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RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER It, IMS
Editorial Viewpoint
Mock of us have read the Bible Illustration ot
hnu —out devils. Bees In modem dress,
vs recognise these evil spirits and devils as those
Jesus oommanded to come forth when the sick
man was brought to him.
We can learn a great lesson from this story.
Whenever an Individual sees that his unhappi
ness. his deforming attitudes, his ugly and for
The Greensboro Undertaker
r TCe ease el Nathaniel Hargett Sr, Greens
boro undertaker, is a matter ot record. He has
been found gnilty and sentenced by the court
to a three to ten-year period in prison.
Ms trouble started when investigation re
vealed a gaping hole on a farm said to ba
owned by Mm, and an automobile partially
In the hole- -a vehicle that had been reported
stolen by the man’s eon. Nathaniel, Jr.
The investigations revested that the bodies
of several babies had been buried in this make
shift cemetery. Many bodies were said to have
been put in one box and placed in the ground,
when they were to have been given decent
burials in individual caskets.
First Negro Episcopal Bishop
The Venerable John M. Burgees, archdeacon
el the Boaton Archdeaconry of the Maaeachu
aetta Epiacopal Docese, recently became the
flrat Negro in the United Statca to be conae
aratad an Epiacopal Biahop.
Thia promotion waa a victory over the evil*
es segregation. The Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, re
tired bishop of the Diocese of Washington, in
his consecration sermon recogniied thia fact
and-hailed the election of the new bishop as a
“conspicuous token-victory in our long, weary
battle against those ugly things we call 'preju
dies and segregtion.*"
Can We Have A Drinkless Christmas?
With the Christinas holidays just around the
earner and the Christmas spirit in tha air, we
adder just hem many of us ever etop to think
ntrt this day stands for. Since It is the day our
Saviour waa bora, wa should consider it to be
th# most sacred day of the year, and we should
all find our way to the house of the Lord.
Jted to say, however, many will celebrate
CMetinaa with their brains soaked in alcohol.
We cannot be too critical of the person who
drowue out his problems with whiskey, because
' he may be mentally rick and need understand
ing and professional treatment Yet one of the
graatsst stumbling-blocks to cure for alchol
ies "is the stigma attached to alcoholism as the
drinker's own fault and that the public must
~ some to fed that it is no disgrace to become an
alchoHc."
We would Ike to appeal to persons who
. must drink, to please stay off the highway at
' Christmas. One should, before taking a drink
and climbing behind the wheel of his ear, think
Negroes And Golf Course Policies
Negroes have won a number of victories in
their attempt to be accorded the privilege of
playing on municipal golf courses without seg
regation and discrimination.
In Birmingham recently, according to re
ports. the park board deadlocked on whether
to permit leasing of one or more of Birming
ham’s golf courses to privately-organised
groups. In many cities, golf courses have been
desegregated by the court. As a result, they
lie unused and long have been so.
By now dties should know they would have
to lease their golf courses under an arrange
ment which would allow Negroes to use them.
Desegregated New Orleans Quiet
■ Once the battleground of strong segregation
resistance in the schools. New Orleans, which
began its desegregation experiment a little
more than three months ago. found that this
task could be achieved without incident.
As a matter of fact, some 300 Negroes have
been admitted to attend 54 formerly all-white
Catholic and public schools.
' There is. however an irony about the whole
. dotation: while, at the same time, public dent-
Migration by irate, sign-carrying parents have
ended. Attendance is slightly down at a num
the desegrated schools. Our Lady of
- ftff Harbour Catholic School in Burns—SO
tans south of New Orleans opens its doers
every morning, but no pupils have drawn up
dbee mid-September. Most of the white stu
* digls In the area of the Catholic school have
transferred to nearby public schools.
A few Negroes are reported to have dropped
. out of St Joeeph the Worker School in New
Orleans in the New Orleans suburb of Merrero.
sflte. Inst public school attendance figures,
lifeteher 23. indicated that attendance had
jO&id by 423 pupils out of more than 10.000
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‘mr, apnp tear raeW and national anfagonisins whan H accords so ovary near
ZXmßti+m of iaoa. eater or cread Ms human Mid Jltfaf nghes Nabng no man
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WORDS OF WORSHIP
bidding moods «e but evil forces which have
taken possession at his mind and performs that
greatest at all miracles, which Is to east them
forth aa the source ot the debasement, ha becomes
whale. No man can achieve mental health whose
life Is constricted and abnormalized by malevolent
phantoms In control of his Inner nature. No man
can keep his mind vigorous and strong of pur
pose until he refuses to defile it.
The convicted man pleaded Innocent and
Mid it wee “all a misunderstanding;** he gave
Immediate notice that ha would appeal the
sentence and was released on appeal bend.
Whether or not ha is found guilty or inno
cent by a higher court, the fact remains that
the publicity of this ease will do hia business
an irreparable harm. People expect a business
man to have integrity, and stay out the throes
of the lew; and patronise him because of his
knowledge of right and wrong, adhering to the
former with all his might and mane.
A man will never be sorry for practicing
those things that never cause the law to prod
his business before the public courts.
Following the consecration sermon, In sim
ple but centuries-old rites the new bishop, S 3,
wss elevated to suffragan bishop of Massachu
setts. The ceremonies marked the end, for the
time being at least, for a man who began his
ministry in 1934 in the state of Michigan.
The Episcopal Church in the United States
should be commended for making this forth
right step by promoting one who had exemp
lified the required qualities of leadership de
manded of a candidate for the bishopric. May
Ood’s blessings shine upon the efforts of tha
new bishhop and make him humble in spirit,
fervent in attitude, always serving the Lord.
of Ms wife and children and think how hard it
would be for him to go down to tha funeral
parlor and claim their bodies.
It may be that the drinker will not be able
to ait around the fireside and talk and enjoy
the Christmas holidays with his loved ones,
all because he stopped somewhere to take that
first drink. Mothers and fathers, boys and girls
don’t take that first drink. Let us try and make
this Christmas a happy one, and may we help
to make our highways safer by not taking that
first drink.
Most people, however, at Christmas time
stock up on ingredients for highballs and the
like. They want to be sociable when their
friends come around to visit them; however,
not all people can control their thirst and thus
they drink too much and lose control of them
selves.
Surely most people can refrain from drink
ing for one day. Drinking on Christmas if sac
religioue and a symbol by which we “take the
name of the Lord in vain.”
If thia were not true, why would the federal
court bar such leasing?
The answer to an the trouble over golf cours
es and their use would be to make them read
ily available to everybody without restriction
as to race. If cites but only knew it very few
Negroes would use these courses with regular
ity.
Sooner or later these closed courses win be
reopened. Decades later, we win wonder why
it took so long for so many people to teach a
conclusion as to the obvious.
Cititens can learn to play without trouble
if they absolutely want to do it
at 30 deaegregated public schools and Oentifly
Terrace School where the only Negro register
ed failed to appear.
Three grades in public schools are desegre
gated this year, one completely and the other
two on a token basis. The sth United States
Circuit Court of Appeals has directed the
school board to eliminate bi racial school dis
tricts in two grades next year and completely
deaegrate five grades by the following year.
Although all it quiet on the school front we
note considerable resistance to the court aider
Djr (iiftni of wunarawiv nrun CTmin tcnoois.
While not resisting overtly, parents are not
cooperating cither.
In the case of the one Catholic school that
is opening each morning to an absent house,
we wUI see It win in the sad. The absent pupils
wiO raaßte that a good reUgious education ia
a priceless heritage; then they will return to re
sume thdr education and studies.
The Catholic educational leaders with the
support of their bishops should be commended
for taking a strong stand on a question of the
right of the individual to personal dignity In
the acqutotton of a good education.
A
Just For Fan
ST MARCHE B. BOULWABS
WORLDS AND WORLDS
A rIVDCB oivtr on pruuciM
▼wivf wwim on um so yean,
able to live entirely under wa
ter. Not only this, but he psw
dieted the appearance of new
undernations, entirely cut off
from land-dwellers, with their
own governments and parlta
monts.
With natiens already occupy
ing the earth’s land anas sHB
unable to live in peace and har
mony. the poariMUty of saw
underwater civilization holds a
frightening threat final de
struction of the human race
could come in the dash of the
land aad underwater civiliza
tion*. sack convinced of Its du
ty to impose Ms way of life on
the ether.
.ANCWOR MAN
At track nuts, we often tam
es the “anchor man* in relay
Eve.
“Tea," mM tha personnel man
ager to gw Job apptteant What
we’re after Is a man es etstent
Are; a awn who can pull our
bowling tom out of teat place*
(Mr. Cornyard. would you ha
that aunt)
THE SHOTTED
A story goes that a well
dressed woman hurried Into a
supermarket picking up a can at
rat food and Immediately ap
proached the checkout counter
with her single purchase.
Placing it on the counter, oba
turned to the woman who would
Other Editors Say
BIBOS OP A FKATHEB
Negro Republicans can take
litUa cumiur* m toe victories
won bp tbeur party in toe Deep
South no manor now much
OoF spokmnen map about
these triumpos portend
tbs growtn ot a two party sys
tem in that abtmnn of the
country., .
Th* Republican victories
Won wort bp candidates. who
premised to outdo their Demo
cratic rivals in support of ra
cial segregation. Tilings were
so bhd that hiahama Negroes
fbund themselves forced to veto
for Senator Listel Hill in pre
ference to the Republican who
attacked Hill as soft on segre
gation! Incidentally. Negro
voters saved the dap for HOL
In every ease. Republican
nominees ware former Demo
crats who Justified their rafts
trstlon as Republican on tha
grounds that tha Democratic
party had become tha party of
Integration.
Tha chief spokesman for the
Republicans who want to make
an all out Md for southern sup
port' la Senator Barry Gold
water of Arisons. Ha baa said
Urns and again that ha favors
a constitutional amendment
that would permit the states to
eethbUNi segregated schools If
they wish to do so.
RepubUmn successes In win
ning eongrearional seats and
near aueewu In contests for
aeenetorlal seats are bound to
encourage continued GOP bids
to far right aagregattontot sen
timent tn the South. It Is fair
ly certain the Republican party
that will emerge In the South
wm be more strongly segrega
tionist than Its Democratic riv
al. in fact. It may fores the
Democratic party to shift
ground a little and drop some
of Its racist character in tha
larger cities.
In any event, a Negro voter
who must make a choice be
tween a Democrat and a Re
publican hi the South theee
days la certain to get a bad
bargain with very few excep
tions and most of those excep
tions are Dwnocrats.
—CADET EAOLE
TROUBLE Df SOUTH AFRICA
Editorial Opinions
Hera are excerpts from edi
torials compiled by Associated
Nogro Proas appearing to some
of the nations leading dally
newspapers on subject* of cur
rent internet to our ran dorr
OU MHg
TH» TENNEBSSEAN. Nashville
“The fun impact of the dam
age Mississippi Gov. Host Bar
rett has done to higher educa
tion in his stats by his action to
the integration crisis at Oxford
has new boon realised. “
“The Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, meeting
to Dalles Wednesday, put the
state's colleges and universities
under strict probation with a
sharp warning that accreditation
could he lifted at any time.
“Thus the state's schools are
put to a precarious position. Any
irresponsible action by a racist
group or s thoughtless state of
ficial could bring disaecredtta
tion and the devaluation of cer
tificates of thousands of stu
dents. It is a heavy burden to
bear because es the eenselese
<ue—« of tow and order by a
governor seeking to advance hie
own political career."
TUB Tom New Tech City
“The Southern Association of
MtosMppft state collates and
unis srtitles an probation, with
a warning that accreditation
may be lifted at any time
“Thto strong statement Is
plainly the remit es toe “Ole
totifiptaodo
jrS£Jr,towtoara wkjestara
vents at Otiiti. hi this state
went there Is a reaffirmation of
the prinetpie es academic inde
pendence. Thera to e direct re
dMtevat retaUattan. to toe
•Nrahara es hate and vtoianee.-
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have bean next and said casoad
ly, *1 hope you won’t mind my.
pushing like this. It’s rather ur
gent'
’Wot at aB." replied the aSmr.
■ you look hungry."
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a)
A Humane Society worker far
Miami. Ha., readied into a
drainpipe today to rasuee a kit
ten. hut pulled out a frog that
let out a loud and plain “meow*
“Sounds more Ilka a eat dean”
said the surprised worker.
-It’s Just Sbeut normal Deg
size and color, looks like any or
dinary frog.” said an official at
the office of the Society where
the frog was token; but K kept
meowing.
Every time the frog was pick
ed up it meowed Hke a eat No
one ever beard anything Uka
that
Dr. W. Henry LsMk ad Me
thtiversHy efMtaml SoategyDa
**“Pmgs have characteristically
different asundn fust aa birds
have different sauad” ba arid,
and added fhattagi probably
fen h hunt of people. ****
some “nr
Saw feet Christmas D m Mi
way bam wouldn’t ft bo Just
Mend if dm liquor Industry re
frained tarn displaying pi outre*
es Jolly old Santa Claus dtapane
tag boose to tha people;
U Shopping expeditions wore
conducted with soma grace and
courtesy, rather than displaying
the single-minded ferocity of tha
Groan Bey fectarf backfteld ta
Negro participants In tha na
tion’s non-violent Integration
movement need only to reflect
a moment on tha prevailing ra
cial problems fading of
South Africans to understand
the went need for positive
measures to cmk inhu
man practices.
Realising tha gravity of whits
sunnaiacT racial policies in
South Africa, the United Na
tions voted Nov. e in favor of a
34-power Afro-Astan resolution
asking member states to break
diplomat* relations with 8.
Africa racial policies are
The United Nations aim re
quested tha Security Council—
whloh alone can order punitive
ttonT’and expulsion
Africa.
Tha rituatton tn which Afri
cans and colored people, in
general, find thamsetvee la one
remlnlaeant of practices Insti
tuted by slaveholders in 13th
century America. It contains
important elements of slavery
and forced labor. „
In many African provinces,
workers are given dog-taga af
ter bring signed up tor work on
farms and tha mines, which 1-
denrifles them to their masters
before they ate shipped off In
cattle-can. Furthermore. Afri
can wettari are subjected to
various forma of constraint
Most tenures In the perform
ansa of work and minor tnfrae
ttono of labor discipline era
-ww**— 1 •* under the existing
legislation aa criminal offens
es: failure to eommenoe service
ait the stipulated Urns, unauth
orised abeanca. Intoxication
during work hours, failure to
perform, or negligent perform
ones es aa assigned teak. “ de
sertion" or breaking of con
trast (which an usually worth
less or completely distorted
copies of the original) before
Ns aspiration, ate. According
to recognised International
standards, work under sueh eo
ervkm la foroed labor.
Alao on tha job promotion la
barred. ta certain eases, by leg
al provisions la mining regula
—OHlO SBNIINHL
HOB AMERICAN. Chicago
“The statements tisow that
•saw pradmsars criticised the
untmsltj administration,
three tend to flunk students who
took part to the rioting, and re
ferred to Barnett as “an aas“ or
"a dictator.” Bastland left no
dotibt about what ha intends to
do with this pitiful oAUaetion—
Sara
greed that they're "un-Amort-
Gflii “MtaFxts***
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Federal Action Against Job -
Discrimination Needed, Mr. President
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Focus On Africa |
BY EDDIE L. MADISON. JR- for ANP _ ;
LOUISIANA SENATOR’S PRO-SEGREGATION
IST REMARKS IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA
DRAW PROTESTS FROM AFRICAN LEADERS;
BANNED IN UGANDA
BT EDDIE L. MADISON. JR.
Far Tha Associated Negro Frees
CHICAGO (ANP) As expected, Louisiana
Senator Allen J. Ellender's pro-segregationist re
marks In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, have
backfired on him.
While It wasn’t reported whether Ellender
had Intended to visit Uganda, that newly-tnde
pendent African country barred the southern
Democrat who la touring the continent The U
ganda government called him a “prejudiced seg
regationist” and declared him a “prohibited Im
migrant” Joining the protest waa Tanganyika
Uganda’s neighbor In East Africa.
Tre action followed statements by TOendsr
that he had not seen any section of Africa where
Africans are “reedy for self-government” He told
the press in Salisbury, capital of the white-con
trolled Central African Federation, that “the
average African is incapable of leadership with
out the help of Europeans” adding that he had not
seen anywhere on the continent where Africans
had made “the least bit of program on their own.”
Ellender, an outspoken opponent of racial In
tegration In tha United States, praised South Af
rica's strict racial segregation policies and called
new African nations a collection of “sad spec
tacles.” He praised the present Rhodesian fed
eration. which nationalist Africans bitterly op-
POO6.
His attack seemed to fall in line with the
policies of Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister of
the federation, who has opposed Immediate In
dependence for Africans.
Earlier, In Lusaka. Northern Rhodeela. na
tionalist African leaders accused Ellender of fan
ning racial hatred and upsetting African-U. S.
relations during his tour. The senator’s remarks
supporting the federation united for the preeent
the rival African political parties in Northern
Rhodesia.
John Banda, an African National Congress
leader, said Ellender was “fanning the embers of
racial hatred" between whites, Asians and Afri
cans in the federation.
Reuben Kamanga. United National Indepen
dence party vice president, said. “We taka a seri
Gordon B. Hancock
BETWEEN THE LINES
RESENTMENT. OPFOBTUNITY.
PEBPOBMANCE
The Negro speaker before Negro audtoneea
has a great responsibility and a great opportun
ity. It to good for each speakers to remember that
while there are certain things the audience wants
to hear, there are oertaln other things It needs
to hear!
Every Negro audience wants to hear descrip
tions and Instances of the white man's short
coming—and Heaven knows they are many. The
Negro speaker who dwells on the multitudes of
the Injustices and Inhumanities of the white man
toward the Negro to bound to gat rounds and
rounds o t applause; and nothing to mors pleasing
that a ti>eaksr who to adept In thla matter.
This type of has rendered the race a
great service, in that he has made the Negro eon
sicious of hto sub-dtiaenshlp: and what to equally
Important, be has created within the Negro race
a general reamtment toward all awn and move
ments designed to enteraaUie this sub-etttosn
ship, and this to aa It should be.
But It has come about that the avenge Ne
gro audience does not think Itself proparty ad
dressed unless such is the whole fare tor ths oo
whlte and*cotored thla writer baa fend hi the
Negro colleges and lnaatiaable appetite fer the
mooches that too generally and tavarlafety play
up the darker side of the picture, white the white
audtenoea want to hear the bright side.
Wa are not making the desired prognaa ntH
fltopmtowsnt la hear^UtoJrutiuJtoJMßllhtar
ara hutengfimara sSuhttw
ous view of Ellender’s utterances which are'com
pletely nonsensical. If American aid means op
pression. then we shall have none of it.”
Ellender. had denounced “free handouts” Qo
independent African nations and told Salisbury
newsmen the “United States Is broke." He said:
“We owe more money than we can ever hope ro
repay,” adding there would be no more “trie
handouts” to African states If be had his way fli
Washington.
Meanwhile, In Uganda, the government
spokesman who announced the ban on the sen
ator, said: “Ellender could see one part of Africa
where the African la ready for self-government
but we don’t want this pejudioed segegationlst
type In Uganda.” Ellender now bears the distinc
tion at being the first person to be declared a
prohibited Immigrant since Uganda became id
dependant Octdber 3. Tanganyika observed her
flrat anniversary of independence December 9 *
Ellender. who has previously attacked the ad
mission of the new African countries to the United
Nations, said his views expressed in Southern
Rhodesia were private not official. He is In Af
rica as a member of the U. & Senate appropria
tions committee, looking into foreign aid expendi
tures.
While In Salisbury, tn reply to questions from
an African reporter. Ellender said: “If you can
get somebody to stay with you for about 50 years,
you might be able to take over, but you won't be
able to do It overnight.” He blasted African na
tionalism, saying he had visited every country pi
Africa and there was not a single one of them
capable of governing Itself. He said the Congo is
the saddest example of all the African states and
called it a cemetery.
Though Ellender's remarks were known Co
conflict with official U. S. policy In Africa, thqy
were expected to draw additional criticism from
African leaden around the world.
On the subject of UN for the new countries,
Ellender. in August, said he regards it as “un
conscionable for the leaders of a country to cry for
lndependene and then In the next breath demand
economic aid for Its survival.” In a talk for broad
oast In Louisiana, he said few of these countries
are able or prepared to care for themselves $r
their people and “what preparation has been done
.. . has been done by the so-called colonial pow
ers the liberals take so much pleasure in malign
ing."
cannot and do not go to college is somebody's very
important and pressing business. This country It
being flooded with refugee Immigrants who art
competitors with the struggling Negroes on the
lower economic level*. Negroes should be alerted
to the pressing need of sticking with their jobs.
There Is an Immigrant right around the comer
waiting to take over whatever job the Negro Is not
performing efficiently.
There are millions and millions of Negroes
who will never sea Inside of a college and
are other millions of Negroes who will not finltli
high school. What about opportunities for then-
Negroes, or should we say. lack of opportunities
for many?
Bo it is not enough fer the average Negro ora
tor to stir resentment for our promt lot We need
to atrem the great need for greater economic op
portunlttaa on the humbles levels of life.
This brings us to the subject of perform andr
AB own even the simplest, understand the lap
fuapv of performance. The Negro srho performs
at the top to an example to Negroes who mi&t
perform at the bottom of the ladder. Performance
counts and In the long run only performance
The Negro athlete hat brought fame add
honor to the Negro race by hto sterling perform
ance on the gridiron, the baseball diamond, the
ho tee tbsll court and on the cinder path*. And* I
might add ths squared circle. .
The ride of the nee has been boosted add
the paasfemttas of the race illustrated. But it
nssds to be brought home to the Negroes on tie
htesMsrtaauli that the same type of performance
to theaterJiope ft*JlheWegre mam*.
liragra with StmttJSawt?
Negro. Resentment, opportunity, pad-