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THE CAROLINA TI^WT
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 194^
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Equal salaries foi Negro Teachers.
Negro policemen where Nein^es are involved.
Equal educational opportunities. —i-,
NejHfo jurymen. — ——
Higher wages for domestic servants.
Full participation of Negroes in all branches of
the National Defense.
Abolishment of the douWe-st”"'^'’-'’ crnip in
industry.
Greater participation of Negroes in political af
fairs.
Negro representation in city, county, atate and
national govemmettts. ‘‘
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WHAT DURHAM NEGROES NEED
nority group
Mr. Spauldin* b«i ctoae a courageous thing and wc tnko
off our hats to him, and say with a profound sense of apprecia
tion that we are glad to follow tWs kind of leadership.
THE MILLS OF THE GODS
By Henry Clay Davis
OUR VOTE SELLERS
Negro leaders in Durham ought to explain to the public the
reason for the delay in opening the brazing and welding school
for N^rroes. They ought to get at the bottom of the matter
and make a public statement as to Whjf' tli^ srhool has not
been opened.
JVe don’t attach any significance to the report tnat the
project has not beeii opened because it is impossible to get the
government to issue a permit for the use of power for opera
tion of the machines. We don't believe the government w juld go
to the trouble of shipping the machinery to Durham and setting
it up without making it possible to obtain power for its opera
tion.
We are of the opinion that when the truth is knov'n that
it will be found that the project has been sabotaged by certain
city officials of Durham who are determined that Negrcca shall
not be taught brazing and welding, government or no govern
ment. ^
We have enough evidence at hand to make its'" believe that
certain persons in Durham would rathep see the United States
in the hands of a foreign enemy than to know that the country
had been kept out of those hands by American Negroes.
All of the tommyrot about splendid race relations in Durham
0 merely superficial. Any person who hap an ounce of sense
^^-imowB th^ the u‘ad«rcurront iiere is so pregnant with prejudice
that one can almost cut it with a knife. If thi^were not true
more interest in getting the Negro welding and })i'ai:ing' plant
opened would be shown by certain city officials.
What Durham needs is a strong branch of tho National As*
•ociation for the Advancement of Coloved People so that cpurt
action, or some other action can be taken to get some of the
problems wlhich confront the race solved without forever having
to depend pn charity for help.
Soon after the pilose of the Civil War the Bourbon South,
together with its manifold other malevolent practices against
right to suffrage an4 used aa a pi*etext the accusation that we
sold our vote to the Ughest bidder without regard for the isauQi)
at stake.
Many present-day Negroes, having come up under the tutel-
ag« and guidance of our nearest ancestors w4io were tlije newly
emancii>atcd Negroes of that era, know that such a charge was
then as false as it was malicious and that a vast majority of that
day's Negroes prized) their integHty, character, and citizeoship
more highly than any ather #f their meager earthly possessions.'
Too many of>us today, howevear, seem to forget the price
less teachings of those honored forehpars of ours whom we ri-
gard as ignorant and little removed from savagery. Too many
of us have learned to disregard the invaluable heritage left to
us by them. Too many of us who do not even know the meaning
of the word are proudly proclaiming themselves ‘^poiiticians”
and who hungrily await any elation time in order to be able
to earn a few tainted dollars by helping to ppf the wrohg man
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^ These pitiful and misguided j>eople do iwt seem to realize
that they are doing the very thing our guiltless forebeara were
accused of -doing —§elling the vote. Thiey ‘lo i^ot seent to realize
chat a commioiiweaitk right*to and should dis&aiifihi&e
vote sellers. They do h^t seein to realize that any man v:'bo has
to buy his way into office is probably tlje wrong man lor ^:he
place. And lastly they don’t seem to realize that the combined
voting strength of Negroes is the most powerful weapon at our
disposal and should always be used wisely and well for our own
benefit first and then for the benefit of pthers,
^he existence of many evils is charged to polities so politics
can and must be purged to decency and cleanliness vvhcrevex
and whenever we are concerned. We need what stangsteis cSTl
"guts” atndiwe_nTOd to^ use them. We need to discover and prose
cute if possible any one of us known to have accepted money or
its Ciiuivalent for casting a vote according to dictation or ppr-
auasion, and we do not need the presence of any such people in
our almost hopeless struggle for full emancipation.
As a racial group we need collective defense very badly now
and will need it worse ^t the clo^e this present vv^r. Today
our nauseating disunity forces us to grovel and bfg for a
little recognition for a few of us but tomorrow we can demand
and ^hieve through unity and coordination many more of the
privileges which are rightfully ours if we will. It is up to us
anu'ds alone.
If we must sell something we should cherish let us sell as
dearly as possible our combined efforts to make this a land of
democracy for all of its people. Let us recognize the great truth
that nobody loves us and that we donit love each other but we
can make our burden easier to bear by sharing alike all that
CBhcefnF us the same as wje are corppelled to .share alike the
fruit of prejudice and jim-crowism.
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u;ading from the front
1t\w the lb®s
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
C. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, let it be known at the. Hille^ide >iligh
School commencement exercise just where be stood on certain
ifMiHii that pertain to his race.
Persons who heard the North Carolina Mutual president
say it was the most courageous utterance they have ever heard;
||^ make. We commend Mr. Spaulding for the stand be ba*
tfUgen sad say more power to him. This kind of fiction oa the
W of of our Mden i. indeed wortlff of prai» i,. ^ of ,t».e fwajt Hhite ci^ian. of Hu.
tines when most of Durham Negro leaders are comprpmismg:
every issue that b holding the race back.
Durham has had too much leadership from tlie There
.jH)«*ays a group of so^llcd leaders here who wait until the|
Jbiitk »
(.ay Dean JBjhicocJi lor AI^P^
John M«Cr»y, editor ^publisher of ,the.Li«Hthpuse and Inform-■
er, one of tbe^moM; recent stars to rise i|pon the Nogro jpuraial-
ii»tic horizQt^' is thre^ening to go place?, ^^^ray-is a ^ncrete
refutation pf the unfounded allegation tb^t southern l^egroes
are afraid to contend for the rights and ressponsibiUties of .full,,
fledged cit««i\»hip. Located »s he is in Co^^:^^ia, 6, C, , in ^
city of the south where tbe voice against lyncbnig first
lifted, by tbe.Cplumbi^ Stftte in.tbe long f^so, he bW the morM
B^t when our feature v^riter broke down the crime, by racea
it was found that of the total of 17.4J2 arrests, 12,122 were
white and 5,290 were Negroes. OF if we consider it fi-om the
percentage p^t of view 70%. of Charleston’s crime is white and
80 per cent, Negro. In other words the Negro's 60 percent ot the
populations is affording 30 per cent.
This writer'was not only startled but confounded by this
revelation. It seems too strange to be true. Sociologists for
.these many years have been saying that if we could banish pov
erty and ignorance and poor housing and low wages, humans
would be regenerated after such, manner that ciimcs would
largely cease. As a toflcher and student of sociology for 2ii V’ears,
this was one of my strongest points. Within the last 15 years
it has been my privilege to address 20,000 young whites in some
of the best universities north and south and when it came to
“laying it on” about the correlation between crime and poverty,
I never grew weary. Now we have it that the pooresr, most
poorly housed, the most flagrantly underpaid, the most dis-
advatageously segregated, the most under-paid group ‘has a
lower incidence of crime than the more privclegod group.
What are we poor sociologists going to do for explanations
of the Negro’s shortcomings? We environmentalists who have so
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persistently contended that the enviromental nature of the
Negro’s economic and cultural retardation was the one explana
tion of the Negro as h# is, are dealt a knockout* blow by .the
figures .submitted by McCray. The Negro's economic plight has
jtheen our trump card as played at the table of interracial dis-^
cussions. Yet we‘find here in Charleston something lx>rdering'
pa tbe revolutionary in sociological and economic thinking of
the ages.
But this is not all. One of the officials of the state peni-
l^tentiaiy, here in Richmond has lectured often before my classes
in jsociolqgy during these 20 years. He told us 10 years a.yfo that,
the proportion ‘of whites and Negro criminals was gradually
changing with Negroes declining in numbers while the whites
^r.e increasing. In other words thc^ ratios were gradually
changiivg with the Negro in the favored position. I ran into my
,)vhite friend at the stadium last Saturday; he came to sit with
n^ and tbe question of these crime tendencies camc up. He was
further cpnfirmed in his position that these crime tendencies
that the percentage of Negro criminals was declining while
tbftt pf ;tl^ whites was on the increase.
It woujd be interesting to know how general is this tendency
Calvin’s
L. BAYNA^
BY
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NASSAU NiaSTMARE
The labor and race ^luestion
have «imultaneou!ily caught up
with the Duke of Windsor who
as GoverttOr of the Bahamas is
responsible for British policy in
that area, as decile as native
Britisher are it nmat have taken
a great deal to stir up a riot of
more than 2,000 wage slavers who
suddenly found their manhood
protested in the only manner
which the brittle British would
recognize.
The economic conditions off na
tives of the West Indies and the
Bahamas have been notoriously
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NEGRO I
EDITORS I
SPEAK I
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(Editor’* Note: Uuest editor
for this lyeek's iditorifll is C. A.
J^cott, general manager of the At
lanta Daily World, only Negro
daily ond Sunday newspaper in
existence, and of the Scott Ncws-
l^aper Syndicate, Atlanta. C. A.
Scott helped hij, brother, the late
W. A. Scott IT, found the Atlanta
World in 1928 and heeaino gener
al manager in 1984 following the
lenth of W. A. Hcott. The Atlanta
|W'»’ld ha.s been pnhliBhed aa a
daily since March, 19:)2. The pre
sent head of the organization was
born in .Jackson, Tenn., 33 jears
ago. He studied journnlism ut the
University of Kansas.)
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WINNINO THE PEACE
(By C. A. Scott, General Manager
of the Atlahta Daily World and
Scott Newspaper Syndictfte, for
ANP)
In every quarter of the globe
there are two grout fortjes locked
in mortal conflict—on one , side
is our nation leading the forces
fighting for freedom of the peo
ple and on the otlw'r hand are
the force^ of enslavement of the
people led by Nazi Qermanyv To
win, or perhaps we Should say, to
survive this struggle it will he
neeessarv to have the nnited ef
fort of all classes and races in
our great nation.
To get the nece.Hsary unity a^jid
unity and enthusiasm for a
successful conclusion f>t Ihe pre
sent world %id^>tAiggle jit the
earlist, possible time we oi» the
hrmfj-front mu.st incre.ise onV vi-
^"ifance against all forces attempt
ing to thwart demoeracy here.
During the First World War
the cry was that the war wag to
make the “world safe for nemo-
cracy,” During that conflict vory
iit^ .was doM inmrft
at JSSrae. Ipufe
race leaders ad^cftted that we
should forget about our rights at
during tho ■war- But*it at
pears that ^he syntjjnent prevail
ing now ij, that vt must fight for
tion wherever it is found. This
fuller democracy for all citizens
in Amerifi regardless of ruee or
religion. We. must redouble our
fforts to get the right to vote
and participate* in all elections,
foreign fronts. Many white people
share this view.
We must continue efforts for a
city, county flnd state.
As evidence of the recognition
of the necessity of granting “us
political e]uality in view of the
principles we are fighting for in
this war, recently 21 outstanding
white citizeng of Columbia, S. C.,
petitioned the state Democratic
convention “to arrive
tragic for many years. We do uot Jjjlan by which qualified
The heart of ^utb CaroUpa Nagrpes is b^st showA 'by ^
the way th^ ftre rallying around the MiiCrfty st^i>dftrd8. ^ a j
South Caroliiiiw pf South Cwolma. 1 h,il Johp «eC«y «•“»* , ^ sociology .nd economists hish and dry.
auspicious begjnnrn|f is heartening. ■ In ppo of recent |.wbj b ^
fought «>d won before they jump m the front *.r
mts to If ^fegroes are going to be good without an improvement in
of fooling tbe of Negroes into believmg t)iFt y^ shame one of the feature writers of the Mews and XJourier oi ,tb^ir e?on9Wic status just what are we Negroes going to quarrel
.for tbfi victory.' Charleston, S. C. This writer was attemptiOff to cKcu^e tJje f^bovtt? If NpgrQ^Bfjcan be goJd and law abiding in their misery
Ntgto leaders ought to lead from the front, they Mgh incidenfce of crime in Charleston by fallng back on the snd squsdorrtb^ White man will be accordingly tempted to let
hackneyed assertion that Charleston's large Negro population
was the logical explanation. The populational ratio being
nearly 60-50.
know what the Dilke may have
done to try to improve the lot of
the common people since he has
been Goverhof7 But this recent'
violence, during which the rioters
sma.'?hed automobiles, ship win
dows, aud looted the place in
general, certainly indcates that
nothing erfectivc had been done
to help the working people.
SEVEN OENT^ AN HOUR
It sounds abaurb to Americans
when they read of Nassau labor
being pai^ the British rate of 4
eentg an hour, but American labor
defense authorities upped the Tate
to 10 cents which caused the
British to howl in protest; so
they eomprimissed on 7 cents an
hour.
Only those who live in such an
indigent, cost bound environment
can possibly appreciate the ter
rible affront to human dignity
caused by British policy.
Undoubtedly the Duke ig more
than emharrased by this historical
event, which irritatingly state
ment the pleasure of contnental
sojourn. The situation is ^o seri
ous that after the riots the Pan
American Airways cancelled its
schedule from Miami to Nassau
and returned. ■>
THE PEOPtfe’S WAE ♦
The Nassau riots furnished one
more proof that is a people’s war
iwHaig to pay tbe price of le^ling or get out of
some one assume tbe role who is willing to face
trying to lead an oppressed mi«
them remain't^ere. Are Negroes by their declining propensities
towards crime going to debunk our sociologists and incidentally
Negro ‘ leadership? UnlesB the criminal elements of Charleston
at some"
Negroes
may vote in the Domoeratic pri
maries of this state.” This unange
in sentimAit /S gratifying and to
the extent it will continue to
manifest itself will largely depend
upon our action.
democracy on both the home and
in every phase of life must con
tinue. We must oppose ^liseriniina-
' wll not interfere with*the effort.
If we are to justify the pre
sent war will requlre«^ we must
wipe out discriminations at home.
All races and nations must
granted equality if the peace af
ter the war is to elidure.
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Farmers—Dad, Mother and all
the Family, look fpr the follow-
ing: ' ' 1
in which labor, race, and class
exploitation shall end forever.
Courageous voices like Pearl
Buck are stressing the fact that
the colonial setup guoh as Britian
h*as maintained for centuries is
definitely through, and that the
natives of these colonies are fast
loosing their service ‘ conscious
ness. Instead they know that the
opportunity has arrived for the
eonimon people everywhere to
throw off the yoke of slavery
is economic, jX)litical or social
and regardless of geo-graphical
.boundaries.
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and elsewhere wake up and give us some crime, we aie going
to lose one of our finest arguments in race relations. Unless we
can have more crirne, we sociologists Will be forced to the in*
convenience of doing some head clinching to save our face!
Negroes, wake up! Criminals, to tbe rescue.
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