North Carolina Newspapers

/ PAOl TWO CAROI.IlfA TIMES SATURDAT, ;UG. 13th, 1Q^^9| STOP THEM, BEFORE THEY WRECK US ALL. GEORGIA MAYOR AND THE KLANSMEN liMI j.i Iron ■ >. '♦ . «•' Kliix KIj ■ hi .k- il up with jninfirt frooi iraft- vJnif ■ '. . ■ ^ }i= mli li h\ ,i on. Bnii= 1 h?i» =J. . iMiiil .-.liust the KJin. cuo tb. Klan> iii u wn^ from thr- guu 1 prob^M.v not 8t*riouM.>, but badly i:i>ough to u*t th. '.rhit- ri>bf;l fijfiir' - know that thf citi’pn t «nt bnsni - ■ Tlig Klans^ men irturnr;! tin* iiif tnd t(.. niay=>r utafi'd that fiTP bi ".*ts Mh:' d by within five foi't of him K-me of Mi-.‘ lit' :*nf. u-ut h -^r.Hti'h, **To,top it off. " ^Jiy an -iMt.'*l Pit-, r. port, '’fhr niayor a Klau offipial intu Alaban .; at a IttO-inilc-an-hnnr piur ami hatl hint jail(;l.'' Thi- Klan nffirial will be trifil im t ci- in . if au!t Avith intpiit tn kill. 1>on't writp 1hi^ lown in your i«>ti bfxik a small iiu-idi-nl. It ni=:y he tlx' firM krnn in itn all-out civil war in tin south in whii h blood will fl' W n T- iian it did in the Iron City ras, Wb'n : lilia: -' takes placo on a public higrh'^ny at the rato of IfK) milf>. per hour, blood may not flow from puniih'’* wound-- but it h, certain to.fhW fm&i injuries iustainfd in auto rpobile wrecks. .The sjid part about it is tliat innoii’nt ; itizt*ns may bt* killiMi as tin* ri'slilt. The late ffovernor Eupi in' Talniadiro iiiust have turned over in the furnace of hell and cried in a^ny at the doings of his hitnie state folks for interferin^r with the oiu- orpanizatiyn that stands for whiti- .’.ipremacy above j,‘Vfrythin«r ; l),‘iitli was kind to men like 'I'alnmdjfe and 'ill hitc Si jiatiir 'i'hrod(U'c lUlbo of .\li‘-Hih.*.ippi -% ri'moviiiK them fn)in the earth before the , .ople Ivctfrtii i-evoltinK against the Khiu. Jioth \%.iuld suffer the punp» of thousand deaths were ■ ♦hi v livinp: now and the next fev years to come. Simple mimled white |»cople who are stupid enough to be li'd into the Klan, or lend it their ■•upport, arc l)ccomin(' fewer and fewer as the years >ro by, A few yi-ars from n(w and the Ku Klux Klan will be as »lead as an EiJj’ptian niunim\. You ean’l perpetuate all orpunization with wrong, however popular that wrong may appeal to be at the moment. Tw(> thousirhd years agft m earpenter’s win sfiirb'd an ort'anization -without money and vi'ry little of what we eall in this day, education, but llie foundaliiiii wiw built on faith, love, hope and truth. In spite of the opposition whieh evil men have endeavored to ereet against the organizii- trcn, it eontinurs to grow in power and numeri cal strength unlil its followers today may be found in the remotest jiarls of the earth. The ff)unda*ion is right. The hineral of the Ku Klux Klan will prob ably be held within the next fiVe years, but there will be no mourners at the bar nor wi there lie any flowers at the bier. The funeral dirge sounds in our ears, the grave awaits the bodies of the Klansmen and hell awaits the soul (if the Klan. The foundation is wrong. PRAISE FOR NEGRO DURHAM .-f '::’ ■ rRtCMM TRAtH HERE ARE /TAKING THI5FREEDOM l BU5INE55 LITERALLY! The favorable publicity given Durham busi ness institftitioiis i*i the September issue of EBONY magazine is from the pen of Alex Rirera, energetic and intelligent j'oung news paperman (it the Pittsburgh COURIER. It might be a gootl idea for some^f Durham’s Ne gro citizens to get a copy of the magazine and k%ni somethiiig about the city in %vhieli they lire. Some of them who have lived here all of their lives, outside the struggle of Durham Ne- groen to achieve, may find that they live in a fity whose Negro element is considered outstand ing in the field of businest>. Probably the most significant thing abwii tb« gtory is that Dxirham has in its midst a nttwspaperman of *Mr. Rivera’s calibre and con nections who is able to write a story that would be acceptable to a magazine of nafional cir culation and reputation. ‘Whether Mr.. Rivera will g¥t the proper apjireciation in hi.s own home town is a hor.se of another eolor. Prophets are usually not utisung save in their own home ttn^ns. The story in EBONY should ^ing a challenge in the face of Negroes in New York, Philadel phia. Washii.gton and other cities -where then- are hundreds of thou.sands of Negroes, instead of fhe 25 or 30tho,usdnd in Durham. Mr. Rivera’s A SINGULAR HONOR The recent citation awarded the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance Company for “dis tinguished a“hievement in annual reporting,” gives further assuvace of Uie compHn3’’s ability to keep abrea.st of the modern techniques of life insurance operation;*. The Financial World magazine that niake.s the annual award states that the 1948 financial statement of the North Carolina Mutual “was judged as among the most modern from the 8taMipoint of content, typc^raphy and format of the 2*fK) annual reports examined.'’ Only 20 other' insurance companies in the entire United States and only one other in the South received the citation. This is indeed a singular honor that has come to the North Caro lina Mutual and is strong testimony as to the efficiency of the actuarial department of the HEALTH INSURANCE Another common need ts for a method of meet ing the high and unpredictable cost of medical care through aft extension of the principle of social insurance. We do not wish ,to see the Government in the practice of medicine. We do not wish to regiment doctors or patients. We do not wish to socialize medicine, and no bill supported by organized labor in the United article calls attention to , the fact that Durham is a city of Negro homeowners and that there is a lack of night spots here where .Negroes while away their time in song, and dance, Durham Negroes have proved that it is not lunv many Negroes a city has in its population that counts, but what those Negroes are willing to do to achieve. By that w e mean Negroes must be willing to lay a.side selfish ambitiims and pull togethe# for the good of the citizenship as a whole. Winston-Salem with 45 or oO thousand Negroes, Charlotte with practically the same uumb*r and Green.sboro with nearly as many do not even have a Negro building and loan association. It isn’t because they do not have the money and the intelligence, but because the citizens are too busy trying for "individual sue- ce.ss rather than the success of the entire Negro citizenry. The CAROLINA TIMES does not claim that Negro Durham is a perfect citj'. There are nmny slKirtcomings here, but we do say that there is a grow ing spirit of individuals here to cooperate for the good of the whole, and that, we are on our way to getting rid of some of the shortcomings that lioltl the race back in other communities. Health To All. TUBERCULOSIS AND REST By Maurice L. Adams, M. D Baltimore, Md. Steve Egan kept repeating that he wasn’t stubborn, he was merei.v being practical. lie ec- ecpted my diagnosis that he had tubcrenlosis is in an early stage and wanted to go, to the nearby sanatorium, I told him what to expect in the way of sanatorium regulations and he seemed to understaiul — with the excep tion of why complete bod rest -was basic and necessary to. bis cure. The factory where Steve work ed had had a chest X-ray survey of employees some weeks before. His X-ray plates showed sus picious shadows and later tests had confirmed that he had tub erculosis. Although his illness was detected ,earl\*, in a stage when if is ea.siest to cure, Steve would have to go to the sanator ium as soon as arrangements could be made for a bed for him. There he could obtain the eom* plete r^st under medical super vision whi4'h is fundamental to victory over tuberculosis, I explained to Steve that he would not be confined to com plete bed re.st 24 hours a day for his entire sanatorium stay, that he would be permitted some activity later on when he be- camt' better and sanatorium of ficially knew that it was safe for him. But Steve was still puzzled, a bit over what complete bed re.st would have to do with treatment for his sick lung, “Ijook at it this wax, Steve,” I said, “One of your lungs is sick, and it needs all the rest and relaxat^f)u it oan get if we want it to 1ieal, The lung is one organ of the boly which is con stantly at -work, and It has to' work harder when the body is more active. By the same token, the lung gets the most rest when the body is at complete rest.” I showed Steve some simple medical charts of the lungs and pointed out how those organs work like a pump to get oxygen into the body and purify the blood stream. With the body at complete rest, I pointed out, the strain on the lung is miich less than when a person is up and about. As its work is cut do'wn in this way as far as possible, the damaged lung has a better chance to heal, Steve was fiiudly convinced, I have recently heard reports that Stev;^ cooperates with the sanatorium officials in all res-- pects — their regulations on his rest included, ;It wonT; be too long now before he can get up for a few hours a day. Steve’s understanding of why conrj)lete rest is necessary for him has helped him comply cheerfully ■»vith aJI sanatorium i*egnlations and has been an important fac tor in starting him l)h The road toward the regaining of his health, ' EDITOR’S NOTE — This article is co-sponsored by the National Medical Association and the National Tuberculosis Association in the interest of better health of the people. oi’ganization, upon whose shoulders the major portion of the annual reporting falls. It also focn.ses attention on the splendid achievement of those whose responsibility it is to have some thing on the company's books to report at the close ('f the year. The citation is evilence that Negro business institutions are beginning to take their places among the foremost of the nation. Listed among the 20 other citations were such well-known in surance eomjianies as tlie Mefropolitan, New York Life and Peiui Mutual, The high standard set by North Carolina Mutual should be an inspiration to other busi ness eiiterpri.s(‘s to strive toward greater effi- cfeney, as well as to the youth of the face whose respou.sibility itVill be to build even more state ly man.sions. States calls-for any such thing. We seek sim ply to promote the general welfare by using the in.strumentality of government to establish a fund contributedj to out of our own wages with like contributions from aur employers to re move the ever-present dread of doctoy and hos pital bills that can drive us to the relief rolls (Please turn to Page Three) Other Editors Says. FEPC Practices CitcCa Published Every Saturday By The CAROLINA TIMES Publishing Co. 814J4 Fayetteville Street — Durham, N. C. Phones: L-7423 and J-7871 Member National Negro Press Association VottnfE — NUMBER 32 ~ SATURDAY, AU(fUST 13th, 1949 Entsred as Second Class matter at the Post National Advertising Representative Inter- OffToi* at Durham, North Carolina undtr the state United Newspapers, 545 Fifth Avenu«, act oi March 3, 1879. New York 17, New York. Branch Office: 5 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. L. E. AUSTIN _ . , Editor and Publisher M. B. HUDSON Business Manager W. F. BROWER .... Executive Editor V. L. AUSTIN . . . ... _ City Editor CLATHAN ROSS _ . Managing Editor M. C. BURT, JR.. .. Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 6 Months 2.003 Years $ 9.00 1 Y«ar $ 3.005 Years $15.00 In his column, “THE COM MON DEFENSE,” appearing weekly in many Negrcylie^S'^ papers, the Rev. Williaitr C, Ker- nan recentlj’ gave a report on the operation of state “FEPC” laws, with especial reference to the State of New York, wJlich now has had near four years ex- jierience with a strong fair em- [iloyment practices law. The experience of New York, New .Fers('y and possibly a few- other states with the operation of laws intending to eliminate racial and religious bins in em ployment is very enlightening, and beyond that, quite encourag ing. Few indeed have been those anywhere who have attacked the fundamental principal and the piirposes behind fair employ ment legislation. The right tp work is coming to be recognized as a basic and essential right. The chief objections to “FE PC,” -whether to national or state legislation, have been that the principles of free enterprise would be violated by the en forcement of such laws, and that there would be undue and odious the rights of the employer. - interference gj' governinient with In this connection it is of great interest to note some of the com ments on the operation of the state PEPC laws has ({uoted by Mr, Kernan. According to him, the Yale .Iia^v_.Journal of May 1947 observed: “.None of the predictions made by its original opponents have proved valid.” The experience of a number of New' York emloycrs was also cit ed. The head of a statewide or- , The head of a state widc- ,organization of retail mer chants -wrote to the New York State Commission which enforces the law: “Sure- I3' the present law imposes no hardships on the employer. It simply applies penalities to acts of discrimination when those acts deprive mi inhabitant of our state of the fundamental hu man rights which he has; name ly the right to earn a li-ring,” 5VIr. Kernan quotes the su perintendent of perswnnej adm inistration of Western Electric Company: “It is my opinion that the ad ministration of the Fair Eanploy ment Practice Law in the states of New' York and New Jersey has been fair and reasonable and has not entailed any iindue hardship on employers -who are trying to do a conscientious job in their employee relations situa tions. We have not experienced any difficulties in meeting the requirements of these laws and so far as I know, they have been accepted generally by our em ployees.” It should be noted here that the New’ York commission uses persuasion and enlightenment in preference to coercion, just as the Federal Trade Com- mis.sion does in enforcing the fair practice code of the Clayton act and similar law-s. Employ ers often want to be fair, but they are frequently afraid of the reaction qf their present em ployees and of the public. Also they are often as much blinded by ignorance of the facts about people of other races and re ligions, ^nd so their employees, as by prejudice. Again, it is of ten only the inertia of tradition and habit which maintains the pattern of exclusion, A law is educational, and may also be emancipating, not only to those discriminated against but also to tho.si* practicing the discrim ination, Jt, is true that 100 per ccnt effectiveness can be expected of few laws, ways will be found by some determined souls to cir cumvent any law. It is also true that bias and tradition against fair employment is stronger in manj- .sections of the nation than it is in cosmopolitan-_Ne^y York and New Jersey. But the cxperi- eiy>,e of these states, and the re latively little difficulty and fric tion proluced by the enforce ment of their fair esmploymeut practice laws, seem to be sur prisingly encouraging. The rest of 'the nation, mjay well study the demonstration with care. Poll Tax Fate Uncertain Yet LET NO ONE become over- I'^timSslffc because the House of Representatives has passed a sensible and sound anti-poll taxH^ill, It is the fifth such mea sure to. pass the House in recent years. It will be ailequately dealt with in the Senate, in all prob ability, There if will probably die in committee or be filibuster ed to death if it is reported out. But even the House vote was something to delight the cynics. The southeni delegation was al most solid in its, vote against the bill. All. but one of the voting repr'esent.atives from North Car olina, a state which boasts that it eliminated nearly a generation ago the poll tax as a qualifica tion for the suffrage, joined their Dixie colleagues. The same was true of the congressmen from other non-poll tax south ern states. The South reacts w'ith an emotional solidarity even when there are cleareut and logical ba.ses for intellectual dif ferences of opinion. That emotional reaction, some times rooted in fear or timidity, is one of the greatest and most durable obstacles to progressive action in the South — to the modification of outmoded and logically indefensible patterns of behavior. Probably the major ity of the southern members of the House of Representatives .saw the absurdity of Repre sentative Rankin’s statement to the effect that the move to a- bolish the poll tax Svas another expression of the Communist treu(]^ in the United States. Cer tainly the North Carolina del egation would not agree Avith Mr. Rankin. But when the vote was taken they voted the same woy. Mr. Rankin- did, . They voted along .with other south ern representatives whose polti- tieal lives, like, that of Rflnkin, depend on small electorate. They voted with the States’ Righter.s, who follow' the line that it is proper to let an\i;hing go on under the guise of the “rights” of the State.s, no matter what wrongs may bo done in the pro cess to millions of people who live in the state. Probably one of the most tell ing arguments in favor of a federal law to abolish the poll lax as a requisite for voting in federal election and primaries I Browsing Brower BY “BUMPS” RIVERA Sweethearts make up •^Just to breiak up Love looks on and grins' Somebody loses and somebody wins. My f riel id Frank Brow er, who has been cramming sinee graduation for Hi North Carolina Bar exams, aaked me at noon Monday to do his column this week. When I asked how far away from the deadline the piece wii.s, he assured iiu' that I had pidi- lenty time, at least two lunii-s. Well, friend or fiHil, 1 agreed to (linch ,hit in the emer- treiicy, Siuc iiiiich o'f my time is spent out of town I do not have my finger on the pnlse of the go.ssip alioni llic Bull ('ity. One of the nio.st interestinjr tid-bits to rate'page 1 is the melting oi Sir Walter White after a (juarter of II ceiilnry of marital .something er o'ther and his inimediat ' blending with a caueasian . » , Many are saying that White’s iiiertrcr will be used as proof that his labors for racial e(|ualily were ostensibly designed to promote miscegnation. I don’t know what White’s answer will b« to his critics, but another great champion for the rights of the Negro, Frederick Douglas, married a Negro first then a jurhite woman. When asked to explain such amorous gymnastics, he made the following classic retort: “In my first marriage I honored my mother’s race and in my isecond marriage i honored my father’s race.” 1 was ])nsiic(l for an explanation of intennarriagcs recently by a w bite reporter and out of the reces.ses of my brain popped the thought that each time two Negroes recite marital vbws the mar riage w as an interracial one . . The American Negro is an inter racial, interculturnl. interdenominational, interdependent crea ture and strangely enough, he did’t get that way mixing with himself. The first love story taught when I was coming along in the grades was about the “interracial” marriage of Captain John Smith and a pretty ten-year-old Indian maiden^named Pocahontas. She^ was received in England-“with great en- thusiasfn” as daughter of an American king. It might be argued that the nobility of the Indian made the difference, but not necessarily because it would not be amiss to suppose that some of the Africans were offsprings of tribal chiefs too, and to stretch it a bit, some might even have been des cendants of the ageless sage King Solomon,who according to his own description, “I ai;n black, but comely” he must have been a man of color. It’s a wonder that white historians have not altered the Bible description to read, “I am swarthy, but comely.’V Emile Ludwig, falnous German biographer, was required to make the identical switch in his life of Beethoven for American consumption. It might lit' diffieuH for our white frien'(^?i to take, but the truth remains that there is more extra marital connubial bliss taking place between w bites and Negroes in the South than in any other part of the country, and the preferred pattern of white man and Negro woman does not always obtain, . My maternal and paternal white ancestors have never been a secret in my family. My maternal grandfather was sent to Princeton University by his cucasian sire and my paternal grandfather was sent to the University of South Carolina, a pattern which was duplicated hundreds, if not thousands, of times throughout the southland. The most recent international interracial love storj is woven around a young Negro heir-apparent to a tribal throne, studying in England and his w hite office worker wife. Walter W’^hite neither started a trend nor stopped one, I^ove or whatever attracts peo ple will go on operating under a business-as- usual sign, getting more and more color blind all the while , , . That might have been a long round-about-way to say that Walter Whit(‘ or Paul llolx'son, Jr. has the inalien- abl(* right to niarry any damU; body he wants to rctrardless of race or any accident of birth, ' The#*also have the right to .scale Pikes Peak| and visit the cave of a mother bear and her cub litter . , , Bishop D. Ward Nichols (see pic) says faith can fite anything. Watch for these stories: A blinding explosion is expected in ranks of the North Carolina College Coaching staff. In spite of denials this has been in the making for years .... The Out Of State Aid to students seeking graduate and professional training has petered and I predict a wave of suits and a campaign to declare it oiScially dead ... An expose of the Goldsboro Hospital for the Negro Insane . . . The long awaited Durham school suit on the fourth Monday in the Federal court here. . . Signs of the times: North Carolina College received tele phones last week. They’ll probably get television just when atomic power is declared obsolete. IF ANYBODY HEARS of the whereabouts of Dr. William Gray, ex-college president who was suddenly recalled to the ministry, (that’s why I don’t attend church today) give us his address. We have a special membership into the Ananias Clubs of America for him._ All cards except his are white, but as soon as his name was affixed it blushed a deep indigo. Unforgettable speeches—Franklin D. Roosevelt — “My firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . ., name less, unreasoning, unjustifiable terror which paralyzes needed effort to convert retreat into advance.” William P. Tolley, President, Syracuse Univeraity, at Bennett College, May 30, 1949—“6ur greatest secret weapon is not the atom bomb but an educated free people . . . Think ers in America know that communism is not our real fear, our real fear is freedom . . . none of the great govemmentii ever were destroyed by an outside foe, but disintegrated from corruption from within. llaekie Robinson _ _ _ Paul Robeson or any other man in America has.the right to . . Atty. Robert Gantt — at the inuagural of A. Elder at North Carolina College, June 3, 1949 .1 _ _ “the aims of this college are to promote a sincere spirit of tollerence; to dis courage all racial and partisan strife.”—A. M- RIVERA, Jr. is that only those qualified to vote under the present laws of the .states having the poll tax can vote on the poll tax aboli tion issue. So it is not really States’ Rights versus Federal interference whieh is at issue, it is the State intereference with the right of the people to vote for Federal officers, including members of the House of Repre sentatives and the United States Senate. The number of the former to which each state is en titled is by the U. S. Constitu tion based _on population, and this includes blacks as well as whites, non-poll tax payer as well as those who do pay, or (Please, turn to Page S.even)