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PAGE FOUR ¥I rw mint What Is Brooklyn Without Robinson? One of the greatest epochs in the history of baseball and the forces of democracy was when Branch Rickey defied tradition and put Jackie Robinson on the Brooklyn Dodge rs baseball team. He not only proved that h<- eould take it, but certain iy bids fair to be come the first: of his race to reach tire hall of fame. Time will determine that score, but what we set out to show is how valuable he is to the Dodgers and what an inspiration he is to the Negro boys of America. The Dodgers were floundering around like n bunch of overestimated kids until Walt Al ston decided that, he would put him in the lineup and let him stay. He has been filling the third base post as no other holder of the hot corner. He come up with those plays that seem impossible. His bat has also been a po tent factor in the ascendency of his club. There is talk that he will retire after this year. We know that iron wears out, but as long as he cavorts around the diamond like he does, we don’t think he will he permitted to leave the great pastime. We knew it takes team work to win games, just as it does in all walks of life. However, there is one figure in every game that points the way. Certainly it t* Jackie Robinson, where the. Dodgers are concerned. We don’t mean to take anything ; «wsy from any other player on the team, jacine flays hard, has his heart in the game: and will fight for what he thinks is right, Banquo’s Ghost T’n* CAROLINIAN never could under stand how the Pearsall Plan would get by the North Carolina Supreme Court to say noth ing of how it would fare before the United States Supreme Court since it was designed *<■* circumvent a decision of the high tribunal. Come now plaintiffs in Montgomery County, asking that the recently passed law be tested. This happened before the law had been in effect one week There were those who said that it would make a more valid case for the proponents of desegregation. The attorney in the case. J. Kenneth Lee. has asked that the constitution ality of the law be made a part of a suit that he filed some time ago. As predicted by some of the foes of the plan and many of the newspapers, it bids fair to cause some sleepless nights and rueful days. Like the Ghost of Banquo in Shakespeare’s Macßfth, it is destined to face its authors and proponents until it is acted upon by the high est court of the land, unless it is outlawed here. Tbo plot tightens as one looks at the budget for the state-owned schools. When the total for so-called white schools is added up, it amounts to over 13 million dollars, while the total proposed for so-designated Negro schools is not 4 million. We wonder whether the pro ponents realize what can happen to North Carolina if it continues to make such dis paring differences in the education of 1-3 of its school population. They may be forced to say like the perpetrator of the heinous crime in the Shakespeare story, "Hold, Hold, so that the keen knife see not the wound it made.” For too long has the knife of unequal op portunity been making wounds into the lives of the Negro children of our state. Too long ha* the educational system of North Carolina made empty gestures at what is called "Scpc ■ rate but equal education." Banquo s Ghost is going to continue to rise to face the propon ents as long a? we maintain a dual school sys tem It rises in the cost of maintenance. A state Help Keep The Kiddies Safe Schools have been in session long enough now for many of us to take for granted the presence of greater numbers of children on ♦he streets and highways. But the responsi bility of ail of us to help insure the continued safety of these, youngsters does not diminish a* the school year grows older. School safety patrolmen may grow more more experienced at the weeks pass, but they too are children, and the need for motorists to respect and cooperate with them is a moral responsibility as well as a legal requirement. Further, regularly designated school cross ings are not the only danger areas for children going to and from school, or romping away, after school, the energy pent up during hours in the cl a swoon* - THE CAROLINIAN . * TvtoMshlft by *b« Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, N. C. E*n.t®jP«d a* Second Class Matter, April 6, 1940, at: the Post Office at. Raleigh, North •< Garoime, tsnder the Act of March 1879, Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. *■ Hate si Six Months $2,75 ...On* Yen'? $4,58 • Payable kt A(iTancn~>Addres« all eomrnun leaf ions and make all chocks and money or j dera payable to THE CAROLINIAN. § IniMwWb United W«mtp»pera, l»e N 544 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 17, N. Y. National Advertising Bepre* | waatattre. Thk newspaper 5s not responsible for the return of unsolicited new*, pictures, or advertising cup? | mnteim necessary postage accompanies the copy. y! P. ft. JEBVAY, PubUdwi * Borne* . Advertising & Promotion ■] €&os. force* .......%V«W» 5 ... ■ Nows & Circulation . ]E>» H, wtxin ."..........a..ant ouporin tendon t - J. C. Washington Foreman, Mechanical Department Mrs. A. M, Hinton .Office Manager p Qp4nlens mjrewed in by«HR»w ywMbAsd ha title newspaper ere not aeeweertly these of the p*fc « Moa.BJ.WI, „ wnrft These iuc the kind of leaders that inspire people so \uimount not only obstacle* of a baseball gtmxr, but those incidents and hap penings in liic that enust defeat anywhere. \Vc slil! wonder when the Dodgers would be without t’u: sunn heart of Robinson, the tenacity of Jackie and the courage of the lust Negro in organs. < d baseball. His respect forth- rights of others, his courage to defend his own rights ami his ability to play the game of both baseball and life are traits that any American hoy would do well to emulate He takes the position that one can be knocked down, but only you and you alone can count you out He often demonstrates that three strikes are not always out. He keeps his eye on tiie catcher and if he drops the third strike, he scampers for first base. Quite a few boys are trying ty simulate Jackie and we bid them God’s speed. We hope they will have the stamina and above all the mith in themselves that Jackie has. We want them to face the battles of life with a deter mination that nothing succeeds like success We want them to decide that a man is a man and that his color is no virture or deterrent We would like for the youth of North Caro lina to say wc are going to prepare ourselves sufficiently, find our place in the scheme of things and then make a battle to gain a place in the sun, by hard work, sacrifice, tolerance, with respect for mankind and faith in God, as far down the economic ladder ..as our*, can ill afford to spend the kind of money it spends to maintain the two systems. The parents of Negro children cannot much longer raise money to buy pianos, organs, equip athletic fields, and the many other things they are called upon to finance, in so-called Negro schools, Banquo 1 s Ghost will face the propon ents of a dual system every time a Negro girl is sent into the street to beg money for her respective school. Banquo’s Ghost will face the proponents as long as Negro teachers live in fear of their jobs, due to pressure brought upon them by an intolerable administration. Banquo’s Ghost will show its ugly face: every time a Negro student presents himself to a so-called white school, due to the fact that the course that he wants is not offered in the school, so designated for him, but where the law says he must be accepted as in the case of John O. Lyon this week. Banquo’s Ghost will appear every time a Negro seeks a job in a textile plant, and is turned away due to the fact that he has not attended a school that offers such a course. The undesired image will rise when the state hires engineers and no student from a so-called Negro technical school is considered, because the examiners have reason to believe that he did not have the proper facilities. The most damaging time of the appearance is when politicians polute the minds of the voters to the extent that violence, disorder and confusion will follow if right and justice pre vail. We say it is inevitable, the time- will come when the lion and the lamb will lie down to gether. We say that it will not be too long when parents will stop telling their children that color makes a difference. We know that it will not. be long before North Carolina will accept the age old philosophy “Right is right since. God ;* God And right the day must win To ialtar would be disloyalty To alter would he s;n,” They do not always look both ways before entering a thoroughfare, either at a crosswalk or in the middle of a block. Right or wrong, this childish disregard for safety is natural, and must be recognized, as must the value of years ahead of him during which he may achieve greatness far beyond the dreams of even his fond parents. Let's not risk cutting short any of these future careers. Let’s not make traffic safety for school chil dren a matter of attention for the opening week of school only. It will be as important in May as it is in September. As one safety official once put it::*'CHIL DRIJN DON’T THINK; CARS DON’T THINK; YOU THINK. tot c&mumm "The Falsity Os Such Teaching Is Being MHTALW By CONSTANCE DANIEL “The North’* and “The South” Commenting on the Sturgis, Kentucky, school desegrega tion disturbance, a well-inten tioned feature writer m the Washington -Star (Sunday, 9- 9-56. made much of the fact, that Sturgis is “just live miles from the Illinois State line," and has a Negro population of ises than 10 percent. While well written and In many ways informative, the comments are noteworthy as an example -in the referen ces to the North and the South of the popular misconcep tion of the significance of sec tional boundaries, as well as lor the writer's evident lack of familiarity with the civil rights backgrounds of the Border States. True enough. Sturgis, practi cally on the Ohio River in Western Kentucky (that’s Congressman Natcber of Bowl ing Green' is in. Union County, which was predominantly pro- Union during “The War," but the area, on both sides of the Ohio, as well as along the Mis sissippi, has been racially tense since Illinois, Ohio and Indiana were fust formed from the Northwest Territory, The Indenture system exist ing “before the War,'' in South ern Illinois and Indiana, has been called ''tantamount to slavery as it was practiced in parts of the South.” Less than a decade before hostilities broke out between the States, Illinois passed the drastic law of 1853, prohibit ing the immigration of Ne groes. and providing for the ar rest and fining of any Negro who appeared in the State and remained for more than 10 days, and for his sale to ary person who could pay the cost of his trial, if such Negro ws*s unable to pay his fine of 50 dollars. In the" Black Friday" riots at Portsmouth. Ohio, eighty Ne groes were driven from the town at the request of some two hundred (“respectable" we suppose!! white citizens, in Cincinnati, fear of job com petition among the laboring class, revived laws requiring free Negroes to carry certifi cates of their freedom and to give bond. Wilberforce was settled by 1200 Negro refugees from Cin cinnati mob violence. There was a systematic effort “to kill off and drive out the Ne groes who were becoming too ■well established, and giving of fense to white men who desir ed to deal with them as Ne groes were treated, in the South, 1 ' “Iu Southern Indiana and Illinois the same condition ob tained,” states historian Car ter Woodson in his "Century of Negro Migration.” The abo litionist. Elijah Lovejoy, was murdered by an Illinois mob. East at. Louis (Illinois' race riots are readily remembered. Springfield (Illinois i riots were the immediate motivation for the organization of the N A. A CP. In other words, Sturgis, Kentucky, is just another town in a traditionally tense area - part of which is Southern Ills nois . . , “The North” to the unitiated. One-Half of One, Percent Consciously or subconsci ously, we who should be bet ter informed, seem somewhat less than analytical in present ing the facts of integration. For instance, vrhr bailing the fact that 7* Texas school di - tvlcts had integrated, we saw no “story’* in either daily or weekly press which pointed out whether this integration had taken place in normally ' frien dly” sections, of this huge, sprawling state of many moods, or m the "anything-ivn-hop pevt" area of Negro density. Neither did we see mention of the. peveenteye of Negro .stu dents to the total number in volved m this into iration. Praiseworthy ft- rs tin com pliance shown we think it ; well to ponder the fact that 1500 Negro children out of . 300,000 total, if. ONE - HALF OF ON! 1 , PERCENT 1 otte , vi. ids. DESTINY j'Oiui AF FECT THE PATTERN. Later Texas figures reported in Southern School News show above 100 districts--for this fall -with 25 thousand Negro Hudents out of n total of 525 thousand, or more than four and one-half pmem with East Texas- tough and thickly populated - - announc ing desegregation for i 557. Wool-hating in reverse . . . which some of us have justifi ed on “what-clse-c.in-you-do?" grounds also affects the pat tern. Well, we venture a guc- Along The Colonial Front My A. J SKI GINS British Journalist NASSER .HAS ENCOURAGE*! AM, COLONIALS LONDON - (ANP - The effect of the British and French governments’ at tempt to return to the Law of the Jungle after so many protes tations that they are pledged to the Charter of United Na tions has forced most leaders of colonial peoples to realize chat the promises of those Pow ers are worthless, ‘'scraps of paper” made to fool the world. Colonial leaders are now looking to the Bandung Pow ers, whose strength in modern weapons is in the hands of the Communists, end who control directly and indirectly so much of the raw material wealth of the world, France is desperate. Her present leaders realize that un less they embroil NATO in their Algerian war they are doomed to suffer defeat. But in flouting world opinion and the pledges given at United Na tions, both France and Britain now realize they are aggres sors in the eyes of United Na tions members., including U. S. A . and car, no longer be re garded as trustworthy custodi ans of either colonial peoples, or sources of essential raw ma terials. Algerians are already receiv ing more help, and volunteers from many countries, includ ing Germany, are offering their service;: to the Arabs, who have now pledged* their sup port to Egypt should Britain and France make war on them. News travels fast in Africa., especially when Islamic peo ples arc determined to resist further Christian aggression, * And with radio systems assist - ing their drums Africans In ev ery village between the Med terran And the Cape know what is happening. and all are hopin' t’vu Franc and. Brdam will be smashed should they try to impose (heir will upon Arabs. It is not so much Islamic solidarity a* African solidari ty. My readers may remember that last year 1 wrote that witchcraft was the most potent influence m the coalescing of Africans and that Islam and Money wore also potent forces hin, took secondary place to witchcraft. <By witchcraft l that minus the prancing, marching, extroverting and ex hibitioxmm - the advent of •VT.herine Lucy ‘Foster* ai the University of Alabama. would have occasioned a minimum of belligerent opposition, since it would have provided no back drop for such. Kasper of 'New .Torses Frederick Juhn Kasp.-v. vTu before “Cilnton, remnvsse-.’” hud showed up in Alaska to t-.wtify against she Alaskan Territorial mental health bill on the grounds ih&fc it was bused on .psychiatiy. psychia trists wore Jews, raid “this is not a Jewish nation,'’ identi fied himself. there, as a n -a • dent of Merchantville, New Jersey, presently livi.ru in Washington, Trie lunatic fringe Leader, now out- on bail while appeal ing a sentence of a year in prison for violation of a Fed eral Court injunction against incitement, has announced ids , Quartets in .Tennessee to carry on his defiance. moan the appeal to the super natural.'. Recently the leaders of Af rican Connive-, and mine wo. k ors on 'ho cfip.-'ortioid ■•. o! a, W. Rhode-ia said that witell er ait was their most, powerful weapon in their fight against European exploit a hop. And right across Africa, from Portuguese East to Pauuguc.se West. Africa, into the Belgian Congo, Nigeria and West Afri ca witchcraft is working. I wrote also last year that the influence of the Anglo Saxons--and indeed of ■ Eu ropeans- was diminishing in the world. 'lf must- be con forfc iru; to readers of the N. Y Her ald Tribune that Walter I :,>p man is catching up on his reading as he repeated tuy statement last, went-. ■ The ac - tions of Britain, fiance and their stooges over the Sue/, Canal has further diminished, almost overnight, European influence in the world. rn South .Africa the n rior stricken whites are u-yina to erect barriers between them selves and dark-skinned peo ples. In H. s. A., equally ter ror-stricken whites are fight- . ing the eoliths of their own land to maintiin barriers be tween themselves and Ne groes. B.v KEY. FRANK C. I.OVVKV (For AN Pi “IT .H’ST ISN' T f- AIR" 1. .fust isn't fair, oinec all men are horn equal and free, tied, some of God’s creatures should be despised through hate and mishandled in the lowest degree. 2. It just, does not seem fair, that prejudice ami hate should he heaped upon certain hu man beings because of their pigmentation and textuie of hair, and. be exposed to the horrors of ill-fate. 3. EspeciaPy when out of one blood. God created all mm to dwell upon this earth anq set the bounds of their habita tion; this by God's plan would, makn all men, one mighty Na- WEEK ENDING SATURDAY', SEPTEMBER 22, 1956 Gordon Hancock's BnwrM fhn i ikjcc UUIfCUI im LlilLU tier A.NF) Ol'K EMKAKK \NM\G INTERNATIONAL SITUATION Tiuly ha a it been w'itien, that a city set on a hill cannot be hid. The great snongth and glory that have come to our great, country have set h on the hill of world prom me nee' and it 1a no vvondo that th. most slentficanc doings in tins count* y arc chronicled in the uttertnosk parts of the earth. .Strangeiv enoue.u and unfor tunately. H'itjiiu recent' years our pieatlKc i> not growing. Kvc’ .since VAnld War I, when the Negro was called up on to Ugh l in the war to make the world rale lor democracy, and was forthwith denied the democracy thousands of niw fellow racemcn died to save, there has been a gradual de cline m the pre-lU’c of the United Stiitiihr.mghout the world Tt true many of the na tions have paid a kind cf bp admiral-ion io out counrty. but such admiration war. correlat ed whit fie hand-nut from on; exchequer. Munj of these na tions have received our Unso cial favors, and have .--ince jv. nounced their pledtys of com ity and accord What is Irauspij’ins in the na tion today Is doing nothing to redeem the fair name of our nation. in the councils of the world. Our current interracial strife is serving as an ugly senr upon the fair face of our c< nm try'» rep situ cion. The. open, defiance of the Su preme Court of the United States is currently becoming a serious matter. \V;U: the Na tional Guard to keep dov.n riots and noting and rioters, we have an unsavory picture to present to the world in the matier of democracy. There are malty sign:.; that unless ihinyr are. dealt with forthrightly, there are going to be some ugly eventualities. With United States Senators urn. trig ve resist nn.ee” and. with Southern legislatures enacting repressive laws to meet the situation, we have a sorry spectacle and situation that make the heait sick to he boid and con template. Ihe evident belief that the Supreme rtourt most rule to suit the notions and prejuctic- ill THIS OUR BAY By C. A. Chick. Sr. 'Political Parties' Platforms This, as everyone knows, is general election year. On No vember 6 we shall go to the poik; and • there elect many of cur .stater end national officers to handle the affairs of our governments over a given peri od of time. Over-hiado'Ainv. the entire picture in the matter will be the election of the Pres - ident and Vice-President of the United States. All of the foregoing w ill be elected, by and large, by poli tics! parties and based upon cei rain definite commitments that each party os well as in ’ dividual* has said it would do ;t its party gets the control of the government, either nation al or state Unfortunate!v the masses of the people have learned not lion, 4. But man has never willed if so, and toward things spirit ual he has been very slow, and with unchristianized citizens in the majority, Christianity is ciipphed and still held in ob scurity. o. Yes. It, is woefully unfair to God who gave to die. His only begotton Son. and now His created sons and daugh ters in quest of their own sel fish pursuit-", from Him do run. 6. Thus the world has to sad ly endup a strained synthetic love that blends with every thing Satanic, and blights the chances fui true brotherly love, with a pow-t more devastat ing than Black Magic. 7. And now it is even being reflected among Orammar- Sehooi children, and worst of nil in the higher seats of learn ing. when men of all races should be down on their faces and for more of God's spirit yearn ins. 8. Yea, most unfair Is this terrorizing spirit, as a miasma in the nostrils of God. prevent ing the Holy Inseen.se of the Godly few to bathe the air where all men trod. 9. Mans inhumanity to his fellownran has grown to sum proportions, that. God must surety be disturbed over bis diabolic actions, and sooner perhaps, than some may think, hr will die by his own bitter iumnock drink. .10. His instrument.-* of war fare point to quick disaster, and his disobedience to God ever works faster; so that, time can't much longer stay the hand that would slay, as on ward -he goe.- to force his own way, .1! N,;. /IT JUST ISN'T FAIR” to bod. after giving man so much, that he should he inveigled by Satan to be c;ilight in bis clutch - when he could be » blessing to all iu the earth, th,rough the tnsfru mentality of his Savior’s, par don and BhcoucJ Birth. 12. It just doesn't .seem p<v - sible that any human being with heart and soul, would f<« - fcii this eternal birthright for Satan’s mess of ptousc and lose Heaven nr, bis goal; but beware m,v fnend. ihK is notr. jits: new . . ho has done it to others, just don't, let him do it, to you o, of only one section of th« nation is heading the nation into worlds of trouble. The proud citizens and pa trioL; of this great nation ave embarrassed with the unfold ing of events such as we nave m Sturgis, Ky, Could the Com munists wish for fairec for tune? Could the critics o* the church hope for a better field day? Could the proud citizen.' of the nation find g mater chuw- for embarrassment? Anri the serious fact is, th« -vh.-ile embarrassing .situation mounded in race prejudice by which one creature wishes io depress, oppress, suppress dispossess and distress auoth ci ft is a. sad point in history wher* ;ut;h a large segment of mankind got:-, its greatest glory in the humiliation of their fei lowmen; when one man would feel glorified in lauding it over an unfortunate fellowmaw. 'then too it must be recogniz ed that th" Negro is a cieat.um oi the whitife mao s creation He is .lost, what the white ugh made him. If the white man had produced a liner creature ‘he- Negro would have been imcr. But to create him to an inferior .situation and environ ment and then hate him for • I'owine true to type; tp de m .he him and spurn him m his depredation. is brutal. And somewhere down the line of time the nation must pay an awful price, .Stonin;; the prophets was no worsa than degrading one’s fellow man and hating him in bis drnrvdatloii Some where down the road is som*- hitler cup that must be drained to the * The current disorders ■■*»> an etnbamw-sinent to the nation throughout, the world; u is an embarrassment to the Church of God that has preached the fatherhood of God and Mm brotherhood of man for iieai I -3.000 year' It <s an cm.baj*) jnent to the name of ihc. thou KHnds who have> laid down die upon the gory field of bat. ill; that this nation unto Gun might live. It; is an pnibarrassmept n-> those nobly-inclined soulr- o; the interracial fraternity who haw held aloft the torch o! good will n; a .solution of !h» problem. Tomorrow will be .i brighto! day. Behind 'T clouds the sun still shie#.?. to taka seriously parry plat forms, It. would seem that in publics it is good ethics *o ■> things you do not. mewls, w world not. think m doing bu.u :ui ■■ with a. firm or an ’moo dual which did not liv« up • their promises any tnor* ti - political parties do. A,id course, if teachers 'and* jtnint; - - ».ers did not regard, then sacred tasks any mor« than political parties do theiA we they would simply be *jut ou; of their positions, qoijkly at l hat. Strange how hui&an be lugs, rational beings we c.-ui ourselves, can have different ethical standards for different sacred trusts. But as a matter of feet due to our tripartite type system of government judicial, ex ecutive, and legislative—-ilf is exn > mclv difficult to bold any •■tit: poliiica! party responsible lor what may be done, or may not be done, by ihe govern ment. in question at any given lime Inasmuch as the dpurfs an. supixired to he non-politi cal in their activities. 1 shall not discuss them further in this article. It mu'-t be admitted, how ever, h;. all fair-minded peo ple that on a national level as well as in those states that, have two major political par ties it i.<: very dif.lcult fnj a political party to cany out Its piv-election promises. It verv rarely happens that any pai - ticulnr party gets the control of the executive an! Icgisia sivc branches of a government v. .fb. a large enough majority to carry through its program I; I'lion happens that the nr.- n-Tity party at any given time wiii have, sufficient numbers in one or both houses of the lesrte- Jative branches of the govern ment to enable it to caus® many compromises, to say ths least, tn be made in many mat • tors. Rven woi. e, it, sometime* happens thai the executive branch of the government is in the hands: of one party and t.li« legislative branch in the hands of another party, Or it often happens that one party wil! i eve the majority m one hour# and another party the major i,v in fill: oilier house. Unde, such as the foregoing which puny can be destructive'll eritized when pre - eiectior pUJIlti: as ate Hot CAITICd OUt? Let us hope that within th' •• rr future political scientisu will think of away by which we can place a particular par i.y, both state and national, ir chiu-ge. of the government with n large enough majority that that pai tv may actually be held responsible for what the gov ernmen; does, oi may not dc, Please do not mnunderstant me. I am not suggesting ths we have on.lv one politico 1 par -1..V. in -H means I would no ruggf.sr. that. T. am suggestffu tluil I fee! it would be an Im ■;e ovement over what, we non have, it we could at any give? period of time give owe politi cal party the control of the ex c'-utive ani legislative brarche of the government with a larg enough rmsjoi'ity so that th •aid party would have no ex cuse for not carrying out .iti me- elect,ion promise*.
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