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4 THE CAIOLDfIAN RALEIGH. N. C- SATURDAY, JUT X«. IK4 Editorial Viewpoint WORDS OF WORSHIP John the Baptist sent two of hi* dtxciple* to va'.ch and to ask And Jesua. knowing how wide *u the difference* between their attitude* and his. refused to argue or defend. ' Oo and tell your master v hat you have seen and heaid." he said • The tick are healed, the blind receive their sight We Salute Experience In Government The annual Kiwanii Club - sponsored Stu dent Government Day deserve* our salute, for the project gives students an opportunity to have expr iences in the wonting* of our city government. , At one time in our history, Negro students did not have the opportunity to participate be cause of their racial identity But w thenk the Almighty that He has given rri'-n in this nty the vision to extend this opportunity to all students without regards to rare creed, or national origin. Therefore, fourteen Ligon High School students participated in cunning the city government—the largest number ever to participate. What is more James Red. a Ligc-n High School atudent, sat beside City Court Judge Pretlowe Winborne on Friday. May 1 while actual cases were tried In Remembrance Os Our Mothers A ttorv is told that a city wr s huilt at the foot of a large mountain and there lived on the mountain an unknown man who was hired by the city council to keep th" spring' vhtch fill ed the resevoir. chan Sir.ye-the courw !mrn ' *d not seen the man. they frit that hi* service* were no longer needed «nd th y f •-d him Pretty soon the city water 'up-dv was full of filth and disease germs that caused a < • wide epidemic among the citizen* This ! the councilmm to see their mistake and the-/ rehired the spring cleaner Not only this, but they held a day in his honor and prrsrnted turn with an award. The moral of this story u* think of our mothers as the springs w! >. h supply hu man lives with strong moral fiber, gone) cha ractcr, firm religious spirit. and strong integ rity The religious spirit must be taught a child Halifax; Are The Charges True? In a Freedom Day rally. Negroes put on n registration campaign in Halifax* County—rr sutling in 500 new registrant*, raising th< total in the county to over 2.(KM) proton* Thi* wni done, according to Nr sun lenders in the face of delaying tactic* by registrar* and harra*sment by police. A stench bomb was set off in police headquarter* after the polling place wa* moved there from its tegular loca tion. "In »ome place* it was as bud as anything in Mississippi,” *md John R Salter Jr n field organizer for the Southern Conference Educa tional Fund. Salter, who organized prot - ' in Jgckson. Miss., Inst year, is aiding the Halifax Voters Movement in the registration drive. Most disturbing wa* the moving of the poll ing place from its usual location to police headquarters. If this charge is true, the at ton Surpasses in some degree incidents m Missis sippi Why was the polling place m vrd to po lice headquarters? Was it be. mr Nrgroe* deported themselves badly? Was it be.rose police wanted to confuse prospective ngis trants concerning the i*'ll place lo v i - ’ SCF.F R cprt sr ntntive Sa-lt-T stud thru in some plac •* rrgisti.irs took half <n h-cit to trg istrr one applicant. In one (Milling pl>,. the registrar took ’liter hours o[f for lun !■ Should not polling places be open it all tours during Industry Seeking Negro Graduates Qualified Negro college graduate* are He ing sought by industry this year as nevn be fore A survey indicate* that unprecedented rtum bars of indU'Vtfiid n nnt-rs have swarmed over campuses to bun! it talk to and. in many cases, lure Negro g> (dilates at top start ms salarit s. We know that the so-mii for outstanding Nfgroe* i* of course, part of ah all-out bunt for able June graduates. But many companies are showing special interest in the graduating Negro Busmens Week Magazine, which conducted the survey, says that there is a general feeling that industry realty wants the Negro so much, that the recruiting rush isn't merely a drsire to provide “window dressing” to head off civil rights force*. Fisk University In Nashville has had to ex tend its recruiting sessions for at least another month. Howard University in the nation's cap ital turned away more recruiter* this year than ever before and has logged 50 more interviews than last year. In Texas, Prairie View College and Texas Southern University report tenfold inereM* la visiting Industrial recruiter* over the past few year*. The main targets at ths recruiting agents are Whites And Civil Rights Bill Through political campaign*, open letter* to editor*, and bjr various other means segre gationist* haw mada it clear how bitter they are against th# proposed civil righth* legisla tion now before the U. S. Congress. Certain southern senators and congressmen have tried to make the bill look as evil as they can. In fact, they have been fighting it as if they were fighting for life itself. But why all the fighting? What is so evil about the bill? Borne legislators have been objecting to the accommodations section of the bill. Whst is so terrible about serving Negroes in eating estab lishments? When an establishment advertise* in order to serve the public, shouldn't it serve thajpublie regardless of race? W# have always bam under the impression that a public place or establishment even when run by private capital—is open to th* public.} Certainly the and the poor have the gospel preached to them. It is true that 1 do not fa*t. no r forego the every day pleasure* a. life. John did hi* work and It wa* fine but I cannot wrk in hia way I must be myself, and these result* which you have aeen— these art my evidence " The benefits of this experiment should nev er be underestimated, because students from the high schools of the city filled positions from the mayor down to the sanitary inspector. During the morning of the Student Day ex periment rtudent councilmen and department heads worked with their professional counter parts observing the “businesa as usual” rou tine and hearing some specific explanation* and instructions The Kiwams Student Day program in gov ernment will benefit our Negro students per haps more than the Caucasians who have had training and experience in government for hundreds of years. Just to observe govern ment at work will do more to inspire our youth to seek careers in government and in politics than a train load of textbooks. by his mother as influenced by the culture in which they live In short, Christian mothers can tram >hnr children to accept Christianity. Tra •ning children to be Christians is best brought out by a statement from Paul’s Sec ond Letter to Timothy, Chapter I. and verse 5. Paul says ‘‘When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, dwelt first in thv grandmother. Lois, and thy mother. Eu n -r and F am persuaded that it is in thee also ” Thm ;n Timothy's family. Christianity was a trndi’ ori. it was natural for Timothy to be » ChrctTfin, because hr had this type of train ing passed on from hist grandmother and then to his mother \\> honored our mother's on Sundav. May 10 let us keep our trust in mothers who have molded iron's character better than armies and Empires. the day? If it took a registrar three hours to eat lun h. should not substitutes have taken thru pi,i <x during tin interim? Salter said in one polling place, the registrar ti-fiixi'l to tell applicant* whether thev wrre ngisteird or not. Should not this practice be investigated? Negro protests have been sent to state of fi. ;a 1 s and to the Justice Department in Wash ington. And we learn that very intensive legal action in the Federal Court* is also likely to he instituted. It is oblig itory that North Carolina state officials art with speed and dispatch in order to determine if we have registration malprac tices existing m Halifax County. If so. the reg i.tration officials should be removed immedi ately and prosecuted accordingly. North Carolina has the reputation of being a liberal state where all citizens, regardless of ra r, creed, or national origin, have the right to vote and can cast their hallots without frus trationnl tactics and without fear and tremb ling. The stote must not tolerate situations charged by Negroes as being "like Mississip pi " The challenge now face* the state officials in charge of legislation and balloting. We are anxiously waiting to see what will be done. top Negro graduates who are majoring in sci ence, biology, physics, mathematic*, rhemiatty. and engineering Starting salaries in these fields run up to $670 a month with an average just under S6OO. These compare favorably with starting salaries for all graduates regardless of color The survey indicated that one metallurgy student has had five job offers. A coed with honors in mathematics received 10 iob offers. Thirty of 40 engine* is at a college in North Car olina were grabbed quickly. Business administration, especially account ing is proving to he a good field for Negroes. The placement director at Fisk University said he was ama.oji it the tremendus thrust for students maturing in business administration " The facts arc available and indicate that the walls of segregation are falling down for Ne groes. and n.'\v youths are able to walk in the sunlight of the new freedom if only they are especially qualified. It behooves Negro college and university stu dents to employ r xxi study liabi**, make good grades, and show eagerness and alertness in order that they mi ght be able to charter flights that will land them good positrons in American industries Negro is a part of the public To keep from serving Negroes many white establishments have closed their doors, and the reason is not far to seek How can the public continue to support segregationist senator* who would go so far as to defy the law of the land* The Supreme Court ha* ruled that segregation it unconsti tutional. Many citizens have continued to sup port these senat#!* who have let it be known that they are liabilities to aocial progress. We are living in a funny world it seems The white man has made the laws he has interpret ed the law* and \rt tie will not abide by these law*— for example. Governor Barnett of Miss issippi and Wallace of Alabama. The Negro it now engaged in a fight that will run to the bitter end! Just For Fan BT MARCUS a 801 L W ARE THE WEATHER TTie weather In Tallahassee. Florida, is cool at night but mighty hot in the afternoon. I start off with my tie. but pull it off at 2:00 pm. We get about one good rain each week, and then the grass just shoots up. WORRY: A Denver nightclub performer contacted the Colo rado Health Department to find out if 24 tick* she found on a boa constrictor she uses in an exotic dance are dangerous. <Yes, but what about the snake’ I* he dangerous’> BEST MAN: "I ready wasn't the very beat man. I was just the best available." said Tho mas W. Burdlne after the wed ding and trial In Los Angeles Burdine. 42. had just acted a* best man for Michael J. Silver stein, 21. who had Just won a >l6O court judgement against him. The sis<i win be my wedding present,' Burdlne quipped. Stlverstein and Burdine met for the first time last January when their car* collided at an OALY IA AMERICA BY HARRY GOLDEN BOXING S LAST ROUND David Brinkley, probably the best man on television today, had a one-hour show, “Boxing * Last Round.'' Benny Pa ret dy ing in the ring was the most effective piece of television re porting I've seen Governor Pat Brown of Cali fornia. a vastly under-rated man, had some terrifying reve lations aboutt the fight game. I'm not so concerned with the criminality of gangsters and crooked managers wha take a wmy all the earnings from their fighters; nor does it shock me that deals are made. What dismays me is that box ing is not a sport It Is our ra tionalisation of the Instinct to see blood spilled; It is an in stinct that goea back to ths killing of Jews on the Easter Sunday morning, of the 12th and 13th centuries, and the earlier feeding the Christiana to the Hons and the gladiators murdering one another for the tit illation of an obaoene mob. I was a boxing ran for some years. I went to moat of the important fights In Madison Square Garden. Oolng in to the Garden In those days on Friday nights, I always met a young man In the lobbv named WllUe Jackson. Willie had been one of the best ltghtwei-rht* •,f his era but as you walked a round Uie lobby greeting friends you at d everybody wound up with five or six business card* Willie Jackson had handed you He had forgotten that he had given you one a minute before. He had no recognition whatso ever and he spoke haltingly and he was truing papers and twine. Letter To The Editor TIME TO BE HE JRD To The Editor: What Negroes are seeking and asking for here In America is very little In comparison to the many contributions they have made to our American way of life The Negro a every field of endeavor in which he has had an opportunity to par ticipate has demonstrat'd his ability to be worthy of parti cipation In the fields of music, sports, science, medicine and politics, the Nogro has proven himself The Negro, by- his toil and' labor, has helped tr> build this oosintry into the greet em pire that It Is today Therefore he la entitled to all he may come about The Negro dee,ret a United America where he can work side by side with his white bro thers in pcs<e and harmony There are always some people who are willing to discredit the Negro by pointing out all of Ms bad faults but are reluctant to point out his good one* Thr-e are some who say that the Ne gro's crusade for firat class ci tizenship and human dignity is communist insptred There is nothing so far from the tm h as this assumption When o:r democratic ideals and to American way of life were threatened by foes from abroad, Negroes shouldered arms in de fense of this country to pro tect our bosic freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness The Negro stands shou - drrs above all others In loyalty to his Government. But now the time has oo«r» for responsible Negro leads-* and responsible Negro citizen* to speak their minds if we are to keep the good will and re tain the harmony that has ex isted between Whites and Ne gro** through the rears We cannot allow ill feeling* to pre vail We cunnot sit Idly by while a few hot head*, void <Y any responsibility do our csum more harm than good by em ploying such tactic* as h*ve been practiced in recent dem onstrations These irreaponsi ble people not only endanger their own live* but the livea and welfare of others a* well. If we really want Ore things we are seeking then let's *eek them in the human artd intelligent way and that ts by adherir* to conformity To be able to demonstrate docen t eve one the right to bring undue hard ship* upon other* Let* do it with good will and understand ing Your* tru: v Wilbert M Sander* fUkliifb intersect lop. They mat the as** ond time in court. Silvers tein mentioned before the hearing that be aleo wanted a marriage ceremony perform ed and that he needed a beat man and witneaa Burdlne etood in. even after he lcwt the court suit, i That is man after mine own heart!) CITIZEN SHIP: It te now of ficial. Bourbon (John Baxley Corn) is a distinctively Ameri can booze. The House, after sober con sideration, gave the final con gressional approval recently to legislation giving bourbon whis ky U. S. citizenslhp. It euggeeß ed that appropriate government agencies take action to stop other countries from sending their liquor into the United States labeled as bourbon. In case anyone wants to know how bourbon got to be all- American, the House Ways and Means Committee reported to the House that the name re fers to ths “particular part of th<* world this distinctive die* t;: ‘■■d spirit first derived front —Bourbon County, Ky, You took his card and pretend ed you had not seen him E minute ago. In those years. I got to know a very good light heavyweight named Paul Berlenbach. Whet happened to this strong, brave man after a lew years in this brutal contest is horrible. Ha could hardly speak. He weaved hi* head from left to right con stantly. The blows he took and all fighters take loosen the cov ering on ths akllL The brain actually rattles after that. David Brinkley observed that prizefighting held out a prom ise to uneducated boys of mi nority groups who saw in the prize ring a chance to achieve fame and money. But It is not quite that simple. By instinct the immigrant from the Mediterranean areas and Eastern Europe 'then later from our Negro and Puerto Rlo an ghettoesi understood that prizefighting is away to ac ceptance. The fame and the money were part of it. but basi cally we were all hunting for acceptance The Jewish boy on the East Side knew that his In terest in labor unions and In the settlement house and even in science would not get him acceptance a* quickly as his at temiTt to reflect as quickly as possible the Anglo-Saxon ethic of violent courageous action. That Is why most of the early histories of the Jews in Ameri ca waste countless pages tolling how we fought In the Revolu tionary War and In the war of 1812 and until very recently did not mention that many of the ideas of the social science we brought with us are today a part of the American law, such a* social security and collective bargaining and special protec tion for women and children In Industry. A Jewish boy who became a boxer was a hero. Just as Cas sius Clay or Joe Louis was a hero two generations later. Boxing Is dying of lte own decay. The local clube have long since closed and the folks only seem Interested in the champ ionship bouts and after the Liston-Clay fight, I doubt they will sustain any interest at all I would joyously Join any movement which has for its purpose the abolition of this monstrous "sport” of blood, death, and corruption. Editorial Opinions Here are exeerpta of edi torials selected by the As sociated Negro Press front some of ths nation's lead ing dally newspapers. MORE ON CIVIL RIGHTS THE NASHVILLE TENNES SEAN Representative* of the major religious groups to Nashville have spoken out to favor of community responsibility and good faith in arriving at Just settlement of the problems now confronting the city. This welcome action Is in ac cord with the pleas that have been issued by Pror.dent John son. calling upon the nation * religious leaden to exert their influence to ''reawakening the conscience” of the country and directing the power of religion toward the realization of equal rights for all American citisens. The Nashville plea was sign ed by four prominent church leaders—the Rev. Sam Dodson, minister of Calvary Methodist Church: Rabbi Randall \t Falk of The Temple: Dr Lawrence Jones, pastor of . Fisk Union Church. »nd the Rt Rev. Al bert A. Biener. Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Nash ville. The four clergymen express ed sadness over ths conflict, but they pointed out candidly that "the leaders and partici pants to the current demonstra tfbns do not bear the reports!- bllity alone for this conflict. “ It is encouraging to see Nash ville's ministers seizing this op portunity with courage and good faith. It Is hoped they will be joined by others to pro vide needed leadership for ac tion bcaed not on what is con venient, or popular or self ccwnfortmg but—in the tradi tion of fcarle** American cler gymen—based on What they know to be right. BIGOTRY IN NEW TORE ‘ Mist Go Deeper MM *»-. . Gordon B. Hancock ’« BETWEEN THE LINES FAT FRESENT VERSUS LEAN FUTURE When Joseph was Prime Minister of Egypt, he left in mind the great version that Egypt would have seven fat years and seven lean year*. His great work as Prime Minister kept ever to mind the great lnevitablity of a final balance between the leans and the fats. It matters not how care fully we try to live our lives and order them, to the long run the leans must be baienced over against the fats. Most of the whites who have it fat to day. have had it lean and If not they of this gen eration, their forbearers somewhere down the line had It lean. In other words there must be sacrifice If there Is to be plenty. Sacrifice must precede plenty and not the other way around. On yesterday morning which was Sunday, I came out and casually glanced up the street from my home and as far as the eyes oould see there were cars and cars and ever more car* In this Negro section of the city. In my immediate block there was not a house without its car. These were good looking and expensive car*. As the peo ple came out dressed for church they had on the finest of clothes. And doubtless at dinner their tables farily groaned under the burden of good food that had been bought and prepared. Every where there were signs of economic fatness. We are to very truth having a fat today. It leads to serious thought of tomorrow* and we cannot help wondering if its is going to be lean. Fat todays and fat tomorrows do not ordi narily go together. If Negroes do not save for that proverbial “rainy day" while they are in their productive years, how under high heavens oan they escape leanness somewhere down the line’ It seems the wiser course to take It lean In the fat years If we would have It fat In the lean years that are bound to come. There is no getting a round the fact that somewhere along the line lean years are Inevitable. To drive fat. to drees fat and eat fat today, cannot build security against that lean tomorrow. Then I take up my Negro newspaper and find there sound advice from the pen of P. L. Prattis In the Associated Negro Press urging upon Ne groes the grim neoeedty of Investing in Mutual Funds in which w* can invest for as little aa ten ISSUES: GOOD AND DAD BT F. L. PRATTIS For ANT Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the bead FBI man. ha* recenty made public a. statement In Which he avers that there are some Communists mixed up with Negroes and their struggle for equal rights. The people who want to « they're numbered In the thousands or million*) seize upon Mr Hoover * Statement and use it to an obvious attempt to ■near the civil rights fight. Personally. I do not believe Mr. Hoover meant what civil rights foe* want him to mean. They want him to mean that the organizations fighting for civil right* are in fested with Communists. Os course, nothing could be further from the truth. The Communists can extract nothing from the current struggle so far m Negroes are concerned. The whites are the one* who keep busy adding fuel to the Communists' fire. If the Communists wish to expose the hypocrisy which prevails In the United States, they do not need to become associated with Negro organizations. They need only follow- the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. the White Citizens' Councils, the American Nazi party, the John Birch Society and the police. North and South. These are the oo&niz&Uons which are giving the United States a bad name. All that the Communist# need to do to these dark days is to purchase the pteturea Thus when a student group in Nashville. Tenn . pickets a segregated restaurant the police move in with their night sticks and beat the students down The picture shows a student on the ground with three policemen and their clubs. One of these policemen is cracking the prone student across his wrists. The student is trying to protect hi* head with his hands and arms. Behind the po licemen two plainc’othessnen stand ready to help the three policemen subdue the lone student. One THE NEW YORK TTMXS The refusal of white union plumbers to work alongside three Puerto Rican* and a Ne gro on construction of a new mur.icipa. market in the Bronx is a disgrace to the city and to their union Local ’ Unit ed Awociation of Plumper* and Pipefitters. Their racial boycott la doubly shameful because they belong to the local that gave Oeorv* Metro his start toward tbs dollars a month. an<l the saving of these small amounts over a long span of years will insure security and guarantee a not too lean fu'.uie. Moreover we become in the long run stockholders in this oountry's future economic development. My point here being made is that if we could come around to a little leaner present In the in - tereet of a fatter future, we would be in line wrh the history of economic security. Mutual Fin ds and the economic opportunity pertaining there to has no color lines. It Is not a matter of civil rights; it is a matter of the Negro s wilhnei’". r to put up with a leaner today In the interr ■■ i a fatter tomorrow. The Negro cannnot :;rivd everything he makes riding fat and drat'- ; ( it today and keep up with the white man wii: i forbearers had m many oases mighty lean yes days. The man who Is behind must out-run fellow In front If he is to win the race. We o, a lean raoe cannot live on the same plane v.,.h whites whose forebearers had hundreds of v i - start on u*. In urging Negroes to avail them e'v s of the opportunities afforded by investment n Mutual funds Prattls was rendering the race a notable sendee. We who are living so fat today had better ts'e warning. "He that hath ears to hear let him licai " For low these many months Profe*or C. A. Chick long time teacher of economics in Fayetteville State College. North Carolina has been like a John crying in the wilderness trying to get Ne groes to see the advantage of investing in com mon stock in the stock markets of today. The man who invests in stock Is part owner and the more Negroes invest in this common stock the more powerful they will become financially to morrow. Os course stock In great corporations like Mut ual Funds can be purchased on the Installment plan thus coming within reach of lean Negroes. Our great trouble Is In converting the Negroes to the notion of passing up a fat today for a fat tomorrow instead of having a super-fat today and a super-lean tomorrow. Civil rights without a dollar do "not get us where we want to go. Negroes need dollars. Only dollars can Integrate us as full fledged citiaen* of this great country! of the plalnclothcsmen Is seen reaching for his gun or blackjack. All the Communists hare to do Is circulate pic tures like the above, or others showing police dogs snapping at pickets, or student* being fire-hosed, or prodded with electnc irons. How could the Communists obtain any better evidence of what goes on in the United Stmes that these pictures - ' It doesn’t stand to mason that the Communiss Should trv to infiltrate Negro organizations and run the risk of grtting their heads cracked when all they need to do is purchase pictures and mail them back home The whites, bv their brutal ac tions. are helping the subversives Apparently, those who help to make the pic tures which bring shame to the United States would rather help to defame their country than accord Negroes constitutional • rhts They don't care what happ< ns to their country so io> . as Neemes stay in the place reserved f -r th rn by whites. Somehow or other, these imr.c- ~. iV seem to think th/v can keep the N ;ro in t! > i - served place forever That 1* not turn a 1 i white peace break* rs should k- it If N ,-re can t get the law enforced on their dr 'h- , . such a device as the current civil rub's mi. th*. are rough days ahead for Negro*-s and white.*. The mood of the Negro today •> to pre.-.s oti f • his right* H- ha* been urged to mg a- d pt • This, however, seems' to have lit He ri'rc‘ on ’ enemies If and wrier N-'g-.v. come • » this fact, there p bound to t>e a change T will not quit fieh’-r-c Instead «>vv -.‘ill <*•• . . thing requited to win the he' • '.Vhit** « > 0 .• getting all hot and bothered abof Negro d"mvr strations today have not seen anything yet presidency of the AFL-CIO. Mr Meany has labored ha:. to translate into actuality the pledges of racial equality, con tained in the federation* con stitution. FYter T Schoemann Uve plumber*’ international preside t. ha# repeatedly toid all the union's local* that their funcucn is to organize, not to exclude, and that charter* will be revoked if unit* persist in Jim Crow policies. The situation to the Bronx local is reportedly comp Lea led by a power fight, among its of. \ -a fight that inhibits -any effective stand for respon aib.hty and decency by those whoa* duty it is to enforce the union's contracts and .safeguard good name The primary ob ligation for ending one walkout sr.d the discriminatory practices that uder’ie it belongs to the Inca .» executive board But r.- > i. ■ city nor the rest of organ red labor can wait for it to find th* .course now so dl*> soaring !}• abac at.
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