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TK£ CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C- SATURDAY, APRIL If, IM4 4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP Intellectual training without emotional educa ratlon la one of the most dangeroua Influence* that can come into any human life. It causes neu rosis. insanity, suicide, and the egotism it engend ers leads to divorce. Without mental hygiene there is nothing more dangerous than academic train ing. It doses the mind, warps perspective, and set* While the beatle or crier is used in political campaigns through voluminous sound systems •to arouse and get out the vote, it seems the American public should be ready to accept its responsibility without having to be provoked or prodded into them. As the month of April eloaes and the May Primary gets closer and closer, the intensity of the political climate thickens. Candidates begin to promise more snd more. The voter begin* to attempt some dgnelusive decisions as to the best man for gov dffeor. lieutenant governor, commissioner, the •rfimate, the House and all the other political JSBicet being sought. Evaluation should hr IQpde about each candidate: his character, his Mining, intelligence, as shown in his success as Vcitieen. skill in handling human relations in tgfrity in the democratic principles a* we know them, broadness snd sincerity as a human be- Mg to other human beings, no matter what their race, creed or color and if possible the trait or even addiction to serve, rather than usurp a public trust. We would spy to our readers that your vote belongs to you. Under no circumstances should ft be given or sold. Your good judgment rsn he exercised by yoti with proper information, bet Senator Thurmond About To “Goof” If he were attacking a plan of integration, we could Well understand Senator Strom Thur mond, Democrat, from South Carolina. But when he began fighting a Navy plan to train two Negroes for jobs at the Charleston, S. C., Naval Shipyard, it doesn't make sense In a Senate speech recently, the South Caro lina senator said he opposed the plan, because the training would cost $7,000. He added that there are at least 45 applicants for the job for which the two Negroes are bring trained ‘‘The two named individuals are clearly hr ing trained to fill these positions Rpecificnlh because they are Negroes. Thurmond said Y<t the senator does not submit proof for his al legations. You may want to know how did Thurmond find out about the proposed training of the two Negro men. The senator said he was told of the matter by Harry A. Crosby, president of Lo cal 366, International Union of Operating Rn ginrers of Charleston According to the labor president, the twp Negroes are to receive train ing as enginemen by order of the Navy secre tary. In this connection, how do we know that Union Local 366 accepted Negroes as mem hers? If Negroes, for example, could not join the union, how else could they prepart them selves for the occupation of enginemen? Per Don’t F orget The F orgotten Th* need for Improvement of streets in ncigborhoods occupied by Nrgrors in Raleigh is still great. Dust, blocks of unpaved streets •till exist far beyond reasonable excesses in a city that is so progressive in other section*. No matter what the excuse for these back ward streets. Raleigh is capable of better street* and less dust now. Whatever the red tape in property owner •hip. money availability, etc., efforts should be made to standardise all streets In the city of Raleigh. For years Raleigh ha* been measuring and anticipating broadening l.enior Street from East to Swain. There are two schools located on thi* street .within two block* of each other Auto and truck traffic i* extremely heavy all day long and into the night. - Sidney Poitier Has Arrived At Last It wa« gratifying to are Sidney Poitier In a news photograph holding his award for his art ihg in "Lilies of the Field.’* He was posing with Annabella, who displayed the Oscar she ac cepted in behalf of Patricia Neal, named the beat actreaa. Thus. Sidney Poitier became the first Negro in movie history to win a top Oscar. He receiv ed an award for being named the best actor. There was a time when all-Negro movies presented actors and actresses who were not IKtperb by any standards. Also, the inability of the Negro to get to play big roles kept him from the attention of the public eye. Give The Children A ’Break” It it disgusting to look at the great disre gard for th* children living in and around the old city lot. located on Davie Street between Martin and Davie and East and Havwoood. ~-Her* liea a very valuable piece of property Valuable not only in a monetary sense but val uable for human use by little children who -tsed • place to play and grow up in a better environment. It it valuable because it could be made to lift these children up from backyard and dirty street play to organise clean, healthy, supervised recreation. W a arc reapooaible as a society to these leas Yit X NEGRO PRESS—baNava that America can fees t had tha %rorfe H twtf from racial and national antagorvtnn whan it accord * fc rverv mar Jl'H ILy tagatdlaaa at toot, color or craad hi* human and legal right * Hating no man P|k m fairing no man—tha Nagro Prat* atriraa to ha/p ax-ary man on tha firm ha- VjUMft' Rat that ail man an hart m long aa anyona h hald hack rP'W It Is Your Vote - Use It! up fictltiou* value* To it we can trace much ol the materialism which ha* mads our a«e rich in material resource*, poor In the things of ths splr lt "for what shall it pre-fit a man.” Jeaue *ald. "If he shall gain the whole world and lose hi* own soup Os what shall a man flvs in exchange for hit aoul?“ ter than anyone can decide what'e best for you at the ballot box. The one place there can be no question about your complete authority over the destiny of your vote is behind the ballot curtain. We know you are aware of this privilege and re sponsibility. However, there comet to mind a definition of a politician by one of our reader* and sub scribers, who said in jest, thst s politicsn is one who promises you anything and gives you nothing. This, no doubt, may be an extreme definition, nonetheless be sssured you will he solicited many times for your vote. You will also experience many promises by office seek ers. We believe Mr. snd Mrs. Public should he tolerant to all office seekers, hut at the same time evaluate, closely, their demands of the person for whom the vote. There is anticipation of the biggest vote ever cast in North Carolina. All registrants should be able to say after May 30. that I VOTED! There should be no excuse to stay sway from the polls on voting day, unless sickness, death or some most unusual circumstance prevented your being there. See you at the polls May 30. haps this is why the Navy secretary issued the order. Let us reflect a while upon the statement of Thurmond to the effect thst there were st least 43 applicants for the job for Which the two Nrgrors are to be trained. Grant that this may be true, hut how do we know that these 45 ap plicants were trained and qualified to take the jobs ? Senator Thurmond accused the Navy sec r< tary of bypassing the normal rules of proced ure of Civil Service Commission and of making a farce of the system which has legally and tra ditionally operated on the basis of qualification and seniority without regard to race, color, or creed. Senator Thurmond knows full well that out orderly, legal system in the Civil Service has not been entirely fair to Negroes in this mat ter For example, not the few Negroes employ ed in our state capitol buildings, county offices, and city halls. And who knows, maybe the Navy secretary knows what he is doing to in sure justice and labor fairplay. Mr. Thurmond in that speech made a num ber of charges which he failed to support with evidence. Therefore, before he fights the plan, we hope he will give the public his facts and evidence. Raleigh Councilmen are aware of this situa tion ns well as officials responsible for having something done to broaden the street, as well as control the speed of the trucks and auto mobile* that spiced through with little regard for the narrowness which is hazardous to the pedrstrain as well as the motorists. There are some 1700 students at Ltgon Jr - Sr High School and some 654 students at Crosby-Oarfield School. Consideration for life and limb of these children and students should he forthcoming from our fair city in behalf of preventing unnecessary tragediet. The CAROLINIAN urge* Raleigh City Os ficials to look into these matter* immediately with concern for a better Raleigh EVERY WHERE! Now things are different, because the Negi,. actors are getting legitimate role*, a* well as •uperb directing by the be*t that Hollywood ha* to offer. For these reason*, actor Poitier has advanced fairly rapidly up th* ladder of dramatic success; and his unusual theatric abd itie* has caught the eyes of th* public and movie producers. The recent Oscar given to Sidney Poitier is an encouraging symbol of the Negro actor traveling from native African kraal to cosmo politan stage and screen. From hia early at tempts at acting to the coveted Oscar, the man Poitier has made the journey. fortunate children. Raleigh is not without guilt in selling off thta property without due regard for the part of their responsibility. It is not too late to buy back this property and prepare for a better tomorrow for these children who are victimised by a city’s disre gard for them in the development of their minds and bodies. We believe there are people in the right places who will heed our pica and join in our at tempt to provide a better Raleigh for all its children. We hope the children won't be let down. Just For Fun BV MARCUS H. BOLL WARE TW DON* Last week, I gave my final ex amination* IS speech correction majors as the Second Trimes ter, 1 M3-IMS. term came to a close Commencement exercises were held Saturday, April 18. This seems early for commence ment but we at Florida AAM University are now used to it. THOSE VANDALS: In New cost. York City school vandalism co*t >1295.071 in IM2—an Increase of *141.579 over thereby proved anew the extreme desir ability of fining" parents of school-pupil vandals for then little monsters' fun. When, if ever, will the officials act on this matter-dhyway? TWAS PREFECT: When our forefathers discovered this coun try the Indians were running it There were no taxes, snd there was no debt. The women did the work . . , and our forefather thought they could Improve on this system 'What nonsense yell? Mr. Cornyard.l OtT BALD: A Tulane Univer sity professor of clinical medi cine predicts thst in another hundred years or mors, both OXLY IX AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN ARK MARRIAGE* MADE (N HEAVEN? Dr. Sam Johnson, of acerbic wit and suporb style wrote. '■Wars hd not to marry again It might be concluded that his first wife had given him a dis gust to marriage,- but by taking s second wife be pays tbs high est compliment to the first, by showing she made him so hap py as a married man. that he wishes to bo so s second time I trust I need not explain that Dr. Johnson is talking of wives, of which we can have but one at a time, and not women, the possession of whom seems to hava a multiplicity In the world these days and whioh leads to unhappiness, confusion, and the fall of government* Re member that Byron writee in "Don Juan": "The world, a* usual, wickedly inclined To ass s kingdom or a house o' re turned—Whispered he had a mistress, tome aald two —But for domestic quarrel* ONE will do'' On* always expect*, whether It U one who is marrying or •imply witnesses the wedding, that: “It will be a good mar riage.'' In foot, there are those of ue Who follow scripture lit erally snd fully believe the pro per definition of Qod is that He is the Maker of marriages. One of ths old Jewish fables recounts ths parable of the rich man who quarreled with God and Ood said. "If you don't be lieve I'm doing right, then you make all the marriages In your house." which the rich man make all manages in your Editorial Opinions Here are excerpts from edi torials selected by the Associat ed Negro Press from some of ths nation's leading dally news papers on subject* of current interest to our readers: WALLACE IN WISCONSIN TH* DAILY OKLAHOMAN. Oklahoma City That* the truly significant aspect of hia amaahing perfor mance It's unfortunate tha* bad legislation having such far reaching implications for all sections should be discussed so often as though northern and southern interests In th* mat ter were separate and distinct. Ths bill would destroy more rtchu than it conferred and tha resulting impairment of consti tutional safeguards would be frit no less In th* north than the south Tha outcome in Wis consin reflects tha people's growing swsrenaas of tha dan ger* implicit in the bill;* pro posed sweeping grants of unde fined powers to th* Washing ton bureaucracy NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN There • no question that Ala bama Oov Georgs Wallace has surprised a lot of people with his vote showing in the Wiscon sin primary. It would b* wrong to oonelud* hastily that tha percentage of his rota Is an ac curate Indicator of how tha state feels about everything th* Alabama governor stands for Oovemor Wallace choc# shrewdly in entering th* Wis consin primary because it la th* only state with an open primary, permitting cl Use ns to vote in slthar party oontaat. And despite its liberalism. Wle lii This Our Haw KOW RTANDKTW THOVT It u always good for an in dividual to compart himself with the bast there is in hie surroundings or environment. An individual quite often .wed* to take a good look at himself to ascertain whither or not h* U keeping abreast thorn social, seonomic. and political advanc es being made at any particular time H he is net ao doing, then th* only wias thing to do t* to run a little faster. Let's look a* a few economic advances bet-r mad*, or Dave been made durjig recent seam: According to Uw American Le gion Mag seine for April. IMA th* amount of money the Ame rican people nad to spend tn erased from 970? billion tn !•- >0 to ltd billion by IMO Sham in sarins* end loan as sociation* roer frum IS 4 billion in llHto Mi billion by t««l Deposit* in banks rose in the mm* period irom US MlUm to U.I billion. Corporate rcur- men ind women will gt> through life completely bald. (At least, they can purchase wigs.) Dr. James W Burks told a medical convention that “hair on the head is no longer useful, but purely ornamental” and is des tined to disappear. (Alast! what will women do then?! The key word In the doctor’s prediction is “ornamental." a consideration which even the lapse of a hundred years is un likely to eliminate. But with so much advanced warning, Wash ington will have ample time to plan occupational retraining pro jects to convert hairdressers and mens barbers Into Wig-makers. Then *ie tonsorial artist will really make some “dough”. HUSBAND MASTERS—They tell me that just as many men are henpecked as many wlvea are dominated by their hus bands. The wives are. In a man ner of speaking, "rooster-peck ed.” Men. which shall you be? Mr. Cornyard wishes me to remind you that “every good woman loves being ruled by a man—just so he’s smart enough not to let her realize It.” house.” which th* rich man promptly did, assigning all the butlers to all the maids and all his sons to the daughter* of friendly rich merchant*. Hi* house fell apart, literally and spiritually, because of the tears and the recriminations and ao he threw In the sponge, figuratively, and he went about his business and Ood wait a bout His. There is no better proof of the Lord's work than the tale of the kind and humble rabM who married a shrew. oh* nag ged him beyond all endurance. Even the neighbors were dis tressed at her nagging. Finally, one of them mustered the nerve end asked the rabbi: “Why do you put up with it? Why don't you leave her? Or. si least, make her go llvs with her mo ther?” And the rabbi answered. *1 don't leave her or make her live with her mother because I don't believe Ood wants to pun ish me. He gave me this woman because He knew that If She married someone else, that someone else would divorce her and take another. God is wise. He gave this woman to me be cause He knew I had the pa tience to tolerate her. and save another man from misery, and I don''t make her live with her mother beoause her mother, too, already has enough problems.” O happy mbtol! Harassed as he may have been, he felt him self fortunate as he went a round the live-long day listen ing to his wife’s complaints, knowing he was doing Ood’* work. rortaln to wtlll tha state which produoed the late Ben. Joseph McCarthy Where conservatism exists in this state, it runs deep. Added to this is the fact that Oov. John Reynolds has run into some political difficulties with his legislative programs. THE JOURNAL, Winston-Sa lem. N. C. Wisconsin and its primary elections have often (riven the nation somethin* to talk about. That was the case In 1944 when Thomas E. Dewey beat Wlllkie In the Wisconsin Re publican primary and put an end to Willkie's political oareer. THE POST-TRIBUNE, Qary, Indiana Oov. George C. Wallace has given the politicians a Jolt bv his showing in the Wisconsin presidential primary Running on the Democratic side of the ballot but benefiting by “cross over" Republican votes. Wallace won a surprising 28 per cant of the total ballots oast. He oar turned more than a third of the votes polled In the Democratic primary alone. The Alabama govwner showing la about twice as good m most veteran political ob servers had thought It would be. Some of Wallace's vote# may have been Intended only to sm barras Oov. John W. Reynolds or Wisconsin, who ran aa a “fa vorite son" pledged to President Johnson, or to show opposition to Johnson. Mast of them, it seems honest to say. ware In endorsement of Wallace s fight (Or states' rights and against the civil rights bUI pending In the U. 5. Senate. Kiss purchased by the Ameri can people rose from 80.8 ba ilor in IMO to 81.0 billion in 1081. Os count the foregoing in creases in mending money, savings, and purchasing corp orate securities were simply the increases in tbs same by In dividual Americans. The purpose of this article Is to ask each of my rsadsrs where does he stand in inch matters as the foregoing. Are? you spending a little more each year and. thus raising your economic standing of living? And .especially sal anxious to know whether or not you are growing in yjur saving habits? Are you saving a Utils more each year and by so doing ascr tna veurself of econcwnic secur ity in toct old age. Especially is this writer concerned About your habit, of purchasing corp orate securities with emphasis Per the ind’victual who wish- His For Presenting Lady Justice A Half Gordon B. Hancock « BETWEEN THE LINES A NEW BEREST Many, many year* ago I remember reading in a book on Theology, that there are two kinds of atheists, one kind says there is no God, and the other say* that there Is a Ood. but sot* as if there is none. The first was called the theoretical athe ist and the second is called the practical atheist. We go Into something of a spiritual spasm If we hear a man openly declare there is no God: but most of us are perfectly satisfied to act as if there is no Ood. We call ourselves a Christian nation, but aside from our Sunday religious services, we leave God out of affairs; and it Is almost an insult and hersey to mention Ood In our dally affairs. We are practically atheists. Our legislatures, state and national, are opened with a functional prayer, but our legislation bears little or no relation to the doing of Ood’s will. Today the Senate of the United States Is dis cussing a Civil Rights Bill calculated to bring a bout a closer approximation of human brother hood as taught by Jesus Christ: and what do those rabid Southerners care about what Ood says on this Important question. You would dearly insult them to tell them that when they deny God s dark-skinned children the rights of Christian bro therhood. they are flaunting theih deep-seated prejudice Into the very face of Ood Hlmsef. That solid bloc of Southern Senators care more for their prejudloe than they care for the word and will of Ood. In fact we have come upon a time when the af fairs of the Kingdom of Ood must wait until the ends of race prejudice have been served. Race prejudice today Is riding In the driver's seat in this country If not Indeed the whole world. But this article Is designed to remind our readers that maybe after all. only by the moving of Ood In one of His mysterious ways can the world situation be saved and mankind can survive. Therefore. I am injecting the thought of Ood in human affairs which amounts to a ktnd of heresy. We are told that when the builders of the Tow ISSUES: GOOD AND BAD BT P. L. PRATO* For ANP Have you ever thought about how you might put your little bit of extra change to work for you" 1 Or. if you have, what have you done about it? It is certainly true that the white man has piled burden after burden on our backs and thus handicapped us as we try to run this race which life is He has meet of the doors closed so tight against us that we seldom stop to wonder if there might be just one open door, cracked a little bit. Has he left a door open where once you get through it. you have the same chance as any body else. What would yen do if you found such a door open, waiting for y ? Actually, the very best door the white man has Is standing gaping wide open for you. This is a door where no color line is drawn. You oan walk rightt through it and start doing business. This is a door, once you have passed it. where you can find the white man working for you. rather than you working for him at measly wages. If you get through this door and play the white man’* game, the pay-off can be great. You'll be able to ride his back. This is the same white man who will hold back on a job for you because you are colored. This is the same white man who will bar you from a restaurant because you are colored. This is the same white man who used to fores you to ride in the rear of a bus because you are colored This is the same white mar. who used to murder and lynch your aunts, uncles and grandparents. This is the same white man who ban you from his church on Sunday morning. This is the same white man who prates about how inferior you are This is the same white man who collects your taxes and short changes you. This is the some white man who think* the m to increase his aovUigs ac count as well rs having more money to spend raising his «co norm c stand* d of living. I am convinced that then b> no bet ter way to do it than by In vesting In corporate securties and most especially common er of Babel were building they reached a certain height and there was a confusion of tongU'S which confusion brought Babel’s building to fn abrupt end. It seem* that we are now oome ;o another time of the confusion of tongue*. Godless Communism has become confused Chi nes* Communism wants to go on* course and Rus sian Communism wants to go another. This r-iv - rel between Chinese and Russian communists con tains the hope of this world’s critical situntldn If the communist nations can be turned asr ii t each other, there Is some hope that Ood is still o 1 the throne. * May It net be after all. Ood Is working in one of his mysterious way* a great wonder to perform. The Ood we slight and turn to only In times of imminent danger may be working his will with the communists who deny that He is. Does not the impasse between Chinese Communists and Russian Communists amount to a confusion of tongues? What is more, the Chinese hsv- turned the rift in communism into a race matter. This oolumn hinted at such many week;- ago but only recently Khrushchev has accused the Chi nese Communists of making a race matter of the rift between the two. Russia being a member of the white race will hesitate before she help* Chi na. a dark race, destroy a greater part of the white world As long as destruction threatens the darker peoples so well and so good: but when tin* destruction threatens to be visited upon the whits race to be anltten by the dark-skinned Chines* they will unite for the preservation of white su premacy and this helps to minimize prospects of an impending World War m. Thus we see things are becoming badly scrambled and toward th# cause of peace in the earth. The confusion of tongues between Russia and China halds out great hopes for the peace of the world. Thus the race prejudice that the white n.an has spread throughout the earth may be turned to good when God moves in one of hi* mysterious way*. It* barely possible that "Ood ha* th* who!* world in His hands '. principal goal is making money As long as he Is making money, he is unwittingy willing to make money for you He is the free-swinging enterpriser who ha* built American business and industry. For the most part he has done that with other people's money with what is dubbed capital. He has drawn no color line on investors. He'll take any body's money and try to put it to work. You might go to the back door of his establishment, beg for a Job. and be turned away. But you can go to hi* front door through a broker and buy a part of hi* business and set him to work for you You don’t have to have money to start this man working for you. There are what they call mutual funds which will allow you to invest as 11. tie ai ten dollars a month and put the "white supremac ist*'* to work In your favor. With that little bit of money, you oan buy into some of the great" businesses In he United States. You can buy teei.; bite of United States Steel. Standard Oil of Nt Jersey. Oeneral Motors, and so-called blue chi that you can think of Arter a while tho • little teeny bite will add up to something. A you've got to do is to have a plan and stick to it / little bit of money and sizeable bit of charac will put you way ahead if you give it time. Why not drop in on a broker in your hometo and ask him about these mutual fund.-'’ Don t b backward because you haven't got a amillior. de - ter* to Invset. The broker won't expect that. he la interested in is whether you can start invest ing and keep on at it. Hell take ten dollars s month, or twenty, or thirty, or one hundred dol lars. He wants you to get started and not stem If you're go twenty years ahead of you and on Invest as much as fifty dollars a month, the chance* are that you will not have to worry about •octal security when you grow old. stocks Not on*/ may one great ly irerases nis income by tn vetu. i in corporate securities, but m addition it will mike ' bun feet proua to realise that be is part-owrer of the <shc business concerns of the Un;*d States which a-e furnishing the American people with the goods. and jobs thwt they so badly need. Let's hurry rp waste no tint and make ha*te in checking on our individual progress to as certain whether or not ere are keeping up with the promote the human rro» is making.
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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