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4 THE CAROLINIAN R,LEIGH, N. C,' SATURDAY, JANUARY tl. IM4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP It was, however. In hi* conflict with convention which led to the crucifixion, that the life of Jeaus most fully describes the spiritual journey of every seeking heart. There Is no matured adjustment of life without a Calvary. There is no way to grow spiritually save to break the restriction.-, of en vironment. There is no way to develop that will Mrs. Mallory Faces Grave Charge Mrs. Willie Mallory, mother of two children and former resident of Monroe, N. C., was re cently extradited from Cleveland, Ohio, to face charges in the February term of court in Monroe. And we must hasten to add she faces a grave charge which could bring her a life sen tence in prison if found guilty. Similar charges of kidnapping have been filed against four other individuals, including Robert F. Williams, former Monroe NAACP president, who is in asylum in Cuba, and John Lowry, 20, a white freedom rider from New York. Mrs. Mallory and the other four have been charged with kidnapping a white couple. Ac cording to the version of the Negroes at the time of the incident, the Negro community expected an invasion by the Ku Klux Klan.- Negroes fyom the surrounding farm country began arriving in the colored section to take refuge from KKK nightriders who, it was rum ored, would soon be raiding the county. At this point a white couple drove down the main street of the Negro section until halted by the press of the people in the street. Alarm ed by the excited crowd, the white people took Cancer Threat And Silly Laws Now that the official report of the United States Surgeon General regarding the threat of cancer to the health of the nation has been made, we hope that cities, states, and the Fed eral governments will not- rush into the act of ( passing ill-advised silly, stupid laws, in an effort to reduce smoking. To illustrate what we have in mind, let us look at what Eastland, Texas, a town of 3,362 near Fort Worth, has done. The town official body has passed an ordinance prohibiting sale and use of cigarettes within the municipal * r ‘ n LifcMieite smoker until the U. S. report, admits that the pro vision of SI,OOO fine or three years imprison ment isn’t likely to be enforced, but explains that the City Council made the penalties severe to show people its action is “serious.” We hope no other city in this country will be persuaded to pass a similar ordinance. The new Eastland ordinance makes us ask several questions. Why should the ordinance be aimed at. cigarettes without including pipes and cigars? Does the city think the new ordi nance will people stop smoking? Cer tainly not. Even if Eastland officials set out in earnest to enforce this law, they cannot successfully enforce it One has only to recall the passage of the lSth Amendment to the United States Constitution which forbade the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating bever ages. The Federal government tried to enforce 4 Average Negro Isn’t Satisfied Too often white people who are not very well informed about the Negro are quick to say that Negroes are satisfied with things the way they are; and we wouldn't have any trouble in the South if the Northern outsiders would at tend to their business and not meddle. These whites are forgetting that the Negro is maturing, getting a better education, read ing more books and newspapers, and so or,. The Negro wants first-class citizenship, and he does not need the assistance of Communists to make him aware of this. We are still optimistic about race relations in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the United States. Much improvement has occurred in the last 30 or 40 years. But we are confronted with the question: Is the average Negro satisfied with conditions as a whole? Our opinion is that the Negro is not satisfied Rental Properties Challenge Numerous New York City Negro tenant! are striking against the deplorable conditions of the apartments in which they live because the landlords refuse to make the urgently needed repairs. Recently, Civil Court Judge G. Moritt held that tenants can live rent free for aa, long pa landlords fail to correct housing evils that menace health and safety. Jeaae Gray, tenant strike leader, says that the movement hopes to involve 1.000 building* by the first of February. He urged all civil rights organ!** tlons to redouble their efforts along these lines and called for city receiver ship In alum areas. " New York City officiate, aa well aa the peo ple who have visited In NYC. reslize that im poverished Harlemites usually pay exorbitant prices to live in tame of the most fetid, run down tenements in Gotham. Landlords in New .York City an not die A TAB NBORO PRESS—baHevea that America can hasf lead the worUs nuA away from racial and national antagonism when it accords to e ery mat JK . t HIL regardless of raoa, co/or or creed, hie human and legal rights Hating no man fllkljAl fearing no man—the Negro Press strives to help every man on the firm be lief that all man are brat aa long aa anyone it held back. % not produce a conflict with the limitations of a decadent order. Only crystallized natures, who live In and accept the convention# of their day, are immune to strife and sorrow. And they will not grow. They do not live. They only exist. Suf fering is the sign of struggle, the pain of effort, the measure of unfoldment. refuge in the nearby home of Robert F. Wil liams. Two hours later when the excitement had abated, the white couple proceeded on their way reportedly unharmed. When Mrs. Mallory heard that she was charged with kidnapping, the escaped to Cleve land, Ohio, where she exhausted all-legal remedies in her 26-month battle against ex tradition. We don’t know the truth of the incident, and perhaps the forthcoming court trial will bring the facts into sharper focus. We do know, however, that this woman faces a grave charge; and the will need the beat legal coun sel she can get. We are confident that the NA ACP will come to her aid, but there is also something the Negro citizens of North Caro lina can do in her behalf. They can provide financial support to assist in paying the ex penses’of her defense. The circumstances growing out of the inci dent in Monroe over two years ago appear to be circumstantial; but strange as it may seem, circumstantial evidence is often stronger than factual and verbal testimony. this law, but failed utterly. This law made “Bootleggers” millionnaires overnight; and in spite of the risk, “corn likker” stills sprouted like mushrooms everywhere. People drank whiskey because they wanted to drink, and no body could stop them. Nobody, by law and otherwise, can stop people from smoking. Health officiate will render their greatest service by informing the public of smoking dangers. Cigarette manu facturers will rends treir greatest service by making their m ♦- Government official and busing found tobacco raising and cigarette manufact uring economically profitable. For example, druing the last fiscal year, cities in Florida re ceived nearly $25 million from state cigarette taxes. Other cities and states have reaped sim ilar if not greatest financial benefits. The pro hibition of the sales of cigarettes would rip a deep cut in our Federal income, and the North Carolina tobacco industry would suffer an economic collapse. The last point we want to emphasize about the new Eastland, Texas, ordinance against cigarette sales and use is the mockery of pass ing a law that a municipality does not expect to enforce. There is no need for a law, if it will not be enforced. The Eastland City Council may have been serious, or it may not. We hope that no other city or town will make such a dreadful mis stake. Certainly, there must be more effective ways of dealing with the smoking problem. yet, and he will never be satisfied until a Negro is represented on the city, county and recrea can sit on the Raleigh and Wake County school boards and the like. He will not be sat tion boards. He will not be satisfied until he isfied until his children who have been educat ed can work in the Capitol and other State of fices No, he is hot satisfied and it grieves him when he cannot find jobs other than teaching —although he is educated. These and many more unfair practices make the Negro fustrat ed. unhappy and disgusted. The average young Negro sees the picture more clearly than the older Negro. The young Negro sees himself aa a free person, a person who is entitled to all of the privileges that are available to the white race. We are still optimistic, however, concerning our freedom and job opportunities for our _ youth! only negligent ones, for right here in Raleigh and North Carolina, property owners are guil ty of flagrant violation in the area of human decency and dignity. We have seen house* al most fall down before the landlords repair them. Many times, city inspectors have had to condemn houses forcing the tenants to move. No tenant wants to live in a delapidated house, and most of them would move to better quarters if they had the money. Most every tenant wants electricity, running water, oil or gas heat, a bathroom with hot and cold water and sewerage. A tenant wants to live in a house that is attractively painted with cement walks to the doorsteps, a green lawn, and' space for flower beds. And certainly, no landlord has the right to deny them these comforts of life when they pay ample rent. » We hope that land owners, who are profess ed Christians, will search their conscience* if they have them. Just For Fan BY MARCO* R BOULWAJtg WARM WKATHKS This is Friday, January 17, and It is hot Ona can walk about in his shirt alcavas while the first of the week was so cold you could breath vapor that would freeze. This abrupt change in temperature la con clusive to colds—and then ona has to take Contact or Aspirins. It rained very early this morning, but at noon the sun is shining and it la hot (I just perused the Raleigh News and Ohaerver, and I read about the snow. I read about the little bey who was killed whan his sled rolled under a passing truck.) Last night I went to a Kappa Alpha M Fraternity meeting where we are making plans for our annual Wives and Sweet hearts Difiner. It poured down rain all during the meeting. WHAT; A badly frightened mother had searched the super market for her missing five year-old daughter. She finally located the child chatting friend ly with a group of nuns. “Gracious”, explained the mo In This Onr Day BY C. A. CHICK, SR. THE PAST GOOD, THX FUTURE BETTER According to all the financial news reports and summaries, such as the New York Timet, The Wall Street Journal, The Exchange, Forbes, Invetor's Reader, thta this writer has recently read or "thumbed through' 1 , our gross national product as well as the national income reached an all-time high for 1963. The same financial news sources Indicate that busi ness corporations paid larger dividends during 1963 than in any previous year. Moreover, the same financial news sources forecast or prophesies that our national economy will even do a better Job in 1964 than it did in 1963. In fact it would appear that the vast majority of the nation's economists is bullish re garding our economy for 1964. In other words, they see our economy growing tnd expand ing more and more and earning larger and larger profits. As a matter of fact, if one reads the financial history of the United States, it would be observed that the trend of our c.ui.u.ti/ ~mo ujfftiiiu. Ccr* ♦n«njv q'jj* has ita ups and downs but the ONLY IN AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF THE SOUTH Southern Republican* meet ing In Charleston, S. C„ had a lot to cheer about. Cheer they did. congratulating themselves on their gains in the November; 1963. elections. They cam* close in Mississip pi. of all plaoee. But does this mean we are about to enjoy a two-party system in the South? In Mississippi, the entire Democratic gubernatorial cam paign wae baaed on two themes: the first theme was that a strong Republl :an Party would split the conservative white vote and give the bal ance of power to the Negroes. The second theme was that Paul Johnson, as Lieutenant Governor (who won the elec tion). helped block temporarily the admission of James Mere dith to the University of Mis sissippi. The Democratic slogan was "Stand Tall with Paul." New for the Republican gain*. The Republican candi date in that race. Mr. Phillips, swore to the electorate he wae an even more determined seg regationist than Tall Paul. In fact, ha charged that Roas Bar nett and Paul Johnson had conspired with Robert Kenne dy to admit Meredith after a face-saving system. In Texas last year. Jack Cox. the Repub lican candidate for Governor, publicly opposed repeal of the poll tax. reasoning that “near ly one million persons of vot ing age (who) are illiterate or unable to distinguish complete ly words printed In English” should not have the pries of their voting license reduced. The Republicans' so-called gains come because they pro mise they will be even more ardent segregationists than the conservative Southern Demo crats. I seriously doubt the' Repub licans are masters at stealing the thunder of the Tonservs tlve Democrats and they are dooming themselves for second place. Do not be too skeptical about my conoem for the wel fare tor the Republican party. Every liberal I know in the South hopes and prays that the Letter To The Editor Dear Editor; Congratulations to you tar the emphasis you gavo la your val uable paper on the million-dol lar campaign tor Sbaw Univer sity. Such a campaign is very time ly and not unreasonable, but overdua Through wise and dy namic leadership, it will be ac complished. Boat wishes tar 1964 Yours truly, a E CHEEK Warren too ther. T do hope my dauprtw hasn’t been causing you too trouble ” “No, indeed,’ said oae <rf the Anns, “but this is the first time we have been mistaken for pen guins.’ Exchange. (Ha-ha-haaa) REAL PROOF; “Officer, hew did you determine that this man is intoxicated’" said the judge. Officer “Well, I wasn't aura when ha staggered down the street and fell. But whan ha put a nickel in the mail box, looked up at the church clock and raid. ‘Good heavens, I’ve loot 14 lbe-,‘ I arrested him.” GLASSES FOR OOLDWAT ER; The fashionable Phoenix, Ariz., Department Store owned by Senator Goldwater and fam ily is advertising in chic periodi cals a distinctive set at cocktail glasses for the politically mind ed. Each glass features a donkey or elephant, depending upon one* preference. And what Mad at libations are thaw “Goldwa tar’s exclusives” designed fort Old fashioned. Naturally From Toledo Blade. long term trend la upward, growth, and expansion. The question this article wish es to ask its readers la: Are you part owner of the Great Ameri can Economy? If you are not; then your dollars will not grow in value as the yean go by. Aa a matter of iact, If you have your money out on interest— that is, on savings accounts and, or, bonds, their purchasing pow er is decreasing annually. Out of every ten people born only six will live to the age of sixty-five, and only one out of that six will be financially able to live on bis Income. He ha* to continue work, or appeal to relative* or the Welfare for sup port And, curiously enough a fortune passes through the hands of the vast majority of people during their working days up to the age of sixty-five. Thus, it Is possible for most Individuals to build up a substantial fund for their old age. How? you ask. Simply by investing a little of their income each pay day in the baalc business corporation of the United State* and bv ing becoming a part-owner of Great United States Econo my! Republicans ean contend with the Democrats. No liberal or for that matter, no sensible voters, hopes the Republicans gain because they agree with the conservative segregationist Democrats. Disfranchisement was the basis of all the segregation laws and It wae the disfranchise ment of the poor whit* and the Negro which led to the one-par ty system. When all the obsta cles to Negro and poos white voting are removed, the South will have a two-party system and not before. The stronger the Repullcan Party grows in the South, the stronger the liberal wing of the Democrats will be. With a clear division of conservative and liberal ideas, the poor whites and Negroes will some day oom bine with the Northern Demo cratic Party, if and when the race issue is eliminated. Were there no race issue to day. the center of American lib erallan would be here in the South. That is why in some areas liberal Democrats have supported Republican candi dates as away of breaking the conservative monopoly. Clearly, this was the case In the elec tion of Texas Republican Tow liberal support also has ac counted for the six terms Gon er to the U. 8. Senate. This gresaman Charles Jonas has served in the House as the Re publican Representative from North Carolina. The Republican Party is on the move today throughout the South. But U will go the way of the Whigs If It hltcohes its star to racial segregation and white supremacy. Editorial Opinions Her* are excerpts from edi torials compiled by Associated Negro Press appearing in some of the nation's leading daily newspaper* on subjects of cur rent interest to our readers: PANDEMONIUM IN PANAMA THE SUN TIMES. Chicago “Whatever course of action la decided upon to settle the dis pute of Panama should include a well-planned and sincere ef fort by tha United States to im prove the lot of Panama The United States crested Panama and the United States has bean e neglectful foster parent “The colonialism practiced by many Americans in the Canal Zone bee long been a source of irritation and hatred to Latin Americana That colonialism should end with the settlement of (his current dispute if the United States is to improve and better the lot of the underdevel oped countries of Latin fins it tea." THE POST. Washington The Poison Root Os Segregation y AtU * 4HI I , wßk Gordon B. Hancock 9 * BETWEEN THE LINES THE NEGRO AND HARD LABOR Within recent weeks the news items have car ried varied accounts of the merger movements among the railroads. Among the major of these movements was the merger of the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast Lines, two of the railroads that largely serve the South. And when the Southern Railway finally enters the merger, the South will be served by a single major rattwnv The mergers look good from the business and Indu&UUl point ol view, but from the point of the Negro laborers, they do not look so promising.. These mergers mean that thousands of laborers will be let loose Into the ranks of the unemployed, and it further means that the greater numbers of the unemployed will be Negroes and therein lies a great tragedy. A few days ago I was scanning an Industrial map and noted with deep concern what a net work of railroads serve the South. The thought that became uppermost was how much labor it took to build these railroads and most of it was Negro labor. Let nobody deceive you, railroad building is hard work and if there is any work that can be called hard labor It is this self-same railroad, building. In the building of railroads it took mon ey, much money, to be sure, but It must not be forgotten that it took a lot of hard labor and that hard labo. was the Negro’s. To build railroads there must be an abundance of men with weak heads and strong backs and the South has been blessed with such abundance. What would the South be without its railroads and how could these railroads have been built without Negroes with their hard labor and more often It Is cheap labor? The economic life of the South ought to be wealthy and flourishing, for hundreds of years It had the Negro’s free labor. What other section at this nation has been so Ueesed? It was not only In the building of the railroads that the South’s hard labor has fallen to the Ne gro, but all the other hard labor of the South has been dona by the Negro laborer and although ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD BY P. L. PRATTIS For ANP SoiV where in the Scriptures It la noted that punishment lor the sins of the father shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. It is easy indeed to apply this dictum to the present relationship of the United States with Cuba and Panama and. perhaps, to other troublesome spots In Latin-America. When the mot* cut loose in these countries two facta are played up in the newspapers: (1) the num ber of dead and wounded and (2) the destruction of American-owned property. let's take a look at Cuba. In 1898. the United States tided with the insurgents in Cuba who were In reblllion against Spain. The sinking of the battleship Maine gave the United States a pretext for moving in and earning out an already well-laid plan. One day. before the war with Spain started. Theodora Roosevelt, then assistant sec retary of the Navy, acted quickly while Secretary of the Navy Long was sick and saw to it that Commodore Dewey was sent to Hang Kong with an American squadron. Dewey was to lay quiet In Hong Kong until Spain became deeply involved in Cuba. Then Dewey was to pounce upon the Philipines and take them over. The plan worked well. Dewey grabbed the Philipines and Spain lost her hold on Cuba. Americans moved in and took over Cuba. The United States aet up the government in Cuba that it wanted and then the American industrial ists moved In. with the backing of the Army, and grabed all the land that Cuban governing bodies, hacked by ua, would let us have. dismay every friend of the United States and rejoice every enemy The American high school students who disregarded the or der* of the Government and railed the American flag have dona their country about as much injury aa ft arms in their capacity to accomplish. Under o the circumstances that existed, their action ants reckless provo cation. It had Ms inevitable con sequence. At this juncture, the details of the rtota are not clear, bat that is known is lirmf—ing ** TWETnfla. Mow Terk “A loot ssanplee and difficult more and more machines axe doing the hard work. It all goes to show what a tremendous labor contribution the Negro has made to the economy of the up and coming South. This is written to remind the nation and the world that the Negro has Invested mil’ioiis nr.d millions to make the South economically what it is. Whereas the white man invested millions in dollars, Negroes Invested millions, in hard labor. m.—.. «. iuuuiua w i fiiwj who lob ou:n for carin’ without L throw in the Negro’s face, that he is after all such a light tax-payer. The Negro should rot have to be a great tax-payer to be entitle 1 to vo:e and enjoy the rights and opportunities end r-- sponslbilltlee of this country. He has made the other big taxes possible by his labor! Hie Negro has not enjoyed any free ride in the development of the South and nation. Ha has p ‘d bis way with his labor and with hard labor If you please. Today the South Is fast becoming the We -t of yesterday and the Negro is as responsible tor this outlook as anybody else. There is no need for tiie Negro to apeak in low tones and walk on tii toes because he does not have great capital or pay great taxes. He has furnished the labor while the white man furnished the capital. The development of the South has been a joint affair between whites and Negroes and for ex ponents of the ways of the Old South to attempt to exclude the Negro from the exercise of full citizenship is inhumane and brutal. For hun dreds of yean cotton wae king in the South; bow would cotton have been grown without mules and Negroes? In very truth It was the Negro who made cotton “king” in the South; and what the South would have been without its “Bang Cotton" it is difficult to Imagine. It took a lot of hard labor to make cotton king. The South boasts of its culture and rerinement of its palm* and magnolias and humming birds and its leisure and gracious living. The Negro labor helps to explain it all Railroad merging brings to mind railroad building and railroad building brings to mind the Negro with his hard labor. Americans paid my little for this land. But when Castro moved in, while we had our head turned away, we set up a howl, heard all the way to Moscow, about Castro confiscating American property. We never paid for it in the first place. Now conies Panama. When we were In Central America trying to find a good spot to build the Canal. Nicaragua (ownor of the land) proved to be too stubborn to deal with. We knew that the Panamanians were unhappy and wanted tc break away from Columbia. So we encouraged their un happiness. helped them to win against Columbia and to aet up a new country covering the land grant we wanted for the CanoL But that was not all. The land grant and the Canal were to be subject to a treaty. While the Panamians were looking forward to a treaty con ference, the United States called upon a French man who knew all the ins and outs and had him draft a treaty that we liked and signed it. The day before the Panamanian treaty .felegates reached Washington the treaty was signed. Pan ama was locked out. Another thing, of course, was the color line Im posed by .Americans in the Canal Zone which led to different rate* of pay for Americans and Pan amanians. Americans were paid in gold Pana manians in silver. It is too bad that American Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, have had to try to find away to pay for the sins committoed by Theodore Rooeevelt in 1903. Eut that s the way of life. American plotting 60 years ago has resulted in Panama's plight today. course of negotiations between Panama and the United States lies ahead. Dispatches from both Panama and the Canal Zone in dicate that the Administration understands full well the major blunder committed in letting high school students flout an in ternational agreement by the United States Government. Aa the events that followed coneiu vely prove, what these misguided youngsters thought eras an act of patriotic devo tion to the flag of the United States wee actually a provoca tion that played directly into the heads as ail ha Lathi America who oppoke the United States The imperative need is for ef fective measure* to assure that there are no similar thoughtless actions in the future. The authorities in Panama have a reciprocal obligation, which they have not always ex ercised. also to demonstrate a sense of responsibility. Once the isnmedtate crisis is over, it must be clear that the United States Government will not close the door permanently to discussions relating to possible revision of the basic agreement, now going back flO years, covering the Pan-
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