North Carolina Newspapers

m IWr TWO bmments THE c itL&i in'a t I |i e 8 SAtURDAY, JUNE 6, 1942 EDITORIALS Opinions Cite Car^la Cime0 PUBLISHIP WEEKLY BY THE CABOUNA TDEBB rUBUS^G OOlfPANT IIT I. Straet Darfaam, N. PhoMB N-7121 or J-7871 Entared as second class matter at the Tost Offlee VC Durham, N. C, under the Act of March 3rd. 1879. L E. AUSTIN. WnJJAM A. 'TTJCK, Publisher Mnna^tng a A, IRVIN. SUBSCRIPTiaN S.00 a Year RATES: SL25 for Six Monika THE PLATFORM OF . . . • THE CAROLINA TIMES INCLUDES: Egoa] salaries for Negro Teachers. Nejcro policemen where Negroes are involved. Equal educational opportunities. Neg^ro jurymen. _ Hitler wages for domestic servants. - ‘ ’ Pull participation of Negroes ii^all Jjranche^ of the National Defense. '***' * Abolishment of the doubJe-standnrr? wsep rnle in industry. Greater participation of Negroes in political af fairs. I " ^ ; Negro representatioB in city, county, itate and Dstional gcvernme^ts. i Better housi^^4^^9(ifc>C,' ,, accepted money from the Durham Committee on Negro Affnirs to work in the campaii^n against Senator Bailty and also ao>i cepted money from the Bailey forces in Durham to for him. rhis kind of doubleK:ro«winff tacties on the part of Mayes has beeh susjicctod for a long time, but not until he was caught red- handed distributing Bailey tickets last Saturday was. it de finitely proven that Mayes Would put the love of money above a principle. Just the night before^ Mayes hadimade a speech at tlie meeting of the committee that he was wkh the comxiiittoe/all the way. We are going to give Johnnie Mayes the right to support but we aren't going to give Johniiie Mi^es or .my other the right to deliberately double-cross Negroes in I*5iirham by ac cepting money from both sides of a political campaign. This kind of action on the part of Nfegro voters should not be tolerated, by those who have to do with politicalHead- ership of the race. Not only is it detrimental to one committing the act, but to those who will permit him to sell their votts for the highest dollar. “The love of money is the root of all e\^l.” SflGKtTH AT? PATCH THE-MILLS OF THE GODS By Henry Clay Davis T>U RTliors PRIDE 1^1 . ^ JAPANESE GO TO SCHOOL Guilford College located in Guilford, North Caro|ina, has |«dmitted three Japanese students with th^ .^planation tiiat the idents are from respectable families thfvt ihave proved them- Ives loyal to American principles and ideals. In spite of the aow being preach^ mgainat the Jffpgriese people Th the Jnited States this college which is supported by the Quakers, Ivbo aie said to be a highly religious sect, has risen above the I clouds of hatred and done a righteous and courfigwus dfcd. |/The adtaiimstration of the college oug'ht to be commended. We would like, however, to call the attention of the ad- stration of Guilford College to the fact that there are >usands of Negro youths in the United States—many of them Guilfor^ County—^whose parents and grand-parents are ,like- loyal to American principles and ideals. Many of those juths l^ve relatives who are now fighting on foreign soil and kter to preserve those principles and ideals, but we h^ve not or heard of one instance in which the officials of Guilfoird lege have offered tliem an opportunity to register as a student If Guilford College wishes to demonstrate its belief in de- erapy by admitting Japanese students, it now has an op- tanity to better demonstrate it by throwing open its doois to >uths of all races, creeds and colors—Negroes incltideii. We trust that Negro soldiers and sailors now fighting in the forces of the United States against the Japanese will not of this “noble” act which Guilford College has dofip. If do we ^rost'they will consider it^just another instance of hypocrisy that now exists in American democracy, and not literate attempt to add insult to injury. soldiers, sailors and civilians must always take con- ion in the fact that it takes a great race of ^oplc to con- ste^fast and loyal to American ideals when apparently t,idcala.n^an only discrimination to thos^of their kind. '» great race of people living under such conditions could produce a traitor within the span of three hundred years. »ry does not record another race who has equaled the loyalty ited by the Negro to his country under similar circum- ■pite of these instances of discrimination, insult, race : aod undemocratic acts, the American Negro shall coirimit ftct his country. In the midst of it all he shall hiiman dignity that can only be built on a foundation with his fellowmen. He is truly this aatiop’s r rm THE U>V£ OF HONEY By HENRY CLAY DAVIS The W)nstant but empty boasting by Durham Negroes of the pride we take in ourselves, our city, and our achievements here was* put to shame at the polls'^ last Saturday when we dis* closed by our manner of voting what out pride really a.nounts- | We claim that there are S500 of us registered, we knev/ that a refine^ degreed, and prdminent member of our race was a candidate for public office, we went^to the polls and voted, and yet that candidate was able to receive only about one thii-d of our total voting strength. Who among us is willing to explain so disgusting a travesty ♦ • 1 on solidarity and cooperation or t«' tell where our vaunted pride was in this deplorable instance We know there are among us some contemptible jackals who c®st wte in aecordanoe with the persuasion of the pittance they received for doing so, we feel that some of our intelligentsia voted contrarily because of frivolous and ingnoble peraonal animosities, .ind we believe that we have a few jealous Judases who will not allow any Christ to be greater than they are b\it all of us should have had sense to realize that such things tend to huii all of us more than they can ever harm any one of us. Whatever our candidate may-not be in the estimation of some of us the fact remains that he is a Negro like the rest of us and is qualified and we liot only o^ved him our full support because of these things but also the whole of ns would be far better off with some representation in our government than we are without it. ^ The Negroes who frequently express the opinion that Negroes do not want each other to get ahead are probably the only ones among us who actually hold to such an opinion and the only ones ready and w*illing afall times to stoop to the commissioiT ”^of any act, however base it may be, which will preclude the elevation of any other Negro to a position of sponsibility or trust superior to their own. If the secret viciousness with which some of us fight others of us, the avidity with which many of us take the advantage of others of us, the thoroughness some of us apply to the utter destruction of the otherwise clean reputations of others of us, and the reluctancef with which we give each other a little busi ness patronage are manifestations of our pride, then wc owe it to ourselves to be a littk less vain in our utterances and / practices. Durham Negroes should stop talking about pride until they are certain they kpow what the word means and those of us who do know what the word means but failed to support our |.a«didate in the recent voting are challenged to acquaint the rest of us with their reasons iix order that we all my better know what to do in future elections. i Hi; I III 11.! ItPiNnMMI 3 BETWEEN THE LINES By"' Dean Gordon B. Kaacock for ANP The New«t Nhto; Southern Ne- stroyed. But not so with the Tuske gee: conference. That conference gttaxally known« certainly not by responsible of- Ht. Ifiyrk A. M. 2^ioo CShurch, that Joluanio aod employee of s local tohatxo factory, priqfary election for Senator Jo^ish intiriiigcaee knows thi^ loajah AotMycching bill several yean f0d 'eLitoy t>f Negro rights jn this Fw Whom Are We Figh% life. j This time we are not fighting to make the world safe for demoe- i »acy. We are fighting for the right 1 of domocracy to live. We are not — fighting some «0Be else war BY KUTH TAYLOR ^ Whoever fights our enemies, fights Three luontbs ago, the pcssl-! with uh at the moment, mists were those whi said “This'not obligated to accept what »ey |think or believe. We ar«-fighting ■Ion our own as they are fiffhtuig on their oWn. Where we have * eommon bond of faith in the sanj etity of the individual, as in the ease of the British, we can fight as one. But what lafe fightirtg/ for will be a long war." Today that is the slogan of the optiuiiets. The pessimists say, “YOU KNOW WE CAN LOSK THIS WAR.” (Jobiuik Mayes Make no mistake about it—the altruists to the contrary, we are today fighting for survival, for our own lives and those of our families, for our own possessions for the right to work wfaera—and i>Wtif]veg at wbat we choose, and for the pres«rvatioa of our own way of 18 our own lives and the right to live those lives as individuals, equal under the laws we make action of their people as against gro Youth Oonfertiu:» Praised For several years thifl column has been extolling the greatness of Joe Louis and. the leadership that made him possible. Words have failed us as we » would at tempt to appraise the* great work of the late Jack Blackburn, Joe's great Chappie and ours. Often have we asserted that if the Ne gro race were as wisely led as wisely led as Joe Lomis there would be no need for fearing the future. Happily a sign has appear ed on the horizon of the times which inspires the beli^ that wise Negro leadership of the future is assured. The recent meeting of the Southern Negro youth conference at Tuskegee bcoiight jnst the as surance we have, been longing for. There is beforeme a copy of Cakacade, official organ of the cofiference, with proeoedings of the reeent sessions. It is easily one- of the most inspiring dccu- ments I have ever read. Both in jipirit and objective Ihe'confercnec did a great service to the Negro race and the nation. Whoevei' con ceived such program and motivat ed it’deserves the gratitude of the race. That 8»eh great ^ meeting could be consumnjattd hv« \porm youth makes it clear that Negro leader ship of the future is going to be sane and constructive. So often radical elements manage to take charge pf such meetings and turn them into dangerous subversive instruments whereby their, useful ness is curtailed, if not indeed de- NEED FOR SCRAP IRON(teTER . Ilf proseoiiting the war against the Asps and the Japs, the heed for sernp-iron is becoming of in creased i^i^rtanoe every day the war ooatinues. Onr steel mills aad ‘ nwiition faetories should dperate at m«*in>um capacity, but in oriar to dki thi* they must hav'e.a high' 'P«e«ntage of scrap irpn to go.wit^ .that -taken from m'ocracies. Wel'm’ust ^rov.e ■ that cooperative action, free in'en work ing together, each in the in NEGRO EDITORS SPEAK D- -Q was patriotic to the core and if Westbrook Pegler has any doubts about the Negro’s loyalty to the nation, he might hsve attended the meeting with profit. There was no semi-sedition, no attemptjko hold up full Negro participation until the Negro problem ig settled, no semi-threats to sit down in reta liation for the numerous injustic es the Negro has suffered in this country; there was no wearisome r|hearsal of the wrongs that have [>l).een doue against the Negro, al though sUch wrongs are there and crying for redress, and correction. In other words, there was no thing in the Tuskegee confercuce that might give onr enemies com fort. This conference Sensed the fact that one of th** «-ffee- ^egro Business league, a tive ways to end the mjustices i^^^tional NAACP director a n d that afflict us today is not the (Editor’,, Note: Rosooe Dunjee, editor of the Black Dispatch, Oklohoma City, contributes this week’s guest editorial released by the Associated Negro Press. Born at Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., in 1883, he is the son of a former slave, John William Dungy, who escaped into Canada through the underground railroad and later l>ecame a prominent minister and educator after attending Oberlin college where he changed hij, i ame to Dunjee, RoScoe Dunjee attend ed public schools and Langston university for a short period, but is mainly self educated. He founded the Black Dispatch, recognized a^ one of the nation’s most outspoken newspapers, in 1915_ Mr. Dunjee ig a member of the steering committee of the Na- The enemy boasts of the unified mrfre ns,stPong-1 scrap metal mbre rehearsal of these; but ing the system that offers great est hope for correcting them. Those young Negroes gathered from every quarter of the south have struck a mighty blow for Negro freedom, not by their great protestation but hy their unbound patriotism. The Negro is at heart a patriot and a supei’-patriot, and there is no point in raising in the niind» of the world any doubt of this hy attempting to ' hold up the pro gram for a long squabble over many matters which intelligent men know cannot be settled in time to win the war and the war must l)e won! otherwise the Ne gro is doomed in the United Stat es and the world! our mines. Great ^)rogi*c8s and very fine results have been obtained in scrap collectioug throughout North Carolina and many of the either states, but we" still have largo quantities of scrap metal ^ on many farms throughout the coun try and special efforts are now being made to get this scrap metal .into the steel mills as rapidly* as possible. Iron and steel are especially in demand and needed to help make ships, tanks, guns and amtounitions. Every; farmer who^has any scrap metal on his farm can greatly aid our fightiiig men in their efforts to bring victory by delivering their to fiome authorized a n chairman of the Oklahoma branch conference, a member of the exe cutive council of the As.soeiation for the Study of Negro Life and History, helped organize the Oklahoma Commission for Inter racial Cooperation. One )f his most notable journalistic battles was in the JeSj. HoHihs). er thaa ncBBifi^ion^under'duress. ‘i ...• deilefirr'n-n wfl.? , THE PSEE SHOULD BARKEN TO THE WISDOM OP THE * UNFBEE (By Roseoe Dunjee. Fjditor of the Biack Dispatch, Oklahoma City for Associated Negro Press “Pride goeth before a fall.” There is in the white world to day violent opposition to aeeVpt- ing any flow of intelligence, mor ality'or reason stemming from Mack thought. . AU QYer the world men are to day talking about freedom. In India, Africa and the isles of the sea, suppressed groups, who be long to the unfree, are not alone talking about liberty, but they are dreaming of an actual day when the chain^ with which the white nations are .fettered their hands will be broken. But even though the teeming millions of the world are feverish ly grasping for new racial abd re ligious philosophies, the while man who controls would rather i e shot with a bullet than a new idea. He mistrusts new couceptious of world poRcy. Grouping in the eon- charnel house of disaster, he ntill believes wisdom is white and ignorance is black. ' The American Negro, along with qt^r' aspiring- unit* ■ of humanity, Is not only yearning to enjoy froe- dom, but he is deeply ' imprtssod with the thought that thos^. who plan to pattern a new daj^ iiec«l new definitions for that nebulous, fleeting rainbow of [liberty, which in present day language ytj call democraey. Westbrook Pegler, in his current Outburst against Npjfre journalist^ and his caustic crticism of black thought, perhaps does not know dt>mGcraujL.ia. the ^ w«ek morality. White men have in (he past two thousand yea^rs done ser ious damage to a great social ex- ^eciiaent apagned in hjgfit fu} ture, and in this day and hour when civilization ij, toppling we believe it would be an excellent thing if white folk would hsH-ken to men of a great race, who out of the mores of their existence gave democracy to the world. If columnist Pegler can call time from a busy day I'ofig enoujjh to read Josephus, chapters four aild five, which tells of the anti quity of the Jews, he will learn that Jethro, the Ethiopian, and father In law of Moses, stood on Mount Sinai, and after criticising Moses plan of adminjstratioa, announced for the tiate ia written history, as Jo.sephus records it, the present day plan upon which the Amerii'an government now operates. We are writing those lines be cause in this white world of today inclination is to discount and dis parage black mentality^ The as sumption is that biack people have made no contribution to the cornerstones of civilization. Mil lions of white people live- and die without “'knowing ho white racjj'' has ever produced an alphabet. Such Victimg of race propaganda never know, that all language sys- temf^ wer^ produced by dark races of the earth. The English alphabet was bor rowed from the Latins; the La- tin-Tj-the LatiUj, Iwrrowed it from the €h"eeks and the Greeks learn- ed the use of language from the ancient Phoenicians. If one will securinL map discoWry will e made that Phcoenicia is in Asia, a land inhabited by darker people than ^those who rule the world to day. As we study history we are not so certain that in the day when language systeing were being constructed, ancient Phoenicia was not inhabited by black u’tn. Somehow, someway, it should be gotten across to Westbrook Pegler that instead of Negroes imitating white people, in many instances, when it domes to fundamentals, it ig just the opposite. White people are using the language of darker people, destroying a type of government given to the world by darker people, and seemingly never realizing that the folk who gave birth to language and govern mcnt, ought at least know as much about their contraption as the fellow who borrowed it. To use a well known aphorism: “Ho.v can the creature be greater than the creator?’^ No one could truthfully ^ay the white man has not made great mcchanieal civilization has been erected. But if developmei.t in transportation, communication, in chemical analysis and our general social patterns has not taught men to be brothers, we doubt seriously than that men may characterize the sweet, toil and tears of mod ernism as definite strides n hu man strides in huuian progress Why should those to whom God has given power and control for the past two thousand yearj^ allow the universe to burst ail under without belief that soniewhcie in the mind of hummiity there is a cure or remedy for the ill^ *4 the world. Why should the white man continue to assume he has a pat ent on common sense, when ruin of his own making thunderg in negation to his age, If England had been willing five years ago to listen to the morality and common sense of Selassie, the League of Nations would still exist, and today’s might Mussolini would not have dared to invade Ethiopia, When the League of Nations died on thp altar of covetousness, we struck the match that blasted aw:iy the foundation stones of the present order. In the life of this nation the black’ man has proven his sterling light and vision is worthy of c- cogniliort, Frederirk Douglass help ed to blast away the immorality of slavery, and was the first laan Please Turn To Pa^ge Six i ; I ». H I ■fllUT #1 •Mf fi ! M yin f i*JU. Ill r MiH \ »nt|