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4 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958 Editorial Viewpoint nTCAmUNIAN’S ~~~ WORDS OF WORSHIP 1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done ab ominable works, there is none that doeth good, 2. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see : f there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3. They are all gone aside, they are all to gether become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no know Arkansas Steps Back “In the public interest, including the inter ests of both Negro and white students," U. S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley of Hope, Ark ansas, recently granted Centra! High School in Little Rock what he terms “a breathing spell from racial integration ” The veteran Arkansas jurist granted the Lit tle Rock school board's request form 2 i-2-year suspension of its gradual plan for public school desegregation. Under Lemley’s ruling, the seven Negro stu dents still enroled at Central High School at the end of the past school year would be barred from the 2.000-pupil high school this Septem ber. The ruling led Governor Orva! Faubus to say: "The Negro citizens of the community would do well to accept today's ruling, which will do much to re-establish the normal and friendly relations which prevailed here before . . . This is not a final settlement of this prob * r - Modern Advertising Modem advertising is ust as much a part of American life as eating, sleeping, and putting on clothes It is a part of the monoty of the American way of life from which there is no escape, except through manufactured pleasures sold at mass production prices: movies, scrap operas, Coney Island, a bus ride, comics, pulp fiction, crossword puzzles, a bleacher seat at the baseball game, a living room seat at the TV set. a ticket to the races, peanuts, and soda pop. When all these fail, we try beer, whiskey, and slow gin. We have noticed in the American way of life that advertising has become its worst enemy my confusing the public with its commercial propaganda. There are more than 287 brands of cigarettes on the market, and the advertisers each claim that his brand is the best. In order for the con sumer to know the truth, he must try out each of the 287 brands. The following soap adver tisements is an example of the AD confusion: “Use Woodbury’s facial soap chosen by Woodbury's beauties from forty-eight states, but what keeps in perfectly splendid condition the skin of the most fascinating stage actress is not Woodbury’s facial soap but rather Lux toilet soap." Conseuently it is the best •Proctor and Gamble, in their $25,000 adver tisement in the Saturday Evening Post, says. “Use Ivory soap—it is the best because it floats.” Now. how does the public know which of the many brands of soap is the best. It cannot de pend upon the truth from the advertisers, be cause of each company is trying to sell a brand rather than soap. Let Your Money Talk We have read in various publications that L. C. and Mrs. Daisy Bates, co-publishers of the Arkansas State Press and leaders in the fight for school integration in Little Rock, may find it necessary to move to Detroit, where a friend has promised them employment. The publishers of the Arkansas State Press state that white boycotts and apathy on the part of Negroes has left them practically no other choice. For some reason, Negroes expect somebody to be a martyr in their cause. But when the martyr is faced with defeat, they stand by and Jet him “bear the cross alone."' Very often we hear people say, "Why don't She teachers and other public servants take a •fund on the integration question?" Perhaps many teachers would lei their children be “test cases” in desegregation suits if they were sure the Negro public wouldn’t turn its back on them when they are fired from their jobs. Suppose a public servant did lose: ins job because of his activities in the integration fight, Who will come tc his rescue with a job? Who will keep up his payments on the home he is buying? The answer is obvious. Negroes in this country have an opportunity to show Mr. and Mrs. Bates that they appre ciate their fight in behalf of the Negro children who attended the Little Rock Central High School. You may ask. “How?" Churches, fraternal orders, social clubs, la bor unions, Negro businesses, colleges and uni- Registration Incentive sls Negroes in the Baton Rouge area are being offered a new incentive to become registered voters—sls in cash. The News Leader, a Louisiana weekly news paper published for Negroes, announced on its front page the First Ward Voters League, Inc., is offering the money. Negroes are urged to become “10 feet tall” by registering between now and June 29th. At first glance, this may seem to be a laugh ing matter; but, at a second look, it may be just the motivating device we need to get Ne groes to register in their various precincts. Since we have tried the use of a Committee of Friends, 3:nce we have sent out mimeographed letters urging black citizens to register, since we have made use of newspaper advertise ments and radio, perhaps a payment of a sls fee will be just the “trigger” to set off the reg istration explosion. When Nelson H. Harris was running for a ledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord, 5. There are they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. 6. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge 7. Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad, (Psalm 151 lem, but it can prove a peaceful interlude.’’ We would like to know what is there to be gained from the 2 1-2 year interlude? If the Little Rock Negroes agreed to this interlude, when efforts to get the Negro students back in Central High School are started it, would be. like making a new sore in an old wound. The segregationists would want the 2 1-2 year in terlude to last forever. Negroes in Little Rock must not retreat at this stage in the battle. To do so would be to step backward as the school offiicals have done. Should colored citizens acquiesce now. it would mean that they must give ground to the enemy of d<segregation. This must never hap pen—whatever the cost. We arc happy to learn that Attorney Wiley Bianton of Pine Bluff has filed notice of ap peal and asked in a motion that Lemley grant a stay of execution of his order until the ap peal is heard in higher court. Much of our advertisement is bold, willful deception. The edveritser of a nationally known brand electric razor claims it can give a closer and longer-lasting shave. This not ex actly true, because no electric razor gives as clean and long lasting a shave as the staright razor or razor blade. If one uses an electric razor in the morning, ho will need to use it more than likely in the afternoon. But by using a non-electric razor, the average man can go without shaving until the next morning. We suggest that instead of saying something false about a product, the advertisements should tell plenty of good things about it. In the case of the electric razor, the advertisement might stress “the razor gives faster, simpler shave—one that is easier on the skin.” This statement would be the electric razor’s strong est selling point. One expert even suggested that an electric razor advertisement run something like this: “The electric razor fills an important need for men who don’t like to bother with the rit ual of a wet shave, and whose skin is so sensi tive that a razor blade Irritates it.” The public and the advertisers know full well that there is no perfect product, and there should be no attempt to publicize it as such, Since this a fact, our national advertising men must cease trying to delude the public. Modem advertising is an economic blessing to tire nation, and it is so socially advantage ous. We need it in the American way of life as much as we need medicine when we are sick Since this is true, let us advertise the good things about our imperfect American products. versities should buy advertising space which has been lost because of the white boycott. Each Negro citizen should take out a year's subscription to the Arkansas State Press and renew it each year as long as is necessary. Sure ly. there must be 100,000 citizens who would buy a year’s subscription. Most of us would rather 'pend our money on a vacation or for some article that will bring pleasure. Many individuals would rather buy a fifth of Scotch than take out a year’s subscription to the Bateses newspaper. Somehow we value less that which should count most. First-class citizenship must be bought with a price. We have a chance to show that we want first-class citizenship by support ing a newspaper that is doomed to failure. Mrs. Bates says; “ They’ve cut the circulation of our paper to it slowest point; they have frightened most of our advertisers away from us. They’ve intimi dated our dealers: they’ve done everything; they’ve frightened most of our advertisers away from us. They’ve intimidated our dealers: they’ve done everything they can to put us out of business.” Negro business, why not buy some adver tisement space? Church organizations, why not sponsor a whole page in the Arkansas State Press? Citizens, write your check lor a year s subscription to the Arkansas State Press You cannot criticize anything or anybody, unless you make your money talk. seat in the North Carolina House of Represen tatives from Wake County, it. was like pulling hen’s teeth to get around 2,000 Negroes to reg ister. We c»n’t help but wonder if the payment of a sls fee to citizens to register would have yielded better results. If we pay a citizen to register, he will also be expecting a fee when he cast bis vote. Re gardless of how we look at it, this is a danger ous precedent. It is disheartening to learn how little value Negroes place upon citizenship. Since it is free, it would seem that members of our race would value it enough to spend a few minutes to reg ister and vote. May be our answer is to be found in the prin ciple that citizenship should b.* purchased with a price. Men have a tendency to buy what they really want: and, if a Negro bought his citizen ship with hard-earned cash, he no doubt would appreciate it beyond all dreams. Patience For Human Rights At Home, JUST for fun SENTENCE SERMON BY REV, FRANK CLARENCE LOWERY For ANP SIGNING OFF f This is quite a common phrase today, byway of radio and television it can be heard on every highway. 2 This is because the user's time is on contract, and every thing is done- as a matter-of fact. „ . time then on this basis is quite expensive, os to stay within bounds, the user be comes a bit apprehensive. 3. The proper use of time should always be man's deep concern, for this is a lesson all must learn, as time marches on despite what we do, and gets away before we are through. 4. Who can hide when this princess passes by? or who her presence can deny if you are ' not filling up each moment with life's very best, there may not be too many years left, in which you can hope to profitably in vest. 5. Individuals, like commen What Other Editors Say DANGEROUS LENIENCY One of the most dangerous aspects of racial inequality from which the South suffers is an attitude of too great len iency toward Negroes who com mit crimes against members of their own ra.ee. A Negro kills a Negro and is often let oh with a light sentence. A Negro Is charged with raping a Negro girl and a grand jury may not even indict him. Tins attitude in a system of justice directed and dominated by white men. is dangerous to both races. It denies good col ored people adequate protec tion against the criminals a • mnns them. And it is folly for white people to suppose that a Negro criminal who will break IT HAPPENED ill HEW YORK By GLADYS P. GRAHAM dark potentates INVADE NEW YORK Apparently as a prelude to the arrival of the Prime Min ister of Ghanr. dark potentates are being hailed in New Yorx for their stand on hr other hoed and democracy. Philippine President Charles P. Garcia was greeted by some 200.000 here. Dr. Ralph John son Bunchs, V. N. undersecre tary for special political affairs and Gen, Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine ambassador to the United States welcomed the distinguished visitor at, U. N. headquarters. Premier Sardar Mohammed Daud Knan of Afghanistan ar rived for a two weeks visit of America on invitation of Presi dent Eisenhower. ANP GRABS AWARDD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE Rev. Dempster, assistant, pas tor, Abyssinian Eaptist churcu, informed this writer in an un official conference, that the As sociated Negro Press, headed by the globally-k no w n chief, Claude A. Barnett, was among recipients to receive an award for unstinted public service and contribution made by on the-spot reporters to integra tion and brotherhood, via ob jective and unbiased gathering of the news A, Phillip Randolph, pres ident. Internationa] Broth erhood of Sleeping Car por ters and Roy Wilkins. NA ACP executive secretary, were tnum on their discus sion with President Eisen hower at the meeting of tators. must realize that their lime is paid for in advance, and that no man living in this world can count himself a freelance. 6. “For Jesus paid it alt’’, and before Him, all men roust ap pear; and to be in harmony with Him, man must not allow Satan to come near. 7 In fact, one must “SIGN OFF" with him, if the price for sin, he would not forefeit, and eternal life hope to win: for truly as time draws near to re port, it will no doubt seem all to short. 3 Saint Paul, “SIGNED OFF" with Satan and turned to God, but not until knocked down with the chastening rod; but while this proved very fine as a forced measure, why can't, men willingly give their hearts to God and enjoy eternally Hea ven’s rich treasure? 9. Peter too. “SIGNED OFF'* when he saw he could not. feel the damsel by getting rough; the law In terms of capita! crime against his own race will not menace white people, too, Tiro South has often been charged with undue severity toward Negroes charged with crimes against white people. It is most culpable in the len ience toward Negroes guilty of cringes against Negroes which are too often treated as trivial. Killers and rapists menace ev erybody and any color line In justice which protects them en dangers innocent white and colored people together. —NEWS AND OBSERVES UNION COOPERATION Worthy of note, at a time when lagging company profits Negro leaders at the White Ileus*. It was agreed that they were at the right spot at the right time with per fect timing during unpre cedented end unexpected happenings in the Little Rock picture. Wiltwyck School for Bo;;, which made history with r.he interest taken in the young— ters by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, will soon be in a new home. Purchases of the 49-acre estate of tire late Franklin Q, Brown at Dobbs Ferry has been made ELMER CARTER LAUDS ROLE OF FEPC Elmer A. Carter, the first commissioner appointed to the New York State Commission Against discrimination, recent ly returned home from the Freedom celebration of tm birth of the. Caribbean federa tion, was heard at the Catho lic Inter-racial council. The pioneer in the field of human and civil rights, who recently addressed the Governor's Con ference on Civil Rights held at Boston law school, lauded the role of SCAD in the growth of fair employment legislation. IN OUR MAIL BAG Brilliant pianist Dr. George Walker has informed this wr; - ter that the John Hay Whitney foundation has awarded him a grant to write a symphony for full orchestra. Tire artist study ing in Paris on a Fulbrtght fel lowship under the Foundation des Estats-Unis, was heard din - ing the Festival of Two World in Spoleto, Italy, with the Am erican violinist, Michael Tree. some men even think they can get, around God. by acting smart and talking loud. 10. But none knew better that this does not work, than that crowd of Baal worshippers at Mt. Carmel, whose yelling .and railing finally proved a huge joke; and not until they “SIGN ED OFF” with their false gods, did they enjoy the rich bene fits of the Lord of Lords. 11. Ah, my friends this is the case of many individuals today, who accept Satan’s charming script for pay, which is abso lutely worthless at the time to cash In. . . and if you are on his dotted line, you just can’t win 12. Why not “SIGN OFF" with him and “SIGN UP” with God. steering, clear of all dang er and terrifying fraud; “Then what a friend you will have in Jesus, . . ,all your sins and griefs to bear. . all because you can carry everything to Him, m prayer,” are causing the lay-oil of mar.' workers, is a proposal made by the executive committee of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local in Monsanto, 111. The union offered to take a 10-cent-an-hour cut in pro duction bonus to help keep the plant operating. The American Zinc Co. plant had laid off a bout 125 workers. Costs still were too high so the company announced the remaining 225 workers would be laid off and the plant would be shut down temporarily. Then came the union offer to take a cut in pay and the shut-down plans were cancelled. By union cooperation, the jobs of at least 225 member. were saved. Most will he mak ing about $4 a week lost-, but at least they will be getting paycheck and the company will be keeping its production lines going. —'TIMES-PIC'AYUNE THESE CHILDREN STATE RESPONSIBILITY However one may defend the state law which discriminates against illegitimate children on the welfare rolls, the hard point of fact is that hundreds oi' youngsters lack life's neces sities d.e a result of it. Under 1954 law strengthen ed in 1956 scores of children, white and Negro, were stricken from state welfare. They were deprived of state aid not for their Illegitimacy alone. Many “legiti! mates" were taken off the rolls because their home* were '‘unsuitable" for other reasons. The plight of these young sters brings distressing tint to a recent report of the Missis sippi Children's Code Commis sion ceiled, appropriately “What About These Children?'' Indeed, what about them? “By all accepted rules and theories on child development-," the report says, “there are cer tain basic needs which apply to every child. These include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, when necessary, and the right to paternal love. •‘There should also be a feel ing of being wanted to give se curity to parental care. These basic material needs cost mon ey and a serious deprivation of money can bring many tensions that warp parental attitudes which are Indeed reflected in the development of children “The child has a right to the love, care and protection of both parents, for each has an Important role to play in the ijtsfoldlr," life of the child.** BY MARCUS a BOULWARE IS ST TRUE? IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT' MISSISSIPPI?— lu a supplementary articie »of a well-known encyclopedia, the edition begins a description ot Mississippi as follows: “For many years Mlssiss'ppt has been known as the poorest late In the union.’' Whe i 1 showed It to Corny aid he wanted to know why was it necessary for the encyclopedia to place the immediate empha sis upon Mississippi's poverty? I couldn’t give him an an swer, but we have learned that & lot of Mississippisna reset it. Cornyard said. “It looks ke these Mississippians ough to have enough gumption t > onretliing about it-'* Tire striking thing shout the encyclopedia’s description ot Mississippi is that It paid other states compliments for ot.e thing or another. And so we wonder why it wanted to pick on “Ole Miss”. Cornyard next waxed elo quent saying; “But ia it comfort they /ant - or the truth 9 Why kid them selves? Mississippi’s trouble is ladder sores—sores formed by sitting too long on that Y ittcm rung. "What, she needs : sou’ - searching. If she will cto this she may become bored with her situation—tired of sitting on the bottom rung of the lad der, so tired that she ill move up and let some other state sit there for a whil SPEED BALL EDDIE, eu route from Froggie Bottom to the West Coast, dro. ped in on “me” and Cornyard. You shudda have “seen' , how tn ■ in-service teachers were look ing when Speed tall Eddie grabbed my mito—“glad to see. you, DOC, ye dammed ole ras cal you.” Such remarks by Speed Bali Eddie made me awe. t and turn red. Somehow I got him to tone down his language. Speed Ball’.', charm gathered a crowd around him that night and the subject drifted to “why his wife didn’t understand him.’ “My wife expects a man to react with the same romantic and sensitive feeling of a wo man in love,” barked Eddie. I said, “Eddie, do you really believe that men are so differ ent from women in their ieel ings about love?” Before he could answer, Doc tor Bogg, an old timer, answer ed, “Yes, but women keep hop ing to meet a man who will be imaginative and know how to keep love alove. instead of treating marriage as a com fortable convenience.” Then Eddie got ir. his an- Cordon B. Hancock s MASSIVE RESISTANCE FOB. ASSISTANCE? The United States of Americs is a great and mighty nation. Its ideals and opportunities have merited—and won the admir ation of mankind. A case in point will suffice. A tew years ago, George VI king of Great Britain, visited this country with Ids queen. Elizabeth, while Franklin De lano Roosevelt was in the 'White House Thousands turned out to greet the royal couple in a mammoth parade along Penn sylvania avenue. It was an im posing procession that swung along this historic route with plenitudes of sound and splen dor That night, there was a groat reception o r stale, with glitter and glamour. Among those in vited and present were Con gressman Arthur W Mitchell and wife, he. Mitche'U being the only Negro in the Congress at that time During the reception, King Georeg made it his busi ness to encounter Congressman Mitchell and asked him what he represented, and upon being told that he. Congressman Mitchell, was a representative from Chi cago sind Illinois, King George made the remark that nowhere else in the world was such phe nomenal rise possible. lit*, rtf enure*, had in mind that in less than 100 year* the Negro race had emerged from slavery and had « representa tive in the Congress of the Unit ed States. The rise of Arthur Mitchell, and more recently three other Negroes, to Con gress, drives home the stern and solemn conviction, that ours is a great nation. The fact that, white men enslaved Negroes and that white men died to make them free, speaks volumes for the greatness of the nation. Then there is the glittering example of Bookei T. Washing ion, making the long journey from idnve-cshin to the Hal! of Fame, Negroes, often discour aged and dis-illusioned. are at times tempted to overlook the In the children the commis sion surveyed, according to the report, “most of < these) requi sites are partially or totally lacking . . Their plight, art way, falls at the feet of the legislature. On grounds that the aid to de pendent children program en couraged Illegitimacy, desertion and unwillingness of a mother to work, the legislature snap ped the meager branch of funds which held these youngsters Yet there’s no evidence that its action made marked in - provement in parental moral There Is evidence that many children have suffered.—R W, STATE TIMES, Jackson, Miss. ‘ swer. "Doc,” he said. "we men seem to share a certain com mon denominator. For myself. I dLisfitce rehashing the pasi Emphatically, I shrink from opening up new wounds. A man will use any avenue of escape or not show up at all rather than discuss what he did, what he said, and why he broke your heart. A real man prefers nor to analyze feelings or emo tions." Interrupting a moment, Doc tor Bogg remarked, "Ardent ro mantic, and intensive while wooing, the male is usually as- * founded to discover that h:s wife continues to long for re assurance that he still carts. A man's own reactions are less complicated.” Doctor Bogg has something there "don’t you think sd? ladies?” It is usually not hard to hold a husband if the wife keeps his mind on himself, let ting him expand, express opin ions, and relax with her, “By al means, sho must not nag,” said Corn, yard, who has hod experience with numerous girl friends. YOU LAUGHED WHEN I said I was con ing to Missis sippi to teach, and I was as hamed to tell you too. I’ve learned that Ole Missis sippi is a-coming. Yea, burst ing up -Up-Up. The white folks a’e getting ready to dump the greenbacks into the Alcorn A, and M. College by the carloads. A gigantic building program is on the way, and there will spring up a new' library, student, union building,, gymnasium. * dormitory, science building, and what-have-you. All of the pres ent buildings will be renovated ■ -and this program is now un derway. The college is now shopping for professors with doctorates ;uid has the money to outbid and pay more than most of the leading state institutions in the “more civilized states” of the South. No, no—l wont succumb to these flattering considerations, because Cornyard is seeing to that. ‘DOC,” says Cornyard. "I promised to return you safe-.? to the Tar Heel State. Remem ber the Emmett Til! Case—re member the undertaker who met with disaster remember the newspaper editor who wa committed to the state mental hospital—and you must never forget what they recently die to the Reverend Clennon Kin ~ a former professor of Alcon A and M Colltge.” 1 Sure, Cornyard, I rememo .;i them well. I'll be at your sic’ tfl when you return to Raleigh m 1 August. f greatness of the nation in the dismay of the. hour. But in their sober moments, Negroes appre ciate this country and its op portunities; and it is a matter of history that this appreciation has often been tangibly express ed m sweat and tears and blood When, therefore, there arises a movement o£ “massive resis tance', which has for its end the defiance and thwarting of the laws of the land, Negroes like all patriots, are deeply con cerned with the outcome. Know ing as we do that the massive resistance stems from race pre judice and its, at times, vicious concomitants, it becomes more and more obvious that, the stab at the law of the land is s slab st the heart cf the nation and “ its future. Recent months have seen the Supreme court disparaged and dotted and abused, with the re sult that our prestige is being lowered in the uttermost of the earth. It is becoming more and more apparent that. qt* country is jeopardized by, tfsis continued disparagement and de fiance of our highest, tribunal of justice. Nnd we may as we!) face the ugly fact now. as later, that unless some way can be found to counter this massive resis tance movement, it means that , P only a matter of time before his county will be handed ovti to communism, as it were, on » platter. Kruschshev need only Kit. tight and the massive regis ters will so divide and weaken our country that the commun ists taking over will be merely a formality.. What, we are calling massive resistance end its ways and means of operation. Our boast ed w alth and might mean little, w, when we are hoiaelessiy divid ed among ourselves. Those ni power had better drive home, the threatening fact the sooner we prepare ourselves to property evaluate the mas sive resistance movement and its devotees. Ir, these critical times a nation cannot stand, so much division. It is n.Rb time that this country is wak ing up o the fact that we are not preoared to cope with commun ism if we are going to be di vided by massive resistance and its ways and means of opera tion. Our boasted wealth and might mean little, when we are hopelessly divided among our selves. Those in power had better drive home the threatening fact that massive resistance is another method of massive as sistance to our enemy. Our ene my must be called indeed if he cannot take comfort from the massive resistance movement currently sweeping the deer# south V Massive resistance is masSive 1 “SSBftanc# —to the cnetnyi
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