PAGE FOUR Sin hy omission is just as great as sir. by commission. It is rather singular that our lead - ers have said very little and done less about Nehru's visit. It is a known fact that he has long been disturbed about the treatment of people of color, throughout the world. He has continued to fight for the underprivileged People of color are looking to India and the best vve could do was to have- made some ges ture of appreciation upon his arrival. The churches could have at least had an hour of prayer or a period of devout media tion. With President Eisenhower proclaiming that there shall be no second-class citizens in America and Nehru making a plea for India, U seems that such manifestation of faith and hope in th< if meeting would have h id immeas urable weight upon the forces of wrong and tvil. Durham Rises To The Occasion Durham, led by Mayor E. J. Evans, turned out in full force Monday afternoon to honor two athletes who brought fame to it and to America by their fine showings m the recently held Olympics, It was as it should have been, The two fine athletes competed ns Americans and were so greeted upon their return. They rode in the parade together and were heroes to all of Durham. The festivities start ed at the Raleigh Durham airport and ended at the City Hall. The crowd forgot that they were born on opposite sides of the track. They forgot that one represented a white college: and the other represented a so-called Negr ■ college. The triumph that they had so right fully deserved went beyond the color of tr skin or the texture of the hair. The crowd had but one purpose in mind--- to honor two truly grtat athletes What a go <••• place Durham and North Carolina could be L the crowd would recognize Joe Shanklt and Lee Calhoun as true American athletes. Why is it that every day cannot be a celebration bf democratic ideals for men and boys, women and girls who display fine qualities? Why is it that the crowd cannot exclaim “hosannas” to all the Joe Shaukles and Lee Calhouns every Campaign Promises Vs. Consecration In too many instances ore persons running for elected offices in both church and state prone to make campaign promises that are not even thought about once they have been elect - ed. This is a bad indictment to bring against persons who are elected to serve the church. It is our candid belief that people who aspire to an office in the church should search them selves and ascertain whether they have enough Christ in them to perform the duty that the office requires. This brings us to discuss one personage whom we feel made this examination, Daniel Carlton Pope, resident bishop of Africa, repre senting the A. M. F. Zion Church. He relates how, as a student at Tuskegee he attended a meeting where a collection was taken to aid the missionary work. He says he told the col - lectors that he had no money, but he told God he would put himself into the plate and would go to Africa and serve to bring light to the darkened corners of that vast country. In 1924 he went as a missionary and has been identified with it ever since. He lost his first born son there. His wife contracted an illness, while there from which she never re covered. lr. 1948 he was elected as the secre tary of missions and kept in elose touch with the work. He told the delegates to the 1952 genera! conference, if they would elect him a bishop, he would go to Africa and remain there until he had completed the job which Negroes, Hungarians 25 Years Hence We recently read, with deep study and con rein. of the plight of Hungarian refug* * s 'noth —those fleeing their native Hungary into Aus tria, as well as those that landed on these shores. Naturally we. like many different peopks all over the world, had a deep concern for the Hungarian people, as they were being shot down, by powerful Red army tanks, according to various press services. But unlike the other peoples of the world, our greatest concern is centered upon the refugees that landed in this country, amid great fanfare and the like Specifically Negro Americans are concern ed with the attitudes and behavior patterns of Hungarians who sought, and easily found political asylum here 25 years from this day, ns regards their feelings and dealing with Ne gro Americans and other minorities who can THE CAROLINIAN iM Published by th# Carolinian Publishing Company, 518 E. Maitin Street, Raleigh, N. C. Entered as Second Class Matter, April 6. 1940, at the Post Office at Raleigh, North Carolina, under the Act of March 1879. Additional Entry at Charlotte, N. C. Subscription Rotes! 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Indian peasants havi proved this, Freedom loving pilgrims carried their troubles upward and broke the bonds of English rule, Slave-shackled Americans carried their griefs a such songs as "Swing Low Sweet Chariot ' .tnd “Nobody Knows the Trouble Fv# Seen” and tore themselves from the chains. Certainly lunch leaders could have implored the Al mighty to m. ',-t with Eisenhower and Nehru to aid them in giving the world that peace that was promised with the coming of the Baba of Bethlehem, more than 1900 hundred years ago. Yes,’the sin of omission is as great ns thf sin. of commission. day in Durham and throughout the south? (s it only when Lee Calhoun and Jo* Shan* kle hev starred in athletics that the surging crowd will honor them as equals? There are thousands of foe- Shanktes and Lee Calhoun# who will make greater contributions to race n lotions :.nri democratic understanding if the crowd would but look at them with an eye of fairness and a judgment oi prudence. They i amt- home to glory because they had won laurels in foreign fields. We should like, to say to thi crowd that it. can find a Joe Shan* kle and « Lee Calhoun every day to be hon ored. Adi they have to do is to give the Lea Calhouns a chance to compete with the Joe Sh,ankles on an equal basis. All the Lee Calhouns are asking that they hr given a chance to have their being like Lee Calhoun had in Australia. There are thousands iif Joe Shankios who are saying to the crowd, “Let us work, play and compete with Lee Cal houn We can. make this world better by hav ing; had this contact". We say give the Lea Calhouns a chance and they will join with the Joe Shanklcs. and make America the land of the free and the homo of the brave. hr promised God he would do on that event ful night, at the missionary meeting. The delegates elected him and he went to Africa and remained there for four years. It was during these four years that he planned and promoted a program known as “GIVE GOD A CHANCE”. This program found fa vor with the natives and they are sharing what ever monies they may chance to get for the program. He returned to America in March of tins year for the general conference. We have, been told that the appointments of bishops is done according to seniority. This meaps that the last bishop elected is sent to Africa. When asked by members of the episcopal com mittee what conferences he desired, Bishop Pope promptly answered, “I want to go back to Africa to complete the job 1 began in 1924.” This is a concrete example of being conse crated to a task. Bishop Pope displayed the kind of spirit it takes to really serve a cause. He consecrated himself to work for God and His kingdom. Office seekers would do well to make up their minds that they are going to serve their populace with a devotion not based on money or prestige,. There are quite a few church office seekers who would do well to adopt Bishop Pope’s approach to duty. Un kept camnaign promises, whether in church or state are not conducive to a people, nation or country. trace their ancestry in America hack several hundred years. Will they soon forget the political oppres sion that they escaped, as so many other for eigners have done? Will they show their ap preciation by becoming “indoctrinated" with “Americanism’’ as manifested through the southern white supremist or the northern hy pocrit? Will they generally become prejudiced against minorities here and will they prac tice discrimination against American citizens of many generations, because of race, color, religion, creed, etc? If thy are. to become a party to the abovernentioned undemocratic principles and practices, then—so far as w*e are concerned they may as well stay in Hungary and let the Russians shoot them down. (.Reprinted from The Colonial Times) “These Simple Tools Have Removed The Scar” v t -isi m \ * 'py ' V'" > OBSERVATIONS By Rev. R. Irving Boone THK INCOMPARABLE CHRIST AT THIS BLESSED SEASON, when, once again, the thoughts of humanity turn in a very spe cial way to the Babe of Bet.hlc h- ii seems altogether appro priate to focus attention on the fact of the incomparable Christ. lie came from the bosom of t woman. He put on humanity that we might pul on divinity. He became Son of Man that w-> might become sons of God. Hr was born contrary to the hr- .- of nature, lived in povetl/. was reared in obscurity; only on i did He cross the boundary of the land of His Childhood, In infancy He startled a king; in boyhood He puzzled the doc tors; in manhood He ruled the course of nature. Ho walked upon the billows and hush, .1 SENTENCE SERMONS By Rev. Frank Clarence Lowery For AN'P CHRISTMAS 1. Each year this Day of Days, is attended with many happenings out of line with heavenly praise , , . and in stead of joy and adoration they breathe contempt and humiiauon 2. Indeed, right where the Blessed Savior once did trod airplanes and soldiers have moved in to guard and. where Peace once did reign, diabolic hate has entered in to defame. 3. The harbinger of “Peace on Earh Good Will To Mar,”, would Hide His face if He should now- return to this land and witness the inhumanity of man to man. 4. He would not only see it on Desert, Hill and Plain, bet in some Southern Grammar and High Schools of this land where unholy treatment is met ed out. to one certain dark race that is trying again*! The Perennial Headache At this season of the year many people begin to search their heads and in general be come . extremely upset and frustrated over the perennial problem of Christmas presents. What to give the darling wife or the sweet husband is not an easy problem to solve, and most especially if the good wife and gallant husband have rubbed their heads together for sev eral or more years. Or what to give the children Jr equally as puzling. The foregoing problems are nil the more difficult when the “where -with-all” is somewhat limited. Young people, regard less of age, apparently believe that Brother Santa Claus act ually gives away articles. Now when one starts down the list as to what to get parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, children, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, etc the task reallv becomes the “sixty-four dollar” question. Moreover, it. must al ways be remembered and never forgotten that it take.-, time, intelligence and some cash nr credit to do business with San ta Claus. the sea !o sleep. He heeled tiu multitudes without medicine and made no charges ror He. services. He never wrote a book, v* -1 not Vtl i i libra iu, world could hold the books the; could be written about Him. He never wrote a song, yet He fc , furnished the- theme of mo:-- songs than all the song writers combined. He never founded a college, yet all the schools to gether cannot, boast of as man', students as He has. He nev> practiced medicine, yet He has healed more broken hearts aim wounded spirits than all doctors together. He never marshalled nn a, a drafted a soldier, nor filed a dim. yet no leader he, rv. , made as many volunteers who have, under His orders nia -! rebth stack arms and surrehrl-.r odds to uphold His precious name, in accord with His Grace. ' 5. What a, travesty upon the sacredness of human life here at home where such things as lynchings and Race hatred should Scarcely be known. fi. But in these benighted regions love seems at a premi um despite the teachings of the loving Christ Child and Peace maker to all Nations. 7 The Christ Mass cannot be sea redly celebrated when up from the ground are hoard the cries of innocent souls inhu manly tormented; no. not th-- light of justice under God':- blue canopy anywhere should thii be tolearted. *h “God is not. mocked, what soever u man soweth tjf ho does not truly repent > that shall he also reap”; and with out true repentance it all adds up to bare faced deceit. 9. Nations being nothing IN THIS OUR DRV By Dr. C. A. Chick, Sr. Being a “pedogaßtie” and having been one for several years and thus am paid to give advice to the youngsters under ray care, 1 quite often find my self giving unsolicited advice for which I receive no compen sation. Thus, I am suggesting as a partial solution at least, to the perennial problem of what to give whom for Christmas, that a good book is always in order. Therefore, I most sincerely recommend the giving of good books. By and large, we like for our gifts to last a long time And by the same token, those receiving gifts like for them to last a long time. I cannot think, of anything that would cost a little as a good book and would last as long. Furthermore, I have a strong belief that there are few articles that would do our parents, relatives and fri ends as much good as a good book. A good book never tires of giving its readers Informa tion, inspiration, hope and cou laixe. One writer has said that a book is the only Immortality. Another has said that, bonks aie lighthouses erected in the THE CAROLINIAN without a. ?hr>t being fired. He is the Star astronomy, tire Rir’k of geology, the Lion and the Lamb of '/oology, "he He; * rnoTtizer of all discords and the Hc.tlcr of all diseases Croat men have come and gone, yet He lives on and on, iiuiod could riot kill Him; Se could seduce Him; Death could not destroy Him; the. grave could no* hold him. fie laid aside His purple robe for a peasant’s gown. He was rich, ye! for our sake He be* tme»t,a asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride nr design in their con versation. I'fit's give rood books for Christmas presents! There were fewer milk cows on U. S. farms in June of this year than at any lime since re cords were started back in 10.10. The number of animals in June was 20,09<1.0{(0 compared 10 21. 220/100 a year ago June. This is a crop ,GOO,firm cows in June, 1944. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1*556 ' ALICE A. DUNNIGAn"^ WASHINGTON (ANP) -- Brown American;;, who rejoic 'd at the recent Supreme Court decision killing iim crow if, intrastate travel, got a com plete let-down this week .’it. the position taken on this matter by Attorney Geneva! Herbert Brownell. Following a day long conference held at the Justice Department,, Monday, by the Attorney General and H -southern District Aitmr.e* s , Iti-il vail' .1111 -A , * ment that 1 toe United Stans would -stress “voluntary com pliance" in descgtcaauor. of bus travel. 7 ids v.us com plete “about- Lice'' front a. strong statement, he but made a few weeks earlier that any at tempts to enforce seycgutitiii laws on public transportation aould vOiv.tltUte a "tv uvy- a gainst the United HtaLv." When questioned on why t<»c Attorney General bad mn-s.sd ■ man for the Justice Doysu’t-* rnent -cud, that, it was; not a. complete reversal. That it, wh-> only natural to expect “volur!- tmy compliance’ of any law. The- Attorney General has only said ho would stress' volun tary compliance, continued me spokesman, implying Hud h; had net said ho would rely en tirely on voluntary coroplUir.c” This inference invoked the question as to what the At torney General expects to dr- if the law is not complied with voluntarily. “This Is a hypothe tical question", replied the spokesman, “and we nev-r comment on questions hue that.” And furthermore-, the spokesman continued, the court has not decided on a petition to reconsider the bus segtegn tion decision This decision by the Justice Department, seems to be • ting up a bad precedent for the law enforcement of tilts land. If state officials are permi Hod to obey the lew only when they feel that the law meets lh; own approval, what will pre vent a speeding motorist from doing the same. Why should a driver making 75 miles an hour voluntarily slow down in a zone which says 40 miles, if there is no enforcement of such, a law ' Why should, an employee vol untarily comply with that pain*. V* fio St ci s t@ci ife yiifsinias ,* By Rev. F. X. Wefg*r, authoi A MINIATURE ZOO hanging j from a Christmas tree may be a striking sight, but actually Is out of place there. Like many other Christmas symbols and customs, the Christmas tree has a deep and spiritual sign liic&llvw, j When and where did Christ- j mas trees begin? Some say the. i Christmas tree comes from the j ancient Yuie tree and pagan | file customs. But this is mere j guessing and doesn't fit the facts. THE CHRIST- MAS TREE is a combination of •**3|s§L two religions v symbols from medieval days, the Paradise tree and the Christmas light, and H began in j Germany. From the eleventh century on,! religious plays used to be p r~ farmed in churches or out; - ?e in front of churches. One ot the most popular of these “mystery j plays” as they were called, was j the Paradise play, it told of the! creation of man, the sin of Adam j and Eve, and their expulsion! from Paradise This play closed |: with the consoling promise of j < the coming Saviour. For this! I reason the Paradise play was h j favorite in Advent,, the prepam- f , tory season for the coming ofi < Chris I. ! IN THE PLAY the garden of!; Eden was indicated by a fir tree j i hung with apples, from which J < Fve broke the fruit and gave Up to Adam to eat This “Paradise !i tree” attracted the attention of 1 3 all onlookers, especially thej< --- Tevc Simple Tools Have Removed the Scar.’* ful law of dishing out his hard earned dollars for income (ax it there is to be no enforce ment or punishment - If volur,- I.o ry compliance is applied to the white suprcmlsls of the south, why shouldn't it be ap plied to any citizen? What would Aire.-trun citizens fcava robbery, and any other unci; - robboryy. and any either unde ssvnble practices? It there is no enforcement of laws, there will .!>■■ no need tor, policemen courts, lawyers and judges, not even a Department of Justice. Tht Attorney General’s de cision raises another question m the minds of 12 percent, of tlio American population—that of sincerity of enacting and en fovcimr legisletion affecting the minorities of this country. How ca.i Negroes feel that the Administration is really serious about protecting their rights when it consistently appease their -nemies -the white su preme ts of this country? How cun they maintain confidence i mi government, who refuses to take £ firm stand nr. compli ance with the law of the land? Where cun Negroes tuna for sincerity of purpose and gen uine interest in their welfare? l ooking over at the other poli tical party, bow can they trust their “good-friend" Senator Hubert Humphrey who is wag ing an outspoken war for a cio t-ure rule at the beginning of this congress to pave the way for civil rights legislation, while out of the other side of his mouth hr is supporting an anti-civil right er Lyndon Johnson for democratic Floor Lender? Minorities who once had great faith in Humphrey can ned help but wondei why lie refuse;! to support Sent* toy Lehman, Douglas, Henning and a few others attempting to er>f. - parsed before congress ad journed. Amsji'CfD vrec.TM minor.S' - wonders why a handful of .southern racists ran hold such tighr reins oh the northern!’! of both political parties, wh cun the Nr .ro turn foi. i-r - , and equality guaran>y-;cj nit vi towns by me Constitution c the United States. >r, THE CHRISTMAS BOOK | children, since is wag the cr;... object on tii<) stage. After a white the mysteiy phiv; stopped, but people warn ed the Paradise tree and brought : it into their homes on December - - the feast, day in hOflOi o. ! Adam and Fve, I HUT DECEMBER 24 was also j Chr:nmas eve. From early time s, ! a beautiful custom was rir.v ! treed on this day in all Christian ! nmtries. A candle called the “Christmas light" was burned as I symbol for Jesus Christ, the • ht of the world that started shining at Bethlehem. * m Germany the Christmas ' Uidie used to be placed on ton . a wooden pyrarold-iike struc ture, adorned with glass and tinsel. But seen the people L’.'ved that the Faradise tree ' elf was a beautiful and live ivramidy The next stop was to lake the lights, glass balis and tinsel from the wooden pyramid end put tnom on the Paradise “ *’e. The Christmas crib which -Lid stood at the foot of the pyramid, was now put under the nee, The “star of Bethlehem" fsorn the top of ‘he pyramid war now fastened the tree. Thus '-err modern Christmas tree was born. UNDERSTANDING the origin of the Christmas tree should give parents a chance to get m sot,: religious teaching amidst a;i the Christmas preparations. No child should have to spend Christmas without learning the religious meaning of his Christ mas tree, a reminder that Our lord is his f-.vht and the Light of all the world. < ,‘j.rti l->,Mr- lOTtct, WstMsfton H, f>. f\