PAGE FOUR
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Another Look
Several days azo a Net’ n m Mi lames
Harris, was tried si! ■"■"■. ! j ■,, R-*ir:;;h
City Court of ml ~,.1,..-} v h
charge rcsiiltinu in hr. . Mvin . i hinged
that the m an
lice station when h' - <-i" i h;s \ app, '■'red
there to inquirr vh v < , 1
e telephone call *h«- vein id made to the
station requesting - ,'n ~1 two wh t-.
men the Negro - bum* i k.-irj ;n :! -1 i ' - . jf, .
According to Mo I ,• •. ' ,
hi:- "'ife <■ • ■ ; ■ .■ • ■ |
two whites in .. . ~.v .-i ? h
Hrfifis to !<= r-'f * ■ , ~|n- w «th
them When Mr M.<;. ■. : .1 ; , r , ,• „(•.
irc-rd of the mv »■ to ; ; t'-< uu.i-*
men drove off. Th» v, of th<- t c
the police station as r d< l* Harris said,
tc. ascertain ••vhv U -1. ! .-rg. ~0 'o. ( H ,i-rter
up when Hern i!h ":> i ■ port the in< ■ rtf.
We do pot know u i-.-f happened at the
police station t' ;t nigh’. Twr policemen
testified that Hann •••ime in 1", '-ns on the
desk, loudly pro>' -.ting his t.<dri-ii . •- ■■ -.t
feeing cut •-1 ' and dcnitimhng ,-t (Mn. Hitting
that if a white woman ivd nt 1 r, 'ivmlc d. the
Negro men acciv;-- = i w.-uni v . - K, o found
end nunc <o Mr n ' -M M.
police "laim the f i •*■■ • > v M>f.
they told him M v •••• nnd<: ;>'!• : 1 and ad
nutted that fm i■> :■-> u' hie
him when hr j. <’ I.< ■ -k, '! !v
Harris' denied hci u \ !■ u ric "• i
claimed Mr. H.cus was i ’ -,t.n and
arrested bee a .11- .■ l
cause he had tn -.He i!v ,-r. M-rt" ,n a, lac
ing given the run at i' 1;' • da' his
trial that he was told be '■ • men th' ! a
"damn N-- --* didn't ;• v hilr R ’ 'h
police as he had t- ; ktd ""■’ get < ■ >y u. h it.
The judge cvsd-nt’v •••• ■ hc ponce
men’s story, found s • -s ■)* y and
fined him so 0.0 9 end < M
Having sketched, w’-'hout detadr.. the ‘ far.
tual” side of t!v -tc-v let- cor-- h-r a few
closely related a- .1 Mr. Hams was de
scribed in n« p< 1 1 ■ ■■ bits, bur
ley, eggres-dve tvpe. If that d< '••••ription of
him is true, it would -• • m that Iw would have
pursued the v.hite nun ■ : wvs in
sulted his wife, on writ up v. - : mid
battled it out Big- bw’ v. «: : Iv* n• n
usually do just that Tim po’i.-oman who
answered Harris 'phone ceil - • v l ' !•’a-n-. w->s
talking incoherent;y. Mi v n ’ ; ■! Ih-Tfs
was talking cohcnnMv rnough on !h< phone
for the policemen who ansvr o d c to '•
that the caller M'. " ■ ‘ ■-g
an insult to he ■ w ,!| 1 (im v, ' . 1
wonder, if the ! m!l< r ! -h ••■ >i a v ■‘c r an,
Tightly excite th- ■ n-i . Nr :r-1 "i t. he I ac.
costed his wifo >. ■ ul'i m 1 • , * d-u-it
ment rushed r iiuz
caller's home jn m *r ••' ‘ ' f ! ' ’’ rr > *nev
might appro hr. id ■
Ing up the phone 1 u 1 ; u -
hs called
Mr Harris, as vis m- f-.ht as a Ires
American citi . r
station to prof< ' - v ' ■'■ a
shght given !v u ' •' ' " i ; 1
answered his te’epe t
'is understand.-,! h
sentful because ’ v ' n
him both over the ;• Icp*-. ■ ■ amt during the
conversation at th> ' d 'w ■ •
just seen his wib : = ■ r - r rather,
shouldn't he expected t ■ ' PP’ end
pleased, whether or nn< •••• !>c,- ■. -ne disorderly
would possibly depend in- r.n answer on
from what angle >w . . 1 ■ mat
ter and also upon t r<•■■■■: >v ■
tion the Raleigh ps-h pnnivent c'-pccts
a Neero to suffwc • -ut c, i< sent
ment. For our pm! • :!• 1 ■ * pt
n’ord of the i-iarr’S •• 1 th ar/not •'
ing disorderly in the >iduct of Mr. >! c
before we would that of the two p< ic'emen.
It iust doesn't nm;c much «< -t'-c to 1 "hove
that a man who had tv> ! :: r - ■ tv '° r.
who had insulted his w-.fo, wo 1 1 try to licit
up two policemen arm s i wi"- p:sto! and
black iacks N'kto. . "V>e k v ■ 1
sense for two arm r !pe . • !to r> t ' ■
necessary for them s o u- ovv-h !■ -••• th t
both of them had to kn ■ ' i' n. set
on top of him n r ’ 01 d . • .' ’ - ’■ r
Neero polir:C'r' , - e, tii "■ ' ; ? if
as the police involve.! • -m .r c-u.-h
Ts; Os Progress
As far a? •• i ar? <■■■•• • rr< I ii' 1 'ns
of racial progrcs an the kwn » -■ j ■»
barrier? and the v - *it ] . u-v
which point’ to en’arwr) > ; mu- f b * f
understanding »od i ,v » • * ‘oprn?i -h
in rare relations. In hm w ; 'h this thinking
we are pleased to pr» ?•• nf th«-'-r wi Me sepa
rated happenings that to bear r ut our
views
The first incident or h pn; dug occurred
in Texas and at fir. 4;J i< «* nv ’.ht be con •
Ridcred a defeat, f- - ■•IT cmath proved it In
he. a significant r.iej,- i victoiy Fla*tarn 1 anise
Smith, a student ,n the Coflegr of !• ar Arts,
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lira lion.
force- was used as vss found necessary' to
subdue Harris,*why were both of them a- ,
straddle of him on the floor after he had
hem subdued. Why were they holding him
nn the floor and how car. a person he dis
orderly in a police station?
According to n Brooklyn, New York judge,
that is impossible. Disorderly conduct, ac
cording, to this New York jurist Consists of
public disorder, conduct involving a breach
of the public peace. Ruling in favor of a
drfendent charged with being disorderly in a
police station, this judge pointed out that a
l» rson could not be convicted on such a
charge because the public peace was not in -
volved, that a police station full of armed
policemen was certainly not a public place
needing protection against disordertiness and,
until a person had broken the public peace
and offended society, he could not be found
guilty of disorderly conduct That interpre
tation of disorderly conduct appears to our
lay mind as reasonable, sound and fair. Pend
ing the time when this enlightened intepreta
rion of disorderly conduct can be accepted
here, why should a man. even if as if is al
i< .yd in the Harris' case, he charged and
found guilty of disorderly conduct because
hr pounds on the police desk and tells the
police they did not do their duty. When did
the Raleigh police become so high and mighty
that the citizens who pay their salaries can
not tel! them what they think without asking
their permission to tell them and why must
they, while expressing their grievances, stop
doing so simply because the police involved
do not rare to listen any longer. As we
previously stated, we do not know what went
nn the night Harris went to the Raleigh po
ll. . station seeking relief but there are many
.-.sprrts of the aftermath of his visit that
are no? wholesome or conducive to good law
enforcement or to proper race relations.
In passing we would like to comment
briefly on two other facets of this case. One.
the matter of Lieutenant Bailey’s commends
bon of his policemen for their actions in
"subdueing" Harris is directly related, the
other the wide spread and growing habit
of white men molesting Negro women in the
streets of Raleigh is indirectly related. We
cannot accept the policemen's version of
v im! >v nt on the night Harris came to them
for help. He went to the police station seek
in , nelp not to he disorderly. If he was pro
voked into being disorderly the police, not
Hams is to blame. Lieutenant Bailey, the
immediate superior officer of the policemen
■r.volv.'d by his praise for their action against
Items may He encouraging other policemen
to fly off the handle and charge Negro citi
zens with being disorderly when they come
to file police station seeking help, and. al
though we seriously object to anyone taking
the law into his own hands and creating vio.
lence what ever the provocation. Lieutenant
Bailey by his commendation of these police
mm for “subdueing" Mr. Harris, may cause
< her aggrieved Negro citizens to fee! that
they have no other recourse in protecting
themselves against aggrevations and assaults
but their own resources of defense. White
policemen, do not’seem to realize that
people, including Lieutenant Bailey and his
Negroes are human beings the same as they
are They have the same feelings, the same
motivations, the same reactions, when and if
?h f se truths are learned, there will be no
raised tensions. Touching on the indirectly
involved subject, w'hite men in Raleigh mo
lesting Negro women, it is very strange that
tbr Raleigh police department is riot aware,
of this sickening practice It goes on every
day and every night. It is prevelant in every
N gro district in Raleigh. No Negro woman
who walks the streets of this city is free
from being molested by this white vermen.
these hypercritical advocates of race “puri
tv” and racial segregation Some how, wc
have a feeling that Lieutenant Bailey would
be doing a far better job of helping to im
prove the lavv enforcement pattern in 'Ra
'h were he to crack down on his men
for their failure to protect the Negro women
of Raleigh instead' of praising those who
•■-V they hael to use a disputed amount of
fore,- in order to subdue a husband who came
to them spfi-ing help for a wrong that had
ben inflicted upon his wife.
University of Texas, was chosen, because of
her excellent voice, to play the leading role
in the college's annual full dress opera. After
religiously rehearsing this role since last Oc
tober. she was called into thp dean’s office,
a few days before the scheduled opening of
thr opera in May. and told she could not
piny the part The dean expressed his sorrow
but, informed Miss Smith rhat certain mem
bers of the legislature, then in session, had
objected to a Negro girl playing a romantic
had opposite a Texas white boy,
“Civil Rights Bill Hampered By ‘
Amendment White House Still Silent."
M THIS MI Mt ‘^
r
"Government Gifts”
It cannot be denied that
many of our politicians are
elected to office by deceiving
the people as to what, they
'politicians* are getting them
from their sovernment We
must let our legislators and ad
ministrators know that we
realize they are not eiving their
constituencies any special pri
vileges when these privileges
must, be matched by similar
gifts by constituencies all a
eross the country. The net're
sult. is simply a ballooning of
tax cost? for all. Citizens need
to support, activities that will
avoid excess in spending at the
state and local levels as well
as at the national, level.
We should require govern
ment, agencies to give first
consideration to reducing taxes
SENTENCE SERMONS
By REV. FRANK CLARENCE LOWRY For ANP
WHEN SHADOWS FALL
3 Hon ever beautiful may
he the day, dark shade.? must
eventually follow, and weary
earth adjusts its soft night
cap and awaits a better tomor
row,
2 How much like this is Life,
with its changes like a movip
on the screen . . joyous pleas
ures and good fortune in the
daytime, but evening', some
tragic scene.
3, God knows that the en
chantment of Eden would be
all a human heart, could derir®,
but by Adam and Eve’s own
bilious thinking they would be
hurt by playing with fire
4 This changed the status of
the whole human Race, and
new daily mankind has new
problems to face: even from
their first children the world
learned of murder and ever
since, crimes have been made
to order.
3 Even mock trials to per
form lynching.?, have proved
to be nothing new from
early date a-plenty and lately
not a few . . . the case in point,
ODDS and ENDS
WARNING: This is the time
of year when young boys all
want to go swimming. There
is certainly nothing wrong with
that because shimming is one
of the most healthy forms of
recreation possible for one to
engage But swimming should
be done in the proper places
and under supervision During
the summer months when we
h»a i of youngsters being
drowned while swimming in
some creek, pond or rlvgr. we
always thing of what a useless
waste of life this is
Wp know that boys will be
boys as the saying goes We
know that parents are hard put
in trying to control the ac
tions of teen age and younger
boys, but, somehow, when the
brownings occur, we always
feel that there has been some
degree of parental neglect,
some let down nr. weakening a
long the lines of. obedience and
control. No parent wants his sen
to drown, that’s for sure so why
not do this parents: Find out
where your sons go during the
day. If vou learn that he is
frequenting an unsupervisex!
swimming place SEE that he
stops it, Yes, ws realise that
THE CAROLINIAN
BY DR. C. A. CHICK, SR.
and then compelling them to
live within these limits. The
foregoing is the recognized pro
cedure of all good business and
successful family finances
It must be pointed out again
that, the taxes on the United
States business are a com, to
all 170 million United States
citizens It Is important that
we start now to making our
government representatives ful
ly aware that most of us real*
i?,e that we as individuals are
standing the cost, of taxes, di
rectly or indirectly, arid that
we are aware- also of the ex
tra costs and inefficiencies in
volved in too much of the hid -
den types of taxation
We need to help make It,
good politics for our servants
in government, to effect every
leasable lessening of the total
of the Blessed Savior, whose
accusers reflected the lynch
spirit, In their behavior, and
• hoy were not ordinary men of
the street, but high church dig
nitaries given to hypocrisy and
deceit.
6. Thus shadows have nearly
covered every spot on the
Globe, and sadness and de
struction are making deep in
roads: only Christ who was
crucified can dissipate this mad
onslaught . . . for thus His
death and resurrection our re
demption was bought.
7. Shadows wdl come, and
they will go. contingent upon
'he kind of need vr sow. and
the closer we draw near to
our blessed Savior, the finer
will be our daily behavior
3 Then will come the glor
ious change to mankind and
the world will emerge from it.?
.frightful doom, and you and
I will help dissipate shadow.?,
and our buds will break forth
into full bloom
9. This is the answer for all
earthly heartaches, disappoint
ments. disagreement* and woes;
youth, especially boys are not,
youth, especially boys are dis
obedient, just, plain hard head
ed, but there are still ways and
means of implementing your
orders to them. If you have to
use these means do not hesitate
to do so. thev may save your
son from being drowned this
summer.
* « x
FAIR PLAY: Turn about Is
always fair play even when
white students want, to go to
schools formerly attended only
by Negroes. There is certainly
no reason under the sun why
the 3 young w'hite men - who
have applied for admission to
AAr.T College should not be ad
mitted if they are otherwise
qualified The only possible
reason why they won't be allow
ed i,o come to A&T will be
fear on the part of the A<fcT
administration.
We cannot, we will not he
lieve that Dr Gibbs, the presi
dent of A<v,T College is a cow
ard or s weakling. The Board
of Admissions of course Is the
channel through which these
applications will have to pars
but the final decision will be
up to Dr Gibbs Negroes ais
fax burden and to gradually
stuff away from the use of the
indirect, hidden taxes and to*
wards the use of direct • and
vi.-.able taxes Then we need to
strengthen awareness that the
present initial distribution of
the tax burden does not, save
consumers anything in the end,
and thu<, m the meantime this
distribution places special pen
alties on the nation's ability to
save end to invest in progress
toward higher levels of living
By focusing their attention
on the foreground and similar
areas of misunderstanding con
cerning tax policies and p'rac
tices. the masses of the citizen*
could develop a powerful and
constructive force working to
ward the accomplishment of a
sounder tax structure.
for He who experienced the
wormwood and the gall, knew
then and now, the countless
penalties every man and wom
an owes,
10 "Jesus paid it all all to
Him we owe" and shadows can
not very long stay wher° His
light of life doth, flow; like a.
mirage of dewy breath, this
mysterious Master even steps
in to conquer death.
11 Surely then, the shadows
cannot hurt, while heavenly
Angela move about and around
God's children lurk: for noth
ing can go awry that, is within
the Master's will and trials
are but shadows when He says
"PEACE FF STILL,"
12 j( was St. John tv ho said.
"Let not your heart be trou
bled ye believe in God. believe
also in me In my Father's
house are many mansions if
it ''err not so I would have
totd you, 1 so to prepare a.
place for you." This is the
fthadovi* tvsiri&hirt? x^erd. xvfc&n
'* e Ivrrn to and trust In God,
no other false voices can ba
heard
now attending the. University
of N C at Chapel Hill, they
are enrolled at N. C State Col
lege in Paleigh and there are
Ner.ro girls at the Woman’s
College m Greensboro. Is there
any reason why white students
cannot attend A&T College if
they so desire We cannot think
of any,
* * *
WILL NOT’ STOP THE CLA
MOR: When Kelly Alexander,
president of the N. C Confer
en.ee of NAACP branches said
that, legislative imposed re
strictions upon the activities
of the NAACP could not stop
the ever increasing clamor by
awakened Negroes for their
God-given and legally sanction
ed rights he was, literally
speaking, saying a mouth full.
Negroes will not, they can
not turn back To do so now
would cause them to be reg
ulated to the trash heap
The battle for recognition by
them as American citizens is
virtually a. battle for existence.
These punishments and "legal"
restraints that have been put
upon them in other .southern
states and now most certainly
to be adopted by this state, are
but the last breathing of an al
ready dead serpent, the last,
futile writhing of Its uglv tail.
Negroes know this, they will
continue the light, singing as
they fight "Sure I must fight
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 15. 1957 i
Gordon B* Hancock s
TRIAL BT JURE
The current representatives
of the Old South in Congress
are making a stubborn fight to
throttle the civil rights pro
gram Their delaying tactics
are highly effective, and there
are reasons to believe, that the
longer the bill is delayed, the
greater the chance of killing t
it altogether.
The procedure is to destroy
the bill, and if by some mi
racle it passes, to so amend
it that it will amount to noth
ing in the way of guaranteeing
civil righl-s of Negroes.
If. must be observed that, only
the civil hta of Negroes are
concerned for the white man's
civil rights have been guaran
teed from the beginning. Much
is being made over an amend
ment calling for a trial by jury
in civil lights cases, for the
chances of evading the law will
be when th° trial is be
fore a judge in the anticipated
contempt cases.
This column discussed manr
ypars aco the possibility that
no Neero in the South has ever
had simple justice for the rea
son hp is tried bv a prejudiced
jury, that is where interracial
litigation is involved. We con
tended then, end we contend
now, that it. is impossible to
find .for any given case, twelve
unprejudiced white men to sit
on the jury, where and when
the races are in conflict
However, nobly inclined these
white jurors think themselves
to be. and. howevc-r desirous
they may be of meting nub
justice, because of their inter
racial background it is Impos
sible for the white juror to de
vest himself of prejudice over
night,
It takes time to grow racial
prejudice and it takes time
to cure i.t. that is. to remove
it. from positive interference
in dispensing justice as is pre
supposed in the jury trial. It
is to be repeated, that, it is
doubtful if any Negro has ever
had a fair trial at the South
where Negro-white contentions
were involved
It makes the heart sick to
reflect on the in.iusitc.es that
have been inflicted upon Ne
groes by prejudiced white ju
ries through the generations
The hardships meted out to
Negroes are para lied by the
moral contamination meted
n-.p in th* whims themselves
ip their dispensation of ire us
her.
What, is now transpiring in
Montgomery, Ala,, will gm, an
if t would, wm increase nm
courage Lord . ” Thev will
continue to fight knowing full
well thac the banner of victory
wp] ultimately rest on their
side Mr. Alexander spoke truly
for all the Negroes of this state.
DISGRACE; It may -w
may not have been the
rich! thing to put the 300
unit low cost housing pro
reel i» the South Raleigh
area already being prepar
ed for it, Tproofing 150
families, half of them home
owners is a sad thine, re
g aid less of the reasons. But,
fur the Raleigh City Conn
ril, after having voted to
allow- this uprooting to lie
done, to do nothing at all
about finding homes for
those disposed citizens, was
and is. nothing short of a
community disgrace
At this late date, all of the
resident? of that, area have not
been able to find places for
relocation These people are/
now wondering around the
town literally begging for
places to live To make it so
very bar], none of these are
older people and there are .sev
eral small children included in
the lot Ail of this indicates the
type of concern our "City Fa
thers have for the Negro citi
zens they voted to put into the
streets
T 0 T H E
To The Editor.
Many of us who follow toe
activities or the legislature
were shocked nv me attempt
of Senator Jolly to have en
acted into law a bill th a t
would provide the sterilization
of unwed mothers who gave
birth to at least two illegiti
mate children We are thank
ful to God that the measure
was killed bv thoughful minds
who recognized the far-reach
ing implications of the bill.
It was frankly admitted that
the bill was designed to reduce
the number of unwed Negro
mothers receiving funds from
county and state. I do not
condone illegitimacy, but I do
believe that it is the wrong
procedure t,o strike at the
symptoms rather than the
causes of the problem. Illegi
timacy is the fruit, not the root
of the trouble.
In Senator Jolly’s home
county, Franklin, the Negroes
have suffered severe education
al and economic handicaps.
Their schools have been far
below par in educational facili
ties and resources In fact
public education in that area
is s comparatively recent, pro
ject for N—rrors. The brunt
idea of the advantage tha
southern leaders are seakij®
In their clamour for a trial f
iury amendment to the psfw .
ins civil rights bills. It is to |
questioned whether a trial r
i prejudiced jury is not s H*
bilily to the cause of just'
rather than an asset.
Just' recently two your
white men were acquitted L
Montgomery, Alabama in’ *4
indictment for dynamiting a
Negro church and other cas<s
are pending and there ars
bound to be other acquittals
One reason the Southerners
are so insistent on the trial by
jury is that a prejudiced jury
need not be feared by evil
doers if they do their evil bn
Negroes.
This is a. sorry state as af
fairs and one that should mum
worry and shame by the up
right. citizens of the nation,
A nation that is afflicted with
such moral corruption in high
places is riding for a fall. Such
brazen displays of race preju
dice are noted around the world
and make null and void our
protestations of democracy and
human brotherhood
It is such things as these
that lead to anti-American
nots in China and elsewhere
the United States assumes the
role of moral leadership. South
ern leadership in Congress
threatens to destroy our good
Influence in the uttermost, parts
of the earth
It will take more and more
billions to salvage our prestige,
If we are going to be led from
the prejudiced South. Trial by
a prejudiced jury does not ex
pedite justice but thwarts it-
It, is not a help but s. hinder
ance.
It is settling high time for
the liberals of the North to
wake up to the fact that the
behavior of the gentlemen from
the South not only brings con
demns lion to the South but to
the national Eastlandism is no#
coins to hNp our prestige
abroad and it is not going it
advance the cause of lustier
and equity at. home
In spite of the wailing and
gnashing of teeth by die-hard
Southerners committed to th*
Vernalization of the Negro
limited citizenship, the Negro
nil! be free, if not until they
are dead, even as the Negroes
were freed from slavery in spite
of the thousands slain upon
a hundred battlefields to keep
them slaves God and Time and
Right are on the side of all op
pressed groups. Trial by preju
diced jury’
t<- jc training has been borne
bv denominational institutions,
Albion An demy and Christian
College which, in reality was
a high school. More than fifty
vcars ago. the Baptists seeing
Hie need of Negro children for
training established a school
m Franklin county For a long
time the Presbyterians operat
'd a, similar school in Louis
hiirg. The educational back
ground has been poor indeed.
Because of a lack of skill
which comes through training,
voung Negro girls have been
forced to take jobs as servants
In the white man's home. The
results have been tragic.
Under the threat of econom
ic pressure, many of these girls
have been forced to year to the
advances of their employers.
Th sponsor of the sterilisa
tion bill, citing cold but often
unrevealing statistics ata te d
that. 20 per cent of the Negro
children in North. Carolina are
born out of wedlock. Actually,
many' of those children are
as much white as they are Ne
gro I hate to shock Mr Bever
ly Lake and others of his school
of thought but amalgamlna*
tion ithe illegal kind) has beers
a common practice sines the
days of slavery In the veins
of mme of the so-called lllcfi
limate Negro children the
blood of white aristocracy"
flows. These children are the
products of a vicious system
where some Negro women are
fold that they must submit
or lose their jobs
Jesus told a group who
brought before him a woman
caught committing adultery.
■ He who is. without sin let him
cast the first stone ’ The same
principle is applicable today.
Where are we to place blame
for illegitimacy’
T would suggest that, the
Senator from Franklin County
treat some of the causes of the
problem Work for better edu
cational opportunities for the
underprivileged in his own
backyard. Help them find joba
that will bring them a degree
of economic security. Fight for
their right to vote unhampered
by prejudiced registrars and so
called literacy tests. In a word,
as their elected representative,
demand that fhe.v be given the
opportune, c to live as human
brings created in God’s own
image
Sincerely yours,
Reverend J. H. Clanton
POET’S CORNER
MX NATAL TAT
BT WILLIAM HENttT BUTT
I love the twenty-seventh day
of May
Because it is my own—my
natal day.
It is the day that 1 was born
Mid Georgia’s cotton fields
and corn,
Inside a lowly cabin built of
logs,
The thing was fit for only eats
and dogs,
That's why I struggled day
and night to learn
So, m «ome happy future, I
could earn
A happy home upon some
boulevard