID.
400.000 French troops have
not only failed to subjugate tbe
Algerian Nationalists, but the:
arc threatened wllih ar.othe
war b.v Tunisians and Moroo
cans. In order to hold Noif!
Africa France would have ft
find two million men end re
place a high casualty rate
Then they might hold North
Africa for two years at most.
Lord Radcliffe. 57-year-old
Lord of Appeal, has been given
the thankless task of inter
viewing Cypriotes and then
drawing up a, new constitution
which will, safeguard the rights
of all peoples concerned. Now
however, the Cypriotes ref us?
to discuss their case with Lore w
Radcliffe without Archbishop
Makarios, who in exile li v
Seychelles.
And with Franre too weal
to fight her vat out of a pa
per bag, as the., used to sa
in the prize ring; German* re
luctant to pay occupation cost
let. alone join NATO, and Bril
sin on the verge of bankrupts,
it does look as thoupt) the “da
fens?" of Colonialism. Oil ant,
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